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Master’s students of accounting at UK areat the top when it comes to taking the CPAexam.
“Our students’ pass rates are exemplaryand are in the 90th percentile range for eachpart,” said John Smigla, senior lecturer and di-rector of the Master's of Science in Accountan-cy in the Gatton College of Business and Eco-nomics. “Twenty-two out of 28 students fromour August 2009 graduating class have passedall four parts of the CPA exam and another fourstudents have passed three parts.”
According to a news release, four studentsscoring in the upper 90th percentile range re-ceived awards from the Kentucky Society ofCPAs. The average GPA for students in theprogram is 3.6.
The dean at the business college praisedstudents and faculty for their CPA successes.
“Our students continue to prove they cancompete ‘toe to toe’ with the best and brightestfrom business schools across this nation,” saidDevanathan Sudharshan, dean of the GattonCollege. “The same can be said for our strongand innovative faculty.”
When the students took the exam, theyhadn’t finished their master’s degree work andhad to be listed at their undergraduate college.
“We are rectifying that this year,” Smiglasaid. “All the data will be in.”
Had the students counted as UK MSACCgraduates, the ranking for the program wouldbe at a level usually reserved for UK basket-ball.
“Given our CPA exam results in 2009 andcomparing them to National Association ofState Boards of Accountancy statistics for thatyear, we would rank fourth nationally for high-est pass rates among first-time candidates withadvanced degrees,” Smigla said.
Smigla believes the UK program is uniqueto all the others across the country and the cur-riculum is very innovative. The program incor-porates the CPA exam with graduate coursework.
Smigla also commended the graduate fac-ulty for having both “academic scholarship andprofessional expertise.”
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“Father help your childrenand don’t let them fall by the sideof the road.”
These are the words thatwere sung from Memorial Hall’sstage Wednesday as the CatholicAction Center began a messageabout those living on the streets.
Ginny Ramsey, co-founder ofthe Catholic Action Center, intro-duced the play, “Please Don’tCall Me Homeless...I Don’t CallYou Homed,” and said the play
celebrated the center’s 10th an-niversary. The center wanted toput a face to the people it workswith, she said.
“We wanted the communityto get to know the people we’vehad the privilege to meet,” Ram-say said.
English graduate student JeffGross spent four months observ-ing those on the streets and ask-ing questions before writing theplay, according to the play’s pro-gram.
“... the most important lessonmay have been that those people
who are experiencing homeless-ness in our community are indi-viduals and attempts to catego-rize them undermine that individ-uality,” Gross wrote in the pro-gram.
The play included eightscenes set in Phoenix Park and atthe community center.
In the opening scene, thecharacters rise out of their card-board boxes at 5:30 a.m. to col-lect cans for money.
At the community center, thecharacters share their storiesabout struggling to keep safe on
the streets, and some share howthey became homeless. Thesereasons included struggles withdivorce, death and depression.
“They think this is all I am,”Ellis, played by Ellis Dean Boat-ley, said. “This is all they see.”
The play included video clipsfrom Lexington’s homeless send-ing a message about who theyare: people, just like those wholive in permanent homes, or “thehomed.”
For more information, [email protected].
EA, state groups keep abroad students safe
UK has played a Steve Spurrier-coachedteam 17 times.
UK has lost to those Spurrier-coachedteams 17 times.
The Cats (3-3, 0-3 SEC) take on SouthCarolina a week after the Gamecocks recordeda victory against then-No. 1 Alabama, a winSpurrier called the biggest in school history.
His sideline opponent joked about thegravity of the game from his perspective.
“It’s the biggest game in Joker Phillips’history,” UK head coach Joker Phillips said.“It’ll be a big game for both of us.”
Phillips doesn’t expect South Carolina tocome to Commonwealth still reveling in defeat-ing the defending national champions. (Which,for quick trivia purposes, made South Carolinajust the second team in history to defeat the No.1 team in football, basketball and baseball inthe same year. UK was the basketball team lastyear.) The win put South Carolina at the top ofthe Southeastern Conference East for the firsttime in seven years under Spurrier.
“No, no,” Phillips said in response towhether he thought South Carolina wouldcome in flat. “You look at (Spurrier’s) rosterand those guys have been playing a long timetogether and his quarterback (Stephen Garcia)is an experienced guy that’s been around along time.”
UK might have to try breaking its losingstreak without running back Derrick Locke,who suffered a shoulder stinger last Saturdayagainst Auburn. His status is doubtful, andPhillips said Locke is not showing signs of im-provement.
Backup running backs Raymond Sanders,Donald Russell and CoShik Williams havebeen getting additional reps in practice, andPhillips said UK “might have to dust off Mon-cell (Allen)” if Locke isn’t able to play.
By Aaron [email protected]
Another streakto snap for
Wildcat football To make Education Abroada successful experience for allstudents, UK’s EA programpays close attention to studentsafety.
The Oct. 3 travel alert forAmericans in Europe that the De-partment of State issued raisedconcerns about the safety of stu-dents traveling abroad.
Anthony Ogden, director ofEA, said the Office of Interna-tional Affairs has emergencyplans and protocols implement-ed when a travel alert or warn-ing is released.
“We consult with a numberof different sources, like the De-
partment of State, on a continualbasis,” Ogden said. “We workwith a large network of profes-sionals who are constantly moni-toring international events.”
Currently, 114 UK studentsare traveling abroad worldwide,Ogden said, and 63 of them arestudying in Europe.
The Office of InternationalAffairs works with other depart-ments and programs, such as theRisk Management Office andthird party study abroad providerorganizations, many of whomhave individual ways for dealingwith travel alerts and warnings.
According to its website, theKentucky Institute for Interna-tional Studies provides health in-
surance and security evacuationprotection for students. KIIS alsooffers monetary protection if atrip must be canceled last minutebecause of terrorist activities.
According to its website, In-ternational Studies Abroad staysin close contact with the USEmbassy in each country wherestudents are traveling, and itfollows guidelines the Depart-ment of State sets, especially intimes of international crisis.
KIIS and ISA are programsUK students study abroadthrough, and both were featuredat the EA Fair Sept. 22.
In an e-mail sent to all UKstudents currently travelingabroad in Europe, Ogden stressed
that a “travel alert” should not beconfused with a “travel warn-ing.”
“While the two may soundsimilar, they are significantly dif-ferent in severity,” he wrote.
The alert said US citizensshould take precautions and beaware of their surroundingswhile traveling, but there was norecommendation to abstain fromtraveling.
“We have an established net-work of resources,” Ogden said.“We’re constantly monitoring thesituation and students shouldn’tfeel deterred from studyingabroad in Europe or elsewhere.”
He said the EA program stays
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By Gary [email protected]
CPA examscores high at
UK
HEARING THE HOMELESS
PHOTO BY SCOTT HANNIGAN | STAFFWednesday’s actors, including those who have lived on the streets, perform “Please Don’t Call Me Homeless...I Don’t Call You Homed” at Memorial Hall.
By Katie [email protected]
Putting a face to those on the streets
UK students and faculty willhave the opportunity to hear oneof the leading experts in the fieldof Haitian politics this Friday.
Robert Fatton Jr., the Julia A.Cooper professor of governmentand foreign affairs in the Depart-ment of Politics at the Universityof Virginia, will be on hand togive a lecture entitled, “Haiti inthe Aftermath of the Earthquake:the Politics of Catastrophe.”
His speech will be a part ofthe “Haiti in the Modern
World” series, which is takingplace this semester at UK. Theseries includes four speakersthroughout the fall, focusing onHaitian language, politics, reli-gion and art.
UK history professor JeremyPopkin began the series with thehope of educating students andthe Lexington community aboutthe recently ravaged country. Itruns in conjunction with his His-tory 355 class: Haiti in the Mod-ern World.
“We had a very good turnout[at the first lecture], and we hopeto have even more people at this
one,” Popkin said. Fatton, who was born and
raised in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, isthe author of a plethora of booksand scholarly articles.
“This is an opportunity forUK students to hear the numberone American expert on Haitianpolitics,” Popkin said. “This isthe guy the New York Timescalls when they need informationabout politics in Haiti.”
Popkin also discussed theimportance of gaining knowl-edge about other countries suchas Haiti.
“It’s very important for all of
us to learn about other countries,especially ones as close and asinfluential as Haiti,” he said.
Friday’s lecture by Fatton willtake place in room 213 of theGatton College of Business andEconomics building at 4 p.m.
The next lecture will be pre-sented by Leslie Brice on Nov. 5.Brice will discuss Voodoo reli-gion and art in Haiti.
Russell Porter, the deputy co-ordinator for Haiti EarthquakeReconstruction at USAID, willconclude the series with a talk onNov. 19.
By Brian [email protected]
Haitian professor to discuss earthquake, politics
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in frequent touch with itsstudents abroad.
Also in his e-mail tostudents, Ogden recom-mended they “make an ex-tra effort to exercise cau-tious behavior” and avoidcrowded tourist spots thatAmericans frequent.
The State Departmentdoes have travel warningsin place for other potentialstudy abroad destinations,such as Mexico and Israel.
Ogden said any studentwho wants to study in
countries where there aretravel warnings must appealto and get approval from acommittee that evaluatesproposals and the safety is-sues related to them.
Two programs facultymembers will lead areplanned for summer 2011in Mexico, where the StateDepartment issued a travelwarning Sept. 10.
The EA offices reportthat during the 2009-2010academic year, 589 UKstudents traveled abroad,and 58.2 percent of themstudied in Europe, makingit the most popular destina-tion.
The United Kingdom,
Germany, Spain, Franceand Australia were the topfive most visited studyabroad spots in the worldby UK students last year.
Every student who stud-ies abroad attends a specialorientation that outlineshealth and safety issues, Og-den said.
More than 150 studentsare expected to study abroadin the spring 2011 semester.
For more information onstudy abroad programs, visit(http://abroad.ad.uky.edu/).
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KERNEL EDITORIAL
City ignores real ‘emergency’ The tents are packed up,
the visitors have returned totheir respective countries andLexington is back to “nor-mal.” Go to Phoenix Park,and the regulars are sleepingon their respective benches.
Like many hosts to inter-national events such as theOlympics or World Cup, Lex-ington pushed the homelesspopulation to the periphery,so an unfortunate truth wouldnot offend the international
visitors.The city government filed
a “state of emergency,” sothey could side-step codes andregulations typically requiredto set up a certified homelessshelter. As a result, two tem-porary shelters were open dur-ing the 17-day spectacle.
Now the shelters aregone, and a real “emergency”is about to ensue: winter.
Wednesday, some of Lex-ington’s street people shared
their stories in MemorialHall’s showing of “PleaseDon’t Call Me Homeless… IDon’t Call You Homed.”
Regardless of whether ornot you attended, this eventshould be a wake-up call forthe community. People beingleft on the streets speakspoorly of the city yes, but ahomeless person is a personnonetheless. They should berespected, regardless of class,and not swept under the rug.
Hockey coach sends final regardsGeneral manager Ian Ward and the
hockey team contributed to this letter.People say youth is fleeting. They talk
about how time passes so quickly. As trueas these words may be, you never want tothink of them in terms of losing a youngperson full of life and promise.
On Sunday, Oct. 10, 2010, our liveschanged forever.
We experienced those words first hand.To feel the sting, the shock and the horrorof seeing a friend, a loved one struggle tohold on to life. To anxiously wait for anyword of hope, to hold onto threads, and tobe hit in the gut with the harsh reality thatthis friend, this loved one, will not comeback, will never look into our eyes and willnever utter another word. Only silence andpain prevail.
We go on — because life demands it.Thank you to all the friends and fans
who sent their condolences and prayers toTaylor, his family and the team. It will be arough road for all concerned.
As a coach, it is my job to pull the teamback together, but after witnessing myyoung men this weekend, the way they dis-played such brotherhood, such love andconcern for their fellow teammate andfriend, I truly believe we can get throughthis. This weekend, they portrayed all theelements that make a team a success: re-spect, dignity, strength and loyalty. I havenever been more proud of them. If we nev-er win another game, we are winners. Wehave united not only as a team, but as a
family. In Taylor’s memory, we becomestronger.
I have had the honor of coaching TaylorVit for three years. The talent he brought toour team and the leadership he displayedwere exquisite. I couldn't ask for anythingmore. But to me, the emphasis today shouldbe on the fact that we all lost a great friend.Nothing supersedes that. We will play moregames, some we will win, some we willlose, but nothing replaces Taylor — noth-ing.
He will never be forgotten. Believe thatevery time we take the ice he, will be in theback of our minds and always in our hearts.Each victory will end in his name. All I cansay is everyone that knew this young manis heartbroken over this tragic event. Ourhearts go out to his family and every life hetouched on his journey.
Today is a sad day. The clock hasstopped.
If we take anything with us from thistragic event, it is life is precious and noth-ing is promised. We should never take itfor granted that we have another day. Livelife to fullest, breathe it in, embrace it andalways take time out of your day to tellthose you care about those very small butbig words — I LOVE YOU.
Taylor, we love you. We will missyou, and you will never be forgotten. Mayyou be at peace my friend. Godspeed.
Robert “Doc” DochertyUK men’s hockey coach
BRETT HATFIELD, Kernel cartoonist
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Zachary Davis, a sustainable agriculturejunior, wants someone to take his massivemagazine collection.
When his high school was rebuilt, the li-brarian offered Davis an opportunity hecouldn’t refuse: a chance to own every Na-tional Geographic magazine since 1930.
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“I’m not a packrat,” he said. “I’m a lit-erary aficionado.”
Since 1918, the magazine has gonefrom a thick periodical to the slimeditions Americans enjoytoday. While the oldmagazineswere
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Davis’ favorite thing about his maga-zines is their status as a barometer of Ameri-can culture.
“In 1918, there were full page advertise-ments, nothing but text, on the revolutionarydisposable battery,” Davis said.
Another aspect Davis enjoys about hislarge collection is the retrospective oppor-tunity to examine quotes predicting the fu-ture of America.
In a February 1970 article about agri-culture, an interviewee, not envisioningDole and Chiquita, guaranteed that “corpo-rate behemoths will play no greater role inagriculture 20 years from now than they dotoday.”
“There’s something to be learned fromthe past,” Davis said. “We shouldn’t bethrowing it away wholesale for the sake ofprogress.”
A few weeks ago, Davis had anepiphany.
“Reading one National Geographic is-sue a week would take me 16 years,” Davissaid. “What am I doing, sitting here, readingall these books? I want to pare down thenumber and increase the depth of what Iread.”
Davis will give away his completeNational Geographic collection to any-one who shares his passion for the worldand for reading.
“You read other people’s work to lookinto yourself,” he said.
With the month of Octo-ber comes the stress ofmidterms, Homecoming andHalloween. But one event isoffering students a chance tokick back and enjoy somelate night movies.
At the beginning of Octo-ber, the Cats Den released the
Late Night and InternationalFilm Series’ movie schedule.With a total of 11 differentmovie titles, the Cats Den hastried to showcase differentgenres. Pulp Fiction, Night-mare on Elm Street and KungPow are a few of the moviesbeing showcased this month.
Two of this month’s 11movies are internationalfilms. The German film Run
Lola Run was shown on Oct.7, and the Russian film So-laris will be shown Oct. 21 at7 p.m. Solaris is a science fic-tion love story featuringAcademy Award winning ac-tor George Clooney.
“We’re trying to exposethe student body to the variousinternational films out there,”Amelia Stevens, director of theinternational series, said. “We
want to incorporate the inter-national students on campus.”
The film series will alsofeature older movies that stu-dents have either never heardof or have not seen in a while.
Accounting junior KellySchumm said the foreignfilms fill a diversity void atUK.
“This campus doesn’thave as much diversity as
other campuses in the coun-try,” Schumm said.
Grant Hargus, Asian stud-ies senior, said the films offerinsight into how other coun-tries’ film industries work.
“Different cultures havedifferent ways of methodolo-gy for film,” Hargus said.“It’s fantastic.”
The Late Night Film Se-ries is held every Thursday
and Friday at 10 p.m. , andthe International Film Seriesis every other Thursday nightat 7 p.m. All movies are inthe Worsham Theater andfree to UK students. For moreinformation about the LateNight Film Series or to sug-gest a movie, e-mail [email protected].
By Shelisa [email protected]
Late films provide international entertainment
Zachary Davis (above) has been collecting National Geographics sincehigh school, when he was given the entire collection since 1930.
