At Ladybird Diner in downtown Lawrence, Susan McCarthy was perusing the newspaper Thursday morning, trying to keep up with the latest news on the college basketball corruption trial underway in New York. A devout KU basketball fan, McCarthy, has had season tickets for decades. But, at the ...
Updated at 12:41 p.m. Friday, Oct. 19, 2018. A University of Kansas law lecturer and Kansas City, Mo., city councilman who’s running for mayor of that city was arrested overnight in downtown Lawrence. Quinton D. Lucas, 34, of Kansas City, was booked into jail on suspicion of DUI early ...
Former Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius told a Lawrence audience Thursday that she is optimistic about the next generation of public leaders, despite what she sees as a disturbing trend of growing disrespect for public service. "I think we have a generation of public-minded younger people who see ...
As a federal corruption trial has made new allegations regarding the recruiting practices of the University of Kansas, Chancellor Douglas Girod won't say whether he still has “complete confidence” in the university’s staff to follow recruiting rules. The trial underway in New York also ...
Updated at 5:30 p.m. Thursday A defense attorney in the trial on corruption in college basketball argued Thursday that University of Kansas coach Bill Self knew about payments from Adidas to highly sought recruits to get them to play for KU, according to an ESPN report. Michael Schachter, ...
Despite calls from faculty for the University of Kansas' athletic department and endowment organization to help out with a $20 million budget cut, interim Provost Carl Lejuez said at a town hall meeting Wednesday that those two entities couldn't do much to ease the pain. That news left ...
Recruiting help from Adidas officials could turn into NCAA compliance problems for the University of Kansas, even if KU coaches didn’t know of any payments to players, a former top NCAA official said. Although the federal government considers KU to be a victim in the college basketball ...
Story updated 8:04 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2018: A phone conversation in which University of Kansas assistant basketball coach Kurtis Townsend and former amateur coach Merl Code discussed a high-profile player’s recruitment was not admitted as evidence in the college basketball corruption ...
Tarana Burke was so busy after the #MeToo movement took off in 2017 that she was forced to cancel a speaking event at the University of Kansas last spring. Now she has rescheduled and is set to speak at 6 p.m. on Oct. 23 in the Kansas Union Ballroom. The event is free and open to the ...
Updated at 5:20 p.m. Although a former Adidas consultant testified in federal court on Monday that he never told University of Kansas basketball coaches about paying the families of players, text messages between him and KU coaches Bill Self and Kurtis Townsend show they were aware of some ...
A public meeting focusing on the role that Kansas Athletics and KU Endowment play in the University of Kansas budget is scheduled for this week. The meeting, hosted by interim Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor Carl Lejuez, is set for 4 p.m. Wednesday in 120 Budig Hall, 1455 Jayhawk Blvd. ...
Kait McNeely steered the 40-foot bus alongside the curb and pressed her foot on the air brake, quickly opening the door. “Thank you,” called out several college students as they stepped off Bus 38, like appreciative passengers to an airplane pilot after a smooth flight. McNeely, who keeps ...
A trial aiming to tackle corruption in college basketball is expected to conclude in a matter of days. In a letter filed in federal court on Saturday, Robert S. Khuzami, a U.S. attorney, notified presiding Judge Lewis A. Kaplan that both the prosecutors and the defense attorneys think they ...
The work of William S. Burroughs, Kurt Cobain and King James of England don’t generally coincide, other than when exhibited side-by-side at the Kenneth Spencer Research Library. Burroughs and Cobain’s 1992 collaboration “The ‘Priest’ They Called Him,” and the 1616 edition of “The ...
Story last updated at 2:15 p.m., Friday, Oct. 12 State and local law enforcement units searched for a suspect on the University of Kansas campus Friday morning following a car chase, but by Friday afternoon the search had ended and the man was still at large. Kansas Highway Patrol Lt. Dennis ...
The University of Kansas has seemingly increased its financial partnership with Adidas at the same time the apparel company finds itself at the center of a federal trial alleging crooked basketball recruiting practices. For the past year, Kansas Athletics officials have said a ...
Those planning a trip to the University of Kansas' Lawrence campus Saturday won’t find many buildings open, according to a news release from KU. More than 40 buildings, including the Kansas Union, Spencer Research Library and Spencer Museum of Art, will be closed for about 11 hours while KU ...
Story updated 6:18 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 11, 2018: A trial aiming to tackle major college basketball corruption has begun to detail how the families of two players received cash payments for them to attend the University of Kansas, according to multiple reporters covering the trial. Former ...
A University of Kansas student was booked into jail early Thursday morning on suspicion of rape, but later released without being charged, pending further investigation. On Wednesday, a female student reported to KU police that she’d been sexually assaulted a few weeks earlier, in the early ...
Instead of offering a typical scholarship for a student in school, a gift to the University of Kansas School of Engineering will provide money to eligible female Hispanic students to help pay off student loans. The E.E. Carter Foundation Opportunity Award will provide $20,000 annually to pay ...