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JEWELL HALL 1939 — 2014
Despite win, UK suffering identity crisis
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Jewell Hall in 1940. The dorm will be demolished this year as UK makes room for two new residence halls on North Campus.
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For the second straight game, UK played like a Final Four team for 30 minutes. The Cats beat the University of Mississippi, 84-70 on Tuesday, an impressive performance given the difficult loss that came three days before. In reality, UK dominated the Rebels just long enough that a second-half implosion didn’t matter. The first half was the best DAVID 20 minutes UK has played this SCHUH season. They continued the stout Kernel columnist defensive pressure that made its loss to the University of Florida such a close game. UK head coach John Calipari again cleverly switched between zone and man-to-man defense, and his players thrived. The Cats played with energy and confidence and made shots in the first half. All they had to do was repeat that effort in the second half for an easy 30-point win. They did, but not for long. When sophomore forward Willie CauleyStein made a layup with 9:08 left in the game, UK took a 62-40 lead, its largest of the game. The rout was on, but that’s not something you can assume from these Cats. For the next seven minutes and 52 seconds, the Cats didn’t make a field goal. Regardless of the score, no defense can supSee SCHUH on page 2
By Rachel Aretakis raretakis@kykernel.com
ore than a decade ago, Kathy Arnold Holland sat on the top bunk of her old college dorm room, reminiscing with her roommate. She shared stories with the RA and commented that nothing had changed in Jewell Hall. It was her 50th birthday. Now, she and some of her girlfriends who called themselves the “Jewell Gems,” are planning one last trip to their college dorm before it is gone forever. “Our year in Jewell Hall was rich beyond measure,” Holland said, describing how they spent time in the lobby, played cards and listened to the piano. See JEWELL on page 2
PHOTO BY IGNACIO MURILLO | THE DAILY MISSISSIPIAN
Julius Randle scored 25 points in UK’s victory over Ole Miss in Oxford, Miss., on Tuesday.
Violence breaks out in Ukraine By Carol J. Williams Los Angeles Times (MCT)
Dierdre Scaggs, associate dean of special collections for UK Libraries, contributed information. TIMELINE BY RACHEL WALKER | STAFF
Cats bounce back with win at Ole Miss By Nick Gray ngray@kykernel.com
UK played its most complete game of the season Tuesday in its 84-70 victory over the University of Mississippi at Tad Smith Coliseum. Here are five highlights: Unpolite guests. A lack of offensive output from freshman guard Aaron Harrison, the center position and the bench resulted
in UK’s lowest scoring total of the season Saturday against the University of Florida. Aaron Harrison responded with 17 points Tuesday. The Cats shared the ball at the best rate in a month, dishing out 16 assists against Ole Miss. First half to remember. UK rebounded from the loss against the Gators with a dominant first half. Five Cats made 3-pointers in the first 20 minutes.
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The day Henderson did not matter. Rebels senior guard Marshall Henderson got hot in the middle of the second half, but UK’s lead was 21 points when his barrage began. Henderson scored 18 points on 5-of-17 shooting, and added an intentional foul against Julius Randle. Cats’ red-hot shooting. Much of the Cats’ second-half troubles can be pointed to nine turnovers, as the Cats shot well in the sec-
ond half. Not only did UK shoot 52 percent overall, but it also made 90 percent (27-of-30) of its free throws. Nearly half of those attempts came from one player. Randle steady at the line and on the glass. Randle’s secondhalf free-throw shooting (11-of12) countered Ole Miss’ late runs and the fact that UK did not make a field goal in an eightminute span.
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MOSCOW — An amnesty agreement that brought relative calm to the capital of Ukraine in recent days collapsed Tuesday in a surge of new confrontations between police and antigovernment protesters that reportedly killed three and returned the city to a state of siege. Opposition political leaders angered by Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich’s decision in late November to scrap an association agreement with the European Union had vacated Kiev City Hall and taken down barricades on major streets over the weekend in exchange for the release of detained protesters and government promises to drop all criminal cases against them. But what began as a peaceful march by protesters to press parliament to take up legislation to reduce Yanukovich’s powers turned violent when deputies of the ruling Party of Regions postponed debate on the changes demanded by the opposition. Police tried to block the thousands of protesters from reaching the Supreme Rada building, sparking clashes that cast a pall of smoke over the city center that has been the scene of conflict for three months. Marchers plucked cobblestones from the streets to hurl at police and security forces in riot gear, and police threw tear gas and stun grenades in an attempt to turn back the angry protesters, the BBC reported from the scene. A statement posted on the Interior MinSee UKRAINE on page 2
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JEWELL Continued from page 1 “More than anything, I want a brick or other momento from that building.” Jewell is being demolished this summer, along with Boyd, Holmes and Keeneland halls, to make way for two new dorms on North Campus. The $83.9 million project is the next step in UK’s housing development plans over the next five to seven years. “I’m sure there are many generations of women who lived in Jewell Hall who are feeling what I am feeling,” Holland said. “I just can’t imagine my life without it.” Opened in 1939, Jewell was never posh or fancy, as its name might suggest. It has been home to more than seven decades of students. In 1945, it was officially named for Mary Frances Jewell McVey, the dean of women from 1921 to 1923 and wife of UK President Frank McVey. Jewell was a women’s dorm until the ’90s, when it
SCHUH Continued from page 1 port that offense. The Rebels managed to cut the lead to six, but never got closer. UK made its usual immature mistakes, including 19 turnovers. This time, though, the Cats gave themselves enough cushion to withstand their own downfall. The positives to take away were obvious. UK came to Oxford, Miss., with a desperate mentality and delivered. The Cats knew that they had just six games to fix what went wrong against Florida. And in the first 30 min-
became UK’s first international living-learning community. Fast forward to 2014 and the landmark sits empty, quietly waiting for bulldozers to arrive. During Holland’s stay in Jewell in 1966 and 1967, the dorm focused on studies. It was a different time, she said. Radios weren’t allowed, the women had curfews, and men had to wait in the lobby for their dates. “If a man was in your room, boy it better be your father,” she said, laughing. It was not uncommon for couples to stand outside the front door, making out before their curfew: 11 p.m. on weekdays and 1 a.m. on weekends. The dorm is a historic part of campus, designed by architect Ernst Johnson. He designed several buildings at UK in a “modern” style from 1936 to 1956. His other buildings include Funkhouser, Memorial Coliseum and Holmes Hall. Jewell will be torn down by summer to make way for Limestone I and II residence halls.
utes, we saw a confident, relentless team — the one that can make a serious run into the NCAA Tournament. But then the Cats eased off. They lost focus and crumbled, becoming a team that could see its season end quicker than anyone imagined four months ago. In the matter of a week, UK has found itself in an identity crisis. Before, we knew they were a talented team giving mediocre results. Now, with five games remaining in the regular season, the Cats are bipolar, fighting to maintain the elite play that comes in impressive, albeit brief, flashes. Maybe the loss to Flori-
News that UK’s plans included the demolition of Holmes and Jewell halls also spurred a response from the Blue Grass Trust for Historic Preservation, a nonprofit that works to save historic buildings in Central Kentucky. “It’s basically wiping people’s memories of where they lived,” said Sheila Ferrell, the organization’s executive director. “When you go back to campus and it’s not there, it creates a hole; not just architecturally, but an emotional hole.” In January, the organization urged President Eli Capilouto to reconsider tearing down the two residence halls and the nearby Hamilton House, which were among the 11 structures on the organization’s 2013 endangered list. The list also includes Kirwan and Blanding towers, and Patterson and Donovan halls. She contends that the old buildings can have modern functionality. “If they’ve gotten in bad shape, that’s because the stewards of the buildings haven’t taken care of it,” she said.
“With some attention and some renovations, all of those things could be repaired and put in good working order.” Demolishing the buildings and starting over is an easy, unimaginative solution, Ferrell said. “It’s a disappointment.” Most students didn’t have a problem with the dorm being outdated, said Dillon Leisure, a sophomore who lived in Jewell last year. Visually, though, some rooms and shared spaces weren’t appealing. “The memories that were created there will be lost because it will be torn down,” he said. Leisure and Holland both said they understand the university’s need to innovate and update, and that dorm no longer fits the needs of today’s students. But Holland said she’ll miss it all the same. In Jewell, the residents learned beyond classes. “It holds so many memories,” she said. “Going down Euclid Avenue and having it PHOTO BY ELEANOR HASKEN | STAFF not be there for me is going A view of Jewell Hall, bottom building, on Tuesday from the top of Patterto be a solemn thing.” son Office Tower. The dorm opened in 1939.
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Continued from page 1 istry’s website warned demonstrators that clashes had to be stopped by 6 p.m. or security forces would “restore order by all means envisaged by law.” However, the standoff continued hours after the announced deadline. Opposition lawmakers reported at least three protesters killed and more than 150 injured, according to Kiev’s Channel 5 news. The short-lived easing of tensions apparently fell victim to renewed signals from both sides that their fight over the future of Ukraine will continue in spite of the amnesty. Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov had announced a day earlier, when a delegation of opposition politicians was meeting in
Berlin with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, that Moscow would buy another $2 billion in Ukrainian bonds on Tuesday. The de facto aid is part of $15 billion in loans and energy subsidies offered by the Kremlin in what protesters see as an attempt to buy Yanukovich’s loyalty and allegiance to the Eurasian Union, a Moscow-directed economic alliance. Under the bailout offered by Russian President Vladimir Putin, Moscow has already bought up $3 billion in Ukrainian debt but put the rescue plan on hold last month after the resignation of Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov. The government chief stepped down in the face of demands by the protesters, who took his departure as an indication that Yanukovich would concede to opposition demands for representation in an interim government of technocrats.
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When I began grade school, Black History Month was widely recognized and celebrated. There were activities and assemblies devoted to the month, and we had quizzes about prominent individuals who fought for the rights of African-Americans. But it seems like the older I got, the less I was educated about black history. Has the spirit of Black History Month fallen by the wayside, or has it simply been forgotten altogether? It seems like the only thing that people want to celebrate in February is Valentine’s Day. We look forward to one day dedicat-
ed to love, instead of an entire month that brings light to the importance of figures such as Harriet Tubman. I can’t be the only person who notices the discrepancy this time of the year. Many people question why we have Black History Month in the first place. In an article in The Guardian, contributing columnist Crystal Wright argued that black history should be a part of our conversation “365 days a year.” Although I agree, I think having one month that focuses on black history is important for raising awareness and keeping people of all races educated about African-American influence on society. Universities should play a bigger role in the education process. UK’s Martin Luther King Center promotes Black History Month each year with different events, but interim Director Kahlil Baker said he’d like
to see more involvement. “We can promote activities for Black History Month, but students have to want to participate,” he said. Most people recognize names such as Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X, but what about Claudette Colvin, who was only 15 when she refused to give her seat up to a white person (nine months before Rosa Parks’ notable action)? Without Black History Month, our opportunity to focus on and honor these other individuals would be diminished. I fear that there will never again be an awareness as strong as that which I experienced as a young student. It’s up to us to make sure Black History Month finds its place in schools once again. Anthony Gaither is a journalism freshman. Email opinions@ kykernel.com.
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‘Tonight Show’ with Fallon receives critics’ feedback Host ‘wasn’t as good as he’s going to get’ By Meredith Blake Los Angeles Times (MCT)
After much fanfare, Jimmy Fallon made his debut as host of “The Tonight Show” Monday night and, though the reviews were certainly better than those that followed his nervous “Late Night” premiere in 2009, there is still room for improvement. Many critics made note of Fallon’s “aw shucks” demeanor (that phrase popped up repeatedly in reviews), with some finding it endearing and others less so. The Los Angeles Times’ critic, Mary McNamara, noted that Fallon “did rigorously, and at times irritatingly, reaffirm his signature humility.” She continued, “Fallon has long positioned himself as a regular guy, the kind who would rather play charades with his guests than engage in lame interviews — or, even better, just pick up a guitar and goof around.” Variety critic Brian Lowry also found Fallon’s nice-guy shtick wearying, and singled out what he saw as the host’s relative weakness as an interviewer: “For all his skills as a performer, though, Fallon is still a question mark in terms of his ability to make magic out of nothing at the desk, the place where Johnny Carson and David Letterman thrived — and endured. And frankly, his ‘Aw shucks, I’m just so happy to be here’ posture in Monday’s maiden interviews with Will Smith and U2 got a little tedious even before the night was over.”
Others thought Fallon was shrewd for introducing himself to viewers unfamiliar with his work on “Late Night” and “Saturday Night Live.” “Fallon himself made the most important gesture of the evening when he came out and basically introduced himself to the world,” wrote Tim Goodman at the Hollywood Reporter. “You can’t put enough exclamation points on how important and smart that was. It’s
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Fallon is always happy to be there, always happy that his guests are there, and always happy you are there, too.” WILLA PASKIN Slate critic
such a simple and ego-less thing: Tell people who may not know who you are. If they’re going to spend time with you — and barring the Conan debacle, nobody has been there but Leno for a really long time — they want to know something about you.” Slate’s Willa Paskin also found Fallon’s first-day-atschool guise effective: “The tenor of his first episode was not ‘here’s something crazy and new’ so much as ‘I’m a good kid, I promise, please let me take this show out for a
drive.’ ... Fallon is always happy to be there, always happy that his guests are there, and always happy you are there, too.” Though Alessandra Stanley of The New York Times was charmed by Fallon’s demeanor, she couldn’t resist taking a swipe at Jay Leno’s older viewers by likening the new host to “a freshly licensed doctor taking over a retiring gerontologist’s practice.” Fallon’s debut marked the return of “Tonight” to New York after a 42-year absence, and the city’s hometown papers were divided. The New York Post’s Michael Starr proclaimed Fallon’s debut “triumphant” and said it “looked as if he’d already been hosting the show for a year.” David Hinckley of the New York Daily News detected some first-night jitters and predicted that, although “Fallon wasn’t bad,” he simply “wasn’t as good as he’s going to get.” He also suggested that the real star of the new show was New York City itself, which was showcased in a rooftop performance by U2 that many critics noted as a standout moment from the inaugural episode. “With no disrespect to Will Smith and U2, the city was his best guest Monday _ and it will be back every night. ... As the cameras slowly rotated around the roof, a clear dusk put a shimmering ripple of sunset colors behind the silhouetted Manhattan skyline. It’s a view only available here,” he wrote.
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