It may be the most excellence Lawrence ever sees involving a ball that isn’t orange.
Next month, a small downtown Lawrence club is hosting the No. 1 ranked three-cushion billiards player in the world — and some say the sport’s greatest player ever — for a rare U.S. exhibition.
The Billiards Studio — a private club located in a portion of the former Peoples Bank/Sandbar Sub building at Eighth and ...
Zombie organization can wear a fellow out.
As an owner of a new seasonal business on East 23rd Street, Eric Garrett has heard all about it. A big part of his family’s Garrett’s Haunted Farm will be a zombie hunt, where visitors take a hay rack ride while armed with paintball guns to “defend” themselves against zombies that are roaming the property.
The business — which is popping up at the ...
Soon, it will be conceivable that the University of Kansas’ Edwards Campus in Johnson County is producing everything from future MBAs to future members of the CIA.
KU has received a new $2.4 million federal grant to boost the university’s efforts to become a leader in educating future members of the national intelligence industry, including with three new or revamped degree programs at the Edwards Campus. ...
Juan Manuel Santos, the former president of Colombia, knows conflict.
Thus, the KU alumnus and 2016 recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize had little difficulty in answering a question at a Lawrence event Tuesday evening about the morality of negotiating with a political enemy. It was a question he got all the time as he worked to end a more-than-50-year Colombian civil war during his presidential tenure.
“I ...
The University of Kansas has quietly reduced the suspension of a fraternity that earlier this year was found to have participated in “systemic hazing that threatened the health and safety of students,” the Journal-World has learned.
University leaders in May signed an agreement that reduced the suspension of Phi Delta Theta to 3.5 years, down from five years. KU in January announced the five-year ...
If the University of Kansas ever decides it wants to change athletic conferences, it is appearing likely that it will have to win some state approvals that aren’t required today.
Members of the Kansas Board of Regents are in the process of creating a new policy that would require any Regents university — KU, K-State, Wichita State, Fort Hays State, Pittsburg State and Emporia State — to get approvals ...
