Donors from 43 states chipped in money to send James Naismith to the 1936 Olympics to see the sport he invented played in the international competition for the first time. But when he arrived, there wasn’t any fanfare for his presence, nor complimentary tickets.
“After traveling 4,809 miles from Lawrence, Kansas, to Berlin, the inventor of basketball couldn’t get in to watch the first Olympic basketball ...
After nearly 10 years of investigation into the KU ticket scandal, University of Kansas professor emeritus George Frederickson said three things led to the university scam.
First, the remodeling of the ticket system from legacy-centric to donor-centric; second, hiring new people and not properly vetting them; and third, a poor accounting and oversight system.
“I think that’s where the problems were,” ...
University of Kansas senior Joey Shondell spent Friday morning with some of his Alpha Tau Omega fraternity brothers, planting trees and shrubs near the west end of Jayhawk Boulevard.
“This area really hasn’t been landscaped since 1947, so it’s cool that we’re coming in here,” Shondell said. The best part of the morning, according to him, was the “satisfaction of actually putting the tree in the ...
Provost candidate Carl Lejuez said the University of Kansas needs to take a hard pivot from the traumas of the past to the possibility of the future.
“Why I’m here today is to tell you we need to pivot at this point,” he said. “We need to pivot to being strategic. We need to pivot to being data-driven. We need to pivot past our current trauma.”
Lejuez has been serving as KU’s interim provost and ...
The current interim provost at the University of Kansas will soon present his candidacy for the permanent position.
Carl Lejuez, who has been serving as the university's interim provost and executive vice chancellor since spring of 2018, will deliver a public presentation at 4 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 31, in the Big 12 Room of the Kansas Union, KU announced Tuesday morning. A reception will follow from 5 to 6 p.m. ...
Provost candidate Margaret Raymond said she asked those she met on campus Tuesday to tell her what at the University of Kansas gives them joy. She expected to hear stories of remarkable student projects, she said, but instead, heard things like, “I like Lawrence” and “I like the people here.”
“I think we need to recapture joy,” Raymond said at her afternoon public presentation in the Burge Union at ...
