When today’s students return to UK for their 25-year reunion, they may not be able to find the dormitory they lived in for part of their college experience. UK housing has planned a “domino effect” for the next 18 years that will result in all but five campus dormitories being renovated, or else demolished with [...]

View Larger Map Jewell Hall will reopen next year due to a higher number of applications for on-campus student housing, the head of UK’s housing program said. The number of housing applicants increased by about 200 for the 2009-10 school year, said Ben Crutcher, UK’s associate vice president for Auxiliary Services. The number of freshman [...]

UK plans on weathering a 2 percent drop in the university budget this fiscal year by absorbing the cuts centrally, President Lee Todd announced in a campuswide e-mail Thursday night. Operating unit budgets, such as those of individual colleges, will not be cut. Earlier this year, the state approved the 2 percent higher education cut, [...]

English junior Elaine Collins felt alone and ashamed after she was sexually assaulted. At Take Back the Night last year, she stepped up to the open mic to talk about her experience and saw a group of people who were encouraging and understood what she was going through. The shame started to go away. “The [...]

Four UK groups will host the final planned debate of the 2009 Student Government election Monday. The debate will be centered around diversity issues on campus ranging from race to military veterans issues, said James Davidson Jr., president of the UK chapter of the NAACP, one of the groups sponsoring the event. The other sponsors [...]

UK will try to pay less than the $6 million discussed when former head coach Billy Gillispie took the job two years ago, top university officials said Friday. UK President Lee Todd said the “memorandum of understanding” signed by Gillispie in April 2007 was a “year-to-year contract” during a news conference Friday announcing a coaching [...]

About $23 million in stimulus funding will go to projects in downtown Lexington, including a project to add bike lanes, the city announced Thursday. The Lexington Area Metropolitan Planning Organization, which includes officials from Fayette and Jessamine counties, voted Wednesday to allocate the funds.

Two of the three presidential candidates have voiced concern about conflicts of interest in one Student Government election event. Ryan Smith and Tyler Owen, both candidates in next week’s SG election, have said they will not participate in the forum hosted by the Student Health Advisory Council at 7 p.m. Wednesday in the W.T. Young [...]