Kentucky Straight: Students Call Out Trustees Big Coal Pander in Growing UKY Wildcat Scandal
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Call it October Madness. Or, Night Comes to the Kentucky Wildcats' Big Dance.
In a throwback to 19th century backroom deal making, University of Kentucky President Lee T. Todd Jr. and several members of the UKY Board of Trustees refused to consider any formal student statements this week during their meeting to barter away the name of a Wildcat basketball dorm for Big Coal donations, and then fled to a back room as students made their testimonies.
But the game ain't over yet.
The scandalous Trustees may have voted 16-3 to approve rebuilding and renaming the beloved Joe B. Hall Wildcat Lodge as the Wildcat Coal Lodge, but the public relations nightmare has just begun.
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