The University Daily Kansan is an editorially and financially independent student newspaper serving the University of Kansas. It was founded in 1904.Its distribution is only within the university's campus, as well as student apartment complexes throughout Lawrence. It is 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 lifestyle magazine named the Jayplay. Grant Snider was a cartoonist for the Daily Kansan as an undergraduate.