Days before classes started, Whitehall Classroom Building was already full. Hundreds of young men found seats in the auditoriums, waiting to learn about brotherhood, leadership and character. The speaker turned to the crowd and began. “Welcome to rush, everybody.” Among the seated men was Daniel Carson, a political science freshman. For him, rush was critical. [...]

By Garrett Wymer As late Friday night turned into early Saturday morning, nearly 6,000 UK students and members of the Lexington community gathered on the Johnson Center Fields to take back what once was theirs. The only casualties were 153,497 latex balloons. Officially, 5,976 people participated in what was touted as—and, according to the Guinness [...]

By Brian Shlonsky Two groups of UK’s Information Technology departments will be restructured, resulting in layoffs and new positions in the next four months. UK’s Chief Technology Officer Doyle Friskney said 13 employees will be laid off as the Web group site lab and the distributing computing group will no longer be a part of [...]

When music performance sophomore Yunjung Lee moved into her apartment Aug. 18, she expected to live there for the duration of the school year. Ten days later, UK officials forced Lee and 11 other international students to vacate their apartments after a routine inspection revealed electrical problems. “I don’t want to move, but I didn’t [...]

By Drew Teague Workers broke ground Friday afternoon for a memorial for Flight 5191 as friends, family and local leaders came together to remember those who died on that fateful flight. Comair Flight 5191 crashed on Aug. 27, 2006, after taking the wrong runway at Blue Grass Airport, killing 49 of the 50 on board. [...]