Something has to change in college athletics, University of Kansas Chancellor Douglas Girod told me last week.
“It is clear that we need something different than what we have, or else we are going to spend our lives in court,” Girod said in a brief interview with the Journal-World.
But Girod isn’t sure a new proposal by NCAA President Charlie Baker to give university athletic departments the option to ...
There are plenty of students who dream of growing up to be the next TikTok star or a high-profile social media influencer.
But there are perhaps not plenty of college degrees that help prepare them for that world. University of Kansas officials this week won approval to create a new degree that indeed is targeted to potential social media influencers, plus other performers ranging from athletes to musicians. ...
Updated at 4:40 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 14, 2023
The longtime downtown Lawrence restaurant Cielito Lindo has been destroyed by a fire that began late Wednesday night and burned well into Thursday morning as dozens of firefighters fought to extinguish the blaze and to protect historic buildings.
As the Journal-World's partner Operation 100 News first reported, police and firefighters arrived shortly after 11:40 ...
There’s a chance the University of Kansas' home football games next season could be played at Kansas City’s Arrowhead Stadium, as KU leaders become concerned construction work at their campus stadium will make true home games infeasible.
KU Chancellor Douglas Girod confirmed to the Journal-World on Wednesday that KU has had some preliminary discussions with Arrowhead officials about using the stadium for ...
Updated at 3:09 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 12
A group of Lawrence businesses is asking a Douglas County court to close a pair of homeless camps, contending the city is creating a “vagrancy crisis” and allowing city laws to be “violated with impunity.”
“The community cannot stand idly by while lawless zones that promote crime erode the well-being of the community,” the plaintiffs state in the lawsuit. ...
It was August of 1994 when local dignitaries, a handful of reporters and other onlookers gathered in a hilltop pasture northwest of Lawrence for a groundbreaking ceremony of the South Lawrence Trafficway.
You could have won a lot of money that day if you would have wagered with the leaders on hand that nearly 30 years later, the site’s hilltop view still would be dominated by pastures and farm fields.
At ...
