Bad Day at the UK
By University of Kentucky police are investigating who hung an effigy of Democrat Sen. Barack Obama from a tree on the Lexington campus Wednesday morning.
UK President Lee Todd said that UK police have notified federal authorities of the incident. Todd said a professor saw the effigy on the tree near the Rose Street parking garage across from the Mining and Mineral Resources building this morning and called police. The professor then sent Todd an email notifying him of the incident.
UK police took down the effigy and have it as evidence, Todd said. He called the act “deplorable” and says that type of behavior is not tolerated on UK’s campus.
The effigy apparently had a mask of Obama on it and there was reportedly a noose around the effigy’s neck, Todd said.
President Todd and the administration have been very open about the incident, and seem to be handling it as well as could be hoped.