While the Super Bowl will be played in Atlanta on Sunday, here in Lawrence the Souper Bowl will take place Saturday. Souper Bowl Saturday includes more than 1,000 handcrafted bowls for sale. The annual event has been a major fundraiser for the Lawrence Arts Center for several decades, according to Margaret Weisbrod Morris, the center's CEO. “It’s always the Saturday before the Super Bowl,” Weisbrod ...
Compared with Wednesday's bitter cold, it should feel like spring by Saturday as the so-called polar vortex engulfing the area moves to the east. As early as Thursday, temperatures should climb into the upper 30s, according to John Woynick, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Topeka. On Wednesday, temperatures had dipped to minus 3 degrees by about 6:45 a.m. in Lawrence, Woynick said, but they ...
Baset Azizi looks like any KU music student, calmly pulling his silver horn out of its case, but he comes from a place where it wasn’t safe to have a trumpet in public. Growing up in Afghanistan, where the Taliban forbid many things, including Western music, there were days when just walking to school could be life-threatening. It wasn’t uncommon for Azizi to hear explosions while in class in Kabul. He ...
Dan Wildcat hadn't seen Nathan Phillips for years, but when viral videos on social media showed his former student maintaining a stoic calm as he was mocked by teenagers in Washington, D.C., he wasn't surprised. Wildcat, acting president of Haskell Indian Nations University, taught Phillips, now 64, back in the late 1980s and he remembers him for his humility and for his dedication to helping young ...
As a journalist, Jose Antonio Vargas has always preferred asking the questions rather than being asked. But since publicly sharing his secret of living as an undocumented immigrant for the past 25 years, he has had to answer plenty of questions himself. The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, filmmaker and founder of the nonprofit organization Define American will be in Lawrence as the Kenneth A. Spencer ...
The University of Kansas saw a recent rise in the number of degrees awarded and the retention of students, but its ranking for receiving federally funded research dollars dropped, according to its most recent performance agreement with the Kansas Board of Regents. The performance agreements for KU and the other five Regents universities were approved during the Kansas Board of Regents' January meeting ...