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UK Student Governmentmay help the city of Lexing-ton financially with a public

works proj-ect.

The pro-posal, whichwas broughtto SG byThird Dis-trict Coun-c i l w o m a nDiane Law-less, asked

SG for $1,500 to help put in aflashing light at the intersec-tion of Pine and Upper streets,said Micah Fielden, SG senatepresident.

The proposal came infront of the senate duringThursday’s meeting. It waspassed 21-7, Fielden said.

He said Lawless ap-proached Lisa Higgins-Hord ofUK Community Engagementwith the proposal. He said Hig-gins-Hord then forwarded himthe proposal, which he sent tothe senate for consideration.

Freshman Sen. TommyCrush decided to make theproposal his special senateproject, said Jonathon Nunley,senator-at-large.

By Taylor Moaktmoak@kykernel.com

Cityasksfor

$1,500

See LIGHT on page 2

SG could helpfund traffic light

near campus

This spring, the UK Col-lege of Fine Arts is giving lo-cal adults the opportunity tostrengthen their art skillsthrough non-credit courses.

The courses have been of-fered for several years andhave proven to be a hit amongLexington citizens.

UK students are welcometo enroll, but the courses aremost popular among adultslooking to exercise their cre-ativity.

“They are designed forUK employees and peopleoutside in the community,”Jane Andrus, fine arts coordi-nator, said.

All events take place dur-ing the evenings or weekends,making it easy for workingadults to attend.

Course subjects rangefrom ceramics, to photogra-phy, to watercolor painting.There will be 10 classes, fiveworkshops and three one-dayspecial events to choose fromover a nine-week period.

Each course is taught by aprofessional within that partic-ular field. Most are either UKalumni or work in the FineArts program.

Lynn Sweet is an expert inwoodworking and has taughtthrough the program for manyyears.

“I’ve been here forever,”

By Amelia Orwicknews@kykernel.com

Art programs

extend to locals

See ART on page 4

Facebook — it’s a great tool to keep intouch with friends and family. It’s useful foremployers to profile prospective employees.

And now, it’s become a great tool forpolice departments and prosecuting attor-neys.

“It’s the 21st-century version of a pri-vate investigator following you,” saidTrevor Wells, an attorney with Lexington’sMiller Wells.

Wells explained that while conductingresearch about the use of social networkingsites in court cases for a continuing legaleducation seminar for the bar, he found that“every couple of months the number dou-bled with the cases involving Facebook.”

While larger police departments andlaw firms use Facebook and other socialnetworking sites to find evidence for do-mestic relations, gang-related, and personal

injury cases, smaller PDs use the networksless aggressively.

“We’ve used Facebook in the past togather information related to crimes,” saidJoe Monroe, chief of the University of Ken-tucky Police Department.

Monroe explained that, contrary to pop-ular belief, the UKPD does not use Face-book as a way to locate student parties. Hesaid that not only would that process be afull-time job, it would be a waste of theUKPD’s resources, manpower and time.

Currently the UKPD operates one Face-book page. It represents the organization asa whole and, according to Monroe, is usedsimply as another way to communicate withthe public.

However, over a year ago UKPD detec-tives used Facebook as a means to an end incases related to theft, robbery and drugs.

By Ally Rogersnews@kykernel.com

The social media police

See POLICE on page 4

Facebook has potential as a law enforcement tool

f

It’s the 21st-century version of a private

investigator following you.

— Trevor Wells, Lexington attorney“CAIRO – Egyptian Pres-

ident Hosni Mubarak re-fused to step down Thurs-day, but said in a nationally-televised speech that hewould hand more authorityto his vice president, a movethat drew rage and bewilder-ment from hundreds of thou-sands of protesters packedinto Cairo's Tahrir Square.

The nation was anticipat-ing an address that wouldmark the end of Mubarak's30 years in power but in-stead was told he was going

nowhere. Protesters shouted“leave, leave,” and chants ofdisapproval echoed acrossthe Nile at the prospect thatthe 17-day standoff with thegovernment was not over.

“For the benefit of thiscountry,” Mubarak said, “Ihave decided to assign thetasks of the president to thevice president according tothe constitution.”

Mubarak spoke like aleader disconnected from thedemands of millions of hispeople and increasing pres-sure from the United Statesand other Western powers.He said his government

would work on constitution-al reform, punishing abusivesecurity forces and preparinga transfer of power leadingto September elections.

None of that satisfiedprotesters whose central goalis for the 82-year-old formerair force commander toleave office.

Delegating more authori-ty to Vice President OmarSuleiman was viewed bymany demonstrators askeeping intact the vestiges ofMubarak's ruling establish-ment. Mubarak did not makeclear what duties Suleiman –the country’s former intelli-gence chief and one of hisconfidants – would assume.

Hours before the speech,

By Jeffrey FleishmanMCT

Mubarak refuses to step down

See EGYPT on page 4

Vice President Suleimanassigned presidential duties

PHOTO BY OLIVIER DOULIERY | MCTEgyptian President Hosni Mubarak speaks during the Middle Eastpeace talks at the White House in Washington, D.C., Sept. 1, 2010.

A cure for a leading cause of blindnessmay soon be within reach.

UK medical researchers directed by Dr.Jayakrishna Ambati, professor of physiologyand the vice-chair of UK HealthCare Oph-thalmology and Visual Sciences, have isolat-ed the previously unknown cause of geo-graphic atrophy.

Geographic atrophy is an advanced con-dition of the “dry” form of age-related macu-lar degeneration. It causes permanent blind-

ness in its sufferers by accelerating the de-generation of retinal cells.

“Macular degeneration is the leadingcause of blindness in this country, and inmany other industrialized nations ... it affectstens of millions of people around the world,”Ambati said. “There are hundreds of thou-sands of people every year who go blindfrom macular degeneration just in America.”

He also mentioned that it is a problem hesees frequently in his own patients.

Ambati called attention to the fact that

By Jarrod Thackernews@kykernel.com

Doctor’s research workstoward curing blindness

See BLINDNESS on page 4

PHOTO BY JARROD THACKER | STAFFDr. Sasha Bogdarovich dissects a mouse’s cornea in Dr. Jayakrishna Ambati’s lab in UK ChandlerHospital on Feb. 10. Their research is a step toward curing a leading cause of blindness.

Marquis Teague, Anthony Davis,Michael Gilchrist and Kyle Wiljter, allcommitted to UK for 2011, were select-ed for the McDonald’s All-Americangame.

“I’m happy for the kids,” UK headcoach John Calipari said. “It’s a greathonor. All four of them, great kids.”

Teague, Davis and Wiltjer will playfor the West. Gilchrist will play for theEast.

This is the first time four UK re-cruits were selected. Three players wereselected to the game last year (BrandonKnight, Terrence Jones and DoronLamb), three in 2004 (Joe Crawford,Randolph Morris and Rajon Rondo),three in 1984 (Ed Davender, CedricJenkins and Richard Madison) andthree in 1979 (Sam Bowie, Dirk Min-niefield and Derrick Hord).

Including the four 2011 recruits,UK will have had 33 All-Americanssince the game’s inception in 1977.

Louisville had two players selected:Chane Behanan and Wayne Blackshear.The Southeastern Conference had sev-en players represented. Georgia, LSUand Florida all had one each.

The game will be played March 30in Chicago and will be televised onESPN.

By Aaron Smithasmith@kykernel.com

UK recruits in All-American game

Teague

Davis

Gilchrist

Wiltjer

Four selections themost ever for UK

Lawless

Smack Hood commits to talking trash online

For a special senate proj-ect, Nunley said each senatorcan ask SG for up to $3,500in funding that can go to anyorganization.

Lawless said the projectwill cost about $4,500. Shesaid she had raised abouttwo-thirds of the moneyneeded, and she approachedSG to help cover the remain-ing costs.

Fielden said the proposalwas passed as far as the sen-ate was concerned, but itmust be signed by SG Presi-dent Ryan Smith.

If Smith passes the pro-posal, SG will give the moneyfor the project, Fielden said. IfSmith vetoes the proposal, itwill go back to the senate,where it would need a three-fourths override, Fielden said.

Lawless said the intersec-tion was a high-traffic area.

Seventeen crashes andfour injuries have occurred at

the intersection in the pastthree years, according to areport by Lexington’s Divi-sion of Traffic Engineering.

The report said thatSouth Upper Street sees anaverage daily travel of ap-proximately 11,000 vehicles,and Pine Street sees an aver-age daily travel of approxi-mately 2,000 vehicles.

Traffic Engineeringfound a flashing traffic lightwould be best suited to thearea, Lawless said.

She said the thorough-fare is one everyone uses andsaid she hopes the projectwould help the partnershipwith UK and the city.

“We’re a community,”

Lawless said, “and we’re allin this together.”

Nunley said he voted yesfor the proposal because ofthe safety issue for studentsat the intersection.

“That area is a very,highly dense area with stu-dents,” Nunley said.

He said he also saw thepassing of the proposal as an“olive branch” to say thankyou to Lawless and the cityfor their support of other SGprograms like Cats Cruiser.

Parker Whitehouse, sena-tor-at-large, voted against theproposal.

He said he did not likethe precedent the proposalwould set if SG uses studentfees to help the city.

Whitehouse said it is thesenate’s responsibility to ef-ficiently use student fees.

“As a whole, we backstudents,” Whitehouse said.

Kelsie Willett, senator forthe College of Business, saidthe proposal was “not reallyappropriate for student fees.”

“That’s what taxes arefor,” Willett said.

We humans divide ourselves into camps.Liberals and conservatives.Cat people and dog people.Woody Allen fans and Adam Sandler fans.Sandler, whose "Just Go With It" opens

Friday, occupies a place in the hearts of Gen-Xers much in the way that Woody Allen is acultural icon for baby boomers.

Those sounds you hear are the howls ofprotest and snorts of derision from grayingmovie watchers across the land. Mentioning theWoodman and Sandler in the same sentence?It's an offense worthy of excommunication.

And yet, both men are immediately recog-nizable voices of their generations.

Woody Allen's recent output has beenvariable _ and that's being charitable.

And despite the dozen or so Sandler moviesin heavy rotation oncable, there's really only oneSandler movie _ "The Wedding Singer" _ worthwatching beginning to end more than once.

Allen's movies are informed by his manyinterests: philosophy, psychology, cinema,politics, morality, literature, his Jewish her-itage, romantic love.

Sandler's works, on the other hand, arecharacterized by comic rage, slapstick sadismand a childlike impulsiveness. Playing thenemesis in a Sandler movie guarantees thatyou'll be kicked, punched or otherwise as-saulted in the groin.

So the simple answer is the two are noth-ing alike. And yet in many ways, Allen andSandler are at least comedy cousins.

Both grew up Jewish in Brooklyn and at-tended New York University (Sandler graduat-ed; Allen, the intellectual, was dismissed forpoor grades).

Both got their first taste of performing incomedy clubs and cut their teeth on televisionwriting (Sandler for "Saturday Night Live,"Allen for Sid Caesar, Ed Sullivan and "TheTonight Show").

Neither is much of an actor. Allen early onestablished the performance persona of a neu-rotic New Yorker and has rarely strayed fromit. Sandler usually plays the arrested adoles-cent, though in recent years he has attemptedto break out of that mold.

Allen devotes most of his time to film (hehas also written Broadway plays and severalbooks). Sandler's Happy Madison Productionsis responsible for the TV series "Rules of En-gagement" as well as numerous movies starringSandler's comedy friends ("Paul Blart: MallCop," "The Master of Disguise," "Joe Dirt").

Eric Melin, who covers popular entertain-ment at Lawrence, Kan.-based www.scene-stealers.com, understands Sandler's appeal.

"Actually, I do not look forward to anAdam Sandler movie," he said. "But I know alot of people my age who grew up with San-dler, first on 'SNL' and then through films like'Happy Gilmore' and 'Billy Madison.' To lotsof people my age those are classic movies, theway 'Animal House' or 'Caddyshack' are clas-sics for other generations. And they've leftSandler embedded in the culture."

Sandler's potential to give us more, how-ever, may be the one thing his critics and fanscan agree on. The separation between the

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Today's Birthday (02/11/11). Theyear ahead promises to be full ofactivity and challenges. Use everyopportunity to learn and grow yourskill set. You're more powerfulthan you think. Be alert, and keepyour eyes, ears and the rest ofyour senses on the goal. To getthe advantage, check the day'srating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 themost challenging. Aries (March 21-April 19) —Today is a 7 — Don't be too harshon yourself today. If you have diffi-culty concentrating, distance your-self from the problem and tryagain later. Things shift. Taurus (April 20-May 20) —Today is an 8 — Strive for finan-cial harmony. Living well doesn'thave to mean large expenses. Findbalance between work and play.True wealth may lie in time spentwith love. Gemini (May 21-June 21) —Today is a 7 — You may feel criti-cal of yourself today, but you'rereally doing a great job with thetools you have. And it's only get-

ting better. Ease up. Cancer (June 22-July 22) —Today is a 6 — You "can't get nosatisfaction" today. Stop being socritical, and give yourself permis-sion to daydream. It's okay if youwant to be by yourself. Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) — Todayis a 7 — Work is important foryou today, but it might get uncom-fortable, especially if you listen tothe critics in your head. Acknowl-edge all you've accomplished. Listsuccesses. Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) —Today is a 6 — Today, you fit thepicture of the absent-minded pro-fessor. It's not all bad. You canactually access talents that arenormally kept hidden, like yourown genius. Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) —Today is a 6 — Today's emotionsare positive, with great rewardsfor the seeds you planted earlier.Don't kick back yet. Keep plantingfor future harvest. Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) —Today is a 6 — You get bored eas-ily today. Think about trying some-thing new, letting go of old habits

and generating new possibilities.What could the future hold? Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)— Today is a 6 — Don't be tooharsh on yourself or on yourfriends. They're really trying tohelp you, by pointing out yourblind spots. It amplifies yourvision. Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) —Today is a 6 — Try not to breakanything. Take special care of yourhealth today. Slow down if youneed to. Feed your soul. Watch agood film or take time for music.Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) —Today is a 6 — Plug a drain onyour resources. A glitch in commu-nication sets you back. Just makesure to clean it up, for workability.Reinvent the goal. Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) —Today is a 6 — You can take "no"for an answer. It doesn't mean thenext one won't be "yes." After along day, you're ready to relax,and "no" could actually be freeing.

The new Woody Allen? The answer is complicated

MCT

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Horoscope

PHOTO BY MCTJennifer Aniston and Adam Sandler star in “Just Go With It,” which was released Feb. 11.

By Robert W. ButlerMCT

LIGHTContinued from page 1

“We’re a community,and we’re all in this

together”DIANE LAWLESS

Third District Councilwoman

Given DeAndre Liggins’ habit ofdiving for loose balls, the elevated courtat Vanderbilt might pose a problem if hedecides to go hurtling after a ball head-ing out of bounds.

“It’d be weird to see someone falloff. I hope it’s not me diving for a ball,”Liggins said. “But if I have to do that towin the game, I’ll do it.”

And of course, there’s the unusualsetup of Memorial Gymnasium, wherethe coaching benches are behind thebaseline rather than on the sideline. Thatsetup has always been there, and it’s notchanging anytime soon.

And still the difficulty of playing

there doesn’t subside.“It’s just kind of weird,” said Darius

Miller, who has played there twice. “Iguess you just have to get used to it. It’stough to play there at first.”

That period of adjustment mightcompound the road troubles UK (17-6,5-4 Southeastern Conference) has beenhaving recently. To compensate, UKmust focus on communication.

Usually, head coach John Calipari isin the player’s ear the whole game. AtVanderbilt, Calipari will be on the farend of the floor with the team facingaway from him for half the game.

“I don’t like that,” Terrence Jonessaid. “I like hearing him because he tellsus what to do and sometimes we needthat. He helps us call the plays.”

In reply Jones’ remarks, Calipariasked if Jones knew he was playingmen’s basketball (women’s rules usedto mandate some players couldn’tcross half court) and offered him askirt.

The players joked that being awayfrom their coach might be a good thingsometimes.

“Especially if it’s a mistake,” Millersaid.

While the non-freshmen have expe-rienced it at least once, that doesn’tmean they’re totally adapted. No otherarena UK has played in is arranged thatway.

“It's going to be an experience thatthey have no idea about,” Calipari saidafter the Tennessee game Saturday.

Both Calipari and the team get toadapt to Calipari being unable to callthe plays from right beside them, theplayers must be able to rely on eachother to get the calls right.

“I don’t think they listen to memuch on the road, so I don’t think it re-ally matters,” Calipari said, jokingly.“But, I do know they will have to listento each other. Maybe that will helpthem.”

Playing like they played againstTennessee could be the biggest help.Calipari applauded the team’s effort atgoing after rebounds and said he wasgetting his team to understand he atleast wanted them to “just attempt” tocrash the boards. Limiting Vanderbilt’ssecond-chance opportunities will bekey, as the Commodores usually don’tmiss. They shoot 51.3 percent on two-pointers and 37.6 percent on threes.

Vanderbilt is led by John Jenkins,who averages 19.2 points and can “beatyou by himself,” Calipari said.

Jefferey Taylor is another key play-er, who averages 14.9 points and 5.2 re-bounds. Liggins said his defensive as-signment, which is usually the bestplayer on the team, will probably beTaylor.

Vanderbilt also has Festus Ezeli inthe post averaging 12.8 points and 6.1rebounds.

“You know, inside, Kezi – whatever,I forget his name – the big kid -- is real-ly good,” Calipari said. “He is reallyphysical. They put four guys aroundhim to isolate him.”

But not too far — or they will slipoff the court.

“It’s going to be crazy,” Ligginssaid.

UK plays Vanderbilt Saturday at 1p.m. on ESPN.

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Former UK basketball player George Vulich diedTuesday night at the age of 85 after a fight with cancer.

But his son, Steve Vulich, 63, said his father’sdeath could not have come in amore fitting manner.

“He was watching Kentucky theother night when we beat Ten-nessee,” he said. “Just before theend of the game, he closed his eyesand went to sleep. The Lord musthave said, ‘Come on.’”

George (May 11, 1925 – Feb. 8,2011) modeled his life after two of themost successful and inspirational fig-

ures in basketball history — Hall of Fame coaches AdolphRupp and John Wooden — Steve said.

“Playing for Rupp, he thought the guy was justcrazy. But as he grew older in life, he realized it’sthose lessons they teach you is what makes you havethe strength to move and be a successful person.

“Life to him was bigger than him. I think a lot ofRupp’s and Wooden’s teachings brought that out.That’s how he lived his life.”

George played UK basketball for two seasons underRupp from 1943-45. While at UK, Vulich totaled 88 pointsin 23 games, according to www.bigbluehistory.net. Theteam won the Southeastern Conference regular season andtournament titles in both seasons, finishing third in the Na-tional Invitation Tournament in 1944 and advancing to theNCAA Sweet 16 in 1945.

“To him, (playing at UK) was everything,” Stevesaid. “It taught him the way life is and how to dealwith it and become a successful person.”

Originally from Zeigler, Ill., George moved toGary, Ind., near his high school years, said Steve.George played high school basketball against Wood-en’s team from South Bend Central High School on aregular basis, a stretch of time in which Georgeformed a relationship with the renowned coach.

After playing for Rupp through the end of hissophomore year of college, George transferred toRhode Island University, only to move again in 1946to Los Angeles, Calif., with his first wife, Sarah Ann,who died in 1979. George remarried in 1980 to Eliz-abeth Walker.

Steve remembers what growing up with his fa-ther, someone who learned from the values of suchrespected and selfless coaches, was like.

“It’s been a blessing to me because what theytaught him, he in turn taught me and everyone weknow,” he said. “… If I wanted to play baseball, hebecame the manager. If I was in the Cub Scouts, hebecame the Cub Scout leader. He always put othersfirst.

“He shared his life with everybody else, too,” hesaid. “Every place we’ve ever lived, every kid wouldgo to him with problems before going to their ownparents. He would help straighten everything out.”

On Friday, Feb. 18, the Vulich family is holding a sim-ple “celebration of life” in honor of George, Steve said.

“He always put his family and the communityfirst,” Steve said. “He’s never been a person whothought about himself. He’s always had a giantheart.”

George is survived by wife, Elizabeth, 82, eightchildren, 11 grandchildren and 10 great-grandchil-dren.

By Chandler Howardchoward@kykernel.com

Former UK playerdies at 85Played for Adolph Rupp

from 1943-45

The UK gymnastics teamis asking the question; whyhave one head coach whenwe can have two?

Technically, Heather Hiteand Chuck Dickerson, theteam's two coaches, are assis-tants, but they are the twowho manage the team.

Hite said although it is alot of work without an officialhead coach, she and Dicker-son are working well together.

“We have a lot of respon-sibilities to catch up on be-cause we don’t have that third

person," Hite said. "But as faras what I think the girls aredoing and how we are com-peting, I think it’s fine."

Although the Cats 1-4 (0-4) have a sub-par record, theiroverall scores have improvedas the season has progressed.

Hite says the two coachessplit up the responsibilities,with Dickerson focusing onthe in-gym duties and Hitehandling all of the out-of-the-gym duties.

“I do a lot of the paper-work stuff as far as expensereports and everything likethat inside the office," Hitesaid. "(Dickerson) does more

of the conditioning and theworkouts inside the gym."

As for the reason there isno official head coach, Dick-erson says that it was whatthe administration wanted fornow and that it will look for ahead coach around May whenthe season is over.

“That is administration’scall," Dickerson said. "Whenthey released the last headcoach, they just asked us toride the ship and make it hap-pen through the season. Ithink they are going to do anational search in May."

The gymnasts on theteam also feel like the seasonhas been going smoothly. An-drea Mitchell, a senior gym-nast, said the coaches havedone a great job at not getting

discouraged with the team.“We have definitely made

the adjustments from the be-ginning of the year and reallyhad to stick together as ateam,” Mitchell said. “Thecoaches really have done agreat job with sticking withus, which definitely makesthings easier for the team.”

Mitchell is coming off aperformance against No. 22Auburn in which she claimedthe all-around title, whichmeans she had the highest to-tal score of any participant inall four events. She said thatachieving the all-around titlewas one of her goals for thisseason.

“That has definitely beenwhat I have been working to-

By Matt Levinesports@kykernel.com

Two coaches are greater than one

Baseline benches, elevatedcourt make for unusual game

Weird setup makes communication key

PHOTO BYLATARA

APPLEBY| STAFF

TerrenceJonesshoots inthe paintagainstFlorida.Jones andthe rest ofthe teamwill have toadjust tothe coach-ing staffbeing onthe base-lines ratherthan thesidelines.

By Aaron Smithasmith@kykernel.com

“I like hearing (Calipari) because he tells us whatto do and sometimes we need that. He helps us callthe plays.

— Terrence Jones, UK freshman forward

Vulich

PHOTO BYCOLLIN

LINDSTROM| STAFF

Assistanthead coachChuck Dicker-son (right)speaks withone of UK’sgymnastsduring thefloor exerciseat UK’s meetagainstArkansas.Dickersonsplits coach-ing dutieswith assis-tant coachHeather Hite.

Gymnastics program fine without having a head coach

See COACHES on page 4

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According to Monroe,the process didn’t involve arandom search or fake pro-files — instead, the detec-tives had suspects in mindand simply conducted asearch to see public informa-tion, which was displayed onunblocked profiles. Fromthere the detectives followedtrails of evidence and sub-mitted documentation to thecourts.

“As long as people postthings blindly, Facebook willbe a useful tool,” Monroesaid.

Northern Kentucky Uni-versity Police DepartmentSgt. Will Love said, similar toUKPD, that the only Face-book page they operate is onefor community relations.However, he said in previousyears it has been useful to lo-cate students who had other-wise been unreachable by

concerned parents. “We use it if it helps, but

it’s not the first place we go,”Love said.

“Social networks in gen-eral are a great way to giveand get information. It’s awonderful way to open a dia-logue with the community,”Sherelle Roberts, the publicinformation officer for theLexington Division of Police,said.

She said that social net-working sites have been usedin Lexington investigations.Most incriminating informa-tion has been posted to publicprofiles via video or photoson Flickr, YouTube, Face-

book, and Myspace. “It’s impossible to quan-

tify Facebook’s use in cases,”Roberts said, adding thatover the last decade the Inter-net has been a tremendoustool in gathering informationand identifying criminal ac-tivity.

According to Monroe,nearly 75 percent of policedepartments use Facebook insome fashion. Developingfake Facebook or Myspacepages is nearly beyond thescope of necessity for campuspolice departments, but notentirely out of the questionfor larger organizations.

Wells explained that pri-vate profiles aren’t entirelyout of the reach of the law ei-ther.

“More and more we’reseeing formal requests (beingfiled) for Facebook page ac-tivity,” he said.

Other realms of the legalsystem are using social net-works for cases as well, and itmost likely will continue togrow in this day and age.

POLICEContinued from page 1

“As long as peoplepost things blindly,

Facebook will be a use-ful tool.”

JOE MONROEUKPD Chief

Sweet said. “I enjoy the inter-action between the under-graduate, graduate and finearts students. …It’s very ful-filling to see people go fromnothing to something.”

Although the courses aresupposed to be enjoyable,they also prove to be chal-lenging for some.

“(The students) learnright away just how much

precision is required to actu-ally make a functional object.… It often surprises peoplejust how difficult it is.”

Overall, the Fine ArtsSchool has received positivefeedback from communitymembers who have taken thecourses.

“A lot of people say,‘We’re so glad that you’re do-ing this, because no one elseis,’” Andrus said.

In fact, many enjoy theirexperiences so much that theychoose to return for anotherchance to learn and improve

their abilities.“People have a feeling of

accomplishment when theyfinish … it seems to be a verysatisfactory experience,”Sweet said.

Courses begin Feb. 7 andrun through April 15. Theywill not be held during springbreak. Locations include theFine Arts Building, ReynoldsBuilding and Lucille LittleFine Arts Library.

A full schedule, as well asthe registration form, is avail-able on UK’s website.

ARTContinued from page 1

the ailment is not just for theelderly.

“A 50-year-old woman hasa four times greater risk of de-veloping macular degenerationin five years than she has ofdeveloping breast cancer inthose same five years,” he said.

The true cause of the af-fliction has largely been un-known until Ambati and histeam of medical scientists lo-cated the conflict at the mo-lecular level.

The research was show-

cased in the prominent scien-tific journal, Nature, on Feb.6 and found that decreasednumbers of the enzymeDICER1 causes the accumu-lation of a cytotoxic materialcalled Alu RNA.

With the results of thisstudy, Ambati’s team hasbeen able to formulate an ap-proach to dealing with theharmful Alu RNA.

“We’re focusing on, froma clinical trial perspective, toblock these toxic, double-stranded RNA molecules(Alu RNA),” he said. “Wehave developed one class ofdrugs, and we are looking atwhether there may be other

even better drugs to block thismolecule.”

Perhaps the most excitinginformation for patients ofthis condition is that the re-searchers hope to make moreprogress very soon.

“We hope to make ourchoice of what’s called a leadcandidate by the summer,”Ambati said, “so once wehave a lead candidate drug,then we can do studies tomake sure that’s it safe andthen apply to the (Food andDrug Administration) ... toget the permission to start aclinical trial, and we hope tobe at that position by the endof this year.”

BLINDNESSContinued from page 1

a senior army commander appeared in TahrirSquare and told protesters that all their de-mands would be met. Their rallying point hasbeen Mubarak’s removal from office. It waslater announced that the president would beaddressing the country. A celebratory moodfilled the square.

But after the speech, Tahrir filled withchants of “Down, down with Mubarak!”

The announcement came after two days ofwarnings by top Egyptian officials, includingSuleiman, 74, that the army might stage a

coup if protests didn't stop.Mubarak came to power in 1981 upon the

assassination of his predecessor, Anwar Sadat,by Islamic militants. He imposed a state ofemergency throughout his three-decade ruleand used his ruling party and security forces tocrush political opposition, winning re-electionrepeatedly in balloting that was widely con-demned internationally as fraud-ridden.

If Mubarak’s rule ends, it would rever-berate across the Middle East, where protestsand unrest in recent weeks have engulfed

Yemen, Jordan and Algeria. It would markthe end of an era and leave the region with-out one of its most prominent leaders and atrusted U.S. ally in stemming Islamic terror-ism and solving the Israeli-Palestinian con-flict.

EGYPTContinued from page 1

“For the benefit of this country, Ihave decided to assign the tasks of thepresident to the vice president.

— Hosni Mubarak, President of Egypt

ward this season,” said Mitchell. “It justfelt good to finally get that under my belt.”

Although Mitchell accomplished hergoal, the Cats lost the meet against Auburn.Dickerson says that the team simply madetoo many mistakes.

“We actually pretty much gave thatmeet away,” Dickerson said. “We made a lotof mistakes on bars, which is usually a realstrong event for us. That was really the firsttime this year that bars had been a struggle,so we can add a point back just on that oneevent.”

The Cats' next meet is against No. 6 Al-abama, and after a loss against Auburn,Dickerson says the team will use the “noth-ing to lose” mentality to knock off a strongAlabama team.

“Alabama is a powerhouse, but wehave nowhere to go but up,” said Dicker-son. “We need to go all out and do the bestwe can do, to get a good score out there.”

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friday 02.11.11 page 5kernelopinionsThe estate tax has been

an important source of rev-enue for the federal govern-ment, in one form or another,since 1916.

Once again, the GOP isstepping up its calls to maketax cuts (for the rich) perma-nent and are aggressivelypromoting a repeal of the es-tate tax. The estate tax, nowdubbed the “Death Tax” byneo-conservatives, affectsonly the very richest ofAmericans — and then onlythe heirs of multi-millionairesand billionaires. As if it reallymatters. The decendent is notaffected at all by the estatetax, since he/she is now push-ing up daisies — only his/herheirs may be affected by theestate tax. I’m not so sure theoverwhelming majority ofAmericans have any interestin perpetuating what has be-come an aristocracy of over-whelming wealth, power andinfluence. So, one might ask,“Why tax inheritors of largefortunes?” Because it’s stillan important source of feder-al revenue.

Conservatives deceitfullyportray the estate tax as a

“death tax” on small, family-owned businesses. The factof the matter is that less than1 percent of the people thatinherit an estate pay any es-tate tax at all, and half of therevenue from that tax comesfrom estates valued at $10million or more. As the estatetax law is now constituted,only an individual inheritingmore than $5 million (cou-ples, $10 million) will paythe estate tax. The current in-heritance tax on estates is 35percent, but only on theamount exceeding $5 million($10 million for couples).

The consequence of re-pealing the estate tax is this:the loss in federal revenuewould be staggering — anestimated $680 billion dollarsover the next decade. Thisloss of revenue, combinedwith the tax reductions onunearned income, is going tobring us to the point of no re-turn; adding further to ournational debt is unsustainable.We may have alreadyreached that point of no re-turn.

Paul G. JaehnertMinnesota resident

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

When President BarackObama spoke during hisState of the Union address,

he madesomethingclear. Thehealth caredebate isover. Thestatementwas thatRepubli-cans, andthose whooppose thebill, woulddo better tofocus on

the fiscal actions that theywere swept into office withthe promise of upholding,and focus less on “refightingthe battles of the last twoyears”. I couldn’t agreemore.

Now before I go on, Ioffer a word of caution. Iunderstand that I take theview of only half of Ameri-cans. I also understand thatthe other half of citizens feelthat the bill enacts an inde-cent amount of input on howthey live their lives.

But I can’t help but feelthat in this case, the pros faroutweigh the cons. Withhealthcare overhaul, some-thing rare happened. Peoplewere provided with theknowledge that in the future,they won’t be forced to de-clare bankruptcy over med-ical bills that represent tripletheir incomes because theywere either denied coverageor left stranded in an insur-ance company’s unwilling-ness to provide full care.

And it’s more than that

feeling of hope. It’s the gen-uine effect this will have onmillions of people who werepreviously unable to addresstheir general health becauseonly the most serious of ail-ments was worth the billsand inevitable lack of re-sources that would resultfrom a hospital visit.

This plan will giveAmerican people so muchmore than it could ever takeaway. Your insurance com-pany will no longer be ableto cancel your plan becauseyou get sick or put a lifetimelimit on your coverage. Youwill receive free preventativecare, meaning people whocould only treat the effectsof poor health now have theresources to prevent it in thefirst place. For the first timein history, this bill will make

sure that your children can-not be denied for pre-exist-ing conditions.

By supporting this bill,you are saying that you re-fuse to allow the nationaldebt to take precedent overthe opportunity to provideevery citizen with health-care. Every resident of thisnation has a right, as well asa privilege, to have the op-portunity and care providedto them from birth untildeath. I can see no betterway to reiterate this than byensuring that those rights areprovided to their fullest ex-tent. We deserve the right tohealthcare, and because ofthis bill, that is now possi-ble.

Annie Hughes is a politi-cal science junior. E-mailopinions@kykernel.com.

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Last spring semester, UKbasketball fan Drake madean appearance in Lexingtonwith a concert for UK stu-dents much to everyone’scontentment. At the time hewas the year’s breakout rapartist, freshly signed toYoung Money entertainment.

On Friday, Young Moneyreturns to the city with itsnewest act, Tyga, who seemsto be successfully riding theradio waves.

Many people have con-tributed to the concert featur-ing Tyga and Tha Joker asheadliners, including KoatKreative, CRU Entertainmentand Urban Nation which ishoused in Fayette Mall.

“We’ve supported theconcert by selling tickets andgetting the word out there,”Urban Nation manager Don-nie Welch said. “We will bedoing an in-store interviewwith Tyga on Friday.”

Steven Dorn from KoatKreative, who financed theconcert along with JaredPricket, former UK NCAAchampionship basketballplayer and the owner of the

Kentucky Basketball Acade-my, says if all goes well withtravel and flights Tyga willbe at Urban Nation around5:45 p.m. People will be al-lowed in the store.

“We brought Tyga andTha Joker to Lexington be-cause we feel that Lexingtonlacks consistent concerts andentertainment especially forthose under 21,” Dorn said.

Some UK students feeldifferently.

“Personally I feel like thecity of Lexington can domuch better than artist likeTyga and Tha Joker. Peopleare unaware that Lexingtonhas talent of its own. There'sa lot more that they could dowith this show by using thecity's talent,” Alexis Gray, afreshman Arts Administra-tion major, said. “I won’t beattending, but I definitely

know people will turn out.”Dorn said they will have

a few local acts opening upfor Tyga and Tha Jokeraround 9:30 p.m., includingEazy and Gfo Zhey.

Yao Hong, a Louisville-based disk jockey, will bespinning at the concert, andafter party. Hong says hegrew up around hip-hop cul-ture and he’s looking for-ward to a great turnout fromfans of all ages that love theYoung Money crew.

“I have expectations of agood time. Hip-Hop is abouthaving a fun and that’s ex-actly what I expect,” Hongsaid.

The concert will takeplace at Tattersalls onBroadway, across fromNewtown Crossing in be-tween Waffle House andSpeedway. Doors will openat 7 p.m. Tickets will be $25at the door and are alsoavailable online at www.cin-cyticket.com. Backstage andVIP passes are being soldfor $100. Following the con-cert, the building will becleared and will re-openaround 15 minutes later forthe 18 and up, 21 to drinkafter party.

By Joy Priestfeatures@kykernel.com

Young Money rappercomes to Lexington

Most people who playvideo games enjoy thesoundtrack composers writefor their favorite videogames, but did you know thatbands write music inspiredby video games?

I will assume most read-ers are familiar with Buckner& Garcia’s 1982 album “Pac-Man Fever,” which refer-enced classic arcade games.

In the time since then,many bands have made smallreferences to games in theirmusic, but there was never amovement that could becalled “video game musiccover band” or any otherband that based its entire setlist around video games.

That changed in the early2000s as those players whogrew up in the 80s and 90splaying games began playingmusic as a career.

The movement beganslowly as rock bands werecreated with the sole intent ofplaying covers of their fa-vorite game music. Bandslike Armcannon and Power-glove have gained notorietyas being the best in their fieldby playing power rock rendi-tions of classic game songsthat retain the original nostal-gia factor while adding theirown unique flavor.

Both bands have begun

to play covers of more gener-al 80s and 90s pop culturemusic in their latest albums,but they still retain the spiritof game music as beingsomething more than justbleeps and bloops comingfrom televisions.

With the advent of nerd-core, a sub-genre of hip-hopwith themes that relate tonerds, the idea of game mu-sic that went past covers tookoff. MC Frontalot named andstarted the genre, but othershave taken his idea and ranwith it.

What is by far the mostpopular strictly-gaming nerd-core group is the now bro-ken-up, The Adventures ofDuane and BrandO.

The group’s mainstrengths were hilariousrhyme schemes laid overgame music with lyrics thatwould recount the events ofthe game with juvenile humor.The band broke up in 2010with both Duane and Brandoforming Action AdventureWorld and The AmazingBrandO, respectively.

One game has spawnedmore bands than I can count,and has even inspired con-cept albums that go beyondbeing a simple video gameband to a band that can ap-peal to all people, regardlessof their association to thegame. That game is MegaMan. Mega Man has inspiredthe likes of The Megas, TheProtomen and Mega Ran.

The Megas compose rocksongs with lyrics that expandthe events of the Mega Man

games by giving each robotmaster their own song ex-plaining why they work forDr. Wily. While they primarilyappeal to the Mega Man fan,any music fan should be ableto find their music enjoyable.

The Protomen are a rockopera group that composessongs based around the backstory of the Mega Mangames. Their latest album,“The Father of Death,” de-tails the fight between Dr.Wily and Dr. Light withoutever referencing the MegaMan games. It’s a beautifulalbum that manages to cap-ture the emotion of a man onthe brink of destroying him-self over the guilt that hasbeen placed on him.

Finally, Mega Ran, alsoknown as Random, com-posed two hip-hop albumsbased around Mega Man.While the songs are firmlycemented in the Mega Manlore, anybody who is a fanof hip-hop will appreciatethe beats and lyrics featuredin any of Mega Ran’s al-bums.

While video games maybe inspiring pop culture moreeach day with TV shows like“The Big Bang Theory,” andthe like. Music is a strongforce that has been influ-enced by games and hasbeen influencing games for along time.

The best thing is that youdon’t even have to be agamer to enjoy most of themusic on display here. Givethese bands a listen, youwon’t be disappointed.

Finding the muse: games inspire great music

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