For the past 12 years, Sam Pepple has tried to find new homes for items no longer used around the University of Kansas. Everything from tables, chairs, lab equipment, a DNA sequencer and even a throne from China’s Qing Dynasty has passed through the large metal building that houses KU Surplus on the way to being resold. “Every year, we push 7,000 to 10,000 pieces,” said Pepple, the business coordinator ...
Energized by two shots of espresso and the stories she was told in Wichita, Mary Latham drove into Lawrence on a recent evening. Latham, 31, has been on a two-year journey crisscrossing the country on a mission to collect stories of human kindness from all 50 states. After leaving Wichita with a story about an amputee who overcomes daily challenges to help other amputees, Latham was betting that she could find ...
The claw of the CAT excavator began its destructive work Friday morning, yanking apart the Horejsi Family Athletics Center, home of KU volleyball. Pulling pieces of the 20-year-old building to the ground, the excavation crew from McPherson Wrecking of Topeka should only have a cement slab remaining by Monday afternoon at 1550 Allen Fieldhouse Drive, said Brad Nachtigal, associate athletic director for ...
Updated 4 p.m. Thursday The temporary leader of Haskell Indian Nations University on Wednesday sought to reassure the Haskell Board of Regents that the university was seriously addressing recent allegations of misconduct, even as regents expressed dismay that they had learned about some allegations only through media reports and not from the university itself. Dan Wildcat, a longtime Haskell faculty member, ...
A day after University of Kansas Interim Provost Carl Lejuez announced that roughly 30 people would be laid off to deal with a $20 million budget hole, members of the KU community vented their frustrations with the university's leadership during an open forum sponsored by the University Senate. University Senate President Ruben Flores moderated the event, which was live-streamed on the webinar and ...
Some University of Kansas students are still waiting for the check in the mail from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to pay tuition and living expenses for the semester which is days away from ending. April Blackmon Strange, director of KU's Military-Affiliated Student Center, noted that the delay was frustrating for students and said, “We won’t kick a student out; we are doing our best to work with ...