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From the Editor: Fueled by awe and sustained by wonder

From the Editor: Fueled by awe and sustained by wonder

Abbey Cutrer, Editor-in-Chief August 30, 2024

While it’s my senior year, this is just the beginning for thousands of University of Kentucky students. There are a handful of “lasts” we’ll experience this year, but there are also many new experiences...

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...

2021-2023 Kentucky Kernel Editor-in-Chief Rayleigh Deaton poses with her graduation stole and the Kernel historical marker at the University of Kentucky on March 29, 2023. Photo by Michael Clubb | Staff file photo

Final thoughts and boundless thanks

Rayleigh Deaton, Editor-in-Chief April 28, 2023

I wish I could go back in time and get a coffee with my younger self. Specifically, a coffee at the William T. Young Library Starbucks on Feb. 4, 2021, with sophomore year Rayleigh. That was the...

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...

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...

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