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ROTC cadets deliver Louisville game ball [Slideshow]

Joker speaks to Army ROTC – Images by Kentucky Kernel University of Kentucky ROTC cadets are going the extra mile for the UK vs. UofL football game as they make their way to Louisville for the game. At 6:45 a.m. today, head coach Joker Phillips sent off a team of 15-20 cadets, who arel marching [...]

Acting Out

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Acting Out

Some students wet their pants. Others side-swipe bears. Funny and embarrassing stories like these filled the Briggs Theater in the Fine Arts Building Thursday night as more than 40 students auditioned for the festival of seven plays set to kick off the fall theater season. Each student that auditioned for a part in one of [...]

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[VIDEO] Under fire: Cadets prepare for career-determining missions

ARTEMUS, Ky. – Wind sweeps through the thickly wooded hills, muffling the crunch of branches under a squad of combat boots carefully creeping to the objective of their mission. An eerie quiet falls over the empty countryside as the camouflage-clad soldiers raise their guns to the top of a bunker, housing unfriendly forces in Arabian [...]

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An early start

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An early start

A rhythmic call and response chorus broke the quiet of the moonlit Cats Path of Central Campus early Monday morning. “Left. Left. Lefty, right-left. Left. Left. Lefty, right-left.” Amidst a sea of uniform military gray and white T-shirts, the sweat-drenched ‘AweSome’ T-shirt of College of Arts and Sciences Dean Mark Kornbluh stuck out like a [...]

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Play focuses on slavery in the world today

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Play focuses on slavery in the world today

Forty different names, 40 different characters, 40 different stories of slavery and freedom —  all from the mouth of one man. Award-winning actor, singer, writer and composer Daniel Beaty has toured across the world performing his one-man play, “EMERGENCY,” and on Monday he will add Lexington to his list of stops. Beaty hopes to give [...]

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‘Sexperts’ educate on what’s right and what’s wrong

“Can you get HIV from kissing?” “Are there any side effects to Plan B?” “What is douching, and is it safe?” Students heard the answers to the these questions Wednesday afternoon at an open forum held as part of “Safer Sex Secrets Week” on campus. The event was co-hosted by the University Health Services PAWS [...]

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The Broom Man

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The Broom Man

One of my favorite parts of fall semester is attending the Mountain Workshop, a photography workshop put on by Western Kentucky University in a small town in Kentucky. Last year I spent the workshop photographing “the broom man,” a craftsman who has made brooms for celebrities like Martha Stewart, and television shows. The Mountain Workshop [...]

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A Happy Fourth

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A Happy Fourth

This summer I spent Fourth of July working, because as an intern, that’s what you do on holidays; work so no one else has to. As the sun set over the Niagara River and the light touched all the red, white and blue, I didn’t mind so much that I was working though. I enjoyed [...]

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Snow Day

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Snow Day

I was looking through old photos and I came across this photo I took last winter. It was a beautiful snowy day in Carlisle, Kentucky, and I enjoyed the view from the back of a tractor.  Although my fingers and toes aren’t happily anticipating the cold, I can’t help but be excited for the first [...]

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Military Salute

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Military Salute

Adam Crawford waits to walk out on the field with other Pershing Rifles to present the flag for the National Anthem before the UK vs Florida football game. It was a beautiful day and I couldn’t resist shooting features of people on the field touched by the pretty light that fell over Commonwealth Stadium.                         -Britney [...]

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