I live in Lexington, home of the University of Kentucky Wildcats; where basketball is a religion, and where UK news is more important than actual news. I've grown quite used to that fact, or maybe just numb, no matter how ridiculous I think it is.
So, it is with great pleasure that I present to you a favorable mention of my alma mater, Morehead State, with a glorious dig at UK, in today's H-L opinions page.
Flagship university?
I read with amusement Herald-Leader staff writer Linda B. Blackford's Nov. 29 article, "UK adds compressed semester," concerning UK's first intersession, a group of enrichment courses taught between the fall and spring semesters.
I was amused because Morehead State University and many other public and private institutions in the state have offered these opportunities for more than three decades.
The courses also have been available between the spring and summer sessions and the summer and fall sessions. Next thing you know, UK will be offering tutoring for non-athletes.
Flagship university? More like a rudderless rowboat missing its oars.
Jerry F. Howell Jr. Morehead
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Far above the rolling campus,
Resting in the dale
Stands the dear old Alma Mater
We will always hail.
Shout in chorus! Raise your voices!
Blue and Gold, praise you!
Winning through to fame and glory,
Dear old MSU.
And it's a dig at UK to boot. Life is indeed good.
WF
(who points out that on the MSU music department website you can download the MSU Marching Band playing the Alma Mater. I wept openly.)
My only complaint is that Morehead didn't start offering inter-session classes during my particular tenure there. And I DID give them six years to get around to it. :-)
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