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Long-time disability director retires after becoming an icon for accessibility on campus
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news@kykernel.com The first director of UK’s Disability Resource Center, Jake Karnes, will retire at the end of June after 44 years of service. “They say you know when it’s time, and I’ve decided it’s time,” Karnes said. Karnes became the director fresh out of college—the university had just founded Disability Resource Center, and Karnes told his interviewers that he knew little about disabilities or the role he was applying for. They chose Karnes anyway, saying he knew what it was like to be a UK student, and that mattered more than anything. Since that first day, Karnes has become an icon of the center by creating more accessible bathrooms, more curb cuts for wheelchairs and a number of behind-the-scene policy changes. “If you would’ve asked me after I’d been here seven or eight years what I’d like to see happen on this campus to make it physically
PHOTO BY TAYLOR PENCE I STAFF Jake Karnes, UK’s first director of the Disability Resource Center, is retiring after more than 40 years of pushing for more accessibility.
more accessible in my lifetime, I saw it happen in five or six years,” said Karnes. When Karnes started there weren’t many students with disabilities, and most of the GRAPHIC BY BLAKE BEAMER I STAFF
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Student Center relocates resources to Den JOSHUA QUALLS
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PHOTO BY MARCUS DORSEY I STAFF The Bowman’s Den holds many of the former Student Center’s restaurants, along with the Credit Union, ATMs and other resources.
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On the night of May 15, the Student Center transformed from the campus hub of student activity into a major construction zone. Many of its core services resumed on June 1 in a temporary facility called Bowman’s Den next to the Singletary Center for the Arts, with many other services scattered across campus. As part of their dining contract with UK, Aramark is paying $4 million for Bowman’s Den. The temporary building will remain open until the new Student Center is finished — which will likely be in January 2018. The roughly 12,000 square foot dining hall offers many of the same options as the old Student Center, including Chick-fil-A, Greens to Go, Panda Express, Starbucks and Subway.
Aside from dining, Bowman’s Den houses the Student ID, Plus Account, UK Dining, Ticketmaster and US Passport offices, as well as the UK Federal Credit Union and ATMs. “The focus was on what was needed in really close proximity for the students,” said Penny Cox, the director of housing projects implementation and new strategies for UK’s Department of Finance and Administration. Many other Student Center offices and organizations like the Cats Den have been relocated to Blazer Hall, an older building across the street that was originally designed for offices. “We didn’t want to spend additional money so we retrofitted it,” Cox said. Newly registered students will learn about Bowman’s Den and where to find other essential Student Center services at the seeblue.U orientations leading up to the Fall 2015 semester, and banners and other signage will also help direct new and returning students.
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Kernel Brewing Company: This week on tap: Bartender’s choice from Country Boy Brewing Company
ALEX WRIGHT Contributing Columnist
Welcome to the inaugural Kentucky Kernel Beer Column. For this column I will ask a bartender at each of the local breweries for a flight of their stand out beers. Our first brewery is Country Boy, the closest brewery to UK’s campus. This small tap room has an authentic Kentucky atmosphere. There are deer heads above the restrooms, a buck for the men’s and a doe for the women’s, and bourbon barrel tables cover much of the floor space. The tap room has 24 taps, of which 18 were brewed in house and one empty when I wrote this column. The bartender recommended a flight of the Country Jacket, Barreled Jalapeño Porter, Warehouse Experiment #3, and Sinkhole Stout.
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Price: $5 Alcohol Percentage: 7.5% I began with the Country Jacket, which is a Crab Apple Saison. The first sip impressed me with it’s a tart flavor. It clearly contains apples, but does not come close to cider territory like many apple beers do. It isn’t overpoweringly fruity despite it’s apple base. This beer is incredibly refreshing and would pair extraordinary well with a nice rocking chair on a screened in porch during a hot summer day.
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The Jalapeño Porter is a surprisingly subtle mix of sweet and spicy. The spiciness of the jalapeño is not at all overwhelming, and pairs very nicely with the initial sweetness inherent in porters. For those who do not like bourbon, however few of these people there may be in the Bluegrass, this would be a good bourbon barPrice: $4 rel beer as the taste of Alcohol Percentage: 11% bourbon is incredibly subtle.
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Jalepeño Porter
This contrasts with their Warehouse Experiment #3, which is a barreled aged stout. The taste of bourbon is evident with the first sip of this heavy bodied beer. If you are new to craft beer and uncertain about the idea of bourbon barrel aged beers, this beer is a wonderful place to start. It has the taste of bourbon, without overpowering the stout flavor. It also has very little of the bourbon bite. If you are fan of both bourbon and stout, you will enjoy this experimental beer.
The final beer recommended by the bartender, Sinkhole Stout, is a fantastic after-dinner beer. It is also bourbon barrel Price: $4 aged (a theme with many Alcohol Percentage: 11% of Country Boy’s stand out beers) and has more of the bourbon bite. It has a bourbon flavor and coats the mouth with a flavor that lingers. If you are a die hard bourbon drinker, this is the beer for you.
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