This summer’s drought is one reason the $225,000 renovation of Wescoe Beach is about two months behind schedule. The renovations will be finished by late September or early October, well after the original completion date of Aug 1. Peg Livingood, landscape architect and campus planner, said the extreme heat combined with the LED lighting being [...]
By now, students have signed new leases and moved into new apartments. They pay rent to a new landlord, and should receive security deposits back from their old one. However, this is not the case for some students, like Blaine Criss, a senior from Salina. Criss recently received a bill of about $800 from The [...]
This election season, students can talk politics with national experts from both parties – and from abroad. The Dole Institute of Politics will host weekly group discussions of elections campaigns, led by Nancy Dwight, a Republican strategist and Steve Hildebrand, a campaign manager for President Barack Obama in 2008. Other election season programming at the [...]
Monday at 7:30 p.m. The Lied Center will welcome the comedic talents of actor John Lithgow with his one-man theatrical memoir show “Stories by Heart.” According to a news release from the Lied Center, Lithgow tells the story of his ascent through the acting world while intertwined through two vastly different childhood stories told to [...]
The KU ROTC put its soapbox derby car to the test in the Red Bull Soapbox Race in Dallas on Saturday afternoon. The five-member team built the car from the ground up in a week, and they expected, at the very least, to win the audience’s popular vote. “The car is based off of a [...]
On Thursday afternoon, dozens of students sat in the Underground happily eating their Chick-fil-A sandwiches, nuggets and fries. Hours later, however, a different group gathered to discuss whether Chick-fil-A should even be allowed on campus. Queers and Allies sponsored the “Chick-fil-A Debate” Sept.13, in which two students debated whether Chick-fil-A should be dismissed from their [...]
The Festival of Cultures will be this Sunday, Sept. 16 at South Park, South Park, 1141 Massachusetts St. The Centro Hispano Resource Center, the Humans Relations Commission and The Lawrence Alliance sponsor the festival. The organizations are dedicated to celebrating diverse cultures and individuality throughout the Lawrence community, while promoting tolerance and reducing discrimination. The [...]
Every offensive turnover requires a defensive bail out, but not all turnovers are created equal. Turnovers that put opponents in scoring position always come with the threat of the big play — and it doesn’t take much to pull exhausted defenders out of position. That’s when defensive captain Toben Opurum begins barking at his team. [...]
The KU Natural History Museum is bringing sexy back. Students can visit the museum tonight to learn about group sex among mollusk species, cannibalistic sex among spiders and bees that explode after copulating. The event, at the museum in Dyche Hall at 5 p.m., is called “Sexy Science,” and it kicks off the fall lineup [...]
At this year’s homecoming game, students can keep an eye out for recycling bins set up around Memorial stadium. Senate just passed “Recycle and Blue, KU” on Wednesday, a program which will bring 60 new recycling bins to each home football game. “There is currently minimal effort for recycling on game days,” said Student Body [...]
As the Kansas City Renaissance Festival continues its annual season in Bonner Springs , attendees are transported back in time with an array of activities and performances. The festival, now in its 36th year, has added new attractions while keeping old favorites. “We are sort of challenged with the idea of coming up with something [...]
Some School of Music students recently returned from a nine-week program in Lawrence’s sister city, Eutin, Germany. Now, more music students will prepare for a commissioned concert in New York this spring. Members of the University wind ensemble will perform Mohammed Fairouz’s “In the Shadow of No Towers,” a concert that explores life post-9/11, in [...]
Wednesdays at the Union just got a lot more flavorful. The Student Union Association will be hosting free cooking demonstrations every Wednesday at 3 p.m. in the fourth floor lobby until Oct. 3. These events will feature experienced cooks from the University and Lawrence area. “We want to educate students about how to eat healthy [...]
Dan Morelan, the singing KU bus driver who was fired by MV Transportation on Sept. 5, has filed a grievance against the company through union representation Wednesday afternoon. On Morelan’s request, union representative Charles Pirtle filed the grievance. The grievance is a process that allows Morelan to contest his firing. According to the union’s contract [...]
To many western Kansans, sites like the Berexco rig site 25 miles northwest of Liberal, Kan. aren’t unusual. Thanks to a research partnership between Berexco, the Department of Energy and the Kansas Geological Survey, it could be one of the first sites used for carbon dioxide (CO2) sequestration in the state. The drilling of the [...]
Dead Winter Carpenters, a California-native band, will be performing their album release in Lawrence at the Bottleneck next Monday, Sept. 17. The band released their second album in May, titled “Ain’t it Strange.” When asked how this album compared to the first time around, singer/guitarist Jesse Dunn felt that “overall we kinda created our own [...]
