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PHOTO BY SCOTT HANNIGAN | STAFFMembers of the UK basketball team celebrate during a timeout after Sam Malone made a shot during the second half of UK’sgame against Morehouse College at Rupp Arena on Monday.
A new award named after formerPresident Lee Todd will be given, for thefirst time, to an employer or business thathas shown innovation in the workplace.
The UK Institute for Workplace Inno-vation, also called UK iwin, is now ac-cepting nominations for the Dr. Lee T.Todd Jr. Bridging the Gap BetweenWorkplace Research and Practice Award.
The award was named after Todd “tohonor his vision in creating an institutethat has improved the development in theworkplace and workforce in Kentucky,”
said Lynn Bertsch, the director of em-ployer engagement of UK iwin.
The winner of the award will receive ascholarship in the form of a waived mem-bership fee worth $5,000 to participate inthe Innovative Employer Roundtable.
“This award was designed to allowbusinesses of any size and industry to par-ticipate at the Roundtable,” said Lee AnnWalton, partner relations’ specialist forUK iwin.
Any organization from any industrymay apply, Walton said. They must haveemployees based in Kentucky and cannot
Award honors innovation in the workplace
By Shelby Leach
Students will have the opportunity to satisfy latenight cravings on South Campus beginning Tuesday.
UK Dining Services is extending the hours ofCommons, Common’s Starbucks, Ovid’s Café andOvid’s Starbucks until midnight Monday throughThursday.
“It’s a service that we felt like we needed to offerto South Campus,” said Pam Edwards, marketingspecialist of dining services. “After working with thepresident’s office and student organizations, wethought it was good time to offer this service so thatstudents would have improved options at night.”
Dining halls on other parts of campus, like Blaz-er Café, will keep normal hours.
“Right now it’s just an experiment to see if it’s aservice that students want and need,” said RaySchmidt, associate director of dining services. “Wewanted to target a specific place to start, but whoknows where it will go from here.”
The majority of students live on South Campus,so extending the hours will provide many peoplewith another place to socialize and study, Edwardssaid.
Dining hoursextended for
South CampusBy Amelia Orwick
Lexington Police say they have arrested aman in connection with the shooting of a UK stu-dent last Friday morning at Silks Lounge.
Demetrius “Demetrics” L. Flynn has beencharged with two counts of first-degree assaultand will be arraigned within ten days, Lt. MarkBrand said.
Police responded to a call at 1:47 a.m. forshots fired at Silks Lounge, located at 125 NorthMill Street, where they say Flynn had been askedto leave the establishment by the bartender. Onceoutside, Flynn turned around and fired two shotsinto the bar, police said.
One of the shots struck UK geology juniorJerrad Grider in the stomach. Flynn fled the sceneprior to police arriving.
Grider was taken to UK Chandler Hospitalwhere he was treated then released.
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Arrest made instudent shooting
Though they are just third-year archi-tecture students, they are doing profes-sional-level work.
A class of College of Design studentsare working in teams to design schemesfor a house for the Triangle Fraternity.
Students began the project in spring2011, and this semester students are focus-ing on the development of the house.
“It’s awesome we get to do this soearly,” Sam Forman, an architecture jun-ior, said.
The 14 architecture students, in ARC354 Design Studio IV, along with 10mechanical and electrical engineering sen-ior capstones and four civil engineeringgraduate students are working on the proj-ect, said Gregory Luhan, associate deanfor research at the College of Design.
Collectively, they are developing anew and informed base model, which bal-ances aesthetics and performance.
“The idea is to come up with a designsolution and propose best practices thatcould inform the design,” Luhan said.
Students are investigating issues relat-ed to campus living, Luhan said. He saidstudents look in to how to live net-zeroand how to make campus living desirable.
Students work in teams on specificprojects. They “develop a keen under-standing of what best practices would be,”Luhan said, and how it can be implement-ed across campus. Then they bring theinformation back to the larger group.
Forman participated in a facade work-shop last weekend and he said theyfocused on how new buildings can fit intocampus.
Students were taught how to designthe “skin of the building” at the workshop,Luhan said.
In class, Forman and his design part-ner are focusing on how they can tie thebuilding into the campus context. They aretrying to use a “high design” but “withoutit becoming alien” to campus.
Though they will stop working on theproject at the end of the semester, he said“we will all keep an eye on it.”
Forman said he likes that they arelearning things that will eventually have apractical use.
Ethan Marlowe, also an architecturejunior, agreed with Forman about theopportunity to work on projects so early.
“The fact that it can be potentially be areal project is exciting,” he said.
Marlowe said this is what they will bedoing in a real job, and he likes that it is a“real-world application” of what they arelearning.
The course is a part of the College ofDesign’s energy initiatives, what they callDEI. The initiatives deal with a collabora-tive context, working across disciplines“to look at projects that have a dynamicimpact on housing throughout the stateand beyond,” Luhan said.
Between faculty lectures and work-shops, Luhan said students go back to theclassroom and present what they learned.
“We are constantly bringing in areaexperts,” he said. “It’s a very interactiveway of teaching. It allows students to haveinternationally-recognized experts usingthe project as the venue of exploration.”
Luhan said an expert at a past work-shop asked if the students were first- orsecond-year graduate students, when inreality they were third-year undergradu-ates.
The expert gives workshops atHarvard, MIT and Yale, Luhan said.
“What we’ve developed here at theCollege of Design, was far superior towhat they were developing,” he said. “Notonly that they were doing it as a project,
By Rachel Aretakis
See DESIGN on page 2
First it was a 9-0 leadin the first 90 seconds ofthe game.
Then it was a 20-4 leadfive minutes into the game.
Then a 35-point leadbefore half of the first halfwas played.
Then a 74-13 halftimelead.
Then a 125-40 finalscore, your typical, stan-dard 85-point win.
“We played reallywell,” UK head coach JohnCalipari said. “That’s whythe score was what it was.”
The absurdities justkept piling up. Three indi-vidual players for UK hadscored more than More-house at halftime. More-house didn’t reach 10points until 1:27 remainedin the first half. UK hit 100points with 11:32 left in thegame. UK’s largest leadwas 89 points.
“That’s a pretty crazypoint margin,” said fresh-man forward Kyle Wiltjer,who on a night of insanescoring led all scorers with26 points. “But coach em-phasized not looking at thescoreboard, because every
minute we’re out therewe’re trying to get better.”
So you didn’t look?“No,” Wiltjer said. “I
noticed.”How could he not? I’ve
never even played that wellin a basketball video game.And I played a lot of videogames on Rookie level as akid.
“I mean, they shot 72percent from the field. Soeverybody looked goodtonight,” Morehouse headcoach Grady Brewer said.“My sister, if she was play-ing in Kentucky bluetonight, would have lookedgood.”
Usually, after perform-ances like this (read: Blue-
White scrimmage), it’s bestto remember it came in anexhibition. It counts fornothing in the standings.Temper the expectations.
But UK utterly eviscer-ated its opponent, and thequality of that opponenthardly matters in the kindof annihilation that hap-pened Monday.
UK will not, of course,beat every team by greaterthan or equal to one billionpoints. But the openingminutes, when UK andMorehouse were both play-ing real basketball, servedas a showcase for what UKcan be when it’s playing
Never a contest
See CATS on page 2
UK men’s soccer head coach Ian Collins will notretain his position for next season, according to aUK media relations press release. UK athletics direc-tor Mitch Barnhart announced this Monday.
Collins was UK’s head coach for 18 years inwhich he tabbed a 197-132-38 record after servingunder Sam Wooten as an assistant coach two yearsprior.
This season the Cats recorded a 9-9-2 with a 2-5-1 record in Conference USA play.
“We’re very grateful for the contributions Ianand Jenny provided the University of Kentucky overthe last 18 years,” Barnhart said. “We feel it’s timeto change the direction of the program. We wish Ianand his staff nothing but the best.”
A national search for Collins’ replacement willbegin immediately.
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Mens soccercoach not retained
See DINING on page 2
PHOTO BY BRANDON GOODWIN | STAFFSophomore guard Doron Lamb draws a foul during the first halfof the UK's home game against Morehouse on Monday.
ELECTION DAYCoverage and results online
Studentsdesign housefor fraternity
See AWARD on page 2
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Bringing down the ‘House,’ UK wins 125-40 over Morehouse in final exhibition game
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but they had the knowledgeand expertise to explain whatthey were doing.”
Luhan said he was pleas-antly surprised, and as a fac-ulty member, it was excitingto hear.
Students in the classenjoy working on the project,though it requires long hours.
“I couldn’t see myselfdoing anything else,” Drew
Webb, an architecture junior,said. “Instead of studying allnight, we are creating allnight.”
Webb is building a modelof the individual rooms andoverall shape of the building.He said he was up all night,and that models generallytake between five and 10hours to create.
After he turns it in for acritique, he said sometimeshe can make tweaks but othertimes he has to completelystart over.
Though he said designingis time consuming, he lovesit. He said he likes that he canbe creative in an academicatmosphere.
Luhan hopes they willhave the design strategy inplace by the end of the semes-ter.
They will present theproject to a facilities commit-tee on Nov. 21 to get approvalon the location of the TriangleFraternity house.
“What we’re hoping isthat the presentation to facili-
ties would demonstrate theimpact of these smaller-bou-tique style buildings thatcould be built for other build-ings across campus,” Luhansaid.
He hopes people willoccupy the building in fall2013.
“Then we will partnerwith local engineering andarchitecture firms to imple-ment the strategy,” he said,“that can be designed in thespring semester and start con-struction in the summer.”
DESIGNContinued from page 1
Ovid’s Cafe will shutdown its fiesta bar at 10 p.m.,but the rest of the bars will re-main open.
Starting at 9 p.m. at Com-mons, an all-you-can-eat op-tion will be available for$5.50. Meal swipes will notbe accepted.
An unveiling of the newhours will take place Tuesday
at Commons at 9 p.m. President Eli Capilouto,
Student Government PresidentMicah Fielden and Vice Presi-dent for Student Affairs RobertMock will all be present tousher in the change. Free bev-erages will be provided to stu-dents in attendance.
“We are very happy tohelp President Capilouto re-spond to the desires of ourstudents in providing longerhours with menu options atour South Campus dining fa-cilities,” Mock said.
DININGContinued from page 1
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be a previous Roundtable Part-ner.
“We are looking for organi-zations that have implementedinnovative practices that benefitthe organization and its employ-ees,” Walton said.
UK iwin is a research insti-tute that Todd helped create.The institute creates tools andresources for employers, Waltonsaid.
“Dr. Todd has helped en-hance Kentucky’s overall imageto employers outside and insidethe state,” said Donna King Per-ry, a member of the SteeringCommittee that will choose thescholarship recipient. “We wantto thank him for his vision, histime and for letting us use UK’sresources.”
A current Innovative Em-ployer Roundtable Partner maynominate applicants or they canbe self-nominated. Applicationsmay be submitted online athttp://www.uky.edu/Centers/iwin/ and must be completed by Feb.1, 2012.
AWARDContinued from page 1
perfectly.UK attacked relentlessly
on both sides of the court.The full-court press was sti-fling. UK jumped into pass-ing lanes and didn’t letMorehouse get any cleanlooks (an astute observation,I realize, considering theyscored 13 points in 20 min-
utes).UK got out into the open
court – unlike the openingexhibition against Transylva-nia, when UK settled for toomany perimeter shots, theCats’ first 10 shots were alllayups or dunks.
The performance evenamazed some who have seena lot in college basketball, asformer UK coach Joe B.Hall stopped by the pressbox after the first half sayingUK should have brought in
recruits to watch the game.Maybe they weren’t
there in person, but theywere paying attention. Classof 2012 No. 1 recruitShabazz Muhammad tweet-ed, “86-18 with 16 mins togo all I can say iswowwwww lol !!!!”
That’s pretty much all Ican say about it, too, and it’sprobably the most accuratedepiction of what occurredout there.
Wowwwwww lol !!!!
CATSContinued from page 1
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UK Dining services announced last week that it will ex-tend the hours of Commons, Commons’s Starbucks, Ovid’sCafe and Ovid’s Starbucks until midnight Monday throughThursday, beginning Tuesday.
Although Ovid’s will shut down its fiesta bar at 10 p.m.,the rest of its bars will remain open.
Commons will not accept meal swipes after 9 p.m., butstudents can purchase an all-you-can-eat option for $5.50.
This change is beneficial for both UK and its students. No longer will students be denied their late-night crav-
ings at 11:30 p.m. No longer will the line for coffee at theOvid’s Starbucks extend into the eatery around 11 p.m. Nolonger will caffeine-deprived minds shut down before mid-night when urgent studying is imperative for the next day’stest.
The university will receive several benefits from thischange as well. UK Dining Services will gain additionalrevenue. Student and faculty workers will also receive theopportunity to take on more hours.
Big or small, it is good to see changes occuring on cam-pus that have a direct impact on students.
The recent proposals of new dorms and new dininghours are great news for students, and it seems that Presi-dent Capilouto and his staff are making the undergraduateexperience a top priority in his first year.
Extended dininghours benefit all
ALEX CULLER, Kernel cartoonist
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Aspiring writers and citi-zens should be aware thatKentucky has an authentic,award-winning writing com-munity, boasting creativewriters who have studiedmostly at UK.
If there are any doubts,the Student Activities Boardwill host the last edition ofits “Writer Series” Tuesdayevening — a series createdto celebrate the late JamesBaker Hall, who was a Ken-tucky writer and professor atUK.
According to SAB’s Cul-tural Arts committee directorShannon Ruhl, the Series wasinspired by the men andwomen of letters that havebeen produced in Kentuckyand the state’s supportive citi-zens.
“I think the Kentuckywriters’ era began in the Gur-ney Norman-James BakerHall era, and now it’s blos-somed into a really support-ive community,” Ruhl said.“People from Kentucky lovehearing about it.”
Ruhl said Tuesday will bea special sign-off edition ofthe Writer Series, and willfeature four fiction writers orpoets: Crystal Wilkinson,Frank X Walker, MauriceManning and Silas House.
“While the writersthroughout the series repre-sent the writing that Ken-tucky has to offer, I reallythink this last one is some-thing really special,” Ruhlsaid. “There’s a lot for UK tosee. Walker is so well-knownin the UK community andmaybe, yet, people haven’theard him read his work.”
Walker has many accom-plishments, and at UK he isthe director of the AfricanaStudies department, an associ-ate professor in the depart-ment of English and hasserved as the first director ofthe Martin Luther King Cul-tural Center. His on-campusoffice even houses an African
American action figure “mu-seum,” which he said “may bethe only one in the region.”
He also invented the wordand concept “Affrilachia,”which is now an official wordin the dictionary, and has co-founded the Affrilachian Po-ets, and started “PLUCK! theJournal of Affrilachian Artsand Culture.”
“It was a response to melooking in the dictionary in1991 and seeing Appalachiadefined as ‘white residents,’Walker said about the word“Affrilachia.” He said thisrevelation was disturbing be-cause it indicated only whiteresidents lived in a region thatincluded Birmingham, Ala.and Pittsburgh, Penn.
“I wrote a poem explor-ing that idea and the wordjust came out as a result ofasking that question,” Walkersaid. “It is now an officialword in the dictionary – anAfrican American that livesor works in the region of Ap-palachia.”
Walker said he will bereading new work on Tuesdaynight and is excited aboutreading with the other writers.
“This particular gatheringof writers – we collectivelyhave, probably, won moreawards, have more books andnotoriety than any four writ-ers in the region,” he said.
Walker said they are allfriends who have read togeth-er before and he looks for-ward to this event where theywill “be reading to each oth-er.”
“We haven’t been in thesame place at the same timefor a long time,” Walker said.“You should come becauseit’s going to be damn good.”
Ruhl said she is excitedabout Tuesday and that book-ing this group of writers to-gether was “an intuitive kindof thing.” She said honesty isprominent, and that Kentuckymakes itself known throughthis group of writers’ work.
“To the people whoknow them they are loved,especially in Kentucky and inthe region,” Ruhl said, “and Ithink that’s important for UKto acknowledge and supporton this campus. These writersare some of the best that Ken-tucky has to offer and someof the most celebrated.”
Writer Series ends with 4 Kentucky authors
By Joy Priest
