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Cats storm past Tigers
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UK guard Aaron Harrison goes for a layup during the game against the Auburn Tigers at Rupp Arena on Saturday in Lexington, Ky. UK defeated Auburn 110-75.
Calipari logs his 100th win at Rupp Arena with 110-75 victory By Joshua Huff jhuff@kykernel.com
A 30-4 UK run to open the game erased all doubts of an Auburn upset as the Cats romped to a 110-75 victory. Saturday marked the 100th win at Rupp Arena for UK head coach John Calipari and stretched UK’s record out to 27-0 on the year. It was
also the first time UK scored 100-plus points in the regular season. “I was down 30-8 in 1995 at Southern Indiana in the Division II National Championship in Louisville, Ky.,” Auburn head coach Bruce Pearl said. “This game reminded me nothing of that game. We weren’t coming back.” Six UK players scored in
double digits as the Cats used a combination of inside-out play and took advantage of the significant size discrepancy between the two teams. UK was too talented and too physical down low for the Tigers to contend with as the Cats controlled the paint by a score of 62-24. “They’re so much more dominant in the inside,” Pearl said. “Those guys can score
down there. Dakari Johnson and (Karl-Anthony) Towns, Trey Lyles, those guys score down there. So they’ve got a really good inside-outside combination.” Towns had a team-high 19 points to go along with 10 rebounds and four blocks. Johnson added 13 points with six rebounds. Aaron Harrison was 7for-12 from the field with 18
points, while his brother, Andrew Harrison, had nine assists to go with his 12 points. “He’s attacking and getting in the lane,” Calipari said of Andrew Harrison. “When he gets in the lane … he’s unbelievable. I want him and his brother to do it more. If they don’t attack and jog up the court where they catch it and hold the ball, I’m taking them out.”
UK also had a 44-22 rebound advantage as Auburn had no answer the entire game. “They’re physically overwhelming,” Pearl said of UK’s size. “I’ve never seen freshmen that strong, that physical.” The physicality overshadowed the 11-for-19 night See BASKETBALL on page 2
University closures not Gaffigan performance brings laughs, burgers expected to affect funding Back-to-back closings were last seen in early 2000s
By Anne Halliwell ahalliwell@kykernel.com
The night began with stand-up comedy and ended with cheeseburgers and fries at the Student Activities Board’s evening with Jim Gaffigan Saturday night. The food was served - on silver platters, no less - as result of a Twitter exchange during the Super Bowl on Feb. 1. In response to McDonald’s “Pay with Lovin’” commercial, Gaffigan had tweeted, “As long as McDonald's doesn't make us pay with exercise.” The McDonald’s account proposed a trade - five jumping jacks at his next U.S. show would mean free McDonald’s for the audience. As the audience counted, Gaffigan performed five jumping jacks to secure about 750 free servings of burgers, breakfast sandwiches and french fries. Tyler Lichtenberger, the communications manager for McDonald’s U.S.A,, said that she came to UK specifically to follow through on the deal. The people monitoring online conversation about the McDonald’s ad during the Super Bowl proposed the exchange straightaway. “And I said, ‘Where is his next U.S. show?” Lichtenberger added. “This is a
PHOTO BY ADAM PENNAVARIA | STAFF
Comedian Jim Gaffigan performs at the Singletary Center on Saturday in Lexington, Ky.
tremendous opportunity.” Lichtenberger credited the university and SAB for helping coordinate the event. “First thing, we didn’t really know, would this school let us come in and do
this?” Lichtenberger said. “We have never paid off a Twitter interaction before.” Olivia Senter, SAB’s public relations chair, called See GAFFIGAN on page 2
UK officials announced Sunday evening classes would likely be held on Monday. UK spokesman Jay Blanton wrote that despite the four closures, the university had not lost any funding. “We do have to meet accreditation standards that require certain numbers of classroom hours,” Blanton wrote in an email to the Kentucky Kernel, but added that the number should be reached without any difficulty. Costs to the city of Lexington may have surpassed $350,000, according to the Herald-Leader. Bill O'Mara, the city's finance commissioner, told the Herald-Leader on Friday that about $230,000 of that had gone toward salting supplies and the rest paid for private contracting firms that removed snow from the roads. That number is, according to the Herald-Leader, on top of the $700,000 the city had already budgeted and spent on salt for the winter weather. Blanton later wrote that he is not aware of another time — at least recently — when the university has been closed for four days in a short period of time. The last time the univer-
sity closed two days in a row, he added, was during an ice storm in the early 2000s. Campus dining remained open for the most part, but abridged the hours of most locations. The Young Library worked with similarly shortened hours of operations and closed entirely on Saturday. According to meteorologist Chris Bailey’s blog post from Sunday, every day of the past week “featured single-digit temps or colder.” He added that some of the coldest temperatures in Kentucky were recorded Friday morning.
“This is a week that is now legendary and one that will be the standard-bearer for years to come,” Bailey wrote in the blog. Much of the next week should be cloudy, according to Weather.com, but chances of snow and sleet dropped to 10 to 20 percent on Monday through Friday. The temperature will remain in the high teens on Monday, but rise to the low thirties on Tuesday and Wednesday. It will drop to the midtwenties on Thursday and Friday. STAFF REPORT
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A Physical Plant Division employee attempts to clear a sidewalk near the William T. Young Library on Tuesday in Lexington, Ky.
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SPORTS
Perry Ellis, No. 8 Kansas rebound from loss Jayhawks beat Texas Christian University 81-72 By Rustin Dodd The Kansas City Star (TNS)
LAWRENCE, Kan. — The chants started slowly, echoing from the Allen Fieldhouse student section in the final minutes of the second half. Moments later, it began to pick up — more audible, more clear. “Perry, Perry!” The Kansas Jayhawks were still on the floor, finishing off an 81-72 victory over TCU on Saturday afternoon. And junior forward Perry Ellis was presumably still wiping a sly smile off his face after awakening Allen Fieldhouse with a thunderous stretch in the second half. Just moments earlier, Ellis had skied into orbit and finished a one-handed dunk in transition off a lob pass from Frank Mason. It was, even in that moment, the most athletic moment of Ellis’ three years at Kansas, the Jayhawks’ normally quiet workhorse providing the
highlight of the afternoon in a workmanlike victory over a conference bottom-feeder. Ellis, though, had also drawn a foul, and so he found himself standing at the freethrow line, soaking in a standing ovation after a timeout. What a difference five days can make. It was just on Monday night, on the road at West Virginia, that Ellis had clanked a potential gamewinning layup in the final seconds. On that night inside the WVU Coliseum, Ellis sat on the baseline and slumped his shoulders as the West Virginia student section rushed the floor. On Saturday, Ellis jumped off the mat and responded, finishing with 23 points as the eighth-ranked Jayhawks improved to 22-5 overall and 11-3 in the Big 12 Conference. While Kansas struggled to put away TCU for most of the game, Ellis dropped in 15 points during the second half, helping keep
the Horned Frogs at a relatively safe distance. He made nine of his 10 shots from the field. In some ways, redemption was the theme of the afternoon. Freshman guard Devonte’ Graham added a career-high 20 points, just days after admitting that his recent play had been “pretty bad.” Graham, who scored just 15 points in the Jayhawks’ last seven games, was a perfect seven of seven from the floor. For Kansas, it was not a flawless day inside Allen Fieldhouse. Far from it. The Jayhawks stumbled out of the gate and trailed 21-18 with more than seven minutes left in the half. But moments later, Graham, a 6-foot-1 freshman guard, drilled back-toback threes, sparking a 10-3 run. The surge was punctuated by sophomore Frank Mason, who picked off a pass and finished a behind-theback layup in transition. When sophomore wing Brannen Greene drilled a 3-
PHOTO BY RICH SUGG | KANSAS CITY STAR (TNS)
Kansas' Cliff Alexander (2) and Kelly Oubre battle Texas Christian's Karviar Shepherd, middle, for a rebound during the first half at Allen Fieldhouse in Lawrence, Kan., on Saturday, Feb. 21, 2015. Kansas won, 81-72.
pointer with more than three minutes left, the Jayhawks had stretched their lead to 3126. They finished the opening 20 minutes with a six-point advantage.
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Auburn had from three, and the 29 points from senior guard Antoine Mason, whose father was in critical condition at a New York hospital during the game. “That was a special night for him … given his father’s health,” Pearl said. “To come to Rupp and put up 29, I don’t care what the score was. I’m just glad UK fans got a treat, in the sense that he had it going a little bit.”
The Cats capped off the night with a few highlightworthy dunks, most notably a windmill slam from forward Willie CauleyStein. With a few games remaining until the NCAA Tournament, the chance that UK will finish perfect on the season becomes more of a possibility, Pearl noted. “I think because of the character and chemistry (on the team), they certainly can,” Pearl said. “They’re the most physical offensive team we’ve played.”
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the follow-through a “funny PR thing.” “Our main goal was ‘Yes, it could happen, but not take away from the event,’” she said. As the crowd moved slowly out of the Singletary Center, some picked up colorful buttons from the tables. The trash cans near the doors slowly filled with white paper bags. Miriam Siegel, a graduate student in the college of public health, waited in line for the next tray of bags to come through the Singletary Center. “I thought he was really funny,” Siegel said of her favorite comedian. “I think
people were quoting along with some of his jokes.” Senter said that more tickets were sold to the general public than to UK students - a shift in the average age that was highlighted when the audience filled in several of the lyrics to jingles from the 70s that Tom Shillue used in his opening act. Brenton Smith, the pop culture chair for SAB, said he noticed that grad students and older TA’s were excited for the show. Senter agreed that an older demographic may have been more attracted to the show, “since we offer very unique events at very unique prices.” “He’s a very funny guy, he’s always very popular on our survey with UK students,” Smith said.
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Graham, who had not hit a 3-pointer since Jan. 28 at TCU, finished the half with two 3-pointers and shot three of three from the floor.
In the final minutes, KU student manager Chris Huey, who suited up for Saturday’s game, checked in and missed his only field-goal attempt on a drive to the basket.
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OPINIONS
New Aquaman will be tougher than originals ANNE HALLIWELL Kernel Columnist
“Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice” director Zack Snyder posted a photo of “Game of Thrones” actor Jason Momoa to Twitter, apparently all done up in his Aquaman gear. The result? Slightly surprising. From the get-go, Snyder appears to have envisioned a version of the Atlantean hero that’s tougher than the public’s longstanding perception. Chris Perez of the New York Post called attention to Snyder’s “ornate yet gritty” armored suit, which is a far cry from the usual half-orange, half-green getup seen on Aquaman. The photo’s caption, “Unite the Seven,” could be a reference to the seven founding members of the Justice League or just to the Seven Seas. Those of us who watched “Smallville” may have trouble adjusting to an Aquaman who doesn’t a.) need rescuing a good percentage of the time and b.) spend the rest of his missions searching for fish puns. But a small portion of the comic book world would like to remind us that Aquaman as a character is actually as badass as this new promo art suggests. According to Nick Romano of CinemaBlend, for the last few years, Arthur Curry has been “the Michelle Williams of Destiny’s Child.” “Zack Snyder, however, is a huge fan of the charac-
ter,” Romano wrote. “A while ago, he reminded everyone that Aquaman has nearly impenetrable skin, strength and durability, due to the fact that he can survive at the deepest depths of the ocean without being crushed by the weight of the seven seas.” The use of the “Trident of Neptune,” Romano wrote, is also significant, as in both the comic books and animated Justice League series, it apparently allowed Aquaman to create water storms and natural disasters, as well as “emit lightning bolts from its prongs.” A muscular, lightningwielding superhero who also has impressively wavy hair? Why does that sound familiar? Alan Kistler of Newsarama went deeper in his investigation of the submarine superhero. “Aquaman’s telepathy can also influence non-aquatic life in subtle ways,” Kistler wrote. “(One) battle involved his causing (the) enemy to have a seizure by simply concentrating.” Kistler went on to give a laundry list of superpowers, including superstrength, prophetic visions, imperviousness to bullets and enhanced senses. It seems that Snyder, in recreating this DC hero, has his pick of strengths. With such a range to work from, it seems almost certain that this incarnation of Aquaman will be cooler than any we’ve seen before. Anne Halliwell is the news editor of the Kentucky Kernel. Email opinions@ kykernel.com
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SPORTS
Kentucky blows past Auburn to continue perfect 27-0 season Auburn coach said before game team did not have a shot at win KYLE ARENSDORF Kernel Columnist
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Auburn head coach Bruce Pearl calls out plays during the first half of the UK-Auburn game on Saturday at Rupp Arena in Lexington, Ky.
In a press conference earlier this month, Auburn head coach Bruce Pearl said his team didn’t have a shot at beating UK. His team made him look like a very smart man on Saturday. It took Auburn more than 11 minutes to put the ball through the hoop in Rupp Arena. At the nineminute mark, the Tigers had four points, and those four
points came in the form of two free throws and a goaltend. But Pearl’s team shouldn’t get all of the blame. After all, when your coach tells the media you can compete against any team in the SEC “with the exception of Kentucky,” how are you supposed to play? They could have taken it as a challenge and gone right at the Cats as a point of pride to prove their coach wrong. But they didn’t, and instead fell behind UK 23-4 in two blinks of an eye. Whether or not Pearl should have said what he said, he wasn’t wrong by
any means. Auburn didn’t have a chance. The Tigers don’t start anyone taller than 6-foot-8, and three of their starters are shorter than 6-foot-5. But if a shorter team has any hopes of overcoming the odds against a taller team, especially one as tall as UK, two things need to happen: The shorter team has to shoot at a very high percentage and has to win the rebounding battle – or at least keep the discrepancy within a few boards. Auburn wan’t able to do either. As a result, it wasn’t a fair fight for UK, which makes it difficult to note positives and negatives. The Cats did improve in areas that have been cruces for them in previous games, however, like points in the
paint. UK outscored Auburn 62-24 in the paint on Saturday. That shouldn’t be that big of a deal for a team that plays six guys taller than 6foot-9 to Auburn’s one. But on Tuesday, Tennessee became the fifth SEC team to outscore UK in the paint (the third in the Cats’ last six games). UK also had arguably the best offensive showing they’ve had all season, shooting a season-high 64.7 percent – 18 percentage points better than their season-average. So while Auburn might not have been the best barometer against which a 27-0 basketball team should judge themselves, the Cats’ performance bodes well in a time when teams need to start firing on all cylinders.
No Okafor, no problem for Duke in 78-56 win over Clemson By Laura Keeley The News & Observer (TNS)
DURHAM, N.C. — There were two game plans for Saturday versus Clemson: one if Jahlil Okafor played and one if he couldn't take the floor. The Blue Devils went with the latter, and no Okafor was no problem, as Duke rolled Clemson, 78-56. There is nothing structurally wrong with Okafor's left ankle, Mike Krzyzewski said, but there is still swelling that needs to clear. Okafor landed awkwardly on an opponent's foot in the first half
of the win against North Carolina on Wednesday, spraining his ankle as he fell to the floor. “He keeps improving every day,” Krzyzewski said. “We're hoping he will be ready by Wednesday (at Virginia Tech).” There were tears in Okafor's eyes as he realized Friday night that he wouldn't be ready to play. Krzyzewski told him not to feel guilty, he wasn't letting down anybody. Without Okafor, Duke turned in “one of the best wins we've had here in a long time,” Krzyzewski said. Us-
ing two different types of court-presses after free throws_and traps when the
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Justise Winslow had 17 points in the first half alone and finished with 20 on 8-of-
He keeps improving every day. We’re hoping he will be ready by Wednesday.” MIKE KRZYZEWSKI, Duke head coach
Tigers crossed halfcourt, the Blue Devils forced 14 turnovers and came away with a conference-play-high 10 steals.
14 shooting. Quinn Cook tied his career high with 27 points. Despite getting just five points from the two forwards,
Jefferson and Marshall Plumlee, the Blue Devils finished with 42 points in the paint. “That was the way they were playing,” Cook said. “They know that we have guys on the perimeter that can shoot the ball, so they weren't leaving any shooters. There was a lot of open space.” Shots from deep weren't falling early for Duke, as the Blue Devils started 1-for-11 from 3-point range. But even with no Okafor and no 3s, Duke built a 15-point halftime lead, and Clemson never cut it to single digits in the final 20 minutes.
Krzyzewski said he wasn't sure what he was going to get from his team Saturday — this year, emotional, biggame wins have often been followed with a bit of a lull. And, historically, the home game after a home win against UNC has featured a de-energized crowd. So with the theme of “Strong Together,” the Blue Devils used a high-energy press, and any time the crowd noise waned Krzyzewski or Cook was urging them back to life. The result: “What I got,” Krzyzewski said, “was a spectacular performance.”
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NEWS
Bats and owls offer clues into brain function By Carrie Wells The Baltimore Sun (TNS)
BALTIMORE — What can we learn about attention by studying bats and owls? In one corner of the basement of Ames Hall at the Johns Hopkins University, Cynthia Moss opened the door of a room where about a dozen Egyptian fruit bats dozed inside a milk crate attached to the wall. Adjacent to the climatecontrolled bat rooms live 14 barn owls, whose spaces are quieter and where the floors are littered with the remains of bloodied mice and droppings. Shreesh Mysore often places the owls, tummies down, inside a boxlike apparatus and places little headphones over their ears as part of his research into how the birds focus their attention. The two professors, who work in Hopkins’ department of psychological and brain sciences, share an interest in the study of attention and hope to find ways to collaborate. They
believe their work may lead to a better understanding of how blind people navigate the world, or the cause of disorders such as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, schizophrenia and autism. Mysore explains how humans use attention to move through the world like this: As children learn to walk, the task requires great concentration. Once they master walking, it becomes almost automatic, requiring less of their immediate attention unless they trip or run into something. They store the knowledge of how to walk as a memory. Mysore and Moss believe bats and owls also use memory to navigate. Mysore said it's not well understood how disorders like ADHD, where there’s an inability to focus attention, and autism, where attention is hyper-focused, occur. Much is known about how the brain processes one thing at a time, he said, but not the competing demands for attention that are common in the real world.
Rescues flooded with sea lions California witnesses sea lions wash ashore in record numbers By Amy Hubbard Los Angeles Times (TNS)
People in Marina del Rey, Calif., were surprised when a sea lion pup wandered into their apartment complex. They named him Walter. But getting help for Walter when he was spotted last week wasn't easy. He’s just one sick pup among many ailing sea lions overwhelming marine mammal centers in California. Nearly 1,000 have washed ashore so far this year. Emaciated and dehydrated sea lions, mostly pups about 8 months old, have been admitted in record numbers to facilities up and down the California coast. It's the third straight year of record strandings in the state. Five hundred fifty sea lions were being treated
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Hannah Bateman feeds a group of rescued sea lion pups at Marine Mammal Care Center at Fort MacArthur on Feb. 17, 2015 in San Pedro, Calif.
dozen or more calls a day. He said he'd been rescuing marine mammals for 29 years and “for January and February, it's the highest number of rescues I’ve ever seen.” The same day Marina del Rey residents called about Walter, Roxanne McCann was walking along Las Flores Beach in Malibu when she spotted a thin sea lion
pup on the shore. “The poor little thing looked like it was struggling,” she said. “Everybody thinks it's a cute story. People don't understand that they’re not well.” A neighbor's call to a rescue hotline didn't produce quick results. The neighbor later received a message saying there would be no action that day, McCann said.
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At Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, assistant professor Shreesh Mysore studies brain communication in owls on Jan. 15, 2015.
statewide as of Feb. 18, according to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries. Rescuers are swamped. Peter Wallerstein of Marine Animal Rescue works in much of Los Angeles County. He said he received calls about Walter before the young sea lion wandered into the complex. But as long as the pup was out of the way of people, he was on the back burner for rescue. “But then this lady called me and said he was up in the parking lot. So I responded immediately because I knew it would be bad for him,” Wallerstein said. “There are so many strandings right now we cannot possibly pick up all the pups,” he said. “People just don't seem to understand.” Wallerstein's two-person rescue team receives two
Tillman Hall is the building that goes on the Clemson University posters, at least the ones that don’t feature the football stadium or an orange paw print. The red brick building with a clock tower is named for a vehement racist. The building’s namesake, Benjamin Tillman, was a South Carolina governor and U.S. senator in the late 19th century, best
known for his fiery rhetoric and for helping to craft the Jim Crow laws. He also helped found Clemson. Clemson — along with other Southern universities, and even some in the North — is now wrestling with that troubled legacy. The Clemson Faculty Senate last week passed a resolution asking the administration asking to change the name. Jane Lindle, an education professor with an office in the building who is on the Faculty Senate, said that
its name presents two sets of problems for her. On a practical level, it’s “an obstacle” to attracting talented faculty. The history behind the name is a deterrent, and its quotidian familiarity creates an ethical problem: “It raises the issue of why aren’t we educating folks better about some of the negative symbolism that they take for granted,” she said. For students who know the history, the name can send a hurtful message. A black Clemson student
named Edith Dunlap told the Greenville News that to see the building on her campus is a “slap in the face.” Still, for many schools, effacing that history is a problematic choice. Clemson issued a statement last week, saying that its board will not change the name. “We believe that other, more meaningful, initiatives should be implemented that will have more of an impact on the diversity of our campus than this symbolic gesture,” the statement said.