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kernelnews SGA officials hope to be good stewards of budget

By Sydney Momeyer news@kykernel.com

UK’s Student Government Association has a $676,000 budget this year, with part of it rolling over as surplus from last year.

Each year, SGA charges every UK student a $12 student allocation fee. This fee goes straight to SGA’s budget.

“The University of Kentucky Student Government Association represents all undergraduate, graduate and professional students enrolled at the University,” the UK SGA website says.

UK SGA has the following purposes, says the website: “to increase student influence over academic policy; to provide necessary student services; to protect and expand student substantive and procedural rights; and to better represent the student body in relations with the faculty, administration, Board of Trustees, and the Commonwealth of Kentucky.”

This year’s budget was created by SGA’S Director of Finance Faizan Bhatti over the summer and includes a $76,000 surplus from last year.

“We are getting about $600,000 from student fees,” Bhatti said. “And then we have this surplus from last year. So this is something that I did not have to touch, this was something from the previous director of finance and the previous executive board and how much money they were unable to spend.”

However, part of the extra $76,000 was supposed to already be part of this year’s budget.

“It’s important to note that $35,000 of that was expensed already for this fiscal year,” Bhatti said. “It just wasn’t zeroed out of the account beforehand.”

Another large portion of the surplus was also from a program SGA has called SEC Exchange. According to Bhatti, the SEC Exchange is when SGA programs from all around the SEC come and meet at a certain college every year.

“This year just happened to be UK,” Bhatti said. “So that was a pretty costly event. There were a lot of different vendors we had to work with, different tours around Keeneland and just basically a lot of stuff was going on. Unfortunately, that was unable to be zeroed out in the last fiscal year so that was carried out into ours, so that’s why we have a surplus.”

According to Bhatti, in previous years SGA has operated at a surplus.

“It’s not something I’m very fond of,” Bhatti said. “This is my first year on SGA; I’m a senior right now. So it’s kind of one of my goals to not have a surplus because that means we aren’t being proper stewards of the money.”

Though SGA has operated on a surplus in the past, it is generally a goal to not have a surplus.

“It just basically means that we are either lacking in ingenuity or any new innovation,” Bhatti said. “Or we are just not able to spend the money that we

are given, so you have to go back to the drawing board if SGA is consistently operating a surplus, that means we may have too much money that we are dealing with.”

In order for SGA to avoid a surplus, Bhatti said he has attempted to meet with other SGA directors on a monthly basis to discuss financial goals and targets to make sure they are “expensing out our allocation in a reasonable manner so that we are on pace with the budget.”

According to this year’s budget, the largest amount going to be spent is on programs and campus services such as Kentucky Wildcab, which has a $86,839 budget. There is a total of $297,089 set aside for programs and campus services such as Wildcab.

Following with the next largest amount is the “Legislative Branch,” which includes things such as childcare grants, the Senate president fund, Senate ASA Committee scholarships, the Senate retreat and Senate appropriations, which has the largest budget of this subsection with $175,000. For this category, there is $224,000 total set aside.

“Of course a budget is a plan,” Bhatti said. “Not everything is going to go accordingly. Mishaps happen throughout the year and we will definitely amend them accordingly and vote through senate to reappropriate the funds, but as of right now everything is looking good.

It’s a month in and there have been no big hiccups so far.”

SGA ANNUAL BUDGET Executive Operations: $83,800.00

Environmental Projects: $4,000.00

Programs & Campus Services: $131,250.00

Legislative Branch: $224,138.73

Student Government Events: $1,500.00

Salaries & Stipends: $143,170.00

WildCab: $87,000.00

Judicial Branch: $1,250.00

Student says her bike was wrongfully impounded by UK Transportation Services

By Rick Childress news@kykernel.com

Bike thieves aren’t the only ones cutting bike locks on UK’s campus these days.

By utilizing a bike impoundment policy that takes some students by surprise, UK Transportation Services can confiscate any bike on campus that isn’t secured to a bike rack or is suspected to be abandoned, UKTS officials said.

Sandra Broadus, UK’s alternative transportation manager, manages all of UK’s commuting initiatives that don’t involve driving cars into

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campus “so basically bike, walk, bus stuff.” She’s an avid cyclist who bikes three miles into campus every day for her commute.

Broadus said bikes that aren’t secured to a bike rack can be impounded on site by UK Transportation Services. Last academic school year, UK impounded 69 bicycles— 99 percent of which were taken because they weren’t locked up properly, Broadus said.

Through August and September of this year, UK has impounded 12 bikes.

Earlier this fall semester, UK student Sky Baas used her $70 pink lock to secure her $1,400 bike to a bannis-

ter near the large concrete staircase on the northeast side of the Whitehall classroom building. She went to class for 47 minutes and came out to the bannister to find that the bike she had ridden across the country this past summer was gone. She assumed it was stolen.

“That bike is my livelihood,” Baas told the Kernel.

“It is how I get to class on time as a full-time student and how I get my groceries.

It allows me to work, live and get from point A to point B on time.”

Baas said she filed a police report, posted to social media and asked her mom to dig

through the trash to find the serial number on her old bike box. Campus police officers said they’d check security footage in a few days, and none of her friends and followers located her stolen bike.

Someone that she’d cycled with in the past suggested that she call Wildcat Wheels to see if they “take bikes that are improperly parked.” Baas called.

Wildcat Wheels, a primarily student-run bike shop located inside the Blazer Dining building on North Campus, does not impound bikes. But an employee there said that UK Transportation Services does.

“Surely UK Transportation

Services didn’t cut my $70 lock, I just missed the banister,” Baas wrote in a statement.

“Surely UKTS wouldn’t harm my property (my lock) to take my property.”

She walked across campus to the South Limestone garage, where she found that UKTS did impound her bike and “shredded” her $70 lock to do it. Baas paid $25 to get it back.

Baas argued that the policy is unfair because unlike an illegally parked car, which might get a few tickets before it’s towed or booted, she didn’t receive warning that

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Baas, who has biked around campus for three years and has even participated in Wildcat Wheels, suggested that UKTS make the program more visible, as she had no idea that it existed.

Broadus said Baas’ situation was “unfortunate,” and agreed that UKTS needs to improve communication about the possibilities of bike impoundment.

“We’re on the same page about that,” Broadus said.

“We definitely need to find ways to improve the communication on that, especially at the beginning of the school year. Our main enforcement effort is at the beginning of the fall semester, because if you do it hard up front then you don’t have any issues the rest of the year.”

At the beginning of every fall semester UKTS tries to place student transportation ambassadors around Whitehall to warn students who are parking illegally, but those ambassadors are only out for

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a few hours every day, and it’s possible that one of those ambassadors missed Baas.

“For bikes that they see that are locked up illegally, they’ll hang a little tag on them that says ‘just so you know your bike can be impounded’ and shows where the nearest bike rack is,” Broadus said.

Locking bikes to trees can damage the bark and make the tree susceptible to pests, Broadus said, and locking them to handrails can cause issues for those in wheel chairs or with mobility issues. Most of the violations occur around Whitehall.

Currently, Broadus said that there are approximately 5,200 bike parking spots on campus. Last month, UK also performed its annual bicycle count, when volunteers sweep campus during a high traffic period and count every unique bike that they see.

This year, 4,202 bikes were counted on campus from 11 to 11:50 a.m. on a normal Wednesday with classes in session.

Broadus also said that on the UKTS website, students can request that bike racks be put near places where they often commute, if those plac-

es lacked enough parking for bikes that normally park there. The only exception is that students can’t request them to be placed in the core of campus near Whitehall and Patterson Office Tower.

“They try to keep that free of bike traffic because they don’t want that traffic mingling with a high pedestrian zone,” Broadus said.

UKTS also impounds abandoned bikes. Over this past summer, 133 bikes were impounded and 95 percent of them were abandoned, Broadus said.

If a bike is suspected to be abandoned, Broadus said, the bike gets a green tag that says “If this bike is not abandoned then please remove this tag.”

If the tag stays on for two weeks then the bike is impounded. Abandoned, greentagged bikes usually get impounded over the summer.

When bikes get impounded, Broadus said, the lock is cut and they’re taken to the impound room in the South Limestone garage. Impounded bikes must be claimed within 90 days or else get cleaned, reassembled, painted yellow and pressed into the service of the Wildcat Wheels fleet, or get auctioned at a UK surplus auction.

ARDEN BARNES I STAFF This book bench, based on the book Bertyl: I Just Want to Belong by Sandra Dobozi, is located in Thoroughbred Park in Lexington, Kentucky.

Book bench project celebrates richness of Lexington art

By Kellsie Kennedy lifestyle@kykernel.com

Returning to Lexington after summer vacation, many UK students may have noticed the gradual arrival of 37 benches in the shape of open books.

Each book bench began blank, like a newly purchased notebook. They were allocated to the artists who submitted winning ideas for the benches’ decoration, and each bench serves as a representation of a Kentucky author’s publication.

Installation is scheduled to continue until late fall.

These benches are the result of a team effort between Arts Connect, LexArt and The Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning.

UK English professor Gurney Norman has his work represented on one of the benches.

“Lexington is home to many artists, working in every art form. Think of the painters, filmmakers, theater people, dancers, sculptors, writers, poets, musicians.

Central Kentucky is rich in

its artistic traditions, and it is a city which nourishes all the arts. It has an especially rich literary tradition,” Norman said.

Norman said the bench project has allowed the city to celebrate the “richness” and allowed the community to appreciate it.

“I think they look really cool and add to Lexington’s uniqueness...” said Emily Ingram, a natural resource and environmental science senior.

“It’s nice to see Lexington proud of their own.”

Lexington especially has seen an increase in programs and events which broadcast support and education about Kentucky as a whole. When faced with demeaning stereotypes, Kentucky has raised support for its state with the sale of Kentucky for Kentucky and Shop Local Kentucky products, for example.

Popularity for these products have only grown as more and more people sport t-shirts emblazed with “Y’all” and baseball hates embroidered with the abbreviation “Lex.” The Lexington Book Benches serve as another initiative to improve the mindset Ken-

tucky has for itself while also fighting against the stereotypes that say the state is an artless and uneducated place.

The benches seem to particularly bring a positive impact to UK’s English majors. The college occasionally offers courses which specialize in teaching its students the work of Kentucky authors. Having the opportunity to also study under some of Kentucky’s most prodigious writers seems to have made many UK English majors particularly defensive of Kentucky literature.

English junior Alec Foust said he thinks the benches are “awesome.”

“It seems like the only people you ever hear talk about Kentucky literature are people who care deeply about literature in general, which is a shame because lots of people don’t realize just how rich the commonwealth is artistically…” Foust said. “I really don’t see a downside to the project. Even if few individuals go out of their way to read books by Kentuckians, at least the city is doing something to recognize the authors and their accomplishments.”

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UK Art Museum exhibit displays photos of ‘extraordinary’ photographer Ralph Eugene Meatyard

By Arden Barnes lifestyle@kykernel.com

Ninety-nine photographs featuring men in masks, amputated dolls and abandoned houses are currently hanging on walls on UK’s campus.

The UK Art Museum’s exhibition “RALPH EUGENE MEATYARD: Stages for Being” is currently on display, showcasing a select number of photographs created by Kentucky-based photographer Ralph Eugene Meatyard.

Meatyard, who died in 1972, worked out of Lexington but hailed from Normal, Illinois.

The irony of his hometown was not lost on Janie Welker, curator of the UK Art Museum.

“It’s kind of funny,” she said, “because he’s kind of extraordinary.”

The exhibit is a set of Meatyard’s photographs that have rarely been seen before.

“It’s a unique opportunity to see some of his unseen work,” said Welker. “It’s not all of his greatest hits.”

Welker claims this show to be one of the biggest exhibitions of her career, and something “long overdue.”

Welker worked with Stuart Horodner, the director of the UK Art Museum, to sift through hundreds of photographs, cutting it down to an original 200 then cutting that in half for the final edit of 99 photographs.

“To work with this ‘trove’ of this photographer, of his work, of this place— is amazing,” Welker said.

Welker had to ask herself how to prevent the 99 photographs from overwhelming viewers. Christopher Meatyard, Ralph Eugene Meatyard’s son, suggested that the photos would work best upstairs in the museum with its smaller area and lower ceilings. Welker and Horodner agreed.

Welker worked thematically, grouping photographs together by connections she saw in her mind.

Meatyard worked with found places and found objects— creating and staging scenes for his photos and using his friends

and family as models.

“Now, no one thinks anything of staging photographs,” said Welker, “but he was one of the first.”

Guy Mendes, a longtime friend of Meatyard’s and an instructor in UK’s School of Art and Visual Studies, said that he would send objects of interest to Meatyard, which often appeared in photos months or years later.

Mendes himself made multiple appearances in his photographs. Mendes said that he’d visit Meatyard, be offered a beer, then end up in a mask within the hour.

“The major thing I learned from hanging out with him was the sense of play and exploration and experimentation,” Mendes said.

Meatyard would often have his children, wife and friends pose in masks as a way to represent “every man” or “every child.”

Meatyard was a voracious reader. The exhibit features a list of some of the books in his collection, including books full of poetry and books about history, eastern philosophy and Zen Buddhism.

“He got ideas from so many different sources,” said Welker. “They were never translated literally but everything he read informed his work.”

Meatyard’s interest in Zen is directly related to his use of anonymity in photographs.

“His emphasis on Zen was how we are all the same, what connects us on a deeper, spiritual level,” said Welker.

Dolls were also often prominent in Meatyard’s work, making appearances in old abandoned houses in Kentucky.

“If you were a doll in the Meatyard household, it was kind of a tough gig,” said Welker. “You witnessed all kinds of things, clutched by small boys that did not look very happy about it.”

One of Welker’s collections within the exhibit is called A Doll’s Tale. The doll appears in seven of Meatyard’s photographs. Welker said that she has never seen a girl holding a doll in any of Meatyard’s photographs, which broke stereo-

RALPH EUGENE MEATYARD Meatyard currently has 99 photographs, including these two, on display at the UK Art Museum.

types of the era.

“I thought it was really wonderful because it was another aspect of him confounding expectations, taking you out of what you are expected to see,” said Welker.

Meatyard was also a businessman who owned a local optical practice called Eyeglasses of Kentucky, located on Waller Avenue in the Imperial Plaza.

“He wasn’t an academic. He made eyeglasses for a living, which is sort of prophetic,” Mendes said.

Meatyard became a photographer through the influence of the Lexington Camera Club via Van Deren Coke, another internationally known photographer hailing from Kentucky.

Coke took Meatyard under his wing, who then took Mendes under his own.

“[The Lexington Camera Club] changed his life, and he in turn, changed mine,” Mendes said.

The 19-year-old Mendes was on assignment for the Kentucky Kernel, interviewing now-Kentucky poet laureate Wendell Berry, when he met Meatyard for the first time.

“There was a man with knickers and an Irish woolen hat, a strange camera with two lenses that he looked down into. He pointed it at places that made you wonder what the hell he was looking at,” Mendes said. “And that was Ralph Eugene Meatyard.”

Mendes said Meatyard was the one who changed how he thought about photography, who made him realize photography “could sing like a song or a rhyme like a poem.”

Meatyard’s impact on Mendes is obvious in his work, some of which is displayed in a secondary exhibit called “Downstage from Meatyard,”

located on the first floor of the museum. The artwork in this exhibit was inspired by Meatyard.

Mendes said that having his work displayed with Meatyard’s is an honor, but it also feels normal.

“Camera Club photographers, we’re used to showing together and seeing how our work bounces off of each other,” said Mendes. “So on the one hand it seems regular. On the other hand, it’s a thrill and a privilege.”

The work Mendes chose to show includes some photographs of his family and others of locations and subjects inspired by Meatyard.

Mendes said he’d occasionally photograph his children, who had created Meatyard-esque masks on their own.

“I would turn around; they’ve got three goggles on.

They’d have swim goggles or a knit hat pulled over the face.

Suddenly I had a little mini Meatyard photograph on my back steps,” Mendes said.

The UK Art Museum commissioned Kentucky writer Silas House to create a play based on Meatyard’s photos.

House’s play, “False Face,” was inspired by the mystery of Meatyard’s photographs, which show the complexity of humanity.

Kentucky was home to both House and Meatyard. Kentucky’s impact on Meatyard is concrete in his use of the landscape and architecture of the area.

“I think anytime you’re a writer from here or living here you can’t help but to be shaped by the place and its people,” House said. “Kentucky is a powerful and... very complicated place and that makes for great art.”

House’s short play’s first showing was Sept. 21. It will be performed again along with Kara Lee Corthron’s “Happy House” on Oct. 21 at 2 p.m. and again on Nov. 17.

“So far people have been going nuts over this show,” Welker said. “I challenge anyone to come here and not find a single photo they aren’t completely fascinated by.”

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Where to go when you need a good cry

SAADIA AKHTAR Columnist

As midterms approach and we start counting down the days until the semester ends, we sometimes need to schedule a good cry. Western Kentucky University’s “Talisman” published a humorous story in September entitled “The best places to cry on campus” in which they lightheartedly joked about the stress college can bring. Following that example, I would like to share with you the best places to cry around UK’s campus.

1. Rotunda of Willy T. The perfect acoustic setting for a nice cry session. You’re right in the middle of the library, and everyone can see what a mess you are. Don’t worry: Everyone else is a mess, too.

2. Bathrooms of Chem-Phys Many of the bathrooms of Chem-Phys have showers, so you can dramatically cry while you shower, or just so you can get a little privacy.

3. Rose Street Walkway Lying down in the middle of a road normally isn’t a good idea, but since construction always seems to be happening there, you don’t need to worry about getting run over.

4. Roof of the Rose Street Parking Structure (preferably at sunset) The views from the roof are phenomenal and watching the sunset from there is even more so. If you’re going to cry anyway, at least you’ll have a view, right?

5. Third floor of JSB, behind a study room, with the comfortable seats that have built-in chargers Jacobs Science Building is the perfect place to cry after failing your chemistry exam. There are so many little nooks with seating areas, so you have the perfect amount of privacy, not to mention the seats have built-in chargers, so you can play on your phone for as long as you want.

6. Bowman’s Statue.

Bowman is an ICON. So many people come here to take pictures, especially a lot of incoming freshmen. Do them a service by crying on Bowman, to prepare them for how stressful college will be.

7. Basement of Whitehall I don’t know how many of you have been in the basement of Whitehall, but it is creepy. If you want to cry somewhere, but also have a desire to be murdered by a serial killer, this is the ideal place.

8. The balcony near the Auntie Anne’s in the Gatton Student Center Get some fresh air and take advantage of the nice, new student center during your cry fest. And crying works up an appetite, so once you’re done, you can get a warm pretzel.

9. In front of the president’s house Maxwell Place is conveniently located on campus and the grounds are accessible to students. Besides a nice garden, there are some benches to sit on as well.

10. Counseling Center In all seriousness, college can be stressful. If you need someone to talk to or someone to cry with, make an appointment with the Counseling Center in Frazee Hall.

Let’s get rid of the ‘overachiever’ stigma your work and grades. And

SARAH LADD somehow, this is now a negOpinions Editor

Somewhere around week five of the semester is when that extra espresso in your coffee at 5 p.m. is totally acceptable because you’re not going to sleep anyway and the beautiful 100 percent you had in the class drops to an 80 for God knows what reason (but truthfully, we all know it’s because you slept through your alarms and missed attendance).

We’ve all been there: Showing up to class late and not even trying to apologize anymore because you’ve run out of creative excuses and you care less and less about your papers that are piling up with spite on the corner of the kitchen table. Somewhere around this time, when most of your classmates have this attitude, is when you’re singled out as an “overachiever” if you still care about

ative thing.

Somewhere along the way, the exhaustion we all experience as college students became a unifying topic that made some care less about why we’re here: to learn. Not just to pass classes and check off requirement boxes, but to truly learn. And we can only do that by truly caring.

Exhaustion has evolved into apathy and is uniting friend circles around campus for all the wrong reasons. We have to end this.

We must get rid of the immature jabs at other students who show interest in pouring energy into a paper, class discussions or a project. When “Let’s go hang tonight” is met with “No, I have to study” and somehow, the person studying is the “boring” person, we have a societal problem.

Learning should never be treated as something that’s out of style. I know, I know, I can see the eye rolls now.

I’ve been told by friends,

family and even mentors that I am an overachiever.

I’m curious when caring became so unfashionable?

If you follow my columns, you know that I will always urge self-care and a focus on mental health and relaxation. But I also urge you to knuckle down and give 100 percent to your classes and to your college experience.

We’re not here to make friends and party (though those are nice perks). We’re here to lay the foundation for a successful and dynamic career where we can make a difference on our world.

Have fun. Party. Make friends. But care about your grades, too. Take time to study and pour energy into classes. In 20 years, don’t be like the person in the limelight that you may criticize now for lack of clear thought. Learn now how to be a well thought-out and intelligent human being. You can only do that through applying yourself and owning the label of “overachiever” as something to be proud of.

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Remember Columbus Day; remember we are all immigrants

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This Columbus Day, let us as a campus community work to end the national immigration divide by focusing on our roots.

No matter how long our families have been in this country, nearly every American has one thing in common: immigration.

A lot of people around the world celebrate Columbus Day, and for Americans it’s Oct. 8.

On this day, we acknowledge Christopher Columbus’s landing in the Americas in 1492, a feat many once incorrectly dubbed “discovery.” What we like to ignore as a nation is the fact that this country was inhabited already, and because of that, many argue that we should not celebrate this day. The waves of Europeans who came over after the Nina, Pinta and Santa Maria set sail did not settle this coun-

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try. It was already settled and belonged to many tribes of Native Americans. Everything we call our own about this country was stolen, and in order to move forward in a healthy way, we have to admit this to ourselves.

As many of us know, Columbus arrived in South America in what is now Venezuela, incorrectly assuming he had arrived in India. To this day, many people refer to Native Americans as “Indians,” an insulting misnomer at best. European introduction to America set into motion what would lay the foundation for the American Dream: genocide, persecution and theft. Though this language seems harsh, it is important to remind ourselves of these truths, especially as our country faces controversial discussions on immigration again.

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We cannot talk about the immigration issues facing our country now without acknowledging these historical facts.

There has been a divide in our country lately over what it means to be an American and who all should be able to claim that title.

We at the Kernel would like to use this holiday to remind our campus community that we all started out as immigrants, and discrimination against current immigrants is hypocrisy.

Beginning in June of 2018, perhaps one of the most controversial immigration issues of our lifetime arose: family separation at the southern U.S. border following several new immigration tactics from the Trump administration. We all remember the weeks following. Pictures flooded the internet of crying children,

distraught parents and angry politicians. Then came the reuniting phase. According to AP News on July 27, 1,820 children had been reunited with their families.

People both supporting and vehemently opposing the zero-tolerance policy that separated so many families took to social media to express their views, and there was a common phrase in the arguments of the people who supported the separations: “send them back where they belong,” a phrase that suggests a lack of empathy and understanding of this nation’s history.

Part of the beauty of America is that anyone can belong here.

It is part of the miracle of adoption. Diversity of backgrounds, ethnicities, religions and races is what separates our country from others. At the heart of who we

are meant to be, we are meant to advocate for adoption. This country doesn’t rightly belong to any one set of people. Many have used the argument that we have to protect our borders.

This is in many ways a separate discussion, but we will say that opening our doors and hearts to people in need is one of the most patriotic things we can do as Americans.

This Columbus Day, let’s all focus on what binds us. This country has done many things that none of us are proud of.

Let’s not repeat history. Let’s not lose our humanity over greed, a sense of border privilege or misplaced nationalism. The beauty that is America is that we invite all people with open arms and that everyone has an equal chance to succeed.

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MEN’S BASKETBALL SEASON 2018-19 Oct. 12

Big Blue Madness

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Oct. 21

Blue-White Game

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Oct. 26

Transylvania

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7 p.m.

Nov. 2

Indiana-Pennsylvania

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Nov. 6

Duke

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Nov. 9

Southern Illinois

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7 p.m.

Nov. 14

North Dakota

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9 p.m.

Nov. 18

VMI

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Winthrop

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Tennessee State

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Monmouth

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UNC Greensboro

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Seton Hall

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Utah

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North Carolina

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Louisville

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2 p.m.

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Jan. 8

Alabama

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Texas A&M

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Vanderbilt

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Georgia

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7 p.m.

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Auburn

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Mississippi State

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Kansas

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Vanderbilt

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9 p.m.

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Florida

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South Carolina

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Mississippi State

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LSU

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Tennessee

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Missouri

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Auburn

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Arkansas

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Tennessee

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Mississippi

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Florida

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Big Blue Madness: Is it an effective recruiting tool?

By Chase Campbell sports@kykernel.com

Over the years at UK, Big Blue Madness, the annual open practice held for the basketball team, has been one of the most talked about recruiting tools for John Calipari and the Cats.

When a recruit is on the fence or deciding between schools, the unified message from the fan base is “Just wait until they go to Big Blue Madness.”

But is it effective?

In 2017, the numbers were a wash for the Cats. Immanuel Quickley came to the event as UK’s first commit, which he had announced the month before. D.J. Jeffries, the 2019 recruit, had yet to commit. He committed later to the Cats, but decommitted earlier this year.

As for the other players in attendance, they haven’t all selected their schools yet. Of those that have, none of them have been Kentucky.

Zion Williamson went to Duke, Bol Bol went to Oregon and Darius Garland went to Vanderbilt. Williamson was greeted with cheers of “we want Zion” and had a UK basketball thrown at him to sign. When Williamson visited Duke, the school played “Every Time we Touch” by Cascada.

2016 was a much more effective

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year for the event. Quade Green, Kevin Knox, Nick Richards and P.J. Washington all committed to the Cats after the event, with Knox waiting a whole seven months to make his call.

The Cats added even more firepower for future classes, with Ashton Hagans and Quickley both committing to this year’s Cats long after the event.

In 2015, De’Aaron Fox, Malik Monk and Sacha Killeya-Jones were the commitments the team received after the event, with Monk surprising the nation by not selecting Arkansas.

Killeya-Jones was already committed to Kentucky when he came to the event. Alabama’s John Petty and Duke/Sacramento Kings forward Harry Giles, then the No. 1 recruit in the class, also attended the event.

The Cats nearly blanked in 2014.

They got Charles Matthews, who ended up transferring to Michigan. No other players that attended the event that year became UK players. They may not have liked Drake’s airball.

2013 was a much more successful year. The Cats got Tyler Ulis, Karl-Anthony Towns and Trey Lyles to commit, although Ulis and Towns came to the event already dedicated to Big Blue Nation. Towns had attended the event the year before and committed two months after that first trip.

This set up one of the biggest, if not the biggest, piece to UK’s 38-1 Final

TAYLOR PENCE Isaac Humphries is introduced during Big Blue Madness on Friday, Oct. 14, 2016, at Rupp Arena in Lexington, Kentucky.

Four run in 2015 with Towns.

2012, for the ratio, was the most successful Big Blue Madness for recruiting. It was the year the Cats were coming off their championship, and first overall draft pick Anthony Davis was still a fresh memory for everyone in attendance. Of the nine players who attended the event, seven ended up being Wildcats. Towns and Lyles attended the next year’s Madness as well, but 2012 was enough for the junior Towns. He committed two months af-

ter the event.

Other gets for the Cats that year include the Harrison twins, James Young, Marcus Lee and Derek Willis.

Willis was committed long before his Madness visit, however.

In 2011, the Cats got commitments from Archie Goodwin, Willie Cauley-Stein, Alex Poythress and the Harrison twins (who went to Madness twice), all of whom ended up playing on an NBA roster. Shabazz Muhammad and Dajuan Coleman were the

two recruits in attendance who didn’t become Wildcats.

In 2010, the Cats had 100 percent success, getting all four high school recruits in attendance to commit to the school. Davis and Michael KiddGilchrist were the No. 1 and No. 2 NBA Draft picks after their freshman year, while Kyle Wiltjer and Marquis Teague were key pieces of UK’s championship run.

The first year of Calipari’s tenure, 2009, was mostly unsuccessful. Kyrie Irving and Tobias Harris, now NBA starters, both attended the event but neither committed to UK. Irving went to Duke, while Harris went to Tennessee.

Overall, Big Blue Madness seems to have some recruiting effect, but not the massive pull that is touted by the fan base. Team success appears to have as much to do with recruiting as anything, as 2010 (the John Wall/DeMarcus Cousins year) and 2012 (the national championship) were the top years for UK recruits, in terms of the ratio of committed players to attending players.

This year, the Cats are coming in with commitments already from Tyrese Maxey, Kahlil Whitney and Dontaie Allen. The late-night event at this point is a formality for them, but other recruits may find the school appealing after the show.

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Calipari making the most out of his limited time at UK

By Chris Leach sports@kykernel.com

Being the head coach of the Kentucky men’s basketball team is not a job people typically hold onto forever, history shows.

In Kentucky’s history, only four coaches have coached the Wildcats longer than 10 years. If you take out Adolph Rupp’s 42-year stint as Kentucky’s coach, only Joe B. Hall and Tubby Smith have coached at Kentucky for at least double-digit years.

Kentucky’s current head coach John Calipari is entering his 10th year as the head coach of the Wildcats, making him a rarity in Kentucky coaches. Calipari said he did not know much longer he could keep balancing the many things that comes with being Kentucky’s head coach.

“I can remember asking coach [Joe B.] Hall how long of a run is this and he said about 10 years,” Calipari said. “The lifespan of a president, an athletic director, this level of coaching, it’s usually about 10 years and then after that stuff gets harder and harder.”

It’s more about how is this affecting the people around you for me. The longer I do this, the less it’s about what I’ve accomplished.

John Calipari What makes coaching at Kentucky difficult for anybody, including Calipari, is all the extra activities Calipari does away from coach-

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Jemarl Baker Jr.

HUNTER MITCHELL Head coach John Calipari speaks with the media during the open practice at Baker’s Life Fieldhouse on Thursday, March 16, 2017, in Indianapolis, Indiana.

ing his team. Recruiting, keeping in touch with former players in the NBA and showing up for promotional or charitable events are some of the things Calipari does besides coach his team.

“It’s not just coaching, it’s not just sitting in a chair, its not just watching game-tape, it’s not – you’re involved in a lot of stuff here,” Calipari said. “If you don’t want to take that on, this is probably the wrong job.”

As tough as the job is, and as much as it’s aged him, he admits, Calipari said he still finds joy in the daily tasks he does, which is what makes it hard for him to think about stepping away.

The biggest joy Calipari gets from this job is the impacts he makes on people’s lives. Every year, Calipari turns players whose families don’t have stable financial situations to millionaires because of their basketball talent.

Malik Monk and Bam Adebayo are some recent examples.

“That’ll keep me going and if I ever get to a point where I’m not feeling that I’m having that kind of impact, that the program is not

having that kind of impact, then that’s when you start thinking,” Calipari said.

Another thing Calipari enjoys in being Kentucky’s head coach is the power that comes with the title.

Calipari’s face is printed on billboards all over the state, and he is probably one of the more popular individuals in Kentucky.

“You come after me, this army comes after you,” Calipari said. “So if you’re going to say something, you better be right, because if you’re not, that’s part of being here.

I don’t have to defend myself.”

Even as enjoyable as coaching Kentucky and impacting people’s lives are, Calipari knows his remaining time at Kentucky is short. In his time left at Kentucky, his priority is not to win another national championship or win Coach of the Year; it’s about continuing to make an impact like he has the past 10 years.

“It’s more about how is this affecting the people around you for me,” Calipari said “The longer I do this, the less it’s about what I’ve accomplished.”

Brad Calipari

Jonny David

Quade Green

What is your pre-game superstition or ritual?

P.J. Washington:

“I like listening to love songs; I like listening to Beyonce and stuff like that. I don’t know why but it just works for me.”

Quade Green:

Eat M&M’s. “It’s chocolate; chocolate gives you energy.”

Tyler Herro:

“I try to eat Noodles & Company before every game. I did that in high school and it worked so I just kept doing it.”

Jemarl Baker:

“Usually I listen to slow music before the game. I already be ready for the game and passionate about it so if I’m just listening to fast music and hyped up music I just start going crazy, so I like to slow my mind down. Marvin Gaye, old stuff. Old slow stuff.

Why did you choose UK? Immanuel Quickley:

“I thought Coach Cal kept it real real with me. I’ve never been lied to by my mom, she always kept it real with me and told me what I needed to hear and not what I wanted to hear, and I think that’s what Coach Cal did differently.”

Keldon Johnson:

“Coach Cal was very honest from the jump. His approach was different, very challenging. With him being that challenging, how could you turn it down? Being the competitor I am, it was just like ‘I want to be there.’”

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Q&A with the men’s basketball team

Ashton Hagans

Tyler Herro

Keldon Johnson

E.J. Montgomery

Zan Payne

Immanuel Quickley

Nick Richards

Reid Travis

P.J. Washington

What is your favorite activity other than basketball?

What is the funniest thing Calipari says or does?

“I like shopping for clothes, I like looking at clothes.... [My closet is] full, I’m out of hangers so I’m gonna have to go buy some hangers.”

His stories. “There was one time in practice, I was like off to the side and he said something about a player and I was like ‘Here comes a story.’ I literally told the story as he was saying it to one of the managers, and the manager started laughing.”

Jemarl Baker:

Keldon Johnson:

Fishing. “We and KP [Kenny Payne] got to set up some dates where we can go fishing.”

Quade Green:

Drawing. “Now I just try to draw action figures, ninja turtles, I might draw my family. I ain’t Picasso now, but it’s something nice.”

Jonny David:

Traveling. “Italy is probably my favorite, with South Africa with safaris and that kind of stuff. China was pretty cool. Alaska was really neat, too.”

P.J. Washington:

Spending time with family. “I obviously don’t get a lot of time to spend with them so I try to cherish every moment I have with them.”

Jonny David:

PJ Washington:

When he gets on Quade. “Quade always tries to get his answer and it just goes badly. It’s just hilarious.”

Reid Travis:

“He switches gears probably the best I’ve ever seen as far as going from coach mode, to making a joke about someone, to laughing about something. Like it kind of catches you off guard at first.”

Nick Richards:

His impersonations. “Never accurate.”

Quade Green:

Picking on Brad. “Him being on Brad might be the funniest thing ever, ‘cause Brad can’t say nothing, and he’s his son so he’s like– Brad is stuck.”

If you could have a super power, what would it be?

Ashton Hagans:

Tyler Herro:

Reading minds. “If they want to say something but don’t have the balls to say it, so I could see what they’re thinking and then I can address it.”

Flying. “I hate driving, so I’d just fly everywhere.”

Quade Green:

Invisibility. “I don’t like people knowing where I be at.”

Teleportation. “Once I’m done working out I can get right to my bed. If I’m late, if about to be late somewhere I could just get right there.”

Brad Calipari:

E.J. Montgomery:

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JORDAN PRATHER I STAFF Reid Travis poses for a photo during UK Men’s Basketball media photo day on Sept. 20, 2018 at Memorial Coliseum in Lexington, Kentucky.

Travis prepared to use his experience to be a team leader

By Erika Bonner sports@kykernel.com

Experience and maturity— two things the Kentucky basketball team hasn’t had in a single player in quite some time.

This year that changes with the addition of Stanford graduate Reid Travis.

In June of 2018, Travis announced that he would be taking his talents to UK as a graduate transfer. Travis is the first incoming transfer Kentucky has added since Mychal Mulder in the 20152016 season.

Along with his raw basketball talents, the 6-foot-8, 238-pounder brings toughness, physicality and experience to this young Kentucky team, which we saw glimpses of in the Cats’ August trip to the Bahamas.

At Stanford, Travis was a two-time First Team AllPac-12 selection and threeyear captain. Last season he averaged 19.5 points per game and 8.7 rebounds per game, which was good for third in the PAC-12. He is one of three players in Stanford program history with at least 1,400 points and 700

rebounds in less than 100 career games, and graduated 16th on Stanford’s career scoring list with 1,427 points and 758 rebounds.

Since being at Kentucky, Travis said the thing that has taken him by surprise the most was Big Blue Nation.

“The fan support is one thing that really hit me,” Travis said. “I know when I decided to come here a lot of people were like, ‘You don’t understand what type of fan support they have until you’re really in it,’ and I didn’t. I mean, everywhere I go people are talking about the games and giving you a lot of support and encouragement.”

Already being a college basketball player for four years, his experience is expected to help Kentucky a lot this year. At the same time, though, Travis said he’s excited to exchange ideas and collaborate with the sophomores who have already played a year of Kentucky basketball and know what it’s like.

Because of his experience and his age, he’ll most likely be viewed as one of the main leaders for this team

even though he’s only been a part of the program for a few months. Travis said he expected that to happen before he arrived.

“I knew that because of my age, including my experience, you’re kind of put into that role to be a leader, which is right,” Travis said.

“The teams that I’ve been on I’ve always been a captain, I’ve always been a leader, so I take that role on and I like being in that role.”

Travis said he enjoys being around the younger guys because they listen and they’re “hungry,” and he said that’s the biggest thing he could ask for when he’s trying to be the leader of a team.

According to Travis, the Kentucky fan base is sure to give this team extra motivation when the players hit the hardwood this season.

“You kind of just see the passion and the love they have for basketball and they have for you as a team,” Travis said. “It really makes you want to do them proud and really put on for them when you get into these games and work even that much harder.”

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