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Viola Davis was the guest speaker at SpeakBlue organized by SAB at the Singletary Center on Thursday.
By Aspen Gage features@kykernel.com
Academy Award-winning actress Viola Davis sat before an audience of almost 1,500 people Thursday as a part of UK’s SpeakBlue series put on by the Student Activities Board. Interviewed by Dr. Beth Barnes, professor of integrated strategic communication at UK, Davis spoke with honesty about her life, inspiration and Hollywood. Though Davis said she is not much like her character, law professor Annalise Keating, in the television drama “How To Get Away With Murder,” she spoke with a wisdom that mirrored many of her teaching moments onscreen.
“Find out what gets you up in the morning,” Davis said. “It’s (more) important to find your bliss, your passion than to settle into something.” Davis said her inspiration came from many actresses, but she admires Cicely Tyson most for her craft. But most importantly, “She looked like me,” Davis said. Davis did not stray away from the tough topics, and said that art was neglected in education when “it should be at the forefront.” She said Hollywood’s writers were maligning issues they did not understand and had never lived through. Theater junior Curtis Lipsey said he agreed with the importance of diversifying the sto-
rylines to include realistic interpretations, which comes with diversifying Hollywood’s pool of writers, directors and actors. “We have multicultural
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families and all this (diversity)...I love this idea that art should reflect what you’re going through, what’s happening now because that’s the job of the artist,” Lipsey said.
PHOTO BY ARDEN BARNES I STAFF WRFL is a student-run organization at UK with a mission to provide professional radio training and management. The organization offers its listeners with music, news and other programming. features@kykernel.com
Ever wanted to host a radio show? It is actually a lot easier than you may have thought, thanks to the folks at WRFL-FM. Training starts three weeks from the beginning of every semester and DJ trainees are currently part way through their training this semester. To become a volunteer DJ for WRFL-FM, UK’s student-run radio station, there is an application to fill out and a training process to complete. Nathan Hewitt, the general manager of WRFL-FM, explained the complete training process. “There is an orientation session to attend, we call it DisOrientation, then one or two weeks after that, we start the training sessions, which take place on a Saturday and a Sunday. Students only have to
attend one session, from noon to 2 p.m., for three consecutive weeks,” Hewitt said. Hewitt emphasized a DJ trainee could miss one weekend of training and be able to make it up. Hewitt went on to further explain the training process, saying that part of the training is completing four observations where aspiring DJs come into the station to shadow a DJ for hour-long increments. A written test follows the third training session. Mitch Mullins, website director at WRFL-FM, clarified about the written exam. “It is more focused toward the FCC stuff you learn in training and a few operational things. After the written test, you have a studio exam, which you explain the actual technical knowledge, which is running the board and playing the CDs,” Mullins said. According to Hewitt, the training program’s final exam-
Throughout the conversation, audience members had their phones out live-tweeting using the hashtag #SpeakBlue to send questions for Davis to
“It’s (more) important to find your bliss, your passion than to settle into something.”
DJs at WRFL make music appreciation an extracurricular
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ination consists of completing an hour segment live on air. Throughout the hour, one of WRFL’s directors watches over and grades the performance. Following the live test, prospective DJs must complete a service hour before being admitted as DJs. “The entire process isn’t a huge commitment,” Hewitt said. “We work with people and make sure they complete everything. You could even miss one or two studio observations and totally be on track,” Mullins added that while the training process may seem daunting, it is anything but when spread out during a semester, leaving students hoping to work at the station plenty of time for their studies and lives away from the station. Applications to be a volunteer DJ are available online or at WRFL’s headquarters in the basement of Whitehall Classroom Building.
answer in the last part of the series segment. Some questions lead to lighthearted answers, like what was Davis’ favorite song from Beyonce’s newest album “Lemonade,” which she
said was “Freedom,” and if she was a Kentucky Basketball fan. Others pressed for guidance — for young actors, for black women in acting and for students just trying to make it. “I think what was so magnificent about the experience was that as an artist and as a woman, and more specifically as a black woman, Viola’s words transcended a lot of barriers in that room tonight,” merchandising, apparel and textiles junior Jared Guillaume said. Davis concluded with one piece of advice. “Go for it. Dive afraid,” Davis said. “Don’t wait for the perfect moment...(Something) I tell my daughter: don’t compare your life to anyone else’s.”
Two UK students have been charged with kidnapping, robbery and assault, according to an official press release from Lexington Police Department Public Information Officer Brenna Angel. Zachary Costin, 21, and Ethan Hatfield, 20, allegedly kidnapped their 22-year-old male acquaintance and held him at a house on McAtee Lane for two hours Tuesday night. The victim said the two men beat, threatened and stole from him. The two men were arrested Wednesday afternoon. On Thursday afternoon, a third man, John Cooper, 36, was also arrested in relation to the case with charges of kidnapping and robbery. “The investigation stems from an apparent drug-related dispute,” the press release said. Costin is currently a UK student, but Hatfield was taking a semester off because of a broken leg. According to WTVQ, both are on house arrest, but Costin can reportedly still attend classes. Both will stay at their homes near Louisville. Costin and Hatfield pled not guilty in court Thursday. Their preliminary hearing is scheduled for March 24.
Campus reflects on Stoll Field’s history
PHOTO BY MARCUS DORSEY I STAFF Wildcat Marching Band rehearse on UK’s Stoll Field in 2014.
By Hayden Hooper features@kykernel.com
In the construction of the new student center, UK has authorized the destruction of the historical Stoll Field. Stoll Field at McLean Stadium has been home to many historic moments for both the university and college football. According to Transylvania University’s website, the first game ever played in the south was on this field, where the Pioneers battled it out in 1880 against Centre College for a final score of 13¾ to 0. The Pioneers got such an unusual score because originally football adopted rugby rules where a field goal earned ¼ of a point. Stoll was also home to the first game in the South Eastern Conference, according to SBNation. Kentucky faced Sewanee on Sep. 30, 1933. One of the most historiccoaches in the game, Paul “Bear” Bryant called Stoll Field home as well. Coach Bryant
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was famous for his work with the University of Alabama, but he was also the head coach at UK from 1946 to 1953. During his time coaching the Cats, Bryant carried the Cats to the 1951 Sugar Bowl match-up against the Oklahoma Sooners, according to CBS Sports. The Cats brought home the victory on Jan. 1, 1951, 13-7 in New Orleans. With “Bear,” the Cats had eight consecutive winning seasons and four bowl games including the Sugar Bowl (1951) and the Cotton Bowl Classic (1952). Some students and organizations still use this field with historic roots today. The field sits on Avenue of Champions and across the street from many educational buildings. Students utilize the field in the midst of a city for a variety of recreational activities. Nick Prather, a rugby player for UK and an animal science freshman described his disappointment at the news Stoll will
become a parking lot. “During the offseason we actually use that (Stoll Field),” Prather said. “During the offseason at night, we would play and kind of practice around the end of the season to the point where we start our first practice for next season that month.” The UK Marching Band occupied Stoll on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays during the fall semester as they prepared for upcoming shows for football games. Even though Stoll takes a beating during those months of the year, it always had a heartbeat played by the drumline between 5:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. three times a week. “My favorite memory is easy. The last rehearsal on Stoll we sang My Old Kentucky Home at the end. Great way to end our time there,” said Athletic Band Director Scott-Lee Atchison, as he looked back on his time spent on the historic Stoll Field.
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White dresses replaced with casual attire ANGEL LOGAN Kernel Columnist
The historical white dresses on sorority bid day are being traded in for shorts and a t-shirt. For the past 50 years girls have rushed the lawns of their new homes, glowing in their elegant white dresses, but 2017’s bid day attire will be much more casual for the potential new members. Monday night the Panhellenic Council finalized the proposal to eradicate the white dresses for bid day. Potential new members will now be provided a simple Panhellenic t-shirt and asked to wear Nike shorts or jean shorts,
completely taking the formality from bid day and leaning more toward an everyday atmosphere. Aside from the University of Georgia, Kentucky is the last school in the SEC to still wear the white dresses on bid day. While some may agree with this change and redirected focus for nonchalance, others believe the white dresses are part of what made sorority recruitment at UK so exciting. Many counted down the days until they could finally rush to the house in their white dresses. They feel that it is a special occasion and makes rushing even more fun and extraordinary. Pinterest quotes like “Bows, pearls and sorority girls,” have young women
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looking forward to a sophisticated experience, but bows and pearls aren’t quite as acceptable with shorts and a t-shirt. After these changes, girls will be given yet another identical t-shirt, emphasizing uniformity. Greek-life is supposed to be a place for students to be their own person and find friends and a Greek home who they can relate to, but recruitment restrictions are leaving less and less opportunity for this to happen. With or without the white dresses, the show must go on. So, in August, if you see a screaming mob of girls in Nike shorts and t-shirts, don’t be alarmed. It’s not a 5K finish line they’re running to— just their sorority house. Email opinions@ kykernel.com.
Trump administration reminiscent of Nixon BAILEY VANDIVER Kernel Columnist
Some things may have changed when President Donald Trump was sworn in, but his feelings toward and treatment of the press certainly did not. Since the inauguration, Trump has criticized the media just as he did during the election. Replies to his “FAKE NEWS” tweets range from criticisms to assurances that some people get their news exclusively from the president’s tweets. The Trump administration’s treatment of the press is reminiscent of the Nixon ad-
ministration, and reading “All the President’s Men” by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward is somewhat like looking at America in a mirror. This is not to suggest that anything like Watergate already has happened or ever will happen within the Trump administration, but the way that Trump and Nixon speak about the press is eerily similar More than 40 years ago, Nixon’s press secretary Ron Ziegler criticized The Washington Post by calling it “a newspaper once referred to as a great newspaper.” Does this remind anyone of the multiple tweets in which Trump referred to the New York Times as “failing”? Bernstein and Woodward wrote in their book, “The White House had decided that the conduct of the press, not the
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conduct of the President’s men, was the issue.” Compare this to one of Trump’s tweets on Feb. 14: “The real story here is why are there so many illegal leaks coming out of Washington?” While Nixon privately called the press the enemy (revealed in one of his taped Oval Office conversations), Trump took to Twitter to share the same sentiment. On Feb. 17, he tweeted, “The FAKE NEWS media... is not my enemy, it is the enemy of the American people!” Disdain for the press is something that has been a part of every presidency. If Twitter had been around in the 1970s, Nixon probably would have even tweeted “FAKE NEWS,” too. Email opinions@ kykernel.com.
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UK overcomes first half deficit on the road against Aggies By Phillip Hawkins sports@kykernel.com
Closing out its regular season No. 9 UK men’s basketball defeated Texas A&M in College Station with a final score of 71-63. The Cats had to come from behind once again, erasing a 15-point deficit that they faced in the first half. It was a slow start for the Cats as they were trailing 19-4 to a hot shooting Aggies team. After coming back from a 19-point deficit in their last game against Vanderbilt, the Cats came back from being down 15. Scoring 32 points in the first half, the Cats were led by their senior guard Dominique Hawkins as he scored eight points along tallying with three assists. Shooting a low 38 percent from the field as a team, Hawkins was able to be an energizer for the Cats when they were in trouble. Texas A&M was led by their
sophomore guard Admon Gilder as he scored a game-high 22 points while picking up 5 rebounds. Gilder was aided by the Aggies’ duo of big men, Tyler Davis and Robert Williams. Williams had a double-double racking up 20 points and 13 rebounds, six of which were offensive, while Davis had 11 points and eight rebounds. After this loss the Aggies fall to 16-14, closing out the regular season and 8-10 in conference play. The Cats were led by their guard De’Aaron Fox as he scored a team-high 19 points, scoring 15 in the second half. It was also a big game for senior Derek Willis as he scored 11 points and pulled down six rebounds. After a quiet game for Willis against Vanderbilt, he was able to knock down shots on a day when Malik Monk struggled. Monk had his lowest scoring game of the season, only totaling six points. Monk was
able to impact other parts of the game, grabbing five rebounds and dishing out three assists. Until this game Monk had scored double digits in points every game of the season. Bam Adebayo played another big game for the Cats as he had 13 points and grabbed a team-high of eight rebounds. He played well in what seemed to be a big man competition between him and the big men on Texas A&M. The leadership of Isaiah Briscoe was huge for UK as well. He played an allaround game scoring seven points while dishing out eight assists and grabbing six rebounds. With this win, UK secures its 48th SEC regular season title, which is number one in the SEC. The next closest titles in the conference is LSU with 10. This also makes it five regular season conference titles in eight years under head coach John Calipari. He is the first Division I coach to win five
PHOTO BY HUNTER MITCHELL I STAFF Freshman guard De’Aaron Fox lays the ball up during the game against the Texas A&M Aggies on Jan. 3.
regular season titles at three different schools. After the win over the Aggies the Cats improve their
record 26-5, closing out the regular season atop of the conference with a record of 16-2. The Cats are now preparing
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