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Kentucky Kernel

The Student News Site of University of Kentucky

Kentucky Kernel

The Student News Site of University of Kentucky

Kentucky Kernel

Student Press Freedom Day: The right to speak freely

Student Press Freedom Day: The right to speak freely

Evelyn Mickschl March 3, 2022

The First Amendment of the United States Constitution states, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of...

Kirk and Dermody attended the National College Media Convention in Dallas, Texas, which was attended by nearly 1,500 college journalism students and advisers. They accepted the College Press Freedom Award on behalf of the Kentucky Kernel. 

Kernel awarded College Press Freedom Award

November 8, 2017

The Kentucky Kernel editor-in-chief was trying to move into her new apartment when she found out that her newspaper was being sued.Marjorie Kirk, 2016-2017 editor-in-chief, was part of a reporting team...

Kentucky, national press associations file amicus brief on behalf of Kernel in ongoing lawsuit with UK

Rick Childress September 12, 2017

Several Kentucky and national press associations have filed an amicus brief on the side of the Kernel in the paper’s ongoing lawsuit with UK.The Kentucky Press Association, Student Press Law Center and...

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...

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