Ashley Martin celebrated the “holidaze” this weekend with friends by relaxing in a mellow atmosphere. The Shawnee sophomore has smoked marijuana since she was a sophomore in high school. She has celebrated 4/20 multiple times and said now it’s more of a chill thing for her to do with friends who enjoy the same pastime [...]
Gluten free dieting is more than just the latest weight loss fad for Emma McNay, a sophomore from Pratt, it’s a way to maintain her health. After studying abroad in Italy last summer, McNay’s diet of gluten-laden pasta, bread and pizza triggered an allergy to wheat products. Since then, McNay has eaten gluten free in [...]
Students can meet the 2013 Student Senate presidential and vice presidential candidates while enjoying a free slice of pizza. Pizza and Politics is an ongoing series sponsored by the Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics. This month’s event will be different than usual. The casual meet-and-greet setting will give students an opportunity to get to [...]
The University will send a handful of athletes down to Texas this weekend, and it’s not just the men’s basketball team that will compete. The men’s and women’s track and field teams will compete in their first outdoor meet of the season Wednesday through Saturday at the Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays on the campus of [...]
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, [...]
Kansas City, Mo. — History tends to repeat itself. Not all the time, but with the Kansas’ coaching it’s a good bet. More than anything, Kansas coach Bill Self relies on his four seniors, and that’s exactly what the team needed at the Sprint Center on Sunday. Still it took a bad first half of [...]
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Now that the first game is finished, the real fun can begin. After scraping by a No. 16 seeded Western Kentucky team that gave No. 1 seeded Kansas all it could handle for 40 minutes, the Jayhawks have a 4:15 p.m. date Sunday with North Carolina in the third round of the NCAA [...]
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Billed as a rivalry game, a tournament final, and a score-settler, the Big 12 Tournament Championship ended with walk-ons Christian Garrett and Niko Roberts dribbling out the clock, a handful of inconsequential seconds being the only thing stopping Kansas from already celebrating its ninth Big 12 Tournament title. Once the clock [...]
In her second interview with the University Daily Kansan, Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little discussed the Congressional sequester, preservation of the Wakarusa Wetlands, and March Madness. Sequester As of March 1, an across-the-board federal funding cut took effect as Congress declared sequestration as a consequence for failing to take action to balance the federal budget. Although it [...]
Coming together from different schools, different fields of study and different backgrounds, a team of five area graduate students has shown that they can go toe to toe in competition with Ivy League universities. The team, made up of students from the University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas State University and University of Kansas, has been [...]
Every day, Ben McLemore tries to get better. Even before he dropped a Kansas freshman record 36 points on Saturday, he bettered himself by showing up early before the game against West Virginia. Around 10:45 a.m., McLemore walked onto Naismith Court to join sophomore guard Naadir Tharpe and Tharpe’s brother Tishaun Jenkins, a former player [...]
KUnited, a student senate coalition, has released four more platform initiatives for the 2013 campaign. Brandon Woodard, a senior from Topeka, is KUnited’s 2013 presidential candidate. Blaine Bengtson, a junior from Salina, is KUnited’s 2013 vice-presidential candidate. New Aquatic Center at the Rec KUnited plans to work with KU Recreation Services to begin the process [...]
The gay rights movement has added a few more letters onto its initialism: LGBTQIA. LGBTQIA stands for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Questioning, Intersex, and Asexual. The new acronym allows the sexuality and gender identity-based community to include individuals who may not conventionally identify themselves as a man or woman. Liam Lair, a graduate student in [...]
After a put back slam in the first half on Saturday against TCU, senior forward Kevin Young did something that he will probably never do again while at Kansas. He flashed one of his infectious smiles to the Allen Fieldhouse crowd and pointed his finger at someone specific in the stands and then touched his [...]
Walking in the hallways between classes, on the bus, even just sitting in the Union for 20 minutes, it seems like the faces in the sea of people are always changing at the University of Kansas. For incoming freshmen that are excitedly waiting to join these crowds and become these faces, there’s a little bit [...]
More than 200 students were spotted on Wescoe Beach enjoying the weather, cruising on skateboards, chalking the sidewalks, chatting away and wearing a variety of get-ups and costumes. They were all brought together by one common denominator, and when the beat dropped, synchronized dance chaos ensued. The popular dance that possessed the KU men’s basketball [...]
