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Freshman Jake Rodriquez and senior Vanessa Diaz receive Narcan training from Chad Baugh, a recovery coach for Voices of Hope, on Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2023, at the Gatton Student Center in Lexington, Kentucky. Photo by Jack Weaver | Staff

Increasing access and awareness of Narcan on campus

Laurel Swanz, Reporter March 1, 2023

The Prevention, Outreach, Wellness and Education Resources (POWER) department of the Office of Student Success and the Collegiate Recovery Community (CRC) hosted a Narcan training on Feb. 22 to fight the...

Panel discussion brings awareness to domestic violence

Panel discussion brings awareness to domestic violence

La’Miya Starnes, Reporter November 14, 2022

UK Student Activities Board (SAB) partnered with the VIP Center and invited students to a domestic violence awareness panel discussion on Oct. 20 in the Gatton Student Center Senate Chambers. October...

Rachel Denhollander, one of the first to report Larry Nassar and now a victims rights adovocate, speaks to UK students at the Christian Student Fellowship building in Lexington, Ky., on Nov. 8, 2018. Photo by Sydney Momeyer | Staff

#MeToo pioneer, victims’ advocate speaks to UK students at CSF

Sydney Momeyer November 9, 2018

One confession led to thousands, and a movement was started.One of TIME Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People of 2018 came to UK this week for a Q & A, and she also happens to be known universally...

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By the Editorial Board September 14, 2018

A January 2018 Kentucky Kernel cover editorial asked, “How Many More?”The premise of that editorial was to demand that powerful institutions and people be held accountable for sexual assault and harassment,...

An attendee of the Clothesline Project event peers through some of the t-shirts arrayed into an art display inside the Don and Cathy Jacobs Science Building on April 12, 2018, in Lexington, Kentucky. Photo by Rick Childress | Staff

From classroom to public statement, UK students send a message about violent crime with t-shirt project

Cathryn Perini April 13, 2018

Students took the conversation around violent crime into their own hands Thursday evening.Sociology 439, a class taught by Emily Bonistall Postel, held an event to boost awareness for violent crimes.The...

Kentucky Attorney General Andy Beshear poses for a portrait.

Kentucky laws too tolerant of child sex abuse

Blake Blevins October 9, 2016

One of these things is not like the others: shoplifting, trespassing and possessing child pornography. No one ever becomes nauseous at the thought of someone taking merchandise from a retailer, and finding...

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