Archive for the ‘2006-2007 Kentucky Kernel’ Category
UK students discuss visit to Holocaust sites
A group of UK students are bringing the past to the present as they discuss a trip they took to Holocaust sites in Poland last year.
The Division of Student Affairs is sponsoring the presentation in the Small Ballroom of the Student Center today at noon. It is open to all students and lunch will be [...]
Administrator receives civil rights award
William Turner, the associate provost for multicultural affairs, was awarded the Martin Luther King Jr. Citizenship Award Wednesday afternoon.
In its fifth year, the award is given to a Kentuckian who “has exemplified Dr. King’s principles of racial equality and nonviolent social change,” according to the Kentucky State Commerce Cabinet’s Web site. Members of a 13-person [...]
Seminar points out far-reaching meth dangers
Methamphetamine use is not just a drug problem.
According to Assistant U.S. Attorney Hydee Hawkins, it’s a “national epidemic,” affecting otherwise law-abiding Americans and their children, and is the number one drug that law enforcement battles today.
This was the focus of an hour-long symposium last night in the Small Ballroom of the Student Center for National [...]
Speakers: media leans both left, right
Media bias is either on the conservative side, run by billion-dollar corporations, or too liberal, handled by an overwhelming democratic workforce.
These were the arguments presented last night during a the two-hour discussion on media bias led by Jeff Cohen, of Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting, and Cliff Kincaid, editor of the Accuracy in Media Report. [...]
Residents vote ‘No’ to condemn water company
The citizens of Lexington voted last night not to condemn Kentucky American Water, potentially ending a five-year-long controversy that has cost $1.2 million in tax money.
A referendum to purchase Kentucky American Water Company’s assets and place them under the ownership of Fayette County failed with 61 percent of voters decided “no.”
At the Kentucky American headquarters [...]