¢ Newspapers and the blog world were busy talking about possible presidential hopeful Fred Thompson's selection of Bill Lacy to lead his yet-to-be-official campaign. Lacy, who led Thompson's 1994 senatorial campaign in Tennessee, is taking a leave of abscense from KU's Dole Institute of ...

¢ Leonard Krishtalka, director of the Natural History Museum at KU, gives his thoughts on the moving of famed fossil Lucy in a story by the [Associated Press][1]. Lucy, a 3 1/2-foot-tall adult of an ape-man species, is headed to Houston for exhibition from Ethiopia, where it was ...

¢ Sprinter Justin Gatlin starts a two-day arbitration hearing in Atlanta today over his testing positive for doping during the Kansas Relays in 2006. The [Washington Post][1] says Gatlin plans to say he was "unwittingly doped by a massage therapist who rubbed testosterone cream onto his ...

¢ KU's dealings with the Recording Industry Association of America is getting more national attention. The [Chronicle of Higher Education][1] cited a University Daily Kansan story this week stating the university won't forward pre-litigation notices to students accused of illegal ...

Kansas University is getting a lot of press for its decision to crack down on music pirating on campus.A story on [InsideHigherEd.com][1] about new downloading regulations that may be attached to the reauthorization of the Higher Education Act mentions KU's crackdown.The university has ...

¢ A Miami drag queen and Kansas University alumnus thinks John Travolta does OK playing a woman in "Hairspray." The drag queen, Elaine Lancaster, is quoted in today's [Miami Herald][1]._At first when he came on screen you thought ''Oh, it's John Travolta in drag.'' As the movie progressed, he ...