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Ringing in a new era Close loss against Florida changes some fans’ perspectives Gators. “From the overtime, I was more than upset with some of the calls,” said chemistry freshman Daniel DeNeve. DeNeve watched the first quarter and the third through the end of the game. “We were really, really hoping that they would do that well (against Florida),” DeNeve said. DeNeve and Tompoulidis were disappointed that the final play counted even after the play clock expired. The team played well, Tompoulidis said, with excellent defense and an offensive line that had definitely improved since last year. “It kind of shows that we have a promising future with the football season,” Tompoulidis said.
By Anne Halliwell ahalliwell@kykernel.com
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Kentucky fans yell during the first half of the game against the Ohio Bobcats at Commonwealth Stadium in Lexington, Ky., on Sept. 6, 2014.
Following a close game against the Florida Gators, UK football fans hoped that the Cats’ performance could mean more wins and possibly more attention for the team. “I thought we would get blown out by Florida, but they actually played really well,” said kinesiology freshman MacKinley Poole. Poole said she attends all of UK’s home football games and watched the Florida game on a TV in her dorm. “They played very hard ... I’m very impressed,” said Fotis Tompoulidis, a communication sophomore. Tompoulidis only watched the first part of the game, he said, but went into the game hoping that the football team would hold its own against the
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Column: Football culture changing at UK JOSHUA HUFF Kernel Columnist
UK football may have lost Saturday against Florida, but what they didn’t lose was a sense of accomplishment. The Cats came into Saturday’s game coming off back-to-back wins and riding a wave of optimism and a swagger that hasn’t been seen since before the days of Joker Phillips. Which is something, considering UK was picked to be dead last in the Southeastern Conference’s east division. UK was also picked to be heavy underdogs to a Florida team that has a lot to play for. The coaching life of Florida head coach Will Muschamp, the redemption of a disappointing 2013 season and a ravenous fan base
known for its gator chomps and raucous behavior have completed the perfect storm for the Gators. Yet none of that mattered to UK. The Cats have nothing to lose. Consecutive 2-10 seasons will do that to a team. Yet the Cats have added a certain aura to that blind optimism, an aura of believing. Why can’t UK win in the SEC? Why not us? Saturday night answered those questions. They can win in the SECmaybe not this very second, maybe not this season, but that win is close. So close that UK came one play away from pulling out their first win against Florida since 1986. One play away from halting that 17-game SEC losing streak, and yet that one play spoke volumes. It said that UK could win. And with Vanderbilt making the trip up from
Nashville to Commonwealth Stadium next Saturday that SEC win is knocking on the door with big, thunderous booms. The future of UK is bright. And we can give credit to UK head coach Mark Stoops and his complement of assistant coaches. Stoops was a walking chucky doll down on the sidelines during the game. Oozing with an anger and passion, he exemplifies the culture the he is building at UK. A culture that many fans are not aware of: a culture of winning. Stoops didn’t come here to lose; he didn’t come here to see UK remain the cellar dweller of the SEC East. Stoops knows how to win. His last stop was at Florida State, a now perennial national contender. His recruiting, passion for the job and desire to win are seeping through the cracks of his
Resiliency not enough to save Cats from loss By Kevin Erpenbeck news@kykernel.com
UK women’s soccer proved how resilient they are when they tied up their match twice after falling behind 1-0 and 2-1 to Pepperdine on Sunday. But sometimes, resiliency does not equal a win, as UK eventually fell to the Waves 3-2 in overtime. The match pitted two top-25 teams against each other, as No. 24 UK and
No. 13 Pepperdine clashed in UK’s first match against a ranked team this season. It was their last nonconference game before the Southeastern Conference portion of the schedule begins. For the Cats, it was a test to see how well they could hold up against stiff competition. Pepperdine’s test pushed UK to its limits. “Besides in our defensive-third, we played very well,” said head coach Jon Lipsitz. “We’ve just got to get
so much better in taking care of our jobs defensively.” Statistically, the Cats
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UK sophomore quarterback Patrick Towles walks off the field following the overtime loss against Florida Saturday at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium.
football team. His team may have lost in heartbreaking fashion, but UK has a lot to be proud of.
times compared to Pepperdine’s nine, and doubled up their shots on goal attempts, 10-5. But Pepperdine finished its chances in the box while UK did not, ultimately resulting in the Waves’ victory. “Pepperdine deserved to win because they found holes in our defense and
Your emotions can change ... and we weren’t ready to fight from the very first minute. ” ARIN GILLILAND, senior forward
had their chances against the Waves. UK shot 19
scored some big goals. All credit to them,” Lipsitz said.
A talented set of young players, a deep group of veterans and an incoming recruiting class that will put the Cats
A defensive gaff on a Wave counter attack caused the Cats’ first deficit of the game. It was not until the second half that UK tied it up on a goal by junior forward Kelli Hubly, her first of the season. The game seemed destined to go into overtime after the equalizer, until Waves’ forward Lynn Williams scored in the 82nd minute off of another counter attack against the Cats. Now in desperation mode, UK needed somebody to be resilient in the waning minutes of regulation to push the game into overtime. And senior forward Arin Gilliland was that someone, knotting the match up with
back into the national spotlight. UK football is here to stay.
32 seconds remaining. “Resilience is something that can happen,” Gilliland said. “We played great and had our chances all throughout the game.” But the feeling of resiliency did not translate into better play in overtime, as the Cats gave up another goal to Williams two minutes into extra time, effectively ending the match. “You’ve got to keep that resilience going throughout the game,” Gilliland said. “Your emotions can change right before overtime begins, and we weren’t ready to fight from the very first minute. Because of that, we didn’t show resiliency in See SOCCER on page 2
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UK unable to hold off Gators Volleyball coach One play stopped the Cats from breaking a 27 year streak of losses sets record By Madison Tinder
JOSHUA HUFF
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UK football was just one play away from erasing a 27-game losing streak to Florida, one play away from erasing a 35-year losing draught to the Gators down in The Swamp and one play away from rewriting the history of a football team once mired in the doldrums of the Southeastern Conference. The Cats were one play away from winning the game. But they couldn’t stop Florida’s receiver Demarcus Robinson. His 15th and final catch sealed the deal for the Gators. His nineyard strike in the second overtime dealt the final blow to a UK team that countered Florida all throughout the game. In a way it was a fitting end to a game that saw 690 combined yards of passing. Robinson was unstoppable against UK; his 15 catches for 216 yards led both teams. Both teams ended the first half with a 3-3 tie and both teams ended the second half scoring a combined 31 points. UK had chances to pull away. UK’s Fred Tiller had
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UK running back Stanley Williams (18) sprints to the end zone in the first half game against Ohio University at Commonwealth Stadium Sept. 6, 2014.
an opportunity for an easy interception, only to have it bounce out of his hands into the hands of Robinson who ran it 33-yards. Florida would score a touchdown that drove. But the Cats answered after two Garrett Johnson catches. One a beautiful leaping grab between two Florida defenders and one a wide-open 33-yard touchdown catch. Johnson ended the game with six catches for 152 yards. During the first overtime, it looked like UK
may actually be able to pull the game out. Stanley “Boom” Williams almost broke the Gators back with a winding, cut back of a run that sent him from sideline to sideline and ultimately into the end zone. But it came down to that one play, that desperate hookup in the first overtime from Florida quarterback Jeff Driskel to Robinson that snapped the wind from the sails of the Cats. As crazy as that play was, it should have never occurred. The Gators didn’t
get the play off in time. The clock stood on zero for a second before Driskel snapped the ball. Testaments to UK’s inability to have anything go its way against Florida. Still, UK may have lost, but one thing they didn’t lose was optimism. No one expected the Cats to be within 20 points of this game, but the Cats were not only within 20 points, the Cats were in the lead, with one final play standing between them and UK immortality.
The No. 16 UK volleyball team posted a 2-1 record in the Carolina Classic this past weekend helping UK head coach Craig Skinner become the program’s all-time winningest coach on Saturday. The win was Coach Skinner’s 210th, passing UK Hall of Fame coach Kathy DeBoer. The Carolina Classic down in North Carolina proved to be a success for the Cats who had wins against Virginia Commonwealth University and Georgia Southern, but lost to No. 17 University of North Carolina. On Friday night UK (8-2) fell to UNC in an exhilarating five-set match in front of 2,109 fans in the Carmichael Arena. Senior libero Jackie Napper matched a career high with 26 digs to lead the defensive effort, and sophomore outside hitter Anni Thomasson notched 16 kills and nine digs. Standout junior outside hitter Shelby Workman reached double figures for the six consecutive matches with 15 kills.
The first game for UK Saturday was a sweep against VCU with the Cats’ middle blockers making the biggest difference. Freshman middle blocker Emily Franklin had a career best nine kills and .500 hitting percentage while junior middle blocker Sara Schwarzwalder chipped in with six kills and a team-best three blocks. UK’s middle blockers helped the Cats open more options for junior setter Morgan Bergren, who had 36 assists, to set the ball to Thomasson who had 10 kills. On Saturday afternoon, the Cats continued the winning streak with a sweep over Georgia Southern. Four players reached double figures in the attack column for UK, as Bergren knocked out 42 assists and added 13 digs for a doubledouble effort. Workman charted 13 and senior Lauren O’Connor added 12. Thomasson was the lone Cat to reach double figures in all three matches at the Carolina Classic and had 11 swings, while Schwarzwalder had a seasonhigh 10 hammers on .533 hitting.
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FANS Continued from page 1 Computer engineering freshman Austin Herman said the team played pretty well, but thought they should have won in over-
time. “I feel gypped,” Herman said. “I feel that the refs screwed us in the overtime.” Kinesiology freshman Danielle Brogan kept up with the game through a score app on her phone. Brogan said she thought the team could win before
the three overtimes. DeNeve also said it looked like the Cats could win the game, ending their long streak of losses against Florida. “It would have been a season highlight,” DeNeve said. Despite the loss, Poole
thought the game could merit more attention for UK football. “I think more people will probably come out now,” said Poole. “Now that we stayed with them, I think people will probably come out to the games to see what we can do.”
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UK v North Carolina UK v VCU UK v Georgia Southern
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UK senior Arin Gilliland takes an open shot from outside the box during the first half of the women’s soccer game against Pepperdine University at the Wendell and Vickie Bell Soccer Complex in Lexington, Ky., on Sunday.
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overtime. If you don’t show in overtime, then it really doesn’t matter if you showed it before.” The loss snapped a fivegame winning streak for the Cats and a four-game streak of goal prevention. Lipsitz said the loss will be a learning step for the team as they prepare to face a tough SEC schedule in the coming weeks. “It’s a whole new season now,” Lipsitz said. “We have to take the good and the bad from preconference and prepare for conference play. We know it’s a whole new level, and we’ve got to be prepared for it.”
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Celebrating the Constitution By Tabassum Ali news@kykernel.com
The 11th year of UK’s Constitution Day celebrations opens Monday, marking three days of celebration and contemplation of the American political system. “A Conversation with U.S. Rep. Andy Barr on the U.S. Constitution” will open the events in room 122 of the White Hall Classroom Building. Journalism professor and Citizen Kentucky Project director Buck Ryan’s journalism class will be open to the public from 10 a.m. to 10:50. Students in the class will question the representative about the constitution and the press. Ryan’s “Citizen Kentucky: Journalism and Democracy” class organized the Tuesday event, which begins with apple pie, lemonade and treat bags provided on the north lawn of the Main Building from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. and a reenactor of Kentucky statesman Henry Clay from the Kentucky Humanities Council’s Kentucky Chautauqua speaker series. Singers from the Christ the King school in Lexington will also perform. “It is part of our tradition, a fun way for them to understand their constitution rights and the candidates who are running,” Ryan said. Pre-pharmacy freshman
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Singers from the Christ the King School in Lexington sang last year on Tuesday, Sept. 17 for Constitution Day.
Scott Reams helped organize the event in the Citizen Kentucky class. “When I first heard about the event, I was so excited to help out, as I think civic education is very important,” Reams said. Biology freshman Faith Evans said the event is a good way to become involved with civic education on campus, as the event was created to make people aware of what is going on in the community. Students attending will be encouraged to register to vote, Reams said. Lexington mayor Jim Gray and UK vice president Anthony Beatty, the two Nov.
4 mayoral election candidates, have also been invited to speak at the event, Ryan said. Tuesday acts as a preview for the Oct. 28 “This I Believe ... is the Future of Lexington” debate between the candidates. Gray and Beatty will discuss issues of safety and environment that will effect their time as mayor, Ryan said. Wednesday will also mark the 100th anniversary of journalism education at UK and will be celebrated on the north lawn of the Main Building from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. The first Enoch Grehan prize will be awarded by Citizen Kentucky to Jamie Miller and Liz Palmer of Louisville, Ky.
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Fox’s ‘Gotham’ full of promising characters ANNE HALLIWELL Kernel Columnist
Fox’s “Gotham” premieres next Monday, but with the help of an advanced viewing copy, I was able to see a rough version of the pilot episode. The episode as a whole is subject to change, but it was enough to form an impression of the show and where it’s going. The verdict: it’s going to be crowded until Fox decides which characters to focus on, but that doesn’t mean worthy material isn’t there. “Gotham,” which is pitched as a prequel to the Batman storylines we all presumably know, will follow Ben McKenzie’s Jim Gordon in his first years as part of the Gotham police department. While I have a deep love for McKenzie as a former viewer of “The OC,” his newest character has some development to undergo before he becomes a completely cohesive lead. As practically the only ethically decent adult in this episode, Gordon is quickly established as both capable
of talking down armed criminals and unfortunately prone to storming into situations he really shouldn’t. It was difficult for me to reconcile Gordon’s platitudespouting and aggressive hopefulness with some serious aggression in a few instances, but his straight-asan-arrow honesty does make for 100 percent fewer annoying attempts to lie to his loved ones. Watching Gordon attempt to function in a corrupt police force and even shadier criminal landscape should add some shades of gray to his viewpoint. Complicating that aspect of the character may help to bring the rest of him into focus. The series doesn’t appear to shy away from violence, which can only be a good thing given that the Batman comics have traditionally worked a grittier vibe than others. The challenge of the first episode of any series is setting up a storyline for the entire season without devoting all 45-or-so minutes to exposition and introductions. Gotham accomplishes this task by squeezing what feels like an entire future wing of Arkham Asylum into brushes on the street, the police department
and the shady underground of the city. The villains we spend most of our time with make an excellent impression. Jada Pinkett Smith as intermediate mobster Fish Mooney is excellent on-screen, though her character suffers later due to some uninspired dramatics. It doesn’t feel like Fox quite knows whether it wants the city of Gotham to behave like a noir throwback or law and order procedural backdrop. While eventually it will become home to some intensely theatrical villains, the less ordinary aspects of crime in this first aspect feel over-the-top compared to the ordinariness we see elsewhere. Robin Lord Taylor as Oswald Cobblepot was a surprisingly promising introduction to one of Batman’s least-cool (at least on paper) bad guys, and Sean Pertwee dropped the discreet manner for his portrayal of Alfred Pennyworth. If “Gotham” focuses on the storylines of its promising characters and makes room for them to grow, it could easily find its place on today’s programming. Anne Halliwell is the news editor of the Kentucky Kernel. Email ahalliwell@kykernel.com.
Net neutrality in jeopardy MATT YOUNG Kernel Columnist
A long time ago, corporations took pride in the way they treated their employees and customers. It used to be seen as a positive to invest time and money to make your company a better place to work and do business. It used to be a privilege to have a good employee. Then, in the ‘70s and ‘80s the corporate paradigm shifted and put return on shareholders’ investments as the number-one priority for business. Playing the stock market game meant they would do just about anything to edge out their competitor, and now the bulk of CEO paychecks are directly tied to
the bonuses they get for improving the company’s stock. This has led to companies putting customers and employees at the bottom of the priority list. This might be happening again very soon, in a very big way, and our government is going to give its stamp of approval. It’s no secret that Internet companies are highly disliked by the public. Time Warner Cable and Comcast are consistently at the bottom of customer service and customer satisfaction surveys, but they don’t really care because they’ve made it a point to limit consumers’ other options for Internet service. Don’t like Time Warner? Fine, but where else are you going to go? If you are drawing a blank, you are exactly where they want you to be. When we have nowhere else to go,
they can feel free to raise prices or cut service however they please. Right now they are fighting to end net neutrality — treating all Internet users the same — and this will likely result in a huge service cut. If net neutrality is ended, your cable company could slow down your Netflix stream so that it is constantly buffering, and make you pay more to speed it back up. This was the case for a brief time, and Netflix revealed that they were losing customers because Comcast had slowed them down. We often think of the U.S. as the world’s leader in technology. But take a look at the top 10 Internet speeds for citizens around the world. Guess which country you won’t find in the top 10. Read the full article at kykernel.com
It’s important for students to involve themselves in current events, Ryan said. “If you do not do politics, politics will do you,” he said. The goals for the event are increasing patriotism, helping students understand their constitutional rights and “energizing young voters to get involved and feel more confident in voting,” Ryan said. “I hope that my fellow students will walk away with a sense of understanding,” Reams said. “As well as feeling like they enjoyed the event and see the importance of such a monumental document.”
Gnome to urge cleaner campus Campus may start looking a little cleaner this semester, thanks to an anti-litter campaign and a lawn gnome. As a part of an intitiative to clean up UK’s campus, the Office of Sustainability is launching the "Pick It Up" campaign this week. To facilitate disposal, UK has distributed single-stream recycling containers across campus. ”Pick It Up” mascot and videocamera “Gnarly the Gnome” will be placed around campus as a way to raise awareness. Students documented picking up trash by Gnarly may be eligible for prizes like gift cards and t-shirts. Students are encour-
aged to report acts of campus beautification they witness to the Office of Sustainability. Participants can email pictures to pickitup@uky.edu to nominate themselves or others, or use the hashtag #getgnarly when the gnome is spotted. Funded by the Office of the Executive Vice President for Finance and Administration, the goal of the campaign is to convince students and faculty to notice and dispose of any litter they encounter as they go about their days on campus. Most of the litter on campus should be recyclable, UK posited. STAFF REPORT