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Senior computer science major Phong Nguyen, left, dances with sophomore biology major Laine Call during the Esports Lounge rhythm game night on Feb. 24. 2023, at the Esports Lounge in Lexington, Kentucky. Photo by Samuel Colmar | Staff

Students get groovy at Esports Lounge ‘rhythm game night’

Courtney Suber, Reporter February 27, 2023

UK’s Esports Lounge hosted a rhythm game night at their location in Cornerstone Garage on Feb. 24. The event featured the video games “Just Dance” and “Clone Hero” as well as karaoke. “Just...

Seniors Abby Haley and Quinn Troia converse during the Zine Club meeting on Friday, Nov. 18, 2022, at the Art & Visual Studies Building in Lexington, Kentucky. Photo by Brady Saylor | Staff

With love and ‘crispy’ fervor: UK’s Zine Club is a space where passion meets art

Olivia Walton, Reporter December 6, 2022

Art is usually thought of as an individual accomplishment. One may see an art piece in a museum and look for the artist’s name, never expecting to find more than one signature in the corner of the canvas....

A campus squirrel sits on a tree branch on Monday, April 6, 2020, at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, Kentucky. Photo by Jordan Prather | Staff file photo

Going nuts: UK’s Squirrel Watching Club is a place for all animal lovers

Olivia Walton, Reporter November 7, 2022

Fall is in the air at the University of Kentucky. The students know it, the leaves show it and the squirrels love it. The recent increase in squirrel activity has been great news for the Squirrel Watching...

Handler Megan Smith and dog Airlie dress up as a pilot and an airplane for the Puppy Fashion Show on Thursday, Oct. 27, 2022, in the Cats Den at The University of Kentucky in Lexington, Kentucky. Photo by Maria Rauh | Staff

Tricks and treats: UK 4 Paws for Ability hosts puppy fashion show

Kristen Roberts, Reporter November 4, 2022

On Oct. 27, the UK organization 4 Paws for Ability hosted a puppy fashion show as a new fundraising event. Service dogs in training and handlers dressed up in Halloween costumes and strutted down the...

Autum Bailey, president of Coffee Cats, poses for a photo on Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2022, at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, Kentucky. Photo by Jack Weaver | Staff

Humans of UK: Autum Bailey brews a cup of community

Albert Myers September 20, 2022

Last year, Autum Bailey and her friend Devin Lambert co-founded a club for UK students to try new coffee shops in the Lexington area while meeting other people. Bailey, a junior human health sciences major,...

UK Smash Cats club hosts Super Smash Bros. tournament series

UK Smash Cats club hosts ‘Super Smash Bros.’ tournament series

Ryan Whitt October 13, 2021

Over the past several years, the University of Kentucky has grown increasingly involved with esports, a subgenre of sports reserved for video games like “Call of Duty,” “League of Legends” and...

Club swim and its president adapt to COVID-19

Kaitlynn Albers April 15, 2021

Just as high education had to adapt to the COVID-19 pandemic, so did the students who run the social organizations that make the college experience so rewarding for many students.UK student Emma Massa...

Lexington fox hunting club preserves centuries old tradition

Rick Childress January 16, 2020

The Iroquois Hunt Club—the nation’s third oldest fox hunting club—is a Central Kentucky tradition that preserves a centuries old sport that still connects people to the land and to animals in ways...

Aliina Keers leads members of the Iroquois Hunt Club on a hunt on Nov. 24, 2019, in Lexington, Kentucky. Photo by Arden Barnes | Staff

Thrill of the Hunt: Lexington fox hunting club preserves a centuries old tradition

Just a half hour’s drive from the bustling, cell-phone ringing, e-scootering UK campus, the steady plod of dozens of former race horses could be heard marching over a babbling creek deep in the rolling...

Club Dodgeball hits home

February 10, 2016

“If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball.” Though this joke is thrown around in reference to the movie “Dodgeball,” the members of UK’s dodgeball club take the motto to heart.On Monday...

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