With the Election Day drawingcloser, UK will help students learnabout one of the races.

UK will host a mayoral debate sostudents, faculty and the communitycan have a last chance to assess thecandidates before making a final deci-sion.

Lexington Vice Mayor Jim Graywill be one of the two at the debate,along with his opponent in the race,current Lexington Mayor Jim New-berry.

Gray said it is important to makesure UK is included with the rest ofthe city and is able to host the candi-dates and give those voting a chanceto see the candidates.

“UK is an enormous part of thecommunity and reaching out to theuniversity community, demonstratingthe candidates interest in the universi-ty and the way that the university andthe city to work together,” Gray said.

Gray said this debate will be openin terms of what topics will be dis-cussed, and those present will have anopportunity to ask the candidates

questions.“From what I understand the de-

bate is covering all the issues,” Graysaid. “I am sure there will be some fo-cus on the university.”

Even though many people oncampus are not registered to vote inLexington, Gray said he thinks theevent will have a good turnout.

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Students who love Chi-nese food will no longerhave to travel off-campus tosatisfy their cravings.

The Chinese restaurantchain Panda Express is set toopen in the Student Centerduring the spring semester,said Ray Schmidt, associatedirector of UK Dining Serv-ices.

“Our goal is to openright around spring break,”Schmidt said.

Schmidt said Panda Ex-press approached UK aboutopening a restaurant on cam-pus about two years ago, andUK Dining Services signed afive-year contract with Pan-da Express this summer.

“They were intrigued bythe state of Kentucky,”Schmidt said.

Panda Express had a lo-cation in the Covington Air-port, which is currentlyclosed due to construction,Schmidt said, so the campuslocation would be the onlyone in the state.

Panda Express is a Cali-fornia based company, but ithas been successful at col-leges such as Penn State,Schmidt said. He anticipatessimilar success at UK.

“Part of what we reallylove about the concept isthat the food is made right infront of you,” Schmidt said.“We are very optimistic thatit will be well received.”

A UK Dining Servicesadvisory board performedpolls and talked to students,administrators, faculty andstaff as part of the decision-

making process to bringPanda Express to UK.

“We’re trying to stay rel-evant to students,” Schmidtsaid.

Menu items like the Pan-da Bowl, which includes anentrée and a side, are afford-able and “travel-friendly,”Schmidt said.

The new restaurant willhave a sushi chef and itsown dining area where stu-dents can sit.

UK Dining Services isconsidering eventuallyadding weekend and evening

hours for Panda Express,Schmidt said.

Currently, only Star-bucks and the Quick StopConvenience store are openon the weekends in the Stu-dent Center.

Students will be able touse their Flex and Plus ac-counts at Panda Express andthe restaurant will also honorthe 10 percent discount of-fered to students at all UKDining Services when theyuse these accounts.

Panda Express will belocated on the first floor of

the Student Center, whereCafé du Chat is currently lo-cated. Café du Chat will notreopen in a new location,Schmidt said.

Zach Means, a civil en-gineering freshman, lives inHaggin and said the newrestaurant would bring himto the Student Center more.

“I’m excited,” Meanssaid. “I normally eat Chinesewhenever I can. (Panda Ex-press) will definitely giveme a reason to walk downhere.”

By Jill Seelmeyernews@kykernel.com

Panda Express to open in Student Center

Four UK students aresearching for housing after afire ravaged part of theirhome early Tuesday.

The fire damaged athree-story building at thecorner of Conn Terrace andSouth Limestone that housedsix people, four of whomwere UK students, Lexing-ton Division of Fire Battal-ion Chief Marshall Griggssaid. Firefighters respondedto the fire at 5:41 a.m. Resi-dents were exiting the rear ofthe building when the firedepartment arrived, Griggssaid.

No one was injured.Griggs said smoking ma-

terials placed in a plastictrashcan in the building’srear caused the fire. One res-ident was awake when thefire occurred and alerted oth-er residents. Smoke alarmsalso helped awake the sleep-ing residents.

The fire destroyed an en-closed deck and damaged avehicle parked near thebuilding. The fire alsocaused smoke, fire and waterdamage inside the building,Griggs said.

The building’s occupants

are working with the RedCross, the fire department’sCommunity Services Divi-sion and the building’s land-lord to find temporary hous-ing, Griggs said.

“The fire caused signifi-cant damage, but it was con-tained to the building’s backrooms,” he said.

Griggs said that thesmoke alarms not damagedby the fire were working.

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After the basketball prac-tice was over, and the stu-dents had trickled out aftertheir exclusive look at a JohnCalipari-led practice, BrandonKnight and Terrence Jonesstayed on the floor.

The two freshmen kepthoisting up three-point shots,honing their strokes, re-bounding for each other.Knight and Jones, two high-profile recruits, were just acouple of players shootingaround. At one point, a long

rebound got away fromJones, who chased it down athalf-court. Walking back, hestopped around the infamousTayshaun Prince spot – a footor two inside the half-courtline and the sideline – andlaunched up a three thatbanked in. Jones raised hishands in celebration, wavinghis arms to pump up an imag-inary crowd.

Memorial Coliseum stoodsilent all around them.

***Only minutes before,

however, Memorial Coliseumhad been filled with students

and faculty who had come towatch the men’s basketballpractice.

This practice was the op-posite of the first officialpractice of the year, Big BlueMadness – a thoroughglimpse into the new UKteam, stripped of all theadornments and adulation sur-rounding the annual hypefestof Madness.

UK head coach John Cali-pari said at the conclusion ofMadness that it was now timefor business. He meant it.Calipari was at the helm ofthe practice, barking, blowingwhistles, clapping, praising –teaching.

Calipari directed the teamthrough an array of drills, in-structing the entire way. Stu-

dents and faculty were able toget a glimpse at the team dur-ing one of their earliest realpractices. Brandon Knightshowcased physical talent,leadership and work ethic.Darius Miller and DeAndreLiggins looked like they wereembracing the leadership role.Josh Harrellson was crashingthe boards hard – and swatteda Jarrod Polson alley-oop at-tempt even harder. There wassomething to glean for almostevery player.

The crowd sat silent thewhole time – after all, theywere in Calipari’s classroom,as he said at the introduction– and watched the team workthrough offensive, defensiveand rebounding drills. (Oh,

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Local kids got a chance toplay festival games and bewith UK students on campusTuesday at Kitty Karnival, anevent sponsored by the StudentActivities Board.

Student organizations setup booths with activities forchildren and gave away candyand other prizes. Many Greekorganizations, music organiza-tions, Students Today, Alumni

Tomorrow and other groupshad booths. The event also hadHalloween-themed music, cot-ton candy, a pie toss, facepainting and a football toss.

Rosie’s Ponies had a pet-ting zoo for the kids.

Many children arrived incostume since this year’stheme was “Where little ghostsand goblins come to play.”

Beth Goebel, SAB Tradi-tions Committee Kitty Karni-

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through offensive, defensiveand rebounding drills. (Oh,and not to forget the hustledrills that opened practice,where players took a chargeand then dove for a loose ball.It was indicative of the newbusiness standard surroundingthe team.)

Near the end of practice,Calipari began dribble-drivemotion drills. He broke downthe spacing and movementfor all the players, most ofwhom are probably brand

new to the system. Thenagain, the learning may neverstop.

After an hour and a half,Calipari closed the practicewith a team breakdown.

“With 10 guys, I can’tpractice 2 and a half hours,”Calipari said. “I’m trying tomake them better, not killthem.”

***After practice, Knight and

Jones continued to movearound the three-point line,nothing but clangs and swish-es as a soundtrack to theirshots. They moved to thefree-throw line for some prac-tice – Knight with a fluid

two-bounce, spin motion andJones with that lefty shot –and worked some more.

After another round ofthree-pointers, Knight wentin. Jones asked for one more.He took a shot, and missed.Took another, and missed.Knight went down the tunnel,leaving the one last UK play-er on the floor. Jones tookthree more shots, missedthem all.

Finally, Jones swished one.He left his arm up, wristcocked. Letting the ball dribbleacross the floor, Jones finallydisappeared into the tunnel.

Even Terrence Jones hasto leave on a make.

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“We had a good studentrepresentation in the pri-mary,” Gray said. “I wouldhope that we will get a goodcrowd.”

Newberry’s campaign isin agreement with Gray’s inthat aspect, said Lance Blan-ford, Newberry’s Campaignmanager.

“With the Congressionalrace and the Senate race andwith the mayoral race goingon, I think people are really intune with the elections thisyear,” Blanford said. “It willprobably draw out a largercrowd than what it normallywould.”

Gray and Newberry had adebate on Tuesday night, saidWalker Mattox, Gray’s com-munications director.

Gray said the topics thatthe students and faculty willbring up will be ones that arepersonal to them, like lastspring’s student housing is-sue.

“Traditionally the issuesaffecting the university andaffecting the students are pre-sented in debates,” Gray said.“We expect issues regardingstudent housing and city anduniversity’s role in workingwith neighborhoods.”

Blanford said the New-berry campaign is ready forthe debate and wants to seewhat types of concerns theaudience will bring up to thecandidates.

“We’re going to have adiverse group in the audience;we’re looking forward to a di-verse set of questions,” Blan-ford said. “We hope we havethe opportunity to answerquestions that will be impor-tant to the citizens of Lexing-ton, the students at UK and

others that are independent.”Gray knows how big ath-

letics is to the university andsaid that this will probably bea topic discussed Wednesdaynight at the debate.

“We’ll always have an in-terest in the athletics programand how the city and RuppArena have to work togeth-er,” Gray said.

Blanford said he is happythe debate is being put on bythe League of Women Votersand UK Student Government.

“The debate is throughthe League of Women Votersand the University of Ken-tucky and it’s important for[them] to know the stance ofboth candidates,” Blanfordsaid.

The debate will be moder-ated by UK Student Govern-ment Vice President KelseyHayes and will start at 6 p.m.in the Student Center SmallBallroom and will last for ap-proximately one hour.

DEBATEContinued from page 1

val chair, said she was hopingto have 150 children attend inpart because of the great fallweather.

Jeb Jarrell, mechanicalengineering junior, was withthe Farmhouse booth that hada Halloween themed duck-pond and a student in a goril-la suit.

Kitty Karnival is “a goodway to be involved on cam-pus and do something goodfor children,” Jarrell said.

The students were excitedto welcome the young peopleto our campus.

“I think little kids like tobe around teenagers,” saidAriel Danek, nutrition sopho-more with Kappa KappaGamma. “It makes them feelimportant.”

Kappa Kappa Gammahosted the “Kappa CanKnockdown,” where kids hadtwo chances to knock downcans and were given a prize.

Praveen Chenna, a Pul-monary and Critical CareDoctor with UK Healthcare,brought his 2 and a half -year-old son. He joked his sonmay have been “flirting withthe sorority girls.”

Cheena was impressed bythe location and atmosphereof the event.

“It’s a nice way for us asparents to be a part of UK ina way we wouldn’t normallybe,” Chenna said.

This year’s event built onthe success of Kitty Karnivalsin previous years.

“It’s great to get all theorganizations involved withHomecoming to put on anevent to get the communitytogether,” Goebel said.

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An educated, accom-plished, young black manwill be throwing around the“N-word” Thursday night inthe Black Box Theater. Buthe doesn’t want to stir up anyconflict, he just wants to pro-voke an educated debate.

Vershawn Ashanti Young,author of “Your Average Nig-ga: Performing Race, Litera-cy and Masculinity,” long-time educator and new UKfaculty member, will put on asolo performance of histhoughts on gender, race andsociety.

In “Your Average Nigga,”Young argues that forcingAfrican-American students togive up their Black English

Vernacular to pursue the prac-tice of speaking StandardEnglish does not help themsucceed as some might think.

Language is ever-evolv-ing, and if parts of the BlackEnglish Vernacular can bewidely understood as a meansof communication then thereshouldn’t be such a strongpush to change it, Young said.

“When people see theword ‘nigga’ in the title, itsparks a controversy,” Youngsaid. “Some people shy away,others are more pulled to-wards it. People seem to beeither really interested in raceor they want to ignore it…My book is about the title andthe subject.”

Young said his book start-ed as his dissertation, and af-

ter three years of work,turned into something more.

Every chapter is writtenthrough experience, and inter-woven within each one arethoughts on what it means tobe a black male and keepyour heritage and your mas-culinity without changingyourself completely for socie-ty.

The idea was born whenYoung found himself in aclassroom with another blackmale who said had a more“ghetto” way of speaking,and he started thinking aboutlanguage and how this partic-ular way of speaking is com-monly looked down upon andwhy.

“Black English is fullycompatible with Standard

English…We often exagger-ate the differences,” Youngsaid. “Teachers need to tellblack students the way theyspeak is fully communicativeand start teaching them howto negotiate prejudice.”

Young related this preju-dice to the popular reactionstoward the way that peoplefrom Appalachia speak.Though some people fromthat region may say things alittle differently, you can stillunderstand them, and thisdoesn’t make their way ofspeaking wrong, Young said.This is an idea he plans tostudy more in the future.

He spent his last eightyears teaching at the Univer-sity of Iowa. He also taughthigh school students and

served as an elementaryschool principal before land-ing at UK this summer.Young is an English professorwho is currently teachingfreshman and graduate stu-dents.

He said he “absolutelyloves UK” and is looking for-ward to becoming more in-volved around campus in theperformance, racial, culturaland gender arenas.

His performance willhave only one performer –Young – who will play all thecharacters from his book andnavigate the audience throughhis life and everything his ex-periences have taught himand driven him to ponder.

“On the entertainmentside, people can expect to seepoetry, dance, different char-acters and music,” Youngsaid. “But they can also ex-pect a very intellectual con-versation about language,race and gender.”

The presentation, which issponsored by UK’s African-American Studies and Re-search Program and the MartinLuther King Jr. Cultural Cen-ter, is the second of four annu-al events in the Carter G.Woodson lecture series.

Dr. Sonja Feist-Price,AASRP director, said thegoal was to provide an audi-

ence with a place to see newtalent and exciting work.

“We try to put on not onlythought-provoking presenta-tions, but also expand theknowledge base of our stu-dents, faculty and staff,”Feist-Price said. “This is aplatform that allows us toshowcase the knowledge ofour faculty.”

Young’s performance-lec-ture will be at 4:30 p.m. onThursday, Oct. 21, in the Lu-cille C. Little Black Box The-ater, room 102 of the FineArts Building.

He will be available afterthe show to answer questionsand sign copies of his book.

The event is free andopen to the public, and re-freshments will be provided.

“If you want to go deeperthan the performance, buy thebook,” Young said. “I knowthe title is in your face, but itdoesn’t hurt.”

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features

Side effects of “BieberFever” may include violencetowards children and blind-

ness. Butmore so vi-olence to-wards chil-dren.

Accord-ing to CBCN e w s ,C a n a d i a ntriple-threatJ u s t i n

Bieber — he sings, dancesand could probably act in alow-budget movie (maybe“Step Up 4: The DancersKeep Stepping Up” ) — al-legedly assaulted a 12-year-old boy in Richmond, BritishColumbia, Friday, at PlanetLazer, which is not a flashynight club, but a laser tagcenter.

When Bieber, who is inB.C. for his Vancouver con-cert, found out that the 12-year-old boy’s father waslodging a complaint with thepolice, I assume he brokeinto song: “Baby, baby, baby

ohhh,” followed by this pre-sumed new lyric, “fudge.”

Remarkably, my firstquestion after learning of thisnews was not what com-pelled Bieber to allegedly as-sault a child, but rather, docelebrities actually play lasertag with the common folk?

Scratch that “commonfolk” part of the question.Let’s start by questioningwhether or not celebritiesplay laser tag. It seems a lit-tle unlikely, but if Bieber’surge to shoot laser beams atanother human being wasoverwhelming, surely hecould have rented PlanetLazer for a private party toavoid a mess like this. I hearhe’s not doing all that badfor himself.

Or maybe he could haveinvested in a laser pointer;talk about hours of endlessfun!

The second question thatcomes to mind is why wouldyou allegedly hit a 12-year-old? Surely there was a goodreason, I thought, it’s all a

misunderstanding.According to the same

CBC News report, apparent-ly several patrons at PlanetLazer got word of Bieber’spresence and he becameheavily targeted by the otherplayers.

OK, so that’ s maybe notthe best excuse someonemight want to use against as-sault claims.

Still, he’s Canada’s boywonder. He’s allowed to getfrustrated at laser tag. It’s notevery day a Canuck getsnominated for a People’sChoice Award, you know.

Yet at the same time, thisis not good for the image ofCanadians and for that I say“for shame, Mr. Bieber.”

Just when my column’spopularity is skyrocketing(off the charts, really) thispublic relations disaster oc-curs and discredits my peo-ple as a whole.

Canadians pride them-selves on non-violence. I amso docile that you couldcome up to me and pet me.

Thus, I’d never hit a tween,even though they tempt youwith their backtalk and ob-session with the Twitter andthe YouTube. Darn kids(shakes fist in the air angri-ly)!

Who knows? Maybe thisincident marks the beginningof the end for “Bieber Fever.”He had a good run, especiallyconsidering the fact a bulletto my foot would be lesspainful than listening to theshriek of Bieber’s fans whenthey catch a glimpse of hisoh-so-perfect bowl haircut(admit it, Tom Brady, you’rejealous!).

I guess this means Cana-dians have to go back to be-ing proud of Celine Dion’scelebrity. I don’ t like it any-more than you do, but myheart will go on.

A Canuck chastises Bieber

Nick Craddock

Controversial act to discuss ‘race, literacy and masculinity’By Hope Smith

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If you goWhat: “Your Average Nigga”When: Thursday at 4:30 p.m.Where: Lucille C. Little BlackBox Theater, rm. 102 of theFine Arts BuildingAdmission: Free

UK football hasn't beencompared to Georgia muchover the years. Even thoughthe Cats have split the lastfour meetings with the Bull-dogs, Georgia still holds a 49-12-2 record in the series. Butgoing into Saturday'smatchup, the teams havemore in common than usual.

After a four-game losingstreak earlier this year, Geor-gia (3-4, 2-3 SoutheasternConference) has won its lasttwo SEC games by a com-bined score of 84-14. Boththe Bulldogs, sparked by thereturn of wide receiver A.J.Green from an NCAA sus-pension, and the Cats (4-3, 1-3 SEC), coming off a streak-busting win over South Car-olina, are riding tidal wavesof momentum into Saturday'sgame.

Keeping that momentuminto the home stretch of theseason by coming out with awin would make a majorstatement for either team.

"A loss would definitelyset us back," junior defensivetackle Mark Crawford said."Losing is not an option."

Also, both teams havesuffered a pair of close losses.The Cats fell to Ole Miss andAuburn by a combined 10points, while the Dawgs fellto Colorado and Arkansas bya combined nine points.

Trying to move past thoselosses presented challengesfor both teams to overcome.Now, entering the second halfof the season, UK and Geor-gia are both alive in the racefor the division.

"We both started off slow,but right now, there's sixgames left and we're both try-ing to go 6-0," Crawford said.

"I want to say we're both 1-0right now and we're trying togo undefeated."

Sophomore wide receiverLa'Rod King said he can seea lot of similarities. Thisyear, the game is just asmuch of a chance for Geor-gia to make a statement as itusually is for UK.

"It's huge, it's huge espe-cially for us," King said."Three losses can win theSEC East. This is make it orbreak it right now. This willdetermine how the rest of ourseason will go. If we win thisgame, I'm pretty sure we'llwin the rest of our games thisseason."

Cobb apologizes forTwitter controversy

Junior wide receiverRandall Cobb put all thequestions about his Sundayoutburst on Twitter to restwhile speaking to the mediaon Tuesday, apologizing forhis strongly-worded messageto fans.

"I want to start off by say-ing I made a mistake," an all-smiles Cobb said. "I messedup, and I take blame foreverything I said. I know Iwas wrong. I was wrong forthe fact that I took a smallpercentage of our fan baseand lumped them as one.That's not how our fans are.99.9 percent of our fans aregreat fans and they knowthat, they've been there sup-porting us through all theyears.

"I'm a man, I admit mymistake and I just want to leteveryone know I'm sorry. Ihope they can forgive me."

Shortly after Cobb postedthe tweets, which criticizedUK football fans for theirlack of support of the team at

times, he deleted them. Cobbsaid he immediately realizedhe was wrong to speak outon Twitter, and deleted theposts on his own accord be-fore any UK staffers askedhim to.

Cobb repeatedly apolo-gized for his words, and ex-plained that he was hoping tolet fans know the team takesnotice of booing and theamount of support from thefans.

"What I wanted to getout of it was to let others re-alize how we can tell what'sgoing on," Cobb said. "Wecan hear you regardless ofwhether we respond. Weknow what's being said andit hurts sometime. It reallydoes."

UK head coach JokerPhillips also announced thatafter again considering ban-ning his players from Twit-ter, he decided to let themkeep their accounts.

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PHOTOS BY BRANDON GOODWIN | STAFFSophomore wide receiver La'Rod King catches a pass for a touchdown against South Carolina's defenders on Saturday.

By Ben Jonesbjones@kykernel.com

UK, Georgialook to stayalive in East

sports

Cats, Dawgs share similar story

UK junior defensive tackle Mark Crawford has 13 tackles and two sacks in six games this season.

MATTHEW STALLINGS, Kernel cartoonist

New Powerpromises to

keep Ky. proud I graduated from the University of Kentucky in

2003 and am proud to be a Kentuckian. I am fortu-nate to have grown up in a strong, supportive commu-nity, received a high-quality education and have beenable to make a living surrounded by my friends, fami-ly and the stunning natural beauty of this state. I be-lieve many of us who have chosen to make Kentuckyour home feel the same way.

However, not all Kentuckians are so fortunate.Big coal companies are using and abusing the peo-

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We can change that right now. We can raise ourvoices together and let candidates know that it’s timefor New Power. We can tell them that we will votefor candidates who will work for policies that createclean energy jobs, affordable renewable energy andhealthy communities and that address the problemscreated by old power fossil fuels. Make our voicesheard — visit (www.newpowerky.org) and sign theNew Power Pledge today. Keep Kentucky a statewe’re proud to call home.

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Kentucky horse culture, tailgatingshould not coincide with binge drinking

What’s the big dealabout betting on horses?

This question has beenasked toKentuck-ians allacross theCommon-wealth dur-ing theSpring andFall meetsatKeeneland.

Usually,a true Ken-tuckian an-

swers this question with aweak knowledge of “the his-tory of horseracing and howit’s impacted Kentucky’sculture.”

Admittedly, I’m one ofthose Kentuckians who at-tempts to pretend I knowsomething about horses in aweak effort to set myselfapart from all those non-Kentuckians who thinkKeeneland is nothing morethan an excuse to drink ex-cessive amounts of bourbonwhile gambling away ourhard-earned money.

Many people from Ken-tucky would gasp at thethought of turningKeeneland into some over-glorified saloon — but isn’tthis often times what wemake it into?

Keeneland is just asmuch (if not more) about

drinking and socializing as itis actually watching racesand betting on horses.

There’s nothing wrongwith this in itself; howeverthere does become a prob-lem with it when Keenelandturns into a safe haven forbinge-drinkers who aremindlessly throwing awaysums of money that most ofus, especially college stu-dents, don’t have.

A poll taken by StudentsAgainst Drunk Driving in2005 showed that nearly 7.2million people between theages 12 to 20 would classifythemselves as “bingedrinkers.” This statistic,though to some may be star-tling, isn’t that surprisingwhen looking out onto thefield of tailgaters atKeeneland.

This same statistic ap-plies to the thousands ofcollege students that partici-pate at UK tailgates duringhome and away games.

On my last visit to afriend of a friend’s tailgate, Iwitnessed a group of collegeguys chugging cheap beerout of plastic baseball bats,and then spinning around incircles and hitting the can inthe air after making them-selves so dizzy, they couldbarely stand up.

Now, aside from lookinglike complete idiots, theseboys (as this seems to be the

only fitting term for them)were participating in an actthat gives Keeneland andUK sporting events a coolundertone that doesn’t al-ways sit well with peoplewho have been negativelyaffected by the conse-quences of binge drinking.

Binge drinking can leadto alcoholism, which in turn,can have devastating conse-quences, such as cirrhosis ofthe liver, drunk-driving re-lated accidents and wreckedhome lives. I bet the base-ball bat-boys weren’t think-ing about that.

College is a very stress-ful moment in life and needsto be put on the back-burnerand forgotten during theweekends. However, in or-der to erase school from ourminds, we don’t need to be-come belligerently drunkand make life-altering mis-takes that could have beenavoided if only we put theeighth Natty Ice down andinstead played a friendlygame of Twister — orwhatever else strikes yourfancy.

Keeneland, UK tailgatersand participants need to bereminded (every now andagain) that alcoholism is arampant addiction in thiscountry that oftentimesstarts because of a party-minded college culture thatexalts making bad decisions.

It turns drunken mistakesinto laughable moments thatare many times at the ex-pense of others’ inability toexercise a morsel of self-re-straint.

Drinking is not a badthing. Chugging beer afterbeer, in hopes to impress thehammered sorority girlyou’ve had a crush on allsemester, is.

We’re supposed to bethe people that set the stan-dard for the rest of society.We’re the college-educatedones who are supposed togo on and get respectablecareers and set examples foreveryone else.

How are we supposed todo this if we let our mostproud social events turn intonothing more than drinking-fests that are soon to be for-gotten—probably by thenext day to be exact?

Keeneland goers anddie-hard UK tailgaters, havea beer. Hell, have two beers(just for being able to stickout a rather bumpy footballseason), but don’t lose allcontrol.

Set good examples forthose around you whilekeeping in mind that a goodtime never has to come atthe expense of others oryour own self-respect.

Rachael Wylie is anEnglish junior. E-mailopinions@kykernel.com.

UK Police’s student ticket checkssidestep ‘real’ campus issues

If I was a robber terror-izing UK’s campus, I knowthe perfect time to commit a

robbery: dur-ing a UKfootballgame.

In all re-ality, though,

the poten-tial robbercould strikecampus atany mo-ment andget away

with it.However, for the sake of

the next 500 or so words,let’s pretend this campus isactually safe.

So a robber decides theywant to commit a robbery.For all intensive purposes,this attempted robbery oc-curs during a UK footballgame. What do you thinkUK Police were doing dur-ing this “robbery”?

Let’s start from the be-ginning. At the beginning ofthe game, UK Police wereharassing students abouttheir student IDs. I knowthere’s a big black marketfor fake student IDs going

around. So for any of youstudents who needs a newID, you should look into it.

During the game, UKPolice then turned into ticketpatrol. Two officers walkedup to the student sectionduring the second half of thegame and started demandingstudents to prove that theyhad tickets. Some of thegame attendees were actual-ly forced to move seats androws.

Just to clear things up,this was in the second halfof the game when a lot ofthe fans had already left thegame and seats weren’t at apremium.

After seeing that exhibi-tion of police force Saturdaynight, I now understand whystudents are afraid to walkthe streets of this campus.It’s because UK Police per-form real police work likechecking student IDs andtickets.

Not that ensuring everypatron is in the correct seatisn’t important, but whenstudents are getting robbedat gunpoint on the other sideof campus, ticket policingshouldn’t take priority.

This is the problem Ihave with this whole crimesituation. Like I said twoweeks ago, after it took fiverobberies for UKPD to ad-dress the issue, this situationshould not be taken lightly.

After five robberies,UKPD finally did addressthe issue. They said theywould increase patrols andwork more with the Lexing-ton Police to give the illu-sion that safety was a priori-ty.

Increasing officers is anice thing, but how longwill this last?

Like most incidents, theinitial reaction will be a bigpush to get things “back tonormal.” But, what is nor-mal?

Do five armed robberiesamd multiple home break-ins occur on a normal cam-pus?

It is obvious that this is-sue will not go away. Thecampus e-mail sent out onMonday listing multiple in-cidents over the past monthis humbling, to say the least.To think that these thingshave been occurring and weas students weren’t made

aware of them until after thefact, leaves me with no con-fidence in the governmentdepartment commonlyknown as, “the police.”

UK always claims tohave a good relationshipwith the Lexington Police sowhy weren’t these incidentsreported earlier? Our right toknow and ability to protectourselves exceeds any otherkind of motivation in thiscircumstance.

I was wrong to thinkfive robberies would actual-ly be a wake-up call. Afterseeing the exhibition of po-lice force on Saturday at thefootball game, studentsshould be worried aboutwalking around this campus.

So here you go students,your police force has resort-ed to checking student IDsand making sure everyone isin the correct seat. Be on thelookout this Saturday whenthe Cats take on Georgia.You never know when youwill be subject to a ticketcheck.

Austin Schmitt is anaccounting and finance jun-ior. E-mail opinions@kyker-nel.com.

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Having former president Bill Clinton on campuslast week was one of the greatest honors this campushas enjoyed. Let's not get this confused, though.Bringing Clinton to campus was purely a politicalmove, to bring in support for Jack Conway, a candi-date in the midst of a heated senatorial campaign.

Sure "Cats for Conway" played an important rolein getting the former president in front of the MainBuilding, but if there were not an important electioncoming up, Clinton is spending last Monday afternoonelsewhere.

Which begs the question: Was the universitywrong for hosting such an event?

Looking at the situation from a purely politicalperspective, detractors have a somewhat valid argu-ment. UK did not endorse any candidate, but bringinga person of such stature for one man's cause definitelyshows some level of bias.

However, if a student group supporting Rand Paulwas to attempt to bring in former President George W.Bush, it seems unlikely that the university would nixsuch a proposal. No university with any commonsense is going to turn down brining in a former Amer-ican president, politics or not.

Anyone with any level of intelligence knew Clin-ton came for Conway and to help close the margin inthe polls between he and Paul. Still, having Clinton,Bush or any other political luminary stumping for acandidate is a lot better than not having said individu-als coming to campus at all. And at the end of the day,if you don't want to see it, you don't have to go.

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Dear Mike,

Foremost, please excusethe informality of this note, asI have never actually ad-dressed any athlete via letterbefore. Also, my letter-writingskills are generally rough any-way.

I would first like to say Inoticed you buzzed-cut yourhair strikingly similar to mine(for those readers looking andmy mug shot muttering “hishair looks nothing like Hart-line’s,” relax, it’s not an up-dated picture). It is quite anhonor to be able to say theUK starting quarterback, whois playing quite great, copiedmy hairstyle. Since you’resignificantly bigger than I amand have a team full of mam-moths on your side, I’ll let itslide… this time.

But I digress.

On a serious note, you’replaying well, very well, infact. Not that the approval ofthe media is what you’reseeking, but it’s true. You arecoming off a game that youand Joker (Phillips) seem toagree was the best game ofyour career against the No. 10team in the nation in SouthCarolina.

I, as well as most Cats’fans, am extremely im-pressed. Through sevengames (this part is more forthe readers and less for you,Mike), you’ve completed justover 68 percent of your pass-es, racked up nearly 1,800

yards, are averaging nearly260 yards per game and havethrown 13 touchdowns toonly three interceptions.

You’re hitting yourthrows on slant routes, cornerroutes, deep routes, the wholebit. Short, long, you name it.In case you didn’t know, youbegan the previous two gamesagainst Auburn and SouthCarolina completing 14-of-14and 11-of-11 passes, respec-tively.

I mean, damn.You’re already perform-

ing leaps and bounds overyour recent outings, and that’srightfully deserved.

At least a few of, if notall, your teammates share mysentiment.

Said Randall Cobb fol-lowing the South Carolinagame: “I’ve been saying thisfor the longest time, Mike isthe best quarterback I’ve everbeen around. Just the thingshe is able to do, and now he isfinally getting that chance be-cause he has people aroundhim who can help him out.”

And Joker agrees.“Mike Hartline is playing

his tail off, please recognizethat. He is playing like anSEC quarterback is supposedto play,” he said after thegame against the Tigers.

I’ve also noticed youhaven’t let the negative scruti-ny get to your head, which issomething I admire. Cominginto the season, you werefighting an uphill battle — Ithink you’ve won the battle.You’ve fought through adver-sity and proved to yourselfand everyone watching youare the right person for thejob here at UK.

Any remaining criticsshould be silenced. Keep upthe great work, Mike. (And Idig the haircut).

Sincerely,Chandler H.

Chandler is a journalismsophomore. E-mailchoward@kykernel.com orfollow on Twitter @Kernel-Howard.

My letter to Mike(Hartline that is)

sports

CHANDLERHOWARDKernel

columnist

“Mike is the bestquarterback I’ve

ever beenaround.”

RANDALL COBBUK junior wide receiver

The UK men’s soccerteam isn’t lighting up thescoreboard like it did last sea-son, but the Cats have a newmember who is standing out.

UK (4-6-3, 1-1-2 Confer-ence USA) is considered oneof the least experienced teamsin the conference. Critics of-ten link being a newcomerwith being an inexperiencedfreshman, but one of the mostefficient newcomers for UKisn’t a freshman.

Junior transfer SamBrooks came to UK afterplaying collegiately at theUniversity of the Cumber-lands, an NAIA school. Hecame to UK as a defender,but quickly left his print onthe offensive side of the pitchand still wants more down thestretch.

“I want a goal a game so Iwant at least five more goalsthis season,” Brooks said.

Brooks’ most recent goalcame last week versus confer-ence-leading University ofCentral Florida. Brooks wast-ed no time burying the ball inthe back of the net against theGolden Knights on a playeven he thought shouldn’thave counted.

“It happened really quick,inside three minutes,” Brookssaid. “To be honest, I think itwas a foul, but I’ll take it. Ipushed him in the back and Icarried on through and put itin the back of the net.”

Brooks realizes he mustuse his 6-foot-2, 210-poundbody to his advantage when itcomes to scoring goals.

“I have no pace whatso-

ever, I’m abig lad 6’2” and I need to dothat or I’m not going to getthem any other way, so that’swhat I’m going to have todo,” Brooks said.

Perhaps an even biggertransition for Brooks from de-fense to offense was from hishometown to Lexington, Ky.Brooks was born in raised inSolihull, England.

Brooks can attribute hisbig body to moving to Ameri-ca.

“You Americans say youall gain the freshman fifteenbut I weighed 185 pounds(coming in) and I gained 40-45 pounds and it isn’t that weare eating more. It’s just a lotmore fattening and greasy,”he said.

But with the exception ofthe fast food, Brooks said themove to the states has been amove he has really enjoyed.

“Coming to Lexington issimilar to my town in Eng-land,” Brooks said. “Butschool is a lot different, thelifestyle is different, muchmore laid back in the state ofKentucky and everyone is alot more friendly.”

Brooks is the all-timeleading goal scorer at his highschool in England, so step-ping up and being a leader is-n’t a problem for Brooks.

“(UK head coach IanCollins) brought me in as aleader,” he said. “I saw my-

self on the bench a fewgames but I worked hard andcoach always called me aleader, someone who wouldbring energy onto the field.That’s why I’ve started thelast six games.

“I do see myself as one ofthe leaders on this team.”

Brooks will need his lead-ership to translate to moregoals for a team that has fivegoals less than they did at thispoint last season. Brooks istied for the most goals on theteam (three) with freshmanforward Tyler Riggs, butBrooks leads the team inpoints thanks to his one assiston the season.

Brooks admits that theseason hasn’t gone how heexpected, but he is optimisticthat if he, and the team, canstep it up, they won’t haveproblems reaching their goals.

“Our record is definitelyworse than what we expect-ed, but we still have a lot ofquality to have a winningseason,” Brooks said. “Weneed to win our remainingconference games, get in theconference tournament, and Iknow we can win that and getinto nationals, which was ourgoal at the beginning of theseason.“

By T.J. Walkersports@kykernel.com

Brooks filling new roleUK soccer’s junior transfer is fitting into aleadership position as the team rolls on

The UK men’s basket-ball team will hold a walk-on tryout meeting onWednesday in the MemorialColiseum media room at 2p.m, according to a news re-lease.

It will be an informa-tional meeting concerningthe tryout, and the date andtime for it will be an-nounced.

Those wanting to try outmust be a full-time under-graduate student and haveproof of a physical withinthe last year at the actual try-out.

To access the mediaroom, enter on the RoseStreet side of Memorial Col-iseum through the doormarked “Media Entrance.”

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Sam Brooks

UK soccer junior defender

“I worked hard and (UKhead coach Ian Collins)

always called me aleader.”

SAM BROOKSUK soccer junior defender