Letter from Eli Capilouto about campus demonstrations and its reaction

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Dear Campus Community, Whatever your perspective regarding the events in recent days in Ferguson, Missouri and New York City, we should all be able to agree on one thing: they are tragedies — tragedies for the families involved, the communities impacted and all of us who have watched the painful conversations necessarily provoked across our […]

LIVE UPDATES: Cats take on 5-2 Columbia in Rupp

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Aaron Harrison dunks the ball during UK vs. Columbia at Rupp Arena in Lexington, Ky., on Friday, December 5, 2014. Photo by Emily Wuetcher | Staff

Follow this page for live updates of the Cats’ matchup against Columbia in Rupp Arena. Starting for UK are Andrew Harrison, Aaron Harrison, Karl Anthony-Towns, Willie Cauley-Stein and Alex Poythress. Freshman guards Devin Booker and Tyler Ulis will not play tonight. Ulis is still sick and Booker is nursing a bad knee. Columbia guard Maodo Lo has scored […]

Dying to be heard

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Protestors lie on the floor of the Patterson Office Tower lobby to symbolize those who have been killed at the hands of a police office. Tuesday, December 9, 2014 in Lexington. Photo by Joel Repoley | Staff

More than 40 UK students staged a “die-in” demonstration on the first floor of the Patterson Office Tower on Tuesday. The demonstration was a reaction to the deaths of two African-Americans by police officers who were not charged. Most recently, a NYPD officer was not charged for the choking death of Eric Garner, who was […]