I suspect there are times when waiters and waitresses serving me wished they were 8 feet tall. It would allow them to stand back farther when putting another basket of chips and salsa in front of me. Well, soon, there may be 8-foot-tall servers in downtown, but not quite that way. Instead, plans have been filed to paint a mural on one of the biggest buildings in downtown Lawrence. The mural will honor ...
The University of Kansas wants students, faculty and staff to wear masks indoors on the KU campus, but it has stopped short of mandating that they do so. The announcement comes after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention changed its guidance on masks on Tuesday, recommending that anyone over 2 years of age wear a mask indoors, even if fully vaccinated. Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health later that ...
The University of Kansas hasn’t yet made a decision to require masks again at its campuses, but the topic is going to get some serious consideration, Chancellor Douglas Girod said Wednesday. “Douglas County is not a hot zone right now, but we know we are surrounded by them,” Girod said. Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health on Tuesday stopped short of issuing a new public health order that would ...
The decision by Texas and Oklahoma to pursue a move to the SEC came like a thunderbolt. The response to that decision shouldn’t, University of Kansas Chancellor Douglas Girod said in some of his first public comments about unrest in the Big 12 Conference. In a brief interview Wednesday, Girod indicated the Big 12 is in a better position than some may believe due to the contract provisions that essentially ...
You probably could make a pretty interesting list of what you could learn by attending music festivals in Italy for 14 years. For Michael Kirkendoll, wine is near the top of that list, and he’s opening a new “wine academy” in East Lawrence to share some of it — both wine and knowledge, that is. Kirkendoll, an associate professor of piano at the University of Kansas, has hosted a contemporary music ...
When it comes to budget cuts at the University of Kansas this coming school year, almost all of them — roughly 90% — are going to land on university employees. KU chief financial officer Jeff DeWitt told the Kansas Board of Regents Tuesday that KU has planned for $24.8 million in budget cuts for fiscal year 2022, which began in July. Documents presented to the board show that $22.3 million of the cuts are ...