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Debate comes to campus
Mayoral candidates discuss Rupp Arena renovations, crime and campus’ relationship with the city By Nick Gray ngray@kykernel.com
Lexington mayor Jim Gray believes the Rupp Arena renovation project plan will be ready when “the time is right.” Former Lexington police chief Anthany Beatty said that the time with the current plan will never be right. Gray, the incumbent, and Beatty, the Lexington mayoral challenger, differed on the city’s relationship with UK during the pair's final debate before next week’s election on Tuesday at the Worsham Theater. The debate was presented by WUKY-FM and the questions came from social media, pre-recorded videos and responses from the Worsham Theater crowd. Gray, who initiated the Rupp Arena renovation talks and pushed both UK and the state legislature for funding, said that one project “does not entirely reflect” the relationship. “(Projects) don't always happen on (the city’s) timetable,” Gray said. “When the time is right, the plan is ready.” Beatty described the relationship as “fractured” and said that the project “suf-
fered” from a lack of communication from the two sides. “The project is not ready,” Beatty said. “Things are not correctly in place, and we need to look for changes.” Beatty criticized police force cuts when the debate shifted to public safety. He said that he, if elected, would increase the police force “off of the top of the budget and worry about other things later.” Gray said that Lexington has the lowest homicide rate of any city of its size in the country. “Any (violent crimes) are unacceptable,” Gray said. “No one wants to see them. But we've made strides in limiting the amount of drugs and other substances with task forces. Most of our homicides are the result of drugs and we are limiting that.” Discussion of the rise of homelessness in downtown Lexington led to Gray saying the city has ramped up funding by at least $1.2 million in surplus from the 2013-14 city budget and made additional shelters available downtown. Beatty agreed that the city has helped “the plight of homeless people” but said he was in favor of extending even more resources.
“It is the government’s job to provide these services to the people that need them,” Beatty said. At the conclusion of the debate, both candidates
summed up their platform in their closing statements of the debate cycle, with Beatty touting his experience in public safety. “We do have a violent
crime problem,” Beatty said. “Public safety and the Rupp Arena project are Jim’s big mistakes, and it's time for proven and good leadership.” Gray’s message focused
on his track record. “Three words define my last four years and my next four years,” Gray said. “Those three words are ‘getting things done.’”
PHOTO BY TESSA LIGHTY | STAFF
Former police chief Anthany Beatty, left, and Mayor Jim Gray at the 2014 Lexington Mayoral Debate at Worsham Theater in Lexington, Ky., on Tuesday.
Author speaks about time as boy soldier Common reading writer tells students about his book and experiences By Nick Gray ngray@kykernel.com
PHOTO BY MARCUS DORSEY | STAFF
Guest speaker Ishmael Beah gives a lecture in the Singletary Center for the Arts on Tuesday.
When his family was killed by militants in Sierra Leone during a civil war in 1993, Ishmael Beah, then a 12-year-old, said his ability to trust turned into a fear to do so. Beah, now 33, wrote about his childhood as a boy solider in Sierra Leone and going through rehabilitation and life as a foster child adapting to the New York City lifestyle in his memoir, A Long Way Gone. The memoir was the Common Reading Experience for this year’s freshman class and
culminated in Beah’s speech Tuesday at the Singletary Center. The book detailed Beah’s emotionally challenging and harsh childhood, beginning with the murders of his immediate family. “That was the moment that changed my life,” Beah said. “That changed my relationship with life and the world that I lived in. So for the rest of my childhood and life, I fought that.” Beah was a child soldier for the Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces, the side opposite the militants who killed his family. After he was taken away
Running game a concern for the Cats By Joshua Huff jhuff@kykernel.com
The pressing concern for UK football following the LSU game was the disappointing play of its special teams and the inadequacy of its passing game. Fast forward two weeks, and the pressing concern now lies squarely at the feet of UK’s running game while the praise is heaped on once forgotten quarterback Patrick Towles. Running Into A Wall Few positives can be said about the results stemming from the Mississippi State game on
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Quarterback Patrick Towles runs during the game against Mississippi State on Saturday in Lexington, Ky.
Saturday in regards to the ground game. Running backs Jojo Kemp, Braylon Heard and Mikel Horton touched the ball a total of nine times for a combined 27 yards. Buried within those stats is a disturbing trend in the run game. During UK’s loss to LSU, the leading rusher was Horton who touched the ball just five times. A total of five running backs touched the ball that game for just 55 yards. Now jump back to September, in yet another SEC loss, to Florida, the Cats’ running backs rushed for just 59 yards. The last time I checked, the running game was a vital component to any form of success on offense. Not only does it set up play-action, but it also opens up the passing game for a relatively good quarterback and a dangerous group of receivers. UK will not win many more games this season if Towles continues to be atop or near the top of the leaderboard in rushing, especially with the schedule that remains. The one saving grace for the Cats is Stanley “Boom” Williams, who is by far UK’s most talented running back. Williams has been relegated to the bench twice this season due to a suspension and a concussion. When healthy, Williams is an explosive talent whose role should continue to expand as the regular season progresses and on into the future. When The Bell Towles With a secondary as highly regarded as Mississippi State’s, it is a safe assumption that not many people saw Towles unleashing his inner-Madden on Saturday. The Bulldogs themselves did not see it coming. But it did. Towles harked back to his playground days enroute to one of his best games of the season. The sophomore had a statistical field day as he threw 24-for-43 for 390 yards, two See FOOTBALL on page 4
and rehabilitated from a military life of violence and drugs, his ability to relate to people and trust them was at his lowest when he met his foster mother, Laura Simms, he said. “As a young adult, I could see that I could not go on through life with the possibility of not trusting,” Beah said. “I had to learn how to be a son to her, and she had to learn how to be a mother to me, especially since I was her only child.” But Simms’ persistence and the normalcy of being a child to a mother finally wore the resistance down. “There was never a set moment,” Beah said. “It was a lot
of regular memories that were collected together and helped everything become better. All those memories helped make a whole relationship between us.” Beah said he wrote and published his memoir at age 26 to describe what violence at such a young age can do to an individual, as well as how difficult the journey back to the normalcy he reached can be. “The idea behind it is that I wanted to put a human face to the issue (of violence and children in war),” Beah said. “Now you think about the issue in conflict, you can think that if See AUTHOR on page 3
Outreach Center showcases the body Students learn using actual human body parts By Cheyene Miller news@kykernel.com
Despite the recent retirement of its mobile classroom, a truck used to take displays of donated body parts to local schools, the UK Outreach Center for Science and Health Career Opportunities continues to educate Kentucky students about the wonders of the human body on campus. “I want you to feel awesome about these body parts,” said Outreach Center director Donald Frazier while giving a presentation Tuesday morning on human anatomy using human body parts to a group of students from Lexington Christian Academy. Since its implementation in 1993, the Outreach Center has been headquartered in the UK Medical Center Annex 5, which was scheduled to be demolished at the time. “We argued that it would be a waste, because I can certainly use it,” said Frazier, who noted that he has since lectured around 4,000 students from primary and secondary schools per year. Part of the Outreach Center was the mobile classroom truck, which Frazier had to retire earlier in the year due to costs after almost 20 years of traveling all over the state.
“It got very expensive to put gas in it,” said Frazier, who acknowledged that the mobile classroom was the only way that many students were able to experience his anatomy lessons. He noted, though, that the lessons that the Outreach Center provides are free for classes who can travel to campus. Students who do have the opportunity to visit the Outreach Center are presented with lectures on the human body by Frazier and other medical professionals like Fayette County Coroner Gary Ginn. During the lecture, Frazier
started by talking about DNA, which he said was entirely structured “to make you feel awesome.” Frazier then went step-bystep through each major human body system, using organs, spinal cords and skeletal structures from people who donated their bodies to science. He involved students like Lexington Christian senior Hunter Mitchell the entire time by having them hold the body parts and answer questions related to anatomy. “I’ve enjoyed it, I think it’s really interesting,” said See BODY on page 4
PHOTO BY JOEL REPOLEY | STAFF
Donald Frazier explains to students how the human body works on Tuesday at the Outreach Center in Lexington, Ky.
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Kyle Arensdorf | Opinions Editor | karensdorf@kykernel.com
Making a case for Halloween as the best holiday of the year CHEYENE MILLER Kernel Columnist
Words cannot describe how excited I am for my favorite holiday this weekend, but they can assert that my favorite holiday — Halloween — is by far the most ideal holiday in all of American culture. Between the horror movie marathons on television, seeing decorations on houses and inside department stores, and deciding which costume to wear, the buildup for Halloween is almost as good as the holiday itself. Christmas is wonderful, but the sight of people go-
ing into bankruptcy buying presents for people they sometimes don’t even like is moderately depressing. Thanksgiving brings the whole family to the table, but you inevitably over-engorge yourself and pass out on the couch while the Detroit Lions are being beaten by [insert name here]. Independence Day makes me proud to be an American, though I’m not sure how blowing things up and grilling hamburgers while talking politics with my ultra-conservative uncle increases my patriotism in any way. But on Halloween, there are no obligations or expectations. There is only opportunity for people of any age to have a good time. From a child’s point of
view, Halloween is the one day a year where regulations on candy consumption are completely suspended. Kids get to roam their neighborhoods bumming people for cavity-inducing sweets.
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able, because Halloween is the one day a year where judgment is limited. For further proof of this claim, look no further than to the way ladies dress on Halloween. The men here at UK know what I’m talk-
On Halloween, there are no obligations or expectations. There is only opportunity for people of any age to have a good time.”
The kids who know what they’re doing have a second or even third costume on standby so they can make multiple rounds of the neighborhood. And this is completely accept-
ing about, and they are just as excited as I am. For whatever reason, Halloween is the one day a year where women can be as scantily clad as they want and aren’t judged for
it. I know that what I’m saying is accurate because it’s a paraphrasing of a quote from “Mean Girls.” Personally, this is one of the many reasons that I wish every day was Halloween. And while younger kids get to go on a mission known as “trick-or-treat,” the older kids stay inside for a little fun as well. I think most people would agree with me that very few college experiences can beat a successful Halloween party. And I’m sure that, as much as they refuse to admit it, our parents will be making the most out of those empty nests and throwing parties of their own. But possibly the best part of Halloween is that for one night, you get to be
someone other than yourself. No matter what problems you have going on in your life, they can be tossed aside to embrace an alter ego of your choosing. I’ve donned many outrageous alter egos for Halloween over the years, from a stereotypical pimp to a blonde drag queen. This year, I’ll be channeling my inner Al Capone and dressing as a prohibition-era gangster. None of these identities are anywhere close to mirroring my actual personality, but for one night a year that doesn’t matter. You get to be whomever or whatever you want to be. Cheyene is the assistant news editor of the Kentucky Kernel. Email opinions@ kykernel.com.
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Mitchell, who plans to become either an orthodontist or a physical therapist. “All of the people here are really knowledgeable of the (human) anatomy. This all does intrigue me.” Tour coordinator Lisa Stevens has worked for Frazier for ten years and said she has loved the experience of working with students. According to Stevens, the donated human body parts given to the Outreach Center are always used until they begin to decompose. “Until it’s no longer of use, we will use it to its full(est),” Stevens said.
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AUTHOR Continued from page 1 this was my brother, my sister, my child, that I would not accept it.” Beah said he resented the picture the media painted of the Sierra Leone civil war as an extremist movement that implied that something was fundamen-
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As he prepared to speak to the Singletary Center crowd, Beah said he believes he has succeeded in at least creating talking points for those looking for change. ”There are some parts in the book where I say, ‘We are a long way gone (from) where we have been,’” Beah said. “It didn't say we are gone forever. It leaves the possibility of coming all the way back.”
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Joshua Huff | Sports Editor | jhuff@kykernel.com
Cats score once to tie Buckeyes
Freshman Stefan Stojkovic scored UK men’s soccer’s only goal Tuesday night as the Cats deadlocked Ohio State 1-1 in the Jesse Owens Memorial Stadium on the campus of Ohio State. No. 16 UK jumped ahead of the Buckeyes off of Stojkovic’s goal in the 21st minute but its lead was short lived as Ohio State tied the game up four minutes later
on Ryan Ivancic’s goal. The Cats’ goalkeeper Callum Irving had three saves as UK stretched its unbeaten streak to eight games. UK ends the month of October without having lost a game. The tie also ended Ohio State’s threegame winning streak. With starting center back Jordan Wilson suspended prior to the game because of a yellow card, Hampus
Agerstrom took his place and played all 110 minutes but did not play a significant role in the tie. UK struggled to get shots on goal against the Ohio State defense, ending the game with just one shot on goal. UK has one of the stingiest defenses in the nation, led by Irving, and have nine shutouts this year, but succumbed to an undefended
goal Tuesday night by Ivancic that was setup by Yianni Sarris. Next up for UK is an away match against Conference USA opponent Florida International. The Panthers are 1-4 in the conference and have scored just 19 goals on 187 attempts. They average just 1.46 points a game. STAFF REPORT
Volleyball raises funds, awareness Cats to face Tennessee in annual DanceBlue Match UK volleyball returns home after a weekend road trip and will now play host to SEC rival Tennessee. The match on Wednesday is the annual DanceBlue Match, which raises awareness and money to benefit children with cancer who are treated at UK’s Pediatric Oncology Hematology Clinic. The Cats are coming off a four-set loss to No. 24 Texas A&M on Sunday, which was preceded by a sweep over Arkansas on Friday. No. 18 UK ‘s Anni Thomasson had her 11th double double of the season against the Aggies and has recorded a double double in three consecutive matches, which is the longest streak since Whitney Billings in 2013. Standing in UK’s way is a Volunteer team that has struggled this season. Tennessee (8-15, 1-8 SEC) won for the first time in the SEC on Sunday with a sweep of Ole Miss.
UK and Tennessee are no strangers to one another, with UK having defeated the Volunteers once already this season back on Oct. 10th. The sweep was UK’s fourth consecutive over Tennessee. The Cats will boast a considerable home-court advantage when the Volunteers travel to Memorial Coliseum. The Cats have lost just two games at home this season while Tennessee has struggled on the road, winning just once in eight road games. According to a UK media relations press release, the Cats will wear blue warm-up tops with gold lettering and head coach Craig Skinner will wear a gold tie, which will be auctioned off on UKathletics.com along with a gold ball. The first serve is at 8 p.m. on Wednesday in Memorial Coliseum. STAFF REPORT
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Sophomore Anni Thomasson (4) serves the ball during the game against Michigan State on Dec. 8, 2013.
FOOTBALL Continued from page 1 touchdowns along with 76 yards rushing and two more touchdowns. Those numbers are a far cry from the egg he laid against LSU. Despite the previously mentioned run game, UK is in an advantageous position. It has potentially found its quarterback of the future; that is, if he continues to play the way he has. Consistency has been an issue with Towles this season. He followed up a so-so game against Ohio with an impressive outing against Florida but then struggled against a Vanderbilt defense that sacked him four times. I’m not sure which “Towles” we’ll see in Missouri but, it is a safe bet to say that if we see the same
impassioned and determined quarterback we all saw in Commonwealth Stadium on Saturday, then the odds may be in UK’s favor. It Is What It Is At this point, discussing UK’s poor performance from its run defense has become a broken record. Not much is going to change from here until the final regular season game at Louisville. UK entered the matchup against the Bulldogs allowing 270 yards on the ground, a trend that continued and was eclipsed on Saturday. The depth on defense is shallow, so UK is stuck with whom they have. The scheme may be tweaked, but don’t look for the same success the men’s basketball team had when head coach John Calipari famously instilled his “tweak” before the Cats’ run through the NCAA Tournament.