Laurel Swanz

Since 2018, UK’s Energy Club has strived to bring renewable energy awareness to campus through various projects, their most recent being the installation of eight solar-powered charging umbrellas. The umbrellas absorb energy from the sun, charging a battery in their picnic table’s base which then powers four USB ports, four USB-C ports and two wireless...

UK gymnastics’ “Excite Night” lived up to its name on Friday, Jan. 13 The first home meet of the gymnastics season, Excite Night attracted an above-average crowd that head coach Tim Garrison told UK Athletics the gymnasts fed off of. Rupp Arena housed 10,558 adoring fans, according to an Instagram post by UK gymnastics, as...

Aaron Williams was on his way to pick up his girlfriend in 2015 for his junior year homecoming, a moment he should’ve remembered forever. Forty-eight days later, Williams woke up from a coma in a hospital bed at the Cardinal Hill Rehabilitation Hospital with no recollection of how he got there. “I don’t remember the...

Preferred candidate for the position of Vice President for Philanthropy and Alumni Engagement Jake Lemon spoke to a room of staff and students on Monday, Feb. 20, in the Gatton College of Business and Economics. The forum served as an opportunity for campus community members to get to know Lemon and his vision and qualifications...

Two evangelists, who declined to give their names, attracted large crowds to the lawn by White Hall Classroom Building on Wednesday, March 8. They held a sign that read “HOMO SEX IS SIN” on one side and “LIVE HOLY OR HELLFIRE” on the other while preaching their anti-LGBTQ religious beliefs to passersby for more than...