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Milwaukee is home tothe Brewers, tasty beer,dairy farms and this pastweekend, Farm Aid 25.
Artists, activists, fansand farmers trekked out toMiller Park for a night ofentertainment and celebra-tion of the traditional familyfarmer.
In the 1980s, America’sfarmers found themselvesstruggling to keep their landbecause of the skyrocketingproduction costs, interestrates and plummeting landvalues. Factory farms posedanother threat to familyfarmers.
Factory farms neededlarge amounts of cheapgrains to feed their livestockso congress agreed and sup-plied them with it. Thiscaused farm policies andsupport to decrease anddeeper debt for the hard-working family farmer.
Factory Farms crush thegrowth of local prosperityand affect the health andwelfare of those who valuea wholesome, healthylifestyle. Factory farms usehormones and antibiotics inlivestock and discourage an-imal rights.
Willie Nelson wasmoved by the words of BobDylan at a Live Aid concertand yearned to do some-thing to protect America’sheart and soul. He wanted toprotect the farmers of Amer-ica.
Farm Aid has been cele-brated since 1985, marking2010 the 25th anniversaryof the benefit concert.
Farm Aid was createdby Nelson and then support-ed by artists John Mellen-camp, Neil Young and even-tually Dave Matthews.
This year the Farm Aidstage welcomed KennyChesney, Band of Horsesand Norah Jones, along withother artists and activistsfrom across the country.
Matthews answers some
questions that concern theeffects of factory farms andthe involvement the youthof America has on it, whileoffering his advice forchange.
“I’m afraid that very of-ten in our society now, thatchildren reach for thingsthat are produced by thosewho are solely driven byprofit. So in this big indus-trial farm people are produc-ing food for us with the sologoal of making money. Andas much money as they canand cut as many corners asthey can, “ Matthews said.
Matthews, a musician,family man and owner of
The new chairman of theUK Department of Obstetricsand Gynecology is taking onchallenges and setting goals.
Dr. Wendy Hansen wasrecently named the new de-partment chair and said shewants to make sureher department is inline with the effortto make UK a Top20 university by2020.
Hansen said shewanted to “buildsomething” andthat is what broughther to UK.
“[My job is] totake a step backand be the guardianof the entire department,”Hansen said.
Hansen specializes inhigh-risk pregnancies.
Originally from Detroit,she started her career as anurse with a degree from theUniversity of Michigan, andlater went to medical schoolat Northwestern University.
She completed her resi-dency at the University ofNorth Carolina at Chapel Hill,where she met her husbandand had her four children.
Six years ago she cameto UK from the Universityof Iowa and became the di-vision head of the Divisionof Maternal Fetal Medicine.
She will retain that posi-tion while she takes on hernew responsibilities as chair-man.
Hansen said her main re-sponsibility is to be the “chief
of service,” in which her jobis to “make certain that theclinical care of all our pa-tients is excellent and safe.”
She said she also wantsto continue fostering re-search within the obstetricsand gynecology and lendsupport to that.
John Allen, de-partment adminis-trator, has workedwith Hansen for thepast five years andsaid Hansen bringsleadership skills ineducation and ad-ministration to thedepartment.
He said Hansenis working on plan-ning to bring to-gether different
services to create a compre-hensive women’s center.
A comprehensivewomen’s center is whereservices are put together “onan outpatient scale” sowomen can come in andhave services they frequent-ly need all in one place,Hansen said.
Hansen said that rightnow the center is just an idea,but she hopes to organize it.
Overall, Hansen said shelikes being the departmentchair because it brings chal-lenges.
“One of the challengeswill be for the department tostay fiscally responsible aswe transition into healthcarereform,” she said.
Hansen said anotherchallenge is to continue tobuild up a patient base. Shewants the ability to compete
WASHINGTON — Theremay be few pregnancy night-mares worse than finding alump in one's breast, given thedueling fears that if it's cancer,treatment could harm the de-veloping fetus, while delayand pregnancy hormonescould fuel a tumor's growth.But a new study finds thatpregnant women treated forbreast cancer are more likelyto survive their ordeal thanbreast cancer patients of thesame age who were not preg-nant when their cancer was di-agnosed.
Five years after their diag-nosis, almost 74 percent of thewomen diagnosed with breastcancer during pregnancy werestill alive. Among their sisterswho were not pregnant whenthey got treatment, 55.75 per-cent survived to the five-yearmark. The researchers found
some evidence that the preg-nant breast cancer patientsfared better on long-term sur-vival, as well. But those find-ings were less clear than thedifference in five-year sur-vival.
The study's findings, to bepresented Friday at the Ameri-can Society of Clinical Oncol-ogy's Washington, D.C., meet-ing, are likely to help lay torest the lingering belief thatpregnancy is a uniquely dan-gerous time for a woman todiscover breast cancer. Untilvery recently, a pregnantwoman diagnosed with breastcancer would have been urgedto terminate a pregnancy or towait until giving birth to beginaggressive treatment.
Texas researchers-includ-ing Dr. Richard L. Theriault,one of the authors of the cur-rent study — offered strongevidence in 1999 that breastcancer can be treated effec-
tively during pregnancy with-out harm to the developing fe-tus.
The current study, whichhas yet to be published and is
therefore considered prelimi-nary, followed 225 womentreated at M.D. AndersonCancer Center in Houston be-tween 1989 and 2009. Seven-ty-five of those women werediagnosed with breast cancerduring pregnancy. The group'ssurvival was compared to 150nonpregnant breast cancer pa-tients who closely matched
the pregnant group in age,date of diagnosis and the levelof their cancer's advancement.
Dr. Jennifer Litton ofM.D. Anderson, said the ba-bies born of the women whopioneered this shift are now21. (And other research hasfound the rate of malforma-tions or negative birth out-comes to be no higher forthose treated with chemother-apy than those who were not.)
Litton said this news is ofincreasing importance, sincemore women are choosing tostart or complete families laterin life, thus boosting the likeli-hood that breast cancer andpregnancy will coincide. Thefinding has already led to re-search on how pregnancy mayinfluence the growth of breasttumors, and whether pregnan-cy may somehow enhance thesensitivity of cancerous tissueto chemotherapy, Littonadded.
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PHOTO BY RYAN BUCKLER | STAFFLead assistances programmer Jerry Grooms monitors the William N. Lipscomb Jr. High-Performance Supercomputing Cluster, UK's new super-computer. The machine has the capacity to compute up to 40 trillion calculations.
A NEW ERA
UK has kicked up itstechnology to meet the Top-20 goal set by President LeeTodd.
The university recentlyupgraded its supercomputerto get one that is three timesfaster than the old one thatwas installed in 2007.
Matthew Beck, a profes-sor and researcher in the Col-lege of Engineering, sat onthe committee that selectedthe vendor and computer,called the Lipscomb Cluster.Beck said he knows the su-percomputer will not onlyhelp engineers, but many dif-ferent researchers from allover.
“The Lipscomb Cluster isto enable computational re-search across disciplines toresearchers throughout theCommonwealth of Ken-tucky,” Beck said. “Any re-searcher in the entire Com-monwealth of Kentucky canget access to the computer.”
“The computer isultimately the main en-gine for doing math,”Beck said. “Those cal-culations are basicallyused in a wide range ofareas.”
The supercomputercan be used for a vari-ety of calculations likeusefulness of newdrugs, how things werein the early university,the shape and functionof proteins in the bodyand questions about in-organic systems, Becksaid.
The new super-computer is the DellPowerEdge C6100High PerformanceComputing serverchassis, with the Lib-scomb Cluster beingpart of it.
Vince Kellen, UK’sChief Information Officer,helped select the vendor thesupercomputer came from.Kellen said he is optimisticthat the new supercomputer
will help the university.“This one is about three
to four times more powerfuland faster than the old one,”Kellen said. “It lets our re-
searchers go through their re-search faster.”
Beck said the reason forthe rise in current technologyis the gaming consoles andgamers.
“On one hand you thankor blame everyone that playscomputer games,” Beck said.“The software makers areconstantly making faster, bet-ter, more powerful hard-ware.”
The increase of powerand speed at which calcula-tions can be done, currently40 teraflops, or 40 trillion cal-culations per second, was notthe only reason the new com-puter was needed at UK.
“In terms of research itprobably has nothing to do withgetting the same thing donefaster or getting more of thesame thing done in the sameamount of time,” Beck said.
“The real driver formaking sure the latest,greatest technology is avail-able to researchers is that
By Drew [email protected]
Campus gets a reboot
See COMPUTER on page 2
By Alexandria [email protected]
Growing hopefor America
New OB/GYNchairman named
By Melissa HealyMCT
Pregnant breast cancer patients found to have a higher likelihood of survival
New supercomputer helps UK reach top research goals
Dr. WendyHansen
new OB/GYN
chairman
By Rachel [email protected]
See HANSEN on page 2
PHOTO BY RYAN BUCKLER | STAFFThe new supercomputer is three to fourtimes faster than the previous machine.
The study’s findings ...help lay to rest the lin-gering belief that pre-
gancy is a uniquelydangerous time for awoman to discover
breast cancer.
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Secretariat, the 1973 su-per horse, was no Seabiscuit.And that creates problemsthat "Secretariat," the movie,never overcomes. A well-act-ed tale of an underdog's tri-umph that sorely lacks anunderdog, it teeters betweenpleasantly generic film biog-raphy and rank manipula-tion.
Diane Lane stars as Pen-ny Chenery, the plucky, richVirginia horsewoman whowouldn't let her daddy's fam-ily farm be sold and whogambled, wheeled and dealton the hooves of Big Red tosave it.
"You run your race, Pen-ny," Daddy (Scott Glenn) al-ways told her. So she's notabout to let a pushy sibling(Dylan Walsh) sell the placeafter Daddy passes. She en-
dures separation from herown family, back in Col-orado, the sexism of the OldBoy's network of thorough-bred breeders of the 1960sand 70s and resolves to makea go of it with MeadowFarm.
She got the farm back onits feet, found success, andthen found Secretariat andhad the good sense to hangonto him as the going gottough. She hired a trainer,given a wild-eyed and wild-wardrobed French-Canadianeccentricity by JohnMalkovich.
Lane gives some emo-tional heft to Chenery, butthere aren't enough scenesshowing what she's giving up(watching her kids grow up).And we're left with bland ex-hortations to the horse and
about the horse.But many are the charms
of watching Lane go toe totoe with that playful old pro,James Cromwell (as a rich ri-val who can't help but be niceto her). And Malkovichchews up the scenery, a ne-cessity here when your cen-tral character is a horse.
Director Randall Wallace("We Were Soldiers") rarelyfinds the poetry in this horsetale, with the racing scenesnever quite hitting their stride,never sending the chills thatthe great horse pictures from"The Black Stallion" through"Seabiscuit" delivered.
What he's made is thetrailer to a much better movie,one that might have earnedthe too-early Oscar buzz thatswirled, briefly, around Lanea couple of months ago.
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every step up in power andaccountability that can beoffered is one step towardsopening the potential ofsolving problems in new ar-
eas,” Beck said. Kellen said the university
gets the money from fundingand has about $1.3 million forthe supercomputer.
Those wanting to use thesupercomputer for their re-search can visit the UK ITwebsite and fill out the properform.
COMPUTERContinued from page 1
with two other hospitals inbaby care “so that we cancontinue to have same num-ber of deliveries and provideoutstanding care.”
Hansen has been in-terim chair of the departmentfor a year since the previouschair, Jeff Ferguson, resigned.In September, she was namedpermanent chair.
Allen said that withHansen as chair “the depart-ment will be more cost effec-tive and efficient in our pur-
suit of the highest quality andexcellence in women’shealth.”
Allen works with her ondifferent financial and busi-ness issues regarding the de-partment.
“She has brought alot of transparency to the de-partment,” Allen said. “She iseasy to work with and is verycompassionate and under-standing.”
Hansen said that though ithas been 17 years since herresidency, she still enjoys herjob.
“I still love coming towork each day,” Hansen said.“I am not bored.”
HANSENContinued from page 1
the organic Maple HillFarm has been a boardmember and performer ofFarm Aid since 2001.
”I think that it’s so im-portant that we reach an un-derstanding as a society thatif we want a healthy futureand healthy planet andhealthy children then wehave to think globally butact locally,” Matthews said.
UK College of Agricul-ture Professor Larry Grabausaid he believes students atUK can act locally by get-ting involved.
“The university has anumber of clubs and pro-grams involved in makingthe environment better,”Grabau said, “The Green-thumb, Grass Pride andSustainable AgriculturePrograms are all starts. TheSustainable AgricultureProgram is the closest relat-ed to the issue.”
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Facing national pollsshowing decreased enthusi-asm among young people,President Obama spent theweek rallying college stu-dents nationwide to stay"fired up" throughout the up-coming midterm elections.
"We can't sit this oneout," the president told acrowd of more than 25,000Tuesday at the University ofWisconsin. "We cannot letthis country fall back be-cause the rest of us didn'tstand up and fight."
Later in the week, Oba-ma excited young supportersat a rally hosted by theDemocratic National Com-mittee in Washington, D.C,reminding them: "We'vebeen through worse as a na-tion and have come outstronger."
"It was always going tobe hard,” he said at Thurs-day's combined rally and con-cert event, organized for theDemocratic National Com-mittee's Gen44 Group. "Ineed you to stay fired up, allthe way to Nov. 2, becauseNov. 2 is going to say a lotabout your future." TheGen44 group was founded asa fundraising, outreach andactivation group that contin-ues to attract college-age indi-viduals and young profes-sionals.
While encouragingyoung people to be proac-tive in the election, Obamasimultaneously emphasizedanother core issue, the cur-rent affordability of a col-lege education.
The president said Sept.27 in a conference call withstudent journalists nation-wide that in a single genera-tion, our country has fallenfrom first place to 12th incollege graduation rates.
"We want to open to thedoors of our colleges and uni-versities to more people so
they can learn, they can grad-uate, and they can succeed inlife," Obama said in his dis-cussion of the educational re-forms his administration hasimplemented thus far.
He proposed that by 2020the U.S. will once again havethe highest proportion of col-lege graduates. He said thatso far, his team has raised thevalue of Pell Grants, simpli-fied financial aid forms,changed the way federalloans are administered andpassed the Affordable CareAct, which allows youngadults to remain on their par-ents' health plans until age 26.
"Community colleges aregoing to play a critical role inmaking sure that higher edu-
cation creates a workforcethat's ready for new jobs," thepresident said. "We need tomake sure we're givingyoung people a better senseof what jobs are out there inthe future so that people endup gravitating towards theskills and degrees that theyneed to get employed."
As per the president's re-quest, Dr. Jill Biden willhold the first-ever summiton community collegesTuesday at the White House,bringing together colleges,philanthropies, business andgovernment representatives,and students.
In addition, Obama men-tioned that his administrationwould work with universitypresidents to get a handle onincreasing tuition prices.
The president's main
concern, however, and theexplanation for the risingcost of college, he said, isthe state of the economy ingeneral. Obama told stu-dents improving the econo-my overall is "critical" andstressed that in times likethese, both students andtheir parents need to be con-scientious consumers.
In all of his appearanceslast week, especially whilespeaking to student media,the president spoke positive-ly about the future job mar-ket and spoke confidently tostudents about their career-finding potential.
"Right now we're goingthrough a tough time, but Ihave no doubt that you guysare going to be successful,"Obama told the students inall his appearances last week.
Most importantly, thepresident told those in atten-dance at last week's rallies,re-engaging in politics andthe upcoming election is cru-cial to bringing about change.
"If we stay on focus, ifwe stay on course, then ulti-mately we will makeprogress," he said. "It takestime; progress takes sacri-fice. Progress takes faith.But progress comes. And itwill come for your genera-tion, for this generation _ ifwe work for it, and fight forit, and if we believe in it."
Obama encouraged stu-dents to knock on doors,make phone calls, and in-spire their friends, family,and coworkers to "not loseheart" in the kind of changehe and the Democrats pro-pose in the near future.
"The energy that youwere able to bring to ourpolitics in 2008, that's need-ed not less now, it's neededmore now," Obama said, inconclusion to his week ofcampaigning. "So there bet-ter not be an enthusiasmgap, people. Not now. Notthis time."
By Katie CroweMCT
Obama urges students toremain informed, engaged
“We cannot let thiscountry fall back
because the rest of usdidn’t stand up and
fight.”PRESIDENT OBAMA
The education of juniordefensive tackle Mark Craw-ford didn’t begin in earnestuntil well after high school.As a senior at Ben DavisHigh School in Indianapolis,he drew recruiting attentionfrom nearly every school inthe Big Ten. But he was aca-demically ineligible, and hadto take a detour to the mostunlikely of places.
Crawford enrolled in Cof-feyville Community Collegein Coffeyville, Kan., a townwith a population of just over10,000. It’s a respected juniorcollege football program thathas produced NFL talent likeGiants running back BrandonJacobs, but outside of foot-ball, Crawford had troubleadjusting to life in Cof-feyville.
“(There’s) literally noth-ing else to do,” he said. “Andif you didn’t have a TV, youwere in trouble.”
After two years in juniorcollege and leading the teamin sacks in 2008, he had be-come academically eligible.When he left Coffeyville as anoted college prospect, hetook with him more than justwhat he had learned in theclassroom.
“Being in Coffeyville,Kan., alone is like a night-mare,” Crawford said. “Thereare great coaches there and agreat junior college footballprogram, but socially it’s justhorrible. Coming from thereto here makes you appreciatea new pair of gloves or appre-
ciate when the managerswash your clothes or appreci-ate a new pair of cleats.”
Crawford was one of theCats’ top reserves at defen-sive tackles last season, ap-pearing in all 13 games andfinishing with 15 tackles onthe year, though he didn’thave any sacks or tacklesfor loss. Still, he was in themix to start at defensivetackle alongside returningstarter Ricky Lumpkin, andthe job appeared to be hisfor the taking when redshirtfreshman Mister Cobblefailed to qualify academi-cally.
Instead, the coachesnamed junior walk-on LukeMcDermott as the starter toopen the season at Louisville.Things got worse for Craw-ford after the opener, when hewas suspended for UK’s sec-ond game for an unspecifiedviolation of team rules. It wasanother lesson for him as hemissed a full week with histeammates.
“Being suspended, youdon’t even really get topractice,” he said. “You’rein practice, but you don’tget to practice, so you justlook at it. You don’t get togo to the game, so I was onthe couch watching TV. AndI’m like, ‘Why am I on mycouch watching TV? I needto be out there with thoseguys making plays.’ I thinkit was somewhat of a realitycheck. I don’t want to be onthe couch watching myteam.”
But he bounced backfrom that, registering his firstcareer sack and 1.5 tackles forloss against Akron the nextweek. Against Ole Miss, hecontinued to elevate his play,finishing with another sackand 2.5 tackles for loss. Hisplay the last two weeks hasvaulted him over McDermott,and he’ll make his first careerstart this weekend againstAuburn.
McDermott will still like-
ly see significant time, andhas three sacks and 4.5 tack-les for loss of his own thisseason, though he failed toregister a tackle against OleMiss. UK head coach JokerPhillips said he’s seen Craw-ford take a leadership role inthe weeks following his sus-pension.
“I think it’s hard to leadwhen you get suspended, ithas to wear off a little bit,”Phillips said. “His suspensionhas worn off and been put be-hind him. Every week we’veseen Mark become more of aleader. Plays aggressive, playswith a motor … We feelMark deserves a chance tostart the game.”
It’s hard not to notice
Crawford’s physical style onthe field and his emotionalplay. That translates to hisleadership role, where he’sbecome more vocal recently.The next time he celebrates asack or a big play, he’ll bethinking about everythingthat’s happened to him to leadto that point.
“It’s always been a part ofit, just from all the issuesmaybe in class or practice ormy personal life,” Crawfordsaid. “I go out there on thatfield and that’s the place I canhit somebody and not get introuble. I try to turn a lot ofthat energy on the offensiveline or the quarterback and letit go.”
Wednesday, October 6, 2010 | PAGE 3
SPORTS
PHOTO BY BRANDON GOODWIN | STAFFJunior defensive tackle Mark Crawford tackles an Akron rusher during UK's home game at Commonwealth Stadium on Sept. 18, 2010.
By Ben [email protected]
Mark Crawford earns first start
PHOTO BY BRANDON GOODWIN | STAFFJunior defensive tackle Mark Crawford takes down Senior runningback Emmanuel Moody in UK's game against Florida, Sept. 25, 2010.Florida defeated the Wildcats 48-14.
“Every week we’veseen Mark becomemore of a leader.”
JOKER PHILLIPSUK football head coach
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FEATURES
Bro, it would be a hugebummer if you couldn’t makeit to Singletary CenterWednesday; especially if youconsider yourself rad. TheBeach Boys are coming totown.
In 1966, nobody would’vebatted an eye at such language,and that wasthanks in largepart to the mu-sic of Brian
Wilson, brothers Carl and Dennis,Mike Love and Al Jardine – thegroup that wrote the surfer subcul-ture into American history.
The Beach Boys are stillsynonymous with the 1960spop rock musical landscapeand the SoCal beach bumlifestyle that accompanied it.Just one note of “Surfin’ USA”or “I Get Around” is enough to evoke imagesof wavy blonde-haired dudes hanging ten onHuntington Beach in the minds of just aboutany age group.
In fact, the band’s infamy is what droveAlltech to bring The Beach Boys back to Ken-tucky for the World Equestrian Games.
“They did really well the last time we
booked them to perform in Ashland, Ky.,” saidMandy Daughtery, Alltech Fortnight Festivalcoordinator.
“We really wanted some names that arerecognizable around the world and we thoughtthat the World Equestrian Games guests wouldbe able to relate to…They are an act that spansgenerations.”
Only Mike Love and Bruce Johnston re-main from the quintet’s glorydays, but there should be noworries as to what songs theywill be performing. Old fa-vorites will entertain attendees,regardless of whether the feel-ing is one of heartfelt nostalgiaor newfound pleasure.
Despite splitting apart, los-ing members to drug addictionand death, weathering contro-versy and internal legal battles,The Beach Boys have quite animpressive resume that ranks
with the very best. The harmonious rock group was inducted
into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988,received a Grammy Lifetime AchievementAward in 2001 and still remains one of thebest selling American bands of all time, mak-ing them both a commercial and critical suc-cess that has stood the test of over 40 years.
Beach Boys to perform for Games
According to the Ameri-can Cancer Society’s CancerFacts and Figures for 2010,an estimated 739,940 womenwill be diagnosed with can-cer in 2010, and over half ofthese cancer patients will re-ceive chemotherapy.
This Thursday, the IotaSigma chapter of Alpha Kap-pa Alpha Sorority, Inc., wish-es to combat self-esteem is-sues related to cancer treat-ments, such as hair loss.
Alpha Kappa Alpha willbe hosting their second annu-al Hoop for the Cause eventin effort to raise money forthe American Cancer Soci-ety’s Feel Good…Look Bet-ter program.
“[Hoop for the Cause] isan annual basketball tourna-ment for women, which rais-es funds to buy wigs forbreast cancer patients,” saidJoy Priest, a committeemember for the event.
The basketball tourna-ment this year consists ofnine 3-on-3 teams made upof women who attend UK. o
To help raise money, eachteam has a required registra-tion fee. Furthermore, everyspectator is asked to donate aminimum of one dollar uponentry, which will go towardsthe program.
“Last year [Alpha KappaAlpha Sorority, Inc.] donated16 wigs and our goal for this
year is to donate 21. This isjust a portion of what we aredoing. AKA’s all over thecentral region will be bring-ing their wigs in March forregionals in Lexington nextyear,” Hoop for the Causeactivities chair, KrishawndaAllen said.
Along with approximate-ly 50 participants and volun-teers who will partake in the
event, including players,score keepers and referees,UK men’s basketball headcoach John Calipari will bemaking a special appearanceat the event Thursdayevening.
“I enjoyed [participat-ing], it was a nice way tomeet new people, a nice ex-perience and way to get out,”Simone Lemaster said, a for-mer participant who playedin the first annual Hoop forthe Cause event last year.“My grandma had breastcancer so this was a nice wayto give back.”
The event is just a por-tion of what the Iota Sigmachapter at UK wants to ac-complish for breast cancerawareness. Hoop for theCause is just one event in theannual breast cancer aware-ness week.
“Come out and supportthe event, but come and sup-port the [breast cancerawareness] week and be onthe lookout for [Hoop for theCause] next year,” Priestsaid.
By Priscilla [email protected]
Hoops raise awarenessfor breast cancer
If you goWhat: Beach Boys ConcertWhen: Wednesday at7:30p.m.Where: Singletary CenterAdmission: $45, $55, $65
(859)257-4929www.singletarytickets.com
If you goWhat: Hoop for the CauseWhen: Thursday at 6 p.m.Where: Seaton CenterAdmission: $1 donation.Open to the public.
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C a n a d i a nenjoys hock-ey. No way!Am I rein-forcing astereotype?You bet.
M o v ebeyond yourinitial sur-prise and re-alize that in my heyday I wasexactly like ‘The Great One,’Wayne Gretzky, except forthe talent.
Despite my difficultiesboth on and off the ice—tyingskate laces is no easy taskwhen your hands are so coldthat your fingers have turnedviolet—my fellow country-men and I always seem to getan extra pep in our step thistime of year. The pep almostgets in the way of the step,making walking with skates atrial.
With the calendar rollinginto October, it means that it’stime for Canadians to fill upon berries and seal blubberfor our winter hibernations,and the start of the NHL sea-son.
Interestingly, most hockeyplayers don’t seem all thatdifferent from the commonperson. After all, would anyof you be able to tell that Iwas a talentless Gretzky ifyou saw me strolling alongcampus?
Fear not, there are certaingiveaways that will give youa clue that you might be in apresence of a hockey player.
The trademark toothlessgrin: Hockey players have apenchant for missing teeth. Ifyou see someone with onetoo many molars missingthey may have taken a puckto the face. Or they mighthave a serious addiction tocrystal methamphetamine.Hockey players and tweakersboth tend to smile a lot, butfor very different reasons.
The endearing, if not stu-pid, nicknames: Listen to anyinterview and hockey playerstend to have nicknames fortheir teammates. The formulafor creating these nicknamesis simple: add “-y”or “-er” toa part of the surname of theplayer. So, I could be “Crad-dy.” I can already feel the ca-maraderie.
No shaves, homie: Super-stition dictates that hockeyplayers don’t shave so long astheir team remains in theplayoffs. So from April toJune (playoff time) there are afew bearded Joaquin Phoenixlook-alikes skating around.Fun fact: Phoenix keeps abeard because he doesn’twant his chin to get cold.
Smell of a champion:Hockey players tend to have amusty odor because pads in asmall dressing room tend tohold stenches. However, if aperson has all their teeth,
doesn’t have a cheesy nick-name and sports no facialhair, they just smell of BO. Ithas nothing to with hockey,but their inability to discoverOld Spice (cue Old Spicewhistle jingle).
Small-town pedigree:Everyone knows the besthockey players come fromplaces like Moose Factory,Ontario. Podunk towns aregood for hockey becauseskating is the healthier of thetwo options to stay warm.The other is to have an IV ofhot cocoa for the 20-plushours of darkness in a day.
Male pattern baldness:The helmet must rub the hairright off. Luckily, my lack ofa hockey career enabled meto keep my golden locks. I’dhazard a guess and say one-fifth of a hockey player’s ca-reer earnings are spent on Ro-gaine.
So, some hockey stereo-types do ring true. Othersdon’t, like when Sarah Palinsaid the only difference be-tween a hockey mom and pit-bull is lipstick. I’ve seensome pitbulls wear rouge, butnever lipstick.
A Canuck hypes hockey season
NICKCRADDOCKKernel
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Fans who attended thefirst two men’s ice hockeygames against the EasternKentucky Colonels, mostlikely noticed how crowdedthe Lexington Ice Center wason both the Friday and Satur-day nights.
As beneficial to the Catsas the turnout was, it will bean unlikely scene around therink in the future, as the Lex-ington fire marshals are nowgoing to strictly enforce thecapacity limits inside the IceCenter. Fire marshals calledinvestigators in to assess theamount of people in thebuilding before the puck hitthe ice.
The legal limit for specta-tors in the Ice Center is set at502 people. With nearly 700people attending the seasonopener, many UK hockey of-ficials are worried about thefan base suffering, includingUK hockey general managerIan Ward who has managedthe team for 18 years.
“I have no complaint withthis, as it is a safety precau-tion. However, for now itwill result in less people get-ting into our games,” Wardsaid. “During the seasonopener, we were told to closethe door to the rink beforeeveryone could be admitted.There were nearly 100 fansleft outside chanting ‘let usin.’ But we couldn’t.”
The restrictions could in-cur a more severe penalty forthe occupancy restrictionsthan ruining the evenings of afew spectators. Fewer cus-tomers mean fewer dollars.
“It will place a bearing onthe team,” Ward said. “Wejust have to see what is goingto happen. If we lose 100people per game, that’s a$500 loss in profit.”
Lowering the capacity to500 occupants, when roughly
600 to 700 fans arrive to thegames on average, could takea toll on the budget of theteam. As a club sport, UKhockey spends over $90,000each year on expenses for theteam.
It costs the team $1,430on a normal week (whenthere is a home game the fol-lowing weekend), not includ-ing the salaries of the offi-cials, timers, video personnel,security and numerous otheremployees. To compensatefor the loss of revenue, theteam could raise the price ofentry to each game.
“Ticket prices haven’tbeen raised in 15 years,”Ward said. “But, if we can-not get the same amount ofincome from the smalleramount of fans we will haveto raise the ticket prices even-tually.”
The over-crowding of therink is a safety concern. It is arequirement to enforce theselaws, and given the Ice Cen-ter’s residential location, it iscrucial for them to abide bythem.
“The fire departmentshowed up to that game andsaw it first hand,” LexingtonIce Center manager DennisHyde said. “There were peo-ple standing in all the islesand walkways. In an emer-gency, that could cause an is-sue.”
Only 502 guests will beallowed into the LexingtonIce Center for now. Manage-ment is planning to set up anextra set of bleachers at thefar end of the rink in hopes ofraising the capacity level andgetting more fans into thegames.
“The deal is that we get anumber based on the amountof seating available,” Hydesaid. “We base our numbersby measuring our benchesand giving 18 inches to eachindividual. For every 18 inch-es, that’s one person allowedin. By putting in some newbleachers will help to raisethe capacity limit.”
By Mills [email protected]
Hockey faces capacity crunch
“There were nearly 100fans left outside chanti-
ng ‘let us in.’ But wecouldn’t.”
IAN WARDUK hockey general manager
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I like to text a little too much. I have been known to text myself into
trees, off sidewalks and from elevatorsonto the wrong floor.
Mind you, runninginto things and walkingin the wrong directionsare things I would prob-ably do without the aidof texting, but it certain-ly doesn’t help.
Every time I bounceoff something silly orfind myself wonderingaimlessly towards a wallwhile texting, I chastisemyself a little bit andput my phone away.
Since living in Lexington, there’ssomething I have learned: Not everyone iswilling to tell themselves no.
I have witnessed people texting intent-ly while steering their cars in ludicrous di-rections, walking across the street withoutlooking for cars (What happens when thetexting driver meets the texting pedestri-an? WHAM, text sandwich!) and withinplain sight of people who just asked themto turn off their phones.
However scary, none of these top theworst offense: texting through an entireconversation. With other people.
Not only have I seen it, I’ve talkedwith several others on campus who haveencountered the problem.
While I believe most of us are slavesenough to occasionally pull out ourphones and reply to messages when weprobably shouldn’t, it’s no longer much ofa faux pas.
You can always apologize for such lit-tle interruptions.
However, pulling it out mid-conversa-tion, answering a text, and then another,and another, an endless plethora of partial-ly incoherent messages to another human
being?That’s rude, and sort of creepy. Unless
you’re much more gifted than I, chancesare you can’t carry on two conversationseffectively at the same time.
What happens is that the person direct-ly in front of (or beside, or behind or ontop of however you hold casual conversa-tion) you is left sort of floating there awk-wardly as you tell your text-buddy abouthow totally awesome you think giraffesare.
Sure, as the rejected human being inthat situation you can throw out nastycomments without the engrossed texternoticing, but the essence of your conver-sation is lost.
So while I think society as a wholerecognizes our addiction to texting andforgives it to a certain extent, there’s a lit-tle chalk line drawn somewhere that says“TOO FAR!” and we’re dancing around it(while texting, of course).
Let’s all do ourselves a favor and turnoff the phones occasionally, or at least ig-nore them long enough to interact withfellows in a normal way. Humanity is stillout there — and it’s nice!
Virginia Alley is an English freshman.E-mail [email protected].
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STAFF FILE PHOTO FRunning back Randall Cobb evades an Auburn defender in UK’s game against the tigers. Uk facesAuburn on Saturday, Oct. 9.
Yawn.UK is
playing a lit-tle too Mu-sic CityBowl-esquefor my lik-ing this timeof the sea-son.
D o n ’ tget mewrong, I
like Nashville and all — I’mjust bored with it (though Ihave grown quite fond of thatbuilding shaped like Batmanpressed against the nighttimesky).
But it’s too familiar of aplace to tickle my fancy.And last year was terriblycold.
The Cats do have a greatopportunity to right the shipbut it must start now, in theirapproaching three-gamehome stint.
With a triple-headedstretch of conference gamesat Commonwealth Stadium inUK’s immediate future, itmust perform its best. CanUK win?
Auburn: Unlikely. TheNo. 8 Tigers are 5-0 and cur-
rently boast the eighth-bestrushing attack in the FootballBowl Subdivision, with 269yards per game. CameronNewton will likely torchUK’s deficient defense, as hehas done to five other teamsthis season. The Cats haven’treally seen anyone like New-ton and they will have littlepractice in stopping someoneso dynamic.
South Carolina: This oneis slightly less impendingdoom-ish, but still an unlikelywin. The Gamecocks willprovide a situation that couldearn the Cats higher meritscome bowl game decisions.Given South Carolina isranked when it comes totown, UK has an opportunityto score itself some nationalcoverage with a win. Theteam’s numbers are similarand the stage is set.
Georgia: The most fea-sible win, given the Bull-dogs haven’t been playingup to Southeastern Confer-ence snuff. Granted, theyhave played a toughschedule to this point, butfans should expect a winhere.
The most likely scenario
is that a 2-1 record will betacked onto UK’s numbersover the next three Saturdays.A 2-3 start to conference playwouldn’t be the worst thing tohappen, and it could put UKin a good position with thelackadaisical remaining con-ference schedule.
A 1-2 finish and itshould be back to the draw-ing board for the coachingstaff. In that case, it’s alsoprobably back to Tennesseein December. But if they canmanage a 3-0 tear, the Catswill find themselves in aplace UK football rarely —Happytown, USA.
A 0-3 record, though, es-sentially knocks UK out ofcontention for a bowl game.More importantly, it won’tget the girls.
But only time will tell.Cats, let’s shoot for some-thing coastal this year. Every-one deserves it. We’ll all keepour fingers crossed we don’tdraw Clemson again.
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