Blog 18- UK is expanding

Jesus Esteves

Ms. Lopez

WRD 110

October 16, 2014

Topic: UK is expanding- source identification.

            On May 26, 2014 Linda B. Blackford wrote an article titled, “University of Kentucky spending $4 million to demolish eight buildings this summer”. I found this article on a website called Kentucky.com under the tab [Local News].

Topic: UK expanding- word summary

            In this article the author talks about how the University of Kentucky is tearing down a few old buildings on campus in order to build new dorms and new dinning services. Not everyone is happy about this decision due to a couple things. The first reason is that these buildings have been on campus since a very long time ago so they are part of the history of UK and the second is that this is going to cost A LOT of money. Just the demolishing of the buildings will be around $4 million and that’s nothing to how much the construction of the new things will be. The main concern that the author shows in this article is that the new dorms will add an extra 9,000 students to the population in this campus. This will force the university to have to build new facilities in order for things to keep running smoothly. This project is expected to be completed by spring semester of 2016.

Topic: UK expanding- reflection/questions

            This article will be useful in my research because I can now have some more concrete reasons to connect the idea of the need for the JC to be bigger with how the population on campus will be growing in the next few years. It will also be helpful because I can show how money isn’t the issue for expanding the JC since we can see that UK has the money for all this construction. Some questions I have are: Why is UK mostly focusing on having more dorms and dinning places? What other construction plans are going to have to be thought of with this expansion on campus? Where does UK get all this money and who decides what it is used for?