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Catching each step of a false story

Catching each step of a false story

Quézia Arruda Cunha, Reporter January 31, 2023

Each. Step. Each. Path. Each. Movement. Like a mosquito flying around you on a hot, stressful day. Just imagine yourself being constantly captured like you were prey. You try to preserve your integrity...

All data from the Lexington-Fayette County Health Departments daily COVID-19 tracking updates.

UK concerns over health department COVID-19 data prompt reporting change

Natalie Parks September 23, 2020

According to Lexington-Fayette County Health Department spokesperson Kevin Hall, UK officials "expressed concerns over privacy matters" related to the health department's reporting of COVID-19 cases among...

Kernel Opinion SIG

Where on campus to go when you need a good cry

Saadia Akhtar October 11, 2018

As midterms approach and we start counting down the days until the semester ends, we sometimes need to schedule a good cry. Western Kentucky University’s “Talisman” published a humorous story in...

UK opens Interfaith Prayer and Meditation Room

Amanda Bryant February 24, 2017

Students have an inviting place to meditate and reflect with the opening of the Interfaith Prayer and Meditation Room in its temporary location, room 76 of McVey Hall. The permanent location will be found...

New California bill targets students’ electronic privacy

Madison Rexroat February 17, 2017

Assembly Bill 165, proposed in January of this year in California, could potentially end electronic privacy protections for students and staff of California colleges. California currently prohibits government...

Judge denies motion to dismiss BYU open records case

Madison Rexroat January 28, 2017

A judge in Utah decided Wednesday to deny Brigham Young University’s motion to dismiss an open records lawsuit filed by The Salt Lake Tribune.The Tribune filed the lawsuit after the BYU Police Department...

Professor’s side of story distorts facts of case

Jay Blanton January 12, 2017

University of Kentucky professor Buck Ryan in a recent piece in the Herald-Leader is manipulating the facts. Unfortunately, what he is saying is not based in reality.Here are the facts:Ryan traveled in...

William T. Young Library

Unlocking FERPA

Will Wright November 27, 2016

Behind the Kentucky Kernel’s lawsuit with UK lies a federal law so hotly contested that even the former senator who sponsored the bill has weighed in with his own criticisms.The controversy revolves...

Confidential

UK’s suit for secrecy betrays public interest

Editorial Board August 13, 2016

A University for Kentucky would not knowingly break the law in a selfish and wasteful pursuit of secrecy.But the University of Kentucky did.UK recently announced it would sue the Kentucky Kernel and broke...

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