kentucky kernel est. 1892 | independent since 1971 | www.kykernel.com wednesday 09.07.11 60 57 showers tomorrow’s weather index First issue free. Subsequent issues 25 cents. Newsroom: 257-1915 Advertising: 257-2872 Classifieds.............5 Features.................3 Opinions.............5 Sports..................4 Horoscope.............2 Sudoku................2 Youth movement New receivers get opportunities Learn who flushes urinals at Commonwealth See POP! on Thursday UK cancer physicians released new data regarding survival rates Tuesday morning, comparing with patients who have been treat- ed elsewhere in the state. Markey Cancer Center patients have a significantly higher five-year survival rate than patients treated elsewhere, said Dr. Mark Evers, director of UK Markey Cancer Center, according to data released Tuesday. Specific cancers with higher survival rates are brain, breast, liver, lung, ovarian, pancre- atic and prostate cancers, according to the data. “There are two reasons for our higher sur- vival rates,” Evers said, “One being for our staff and the other is that we are a major aca- demic health center.” The study also shows that Markey pa- tients with brain, liver and prostate cancers Cancer center sees higher survival rates By Anne Marie Sanderson [email protected]See CANCER on page 2 Sometimes it can be hard to get across campus in a reasonable amount of time. But with Cat Tracker for the CATS bus system, riders can see when a bus will ar- rive. Cat Tracker is a real-time, GPS-based device, said Chrissie Tune, senior marketing specialist for UK Parking and Transportion Services. The device allows riders to locate CATS buses. Anyone with a smartphone can download the app, known as “transloc.” Those without smartphones can log onto the UK website and track the route or text “UKY” then the bus stop number, which is located on the bus stop sign. Sarah Perkins, a dietetics senior and An- droid user, began using the CATS bus be- cause of this tracking program. “I like the new program because it’s right at my fingertips and can be used at any time,” she said. “Providing the app is one of the best ideas to students because of our technological generation.” Since Perkins has class at opposite ends of campus on a daily basis, she is able to time exactly when she needs to be some- where, she said. The tracking program began this summer and reached up to 3,800 users, Tune said. Just in the month of August, it reached 8,000 Bus GPS makes stops predictable By Kelsi Borntraeger [email protected]See TRACKER on page 2 Arts & Sciences chooses new leaders The College of Arts and Sciences has selected new department chairs. This change in personnel includes seven new leaders, each hand picked via a selection process headed by Mark Kornbluh, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. The intensity of this process mir- rors the responsibility for each chair, said Richard Milich, interim chair for psychology. “It’s like a full-time job,” Milich said. Deborah Crooks, the chair for an- thropology, agreed. “We’re just like the head of a com- pany,” she said. One responsibility of the chairs is the budgetary power. This power in- cludes the distribution of money among programs old and new, allow- ing them to snuff potentially bad ideas while aiding fresh ones, Milich said. Hiring new faculty, promotion of staff, scheduling meetings and com- mittee hearings are only a few oth- ers. This level of control will lead to contemporary programs for students. Ernest Yanarella, the department chair for political science, said students can look forward to upcoming pro- grams. “We’re currently working on a multi-year hiring plan to expand the number of faculty in our department,” he said. “This will help to offer more undergrad classes.” Milich and Crooks also dis- cussed new programs in their depart- ments, which include a new honors program, renovations and a graduate program. By Ryan Winstead [email protected]7 departments select chairs, will start ‘contemporary programs’ Board committees nominate officers The Board of Trustees Nominating Committee met Tuesday morning to discuss officers and appointments to the Board’s Executive Com- mittee. Frank Shoop, the chair- man of the committee, opened the meeting with nominations for several de- partment chairs. William Stamps Farish Jr. was nominated for UK Gluck Equine Research Foundation Board of Directors; Joe Peek for the UK Research Foundation Board of Directors; and Jo Hern Curris for the UK Mining Engineering Foundation, Inc. Board of Directors. The Board of Trustees Executive Committee nomi- nations were also an- nounced. The Executive Committee nominations in- clude: Edward Britt Brock- man, re-elect for chair; Pamela T. May for vice chair; and Sandy Bugie Pat- terson for secretary. The Nominating Com- mittee discussed issues per- taining to the department, such as attendance at Board of Trustee meetings and the lack of ability to interact in previous months. Even though problems persisted before the nomi- nating process, members ex- By Taylor Riley [email protected]See BOARD on page 2 Chosen chairs • Deborah Crooks, Department of An- thropology • Jeff Clymer, Department of English (to begin spring 2012) • Marion Rust, interim chair for Depart- ment of English (fall 2011) • Richard Milich, interim chair for De- partment of Psychology • Karen Petrone, Department of History • David Leep, Department of Mathe- matics • Jeanmarie Rouhier-Willoughby, De- partment of Modern and Classical Lan- guages, Literatures and Cultures • Ernest Yanarella, Department of Po- litical Science PHOTOS BY BRANDON GOODWIN | STAFF Parts of Substation 1 were taped off after South Campus lost power Tuesday afternoon. UK’s South Campus was dimmed Tuesday because of a power outage. Power went out at more than 33 loca- tions at 12:56 p.m. “It was brief and didn’t interrupt hospi- tal operations and temporarily interrupted operations in main campus buildings,” said UK spokeswoman Kathy Johnson in an email to the Kernel. Buildings on campus lost power “due to a failed insulator at Substation 1 at UK Parking Structure No. 1,” Johnson said. It is located at the corner of Cooper and University drives. Alarms and notifications went off at 12:56 p.m. saying a power blink had occurred, in UK’s Delta Room, the central command for energy management. Galen Tolliver, supervisor of the Delta Room, said power outages of this magni- tude rarely occur on campus — maybe one or two times a year. When the alarms went off, the two facility management programmers and two dispatchers in the Delta Room jumped to action to monitor the situation all across campus. Tolliver said the outage affected about two-thirds of the energy load the Delta Room oversees, which includes auxiliary services, residence halls, food services and athletics. Some buildings that lost power include the Johnson Center, Commonwealth Stadium, the Chemistry-Physics Building, all Agriculture buildings, Commons Market and the Nutter Football Training Facility. In the medical area, Chandler Hospital, University Health Services and the Markey Cancer Center lost power as well. Jason Headrick, who is a part of the emergency management team at the Agriculture Science Building, checked ele- vators throughout the building to make sure no one was trapped. He said he was making sure everyone within the building was safe. One student witnessed the transformer malfunction. “I was walking across University Drive when I saw an orange glow and felt a wave of heat hit my face,” said Cody Gibson, an agriculture community leadership develop- ment senior. “The force of the transformers mishap blew my hat off my head.” At the College of Agriculture, power was slow coming back on. But within 30 minutes, everything was working again. “I was working on Ag Ambassador events for Ag Roundup when I heard a star- By Anne Marie Sanderson and Taylor Moak [email protected]A power outage dimmed South Campus, affected more than 33 locations Left in the dark Substation 1 is located on University Drive near Cooper Drive. Many cars were parked outside the substation as UK and Kentucky Utilities workers tried to assess the causes of the power loss. 4 See POWER on page 2
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Learn who flushes urinals at CommonwealthSee POP! on Thursday
UK cancer physicians released new dataregarding survival rates Tuesday morning,comparing with patients who have been treat-ed elsewhere in the state.
Markey Cancer Center patients have asignificantly higher five-year survival ratethan patients treated elsewhere, said Dr. MarkEvers, director of UK Markey Cancer Center,according to data released Tuesday.
Specific cancers with higher survival ratesare brain, breast, liver, lung, ovarian, pancre-atic and prostate cancers, according to thedata.
“There are two reasons for our higher sur-vival rates,” Evers said, “One being for ourstaff and the other is that we are a major aca-demic health center.”
The study also shows that Markey pa-tients with brain, liver and prostate cancers
Sometimes it can be hard to get acrosscampus in a reasonable amount of time.
But with Cat Tracker for the CATS bussystem, riders can see when a bus will ar-rive.
Cat Tracker is a real-time, GPS-baseddevice, said Chrissie Tune, senior marketingspecialist for UK Parkin g and TransportionServices. The device allows riders to locateCATS buses.
Anyone with a smartphone can downloadthe app, known as “transloc.”
Those without smartphones can log ontothe UK website and track the route or text“UKY” then the bus stop number, which islocated on the bus stop sign.
Sarah Perkins, a dietetics senior and An-droid user, began using the CATS bus be-cause of this tracking program.
“I like the new program because it’sright at my fingertips and can be used at anytime,” she said. “Providing the app is one ofthe best ideas to students because of ourtechnological generation.”
Since Perkins has class at opposite endsof campus on a daily basis, she is able totime exactly when she needs to be some-where, she said.
The tracking program began this summerand reached up to 3,800 users, Tune said.Just in the month of August, it reached 8,000
The College of Arts and Scienceshas selected new department chairs.
This change in personnel includesseven new leaders, each hand pickedvia a selection process headed byMark Kornbluh, dean of the College ofArts and Sciences.
The intensity of this process mir-rors the responsibility for each chair,said Richard Milich, interim chair forpsychology.
“It’s like a full-time job,” Milichsaid.
Deborah Crooks, the chair for an-thropology, agreed.
“We’re just like the head of a com-pany,” she said.
One responsibility of the chairs isthe budgetary power. This power in-cludes the distribution of money
among programs old and new, allow-ing them to snuff potentially bad ideaswhile aiding fresh ones, Milich said.
Hiring new faculty, promotion ofstaff, scheduling meetings and com-mittee hearings are only a few oth-ers.
This level of control will lead tocontemporary programs for students.
Ernest Yanarella, the departmentchair for political science, said studentscan look forward to upcoming pro-grams.
“We’re currently working on amulti-year hiring plan to expand thenumber of faculty in our department,”he said. “This will help to offer moreundergrad classes.”
Milich and Crooks also dis-cussed new programs in their depart-ments, which include a new honorsprogram, renovations and a graduateprogram.
7 departments select chairs, will start ‘contemporary programs’
Board committeesnominate officers
The Board of TrusteesNominating Committee metTuesday morning to discussofficers and appointments tothe Board’s Executive Com-mittee.
Frank Shoop, the chair-man of the committee,opened the meeting withnominations for several de-partment chairs.
William Stamps FarishJr. was nominated for UKGluck Equine ResearchFoundation Board ofDirectors; Joe Peek for theUK Research FoundationBoard of Directors; and JoHern Curris for the UKMining Engineering
Foundation, Inc. Board ofDirectors.
The Board of TrusteesExecutive Committee nomi-nations were also an-nounced. The ExecutiveCommittee nominations in-clude: Edward Britt Brock-man, re-elect for chair;Pamela T. May for vicechair; and Sandy Bugie Pat-terson for secretary.
The Nominating Com-mittee discussed issues per-taining to the department,such as attendance at Boardof Trustee meetings and thelack of ability to interact inprevious months.
Even though problemspersisted before the nomi-nating process, members ex-
Chosen chairs• Deborah Crooks, Department of An-thropology• Jeff Clymer, Department of English(to begin spring 2012)• Marion Rust, interim chair for Depart-ment of English (fall 2011) • Richard Milich, interim chair for De-partment of Psychology• Karen Petrone, Department ofHistory • David Leep, Department of Mathe-matics• Jeanmarie Rouhier-Willoughby, De-partment of Modern and Classical Lan-guages, Literatures and Cultures• Ernest Yanarella, Department of Po-litical Science
PHOTOS BY BRANDON GOODWIN | STAFFParts of Substation 1 were taped off after South Campus lost power Tuesday afternoon.
UK’s South Campus was dimmedTuesday because of a power outage.
Power went out at more than 33 loca-tions at 12:56 p.m.
“It was brief and didn’t interrupt hospi-tal operations and temporarily interruptedoperations in main campus buildings,” saidUK spokeswoman Kathy Johnson in anemail to the Kernel.
Buildings on campus lost power “dueto a failed insulator at Substation 1 at UKParking Structure No. 1,” Johnson said. Itis located at the corner of Cooper andUniversity drives.
Alarms and notifications went off at12:56 p.m. saying a power blink hadoccurred, in UK’s Delta Room, the centralcommand for energy management.
Galen Tolliver, supervisor of the DeltaRoom, said power outages of this magni-tude rarely occur on campus — maybe oneor two times a year.
When the alarms went off, the twofacility management programmers and twodispatchers in the Delta Room jumped toaction to monitor the situation all acrosscampus.
Tolliver said the outage affected abouttwo-thirds of the energy load the DeltaRoom oversees, which includes auxiliaryservices, residence halls, food services andathletics.
Some buildings that lost power includethe Johnson Center, CommonwealthStadium, the Chemistry-Physics Building,
all Agriculture buildings, Commons Marketand the Nutter Football Training Facility.
In the medical area, Chandler Hospital,University Health Services and the MarkeyCancer Center lost power as well.
Jason Headrick, who is a part of theemergency management team at theAgriculture Science Building, checked ele-vators throughout the building to make sureno one was trapped.
He said he was making sure everyonewithin the building was safe.
One student witnessed the transformer
malfunction.“I was walking across University Drive
when I saw an orange glow and felt a waveof heat hit my face,” said Cody Gibson, anagriculture community leadership develop-ment senior. “The force of the transformersmishap blew my hat off my head.”
At the College of Agriculture, powerwas slow coming back on. But within 30minutes, everything was working again.
“I was working on Ag Ambassadorevents for Ag Roundup when I heard a star-
A power outage dimmed South Campus, affected more than 33 locations
Left in the dark
Substation 1 is located on University Drive near Cooper Drive. Many cars were parked outsidethe substation as UK and Kentucky Utilities workers tried to assess the causes of the powerloss.
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To get the advantage, check theday's rating: 10 is the easiestday, 0 the most challenging.Aries (March 21-April 19) — Todayis an 8 — It doesn't take much torestore harmony. A balancedcheckbook is only part of it.Express your deepest passionsthis morning, and then take iteasy later.Taurus (April 20-May 20) —Today is an 8 — Choose the pathyou really want, even if it seemsmore challenging. Get expertadvice, and follow the rulesexactly. Stay cautious andfocused, and go for it.Gemini (May 21-June 21) — Todayis a 9 — Cash flow improves, andyou feel more in balance. Don'tdip into savings, though. Resisttemptation with love or money.There's plenty of time to letthings develop.Cancer (June 22-July 22) —Today is an 8 — Prizes come tothose who can hold theirtongues while the rest complain.
Disregard critics. Move quicklyto take advantage of a suddenopportunity.Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) — Today isa 9 — Finish tasks at work with-out a fuss (there's no time forthat). Tell fears you'll get backto them later ... afraid you'retoo busy now. Love lights thepath. Focus, and follow theshine.Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — Todayis a 7 — The more you get toknow a friend, the better you'lllike her. New partnerships bringnew opportunities. Pay downdebts and finish old projectsbefore diving in.Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — Todayis a 7 — Take your time and staycalm. Your home is your palace.Neatness counts, so meditate bydoing the dishes and sweeping.You're in demand and earningpositive attention.Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) —Today is an 8 — Now's a goodtime to study, learn and discov-er. The best way to learn is byplaying. Work quickly but care-fully to avoid costly errors.
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LOS ANGELES — Is there a JessicaChastain effect at play at the box office?
That’s what some industry executives de-duced after “The Help” and “The Debt” —both of which the actress stars in — were thetop two choices among moviegoers at themultiplex this weekend.
“So many people have seen Jessica’s per-formance in ‘The Help,’ that I think it helpedus that she was a familiar face that some peo-ple were happy to see again,” said Jack Foley,president of domestic distribution for FocusFeatures, which released “The Debt.” “We putour trailer up on ‘The Help’ because we knewthat for adult moviegoers going to the movietheater, it was going to be, ‘Now we’ve seen‘The Help,’ what can we see this weekend?’”
Although both films may target an adultaudience, they are quite different tonally —and Chastain plays polar opposites in each
one. In “The Help,” she’s a ditsy blond whoselack of cooking skills and affinity for low-cutblouses make her a social outcast with thewomen of the Mississippi Junior League.Meanwhile, as a Mossad secret agent in “TheDebt,” her strong-willed character is taskedwith capturing a Nazi war criminal.
Chastain, 30, was months ago deemed the“It” girl of the season for the sheer volume ofpictures in which she appears this year. Sheplayed opposite Brad Pitt in the art-house hit“The Tree of Life” released earlier in the yearand is featured in three films due by the end of2011: “Take Shelter,” “Texas Killing Fields”and “The Wettest County in the World.” Twomore of her movies, “Coriolanus” and “WildeSalome,” are now making the rounds on thefestival circuit.
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show significantly higherfive-year survival ratesthan patients treated na-tionally.
Specifically, data showedthat the five-year survival
rates were higher for ovarianby 23 percent; lung, 18 per-cent; brain, 36 percent; andstage IV colorectal cancer,49 percent.
“We are grateful to hearthese results, a lot of thissuccess is due to early detec-tion,” said Dr. John vanNagell, director of the Divi-
sion of Gynecologic Oncolo-gy.
Van Nagell said that thescreening process for ovari-an cancer is painless andonly takes about five to 10minutes. Simple screeningprocesses like these have amajor impact on the earlydetection and high five-year
survival rates. Suzi Shoemaker, an
ovarian cancer survivor, wasalso present during the pressconference. She was one of37,000 enrolled in the ovari-an screening program whendiagnosed.
“My initial reaction afterbeing diagnosed was fear —
fear of the disease and treat-ment,” Shoemaker said. “Allof my previous screens hadbeen normal; I had alwaysbeen a poster child for goodhealth.”
Shoemaker has now beencancer free for five yearswith no reoccurrence, alongwith Roger Samples, a cur-
rent lung cancer patient atthe Markey Cancer Center.
Both patients agreed thatthe Markey Cancer Centerdoctors, surgeons and otherstaff went above and beyondtheir expectations.
Shoemaker and Samplessaid the center saved theirlives.
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users.Agricultural economics
senior Sarah Askin does nothave a smartphone but hasused the routing system onthe website.
“It would be easier touse the program on myphone, but having the abili-ty to use it through the UKwebsite is also nice,” Askinsaid. “My classes are farfrom my house so knowingwhere the bus will be in 10minutes is crucial and helpsme a lot.”
Since there has alreadybeen such a large increasein users, PTS hopes that asthe first year for the pro-gram goes on, there will be
an even bigger increase,Tune said.
“Several folks havecommented that it will comein handy on rainy and colddays,” Tune said.
The initial installation andservice start up was $89,000and there is also a monthlyfee of $2,115 for tech supportand data, Tune said.
Tune and PTS believethis program will last.
“The number of hits sofar is very encouraging,”Tune said. “PTS views CatTracker as an important toolfor our bus system. Thebenefits for using this pro-gram include increasedcommunications to our ex-isting riders as well as mak-ing the bus system easier tounderstand for the UK com-munity.”
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pressed trust in the Nomi-nating Committee.
“There is not a memberon this board I would notwant to run my personalbusiness,” said Billy JoeMiles, a member of com-mittee. “All you have to dois be on a committee toknow this place is a greatplace (University of Ken-tucky).”
Nominating committeemembers acknowledgedtheir importance to theBoard of Trustees.
“People have to trustthe Nominating Committeeto do what is right,” saidBarbara Young, a Nomi-nating Committee member.
Board members also ex-changed their experienceson the committee as exam-ples for future members.
“On a committee, youhave a 60,000-footoverview, you really seehow everything comes to-gether. It is always a learn-ing experience,” said com-mittee member SheilaBrothers.
The Board of Trusteeswill hold its next meetingSept. 13 at 1 p.m.
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tling noise,” said Hannah Sheer, an animal sci-ence and agriculture economics senior. “Thenext thing I knew we were all sitting in thedark.”
Ross Reasor, a dispatcher for the DeltaRoom, said power outages are much easier todeal with after 5 p.m., when everyone is offcampus.
He used to work 3 p.m. to 11 p.m., the shiftwhen power outages usually occur. He said it is
easier for one person to manage a power outageduring that shift than for many people to man-age an outage during hours when most peopleare on campus.
This was the “first one in the day, in a while— years,” Reasor said. “Seems to me anyway.”
Johnson said they are repairing the prob-lem insulator and hoped to have it fixed eitherlate Tuesday evening or early Wednesday.
With assistance from Kentucky Utilities,Johnson said, the failed insulator was by-passed with the use of two transformers. Onetransformer was up around 1:30 p.m. and theother at 2.
Picture yourself walking to class when someonestops you and asks you to point out Jamaica on a worldmap.
Not many students would be able to locate thesmall island.
Everyone may not know where Jamaica is locatedon a map, but many affiliate the country with Reggaemusic.
The Student Activities Board will host the WildcatRhythm Reggae Festival Thursday to entertain and edu-cate students about the colorful culture of Jamaica.
“We haven’t had an event like this to enjoy,” said AliSehon, director of multicultural affairs for SAB. “Thisevent will be opening up some doors musically, but itwill also be here for othersto enjoy music they al-ready love.”
Students and facul-ty can escape the rainyweather predicted thisweek to enjoy a sum-mer-like atmosphereindoors.
Sehon said festival-goers will be able tosample authentic Ja-maican and Caribbeanfood from UK catering.
A “rock steady” band, Seefari, will play a live con-cert, Sehon said.
Attendees also can learn Jamaican dance steps froma certified instructor, and make crafts with beads andsand to share their creativity with others.
“This is a great opportunity for students to comeout and learn more about reggae and hear some greatmusic,” said Emelia Dunston, adviser to multiculturalaffairs for SAB.
Student representatives from Education Abroad andStudent Involvement will also have booths set up forstudents to learn how to get more involved on campus,Dunston said.
The Wildcat Rhythm Reggae Festival will beThursday from 5 to 7 p.m. in the Student Center HarrisGrand Ballroom. Admission is free.
Student Activites Board bringJamaican traditions to campus
Students to‘rock steady’ atreggae festival
if you goWhat: Wildcat Rhythm Reggae FestivalWhen: Thursday at 5 p.m.Where: Student CenterGrand BallroomAdmission: Free
“Showboat” captivated the world andchanged theater forever as the first musi-cal in 1927. “Les Misérables” took “epic”to a whole new definition in 1985. Yet
again, Disney displayedits talent for simultane-ously delighting chil-dren and obliteratingcorporate competitionwith “The Lion King”in 1997.
Small potatoes, dearreaders, small potatoes,compared to what BigBlue Theater will beproducing this fall.
Yes, my loyal fol-lowers and diehardfans (I was forced towrite this after crazed
mobs longing for my column threatenedto burn down the Kernel), my secondcolumn is a preview of the smashing hitthat will inevitably be “Lee Todd: TheMusical.”
“Lee Todd: The Musical” chroniclesthe life of the 11th president of UK, fromhis humble beginnings in Earlington, Ky.to his rise to the zenith of power at UK. Itis rumored that the music and lyrics forthe production were composed by EltonJohn and Tim Rice, the legendary “LionKing” duo.
“We wanted to look deeper into theman,” said the director, a highly reclu-sive and bespectacled woman who re-fused to be named lest the play bedoomed by superstition. “In theater (pro-nounced “theatah”) one must look deeperinto the soul to find the true meaning ofone’s self.”
The musical will use elements frommany genres of music to create numberslike “Top 20,” “How can I love Cal?” andof course, the heart-stopping finale, “Top20 (reprise).”
Rumors abound hint that the all-im-portant role of Lee Todd will be played byJohn Malkovich, with Patsy Todd beingplayed by the grandma from “Everybody
Loves Raymond.”Sources also confirm that John Cali-
pari, the behemoth of college basketballwith a very capable tenor voice, will bestarring himself.
Billy Gillespie called and offered hisservices, but was politely declined.
“We look for talent,” said the director,“the man couldn’t coach his way out of aday care. You think I’m going to let theman who led UK to the NIT into my pro-duction? Ha!”
Regardless of stars, “Lee Todd: TheMusical” looks to be a show-stopper, thelikes of which haven’t been seen sinceShakespeare. For one scene alone, theproducers are bringing in cannonade, fourfog machines, strobe lights and Sarah Jes-sica Parker.
So, put on your berets and your the-ater glasses, it’s going to be “spec-Todd-ular.”
And that, dear readers, is the Luke-warm Truth. Not quite hot, but definitelynot cold.
Critics say grand spectacle at Big Blue theater shoo-in for Tony
The Lukewarm Truth: ‘Lee Todd: The Musical’ coming
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LOS ANGELES — Therumors became a reality Tues-day: Eddie Murphy will hostthe 84th Academy Awards,which will be telecast Feb. 26on ABC, the Academy of Mo-tion Picture Arts and Scienceshas announced.
Buzz starting circulatingover Labor Day weekend thatthe 50-year-old comedian-ac-tor was being considered forthe host job. In some ways, it’sno surprise, since Murphy isstarring in the upcoming film“Tower Heist,” which was di-rected by Brett Ratner — who
is also producing the AcademyAwards show with Don Misch-er. “Tower Heist” is set toopen in November.
By selecting Murphy, theacademy is returning to itscomedic host roots. The acade-my attempted to court youngerviewers, hiring James Francoand Anne Hathaway to hostthe 83rd Academy Awards inFebruary. Franco, who in addi-tion to hosting was nominatedfor a lead actor Oscar for “127Hours,” was roundly trouncedby critics for his lackluster per-formance; reviews were kindertoward Hathaway.
Over the years, comics in-cluding Bob Burns, Bob Hope,
Jerry Lewis, Johnny Carson,Chevy Chase, Billy Crystal,David Letterman, Chris Rock,Steve Martin, Whoopi Gold-berg and Jon Stewart havehosted the awards. Crystaleven admitted recently that hewas available to host if theacademy wanted him.
“Eddie is a comedic ge-nius, one of the greatest andmost influential live perform-ers ever,” Ratner said in astatement Tuesday. “With hislove of movies, history ofcrafting unforgettable charac-ters and his iconic performanc-es — especially onstage — Iknow he will bring an excite-ment, spontaneity and tremen-
dous heart to the show Donand I want to produce in Feb-ruary.”
Murphy, who earned asupporting actor Oscar nomi-nation for his dramatic turn in2006’s “Dreamgirls,” hasn’tbeen seen on the screen sincethe 2009 flop “Imagine That,”which made just $16.1 milliondomestically. In fact, anotherMurphy film, “A ThousandWords,” which is now set toopen in January, has been onthe shelf for more than threeyears.
First coming to fame as astand-up comedian, he joinedNBC’s “Saturday Night Live”in 1980 while still a teenager.
Look back at the boxscore from Thursday’s gameand the numbers are stagger-ing — 33 rushes for 93 yards,seven completions on 18 at-tempts for 97 yards, threeturnovers and just 14 points.For the game, the Cats of-fense gained fewer than 200total yards against a Western
Kentucky defense that al-lowed 380 yards and 33points per game in 2010.
The offense looked sobad, WKU sophomore line-backer Andrew Jacksonquestioned UK’s SEC statusfrom the sideline during thegame.
With a banged-up offen-sive line and a stable of inex-perienced running backs, UKwill need their passing gameto set the tone on offense andput more than two touch-
downs on the board. Juniorquarterback Morgan Newtonfelt pressure from WKU’s de-fensive front all game long,but even when Newton wasable to find his receivers, theystruggled to hold onto the ballto complete the pass. Withoutany threat from the passinggame, WKU was able to loadup the box to stop the run, sti-fling the Cats’ offense in itstracks.
“It is important for us tolook cleaner offensively,”football head coach JokerPhillips said. “We still haveto play with the same energyplayed on defense, on specialteams and every phase, andwe have to be better on of-fense.”
But Phillips also said thatreceivers were still droppingtoo many balls in practice, asign that they haven’t im-proved as much from Thurs-day’s game as the coacheswould have liked. As a result,Phillips has shaken things upat the position, to an extent,and will be giving new guysan opportunity to earn play-ing time on Saturdays.
“Some of the youngerguys got more reps than theyhave been getting, and it willcontinue to be like that,”Phillips said. “We have tofind out who our best three orfour receivers are.”
Phillips never specifiedwhich receivers would begetting more reps in practice,but he mentioned freshmanwide receiver DemarcoRobinson’s name in hispostgame press conference assomeone he’d like to seetouch the ball more on of-fense. Robinson caught zeropasses in the team’s firstgame and only touched theball once on an end-aroundthat resulted in a five-yardloss.
Other wideouts who maysee increased playing timeare sophomore Brian Adamsand junior E. J. Fields.
Lots of talk circulatedabout Adams — also a start-ing outfielder for UK’s base-ball team — making more ofan impact on offense in 2011.
Adams managed to catchone of Newton’s seven com-pletions against WKU for afour-yard gain, but with his 6-foot-4 frame and incrediblespeed, Adams has the abilityto make plays if given the op-
portunity.Fields, who sat out Thurs-
day’s game for disciplinaryreasons dating back to an in-cident from last season, hasexcelled on special teamswhen he has been healthyenough to play, but has rarelyseen the field with the of-fense. If he can display achange in attitude from lastseason and prove he can stayhealthy, the former highschool track star could get thenod from Phillips to line up atreceiver.
But if any members ofUK’s youth movement at theposition want to increase theirplaying time, they will haveto earn it in practice and vali-date it on Saturdays. Untilthen, it’s unlikely that Phillipsand his staff will announceany personnel shake-ups atwide receiver as the teamprogresses through its weekof practice.
“It’ll be a surprise, I real-ly don’t know honestly,” jun-ior wide receiver La’RodKing said of who fans maysee lining up at receiver onSaturday. “We’re still at prac-tice, guys are taking spotsevery day so I really don’tknow.”
As for the more experi-enced wide receivers, Thurs-day’s game was a humblingexperience. Outside of a nicecompletion to senior GeneMcCaskill over the middlefor 34 yards and the touch-down toss from Newton toKing — a 31-yard comple-tion — the Cats managed justfive other completions for atotal of 32 yards for thegame.
The players, includingKing and McCaskill, saidthey learned from the gameand will use it as motivation,but are also trying to put thesubpar performance behindthem and focus on playingbetter against Central Michi-gan.
“The offense really took
(the game) personally,” Mc-Caskill said. “You could tellat practice how focusedeverybody is as far as no
talking, the tempo and get-ting back to the huddle andtaking everything more seri-ously.”
New faces will attempt to spark offense in game 2Receivers need to earn place in practice
PHOTO BY MIKE WEAVER | STAFFLa’Rod King said Saturday’s receiver lineup will “be a surprise.”
Youth can be an asset or adetriment to a team. It canspark excitement or lead tomistakes. It can breathe en-thusiasm or hold the teamback.
For UK women’s soccercoach Jon Lipsitz, it hascome as a welcomed advan-tage. After a 5-0-0 start, thebest such start for the pro-gram in 10 years, he hasseen the benefits of a teamcomprised two-thirds of un-derclassmen.
“I don’t think askingfreshman to do a lot is ever anadvantage, but talent is tal-ent,” Lipsitz said. “They allwork hard every day to be-come better. The older play-ers are doing a great job ofbeing leaders.”
One young bright spot forLipsitz has been freshmangoalkeeper Kayla Price. Fill-ing the shoes of a graduatedsenior keeper, Price hasn’tmissed a beat. Starting all five
games thus far, she has a goalper game average of 0.8. Shecredits the senior leaders withkeeping her focused.
“They stay on me; theydon’t let me breathe for a sec-ond,” Price said. “Whilethey’re never slow to compli-ment me after a save, they’realso never slow to get meback on track after a mistake.It really helps when you haveolder teammates to keep youfocused.”
Two other young playershave stepped up and madebig contributions for the Cats:Arin Gilliland, a freshmanfrom Lexington, has scoredtwo goals, both game-win-ners, to beat Eastern Ken-tucky and Baylor, while Stu-art Pope, a freshman fromFayetteville, Ga., has twogoals of her own, both alsogame-winners against Ohioand Central Michigan.
They, along with seniorKelsey Hunyadi, havesparked the offense en routeto five consecutive wins.
“We know we’re young,
but that doesn’t mean any-thing to us,” Price said. “Youcan’t tell who’s in what class;we’re just one big team. Wehave a lot of smart players tomake up for it.”
While the fast start hasbeen exciting, Lipsitz under-stands that inexperience isn’tthe best thing to rely on atthis level.
“The most difficult thingfor young players to adjust tois how hard we go everyday,” Lipsitz said. “I like totell them that every ball mat-ters. The level of focus is sohigh and that can be difficultfor young players.”
Going into Friday’s homegame vs. archrival Louisville,the Cats are riding a wave ofmomentum that hasn’t beenfelt in the program in manyyears. And a few more non-conference wins would makethe fast-approaching confer-ence schedule seem muchless daunting. But, with thismix of young talent and expe-rienced veteran leadership,the sky is the limit.
Cats riding momentum into Friday’s Louisville game
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Deep below the bio-di-verse boreal forest of Cana-da’s Albertan province, therelies a secret. A sleeping mon-ster so daunting, sensiblepeople wouldn’t imagineawaking him. Its ensuingwrath could bring unprece-dented chaos. As one ofmany culpable predators, themonster’s prey could includemuch of life on earth. It lieslargely unperturbed. ShouldPresident Obama awake it?
This monster is not Big-foot. Actually observable andtruly capable of widespreaddestruction, the monster I il-lustrate is the bitumen sludgecontained in the Albertan tarsands. Extracting it would ul-timately have consequencesto our climate that shouldbring logical brains and com-passionate hearts to a ragingboil.
Many “people” stand toshare responsibility for desir-ing an awakening of thismonster, including Exxonand TransCanada, the com-pany proposing another ex-tension of the tar sands oilinto the United States. Theproposed Keystone XLpipeline will stretch from Al-berta to Houston, dissectingsix states to end at refineries.
Extraction of the tarsands involves clear-cuttingand scraping away all forests
and possible life, often 100feet down. Maneuveringmassive machines with bel-lowing smoke stacks andsteel-toothed scoops, thecompanies wage war withthe land. The thick blackslush is spooned out of its300-million-year home. Hun-dreds of toxic chemicalsawait to separate, thin andthicken it into a more mar-ketable sludge. With river di-version and square mile dis-charge “ponds,” this processis fossil-fuel, water andwaste intensive.
Many XL opponents havethe Yellowstone River tarsands pipeline burst in hind-sight. Land occupiers fear ofleakage and harm from con-struction. This includes peoplewho use the Oglala Aquiferfor irrigation and drinking wa-ter, indigenous communityhabitat, and many other flora,fauna and territory en route.When will we say now is thetime to transition away fromfossil fuels, to let go of ourimmature illusion of beckon-ing bountifulness and finallychange our collective behav-iors?
Widely quoted climatolo-gist Jim Hansen has said ifhumans expect to mitigate orslow global warming, coalmust be phased out by 2030.Unconventional fossil fuelsmust too be left in theground. “If the tar sands arethrown into the mix, it is es-
sentially game over for theclimate.” Hansen warns.
The Tar Sands Actionwas organized to publiclyprotest this pipeline’s possi-ble plunder. The action is apeaceful civil disobedience, adaily sit-in for two weeks.Occurring in front of theWhite House, the action waslargely organized by 350.orgfounder Bill McKibben andrecent startup Peaceful Upris-ing.
Participating on day one, Iwas among the first group ar-rested. I expected a fine forthe action as it is consistentwith a minor traffic violation.I was instead arbitrarily de-tained for more than twodays. Though expecting to de-ter further action, this politicalploy only strengthened all theparticipants’ resolve. Produc-tive discussion, spontaneousgames and a deep sense ofbrother/sisterhood emergedfrom those 52 hours together.
Incarceration broughtperks like free bologna sand-wiches and six ounces of wa-ter every 12 hours. Steel cotsand incessant fluorescentwere also included in our“this ain’t the Marriott”package, as one guard put it.But my time detained wasshort and menial. A starkcontrast to how the scars andslashing my action served toslander are everlasting, direand visceral.
So far, 2011 has brought
record droughts, suddenfloods, extreme fires and tor-nadoes, food yield shortagesand a 700-mile wide Hurri-cane Irene.
It’s not just the popular-ized polar bears affected byclimate change. The Somalihungry, drowning Pakistani,homeless Louisianan, evictedAmazon people and more arethe many eyes that werepeering at us through the eyeof Irene over the weekend.
Victims of climate anom-alies like Hurricane Irenemust not be small singular-
ized statistics. Each unneces-sary Somali and Caroliniandeath must be mounting mo-tivation to mitigate further,fiercer climate chaos.
At his inauguration, Pres-ident Obama promised whatenvironmentalists, whohelped him stand on thatpodium, had been wanting tohear. “The moment when therise of the oceans begin toslow and our planet begins toheal,” he said.
With no significant cli-mate legislation passed in thelast two years, this pipeline
will be his presidency’s envi-ronmental watershed mo-ment. Will he sign off on theexploitation of the Albertanwatersheds? We can’t knowif he looked into Irene’smany eyes and consideredhow this monster could im-pact not just his next elec-tion, but the future of theEarth’s climate.
But Prisoner No. 58 surehopes he did.
Tyler Hess is an activistand studying sustainableagriculture at UK. [email protected].
Walk through the halls ofUC Irvine’s astronomy wingafter dinner on a weeknightand you will find roomfuls ofyoung graduate students,crammed into small desks,solving equations, writingcomputer code and developinginnovative ways to analyzedata. They do not have to behere. These are people with ca-reer options. They are scary-smart, creative and hardwork-ing. Yet they have come herefrom all over the country andthe world to sit in windowlessoffices and make a fifth of themoney they could make backhome or up the street. Why?They want to unlock the uni-verse.
The United States is stillthe scientific light of the world.Ours is the society responsiblefor discovering humanity’splace in the universe, that welive in a galaxy called theMilky Way, one among bil-lions of other galaxiesstretched across the cosmiclandscape. A hundred thousandyears from now, if humansmake it that long, the U.S. willbe remembered for this, andhistorians will point to the im-mense contribution of the Hub-ble Space Telescope, with itsmiraculous visible-light im-ages, the most detailed picturesof the cosmos yet produced byhumankind.
Sadly, U.S. scientific lead-ership is beginning to fade.There is a sense of fear amongour leaders that we can’t afford
to invest in our future, just thekind of fear that endangersthoughtful debate about big-picture priorities.
One testament to ourchanging priorities is our com-mitment to the Hubble tele-scope as compared to its suc-cessor. The Hubble is, in everyway, a monument to scientificexploration. Thanks to theHubble, orbiting 350 milesoverhead, we know that theuniverse began just under 14billion years ago. The age ofthe cosmos, once believed tobe unknowable, is now avail-able at the click of a mouse andhas made it into schoolbooks inall 50 states. Astronomers haveused the Hubble to determinethe chemical makeup of planetsthat orbit distant stars and todiscover dark energy, a myste-
rious substance propelling theuniverse to expand at an accel-erating rate.
Many of the graduate stu-dents filling astronomy depart-ments at University of Califor-nia campuses, as well as Cal-tech and Stanford, have cometo the state to explore and ana-lyze terabytes of Hubble data.
The goal is to squeeze in-formation out of the gatheredlight that will help us discernthe size, structure and chemicalcomposition of objects that arealmost always too far away forhumans to ever hope to visit.The people who do this workare both creative and technical-ly gifted. They must take whatthe universe provides — ashred of light collected by theHubble — and discern impli-cation from its signal.
We want these intelligent,dedicated people to live in ourcities, to make their discoveriesat our universities and to raisetheir families — the next gen-eration of bright minds —right here. But without a re-placement for the Hubble,these bright minds may wellmigrate to China, where fund-ing for astronomy is risingsteadily.
The Hubble is near the endof its life, and it will soon fallfrom the sky. In July, a HouseAppropriations subcommitteevoted to kill its successor, theJames Webb Space Telescope.This fall, the Senate will weighin. We need the public to speakout to members of Congress.Losing the Webb telescopewould be a travesty for U.S.astronomy.
The Webb would be 100times more powerful than theHubble, capable of studyingother solar systems for signs oflife and surveying the mostdistant galaxies in the universe.The loss of the Webb telescopewould not only rob humanityof the opportunity to search forlife on other worlds, but itwould also waste the $3.5 bil-lion already invested in its de-velopment and years of hardwork by hundreds of peopleacross the country.
Money invested in theWebb telescope creates jobs:master welders, electrical engi-neers and young astronomers.Though some of these jobs areof the hard-hat variety, this isnot a bridge to nowhere; this isa bridge to the edge of the uni-verse itself.
College students reaching for the stars with researchBy James Bullock
