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Search for police chief remains up in the airBy Laura Clark

lclark@kykernel.com

The search for a perma-nent UK Police Chief stillhas no set timeline, said aUK representative.

Since a Sept. 24 Kernelarticle, no updates have beenreported on the search, saidUK spokesman Jimmy Stan-ton.

Similarly, UK spokes-

woman Kathy Johnson saidAnthany Beatty, assistantvice president for publicsafety, said no updates onthe search were available atthis time.

In a Sept. 23 interviewwith UK President LeeTodd, Todd said no searchto replace current UK Inter-im Police Chief Maj. JoeMonroe had begun. Toddsaid he assumed Monroe

would be a candi-date for the posi-tion.

“I think Joe’sdone a very goodjob the time he hasbeen in this position… Joe was a candi-date previously and I assumehe will be a candidate thistime, as well,” Todd said.“But we do need to get thatlocked down because Joe’s

been interim forthree years.”

In the article,Beatty, who washired at UK a yearand a half ago, saidMonroe’s leader-ship abilities have

nothing to do with the still-vacant position.

In February 2006, Mc-Donald Vick was named thepolice chief, but resigned a

few months later after it wasdiscovered that he paid aformer female officer$25,000 to drop a sexual ha-rassment lawsuit in NorthCarolina, according to aMarch 10, 2009 Kernel arti-cle.

Shortly after Vick’s res-ignation, Monroe was namedinterim police chief. He hasremained in that positionever since.

Todd said he would betalking to Beatty and Execu-tive Vice President for Fi-nance and AdministrationFrank Butler sometime afterthe Sept. 23 interview to es-tablish plans for a permanentpolice chief.

“We’re getting close towhere we need to makesome decisions on how tofill that position full time,”Todd said.

Community College plansrelocation to Newtown Pike

LIVING ART

The UK Asia Center is present-ing traditions from the East all

week, part of the 2009 ArtsAsiaFestival. Tuesday night,

Japanese-culture author and pro-fessor at Wayne State UniversityKelly Natasha Foreman, uncov-

ered the musical traditions ofJapanese entertainers, called

geishas. Foreman described themeaning of “geisha” as two

symbols: “Gei,” meaning thefine arts, and “sha” as person.

The ArtsAsia Festival will con-tinue to host events through

Saturday.

PHOTOS BY ZACH BRAKE | STAFFKelly Natasha Foreman explains the positions on the Shamisen instrument she holds during the “The ‘Gei’ of Geisha” lecture and performanceheld at Briggs Theatre Monday evening.

Beatty

By Brooke McCloudnews@kykernel.com

While the city has been looking for different op-tions for safer off-campus student housing, UK hasnow joined in the discussion.

Lexington Police Officer Keith Gaines presentedthe Student Housing in Partnership Program to theUrban County Council Planning Committee Tues-day afternoon.

“The acronym SHIPP was derived from theword partnership, which is exactly what we want tocreate between the Lexington community and stu-dents,” Gaines said.

Currently, more than 25 landlords have volun-teered their properties to be part of the program.Gaines said he thinks more landlords will volunteeras SHIPP gains popularity.

Rental properties that meet the standards ofSHIPP will be recognizable by law enforcement dueto a sticker placed on the property. The tenants andlandlords would be held responsible for keeping thehome presentable. Fines would be issued if a tenantwere to ignore the standards set, such as leaving cig-arette butts or debris in the yard.

Vice President of University Relations Tom Har-ris said he wanted to put the rumors to rest that UKhas not been committed or concerned with the com-munity’s issues with students living off campus.

“There are already a lot of fees students have todeal with,” Harris said. “Every dollar we take awayfrom them takes away from them putting forth thefunds toward their academic excellence.”

Andrea Jones, 1st District councilwoman, saidthis is a property rental issue, not a student issue.

Student housingissue gets inputfrom university

PHOTO BY SCOTT HANNIGAN | STAFFThe Lexington public meets for the third time to debatethe student housing plan at the Lexington-FayetteCounty Government Center on Tuesday.

See Housing on page A4

By Jenny Boylannews@kykernel.com

Soon-to-be college grad-uates will be searching forjobs all over the country andjoining a fraternity mightjust be the trick to land a job.

About 20 honor, leader-ship or service societieshave on-campus chapters atUK. Brooke Brown, the as-sistant director of the Stuck-ert Career Center, said mem-bership in an honor fraterni-ty is a great way to intriguefuture employers.

Brown said if studentsget involved in an honor so-ciety, they should take onleadership roles and volun-teer opportunities. Employ-ers do consider GPAs, but itis not the number one thingthey look at, Brown said.

According to the Associ-

ation of College Honor So-cieties Web site, societies ofthe ACHS are diverse,“From business to physics,mathematics to music, theseorganizations exist for oneprimary purpose: to encour-age and honor superiorscholarship and leadershipachievement.”

Rebecca Street, presi-dent of the UK chapter ofthe Phi Sigma Pi nationalhonor fraternity, said there ismore to being a part of thistype of organization thanjust to benefit a resume.

“Phi Sigma Pi meetsweekly and we have eventsall of the time, focusing onscholarship, leadership,which we do through serv-ice, and fellowship, whichwe do through socialevents,” she said. “For PhiSigma Pi, it's not only a

chance to distinguish one'sself, but also to meet otherlike-minded people.

When it comes down toit though, Street does be-lieve being a part of her fra-ternity serves job seekers agreat bonus.

“As a national organiza-

“For Phi Sigma Pi, it’snot only a chance to

distinguish one’s self,but to meet other like-

minded people.”REBECCA STREET

president of the UK chapter of thePhi Sigma Pi national honor fraternity

Honor fraternities helpdecorate,improve resumes

See Honor on page A4

By Anna Hawthornenews@kykernel.com

UK’s college neighbor isplanning a move.

Part of the BluegrassCommunity and TechnicalCollege is relocating in or-der to accommodate the ris-ing number of students en-rolled. BCTC chief commu-nications officer VernalKennedy said the relocationcould take more than adecade to complete but thefirst building on the newcampus will be open to stu-dents in the next couple ofyears.

“We’re still in theprocess of planning, butwith our growth, we nolonger have enough spaceon our Cooper location,“Kennedy said.

The community college

will move to Eastern StateHospital on Newtown Pike,which is one of the oldestoperating mental institutionsin the country. The hospitalwill transfer into a new fa-cility on UK’s ColdstreamResearch Park property, alsoon Newtown Pike.

The current BCTC cam-pus on Cooper Drive willbecome part of UK’s cam-pus. However, it is not yetdetermined what the univer-sity will do with the build-ings because it could be 10to 15 years before the cam-pus is vacant.

“This is an academic de-cision, not one for facilitymanagement,” said BobWiseman, UK’s vice presi-dent for facilities manage-ment. “Over the coming Rose St.

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Kelly Natasha Foreman performed "Kanjincho" with the Shamisen instrument during “The‘Gei’ of Geisha” lecture and performance held at Briggs Theatre Monday evening.

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THE COLORS OF FALL

She married young, hoping for a fairy tale. Instead,she got years of terror and abuse. For the first time ever,Murphy shares her story

As the most high-spirited judge on Fox's reality hitSo You Think You Can Dance, Mary Murphy, 51, is fa-mous for her piercing laugh ("the Queen of Scream," shecalls herself) and cheerleading catchphrase: "You're onthe hot tamale train!" But behind the perky exterior is astory so dark, she's kept it secret for decades - untilnow.

Murphy says that for nine years, from 1978 to1987, she was trapped in an abusive marriage, enduringrapes, beatings and, ultimately, a miscarriage that lefther despondent and afraid. (Us contacted Murphy's ex,whose name is being withheld, about her allegations;he called them "flat-out lies" and provided a statement.

Fighting back tears, Murphy says now that dance"is what saved my life." After discovering her talent asan instructor, the Ohio native slowly regained her self-esteem, and finally found the courage to leave. Sheshares her inspiring story with Us.

I met my husband in 1977, when we were studentsat Ohio University; I was 19 and he was 18. I thought hewas extraordinarily handsome, with these unusualgreen eyes, and once I engaged him in conversation, wewere both laughing and giggling. Right away, he startedpursuing me.

He was so charismatic, funny - and so dashing for

a college kid! He was from a wealthy, prominent familyfrom the Middle East, so he'd show up for dates in asuit and take me to adult restaurants. And he'd slip aflower through the bank-teller window where I worked.I grew up in a little town, so he was this knight in shin-ing armor.

Within two months, we were living together. Hisidea. It was wonderful. We were having fun, havingsex. I felt very attracted to him. But once my Catholicparents found out I'd moved in with him, the pressurewas on to get married. He was pressuring me, too. Itwas relentless. I resisted because I thought we weretoo young.

After about three months, he said, "Sorry, but yousaid no to marriage, so I'm leaving at midnight forMichigan State." I was devastated, bawling my eyesout, as we spent what I thought were our last hours to-gether. Then midnight came, and he goes, "Will youmarry me?" Of course I said yes! It'd stop him from leav-ing. We had a little wedding at the mayor's office a fewmonths after. Later, I found out he never had plans to goto Michigan. It was a manipulative stunt.

The Abuse BeginsThe honeymoon phase didn't last long. My husband

didn't like that I had male friends.

How Mary Murphy survived abuse

The Fall colors make this time of year one of my favorite times. While at Nolin Lake over the past week-end, I went to a point that looked out over the lake. The Fall colors in the trees surrounding the lakemade for an amazing view. Although still a bit early in the season for the peak of the colors, I attemptedto capture the colors that have already begun to show.

— SCOTT HANNIGAN

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Volleyball hits their way to top of SEC EastBy T.J. Walker

sports@kykernel.com

It started with a good pass,followed by the perfect set andfinished with a kill. Do thisenough times in a match andyou will probably find yourselfwinning. UK is the perfect ex-ample.

The UK volleyball team (19-1, 9-0 Southeastern Conference)has climbed its way to No. 7 inthe country in large part becauseof the excellent hitting the Catsdemonstrate in each match. UKranks 7th in the nation in hittingpercentage and is 8th in thecountry in kills per set.

“We’ve gotten a lot of hittersand gotten a lot stronger,” junioroutside hitter Sarah Mendozasaid. “We are a lot more bal-anced so it’s a lot harder for de-fenses.”

The Cats say the evenhandedhitting is what makes them sodangerous, but leading that ef-fort is Mendoza. She is 28th inthe country in kills per set butshe stresses that because of thebalanced attack, she can get bet-ter shots and easier points.

“We’re so full of good hit-ters, we’re stacked all the wayaround,” sophomore outside hit-ter Ann Armes said. “Any per-son can step in and make a dif-

ference any day so we’re con-stantly are pushing each other inpractice.”

UK leads the SEC in everyregard to hitting. As a result theCats are atop the conferencestandings and have yet to drop aconference game.

The Cats came up big thisweekend in the hitting depart-ment while not losing a set. UKhit the road first sweeping Mis-sissippi State, tallying a .404 hit-ting percentage, and then hit.381 in a sweep versus Alabama.Mendoza led the Cats with 14kills in each game.

“We did hit very well thisweekend, we did a good job ofmoving the ball around,” Men-doza said. “We did a great jobpassing.”

The team stresses that itdoesn’t just thrive on kills. They

say every aspect of the game isjust as important as the kills,whether it is the dig, pass or set,all of it must be efficient if theCats want to have a chance towin.

Helping the attack is seniorsetter Sarah Rumely.

Rumely is 12th in the coun-try in assists per set, averagingjust under 12 per set. She is a vi-tal part in any offense strategy.Although she isn’t the one tomake a dramatic kill, she still hasbeen known to sneak in a kill.

“(Rumely) is really versatilewhen it comes to the sets,” fresh-man middle blocker Zan Morgansaid. “When we play SEC hittersthey are all really good, the passwon’t always be perfect but shedoes a good job turning a badpass into a good set.”

If the Cats plan on continu-ing their dominance this season,and capturing their goals, suc-cessful hitting will be essential.The Cats have hit for over .200in 18 matches this season, andthey know any bad hitting daycan result in a loss.

“It would be a lot harder towin if we didn’t hit our best,”Morgan said. “The worse we hit,the better the other teams passeswill be, which will equal to abetter set, and they will get theopportunity for a better hit.”

Junior out-side hitterSarah Men-doza leadsthe Cats’offensiveattack thisseason.

PHOTO BYBRITNEYMCINTOSHSTAFF

Other UK teams can learn from football’s Auburn victoryIn the afterglow of Big Blue Madness and

the basketball team’s first day of practice Sat-urday, let’s hope the Cats tuned in to watch

their football counterpartsSaturday night.

If they did, they mayhave learned a lesson over-shadowed by Friday’s fan-fare.

In the Southeastern Con-ference — football, basket-ball or any other sport — ex-pectations mean nothing.

Auburn was almost atwo-touchdown favoriteheaded into Saturday’sgame. Why not? The Tigers

boasted the league’s No. 1 offense, and UK’sdefense was without its best player, senior cor-nerback Trevard Lindley.

The game, in which freshman quarterbackMorgan Newton took his first collegiatesnaps, was on the road in one of the league’smost hostile environments.

And more than anything, Auburn justseemed to be a better team coming in.

But the Cats went down to that lovely lit-tle village on the plains and didn’t just playwell. They played perfectly.

Even after having a field goal blocked andreturned for an Auburn touchdown, UK didn’tfold. Instead, the defense motivated itself tohelp make up for the miscue.

And oh, did the defense make up for it.The SEC’s No. 1 offense — no, not Flori-

da’s or Alabama’s, but Auburn’s — scored justseven points. Auburn quarterback Chris Todd,whose touchdown-to-interception ratio beforethe game was 12-1, tossed one pick and notouchdowns.

Flustered, the Auburn offense fell apart.On one drive in the fourth quarter, tied andjust out of field goal range, the Tigers commit-ted six penalties.

While the Tigers fell apart, the Cats stayedcalm. Eventually, they took the lead thanks toRandall Cobb breaking off a 61-yard runstraight up the middle and eventually punch-

ing it in from four yards out.UK’s offense, which hasn’t produced

many big plays this year — let alone withoutits starting quarterback — made the big play,not Auburn’s.

UK head coach of the offense JokerPhillips summed it up pretty well:

“No turnovers, no penalties and noturnovers,” he said.

With such a disadvantage on paper, theCats had to play a perfect game to have achance.

They did.With its season in the balance, UK needed

to make a statement against Auburn and keepits bowl chances alive.

It did.This coming season at Rupp Arena, don’t

you think opposing teams will come to townwith something to prove, like UK did againstAuburn?

“You're going to have to take on all com-ers because you're going to be the huntedeverywhere you go,” UK basketball head

coach John Calipari said at media day Thurs-day. “Every game you play, you’re someone'sSuper Bowl.”

That’s how Billy Gillispie suffered histenure-defining losses to Gardner-Webb andVirginia Military Institute.

On Wednesday, UK’s No. 7 volleyballteam faces Tennessee, currently third in theSEC East. The Vols could define their seasonby being the first to knock off UK (19-1, 9-0SEC) in league play.

UK volleyball coach Craig Skinner startedin Lexington five years ago aiming for targetson others’ backs. Now, the target is squarelyon his.

Even with such expectations surroundingthose programs, they aren’t invincible. AskGene Chizik and Auburn’s football team.

Any of UK’s varsity athletes would havelearned a lesson by tuning in to the footballgame Saturday. If they didn’t, it’s OK; theircoaches may break it out before the year’s end.

James Pennington is a journalism senior.E-mail jpennington@kykernel.com.

JAMESPENNINGTON

Kernelcolumnist

“We’ve gotten a lot ofhitters and gotten a lotstronger. We are a lot

more balanced so it’s alot harder for defenses.”

SARAH MENDOZAjunior outside hitter

OPINIONSWednesday, October 21, 2009 Page A4

Time is now: UK must enter student housing plan debateUK doesn't have to get in the

middle of the new student housingproposal facing the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government.There's nothing that says UK has aresponsibility to protect its studentsagainst outside governing bodies, orthat UK should go to bat for thestudents any time an unfavorableordinance comes down.

The university doesn't have todo any of that. But in this case, itshould.

According to an Oct. 20 Kernelarticle, UK has joined with Lexing-ton residents and neighborhoods toform the Student Housing in Part-nership Program. This program al-lows properties to be inspected andheld to voluntary inspections. Thisstep makes UK more involved inthe process, but there is more work

to be done.Students move off-campus be-

cause there isn't enough on-campushousing, or there isn't enough suit-able on-campus housing. That's notUK's fault – the university wouldgladly house more students on cam-pus if it only had enough money tobuild more dorms. That's the econo-my's fault.

And so, when students move offcampus, it only makes sense thatthey stay as close to campus as pos-sible so they can commute to classor work more easily. Most of thatoff-campus housing is affordableand convenient. Students shouldnever be penalized for living in theplace that makes the most sense forthem to live.

The city is viewing this as anissue that only involves two parties:students and traditional residentswho are being forced to live in

close proximity to each other. Butthose two parties wouldn't be insuch close proximity if UK wasn'there.

The university administrationshould end its silence, take a stanceon the issue and work as a compro-mising body between the city andthe students. If UK can't build itsown housing to help students be-cause of the economy, that's fine.But UK should at least be able todefend its students who are onlydoing the most sensible thing forthem.

That's not to say that UK shouldonly enter this issue to help stu-dents. UK is tied to this city notjust through its students, butthrough every member of the sur-rounding community. This ordi-nance will effect alumni, faculty,staff and plenty of other peoplewho are connected to UK.

For that reason, UK needs toenter into the discussion as a mod-erating party, if nothing else. Thecity council doesn't seem interestedin opening up real dialogue be-tween the students and other resi-dents and there's nothing the stu-dents can do about it. And really,plenty of students feel like the citycouncil isn't even trying to heartheir pleas.

UK could change that. A hand-ful of devoted students going tocity hall can only do so much, butthe sheer force of the university en-tering the discussion would proba-bly be enough for the city to stopand consider what it is doing. Foras much as UK relies on Lexing-ton, Lexington also owes a lot toUK.

This is not an issue that directlyinvolves UK, which is probablywhy the university has been mum

on it to this point. But to think thatwhatever comes from this debatewon't have long-lasting effects onthe university administration, thestudent body or those connected toUK is foolish. It's a major issue thatneeds to be examined by anyonewith an interest in it – and UK hasan interest in it, whether it will ad-mit it or not.

Students can do more to fightfor their issues. Residents in theseneighborhoods can do more to tryand work with the students in waysthat aren't this extreme. The citycouncil can do a better job of un-derstanding the issues at stake andlistening to everyone who will beaffected.

With something like that atstake in a city that relies so muchon both the university and tradition-al residents, why would UK not be-come involved?

When I was a little boy,my dad, knowing I had acurious mind, bought me a

bookcalled“Rare An-imals oftheWorld” byFrancescoSalvadori.Withyoungeyes, Ipeeredinto thevacant ex-

pressions rendered byartists of the dead and dy-ing species, saddened withmy first feeling of loss; anunderstanding that things,when gone, do not return.To this day, I credit thatbook for making me theenvironmentalist that I am.

One of those creatures,lost in this book's pages asit was lost to time, had aparticular impact on me —the passenger pigeon. Isuppose the fact that therewere so very many of thembefore the Euro-Americanconquest of the continent iswhat caused me to remem-ber these to this day, aboveall of the other vanishedcreatures in the book.

In 1813, while on a tripto Louisville, Ky., JohnJames Audubon observed aflock of passenger pigeons

overhead. “The air was literally

filled with pigeons,” hesaid. “The light of noondaywas obscured as by aneclipse. Before sunset Ireached Louisville, the pi-geons were still passing inundiminished number, andcontinued to do so for threedays in succession."

The impact of thespecies on the nascentyears of our nation’s histo-ry is evident whenever youglance at an atlas. Thereare towns across NorthAmerica named for thebird, from Georgia to Que-bec (Pigeon Forge, Tenn.,being one of the most read-ily recognizable).

In 1605, the French ex-plorer Samuel de Cham-plain, like Audubon, de-scribed “countless multi-tudes” of pigeons when hebecame one of the firstwhite men to peer into whatcenturies later would be-come our nation’s interior.

African slaves saw noother source of meat asthey toiled endlessly onSouthern plantations. Bythe 19th century, birds bythe boxcar were beingshipped to burgeoning me-tropolises rising up on theeastern shore of the U.S. tobe sold as a cheap sourceof food. Pigeons sold fortwo cents on the streets of

New York.An American popula-

tion tore with abandonthrough the massive forestsof an area we now call theRustbelt, reducing a chorusof trees and rivers to thepatchwork of farms and va-cant fields that can be seenthere today. When thiscountry was liberated fromthe yoke of England, theentire region we now in-habit used to be the nestingground of flocks of pigeonsso large they blackened thesky when taken to flight.Within a century, the pas-senger pigeon was extinct.

It is a story that playsout far too often today.Within decades, tigers willbe gone from the wild. Po-lar bears are disappearingdue to habitat loss fromglobal climate change. Theplanet’s elephant popula-tion has been slashed inhalf and is still declining.There are only 1,500 giantpandas left in the wild. Themajority of rhinocerosspecies are almost gone.

Are these all not thevery creatures we grew uphearing about? In the chil-dren’s books our grandchil-dren thumb through, whatanimals will there be left toadmire?

Sean Taylor is a lin-guistics junior. E-mail opin-ions@kykernel.com.

SEANTAYLOR

Contributingcolumnist

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! KERNEL EDITORIAL

Lament for endangered species Solar energy not answer

As a parent of a UK junior, I like to read the Kernel to seewhat’s happening. It is disappointing that Melissa Warren, as ajournalism major, did not present a fair and balanced article (Solarenergy key to U.S. energy independence). However, I’m respond-ing not just as a parent but as someone who works for an associa-tion dealing with these issues every day — the American Coalitionfor Clean Coal Electricity.

Solar power only works when the sun shines. It is expensiveand does not provide a baseload or around-the-clock power source.

Solar now provides only a fraction of the nation’s electricity.As the National Center for Policy Analysis estimated, it could takemore than 90 years to create equivalent wind and solar to replace200 coal-fired electric generation facilities.

The amount of land and money needed for large scale solar isdaunting. A 10 megawatt facility in the Northeast might take43,000 solar panels on 130 acres with an investment of $80 mil-lion to power only about 1,450 homes, which still will need base-load power.

Because solar is not competitively priced with other energysources, especially coal, it generally must be heavily subsidizedwith government grants and loans. In addition, solar requires ex-pensive expansion of the electric grid to link to areas where thepower is needed. Estimates for national grid expansion run into thebillions of dollars.

Cost is important since we simply can’t price families, busi-nesses or university students out of the energy market. Everythingwe do, including getting a college education, has a power costcomponent.

This is not to make light of the environmental concerns wehave with energy sources. America’s coal-based electricityproviders have invested nearly $100 billion in technologies since1990 to reduce emissions to make coal cleaner and more efficient,while still keeping prices affordable. Scientists, energy companiesand governments are working now to develop and deploy the nextgeneration of advanced technologies that will make it possible toreduce regulated emissions even further to near-zero levels and tocapture and store greenhouse gases. In that way, we can have af-fordable coal and have it even cleaner, too.

Cathy Coffey

The following is a Web comment in response to“Solar energy key to U.S. energy independence”

! LETTER TO THE EDITORAn excerpt from

Australian poet Ju-dith Wright's piece,

“Lament for Pas-senger Pigeons:”

And it is man we eatand man we drink andman who thickens roundus like a stain.

Ice at the polar capsmells of men.

A word, a class, aformula, a use: that is therhythm, the cycle we im-pose.

The sirens sang to usto the ends of the sea,and changed to us; theirvoices were our own, jug-jug to dirty ears in dirtiedbrine.

Pigeons and angelssang us to the sky andturned to metal and adirty need.

The height of sky, thedepths of sea we are,sick with a yellow stain, afouling dye.

Whatever Being is,that formula, it dies aswe pursue it past theword.

We have not askedthe meaning but the use.

What is the use ofwater when it dims?

The use of air thatwhines in emptiness?

The use of glass-eyedpigeons caged in glass?

tion Phi Sigma Pi bolsters any kind ofresume,” Street said.

Phillip Kraemer, chair of the Chell-gren Center for Undergraduate Excel-lence, said the purpose of an honorarysociety is to help create a culture of stu-dent excellence.

“Such a culture is consistent withUK’s aspiration to become one of thebest public research universities in thecountry,” Kraemer said.

Being in an honor society will alsohelp separate students from other jobseekers.

“In a world in which college degreesare commonplace, where competition foremployment among college graduates isintensifying, any attribute that distin-guishes one student from another confersa meaningful competitive advantageupon the honoree,” Kraemer said.

How to judge credibilityof an honor society

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years the Provost will have ample time toconsider all of our options.”

Kennedy said most of the current stu-dents will probably not be affected by thechange, even though it is still undecidedwhat programs will be moved to the newbuilding. Some students are worried if theirprogram is moved, the new campus will betoo far away.

“It would be a long drive,” said TimmeGabbard, BCTC nursing student andNicholasville resident. Gabbard said shewould either transfer to BCTC’s Danvillecampus or go to UK instead.

Kennedy said administrators are workingto make the new location as convenient as itis now by creating an “education triangle.”The triangle would connect BCTC, UK andTransylvania University with a bike andpedestrian path called the Legacy Trail, atrail connecting downtown Lexington to theKentucky Horsepark. The development ofthe trail is overseen by Legacy Center, a citycommunity foundation.

Other students are less concerned withthe commute and more disturbed by the cho-sen location. The future 48-acre campus hasbeen used as a mental institution since 1816and is surrounded by railroads, the HopeCenter and an on-site cemetery. State work-ers discovered more than 4,500 graves on theproperty while doing construction. BCTC of-ficials said the grave site will remain andthey will build around it.

“I’m not going to a school that used to bea mental institution and has dead bodies,”said Chase Tuney, a BCTC business andmanagement student. “Not a chance … I’deither take online classes or go find the clos-est satellite campus.”

Some of the faculty said it would bestrange to have a cemetery on the new cam-

pus.“Sometimes the laws protecting the dead

are stronger than the laws protecting the liv-ing, but it doesn’t bother me,” said JamesAnthony, a BCTC English professor. “Ithink the move will help us get a more inde-pendent identity.”

Other BCTC staff members agree themove would benefit the college, but questionif it will really happen because the plan re-quires more than $500 million over the next20 years.

“We need a space that’s designed to inte-grate the Lexington campuses, that has park-ing and that isn’t dependent on UK,” saidLaura Heyrman, a BCTC art history instruc-tor. “And I know UK would like to get thesebuildings back, but that money is just notthere. We’ve been promised new buildingsbefore.

“There are a lot of possibilities, but Idon’t think anybody has really thought inpracticalities of the process of making thosechanges … I just don’t see it possible in thiseconomy. It’s too bad.”

Kennedy said she is unsure of what willhappen in the future and just wants to focuson the one new building for now.

“Right now we’re in the programmingand planning phase,” Kennedy said. “Butdown the road, I’m not sure what will hap-pen. That’s long-term planning. There are noshort term plans to totally relocate.”

Kennedy said the public is welcome toattend their next meeting regarding this is-sue. It will be held on Nov. 3 from 6:30 to8:30 p.m. at the North Lexington YMCA.

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3rd District councilwoman Diane Lawlessagreed.

“I want the UK students to feel wel-comed here, I don’t want our best and bright-est to be shipping out,” Lawless said.

However, 6th District councilman KevinStinnett said the community should remem-ber the students living in these homes are notjust UK students, but Bluegrass Communityand Technical College and Transylvania Uni-versity students as well.

Members of the council spoke to Harrisabout concerns regarding a growing studentpopulation.

“President Todd’s top-20 plan includesenrolling an additional 7,000 students by2020,” Harris said. “However, our growthhas been modest each year.”

Jones suggested Gaines become familiarwith the failed “B” Seal program, which wasdesigned for Lexington mobile home tenantsto have a seal of approval from the state firemarshal's office. The seal was to show thehome met certain standards, much like thestickers Gaines wants to use. Gaines esti-mates the stickers would cost $500 and thefunds would come from private sources.

“We need to put the responsibility backinto the community as neighbors and land-lords,” Jones said. “I want the program to besustainable and not just temporary.”

No date was set for the next planningcommittee meeting.

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“I’m not going to a school that usedto be a mental institution and has

dead bodies.”CHASE TUNEY

BCTC student

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