Kentucky Kernel: September 10, 2019

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LOOKING BACK, MOVING FORWARD MEMORIAL HALL TO BE CLOSED TO SOME REQUIRED COURSES

UK will close Memorial Hall to required courses starting in the spring semester in an attempt to shield students who are offended by the building’s mural that has been the subject of years of campus debate.

Ann Rice O’Hanlon’s 1934 fresco depicts the origins of Kentucky up until the time it was painted. The mural includes controversial representations of historical places and people, that ultimately led to it being covered in two separate instances in 2015 and then again in April 2019.

UK spokesperson Jay Blanton told the Lexington Herald-Leader that large lecture classes in anatomy, psychology and sociology were already planned for the fall semester, but they will be moved for spring.

Groups who choose to use the space will be able to do so.

The Herald-Leader reported that the mural will be uncovered again, but it’s not exactly clear as to what the building will

become.

Last year, artist Karyn Olivier was chosen to create a piece that added greater context to the mural and continue the discussion around how race is represented in historical pieces of art.

CENTRAL-CAMPUS BAGEL HUB CLOSED INDEFINITELY

Bagel lovers beware: UK’s Einstein Bagels has closed its doors indefinitely.

The popular coffee and bagel hub in the Chemistry and Physics Building closed at the end of the recent spring semester because of ongoing construction to the building.

UK spokesperson Jay Blanton said that Einstein’s eventual re-opening would coincide with the completion of the building’s second phase of construction, which isn’t slated to begin until 2021.

The Einstein’s staff who manned the bagel shop were re-assigned to work at other campus dining locations.

CONTACT NEW BIKE REPAIR STATIONS CYCLE THEIR WAY ONTO CAMPUS

UK cyclists angling for a tune-up, look no further than your own campus.

New-and-improved bike repair stations – outfitted with several retractable tools for cyclists in dire straits – have been installed at nine handy locations around UK’s campus.

The new fix-it stations replaced earlier versions installed in 2012. According to a press release, the new iterations feature two tire levers; a multi-tool; a Philips screwdriver; a flathead screwdriver; four wrenches in varying sizes; an Allen key/hex key and an air pump. Every tool is formatted for easy on-the-go use.

According to Sandra Broadus, UK’s Alternative Transportation Manager, the previous fix-it stations were due for repair.

Broadus said the old stations’ air pumps malfunctioned often, according to student complaints. After UK’s supplier stopped manufacturing the pump, officials with Transportation Services took it as a sign that change was due.

Although the new stations include the same set of tools as its predecessors, the new tools should prove more durable, according to a UK press release.

Here’s where they’re located:

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By Amanda Bryant

$53 million UK law building set to open for classes this semester

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University of Kentucky law students now have a new place to call home.

The estimated $53 million dollar UK Law building, located beside Memorial Hall and under renovation since summer 2017, is open, according to the College of Law website.

“The building is state of the art, but we have such a strong bond between faculty, staff and students and it is continuing to grow stronger being able to collaborate in one space together,” third year law student and Student Bar Association President Chyna Hibbitts said.

Classes from the old law building were temporarily relocated to neighboring buildings such as the Lexington Seminary Building, Memorial Hall and at the Gatton College of Business and Economics.

The former College of Law building had been standing since 1965. After being relied upon for over half a century, the building had not grown with changing educational needs of law students, which brought up the conversation of renovation according to the website.

“At UK Law, we pride ourselves on providing a high-quality, yet affordable, legal education that effectively prepares graduates for their professional careers and community leadership and impact,”

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Students walk to the UK Law Building on campus on Friday, September 6, 2019 in Lexington, Kentucky.

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A student studies in the library in the UK Law Building on campus on Friday, September 6, 2019 in Lexington, Kentucky. ARDEN BARNES I STAFF

College of Law Dean and Professor of Law David Brennan said in a letter to students before renovations began.

The new building hous-

es study space, a small courtroom and improved classrooms. The building has open spaces on each floor with classrooms and space for personal lock-

ers. A library is available as well inside the building with seating available for studying.

Along with structural changes, the building now has a Common Grounds coffee shop in it.

There are also currently vending machines in the lower level student lounge, along with the student organization quarters. The lounge is unlocked during the daytime hours—however, law students can access it 24 hours a day with a key swipe. Students have access to a refrigerator and microwave as well in the lounge.

Two terrace spaces are available to students to enjoy fresh air and gaze over the campus with a view

facing Memorial Hall and another facing South Limestone toward Nicholasville Rd. Breastfeeding mothers have access to a lactation room and their own fridge to store breastmilk and faculty and staff have respective lounge areas as well.

Being in one college building for most classes is something that can unite a group of students and allow them to know each other, Hibbitts said.

“We are all still learning our way around the building, but the sense of community is already starting to show,” said Hibbitts.

Hibbitts said that without the College of Law building there was limited space to study, classes

could be hard to hear and no place was their own.

She would hunt down an unused conference room to study in or simply study at home.

“It’s just nice to have our own space again, to know what it’s like to be in a traditional law school, to have a law library,” said Hibbitts.

Some law students stay in the building the majority of a school day studying and resting when time allows between classes.

“For the most part, students are there all day,” said Hibbitts.

Some former students recalled what was known as the “dirty lounge” on the UK College of Law Facebook page posts about the renovations.

“It was the lounge where you could eat, smoke and hang out on couches … it also had tables and vending machines,” said 1992 UK College of Law graduate Laura Hendrix.

The students had distinguished the hang out and eating space as “dirty” while the space reserved for study and quiet was termed “clean.”

“The ‘clean lounge’ was quiet and you didn’t eat or smoke in it. It wasn’t a negative term – just a way to distinguish between the two,” said Hendrix.

After hearing about the changes made, Hendrix said she “would’ve loved a coffee shop” during her time at UK. Law students can expect to begin occupying the new building this semester.

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Belle’s brings eccentricity to Lexington bar scene

By Jacob Eads news@kykernel.com

There’s only one place in Lexington where you can grab a bourbon slushy with a taxidermy water buffalo and a Victorian-era brothel owner – that’s Belle’s Cocktail House.

The city’s eccentric three-story rooftop bar may sit quietly at the corner of Church and Market streets during the week, but when Thursday hits, it welcomes UK’s students with open arms and unique cocktails.

But if you’ve never ventured over to Belle’s place here’s a rundown of what it has to offer: Belle’s has a reputation of catering to Lexington’s older bar crowd, but each of its three floors has something to offer everyone.

“I think that’s what’s kind of cool about this place. Each floor has a little different atmosphere, and as the night goes on it’s a different age group of people that come in. I think we we’ve built up a wide array of people,” said Belle’s general manager Jason Curstinger.

Make it past the bouncer at the door, and on Belle’s first floor you’ll find a bustling bar with hundreds of beer, wine and bourbon options sure to keep you on your toes.

If you’re feeling adventurous, take it up a notch and head up to the second-floor and grab a seat on the bar’s Victorian-era furniture and enjoy your drink with any one of Belle’s taxidermy animals that keep a watchful eye on the bar’s patrons.

But Belle’s biggest attraction is its rooftop patio that gives visitors a glimpse of the city skyline and can even cool them down with its Ale-8 and Maker’s Mark bourbon slushy machine. Curtsinger said the machine came with its own recipe, but Belle’s added more bourbon.

Belle’s staff prides itself on its list of eccentric cocktails like its bourbon slushies, but says it’s signature drink is probably the “Naked in the Garden,” a Wheatley Vodka drink infused with cucumber, mixed with a strawberry kiwi shrub and with muddled strawberries and lemons top it off.

Belle’s staff said it’s this attention to the details and it’s atmosphere that sets their place apart from Lexington’s college bars.

“It’s kind of off-thebeaten path. It’s more of a destination bar…people have to want to come here,” said assistant manager Natalie White.

UK student Latoya Walker said that Belle’s offers an escape from South Limestone’s typical college bars.

“I know of a lot of older people that come here, but I feel like there are definitely some younger people who find it nice,” Walker said. “I don’t really like the ‘college bars’ like Two Keys and Tin Roof.”

But even for the most frequent of Belle’s visitors, the bar’s bizarre history hides some secrets that set it apart from the rest of the city’s watering holes.

Belle’s is actually named after Madame Belle

Bar-goers visit and enjoy drinks on the rooftop at Belle’s Cocktail House on Friday, September 6, in downtown Lexington, Kentucky. ARDEN BARNES I STAFF

Brezing, a 19th century brothel owner who’s been called “Lexington’s Most Famous Lady.” A portrait of Brezing hangs in homage inside of the bar.

Brezing was born in 1860 Lexington, the illegitimate daughter to a dressmaker and occasional prostitute, according to the UK libraries.

Maryjean Wall, the author of “Madam Belle: Sex, Money, and Influence in a Southern Brothel,” said that Brezing had a “very unfortunate way of starting out.”

“It was a small city, so everybody knew ev-

erybody else’s business, and the newspaper would publish items about her and her mother, and so the newspaper was cruel,” Wall said. “Everybody knew who Belle was by the time she was 10 years old.

And then by the time she was a young teenager, she was working as a (prostitute), and her mother was dead by then.”

Wall said that Brezing eventually reinvented herself into a powerful business women who operated a series of brothels catering to the city’s elite and other influential visitors from around the country.

“I think she had a lot more influence than people wanted to give her credit for...,” Wall said. “I have to wonder, how much was she really pulling the strings that ran the city? I think that’s the big question behind the story of Belle Brezing. The police didn’t touch her. She knew a judge, and I think she probably knew a lot of city officials.”

Although Belle’s Cocktail House has no actual ties to Brezing, the two share an eerie similarity.

It was Brezing’s third brothel on what is now Lexington’s N. Eastern

Street that was the most popular, according to Wall.

But on two separate instances, fires ripped apart the third floor of the mansion – once in 1895, and later in the 1970’s long after Brezing’s death.

In August 2018, a fire tore through the third-floor rooftop of Belle’s Cocktail House decimating that portion of the bar. Belle’s staff say that this spooky coincidence just adds to the bar’s intrigue.

So if you’re planning to make a trip over to Belle’s this semester, make sure to say hi to Madame Belle Brezing.

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JUST GETTING STARTED

Second-term SGA President Hamilton seeks to build on last year’s foundation

BY SARAH MICHELS UK SGA President Michael Hamilton poses for a portrait on Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2019, at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, Kentucky. MICHAEL CLUBB I STAFF

Michael Hamilton rarely speaks in the first person singular.

“We”, “Us” and “Our” permeate his vocabulary, while “I”, “me” and “my” stay hidden in the background.

Hamilton, president of UK’s Student Government Association, is all about the team—his team.

It doesn’t take long to discover this mentality.

He easily rattles off nearly a dozen of his laundry list of mentors and role models. Each one, including former SGA leaders, UK administrators and his fraternity big brother, has had a potent impact on him. It’s a long but short list for Hamilton.

“I love to talk to people. I like to make friends,” Hamilton said while laughing. “I know those sound really basic but they get lost with some leaders. A lot of times when people end up in positions like this, it’s all about the work and what we can get done, but one of the things I have enjoyed most and that I would consider a strength is building those relationships with people across campus.”

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For him, it’s what the job is all about. He judges his success based on the relationships he builds, the students he helps and the lives he improves.

“He’s got a lot of best friends,” said Kat Speece, SGA Vice President.

One of the top items on Hamilton’s agenda is breaking the glass ceiling.

“Student government hasn’t traditionally been a very representative place on campus,” said Speece. “So when Michael took office for the first term, he was very intentional about making sure that the people serving on our board look like the people walking around campus.”

Tucker Lovett, who has run for president against Hamilton twice, also speaks highly of his inclusion efforts.

“I think Michael has really done a great job of bringing a solid voice for under-represented students here at UK,” Lovett said.

“Making sure everyone feels welcome has been the backbone of both his campaigns and I think students really like to hear that.”

However, in Michael’s eyes, he still has a long way to go.

During his second term, he is eager to continue chipping at the glass box he believes has historically surrounded student government, especially after last minute write-in candidates Juwan Page and Lidya Azad garnered over 15 percent of the vote in last year’s elections.

“Their campaign reflects that need for us to do that intentional and genuine outreach to students, especially students in marginalized groups on campus,” said Hamilton. “During our first administration we tried to break some of those barriers down, but that campaign was a bright red indicator for us that we can’t rest on anybody’s laurels.”

Hamilton’s goal for the year is to bridge student divides in a way that everyone feels heard.

He will need the talent and expertise of his team to pull it off.

Specifically, he is happy to have Chandler Frierson, the Director of Inclusion and Outreach, as a partner in this goal.

Frierson supported Page and

Azad’s campaign during last year’s elections. Frierson told the Kernel last spring that the Page and Azad campaign created more space for student opinion to be heard.

“It’s a statement of the power that people of historically underrepresented backgrounds can have when we put our minds together,” Frierson told the Kernel last Spring.

Last year, in addition to being a SGA senator, Frierson was one of the founders of the Black Student Advisory Council—one of the groups which occupied the Main Building in protest of how UK has treated minority students.

This year, Frierson is working with the Hamilton-Speece administration to help them connect to underrepresented students in the way that Page and Azad were able. Frierson declined to comment for this article.

“I think that the write-in campaign has to be commended. I mean, they communicated with students, they struck a chord with communities on campus, we just have to understand that better

and grow from it,” said Hamilton. “I’m really excited for the work Chandler and his team have queued up and I hope that it’s a genuine effort to learn more about campus, to learn more about students.”

This effort includes creating more permanent spots for the student voice where decisions are being made at UK. While administrators often call him to be “the student in the room”, Hamilton tries to delegate standing committee and workgroup spots to a representative sample of students.

Speece said he often walks out of meetings with lists of students he wants to put on a panel.

“If he knows he is unaware of a topic he will go out of his way to find students who are personally impacted and find out about their experience to make sure the administration is listening to all voices,” Speece said.

Although he has been a staunch opponent to Hamilton and doesn’t always agree with him, former opponent Lovett said that Hamilton always takes the time to hear differing opinions

Tuesday, September 10, 2019 and thoroughly considers them before making a decision. That hasn’t changed his second term.

“He has assembled a diverse team that works well with one another,” said Lovett. “I think there are lots of great things in store for SGA this year.”

Hamilton’s willingness to listen goes beyond the job. He regularly has “friendship meals” with his team, scheduling time to take a break from the work to talk about life and enjoy each other’s presence.

“You feel like you can always be a friend of his. He gets to know all of his team members as people, as students, not just as ‘Director of X’,” said Speece.

Speece met Hamilton freshman year when they participated in SGA’s Leadership Development Program together. They both ran for freshman Senate— Hamilton got it, Speece didn’t.

But there are no hard feelings, she said.

During Michael’s first term as president, Speece was working as Director of Government Relations and Civic Engagement.

The pair quickly realized their leadership styles and work ethic complimented each other, and so when the time came for elections, they ran on the same ticket.

“I think one of the main things I’ve learned from Michael is empathy,” Speece said. “He always puts the person first. That’s really affected the way I see others—I’m learning how to give more grace.”

Hamilton’s grace is accompanied by a drive for constant improvement. He said that during his second term he has a lot more he wants to accomplish.

“I think in the first term— and any president will tell you this—there’s just an almost unsurmountable learning curve,” said Hamilton. “You really spend the first half of your year learning about your job and how different things operate and building relationships. And so a lot of people really only get a few months of serving as an effective president.”

Throughout his first year,

Hamilton built relationships with administrators, student leaders and other important people on campus. His main objective was to create a stronger SGA presence among the student body, despite a historical connotation that student government didn’t need to focus on outreach or putting on events.

“We were to stay in our office, do our work, advocate for students and that was it,” said Hamilton. “But I think what got lost in that was the connection to campus.”

Hamilton vowed to change the narrative. With each event his team organized, they pinned a new poster to the SGA conference room wall. The wall, inundated with flyers, is representative of their intentional effort.

“It marked a shift in student government that I think was desperately needed,” said Hamilton.

However, he is nowhere near satisfied. Now that his team has built a network of relationships and created a surface-level interaction with students, Hamilton said he’s eager to be an effective and efficient leader from day one.

“This year our mantra is going to be really intentional outreach,” said Hamilton. “In the past, we’ve had this idea that if students are concerned, they’ll come to us.

But we’ve realized that students are sometimes intimidated.”

So instead of waiting for students to come to meetings and visit their office in the Student Center of their own accord, this year’s student government will meet people where they already are.

“Now, I think a lot of students see us as that starting point for if they have a problem or concern,” he said. “But I want them to be comfortable walking into the office and saying, ‘Hey, I’ve got five minutes—I need to talk about something.’”

Hamilton didn’t always know he wanted to be a part of student government—he wasn’t even sure he wanted to run for a second time. But when someone recently asked him what he liked to do

(left to right) Candidates for SGA vice president, Andy Flood, and president, Tucket Lovett, listen as current president Michael Hamilton and director of government relations Katherine Speece voice their concerns to the judicial panel on Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2019, at the Gatton College of Business in Lexington, Kentucky.

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outside of SGA, a realization hit.

“It’s weird. I didn’t have an answer,” said Hamilton. “When you’re in spaces like this and you have jobs like this, for me—and this is when you know you’re supposed to be in the work you do—it becomes what you’re anxious to do, what you’re looking forward to do.”

Now, he is considering making university leadership part of his post-undergraduate future.

He had always thought he would pursue a law degree, but the advocacy, networking and work of higher education has caused him to re-evaluate his plans.

“You have the ability to make change and improve the lives of the people who call your university home with the stroke of a pen,” Hamilton said. “It’s been rewarding for me to watch that and so it’s hard to count it out as something I want to do with my future.”

UK SGA President Michael Hamilton speaks during a SGA meeting on Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2019, in the senate chamber at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, Kentucky. MICHAEL CLUBB I STAFF

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The online class fee price hike came too quickly

By Joslyn Porter opinions@kykernel.com

As a freshman student with a heavy course load, I was interested in registering in online sections for some of my classes.

For the sake of convenience and saving myself a dreaded and unnecessary 8 a.m. walk to class, I enrolled for two online classes.

While initially this just seemed like a time-saver, I was not fully aware how much money I would be spending to take class online.

The UK Online Pricing FAQ web page states that, as of the 2019-2020 academic year, online classes now have a $575 or $601 per credit hour fee attached. The former amount applies to students taking an entirely online course-load, while the latter applies to students who study in part online and part on-campus. These fees are in addition to regular tuition costs, and have risen drastically from the $10 per-credit-hour distance learning fee that applied to on-

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$$$ GRAPHIC BY HALEY ROBEY line classes last semester. To help cover part of the fee, UK offers returning students (and all those already registered for online courses) who qualify for financial aid a transition grant

in order to lower the price of an online class.

In late July, the UK student body was notified of this price hike. These changes would take effect not next fall, but this fall

– students were given notification less than a month before class. By this time, many students would have been enrolled in classes for months, and many classes are full which would make switching out on online classes difficult.

Students enrolled in online classes were notified about the price changes in an email back in June. The email described the tuition grant option as follows: “As a student enrolled in a mix of traditional and online courses, you may be eligible for Transition Grant funds to partially or fully offset any increased cost from the Undergraduate Online Learning Rate”.

While the transition grant shows that UK is conscious of the extra burden this online class fee places on students, I don’t see it as helping enough to make taking online classes worth the extra money. What happened to me, and possibly to many others, was that I was charged full time on campus tu-

ition plus the online tuition rate for two classes, adding an extra $3,000 to my tuition bill. My transition grant ended up being less than half of what I was charged for online classes.

I am appreciative of the efforts UK put in place to help students deal with this rise in online class fees. I feel, however, that there was an great lack of communication to the student body when they notified us of the raise in online tuition just weeks before classes would start. The transition grant looks like a weak effort to make up for poor communication regarding this change in tuition rates for the distance learning program.

I respect UK taking more action to make online learning an opportunity to students who demonstrate financial need.

However, all price changes should have been made available for students to see when they registered for the coming semesters’ classes, not weeks before we started.

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A student, former Kernel editor remembers Mike Farrell

By Bailey Vandiver

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“I think I might go to law school,” I said, and braced myself for Dr. Farrell’s reaction.

On Sept. 4, 2018, Dr. Farrell and I were both guests at a dinner hosted

by UK Libraries with Sid Davis, a longtime White House correspondent who had spoken at UK earlier that evening.

Dr. Mike Farrell was then the interim director of the School of Journalism and Media, and I had taken his media law class that spring.

He had said it a million times: Talented journalism majors should not go to law school. Going to law school is abandoning the profession of journalism.

But my mom is a lawyer, and for a brief period last fall, I thought I might follow in her footsteps.

I told this to whomever I was sitting next to at this dinner, knowing what Dr. Farrell’s reaction would be if he heard from a few seats down.

He did hear me, and I think his jaw actually dropped as he looked at me in disbelief. I don’t remember exactly what he

said, but it was something along the lines of what I had heard him say before.

I do remember, and will always remember, the email he sent me the next morning.

In the hours after we learned the devastating news that Dr. Farrell had passed away, many people took to social media to praise their teacher, colleague, mentor and friend.

Scrolling through these heartwarming but heartbreaking posts eventually made me cry.

Then I remembered this email, and I knew it would be something I could read that would make me smile.

On Sept. 5, the morning after he “chastised” me about going to law school, Dr. Farrell sent me this email: “You do realize this is all an act. It is your life and you have to be happy with it. I didn’t tell my own sons what course they should follow, and I would never tell a student.

Follow your heart and meditate on Prov. 3:5-6.

My life has taken many turns but God has been in all of them.”

Proverbs 3:5-6 is a piece of Scripture that many turn to for guidance

“But we lost him, and we can’t change that. But we can remember him, and we can honor him.”

FAMILY THANKS KERNELITES PAST AND PRESENT

Our sincere thanks to the Ky Kernel staff and students (past and present) for caring and encouraging us in recent months. Personal notes of students’ gratitude and experiences, beautiful flowers in Mike’s room, prayers, phone calls, then messages of sympathy and those who came to the funeral were very much appreciated. Mike loved UK, his work, and his students and was thrilled when they thrived in journalism.

We thank you all, Sincerely, Marsha, David , and Jonathan Farrell.

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and wisdom: “Trust in the Lord with all your heart and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.”

After losing someone like Dr. Farrell, we cannot lean on our own understanding, because we cannot understand why we lost him so soon. He still had children and grandchildren to love. He still had students to teach and colleagues to mentor. And Lord knows he still had government officials to hold accountable.

But we lost him, and we can’t change that. But we can remember him, and we can honor him.

I’m not going to law school, but if I did, I would think of Dr. Farrell every time I learned something new about Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes

or censorship or statutory law. I will think of him every time I read another book about the history of journalism. I will think of him every time I see someone offer someone else a tissue, because there were many times that Dr. Farrell left the classroom unexpectedly just to return with a box of tissues and cough drops for a sniffling student.

Most of all, I know that my classmates and I will think of him every time we practice our First Amendment freedoms as journalists, following in the footsteps of an incredible man and journalist.

And that is truly the best tribute we can give him.

Bailey Vandiver is a senior journalism major and served last year as the Kernel’s Editor-in-Chief.

I’ll never forget the many times of learning and mentorship I had with Dr. Farrell. He understood me and always was willing to listen.

As he fought through his health issues over the last year, I always asked him why he didn’t just take a break.

Why not focus on your health and let someone else worry about us students?

He would almost always say, “I love what I do. I just want to give each class my all.” What a testament to who he was.

His humility and servanthood was unmatched. He fought for his students. He fought for integrity. He encouraged, and he challenged.

I don’t know where I’d be without the mentorship of Dr. Farrell over the past four years. But, I sure wouldn’t be the man I am today. I know this—I’ve got a long way to go to have a heart like he did.

Enjoy those streets of gold Dr. Farrell. God bless you and your family.

Brady Trapnell, a former student of Dr. Farrell, on Facebook This man changed my life. He believed in me when I didnt believe in myself, challenged me to the person I wanted to be & became one of dearest friends as an adult. And I’m one of hundreds who have a similar story.

Heartbroken, but so thankful he allowed me to be part of his life.

TJ Beisner, former student of Dr. Farrell’s, wrote on Twitter.

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sports

With Wilson out, Cats believe in backup QB Smith

By Erika Bonner

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As common as injuries are in sports, there’s still the same amount of shock value each time they happen. Especially when it’s a team’s starting quarterback.

Kentucky football’s Terry Wilson suffered an injury in the third quarter against Eastern Michigan Saturday night after being taken down on an illegal horse collar tackle by the Eagle defense.

Wilson will miss the remainder of the season due to a torn patellar tendon in his left knee that will require surgery, according to a UK press release on Sunday.

“Terry! Terry! Terry!”

The Kentucky fan base

Kentucky Wildcats quarterback Terry Wilson (3) is taken off the field on a cart after suffering a leg injury during the UK vs. Eastern Michigan University football game on Saturday, Sept. 7, 2019. MICHAEL CLUBB I STAFF

shouted as he was being carted off the field. Wilson returned the love with a point to the crowd.

Now, the common “next man up” mentality

had to be carried out, and backup quarterback Sawyer Smith was the man for the job. A transfer from Troy, Smith knew what he needed to do as soon

as he saw Wilson leaving the field. While Smith expressed his concern for Wilson and said he never wants to see anyone get hurt, he knew he needed to go out on the field and step up to fill a big role for his team, which is a feeling he says is hard to describe.

“That’s not what you want as a friend or a competitor,” Smith said after the game. “Terry was having a great game, had a really good game last week and was playing well, so to see this happen, you know, I love Terry. You have to do what you have to do.

You have to go out there and play.”

Smith indeed did what he had to do, leading the Wildcats on a scoring drive when he went in. His first-ever pass completion

was a 54-yard touchdown pass to Ahmad Wagner, which put the Cats up 31-10 early in the fourth quarter. Smith ended on 5-of-9 passing for 76 yards and two touchdowns in his Kentucky debut.

“I think the guys have a lot of confidence in Sawyer,” Stoops said. “Guys feel for Terry because he’s worked hard and he’s a leader on our team. You know, it’s a part of our game, injuries.”

Before his injury, Wilson completed 14-of-26 passes for 114 yards, and also gained 43 yards on the ground on eight carries and a rushing touchdown.

Many of Wilson’s teammates described how they felt about Wilson’s injury, one being running back AJ Rose.

“We played hard all four quarters and from the time Terry was in, he managed the game,” Rose said.

“He did a good job and the offensive line came to play, and after what happened to Terry, everyone is feeling a little weird and a little sad right now. We are just praying for the best.”

It’s still to be determined how long Smith will be filling Wilson’s shoes, but UK players and coaches alike believe in him, given how much experience he’s had.

“I think that as a backup quarterback, especially at this level of football, you need to have two or three guys that are ready to go,” Smith said. “I think they have confidence in me to keep it going and I think that is how it should be.”

Cats seek first home victory over Gators in 33 years

By Mohammad Ahmad sports@kykernel.com

Cats seek first home victory over Florida Gators in 33 years “Ding dong, the streak is dead!”

Those were UK Sports Network announcer Tom Leach’s words over the radio immediately after the UK football team knocked off the Florida Gators in Gainesville, Florida, last season, 27-16.

That was the Cats’ first win in Gainesville since 1979. But more importantly for Cats’ fans, that was UK’s first win over the Gators since 1986, when the Cats won 10-3 in Lexington, to end a 31-game losing streak – the longest in-conference

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streak in SEC football history.

Now the quest for the Cats will be that elusive home victory against Florida. The last time Florida came to town two years ago, they defeated the Cats, 28-27, after a holding call on then-Cats’ lineman Nick Haynes negated a Benny Snell run that would have put the Cats in comfortable field goal position in the game’s waning seconds.

The top-10 ranked Gators (2-0, 0-0 SEC) will come back to Lexington to face Kentucky (2-0, 0-0 SEC) in what will be a conference opener for both teams. Florida opened their season with a close, 24-20, week zero victory over intrastate rival Miami Hurricanes in Orlan-

do. The Gators made a statement in their 45-0 blanking of the Tennessee-Martin Skyhawks this past weekend.

Gators’ quarterback Feleipe Franks has thrown for 524 yards, four touchdowns and two interceptions while rushing for 58 yards and a touchdown thus far this season. By his side will be a slew of veterans in running back Lamical Perine and the receiving tandem of Van Jefferson and Josh Hammond.

The Gators’ defense currently leads the SEC in total sacks with 15. Lineman Jabari Zuniga’s three sacks and linebacker Ventrell Miller’s two have helped pave the way for the stout rush defense. Lineman Kyree Campbell has a team-lead-

ing 10 tackles and a sack to go with that.

The biggest question mark for the Cats is how backup quarterback Sawyer Smith will do in place of the injured Terry Wilson.

Wilson left last weekend’s game late in the third quarter after suffering a knee injury.

Smith was 5-of-9 passing for 76 yards and two touchdowns in relief of Wilson.

Smith should get some help from a defense that has allowed 24 points or less in 15 of its last 16 games. Senior linebacker Kash Daniel had five tackles and an interception while fellow linebacker Josh Paschal had five tackles with a career-high two tackles for loss in the win over EMU. Veteran safety Jordan Griffin add-

Kentucky wide receiver Lynn Bowden Jr. runs the ball during the game against Eastern Michigan on Saturday, Sept. 7, 2019, at Kroger Field in Lexington, Kentucky.

Kentucky won 38-17. JORDAN PRATHER I STAFF

ed an interception in what looked like an improved secondary.

UK hasn’t won back-toback games against Florida

since 1977 when Fran Curci was the Cats’ head coach.

But the Cats have a chance to rewrite the rivalry in their favor this Saturday.

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