By Juliann Vachon UK launched its second phase of a solar house building competition yesterday, calling for elegant and holistic designs from individual students or teams. About 40 people gathered in Pence Hall yesterday as project leaders announced the student design competition and went over some of its guidelines. Students of any discipline have until [...]
Continue reading …By Alle Rorie UK’s Smoke-free Policy is more than a year old, but many members of the UK community are unaware of it or simply do not comply. The policy — which requires smokers to be at least 20 feet away from entrances, air intakes and windows of all university buildings, parking structures and enclosed [...]
Continue reading …Kathryn Hogg’s Feb. 25 column, “Government, ‘anti-choice’ activists fail to recognize women’s rights,†shows a grave (and prevalent) misunderstanding of the entire abortion issue. Behind all the emotional arguments and images of coat hangers used as scare tactics by pro-abortion activists is one simple question: What is the unborn? If the unborn is simply a [...]
Continue reading …When the current law building was built nearly 40 years ago, a new, innovative and contemporary design was chosen. It has been despised by the students and faculty ever since. Over the past few years, the College of Law has dropped in national rankings in part due to the limited capacity of the current building. [...]
Continue reading …There has been a lot of talk in the last few years about town-gown relations and what a shame it is that the UK campus does not have a better relationship with Lexington’s downtown. However, instead of improving this relationship, it looks like overzealous developers may cause Lexington and UK to become even more estranged. [...]
Continue reading …I have been very impressed with UK students recently. I have seen students in these past few weeks expressing their opinions and doing good. This has been heartening and encouraging. On Valentine’s Day, I attended the I Heart Mountains rally in Frankfort. About 1,200 people were there with me, many of them college students. We [...]
Continue reading …While some students were out enjoying the weekend — or for those unfortunate few, stuck indoors studying — a record-setting number of students danced from Friday to Saturday in the third annual DanceBlue at Memorial Coliseum. For 24 straight hours, students shook off blisters, fatigue and sleep to raise money for the Pediatric Oncology Unit [...]
Continue reading …Unless there’s a sudden rush on the Student Government office today, voters in March’s elections are going to face a conspicuously one-sided ballot. Senate President Tyler Montell announced Monday that he would run for SG president. While it’s not uncommon for such a declaration to come within a few days of the filing deadline — [...]
Continue reading …Sophomore cornerback Paul Warford has been suspended indefinitely from the UK football team for a violation of team rules, head coach Rich Brooks announced yesterday. Warford started all 11 games he played in during the 2007 season. The Richmond, Ky., native recorded 41 tackles, including a career-high seven stops during UK’s upset of No. 1 [...]
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