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Ky. Supreme Court ruling overturned Warrant not needed if evidence destroying is heard By Lauren Letsinger news@kykernel.com
In pursuit of a suspect who had sold cocaine to a police informant, city police were led to an apartment that smelled of burning marijuana. After knocking and hearing what sounded like evidence being destroyed, officers entered and searched the apartment without a warrant. The incident resulted in Kentucky v. King case No. 09-1272. According to The New York Times, the police, who believed their original suspect lived in the apartment, heard sounds of evidence being destroyed. After knocking and announcing their presence with no response, police kicked down resident Hollis D. King’s apartment door and began searching. The Kentucky Supreme Court suppressed the evidence after concluding that it was not valid since the police searched without a warrant. They ruled that the risk of evidence being destroyed was the result of police creating their own emergency circumstance that would allow them to search without a warrant. The United States Supreme Court overturned that ruling on May 16. It ruled that police acted lawfully and had probable cause needed in order to enter the apartment without a warrant. Sarah Welling, a UK law professor, said that defending Justice Ruth Ginsburg had a good point in her argument that police should not be allowed to knock and announce themselves, then proceed to search without a warrant because they think evidence is being destroyed. “If police come and knock saying, ‘Hi, we are the police we are out here,’ they are hoping to hear movement to allow them to enter or be able to get the consent,” Welling said. “The problem is using their startle or alarm to get them inside when they could just get a warrant. If they created the emergency by startling the people and then they burst in, then there has been an exception to the exception created.” Ann Gordon, a senior law major, agreed with the initial Kentucky Supreme Court ruling. “The police busted down the door to the wrong apartment,” Gordon said. “Of course Hollis King was not expecting them there so he probably panicked at that moment not considering his constitutional rights, like telling them they could
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Students can walk through the Maxwell Place grounds on the way to campus buildings. The house also hosts group tours and special events.
Living on campus Patsy Todd reminisces about presidential home By Becca Clemons bclemons@kykernel.com
Outgoing First Lady Patsy Todd said the most important thing she does with Maxwell Place, the on-campus presidential home, is preserve it. “There’s just so many human stories,” she said about the house. Located next to Chem-Phys and the King Library, the Maxwell Place grounds serve as a shortcut to the W.T. Young Library. It’s a homing beacon of sorts in the middle of campus. At least that’s the feel the Todd and her husband, outgoing UK President Lee Todd, want it to have.
Throughout their tenure, the Todds have offered cookies to those knocking at their door (but nothing store bought — “I want ‘em homemade,” Patsy Todd said). The tradition they started, though, goes beyond easing a student’s midday sweet tooth. “It gives students a reason to knock on my door,” Todd said. She said that even after she and the president leave their posts at the end of the month, they won’t stop involvement with the university, and especially its students. “We’re looking forward to spending time with students when we’re not in the
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Huguelet closed for summer Steam line upgrades have closed sections of Huguelet drive this month, and traffic will remain affected through July 29. The eastbound lane past the entrance and exit of the Kentucky Clinic Parking Structure to Rose Street is closed to through traffic until July 8, according to UK Parking & Transportation Services. The sidewalk on the eastbound side is also closed. The westbound lane will remain open during that time, but will close July 11 through 29. Those wanting to travel eastbound on Huguelet from South Limestone or Virgina Avenue will be directed up Limestone to Washington Ave, then to Rose Street where they can turn back onto Huguelet. The Martin Luther King North E Lot — also called the UK HealthCare Good Samaritan E Lot — will close June 11 and 12 for paving and striping maintenance work. PTS said the timetables for both projects are weather-dependent. STAFF REPORT
UK First Lady Patsy Todd reads from poems that date back from the early 1900s. The writings are about Kentucky and its people, and were donated to the university.
Craft Center parking woes continue Construction on Coal Lodge takes away 100 E Lot spaces By Jarrod Thacker news@kykernel.com
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Parts of Huguelet Avenue, east of the Kentucky Clinic Parking Structure, will be closed through July 29.
presidential position anymore,” she said. “We’ll just have to have students around all the time.” The house has more connections to the university community beyond its location and residents. In multiple rooms, cabinets and tables made by the UK Physical Plant Division mesh with antique furniture, giving the home a feel of novelty and warmth. Portraits of important people tied to the university and state — like Stephen Foster, who wrote “My Old Kentucky Home” — line the walls. Katy Bennett, of UK Public Relations, said Maxwell Place has been used by Greek organizations and the Confucius Institute for special events, among many others. She said there’s a living quarters above the garage, not attached to the house, where it is rumored students used to live, including the Todds’ daughter Kathryn. Todd had taken most of her personal items out of the house as her departure draws near, but personal family photos still hang in some rooms. She chose the furniture and fabrics upholstering the items that will replace her own. “When I took my personal things out, I replaced them with warm things,” Todd said. The Todds lived for four full years at Maxwell Place, but they have split the rest of their time between it and their other See MAXWELL on page 2
Summer brings further construction on the new UK men’s basketball dormitory, the Wildcat Coal Lodge, which is encroaching upon employee parking places in the process. According to Capital Project Manager David Collins, only 50 of the 150 parking places available at the E Lot adjacent to the Joe Craft Center and building site will be available during
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construction. Any person that normally parks in this area may need to seek other available parking during this time, UK Parking & Transportation Services said on its website. Once the building is completed, projected in March 2012, 17 more parking spots will be made available, said Collins. However, the estimated date of completion may need to be pushed back due to delays that
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were met early in the project. “Completion of the foundation system for the building was delayed by the excessive rains this spring, and by subsurface conditions found that were not reflected in the geotechnical report that had been generated,” Collins said. Adding to the delay, the project bid also came in over budget in July 2010, which caused designers to reduce the size of the building and the number of available beds from 36 to 32 and deleting a team room. Donors increased the project budget as a result, from $7 million to $8.05 million, to increase its scope.
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The Codell Construction Company began working on the Wildcat Coal Lodge, whose name has drawn controversy due to its affiliation with the coal industry, in February after the project was successfully rebid, Collins said. Including basement and penthouse spaces, the three-story dorm will be 20,911 gross square feet, and is expected to achieve a LEED certification. Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design is an internationally recognized green building certification system used to help implement environSee LODGE on page 2
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mentally conscious building design, construction, operation and maintenance solutions, according to the U.S. Green Building Council. The new dorm, located directly beside of the Joe Craft Center, is replacing the Joe B. Hall Wildcat Lodge that was built in 1978. According to Collins, the old dorm was in need of an upgrade to remain in service. After receiving renovations in 2000 to address safety and systems issues, another project to renovate the former dorm was planned by the Capital Project and Bond Oversight Committee in January 2009, but was cancelled when donors offered to fund the construction of the Wildcat Coal Lodge. A decision to determine what is to become of the Joe B. Hall Wildcat Lodge has not been made at this time.
not enter without a warrant, for example. He didn’t have the time to think about it before the police entered his apartment looking for somebody else.” Economics major Dudley Sewell, disagreed. “Although the police entered the wrong apartment, they at first believed that their suspect lived there,” Sewell said. “If they heard evidence being destroyed then they needed to search the apartment before that could happen. After realizing it was the wrong apartment, they still had a drug case on their hands that had to be dealt with.” Welling said King could have opted not to answer the door or answer and not speak to police. “He didn’t have to allow the police in,” Welling said. “He should have stood on his constitutional rights. However, he didn’t know that.”
Continued from page 1 home. Todd said her son tended to their house while the rest of the family stayed at Maxwell Place, but he eventually wanted to get a place of his own. Maxwell Place has a music room, dining room, multiple living room areas, an enclosed front porch and patio, kitchen and multiple bedrooms — one of which is called the Spindletop Room, after the UK-owned property Spindletop Hall in northern Lexington from where some of the furniture was taken. “People enjoy using Maxwell Place, but especially the adjoining rooms,” Todd said. “This house is meant to
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NBC earns Olympic coverage rights LOS ANGELES — It is rare that the incumbent is the underdog, but that's what NBC was when it came to holding onto the U.S. television rights for the Olympics. With rivals Walt Disney Co., owner of ESPN and ABC, and News Corp., parent of Fox, expected to make aggressive bids for future games and the body language of NBC's new owner Comcast Corp. indicating a wariness of big-ticket sports events that bleed red ink, the peacock network seemed to be far from a sure thing to remain the home of the Olympic flame. But when the smoke cleared in Lausanne, Switzerland, it was NBC that walked away with the rights to the Olympics through 2020. The price tag for the four games is $4.38 billion. The breakdown is as follows: The 2014 Winter Games in Sochi in Russia will cost $775 million. The 2016 Summer Games in Rio de Janeiro will cost $1.2 billion. The 2018 games will run $863 million and the 2020 games will cost $1.4 billion. The locales for the 2018 and 2020 games have not yet been determined. Comcast Chief Executive Brian Roberts, who traveled to Lausanne with the NBC team for the presentation and bid, said, “I absolutely wanted to win for the team.” Roberts said he expects the deal to be profitable. “We said all along we were going to take a disciplined approach where we would have a path to profitability,” Roberts said on a conference call Tuesday. “By having a longer term, we were able to come out and achieve that goal.” NBC lost $233 million on the 2010
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have people in it.” the university as its new first The layout of the house is family, beginning in July. mostly open, with few actual Patsy Todd said she exdoors connecting rooms and pects the Capiloutos will live more open doorways. Natural at Maxwell Place, as is the light enters through numerous tradition. Whether they will tall windows continue the and glass cookie-giving “We’re looking doors. tradition is yet Most of be deterforward to spending to the rooms are mined. When time with students.” asked by the filled with furniture, Kernel if he PATSY TODD lamps and would have Outgoing first lady decorations home-baked of some sort cookies pre— all except pared for stufor Lee Todd’s office, which dents, Eli Capilouto said, is bare except for a couple of “We’ll do something.” cabinets, a rug and a desk “I’ve always told our stuchair. dents that Maxwell Place Current University of Al- should be a part of your herabama-Birmingham Provost itage,” Todd said. “This Eli Capilouto and wife Mary should be a place where you Lynne will take the helm of can always come back.”
Games and it could be a similar scenario for the 2012 Summer Games in London. NBC Sports Group Chairman Mark Lazarus, who took that position just a few weeks ago after the abrupt resignation of Dick Ebersol, who had been the leader of the network's Olympic efforts for more than a decade, said starting in 2014 every Olympic event would be live either on television or the Internet. “This deal encompasses every platform known today or to become known between now and when this deal comes up,” Lazarus said. Many industry observers expected Disney to walk away with the games. However, while NBC and Fox each made bids for both the next two and next four Olympic Games, ESPN only bid for the 2014 and 2016 Games and its bid was not as competitive, people close to the process said. The ESPN bid was for $1.4 billion, one person with knowledge of the matter said. Its presentation was shorter than pitches from NBC and Fox. “We made a disciplined bid that would have brought tremendous value to the Olympics and would have been profitable for our company,” ESPN said in a statement, adding that “to go any further would not have made good business sense for us.” Fox's bid for the four games was more aggressive. For 2014 and 2016, Fox offered $1.5 billion and for all the games between 2014 and 2020, the network bid $3.4 billion, a person familiar with the matter said. In a statement, Fox Sports Chairman David Hill congratulated Comcast and NBC.
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Editor’s note: This column is the first in a series of four about each of the outgoing UK men’s basketball players from the 2010-2011 season. Enes Kanter sat in his customary position on the AARON SMITH bench, between the players and the coaches, almost as if Kernel he were in basketball roster columnist limbo. In his hands rested an empty clipboard, oddly symbolic of his situation. He wasn’t going to play in this game, UK’s Southeastern Conference opener against Georgia, but that was no surprise. He hadn’t been able to play in any of UK’s previous games. This game was a little different, though. It was the first time he had been allowed to travel with the team, but only because days earlier the NCAA had ruled him permanently ineligible. What should have been a positive experience — traveling on the road for an SEC game with his UK family — was an entirely negative one. “It was the worst I’ve ever seen him,” said UK Athletics’ DeWayne Peevy the week after the game. Kanter didn’t make many more trips with the team. And if that Georgia trip was the worst, it didn’t sound like it got much better being at home. “I cry when I watch the games,” Kanter told Yahoo! Sports in March. Oddly, the month of March altered his lasting perception. Those “What if” feelings, so prominently expressed early in the year, diminished once UK made the Final Four. While UK could have theoretically won the title with Kanter, it also could have lost in the second round. The season ended up being too much of a success to truly bemoan Kanter’s loss. Still, he can be credited for a decent portion of it. He played and instructed the big men, primarily senior Josh Harrellson, and gave them the best scout team center a team could ever imagine. Before the Ohio State game, as Harrellson was set to go up against Jared Sullinger — a player Kanter had absolutely torched a year earlier at the Nike Hoops Summit — Kanter gave advice to the player on which UK’s chances of victory largely hinged. On the bench, Kanter was another set of eyes watching the game. He didn’t really do all that much coaching — he kept a lot of stats and never transitioned to wearing a suit, instead opting for warmups — but at times he would scribble down some basic notes like “Brandon Knight, good pass,” and give his teammates pointers. Even though he played a valuable role in practice, Kanter felt constricted, restrained. Why would he want to play basketball without
a score being kept for a year? His desire to see meaningful action was evident in practice. After the whistle blew, Kanter would pull a Kevin Garnett and snag the ball out of the air. “That’s his move in practice,” Jarrod Polson told the Kernel in February. “I guess he hates to see the other team score.” It must have been infinitely worse watching teams score on UK in real games and not being able to do a thing about it. Kanter was the ultimate representation of negative space. The biggest storyline of those early season games was his absence, rather than anything the guys actually playing were accomplishing. Countless stories were published — and highly read — about how there was no news regarding the Kanter news. In the UK locker room, Kanter’s locker was located at the most prominent and central position, with Knight to his right and Terrence Jones to his left. It was always empty, but the name tag was never taken down. Even his No. 0 jersey was as much a non-number as it was a number. Now he moves on to the NBA, where he was set on an unalterable path after the NCAA decision. He will do just fine — a top-10 pick, and talented enough to fit into a variety of systems. I watched him in practice once, and while he showed an aversion to passing (perhaps on coaches’ commands for scouting purposes), his post skills were elite. His father said earlier in the year Kanter would have come back if he was still eligible. It’s a noble thought, but ultimately we have no idea what would have occurred had he been able to make an actual decision. Regardless, Kanter is one of two departing UK players who didn’t have the option of returning, and so he leaves UK with only footprints by which we can remember him. Kanter transitioned from being a martyr at the beginning of the year, felled by the NCAA’s injustice, to an invisible myth by the end of the year. As the season wore on, Kanter largely receded into the background. His public appearances were rare. The Undertaker entrance at Big Blue Madness; a single round of media interviews after the season was over; a single UK Athletics play — that of a first pitch at a baseball game; and a smattering of YouTube clips that made you want to press pause and never look again at what might have been. “He’s just real goofy off the court,” Polson said — but, regrettably, fans weren’t able to really see Kanter’s personality. It is easy to construct a persona for him when we’ve barely heard him talk and never seen him lose, and maybe that’s for the better. Because of it, he will go down with one of the most unique and memorable legacies in UK history. Follow Aaron on Twitter @KernelASmith. Email asmith@kykernel.com.
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Enes Kanter during the UK vs. Dillard University at Rupp Arena on November 5, 2010.
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Nostalgia in the summer months: Enjoy being young while you can Hello Kernel Readers. It’s been so long. Between the sweet afterglow of finals being finished and pools beANNIE HUGHES Kernel columnist
ing opened, I have missed talking about all the various topics. However, recently I have been all about the nostalgia. Between looking through
old photos and scrolling through cringe-worthy posts from myself as a freshman in college using Facebook for the first time, I may as well bust out the Sarah McLachlan and sit thoughtfully in my living room sipping a glass of wine. I have come to terms with the fact that I will be a senior this year (pending a possible victory lap, if things go the way they are currently) and realizing how fast your college experience can go has really hit me hard. But this is opinions and I will save my tearful, heartfelt
reminiscence about simpler times, and when I was young and didn’t have a care for anything having to do with responsibility. Instead I offer a proposition. Whether you are an incoming freshman or a senior hanging around for one last summer in Lexington, take the time to reflect on your life as it is now. While it sounds dramatic, believe me when I say that remembering all the good times, and even the bad ones, is an excellent way of understanding the position you sit in currently. College is about
growth on a whole other level, and to fully understand and enjoy that, we need to be able to understand how we got to where we are, and where were going. So bust out the old pictures, read the notes you passed in High School, and maybe check out the old MySpace account if you were brave enough to keep it. After all, you’re only young once. Annie Hughes is a political science senior. Email opinions@kykernel.com.
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Continued from page 4 through the summer to bulk up to groove his motion and gain consistency in his release point. But his growing made it hard. He’s listed at 6-foot-9, but he was still growing into his body. “I’ve grown an inch every single year,” Meyer said this season. “It’s been somewhat tough for me trying to stay coordinated.” That sophomore year, he showed those same flashes of potential, and they came more frequently than his first year, but he was still inconsistent. There were times when his stuff was straight from a video game, when his fastball would seemingly only make contact with air and the catcher’s mitt. There were other times when he seemed all too average, like the time he came on in relief and gave up six runs without making it out of that same inning. He was dropped to starting Sundays midway through the year, and a bout of mono hampered the end of his season. But he did show improvement. That brought him to his third year, perhaps the decisive year. Had he “turned the corner” that coach Gary Henderson wanted him to turn a year earlier? Henderson had warned against the hype perhaps being too much — not too much for Meyer specifically to handle, but the collective hype in general that gets heaped on talented freshmen — his first two years. But now Meyer had to live up to the hype. He had the talent, and he had the experience, and now he had to find a way to meld that for the season. He did. In March, batters reached base exactly one-third of the time against him. He posted a 5:2 K:BB ratio. In April, he stayed about the same. And then in May, Meyer went into legitimate SEC ace mode. He had a 1.61 ERA that month. Batters hit .210 and had a .297 on-base percentage that month. He finished the year as one of the best pitchers in a loaded conference, earning second-team All-SEC while leading the league in strikeouts. The plan to transform him from raw potential to realized dominance had been accomplished. “It took a little longer than we would have hoped, but we got it done,” Meyer said in a teleconference. With that, Meyer was selected 23rd overall by the Washington Nationals, making him the second-highest selection in UK history. He still has work to do; his release point needs to improve in his ability to replicate it, and his command still isn’t top-notch. But the power arm is still there, and anytime a tall, lanky pitcher is whipping fastballs around like he does, it’s an enticing prospect — and potential finally realized after three years of seeing it slowly emerge.
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Potential realized: Meyer 23rd pick in draft UK baseball star initially chose the college route over MLB AARON SMITH Kernel columnist
It is always a risk when a player turns down a professional contract from an MLB team coming out of high school. If he decides to go to college, he has to stay through at least his junior year. All sorts of things can happen between entering col-
lege and being draft eligible: poor performance, stuck at the bottom of the depth chart, injuries. When Alex Meyer turned down a multimillion dollar deal from the Boston Red Sox out of high school after being drafted in the 20th round, it was a risk. Sure, he certainly had the potential to end up making his decision worth it — look at any picture of Meyer throwing and you think of a slightly lesser version of Randy Johnson —
but there are also many things that could lead to regret by going to college. Meyer ran into some of these. His freshman year, he showed flashes of that potential, beating Louisiana State on the road. But it was rare and fleeting. Coming into his sophomore year, he was expecting to assert himself as a frontline Southeastern Conference starter. He was named the Friday starter, typically reserved for the staff ace. “I want people to know I can go throw seven quality innings, not leave them wondering every weekend,” Meyer said at the time. He had worked See MEYER on page 3 STAFF FILE PHOTO
Alex Meyer pitches in a March 2010 game against Evansville. Meyer was chosen 23rd overall in the MLB draft on Monday, making him the the second-highest selection in UK baseball history. He turned down a deal with the Boston Red Sox after being drafted in the 20th round out of high school.