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Beginning fall 2019, students over 21 can stop by a new pub on the first floor of the Kansas Union for alcoholic drinks
Running game overshadows quarterbacks at spring game At the first annual “Late Night Under the Lights,” while the main question was what quarterback would be taking the snaps, running backs Dom Williams and Khalil Herbert stole the show.
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Huntyr Schwegman/KANSAN RYLIE KOESTER @RylieKoester The Kansas Union will convert its first floor
into a pub and programming event space starting in August in partnership with SUA and KJHK, according to J.J.
students on campus, that allows alumni a place to hang and have a reason to maybe catch a drink and meet people — it’s a great
way for the community to come together,” said READ MORE ON PAGE 4
KU lacks homelessness data
KU baseball gave up a record-breaking 27 runs and 12 homers against Oklahoma State.
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Photo illustration by Natalie Hammer/KANSAN Some homeless students sleep in Anschutz Library because it is open most nights.
Homelessness has long been an issue on college campuses as finding housing remains an unavoidable part of student life. According to surveys done by the Hope Center for College, Community and Justice, 9% of university students and 12% of community college students
excavation.” This discovery marks a major breakthrough in the field of paleontology according to both Burnham and Bruce Lieberman, senior curator and professor of the department of ecology and evolutionary biology. “This is the most important paleontological discovery of the 21st century — so far,” Burnham said. Along with the discovery of new species, the excavation site includes several other points of interest, such as fossils of fish and other water-dwelling animals were found on top of land animals. “Rivers that flowed east suddenly flowed west and then rushed back again, pushing fish on top of trees,” Burnham said. While the Chicxulub asteroid is most commonly associated with the demise of dinosaurs as they’re depicted in media and on TV — large vertebrates that commanded
Little spherules of glass were also found among the fossils — further evidence that these fossils were killed by the aftermath of the impact. “It rained molten glass. When the earth was hit
On the horizon
KU Relays to start this week The 91st Kansas Relays kicks off this week, with the multi-events starting on Wednesday.
O’Toole-Curran, Memorial Unions director of engagement and strategy. “It’s really just to have something that keeps
nationwide have been homeless during their time in school. Christine BakerSmith acts as the senior research manager for the Hope Center for College, Community and Justice, an organization that surveys food insecurity and homelessness in colleges in the U.S. Baker-Smith, said the actual national percent of homeless students is likely between
12% and 14%, based on the number of schools that did not participate in the national survey. The University of Kansas, like any other Big 12 school, has offices and organizations in place to help students. However, according to multiple sources including KU Public Safety, Student READ MORE ON PAGE 2
KU researchers discover 66-million-year-old fossils
SAM KRICSFELD @SammyGKricsfeld One of the most destructive events to ever befall Earth, the Chicxulub asteroid that destroyed around 75% of animals and planets on earth including many species of dinosaurs, happened over 66 million years ago, yet discoveries are still being made to this day. Robert DePalma, a University of Kansas doctoral student in geology, and David Burnham, preparator of vertebrate paleontology at the KU Biodiversity Institute, have found well-preserved fossils of creatures in North Dakota that were killed in the immediate aftermath of the asteroid impact. The discovery is a landmark in the paleontological world, with several of the fossils proven to be species previously undiscovered. “We call it a Lagerstätte, which is German for motherlode,” Burnham said. “We’re only at the edge of
Contributed by Jackson Leibach A fossilized Articulated Sturgeon, a North American fish, was found by KU researchers in North Dakota. The North Dakota site was rich with unprecedentedly well-preserved fossils. the land — plenty of invertebrates, creatures without a backbone or spine, were killed too. The most notable of those were ammonites, marine molluscs that are closely related to today’s octopus or squid.
by the asteroid, all the clay turned to glass,” Burnham said. The site is an important location in marking the boundary of the K-T boundary, which is the point in time between the Cretaceous Period (K)
and the Paleogene Period (T). This is a geological signature, or a thin band of rock, that separates the dinosaurs’ Cretaceous READ MORE ON PAGE 2