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Capilouto announces dorm plan Project would add 9,000 beds in 10 years By Rachel Aretakis raretakis@kykernel.com
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Squirrels on UK’s campus caused four power outages in two months in 2007 and led to the installation of guards around electrical stations. By Kellie Oates news@kykernel.com
Campus squirrels are a breed all their own. Like fuzzy brown missiles, they come darting out of bushes in hopes of finding their next acorn to victimize,
Mini service projects help others By Corey Elam news@kykernel.com
For university students who are not yet familiar with the Center for Community Outreach, or the Center for Student Involvement as a whole, Wednesday’s Make-A-Difference night will be an opportunity to learn. Students will work together completing mini community projects that pertain to each of the 12 branches of the Center for Community Outreach.
leaving the remains for campus passers-by to walk on, trip over and crush with their bicycles. Students and faculty have shared their run-ins with these fearless fur balls, and whether they are silly or serious stories, squirrels on cam-
pus seem to have a way of making a lasting impression. “My freshman year I was walking to class down by fraternity row when a girl in front of me walks up to a trash can to throw a bottle away, and it was like this squirrel was just waiting for
her in there,” Landon Antonetti, an art studio and photography senior, said. “When the bottle went in, the squirrel came flying out straight into the side of her head. Maybe the squirrel wanted payback for getting hit in the side of See SQUIRRELS on page 2
President Eli Capilouto announced Tuesday the framework for a $30 million, multi-year campus building and renewal project. The project includes an honors residence hall that is planned to open in 2013. It will be built on the sports field next to Haggin Hall. “We’re taking the first steps,” Capilouto said at Tuesday’s Board of Trustees meeting. Phase One of the project is to have 600 new beds by fall 2013, Capilouto said. The residence halls will include honors and innovative learning programs. From fall 2013 to fall 2021, the university plans to open residence halls that will include up to 9,000 modern beds. Currently, UK has 5,148 residence hall beds and just 684 are modern. Capilouto also reported on other financial and facility planning. The university wants to invest $400 to $500 million in academic, research and student support facilities. Planning also includes evaluating potential funding sources and additional selffinanced projects to expand and improve the UK HealthCare and athletics infrastructure. “We must and will be good partners with the state, with the city and neighborhoods around the campus and we will continue to include our stakeholders at UK on whose behalf we seek to undertake this process of rebuilding and renewSee DORMS on page 2
Carving through the competition Delta Zeta’s sorority held its freshman pledge class philantrophy event Tuesday from 3 to 6 p.m. at Haggin Field. At Carve for a Cause, the sorority sold pumpkins for $7 and held a carving contest. Baked goods were also sold, and the carving contest’s winner got $100. Proceeds benefited the Lexington Hearing & Speech Center. PHOTO BY TESSA LIGHTY | STAFF
if you go What: Make-A-Difference night When: Wednesday, 5:30 to 7 p.m. Where: Student Center, room 106 Admission: Free
“For the ‘Great Outdoors’ branch, for example, we’re potting flowers and donating them to a local nursing home,” said Brad O’Neal, an international studies and Spanish major who is head volunteer of Wednesday night’s event. “For our Alternative Studies project, we will be making translation flashcards for students in Brazil to use when studying English.” Though small in scale, O’Neal is confident the group will show students how these projects, and community service in general, can greatly improve the quality of life on and off campus. Along with these fun-sized service projects, free food and drinks will be included at the event. For more information on this or any Center for Community Outreach event, email Brad O’Neal at volunteer.cco@gmail.com or go to GetInvolved.uky.edu/cco for more information.
Cody Greer carves a pumpkin at Carve for a Cause at Haggin Field on Tuesday.
Unlike other schools,UK lacks fall break Student Government tried for one last year, said university unable to support it By Kayla Pickrell kpickrell@kykernel.com
The lack of a fall break on campus has led to quite a controversy. In the past week, students have been aware that although most other universities will be taking or have taken a short hiatus from school, UK will not. “It would be nice to have a break in school before Thanksgiving break because I feel like that falls too late in the semester,” sociology sophomore Tiffany Smith said. “Students get burnt out.” “The school cannot support (a fall break),” said Kyle Kirk, a student representative in last year’s University Senate Council.
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He said there are too many factors to take into consideration. “The way our classes are scheduled and the way labs are ran, and the way graduate students use the university calendar” are major factors to take into account when thinking about a fall break, he said. Last year, the strive for a fall break was taken up by Kirk, former Student Government President Ryan Smith and Joe Quinn, former SG chief of staff. “After countless hours of work on trying to get one, I am a little disappointed, but at this time, our university is not able to support a fall break,” Kirk said.
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After countless tries, we decided that it would be a battle for someone else Kyle Kirk, last year’s University Senate in the future.” Council student representative
Kirk said that according to UK administration, students technically have a fall break. In fall 2007, students would have to attend class the Wednesday before Thanksgiving. By giving that day off to students, that day is called a “fall break,” Assistant Provost Richard Greissman said. “In order to have a fall break, students would have to start fall se-
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mester on a Monday instead of Wednesday, dismantle K Week for freshmen and move the move-in for dorms to the middle of the previous week,” Greissman said. “It would be difficult to ask parents to take off of work to move freshmen in during the week.” Joshua Hoke, a political science and sustainable agriculture freshman, said not having a fall See BREAK on page 2
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DORMS Continued from page 1 al,” Capilouto said. The Housing Request for Proposal is to be issued Wednesday, and it will identify private partners with financial strengths and experience, Capilouto said. The request for housing will solicit plans from private developers for building the residence halls. The proposal comes just three weeks after the Board of Trustees retreat, where members discussed the urgent needs of rebuilding campus. “We’re all about focusing on the students,” Capilouto said. Capilouto said he hopes campus responds positively. He said it took many people to come together to create the project. “In 10 years, students will be coming to the University of Kentucky not expecting to live in Blanding or Kirwan,” said Student Government President Micah Fielden.
Athletics committee The proposal to Governing Regulation II, which establishes a University Athletics Committee within the Board, was unanimously approved Tuesday for its first reading. The Board will do a second reading on the regulation in its December meeting, where a
final vote will be taken. athletics board. In March 2011, Board Other business Chair Britt Brockman At the Board meeting, appointed a special commit- Capilouto also announced the tee to review UK Athletics. creation of a “dynamic HonOn Oct. 20, the committee ors Academy in fall 2012 recommended that the Board which will serve as a magnet create the new athletics com- for the best and the brightest mittee. high school The new graduates in committee’s Kentucky and responsibilibeyond.” ties would The HonIn 10 years, include proors Academy viding coun- students will be comwill provide a sel to the special honUniversity the to ing president ors-enhanced concerning of Kentucky not curriculum athletics and also guarmatters or expecting to live in antees honors activities and Blanding or Kirwan.” students merit reviewing scholarships, athletics’ ELI CAPILOUTO Living LearnUK president annual budging Commuet, major nity access, expenditures priority for and construction of facilities if best residence halls, opportuthe cost is expected to exceed nities for education abroad, to $400,000. do research and more. The committee will conNorth Hall residence sist of five trustee members building was also renamed and up to three non-voting the “David P. Roselle Hall,” community members, who after UK’s ninth president, will be appointed by following the Board’s Capilouto, said Terry Mobley, approval. a trustee and the athletics subRoselle was the only past committee chair. president (except for the “It just kind of jumped out immediate past president, Lee at us that there wasn’t an ath- Todd) without a building letics committee as visible as named in his honor. others (committees),” Mobley Earlier in the day at the said. finance committee meeting, a “There is very little, from UK student group asked the a responsibility point of view, Board to consider eliminatthat they would be doing,” ing two coal-fired boilers that Mobley said about the current provide heat on campus.
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SQUIRRELS Continued from page 1 the head with a bottle.” Architecture graduate Warren Weaver said he saw a squirrel survive a long fall from the top of a tree while walking to class. “My friend pointed out this squirrel hanging from a high tree limb,” he said, “so we stopped and watched it when all of a sudden it dropped like 30 feet then hit the ground and took off running. We were shocked it lived.” Alex Brown, a film and video production senior, compared the squirrels on campus to the honey badgers, who are the focus of a recent YouTube video sensation which portrays the honey badger as “the most fearless animal in the world.” So what is it that makes these squirrels so bold? A research project done
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by students at Miami of Ohio University found urbanization has a big impact on the gutsiness of campus critters. The students explored two different areas that squirrels inhabit, one being campus and the other a nearby wooded park, to see which squirrels would be better adapted to humans. “After collecting all the data, we found that squirrels on main campus allowed us to approach them to a point 9.2 feet away on average,” the study, called The Impact of Humans on the Domestication of Squirrels, found. “The squirrels in the park allowed us to approach them to a point 16.9 feet away on average.” The study is available at jrscience.wcp.muohio.edu. This acquired bravery isn’t always in the squirrels’ favor, though. In 2007, squirrels caused four power outages in a two-
... all of a sudden it dropped like 30 feet then hit the ground and took off running. We were shocked it lived.” Warren Weaver,
BREAK Continued from page 1 break is fine. “I take school pretty seriously and I feel that we have enough breaks that are pretty long already,” he said. Some students didn’t even notice a lack of a break. “I wasn’t expecting a fall break, but when my friends at different universities said they had one, I suddenly realized the difference in our school to others,” said Marie Nazari, a Spanish freshman. Students get a month of a holiday break in December and January between the semesters. “After countless tries, we decided that it would be a battle for someone else in the future,” Kirk said. 4puz.com
‘Bomb Patrol: Afghanistan,’ premieres REASON TO WATCH: You’ll feel like your butt is on the line, too, as an elite American team tries to find and clear hidden explosive devices in Afghanistan. WHAT IT’S ABOUT: Wanna play video games, G4 fans? We’ll give you some video games. Either correctly control a remote robot to find a suspected IED (improvised explosive device), or get yourself blown up. Way fun! The show’s premiere hour does start like a thrill ride, with camera shots flashing fast, adrenaline pumping and incoming wartime fire — in fact, an immediate casualty. But then “Bomb Patrol” jumps back five months, sending us off on deployment with the eight men of Navy Explosive Ordnance Disposal Platoon 342. The pace chills enough to let us get to know the guys — from a vigilant chief who has survived five combat gigs to a cocky new bomb tech who “thought it’d be fun to play with explosives and blow stuff up.”
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 an 8 — If you follow the instructions (and your instincts) carefully, you succeed on your first attempt. Use imagination. Focus on love, and give it away. It comes back ten-fold. Taurus (April 20-May 20) — Today is an 8 — Perfection's possible through collaboration. Explore the idea of new partnerships, and be open to a surprising turn of events. Set down strong roots. Gemini (May 21-June 21) — Today is a 9 — There's a lot of energy in the air. Manage it well and your productivity will be off the charts. Get ready for more. Take an active role in your environment. Cancer (June 22-July 22) — Today is a 7 — You're lucky in love today. Home, friends and family delight. Do your inventory and pay bills, and then
We’re right there with them inside the cramped tank-like JERRV (Joint EOD Rapid Response Vehicle), creeping across narrow Afghan bridges, fording washed-out roads, checking containers for booby traps and generally hoping we don’t “go boom.” MY SAY: Gamers do get their day here, as the new kid uses a video game controller to send out a small robot to save two larger ones he’s already marooned in a sticky situation. Seeing it unfold via split-screen computer monitor is cool. But very, very real. As our newbie learns, these “games” have serious stakes. And “Bomb Patrol” turns out to be an intensely human documentary. It’s economically edited and well explained (Josh Duhamel is the narrator) by producers who know how to grab your guts and not let go. BOTTOM LINE: Explosions, yes. But emotions, too.
reward yourself by sharing quality time. Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) — Today is a 7 — It's time to act on the lessons you've learned in the past. Your family is there for you when you need them. Move quickly. You've set up all the pieces. Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — Today is an 8 — A creative challenge launched now could be quite lucrative. Your learning abilities are on the rise. Study hard while you play, but remember: no pain, no gain. Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — Today is a 9 — You're learning to be successful. Continue reinventing yourself. Provide well for family. Love is the important thing. Be patient with someone who isn't. Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — Today is a 9 — A whole world of possibilities await. Choose the ones that light you up, for yourself and others. There's no time for holding grudges. Dive into action wholeheartedly. Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) —
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Today is an 8 — Get serious about your strategy (but not too serious). Your typical sense of adaptability gets special appreciation now. Slow down to contemplate from a different perspective. Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Today is an 8 — Get clear about finances. Do the paperwork. A good suggestion from an unlikely source leads to a profitable venture. Social networking pays (in more ways than one). Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — Today is an 8 — Your growing expertise is attracting attention. Ignore this, and plow on. Minimize distractions to focus on getting the job done. This leads to success. Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) — Today is an 8 — Clean up after your creative bursts of expression. Old ideas come into renewed prominence. Limitations ease. A dream is close to reality. Endings prompt new beginnings. MCT
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month period, according to a December Kernel article of that year. UK Physical Plant Director Kevin Kreide said that right after these incidents happened, $150,000 of utility money was spent on guards to prevent squirrels from shorting the power. UK normally averages about one outage a year, so the drastic increase in 2007 is what prompted them to install the guards, Kreide said. “They try to get into our substations and they’ll crawl across the electrical bus and short it out, which causes a system failure,” he said. The guards cover about 95 percent of the substations, Kreide said, because there was one area they could not put them up. “A squirrel managed to get into that area, but since we’ve put them up, we’ve only had that one incident happen in about three years,” he said. With the additional safety guards to keep squirrels from climbing into electrical stations on campus, they are less of a nuisance and more of a spectacle for students these days. One thing that’s for sure is these cheeky little rodents are always going to be a part of UK’s campus life.
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UK football players seeking cut of TV revenue 59 sign petition urging NCAA to set aside money for athletes By Aaron Smith asmith@kykernel.com
Fifty-nine UK football players were part of more than 300 student athletes from five schools who signed a petition to the NCAA seeking a cut of TV revenue. Student athletes from UK, Arizona, Georgia Tech, Purdue and UCLA signed
the petition, which “urges the NCAA and college presidents to set aside an unspecified amount of money from what it estimates is $775 million in recently acquired TV revenues in an ‘educational lock box’ for football and men’s basketball players,” according to the Associated Press, which first reported the story.
“Players have never spoken out in this magnitude,” National College Players Association President Ramogi Huma told the Kernel. “Players feel a bit uncomfortable. They have a lot of loyalty to their sport and their schools. It can be tough to speak out.” The NCPA facilitated getting the petition to the NCAA.
Athletics sets records for graduation rates Increase seen in scores from last year to this year By Aaron Smith asmith@kykernel.com
UK Athletics set school records in its Graduation Success Rate and Federal Graduation Rate. UK’s Graduation Success Rate, a four-year composite statistic for the freshman classes of 2001-02 through 2004-05 for all scholarship athletes, was 77 percent, a three-point increase from the scores released last year. UK’s Federal Graduation Rate, also a four-year composite statistic for the freshman classes of 2001-02 through 2004-05, is 58 percent, two points higher than its previous record. The scores reflect six-year graduation rates. The difference between the two rates is based on whether transfer students are counted in the score, according to an NCAA release. The full scores, according to the NCAA database, are in the table to the right.
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Overall Baseball Men’s Basketball Football Men’s Golf Men’s Soccer Men’s Swimming Men’s Tennis Men’s Track Women’s Basketball Women’s Golf Women’s Gymnastics Softball Women’s Soccer Women’s Swimming Women’s Tennis Women’s Track Women’s Volleyball Mixed Rifle
77 70 69 61 67 61 100 71 87 100 100 100 73 91 91 100 90 100 86
58 39 53 52 64 39 60 33 63 73 80 77 50 67 70 14 81 69 67
Blue-White scrimmage is a showcase, not just hype Big Blue Madness is about the hype. The Blue-White scrimmage is about the basketball. It’s a chance to see UK in a formal scrimmage situation. Head coach John Calipari said it’s straight business. No manufactured event. With the presence of the crowd, though, Calipari may blow the whistle a little less, giving the players more freedom to keep playing. “I remember him stopping it a couple times last AARON year,” Terrence Jones said. SMITH “It just depends on how comfortable with how he’s Kernel feeling.” columnist Based on Calipari’s recent comments, he’s been really comfortable with how his team is shaping up 13 practices into the season. Calipari is quick to applaud his team’s innate competitiveness, and that should be evident in the scrimmage. “You should see the wars between Darius (Miller) and Michael (Kidd-Gilchrist),” Calipari said. “Wow. Vicious. And after they’re done they hit each other on the butt. They like what they’re doing for each other.” With a starting spot possibly at stake — one of the trio of Miller, Kidd-Gilchrist and Doron Lamb will most likely have to be the sixth man — it naturally amplifies the intensity of a practice. Which is just fine for Calipari. He has a good team, and he knows it. Normally one to say, “I like my team,” Calipari says, “I really like my team.” It’s a subtle difference, but it’s meaningful and intentional. He’s not shy about how good his players are, and how much better they are when competing against the best. Which often can be the guy they’re guarding. “What I’ve liked is that Terrence Jones — if there’s a better player in the country, I gotta see him,” Calipari said. Jones has, according to Calipari, achieved less of an improvement and more of an overhaul. Last season, Jones could only go left. Now, Calipari said, “he goes wherever he wants.”
Last season, Jones was a streaky shooter. Now, Calipari said, he’s “pretty consistent.” Last season, Jones was defensively challenged. Now, Calipari said, “you’re not just running by him.” And perhaps the most drastic, and most important, change was in his work ethic. “Last year, he and Doron fought to be the last guy to walk into the gym every day,” Calipari said. “And it was 30 seconds before the bell went off. And I think they were in the hallway arguing who should go first and who should be following.” Now, Jones is first in sprints. It was a change precipitated in part by failing to win a championship last year — he had won three straight championships in high school — and by simply being a sophomore instead of a freshman. “Just maturity, I’d say,” Jones said, trying to explain the changes. “Just growing up.” At the scrimmage, we get to see just how much of a finished product Terrence Jones 2.0 is, and plenty more. From a basketball perspective — which is what makes the scrimmage matter — I want to see what type of system Calipari has instilled so far. He said he’s tinkered with a full court press, didn’t like it, and instituted a new one. He’s shifted how they run the fast break to where everyone runs wide instead of sending a player or two to the basket. His time at the Dominican Republic led to him dropping plenty of hints about running way more pick-and-roll than ever before. His old train of thought: Why get two defenders around your best player, such as John Wall, when he could just beat them by himself? His new train of thought? He has the players to make it work. Plus, “When you have the same lesson plan for 10 years, you kind of get bored with it,” Calipari said. He had compliments for nearly every player on his team. Eloy Vargas has stepped up his conditioning. Miller is better than ever before. Kyle Wiltjer is scoring points more often than expected. Marquis Teague is leading the offense. “And Anthony (Davis) is,” Calipari said, taking a pause to see just how high he could go with his praise. “Very good.” There’s no hype in that.
If there’s a better player (than Terrence Jones) in the country, I gotta see him.” John Calipari, head coach
Huma said the process of collecting signatures started about 10 days ago and was led by senior cornerback Anthony Mosley, a player representative on the UK Student-Athlete Advisory Committee. “I felt it was important for the petition to be circulated because of the information it held in its contents,”
Mosley said in an NCPA release. “The players should know the details that deal with their collegiate future. We as players put so much time, energy and pride into what we represent. To be under-supported within the NCAA given all of the new money that we’re generating for our schools is just horrible.” The process moved quickly in order to finalize
and send the petition before an NCAA board meeting on Wednesday, Huma said. Huma said no student athletes from any other UK sport signed the petition. He said reaching out to the basketball team was considered, but a formal request to have basketball players sign didn’t occur because of the time constraints. Only UCLA had basketball players sign the petition.
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Panel ranks UK Hoops third in conference By Les Johns sports@kykernel.com
Matthew Mitchell’s UK Hoops team was ranked third in the SEC by a panel of conference and national media members. The Cats finished second in the SEC last year behind Tennessee, who went through the conference slate an undefeated 16-0. The Cats, who finished the year with a 25-9 overall record and were 11-5 in SEC play, were defeated by Tennessee in the SEC Tournament Championship. The Volunteers were the unanimous choice to win the SEC this year, earning the top pick of all 22 voters. Georgia,
who finished third in the SEC regular season last year with a 23-11 overall record and 10-6 record in conference play, was picked to finish second by the voters. UK junior guard A’dia Mathies was an All-SEC First Team selection in the poll. Mathies averaged 12.8 points and 4.7 assists per game in her sophomore campaign for the Cats. She was joined on the first team by Shekinna Stricklen and Glory Johnson from Tennessee, Jasmine James from Georgia and LaSondra Barrett from LSU. Despite losing former SEC Player of the Year Victoria Dunlap, the Cats are excited about their prospects
this season. Mitchell has arguably his deepest and most talented roster, which works well with the style of play he employs. UK returns four starters from last year, boasts another top-10 recruiting class and will welcome the return of Amber Smith, who missed last season due to injury. The Cats will host their only exhibition at Memorial Coliseum on Nov. 6 against Coker College. Admission to the game is free. After opening the regular season on the road against Morehead State, the Cats begin the regular-season home slate on Nov. 15 against Jacksonville State at 11 a.m.
Ex-Cats wait out the lockout Rondo focuses on staying in game shape By Aaron Smith asmith@kykernel.com
Rajon Rondo isn’t frustrated, or angry, or bitter, or any other negative emotion, really, that he isn’t allowed to play professional basketball because of the NBA lockout. No, it’s not those emotions he’s feeling. “It’s just boring,” Rondo said. Boring, even though the lockout came as “no shock” to him and the other players. Everyone saw it coming. But now it’s here, and Rondo isn’t playing the game he’s played his entire life. Instead, he’s peeling off his shirt in Jon Hood’s locker after another exhibition game. Rondo is still trying to stay ready for that coveted day when the lockout lifts and basketball returns. “I stay in shape,” Rondo said. “That’s why you see me out there the entire 24 min-
utes in the second half, getting up and down, to make sure I’m game-ready when the time comes.” That philosophy isn’t entirely shared by some of the other members of the Big Blue All Stars. Former UK and current Houston Rockets player Chuck Hayes looked a little bit, um, out of shape during the game. “Not close yet,” Hayes said when asked how close he was to being game ready. “I won’t be in game shape ’til I play games.” Enes Kanter said he hadn’t played a game in two months and struggled during the game because of it. “Here, everybody’s jumping so high and stronger,” Kanter said. “I just need to work harder.” Besides that, players have social freedom to do whatever they want. “I get to spend a lot of time with my family and
friends,” Jodie Meeks said. As for Rondo, it seemed like he was just riding along. “I just live my life,” Rondo said, “And enjoy what I’m doing every day.” At times that has included playing pickup games with UK, but he said it’s too early to make conclusions. “They haven’t done anything,” Rondo said. “They haven’t played. Practice is practice. Obviously, they’re very talented. They have to get their chemistry together in one year. I think that’s the hardest thing to do. Guys build camaraderie through the years in college.” Darius Miller thinks that won’t be a problem. “I feel like (our chemistry) has been better than it was last year at this point,” Miller said Tuesday. “It took a little while for us to gel last year. ... This team has done a great job from the beginning, just getting together.”
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New dorm good news for students President Eli Capilouto announced a $30 million plan Tuesday to start rennovating campus. This project, discussed at the Board of Trustees meeting, includes new residence halls. One such hall will cater to Honors Program students and will be built at the sports field by Haggin Hall. This is good news, but it also comes as a surprise. In just three weeks after the Board’s retreat (where Capilouto and other trustees discussed the urgent need to rennovate), Capilouto has quickly created a plan. Finally, campus can see the Board’s ideas put into action and that the Board isn’t just all talk. And Capilouto has also proven himself. After his 100 days of listening to campus and its problems, Capilouto has taken in advice, complaints and concerns and promptly begun looking for a solution. He has come up with something that will directly affect students, especially incoming students. In fact, the plan’s first priority is to benefit students. A goal of the project is to add 9,000 residence hall beds. Currently, UK has 5,148 beds. This would almost double the number of space for people to live on campus and would give upperclassmen an option to stay on campus — if they wish. The first phase of the plan is expected to open in 2013 and construction should start as early as spring 2012. The hope is that we will start seeing cranes and trucks on campus building facilities for students. But until then, students can only wait and hope the plan doesn’t fall through.
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From one UK to another: Appreciate the simple things in life JORDAN COVVEY Contributing columnist
Life is about the simple things. We are told to “enjoy the little things in life,” and in the same breath of air, “not to sweat the small stuff.” Obviously the two people who crafted these sayings didn’t see eye to eye. But honestly I can’t disagree with either sentiment. I’ve found giddy happiness in things like getting to take an afternoon nap or snagging a free size upgrade on my morning coffee. I’ve also let stubbing my toe or breaking a nail ruin my entire day. So maybe the little things do have a powerful grasp on day-to-day life. Occasionally, however, something big happens that changes everything. In some combination of hard work and fantastic luck, I was given the opportunity to move to Scotland for three years to get my Ph.D. After six and a half years at the University of Kentucky (UK No. 1), I finished pharmacy school and headed off to start my first job post-graduation, training as a clinical pharmacist in Richmond, Va. I always had the dream of moving abroad to the United Kingdom (UK No. 2) and heading back to school to get involved in research, so I submitted a grant proposal to the Fulbright Program. About nine months after
said submission, I found out in a single email that I would be taking a new role as a postgraduate student, researcher, cultural ambassador and generally inept American fumbling around in a new country. I couldn’t have been more thrilled for the adventure that waited. Talk about a big change. I arrived in Glasgow at the beginning of September with three suitcases and a broken cell phone. I stepped out onto the airport curb to get drenched in pouring rain. Once I made it to my pre-arranged flat (aka apartment), I realized I had no towel for a shower and no linens to put on the bed. And nothing to eat or drink. An exhausting walk down the street led me to a shopping district where I sorted through various goods, making sloppy currency conversions in my head. Heading to check out and prepared with a wallet of pound sterling, the cashier says something to me in incomprehensible Glaswegian. I handed over a wad of money and stuck with the tried-and-true “smile and nod.” I had a momentary fleeting thought to myself of “wait, was that English?” The simple, little things in the time since have been quite the learning experience. At least once a week, I attempt to cross a street and almost get flattened by a double-decker city bus, simply because I forget to look left instead of right. I also still habitually try to get into the driver’s seat of a car, thinking it is the passenger’s seat.
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One day, I searched three groceries unsuccessfully to locate a single can of red kidney beans, but instead discovered a ready supply of haggis pakora in several eateries on my block. Mexican food? No. Scottish-Indian fusion? Yes, indeed. I accidentally had a public conversation regarding my “pants” only to realize that here, I was indeed chatting about my “underwear.” If public silliness wasn’t enough, professional mockery was just as fun when I, a pharmacist, was awkwardly
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international adventure. Big changes are exciting and scary, but the small things really are the secret spice of life. The most fun I’ve had in Glasgow so far has been making these mistakes and learning how to adapt to my environment. And luckily the locals enjoy partaking in my fun as well, even if I sometimes can’t understand when they are making fun of me. Since family and friends first found out that I was going to be moving to the UK, I’ve caught the occasional “that should at least be an easy transition because it’s not too different there.” Every time I hold up the line at the grocery trying to figure out what my 20 pence coins look like, or misjudge the weather for the day due to a faulty estimation of Celsius to Fahrenheit, I have myself a little giggle. I tell myself not to sweat it, but enjoy it. My life underwent a monumental makeover, but I now know that good or bad, the small things are the best you can ask for. Jordan Covvey is a 2010 Doctor of Pharmacy graduate from the University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate and Fulbright-Strathclyde Postgraduate Scholar at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland. The monthly column “From one UK to another” will follow her experiences and cultural education across the pond. For more information on the US-UK Fulbright Commission, visit www.fulbright.co.uk.
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Cultural Center to screen film on Freedom Riders Movie offers chance for reflection, understanding 1960s,” Grundy said. Jakobi Williams, facilitator of the screening and an asCitizen protest has been sociate professor in the deprevalent lately with revolu- partment of history at UK, tions in the Middle East, and called the documentary “very more recently with the nonvi- well done,” and said it presolent Occupy Wall Street ent a balanced objective and protests that have taken over view of what took place. “The Freedom Riders rethe metropolitan areas of many major cities across ally forced the administration to get into the Civil Rights America since August. On Wednesday, the Mar- movement and make it a letin Luther King Cultural Cen- gitimate issue … because ter will present a one-time there was international presscreening of one of the most sure,” Williams said. “If it important nonviolent protests wasn’t for this event there in world history — “Freedom wouldn’t have been a civil Riders” — as a part of the rights movement. These folks center’s 2011 Worldview se- are heroes.” Williams said the viories, said Chester Grundy, dilence and beatings endured rector of the center. Grundy said the purpose by the nonviolent Freedom of the Worldview series is to Riders — who were also stupresent “thoughtful, high- dents — created a large international requality films, s p o n s e . which proEveryone vide critical looked at thought and America as dialogue,” What: “Freedom Riders” the leader of and that this When: Wednesday at 7 p.m. the free documentary Where: Worsham Theater world, and perfectly capAdmission: Free people were tures that. almost get“It is a ting killed for powerful, intrying to ride a spirational story of a group of young people bus, he said. Williams said the protests — black and white — who came together at the risk of depicted in the documentary their lives — many enduring weren’t the first time “Freesavage beatings and impris- dom Rides” had been atonment — to challenge the tempted. A woman had atJim Crow laws which gov- tempted a similar protest in erned the South in the the 1940s, which resulted in By Joy Priest
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her winning a lawsuit, and “the laws were already on the books.” “Much of the Civil Rights Movement is about enforcing the laws, because all of these laws have already been passed,” Williams said. Grundy said reflecting on this film and period is important because remembering these events are important whenever there is an opportunity. “The quest for knowledge and understanding of the real American story takes a 24/7 effort and simply cannot be neatly pigeon-holed into the month of February,” Grundy said. Williams said students should come to the screening to get an appreciation for the heroism and sacrifice of those who came before them and to better appreciate the privileges that they take for granted today. “Students should come out because it’s an opportunity to learn about a period of our history that seems distant in time, but some of these issues are still pertinent today,” Williams said. Grundy quoted “Freedom Riders” filmmaker Stanley Nelson: “The lesson of the Freedom Riders is that great change can come from a few small steps taken by courageous people. And that sometimes to do any great thing, it’s important that we step out
The Lukewarm Truth: Student sacrifices midterm to beat RISK computer game The quiet, nervous silence of the PSY 101 midterm exam in Whitehall was broken last week by a jubilant cry from the back right row. A political science freshman had finally, and officially, conquered the world in his RISK computer game. The political science freshman from Happy Valley, Neb., became ruler of the entire global community at 1:47 p.m., three minutes LUKE before his sporadically GLASER filled-in midterm exam was Kernel due to be turned in. columnist “It is a beautiful day for me, my friends and my family members,” said the joyous pupil, who refused to be named because he is much too important to be named in a pitiable college newspaper story. The digital general has been furiously playing RISK all semester. After foolishly attempting to centralize his forces in Asia, while blatantly ignoring lectures about John Adams’ political ideology, the brilliant general finally realized that beginning in South America and accumulating forces was a much more intelligent strategy, missing detailed notes on the New Jersey Plan and the Connecticut Compromise. “It was simple really,” said the chestswelled dictator, “All I had to do was conquer the other general, who automatically
gives you all his remaining armies. The rest was cake.” Pointedly ignoring all homework assignments and extra credit opportunities, the young and ambitious freshman instead put his efforts towards surrounding a very-tricky Northern Europe. When asked about his potentially damaging grade, the young man said that simple grades and classes do not matter when you are the up-and-coming ruler of the world. “These are the skills I really need to learn,” he said, looking up from the computer as he pushed his horses and cannons through Ural. “I’m learning techniques that will last be a lifetime.” When informed that he had received a 24 percent on his exam (1 percent docked for signing his name “Supreme Chairman and Generalissimo”), the indignant commander of a seemingly endless force of plastic red men swore death upon all when he becomes ruler of the world. “It’s terribly simple,” he said in full military garb. “Once you conquer Asia, you get seven new armies every turn.” He conveniently ignored the fact that the Mongols, Charles XII, Napoleon and Hitler have all failed to do so (even with seven armies). The future ruler of the world received an “F” for the midterm. And that, dear readers, is the Lukewarm Truth. Not quite hot, but definitely not cold. The Kentucky Kernel and its staff neither endorse nor confirm the content of this article, because who in his or her right mind would?
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