I have been around coal for as long as I can remember, but I never really questioned coal mining until I came to college. My grandfather died of complications related to black lung, even though the company officials told him to just cough up the coal dust and he would be fine. A coal mine [...]
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Spending time with your grandma isn’t exactly at the tippy -top of everyone’s fun list, but I try to cherish every moment I get to spend with mine. A few months ago my grandma asked me to go see the overgrown hills where he childhood home used to be in Hazard, KY. This picture means [...]
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Erik Reece and Don Gibson are outspoken about coal use, but the only thing they can manage to agree on is thinking the other is wrong. Reece, who teaches English at UK, is one of Kentucky’s most dynamic anti-coal activists, who gained national attention for his article “Death of a Mountain,†published in Harper’s Magazine [...]
Continue reading …Last fall, the university’s administration pulled a fast one on students, claiming that the most-prized building on campus — the W.T. Young Library — would stop being open 24 hours a day, five days a week. Instead, the library was to close at 2 a.m. and re-open at 7 a.m., during a time thought to [...]
Continue reading …Column by Travis Waldron Ever since Franklin Delano Roosevelt became president in 1933, the First Hundred Days a president is in office is closely charted, as if it is more significant than any other hundred-day period during a president’s term. While FDR — and other presidents, for that matter — have been wildly successful in [...]
Continue reading …Column by Zachary Kiser In the spirit of Finals Week, let’s take a quick informal quiz. Can you name the last three winners of the Academy Award for Best Actor? What is the name of Miley Cyrus’ boyfriend? How many times has Britney Spears been admitted to a hospital for “exhaustion?†Finally, can you name [...]
Continue reading …I don’t often use flabbergasted in a meaningfully descriptive way, but I was truly flabbergasted by Tim Riley’s column on April 27. I found his statements not only sexist, but immature, though they possibly stand stronger than anything to validate the bizarre claims he tries to make. Riley says he has been told men are [...]
Continue reading …I have to register my disappointment with the Kernel’s flow of commercial advertisement for local bars, dance clubs and improper ads that include sexual annotations. What makes these ads even worse is when they overlap with the final week of exams. The student communities are already contaminated by exposure to alcohol and sex ads on [...]
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By Kayla Phelps The end of the school year is quickly approaching and students are moving out of residence halls, apartments and houses around campus. In an effort to prevent students from disposing of unwanted furniture, the Salvation Army Thrift Store, Habitat for Humanity ReStore and Goodwill want to remind students of the opportunity to [...]
Continue reading …UK Police issued a crime bulletin after a student reported an assault Tuesday morning. The female student reported she was walking behind W.T. Young Library along Columbia Avenue around 2 a.m. when she was pulled from behind by her backpack and fell against a parked car. She suffered minor injuries to the side of her [...]
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