Wednesday afternoons at the Wesley Foundation on Columbia Avenue are punctured by the sound of country tunes and Dan Graham’s melodic voice as he serenades his students while they dance in mathematical formations. “From a jack to a king, from loneliness to a wedding ring …” he sings. Graham’s square dancing group has been working [...]
Continue reading …Kernel Editorial Board With the tobacco ban in effect now for three months, it was time for a progress report from the university. Has this culture of compliance that Tobacco-Free Campus Initiative Task Force Co-Chairs Anthany Beatty and Ellen Hahn have preached about actually become the norm? On one hand, yes. According to a Feb. [...]
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The UK women’s basketball coaching staff is comprised of UK employees, but they all were Volunteers at one time. UK head coach Matthew Mitchell and his assistant coaches Kyra Elzy, Matt Insell and Shalon Pillow all share, in an ironic twist, a connection to one of UK’s most-hated rivals: the Tennessee Volunteers. “It’s something else [...]
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After a heartbreaking end to the 2009 season in which UK barely missed the Southeastern Conference tournament, players aren’t looking for personal redemption heading into the clean slate that is the 2010 season. Instead, they’re fixated on getting there for the coaches. “We’re trying to give the coaches what they deserve,” junior second baseman Chris [...]
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By Adam Wozniak Students interested in learning about the business of the music industry will have an opportunity to do just that on Wednesday night. Kevin Lyman, founder of the Warped Tour and president of 4 Fini Inc., will be sharing his experience in building a music business into an empire. Chris Duncan, the director [...]
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By Sharif Webb One Eastern Kentucky University English professor hopes to create a buzz on campus with a lecture on bees. Tammy Horn, who works in the Environmental Research Unit at EKU, will speak Wednesday as part of an environmental symposium titled “Conversations on Conversation.” Horn focuses on the importance of honey bees to Kentucky [...]
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Coal is a hot topic of discussion on UK’s campus, but on Tuesday, one group of students let the numbers do the talking. Students with UK Beyond Coal, a campaign started this semester by the Sierra Club and UK students advocating alternative energy, stood along a sidewalk between White Hall Classroom Building and the Ralph [...]
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As many young women in college get ready to leave the house, there is a flurry to put together a combination of the right shoes, sweater, earrings or lip gloss. But for one part of the UK population, dressing for class is all about one thing — modesty. Heba Suleiman is a psychology junior and [...]
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By Kellie Oates Some people may think of NASA projects being light years away, but one NASA project is going to hit a little closer to home — particularly, UK’s home. For the third year in a row, UK’s Weightless Wildcats, a microgravity team made up of 10 undergraduates, has been selected to conduct an [...]
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