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The night it all went wrong
(Editor’s note: The following events and the victim’s background information are documented through Maddilyn Marcum’s account and supported by Marcum’s appeal of her 2016 case. Her appeal was denied.) By Olivia Estep On Dec. 31, 2013, Maddilyn Marcum attended a New...
Gender battles behind bars
(Editor's note: Photo provided by Unsplash) Transgenders in prison face a tide rising against them By Olivia Estep When the phone rings and a despondent voice repeats to me the monotonous “press one to accept this free call from . . .” I already know it’s Maddilyn...
Game, set: Will volleyball be a match?
Drew Hudson takes off for a spike. (Photo by Bo Gabbard) By Cole Scott As the clock wound down in the fourth quarter, the boys in black and grey, the South Warren High School basketball team, stood moments from their 14th district tournament run ending on their home...
Tackling a men’s game
The Conquer Chargers participated in an all-girls flag football hosted by the Los Angeles Chargers on April 11, 2024. (Photo by LA Chargers) By Lynda Eernisse Females in the United States have infiltrated a male safe space and comfort zone, and they don’t plan on...
The Wizard of Western sees the Yellow Brick Road ending
“To my students, for whom I set a high bar, a bar that I turn to whenever I realize I am not producing my best work.” — Mac McKerral, “A Journalist’s life: People, Places, Things.” Gordon D. “Mac" McKerral nears completion of 21 years on the faculty in the School of...
Chasing the Great White Whale
Graham Martin drives toward Louisville, Kentucy from Bowling Green, Kentucky, on Interstate 65 on April 2, 2024 “Aye, aye! and I’ll chase him round Good Hope, and round the Horn, and round the Norway Maelstrom, and round perdition’s flames before I give him up. And...
College athletes collecting with the ‘Collectives’
Above: (Redshirt senior guard and forward Dontaie Allen analyzes the play before making a move during a game in E.A. Diddle Arena. | Photo by: Wyatt Richardson) By Molly St. Clair When the Red Towel Trust launched in 2022, “Name, Image and Likeness” called NIL for...
Prof’s curiousity takes him throughout the world
Rickie Allen Scoutmaster of Troop 155 at Fort Knox, Kentucky has served in the military for the past 24 years. Active in scouts as a child Rickie became active as a leader while stationed in South Korea. Photo by Jonathan Adams By Maegan Hale Jonathan Adams, full-time...
Like Father, like Son
By Michael Collins Finchville, Kentucky, is a small, unincorporated town about 30 minutes outside Louisville. A mile-long stretch of road guides happy, small-town homes in a straight line. A small park with a pond sits across the street from an antique store, a...
The art of not falling hard
By Michael Collins (Editor’s note: Unsplash photo by yns plt.) In the woods of North Carolina sits the Gen Z climber. Noah Namvong is perched on a wood log bench next to a campfire, leaning back into his arms stretched behind him. Next to him on the bench’s edge...