By Kayla Phelps While New Years celebrations have finished for some, many in Lexington have just begun celebrating what will soon be the Year of the Tiger. People of all ages gathered Saturday at the Lexington Public Library to start their celebrations of the Chinese New Year. Presented by the Kentucky Chinese American Association, the [...]
By Rachel Bryant Every year UK’s matchup against Tennessee falls on the same day as another event with thousands of spectators. Because this year’s game is scheduled at night, the Greek community will strut their dance moves a few hours earlier than normal. Greek Sing, a philanthropy hosted by Chi Omega and Sigma Alpha Epsilon [...]
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By Erin Shea More UK students are packing up and heading to a foreign destination, and they aren’t letting a lack of personal finances or the economy stop them. The number of students that study abroad each year has increased by about 10 percent in the past four years, said David Bettez, interim director of [...]
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By Taylor Moak Mother Theresa is coming to UK — Temple University’s Mother Theresa, that is. Theresa Powell, the current vice president for student affairs at Temple University, will be on campus Monday as the second candidate for UK’s vice president of student affairs position. Temple University, located in Philadelphia, Penn., has about 27,000 undergraduate [...]
Continue reading …Kernel Editorial It seems like everything is moving online nowadays. We balance checkbooks, pay bills, get the news and a myriad of other things in front of our computers. Pretty soon, we’ll be adding teacher evaluations to the list. Hopefully this change will help students take those evaluations more seriously than they usually do. Depending [...]
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On a night when charity was everywhere in the Lexington Ice Center, the home team had to earn everything. UK hockey sold products off the ice, such as Ashley Judd posters and customized jerseys, in its ‘Hockey for Haiti’ campaign. The product on the ice was giving nothing in a 4-3 win over Dayton. UK [...]
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Column by Adam French This November, the yet-to-be-named Louisville waterfront arena will open, the result of a $252 million project which will be a state-of-the-art entertainment mecca. This includes a huge center scoreboard with high definition screens, 71 full-size luxury suites, a bar and grill, wide concourses, and enough restrooms and concession stands to withstand even [...]
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Column by Shannon Frazer A 1995 study conducted by the Barna Group Ltd. revealed that approximately two-thirds of polled American adults do not believe in absolute truth. The ironic twist to that statistic is after taking the survey the participants were all asked, “What is 2+2?” and unanimously all of them responded with the absolute [...]
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