For decades, the best thing that has been said about Wescoe Hall on the University of Kansas campus is that at least KU didn’t ever finish building it.
The concrete, 1960s-style classroom complex with a much-maligned design was planned to be 25 stories tall — the tallest building in the state at that time — before someone thought better of it.
Here’s a new thought: Tear Wescoe down.
No, that is ...
Signs of a big post-pandemic bounce-back in enrollment haven’t yet materialized at the University of Kansas, but early numbers are good enough that KU leaders are easing some spending restrictions.
In a message to the university community this week, three KU leaders said that fall 2021 enrollment on the Lawrence and Edwards campuses of KU is “trending flat compared to fall 2020.”
KU saw fall enrollment ...
It may be no surprise that the newest member of the Kansas Board of Regents — coming from the state’s largest university community — doesn’t think the state’s university system needs to get any smaller.
Wint Winter Jr., a longtime Lawrence resident, banker and attorney, is set to begin his first duties with the Board of Regents on Friday as he participates in a meeting reviewing the search committee ...
If I had been an apartment dweller in the past decade, I’m pretty sure I would have adopted the philosophy that it is easier to move to a new apartment than clean the one I’m in. New apartments were that abundant in Lawrence.
It is hardly news that apartment construction boomed in Lawrence. It often was the subject of derisive comments by people who feared the town was going to be overrun by apartments. ...
Sometimes in golf, it takes a second hack to get the ball out of the rough and onto the green. (Never mind that sometimes a chainsaw is needed to find the ball in the first place.) A small golf course between Lawrence and Eudora is taking the equivalent of a second hack at winning county planning approval for an expansion project.
Twin Oaks Golf — the driving range and par 3 course along Kansas Highway 10 ...
Two Olympic sprinters — one former and one current — are opening a barbecue restaurant in downtown Lawrence. That makes it tempting to say there must be something in the sauce, but I know from experience that the only thing barbecue sauce quickens is the need for more Wet Wipes. (Or perhaps a walk-through at one of those auto car washes, if I tackle a full slab of ribs.)
The sauce, though, at Gold Medal ...
