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The Student News Site of University of Kentucky

Kentucky Kernel

The Student News Site of University of Kentucky

Kentucky Kernel

Taylora Schlosser speaks about her daughter Taylor Nolan at the one-year celebration of the Rae of Sunshine Foundation on Jan. 8, 2020 in Springfield, Ky. Photo provided by Harrison Burchett

UK student’s family turns ‘smiles into hope’ with mental health foundation

Jacob Eads January 9, 2020

SPRINGFIELD, Ky. — Just about 56 miles from UK sits Mordecai’s on Main, a small-town, family-first kind of restaurant situated in the heart of Springfield. It’s the type of place where you’re...

Chi Omega sisters rehearse their “Decades” Greek Sing routine on Wednesday night. The women will donate proceeds from ticket sales at Greek Sing to the Make-A-Wish Foundation. Greek Sing raised nearly $200,000 last year and granted wishes for 32 children.

Greek philanthropy is helping to make a lasting impact on young lives

Matt Hasty March 21, 2018

There is a stereotype among non-Greek affiliated people that people in fraternities and sororities just exist to party and get in trouble.How do I know this? Because I used to be one of these people until...

Flyer for Wish Week used with permission of Chi Omega. 

Participate in Wish Week events to support Greek Sing, make wishes come true

Kathryn Kerwin December 1, 2017

While the annual Greek Sing competition isn’t until after the New Year, Greek Sing Wish Week will be celebrated next week.Wish Week is an entire week dedicated to fundraisers, promotion and spirit opportunities...

The University of Kentucky 2017 homecoming royalty court performed during the 2017 Royalty Showcase on Tuesday, October 3, 2017 in Memorial Hall in Lexington, Kentucky. Photo by Mark C. Walsh | Staff

Royalty Showcase continued homecoming festivities

Elle Smith October 4, 2017

Homecoming festivities continued on Tuesday night with the fourth annual Royalty Showcase.Memorial Hall was filled with supportive friends and family as the 2017 Homecoming Court presented their talents...

The organization was established on UKs campus in 2015. Just last year, AXO received a new sorority house located off Columbia Avenue. Prior to receiving the house, they were borrowing venues and other sorority and fraternity houses to host their sorority-wide events.This photo taken Thursday, Aug. 24, 2017, shows their house under construction. Their house is now completed. Chase Phillips | Staff

Five Greek organizations begin undergoing construction on new campus houses

Ellen Smith August 31, 2017

UK students are used to constant construction on campus, but there is excitement within the Greek community as the Panhellenic Council and Interfraternity Council communities are growing.Five fraternities...

Seventeen out of 42 Interfraternal Council, National Panhellenic Conference and United Greek Coalition organizations were above 90 percent white in the 2015-16 school year. 

Greek life lags behind campus in diversity

Marjorie Kirk April 14, 2016

[email protected] open records request filed by the Kentucky Kernel revealed that the racial makeup of UK’s Interfraternal Council fraternities and Panhellenic Conference sororities as a whole are...

Chi Omega sisters rehearse their “Decades” Greek Sing routine on Wednesday night. The women will donate proceeds from ticket sales at Greek Sing to the Make-A-Wish Foundation. Greek Sing raised nearly $200,000 last year and granted wishes for 32 children.

Practicing for more than just a dance

Marjorie Kirk February 11, 2016

Flannels were flung and tie-dye t-shirts were tossed to decade hits as Chi Omega tightened up loose ends — and ball caps — on its “Decades” Greek Sing routine.Saturday’s event will be a “Race...

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