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Student body president Jake Ingram carves a pumpkin during Student Government’s “see BOO!” Halloween Party at the Hilary J. Boone Center in Lexington, Ky. on Wednesday.
By Hajin Yoo news@kykernel.com
Instead of its usual old-fashioned decor, the Hilary Boone Center’s courtyard and Columbia Room were splattered with pumpkins and smiling cake pops and the occasional hot cider Wednesday afternoon. The official date for Halloween is in two days, but the celebration already began for those who went to “see BOO!” In the center of the Boone courtyard, pumpkins surrounded the fountain until the enthusiastic carvers-tobe — students, children and faculty alike — prepared the gourds with their miniature saws and stencils. According to Eric Skipworth, the Director of Events for the Student Government Association, “see BOO!”
was a combined effort by Student Government and UK Public Relations to bring the faculty and students together. “We hope to connect the student and faculty (on) a more personal level,” Skipworth said. The clinical leadership and medicine junior hoped to not only create an environment that celebrated the traditional holiday of Halloween, but also give students an opportunity to take a break from everyday schooling. The cost of the event was small as all the pumpkins around the fountain were donated by UK’s College of Agriculture, Skipworth said. Surrounded by the colors and smells of autumn, the Halloween enthusiasts continued to poke and hack their way into the pumpkins, while others munched on ghoulish cake
‘Boom’ Williams full of potential JOSHUA HUFF Kernel Columnist
With a name like Stanley "Boom" Williams, the expectations for the freshman running back may have been unjustifiably high. Entering the season at 5-foot-9 and weighing 200 pounds with accolades of a high school four-star recruit would naturally bring high expectations for any new college rusher. Yet, as we near the end of the 2014 season and have a firm grasp on what UK football is, those expectations have not only been met, but have been exceeded by the young man known as "Boom." The addition of Nebraska transfer Braylon Heard and the return of UK's 2013 leading rusher Jojo Kemp stole the offseason headlines. Williams and fellow freshman Mikel Horton were the poster boys of the future. Tabbed as the shining new toy for head coach Mark Stoops and company, Williams was undoubtedly talented, but was perceived as not yet ready to take the starting role. Enter the first game of the season against UT-Martin, when the outstanding performance of Heard (two rushes for 116 yards) had
everyone asking, “Boom who?” His four rushes for just 12 yards in the game slipped him further down a deep running back depth chart. However, it was the next game against Ohio that had people wondering who this little power back with the speed and agility of Reggie Bush was. His five rushes for 60 yards and one touchdown was capped off with a stadium-rocking 53-yard burst through the Bobcats' defense. It wasn't until the Florida game when the nation learned what the "Boom" in his name stood for. Despite struggling during regulation, Williams nearly cemented his status in UK history when he caught a 25-yard touchdown pass in the first overtime that sent him sideline-to-sideline in a feat that displayed the fight that the young Cats embody. Regardless of the loss to the Gators, the country saw what these Cats had to offer. And Williams, along with a plethora of freshmen, led the way. Through 11 weeks, Williams sits third in rushing yards behind Kemp and Heard, but his absence in two of UK's biggest home games against South Carolina and Mississippi State has people asking “what if.” Kemp had a field day in the See FOOTBALL on page 3
pops and chattered as popular music played in the yard. The occasional thump from the waste bin rang across the yard as the pumpkins’ contents spilled into the container. Rick Lewis, a doctorate student in the Integrated Plant and Soil Sciences program at UK, said that he loved “how the university still celebrates events like this. I think it’s cool how they have pumpkin carving.” Lewis said he thinks that the culture of celebrating Halloween has started to shift from a kids’ event to a more accepted holiday for older participants. “It seems like people are celebrating it into an older age than they might have used to ... you’ll see thirty-year-olds dress up ... and have a good time,” he said.
Two pumpkins carved by students sit on the Boone Center fountain during the “see BOO!” event Wednesday.
Health Sciences names dean By Anne Halliwell ahalliwell@kykernel.com
Provost Christine Riordan announced Wednesday that Scott Lephart, a professor and chair at the University of Pittsburgh, will take over as dean of the UK College of Health Sciences in March 2015. Pending board approval, Lephart has accepted the university’s offer, according to Riordan’s email announcement. He has worked in University of Pittsburgh’s faculty for 27 years and has conducted grant-funded research on human movement and performance. “In terms of what we
were looking for in a dean, we were looking for someone who could move us to the next level in terms of research and academic programs,” said interim director and professor in the College of Health Sciences Sharon Stewart. “He brings with him a wealth of experience.” Lephart is currently the director of the University of Pittsburgh Neuromuscular Research Laboratory, the applied research center for the Department of Sports Medicine and Nutrition, according to his staff bio. As dean, Lephart will be responsible for the college’s academic programs and research, Stewart said. His
background in athletic training, one of the eight major areas covered by health sciences, makes him a good fit as well, she added. Stewart took over as interim director in August of 2011. She was the associate dean previously. Riordan touted her threeyear stint as interim director in the announcement email. “The plan right now is that Dr. Lephart and I will be having some conversations ... we’ll be talking together about the college and how he would like me to proceed in his absence,” Stewart said. Some of Stewart’s focus will also be on setting up ways to transition leadership
of the college next year, she said. Lephart is also a professor in the Department of Orthopedic Surgery at the University of Pittsburgh. His research interests lie mostly in the areas of sport and exercise injury prevention, according to his bio. According to Riordan’s email, Lephart received recommendations from the position’s search committee and people within the College of Health Sciences when he visited UK. “The college is really pleased with having him join us,” Stewart said. “We’re excited about what’s next.”
College of design evaluates hospital Two professors from the UK College of Design School of Interiors worked with UK HealthCare and GBBN Architects to evaluate the Albert B. Chandler Hospital’s design. The UK Emergency Department also worked with the faculty members and the Cincinnati, Ohio company to determine how well the current hospital Emergency Department design works for patients. In order to design better spaces down the road, students and faculty from the School of Interiors used observations, surveys, focus groups and physical meas-
urements to evaluate the area, according to an article on UKNow by UK Public Relations information specialist Whitney Hale. Staff members and graduate and undergraduate students worked in teams of two for about 200 total hours, said associate professor in the School of Interiors Lindsey Fay in the article. The pediatric care center, trauma unit and imaging unit designs were best-received, according to the finished data. The hospital’s use of “pods,” or collections of patients’ rooms around a central nursing center, also allowed staff members to remain
close to their patients. The dedicated pediatric center, which has 12 beds inside and distractors like an interactive wall, computers and a TV for children, was also rated highly, according to the article. The students and faculty also interviewed hospital staff and found that the inability to see the intake area in the hospital from other locations needed to be improved. Another area that appeared problematic was the need for people to cut through patient rooms to get from the emergency department to the patient service
area in the triage area of the hospital. The School of Interiors held a one-day workshop with GBBN to look at the issues they identified. The researchers and architects presented possible solutions for the areas they determined could be improved. Findings from the research have been published in HERD Journal and the Journal of Learning Spaces and have been presented twice at the Healthcare Design Conference in San Diego, Calif., according to the article. STAFF REPORT
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Kyle Arensdorf | Opinions Editor | karensdorf@kykernel.com
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Do not avoid traveling to Africa for fear of Ebola You may have received an email from UK on Oct. 23 with the subject title, “Hazards of travel to/from West Africa.” I was very disheartened to receive that email from an institution that stands for one thing first and foremost – education. There are other university issues I disagree with as a student of this institution, but overall, I have felt welcomed and supported by the institution, and felt that it aims to do the right thing. I’ve never had to respond to any other issues, because I accept that there are some things as students, we cannot change. But this issue really resonates with me to my core and therefore, I felt compelled to draft this response. We as members of the UK community have received other emails/letters/news regarding the Ebola virus and UK’s cooperation with the Commonwealth of Kentucky’s Health Department. They were informative, made sense and did not appear to have the intentions of suppressing any of its members, individuals or groups. At the very start of UK’s most recent email, however, they say that their hearts and minds continue to be with the people and regions most affected, but they caution us about traveling to these areas. I can assuredly say that their minds are with these people because your mind will give you caution, but their hearts – their hearts cannot be with these people if they caution against travel, especially against the call for help from organizations like the World Health Organization (WHO). As UK stated in its letter, the WHO has issued the statement that “the risk for travelers visiting family and friends in affected areas” and “the risk of a traveler becoming infected…during a visit to the affected areas” are “extremely low.” UK cautions against travel despite the CDC guidelines that tell us that the virus can only be spread if an infected person is visually sick with its symptoms and that the virus can only be spread upon physical or body fluid contact and that it is not airborne. Look at the people who come from a culture of hand-
shakes, hugs and kisses, that now pat their chest as a form of greeting. Meet Abdul Rahman Parker, a cemetery supervisor who makes physical contact with the dead through protective gear, knowing that any breach could result in his death – that’s heart. Meet Tamba Hali, a Kansas City Chiefs linebacker who just last week teamed up with Heart to Heart International to construct a clinic near the capital of Monrovia that will offer 70 beds for patients stricken by the virus – that’s heart. I know that in your hearts, you, the UK community understands the need to help these people. Some of you had thoughts to go help, but like me, UK has given you pause with the issue of their email. I don’t know their reasoning behind this caution, so maybe they can shed some light with a response. Is it a caution for me not to go help my family or is it a caution for me not to return to the U.S., my country of citizenship? The CDC is governed by the Department of Health and Human Services, an executive department. The CDC guidelines that UK mention that they follow are ultimately the responsibility of the president of the U.S., who has made it clear publicly that what is needed in this global fight are health workers, volunteers and supplies in the affected areas, and that a travel ban would make it harder to do so and may even result in people trying to get out by evading screenings and making it harder to track cases. UK has just added fuel to the fire by cautioning travel in spite of all the calls for help. Let’s embrace people from the affected regions, Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea. They are not the virus, they’re people. If any of you or these people, as members of the UK community, may have contracted this virus, within the US or outside and returned to the US, I trust that you would present yourselves, at the first sign of elevated temperatures, to health authorities before you become contagious. Currently there is a much better chance of surviving if treated in the U.S. than in the affected region because the aid in the affected region is insufficient,
and UK’s email encourages this insufficiency. The U.S. president, in conjunction with the CDC, has in place a comprehensive strategy to contain the spread of the disease in the U.S., but more so, is committed to combatting it at its source in the affected regions of West Africa. I ask UK to please follow its guidelines and not hamper the president’s efforts. The U.S. Department of State did issue a travel warning, but only against non-essential travel to Liberia and Sierra Leone. As of Oct. 27, no travel restrictions are in effect for Guinea or other West African countries. The email from UK, in effect, cautions against all (essential and nonessential) travel to areas most affected. Why did UK decide to go in a different direction than the U.S. Department of State and issue a caution for travel to a broader area, and for all travels to the areas most affected? Without UK’s response, we can only speculate, but I hope UK will curb all speculations with a response of their reasoning. In the words of Jim Mitchum, Heart to Heart’s chief executive, “We must fight this disease where it is, stop it where it is … We don't have an opportunity to put a fence around West Africa then let it burn itself out. That's not how we deal with people.” Our university stands for education. I’ve done my part. I hope UK does its part. Educate don’t legislate. If you would like to help, MSF (Doctors without Borders) is an international, independent, medical humanitarian organization. Their website is www.msf.org. SLWT is a United Kingdom-based organization, founded by seven Sierra Leoneans in 1999 in a direct response to the atrocities committed against children during the civil war, but is now centered on the fight against the Ebola virus disease. Their website is www.slwt.org. There are others as well. Corrie Walton-Macaulay is a civil engineering graduate student. Email opinions@ kykernel.com.
Column: How to find the perfect cologne for men DIMITRI SILVA Lifestyle Columnist
If you ask any guy he’ll tell you that finding the perfect cologne is no easy task. Even if you succeed in finding something tantalizing, the challenge becomes finding the best way to wear it. How much is too much? Too little? When am I supposed to wear it? As with most things we do, men buy cologne for one simple reason, to woo the fairer sex. But how do we know what women want? I hit the streets in search of tips for sporting your unique scent. Tip No. 1 – Don’t think about it too much. As men we’re naturally going to live on the grimier side of the spectrum. We’re men. We don’t smell like flowers. But a little bit of natural musk is good, just don’t let it get out of hand. Start with a base, like a body wash and deodorant combo that you use whenever you shower. This will help ensure that you smell fresh at the beginning of your day. If you are particularly active or
sweat a lot then you might want to bring deodorant with you and reapply it as the day goes on. Tip No. 2 – Know when to hold ‘em Adjust your cologne to what you’re wearing. You wouldn’t go about your day in a suit and tie if you didn’t need to, so treat your scent the same way. If you’re going to class, hitting the gym or grabbing lunch you don’t want to smell like you’re about to hit the club. Keep it simple and understand that when it comes to the way you smell, less truly is more. Tip No. 3 – Choose a scent A unique cologne is a chance to set yourself apart from the crowd. It can grab somebody’s attention if done properly. Depending on your taste you may want to go for something “spicy” or maybe a little subtler. There are a lot of factors that go into choosing your cologne, but the most important is your personal prefer-
ence. Choose something you feel comfortable wearing that suits your personality. Tip No. 4 – Application is key The idea is to draw them in, not smoke them out – you don’t want to have too much of a good thing. When applying cologne, use just enough to catch someone’s attention, but not so much that they’re left gasping for air when you walk past. “I think one or two sprays is just the right amount,” said Emma Brown, a communications senior and soccer player. “Anything more and it’s like you’ve taken a shower in it.” Communications senior Caitlin Landis described her perfect amount as “not enough to smell you from across the room, but enough to get that mystery smell when you hug me or walk by.” So now you have a woman’s perspective on a man’s scent, and it’s time for you to get out there and step your game up in the real world. Invest a little bit in how you smell and watch how far your effort goes. Yours in style, The Jive Child Email opinions@ kykernel.com.
A hypocritical sports fan shares his point of view
NICK GRAY Kernel Columnist
Sports are a part of my life more than anything else. They’re a part of every relationship I have. The last time I spoke extensively to my academic advisor? It was about the Cincinnati Bengals. The biggest part of my relationship with my girlfriend right now? The Kansas City Royals' progress as they push through the final game of the World Series. Even my life at the Kernel and my future is — hopefully — centered on sports writing. So it hurts me to see the events at Florida State University and in the NFL take place off of the field. It makes sportswriters cover court dates and head to courthouses to pull court documents. It makes them
become experts in the state penal code. No sportswriter gets into the business because they want to know the penal code language for domestic disputes. And no fan does either. File through the "Big 4" sporting leagues — the NFL, NBA, MLB and NHL — and college sports. College sports are littered with cheating scandals (North Carolina, for one) and disputed assaults by male athletes on females as with Florida State. The NFL has, as I have written before, had a rough time with domestic violence. Two NBA team executives have been punished for written or verbal racist remarks. Here at UK, football players have been charged with disorderly conduct and, more severely, firstdegree rape. Guilty or not, the charges are not endearing to the public. I'm writing to admit that I am a hypocrite. I'm disappointed in myself for cheering for the Carolina Panthers' Greg Hardy in Week one of the NFL season, already convicted in North Carolina state court on charges stemming from an incident with his girl-
friend. I'm disappointed that I was visibly upset when the Panthers deactivated him in Week two because team executives finally grew the stones to make sure a convicted player whose case was on appeal should not play. Why would I be so upset about that? I'm jaded because of sports. So, I admit hypocritically that I am wrong. Yet I'll continue to think of ways the Panthers can resign Greg Hardy at a smaller sum than before his court case had happened. In fact, I know I will send a text to a friend that will sound like this: "I think we can afford to extend Greg Hardy because he won't get as much money as a convicted free agent." As ashamed as I am now, I want the Panthers to be as talented as possible. That's pretty jaded, no? I love sports. Sports has me in its back pocket. I just hope it also allows others to see its beauty and not its ugliness. Not everyone is doing their best to do that. Nick Gray is the managing editor of the Kentucky Kernel. Email ngray@ kykernel.com.
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Alabama game a send-off for successful seniors KEVIN ERPENBECK Kernel Columnist
There is more to UK women’s soccer’s last regular season game of 2014 against Alabama than its season implications. Yes, a win would make it six consecutive victories for the Cats, and another conference win would secure at least the No. 3 seed in the upcoming SEC Tournament. But it’s more about bringing a close to one of the most successful chapters in program history. It’s about sending the 2014 seniors out on the level they instilled into UK since arriving three years ago; the winning level. This year’s senior class has rescued UK from continuing years of mediocre soccer to actual relevancy in the NCAA world. Before 2011, the Cats made eight appearances in the NCAA Tournament, playing host in three of them. But every tournament run ended without success, as UK never made it past the first round. Now, making it to the NCAA Tournament is just a
step in the preseason goal the Cats set every year. UK has hosted an NCAA Tournament game for three consecutive years, and is on pace to make it four straight years at the end of this season. But it’s the end result of those games that has changed the most, as the Cats have won two straight NCAA postseason matches, and were a 2011 penalty shootout away from making it three straight. That’s the winning culture these seniors have brought to the program. Players like forward/defender Arin Gilliland have given UK a soccer star to stamp its credentials on. Gilliland’s scoring records and multiple playing awards will still be standing as the greatest achieved for the foreseeable future, but her legacy with the program will stand the test of time. Players like midfielder/forward Stuart Pope have proven it’s possible to succeed at the highest level, even when presented with extreme challenges. Pope has gone through two ACL tears during her playing career, including a devastating one her junior year that also resulted in her MCL and meniscus being torn. But through all the
hardships (and a rough playercoach relationship with Jon Lipsitz during her first two years), Pope has conquered all and became a centerpiece to the Cats’ recent years of success. Even the non-starting seniors have been important to UK’s winning seasons. Forward Emma Brown has proven her worth as a valuable substitute player, often coming in for an exhausted Gilliland and holding her own. Forward Maddie Lockridge, while not having many playing minutes under her belt, contributed to an assist this year as her first career point at UK. While both players’ contributions on the field have been relatively small, it’s the winning mentality they’ve adopted and shared with other UK players that has helped frame how the program is now viewed. The 56-26-3 record the seniors have accrued throughout their playing careers highlight just how successful they have been at UK. But it’s the culture they’ve changed within the program that will be remembered and celebrated during their Senior Day. A win against Alabama will be secondary compared to what it represents about the 2014 senior class.
UPCOMING SPORTS Football
Nov. 1
vs. Missouri
Columbia, Mo.
Swimming & Diving Oct. 31
Women’s Soccer
Oct. 30
4 p.m.
vs. Alabama
vs. Tennessee & Indiana
Lexington, Ky.
7:30 p.m.
Men’s Soccer Nov. 2
vs. Florida International
Men’s Basketball Nov. 2
vs. Pikeville
Lexington, Ky.
Knoxville, Tenn.
7 p.m.
Miami, Fla.
1 p.m.
2 p.m.