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Health care factors into Senate race ELECT ON 2014 By Cheyene Miller news@kykernel.com
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UK students “Paint the Town Blue” on Sunday at the Whitehall Classroom Building. The event is the first of a series of homecoming events throughout the week.
‘Great Catsby’ week begins with ‘Paint the Town Blue’ By Anne Halliwell ahalliwell@kykernel.com
The UK Student Activities Board named the Delta Gamma and Tri-Delta sororities the winners of “Paint the Town Blue” 2014, the first Homecoming Week event, Monday afternoon. A total of 31 Greek organizations and student groups such as Team Wildcat, the College of Design and the pre-pharmacy club designed and painted windows around the Student Center, White Hall Classroom Building and Chemistry-Physics Building, said
SAB director of traditions and interior design junior Zoe Pittman. On Saturday and Sunday, the teams actualized about a month of planning, Pittman said, climbing ladders with painting supplies outside of White Hall to finish their designs. Kappa Delta earned second place as determined by randomly selected faculty and staff judges, Pittman said, and Tau Beta Sigma and Kappa Alpha Theta tied for third place. The windows were decorated with iconic “Great Catsby” images like T.J. Eckleburg’s glasses
Donor Day focuses on generous alumni By Melody Foree news@kykernel.com
Students will be given the opportunity to show gratitude with personal messages to donors and alumni who have helped impact their college experience on Wednesday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Student Government Association and the Office of Development’s Thank-a-Donor Day. Located in the courtyard between the Whitehall Classroom Building and Ralph G. Anderson Building, the event
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Student Government Association because “they are a great organization, know a lot of people on campus and can get the word out,” Fitzgerald said. Students are invited to sign a large “Thank you” banner and record video messages to donors, according to an email by student body president Jake Ingram. The messages will be shared with all UK donors by email around Thanksgiving. According to information provided by the Office of Development, UK received 91,501 gifts from 53,724
They are a great organization, know a lot of people on campus and can get the word out.” SARAH FITZGERALD, associate director of giving
will allow students to express thanks in keeping with the upcoming holiday season, said Kyle Larimore, the associate director of annual giving in the Office of Development. The idea for the event, currently in its first year, originated from viewing videos made by Franklin College, the University of Arkansas and Syracuse University’s versions of Thank-a-Donor Days, said Larimore and Sarah Fitzgerald, associate director of annual giving. The Office of Development chose to co-sponsor with the
donors during the 2014 fiscal year. Recently, the second floor study space in the W.T. Young Library was funded entirely by donor gifts. Students can get involved on the Annual Giving Facebook and Twitter accounts, Fitzgerald and Larimore said. Larimore said he is hoping for the event to be a success. “(We’re) looking forward to doing it within following years,” Larimore said. “Perhaps hold the event at other places around campuses such as the library and healthcare building.”
and lyrics like “A Little Party Never Killed Nobody,” from the movie remake in 2013, keeping with this year’s homecoming week theme. Pittman said the theme was chosen not only because it was novel, but because it was something that virtually all students would recognize. “Homecoming this year is very different,” Pittman said. “We’re trying to reach a more diverse and broader audience than we have before and have student voices heard.” The three judges’ score cards graded on creativity and adherance
to the theme and were averaged for the final scores beginning on Monday at around 10 a.m. The winning teams have earned points toward the Wildcat Cup, to be awarded to a winning organization during halftime at the homecoming game, Pittman said. In the meantime, the windows will be left as they are for the duration of Homecoming Week. “We wanted to bring a homecoming atmosphere to campus,” Pittman said. “The Great Catsby brings that festivity and atmosphere on campus.”
The U.S. Senate race between Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell and Democrat Alison Lundergan Grimes has seen the candidates focus on several key issues including the coal industry, the Kentucky minimum wage and health care. The health care issue has been unusual among Senate races in that Kentucky is generally seen as a success story for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. In August, Gov. Steve Beshear said 521,000 of Kentucky’s 4.3 million citizens had signed up for health coverage through Kynect, the state’s health insurance marketplace created under the act. According to a Gallup-Healthways poll published in August, Kentucky reduced its percentage of uninsured more than any other state besides Arkansas, and lowered the percentage of uninsured in the state from 20.4 percent to 11.9 percent, thus covering two of every five uninsured Kentuckians. In addition to funding the expansion of Medicaid, the law requires Americans to either purchase private health insurance or enroll in some form of government-assisted health care like Medicaid, requires insurance companies to cover people with preexisting conditions and provide 10 elements of coverage in each policy. The law also allows parents to keep their children on their health insurance until they are 26 and requires businesses employing 50 or more full-time employees to provide health insurance, a provision that President Barack Obama has suspended for a year. McConnell said he wants to repeal the Affordable Care Act “root and branch,” but has been more lenient toward the idea of keeping Kynect. In the Oct. 13 Senate race debate on KET, McConnell suggested that Kynect was merely a website. However, repealing the law could pose issues for the newly-insured in Kentucky because private insurance under Kynect uses federal tax credits and provides free Medicaid coverage to citizens who earn up to 138 percent of the federal poverty level. According to Douglas McSwain, a LexSee ELECTION on page 3
Prescott provides largest test JOSHUA HUFF Kernel Columnist
As UK football shrugs off a stinging prime-time loss to LSU, the Cats turn their attention to the Goliath of the SEC, No. 1 ranked Mississippi State. The Bulldogs enter the matchup fresh off a bye week and will look to continue their magical run toward a national championship with a victory over the Cats. Much like the game against LSU, UK will have to deal with a tough, physical team, this time led by Bulldogs senior dual-threat quarterback Dak Prescott. UK head coach Mark Stoops said Prescott is a “physically good-looking guy, strong leader, tough, just everything you want in your quarterback and in particular with what they do, with the dual-threat and putting that stress on you.” Prescott’s dual-threat capability has the potential to stretch the defense. With his run game, the Cats will have their hands full in containing him. “We need to have great team defense and great discipline with our pass rush,” Stoops said. “They have disciplined runs and plays where (Prescott) adlibs and makes plays. He's very talented. Anytime it's
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Mississippi State senior quarterback Dak Prescott has risen to the top of Heisman Trophy canididate lists with a five-touchdown performance against Texas A&M and a three-touchdown tally against Auburn in October.
tougher on defenses and it’s frustrating at times anytime you play a quarterback that has the experience and feel that he does of making plays.” After giving up 303 rushing yards on 51 carries, UK has now allowed 642 yards rushing in three of four SEC games (Florida, South Carolina and LSU). Now UK will have to contend with a Bulldog team that is ranked second in the SEC in rushing yards per game with 264.3. Comparatively, UK has struggled in the run game. The Cats are ranked ninth in the SEC in rushing yards and will face a Bulldogs de-
fense whose front seven are disruptive and physical. “They have an incredible front seven, number one, and number two, they’ve been ahead quite a bit and scoring some points,” Stoops said. “Teams are going to have to take some chances and maybe drop back and pass more than they want to.” Even the play of UK quarterback Patrick Towles against LSU, passing more against Mississippi State does not seem like a viable option, especially when Towles struggled to connect with his receivers against LSU’s tough secondary. “Certainly Patrick can play better and needs to play
better,” Stoops said. “We missed some opportunities and that’s going to happen.” However, if that happens this Saturday, UK may find itself in an all-too-familiar position – down and out. With a young team coming off a confidence shattering defeat, that's not where they want to be. “I think because we got whooped and because we made some mental mistakes, sometimes that can shake somebody’s confidence, and we’ll see how they respond,” Stoops concluded. “I have no reason to believe that, though. I have a good feel we'll bounce back and prepare well and play well.”
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Beware of Yik Yak KYLE ARENSDORF Kernel Columnist
Social media latched on to our society more than a decade ago and has since sunk its teeth into the way we perceive communication. It provided us an environment in which we can express our opinions to the world whether it wanted to hear them or not, and in turn we provided it unabated access into every facet of our lives. Countless examples of cyber bullying on social media sites have been documented and few would deny its negative effects on a person. However, on traditional social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter, cyber bullying and other forms of hate speech has been attached to a name and a face. Those intending to hurt others or cause a stir have never had an easily accessible veil of anonymity within the sphere of social media. But now, there’s an app for that.
It’s called “Yik Yak,” and the 11-month-old app is the newest social media craze to hit college campuses around the country. It works by conglomerating messages, or “yaks” – sent out by anonymous users – into groups based on location. The lore around Yik Yak lies in its proximity of messages and in its anonymity. But we need to be mindful of its potential consequences. With anonymity comes risk, and with risk comes inevitability. Fortunately, nothing of this nature has occurred on UK’s campus, and measures are taken to stave off a majority of offensive content (a certain number of “down” votes can eliminate a yak from a feed). But a message can do real damage with limited amount of time on a feed. Last month, a University of Georgia student was arrested and charged with two felony counts of terroristic threats, according to the police. The charges stemmed from a message on Yik Yak that allegedly read, “If you want to live don’t be at the MLC at 12:15.” The student’s cellular service provider led UGA Police to arrest the stu-
dent, the Atlanta JournalConstitution reported. There is a rationale when dealing with freedom of expression called the “marketplace of ideas.” This idea justifies a venue in which expression of any kind is welcomed. In this venue, any idea, no matter how outlandish, is welcomed, but will be suppressed and rejected to make way for better ideas to rise to the top. This acts as a type of safeguard so that freedom of expression can still exist. However, we’ve seen websites such as Reddit and 4chan be bombarded with offensive language that receives “up” votes simply because of its offensive nature. On these sites, the safeguard imbedded within the marketplace of ideas is seemingly rendered useless because of its promise of anonymity. Yik Yak provides a great opportunity for expression and simple, good-hearted fun. But be wary of the potential negative outcomes that can arise from complete, unabated anonymity. Kyle Arensdorf is the opinions editor of the Kentucky Kernel. Email karensdorf@ kykernel.com.
Police have a disconnect MATT YOUNG Kernel Columnist
After Edward Snowden let the world see the inner workings of government security efforts in the post-9/11 world, technology companies took a big public relations beating for their compliance in the invasion of every single part of our lives—including the most intimate parts. After public backlash, two of the worst offenders, Apple and Google, are now going head-to-head against security and law enforcement tyrants over making some changes to actually help us provide the privacy that people not only expect, but are guaranteed by the Fourth Amendment. It was announced recently that in their new operating systems for mobile devices, Apple and Google would encrypt data by default. Encryption is encoding information on your phone—call records, location data, texts, pictures, etc.—so that unwanted parties will not have access to it.
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Voting only dignifies bad politics Every November, my television and radio bombard me with advetisements telling me why Politician A is better than Politician B and vice versa. Most people look at voting as some sacred ritual with which “our voices” will be heard. It will be different this time, is what they seem to imply. However, no matter how sly the political slogan, it does not detract from the point that voters have little to no say about the policy our overlords will adopt. A study from Princeton University came out
and finally said what everyone knows deep down: the U.S. is no longer a democracy, but an oligarchy controlled by the power elite and their given interests. The term Democrat and Republican no longer mean anything. For example, if you were to look closely at their respective beliefs and political stances on the major issues, it would be difficult to fit a piece of paper between the two. These people have no interest in what you or I would like to see for this state and country.
Their devotion lies with their politically-connected friends, for whom they will bend over backwards to enrich. You, the glorious voter, are disposable. The average voter’s interests are disposable. So, before heading to the polls, ask yourself, “Will anything change if I do not vote?” I’ll go ahead answer for you, no. Instead of voting with the false hope that anything will change, why not disengage them? Do not give them the satisfaction of your consent that
what they are doing is okay. How beautiful would it be to see a 10 percent voter turnout in the next Presidential election? Now that is a message I can stand behind. This November and those that follow, remember the wise words of early 20thcentury anarchist Emma Goldman, “If voting changed anything, they’d make it illegal.” Connor Rose is a political science senior. Email opinions@kykernel.com.
Only a key can unlock the encryption, and you, the owner of the mobile device, hold the encryption key. Phones already have this as an option for their users, but law enforcement is throwing a fit over plans where it will now be a standard feature. This means that police will not be able to just access data on your phone and download whatever information they want. They say this will help criminals keep secrets and restrict investigations for law enforcement. The fact that law enforcement will have to do some good old-fashioned police work should not be grounds for them to complain. If the only reason a cop has an investigation is because of a cell phone, they probably have something better to do with their time. The NSA will still sweep up data en masse from every electronic platform, and law enforcement will still be able to get a warrant, provided they have probable cause, to search online records or request information from online companies. But this is beside the point. The message law enforcement is sending in this
encryption fight is that they clearly have a disconnect from the people they have sworn to protect and serve. Police have so thoroughly drank the “threat is imminent” Kool-Aid from the highest levels of government that they now believe that all people are guilty of something. Law enforcement has begun to treat the common people in this country like the enemy, despite a huge fall in crime. Since the time most of us at UK were born, crime has been falling steadily in the U.S. This is one of the safest places in the world to live, but it seems that police still do not trust citizens. This culture is the same one behind the shootings of young men, of which police are not held accountable. Presumed guilt from the beginning of investigations has become the process for many police, and it has a direct effect on the freedom for each of us. It’s about time we the people didn’t feel like law enforcement was the enemy. Matt Young is a journalism and political science senior. Email opinions@ kykernel.com
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ington-based litigation attorney who specializes in constitutional and health care law, the uprooting of the law would result in drastic changes to Kynect. McSwain said repealing the ACA “root and branch” would mean cutting the federal tax subsidies that are essential to Kynect’s survival. “You take the exchange tax credit away— do you think for a minute that the website is going to stand?” McSwain said. “Nobody is going to buy policies.” At a Kentucky Farm Bureau forum in August, McConnell said Congress should have passed laws al-
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Ebola suits keep wearers safe if they follow rules, experts say By Alan Zarembo Los Angeles Times (MCT)
The suit is the difference between life and death. In the heart of the Ebola epidemic in West Africa, health care workers are sealed head to foot in waterproof suits that have been tested against viral, bacterial and chemical intrusion. Goggles, face masks and double gloves complete the fortress against infection. But for all the safeguards, the suit has one weakness: the wearer. The greatest risk comes when the suit is removed in a choreographed series of steps. One deviation from the protocols can lead to contamination. "I honestly believe you could probably wear a trash bag and be safe," said Dr. William Fischer, a University of North Carolina criticalcare specialist who spent several weeks in the West African nation of Guinea this summer treating Ebola patients. "But if you just rip that trash bag off and have fluid flying everywhere you're at risk." The suit — and the extensive training to use it correctly — lies at the heart of growing concerns from nurses and other health care workers that they are being left dangerously vulnerable to the Ebola virus. They have complained that hospitals are unprepared for Ebola patients. The chaos of handling such an exotic disease was apparent with the arrival of Thomas Eric Duncan at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas. The Liberian man died last week, and two nurses who cared for him subsequently tested positive for the virus.
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Nurses from the hospital said workers who cared for Duncan were given flimsy protective gear and had no proper training in how to use it. The hospital has disputed that, saying the staff was provided with gear that was consistent with federal guidelines "at that time." Unlike HIV or hepatitis, the Ebola virus is present in every body fluid, including saliva and sweat. Transmission occurs when the virus comes in contact with mucous membranes or broken skin. The suits used in Africa are sealed against the world. Sean Casey, head of the Ebola response team in Liberia for International Medical Corps, said that workers in the African heat sweated profusely in their suits, losing about a quart of water an hour. "It's incredibly hot," he said in an email from Liberia, where the aid group runs a 70-bed Ebola treatment unit. "People sometimes feel claustrophobic when their masks get soaked in sweat. Some liken it to water boarding." In the most secure labora-
tories authorized to handle Ebola for research purposes, scientists breathe only purified air delivered through a hose attached to their hermetically sealed "spacesuits." To leave the laboratory, they must pass through a chemical shower that lasts several minutes. "It's like being in a car wash," said Thomas Geisbert, an Ebola expert at University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston. U.S. hospitals use a wide variety of protective clothing. Infectious disease doctors said that they often faced a trade-off between maximum protection, comfort and functionality. One common suit, the Tyvek made by Dupont, can sell for as little as $15, without goggles and other accessories. Until this week, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advised that all people entering a patient's room wear splash-proof gowns, gloves and eye and face protection. If blood, vomit or feces are present, shoe and leg coverings and double gloves are also suggested.
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