While some students were out enjoying the weekend — or for those unfortunate few, stuck indoors studying — a record-setting number of students danced from Friday to Saturday in the third annual DanceBlue at Memorial Coliseum. For 24 straight hours, students shook off blisters, fatigue and sleep to raise money for the Pediatric Oncology Unit [...]
Continue reading …Unless there’s a sudden rush on the Student Government office today, voters in March’s elections are going to face a conspicuously one-sided ballot. Senate President Tyler Montell announced Monday that he would run for SG president. While it’s not uncommon for such a declaration to come within a few days of the filing deadline — [...]
Continue reading …I’m sure we have all heard those annoying preachers hurling their fire-and-brimstone ramblings at us in the Free Speech Area. This makes me somewhat sick to my stomach, and as I drown out the noise with my iPod, I wonder why more educated Christians aren’t speaking up instead. Today, I would like to share the [...]
Continue reading …Kathryn Hogg’s column “Government, ‘anti-choice’ activists fail to recognize women’s rights†in the Kernel yesterday is thoughtful and well-written, but it blithely brushes aside the key issue in the abortion argument. “Serious debate on the issue†may have “moved past†the criteria for life, but that does not mean they are no longer relevant. Ms. [...]
Continue reading …In response to Kathryn Hogg’s column from yesterday: I wonder what she would do with someone like me who is not only ardently anti-abortion, but also opposes the death penalty and the war in Iraq, who is an environmentalist and supports a strong social welfare net for the poor? Ms. Hogg needs to be careful [...]
Continue reading …The designs for the new College of Law building recently became the subject of debate in both the campus and the greater Lexington communities. The Federal-style architecture that is planned for the College of Law building is a 225-year-old style that strikes many as being outdated, the Kernel reported Feb. 13. Some propose that a [...]
Continue reading …I’m often taken aback by some of the misleading and maudlin arguments made by anti-choice activists, but only most recently, I have begun to be angry about the over-used phrase, “Choose life — your mom did.†I propose that we instead consider the idea that depending on the state she lived in at the time [...]
Continue reading …The New York Times’ decision to run the controversial article on John McCain backfired in a disastrous manner. The article, which ran Thursday, claims that McCain had a romantic relationship with a lobbyist and granted political favors to her interest groups. McCain, the likely Republican presidential candidate, has strongly denied these accusations. The New York [...]
Continue reading …I enjoyed the previous letters concerning guns on campus. I found Paul Kalisz’s letter in the Kernel on Jan. 18 suggesting that faculty be required to take weapons training and then carry a gun to class to be especially provocative. Despite the obvious bother of carrying yet one more thing from classroom to classroom, I [...]
Continue reading …Reading Sean Rose’s column “Grad students should continue education for right reasons†in Friday’s Kernel made me chuckle and remember what it was like more than five years ago when I graduated from college with a bachelor’s degree. But today, as a fifth-year graduate student in the College of Medicine department of molecular and cellular [...]
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