Fall classes began Monday at the University of Kansas, and students searching for a room to rent at the last minute will find a few available on campus. Sarah Waters, KU's director of student housing, said KU was still working to fill the Stouffer Place Apartments, 1835 Ousdahl Road. Two years after breaking ground as part of the Central District’s redevelopment project, the new Stouffer Place has opened its ...
Like the medical doctor he is, University of Kansas Chancellor Douglas Girod offered some health advice for the students attending the university's opening convocation. “The brain works better after exercise,” Girod said during Sunday's ceremony at the Lied Center, adding that physical activity would help students ward off the dreaded “freshman 15” weight gain in their first year. The ceremony, which ...
The University of Kansas plans to cut funding to the Audio-Reader program, but the service will continue reading daily newspapers, magazines and best-sellers to visually impaired people. Within three years, KU will stop providing roughly $330,000 in annual support for the program, said Dan Skinner, director of Audio-Reader and Kansas Public Radio. Funding won’t immediately be affected, as the 2019 fiscal ...
The hippies arrived promptly at 10 a.m., even though 49 years ago most of them wouldn’t have begun partying until 10 p.m. Wearing tie-dyed shirts and headbands, they dressed Wednesday like the “flower children” they once were as they celebrated the 49th anniversary of the legendary Woodstock Festival. A table was spread with munchies. But the brownies were pot-free; so was the air. Instead, the smell of ...
Healy Young was doing the heavy lifting as she pulled suitcases from the back of the car and hauled them up to the fourth floor of Naismith Hall. That’s where her daughter Brittany Huang, 18, was unpacking. Mother and daughter had flown from New Jersey to Kansas City so Brittany could attend the University of Kansas. They rented a car at the airport and navigated to the Lawrence campus. Move-in day brought ...
It doesn’t matter where Kevin Willmott watches "BlacKkKlansman." Whether it’s at the Cannes Film Festival, Hollywood, New York or Lawrence, in every theater, the ending is always met with dead silence. The award-winning film with the arresting finish — relax, no spoilers below — opened in area theaters just this past weekend; however, Willmott, a University of Kansas professor of film and media studies, ...