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The price of progress
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Students watch a movie in the renovated lounge in the basement of Keeneland Hall in Lexington, Ky., on Aug. 22, 2011.
Keeneland demolished two years after $600,000 in renovations By Anne Halliwell ahalliwell@kykernel.com
UK spent about $600,000 renovating Keeneland Hall in the summer of 2011, around two years before it was torn down this summer, estimated Ben Crutcher, the associate vice president for auxiliary services. Crutcher said he was approached by the department of Arts and Sciences in 2011 as they searched for a building in which to house the Wired living-learning program. Keeneland had about 340 rooms, Crutcher said, which fit the 300-student project, but needed some improvements before the students could move in the following fall. “We were required to make some changes because some students who might be disabled might want to be part of Wired,” Crutcher said. Two rooms were convert-
ed to accommodate students with disabilities, Crutcher said, and a concrete ramp was installed leading up to the door in front of the dorm. The lobby was also upgraded, with some new furniture and offices for Arts and Sciences faculty and staff installed. The furniture used in Keeneland has since been redistributed to other buildings, Crutcher said. The rest of the updates were necessary ones and benefitted students for three years, argued Mark Kornbluh, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. “The College invested in educational equipment ... desks, chairs, computers, displays,” Kornbluh wrote in an email to the Kentucky Kernel. “All of that was taken out of Keeneland before it has been destroyed and has been repurposed for other educational uses.” The goal of the project was to optimize Wired students’ living-learning experi-
ence, Crutcher said. The Arts and Sciences and Communications departments collaborated with UK Housing to finance the project, Crutcher said. The departments also improved networking in the building. “(Keeneland had) a huge room in the basement that they liked because they could gather all the students in the living-learning community in one space,” Crutcher said. UK added one classroom to the basement as well. Most of the construction happened when the 2011 students vacated the building in May, Crutcher said, and took place over the summer, with the lobby and basement taking the most time in those months. “The ability to gather and work on collaborative projects was an important piece, I think,” Crutcher said. Demolishing Keeneland, Holmes Hall and the Hamilton house cost about $2.3
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External view of Keeneland Hall prior to renovation.
million, Blanton said. The remainder of the North campus demolitions cost about $1.4 million more, he added. The dorms on North campus needed renovations beyond what could have been afforded in 2011, Crutcher said, as the configuration of the rooms was no longer ide-
Project aims to decrease domestic violence By Cheyene Miller news@kykernel.com
A coordinated effort to curb high rates of domestic violence was discussed
Wednesday morning at a conference in the Fayette circuit courthouse. “It’s a very simple effort,” said Kentucky first lady Jane Beshear before
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Speakers from the news conference toss old phones into the HopeLine donation box, officially launching Domestic Violence Awareness month.
dropping a cellphone she no longer needed into a HopeLine from Verizon donation box, along with the event’s other speakers. During the entire month of October, which is recognized as domestic violence awareness month, the Kentucky Commission on Women HopeLine Drive will seek to provide cash grants for the WorkSafe program, a partner of The Mary Byron Project. The grants will be used by the WorkSafe program, which trains Kentucky employers on how to handle situations involving domestic violence in the workplace. Pat Byron founded The Mary Byron Project in memory of her daughter
Mary, who was killed by her ex-boyfriend in 1993 as she was leaving work. Byron said that her daughter’s death and the high rate of domestic violence in Kentucky have “revealed a terrible gap in our system.” The HopeLine from Verizon program collects donated wireless devices like no-longer used cellphones, which can be from any carrier and in any condition. Verizon Wireless then turns the revenue from reselling the devices into cash grants for domestic violence agencies. Since its implementation in 2001, HopeLine has collected nearly 11 See DOMESTIC on page 4
al for UK students. Housing decided about a year ago that Keeneland would be one of the buildings demolished over the summer due to the age of the building’s systems and unrenovated rooms, Crutcher said, leaving Roselle Hall, built in 2005, and Patterson Office Tower, which
has historical significance. Demolition on North campus should end this month, Crutcher added, and two new dorms should be constructed in Aug. 2016. “Just because we spent some money in 2011 ... (that) didn’t solve all the issues,” Crutcher said.
Memory slips may signal Alzheimer’s By Katherine Stack news@kykernel.com
Forgetting your car keys might be an early wake up call for a more serious memory issue, according to a study by Richard Kryscio, Ph.D., chair of the UK department of biostatistics. Since 1989, Kryscio, the associate director of the Alzheimer's Disease Center at UK, and a group of researchers have assessed people who notice simple slips of memory to see if they eventually lead to a more serious issue. This research project assessed 531 elderly people with an average age of 73 that showed no signs of dementia to see if they developed any signs of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) over a 10-year pe-
riod. MCI is defined as the stage between the expected cognitive decline due to aging and the more serious decline due to dementia. The subjects volunteered to come in yearly to have their brains reassessed and also agreed to donate their brains for research after passing. At each yearly reassessment the subjects were asked, “Do you feel in the past year that your memory has changed?” and if the subject answered yes, it was referred to as a subjective memory complaint. The complaint was called subjective since it was based on the subject's own opinion. “It is common for people to complain about memory,” Kryscio said. “The question of See ALZHEIMERS on page 3
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Addition of Booker gives Willis content with back UK a rare pure shooter seat role this season Sophomore said playing time not a factor
Five star recruit represents changing of the guard By Kyle Arensdorf karensdorf@kykernel.com
UK head coach John Calipari is known for recruiting point guards and allowing them to flourish in his dribble-drive system. But in the past, UK hasn’t been an overly popular place for shooting guards. Of the 32 commitments Calipari has received in his tenure, only six have been from shooting guards, and even fewer have been from shooting guards labeled as “shooters” out of high school. But along with sopho-
more shooting guard Aaron Harrison, freshman Devin Booker thinks he can represent a changing of the guard in recent UK lore. “I think I can be (that guy),” Booker said. “I have a lot of confidence in my jump shot and that’s how I am going to assert myself.” Booker is a 6-foot-6, 206-pound guard and was the third commitment to UK’s four-player 2014 recruiting class. One factor in his decision to play at UK was the relationship he has with
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Devin Booker at UK Basketball Media Day in Lexington, Ky., on Thursday, Sept. 4, 2014.
fellow freshman guard Tyler Ulis, who played with him on teams during high school at various camps. “We’ve been friends for a while,” Booker said. “I just love his game. It’s an easy one to love, you know?” Another interesting dynamic in this year’s team is the one between Aaron Harrison and Booker, two shooting guards that have virtually the same game. There were even whispers of an in-practice shooting competition between the two. Booker avoided the question, but took the opportunity to commend what kind of player Aaron Harrison is. “Everyone saw what he did in the NCAA Tournament,” Booker said. “Playing against a pro like that every day is going to make it a lot easier for me. It’s going to make me a better player. That’s what you want out of (a teammate), someone who’s going to push you like that.” Despite carrying the moniker of a “shooter,” the Moss Point, Miss., native said that Calipari and assistant coach Kenny Payne see more from his game than being a simple spot-up shooter. “They want me to attack more,” Booker said. "They've stressed to me that I’m not just going to be a shooter.” Booker said that UK fans can expect him to be a hard-working player and someone who will “always” be in the gym. “I’m always going to (work) my hardest,” Booker said. “I’m just trying to get better. And what’s a better place than Kentucky to … get better?”
By Nick Gray news@kykernel.com
If you ask him, sophomore forward Derek Willis says he is satisfied at UK, no matter how much playing time he gets. Once head coach John Calipari slots players in positions, platoon or not, Willis' satisfaction at UK may be tested as it was last season. Willis' playing time was marginalized as the 2013-14 season wound into conference play. His introduction to conference play was mostly in mop-up time, as three freshmen leapt ahead of him. Julius Randle has left, but this year’s freshmen Trey Lyles and Karl Towns have tightened the frontcourt rotation more than last year, at least on paper. But his satisfaction, at least before his second season at UK, has sustained. "I just want to win a national championship," Willis said. "It doesn't matter what kind of time I would get. Of course I'd like to play, but my main goal is a championship." Willis benefited as much as any player by the team's trip to the Bahamas. With Lyles and junior forward Willie Cauley-Stein out due to injury, Willis averaged 17.8 minutes per game in UK's 10-man platoon rotation, getting more playing time in three games in the Bahamas than he did all last season. Willis showed a notable improvement defensively during the Bahamas trip with increased foot speed and athleticism. But he struggled to make perimeter shots in August, which, for a guy who relies on spot-up shooting for offensive output, is not encouraging. Calipari is not treating him any different than any other
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found himself standing on the perimeter, taking himself out of the play or crutching onto the movement of the basketball, which is a no-no in Calipari’s offense. If his offensive activity has improved, Willis will be much improved and capable of producing when his number is called. While he waits for that time, his mind is set in the right place toward his goals — making himself better and winning basketball games. "I'll be prepared for when my number is called," he said. "I have to keep working and keep improving, and what
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player he has coached. “We'll put you in a good position,” Calipari has said throughout his coaching career, “and you have to produce.” He had a similar message to Willis this season. "You know I'm not throwing you under the bus," Calipari said. "You know I love you. You know we're going to develop you. You know we're going to help you be the best version of you. But you are responsible for you." Willis said he worked on moving around with and without the ball offensively. When he did play last season, Willis
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interest is does that forewarn you that something more serious is going to happen later on.” Over time, some subjects began to show signs of memory failure during tasks such as memory tests. “Basically we show that the people that declared an earlier subjective memory complaint were three times more likely to have a future impairment than the ones that did not declare a subjective memory complaint,” Kryscio said.
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Out of the 531 subjects assessed, 296 declared a subjective memory complaint. However, only 127 of those died without ever having an actual mild cognitive impairment. It is also important to look at what comes next in terms of both the study and the treatment. Kryscio said, “We really would like to characterize the patients who declared subjective memory complaints based on if they had an event later on or not.” This characterization could help researchers determine a high-risk group for future studies used for Alzheimer's prevention.
The study can help elderly people determine if they should inform their doctor of a possible memory issue so the doctor can evaluate and decide if future action is needed. “Of course, there are other factors that may contribute to memory loss besides Alzheimer's, such as a vitamin D12 deficiency or even depression,” Kryscio said. Despite the additional factors that may contribute to memory loss, Alzheimer's remains the most common and widespread disorder in the memory loss disorder family, and researchers are trying to fix this issue.
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Royals game possibly a precursor Marvel expands universe to UK’s football season Downtrodden team’s success gives hope to other struggling programs NICK GRAY Kernel Columnist
My girlfriend is a Kansas City Royals fan. She is one in the truest sense. She is from a suburb of Kansas City, has been to more baseball games in half-empty stadiums than many people have games period and watched losing season after losing season for her 21-year life. That changed this season. When the Royals clinched their first playoff berth in 29 years, we sat up against her sorority house, watching on her cell phone instead of going to a party. Her smiles captured her baseball innocence. Didn't she know what awaited her in the playoffs? She had no idea what stress awaited her in her first ever postseason baseball game of note. These moments are what make sports so polarizing. The Kansas City Royals, once the butt of jokes across baseball, have made the postseason, and Kansas City has stopped its Tuesday around 5 p.m. so that the city could focus on the game. The Kansas City Police Department tweeted about the Royals Tuesday night. No concert or speech does that. The Royals' story gives hope to other downtrodden programs, like UK football. UK football has long been considered one of the worst programs in the SEC. It has problems drawing fans, just like the Royals. It has been a long time since it has been nationally relevant, just like the Royals. And fans in Kansas City focus on Chiefs football and Kansas basketball around
this time, just as fans in Lexington pay more attention to UK basketball by Oct. 1 in most years. You read more about UK basketball than UK football in the month of October on our website. The Royals are reminder to UK fans that, yes, UK's football program can make the trek to relevance. If the Royals can do it, UK football can, too. And the fans watching, cheering through every losing season, can experience the swing of emotions and joy that Amanda encountered on Tuesday night. 7:54 p.m. "Running straight home," Amanda texts me, doing the dastardly deed of leaving her class a whole six minutes before it was over. I made dinner for her at my apartment, and it was coming straight from the oven to her apartment. She picked me up and sped across the way to her apartment as the hot casserole dish sat stewing in my lap. We made first pitch by one minute. 8:23 p.m. "That sucks," she yelled as Oakland A's designated hitter Brandon Moss roped a fastball into the left field seats. As lately as this May, a quick start against the Royals was the precursor to an easy, bench-opening win. The Royals had not been known as a team with a lot of mettle. "We need more runs," she said, moreso presenting that sentence as a question than a statement. 8:35 p.m. Her favorite player, Billy Butler, answered her hopes with a two-out RBI single. Butler is later the culprit of a catastrophic double steal that ended the inning. "What the hell is that?" she screamed.
She's never cared so much about the final out in a first inning. 9:59 p.m. The Royals pieced together two runs in the fourth inning, and held a 3-2 lead until Brandon Moss pounded another fastball which landed over the centerfield wall on this occasion. With no real dog in the fight, I mention that Royals manager Ned Yost made a questionable pitching change. "Why do you have to be so negative?" she snapped back.
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The Royal’s story gives hope to other downtrodden programs, like UK football.” Looks like I made a questionable selection myself. 10:50 p.m. I asked Amanda if she was already over the game. She feigned sleep, at least until the Royals scored a run in the 8th inning. Sitting up until Butler's single made it 7-5, Amanda stood for the rest of the 8th and 9th inning. 11:30 p.m. Amanda learned the final lesson in postseason baseball fandom in the middle of the ninth inning. Nothing tugs at a fan's heart more than watching the commercial break after the top half of the ninth inning. You think about what awaits the other side of the inning. I didn't have to tell her that. Her frightened facial ex-
pression told the story. 12:15 a.m. For the third inning, the Royals leave a man on third base as the game winds through extra innings. "This is annoying," she muttered. "I just want to go to sleep." If she was so annoyed and tired, why would she stay up to watch a baseball game? 12:28 a.m. "We're done for," she stammered. Ex-Royal Alberto Callaspo gave the A's a onerun lead in the 12th inning. Why do you have to be so negative? 12:53 a.m. Catcher Sal Perez hammers the final Kansas City run home on a well-hit line drive past the Oakland third baseman in the 12th inning. The Royals win, 9-8. I might as well had been on the Kaufmann Stadium field diamond, because it felt like I was in the middle of a dog pile. Only it was just Amanda, smashing her forearms against my back repeatedly. Thank goodness I was already laying down, or else she might have put me in a hospital bed. "And you thought we were done in the 8th inning!" she yelled, with an expletive or two taken out. She waited 21 years for one of the best postseason baseball games ever. Thanks to Tuesday night, she only has to wait until Thursday for the next one. I hope she doesn't expect another dinner and a heart-tugging finish. You never know what sports will give you. Nick Gray is the managing editor of the Kentucky Kernel. His column appears every Thursday. Email ngray@ kykernel.com.
ANNE HALLIWELL Kernel Columnist
According to “X-Men: Apocalypse” writer and producer Simon Kinberg, the 2016 Twentieth Century Fox installment is currently considered the ending of the 60s-and-70s arc following younger versions of characters Charles Xavier (James McAvoy), Raven/Mystique (Jennifer Lawrence) and Magneto (Michael Fassbender) that began with 2011’s “X-Men: First Class.” “There will be familiar characters and new characters that we haven’t seen… ever…but it’ll be the completion of what we began in First Class,” Kinberg told Yahoo! UK during a Fan Q&A. The goal appears to be to provide a resolution for the characters that have been incarnated twice in the movies by different actors, wrote Eric Eisenberg of Cinemablend, which begs the question of where the franchise will go after ostensibly retiring these vital members of Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters. Hugh Jackman, whose portrayal of Wolverine linked the two movie time periods in 2014’s “X-Men: Days of Future Past,” has also expressed reluctance to continue the role after the standalone Wolverine movie, as he told Moviefone in April. "I'm excited to see what we can come up with, but I haven't signed on. I'm genuinely at that point where unless it's better than the last one I'm not going to do it," he said.
Without these integral members of the X-Men team, though, an obvious question is raised: Who are they going to make movies about now? Eisenberg posits that the easiest answer would be to focus on the origins of the in-between characters like Cyclops, Jean Gray and Storm, whose younger years have not received any screentime so far. Eisenberg mentions the possibility of an X-Force movie, although without Wolverine, that could also become problematic eventually, or Alpha Flight, which involves distinctly Canadian superheroes and could be interesting to pitch to American audiences. Twentieth Century Fox could also send the franchise the opposite direction in time, focusing on Cable, the son of Cyclops whose young life is a tangle of cloning attempts and time travel, but who spends his adult life as a mercenary leader and freedom fighter – plenty of material to spring for another movie or two set in the later 20th century. Twentieth Century Fox has announced a Deadpool movie to be released in 2016, which is a peripheral part of the X-Men universe. Although the production company could choose to focus on standalone movies until they can justify another X-Men reboot, my hope is that they will branch out into the occasionally weird, generally interesting teams and characters of the XMen world. Anne Halliwell is the news editor of the Kentucky Kernel. Her column appears every Thursday. Email ahalliwell@ kykernel.com.
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Fiddlers come to campus Duo to perform as part of “Appalachia in the Bluegrass” series By Anne Halliwell ahalliwell@kykernel.com
The only female fiddling duo in Letcher County, the SkiPdiPPerS, will perform in the Niles Gallery inside the Lucille Caudill Little Fine Arts Library at noon on Friday in the latest live performance in the “Appalachia in the Bluegrass” concert series at UK. Billed by UKNow’s Whitney Hale as a “fiddlin’ skippin’ good time,” members Sylvia Ryerson and Carrie Jean Wells will play for one hour free to the public. “Appalachia in the Blue-
grass” is sponsored by UK’s John Jacob Niles Center for American Music, which is maintained by Fine Arts, as well as the UK School of Music and UK Libraries. The Appalachian Studies Program and the UK Appalachian Center also support the concert series, according to the Niles Center website. All of the concerts are on Fridays at noon and last about one hour. Ryerson teaches fiddle in Letcher County elementary schools and joined Appalshop, an Appalachian non-profit or-
ganization in Whitesburg that produces original media and music, as director of their citizen journalism project in 2010, according to Appalshop’s online staff biographies. She produces bi-weekly news and public affairs shows. Wells is a member of a relatively prominent fiddling family from eastern Kentucky, Hale wrote, whose father and brother are some of the area’s most skilled fiddlers. Kentucky musicians such as Art Stamper and Paul David Smith influenced the SkiPdiPPerS music, Hal wrote.
The “Appalachia in the Bluegrass” concert series’ goal is to present 13 folk musical acts from southern Appalachia, ranging from internationally celebrated musicians to those who may not have performed widely, Hale wrote. The series will celebrate the diversity of traditional and folk music. There are nine more performances in “Appalachia in the Bluegrass’” 10th season, according to the Niles Center website, from groups like The Local Honeys on Oct. 10, and Julia Weatherford and Pearl Angeline Shirley on Oct. 31.
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million phones nationwide, and awarded over $21 million in cash grants. In 2014, HopeLine has raised more than $108,000 in Kentucky alone. The offices of the Governor and Lt. Governor, 24 KCW commissioners, 18 state agencies and the 13 UK sororities are participating in the HopeLine Drive. Dr. May Lynne Capilouto, wife of UK President Eli Capilouto, applauded UK sororities for their involvement, and encouraged all universities in Kentucky to participate in the drive. According to Beshear, 1 in 3 Kentucky women
will be victims of domestic abuse, which is higher than the national average of 1 in 4. Beshear said that she feels very passionate about this issue, saying it is something she has “worked on since the beginning of this administration.” According to Madeline Abramson, KCW chair, the goal is to collect 3,500 used cellphones and cellphone devices, because 3,500 is equal to the number of nights a Kentucky adult or child spent in a domestic violence shelter last year. Donations can be made at any Verizon Wireless communications store, by mail or at special HopeLine events held throughout the year.