To start off, I’m not too big on politics. I really don’t know any of the ideas that either Democratic candidate is supporting. I do know the main candidates, but from there you lose me. But this upcoming election will set a precedent never before seen by any American. Either an African-American male or a [...]
Kentucky’s higher-education leaders asked, and Gov. Steve Beshear didn’t listen. In his budget address Tuesday night, Beshear recommended 12 percent cuts for higher education — a reduction that President Lee Todd and other state university heads warned would be devastating in a letter to the governor earlier this month. This short-sighted proposal would do grave [...]
Continue reading …The UK women’s basketball news conference yesterday didn’t have the allure of Tuesday’s Super Bowl Media Day extravaganza. There was not a charter airplane waiting for the Cats or reporters lined up outside Memorial Coliseum. However, the Cats do share a common goal with the Super Bowl-contending Patriots and Giants: winning a big game away [...]
Continue reading …With a perfect season on the line and 14 straight wins against Louisville, UK took to the courts at the Hilary J. Boone Tennis Complex yesterday and kept both streaks intact. Though the Cardinals won the doubles point, the women’s tennis team took four out of six singles matches to earn a 4-3 win. The [...]
Continue reading …By Henry Montgomery Pakistan is a country easily overlooked when discussions of the Middle East arise, but with nuclear capabilities and links to terrorism it is a “hotspot†in the region, a UK professor said. The rapidly growing country is the focus of a presentation by John Stempel, a professor in the Patterson School of [...]
Continue reading …DanceBlue’s Adopt-a-Family program pairs students with cancer patients Some 5-year-olds are scared to go to sleep for fear of monsters under the bed. But Mackenzie Sorensen’s fear of sleeping was different. “I was scared when night came to go to sleep or to take a nap,†Mackenzie said. “I was scared I would not wake [...]
Continue reading …By Rebecca Sweeney When Kristy Tsou came to UK, she was afraid to participate and ask questions during class because of how she felt her peers would perceive her. Tsou, a sociology graduate student, was one of five panelists who told personal stories about being from Appalachia during last night’s Diversity Dialogue, titled “Talk from [...]
Continue reading …The state Senate approved a bill yesterday that would ban public universities and state institutions from providing domestic-partner benefits to their employees. The legislation easily passed in a 30-5 vote. If the bill is approved by the Kentucky House of Representatives, it would change statutes so that health benefits for state workers would only apply [...]
Continue reading …By Margaret Barr An Indian activist’s fight against a dam project in her home country is coming to UK through a film presentation. Arundhati Roy’s film “Dam/Age,†which claims that the Narmada dam project in India will displace up to a million people, will be shown tonight from 7 to 9 in the Bingham-Davis House [...]
Continue reading …By Sarah Knight For one famously fashionable TV star, helping men learn how to dress isn’t his only passion — he also enjoys sharing his experiences with college students. Carson Kressley, known for his role as one of the “fab five†on the TV series “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy,†will be speaking tonight [...]
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