In a rare break from apathetic tradition, UK students made their presence known at the annual Rally for Higher Education in Frankfort last week. More than 70 UK students showed up at the rally, where about 200 students from across Kentucky spoke out against Gov. Steve Beshear’s proposed 12 percent budget cuts for state universities, [...]
Continue reading …Some days I think I popped out of the womb right into the world of politics. I remember watching Bill Clinton’s victory speech in 1992. I remember organizing the mock election at my elementary school in 1996, forcing even kindergarteners to vote even though the only Dole they knew was a banana. I remember being [...]
Continue reading …Sometimes I think about what I would be doing at my age if I were part of my grandparents’ generation. At 21, going on 22, it seems I would be working the family farm, working a full-time job for a few years already or fighting a war. But for young generations today, school has stretched [...]
Continue reading …The Kernel’s Wednesday editorial “Emergency system is wrong medium for weather alerts†was a very big disappointment to me. As a commuter student who lives on one of the last roads in Lexington to be plowed, I greatly appreciated the early morning message from UK Alert, even if it was slightly inconvenient. Even though I [...]
Continue reading …Who doesn’t love cute, furry animals? Maybe too few people, actually. There are 11,000 homeless pets in Fayette County each year, according to a Kernel article on Monday. Many of those strays come from first-time owners who don’t realize the time and money it takes to raise a pet. Consequently, many pets are abandoned. This [...]
Continue reading …President Lee Todd has been known to occasionally roll up his sleeves and shoot a few rounds of pool with students. Usually, it’s a welcome break from the stresses of university life. But right now, with a possible shortfall in state funding and a host of other issues facing UK, Todd came to the Cats [...]
Continue reading …When Billie Joe Armstrong belts out the lyrics to “American Idiot,†I wonder if he’s mocking the spectacle that is “American Idol.†Ratings were down as compared to last season, but 33.2 million viewers tuned into Season 7’s premiere. Similarly, “fans†are turning out in record numbers for the presidential election primaries — which is [...]
Continue reading …I was pleased to see an excellent job of covering Tuesday’s great restoration event on campus, because it was such a success. So many people and groups came together to make that event so successful, and all deserve credit. That event relied on the prestige and personnel from groups as diverse as the Black Student [...]
Continue reading …Although the diatribe about “The Vagina Monologues†that appeared in the Kernel on Monday was undoubtedly well-articulated, despite simply reiterating a laundry list of palpable objections that have long been associated with the controversial play, it was short-sighted in that it undermined the countless contributions both the play and its author have made to raising [...]
Continue reading …We support the general spirit of Gov. Steve Beshear’s casino proposal, and that is to generate revenue to fund education and health care. On Feb. 14, Beshear released his plan for a constitutional amendment that calls for up to 12 casinos in Kentucky. The proposal would allocate 50 percent of casino revenue to education at [...]
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