While you were out partying on Fat Tuesday, the town of Liberal, Kansas, was busy preparing pancakes and training for its race against arch nemesis Olney, England. Think Frasier versus Ali, Rocky versus Apollo, Rocky versus Drago uh... Rocky versus anyone. Fortunately, this time the good guys won and Kansas whipped England's ass. We have Wichita State student Tasha Gallegos to thank for the win. She finished the 380 meter course in a blistering 57.5 seconds all the while holding a skillet with a
​One of the books on my summer reading list was Seeding Civil War: Kansas in the National News, 1854-1858, by Wichita State University professor Craig Miner. I wanted to study up on area history, and Miner's research was interesting from a journalistic perspective, too.I never knew this, but for a few years in the 1850s, the national media was obsessed with Kansas. "Hundreds of thousands of articles and editorials -- 4,500 in the New
York Herald alone -- were published about Bleeding Kansas,"
​​According to the Princeton Review, students aren't just thinking about frat parties and sports teams when choosing a college. A recent survey showed that nearly 70 percent of high school graduates want information about universities' commitment to the environment. To track campus eco-activity, the Sustainable Endowments Institute, an off-shoot of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, puts out an annual Sustainability Report Card that assesses the green efforts of more than 320 schools. Last w
