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Ph.D. candidate visits Nepal in effort to help relief effort
Tacos, burger joints to replace Hugh Jass near Student Center
Student reports much destruction
BY JAMILYN HALL jhall@kykernel.com
BY MARC THOMAS news@kykernel.com
A gofundme.com page launched by Nepalese UK students has raised more than $4,000 to help those suffering from the devastating series of earthquakes and aftershocks that occurred in and around Kathmandu in April. The webpage, “Nepal, I am with you,” aims to raise $10,000. Anup Phayal, a UK political science Ph.D. candidate, traveled to the Chautara district of Nepal to offer help on the ground. Phayal said people are forced to be selective over basic necessities, but there is enough food for everyone. “Since the villages sustain mainly through agriculture, locals told me that they are less worried about food than shelter,” said Phayal. According to the Red Cross. about 90 percent of the homes have collapsed in Chautara. “The villages are devastated and people are quite worried
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A car lies buried by rubble after a series of earthquakes hit Nepal. A group of UK students started an online campaign to help the ongoing relief effort.
about the monsoon season that is fast approaching,” Phayal said. Proceeds from the gofundme page will go to the Prime Minister’s Disaster Relief Fund, which gives donations to rescue, treatment, relief, rehabilitation and restoration of infrastructure, ac-
cording to the group’s website. A U.N. resident coordinator situation report noted that 8,702 people were killed, 2.8 million people require humanitarian assistance and 505,745 homes have been destroyed in Nepal as of June 3.
UK hires LGBTQ director RACHEL MINOGUE news@kykernel.com
With plans to build an office that will serve as a central hub for all LGBTQ education, advocacy and community building efforts, Lance Poston has been welcomed to UK as the first ever Director of LGBTQ Resources. “We have needed a Director in order to make the kind of progress we are capable of making on this campus,” said Dr. Kristen Mark, Assistant Professor of Health Promotion and Director of Sexual Health Promotion Lab. “It provides a unified voice and demonstrates
that our campus is paying attention to diversity needs.” Boston will spend the summer meeting with campus leaders and student organizations to learn the best way to move forward with the office. This is the first time UK has hired a professional staff to lead an LGBTQ movement on campus. Poston studied the history of gender and sexuality at at Ohio University and was a faculty member at Ohio University’s Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program. “Lance couldn’t be a better fit for this position,” Mark said. “He will
The corner of South Limestone and Avenue of Champions is seeing action. Not only is the corner under construction, but restaurants with creative names, great food and broader choices are moving in. The beloved Hugh Jass burgers closed down at the end of the spring semester, and Noodles and Company moved into where E-Campus bookstore was previously located. However, instead of one business moving into the shell of Hugh Jass there will be two claiming the corner lot. Street Craves is a new restaurant that will be serving street tacos, chopped salads and craft beer. And Freakin’ Unbelievable Burgers (nicknamed FU Burgers) is a franchise out of Michigan with two locations in Flint, Mich., and Farmington Hills, Mich. At the two existing FU Burgers customers can build their own certified Black Angus burger cooked to the temperature they prefer. For those not a fan of Angus, or beef in general, FU serves veggie burgers, Portobello mushroom burgers and salmon burgers. Hopefully the quality ingredients and breakfast options (available in Flint, Mich.) take root at the South Limestone location. Along with the opening of the restaurants, a patio will also be extended at the front of the restaurants. The patio will take up the current parking spaces in front of Noodles and Company. The patio has been missed since Hugh Jass closed down – what are a few beers without a great view of campus and sunshine? With the two incoming restaurants, almost every type of cuisine will be available to students on one street corner – SEE FOOD ON PAGE 6
PHOTO BY TAYLOR PENCE I STAFF Lance Poston is the university’s new LGBTQ director. Poston aims to use his positition to make campus more inclusive.
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PHOTO BY MARCUS DORSEY I STAFF Workers refurbish the old location of Hugh Jass burgers on South Limestone on Wednesday.
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Long-time disability director retires after becoming an icon for accessibility on campus
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news@kykernel.com The first director of UK’s Disability Resource Center, Jake Karnes, will retire at the end of June after 44 years of service. “They say you know when it’s time, and I’ve decided it’s time,” Karnes said. Karnes became the director fresh out of college—the university had just founded Disability Resource Center, and Karnes told his interviewers that he knew little about disabilities or the role he was applying for. They chose Karnes anyway, saying he knew what it was like to be a UK student, and that mattered more than anything. Since that first day, Karnes has become an icon of the center by creating more accessible bathrooms, more curb cuts for wheelchairs and a number of behind-the-scene policy changes. “If you would’ve asked me after I’d been here seven or eight years what I’d like to see happen on this campus to make it physically
PHOTO BY TAYLOR PENCE I STAFF Jake Karnes, UK’s first director of the Disability Resource Center, is retiring after more than 40 years of pushing for more accessibility.
more accessible in my lifetime, I saw it happen in five or six years,” said Karnes. When Karnes started there weren’t many students with disabilities, and most of the GRAPHIC BY BLAKE BEAMER I STAFF
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Student Center relocates resources to Den JOSHUA QUALLS
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PHOTO BY MARCUS DORSEY I STAFF The Bowman’s Den holds many of the former Student Center’s restaurants, along with the Credit Union, ATMs and other resources.
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On the night of May 15, the Student Center transformed from the campus hub of student activity into a major construction zone. Many of its core services resumed on June 1 in a temporary facility called Bowman’s Den next to the Singletary Center for the Arts, with many other services scattered across campus. As part of their dining contract with UK, Aramark is paying $4 million for Bowman’s Den. The temporary building will remain open until the new Student Center is finished — which will likely be in January 2018. The roughly 12,000 square foot dining hall offers many of the same options as the old Student Center, including Chick-fil-A, Greens to Go, Panda Express, Starbucks and Subway.
Aside from dining, Bowman’s Den houses the Student ID, Plus Account, UK Dining, Ticketmaster and US Passport offices, as well as the UK Federal Credit Union and ATMs. “The focus was on what was needed in really close proximity for the students,” said Penny Cox, the director of housing projects implementation and new strategies for UK’s Department of Finance and Administration. Many other Student Center offices and organizations like the Cats Den have been relocated to Blazer Hall, an older building across the street that was originally designed for offices. “We didn’t want to spend additional money so we retrofitted it,” Cox said. Newly registered students will learn about Bowman’s Den and where to find other essential Student Center services at the seeblue.U orientations leading up to the Fall 2015 semester, and banners and other signage will also help direct new and returning students.
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Kernel Brewing Company: This week on tap: Bartender’s choice from Country Boy Brewing Company
ALEX WRIGHT Contributing Columnist
Welcome to the inaugural Kentucky Kernel Beer Column. For this column I will ask a bartender at each of the local breweries for a flight of their stand out beers. Our first brewery is Country Boy, the closest brewery to UK’s campus. This small tap room has an authentic Kentucky atmosphere. There are deer heads above the restrooms, a buck for the men’s and a doe for the women’s, and bourbon barrel tables cover much of the floor space. The tap room has 24 taps, of which 18 were brewed in house and one empty when I wrote this column. The bartender recommended a flight of the Country Jacket, Barreled Jalapeño Porter, Warehouse Experiment #3, and Sinkhole Stout.
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Price: $5 Alcohol Percentage: 7.5% I began with the Country Jacket, which is a Crab Apple Saison. The first sip impressed me with it’s a tart flavor. It clearly contains apples, but does not come close to cider territory like many apple beers do. It isn’t overpoweringly fruity despite it’s apple base. This beer is incredibly refreshing and would pair extraordinary well with a nice rocking chair on a screened in porch during a hot summer day.
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The Jalapeño Porter is a surprisingly subtle mix of sweet and spicy. The spiciness of the jalapeño is not at all overwhelming, and pairs very nicely with the initial sweetness inherent in porters. For those who do not like bourbon, however few of these people there may be in the Bluegrass, this would be a good bourbon barPrice: $4 rel beer as the taste of Alcohol Percentage: 11% bourbon is incredibly subtle.
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This contrasts with their Warehouse Experiment #3, which is a barreled aged stout. The taste of bourbon is evident with the first sip of this heavy bodied beer. If you are new to craft beer and uncertain about the idea of bourbon barrel aged beers, this beer is a wonderful place to start. It has the taste of bourbon, without overpowering the stout flavor. It also has very little of the bourbon bite. If you are fan of both bourbon and stout, you will enjoy this experimental beer.
The final beer recommended by the bartender, Sinkhole Stout, is a fantastic after-dinner beer. It is also bourbon barrel Price: $4 aged (a theme with many Alcohol Percentage: 11% of Country Boy’s stand out beers) and has more of the bourbon bite. It has a bourbon flavor and coats the mouth with a flavor that lingers. If you are a die hard bourbon drinker, this is the beer for you.
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UK Football must live up to their promises
After a 2014 season that started with promise and ended in disappointment, the University of Kentucky football team enters a new season where promises need to become reality. Imagine how different this offseason would have been had UK won just one more game. The 5-1 start to open the season seems like a fuzzy NICK GRAY Kernel Columnist memory in hindsight. At the time, losing six-straight games after such an impressive start seemed like a bad joke. Well, the impossible became not only possible, but it became UK’s nightmarish reality. With that, UK is a tad wiser, a tad more experienced and a tad more explosive. The Cats may also be a tad luckier schedule wise, but that may just be wishful thinking in a conference as brutal as the Southeastern Conference. The 2015-16 home schedule appears to be unbearable and the stretch of games in September and October — hosting Florida, Missouri, Auburn and Tennessee around road games at Mississippi State — will determine whether or not a bowl berth is attainable. There are certainly winnable games in November. However, if UK opens the season 2-6 — it will only be favored in two of its first eight games — the postseason is almost unrealistic. Stoops has said that his football team is better than last season, but questions still remain after the departures of defensive anchors Bud Dupree and Za’Darius Smith. The defense will have to be better, and the improvements will need to come from players with almost no experience. We know the middle linebackers will be solid if not unspectacular. We know that if the secondary continues to employ the same members — Cody Quinn, J.D. Harmon, Fred Tiller and Blake McClain — then the Cats will struggle to cover talented wide receivers. However, if defensive ends Denzil Ware and Jason Hatcher convert their athleticism to success on the field, the Cats’ defense may stand a chance in the SEC. But only time will tell. For the first time since Stoops took over the program from a beleaguered Joker Phillips, a bowl game becomes not just wishful thinking, but an expectation. 6 I Summer Edition I 6.11.15
In-state football star considers UK BY JOSH ELLIS
sports@kykernel.com With much of the University of Kentucky’s 2016 football recruiting class full, the Cats now look in-state to add the finishing touches on what is currently the No. 13 recruiting class in the country according to 247Sports. Kash Daniel, a three-star inside linebacker from Paintsville, Ky., visited Lexington on Monday to gather more information about UK. Daniel already has an offer from the Cats, but the 6-foot-2, 235-pounder wants everything to be just right before he commits anywhere. “This is more than just a regular football visit,” Daniel said. “I want see what life is like on campus and where I’m going to spend my next four years living. I’m really excited to get down to Lexington.”
KARNES FROM PAGE 4 disabilities on-campus were physical in nature. Now that several laws have been put in place that support their goals, the center now works with a larger number of students with a greater variety of handicaps. Karnes is confident that his retirement will not have any sort of negative impact on the center. He believes the center will continue to grow and his successor’s fresh
Daniel plans to continue taking campus visits throughout the next few weeks and will narrow his list to four teams by the end of June.
UK, Louisville, South Carolina, Austin Peay and Ball State are among those pursuing the ninth-ranked inside linebacker in the country. “The main thing for me is to go where I feel at home and where there is more of
a family atmosphere,” Daniel said. “That’s a big deal to me. I came from that type of background, from a small town with a big family feel.” Daniel also said that he and head coach Mark Stoops have been in touch and talk at least once a week. The Eastern Kentucky product plans to announce his college decision August 13, just before his senior season kicks off. In doing so, Daniel will be able to focus solely on his teammates and coaches. “That’s the reason I set this date,” Daniel said. “It’s pretty hectic, making a college decision. It puts a lot of pressure on you. I wanted it before the season so I could take all the focus away from where I’m going to focus on winning a state championship. I’d die for my brothers and they’d do the same for me – I owe them my full attention when the season comes around.”
ideas will help to propel it forward. “Jake treated everyone with respect and reciprocally was very well respected by many of the students and university employees…That respect is difficult to earn and his leaving will certainly impact how we interact with our stakeholders,” the center’s new director, David Beach, said. Karnes said would love to see the center become more modernized, and he hopes that the center always does the maximum
amount possible for their students. The office has moved from Alumni Gym to the Multidisciplinary Building on the corner of Rose Street and Huguelet Drive; the Multidisciplinary Building has many more testing rooms where students can take exams free from distraction. According to Karnes, ongoing contact with students and working with faculty has been his favorite part about working at the center.
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The main thing for me is to go where I feel at home.”
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tacos, burgers, pasta – as well as Pazzo’s Pizza Pub’s pizza and extensive beer menu. The building has been under construction since the end of the spring semester and the plan remains that the restaurants will open at the end of summer or during the fall semester. With the new white exterior and changes coming to the area,
make a difference on this campus. And this position made that possible.” Poston said he plants to retire the names “OutSource” and “LGBTQ Task Force,” to shift away from a solely student-led movement and turn it into an administrative, professional office. In addition, Poston launched social media and online advocacy campaigns to reach out to stu-
dents, faculty and staff. The summer will act as a testing ground for the new office and will give Poston a better idea of what tangible effects the university can expect from the new department. Poston said decreasing marginalization and increasing visibility of LGBTQ groups sums up his goals, but the real effects and plan of action have not yet been determined.
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