It all happened so quickly. Wait, no, not really. We definitely saw it coming and it was definitely preventable.For context, back in September, the Kernel’s art director, Michael Clubb, and I were sitting...
I never thought I’d be here.As I type out these words on my laptop, sitting at my desk in the Kentucky Kernel office in McVey Hall, I’m amazed and humbled at the opportunity that I have been given.I...
Like so many on the Kernel staff, my time in college revolved around the newspaper.Never-ending deadlines dictated much of my time, and I sought to give the rest of it to those unforgettable friendships...
When I was 8 years old, the teenage boy down the street started a lawn care business.Our neighbors could read all about it in the first ever edition of the neighborhood newsletter, whose name has been...
Four years ago, on April 17, 2015, around 7 a.m., I answered a phone call from my boss. It was earlier than normal to hear from him, and I wondered why he couldn’t wait an hour or so. I was in the kitchen...
We are in the presence of a potential upheaval of the traditional ways which professional journalism and media is produced, and a new journalism platform is the one challenging it.Over the past few years,...
Twentieth-century playwright and essayist Arthur Miller once said, "A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself." And we can also say of our student newspapers, "It is a campus talking...
For those of us who didn’t personally know Jonathan Krueger, we learned about his legacy through JKru stickers, a memorialized Red Bull on the photo desk and a cracked ceiling tile.We were told about...
Zeus, a young White German Shepherd male who has been missing for about a day, was returned to his caretakers after walking into the Kentucky Kernel newsroom.The dog was last seen at 6 p.m. Saturday around...
