LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) The University of Kansas has had a steady increase in the number of graduate applicants from India and China. Thomas Heilke, dean of graduate studies at Kansas, tells The Lawrence Journal-World that applications for graduate study from India increased 20 percent from this time a year ago. He says similar applications from China went up by 7.4 percent. Charlie Bankart, assistant vice provost for international programs, said China, still is the country that sends the most international students to the University of Kansas. He said India had 270 students apply in 2012, while China had 872. Heilke…
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GARDEN CITY, Kan. (AP) A small ministry in western Kansas has been catering to truckers and travelers at a Garden City truck stop. The Pit Stop Praise is located at a truck stop north of a junction on U.S. Highway 50. The half-hour program on Friday evenings usually attracts up to about a dozen participants. Jay Schoonover, an elder with the Garden City Presbyterian Church, helped spearhead the initiative, which started a year ago. He told The Garden City Telegram that many people pass through needing to talk or some sort of assistance. Yvonne Battles, of the local Church of…
DODGE CITY, Kan. (AP) A Fort Hays University professor and his mother-in-law died in a car accident over the weekend. The Kansas Highway Patrol says 67-year-old Fred Ruda and 90-year-old Eleanor Sexson, both of Hays, died in the accident Sunday morning near Dodge City. Ruda was chairman of the Technology Studies Department at Fort Hays State University. Ruda’s wife, Sherrill, was hospitalized with serious injuries. The patrol says a vehicle driven by 19-year-old Braulio De La Cruz-Gonzalez of Dodge City crossed the center line of U.S. Highway 56 about 7 miles west of Dodge City and struck a car driven…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) A military boarding school in Kansas is asking a federal judge to dismiss the latest lawsuit against it. The suit claims a culture of abuse exists at St. John’s Military School in Salina. The lawsuit claims the school allowed higher ranking cadets to beat and otherwise mistreat younger students. The school is asking a judge to either dismiss the lawsuit or order arbitration of the dispute. St. John’s officials filed several documents in the case Friday. In one motion, the school asked that an x-ray of a student’s broken leg and a photograph of a gagged, blindfolded…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) The head of the Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services has decided that the acting deputy SRS secretary who oversees state hospitals and mental health programs will stay in that job. SRS Secretary Phyllis Gilmore has promoted Gary Haulmark (HALL’-mark) from acting deputy to deputy secretary for the Division of Disability and Behavioral Health Services. The division oversees hospitals for the mentally ill in Larned, Osawtomie and Kansas City, Kan., and hospitals for the developmentally disabled in Parsons and Topeka. It also manages addiction and mental health programs and programs for the physically and developmentally disabled.…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach (KOH’-bahk) is planning an archery tournament for children later this month on the grounds of the governor’s official residence. The Ad Astra Archery Tournament is scheduled for April 21 at MacLennan Park in Topeka, which surrounds Cedar Crest, the governor’s residence. The tournament is open to students from kindergarten through 12th grade. Kobach, a hunter, says there will also be other activities, such as fishing in the ponds in the park. The event also is being sponsored by Fort Hays State University and the Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism.…
DODGE CITY, Kan. (AP) Dodge City has a storied place in American history as a 19th century frontier town and a stop on the old Great Western Cattle Trail. But Dodge was also a center of motorcycle racing in the early 20th century, and the city will celebrate that story in May with an exhibit and series of programs at the Carnegie Center for the Arts. The Dodge City Daily Globe reports that Carnegie director Summer Bates came up with the project after talking to local officials. From 1914 to 1916, Dodge City was home of The Dodge City 300,…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) A Topeka college instructor lecturer is taking unusual steps to bring the distant past alive for today’s students. Washburn University says students in Anthony Silvestri’s Medieval Experience course wear academic robes to class. They also welcome their teacher in Latin and prepare for the next meeting by reading from a hand-bound codex chained to a library table. Silvestri says it’s all aimed at recreating the scholastic environment of the medieval period. Students debating whether it’s lawful to overthrow a king used scripture and the writings of ancient philosophers to make their cases. He says an education article…
1) Between April 4th and April 5th a red, Yamaha Kodiak ATV, was taken from the 4000 block of Marlatt Avenue. The victim reported to Riley County Police Department that they saw a vehicle leaving their residence and the ATV was then reported missing. The ATV was recovered later in a field nearby the home. The original estimated loss was $4,000 dollars. 2)The Riley County Police Department reports that on Saturday around 8:30 p.m. Eugene Milton battered a victim with a pipe wrench due to an argument. The victim and Milton knew each other before the incident and no arrests…
Kayvon Bahramzadeh, Robert Youngdahl, and Jake Doller combined on a three-hitter as K-State completed a three game sweep of Sacred Heart with a 7-0 victory on Saturday. Bahramzadeh struck out 7 Pioneers over six innings, and Youngdahl and Doller were perfect over the final three frames. Jared King broke out of a slump at the plate with a 4 for 5 day with a double, two RBI’s, and two runs scored. K-State is 17-14 on the season with the sweep of Sacred Heart, and will play at Missouri State on Wednesday night at 6:00pm. Coverage from Springfield begins at 5:30…