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Tearing down 134 years
PHOTO BY MICHAEL REAVES | STAFF
An excavator tears down the Hamilton House at 342 South Limestone St. in Lexington, Ky, on Monday. The house was built in 1880, and the demolition of the building was protested by members of the Blue Grass Trust for Historic Preservation
Hamilton House torn down despite protests of historical group By Anne Halliwell ahalliwell@kykernel.com
The front of the Hamilton House, which faced South Limestone near Chipotle Mexican Grill. The house was demolished to make way for eventual new residence halls.
UK began to demolish the more than 130-year-old Hamilton House at 342 S. Limestone Monday night, following protests organized by the Blue Grass Trust for Historic Preservation. Built in 1880 by Lexington architect John McMurtry, the Italiante building was a private residence in a row of elegant buildings, said Bettie Kerr, the director of the Division of Historic Preservation in Lexington. UK acquired the building shortly after the homeowner’s death in 1941, according to the Kentucky Historic Re-
sources Inventory, during the second World War, Kerr said. “It’s a beautifully designed house,” Kerr said. “It’s elegant partly because of its simplicity. It’s a true loss to the community.” The Hamilton House has also been the site of the Ronald McDonald house and the nonprofit Hospitality House, according to the Blue Grass Trust’s 2014 “Eleven in Their Eleventh Hour” list. Many of the protesters last Wednesday were former residents or students in the Hamilton House, said Sheila Omer Ferrell, executive director of the Blue Grass Trust, which functioned as a dorm and classroom building
The building held home economics courses, Ferrell said, as well as student residents. The Blue Grass Trust has asked UK to adapt and reuse properties so they can fit current needs without losing their history, Ferrell said. UK officials met with Blue Grass Trust to talk about their efforts to preserve historical buildings, Blanton wrote in an email to the Kentucky Kernel. “We also have always been open about the fact that our first priority is the success of our students,” Blanton wrote in the email. The older residence halls See HAMILTON on page 4
Column: UK may break SEC losing streak Cats have a good chance of winning over struggling Vanderbilt team JOSHUA HUFF Kernel Columnist
The fans here at UK would like to thank you for picking the perfect time to have a subpar season, Vanderbilt. Maybe they should thank James Franklin for taking his talents to Penn State, more so than thanking Vanderbilt’s current head coach Derek Mason for Vandy’s woes. Regardless, the fans in Lexington would like to thank the entire Commodores football program. This may be the most advantageous time for UK to fi-
nally shake that 17-game Southeastern Conference losing streak that has hung like a dark cloud over UK football. Let’s be honest, Vanderbilt is struggling through the early part of the season. Blowout losses to Temple and Ole Miss, and a narrow victory over a winless UMass team have done nothing to boost the confidence of Vanderbilt. Its next game against South Carolina will only add to the misery before the Commodores head up to Commonwealth Stadium. UK will be facing a Vanderbilt offense that is ranked last in the conference. The Commodores’ yardage total is more than 100 yards less than the 13th-best offense (Georgia) and its 321 total yards rushing ranks dead last. On the flip
side, Vanderbilt will line up against a UK defense that ranks second in the conference. Through three games, UK has already tied its interception total from 2013 with three. UK’s defense has anchored a turnaround season that few have predicted. Few have also predicted the success of UK sophomore quarterback Patrick Towles. His resilient game against Florida has dubbed him UK’s quarterback of the future. But Towles needs to be wary against Vanderbilt. He learned firsthand against Florida that SEC defenses are leaps and bounds from the likes of UTMartin and Ohio. So as bad as Vandy has been playing, they still won’t be a walkover. But the Commodores still
will offer UK’s best opportunity to finally win an SEC game. It may be UK’s one and only SEC win this year, but as they say: progress for the sake of progress should be discouraged. With the potential win, UK will go to 3-1, a record that looks foreign in this part of the bluegrass. Fans should embrace that potential record, because it may be the best the Cats can do this year. Head coach Mark Stoops is building a program for the future, not for the now. So fans should thank the Commodores for picking the perfect opportunity to have a substandard season. It may be the only chance UK has to win a game in the SEC this season.
PHOTO BY TESSA LIGHTY | STAFF
UK wide receiver Demarco Robinson runs the ball during the game against Vanderbilt University at Vanderbilt Stadium on Nov. 16, 2013.
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NEWS
Growing local business Fair to showcase abroad opportunities Kentucky products available through ‘MarCat’ By Melissa Payne news@kykernel.com
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By Yan Wang news@kykernel.com
Education Abroad will hold its annual fair on Wednesday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the Student Center Grand Ballroom. Anthony Ogden, executive director of education abroad and exchanges, said most students have a false perception about education abroad. “Most people think that education abroad is basically study abroad,” Ogden said.
IF YOU GO What: Education Abroad Fair When: 3 p.m., Wednesday Where: Student Center Grand Ballroom
“That is not really true.” The Education Abroad offers five program types: study abroad, research abroad, intern abroad, teach abroad and service abroad, Ogden said, each of which benefits students differently. The fair will allow students to interact with faculty and representatives from EA programs, Ogden said. According to Ogden, UK has the largest number of education abroad programs in Kentucky. With more education abroad programs being offered, students can expect new features this year, Ogden said. According to Ogden, students are able to select programs specific to their majors through, lists of programs that align with classes in which students will be interested. “Every student at UK should really be looking at the (major advising pages),” Og-
den said. “If they look at those maps, they will know exactly, one, why they should study abroad, two, when they should study abroad, and three, which program would work most appropriately for them.” The Education Abroad also provides new scholarships to UK students, like the Diversity Scholarships, which range from $2500 to $5000 and were created to encourage students to showcase their diversities. The education abroad programs will not only help students learn languages and understand a particular culture; they will also help them become more competitive when applying for graduate school and jobs, Ogden said. “Education abroad is not about travel,” Ogden said. “It really is about preparation and investment in one’s future.”
Students crowded around tables of fresh produce and honey as bubbles drifted past the backpacks sticking out into the walkway at the Farmer’s MarCat and Craft Fair on Monday. The Student Activities Board-sponsored event took place from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on the Student Center patio. Students stopped and shopped at the tables on their way to and from classes. Vendors included Lexington natives Berries on Bryan Station, cheese seller Dad’s Favorites, Garden of Aromas and Zumbidos, Edgar Patrice Imports and bath and body retailer Moss Hill. Erik Walles from Berries on Bryan station said a variety of vendors keeps the event interesting. Walles brought produce to the MarCat, as well as bubble wands that “bring out the child in everyone.” “(Bubble blowing is) very easy, people learn by doing it,” Walles said. “The string is designed to absorb water, (however) when they buy a wand (customers) get the secret recipe for bigger bubbles that stay in the air longer.” Teri Amsler, co-owner and vice president of Moss Hill said this was her company’s first year at the MarCat. “(Today’s goal is) to participate, to see if there are students who are interested in our products,” Amsler said. Jayson Caudill from Dad’s Favorites brought cheese from the Garden Springs shopping center in
Lexington for students to sample and buy. Pre-pharmacy freshman Dylan Kitchen said he’ll be back at the MarCat for the cheeses. He said he was also impressed with the size of the bubbles Walles blew.
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address of the hive from which the honey came, and the weight of the bottle, Wilkinson said. Meredith Goodin, a linguistics and Spanish junior, said this was her third time to the Farmer’s MarCat, and
The market is a cool way to see all the Kentucky businesses so we can support the commonwealth.” ALEX BAXTER, biology and physiology junior
“I made 80 dollars in sales today, which is great for my small business,” said Ann Wilkinson, a beekeeper from Garden of Aromas and Zumbidos. “I was only prepared to tell 120 dollars’ worth of honey so (the MarCat) worked out for me.” Selling honey requires the name of the bee keeper,
added that this year seemed smaller than last, without the outdoor grilling she remembered. “(The market is) a cool way to see all the Kentucky businesses, so we (students) can support the commonwealth,” said biology and physiology junior Alex Baxter.
PHOTO BY HUNTER MITCHELL | STAFF
Students browse the Farmer’s MarCat on the Student Center Patio on Monday.
Prosecutor discusses KKK By Tabassum Ali news@kykernel.com
Doug Jones prosecuted two Ku Klux Klan members for the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist church in Birmingham, Ala., during the civil rights movement in 1963. He will speak on Tuesday at 12 p.m. in the Law School Courtroom at the “Justice Delayed Not Justice Denied” event. At a community event held yesterday at the Imani Baptist Church, Jones took the public, students and UK faculty through the history of Birmingham and the process of successfully convicting the last two members of the KKK involved in the bombing. Monday was the 51st anniversary of the bombing where four young girls lost their lives. “I was nine years old when the bomb exploded and I knew the father of one of the girls that died,” Jones said. He also explained how he cut classes to watch the trial and when he heard that the case was being re-opened, he knew it was something he had to do. Jones played the FBI tape which recorded the confession of the convicts to the audience and showed footage alongside stills of the violence in Birmingham. Jones also showed images
of the Birmingham marches, which were known as “Children Crusades,” as they were led by young children. He mentioned when he reopened the case that he did not just look at case files, he looked into the history of
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I was nine years old when the bomb exploded and I knew the father of one of the girls that died.” DOUG JONES
prosecutor
Birmingham, which helped him greatly. In addition, he was grateful for the “incredible support” he received throughout the process. He left inspiring words for law students who attended the event: “Build the case as strong as you can and end it the best you can.” Law professor Allison Connelly said ”it (was) when America got conscious. It took 40 years for all people involved in the bombing to be prosecuted.” University president Eli
Capilouto said he attended the trial in 2002. He witnessed the testimony of one of the girls’ sisters. “I attended the trial on three occasions, I didn’t think he had a case,” Capilouto said. “I was so emotional listening to the closing speech I couldn’t speak.” Connelly requested that Jones speak at UK after hearing him last year at the Baptist Church where the bombing occured. Law students also got involved in getting funding from Student Government, raising money and organizing the Justice Delayed event. Jeremy Fugate, who is in his final year in law school, said he wanted to get involved in this event because Jones has “dedicated his life to law.” “Our legal system only works when everyone is held to the high standards set out in the law and Mr. Jones is one of the pillars in the community that ensures that everyone is held to that standard,” Fugate said. “This is why I wanted to get involved.” Chapin Elizabeth Fausel, law student and vice president of the Trial Advocacy Board, said, “It is also important for students to hear about the justice system actually serving its purpose, even years after the events themselves.”
PHOTO BY JOEL REPOLEY | STAFF
Doug Jones, the state attorney who convicted men involved in a church bombing in 1963, discusses the case with President Eli Capliouto, who had attended the trial.
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OPINIONS
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
College, the best years of life Being a student offers learning, development and friendship PATRICK BRENNAN Contributing Columnist
Parties, brotherhood, sisterhood, best friends, learning, debating, developing ourselves – in college we have it all. These stimulating years get the moniker, “the best years of your lives.” However, I hope these are not the best years of your life. My encounters with adults and parents have left me with the impression that the best years of life come during youth. Oscar Wilde once said, “Youth is wasted on the young.” It is shocking and slightly depressing to hear a middle-aged person reflect on their former peak like a weary and waning athlete talks despondently about their all-star years. So what is it about college that makes it so uniquely
memorable? One illuminating fact is that up until now, we have welcomed more and more freedom into our lives, but many adults will have less freedom after college as they are enveloped by careers and families. We also all know some adults who continue to have
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experiences that continually rival or outdo the best of my life?” We can answer this in hindsight by looking into our experiences and realizing what makes one time period in our life better or worse than another. For me, the ancient Greek concept of eudaimonia bridges
My encounters with adults and parents have left me with the impression that the best years of your life come during youth.”
youthful energy and undeniable life satisfaction. It’s almost like each year of their life is better than the last, and they are constantly peaking. In order to get the most out of life and avoid peaking too soon, I asked myself, “how is it possible to have life
the connection to the ideal life. Eudaimonia is sometimes simply translated as happiness, but a better translation is “human flourishing.” I think of flourishing as a state which includes success in one’s goals and happiness. It is undeniable, though,
that we have an internal predisposition to “good” things that make us happy, and our increased freedom in college makes realizing these things possible. Hence, many students flourish in college because intellectual progress and a fulfilling social life are easy to attain; we can just walk down the street to attend class or visit peers. It is no surprise, then, to find so many loitering around the ivory tower as perpetual students, for with this ease stripped away, some may struggle to flourish. By bringing this theory to reality, graduation will be the dot at the end of the four best years of life. But with a keen eye focused on progressive wisdom, students can set themselves up for a full and deeply satisfying life experience. Patrick Brennan is a philosophy junior. Email opinions@kykernel.com.
Preventative aid needed
Providing foreign assistance to struggling continents such as Asia and Africa has been a cultural norm for the U.S. in the past ten years. We spend a large amount of money on military spending to prevent unrest and promote stability. However, appropriate preventative measures are not being taken. In other words, the U.S. is being reactive instead of proactive. Communities in these countries are often taken advantage of by rebel groups offering a better standard of living. By increasing our presence in these countries instead of increasing military spending, our country would be actively promoting foreign development. As a general public, we tend to believe that a majority of our money is given to these countries in the form of food, shelter and medicine. We prefer to think that guns and soldiers are not the only force working to advance our goals in already unstable environ-
ments; but the reality is that less than one percent of our federal budget goes to this type of aid, while military spending is larger than 20 percent. As students, we have the opportunity to voice our opinions to the representatives that make decisions regarding foreign aid. I would love to see my peers contact their local congressman and state senators about increasing federal aid. Your voice does matter, so use it. Foreign aid is an investment in the future safety of our country and the stability of the country receiving aid. In the words of Representative Kay Granger (R-TX), “Foreign aid must be viewed as an investment, not an expense.” Rowan Reid is an economics sophomore and an intern with a non-profit advocacy organization called The Borgen Project. Email opinions@kykernel.com.
NEWS
Reducing sexual violence in high schools Study shows that UK’s Green Dot program has led to a lower number of high risk-behaviors By Cheyene Miller news@kykernel.com
Six years after its implementation, the Violence Intervention and Prevention Center’s Green Dot program has educated more than 2,000 people per year about preventing and diffusing potentially violent situations. Recently, a study has shown that high schools that teach students Green Dot training show significant reduction in sexual violence. Green Dot refers to actions, words or behavior that support someone if
they've gone through violence, or to try to prevent high-risk situations from escalating, said VIP Center director Rhonda Henry. A study performed by the UK Center for Research of Violence Against Women and funded by the CDC monitored the effects of the Green Dot program in Kentucky high schools over the course of five years. The randomized study surveyed students that received the training in 13 different high schools, which were compared to a control group of 13 high schools that did not receive
the training, Henry said. The survey included questions asking the students if they had seen certain high-risk behaviors and if they had been able to affect that situation in a positive way. According to the results of the study, which were released last week, high schools that implemented Green Dot strategies saw a 50 percent decrease in sexual violence perpetration. “Finding such a significant reduction in sexual violence perpetration was a welcomed finding and provides support for training
HAMILTON Continued from page 1 these buildings are torn down and new glass and steel structures will go up.” Incoming freshmen will be 65 before the waste from the demolished buildings breaks down in landfills, Ferrell said.
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should – come first.” “I don’t like it,” said psychology junior Suzanne Starling. “I’m not really a fan of construction, tearing down the buildings for stuff that we don’t really need. Starling said the new construc-
This is simply an issue where reasonable people can disagree.” JAY BLANTON, UK spokesman
“Those … were wellbuilt, sturdy buildings,” said Ferrell. “I don’t understand.” UK is preserving structures like Memorial Coliseum, Lafferty Hall, the old Student Center, the Funkhouser building and Alumni Gym, Blanton wrote. “It is, admittedly, a balancing act,” Blanton wrote. “But our students do – and
Green Dot training focuses on better understanding incidents of interpersonal violence, which include sexual assault, partner violence and stalking. It was developed at UK by founding director of the VIP center Dorothy Edwards, and has since spread to universities and high schools across the country. Trainees are taught how to recognize potentially dangerous situations and deal with them using the “three D's:” distract, direct and delegate. “We assess based on what's safe in a situation,
because we don't want to put another person at risk for being hurt as well,” said Henry, who explained that the program looks to give proper training based on personality as well. For example, some people might have a personality more suited to use the direct strategy over the distract strategy. “They've done some pretty rigorous testing and seen the positive results,” Henry said. “Those who go to the training have an increase in what they call positive bystanding behavior.”
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on campus were nearly 50 years old, Blanton wrote, and didn’t have the classroom space or technology to maximize student success. “This is simply an issue where reasonable people can disagree,” Blanton wrote in the email. Justin Hathaway, a historic preservation graduate and vice president of the Historic Preservation Graduate Organization, said a university campus should be rooted in history. “We’re beginning to lose our historic identity on campus,” Hathaway said. “In my year here, we’ve torn down more buildings than in my four years at University of Nebraska.” Instead of finding ways to reuse the buildings, Hathaway said, the university has chosen to break those connections to the past. “Generations of people grew up here and lived in those dorms,” Hathaway said. “The stories of those places will be gone now that
young men and women to safely and effectively engage their peers in violence prevention,” said Ann Coker of UKCRVAW, who headed up the extensive research. With self-report studies, unreliable answers are always a concern, but the researchers controlled for this and found the results to be reliable, Henry said. “This was a really highly structured survey,” Henry said. “I've worked in this field for 20 plus years. I've not seen other things that have had this kind of impact.”
tion is a waste of money, as UK already has serviceable buildings that “maybe need an update,” like the older dorms or the Student Center. “I see that they’re making progress, but at the same time, it is sad that they’re having to tear down the buildings,” said elementary education junior Shawna Weaver. “I wish there was an alternative.”
Islamists now control the other side By Joel Greenberg McClatchy Foreign Staff (MCT)
EIN ZIVAN, Golan Heights — The green and white flag fluttering above a border checkpoint not far from the Ein Zivan kibbutz on a recent afternoon symbolized the new reality that has taken hold for Israelis who live on the Golan Heights: Islamist rebels now control areas of Syria on the very doorstep of Israeli-controlled land. For now, the groups, which include al-Qaida's Nusra Front, are focused on consolidating their positions and pushing toward the Syrian capital, Damascus. But there are worries in Israel that once the Islamist militants establish control, they will turn their guns toward the Israeli-held sector of the Golan. "Right now it's not on their agenda, but it's inevitable," said Eyal Zisser, an expert on Syria at Tel Aviv University. Just how big a threat the rebels fighting to topple Syrian President Bashar Assad
are to Israel remains an open topic. Israel has tried to remain aloof from the war in Syria, except to blast Syrian government convoys from the air that Israeli officials feared were transferring sophisticated weapons to Hezbollah, Israel's Lebanese nemesis. Israel's reaction even to the beheading by the Islamic State of American journalist Steven Sotloff, who held Israeli citizenship, was muted; officials explained they didn't want to become embroiled in the conflict. But with the capture Aug. 27 of the Syrian side of the Quneitra border crossing, Islamist rebels now occupy land adjacent to the Israeli section of the strategic plateau, changing the calculus of concern. Despite attempts by the Syrian army to reassert control, the rebels have captured more villages near the Israeli-held Golan, raising the prospect that the frontier area will become a stronghold of Islamist groups. "Israel might be literally the front (line) of the West toward the radical Islamic
movements ... if they succeed in taking control on the Golan Heights," said Yaakov Amidror, a former Israeli national security adviser. Military officials say they are watching carefully for the development of new threats on the other side. Yoram Schweitzer, a research fellow at the Institute of National Security Studies in Tel Aviv, noted that alQaida leader Ayman al-Zawahri has spoken of using Syria as a staging ground for a "holy war" against Israel. "Liberating Jerusalem is part of this vision," and the Nusra Front "is part of it," he said. "It's raised the anxiety level, people keep their kids closer to home and under supervision," said Tomer Lahav, an Ein Zivan resident who serves in the local security team. "The kids don't run around like they used to." But Natalie Chen, another kibbutz resident, said she was not keeping her three children, ages 6 to 11, closer to home. "They come and go freely, but they've been told what to do if a siren goes off," she said. "The daily routines continue.