WRITER: Chad Lawhorn

National pundit critical of rules for transgender women athletes speaks on KU campus, but organizers limited who could attend

A national pundit and former NCAA athlete was on the University of Kansas campus Wednesday to argue against transgender women participating in female sports leagues, but organizers restricted attendance to the speech. Riley Gaines, a former NCAA Division I swimmer who now hosts the Fox Nation podcast “Gaines for Girls," spoke at Budig Hall at the invitation of the KU chapter of Turning Point USA, which was ...

9 KU researchers honored at University Research Awards

Jennifer Raff, an associate professor of anthropology, was one of nine University of Kansas researchers to be awarded at the University Research Awards at the Jayhawk Welcome Center on Wednesday, April 9. Other KU honorees were: Markus Potter, associate professor of theater and dance; Elaina Sutley, associate professor of civil, environmental and architectural engineering; Darren Wallace, professor of internal ...

Plans for a big self-storage facility create questions about development north of Rock Chalk Park

Developing the area just north of Rock Chalk Park has, at times, looked like the middle-age, full-court pick-up basketball games that take place at the adjacent sports center — slow moving with more plans than points. Now, there is a development hoping to break the drought. Plans have been filed for a multimillion dollar project to build about 100,000 square feet of self-storage units that would be north of ...

Girod says KU did nothing wrong to land on list of universities under investigation by U.S. Department of Education

The University of Kansas is among 45 universities that the U.S. Department of Education is investigating related to admission practices that use racial preferences, but KU’s chancellor is confident the university did nothing wrong. “We are not at all concerned about being on that list,” Chancellor Douglas Girod told the Journal-World on Friday, referencing the list of 45 schools that the Department of ...

Q39 barbecue says city incentives still critical for its plans to locate in downtown; commissioners to consider issue again

Sometimes barbecue can produce false signals. When sitting across from my dining companion and she points to her cheek, I assume that means she wants to see if I can fit even more food into my mouth. Come to find out, she was just trying to alert me that I have half a bottle of barbecue sauce on my face. So it might be with the Q39 barbecue restaurant proposed for downtown Lawrence. If you recall, the prospect ...

At annual conference with the FBI, KU crowd told to get ready for even more advanced ways to be tracked

Brian McClendon, the Lawrence native who became a founder of the system that powers Google Earth and modern mapping, lightly slammed his foot on the University of Kansas stage. He told the crowd of about 400 cybersecurity experts from across the region that they should care about that faint thud because it was a precursor to the next “crazy” development that will make it easier for people to be tracked, ...