KU Students for Justice in the Middle East (KU SJME) held their first “Justice Café,” an evening filled with social commentary by students and performers, Monday evening in the Woodruff Auditorium of the Kansas Union. “Justice Café is an event night of spoken word and slam poetry,” Salman Husain, a sophomore from Wichita and the [...]
Last April, an EF3 tornado ripped through the Wichita area and caused $283 million in damages. Although conditions this season are not as favorable to produce tornadoes, it does not necessarily mean that we will see a shortage. “We are currently under ENSO-neutral conditions, and projections indicate that the neutral conditions will persist through the [...]
This spring will be especially unpleasant for seasonal allergy sufferers. The late snowfall means that the trees, flowers and other flora that typically bloom early in the spring will instead bloom with the rest of the flora later in the season. With everything blooming at once, this means that the typical spring allergy season will [...]
Any day now, a group of students will send a balloon 100,000 feet into the air. The students enrolled in Geography 726, a graduate-level class revolving around remote sensing, have spent the semester designing and building a balloon they named the PHOG-NS. The PHOG-NS will ascend into the air, pop at 100,000 feet, and then [...]
The electronic cigarette, also known by its nickname the “e-cig,” is changing the way people smoke. Except, there’s no smoke involved. Eric Adell, a senior from Olathe, picked up his electronic cigarette three months ago in his efforts to quit smoking. “I started using an e-cig as a way to quit smoking. I’ve tried other [...]
The 5:30 a.m. alarm has been roaring for the past five minutes. Brianna Ryan finally comes to, and slams her hand on the cell phone to shut it off. She eases her way out of bed, and sluggishly shuffles toward her daughter’s play pen. It’s time to wake up Zoey and start the day. Ryan, [...]
More wins means more money. For downtown Lawrence businesses, revenue and sales soar during in March. The further the Jayhawks advance in the NCAA tournament, the more profits businesses see. Simon Bates manages the Burger Stand at 803 Massachusetts St. Bates says the restaurant and bar will be gearing up for the madness Mass Street [...]
Buster might only have three legs, but scaling fences, chasing squirrels, and going for walks are still a part of his daily life. Buster has been a part of Kelly O’Neill’s family for 11 years. O’Neill, a sophomore from Leawood, took Buster in September when his older brother, who had been taking care of Buster, [...]
If you knew placing money on your bracket for a betting pool at work could get you into trouble, would you still take the risk “Definitely,” said Nick Schulte, a senior from Wichita. On Selection Sunday, Schulte will be one of thousands of people spending hours meticulously perfecting their NCAA tournament brackets, and then betting [...]
Kaitlyn Hilgers will not be boarding a cruise to the Caribbean for spring break. She will not be traveling home to San Diego to lie on the beach or visit Shamu at Sea World. She will not even be staying in Lawrence to sleep in, hang out with friends and relax. Instead, on the Saturday [...]
Imagine one performance determining your entire college career. That’s what students in the School of Music face as May graduation approaches. Come April, Katie Kyzer, along with other music students, will be putting her music degree on the line with her performance in the School of Music’s Student Recital Series. Kyzer, a senior from Purcell, [...]
Local wood workers will have the opportunity to create art using the lumber that was taken from the trees that were removed for the recent renovations to the Lawrence Public Library. University associate professors Matthew Burke and Mark Jakubauskas are facilitating the community art project, called “Logs to Literature.” The goal of the project is [...]
As graduation draws nearer, seniors across the nation are trading their Saturday nights out for intense study sessions in the library. “Balancing work, classes, an honors thesis and studying for the GRE this semester has definitely been a challenge,” said Bailey Widener, a senior from Kansas City, Kan. For those seniors who have chosen to [...]
In only three weeks time, a small group of students have produced, directed and starred in two plays. The two undergraduate black box plays, “The Zoo Story” and “The American Dream” (both by Edward Albee) feature all-student casts and two student directors. “We have free rein to direct a one act of our choosing. The [...]
Members of the United Students Against Sweatshops of KU (USAS) gathered outside the Union this afternoon to hand out Valentine grams of sweatshop awareness to passersby. Jaden Gragg, a sophomore from Shawnee, and several other members carried signs and handed out candy and fliers to people around the Union as well as bookstore employees. Gragg [...]
