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“Can We Talk? Problems in Race and Conversation” is topic of Transylvania’s Kenan Lecture, Tuesday, Feb. 15; free and open to the public

Posted on February 2, 2011July 14, 2020 by Office of Marketing and Communications

LEXINGTON, KY.—Randall Kennedy, one of the preeminent voices on race in America and a Harvard law professor, will tackle sensitive racial issues in his lecture titled “Can We Talk? Problems in Race and Conversation” on Tuesday, Feb. 15, at 7:30 p.m. in Haggin Auditorium in the Mitchell Fine Arts Center. The lecture is free and open to the public. Known for his fearlessness, Kennedy brings the divisive issues that plague black America to the forefront of mass culture. With wit and accessibility, he challenges audiences to confront society’s—and their own—racial prejudices. Frank conversations include the ongoing linguistic and historical baggage of loaded words like “nigger” and “sellout,” interracial intimacies and adoptions and overt (and covert) racial lines. Kennedy’s bestseller, “Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word,” sparked a firestorm of national debate, including articles in The New York Times, Newsweek and TIME, as well as in the popular consciousness. Kennedy studied at Princeton, Oxford and Yale and served as a law clerk for Judge J. Skelly Wright of the U.S. Court of Appeals and for Justice Thurgood Marshall of the U.S. Supreme Court. While a faculty member at Harvard Law School, he has written extensively for academic and popular journals and served on the editorial boards of The American Prospect and The Nation. Kennedy is also the author of “Sellout: The Politics of Racial Betrayal and Interracial Intimacies: Sex, Marriage, Identity and Adoption.” This lecture is part of Transylvania’s

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Transylvania accounting students offer free tax service to those with incomes under $40,000

Posted on January 31, 2011July 14, 2020 by Office of Marketing and Communications

LEXINGTON, Ky.—Transylvania University accounting students will assist taxpayers with an income of less than $40,000 in the preparation of Internal Revenue Service income tax forms 1040, 1040A, 1040EZ and the Kentucky form 740. The service is free. Student volunteers will be available each Wednesday in February (2, 9, 16 and 23) from 3-5:30 p.m. on the first floor of Transylvania’s Cowgill Center for Business, Economics and Education on Third Street. This is a popular program and taxpayers will be served on a first-come, first-served basis. Transylvania accounting students, who have completed an income tax preparation training program, will work under the supervision of accounting professors to aid taxpayers. Individuals interested in this free service should bring with them all of the necessary information including: their W2s, 1099s (interest income), state and federal tax returns from last year, the IRS forms received in the mail and the birthdates and social security numbers for any dependents. Transylvania has offered this free program to the Lexington community for more than 20 years. For more information, contact the public relations office at (859) 233-8120 or Stephanie Coriale at (859) 233-8104.

Transylvania’s student newspaper shines in yearly Kentucky Intercollegiate Press Association contest

Posted on January 26, 2011July 14, 2020 by Office of Marketing and Communications

LEXINGTON, Ky.—Transylvania University’s student newspaper, The Rambler, was again a big winner in the Kentucky Intercollegiate Press Association (KIPA) awards competition. Current and former staffers picked up four first-place awards and several second- and third-place honors at the group’s annual conference in Louisville this past weekend. The yearly competition for two- and four-year campus newspapers features a variety of categories designed to showcase the talent of student journalists throughout the state. The Rambler writers, photographers and page designers competed in the division for schools with fewer than 5,000 students. Among the top winners was sophomore Jake Hawkins, the paper’s news editor. Hawkins won two first-place awards in news-one for his story on Kentucky’s texting while driving law and the other for his work with 2010 graduate Kim Rodgers covering the university’s search for a new president. News judges Kevin Kelly and Brenna Kelly of the Cincinnati Enquirer had high praise for Hawkins and Rodgers in particular, saying they “did a great job of chronicling the school’s search for a new president. The paper covered the candidate forums with students, profiled each candidate, then interviewed the winner.” The judges commented that Hawkins and Rodgers were very thorough in their coverage. Also bringing home a first-place award was photographer Ian Gerard in the feature photo category. His photo of Transy students marching in the Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday Freedom March in Lexington last year was deemed “a nice moment from an

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“An Evening at the Cabaret: As Seen on TV” at Transylvania Jan. 28 and 29.

Posted on January 24, 2011July 14, 2020 by Office of Marketing and Communications

LEXINGTON, Ky.—Transylvania University’s vocal ensembles will present “An Evening at the Cabaret: As Seen on TV,” Friday and Saturday, Jan. 28 and 29, at 7:30 p.m. in Carrick Theater in the Mitchell Fine Arts Center. Admission is $10. The box office next to Carrick Theater will be open for ticket reservations Monday, Jan. 24-Friday, Jan. 28, from 12-3 p.m. The phone number is (859) 233-8601. “An Evening at the Cabaret,” featuring the Transylvania Choir, the Transylvania Singers, the Pioneer Voices, the a capella group Formerly Known As and several soloists, will include a variety of songs from television shows, spanning multiple decades and styles. Selections include songs that have been featured on “Glee,” a medley of Phoebe’s songs from “Friends,” and theme songs from newer shows such as “The Office,” “Smallville,” as well as classic television shows and cartoons. For more information, contact the fine arts office at (859) 233-8141.

Morlan Gallery exhibit “Dropping Stitches” examines the recent knitting resurgence in popular culture

Posted on January 18, 2011July 14, 2020 by Office of Marketing and Communications

LEXINGTON, Ky.—It’s not just grandmas wielding knitting needles these days. “Dropping Stitches: Knitting Trends in Contemporary Art” examines the recent knitting resurgence in popular culture and the contemporary art world. The exhibition also examines the impetus behind the knitting trend by addressing the topics of materiality, activism through crafting, knitting as guerilla art and knitting as protest model. The exhibit opens January 19 with an opening reception from 5-7 p.m., and runs through March 4. The Lexington Gallery Hop reception is Friday, February 18, from 5-8 p.m. The exhibit features the work of Stacey Chinn, Carol Hummel, Barbara Hunt, Ellen Mollé, Mark Newport, Lacey Jane Roberts and the Transylvania knitters collective “In the Loop.” Roberts’ studio practice primarily consists of large-scale site-specific knitted installations created with children’s toy knitting cranks. Her work has been shown recently in the Bedford Gallery, the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, the San Francisco Museum of Craft and Folk Art, the Headlands Center for the Arts, Southern Exposure and Naomi Arin Contemporary Art. Roberts also maintains a critical writing practice that bridges craft and queer theory. Her writing can be found in the forthcoming anthology “Extra/Ordinary: Craft Culture in Contemporary Art” published by Duke University Press. Roberts has been recognized with more 10 major prizes, awards and fellowships in the last five years. Newport is an artist and educator living in Michigan and his work has been exhibited throughout the United States, Canada and Europe,

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