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Bill Polyniak, left, and Dave Hendrick, right, look at a hemp plant during UK’s hemp harvest at the Spindletop Research Farm in Lexington.
UK’s research farm harvests state’s 1st hemp crop in decades By Morgan Eads meads@kykernel.com
The quiet of the clear, crisp morning was broken as a large green John Deere tractor roared to life at UK’s Spindletop Farm in Lexington on Tuesday. But the growls and whirrs of the machine did not mark just another day of harvest on the 2,000-acre research farm. At about 9 a.m., industrial hemp was legally harvested in Kentucky for the first time in decades, and some hope that this marks the beginnings of job growth and economic boosts for the state. Terry Sutton, 70, was one of the many farmers who gathered in the cool air to see what UK researchers believe could be a potential booming industry in Kentucky. Before the nearly 10-foot-tall
green stalks were cut and placed in rows, Sutton moved slowly among the plants, touching, smelling and even tasting. Terry Sutton and his wife, Missy, own two small farms in Franklin County. Terry Sutton had cultivated 10 acres in hopes of being able to plant hemp this season, he said. But since hemp still remains illegal, he says he will continue to wait. “I don’t know what the problem is,” Missy Sutton said. “It would be such a cash crop for Kentucky.” UK agrologist David Williams echoed the possibilities hemp could open up for the state when he addressed a group of farmers crowding around him near the tractor after the harvest was done. Williams said hemp is not an extremely complex crop, and that farmers would probably be able to grow
5th-year seniors battle uncertainty By Katelyn Dooley news@kykernel.com
Students who spend more than four years earning their Bachelor’s degrees due to difficulties in scheduling necessary courses or a change in major may receive more help from the university in the coming year. UK's four-year undergraduate graduation rates have risen 2.7 percent from last year, to about 38 percent overall, said associate provost for undergraduate education Benjamin Withers. The six-year graduation rate is more than 60 percent for students who enrolled in the fall semester of 2008, Withers said. “The reason students don't graduate in four years is a difficult question to answer,” said Susan Herrick, associate director of undergraduate studies, though she posited that it might be for financial or academic reasons, or could be caused by changes in a student's major. “It’s all about getting the right major,” said Withers, who changed his own major three times before graduating from Carleton College. “We want students to get degrees that appeal to them.” If students do not choose a
major upon being admitted to UK, they are undeclared, Herrick said. Students are required to choose a major by the time they have earned 60 credit hours, or during their junior year. Austin Wilkerson, a fifthyear English senior, transferred to UK after one year at Bluegrass Community and Technical College. “Scheduling is a pain in the butt,” Wilkerson said. “My transfer credits didn't transfer (to UK) like I thought they would.” A change of major, as well as transfer difficulties, tacked on another year before Wilkerson’s graduation. “I think one thing that would help (the process) is to increase communication between everybody,” Wilkerson said. Despite this, Wilkerson said he doesn’t regret the extra time spent at UK and said taking the extra time to explore his options allowed him to find a major he enjoys. Fifth-year secondary English education senior Ashley Block also changed majors, adding to her time before graduation. “I think changing majors is one of the biggest factors with See SENIORS on page 4
and harvest it with equipment they already have for harvesting hay. “Farmers would pick right up on this,” he said. He added that there is a very real possibility that, if the hemp industry took off in Kentucky, more jobs could be brought to the state outside of farmers. The processing plants required to take the harvested and baled stalks and turn them into workable products generally need to be within 50 miles of where the farms, he said. This could bring the processing jobs to the state in addition to the benefits for farmers. Williams said that he and the others working on the project hope to expand their research next season. “It’s been very exciting and it’s been a lot of fun,” Williams said. “I’d be lying if I told you otherwise.”
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Second-half goals doom men’s soccer By Joshua Huff jhuff@kykernel.com
The lights were too bright for UK men’s soccer Tuesday night as No. 9 Louisville (4-1-1) defeated the Cats 2-1 in front of an announced crowd of 3,368 at the Wendell and Vickie Bell Soccer Complex.
Missed opportunities doomed UK (4-3-1) as the Cardinals used a combination of speed and deft passing to break apart the Cats’ defense. The loss ended UK’s fourgame winning streak and was the first loss for the men’s team at the Bell Soccer Complex. “The problem playing
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UK sophomore midfielder Ryan Creel tries to get past a tough Louisville defense that limited the Cats to one goal in a 2-1 loss to the Cardinals.
with really, really good teams,” UK head coach Johan Cedergren said, “is (that) if you make an easy mistake they’re going to punish you.” The Cats and the Cardinals played their way to a scoreless tie at the half, with Louisville coming out on top in the shots category with five. The Cardinals had an abundance of opportunities to jump out to a lead, but were hampered by missed chances. The Cardinals opened the game controlling the time of possession, forcing UK to sit on defense for a good portion of the first half. A narrowlymissed shot by Louisville at the 16-minute mark was saved by UK junior goalkeeper Callum Irving. Solid defense from both teams limited the number of shots in the first half; UK had only one shot on goal, and Louisville had zero. Louisville junior forward Ricardo Velazco started the second half with a free kick at the 49-minute mark, but his shot on goal was caught by Irving. The Cardinals amped up the pressure in the first 10 minutes of the half, notching another shot on goal. But UK responded with a strong defense and a few shots of its own. UK’s senior forward Justin Laird hit a header in the box as UK’s opportunities began to come in
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spurts. Two subsequent corner kicks were turned away by Louisville’s senior goalie Joachim Ball around the 80minute mark. The Cardinals withstood the Cats’ onslaught and were rewarded with a goal by Velazco at the 63- minute mark. The game then got chippy after the 60-minute mark with both teams combining for eight yellow cards in the final 30 minutes. Yet the Cats stayed composed, and at the 72-minute mark evened out the game with a shot by junior midfielder Brian Celis on an open goal. Celis was assisted by Laird and sophomore defender Matt Quick. The shot opportunities continued to increase for UK as the Cats attempted two more goals within the next few minutes that just missed, to the dismay of a boisterous UK crowd. But once again, Louisville had an answer when Cardinals freshman defender Tim Kubel drilled a 15-footer past Irving to give Louisville the 2-1 lead and eventual win. Despite the loss, Cedergren was happy with how his team responded to adversity. “We’re Kentucky,” he said. “We want to play the best teams in the country. We want to go and play good teams as often as possible.”
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Regulation can benefit Film festivals are vital society and the economy to year’s best movies CHEYENE MILLER Kernel Columnist
Government regulation — it’s a phrase many Americans hate even more than “gun control” or “liberal elite.” This isn’t surprising, as we live in a country founded on the idea of a free market, capitalistic economy. And in the days before the technological and industrial revolutions, it may have made more sense to take a near-anarchical approach to our economy. However, just like our founding fathers couldn’t have predicted automatic rifles when drawing up the second amendment, they couldn’t have predicted manmade climate change when building an economy that was supposed to run free of government intervention. Just look at all of our environmental problems – increasing levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, the heating and acidification of the oceans and rising global temperatures, to name a few. The scientific community largely agrees that climate change is real and man-made. Oddly enough, these problems started to develop around the Industrial Revolution and have spiraled out of control since the 1970s. Sci-
entists point to mass burning of fossil fuels like oil and coal as the primary cause of this climate change. I, for one, applaud the Environmental Protection Agency’s plan to reduce carbon emissions by 30 percent by 2030. This plan has attracted many critics who say it will be damaging to our economy and believe that it’s pointless because countries like China are burning massive amounts of coal.
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I urge readers to find pictures of China and see the smog they are forced to breathe...” In fact, it’s commonly asserted that China has made great strides towards a highly capitalistic economy. In response to this claim, I urge readers to find pictures of China and see the smog they are forced to breathe on a daily basis as a result of this capitalism gone wild. Just like the reality of climate change is not debatable, its effects are becoming increasingly apparent. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Resources Defense
Council have studied the negative health effects of climate change and concluded that heat-related health issues, respiratory problems, infectious disease and waterborne disease are all increasing problems, and are due to years of unfettered fossil fuel-burning. For another example of government deregulation gone wrong, look at medical practices from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. A little drug called heroin was once used as a cough syrup for children, and was even thought to be the ideal replacement for morphine because it was supposedly less addictive. We found out that the more powerful cousin of morphine can have lethal effects. Fortunately, the Food and Drug Administration deemed this practice illegal in 1924, and has discontinued hazardous health practices for decades. While I believe that there is a serious argument to be made for the decriminalization of narcotics, I don’t know too many people who think that treating a cough with heroine should be a safe and accepted practice. Sure, the kid will stop coughing, but eventually he’ll stop doing much of anything else as well. Cheyene Miller is a Kernel columnist. Email opinions @kykernel.com.
KYLE ARENSDORF Opinions Editor
Around this time each year, we get a pretty good peek at what the Oscar landscape is going to look like going into the season. Most of the players in the Best Picture race have already debuted at the first three festivals of the Oscar season – Venice, Telluride and Toronto. The first of the season, the Venice Film Festival, doesn’t have quite the acclaim or prestige of the other two festivals, but provides an avenue for one or two huge players to shine in a depleted field. Last year, “Gravity” debuted to vast acclaim and went on to win seven Oscars. This year’s standout was “Birdman,” a film by Alejandro González Iñárritu about a Hollywood star (Michael Keaton) battling depression as his time in the limelight begins to dwindle. The second of the season, the Telluride Film Festival, is a cozy four-day event tucked away in the mountains of Colorado. This 40-year-old festival caters to films looking to gain critical praise when
commercial success isn’t necessarily in the cards. It’s also become infamous in recent years for stealing debuts from the Toronto Film Festival. Simply by way of coming first, Telluride has grabbed the debuts of four of the last six Best Picture Oscar winners – “Slumdog Millionaire” (2008), “The King’s Speech” (2010), “Argo” (2012) and “12 Years a Slave” (2013) – not to mention many other contenders. This year’s festival brought three original contenders to the table – “Wild,” “The Imitation Game” and “Rosewater” – plus two Cannes Film Festival debuts in May (“Foxcatcher” and “Mr. Turner”). Jon Stewart's “Rosewater” gained some support, but isn’t expected to be a real player, whereas “Wild” will most likely garner a Best Actress nod (perhaps a win) for Reese Witherspoon and a Best Supporting Actress nod for Laura Dern. “The Imitation Game” will get the critical praise, commercial love and the biggest push from the Weinstein Company (its production company) and will be hard to beat for Best Picture come Oscar season, not to mention a virtually guaranteed Best Actor nod for Benedict Cumberbatch.
The Toronto Film Festival is the film industry mecca. It draws the heavyhitting production companies and deep-pocketed executives looking toward the debuts of potential Oscar contenders. However, it seems as though it will only generate one Best Picture nomination from its crop of debuts. “The Theory of Everything,” a biopic about the life of Stephen Hawking, opened to almost unanimously positive reviews – most of the love directed at its star, Eddie Redmayne. “Nightcrawler,” starring Jake Gyllenhaal, also debuted at Toronto and looks to have an outside shot at Best Picture and Best Cinematograpy nominations. But its best shot for a nod remains at Best Actor. Looking forward, there are four potential Best Picture contenders on the horizon. Paul Thomas Anderson’s “Inherent Vice” and David Fincher’s “Gone Girl” are set to hit the New York Film Festival (Friday - Oct. 11), while Christopher Nolan’s “Interstellar” and Angelina Jolie’s “Unbroken” are slated for Nov. 7 and Dec. 25 release dates, respectively. Kyle Arensdorf is the opinions editor of the Kentucky Kernel. Emial karensdorf @kykernel.com.
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Rising Roll offers deli options By Erik Kropp news@kykernel.com
As the ribbon was cut for the opening of Rising Roll Gourmet Tuesday in the Ralph G. Anderson Building,, lines of students began to form for a variety of free samples, including cookies and chicken and tuna salads. Psychology sophomore Ravyn Tanner said she enjoyed her sandwich and added that she’ll probably come back. Rising Roll serves delistyle foods as well as breakfast coffee and pastries. The restaurant should serve both students in the engineering building and those moving from classes on the east side of campus to the west side and vice versa, said Dan Palombo, vice president of operations for Aramark. Palombo said UK Dining opened the deli in the Engineering building because of the lack of food choices around that part of campus. “We thought this neighborhood was not getting enough attention,“ Palombo said. The restaurant appears to be growing in popularity, Palombo said, according to early research that shows both students and faculty eating at Rising Roll since the beginning of the year. Rising Roll offers a menu with vegan, glutenfree and gluten-reduced items, said Mike Lassiter, the president of Rising Roll Gourmet. Lassiter said that restaurants should focus on catering to people who are on specific diets and promoted Rising Roll’s “made-fromscratch” products. Matt Resch, a math and computer science sophomore, said having the restaurant in the Engineering Building would foster socializing. “We build relationships and community when we eat together,” Resch said. “Family happens around the table.”
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4-star defensive lineman decommits from UK
Good Counsel (Md.) High School defensive end Darius Fullwood announced his decommitment from UK on Tuesday according to his Twitter account. Fullwood, a four-star recruit per Rivals, committed to UK on June 28 after spurning offers from multiple schools, including Alabama, Michigan State,
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Maryland, Tennessee and Virginia Tech. But an unofficial visit on Sept. 20 to Virginia Tech’s campus might have induced doubt in Fullwood’s mind about his commitment. Fullwood said the Hokies were one of the first teams to recruit him when he started high school, according to an article from TheKeyPlay.com.
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Syrian rebels angry that strikes hit al-Qaida ally but not Assad By Roy Gutman and Mousab Alhamadee McClatchy Foreign Staff (MCT)
REYHANLI, Turkey — Anti-government media activists and rebel commanders gave a mixed assessment of U.S.-led airstrikes in northern Syria on Tuesday, saying that some of the Islamic State encampments hit had been evacuated and one building that was struck had been filled with displaced civilians, even as at least one major Islamic State base was seriously damaged and many fighters were killed. But the greatest damage, they said, may be to the Free Syrian Army, the moderate rebel faction that enjoyed U.S. support for years. By focusing exclusively on Islamic State insurgents and al-Qaida figures associated with the Khorasan unit of the Nusra Front, and bypassing installations associated with the government of President Bashar Assad, the airstrikes infuriated antiregime Syrians and hurt the standing of moderate rebel
groups that are receiving arms and cash as part of a covert CIA operation based in the Turkish border city of Reyhanli. Rebel fighters argue that they constitute the only friendly ground force available to the international coalition to fill the security vacuum in places that Islamic State fighters are forced to abandon. But rebel commanders said they had played no role in selecting the targets or planning for the aftermath. The U.S. informed the Syrian government of the impending airstrikes Monday, the official Syrian news agency reported, but no one dropped a hint to the inner circle of rebel commanders. They learned about it from the news. While the official Syrian news agency reported the U.S.-led assaults in neutral terms, without even mentioning the repeated breaches of Syrian sovereignty, rebel leaders minced no words. "Public support is the source of our power," said
Col. Hassan Hamadi, a defected Syrian army officer whose Legion 5 force has about 6,400 fighters. The bombings caused "a lot" of damage, he said. He and other rebel commanders are taking heat from their own troops and anti-government Syrians for what may have been an erroneous strike _ the destruction of temporary housing for internally displaced civilians in Kafr Daryan in Idlib province, which caused the deaths of 10 _ and eight attacks on installations belonging to the Nusra Front, alQaida's affiliate in Syria but an effective ally in the fight against the Assad regime. U.S. officials said the strikes were aimed at Khorasan, a Nusra unit that includes senior al-Qaida figures who allegedly were plotting an attack on Western targets. "People see there was a massacre in which innocent people were killed," Hamadi said. "They are asking, 'Who is responsible, the (U.S.-led) coalition or the Assad regime?'"
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SENIORS Continued from page 1 fifth year seniors,” Block said “Maybe if they laid out the amount of debt you build up throughout college at the freshman orientation, I would have taken it more seriously.” Block said she will graduate with more than $35,000 in debt by May 2015. Mike Shanks, an associate registrar in UK's transfer cen-
ter, said UK currently uses APEX software for degree audits, which allows students to determine how many classes they have until graduation. The university will be moving to a new degree audit system, Shanks said, which will combine APEX with UK’s student record center, SAP, and allow students to “shop” for classes online. The university will also be implementing a graduation outreach program this semester to target students with 100 or
more credit hours, Withers said. Once these students are identified, academic advisers will reach out and suggest ways to help them achieve their graduation goal. Stephen Ruh, a fifth-year secondary English education senior, started his college career as an undeclared student before choosing his majorduring his junior year. “I’m not in an extreme rush to get out of here,” Ruh said. “I’m just enjoying the time I have left.”
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