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Nothing is ever goodenough for Brandon Knight. Itseems he’s consumed by aninsatiable desire to improve, toelevate himself and this team,while the Cats still have thechance to play together.

Play all 40 minutes duringthe Blue-White scrimmageand score 37 points? He needsto improve his conditioning sohe can sprint the “entire time.”He might not be joking. Score20 points and six assistsagainst Dillard? He needs tokeep his head up while drivingthe lane so he can find theopen man.

Everything about Knightseems precise. Concrete. De-fined.

That’s why he likes calcu-lus, and that’s why he likesnumbers.

“They’re absolute, defi-nite, straight to the point,”Knight said. “That’s the kindof person I am.”

As for the kind of basket-ball player he is, Knight hasalready shown a lot in thelimited amount of time on thecourt. He averaged 21 pointsand 4.5 assists per game inUK’s two exhibition games.

“He’s a really explosiveplayer,” forward Darius Millersaid. “You saw how fast andquick he was, so it’s going tobe hard for people to match upwith him, especially in transi-tion.”

Knight has shown an abil-ity to score, both in bunchesand on a consistent basis. Hescored 31, 17, 27, 37, 22 and

20 in the exhibition games.“Brandon is Brandon,”

UK head coach John Caliparisaid. “He gives you about thesame every time.”

But scoring is not the sin-gular focus for Knight. Cali-pari wants Knight to be apoint guard in the truest sense,distributing the ball and get-ting the entire team involved.

“He’s a scoring guard thathas to run our club,” Caliparisaid. “He’s got to understandyou can’t just drive in the firstplay of the game. You got toget everybody involved.”

Playing the role of distrib-utor could be vital to a teamthat might not have as manyplayers who can create pointsby themselves, for themselves.

“We’re always drilled to at-tack, attack, attack,” Knight said.“But we’re learning to keep ourheads up and see the open manonce we get in the paint.”

Calipari did concede thathe wouldn’t be averse to let-ting Knight take over whenhe gets in a rhythm.

“When he saw we weredying, he took it and drove it,like ‘I’m going to go do it,’”Calipari said after the Pikevillegame. “At times I’m going tojust let him go. If no one elsewants to do it, go do it all.”

Knight doesn’t want theteam to have to resort to himtaking over. He’d just as soonlet somebody else take theglory. Against Dillard, Knightcaught a pass way ahead ofthe defense, nothing but thegoal, a vicious dunk and theswelling roar of a Rupp Arenacrowd ready to greet him. ButKnight tossed the ball off to a

trailing Terrence Jones, lettinghis fellow freshman andteammate show off his dunk-ing prowess.

“(Jones) made a play onthe other end, so it’s time to re-ward him,” Knight said. “Goahead and finish it big guy.”

While Calipari said Knightis still defining his game, hisappearance has been reinvent-ed. He cut off his cornrows.He swapped out his highschool No. 11 for a No. 12uniform, a move he made as apersonal challenge to be betterthan his father. And althoughhe said the decision had noth-ing to do with distinguishinghimself from John Wall, whowore No. 11, it can certainlybe perceived as symbolic, re-gardless of the intentions.

And though it’s useless tomake comparisons, the realityis Knight is the next pointguard in the Calipari lineage.Knight said he has watchedtape of Wall, Derrick Rose andTyreke Evans, all point guardsunder Calipari in the past, tosee how they ran Calipari’sdribble-drive motion offense.

“He’s totally different thanDerrick. He’s totally differentfrom Tyreke, and he’s totallydifferent from John,” Caliparisaid. “Wall is probably moreathletic than him and lankier,yet (Brandon) shoots the ballbetter and is maybe skilledwith the ball better.”

Knight wants, and needs,to become his own man, hisown player. If Eloy Vargas canbe believed, that would begood enough.

“You don’t have to saymuch about him,” forwardVargas said, before going onto say a lot about him. “He isthe leader of this team. I thinkhe is the best player on thisteam right now.”

Changing of the guard:Knight takes over

By Aaron [email protected]

Calipari’s newest point guardstrives for perfection

PHOTO BY MIKE WEAVER | STAFFBrandon Knight takes a shot during the UK vs. Dillard University game at Rupp Arena on November 5,2010.

Chaos is always swirlingaround UK head coach JohnCalipari, engulfing every-thing the program does.

Even in the offseason —is there even an offseasonanymore? — there was con-troversy swirling, shots tak-en, rumors spreading.

Calipari seems resignedto his fate.

“It’s just how it is, coach-ing at Kentucky,” Caliparisaid at UK Media Day, as re-porters asked him questionsabout a myriad of topics for60 full minutes.

Over the summer, therewere articles written about a)Eric Bledsoe potentially re-

ceiving an illegitimate gradeboost in a high school Alge-bra class, b) Enes Kanter po-tentially receiving a salaryfrom his Turkish club and c)UK recruit Anthony Davispotentially receiving moneyfor his commitment.

None have been proven.“You could say I don’t

want to deal with that, so

don’t coach here,” Caliparisaid.

And yet he is coachinghere. Although he expectednonstop attention upon tak-ing the job, he said he had notime to even reflect on every-thing that was said over thesummer.

“I’m going to be a light-ning rod,” Calipari said.

“This program is a lightningrod. So now you’ve got twolightning rods.

First-year Auburn headcoach Tony Barbee, whoplayed under Calipari atMassachusetts and was anassistant coach to Caliparifor seven years, drew on na-ture for a different metaphor.

“I’ve always said to

coach that he has to have itswirling around him —that’s the kind of personalityhe is — to be successful,”Barbee said at SEC MediaDay. “That’s what driveshim every day, just every-thing swirling around him.He needs those waters realmuddy and dirty andrough.”

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The freshmen will befreshmen.

UK will likely go throughall the problems inherent inhaving a team dependent onyoung players. The team willstart slow, could lose somegames early and needs to de-velop an identity. All this istransparent at this point.

So let’s look at the fresh-men group from two differentperspectives: their adjustmentto head coach John Calipari,and how chemistry is able todevelop among a group ofpeople who arrived at campusmere months ago.

Freshmen have a relation-ship with Calipari long beforethey ever come to campuswhile they are being recruit-ed. But the relationship is thatof a coach courting a talentedplayer. Once the player com-mits, the relationshipchanges.

“It’s totally different. He’snice to you when he recruitsyou, but when he gets you,it’s a whole different story,”freshman Doron Lamb said.“He pushes you 24/7, wantsyou to work hard.”

The intensity of Calipari,especially once he’s on thesidelines during a game, is alevel above his practice ten-dencies. It’s something that

caught the players off guardthe first time they encoun-tered it, against Pikeville inUK’s first exhibition game.

“They were shellshockedbecause I got after them,”Calipari said. “I’ve done ithere in practice, but I haven’tbeen like I was in the game.Within 15 seconds into thatgame, it’s on. They were like,‘he coaches this hard?’ Thatshocked them.”

It may have come as ashock, but sometimes a joltcan be exactly what a teamneeds.

“(Calipari) is a lot moreintense during game day andwe saw that, but it’s a goodthing,” freshman Jarrod Pol-son said. “It fires us up.”

Calipari may push hisplayers — think back to allthe times last year hedemonstratively instructedJohn Wall or DeMarcusCousins or Eric Bledsoe orPatrick Patterson — butplayers have seen their pred-ecessors improve under Cali-pari.

“All of the players thathave come under Coach Calhave gotten better,” BrandonKnight said. “And Coach Calis a winner.”

He’s a winner on NBADraft Night, too. Last year a

record five UK players weretaken in the first round of theNBA Draft.

“He pushes guards intothe NBA fast and that’s whatI want to do so that’s why Ireally came here,” Lamb said.

For their part, the playersare receptive to Calipari’scoaching.

“They are listening toeverything we say,” Caliparisaid. “We had better makesure we are telling them theright thing. They are listen-ing.”

Knight noted listening toCalipari was a strength of theteam.

“That’s one of the things Ithink our team does well is

listen and implement what hetells us to do,” Knight said. “Ithink we’re a smart team,when he tells us to do some-thing we try our best to get itdone.”

The freshmen have to domany things in a shortamount of time. Learn thedribble-drive motion offense,learn each other’s games,learn what it takes to excel atthe college level.

But they also have tolearn each other, personally,and that will enhance theproduct on the court. Fresh-man Terrence Jones said theteam has been hanging outsince they arrived at campus,including roller skate sessions

and playing Mario Kart. Ap-parently, hurrying to pickDonkey Kong so as not to getstuck with Princess Peachbuilds team chemistry.

And it helps that theAAU and recruiting worldbrings players into contactearlier and more often thanever.

“(Chemistry) all startswith AAU basketball, be-cause we see everybody onthe AAU circuit,” freshmanStacey Poole said. “We all getalong, we already have a feelfor each other’s game, whatyou can do and what youcan’t do.”

The changing landscapeof high school basketball

plays a role in which playersdecide to go to whichschools, and players becomefriends rather than acquain-tances.

“It’s always good talkingto future teammates,” Jonessaid of knowing his currentteammates before they cameto UK. “They could end upbeing your future roommate,like Doron was for me.”

Josh Harrellson has seenthe new players bond withthe entire team. He watchedthe same thing happen lastyear.

“We’re actually a lot clos-er than we were last year atthis point in time,” Harrellsonsaid.


PHOTO BY BRITNEY MCINTOSH | STAFFFreshmen Enes Kanter, Stacey Poole, Brandon Knight, Doron Lamb and Terrence Jones have had to adjust to their coach and to each other.

A new life:Freshmen

must adjust


Calipari familiar with chaos, controversy


Not since the height ofthe Ottoman Empire has aTurkish import been declaredto have this much value. Andnot since ancient times has agoverning body been so un-necessarily bureaucratic.

The UK men’s basketballteam opens the season Fridayagainst East Tennessee State,yet the eligibility of Turkishbig man Enes Kanter still re-mains in doubt as the NCAAcontinues to investigate hisamateur status.

Kanter’s eligibility is ofthe utmost importance to theCats, whose frontcourt wasdecimated when DeMarcusCousins and Patrick Pattersonboth left school early for theNBA. But of course, Kanter’svalue hinges on his ability toactually play.

A ruling from the NCAAregarding Kanter was sup-posed to have come in earlyOctober (oops), but Kanter isresigned to watch his team-mates practice and play fromthe sideline.

Like Kanter, Josh Selby,one of the top-rated freshmanin the class of 2010, alsofaces eligibility concerns andhis playing status for theKansas Jayhawks remains inlimbo.

Not only is it unfair of theNCAA to keep teams in thedark regarding their players’eligibility, it is unfair to theplayers in question.

In the case of Kanter, itseems like a decision couldbe easily made. Fenerbahce

Ulker general manager Ned-im Karakas told the NewYork Times that Kanter re-ceived more than $100,000in cash and benefits overthree years. Kanter’s fatherdisputes the team’s claims.

Naturally, Karakasdoesn’t want to lose his play-er to college for nothing,while Kanter could easily set-tle for playing professionallyoverseas (and a big pay-check), so how hard could thesituation really be to resolve?Either the documentation ex-ists or it doesn’t.

Some UK fans are quickto point to a possible NCAAvendetta against their belovedbasketball team and UK headcoach John Calipari (who hashad two Final Four appear-ances vacated). A vendettawould assume that the NCAAhas foresight and planningability.

Recall that last year, for-mer Cat John Wall was inves-tigated days before the seasonfor playing AAU hoops for acertified agent; Wall wasforced to sit out the first twogames and pay back his travelexpenses. That investigationwas over in a snap.

Conversely, MississippiState’s top recruit last year,Renardo Sidney, didn’t re-ceive a decision on his eligi-bility until March. He wasfined and not allowed to playthe rest of the year after tak-ing improper benefits. Thatinvestigation was epic.

The Wall and Sidney cas-es don’t reflect Kanter’s sce-nario, however. Similarly,West Virginia’s Deniz Kilicli,also a Turk, missed 20 gameslast season, one for each ofthe games he appeared in as a“professional” in Europe—

what was known as theNCAA’s 1-for-1 policy.

The NCAA no longer em-ploys the 1-for-1 rule, mean-ing Kanter can’t simply sitout nine games to make upfor having appeared in ninegames for Fenerbahce. At thispoint, that would probably bethe best and quickest optionfor Kanter and UK.

If a slow and methodicaleligibility process ensured theright choice was being made,that would be one thing.However, we should questionthe eligibility process whenflaws exist.

Former Cat Eric Bled-soe’s change in his academicperformance in high schoolcaught the eye of the NCAAthis summer, which wouldhave been acceptable, butonly if the NCAA had con-ducted its investigation a yearearlier.

Bledsoe was initiallycleared by the NCAA, playedhis freshman year, declaredfor the NBA draft, but thenthe NCAA opted for a revi-sionist policy; if the initialscreening process for eligibil-ity is so stringent, why do oldcases regarding eligibility (es-pecially those involving play-ers who were no longer on aroster i.e. Bledsoe) need to berevisited?

If and when Kanter playsthis season, will the NCAAultimately come back andquestion the juice box he re-ceived as a gift in elementaryschool and call it an improperbenefit?

It seems the NCAA hasput so much value in protect-ing its eligibility process thatit’s forgotten the value of thestudent-athlete, withoutwhom the NCAA wouldcease to exist.

NCAA must revieweligibility policy

NICKCRADDOCKKernel

columnist

PHOTO BY LATARA APPLEBY | STAFFEnes Kanter during the UK vs. Dillard University at Rupp Arena on November 5, 2010.

Darius Miller still thinksabout the locker room atmos-phere following UK’s EliteEight loss to West Virginia.The pain. The silence. The fi-nality.

He’s a summer removedfrom that feeling, but it’s stillon his mind.

Now, as one of the desig-nated leaders of the team — arole partly assigned and partlyself-given — he has to tryand convey that sense of whatit’s like to lose, and how toavoid it, to the freshmen.

“I think we can helpguide them on what it’s goingto take and how it’s going tobe,” Miller said.

Most of the freshmen arestill relatively new to losing,and March seems off in thedistant future. They haven’t ex-perienced the sting of suddenlybeing severed from the NCAAbrackets, and Miller is trying tomake sure they don’t have to.

“You can’t really tellsomebody what that waslike,” Miller said of playingin the pressure-packed tour-nament. “You have to experi-ence it.”

Along with Miller, juniorDeAndre Liggins has becomethe anointed leader. Together,they are perceived as the twoplayers expected to take thebiggest leap, in both produc-tion and leadership.

And it makes sense. UKlost five players taken in thefirst round of the NBA Draft,as well as solid contributorDarnell Dodson. Out of thefew returning players, Ligginsand Miller saw the most play-ing time last year. And some-one has to adopt the PatrickPatterson role.

“Sometimes guys come tome for advice,” Miller said.“It’s a little bit different, butit’s just as fun still.”

But here’s the ultimatecrossroads moment: Millerand Liggins have to producethis year, and yet they haven’thad to be anything close to analpha dog yet. Miller played21 minutes and averaged sixpoints last year. Liggins played15 minutes and averaged lessthan four points per game.

But the two are the clos-est thing UK has to experi-enced, veteran leaders.

UK needs them to per-form like they are.

“We need (Liggins) to be acatalyst, a guy who makes

plays when they matter,” Cali-pari said. “So if you're going tobe a catalyst, our team has toknow you show every game.”

In the first two exhibitiongames it looked like the twowill be able to make the leap.They averaged a combined 32points per game, althoughCalipari said he saw each dis-play signs of inconsistency.

Calipari noted Millerstopped playing at times,which induced freshmen tofollow his (bad) example andstop. And Liggins, who prideshimself on in-your-jersey de-fense, didn’t have his custom-ary intensity.

“If (Liggins) doesn’t havehis energy, we have prob-lems,” Calipari said.

As part of bringing thenew players up to speed,Miller and Liggins are teach-ing the new Cats all abouttheir new coach, includingwhat he demands from hisplayers and the intricacies ofhis dribble-drive motion of-fense. Miller said he’s more

comfortable in his secondyear in the system, and he’sdoing everything he can to re-inforce what Calipari istelling the freshmen.

“I’m trying to step up andtalk more to the youngerplayers and get them to un-derstand what Coach Calwants,” Liggins said.

Miller and Liggins havebeen making a conscious ef-fort to talk more, somethingboth said was “new” to them.

“We are all good friendsand like brothers, so I don’tthink any of us should have aproblem speaking to one an-other,” Miller said.

While both were praisedby Calipari for leading by ex-ample, he said the transitionto being more vocal on thecourt isn’t complete.

“It’s hard to say they’remore vocal, because neitherone of them is vocal, butthey’re more than they’veever been,” Calipari said. “Soevery once in a while you’llhear them say something.”



Liggins, Miller takecharge of young team

PHOTO BY MIKE WEAVER | STAFFJunior Darius Miller pulls up a jump shot during the UK vs. Dillard University game inRupp Arena on November 5, 2010.

“If you’re going to be acatalyst, our team has

to know you showevery game.”

JOHN CALIPARIUK head coach


PHOTO BY BRITNEY MCINTOSH | STAFFThe UK women’s basketball team huddles during Big Blue Madness on Oct. 15. UK is ranked No. 9 in the AP preseason poll.

Just because the UKwomen’s basketball team did-n’t cut down the nets to con-clude the 2009-2010 season,doesn’t mean it didn’t finishthe season with a lot of hard-ware.

UK Hoops’ slogan thisseason is, “Can you hear usnow?” With all the awards theteam won after last season theteam is certainly being heard.

In the Southeastern Con-ference the Cats pulled the tri-fecta for awards to concludethe season.

UK head coach MatthewMitchell led the Cats to themost successful season inschool history. He led UK toits first Elite Eight appear-ance since 1982, and had themost wins in school historywith 28. UK also went unde-feated at home. All those ac-colades garnered Mitchell theSEC Coach of the Year.

UK’s improved seasonwas led by then junior for-ward Victoria Dunlap. Sheexcelled for the Cats, averag-ing 18.1 points, 8.4 rebounds,3.1 steals and 1.9 blocks pergame. Those numbers earnedher the SEC Player of theYear award. She was also anAssociated Press and UnitedStates Basketball Writers As-

sociation All-American.Dunlap isn’t going to for-

get the team’s memorableyear but she plans on movingforward.

“We aren’t going to forgetabout it but we have to realizethat it was last year and wecan use that as motivation forthis year,” Dunlap said.

UK basketball was knownfor its dazzling freshman lastseason. While John Wall isthe first to come to mind, thewomen’s team boasted itsown quality guard. A’diaMathies’ first year in colle-giate basketball she averaged13.6 points, 4.8 rebounds and2.6 steals per game. She wasUK’s first freshman All-American since 1980.

But when Mathies looksback on last season, she’s ap-preciative of her success.

“I didn’t know what toexpect in the transition fromhigh school to college,”Mathies said. “I was fortunateto have a good year last yearand I am grateful for it.”

While all three awardwinners will be back for theCats this season, their ac-complishments from last sea-son haven’t been forgotten.Mitchell has the Cats No. 9in the preseason rankingswhile both Dunlap andMathies have been named tothe 2010-2011 Naismith pre-season watch list. The Nai-smith is an award given tocollege basketball’s player ofthe year.

While awards and expec-tations won’t directly translateto wins, it shows the programis one that demands respect.If the trio can match last sea-son’s numbers, this season’sresults could be more of thesame.

By T.J. [email protected]

UK Hoopsreturns keycomponents

The UK women’s basket-ball team isn’t marking itsschedule for its annual biggames this season. This timearound, UK is the team beingmarked on opponent’s sched-ules.

UK prepares for a newseason in an unfamiliar posi-tion, a favorite.

“We are not the underdoganymore,” sophomore for-ward Brittany Hendersonsaid. “We just have to comeinto the season with themindset that we need tocome in everyday and getbetter.”

UK took the country andthe Southeastern Conferenceby storm last season, bring-ing the basketball program tounseen heights, but the Catswill have to put that successin the past and focus on this

year despite a high preseasonranking of No. 9.

“If anybody thinks wehave a chance to be good,that’s fine with me,” UK headcoach Matthew Mitchell said.“We certainly want to be a re-spected program but as it per-tains to this team none of thatwill help us a whole lot.”

UK’s freshman class,ranked No. 13 in the ESPNUrankings, will help the teamgrow in depth this season. UKhas five incoming freshman,

four in the ESPNU top 100.“I’m impressed, we have

a great group of freshman,”Smith said. “They are hardworkers and are willing tolearn.”

To compliment thosefreshman, UK returns theSEC Player of the Year (Vic-toria Dunlap), SEC Fresh-man of the Year (A’dia Math-ies) and SEC Coach of theYear (Matthew Mitchell) forthe 2010-2011 campaign.

The Cats were picked tofinish second in the confer-ence this season, an improve-ment from being picked 11thlast season.

“I think I sat here arounda year ago and said that itdidn’t really matter that wewere rated 11th in the presea-son,” Mitchell said. “My atti-tude hasn’t changed a wholelot on that, I just don’t thinkit matters one bit where

we’re rated.”UK might be downplay-

ing being a favorite this sea-son but with all the presea-son hype, UK doesn’t expectteams to take them lightly.

The Cats will be playingone of the hardest schedulesin team history, includinggames vs. No. 6 Duke, No.12Notre Dame and intrastate ri-val Louisville in the noncon-ference. In conference play,UK will face another difficultchallenge, facing three SECteams that rank in the top 25.

“Certainly at my time atUK, the preconference por-tion is the most challenging,”Matthews said. “We feel likewe’ve always tried to tailorthe schedule to the team webelieve we can have.”

UK’s season will have itsown new set of challenges,but as seen at Big Blue Mad-ness in October, UK believes

By T.J. [email protected]

Encore: Women’s basketballcopes with new expectations

“If anybody thinks wehave a chance to

good, that’s fine withme.”

MATTHEW MITCHELLUK head coach

“We aren’t going toforget about (our

success). We can usethat for motivation.”

VICTORIA DUNLAPUK senior forward

Award-winning duo ready to repeat success

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The UK Student Center isreducing plastic waste in anattempt to go green.

Each year, 38 billionplastic bottles are wasted.In an effort to reduce thisnumber, the managementcame up with an environ-mental plan during the pastsummer.

The Student Center is the

first building on campus toinstall Elkay EzH20 refillablewater bottle fountains. Thissystem allows water bottlesto be refilled up to threetimes before recycling them,an attempt to improve the en-vironment every time a bottleis saved.

Cat’s Den coordinator Je-remy Ridgeway said manypeople don’t know that 80%of manufacturing goes into

the bottle itself, and this iswhy saving them is a huge is-sue.

The specialized waterfountain will not only refillwater bottles, but dispensepurified water as well. Thefountain has a platform in themiddle where the bottle isplaced, with a sensor that letsthe fountain know when tofill the bottle. There is also aregular water fountain spout

attached.“We want to save

100,000 bottles by the end ofthe semester, but at this mo-ment we have saved 40,300bottles,” Ridgeway said.

The Student Center willalso be selling a 16oz stain-less steel bottle for $8. Be-cause the bottle will neverhave to be thrown away, thestudent center sees it as bene-ficial to the environment in

preventing plastic waste aswell as saving the consumermoney from continually buy-ing plastic bottles.

Although the bottle sellsfrom time to time, the Cat’sDen staff is trying to figure outways to better.

“We want to get a wordout to students,” Ridgewaysaid.

Some UK students are al-ready becoming accustomed

to using the new fountains.“I like the water foun-

tains, and use them at leasttwice a week,” junior RyanDuffy said.

Ridgeway said William T.Young Library is also think-ing about installing a few ofthe water fountains and join-ing the student center in re-ducing plastic waste and con-tinuing to go green.

By Ke’Undra [email protected]

Student Center reduces plastic waste

For 16 players, Saturday’sgame will be bittersweet—win or lose.

Regardless of the percep-tion of how much or how lit-tle these players have con-tributed to the UK footballprogram, or whether the Catsdefeat Vanderbilt and becomebowl eligible for a school-record fifth straight year, onething is certain: the 16-mansenior class will don Ken-tucky blue for the last time inCommonwealth Stadium.

“It will be an emotionalgame for all our seniors,” UKhead coach Joker Phillips.

“We'll start talking about that.We want to play on thoseemotions.”

The Cats’ up-and-downseason has mirrored whatmany of these seniors haveexperienced during their col-legiate playing careers. Eachsenior has blazed his ownpath and each senior has aunique story to share.

For fifth-year defensivetackle Ricky Lumpkin, one ofonly four players (MarcusDavis, Mike Hartline and J.J.Helton are the others) on theroster to experience a seasonthat didn’t end with a bowlgame at UK, the emotions as-sociated with senior day start-ed to flood his body at the ho-

tel the night before theCharleston Southern game.

“I don’t know if it has hita lot of the other seniors, butit’s really hit me,” Lumpkinsaid. “I was just sitting thereby myself thinking ‘Man thiscame and (went) so fast’ and Iwant this team to go out on awinning note, especially thissenior class, because they’veall been through everything,ups, downs, criticisms…theykept pushing to try and im-prove this program everyyear.”

Others, like senior tail-back Derrick Locke, hopedthat his final year would be

By Nick [email protected]

Sending off the seniors;Trevathan, Cobb too?

See FOOTBALL on page 2

PHOTO BY SCOTT HANNIGAN | STAFFUK junior linebacker Danny Trevathan said he would consider testing the NFL Draft after the conclusionof UK’s season.

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The Kentucky Auditor ofPublic Accounts urged stu-dents and professors to main-tain accountability and re-sponsibility throughout theircareers.

Crit Luallen was the Mar-tin School of Public Policyand Administration’s firstguest in a series called “Lead-ers in Public Policy” Wednes-day night.

Luallen has been Ken-tucky’s State Budget Director,Secretary of Finance and Ad-ministration Cabinet and is inher second term as Auditor ofPublic Accounts. She has un-covered millions of dollars infraud and has suggested waysto make Kentucky’s govern-ment more efficient.

Luallen kicked off theevening by promising itwouldn’t be a class of “audit-ing 101.” She discussed herleadership roles and how bigof a part integrity and respon-sibility played. She said thather role as a public official re-ally made her understand theresponsibilities of a leader.

According to Luallen,who said she has learned asmuch about why leaders fail

as why they succeed, leadersin any organization must havethe same qualities. A leadermust have strong personalvalues, make principal leader-ship decisions, have a strongmoral compass and mustshow integrity in all deci-sions. Leaders must havecore values that cannot betaught in school. They muststay true to those values, es-pecially in auditing.

Luallen said she is notproud of the fact that the au-ditor’s office has uncoveredso much corruption. Recentaudits of the Bluegrass Air-port and Passport Health Plan,an agency that is a managedcare provider of Medicaid,have found excessive and un-necessary spending. Luallensays that because of these cas-es of corruption, there mustbe watchdogs to break the cy-cle.

Luallen believes that thereshould be more transparencyand accountability in organi-zations to gain public trust.The human character is falli-ble and there must be over-sight and control to maintainindividual leaders’ integrity.Through state audits that have

By Caroline [email protected]

Auditor talksleadership, values

See AUDITOR on page 2

UK Athletics and UKParking & Transportation willprovide a shuttle service to andfrom campus for the men’sbasketball game against EastTennessee State University,Friday at 7 p.m. at Rupp Arena.

UK PTS spokeswomanChrissie Balding Tune said theshuttles will stop on the EuclidAvenue side of the StudentCenter, in front of the GregPage laundry building and at“the 90,” the sidewalk besidethe Kirwin-Blanding Complex,at the intersection of Universi-ty Drive and Huguelet Drive.

A UK news release saidthe shuttles will start one hourand 10 minutes before thegame is scheduled to begin.The shuttles will leave forRupp Arena when they reachcapacity or no later than 45minutes before the game.

The shuttles will run afterthe game ends.

“Shuttles will depart 30minutes after the game. The ex-act time will depend on whenthe game ends, if the gamegoes into overtime," Tune said.

Tune said patrons canboard return shuttles at theVine Street exit after thegame. The shuttles will costpatrons $3 roundtrip, the newsrelease said.

“(Patrons) will get avoucher for the return trip,”Tune said. “If they lose it, itwill cost $2 (to get) back.”

According to the news re-lease, the shuttle service willalso be provided for the fol-lowing home games: BostonUniversity (Nov. 30), Indiana(Dec. 11), Auburn (Jan. 11),Louisiana State University

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PHOTO BY TIM HOLAHAN | STAFFAttallah Shabazz, daughter of Malcolm X, speaks to students in the Student Center on Wednesday.

PHOTO BY SCOTT HANNIGAN | STAFFCrit Luallen, Kentucky auditor of Public Accounts, speaks about hercareer in Public Policy Wednesday evening.

Ambassador Attallah Shabazz,daughter of activist Malcolm X,tells students the importance of

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LOS ANGELES — Director Tony Scottand Denzel Washington have developed amutual trust through the five films they'vemade together, including the latest "Unstop-pable." Scott knows he can count on Wash-ington to bring a fresh approach to everyrole.

"Both of us are always trying to reach fornew stuff, never repeat ourselves," Scott says."That's my goal every day when I go to work.My goal is how to look at these worlds andthese characters in a different way. Denzel'sthe same way. He reaches back inside andfinds a different aspect of his personality.We've done five movies together and everycharacter has been very different."

In "Unstoppable," Washington — alongwith Chris Pine — play railroad employees whomust stop a runaway train loaded with toxic ma-terial. The film is based on a true story.

Washington trusts Scott so much that hewas willing to attempt stunts on moving trains— despite having a fear of heights. That in-cluded standing on top of a 25-foot-tall trainas it sped along at 50 mph.

Along with the trust, the pair created aworking shorthand while making "Crimson

Tide," "Man on Fire," "Deja Vu" and "TheTaking of Pelham 1 2 3," which continuedwith the latest film.

"He knows how I like to work. I knowwhat he likes to do," Washington says. "Heknows I like to research, so he's going to havea ton of stuff long before we start filming."

The film's other stars, Rosario Dawsonand Pine, see why Washington has been sowilling to work with Scott.

"Tony is such a genius at having a greatfun ride in an action film where you careabout everybody," Dawson says. "The time istaken to establish the different personalities.Even if it seems mundane, conversations con-nect you to caring about these characters."

Pine had to make an instant connectionwith Scott, who shot on a real train rather thanusing special effects.

In one scene, Pine was suspended outsidethe train while being pelted by what was sup-posed to be grain escaping from a damagedfreight car. Scott used sugar puffs and potatoflakes to create the effect. "Who knew sugarpuffs could hurt so much," Pine jokes.

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injury-free, but a shoulder stinger hasforced the speedy back to miss thepast four games and prevented himfrom making the kind of sustainedimpact he had finally hoped to makethis year after three injury-riddledseasons.

Locke said he will play this Sat-urday against the Commodores, butthat the day-to-day uncertainty of notknowing when the feeling in his armwould return was brutal.

“Man, it was rough knowing that

this was my last year to show what(NFL) scouts needed to see and to dowhat I needed to do,” said Locke, whoadded that he was scared for that hisfuture at the next level might be com-promised when doctors told him itcould be months before he got feelingback in his nerve.

“This is my life, if I can’t playwhat am I going to do? I’ve got mydegree, but that’s not the route I wantto go, let’s be honest,” he said

For other players, like reserve de-fensive tackle Shane McCord, asoon-to-be four-year letterman whonever quite solidified a starting role,their degree will likely be most im-

portant considering Saturday mightmean the final football game of theircareers.

“I’ll probably feel a rush ofeverything, it’ll be an emotional CatWalk,” McCord said.

How all of these players reachedthis point and what they overcamemay be different, but when they taketo the Cat Walk, all of them will walkunited, for a fleeting moment, downthe same path for a final time.

“It will be different going out withthose guys before the game,” Phillipssaid. “I've been through a lot with allthose guys. Been to all of their homes,been able to see their parents and see

the growth of each one of them.”

Trevathan and Cobb to the NFL?Junior linebacker Danny Tre-

vathan and junior wide receiver Ran-dall Cobb might be playing their finalgame in Commonwealth Stadium thisSaturday, too.

Both players have revealed thisweek following practice that there isa chance that they will test the NFLdraft waters. Losing Trevathan andCobb would mean the Cats wouldlose arguably the best returningstarters on offense and defense fornext season.

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uncovered corruption, Lu-allen believes the bar for ac-countability has been raised.

Luallen said that she haslearned three lessonsthroughout her time as apublic leader that apply to allareas of life. She said tonever underestimate thelengths that those lacking amoral compass will go to, tobe aware of your surround-ings and look for red flagsand always be bold and askquestions.

To overcome the chal-lenges that Kentucky faces,there must be a long-termcommitment made by all of-ficials. Currently, Kentucky

has the fifth highest povertyrate in the nation, leads thecountry with deaths in childabuse and has more citizenson Medicaid than in publicschool systems.

Luallen said that everyindividual in an organizationhas a responsibility to dotheir job to their best ability.

“We can’t let the crisisof the moment deter us fromour long-term commitment.These are the times that de-mand accountability fromleaders.”

Luallen also said thatKentucky will not overcomeany challenges without anengaged citizenship thatmakes educated decisions.

“The next generationneeds to step up into leader-ship. We must demand thatthey step up.”

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(Jan. 15), Georgia (Jan. 29),Tennessee (Feb. 8), Mississip-pi State (Feb. 15), South Car-olina (Feb. 19), Florida (Feb.26) and Vanderbilt (March 1).

Shuttles will not be pro-vided when students are not inschool.

“Since students will be us-ing this service, we chosegames for when classes are insession,” Tune said.

Tune said that the C.A.T.S.buses will serve as shuttles,but that game day shuttling“won’t detract from regular(transportation) services.”

“We encourage students totake advantage of the service,”Tune said. “If they pay to parkdowntown, $10 is about thecheapest downtown parking.This is a great alternative.”

The news release said UKemployees and students canpark at Greg Page ApartmentsMonday through Friday after3:30 p.m. and anytime Satur-day and Sunday.

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I wasn’t going to make it, and Iknew it.

Glancing down at my watch toconfirm, I picked upthe crutches andswung faster andfaster. Two minutes tomake it to Spanishclass and one floor togo. I slammed in theelevator button franti-cally. No light. I triedagain and again, thistime harder, as myseconds ticked away.No light.

Frustrated andoutraged, I ignored my doctors nag-ging voice in my head, threw mycrutches against the railing and beganto slowly drag myself up the stairs, mythrobbing ankle thrown to the side.

Can we really consider UK ahandicap friendly campus when theclassroom buildings, Greek houses andpedestrian traffic pathways present dai-ly struggles like this to disabled peoplethat scream anything but ‘friendly?’

So maybe I did something un-graceful. I jumped out of a car, gotstuck and messed up my ankle. Butthat does not mean I deserve to bepublically humiliated while everyonesnickers and watches the now sweaty‘gimp’ girl crutch herself up the class-room building stairs at a turtle’s pace.

The elevator in Smith hall haswent out about ten times this week,and the elevator on one side of the

classroom building has been out for anentire week. The elevator in the Gre-han building shudders when it moves.

But in order to even get to thatfrustrating point you have to make itacross the campus first. This feat iscomplicated by the many sets of stair-cases sprinkled throughout campus.

Say you’re coming from BlazerHall and you’re headed to central cam-pus. Major obstacle—the infamous‘awkward stairs.’ In order to getaround this challenge of the day, youwould either have to go all the way tothe ramped pathway by the Fine ArtsBuilding, head down the sidewalkaround the corner of Limestone and upthe sidewalks there, or weave throughthe Student Center take the elevatorupstairs and exit the building.

And say you wanted to join a fra-ternity? A senior member of Phi SigmaKappa told me a guy in a wheelchaircame out to rush one year but quit af-ter one week because people had tocarry him into the fraternity house.

As if wheelchairs and crutches did-n’t make people feel out of place al-ready, we make them feel ten timesmore unwelcome by forcing them totake creative routes through campus. Bythe time they even get to class they’vealready spent 20 minutes of creativityand a whole lot of physical effort. Forsome people, this is their everyday.

I wouldn’t make it. This I know. Britney McIntosh is a journalism

and international studies senior. E-mail [email protected]

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BRITNEYMCINTOSH

Kernel columnist

Fantasy demands legitimacyA quaffle. Beaters and Seek-

ers. The golden snitch. If you'vesomehow missed the media jug-

gernaut that isHarry Potter,that's quidditch.

This oncefictional sporthas nowreached ex-treme populari-ty and is seek-ing more legit-imacy-NPR re-ported thisweek that theUniversity of

Maryland (UM) is striving forrecognition from the NCAA.

Like any unfamiliar sport,“muggle quidditch” would be toodifficult to explain in a couple ofsentences. The best way I canthink of to describe the sport is acombination of dodgeball, bas-ketball and track. To deny thatthe sport has some form of legiti-macy would also be ridiculous.

While it has only existed init's “muggle” variety since 2007,(when it was created at Middle-bury college in Vermont) it hasalready been adopted as a clubsport at multiple institutions, in-cluding UK. There is a quidditchWorld Cup, about to be held inNYC, and official rules. There isa governing body for quidditch,with a Quidditch commissioner.Impressive for a sport that upuntil fairly recently existed only

in fiction.So why not seek NCAA sta-

tus? Simply put, it's not really asport. Since the fictional varietyfeatures flying broomsticks, the“muggle” variety also featuresbroomsticks. Except these can'tfly. (I've always been of theopinion that the real-world ver-sion should be played on unicy-cles.) Most of the goals still ap-pear to be constructed out ofhula hoops, and the participantswear capes. It's little more thancosplay, and hardly a sport.

Don't get me wrong. I under-stand the allure of Harry Potter. Ipractically grew up with the fic-tional wizard and was around hisage when he received his greeninked letter and attended Hog-warts. But that doesn't mean thatI think the game J.K. Rowling soeloquently detailed in her novelsdeserves NCAA status.

The NPR interview with theUM quidditch captain stated thatshe wanted to make sure thatquidditch survived the HarryPotter craze and that was whythey were hoping to be recog-

nized by the NCAA. But mem-bership into that sporting organi-zation does not mean that thesport would stand the test oftime. If quidditch is to become alasting sport, then it will. It wascreated and spread massivelyover three years without the helpof the NCAA. I don't see why itneeds them now.

Sports exist without NCAArecognition, and for the whimsythat is “muggle quidditch,” suchan honor could do more harmthan good. To gain admittancethey would most likely have tosacrifice what it is that makesthem unique-the capes and prob-ably the brooms. The spirit ofthe sport would be lost for thesake of what exactly?

Sports like rugby thrive with-out NCAA recognition, and theydo so much the same way quid-ditch already has. They createdtheir own leagues-the UK men’steam plays with the Ohio RugbyLeague, a sanctioned body thatdoes all the NCAA would do.

If quidditch plans to survivefor more than ten years or so,the NCAA isn't the only meansin which to do that. At threeyears, quidditch has already last-ed through the early growingpains of just being a collegiatephase, and it should neither wantor need NCAA status.

Amanda Wallace is an Eng-lish junior. [email protected].

AMANDAWALLACE

Guest columnist

Sports exist without NCAArecognition, and for the

whimsy that is “muggle quid-ditch,” such and honor could

do more harm than good.

Illustration by Taylor Collins | 2010

POP! | Nov. 11, 2010

W h e t h e ryou live on south

campus or northcampus, shopping

for groceries can of-ten be inconvenient at

best and frustrating atworst. Sure, Blazer Ex-

press and Commons Marketgo a long way in providing a

lot of your basic grocery needs,but sometimes a trip to the local

grocery store is necessary. Thankfully, dormzy.com has

come up with an idea to alleviatemany of your shopping inconveniences.

Started by Chris Sammons, dor-mzy.com provides a grocery delivery

service for college students and young pro-fessionals all across the country.

“I went to UK and lived in the dorms,”Sammons said. “It all started there. I was in Kir-

wan 3 and they had that grocery store down there,but everything was overpriced.”

The idea for Dormzy had been mulling aroundin Sammons’ head for a while before he finally put it

into action.“I worked for a Fortune 500 company and wasn’t

happy with what I was doing, so I started the website,”Sammons said. “ Corporate America wasn’ t for me and I

had my own idea for a business and I ran with it.”The website operates much like any online store. You are

required to register, but after that, you just need to click “shop”and browse through the categories, adding whatever items you

need to your cart. Then you simply click “checkout” and wait for theitems to arrive at your door.

“This is like an awesome revolution,” said UK graduate student in theCollege of Public Health, Santhi Chilukuri. “Their list is so broad and di-

verse. I hate going to the grocery store, and this could mean not ever having togo to the grocery store again. Some of the prices are cheaper, too.”

Waiting for something to be delivered can be even more frustrating

than going through thework to shop yourself,but Dormzy isn’ t in thebusiness of trying the pa-tience of college students.Your groceries are deliveredthe very next business day afteryou order them. For any emer-gencies (or if you are simply notthe patient type), FedEx OvernightExpress is also an option.

While shipping is $6.99 for ordersunder $49, it is free for orders over $49,so if you are someone who likes to stockup in bulk every time you go grocery shop-ping, there is an extra incentive to give thewebsite a try. Sammons says that Kentucky isone of theirlargest customer databases.

It is no surprise that a website such as Dor-mzy would be popular among college students.A quick look at their current top sellers showsRamen Noodles, Gatorade, Campbell’s Soup andEasy Mac as four of their top five most-boughtproducts – items considered typical of a college stu-dent’s diet. However, the website also has entire cate-gories dedicated to healthy foods for those mindful ofwhat they eat, such as Nutri-Grain bars and vegetablesoup.

As promising as the concept of Dormzy is, the absence offrozen food may be a disappointment to some college students.Frozen food is both cheap and easy to make, making it a com-mon item in any college student’ s freezer. Since Dormzy relies ondelivery, shipping frozen food is impractical.

Still, Dormzy is an answer to a prayer, particularly for those inthe dorms. Many freshmen don’ t have cars their first year of college,but even those that do are often relegated to the dreaded K-Lot, a farwalk from most of the dorms.

Dormzy provides a way for a lot of busy (or lazy) college studentsto take one more thing off their schedule, so for those inundated withschool work or trying to balance school with a job, a service like thisis almost impossible to pass.

By Kendall [email protected]

Buell Armory hosts an as-sortment of military trap-pings, but for several days itwill also be filled with storiesof war. “Bringing It Home:Voices of Student Veterans,” aplay based on the stories ofsome of UK’s student veter-ans, is returning to campus fora revival performance after awarm reception in the spring.

The play will be per-formed for a limited audienceof 150 per night on Nov. 11and 12 at 8 p.m. in Buell Ar-mory. Tickets are free.

“We wanted to bridge thegap between the civilian andmilitary world,” said HermanFarrell, director and headwriter of “Bringing it Home.”The production is the result

of a collaboration betweenthe Veteran Resource Center,the Louie B. Nunn Center forOral History and the Depart-ment of Theatre.

After watching the produc-tion in the spring, Tony Dot-son, coordinator of the UK Vet-eran Resource Center, thinksthe play accomplished its goal.

“In my opinion, this playdoes more to bridge that gapthan anything I’ve seen,”Dotson said.

The play is written in anunconventional style thatplaces the audience membersclose to the cast and has audi-ence members move to differ-ent viewing locations towatch at several points in theplay. The play was the prod-uct of a class Farrell taughtentitled “Staging History.”Writers used direct quotes

from interviews of studentveterans conducted by fellowstudent veterans for the NunnCenter History.

The ongoing Nunn Centerveteran oral history project iscalled “From Combat to Ken-tucky,” and the interviewsused for the play are postedin their entirety online.

The play has also beenperformed at Eastern KentuckyUniversity, and Dotson saidthat people involved with theplay “are looking at packagingit so any college can do it.”

The students portrayingveterans in the fall productionare the same students whohad the parts in the spring.The play took on a new di-mension for several of thecast members when the veter-ans they depicted in the playshowed up to watch the fin-

ished spring production.Kevin Sullivan, theatre sen-

ior, also got to meet the studentveteran he plays, Nathan Noble.

“He’s pretty awesome,”Sullivan said. “He’s the greatestguy in the world. Just frommeeting him I would trust him.”

Brian Sprague, anothertheatre senior, plays AndrewNapier whom he met onopening night in the spring.He said Napier’s father wasalso present and approachedhim after the play saying, “Idon’t know whether to shakeyour hand and call you son,or Brian.”

“As a theatre major, thatwas the ultimate compli-ment,” Sprague said.

Alex Koehl, theatre senior,plays Jonathan Herst. He wasable to talk with Hearst afterthe production and said that

though it is probably emotion-al seeing a difficult experiencefrom your life told in yourown words to an audience,Herst “felt good about it.”

The actors agree thatstudents should come seethe play to improve theirunderstanding of their fel-low students who are alsoveterans.

“I think it opens up youreyes to who else is in classwith you,” Koehl said. “Theybring a lot to the studentbody. Veterans our age arejust like us. People shouldcome and show their sup-port.”

“Not a lot of people knowabout the war and what’s go-ing on,” Sullivan said. “A lotof students just go to collegeand think about college. Whatwe do is pretty minute com-

pared to what they do.”Dotson described the play

as “extremely raw and power-ful. Frankly, I think everyschool should be doing it.”He said it was therapeutic forthe veterans whose interviewsare used in the script to be in-terviewed in the first place.“Now they see a group ofpeople willing to tell that sto-ry,” Dotson said. “They showup on opening night, and it’sstanding room only.”

Those involved with theplay see it as a way todemonstrate respect for peo-ple who have served in com-bat. “Just come to support theveterans on Veterans Day,”Sullivan said.

Tickets are free, but seat-ing is limited. Students canrequest tickets by [email protected].

By Martha [email protected]

Veteran’s Day play to unite civilians and vets

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