By Andrew Blankenship Individuals who want to help make the Earth a cleaner place will get their chance Wednesday, as students gather to pick up trash left around campus. As part of a month-long celebration, Earthdays in the Bluegrass is hosting Campus Clean-Up, which will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. at Stoll Field. [...]
Continue reading …By Sarah Wilder The Lexington Transit Authority will hold public meetings to present the findings of an operational study, hoping to make improvements to the system. The comprehensive operational analysis was performed by RLS & Associates, Inc., a firm based out of Dayton, Ohio. The preliminary findings were based on results of passenger surveys, rider [...]
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By Kelli Long The iron burned a hole in the white linen tablecloth, then quit working completely. And this was at 9:30 a.m., guaranteed to be the first of many near-disasters the students, the professor and the chef would have to avert in order to get lunch served at noon sharp. This may seem like [...]
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What started out looking like a typical game between UK and Louisville quickly turned into a nightmare for a struggling UK squad. A tie game entering the seventh inning turned into a six-run deficit for the Cats, with five of the six runs in the seventh coming unearned. The Cardinals followed up the seventh inning [...]
Continue reading …The UK baseball team has nine conference games remaining, but has to hope that its chance to make the Southeastern Conference Tournament and NCAA Tournament hasn’t already passed them. The Cats sit two games behind South Carolina for the eighth and final spot in the SEC Tournament, and their road to Hoover, Ala., is further [...]
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By Bill Nigut Although the UK softball team has knocked off every other opponent in the state of Kentucky this season, they could never quite overcome the No. 18 Louisville Cardinals. The Cats (29-19, 11-13 Southeastern Conference), led by USA Softball National Player of the Week Molly Johnson, travelled across the Bluegrass to Louisville on [...]
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“Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but it is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.”-Pat Conroy I took this picture on my way to Deerborn, a large Arab town in Michigan, with the Arabic club this past weekend. As the [...]
Continue reading …Any female student who has been to the Kentucky Clinic since 2007 has probably experienced the same thing. Whether they’ve been in to receive treatment for a common cold or for a yearly physical, they’ve most likely received a spiel about the benefits of a new “wonder drug.†Gardasil is the first vaccine developed to [...]
Continue reading …Column by Jacob Sims Not long ago, I literally laughed out loud when I read an article about a county judge overturning a ban on saggy pants. Riviera Beach’s ordinance banning saggy pants — overwhelmingly approved by voters — is unconstitutional. County Judge Laura Johnson held that no matter how “tacky or distasteful†the fashion [...]
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Column by Wesley Robinson Can we stop blaming Facebook for everything? I mean, seriously, it would be nice for little ol’ Facebook to be able to mind its own business and be the social networking tool it was designed to be, rather than the subject of criticism for any and everything under the sun. This [...]
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