kentucky kernel est. 1892 | independent since 1971 | www.kykernel.com wednesday 12.07.11 49 29 partly cloudy 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 Women prepare for Rupp Expectations high as Duke comes to town Two groups are teaming up to make an environmental difference on campus — start- ing with water fountains. UK Facilities and the Stu- dent Sustainability Council are co-funding a change in water fountains on campus to be more environmentally friendly. “The question is, where do we impact the most students, teachers and faculty?” Bob Wiseman, vice president of facilities, asked. The incorporation and ini- tiative of and for these water fountains started in fall 2010 when the Student Sustainability Council worked for 18 months to put together a plan with UK Facilities to restore the water fountains on campus. The sustainability council has agreed to help fund this new initiative. A total of 611 water foun- tains are on campus, the oldest being from 1964. The most student-impact- ed building on campus is White Hall Classroom Build- ing, said Shane Tedder, UK’s sustainability coordinator. The water fountains on campus are in varying states of repair, including the brand new fountains in White Hall and the Student Center. “A lot of schools have tried to eliminate plastic water bottles altogether and that has never worked,” Tedder said. “The Student Sustainability Council is working to incorpo- rate both the environment and keeping water bottles.” Eventually, the council will pay to replace eight water fountains in White Hall that are in the worst condition with brand new water fountains, Tedder said. The water fountain re- placements are decided on a basis of whether they are in the process of breaking down. The water fountains “need to be replaced in general,” Megan Hayes, an anthropolo- gy junior, said. “I think they are too old to just be cleaned.” Each water fountain costs $1,000 for the unit, funded by the Student Sustainability Council, and includes a water bottle filling station to incorpo- rate environmental awareness, said Kevin Kreide, UK’s phys- ical plant director. White Hall, the Gatton College of Business and Eco- nomics building and the Stu- dent Center are all places where water fountains were replaced because they By Kayla Pickrell [email protected]Water fountains in state of repair See FOUNTAINS on page 2 Goal of newer filling stations is sustainability Some UK students are busy taking class- es while they are also contributing to the Lexington live-music scene with their own bands. “I’d love to be a full-time musician,” said junior Bobby Pinkston, a bass guitarist and singer for the band Yellow Atlantic. He said his primary focus is school, but he’s actively working on his music. Pinkston and bandmate Ben Riley are the alternative rock band’s founding members. Riley, who is also a UK student, plays lead guitar, keys and vocals in the band. Yellow Atlantic, formerly The Atomists, was formed when drummer Landon Cun- ningham and rhythm and acoustic guitarist Kim Ferguson joined. The band practices four to eight hours a week. Pinkston said he keeps busy with band practice, completing his schoolwork, UK orchestra practice, and being on the UK fris- bee team. On top of Pinkston’s schoolwork and extracurricular activities, Yellow Atlantic is working on releasing a demo with three or four songs in December. An EP with five or less songs will be re- leased in March and is Yellow Atlantic’s first record. Another band working on an album is Man or the Machine, which is currently recording three tracks for its debut. The band, consisiting of freshman Chris Wheeler, sophomore Ben Norton, percus- sionist John Hannon and vocalist and guitarist Ryan Weeks, was formed in March. After their band Prometheus lost its for- mer bassist the band re-formed with Norton, who is the current bassist, keyboardist and vocalist. Though Wheeler is a UK freshman, he graduated high school in 2004 and has spent his time working with audio recording equip- ment before enrolling at UK. Wheeler plays guitar, saxophone, synthesizer and keys, and is a vocalist for the band. Wheeler said the band will soon be releasing songs, but a few at a time because “we plan on doing it right,” he said. Man or the Machine’s music is some- where in the middle between the band Tool and Radiohead, Wheeler said, with a mix of Porcupine Tree meshed with the Smashing Pumpkins. With Wheeler’s class schedule, he said he doesn’t think about music until Friday. A balance of music and school By Carol Seiler [email protected]See BANDS on page 2 PHOTO BY TESSA LIGHTY | STAFF Chris Floyd plays Romeo in UK Theatre’s production of “Romeo and Juliet.” The play is more tragic than romantic, putting a contemporary twist on the Shakespearean classic. The play continues its run on Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday at the Guignol Theatre. The opening weekend of “Romeo and Juliet” at the Guignol Theatre was anything but romantic. Actors were climbing fences and maneuvering around a stage that is both challengingly bril- liant and accompanied by the au- dience. Set designer Tony Hardin drew his inspiration from both the looming qualities of Barcelona street lamps and the dangerous na- ture of broken glass. The set was designed so that the multi-level platforms the ac- tors performed on were represent- ed as pieces of broken glass them- selves. The audience, whose seats towered over both sides of the stage, added a quality of looming for the actors. Set in a world of tension and chaos, Romeo is given a violent identity as one who causes death. “It has a very cold feeling to it,” said Chris Floyd, who played Romeo. “Everyone is violent in the play, not just Tybalt.” Romeo ends up killing Tybalt, Paris, himself, and indirectly Juliet because he is the reason for her death. Juliet, played by Katy Ochoa, shows the character not just as a young, naïve girl, but actually as quite the opposite. She questions Romeo’s love at first, and she Romeo revisited See ROMEO on page 4 For the first time, UK Parking and Trans- portation Services is offering parking passes for students leaving their cars on campus over win- ter break. The passes are on a first-come, first-serve basis and are available to students who have valid UK parking permits. The passes were first issued Thursday and will go into effect Monday. The no-charge passes are only available for UK students, and there are plenty left, said Chrissie Balding Tune, UK Parking spokes- woman. “We chose to give students an alternative so they aren’t leaving their vehicles out in the ele- A place to park during winter break By Brooke Talbot [email protected]See PARKING on page 4 KAYLA PICKRELL Kernel columnist for more information Yellow Atlantic facebook.com/yellowatlantic Man or the Machine facebook.com/pages/Man-or-the- Machine/211472715550545 Sundown Service sundownservice.blogspot.com Musicians on campus plan around homework To make holiday shopping easier for students, UK Parking and Transportation Services and Student Government are pro- viding a free shuttle service between cam- pus and Fayette Mall. The shuttle runs from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Dec. 11, with daily campus pick-up times of 11 a.m., 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. Passengers will be picked up at the north side of the mall, near the entrance to Macy’s, at noon, 2, 4 and 6 p.m. In previous years, UK has offered the shuttle and noticed it is helpful to the stu- dents. “This is something we offer to help students out to give them transportation to the mall if they don’t have a car on cam- pus,” UK Parking spokeswoman Chrissie UK provides shuttle for holiday shoppers By Brooke Talbot [email protected]See SHUTTLE on page 4 for more information Pick-ups are limited to campus only. To schedule a pick-up, do the following: - Email [email protected] by Dec. 9, with the subject: “Holiday Shopping Shuttle.” - Include your name, campus address, phone number, and the date, time and location of campus pick-up in the email. - A PTS representative will then call to make a confirmation of the pick-up time and location. You and James P. 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Women prepare for RuppExpectations high as Duke comes to town
Two groups are teamingup to make an environmentaldifference on campus — start-ing with water fountains.
UK Facilities and the Stu-dent Sustainability Councilare co-funding a change inwater fountains on campus tobe more environmentally
friendly.“The question is, where do
we impact the most students,teachers and faculty?” BobWiseman, vice president offacilities, asked.
The incorporation and ini-tiative of and for these waterfountains started in fall 2010when the StudentSustainability Council workedfor 18 months to put together a
plan with UK Facilities torestore the water fountains oncampus.
The sustainability councilhas agreed to help fund thisnew initiative.
A total of 611 water foun-tains are on campus, the oldestbeing from 1964.
The most student-impact-ed building on campus isWhite Hall Classroom Build-
ing, said Shane Tedder, UK’ssustainability coordinator.
The water fountains oncampus are in varying states ofrepair, including the brandnew fountains in White Halland the Student Center.
“A lot of schools havetried to eliminate plastic waterbottles altogether and that hasnever worked,” Tedder said.“The Student SustainabilityCouncil is working to incorpo-rate both the environment andkeeping water bottles.”
Eventually, the council willpay to replace eight waterfountains in White Hall that arein the worst condition withbrand new water fountains,Tedder said.
The water fountain re-placements are decided on abasis of whether they are inthe process of breaking down.
The water fountains “needto be replaced in general,”Megan Hayes, an anthropolo-gy junior, said. “I think they aretoo old to just be cleaned.”
Each water fountain costs$1,000 for the unit, funded bythe Student SustainabilityCouncil, and includes a waterbottle filling station to incorpo-rate environmental awareness,said Kevin Kreide, UK’s phys-ical plant director.
White Hall, the GattonCollege of Business and Eco-nomics building and the Stu-dent Center are all placeswhere water fountains werereplaced because they
Some UK students are busy taking class-es while they are also contributing to theLexington live-music scene with their ownbands.
“I’d love to be a full-time musician,”said junior Bobby Pinkston, a bass guitaristand singer for the band Yellow Atlantic.
He said his primary focus is school, buthe’s actively working on his music.
Pinkston and bandmate Ben Riley are thealternative rock band’s founding members.
Riley, who is also a UK student, playslead guitar, keys and vocals in the band.
Yellow Atlantic, formerly The Atomists,was formed when drummer Landon Cun-ningham and rhythm and acoustic guitaristKim Ferguson joined.
The band practices four to eight hours aweek.
Pinkston said he keeps busy with bandpractice, completing his schoolwork, UKorchestra practice, and being on the UK fris-bee team.
On top of Pinkston’s schoolwork andextracurricular activities, Yellow Atlantic isworking on releasing a demo with three orfour songs in December.
An EP with five or less songs will be re-leased in March and is Yellow Atlantic’s firstrecord.
Another band working on an album isMan or the Machine, which is currentlyrecording three tracks for its debut.
The band, consisiting of freshman ChrisWheeler, sophomore Ben Norton, percus-sionist John Hannon and vocalist and guitaristRyan Weeks, was formed in March.
After their band Prometheus lost its for-mer bassist the band re-formed with Norton,who is the current bassist, keyboardist andvocalist.
Though Wheeler is a UK freshman, hegraduated high school in 2004 and has spenthis time working with audio recording equip-ment before enrolling at UK. Wheeler playsguitar, saxophone, synthesizer and keys, andis a vocalist for the band.
Wheeler said the band will soon bereleasing songs, but a few at a time because“we plan on doing it right,” he said.
Man or the Machine’s music is some-where in the middle between the band Tooland Radiohead, Wheeler said, with a mix ofPorcupine Tree meshed with the SmashingPumpkins.
With Wheeler’s class schedule, he saidhe doesn’t think about music until Friday.
PHOTO BY TESSA LIGHTY | STAFFChris Floyd plays Romeo in UK Theatre’s production of “Romeo and Juliet.” The play is more tragic than romantic, putting a contemporarytwist on the Shakespearean classic. The play continues its run on Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday at the Guignol Theatre.
The opening weekend of“Romeo and Juliet” at the GuignolTheatre was anything but romantic.
Actors were climbing fencesand maneuvering around a stagethat is both challengingly bril-liant and accompanied by the au-dience.
Set designer Tony Hardindrew his inspiration from both thelooming qualities of Barcelonastreet lamps and the dangerous na-ture of broken glass.
The set was designed so thatthe multi-level platforms the ac-tors performed on were represent-ed as pieces of broken glass them-selves.
The audience, whose seatstowered over both sides of thestage, added a quality of loomingfor the actors.
Set in a world of tension andchaos, Romeo is given a violentidentity as one who causes death.
“It has a very cold feeling to
it,” said Chris Floyd, who playedRomeo. “Everyone is violent inthe play, not just Tybalt.”
Romeo ends up killing Tybalt,Paris, himself, and indirectly Julietbecause he is the reason for herdeath.
Juliet, played by Katy Ochoa,shows the character not just as ayoung, naïve girl, but actually asquite the opposite. She questionsRomeo’s love at first, and she
Romeo revisited
See ROMEO on page 4
For the first time, UK Parking and Trans-portation Services is offering parking passes forstudents leaving their cars on campus over win-ter break.
The passes are on a first-come, first-servebasis and are available to students who havevalid UK parking permits.
The passes were first issued Thursday andwill go into effect Monday.
The no-charge passes are only available forUK students, and there are plenty left, saidChrissie Balding Tune, UK Parking spokes-woman.
“We chose to give students an alternative sothey aren’t leaving their vehicles out in the ele-
Yellow Atlanticfacebook.com/yellowatlanticMan or the Machinefacebook.com/pages/Man-or-the-Machine/211472715550545Sundown Servicesundownservice.blogspot.com
Musicians on campusplan around homework
To make holiday shopping easier forstudents, UK Parking and TransportationServices and Student Government are pro-viding a free shuttle service between cam-pus and Fayette Mall.
The shuttle runs from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.on Dec. 11, with daily campus pick-uptimes of 11 a.m., 1 p.m. and 3 p.m.
Passengers will be picked up at thenorth side of the mall, near the entrance toMacy’s, at noon, 2, 4 and 6 p.m.
In previous years, UK has offered theshuttle and noticed it is helpful to the stu-dents.
“This is something we offer to helpstudents out to give them transportation tothe mall if they don’t have a car on cam-pus,” UK Parking spokeswoman Chrissie
for more informationPick-ups are limited to campus only.
To schedule a pick-up,do the following:
- Email [email protected] byDec. 9, with the subject: “HolidayShopping Shuttle.”
- Include your name, campusaddress, phone number, and the date,time and location of campus pick-upin the email.
- A PTS representative will thencall to make a confirmation of thepick-up time and location.
You and James P.Have photos of yourself or your friends with the Patterson statue?
Send the most ridiculous ones to [email protected] you could be featured in the Kernel. th
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Ah, those jing-jing-jingling bells, thosechestnuts roasting by the fire, that rockin’ aroundthe Christmas tree — all evoked by another setof chestnuts: holiday tunes, pop-music goldsince the days of the hand-cranked Victrola.
Musical fads come and go, but the traditionof festive Yuletide samplers by pop stars goeson. Here’s a look at recent releases in the holi-day spirit.
“A Holiday Carole” boasts a jazzy-breezyflavor and singer-songwriter Carole King’s dis-tinctive vocals (and on some cuts, her robust pi-ano playing). At 69, King still has a nasal-scratchy voice that’s cozy and soulful. With thebacking of a nimble combo, it’s a fine match onmost of these old and new tunes. Highlights in-clude a sweetly swinging “My FavoriteThings,” an R&B-fired “This Christmas” (witha shout-out to its late composer, Donny Hath-away) and a heartfelt rendition of the traditional“Chanukah Prayer.” The only missteps are thecuts — such as “Sleigh Ride” — that requireKing to strain beyond her range.
“A Very She&Him Christmas,” the latestfrom the indie duo of Portland musician M.
Ward and singer-actress Zooey Deschanel, of-fers an understated helping of holiday cheer.The sound is genial, spare and folky. If De-schanel’s gamin voice also overreaches its limi-tations at times, she charms more often, too, on“The Christmas Waltz,” “Blue Christmas” andother baubles. A standout is the pair’s coy gen-der-flip on “Baby, It’s Cold Outside,” with thegal seducing the guy in from the cold, for achange.
In a more classical vein, “Christmas withCantus” shines. The Minneapolis-based malechoir offers meticulously arranged and sungversions of traditional Yuletide fare (“AveMaria,” “Do You Hear What I Hear?”), along-side shimmering renditions of French (“NoelNouvelet”), Native American (“Helelulyan”)and Slovenian carols.
On “Michael Buble Christmas,” thedebonair Canadian retro-crooner hits the stan-dards in a deluxe outing that recalls (not surpris-ingly) the iconic 1950s holiday albums of hisvocal ancestor, Frank Sinatra. If there’s not a lotthat’s new here, Buble carries off this fan-pleas-
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stopped working, Wisemansaid.
“Our replacement policyhas been to repair, as we can,and then replace once it is nolonger economical to repair,”Wiseman said.
The 18-month initiative
will end this spring, and thecouncil hopes it will spark apermanent initiative through-out campus.
“I have seen (the new wa-ter fountains) in the majorityof the buildings around cam-pus, but I know that my dormdoesn’t have one yet,” ColinHeineke, a secondary educa-tion freshman, said. “That’swhere you usually fill your
water bottle up at the begin-ning of the day.”
While the council is fund-ing the bottle-filling units ofthe water fountains, the actualwater fountain is being fundedby the Physical Plant.
“The water fountains willserve as a visual prompt to re-duce environmental impact,”Tedder said. “We’ve gone a to-tally different direction.”
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The band usually meets on theweekends to practice, andWheeler said it’s a good thingbecause playing too oftenmeans inspiration can dry up.
It’s nice to walk away andcoming back fresh to play, hesaid.
While Yellow Atlanticand Man or the Machine areall-male bands, Christin Langis also making music of herown.
Lang, an agriculture com-munications and leadershipsenior, has her own experi-ences with being in a band.
Though she took a mo-mentary break from singing,Lang was the lead singer ofNevermore Lenore, a Lexing-ton band, and also in an un-amed acoustic duo.
Lang is graduating in De-cember, and said she had totake a pause from the music tofocus on school and her full-time job.
“I’ve always wanted to be
a rockstar, but I thought Iprobably should get a real jobfirst,” she said.
When Lang was in Never-more Lenore and the acousticduo, she said she felt goodabout managing her time withher studies. She also does vo-cals and writes melodies andlyrics.
After graduation, Langplans on recording dubstepand electronic music from herhome.
Another UK senior set tograduate in December isJonathan Beam, a media artsand Spanish double major.Beam is in the Lexington bandSundown Service, which is apsychedelic rock band with alate 1960s and early ‘70ssound, he said.
Band members includeBeam on bass, guitarist andvocalist Logan Morford andUK alumnus Todd Copelandon drums.
Sundown Service has re-leased one self-titled albumand currently has new songs inthe works.
Beam said his hardest
challenge as a student and be-ing in a band is balancing histime and having enough ener-gy. But he is happy with hisacademic performance, hesaid.
Beam’s dream job is toplay music professionally, hesaid, but whatever happenshe’s going to “keeping playingmusic no matter what.”
As far as balancing musicand academics, Beam said,“you can make time for it. It’snot unreasonable.”
Beam said Lexington’slive music scene has “tons oftalent,” and that there’s “defi-nitely somthing always goingon.”
However, Beam, alongwith Lang, said they wishedthere were more all-age venuesin Lexington, or more 18-and-up venues.
Pinkston said Lexington’slive music scene is predomi-nantly heavy metal, but it doeshave a good classic rock scene.
Lexington still needs morediversity, he said. He said hethinks Yellow Atlantic fills thatclassic rock void in Lexington.
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‘Twas two weeks before Christmas, and allthrough UK,Each student was prepping for that happy day;Decorations galore, from Blanding to JewellIn hopes that they soon would be far from thisschool;And they listened to carols, as snow fell abovePrepared to see family, and all those they love.But, meanwhile, on campus there existed aclanThat hated the season, each woman and man;Inspired were they by misery and pressure,
And feared by each student, who called each “professor.”They cackled with glee as they plotted their schemes,To trap all the students with Christmasy dreams;
With a laugh, just to hear it, would make you quite blue, And you knew in a moment what they would soon do.In a week that was known as supposed to be “dead”They said this to students, and filled them with dread;“Now quizzes! Now labs! Now essays and test!Now projects! Now finals, and all of the rest!We’ll give you all work ‘til you’re up to your sleeve,And we’ll stamp out your spirit, and you’ll never leave!”And each student was forced to stay in and cram,Presents and cookies don’t pass an exam.Instead they studied, and did not have a say,For as cool as he is, Santa can’t bring an “A.”A huge stack of tests each prof had on his back,And looked like a peddler, just opening his packTheir souls — oh! How empty,
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Lukewarm Truth: ‘Twas theweek before Christmas (break)
North Carolina headcoach Roy Williams had justseen UK beat his team, notby one superhuman perform-ance, but by a collective ef-fort.
First, it was TerrenceJones. Then it was MichaelKidd-Gilchrist, then DoronLamb, then Darius Miller.
“What’s your poison?”Williams said.
UK’s balanced effort wasn’t an anomaly.It’s been typical, in fact. And it’s kind of in-sane just how evenly split the numbers fall.
The five starters all have possession per-centages, which measures the amount of pos-sessions that end with a certain player whilehe is on the floor, between 18 and 22 percent.Using shot percentage, which is the amountof a team’s shots a player takes when he is onthe floor, each of the starters fall between17.3 and 22.8 percent.
Essentially, each of UK’s five starters oc-cupies about one-fifth of the offense.
And there’s no drop-off when the sixthman, Darius Miller, enters. He has a 19.4possession percentage and takes 19.9 percentof all shots when he’s on the floor.
Again, about one-fifth.This team has figured to be more bal-
anced than most from the start. None of thestarters has to hide on offense, as head coachJohn Calipari has said. They can all con-tribute.
The benefits of having this relative equal-ity: Defenses can’t key in on anybody. Dou-ble Jones? Fine. That opens up the perimeter.Stick with Davis to prevent lobs? Great. Thatopens up the lane for drives.
“It’s difficult to play a team that’s got fiveguys who can score,” Williams said.
It also creates some interesting byprod-ucts. There’s no clear-cut choice for who getsthe ball in the clutch, when UK absolutelyhas to have a basket. But I would argue thisis a good thing; frequently enough, the go-tochoice can be shut down. It was DeAndreLiggins who took the 3-pointer at the end ofthe game in last year’s Final Four, not Bran-don Knight. If you have five guys who canall legitimately be the target of the last play,that’s a good thing.
For the players, it creates a challenge instaying in the flow of the game.
“Confidence is everything, especiallywhen you can go for so long without touch-ing the ball and there’s so many skilled play-ers playing,” Jones said after a win againstRadford. “You can really get lost out there.”
So far, he’s found his way. He leads theteam in scoring. He leads the starters in pos-session and shot percentage.
But he could be going for so much more.After passing up the NBA to come back andwork for a top-three selection, the temptationto make sure he gets his certainly exists.
“If you’re him, aren’t you trying to shootevery ball?” Calipari said last week. “He’snot. It shows the kind of person he is.”
Neither is anyone else. Look at the shotdistribution in UK’s two big games.
Kansas: Jones (11), Kidd-Gilchrist (9),Teague (9), Davis (8), Lamb (8), Miller (5).
North Carolina: Jones (14), Lamb (12),Teague (11), Kidd-Gilchrist (10), Miller (8),Davis (6).
Most teams that operate like this havefive equally good players. UK has five equal-ly good stars.
And they’re all an even part of the offense.
Not just one go-to guy, but 5, for UK offense
PHOTO BY LATARA APPLEBY | STAFFTerrence Jones, just one of five stars on UK’soffense, leads the team in scoring.
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* range pulls from the top five players in % minutes played
Team Shot % range2010-11 UK2009-10 UKOhio State
North CarolinaSyracuseLouisville
13.4 to 27.218.4 to 28.511.6 to 27.79.3 to 29.1
14.3 to 26.614.4 to 23.1
Comparing UK to previous UKteams and the rest of thisyear’s top 5 in the AP Poll
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shows that Romeo is actuallythe one who is young andnaïve.
Andrew Kimbrough, di-rector of “Romeo and Juli-et,” said he was “pacingaround nervously” on open-ing night, but students endedup loving the tension the sto-ry built.
“The violence was in-tense but went very well theway the play was shown,”said Sydney Dobson, a Span-ish freshman.
The violence of the playwas portrayed through fist-fights and daggers instead ofthe usual tights and swords. Itwas anything other than a“clean fight.”
After the weekend open-ing, the three shows on Thurs-day, Friday and Saturday weresold out, and hopes are highfor other sold-out shows.
“Thursday night’s showwent well but as the weekendprogressed they kept gettingbetter and better,” Floyd said.“Any kinks we had gotworked out, and the firstweekend was a huge suc-cess.”
“Romeo and Juliet “ con-tinues this weekend, withshows Thursday through Sat-urday at 7:30 p.m., and closingwith a matinee on Sunday at 2p.m.
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if you goWhat: “Romeo and Juliet”When: Thursday throughSaturday at 7:30 p.m.; Sunday at 2 p.m.Where: Guignol TheatreAdmission: $10 for students,$15 general admission
Their eyes — oh! How dead,Anticipating scantrons,With nothing but red.Such work would depress,A right, jolly old elf,And I cried when I saw it,In spite of myself. When suddenly, one night, in a gauntWilly TThe silence was broken, by a rapture ofglee.For Santa had come, to dismantle thefearAnd fill all the students with ChristamsyCheer.“No need to work, for you’ll each get anA!Don’t let the man beat you, for this is myday!Go ahead! Get on Facebook! There’s noneed to frown,Go home and be merry! For I’ve come totown!”So all students said, “Screw it!”Left their books and just bailed,Had the time of their lives,Though, of course, they all failed.For it doesn’t matter, How far that you fall,You pass or you fail,Christmas comes to us all.Then we heard him exclaim, as he rodeout of sight,“The job market sucks anyway! And toall a good night!”
And that, dear readers, is the LukewarmTruth. Not quite hot, but definitely notcold. The editors of the Kentucky Kernel nei-ther confirm nor endorse the opinionsexpressed in the column. Because, really,who in their right mind would?
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ments for four weeks. Most students take carshome with them but if not, this is another choice,”Tune said.
The available parking structure over winterbreak will come in handy for students who are outof state and have to fly home.
“I wanted to park it somewhere where itwouldn’t be outside in the snow,” said SydneyManning, an economics science sophomore.
Manning is from California and has her car oncampus for the first time.
“This is definitely a good idea, and very con-venient,” Manning said.
Students who have a pass can park in ParkingStructure No. 5, which is next to Kennedy’sbookstore.
If a student has a pass, he or she pulls a ticketto enter the structure and displays the pass on thedashboard. This lets them park on the fourth orfifth floor of Parking Structure No. 5.
Students have until the end of the day on Jan.10 to remove their vehicles.
Returning to campus, students should bringtheir holiday parking pass to the Parking Struc-ture No. 5 office, to be exchanged for an exitpass, according to a news release.
Vehicles that remain by close of business onJan. 10 will be charged the hourly parking ratestarting at 5:30 a.m. Jan. 11 through the exit timeand date. Passes can be obtained at ParkingStructure No. 5 or at Parking Structure No. 6, lo-cated at the corner of Press and Virginia avenues.
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Balding Tune said. “And even if they do and don’t want to get
caught in the mall’s congestion they are still ableto take the shuttle,” she said.
Eddie Legaspi, a journalism sophomore, saidhe thinks the shuttle is an awesome opportunityfor those who don’t have cars and those who wantto save money.
“Money can be tight sometimes and this letsstudents avoid traffic frustrations,” he said.“With it being free, I think this is a great resourceto get to the other side of town.”
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This Thanksgiving Imade the not-so-astuteobservation that all theadults were thoroughlyconnected. Not to eachother in deep, enrichingfamily conversation, butrather connected to theInternet.
I noticed my parentssurfing on Facebook,uploading photos offamily in tryptophan-in-duced comas. When I
couldn’t find the UK basketball game onTV, my grandpa easily navigated to thelive stream feed online, commenting onthe high-resolution picture quality incontrast to other games he watched earli-er that week.
I have four sets of grandparents. Allof them have a presence on Facebook.Two sets use Skype fluently. One grand-pa has more apps on his iPhone than Ido, and I’m kind of an app freak.
But I shouldn’t have freaked out.Baby boomers accounted for more
than 25 percent of all active users on so-cial networking sites in 2010, accordingto a study from the Pew Research Center.In 2008, people over the age of 50 ac-counted for only 11 percent of all cyber-socialites.
Compare those numbers to the per-cent of college-age students, which tooka significant decline from 28 percent in2008 to 16 percent in 2010.
The exact demographic Mark Zucker-berg targeted when founding Facebookhas become a minority on it.
And if your grandpappy is still wiredon coffee instead of to a keyboard, don’texpect that to last. DoSomething.orglaunched a campaign to educate grand-parents on how to use new technologycalled “Grandparents Gone Wired.” Itplans on rewarding little Jimmy downthe street from grandma to teach her howto use her laptop in exchange for sweetiTunes gift cards and other rewards.
With the average Facebook user morelikely bound on an express train to amid-life crisis than an entry-level jobopening, perhaps it is time to re-evaluatehow youth and young adults view social
media. Growing up with social networks,
students have become acclimated to theperception that they were a part of an ex-clusive club. Now, that club is familyfriendly.
When teachers and community mem-bers would preach to me in high schoolabout “keeping my online profile clean,”I took the advice half-heartedly. I didn’tknow who was looking at my profile, un-less they liked or commented on a status.If they didn’t like it, oh well.
This is not the case anymore. Myfamily serves as a constant reminder thatI’m being watched every time they like apost I know they don’t understand.
Since then, I’ve realized our use ofsocial media should be maturing with
our age. But even if it does, social net-works are getting older faster than weare.
Remember, Facebook is not a partyhouse. It’s your mammaw’s house. Andevery day is Thanksgiving.
Brandon Goodwin is a journalismjunior and Kernel’s web director. [email protected].
Grandparents gone wiredIt is hard for anyone to sit back
and hear: “No, I’m good to drive.”“I don’t need a ride.” “I am com-pletely sober.” “I won’t get caught.”“It doesn’t even matter.”
Actually, you are not good todrive, you do need a ride, youaren’t sober, you will get caughtand it does matter — a lot.
Drinking and driving is some-thing that many people have beenadversely affected by, whether indi-rectly or directly. The potentialconsequences include trouble with
the law, injury or death. On Aug. 1, 2009, the annual Tom Sawyer
Triathlon in Louisville, Ky., was on the agenda forthe day. Kenneth Yates had something else in mind.It was a sunny, unforgettably sad day.
The triathlon started off well — people were fin-ishing the mile-and-a-half swim and moving on tothe 14-mile bike ride. In the middle of the ride, how-ever, many of the bikers came upon a scene that washard to forget. On one side of the road people wereconcentrating on pedaling their fatigued bodies ontheir bikes, but on the other side of the road therewas an ambulance and a body underneath a tarp. Itwas awful. You could see the blood spilling out fromunderneath the tarp.
So what happened? That morning, Yates was sodrunk and high that on a four lane road, he managedto hit a biker taking up the most miniscule portion ofpavement he could. He hit the man on the bike,killed him on impact and then fled the scene in hiscar — a car that still had the bike embedded in thewindshield, according to media reports. After he gotpulled over by police, he ran to his mother’s house,which was located nearby. His own mother had toturn him in to the police.
The saddest part of this story is: this biker haddone nothing to deserve it. Another man had decidedhis fate when he woke up that morning. He hadthree children and a wife waiting for him to finishthe race. And Kenneth Yates made sure he wouldnever finish the race.
In 2009, there were a total of 791 traffic fatalitiesin Kentucky, with 239 of them alcohol related. Thir-ty percent of all fatalities were alcohol-related. Thatpercentage is far too high. It identifies the number ofpeople who will never see their mom, dad, brother orsister again. No one can honestly say they want that.
The scariest part of this incident is that if I hadbeen a couple of miles ahead on the course, it wouldhave been my life that was taken instead.
That’s why it is so difficult to sit back and seepeople getting hurt because of drinking and driving.It is never worth the pain. It is not right to risk some-one else’s well-being because you want to drivewhile drunk. It just isn’t.
Decide your own fate, not someone else’s.
Kate Carpenter is a journalism senior and a de-signer for the Kernel. [email protected].
Drunken drivingan unfair risk
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