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WE ARE NOT YOUR ENEMY.

As a dual-sport athlete,

Abby Steiner

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ITS employs new initiatives to protect UK from cybersecurity threats

By Jacob Eads news@kykernel.com

You could call them the cybersecurity Avengers.

UK’s Information Technology Services staff has been diligently constructing an advanced cybersecurity program built to defend the campus from the constant “warfare” being waged on its sensitive data. And UK certainly has a target painted on its back.

UK is on the receiving end of roughly 2.1 million cyberattacks per year, and those are just the ones it knows about, according to Data Privacy and IT Policy analyst Michael Sheron. Put plain and simple, “universities are a huge target,” said Sheron.

Devoted “hackers” are out to bust into UK’s network, hoping to get their hands on sensitive education records and sell them for a pretty penny.

The total cost of global data breaches is set to eclipse $2.1 trillion by 2019, according to research from tech market forecaster Juniper Research.

And UK’s education records are prime pickings.

A single education record laced with personally identifiable information like birth dates and social security numbers is worth more to a hacker than a stolen credit card, according to Sheron.

While the ITS staff is doing its best to keep up with an ever changing and bustling cybersecurity industry, the hackers vying for the campus’s information are following suit.

“You watch popular media and it’s often this person with a hoodie in a basement, but really, they’re corporations,” said Sheron. “When you think about it, they are businesses, and that’s what they’re doing and that’s the way they’re training.”

To keep pace with newly professionalized hackers, the ITS office is currently implementing a new wave of initiatives aimed at fortifying the university’s data security efforts.

“We’re always one step behind.

When you’re on this side of the fence, you’re always going to be at least one step behind,” said Sheron.

You may have noticed the ITS office is beginning its crusade against data insecurity by transitioning to a new Wi-Fi network known as eduro-

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Eduroam boasts a performance bounds ahead of UK’s previous network “ukyedu,” according to Price.

Staff members say the new weapon in the ITS arsenal is expected to give security a major bump.

“A secure network gives us a much better protection. It insulates us,” Price said of eduroam. “This is an industry-best practice in higher education, so eduroam is a backbone that is used across higher ed and is very successful.”

Eduroam, complete with its secure

proaching its expiration date.

“We want our students to have great access, and they’re paying for it, so they deserve to be the only ones using it,” said Rick Phillips, Executive Director of Networking and Infrastructure.

The price tag might come as a surprise for some who struggled connecting to the new network during their first few days of classes. ITS staff members say they were well aware of the semester’s early issues, and when push comes to shove, you can most likely find them in their office

and doors. The thousands of unmanaged devices like cell phones and laptops circulating around campus make this a tough reality.

“It’s like we had shut the front and back doors, but we left all the windows open,” Sheron said of the previous system.

By employing the new network, the ITS office was able to “shut some of those windows,” Sheron said. The installation of a new firewall is simply another way to shut more windows.

The ITS office’s final arrow in its new trifecta intended to maintain se-

At a Glance: UK Cyber Statistics 2.1 million cyber attacks per year Approximately

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“A single education record laced with personally identifiable information like birthdates and social security numbers is worth more to a hacker than a stolen credit card.”

Michael Sheron, Data Privacy and IT Policy analyst login features, actively screens connecting devices and can make it easier to highlight attackers when they make a malicious move, isolating them before they “infect” the rest of the network.

This fancy new network came at a cost, though. UK recently footed the bill for $554,658 in costs related to the ITS office’s switch to eduroam, according to figures obtained through an open records request. Staff members say the sum was used to refresh a large chunk of the university’s IT infrastructure, much of which was ap-

“war room” or with their boots to the ground, trying to help students out on campus.

“It’s all hands on deck,” Price said.

“The proof is in the pudding. Hey, we had a bad day. We’ve had some intermittent problems… and we’re disappointed. That’s on us.”

UK’s next piece of ammunition in the fight against cyberattacks is its remodeled “next-gen firewall” designed to complement eduroam.

If UK’s security efforts were like a house, attackers previously had many points of entry through its windows

curity is the introduction of multi-factor identification in its login systems.

UK students and faculty will soon be asked to verify their identity when logging into sensitive information hotspots like their MyUK accounts.

This extra measure is just another added layer sure to stump attempted hackers from accessing your personal data.

In the windstorm of enacting these new initiatives, the ITS staff has tried lose touch with its constituency.

“It’s going to be about people first,” Price said.

ITS staff members say they feel an

obligation to help educate the campus community about their own cybersecurity.

“My job isn’t to lecture people and stand up in front of a classroom, but that doesn’t mean that I don’t have a responsibility to help educate students,” said Sheron. “It’s impossible for us to do everything. Cybersecurity is everybody’s sort of responsibility, and if we’re not communicating to the student body, the largest group of constituents that we have, we’re not doing a very good job.”

On top of their newest cybersecurity provisions, there are simple measures students can take to better secure their own devices. ITS encourages students to keep their devices updated with the latest patches, utilize the university’s multi-factor identification systems on their own devices as they become available and consider using unique passwords for each site they log in to.

Following the theme of a more thoughtful communication between university and student, the ITS office has also pushed to update the UK Administrative Regulations concerning cybersecurity.

AR 10:7 and AR 10:8, approved in July, now better define and clarify existing IT policy and provide an outlet for regular policy review.

The ITS office has also kept students at the forefront of its operation by actually hiring student employees to evaluate the policy from an outside perspective.

“We’re just trying to help people understand, help them do their job better. We want to make it easier for you to protect your data,” said Sheron.

While the IT professionals working in the ITS office may spend their days in the trenches fending off cyberattacks by the truckload, it seems the constant action hasn’t soured their love for the job.

“I feel like I’m making a contribution to the university that has meant so much to me,” said Sheron.

It’s easy to think of the ITS office as a jumble of wires and machines, but the wizards behind the curtain bring the place to life.

“The idea of constant improvement is really at the core of who we are,” Price said. “That makes it so fun, too.

It’s not static. It’s living.”

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UK professor claims he was targeted by Capilouto

By Sydney Momeyer news@kykernel.com

Buck Ryan, a tenured professor whom UK is currently trying to fire, claims that UK’s president has a target on his back.

The provost recommended that Ryan be fired due to allegations that he violated UK’s textbook policy by selling his own textbook to his students, but Ryan said he believes this is “backlash” from a public interaction he had with President Eli Capilouto in 2016.

In 2016, shortly after UK had made the decision to sue the Kentucky Kernel to avoid handing over documents detailing a professor’s sexual misconduct, Ryan confronted Capilouto at a public forum in Bowling Green, Kentucky.

Ryan stood up during Capilouto’s speech and demanded that he apologize to Marjorie Kirk, who was then editor-in-chief of the Kernel, for statements he made about her during a Board of Trustees meeting. The president said that in writing stories for the Kernel about sexual misconduct at UK, Kirk was publishing “salacious details to attract readers.”

Ryan said he felt that Capilouto owed Kirk an apology.

“That the president would say that about her really upset me,” Ryan said. “I just thought of her as my own kids in college… the least you could do is apologize for it.”

Because of that incident, Ryan said he thinks the disciplinary actions now being taken against him are personal, not simply related to the textbook issue.

“I think that it is backlash for my support of the Kernel,” Ryan said.

Ryan is not the only professor who has the perception that this is related to Ryan’s defense of Kirk and the Kernel; former faculty

ARDEN BARNES I STAFF Professor Buck Ryan teaches his Journalism 101 class on Wednesday, Aug. 29, 2018, in the Whitehall Classroom Building on UK’s campus.

trustee and retired geography professor Michael Kennedy referred to the same 2016 incident.

“The reason this is happening has very little to do with textbooks,” Kennedy said. “But it has to do with the fact that the university is pissed off— excuse my expression— at Ryan because he stood up for the Kernel on a lawsuit that the university brought against the Kernel about open records.”

Kennedy said this is what the president’s and provost’s case against Ryan is, at least partly, about.

“Otherwise, Ryan would have gotten a memo or a slap

on the wrist or a request to do something with the money,” Kennedy said.

The Kernel asked UK spokesperson Jay Blanton to respond to Ryan’s claim that he feels targeted.

“As we have indicated before in response to questions, as a matter of policy, we do not discuss personnel matters in any detail,” Blanton said in a statement. “However, the audit in this issue is a matter of public record and speaks for itself. The issues raised and the conclusions reached speak to our desire to protect the most sacred trust and responsibility we have as a university— the well-being of

our students.”

The investigation into Ryan’s textbook sales began in October 2017, when UK administrators formed a committee to conduct an audit into the sales of his book, Writing Baby, Editing Dog and You: A Friendly Place to Begin Your Writing.

Ryan sold the textbook to his journalism students for $40 through the UK bookstore and Kennedy’s Wildcat Den. The question the audit was expected to answer was whether Ryan misused more than $6,000 in royalties.

When the audit concluded, the committee recommended that Ryan repay any amount

that he profited from his textbook sales and cease the sale of Writing Baby.

The audit states that $6,060 should be “remitted to the university, charity or educational institution determined to be appropriate, as stipulated in UK policies.”

Though termination was not part of the committee’s recommendation, Provost David Blackwell told the Lexington Herald-Leader in May 2018 that UK “had to take this step to seek the termination of a faculty member,” meaning that UK was seeking to fire Ryan, who was tenured in 1994.

Until he spoke with Her-

ald-Leader reporter Linda Blackford, Ryan said he did not know that the termination process had begun. “(Blackford) was talking about termination proceedings. The audit did not call for firing a tenured professor…” Ryan said. “So how did it go from the audit to the provost statement (in the Herald-Leader)?”

Blackford’s story with Blackwell’s quote about terminating Ryan ran on the front page of the Herald-Leader on May 17. The University Senate Advisory Committee on Privilege and See PROFESSOR on page 11

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kernellifestyle UK English Department to bring authors to campus as part of Visiting Writers Series

By Akhira Umar lifestyle@kykernel.com

UK will soon be calling all lovers of literature to campus as the Visiting Writers Series starts a new chapter. The annual series is back with new writers and new works to appreciate.

The VWS started in 2014 with a poem recitation from Roger Reeves, according to the English department’s website. With the addition of the MFA in Creative Writing, the VWS has grown into a respectable program, hosting distinguished writers such as Viet Thanh Nguyen and Roxane Gay. Though the program boasts nationally renowned authors, it also hosts up-and-coming ones, like Marie-Helene Bertino and Margaret Lazarus Dean. It is with a “collaborative spirit” that the program both highlights new writers while engag-

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ing audiences with more familiar ones.

A range of different writers are brought to campus. Some specialize in fiction, others in poetry, some in creative nonfiction. By bringing a variety of writers to campus, it is the hope of English department members to help diversify the community.

“The Visiting Writers Series brings to campus a diverse group of emerging and established writers and thinkers to read and discuss literature with students, faculty, and community members,” said Hannah Pittard, director of the MFA program.

It seems only fitting that Pittard herself is an award-winning author.

Her novels have been highlighted by the New York Times, the Washington Post, Entertainment Weekly and more. According to Pittard’s website, she is also a winner of the

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Gregory Pardlow, Silas House, Maurice Manning and Mary Gaitskill will visit UK throughout the fall 2018 semester as part of the Visiting Writers Series.

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Not to be outdone by the program’s director, this year’s series lineup includes a Pulitzer Prize winner and a bestselling author, along with other award-winning writers.

One of the acclaimed writers set to present in the VWS is a local favorite, Silas House. House has six novels, one book of nonfiction and three plays that are New York Times best sellers.

When asked about his feelings about returning to his home state for a reading after traveling around the world promoting his new book, he said he was “glad to finally be back.” House’s visit on Oct. 10 will be only his second time reading at the university.

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Jorge Cham visiting UK to talk about his college-life comics

sues we all deal with no matter our stage of life,” Vanderford said. “Dr. Cham seeks to address these issues as a way of helping us all understand that we are not alone in dealing with them, and he wants to encourage others to move forward in a positive way.”

By Lauryn Haas lifestyle@kykernel.com

Procrastination can weigh down even the most motivated students, and Ph.D. hopefuls are no exception. Jorge Cham, creator of Piled High and Deeper Comics, would know.

With a B.S. in mechanical engineering from Georgia Tech and an M.S. and Ph.D. in robotics from Stanford, he faced the challenges of Academia that all students come up against. Cham uses his experiences to discuss the ups and downs of being a graduate student in his comics with humor, relatability and honesty.

Nathan Vanderford, a assistant professor in the department of toxicology and cancer biology, started reading Cham’s comics about 15 years ago, when he started graduate school. In the potentially lonely environment of tough research and intimidating advisers, Cham’s comics are a reminder that everyone’s in it together.

“Whether you are a student, postdoctoral trainee, faculty, or staff person, you can see how his satire can speak directly to you or situations you are aware of,” Vanderford said. “These shared experiences– positive or negative— are important to discuss and Dr. Cham does so in a powerful way through his comics.”

Cham was born in Panama to parents who both had graduate degrees and taught at the University of Panama. He was interested in becoming an engineer until the student newspaper at Stanford put

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out a search for a new comic strip during his first year of graduate school. He threw around ideas with his brother Jaime and some friends before submitting a strip about the hardships of grad school.

The Stanford Daily picked up Cham’s comic, and PHD was published in October 1997. He started publishing the comic online as well for free, and he updated it multiple times a week. Continuing the comic through graduation and into an instructor and research associate position at Caltech from 2003 to 2005, Cham soon had to decide whether to pursue a career as a professor or commit to the comic full-time.

Defining his own version of success, Cham gave up his dream of becoming a professor and focused on PHD Comics. Cham’s sister Laura organized for him to give a talk at MIT, where she was studying. His lecture was a success, and he began traveling to speak to students regularly about procrastination and the other joys of Academia.

“Procrastination and its associated anxieties are is-

In addition to his comics and lectures, Cham is a founding board member of a non-profit school in Los Angeles and the co-founder of PHD TV, a video platform that “illustrates and communicates the ideas, stories and personalities of researchers, scientists and scholars worldwide,” according to its website. PHD Comics have been adapted into two films, “The PHD Movie” and “The PHD Movie Two: Still in Grad School.” His comics have also been released in five book collections.

“Whether it’s satire dealing with lack of email responses from colleagues or stakeholders, circular conversations, or seeking out free food or swag, we usually can picture ourselves or someone we know as one of Dr. Cham’s characters,” Vanderfold said.

Cham will give two talks to the students and faculty of the University of Kentucky on Thursday, Sept. 6, 2018.

“Communicating Your Research” will be from 10-11 a.m. in the Worsham Cinema inside the Gatton Student Center, and “The Power of Procrastination” will be from 4-5 p.m. in Memorial Hall. Book signings will follow each presentation.

Tickets are available at https://ukhealthcare.uky. edu/psp.

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As a dual-sport athlete, Abby Steiner has two chances for success at UK

By Chris Leach

Anyone who has been to the Bell Soccer Complex recently to watch the Kentucky women’s soccer team play has probably thought at least once, “Wow, that No. 22 in blue is fast.”

No. 22 is indeed very fast. According to her head coach Ian Carry, her fastest 40-yard dash time, 4.8 seconds, is faster than a majority of the Kentucky men’s soccer players.

The girl zooming across the pitch in the No. 22 jersey is Abby Steiner, a freshman soccer player from Dublin, Ohio.

Steiner’s combo of speed and technical soccer skills makes it easy for her to get past defenders and set up opportunities for goals, which has earned her a large amount of minutes on UK’s young team.

In the spring, when soccer season is over, Steiner will continue showing her bursts of speed in a different facility, wearing a different jersey and doing a different sport entirely, as Steiner will be chasing down competitors for the Kentucky track & field team.

“I think it’s really special that I have gotten the opportunity to do both,” Steiner said of being a multi-sport athlete at UK. Steiner’s unique blend of speed, athleticism and soccer skills have given her the opportunity to play two sports at a Division I college, something not many athletes can do.

Many athletes in high school often play two sports but eventually figure out which one they are better at or enjoy more. Steiner is good at both sports and loves them both, so why choose?

“That was a big thing with school; I was definitely looking

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for a place that was open to letting me do both because I know some schools wouldn’t have been,” Steiner said.

Soccer was Steiner’s first love at the age of four. She quickly picked up the sport and eventually joined Ohio Premier, one of the best club teams in the nation.

While playing soccer, Steiner discovered that she had another athletic talent in running when she joined her middle school track team in eighth grade.

“Everyone at my middle school ran track and it was more like a social type of thing and all my friends were like, ‘You should do this and try this,’” Steiner said.

It did not take long for Steiner to realize that she had a future in track. In 2015, as a freshman in high school, Steiner won the 60-meter and 200-meter dash at the Ohio Indoor State Track & Field Championships. It was then that Steiner’s love for soccer was joined by her love for track.

It was not long after Steiner’s victories at the Indoor Championships that she took a visit to UK as a soccer player. In high school, soccer players are recruited early while track athletes are not recruited till senior year since the body is still developing at that age.

While visiting UK, Steiner met with the then track head coach Edrick Floreal to find out if she could run track while playing soccer at UK. “I had run some times, I met with the track coach [Floreal] and asked him if that was– if he was open to that idea and he said yes, and it just took off from there,” Steiner said.

Steiner committed to UK in 2015, the

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I think it’s really special that I have gotten the opportunity to do both.

fall of her sophomore year, as a dual-sport athlete. She would finish her track career with many titles and accolades, including two Ohio Outdoor State Track & Field Championship meet records her senior year.

Steiner’s senior year times certainly have her new track coach excited, as she would have placed third in the 100-meter dash and first in the 200-meter dash at the 2018 NCAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships.

What makes her times even more impressive was the fact that Steiner tore her ACL about a year and a half before her senior year state meet. It’s difficult for an athlete to regain their speed after a torn ACL, but Steiner never once thought about losing her speed, and instead focused on coming back a stronger athlete.

“There is always that kind of underlying fear, but I never really let myself go down that road where I would be like, ‘I’m never going to be that fast,’” Steiner said.

“I knew if I came back, I would have that like kind of a roadblock and I didn’t want that to happen.”

As for Steiner on the soccer pitch, the injury forced her to miss the entire 2016 season. Steiner fully recovered for her senior season in 2017, but decided to not rush back into soccer games since she was coming off such a tough injury and had just wrapped up her junior season of track.

Instead of playing in games, Steiner focused on her game and worked to make her technical skills better.

That season spent working on her game has paid off

for Steiner at UK, as she’s not just a speedster anymore in her coach’s eyes.

“She’s added so many tools and so many pieces to her game that– not that we were surprised, but we were like, ‘Hey, this is who she can be,’ and if she continues to work in the vein that she’s working at right now, Abby’s going to be a huge threat,” Carry said.

Steiner’s speedy and technical skillsets make it near impossible for Carry to take her off the field. However, since Steiner is a freshman and has a track season ahead of her, Steiner can’t always be on the field, even if she wants to be.

“As a staff, we just got to continue to monitor where she is, just make sure we’re not pushing her top hard and she’s not overdoing it,” Carry said.

In order to keep Steiner at a proper fitness level and not push her too far, Carry works closely with the UK performance science department to make sure that Steiner is at an optimal fitness level for certain points of the season.

When Steiner ended her track career with her two state meet records, she took two weeks off before beginning a special prescribed program from Dr. Chris Morris of the performance science department. The program was designed to send Steiner to preseason in optimal fitness level, knowing that they were going to build on it.

Also before the season, Carry met with new UK track head coach Lonnie Greene to figure out how UK Athlet-

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ics was going to handle its dual-sport athlete.

Carry admitted to being nervous about balancing Steiner on the soccer field and the track before the meeting, but afterward, it was a different story.

“I walked away from that meeting with Lonnie and I’m like, ‘She’s in the best position she could ever be,’” Carry said. “I can’t wait till the spring to watch her compete for Kentucky and wear the blue with track & field.”

Steiner continues to wear a GPS and a heart rate monitor in practice so she is efficiently prepared for each game and set up well for her future on the track.

“The guidance that we have from the performance science department is making sure that when she finishes soccer season, she’s in great shape, take care of her body and she just walks straight into a track & field season,” Carry said. “…I can’t imagine how good she’s going to be when she actually steps into the coaching environment that she’s going to step in to here at Kentucky under Lonnie’s [Greene] guidance.”

Before she begins track, Steiner will finish her soccer season, which she said she is fully focused on right now, even though she occasionally daydreams about her upcoming track season.

It’s hard for Steiner to fully focus on one sport when she loves both, which is why she plans to play both sports as long as she can.

“It’s different in so many ways, it’s hard to compare, I like them both,” Steiner said.

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kernelopinions editorial

We are not your enemy.

The concept of “We the people” has become so common that it’s borderline cliché.

Yet it represents a fundamental model for our democracy: The government, the press and the country are to be run by the people and for the people. This extends from the White House to city councils.

An August 16 column in the Boston Globe called “Journalists are not the enemy” sparked a movement across the nation in response to President Donald Trump’s ongoing accusations against journalists and the press. Since then, hundreds of newspapers across the country have joined them in proudly proclaiming that the press is not the enemy of the people. We at the Kernel wish to join by saying to the students on campus: We are not the enemy of the people. We are the people.

We are students just like you, and our main objectives are to be your voice and to be watchdogs of our university.

No matter your major, if you’re devoted to being a responsible citizen in this country, you must

be “a journalism person,” meaning an advocate for free press. Unfortunately, a growing trend in our country accuses journalists of being enemies of the people and the press of being “fake news,” which lowers credibility for this essential aspect of our democracy.

The term “fake news” is often associated with the current presidential administration, but the concept of fake news is old. It can be traced to the “yellow journalism” of the 1800s, an era that saw Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst publish incorrect sensational information to increase readership. Journalism ethics have come a long way since those rocky beginnings in our country, but is there news circulating today that is fake? Yes. And we want to teach you how to recognize it so you can consume news responsibly.

Research conducted by Pew Research Center in 2016 showed that just 20 percent of Americans got their news from credible, legitimate news sources. Fifty-seven percent said they preferred to get their news from TV and the internet.

The research showed that many millennials get their news from comedy late night shows and social media. While comedy shows have some merit— many comedians base their satire on facts— they also add opinions under the premise of news, which imposes on the audience a lie masked as truth. Social media is a breeding ground for tabloid sensationalism masked as news to circulate as easy as clicking a “share” button. Both outlets can quickly lead to the spread of incorrect or fake news.

We encourage you to consciously avoid relying on sensational outlets. Instead, pick up a physical newspaper that includes stories written by well-trained and objective journalists. Any site, TV show or social media post that presents facts as opinions is perpetuating fake news. Facts are not opinions; they are facts. We at the Kernel encourage you to avoid any outlet that takes this approach, or exploits tabloid-like sensationalism.

As always, we will be your dedicated, objective news source on campus during your time at the University of Kentucky.

President Donald Trump has repeatedly criticized the press via his Twitter account, calling the media the enemy of the people. In response to this and other attacks on the press, The Boston Globe published a column called “Journalists are not the enemy.” Hundreds of newspapers across the nation then ran similar columns that proclaimed that the press is not the enemy.

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UK should add more K Week events focused on transfer students transfer

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Games. Mass selfies.

Orientations to college life.

Hundreds of your peers.

And let’s not forget the free t-shirts with your class year boldly printed on the front. K Week at UK can be a magical experience. If you’re a freshman, that is.

Each year, close to 1,000 students from the Kentucky Community and Technical College System (KCTCS) transfer to UK. This is a significant number of students who will migrate each year to UK. Many of these transfer students will come to UK as juniors, having completed a two-year degree at community college. When they arrive, UK welcomes them, for the most part, as freshmen.

Free t-shirts passed out will group them in with a class graduating two years after them. Banners and posters and fanfare celebrated the Class of 2022 (in this year’s case) when there are actually close to 1,000 new members of the Class of 2020. In doing this, UK is sending a message that it doesn’t value transfer students as legitimate students.

UK did it best in 2016, according to an online schedule. During that K Week, UK held multiple events for

In 2017, however, there was only one event for transfer students. This year, no events were listed on UK’s website dedicated specifically for transfer students. Some language in the schedule even invites students to come socialize with “other first year students.” This not only excludes transfer students; it also insults their existence by refusing to acknowledge them.

UK should devote one whole day of K Week just for transfer students. This would allow them to find much-needed camaraderie that first year students find so easily during normal K Week activities. Transfer students, like freshmen, need to be surrounded by people at their grade level.

Incoming transfer students will already be orientated to college life, having attended similar orientations during their first years, and will likely find some of the information sessions during K Week to be repetitive.

They will still enjoy specific college meetings, club activities and general socializing, but they need specific times to make connections with their peers.

In addition to allotting more time for transfer students, UK should adjust its language to be more inclusive of third-year incoming students. Only then will they feel truly welcomed as part of the UK community.

TESSA LIGHTY Students filtered in by K Teams for Big Blue U at Kroger Field in Lexington, Kentucky, on Aug. 23, 2014.

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UK should modify internship requirements, offerings to better help students HANNAH WOOSLEY Assistant Opinions Editor

Internships are a massive part of several degrees being offered at UK. These internships, typically required during senior year, allow students to fully immerse themselves into what their future career could be like after graduation.

The problem with

utilizing an internship as a degree requirement during a student’s senior year is that far too often students find themselves regretting their career path and degree after getting a taste of the handson reality of it. Sometimes, they must start over in a new major a year before graduation or come to the realization that it’s too late to start over— leading them to finish a degree they’re unhappy with.

Patricia Przystup, a senior at UK and previous

journalism and communication double-major, recently changed her major after a summer internship showed her that a career in journalism wasn’t meant for her.

Przystup said she “500 percent” wishes that she had had an internship during her sophomore or junior year so she could have known journalism wasn’t the right choice for her. Instead, her major switch late in her college career will extend her expected graduation date by one year, costing her time

and money.

Two solutions could be offered for this problem that so many students face: UK could offer an internship during sophomore or junior years or offer multiple internships.

By requiring a single internship during the middle two years of a degree, a student has enough education to utilize an internship and realize if a career in that field is for them. They also

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kernelsports Edmond gained experience while playing, traveling abroad this summer

By Erika Bonner sports@kykernel.com

For most college students, summers are spent working, eating good food or enjoying the sun and the beauty of the outdoors. Swap working for playing volleyball, and that’s exactly how junior outside hitter Leah Edmond spent her summer– except she was in Europe.

In March, five Wildcats, including Edmond, were selected to various U.S. Women’s Collegiate National Teams. Edmonds and teammate Avery Skinner were selected to the CNT-Europe, coached

by Louisville head coach Dani Busboom Kelly. The team landed in Italy on July 5 and competed in the Global Challenge in Croatia July 10-13.

This wasn’t Edmond’s first time representing her country in a different nation, as she was selected in 2017 to the FIVB Women’s U20 World Championship team, which was hosted in Mexico. The 6-foot2 hitter said the two experiences were similar, and that playing outside of the U.S. is a lot different.

“It’s a whole different style of play, like a lot of people there are smaller so it’s not as physical as here, so you have to be smarter about plays,” Edmond said.

“They’re going to pick up your tips, they’re going to pick up

PHOTO PROVIDED BY LEAH EDMOND | UK ATHLETICS Leah Edmond and her CNT-Europe teammates pose for a photo during their trip to Croatia.

HUNTER MITCHELL Outside hitter Leah Edmond digs the ball during the match against the Georgia Bulldogs on Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2016, in Lexington, Kentucky.

things a lot easier, so you can’t get as mentally frustrated and that was a big thing that our team focused on.”

Edmond mentioned how much she enjoyed her time in Croatia and added how beautiful the country is. She was there during the World Cup while Croatia won, and said “it was the coolest thing to experience.”

“We were there during the

World Cup, so when Croatia won, that was incredible to see like just fireworks and cars honking and just so much screaming,” Edmond said. “And I am a real big history person too, so seeing like the really old buildings and churches and coliseums, it was so cool, and the food was of course amazing.”

Back in March when the players were first selected, Kentucky head coach Craig Skinner called the op-

portunity “outstanding” and was excited to see his players progress and get better while overseas.

“We don’t take the USA invitations for granted, and our players will take full advantage to develop their game,” Skinner said.

Edmond looks to use her CNT experience to help her team this season, and said during Media Day that Kentucky’s competitiveness makes the team special. She said that even in the smallest and most simple of drills, the Cats are being extremely competitive, and that it’s nice to see everyone pushing each other to be the best they can

be.

After coming off a 2017 season in which they went 29-4, won a share of the SEC Championship, and made it to the Elite 8 for the first time in the modern era, the Cats’ goals are to the make it to the SEC tournament again and make it deep into the bracket, Edmond said. Last season, Edmond averaged 4.53 kills per set, which was second in the SEC and 14th in the nation.

“It’s nice to be recognized nationally now, but we still got to focus on what we want to accomplish,” Edmonds said.

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recommendations to the president about whether termination proceedings should be taken against a tenured professor, had a meeting scheduled to discuss Ryan’s situation a week later.

“The provost tried to convict me on the front page with an outrageous statement before the Senate committee could meet for the first time,” Ryan said.

Because he heard from Blackford instead of from UK that he might be getting fired, Ryan said he has grievances regarding communication between UK administration and faculty and staff.

Ryan is not the only one who has expressed this sentiment.

In May of 2018, a group of former faculty trustees sent out a campus-wide email expressing grievances with communication, such as in Ryan’s case. Dr. Davy Jones, a toxicology professor at UK, was one of the former faculty trustees who signed the email.

In an interview with the Kernel, Jones said that UK administration has previously had communication issues with the Board of Trustees, which continued into Ryan’s situation.

“In my experience, and that of some other former faculty trustees, the university president does not pro-

WRITERS

CONTINUED FROM PAGE 4 Like many visiting writers before him, House plans on having an open dialogue as part of his presentation.

Typically, audience members at VWS events can expect authors to read their work-- possibly new material-- and talk about related themes, then open the floor to a Q&A session. This session is an opportunity for audience members to ask some of their literary idols things they might not have ever

vide as much information to the Board of Trustees as the president could about issues of importance to many faculty, even when such issues are news headlines in the local or national press,” Jones said.

Jones said that current and former trustees are sometimes provided information concerning faculty “by backchannel communication,” rather than from the president.

“We work hard to communicate policies and processes to all members of the community,” Blanton said in regard to the administration’s communication practices.

“We can always do better.

And we are committed to doing so.”

Blanton said, however, that the completed audit “did not find Professor Ryan’s actions to be the result of a lack of information.”

SACPT concluded that while Ryan may not have followed university guidelines regarding the use of textbook sales, he should not be punished with termination. The SACPT opinion, which was sent to Capilouto on Aug. 6, 2018, said the members had unanimously agreed that termination of Ryan would be extreme.

While Ryan’s defense of Kirk and the Kernel was in 2016, that was not the first time Ryan’s actions had come to the university’s atgotten the chance to before.

“The VWS provides a great path for everyone in Lexington to engage intimately with brilliant and diverse writers of different ages, backgrounds, and perspectives,” said Pittard.

House said he is most looking forward to the Q&A sessions, as many of the visiting writers do. He is especially looking forward to discussing the issues presented in his most recent novel.

“Novels should start dialogues and that’s what I hope

tention.

In 2014, Ryan invited a group of U.S. Senate candidates to campus to speak with a group of high school journalism students. At the event, one of the candidates began shouting inappropriate, anti-Semitic comments to the crowd. UK then had to deal with the backlash.

In 2015, Ryan and seven other university employees were investigated for sexual misconduct. At the closing ceremony of a course Ryan taught at Jilin University in China, Ryan sang a rendition of “California Girls” by the Beach Boys to the students.

Two university students felt uncomfortable and complained. Ryan was found responsible of inappropriate behavior in that situation.

Kennedy said he thinks this incident is also part of why the administration is seeking to terminate Ryan.

“Someone had objected to something he said on a trip to China,” he said. “That’s also a good bit of what is behind all of this.”

But Ryan said he believes this all stems from his defense of the Kernel.

“My life hasn’t been the same since,” he said.

This fall, Ryan is teaching JOU 101 and JOU 303. The provost and the president are still deciding whether to terminate Ryan— a decision which, according to Blanton, “has no timeline.” this book will do at UK. And I hope the conversation will continue after I leave,” said House.

The 2018-2019 series will begin on Sept. 11 with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Gregory Pardlo. His reading will begin at 7 p.m. in Worsham Cinema, located in the Gatton Student Center.

Other writers planned to visit this year are Mary Gaitskill and Maurice Manning. Gaitskill is set to read on Sept. 14 while Manning will recite his poetry on Nov. 14.

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during sophomore year is soon enough into a degree that a student still has an opportunity to change paths without pushing their graduation time too far back or pushing it back at all.

Multiple internships also aid in forming a strong resume for prospective employers and understanding what is expected of you in that field.

Too many students regret their degree path after a failed internship

and they’re stuck with two options: graduate with a degree that puts them in a career they’ll be unhappy with or change degrees and extend their graduation time, paying a lot more money in tuition to hopefully pick a path better suited for them.

If UK were to require more or sooner internships for degree credit, students would better know whether they’re making the right choice.

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Lilley-Edmond connection stronger in year two

By Chris Leach sports@kykernel.com

In volleyball, it’s important to have two things with a team on the court at all times: talent and good connections.

Talent obviously goes a long way in helping teams win, as the top teams in the country are loaded with talent. With no lack of talent at the NCAA Division I level, the thing that often allows a team to go above and beyond is how connected teammates are, and that’s something Kentucky is working on this year.

“We’re really working on small things right now to just improve our connections across the court,” sophomore Madison Lilley said at UK volleyball’s Media Day. “There’s always room for improvement but it’s definitely going to get better and just working perfect the small things.”

As the setter, it’s important for Lilley to have the strongest connections with her teammates, as her main job is to set her teammates up for kills.

As a freshman, Lilley had great connections with Leah Edmond, Avery Skinner and others as she recorded 1,445 assists to her teammates, which is the second best single season mark in Kentucky’s 25-point rally scoring era.

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CHASE PHILLIPS I STAFF Leah Edmond (#13) and Madison Lilley (#3) celebrate during the match against BYU on Dec. 8, 2017.

Lilley was third in the NCAA and first in the SEC in assists per set, and she finished the season as an AVCA

Second Team All-American.

Lilley admits to being more confident heading into her second sea-

son, and she believes she has some room to grow.

“The relationships that I have

with my hitters on and off the court is definitely built a lot more than it has last year,” Lilley said.

One of the relationships Lilley has invested time in is with UK’s star, Leah Edmond.

In Lilley’s first year, the two underclassmen connected on many exciting plays that ended in a point for UK. It can be difficult for a freshman setter to find the sweet spots for a player of Edmond’s caliber, but Lilley performed well and is trusted by the team’s biggest offensive weapon.

“She’s going to put the balls where I need them, I really trust her,” Edmond said.

Another thing that makes Lilley and Edmond’s connection strong is how much both athletes push each other in practice and in the games.

“She definitely pushes you and she will definitely tell you, ‘Hey, you got to pick it up, we need you right now’ and I really like that,” Edmond said. “I like being so secure with my setter and knowing that she has my back, I got her back.”

With a year’s experience and a stronger relationship, expect the Lilley-Edmond connection to be even better during this season. The two have already teamed up for numerous kills this season, and will continue to do so as they chase their goals for the 2018 season.