Haoxuan Wang can’t fathom the tension between China and the U.S. escalating to a point where he would be banned from studying at the University of Kansas.
As a senior, majoring in communications studies and business, he plans to graduate in May 2019.
However, over the past months, as the trade war has escalated between the two countries, there have been rumblings in the Trump administration about proposals ...
Bill Lacy, director of the Dole Institute of Politics for the past 14 years, announced Tuesday that he would begin a modified retirement plan with the university beginning in January 2019.
Lacy plans to remain director of the Dole Institute for up to five years.
“It reflects my view that we need to take time to make the transition,” he said.
Lacy said he wanted to be transparent about his decision. ...
The #MeToo movement went viral a year ago because millions of people lent themselves to the world, sharing their experiences of sexual assault and harassment, said Tarana Burke, its founder.
“People don’t realize the women with tears running down their faces as they wrote their message for Facebook,” Burke said. “The labor of everyday people finally came out of this cover of shame we have been in for ...
During the fall of 1918, World War I was raging in Europe and students at the University of Kansas were fighting their own battle with Spanish influenza.
The Kansas Board of Health shut the university down for five weeks because of the outbreak.
According to a proclamation that ran on the front page of the Oct. 8, 1918 Daily Kansan, the university was shuttered; however, students were “forbidden to leave ...
After working with MV Transportation for the past 18 years, members of both the city of Lawrence and University of Kansas transit systems are recommending a change.
They now want First Transit Inc. to be the contracted service provider for both services. The proposal will be presented at the Nov. 6. Lawrence City Commission meeting. If approved, First Transit will begin its contract in January 2019.
City ...
At Ladybird Diner in downtown Lawrence, Susan McCarthy was perusing the newspaper Thursday morning, trying to keep up with the latest news on the college basketball corruption trial underway in New York.
A devout KU basketball fan, McCarthy has had season tickets for decades. But at the moment, she is practicing tough love with her team, which has been in the news for several weeks during the federal trial for ...
