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Protestors lie on the floor of the Patterson Office Tower on Tuesday to symbolize those who have been killed in confrontations involving police.
Students aim to send a message about police brutality during protest
More than 40 UK students staged a “die-in” demonstration on the first floor of the Patterson Office Tower on Tuesday. The demonstration was a reaction to the deaths of two AfricanAmericans by police officers who were not charged. Most recently, a NYPD officer was not charged for the choking death of Eric Garner, who was unarmed, in New York City. Some students brought signs displaying various messages denouncing police brutality.
A protestor holds up a sign as he lies on the ground during a “die-in” demonstration at the Patterson Office Tower on Tuesday.
Unbeaten Cats have not yet Puppies relieve students who are stressed out fired on all cylinders By Kyle Arensdorf karensdorf@kykernel.com
With more than a quarter of UK basketball’s season in the books, a Cats team that has yet to fire on all cylinders will face a hot Columbia team on Wednesday. One element of the Cats’ game is always missing in every game. Early in the year, when its offense got off to a quick start, its defense was a glaring deficiency in UK’s repertoire. When their defense began to improve, the Cats’ offensive
momentum fell to the wayside and they missed an alarming amount of layups and putbacks that were supposed to make up for their lack of a 3point offense. One player, freshman guard Devin Booker, nearly single-handedly resurrected the Cats’ 3-point shooting, sinking 12 of 17 3-pointers during a three game stretch earlier in the season. But even he has struggled as of late, battling an undisclosed knee ailment to the point that he wore a knee brace
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Once hot, freshman guard Devin Booker has grown cold from the field, scoring four points in the last three games while not hitting a 3-pointer.
during the second half of UK’s 82-49 win over Eastern Kentucky on Sunday. In his last two games against No. 6 Texas and EKU, he was a combined 0-for-9 from beyond the arc and totaled only four points in the two contests. “(Booker’s) going through what a lot of players go through, and especially a lot of freshmen,” assistant coach Barry “Slice” Rohrssen said Tuesday. “You go from playing a 32-minute game in high school to a 40-minute game. So there are maybe some extra minutes that you log, but Devin will be fine.” Not coincidentally, the Cats have especially struggled from 3-point range in those games. UK went into the final three minutes of both the Texas game and the Eastern Kentucky game without a 3-point field goal, only to have sophomore guards Andrew and Aaron Harrison each hit one in the final minutes. The Cats are a lowly 6-for32 on 3-point field goals in their last three games. “One of the things you find out in coaching is the three best shots in basketball are a layup, a free throw and an open three,” Rohrssen said. “You don’t just want to take one to take one. You want it to come from within the framework of your offense.” Columbia comes to Rupp Arena with a 5-2 record on the season after a 22-point drubbing of Bucknell on Saturday and have lost two contests by a combined three points. “They like to have control of the basketball,” Rohrssen said. “They’ll test your patience defensively with their style of play.”
Humane Society provided dogs for event By Peter Smith news@kykernel.com
Two tiny dogs in Christmas sweaters from the Lexington Humane Society named Big Daddy and Prince joined a room of more than 100 UK students and pranced around in circles to be adored by the students. Students were allowed to hold and pet the puppies while a representative from the Humane Society monitored the room. The event focused on allowing students to take a momentary step back from their studies and relieve their stress by playing with the puppies. The Student Health Ad-
visory Council sponsored the PAWS for Stress Relief event held in The Study above Commons Market on Tuesday. “This is a pretty big turnout,” said biology junior Andreas Zambos, who manned the council’s table. “Overall its very beneficial for people who are studying, especially during finals week when students are starting to get stressed out.” The puppies were not the only attraction at the PAWS for Stress Relief event. Tables with representatives from the SHAC and Student Activities Board passed out t-shirts and stress balls to students who attended. A dietitian was also on
hand to inform students about healthy eating habits to relieve stress and help with finals. “In all honesty, they are stressful, that is the reality of finals,” said Christian Soares, a psychology neuroscience senior. “My finals are all actually compacted for this Monday of dead week, so dead week isn’t actually dead week for me, I’m already starting to feel the stress.” PAWS stands for Promoting and Achieving Wellness for Students at UK. Zambos added that the event was “a good opportunity to express to the students the benefits of UK and having a place to find stress relief.”
PHOTO BY ADAM PENNAVARIA | STAFF
Humane Society Sydney Bales holds Prince, a puppy, while food science junior Natalia Tassoni and animal science junior Nathalia Villela scratch his back during Paws for Stress Relief on Tuesday at The Study.
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OPINIONS
Students must have help Society should be skeptical when it comes to anxiety of the skeptics MARJORIE KIRK Kernel Columnist
Normally I would scold myself for self-diagnosing, but I’m going to make an exception in this one instance. If there is such a thing as seasonal anxiety, then I have it, and it comes in the last three weeks of every semester. The vicious cycle begins the Saturday of Thanksgiving break when I begin to anticipate what will surely happen on Monday — a barrage of projects, essays and endless deadlines. As I am on the brink of freaking out, I quickly try to numb the pain by catching up on “The Blacklist” and “Scandal” and slowly my nerves calm back down. I am satiated for a day. Then Sunday, as I drive back to the real world of Lexington and school, it hits me again. That is when the hyperventilating begins, followed by a panicked desperation and finishing with a frantic rush to make a schedule of what will inevitably be three weeks of restless nights, scarce meals
and more episodes of panic. As what I have ahead of me sinks in, I decide that what will serve me best is a short nap — which I awake from eight hours later as the panic sets in again. Fast forward through a week of writing six-page papers, making websites, finishing labs and going to work — without sleep, because sleep is for the weak — and I find myself with a surprising break Friday evening. All of a sudden there is a calm that settles over everything and I find myself falling into a deep stupor. When I awake, it is Sunday and the week repeats itself, except this time, it’s called “Dead Week,” to symbolize how I feel inside. As soon as this week ends, I will wake on Sunday with no more projects and have a brief moment of jubilation, which will expire as soon as I see that now my schedule is made up of three days jam-packed with tests and studying for other finals. As each one ends, I will feel more and more years of my life being sucked out from the intense strain that anxiety puts on the body until Wednesday night when it is all over. I may either break down
and cry tears of joy or begin an assortment of ecstatic dances in my apartment because I won’t have to turn in another assignment or face some kind of test until January. According to the National College Health Assessment conducted by American College Health Association in the Spring of 2014, in the last 12 months, 86.4 percent of college students felt overwhelmed by all they had to do, 82.1 percent felt exhausted (from something other than physical activity), 32.6 percent felt so depressed that it was difficult to function and 54 percent felt overwhelming anxiety. Adults living in the “real world” and the stereotype of a wasted and party-crazed college student devalue our plight as hard-working people. The anxiety we face is a serious issue, which is why our colleges and government need to take better measures to prevent and reduce it if we don’t want to see more students succumb to end-of-semester stress. Marjorie Kirk is the assistant opinions editor of the Kentucky Kernel. opinions@ Email kykernel.com.
NEWS
Capilouto signs commitment to combat worldwide hunger By Cheyene Miller news@kykernel.com
UK President Eli Capilouto has joined leaders from universities around the world in an effort to combat international hunger. According to a report from the UK College of Agriculture, Food and Environment, Capilouto and other leaders from the U.S., Canada and Central America signed the Presidents’ Commitment to Food and Nutritional Security, a collaboration of almost 50 universities worldwide that seeks to alleviate the hunger of the world’s population. Capilouto signed the commitment on Tuesday in Lexington, while many of the leaders signed at the Hunger Forum and Public Signing Ceremony at the United Nations in New York City. “At UK, we are investing — with our dining part-
ner — millions in the study and promotion of food as a scholarly enterprise, but also for its value in building and sustaining its community,” Capilouto wrote in an email to the Kernel. “I see this initiative as consistent with that effort and with the partnerships we are building with local growers and with our faculty, students and staff." The commitment that Capilouto and the other university leaders will sign states, “although the world as a whole has made dramatic progress against hunger and malnutrition in recent years, a shocking percentage in every nation of the world continues to struggle with food insecurity.” The commitment also includes an action guide, which suggests specific steps that universities can take to aid hunger problems, though they are not necessarily required to do so. These actions include
conducting a hunger assessment of the university, then designing an appropriate action plan aimed at achieving a “zero-hunger campus.” The action plan also instructs universities in how to offer courses and programs teaching students the reality of food insecurity and malnutrition, and asks them to offer incentives and rewards for providing breakthrough international research on methods to reduce world hunger. The commitment encourages student involvement, calling for leadership and participation in food packaging events, statewide hunger dialogues, food drives and on campus/community gardens. According to the College of Agriculture report, this is the first time that universities from all around the world will meet in hopes of ending worldwide food insecurity.
CHEYENE MILLER Kernel Columnist
One of the noblest things that a person can be is a skeptic. Adopting this mindset pushes an individual to think critically and, more importantly, individually. It requires that you question something even when it seems certain. That being said, sometimes circumstances dictate that we be skeptical of the skeptics. The perfect example is man-made climate change. The American public as a whole seems to fall into this category, as polls show that large numbers of Americans either believe that climate change is a hoax or that its effects are nothing to be concerned about. This sentiment is motivated by our media’s tendency to portray this debate as being equal. The problem with this is that so often in the climate change debate, the skeptics have no qualifications on which to base their accusations and often attempt to twist the facts to support their political agenda. One of the biggest talking points that climate change skeptics like to tout is that average global temperatures haven’t risen since 1998. This is a distortion of the full picture, as 1998 was the hottest year on record at the time until 2005 replaced it. As a whole, 2000-2009 was the hottest decade in
recorded history and 2014 is on track to become the hottest year on record. This talking point also avoids the fact that since the 1960s, around 90 percent of the heat caused by the greenhouse effect has been absorbed by the oceans. Also, the report on which the 1998 talking point is based only focused on surface temperatures, which do not reflect the entire picture of global warming. Another point skeptics
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That being said, sometimes circumstances dictate that we be skeptical of the skeptics.” like to bring up is that there is a legitimate debate within the science community. This just simply isn’t true. A sample of 13,950 peer-reviewed articles on climate change was taken between 1991 and 2012. Only 24 of the articles denied the existence of manmade climate change. Also, a study published in 2010 found that of 1,372 climate researchers surveyed, 97 to 98 percent agreed that humans are causing climate change. My personal favorite is the idea that in the 1970s, scientists thought that the earth was cooling. This is a half-truth. There were scientists who looked at the cool-
ing trend between 1940 and 1970, which we now know was due to an excessive use of aerosols, and predicted another ice age. But this was a minority of the scientific community, as a review of scientific articles from 1965 to 1979 found that most scientists predicted global warming, not cooling. If one needs to look at a quintessential example of a climate change skeptic, look at the Weather Channel cofounder John Coleman. He is a known climate change skeptic and recently went on Fox News and called man-made climate change a myth. Coleman is one of the more prominent and highly regarded climate change skeptics, yet he has never published peer-reviewed research on climate change. And his base as a weathercaster is in journalism, not climate science. This point might seem hypocritical, as I am a journalist commenting on a scientific matter. But my point is that people should listen to the overwhelming consensus of people who specialize in this branch of science and stop listening to people like Coleman who deny or manipulate scientific fact in order to promote an ideological agenda funded by the interests of the fossil fuel industry. As I said earlier, manmade climate change is one area in which people should be skeptical of the skeptics. Cheyene Miller is the assistant news editor. Email opinions@ kykernel.com.
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NEWS
Board of Trustees approves gifts totaling $25 million Gifts include $20 million donation from Carol Martin ‘Bill’ Gatton for new student center project
The UK Board of Trustees approved more than $25 million in gifts for various projects, including a $20 million gift by trustee Bill Gatton, at their monthly meeting on Tuesday. The gift from the Bill Gatton Foundation, previously announced during October’s trustee meeting,
is targeted for use in the university’s new Student Center renovation project, the projected cost of which totals $175 million. The gift is the largest in university history. Gatton has donated more than $45 million to the university, according to the Board of Trustees’
agenda, the largest amount from any one donor in UK history. Both UK President Eli Capilouto and board chairman Oliver Keith Gannon expressed their gratitude to Gatton during the meeting. The board also approved a $5 million gift from the William E. Seale
Family Foundation to help pay for the renovation and extension of the Gatton College of Business. Seale, who earned his bachelor’s degree in chemistry from UK as well as a master’s degree and a doctorate in agricultural finance, has worked in the finance market for more than
SPORTS
Linebackers hurt by lack of depth ANNIE DUNBAR Kernel Columnist
UK’s linebackers showed flashes of promise throughout the 2014 season but were never able to hit a consistent stride in what turned into a learning experience for a core that will return all of its starters next season. Entering the 2014 season, the linebackers had big shoes to fill after standout Avery Williamson finished his senior season and left for the NFL’s drafted enroute to the Tennessee Titans. His absence was missedbut the play of junior linebacker Josh Forrest eased the fears of skeptics as he turned in an exceptional year with 110 tackles and was second on the team in tackles for loss with eight.
His partners in crime, juniors Ryan Flannigan and Khalid Henderson, both performed admirably and displayed potential that should come to the forefront next season when all three linebackers return as senior leaders. Despite the evident progress the group made throughout the year, instances of inexperience crept into the games and the Cats, as a defensive whole, gave up 2,294 rushing yards on the season. Teams averaged 191 yards per game. With the majority of yards coming from poor gap control and weak fundamentals from the linebackers and defensive line. UK struggled against SEC powerhouses LSU, Mississippi State and Georgia. who all exclled in the run game. Each ran for over 300 yards on the Cats, an embarrassing number against a defensive-minded head coach in Mark Stoops. The linebackers though, despite some poor performances, showed flashes of promise throughout the season. UK’s best games of the year came when they held op-
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Junior linebacker Josh Forrest led the Cats in tackles and provided some stability in the middle of a defense that struggled late in the season.
ponents to less than 100 yards on the ground, a testament to the play of the linebackers. Vanderbilt rushed for 54 yards, Ohio had 74 rushing yards and Louisiana-Monroe rushed for just 77 yards. The linebackers also performed well against in-state rival Louisville in the season finale, allowing only 83 rushing yards. With a combination of upperclassmen and a talented group of underclassmen, the 2015-16 group will enter the season with another year of
Young running backs fail to live up to expectations JOSHUA HUFF Kernel Columnist
On paper, the depth at running back for UK entering the season rivaled that of the top teams in the SEC. With incumbent Jojo Kemp coming off a freshman season in which he rushed for 482 yards on 100 carries, and the additions of Nebraska transfer Braylon Heard, true
freshmen Stanley “Boom” Williams and Mikel Horton, the expectations of the backfield far exceeded that of any other position on the offense. However, reality rarely lives up to expectations as a continuous rotation of running backs throughout the season dampened any hope of progress for the group. A true starter wasn’t named until the final game of the season against Louisville when Williams got the call and the bulk of the carries. What is truly baffling is despite having such a talented backfield, former offensive coordinator Neal Brown deemed it necessary to rush quarterback Patrick Towles more than the running backs in a few games this season. Take the Georgia game for instance, where Towles had 17
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Freshman running back Stanley “Boom” Williams provided UK with electricity out of the backfield.
carries with Heard having just 13 and Williams just 10. Against Tennessee, Towles had 14 carries, with Heard the leading rusher for the running backs in attempts with six. It’s understandable to try to catch the defense off guard but when you have a backfield with that variety of talent, why submit your starting quarterback to the punishment when your backup is Reese Phillips? Towles was the leading rusher in terms of attempts. He rushed 145 times. Think about that for a second. UK’s quarterback, with a fairly talented group of young wide receivers at his disposal, ran the ball nearly double than what Williams did, and Williams was the Cats leading rusher with 75 attempts for 488 yards and three touchdowns. It’s incomprehensible that the coaching staff would preach about balance but when push came to shove, they ignored the running backs and gave the ball to its quarterback. With that being said — what in the world happened to Kemp? After his success running the Wildcat early in the season, he appeared to drop off everybody’s radar. Against the Cardinals, he carried the ball just once. Against the Volunteers, Kemp carried the ball just five times and was an afterthought against Missouri when he lost a yard on his only carry. He peaked early in the season, with his best game coming against South Carolina in early October, which coincidentally was the last time the Wildcat worked for the Cats. With Williams emerging as the standout and go-to back, it wouldn’t be surprising if Kemp decided to transfer as his carries will significantly decrease, especially if in-state recruit Damien Harris decides to come to UK. With the essence of this column focusing on allotting a grade based on the performance of the running backs, it feels reasonable to give the group a C-minus based on their performance and inconsistent play.
experience in defensive coordinator D.J. Eliot’s system. The combination of proven seniors and experienced underclassmen will add an element to a defense that will be lacking proven stars like Bud Dupree and Za’Darius Smith. However, this season proved to be an inconsistent struggle for the linebackers. Lack of depth and poor fundamentals earns the group a C for this season, but look for next year to be the year in which this group truly breaks through.
30 years Seale will be honored in the renovated college with the naming of the William E. Seale Finance Learning Center. Also approved was a $984,000 gift from Carl F. Pollard, a 1960 graduate and former chairman of Churchill Downs in
Louisville, for the Carl F. Pollard Scholarship Fund. The board also approved the initiation of the $175 million new Student Center project that will begin next summer and is slated to open by the end of 2017. Staff Report