I have never been more ashamed to be a UK Graduate

To think that this is 2008 and this is happening. It makes me both angry and sad. Angry for the obvious reason that I am a graduate of UK, and these two individuals have smeared the University with their actions. I am sad because they did not know any better.

I suppose this was intended as a joke (NOT FUNNY), or that it was in response to the sick individual who made a Halloween display featuring a hanging Sarah Palin and a burning John McCain. I also find that action indefensible.

With our country on the verge of an historic election, it seems that tensions will remain on edge. A sad commentary on where we are and how far we still have to go.

updated 10:24 p.m. EDT, Thu October 30, 2008


Two arrested after Obama effigy found on campus
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Effigy of Sen. Barack Obama was hung at University of Kentucky, police say
University of Kentucky senior, another man arrested
Men arrested on charges of disorderly conduct, burglary and theft
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(CNN) -- Two men have been arrested in connection with an effigy of Sen. Barack Obama that was hung outside a building at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, police said Thursday.


Joe Fischer and Hunter Bush were arrested on disorderly conduct and other charges, police said.

Authorities found a life-size effigy of the Democratic presidential candidate hanging from a tree outside the school's Mines and Minerals building on Wednesday morning, police said.

Police said they arrested Joe Fischer, 22, a senior at the university, and Hunter Bush, 21, a former student at Bluegrass Community and Technical College.

"This was a serious incident. It caused a lot of wounds to be opened from racial tension," said University of Kentucky acting police chief Joe Monroe.

After following leads and conducting interviews, investigators determined that Fischer and Bush had asked members of a University of Kentucky fraternity for items to make the effigy but did not tell the fraternity members why they wanted them, Monroe said.

Fischer and Bush were arrested on charges of disorderly conduct, burglary and theft by unlawful taking, police said. The burglary and theft charges involve allegedly removing items from a room in the fraternity house.

"We had a pre-established dialogue with this fraternity, and they spoke to us very openly and freely," Monroe said.