Lawrence in the News

Are these KU students self-centered?

![][1]¢ A pair of unidentified KU fans have found themselves in the middle of a minor journalism controversy. A photo of them - with their bodies painted with the letters "K" and "U" - was included with a story on whose photo was included in a [CBSNews.com][2] story titled "Are Today's ...

National attention for ‘cave man’ lifestyle

¢ KU professor Steve Ilardi has been getting national attention for his "cave man" approach to treating depression, thanks to a [McClatchy Newspapers][1] article that has circulated on the wire._His research steered him there, to an examination of the hunter-gatherer way of life, to a time ...

Students and environmental activism

¢ Karl Brooks, a KU history professor, compares environmental activism of today to that of previous generation in a story in [The Diamondback][1], the student newspaper of the University of Maryland._ A decade before the first Earth Day in 1970, students led the movement to halt nuclear ...

Naismith memorabilia set record

¢ Last year's auction of personal memorabilia from the life of James Naismith - the inventor of basketball who coached at Kansas University - set a record for the most earned at an auction for items from a single, non-baseball sporting figure, according to the site [Antiques and the Arts ...

Comparing security at Wakarusa, Bonnaroo

¢ A columnist for the [Tufts Daily][1], the newspaper at Tufts University, contrasts law enforcement at the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival to what happened last summer at Lawrence's Wakarusa Music & Camping Festival._ In many ways, despite the torturous environment, the (Bonnaroo) ...

Why do couples donate eggs?

Dr. David Grainger, president of the Society of Assisted Reproductive Technology and a doctor at the KU Medical Center in Wichita, says couples donating eggs for reproductive therapy reasons are motivated by more than money. He's quoted in an [Associated Press][1] story about an increase in egg ...