The Sunflower

09/03/2026

The Kiah Duggins Shocker Support Locker is changing its open hours.

The Kiah Duggins Shocker Support Locker will have amended hours for the fall semester, according to the Student Government Association. The Shocker Support Locker has an objective of providing food insecure students and staff with nutritious food and essentials. They provide non-perishables, canned....

09/03/2026

A new religious activism has popped up on campus. Its focus: respecting everyone.

A new club has popped up on Shocker Sync, aiming to fill a gap in representation for religious and abortion rights groups. That club is The Satanic Temple Club. The Satanic Temple Club is not religious; it is an activist group. President Josh Mallard has been a member of The Satanic Temple since he....

09/03/2026

SAC hosted a game show event with LA actor Joseph Tran. Students had the chance to play six different games for the opportunity to win money.

08/31/2026

DEI has been a topic of debate in higher education since the Kansas legislature passed it's first law restricting it three years ago.

Read what WSU faculty members think about the recently passed definition of DEI-CRT:

Kansas universities are no longer allowed to require courses that contain diverse content as per the state legislature, and many Wichita State professors have strong feelings about how it is defined. In July, an official definition for DEI-CRT was approved by the state finance council, after the Kan...

08/31/2026

Outside of Shocker Hall, fraternities and sororities showed off their strolls and celebrated their organizations during the 18th annual Yard Show.

The RSC has hosted the Cultural Greek Council’s and the National Pan-Hellenic Council’s Yard Show for nearly two decades, but this year, the 18th annual Yard Show took place outside in the Shocker Hall courtyard. Students and family of the fraternity and sorority members sat around on the steps,...

08/31/2026

"I am stunned by how the narrative has been spun in a way that frames accommodations as though anyone can just “get” accommodations and that they are an unfair advantage," Opinion editor Jadin Kaltenbach writes.

The New York Times reported, “the number of college students reporting disabilities rose more than 50 percent over the last decade.” The government data assessed included a diverse array of U.S. colleges, from liberal arts institutions to some of the nation’s most prestigious universities. And...

08/31/2026

The Anthropology Museum says goodbye to Neff Hall after 60 years and hello to a larger space and more educational opportunities for students in the new Ablah Library location.

The demolishing of Neff Hall will bring many changes to Wichita State’s campus, one of them being the moving of the Lowell D. Holmes Museum of Anthropology from Neff Hall to Ablah Library. Despite a few construction delays that occurred over the summer, the museum hopes to be open in late October ...

08/31/2026

Wichita State's Student Government recently funded student organizations, but state-level DEI changes made the process look a bit different.

Wichita State’s Student Government Association used to have agencies like the Black Student Union and the Asian Student Conference, but a change at the state level last year led to the demotion of the agencies back into student organizations. Those agencies-of-the-past had to go about funding in a...

08/31/2026

Students looking for a sense of community, or free merch, had the opportunity to do both at WSU's annual Involvement Fair.

Read how students utilized this event:

The north patio of the RSC was swarming with students, faculty and staff who were either tabling to promote their group or going from table to table to talk to different organizations and departments on campus on Thursday. WSU’s annual Involvement Fair was full of tables and students trying to fin...

08/28/2026

Finding ways to incorporate AI into higher education has been developing nation wide.
Here's what WSU has been doing:

The use of Artificial Intelligence has been increasing across higher education institutions nationwide, including within Wichita State. In September 2025, the Kansas Board of Regents set a goal for all universities in Kansas to monitor AI uses on their campuses, stating “state universities will su...