A new resource center for homosexual students opens today in the Student Center after two years in the making. An open house for UK OUTsource - the gay, lesbian, transgender, queer, questioning and ally (GLBTQQA) Resource Center - will be held at 4 p.m. today.
Now through the end of finals week, students with extra flex dollars or cash will be able to help Kentucky's hungry. Student Government and God's Pantry Food Bank are sponsoring a food drive with 16 donation sites on campus, including the White Hall Classroom Building, Blazer Express and Commons Market.
Eight tables covered with pristine white tablecloths and intimidating place settings with three forks, two knives and a spoon at each plate filled a room at Sal's Chophouse when 45 business students walked in as part of an etiquette dinner. The students, surrounded by the spread and 17 business representatives, looked like they were thinking the same thing: that this is what they'd been preparing for, that they were ready.
Purple bands covered the mouths of about 30 students lined up on the stairs from the Student Center to the Patterson Office Tower yesterday in a silent demonstration. The students remained silent for three hours before taking the bands off their mouths and speaking on social issues that they refused to be silent about.
A public forum will be held tonight at 6 in the Worsham Theater to discuss campus security issues in the wake of Monday's attacks at Virginia Tech University. Representatives from UK and city police, the Office of the Dean of Students, the Counseling and Testing Center and the Kentucky Domestic Violence Association will be present.