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IN PERSONAL KERNEL NEWS: WELCOME TO THE NEWEST KERNELITE

Kentucky Kernel student media adviser Ryan Craig and his wife Jenni welcomed a new baby girl to their family on Saturday, March 23, 2019. River Magnolia Craig was born at 6:33 p.m. at the UK Chandler Hospital.

“She weighed only 4 pounds, 2 ounces but is a whole lot of beautiful,” Ryan said.

River has four older siblings: John, Owen, Summer and Sparrow.

CONGRATS TO NEXT KERNEL, KRNL EDITORS-IN-CHIEF

After an annual Kernel Board of Directors meeting, which includes interviews with potential candidates, Rick Childress has been named the 2019-20 Kentucky Kernel editor-in-chief, while Allie King has been named the 2019-20 edi-

tor-in-chief of KRNL Lifestyle + Fashion magazine.

“I think Rick and Allie both understand they are taking over one of the best collegiate newsrooms and magazines in the nation and the level of excellence that comes with running those operations,” Kernel adviser Ryan Craig said.

Childress, who is a journalism and history double major, began Childress writing for the Kernel during his freshman year and has been serving in the role of news editor for over a year.

“I want to serve our staff and our greater community in a leadKing ership role. I think that finding truth and writing it out in a way that is understandable for everyone is a public service and a foundation for a good democratic society.”

King is a journalism major with a business minor. She started at KRNL just this year, and advanced from blog editor to lifestyle editor before running for editor-in-chief.

“I feel like I had really good experience this past year,” King said. “It’s something I want to continue after college, and it’s a part of the career field I want to get into.”

CONGRATS TO HALL OF FAME INDUCTEES

Seven distinguished journalists were inducted into the Kentucky Journalism Hall of Fame.

The Kentucky Journalism Hall of Fame recognizes Kentuckians who have made significant contributions to journalism, according to the UK College of Communication and Information website.

The Hall of Fame was created by the University of Kentucky Journalism Alumni Association in 1980, making this year the 39th annual event.

The inductees were celebrated at a March 25, 2019, luncheon attended by journalists and Kentuckians from all over.

The 2019 inductees are as follows: Ewell Balltrip* Dana Canedy Tom Caudill

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Bruce Johnson

Steve Lowery* Michael Wines

*Posthumous induction.

PHOTO PROVIDED BY THE CRAIG FAMILY River Magnolia Craig was born on Saturday, March 23, 2019, at UK Chandler Hospital.

The Kernel staff offers our congratulations to all seven impressive and inspiring inductees, but we would like to send a special congratulations to Tom Caudill, who is a member of the Kernel Board of Directors.

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CORRECTION

In our March 25 literary magazine, we made a mistake with attribution for the piece “The Girl in the Reflection.” It was written by journalism freshman Sarah Michels. We apologize for not giving Sarah the credit she deserves for her piece.

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With ‘America’s largest greenhouses,’ UK alums are working to make a difference for Eastern Kentucky

By Emily Laytham news@kykernel.com

The momentum behind a UK alumnus’s agricultural-tech business is attracting global attention. Meanwhile, the company’s growing team is looking inward and working to redefine capital and consumption in rural Kentucky.

That company is AppHarvest, an agrobusiness that seeks to create long-term employment opportunities in Eastern Kentucky, an area of the country that has been overlooked by venture capitalists and investors.

AppHarvest is currently building “America’s largest greenhouses” in Pikeville, Kentucky, a town that has been dramatically affected by recent changes in the coal industry.

In the wake of increasing unemployment, areas of Eastern Kentucky like Pikeville have seen a rise in opioid addiction rates and the number of residents living below the poverty line.

“Desperate times call for innovation,” AppHarvest CEO and UK alum Jonathan Webb said, sitting in AppHarvest’s downtown Lexington office. “We have had desperate times in the eastern part of our state. Many regions of the country have been hit hard.”

Just 24 hours before this, Webb was in Washington D.C. for a conference. The weekend before that, his company was featured on the popular national news show “60 Minutes.”

The increasing attention on AppHarvest– which includes financial and advisory support from former CEO of AOL Steve Case and “Hillbilly Elegy” author J.D. Vance – is a testament to the company’s innovative plan for commercial agriculture.

In the short term, AppHarvest’s greenhouse project will reportedly create more than 120 jobs in Pikeville. These jobs will pay at least $12 an hour, and some will go to recovering drug addicts post-rehabilitation.

Other company resources are being used to teach Shelby Valley High School students about sustainable agriculture in container

PHOTOS PROVIDED BY APPHARVEST ABOVE: AppHarvest is currently building “America’s largest greenhouses” in Pikeville, Kentucky.

RIGHT: UK alum and AppHarvest CEO Jonathan Webb is interviewed for a segment of “60 Minutes.”

units. This project has been spearheaded by former UK basketball player and AppHarvest Community Director Ramel Bradley.

For Bradley, many problems in Eastern Kentucky are created by food. But luckily, food also presents a solution.

“Highest obesity rates, diabetes, cancer – all these things are affecting communities in Eastern Kentucky,” Bradley said. “And these things affect me deeply, to my core… it’s like 25, 30 million people suffering from these preventable diseases. We can change that.”

Bradley’s work with Shelby Valley High School students has also generated buzz around the country. Earlier this month, TEDx hosted its first Appalachian event in

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TEDxCorbin, where Shelby Valley High student Olivia Thornsbury spoke about her classmates’ work growing non-GMO, chemical-free produce in AppHarvest’s container unit.

The project has inspired strong passion in several Shelby Valley High students.

“Kids have been showing up an hour and

a half before school, 6:30 in the morning,” Webb said. “School’s been canceled because of snow days– they’re still showing up. The passion is there. It’s real.”

“We’re gonna build the largest greenhouses in the country in Eastern Kentucky, but steel and glass is not gonna define AppHarvest,” Webb added. “It’s the people of the region… It’s not just us building this. It’s gonna take off like wildfire.”

Webb described AppHarvest’s Kentuckian-centric vision as both “warm and fuzzy” and “a smart business move.” He said valuable human resources have been ignored for too long, in part because investors see areas like Eastern Kentucky as “coal country” and little else.

“Coal did not power our country,” Webb said. “Coal is, in essence, a black piece of material inside the earth. It’s the people in those communities that extracted the coal that powered the country. Those are some of the hardest-working men and women in our country.”

A Kentucky native and graduate of UK’s Gatton College of Business, Webb has seen firsthand the negative effects of unemployment in underserved areas of the state. He said some of these struggles have arisen from a “coordinated effort” to shrink the coal industry from the outside.

“To me, the problem is that the biggest governmental groups across the country and around the world refused to put the resources on the ground in the region to understand the effects of what their campaigns did,” Webb said. “It’s easy for people to sit on the outside and destroy the coal communities that power this country. What’s hard to do is… work together to build something.”

“Something” for Webb and Bradley is AppHarvest. But they can’t do it alone.

“AppHarvest is not gonna be a silver bullet,” Webb said. “We do need people inside of our state– young, passionate people– that don’t just leave our state… but stay inside of our state and re-imagine what’s possible.

And let’s create something together.”

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UK Dining, student groups seek to eliminate food waste one plate at a time

By Sarah Michels news@kykernel.com

Each year, 1.3 billion metric tons of food, about one-third of all food produced globally, is wasted, data gathered by the United Nations shows. That’s about 358 pounds of food waste for every person in the world per year— almost a pound of waste per day.

The United Nations and other international institutions have begun work to reduce this figure with the cooperation of global leaders. But change is also beginning here on campus, at the nearest UK dining hall.

Aramark, the food provider UK partners with for dining, and UK Dining have teamed up over the past few years to promote environmental sustainability with the aim of reducing food waste by half by 2030, UK Dining officials said. Their platform, Green Thread, includes a variety of programs designed to maximize efficiency and minimize waste.

“We have practices in our production to reduce the amount of food waste, overproduction and over-purchasing, so we try not to have too many leftovers,” said UK Dining Sustainability Manager Carolyn Gahn.

Currently, one of their main focuses is the elimination of single-use plastics, Gahn said. For $5, each UK dining hall offers students reusable Green-

SARAH MICHELS I STAFF Plates heaping with post-consumer food waste wait to be cleaned at the Fresh Food Company. According to UK’s Campus Kitchen website, 40 percent of post-consumer food is wasted each year in the United States.

to-Go boxes, which they can later exchange for clean ones. This, paired with the use of non-plastic silverware and cups, saves a substantial amount of plastic throughout the school year.

However, Aramark and UK Dining are constantly looking for room to improve. This year, the Sip Smarter campaign rolled out in conjunction with a nation-wide campaign to reduce straw use. Its goal is to shift all on-campus dining to renewable resource straws or no straws at all in the next few years.

One sustainability improvement scheduled for the more recent future is a composting program, which will begin its pilot program the second half of the 2019 spring semester, Gahn said. The program, a result of the collaboration between the UK College of Agriculture, UK Recycling and UK Sustainability, will gather food waste from residential dining locations to be composted at a university farm.

This recycling of food scraps such as apple cores that are otherwise inherently wasted is connected

to UK Dining’s broader attempt to reuse as many leftovers as possible. But if UK Dining misses anything, Gahn said, “Campus Kitchen will pick up anything extra that we have.”

Campus Kitchen at UK is a student-run organization aligned with the national Campus Kitchens Project, whose mission is to eliminate food waste on college campuses.

They do this by recovering leftover food from dining halls, local retailers like Whole Foods and on-campus events.

After processing the leftover food, they cook what’s salvageable into new healthy meals, which they deliver to locations including the Lexington Housing Authority, Big Blue Pantry, and the Griffith-Ballard Towers, said Anisah Arain, one of Campus Kitchen’s shift captains.

Every Wednesday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. in Funkhouser, Campus Kitchen also hosts Farm to Fork, serving free nutritious lunches for anyone who needs or wants one.

“I think a lot of kids are

not very aware of just how big food insecurity is at UK but there’s actually a decent amount of students who go to these Farm to Fork things or the Big Blue Pantry,” Arain said.

According to a survey conducted by the UK Food and Housing Security Workshop, 43 percent of UK students reported some level of food insecurity. UK administrators openly doubt the survey, which has helped to bring awareness to the food insecurity issue.

How can UK students help alleviate the issue of food waste? For Gahn, it begins by voting with your dollars.

“We don’t think about that enough— the power we have as consumers.

Especially with produce, buying celery, for example, from the farmers’ market would be a better choice than buying it from the grocery store because the farmer is not trimming the product to fit into a particularly sized package, which is what’s happening on a larger scale,” she said. “There’s a lot of food waste that we don’t even realize is happening, that is just left on a field at the farm.”

Arain echoed this sentiment: “Be reasonable with what you buy; a lot of times your eyes are bigger than your stomach.”

Arain agrees with the message of the Fresh Food Company’s new signage: “You can always go get more at a dining hall; it’s never a problem.”

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lifestyle Women are finding their place in male-dominated majors

By Haley Hintz

lifestyle@kykernel.com

Being a woman in a male-dominated major is no small feat.

There is no doubt that programs like engineering, business and sciences have historically had a large gender participation gap.

Within the past decade, there have been many initiatives to equalize these disparities, and women at the University of Kentucky are truly representing by overcoming obstacles that they face in order to increase involvement within their respective fields.

How does UK compare to the national rates of female involvement in some of the male-dominated majors?

Nationally, according to The Society of Women Engineers, 23.1 percent of all degrees in engineering and computer science are awarded to women. At this institution, about 20.7 percent of the College of Engineering was comprised of women in fall 2018.

While these percentages are comparable, it is clear that there is still work to be done in order to recruit and affirm the contributions of women so that stu-

HALEY HINTZ Kiley Alcorn, Kaleigh Shaw and Chelina Ortiz Montanez are all UK students in majors that are typically dominated by males.

dents like freshman marketing major Kaleigh Shaw don’t have to feel pressure to change their major in order to be accepted.

Shaw said that she has felt frustrated after “women and men alike share their opinions to guide [her] into a more female-oriented career.” While Shaw has had dreams to work for the Nashville Predators Hockey Franchise, there were people who dissuaded her from pursuing her goals

on the basis of her sex, despite her numerous academic achievements and intelligence.

However, she has not let these roadblocks hold her back from following her dreams– because when someone doubts her abilities, Shaw is “instantly motivated to work harder” in order to prove them wrong.

Discouraging advice is only one setback that women in male-dominated majors must

face. Additionally, a lack of female representation can be a factor in keeping women from choosing a certain career path.

Chelina Ortiz Montanez, a rising senior with a major in computer science, grew up in Mexico and fell in love with the field when she traveled to San Francisco in high school and met a Google engineer. She has worked tirelessly to inspire others ever since that day because she still “struggles to find clear and visible examples of women who have made it in the field, especially when it comes to faculty.”

Even when girls begin college in a male-dominated field like STEM, there is a 30 percent chance that they will eventually switch into a different program.

One proven way to decrease attrition rates is by forming alliances between the students and faculty who are willing to help guide the student in finding their path to success.

Kiley Alcorn, a freshman studying geological sciences, said that her professors have gone out of their way in “welcoming [her] to make [her] feel appreciated.” Mentorships from professors have the ability to

encourage students to continue in their field of study because someone they trust can offer their valued opinion.

Student organizations like the Society of Women Engineers or Women in Business play an integral role in mentoring women to seek out opportunities and advance their career. Through the support of the members of this organization, Ortiz Montanez has been empowered “to attend many conferences for women in engineering and computer science and to apply for crazy cool internships.”

There is an expectation that the number of women who are studying in male-dominated majors will continue to grow after The American Society for Engineering Education found that women’s enrollment in engineering programs saw a 3 percent increase from 2016-2017.

Because of funding for curricula that introduces girls to fields such as STEM at a younger age, the United States will likely see further progress.

For now, students like Alcorn across campus will keep striving to achieve by “looking towards the bigger picture” and continuing to study their passions.

Sweet Blessings serves up cakes and kindness

By Jelyn Washington-Mays lifestyle@kykernel.com

Nestled between the main entrance of Maxwell Street Presbyterian Church and the church playground rests the headquarters for one of Lexington’s sweetest treats, Sweet Blessings Cakes.

The name sounds like an idyllic Kentucky bakery filled with bourbon country charm. That is not Sweet Blessings. Instead, it is a charity that bakes birthday cakes for children who are living in poverty, have a life-threatening illness or have special

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needs.

Since 2011, Sweet Blessings Cakes has provided nearly 12,000 children with birthday cakes at no cost to their caregivers. These are birthday gifts they otherwise may not have had. In the organization’s first year, it made 163 cakes. That number grew to 2,600 just for 2018 alone, fulfilling the vision stated on their website of providing “a happy birthday for all children.”

Ashley Gann, the founder and executive director of the charity, strayed away from getting her doctorate in public health because she said God told her she was going

to make cakes.

“It took several years to figure out what that meant and I really felt that God was telling me that I needed to spend more time making a difference and less time making a living,” Gann said. “The pastor one Sunday was talking about inner-city outreach in downtown Lexington, and that’s when it all clicked for me that I was supposed to use cake to reach out to children and families.”

The charity’s mission statement is “to convey Christ’s love for His children by creating unforgettable birthday cakes for

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JELYN WASHINGTON-MAYS Sweet Blessings volunteers Candy Simms, Kelly Karls and Claire Scott work to create decorations for a cake.

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meet two among T H O U S A N D S.

BY JACOB EADS

In January 2019, the unexpected deaths of two of UK’s own students left many on campus asking for answers.

In hopes of furthering an already growing dialogue about mental health and the resources available to UK’s students, the Kernel has spent the last two months learning about who Taylor Nolan and Sean Culley were during their time at UK. Carefully and honestly, we set out to meet their friends, families and anyone who could help us tell each of their stories. We listened to what they had to say, sat in their homes and often asked questions that were tough to answer – never in an attempt to cause harm, but always in hopes of accurately and truthfully spurring a conversation about mental health.

In doing so, it was evident that Taylor and Sean each faced their own problems, but it was just as apparent that each of them were normal students.

They made friends, had their own talents, played sports, joined clubs, helped others, visited home for the holidays, had pets, did homework, walked to class in the cold, had jobs,

ARDEN BARNES | STAFF Bouquets of flowers given to Taylor Nolan’s family after her death hang on the wall of a room in their basement in Springfield, Kentucky, on March 13, 2018.

and so much more, just like other students.

Each of them lived their lives and were loved by others along the way.

While we set out to learn as much as we could about Taylor and Sean, it’d be foolish to think that any of us could ever have all of the answers.

Dr. Julie Cerel is a licensed psychologist, a professor in the UK College of Social Work and serves as the president of the American

Association of Suicidology. In an interview with the Kernel, she said that in cases of suicide, often no one has the full picture, but only small pieces to a larger puzzle.

“I think it’s hard for people left behind to understand why the person they cared about left them when perhaps so many people were pulling for them,” Cerel said. “A lot of the times the people left behind feel guilty, and say ‘Oh, only if I had

done this or that.’ But no one has the full picture oftentimes.”

In a February interview, Cerel said her biggest advice to UK students is to look out for their friends and for the people they care about. Just talk to them.

If you are concerned for someone you know or are seeking further support, the UK Counseling Center offers walk-in crisis appointments for those seeking immediate assistance.

You can also make non-emergency appointments throughout the week with UKCC’s trained clinicians. If you need to consult with someone from the UKCC after business hours, you can call 859-257-8701.

The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline is available 24 hours a day at 1-800-273-TALK (8255).

You can also contact the Crisis Text Line at 741-741.

The following stories attempt to paint a picture of who Taylor Nolan and Sean Culley were and what each of them means to the people who love them.

There are upwards of 30,000 students who enrolled in courses at UK. It’d be impossible to think that you could meet all of them, but here’s an easy way to meet two more.

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TAY L O R N O L A N ‘She did everything she could.’

Taylor Rae Nolan was ready to start the spring semester.

She packed her things and made the nearly hour-and-a-half-long drive back from winter break at home in Springfield, Kentucky, to Lexington. She had just gotten her hair done, and had a few new pieces of clothes and a planner with every one of her upcoming exams penciled into it in her curvy handwriting. She seemed excited to get back to UK. When she got back to the Chi Omega house where she lived on campus, Taylor went to see her therapist, something she had been doing every Monday for weeks.

Taylor’s closest family and friends knew she had been dealing with depression and anxiety for some time now. But to everyone around her, it seemed like she was taking all of the right steps to help herself.

She was on medication, had been actively seeking professional help and openly sought the support she needed from her friends and family.

The next day, one day before she was scheduled to start her fourth semester at UK, Taylor woke up and went to her job at iHeartRadio. She had made plans to meet a couple of her friends after her shift ended at 5 p.m.

But at close to 6 p.m., Taylor texted and said she needed to make stops at the grocery and the bank before coming over. She never made it to see her friends.

That night, Jan. 8, Taylor died of suicide.

She was 19 years old.

‘She loved life, and it loved her right back.’

From the minute she learned her first word, Taylor never stopped talking.

“She spoke at nine months old and she never stopped,” said Taylora Schlosser, Taylor’s mother. “I was reading her a Veggie Tales book and it was about a ball and she said ‘ball,’ and there we went. I don’t think she ever stopped talking.”

Taylor grew up as the closest thing to a princess a little girl in Kentucky can be. The youngest child of her family and the only girl, Taylor was the baby of the family, and she expected to be treated as such.

“We did all the things little girls do.

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Makeup and hair and clothes… but she was the little girl that knew about Rambo and Rocky and all those kinds of things,” Mrs. Schlosser said. “She and I were outnumbered.”

But even if she was outnumbered, that didn’t stop Taylor from growing up strong and blazing her own trail.

Fast forward 18 years later, and that little girl with blonde, curly hair who never stopped talking graduated high school in the top 20 of her class and was set to bring all of her “spunk” and smiles to UK in the fall.

“We made multiple trips, and sometimes multiple trips to the same place,” Mrs. Schlosser said. “But she knew she wanted to be at an SEC school, and she said she ended up deciding she wanted to be at the University of Kentucky. I remember her being very emotional about that, because it was a really big decision for her.”

Taylor started her classes at UK in August 2017, and from the minute she stepped foot into Haggin Hall with her collection of UK t-shirts in tow, it was clear she was a hit with everyone she met. Most of them say it was her infectious smile and passionate personality that made her shine.

“Instantaneously, I knew she was just bubbly and cute, and I knew we were going to be friends,” said Lauren Mason, Taylor’s sorority sister and coworker. “What struck me the most about her is that everything she’s involved in, she’s like the most passionate person in the world about it. She could talk to you about what shampoo she uses for 45 minutes because it was just the best thing in the world to her.”

Some were even finding excuses to talk to her.

“I ended up looking over at her computer and seeing she was doing chemistry homework, and I was doing chemistry homework. I knew what I was doing, but I said, ‘Hey do you want to help me?’ I made myself look stupid so I could ask her for help,” said Taylor’s eventual boyfriend Noah Anthony. “She just drew people in…

I was making up reasons to talk to her. She was so smart, intelligent and beautiful. She just had a lot of things that people wanted to be around her for.”

Taylor quickly found her homes on campus and started making friends. She joined

the Chi Omega sorority and was elected as a freshman senator to the Student Government Senate.

For those watching Taylor, it was obvious she wanted to use that same passion of hers to make an impact on others.

“It was not a one-way street with Taylor.

From the moment you met her, it didn’t matter who you were or where you came from,” said Courtney Wheeler, Taylor’s friend and SGA Senate president. “She loved helping others. She loved supporting each other and all of our differences.”

Taylor excelled in the SGA and in Chi Omega. She was appointed as the Chair of the SGA Senate Operations and Evaluations Committee during her second semester and was eventually elected as an SGA Senator-at-Large.

Her friends in Chi Omega saw Taylor’s same determination and drive come alive in their own chapter.

“She was very determined, probably the most determined person I knew,” said Taylor’s sorority sister and eventual roommate Faith Turner. “If she wanted to do something, she was going to do it, and if she wanted you to do something, you were going to do it.”

Taylor was even voted “Most Likely to Become President” by her Chi Omega sisters. From the outside looking in, it seemed like Taylor’s life was perfect.

“She loved life, and it loved her right back,” Turner said.

‘Taylor Rae’s Support Group’

A year before her death, in late January 2018, Taylor was diagnosed with meningitis, an often life-threatening infection that attacks the membranes surrounding the brain and spinal cord.

She spent multiple weeks of her second semester at the UK hospital and at home in Springfield, instead of on campus. At times her friends and family feared for the worst, but Taylor fought and recovered with the help of her support system.

“If you hear that word [meningitis], typically that doesn’t end well,” Mrs. Schlosser said. “But she came home and I served as her hospice nurse, I guess you could say.

You try to have a lot of talents and a lot of things on your resume, so I added that to my

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resume.”

Before she got sick, Taylor’s family had a group text message they called “Freaking Weirdo Family,”— “because we had a lot of fun, and we enjoyed each other,” Mrs. Schlosser explained.

As Taylor fought to recover, that group text name changed to “Taylor Rae’s Support Group.”

“As our family changed, our group text message changed as well,” Mrs. Schlosser said.

With mountains of flowers and encouraging text messages pouring in, Taylor had a lot of people in her corner, which only increased her desire to get back to campus.

“There was no question. She was going back. She wasn’t staying home. She wasn’t dropping out. She was going back to the UK that she loved,” Mrs. Schlosser said.

And once Taylor got back to UK, all of that support she received didn’t stop flowing in. Her closest friends knew she was sometimes dealing with bouts of anxiety and depression, and they made sure to be there for her when she needed them.

Taylor’s closest confidants say she had a tough semester to balance in the fall of 2018, even for someone who seemed to have super powers like she did.

“I just think she didn’t give up. So even if she did feel like she was overwhelmed, she wasn’t going to be the person to say ‘I can’t do it,’” said Taylor’s friend and sorority sister Casey Sartore.

Taylor was living in the Chi Omega house, had previously accepted an in-

Monday, April 1, 2019 ternship at Lexington’s iHeartRadio, was still involved with the SGA and had even picked up another major. She was studying Integrated Strategic Communications and Digital Media and Design.

“She was really busy. I felt like she was probably super busy over this fall semester,” Mrs. Schlosser said.

Taylor eventually resigned her position in the SGA in September 2018.

“She really loved SGA. I know it probably broke her heart to have to leave it,” Mason said. “I think she just felt like she was spread too thin.”

To her friends and family, it looked like Taylor was taking the right steps to avoid being overwhelmed. They say they saw that because Taylor was always very open with all of them.

“When she was upset, she was going to tell you. You knew when she was upset, she was texting saying, ‘I need to talk. I’m upset. This happened.’ She never hid her feelings really,” Sartore said.

Taylor was like an open book.

“Most people when this happens, you don’t know what’s going on in their life, but with Taylor you knew everything,” Mason said. “She met you, and she unloaded.”

They knew how Taylor felt. They saw she was taking care of herself.

Taylor tried to go to therapy every week and had been prescribed medication to help with her mental health. Taylor’s friends say she recommended therapy to everyone she met.

“She was actually so knowledgeable about mental health,” Turner said. “She was very into therapy. She was very into it. She loved it. She had a therapist that helped her a lot.”

But aside from the professional help she was getting, and the support she received from her friends, Taylor always knew she could talk to her family.

“If she was worried about something or she was feeling anxious about something, I mean we talked. She told me. We talked it out… so I felt like she could call me… because she did. She called me about happy things, or if she was worried about something,” Mrs. Schlosser said.

Mrs. Schlosser said Taylor would come home for a good meal and a rest.

“Sometimes she’d just come home to take a nap, and she’d tell me what’s going on and we’d talk about it…” she said. “We would have those conversations.”

Taylor and her mother often talked about achieving a balanced life, so when it came time for Taylor to go back to UK in January 2019, Mrs. Schlosser thought she was ready

to go.

“If you looked at anything Taylor had on her bulletin board, anything she wrote down, anything she painted, you knew she knew how important that balance was and how important that growth was…” Mrs. Schlosser said. “I was under the impression we were ready to go back to school, and she was fired up and ready.”

But no one in Taylor’s life was aware she contemplated suicide.

A ‘Rae of Sunshine’

Taylora Schlosser typically wears pearls, but now that her daughter is gone, her wrist is filled with bracelets and tokens that used to belong to Taylor.

If you walk into the front door of Mrs. Schlosser’s home in Springfield, it’s hard to find a wall without a picture of Taylor grinning ear-to-ear with her signature smile on it. The entire house is dotted with memories of Taylor and gifts she gave to her family.

“Taylor was the kind of little girl that was very giving. Not just all kind and sweet and smiles, but she always gave me gifts,” Mrs. Schlosser said.

Taylor loved art, and she was talented.

When her family members’ birthdays rolled around, she often gave her artwork as gifts.

The mantle at Mrs. Schlosser’s home is adorned with a record her daughter painted for her during her last semester at UK. It sits right next to a flower display that was on Taylor’s casket at her funeral. The scene painted on the record combines their mutual

love of music and Mrs. Schlosser’s love for the state of Colorado.

For weeks after Taylor died, Mrs. Schlosser would leave some of the paintings her daughter painted sprawled across her own bed. Every morning, she would make her bed and then display the paintings— for herself and for any visitors who were coming by the house.

“Every morning that’s what I would do.

I would get up and make my bed and lay out her artwork. So, it was helpful. It was helpful,” Mrs. Schlosser said.

Venture downstairs to Mrs. Schlosser’s basement and you’ll find a room that houses boxes of old paintings and drawings from when Taylor and her brothers were kids. A few feet above those boxes hangs a wall that

draws comparison to a florist’s shop. Mrs. Schlosser has hung bouquets from Taylor’s funeral there as a way to remember her daughter.

All of the mementos that fill every inch of Mrs. Schlosser’s home serve as constant reminders of who her daughter is.

“In my home there are so many things Taylor has given me. So after her passing I didn’t have to rearrange my home to add things, because everywhere I look there is something she has given me,” Mrs. Schlosser said.

But Mrs. Schlosser said that even without these special gifts, it’s easy to remember Taylor’s spirit. And she wants to share that smiling and bubbly spirit with others.

That’s why Mrs. Schlosser has started the Rae of Sunshine Foundation. For the foreseeable future, she plans to travel the state and speak at different schools and universities, sharing Taylor’s story and advocating for awareness about mental health along the way.

She says that’s what Taylor would want her to do.

“Taylor would want us to tell her story,” Mrs. Schlosser said. “She would want us to find a way to keep that present at the University of Kentucky, in my home, in your home, at other colleges and universities for other children her age. That’s what she would want. It is a tragedy and it’s unfortunate. My family and I, we are heartbroken.

We are devastated, but we have to find a way to spread more sunshine.

“The one thing I told some folks is that I don’t want this to be a story book. I want Taylor’s life to be a chapter book, and Jan. 8 was just one part of a chapter. We can still write chapters of Taylor’s life for many, many years to come.”

Taylor will turn 20 years old on April 28. Every year on her birthday, Taylor and her mother would spend the day together shopping. That trip was “always more about the experience than the gift,” according to Mrs. Schlosser.

So this year when April 28 rolls around, Mrs. Schlosser said that Taylor’s roommates have offered to fill in.

“For me and for missing Taylor, her friends have been a real joy,” Mrs. Schlosser said. “I do feel like they’re all a part of this.”

For Mrs. Schlosser and the rest of those who knew Taylor, they will forever remember her as a “Rae of Sunshine,” complete with her signature curls and that big smile.

“It’s been pretty cloudy lately, but when the sun shines we appreciate it, and I think that’s what our foundation wants to do,” said Mrs. Schlosser said. “…We just need to smile more. We all need to smile more.”

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SEAN CULLEY Winters in Brick, New Jersey, can get cold.

Cold enough that during this January, when Sean Culley’s family ran out of room in their refrigerator, they were able to stack the piles of food they were getting from their neighbors outside.

“As we came back into our house, we had neighbors bringing food over… the refrigerator was stocked for the next three or four days,” said Stephen Culley, Sean’s father. “It was at least cold enough to stack some food outside, because they’d come in the front door and I’d stack it outside in the cold. We started using neighbors’ houses to hold all the food, because people didn’t know what to do, so they’d send food.”

Sean had been struggling with depression since his junior year of high school, but he decided to keep that part of himself a secret when he started classes at UK as a freshman in August 2018.

A semester later, on Jan. 23, Sean woke up in his dorm room in Woodland Glenn III at close to noon, then showered and asked his roommate Joe if he wanted to eat lunch. But Joe had just eaten, so Sean left the dorm alone and went on his way.

Sean died of suicide later that afternoon.

There was no way for Joe to know what Sean was about to do because he never told any of his friends at UK about his ongoing struggle with depression. In the words of Sean’s father, he simply put on his mask.

“He had a mask he would put on, basically, and you wouldn’t be able to tell. He was a big schmoozer. He should’ve been a politician,” Mr. Culley said.

The happiest one in the room

In the neighborhoods of Brick, New Jersey, the houses are close together.

It’s the type of place where kids and their friends play on the same sports teams, and those teammates’ parents become friends themselves.

Sean grew up playing basketball, soccer, lacrosse and anything else he could get his hands on. So from the start, he had lots of friends.

“There was always some other kid in the house, or he was at their house. So it was pretty active that way,” Mr. Culley said.

From the minute Sean was born, it was clear his life would be tied to sports. The night he was born, Sean’s father was rushing from New York City back to New Jersey.

“I was able to able to make it from New York City to Brick in one inning as the Yankees sealed getting into

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the World Series,” Mr. Culley said. “And then rolled into a Monday night football game, so it was a good night the day he was born.”

Sean was the youngest of three children and one of many cousins in a big New Jersey family. But he never let his age or size stop him from being part of the action.

“Sean was forever trying to catch up with them to be able to play ball, or play Nintendo or play whatever games were going on,” Mr. Culley said. “He was

always stretching to play higher with kids who were older than him.”

But when Sean got older, he “remembered being the little guy” so he made sure he stayed out and played with the younger ones, Mr. Culley said.

It was easy to see that Sean was competitive and driven, but kind and compassionate at the same time, according to his father. And he carried those same qualities with him when he came to UK in the fall of 2018.

Sean was studying pre-materials engineering at UK.

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His goal was to graduate and work on designing and making prosthetics.

The first week he moved into his dorm, Sean didn’t wait very long to start making friends.

“He and a group of guys knocked on the door, and I answered it and he said, ‘You must be Joe, right?’ and I said ‘Yeah,’ and there were about five of them and they said, ‘We’re going to be your friends now,’” said Sean’s eventual roommate Joe Schuler. “It was Sean who decided to come and knock on the door. He didn’t know many people coming here, so he wanted to get right into it and skip all the formalities and everything and just jump into ‘We’re going to be good friends.’”

Sean’s friends say that he was usually the “catalyst” of getting everyone together. He was always the happiest one in the room.

“I never even saw him as anything other than happy,” Schuler said.

When all of Sean’s friends returned to campus from winter break, none of them were aware that Sean was in a year-long battle with his own mental health and had been seeking professional help.

‘His demons’

When he gave his son’s eulogy, Mr. Culley wrote that Sean’s life “wasn’t all sunshine and roses.”

“Sean struggled with depression and that was part of him too. I remember the first time I saw that demon,” Mr. Culley said.

Mr. Culley first saw glimpses of his son’s depression during his junior year of high school. Sean was playing in a varsity basketball game – a game his team wasn’t supposed to win. Sean got subbed in and immediately started hitting three-pointers. It looked like his team might actually win, Mr. Culley said.

But when the fourth quarter started and it was clear the game was on the line, he looked over and Sean wasn’t on the court. He wasn’t on the bench.

Sean couldn’t manage to get himself back out on the court. It was his depression that was holding him back.

“I went down to find him as he walked out of the locker room and there was something missing in his eyes. He was trying to get himself back. They lost that game. That was my son,” Mr. Culley wrote in Sean’s eulogy.

After that game, Sean and his family started seeking professional help. Sean was prescribed a variety of medications to help with his depression during his senior year of high school, and he started seeing a therapist.

It seemed like Sean was getting better. He went off to start college at UK, and was off of his medication for the entire fall semester. He was happy.

But when November came, there seemed to be a lot more phone calls coming in from Sean, Mr. Culley said.

“We pretty much talked every weekend, and then

“I never even saw him as anything other than happy.”

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during November there seemed to be a lot more phone calls coming through. Probably three times a week,” he said.

When Sean came home for Christmas break, it was clear to his parents that he was struggling again. Sean told them he needed some extra help, so he made a plan

to visit the UK Counseling Center when he got back to campus, Mr. Culley said.

Sean wanted to get more help. But looking back, Mr. Culley said that Sean had likely already been planning his suicide.

“I think at that point he had been planning it in his head,” said Mr. Culley.

‘He had me fooled’

Mr. Culley spoke to Sean on the night of Jan. 22.

Sean was out to dinner with his roommate Joe and some of Joe’s family friends. They were planning to go to a UK basketball game afterward.

“I interrupted the dinner so he came out to talk to me for a few minutes to let me know they were taking him out. So I told him to get back inside,” Mr. Culley said.

“He sounded rather excited. I hung up the phone thinking he was doing great. He had me fooled.

“Somewhere along the line, he had it in his head he was going to do it, but I don’t know what triggered him that day, that that was the time. But I’m pretty sure a few hours before, he did not know.”

Now that Sean is gone, his family says they are left with a lot of questions.

“Well, we spent the first few days crying our eyes out,” Mr. Culley said.

Things around the family’s home reminded Mr. Culley of his son in the days following his death.

“I think it was two days before I put down his basketball,” Mr. Culley.

Mr. Culley said the family was in shock at first.

“Going through a little different times of everybody falling apart, and we had to get to a point where we went back to school and went back to work,” he said.

The one thing the Culleys are sure of is that Sean was loved.

“It was not a matter of not being loved. He knew he was loved. He felt the love,” Mr. Culley said.

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opinions Captain Marvel’s important Nancy Pelosi is wrong. message for women 16-year-olds shouldn’t her own terms and not based

SARAH LADD on the training he providOpinions Editor

If you haven’t yet seen Marvel’s new cinematic masterpiece Captain Marvel, you might want to drop what you’re doing and head to the theater.

Let’s get the spoiler out of the way. For the first half of this movie, I was sitting angrily in the movie theater with crossed arms and a reluctance to like the glorious distraction of Marvel’s powerful action because I truly believed that the movie was sending a message that women are only ever as powerful as the men who train them.

If you’ve seen the movie, you know it took me almost the entire viewing to see the crucial turn in this message.

When Carol finally tells her deceptively caring Kree commander that she doesn’t have to prove anything to him, then defeats him on

ed her, she demonstrates a valuable lesson for women.

In this moment, she showed that she was there of her own right, she could listen to her own training, instinct and heart, and she would serve to equalize the playing field for all, not merely reinstate existing power for the already powerful.

I recently read a great piece from TIME entitled “Women Achieved Enormous Power in Ancient Egypt. What They Did With It Is a Warning for Today.”

This in-depth piece showed a survey of how women, when they achieved power in ancient Egypt, merely in turn reinforced the patriarchy and male dominance. Their power was, in a sense, merely viewed within the confines of what men would allow them to achieve.

The author, Kara Cooney, wrote, “And so when we look at female power in the world today, we must not assume that a woman in a high position is there to lay

the groundwork for other women to follow. Instead we must ask whom these women are really serving.”

Women have achieved much in our country and continue to do so, but we must be careful to not fall into this ancient trap. We must ensure that as we rise, we remember those who are still grappling for a chance.

We must not simply rise for the purpose of filling a diversity quota to make men look good for choosing us.

We cannot allow ourselves to be distracted by opportunities afforded us by others who seek to fill their own agenda. We must make our own opportunities, bring our own unique chairs to the table and live in a way that encourages equality for all.

As Captain Marvel showed us, the modern feminist is a powerful, beautiful thing. She is strong, kind and caring. She doesn’t need permission to succeed and refuses to prove herself to people who do not matter. She fights for the weak and loves good. May we all be her.

be able to vote.

ISABEL PHILLIPS Columnist

In a recent press conference, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi made some comments about wanting to lower the voting age to 16. She explained her reasoning, saying it was important to engage young people when they are still in high school and are interested in politics and government. She said she feels that getting kids involved in the voting process at the age of 16 is a good way to increase voter turnout and allow young people to have more of a vote when it comes to politics.

Although I can see where she is coming from and agree that these

are some valid points, I do not think it is in the best interest of our country to lower the voting age to 16.

In my opinion, most 16-year-olds are not mature or informed enough to be making important decisions about who runs our country. This idea of Pelosi’s was met with a lot of criticism on Twitter, where users were sharing stupid things they were doing at 16, showing how immature people are at this age and how unprepared they are to be voting.

Although I realize that 18 is only a two-year age difference from 16, I do think there is a lot of maturity and growth that occurs during this time.

Being a sophomore in high school versus being a senior in high school is very different. Seniors in high school are preparing to go into the real world

and deal with the consequences of the decisions that our public figures make. Sophomores in high school, however, are typically still in the comfort of their own home and do not really have to think about how laws and policies will affect them.

You cannot buy cigarettes, get a piercing without your parents’ permission or play the lottery until you are 18.

In my opinion, voting is more important than all of these things, and has a much bigger effect on the lives of everyone in this country.

Voting is one of the most vital roles a citizen of this country has. The people we vote for has a direct effect on the lives of everyone in America, and I think lowering the voting age to 16 would take away from the sanctity of this practice.

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Cats in the NFL: Prospects for UK football players in the draft

By Chase Campbell sports@kykernel.com

Though the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament is nearing its end as the long season comes to a head, football season feels right around the corner. This upcoming NFL Draft promises to be one of the best for UK’s program in school history, and it’s because of many players not just named Josh Allen and Benny Snell. Several other prospects are climbing draft boards after stellar performances at the Senior Bowl, NFL Scouting Combine and UK Pro Day. They are as follows: Lonnie Johnson, CB: Johnson is a prototype cornerback and an NFL scout’s dream. He’s 6-foot-2 (tall for a skill position player) with a 6-foot-5 wingspan, a 38-inch vertical and a 4.39-second 40yard dash. All of those measurements/times are fantastic, but those were all after he put on a show at the Reese’s Senior Bowl. Defensive stats weren’t tabbed at the event, but several NFL analysts suddenly had Johnson appearing on their draft boards. He’s been climbing ever since, so don’t be surprised if he pops up on draft day with a surprise high-round pick.

Chris Westry, CB: Westry was the star of the show on UK Pro Day. He was the only eligible defensive back not invited to the Combine from Kentucky, so he decided he’d do all his work in Lexington.

The 6-foot-4(!) cornerback jumped 38 inches and ran a 4.31-second 40-yard dash.

I saw it for myself. It was insane. Westry has a lot of discipline struggles, not con-

JORDAN PRATHER I STAFF Kentucky Wildcats tight end C.J. Conrad chats with a teammate during the game against Louisville on Nov. 24, 2018, at Cardinal Stadium in Louisville, Kentucky.

duct-wise, but on the field.

He draws a lot of penalties, but an NFL team will be willing to use a late pick to grab one of the most athletic players in the draft. Teams will teach him the football stuff if he’s got the other things that can’t be taught. I also want him to get drafted, because then I can say I beat an NFL player at Connect 4 once (that is true).

C.J. Conrad, TE: Con-

rad is a curious case. A heart condition forced him to sit out of the Combine and UK’s Pro Day, which will be a concern come draft day. But he’s been a starter as long as Benny Snell has, and tight ends block just as much, if not more, than they pass. Conrad was an integral part in the brutal rushing attacks of the last three years, while also being second on the team in catches this past

season. Expect him to go near the middle, but slightly lower than he’s been projected. His medical history will cause concern.

Other players expected to be drafted: Mike Edwards (S), Darius West (S), George Asafo-Adjei (OL), Derrick Baity (CB) The NFL Draft will take place from from April 25 to April 27 in Nashville, Tennessee.

CHASE PHILLIPS I STAFF TOP: Lonnie Johnson Jr. celebrates a third down stop during the game against South Carolina on Sept. 29, 2018, in Lexington, Kentucky.

MICHAEL CLUBB I STAFF BELOW: Kentucky Wildcats cornerback Chris Westry runs the 40-yard dash at UK football’s Pro Day on March 22, 2019, in Lexington, Kentucky.

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sports Kentucky Proud Park becoming a ‘true home’ for Wildcat baseball

By Hailey Peters sports@kykernel.com

Spring sports have a comforting, special place in the hearts of many Kentucky Wildcats fans.

With the beloved football Caturdays halting during the off season and the winding down of infamous Kentucky basketball, fans search for a fun, relaxing sport to watch as they enjoy the warming weather. Many UK fans turn to baseball.

The current baseball season is being played in the brand new, $49 million stadium with an all-turf field. Kentucky Proud Park has quickly become a fan favorite Wildcat athletic facility.

“It really is just a special place,” baseball head coach Nick Mingione said before the start of the season. “I’m excited for the Big Blue Nation to experience it. I think they’re really going to fall in love with it.”

Many fans certainly have. Season tickets sold out in record numbers before the season started, and the opening game against Eastern Kentucky saw a crowd of more than 4,000 fans, despite being chilly weather on a week night.

“It’s incredible, really,” Kentucky fan Charlie Stivers said. “Baseball is special to my family and we’ve been going to games at the old stadi-

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JORDAN PRATHER I STAFF The Kentucky baseball team waits by the dugout before the season home opener against EKU on Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2019, at Kentucky Proud Park in Lexington, Kentucky. Kentucky defeated EKU 7-3.

um for years. That place has a special place in our hearts, I think... but this is really what our team and the school deserves. It’s great. I can’t get enough of how nice it is.”

Before the opening of Kentucky Proud Park in 2019, the UK baseball team played at beloved Cliff Hagan Stadium.

Many fans, especially students, miss “The Cliff,” despite how nice they believe Kentucky Proud Park is.

“It’s kind of hard to tailgate, which is going to be a problem when it’s actually really warm and on the weekends,” UK junior Brady Chandler said. “I feel like we’ll get used to it. It’s gorgeous out here.

I think the fans will be able to overlook its flaws because it’s so nice.”

Nestled between Kroger Field and the soccer-softball complex, Kentucky Proud Park sits atop the hill on the side of Alumni Drive.

“It’s cool how you can see something that says ‘Kentucky Proud’ on top of that hill,” Stivers said.

“The name ‘Kentucky Proud,’ despite being a great nod to local farmers and agriculture in the state, is really a double meaning for how BBN feels about the school and the athletics. We are proud. We are UK.” The team has been practicing at the new park since the fall, so it was

not hard for them to be able to fall into place at their new home.

“The team has really fit in here,” Mingione said on opening night.

“They’re comfortable here. T.J. Collett already hit the first Big Blue Bomb here. We won the first one... this is our true home. We’re excited to stay and finish the season strong here.”

Since the announcement of its opening, Kentucky Proud Park has quickly become one of the hottest discussion topics of UK Athletics.

To the players, the coaches and the fans who have experienced a game there, it has and will continue to become so much more.

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children living in poverty, with special needs or experiencing a life-threatening illness.”

Tiffany Rice is a three-year volunteer with Sweet Blessings and has experience with kids of similar backgrounds.

She has previously worked as a student teacher with inner-city children and said that most of these kids are worried about where their meals are going to come from.

“I think it’s really neat and it’s something that a lot of kids would never expect,” Rice said about Sweet Blessings’ mission.

Kids’ stories range from those who recently lost a parent to kids who live in halfway houses with their parents. Sweet Blessings volunteers aim to brighten these kids’ birthdays by providing them with personalized cakes tailored specifically for each child’s interests. By keeping the child in mind during the decorating process, the charity stays true to its mission statement.

PHOTOS BY KORRIE HARRIS Sweet Blessings is a charity that bakes birthday cakes for children who are living in poverty, have a life-threatening illness or have special needs .

On Mondays, volunteers spend their time baking and decorating in Frankfort, while on Tuesdays they are at Maxwell St. Presbyterian Church and on Thursdays they are in Harrodsburg.

The charity’s main source of volunteers are college students. Some are volunteering with their organizations while other individuals just like to give their time of their own accord. Students who are interested in getting involved with Sweet Blessings can either reach out to the charity on its website, sweetblessingscakes.org, or show up to Maxwell St. Presbyterian on a Tuesday.

Claire Scott, a UK sophomore majoring in biology and chemistry, is one of those students.

“I got involved with Sweet Blessings through my service fraternity Alpha Phi Omega,” she said. “It’s fun decorating cakes, and you’re doing something good as well as getting to talk to other people.

Gann said Sweet Blessings “could not do what we do without UK students.”

An upcoming event hosted by Sweet Blessings is its annual “The Great Cake Race” at Keeneland’s Keene Barn on May 5. The 5K race will provide free cupcakes for participants and prizes for placing racers. To sign up for the race, visit https://runsignup.com/Race/KY/Lexington/TheGreatCakeRace5K1M. Other donations can be made to Sweet Blessings Cakes on its website.

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