A busy news week for Kansas Athletics continued Saturday, when a video of a woman crocheting before the football game went viral.
"Crochet lady," as she has been dubbed, entertained herself with her hobby before the start of the Kansas-Oklahoma game — and inadvertently entertained the internet as well.
The video, which has been viewed 1.4 million times, depicts a woman sitting alone in the stands at KU's ...
Kansas students could win an iPad or a Kindle for submitting their photography to the Kansas Historical Society's annual photo contest.
Students from 1st through 12th grades are invited to submit up to five photographs to the contest that "tell a story about going to school in Kansas," according to the Historical Society's website. The photos must be taken by the student and be from 2019.
The first-place ...
Kiese Laymon is always revising: his words, his works, himself.
Thursday night at the Lied Center, the acclaimed black author read “Terrors,” a chapter from his memoir "Heavy." “Terrors” is actually a revision of a previous essay he had written titled “Outside,” which first-year students at the University of Kansas read in this year’s Common Book: “Tales of Two Americas: Stories of Inequality in ...
Story updated at 6:56 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2019:
For the third consecutive year, enrollment on the University of Kansas’ Lawrence campus has declined, according to numbers released by the school on Wednesday.
Both KU and the Kansas Board of Regents on Wednesday released enrollment figures. The university’s totals showed the Lawrence campus had the equivalent of 21,332 full-time students on Sept. 20, ...
Updated at 2:14 p.m. Wednesday
Native women have told Sarah Deer they raise their daughters to know what to do when they are raped, not if they are raped.
This statement was met with silence from the packed audience in Spooner Hall attending Deer’s Hall Center for the Humanities lecture Tuesday evening.
Deer, a lawyer and University of Kansas professor whose scholarship focuses on the intersection of ...
Second District Congressman Steve Watkins told Lawrence farmers Tuesday that one of his priorities would be to get the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, or USMCA, pushed through when Congress returns from its recess.
“It seems like some of the Democrats might have other ideas about what is most important for the country right now," Watkins said, referencing the impeachment inquiry against President ...
