Conditions in the death camp were so horrific that Sonia Warshawski watched as women took their own lives by throwing themselves on electrified fences.
She felt it was a courageous thing for them to do.
“But I was fighting to survive,” Warshawski said Friday afternoon to a packed house at the Dole Institute of Politics.
One of the last remaining Holocaust survivors living in Kansas City, Warshawski stars ...
Enrollment is down by 73 students — or about 9 percent — from last year for the fall semester at Haskell Indian Nations University, Haskell President Venida Chenault said Tuesday.
Currently, 733 students are enrolled from 142 tribal affiliations. Previously, 806 students were enrolled in fall 2017 and 820 in fall 2016.
“It’s down a little bit, and we are seeing that nationally. Both mainstream ...
Despite calls from faculty for the University of Kansas' athletic department and endowment organization to help out with a $20 million budget cut, interim Provost Carl Lejuez said at a town hall meeting Wednesday that those two entities couldn't do much to ease the pain.
That news left Faculty Senate President Kirk McClure upset. It was McClure who had first suggested ways that Kansas Athletics Inc. and KU ...
Tarana Burke was so busy after the #MeToo movement took off in 2017 that she was forced to cancel a speaking event at the University of Kansas last spring.
Now she has rescheduled and is set to speak at 6 p.m. on Oct. 23 in the Kansas Union Ballroom. The event is free and open to the public.
The timing couldn’t have been better, said Jen Brockman, director of KU's Sexual Assault Prevention and Education ...
Kait McNeely steered the 40-foot bus alongside the curb and pressed her foot on the air brake, quickly opening the door.
“Thank you,” called out several college students as they stepped off Bus 38, like appreciative passengers to an airplane pilot after a smooth flight.
McNeely, who keeps her bluish-green haired tucked under a cap, appeared young enough to be hopping off the bus with the students, but at ...
The work of William S. Burroughs, Kurt Cobain and King James of England don’t generally coincide, other than when exhibited side-by-side at the Kenneth Spencer Research Library.
Burroughs and Cobain’s 1992 collaboration “The ‘Priest’ They Called Him,” and the 1616 edition of “The Workes of the Most High And Mighty Prince, James,” are on view for the library’s 50th-anniversary exhibit.
In ...
