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Wildcat Service Dogs isan on-campus organizationwhere college students raiseand train service dogs for theCollegiate Canines of Ameri-ca.
Students take the dogswith them everywhere for upto two years and teach themthe behaviors they will needto help future owners.
“(Miles) will jump up andhit the handicap button withhis nose,” said animal sciencesophomore Katie McKenzie.
Another service dog,
Rory, will hit the button withher paw and has learned toclose doors and the fridge, an-imal science sophomore Jen-nifer Lyons said.
These students have hadtheir dogs for about fourmonths and have taught thedogs basic commands such assit, down-stay and heel.
According to McKenzie,heel is one of the most impor-tant; the dogs need to know toalways be on their owner’sleft side, with or without aleash so their owners alwaysknow where their dogs are.
Helpful hounds
See SERVICE DOGS on page 2
Service dogs being trained to help future owners
PHOTO BY TESSA LIGHTY | STAFFMiller, a service dog, sits below Joseph De Cruz’s desk on Sept. 26.
PHOTO COURTSEY OF JOSEPH DE CRUZ
Miller and De Cruz meet for the first time.
Smith needssurgery, outindefinitely
UK head football coach Joker Phillips announcedMonday that starting quarterback Maxwell Smith tore aligament in his left ankle in Saturday’s game againstSouth Carolina that will require surgery.
Phillips and Smith saw the sophomore’s MRI Mon-day morning and confirmed that the injury will forceSmith to miss significant time for the Cats, possibly theremainder of the season. As of now, Phillips said Smithwill be out indefinitely. Should Smith be sidelined forUK’s final seven games, Phillips said the team would ap-ply for a medical redshirt that would not force Smith touse a year of eligibility for this season.
Smith injured his ankle on the second play of thegame last week and did not return. He was returning tothe lineup after missing UK’s previous game againstFlorida with a separated throwing shoulder.
Through three games and two plays against theGamecocks, Smith was 103-150 passing for 975 yards,eight touchdowns and four interceptions. At the time ofhis injury, Smith’s 322 passing yards per game was bestin the SEC.
“He’s worked his tail off to get in position to playmajor college football,” Phillips said. “He was a guywho wasn’t signed until March of his senior year, so ob-viously he is down because of how hard he has worked.”
Replacing Smith at quarterback for the Cats will bethe tandem of freshmen Jalen Whitlow and PatrickTowles.
Whitlow replaced Smith against South Carolina fol-lowing his injury, for the first significant playing time ofhis career. Whitlow was 12-23 for 114 yards and a rush-ing touchdown against the Gamecocks, which includedtwo second-half interceptions.
Towles, UK’s top quarterback recruit from HighlandsHigh School in Fort Thomas, Ky., has sat with a redshirtthis season, but Phillips confirmed Monday that hewould remove Towles’ redshirt due to a lack of depth atthe position. Towles has never taken a snap at the colle-giate level and has spent much of his freshman seasonrunning UK’s scout team in practice.
Whitlow was recruited to UK as an athlete and canrun in space as well as he can throw the ball. Whitlow
By Ethan Levine
See SMITH on page 4
By Colleen Kochensparger
ESPNU reports that An-drew and Aaron Harrison willreveal where they will playcollege basketball this com-ing Thursday.
The network began run-ning promos Monday that an-nounced the twins will revealtheir choice between South-ern Methodist University,Maryland and UK on “Re-cruiting Nation,” which startsat 5 p.m.
After the news broke, An-drew Harrison confirmed thenews via Twitter.
“Thursday will be thetoughest decision I ever had tomake but I’m looking forwardto it,” he said on his Twitteraccount, @DrewRoc5.
In an exclusive interviewwith the Kernel in August,the brothers declared theyplanned to announce on Oct.29. The reason behind theirdecision to bring that dateforward was not known at thetime of publication.
Maryland and UK havebeen labeled as favorites toland the duo, who are toutedas the strongest package dealin recruiting history, al-though Aaron Harrison Sr.told the Kernel in Septemberthat SMU was still in therunning.
“We would have taken(SMU) off the list, but theyare definitely a contender,” hesaid.
Mounting media interestin recent weeks may have trig-gered the decision to bring the
announcement date forward.The twins have family in
the Baltimore area, whichhas been one contributingfactor to recent speculativereports, one of which theirfather confirmed as beingfalse.
Harrison Sr. told Jeff Er-mann of InsideMDSports.comthat a report suggesting thetwins wanted to commit toUK whereas their father waskeen on them playing at Mary-land was not true.
The twins will become the
first of the top five rankedplayers in the 2013 class to an-nounce their choice of school.
If they reveal their com-mitment to UK on Thursday,they will become the secondand third commits of the2013 class.
Derek Willis, a 6-foot-8,190-pound forward out ofMt. Washington, Ky., accept-ed John Calipari’s first schol-arship offer of the class inJanuary.
Willis told the Kernel inAugust he thought the Har-
risons were “definite” UKcommits.
But, when asked Mondaynight how he felt about theirThursday night announcment,Willis wasn’t as sure. “I’mjust as anxious as you are,”he said.
“Hopefully they commit,”he added. “(It) would be agreat pickup.”
You can read Willis’thoughts on the twins’ an-nouncement Friday in thelatest installment of his diaryseries.
By Tom Hurley & Nick Jones
Harrison twins to announce college choice Thursday
Many citizens have al-ready made the journey totheir precinct polls to voteacross America.
Tuesday, citizens in 32states are able to vote early.For the rest of the electorate,
however, the wait until Nov.6 continues. The next bigevent in the 2012 Presidentialelection will take place at 9p.m. Wednesday.
Many members of theBig Blue Nation look forwardto hearing about what’s mostimportant to them during thiselection cycle.
Education senior NeelyGrubbs understands why itis so vital to vote and pay at-tention to presidential de-bates.
“I think it’s important forpeople to hear the candidatesso they know what’s goingon in world, and so they canmake the right decision
when their voting,” she said.The future teacher is ea-
ger to hear President BarackObama and former Gov. MittRomney voice their views oneducation.
“I would like to hear thetopic of education discussedto see who has the best ideasfor students and teachers.”
Grubbs believes con-stituents should hold true totheir civic duty and tune into the debates.
“I think it’s important forpeople to vote. I think theyshould know who they’revoting for and what theystand for,” she said.
Although it will be
Grubbs’ first time voting,senior Samantha Heiskelllooks forward to watchingthe debates so she can be in-formed when she votes forher second time.
“Last election I didwatch the debates. I don’tknow who I’m voting for
By Chase Sanders
Presidential debate could be crucial to Nov. 6 outcome
See DEBATE on page 2
True freshman Towles’ redshirt will be lifted
PAGE 2 | Tuesday, October 2, 2012
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These trainers have hadanimal experience in the pastand agree that Wildcat Serv-ice Dogs is one of the bestexperiences they’ve had withanimals.
“I love how the programis so friendly and accept-able,” said family sciencesophomore Joseph De Cruz.“It is so supportive from thevery beginning.”
The dogs are with thesethree students 24 hours a day,seven days a week, in order tobecome used to crowded sur-roundings, busy streets anduniversity life.
They have to adjust topeople constantly moving
around them and how to re-main calm in a down-stayposition even when peoplewalk by without petting them,McKenzie said.
The public isn’t supposedto pet these dogs while they’reworking—at least, not withoutasking.
Lyons often takes this op-portunity to inform peopleabout the program and tellthem that it’s acceptable topet the dogs if the dogs stayin the sit command becausecurrently they’re just in train-ing. When the training dogsare out with their owners laterin life, passers-by need to al-ways ask before disturbingthe dogs on duty.
De Cruz, Lyons andMcKenzie agree that they’vehad varying responses from
people as they walk aroundLexington with their dogs.
“Today someone asked meif I was epileptic,” Lyons said.
“I’ve had someone tellme ‘Oh, I should get a vestfor my dog so I can bring himinto Target, too!’ ” McKenziesaid.
And then the studentsmust explain that the dogs areon duty and are being trainedto assist people in need.
The students joined theprogram for varying reasons.
“I have a neurological dis-order myself, a brain tumor,and Miles is really sensitive tothat, when I have an attackhe’ll come up and whine. Heis very supportive when it oc-curs in public,” McKenziesaid.
And Rory is already good
with kids, Lyons said. Lyons described the time
a little girl was screaming inher mother’s arms, and Lyonstold the mother that the girlcould pet Rory; Rory lickedthe girl’s face and she imme-diately stopped crying.
“Her whole face just lit up.It was great,” she said.
De Cruz’s dog, Miller, isnamed for former UK basket-bell player Darius Miller andhas been learning the basiccommands of “normal,” dogslike sitting and the more spe-cific basic commands for serv-ice dogs such as “go touch.”
The dogs learn positivereinforcement via a clicker; the students can click after agood behavior and then givethe dog a treat. Eventually thetreats subside, but the stu-
dents click after the dog doessomething helpful or correct,and that ends up being a re-ward in itself to the dogs—the clicker sound meansthey’ve earned the approvalof their trainers.
The dogs don’t have per-manent owners decided forthem yet and they haven’tbeen learning any commandsspecific to their owners,which will differ dependingon the owner’s needs. KatieSkarvan, founder of WildcatService Dogs and AnnaMynchenberg, have alreadybeen talking to potential can-didates.
The students will eventu-ally get to meet the personthey’ll be passing the dogsoff too, but the dogs still havea lot to learn before that day
comes. In the meantime, thestudents can enjoy the hardwork and rewards that comewith training these dogs tohelp real people.
“I was really involved inhigh school and knew I want-ed to be involved in college,”McKenzie said “It’s definite-ly my passion.”
De Cruz said the pro-gram accepts only four train-ers each time out of the 20or so students who take theinitial course, but it’s worthit to be a part of the pro-gram.
“It’s like family,” DeCruz said.
“They try to match youwith a dog based on person-ality,” Lyons said. “It’s a lotof work, but it’s really worthit.
SERVICE DOGSContinued from page 1
yet.” “If you’re going to com-
ment on anything that thegovernment is involved with,then it makes more sense foryou to at least be an informedvoter,” she said.
Heiskell looks forward toseeing what the candidateswill do during their term inoffice as it pertains to healthcare.
“Health care is definitelyimportant to me. I knowthey’re trying to improve it
any way they can, but it isstill a pretty controversial top-ic, and I want to see how ourgovernment is going to dealwith that down the road,” shesaid.
She encourages first-timevoters to watch debates aswell, because of the informa-tion that the candidates pres-ent about themselves.
“Last time watching thedebates was a big deal forme. It was about staying fo-cused and caught up on theinformation so I could make areal choice instead of relyingon my parents,” Heiskell said.
Unlike Heiskell, art edu-
cation senior Janine Parkin-son is a newcomer to theAmerican electorate. “I havenot voted before in any elec-tion. This is the first electionthat I’m able to vote in,” shesaid.
As a student and aspiringteacher, she wants to hearwhat Obama and Romneywill say about education.
“Education is definitelyan important issue to me. Alot of schools are taking artprograms out of their curricu-lum,” Parkinson said. “Thereshould be more funding forthe arts for the sake of stu-dents and teachers.”
Parkinson wants to see acandidate that can appreciatethe arts for how importantthey are to students.
“Not only does art helpwith creativity. It helps stu-dents be innovative, creativeand think outside the box,”she said.
She still has time to makeup her mind like the rest ofAmericans who will be vot-ing.
According to the latestUSA Today/ Gallup poll onein five voters still haven’tmade up their minds or maystill change their mind aboutwho they’re voting for.
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Daniel Barnz’s “Won’t Back Down” at-tempts to depict an inspirational story of ateacher (Viola Davis) and a mother (MaggieGyllenhaal) who band together and create amovement to take over and save a failing in-ner-city elementary school.
The villain is the teachers’ union, shown inmany forms. There’s the mean second-gradeteacher who’s on her iPhone during class and iswhispered to have “the highest salary and thelowest job performance.” There’s the union of-ficial who says, “All we want is for teachers tobe well-paid and secure in their jobs” (nevermind the kids), and another who tries to bribeGyllenhaal’s character into giving up her cru-sade. There’s a scene in which teachers, in ameeting to discuss the crisis of education intheir school, seem mostly concerned with theirpay; and a climactic, crowded school-boardmeeting, with the parents and teachers support-ing the takeover looking happy and positive,and the union supporters fairly snarling at thecamera. Take a guess who wins.
Filmed with a wobbly camera and grim,gray light (everyone except Gyllenhaal lookswashed-out and tired), “Won’t Back Down”has occasional attempts at nuance, with a cou-ple of teacher characters who seem genuinelycaught in the middle. Davis and Gyllenhaal el-evate the movie with their performances.Davis, carrying a load of hurt and guilt on herweary shoulders, has a few scenes that takeyour breath away (watch her running down astaircase, conveying a broken heart without aword). Gyllenhaal lights up the movie withher twisty depiction of a plucky single mother.But mostly the movie is a heavy-handed slog,tipping its hand from the beginning and over-simplifying a complex problem—and a bigdisappointment from Barnz, who made thelovely “Phoebe in Wonderland” a few yearsback.
There’s surely a thoughtful, balanced dra-ma to be made on this topic; “Won’t BackDown” isn’t it.
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As of Tuesday, we are exactly five weeks away from na-tional elections. Campus will soon eruptwith spirited debate, if it has not already,on the relative merits of President Oba-ma, Mitt Romney, and even third-partycandidates like Jill Stein.
Presidential elections are not the onlygame in town, however — students canalso vote for Congress, their state Con-gressional representatives, and in elec-tions for local positions like mayor andcity council.
It is crucially important that UK stu-dents exercise their right to vote this No-vember. Our individual opinions do not
tend to translate into government policy. Yet, it is also truethat our collective interests can find a voice, if we choose tospeak out. All too often university students decide not to usevoting as a method of influencing politics.
We can see that our politics — like costly wars, budgetcuts and skyrocketing tuition — need drastic revision. Whilethe democratic process should not begin or end on Nov. 6,voting is an important way of standing up as young peopleand as students.
If you still aren’t convinced, keep in mind that many peo-ple in our society are stripped of their right to vote — andthat the struggle for enfranchisement is an important part ofAmerican history.
A word on the nitty-gritty of registering. As a student, youhave the right to register here at your UK address. Whether
you decide to use your campus address or your permanenthome address is completely up to you. Election Day is on aweek day, though, so I encourage you to register on campusso you don’t have to head home just to vote. Also, studentswho are 17 can vote this year if they turn 18 by Election Day.
Students should know that the voter registration deadlineis Tuesday, Oct. 9 — a deadline that is fast approaching.Thankfully, UK Kentuckians for the Commonwealth, UKNAACP and Catalyst are holding a massive joint voter regis-tration drive today on campus. Just look for students with ta-bles and clipboards throughout campus and they can help youto register to vote. The process is (relatively) painless andonly takes a few minutes. So, don’t forget to vote on Nov. 6.
Jared Flanery is a history senior. Email [email protected].
Register to vote before the Oct. 9 deadline
JAREDFLANERY
Guestcolumnist
The Kernel’s story “A Night on Duty” was a disturbing portrayal of a campus policeride-along.
I was alarmed and appalled by this article. It described the profiling ("We usually lookfor these guys walking trough campus, not the students") and harassment ("What's in thebottle, partner? Is that bourbon or urine?") done by the campus police but did absolutely nocritical analysis.
It mocked the people under arrest ("looking quite comfortable in his new bed") and re-vealed too much personal information about them. According to the article, publishing thefirst and last names of "sources" is a Kernel policy. Per their request, however, the officers'own first names were omitted from the article! Why are the police above the law? Were thepeople under arrest asked if it would be all right to publish their names and their alleged of-fenses?
How about a story that creates a critical dialogue? What about a feature article that con-fronts racist attitudes toward international students? Why not write a story that encouragesmore engagement from undergraduates and less passive consumption of prejudiced featurearticles?
Reinforcing stigmas that are already constantly being reinforced is bad journalism. Ne-glecting to call attention to blatant police harassment and profiling is bad journalism.
This is what good journalism is about — critically analyzing, uncovering, asking the dif-ficult questions, reporting things that no one else has noticed. Had the author paid more at-tention, this could have been a completely different article.
Carrie Ann Welsh is an instructor at UK’s Center for English as a Second Language.
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CHRISTOPHER EPLING, Kernel cartoonist
PAGE 4 | Tuesday, October 2, 2012
UK basketball head coachJohn Calipari is in the begin-ning stages of assimilating sixnew players onto the roster ofa team looking to defend lastyear’s national championship.
Calipari met with themedia in September to talkabout early preparations. Thisis the second of a two-partseries from that interview.
Question: Do you thinkNerlens Noel can handle theinevitable comparisons toAnthony Davis?
Calipari: He shouldn’t becompared. They’re totally dif-ferent — not even the same.Nerlens is going to give us adifferent type of game.Anthony understood how tocompete on possessions.Nerlens is still learning. He’lltake possessions off, and youcan’t do that. What he is, is anormal freshman. Everyoneforgets where Anthony wasearly in the year. He hadabsolutely no post game. Hewas shaky shooting freethrows until at the end hebecame a real good free-throwshooter. Physically couldn’thold his position. He did stuffand looked good, but he camea long way as the year went
on. He was able to because theteam was so good, it wasn’ttotally on his shoulders — hewas able to build some self-esteem and confidence as theyear went on. That’s what I’mhoping for (Noel). That’s whyI like the fact that we do haveseven guys that could lead usin scoring, similar to last year.
Q: Which freshman camein most ready to play a gametomorrow?
Calipari: Probably Alex(Poythress) and Archie(Goodwin) would be the two.We’ve been working onArchie’s shot. You can’t shootdifferent kind of balls. You’vegot to shoot consistently. Whenyou’re in high school you canmiss your first 12, becauseyou’re getting 12 or 15 more.Now you can’t do that. In hiscase, you’ve got to be a veryconsistent shooter. So he’s notready for that yet. And if he’sgoing to shoot a lot of balls forus, he better be a consistentshooter. Alex is just the motor.We’ve got to get him to under-stand how hard on every pos-session you must play. Whenwe get him there, he will bescary. But right now, we’regoing to be behind. That’s justthe way it is. Last year we hadDoron (Lamb), Terrence(Jones) and Darius (Miller) —
they had all been to a FinalFour the year before.
Q: It’s been said that aplayer has to have a certainmentality to play at Kentucky.Does this group of players getwhat it means to play here?
Calipari: We’ll see. Theyknew coming in; I know that.It was explained to them verydirectly in the recruitingprocess. I think it starts in therecruiting process. We’re notbegging kids. We’re recruitingkids and we’re recruitinghard, but we’re telling themthe truth. It’s hard here. This isa unique place. The result isthat they’re prepared for thisstuff that’s happening. Ourguys have gone and steppedup, and guys that people neverthought would do X, Y, Z arein that league (NBA).
Q: How much does lastyear’s group and success affectthat mindset for the new team?
Calipari: Well, there’s acouple things. One, the aca-demic bar has been raisedhere, and it’s been raised eversince Brandon Knight camehere. They understand thatyou’ve got a responsibilityand if you don’t hold up thatresponsibility, then it’s hardfor us to believe we can counton you. So that has changed.
The other thing that I
would tell you is that if youthink shots matter, ask MichaelKidd-Gilchrist and AnthonyDavis, the number 1 and num-ber 2 picks in the draft, who gotthe fourth and fifth-most shotson our team. Ask those two if itmattered. That’s changed now.I think again what they were asa team and how they were theirbrothers’ keeper gives you anidea. Are you willing to do allthat? Are you willing to be thesixth man?
You’re coaching atKentucky and you understandthat this is life and death forsome people, but it’s not lifeand death for me. I told youbefore: I want to win champi-onships for the state and thecommonwealth. The mostimportant thing is helpingthese young kids. It’s a play-ers-first program. If we doright by them, if we makedecisions based on them, theywill drag us where we want togo.
It started with those fivegoing in the first round (of the2010 NBA draft) which issomething that’s never done,may never be done againunless we do it here. Now allof the sudden it’s changedwhat’s happened for us, andnow we stay as a players-first(program) and they drag us to
this. Let’s see where this teamcan drag us.
Q: Are you happy with thenon-conference schedule?
Calipari: Yeah. I wantedto play that Indiana game. Ithought those would be greatgames in Indianapolis, butthat’s fine. We got Baylor.North Carolina’s being addedback, and we’ll have Louisvilleand North Carolina one away,one home every year. You’llhave some neutral games everyyear. We’re still in the processof the Duke stuff every yearwhere we’ll play at a neutralsite. Mike (Krzyzewski) sayshe wants to do it. And thenwe’ll play two or three othergames, maybe another gamehere and there depending onour team. What if everybodycomes back? Yeah, we mayadd some single-shot gamesand play more to prepare theteam, but I think we’re doingwhat most of the teams aredoing now. You’re playing aschedule that fits, and you’dlike to play more, but that’s forfans and me, but this is aboutthese kids.
Q: What do the two newteams, Missouri and TexasA&M, do for the strength of theSEC?
Calipari: Missouri ispicked above us. A&M, they
struggled last year, but I thinkthey’re going to be goodagain. I think they’ll be fine.They slipped a little bit, but Ithink they’re going to be fine.
Q: Are your batteriesrecharged enough for you totry to do this again?
Calipari: Probably whenI’m done, in my last year, I’llrun out of gas then. I tooksome time before theDominican Republic (coach-ing the national team) thatI’ve never done before. Wegot back and I took sometime. We went to Boston and Iwas with my daughters, and Itook some time. I took somegood time this weekend —read about 150 pages of abook I started and kind ofkicked back. But I kept com-ing over to the office. We havetwo workouts that go about 50minutes, so if I choose to graba player and work on hisshooting, I can do that. So Ihad Archie over here, and wedid a little shooting. So I’mjust enjoying it. Listen, thepace you go here is the paceyou go. You want to coachhere, you take a lot of crap. Ifthat’s what I have to do to bethe coach here, then I’ll take alot of crap. I’m the coach atKentucky. It took me 20 yearsto get this job.
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has plenty of velocity on hispasses, but his strength willcontinue to be the athleticismand quickness he brings tothe position.
On the other hand,Towles is a true pocket pass-er, much like Smith. Towlesis not expected to movearound and extend plays orcreate opportunities with hislegs the way Whitlow is ableto, but may be a more com-fortable fit in an offense de-signed around Smith’sstrengths as a passer, notWhitlow’s.
While it is certainly aunique situation for UK to besplitting time at its most im-portant position between twofreshmen, Phillips is nostranger to coaching fresh-man quarterbacks. In the pastthree years, Whitlow andTowles will now be the thirdand fourth freshman quarter-backs to take snaps for UK,following in the footsteps ofSmith (started four games in2011 as a freshman) and Mor-gan Newton (started sixgames as freshman in 2009).
Phillips said the twowould share the quarterbackduties until the end of the sea-son, but a specific plan forusing both quarterbacks is not
in place.The head coach said he
does not know which of thetwo will take the field firstagainst Mississippi State onSaturday or how often hewould rotate the two on andoff the field. But, as Phillipsadded, neither do UK’s op-ponents, perhaps a subtle up-per-hand for a 1-4 footballteam allowing two truefreshmen to share its quarter-back duties.
“I think it is exciting,Phillips said, “because I cantell you this: the team we areabout to play has no ideawhat they’re about to get. Wereally don’t know what we’reabout to get.”
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PHOTO BY JAMES HOLT |STAFF
UK sophomore quarter-back Maxwell Smith istackled in the firstquarter of Saturday’s38-17 loss to SouthCarolina. Smith playedtwo snaps before injur-ing his ankle, an injuryhead coach JokerPhillips said Mondaymay sideline Smith forthe rest of the season.
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Calipari discusses freshmen, non-conference schedule
