By the time President Barack Obama steps into Anschutz Sports Pavilion Thursday, it will have been 103 years, 3 months and 29 days since KU's last visit by a sitting United States president. A century ago, William Howard Taft rode the rails across the Midwest and stopped in Lawrence on Sept. ...

The KU campus community lined up Tuesday morning to secure tickets to see President Barack Obama on Thursday. Hours later, members of the public did the same at Douglas County Fairgrounds. Public tickets were not available until 5 p.m., but that didn't stop a line from forming before 8 a.m. ...