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BABIES AND BACKPACKS How some students on UK’s campus balance parenthood and college
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LOOKING BACK, MOVING FORWARD UK HIGHLIGHTS BIAS INCIDENT SUPPORT SERVICES THIS WEEK All week long, UK will have “Facing Change Week” to promote inclusivity on campus. Facing Change Week, sponsored by Bias Incident Support Services, will have events and activities that include workshops, intercultural conversations, guest speakers and more to raise awareness of diversity issues or involvement in social justice, according to the week’s website. Facing Change Week is about upholding one of the university’s pillars of belonging and engagement. The events, open to all, are below: Monday • 9:30 to 11 a.m. Whiteness in Higher Education panel, SGA Senate Chambers • 11 to 2 p.m. Breaking Barriers, Barker Plaza • 12 to 1 p.m. Chat and Chew with Dr. Karen Rignall, VIP Center • 5 to 7 p.m. An Evening with Feminis-
ta, Student Center Ballroom B Tuesday • 12 to 1 p.m. Chat and Chew with Dr. Arnold Farr, VIP Center • 2 to 7 p.m. Boxes and Walls, Ingles Hall Wednesday • 12 to 1 p.m. Chat and Chew with Dr. Les Burns, VIP Center • 5 to 6:30 p.m. Social Justice Abroad, Student Center Ballroom A Thursday • 12 to 1 p.m. Chat and Chew with Dr. Melissa Stein, VIP Center • 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Word is Born, Cats Den Friday • 12 to 1 p.m. Chat and Chew with Dr. Rachel Farr, VIP Center • 12 to 2 p.m. Activism & Advocacy Fair, Whitehall Plaza • 4 to 6 p.m. A Conversation with Wade Davis, Memorial Hall
KEENELAND OPENS FOR SPRING MEET
For the first time in 60 years, Lexing-
ARDEN BARNES I STAFF William Bolden, also known as Stone Cold Willow, sits in the road on State Street after Kentucky’s Elite Eight loss against Auburn on March 31, 2019, in Lexington, Kentucky.
CONTACT Editor-in-chief ton’s historic horse racing track Keeneland opened its spring meet on a Thursday. According to a press release from Keeneland, Lexington Mayor Linda Gorton proclaimed Thursday, April 4, as “Keeneland Day in the Bluegrass.” The Thursday opening means that the spring meet will not lose a day because of Easter Sunday, when Keeneland will be closed. Before 1960, the race track opened on Thursday when the season was shorter. Kentucky college students from across the state flocked to Keeneland last week for College Scholarship Day on Friday, April 5. The race track opens its doors free to students with a valid college ID and has an event area just for them. Students can also enter drawings for prizes and scholarships. College Scholarship Day has been a part of Keeneland’s seasonal meets for several years. The spring meet for Keeneland is from April 4 to April 26.
BIKE WEEK IS THIS WEEK
The university is sponsoring an “action-packed” Bike Week all week long, beginning on Monday and ending on Friday. UK has held Bike Week for about eight years to promote biking to campus among faculty, staff and students. A UKNow press release said that Bike Week will be full of activities, free bike maintenance and giveaways. Attendance at events can allow participants to enter giveaways. The schedule is as follows: Monday: Bike Trivia in the Gatton Student Center from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tuesday: “It’s Tune-Up Time” annual maintenance workshop at Wildcat Wheels in Blazer Dining from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. Wednesday: Bike to Campus Day at Mining and Minerals Research Building Plaza from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Thursday: Tour de Downtown Art (meet at Wildcat Alumni Plaza or Bowman statue) from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Friday: Breakfast in the Bike Room at UK’s indoor bike room in the Healthy Kentucky Research Building from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m.
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ON THE COVER ARDEN BARNES I STAFF UK student Mikayla Mitchell holds her son, Judah, in her apartment in Lexington, Kentucky, on Feb. 15, 2019.
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What’s the cost of admission at UK? One 230-million-year-old stump By Bailey Vandiver news@kykernel.com
Paul Guthrie was a UK student in 1961, when a 230-million-year-old stump was donated to the university. It was given by a man named George Whitfield, earning it the nickname of “the Whitfield stump.” In early 2019, Guthrie was taking a walk through UK’s campus when he realized the stump was no longer where it used to be— directly in front of White Hall Classroom Building. “I looked for the Whitfield stump, which I had been familiar with since it was placed at UK, and it was gone,” Guthrie said. “So I started making inquires.” He found a 2017 Kernel story that detailed the more than five-decade history of the stump at UK, as well as plans to relocate the stump to the Mining and Minerals Resource Building. That 2017 Kernel article got nearly everything right, but it was missing a critical part of the story— a part that Guthrie knows and wants to share. The stump’s more modern history began when it fell through the roof of a Clover Fork Coal Company mine in Harlan County in 1938. “I imagine [that] just scared the absolute hell out of those men,” Guthrie said. “I think most men would’ve blown that thing up as useless rock, and that would’ve been the end of it.” But that is not what George Whitfield, who managed that mine, did. He had the mine passageway widened and a special car sent in to retrieve the stump. Before that, the stump had a long geological history, beginning as a tree in the swampy area that used to cover Harlan County. Millions of years made it into the
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ABOVE: PHOTO FROM UK ARCHIVE Staff members and workmen using epoxy resin glue to attach lateral roots of an ancient stone tree stump exhibited near the Classroom Building on the University of Kentucky campus. Photo taken 1962. RIGHT: JORDAN PRATHER I STAFF The Whitfield stump sets behind the Mining and Mineral Resources Building on University of Kentucky’s campus in Lexington, Kentucky.
rock-like stump that fell through the mine roof. Whitfield kept the stump in Kitts, an unincorporated coal town in Harlan County, for several years. Until his son flunked out of college. Jesse George Whitfield, who went by George like his father, started at UK in 1960. He was good friends with Guthrie. Unluckily for him, he flunked out. Luckily for him— and for UK— his father owned a pretty special stump. “His father… made contact with someone at UK, I don’t
know who, and made them a little quid pro quo,” Guthrie said. “‘You let George back in, I’ll give you the stump.’ That’s exactly what happened.” It’s unlikely that any UK officials involved in that deal are still at the university today, so Guthrie said there’s no one to be embarrassed by his sharing of the story. At the time, Guthrie said, he thought the whole situation was amusing. “I hope I also thought— because I certainly think now— that was actually a pretty darn good deal for UK,” he said. “I don’t know how many universi-
ties have got this particular asset or one just like it, but it’s pretty neat.” He said this origin story of the stump relates to the recent college admissions scandal, in which several wealthy and well-known parents used bribery to get their children into prominent colleges. While these situations are outright bribery and are reminiscent of the stump’s origins, Guthrie said calling Whitfield’s donation a bribe is “too strong.” Guthrie said it upset him when he realized the stump had been moved from central campus, where it’s more visible to current
students. Though to be fair, he said, during his previous walks through campus, he never saw “anyone interested enough to go over and look at it.” Sometimes he’d call students over to show them the stump— mostly because he wanted to tell them his secret history of it. After his research into where the stump had ended up, he visited it at its new location at the Mines and Minerals building— but he couldn’t find any explanatory sign. “I thought that institutions destroying its own institutional knowledge is a real loss,” he said. Tom Novak, a UK professor and Alliance Coal Academic Chair, said the stump has been in its new home for about a year. Currently, there is a temporary sign, with plans for a new sign to be made and mounted. The sign probably won’t contain the parts of the acquisition story that Guthrie shared, Novak said. Guthrie said that while he wishes the stump were still centrally located on campus, it is now in a place where more of the students who pass it are likely to be interested in it. Novak said the people who work in the Mining and Mineral Resources Building, which includes employees of the Kentucky Geological Survey and the Department of Mining Engineering, “certainly value” the stump. “I feel that it is a significant piece of history (over 300 million years old) and is appreciated by anyone who is working, or has an interest, in the earth sciences,” Novak wrote in an email to the Kernel. As for Guthrie, he just wants people to know the true story of the stump and its relationship to his friend George.
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Hunger-striking, building-occupying UK students force change By Sarah Ladd news@kykernel.com
If you passed anywhere near the Main Building on the University of Kentucky campus on Monday or Tuesday last week, you may have seen or heard the peaceful occupation of a group of UK students. Two separate groups, the Basic Needs Campaign and the Black Student Advisory Council, joined forces for the building occupation. The occupation in the Main Building lasted around 24 hours and represented a culmination of issues— food insecurity, university transparency and representation for people of color— have been in the works for years on campus. The topic of food insecurity at UK became a conversation in 2014, and various steps have been taken since then to provide a support system for students who are food insecure, homeless or in some way underprivileged. Those steps have included the opening of Big Blue Pantry in 2014, SSTOP Hunger’s establishment in 2015 and the 2017 launch of UK Food and Housing Access Survey. SSTOP stands for Sustainable Solutions to Overcome Poverty. The Food and Housing Access Survey asked 2,000 students about their food or housing insecurities. The results of that survey showed that 43 percent of students who were surveyed are food insecure and 8 percent are housing insecure. The Black Student Advisory Council was launched in February after some members of the Black Student Union sought to push for more transparency in UK’s administration and more resources and representation for people of color. In January 2019, the Basic Needs Campaign was founded; since then, they have fought to provide awareness about insecurities on campus and encourage the administration to provide more resources. The Basic Needs Campaign and Black Student Advisory Council joined forces to occupy the Main Building to show UK’s administration that “students have power in numbers.”
A student hangs up posters in the first floor of the Main Building as part of the occupation by the Black Student Advisory Council and the Basic Needs Campaign on April 1, 2019, in Lexington, Kentucky.
Timeline leading up to occupation March 21 — A group of about 200 students met in Memorial Hall to discuss food insecurity as part of SSTOP Hunger. This meeting was part of an initiative to push the university to establish an entire Basic Needs Center that would offer resources to less privileged students. March 27 — The hunger strike began after students enjoyed a day of free food. At a free dinner in the Funkhouser building, SSTOP members announced that six of SSTOP Hunger’s members were going on a hunger strike. About 350 students agreed to fast in some degree in solidarity with the movement. March 28 — UK president Eli Capilouto sent out a campus-wide email to inform the student body that he had made contact with the students on strike and to inform students about resources around campus, such as Big Blue Pantry. April 1 — Students with the Basic Needs Campaign and the Black Student Advisory Council began occupying the Main Building on campus. The Black Student Advisory Council joined forces with the Basic Needs Campaign to make a list of demands for UK’s administration. •
The Basic Needs Campaign has demanded that UK • establish and fund a physical Basic Needs Center • establish a Basic Needs Fund and • create a full-time Basic Needs staff position
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The Black Student Advisory Council has demanded • that the Council have a permanent seat on search committees for administrative officials • that UK revise the William C. Parker Scholar ship, standardizing the role of Diversity and In clusion Officers, releasing the findings from the 2016 Cook Ross Survey and • take down the mural in Memorial Hall.
April 2 — Capilouto held a fiery meeting with the occupying students in the morning. The hunger strike and the occupation continued until later that night, when Capilouto sent out a campus-wide email agreeing to all the demands set by the two student groups. The most prominent of the demands met was the covering of a controversial mural in the foyer of Memorial Hall. The mural was uncovered in 2016 after a year of debate surrounding its controversial contents. At the time, Capilouto called it “a larger narrative of our history, our aspirations, our shortcomings and the progress we must still make.” Ann Rice O’Hanlon’s mural, installed five years after Memorial Hall was built, is considered to be “one of the
only true frescos” in the country, according to the O’Hanlon Center for the Arts’ website. A fresco is when a mural is painted onto wet plaster or a wet wall and becomes part of the surface, not merely on it. In 2018, in an attempt at compromise, an additional piece of art was added to Memorial Hall to give context to the O’Hanlon fresco, but it has remained a touchy subject for many students on campus. Capilouto also wrote in the Tuesday evening email that UK’s administration will review the William C. Parker Scholarship and look for ways to improve it as well as work to standardize the role of diversity and inclusion officers. These were both demands that the Black Student Advisory Council outlined as part of their joint sit-in of the Main Building with the Basic Needs Campaign. Their third demand, that a Black Student Advisory Council representative have a seat on all search committees for administration officials, was met earlier Tuesday.
PHOTOS BY NATALIE PARKS I STAFF Occupiers begin to spread out in the designated sleeping area during the occupation by the Black Student Advisory Council and Basic Needs Campaign on April 1, 2019, in Lexington, Kentucky.
The Basic Needs Campaign’s demands were that UK establish a Basic Needs Center, a Basic Needs fund and hire a Basic Needs Staff. Capilouto agreed to all these in his email. He wrote that UK will hire “as a first step” a full-time professional staff member who will work directly with UK’s efforts to coordinate basic needs issues. The administration will also merge two emergency funds that will be “assessed and replenished” as needed to offer support to persons with insecurities, the email said. Capilouto wrote that his efforts, outlined in his email, were “created in good faith with the students and informed by their thoughtfulness and passion.” The occupying students vacated the Main Building after the email was sent out around 6 p.m. and ended the hunger strike.
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Stuckert Career Center helps college seniors enter the job search
By Emily Baehner lifestyle@kykernel.com
For some UK students, the month of May brings graduation. And while this marks an ending, it also signifies a very important beginning for many— the beginning of a career. It is the start of this new journey that the James W. Stuckert Career Center hopes to help students with, before they even have their diplomas. The Stuckert Career Center works to prepare students at the University of Kentucky for a lifetime of career possibilities by collaborating with the college-based career services offices in the College of Agriculture, Food and Environment; the College of Engineering; the Gatton College of Business & Economics; and the Lewis Honors College to successfully launch students’ careers. “We focus on providing comprehensive career services in order to support students at all stages of the career development process,” said Ray Clere, director of the Stuckert Career Center. Students enrolled in a degree program at the university have access to unlimited use of career services at the center. These services include individual appointments with career advisers, mock interviews, workshops, on-campus interviewing and the use of the career resource library. Graduates of less than six months retain full access to services, and career services are available beyond the six-month post-graduate time period if new graduates choose to join the UK Alumni Association. For seniors trying to navigate the job search, the center provides a number of resources. “Our career advisers are available to meet with seniors for individual appointments covering a wide set of services ranging from resume development, practice interviews, and job search strategy sessions, to salary negotiation, advice on planning a ‘gap year’ and many other types of support,” Clere said. The Stuckert Career Center opened in the summer of 2000 and now employs 15 full-time staff members, including embed-
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Inaugural Railbird Festival coming to Lexington in August By Hailey Peters lifestyle@kykernel.com
JORDAN PRATHER I STAFF The James W. Stuckert Career Center is on Rose Street on the University of Kentucky’s campus in Lexington, Kentucky.
ded academic advisers to help with major exploration, career advisers and administrative staff. Clere said the staff and resources at the Career Center exist specifically to help students navigate the career planning process, free of charge, a process that he encourages students to deliberately set time aside for. “Develop a strategy and action plan for your job search. Job boards like Indeed, ZipRecruiter, and others are fine, but they’re a passive resource and don’t often yield good results for job seekers. We recommend a more active networking approach focused on researching and connecting with employers and industries that align with your knowledge, skills, experience and career interests,” Clere said. “The Stuckert Career Center and the college-based career services offices are eager to help seniors prepare a strategy and start this process.” Since K Week of the 2018-2019 academic year, more than 3,100 students have made individual career services ap-
pointments at the Stuckert Career Center, and many more have attended center-sponsored career fairs, career services workshops or presentations. Because the support that the Stuckert Career Center provides is only available to new graduates for a limited time period, Clere urges students to take advantage of the staff expertise and resources they have access to now. “We encourage students to approach their job or internship search with a sense of purpose and direction, but it’s important to cast a wide net and apply for multiple career opportunities. If the end result is multiple job offers, then that’s a good problem to have, and it’s a far better outcome then only applying for a small handful of opportunities and delaying your career launch,” Clere said.
Students can make appointments with career advisers using their Handshake account and can learn more about the Stuckert Career Center and the services they provide by visiting their website at https:// www.uky.edu/careercenter/.
Music. Bourbon. Equine. These three trademarks are the foundations of the new Railbird Festival coming to Lexington this summer. “Railbird” is a horseracing term for people who go to the track often and always sit next to the rail of the track, and the term fits the music festival because “to ride the rail” is to do the same thing at a concert. Railbird is a newly created music festival from the makers of Forecastle and Bonnaroo. The event was teased for months before the official announcement came out in February of this year. After the lineup was released on March 26, buzz for the new music festival has arisen throughout the Bluegrass. “Oh yeah, I’m for sure going to try to go,” said UK junior biology major Caroline Terydin. “I’ve been going to Bonnaroo and Forecastle since I was probably around 15 or 16. Music festivals are just really cool, and I love that we are finally getting on in Lexington. Also, when I saw that lineup, I knew I absolutely had to go. My boyfriend and I bought tickets this morning, actually.” Jack White’s rock band The Raconteurs and vocal star Hozier headline both days of the festival, but the lineup also includes up-and-coming country star Tyler Childers and Grammy nominee Brandi Carlile. “I think it’s kind of cool that there’s such big names coming to Lexington,” said Charlie Reynolds, a sophomore business management student at UK. “Lexington is not a huge city, but when things like this happen, it feels like it could be getting there in the next few years if it’s successful.” Although the demographic that the festival is aimed at is older than what most
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BABIES AND BACKPACKS
How some students on UK’s campus balance parenthood and college Story by Sarah Ladd | Photos by Arden Barnes When you add daycare, dirty diapers and pumping to the demands of college social circles and party life, internships and extracurricular activities, it’s hard to imagine the balance required to succeed at both. There are some University of Kentucky students who manage it, though. For them, balancing parenthood and college life is far from easy, but they agree that it’s something they have no regrets over. It’s just that much harder for them to feel like they belong, to keep their college friends and to be true to themselves, all while caring for a child. Four parents in this community of student-parents agreed on one thing: They haven’t found enough resources at UK to help them through this time in social and emotional capacities. UK has multiple financial assistance options for this very demographic, many wet rooms on campus for nursing mothers and a few daycares near campus, but these parents have felt a lack of social and emotional support. Some felt ostracized by the fact that they’re in different stages of life than most college students and, because of their lack of party life, felt like they weren’t really part of the UK family. They’ve lost friends. They’ve felt alone. They have turned to resources on campus and found a welcoming community, but they wish UK did more. Several of them suggested that UK have an established support group that provides a space for both student-parents and their children to come and fellowship. They suggested any established program from a fun activities group to study groups welcoming of children to a space to share with people who are in the same stage of life. Another popular suggestion was the popularization of online alternatives to upper division classes, the lack of which have held some back in their efforts to earn a bachelor’s degree in four years. All agreed that the real support system that exists at UK right now comes in the form of professors, classmates and TA’s who go and have gone the extra mile to check up on them, support them and encourage them through the balancing act that is their lives. These are the stories of some members of a “hidden community” on campus, as one mother put it. For them and others like them, “it’s easy to feel alone.”
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CLARA WOODS
‘It’s true when they say that it takes a village’
ABOVE: Clara Woods takes notes in her math class in White Hall on March 20, 2019, in Lexington, Kentucky. RIGHT: Clara Woods watches as her son Beau, 13 months, eats a snack in her parents’ living room in Lexington, Kentucky, on Feb. 21, 2019.
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As a sophomore foreign language major at UK, Clara Woods found out that she and boyfriend Henry were going to be parents. At the time, they’d only known each other for a year and hadn’t planned to start a family. She thought about terminating the “game changer” pregnancy. “Only because of the idea of ‘People are going to judge me on campus. I’m not gonna fit into anyone in college,’” she said. At that early time in her pregnancy, she felt it would be weird for her, and that people would perceive her as a mom taking classes and not as a college student who was a mom. Woods decided instead to embark on the adventure of motherhood, and she cited the overwhelming support of her and Henry’s families as the reason she was able to do so. She and Henry stayed together and now work hard to pursue school and raise their son. She credits their ability to do this to the huge familial support both of them have. When she first told her parents she was pregnant, she said she didn’t know what to expect. She remembers her mom’s words: “I’ll be supportive with whatever you decide.” Beau is now a 13-month-old ginger with bright blue eyes and a curious nature. His love for his parents is evident in the way he chatters at them and smiles at everything. While this life that Woods has with Beau is something she said she wouldn’t trade for the world, it was a difficult road to decide upon. She said she lost many friends when she decided to keep her baby, and the college partying life was taken away before she could really be immersed in it. “I have a really difficult time trying to juggle all of these things,” Woods said. Unlike other students, she not only has to miss class when she’s sick, but when her baby’s sick, too. She said sometimes just managing her responsibilities to care for Beau and get her homework done at the same time is a huge challenge.
Though Woods and the other parents the Kernel spoke to cite their professors as their key vein of support at UK, Woods admitted that it’s still hard to always justify her needed absences from class, making classwork much more challenging. It helps that both her and Henry’s parents have been supportive of their decision to keep Beau. They both take morning
classes and Woods works from her parents’ home, giving piano lessons every night except Thursday. Henry, also a student at UK, works at Providence Montessori School as an after-school teacher. “UK struggles with broadcasting that there are other college moms on campus,” Woods, whose father Timothy is a professor at UK, said. She said she wished UK provided a support group for moms, “as a way for you to not feel so lonely on campus. A way for you to feel like there are others going through the same situation as you”— a situation she described as a “stuck” point between an identity as a college student and an identity as a mom. “It’s true when they say that it takes a village.”
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DESIREE CROSS As a senior at UK, broadcast journalism major Desiree Cross flew to Santa Monica, California, in the summer of 2017 to pursue her dream of being an international model. But it didn’t go exactly as she planned. Just before she left, she found out she was pregnant. She took several tests and confirmed an unplanned pregnancy that she said made her feel confused and ashamed. So she didn’t tell anyone. Not her professors or friends or even some family members. Even her brothers and sisters didn’t find out until she was seven months along. “I was so ashamed,” she told the Kernel. She did reach out to her mother for advice. “I just bawled my eyes out.” Her mom encouraged her to be strong and embrace her new chapter in life, and convinced her that the baby she carried was God’s plan for her and a blessing in her life. “He very much turned out to be,” she said. She took her mother’s advice and ran with it, but it was a difficult beginning. “I thought that I was about to start my life.” Instead of the modeling contract she hoped for, Cross worked a full time job in California to prepare for her child. “I didn’t leave any time to party,” she said. “I felt like I didn’t have time for that…. I have something else to focus on.” She described those early months of her pregnancy alone in California as the “hardest time of my whole life.” It was her first time moving far away on her own, and she’d put so much work into it. It should have been the best time, she reminisced. But the whole experience was shrouded in nervousness, anxiety and fear. “I had all these goals about when I did become a mom in the far future, but it was so near.” She returned to Lexington at the end of the summer six-anda-half months pregnant and ready to finish her degree at UK. She got back in town the day that school started and concealed her pregnancy throughout the semester. Ace was born Dec. 5, 2017, just after his mom had scrambled to finish all her finals early, much to the surprise of her professors who, up until that point, had not suspected her pregnancy. Cross went part time during the spring 2018 semester to adjust to her new life as a mom, and entered her second senior year in
the fall of 2018. Ace, now over a year old, is already trying to throw a fullsized basketball that’s bigger than he is around his mom’s apartment. Her life now is incomparable to her college life before motherhood, she said. Her goals of being an international model and working with a pro NBA team in her capacity as a journalist haven’t changed, but balancing her own needs and Ace’s has been hard. She struggled to come to grips with placing him in daycare, but ultimately realized it was necessary if she was going to be able to nurture her own needs and goals. Cross said the support of her mother, the support network she has at One Parent Scholar House— where she lives and connects with other “girls like me”— and her faith have helped her persevere through the challenges she has faced. “I have so much faith,” she said. Her church, Growth Point in Lexington, has been her rock, and her faith in God has been what’s kept her going.
“This,” she said, “is God’s plan for my life.” She’s found some support at UK in the form of supportive professors like Kakie Urch, an associate professor of multimedia, who Cross said was “such a blessing to me” and who texted her frequently to check on her and Ace. “She let me know that I wasn’t in it by myself.” She also found financial wellness support at UK in the form of scholarships geared toward parents. But, she said, she wishes UK had a better in-house social support system that could help provide space for student parents and their children alike to hang out and have fun. Despite this lack of social support on campus, Cross doesn’t have regrets. She will graduate in May from UK with her bachelor’s degree and is excited for her future with Ace. She gets a lot of messages from girls who ask her for advice on being a student-parent, and she tells them to “be strong.” Her already motivated self now works not just for her own future, but for Ace’s. “I found so much hope in God,” she said. “I just tried to tell myself, ‘This is your journey. God brought you a blessing. Everything’s gonna work out.’”
‘This is God’s plan for my life’
ABOVE: Desiree Cross unlocks the door of her apartment while holding her son, Ace, 16 months, on Feb. 25, 2019, in Lexington, Kentucky. LEFT: Desiree Cross drinks Ale-8 from a wine glass while her son, Ace, drinks from his sippy cup on Feb. 25, 2019, in her apartment in Lexington, Kentucky.
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MICHAEL MALONEY ‘People have a tendency to look at single dads as Superman. They tend to view the father’s involvement as optional, which I don’t think it should be.’
ABOVE: Michael Maloney’s daughter, Lilah, 5, plays in the lake at Jacobson Park in Lexington, Kentucky, on March 24, 2019. TOP RIGHT: Michael Maloney watches as his daughter Lilah plays in the mud at the lake at Jacobson Park in Lexington, Kentucky, on March 24, 2019. BOTTOM RIGHT: Michael Maloney gives his daughter Lilah, 5, a piggyback ride at Jacobson Park in Lexington, Kentucky, on March 24, 2019.
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UK biology senior Michael Maloney is one of only four fathers who have primary custody of their children at One Parent Scholar House. When he first started at UK fresh out of high school, he said the only thing he got out of his first college semester was his daughter Lilah, now 5. He moved to community college classes, including Bluegrass Community and Technical College, where he earned an Associates of Science degree. He took a year off and then came back to UK to pursue biology. He will graduate in December and then participate in a one-year teaching program through UK. He hopes to someday teach high school biology and is passionate about teaching because he enjoys getting people interested in learning. “I feel like there’s a chance to make a difference in somebody’s life,” he said. “I feel like if you have a teacher who’s genuinely interested, passionate about what they’re teaching, you can get the kids on track and make an impact.” When Maloney and Lilah’s mom split when Lilah was 3, the plan was to share 50-50 custody of their daughter. However, it fell to him more and more often to care for her, until he finally became the primary caretaker. Her mother is more involved now, Maloney said, and joint parenting is now something they have begun to explore. Despite this new arrangement, in which Lilah’s mother sees her one to three times weekly, Maloney has been primarily responsible for his daughter’s upbringing, and spoke to the cultural norms that don’t expect caretaking from men. He spoke about the traditional gender roles that define our society’s expectations. “The woman, historically, is expected to take care of the kids, or in the past, stay home primarily while the man goes out and does whatever, which is definitely changing in huge ways.” Among the change he sees is that now, courts are more likely to consider both the father and mother in a custody battle
and lean toward 50-50 instead of merely giving the mother custody. He also sees a positive change in the amount of representation afforded fathers who seek custody of their children. As for this expectation and the more normalized trend of children going with the mother and not the father after a breakup, Maloney said he feels people are much harder on single moms than single dads. “People have a tendency to look at single dads as Superman,” he said. “They tend to view the father’s involvement as optional, which I don’t think it should be.” He said when people hear he is a father, they assume that the child lives with the mother or that he’s a “weekend dad.” “When I say ‘Actually, she lives with me,’ they seem shocked. Nobody really expects that.” He said he feels a lot of people respect single fathers more than single mothers. While he feels many people view a father’s position as an optional thing, he said they still see the mother’s as her job and tend to look down on them more, while simultaneously respecting single fathers for going the extra mile. As for Maloney, this is his whole life. Having become a father at 19, being a dad has shaped his adult life, worldviews and self-perspective. But, he tells himself and others that, “Nothing’s gonna be picture-perfect. There are gonna be nights where neither of you gets enough sleep and you’re both exhausted when you go to school in the morning…” But, as long as the parent remains the “stabilizing factor” in the child’s life and is true to his or her goals, he said, it’ll all be fine.
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MIKAYLA MITCHELL After four years with her boyfriend of the time, junior economics major Mikayla Mitchell found out she had an unplanned pregnancy in December 2017. “It’s been a long journey since then,” she told the Kernel. She’s had familial support, but she’s been alone in her parenting efforts. The news of her pregnancy was just in time for her transfer to UK from Miami of Ohio after spending her freshman year there as a political science major to UK, near her family. Like others in her shoes, she was surprised and apprehensive at the news. “I immediately knew everything was gonna change if I decided to go through with it,” she said. She found support through Assurance, a specialized health clinic in Lexington that seeks “to empower individuals to consider beneficial options for pregnancy and sexual health,” according to their website. These options include parenting, adoption and abortion. For Mikayla, it was support for parenting. Judah Mitchell’s dad still hasn’t met him. But, Mikayla has been busy. From the time she found out she was pregnant, she began researching resources for college and school moms. From there, she found an entire community of moms in school who were “making it work.” “I love being a mom,” she said. “I feel like it’s what I was meant to do. I love being a working mom.” It’s forced her to have more responsibility. Before having a baby, she said she had little responsibility. Now, “the stakes are very high.” She’s had to rely on online classes to finish her degree, and said UK has a shortage of viable options for someone in her shoes. “I’ve almost run out of the classes I can take online, which is kind of scary,” she said. “Then I’ll have to take classes on
campus. I haven’t really figured out how that’s gonna work.” This semester, she’s taking B&E 397, an internship seminar that allows her to work in Frankfort as a legislative assistant for the House minority leadership, the House minority leader, the caucus chair and the minority whip while completing credit hours simultaneously. She works full time, getting up in the early hours of the day to dress Judah, take him to daycare and head to Frankfort where she handles travel arrangements, legislation research and constituent correspondence. She said the experience has removed a lot of her social life, but “it’s kinda strengthened my best friendships because I found out who was really there for me.” Though she misses the carefree college life she used to have, these remaining friendships she has are “based on substance.” Her role as a mom and her love for her job in the state capital work well together. In fact, the politicians in her office provide her with space for pumping in their offices, which she has to do every few hours, and gifted her a sign for the door that says, “Please wait, nursing mom at work.” She sometimes brings Judah to work with her in the capital, not because he’s old enough to remember it, but because she believes strongly in the importance of instilling civic responsibility into his upbringing. It’s her way of showing that she’s not only a successful student and woman, but a good mom. “I think it’s kind of a hidden community,” she said of the college students who are parents. She said on campus, she feels like you only see the traditional students who live on campus, don’t have kids and are there for four kids. “It’s easy to feel alone,” she said. “Like you’re the only one who’s not a traditional student.”
‘I don’t mind doing this alone with Judah’
ABOVE: Mikayla Mitchell’s son Judah, 6 months, looks out the window of her apartment in Lexington, Kentucky, on Feb. 15, 2019. TOP LEFT: Mikayla Mitchell talks on the phone in her office in the Capitol in Frankfort, Kentucky, with her son Judah’s pediatrician after she received a call from his daycare saying he had a fever on March 4, 2019. MIDDLE LEFT: A sign hangs on the door of one of the Democratic offices at the Capitol in Frankfort, Kentucky, while Mikayla Mitchell pumps milk on March 4, 2019. Mitchell is a legislative assistant for many of the Democratic leaders. BOTTOM LEFT: Mikayla Mitchell holds her son Judah in her apartment in Lexington, Kentucky, on Feb. 15, 2019.
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ONE PARENT SCHOLAR HOUSE
For those University of Kentucky students who are juggling two seemingly opposing roles— that of a college student and a parent— a local Lexington organization has been providing them a community of support and encouragement for the past 33 years. One Parent Scholar House opened in 1986 with 15 apartments on Virginia Avenue in partnership with the city of Lexington. The University of Kentucky was also a huge supporter during that time, and a UK lab even helped watch the kids, according to Miranda Simic, the program director. The vision at that time, during which the organization was called “Virginia Place,” was to help student parents pursue education by providing housing and daycare for them, as well as a community that understood them. Since then, they have maintained that image, but grown to be a nationwide organization that many UK students benefit from. In 1995, Virginia Place moved from Virginia Avenue to Horseman’s Lane, where it is today, and expanded to seven buildings and 56 two-bedroom apartments. They expanded their services to other colleges at that time. In 2006, the organization was up to 10 buildings, and they added some three-bedroom apartments, making 80 apartments total. They expanded their Child Development Center, where nine classrooms host young children aged 6 weeks to 5 years old for learning and activities while their parents pursue higher education. In 2010, the Hope Center took over management of the program. In 2010, the name was changed to One Parent Scholar House. In addition to affordable housing and childcare, the program has a counseling center where they offer help to parents and children, though the office does refer pregnant moms to other services in Lexington that can help them through early crises surrounding unplanned pregnancies. “There’s a lot of resources in the community people don’t know about,” Simic said. She works to ensure that the program
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puts students in contact with the appropriate resource for whatever they need. Simic said that although the program is open to anyone who lives in the area and attends a postsecondary school full time, whether in Lexington or around the country, the majority of the people they serve go to Bluegrass Community and Technical College and the University of Kentucky. The University of Kentucky maintains a good relationship with the program, Simic said. In fact, several UK students in various colleges including the Gatton College of Economics and Lewis Honors College choose it for their volunteer work, where they work with children and do odd jobs around the facility and grounds. Alison Justice, the program assistant, works with volunteers to see what they’re interested in. “Most of them say they’ve heard of us from UK or from their professors or on a list of choices and it sounds interesting to them so they come here,” Justice said. Though the program has physically expanded since its inception, Simic said the core challenges that the parents in the program face are still the same now as when they opened their doors.
TOP: Toddlers play in a classroom in the One Parent Scholar House daycare center in Lexington, Kentucky, on Feb. 19, 2019. BOTTOM: A baby bounces in a chair in a classroom in the One Parent Scholar House daycare center in Lexington, Kentucky, on Feb. 19, 2019.
“If they do not have the basic needs, then they cannot think about school or a job or anything else,” she said, and that sometimes “they don’t have any support or any other support.” Rachel Barnes, assistant child manager, added that the constant changes to the welfare programs that some students rely on is an ever-present challenge.
“Some of them have to work and volunteer to maintain so they can still get their money each month, still get their childcare paid for, not have to pay rent, and none of that stuff lasts, which creates bigger problems for them.” Right now, to qualify for welfare, recipients must work or volunteer at least 20 hours a week. But, for these full time students and full time parents, Simic and Barnes said those requirements have been a challenge. The housing is all Section 8, but students who are on KTAP, the Kentucky Transitional Assistance Program, do not have to pay rent or childcare. Those who aren’t on KTAP have to pay rent that is 30 percent of their income. The program pays for water, sewage and trash, and the parents pay for electricity. The program itself doesn’t provide scholarships or individual financial aid, Simic said, although they refer the students to financial aid services. Right now, Simic said the program serves 72 women and four men— the most men it has ever served in its history. One of the four, UK biology senior Michael Maloney, said the program has provided an affordable option for him as he raises his 5-year-old daughter Lilah mostly alone. He said he’s made good friends with many of the mothers who also live in the apartments. “This is the only way I could go to school,” Maloney told the Kernel. “It’s a once in a lifetime opportunity.” To be eligible for services at One Parent Scholar house, a person must have a high school diploma or GED, be enrolled in a post secondary institution full time, be a single parent who has primary custody of his/her child or children, have a child who is daycare eligible, be 18 or older and be eligible for Section 8 Housing. One Parent Scholar House is funded by city funds, grants, United Way and private contributions. “The best part is it changes people’s lives. It really does,” Simic said. “It changes those parents’ lives for better through education.”
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Classroom sizes matter Let them wear pants! HANNAH WOOSLEY Asst. Opinions Editor
My first two years of college, I called my community college home. I took classes at the 100and 200-level in classrooms with only 30 other students at maximum capacity, where we all got to know one another, and the professors, on personal levels. We would attend events together as classes, rent study rooms where we could all fit together to get work done and talk about things going on in our personal lives. I was lucky to have this experience for my first two years of college because I had no idea what to expect– but I was delighted. After earning my associate degree, I transferred to the University of Kentucky and took my first 101 class geared toward my major at the time– which I say because we
all change our major, right? Anyway. I walked onto campus my first day at a university and headed for the bottom floor of Whitehall. As a first-generation college student, who had no frame of reference for how large classrooms could be, I did not know what to expect except something like my experience in community college classrooms. Boy, was I wrong. I stepped into the classroom, absurdly early to scan the room for a seat because I did not think there would be many left, and saw a room that could fill 300 people easily. I thought to myself, classrooms this large exist? They are not just in the movies? I finished my first 101 class at a university with an A, but I never knew anything about my professor other than their last name or something funny they decided to share on the first day of class. I met around 10 or so other students whom I studied
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music festivals gear towards, music critics have commented that the inaugural festival shows a lot of potential to grow into a very successful event within the next decade, if things go as well as the creators intend. Live music is not the only thing drawing people to Railbird. In addition to the music being show-
with from time to time, but it did not feel the same as it did when I was in a smaller classroom setting. That is when I realized classroom sizes truly matter. Yes, I still earned a great grade, but students who start their college experience this way, and not in the small classroom sizes as I had at community college, are missing out. I made friends in those tight-knit classes that I still talk to today. My 101 class at a university? I do not think I can even remember the names of the few people I studied with. If you have taken a lecture-hall 101 class in the bottom floor of White Hall, or a small-setting 401 class on the third floor of White Hall, there is a difference in the feeling of the room. Smaller classrooms allow more discussions, one-on-one interactions and the ability to know your professor better. Classroom sizes really matter.
cased, Railbird will also feature Keeneland’s trademark off-track horse betting and lounging, and Keeneland’s BETologists can offer betters advice to win money. “It’d be cool to win back the money you pay on tickets,” Reynolds said. “That’s kind of the unique thing about having a festival in Lexington.” VIP guests will get special dinners and trackside brunches made for them in the Keeneland Paddock on Friday night and throughout the rest of the week-
SARAH LADD Opinions Editor
Well, I’m here to rant about a frequently recurring topic in my columns. That is, the enormous amount of sexist rules forced upon girls and women across our country and the world. But, before getting into that, I’d like to point out again that it’s April 2019. Twenty-first century. The New York Times reported Sunday that a judge has ruled in favor of a few young girls who dared to make a difference in their North Carolina Charter Day School. As a result of their work and the judge’s ruling, those girls will be allowed to wear pants, no longer just skirts, to school. Before this ruling, the girls did not have a choice between pants and skirts and had to sit with their legs beside them rather than crossed in front, the Times reported. I’m sure anyone who’s sat on the floor with their legs curled up at their side for any
end. If festival-goers are not VIP, they can purchase special tickets on a daily basis to be able to join the meal. The bourbon aspect of the festival comes with The Rickhouse, where bourbon tastings will be offered from renowned distilleries all over the state of Kentucky. The select barrels have been chosen from A.J. Hochhalter, Lexington native and creator of the documentary “NEAT: The Story of Bourbon.” “That is what’s going to make
amount of time knows how uncomfortable that is. So, some of these girls started a petition to demand equal rights for themselves and to “have a choice” in the clothes they wore. But, it took years of fighting the case to arrive at this decision allowing them the choice between pants and skirts. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. I’m glad there are brave people in the world like these girls who will notice a weakness in our systems and call for equality. I celebrate with the school for taking a step forward. My problem, however, is that this school’s policy restricting the girls’ dress code and not the boys made it to our current place in history. It survived, amidst the idea that we live in a civilized and modern society. Malcolm J. Howard was the judge who ruled in favor of the girls. He wrote in his ruling, “The skirts requirement causes the girls to suffer a burden the boys do not, simply because they are female,” according to the Times. He’s right. The Times article also
this festival really unique,” Terydin said. “There’s nothing like the bourbon around here. It’s going to make it really feel like we’re in Kentucky. It’s kind of like the icing on the cake for the whole weekend. It takes it from good and makes it great.” General admission tickets for the weekend are currently going for $120. However, if a festival-goer wants to get the VIP experience, they will get to experience Railbird from air-conditioned lounges and receive access
included references to the school’s efforts to instill “traditional values” into their students and to uphold chivalry. However, when traditional values intersect with equality, equality must always come first. And chivalry should never be seen as mutually exclusive from feminism. We should be teaching the next generation of men that they should respect women not because they think they’re weaker than them, but because they are human. While I recognize that many schools uphold a dress code (which, in its bare form, I’m not opposed to), it is unacceptable to force girls to wear skirts that can be restricting and distracting. They should have the option of the freedom pants allow. This school in North Carolina has thankfully been able to take a much-needed step forward. May more follow. May we not simply wait for this kind of conflict to work itself out over years in the court systems. We must seek out rules that enforce and accept sexism and we must fight to overturn them.
to private bars, luxury restrooms, free parking and fast-track entrances to the festival. Superfecta passes will include all the VIP amenities along with a private pit viewing area and bar, a tour of Keeneland’s grounds, an invite to watch morning workouts and several free food options. The Railbird Festival will be Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 1011, at The Grounds at Keeneland. Tickets can be purchased from RailbirdFest.com or any other verified ticket sales website.
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It’s spring football time in the Bluegrass
By Mohammad Ahmad sports@kykernel.com
Heartbroken Kentucky men’s basketball fans just might have something to uplift their spirits as UK spring football is in full swing.
After winning their first bowl game in a decade and flirting with an SEC title game berth, UK brings back key pieces from last year’s chess set. However, there are massive shoes that need to be filled on both sides of the ball after 16 seniors departed Lexington. “Saw some good things on both sides of the ball. Obviously, there’s some work that needs to be done. But I’m definitely encouraged with what I’ve seen so far,” head coach Mark Stoops said after a practice scrimmage. Linebacker Kash Daniel will have a chance to take over former standout edge rusher Josh Allen’s leadership role on defense. Daniel provided value last season with the third-most tackles and
ARDEN BARNES I STAFF Kentucky Wildcats linebacker Kash Daniel and safety Davonte Robinson adjust their Citrus Bowl champions hats during the VRBO Citrus Bowl against Penn State on Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2019, at Camping World Stadium, in Orlando, Florida. Kentucky defeated Penn State 27-24.
tackles for loss on the team with 84 and 7.5, respectively.
“It’s good for me to be able to teach (the younger guys) because not only are they learning my position, but other positions too,”
Daniel said in a post-practice presser. “That’s really helped me increase my football IQ and play a lot faster.”
Those younger guys include returning linebackers DeAndre
Square, Jamar “Boogie” Watson and Chris Oats. Incoming defensive backfield signees will help veteran safeties Davonte Robinson and Jordan Griffin replace a needy backfield that lost five defensive backs. Former outside linebackers coach Brad White replaces Matt House as the Cats’ defensive coordinator following House’s departure for the Kansas City Chiefs in February. Former Ole Miss assistant Jon Sumrall was named the Cats’ new inside linebackers coach that same month. “It’s a process. I know everybody hears that word, but it’s a step-by-step gradual thing with younger guys within years,” House said following a practice. “The players have got to understand that it’s a new firehose effect.” Quarterback Terry Wilson will be back at the helm for the Cats. By his side will be running backs A.J. Rose, Chris Rodriguez, Kavosiey Smoke and signee Travis Tisdale. They’ll be replacing Benny Snell Jr.
“The older guys have an opportunity to coach to the younger guys about having their own outcome,” offensive coordinator Eddie Gran said following spring break. “Each person has to own their own outcome.” Returners Lynn Bowden Jr. and Tavin Richardson help solidify the Cats’ receiving core. The two combined for 859 yards and five touchdowns last season and will be joined by rising receivers Ahmad Wagner, Josh Ali and Isaiah Epps. Justin Rigg and Brendan Bates are working to replace C.J. Conrad at tight end. Offensive tackle Landon Young has been practicing after he tore his ACL last season. Gran praised Young’s progress, saying that he “looks good and hasn’t missed a beat.” The senior will have a chance to anchor the offensive line. The Kentucky faithful will get their first glimpse of next season’s Cats when they play in the Blue-White spring football game on Friday, April 12, at 6 p.m. at Kroger Field.
Basketball season recap: Elite Eights are just fine
By Chase Campbell sports@kykernel.com
The Kentucky men’s basketball season wraps up once again, with a loss to an overachieving Auburn Tigers team that stole and shot their way into the Final Four, exceeding expectations. The Cats ended another season in the Elite Eight, one game shy of hanging another banner in the Rupp Arena rafters. One hasn’t been added since 2015, when Karl-Anthony Towns led the Cats to the Final Four. This raises some concerns about the trajectory of Kentucky’s program.
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Are they satisfied with a plateau, failing to reach excellence? Has John Calipari lost his touch? Even ESPN’s Emmy-nominated morning show, Get Up!, debated whether or not Calipari was on the “hot seat,” or if he was still performing well enough to keep his job. Looking back on the season, it was likely one of the best coaching performances by any coach in the country, except for possibly Tom Izzo of Michigan State or Chris Beard of Texas Tech. The losses this season tell the story so much more than the wins. The first flurry of losses
looked bleak for the Cats. They got obliterated by Duke on a neutral court, lost to a less talented Seton Hall team and got beat by Alabama in their SEC opener. The Cats were young, undisciplined on defense and struggling to put together a good, complete game. UK looked entirely scattered before a brutal fourgame stretch that included blue-blood schools North Carolina and Kansas. UK beat them both, and neither game came down to the last possession. Point guard Ashton Hagans became a team leader and secured the starting point guard spot for the team, re-
placing Immanuel Quickley. Hagans then went on a defensive tear, notching three or more steals in the most consecutive games since Chris Paul did it 10 times in a row for Wake Forest. As Hagans declined, P.J. Washington rose. He dominated defenses to get into the mix for SEC Player of the Year. The Cats wouldn’t lose again until a controversial basket interference no-call led to a game-winner by LSU. They responded by destroying conference rival Tennessee in SEC play. From there, the team seemed to plateau. A humbling loss to Tennessee be-
fore they headed to the SEC tournament saw the Cats as the second-seeded team in the conference. They lost in a thriller to Tennessee, and the team took a blow with the loss of Washington. To go from an undisciplined, scattered team to a national contender competing for a Final Four is a prime example of the work done at Kentucky. Plenty of members of the team will likely be returning next season. Calipari’s new lifetime contract, confirmed by UK, means that there are likely more national contending years in the future, and that’s just fine.
JORDAN PRATHER I STAFF Freshman guard Keldon Johnson dunks the ball during the Elite Eight game against Auburn on March 31, 2019, in Kansas City, Missouri. Kentucky was defeated 77-71.
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