Two fraternities at the University of Kansas have been suspended from campus for five years amid allegations that pledges were forced to sleep in vomit-filled beds and were held down and spit upon, among other charges.
A university spokesman confirmed Tuesday evening that KU administrators sanctioned the Phi Gamma Delta and Phi Delta Theta fraternities after separate investigations determined both fraternities ...
Yes, with a publication date of Jan. 2, this year-in-review is at least a day late by traditional standards. But, it wouldn’t be fitting for a review of 2021 to be on time. After all, in 2021 the end of the pandemic was at least a year late.
On that front, it is worth noting that this year in review isn’t a ranking of the top stories of the year. We did that because we felt the pandemic already had won ...
There’s a mystery behind the mask at the University of Kansas.
Why have KU leaders dropped the mask mandate inside Allen Fieldhouse — generally the most densely occupied building on campus when it is in use for a men’s basketball game — but are still requiring that masks be worn by students and staff in far less crowded classrooms and other public spaces?
Answers were hard to come by on Thursday, as ...
Think of it as a nearly $700,000 stocking stuffer at Lawrence City Hall.
In the days right after Christmas, the city of Lawrence received its final sales tax check of 2021 from the state of Kansas, and it indeed was $688,000 more than the city received in December 2020. All told, it was a whopping increase of nearly 33% for the month.
Such good tidings and cheer were not confined to Lawrence, either. City ...
Douglas County is on the verge of again having 1,000 active COVID cases, which will lead local health officials to again consider a countywide mask mandate.
“The operative word there, though, is ‘consider,’” Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health Director Dan Partridge told the Journal-World. “We haven’t yet had the meeting.”
Partridge said it is not a foregone conclusion that public health ...
In Richard Renner’s eyes, there was no better playground for a young boy than a junkyard.
His grandfather owned one, and the instructions Renner received on his many visits were simple: “He gave me a hammer and a wrench and said ‘I don’t want to see you until 4 p.m.’”
Renner said wandering a junkyard — complete with the mud and the occasional blood of scraped knuckles — taught him a lot about ...
