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The Seaton Center waspacked to the brim this weekendwith athletes from all over thecountry to compete in the 33rdAnnual Bluegrass WheelchairBasketball Tournament.
The competition had athletesbattling for top rankings. Theplayers hit the courts all weekendto survive and advance to thechampionships held on Sunday.
Evelyn Bologna, one of thetournament directors and a UKgraduate, has been helping coor-dinate the event for 31 years.
“My favorite part is to seehow truly great these athletesare,” Bologna said.
The tournament play is morethan just friendly competition,including hard fouls, battles forposition and plenty of trash talk.The men and women competingplay a rough and fast paced gamewith and hard-nosed defense.
Players were routinely bumpedand bruised, but the action wasnever called to a halt from thephysicality, proving the desire ofall those participating.
One of the toughest teams inthis year’s tournament was theChicago Fire, led by its big manPaul Smith. Smith says he hashad a passion for the game sincehis roommate in college intro-duced him to the sport in 1993.
After the Fire won the Divi-sion three tournament by defeat-ing the Austin, Texas, Wreckers,who were ranked seventh in thenation entering the tournament,they were ecstatic with joy.
“We plowed through thesnow to get here and it was defi-nitely worth it,” Smith said. “Thebest teams are here right now,and to be the best you have tobeat the best.”
Adam Pfluger from Texasand 10-year veteran of the teamwas optimistic about his team’sperformance during the tourna-ment despite falling in the cham-pionship round.
“I love this game, and thistournament just makes us hun-gry,” Pflugger said.
This tournament is the lastbig tournament before the finalsin Denver.
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Despite frigid temperatures, about 100people gathered downtown Saturday to showtheir support for Egyptians who have beenprotesting President Hosni Mubarak’s regimein the Middle East.
The rally called for democracy and free-dom of expression for all people, especiallythose participating in anti-government protestsin Egypt.
“The movement in Egypt is a people’smovement,” Noha El-Maraghi, an Egyptiannative and UK journalism graduate, said. “Ithink (the movement) is a common cause thateverybody feels a connection to.”
El-Maraghi organized Saturday’s rally,which started out as a Facebook event andquickly garnered support throughout the com-munity.
“I started out by inviting all of my friendson Facebook, and then it kind of snowballedinto a huge event,” El-Maraghi said.
The rally drew a lively crowd carryingEgyptian flags and signs featuring sloganssuch as “Yes You Can,” and “Walk Like anEgyptian.” Several chanted, “A people unitedwill never be defeated.”
Former Lexington Mayor Teresa Isaacspoke to the assembly outside the FayetteCounty courthouses during the rally.
“We are here today in Lexington to showour support for the people in Egypt to expresstheir views freely,” Isaac said.
Terry Anderson, a former chief MiddleEast correspondent for the Associated Press,also commented on the situation Saturday,praising his colleagues at Al Jazeera for con-tinuing to report on the story in Egypt despitegovernment resistance.
“We have all spent the last 12 days beingamazed by what’s been going on in Cairo,”Anderson said.
El-Maraghi explained that this amazementis what ultimately led her to plan the rally inLexington.
“We wanted to get up and do somethingabout it,” El-Maraghi said.
By Nicole [email protected]
Protestdrawslocals
PHOTO BY BRANDON GOODWIN | STAFFMarriage and family therapy graduate studentFatimah Shalash holds a sign while Noha El-Maraghi spoke to support anti-Mubarak protesters.
PHOTOS BY BRANDON GOODWIN | STAFFDelta Delta Delta sisters performed their Las Vegas-based routine and became Overall Grand Champions inthe 2011 Greek Sing event at Memorial Coliseum Saturday.
It was a night of ‘80s workoutclothes, sequins, bank robbing, brightly-colored leggings, guys dressed in drag— and, of course, dancing. Lots and lotsof dancing.
Delta Delta Delta’s Las Vegas-themed performance took home top hon-ors at this year’s Greek Sing, placingfirst overall and defending its champi-onship from last year.
For fraternities, newcomers BetaTheta Pi placed first with a “SpaceJam”-based routine. Alpha Tau Omega’sblack light tricks earned them secondand Alpha Phi Alpha came in third witha “Hot Tub Time Machine”-inspired act.
Alpha Delta Pi placed first for soror-ities with its magic-themed music and“Harry Potter” character costumes. PiBeta Phi won second place by dressinglike “Toy Story” characters, and third-place Kappa Delta performers represent-ed different popular breakfast cereals.
Members from 28 of UK’s Greekchapters participated in Greek Sing, withhosts Chi Omega sorority and Phi DeltaTheta fraternity performing during inter-mission.
The event raised over $100,000, withproceeds going to the Make-A-WishFoundation. This year, 6-year-old RileySpeck, a heart transplant recipient, will
By Becca [email protected]
GreekSingreaches$100k
See SING on page 2
By Charlie [email protected]
UK hosts wheelchair basketballAnnual Lexington tournament last
major stop before Denver finals
GAINESVILLE, Fla.—Itwas a familiar feeling afterthe game. UK had been herebefore; three times actually:falling behind on the road, adesperate comeback, a too-short finish.
This one was a 70-68 lossto Florida (18-5, 7-2 South-eastern Conference) that leftUK (16-6, 4-4 SEC) search-ing for the balance betweenoptimism about the come-back and disappointmentabout the failed finish.
“We’re getting closer,”head coach John Caliparisaid. “It’s just frustrating notfinishing off the game.”
This time, it was givingup offensive rebounds and
late turnovers that left an or-ange-clad crowd chantingUK off the court.
UK had fought back froman 11-point deficit to cut thelead to one with two minutesleft. Then, two decisi-veshots: Terrence Jones misseda hook shot in the lane, andAlex Tyus made a hook shotin the lane.
Jones made a dunk to cutthe lead to one, leaving aneight-second differential be-tween the shot clock andgame clock. Doron Lambfouled Chandler Parsons with11 seconds left, and Parsonsmade one of two free throws.
That set up a final posses-sion for UK. BrandonKnight, coming off a ballscreen, shot a three-pointer
that clanged off the front ofthe rim.
“Normally, down two wewant something at the rim,”Calipari said. “There were nocalls, so we were not going togo in there. Terrence went inthere three times and we gotnothing. So our best bet wasgoing through Brandon. Hegot a great look.”
The last play was de-signed for Knight, and right-fully so. He had carried UKback from the deficit. Knightfinished with 24 points, five
rebounds and four assists.“Brandon willed us to
that score,” Calipari said. “Hewilled us. … When we gothim going, I told the teamwe’re playing through Bran-don.”
Knight also had fourturnovers, including a costlyone where Florida’s KennyBoynton drained a three sec-onds after missing one. Cali-pari called it one of the criti-cal plays in the game.
UK had fought back fromthe deficit by throwing a zonedefense at Florida that tookthe Gators out of theirrhythm. But the zone left agap once a shot went up,which Chandler Parsons ex-ploited twice in grabbing of-fensive rebounds from theweak side. Parsons finishedwith 17 points and 12 re-bounds.
By Aaron [email protected]
UK loses in familiar fashion
See BBALL on page 4
Florida tops UK in final minutesin Gainesville, 70-68
PHOTO BY LATARA APPLEBY | STAFFTerrence Jones driving the ball against Patric Young at theStephen C. O’Connell Center in Gainesville on Saturday.
“We’re getting closer.It’s just frustrating not
finishing off the game.”JOHN CALIPARI
UK head coach
UK graduate organizes
anti-Mubarak rally
“The best teams are here right now, and to be the best you
have to beat the best.—Paul Smith, tournament participant
Kappa Alpha Theta sisters dressed as telephone operators perform their act “Calling AllThetas.”
A group of students arereaching a milestone no oneelse in their families has:completion of their first se-mester as a college student.
The First Scholars Pro-gram provides a holistic arrayof resources including men-toring, support programs, ac-tivities and scholarships forstudents whose parents didnot attend college, Director ofthe First Scholars ProgramMatthew Deffendall said.
Currently, there are 20scholars in the program, andthe program is accepting 20more for next fall.
One of the scholars isBrandy Denton, a first gener-ation student who is studyingspecial education for moder-ate and severe disabilities.
“A lot of people view firstgen (students) as having une-ducated parents, but my par-ents are educated. They justdidn’t go to college,” Dentonsaid.
Denton said that her par-ents have been supportive ofher going to college, and thather motivation to get a degreestarted when she worked withstudents with disabilities dur-ing her senior year of highschool.
Students in the FirstScholars Program receive a$5,000 scholarship, as wellas peer and faculty mentorsand tutoring. Scholars partic-ipate in service projects,workshops and retreats, andthey develop an individual-ized strategic plan to gradu-ate in four years, Deffendallsaid.
“They will map out a
step-by-step process of whatis going to happen over thenext three years … it’s aroadmap to work from andguide them,” Deffendallsaid.
Denton said that throughthe program, she has met a lotof people and has been pro-vided with many resourcesand opportunities.
Another scholar in the
program, Tony Kao, said thatthe program has given himpeople with whom he can re-late and who are in the sameposition as him.
Kao, a pre-mechanicalengineering major, said thathis main motivation for com-ing to college has been hisparents.
“They’ve done a lot forme, so doing my best in col-lege is the least I can do tomake it up to them,” Kaosaid.
Kao said that workingwith Deffendall has made hisadjustment to college lifemuch easier, but he said hisadjustment has not been thatdifficult because he is closeto home and came to schoolwith a lot of friends.
The First Scholars Pro-gram was started in 2009when UK received a grant
from the Suder Foundation inTexas to create a program tothat focuses on first genera-tion student success. UK wasone of the two universitieschosen out of 54 applicants,Deffendall said.
Deffendall said that oneof the reasons UK was select-ed was because of the exist-ing resources already offeredto students.
The first phase of the$1.1 million grant was to planand organize the program,and now it has moved intothe operational grant for thenext five years, Deffendallsaid.
The average first semesterGPA of the students in theFirst Scholars Program lastfall was 3.1 compared to theaverage UK student GPA of2.75, Deffendall said.
Deffendall said based on
the scholars’ success, he hashope for other UK studentsand that this type of supportcould help improve the over-all retention and graduationrate for UK.
“What makes me mostproud is the students we se-lected are your average UKstudent … because of re-sources and support we seethat additional interventioncan have an impact on studentsuccess,” Deffendall said.
Deffendall said he hopesto one day be able to reachout to all first generation stu-dents at UK.
“I want every first gener-ation (student) in Kentuckyto know that UK is the placefor them because we under-stand, we will support youand we will help you changeyour family tree,” Deffendallsaid.
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get his wish granted — a tripto Atlantis Resort in the Ba-hamas. Riley thanked the au-dience on stage during theshow’s intermission.
“What we’re doingtonight is everything I loveabout being Greek and work-ing with Greeks,” ProfessorAlan DeSantis, the master ofceremonies, said to thecrowd.
UK women’s basketballhead coach Matthew Mitchell
also spoke during intermis-sion about the team’s gametonight versus Tennessee.
Champions Delta DeltaDelta integrated Vegasdancers, card dealers,Siegfried & Roy tigers and anElvis impersonator into itsroutine.
Popular themes of thenight’s performances includedtelevision shows, internetvideos and boys dancing topopular female anthems, suchas “Girls Just Want to HaveFun,” “It’s Raining Men” and“Single Ladies (Put a Ring onIt).”
SINGContinued from page 1
PHOTO BY BRANDON GOODWIN | STAFFFIJI fraternity brothers throw powder in the air at the beginning of their performance, titled “StrangerDanger.”
kernel. we do it daily.
By Rachel [email protected]
Program helps students achieve major milestone
“(My parents have)done a lot for me, so
going to college is theleast I can do to make
it up to them.”TONY KAO
First-year scholar
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You might find yourselfknee-deep in a relationshipthat is severed by conflictingschedules, communicationchallenges and maybe eventime zone differences duringcollege.
“Missing You: How toMake Long Distance Rela-tionships Work” is a speciallecture featuring Dr. LauraStafford, professor of com-munications at UK.
Cat’s Den concert coordi-nator Cece Simandl, whoseboyfriend is considering tak-ing an internship in Nashvillebeginning this summer andlasting at least six months isone student facing a long-dis-tance relationship.
“Dr. Stafford's lecturecould provide me with somevery valuable and helpful in-formation,” Simandl said.
“We have seen each otherpractically every day since webegan dating. It's weird whenI go one day without seeinghim, and trying to imaginehalf a year, potentially more,is difficult.”
Stafford stressed that it is
not about prolonging a rela-tionship; it’s about askingyourself the right questions.
“People are often focusedon maintaining their relation-ship and sometimes forget tofigure out if that person isright for them,”Stafford said.
College students involvedin long-distance relationshipsare becoming more commondue to professional commit-ments, education and militarydeployment, Stafford said.
She said distance can bechallenging, whether your re-lationship partner has movedto the opposite side of theglobe or if all the factors oftwo conflicting lifestyles keepyou separated, despite livingon the same campus.
“The first thing we haveto remember, whether it’slong distance or proximal, isthe fundamentals,,” Staffordsaid.
Stafford pointed out thesignificance of sharing thesame fundamental values andbeliefs, assuming that you’relooking for a life partner.
“We date for fun, we datefor recreation and that’s OK,”Stafford said. “If you are tothe point in your life where
you’re looking for a life part-ner, you want to get to reallyknow who the other personis.”
Stafford hopes anyonewho is searching for a life-long partner and those willingto ask themselves prudentquestions will attend her lec-ture.
Hannah Sloan, the eventcoordinator for the Cat’s Denencouraged students to bringtheir relational questions like“How do we transition thisrelationship from where weare now to the future?” toStafford, no matter wherethey stand.
Sloan stressed that all stu-dents were welcome “whetherthey’re in a long distance re-lationship or not.”
She said students can alsotake advantage of the freepopcorn in the Cat’s Den,where the lecture is located.
By Corey [email protected]
Long-distance love lecture
If you goWhat: “Missing You” lectureWhen: Monday at 7 p.m.Where: Cat’s Den
With winter comes freez-ing temperatures, piles ofsnow and horrible road condi-tions. Yet, besides the weath-er, winter brings anotherproblem: illness — specifical-ly, the flu.
“The flu is one of thebiggest problems we see,”Chief of Clinical Medicinefrom UK University HealthService Ann Hays said.
Because of the severity ofthe flu, it needs to be closelymonitored, Hays said. It is aperennial issue that is the fo-cus of medical efforts everywinter.
The flu has few perma-nent threats, but it causes sickstudents to miss countlesshours of class every winter.
Though less brutal than otherillnesses, the flu is a large is-sue due to its persistent symp-toms and high infectivity.
“Recently, I have noticeda great number of studentsmissing in all of my classesand even just walking aroundcampus,” undeclared fresh-man Kyler Brooks said.
UHS encourages studentsthis winter to minimize thespread of germs and keep asmany people healthy as possi-ble. However, UHS will treatanyone with the flu — or anyother sickness — once an ap-pointment is scheduled. Inyears past, the winter flu sea-son has been a busy time ofthe year for medical person-nel. There are always morestudents needing medical at-tention during wintertime,leaving UHS in a hectic posi-
tion. Last year’s H1N1 viruscrisis saw UHS scrambling totreat all of the sick students.
“We had to cancel staffmeetings and shorten patientappointments to see all of ourpatients,” Hays said.
Precautionary measurescan be taken, and flu shots areavailable. The cost is $10with a student ID and $20 foranyone else. In order to get ashot, one must make an ap-pointment.
Appointments can bemade by calling 859-323-APPT, or 859-323-2778.Medical advice from a pro-fessional is given at 859-323-INFO, or 859-323-4636.UHS is located at 830 S.Limestone, next to KentuckyClinic and The WethingtonBuilding, across from Speed-way and Shell gas stations.
By Hayes [email protected]
Flu season ails students, doctors
The University of Ken-tucky women’s basketballteam won’t worry aboutstreaks when No. 5 Tennessee(21-2, 9-0 Southeastern Con-ference) comes to town.
The No. 17 Cats (18-4, 7-2 SEC) will put aside theirseven game winning streakand a rare home winningstreak against Tennessee be-cause UK head coachMatthew Mitchell says theteam is focused on raising itslevel of play and not dwellingon the past.
“For us, every time we
take the floor in the SECthere are three things youhave to do,” Mitchell said.“With Tennessee and the tal-ent they have and fire powerthey have you have to raiseyour level a little bit and seewhat you can do.”
Mitchell suggested thatthere is never a great time toplay Tennessee, but if therewas a right time it would benow.
After losing three straightgames to start the 2011 cam-paign, the Cats are playing aswell as any team in confer-ence.
In UK’s most recent win-
ning streak, UK hasoutscored its opponents by 13points per game, and thatmargin swells to nearly 18 inUK’s home games.
But those stats are child’splay when you look at Ten-nessee’s numbers. The Volshave won 12 straight gamesheading into Memorial Coli-seum. Tennessee is used towinning on the road. Four ofTennessee’s last six gameshave been on the road, and inall four of those road wins noteam has come within 15points of the Vols.
While both teams areplaying hot, Mitchell’s focal
point is on three aspects thatthe Cats must master in orderto move within a game of theSEC lead.
The three phases are win-ning 50/50 plays, reboundingand the turnover battle.
Mitchell suggests the50/50 play is nothing the Catscan specifically work on, butwhen it comes to reboundingMitchell knows he is facing atough test.
“It takes a lot of hardwork to rebound in thisleague and to win that battleon the boards, and Tennesseeis probably without a doubtone of the most powerful re-bounding teams in the coun-try, and certainly statisticallythe best team in our league,”Mitchell said. “Reboundingwill be a huge part of thegame.”
UK’s lack of size has
been problematic, but in itslast six games UK has onlybeen out rebounded once.
While UK doesn’t alwaysexcel in rebounding, it doesin the turnover department. Inthe Cats’ most recent outingagainst Auburn, UK forced26 turnovers.
“The third area is theturnover battle. Can yousomehow find the way tohave the discipline on offenseto take care of it and on de-fense to play hard enough andhave the discipline to carryout your assignment and turnthe other team over?”Mitchell said.
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A trip to the Johnson Center is a surrealexperience.
First, you walk through those turnstiles.Turnstiles always make you feel more like amember of a stampede than a woman look-ing for a workout.
Next, everyone seems to be staring.Granted, we tend to zone out staring at eachother on the way to classes as well. TheJohnson Center is different, though—staresare taken to the next level.
I’m not just talking about the creepymeat-market stares that are present in everygym. There are also the calculating staresfrom girls sizing you up (we do it too),queasy stares from people stunned by thewhite glare of pale legs and the stares of peo-ple trying to figure out if that sweaty, red-faced person running across them is thesame put-together person from their class.
Once you pass the initial gauntlet ofstares, you get to select your workout ma-chine of choice. The Johnson Center set-upcontributes to the growing surreal experi-ence. Think about it. There is a gallery ofgirls plugging away on treadmills and ellipti-cals overlooking a pit of men. Odd.
A few girls venture into the pit, but thosegirls who stick to the gallery have a fewviewing options: 1. You can look into the pitof iron and sweating men (They might alsobe looking up at you, though, and this is in-credibly awkward. Smile? Frown? What’sprotocol here? You are running) 2. Watch therock wall (This feels cruel. I mean, theclimbers have their rears extruded through aharness). 3. Read a magazine (Warning! Thiscan be disorienting. You can totally fall off ofthe treadmill if you are doing anything fasterthan an 8 minute mile… not that I’ve fallenoff personally). 4. Stare into space.
When you are done burning off half ofyour daily ration of chocolate, you head tothe locker room. I don’t know what themen’s locker room is like, but the women’sboasts the largest scale I’ve ever seen. In caseyou don’t feel enough like of piece of meatafter the gauntlet of stares, you can weighyourself on a scale that was clearly designedfor livestock. Seriously. Five girls couldstand on that thing.
On your way out, you can wave at thelive webcam. Yes, there is a webcam watch-ing you while you workout. Am I the onlyperson who finds this troubling?
All of this isn’t to discourage you fromworking out. My trip to the Johnson Center isthe best part of my day—but even the work-out-lover can see the surreal aspects of burn-ing calories in an artificial environment.
It just gives us a reason to look forwardto spring—when we can run outside withoutgetting frostbite.
Guys are always hanging out at the gym,and for the most part, they actually work outfor reasons one would expect — to get in orstay in shape, maybe even play a little ball.
Unfortunately there are still the few whogo to see themselves from new angles in themirrors and others who go to ogle the ladiesupstairs (thanks to the conveniently placedwall clock, right?). But the greater issue, as Isee it, lies all too exposed within the lockerrooms.
Now before we delve into this dilemma,let me first say that I’m all for a midday gymsession, and fully understand that a showerafter is sincerely appreciated. I even under-stand that it’s generally impractical andwholly irresponsible to take your freshchange of clothes into the showers with you.All I’m asking for is the consideration ofhanging some fresh undies over the rail orsomething, just to spare the rest of us whileyou’re walking back to the locker.
I don’t know how many times I’ve beenbent over to lace up my shoes only to lookback up afterwards and see that the moon hasbroken through the clouds a little early, orsometimes even worse. It’s just not cool atall.
There are ways around these issues. wejust have to be willing to make the change.Briefly, this is what I propose:
For the mirror-staring type.The easiest solution here would be to dis-
allow cutoffs, though I know this would nev-er happen. Instead, I should like to entertainthe idea of taking all but one mirror sheet outof each section. I can only imagine the hilar-ity in 15 guys piling on top of one another toget a quick flex in.
For the staring type:Lady-ogling is no good. There’s really
nothing I can do about this one. Sorry ladies.Do keep showing up though. It’s certainlyappreciated outside the gym as well.
For those who go full-frontal in the lock-er rooms:
My goodness, this one should be bannedaltogether. I don’t even know where to startfor fear of some old man calling me a sissy,but something’s got to give. Maybe we splitthe room right down the middle. Let thosethat like to bare all have one side, and thosewho prefer to get buff rather than be in it tothe other.
The gym-goer population has been grow-ing a lot as of late, and we should always bewelcoming of potential clientele, but weshould also look to protect the innocent.Some of those kids never even saw it com-ing.
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“With Tennessee ...you have to raise your
level a little bit and seewhat you can do.”
MATTHEW MITCHELLUK women’s head coach
“Those two reboundswere huge,” Calipari said,“and he was on both ofthem.”
That’s the tradeoff with azone defense. Players don’thave a specific man assignedto box out, so it’s easier tolose track of a player and letthem slip in.
“But when the game’s onthe line, you have to know
you want the ball more thanthe other team,” Jones said.
It’s those types of playsthat Calipari was lamentingafter the game.
“You did everythingright. You did all the come-backing,” Calipari said, “and
that’s how you’re gonna lose?That’s where you say it’s un-acceptable.”
The repititious script hasboth Calipari and the playersfrustrated.
“I think they’re tired ofthe finishes,” Calipari said.
BBALLContinued from page 1
By T.J. [email protected]
UK Hoops prepares for rival Tennessee Lady Vols
GAINESVILLE, Fla.—Step one: Fall victim to adouble-figure deficit. Step
two: Slowlychip awayinto leadwith clutchplays fromfreshmen.Step three:Come upshort incomebackeffort send-ing a hostileroad crowdinto hyster-ics.
This is the three-stepprocess that the UK men’sbasketball team has used dur-ing all four of its Southeast-
ern Conference road losses,and it failed to break this cy-cle Saturday night in a 70-68loss against No. 23 Florida;freshman guard BrandonKnight missed a potentialgame winning 3-pointer astime expired.
UK erased a 13-pointdeficit with a 17-3 run thanksto inspired play from fresh-man forward Terrence Jonesand Knight over a roughlysix-minute span in the sec-ond half. Two missed re-bounds snagged by Floridaforward Chandler Parsonsand a turnover from Knightin the backcourt that resultedin a Florida 3-pointer is whatUK head coach John Cali-pari, Jones and Knight point-
ed to as the difference in thegame.
“They deserved to winthe way we played, we gaveourselves a chance, but Ithink (we)’re getting tired ofthe finishes,” Calipari said.“We just played four out offive games on the road andwith this young team it’s justhard — every game is awhite-out, red-out, orange-out, black-out, something’shappening, and it’s sold out.”
After all, it shouldn’t besurprising that a crowd of12,633, an O’Connell Centerrecord, wearing “Rowdy Rep-tile” T-shirts and ecstatic forESPN College GameDay fes-tivities on campus createdsome difficulties for one of itsmost bitter SEC East rivals
and thus, a higher likelihoodfor error; however, when mul-tiple games are lost becauseof self-inflicted mistakes,chalking the loss up to poorluck or a multitude of excusesis no longer an option.
Calipari has previously-said that every away game isthe other team’s Super Bowl,but that can’t be used an ex-cuse for not winning gameson the road that could (andsome will argue, myself in-cluded, should) have beenwon. If anything, the teamshould be getting accustomedto facing these hostilecrowds.
“I feel like it should mo-tivate us, just to know thatevery team we’re playing isselling out,” Knight said. “I
think we should take it as acompliment to know thatthey want to see the joy outof seeing us lose.”
With such a short bench,maybe the fatigue factor ismore important than the row-dy roads fans then?
“You can be fatigued andtired after the game,” saidJones, who refused to attrib-ute his team’s falter down thestretch to playing too manyminutes in essentially a six-man rotation.
What about finding thesilver lining in all these dev-astating away losses, that’s apositive, right?
“If you don’t come upwith the win, that’s the mostimportant thing no matter
how you played or how yourteammates played,” Knightsaid. “So I don’t feel verygood right now.”
The Cats refuse to makeexcuses in explaining theirroad losses, yet always resortto continuing to repeat thethree-step process.
The best news for UK,which ironically has the mostwins in the SEC away fromhome (50) since 2000 to takefrom all their road lumps isthat the toughest stretch ofroad games this year is fin-ished.
“Finally we get somehome games,” Calipari said.
But, eventually, UK willbe forced to win away fromhome.
3-step process quells Cats’ comeback on the road again
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On Dec. 30, I departed Cairo, Egypt, af-ter spending four months studying abroadthere. On Jan. 25, less than a month later,
Cairo erupted in a series ofdemonstrations and protestsagainst the governmentalsystem in Egypt and thecountry’s political Sphinx,the 30-year president, HosniMubarak.
In my November Kernelcolumn, I predicted, “Aself-generated movementfor democracy, not imposedfrom the outside, harnessingthe power of new commu-nication technologies and
Egypt’s large youth population to protest thegovernment will eventually effect change.”
While this prediction certainly seems tohold true in light of recent events, if anyonehad asked me if Egypt would erupt in popu-lar revolt less than a month after I left, Icould have never agreed to such a drasticstatement. Yet, here we are.
We are witnessing a grassroots move-ment initially organized online, through so-cial media, and using other new communica-tion technologies, such as mobile phones, fora fair governmental system. Egyptians aretaking their futures into their own hands, as-serting a right to self-determination rarelyseen in their society. They are fighting forpolitical and social freedom, and they aredying for a chance at democracy.
This movement is significant and differ-ent from past protests for its ability to uniteall of Egypt’s varied opposition movementsand parties together without a clear leader.Such is the power of online social media:enabled to mobilize and organize like neverbefore, these protests quickly grew fromFacebook events organized by the youth toreal world marches with the vast support ofthe Egyptian people.
Outside of the catalyzing effects of thesenew technologies, a confluence of events led
to demonstrations of this magnitude beingpossible at this moment. The Egyptian peo-ple were on edge, and aghast, at the series ofchurch bombings and attacks on Christiansin the previous weeks. Then, following thecollapse of the government of Tunisia afterpopular protests were organized online,Egyptians found themselves emboldened andinspired to attempt a similar ousting of theirpresident.
When the protests began, I stayed in con-stant communication with my friends atCairo University through Facebook. Onefriend told me, “People here are demonstrat-ing against our government and president invery huge numbers in order to change thewhole regime in Egypt,” and another toldme, “We are protesting for the sake of liber-ty and freedom and we do not want thispresident and we do not want this totalitarianregime.”
Within a day, the messages had changedslightly to a more sober tone: “People arestill standing here, thank God, in spite of theaggressive police attacks.”
In one of the most insidious moves ofthe Egyptian government to date, my friendsin Cairo suddenly found themselves with nomeans to communicate. The government, re-sponding to the protests continuing to be or-ganized online, simply shut off the Internet(and mobile phone services too, for goodmeasure). For a week, there was a blackoutof any information coming from my contactsin Cairo. Then, on the morning of Feb. 2, af-ter the people had achieved substantive con-cessions from Mubarak, I woke up to thefollowing message, “Well, we did it :) That’sall that I can say!”
I can’t overemphasize how empoweringthis movement is for a people who havebeen repressed and kept under oppressiveemergency laws for the past 30 years. Norcan I overstate the outright hatred forMubarak and the government system overallwhen speaking with average Egyptians.
For years, the United States operated
with a goal of spreading freedom anddemocracy throughout the world, especiallyin the Middle East. Well, this is how weshould do it: by supporting people desiringfreedom and standing behind an organicmovement for democracy. We must continueto support voices of political moderation andcontinue to empower all people in this re-gion to reach their potential.
Our government, nevertheless, has beenrather timid in its response to this uprising,seeking to cling to Mubarak as an ally in theregion (an ally to which we give $2 billionin taxpayer money every year to agree withus), although this timidity has morphed intostronger support for the Egyptian peopleover time. Realize, though, that U.S. supportof Mubarak and similar regimes engendersthe very extremism we are seeking to eradi-cate. The U.S. policy of authoritarian stabili-ty has been advantageous to U.S. interests,and fittingly, American policymakers remainfrozen in their fear that political change willbring instability, which may place U.S. inter-ests in jeopardy.
But for those who champion stability,how stable has the region been recently?When some claim that supporting Mubarakis in our national security interests becausehe is an ally in the region, they are playingto our worst instincts and fear mongeringbased on assumptions that are simply un-founded in reality. They also are forgettingthat Mubarak’s rule in Egypt begets the frus-trations and economic, political and socialconditions that produce extremism and ter-rorism. Poor and frustrated, some in Egyptseek refuge in an extreme version of Islamthat advocates violent acts against the West.Therefore, those who continue to supportMubarak's regime not only loose their moraland ethical legitimacy but also are advocat-ing for conditions directly counter to the na-tional security interests of the U.S.
Lastly, perhaps the event with the great-est long-term promise was Mohamed ElBa-radei’s return to Egypt in the midst of the
protests. I wrote briefly about ElBaradei’spotential to lead a new Egyptian wave ofdemocracy in my previous article, but I havealso been critical of him for operating large-ly outside of Egypt, only interacting withnormal Egyptians through online social me-dia — rarely in person, on the street.
Nevertheless, he was an electrifyingpresence when he arrived, and he served asone central figurehead uniting all the variousmovements and parties engaging in protestsin opposition to the regime. Even the Mus-lim Brotherhood has shown a willingness tounite with ElBaradei in democracy, as it didwith ElBaradei’s call to boycott the parlia-mentary election I witnessed while in Egypt.This spontaneously generated oppositionmovement, one not predicated on religion, iscalling for a true democratic revolution inEgypt, and it seems to be earning the supportof a wide variety of societal actors in Egypt,a promising sign for its stability in the fu-ture.
Since Jan. 25, the world has been in-spired by hope and passion in Cairo, and ithas borne witness to the expression of a furythat has smoldered under the surface ofEgyptian society for decades. The U.S., andeach of us, must find ourselves supportingthe Egyptian people as they throw off thevestiges of an oppressive dictatorship anddisplay commendable courage in the face ofgovernment thugs on horses and the army, intanks, deployed against its own people. Thehundreds of thousands of people who gatherin Tahrir Square each day in Cairo simply areseeking the same opportunities and freedomsthat we enjoy in a free and open society.
Who are we as a people if we do notsupport our fellow man and woman as theymove past years of disrespect, no opportuni-ties, and humiliation; grasp, head-on, abrighter, more hopeful future; and awakeneach day to more promising lives?
James Chapman is an international stud-ies and political science senior. E-mail [email protected].
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