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UK students can learnhow to get involved at theCenter for Community Out-reach Volunteer Fair.

The fair will be held from10 a.m. - 2 p.m. Wednesdayon the Student Center patio.

The fair is open to all un-dergraduate and graduate stu-dents at UK and “gives stu-dents the opportunity to meetwith non-profit agenciesaround and out of Lexington,”said Ashley Lee, Director ofSpecial Events at CCO.

Lee said the fairs showsstudents what CCO offers be-sides Fusion and Dance Blue.

Over 50 non-profit agen-cies will be at the fair includ-ing UK student organizationssuch as Habitat for Humanity,Students Helping Hondurasand Alpha Phi Omega, a na-tional service fraternity.

The CCO expects 300-400students to attend, and Leesaid there will be free popsi-cles for students who arethere.

By Rachel Aretakisnews@kykernel.com

CCO hosts

studentfair

Psychology is commonlythought of a as the study ofhuman behavior. However,much can be learned abouthumans by the study of ani-mals.

Recent research done byUK psychology professorThomas Zentall suggests thathuman and animal behavior ismore similar than biologistsmay think.

Zentall’s research, calledcomparative cognition re-search, has provided new in-formation on the similaritiesbetween animal and humanpsychology, particularly in ar-eas of self-control and socialreinforcement .

Zentall received his Ph.D.in psychology at University ofCalifornia, Berkley, and hasworked at UK since 1975. Hehas performed research with avariety of animals, but prima-rily works with pigeons.

Zentall recently per-formed an experiment that

By Jill Seelmeyernews@kykernel.com

Professorresearchesgambling

See ZENTALL on page2

UK and German students participating inan exchange program not only have to adjustto a foreign country and language but also tothe college campus culture that differs betweenAmerican and German universities.

The German-American Fulbright Commis-sion’s program “Discover Germany- DiscoverUSA” allows American and German studentsthe opportunity to experience life in a differentcountry. Students from UK visited Germanythis past summer and currently a group of Ger-man students are at UK, attending classes andtouring the area.

Two members of the German group in-clude Ilya Lukin,21, of Kiel, Germanyand Vik-tor Ayzenshtadt, 24, of Hannover, Germany.They said universities in Germany are mostlybased around professions.

“You have to know what you want to dobefore entering the university,” Lukin said.

In German universities, students do nottake general education classes; they only takecourses that are required for their area of study.

Other than academics, Ayzenshtadt saidcampus life is different at UK than Germanuniversities because it has more clubs and oth-er activities for students to participate in. Hesaid he especially enjoyed K Week and eventslike K Week are uncommon in Germany.

“I have the feeling that [UK] really caresabout you,” Ayzenshtadt said on his overallimpression of the K Week events. He also saidthat in Germany, students really only have oneday to learn about the university and how toget around.

Lukin agreed with Ayzenshtadt and said KWeek “was a very nice experience.” He said heliked it because “you have from the beginningthis feeling to be a part of the university.”

From the American perspective, Elisa Un-derwood, a UK sophomore who traveled toGermany with the program this past summer,said one of the major differences she noticedwas that the lack of community among stu-dents at the German university.

“Home and school were two separate enti-ties, unlike here where you intermingle the twobecause it’s your life,” Underwood said.

Kayla Scalf, a UK senior and anothermember of the trip to Germany, said she also

By Rachel Aretakisnews@kykernel.com

Students telldifferencesbetween UKand Germany

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Many students waited in long linesTuesday to get B.o.B. and Jason Derulo.

On Sept. 7, the UK ticket office be-gan selling tickets for the Student Ac-tivties Board fall concert on Oct. 21.

Students were already in line whenticket sales began at 10 a.m.

“Luckily I didn’t have any morningclasses, so I was able to get in line atabout 7 a.m.,” sophomore Eli Edwardssaid.

All 700 floor tickets were sold be-fore 3 p.m., SAB Director of Concerts

Chris Duncan said.“There has been a nonstop flow of

students purchasing tickets all day,”Duncan said.

“I only know a couple of B.o.B.’ssongs, but the concert just sounds likefun,” freshman Summer Patterson said.

To increase student input into theartist choice, SAB held a poll in whichstudents could vote for their choice ofartist. Derulo and B.o.B. took the vote.

“I’m glad that B.o.B. is the artistcoming because that’s who I voted for,”senior Lauren Sexton said.

By Sean Meloneynews@kykernel.com

Students endure long waits

for SAB concert tickets

PHOTO BY BRANDON GOODWIN | STAFFPre-Communication Disorders freshman Anna Newawaits tickets to SAB concert at the UK Ticketmaster Office.

PHOTO BY BRANDON GOODWIN | STAFFLexington firefighters stand outside UK’s Chemistry-Physics building monitoring an isolated fire, Sept. 7.

HEATING UP

Achemical fire occurred in theChemistry-Physics BuildingTuesday afternoon.

The Lexington Fire De-partment initially respondedto Chem-Phys after 5:30 p.m.for a private fire alarm, Bat-talion Chief Randy Gilliamsaid. While on the way tocampus, Gilliam said theywere alerted that chemicalsmay be involved.

With the possibility ofchemicals, HazMat trucksalso responded, firefighterAntoine Tribble said.

But when crews arrived,they found no fire, Gilliamsaid.

“After conferring with thestudents that were insideworking in the lab, they saidinitially there was a smallfire,” Gilliam said. “Theywere able to put it out.”

He said the students wereworking with sodium hydrideand had a small fire. The stu-dents tried to put water on it,which caused the fire to flash,

Gilliam said.

The students then gotsome isopropanol, the recom-mended extinguishing agent,to put out the fire, Gilliamsaid.

On a cupful of chemicalwas involved in the fire, andthe students were able to getthe flash fire put out. The

sprinkler system did not gooff, and no fire damage

resulted, Gilliam said. Students called the fire

department after trying to usewater to put out the fire, hesaid.

The fire did not pose arespiratory risk, Gilliam said.But the chemicals are caustic,

so clean-up crews had to weargloves and protective cloth-ing.

The fire alarm was pulled,Gilliam said, and the buildingwas completely evacuated.People were beginning to re-enter the building around6:30 p.m.

Some students, like min-ing engineering graduate stu-dent Mohammad Rezaee,were drawn to all of the com-motion at Chem-Phys.

“I saw that there was a lotof people and police,” Rezaeesaid.

Rezaee said he had classin the mining department andwas going to meet one of hisfriends at Chem-Phys. Hesaid his friend made it out ofthe building and was at home.

More than 15 firetrucksresponded to the scene.Gilliam said the crews want-ed to be prepared.

“It was probably a littlemore impressive from thestreet,” Gilliam said. “Wewould rather have the crewshere ready to go, and I’mthankful it wasn’t more thanwhat it was.”

By Taylor Moaktmoak@kykernel.com

Fire in Chemistry-Physics Building “

I have the feel-

ing that [UK] really

cares about you.

Viktor Ayzenshtadt Germon student

“I’m thankful it wasn’tmore than what it

was.”RANDY GILLIAM

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Should the White Housego solar?

The answer from a newcampaign by several solarpower companies to encour-age the most famous addressin the U.S. to go renewable isa resounding yes.

Led by Sungevity, the"Globama" project is offeringthe White House a 102-panel,17.85-kilowatt solar systemthat would reduce the WhiteHouse's electric bills 81 per-cent or $1,610 per month.

That's quite an upgradefrom the old 32-panel solararray that used to sit on top of1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

Back in 1979, then Presi-dent Jimmy Carter installedthe system, which was usedto heat water for the staff eat-

ing area and usher in a newera in American innovationand independence from for-eign fossil fuels.

Unfortunately, PresidentRegan had them removed in1986 during a roof repair andthey never returned. Fast for-ward 24 years, and a groupcalled "Put Solar On It" fromUnity College is taking a roadtrip from Maine to the D.C. todeliver one of those famousCarter panels back to Presi-dent Obama.

Environmentalist and au-thor Bill McKibben recentlyannounced that he was tag-ging along for the ride.

"We're taking them backto the White House ... It'stime to put these back up,"McKibben said on a recent

"The Late Show With DavidLetterman."

While the Obamas cer-tainly have instituted a num-ber of eco-friendly additionssince 2008, adding solar tothe roofline would be quitethe statement.

It would show a level ofcommitment to the renewableenergy sector not seen from1600 Pennsylvania Avenue inmore than 30 years.

Not to mention, this timearound, it would be muchharder for any future adminis-tration to just make this mas-sive array "disappear" duringa roof repair.

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tested whether pigeons havethe same tendency to gam-ble as humans. The experi-ment provided the pigeonswith one choice that en-sured they would receivefood pellets, while the otherchoice provided them withonly a 20 percent chancethat they would be reward-ed with a ‘jackpot’ of pel-lets.

The results of the experi-ment showed that pigeonschoose to gamble, possibly

for the same reasons that hu-mans do.

“There’s something at afundamental level for the at-traction to gambling,” Zen-tall said.

He said results such asthese show “some compli-cated human behavior maynot be as complicated as so-cial scientists have said."

Zentall’s findings are notonly interesting, but alsoserve a practical purpose aswell.

“If we can find out howto keep pigeons from gam-bling, was can possibly fig-ure out how to prevent hu-mans from gambling,” Zen-

tall said.Zentall plans to perform

similar gambling experi-ments with rats, dogs andhumans.

A book edited by Zen-tall, titled “ComparativeCognition," was mentionedin an article about animal in-telligence in an August issueof Time magazine.

“Zentall is an amazingresearcher. said HollyMiller, a psychology gradu-ate student who has workedwith Zentall for 5 years.“He’s contributed so muchto animal cognition research.It’s a nice thing to see hiswork recognized.”

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noticed that personal life andcollege life are not connect-ed at German universities.

“We consider UK a com-munity we invest ourselvesin,” Scalf said, “while col-lege for them is just going toschool to get an education.”

As the college commu-nity varies from Germany toAmerica, higher education

as a system does too. Ger-man higher education is lessexpensive than it is inAmerica, dormitories arenot common on campusesand students are generallyon their own for housingand food.

While the campus com-munity of German andAmerican universities is notthe same, Lukin said thestructure and schedule ofclasses at UK are similar tothose of German institutions.

The daily life of German

students might vary fromAmerican students, butLukin said they do have sim-ilar schedules in the waythey walk to class, get coffeeand socialize with one an-other.

And as the customs ofcollege students differ fromGermany to America, so dothe actual college students.

“Its more easy goinghere,” Ayzenshtadt stated.“We Germans are used totaking things more seriously.

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What do a zombie, achicken and a flamboyantcowboy have in common?They are all a part of an upand coming improvisationgroup on campus. Improvisa-tion, or “improv,” is an onthe spot, quick off thetongue, off-the-top-of-yourhead acting style.

The Skitty Cats is a newcampus improv group hopingto revive comedy on campus.Theatre seniors BrianSprauge and Alex Koehlcame up with the idea of animprov group to fill whatthey saw as a void in the the-atre department. They saidUK had an improv group afew years ago, but it nevergot far off the ground.

“We wanted to bring atheatre showcase of comedy toUK and branch out into thecommunity,” Sprauge said. Koehl took clown and improvclasses in Second City, Chica-go and wants to see somethingsimilar at UK. The two heldauditions last week and themembers of the newly formedcomedy act were chosen.

During callbacks lastThursday, comedy pouredfrom the cast. It was a mixedgroup of theatre students,physics majors and even amagician.

Senior Alys Dickersonwas drawn in by the live as-

pect of the group. She camein to experiment with hercomedy skills and walked outan improv star.

During the callback, shetook on the role of a womanwith tentacles for arms. Shesaid she would really like tosee this group become a rec-ognized organization on cam-pus.

Skit subjects ranged fromcheeseburgers and apes toscandalous bus stops andAbraham Lincoln. The newimprov group consists of 12members and buckets ofjokes.

Based out of the LittleBlack Box Theatre, the SkittyCats will perform aroundcampus and in separate ven-ues in the Lexington area,hoping to perform about twoshows a month.

The comedic Wildcatswill take the show on theroad in October when theytravel to Louisville. The groupplans to have improv work-shops for future Skitties.Koehl and Sprauge want toevolve an audience-provoked,“Saturday Night Live” styleperformance, with a “Whoseline is it anyway?” twist.

The Skitty Cats plan foreach of their performances tobe full of comedy, crying,screaming and outrageoussketches. Expect to see newimprov group soon, jumping,singing and wailing aroundcampus.

By Taylor Spawnews@kykernel.com

Skitty Kats bringimprov to UK

Are you ready for somefootball? Canadian football,that is.

Don’t worry, the Canadi-an Football League, or CFL,is exactly like the NFL in thesame way that RC Cola is

exactly like Pepsi.

Sure, the NFL has bettertalent, generates larger rev-enues, enjoys a larger follow-ing and implements a four-down system compared to theCFL’s three-down system, butif you don’t look beyond allthe differences, you’re being

a negative Nancy.Clearly, the NFL game

resonates with Canadians andAmericans alike, otherwisemore people would be payingattention to the current CFLseason, which is almost at itsmidway point, as opposed to

Thursday’s NFL kickoff be-tween the Brett Favre/Wran-gler Jeans-led Minnesota

Vikings and the “Who datsay dey gonna beat dem”Saints of New Orleans (sidenote: I hate Cajun grammar).

My biggest problem with

the CFL is that it misleads byincluding the term “Canadi-an” in the name of the league.If it weren’t for the non-im-port rule that requires half ofa team’s roster to be Canadi-

A Canuck promotes the CFL

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PHOTO BY WILLIAM BALDEN | STAFFJT McCoy (right), watches as fellow Skitty Cats improv members actduring a session, September 7.

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PHOTO BY BRITNEY MCINTOSH | STAFFSenior fullback Moncell Allen celebrates with teammates following the UK-Louisville game Saturday, Sept. 5. UK won the game 23-16 as Allen made his debut in his new position as fullback for the Cats.

Allen embraces new role as fullback

PHOTO BY BRITNEY MCINTOSH | STAFFSenior fullback Moncell Allen attempts a block on a Louisvilledefender in the Saturday, Sept. 5 intrastate rivalry game.

Moncell Allen had limited choicesentering his senior year. UK head coachJoker Phillips gave him the choice ofonly two stances.

One involved standing on the side-line with his helmet held under his arms.The other involved bent knees and eyesscanning a defensive front through theslit in his facemask waiting to strike.

Allen opted for the latter stance thisoffseason as he completed a switch fromtailback to fullback, much to the likingof Phillips, who saw signs in the seasonopener against Louisville that Allencan fit the mold of the prototypical full-back like former Cat and current NewYork Jet John Conner did in his UK ca-reer.

“It helps that (Allen) had success(against the Cardinals),” Phillips said.“Everybody saw it. The world saw him;The world saw him mowing peopledown and I think that helps convincehimself it's not a bad gig after all.”

After carrying the ball 96 times for469 yards in his first three seasons atUK, Allen was initially reluctant tomake a change to fullback, a selfless po-sition that often goes unrecognized.

Not only did Allen have to switchpositions, but he had the responsibilityof replacing Conner, a fifth-round draftchoice likely to see playing time withthe Jets and one of the most prolificblockers in college football last season.

“I didn’t really like (playing full-back) in the beginning,” Allen said. “Butat the same time, it’s something I had todo to make this team better.”

The team was certainly helped byAllen’s play in the season opener, whichincluded springing blocks for tailbacksDerrick Locke and Donald Russell, andjunior wide receiver Randall Cobb.

UK finished the game with 230rushing yards and three rushing touch-downs, and though Allen said he waspleased with the running game, he addedthat it felt strange to get his first taste ofaction at his new position.

“It was kind of different for me be-cause I’m not used to blocking defen-sive ends,” Allen said. “One of the playsI had to block one of the ends I just said‘Man, I’m just going to go up in thereand knock him and I don’t care whathappens,’ and I went in there and he wasjust shocked that one of the tailbackscame out of the backfield and hit himlike that.”

The Cats have become accustomed

to the fearless play of their fullback.“Whatever you need a fullback to

do, just look at John Conner,” Russellsaid. “You can’t be scared to go in thereand put a hat on a guy, and that’s whatMoncell does…He goes in there hits thedefender and the defender falls down.”

Russell joked that the only differ-ence he noticed running behind Allen in-stead of Conner on game day was hisability to see over the compact, 5-foot-7Allen, who hopes to make it to the NFLwith the same skill set his predecessorshared.

“Of course I can do the same thingsthat (Conner) did,” Allen said. “When Ilook at old tapes of John, I’m doing thesame things he was doing when he washere.”

Phillips knew that Allen was capableof emulating Conner’s play, but it wasjust a matter of getting him to embracehis new role.

“The reason that John Conner wasrated as the No. 1 fullback coming out isbecause he knew what he was,” Phillipssaid. “The fullbacks across the country,they’ve still got this tailback mentality.John Conner knew he was a fullback.We convinced Moncell he's a fullback.”

By Nick Craddockncraddock@kykernel.com

MINNEAPOLIS — Whether they comedressed in horns, cheese or gosh knowswhat, NFL fans should savor the 2010 sea-son. There might not be another one in2011.

This year's party begins Thursday nightin the Big Easy, but the reality of next year'sBig Queasy lurks just six months from now.The collective bargaining agreement be-tween the owners and players expires onMarch 5 and could trigger a lockout that de-lays or cancels the 2011 season.

"I don't think there's any doubt there'sgoing to be a work stoppage," said guardSteve Hutchinson, the Vikings' playersunion representative. "How long? Whoknows. It depends on what the owners' mo-tive is. I know the players are united, sowe're fully expecting there to be a lockout.We're making plans so that players are pre-pared for a year without football."

The owners opted out of the currentagreement in 2008. The move eliminatedthe salary cap for this season, added a yearto the unrestricted free agency requirementand created a Pat Williams-sized headachefor 2011.

Citing increased costs, owners want toreconfigure the formula used to distributethis multi-billion dollar pie. The playersdon't believe the owners' claim of financialhardship and are fighting what NFL Players'Association executive director DeMauriceSmith said amounts to a pay cut that willshrink the size of league revenues going tothe players from the current 59.5 percent to41 percent.

"I think the biggest problem is the own-ers won't open their books and show uswhat they're talking about when they saythey're losing money," Vikings linebackerBen Leber said. "If there's a problem, openthe books and show us."

By Mark CraigStar Tribune

Enjoy NFL 2010 because

there may not be an NFL 2011

See NFL on page 6

So much energy is spentfussing about the way collegefootball concludes we missthe peculiar nature of its be-ginning until it's upon us.

College football standsalone in major team sportswithout an exhibition gameperiod. Pros work out kinksin contests that don't count.Even major college basketballgets a couple of game-likeconditions that aren't recordedin the standings.

But instead of toeing thewater, college football divesin without knowing the tem-perature, and it helps explainthe shocks to the system.

Blocking schemes atKansas, defense at Mississip-

pi, shotgun snaps at Floridawere specific flaws coachingstaffs would have loved tohave tackled in dress rehears-al.

College football doesn'tpermit that. You coach 'em upin August and hope there's nostage fright in September.

When there is, a staff hasto prevent debut embarrass-ments from becoming season-long trends. Take the Jay-hawks.

Woefully unprepared isthe inescapable conclusion ofKansas' 6-3 loss to a NorthDakota State squad picked tofinish sixth in the nine-teamMissouri Valley Conferenceof the Football ChampionshipSubdivision (Division I-AA).

Plenty of conditions con-

spired for what might be theprogram's worst beat indecades. New staff, new quar-terback, players in new posi-tions — a stronger explana-tion is needed for moving theteam's best running back To-ben Opurum to linebacker —but the sum total still should-n't have yielded this debacle.

This was a crippling grid-iron blow for a school that,more than any in the nation,wrestles with itsbasketball/football identity.How often in the last dayhave Kansas fans thoughtabout Oct. 15? If you have toask, you don't understand theKU psyche.

Ole Miss knows who it is,which doesn't make its double

By Blair KerkhoffMCT

In college football, it has tobe right from the beginning

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The owners, according toSmith, have been willing toshare only the figures ofteam revenues under thesalary cap system. The unionwants full financial disclo-sure.

Under the current sys-tem, the league receives a $1billion revenue credit that is-n't included in the pie that'ssplit with the players. Themoney is used for operatingcosts, as well as the G-3 pro-gram to help finance newstadiums.

The league is asking foranother $1 billion credit thatCommissioner Roger Goodellsays will be used to "grow thegame." The league's logic isthat money would be used tocreate a bigger pie, whichideally would result in theplayers making as muchmoney or more than they cur-rently get.

The players are skeptical,to say the least, when they

look at a business that's al-ready bringing in $8 billionannually.

"The fact is this has beena very successful business,and a very successful busi-ness partnership for a long,long time," New OrleansSaints quarterback DrewBrees said this offseason."And last year, we experi-enced the highest revenueswe're ever experienced. Andas players, shoot. How is thesystem broken?"

The players also areskeptical that the owners areeven motivated to avoid alockout. The owners, afterall, are guaranteed billions ofdollars from their televisioncontracts even if there are nogames.

As if money wasn'tenough of a hurdle, there aremany other issues that needresolution before a new CBAcan ratified. The one thatgets the most attention isGoodell's steadfast determi-nation to increase the regularseason to 18 games whiledecreasing the preseason totwo games. There are also is-

sues concerning a rookiewage scale and testing forhuman growth hormone(HGH).

"What will it take to getsomething done?" Goodellsaid while visiting Chiefstraining camp last month."Pressure is a little bit of ahelp. This is something that isgoing to take a while."

Meanwhile, with no hintof a resolution, time march-es toward the NFL's firstwork stoppage since 1987,when a strike led to threeweeks of replacement play-ers. Free agency arrived inthe early 1990s, creating la-bor harmony that helped theNFL reach a level of popu-larity unmatched by any oth-er sport.

"If you look at what'shappened in hockey and base-ball and other sports, it's ob-vious that a work stoppage ingeneral is bad for sports,"Hutchinson said. "Fans don'twant to hear about the finan-cial side of the game, andrightfully so. It shouldn't takeus this long to figure thingsout.

"But the bottom line is wedon't see any evidence to sup-port the owners when theysay they're losing money.They won't show us that, soit's really just kind of smokeand mirrors right now as faras them saying they're losingmoney."

Smith made headlines atthe Super Bowl in Februarywhen Cincinnati Bengals re-ceiver Chad Ochocinco stoodduring a press conferenceand asked Smith about thepotential of a lockout in2011.

"On a scale of one to 10,"Smith said, "it's a 14."

It's eight months later andHank Williams Jr. will be bel-lowing "Are you ready forsome football?" to a rabid fanbase. Yet Smith's "14" hasn'tshrunk.

If anything, that numberis growing as the "LockoutWatch" on the union's web-site ticks off the seconds,minutes, hours and days untilthe league's first work stop-page in nearly a quarter cen-tury.

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overtime loss to JacksonvilleState, also of Division I-AA,easier to accept. A confuseddefense gave up 21 fourth-quarter points to allow over-time, which is college foot-ball's great equalizer.

Upsets like these are builton fortuitous moments andthe Rebels fell victim twice.They could have all butclinched the game in regula-tion and ended it in overtimewith fourth-and-long stops.But Jacksonville State con-verted both. The Gamecocks

also needed two-point con-versions to extend the win thegame, and both happened.

Jacksonville State coachJack Crowe was dead on: "Ithink there were some cir-cumstances we probablycouldn't repeat in 100 years ifwe tried to do it again," hesaid.

At other college footballstops like Florida, Texas andOklahoma, enough wentwrong to have fans, if notready to press the panic but-ton, at least knowing where tofind it on the control panel.

The post-Tim Tebow andColt McCoy eras are off toshaky starts. Snaps fromGators center Mike Pouncey

against Miami, Ohio, were anadventure. After three quar-ters, Florida had 25 yards oftotal offense with new quar-terback John Brantley, andthe team fumbled eight times.

Texas' 17-point victoryover Rice showed a Long-horns team in offensive tran-sition, from pass happy in theshotgun to balanced with newquarterback Garrett Gilbertmostly under center. The mar-gin should have been greaterbut of the top 10 programsthat were underwhelmingSaturday, the Longhorns'were easiest explained.

Defense was most puz-zling about the Sooners' sev-en-point survival against Utah

State. Quarterback LandryJones wasn't sharp but whatfigured to be one of the Big12's top defenses got torchedfor eight plays of 20 yards ormore.

"We got a ton of work todo," was Bob Stoops' bottomline.

He spoke for coachesacross the land who wouldloved to have had a PSAT op-portunity. But this is collegefootball. Every test counts.

And for those who stum-bled out of the gate, first im-pressions don't have to bedefining. Those programs justhave more work and less timeto operate.

FOOTBALLContinued from page 5

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College can be a verystressful time. Schoolwork, roommates, finances,grades, relationships, jobhunting—these things cancause stress in a person’slife.

Chronic stress can leadto a variety of health is-sues, including heart dis-ease and, for some people,depression.

Thirty percent of collegestudents reported that they feltso depressed at least once inthe past year that it was diffi-cult to function.

Depression is a chroniccondition, and while clini-cians are not sure exactlywhat causes depression,there could be a number offactors involved. These in-clude hormonal changes,inherited traits and life

changes (such as stress).Many times depression

just appears out ofnowhere. It is important toremember that someonewho feels depressed is inpain, and is not makingthese feelings up.

Some people may findthat the pain of their de-pression is so great, itcauses them to considersuicide. Ninety percent ofall suicides occurring dur-ing or following a depres-sive episode.

Think about this:• Almost 30,000 Amer-

icans die from suicide eachyear.

• Suicide is the thirdleading cause of death for15 to 24 year olds in theU.S.

• According to the

College of Social Work, 65percent of UK students re-portedly know someonewho has attempted or diedby suicide.

Almost everyone whohas attempted or died fromsuicide gave some clue orwarning to others.

“When a loved onecommits suicide, the sur-vivors may feel angry andguilty for not noticing thatsomething was wrong,”said Dr. Laurie Arndorfer,University Health ServicesChief of BehavioralHealth.

You can call the Na-tional Suicide PreventionLifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255), as well asspeak to a clinician ormental health professional.

If you learn that some-

one is considering suicide,you should not keep this asecret. If you feel it is anemergency, call 911 imme-diately.

You can also call a par-ent, professor, staff mem-ber or other trusted personto seek help.

If you are interested inlearning more about howto spot the signs of suicide,attend the informational ta-bles on Sept. 7 and 8 from10 a.m. to 3 p.m. in frontof the Whitehall ClassroomBuilding. Or call UHS Be-havioral Health at 323-5511 or the CounselingCenter at 257-8701.

Brandy Reeves is ahealth coordinator for Uni-versity Health Services.

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Suicide prevention week: How to help a friendSigns of suicide:

• Thinking, talking or wishing about suicide

• Hopelessness • Withdrawal (from family, friends, work,

school, hobbies and other activities)• Dramatic changes in mood• Loss of interest in things one cares about• Making arrangements; setting one’s

affairs in order

If you, a friend or family member exhibit thesesigns, it is important to seek help.

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an-born or trained, the entireleague would presumably befilled with Americans.

Even with the non-importrule, all the Canadians on theroster only have to be used asbench players (this might befor the best); my sixth-gradephysical education teachertold me that I had “butterfin-gers,” which could be an in-heritable trait among allCanadians making success infootball near impossible.

Who knows? Maybe Iwould’ve been more inclinedto play more football growingup if I thought I had a legiti-mate shot at starting in theCFL (I probably wouldn’thave because I hate gettinghit).

Still, CFL executives of-ten say that using only three

downs in their game trans-lates to more entertainment.I’m convinced that the reasononly three downs are used inthe CFL is to create the illu-sion that the game will endquicker.

At times, it’s difficult tofathom the choices of theCFL. For example, in themid-90s teams based in theU.S. competed, and theleague had two teams withthe same nickname—theSaskatchewan Roughridersand Ottawa Rough riders (thespace makes all the differ-ence).

All this being said, theCFL has helped launch theNFL careers of many playersincluding,Warren Moon,Doug Flutie and Jeff Garcia.

The CFL also helped res-urrect the career of Miami’sRicky Williams, who playedthe 2006 season up north be-cause the NFL suspended himfor testing positive for mari-

juana once. OK, multipletimes. This is proof enoughthat you can be high on thegood Kush and still dominatethe CFL.

If you want, you can findCFL games on TV in theU.S., assuming there isn’t anenticing preseason NFLgame, a rerun of “Coach” oran extended infomercial forthe Magic Bullet on at thesame time.

This Canadian will be en-joying his guacamole andmixed berry smoothies, bothof which can be concocted inthree seconds or less with theMagic Bullet (it’s more thanjust a blender, it’s lifealter-ing), during Thursday’s game.

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