As the Kansas Legislature returned to the Statehouse to begin its veto session on Wednesday, an openly gay lawmaker called on his colleagues to begin working on a bill that would protect the LGBTQ community from discrimination. Rep. Brandon Woodard, D-Lenexa, who is one of two openly LGBTQ members of the Legislature, told the Journal-World on Tuesday that he is talking to other lawmakers about the possibility ...
Story updated at 9:34 a.m. Thursday University of Kansas interim provost Carl Lejuez gave the clearest picture yet of KU's new budget model during a town hall meeting on campus Wednesday, and said that it would be ready to implement for the 2020-2021 school year. “This is really fully formed for the first time,” Lejuez told an audience in Spooner Hall. Lejuez said the new budget model will first be ...
The graduating class of the University of Kansas plans to give a portrait of former Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little to campus. The Board of Class Officers, a committee representing each class at KU, announced plans to give a replica of the official painted portrait of Gray-Little to campus as the gift from the 2019 class, according to a KU news release. The portrait will be unveiled at 3 p.m. Thursday ...
In the early morning hours on the University of Kansas campus, students in military fatigues can often be found running and working out. Those students are preparing to serve as leaders of tomorrow’s U.S. Army, and as of 2019 they’ve been doing it at KU for 100 years, said Lt. Col. Tracey Olson, who is a professor of military science and leader of the Reserve Officer Training Corps at KU. Many alumni of ...
Last week in a Chinese parking garage, a Tesla Model S seemed to spontaneously combust — a spectacle that was caught on camera. The car briefly emitted white smoke before exploding into flames, even though the car was off and unoccupied, according to footage shown on CNN. While Tesla plans to investigate what caused the explosion, Huazhen Fang, an assistant professor for KU’s Department of Mechanical ...
When Christina Gentry first moved to Lawrence with her husband and four children, she began a long road of homelessness, she said Wednesday during a community meeting focusing on affordable housing. After plans to move into a five-bedroom home fell through, Gentry and her family were forced to live out of a motel and eventually a camper. But the housing complication came with more serious consequences when she ...