Column by Tim Riley Who said UK doesn’t have a sense of humor? Sure, the administrators aren’t big on punch lines or pranks, but every semester they manage to do more for comedy than Chris Rock. I know I always find myself just dying of laughter every year at this point in the semester. I [...]
Column by Linsen Li When President Lee Todd endorsed the CentrePointe development, he was looking out for future students and faculty members, or so he claimed. The project, centered around a massive luxury hotel, “will help create a downtown atmosphere that will help us attract and retain innovative and creative students, faculty, and staff — [...]
Continue reading …As another finals week opens, it’s time for the Kernel to lampoon all the things that made this year special, then take no responsibility for what we’ve just written. Sure, there are no more issues of the Kernel until the summer edition starts up in a month, but go ahead and send us letters to [...]
Continue reading …Sports Briefs Locked in a 1-1 tie, senior right fielder Sawyer Carroll’s two-out triple plated two runs, lifting the No. 17 UK baseball team to a 3-1 victory and securing a series win over No. 10 Vanderbilt in Nashville yesterday. Senior pitcher Greg Dombrowski logged 7.1 innings for the Cats, allowing just one run on [...]
Continue reading …By Bobby Reagan Sunday was supposed to be a day of celebration for the UK softball team, as its seniors played in Lexington for one last time. But Georgia wasted little time crashing the party, smashing 16 hits to the tune of a 9-4 win. Shortly after seniors Audrey Meyer, Ashley Dimkich, Samantha Allen, Megan [...]
Continue reading …Twenty-two hours and 126 picks. That’s how long it took before senior tight end Jacob Tamme heard his name called as a fourth-round selection by the Indianapolis Colts during the second day of the NFL draft. In a crop of talented draft-eligible former UK players — including quarterback Andre Woodson, wide receiver Keenan Burton and [...]
Continue reading …Story by Jill Laster UK had its highest six-year graduation rate ever in 2007, university officials announced Friday. Of the students who entered UK in 2001, 61.2 percent graduated with a bachelor’s degree six years later, up 2.1 percent from the year before. The rate of black students who graduated was also up more than [...]
Continue reading …Most were at the station’s first-ever all-day music festival to soak in the tunes and culture while celebrating 20 years of commercial-free radio provided by WRFL-FM, 88.1, UK’s student-run community radio station.
Continue reading …Cell phone records put a Lexington man, who owned a truck police think was involved in a hit-and-run accident that killed a UK freshman, at the scene of the wreck, Lexington police said. Shannon Houser, 36, told police he was at home at 2:30 a.m. on April 13, around the time of the accident that [...]
Continue reading …John Shelby was lost. The freshman — half naïve, half nervous — was on his way to the UK baseball offices to meet his new coach, John Cohen. Even though he was new to the campus, he thought he was going in the right direction. He arrived at the baseball offices. He found Cohen. He [...]
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