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PHOTO BY THOMAS GRANING | THE DAILY MISSISSIPPIANKyle Wiltjer takes a shot over Mississippi's Aaron Jones. Wiltjer scored a career-high 26 points.
Time and time again thisseason, the UK men’s basket-ball team has let opponentstake over games for minutes,even halves, at a time. TheCats have never been able tostop the bleeding.
Finally, Tuesday night,they did just that, overcominga 16-0 Ole Miss run to beatthe No. 16 Rebels, 87-74, atTad Smith Coliseum in Ox-ford, Miss.
Sophomore forward KyleWiltjer led the Cats with a ca-reer-best 26 points on 10-of-19 shooting, despite not scor-ing in the last 16 and a halfminutes of the game.
The first half was a con-stant battle for UK. Threeplayers committed two foulsin the first 10 minutes of the
half. Twenty fouls were calledin the opening 11 minutes ofthe game.
Despite it all, the Cats de-fended the Rebels well, hold-ing them to 29 percent shoot-ing in the opening half. But,partly because of 12 offensiverebounds, Ole Miss took aone-point lead to the break.
The early part of the sec-ond half, though, belonged tothe Cats. They scored on 15of their first 17 possessions ofthe half and took a 17-pointlead with 10:13 left in thegame.
Twenty seconds later,freshman center Nerlens Noelpicked up his fourth foul, andOle Miss took full advantage.
The Rebels went on a 16-0 run from that point, cuttingthe UK lead to one with fourand half minutes left. TheCats went exactly six minutes
without scoring.After a timeout, sopho-
more guard Ryan Harrow hita three to give the Cats somebreathing room, and they nev-er looked back.
They finished the gameon a 14-2 run to win their firstgame over an RPI top-50team this season.
Noel, despite scoring onlytwo points, had a major im-pact on the game. His 12blocks set a new UK single-game record, breaking theprevious mark of nine held bySam Bowie and Andre Rid-dick.
Now through 20 games,Noel is ahead of AnthonyDavis’ block pace by two, 95-93.
Freshman guard ArchieGoodwin had one of his moreefficient games of the season,
Just what they neededBy David Schuh
Solid 2nd-half play gets Cats a win over No. 16 Ole Miss
Wide receiver commits
Even through an entire coaching staffchange, wide receiver Alex Montgomerynever stopped considering pulling on a UKjersey. Montgomery took to Twitter onMonday to announce that interest hadevolved into a commitment.
Montgomery selected UK overLouisville and Central Florida in the secondrecruiting decision Monday that involvedthe in-state rivals. Earlier in the day insidelinebacker Keith Kelsey Jr. revealed his de-cision to become a Louisville Cardinal,spurning the opportunity to become a Cat.Montgomery visited the Cardinals lastweekend after visiting UK on Jan. 11 andCentral Florida on Jan. 18, according to Ri-vals.com, but neither were able to sway theWeston, Fla., player into making a commit-ment.
Rivals rates the 6-foot-1, 180-poundwide receiver as the 51st best at his positionin the class of 2013.
By Nick [email protected]
See MONTGOMERY on page 2
Montgomery the 2nd recent Florida recruit to UK
PHOTO COURTESY OF SOUTH FLORIDA HIGH SCHOOL SPORTSAlex Montgomery is a wide receiver from Florida.
The School of Libraryand Information Science isoffering the undergraduateminor in information studiescompletely online startingthis semester.
The program is the firstand only all-online under-graduate major or minor atUK.
The courses required tocomplete the program are IS200 Information Literacyand Critical Thinking, IS201 General Information Re-sources, IS 202 Technologiesfor Information Services andthree electives. Students canchoose from a list of eightother courses that are all300-plus level.
Courses are taughtthrough BlackBoard and IS200 requires no prerequi-sites.
The School of Libraryand Information Science al-ready offers a master’s pro-gram in library science on-line and had long consideredoffering an undergraduateprogram using the samestructure, said Will Buntin,the school’s assistant direc-tor.
“We felt that because wehave expertise in onlinecourses and there is a grow-ing interest in them, that wecould offer an undergraduateprogram that would give stu-dents the same independ-ence,” Buntin said. “It’ssomething that makes usunique.”
Buntin said there aremany benefits for students inthe program.
“It allows the students toschedule courses when theycan take them,” he said.“And students are a little bit
different today, they can befull- or part-time, be in-volved in other extracurricu-lar activities or be working,so they can work on thecourse at their most conven-ient times.”
Although online coursesmay be more convenient,Buntin says they are notmuch different from in-classcourses.
“It is a regular coursewhere they get things doneweekly, they just can adjustit around their schedules,” hesaid.
Professor CheyenneHohman agrees that “versa-tility and variability of onlinecourses are their strength,”but she also wants to makesure students are pushingtheir boundaries and learn-ing, she told the Kernel viaemail.
UK offers first minorcompletely online
By Jennifer [email protected]
See MINOR on page 2
PHOTO BY EMILY WUETCHER | STAFFA student walks by construction of Central Hall I, which was officially named Tuesday after Board ofTrustees approval. Brick was being applied to the dorm, at University Drive and Hilltop Avenue, Tuesday.
A donor of more than a million dollars toUK athletics is under investigation followingallegations of an international pyramidscheme that may involve more than 100,000victims and hundreds of millions of dollars indamages.
Kentucky Attorney General Jack Con-way announced Monday that legal action hasbeen taken against Fortune Hi-Tech Market-ing, a Lexington-based marketing operation,and its founder, Paul Orberson, for what hecalled “one of the most prolific pyramidschemes operating in North America.”
Orberson, who told the Lexington Her-ald-Leader in 2010 that he makes $600,000 ayear, gave $639,000 to UK Athletics for the
2012-13 school year, according to UKspokesman Jay Blanton,
Orberson has donated more than $1.6million to UK Athletics, the Herald-Leaderreported Monday.
He is the title sponsor of the Paul Orber-son Football Office Complex at the NutterTraining Facility.
In a pyramid scheme, a member of acompany makes payments to another mem-ber ranked higher than him or her, usually theone who recruited him or her.
Simultaneously, he or she is receivingpayments from members below. Eventuallythis model collapses, and most membersloose the majority of their invested money. Inthis case, Conway said the losses are estimat-
Athletics donor investigated amid pyramid scheme allegations
By Judah Taylor
See PYRAMID on page 2
Students will gather infront of UK’s Main Build-ing on Wednesday andmeet with President EliCapilouto in support of anorganization that monitorsthe working conditions infactories that make colle-giate apparel.
A student organization,UK United Students AgainstSweatshops, has been work-ing to convince the universi-
ty to affiliate with the Work-ers Rights Consortium, ac-cording to a news releasefrom the group.
At 1:30 p.m. the groupwill rally near the cannon infront of the Main Building toshow students and universityemployees support for thisaffiliation.
WRC would monitor thefactories that make merchan-dise sold in the University of
Kentucky Bookstore and theuniforms worn by UK ath-letes to ensure the productswere not created in condi-tions that exploited employ-ees.
The students are sched-uled to meet with Capiloutoafter the rally to present theirproposal.
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Students to rally against sweatshops
See OLE MISS on page 2
PAGE 2 | Wednesday, January 30, 2013
LOS ANGELES — He famously was left inthe Academy Awards cold. But could Ben Af-fleck get a warm welcome from the DirectorsGuild of America?
Following double weekend wins for“Argo” — at the Producers Guild of AmericaAwards (where it won best feature on Satur-day) and the Screen Actors Guild Awards (re-cipient of the top ensemble honor on Sunday)— Affleck’s Iran hostage drama now has moremomentum than a runaway train.
Just weeks after Steven Spielberg’s “Lin-coln” looked like the heavy favorite to win thebest picture Academy Award on Feb. 24,“Argo” is now the clear front-runner.
“I’m shocked; whatever amateur handicapI thought I had was completely false,” Afflecksaid after his film’s SAG Awards victory.
A win for Affleck at this Saturday’s DGAceremony would not only cement “Argo’s”chances but also dramatize how bizarre Af-fleck’s snub was from Oscar voters, whofailed to shortlist him in their directors race.
Because they include first assistant direc-tors, unit production managers and people whowork in television, DGA voters can be more
populist than the directors branch within theAcademy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
The DGA honors used to be one of the bet-ter bellwethers of Oscar prospects for directors,but in recent years have become less reliable.
At the DGA ceremony, Affleck will faceoff against Spielberg, Ang Lee for “Life ofPi,” Kathryn Bigelow for “Zero Dark Thirty”and Tom Hooper for “Les Misérables.”
Even if Affleck wins the DGA trophy,awards history is not on the side of “Argo.”The last movie to win the best picture Acade-my Award and not have its director nominatedwas “Driving Miss Daisy,” in 1990.
But “Argo” and Affleck have so farproved many of their doubters wrong, andseem unstoppable. At the PGA Awards,“Argo” defeated nine other films: “Beasts ofthe Southern Wild,” “Django Unchained,”“Les Misérables,” “Life of Pi,” “Lincoln,”“Moonrise Kingdom,” “Silver Linings Play-book,” “Skyfall” and “Zero Dark Thirty.”
The SAG ensemble competition included“Lincoln,” “Silver Linings Playbook,” “LesMisérables” and “Best Exotic Marigold Hotel.”
Is ‘Argo’ poised to deliver a shockerat Directors Guild Awards?
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“I try to keep the assign-ments interesting, so stu-dents learn new skills andget to do assignments thatrequire them to use the Webas a resource — and to becritical of its contents,” shesaid. “Sort it out, and be ableto determine what informa-tion is legitimate and what isnot.”
Hohman teaches IS 200Information Literacy, whichabout 60 students are en-rolled in across two sections.
Buntin added that stu-dents can always get help oncampus.
“They can have accessto the faculty at any time, byphone, email, or in person,”he said.
More than 70 studentsare enrolled in the coursesnow. Classes also will be of-fered during the summer.
“Students who are notfrom around the area, whenthey go home in the summerthey can work on their class-es,” Buntin said.
Students interested indeclaring a minor in infor-mation studies can do so intheir respective schools andmajors. There is no distinc-tion between online and in-class courses on a transcript.
The program “is a novelexperience for UK,” Buntinsaid.
“I don’t think (UK) willever go completely online,but you see bits and pieces,students will be able to com-plement their in-class courseand be able to explore aca-demically more than theyare able to now by havingaccess to online resources,”Buntin said.
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ed to be in the hundreds ofmillions of dollars.
Steve Baker, the FederalTrade Commission’s mid-west regional manager, toldthe Herald-Leader FHTMwas pulling in more than$30 million monthly whilemost of its representativeswere making less than $15monthly and were paying$1,500 a year to be involvedwith the company.
This is not the first timethat FHTM has been ac-cused of a pyramid scheme.Between 2010 and 2011 thecompany settled with thestates of Montana, NorthDakota and Texas out-of-court when those states tooklegal action.
The Kentucky attorneygeneral’s office started itsown investigation followingthose events.
Then, after receiving no-tice from the attorneys gen-eral of both North Carolinaand Illinois regarding com-plaints in their states, theKentucky offices decided tocontact the FTC.
The states and FTC areseeking civil penalties, dam-ages and restitutions againstFHTM along with perma-nent injective belief.
PYRAMIDContinued from page 1
The Miami Herald report-ed that Montgomery caught42 passes for 892 yards andseven touchdowns his seniorseason while also playing atsafety for Cypress Bay, theFlorida Class 8A runner up.Montgomery had 24 catchesfor 450 yards and five touch-downs during his team’s play-off run, including a nine-catch, 199-yard, two-touch-down effort in the state cham-pionship game.
Cypress Bay head coachMark Guandolo said UK isgetting a quality player.
“(He) goes up for balls ina crowd better than anyone Ihave coached,” he said. “Alexis a student of the game. He isa very intelligent player whowants to win and lead by ex-ample. He is a big, strong,physical receiver with greathands.”
Montgomery said the dif-ference between the currentcoaching staff and the previ-ous coaching staff was sellingopportunity.
“The (new) coachestalked about wanting to startsomething new,” Mont-gomery said. “They kept talk-ing about more opportunity
and more chances now to winmore games and go to a bowlgame. I support Coach(Mark) Stoops today in that.”
Like other commitments,Montgomery said the UK fanbase’s desire to succeed alsopushed him to commit withthe Cats.
“The ‘Big Blue Nation’was a big part of my decisionwith the way they showedsupport,” he said. “They triedto make it feel like home andI liked that part about UK.”
Just as fellow commitMarcus McWilson told theKernel on Monday, Mont-gomery said other schools re-cruited negatively against UKduring the process. While hewould not reveal specificallywhich schools did so andwhat those schools said,Montgomery did say “it madehis decision easier.”
“I want to be around aprogram that wants to be pos-itive and start something spe-cial,” he said.
Montgomery said he willnot take any other visits and isfirmly committed to the Cats.He is the fourth commitmentfrom Florida under head coachMark Stoops, who previouslycoached at Florida State. TheCats have eight commitmentsfrom Florida overall in their17-player class.
MONTGOMERYContinued from page 1
finishing with 24 points, sixrebounds and four assists.
Freshman forward AlexPoythress followed hisbreakout game against LSUwith another solid perform-ance, tallying 15 points andseven rebounds.
The Cats have a fewdays to enjoy their win be-fore traveling to CollegeStation, Texas, on Saturdayto face Texas A&M. UKwill be looking to avengeits home loss to the Aggiesearlier this season, whensenior guard Elston Turnerscored 40 points at Rupp.Saturday’s tip will be at 6p.m. on ESPN.
OLE MISSContinued from page 1
PHOTO BY THOMAS GRANING | THE DAILY MISSISSIPPIANAlex Poythress goes up for a shot past Mississippi's Nick Williams (20) and Aaron Jones (34) in the first half.
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Last year, 600 applica-tions were received for lead-ers at the introductory uni-versity event known as KWeek.
This year, the leadershipteam known as the K Crew islooking to increase its sizeeven more.
“Last year we had over622 applicants for K Crew(positions),” 2013-14 K WeekCo-coordinator Joshua Jen-nings said.
“But with the increasingsize of the freshman class toits largest in history, we’rehoping for about 700 appli-cants.”
The roughly 350 K Crewleaders who were acceptedlast year are a crucial elementin running K Week. Each
leader is responsible for about12 freshmen.
“The K Crew leaders arethe best student leaders avail-able,” Jennings said. “Theyhave to know UK and loveit.”
Jennings, an internationalStudies and Spanish junior,said an ideal K Crew leaderhas a passion for the universi-ty in some way and is in-formed, reliable, committed,motivated and approachableabove all else.
“We are very eager to seeall walks of people step up tolead a group of students,”Jennings said. “We’re all apart of UK.”
Jennings said the leadersfunction as mentors to the in-coming freshman, transferand international students.
“(The K Crew Leaders)are there to help the new stu-
dents feel comfortable,” Jen-nings said. “They are respon-sible for checking in withtheir students as much as pos-sible and helping them withanything they need.”
The application for KCrew leaders will be avail-able Friday and close Feb. 15.To apply for a position, anapplicant must have a GPA ofat least 2.25.
The interview process indone in three parts, Jenningssaid. The first part is a one-on-one interview. A secondpart simulates the types ofquestions and scenarios a KCrew leader is likely to expe-rience with his or her KCrew. And the third part is agroup activity to see how theapplicant interacts with theother leaders.
“We’re looking for peo-ple with a fun personality,”
Super Crew leader TressaLunsford said. “(We wantsomeone) who’s not afraid tobe a little bit silly and who isdedicated and wants to makea difference.”
A Super Crew leader islike the “management levelbetween the K Crew leadersand the coordinators,”Lunsford said.
“We are responsible forabout 12 to 20 K Crew lead-ers and making sure theyhave everything they need,”Lunsford said. “We do a lotof behind-the-scenes work(during K Week).”
Lunsford said freshmenhave given K Week and theirK Crew leaders positive feed-back, expressing their com-fort in having “someone tomake them feel welcome oncampus.”
K Crew leaders them-
selves also have said they“loved the leadership experi-ence they received” from be-ing a K Crew leader,Lunsford said.
“I liked helping new stu-dents learn about UK andgetting them excited forschool,” sophomore K Crewleader Lauren Ishmael said.“It was fun to help them es-tablish new friendships oncampus.”
Ishmael also said being aK Crew leader helped withher leadership skills.
“You have to be responsi-ble for contacting everyoneand keeping in touch,” shesaid. “It helps a lot with orga-nizational skills and being ontop of things.”
K Week 2013 is alreadyin the works for next fall,with returning events such asK Week Kickoff and Big
Blue U. Individual K Crewswill get to know each otherwith lunch and dinnerevents.
“We want as many greatleaders as we can possiblyget,” Lunsford said. “Themore leaders we have, thesmaller and more personalthe groups will be.”
To keep the ever-increas-ing size of the freshmanclass organized, K Week re-quires large numbers of stu-dents in management posi-tions as well, like SuperCrew leaders such asLunsford.
Jennings said interviewdates have been set for Feb.26 and 27.
The application can befound at uky.edu/kcrew, or atthe application station on thestudent involvement site,getinvolved.uky.edu.
By Laura Shrake
Search is on for new K Crew applicants
The Hub, in the base-ment of the W.T. Young Li-brary, is getting an extrememakeover.
Renovations will includea mini studio with a greenscreen for students that willenable them to create andshow professional-grade me-dia presentations, videos andshows.
A recent $17 hike in the“technology fees” each stu-dent must pay with tuition is
being used to fund the$250,000 project, Media De-pot @ The Hub.
The project also proposesfour more media editingrooms.
Two of the rooms will bedesigned for audio recordingand will be equipped for pro-fessional-level audio record-ing and computer screen cap-ture.
The remaining tworooms will feature 42-inchvideo screens for displayingpresentations, and a camerato capture students giving
them.All five rooms will fea-
ture “on air” LED lights, justlike real studios, which willwarn other students whensomeone is recording.
Making major changes toThe Hub was a necessity, saidPeggy Akridge, UK’s manag-er of student computer servic-es.
“We didn’t have any ofthe equipment these studentsneeded. ... They were com-ing to work on assignmentsfor these new core contentclasses. It was like, ‘We’vegot to do something,’ ” shesaid.
Other changes will seeWindows computer and Maclabs removed and replaced
with “editing pods.”Kirk Laird, a streaming
media service owner andtechnical support specialistIII at UK, half-jokingly com-pared the pods to the Star-ship Enterprise commanddeck, both in look and func-tion.
However students willonly be able to create mediaof an intergalactic space ship,not command one.
The Media Depot is ex-pected to be in full operationby the end of the semester.
Renovations are not ex-pected to disrupt the currentoperations of The Hub, andbusiness is expected to con-tinue as usual in the library’sbasement.
By Judah Taylor
Media rooms, renovated labs part of $250,000 project
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One-hundred-thousand.That is the number of chil-dren and teenagers estimatedto be exploited in the com-mercial sex trade here in theUnited States.
Fourteen-year-old “Grace”was one of those teens. Oneday, she is hanging out withher friends in her neighbor-hood after school. She wantsto be anywhere but inside herabusive home. Louis walks upto the girls, singles her out,and tells her she is pretty. Heflirts with her and asks her outon a date.
Grace doesn’t know ityet, but her life is about tochange forever.
After a few months of“courtship,” Grace believesshe is in love and runs awayfrom home to live with Louis.But he soon becomes abusive.While most girls Grace’s ageare worrying about studyingfor their next history exam,Louis starts taking her fromstate to state to sell her forcommercial sex with dozensof men. She quickly learns thatrefusals coincide with beatingsand rape. Then, one night,Grace is arrested and chargedwith solicitation. When she isreleased, she returns to her
pimp because she doesn’tknow where else to go. Shecan’t return to her family, andhe has threatened to find herand beat her if she doesn’t re-turn to him. Louis has used atoxic mixture of abuse andfeigned compassion to manip-ulate her into believing she isfully dependent on him.
A year later, she is arrest-ed again. She is being pun-ished for an act that she can’teven legally consent to. Sheis a kid who needs help andsupport, but instead she istreated like a criminal.
I have met countless girlswith a story just like this one.At Polaris Project, a leadingU.S. organization dedicated toending human trafficking, wehelp these victims of sex traf-ficking find the strength to re-claim their lives after years ofexploitation, hopelessness andpain.
We know that the victimsof child sex trafficking arefrequently only 15 to 17 yearsold. Some are as young as 12.Yet, all too often they are ar-rested and prosecuted for of-fenses ranging from solicita-tion to prostitution.
A few state legislators areactively working to changethis dynamic. They recognizethat victims of sexual ex-ploitation are kids, not crimi-
nals. Policymakers in NewYork, Illinois, Massachusetts,Washington and four otherstates have shown leadershipon this issue by passing SafeHarbor laws to protect andsupport these vulnerableyouth. And now representa-tives in states like Texas, Ne-vada, Arkansas and Nebraskaare working to follow suit.
Safe Harbor laws ensurethat children under 18 cannotbe prosecuted for prostitution.They define sexually exploitedchildren as victims of abuse,help them find protection andsupport, and where possible,can increase funding for spe-cialized services to help thesechildren recover — serviceslike long-term housing, mentalhealth care, education and jobtraining. Safe Harbor lawshelp remove the stigma ofprostitution and shift the re-sponse from a criminal justiceperspective to one focusing onthe welfare of the child.
Today, we need moreSafe Harbor laws across thecountry to protect victims ofsex trafficking like Grace andhelp them reclaim their lives.Polaris Project and numerousother organizations that workwith survivors of sex traffick-ing have found that this all-encompassing approach pre-vents these girls from return-
ing to the very places andpeople who exploited them inthe first place.
In the eight states wherethese laws are in place, girlsfind the strength to live on theirown. They get their GEDs, goback to school, find jobs, moveinto their first apartments andget a second chance at normallives. All of this is far easier toachieve without a criminalrecord. They also see justiceserved when law enforcementfocuses on arresting and prose-cuting their pimps — the realcriminals.
January is National Hu-man Trafficking Awarenessmonth. Let’s translate thisawareness into action. First,let’s call on every state to pro-tect child victims of sex traf-ficking and exploitation bypassing and implementingstrong Safe Harbor laws. Sec-ond, if you see a potential caseof sex trafficking, call the Na-tional Human Trafficking Hot-line at 1-888-373-7888 wherecall specialists are available 24hours a day to connect victimsof trafficking to local servicesand support.
All of us can make a dif-ference in the fight againsthuman trafficking and mod-ern-day slavery. More impor-tant, all of us can help girlslike Grace find hope again.
By Bradley Myles
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Commentary: Kids, not criminalsPolaris Project helps sex trafficking victims find strength
More football recruits deciding this week
With one week to go until NationalSigning Day next Wednesday, there isstill a lot of work to be done for UKhead coach Mark Stoops and his staff asrecruits edge toward deciding on theircollegiate futures.
Three-star all-purpose back JojoKemp announced on Twitter on Mondaythat he would make his college choiceknown Friday. According to Rivals, theDeland, Fla., native is the 10th best all-purpose back in the country and the 64thbest player overall in the state of Florida.Kemp indicated his final choices arePittsburgh, South Florida and West Vir-ginia and UK. The 5-foot-10, 189-poundKemp visited UK earlier in January.
Another recruit who took to Twitter toannounce his commitment will come thisweek is three-star wide receiver JeffBadet. Although Badet gave no specific
date for his announcement, the five-foot-11, 160-pound will reveal his decisionsometime this week. Orlando native Badetwas scheduled to visit UCLA this week-end but publicly reavealed the cancelationof his trip, also via Twitter, giving no rea-son. Among the schools being consideredby Badet are Iowa State, Nebraska,UCLA, N.C. State, Wake Forest and UK.
One recruit who did not wait until thefinal days to announce his college choiceis Pasco, Fla., three-star athlete JanarionGrant. According to Rivals, 5-foot-9, 165-pound Grant was scheduled to visit Lex-ington this coming weekend, but has nowchosen to attend Rutgers over UK andHouston. Rivals ranks the native of DadeCity, Fla., as the 69th best wide receiver inthe country while Scout rates him as the54th best cornerback in the nation.
Ryan Timmons of Franklin Countystill plans to announce his commitmentFeb. 5 at 1 p.m. Steve Jones of The Couri-er-Journal reported Timmons would re-
ceive a host of in-home visits throughoutthe week. The planned visitors to hisFrankfort home will be UK offensive co-ordinator Neal Brown, Florida head coachWill Muschamp (along with wide re-ceivers coach and former UK head coach,Joker Phillips), Ohio State head coach Ur-ban Meyer, Illinois head coach Tim Beck-man and Missouri wide receivers coachPat Washington (who coached the sameposition at UK last season). Rivals reportsthat 5-foot-10, 186-pound Timmons isscheduled to visit Florida on an officialvisit this weekend.
Four-star inside linebacker JamesHearns said after his official visit to Lex-ington last weekend that the Cats are atthe top of his list of perspective schools.The 6-foot-3, 230-pound Hearns, whode-committed from Florida last week, isdue to recieve an in-home visit from UKbefore this week is over.
As of Tuesday, the Cats stand at 17commitments in the 2013 recruiting class.
By Nick Gray
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President Eli Capilouto is seeking stu-dents’ support for his campus revitalizationplan that has been declared BBNunited.
This plan is the embodiment of the pro-gressive action this administration needs totake to move UK forward.
Capilouto wrote in an op-ed to TheCourier-Journal that, “More than one yearago, I stood before our campus communityfor the first time, acknowledging the chal-lenges associated with preparing students fora 21st-century world using 19th-century facil-ities.”
There is no question that many of UK’sfacilities are in need of updating. Also, thereis no question this university has struggled tofind financial support from the state legisla-ture in recent years.
A proposal that will be self-financed,mostly by athletics and private donations, isthe kind of innovative program needed forUK to begin long-overdue campus improve-ments.
The improvements laid out in the BBNunited program are ones that the UKcommunity as a whole should support. Be-cause it updates academic, housing and ath-letics facilities, BBNunited is essentially aworking compromise for those who questionhow the university allocates funds.
Earlier in the year, a series in the Kernelsaid UK would need to spend more moneyon football to be competitive in the SEC.
Many fans believe UK has found thecoach to bring the program out of the SEC
cellar, and the BBNunited updates will giveMark Stoops the facilities needed to sell theUK football program to recruits.
However, this plan also includes spendingthat can be supported by those who think ac-ademics are often neglected in the name ofathletics.
The Gatton College of Business and eco-
nomics will be renovated and expanded and anew academic and science building will bebuilt, officials announced earlier this month.
These are academic facilities vital toUK, and the current science building isamong those most needing repair or replace-ment.
This follows a trend of Capilouto looking
beyond state funds to finance projects. The construction on New Central Resi-
dence Hall is part of his plan to implementprivatized housing on campus.
In a Monday op-ed, Capilouto, Stoops,Athletics Director Mitch Barnhart, GattonDean David Blackwell and Student Govern-ment President Stephen Bilas point out thatmembers of the UK community were “joinedby Gov. Beshear and more than 30 legislatorsin support of our proposal.”
However, the op-ed submitted urged stu-dents to show support. Students have beenasked to contact their legislators, which canbe done through BBNunited.com.
Even though this proposal will use fundsfrom outside state government, UK still findsitself at the government’s mercy.
If UK cannot gain the support needed tomove forward with this project, the needs ofour facilities will continue to be neglected.
“We don’t lack for the talent to solve theseemingly intractable challenges confrontingour commonwealth, country and world,”Capilouto went on to say in The Courier-Journal. “Where we must improve is creatingfacilities as good as our people — facilitieswith the high-tech learning and collaborativeresearch space that enable our people todream about what might be and tap into theirlimitless potential to make those dreams reali-ty.”
This proposal does not solve all of UK’sfacilities problems, but it can begin to addresssome of our campus’ most pressing needs.
BBNunited proposal benefits all of UK community
PHOTO BY ADAM PENNAVARIA | STAFFThe Gatton College of Business and Economics’ building would see renovations under the BBNunited plan.
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