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Incoming 2023-2024 Editor-in-Chief Hannah Stanley poses for a photo. Photo by Abbey Cutrer | Staff

Letter from the editor

Hannah Stanley, Managing Editor April 28, 2023

If you asked me freshman year if I would ever be editor-in-chief of the Kentucky Kernel, I would’ve laughed in your face with it quickly followed by “I could never do that.” Well, three years...

Kentucky Kernel editor-in-chief Rayleigh Deaton poses for a photo on her first day of senior year at her home on Monday, Aug. 22, 2022, in Lexington, Kentucky.

Words of weight: A letter from your editor-in-chief

Rayleigh Deaton, Editor-in-Chief August 29, 2022

When I was in high school, my dad gave me a typewriter. For those unfamiliar with this archaic piece of technology, a typewriter is the predecessor of the computer: a beautiful, sturdy, nearly indestructible...

Rayleigh Deaton, left, and Rana Alsoufi, right, are the incoming editors-in-chief for the Kentucky Kernel and KRNL Lifestyle + Fashion.

Board names Kernel, KRNL editors-in-chief for 2022-23 school year

Hannah Stanley March 27, 2022

The Kernel Media's Board of Directors appointed sophomore Rana Alsoufi and junior Rayleigh Deaton as the incoming editors-in-chief of KRNL Lifestyle + Fashion and the Kentucky Kernel during its meeting...

Letter from the editor: The Kernel is committed to the truth

Rayleigh Deaton August 26, 2021

I never thought I’d be here.As I type out these words on my laptop, sitting at my desk in the Kentucky Kernel office in McVey Hall, I’m amazed and humbled at the opportunity that I have been given.I...

2021 - 2022 editor-in-chief Rayleigh Deaton.

A new Kernel for a new normal

Rayleigh Deaton May 4, 2021

This time last year, we were presented with a new reality. The world shut down, and life as we knew it came to a screeching halt. We had to cobble together the pieces of normality that remained, constructing...

2020 - 2021 editor-in-chief Natalie Parks poses for a photo inside the Kentucky State Capitol building in Frankfort, Kentucky following oral arguments in the case of the University of Kentucky vs. the Kentucky Kernel before the state Supreme Court in October 2020. Photo by Michael Clubb | Staff

A warranted extension

Natalie Parks May 3, 2021

I would like to apologize for the first part of this column, which you can find here and here. Though I was right to say it (and have the right to say it), I should not have lashed out and been cruel...

‘I am no bird’

Natalie Parks May 3, 2021

I’ve been thinking about what to say in this parting column for a long time. I thought this would be my chance to finally explain just how damaging being the editor-in-chief of the Kentucky Kernel was...

KRNL staff portraits of Rayleigh Deaton, left, and Allie Diggs, right. Deaton was named the next editor-in-chief of the Kentucky Kernel and Diggs as editor-in-chief of KRNL for the 2021 - 22 school year.

Board names Kernel, KRNL editors-in-chief for 2021 – 22 school year

Kernel News Staff March 18, 2021

Following a March 18 meeting of Kernel Media's Board of Directors, sophomores Rayleigh Deaton and Allie Diggs were selected as editors-in-chief of the Kentucky Kernel and KRNL magazine, respectively.Deaton,...

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Letter from the editor: has-been editor writes goodbye

Rick Childress May 5, 2020

Like so many on the Kernel staff, my time in college revolved around the newspaper.Never-ending deadlines dictated much of my time, and I sought to give the rest of it to those unforgettable friendships...

Natalie Parks, left, and Rachael Courtney will be the 2020-2021 Kentucky Kernel and KRNL editors-in-chief, respectively. 

Parks chosen as next Kernel editor; Courtney as next KRNL editor

Sydney Momeyer March 17, 2020

The Kentucky Kernel and KRNL have named their 2020-2021 editors.On March 6 the Kernel board named Natalie Parks the next Kernel editor-in-chief and Rachael Courtney the next KRNL editor-in-chief."I feel...

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Letter to the Editor

John C. Higgins February 5, 2020

The recent Kernel article entitled "UK's Female Deans Are Paid Less" is an intentionally divisive non-sequitur when compared to its content. The data presented in the article is only a small part of the...

Akhira Umar planting a tree on SAS

Semester at Sea: Growth on voyage 127

Akhira Umar January 29, 2020

PACIFIC OCEAN—“I am not the person I was at the start of this voyage. I have grown tremendously, and it’s been a life-changing experience.”Josh Misner, a professor from North Idaho College teaching...

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