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UK’s Information Technologywill host a session to bring more in-novative technologies in teachingand learning Wednesday.

The session, titled “Open andCaptured Content: The Twenty-firstCentury Classroom Experience,” willprovide insight about the new tech-nology, called open content.

UK, along with other universi-ties, is adopting this practice, whichcaptures lectures for reuse and allows“students to replay lectures to en-hance their understanding,” accord-ing to the IT news release on theevent.

Three speakers have been invitedto present at the event – CableGreen, director of eLearning andOpen Education for the WashingtonState Board for Community andTechnical Colleges, Chris Huff, whorepresents the leading course capturetechnology company Echo 360, andTim MacEldowney, the Mid-Southregional sales manager for Echo 360,according to the news release.

In an e-mail to the Kernel, Ash-ley Tabb, IT’s communications man-ager, said these speakers were invitedto share features and opportunitiesnew technologies could provide tothe future of higher education.

Green will discuss how technolo-gy is used for open content in re-search and community colleges andhow it benefits higher education initi-ations, faculty and students. UK Col-lege of Medicine faculty will explainhow Echo 360 has been implementedin courses during the past year anddiscuss feedback from faculty andstudents on the success of the sys-tem, Tabb said.

With convenience a primaryadvantage of the new online basket-ball lottery registration, many stu-dents are signing on and securingtheir spot to witness the 2010-2011team.

Student Government PresidentRyan Smith said the number of stu-dents who signed up for the first andsecond lotteries was in the samerange as last year.

The first lottery had about 5,500students sign up. The second lottery,which was held Monday evening,had about 5,800 students sign up,Smith said.

According to a Nov. 16 Kernelarticle, 3,750 individuals wereawarded the four-game series ticketsduring the first lottery.

After the first lottery, UKAthletics has made other changes tothe online registration process.

The way students can geteRUPPtion Zone tickets is one of thechanges.

eRUPPtion Zone tickets willnow be distributed at the first twoticket windows, and each game mustbe selected individually, accordingto the UK Athletics website. Ticketscannot be purchased from two dif-ferent windows, and students cannotselect Erupption Zone seats for somegames and regular seats for others.

Smith said the new lottery sys-tem and all changes made are in thebest interest of the students.

The Cats (6-6, 2-6 Southeast-ern Conference) are going bowl-ing for a school-record fifthstraight year, and although theBBVA Compass Bowl may notcarry the same prestige as one ofthe other 34—and perhaps moreprominent—bowl games, UKhead coach Joker Phillips gave alaundry list of reasons for him andhis players to be excited for theJan. 8 matchup with Pittsburgh.

Most notably, UK has the dis-tinction of being one of 29 pro-grams in the nation going to at

least a fifth straight bowl game,something only four fifth-yearseniors on the current roster havebeen able to experience—quarter-back Mike Hartline, defensivetackle Ricky Lumpkin, long snap-per J.J. Helton and offensive line-man Marcus Davis.

“I think (a win would) meanthe world to guys like RickyLumpkin and Mike Hartline, whocame here only on our vision,”Phillips said. “We were sellingthem a vision and a dream that wehad, and I think it'll mean theworld to them.  It will mean thatthey are able to go out on top be-cause they hung in there with usand believed it.”

Lumpkin said despite being apart of this program’s turnaround,one final win would be the perfectway to end a career.

“I’m one of four seniors thathave been to a bowl game everyyear that we’ve been here…to endon a great performance and with afourth bowl win would be awe-some,” Lumpkin said. “Only oneloss in a bowl game? Not many

people can say that, and that wouldtop it off even though we didn’t getsome things done here, like beatTennessee, but there’s still a lot ofpositives to take away.”

Phillips, who becomes the firstUK head coach to go to a bowlgame in his first year as UK headcoach, said he looks forward to re-turning to Legion Field in Birm-ingham, Ala., the site of Phillips’last game as a UK player 26 yearsago (UK beat Wisconsin 20-19 inthe 1984 Hall of Fame Bowl).

In addition to the nostalgia andhistory associated with this year’sbowl for coach and veteran play-ers, Phillips pointed to the latedate—the Compass Bowl is thesecond-to-last bowl game of theyear—as means of getting in extra

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Story by Aaron Smith | Photos by Ryan Buckler

The tile goes down, panel by

panel, starting with one square spot on

the floor and expanding outward. The

blue sidelines remain surrounded by red

seats, and the words ‘Freedom Hall’ are

still on the scoreboards. But those

words don’t mean much after the UK

logo is placed down, a dominating visu-

al in the center of the Louisville arena.

For one night, at least, UK blue

has taken over Freedom Hall.

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“People were wonder-

ing if it was really going to

happen ... That created a

lot of buzz. People aren’t

used to seeing it.”

Edward BrowneKentucky State Fair Board

The beginning of putting together the pieces of the UK basketball court on thefloor of Freedom Hall.

Kentucky Exposition Center employees put together the pieces of UK's logo on the floor of Freedom Hall on Monday, Dec. 6, 2010.

The completed UK basketball court at Freedom Hall. UK will play Notre Dameon Wednesday, Dec. 8, 2010 in Louisville.

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“It will mean that they areable to go out on top

because they hung in therewith us and believed it.”

JOKER PHILLIPSUK Football Head coach

UK plays Pittsburgh on Jan. 8 in fifth

consecutive bowl appearance

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“UKIT began holding ed-ucational events for staff lastsummer, but this is the first toinclude national experts,”Tabb said. “UKIT plans to co-ordinate additional forumsand events in the future to

communicate the latest tech-nology trends in higher edu-cation.”

Arts and Sciences DeanMark Kornbluh helped leadan initiative to bring 29 newonline classes to UK for sum-mer 2010, where differentonline technologies wereused.

Kornbluh said new tech-nologies in classrooms and

teaching are important be-cause they help faculty im-prove their abilities. Withoutthe technologies, not much ex-ists to help assist the teachers.

“The more we can do toexpose the new develop-ments, the better,” Kornbluhsaid.

Wednesday’s session willbe at 1 p.m. in the W.T.Young Library auditorium.

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“There are always goingto be challenges with the newlottery system but we thinkit’s an improvement from lastyear,” Smith said.

Smith said those develop-ing the lottery are still accept-ing student input.

“Logistically the newsystem is more difficult thanperceived. Suggestions forimprovements are alwayswelcome, and we are contin-uously working to improvethe process so that the major-

ity of students are pleasedwith the lottery process,”Smith said.

Business junior MaggieLinneman is overall support-ive of the new method andrecent changes made to thesecond round, primarily forconvenience.

“I was actually selected toget tickets in the first round andsince it was so easy, I signed upfor the second lottery as well,”she said. “I selected ErupptionZone tickets and surprisinglygot an e-mail back saying I waschosen for the second lottery aswell. It’s such an easy, efficientprocess I’m surprised the num-bers haven’t dramatically

increased.” The first lottery had about

1,000 tickets left over, and190 tickets were purchasedthe next day, Smith said.

Based on availability,unclaimed student ticketsfrom Monday will go on saleTuesday at 9 a.m. at the UKAthletics Ticket Office,located in the Joe CraftCenter behind MemorialColiseum.

For more informationabout the changes or abouttickets, students can contactthe UK Athletics TicketOffice at 800-928-2287 or859-257-1818 or by e-mail atstudenttickets@uky.edu.

LOTTERYContinued from page 1

Why doesn't CBS just cancel "The EarlyShow"?

That's the question I asked CBS Newsboss Sean McManus last week when wetalked about the wholesale ouster of theshow's on-air team.

It's not that I have anything against theprogram or the people on it. Maggie Ro-driguez, in particular, knows how to ask guestsgood questions, then keep her mouth shutwhile they answer, a skill in short supply inmorning television.

But as McManus readily admitted, CBShas a track record of ratings failure in morningnews that goes back more than half a century."There've been many, many, many iterationsand reiterations of the show," he said, "andnothing has worked."

So why do it? Pulling in a morning audiencehas only gotten harder over the past 15 years asCBS competes against not just NBC and ABCbut CNN, HLN, Fox News, MSNBC, CNBCand Bloomberg. Where is it written that everynetwork has to air news between 7 and 9 a.m.?

The answer, McManus said, is on the bot-tom line.

"These shows are so very profitable," hetold me. "It's a good way to amortize yournews costs. 'The Early Show' makes a profitfor CBS News and for the corporation. Itdoesn't make as much as the 'Today' show or'Good Morning America,' but it makes a nice

profit. It's an important show for us to do."Not that McManus hasn't pondered getting

rid of morning news as, he's sure, the otherbroadcast networks have also done.

"But we all come back to the same thing.In the morning, there's a certain type of showpeople want to watch. ... (It's the mix) we alluse now: hard news and light features and liveinterviews."

Of course, some shows do it better thanothers, at least in the ratings, which brings usto HLN's sneaky success with Robin Meade'smorning program.

Meade has been whipping her CNN-cousin competitors, John Roberts and KiranChetry, for quite a while now in terms of totalviewers, and in the prime news demographicof ages 25 to 54, her ratings are double thoseof the CNN show.

Gossip has circulated for months thatCNN is on the verge of dumping Roberts andChetry, but with the show's audience droppingbelow a quarter of a million viewers, the ru-mors are gaining some urgency.

They were not exactly quelled whenRoberts snapped at a colleague on the air re-cently. The Huffington Post reported he wastelling Chetry to quit typing so loudly. (Maybeshe was doing her resume?) But who knows?Maybe he was really talking to Robin Meade.

Bad reception can't kill morning news

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“There’s a lot more blue in there thanI’ve ever seen,” said Edward Browne,director of public relations and media forthe Kentucky State Fair Board.

UK will play Notre Dame in theSEC/Big East Invitational on Wednesdayin Freedom Hall, and the accompanyingaesthetic makeover of Freedom Hall is astrange one. The blue and the red clash,a physical manifestation of a renownedrivalry.

There used to be a Louisville basket-

ball court on Freedom Hall’s floor, butnot anymore. The Cardinal logo hasn’tbeen in place for a few months, now. Butthe recent absence doesn’t diminish thefeeling that the giant ‘UK’ in the middleof the floor is invading cherished ground.

“We’ve had some fans come by andtake a look at it,” Browne said. “It’s beenin good nature, they’ve been pleasant. Butthey all say how different it looks now.”

UK has a tradition of playing a gamein Freedom Hall to spread some Wildcatbasketball to a neighboring city. But thisis the first time, according to Browne,that the blue logo has graced the long-time Louisville arena. UK Athletics was-n’t involved in the process of the floor

transformation and wasn’t aware thecourt was being changed until this week,UK spokesman DeWayne Peevy said.

“There was a lot of interest in whatwas happening,” Browne said. “Peoplewere wondering if it was really going tohappen, you know – putting a UK floordown in Freedom Hall? That created a lotof buzz. People aren’t used to seeing it.”

Louisville basketball, of course, hasvacated its old premises for the newYum! Center. Browne said the fact thatLouisville no longer plays in FreedomHall may have enabled the makeover.

“There will be a UK basketballgame inside Freedom Hall,” Brownesaid. “We’re here to make it happen.”

practices to help his team de-velop.

Phillips also said thatPitt’s pedigree fits the billingfor the kind of challenge hisprogram wants in a bowlgame. In the past four years,UK has played former nation-al champions Florida Stateand Clemson (twice) in bowlgames, and Pitt (7-5, 5-2 BigEast) not only has won a na-tional championship, but alsotied for a share of its confer-ence crown.

These positives to takeaway from the bowl game arewhy Lumpkin said playersare still exicted despite a sea-son of missed opportunities.

“What more people aredown about is what could’vebeen,” said Lumpkin, whoadded that criticism from fansfor going to a so-called “low-er-tier bowl game is just oneof those things.”

“Take the criticism, asalong the criticism comeswith winning…at the end ofday we’re going to a bowlgame,” Lumpkin said. “I’drather fans be hard on us forwinning than losing.”

After all, this year’sSEC East champions, SouthCarolina, played in theCompass Bowl last year.Phillips said he wants thisyear’s bowl game to be astepping stone to the same

success the Gamecocks en-joyed.

“For the sixth straightbowl game, I want to befighting for the title,” Phillipssaid.

Cobb, Trevathan namedAP All-SEC first team

Junior wide receiver Ran-dall Cobb and junior line-backer Danny Trevathan werenamed to the AssociatedPress All-SEC First teamMonday.

Cobb, who is rankedsecond in the SEC in all-purpose yardage, wasnamed to the First team asan all-purpose player. Hewas also named to the Sec-ond team as a wide receiv-er after leading the SEC incatches (79), good for 955yards and seven touch-downs. He was one of onlytwo recognized players—Alabama defensive backEarl Barron was the oth-er—to garner back-to-backAll-Conference First teamhonors.

Trevathan led the SEC intackles with 130 and led UKin tackling in nine gamesthis season.

Cobb and Trevathan haveboth said that they might en-ter the NFL Draft process fol-lowing the season.

Injury report

Lumpkin conducted hisinterview at Monday’s newsconference sitting down be-cause he had knee surgery

last week. However, he isexpected to be ready to playin the Compass Bowl.

The same can’t be saidfor freshman defensive endTristian Johnson and start-ing offensive tackle Chan-

dler Burden, who will missthe Cats’ bowl game as bothhave torn labrums and areset to undergo surgery in thenext week. Junior Billy JoeMurphy will start in placeof Burden, a junior.

BOWLContinued from page 1

PHOTO BY MIKE WEAVER | STAFFUK head football coach Joker Phillips, with wide receiver ChrisMatthews, during the game against Akron on Sept. 18, 2010.

PHOTO BY RYAN BUCKLER | STAFFA Kentucky Exposition Center employee works toward installing the UK basketball floor in Freedom Hall on Monday, Dec. 6, 2010.

Moving too fast. It’s acommon occurrence at the be-ginning of a relationship withthe spontaneous combustionof chemistry between twopeople. The rush of findingout everything about this newperson makes you practicallyattached at the hip. But thedangers of moving too fastcould ruin your chance at sus-taining a real relationship inthe long run.

Being in a meaningful re-

lationship really shouldn’t bea sprint. Sure, upon firstmeeting the gun fires and youtake off down the track, butyou will burn out if you try tosprint the whole way through.

It can be hard to recognizethat youre moving too fastwith all of the butterfliesswirling about, but its impor-tant to recognize when topump the breaks.

If you find yourself com-pletely abandoning yourfriends and family for just an-other second with the otherperson, you should slow down.

It’s important to establish abalance right off the bat so thatlater when you want a girls orguys night out, the other per-son isn’t shocked. Your friendsand family have been therelonger for you; you don’t wantto make them feel as thoughthey’ve been replaced.

When relationships movesuper fast, you tend to cram ineverything you think youshould know about the personin a short period of time, giv-ing the false sense of securitythat you do. To truly know aperson takes time, and peopledon’t show their true colorsright away. It’s important tohave some distance and natu-ral progression before you cantruly trust someone.

If at the beginning of ahyper speed relationship youare the overwhelming feelingsof “are we crazy?” It’s proba-bly because you are. Throw-ing caution to the wind andgoing against your innate in-stincts of moving too fast willdo nothing but hurt your rela-tionship.

It isn’t until you’ve hadyour first real fight or have tru-ly taken the time to learn whatmakes the other person tickthat you can truly be in a car-ing and committed relationship.

The faster a relationshipmoves, the quicker you canbecome bored with each other.When it comes to relation-ships, slow and steady reallydoes with the race.

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They all say how different it looks now.”— Edward Browne, Kentucky State Fair Board

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KERNEL EDITORIAL

Greeks’gradehike

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More brothers may have tohit the books, thanks to new ac-ademic measures being taken bythe Greek system.

A Nov. 22 Kernel articlesaid that fraternities at UK areraising their organizational gradepoint average membership re-quirement to 3.0.

The article said that thechange would be implementedover the course of the next threesemesters, with the minimumGPA rising from its current 2.88minimum to 2.9 by spring 2011,2.95 by Fall 2011 and 3.0 bySpring 2011.

This new measure promisesto help ensure fraternity mem-bers’ academic success. To en-sure compliance, the Kernel arti-cle described how fraternitieswill practice incentive and puni-tive measures.

The article said chaptersthat “make continuous improve-ment” to raise organizationalGPA may have more time toreach the 3.0 goal and those whogo above 3.0 will have their In-terfraternity Council dues de-creased incrementally (from $75reduction for a 3.2 organization-al GPA to $275 for a 3.4 organi-zational GPA).

Chapters that don’t meetthe new standards may have tomeet with their national fraterni-ty adviser, lose their Interfrater-nity vote, be under social proba-tion, be excluded from intramu-ral participation and lose theright to recruit freshmen in thefall.

One of the major sellingpoints of sororities and fraterni-ties to freshmen-to-be whenthey come to campus advisingand pre-semester events is thatGreeks maintain higher GPAson average than non-Greeks.

While these academic goalsmay seem somewhat lofty, theyare necessary if Greeks want tomaintain this bragging right. Itputs pressure on all members toperform well in the classroomand to conform to a higher stan-dard. And isn’t that the point?

Believe it or not, the United States is not theonly country with an “immigration problem.”Many countries struggle with national identity

as immigrants come to takejobs not available in theirhome country. In my travels toEurope and Germany specifi-cally, I have encountered simi-lar situations to our own.

First a little background. InGermany, a labor shortage af-ter World War II and a mas-sive rebuilding effort led tothe importation of many for-eign workers, most notablyfrom Turkey. Originally, itwas thought that after the ini-

tial reconstruction effort, these Turkish workerswould return home. However, the German eco-nomic miracle led many Turks to stay in Ger-many with its many opportunities. Combine thiswith an aging population and Germany todayhas a very real economic need for young for-eign workers to pay into the system.

So what does that mean for today? Ger-many doesn’t have an equivalent to the Four-teenth Amendment guaranteeing citizenship toall natural-born citizens so Turks born in Ger-many may never become citizens. Turks are of-ten relegated to a second-class position in socie-ty.

If you speak with Germans, you get amixed picture about how to solve the problem.Protection of national identity is something thatevery European values. They ask themselves,‘What does it mean to be German?’ To somethat simply means integrating into German cul-ture. To others it is heritage.

This question is all the more difficult withGermany’s history in World War II and theHolocaust. The German language has a wordspecifically for coming to terms with its past,Vergangenheitsbewältigung. To simply dismissa group of people as not German would be verycontroversial.

And it isn’t just up to the German people towelcome (or not welcome) immigrants to theircountry. Integration into society can just as wellbe seen as the destruction of heritage. You nev-er can guess what someone will claim to bewhen you speak to them. ‘I’m German, but myparents are from Korea,’ or ‘I’m Moroccan, notFrench.’ Some embrace their new country (of-ten the place where they were born) and othersshun it.

So where does that leave America, you mayask? Well, hopefully in a position to learn fromthe mistakes of others. As long as immigrantsare willing to come, work and be productivemembers of society, are we in a position to turnthem away? Or even worse, brand them as notAmerican? For ‘this land is your land’ after all.

Benjamin Keller is a management/decisionscience and information systems senior. E-mailopinions@kykernel.com.

Are you opinionated? Or just thoughtful?Do you like to express your opinions andthoughts before a broad and diverse audience?

Do you like to write? Do be-lieve in democracy? If you answered yes to any ofthese questions, then yourdream job may well lie inopinion or editorial writing.

Cassidy Herrington, Ker-nel Opinion Editor, recom-mends opinions writing for anumber of reasons. Herringtonrevealed in an interview thatwhile the Opinion section fallsthree or four pages beneathnews stories, she feels it is vi-

tal to American democracy. “It’s a forumwhere everyone can participate,” she said. AndOpinion stories can have a far-reaching impact— Herrington’s story “’Undercover’ in Hijab”reached readers in more than a hundred coun-tries.

Not convinced yet? Perhaps you thinknewspaper writing is too fact-driven and im-personal for you. Well listen to this: Opinionwriters don’t have to worry about many of therestrictions involved with news writing, as TimHarrower notes in his book, “Inside Reporting:A Practical Guide to the Craft of Journalism.”Harrower lists three main types of Opinionstories, and each requires a personal touch.

A “topical commentary” piece, for exam-ple, begs personal commentary concerning“political events and social controversies;” youwouldn’t simply tell what happened, but useyour opinions, recollections and emotions to

animate the event for the reader. “Personalmeditation” stories clearly concern the revela-tion of personal “truths that resonate withreaders,” such as “painful, poignant, and hu-morous insights about families, friends and so-cial relationships.” In writing a “slice-of-life”Opinion piece, you would act as a “storyteller”depicting colorful scenes from everyday lives.Sounds fun, right?

Now that you’re hooked, here are some tipsfrom writers Tim Harrower, Cassidy Herring-ton, Jason Grant, an English major and JAReditor, and Chris McCurry, the former Cat’sFigment editor in chief, to get you started onyour way to becoming an Opinion writer:

1. Craft your own “distinctive voice.” Her-rington says that the most successful Opinionstories are “honest” and “upfront.” Don’t feelyou have to edit your writing to sound scholar-ly or mute your perspective to sound moder-ate. Chris McCurry said “you don’t want tocompromise your voice to fit in with [a] mag-azine.”

2. “Infrom your opinions.” Herringtonwarned that if your opinions aren’t supportedwith “facts and evidence,” your readers won’tpay any attention to what you have to say.

3. Write about “worthy topics.” Harrowerwarns against writing about common or clichétopics. Jason Grant asserted that editors willfavor writing that “surprises them” and offers“something new.”

Put your opinions, writing skills and patri-otism to work in Opinion writing. You mightjust find that it’s your dream job.

Eloise Lynch is an English education sen-ior. E-mail opinions@kykernel.com.

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