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UK Trustees approve 2010-11 budget By Melissa Vessels mvessels@kykernel.com
With the university unable to provide any increase in pay for most of its employees, the UK Board of Trustees approved a $2.5 billion budget Tuesday that will provide onetime payments of up to $1,000 to eligible faculty and staff earning less than $70,000. In addition to this payment, UK is covering the cost
of increases in health care for most faculty and staff members, despite a projected $7 million shortfall. The 2010-11 budget reflects a 1.4 percent reduction in state support during the fiscal year. State support for UK is down $28.6 million since December 2007, according to a UK news release. With certain costs constantly increasing — utilities, employee benefits, student financial aid
— UK is covering the shortfall by reducing budgets for operating expenses like supplies and travel and eliminating vacant positions. “This budget is far from perfect,” said UK President Lee Todd in a news release. “But I think it is a fair budget — one that acknowledges the economic climate in which we find ourselves, while allowing the university to continue to leverage the momen-
tum our students, faculty and staff have established during these difficult financial times. “This budget also includes a modest ‘Fighting Fund’ that can be used by the Provost to retain our best and brightest faculty who have been targeted for recruitment by other institutions.” The board also approved the appointment of Michael Tick as Dean of the College of Fine Arts and Robert
Mock Jr. as vice president for Student Affairs.
Trustees accept gifts, pledges The UK Board of Trustees accepted nearly $1.5 million in gifts and pledges from three donors during its meeting Tuesday. Alliance Resource Partners and Alliance Holdings GP pledged $1.2 million to create the Alliance Coal Chair
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in Mining Engineering in the College of Engineering. A $10,000 gift from the estate of Joanne I. Bell was accepted to create the Joanne I. Bell Discretionary Quasi-endowment in the College of Social Work. The Don Jacobs Charitable Foundation provided $240,000 to create the Division of Urology Leadership Endowment for Resident Research and Education in the College of Medicine.
UK Parking wins big in Vegas By Kelsey Thomas news@kykernel.com
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Bonnie Proffit of Lexington purchases two bundles of beets from Jefferson D. Smith IV at the Smith Family Farm tent at the Lexington Farmers Market on Tuesday, June 8.
New atmosphere, same tradition Lexington Farmers Market at home in new downtown pavillion By Eva McEnrue news@kykernel.com
Customers and vendors of the Lexington Farmers Market have taken keenly to its new Saturday location at the Fifth Third Bank Pavilion in Cheapside Park. The new pavilion holds the Farmers Market on Saturdays from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m., replacing the old site on the corner of Maxwell Street and South Broadway. “The pavilion creates a new space for the market,” said Sarah Buzogany, assistant manager of the Lexington Farmers Market. “The sight of the pavilion helps the public to remember the Lex-
ington Farmers Market when they pass. It is a more legitimate and accessible location.” The Fifth Third Bank Pavilion can accommodate 28 farmers on market day. Farmers sell a wide variety of fresh, local products that range from spring greens, lettuce, fresh fruits and vegetables, fresh meat and poultry, various herbs, flower and vegetable bedding plants, raw honey, bread, olive oils and jams. “The new location has a better ambiance,” said Ed Raggard, a farmer at Raggard Creekside Farm and vendor at the Lexington Farmers
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The Lexington Farmers Market occurs every Saturday at Cheapside Park in the Fifth Third Bank Pavilion near the Old Fayette County Courthouse. The glass pavilSee Market on page 2 ion with a metal roof covers more than 5,000 square feet.
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After several years of planning and going through nearly 50 submissions, a volunteer committee announced their decision to place a memorial sculpture in the Arboretum in time for the fifth anniversary of the Flight 5191 crash. The volunteer committee revealed a miniature version of a memorial sculpture last Thursday, which will soon be placed in the Hospice Remembrance Gardens at the Arboretum. Douwe Blumberg’s design of 49 silver birds in flight is the chosen design. Blumberg said after hearing what the committee was looking for, he immediately pictured the winning design for the memorial. “I think everyone can appreciate the beauty and hopefulness represented in the
Fraternity introduced to new living arrangements By Rosalind Essig ressig@kykernel.com
birds flying free. For loved ones of those lost, the memorial is very powerful,” Blumberg said. “Sometimes when an idea comes to you, you immediately know it’s perfect, and this was one of those cases.” Blumberg said although he couldn’t begin to imagine what those touched by the crash were going through, the sculpture was in some ways, a way to show his empathy. “I myself am a pilot and have a lot of friends who fly for Comair. On the day of the crash, we all freaked out because no one knew who was on it,” Blumberg said. “It was truly traumatic and it really stuck with me.” The memorial will be 17 feet tall and include the names of the crash victims and the first responders at its base. However,
Alpha Tau Omega will leave behind its home of more than 50 years as the fraternity moves into a new building in preparation for the fall semester. The fraternity signed a new lease with the university for the building which was formerly the Sigma Phi Epsilon house on Pennsylvania Court, said Gail Hairston, a UK spokeswoman. Alpha Tau Omega will move into the house, which this semester housed students from the general university population, before the fall semester begins. The former Sigma Phi Epsilon house is one of two Greek houses to become available recently, a rare occurrence, said Lance Broeking, UK campus services administrator. “The last couple years have been unique, where we’ve had the opportunity for some of the Greek houses to become available,” Broeking said. This availability provides Alpha Tau Omega with an opportunity of its own, said Alex Brewer, Alpha Tau Omega president. “It is sad to see it go,” Brewer said, but added that the fraternity now has updated facilities and the opportunity to make the house their own. The current Alpha Tau Omega house located
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Sculpter Douwe Blumberg designed the Flight 5191 memorial — 49 silver birds in flight.
UK parking and Las Vegas seem to be an unlikely pair. But this year in Sin City, UK Parking and Transportation Services is being honored for being “more than just parking spaces and buses.” The International Parking Institute named UK PTS the 2010 Parking Organization of the Year. The award was presented on May 12 during the Industry Gala, which took place at the 2010 International Parking Institute Conference and Expo. The conference is the largest gathering of parking and transportation professionals in the world. Chrissie Balding Tune, PTS spokeswoman, said PTS won the award for offering a full package. “I know there is a connotation on campus of (PTS) just (being) about writing citations or having to pay permit fees, but we do have things that will educate the community about the other programs we offer,” Tune said. In addition to parking and permits, there are shuttles to basketball games, campus buses and the Ride Home Express, which offers students a ride home to 29 cities — from Atlanta to Cleveland, Ohio — beginning with Fall Break 2010. PTS was also recognized for utilizing social media outlets like Twitter (@UKParking) and a radio station, 1700 AM, to keep the campus community updated. “The University of Kentucky’s Parking and Transportation Services exemplify how talented and dedicated parking professionals can favorably impact their community,” said Shawn Con-
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Chan reaches new level in ‘Karate Kid’ Jackie Chan, Oscar nominee? Not as farfetched as you might think. In the new remake of "The Karate Kid," the frequently hammy veteran Hong Kong action star gives a performance of such restraint and emotional depth that you'll sit there with your mouth open ... at least when you're not tearing up. The rest of the movie isn't bad either, especially young Jaden Smith, who exhibits a charm and unforced range way beyond his years (he has the right gene pool: His parents are Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith). This "Kid" can't escape some clunky ideas it inherited from the 1984 original — a thick vein of sadism (a karate tournament that allows 12yearolds to whale mercilessly on one another? I don't think so) and the laughable notion that a youngster can be transformed into a real martial arts contender in just a few weeks. In other regards, though, this effort from director Harald Zwart is an improvement. Young Dre Parker (Smith) is none too pleased when his widowed mom (Taraji P. Henson) uproots him from his Detroit home and accepts a position with her company in Beijing. Feeling adrift, Dre thinks he may have found a kindred spirit in Meiying (Wenwen Han), a pretty, violinplaying Chinese girl who attends his new school. But their attraction draws the attention of a gang of kung fu bullies led by Cheng (Zhenwei Wang). Cheng is a student at the martial arts academy of Master Li (Rongguang Yu), an egomaniacal creep who advises his kids, "Your enemy deserves pain." Dre is saved from a savage beating by Mr. Han (Chan), the quiet mainte-
nance man at their apartment building. After that he begins begging Han for martial arts lessons. Han's regimen isn't exactly what Dre expected. He spends a couple of weeks doing nothing but taking off and putting on his jacket. Ah, but there's a method to Han's seemingly pointless exercises. It all leads up to a martial arts tournament at which Dre will have to prove himself against Li's best fighters. This "Karate Kid" (actually, isn't "karate" a Japanese term? And isn't this kung fu? Never mind ...) works on several levels. It really captures the feel of life in modern Beijing and should open the eyes of younger viewers to the way life is lived in other countries. It has some great scenery (although it's doubtful that in real life martial arts students are allowed to practice their moves on top of the Great Wall). The tentative romance between Dre and Meiying is wonderfully innocent and sweet. But the film's heart lies with Han, who for much of the first hour seems almost a ghostly presence, a gray, shadowy man whom you see only out of the corner of your eye. In the original, Pat Morita's Mr. Miyagi was a comic presence. But Han is a damaged man carrying some major baggage; the scene in which he reveals his loss to Dre is the finest dramatic moment of Jackie Chan's career. Of course, it all comes down to a brutal tailkicking at the big tournament.
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The memorial is expected to be in place at the Arboretum by the fifth anniversary of the Flight 5191 crash in August 2011. Blumberg expects the memorial will hold some significance for all those who visit it. “With so many hospitals located nearby, the Arboretum has become a place where people go when they’re struggling with different issues,” Blumberg said. “Our goal was to help create a place for reflection and somewhere people can come to when they need an uplifting environment.”
Continued from page 1 Blumberg said the most unique detail is what is contained inside the sculpture. “Putting mementos from loved ones sealed inside each bird is what’s so powerful. The families really appreciated it,” Blumberg said. “The memorial is an extremely unique piece; one so connected with what it represents.”
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ATO Continued from page 1 on Hilltop Avenue was built around 1958-59, Broeking said, and is in the same situation as many of the Greek facilities on campus that were built around the same time. The building is in “poor condition” and was not built to accommodate the electrical needs of students today. “The older house, it’s 50 years old and it’s been entrusted to fraternity guys, but it has character,” said Dave Lowe, Alpha Tau Omega historian. And Alpha Tau Omega has been in the Hilltop Avenue house to give it that character from the beginning, Brewer said. “From the day it was built, it was built to be our house,” he said. Lowe said the fraternity’s alumni always have stories to tell about the house. Alpha Tau Omega alumni did a walk-through of the house at the fraternity’s annual Founder’s Day event, said Alpha Tau Omega member and finance senior Max Stefka. “We wanted to give the alumni a chance to come back to the house and see it for one last time,” Stefka said. The Hilltop Avenue house’s central location on campus places it on the same
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block as the W. T. Young Library and music can often be heard coming from the house. Its location also places the house on the site designated for the library in the William T. Young Library Endowment Agreement. The agreement requires the university to use the site of the library only for library purposes until 2050 and to keep the property in “a pristine park-like setting.” The agreement also identifies four “non-library related structures” that were on the property at the time — the houses of the Sigma Chi, Sigma Phi Epsilon, Alpha Gamma Rho and Alpha Tau Omega fraternities. The buildings, the agreement says, were to be eliminated “as soon as is practicable, but not later than 10 years” after Sept. 15, 1998, the date the agreement was made. Sigma Chi and Sigma Phi Epsilon moved in the 1990s, Broeking said, leaving Alpha Gamma Rho and Alpha Tau Omega on the site. Because of the leases Alpha Gamma Rho and Alpha Tau Omega have with the university for their buildings, the university would not force the fraternities to move, Broeking said, but rather it is the university’s position to help the fraternities move when opportunities arise. Other uses for the house were considered, but the condition would mean costly renovations, Broeking said. The
house also does not meet Americans with Disabilities Act standards, he added. “The house will more than likely be demolished,” Broeking said. After Sigma Phi Epsilon lost their charter, they were no longer able to lease their house from the university, Hairston said. Rather than allow the whole Greek community on campus to bid on the property, consideration for the former Sigma Phi Epsilon house was limited to Alpha Tau Omega and Alpha Gamma Rho, making fulfillment of the endowment agreement a priority, Broeking said. Many factors were considered, such as the fraternities’ financial standing, membership and history on campus. “Negotiations started once the house became vacant,” Brewer said. “Right around summer 2009 was when we were approached about it.” Stefka said working with the university on the move has gone well. “(The university) has been supportive throughout the whole process,” Stefka said, “There are a lot of issues moving a fraternity from one house to another.” The house on Hilltop Avenue will be missed though, Lowe said. “It’s kind of like leaving your childhood home,” he said. “That’s kind of dramatic, but I’ll miss it.”
MARKET Continued from page 1 Market for 31 years. “It’s getting better all the time.” The glass pavilion covers approximately 5,700 square feet and sits on granite pavers. The pavilion has a metal roof and is cooled with fans donated by Big Ass Fans. The park has permeable pavers that decrease the amount of storm-water run-off by allowing water to pass through. “Cheapside Park provides electricity, water, public bathrooms and better scenery,” said Abigail Keam, a beekeeper who has been selling honey products at the Lexington Farmers Market since 1999. “The pavilion is more pedestrian friendly and more interesting.” The pavilion is part of Mayor Jim Newberry’s effort to transform the Lexington downtown area through improvements to the streetscapes and the renovation of Cheapside Park. The Fifth Third Bank Pavilion officially opened April 16. Fifth Third Bank Central Kentucky President and CEO Sam Barnes, Newberry, council members and representatives of the Downtown Lexington Corporation, businesses and the Farmers Market joined together at the ribbon cutting ceremony. The Fifth Third Bank Pavilion will be the location for the Farmers Market on Saturdays, along with art shows and festivals, Thursday Night Live and other events throughout the year. The Lexington Farmers Market also has locations on Southland Drive on Sundays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and at Maxwell Street and South Broadway from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m.
PARKING Continued from page 1 rad, executive director of the International Parking Institute, in a UK news release. PTS was in competition with several other universities and municipalities, including the University of Georgia, the Winnipeg Parking Authority and the Philadelphia Parking Authority. Tune said it was an important recognition for the department because of a typically negative view of the parking department on campus. The award is an opportunity for students to see the positives of PTS, she said.
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Fresh peaches from Georgia are sold at the Lexington Farmers Market on Tuesday. The Farmers Market is held Saturdays at Cheapside Park, Sundays on Southland Drive and Tuesday and Thursdays at South Broadway and Maxwell Street.
The IPI was founded in 1962, and is in its fourth year of the Professional Recognition program. Award recipients are nominated and then chosen by a committee of member picked by the IPI chairman of the board. Because of its innovation and leadership in its field, PTS will be highlighted in the June 2010 issue of The Parking Professional magazine, along with other award winners and finalists. Tune said the award will help students and parents to see the big picture of what PTS has to offer. “I hope for students, and especially for parents when they are coming to campus ... realize we have experience and have been recognized by our peers,” Tune said.
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Student finds new perspective from world travels hour and a half to two-hour bus ride from Delhi — and interviewing families that have received homes from Habitat for Humanity to see what the houses have done for them. I’m a blonde-haired, green-eyed college student. Not too tall and not too short — about average. A million other girls with similar characteristics are running around UK’s campus wearing similar clothes, since it seems like a lot of people buy the same exact brands and styles. I had never really been out of the ordinary appearance-wise in any of my classes; I had never been the minority in any environment. Until now. It wasn’t until this trip to India that I fully understood one of the points of a diversity class I took this past year. I am a white woman, living in a white person’s world in America. Some people argue that the difficulties for minorities of the past are not present anymore, and they are right in certain aspects because policies and social change have helped move some areas toward equality. However, whenever I look around in my classes, particularly my smaller journalism classes, there is maybe one person of a race other than Caucasian, and sometimes even that isn’t true. Constantly being the only person with dark skin or of another race in a class made up of all white people must be discouraging, and to me the idea seems terrifying. When I walked around India, I was in a group of
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UK students traveled to India as part of a new summer program called Writers Without Borders. The students wrote about families affected by Habitat for Humanity on their trip in May. Americans, but that is the only reason I didn’t get completely overwhelmed. I know there were other factors that contributed to my feelings of being overwhelmed, like language barriers and a new environment, but I could not even imagine being so outnumbered all the time. I don’t know exactly what type of point I’m trying to make, and I know that after only
two weeks in a different country and being the odd person out I can’t say at all that I know what a lifetime of that is like, but I do know that I have respect for minorities who have the courage to live and to receive an education in a white person’s world. Because I don’t think I could do the same in their position. Katie Perkowski is a journalism senior. Email opinions@kykernel.com.
College education not the answer to America’s problems What does summer mean to you? For most college students, it means working a job you couldn’t when school was in session, laying by the pool or vacationing on some beach. Unless of course you are reading this newspaper in some classroom thinking about doing all of the activities previously listed. Yet all of those options have one thing in common: no school or at least not a full course load AUSTIN of schoolwork for those stuSCHMITT dents choosing the summer Kernel school option. Recently, the columnist Kentucky government finally pulled its head out of its rear end and passed a budget — a budget that took much debate and a special session that cost the government, and subsequently the taxpayer, even more money they do not have. The largest point of interest to students at UK was the rising cost of tuition and college in general. With tuition rising at an average of 5 percent the previous few years, it comes as no surprise that tuition will once again rise by 6 percent for the 2010-11 school year. Which leads to the question: When will college become unaffordable for the average high school student? It may have already happened, but leave affordability behind and turn attention to accessi-
bility. One of Barack Obama’s goals in his 2008 campaign that led to his presidency was getting kids to college. On his campaign website, he posted these statements: “We need to put a college education within reach of every American. That’s the best investment we can make in our future.” While that may be true, it does not tell the whole story. Being college educated is something that has lost its luster over the years. As more and more people obtain their degrees from one of the thousands of colleges in this country, more and more people enter the job market looking for those white-collar type jobs. In an economy that hasn’t grown in a decade, a tough job market develops. Obama goes on to say, “To be successful in the 21st century economy, America’s workforce must be more innovative and productive than our competitors.” When talking about disturbing trends in college affordability and access, Obama says, “These trends not only threaten our competitiveness in the global marketplace, but also our ability to maintain and improve our economy at home.”
This is where Obama loses me. By handing out college degrees to anybody who can fork up the thousands of dollars necessary to attend college, we create a society of Americans who feel they are entitled to white-col-
lar jobs and nothing less. Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t there millions of dollars in stimulus money floating around requiring blue-collar type workers? Is there something wrong with going to vocational school and learning a trade? To be competitive in the 21st century economy, it doesn’t require a college-educated workforce, it requires a workforce that finds its passion and talent and exploits it. If your passion is working with your hands, learn to be a service technician or a plumber. Think about all the times when your air conditioning goes out or your toilet overflows. Who is going to fix these things? The stigma of certain blue-collar jobs drives this notion that everyone must attend college, but at what cost? We know the costs of tuition to a student, but do we know the debt we are giving to society by sending everybody to college? The “future” of our country depends upon the workers who can produce the innovative ideas and implement the innovative technology into our everyday lives. If we have a bunch of Americans who sit around and think of groundbreaking ideas, we won’t have any Americans to go out and give it to the people of America. Our competitiveness in the global marketplace relies on the doers, not the thinkers. Austin Schmitt is a finance and accounting junior. E-mail opinions@kykernel.com.
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I have never felt so stared at in my entire life — and not in a good way. Everywhere I went with the group I was with, people stared at us like we were from another planet. And after living on their planet from May 14 to 30, it seemed like we were. I arrived in India on May 14, and even before our flight from Amsterdam to Delhi took off, I felt like the KATIE person out. Waiting at PERKOWSKI odd the gate to board our flight, Kernel we were the only white or columnist American people in sight, surrounded by men and women of all different cultures, including people from the Middle East and areas of Europe. People I had never been exposed to before. When we walked off the plane and into the airport in Delhi, I saw men with large guns hanging around their shoulders — not a common sight at the airports I go to regularly. I immediately felt overwhelmed and outnumbered. I was staying in Delhi with a group of UK students and two teachers as part of a firstyear summer program called Writers Without Borders. About 12 students were on the trip, and the majority of our days were spent traveling to the Bawana Resettlement Colony — an
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Catching up with UK athletics Men’s basketball Hood, Harrellson travel to China UK forward Josh Harrellson and guard Jon Hood recently returned from a two-week trip to China in which they, along with other collegiate basketball players, competed against local basketball clubs as part of the Sports Reach program. The team took part in a cultural exchange program HARRELLSON geared toward learning more about the Chinese culture and sharing some of its own. The program focused on expanding knowledge and appreciation of the Chinese civilization. Sports Reach played against many of China’s top teams, including the HOOD Bayi Basketball Club. The team boasted a 6-3 record, while Harrellson led it for a majority of the trip with 13.1 points and 9.2 rebounds per game. He shot 58.7 percent from the field. Hood averaged 5.3 points and 4.3 boards per game. — CHANDLER HOWARD
Cats to 31-25 (13-17 SEC). While that was UK’s sixth consecutive winning season, it was not enough to extend the 2010 campaign. The Cats were officially out of the postseason. UK continued to practice in hopes of being selected for the NCAA Tournament, but ultimately was not chosen to participate in national postseason play. — AARON SMITH
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Jones, Vargas sign, help UK notch another top recruiting class Terrence Jones and Eloy Vargas have each signed a financial aid agreement to play for UK in the upcoming season. Jones ranks ninth on ESPNU’s Top 100 list, 13th overall by Rivals.com and eighth by Scout.com. Jones is 6-foot-9 forward who averaged 30 points, 14 rebounds and six assists his senior season at Jefferson High School in Portland, Ore. He is a former McDonald’s All-American and he played in the Jordan Brand Classic AllAmerican game. Vargas is a 6-foot-11 Dominican Republic native who averaged 25 points, 13 rebounds and five blocks as a sophomore last season at Miami-Dade Community College. He was ranked 41st on ESPNU’s Top 100 list and 26th overall by Rivals.com in 2008. The duo helps UK and head coach John Calipari notch its second-consecutive top recruiting class as ranked by Rivals.com. UK now has four five-star and two four-star athletes joining the team for next season, according to Rivals. — CHANDLER HOWARD
Football Cats-Cards battle set for September 4 The date for the 2010 Battle for the Governor’s Cup is in ink. UK and Louisville will face off in each of the team’s opening games of the upcoming football season. The game is set for September 4 at 3:30 p.m. in Louisville, Ky. The game will be shown on ABC Sports as part of a three-game regional telecast. Included in the intrastate rivalry game will be new coaches for both teams: Joker Phillips at Kentucky and Charlie Strong at Louisville. It will be the 23rd meeting between the teams. UK won the last three and leads the overall series 13-9.
UK’s postseason has been an active one. Five players were selected on the first day of the MLB Draft: Second baseman Chris Bisson (fourth round, San Diego Padres), lefthanded pitcher Logan Darnell (sixth round, Minnesota Twins), outfielder Lance Ray (eighth round, Minnesota Twins), shortstop Taylor Black (28th round, St. Louis Cardinals) and right-handed pitcher Matt Little (31st round, Detroit Tigers). All five players are juniors, and have a year of eligibility left should they choose to return to UK. — AARON SMITH
Softball Softball concludes consecutive winning season, falls early in NCAAs All the good things certainly came to an end for the UK softball team, perhaps too early in its eyes. For clear reasons, the program had never anticipated a more successful season than it did entering its most recent campaign. After posting a UK-record 34-win season, reaching the NCAA Tournament for the first time in school history and returning nearly every starter from the prior year, the Cats naturally had high hopes for 2010. The Cats advanced to post-season play yet again, becoming one of 37 teams to qualify in back-to-back seasons. But despite qualifying for NCAA Tournament play for the second consecutive year, UK could not perform to its likeness. The team saw its final outs during the Columbus Regional on May 22. After defeating Ohio State 6-5 in its first game of the regional, the Cats had hopes of advancing to Super Regional play in Athens, Ga. However, the team then dropped a 1-0 contest to 11th-seed California in a game that saw seven UK runners stranded on base. Still, the double-elimination format allowed it to again compete with OSU for a chance to play in the final. But with a 5-3 loss in their second match against the Buckeyes, the curtain closed on UK’s decorated season. UK wrapped up its 2010 outing 32-27 (13-15 Southeastern Conference), only two wins shy of its 2009 mark. The combined 66 wins bests any back-to-back seasons posted by the program by more than 15 wins. — CHANDLER HOWARD
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Undrafted Maxwell signs with Saints The defending world champion New Orleans Saints have signed former UK linebacker Sam Maxwell out of free agency. Maxwell made a name for himself his final season with the Cats, earning second-team All-Southeastern Conference. He started all 12 games his senior season, compiling 80 tackles and six interceptions, MAXWELL among other notable statistics. Maxwell was part of the first senior class to go to four consecutive bowl games for UK, but he was sidelined throughout the most recent game due to a shoulder injury. Maxwell’s signing notches the 26th contract signed by a UK player in the last three seasons. — CHANDLER HOWARD
Baseball Bat Cats fall short in final series For the second year in a row, UK controlled its own destiny. For the second year in a row, UK saw destiny fall through its clutches. UK entered the last series of the season tied for seventh place in the Southeastern Conference, primed to make it into the SEC postseason tournament. To seemingly make their task easier, the Cats were facing lastplace Georgia. But UK lost the first game of the series, setting up a must-win second game. The Cats, with the fate of their 56-game season now down to nine innings, lost 20-0. Georgia recorded 22 hits, all singles. It was the worst loss for UK since 1998. The disappointing defeat dropped the
Quigley-Cox fall in NCAAs The UK men’s tennis tandem of sophomore Eric Quigley and junior Brad Cox were edged out of the NCAA Doubles Championships following a 6-3, 6-1 deficit to a duo from North Carolina. The 22nd-ranked Cats’ appearance in the NCAA quarterfinals was the first from UK since 1987. The duo earned All-American status following its Sweet 16 performance. QUIGLEY Quigley also earned AllAmerican status in singles play, advancing to the Sweet 16. The team finished with a school-record 25 wins and posted a final national position of 12th, with individuals earning impressive International Tennis Association rankings. — CHANDLER HOWARD
Gymnastics Gym Cats’ 2011 schedule released, features top NCAA teams The UK gymnastics team must fill a tall order in 2011. According to schedules released early this week, the team will fight through a schedule containing nine teams that qualified for last season’s NCAA Tournament regional round. The Gym Cats will host five meets at Memorial Coliseum, including the January 7 opening night match against Illinois. UK will face three Southeastern Conference opponents at home and three on the road as part of its six-meet conference schedule. The SEC Championship is March 19 in Birmingham, Ala. — CHANDLER HOWARD
UK journalism senior and Kernel alumna Allie Garza finished second in the national multimedia competition of the 50th annual Hearst Journalism Awards, often called the Pulitzer Prize of college journalism. She won the award for her video and photo slideshow to accompany the Kentucky Kernel article "Cutting its roots: Kentucky crop's future unclear," GARZA which highlighted the UK tobacco ban and the tobacco industry in Kentucky. The article and multimedia can be seen on the Kernel's website, (www.kykernel.com).
"It's gratifying and rewarding. It's the most prestigious award in college journalism," she said. "I'm honored to have placed so high among so many other talented college journalists. I know some of them and the quality of their work, so it means a lot." Garza said her intention with the project was not to criticize or endorse the tobacco industry, but to show how deep the ties are between UK and the state's most prolific crop. With Garza's win, UK tied for 7th place in the multimedia competition. UK also finished in the top 10 in news writing and photojournalism. — STAFF REPORT
Kings Island to host UK Day UK faculty, staff, students, alumni and fans can save big on admission to Kings Island on June 12, deemed UK Day at the amusement park. The UK Alumni Association has planned various activities at an all-you-can-eat picnic at Picnic Grove, located between Planet Snoopy and Boomerang Bay. The picnic area will be open from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. To attend the picnic, an admission/meal ticket must be purchased. Picnic tickets and discounted park admission tickets are available through June 10 at the UK Day website, (www.visitkingsisland.com/ukday). UK Day admission only tickets for those ages 3 and up are $21.99.
UK Alumni Association staff will be handing out prizes throughout the day to those wearing UK apparel. — STAFF REPORT
Ticket prices Admission and picnic meal: n Adults: $35.04 n Juniors/Seniors: $29/18 Admission only: n All ages: $21.99 Picnic meal only: n Adults: $13.05 n Juniors/Seniors: $7.19
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