DanceBlue is a sure-fire way for students to realize the hardships of having cancer while raising money to benefit the disease. For those who have been living under a rock while attending UK, DanceBlue is the all-night dance-a-thon in which students dance for 24 hours to raise money for cancer awareness. Students who participate know [...]

I and my research colleagues agree with the editorial calling for broader involvement in questions of campus architectural aesthetics. We have in fact been engaged in just this kind of work for several years, developing the Structured Public Involvement protocol for these purposes. We have most recently designed and delivered the public meetings that measured [...]

Kathryn Hogg’s Feb. 25 column, “Government, ‘anti-choice’ activists fail to recognize women’s rights,” shows a grave (and prevalent) misunderstanding of the entire abortion issue. Behind all the emotional arguments and images of coat hangers used as scare tactics by pro-abortion activists is one simple question: What is the unborn? If the unborn is simply a [...]

When the current law building was built nearly 40 years ago, a new, innovative and contemporary design was chosen. It has been despised by the students and faculty ever since. Over the past few years, the College of Law has dropped in national rankings in part due to the limited capacity of the current building. [...]

There has been a lot of talk in the last few years about town-gown relations and what a shame it is that the UK campus does not have a better relationship with Lexington’s downtown. However, instead of improving this relationship, it looks like overzealous developers may cause Lexington and UK to become even more estranged. [...]