The ''University Daily Kansan'' is an editorially independent

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serving the

University of Kansas The University of Kansas (KU) is a public research university with its main campus in Lawrence, Kansas, United States, and several satellite campuses, research and educational centers, medical centers, and classes across the state of Kansas. Tw ...

. It was founded in 1904. Its print distribution was only within the university's campus, as well as student apartment complexes throughout Lawrence. It was published weekly during the school year except fall break, spring break, exams and weekly during the summer session excluding holidays. Its circulation is about 12,000. ''The Kansan'' used to include a weekly

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named the ''Jayplay''. The University Daily Kansan stopped publishing regular print editions in 2020 due to the COVID-19 Pandemic and removed the paper's circulation boxes on campus. Its online counterpart, Kansan.com, began operation on the Web in late 1996. Originally called the UDKi (for interactive) it adopted the name of its parent publication three years later. The newspaper earned the prestigious

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award from the

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in 1993, 1994, 1995, 2000, 2004 and 2005. ''The Kansan'' was a finalist for the award in 2001 and 2007. Kansan.com, the newspaper's online counterpart, won the Online Pacemaker in 2007, 2008 and 2009.

Grant Snider Grant Snider is an American cartoonist, comic strip artist, writer and orthodontist. Life and career Snider grew up in Derby, Kansas, with his twin brother, Gavin, also an illustrator. He studied engineering at the University of Kansas, and the ...

was a cartoonist for the ''Daily Kansan'' as an undergraduate.

References

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