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KENTUCKY KERNELCELEBRATING 39 YEARS OF INDEPENDENCE
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LGBT advocacy groupawarded national honor
By Emily-Kate [email protected]
Within its first two years oncampus, one UK organizationhas received national attentionfor working to improve the livesof UK community members.
UK Health Occupation Pro-fessionals for Equality wasawarded the Lesbian, Gay, Bi-sexual and Transgender HealthAchievement Award, given an-nually by the American MedicalStudent Association and theGay and Lesbian Medical Asso-ciation. The award acknowl-edges advocacy of LGBT healthissues and concerns within amedical campus. UK HOPE re-ceived the award along withUK’s chapter of AMSA.
UK HOPE co-founders andsecond-year medical studentsChris Garnett and ZachThrelkeld said the mission state-ment of UK HOPE is to pro-
mote a more inclusive environ-ment for LGBT students, facul-ty and staff.
“UK HOPE is the first of itskind,” Garnett said. “It is an in-tercollegiate organization repre-senting LGBT interests of stu-dents, faculty, and staff from allsix health professional collegeson the UK campus. UK HOPEis neither an exclusively studentorganization nor exclusivelyCollege of Medicine.”
Garnett said past recipients,including Stanford Universityand the University of Massa-chusetts, set the bar high in ur-ban medical schools in whichthese issues concerning equalityhave been recognized for awhile. Garnett said for a schoolin Kentucky to stand out, heknew his group would have togo above and beyond.
“We knew that being from
Chinese celebration draws nearEmily Cedargren
Many UK students returned tocampus looking back on fond memo-ries of Auld Lang Syne, but one partof the UK community is anxiouslylooking forward.
For the Chinese, the most cele-brated holiday is the Chinese NewYear, and it is just around the cor-ner.
Every year, the Chinese com-bine historical traditions with mod-ern culture in a two-week-long cel-ebration that includes bright colors,festive food and a lot of symbol-ism.
When this year, the Year of theTiger, begins on Feb. 14, the celebra-tions will be similar to the West’sJan.1 New Year.
“Many families here will have abig holiday dinner with family andfriends, stay up to midnight for thechange over from the Year of the Oxto the Year of the Tiger,” saidChangzheng Wang, president of theKentucky Chinese American Associa-
tion.Highlights of the holiday include
t decorations, dances and food. Watchfor traditional dragon dances and liondances as well as other traditionalcostumes. Decorations usually featurethe color red and the animal of theyear.
“People can decorate theirhouses with red lanterns, red cou-plets on their doorframes and NewYear posters on their doors,” Wangsaid.
Mingzhen Bao, assistant profes-sor of Chinese linguistics and secondlanguage acquisition, said the holi-
day originated in rural villages in an-cient China. The farmers feared amonster they called the Nian becauseit would eat their crops, livestockand even children. Bao said the Nianfeared the color red and loud noises.So, every Chinese New Year in-cludes fireworks and red decora-tions.
Honglu Liu, a chemistry fresh-man, is excited for the festival be-cause he can spend time with hisfamily, who immigrated from Chi-na to the U.S. He said the foods
UK freshman found dead in Haggin, cause unknownBy Katie Saltz
Zachary Kertis, a UK fresh-man, died in Haggin HallWednesday night. The chemicalengineering freshman from Flo-rence, Ky., was 18 years old.
The 911 call made from acell phone came in to UK Po-lice around 10:16 p.m. Wednes-day. UK Police Chief Joe Mon-roe said there is no evidence offoul play or suspicious circum-stances surrounding the stu-dent’s death.
Joe Sumner, a biologyfreshman and Haggin Hall resi-dent, performed CPR on Kertis
before paramedics arrived onthe scene.
Sumner said he heard Kertis’roommate yelling for help fromhis dorm room. Sumnerentered the room andfound Kertis lying on theground near his desk.Trained as a lifeguard,Sumner checked Kertis’vital signs.
Kertis’ roommateput the paramedics onspeakerphone and Sum-ner said he performed CPR forabout 10 minutes before helparrived.
Kertis’ mother, Ruth Kertis,said paramedics were unable to
revive her son at the hospital,but she was told his death wasquick.
An autopsy is scheduled todetermine the cause ofdeath, but Ruth said theparamedics believe itcould have been ananeurysm or a preexist-ing heart condition.
Jordan Boggs, Ker-tis’ girlfriend and afreshman at WesternKentucky University,
said she met Kertis throughfriends in September and hadnever met anyone with such apositive attitude.
“Nothing brought Zach
down,” she said. “He was up-beat beyond anybody. I can’tthink of Zach as anything buthappy.”
Boggs said she was on thephone with Kertis Wednesdaynight before he died. She saidaround 9:30 p.m. the phone justcut out. A friend called later totell her what happened.
Anna Leatherbee, a WKUfreshman, had been a friend ofKertis’ since their freshmanyear of high school. Leatherbeesaid people referred to Kertis as“Superman,” partly because ofone of his favorite T-shirts, but
See Kertis on page 6
See New Year on page 6 See UK HOPE on page 6
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UK freshman Zachary Kertis died Wednesday night of unknown causes. UK Police responded to the 911 call from Haggin Hall around 10:16 p.m.
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PanelexploresHaitiancrises
By Chris [email protected]
With news stations con-stantly flashing images of theaftermath of the earthquake inHaiti, one UK event aimed toshed some light on the otherkinds of catastrophes thecountry has been living withfor years.
On Thursday more than100 students crowded the Stu-dent Center to participate in apanel discussion titled “Back-drop to the Haitian Crisis.”
Moderated by ChesterGrundy, director of the UKMartin Luther King Jr. Cultur-al Center, the panel offered ableak assessment of Haiti’scurrent state and expressedconcern over Haiti’s ability torecover.
“The Haiti that I left isgone,” said Kerling Israel, apublic health graduate studentand native of Haiti. “We havehad social earthquakes, politi-cal earthquakes, but now it isthe natural earthquakeHaitians must overcome.”
Others at the forum weresimply in awe of the level ofdestruction in the island na-tion.
“I was stunned at the dev-astation that was wrought inHaiti,” said Bryan Coutain, avisiting political science pro-fessor.
The panelists worried thataid to Haiti would be short-lived and ineffective due tothe collapse of civil infra-structure and political institu-tions. Haitian President RenePreval was left homeless afterthe quake destroyed the presi-dential palace as well as hispersonal home.
See Haiti on page 6
Kertis
Jan. 30 Lexington Public Library at 2. p.m. — Chinese New Year celebration pro-gram
Feb. 6 Lexington Opera House at 5 p.m. — Holiday Market with food, crafts andcultural displaysLexington Opera House at 5 p.m.— Performance featuring festival dances,the Beijing Opera and music on traditional instruments. — Free, ticketsavailable at Rupp Arena ticket office, (859) 233-3535
Feb. 7 Lexington Arts Place at 1 p.m. — Chinese New Year performance
E-mail [email protected] for more information.
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PHOTOS BY BRITNEY MCINTOSH | STAFFDavid Parrott speaks to a room of faculty and students about his mission for the position of vice president of Student Affairs on Thursday afternoon in the Student Center.
Parrott aims for inclusive campusBy Katie Perkowski
Protecting students’ rights regardless oftheir background or lifestyle is one of theobjectives David Parrott presented to stu-dents on Thursday.
Parrott, a Kentucky native, was the firstcandidate for the position of vice presidentof Student Affairs to visit the UK campus.Parrott spoke with students and faculty atan open forum about his mission for theuniversity if selected for the job.
Parrott spoke on the importance of dif-ferent viewpoints coming together to createnew policies regarding issues such as diver-sity.
One example Parrott gave of how he
helped improve diversity at Texas A&M,where he currently serves as the executiveassociate vice president and dean of Stu-dent Affairs, was the creation of the Racialand Ethnic Harassment Rule in 2008.
According to the Texas A&M Web site,the rule punishes students who convey aserious racial or ethnic message that vio-lates a breach of peace, express an inten-tion to commit violence, accompany illegalconduct or advocate the use of force.
Parrott said he aims to protect the rightsof all types of students, even those who arenot following what may be the norm.
“Because someone is acting in an un-usual way … is not grounds for removal,”
Vice President of Student Affairs candidate David Parrott speaks withfaculty after his forum on Thursday afternoon in the Student Center. See Forum on page 6
Women’s club polo team becoming one offastest-growing groups on campusHorseplay:
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There is a difference between what's sweetand funny and what's creepy and moronic, al-though the makers of the dismal romantic comedy"When in Rome" don't seem to understand the dif-ference. In the interest of never having to watch amovie so inept again — and to save you all fromthe same fate — I offer a quick primer.
Rule No. 1: If, in your movie, a bunch ofweirdos in Italy fall suddenly in love with a prettyGuggenheim curator (Kristen Bell) just becauseshe removes their coins from a magical love foun-tain, and they follow her home to New York andbegin terrorizing her, such actions are called stalk-ing. It's not cute. It's actionable.
Rule No. 2: If Danny DeVito paws the leadinglady, it's creepy, especially if he talks aboutsausage while doing so.
Rule No. 3: If Jon Heder from "Napoleon Dy-namite" breaks into the leading lady's apartment,it's also creepy, even if Pedro is with him.
Rule No. 4: If you make the hilarious WillArnett ("Arrested Development," "30 Rock") com-pletely superfluous, you should be consignedforever to production on "Jersey Shore," which
quite frankly is a lot more coherent than thismess.
I could go on, but you get the idea."When in Rome," which has been sitting on
the shelf approximately since the first stone waslaid down for the Coliseum, is a tiresome time-waster, a film that expects us to believe thatbeauties like Bell (so bright and sassy back in her"Veronica Mars" days) can't get boys, that gettingmarried to some dude you sat next to on a trans-Atlantic flight after two weeks is the best of allpossible worlds, that you shouldn't love your jobas much as you love guys. And then it doesn'teven offer you any good jokes to laugh at, onlyJosh Duhamel walking into poles. (He plays a guywho may or may not be under the fountain's spell,although let's be real: If he wants to date you,why make a fuss?)
"When in Rome" tries hard to be a modern-day fairy tale, but it fails. If such magic really ex-ists, then please, Gods of Love, make this moviedisappear
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Author J.D. Salinger dies at 91By Elaine Woo
Los Angeles Times
LOS ANGELES — J.D.Salinger, one of contempo-rary literature’s most famousrecluses, who created a last-ing symbol of adoles-cent discontent in his1951 novel “TheCatcher in the Rye,”has died. He was 91.
Salinger died ofnatural causes Wednes-day at his home in Cor-nish, N.H., his sonMatthew said in astatement released by the au-thor’s literary representative.
Perhaps no other writer ofso few works generated asmuch popular and critical inter-est as Salinger, who publishedone novel, three authorizedcollections of short stories andan additional 21 stories thatonly appeared in magazines inthe 1940s. He abandoned pub-lishing in 1965, when his laststory — “Hapworth 26, 1924”— was published by The NewYorker. Rarely seen in publicand aggressively averse to
most publicity, he was oftencalled the Howard Hughes ofAmerican letters.
His silence inspired arange of reactions from liter-ary critics, some characteriz-ing it as a form of cowardice
and others as a cun-ning strategy that, de-spite its outward in-tentions, helped pre-serve his mythic statusin American culture.
Still others inter-preted his withdrawalas the deliberate spiri-tual stance of a man
who, shying from the glare ofcelebrity, immersed himself inEastern religions, particularlyZen Buddhism and HinduVedantic philosophy.
His stories — heavily auto-biographical, humorous andcynical — focused on highlyidiosyncratic urban charactersseeking meaning in a worldtransformed by the horrors ofWorld War II, in which Salingerwas a direct participant.
His stellar fictional cre-ation was Holden Caulfield,the teenage anti-hero of “The
Catcher in the Rye,” whowas, like Salinger, unsuccess-ful in school and inclined toretreat from a world he per-ceived as disingenuous andhostile to his needs.
A prototypical misfit,Caulfield apparently became afixation for the criminally dis-turbed, including Mark DavidChapman, who killed JohnLennon, and John HinckleyJr., who shot President RonaldReagan. But Caulfield alsocared about children and otherinnocents, exhibiting moraloutrage and a compassion forunderdogs that resonated withthe generation that came ofage in the 1960s.
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Marley, a UK senior from the sub-urbs of Philadelphia, has been compet-ing in the sport since her freshman yearand plans to return as a graduate to sup-port the club. She is one of many on thepolo team who shares a common pas-sion for the aggressive, yet elegant ac-tivity.
“Everyone is welcome here,” Marleysaid. “It doesn’t matter if you have years ofexperience or have never even ridden ahorse.”
Jorge Vasquez, originally from Chile,serves as the team’s head coach and inspi-ration. He also works as the LexingtonPolo Club manager and is a nationally ac-claimed professional player.
Collegiate (arena) polo is played withthree members of opposing teams, eachon horseback. The competitors use mal-lets to strike a small, inflatable leather
ball. A point is scored when one teamadvances the ball down the arena andpunches the ball into the goal, much likehockey. Each competition is divided intoquarters, called chukkers, that last 7 1/2minutes. At the end of every chukker,each player switches to a rested horsefrom the stable.
“With polo, there is a partnership be-tween horse, rider and teammates thatmakes it unequal to any other sport,”Vasquez said.
The polo club has been recognizedas one of the fastest growing clubs oncampus. Vasquez began the programfour years ago with the anticipation toprovide an opportunity to those studentswho otherwise would not have had themeans to compete.
Vasquez and Marley said their teammotto is simple. “For the love of polo” is
the foundation of the organization. Polohas consistently become a lifestyle ratherthan a hobby for each of the individuals in-volved.
The women’s organization has sincegrown to more than 20 members and ispresently a highly competitive team. Thepolo club is proud to be attracting studentsto UK who decide on attending the institu-tion with the sole wish of playing for theelite team.
“We compete against schools that areendowed and have been in existence sincethe 1800s,” Marley said. “For us to com-pete on their level is simply unimaginable.”
The team is currently ranked third inthe country with an opportunity to seize thenumber one national position by winningan upcoming match with Cornell, the only
intercollegiate polo team sanctioned by theNCAA.
The inspiration of the game, Vasquezsaid, is about seeing people enjoy the sportfor what it is.
“To me, seeing one of the girls enjoythe game or hearing ‘I love this game’ forthe first time, which I often have, is just asspecial as winning a national champi-onship,” Vasquez said. “That’s why we doall of this.”
The buzz in the crisp afternoon air sur-rounding a match makes it evident theplayers feel similarly.
“We play purely for the love of thesport and the horses,” Marley said. “Weare in the horse capital of the world sothere is not a better place to come out andlearn.”
UK club polo team coach Jorge Vasquez gives kudos to Tannis Marley during the team's practiceon Wednesday evening. Vasquez has coached the program since its founding four years ago.
Tannis Marley, an agricultural economics and public service and leadership senior, practices hitting the ball during the UK women’s club polo team's practice on Wednesday at the Kentucky Horse Park.Marley has ridden horses her entire life, and as a fourth-year polo player, was one of the students who founded the team at UK.
Horsingaround
For many readers, “polo” is a word often associated witha classy shirt or a popular Ralph Lauren fragrance. For Tan-nis Marley and other members of the UK women’s clubteam, however, polo is a way of life.
By Chandler [email protected]
Patterson isn’t to blame for Cats’ lossIt’s not Patrick Patterson’s
fault.It may be hard to believe, con-
sidering freshman forward DeMar-cus Cousins is playing well and
John Wall willnever catchblame for any-thing. But forthose of youlooking at UK’selder statesmanand pointingyour finger,take a stepback.
When ateam loses,there are plenty
of reasons for it — lack of heart,sloppy turnovers, an overall lapsein solid play and bad rebounding.Those are the main reasons whyUK is 19-1 and not 20-0.
Maybe you can attribute the re-bounding to Patterson, since heshares the post at the power for-ward position.
But Patterson didn’t miss a dunkthat should have been a lay-up. Hedidn’t drive the lane with no one topass to except the other team. Andeven then, it’s not like Patterson keptthe Cats from winning.
“We had our chances to winthe game, even with him playingthat way,” UK head coach JohnCalipari said after the loss to SouthCarolina. “And so there are gameshe’s going to do that and we’re notgoing to be good enough to win.”
Every analyst, reasonable fanand drunk in a bar knew a losswould come eventually. The Catsare young and fairly inexperienced.Most of them don’t know what itis like to step in an opponent’sjam-packed arena and get punchedin the mouth. On Tuesday, theyfound out. And on Saturday, we’llsee how they respond.
But when Darius Miller, Ra-mon Harris and DeAndre Liggins— one starter and two top rotationguys — go scoreless, a loss can’tbe pinned on one player.
And if Patterson doesn’t comeout against Vanderbilt on Saturdayand lead the Cats in scoring, re-bounds and inspiring performances,it’s not the end of the world either.
It became evident early in thisseason that Wall and Cousins wererunning the show on the court. Pat-terson’s role is simple — shoot fora double-double, defer to the kidswhen needed and ride the wave asthe third scoring option to a possi-
ble championship. What moreshould anyone want?
Seriously, the junior carriedtwo years of Billy Gillispie on hisback. Maybe a year in which hedoesn’t need to hit the game-win-ning bucket or go for 20 pointsand 12 rebounds every game isgood for Patterson. As long as hedoesn’t injure himself or complete-ly flop the rest of the season, he’llstill be a lottery pick in the nextNBA draft.
But the moral of the story isthis: blaming the first loss of anoverall great season on one personis beyond fanatical. It’s silly, to bekind. Maybe Patterson is in aslump, but the season isn’t over.And a string of solid performancesfrom Patterson is likely somewheredown the line.
Maybe I should phrase it likethis: what would you rather have,Patterson slumping now or no-showing in the NCAA tourna-ment?
If the goal is to make the FinalFour and put up the eighth champi-onship banner in Rupp Arena, it reallyshouldn’t be that hard of an answer.
Kenny Colston is a journalismsenior. E-mail [email protected].
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Humor in, Clydesdales outin Super Bowl commercials
By Todd C. FrankelSt. Louis Post-Dispatch (MCT)
ST. LOUIS — The iconic BudweiserClydesdales have been sidelinedfrom Anheuser-Busch’s slate of ninecommercials appearing during theupcoming Super Bowl.
Anheuser-Busch is using humor,not horses, to push leading brandsBud Light and Budweiser, comple-mented by shorter nods to MichelobUltra and the new, low-calorie, Select55. The Super Bowl commercialsrange from scientists turning to BudLight as they worry about an Earth-bound asteroid, to a small town work-ing to rescue a beer truck, to a spoofof popular TV series “Lost.”
The brewer remains a bigspender on Super Bowl commercials,buying up five precious, pricey adminutes for the Feb. 7 football game,at the high end of its usual buy.
“We did produce a Clydesdalespot,” said Anheuser-Busch’s topmarketing executive Keith Levy.“And we do continue to utilizeClydesdales in our marketing forBudweiser. But at the end of the day,I don’t choose the spots. Brand man-agers don’t choose the spots. The
consumers do.”Television advertising is never
more scrutinized than during the Su-per Bowl. The commercials are partof the game’s attraction, helping ex-plain why a 30-second spot goes foran estimated $2.5 million. Last year,100 million people watched thegame, according to Nielsen. Millionsmore watched the commercials on-line. And people love to talk about— and vote on — the best SuperBowl commercials.
The Clydesdales have been a partof Anheuser-Busch’s image since1933, when the horses were intro-duced to celebrate the repeal of Pro-hibition. Anheuser-Busch owns morethan 200 Clydesdales. The brewer’straveling hitches make more than500 public appearances a year. Thehorses debuted in TV commercials in1956 and have appeared in 15 SuperBowl ads.
The Clydesdale spots tend to pullon the heart strings, said BobHorowitz, creator and producer of theannual show “Super Bowl’s GreatestCommercials.” But humorous spotstend to generate more buzz.
“Funny equals water cooler,”Horowitz said.
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BRETT HATFIELD, Kernel cartoonist
Plagiarism:short-term fix,long-term failure
We’ve all had the urge. It’s 2 a.m. and that 15-page re-search paper due tomorrow is guaranteeing you an all-nighter. It’s so tempting to knock out those last five pagesby going to Google and copying the first relevant thing thesearch engine spits out. But step back and put things intoperspective: What’s more important in the long run — a fewhours of sleep, or your academic integrity?
The answer should be easy, but according to a Jan. 25Kernel article, reports of plagiarism are on the rise at UK.Students are especially being caught in the disciplines ofEnglish and chemistry. Although this increase could be at-tributed to advancements in technology that make it easier tospot plagiarism, some cases may occur because students areignorant of proper source citation.
If improper citation is truly the cause of abundant plagia-rism, students and professors should see this as a learningopportunity, Academic Ombud Lee Edgerton said in the Ker-nel article.
“This is a time when (a professor) should be helping thestudent learn rather than be charging them with an academicoffense,” he said.
This is an institution of higher learning, after all. So astudent shouldn’t be punished for an honest mistake.
However, students who blatantly use others’ work withoutcitation should be punished harshly. The university’s policy— giving an E in the course with no option to retake thecourse for a replacement grade — is tough, but not academicsuicide, even though it stays on a student’s record.
Doing assignments for class now is easier than ever. Stu-dents have full-text journals and books right at their finger-tips at any time of day (or night) thanks to the UK LibrariesWeb site. There’s no need to decipher the Dewey DecimalSystem or bother with the confusing mechanized book-shelves at W.T. Young Library. You simply type in thesearch bar what you are looking for and you are inundatedwith countless scholarly articles on any subject. It is not thathard, but students have become increasingly lazy as gather-ing information becomes more convenient.
In the end, cheating is wrong and we all know that. Wegot into this university for a reason: we are intelligent and canthink for ourselves. Why not prove that to our professors?There’s no better time than now to learn from past mistakesand develop good habits. There are no E’s in the real world.
Athletes’ opinions void of real meaningMichael Jordan created
it, Tiger Woods (until recent-ly) perfected it, and we all
bought it. With
the extremeinflux ofmoney intosportswithin thelast 20years, soci-ety has cre-ated amonster,the corpo-rate athlete.
They’re easy to spot.They can be spotted usingand advertising a variety ofrandom products, and theywill never have an opinionon anything.
Ask them how theweather is and you’ll likelyhear that they believe thereare a variety of opinions onthe weather and each per-son has to decide for them-selves if the icy roads areannoying.
It would not be such abig deal if it had not be-come so standard across thesports world. If put in theposition of Jordan orWoods, almost anyonewould immediately aban-
don public discourse in re-turn for the extreme wealth.However, because almostevery athlete, regardless ofearning potential, hasadopted this public image,we now recoil in horrorwhen one does not.
Abortion is a complicat-ed issue that has been dis-cussed at length. The oddsof convincing anyone tochange sides of the debateare the same as I have ofstealing Gisele Bundchenfrom Tom Brady.
Recently though, TimTebow made the choice toattempt to argue his side ofthe divide on a nationalstage: the Super Bowl.Tebow and his mother havefilmed an anti-abortioncommercial financed byFocus on the Family. CBShas approved airing thecommercial during thegame next week.
From the reaction hisdecision has garnered, onewould think Tebow plannedon throwing puppies off abridge.
Celebrities of all kindscreate ads exposing theirviews everyday and no onebats an eye. Somewherealong the line though, ath-
letes became the exception.We expect our athletes
to be blank slates ontowhom we can project ourhopes and dreams. Learn-ing anything about them,other than their batting av-erage or yards from scrim-mage, steals that slate awayfrom society and creates asignificant backlash.Charles Barkley loves to re-mark that athletes are notrole models, but unfortu-nately, nobody is listening.
It’s not even aboutwhether the athlete’s opinionis right or wrong. The facthe or she even has an opin-ion repulses people. PaulShirley, the epitome of ajourneyman basketball play-er, has become well-knownduring the last decade for hiswriting on sports and othertopics. During the last week,he has permanently alteredhis future by just having anopinion.
Donating money to helpplaces recover from disas-ters is one of the last bas-tions of society athletes canparticipate in without con-troversy, but Shirley ex-pressed his opinion that theoutpouring of funds wasnot addressing the underly-
ing problems and the logicbehind it all was inherentlyfaulty. Within a day, he waslabeled a dumb jock anddismissed from working forESPN, and his work wastaken out of context topaint him as the secondcoming of Hitler.
ESPN, which has filledits halls with numerous for-mer sports stars who haveless than stellar criminalrecords, dismissed someonewho expressed an opinionthat was not derived fromthe standard politically cor-rect athlete lines. MichaelIrvin can be caught by thepolice with crack and hook-ers, but it’s all good be-cause at least he doesn’thave an opinion.
The result of globaliza-tion is homogeneity. In or-der to appeal to as manypeople as possible, every-one must adopt stances thatare certain to offend no one.For the modern athlete, thismeans saying nothing ofvalue, which is all well andgood if that is their choice.But it is not something weshould ever admire.
Tim Riley is an MBAgraduate student. [email protected].
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Over-hyped ‘Legion’ not worth price of admission“Legion,” the latest 21st centu-
ry homage to the angry and venge-ful God of theOld Testament, isforgettable.
Spearheadedby special effectsmaster ScottStewart, the manbehind the visu-als of block-buster hits from“Blade Runner”to “Iron Man,”“Legion” is astory of revela-
tion and a hearty attempt at globalgenocide. Viewers beware: if you’reon God’s side in this one, you’retaking all your eggs out of humani-ty’s basket.
Coming to us merely a week af-ter “The Book of Eli,” the world ofcinema has once again been treatedto some kind of apocalyptic tie-in
with religion. Regardless of its mes-sage, which in the case of “Legion”is literally nonexistent, your opinionof this film will come down to yourown personal level of morbid fasci-nation with the end of the world, orat least the annihilation of the hu-man race.
The setting for the mayhem is adecrepit highway diner in the mid-dle of the Mojave Desert, tritelynamed “Paradise Falls.” A group ofstrangers, each with his or her owntouching reason to stay alive, istrapped in the middle of an un-earthly battle for human blood. Theforces of God have occupied a pro-fuse number of human bodies andthere is no chance for mercy.
Unfortunately for “Legion,” themovie’s setup doesn’t live up to itsown hype. There isn’t nearly enoughaction or bang to validate suchridiculousness. The violence andconflict come off as unwarranted
and unwelcome in a movie that istrying to be dramatic when it knowsthat it isn’t anything of the sort.
“Legion” makes an utter mock-ery, not to mention a waste, of itstalented cast and suffers terribly
from a plot that is just flat-out ap-palling. The most engaging aspectof “Legion” ends up being DennisQuaid’s surprising ability to delivera believable performance amidstsuch nonsense. But this doesn’t re-ally exist as an insult to the moviebecause several scenes involvingQuaid are slightly above the overallquality of the film itself. Unfortu-nately, most of these scenes residewithin the first 30 minutes whilethe characters are still being devel-oped and the war between heavenand earth is on the backburner.
Please do not waste your timeor your money on “Legion.” I per-sonally witnessed several peoplewalk out of the theater. I still envythem.
Colin Walsh is a journalism andEnglish senior.
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World-class jazz is com-ing to UK. Grammy winnerand Carnegie Hall performerJoe Lovano will perform atthe Singletary Center for theArts on Saturday.
Lovano, a saxophonist,will entertain with his five-member performance group“Us Five.” UK students canexpect an upbeat perform-ance with some improvisa-tion. said Summer Gossett,marketing and ticketing di-rector for Singletary.
Lovano’s Web site show-cases some of his many ac-colades, including a NewYork Times quote toutinghim as “one of the greatestmusicians in jazz history.”
Lovano’s father was asaxophone player known as“Big T,” and Lovano beganplaying the alto saxophoneat age 5, according to hisWeb site. By age 16, Lovanohad switched to the tenorsaxophone and was playingprofessionally. He went onto receive international ac-claim and was nominatedfour times before winning a
Grammy in 2000. Lovano now performs on
stage with the four other mu-sicians who make up “UsFive”: James Weidman, pi-ano, Esperanza Spaulding,bass, Otis Brown III, drumsand Francisco Mela, drums.Gossett expects Lovano’sperformance to include mu-sic from his most recentrecord “Folk Art,” thoughshe says the exact programwill be “announced from thestage.”
Gossett said, Lovano’sperformance is the productof an effort by the Martin
Luther King Jr. Cultural cen-ter, the Provost Office, andSingletary to “revive the‘Spotlight Jazz Series’ thatused to bring in prominentjazz acts several years ago.”
Jazz violinist Jean-LucPonty’s November perform-ance was also a part of thiseffort to garner interest in ajazz series, Gossett said. Theticket sale total for the Lo-vano concert was up to 300over the weekend, despitecompetition for audiencewith the men’s basketballgame against Vanderbilt.
Gossett views the Lo-
vano concert as a chance forstudents to be exposed to adifferent art form:
“I don't think there is alot of diversity on campusfor students to branch outand see things they may notbe familiar with,” Gossettsaid.
Thanks to Lovano’s mu-sical resume, students havethe opportunity to hear fromone of the best jazz playersavailable. Gossett said Sin-gletary’s ability to bringsuch a famous artist to UKdemonstrates the perform-ance venue’s value to the
university.“We have UK Theatre,
the symphony, art galleries,etc,, and now the SingletaryCenter is bringing in top-name acts in all genres ofmusic to illustrate what aneducational value the Single-tary Center is to campus.”
Joe Lovano will performSaturday, Jan. 30, at 7:30p.m. Student tickets areavailable for $15, $20, and$25, and are available forpurchase online at www.sin-gletarytickets.com, by phoneat (859) 257-4929 or in per-son at the SCFA ticket office.
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Kentucky, to have any chanceat winning the award, wewould really have to do some-thing special,” Garnett said.
Threlkeld said being rec-ognized on a national stagehas been a reward for the ef-forts of UK HOPE, but it isalso a positive reflection ofthe entire university.
“This award represents
the forward progress of theCollege of Medicine and UKas a whole toward an envi-ronment that more enthusias-tically embraces inclusivityand diversity, especially forLGBT people,” Threlkeldsaid. “I think it's especiallyimportant given that LGBTindividuals have often beenthe subjects of discriminationin Kentucky.”
Threlkeld said throughoutthe year the group has fo-cused on outreach to LGBTundergraduates, the inclusion
of LGBT issues in campus di-versity efforts, fundraising forLGBT advocacy organiza-tions and the institution offaculty-specific training toenhance LGBT student men-torship.
One UK HOPE event inparticular included the sup-port of UK’s AMSA chapter.
UK AMSA hosted theLGBT Pride in HealthcareForum in March 2009. Theforum focused on the rights ofLBGT patients and providedattendees with real-life sce-
narios depicting the plight ofLGBT patients.
As for the future of UKHOPE, Threlkeld said hehopes for lobbying efforts toencourage LGBT-affirmingpolicies in the medical schooladmissions process, as wellas the creation of a grant oraward to spur student initia-tives to enhance diversity inthe College of Medicine.
The award will be pre-sented at the 2010 AMSA na-tional conference in Anaheim,California.
UK HOPEContinued from page 1
typically prepared and eatenduring the Chinese NewYear are tough to find inLexington.
“I love eating thedumplings and spring rolls,”Liu said.
Food is a huge part of thefestivities. Dumplings shapedlike gold ingots for good for-tune in the New Year, cakeand long noodles representlong life.
Wang said because theChinese are superstitious,they eat foods representativeof things they hope for in theNew Year.
Bao said to prepare forthe New Year, many Chinesepeople clean their homes,buy new clothes and get ahaircut to get rid of lastyear’s misfortunes and tohave a new look for the NewYear.
NEW YEARContinued from page 1
mostly for the strength of his character.“He was everyone’s backbone,” she
said.As Leatherbee and friends gathered to
mourn their friend, Leatherbee said Boggsspoke up through tears and told them to‘suck it up,’ because she knew Kertiswouldn’t want his friends to cry over him.
In her mind, Leatherbee said she will
always remember Kertis as a light-heart-ed, whimsical guy forever wearing his fa-vorite Philadelphia Eagles baseball cap.
When people think of Kertis, Boggssaid she hopes they remember the goofyguy who loved ‘90s music and would doanything on a dare.
Zach Cremer, a business and ac-counting freshman, lived across the hallfrom Kertis and described him as a loyalfriend and a helping hand.
“Even though he had a rough exteri-or, he was a good person on the inside,”Cremer said. “He was always there when
you just needed a friend or if you neededhelp with something.”
Kertis was a graduate of Ryle HighSchool. Ruth Kertis said she hopes peo-ple will remember her son as the fun, in-telligent guy he was.
“He was so social,” she said. “Heloved playing baseball, he loved UK. Hewas just a great guy.”
Kertis is survived by his parents,Michael and Ruth Kertis of Florence,and two brothers; Stephen Kertis ofLouisville and Matthew Kertis of Flo-rence. Services are not yet planned.
KERTISContinued from page 1
“The situation in Haiti isbeyond our normal expecta-tions. There is literally noth-ing there,” said Horace Bar-tilow, associate professor ofpolitical science.
The panel expressed con-cerns for the mental health ofthe Haitian people as the re-covery continues. In manyCaribbean countries, there isa stigma against mental ill-ness. With the initial traumafrom the earthquake subsid-ing, the hunger and home-lessness in Port-au-Princecould lead to long-termstress-related mental prob-lems.
“In Haiti with it machis-mo culture, there is a stigmaassociated with mental prob-lems,” Coutain said. “There isa correlation between the stateof a society’s mental healthand the level of violence.”
Another concern is theappearance of paternalism be-tween well-to-do westerndonor nations and the Haitianpeople.
“Haiti has had a long, tor-turous history and a troubledrelationship with the westernworld,” Grundy said, in refer-ence to Haiti’s 1804 slave re-bellion and western-spon-sored coups.
Members of the audienceexpressed concern that anydevelopment imposed onHaiti by other countries andaid organizations would seekto influence Haitian culture.
“We need to understandthat Haiti is a country with re-sources of its own,” said his-tory professor Jeremy Popkin.“We need to enlist the knowl-edge that Haitians themselveshave.”
Bartilow agreed withPopkin and said in order forrelief to be successful, aidingnations need to respect Haiti’sway of life.
“You can’t impose devel-opment on a society, youneed to work with domesticgroups and institutions,” Bar-tilow said.
Bartilow stressed that un-der the burden of recovery,Haiti would not be able topay back its international
debts. He suggested that U.S.led intergovernmental institu-tions like the World Bank andthe International MonetaryFund forgive the country’sdebts.
“What will happen twomonths from now? Will therebe attention on Haiti?” Bar-tilow said. “Will Haiti still getthe help from internationalorganizations that it needs? Iwould guess not.”
Israel underscored theability of the Haitian peopleto rebuild and bounce back.
“Haitians have faith, theysupport each other, they helpeach other and they continueto believe in a brighter fu-ture,” Israel said.
HAITIContinued from page 1
he said. “There’s a lot offear and concern when thatoccurs, and so we have anobligation to protect therights of all people in thatscenario.”
Parrott advocated the in-teraction of different typesof people through studentgroups, which he said havehelped increase retentionrates at Texas A&M. Stu-dents who work in teams ofpeople with different back-grounds and life experienceswill likely be successful af-ter college, he said.
“If you as a studentdon’t leave the universitywith a skill set of being ableto lead and follow peoplethat are different than you… if you cannot lead andfollow in that setting, youwill not be as successful assomeone who can,” Parrott
said.Parrott also addressed
the topic of Greek life oncampuses and said he is asupporter of Greek life andhas spoken to several Greekorganizations on his currentcampus.
“I’m very supportive ofGreek(s),” he said. “I thinkthey’re a healthy part of acollege experience.”
Alex Oliva, a secondaryeducation sophomore andmember of Alpha TauOmega fraternity, said he at-tended the forum because hewants to see someone wholooks at the positives ofGreek life to fill the posi-tion.
When addressed withcampus alcohol policies,Parrott said it is importantfor the university to inter-fere, but only to a certainpoint.
“We have an obligationto help students with thoseissues up to a point, but wewould be short-term help
and referral, and that’s notour main job. … I think do-ing nothing is wrong moral-ly, ethically and probablylegally,” he said.
Parrott has also held astudent affairs position atWestern Kentucky Universi-ty and Western MichiganUniversity, but said he hashad a strong desire to be atUK for a long time becauseof the university’s desire tobecome a nationally recog-nized institution.
“The fact that it’s in myhome state is icing on thecake,” he said.
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PHOTO BY AL DIAZ | MCTHaitian President Rene Preval and his wife, Elisabeth Preval, attendthe funeral mass for Haiti's Archbishop Joseph Serge Miot on Satur-day at the National Cathedral in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
The vice president for StudentAffairs oversees the director ofresidence life. This includes 22residence halls, seven Greek orspecialty houses, 13 living-learning communities, theStudy tutoring program and thesustainability program.
DID YOU KNOW?
1990: Jean-Bertrand Aristidecaptures 67 percent ofthe vote in a presidentialelection. Aristide is over-thrown in September1991 in a violent militarycoup.
1994: A 21,000-member inter-national force touchesdown in Haiti to overseethe end of military ruleand the restoration of theconstitutional govern-ment. Aristide and otherelected officials in exilereturn to power.
1996: Rene Preval takes 88 per-cent of the vote in thefirst transition betweentwo democratically elect-ed presidents.
2000: Aristide is elected again,but the oppositioncharges electoral fraud.
2004: A rebel group advancestoward the capital. Aris-tide submits his resigna-tion as president. Boni-face Alexandre, is namedinterim president.
2006: Preval is elected presi-dent.
2008: Riots erupt over high costof food and fuel. A seriesof hurricanes and stormsravages the country.
2010: A catastrophic earth-quake strikes Jan. 12,leaving at least 100,000dead and an estimatedthree million people in-jured and homeless.
Info courtesy of Catholic News Service
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