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Code of conduct revised to fit university changes By Katie Perkowski kperkowski@kykernel.com
Members of the UK community coming into contact with the Code of Student Conduct may notice some changes. The Code of Student Conduct had not been revised since July 2005, but on June 8 the Board of Trustees approved an updated code.
The Student Code Committee, which was made up of students, faculty and administrators who drafted the updated version, had goals when coming up with the changes. These goals included aligning the code with national best practices, ensuring the code is in compliance with recent changes to federal and state laws, and incorporating recent university policy changes, according to
a UK news release. In the news release, Dana WaltonMacaulay, Division of Student Affairs interim associate dean of students for student conduct, said the revised code streamlines the conduct process once someone has charged a student with a violation. It also reduces the number of meetings required to resolve many cases, she said. Numerous other changes to the
code were made, including small word changes like “student” to “respondent,” according to the revisions. In the section titled “Rights within University Hearing Processes,” Section E previously said, “The student shall have the right to hear and question all witnesses and present witnesses of the student’s choice.” It now reads, “Both the Complainant and Respondent shall have the right
to hear all evidence and question all witnesses and/or witness reports, and present witnesses and/or witness reports of the student’s choice.” Also in the section “Rights within University Hearing Processes,” the revisions stated four additional rights of the complainant, including the right to pursue criminal charges See Code on page 2
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Governor appoints three new trustees By Rosalind Essig ressig@kykernel.com
Gov. Steve Beshear appointed three new members to the UK Board of Trustees on June 9, according to a press release from the governor’s communications office. William Stamps Farish Jr., Oliver Keith Gannon and Terry Mobley will join the 20-member board for six-year terms, replacing three members whose terms expire on June 30, according to the Board of Trustees website. The outgoing members include Chair Mira S. Ball, Vice Chair Stephen P. Branscum and Ann Brand Haney, an alumni representative. Student Government President Ryan Smith said the contributions made by Ball, Branscum and Haney have been considerable. Smith, whose duties as Student Government president include serving on the board as the student representative, said the new members each “bring a unique skill set” and a different perspective with them to the board. “Having a diverse background and various viewpoints ... is important for any board to craft policy,” Smith said. Farish, general manager of Lane’s End Farm in Versailles, Ky., is a thoroughbred breeder and holds leadership positions on several prominent thoroughbred racing organizations, including the UK Gluck Equine Research Foundation, according to the Kentucky Equine Education Project website. Gannon is the CEO and an owner of the Kentucky company Boneal Incorporated, according to the Boneal website. A native of eastern Kentucky, Gannon is currently a resident of Mount Sterling, Ky. Mobley, a 1965 UK graduate and former UK basketball player, has held positions at the university since 1977, according to UK’s website. He served as chief development officer, vice president for development and vice president for institutional advancement. Beshear also announced the appointment of members to boards of seven other Kentucky universities, as well as appointments to the Kentucky Authority for Educational Television, Kentucky Community and Technical College System Board of Regents, the Higher Education Assistance Authority Board of Directors and the Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education, according to the news release. “Education and economic deSee Trustees on page 2
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Mechanical engineering senior Michael Harp draws a chalk picture in the middle of South Limestone during the South Limestone Block Party on Saturday, June 19. While Harp thinks the construction took a long time, he said that it looks really nice.
Partying on the pavement
Lexington residents came out to celebrate the completion of 12 months of construction on South Limestone, only to close it down again on June 19. Young and old alike braved high temperatures and humidity to attend the block party, which included bike polo, cornhole and chalk drawing among the food and drink specials offered by Limestone businesses. The South Limestone reconstruction project,
which started last summer, was put in place to make the street more pedestrian-friendly with wider sidewalks and bike lanes, bury utilities, add new storm sewers and beautify the area. “I’m so pumped it’s back open — it’s been such a hassle and now I have easy access back to my house. Plus, a lot of businesses have been suffering,” said Jared Baize, 27, a six-year Lexington resident. “The bike lane is great, but I don’t think (the project) should have taken a year.”
Above: Pedestrians packed the street, walking from vendor to vendor along South Limestone on June 19. Restaurants, stores and bars stayed open late to celebrate the reopening of the street. Right: Members of Lexington Bike Polo played polo in front of McDonald's on South Limestone during the block party.
New pharmacy dean wants college to ‘dream big’ By Melody Bailiff
Provost Kumble Subbaswamy said in a news release. Tracy is set to begin at UK on After several rounds of inter- August 15 and already has a few views with many candidates, UK goals in mind for the college: Behas found its newest addition to its come ranked number No. 1 in the country in five to seven administrative staff. years; be in the top fundTimothy S. Tracy, proing recipients from the fessor and head of the DeNational Institute of partment of Experimental Health; continue outstandand Clinical Pharmacology ing recognition as one of at the University of Minthe most outstanding pharnesota College of Pharmamacy programs in the nacy, has been named dean tion. of UK’s College of PharTracy “We need to come tomacy. gether for shared visions,” “After a national search with many exemplary candi- Tracy said. “And we, as individudates, we are very pleased to wel- als, need to dream big and go after come Dr. Tracy to the University of those dreams.” Tracy graduated from Ohio Kentucky to lead our nationally ranked and internationally recog- Northern University with a bachenized College of Pharmacy,” lor’s degree in pharmacy. He then
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went on to receive his Ph.D. in clinical pharmacy from Purdue University. After working as a pharmacist and receiving his doctorial degree, Tracy decided to begin an academic career. Tracy worked at West Virginia University from 1992 to 2003, working his way up from faculty member to professor. Tracy excelled as a professor and earned the Outstanding Teacher Award at WVU School of Pharmacy six times in a 10-year period. “What I did was create an environment conducive to learning,” Tracy said. “I focused less on faculty teaching and more on student learning. Students learn differently and I can adapt to a variety of learning styles and present information in a way those students can learn.” In 2003, Tracy went to work for
the University of Minnesota as a professor and was named department head after a year. Tracy has also authored two books and has published numerous scientific articles. “All my interests are like an academic mission,” he said. “I like all three components together — the teaching, research and administrative. Not one would satisfy me, I like experience as well as depth.” Tracy said his success as dean at UK will come from the success of the college, faculty and staff. And that means overcoming a few barriers like funding and adapting the college to the changing landscape of pharmacy, he said. “It is truly an honor and the highlight of my career to be selected for this position,” Tracy said. “I will work very hard to preserve the tradition of UK’s College of Pharma-
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‘Boston Med’ puts new spin on reality tv It's easy to make Terence Wrong blow his top. Just call his documentary series "Boston Med," which premieres at 10 p.m. EDT Thursday on ABC, a reality show. "There's nothing 'reality' about us, except for the fact that we're real while reality shows are not," says the Peabody Award-winning executive producer of the 2008 medical documentary series "Hopkins." "We're not paying anybody to be in this show. We're not manipulating the scenes. We're not goosing the action. We are a documentary series rooted in classic observational, cinema verite techniques." "Boston Med" is eight hours of fly-on-the-wall filmmaking, a candid look at the ups and downs of hospital care at three leading Boston hospitals, and it's such compelling television that one wonders why realityshow producers need to cheat and fudge the reality of their content to make shows watchable. Over a four-month period, Wrong and his team were given unparalleled access to hospital staffs and patients at Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Children's Hospital. "Boston really is a cradle of modern medicine," Wrong says. "The city is New York's peer in medicine, maybe even superior to L.A., which for a city half their size is really quite impressive. "Modern anesthesia was invented at Mass General, which is a leader in so many areas. Children's Hospital is arguably the best children's hospital in the country. The Brigham is a leader in a number of areas, including OBGYN. They did the first transplant of any organ ever at the Brigham." From emergency-room rescues to end-of-life meetings with patients' loved ones to conversations that happen outside a patient's earshot, "Boston Med" explores a culture of medical care in an unguarded way that Wrong hopes will reveal some "fundamental truths" about hospital medicine. "The main one is that you can go to the best hospital, you can have the best doctor and they can have the best intentions, and yet you may not have the best out-
Horoscope To get the advantage, check the day's rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging. Aries (March 21-April 19) — Today is a 6 — The whole day feels like an obsessive desire to choose between two different strategies. You either say it straight or sugarcoat it. Taurus (April 20-May 20) — Today is a 6 — Your partner wants to spend more money than you feel is wise. Maybe you can work out the scope of the budget before writing the check. Gemini (May 21-June 21) — Today is a 6 — Co-workers present an unusual opportunity that you'd love to pursue. Be sure your partner's on the same page before you say yes. Cancer (June 22-July 22) — Today is a 5 — You want to carry your work to the next level, and you're able to do so. Others see
come," Wrong says. The practice of medicine is still as much an art as it is a science. Carefully planned treatment can be sabotaged by bad luck. And even the best doctors, heroes in most situations, aren't immune to mistakes. "I don't think that reality squares up with what the public expects when they walk in the door," Wrong says. "I think most people walk in thinking, 'I'm just going to treat this like I'm going in to get my carburetor changed. Gotta work on the old body, see the mechanic, change a part.' But it's never like that. "No surgery is routine. And what a patient considers a good outcome 'fix me up the way I used to be' is not necessarily what a doctor might consider a good outcome. For a doctor, a good outcome might be that the patient is still dealing with certain health issues, but at least he's alive. "There is a mismatch of expectations, and I think our series provides a service to both doctors and patients by realigning the expectations to be closer to each other." That said, "Boston Med" does feature an array of near-miraculous outcomes. The first episode shows the efforts at Mass General to save a police officer who has been shot during a botched robbery attempt. Dr. Maria Troulis is the oralmaxillofacial surgeon who reconstructs the officer's jaw, shattered by a bullet. The same episode shadows Dr. Daniel Dibardino as he tries to pull off a tricky doublelung transplant involving two recipients. The final episode, meanwhile, features plastic surgeon Bo Pomahac and what turns out to be the second face transplant ever performed in the United States. It's a poignant story in which the widow of a Hollywood marketing wiz donates her late husband's face to a down-on-his-luck Vietnam veteran. "Overall I think these stories will make people confident to be a patient," Wrong says.
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Kenny Payne has joined the UK men's basketball coaching staff as an assistant coach, head coach John Calipari announced on June 18. Payne, a f o r m e r standout at the UniverPayne sity of Louisville and assistant at the University of Oregon since 2004, has played for 10 professional basketball leagues, most notably a four-year period with Philadelphia 76ers. His 11-year professional career allowed him to play in nine different countries and on five different continents. He was a first-round pick in the 1989 NBA Draft, going 19th overall. “I feel fortunate and honored to have an opportunity to coach for one of the hottest and best coaches in college
basketball at one of the premier programs, both historically and today, in all of college basketball,” Payne said in a UK Athletics news release. “I look forward to being a part of the team, growing as a coach and learning from one of the best, while helping Kentucky win a national title.”
Former Cat Morgan named distance coach Former UK student-athlete and Southeastern Conference cross-country champion Thomas Morgan has been named Kentucky's assistant track and field coach for distance events, head coach Don Weber announced June 22. "I consider it a great privilege to return to the institution that provided me so many opportunities, both athletically and academically,” Morgan said in a UK Athletics news release. “I am look-
CODE Continued from page 1 and the right to change university housing and academic arrangements if such changes are available. In an e-mail to the Kernel, WaltonMacaulay said changing university housing or academic arrangements would occur in any situation where there is an individual who is the complainant instead of the university. “So think of situations where the violation of the code has a ‘victim,’ “ she said in the email. Under prohibited conduct, sexual assault, stalking and relationship violence was added, along with retaliation through others against any individual involved in a disciplinary com-
TRUSTEES Continued from page 1 velopment are two of the highest priorities of my administration, and that is why it is critical that we continue to appoint talented people to serve in these board positions,” said Gov. Beshear in a news release. “The people who will serve these colleges and universities have
ing forward to providing that same opportunity to the current student-athletes and fostering an environment of success." Morgan joins UK after five years with Zap Fitness Foundation, Inc., as a professional athlete and staff member. While at Zap Fitness, he traveled to many competitions, taking five trips to Europe where he was able to meet influential members in the track and field community. While at UK, Morgan was a two-time All-American for his performance in the distance medley relay in 2001 and 2003. He was also a fivetime All-SEC performer and a seven-time NCAA Championship qualifier. Morgan graduated from UK in 2003 with a Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance and in 2005 with a Master of Business Administration. — STAFF REPORT
plaint. In the e-mail, Walton-Macaulay said these were added to make completely clear that the code prohibits these behaviors. Under temporary sanctions, “no contact orders” was added, saying if the dean of students determines a respondent, complainant or other party needs to be protected from violence from another party in a disciplinary proceeding, he can impose a no contact order on the offending party. “No contact orders were added to the code for clarity,” Walton-Macaulay said. “There has always been a process for no contact orders, but a student couldn’t find that information and the process in the code.” For the current Code of Student Conduct without the new revisions, visit (www.uky.edu/StudentAffairs/Code/part1.html).
a great responsibility — to help guide higher education for thousands of students across the state, which in turn shapes our future workforce and economic success in Kentucky.” Smith said he was looking forward to his work on the board with the recently appointed members. “(I’m) very excited to welcome the new members to the board and work with them over the next year,” Smith said.
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OPINIONS
Government can’t ‘reinvent America’s news media’ As a fan of conspiracies great and small, I was all aflutter over word that yet another power grab was being cooked up by that foreign—born Communist Nazi in the White House. This one purportedly involves a scheme hatched within the shadowy Federal Trade Commission EDWARD WASSERMAN to engineer what a Los Angeles Guest Times online columnist columnist calls a ‘major’ plan to ‘reinvent America’s news media.’ Of course, conspirators aren’t about to own up to their real aims. Instead the plot is described, innocently enough, as an ‘FTC Staff Discussion Draft,’ it’s titled Potential Policy Recommendations, and its opening says, ‘It is solely for purposes of discussion.’ But then, we all know conspiracies deliberately use drab bureaucratic language to clothe monumentally subversive stuff. Others saw similarities between President Obama and Hugo Chavez, foresaw the media becoming ‘Obama’s propaganda ministry,’
detected ‘another dangerous example of government takeover of the private sector,’ complained that ‘Washington is run amuck (sic) with socialists and communists,’ and so on. I read those denunciations and, naturally, I was intrigued. All that treason from as insipid a place as the Federal Trade Commission? For an in-house discussion paper from an independent agency that has never done much media regulation to provoke that kind of outrage, it must have something big to say. And it does. But what it actually says isn’t what its critics imagine — nor, I suspect, what the agency had hoped to say when it launched its staff study and public hearings into the troubled state of the news media a year ago. What a careful read of the 35—page paper really suggests is the farthest thing from a state takeover; it’s actually a reminder of the limits of government. For its unintended message is that there simply may not be a meaningful role for public policy in nursing the news business through its current travails. The paper opens with a familiar catalogue of the woes affecting newspapers — declining print cir-
No imaginable combination of public policies will restore the ad revenues that subsidized the news business for the past century and a half ... culation, plummeting advertising revenues, shrinking news staffs — and offers a rundown of a range of policies that various people have suggested might help the news media without violating standards of fairness or impairing their editorial independence. Is there a way, for instance, to redraw copyright protections so that news outfits will share the ad revenues that search engines derive from linking to their stories? Might lawmakers create a new nonprofit corporate vehicle that would have full range to express opinions editorially, which today’s nonprofits may not? Should antitrust law prohibit news organizations from collaborating on an industrywide consumer payment plan? What about expanded government support, either through tax
credits for employing journalists or new Corporation for Public Broadcasting—style funds for local reporting? Should there be new taxes — either on consumer electronics, advertising or spectrum auctions — to fund this? Decent enough questions, and the FTC’s presentation of pro’s and con’s is reasonably evenhanded. But the big problem, beyond the political futility of trying to get any of the proposals enacted, is that even if they were, it wouldn’t alter the core reality: No imaginable combination of public policies will restore the ad revenues that subsidized the news business for the past century and a half at a time when advertisers have incomparably cheaper ways to reach their markets. That bird has flown. Too, as Jeff Jarvis and others pointed out, the FTC’s focus on newspapers doesn’t help. That focus is both understandable and regrettable — understandable, because even with the emergence of stand— alone news and commentary sites, metro papers and their web operations still do the bulk of original reporting; regrettable, because that focus made the entire exercise seem like a newspaper bailout plan in-
stead of a look at the state of journalism. With unpaid journalistic irregulars arising as a dynamic part of the new news business, shouldn’t policy makers ask how, for instance, tax laws might be altered to give them a break? If their work is having mounting importance, maybe they should get some of the tax breaks — say write—offs on their outlays on digital tools — that legacy news media have long had. Journalism is a professional practice with a unique civic value, and it’s fine that policy makers should worry that its current weakness may do real harm to our system of politics and governance, enabling corruption to thrive and leaving the public uninformed. But what the FTC paper reminds us, ironically, is that our system isn’t really built on the notion that there exists a wise public policy for every serious public problem. The solutions may lie in ingenuity and enterprise originating elsewhere. Edward Wasserman is Knight professor of journalism ethics at Washington and Lee University. He wrote this column for The Miami Herald. E-mail opinions@kykernel.com.
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Obama fires McChrystal after comments; hires Petraeus By Julian E. Barnes, Christi Parsons and Peter Nicholas Tribune Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama ousted his top commander in Afghanistan on Wednesday after officials determined that comments he and his staff made in a Rolling Stone magazine article amounted to insubordination. Obama said he accepted Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal’s resignation and, in an equally stunning move, said he had appointed Army Gen. David H. Petraeus, who once led U.S. forces in Iraq, as his successor. “War is bigger than any one man or woman, whether a private, a general or a president,” Obama said. “As difficult as it is to lose Gen. McChrystal, I believe it is the right decision for our national security.” Officials concluded that keeping McChrystal in his job was not a viable option after he and his staff were quoted making comments that disparaged U.S. civilian leaders who oversee the war effort. In his remarks, Obama emphasized several times that removing McChrystal was necessary to preserve civilian control of the military and to ensure that the national security team was working together. By choosing Petraeus, Obama ensures continuity in the war effort. Petraeus enjoys deep popularity on Capitol Hill, and his nomination is likely to face little in the way of opposition. The president emphasized that Petraeus had been intimately involved in crafting the current war strategy — a change in personnel, not policy. The remarks in Rolling Stone angered the White House and deeply displeased top Defense officials, who have insisted repeatedly that military officers must respect civilian leadership and keep their advice and views private. McChrystal crafted the counter-insurgency plan adopted by Obama that entailed a sharp increase in troops and shift in strategy to emphasize the goal
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President Barack Obama faces a defining moment of his young presidency on June 23 when he confronts Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal at the White House about his insubordinate remarks to Rolling Stone magazine. of protecting the Afghan public and improving the Afghan government’s performance. But some officials in the administration, most notably Vice President Joe Biden, have advocated different approaches, preferring a strategy that requires fewer troops while emphasizing the elimination of militant leaders and ensuring Afghanistan does not fall under insurgent control. McChrystal has served as top commander for only a year, replacing Gen. David McKiernan, who was fired by Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates. By ousting his Afghanistan commander for insubordination, the clash between Obama and McChrystal becomes the most high profile firing since President Harry S. Truman fired Gen. Douglas MacArthur, who was leading international forces in the Korean War. In 2008, Adm. William J. Fallon was forced to resign as head of Central Command for comments he made in an Esquire magazine article that were interpreted as disrespecting the Bush administration’s policies in the Middle East. Because McChrystal has direct
control of forces in Afghanistan at a critical time in war, his removal is seen as more significant. As the new Afghanistan commander, Petraeus faces a difficult task to mark progress under the strict timeline laid out by the White House. A planned U.S. troop reduction is scheduled to begin in little more than a year. The move also comes at a time when the war is widely perceived as going badly. The military has struggled to create a viable local government following an offensive in the southern Afghanistan village of Marjah.
And the timeline for the next offensive in Kandahar has been prolonged because of skepticism from local officials. McChrystal made no remarks in Washington, but the U.S. military command issued an apology on his behalf from Kabul. In his statement, McChrystal said he was committed to the allied forces and that he supported Obama’s strategy. “It was out of respect for this commitment — and a desire to see the mission succeed — that I tendered my resignation,” McChrystal said.