Hundreds of hidden treasures are within five miles of UK’s campus.
To muggles, or non-geocachers that is, participants searching for these prizes may appear to be ordinary people wandering in circles carrying a GPS device, but to trained geocachers, they are treasure hunters.
On Oct. 27, 2009, protestors — many of them students — left a Board of Trustees meeting angry and frustrated because they couldn’t share their opinions about naming the new men’s basketball dorm Wildcat Coal Lodge. Now, more than a year later, a plan has been proposed that would give people more time to apply [...]
Continue reading …Students may not be going Loko anymore. Or at least the way they have been. Tuesday, Phusion Projects, maker of Four Loko, announced in a news release it would reformulate its products to remove caffeine, guarana and taurine nationwide. According to the news release, the company will now only produce non-caffeinated versions of Four Loko, [...]
Continue reading …In an effort to help students complete their degrees quicker, the new Summer 2010 online courses earned more than $1.5 million in tuition.
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Four Loko, the alcoholic energy drink that combines caffeine, taurine, guarana and alcohol, has been the subject of controversy because of recent incidents involving the drink at Central Washington University and bans of it. The drink has recently made its way to some stores near UK’s campus.
Continue reading …“Father help your children and don’t let them fall by the side of the road.” These are the words that were sung from Memorial Hall’s stage Wednesday as the Catholic Action Center began a message about those living on the streets. Ginny Ramsey, co-founder of the Catholic Action Center, introduced the play, “Please Don’t Call [...]
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An assistant dean in the UK College of Social Work plead not guilty and waived formal arraignment to criminal trespassing and giving an officer a false name and address Thursday, under Fayette County District Court Judge Maria Ransdell. According to the police report, a woman called Lexington Police Saturday with the complaint of a suspicious [...]
Continue reading …By Katie Perkowski Because of recent on-campus robberies, members of the UK community have had crime on the mind. Wednesday, UK’s Office of Emergency Management released the 2010 annual Campus Safety and Security Report, listing the number of reported crimes for 17 different offenses during 2009. While some of the 17 listed crimes increased from [...]
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The fourth armed robbery to occur on UK’s campus within two weeks occurred Wednesday around 9:30 p.m., after two occurred early Tuesday morning, and one occurred last week. Wednesday night’s armed robbery occurred in the Blue Lot parking area at Commonwealth Stadium, according to a UK Alert sent out around 9:34 p.m. UK Police Chief [...]
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UK has chosen a new director of the Undergraduate Research Office, and she aims to bring all areas of research — not just scientific — together. Dr. Diane Snow, anatomy and neurobiology professor and endowed chair with the Spinal Cord and Brain Injury Research Center at UK, will begin her new role Nov. 1. Snow [...]
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