University of Kentucky student life

The Johnson Center, a 12,000-square-foot (1,100 m2) two-story structure located at South Campus, features basketball, volleyball, badminton, racket ball, and wallyball courts, along with weight-lifting facilities, and rock climbing walls.

It was a renovation of the historic Alumni Gymnasium, which was home to UK men's basketball from 1924 to 1950.

In a survey of 1,000 female university students, conducted in the spring of 2004, 36.5% reported having been victims of rape, stalking, or physical assault while on campus.

[5] Todd specifically linked campus safety to the goal of becoming a top-20 public research institution, stating that "We will never make gains toward becoming a top-twenty public research institution if our students are unsafe or if they lack a sense of physical security.

It is part of our fundamental mission, then, to create a campus that provides a safe place to live, to work, and to learn.