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Weighing the options to rent, sell or keep textbooks
Miller leads Cats with 19 in dogging of Georgia Guard shines over both teams’ players
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Students shopped at UK Bookstore for textbooks when classes started Jan. 11. Bookstores around campus have offered renting options in the last few years.
Best options not same for every student
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Renting numbers UK Bookstore’s Rent-a-text program saved students
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By Kayla Phelps kphelps@kykernel.com
Textbooks are a hefty weight on students’ shoulders — and their wallets. The price of textbooks can be overwhelming, and students strive to get the best bang for their buck. Rather than purchasing a book and having the option of selling it back at the end of the semester, students can rent textbooks at bookstores around campus. The book is rented for the semester and students are required to return it by a certain date at the end of the course. When renting books at the four major bookstores — Kennedy’s, Wildcat Textbooks, eCampus.com and UK Bookstore — students can save about 50 to 60 percent upfront. However, each store charges a student for the full price of a book if it is not returned at the end of the semester. Wildcat Textbooks started
Rentals from eCampus and the UK Bookstore have from spring ‘11 to spring ‘12
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spring ‘11 its rental program in spring 2011, after high student demand. “The cost of textbooks is a common complaint, and a valid one,” said David Wade, manag-
er at Wildcat Textbooks on South Limestone. Students favor the rental program because of the amount of money saved upfront, he said.
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Kennedy Book Store started its rental program in 2009, said general manager Carol Behr. Behr said she has seen the See RENTING on page 2
Moved to the bench, then played the best of anyone off it. Darius Miller, who was not starting after doing so the previous four straight games, pulled UK (20-1, 6-0 SEC) to a 57-44 win at Georgia. It was Miller’s night as AARON soon as he took over late in the SMITH first half. With UK holding a three-point lead, Miller hit a 3Kernel pointer. Then he hit a midcolumnist range jumper. Then another. It was seven unanswered points and helped propel UK to a comfortable halftime lead. In the second half, after UK went through an offensive drought that saw it go more than five minutes without a point, it was Miller who decided to take the most fundamental action in all of basketball and finally make a basket. Apparently, this was the game John Calipari decided Doron Lamb — who had been benched in the middle of a scoring slump — had “fought” enough to regain his spot in the starting lineup. Apparently, this was the game Miller decided to ball. He tied his season high with 19 points on 78 shooting, scoring from both the perimeter (44 on 3-pointers) and inside, with those two jumpers and dunk rounding out his box score. Granted, this wasn’t Miller dominating a good NCAA Tournament team because the Bulldogs certainly don’t look like one. Before the game, Georgia coach Mark Fox said Miller was “taller than my power forward, and he plays the two (guard).” He forgot Miller was also better than his power forward — and everyone else on his team (at least for this game). Maybe this is the start of a good stretch for Miller. Last week, he scored 11 against Arkansas and Alabama after scoring less than 10 the three games before that. He heated up toward the end of SEC play last season, culminating in an SEC Tournament MVP award. If it is the start of something for Miller, it could take UK to that next level Calipari is looking to reach and make it even harder to resist beer-related puns when talking about Miller. That doesn’t mean he has to score 19 points every game. That won’t happen. It won’t happen for him, or Anthony Davis, or Michael Kidd-Gilchrist. UK has too many players to have one player dominate, game in and game out. But UK has a few players take over a game, and Miller can be one of those. It doesn’t have to be the same guy, or even the same two or three guys, who show up game to game. It just has to be someone (or multiple someones) each game. Against Georgia, with four of UK’s top six scorers (Anthony Davis, Terrence Jones, Doron Lamb, Marquis Teague) scoring just 18 points combined, Miller had his chance to take control. The more Miller does it, the more consistent and dangerous UK can be.
Campus energy use viewable for each building By Kayla Pickrell kpickrell@kykernel.com
Energy conservation just got easier with the launch of the Office of Sustainability’s Empowered project, featuring touch-screen kiosks located around campus. The kiosks allow one to view the amount of energy and tons of carbon being used to fuel all of campus or even a specific building. “We are trying to save money, all while inspiring students to observe the culture of conservation,” said
Shane Tedder, UK’s sustainability coordinator. By Friday, there will be six kiosks around campus that use real-time feedback to show campus energy impact. The kiosks are now in the President’s Office and Agricultural Science Center North. Four others will be installed on Friday, at the Chemistry-Physics Building, F. Paul Anderson Tower, Student Center and Davis Marksbury Building. “The two main goals for Empowered are to elevate energy awareness and inspire
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students and faculty to participate,” Tedder said. Empowered can be accessed as a website, a mobile site and a touch-screen kiosk. This gives students the ability to access the project from anywhere. “Empowered is a solid step to a commitment of a culture of sustainability,” Tedder said. Teams of students, faculty and businesses spent two years forming the $25.4 million project. It launched last week with a total of 25 buildings includ-
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ed in the website. Empowered is planning to have all 87 buildings up soon. “I am excited to see how Empowered will allow the campus community to learn how their individual actions affect the energy use at this university,” Micah Fielden, student body president, told the Kernel. “Empowered will allow us to educate ourselves so that we may become better at protecting our resources.” There is also an option to become directly involved by signing up for EmpoweredU. This program allows for
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students and faculty to log their energy use every day, with the possibility of receiving points. After a certain amount of points, one is then entered into a monthly drawing for prizes. You can also find out how much energy your room uses each day compared to the rates of average offices and dorms. President Eli Capilouto said an in email to the Kernel that UK is the only university to do this on “such a broad level, serving such a large community.”
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“Through the deployment of these kiosks and the launch of the Empowered website, UK will be the model by which other campus programs around the country are measured,” Capilouto said.
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2 | Wednesday, January 25, 2012 keep it,” he said, “and that I maybe could benefit from having it when I become a history teacher.” Chad Saunders, eCampus’ manager, said the store tries to help students choose the best option. “Right when we process the order, it shows how much students saved in going to rental,” he said. Phil Kraemer, a UK psychology professor, noticed the high prices students pay for textbooks and decided to switch to an e-book. Kraemer said he uses the e-book partially because of cost, but also because “it is a more effective way to learn.”
RENTING Continued from page 1 numbers of textbook rentals increase since the option was introduced. But while renting is a growing trend, it isn’t always the best option, said Sally Wiatrowski, director of UK Bookstore. Before deciding what books to rent and what to purchase, it is important to evaluate the options. Students should base their decision on specific courses, budgets and study habits, Wiatrowski said. “Any book has its life,” Behr said. “It may have a long life or it may have a short life, so to have a blanket statement to say it’s better to rent or it’s better to buy wouldn’t be fair.” Renting a book may seem cheaper at first glance, but students should go ahead and purchase books for twosemester courses, such as chemistry courses 105 and 107, Behr said. “I like having my textbook later in case I want to look something up, especially in science,” said Corey Ketchem, a biology senior. “I generally keep them.” Students run a risk when they rent as well as purchase. If students lose a rental book, they have to pay the full price at the end of the semester, but they also run the risk of buy-
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Rentals from UK Bookstore and the eCampus.com bookstore have doubled from last spring to this spring, managers say. ing a book that can’t be returned, Wade said. Textbook stores want to help students understand their options.
“We try to choose books that make sense for students to rent,” Behr said. Max Slinde, a secondary social studies education
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‘The Artist’ leads Oscar hopefuls LOS ANGELES — George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Brad Pitt and Octavia Spencer were among the performers receiving Oscar nominations, while “The Artist,” “The Descendants” and “Moneyball” scored best picture nods as the field for the 84th Academy Awards was announced early Tuesday morning in Beverly Hills. With the nominations, “The Artist” was catapulted to front-runner status even though the black-and-white silent film about Hollywood’s transition to “talkies” has not been widely seen. (It has only made just over $12.1 million at box office.) But it’s stealing the lion’s share of critics awards as well as a Golden Globe for best picture. It earned an extra boost Saturday when it won the Producers Guild Award. The award is one of the more reliable predictors of Oscar gold: Over the last four years, the PGA and the academy have agreed on best picture. One of the most tightly watched races of the year will be in the best director category: The director of “The Artist,” Michel Haz-
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sophomore, said he prefers buying books for his own benefit. “I think that maybe if I like the book that I can just
Students pay about half the price of the actual textbook and are given a code to access the e-book online. In addition to text, students can view films and study vocabulary. “Instead of lecturing, I can do other things in class,” he said. “It’s an efficient way to transmit information.” Students have many options when it comes to accessing textbooks, and renting — both digital and physical copies — is becoming a popular cost-saving option. “As the word gets out, more and more people are seeing advantages to the option,” Behr said.
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Event to teach common misperceptions of Islam By Aqsa Qureshi amd Salman Jeelani opinions@kykernel.com
From its establishment at UK in 1971, the Muslim Student Association has aimed to make Islamic teachings known, promote unity and joint action among Muslims and nonMuslim students, and conduct social, cultural, religious and other activities in the best traditions of Islam. This semester the Muslim Student Association has decided to make an active effort in disbanding some of the misconceptions that are still perceived by many Americans. Though over 10 years have elapsed since the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in 2001, not much has changed in America’s perception of Islam. In fact, one of the largest misconceptions
about Islam is that it is spread by violence. given by former Lexington mayor Teresa However, in Indonesia, the largest Muslim Isaac, and nationally recognized Islamic country by population, Islam was spread speaker, Brother Abdel Rahman Murphy. through the interactions between the indigeBrother Abdel Rahman Murphy is a gradnous peoples with Muslim traders and meruate of the University of Illinois at Chicago chants. This is one of the many misconcepwith a degree in teaching of English and relitions that exist in Western society. gious studies, and is currently pursuing his The Muslim Stumaster’s in counseling and family dent Association is therapy. His Islamic studies holding an event background includes completin hopes to clear ing an Imam Certificate Proup some of these gram, designed for young leadmisunderstanders from America and the UK What: “All American Misconceptions” ings. in Makkah, Saudi Arabia, unWhen: Thursday at 7 p.m. On Thursday der the mentorship and training Where: Student Center Grand Ballroom in the Grand Ballof qualified scholarship, as Admission: Free room of the Stuwell as some time in Egypt. dent Center, He has also completed speeches will be some courses, in the classroom
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as well as individually, with scholarship in the U.S., studying traditional texts along with contemporary issues. It is with great privilege that the Muslim Students Association announces that Brother Murphy will be speaking at its upcoming event. Dinner will also be served followed by a Q&A session with Brother Murphy. This event is open to both students and the public, completely free of charge. The Muslim Student Association would sincerely appreciate your attendance, as it will be a beneficial experience in educating oneself about Islam and the truth behind the misconceptions. Aqsa Qureshi is a psychology senior and MSA’s vice president. Salman Jeelani is an international studies sophomore and MSA’s treasurer. Email opinions@kykernel.com.
Smog on campus is not an issue By Jim Blackerby opinions@kykernel.com
The following column is satirical. Due to the absolutely terrible coalfired power plants on UK’s campus, more and more seniors have regressed into black sludge, like people with clouds of soot emanating from their mouths when they speak or cough. It seems the horrible output of harmful materials spewing out of the power plants has taken its toll on students that have been here for four years or longer. I got a chance to talk to one of these “sludge people” when I saw him eating a dead squirrel and pulling his hair out. “I didn’t used to be like this. It all started when I first came here as a freshman and with virgin lungs. I guess it started when I kept having to breathe in the sickly emissions from the coal plant that spill into the air here. It started off with my skin turning black, and then progressed when I started to notice that all of my footprints had a black, foul-smelling sludge on them.
“Eventually my spit started turning black and as you see, now my skin is completely black and I have the sludge coming out of all of my pores. It’s hard to even get anyone to talk to me so that’s when I started to live with the squirrels. They aren’t biased and they can accept me for who I am.” UK students can see the “cloud of smog that can be seen for miles in our city.” Using the Kernel article “Modern coal mining is essential for the future” from Jan. 16, 2012, one student wrote that the coal fired power plant is, “churning out the blue-gray smog that often hovers at street level, creeps into your parked cars, onto your faces as you stroll downtown and through campus, into your homes and ultimately into your lungs.” That’s well put and it seems that the “sludge people” seem to agree. One of the “sludge people” said, “Yeah that pretty much sums it up. That’s how it started with me. I had blue-gray smog assaulting me from all
angles. I couldn’t escape it until finally I started coughing up soot and black powder. Whoever wrote that article has it completely right; those smog clouds are just terrible.” After doing some observations, it seems that the author of the article on Jan. 16, 2012, was just scraping the tip of the iceberg. Not only does it “creep into your parked cars, onto your faces as you stroll downtown and through campus, into your homes and ultimately into your lungs,” but it also watches you sleep at night and sometimes goes into your fridge for your leftovers. UK needs to look at these examples, take them seriously and stop the use of coal-fired power plants. Not only because it could change the fate of UK students who would otherwise turn into “sludge people,” but because, and I think I speak for all of us, we would just love to pay a lot more money for electricity bills. Jim Blackerby is an international studies senior. Email opinions@kykernel.com.
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The Lukewarm Truth: UK basketball an official religion Faith involves multiple game days of worship, pilgrimage to Rupp LUKE GLASER Kernel columnist
Last week in a monumental decision, the World’s Real Religions Organization officially canonized the UK men’s basketball team as an official theological entity. “Praised be,” screamed one UK fan, running hysterically downtown. “Our prayers have been answered!” This decision comes after years of UK basketball receiving a zealously religious following. Already, the faith is being organized. According to sources, the main deity worshipped in the church revolves around a trinity: three great powers,
one legendary program. Fans believe that out of the disorganized chaos when darkness covered the abyss, UK established order with its creation of the basketball team (which rumor has it, took less than seven days). The faith also tells the story of how Rick Pitino was once an angel-like being who was cast down to coach the Cardinals after he declared himself equal to Adolph Rupp. Before prayers, UK fans will make the sign of the Rupp, the Cal and the Unforgettables. “It is more difficult than most religions,” said one self-proclaimed preacher. “Service days aren’t just once a week. They’re whenever we have a game.” Holy Days of Obligation include Big Blue Madness, Selection Sunday and what-
ever day the Cats play Tennessee. “Being a follower of the Cats is more than just turning on the TV to watch the game,” said one brother of blue. “It means being fanatically interested in every single play, no matter who we are playing or how much we are up. It means knowing the statistics of teams 20 years ago, and the UK players who are currently in the NBA. It means naming your children after a famous, bygone player. ” The religion is not terribly burdensome, and is indeed similar to other religions. UK fans must do acts of good will (camp out for tickets), read the good book (“Bounce Back,” by John Calipari - available at your local bookstore) and be nice to others (unless they wear red). Churches are currently
being established in bars, living rooms and man caves all over the world, though the religion requires each fan make at least one pilgrimage to Rupp Arena. Those who follow the religion and maintain the beliefs go to heaven. Those who don’t purportedly go to hell/Louisville. And that, dear readers, is the Lukewarm Truth. Not quite hot, but definitely not cold. The editors of the Kentucky Kernel neither confirm nor endorse the ideas and opinions expressed in this article. Because, really, who in their right minds would?
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$ The breakdown of UK’s 57-44 win over Georgia By Sam Rothbauer srothbauer@kykernel.com
The Cats protected their No. 1 ranking in their first matchup of the week, defeating Georgia on the road 57-44 Tuesday night.
a three to extend UK’s threepoint lead to double digits at 35-25 with 2:13 left to play in the first half. Three consecutive missed shots on Georgia’s end allowed UK to make a 7-0 run. The good
Key player Senior guard Darius Miller scored 19 points, 13 in the first half, while Georgia freshman forward Nemanja Djurisic recorded 10 points, four rebounds and two assists. Miller shot a perfect 5-5 in the first half, finishing the game shooting 7-8 from the field and 4-4 from behind the arc.
UK was able to snag 40 rebounds to Georgia’s 18 which allowed the Cats to capitalize and convert those possessions to buckets on the other end of the court. The Cats were able to put pressure on the Bulldogs’ offense and force them to wind down the shot clock, which made them take last-minute shots.
Turning point/key stretch
The bad
Miller went on a hot streak to close out the first half, making two jumpers and
UK shot 43.8 percent from the field and had 10 blocks to Georgia’s four. With
the defense limiting the Bulldogs’ offensive penetration, the Cats had more stats go their way than not. Stat of the game Freshman point guard Marquis Teague had seven assists, seven rebounds and zero turnovers. Freshman forward Michael Kidd-Gilchrist earned a double-double, scoring 14 points and grabbing 11 rebounds. What’s next UK’s rebounding and ability to work a zone defense, read the screens and drop threes at the top of the key will help during conference road games. The Cats go to Baton Rouge to play Louisiana State and defend their No. 1 standing Saturday at 4 p.m.
Senior Alex Musialek plays against Indiana in UK’s home opener Tuesday. PHOTO BY QUIANNA LIGE STAFF
The No. 7 UK men’s tennis team swept No. 29 Indiana University (2-1) and Eastern Kentucky University (0-2) in its home opener at the Hilary J. Boone Tennis Complex Tuesday. UK won a 7-0 sweep against Indiana and a 6-0 win over EKU while senior Eric Quigley earned his 145th career singles win, breaking the record for the most career singles wins at UK. The Cats continue playing against No.
57 North Carolina Friday at noon in the ITA Kickoff Weekend at the Boone Tennis Complex.
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