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Provost resigns after 18 months at UK By Nick Gray and Josh Huff news@kykernel.com
After serving at UK for 18 months, Provost Christine Riordan is leaving the university to become the 10th president and first woman president of Adelphi University in New York. The search for a new
provost will begin immediately after President Eli Capilouto meets with deans and other academic leaders, UK spokesman Jay Blanton told the Kernel. Adelphi and Capilouto made the announcement Tuesday afternoon. “In (Christine) Riordan, they have recruited and selected as their next leader some-
one with widely recognized skills as an educator, scholar, communicator, advocate and fundraiser,” Capilouto wrote in a campus-wide email to students. Her position as Provost will conclude on Dec. 31, and Riordan will continue to serve the university as executive adviser for special projects until she becomes president at
Adelphi on July 1, 2015. “Although her tenure with us has been relatively brief, Chris’ leadership over the past 18 months has been at the heart of a number of initiatives important to the success of the University of Kentucky,” Capilouto wrote in the email. Blanton told the Kernel that Riordan was heavily involved with UK’s enrollment
management alongside Don Witt, the associate provost for enrollment management. “That was critical to recruiting the largest and most academically accomplished class in our university’s history,” Blanton said. “She also has been very engaged in a number of initiatives, hiring See PROVOST on page 3
Christine Riordan
Music to their ears
PHOTOS BY HUNTER MITCHELL | STAFF
UK Symphony Orchestra director John Nardolillo instructs his 100-member orchestra during its practice Tuesday for a Thursday’s concert.
UK Symphony Orchestra focuses on numbers based on Tchaikovsky’s work By Tala Habbal news@kykernel.com
UK Symphony Orchestra director and maestro John Nardolillo hopes that audience members will “find themselves singing along and being carried away by the beauty of this music” at Thursday’s concert. Nardolillo will lead the 100-member orchestra in a concert titled “Ballet Music of Tchaikovsky” in honor of the late conductor Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. The event will be held in the Singletary Center’s Concert Hall at 7:30 p.m. Music from three ballet pieces — the Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty and the Nutcracker — will be performed. Nardolillo said that musicians spend their lives playing
and listening to Tchaikovsky’s music and that “for many people, it’s some of the first music that [they’ll] fall in love with.” “Sometimes as performers we don’t always get to play songs people know, but these are well-known songs,” said orchestra member and mathematical economics junior Andrew Cech. “I’m hoping that the audience really enjoys them and sings along.” The audience should expect selections from three great ballets, Nardilillo said, and music that exhibits unique melodies, string sounds, blazing brass and percussion. “I really want [the audience] to feel the intent of Tchaikovsky when he was writing the piece,” said orchestra member and biosystems engineering senior Chris
Mills. “… I’m looking forward to the cello solos in the Swan Lake and Sleeping Beauty … I like the reaction we get from the kids.” Nardolillo, a violinist, chose the music and arranged the stage layout for the show. “What I like about being a conductor is that you are in the position to facilitate great music-making by the members of the orchestra,” Nardolillo said. “The art of the conductor is to allow the musicians to play together and make music together, and then be in the position to share that with the audience.” According to Nardolillo, Tchaikovsky is considered to be one of the greatest Russian composers of his time. The famous conductor lived in St. Petersburg in the 19th century and taught at the
Moscow Conservatory where he made a living writing and conducting music. Tchaikovsky visited the U.S. in the 19th century and led the very first concert during opening night at Carnegie Hall. The Nutcracker is one of the most popular holiday ballets around the world, and it was also the last ballet created by Tchaikovsky. “Any time there is a concert where the people in the orchestra are moved and changed and become different people, and when the audiences (is) moved, that’s a great feeling, that’s a great accomplishment,” Nardolillo said. “And that can happen at a school concert, at Carnegie Hall — it can happen anywhere with any kind of orchestra.”
Cello players look to Nardolillo and their music sheets for direction during practice on Tuesday.
Building begins for temporary Student Center structure Current center scheduled to be closed, torn down this summer in preparation for new building By Cheyene Miller news@kykernel.com
The sculpture garden outside of the Singletary Center for the Arts has been fenced
off as part of development for a temporary structure to be used during the construction of the new Student Center The structure and related office space to be constructed
in Blazer Hall may cost about $500,000, housing project implementation director Penny Cox estimated in an email to the Kentucky Kernel. UK has not actually re-
ceived bids and finalized the cost, she added. The fenced-off area around the Singletary Center will house Student Center dining facilities and the credit
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Construction crews move dirt around to prepare the area in front of the Singletary Center on Monday for construction of a temporary structure.
union, as well as offices for TicketMaster, student IDs and the PLUS account during the renovation. Moving the sculptures out of the Singletary Center area cost about $50,000, Cox wrote in the email. According to an Oct. 30 campus-wide email from executive vice president for finance and administration Eric Monday, the total Student Center renovation will cost about $175 million. Funding for the development project comes from student fees, as well as philanthropy contributions like Bill Gatton’s $20 million donation in September, Cox said. “We’ll sell bonds and those will be repaid over the life of the building through the collection of fees from students,” Cox said. The current Student Center is projected to close on May 10 and is scheduled for demolition during the summer. Cox said that the target date to open the new Student Center is August 2017,
though January 2018 is the latest possible opening date. The design for the new Student Center is being overseen by Perkins and Will, a global architecture and design firm. According to Monday’s email, the structure near the Singletary Center is expected to open in May, around the time when the current Student Center will close. Many administrative offices will be moved to the third floor of Blazer Hall, Cox said, and the basement of the hall will serve as the interim Cats Den. The Lexington Theological Seminary will also house student groups during the renovation process, Cox said. “Our Student Center is in pretty bad shape,” Cox said. “If you look at other schools and our benchmarks, we just don’t compete.” Cox said that the structure outside of the Singletary Center will serve as a retail center, while Blazer will be used as an administrative zone.
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OPINIONS
Politicizing news acquistion has led to people distrusting and limiting what sources they acquire news from in media PATRICK BRENNAN Kernel Columnist
If your Thanksgiving was anything like mine, you have a new distaste for certain fowl buzzwords. Simple words like Israel, immigration and Ferguson provoke debate, outrage and, most of all, confusion. With media clawing for your attention and claiming to report objectively, how do you know what is right when multiple sources conflict with each other? Take the recent spectacle in Ferguson, Mo. for instance. There seem to be two conflicting accounts of
what happened when Officer Darren Wilson shot Michael Brown on Aug. 9. Each side of the debate has tried to paint a picture of Brown to corroborate their story. Wilson called him a demon, while Brown’s friends and family characterized him as a gentle giant, according to CNN. It will take a lot of work to sort out the mess and uncover the truth. More troublesome issues include government surveillance, political scandals and the various conflicts around the world. We don’t all have time to sort through differing reports and so it’s easy to end up with incomplete or incorrect opinions. A recent poll by the Pew Research Institute emphasizes the extent to which
news acquisition has been politicized. Liberals distrust what conservatives trust most: Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and
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rance. Dean Baquet, executive editor at The New York Times, has one rule for choosing news sources. Af-
I think political affiliations can be put aside to find true, good news sources which save us from ignorance.
Sean Hannity. Alternatively, conservatives distrust news sources more broadly; they distrust three times as many news sources as liberals do. I think political affiliations can be put aside to find true, good news sources which save us from igno-
ter reflecting on the Times’ famous decision in 2004 to withhold reporting on the NSA per the request of George Bush, he decided that news sources should instead stand up for truth. Rather than fall to what Baquet called “seemingly
authoritative warnings” from a government, good news sources will release an article when they know it is necessary. For example, we can see that Edward Snowden’s recent revelations are justified. Shouldn’t we know about the self-surveillance that we fund? Large monetary and economic powerhouses that seek to control publications should be avoided because their incentives can hinder objectivity. A system in which journalists work independently for media organizations is best because the journalists will be guided solely by their own reasoning powers. Some organizations stick out for their adherence to substantial, independent reporting. NPR, Vox, Democ-
racy Now!, The Guardian, and The New York Times are notably objective and accessible sources. An up and coming site called The Intercept, with Pulitzer Prize award winning journalist Glenn Greenwald, is an amazing source for all things from Ferguson to NSA that I can’t recommend enough. With these improvements to your daily news consumption, you will become a well-informed citizen with a critical eye towards the news and investment in the best news sources. Patrick Brennan is a philosophy and mathematics junior. Email opinions@kykernel.com
Ferguson events show police Christmas season is for brutality is mostly unjustifable people of all beliefs MARJORIE KIRK Kernel Columnist
I’d like to believe that all people have the potential to be good and do the right thing and all those other optimistic ideas of good conquering evil most people give up on when they come to college. That’s why stories about heroes who forsake their duty to the people they protect, like the many cases of police brutality in the U.S., discourage my faith in humanity and decrease my faith in the security of our nation. Nevertheless, I have to have hope that police forces will do what is right in their duty to the American people—regardless of race, ethnicity, sex, age or orientation—and will train officers to respect the role they have in protecting the lives of our citizens. With that said, I find that when issues like these take root in our country, it is the job of the citizens and the media to hold the institutions responsible and exhibit appropriate behavior for enacting change. For citizens this is through peaceful demonstrations, political action and, if necessary, a refusal to sup-
port the institution in question. For the media this is educating the public on the truthful and verifiable aspects of the situation. An inappropriate response to these situations is what we have seen throughout the nearly decimated city of Ferguson, Mo. The response of some protesters to turn violent and
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The correct response to ignorance is not to throw more ignorance into the situation. It is the very opposite.”
destructive to that town shows that ignorance and blind anger have more of an influence on our cities than peace and justice. Quite frankly, the fact that our nation still has many cases of police brutality, police refusing to report or acknowledge rape, police who give no regard to traffic laws and countless other infractions shows that our entire justice system is infested with ignorance. The correct response to
ignorance is not to throw more ignorance into the situation. It is the very opposite. The people who destroyed stores, cars and other property in Ferguson should know that they have disrespected the memory of every person who has died as a result of police brutality by serving their own hateful, selfish impulses for violent retribution. Peaceful protests and legal action against the legal system that allowed the situation of police brutality to continue are the necessary justices these victims deserve. We should want to live in a country where we feel safe and proud to call these public servants our heroes. We must demand such standards for our police force. We can’t continue to patronize the issue or support the stereotypes that try to justify them, like the ideas that black men in hoodies are dangerous or women in tight, short clothes are promiscuous. We can’t afford to be pessimistic, oblivious and ignorant to these issues. We need to become the optimistic and forward-thinking heroes of our own generation. Marjorie Kirk is the assistant opinions editor of the Kentucky Kernel. Email opinions@kykernel.com
CHEYENE MILLER Kernel Columnist
The Christmas season is certainly one of the more joyous parts of the calendar year. The decorations, the gifts, the baked goods and the binge-watching of movies—like my all-time favorite, “Christmas Vacation”—are all part of one of my favorite holidays. Those of you who read my column regularly, know that Christmas falls second to Halloween on my favorite holiday list. That said, I’m certainly no Scrooge, as Christmas holds a special place in my heart. But of all the festivities and traditions that I love about Christmas, there is one thing about the season that I utterly cannot stand. It is the inevitable, ubiquitous social media posts that say, “Don’t forget the reason for the season,” or, my favorite, “Don’t forget the ‘Christ’ in Christmas.” This sort of pretentious arrogance that surrounds what is supposed to be a holiday of peace and love needs to end. The claim that you know the reason for which other people will be celebrating a
NEWS
Ensemble rocks Singletary Center By Kaylee Hobbs news@kykernel.com
The UK International Guitar Series showcased the talents of the Bryan Station High School and the UK Guitar Ensembles Tuesday night at the Singletary Center. “This event is about celebrating the classical guitar in Lexington,” said Dieter Hennings, an assistant professor of guitar. “We are collaborating the (UK) guitar program with the gold standard of the high school guitar programs in the state.” Andrew Serce, a student teaching assistant in his first semester conducting the undergraduate guitar ensemble, worked with the high school for several months before the event, Hennings said. 26 UK and Bryan Station students performed at the series, Hennings said. Ensembles and soloists performed on the Recital Hall stage, seated in a semicircle. Classical guitar performance freshman Enrique Ortiz performed “Testament of Amelia,” a piece by Steve Re-
ich. Ortiz said that he enjoyed having the opportunity to play with high school students and show them what years of practice can do for their abilities. “They’re going to be, like, wow, this is what you can do if you continue on,” Ortiz said. “Most of us didn’t have that.” Ortiz has been playing since he was 12 years old. Hennings said that on average, the Bryan Station Guitar Ensemble members had about three years of experience playing classical guitar. Seth Dean, a Bryan Station senior, started playing guitar as a freshman. “I enjoyed playing tonight because most of the people I played with were my friends,” Dean said. The guitarists performed the “Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairies,” a classic from “The Nutcracker,” to conclude the session. The piece was a way to celebrate the holiday and the final performance of the semester for the UK International Guitar Series, Hennings said. “It’s definitely a celebration,” Hennings said. “A celebration of our shared passion for the classical guitar.”
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Bryan Station High School student Cody Coleman gives a solo performance on Tuesday at the Singletary Center.
holiday that is both religious and secular is ridiculous to assume. Christianity seems to think it owns the season surrounding Dec. 25, maintaining that the celebration of the birth of Jesus is the real “reason for the season.” While I have complete respect for Christians and their desire to celebrate the birth of their savior, they must understand that we all have different reasons for taking part in the Christmas season. I take part in the Christmas season because I believe in the principle of good will to all men, and I appreciate the value that the Christmas season places on family— the most important thing in life in my humble opinion. Besides, to say that this December holiday season belongs to Christianity would be a blatant misrepresentation of history—especially since historians don’t know the exact birthdate of Jesus of Nazareth. The holiday celebrating the birthdate of Jesus wasn’t adopted by the Church until the fourth century, when church officials chose Dec. 25 so they could absorb the customs of pagan celebrations of the winter solstice that had been going on for centuries. If one wanted to get nit-picky, the real reason for the season of celebration is the winter solstice, not the
birth of Christ. Most of the customs we observe today have absolutely nothing to do with Jesus or his birth. According to historians, the Christmas tree is a German custom invented in the 17th century, but it is clearly taken from the pagan custom of bringing greenery into the home for decoration during the winter season. The modern Santa Claus is a culmination of influences from Dutch, German and British characters, all of which were influenced by pagan ideas of spirits who traveled the sky during the winter season. So to the people who will be posting these sorts of statuses on social media, I submit to you this: all year long we battle over our religious, political and philosophical differences. Can’t this be the one time of year where we come together and celebrate something special that we can all enjoy? Like it or not, the Christmas holiday has become about as secularized as a holiday can become and it is open to celebration by everyone, not just Christians. Let us stop telling people why they should be celebrating the season and just be happy that they’re doing it. Cheyenne Miller is the assistant news editor of the Kentucky Kernel. Email opinions@ kykernel.com
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NEWS
PROVOST Continued from page 1 several new deans as well as the dramatic expansion of our living and learning programs.” Riordan became UK’s provost in 2013 after serving as dean at the Daniels College of Business at the University of Denver from 2008 to 2013. “It was not really surprising to us,” Blanton said to the Kernel. “I think that it is clear that when you have good people, they may be desired by
other places.” Adelphi is one of New York’s oldest private, co-educational institutions and has more than 8,000 undergraduate and graduate students. The university is a nationally ranked doctoral research institution based in Long Island. “Chris (Riordan) and I have talked often about her interest in being a president as well as her passion for the important educational mission served by independent institutions like Adelphi and her previous institution, the University of Denver,” Capilouto
wrote in the email. As an executive adviser for UK, Riordan will continue to make her current $420,000 annual salary, according to the Lexington Herald-Leader. “I know you will join me in congratulating Chris and her family on this incredible opportunity and congratulating Adelphi University on bringing their presidential search to such a successful conclusion,” Capilouto wrote in the email. “We wish Chris the best as she embarks on this next exciting chapter in her professional life.”
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After holiday trip, Hoops focuses on in-state opponents Cats play Northern Kentucky 3 days before tilt at Louisville By Kevin Erpenbeck kerpenbeck@kykernel.com
UK Hoops traded in the warm weather of the Virgin Islands in its return from the Paradise Jam Island Tournament for the winter chill of Kentucky in preparation for a home game against Northern Kentucky. “We had a great trip down (at the Virgin Islands),” said head coach Matthew Mitchell. “We learned a lot about our basketball team and where we stand seven games into the season. But while the trip was good, we’re really glad to be back home.” The Cats went 2-1 in tournament over the Thanksgiving break. UK (6-1) lost its first game of the tournament and its first game of the season against Illinois, but collected wins against Oklahoma and South Florida in the final two games to win the Paradise Jam Reef Division title. Mitchell said he liked the fight the team showcased in its two wins, overcoming late deficits in both games to pull out victories. However, his concerns for the team’s readiness to play hard every game came to fruition in the loss to Illinois. “We just didn’t come out with a lot of fire and energy in the first game, which has sometimes been
a problem for us in games,” Mitchell said. “We need to be able to focus for 40 minutes in every game instead of playing good one half and then bad another. We’ll certainly work on that in practice this week.” That focus will be put to the test against in-state rival Northern Kentucky, which is 4-3 on the season. The two-year Division I team from the Atlantic Sun Conference will play against the Cats for the first time since 1990. Mitchell said he expects the Norse to come in “fired up, ready to give it their all” against UK. “They got a lot of energy on that team and they’ve played hard in every game they’ve played this season,” Mitchell said. “It’ll certainly be a good test for us for our first game back home.” Sophomore guard Makayla Epps, who was named the most valuable player of the Paradise Jam Island Tournament after averaging 20.3 points per game and shooting 57.6 percent from the field, said she is excited to play a week of in-state “Kentucky basketball,” with a game against another in-state rival, Louisville, on Sunday. “It’s big,” Epps said. “Northern Kentucky is going to come out and really compete against us. No reason why they shouldn’t.
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Guard Makayla Epps won the Paradise Jam’s MVP award last week.
Then, hey, it’s the Battle of the Bluegrass on Sunday against Louisville. We got into the (UK-Louisville) football game (Saturday), so it’s great timing there. It’s an exciting week for women’s basketball (in Kentucky) and we’re looking to give them a show.”
NEXT GAME Who: Northern Kentucky at UK When: 7 p.m. Wednesday Where: Memorial Coliseum Televised: SEC Network +