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Calipari’s mother dies at 74 By Aaron Smith asmith@kykernel.com
UK men’s basketball head coach John Calipari’s mother, Donna Calipari, died Sunday in Charlotte, N.C., after a long battle with cancer. She was 74. “As most of you know, my mom, Donna, has been battling cancer for several months. On Sunday, she lost her brave fight,” Calipari said Monday through his Twitter account. “On behalf of my dad, my two sisters, Ellen and all of our family … we want to thank the Big Blue Nation for all their prayers, cards … Your warmth uplifted her and all of us.” UK spokesman DeWayne Peevy said Calipari was expected to be on the sideline to coach for Tuesday’s game at Rupp Arena at 7 p.m. “Our prayers go out to John and his family after losing his mother during her battle with cancer,” UK Athletics Director Mitch Barnhart said in a news release. “We ask that the Big Blue Nation keep the Calipari family in their thoughts and prayers and respect their privacy during this time of grief.” The team began practice Monday without Calipari, who was still flying back from Charlotte. The players found out Sunday night after practice. “It was very sad,” junior DeAndre Liggins said of hearing the news. “She’s in all our prayers. I know it’s very tough. My dad passed, my brother passed, I know it’s very hard.” “We’re all here for him, we’re all grieving for him right now and praying and supporting him,” senior Josh Harrellson said. “He’s our leader, and it’s hard to see him going through problems.” The Calipari family is scheduled to have a private memorial service to honor Donna Calipari on Sunday, Dec. 5. In lieu of flowers, the Calipari family kindly asks that donations be sent in memory of Donna Calipari or by using Tribute #26909623 to: St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital, ATTN: Tribute Program, PO Box 100, Dept. 142, Memphis, TN, 38148 or by calling 1-800-822-6344.
Team Wildcat, a UK student organization, is encouraging everyone to wear black in support of the Calipari family at Tuesday’s game.
Butler Ches’ stepfather, Ches pleads not guilty By Drew Teague news@kykernel.com
UK’s executive vice president, who bailed out a UK student on $7,500 bond over Thanksgiving break, is his stepfather. Kathy Johnson, UK spokeswoman, confirmed that Executive Vice President Frank Butler is the stepfather to Joseph Ches, the student who was arrested on Nov. 23 for drunken driving and first-degree wanton endangerment. Butler’s assistant deferred calls to UK Public Relations for comment. The Kernel did not receive comment from Ches in time for print. At 12:37 a.m. on Nov. 23, Lexington Police responded to apartments at 201 Simpson Ave. Lexington police arrested Ches, an undergraduate studies major and member of UK’s ROTC program. “When officers got there they were met by two individuals who stated their roommate had become intoxicated and was pretty upset,” Lexington Police spokeswoman Sherelle Roberts said. See CHES on page 2
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The Study, located above Commons Market, provides students with free tutors for a variety of different subjects including MA 123 and CHE 105.
Finals Week relief The Study offers students help, confidence when finishing the semester By Becca Clemons news@kykernel.com
Students sweating their upcoming finals could receive a little peace of mind after a short walk through campus to The Study. Located on the second floor of Complex Commons above Commons Market, The Study offers help for students in a variety of subjects, mainly introductory-level courses. Academic Enhancement in The Study offers peer tutoring programs and individual academic consultations for free to UK and Bluegrass Community and Technical College students. Student program coordinator Kelsey Sprang said MA 109 and CHE 105 are the most popular courses students seek help for at The Study. She expects those numbers to rise in the next couple of weeks before finals. In the past, she said students have used The Study most during Dead Week and Finals Week. In addition to peer tutoring, individual academic consultations offer students help with time management, study skills and exam preparation. What is unique about The Study is that students do not have to come with specific questions and can stay as long as they want, Sprang said. Bennie Stephens, a mathematical economics and political science sophomore and peer tutor at
The Study, said going to The Study helped him while he was taking MA 109. Now he tutors other students taking college algebra to help make it more understandable in a one-on-one or small group basis. Stephens said The Study gives students extra practice that is required for the subject’s material. Stephens also said the amount of students coming to The Study will increase around this time, especially for courses that have a cumulative final, like MA 109. Business freshman Ryan Johnson comes to The Study almost every day, citing the help he receives as the main reason he’s doing well in MA PHOTO BY SCOTT HANNIGAN | STAFF 109. He said peer tutoring Above, students receive tutoring help from The Study on Monday night. The Study will be boosted his confidence open during regular hours this week and next and until Wednesday during Finals Week. about his upcoming MA 109 final. through the homework and know will take advantage of what The “I think I’ll do fine if I just what to expect from the teachers, Study has to offer as finals apstudy here,” Johnson said. proach. she said. Students can be sure their tuManagement and finance The Study is open during regtors are qualified, because part of sophomore Will Spence, an ac- ular hours this week and next. It the application process requires counting and economics tutor, will be open until Wednesday durthem to have a 3.0 and have re- said. The Study gives students ing Finals Week. Tutoring times ceived an A or B in the same “more firsthand experience” than for specific subjects and courses course they’re tutoring at UK, working with professors or teach- can be found on The Study’s webSprang said. ing assistants. He hopes students site (www.uky.edu/UGS/study/). These students have been
Pakistani-Louisville doctor speaks to medical students about flood relief By Nicole Schladt news@kykernel.com
One Louisville doctor has helped with flood relief in Pakistan and shared his experience with UK students Monday. Dr. Shahid Qamar, a practicing physician at the James Graham Brown Cancer Center in Louisville, spoke with UK medical students about his experience with relief efforts in Pakistan, focusing
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on the struggle to raise money for his cause. The August 2010 flooding in Pakistan has had immense ramifications over the last few months. The floods affected an estimated 20.6 million people, according to the United Nations, and more than 1,767 people have died. Pakistan’s High Commissioner to Britain has even warned that the
cost of flood relief efforts may exceed $15 billion. Qamar shared photos of the people he encountered through his aid work and discussed the health issues Pakistanis now face in the months following the disaster. Qamar traveled to his native Pakistan after the flooding to teach villagers how to install New Life water purifiers. These water wells are able to filter up to 800 gallons of contaminated water an hour and
provide the clean water individuals need to survive in the region, Qamar said. He worked closely with the Association of Physicians of Pakistani Descent of Kentucky and Indiana and Edge Outreach to install more than 73 water purifiers throughout Pakistan. Qamar also helped with fundraising efforts for other projSee PAKISTAN on page 2
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PAKISTAN Continued from page 1 ects, including the construction of homes and schools destroyed by the flood. “The disaster (in Pakistan) opened up an opportunity for me to make this project my life project,” Qamar said. “I had no idea that this flood would change my life.”
CHES Continued from page 1 “They were concerned because he owned several weapons.” According to the police report, Ches said he had been drinking with his roommate and roommate’s girlfriend. The roommate called the police, because he said Ches left the apartment and shot a gun several times into the air, then left the scene in a vehicle, Roberts said. “They said [Ches] had ac-
The chapter of the International Federation of Medical Students’ Associations at the UK College of Medicine hosted Qamar’s talk so UK students could learn about everything he witnessed as a result of the flooding, the organization’s Vice President Jessica Neely said. “(The IFMSA likes) to raise awareness amongst the medical community about international affairs in medicine,” said Priya Jain, the or-
ganization’s president. Qamar echoed this idea of raising awareness and challenged UK medical students to make a difference in the global community. “We are the most privileged people living in the United States right now,” Qamar said. “These people are not privileged like us. You can spend your time, your resources, your good health for these people.”
tually exited the apartment and fired up [into the air] several shots with one of the weapons,” she said. Roberts said police were getting a vehicle description and suspect description ready when Ches arrived back on scene and was arrested. According to the police report, the vehicle Ches returned in had a bottle of champagne in it. Ches told officers he was coming back from Nicholasville to go home, the report said. The report indicated officers thought Ches’ eyes were bloodshot and watery, and he
had slurred speech, was confused and was unsteady. Ches was then transported to the Fayette County Detention Center. Ches refused a breathalyzer from officers, prompting his license to be suspended. Two rifles from the vehicle Ches arrived at the scene in and several other weapons in the apartment were confiscated for evidence purposes, Roberts said. On Wednesday Ches pleaded not guilty to the charges in Fayette County District Court, and his preliminary hearing is set for Jan. 13, 2011.
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Live,” which might be good prep. With the exception of Hugh Jackman two shows back, the broadcast has stuck with primarily comedic types for quite a while, tapping the likes of Billy Crystal, Ellen DeGeneres, Jon Stewart, Chris Rock and David Letterman in recent years with Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin co-hosting most recently. Perhaps Franco will take a page from his recent, audience-thrilling “Inside the Actors Studio” appearance and stay an extra 90 minutes afterward to answer questions from students and fans and sign autographs? Probably not he and Hathaway will be expected at the Governors Ball. The Academy Awards will be held once again at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland in Los Angeles.
balance and proportion, gather more data and analyze it logically. Clarity allows people to relax. Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) — Today is a 5 — Don’t hurt yourself by working so hard. Use circumstances to your advantage, and shift focus from one project to another. Less effort equals better results. Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — Today is a 6 — You don’t need more information to complete a creative project. Weave your skills and wisdom together, and you get beautiful results. You surprise yourself. Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — Today is an 8 — End the month on a high note. You’ve worked hard and have earned it. You may not have shifted the universe, but you’ve discovered your own potential. Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — Today is a 6 — Your desire for perfection may not be satisfied today. Children or others want to go on to the next fun thing. There’s a certain degree of chaos. Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) —
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Correction A Nov. 17 article about international student enrollment at UK incorrectly said the total number of international students has increased from 169 to 358 in the past five years. These numbers are for the number of international undergraduate students. The correct numbers for total international student enrollment increase in the last five years are 1,339 to 1,409. To report an error, call the Kentucky Kernel at 257-1915 or e-mail editor@kykernel.com.
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[international] opinions
Abroad, twice over Home, missing friends from afar I am lucky enough to say I have studied abroad not just once during my college career, but twice. I spent spring semester of my sophomore year in Pune, India, about two hours away from Mumbai. Because I needed to complete my foreign language requirement, I LIZ spent an intensive MCKELLAR month this past summer in Costa Rica Guest learning Spanish. columnist Both of these experiences were very different but at the same time very similar. I gained life-long friends. In fact, I will attend the wedding of my roommate from Costa Rica this winter. India is a place I always wanted to visit. I had an intense passion to wear a Sari every day, and in the U.S., I knew this dream was not going to be a reality. It was more of a personal trip, rather than an education-centered one. I left to discover myself, and in the process, I ended up leaving half my heart in Pune. Consequentially, I am always yearning to either be home in California or home under the warm Indian sky. Costa Rica, on the other hand, was more educationally driven. I left with the intent of learning Spanish and conquering my fear of the language (since I am unable to roll my tongue), and I was convinced I was unable to learn. Thankfully, I was proven wrong, and I have gained an appreciation for the language I never thought was possible. Now, as well as yearning for the Indian sky, I yearn to hear Spanish and be able to join in a conversation.
Through my study abroad experience, I have found how rare it is for Americans to travel abroad. Just meeting American students can break some of the simple stereotypes that people from other countries have about us. In Costa Rica, my friend and I went to a pizza place in Manual Antonio. While we tried to converse with the waiter in Spanish, he replied in English and corrected us if we said anything incorrectly. The real problem arose when a large man came in and yelled for someone to come over to wait on him. I noticed his Texas accent, and 12 other loud, brass Americans proceeded to tear the restaurant apart with their loud laughter, demands and most embarrassingly, their loud statement to their waiter that they had “found someone who speaks American English.” After this remark, the table erupted in laughter, and the head of the group jokingly smacked the guy on the back. As we left the restaurant, we apologized to the waiter and thanked him for his services. He told us in a whisper that he hated when Americans came in, but it was a nice change to see that all Americans didn’t act like in the manner we had just witnessed. I smiled but didn’t know exactly how to feel. I was glad I showed him that not all Americans were like the family we left behind in the restaurant but saddened that this was the kind of image he expected from Americans. This is why I put so much value in studying abroad. It not only changed me on a deeper level and the way I view the world — but I know in turn, I have touched and changed other peoples’ views of America. Liz McKellar is an English senior. E-mail opinions@kykernel.com.
This column is the final installment of November’s weekly international series. As always, the Opinions section welcomes your international stories and perspectives. When I decided to delay my graduation and study abroad in England for a semester instead, I had to attend orientations, read agreements and sign consent forms. I was given tips on how to handle culture shock and how to LAURA make friends. I was warned that I’d get homesick at “X” stage, then CLARK Kernel I’d start to adapt to my surroundcolumnist ings at “Y” stage, and so on. Despite this advice, leaving Kentucky by myself to spend six months in a country I had never been to seemed impossibly difficult. But no one warned me that coming back to the states would be unimaginably harder. Clueless but excited, I packed my suitcases and flew across the Atlantic to a town in northwestern England called Lancaster, where I would be studying at Lancaster University (once school to Andy Serkis, known for playing Gollum in the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy, how awesome). Living in the dorms, I made campus my home. But what is a home without people you love? I found these people almost immediately, at my first study abroad orientation. These American women took the same gutsy leap of coming to Lancaster alone. We became friends quickly: We helped each other battle homesickness or simply went out to one of the nine bars on campus (take note, UK). We even helped each other immerse ourselves into English culture, and through this I became “mates” with several English students. These people accepted me for who I was without question and didn’t even criticize me when they found I didn’t know the rules of cricket. By the end of term, I realized each of these amazing individuals was worth keeping in my life for longer than six months. When my time abroad was nearly over, I
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scrambled to find some kind of guidebook that would tell me what to do — how I should say goodbye to these people I had only just met, how to leave a place that was my home for half of a year. I couldn’t find one. But it didn’t matter: goodbyes had to be said, and my suitcases had to be packed up again. I came back and felt like a square peg trying to fit into that round hole I had once called home. I couldn’t help wondering what was wrong with me — shouldn’t it be easy to be home? It’s been five months since my return, and sometimes I ask myself, why didn’t someone tell me that I’d miss my time abroad like a constant stomachache? That I’d terribly miss the friends I had made? That I’d be planning a trip back as soon as I landed on American soil? But even if someone had, I’d like to think I’d have gone anyway. If I hadn’t immersed myself into the culture and my new relationships, I would not have grown into the person I am now. Sure, leaving a place where I had learned so much was awful, but returning home has shown me how the people and experiences in my life are beautifully irreplaceable. To those contemplating studying abroad, you can’t say I didn’t warn you. Laura Clark is a journalism senior. E-mail opinions@kykernel.com.
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UK returns home with lessons learned By Aaron Smith asmith@kykernel.com
Josh Harrellson and the rest of the basketball team have returned home from Hawaii after playing in the Maui Invitational. Harrellson wasn’t showing any lingering signs of longing to go back. “It’s going to be great to play in Rupp Arena again,” he said. “We’ve been gone so long, it will be good to be back in front of the hometown crowd.” Perhaps the sentiment stems from the way they left Hawaii. When UK (4-1) steps onto the floor against Boston University at 7 p.m. Tuesday, it will be the first since an 8467 championship game loss to Connecticut in Maui. Connecticut had a 21point halftime lead in that game, and UK’s young team didn’t know how to respond. “It was a different experience than we’re used to,” Harrellson said. “We just didn’t know how to handle it out there. We didn’t have the leadership out there we needed.”
It was especially tough for the freshmen, who encountered their first real test of the season. “Being 21 down at the half, those guys have probably never been down that much at the half,” Harrellson said. “In a way, they didn’t know how to recuperate from that and come out and play as a team.” Junior DeAndre Liggins said it wasn’t just the young players who didn’t know how to handle the large deficit. He admitted trying to do too much as he saw the score widen. Players doing their “own thing” displayed a tendency to drive the lane and try to create plays that were nonexistent. Liggins said it’s a fine balance between being aggressive in driving the ball, as the dribble-drive motion offense warrants, and being overaggressive. “It’s very hard for me, I’m an attacking player,” Liggins said. “I just have to recognize what I have, and if the defense collapses I have to hit the people on the wing wide open.” UK head coach John
Calipari labeled his team’s play against Connecticut as “selfish” after the game. “When we would break down on offense, everyone would just try to do it themselves rather than as a team, so yeah, you can consider that selfish,” Harrellson said. “But I think people are just trying to do what is the best thing for the team. Just in the wrong way.” Part of losing control of the championship game came when freshmen Brandon Knight and Terrence Jones, who was named SEC Freshman of the Week after averaging 23 points and 11.3 rebounds in the tournament, were on the bench with foul trouble. “That’s a tough situation, we have to keep them out of foul trouble every game,” Harrellson said of playing without the team’s top two scorers. “But when one or two of our best players go out we have someone to step up and be an offensive threat. That’s DeAndre, Darius (Miller), even if Hood comes in and knocks down a couple threes.”
UK women’s basketball wins tournament By T.J. Walker sports@kykernel.com
Thanksgiving break is supposed to be a time of relaxation, but the UK women’s hoops team spent its break winning basketball games. UK won the two-game Lady Eagle Thanksgiving
Classic in Hattiesburg, Miss., despite only having its star player in action for 10 of the 80 possible minutes over the weekend. The victory was UK’s 28th straight regularseason tournament championship. All-American forward Victoria Dunlap went down
near the end of the first half in the opening game. She was diagnosed with a mild concussion and sat out the championship game. The No. 9 Cats (5-0) needed someone to step up the scoring that was lost when Dunlap went out, and sophomore guard A’dia Mathies did
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Ag-econ class teaches the value of food By Geoff Giancarlo features@kykernel.com
The poor college student is a familiar cliché when arriving at school. However, between all-you-can-eat dining halls and free food giveaways, food is not too hard to come by. One UK professor has been challenging his students to eat in another person’s shoes. A. Lee Meyer, extension professor in the Agricultural Economics Department, teaches AEC 309, World Food Needs and U.S. Trade in Agricultural Products. For three years he has assigned a challenge to his students: either “eat the subsistence diet of a poor person for two days,” maybe in rice, po-
lenta or vegetables, live on $2 a day for three days or fast for 24 hours. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the poverty rate in the U.S. on average has been in decline for about 60 years, when the poverty rate was 22.4 percent. Today, about 43.6 people (14.3 percent) live under the poverty line. Since the early 1970s, the poverty rate has stayed steady between about 12 and 15 percent. Meyer said he hopes the assignment will get his students to be “empathetic of those who have less than we do … and be aware of the world beyond their daily living.” Meyer said the assignment is not just a way to teach intellectually but “vis-
cerally.” He said there are plenty of opportunities to read about people not being able to afford enough food for themselves and their families, but it is rare to voluntarily experience such a personal shortage. “Part of what we learn is emotional — right brain — and this experiential learning adds to that type of learning,” Meyer said. Meyer said the problem can be learned about more effectively through experience. “Whether the problem is food security in the U.S. or malnourishment in low-income countries, it will take both empathy and carefully designed economic policies to solve them,” he said.
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Senior Josh Harrellson grabs a rebound during the UK men’s basketball exhibition game against Dillard.
it in a big way. Mathies averaged 20 points during the tournament, which was enough to garner her the tournament’s Most Valuable Player award. UK played Murray State (2-4) in the opening game Nov. 26 and despite losing Dunlap, who is one of the Cats’ top rebounders, the team out-re-
bounded the Racers 53-36. UK exploded to a 91-59 win. In the championship game Nov. 27, the Cats played tournament host Southern Mississippi (3-2). The Cats got out to a slow start and only held a five-point halftime lead. But the Cats typically force turnovers, and the Golden Ea-
gles were not immune. The Cats’ suffocating defense forced 33 turnovers, and UK was able to cruise to a 79-60 win. Dunlap’s injury shouldn’t force her to miss any more games — a good sign for the Cats, whose next game is against Louisville on Dec. 5.