FRANKFORT - Gov. Steve Beshear called for budget cuts across Kentucky last night, including a 12 percent cut in higher education funding, to overcome a decrease in state revenue for the 2008-10 biennium. "Last year while running for governor, I envisioned this first budget address to be a night where I unveiled a plan brimming with bold and creative new programs," Beshear said.
UK will join more than 1,000 other colleges and universities tomorrow in what organizers call the largest teach-in in U.S. history. Focus the Nation, an education initiative that focuses on global warming, asked students from campuses nationwide to plan their own versions of the event with the aim of finding new climate change solutions.
While many students are preparing for their first test of the semester, one sophomore is planning his campaign strategy to win a seat on Lexington's governing body. Daniel Burton, a secondary education sophomore, has officially joined the race for a seat on the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Council representing the 3rd District, which includes UK.
Frayed overalls, floppy-brimmed hats, corncob pipes, missing teeth and feuding clans of the Hatfield and McCoy families are all stereotypes of people from Appalachia, said Ron Pen, director of Appalachian studies. "Historically, it was important to stereotype hillbillies in this way in order to distinguish and marginalize them as non-white people," said Pen, also the director of the John Jacob Niles Center for American Music.
UK Police reports from Jan. 22 to Jan. 28 Jan. 22 Theft of bike reported to UK Police Department at 11:13 a.m. Jan. 23 Theft reported from Kentucky Clinic at 7:58 a.m. Jan. 23 Injury accident reported from Colfax Avenue near South Limestone at 9:24 a.m. Jan.