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Kentucky Kernel

PHOTOS: Morning training at Keeneland on Fall Meet opening day 2024
Abbey Cutrer, Matthew Mueller, Sydney Yonker, and Christian Kantosky October 4, 2024
UK student organization Turning Point USA hosts vice presidential Debate watch party
Isabella Sepahban, Staff Reporter • October 4, 2024
Crime bulletin reports third on-campus sexual assault this semester
Lilly Keith, Assistant News Editor • October 2, 2024
Key takeaways from the Vance-Walz debate
Lilly Keith and Casey Sebastiano October 2, 2024
Democratic and Republican speakers answer questions about their parties from the audience on Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2024, at Lewis Honors College in Lexington, Kentucky. Photo by Matthew Mueller | Staff
Lewis Honors College hosts vice presidential debate watch party
Adah Hufana, Staff Reporter • October 4, 2024

The University of Kentucky Lewis Honors College held a watch party for the vice presidential debate that was open to all students.   The watch party opened its doors at 7:30 p.m. in the Lewis Honors College Scholars Lounge on Tuesday,...

Members of the Kentucky rugby team pose for a team photo. Photo by Cassie Redden Photography, provided by Kentucky rugby.
Kentucky rugby hosts Tennessee in pivotal matchup for back-to-back national championship ambitions
Cole Parke, Sports Editor • October 4, 2024

No. 1 Kentucky rugby is set to host No. 5 Tennessee at the UK intramural fields in what is perhaps the largest regular season hurdle in the Wildcats’ campaign for back-to-back national championships. The Wildcats currently sit at 3-0 on...

Illustration by Akhila Nadimpalli.
Book of the Week: ‘Beloved,’ by Toni Morrison
Sylvia Freire, Reporter • October 4, 2024
Paige Temple holds “Live like Madison” buttons on Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2024, at the Alpha Gamma Delta sorority house at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, Kentucky. The buttons honor the memory of Madison Becknell, a UK student who died three months before her graduation. Photo by Abbey Cutrer | Staff
‘A heart of gold’: Strides taken to fundraise for Madison Becknell Memorial Scholarship
Abbey Cutrer, Editor-in-Chief • September 29, 2024
Illustration by Akhila Nadimpalli.
Book of the week: 'Carmilla,' by J. Sheridan Le Fanu
Kelsey House, Reporter • September 27, 2024
Road to ruin: remedies for dangerous streets
Aidan Dillard-Hijikata, Reporter • October 4, 2024

One night in early September, after copious amounts of tossing and turning, I rolled over and took a look at my clock: 3:27 a.m. My eyelids felt like dumbbells, yet my mind would just not stop racing. BANG! I...