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‘Haven’ deadline extended By Cheyene Miller news@kykernel.com
The deadline to complete part one of Haven, the online program implemented by the Violence Intervention and Prevention Center, has been extended until March 9. Originally Wednesday was the last day for students to complete part one of Haven, which educates students on methods to reduce sexual assault on campus. According to VIP director Rhonda Henry, the deadline was extended to accommodate technical difficulties and what turned out to be a small time window. “We know that it was a short time frame, so we wanted to give people enough time to get this done,” Henry said. “The last thing we want is to put a hold on someone’s account. We think it’s more reasonable to give people more time.” Henry noted that about 5,000 students completed the Haven program last semester, and about 10,000 have completed part one so far in the spring semester.
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Theatre graduates David Theaker (left) and David Alan Clark duel onstage with swords during Andrew Ray’s stage combat class at the Briggs Theatre on Wednesday.
Class teaches art of stage fighting By Anne Halliwell ahalliwell@kykernel.com
On the Briggs Theatre stage, two young women menaced each other with bared knives for a long heartbeat. In the space of about three minutes, the two slapped and tore at each other’s hair, punched, parried and stabbed at vulnerable wrists, hips and torsos. In the end, the first to attack lie dead on a paisley-printed sofa. Stage fighting instructor Andrew Ray took the stage moments later to discuss the logistics of wearing a skirt in a scramble and the proper amount of humor with which to infuse a death scene. “If you attack the target, the audience follows the story,” Ray said. The story, in this case, is that the two actors are genuinely trying to kill one another. It requires timing, accuracy and trust to pull off.
“If you do this,” Ray demonstrated, stabbing far to the left of one participant’s arm, “and then she moves (further away), we see that you were never going to hit her. That graze is good luck — the reaction is that she moves back.” Taylor Cavins, a theatre junior, and Sloan Gilbert, a theatre sophomore, explained that their scene from “Zastrozzi” shows one character, a criminal seductress, attacking a virginal aristocrat for the love of the same man. “All of our scenes are from plays that involve violence,” Cavins said. “It’s supposed to showcase that we can handle ourselves, handle the weapons (onstage).” On Saturday, the class will perform the scenes for a proctor from the Society of American Fight Directors, which has developed a set of criteria to test the “required stage combat techniques for safety, theatri-
UK Hoops hurting after 3-game losing streak Makayla Epps limited by injury in Monday’s loss against Rebels By Kevin Erpenbeck kerpenbeck@kykernel.com
UK Hoops is hurting in more ways than one. The Cats are on a threegame losing streak after dropping Monday’s road match to Ole Miss. The loss dropped No. 13 UK to 8-6 in the SEC, good for sixth place in the conference. Losing to the Rebels may not even be the worse result from Monday. During the first half of the game, sophomore point guard Makayla Epps limped to the bench after suffering both a strained Achilles and a strained tendon in her toe. She was helped to the locker room by team trainers at halftime. Epps returned in the second half but was limited. She finished with one point on an 0-for-5 shooting night. The 5-foot-10 sophomore is UK’s leading scorer, averaging more than 14 points a game. Epps has been a star for the team since taking over the point position after junior Janee Thompson went down
with a season-ending injury on Jan. 11. Epps had scored double-digit points in every match in which she started, aside from Monday, and had four-plus assists in five different games. Head coach Matthew Mitchell revealed on Tuesday that Epps was still experiencing pain from her injuries and that he decided to sit her out of practice in the team’s preparation for Arkansas. “She is just going to have a great day of mental preparation and we just feel like a day of rest is important for her,” Mitchell said on Wednesday. “There are different things that make it hurt more than others. Mentally, she is just going to get to a spot where she can just play hard.” Mitchell added that the team expects Epps to feel well enough to play against Arkansas, but he knows she will still be in pain come tipoff. See HOOPS on page 2
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The last thing we want is to to put a hold on someone’s account. We think it’s more reasonable to give people more time.” RHONDA HENRY, VIP Center director
“It’s what we have to do as actors — we have to look violent, or even loving, with someone we met just a few hours ago.” More important than movement, Ray said, is learning to trust other actors to act safely. “There’s a lot of plays that end in violence, and some actors who aren’t trained can be violent toward other actors,” Ray said.
According to Henry, only incoming students were required to complete the program last semester, but the university decided to require all students to complete the program in the spring. After the current semester, the university will revert to the original policy of only requiring incoming students to complete the program. Henry said that the spring would be a “catch-up semester,” in which the program will expand to all students to bolster numbers and increase awareness on campus. She noted that most of the questions students had asked were technical questions, with others providing feedback. “We’ve had a lot of feedback from people who are survivors who are interested in this,” Henry said. According to a campus-wide email from UK Student Affairs, UK employees taking classes are also required to take the program, but students who completed the program in the fall are not required to do so again. The violence prevention tutorial corresponds with AlcoholEdu, the two-part online alcohol tutorial that all incoming students
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See HAVEN on page 3
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Certified stage combat instructor Andrew Ray explains his vision for a scene to political science senior Jenna Day (right) at the Briggs Theatre on Wednesday.
cal commitment and believability within a dramatic context,” according to the SAFD website. Ray said the immediate benefits of stage training were simple — it makes actors more hirable by providing them with a relatively rare skill set, and makes them more aware of their movement onstage. “Most (beginning actors) aren’t used to connecting with another person onstage or even touching (them),” Ray said.
Cats defeat Mississippi State, reach record winning streak
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Kentucky forward Karl-Anthony Towns shoots a layup over Mississippi State during UK’s game against Ole Miss on Wednesday.
A career-high 18 points from Trey Lyles and a double double from Karl-Anthony Towns helped UK continue its pursuit of perfection on Wednesday as it defeated Mississippi State 74-56. Now 28-0, UK has the longest single-season winning streak in program history. Playing in front of a sparse crowd in Starkville, Miss., UK used another solid offensive performance to defeat a Bulldogs team that clawed their way back early in the second half. But an 11-0 run helped keep Mississippi St. at bay as the Cats stepped on the gas and pulled away for the easy win. UK was efficient yet again on offense. Shooting 49 percent from the field and 46 percent from three, the Cats’ penchant for offense has helped round out a UK team that relied on defense early in the season. Town’s four doubledoubles in the past seven games has bolstered those offensive numbers, as his maturity and physicality has complemented the play
of Willie Cauley-Stein. And making his third start after missing a few games due to illness, Lyles’ return has been like sweet rain for a post game that has missed injured Alex Poythress. Lyles, according to head coach John Calipari should have scored 25 points against the Bulldogs. “He was really good. Still think at the end of the day, he’ll be the X-factor for us,” Calipari said. “I want him to dominate.” With four players scoring in double figures, it’s hard not to be amazed at the maturity of this team. The selflessness has been something Calipari has observed, saying that nobody is trying to be a star. After a disinterested start to the second half, UK willed itself to a sustainable lead behind the shotmaking ability of Devin Booker and Andrew Harrison. It was not, however, until Town’s dunk from the SEC logo that the Cats began to assert themselves. Three games remain in See BASKETBALL on page 2
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FIGHTING Continued from page 1 There’s an intrinsic trust that needs to be in place, Ray said, for actors to be able to work together in a safe, creative environment. “You can’t focus on a character and have the acting be there if you’re getting beat up,” he added. Ray, who graduated with a theatre degree from UK in 2003, is now a certified stage combat instructor with the SAFD. He teaches any one of the SAFD’s eight stage combat weapons — rapier and dagger, single sword, broadsword, broadsword and shield, smallsword, knife, quarterstaff, and unarmed — during six-week courses every semester. Ray began in fall 2012,
and his course is the only constant university program that can offer certification in all eight weapons to any student, he said. The “passionate, dedicated” students in Ray’s class pay out-of-pocket and the registration is mainly handled by word-of-mouth among the students, he said. Almost all of them return in subsequent semesters to pick up new weapon skills. “We have had, now, three people graduate with all eight (weapons) and three others with at least six,” Ray said. “The ones who really want to focus on this get all eight.” In the end, though, Ray said some days he feels like a younger version of himself, the “kid with a wooden sword” rescuing people and going on adventures. “I’m still that kid,” Ray said. “Just with a lot of degrees, and I get to play.”
HOOPS Continued from page 1 “You never know how the game is going to go and how her injury is going to react, but her mindset is to push through it and play through it,” Mitchell said. The injury comes at a bad time for the Cats as they are going through one of their worst offensive slumps of the year. In the three straight losses, UK, has failed to match its seasonaverage in points per game by seven points or more. The team has also shot below 38 percent in each game, including a season-low 32 percent on Monday. Mitchell said when the offense struggles the way it has, it only puts more pressure to get stops on defense. “We are just not making open shots,” Mitchell said. “We’re getting some offensive
BASKETBALL Continued from page 1 the regular season for UK, with a potential hurdle in Arkansas at Rupp Arena on Saturday. If the Cats win its next two games, UK will be only the 23rd team in college basketball history to have a 30-game win streak. To achieve that, UK will need to keep on fighting. “I can fight for you for the next 40 days … or you play how you’re capable of playing,” Calipari said to the team after the game. STAFF REPORT
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rebounds and just not finishing at the rim and missing a ton of layups. Everybody is playing us the same way. Arkansas looks like they’ll play us the same way and force us to make some perimeter shots. At some point, you have to step in there and make them.” With two games to go before the SEC Tournament starts, UK does not have a lot of time to regroup and heal from its injuries. The Cats are virtually eliminated from securing a double-bye in the tournament and are now just hoping to win its 20th game in the regular season for a school-record sixthstraight season. The only way for the team to do that is to persevere, Mitchell said. “This is no time to flinch or to hang your head,” Mitchell said. “You can rise and meet the challenge or shrink away from it. I believe this team is going to rise up.”
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UK guard Makayla Epps (25) attempts a jumpshot over Tennessee guard Andraya Carter during the game on Feb. 15.
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HAVEN Continued from page 1
must complete or have a hold placed on their UK account. According to Henry, Haven was implemented at
UK as a means to meet a provision of Title IX that requires colleges and universities to inform students of their resources and policies regarding sexual assault. Upon completing part one of the program, students
will receive an email telling them there will be a 45-day waiting period until they can complete part two, according to the VIP Center website. Student can email questions and concerns to vipcenter@uky.edu.
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Nonviolent drug offenders do not deserve harsh sentencing CHEYENE MILLER Kernel Columnist
Somewhere in the U.S., a potential mayor, governor or president is being arrested for a nonviolent drug offense. No matter what dreams or aspirations this person had, they are more than likely done because of our society’s draconian view on drugs. It is long overdue that we put an end to this gross waste of taxpayer money. We can start by debunking some of the myths about drug use. First and foremost, the idea that the drug is the sole cause of the addiction. Yes, most drugs have some level of addictive qualities, and some are far more addictive than others.
Heroin is leaps and bounds more addictive than caffeine (yes, caffeine is a drug) or marijuana. And it is true that prolonged use of drugs can actually rewire the chemistry of the brain. But one must also factor in psychological as well as socioeconomic factors when looking at the cause of addiction. People with genetic predispositions for alcohol or drug addiction are obviously more at risk, and we know that drug and alcohol addiction usually targets people in impoverished communities because they have fewer resources at their disposal to combat addiction. So rather than a flaw in a person’s character, drug addiction is often a combination of many social and psychological factors. And research does tell us that the vast majority of people who experiment with drugs never become addicts.
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With these findings in mind, it’s time that the U.S. implemented a drug policy similar to that of Portugal. In 2000, Portugal, which had one of the worst drug problems in all of Europe, surprised the world when it instituted a public policy that decriminalized all drugs – everything from marijuana to crack. Drug possession in the amount of what a person could consume in 10 days or less is not handled by criminal courts in Portugal, but handed over to the Commissions for Drug Addiction Dissuasion to receive treatment. Critics of the policy initially claimed that all of the negatives associated with drug use – HIV/AIDS, drug addiction and overdose – would skyrocket. As it turns out, drug use, injections, HIV transmission rates through drugs use and overdose rates have all decreased in Portugal
since 2000. Our nation’s leaders owe it to nonviolent drug offenders to not give them a harsh and unfair sentence for something that many of them are guilty of committing. GOP 2016 hopeful Jeb Bush recently admitted to being a marijuana user during his college days, and we all know that his brother George W. was no stranger to white lines on his coffee table (and I’m not talking about sugar). And current President Barack Obama certainly owes a moral debt to drug offenders considering his use of marijuana and cocaine during his youth were well documented. Obama and our nation’s leaders have the obligation, and with the data coming out of Portugal, they have the example. Cheyene Miller is the assistant news editor of the Kentucky Kernel.