UK’s theater department has a lot on its plate this year with its regular shows and the addition of a musical and winter dance concert. Theatre Department chair Nancy Jones, the chair of the Theatre Department, said the pro- ductions this year relate to students “on a per- sonal level.” The Rebels Act Out series is titled for two reasons: the characters are stepping out of the boundaries in each play, but so is the the- atre department. The department usually produces four plays each year but recently added a winter dance concert because of the dance minor now avail- able to students. Another difference is the musical, “Thoroughly Modern Millie.” Normally, UK Theatre does not include musicals as main productions; however, this year organizers thought it was something the actors and students needed to experience, Jones said. She said this will be UK Theatre’s first musical. The first play of the Rebels Act Out series, “Monkey King: Havoc in Heaven,” derives from Chinese folk tales, and the script is being written by students. They are using the original stories to help Climbing, hiking, rafting among excursions kentucky kernel est. 1892 | independent since 1971 | www.kykernel.com wednesday 09.21.11 76 54 partly cloudy tomorrow’s weather index First issue free. Subsequent issues 25 cents. Newsroom: 257-1915 Advertising: 257-2872 Classifieds.............11 Features.................8 Opinions.............10 Sports..................4 Horoscope.............2 Sudoku................2 The new International Af- fairs assistant provost joins UK with a lot of experience, but says he still has a lot to look forward to. Gary Gaffield, the newly appointed assistant provost, comes from Washington D.C., filling a newly created position in the office. “I am really excited to move to UK,” Gaffield said. “The university has realized the importance of international relations and research for a long time. The students are in- terested in study abroad programs, and it is a campus that is fully aware of all that in- ternational relations will bring.” The for- mer director of international affairs and of external affairs, David Bettez, retired in May 2010. Gaffield’s position was created after Bettez’ retirement, a UK news release said. Susan Carvalho, the asso- ciate provost of International Programs, said she and others in the International Affairs of- fice are the lucky ones. “He comes with a lot of ex- perience and was actively re- cruited for the position here,” Carvalho said. Some of this experience in- cludes working in Washington D.C. with the Academy for Ed- ucational Development, a non- government organization relat- ed to higher education, for three years. He also worked for two years as the deputy executive director of the Council for In- ternational Exchanges of Scholars and Fulbright Scholar Program. Gaffield first was in contact with Carvalho and others at UK as the director of the Iraq University Linkages Program. This program consists of five U.S. universities and five Iraqi universities, and the American universities help those in Iraq with moderniz- ing curriculum and develop- ing career counseling. New asst. provost comes from D.C. By Jen Taylor [email protected]See PROVOST on page 2 He has experience with foreign relations UK Theatre to produce first musical By Kayla Pickrell [email protected]See PLAYS on page 2 PHOTO BY BECCA CLEMONS | STAFF Kappa Delta secretary Casey Jackson hands a balloon to freshman Jaquail Fowler. The women told men receiving balloons to "be nice to girls." A smile can brighten a day. Maybe a balloon can, too. Kappa Delta sorority celebrated Inter- national Women’s Friendship Month by handing out balloons with uplifting phras- es — like “Smile!” and “Don’t worry, be happy” — written on them as part of the nationwide “You Make Me SMILE” Cam- paign. Publicity chair Molly Karr said KD women wrote “cute sayings” on balloons Tuesday afternoon with the goal of boost- ing women’s confidence around campus. KD member Tamika Tompoulidis wrote “You are beautiful” on a balloon with a Sharpie. “I was a new member in the spring and wanted to get involved,” she said. In partnership with the Confidence Coalition, the women also handed out pens, magnets and stickers. The booth outside White Hall Class- room Building caught men’s attention, too. “We gave it to one guy and we were like, ‘Be nice to girls!’” Karr said. Secretary Casey Jackson said Panhel- lenic applied for a national grant from the Confidence Coalition last spring to host a fashion show. It was one of five grants and the only one worth $5,000, Jackson said. The other four were worth $1,000. The sorority also plans to do other partnerships with the coalition with local Girl Scout troops and high school girls on the topic of cyberbullying, Karr and Jack- son said. A ‘hullaballoon’ of smiles By Becca Clemons [email protected]The UK Outdoor Pursuits Program has kicked off the fall semester with new goals and additional offerings. The program consists of two components: the rock wall and adventure trips. Located in the Johnson Center, the rock wall is open to students seven days a week. In addition to daily climbing opportunities, adventure trips are offered throughout the year. Outdoor climbing, hiking and white water rafting are among the offered excursions. The trips go on sale anywhere from two weeks to a month in advance and are open to all UK students, said Mark Lattin, the director of Outdoor Pursuits. Trips range from $10 for hiking to $120 for white water rafting. Equipment rental, travel, tour guides and food expenses for overnight trips are included in the cost. “The idea is to get students on the trip for as low cost as possible,” Lattin said. New to Outdoor Pursuits this year is a rental program, which allows students to rent equipment overnight or for the weekend. Students can rent two- or four-person tents, backpacks, sleeping bags, ground pads, cook sets and stoves at no cost. “The rental program is to provide service and give people the opportunity to try it out,” said Daniel Marshall, a graduate assistant for campus recreation. “We are always looking for ways to help students and get them outside.” Josh Tatum, an art studio sophomore, at- tended some of the adventure trips during his freshman year. “It was really awesome,” he said. “I had never been outside to climb before.” Tatum said the trips inspired him to further pursue climbing. “They did a really good job of being safe and teaching the right steps to climb,” he said. Lattin said the group’s goal for the 2011-12 school year is to increase student participation. “We want students that are working hard in their academics here at UK to have the oppor- tunity to go try something new that they have not done, and to get a glimpse of what’s avail- able to them, blow off some steam and have fun,” Lattin said. “But at the same time, maybe that will become a hobby or a pursuit they can take with them for life.” For more information about UK Outdoor Pursuits and upcoming events, visit the group’s Facebook page. Inexpensive outdoor trips coming soon By Kayla Phelps [email protected]Two campus chapters of a national association hoped to draw attention to the approaching execu- tion of a man they think was wrongly convicted. Members of UK’s and Kentucky State Univer- sity’s National Association for the Advancement of Colored People gathered in the free speech area to rally for Troy Davis’ life. “What we’re promoting is that there is too much doubt to execute him,” said Angel Jackson, UK’s NAACP president. Davis’ execution is scheduled for Wednesday at 7 p.m. by injection for killing off-duty Savannah, Ga., officer Mark MacPhail. He was shot dead in 1989 while rushing to help a homeless man being attacked. Georgia’s board of pardons and paroles rejected a clemency bid from Davis on Tuesday. “We’re just bringing awareness to our campus body,” Jackson said. She said there is a discrepency in the justice system and “our belief is this man is innocent.” 2 campuses join in support of Georgia man By Rachel Aretakis [email protected]See DAVIS on page 11 UK, Kentucky State students demonstrate against Troy Davis’ execution PHOTO BY QUIANNA LIGE | STAFF UK and Kentucky State University students said they think Troy Davis, who was convicted of murder in 1989, is innocent. He is set to be executed Wednesday. Gaffield SCORE: Some background on Gatorade, just in time for Florida game friday POP!: The singing chef at Panda Express thursday A different kind of concert Latin American music comes to Worsham Theater 4
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UK’s theater department has a lot on itsplate this year with its regular shows and theaddition of a musical and winter dance concert.
Theatre Department chair Nancy Jones, thechair of the Theatre Department, said the pro-ductions this year relate to students “on a per-sonal level.” The Rebels Act Out series is titledfor two reasons: the characters are stepping outof the boundaries in each play, but so is the the-atre department.
The department usually produces four playseach year but recently added a winter danceconcert because of the dance minor now avail-able to students.
Another difference is the musical,“Thoroughly Modern Millie.”
Normally, UK Theatre does not includemusicals as main productions; however, this yearorganizers thought it was something the actorsand students needed to experience, Jones said.She said this will be UK Theatre’s first musical.
The first play of the Rebels Act Out series,“Monkey King: Havoc in Heaven,” derivesfrom Chinese folk tales, and the script is beingwritten by students.
They are using the original stories to help
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The new International Af-fairs assistant provost joins UKwith a lot of experience, butsays he still has a lot to lookforward to.
Gary Gaffield, the newlyappointed assistant provost,comes from Washington D.C.,filling a newly created positionin the office.
“I am really excited tomove to UK,” Gaffield said.“The university has realized
the importance of internationalrelations and research for along time. The students are in-
terested instudy abroadp r o g r a m s ,and it is acampus thatis fully awareof all that in-t e r n a t i o n a lrelations willbring.”
The for-mer director of internationalaffairs and of external affairs,
David Bettez, retired in May2010. Gaffield’s position wascreated after Bettez’ retirement,a UK news release said.
Susan Carvalho, the asso-ciate provost of InternationalPrograms, said she and othersin the International Affairs of-fice are the lucky ones.
“He comes with a lot of ex-perience and was actively re-cruited for the position here,”Carvalho said.
Some of this experience in-cludes working in WashingtonD.C. with the Academy for Ed-ucational Development, a non-government organization relat-ed to higher education, for
three years.He also worked for two
years as the deputy executivedirector of the Council for In-ternational Exchanges ofScholars and Fulbright ScholarProgram.
Gaffield first was in contactwith Carvalho and others at UKas the director of the IraqUniversity Linkages Program.
This program consists offive U.S. universities and fiveIraqi universities, and theAmerican universities helpthose in Iraq with moderniz-ing curriculum and develop-ing career counseling.
PHOTO BY BECCA CLEMONS | STAFFKappa Delta secretary Casey Jackson hands a balloon to freshman Jaquail Fowler. The women told men receiving balloons to "be nice to girls."
A smile can brighten a day. Maybe aballoon can, too.
Kappa Delta sorority celebrated Inter-national Women’s Friendship Month byhanding out balloons with uplifting phras-es — like “Smile!” and “Don’t worry, behappy” — written on them as part of thenationwide “You Make Me SMILE” Cam-paign.
Publicity chair Molly Karr said KD
women wrote “cute sayings” on balloonsTuesday afternoon with the goal of boost-ing women’s confidence around campus.
KD member Tamika Tompoulidiswrote “You are beautiful” on a balloonwith a Sharpie. “I was a new member inthe spring and wanted to get involved,”she said.
In partnership with the ConfidenceCoalition, the women also handed outpens, magnets and stickers.
The booth outside White Hall Class-room Building caught men’s attention,too.
“We gave it to one guy and we werelike, ‘Be nice to girls!’” Karr said.
Secretary Casey Jackson said Panhel-lenic applied for a national grant fromthe Confidence Coalition last spring tohost a fashion show. It was one of fivegrants and the only one worth $5,000,Jackson said. The other four were worth$1,000.
The sorority also plans to do otherpartnerships with the coalition with localGirl Scout troops and high school girls onthe topic of cyberbullying, Karr and Jack-son said.
The UK Outdoor Pursuits Program haskicked off the fall semester with new goals andadditional offerings.
The program consists of two components:the rock wall and adventure trips.
Located in the Johnson Center, the rockwall is open to students seven days a week.
In addition to daily climbing opportunities,adventure trips are offered throughout the year.
Outdoor climbing, hiking and white waterrafting are among the offered excursions.
The trips go on sale anywhere from twoweeks to a month in advance and are open toall UK students, said Mark Lattin, the directorof Outdoor Pursuits.
Trips range from $10 for hiking to $120 forwhite water rafting. Equipment rental, travel,tour guides and food expenses for overnighttrips are included in the cost.
“The idea is to get students on the trip foras low cost as possible,” Lattin said.
New to Outdoor Pursuits this year is arental program, which allows students to rentequipment overnight or for the weekend.
Students can rent two- or four-person tents,backpacks, sleeping bags, ground pads, cooksets and stoves at no cost.
“The rental program is to provide serviceand give people the opportunity to try it out,”said Daniel Marshall, a graduate assistant forcampus recreation. “We are always looking forways to help students and get them outside.”
Josh Tatum, an art studio sophomore, at-tended some of the adventure trips during hisfreshman year.
“It was really awesome,” he said. “I hadnever been outside to climb before.”
Tatum said the trips inspired him to furtherpursue climbing.
“They did a really good job of being safeand teaching the right steps to climb,” he said.
Lattin said the group’s goal for the 2011-12school year is to increase student participation.
“We want students that are working hard intheir academics here at UK to have the oppor-tunity to go try something new that they havenot done, and to get a glimpse of what’s avail-able to them, blow off some steam and havefun,” Lattin said. “But at the same time, maybethat will become a hobby or a pursuit they cantake with them for life.”
For more information about UK OutdoorPursuits and upcoming events, visit the group’sFacebook page.
Two campus chapters of a national associationhoped to draw attention to the approaching execu-tion of a man they think was wrongly convicted.
Members of UK’s and Kentucky State Univer-sity’s National Association for the Advancement ofColored People gathered in the free speech area torally for Troy Davis’ life.
“What we’re promoting is that there is too muchdoubt to execute him,” said Angel Jackson, UK’sNAACP president.
Davis’ execution is scheduled for Wednesday at 7p.m. by injection for killing off-duty Savannah, Ga.,officer Mark MacPhail. He was shot dead in 1989while rushing to help a homeless man being attacked.
Georgia’s board of pardons and paroles rejecteda clemency bid from Davis on Tuesday.
“We’re just bringing awareness to our campusbody,” Jackson said.
She said there is a discrepency in the justicesystem and “our belief is this man is innocent.”
UK, Kentucky State students demonstrate against Troy Davis’ execution
PHOTO BY QUIANNA LIGE | STAFFUK and Kentucky State University students said they think Troy Davis, who was convicted of murder in 1989, is innocent. He is set to be executed Wednesday.
Gaffield
SCORE:Some background on Gatorade, just in time for Florida game friday
POP!: The singing chef at Panda Express thursdayA different kind of concertLatin American music comesto Worsham Theater 4
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Problem: The roaring success of lastweek’s “Lion King” 3-D re-release under-scored the scarcity of family-friendly films inthe current marketplace.
Solution: “Dolphin Tale,” a swell yarnabout a boy and his bond with an injured bot-tlenose. Sometimes inspirational films have nocraftsmanship to accompany their uplift. Notso here. Children don’t have to apologize fortaking their parents to this one. The cast is de-lightful, the story corny without being cloying-ly high-fructose, the direction first-rate. Itsawkward, immature stumbles are few andeven those are redeemed by the project’s sun-ny sincerity.
“Dolphin Tale” is inspired by the real-lifestory of Winter, a South Florida dolphin wholost her tail to a crab trap. Sawyer (winninglyplayed by wide-eyed Nathan Gamble) com-forts the beached cetacean until the marine an-imal rescue unit can arrive, creating a power-ful bond of affection that runs both ways.
The lonely middle-schooler begins cuttingclass to visit the aquarium where the handi-capped dolphin is brought to recover. Hismother (Ashley Judd) is incensed until she re-alizes that Sawyer’s attachment to Winter hasturned her failing student into a responsible,hardworking and studious young would-bemarine biologist. Winter’s recuperation isfraught with setbacks, but with the aid of acantankerous prosthetics specialist (Morgan
Freeman), Sawyer learns never to lose faith.The film has a warm web of human rela-
tionships, as well, with Cozi Zuehlsdorff asthe aquarium’s resident preteen chatterbox,Harry Connick Jr. as her father, the kindly butcash-strapped aquarium chief, and KrisKristofferson as Connick’s old-salt dad, who isalways good for straight talk and a crinklysmile.
Charles Martin Smith, a longtime actorwho starred in the outdoors classic “Never CryWolf,” directs this film with a sure and steadyhand. The sun-kissed Florida locations are at-tractive without being prettified. When the boyand his aquatic friend are threatened by a hur-ricane and the aquarium’s financial woes,Smith milks the suspense but doesn’t inflictundue anxiety.
The film takes a sentimental turn concern-ing Sawyer’s cousin, a swimming star injuredin combat, but never slides into sanctimony orschmaltz. Well, not too deeply, anyway. Free-man is a droll delight as the crotchety recon-structive engineer who tirelessly works on amechanical tail for Winter, complaining all theway.
Playing herself, Winter is a breakthroughstar. For those who loathe saccharine kiddiemovies but can still shed an honest tear at thestory of a child and a beloved pet, “DolphinTale” is a perfect fit.
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Gaffield’s job was to oversee this partner-ship; he visited Iraq four times, and heeven rode on helicopters with a bomb-proof vest strapped to him.
“Having been to Iraq, Gary was helpfulin illuminating the goals of the Iraq Link-ages project by providing a richer under-standing of the background of our partnersand the context in which they teach,” saidNancy Johnson, one of the UK faculty help-ing with the Iraq program.
George Blandford, a civil engineeringprofessor, met Gaffield in Iraq. Blandfordsaid he met with Gaffield when he visted UKlast spring to observe the Iraqi delegation.
“Gary is a dedicated person,” Blandfordsaid in an email to the Kernel. “He is a verypersonable person and spent a great deal oftime and effort getting to know the expecta-tions of the project and the culture of thepeople we are trying to help.”
Gaffield also has experience working at a
university. He worked as an administrator at Wit-
tenberg University in Ohio for 25 years andworked with the athletics program and theinstitutional research program, among othersdepartments.
“There were not many functions of auniversity that I did not have direct contactwith while at Wittenberg,” Gaffield said.
He said his good experience working
with Carvalho and UK’s Iraq program madehim eager to come to UK.
He is excited with his new responsibili-ties and hopes his experience in Washingtonwill help UK get more opportunities abroad,he said.
“As much as I enjoyed my work inWashington, I concluded that I like being ata university, and it is where I will have thegreatest impact.”
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devise the script, said JenniferGoodlander, professor and director of“Monkey King.”
“I love getting a bunch of smart andcreative people in a room to see what theycome up with,” Goodlander said.
The theater department’s costumetechnologist, Robert Haven, takes costumeconstruction from the classroom to thestage.
Students in Haven’s class are as-signed to one actor for “Monkey King”and are required to make the shirt andpants for the production.
Haven said it isn’t just a class project. “A lot of people don’t understand how
the costumes make it to the stage,” he said.Tony Hardin, a set and lighting pro-
fessor, is doing the lighting for “MonkeyKing” and said a challenge of this partic-ular production is that no set script exists.
“We are just letting it (the creativeprocess) happen in rehearsal and adjust-ing accordingly,” Hardin said.
He said students should attend per-formances to see “how exciting live theater can be.”
“It makes you think and it makes youwant to see more,” he said.
The musical will premiere in the spring.
“ I like being at a university, and it iswhere I will have the greatest impact.”
Gary Gaffield, International Affairs assistant provost
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Local developerhosts party
for new game
Lexington native devel-oper Frogdice has a newgame and wants everybodyto play it.
Frogdice is hosting alaunch party for the newgame, “Coin ‘n Carry,”Thursday at local eatery Vil-lage Host Pizza.
Lexington is known formany things, but game de-velopment is not one ofthem. Frogdice has been inthe community for manyyears but has never reallycome out into the public eyeuntil now, according to com-pany founders.
“We never really didmuch locally because of howspecialized our first twogames were,” said FrogdicePresident and CEO MichaelHartman in an email to theKernel. “But ‘Coin ‘n Carry’is something anyone canplay, so we are finally pok-ing our head out.”
The launch party is in-tended to let the people ofLexington know they have agame developer around andto shine a spotlight on thegame development commu-nity in Lexington.
“We want to let peopleknow about ‘Coin ‘n Carry,’and we also want people tostart learning aboutFrogdice,” Hartman said.“We are a 15-year-old gam-ing company, which in ourindustry makes us ancient.We also hope to get theword out that there is indeeda growing game develop-ment community in Lexing-ton.”
Students interested in thelaunch party have a lot tolook forward to in terms ofprizes and activities.
“We’ve got some
Frogdice and ‘Coin ‘n Carry’swag, in-game prizes, cakeand Village Host is givingeveryone at our party 25 per-cent off food and drinks,”Hartman said. “We will havecomputers on site where peo-ple can demo the game,make an account … all ofour games are free to play, sogetting started is totally nopressure.”
While Frogdice’s previ-ous games were niche, text-based role-playing games,Hartman wants to hit homethat the new game is foreverybody and it appeals to alarge, diverse audience.
“We designed ‘Coin ‘nCarry’ with the specific goalin mind that it would befun, approachable and en-joyable by people of anyage and any play style,”Hartman said. “In our maingroup of about 150 betatesters, we had people rang-ing in age from five yearsold to 60-plus, and about 60percent of our players werewomen.”
Aside from the foodand fun be offered at theparty, there’s the potentialfor aspiring programmersand artists at UK to net-work with people alreadyin the industry for a job ingame development, Hart-man said.
“If anyone would like tolearn how to get into thegaming industry, and perhapsstart the process of finding ajob in the industry, coming tothis launch party would be agood start,” he said.
The “Coin ‘n Carry”launch party will be Thurs-day from 6:30 to 8 p.m. atVillage Host Pizza on OldVine Street. All food anddrink will be 25 percent offin celebration of the game’slaunch.
Judy “JJ” Jackson, thevice president for institu-tional diversity, discusseddiversity at UK for the FinalWord Series hosted by theStudent Activities BoardMonday night.
The preface for this dis-cussion revolves aroundmodifications in the under-graduate studies curriculumput into effect this semester.These critical changes honein on giving students a bet-
ter understanding and appre-ciation of cultures from allover the world and subcul-tures within our society,Jackson said.
“Talking about diversityis one of my favorite thingsto do,” she said. “It opensdoors to communication andunderstanding people bet-ter.”
The discussion focusedon diversity issues, primari-ly race, that the Americanpopulation comes in contactwith every day. Conversa-tions about race and diversi-
ty can be uncomfortable andcontroversial, Jackson said,but having these discussionsis a critical step towardprogress and understanding.
Maria Gomez, a gradu-ate student and native ofPeru, said that Jackson ex-posed many of the chal-lenges that UK faces interms of diversity.
“I think that it is veryimportant to know moreabout diversity on campusbecause it will open moredoors to share differentpoints of view, because Ithink that diversity is notwell disseminated on cam-pus,” Gomez said. “The is-sue with diversity is that itis a learning process that de-
velops over time.” Over the course of the
discussion, Jackson exposedthe audience to some of thecultural biases that areprevalent in American soci-ety. She discussed the inva-lidity of statements such as“I don’t see your color,”saying that it is importantfor people to see each otherfor their differences and tobe able to appreciate them.
“I never realized howlimited this campus is on di-versity,” said Eric Daven-port, a sophomore at UK.“So taking that small per-centage of people that wehave and finding a way torespect them, and their val-ues, is very important.”
Heading into week fouragainst the Florida Gators,UK football has solved a lotof problems that haveplagued the team over thepast few weeks.
For starters, MorganNewton was able to find an-other target aside from juniorwide receiver La’Rod King infellow junior E.J. Fields.
Not only did Fields stepup for the Cats, but the amountof drops by the receiving corpswas limited against Louisville.
More importantly, the fanbase represented the Cats wellin Lexington Saturday, but itwas hard for fans to be excit-ed when the team wasn’t pre-senting them with a perform-ance worthy of excitement.
Unfortunately for headcoach Joker Phillips, his teamhas found itself struggling inareas that were supposed to bepart of its strengths.
Here are a few reasonswhy Big Blue Nation wasn’tin typical form and somethings that should be im-proved as the Gators areknocking at the door.
1. Offensive Line
When asked during Sun-day’s teleconference abouthow his offensive line washolding up, Joker Phillips hadthe following to say: “Well,I’m not concerned. I’m con-cerned about our overall of-fense.”
Unlike Phillips, I believehe should be concerned —emphasis on should. The of-fensive line played terribly onSaturday. The offense couldfind little rhythm with Mor-gan Newton having to scram-
ble about the field as if theboogeyman was chasing him.By night’s end, Newton wassacked six times.
Newton attempted a ca-reer-high 41 passes as well,mainly due to the runninggame getting the teamnowhere and the lack of spacecreated by the offensive line.
The trio of CoShikWilliams, Josh Clemons andMorgan Newton had a totalof 32 rush attempts that onlymanaged 35 yards, an aver-age of 1.1 yards per carry.
With the Gators comingin, the speed and strength ofthe defense will be one un-paralleled to any of the Cats’previous opponents, meaningthings could get ugly in Com-monwealth unless this ex-pected strength “rises” to theoccasion.
2. Pass Coverage
One aspect of UK’s re-cent performances that I findmyself agreeing with Phillipson is pass coverage, mainlyby the defensive backs.
“The thing we can't do iswe can't allow the people tothrow the ball over our heads.That’s happened in a couplegames,” Phillips said.
When Florida gets toCommonwealth for the gameagainst the Cats, it will bebringing a pro-style offenseimplemented by offensive co-ordinator Charlie Weis. Pastseasons has saw a spread of-fense consisting of mainlyruns due to the speed of theGators. Problem is, JohnBrantley came in as a highlytouted passer and thus farhead coach Will Muschamp,along with Weis, has him liv-ing up to his ability.
Matched with the speedof his receivers and runningbacks, Brantley’s targetsmake him one of Florida’sbiggest passing threats sinceformer Heisman trophy win-
ner Danny Wuerffel underSteve Spurrier.
If teams like WesternKentucky, Central Michiganand Louisville found them-selves being able to outmanthe Cats’ pass coverage andget behind them downfield,then there is no reason tothink that Brantley wouldn’tbe able to torch UK in thepassing game as well.
Senior Randall Burdenhas played well early in thisseason, but it is his teammate,senior cornerback AnthonyMosley, who has found him-self being picked on by theopposing team’s quarterbackand receivers.
“They got the type ofspeed that can hurt you,”Phillips said during the tele-conference.
“They have probably thefastest guy in the world. Theygot probably the secondfastest guy in the world.“
One thing is sure, thewhole group, along with fel-low cornerback MartaviousNeloms, will have its handsfull with the likes of JeffDemps and Chris Rainey. Itwas the latter which had a100-yard rushing and receiv-ing game against Tennesseelast week.
3. Play-calling
Ever since the final whis-tle blew on Saturday night,buzz has circulated within thefanbase concerning the playcalling of UK and how pre-dictable it has been.
Although the offensiveline did the team no favors, Imust say I agree; it is pre-dictable and it didn’t help theCats that Charlie Strong waspreviously the defensive co-ordinator at Florida where hehas already witnessed thissame song and dance.
Draw, Draw, ShortPass…
Rinse and repeat that
process while adding in a lit-tle Morgan Newton chasescene.
In addition, there wereeven some runs on third andlong which resulted in obvi-ous stops and brought thebest of boos from the crowd.After the game, Phillips’ rea-soning was that it wasn’tworth the risk of attemptingto pass deep downfield andthat in the past it had worked.
Phillips understands thatsomething must change with
the offensive play calling, orat least it seems that way.This coming Saturday shouldbe an answer, though.
“We've got to throw theball first down. We've got tomix it up,” Phillips said.
In sharing my feelings, hewent on to add: “We can't bepredictable.”
One answer to not beingpredictable could come in theform of speeding up the of-fense, or “two-minute mode,”as Phillips put it on Sunday,
which appeared to be rathersuccessful in the late stagesof the game when the Catswere attempting their come-back on the Cards.
Attempting the no-hud-dle against a defensivelysavvy team such as Floridacould bring its lumps, butwith experience, its long-term effects on the Cats asthe season pushes on shouldhelp bring an element of sur-prise and excitement to theoffense.
Breaking bad: 3 areas of improvement in week 4
PHOTO BY MIKE WEAVER | STAFFJunior receiver E.J. Fields caught a touchdown in Saturday’s game against Louisville. UK lost 24-17.
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You don’t need a passport to visitLatin America; the Worsham Theaterwill take you there for free.
The 500-seat theater will becomea living atlas of Latin America onWednesday at 7 p.m., when 10 voicesilluminate the musical and cultural di-versity of the region.
In celebration of Hispanic Her-itage Month, the LatinAmerican Studies de-partment is hosting“Latin America inMusic.” The concertis an expeditionthrough Latin Ameri-ca, guided by musi-cians from Colombia,Mexico, Venezuela,Brazil and Cuba.
Francie Chassen-Lopez, historydepartment chair and former co-direc-tor of Latin American studies, helpedcoordinate the event events for His-panic Heritage Month. She saidWednesday’s concert “is going to be aconcert like we’ve never had at UK.”
A collage of top-notch voices will“paint a map of Latin America,” saidCesar Leal, the event’s organizer.
Audience members will receive amap connecting musicians and coun-tries to guide them through the musi-cal passage.
Leal is a doctoral student in musi-cology at UK. He is from Bogota,
Colombia, where he was a finalist inthe International Conducting Work-shop of the Bogotá Philharmonic Or-chestra.
When Leal came to UK, he metChassen-Lopez and the brainstormingbegan.
“I had asked him, ‘What can themusic department do for Latin Amer-ican heritage month?,’ and this iswhat he came up with,” Chassen-Lopez said. “A musical tour of Latin
America.”Leal noted a gap
disconnecting theLatin American com-munity and the sur-rounding host com-munity in Lexington.He decided a concertwas a way to forge aconnection.
“The music is alink between the Latino populationand the whole community,” Leal said.“We are focused on tying them to-gether.”
Claudia Grenier, a Colombiansinger and friend of Leal, flew to Lex-ington for this performance and a solorecital last Friday. Her soprano voicewill take the spotlight in two pieces: aColombian cumbia and a song byCuban folk singer Silvio Rodriguez.
“We can unite ourselves veryclose through our folk music,” Gre-nier said. “It’s been a significant ex-perience to work with differentrhythms and techniques from other
countries, yet we speak the same lan-guage.”
After Claudia accepted to per-form for Hispanic Heritage Month,the project grew like a wildfire.
“If Claudia was gonna come allthe way here, why don’t we put aconcert together with all the LatinAmerican musicians we know?” Lealsaid.
The ensemble expanded to in-clude music students, UK faculty andother visiting performers.
“It’s using all the resources UKhas,” Chassen-Lopez said. “The vari-ety of Latin American people in thecommunity.”
Although Spanish unites thegroup, Leal says there are still de-viances in the language.
“In every single song, the text isdifferent because it has its own localdialect and inflection,” Leal said. “Idon’t even know what some songsmean, they are so local.”
Some of the confusion is inten-tional. A Cuban song featured in thelineup was written to evade censor-ship and communicate “what they
legally cannot,” Leal said. Culture, dialects and politics draw
divisions within Latin America itself.The variety in music from the regionillustrates the distinctions.
“The music represents the collec-tivity of identities that have been lostdue to politics or cultural unaware-ness,” Leal said. “There are differ-ences and similarities, and we’rebringing different rhythms, voicesand arrangements to show this.”
The ensemble will finish with“Cancion con Todos” or “Song withEveryone,” an Argentine folk songmade popular by indigenous folk iconMercedes Sosa. The lyrics carry aPan-American message in a narrativewalk through Latin America. Lyricstraverse through Peru, Chile, Bolivaand Brazil. The song ends the journeyfinding common ground in the voic-es, the hands and the blood of LatinAmerican brothers and sisters.
Leal compared to the scene to afamilial tradition of singing around aguitar late into the night.
“We’ve recreated what we havein our living rooms,” Leal said.
China, a country with along history of civilization andrich culture, and more recentlythe fastest economic growthrate, becomes the hottest topicat UK this year.
Students’ growing interestsin learning about China’s his-tory, language and art is themain reason why the Collegeof Arts & Sciences chose tohold the “Year of China” pro-gram.
“Year of China” is bringingChina to Kentucky and allow-ing UK students to get a closerlook at China through films,art exhibitions and lectures byfamous professors, said KeikoTanaka, director of the AsiaCenter and a sociology profes-sor at UK.
To launch the year’sevents, which will include afilm series, a lecture series,art exhibits and a play pre-sented by the UK theatre de-partment, “Year of ChinaOpen House” will take placeWednesday.
Students can enjoy foodfrom UK Catering Chef ScottKohn, as well as get free T-shirts and information aboutYear of China, Chinese cultureand study abroad, Tanaka said.
The film series will in-clude movies, “Yellow Earth”(Oct. 18), “Morning Sun”(Oct. 25), “2 Million Min-utes” (Nov. 1), “Last TrainHome” (Nov. 8) and “Beijingor Bust” (Nov. 15), all start-ing at 5 p.m. and showing inWhite Hall Classroom Build-
UK hosts ‘concert like we’ve never had’ for Hispanic Heritage Month
See CHINA on page 11
if you goWhat: Latin America in MusicWhen: Wednesday at 7 p.m.Where: Worsham TheaterAdmission: Free
“The music represents the collectivityof identities that have been lost due topolitics or cultural unawareness.”
Cesar Leal, event organizer
PHOTO COURTESY OF CESAR LEALThe Cuban Duet comprised of Yoisel Concepcion and Legna Tocado havecomposed hundreds of songs and play popular Cuban folk music. They will bein Wednesday’s lineup.
wednesday 09.21.11 page 10kernelopinionsRecently a campus trend toward
sustainability swept coolly throughthe early semesterair. Several differ-ent groups are fo-cusing on issuessurrounding energyuse, communityand personal sus-tainability, and so-cial justice.
Whether or notthose groups willcoalesce into amajor force oncampus remains tobe seen. But whatthese groups havedemonstrated is a
commitment to their principles anda proclivity for events.
The Greenthumb Environmen-tal Club recently invited DaveCooper of Mountain Justice to
campus and had him sort throughthe subtleties and stark images ofmountaintop removal coal mining.But if blasting off the tops ofmountains wasn’t your thing,Greenthumb also hosted a pioneer-ing platform last week in which 13clubs participated.
Finally, the Office of Sustainabil-ity organized a poster conference ti-tled “Big Blue Goes Green 2011.”
Now, as UK promotes its “Makean Impact!” week (its name waschanged away from Colin Beavan’s“No Impact” title to this safer slo-gan), we need to talk about whatthe phrase means. “Make an Im-pact!” is literally opposed to No Im-pact. That’s not to suggest any hid-den intent for the UK administra-tion that thankfully organized thisexperience.
Still, UK Kentuckians for theCommonwealth is adding its voice
to the forceful fray. This Wednes-day, the 21st, UK KFTC is screen-ing Deep Down, a documentaryfilm about people who live in East-ern Kentucky. This short film willbe shown at 6 p.m. in the WorshamTheater.
And as part of the discussion oncoal in general, UK KFTC is alsoscreening “Dirty Business” on Fri-day at the same time. This film of-fers a more detailed analysis of“clean” coal. This film will also beshown in the Worsham Theater. Ithink the entire campus communityshould eagerly seek out the next vo-cal contribution to the democraticculture of campus activism.
Jared Flanery is a political sci-ence junior and the vice presidentof UK Kentuckians for the Com-monwealth. Email [email protected]
Campus groups unite against coal
JAREDFLANERY
Contributingcolumnist
The ongoing rift between the UKathletics and the university’s generalfund is nothing new. In 1987, UK ath-letics began giving back $1.25 million
a year to the generalfund. At that time,the athletics depart-ment had an annualbudget of $13.8 mil-lion.
Today, UK’s ath-letic budget hoversaround $74 million.Its annual donationhas increased to only$1.75 million, accord-ing to an April 21 ar-ticle by the Kernel.
With student tu-ition increasing this
past year, and several student classroombuildings in need of major renovations,this increase seems to be a tad modestin my humble opinion.
If not back to the university’s gen-eral fund, then where does all this mon-ey go? Coaches take up a good por-tion, as $1.7 million goes to JokerPhillips.
The Lexington Herald-Leader re-ported on Sept. 9 that UK football sea-son ticket sales were down about 6 per-cent this year. “We've got to give (thefans) something to get excited aboutand we’ve got to find those momentsthat create excitement for our pro-gram,” UK athletic director MitchBarnhart said at the time.
After the last game againstLouisville, I don’t see how that’s possi-ble. Joker reminded us that we are
only three games into the season.“We’ve been here before, battled ourway out of it. We’ll continue to battleour way out of this. We’re 2-1. We’renot 0-3,” he said on Monday. As a ca-sual fan, though, I rest assured that I’mnot the only one who’s worried.
But our record is beside the point.The real issue is the empty bleachers.Blame it on the economy, blame it onanything you like, but I’m guessing ourlackluster offense contributes to a goodmajority of it.
UK athletics is very beneficial forthe University of Kentucky. Unlikemost collegiate athletic programs, it isself-funded. It’s also probably one ofour biggest recruiters, as many poten-tial students put UK on their radars be-cause of its sports. Nevertheless, weneed to consider the specifics.
There is inefficiency within UKathletics. It doesn’t make sense to paysomeone $1.7 million when the result isdecreased ticket sales. Does this typeof ‘over-the-top’ pay extend to otherUK sports programs? It must go some-where if athletics is bringing in approx-imately $72.25 million per year.
I enjoy UK sports just as much asthe next person, and I realize the posi-tive effects it has on our university.But with classroom buildings aging,student tuition rising and a decrease instate funding, this student believes thatUK athletics should be more efficientand consequently contribute more mon-ey to the university’s general fund.
Brian Hancock is an English juniorand the Kernel’s assistant opinions edi-tor. Email [email protected].
UK Athletics needs greaterefficiency, contribution
BRIANHANCOCK
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CHRISTOPHER EPLING, Kernel cartoonist
Ok, I have to get this offmy chest — I hate fantasyfootball. There, I said it. The
For thosewho don’tknow, fanta-sy football isan onlinegame wheresports dorkslike myself
draft real NFL players, field ateam of them and then getpoints for their team based ontheir players’ statistics in realgames. Originally, it began asa fun way for friends to com-pete against each other andtest their knowledge of theNFL. But lately, it has be-come so much more than that.
The monster that fantasyfootball has become now con-sumes the lives of helplessfans, luring them into itsgrasp and then swallowingthem into a black hole of sta-tistical obsession, destroyingcompetition on the field and
instead moving it to the Inter-net.
The NFL is not about sta-tistics; it’s not about individ-ual players and their statistics.
The NFL is about teamsconstructed of incredible ath-letes, competing in the mostdifficult team sport Americahas to offer. It’s about thediehard fan and their alle-giance to one city, one team,one logo.
But somewhere along theway, we as football fans forgotall of that. It makes me sick tosee “real” NFL fans rootingnot for a team, but for an out-come. If I see one more Ben-gals fan rooting for a player onthe opposing team just to helppad their fantasy team’s pointtotal, I may lose my mind. TheNFL is not about countingyards, it’s about countingpoints, counting victories andmost importantly, countingchampionships.
Thanks to fantasy football,I’ve seen things that no manshould ever have to see. I’veseen fans root for players onopposing teams in the samegame. No matter who has theball, this clown doesn’t carebecause he’s rooting bothways. Really? I’ve seen fansof a team down by 30 points
calling for a running playsolely because their runningback needs just a few moreyards to get their fantasyteam another point.
And it all makes me sick.I’m not saying fantasy
football should be abolished.When used responsibly, it canbe a fun way to engage withthe NFL in the middle of theweek when Sunday seems sofar away. But to those fanswho prioritize fantasy footballover real football, I beg youto get your act together, notjust for me but for yourself. Ipromise, you’ll thank me lat-er.
Ethan Levine is a journal-ism junior and the Kernel’ssports editor. [email protected].
Fantasy football ‘makes me sick’
ETHANLEVINE
Kernelcolumnist
Wednesday at 7 p.m.guards will strap Troy Davisto a chair at the Georgia Di-agnostic and ClassificationPrison in Jackson, Ga., beforeinserting the IVs into hisveins that will deliver his ex-ecution. Dead in 60 seconds.
Why should anyonecare? Forty-six people wereexecuted in the U.S. lastyear alone — one by a firingsquad in Utah and 45 othersmost Americans probablydid not hear about. Well,650,000 people across theworld care, and they havesigned a petition begging forthe Georgia Board of Par-dons and Paroles to grantclemency. (On Mondaynight, the Board chose touphold Davis’ death sen-tence.)
Among those 650,000protesters are former Presi-dent Jimmy Carter, Nobellaureate ArchbishopDesmond Tutu, Pope Bene-dict XVI and former FBI di-rector and judge William Ses-sions, among other prominentleaders and politicians, whoall feel there is not sufficientevidence to prove Davis com-mitted the murder, more orless to kill him.
Seven of nine originalwitnesses have retractedtheir eyewitness testimonies— which originally statedthey saw Davis shoot theOfficer Mark MacPhail, whohe is convicted of killing —claiming police coercion.
But the details of thecase are not the issue. Theissue is this: Execution, cap-ital punishment, the deathpenalty or whatever otherpolitically correct name youwant to give the murder of ahuman being, is obsolete. Orat least you would think soin America, one of three in-dustrialized nations that stillhave it, where we are “inno-cent until PROVEN guilty.”
There have been numer-ous wrongful executions inthe U.S. I implore you to golook at the numbers. Devel-
opments in evidence in thepast two decades have re-sulted in the release of 15prisoners from death row,and 85 have been releasedfor wrongful conviction na-tionally, Kate Randall re-ported in her Feb. 11, 2000,article, “U.S. executionscontinue at record pace de-spite revelations of wrongfulconvictions.” But what aboutthe cases in which DNA evi-dence is not available?
In a land where we sup-posedly are promised “life,”liberty and the pursuit ofhappiness, a citizen’s “rightto a fair trial” never happensin court. It didn’t happen forCasey Anthony, it didn’thappen for George Jacksonand it didn’t happen for TroyDavis. Trials in Americaare held in the media — welisten to them on our Siriussatellite in our luxury cars orin front of our HD bigscreen on our comfy section-al in our protective homes.We convict our fellow citi-zens with words and emo-tions, in our minds and onTV talk shows before theyever go before a judge in thecourt of law. We do the jobof the jury before they havea chance, and then ostracizethem when they make a con-stitutional opinion.
Davis is an example of apoor citizen v. a perfect citi-zen. A poor, black man witha G.E.D. and a factoryworkers’ resume was con-victed for the murder of theson of an army colonel, awhite, well-off policeman,with a wife and a toddlerand an infant. A worthlessperson with no purpose insociety killed an upstandingAmerican in the line ofduty, or so those last twowitnesses left standing bytheir testimony say.
Troy Davis will die with-out any of us ever knowingif he really killed MacPhail,and with all of us having al-ready executed him in themedia and in our minds.Hopefully his memory willlast longer than the 60 sec-onds it will take for so-called justice.
Joy Priest is a journal-ism senior and the Kernel’sfeatures editor. [email protected].
Gone in 60 seconds: Deathpenalty obsolete
JOYPRIEST
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Men’s tennis competedin 2 away invitationals
The UK men’s tennis team took ad-vantage of its opportunities to betterboth itself and its ranking over theweekend, participating in two invita-tional tournaments.
The Olympia Fields Invitational inChicago saw senior Alex Musialek,ranked 20th in the nation, defeat aranked singles player en route to a 3-1record. Sophomore Tom Jomby alsoposted a 3-1 record, and AlejandroGomez 4-0. Coach Dennis Emery washappy with the results of the Chicagotournament.
“Our singles, I thought, were espe-cially impressive in Chicago,” Emerysaid.
Several of the team’s members also
participated in a tournament hosted inChapel Hill, N.C. The tournament,dubbed the Duke Fab Four Invitational,saw junior Anthony Rossi defeat thefourth-ranked player nationally in a sin-gles match. Sophomores Panav Jha,Grant Roberts and Maks Gold also par-ticipated in the invitational.
Overall, Emery looks forward to acompetitive fall.
“We’re getting deeper at the topand when you’re coaching, that’s defi-nitely something you want to see,” hesaid. “This fall season is one of themost important I think we’ve everhad.”
The men’s team heads to the South-ern Collegiates tournament this week-end in Georgia to compete on the fieldthat will host the NCAA’s later in theyear.
The UK women’s tennis team tookits first steps of the season last weekendin two tournaments in Lawrence, Kan.,and Dublin, Ohio.
The team split up with six playersparticipating in the Kansas tournamentand three in the Ohio.
UK head coach Carlos Drada said hewas impressed with his squad but admitsthere is room for improvement.
“There are some things we are doingreally well, and I think it is a matter ofpatience and time as a team to capitalizeon them,” Drada said.
Sophomores Khristina Blajkevitchand Cece Witten made a splash at theKansas tournament, finishing fifth.
Junior Jessica Stiles and sophomoreCaitlin McGraw triumphed in their firstround matchup in the Ohio tournamentbut fell to a doubles team from the Uni-versity of Akron, 8-5, in the secondround.
Stiles, the oldest player on the team,agreeed with Drada that the team needsto improve but is content with the firstround wins.
“There are still some things we needto work on, but to get first round winswas definitely a positive thing,” Stilessaid.
The women have one of theiryoungest teams ever — Stiles is the onlyjunior — while the rest of the squad con-sists of sophomores and freshmen.
Although the team does not possess adefinite captain, Drada said Stiles is theclosest thing to a captain.
“It is such a big team and there are
girls who exhibit strengths on the team,but the person closest to the captain’srole is our upperclassman, JessicaStiles,” Drada said. “She is in charge ofcommunicating with the coaches and theplayers.”
Based on the tournaments, Stiles be-lieves that the team needs the most im-provement on the mental aspect of thegame.
“The things we need to work on areour attitude on the court, try and be moreconfident in ourselves, and be more posi-tive out there,” Stiles said.
Drada agreeed and said that the teamwill do everything it needs to do toprogress in its mental game.
“We just have to get more disciplinedwhen it comes to pressure and how todeal with pressure situations,” Dradasaid. “We are just going to work reallyhard to get where we need to be.”
Although it is tough to not find im-mediate success, Stiles said she is gladthat the team has identified what it needsto work on so early in the season.
“We have a clear picture on what weneed to improve upon and I think that isreally good to know at the beginning ofthe year because we will be able to worktowards those goals and support eachother to get there,” Stiles said.
Drada said he has high expectationsfor the season as long as the team heedsadvice from him and his assistant coach-es.
“I really think we can do well if theyoung players decide to pay attention tothe principles that we try to teach themand actually implement them,” Dradasaid. “Once we do that, we have enoughfirepower to do really well.”
Still some work to be done after first tournaments
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ing, room 118.“This film series covers a
wide range of topics aboutChina from history to educa-tion,” Tanaka said. “I’m ex-pecting them to draw manystudents, faculty membersand community members.”
There are also five lec-tures during the fall semester.Speakers include EugeneWang from Harvard Universi-ty (Oct. 13), Carma Hinton(Oct. 27), Julia Chang Bloch(Nov. 3) and Vanessa Fong(Nov. 29). The lectures willstart at 5 p.m. in White Hallroom 118.
Several art exhibitions onChinese visual art are sched-uled as part of the ArtsAsia
program organized by theAsia Center and sponsoredby the College of Fine Arts,the College ofArts & Sci-ences and theConfucius In-stitute, Tanakasaid.
The Cul-ture Flux exhi-bition will beheld through-out the fall se-mester fromSept. 16 toNov. 11 at theLexington Art League’sdowntown gallery.
Chinese artist ZhangFuquan's photography exhibi-tion will be held Sept. 28through Oct. 17 in the Presi-dent’s Room at the SingletaryCenter for the Arts.
Lastly, “Monkey King,” aplay based on a popular Chi-nese tale, will run at the
As part ofboth the Col-lege of A&SYear of Chinaand ArtsAsiaprograms, Eu-
gene Wang willgive a keynote lecture,“Contested Ground: VisualCulture in China after 1989,”on Oct. 14 at 5 p.m.
A full schedule of eventsand more information about“Year of China” can be foundat https://china.as.uky.edu.
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if you goWhat: Year of China Open HouseWhen: Wednesday at 7 p.m.Where: Worsham TheaterAdmission: Free
Ayanna Thompson, the Kentucky StateNAACP president, contacted Jackson wantingto go to the rally at the Georgia Capitol Tues-day evening. But for various reasons, theycouldn’t go, so they decided to have a jointdemonstration.
“It’s one of our standing principles to
stand up against injustice,” Thompson said.“We’re living in a modern day but we’re
living with old-age laws.”She wants to make students aware of what
is going on and has been tweeting about theissue all week.
“Our social justice system is flawed,”Jackson said. “Any one of us can be TroyDavis. Any one of us could be at the wrongplace at the wrong time.”
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“ Any one of us could be at the wrong place at thewrong time.” Ayanna Thompson, KSU NAACP President
You’re at the takeout orStarbucks hankering for atasty snack.
That double chocolatebrownie sure looks good (410calories; 24 grams of fat), butyou know you should chosethe apple (52 calories, 0.4grams of fat).
Here’s a suggestion: Makea fist before picking yourdessert.
The simple act of tighten-ing a muscle — in your hand,your calf, whatever — canhelp you make the healthierchoice.
“Firm muscles can firmwillpower and ... increaseself-control.... Put simply,steely muscles can lead to a
steely resolve,” says a studyrecently published in theJournal of Consumer Re-search.
“It’s actually quite easy,”one of the study’s authorstold me. It works because“the mind/body association isso strong,” said AparnaLabroo, associate professor ofmarketing at the University ofChicago. She said her studywas the first to show that thebody, not just the mind, caninfluence self-control.
Like all easy solutions totemptation, this one has acaveat: It only works for peo-ple “who are predisposed tofollowing long-term goals”said Labroo, like “engagingin healthy behaviors.”
For those people, tighten-ing a muscle — even sucking
in their stomach — “mightactually help them hold on toself-control and chose thething that is less highly indul-gent,” Labroo said.
For “indulgence-orientedpeople who presumably didnot wish to summon willpow-er,” the muscle clench won’twork, the study said.
So when to make the fist?At the moment of choice,when you’re deciding betweenthe brownie and the apple.
And, sadly, it’s not fool-proof. “It’s not a magic pill.It’s not going to be 100 per-cent successful,” Labroo said.
If you stock your kitchenwith brownies, you’re askingfor trouble. “If the food isconstantly in front of you,you will probably give ineventually,” she said.
Resist food temptation with all your (muscle) might
By Ellen Warren
MCT
Clinching a fist can help you make healthier choices
