¢ Michael Yellow Bird, an associate professor of indigenous nations studies at Kansas University, is coming to the defense of Ward Churchill, the University of Colorado professor whose job is in jeopardy because of controversial comments he made about the victims of 9/11. Yellow Bird is quoted ...

¢ Lawrence resident Sarah Smarsh is quoted in a [USA Today][1] story about the rising debt loads of college graduates._"I took on a New York level of student debt and went back to a place where there are only Kansas levels of income," says Smarsh, who's working two jobs, as a freelance ...

¢ Lawrence native and current Ford CEO Alan Mulally is the subject of a profile in [Business Week][1]._ Just eight months into the job, Mulally is working hard to change institutional work habits that took years to develop. He wants managers to think more about customers than their own ...

A former Kansas University cheerleader has been charged with having sex with a 16-year-old girl in the Chicago area, the [Kane County Chronicle][1] reports. Investigators there are looking at the cheer coach's history to determine if there might be additional victims in his past. He was listed ...

¢ A new state Web site that will make it easier to track state spending in Kansas is the focus of a story on [Stateline.org][1]._Kansas wants to make checking up on state spending as easy as googling the meaning of the word "Jayhawk."_ _So the Sunflower State plans to launch a ...

¢ Lawrence has one of the fastest-growing job markets in the United States, according to a Chicago placement firm cited in the [Houston Chronicle][1]. Other cities on the list include New Orleans, Jackson, N.C., and Dubuque, Iowa. [1]: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/fn/4805795.html