Getting FreeKY downtown
April 27, 2008
Story by Juliann Vachon | Staff
The crowd at WRFL’s FreeKY Fest on Saturday was as eclectic as the music the station broadcasts every day - some were children; others had grey hair and wrinkles. Some came dressed in tie-dyed shirts; others wore Polos and khakis. Some were pierced and tattooed; others had hair as colorful as the decorations hung around the concert venue.
“We had all the different shades of Lexington here,” said Chuck Clenney, WRFL’s general manager. “Everyone from the kids to the Indian community to the people who love crazy loud music came out. That’s just what WRFL is about, offering something for everyone and bringing people together.”
UK Students confront their country’s darker history
April 25, 2008
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Signs of war persist for Vietnamese man
UK Scholars filling void in Vietnamese history
Bridging past and present
Story by Sean Rose | Staff
Photos by Kasha Stevenson | Staff
There were many days in Vietnam when students on the trip laughed as they toured old palaces, swam in a sea still warm in December and explored city street life. But their main purpose was to learn about Vietnam’s and America’s shared past in warfare.
Walking through the American War Remnants Museum in Ho Chi Minh City, looking past pictures of dying civilians, visiting sites of battle and massacre forced internal reflection among the group. The students each reacted differently, but everyone - whether they were a graduate student studying the Vietnam War, an American who had never been out of the country or a veteran of Iraq - returned to the United States deeply moved.
UK students Amanda Tate, left, Jeff Keith and Kelly Arnett read log books at a museum in My Lai, Vietnam, where in 1968 U.S. soldiers killed more than 500 civilians in four hours.
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Dave Condra, host of “The Belfry” on 88.1 WRFL-FM from 4 to 6 p.m. on Thursdays, laughs with WRFL faculty adviser John Clark, yesterday afternoon. Photo by Ed Matthews | Staff
Story by Juliann Vachon | Staff
It started in 1985 with a column and mail-in survey asking students if they were ready for a new kind of radio at UK.
“Are you tired of hearing Top 40 ground out till the needle falls through the other side? Would you just rather hear Red Hot Chili Peppers instead of Ravel? (Or Red Hot Chili Peppers and Ravel?) Are you hungry for tunes a College Radio station would spin? Give us your tired, your poor, your raging opinions. The Kentucky Kernel may not be able to generate music, but it can play your thoughts and maybe enough of them will make a loud noise.”
UK scholars filling void in Vietnamese history
April 25, 2008
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Signs of war persist for Vietnamese man
Students confront their country’s dark history
Bridging past and present
Story by Sean Rose | Staff
The Vietnam War has been under historians’ microscope since its beginnings. Even so, a full accounting of the war is lacking, said Lien-Hang Nguyen, assistant history professor.
There are many detailed histories written on the war from Americans’ perspective but there are few examining the Vietnamese experience.
It’s a void Nguyen is trying to fill with her own scholarship.
Much of the scholarship on Vietnam to come out of UK is thanks to George C. Herring, Nguyen said.
Herring, a renowned scholar of the Vietnam War, focused on U.S. foreign relations during his time at UK, where he taught from 1969 until retiring two years ago. He has published a critically acclaimed history of the war, “America’s Longest War: The United States and Vietnam, 1950-1975.”
Bridging past and present
April 25, 2008
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Signs of war persist for Vietnamese man
UK Scholars filling void in Vietnamese history
Students confront their country’s dark history
Story by Sean Rose | Staff
Photos by Kasha Stevenson | Staff
As a soldier in Vietnam, Peter Berres witnessed brutality he didn’t think Americans were capable of. Before his tour was over, he would unwillingly have a part in the darker side of the American occupation.
After returning to America, Berres went into teaching, fueled by a passion born from an unjust war. That passion would take him back to Vietnam with UK students, educating a generation living during a new American conflict about the true toll of war and what it means to forgive.
Dave Condra, host of “The Belfry” on 88.1 WRFL-FM from 4 to 6 p.m. on Thursdays, laughs with WRFL faculty adviser John Clark, yesterday afternoon. Photo by Ed Matthews | Staff
Students confront their country’s dark history
Bridging past and present
The Vietnam War has been under historians’ microscope since its beginnings. Even so, a full accounting of the war is lacking, said Lien-Hang Nguyen, assistant history professor.
UK Scholars filling void in Vietnamese history
Students confront their country’s dark history
Photos by Kasha Stevenson | Staff
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