The days of discounted athletic tickets for Kansas University faculty and staff are at least temporarily over as KU battles a tightening budget.KU Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor Richard Lariviere on Wednesday sent an e-mail to faculty and staff announcing that the university would not ...
Having a good basketball team isn’t just good fun. It pays good money, too.Riding the wave of a National Championship, Kansas University’s men’s basketball team has been ranked the fifth most valuable in the nation by Forbes magazine.The magazine placed a value of $21.7 million on the ...
The Insight Bowl pits the Kansas University Jayhawks against the Golden Gophers of the University of Minnesota, but local ties to the Twin Cities run deeper than a football game.Some Minnesota alumni are even teaching Jayhawks.Jim Lichtenberg, associate dean for graduate programs and research ...
In an ongoing effort to curb an obscene football chant, Kansas University has begun to play music longer during kickoffs.Jim Marchiony, an associate athletics director, said music that had previously only preceded kickoffs is now continuing during the play as well.The song, Zombie Nation's ...
The University Daily Kansan's effort to bring a new kickoff chant to Memorial Stadium succeeded Saturday, but the effort to rid the old obscene chant failed.The newspaper polled students on which new proposed chant they liked best, and the winner was: "Kayyyyyy (kick) Youuuuuuu!" Some students ...
And then there were two.Kansas University's student newspaper has winnowed its options for a new football kickoff chant.Voting on a new chant to replace the vulgar "Rip his (expletive) head off" concluded Wednesday on kansan.com.Now, University Daily Kansan editor Matt Erickson said students ...
The leadership of Kansas University's student newspaper and other KU and athletic department officials are hoping more students begin thinking like Logan Chamberlin.The Wichita sophomore used to participate in an obscene football chant during KU football games. He stopped after football coach ...
Now Holly Hulburt has even more reason to look forward to the beginning of the Kansas University basketball season.His food pantry at the Salvation Army looks to fill up once again.The pantry is among several in Douglas County poised to benefit from a food drive associated with Late Night in ...
