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WEDNESDAY
FinalsWeek
change upfor vote
By Laura [email protected]
Student Government isnot using Dead Week as anexcuse to do nothing.
SG could decide on fee in-creases, a new senate presi-dent and a split finals sched-ule by the end of the weekstarting Wednesday.
An election will be held atthe weekly meeting to replaceSenate President John Whitt,who will graduate in Decem-ber, and will push the propos-al to split final examinationsand Dead Week to the SGSenate, said SG PresidentRyan Smith. Smith said he hasheard of some possible candi-dates, but did not want to re-veal them to stay nonpartisan.
“I want the Senate to electthe person who will do thebest job, but I didn’t want toget in their way,” Smith said.“ … They’ll elect someonewe’ll work very well with.”
Voting on the split FinalsWeek proposal is a “back andforth” process, Smith said.Even though SG has beenworking with the Faculty Sen-ate on the proposal, the Facul-ty Senate wanted them to givethe proposal to the SG Senatefor approval first, Smith said.
“It sends a stronger signalwhen the Student Senate pass-es (the proposal),” Smith said.“Whether it gets passed(Wednesday) night or the firstweek in January, I’m prettyconfident we’ll get somethingthat works with everybody.”
Several student organiza-tions have been in contactwith and making presentations
PHOTO BY BRITNEY MCINTOSH | STAFFThe first floor women’s restroom in White Hall Classroom Building was vandalized in opposition to the campus-wide tobacco ban.
By Katie [email protected]
In case students forget the day UK be-came completely tobacco-free, they can be re-minded by the signs placed throughout cam-pus purchased by the university — as long asthey are not missing or damaged.
Between 55 and 60 tobacco-free signshave been damaged or have vanished sinceNov. 19, said Bob Wiseman, vice presidentfor facilities management.
Wiseman said UK originally spent lessthan estimated on the signage, so it had left-over funds that will be used to pay for signreplacement. He said replacing the signs
would cost about $2,500.“We will not need additional money,” he
said.In preparation for the tobacco-free policy,
the university installed about 100 tobacco-free signs about a week before the ban, cost-
ing the university $25,000 to $35,000, ac-cording to a Nov. 11 Kernel article.
No particular areas throughout campushave had more damage than others, accord-ing to an e-mail sent by Phil Tackett, mainte-nance superintendent for the UK PhysicalPlant.
Damaged signs include one that wascompletely removed from the ground anddouble-sided signs where one side had dam-age but the other side did not, according tothe e-mail.
Wiseman said replacing the signs hasminimal impact on the Physical Plant, and thedamaged signs were discovered through rou-tine activities.
By Katie [email protected]
Shearer “Dave” Bowman,a UK history professor, diedon Dec. 4 in his home at theage of 60. Bowman came toUK in 2001 and was awarded
tenure lastfall. He spe-cialized inU.S. Southernhistory in thepre-Civil Warperiod.
Accordingto an e-mail
sent by the College of Artsand Sciences Dean Mark Ko-rnbluh, Bowman was “highlycaring and dedicated to hisstudents.”
Scotty Stutts, a politicalscience sophomore, said hefelt Bowman took a genuineinterest in the lives of his stu-dents.
Stutts said he would visitthe professor’s office to talkabout history or their sharedinterest in motorcycles, and hesaid Bowman was a mentorwho would help him withwriting assignments.
“When I didn’t have class,I’d stop by his office and talkto him for sometimes an hourat a time,” Stutts said. “Hewas more like a friend than anactual professor.”
History department chair-woman Francie Chassen-
Dedicatedhistory
professordead at 60
Bowman
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Total number of patients Influenza-like illness count
University Health Service will dis-tribute the remaining doses of in-tranasal H1N1 vaccine at a walk-inclinic at the Student Center in the UKBookstore on Wednesday, according toa UK news release. There are approxi-mately 300 doses available.
Members of the UK communitywill be allowed to receive the vaccina-tion between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. at thebookstore. For more information aboutH1N1, visit www.uky.edu/EM/swine-flu.html.
— KENNY COLSTON
Bookstore hosts H1N1 clinic
Influenza-like illness reported at UHS
KELLY WILEY | STAFF
See SG on page 5
Two unidenti-fied maleswere struckby a vehiclewhile cross-ing SouthLimestone.Both are instable condi-tion.
PHOTO BYADAM WOLFF-BRANDTSTAFF
CAMPUSCAMPUSTOBACCO-FREETOBACCO-FREE
11.19.09
Within minutes, the Lexington Fire Depart-ment responded to an accident in front of theGatton College of Business and Economics,where two unknown males were hit by a vehicle.
Two males were in the vehicle that struckthe two pedestrians as they crossed SouthLimestone around 5:25 p.m. The Lexington Po-lice and Fire Departments both responded tothe scene.
Lieutenant Daniel Stipp said the two hit bythe vehicle were in stable condition and takento UK Hospital for further treatment. Stipp wasunsure if either of them were students, but saidhe did not think they were.
The two were not crossing the street at acrosswalk.
— LAURA CLARK
Two struck onS. Limestone
By Katie [email protected]
UK students make up approx-imately 27,000 of the residents inLexington, and Vice Mayor Jim
Gray, who an-nounced hewould run formayor Tuesday,views the UKcommunity as“ m e g a - i m p o r-tant.”
Gray said hecame to the deci-
sion to enter the race because itwas the right time, and said hisyears of experience with the citymake him qualified.
“UK is a big part of Lexing-ton, it really, in many respects, de-signs Lexington to itself and to the
outside world,” Gray said. “Soworking with the university toleverage the university and all theresources … the students and thefaculty, staff, all the talent there —it represents enormous potential.”
Gray said it is important formembers of the community worktogether to solve problems likethe student housing issue.
“What I’ve learned over timeis that issues like (housing) haveto be worked continuously, it’s notlike you can turn it on and turn itoff. We really have to stay withworking the problem and whatev-er it might be,” he said. “Onlythrough working through prob-lems do we really create opportu-nities and possibility.”
Gray will be running against
Citing CentrePointe,Gray runs for mayor
Gray
See Gray on page 5
Tobacco signs damaged
Join Kernel writers Metz Camfield and JamesPennington for a live blog from Madison Square Garden20 minutes before the Cats tip-off against Connecticut
online at www.kykernel.com
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Dreaming of becoming a hockey star, the Canadianyoungster used to practice signing his autograph. In-stead, Justin Bieber, 15, is the biggest overnight musicsensation of the YouTube era. This fall, he became thefirst solo artist to place four songs in Billboard's top 40before he released his debut album.
Now, he'll gladly sign autographs _ if the girls canget close enough.
The 3,000 who showed up to see him last month ata suburban New York mall created such chaos (five girlswere injured) that local police canceled the event be-fore he arrived.
Everyone wants a piece of this pop supernova,from the MTV Music Video Awards (where Bieber pre-sented a prize) to "The Today Show" (where he drew theyear's biggest audience) and "The Ellen DeGeneresShow" (where he appeared twice in two weeks). Usherand Justin Timberlake both courted the kid to sign arecord contract. (Usher prevailed.)
His "My World" album debuted three weeks ago atNo. 6. All seven tunes on the CD have landed in Bill-board's Hot 100. His videos have racked up more than100 million views on YouTube. Last month, he openedfor Taylor Swift in Europe.
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Biebermania has been exploding like the JonasBrothers did two years ago.
"He's driving a lot of the bus," said Minneapolis ra-dio station KDWB program director Rob Morris. "He's ateen heartthrob, but his songs do well with over-18 (lis-teners). When his songs have been on our 'Newish at
Nineish' _ where listeners vote via text or phone _ theyhave blown the competition out."
It all started innocently enough: Two years agoBieber posted a video of his performance at a Stratford,Ontario, talent contest on YouTube so relatives couldsee it. (By the way, he finished second, doing MatchboxTwenty's "3 A.M.")
He continued posting homemade videos of songsby Chris Brown, Ne-Yo and Stevie Wonder, and as morepeople checked them out, things spiraled faster thanBrett Favre's passing statistics. Brown even phoned tosay how much he liked Bieber's rendition of "With You,"shot in what looks like a rec room decked out withhockey pictures and posters of Bart Simpson and TupacShakur.
A 27-year-old Atlanta talent manager who'd dis-covered slacker frat-boy rapper Asher Roth gave Bieberthe power-play press, and soon he was recording atJermaine Dupri's studio in Atlanta.
"One Time" was his official first single on IslandDef Jam Records. Its video has garnered more than 17million YouTube views, with the song peaking at No. 20on Billboard's Hot 100. Since then, Bieber has releasedthree singles, with "One Less Lonely Girl" rising to No.16.
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Seminar program tradespencils for skits in final exam
By Kevin [email protected]
For most students, takingfinals consists of essay ques-tions or endless Scantronbubbles. For students in theDiscovery Seminar Program,writing utensils will not benecessary.
On Wednesday in theStudent Center Ballrooms,freshmen and transfer stu-dents in DSP will presenttheir Fall 2009 Showcase,featuring topics and skillsthey have learned over thecourse of the semester.
From skits to researchfindings, students will sharetheir final examinations infront of hundreds of atten-dees, said Lynn Hiler, the
DSP coordinator.“There are 21 different
seminars for first-year stu-dents, ranging in topics fromhorses and poverty, all theway to being green,” Hilersaid.
DSP includes seminarcourses for any first-yearUK student including trans-fers. The courses are de-signed to help orient stu-dents to the university andmake the transition as seam-less as possible.
To make students feelmore comfortable, classesare smaller, no more than 25students in each, Hiler said.
Three DSP courses, Amer-ican Sign Language, Discov-ery Improvisation Workshopand My Kingdom is a Horse,
will be featuring presentationsat the showcase. One of thepresentations will include anappearance from Keeneland’shead bugler, George Sallee,more commonly known as“Bucky the Bugler.”
The showcase begins at11:30 a.m. The event is freeand open to the public.
What: Fall 2009 ShowcaseWhen: Wednesday at 11:30a.m.Where: Student Center Ball-roomsAdmission: Free and open tothe public
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By Grant [email protected]
Feeling stressed out about your fi-nal exams? UK’s Wellness Programmay have the answer for stressed-outstudents.
Every Thursday, the Wellness Pro-gram offers a free meditation class forstudents, staff and faculty at theSeaton Center, located next to theJohnson Center. While the session isoffered every Thursday, the centerstresses that exam time would be agood time for students to learn aboutmeditation.
If you attend, don’t expect fire-works—the Seaton Center isn’t a stu-dent section. Meditation is pure silenceand focus.
According the Web site Benefit-sofMeditation.org, meditation isachieved through deep-breathing,which is a pillar of meditation prac-tices. Muscle fatigue and tension are re-duced by increasing the circulation ofoxygen to the muscles through breath-ing.
“Meditation is good for your health,it lowers heart rate and lowers your
blood pressure” said Dave Block, themediation sessions’ weekly mediator.
According to UK’s Health and
Wellness Web site, the program pro-motes wellness, exercise, diet andlifestyle support services, as well as oncampus gym membership and exerciseprograms. The UK Health and Well-ness Program sees the meditation pro-gram as an opportunity to dedicatetime to helping students and staff bettertheir health.
Being healthy and exercising duringtimes like finals is an effective way torelieve stress and help keep students’brains firing on all cylinders.
For more information about theHealth and Wellness Program call (859)257-9355.
Massage on the GoFor many students, Dead Week is
not so dead due to the pressure of nextweek’s finals. Many students find thefinal weeks of the semester to be themost stressful and anything that canhelp to relieve stress can be benefi-cial.
To help students reduce theirstress Student Activities Board hasorganized “Massage On the Go” inwhich the Lexington Healing ArtsAcademy will be offering free five-minute massages in the CommonsDining Hall for any one who wishesto participate.
Massage on the Go will take placeWednesday night from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.and will be offered to students and staff.
“It’s a great way to relax duringDead Week,” SAB member, AimeeGlindmeyer said.
Depending on the turnout, SABplans to organize similar events in thefuture to help students deal with stressduring the end of the semesters.
Students can find out about moreevents being held on campus by check-ing out the SAB Web site atwww.uksab.org.
Meditation sessions are an effective wayto relieve stress during Finals Week
“Meditation is good for yourhealth, it lowers heart rate andlowers your blood pressures.”
DAVE BLOCKWellness Program mediator
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John Wall can fail. I’m not talking math ex-
ams or anything school relat-ed. On thebasketballcourt,John Wallcan, andwill, fail.
Letthat sinkin. Canthe guywho hitthe game-winningshot
against Miami of Ohio reallyfail?
Can the guy who torchedNorth Carolina in the firsthalf and hit the game-clinch-ing free throws against theTar Heels really fail?
Can the guy who basical-ly owns the SoutheasternConference Freshman of theWeek award really fail?
John Wall, 19-year-oldkid from Raleigh, N.C., willhave a life full of success andfailure, just like anyone else.
It’s hard to believe, sincethe Legend of John Wall hasconsumed Lexington since hesigned with UK. YouTubeflows with his highlight reels.Jerry Stackhouse went fromNBA star to washed up in amatter of minutes, thanks toWall.
Every national basketballwriter, broadcaster and ana-lyst loves him. If they couldmarry John Wall, they would.He’s basically promised to bethe No. 1 pick in the nextNBA Draft.
The Legend of John Wallhit the game-winner in hisfirst real game in the UK jer-sey. The Legend of John Walltorched his hometown TarHeels, who snubbed him inthe recruiting process.
The Legend of John Wallhas Mike DeCourcy for theSporting News claiming himto be the best point guardprospect ever and Gary Par-rish tweeting about the Leg-end of John Wall like he’s theonly player in the NCAA.The Legend even has hisown dance and his own drink
at Two Keys (which, mindyou, the real John Wall isn’teven old enough to get into).
The Legend of John Wallcannot fail. It will not fail.Even if the Legend tearsevery ligament in both legsWednesday night againstConnecticut, the Legend can-not fail. His contributionswill be known forever. Spokeof constantly, even if he stillleaves UK despite that injury.We’ll talk about ‘What if theLegend had stayed healthy?’
But John Wall, the realkid we watch play basketballtwo-to-three times a week canfail. He does it every game.
Wall is second on theteam with 31 turnovers to thispoint in the season. Fellowfreshman point guard EricBledsoe leads the team with34 turnovers, but has playedin one more game that Wall.
Those aren’t awful num-bers, but so far UK hasplayed one quality opponent:North Carolina. In that game,Wall had seven turnovers.
There’s a chance JohnWall’s body fails as well.Muscle cramps shut himdown for most of the secondhalf against North Carolina.The simplest sports injuryhad taken the Legend off thecourt and made Wall humanfor a few minutes. UK waslost without him.
What if the musclecramps hit at the worst possi-
ble time? What if there is aworse injury? Bodies aren’talways made to live up tolegends. Just ask Greg Oden.
Knees can blow. Musclescan bulge. Surgery can sloweven the best players. If Wallloses his quick feet andspeed, he loses the elementsthat created the Legend.
Super-human athletes failall the time. It’s human na-ture. Michael Jordan andTiger Woods are two of themost prominent athletes inU.S. history. Both men havefailed, both in competitionand out of it.
Is John Wall bigger thanthose two? Not yet. He maynever be.
But the legend ofMichael Jordan has neverfailed. He’s still rememberedas the best basketball playerever. MJ won championshipafter championship. His per-sonal and on-the-court fail-ures have been pushed asidefrom everyday memory.
Such is the same withJohn Wall. He’ll eventuallymess up or come up just a lit-tle short. It could be in thebiggest game of his career.But the more he accomplish-es in the UK uniform themore the Legend grows.
Of which failure is not anoption.
Kenny Colston is journal-ism senior. E-mail [email protected].
John Wall may not be a sure thing, but the Legend can do no wrong
KENNYCOLSTONKernel
columnist
PHOTO BY ADAM WOLFFBRANDT | STAFFFreshman guard John Wall leads UK in scoring with 18.1 points pergame, adding to his growing legend.
Wednesday, December 9, 2009 | PAGE 5
By Andrew [email protected]
UK’s freshmen seminar classes will bemixing up their rosters by next fall.
Starting in Fall 2010, certain sections ofUK 101 will no longer exist. Scholarships,athletics and majors currently separate fresh-men in the UK 101 classes.
Certain sections, specifically the sectionsfor William C. Parker Scholars and athletes,will be assimilated into the other sections saidBecky Jordan, associate Dean of Students andUK 101 director.
“We will still have a section for first-gen-eration college students, but it won’t be exclu-sive to any one program,” Jordan said.
The change also partially reflects the de-sire of the students, according to class evalua-tions and focus groups.
“The Parker scholars provided feedbackthat they didn’t like being in separate sec-tions,” Jordan said.
Ashley Hockney, an English sophomore,assisted in teaching a UK 101 course and saidspecialized sections are necessary because stu-dents’ experiences are different.
“It was sometimes difficult to relate withstudents who had dealt with different pres-sures than I did,” Hockney said.
Louis Jackson, an engineering junior, saidthe way UK 101 courses are separated illus-trates the university’s need for diversity.
“I just felt it caused an issue of separa-tion,” Jackson said. “There’s already an issuewith separation then as soon as you get here,UK separates you.”
However, some students like Tre Knight, akinesiology sophomore, said being around stu-dents of a similar background could improveretention.
“UK 101 clustering all the Parker scholarsgave us the only opportunity we had not tofeel isolated,” Knight said.
By eliminating some of the specializedsections, most students and faculty, includingJordan, thought the course would benefit frommore diversity in all sections.
“UK 101 is sponsored by the Office ofStudent Affairs and Undergraduate Education,and we both felt it was important to have rep-resentation from all students,” Jordan said.“It’s ours and the university’s desire to pro-mote diversity … across all UK 101 sections.”
Specialized UK 101 sectionscould be eliminated by Fall 2010
By Laura [email protected]
The Student Center ismaking room for one applethat is no longer forbidden tocampus.
The UK Bookstore is un-veiling Lexington’s first Ap-ple Store Wednesday. How-ever, only UK students, facul-ty and staff will be able topurchase computers and soft-ware offered at the store.
The store will offer spe-cial discounts for items suchas laptops, desktops, soft-ware, iPods and other Appleaccessories.
“Computers will rangefrom $50 to $300 cheaperthan the retail stores,” saidKevin McClurg, manager ofthe bookstore’s trade sectionand Apple Store.
Between 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.demonstrations will be givenand a random drawing will beheld for an iPod Touch.
The opening will includesales such as an “Apple Holi-day Bundle” deal for the UKcommunity, which includes aMacBook, an AppleCare war-ranty plan, a Hewlett-Packardprinter, laptop sleeve andportable laptop lock. The dealsaves students, faculty andstaff $344, according to a UKBookstore flier.
Having the store locatedon campus will make it muchmore convenient for studentswith technical issues, saidAdam Griggs, a civil engi-neering senior.
“The great thing abouthaving an Apple Store oncampus is that if I have aproblem with my Apple com-puter, I can bring it here in-stead of sending it away to adifferent store,” Griggs said.
In addition to the AppleStore grand opening, the storewill be hosting a UK facultyand staff appreciation event,said UK Bookstore manager
Sally Wiatrowski. Approxi-mately 9,000 faculty and staffwere invited to take part in a20 percent discount on UKgifts and apparel.
Wiatrowski said while shehopes the Apple Store will at-tract faculty and staff, thereare no special deals for themduring the grand opening.
“We know we can sell tostudents ... they utilize usmore everyday,” Wiatrowskisaid. “We want to try to bringin an audience that may notutilize us as much.”
Holiday treat: Apple store opensin UK Bookstore on Wednesday
Lopez said history faculty and students heldan impromptu grief session upon learning ofBowman’s death.
“We lost a brilliant historian,” she said.“He was a wise and gentle colleague.”
Chassen-Lopez said Bowman had an atti-tude of always wanting to help, whether withhis colleagues or his students. Despite beingsuch an intelligent man, Chassen-Lopez saidBowman was still unassuming and humble.
“He was so many things, a wonderfulscholar, wonderful teacher,” she said. “He wasa person always ready to help out everyoneelse.”
Bowman received his bachelor’s degreefrom the University of Virginia and studied forhis Ph.D. at the University of California atBerkley. Before moving to Lexington to teachat UK and Berea College, he spent 15 years atthe University of Texas at Austin. He served
as a Board member of Planned Parenthood inLexington and a member of the Board ofTrustees at Lexington's Sayre School.
Clayton Chambliss, headmaster at theSayre School where Bowman’s son attended,said Bowman was well-loved by the facultybecause as an educator he understood the val-ue of good teaching.
Bowman served as chairman of the educa-tion committee at Sayre, and Chambliss saidthe reactions he has witnessed to the news ofBowman’s death all focus on what a true inter-est Bowman took in people.
“You really believed he was listening toyou and valued you, even people that didn’tparticularly know him,” Chambliss said.
Bowman is survived by his wife, Lee Wil-ley, two children, Kate and Willis, and his sib-lings Susan (David) Reynolds and Jane (John)Fain, of Richmond, Va., and John (Ginny)Bowman of Durham, N.C.
A memorial service will be held Wednes-day at 3 p.m. at First Presbyterian Church on174 N. Mill St. A reception at the SayreSchool will follow the service.
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to SG in hopes for an increasein fees for the past fewweeks, said Joe Quinn, SGdeputy chief of staff for pro-gramming. Quinn said the lastpresentation will be madeThursday.
SG will send their recom-mendations to Interim Vice
President for Student Affairsand Dean of Students VictorHazard and Provost KumbleSubbaswamy. Quinn said noclear indication as to howmuch the fee increase wouldbe was available yet.
The student organizationsthat requested a fee increase,including Student ActivitiesBoard and the Office of Stu-dent Involvement, were askedto answer a list of questions,Quinn said, such as what the
organization would do with afee increase.
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current Mayor Jim Newberry and formerMayor Teresa Isaac.
Gray said he had not spoken to Newberryabout his decision on Tuesday. One of the rea-sons he decided to run against Newberry wasbecause of his disagreement with the Centre-Pointe project.
Gray said the project came at the wrongtime and was too extravagant and excessive.
“I’ve always had a real passion for the po-tential of Lexington’s economy and its down-town and its connection to the university, andso this project represents the center of ourcity,” he said. “So symbolically it’s enormous-ly important not just for today, but arguablythe next 100 years or 200 years.
“Being an empty hole in the city is sym-bolic of the last three years.”
Gray said the project was symbolic of themayor’s job and the city should take a differ-ent path to the future.
“I’m not timid about believing that I cando better, and that I can make a difference,”Gray said.
GRAYContinued from page 1
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What: Apple Store grandopeningWhen: Wednesday from 9a.m. to 6 p.m.Where: UK BookstoreAdmission: Free and open tothe public
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It has become almost an annual tra-dition in college football: several unde-feated and one-loss teams conclude
their season with atleast a good argumentas to why they shouldappear in the BCSChampionship Game.
Sports fans and thetalking heads at the ma-jor media networks putin their two cents in onwhat is an obviouslybroken college footballchampionship format.
Undoubtedly, theBCS system is an in-
effective format in deciding a nationalchampion, so much so that even Presi-dent Obama spoke of a need in creat-ing a fairer system.
Undoubtedly, too, is the glaringfact that a playoff system would fix alot of the mess that the BCS has creat-ed: an eight-team playoff would ac-count for the one-loss teams and unde-feated teams that fall short of BCSChampionship Game eligibility and al-low great teams with a minor glitch intheir resume (such as a second-placeBig 12 or Southeastern Conferenceteam) to still have a legitimate chanceat the national championship.
In a perfect world, a playoff systemwould also do away with the require-ment that champions from weaker BCSconferences (we’re looking at you, BigEast and ACC) automatically get a bidto a high-profile bowl while successfulmid-majors, such as Boise State this sea-son or Utah in 2008, have virtually nochance in playing for a championship.
It would also allow powerhouseconferences to get more than just theirchampion into the national champi-onship picture, which should be thecase this year with Alabama and Flori-da both deserving a shot the Southeast-ern Conference Championship game
doesn’t truly allow them to have, espe-cially with Texas winning the Big 12.
The NCAA has proven to be an or-ganization that common sense forgotabout, and definitely a governing bodyincapable of “fixing” a problem, espe-cially with a drastic change such as aplayoff format.
The preseason polls also adds to theproblem, taking many teams out of titlecontention in August. For example, takeFlorida this season — their preseasonNo. 1 ranking (however deserved itwas) gave them the best chance to winthe national championship before theyeven played a game.
Hypothetically speaking, if Floridalost a game prior to the SoutheasternConference Championship, they realisti-cally would have remained in the topten. Winning out would have most as-suredly put them back in the top three orfour teams giving them a good chance tostill play for the BCS, regardless of howstrong their remaining schedule was.Now, if a team ranked twenty-fifth in thepreseason lost an early-season game,they would fall completely out of thepolls into the “also receiving votes” pool.
This human-based poll ranking, fac-tored in to the BCS formula, decideswho goes to the Championship Gameand the four BCS bowls (Orange, Fiesta,Sugar, and Rose), so these preseasonrankings continually put a significantskew on the national championship pic-
ture before a game is even played.This season, Florida beat its first
three opponents handily, even thoughthese opponents were the equivalent ofplaying Gainesville-area high schoolteams. Alabama, on the other hand,opened its season by risking its nation-al championship hopes and playing avery tough (and then sixth ranked) Vir-ginia Tech team in Atlanta.
Even though Alabama beat the Hok-ies and won its first three games too,the preseason rankings had doomed it tobe behind Florida even though itsschedule was harder and its record iden-tical. Lucky for Alabama, there was theSoutheastern Conference Championship.
Imagine if our Kentucky Wildcats,unranked preseason, had won all of ourgames this season, we would mostlikely be ranked number two in the na-tion behind Texas, due to their higherpreseason ranking.
Any ranking prior to games beingplayed are too biased and uninformed tobe as big a factor in the national cham-pionship picture as they are. At the veryleast ranking shouldn’t be released tillweek six of the season when win-lossrecords and strength of schedule cantruly be included in the ranking process.
Don’t get me wrong – I love collegefootball as much as the next guy – but Ialso realize that the BCS system is aninadequate and unfair way to determinea true, uncontested national champion.
While an eight-team playoff thattruly takes the best eight teams is theobvious solution (and way too obviousfor the NCAA to grasp), doing awaywith preseason and early-season pollsmight be a step in the right direction tobring equality to college football andgive every single team out there – fromthe Texas Longhorns to the Boise StateBroncos to the Kentucky Wildcats – alegitimate shot at the promised land.
Adam French is an MBA graduatestudent. E-mail [email protected].
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BRETT HATFIELD, Kernel cartoonist
KERNEL EDITORIAL
Broken system requires real change
The UK Board of Trustees dealt with another energy top-ic during last week’s meeting, albeit with a little less contro-versy than the previous issue dealing with energy sources.That meeting resulted in students being escorted out of themeeting, this one ended with a positive change for the cam-pus.
According to a Dec. 2 Kernel article. the board ap-proved a contract to reduce energy use on campus by 10 to15 percent inserting UK directly into the ongoing debateabout whether the country or even the world has enoughenergy resources to power all the necessities in life.
The question is, how deep will UK get involved in thechange?
With “green” movements popping up all across thecountry, this step is a no-brainer. Conserving energy isnever a bad thing. Setting back the thermostat or turningoff that light while you’re watching TV not only conservesenergy, but it also reduces electric bills.
Kentucky is very fortunatein that it pays one of the low-est utility rates in the countryper kilowatt hour. Falling inthe bottom ten of state utilityrates, Kentucky residents payon average about 7 cents perkilowatt hour, according to theU.S. Energy Information Ad-ministration.
If Kentuckians want tokeep paying low bills, theymust be conscious about their
energy use. UK is taking this step and as the main publicuniversity in this state, it is responsible for setting the bar.
Besides the things UK is doing at their buildings, thereare actions students living on campus can take to help.Turning off the lights when you leave your dorm room is astart. Taking shorter showers, turning the faucet complete-ly off and turning off the lights while watching TV canalso contribute to conserving energy.
After helping out the environment with reduced energyuse, this energy contract can help reduce UK’s bills. Spend-ing less money on energy can result in more money beingput into the general fund. With a potential budget cut on thehorizon, UK will need to cut costs anywhere it can to ensuretuition rates and other costs will not raise to new heights.
Keep in mind where the money is going next time youleave the lights on in a dorm room or leave that faucet onin White Hall Classroom Building. It could be comingfrom your pocket.
Moving forward with changing environmental policyand desire to find more sustainable, long-term methods ofenergy production, there must be more than just taking thesimple steps.
Keeping Kentucky’s energy prices should be the ulti-mate goal, but the plans have to think beyond just the emi-nent cuts. To many, the trustees have failed campus withits decision regarding the coal lodge now would not be thetime to fail when the real issue is on the line.
Board’s meetings notintentionally shrouded
The editorialists andstaff reporter Laura Clarkwho wrote about this earliermade an excellent point onthe unnecessary secrecyshrouding the Board ofTrustees and access to it.Thank you.
However, there mightbe some slight confusionamong the Kernel editorial-ists on this.
While it is true that thepolicy on agenda postingwas adopted directly by theBoard of Trustees, the Ker-nel editorial appears to alsoimply that it is the Board ofTrustees that deliberatelyprevents the requesterswanting to speak to theboard from reaching it.
No, in clear differentia-tion with the Governing(i.e. higher-level) Regula-tions, the UK Administra-tive (subordinate) Regula-tions are written and main-tained by the president ofthe university. And it is oneof his (Administrative) reg-ulations that specifies a“jump through the hoops”procedure for the requesterswishing to speak to theboard. The board simplyapproved that policy madeby a UK president in 1970.
Also, the Executive Vice
President Frank Butler is try-ing to lead the Kernel and itsreaders by the nose: the ab-sence of the list of requeststo appear before the boarddoes not mean there were norequests to appear before theboard. I know of severalsuch requests. Mr. Butlerclearly knows what the Ker-nel wanted him to disclosevia its open records request,by preventing disclosingthose requests (or even peo-ple’s names) by legally per-missible but ethically inex-cusable subterfuge.
He should be ashamed ofhimself and angry with thepeople in the UK legal officewho actually write his an-swers to open records re-quests. This practice of un-ethical stonewalling is toopernicious to let it slide. Be-sides, the Governing Regula-tion No.1 expressly demandsall UK employees, includingMr. Butler and his subordi-nates, to be ethically straight.
Thank you for keepingthe issue of the board andadministration secrecy alive.This is exactly how the jour-nalists shredded the IronCurtain in Eastern Europe.
Andrei VorobievFormer UK Professor
Conservationresponsibilityfor total campus
Congress in is over its head with policyThe average student
knows very well every pos-sible way to extend the
length of apaper toreach a pro-fessor’s re-quirements.
Whetherthey useformattingmethodssuch asmodifyingmargins andtext size, orsimply re-
state the same point againand again, it is rarely diffi-cult to fake length; however,the more advanced deceiversamong us also know wellthat a lack of depth can alsobe masked by increasinglength far passed what istruly required.
Don’t know the answer toan essay question? Just writeevery conceivable answerdown in a long, meanderingresponse and hope the profes-sor is just looking for keywords — It’s not ideal, butit’s usually far better thanwriting down what you actu-ally think is the exact answer.
The best part of this par-ticular strategy is that it
holds real world applicabili-ty, unlike most things peopleare suppose to learn inschool. Just look at thehealth care bills floatingabout the House and Senate.
The two variants to-gether come in at a com-bined 4,100 pages. Simplyflipping through them at a-page-a-second rate wouldtake over an hour, muchless actually reading andcomprehending the behe-moths. It is an absolute cer-tainty that not a singlemember of Congress hasactually read both of thesemonstrosities, much lessgrasped their complexities.
And yet, each and everyperson on Capitol Hill has astaunch opinion of them.Granted, a lot of the opin-ions stem from more broadthoughts on the issue as awhole, but the insane lengthof the bills requires opinionsto form from that alone. It’simpossible to have a viewon the bill as a whole whenit’s beyond human capacityto comprehend without sixcollege degrees and a freemonth or two.
Therein lies the problemwith the bill. Like a collegestudent BSing his way
through a test, the length ofthe bills simply serves tomask the fact that Congresshas no idea of what it reallywants to do. It is trying toplease a multitude of interests,compromise across impossi-ble lines and still effect realchange, an impossible task.
Every time a slight prob-lem arises, it adds anotherloophole to the system andanother page to bill. The dif-ficult way to solve the diffi-cult issues still facing thelegislation is to revise whatalready exists. The easy wayis to keep tacking on moreand more legalese to theback of the bill. KnowingCongress, it is not surprisingthe solution they chose.
The same problem the
college student faces with thisstrategy confronts Congressas well though.
If while muddling throughtheir chosen path they happento stumble upon the correctanswer, the process has oftengone too far to turn aroundand start again. Congress can-not afford to scrap the workthey have done, so at thispoint they have no choice butto continue trudging forwardwith what they have.
The Democratic Party inparticular can ill afford tostopping pushing forwardbecause of the political costof losing this key battle. Thestruggle will continue de-spite all the reasons it shouldnot. It is more important forboth sides to win out withwhat they have than attemptto create something better.
Instead of treating one ofthe most important pieces oflegislation with the care itdeserves, Congress hasmade the whole thing into amassive rough draft. OurCongress was all students atone point and judging fromtheir output, old habits real-ly do die hard.
Tim Riley is an MBAgraduate student. [email protected].
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With “green” movements popping
up all across thecountry, this step is
a no-brainer.Conserving energy is
never a bad thing.
Like a college studentBSing his waythrough a test,
the length of the billsimply serves to maskthe fact that congresshas no idea of what it
really wants to do.
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Orton excelling whileflying under the radar
By Metz [email protected]
Freshman forward DanielOrton isn’t getting the nation-al publicity and respect of hisfellow freshman teammates,but he’s fine with that.
Orton, who didn’t scoreagainst North Carolina onSaturday and only averages4.4 points a game, has beensingled out throughout theseason by UK head coachJohn Calipari. Orton’sblocked shot of North Caroli-na forward Ed Davis fourminutes into the game wasone of the catalysts to UK’s28-2 run. The block went tofreshman guard John Wall,who then raced down thecourt for an acrobatic layupthat cut the lead to three andenergized the crowd.
“I really don’t have thatmuch of a leadership role,”Orton said. “But I feel like Iwas kind of a leader out there(against North Carolina) ingetting us on the roll that westarted on.”
Still, the highlight of theseason for the Cats has beenthe play of Wall. The Raleigh,N.C., native is leading theteam in points and assists andwhen he went down from abattle with cramps early in thesecond half against UNC, theCats appeared lost for a whileuntil settling back down,thanks in part to Orton.
With their leader off thefloor and the Tar Heels ridingon a 10-0 run, Orton stuffedUNC freshman forward JohnHenson on a dunk attempt.The ball led to an outlet passthat was finished off with aslam dunk by junior forwardPatrick Patterson. That re-en-ergized a crowd that had gonesilent from the UNC run.
The lull from the Catscaused some to say they aredependent upon the play ofWall, but Orton said there’smore to UK than just oneplayer.
“John’s a great player,don’t get me wrong,” Ortonsaid. “But there’s so many lit-tle, minor pieces to the puzzlearound that get us going andget us started.”
While it may be the firsttime a 6-foot-10, 255-poundforward is classified as a “lit-tle, minor piece to a puzzle,”Orton’s play has been indica-tive of just that. While he still
hasn’t started a game, Ortonis currently second on theteam in blocked shots and hasprovided the Cats with astrong defensive presencewith fellow freshman forwardDeMarcus Cousins findinghimself in first half foul trou-ble on multiple occasions.
Wall said Orton’s energyin the UNC game rubbed offon the rest of them and be-came contagious.
“He was bouncing aroundlike coach wanted us to dowhen we’re playing defense,and he was clapping, andblocking shots and rebound-ing,” Wall said. “When hecomes in with the type of en-ergy like that, it builds on allof us. That’s what got us onour big run (against UNC).”
Calipari also singled outOrton’s energy and defensivepresence in the UNC gameand said while he didn’t scorea point, he and senior forwardPerry Stevenson were the rea-sons UK beat UNC.
With Wall and Cousinsgetting so much attention astwo of the more highly-toutedplayers in the country comingout of high school, Caliparisaid Orton has been able tocome in with no pressure andexcel.
“He’s got the best job onthe team,” Calipari said. “Hehas no pressure. Whatever hedoes is like added. He got nobaskets and we’re talkingabout Daniel Orton being likethe best player.”
Orton’s two blocksagainst UNC gave him hisfourth straight game finishingwith two blocks. Still, the bigman from Oklahoma Citysaid he thought he’d be doingmore at this point.
“I’m playing OK,” Ortonsaid. “I expected to see my-self do a lot better, but I can’tcomplain, we’re winning.”
By Ben [email protected]
Attorneys for senior pitcher James Pax-ton filed a reply Tuesday to the university’sresponse for Paxton’s motion for an injunc-tion in his suit with UK.
In the reply, Paxton’sattorneys argued theirclient’s rights as a studentwere violated under theStudent Code of Conduct,and that he is not a mem-ber of the NCAA. Accord-ing to the reply, colleges,universities and athleticconferences are members.
Paxton’s attorneys believe their client,under the Code, had a right to be informedof the allegations the NCAA had broughtagainst him before asking him to submit toan interview, and that he does not have tosubmit to an interview if he is not informedof the allegations against him beforehand.
The reply also states Paxton should stillbe allowed to play baseball until he is in-formed of the allegations against him, al-though the university claims a right towithhold an athlete from competition if hehas “unresolved eligibility questions.”
The issues surrounding Paxton’s eligi-bility appear to come from his relationship
with Scott Boras, a high-profile MLB agentwho represents MLB superstars Alex Ro-driguez and Manny Ramirez, among oth-ers.
Under NCAA rules, amateur athletesare allowed to consult advisers during thenegotiation process, but the advisers arenot allowed to be in contact with the pro-fessional team. According to an Aug. 18newspaper article included in UK’s 87-page response, Toronto Blue Jays interimpresident Paul Beeston said Boras negoti-ated with the team after Paxton was takenwith the 37th overall pick in baseball’s2009 amateur draft.
One of Paxton’s lawyers, Richard G.Johnson, told the Kernel in a phone inter-view on Dec. 4 that neither Paxton norBoras can be forced to disclose whetherBoras negotiated for Paxton, because itwould be a violation of the attorney-clientprivilege.
Paxton, a senior, was set to becomethe Cats ace and to lead the pitching stafffor UK head coach Gary Henderson. Pax-ton finished last year with a 5-3 recordand a 5.86 earned run average. The left-hander won the Southeastern ConferencePitcher of the Week award once afterbeating Ole Miss in 2008.
The next court date for the case is setfor Jan. 15, 2010.
Paxton response to UK citesStudent Code of Conduct
Paxton
Freshman for-ward DanielOrton tries todunk in Satur-day’s winagainst NorthCarolina. Ortonhas flourishedcoming off thebench behindPatrick Patter-son andDeMarcusCousins.
PHOTO BYALLIE GARZASTAFF
“He’s got the best jobon the team. He has nopressure ... He got no
baskets and we’re talk-ing like Daniel Ortonbeing like the best
player.”JOHN CALIPARI
UK head coach
PHOTO BY ED MATTHEWS | STAFFUK head coach John Calipari said freshman forward Daniel Ortonhas less pressure on him playing behind other players.
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