The University of Kansas police are still trying to find the person who raised a Texas flag above Fraser Hall in November. “The case is still open,” said Deputy Chief James Anguiano with KU's Public Safety Office. On Nov. 23, the Texas flag was spotted flying in place of the KU flag on top of the university building as the KU football team hosted the University of Texas. Because the incident occurred ...
At first glance, it would be easy to mistake Eric McMillin and John Schoen for law professors walking around Green Hall. But they're not professors; they're students — ones who, it turns out, lived oddly parallel lives before enrolling in the University of Kansas law school in their mid-50s. McMillin, 57, and Schoen, 58, were classmates at West Point, although they didn't know that at the time; with 890 ...
Evan Schmidt was working out in the fitness room of Naismith Hall Friday morning before heading next door to KU’s School of Business for his last final of the fall semester. A senior business major, Schmidt lives in the private residence hall, at 1800 Naismith Drive, because he says it's convenient. Not only is it located near his classes, he appreciates not having to cook and that housekeeping service is ...
A $6.9 million gift from a late geologist and his wife will help University of Kansas researchers develop a fuller understanding about early human life in the Americas. Joseph L. and Maude Ruth Cramer had established the Odyssey Archaeological Research Fund at KU in 2002 with a $1 million gift. The additional $6.9 million was recently received following their deaths. The gift will further benefit research by ...
As the first course was being served, Lexi Dutcher said she couldn’t wait for dessert. Not that the Lawrence High School junior had a sweet tooth; she was just excited to see how the amaretto-chocolate torte prepared by the advanced culinary class would look on the triangle-shaped plates she helped design and create in her advanced ceramics class. The three-course lunch Thursday was a culmination of a ...
The Kansas Board of Regents on Wednesday approved rate adjustments for housing and food service for its six universities. The University of Kansas will hold off raising rates for a standard double occupancy room at KU with a standard dining package in the coming year. However, the current cost of $10,350 per school year is still $900 higher than at Kansas State University, which has the next highest rate of the ...