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UK earns bye in SEC tourney GRE to change this summer
By Aaron Smith asmith@kykernel.com
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — UK has certainly been bipolar, depending on the location of its games this season. But now, they’re simply bye-winning. A 64-58 win on Tennessee’s Senior Day gave UK (22-8, 10-6 Southeastern Conference) a No. 2 seed in the SEC Tournament and a first-round bye. Head coach John Calipari said it might have bumped UK up to a No. 3 seed in the NCAA Tournament if the Cats take care of business in the SEC, and that the win was “as much about that seed in the (NCAA) Tournament.” UK certainly didn’t look like a top seed in the first half against Tennessee. DeAndre Liggins was the only UK player to make more than one shot in the first 20 minutes, scoring all six of his points in that time frame. “I let guys know in no uncertain terms, DeAndre was the only guy who showed up in the first half,” Calipari said. “He was by himself.” Calipari had been yelling and stomping with a special vigor throughout the first half. Heading into halftime, down seven, the players knew what was coming. “I wasn’t friendly, let me say that,” Calipari said. “It was nothing to do with execution, just competitive spirit. I went right down the room.” Still, Calipari has men-
By Jarrod Thacker news@kykernel.com
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Brandon Knight drives against the defensive pressure of Tennessee in Knoxville on Sunday. The Cats’ win over the Vols earned them a first-round bye in the SEC tournament. tioned before that it has to be his players’ team, not his. So the players huddled up before stepping on the court to resume play and promised to give “110 percent effort,” Terrence Jones said. UK proceeded to go for the 50-50 balls Calipari has been imploring them to go
after, winning most of them — including those that mattered most, at the end of the game. Josh Harrellson, who Calipari said “did nothing” the first 37 minutes, grabbed two big rebounds. One allowed UK to keep possession from the two-minute mark to
the one-minute mark. Free throws at the end of that sequence gave UK a five-point lead, enough to carry it to the end of the game. “In the second half we came out with a whole different swagger,” said Jones, who did the same himself. See BBALL on page 4
Beginning Aug. 1, aspiring graduate students will face an untested challenge when seeking admission to post-baccalaureate studies. A revised Graduate Record Examination (GRE) General Test will be available late this summer, after undergoing several alterations to its question structure and methodology. The GRE General Test is a standardized assessment created by Educational Testing Service (ETS) used by many programs across the nation to evaluate a student’s aptitude for graduate-level work, in addition to other variables, such as recommendations and undergraduate records. The examination will still be comprised of three core sections: analytical writing, verbal reasoning and quantitative reasoning. “ETS is always looking for ways to refine and improve the tests we design … We wanted the test to more closely reflect the kinds of tasks and skills students will encounter in graduate and business schools,” ETS Press Relations Director Thomas Ewing said. Ewing said the modified exam will reflect more reallife scenarios; eliminate vocabulary-focused questions, such as ones using antonyms and analogies; feature more focused analytical writing tasks; and use an imbedded, software calculator.
What will change? The revised GRE General Test will include: — More real-life scenarios — Less vocabulary-focused questions — More focused writing tasks — Use of imbedded software calculators He said that while the revised exam has a different score scale, current GRE exam results will continue to be accepted. GRE scores are good for five years from the test date. Luckily for students who have not been administered the test, ETS believes that while the revised test is longer, the revision will make the test more user friendly. The new exam interface will allow students to skip, review, revise and change questions within a section. Test preparation service Kaplan affirms that instead of each correct answer making the successive question more difficult, the new system will adapt based the percentage of 20 questions that are correct. “I am optimistic that the test will be friendlier for the students,” Patricia Bond, senior assistant dean in the UK Graduate School’s Office of Graduate Admissions and Recruitment, said. “It is my understanding that the changes See GRE on page 2
Failure Student brings UK Hoops runner up in SEC to world news to UK launch By Chandler Howard choward@kykernel.com
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Space lab looks to future after satellite falls By Fink Densford news@kykernel.com
A few UK students have learned firsthand just how hard it can be to make it into space. The UK Space Systems Laboratory is looking to the future after their satellite, KySat-1, failed to reach orbit Friday with NASA’s Glory mission. Students had gathered together to watch the launch, which, in addition to the $424 million NASA satellite, contained the small satellite designed and built by UK students. “There was a sense of excitement and nervousness in the room,” Daniel Erb, the student director of the SSL, said. “We had done it before, up to the T-minus seven minute mark.” The previous launch attempt a week earlier had been scrubbed at seven minutes due to a simple computer glitch, and the launch had to be rescheduled. The students were hopeful, but nervous, about this launch as liftoff approached, Erb said. Six minutes after liftoff, however, NASA announced that the vehicle’s velocity was underperforming, and that it See SPACE on page 2
One student is trying to bring the international world closer to the UK community. MeNore Lake, a biology sophomore, is starting a monthly publication to inform the UK community about international news and its local impact. It will be called “The World Report.” The idea came to Lake as a result of her family’s Ethiopian roots and the exposure to international discussion that took place at their dinner table, as they talked about current events in the international community. While at UK, the international news seemed absent from her current “world,” Lake said.
Get involved Contact MeNore Lake at mgla223@uky.edu to get involved. Visit the Student Organizations website for more info. “The biggest part of the transition into college was feeling as if I lived in two different worlds,” Lake said. “There was one, the college course world, doing homework, and on the other hand I would go home every weekend … and I’d be exposed to the world news, and I’d talk about it with my family. So I had a need to integrate those two aspects that I feel are important.”
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Lake has had a difficult time starting The World Report, bringing the idea to several people, until she reached Dr. Yung Soo Kim, a professor in the School of Journalism and Telecommunications, who decided to help her. Lake has reached out to various groups and organizations on campus to help reach the mission of The World Report, “to strive to be inclusive of all the university’s groups.” “(We’ve reached out) to the Office of Multicultural Affairs,” Lake said. “I’ve also reached out to the School of Journalism, where my adviser is. I got invited to visit and speak to a journalism 101 class and let them know about the group.” Lake asked the dean of the College of Arts & Sciences if she could present her organization to those dean’s list students at their reception and was granted permission. She will be speaking Wednesday at the reception in the Hilary J. Boone Center. Her adviser, Kim, said he decided to help her because he has been an international student, as a native Korean, and he feels The World Report would greatly benefit not just the American UK students, but the international ones as well. “I believe the presence of the international community in the UK is getting bigger and bigger as more and more international students See REPORT on page 2
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. — With 3:09 remaining in the Southeastern Conference Tournament championship, the Tennessee Lady Vols walked onto the floor waving their arms, beckoning their fans to get louder. But they didn’t need to; their team was already winning by 25. A blistering 76.2 threepoint percentage from the Lady Vols told the story of the game; but when they weren’t making shots, UK wasn’t hitting any shots of its own as the Cats fell to Tennessee 90-65. Season concluded, No. 16 UK now awaits an expected at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament, which begins on March 19. “We have had some tough times this year, some very deflating losses,” head coach Matthew Mitchell said. “But each time, this group has been able to bounce back … This is another chance for us to bounce back and show the great character these kids have.” For the full story, visit kykernel.com.
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UK guard Bernisha Pinkett drives to the basket against Tennessee on Sunday. The Cats lost in the SEC title game.
Institute connects cultures By Charlie Cecil news@kykernel.com
Honors students at UK are being challenged in an open competition for the chance to be selected to the US-United Kingdom Fulbright Summer Institutes. The institutes provide an opportunity for students to learn about a new culture while improving academic skills at a top in the line uni-
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versity in the United Kingdom. To apply, the student must be 18 or older and a U.S. citizen with a passport. The student is expected to have a confirmed minimum of a 3.5 GPA. Students must be freshmen or sophomores to be eligible. The director of the program at UK is Dr. Lisa Broome-Price. “The mission of the Ful-
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bright Program is to promote cultural understanding, so an eagerness to learn about the culture and heritage of the UK is important,” BroomePrice said. The institutes are looking for those who are strongwilled, independent and willing to venture out and make the most of a whole new experience in learning. See FULBRIGHT on page 2