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Unrest has plagued Egypt in recent daysbecause of unhappiness with the currentleadership. Protesters are favoring a more

democratic governmentwithout President HosniMubarak as leader.

Ahmed Ibrahim, agraduate student in com-puter science, and ShadyEl-Maraghi, a biologyand French junior in theGaines Program, sharedtheir perspectives on theevents. Both said they

were surprised the Egyptian people havebegun protesting about a government thathas been corrupt and oppressive for years.

Ibrahim moved to Lexington with his

family last August to work on his Ph.D. atUK. He is from “one of the quietest areasaround Cairo,” and he did not expect tohear from his family that the unrest hadspread there.

“Suddenly I realized that this is not re-ally happening only in downtown — it ishappening in many, many, many places,”Ibrahim said. “I could not believe that thiscould happen in my area.”

Ibrahim said he stays in contact withhis family through landline phones.

He believes the Egyptian governmenthas needed a change for many years, andthe government is not the source of what isgood in the country.

“A way to succeed is usually … to

By Becca Clemonsnews@kykernel.com

Unrest in Egypt hits home

See EGYPT on page 4

Ibrahim

MCTThe Egyptian Army has taken command of the city of Cairo as protesters call for the resignation of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak on Sunday.

Many students study abroad each year,and now they often can for what they pay intuition at UK.

In the Student Center Small Ballroom to-day, there will be an Education Abroad fair,where students can learn about various oppor-tunities to go abroad while earning UK cred-its.

“This will be the first time that we will bedoing an Education Abroad fair for summerprograms,” Education Abroad Director An-thony Ogden said.

There was also a fair in the fall semesterfor various study abroad programs.

Ogden explained how simple the processof studying abroad is, and said the departmentwill be there helping students along the way.

“To study abroad at UK, it’s really easycompared to most other institutions,” Ogdensaid. “Simply the students will find a pro-gram, apply online through our website andwe will help them at every phase after that.”

Ogden said students will be enrolled in a

By Drew Teaguenews@kykernel.com

Fair encourges

summer travel

See ABROAD on page 4

Students with ties to Egypt say unity trumps corrupt government

UK students may notbe actively involved inon-campus protests, butsome have direct con-nections to the eventsoccurring in Egypt.

Event helps set upEducation abroad options

The new General Education program willreplace the University Studies Program start-ing for incoming freshmen this fall, bringingmultiple changes in courses and teachingmethods.

The Gen Ed curriculum will consist of 30credit hours, compared to the 40 hours re-quired from the current University StudiesProgram.

The Gen Ed reforms began in 2008 whenthe University Senate and the provost recom-mended the new curriculum to improve stu-dent learning.

The curricular framework consists of fourlearning outcomes: Intellectual Inquiry, Com-position and Communication, QuantitativeReasoning and Citizenship. Each learningoutcome is explained in more detail on theGeneral Education website athttp://www.uky.edu/gened.

Assistant Provost Nikki Knutson said theGen Ed program consists of new courses aswell as revamped classes that better fit theprogram.

In the past couple of semesters, somecourses have been piloted to test the new pro-gram, she said.

One course that was piloted was Intro ToWorld Politics taught by Clayton Thyne, as-sistant professor of political science. He re-worked his class to fit the new learning out-comes of the General Education program.

“The revised course is geared towardsgetting the students to think critically abouttheir subject,” Thyne said.

Previously the goal of the course was toprepare students for advanced courses, andnow the main focus is learning how to thinkcritically, he said.

“Students in the revised course left withskills they could apply to any future courseand to the world outside of UK,” Thyne said.

He said this should make students moreattractive to employers.

The new program focuses on active learn-ing, and Thyne said in his class, studentscompleted a research project where they“largely chartered their own course of studyin the class.”

Thyne said that retooling his course wasdifficult because the new requirements are de-manding.

“It required a philosophical change inwhat I thought even could be accomplished ata large, research-oriented university,” Thynesaid.

By Rachel Aretakisnews@kykernel.com

Future freshmen tosee changes

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OXFORD, Miss. — In UK headcoach John Calipari’s first two sea-sons, his Cats have been unbeatableat Rupp Arena. But this season, whenUK (16-5, 4-3 Southeastern Confer-ence) has taken its show on the road,the team has looked vulnerable.

Cats fans can now add the Uni-versity of Mississippi Rebels to theirlist of road losses, after UK fell atthe hands of Ole Miss 71-69 on alate three-pointer by the Rebels’point guard Chris Warren.

Trailing by as many as 11 pointsin the second half, UK battled backand took a late lead 69-68 in the finalminute of the game. With 15 secondsleft and the shot clock windingdown, Darius Miller got the ball inthe corner with a wide open three-point attempt to potentially ice thegame. Instead, Miller drove andpassed the ball to DeAndre Liggins,

who was forced to take a fadeawaythree-pointer as the shot clock ex-pired. His shot failed to draw iron,giving Ole Miss possession.

“I mean, everybody whowatched it said, ‘Why wouldn’t heshoot that ball?’” Calipari said.

The shot-clock violation gave theball to the Rebels with 10 seconds re-maining. What followed was a bombby Warren, who knocked down anNBA-range three with 2.9 secondsleft to win it for Ole Miss in front of apacked Tad Smith Coliseum.

“You have to give Ole Miss cred-it,” Calipari said. “They battled andwon it late. We’re not going to winthat way. We are only playing six orseven guys, and if a couple guysdon’t show, then we will struggle.”

Miller and Liggins, both juniors,along with senior Josh Harrellson,combined for only 10 points in the

By Ethan Levinesports@kykernel.com

Cats continue roadstruggles at Ole Miss

PHOTO BYTIM HOLAHAN

STAFFDoron Lamb'sfailed three-point shot fell farleft of the goal inthe closing sec-onds of UK'sgame againstOle Miss Tues-day. Lamb, Brandon Knightand TerrenceJones, all fresh-men, scoredevery point forUK in the secondhalf.

The Southeastern ConferenceWest division was supposed tobe awful. The veterans on theUK basketball team — Darius

Miller, DeAndre Liggins andJosh Harrellson — were sup-posed to now take charge oflate-game situations.

Good luck convincing UKmen’s basketball head coach JohnCalipari of either of the abovestatements after his team’s roadwoes continued Tuesday night.

After rallying to take a one-point lead thanks in large part tothe inspired play of freshman

forward Terrence Jones, whomade four clutch free throws latedown the stretch to initially putthe Cats ahead, the Cats had anopportunity on the second-to-lastpossession of the game to putthe game out of reach or at leastforce Ole Miss to play for a tieat best.

Instead, with a 69-68 lead,the Cats’ execution failed themas it seems to have done at the

most inopportune times this year.Miller passed up a fairly

wide-open 3-point attempt with13 seconds remaining andpassed to Liggins, who failed torealize that the shot clock wasclose to expiring and eventuallyrushed, and missed, a long shot.

These were two veterans re-sponsible for two botched plays.And so followed another loss to

UK has more growing up to do

See BASKETBALL on page 2

See CRADDOCK on page 2

NICKCRADDOCK

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Last week, I concludedmy column with a referenceto all the people who findhappiness in their ability to“make it rain.”

For example, Lil Waynehas made no secret about hislove of making it rain throughthe gift of song. And he’s nottaking pride in an ability tocontrol weather patterns, butmore simply, the pleasure ofthrowing large quantities ofbills — his bankroll, if youwill — on women who seemincredibly willing to play agame of “catch daddy’s mon-ey with your cleavage.”

I don’t really see the ap-peal in throwing your moneyeverywhere (then again,drinking copious amounts ofcough syrup will have its sideeffects). In all likelihood,you’re going to be the onewho has to pick up the moneyonce the director of the musicvideo yells “cut,” and if youdon’t, frankly, all you’ve doneis made a terrible mess.

That being said, I’m surethere are Canadians (not me, I

promise, Mom) who so des-perately want to experiencethe euphoria of making it rain;however, there is a wee bit ofa dilemma: Canadian currencydoes not include dollar bills.

Instead, the system ofCanadian funny money em-ploys a one-dollar coin, theLoonie (which derives itsname from the loon picturedon the front of the coin), andalso a two-dollar coin, theToonie, (which doesn’t de-rive its name from the polarbear pictured on the front ofthe coin, otherwise it wouldbe a Polie).

Canadian currency in-cludes $5, $10, $20, $50 and$100 bills, too, but we’re notall Lil Wayne, we have tobudget accordingly in thisdown economy.

Loonies and Toonies arenot conducive to making itrain. In fact, your musicvideos become much lesssexy when the same womendescribed above have giantwelts all over their bodiesbecause you’ve been hurlingmetal at them all day.

To make matters worse,on one side of all Canadiancoins is the visage of QueenElizabeth II.

The last image I want inmy head before I start makingit rain is an old English lady

who reminds me of my Nana.So just save all your

Canadian change—Loonies,Toonies, quarters (which pic-tures a caribou, not amoose), dimes, nickels andpennies — under your floor-board because it’s useless inthis country.

Try to slip the cashier atStarbucks a penny when pay-ing for your drink and they’llspot the maple leaf on thecoin and slide it back to you.Go ahead and see if the laun-dromat’s dryer is as warm tothe idea of accepting Canadi-an nickels and dimes as it isto accepting your delicates.

And start stacking thosecaribou quarters in pairs be-cause it’s the only way you’lltrick a vending machine intospitting out a Diet Pepsi.

Thinking that the Loonieand the rest of its Canadiancoinage brethren can get yousomething in the U.S. isabout as loony as trying tomake it rain with coins. Tryas you might, you’ll only bemaking it sleet.

A Canuck gets ‘Loonie’about making it rain

NICKCRADDOCK

Kernelcolumnist

These are a dime adozen, but who doesn’t like agood Oscar prediction? Forthose of you heading to Ve-gas (yes, they take bets onthis), I’m not entirely sureyou should trust me. Afterall, “Saving Private Ryan”lost Best Picture in ’98, afact that continues to upsetpeople to this day. But forthe sake of lists, predictionsand how much people likethem, here I go.

Best Picture: “The SocialNetwork” — This compli-cated puzzle was put togeth-er perfectly. Everythingabout the way this moviewas made is tremendous, andit wasn’t an easy story to tell.

Best Director: DavidFincher — He is a meticu-lous director, casting thesame actors in nearly all ofhis films. But “The SocialNetwork,” despite usingtwo Fincher-familiar faces,is all new, from its Face-book subject matter, to itscultural references and evenits quality. But the reasonwe loved this movie somuch has nothing to dowith the familiar; it’s the ex-citing way it was put to-gether.

Best Actor: Colin Firth— I would love it if JamesFranco (“127 Hours”) wonthe statue for this, but theacademy loves “movie-movies” and it doesn’t get

much more “movie” than“The King’s Speech.” Con-grats, C. Firth.

Best Actress: JenniferLawrence — Who is JenniferLawrence? I’d be asking thesame question if she hadn’tstolen the show in 2010’sbreakout, critically — ac-claimed small-time hit,“Winter’s Bone.” If youhaven’t seen it, do so now.

Best Actor in a Support-ing Role: Christian Bale — atthe end of “The Fighter,” be-fore the credits, the real life,jumpy and animated charac-ter who Bale had been play-ing the entire film was shownonscreen. This had to havebeen done out of respect forBale, and the second you seethat man, you know that Baleis getting this award. Thisone’s a slam dunk.

Best Actress in a Sup-porting Role: Helena Bon-ham Carter — “The King’sSpeech” will undoubtedlyrake in a few awards, and

I’m pretty sure this will beone of them. Carter reallyupped the ante on her stockafter this fine performance.Good for her.

Best Animated FeatureFilm: “Toy Story 3” — An-other fantastic installment. Itcan’t lose in this categorycreated to praise Disney.

Best Cinematography:“Inception” — This is amammoth movie that will al-ways deserve a big screen forits viewing; it’s hard to ignorehow much fine work wentinto getting it on that screen.

Best Visual Effects: “In-ception” — This is a guess.Some of the categories(which I will not attempt topredict) are out of my zone,and if I had to get into therealm of sound mixing, Iwould be completely lost.But I do know that “Incep-tion” had visuals that I stillthink about from time totime — the city folding in onitself was an incredible sight.

And the Oscar goes to ... COLIN

WALSHKernel

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a less-talented team.Conversely, Ole Miss

senior guard Chris Warrendrained the winning three onthe ensuing possession with ahand in his face proving thatit us up to veteran players tochange the face of a game, asCalipari has suggested in re-cent weeks.

Jones, Doron Lamb andBrandon Knight all finishedin double-figure scoring, but

despite the impressive num-bers from the freshmen trio,it appears Calipari makes avalid point about the impor-tance of his veterans in win-ning tough games.

Before UK’s 71-69 loss toOle Miss, SEC West teamswere a combined 5-12 againstSEC East opponents, and theRebels were the worst of allSEC West teams against theirEast division counterpartswith an 0-4 record.

This is what might be themost painful fact for the BigBlue Nation to accept, as allthree of UK’s conference loss-

es have come against seeming-ly inferior teams on the road.

Sure, Ole Miss’ perform-ance was emblematic of theSEC West’s recent turn-around against the SEC East,following three straight winsby the West division teamsover East division teams thisweekend, but also emblemat-ic of UK’s persistent inabilityto mature into a team thatmakes savvy plays to closeout games.

Nick is a journalism sen-ior. E-mail ncraddock@kyk-ernel.com or follow him onTwitter @KernelCraddock.

CRADDOCKContinued from page 1

starting lineup, along withseven turnovers. As a team,UK accumulated a season-high 18 turnovers.

“My point guard had five(turnovers) in the first half,and it’s like ‘What’s going onhere for us?’ because that issomething we don’t do,” Cali-pari said. “We don’t turn theball over, but we got sloppy,guys got away from whatthey do well, we gave themthe lead, and they hung on.”

The freshman trio ofBrandon Knight, Doron Lamband Terrence Jones combinedfor 57 of the Cats’ 69 pointsfor the game, including all 34points in the second half.

Calipari expressed a com-mon theme in his postgame re-marks: “We are who we are.” Itwas Calipari’s explanation for

the freshman-heavy scoringload in the second half, for thelack of veteran presence in lategame situations, for the unusu-ally high number of turnoversand most strongly for their softplay inside and their tendencyto be pushed around in thepaint and under the rim.

“Right now I can’t say anydifferent,” Jones said. “He waswatching everything and ifthat’s what he says then that iswhat we are right now.”

UK now carries a roadrecord of 1-3 in conferenceplay, with a trip to meet theconference-leading FloridaGators looming this Saturday.

“Our schedule only getsharder from here,” Jones said.

Calipari and his playersadmit this game should havenever come down to Warren’sfinal shot.

“No matter where we areat, we have to come out andplay hard,” Knight said. “Nomatter who is in the game.”

BASKETBALLContinued from page 1

1. UK can’t find waysto win on the road play-ing not to lose.

2. Freshmen Ter-rence Jones and Bran-don Knight are the lead-ers of this team. The tan-dem has to put togethera full game and if theydon’t, a victory won’t beassured to UK.

3. This season’s teamdoesn’t have the, “Refuseto Lose” attitude of lastyear’s team. UK is 2-4 ingames decided by sevenpoints or less.

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If you have ever been to Egypt, it is unlikely that yourmemories would evoke thoughts of jasmine.

Car exhaust, maybe. Cows hung fromhooks in open air butcher shops, possibly.Having an asthma attack as you suddenlyrealize that there is a frightening lack ofoxygen in the air, probably. But jasmine?Hardly.

For those of you who have been toEgypt, it might come to you as a pleasantshock that the streets of downtown Cairowere virtually devoid of cars last Tuesday.

Remember that large, beautiful square infront of the Cairo Museum? For once, it wasnot clogged with those murderous drivers,

who, if they couldn’t get you as you crossed the street, could

at least have some solace in the fact that they will cause youa much slower and more painful death by car exhaust.

But have no fear; there was no surplus of oxygen in thestreets of Cairo last Tuesday. Instead, they were filled with themuch more irritating fumes of hundreds of tear gas grenades.

Following the lead of the successful “Jasmine Revolu-tion” in Tunisia, the people of Egypt — or at least 20,000 to30,000 of them — took to the streets calling for the resigna-tion of President Hosni Mubarak, now in power for 29 years.

What is remarkable about these riots is not that they haveproduced any results, nor in the amount of people participatingin them; in a city of 18 million, 20,000 seems a little scarce.

No, what is remarkable is this revolt has been organizedalmost exclusively on Facebook. Ninety thousand peoplepledged on Facebook to take to the streets; about a fourth ofthem actually did. With seven dead, a curfew and rumors of

the president’s family fleeing the country, the fate of a coun-try of 80 million is completely up in the air.

With massive demonstrations, also organized on Face-book, taking place last Friday after the afternoon prayer, any-thing could happen as a result.

Mohamed ElBaradei, former head of the InternationalAtomic Energy Agency and Nobel Prize recipient, haspledged to return to Cairo to support the demonstrations andto lead a transition movement if the people so please.

So the alternate has presented himself. But before Feb. 2,no one can tell you how things will go. What is not certain isthat a people largely billed as “apathetic” (one would preferpatient) have finally decided to make a move, and a big moveit has been.

Shady El-Maraghi is a biology and French junior. E-mailopinions@kykernel.com.

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one-credit ISP 599 course, which willkeep them in fulltime status while theyare abroad.

“(Students) still get their financial aid;they still get their scholarships,” Ogdensaid.

Ogden said many students ask them-selves the wrong questions when theybegin the process to go abroad. Hewould like to see that change.

“At this fair, what I’d like to see hap-pen is that students will come … andthey would first ask themselves ‘What is

my major; what do I want to studyabroad?’” Ogden said. “We should moveaway from ‘Where do I want to go?’”

Seth Riker, a psychology and Span-ish senior, recently returned from a se-mester abroad in Valparaiso, Chile.

While in Valparaiso, Riker said helived with a generous host family, trav-eled and helped out with local communi-ty projects, all while learning manythings from his time there.

“It’s really hard to put into words,but to be honest, more than anything Ibrought back a new appreciation for peo-ple,” Riker said. “You really don’t reallyfeel that until you’re immersed in anoth-er culture … and you kind of have toplay by their rules.”

Even with having taken just one se-mester of college Spanish before headingto Chile, Riker said it was a great experi-ence and he learned a lot of the languagefrom being there, where few people speakEnglish.

“I wish (studying abroad) wasmandatory, because it has affected mylife in ways that I can’t even really ex-plain,” Riker said. “I wish everyonewould do it. I think everyone should doit.”

The Education Abroad fair for sum-mer programs will be from 11 a.m. to 3p.m. today in the Student Center SmallBallroom and is open to students of allmajors.

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Journalism ProfessorBuck Ryan also said rework-ing his course, Citizen Ken-tucky: Journalism andDemocracy, was difficult.

“I viewed this as a creativechallenge,” Ryan said. “Theexpectations for the learningoutcomes for the class set a

very high standard.”Ryan said he had to figure

out how to create assignmentsand measure whether studentshave learned the material.

Like Thyne, Ryan workedactive learning into his classto better fit the requirements.

“The challenge for activelearning inspired me to havethe students become the his-torical figures and actually de-bate each other,” Ryan said.

He thinks his students re-

sponded positively to thecourse changes, especially theactive learning aspect.

“The real measure (of suc-cess) for me is what studentsare able to do,” Ryan said.

Freshman journalism stu-dent Lindsey Austin tookRyan’s class last semester andenjoyed his “hands-on styleof teaching.”

“The teaching style wasdifferent than that of any otherclass I’ve taken,” Austin said.

“We didn’t have tests, and weonly ever really wrote one pa-per, which we had multiplechances of correcting andrewriting. Yet I surprisinglylearned a lot from the class.”

Austin said that his ap-proach was beneficial andthat she wishes more profes-sors would follow his lead.

“Everyone learns morefrom everyday, personal ex-periences than (from) readinga book or falling asleep dur-

ing a lecture,” Austin said.Though both Ryan and

Thyne received positivefeedback about their courses,Thyne said his class has be-come more challenging.

“The Gen Ed reformsmakes UK a hostile place forthe slackers to find success,”Thyne said.

Thyne is excited aboutthe new program, but saidthat it will only succeed ifeveryone is on board.

“Altering the status quois difficult, and it’s going totake continued support andpressure to get all professorson board with altering whatthey’ve been doing foryears,” Thyne said.

“The one thing I am notworried about is the students… their responses to the de-mands of my course werefantastic, and they will re-spond if we push them hard-er.”

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change people to get newideas, [so] the new people cansee other points that people inpositions cannot see,”Ibrahim said.

Ibrahim urges people tolook beyond what is “underthe microscope,” — his termfor what the media empha-sizes. Even though the gov-ernment is the hot topic, hesaid most of the good inEgypt comes from its peo-ple.

“I believe that everythinggood that happens in Egypthas nothing to do with the

government,” he said. “Justthe normal people do it; notthe government.”

He thinks the unity of theEgyptian people holds the po-tential for change.

“This is the beauty of thisprotest, that it is completelywith no leader,” he said. “Allthe people are agreeing onjust one thing ... they want(Mubarak) out.”

Ibrahim hopes to helppeople here, in the U.S., learnfrom the good of the Egypt-ian people, and he hopes totake back to Egypt what hehas learned here.

“The world should appre-ciate what the Egyptian citi-zens have done becausethey’re doing it peacefully,”Ibrahim said.

He added that Egyptianshave faith in forgiveness andsupport each other whole-heartedly, whether it bethrough charities to help thepoor or simple guidancethrough hard times.

Amid the corruption andbribery rampant in Egypt’scurrent government, he saidthere is much more good un-der the microscope.

“Whatever the media fo-cuses on, it usually gets big,whether it’s good or bad,” hesaid. “All the things I’mtelling you are what keptEgypt surviving throughoutMubarak’s rule.”

El-Maraghi was born inSaudi Arabia and moved toKentucky when he was ninebut has family in Egypt.

He said people have hadto take on security themselves,and that his uncle is takingshifts guarding his street.

“I personally didn’t thinkanything was going to hap-pen,” El-Maraghi said. “Idefinitely support what’s go-ing on right now. I definitelysupport the efforts of thepeople overcoming the op-pression.”

“I would like to be withthe guys in front of theWhite House (and) the em-bassy in New York,” Ibrahimsaid. “I wish that I werethere to join the majority ofEgyptians in their protests.There’s a huge gap betweenthe government and the citi-zens.”

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“This is the beaty of this protest, that it iscompletely with no leader. All the people are agreeingon one thing ... they want (Mubarak) out.

— Ahmed Ibrahim, graduate student in computer science