By Rebecca Sweeney When Kristy Tsou came to UK, she was afraid to participate and ask questions during class because of how she felt her peers would perceive her. Tsou, a sociology graduate student, was one of five panelists who told personal stories about being from Appalachia during last night’s Diversity Dialogue, titled “Talk from [...]

By Rebecca Sweeney Frayed overalls, floppy-brimmed hats, corncob pipes, missing teeth and feuding clans of the Hatfield and McCoy families are all stereotypes of people from Appalachia, said Ron Pen, director of Appalachian studies. “Historically, it was important to stereotype hillbillies in this way in order to distinguish and marginalize them as non-white people,” said [...]

Finding solutions to climate change goal of nationwide event By Chris Weis UK will join more than 1,000 other colleges and universities tomorrow in what organizers call the largest teach-in in U.S. history. Focus the Nation, an education initiative that focuses on global warming, asked students from campuses nationwide to plan their own versions of [...]

By Katie Jo Cox After leaving the W.T. Young Library, a student could make a quick trip back to Paris in 1900 or conduct theoretical fieldwork among millions of virtual characters across the world using UK’s recent purchase, a virtual island in Second Life. Second Life, which began in 2003, allows people to create a [...]

By Alice Haymond A Fayette County judge ruled yesterday that Shane Ragland, who pleaded guilty to second-degree manslaughter in August, is liable for the death of former UK football player Trent DiGiuro. DiGiuro, a former offensive lineman, died from a gunshot to the head on July 17, 1994, while celebrating his birthday on the front [...]

A little more than a year after the search began, the president and provost have selected UK’s top diversity official. Judy “J.J.” Jackson of Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., will begin as the vice president for institutional diversity July 1. Jackson visited UK earlier this month, and she said she knew she wanted the job [...]

By Ali Kresslein Ryan Moore has confined himself to the practice rooms in the Fine Arts Building since November, when he heard UK’s tuba-euphonium group was one of two college ensembles invited to play at a conference in Washington, D.C. UK’s Conner Tuba-Euphonium Ensemble, in which Moore plays the euphonium, will present a feature concert [...]