Gardner-Webb University apparently missed the memo. The Bulldogs were invited to Rupp Arena for the 2K Sports College Hoops Classic benefiting Coaches vs. Cancer knowing they had a potential date with UK in the second round. But on a night when UK head coach Billy Gillispie was supposed to be celebrating his 48th birthday — [...]
Continue reading …By Pamela Burke A local environmental leader is speaking at Worsham Theater tonight about where UK stands in its efforts to become a more sustainable community. Tom Kimmerer, executive director of the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education, based in Lexington, will be giving a lecture at 7:30 p.m. on current trends [...]
Continue reading …By Ben Hyatt Trent McBride, a third-year pathologist resident at UK, and fellow pathologists made the spotlight when Fox News’ Health home page recognized their educational Web site as Best Health Blog. “I had written a blog before that received some small attention, but I never thought it would make national news,†McBride said. The [...]
Continue reading …Send a postcard to Frank Warren, and he’ll be sure to “keep your dirty little secret.†Warren, creator of PostSecret, an ongoing community art project that allows people to mail their secrets anonymously on one side of a homemade, decorated postcard, talked about his project and books last night at Worsham Theater in the Student [...]
Continue reading …Student Government created two ad hoc committees at last night’s full Senate meeting. One was a committee to design a proposal concerning online voting for the spring SG elections. Senate President Tyler Montell said there is a genuine need to discuss the option of online voting. “If we’re not making the most technologically sensible choice, [...]
Continue reading …By Erica Mitchell After nearly two years of construction, three levels of a new parking garage on South Limestone Street will open this month, followed by the destruction of an existing garage. The parking structure between Conn Terrace and Transcript Avenue is one part of the $650 million of construction projects UK will undertake over [...]
Continue reading …By Laura Wood If UK and the University of Louisville did not have enough sports rivalries, a different competition has risen — one that could save hundreds of lives. The two schools have joined with the Kentucky Organ Donor Affiliates for its annual UK-U of L Gift of Life Challenge, which will run until the end of [...]
Continue reading …By D.J. Lacy World-renowned theorist Joan W. Scott will be speaking on gender and academic-freedom issues in two lectures this week. Scott, a professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J., will lecture on France’s ban on Islamic head scarves and other religious attire in public schools, and on what she calls a [...]
Continue reading …Students have a lot to do. Between going to class (or skipping), doing homework (at the last minute), paying parking tickets (or just getting towed) and sleeping (or staying up all night watching the third season of “The Officeâ€) there is not an abundance of free time. This is why you must exercise that freedom [...]
Continue reading …As I watch the futile attempts at diversifying and combating racism on this campus, I can’t help but think that I know something you don’t. Or maybe it’s something you choose not to acknowledge. As of late, people of the black community have been protesting, discussing and rallying under the guise of campus equality. However, [...]
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