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ADPi wins Greek Sing
The stage at Greek Singwas filled with glitter, glam,color and creativity.
Sororities and fraternitiescome together at the annualevent to compete throughthemed dance and skit rou-tines, with proceeds benefit-ing the Make-A-Wish foun-dation.
Make-A-Wish seeks toserve children with life-threatening medical condi-tions through wish-granting
work. Twenty-eight perform-
ances took place at GreekSing 2013, hosted by thesorority Chi Omega and thefraternity Phi Delta Theta onSaturday at Memorial Coli-seum.
The overall winners,whose scores were based ontheir Greek Sing perform-ances only, were the womenof Alpha Delta Pi.
Third-place finisherswere Alpha Omicron Pi inthe sorority category andSigma Alpha Epsilon in the
fraternity category. Secondplace went to the sorority PiBeta Phi and the fraternityDelta Sigma Phi, and first tothe sorority Tri Delta and thefraternity Beta Theta Pi.
The sorority Kappa Al-pha Theta won for spiritpoints, with a score based onthe Greek Sing performanceand on participation in phil-anthropic events leading upto Greek Sing night.
Fundraising takes placethrough ticket sales,fundraising dinners, a silent
By Coriá [email protected]
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PHOTO BY EMILY WUETCHER | STAFFSigma Chi’s Parker Whitehouse surfs a wave made of other fraternity men during Greek Sing.
Top: Alpha Delta Pi women perform at Greek Sing their “Take You Away” theme. They were named over-all champions at the event, which benefits the Make-A-Wish Foundation. PHOTO BY EMILY WUETCHER | STAFFAbove: Natalie Lawson, left, and Kelly Chung of Delta Gamma perform as part of their sorority’s “Alicein Wonderland” theme. PHOTO BY TESSA LIGHTY | STAFF
The Kroger on EuclidAvenue can expect amakeover starting in spring2014, Kroger officials haveannounced.
The store will be demol-ished and replaced with anew, one-of-a-kind store, ex-pected to open in fall 2014.
Rooftop parking and ele-vators are among the ameni-ties that the Kroger will offerits customers.
“Our Kroger team under-stands that this is a special lo-cation and it deserves aunique design to complementthe neighborhood,” saidKroger Real Estate ManagerDanny Lethco in a Krogernews release.
Euclid Kroger expanding
By Amelia Orwick
New store, to open in 2014, will have rooftop parking
National, state, and localleaders met in Frankfort onFriday to announce a plan tomake UK the home of a na-tional institute that will playa role in implanting and set-ting education standards forschools across the U.S.
The National Center forInnovation in Education willbe funded by the Bill &Melinda Gates Foundation,the William and FloraHewlett Foundation, andUK, according to a UK newsrelease.
The facility will be atUK’s Coldstream Researchcampus and will be directedby former Kentucky Educa-tion Commissioner GeneWilhoit.
Wilhoit, the former di-rector of the Council ofChief State School Officers,is highly regarded across thecountry for his backgroundand work in education, therelease said.
“Gene Wilhoit is pas-sionate about supportingstates in systemic transfor-mation toward high qualityteaching and learning,” UKPresident Eli Capilouto saidin the release.
Wilhoit is an advocatefor education reform andplans on continuing his ef-forts while working at theNational Center for Innova-tion in Education.
“The goal we have estab-lished for all of our children
to be college- and career-ready is the right one forthem and for our nation,” hesaid in the release. “We willreach our aspirations onlywhen we cast aside historicperceptions and practicesabout how one acquiresknowledge and skills.”
Wilhoit and his team willestablish communication andwork with the federal gov-ernment and education or-ganizations to promote re-forms that will allow stu-dents to have a full academicexperience.
“We want our students tograduate with the ability tosucceed in this 21st-century
UK to house a newnational education center
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Facility’s leader to promote academic reforms
See KROGER on page 2
STAFFStudents can shop at other area stores selling groceries while theEuclid Kroger is under construction in 2014.
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The baseline mystery of Steven Soder-bergh’s masterful Hitchcockian thriller “SideEffects” is “What’s really going on here?” Thefilm keeps viewers emotionally invested yetintellectually off-balance, suffusing even themost ostensibly straightforward scenes with asense of free-floating anxiety. It pays off withedge-of-the-seat chills, walloping surprisesand an ability to make complex plotting di-gestible.
Rooney Mara plays depressive Manhattan-ite Emily Taylor, whose husband, Martin(Channing Tatum), following a stellar WallStreet career, was convicted of insider trading.Now freed, he attempts to rebuild their dam-aged marriage and restart his career. Hollow-eyed Emily asks her psychiatrist, Dr. JonathanBanks (Jude Law), to prescribe Ablixia, apromising new antidepressant. After a due-diligence check-in with Emily’s former thera-pist (Catherine Zeta-Jones), he agrees. Ofcourse, any psychopharmaceutical comes withside effects such as disorientation — and pos-sibly murder.
You might suspect that Soderbergh, who of-ten makes corporate malfeasence a theme of hiswork, is revving up for an indictment of thedrug industry. “Ablixia” kind of sounds like“oblivion,” right? But thanks to a tremendouslycrafted, diabolically twisty script by Scott Z.Burns (“Contagion”), almost nothing plays ac-cording to expectations. The film dropsweapons-grade reversals on its characters andthe audience. Several times we have to recali-brate, digesting the surprise that the movie wethought we had been watching is not that at all.
Even the ominous way Soderbergh sendshis camera crawling down corridors hints athidden motives around every corner. His chilly,ruthless ingenuity is ideal for a story thatdoesn’t surrender all its secrets in the coming-attractions trailer. It’s no coincidence he openshis film with a slow, insinuating zoom into adistant apartment window, like “Rosemary’sBaby” and “Psycho.”
See it by all means — especially if you love“Body Heat” and “The Usual Suspects” — butbe careful who you trust.
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“Everything great aboutthe Greek system is heretonight,” said Alan DeSan-tis, the event’s master ofceremonies and a UK pro-fessor.
DeSantis said there issomething special aboutpeople coming together forGreek Sing.
“We get together, not forparties, not for dating, butwe get together for a good
cause,” he said. Hundreds of hours of
preparation go into makingGreek Sing successful, De-Santis said.
Greek Sing judge andWKYT-TV news anchorBarbara Cowden said thejudging process is difficult.
“It’s really hard becausethey’re really good and itgoes so fast,” Cowden said.
Cowden is a Chi Omegaaluma and said she is proudthat Greek Sing is still run-ning.
“As polished as theylook, I think some of thekids haven’t slept for threeweeks,” Cowden said.
Performances were
judged on total effect of thetheme, originality, enthusi-asm and music presentation,with bonus points for come-dy.
Themes inlcuded suchtopics as the Olympics andgoing to Hollywood.
This year, 75 peoplecould be on stage at once,changed from 170 people inyears past.
Many performancesused the floor area aroundthe stage.
Each Greek organizationthat participates is awesomeevery year, said Chi Omegasenior Katelyn Blanford.
“We’re proud to host it,”Blanford said.
GREEK SINGContinued from page 1
“After many months ofstudy, we have developed aplan that we think best meetthe needs of our Euclid Av-enue customers.”
According to the release,the Kroger will include spe-cialty departments, such as asushi bar, a fresh seafood de-partment and a specialtycheese shop. Additionally,more space will be belowground for food preparation,
employee breaks and storage.Kroger officials were un-
available for comment lastweek and over the weekend.
According to the Lexing-ton Herald-Leader, the newstore will face PNC bank,and is expected to cost about$15 million. The currentstore faces Euclid.
During construction,Kroger plans to make an off-site pharmacy available tocustomers, according to thenews release.
“It is very rare forKroger to close a store dur-
ing a remodel or store re-placement but the end resultwill be a new state-of-the-artstore that will meet the needsof our customers for decadesto come,” Lethco said.
Students in the area haveexpressed excitement sincethe announcement.
“The setup for the newstore sounds really cool. Ionly wish they had opened itsooner,” said Adam Bonner,an economics and marketingjunior, referring to the factthat he will graduate beforeconstruction is completed.
KROGERContinued from page 1
global economy and effortslike this provide a real boostin helping us meet thoseneeds,” Gov. Steve Beshearsaid in the release.
UK College of EducationDean Mary John O’Hair com-mended Wilhoit and has highhopes for what the NationalCenter for Innovation will ac-complish.
“Kentucky is fortunate tohave Gene Wilhoit and a na-tional center of this caliber lo-cated within our state,” she
said in the release. “The cre-ation of the National Centerfor Innovation in Educationwill help give states the pushthey need to work together todevelop these radically differ-ent learning experiences forstudents.”
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In the wake of the re-cent Benghazi hearings, ithas again become popularcampus chit-chat to criti-cize Kentucky Sen. RandPaul.
While no pundits havestopped to an “aqua Bud-dha” low, silly attacksranging from unsubstanti-ated questioning of hismedical qualifications toaccusations of neo-conser-vatism abound.
But let’s not allow thehardcore partisanship that has become thenorm to blind us.
For his consistent and impressive defense
of civil liberties, I would argue that liberalshave plenty to like in Sen. Paul.
When it comes to protecting civil liber-ties, Sen. Paul has stood with a small majori-ty opposing recent encroachments on consti-tutional liberties.
As early as 2011, Sen. Paul struggledwith Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid tohold a vote on amendments limiting the Patri-ot Act, and has consistently opposed reautho-rization of the notorious 2001 act giving lawenforcement broad and unconstitutionalsearch and seizure powers.
In opposing the act’s 2012 reauthoriza-tion, he stood with 18 Democrats and threeother Republicans in opposition, standingwith the minority both generally and withinhis party.
Similarly, Sen. Paul stood as one ofthree Republicans in opposition to the FISAReauthorization of 2012, an act allowing forbroad federal warrantless surveillance.
The senator also stood as a small minori-ty in opposition to the equally disturbing Na-tional Defense Authorization Act of 2012,which allows for the indefinite detention ofAmerican citizens, without trial.
In addition to acts concerning basic pro-cedural rights, Sen. Paul was an early and vo-cal opponent of the now notorious Stop On-line Piracy Act (SOPA), even threatening tofilibuster the act that would give the federalgovernment broad regulatory control over theInternet.
Despite the senator’s opposition, all butone were signed into law by President Oba-
ma. Aside from his stern defense of civil lib-
erties, Sen. Paul has been a voice in opposi-tion to the proliferation of drone warfare andhas stood apart from his party in his willing-ness to make reasonable cuts to militaryspending.
I don’t mean to imply that Sen. Paul is aperfect liberal senator, but if we are going tohave a go at viciously attacking our represen-tatives, we have plenty of miserable politi-cians to choose from before even leaving ourcommonwealth.
Let’s let the few who are attempting todefend our liberties be.
Matthew Nolan Gray is a philosophy andpolitical science junior. Email [email protected].
A defense of Sen. Rand Paul’s stances
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The past 12 months havebeen a whirling, jerkingroller-coaster ride for sopho-more centerfielder AustinCousino.
Like his team 12 monthsago, Cousino was talented butunknown to anyone outside ofCliff Hagan Stadium. Cousinoand his teammates received nopreseason accolades prior tothe 2012 college baseball sea-son and were picked to finishfifth in the SEC East by theconference’s coaches.
The sophomore fromDublin, Ohio, was himself abig reason for the 20-win im-provement for the Cats from2011. Cousino tied for theteam lead in average (.319)while leading the team in hits(83), doubles (20) and totalbases (134).
Louisville Slugger andBaseball America namedCousino a Freshman All-American. Cousino also wasnamed the 2012 SEC Fresh-man of the Year and named toSEC All-Freshman team.
Cousino’s work was notdone at the end of the Cats’season. He traveled through-out the summer with the USACollegiate National Team,leading the team in hitting.
Coming into the 2013season, which starts with sixroad games, beginning Fri-day, Cousino has been namedto the Louisville Slugger pre-season second All-Americateam and the Baseball Ameri-ca preseason second All-America team. BaseballAmerica also named him theSEC preseason player of theyear and the conference’s bestdefensive outfielder.
Cousino’s talent is a keyreason for the Cats’ consensustop-15 preseason ranking, withone outlet, Collegiate Base-ball, ranking the Cats at No. 8.
With the success of springbehind them, UK had a chanceto finish the regular-seasonSEC East championship, trav-eling to Starkville, Miss., toface the Mississippi StateBulldogs. UK needed to winone game in the three-gameseries. But the Bulldogsoutscored UK, 18-7, en route
to a three-game series sweep,and South Carolina won theSEC East by a half game overUK and Florida.
In the SEC Tournament,UK fell again to MississippiState, 2-1, in the semifinals.And in the Gary Regional ofthe NCAA Tournament (ofwhich Cousino was on theAll-Regional team), a three-run home run in the decidinggame against Kent State ap-peared to hit below the home-run line on the fence in rightfield. The Cats lost 3-2.
“I remember what it waslike seeing Kent State dogpil-ing at Gary,” Cousino said.“Coming here to Kentucky, itseemed to be a very realisticgoal for me. When you put allthe names (last year) on paperand put it onto the field, assomething that you grow upand dream of, and it can be-come a reality being thatclose, and not going the wayyou want, it definitely leavesa sour taste in your mouth.”
Cousino did all he coulddo offensively for UK in theGary Regional, batting .333with seven hits, three runs bat-
ted in and two stolen bases infour games. Cousino thinks heand the team can learn from it.
“I think that being in a re-gional for the first time for allof us is a little eye opening,”Cousino said. “I think we canstick that in our back pocketfor now, and take that (expe-rience) and use it as the sea-son goes on.”
By Nick Gray
With the top spots in theSEC up for grabs, No. 10 UKHoops vied for its place at theconference summit Sundaywith a blowout 75-53 victoryat Vanderbilt.
The Cats’ (21-3, 9-2 SEC)victory was due in large partto a season-high 28-point per-formance from senior guardA’dia Mathies. Mathies shot10-of-17 from the field, in-cluding 5-of-9 from threeville,while adding a team-high fiveassists and three steals to herstat line.
As the teams ran level forthe first 15 minutes of play,the Cats began to pull away,
and a 3-pointer from Mathiesin the closing seconds of thefirst half gave UK a 31-22halftime lead. Despite somesmall runs by the Com-modores, Mathies and theCats held on and pulled awayfor the victory.
Coming off the bench forthe second straight game,sophomore guard Bria Gossadded an extra boost with 15points for UK.
Junior forward SamarieWalker added her eighth dou-ble-double of the season with10 points, 13 rebounds, twoblocks and two steals.
Sophomore center Azia
Bishop also had a notablecontribution to the winningcause, pulling down 11boards.
Vanderbilt (15-8, 5-5SEC) senior forward TiffanyClarke led the Commodoreswith 20 points and nine re-bounds, while junior guardChristina Foggie was makingher contribution with 12
points before leaving thegame with injury.
The Cats return home fortheir second-to-last homegame of the regular seasonThursday against South Car-olina. Tipoff is set for 7 p.m.at Memorial Coliseum.
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Cousino ready to lead a successful season
UK dominates Vandy on the road
Go Green. Recycle this Kernel.
Mathies scores 28 in 75-53 win
UK senior guardA’dia Mathies
jumps to shootthe ball in the
UK vs. Vanderbiltgame at Memo-rial Gymnasium
on Sunday.Mathies scored28 points in the
win.
PHOTO BYTESSA LIGHTY
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