Ag 180: Growing leaders from the ground up
April 21, 2008
Story and photos by Kristin Sherrard | Staff
About 40 students from the College of Agriculture participated Saturday in the first annual Ag 180: Turning Students into Leaders through Service.
Daniel Meadows, an agriculture engineering senior, transplants flowers and bushes at the Old Episcopal Burying Ground near Third and Elm streets Saturday as part of the Ag 180 service project.
Samuel Evans, a Student Government senator for the College of Agriculture, said he created the service event to compliment the Ag Bash, which draws many agriculture students out each fall.
“This is definitely one of the coolest things I’ve ever done - organize this event from the ground up,” said Evans, an agriculture education junior.
Volunteers signed up to work at one of seven locations around Lexington, including the Arboretum, the Lexington Senior Citizens Center, the Old Episcopal Burying Ground and the American Cancer Society Hope Lodge. Tasks varied from landscaping to indoor cleaning projects.
Ag 180 participants Savannah Speed, left, an animal science sophomore, and Tabitha Graham, a biosystems and agriculture engineering freshman, clean windows at the American Cancer Society Hope Lodge near Commonwealth Stadium on Saturday.
“It’s basically the whole reason I joined Student Government,” he said.
Evans planned and coordinated the event with the College of Agriculture Student Council. Participants received free T-shirts and lunch.
“By doing service events, you look at things totally differently then you usually do,” Evans said. “It’s a lot different, leading and serving.”
Anna Hormann, a pre-veterinary sophomore and site leader, said she hopes the event keeps growing each year.
“We hope we can serve as a role model for the other colleges on campus to start their own service projects,” Hormann said. “College students do care.”
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Seizing the night: Campus observatory may become open to public
April 17, 2008
Story by Emily Cox | Staff
This summer students may be able to do more than stand in the grass and look to the sky when they want to stargaze.
The MacAdam Student Observatory may have hours open to the public this summer, said director Timothy Knauer. The summer hours will be posted on the observatory’s Web site (www.as.uky.edu/observatory).
Charley Seelbach, a senior math major, looks through the telescope inside the MacAdam Student Observatory on top of Parking Structure #2 on Wednesday night. Photo by Elliott Hess | Staff
Feature photos: Digging for a Winner
April 17, 2008
Photos by Elliott Hess | Staff
Engineering freshman Andrea Blount watches kinesiology freshman Caton Marlowe hunt for ping-pong balls after he found a winner at arm’s length in the sewer yesterday. The balls were dropped from the top of Patterson Office Tower as a part of the Little Kentucky Derby’s Ping Pong Drop.
Students chased 3,000 ping-pong balls dropped from the top of Patterson Office Tower yesterday as part of the Little Kentucky Derby’s annual Ping Pong Drop. Prizes for specially marked balls included event T-shirts and tickets to the April 23 O.A.R. concert. Little Kentucky Derby events continue today with a campus scavenger hunt beginning at 7 p.m. in the Student Center Great Hall.
Refugee flees war-torn home, finds second chance in U.S.
April 14, 2008
Story by Jill Laster | Staff
Members of Lino Nakwa’s village were gathering for prayer when the rebels came and took him from his family. The Sudan People’s Liberation Army took Nakwa, then 12, and his brother, trained them to fight with sticks and forced them to work in the rebel group’s camp.
The training Nakwa received as a boy is now affecting his steps toward obtaining U.S. citizenship: His application for a green card has been denied because of the “military-type training” the SPLA forced him to undergo.
“It was the reason I fled my country,” Nakwa said. “It was the reason I came here, and now that same information is being used to take me back.”
Sudanese refugee Mabior Ghack became a U.S. citizen in June 2007. He will graduate from UK in May with a civil engineering degree. Photo by Kristin Sherrard | Staff
Community mourns loss of loyal friend
April 14, 2008
Story by Blair Thomas | Staff
Her smile was infectious, her spirit was contagious, and friends and family who shared their memories of Connie Blount at her memorial service yesterday said she was the best friend any of them had ever known.
Blount, 18, was killed in a hit-and-run accident early Sunday morning while crossing the intersection of South Broadway and West Maxwell streets.
More than 250 people packed the Baptist Student Center last night to reflect on the life of a girl who they said spread joy everywhere she went.
“I knew there was a God when she smiled,” said Jack Blount, Connie’s father. “Light shined out so bright it almost blinded me sometimes.”
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