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An article printed in the Sept. 4 paper incorrectly reported that an interaction between President Eli Capilouto and journalism professor Buck Ryan took place at a public forum in Bowling Green, Kentucky. That interaction actually took place at a faculty meeting where Capilouto was present in Lexington, Kentucky, in October 2016.

clarification ARDEN BARNES I STAFF A student walks past the new Unlearn Fear + Hate sculptures in the Student Center on Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2018.

Student Center incorporates artwork to promote inclusion By Jade Grisham news@kykernel.com

UK’s Art Committee took powerful actions to add art to the new Gatton Student Center. These seven sculptures compromise the series “Unlearn Fear + Hate.” The sculptures, by Lexington artists and Transylvania University faculty members Kurt Gohde and Kremena Todorova, are now installed in the hallway between the UK Federal Credit Union and the social stairs in the Gatton Student Center. Each sculpture demonstrates a shiny metal halo with the phrase, ‘Unlearn Fear + Hate’ cut out in the seven most frequently spoken languages on campus— Arabic, Chinese, English, Hindi, Korean, Spanish and Swahili. The words on the artwork come from a poem written by Frank X. Walker, a UK professor of English. “The words ‘Unlearn Fear and Hate’ come from a poem we had commissioned Kentucky Poet Laureate Frank X. Walker to write for another artwork,” Gohde and Todorova said. “These words had already spoken powerfully to many and so we decided to create works of art that spread these words in Lexington’s

public spaces— as a reminder to all of us.” Walker’s poem highlights unlearning hate and how doing so can further affect humanity. “Love Letta to de Worl’,” Walker said in his poem. “We can’t pass the course on humanity if we keep failing the lessons on harmony and until unlearn fear and hate.” The art committee for the Gatton Student Center is co-chaired by UK Art Museum Director Stuart Horodner and Executive Director for Strategic Analysis and Policy Melody Flowers. “Unlearn Fear + Hate was born out of conversations we started having with each other in the early summer of 2015 in response to two things,” Gohde and Todorova said in a joint statement. “Nationally, the increased visibility of acts of racial violence, which repeatedly revealed just how ailing and divided we still are as a nation; locally, these national occurrences led to city-wide conversations about the future of the two Confederate statues at Cheapside.” Gohde and Todorova want to put art pieces on display that are more inclusive to all groups of people. “These conversations, too, felt divisive and antagonizing,” Gohde and Todorova said in a joint statement. “We

wanted to respond with an artwork that encouraged people to see each other’s humanity, despite our beliefs about race, religion, gender, sexuality or any other of the issues that divide us and make us unable to live as a community.” Students and visitors are highly encouraged to take pictures with the sculptures with their head framed by the center circle. Those who use social media are encouraged to hashtag their image with #unlearnfearandhate, so they can become a part of a chain reaction that brings awareness to those who are dedicated to peace, acceptance and inclusivity. These art pieces are intended to bring positive inspiration not only to UK students and faculty, but to all those who will talk through the Gatton Student Center or see the photos on social media. “Unlearn Fear + Hate has already traveled nationally and also internationally to different countries through a variety of activations— Bulgaria, Germany, Thailand, Australia and Turkey,” Gohde and Todorova said. “Last March we traveled to Cape Town, South Africa, to engage multiple communities with it. We are told the same thing everywhere we go: we need less fear and more understanding of each other.”

The same article reported that two students complained about Ryan’s behavior in China in 2015; the language from news reports at the time of the incident indicates instead that representatives from two separate universities complained about Ryan’s behavior.

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Rosh Hashanah, Jewish holidays at UK are open to the curious news@kykernel.com

Observant students on Monday and Tuesday may wonder why a man in a black hat who is probably short of breath is running around campus vigorously blowing into a ram’s horn. Curious students are encouraged to ask what’s going on, said Rabbi Shlomo Litvin, the black-hatted man who will be blowing into the ram’s horn, because on Monday and Tuesday Rosh Hashanah, generally known as the Jewish new year, will take place. But Rabbi Litvin said “that is not a great description.” The holiday is more about an anniversary of a relationship, rather than the beginning of a new year. That anniversary, Rabbi Litvin said, is the 5,779th anniversary of when God brought man into existence. “God seeks a relationship with human beings, so Rosh Hashanah is not when the world was created. Rosh Hashanah is the sixth day of creation when man was created,” Rabbi Litvin said. Much of the celebrations and motivations behind Rosh

Hashanah is about reviewing and renewing that relationship. For example, you don’t make new year’s resolutions on the day, but it’s more like when you “have an anniversary, you look over your relationship, you say, ‘Hey we don’t spend enough date nights together; let’s spend some more time together,’” Rabbi Litvin said. “So it’s looking over the relationship and seeing how you can improve it.” The ram’s horn, known in Hebrew as a shofar, is a big part of that, he said. It is blown— in three different ways that resembles a baby’s crying— to wake up the Jewish people and “remind us to reinvest in the relationship.” “Over the course of Rosh Hashanah, you’re supposed to hear over 100 blasts,” Rabbi Litvin said. “In order that all students have an opportunity to hear, I will probably blow over the two days of Rosh Hashanah, 3,0005,000 blasts which does take it out of you a tiny bit.” He estimated that he walks about 15 miles over the course of the two-day holiday. “It’s a generally energizing holiday for me,” he said.

The biggest and most public shofar blowing will be on Monday at 3 p.m. at the William T. Young Library. It’s also one of the best times for people curious about the holiday to come ask questions and listen.

Rabbi Litvin

“When I’m standing in front of the library with 30 or 40 students and I blow a ram’s horn for five minutes, I get extremely strange looks. A couple people think I’m just nuts,” Rabbi Litvin said. But others stop, ask questions and better understand others in their community who may be different than them. “I find the biggest cause

of disunity in a community is lack of knowledge,” he said. “It’s very hard to hate people you know.” The holiday is also celebrating with eating various dishes, including a fish head, carrots and various dishes which include “a lot, a lot of honey.” Those present at the meeting also try to eat a fruit none of them have ever had before, or at least not in a year, “so that they may have positive new experiences in the coming year.” Last year, they ate jack fruit, among other options of fruits that none of those present had had before. “We had one guy that had never had grapes before, so he had that,” Litvin said. Rosh Hashanah marks the beginning of the Jewish High Holidays. The evening of Tuesday, Sept. 18, marks the beginning of Yom Kippur, and the evening of Sunday, Sept. 23, marks the beginning of Sukkot. “Everyone is welcome,” Rabbi Litvin said. If you’re hoping to go, he asks that you RSVP with the Jewish Student Center at http://chabadofthebluegra. wixsite.com/chabadbluegrass.

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JEWISH STUDENT CENTER HIGH HOLIDAY SERVICE SCHEDULE Sept. 10 – 1 p.m. Shofar blowing and lunch Sept. 10 – 3 p.m. Shofar blowing at the William T. Young Library followed by Tashlich Sept. 10 – 7:30 p.m. Rosh Hashanah service and dinner Sept. 11 – 1 p.m. Shofar blowing and lunch Sept. 14 – 9:30 p.m. Dessert and Discussion (preceded by Shabbos service and dinner at 7) Sept. 22 –1 p.m. Shabbos at Chabad Sept. 23 – 7:30 p.m. Dinner in the Sukkah Sept. 24 – 1 p.m. Lulav and Lunch Sept. 24 – 7:30 p.m. Dinner in the Sukkah Sept. 25 – 1 p.m. Lulav and Lunch

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kernellifestyle Late Night Film Series is ‘just getting started’ in new state-of-the-art cinema By Emily Baehner lifestyle@kykernel.com

UK’s Late Night Film Series is returning “home” as the renovated student center has opened. Late Night Film Series will be shown at the Worsham Cinema, a reiteration of the Worsham theater from the old student center. When the Late Night Film Series began in 2007, very few films were shown at the student center, despite the existence of a theater. The student center director’s office began the program to utilize that space on a weekly basis. The program has grown from two movies a week to about 80 films a semester. This year, the Late Night Film Series will be exclusive to Friday nights at 10 p.m., joining a dozen other student-curated sub-series and blockbusters as part of the larger Gatton Stu-

dent Center Cinema program, in what the program’s website calls its “most diverse and interesting schedule to date.” Accompanying this new film schedule is one of the most state-of-the-art cinematic theaters in Kentucky. The Worsham Cinema features 60-speaker Dolby Atmos Surround Sound, 4K Christi Digital Projection, and 564 seats. Located on the Visitor’s Axis, the massive tiled dome is on the southern side of the building and looks out on Barker Plaza. Zach Lamb, the assistant director for Activities & Marketing for the Gatton Student Center, said this top-of-the line projection and sound is unique for a college movie theater, and the result is unparalleled. “We are one of a handful of universities in the world currently using DCP technology

MCKENNA HORSLEY I STAFF The Student Center’s new Worsham Cinema theater will host UK’s Late Night Film Series.

to screen our films,” he said. “There isn’t a better movie experience in the state of Kentucky.” The Gatton Student Center Cinema screened several films over the summer during See Blue U Events and before K Week, but the first official screening was on August 19, following the Gatton Student Center Spectacular. “Avengers: Infinity War” was shown to a

full house. The location change seems to be benefiting the film series. “Memorial Hall was far from a cinematic venue, and our presentation suffered as a result,” said Lamb, who has been with the film program and the student center since he was hired as an undergraduate student in 2011. He has maintained involvement with

the program as he moved into a role as a graduate assistant, a full-time employee and now into his current role as the assistant director. “We are showing more movies than ever before, attracting our largest crowds ever, and we’re just getting started,” Lamb said. This move to the student center is changing the way the entire program is approached and is allowing for more films to be shown to larger audiences. In addition to the improved viewing capabilities that the Worsham Cinema offers, the student center has far more daily traffic that affords the film series a number of new opportunities. One of those opportunities, said Lamb, includes bringing a diverse, quality movie program to the heart of campus.

“President Capilouto has often called the Gatton Student Center ‘the living room of campus.’ To extend the metaphor, we’re the state-of-the-art entertainment center,” Lamb said. Sophomore computer science major Peter Regard also praised the theater. When he first stepped into the new location, he couldn’t believe what he was seeing. “The cinema blew my mind because it’s huge and stunning in design,” Regard said. “The blue glow of the room creates an appealing look during the bright parts of the movies.” Gatton Student Center Cinema will be showing a wide variety of films, everything from “Lilo & Stitch” to “Django Unchained.” The full list of films to be shown this semester is featured online. Every film is free of charge.

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UK alumna is on a roll with success in almond butter business By Akhira Umar lifestyle@kykernel.com

They say the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach. For one UK alumna, her health food expertise and business savvy won her over a husband and a business. Dawn Kelley, a UK political science graduate, has been adding on to her success one almond at a time. Since 2011, she has been the president and CEO of Barney Butter, a California-based almond butter company. Kelley has helped the business grow from an unknown name to the third-largest almond butter on the market in the country. So just how did a born-andraised Lexingtonian end up with an almond butter company in California? Kelley’s story is a classic case of hard work paying off. As a political science major, Kelley followed what she thought was her dream to a law firm in Atlanta. After discovering that field wasn’t for her, Kelley embarked on an employment journey that took her from Atlanta to Chicago to California, and from consultant to vice president to president. Though her career history didn’t exactly follow her degree, she said she did not regret the decision in college. In fact, Kelley is grateful to both UK and her major for exposing her to such diverse experiences.

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“Your major doesn’t necessarily define you,” Kelley said. “It’s a time, I think, to embrace the opportunities in front of you to see what you get passionate about, see the classes that light you up a little bit and draw you in, what kind of turns you off. And take the opportunity for as much diversity or different experiences and variety, and having an open mind is really important.” And embracing opportunities is exactly what Kelley did when she met her husband-to-be, Steve Kelley. The two were set up by a mutual friend when Steve revealed to Dawn that he had recently invested in a small almond butter company. Dawn, having extensive knowledge of business management due to her previous jobs and a knowhow for almond butter due to her passion for food, managed to wow Steve as a potential business partner and wife. “It was just a natural fit for me in terms of diet and lifestyle,” said Dawn. Within a few months of their meeting, the pair bought out Barney Butter and flipped the company on its head. While Steve, the COO to Dawn’s CEO, specialized in the operation ends of the business, Dawn was the creative innovator. With the same purpose but different branding, the Kelleys turned the company into a commercial

success. And Steve is not shy about giving his wife her due credit. “When I first met her I called my partner and I said, ‘I think we just had another lightning strike. I don’t know whether I want to marry her or hire her,’” Steve said. “And so it ended up working out for me... a twofer, I got both. I got a wife and a business partner who was way more capable of building this brand and growing this business than I was, so we were a pretty good team.” For those looking for an alternative to peanut butter or just a healthy spread, Barney Butter is a product worth looking into. It is peanut free, all-natural, non-GMO, kosher and vegan certified. Every jar of Barney Butter is made with locally grown California almonds that get blanched, a process that makes Barney Butter unique to other almond butter brands. Thanks to blanching, this almond butter is no-stir, rivaling the consistency and taste of peanut butter without the guilt. The Kelleys are sure that the company’s mantra, “leaving things better than we found them,” will continue on with every product sold. Barney Butter products, including almond butter, almond flour, almond meal and more, can be found close to UK’s campus at the Kroger on Euclid Ave.

PHOTO PROVIDED BY DAWN KELLEY UK alumna Dawn Kelley is the president and CEO of Barney Butter, a California almond butter company.

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After a lifetime of breaking barriers, Alice Dunnigan is memorialized in bronze Story by Bailey Vandiver | Photography by Arden Barnes

Pieces of her body lay scattered on the floor. The light coming in the window illuminated the details: the pearls in her ears and around her neck, the gloves covering her hands, the newspaper lying next to her. But there were missing partsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; the ones that had not yet been cast in bronze. Story continues on page 8

Kentucky sculptor Amanda Matthews stands over the recently cast bronze head of Alice Dunnigan, the first black female journalist to receive credentials for the White House.

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Prometheus Art owners Amanda Matthews and Brad Connell reattach the Styrofoam and clay head of Alice Dunnigan. Once completed, the statue will stand 6-foot-3.

hose pieces will soon form a life-size statue of Alice Dunnigan, the first female black journalist to get White House credentials. Born in Russellville, Kentucky, in 1906, Dunnigan attended college at Kentucky State University and taught in Kentucky before moving to Washington, D.C., during World War II. She continually broke down racial and gender-based barriers during her time as a reporter. She died in 1983 and was inducted into the Black Journalist Hall of Fame soon after. The statue, which will be temporarily displayed at the Newseum in Washington, D.C., is being sculpted by Prometheus Art owners

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Amanda Matthews and Brad Connell. “We want her to be a household name,” Matthews said of Dunnigan.

Amanda, Artemis, Alice Matthews, who was born in Louisville and now lives and works in Lexington, was chosen to make the statue of Dunnigan because of her past work and passion for sculpting women. This “quest” to increase the number of sculptures of women began in 2014. Connell, who has been Matthews’ business partner since 2009 and her husband since 2015, said he remembers working in the shop that day. “Amanda came down and I’ve never seen her more

angry, and I was racking my brain trying to figure out what I had done,” he said. Matthews had read a Courier Journal article that said the “closest thing to a woman honored by a full-scale statue on public property in Kentucky” was Carolina, a male general’s horse. “She was mad, and I don’t blame her,” Connell said. “I was mad, too.” Matthews continued to research statues of women, and she found that a very small percentage of statues on United States public property honored women. Plus, those few statues that did were more often of abstract archetypes or fictional characters,

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Matthews and Connell reach for the uncleaned bronze pieces of the Dunnigan statue’s hands in their studio in Lexington, Kentucky.

Monday, September 10, 2018 rather than portraying specific, historical women. When Matthews decided she wanted to change this, she started with one goal: to get a sculpture of a woman in the Kentucky State Capitol Building. To achieve that goal— which she realized was going to be a challenge— she founded the Artemis Initiative, a 501C3 public charity focused on creating, erecting and maintaining public art that “elevates the statues of women and minorities and children— you know, the ones who have been left out of history,” Matthews said. After months of donations and deliberations, the Historic Properties Commission voted unanimously that there will be a sculpture of a woman going into the Capitol building. Matthews is also currently working on that project. It was this project, via an article written by the Lexington Herald-Leader about the Artemis Initiative, that led Matthews to Alice Dunnigan. Gran Clark, who is a leader in the West Kentucky African American Heritage Center in Russellville, Dunnigan’s hometown, contacted Matthews “out of the blue.” He told Matthews that he had been wanting to work on a project honoring Dunnigan for years, and he wanted Matthews to be involved. “I was all in from the very beginning,” Matthews said. To decide what the statue

large, 60-years-younger African American men— who are sitting next to each other.” Matthews said she knew she was the outsider. “They’re all the community,” she said. “They’re all her (Dunnigan’s) community.” Matthews said she realized that while she might be the expert in sculpture, she was not the expert in what they were trying to accomplish. “This very diverse community of people had one shared goal, and that goal was to let everybody in the nation know that somebody like Alice Dunnigan came from their tiny town— from this tiny little speck of a town— and made such a national impact,” she said. Matthews said she spent twoand-a-half hours listening to the wishes of the Russellville community. “That was a pretty profound day,” she said.

From photograph to bronze

At that “town hall” meeting, Matthews, Clark and the people of Russellville decided to base the sculpture off “the iconic image of her standing on the Capitol steps, holding The Washington Post.” Matthews said she doesn’t love working from a photograph because she likes to have creative license, but a photograph is about the only option when the subject has passed away.

“We want her to be a household name.” Amanda Matthews

would look like and other details, Clark invited Matthews to Russellville. Matthews entered K.P. Hall in Russellville expecting to speak with a few people. Instead, she said, she watched just about the whole town file into the meeting hall. “The most diverse group of people you could have ever imagined,” she said. “Tiny little Caucasian librarians, very

Matthews adds wax to the wax replica of Dunnigan’s legs.

The benefit of the Dunnigan statue, she said, is that it’s based only on the one image. Plus, Matthews was able to take a little creative license by doing some “selective editing.” For example, Dunnigan’s dress is polka dotted, but Matthews and Connell are leaving the polka dots off the sculpture to avoid a look of busyness. Matthews kept the “big flop-

Matthews and Connell talk while each working on a piece of the wax replica of the statue.

py-looking hat,” though, because it showcases something about Dunnigan’s personality. Dunnigan wrote in her book that people would criticize her clothing, including that hat, as not being professional enough. “It’s because she didn’t have the money; she was paid so much less,” Matthews said. So Dunnigan used the clothes she could afford over and over, with different accessories like hats, pearl earrings and gloves.

Her pearls and gloves are part of the statue. Matthews also wanted to emphasize that the wind was blowing, as well as Dunnigan’s form under her dress. “That’s actually something that has become kind of a hallmark of my work about women, because I really want you to see the body under the clothing,” she said. So Matthews made sure the form of her legs was visible

and lowered the neckline of her dress “a tiny bit.” “So the things that I thought were very specific to her and to the period I kept, and then anything that I thought might detract from what I was trying to convey, I either played down or left out,” she said. Before work officially began on the project, though, Matthews and Clark co-wrote a

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Monday, September 10, 2018 grant to get funding. The grant of $60,000 covered the initial cost and allowed Matthews and Connell to get started on the sculpture. The process is a long one, and Matthews and Connell began sometime in late 2016, they said. After they chose the photo and finalized the design, Matthews and Connell sculpted a maquette, or a small model of the piece, that captures the shape and the gesture of the sculpture. Then a vendor in Cincinnati made a digital computer model of it using about 350 digital cameras, which photograph the model from every possible angle so a three-dimensional computer model can be created. “We have this ancient art form we’re working with, but we also have a little bit of brand new technology,” Matthews said. Then a different vendor in Colorado took the digital file and created a full-size version of the sculpture, this time out of

“I really love to work on projects that tell the untold parts of history.” Amanda Matthews

a “dense, blue Styrofoam,” Connell said. Matthews and Connell then put an oil-based clay on top of the Styrofoam and did any reworking that might be necessary after the resizing. “For Amanda’s portraits, it’s normally around a year from maquette to life-size, ready for us to start the foundry process on,” Connell said. Then a urethane rubber mold was applied around the clay shape, with a “mother mold” made of molding plaster reinforced with hemp fiber put on top of that to strengthen it. “We were using hemp before it was cool,” Matthews said. The molds are made in piec-

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es, then used to make hollow wax replicas of the original clay. “Whatever we have in wax, we’re eventually going to have in bronze,” Connell said— which is why they don’t make a solid wax replica that would become solid bronze. Even made of hollow bronze, the statue, which is 6-foot-3 from her feet to the top of her hat, will weigh about 350 pounds. Sprues, which are wax rods, are attached to the wax models to allow channels through which the metal will flow. The wax is then covered in a ceramic shell mold by dipping it into a liquid ceramic slip called slurry. Silica sand, both fine and coarse, is then poured over it. Then things heat up: The ceramic shell molds are put in a kiln upside down, and the wax melts out, leaving the molds hollow— which is why this is called the “lost wax” method of bronze casting, Connell said. Finally, molten metal is poured into the mold. Once the bronze cools, the ceramic shell has to be chipped off. Then, once all the pieces of the sculpture are in bronze, the pieces have to be welded together in the proper form, then smoothed down until it’s just right. “And that’s how you make a bronze statue,” Connell said after explaining the process. “This is ready, sweetie,” Matthews said to Connell at this point— she had been working on the wax replica of Dunnigan’s lower legs and feet. Those legs, along with her skirt and torso, were then in the wax replica stage, while other pieces, like her head and arms, had already been cast in bronze. Connell said that people often get confused by the process, which will ultimately include three positives of the sculpture— one in clay, one in wax and one in bronze— and two negatives, the rubber mold and the ceramic shell mold. “So you go back and forth and back and forth,” he said. Matthews estimated that once all of the pieces are in bronze and have already been cleaned

up a bit, she and Connell will still have between 120 and 150 hours of “fit and weld, chasing welds, finishing all that.” Then, of course, the sculpture will have to be transported.

Alice’s second Whistle Stop tour In 1948, Dunnigan was one of only three black journalists and two women in the press corps that accompanied President Harry S. Truman on his whistle stop campaign— Matthews said Dunnigan’s going on the trip was “unheard of.” “Everyone said a woman can’t go on that, and she figured out a way to go,” Matthews said. At the beginning of this project, when Matthews and Clark began to collaborate, they had no idea that this statue would end up going to Washington, D.C. Russellville was the only destination they originally had

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Above: Matthews holds the uncleaned bronze piece of the Washington Post newspaper that Dunnigan will hold in the finished statue. Below: Connell works on the wax replica of Dunnigan’s torso. “We became friends, then we became business partners, then we became partners partners, then in 2015, we got married,” Matthews said.

Monday, September 10, 2018 in mind. But it all “blossomed” from there, Matthews said, and people in the Russellville community said they should try to get the statue to tour around. Hence the nickname given by Matthews and Connell to what will be the statue’s journey: Alice Dunnigan’s second whistle stop tour. The statue will definitely be installed at the Newseum on Sept. 21, but beyond that, the statue’s future is a little uncertain. The original plan was for the statue to return to Russellville in December, but the viral response to the Newseum’s press release has put those plans in flux. “Everyone is amazed, even the people at the Newseum, at how many people have shown interest in this,” Connell said. Kentucky universities, like UK and Kentucky State Univer-

sity, are interested in temporarily hosting the statue once it comes back to the Commonwealth from D.C., but nothing is yet definite.

‘Muffled voices’

“I really love to work on projects that tell the untold parts of history,” Matthews said, explaining part of the reason why she started the Artemis Initiative and focuses on honoring women through sculpture. On Mother’s Day of 2018, Matthews’ figurative bronze statue titled “Katsina the Sacred Dancer” was unveiled in Wellington Park in Lexington, and she is still working on the statue of Nettie Depp that will go in the state Capitol. Connell said the timing for when Matthews’ started her emphasis on women’s statues was “serendipitous.” About three weeks after

the Artemis Initiative became official, the Kentucky Commission on Human Rights issued a state-wide press release asking Kentucky towns to consider putting up statues of women. And just a few years later, hashtags like #metoo and #shepersisted began popping up more and more on Twitter. “It kind of tells us that it was time,” Connell said. “I don’t think these sorts of movements happen with one person. They happen with a collective group of people from all parts of the country and all parts of the world kind of feeling the same thing at the same time.” Matthews said this Dunnigan project has become “much, much more” than she and Connell anticipated. When Dunnigan was a teacher in Todd County, Kentucky, she reportedly noticed that her students were ignorant of the

Matthews laughs at a comment Connell made while they were working in their studio.

contributions of African Americans to Kentucky history, so she prepared supplemental reading materials for her students. Matthews is carrying on the same sort of work today. “[Women] really have become a lesser part of history… because of that, they’ve had a lesser voice, a muffled voice,” Matthews said. “So I like to say it’s my job, I hope it’s my job, to raise up those muffled voices.” It’s not only about the work of women, but also the work of Kentuckians. As someone who was born, raised and educated in Kentucky, Matthews said she feels “a lot of state pride” while working on this project about another native Kentuckian. “I really love to tell the stories of women who have grit, women who have passion, women who have purpose, and Kentucky has a lot of those

women,” she said. Matthews said this project has been nothing but delightful. She and Connell are inching closer to the end of the project, though they will still need to transport Dunnigan around on her yet-to-be-planned tour. After years of work, it’s coming down to the final few pours, and Matthews is ready to have all of Dunnigan in bronze. “I tend to be the more nervous one of the two of us when we have a deadline like this,” she said. “I stay nervous till I see all the body parts in bronze, and then I’m like, okay, we’ve got this.” Soon Dunnigan will stand tall on Pennsylvania Avenue, between the White House and the Capitol, with newspaper in hand. Matthews said there is no better place for her to be.

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Virtual newsroom concept a step forward for journalism DALTON STOKES Columnist

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Students should have more than one option for professors of required courses HANNAH WOOSLEY Asst. Opinions Editor

There’s a common issue on UK’s campus that seldom receives the attention it should: You must take certain required classes for graduation, but only one professor teaches some of them. To some students, this may seem like no issue, but to others, it’s the beginning of a long, difficult semester. Previous animosity from a past encounter, email or rumor, or poor personality and teaching style may cause a certain awkwardness and uncomfortable presence in the atmosphere during class. No student should endure an unpleasant 16-week semester with thoughts linger-

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ing in the back of their mind about their final grade just for a requirement for graduation. It’s time for UK to fix this issue. By offering a minimum of two professors to teach a class, the issue would be solved simply. This would allow a student to weigh his or her options to see which professor is a better fit personality and teaching-style wise— especially if any past animosity happens to be there. This doesn’t merely amount to the dislike or previous friction between a student and a professor, but certain students respond better to certain teaching styles and personalities. A student who enjoys an outgoing, over-thetop professor who lectures straight from memory and involves the class may not

be suited for a professor who sits at their desk and reads in a monotone voice off a previously created PowerPoint, and vice versa. If UK were to begin offering at least two professors per class to allow students an option, final grades and attitudes about going to class could be improved. If a student has a good attitude about class, his or her overall presence in that class and mood will be reflected, but if a student is unhappy with a teaching-style or past grievance, that will unfortunately reflect class participation and mood as well. UK needs to figure out this all-too-common issue and put an end to it. It’s time to start offering a solution to this problem that students are facing, sometimes more than once, during their time at UK.

the newsroom gets a majority vote in its favor, it gets to remain on the platform and all tokens staked by the challenger are distributed between the newsroom and all people that voted in the majority. If there is a majority vote to remove the newsroom, the newsroom will be eliminated from the Civil ecosystem and its deposit to enter will be distributed among majority voters. The platform is also aided by blockchain technology, which is the same technology that Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are based upon. There a quite a few advantages to the technology that closely align with most no-

tions of journalistic ethics. Blockchains bring decentralization. The technology is based on an open protocol with finalized and concrete information called blocks. When information is entered onto a blockchain, it cannot be changed, deleted or edited. Therefore, any content created on the Civil platform will be a matter of record for all to see. This means that no one can go back and falsify content. The decentralization aspect of the technology is what brings the entire idea together. Once the blockchain is in effect, no institution or single entity can change it; not even the creators of the blockchain can tamper with it. The sys-

tem is vastly harder to corrupt or fix than that of some current media outlets that are owned by large corporations who are looking to make a profit by not creating honest and fair journalistic content. The way Civil is set up provides monetary incentive to act ethically rather than bias towards content that boosts ratings and number of views. This complete inversion of the typical business model is a refreshing change that I view with much optimism. The company is still an upstart and only has a few newsrooms, most notably the Colorado Sun, but it will be interesting to see how this fresh idea impacts the world of journalism.

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A January 2018 Kentucky Kernel cover editorial asked, “How Many More?” The premise of that editorial was to demand that powerful institutions and people be held accountable for sexual assault and harassment, that everyone be educated on the meaning of #MeToo and that victim shaming in the name of protection cease. It also pointed out a key point in the #MeToo movement: It’s often journalists who step in to speak for those who are too scared or hurt to speak for themselves. We asked, “How many more?” and, since then, many more cases of improper conduct have sprouted up across this country and on our campus. The Kentucky Kernel wants to be the voice for every person who has suffered any kind of abuse in our community. We are committed to protecting your identity and privacy while we spread awareness of sexual assault and abuse on our campus. If you have suffered any physical, sexual, verbal, emotional or any other type of abuse, we want you to know that you can trust us to share your story with confidentiality and respect. We

truly believe that sharing people’s stories is how change is bred. That January editorial read, “Until universities quit spending money to keep their secrets, until the names of abusers are left off movie credits and election ballots, until we all realize the harm we have done and the healing we can do, there will be more.” There have been more, and there continues to be more. To name a few, the Catholic Church is in the midst of a self-inflicted crisis as its leaders attempt to repair public relations after years of sexual assault cover-ups were discovered. In this case and many others, it was the press who used its platform to spread awareness about the situation and make change. Following the publicity, Pope Francis admitted the shortcomings of the church and made an apology statement in Ireland. It was New York Times investigative reporters Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor who broke the initial Harvey Weinstein story, which revealed years of sexual abuse and harassment within the shadows of behind-the-scenes Hollywood.

Much closer to home, the Lexington Herald-Leader reported recently that Patrick Melton, who is a UK student and the son of the Franklin County sheriff, was charged with raping a woman near UK’s campus. Before that, rumors of screams around campus associated with alleged sex trafficking were declared false by Lexington Police, but were nonetheless a cause for alarm among many UK students. In the Melton case, it was the press that spread the word. In the alleged sex trafficking story, it was the Kernel that uncovered the truth. We are seeing more and more people using positions of power or physical advantage to prey on those around them. Only through increased awareness of these crimes can they be halted, and we are looking to step up and publicize this problem with more tenacity. We at the Kernel believe that one of our roles as members of the press is to speak for everyone who finds themselves in compromised situations, and only when we hear from you can we accurately share how widespread this problem reaches.

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After first game of season, Rose is ready to bloom

By Chase Campbell sports@kykernel.com

Before Sept. 1, the name A.J. Rose was likely only familiar to those UK football fans who had studied the week’s depth chart or seen Rose burst out for more than 100 yards in the relaxed 2018 spring game in April. After that Saturday game against Central Michigan, which saw Rose join AllSEC back Benny Snell Jr. as a second 100-yard rusher for the first time at UK since 2016, UK fans needed an answer to the question: Just who is A.J. Rose? Rose, a 6-foot-1, 208-pound running back from Cleveland, Ohio, joined the UK program in 2016. He redshirted his first year, which he said was frustrating, but it helped him mature. His biggest goal from then to now was getting the coaches to trust him enough to play in a game. For those who have been following the Kernel sports desk for over a year, the staff wrote their annual pre-

dictions piece before last football season, when Rose was brought up for the first time. The Eagle Scout was my personal pick for breakout player of the year, but that didn’t pan out how I had hoped. He suffered a minor ankle injury in fall camp and got a few rushes in throughout the year, but never ran further than a few yards. He totaled 37 yards on the season, definitely far from the “breakout” year I had predicted. Rose, though, was undeterred. As he prepared for his redshirt sophomore season, buzz about Rose continued to grow. Offensive coordinator Eddie Gran said that he “trusts them both completely,” talking about backup running backs Rose and Sihiem King. King was very involved in the offense last year, running behind Snell. During a pre-season media availability, Rose said he completely expected to play against Central Michigan. It was a stark change of pace from his previous season that only saw him carry the ball 17 times, mostly in the last

few possessions of blowout losses. What Rose couldn’t tell media then was that on his first touch of the game, he was going to take the ball 55 yards on an outside run to the left side of the field to give UK its first touchdown of the game. Rose said he had dreamed about the moment he ran into the end zone the night before, and his roommate Snell said that the moment was “a long time coming.” “We on it now,” Snell said after the 35-20 victory over the Chippewas. “We woke them up… this was our plan before the season, it’s just all coming into play now. I’ve been talking to him, I’ve been correcting him, all his mistakes, and he’s been correcting me.” Now, in one game, Rose seems to have thrust himself from a fringe, low-snapcount back to a part of the three-headed rushing monster Kentucky hopes to have this season. The only thing I want to know now is if my breakout prediction still counts.

JORDAN PRATHER I STAFF Sophomore running back A.J. Rose runs the ball up the field during Kentucky Football’s BlueWhite Spring Game on Friday, April 13, 2018, in Lexington, Kentucky.

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Olding wants to bring spirit of support for England’s World Cup run to Kentucky women’s soccer By Chris Leach sports@kykernel.com

This summer’s World Cup grabbed the attention of people from all over the world, but there was likely no group of people that latched onto the World Cup more emotionally than the England supporters. When England made its run through the group and bracket stages of the World Cup, numerous clips were posted on social media of pubs or mass crowds in England celebrating the goals and victories. As England kept winning, the phrase, “It’s coming home” developed, which rallied the England fans even more and created crazier celebrations. The United States did not have that atmosphere since its team failed to qualify for the World Cup, but one of Kentucky women’s soccer’s own was in England this summer to experience the chaos in her home country. “There was a lot of positive energy at home, like everyone was happy, no on has gotten behind England the way they did this summer,” Hollie Olding said. “Everyone was in the pubs watching, the streets were packed.” Olding, a sophomore midfield from London, England, was mostly at an England Soccer Camp at the team’s national headquarters during the country’s run to the semifinals. Olding, as well as England fans all over the world, was having the highlight of her summer while England advanced to the semifinals, but after that, it was a different story. “When we lost, the whole mood was just like real-

MICHAEL CLUBB I STAFF Hollie Olding kicks the ball down the field during the game against Morehead State on Aug. 23, 2018.

ly sad and no one spoke to each other,” Olding said. “I think the whole country felt the hit, not just the men. Before, when England would get knocked out, you’re like, ‘It’s fine,’ but when I was at that camp, we all definitely felt it.” Olding tried to avoid thinking about the loss, but that was difficult to do thanks to her teammates at Kentucky. In the team’s group chat, they talked a lot about the World Cup while it was going on, and after England’s semifinal loss, they made sure Olding knew the result of the game. “The joke was ‘it’s coming home,’ and we genuinely did think that time it was coming home, I did,” Olding said. “So in the group chat, when we lost, everyone was like, ‘ahahaha, it’s not coming home’ and I’m like, ‘guys, you should be supporting England, I’m on your team.’” In the following days after the loss to Croatia, the country of England had a hard time coping with the elimination from the tournament, but in the back of their minds, they had a feeling of pride for what their country

was able to accomplish. “When we all woke up the next morning when I was at camp, everyone was kind of sad and the mood wasn’t very nice, but the country was so proud that we actually got out of our group stage because we normally don’t do that,” Olding said. One thing that will always be remembered from England’s run through the World Cup is the way the country united to support the team. Everyone saw the celebrations on social media, but Olding was there in person to feel the energy and support that was generated from the team’s success. Olding said she believes that that same type of feeling can be recreated in Lexington; people just have to believe the same way people in England believed that it’s coming home. “You could be anywhere in any environment, it could be here [in Lexington], as long as the energy is good here, we’re going to train well, if the energy is good, we are going to play well,” Olding said. “Wherever you are, I think if the energy and the mindset is positive, whatever you do, it’s going to be good.”

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Austin MacGinnis investing in his future

By Chris Leach sports@kykernel.com

Since a young age, Austin MacGinnis was associated with money. During his animated career at Kentucky, MacGinnis was “money” on several kicks, such as his game-winning 51-yard field goal against Mississippi State in 2016. Fans also can’t forget MacGinnis’ game-winning field goal against Louisville just over a month later. Before all his “money” kicks at UK, MacGinnis had an early interest in money, picking up extra chores to get his hands on all the money he could get. “My grandpa used to always call me ‘moon-yah,’ money, because I used to always go around asking for money and doing anything I could for money, whether that was laying brick in front of his house or mowing lawns or selling livestrong bracelets,” MacGinnis said. “I’ve just always had an affection for money so that led me into learning about investing.” Now, MacGinnis is interested in putting money in other people’s hands through his career in financial advising. MacGinnis graduated from Kentucky in May of 2018 with a degree in finance and is currently working as a producer for Salomon & Company, a family owned wealth-planning firm in Lexington. “I like to help people out too and I feel that people stress about money, people break up about money, get divorced over money,” MacGinnis said. “People say money is not everything, it’s not, but it’s also a very important factor in our lives.” Despite getting his career in financial advising started, MacGinnis still has hopes of starting his professional kicking career as well. After going undrafted and spending three days at the Chicago Bears’ Rookie Minicamp, MacGinnis spent the whole summer training in the weight room and getting stronger, in hopes of getting noticed by a professional team. “I’ve just switched my focus back to what I was kind of doing in my younger days in high school with more explosiveness,” MacGin-

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MICHAEL REAVES Kentucky kicker Austin MacGinnis measures up a field goal during the game against the Florida Gators at Kroger Field on Saturday, Sept, 19, 2015, in Lexington, Kentucky.

TAYLOR PENCE Austin MacGinnis kicks the extra point during the Wildcats’ game against the Louisville Cardinals at Papa John’s Stadium on Nov. 26, 2016, in Louisville, Kentucky.

nis said. “Box jumps, hill sprints, just getting after it again.” In the middle of August, MacGinnis attended a kicking combine in San Diego, and the teams in attendance told MacGinnis that he did really well. MacGinnis also said there will be plenty more combines and opportunities to work out in front of NFL teams in January, and he plans to attend as many as he can. On top of the NFL, MacGinnis is

also open to the idea of signing with an alternative professional team, such as in the Alliance of American Football (AAF). The AAF is an alternative professional football league that was created in March 2018, with plans of kickoff in February 2019. One of the teams in the league is Alliance Memphis, which already includes former Kentucky players Blake McClain, Ryan Timmons and Cole

Mosier. However, the kicking job is still open for Alliance Memphis, and MacGinnis plans to attend the team’s tryout. “We had a bunch of Kentucky teammates sign with them, so I ended up just calling the GM myself and said, ‘Hey, take a look at me,’” MacGinnis said. “They said they were going to have a competition for the kickers that they’re looking to tryout, hopefully he’ll follow through with his word and I’m going to show up for that.” Whether it’s the NFL, AAF or who knows what, MacGinnis will continue chasing his pro football dreams for the next couple of years and believes he will eventually find himself on a roster. “I know I’m good enough, you just got to get a little bit lucky along with being good,” MacGinnis said. “I just keep getting better everyday.” If MacGinnis were to get picked up by a pro team, he and his boss already have a plan in place on how to manage MacGinnis’ financial clients. “In the offseason, of course I’ll be back managing that [clients],” MacGinnis said. “Having that relationship, someone that will work with me and help me out is great.” MacGinnis did not initially

start working as a financial advisor straight out of college. When he graduated, MacGinnis started as a credit analyst for Central Bank. However, MacGinnis only stayed with Central Bank for a month and a half, as he did not feel that it was the right fit. “My heart was in financial advising, and so I took some things that I learned at Central Bank just in the way of how loans work, how money is distributed and started working with Salomon & Company,” MacGinnis said. Since joining Salomon & Company, MacGinnis said he feels that he has landed in the right spot. He enjoys the work he does, and plans to do it till “the day I die.” On top of helping the people of Lexington with their financial questions, MacGinnis is also hoping to get the chance to speak to this year’s Kentucky football team about the importance of financial planning. When MacGinnis first came to Kentucky, he invested $20,000 and saw that investment gain 50 percent during his career at UK. With several players on the roster that could make a living playing football, MacGinnis wants the chance to speak with them before their careers take off. “I’ve been in their shoes, you can bring in other people but I just feel like I can relate to them so much better,” MacGinnis said. “I’ve been there, done that, our personalities aren’t that much different so I know they can invest as well and see the dividends that it pays off.” Even if MacGinnis can’t get that meeting with the players, he will still be in the facilities training for his ultimate goal of being a professional kicker. MacGinnis knows he has to be patient and wait for his opportunity since kicking jobs are hard to get on the professional level, but he knows that if he continues down the path he’s going down, he’s giving himself the best shot. “It’s tough to get in but if you can stick with it and keep getting better and just be the best guy at these camps, just make it to where they can’t miss you, you’ll eventually get picked up,” MacGinnis said.