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New class combines composition, social media By Melody Bailiff news@kykernel.com
The College of Arts and Sciences has teamed up with the College of Communications to bring a new, cuttingedge class to UK. Over the past several years, a team of faculty has worked together to revamp the way English and communications are taught at the university. The team has decided to combine English composition with oral speech and digital media to help students ac-
quire the social media skills necessary to function in today’s workplace. “I think students at UK will be excited about the way we teach these courses. Everything from how to compose e-mails and text messages to how to interact with your roommate and manipulate photos for visuals will be discussed,” said Roxanne Mountford, director of the Division of Writing, Rhetoric and Digital Media. The colleges have essentially combined English 104
and Communications 181 to create a two-sequence course that all fall 2011 freshmen will be required to take. The change in classes comes from a university-wide general education reform that is revamping the current University Studies Program, which has not been changed in decades. Starting fall 2011, USP will no longer exist and general education requirements will be put in place. In order to prepare for the change in classes, a pilot course will open in fall 2010
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For more information To learn about the university-wide general education reform, visit: www.uky.edu/gened under Arts and Sciences 100. This will allow different versions of the class to be tested before going live in fall 2011. “It will certainly be a challenge for two colleges to come together and a new class to take place,” said
Anna Bosch, associate dean for Undergraduate Programs. “But it is a great tribute to the faculty involved, who decided on shared goals and worked together to integrate communication.” There are also challenges of hiring new staff and making sure UK has the technology in place for the media component of the class. The College of Arts and Sciences has hired 31 new faculty members, and the media component has funding but is still being worked out.
Mountford believes incorporating social media skills into the classroom will help UK reach its goal to become a top-20 university by 2020. “I think teaching writing, speaking and design is the way of the future,” Mountford said. “Communication is not based one way — there’s Facebook and YouTube videos now, it’s becoming easier and faster. There’s a broad integration of skills and I think it’s high time to teach this way. This is a 2020 future.”
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Outbound limit now 200 recipients By Kelsey Thomas news@kykernel.com
UK Information Technology is making changes to combat recent spam attacks on UK e-mail servers. Large amount of spam sent from compromised UK Exchange accounts led to external mail services blocking all e-mail sent through UK. The Outbound E-mail Policy will now limit Exchange messages to 200 recipients. Sidney Scott, Manager of IT Customer Service, says limiting message recipients will help protect the students and keep UK Exchange from being blocked by other mail services. “The big thing that this is going to do is going to help us be able to keep the doorway open for our mail that is outbound to other mail services outside of the university,” Scott said. “We don’t want to become the source for spam going to outbound mail. By limiting the number of outbound mail, we are less likely to be blocked by other mail services.” Other mail services may decide to block UK by the amount of spam their account users receive over a period of time. UK e-mail users have compromised their accounts by giving out their LinkBlue ID and password to spammers that pretend to be legitimate sources. The spammers then use the information to send outbound mail from the account. “If they ever get a piece of e-mail asking for their user ID and password — specifically anything that asks for your password — (it) is not legitimate. Our policy is not to ask for that,” Scott said. Scott said the best thing to do when receiving mail that asks for password information is to ignore it or discard it. He also said spammers that may have e-mailed 500 students now only have access to 200 students, protecting a larger number from receiving the spam. Those who need to send out e-mails to large numbers of people can do that through ListServ, Scott said. ListServ groups must be authorized by the university, so account holders wishing to create one must be members of the UK community.
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UK Opera Theatre’s “It’s A Grand Night For Singing!” is in its 18th year of production. The show will be performed three times this weekend at the Singletary Center for the Arts: June 18 and 19 at 7:30 p.m. and June 20 at 2 p.m.
‘Grand Night’ celebrates 18 years By Emily Cedargren news@kykernel.com
The Lexington community has three more chances to see some of the area’s most talented singers in a “grand” performance. This weekend is the final set of performances of UK Opera Theatre’s “It’s A Grand Night For Singing!,” a show in its 18th year of production. “It’s an all-out salute to Broadway and to Hollywood,” said Everett McCorvey, director of the UK Opera Theatre and the show’s producer. “If people have never been to ‘Grand Night,’ it is really an experience.” Even though the show has been on for almost two decades, audiences can expect a completely different production, McCorvey said. “Every year it’s really like building a new production. That’s what makes it exciting for us. We start from scratch and put it together in five weeks,” he said. Some of the songs featured in this year’s performance are from Broadway hits like “Cats,” “Spring Awakening,” “Big River” and “Jersey Boys”. The show also features Top 40 hits by Simon & Garfunkel, Billy Joel, Elton John and Barry Manilow. Children will enjoy the show as well, with the
cast performing songs from “Shrek,” “Hairspray” and “Oliver”. “We’re actually using kids in the show,” McCorvey said. “It’s funny — the kids want to do their number and then get out into the audience and watch the rest of the show. It’s a great way to introduce kids to the opera.” Peggy Stamps, an award-winning choreographer, is serving as director of this year’s cast, and Lyndy Franklin Smith, who has performed on Broadway in “A Chorus Line” and “The Little Mermaid,” is the show’s choreographer. The Grand Night Orchestra, under the direction of Robert Baldwin, will accompany the singers.
If you go What: “It’s A Grand Night For Singing!” When: June 18 and 19 at 7:30 p.m., June 20 at 2 p.m. Where: Singletary Center for the Arts Concert Hall Admission: Ticket prices range from $10 to $34 and can be purchased by calling the Singletary Center ticket office at (859) 257-4929 or on their website, (www.singletarytickets.com)
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“Grand Night” cast member Whit Whitaker performs in this year’s production of “It’s A Grand Night For Singing!”
BP agrees to $20-billion escrow fund By Mike Memoli and Peter Nicholas Los Angeles Times
The Obama administration has reached a preliminary agreement with BP executives that would see the oil company pay $20 billion over several years into an independently controlled escrow account to be established to compensate Gulf of Mexico
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residents affected by the disastrous oil spill, and BP’s board of directors has eliminated the company’s stock dividend, at least temporarily. The agreement on the escrow account was negotiated in a meeting at the White House on Wednesday morning, the first face-to-face gathering between President Obama and senior BP leadership. A White House
official said that, under the terms of the deal, the fund would be administered by attorney Kenneth Feinberg, currently serving as the special master for executive pay under the Troubled Asset Relief Program. Feinberg ran a fund that compensated victims of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Immediately after the meeting,
BP Chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg said that the oil company’s board of directors has decided not to pay any more dividends this year. BP has been under intense pressure from the Obama administration to cut or eliminate the $10.5 billion it distributes annually to shareholders. Svanberg, speaking to reporters outSee BP on page 4
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Apple apologizes for iPhone 4 delays; pre-orders halted By John Boudreau San Jose Mercury News
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Apple issued an apology Wednesday morning for the iPhone 4 pre-order meltdown experienced by the Cupertino, Calif., company and its carrier partner AT&T on Tuesday as more than 600,000 consumers lined up online to get early dibs on the mobile device that will be released June 24. Buyers reported problems getting their orders registered while an apparent glitch on the AT&T website revealed personal information of some customers to strangers.
“It was the largest number of pre-orders Apple has ever taken in a single day and was far higher than we anticipated, resulting in many order and approval system malfunctions,” Apple said in a statement. “Many customers were turned away or abandoned the process in frustration,” the company said. “We apologize to everyone who encountered difficulties, and hope that they will try again or visit an Apple or carrier store once the iPhone 4 is in stock.” AT&T, meanwhile, said the deluge of early orders caused it to halt taking any more pre-orders until it could meet the demand. The carrier
is stopping the orders so it can “fulfill the orders we’ve already received,” the company said in a statement. Pre-order sales for the iPhone 4 “were 10 times higher than the first day of pre-ordering for the iPhone 3GS last year,” the company said. AT&T’s website was swamped with 13 million visits, about three times higher than its previous record of people checking their eligibility for upgrades to the new phone, AT&T said. MCT
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Senior sprinter Sorrillo shines at NCAA Track and Field Championships By Chandler Howard choward@kykernel.com
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‘Glee,’ ‘90210’ lack diversity of ‘Room 222’ LOS ANGELES — The campus setting for “Room 222” was in a “Glee”-free zone, far from the “90210” ZIP Code. The classic comedy-drama, which revolved around fictional Walt Whitman High School, premiered in 1969 against the backdrop of the end of the civil rights movement and protests over the Vietnam War. Stories flowed between the concerns of students grappling with grades and their growing social awareness, and the struggles of a dedicated faculty trying to tame restless youths. In appearance and tone, the series, which is being saluted Wednesday at the Paley Center for Media in Beverly Hills with a cast and producer reunion, mirrored its time. Female students and teachers wore flowered miniskirts while several students — even white ones — wore Afros. “Right on” was a main catchphrase. One angry black student, Jason Allen (played by an actor known as Heshimu), was almost militant in his view of the world. Despite its dated elements, “Room 222” was rooted in a relevance and topicality that those involved say is missing from “Glee,” “90210” and other contemporary school-based shows that put more emphasis on being crass than going to class. “It was a show that was certainly more forward thinking than most of the series we see today,” said Denise Nicholas, who starred in the series as counselor Liz McIntyre. “It was a daring show that was brave, with an integrated cast, and it dealt with important issues. Race was at the center of it, but there was no self-consciousness about it, it wasn’t preachy.” The 30-minute ABC series, which ran for five seasons, was one of the first so-called comedy-dramas that bounced between humor and seriousness. The cast was headed by Lloyd Haines as Pete Dixon, an idealistic, soft-spoken history teacher who was, in the words of one student, “so cool that even guys who hate school” wanted to be in his class. (Dixon was also romantically involved with McIntyre). Michael Constantine played the
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school’s disheveled principal Seymour Kaufman, while Karen Valentine played Alice Johnson, a perky but naive student teacher. Producers of “Room 222” put a premium on authenticity, requiring writers to hang out in classes at Los Angeles High School, where much of the series was filmed, and other campuses. Producer-director Terry Becker said cultural diversity was a key goal: “We were really desperate to get a cross section of society, we wanted to get those different colors.” Added associate producer Ron Rubin: “We weren’t consciously trying to break any boundaries. We were just trying to reflect the times, to be entertaining while also saying something serious.” That agenda puzzled network executives, who wanted the series to be more of a traditional comedy. Valentine noted that current shows about high schools seem to be conjured up by adult writers more consumed with flashy storylines than dealing with education and in-depth issues that affect youth. Though the student bodies of “Glee” and “90210” are culturally diverse, white students are center stage while students of color are largely shoved to the background. The predominantly white cast of “Glee” features only two minorities, and some observers have noted that one of its characters, Mercedes Jones (Amber Riley), fits squarely into the “sassy, overweight black girl” cliche. Female minority students on “90210” are practically invisible. The approach that “Room 222” took toward advocating diversity should be celebrated, Valentine said, adding she is constantly approached by fans who were touched by the show. “They tell me how much it affected them,” she said. “I think the show has gotten short shrift over the years. Hopefully that is starting to change.”
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One UK track and field senior ended his collegiate career on the highest of notes. During the NCAA Outdoor Track and F i e l d Championships in Eugene, O r e . , SORRILLO sprinter Rondel Sorrillo pulled away from the pack to claim a first-place finish in the men’s 200-meter dash, earning UK its first title in the event in school history. Sorrillo finished with a time of 20.36 seconds, the second fastest of his career as a Cat. His personal best time of 20.29 seconds is a current UK record. Sorrillo also posted the Cats’ highest finish in the 100-meter dash since Tim Harden’s 1995 title-winning performance by finishing second, clocking in at 10.09 seconds. He shares the UK record in the event with a time of 10.05 seconds, matching Harden’ best. The senior’s combined 18 points helped UK to a top-15 finish at the NCAA Championships and marked the second-highest point total in UK men’s history. He has now achieved eight All-American honors in only two years at UK, the quickest any athlete has been able to accomplish such a feat. Sorrillo’s success proves
UK’s potential to compete with the nations best in the collegiate track and field picture in upcoming seasons.
Nidiffer, Glad sign MLB free agent contracts Only days after UK baseball saw six of its players swiped up in the 2010 MLB Draft, two more were pulled from free agency into bigleague organizations. Seniors Gunner GLAD Glad and Marcus Nidiffer each inked deals to play for professional clubs in the upcoming seasons. Glad, NIDIFFER a versatile fielder, signed on with the Minnesota Twins, while Nidiffer, a catcher, made official a contract with the Houston Astros. Glad established himself as one of the best hitters in the Southeastern Conference in his most recent campaign at UK, batting .336 and knocking in 45 runs in 2010. His adaptable skills make him a prime candidate for many professional teams. Nidiffer served as UK’s forceful catcher over the last three seasons. He finished 2010 going .320 at the plate, with 35 runs batted in. He has been playing his best as of
late, giving him more hope of a solid professional career with the Astros. With the two signings, UK has now sent eight players to MLB organizations in 2010. The team’s achievements are bypassing those of average collegiate programs.
UK hoops preview in Canada comes in midAugust The unveiling of the 2010-11 UK men’s basketball team will come sooner than many fans anticipated. UK and head coach John Calipari have announced plans to kick off next season on a threeday, threegame exhiCALIPARI bition series in Windsor, Ontario, Canada, in mid-August. UK will face two teams on the trip: the University of Windsor and the Western Mustangs. The Cats will compete against the University of Windsor on August 15 and 17, and will play Western on August 16. The series in Canada posts the first time a UK team has traveled north of the border and only the first time since 1995 the team will play an exhibition game before the start of the regular season. After losing eight players, UK hopes to break in its toprated recruiting class on the trip.
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OPINIONS
Students should be wary of near-campus rental companies LETTER TO THE EDITOR Everyone tries to find the best deal they can when looking for apartments close to UK’s campus. There have been recent debates focusing on how many students can live in a house and whether students are disrupting local areas. But who’s out looking after whether students are living in safe conditions? The responsibility is left up to word of mouth and apartment review sites online. Well, I’m writing to the Kernel to try and save future UK students from the hell I have been living in since October. I live off Hagerman Court in one of the houses that have been chopped up into two separate apartments. The management and maintenance companies that take care of these properties are the worst I have ever experienced since living in Lexington. I have had several water leaks, a cracked ceiling and walls, cabinets falling off the wall, the hot water barely works, and because of shady construction, there are holes large enough under the baseboard for large insects to crawl through.
I live in a one bedroom apartment, and my heating bill this winter totaled over $250 a month. The response from maintenance was a month wait for water leaks, and they told me the cracks were just how the building was made. Any complaints taken to the management company are dealt with by giving you the number for maintenance and telling you it is not their concern. After the rain storm at the beginning of May, I had two inches of standing water in my living room, with more coming in. Maintenance was called for four hours before they came, and I found out that since my gutters had not been cleaned, water started pouring through my floors. It was the Sunday before Finals Week, and I had to spend hours trying to keep my things from being ruined. I just want to spread the world of a management company trying to take advantage of students near campus. They provide below-optimal housing and horrible service after you have signed a lease. Lyndsey Eldridge political science senior
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Big Labor payback: Where do candidates Paul, Conway stand? As Big Labor works feverishly to force unionization on small businesses across the country, their friends in Washington, D.C., continue the ‘payback,’ most recently working to secure KATIE passage of PACKER the misGuest named Pubcolumnist lic Safety EmployerEmployee Cooperation Act. The legislation would federalize the unionization process for police, firefighters and other emergency response and law enforcement personnel. And it would be a boon to union bosses because it would strip control of pub-
lic safety wages from local and state governments and put them into the hands of negotiators and arbitrators on a national level. The result would break the banks of city, county and state governments, which would be forced to abide by the outcome of these negotiated deals, which historically have resulted in lucrative salaries, fat bonuses and rich health care and retirement plans that far exceed what these local governments can afford even in good economic times. The Las Vegas ReviewJournal editorialized against this bill, saying, “All across the nation, cities, counties and states are confronting billion-dollar budget deficits and multibillion-dollar shortfalls in the retirement benefits they’ve promised to their
unionized workers. Sen. Reid’s bill would worsen the burdens put on private-sector workers and businesses and heap all-new unfunded liabilities on local governments.” If Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid succeeds in getting the votes, millions of local tax dollars would ultimately wind up helping fund already insolvent Big Labor pension plans and other perks instead of helping to fight crime, make our communities safer and get first responders where they are needed most. That is why it’s imperative that we know where Senate candidates Rand Paul and Jack Conway stand on this issue. You might be wondering why labor’s supporters on Capitol Hill would push something that would heap
heavy burdens on states that are already economically distressed. In reality, we shouldn’t be surprised, as these same Members of Congress have spent the last year working to pass the Employee ‘Forced’ Choice Act (EFCA), which would add at least $35 billion to labor coffers by increasing membership through forced unionization. EFCA eliminates the secret ballot in union-organizing elections exposing workers to immense pressure and intimidation at the hands of these same labor bosses. Furthermore, once a collective bargaining unit has been formed through the coercion and bullying of employees, a small business has a matter of months to agree to union demands or the government sends in an arbitrator and a
contract is forced on the employer. Neither the workers nor the small business owners have any say or right to appeal the contract terms, which include changes to wages, benefits and workplace conditions. And if the Public Safety Employer-Employee Cooperation Act sounds oddly familiar in nature to the Employee ‘Forced’ Choice Act, it is because there are common elements between them. Both place workers and critical sectors of our society and economy at risk to benefit one special interest, labor bosses. The question to ask is, why? The fact is that after decades of mismanagement and recklessness on the part of bosses, union pension funds are woefully funded and have reached critical sta-
tus meaning they cannot meet their commitments to workers who have paid in to the programs for years. As a result, the unfunded liabilities are massive and Big Labor is expecting representatives they spent millions to elect to bail them out yet again. To date, Senate candidates Rand Paul and Jack Conway haven’t taken a position on the Public Safety EmployerEmployee Cooperation Act. Paul opposes the Employee ‘Forced’ Choice Act, but Conway supports it — standing on the side of Big Labor instead of with our community, which relies on local emergency response personnel and small businesses. Katie Packer is the director of the Workforce Fairness Institute. E-mail opinions@kykernel.com.
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BP Chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg speaks at the White House after a meeting with President Barack Obama on June 16 in Washington, D.C.
BP Continued from page 1 side the White House, didn’t say how long the dividend would be suspended. The meeting comes 57 days after the April 20 explosion at BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil rig. Before Wednesday, Obama had yet to speak with BP Chief Executive Tony Hayward. Half a dozen other BP executives joined a phalanx of Cabinet and senior administration officials in the meeting in the Roosevelt Room. It was not yet known how long the president remained at the meeting. Wednesday’s session was the final piece in a choreographed three-day series of events in-
tended to showcase Obama’s handling of the gulf oil crisis. He made his fourth visit to the gulf region, with stops Monday in Mississippi and Alabama and Tuesday in Florida. After returning to Washington, he delivered his first address to the nation from the Oval Office, outlining what he called a “battle plan” for cleaning up the spill, providing assistance for those affected and, ultimately, to “make sure that a catastrophe like this never happens again.” BP executives were in Washington for several congressional committee hearings on the oil spill. Hayward is scheduled to testify Thursday morning at a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee hearing specifically on the role of BP in the spill.
It’s been exactly 10 years since rapper Eminem released “The Marshall Mathers LP,” an album most would consider his best work to date. The 10 years between then and now led “Slim Shady” down a dark path, in and out of dysfunctional relationships and drug use, sending the quality of his material into a downward spiral. However, it looks like the shock rapper may have grabbed the MATT throttle and pulled MURRAY his career out of a Kernel stall just before it columnist crashed and burned, and, in fact, may be taking his fans for the best ride yet. His latest album, “Recovery” refers to his newfound sobriety, although it would seem the title has a duel meaning. His health isn’t the only thing that’s recovered with his forthcoming title, but he’s also reclaiming his throne at the top of hip-hop. What makes “Recovery” special is Eminem’s new approach — leaving behind the excessive shock value, and more importantly, the annoying accents. Every single one of the 17 songs on “Recovery” sounds well thoughtout, and Eminem’s delivery is the best it’s been in years. “Recovery” is refreshing because of its honesty and its humility. Eminem admits multiple times that he let fans down with his previous releases, one time in which he says, “Hit my bottom so hard I bounced twice. Suffice this time around it’s different, them last two albums didn’t count — ’Encore’ I was on drugs, ‘Relapse’ I was flushing ‘em out. I’ve got something to prove to fans, I feel like I let ‘em down. So please accept my apology. I finally feel like I’m back to normal.” He refers to his self-proclaimed rock bottom on multiple tracks, but the honesty extends outside of that idea. In “Talkin’ 2 Myself” he also discusses how he once considered going after Lil’ Wayne and Kanye West simply be-
cause he was jealous. It’s Eminem’s exchanging of arrogant attacks for honesty that allows him to open up and tap unexplored material, paradoxically returning him to the top of hip-hop with this effort. His return to impeccable delivery shouldn’t be as much of a surprise, as he stole the spotlight in various appearances he’s made on other artists’ songs such as Drake’s “Forever” and Lil’ Wayne’s “Drop the World.” Additionally, Eminem’s incorporation of various guest artists and an array of samples make for his best refrains to date. In the past, many of his choruses were simply half-hearted singing attempts by Mathers himself, used solely to connect one verse to the next. On “Recovery,” he samples artists like Ozzy Osborne, and allows for guest appearances from the likes of Lil’ Wayne and Rihanna. The album’s highlight comes on the song “No Love” featuring Lil’ Wayne, and samples Haddaway’s “What is Love” of “A Night at the Roxbury” fame. The track finds the two artists contemplating their place in life and hip-hop culture. This theme is extended into the song “25 to Life,” as Eminem raps for the entire song about a damaged relationship and threatens divorce, only to reveal at the end, the relationship to which he was referring was with rap itself. The final verse of the song is Eminem’s best verse since his appearance on 50 Cent’s “Patiently Waiting.” It’s often a bold and exaggerated claim to state than an album is an artist’s best work, but denying “Recovery” of such a status would be irresponsible. Never before has Eminem made himself so vulnerable, just as he has never before seamlessly streamed together line after line while attacking fresh issues. “Recovery” will not only win back fans that had been pushed away by his less-than-stellar releases of late, but will also bring in new ones. Recovery is slated to be in stores on June 22. Matt Murray is a journalism senior. E-mail features@kykernel.com