Eleven-year-old Laila Anderson made national news this year as her fight with a rare disease helped inspire her favorite team, the St. Louis Blues, to win the Stanley Cup. Just one month ago, University of Kansas student Kenton Felmlee discovered it was his bone marrow donation that helped save her life. Felmlee, a KU sophomore and Lawrence native, donated his bone marrow in January through an organization ...
After two consecutive years of operating expenses exceeding operating revenues, Kansas Athletics Inc. reversed the trend for fiscal year 2019. The organization’s auditor’s report, recently acquired by the Journal-World, shows that for fiscal year 2019, the operating income was $4.3 million. For fiscal years 2018 and 2017, operating income came in at a loss of $1.6 million and $82,000, respectively. Kansas ...
A group of University of Kansas students wants to get several bills introduced during the state legislature’s upcoming session in an attempt to increase transparency in higher education and reduce wasteful spending. At a Thursday evening press conference, Wesley Cudney, a KU sophomore and president of KU Against Rising Tuition, said the group wanted go to the Legislature because it felt its concerns weren’t ...
The Kansas Board of Regents has given the University of Kansas a green light to raze two vacant buildings on its Lawrence campus. At the board's November meeting on Wednesday, KU was granted approval to raze its Facilities Administration Building and Pharmaceutical Chemistry Lab. The buildings are in poor condition and currently vacated, according to KU's proposal to demolish them. The Facilities ...
Most universities have clubs for young Democrats and Republicans, but a growing number, including the University of Kansas, are establishing chapters of BridgeUSA, a national organization that seeks to expose students to diverse ideological viewpoints. Jakob Moberly, a KU sophomore who is KU’s chapter president and founder, said he noticed throughout his first year at college that viewpoints were often met ...
What are the health consequences of using marijuana, America’s most commonly used illicit drug? To find out, the Journal-World talked to two experts and read the results of a major study in an attempt to compile nonpartisan information on the effects of marijuana use. One expert, Richard Yi, is the director of The University of Kansas’ Cofrin Logan Center for Addiction Research and Treatment. Yi has a ...