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architecture that is planned for the College of Law building is a 225-year-old style that strikes many as being outdated, the Kernel reported Feb. 13.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 [...]
Continue reading …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 [...]
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