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Friday, January 27. 2006

Celebrating 35 years of independence

UK 66, TENNESSEE 63

CATS CLIMB ROCKY TOP

Late free throws lift Cats over No.1 Volunteers in front of record crowd

 

 

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Sophomore center Sarah Elliott congratulates her teammate, sophomore forward Eleia Roddy, after the Cats’ 66-63 victory over No. 1 Tennessee. UK had not defeated
the Volunteers since 1986, when head coach Mickie DeMoss was still an assistant there under Pat Summitt.

13,689

Attendance at
last night's
game, a UK

women's
record

10,622

The previous
school
attendance
record

1986

The last year
UK defeated
Tennessee

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By Chris Delete!

THE KENTUCKY KERNEL

Jenny Pfeiffer stood at
the line with the ball game
in her hands.

But they were shaking.

With UK trailing top—
ranked Tennessee 63-62 and
14 seconds re-

maining on the “It's the best

clock. the junior

guard had an op- feeling I've

portunity to give

the Cats an im- had There

probable lead.

Trembling. were no more

she dribbled.

took her three years to take
the Vols off their perch. at
least for one night.

“Thank God for Jenny
Pfeiffer's free—throw shoot-
ing." said DeMoss. who do
feated her close friend and
mentor. UT head coach Pat
Summitt. in UK‘s first-ever
win over a No. 1-
ranked program.
“It was a great
win for this team
and this program.
I‘m so proud of
the way we fought
and handled our-

took a deep words after the SQlVfifter Pfeiffer

breath and re-
leased.
Swish.

tempt. for the
lead.

Swish.

“I don't really
remember what I
was thinking at
the line.” she said. “My
hands were shaking. l was
just hoping they would go
on a straight path through
the net.“

They did.

Score one for little sis-
ter.

UK head coach Mickie
DeMoss spent 18 years as
an assistant at UT building
an elite program. And it

tears started
Her second at- flow'nq-H

made her free
throws, Nastassia
Alcius followed a
missed Tennessee

Sarah Elliott $110t by hitting
sophomore center tWO more from
on theCats' win the line in the

closing seconds.

sealing a dramate

ic 66-63 upset of
UT (18—2. 41 Southeastern
Conference) in front of a
record-setting crowd of
13.689 at Rupp Arena last
night.

After Alcius gave UK
(15-4. 4-2 SEC) the three-
point advantage with 2.9
seconds left. the Vols threw

,a length-of-the-floor pass

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last night

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Junior guard Jenny Pfeiffer is contested by Tennessee's

center Tye'sha Fluker last night in Rupp Arena.

 

Past success pushes UK over Summitt

Winners win games like this.

In front of a packed house begging for
victory. for a coach who has literally raised
the program from doormat status to sudden
NCAA Tournament shoo-
in. against a team that just
doesn‘t lose consecutive
games.

Jenny Pfeiffer is a win-
ner.

She spoke, voice trem-
bling. after what she told
UK Athletic Director Mitch
Barnhart was “the happi-
est moment of my life."

"My hands were shak-
ing." Pfeiffer remembered
telling Barnhart. ”Thank-
fully they went in: I don't see how."

Down 63-62 with 14.8 seconds left in the
second half. with the winningest coach in
college basketball history screaming direc-

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tions at the other team from the sideline.
with the biggest crowd anyone wearing her
jersey had ever been supported by all fer-
vently trying to guide the ball through the
rim. Pfeiffer toed the line twice.

Two went up. two went through the net.
No rim. no backboard. Just shot, and
swished.

“I was thinking. ‘I don't want to lose the
game for us.’ " she said. “That's how i
would've felt (if I missed); I would’ve been
in the gym tonight. shooting."

That's how she got to 94 percent for the
season.

Carly Ormerod is a winner, with the re-
sume to prove it.

Her Sacred Heart Academy high school
team in Louisville went 153-7 in her career.
Kentucky state championships in her
sophomore. junior and senior seasons.
First-team all-this, first-team all-that.

But after all that. in college, draining a

3-pointer from the top of the key against the
best women's college program ever'.’ Throw
the facts out the window. You can see it with
your own eyes. hear it in her own words.

“I was open up top. so I knocked it
down." she said.

But the last one you shot, you missed.

“The shot was just there. so I took it.“
she said. You could hear the shrug in her
voice. the firm-mindedness. “Wouldn‘t
you?" she was saying to the horde of re-
porters surrounding her.

When you win at that overwhelming of
a percentage at any level. you come to ex-
pect it at every level.

“This definitely reminds me of high
school." Ormerod said. “but it doesn‘t com-
pare."

Beating Tennessee is better than win-
ning three state championships?

See Johnson on page 2

 

 

 

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Study:
Grads
lack
skills

National survey shows many
struggle with basic calculations

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THE KENTUCKY KERNEL

Some college graduates are just lost
when they enter the real world, a new
study says.

Although the average literacy of col-
lege students is significantly higher
than the average for American adults.
many graduates

have only baSiC “I don't thlnk

skills in some real

life tasks. according
to “The National undergrads

Survey of Ameri- are dumber
ca's College Stu-
than a few

dents.“

Sampling 1,827 .
students from 80 in- generations
stitutions. the study ,
found that about 20 800. They re
percent of college - _
students completing more lmpa
four-year degrees ‘ H
and about 30 per- tlent'
cent finishing two-
year degrees strug
gle with basic quan
titative literacy
skills. such as the ability to balance a
checkbook or calculate how much gas is
in the tank.

The study found a similar amount
struggled to analyze prose documents.
It)”.

“Many of my colleagues have been
complaining about the decline of under-
graduate reading and writing skills.”
said Steve \v'oss. the director of under-
graduate studies for UK's Department of
Political Science.

Voss explained that he has noticed
that more and more students have
claimed to try to do the readings he has
assigned and not understood them.

“This is not just the ability to read."
Voss said. “People today just find stay—
ing still more burdensome.“

The study was done to provide a
broader picture of fundamental college
literacy skills. The results of the study
are intended to help school administra-
tors address specific literacy areas and
help show how prepared graduating stu-
dents are to join the labor force.

“There‘s so much information out
there that maybe students don‘t take the
time." Sue Strup. the director of Experi»
ential Education and (‘areer Services at
the James W. Stuckcrt Career Center.

Steve Voss

UK prolessor

See Study on page 2

music in a
‘Massacre’

Couple will perform score
for classic horror movie tonight

By Charlie Denison

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“The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" is
more than a film. It‘s a complete and
deep journey into the weird. Combine it
with a live score and you‘ve got an all
purpose escape from reality. Make it free
and you‘re in nirvana. It just so happens
you're in luck. Chicagobased band Puer-
to Muerto will perform their score for
the film live at Worsham Theater in the
Student Center for free tomorrow night.
part of the Student Center Film Series.

Puerto Muerto is the married duo of
Tim Kelley and Christa Meyer. Contrary
to what some may believe. Puerto Muer-
to‘s name came from a bar idea of Kel-
ley's. Their band name is not. as some
have speculated. named afler the fiction-
al location of Muerto. Texas where

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for star forward Candace
Parker.

Center Sarah Elliott, a 6
foott; sophomore, stepped in
front of the freshman and
batted the ball down as the
clock expired and the Cats
rushed the floor, celebrating
the program’s first win over
its neighbor to the south
since 1986.

“I thought ‘I can get
that,’ " Elliott said of her
mindset when she saw the
pass in the air. “I jumped
and got my hand on it and
then I got excited. T have
that moment to ten the
ball and win the game was
amazing.”

But that moment would
not have been possible with-
out Pfeiffer.

With the Cats trailing 60
57 with under three minutes
to play, she was fouled shoot-
ing a 3-pointer and nailed all
three shots to tie it. Then,
with UK trailing by one with
14 seconds left, Pfeiffer
grabbed a loose rebound and
was fouled on her putback

attempt. The 94 percent free-
throw shooter went to the
stripe and hit the game-win-
ners.

DeMoss was in a state of
shock after the game.

“It’s almost like I’m sit-
ting here in a dream,” she
said. “It's just unbelievable,
almost surreal. I knew if we
could keep it close we had a
chance. It came down to one
possession and we got a
stop.”

After Pfeiffer gave the
Cats the lead. UT got to ball
to Parker, who drove the
lane and kicked it out to for-
ward Sidney Spencer, who
missed an open 18-footer
that Alcius corralled.

“Kentucky was better
tonight,” Summitt said. “We
didn’t match their intensity.
Mickie’s kids played with
tremendous passion.”

The Cats were emotional
after their thrilling victory.

“It's the best feeling I’ve
had,” Elliott said. “We were
all crying and hugging.
There were no more words
after the tears starting flow-
mg.

“We did this as a team.”

Senior Jennifer
Humphrey, who made her
only basket on the night to
tie the game at 62 with 1:42
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entire turnaround under
DeMoss.

“I was here when Ten-
nessee beat us by (25 and 20)
points, and it feels great to
finally send them home
sad," she said.

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“Well, they’re both
good," she said, grinning.

What kind of resolve
must it take for someone to
keep trying when her team
is running out of chances?
After having three of her
shots unceremoniously
smacked out of bounds?

“I was open and I
knocked it down," she said.

“She was tough,” said
Tennessee head coach Pat
Summitt. “She's a freshman,
but I thought she played
more like a veteran
tonight."

Mickie DeMoss — for-
mer assistant for the woman
she just beat — is a winner:

“I always think we have
a chance.” she said. “If we
rebound, play defense, and
take care of the ball, we al-
ways have a chance.”

She deflects personal
recognition whenever she
can find a way how, choos-
ing instead to speak of X’s
and O's or outside factors
like the women’s basketball-
record 13,689 fans in the
crowd.

But she is a winner.

“It’s unbelievable, almost
surreal," she said. “I knew
we had a chance if we kept
it close.

“Thank God for Jenny
Pfeiffer's free-throw shoot-
ing."

Pfeiffer, as stone-cold-
blooded as they come, al-
lowed a moment for reflec-
tion after the game.

“I just pictured myself
back in the gym in Indiana,
shooting free throws by my-
self," she said. “I’d be fine,
then I’d get it up to (shoot-
ing motion) and it’d be like,
oh, shoot."

Her laugh wavered even
as she spoke the words, 15
minutes after the two most
dramatic free throws this
side of Patrick Sparks and
Freedom Hall.

But she, and the Cats,
were the ones laughing.

They won.

Over the biggest winner
of all time.

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Study

Continued from page I

 

said.

She explained that stu-
dents filling out resumes will
often miss key information
that they are supposed to
provide, even though most
resume instructions today
are short and simple. be-
cause they fly through
things.

“Employers will some-
times say that a resume isn‘t
completed as instructions
ask,“ Strup said.

She explains that stu-
dents will come in to an in-
terview dressed in a new suit
and looking fantastic but
will have forgotten to bring

their transcript, which was
mentioned in bold print to be
necessary in pre-interview
instructions.

“How does that look to an
employer?"

Both Voss and Strup
agree that it is hard to say
why reading and writing
skills are so bad, but that it
can be because of an infor-
mation overload that is so
much part of this genera-
tion.

But Elizabeth Morley, the
director of the Thomas D.
Clark Study and Writing
Center, disagrees with the
findings of the study

“Most UK students do not
have this problem with read-
ing and writing by the time
they graduate," Morley said.

She says that she has not
seen a decline in the reading
and writing skills of stu-

dents at UK since she has
been here in the early ‘90s

“(But) a lot of students
do not push themselves to
understand what they’re
reading or to be precise in
writing.”

minded by The Pew Char-
itable Trusts. the study indi-
cates that there are no differ-
ences in the literacy of pub-
lic or private schools, full or
part-time students, men or
women or the length of time
it takes to get a degree.

Voss, Strup and Morley
all agree that patience, as the
old saying goes, is the virtue.

“I don’t think undergrads
are dumber than a few gener-
ations ago,” Voss said.
“They’re more impatient.”

E-mail
cmiles@}rykernel. com

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Q&A with Parlour Boys

 

If only for one night, set aside your
sad-core, mopey miserable bastard mu-
sic, and jam out with Lexington’s Par-
lour Boys at the Dome tomorrow. Moody
(vocals), Willie (guitar, synth guitar),
Clay (keyboard, guitar), Matt (bass)
and John (drums) are a sprightly young
bunch of dancers and drinkers who
make music intended to make their lis-
teners do just the some. The boys will be
performing energetic, dynamic rock
songs from their newly released ER It ’s
pure, funky (possibly “crunky”) musical
enjoyment whose catchiness approaches
pandemic proportions.

Q. Huddyoucometostartplaylao
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A. Clay Kennedy: Moody. Matt and
myself have been playing for a long
time, since middle school, and we in-
corporated Willie two years ago, and
then Moody picked John out of the
rough like a diamond. John heard one
hardcore record and realized that jazz
was dead [laughs]. And about a year
ago we started playing as the Parlour
Boys.

Q... How do your tastes differ; what do
each ol you bring to the table?

A. MWIheardBeckandI
hadn’t really heard anything like it be-
fore, and he kind of looked like me so I
was comfortable with it [laughs]. Then
I heard D’Angelo and Basement Jaxx
and I realized that’s what I wanted to
play, stuff you can dance to. I eventual-
ly quit playing guitar and picked up the
bass because I liked that bottom-end.
Something to jiggle my fat.

John sum: Drumming-wise, I
grew up playing funk stuff, used to be
into break beats, and the whole time I
was studying jazz. Then I started get-
ting into rock, but I just really love
stuff that moves and swings and isn't
static. I don’t believe in dance rock. I
think any good rock song you can
dance to.

lie Formal: I grew up on a lot of the
stuff my dad liked. like the Sex Pistols,
the Clash, KISS, and the whole ‘705
Manchester scene like the Smith's.
Echo and the Bunnymen, the Buz-
zcocks, that type of thing. Art Brit-
rock, in other words.

CK: I grew up listening to a lot of
various forms of punk rock and Amer-
icana, especially the British take on
Americana, that pretty heavily affected
me. Oh, and Old 975, absolutely.

Moody Elbarasi: I learned everything I
about music by playing the flute. My fa-
vorite music to listen to is northern
soul, house music, and I love crunk s----
-t. I love to dance, and I love to get
down. That’s my M.O. That's how I
handle s—t [laughs].

Qt Inlustayear.ParlourBoyshascov-
erodlototwoimdandhasreceivedalototpos-

New name, new EP, same mood(y)

Matt Duncan, Moody Elbarasi, Cla Kennedy (top), Willie Forreal, and John Buckman comprise the
eclectic and seasoned sound oft e Parlour Boys. They'll be playing at the Dame tomorrow night.

Itive attention. What's it been like to develop so
quickly?

AL . JB: We played at the Dame be-
fore we were the Parlour Boys. and
we’ve definitely had our fair share of
crappy shows. And even though a lot of
people have picked up on us, I don‘t
think it's by pure luck. I think regard-
less of what you say about the music,
we work really hard to promote all of
our shows, and try to present ourselves
not only as a band, but as entertain-
ment, or a party. That‘s helped make us
more popular.

HF: The development of the music
is totally outrageous. We played in this
other band called Summer Melts Faster
for a long time and it was really hard to
break through. and it was real hard to
get shows. But it went from five to 10 to
20 people: over time. it just snowballed.

(Q How have you balanced your academ-
ic and musical lives?

.A i no: Me and Clay are still in
school at UK. but we would happily not
show up to class tomorrow if Capitol
Records burst in and gave us all bottles
of champagne [laughs]. I think I speak
for the both of us there.

.38: You can take classes till the day
you die. but we’re only gonna be sexy
for about four more years. when our
beer guts will start catching up
[laughs].

IF: Universities will always be
open; bars close at 2:30 [laughs].

(3} Lexington is obviously enamored with
you all. Do you think more extensive touring Is
in your future?

A . JB: Oh yeah. it definitely
helps to have an EP in order to get
booked. But we don’t rush things; we’re
not the type of band that releases a full-
length album when we don’t have 12
good songs. We‘ve got about nine good
songs. and we‘ve got songs we’ve added
and dropped before that. If there’s not
going to be anyone there, and there’s
not going to be anything to sell, then
there‘s really no point in doing it. And
we’re not going to waste our money.
‘cause we don’t have much of it
[laughs].

If: We might have a new name. but
we all toured America before we were
the Parlour Boys. All over the place.
We’d be booking shows sometimes the
day before we played. anything from
some kids basement to some club that
holds 300 people. It was a lot of hard
work to get to where we are. We’ve had
offers to play all over the country, Seat-
tle. LA, New York, even some e-mails
about playing in Europe. That's the
dream: to tour the world. and just play
music the rest of our lives.

INTERVIEW BY KERNEL MUSIC CRITIC
NATHAN THACHER

E-mail
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Chainsaw

 

Continued from page 1

“Chainsaw" took place.

“We’ve put on the show several
times now,” said Kelley. “What capti-
vates us about the movie is the cine-
matography and its classic appeal.”
Kelley added that the outside cre-
ative influence of putting music to
movies has positively impacted the
group's writing.

“The music we wrote to accom-
pany the film is very moody and
atmospheric, and we tried to bring
out the sadness from both the vic-
tims’ and the killer’s perspective,"
said Kelley “We’ve always been
interested in how music enhances
the cinematic experience."

Puerto Muerto's songs have been

included in movies such as the 2004
version of “Dawn of the Dead" and
the 2005 Sundance feature “Steal
Me.“

The thought of a live score has
piqued the interest of students. as
well.

“I think that hearing a band
score ‘Texas Chainsaw” enhances the
atmosphere by making it more tangi-
ble for the fans.” said Thomas Cox, a
senior psychology major. “In
England. a band scored ‘Donnie
Darko‘ and it was well-received."

Cox considers “Chainsaw" his
favorite horror movie.

The idea of scoring a film origi-
nally came to them by default when
their record company approached
them about re-recording the sound-
track for the cult film “Wickerman.”
When they discovered the music did-
n't fit their style. they began flirting
with the idea of scoring Chainsaw as

a challenge and to add to the many
scenes that did not have much music.

“It‘s great to be involved with a
classic movie. even if it's distant.”
said Meyer. “We even got to meet
Leatherface."

Puerto Muerto’s indie rock has
many roots that include The Kinks.
Dove. African music, blues and more.
Both are also big fans of Tom Waits.

“I like his early 80s material. but
Tim is more interested in the late-705
New York coffeehouse period."
Meyer said.

“I don‘t know what to expect,”
Cox said of the event. “Whether it’ll
be better with their music I can't say,
but I‘m sure it'll be better than the
remake."

Puerto Muerto will also perform
Friday night at Underlying Themes.

The movie event begins at 10
tonight and is free.

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