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Getting to know the candidates
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Life at the museum
By Will Wright wwright@kykernel.com
Provost candidates Tim Tracy and David Blackwell spoke to the Kernel for short Q&A sessions. Tracy, former interim provost and dean of the College of Pharmacy, and Blackwell, dean of the Gatton College of Business and Economics, will both speak at public forums on Thursday and Friday.
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: Why did you decide to apply for the provost position?
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: As you know, I had served as interim provost before and had the opportunity to learn about that office. I found the interTracy im provost position to be professionally fulfilling. So when the opportunity presented itself again, it gave me the opportunity to serve the university in a new and exciting way. President Capilouto has some very exciting initiatives going forward and I would be honored to be part of his team.
Q A
: Would your time as dean help you as a provost, and how so?
: Absolutely. I’ve served as a faculty member, as a department head, as a dean and as an interim provost. All those positions helped me understand the university. I can draw upon all those experiences for understanding how departments work, how colleges work and how the university functions. That kind of knowledge can help the university achieve our goals and carry out our mission.
Q
: Are there any missions or goals that you are particularly excited for or that prompted you to apply for provost?
A
: I’m really excited by the student success initiative. The Guide for Student Success from the Council of Undergraduate Deans is a very exciting document and provides a wonderful template for increasing student success. Advancing the research enterprise on campus is also something I take a lot of interest in. Making a more diverse and inclusive campus is something I would be excited to be part of. Over the past five years the College of Pharmacy has more than doubled the percentage of students of ethnicity within the college and tripled the number of non-resident students, meaning those who are residents outside of Kentucky. In addition, half of our leadership team in the college is women.
Q
: Why did you decide to apply for the provost position?
A
: Once President Capilouto decided to do an internal search I started getting a number of inquiries from my colleagues around Blackwell campus. I thought about it a long time and thought it would be a good opportunity to help the university and help President Capilouto. I decided that I would put my name in the hat.
Q A
: How would your experience as a dean help you as a provost?
: As Dean of the Gatton College I oversee all four academic programs and I oversee all of our department chairs. In a way, being a dean is similar to being a provost, it’s just a broader responsibility. A lot of provosts around the country are former deans.
Q A
: Are there any ongoing issues on campus that prompted you to run?
: A couple of the major priorities for the provost role are to: One, move forward the strategic plan and, two, to complete the implementation of a new financial model for the university. As a business dean, and in particular as a professor of corporate finance, I have experience with these models. And as a former consultant in finance I am very familiar with how these financial models work. My training and experience in corporate finance allows my to understand how to accomplish those goals. I am very familiar with complex financial models like the one the university is considering.
IF YOU GO What: Open forums with provost candidates When: 3 p.m. Thursday and 8 a.m. Friday Where: W.T. Young Library, Thursday, and UK Hospital Pavilion A Auditorium, Friday Admission: Free
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Craig Drennen, an artist based out of Atlanta, Ga., speaks to a Kernel photographer on Wednesday at his exhibit in the UK Art Museum in the Singletary Center.
Artist creates new exhibit in Singletary Center By Hajin Yoo news@kykernel.com
Students can see art in action this week at the UK Art Museum with a live-drawing exhibition on the second floor. “HELLO 44,” a combination painting of Shakespeare and UK basketball, is being created by Atlanta-based artist Craig Drennen at the Art Museum in the Singletary Center from 12-5 p.m. every day until Friday. Drennen has worked on creating basketball paintings for the past year. Since 2008, he has been dedicated to and drawn inspiration from the characters of Shakespeare’s largely unknown play, “Timon of Athens.” The play was written late in Shakespeare’s life and is considered to be one of his most underappreciated.
“That made it very attractive,” Drennen said. For this project, Drennen said, the basketball represents a character in the play named Poet. With a temporary studio set
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will discuss his paintings as well as other issues in art. Next to the in-progress canvas hangs a custom-made leather jacket with “Timon of Athens,” printed in gilded letters. Drennen dedicated the paint-
I think students could have an amazing set of new things that they could encounter (in the museum)” STUART HORODNER, artistic director of the Art Museum
up for him, Drennen spends his afternoons at the museum developing his piece as visitors observe. Since Monday, Drennen began painting every day on the second floor of the Art Museum, where 4,800 pieces are routinely shown. On Saturday, Drennen
ing to honor basketball superstar and Hall of Famer Dan Issel, an NCAA basketball champion who played under UK coach Adolph Rupp and wore the number 44. Drennen said he is interested in how numbers, words and images combine and form a bou-
quet that, for a brief moment, feels like it means something. Stuart Horodner, the artistic director of the Art Museum, hopes to attract more UK students to the museum through Drennen’s exhibition. “(Students) may not be active lovers (of art) … but all of a sudden maybe people in the basketball team or UK art enthusiasts or especially new students may come over,” Horodner said. Horodner said Drennen’s temporary studio production in the museum will bring a different dynamic to the culture of conventional art galleries, as the museum will no longer simply be a place to contemplate art, but also a place where art happens. “I think students could have an amazing set of new things that they could encounter,” Horodner said. “The Museum is a hidden gem.”
Bulldogs kick off tough month for Cats By Kevin Erpenbeck kerpenbeck@kykernel.com
Tough is not a word that has been synonymous with Mississippi State women’s basketball in recent years. The Bulldogs have had one winning season in the last four years and haven’t appeared in the NCAA Tournament since 2010. That perception has changed in 2015 behind an undefeated nonconference schedule and a Top 15 national ranking. “Toughness is going to be the operative word in the game,” UK head coach Matthew Mitchell said ahead of the Cats’ matchup against the No. 13 Bulldogs on Thursday. “They’ve played great this season and are very athletic, tenacious and tough. It’ll be a major test for our team.” UK has not lost to Mississippi St. since 2009, winning by an average of 25 points each game. But change was brought to Starkville, Miss., when the program hired Vic Schaefer in 2012. In Schaefer’s second year the Bulldogs shocked the Cats, forcing overtime in what Mitchell called an “absolute knockdown, drag-out” of a game. Mississippi St. finished the 2014 season 22-14 and advanced to the quarterfinals of the WNIT Tournament. That success carried over to this season, as it started the season with 18-straight wins and now sits in third place in the SEC with five games remaining. That is what a high-ranked recruiting class does for a team in two years, said Mitchell.
“They have a much better roster after two years. They have the best shot-blocker in the league, one of the best freshman, and a cast of players that play with incredible tenacity,” Mitchell said. “That’s a credit to Coach Schaefer and his recruiting. They’ve gone from the bottom of the league to the top of the league.” Senior center Martha Alwal leads the Bulldogs defensively. She has an SEC-best 2.4 blocks per game, and in Mississippi State’s overtime win against then-No. 14 Texas A&M on Sunday, Alwal posted her 33rd-career double-double, the most among active SEC players. Freshman forward Victoria Vivians leads the team offensively, averaging 14.2 points a game, good for sixth-best in the conference. Vivians also has the second-most rebounds on the team with 127. The Bulldog’s new aura of success and fantastic start to the season has turned a few heads around the league, and presents UK with the first of several challenging games in the last month of the regular season. “Mississippi St. is as good a team as we’ll face down the stretch,” Mitchell said. The Cats’ next three opponents are Top 15 teams. And they all take place within the span of a week, with No. 1 South Carolina capping off the season. Mitchell knows the importance of challenging conference games in February, considering the role they play in determin-
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Hoops head coach Matthew Mitchell looks ahead of guard Linnae Harper as she dribbles down the line during UK’s game against Georgia on Feb. 1, 2015.
ing seeding positions in the SEC Tournament and the NCAA Tournament. That is why a win against a flourishing Mississippi St. team would be all the more meaningful than in years past. “You’re looking at the time of the season where games start
to really matter,” Mitchell said. “But I can’t get real big picture with them. It’s a tough stretch and you’ll go crazy looking too far down the road. They’re still trying to grasp what we need to do to be a consistent basketball team by preparing for a real tough test tomorrow.”
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UK graduate meshes Kentucky’s nature with art Downtown exhibit draws large crowd opening day By Cheyene Miller news@kykernel.com
Coal is not typically associated with art, but for one UK alumnus it can be as useful as a paintbrush. When artist Darrell Ishmael turns a natural element like coal into a work of art, he does it to convey a sense of emotion in the viewer. “I wanted to bring nature into an indoor space,” said Ishmael, who called his use of coal and acrylic in his art a “dynamic way of painting.” Ishmael’s work is currently on display at ArtsPlace on North Mill Street as part of the “Of The Earth” art exhibit. The paintings are for sale, with prices ranging from $300 to $3,200. A Kentucky native and UK graduate, Ishmael frequently uses Kentucky-oriented elements like coal, Kentucky River sand and
limestone in his paintings. “It’s my brand,” Ishmael said in regard to using coal in his paintings. He said that he has his opinions on coal, but he doesn’t use his art to express them. “Most of my work doesn’t make socio-political statements,” Ishmael said. “I use it strictly for texture.” Ishmael has been an artist for 25 years. He began with water coloring, and said that he immediately fell in love. “It really resonated with me,” Ishmael said. Ishmael does most of his work from home, and he and his wife decide when a piece is ready for display. Ishmael said more than 400 people showed up to the grand opening of his exhibit, which also features the work of artist Scott Ross. Some of the names of the artwork include “City Lights,” “Sedona,” “Dancer,” “First
Dawn” and “Copper Sky.” “I can’t say I have a favorite,” Ishmael said. Naming the pieces is one of the most difficult parts of the process, he said. Ishmael’s work has been displayed all over Kentucky, and as far as Sacramento, Calif. He has paintings on display in Saint Joseph Hospital, and said that he advocates using art in hospitals to give an emotional healing for patients. I know that it helps them, Ishmael said. People who come in and view the exhibit can leave comments for the artists in a comment book on their way out. Some of the words used by the viewers to describe the pieces included “lovely” and “beautiful.” “Your landscapes blend into my faded memories,” wrote Connor Kinslow in the book.
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Artist and UK graduate Darrell Ishmael analyzes one of his paintings, which are made from natural Kentucky elements like coal and Kentucky River sand, at ArtsPlace on Wednesday.
According to Ishmael, inspirations for his art come from all aspects of life. “I try to just take it in,”
Father of slain muslims blames ‘hate’ By Jane Stancill and Jay Price The News & Observer (TNS)
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. _ The father of two of three students shot to death in Chapel Hill, N.C., on Tuesday says the shooting was a "hate crime" based on the Muslim faith of the victims. Chapel Hill police said Wednesday morning that a dispute about parking in the neighborhood of rented condominiums may have led Craig Stephen Hicks to shoot his neighbors, Deah Shaddy Barakat, 23, and his wife Yusor Mohammad Abu-Salha, 21, and Abu-Salha's sister, Razan Mohammad Abu-Salha, 19, of Raleigh, N.C. But the women's father, Dr. Mohammad Abu-Salha, who has a psychiatry practice in Clayton, N.C., said that regardless of the precise trigger Tuesday night, Hicks' underlying animosity toward Barakat and Abu-Salha was based on their religion and culture. "This has all the signs. It was execution style, a bullet in
every head," Abu-Salha said Wednesday morning. "This was not a dispute over a parking space; this was a hate crime. This man had picked on my daughter and her husband a couple of times before, and he talked with them with his gun in his belt. And they were uncomfortable with him, but they did not know he would go this far." Abu-Salha said his daughter who lived next door to Hicks wore a Muslim head scarf and told her family a week ago that she had "a hateful neighbor." "Honest to God, she said, 'He hates us for what we are and how we look,'" he said. Police charged Hicks with three counts of first-degree murder. "Our preliminary investigation indicates that the crime was motivated by an ongoing neighbor dispute over said police parking," spokesman Lt. Joshua Mecimore. "Hicks is cooperating with investigators. Hicks appeared in Durham County District Court on Wednesday morning
By Tabassum Ali
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Namee Barakat embraces his wife Layla Barakat during a news conference Wednesday after his daughter was killed in Chapel Hill, N.C.
and asked for a public defender. Chief District Court Judge Marcia Morey told Hicks there would be a probable cause hearing on the charges on March 4 and sent him back to the county jail to be held without bail. Chapel Hill police found
all three victims dead at the scene, after responding to a report of gunshots at 5:11 p.m. Tuesday. Police worked early into the morning trying to piece together what happened. The victims' bodies were sent to the State Medical Examiner's Office in Raleigh.
UK president Eli Capilouto and interim vice president for research Lisa Cassis presented to the committee on Tuesday. The goal for the building, Capilouto’s presentation indicated, is reducing the number of preventable deaths in Kentucky. “UK lacks the adequate, modern space to recruit/retain talented teams specializing in health disparity research,” the presentation read. According to numbers from the Center for Disease
Control and Prevention, more than 40 percent of deaths between 2009 and 2011 were “potentially preventable.” The presentation looked at conditions like heart disease, cancer and lower respiratory diseases. According to the CDC, those three categorize the top three causes of preventable deaths in the U.S. Capilouto’s presentation also estimated that the project could add more than 1,600 jobs and create a local and state tax impact of about $5.6
m illio n . Capilouto contributed $ 2 5 0 ,0 0 0 to th e his two percent raise in September, the Kentucky Kernel reported earlier in the year. He made the announcement at the Sept. 3 Board of T ru s te e s m e e tin According to Capilouto’s presentation, UK will fund half of the proposed building cost, as well as faculty and researcher “start-up packages.”
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UK seeks state funds for research building The Kentucky House Appropriations and Revenue Committee endorsed legislation that would fund a multidisciplinary research building on UK’s campus. The building will focus on solving Kentucky’s “most pressing challenges,” wrote UK spokesperson Jay Blanton in an article on UKNow. UK is requesting that the state fund nearly $132.5 million of the proposed $265 million cost. The legislation will go to the full House for consideration.
Ishmael said. “That’s the beauty of art. You’re escaping into another reality.” The exhibit is open Mon-
The annual Progressive Dinner, held by the Black Student Union, took viewers on a virtual tour of African-American history. This year’s theme was traveling back in time from modern-day America to their roots in Africa. Amber Horn, chair of Black History Month, said she wanted people to learn the African-American history that is beyond Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X. “We wanted to focus on the fact we come from kings and queens and we're not what the media makes us into,” said Horn, an integrated strategic communications senior. “We come from something better and it's still within us.“ BSU president and business management junior Micaelah McAlpine felt it was important that people learned about AfricanAmerican history. “I hope this will be an eye-opener for some,” McAlpine said. “For others, (it will be) a powerful and uplifting thing to know b uwhere i l d iyou n gcame a f from.” te r The night started with a walk through a virtual modern day America. Actors sobbed and lied on the floor, simulating the tragic g . events surrounding the deaths of Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin, Tamir Rice and Eric Garner.
Going down the stairs and through corridors, students held signs reading, “Black Lives Matter,” and “Being Black Isn’t A Crime.” The next floor took attendants into the 1800s to a scene at a slave auction. The scene portrayed auctioneers selling the slaves, and the audience participated through a fake bidding war. Economics freshman Thomas Neuteufel was asked to take part when he was studying in the Martin Luther King Center. He played the role of a slave auctioneer and felt that this was an important event. “It is a walk through history, a visual representation where people can reflect on what's happening,” Neuteufel said. Attendants were then transported to a plantation where slaves were in cotton fields to show the life of a slave in the 1800s. Finally, the performance depicted life in Africa. The night ended with a spoken word performance by Joshua Middleton, an English and pre-pharmacy junior. “It was about AfricanAmerican history with a modern twist,” Middleton said. “I want people to appreciate the history and where we are now and how far we have to go.”
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Budweiser wants to take away the beer you love WILL WRIGHT Kernel Columnist
Budweiser is the ISIS of beers. Is that an extraordinary exaggeration? Maybe. But Budweiser is the antibeer, and I’ll prove it to you. From the recent Super Bowl commercial to Anheuser-Busch’s attempt to buy Kentucky beer distributors, the company is leading a campaign to dismember the great American beer industry. And that’s not an exaggeration.
Do you like the option of variety in the beer you drink? Do you like the ability to buy locally brewed beer like Country Boy’s Cougar Bait and West Sixth Brewing’s IPA on your way home? If so, Anheuser-Busch is attempting to take that right from you. They prefer less variety in your beers, and it’s questionable whether or not they would allow local brewers to distribute their beer if AB inBev owned the distributors. Let’s start with the Super Bowl ad. If you haven’t seen it yet, I encourage you to put down the paper and watch it. The basic theme in this commercial is that if you drink craft beer, you’re proba-
bly a hipster who will never get laid. Never once is a woman shown drinking craft beer, or is even in close proximity to it, during the commercial. And all the dudes are dressed like they’re on their way to a Modest Mouse concert (not that there’s anything wrong with that). On the flip side, the Budweiser club is either at a bar where models work during their down time, or they’re unloading about 20 cases from their trunk, presumably for a party where models go during their down time. “It’s brewed for drinking, not dissecting,” ran giant white font during the commercial.
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Jackie Robinson West Little Leage team stripped of U.S. title
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Jackie Robinson West player DJ Butler takes a peek from behind the curtain as he and the team watch the events on stage at a rally at Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park on Aug. 27, 2014 in Chicago.
By Lexy Gross and Michelle Manchir Chicago Tribune (TNS)
Little League International has stripped Chicago's Jackie Robinson West Little League team of its U.S. title after it determined that the team used ineligible players who lived outside of approved geographic boundaries, the league announced Wednesday morning. The title will be awarded to the team from Las Vegas that Jackie Robinson West defeated in the U.S. championship game. The Jackie Robinson team will also have to vacate all wins from the 2014 Little League World Series tournament, including their Great Lakes regional title. The Little League organization said that "after an extensive review," it determined that the team "knowingly violated Little League International rules and regulations by placing players on their team who did not qualify to play because they lived outside the team's boundaries. "Little League International found that Jackie Robinson West Little League used a falsified boundary map for their 2014 tournament," it added. In addition to voiding all of the team's wins, team manager Darold Butler has been suspended from Little League activity and Michael Kelly has been removed as administrator of Illinois District 4. The organization said the team "has been placed on probation, with its tournament privileges suspended, until such a time that new leadership. . .have been elected or appointed, and that the league is fully compliant with all Little League International Regulations."
A parent of one of the Jackie Robinson players said her son feels he "did something wrong." "I know what they did and what they came from," said Nedra Jones. "Actually, I'm upset and disappointed because now my son has the mad face because he feels like he did something wrong and he didn't." Jones said the Nevada team is getting the title as a default and JRW owns it. Venisa Green, mother of Jackie Robinson West player Brandon Green, said she found out about the team's title being revoked this morning on the news.
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Now my son has the mad face because he feels like he did something wrong and he didn’t.” NEDRA JONES Parent of a Jackie Robinson player
"We're just blown away by this," Green said. "All of the parents and kids together — we had no knowledge or forewarning, no communication from the league." Green said she "can't even imagine that this has happened." She said she wondered if the team's title would've been questioned if the kids weren't AfricanAmerican. "Would they rather the boys be killed in the Chicago streets than actively engaged in the sport they love?" she said. "My breath is taken away."
Rick LaSpaluto, whose son Drew is second basemen for the Las Vegas team, said hearing the news early Wednesday was "bittersweet." "I don't think we're going to be jumping up and down celebrating. We're happy, but I don't know ... we still have to get together and see what we're going to do. There'll be something. This is a huge deal but right now it's more shock than anything." LaSpaluto said the team found out about the investigation into Jackie Robinson West's boundaries in September but had "moved on." "We kind of forgot about it," he said, adding that he feels for the Jackie Robinson players. "I don't believe they had anything to do with this. This was about the adults," LaSpaluto said, adding: "I just pray those kids get past this." Little League International CEO Stephen D. Keener released a statement saying the move "was a heartbreaking decision." "What these players accomplished on the field and the memories and lessons they have learned during the Little League World Series tournament is something the kids can be proud of, but it is unfortunate that the actions of adults have led to this outcome, he said. "As our Little League operations staff learned of the many issues and actions that occurred over the course of 2014 and prior, as painful as this is, we feel it a necessary decision to maintain the integrity of the Little League program. No team can be allowed to attempt to strengthen its team by putting players on their roster that live outside their boundaries."
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Let me translate that for you: “Please, when you drink Budweiser, don’t pay attention to the taste.” And then Budweiser has the audacity to go after a pumpkin peach ale, as if there’s anything wrong with a pumpkin peach ale. What ever happened to, “Live and let brew?” Now let’s talk about how Budweiser could hurt your beloved local breweries. Anheuser-Busch, bought by a Belgian company in 2008, wants to buy a distributorship in Owensboro, Ky. Craft beer makers are concerned that if AB does this, the company will stop distributing brands that aren’t its own.
AB already owns a distributor in Louisville, and according to the Lexington Herald-Leader, the company primarily distributes its own brands through that distributor and will do the same in Owensboro, Ky. Co-owner of Country Boy Brewing Daniel Harrison told the Herald-Leader that if AB buys the distributorship, craft brands like his will be left out in the cold. House Speaker Greg Stumbo, D-Prestonburg, filed House Bill 168 to stop this nonsense. The law would prohibit an entity that brews out-of-state from also having a distributor’s license in Kentucky. The idea is that giants like
Anheuser-Busch can’t come in to Kentucky, buy all of the distributors and leave nothing to wash down the ever-disappointing taste of Budweiser. Look, I know it’s cheap, and for some of you the taste may even be tolerable, but Budweiser is bad for beer. From their unnecessarily aggressive advertising to their assault on Kentucky brews, Anheuser-Busch has proven itself to be a detriment to our hop-loving society. The holy war of beer is brewing, my friends. On which side will you fall? Will Wright is the managing editor of the Kentucky Kernel. Email opinions@ kykernel.com.
Depressed need treatment more than philosophic thought ANNE HALLIWELL Kernel Columnist
The National Institute for Mental Health states that although many college students experience depression during their college years, many do not get the help they need. Students may attribute their depression to normal school-related stressors or believe that treatment won’t help. They may simply not know where to get help. While there is no one fix for depression, there is one thing that is almost guaranteed not to help — thinking really hard about why you’re feeling depressed. So to refute Patrick Brennan’s column from Tuesday,
I do not believe that promoting the power of philosophic thinking over seeking help is the way to solve this serious problem in student health. According to Suicide.org, suicide is the second-leading cause of death for college students. The number one cause for suicide is — you guessed it — untreated depression. “Untreated depression lasts for a long time, interferes with day-to-day activities, and is much more than just being ‘a little down’ or ‘feeling blue,’” the NIMH states. Stress can wear down students’ physical and emotional health in the same way that depression does, but they are not the same condition. Implying that both can be treated easily is a dangerous assumption to spread. “The good news is that
depression is a highly treatable condition,” Mental Health America states. “However, it's not something you can snap out of by yourself.” So although antidepressants and counseling are not a surefire cure, they are a much better option than not trying anything at all. The most dangerous thing, it seems, is for a depressed individual to retreat in an attempt to snap out of depression on his or her own. For the sake of those who do not know how to or don’t want to seek treatment right now, let’s all work a little harder to spread the right kind of knowledge around campus. Anne Halliwell is the news editor of the Kentucky Kernel. Email opinions@ kykernel.com.