As you may know, Kentucky’s gubernatorial election is on Tuesday, November 5th. If you are reading this, you have most likely already decided to vote. You probably understand that the candidate chosen to be Kentucky’s governor for the next four years will have a significant impact on the cit…
“We uncovered no insensitive or racist images” reported the Courier-Journal in February of this year, referring to their review of past Kentucky yearbooks. You can image our surprise, then, when one of the Kernel staffers leafed through the 1953 Kentuckian, UK’s now-defunct yearbook, and cam…
The decision of whether to publish the article on the American Identity Movement posters was not a straight-forward one. AIM, and other groups that share white-supremacist sentiments, often see any publicity as good publicity. The Kentucky Kernel would like to stress that we condemn supremac…
Alongside many students on UK's campus, we on the Kernel editorial board are grieved over the recent suicide deaths on campus. Each time we lose a student, even when we don’t know them personally, we are reminded of the fragility of life and the importance of self-care and support systems.
