This year’s homecoming theme, “Home on the Hill,” might conjure up more than a few memories and emotions for University of Kansas alumni. Remembering defining moments during college, but also creating new memories and opportunities, is what this year’s organizers of homecoming week, Sept. 22-29, hope to accomplish. Alumni reuniting and returning to campus is, of course, the hallmark of homecoming, said ...
Hidden from view, Cortney Coke parked the Ford Explorer near the intersection of Sunflower and Sunnyside roads on the University of Kansas campus. Lights off, she sat in the darkness, waiting. It was only a matter of minutes before a Jeep Cherokee rolled past the stop sign without coming to a complete stop. Coke, an officer with KU’s Office of Public Safety, turned on the flashing lights and quickly pulled ...
A giant blue egg, surrounded by four smaller red and blue eggs, materialized a week ago outside the Kansas Memorial Union on the University of Kansas campus. The words “Hatching March 7th” are written across the large plastic egg in the newly constructed Ascher Plaza in front of the student union on Jayhawk Boulevard. But those words are the only clue to the mystery of what's in the eggs. David Mucci, ...
Just six weeks after coming on staff as athletic director at the University of Kansas, Jeff Long is saying that building up the football program should take precedence over a multimillion-dollar remodel of the David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium. “The stadium is still very important,” Long said, during a question and answer session following a presentation he gave at a Chamber luncheon Friday at the Arterra ...
Native Americans couldn't claim U.S. citizenship when they answered the call to arms and fought in World War I. Citizenship would come six years after the war was over. But that didn't stop 415 Haskell students, faculty and alumni from enlisting, according to historian Jancita Warrington, director of the Haskell Cultural Center and Museum. Those soldiers were just a small part of the 10,000 tribal members who ...
Story updated 6:47 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 13, 2018: The University of Kansas Health System on Thursday announced its largest gift ever — a $66 million donation from The Sunderland Foundation. The donation is earmarked for an inpatient care unit specializing in blood cancers and disorders, which will fill three currently unused floors of Cambridge Tower A on the Kansas City, Kan., campus, said Jill Chadwick, a ...