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The Phi Kappa Tau house on Monday, April 17, 2023, on Pennsylvania Ct. in Lexington, Kentucky. Photo by Travis Fannon | Staff

Phi Kappa Tau fraternity revoked as a UK student organization

Hannah Stanley, Managing Editor April 18, 2023

Clarification: According to UK spokesperson Jay Blanton, the Sigma Nu fraternity has completed the revocation period. The Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity has concluded the set revocation period by the university,...

Thomas "Lofton" Hazelwood

‘He’s not gonna make it to serenades.’ The missing details of the Hazelwood investigation

Rayleigh Deaton, Editor-in-Chief November 17, 2022

They left him alone, on a couch, his blood alcohol concentration almost five times the legal limit. Just a few hours before, he had been hanging out with his pledge brothers, drinking bourbon, playing...

Excerpts from UK's Student Code of Conduct investigation reveal FarmHouse Fraternity showed a “deeply ingrained culture of alcohol and hazing behaviors.”

UK’s FarmHouse Fraternity had a culture of hazing, investigations reveal

Hannah Stanley, News Editor November 17, 2022

Members of FarmHouse Fraternity were subjected to shotgunning a beer with a homeless person, trust falling from the bed of a pickup truck and kidnapping an active member.  Following the death of...

The FarmHouse Fraternity house on Monday, Oct. 18, 2021, the night Hazelwood died, at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, Kentucky. Photo by Michael Clubb | Kentucky Kernel

UK’s FarmHouse chapter suspended following investigations into Hazelwood’s death

Emily Girard December 22, 2021

FarmHouse Fraternity’s UK chapter is suspended for at least four years following investigations into the death of former pledge Thomas “Lofton” Hazelwood by UK Police and the UK Dean of Students...

The FarmHouse Fraternity house on Monday, Oct. 18, 2021, at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, Kentucky. Photo by Michael Clubb | Staff

Coroner: Alcohol toxicity cause of Hazelwood’s death; no criminal charges

Hannah Stanley December 14, 2021

The Fayette County Coroner’s report on UK student Thomas “Lofton” Hazelwood has confirmed his cause of death to be alcohol toxicity.Hazelwood, 18, was found unresponsive at FarmHouse Fraternity on...

Josh Banks does a thumbs-up right after his official initiation into FarmHouse fraternity on Sept. 24, 2018, on UK's campus in Lexington, Kentucky.

From friends to brothers: UK FarmHouse initiates man with down syndrome

October 2, 2018

“I, Josh Banks,” Brack Duncan said, beginning the initiation oath for FarmHouse fraternity.“I, Josh Banks,” repeated Josh Banks, Duncan’s long-time friend who officially became his brother on...

Seventeen out of 42 Interfraternal Council, National Panhellenic Conference and United Greek Coalition organizations were above 90 percent white in the 2015-16 school year. 

Greek life lags behind campus in diversity

Marjorie Kirk April 14, 2016

[email protected] open records request filed by the Kentucky Kernel revealed that the racial makeup of UK’s Interfraternal Council fraternities and Panhellenic Conference sororities as a whole are...

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