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Wichita State's independent, student-run news source

The Sunflower

The anchor at the Delta Gamma house sits off of 21st street and is the site of a hazing ritual called The Anchor Run.

‘Anchor runs,’ ‘scaring techniques,’ ‘games of varying degrees’: Leaked email details Beta hazing allegations

Andrew Linnabary, Reporter April 26, 2018

An email about Beta Theta Pi’s 2017 hazing violations — sent to the presidents of WSU fraternities — said that new members were allegedly forced to participate in “anchor runs,” were woken up...

Members of Pizza Hut and WSU cut the ribbon at the opening of the Pizza Hut Museum.

Co-founder Dan Carney welcomes visitors to Pizza Hut Museum

Evan Pflugradt, Opinion Editor April 25, 2018

Dan Carney, Pizza Hut co-founder, comes from humble beginnings. Working for Carney Market and studying for a master’s degree at the University of Wichita, he was frustrated with the day-to-day and...

The parking garage located just south of the Rhatigan Student Center will transition to pay-by-hour parking May 13.

Parking garage will transition to pay-by-hour parking, as originally planned

Kylie Cameron, Reporter April 24, 2018

At the beginning of the school year, Wichita State announced that a new parking garage would be treated the same as a surface lot, allowing anyone with a permit to park there. The parking garage was...

C. Patric Mitchell, a math lecturer at Wichita State who died last week, is pictured with his wife, Jenny.

WSU mathematics instructor remembered as a ‘protector’

Jenna Farhat, Managing Editor April 24, 2018

Friends of math instructor C. Patric Mitchell knew him as a protector — loyal to his family, his students, his colleagues, and his dogs. “He liked to guard his pack,” said math instructor Nathan...

Ad wars: Innovation Campus developers, donors, Koch exec, others buy counter-protest ad

Ad wars: Innovation Campus developers, donors, Koch exec, others buy counter-protest ad

Chance Swaim, Editor in Chief April 23, 2018

Innovation Campus developers, donors, and board members of the nonprofit managing the campus expansion joined an executive from Koch Industries and others in placing an ad in the Sunday Eagle supporting...

Student Body Vice President Shelby Rowell stands on the third floor balcony of the Rhatigan Student Center Sunday.

‘Bitter or better’: Rowell rises through tragedies to leadership role

Chance Swaim, Editor in Chief April 23, 2018

What do you do when what are supposed to be the best years of your life turn into the worst? For newly elected Student Body Vice President Shelby Rowell, the answer to that question is what led her...

Wichita State gave more than $7.1 million to Innovation Campus nonprofit in its first 3 years

Wichita State gave more than $7.1 million to Innovation Campus nonprofit in its first 3 years

Chance Swaim, Editor in Chief April 22, 2018

From 2014 to 2016, in the midst of a state-funding crisis for Kansas universities, tax documents show Wichita State gave more than $7.1 million to the nonprofit organization managing Innovation Campus. During...

The full-page ad that ran in the Wichita Eagle was paid for by contribution by 120 people.

‘Friends of the University’ protest Wichita State leaders

Chance Swaim, Editor-in-Chief April 18, 2018

A group called Friends of the University, which includes former and current Wichita State faculty, paid for a full-page protest ad in the Sunday Wichita Eagle asking the Kansas Board of Regents to redress...

Leslie Brothers is a candidate for director of the Ulrich Museum of Art.

Ulrich director candidate visits campus

Andrew Linnabary, Reporter April 18, 2018

Leslie Brothers, a candidate for director of the Ulrich Museum of Art, presented to about 50 Wichita State staff and community members Monday, stressing that “providing access to art and meeting need...

Andrew Sean Greer, was a visiting writer in the fall of 2015, and recently won the Pulitzer for fiction.

Former visiting author at WSU wins Pulitzer Prize in fiction

Jenna Farhat, Managing Editor April 18, 2018

Andrew Sean Greer, who taught at Wichita State for a month as a visiting author in the creative writing program, won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize in fiction. He won the award for his novel “Less,” which...

Wichita State University Police Chief Rodney Clark

Wichita State appoints new chief of campus police

Andrew Linnabary, Reporter April 18, 2018

Rodney Clark, assistant professor of military science for the U.S. Army ROTC program at the Rochester Institute of Technology, has been named Wichita State police chief. Clark, a major in the Army retiring...

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Sunflower staffers snag regional SPJ awards

Sunflower Staff April 18, 2018

Five staff members of The Sunflower have been recognized for producing the best journalism in their region. Chance Swaim, Matt Crow, Brian Hayes, Matthew Kelly, and Ray Strunk took home Mark of Excellence...

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