I was searching for university of kentucky basketball” and found this your page (Sybil Dorsett Returns to the Forefront of Pop Culture | A Jar …). Not what i actually searched, but your post looked interesting….

So many different ideas listed here - amazing….

I appreciate their generosity in donating millions to the University. They already fund scholarships, nice of them to build a building, too.

If a meth cooker wants to donate millions and have a building named Meth, fine.

If an OC abuser wants to donate millions and have a building named OC, fine.

Why is it wrong for an industry coalition to donate money, but not individuals?

These FINANCIALLY DEPENDENT college students are really naive.

Coal wealth funded the build-up of the Golden Triangle.

So they are guilty of the rape of Appalachia!!! Why don’t they protest themselves for benefitting?

Because it’s ridiculous, that’s why.

Ungrateful sheets.

It’s not the corporatization of campus. It’s corporate social responsibility to support charitable organizations and non-profits and education and the arts. Be grateful.

This is just my opinion and not intended to insult anyone. Most all the issues talked about are now relevant in the fact that the sign and the way it was brought to all of our attention make them relevant.
Whoever put the signs up should have either have been brave enough to claim responsibility or seemly wise enough to go through the appreciate channels to post their protest allowing themselves to be heard in a less than shameful manner!

As, for Mrs. Ball my thoughts are, if you don’t like her than push for different representation. Lord knows I would never buy a Ball Home but, hey that just me. I have the freedom to make my own choices.

When it comes to naming anything after coal, well I feel it is very revalant. Our state has depended on coal since its birth just about! Are any of you “smart” people aware that approximately 95% of our electric comes from coal?!? If coal is done away w/ are you ware what would happen to our electric prices?!? Better yet, how would any of you propose other than buying electric from another state, how would we get this new electric?!? Are you aware what would happen to cost of tuition for all U.K. students, considering U.K. is powered by coal? I’m willing to wager this winter most of you grippers wont be saying a word about all that warmth you get while sitting in class when it’s 20 degrees outside, because you better believe the heat your going to so enjoy is supplied by nothing other than coal!

I won’t disagree w/ anyone on the fact that coal is dirty. Nor will anyone hear me say that it doesn’t have blood on it. But, until someone much more intelligent and wiser than us all posting here, comes up with a better solution to give our however million(s) of people across our GR8 state a different type of heating source, electric source, and a new source of revenue, we are stuck with it.

It’s easy to tell someone to do away with coal, but could you really live without it? Are you willing to put countless people across our state out of income that they depend on to pay their bills, support their families, and put their children through college? If you can honestly answer yes to that question, then in my opinion you need to pack your belongings up, and move down to one of the hollers and live with a coal miner for a semester. Then maybe a few of you would see the light and not take for granted we can EVER do without the coal!
Until that happens, instead of bitching about U.K. receiving money from the coal industry; put your uneducated and misplaced passion to a better use. Try pressing the coal industry to use better standards of mining. I would rather see you do that than dishonor all of us from Kentucky.