kentucky kernel est. 1892 | independent since 1971 | www.kykernel.com friday 04.29.11 71 58 partly cloudy tomorrow’s weather index First issue free. Subsequent issues 25 cents. Newsroom: 257-1915 Advertising: 257-2872 Classifieds.............5 Features.................4 Opinions.............5 Sports..................3 Horoscope.............2 Sudoku................2 Helping out Lexington group donates to Alabama students affected by tornado damage online TOP: UK cheerleader Lindsey Goderwis does a “flying X” stunt during the UK vs. Tennessee football game on Nov. 27, 2010. The stunt requires her to fly at heights over 30 feet in the air. MIDDLE: Mason Levy gets iced and taped up by Zac Alviar after stunting prac- tice at the Seaton Center on Nov. 9, 2010. RIGHT: The UK cheerleaders prac- tice at the Seaton Center in front of banners representing their 18 national championships the team has won. PHOTOS BY BRITNEY MCINTOSH | STAFF Banner after banner adorns the wall in the small room of the Seaton Center that the UK gymnastics team calls home. Adolph Rupp won four national championships for UK in 40 years with the basketball team. Jomo Thompson, UK’s head cheerleading coach, has won six national championships with UK in less than 10 years. The only issue is that none of Thompson’s banners are NCAA championships. A recent study by UK psy- chology professor Nathan De- Wall suggests that young people today have developed more nar- cissistic tendencies than genera- tions before. According to an article in the New York Times, DeWall and other psychologists reached this conclusion after the results from a computer analysis of hit song lyrics reported an increase in words like “I” and “me” over the last three decades. The study also showed a no- Narcissism growing in youth By Amelia Orwick [email protected]See YOUTH on page 2 UK parent’s baseball film on ‘Showtime’ Tonya and Jackie Jones have a special Mother’s Day planned on Sunday, May 8: the mother and daughter will each receive their bachelor’s degree at UK’s graduation. After sharing the same major, text- books and notes, Tonya Jones and her daughter Jackie Jones will also share an exciting moment Sunday when they gradu- ate together. The mother and daughter have pursued their education at different speeds, but were able to cross paths along the way. “Hers was a logical progression. Mine, not so much,” Tonya Jones said. Tonya Jones took a year off after high school be- fore starting her education again, which in- cluded classes at community colleges in Arizona and Texas. Jackie Jones graduated from Paul Lau- rence Dunbar High School in Lexington, and attended Bluegrass Community and Technical College first before making the move to UK. Going back to school for Tonya Jones was taking care of unfinished business. “It became more of a personal thing to finish, but I feel it will open doors for me and give me opportunities that I don’t feel like I would have had if I hadn’t finish(ed),” Tonya Jones said. The pair are both history majors and took four classes together during their time at UK. “It really increased the amount of knowledge you can gain because you can study with each other,” Jackie Jones said. “One of us could say, ‘hey I have a ques- tion about this,’ and most likely the other one can answer.” Like daughter, like mother: Duo set to graduate together By Ali O’Connor [email protected]See GRAD on page 2 Flying high kernel .com l ky kernel e k photo slideshow New NCAA rule Moves NBA withdrawal date earlier online “Chasing 3,000,” a film UK parent and writer Bill Miki- ta thinks is sure to rival “The Sandlot” for a place in baseball fan’s hearts, premieres this Sunday on Showtime. The movie, which is set in 1972, is based on Mikita and his brother Steve. They take off on a cross-country journey to see their hero Roberto Clemente capture his 3,000th major league hit. Mikita, who grew up in Steubenville, Ohio, 39 miles west of Pittsburgh, was the screenplay writer for “Chasing 3,000” and later added his name to the film credits as pro- ducer. “It’s an odyssey where two brothers find out what it means to be brothers,” Mikita said. “It’s a feel good story. It’s a story about growing up.” Mikita’s daughter Maddy Mikita, an integrated strategic communications senior, attended the premiere in Los Ange- les. Maddy said the movie stresses a family element that By Joy Priest [email protected]See MOVIE on page 6 See FULL STORY on page 3 By Ben Jones [email protected]
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TOP: UK cheerleader Lindsey Goderwis does a “flying X” stunt during the UK vs. Tennesseefootball game on Nov. 27, 2010. The stunt requires her to fly at heights over 30 feet in the air.
MIDDLE: Mason Levy gets iced and taped up by Zac Alviar after stunting prac-tice at the Seaton Center on Nov. 9, 2010. RIGHT: The UK cheerleaders prac-tice at the Seaton Center in front of banners representing their 18 nationalchampionships the team has won.
PHOTOS BY BRITNEY MCINTOSH | STAFF
Banner after banner adorns the wall in the small room of theSeaton Center that the UK gymnastics team calls home.
Adolph Rupp won four national championships for UK in 40years with the basketball team. Jomo Thompson, UK’s headcheerleading coach, has won six national championships withUK in less than 10 years.
The only issue is that none of Thompson’s banners are NCAAchampionships.
A recent study by UK psy-chology professor Nathan De-Wall suggests that young peopletoday have developed more nar-cissistic tendencies than genera-tions before.
According to an article in theNew York Times, DeWall andother psychologists reached thisconclusion after the results froma computer analysis of hit songlyrics reported an increase inwords like “I” and “me” over thelast three decades.
Tonya and Jackie Jones have a specialMother’s Day planned on Sunday, May 8:the mother and daughter will each receivetheir bachelor’s degree at UK’s graduation.
After sharing the same major, text-books and notes, Tonya Jones and herdaughter Jackie Jones will also share anexciting moment Sunday when they gradu-ate together.
The mother and daughter have pursuedtheir education at different speeds, butwere able to cross paths along the way.
“Hers was a logical progression. Mine,not so much,” Tonya Jones said. TonyaJones took a year off after high school be-fore starting her education again, which in-cluded classes at community colleges inArizona and Texas.
Jackie Jones graduated from Paul Lau-
rence Dunbar High School in Lexington,and attended Bluegrass Community andTechnical College first before making themove to UK.
Going back to school for Tonya Joneswas taking care of unfinished business.
“It became more of a personal thing tofinish, but I feel it will open doors for meand give me opportunities that I don’t feellike I would have had if I hadn’tfinish(ed),” Tonya Jones said.
The pair are both history majors andtook four classes together during their timeat UK.
“It really increased the amount ofknowledge you can gain because you canstudy with each other,” Jackie Jones said.“One of us could say, ‘hey I have a ques-tion about this,’ and most likely the otherone can answer.”
Like daughter, like mother:Duo set to graduate together
New NCAA rule Moves NBA withdrawal date earlier online
“Chasing 3,000,” a film UK parent and writer Bill Miki-ta thinks is sure to rival “The Sandlot” for a place in baseballfan’s hearts, premieres this Sunday on Showtime.
The movie, which is set in 1972, is based on Mikita andhis brother Steve. They take off on a cross-country journeyto see their hero Roberto Clemente capture his 3,000th majorleague hit.
Mikita, who grew up in Steubenville, Ohio, 39 mileswest of Pittsburgh, was the screenplay writer for “Chasing3,000” and later added his name to the film credits as pro-ducer.
“It’s an odyssey where two brothers find out what itmeans to be brothers,” Mikita said. “It’s a feel good story.It’s a story about growing up.”
Mikita’s daughter Maddy Mikita, an integrated strategiccommunications senior, attended the premiere in Los Ange-les. Maddy said the movie stresses a family element that
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ticeable decline in the use ofwords such as “we” and “us,”which implies that adoles-cents today are focusing lesson positive ideas like togeth-erness, and more on them-selves.
DeWall and his col-
leagues controlled for genreso that the results would notfocus solely on rap and hip-hop, two of today’s most pop-ular music styles, accordingto the article.
Although the study sup-ported DeWall’s hypothesisthat young people have be-come more conceited, somepsychologists doubted that anentire generation’s personali-
ty could be defined by songlyrics.
Still, personality tests tak-en by students have con-firmed DeWall’s theory. Lev-els of narcissism measured byquestionnaires continue to in-crease over time.
Many UK students agreewith DeWall to a certain ex-tent, but have their own theo-ries about why today’s socie-
ty is thought to be so vain.“I think that over the
years, people have just be-come more able to take careof themselves,” Cory Mur-phy, a mining engineeringfreshman, said. “A long timeago it was hard for kids to doanything by themselves butwith the technology today,people have developed amore ‘independent’ attitude.”
Other students, like fresh-men psychology major EllenWall, believe that young peo-ple are more aware todaythan ever.
“I think our generation ismore selfish than ones in thepast in some senses, but I alsothink we are a lot more awareof the rest of the world now,”Wall said.
Wall pointed to the recent
natural disasters and the aidprovided by young people toprove her point.
“When there was thetsunami in Japan we werevery concerned about it,where as in the past I thinkmany would have just ig-nored it,” Wall said. “We canbe selfish, but overall I thinkour world is working more tohelp others.”
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Tonya Jones relied on herdaughter for help when sheneeded to miss class in orderto address issues that per-tained to everyday life.
“Jackie has been there totake notes and help me out.I’m sure she has been a big-ger help to me than I have toher,” she said.
However, Jackie Jonessaid she disagreed.
“I wouldn’t say that,”Jackie Jones said. “If one ofus isn’t there, the other one is.Together we have nevermissed a class.”
The two said their historyprofessor, Kathi Kern, hasbeen delighted to have thetwo of them in class with her.
“This whole thing is justamazing to (Kern). She haseven brought it up in class,”Tonya Jones said. “It’s the
first time she has ever had amother and daughter inclass.”
Taking classes togethermeans sharing textbooks anda competition to get the bettergrade.
“Sharing textbooks isgreat, you only have to buyone set,” Tonya Jones said.
They said a competitionin their history class sparkeda healthy rivalry between thetwo.
“We had a reactionary pa-per in Dr. (Tracy) Campbell’sclass, and I made a bettergrade and she was mad for aday,” Tonya Jones said. “Butwe both made an A in theclass, so that worked outOK.”
Despite the competition,the two said they remainedsupportive.
“I’m very proud of her, asbusy as she has been the lasttwo years,” Jackie Jones said.
Family support has been akey element to their success.
“My husband, and herfather, he’s incredible,”Tonya Jones said. “He hasput up with a lot the last twoyears.”
Jackie Jones also saidfamily support has been im-portant.
“The fact that she and mydad have pushed me to con-tinue my education and go onto get my master’s degree, Idon’t know if I could havedone it without their support,”Jackie Jones.
The two have family vis-iting from out of town whowill watch them graduate to-gether and celebrate their aca-demic achievements.
“Jackie and I are by nomeans self-centered, but Sat-urday and Sunday are allabout us,” Tonya Jones said.
Many people ask JackieJones how she likes going toschool with her mother.
She smiled and said,“She’s my best friend. I shareeverything with my mom.”
According to a court deci-sion handed down last sum-mer, cheerleading is still notconsidered a sport. But the in-tensity and dedication thatsurrounds each cheerleadingpractice is commensuratewith the program’s tradition— UK cheerleaders practicefor two-and-a-half hours aday, four times a week.
“Competitive cheer may,some time in the future, qual-ify as a sport under Title IX,”wrote Judge Stefan R. Under-hill of the United States Dis-trict Court in his decision inJuly 2010. “Today, however,the activity is still too under-developed and disorganizedto be treated as offering gen-uine varsity athletic participa-tion opportunities for stu-dents.”
Thompson disagrees. Hesaid that because the cheer-leading team participates reg-ularly in competitions that re-quire a high degree of athleti-cism, it can be considered asport. The controversy comeswhen you include what thecheerleading team does on thesidelines of games. Thompsondoesn’t consider that aspect ofwhat they do a sport.
“I think (cheerleading) isdefinitely a sport,” said Mau-rice Grant, a history seniorand a member of the cheer-leading team. He also playedfootball and ran track in highschool. “You work just ashard as anyone else. Techni-cally, the rules of the sport arehaving competition and hav-ing rules.”
As Underhill referenced,though, cheerleading is stilldisorganized. There are plen-ty of governing bodies thatregulate cheerleading andhold competitions, but be-cause there are so many, itcan lead to a significantamount of confusion.
UK has won 18 nationalcheerleading championshipsby the Universal Cheerlead-ers Association since 1985,but that’s just one of the myr-iad governing bodies. TheCheerleaders of America isanother. USA Cheer is lead-ing the charge to qualifycheerleading for “emergingsport” status in the NCAA,and holds its own champi-onship.
Meanwhile, the NationalCollegiate Acrobatics andTumbling Association has sixmember schools, includingMaryland and Oregon, thatcompete against each other inhead-to-head competitions.These teams are held to stan-dards similar to those that anNCAA team would be heldto, including GPA standardsand recruiting regulations.The NCATA also crowns itsown national champion, sepa-rate from USA Cheer, andconsiders gaining NCAAsanctioning for cheerleadingone of its primary goals.
For their part, Thompsonand the UK athletic depart-ment don’t feel like they needto be taking a major role inadvancing cheerleading as a
sport.“We’ve got a very good
cheerleading program and avery good dance program andI don’t see any reason tochange that,” UK athletics di-rector Mitch Barnhart said. Hesaid UK wouldn’t try and leada movement to gain NCAAsupport for cheerleading.
But change could becoming soon anyway. USACheer plans to present itschampionship to the NCAAin June for consideration asan “emerging sport.” Emerg-ing sports are defined by theNCAA as “an institutional ac-tivity involving physical exer-tion with the purpose of com-petition versus other teams orindividuals within a collegiate
competition structure.” To gain the status as an
emerging sport, the NCAAmust receive at least 10 let-ters from universities inwhich their presidents andathletic directors support theactivity as an emerging sport.
But until cheerleadinggains NCAA sanctioning,Thompson and his team don’tfeel like they need to validatecheerleading as a sport toanyone. Dietetics senior andcheerleading team memberAshley Phillips said she un-derstands why some peopledon’t consider cheerleading asport, but her passion forcheerleading leads her tothink differently.
“In my mind, you thinkof a sport and you think of anathlete and you think of anathlete who’s purely dedicat-ed to what they do,” she said.“And I am. I come in hereand I train, and I dedicatemyself and my time to this. Ispend so much of my timedoing this and I love it. Imight think in my mind I’mgoing to do ‘my sport,’ but ifyou write down the rules, Iwouldn’t classify it as asport.”
Thompson said he be-lieves that the competition as-pect of cheerleading will like-ly be considered a sport with-in the next five to 10 years.One of the major obstacles,he said, is the stigma that sur-rounds the name ‘cheerlead-ing.’ He thinks a new namemight be necessary for it tobe recognized as a sport.
“If you call the competi-tive part cheerleading, it’snot, because they’re not lead-ing anybody,” he said.
“They’re doing a series ofstunts, tumbling, baskets,those sorts of things. Cheer-leading is what we do on thesideline.”
If the NCAA does sanc-tion cheerleading, it wouldmean major changes forThompson and his team.There would be limits onpractice time and regulationssurrounding recruiting. Now,Thompson is free to commu-nicate with recruits on Face-book as he pleases, and does-n’t have to worry aboutscheduling official visits.
Perhaps most significant-ly, it could change the pri-mary focus of the cheerlead-ing team. To be an NCAAsport, the main focus ofcheerleading teams wouldhave to shift from supportingother teams in the athletic de-partment to competition withother programs.
“Our main focus is notthe competi-tion, our mainfocus is tosupport foot-ball, men’sand women’sb a s k e t b a l l ,and volley-ball,” Thomp-son said.
N C A Astatus wouldmean thatcould no longerbe the case. The gray areaover whether cheerleading isa sport would be gone, but sowould the compromise be-tween competition and sup-porting the athletic depart-ment. It would create a majorsplit between the two, thoughin some cases, that split has
already begun. Oregon’s acrobatics &
tumbling team is part of theNCATA, but it has a separatecheerleading team that cheersat games and makes appear-
ances for theuniversity.
U K ’ scheerleaders,like Phillips,are still inthe middleg r o u n dwhere theycan competeand supportthe athleticdepartment.
She said shelikes the arrangement theteam has now, and doesn’tknow which side of cheer-leading she would pick ifforced to choose.
“People look at our cheer-leading program and say,‘That’s how you should doit,’” Barnhart said.
If cheerleading becomes
an NCAA sport, that wouldall change. UK’s traditionwon’t be lost, but the role ofthe program will shift dramat-ically. For cheerleading to be-come a sport, it could beforced to surrender not onlythe most public aspect ofwhat cheerleaders do, butalso their roots.
“The happy medium iswhat we have right now. Wehave the best of both worlds.We compete, and we get tocheer at games,” Thompsonsaid. “I guess I’m a little ap-prehensive about the splitthat’s coming, but that’s justbecause this is what I’veknown. But if it does becomea sport and the school doesadopt it, we’re going to beright there on the cuttingedge. We’re going to take thatsame tradition that we have ...ramp it up even more ... con-tinue to put more banners upthere. The only difference isthat those banners will sayNCAA.”
from the front page:
PHOTO BY BRITNEY MCINTOSH | STAFFThe UK cheerleaders practice a stunt for their nationals routine at the Seaton Center on Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2010.
PHOTO BY BRITNEY MCINTOSH | STAFFUK cheerleaders flip in unison as the basketball players make theirway on to the court before the start of UK’s first-round NCAA Tour-nament game on March 17, 2011.
PHOTO BY BRITNEY MCINTOSH | STAFFDan Jacus gets a hug from Josh Harrellson after UK’s Sweet 16win over Ohio State on March 25, 2011.
“I think cheer-leading is a sport.
You work just as hardas anyone else.”
MAURICE GRANTUK Cheerleader
PAGE 4 | Friday, April 29, 2011
Eight bands will be rock-ing and jamming on Friday asthey compete for the title ofbest band on campus.
The Student ActivitiesBoard is putting on UK’sBattle of the Bands competi-tion.
“We wanted to participatein this event to get our nameout,” Drew Charron, thedrummer in the band Inter-secting Horizons, said.“We've been trying to estab-lish a fan base in Lexingtonfor about four years now.”
The four-member band iscomprised of Michael Tyree,guitar and lead vocals; J.T.Butcher, bass; JimmyHawkins, keyboards and pi-ano; and Charron, who singsbackup vocals and drums.
“All we expect is thatpeople are going to really dig
our sound,” Charron said.“We are premiering a newsong Friday that we justwrote and it's pretty killer.Hopefully people will realizethat we have an awesomesound and know how to puton a good show.”
Intersecting Horizons, who
has one win under its belt afterplaying in two other Battle ofthe Bands competitions, will bethe last band to perform.
“There will be otherbands like Fleece, SoulFunkin' Dangerous, Patterns
and others,” Charron said.“The winner gets $1,000 innew music equipment.”
Intersecting Horizonswishes to make a career out ofmusic and plans on moving toNashville after the band mem-bers have completed school.
Soul Funkin’ Dangerouswill be the second band toperform.
“We want to win,” DonaldMason, the lead vocalist of theband, said. “But the realisticexpectation is that all thebands are going to be reallygood. We’re just fortunate tobe able to play for an audiencethat we might not necessarilyget to play for normally.”
The five-member band isperforming for the first timein Battle of the Bands.
“It’s really to play and getexposure and to try to gainfans,” Mason said. “Just tosay we were able to participatein a UK Battle of the Bands.”
As the end of the semes-ter approaches, I find it rele-vant to bid a fond farewell tothe readers of this humblegaming column.
There have been rumorsand news, reviews and pre-views. All these things led tomy first year of doing some-thing like this, and I greatlyenjoyed myself. I only hopethat you, the readers, enjoyedreading it as well.
As we go into a summerthat is uncertain, I wish togive a few insights into what
summer is going to be likefor gamers.
First and foremost, wehave the PlayStation Net-work being hacked and mak-ing national headlines.
All of the personal dataof those on the PlayStationNetwork has been compro-mised. The fate of users’credit card data is still up inthe air.
What does this mean foryour summer as a PS3gamer? Get used to a moresecure PSN. Think scaled-down versions of what PCgamers have to go throughwith DRM and copy protec-tion. If your credit card datais stolen, I’m sure you canwrite those fraudulentcharges for a swimming pooland a jumbo jet off on your
taxes as charity to criminals. While Xbox 360 gamers
can laugh to their heart’s con-tent at the problems plaguingtheir PS3 playing brethren,they are off just as bad.
Think of the releaseschedule for the 360. There’snary a drop of new gamecontent hitting this summer.You better get the most out ofthat “Gears of War 3” beta360 gamers. If you didn’tpre-order “Gears of War 3” toget your beta voucher or ob-tained it some other way,have fun playing “Call ofDuty: Warfare Ops of Moder-nity” for the 300th time.
For Nintendo gamers,they got it pretty good.
This year’s E3 in June isgoing to display some hotnew software that the Wii has
been starving for since thebeginning of the year. Ohwait, Nintendo is also reveal-ing the sure-to-be-amazingProject Café. This leaves Wii
fans in a fix as they have totell themselves their system isstill relevant, while countingthe days to the release ofProject Café sometime afterApril 2012.
Of course PC gamers arejust fine this summer.
A steady stream of qualityreleased mostly from indiedevelopers and the decreasingcosts of components meansthey will be set all summer.
There’s always that one catchthough. PC gamers would besaving their money for thatone awesome game this sum-mer, but then a Steam salecomes. If it’s anything likelast summer’s sale, PCgamers are going to take that
$60 they were saving for onegame and buy literally hun-dreds of games.
Sales are good becausethey save you money. Steamsales are bad because youspend all your money.
So really, this summer islooking pretty bleak. I evendepressed myself while writ-ing this.
For those who want toactually have some fun oversummer, why not just playthe only games that will nev-er disappoint. Mobile andFacebook games are callingyou. Angry Birds will neverbetray you and FrontierVillewill never sell your personaldata to marketing compa-nies.
Enjoy your summer andkeep on gaming. I’m surethere’s something out there toplay.
Summer gaming forecast: uneventful
ZACHWALTON
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2BR/1BA Available Now. Walk to campus or CentralBaptist. $675/month. 576-5720
2BR/1.5BA, W/D Hookup, Clubhouse with pool. Allnew windows, Sutherland Drive, 2-story. $600/mo.576-8844
3 Bedroom
Georgetown, 3BR, Clean. $925/month. 502-863-4764
3BR Apartment, $960/month. All electric, W/D, D/W.Walk to UK. Renovated, very open. Pets allowed.948-0205
3BR/2BA, Campus Downs Condo, walk to campus,Refrigerator, D/W, W&D, Parking. $950/month.Available August 1st Call (859) 257-2356
3BR Apartment with Central Air, W/D, off-streetparking. Walking distance to UK. $945/month plusutilities. 502-558-9665
WALK TO CAMPUS. Campus Downs 3BR/2BA. Allappliances, including W/D. 3rd floor, Cathedral ceil-ings. 859-433-5966
3BR/3BA, UK/Woodland Park. Liv-Rm, W/D, A/C.$1,155/month. Classic Real
Estate, 313-5231
3BR/2.5BA luxury townnhome/private developmentclose to campus. Richmond Road. all electric, 2-cargarage, Hardwood, large bedrooms, security sys-tems, custom kitchen, dish, W/D, August lease$1,100-$1,200/month. www.mprentals.com or (859)288-5601
3BR/2BA Condos. Newly remodeled. Convenientlylocated to campus. All appliances, including W/D.$1,000/month. 859-619-5341 or [email protected]
Now Pre-Leasing for Fall Semester, 3BR Houses.
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Deluxe 3BR/2BA, 250 Lexington Ave. Short walk tocampus. All electric, deluxe appliances and laundry.No Pets! Assigned Parking. $1,050/mo. + utilities.859-277-4680 or 859-259-0546 or (cell) 859-619-2468
3BR/2BA Large Apartment. Walk to class. W/D,D/W, Electric utilities, Private parking. Call Brian @859-492-5416
3BR/1BA Houses. Walk to campus. 3 to choosefrom. State, Waller, University area. Nice! Leasebegins 8/01/11. 859-539-5502
Beautiful Tates Creek Duplex, 3BR/2BA, Garage, Allelectric, $895/mo. 263-3740
4 Bedroom
Georgetown, Large 4BR. New carpet and paint.$1,110/month. 502-863-4764
4BR/2.5BA on Waller. All electric. New! Parking. Allappliances, including W/D. Available May/August.859-333-1388.
4BR/2BA House, Walk to UK, Virginia Ave, X-Largerooms, off-street parking, W/D included. Very niceupdates! Call Jenny 859-494-5624
4BR/2.5BA Townhome in historic South Hill neigh-borhood; close to UK; $1400 +utilities; (859) 338-6778or [email protected]
4BR/2BA HOUSES! By Campus! Huge rooms.Awesome yards/decks. Parking. All Appliances. Allelectric. $300/mo. 859-333-1388
4 Bedroom house near campus. Available May orAugust. 859-983-0726 www.sillsbrothers.com
FREE APARTMENT FOR SUMMER 2011. All inclu-sive. Furnished. Brand new. Call 859-455-8208
4BR/2.5BA New construction Townhouse. 2-Cargarage. All electric, large bedrooms, security sys-tem, W/D, Hardwood flooring. August lease,$1,400/month. www.mprentals.com or (859) 288-5601
New 4BR/2.5BA Townhouse with deck, parking, eat-in kitchen. W/D included. Off Tates Creek Road.Clean, Painted, New Carpet. $1,000/month. 278-0970
4BR/2BA, 257 Lexington Avenue, W/D included.www.myuk4rent.com or call Kevin @ 859-619-3232
NEW and Nearly NEW 4BR HOMES – Current placenot what you expected? Only a few left, very nice.Close to campus. View at lexingtonhomeconsul-tants.com. Showing daily. Call or text JamesMcKee, Builder/Broker 859-221-7082
4BD/2BA Houses. Walk to campus. Several tochoose from. State, Waller, University area. Leasebegins 8/01/11. Very nice! 859-539-5502.
5 Bedroom
5BR/3BA NEW HOUSE! By Campus! Huge rooms.Awesome yards/decks. Parking. All Appliances. Allelectric. $350/mo. 859-333-1388
5BR/2BA, 204 Westwood Court. Avail. August.$1500/mo. W/D Inc. 859-619-5454 or [email protected]
5BR/2&3BA Houses. Walk to campus. Several tochoose from. State, Waller, University area.Porches, W/D included. D/W, Parking. Very nice!Lease 8/01/11.Sign now for best available! 859-539-5502.
6 Bedroom
6BR/3BA NEW HOME! By Campus! Huge rooms.Awesome yards/decks. Parking. All Appliances. Allelectric. $350/mo. 859-333-1388
6 Bedroom house near campus. Available May orAugust. 859-983-0726 www.sillbrothers.com.
6BR/ 2 & 3 BA Houses. Walk to campus. Yards.W/D. Porches. Parking. Great Selection! Nice!Waller, State, Univ. area. 859-539-5502
1-9 Bedroom Listings
Euclid/Aylesford. Best location on campus. Bestvalue on campus. Free parking, WiFi. 2BR for$650/month, 1BR for $550/month. Call or text Davidfor a tour at 859-420-3974. “Like” us on Facebook @400-418 Aylesford Place and enter to win an I-Pad2!
2-3BR Houses/ Apartments available in August. Verynice. W/D. Dennis 859-983-0726. www.sillsbroth-ers.com
Houses for rent. All sizes. Walk to campus. Porches,parking, W/D, D/W. Very nice! Waller, State,University area. Choose early for best selection.Lease begins 8/01/11. 859-539-5502
HelpWanted
Gainesway Small Animal Clinic needs 2 employeeson a part-time permanent basis: A Receptionist towork at 4:30-6:30 every other evening M-F & someSat. 8-4:30p.m. with other part-time hours to bescheduled. Also a Live in position to share a 2 bed-room house behind the Clinic with a male Pre-Vetstudent. All utilities are paid in exchange for clean-ing the Clinic after hours & monitoring hospitalizedpets. Part-time work available as a Vet. Asst. stay-ing in Lexington year round. Apply in person @ 1230Armstrong Mill Road or call (859) 272-9625.
Private Practice Speech-Language Pathologist -Part-Time or Full-Time. CCC and CFY welcome.Flexible schedule. Position begins early June!Contact Amanda @ 859-402-1553, [email protected] or view www.thespeechnet-work.org
Part-Time Operator Needed Immediately for GlennAuto Mall. Computer experience needed (Word,Excel). Hours are Monday-Friday, 4:30-7:30,Saturday, 1:30-7:00 (summer hours may be extend-ed). Please apply in person Monday - Friday atGlenn Nissan, 3360 Richmond Rd., Lexington, ask forMischelle or send resume’ to [email protected]
Lexington family seeks energetic female babysitterfor 3 girls (ages 4, 7 and 9). Mostly weekend &weekday evenings & some weekday hours. Pay is$12 per hour. Resume & references required. Sendinformation to [email protected].
Specialty Food/Deli/Kitchenware Shop looking to fillmorning and afternoon shifts. Apply within. GourmetSpecialists/The Mouse Trapp, Lansdowne Shoppes,3323 Tates Creek Road
Kennel Help Needed. Must be available on week-ends and holidays. Apply in person at UptownHounds, 12-4 M-F, 466 Angliana Avenue.
Do you want to have a summer to remember? Doyou want to touch lives and leave a lasting impres-sion on the future generations? Are you willing to becrazy and show your fun side? If so, come be agroup leader at the YMCA Summer Camps. Hiringnow for group leaders, to finish out the school year,and summer camp counselors. If interested, con-tact Jamie Massie, 859.226.0393 or email:[email protected]
Part-Time Office Work in Doctor’s Office. Flexiblehours. Medical background preferred. Emailresume’ to [email protected]
Wanted: Live-In Nanny for summer months. UKProfesser with 2 children, ages 9 & 10. 257-7779 or361-9622.
Psychological Associate Needed ClinicalEvaluations in Central Kentucky. Flexible schedule,split-fee, supervision. Call Sherry (859) 373-0133
Cariino’s Italian Restaurant is now hiring servers.Apply in person. 135 Rojay Drive.
Need Part-Time Web Designer/WebsiteMaintenance. Send resume’ to [email protected]
Childcare/Nanny: Summer Help needed for 3 kids inour home. $9.00/hour. Good driving record and refer-ences required. 859-232-7944
LEE WEBER GROUP, INC. Executive HealthcareRecruiting Firm. www.leewebergroup.com. Now hir-ing Part-time position: Internet Data Entry.Preferred Master’s Prepared, must be proficient onMS OFFICE (Do not apply if not proficient with MSOffice), 15-20 hrs/wk. If interested please contactLee Weber at: Email: [email protected],Phone: 859-296-1112
Club Scientific Bluegrass is looking for CampCounselors to work this summer. More info andapplications on-line at www.clubscientificblue-grass.com.
Child Care Center is in need of Teaching Assistantsto work afternoons this summer, 15-20 hours perweek. Call 859-253-2273 for more information.
Research Opportunities for Occasional (less than 4to 5 times per month) Recreational Users of Opioidsfor Non-Medical Reasons. Researchers with theUniversity of Kentucky College of Medicine,Department of Behavioral Science are conductingresearch to examine the effects of medications. Allinformation obtained will be kept confidential. Youmay be eligible if you: are between 18 and 50 yearsof age; and have recreationally used opioids fornon-medical reasons occasionally (less than 4 to 5times per month) in the past year (for exampleOxyContin®, Lortab®, Vicodin® or morphine).Eligible volunteers will be paid for their participation.You may be reimbursed for travel. Studies involvecompletion of one to 40 testing sessions dependingon studies for which you may be eligible. Meals,snacks, movies, video games and reading materialswill be provided. For more information and a confi-dential interview, please call 859-257-5388 or 1-866-232-0038.
Research Opportunities for Users of Stimulantsfor Non-Medical Reasons. Researchers with theUniversity of Kentucky College of Medicine,Department of Behavioral Science are conduct-ing research to examine the effects of medica-tions. All information will be kept confidential.You may be eligible if you: are between 18 and 50years of age, are using stimulants for non-med-ical reasons (for example, Adderall®, Ritalin®,Amphetamine, or Ephedrine). Eligible volunteerswill be paid for their participation. You may bereimbursed for travel. Studies involve comple-tion of one to 46 testing sessions depending onstudies for which you may be eligible. Meals,snacks, movies, video games and reading mate-rials will be provided. For more information and
a confidential interview, please call 859-257-5388or 1-866-232-0038.
Seeking: Female Student to care for two childrenover the summer. 5 days/week needed. Must haveown transportation/clean driving record. Candidatemust truly enjoy children and have the energy levelto work with children! Previous experience a plus. Iam willing to work around planned vacations/need-ed days off. Candidate will be asked to provide ref-erences and copy of transcript. If interested pleasecall 232-2703 or send emails [email protected].
Lord’s Legacy Ministries, a nonprofit that supportsadults/children with disabilities, is hiring staff towork with our clients as mentors, $10/hour pay rate.Email resume to [email protected].
NOW HIRING Greenbrier Country Club: Servers,Snack Bar, Bartenders & Cooks, call 293-6058 forinfo.
P/T Tutors and Instructors who can teach Englishlanguage and school homework (math, science,history, etc.) to Japanese people whose ages rangefrom pre-school to adults. Degrees required. Sendresume to: Obunsha Bluegrass Academy, 2417Regency Rd., Suite F, Lexington, KY 40503 or E-mail:[email protected]
Receptionist Needed, Part-Time. Flexible Hours.Apply at 860 S. Broadway. Wayne Michael Salon.
SUMMER INTERSHIPS available at the UniversityHealth Service in the health education department.For more information email [email protected] follow us on Twitter@UHSPAWS and Facebook!
"Monkey Joe's”, Lexington's premier children'sindoor entertainment center, is seeking FUN HIGH-ENERGY employees. Apply in person at 1850 BryantRd. Suite 120. [email protected] or call 264-0405for more info.
Electrical/Software Engineers needed! BS needed,but open to upcoming graduates. C/C++ & P.L.C. amust. Prefer industrial programming and microcon-troller experience. Position requires occasionaltravel. Submit resumes to [email protected].
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Office/personal assistant for small company. Work9-5 @ $9/hour. Occasional house sitting/animals.Send resume to 1707 Nicholasville Rd. Lexington,40503
Columbia Steakhouse, 201 N. Limestone, now hiringservers for summer. Call 859-253-3135
Camp Counselors, male/female, needed for greatovernight camps in the mountains of PA. Have funwhile working with children outdoors. Positions stillavailable – Unit Leaders, Director of Arts & Crafts,Tennis Instructor, Waterski Instructor, Office Asst.Apply on-line at www.pineforestcamp.com.
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Part-time warehouse help close to campus. Greatjob for reliable college student with flexible sched-ule. Apply in person at 573 Angliana Ave. M-F 9-5.
Healthy Marijuana Users Needed for BehavioralStudy. Researchers with the University of KentuckyCollege of Medicine, Department of BehavioralScience are recruiting healthy volunteers ages 18-40 to participate in a research study to evaluate thebehavioral effects of marijuana. Qualified volunteerswill be paid for their participation. The studyinvolves completion of 8 to 16 testing sessions andare run in a pleasant setting during daytime hours.Snacks, movies, video games and reading materialswill be provided. Please call (859) 277-3799.Investigators will return your call to discuss eligibili-ty. Or visit our website at http://rrf.research.uky.edu
Lifeguards and Pool managers needed. PPM is hir-ing for clubs and waterparks in Lex, Lou andRichmond. $7.50 – $13.00/hour. [email protected] for application.
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Researchers are recruiting social drinkers with orwithout ADHD for studies concerning the effects ofalcohol. Looking for Male and Female participantsbetween 21-35 years of age. All participants arecompensated for their time. Please call 257-5794.
RoommatesWanted
Male Roommate Needed to share 3BR/2.5BA fur-nished townhome. 4 miles to campus. Water andElectric included. $450/month. $250 deposit. 859-494-1099
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Female Roommate Wanted: Female Student a Must.1BR for sub-lease, near UK. $375/month + utilities.Available immediately. 859-588-5757
Lost &Found
White Iphone 3 lost on campus. Reward if found.Contact Brad O'Neal at 636-399-2958 if foundplease.
KEY LOST, March 26-27. Key is on a blue lanyard.Please call 502-876-4780.
FOUND! Apartment Key on a lanyard, on campus.Please call 257-2871.
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friday 04.29.11 page 5
I’m never good at longgoodbyes. Any attempts onmy part end up sounding sap-
py andcliché.
Factorin, too, thatmy preferredmode ofcommunica-tion is writ-ten.
Sayingfarewell tosomeoneover emailor in a Face-
book message doesn’t exactlyhave the emotional closureyou’d most likely expect ordesire.
This puts me in apredicament as to how to ad-dress this very topic in mylast column in the KentuckyKernel.
I don’t have frilly cardsto handwrite to every singleone of the more than 28,000
UK students.And my email account is
migrating in a few days(ironic, considering I gradu-ate in about a week), so cre-ating a listserv for this solepurpose seems a bit exces-sive.
Surmise to say that a col-umn seems the most practicalway to accomplish this.
President Lee Todd has iteasy. He has the opportunityto address hordes of peopleat this year’s graduation cere-mony, or for that matter, anytime that he deems a formalcampus-wide meeting is nec-essary.
Don’t get me wrong, I’llmiss him and Patsy Todd justthe same as anyone who hashad the great privilege to at-tend UK during his adminis-tration. As a fifth-year senior,I’ve been at UK for exactlyhalf of his tenure as presi-dent.
I’m just saying that he’s
been around long enough thatwhatever his post-presidentialplans may be, the adjustmentwon’t be too strenuous be-cause practically everyone inthe state of Kentucky, andelsewhere, knows him.
I, on the other hand, amabout to descend into un-charted territory. No morehomework, no more stayinglate at the Kernel as we pushdeadline yet again. I’m aboutto leave all that familiaritybehind.
And that’s probably whygoodbye is best left unsaid.
Poet Robert Frost oncesaid, “Ends and beginnings –there are no such things.There are only middles.”
He’s right. This isn’tgoodbye, nor is this the end.It’s just the middle.
Frazer’s farewell: Goodbyesare never easy, often cheesy
SARA NELLE MURPHY, Kernel cartoonist
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isn’t very prevalent in films today.“It’s a good baseball movie, for peo-
ple who have a love for baseball,” Mad-dy said. “It has a great family tie to it...an emotional connection. People love tohear about baseball and heroes, andthings like that.”
Roberto Clemente was the connec-tion for Mikita and his younger brotherSteve, who suffers from a rare form ofmuscular dystrophy called spinal muscu-lar atrophy. During their childhood, hewas confined to a wheelchair.
“We grew up very close and sharedthis love of sports and Roberto Clemente,our hero, who was a great player forPittsburgh Pirates,” Mikita said. “Notonly was he a great player he was a greatindividual; a humanitarian who helpedother people.”
Maddy said the film uses actualfootage of Roberto Clemente in majorleague games, and will give fans a senseof nostalgia.
Mikita said he started to write screen-plays after a tragedy struck his family.
“I was an attorney by education andby practice when my mother died, rathersuddenly, of a brain tumor,” Mikita said.“I thought, ‘What if half of my life isover? What do I want to do?’”
He had five or six screenplays whenhe began to make trips to Los Angelesand build contacts.
“Around 1999 I wrote ‘Chasing3000.’ I had a writing partner at the time,Cris D’Annunzio,” Mikita said. “Westarted to pitch the story and over a peri-od of quite a few years people expressedinterest in it, but no one purchased it.
Mikita said he woke up one morningand decided he was going to raise themoney on his own. He began to talk topeople who could invest in the movie,like Mark Motley.
Motley, a UK grad and Lexingtonnative, who had an equity investmentfirm, Foster & Motley, Inc. in Cinncinatiat the time, liked the script and thescreenplay.
“He was a point person to help pullinvestors together,” Mikita said. “I wasable to raise the money through Foster &Motley and family members.”
Mikita said the movie really took offwhen he and his team were able to getRay Liotta. Liotta plays the adult version
of Mickey, the character based onMikita.
“We got a really great cast,” he said.“The young actors who play my brotherand me in the movie did a great job.”The characters based on Mikita and hisbrother Steve are played by Trevor Mor-gan and Rory Culkin, the younger broth-er of Macaulay Culkin, respectively.
Other headliners of the movie in-clude Lauren Holly, Emmett Walsh andMichael O’Keefe.
“Largely we shot the movie in Pitts-burgh for about four days, and then therest of the movie we shot in SouthernCalifornia around the L.A. area,” Mikitasaid. “Maddy made numerous trips toL.A with me. She was on the set for aweek when we shot in L.A.
Maddy remembered being on themovie set at the age of 17.
'I had never been on a movie set be-fore so it was surreal,' she said.
“Chasing 3,000” was released lastyear and premiered in 10 cities. Themovie is now available at Blockbuster,Netflix and Amazon.
On May 1, “Chasing 3,000” will ap-pear on Showtime, and run throughoutthe whole month.
