The unique, diverse programming of KJHK 90.7 FM has helped it earn “best radio station” in the 2013 Best of Lawrence awards. The awards, organize by the Lawrence Journal-World and Lawrence.com, are more than 130 specific categories split into five broader groups: community, food, going out, retail and services. Winners were treated to a reception [...]
Another class of students graduated from the University last month, and they again found themselves trying to find jobs in a weak economy. According to Generation Opportunity, a non-partisan youth advocacy organization, the unemployment rate for 18 to 29-year-olds for May was 11.6 percent. 2012 University graduate Jerry Wang was not among them. When he [...]
Graduation: It’s supposed to be a grand step out into the real world, being entirely on your own and getting a big kid job. But lately, the job market has many grads moving back into their parents’ basements instead of into their own place. Many grads, like Hannah Rutzick, are spending time at home to [...]
The Lawrence Arts Center will soon be taken over by a band of local student pirates. The Summer Youth Theater group will be putting on the Gilbert and Sullivan play “Pirates of Penzance.” The play will run June 13 and 14 at 7 p.m. and June 15 at 3 p.m. Ticket prices for the show [...]
The Kansas women’s track and field team was welcomed at Allen Fieldhouse yesterday afternoon as they returned from Eugene, Ore. with the first national championship trophy for the school in women’s track and field. Coach Stanley Redwine and senior Andrea Geubelle thanked the fans for showing their support, and the team then raised the trophy [...]
Even though you nailed the interview, that one time you came up short on a credit card bill or paid rent a day late can prevent you from landing a job. “Not only are employers looking at your Facebook page and your Twitter,” James Gentry said, “they’re also looking at your credit scores in some [...]
Remember the “Boom Boom Couple?” You know, the two who hooked up at The Hawk during Halloweekend of 2012, and then photos of it spread across the Internet like wildfire? The “Boom Boom Couple” is probably not the first twosome to be found in compromising positions in a college town. The culture of hooking up [...]
About five years ago, Lawrence native Thomas Hatch began his academic years wanting to major in music and make a living teaching and performing. He was also good at math and science and understood how challenging the life of a musician could be. He thought about his future and changed his major to electrical [...]
There are many artistic endeavors happening in Lawrence this summer. One, the Lawrence Outdoor Downtown Sculpture Exhibition, will open June 15. The exhibition, now in its 25th year, is featuring eight Lawrence artists’ sculptures placed at different spots on Massachusetts Street as well as some of the public buildings in the area and the side [...]
Business wasn’t booming when Brad Walters opened his Basil Leaf Café in a Phillips 66 gas station off of West Sixth Street. It was the dead of winter in 2009, and the country was in the middle of the recession. The weather and the roads were bad; there was no traffic and no money to [...]
Besides smaller class sizes and more free time during this summer session, students on campus will notice construction taking place on parts of Jayhawk Boulevard. The street will be renovated over the course of the next four summers, projected to be completed during the summer of 2016. During this summer session, from Chi Omega Fountain [...]
The Hall Center of the Humanities recently announced the lineup for its annual humanities lecture series. One of the speakers scheduled for this year, Junot Diaz, is a Pulitzer Prize winner that students at might be familiar with. Many of the University’s Spanish classes at require his works on their syllabus. “It’s honor to have [...]
The thirteen members of the Kansas women’s track and field team who made the journey to Eugene, Ore. sang “Crimson and the Blue” as they lifted the first national championship trophy for a women’s team in the University’s history. On Friday, sophomore Lindsay Vollmer accomplished what no other female track and field athlete at Kansas [...]
A University Judicial Board Appeals Panel recently concluded that a compliant filed by KUnited after the 2013 election was incorrectly dismissed by the Elections Commission. In the initial complaint that was filed after the spring election, the coalition argued that Ad Astra improperly campaigned before the allowed four week period. The Elections Commission dismissed this [...]
A well-known KU institution will be receiving a much-needed facelift this summer. The Ekdahl Dining Commons, or Mrs. E’s, will be the recipient of a $5 million renovation over the course of this summer. The project is currently underway and is set to be completed on or before Aug. 1st. Current and past students would [...]
Tucked away from the traffic of Massachusetts Street is a friendly reminder that Lawrence is a small Midwestern town with a sense of community. On Saturday mornings from 7 to 11 a.m. and Tuesdays from 4 to 6 p.m., the Lawrence Farmer’s Market claims the 800 block of New Hampshire Street as its home. It’s [...]
