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Friday, January 20, 2006 Celebrating 35 years of independence www.ltylternel.com

Task force debates diversity training

In first meeting, 17-member task force proposes
surveying black faculty to gather data

By Dariush Shafa
m: KENTUCKY mm

In its first meeting, UK’s Task
Force on Diversity and Equality de-
cided to survey black faculty about
campus diversity and debated insti-
tuting diversity training for faculty
administrators and possibly staff
last night.

UK President Lee Todd formed

the task force in response to the neg-
ative reaction to the situation of di-
versity at UK, which became a hot
button topic when UK released data
showing a 40-percent drop in black
freshman enrollment this school
year.

Bill Turner, UK‘s associate
provost for multicultural affairs and
vice president for university engage-
ment, heads the l7-member task

force, which will continue to meet
every two weeks until December of
this year. Todd is asking for the
group’s final recommendations that
month.

The committee‘s charge, accord-
ing to UK President Lee Todd, is to
“focus on increasing the number of
African-American faculty, academic
administrators, staff and students at

“I see this commission’s commit-
tees as taking time to figure out how
we should be operating,” Todd said.
Most notably, Todd has asked the

group to recommend whether UK
should hire a chief diversity officer.

“You really don’t know how bad
this is in some areas," said art pro-
fessor Garry Bibbs.

The survey is the task force’s
first step in trying to determine how
bad the situation is. The committee
wants the survey to particularly fo
cus on the comfort levels of black
faculty Sixty-five of UK’s 1,920 full-
time faculty last school year were
black.

“You‘ve got to have some data to
back up what your intuition tells

you is the truth," said Russ
Williams, senior training specialist
with UK Human Resources and the
staff representative to the Board of
Trustees.

“We’re tying to measure whether
we’re making progress or not,” Todd
said. “I like to see data, but I’d like it
to be data that's transparent. that‘s
easy to read."

Members of the task force also
agreed that a survey should be done
to gauge the feelings of black faculty,
specifically focusing on their level of

See Diversity on page 2

 

AUBURN 71, UK 57

BLOCKED OUT

Auburn uses 13 blocks to snap Cats’ winning streak

By Chris DeLotell
THE KENTUCKY KERNEL

All week long, UK head coach M ick-
ie DeMoss guarded her team against
the overconfidence that might come
with a four-game winning streak.

But last night, her team simply
couldn’t guard.

Auburn exploited a Cats‘ defense
DeMoss described as “especially disap-
pointing" and left Rupp Arena with its
first Southeastern Conference victory
of the season. 71—57 over UK (13-3. 2-2
SEC).

“They controlled the paint.“ a visi-
bly frustrated DeMoss said after the
game. “We did not do a good job defend-
ing inside."

Towering 6-foot-7 freshman center
KeKe Carrier dominated the key on
both ends of the floor for the Tigers (10—
8, 1-4), notching 12 points and 11 re.
bounds

“Some of our post players shied
away," DeMoss said. "We‘ve got to get
tougher. They fought harder inside."

Carrier was making her first start
in SEC play.

“We were 0-4." Auburn coach Nell
Fortner said in justifying her decision
to start Carrier. “It was time to shake it
up a little bit. She works hard and
brings another dimension to the game.
We knew we needed to get her more
minutes."

DeMoss called into question her
team’s desire.

“They were hungrier for the win
than we were." she said. “We must be
pretty easily intimidated.”

Fortner credited that hunger as a
major factor in the victory

“This is the first game all season
where we won the hustle plays." she
said. “When you've got a 6-foot-7 girl
diving on the floor for loose balls. that
can motivate the other players. That
may have been the difference in the
ball game."

UK players agreed that Auburn
wanted to win more than the Cats did.

“It’s not nice to hear." freshman
guard Carly Ormerod said. “but I think
it‘s the truth. We were on a little high
from winning those games.“

Ormerod, who finished with 16

See Hoops on page 3

Campus
tests TV
channel

0y Chris Miles
THE KENTUCKY KERNEL

Students who currently live on campus and
have their TVs tuned all the time into local
channel 50 are about to be surprised.

The traditional horse races. odds and gam-
bling hotlines that the current channel 50 pro-
vides to viewers is set to make way for a new,
university sponsored oncampus TV channel
which will air movies. campus announce-
ments and have a live feed of the campus radio
station WRFL-FM.

“(Channel 50) is a trial intended to be en-
tertaining and informational." Chris
Thuringer. the associate director of Student
Activities. Leadership and Involvement. which
is the campus group sponsoring the Channel
50 project. said. ”We'll have movies that will
run everyday some times in line with themes
like Valentine's Day. When movies aren‘t run-
ning there will be informational slides with
calendars for activities around campus."

The Channel 50 project will be a trial uni
versity TV channel that will run from Jan. 27
to Feb. 2a and will be renewed after that based
on student response to it. Anyone who lives or
works on campus will have access to the chan-
nel. It will not be available on 'l‘\'s off campus
grounds.

Debuting with the movies "The 40 Year Old
Virgin“ and “March of the Penguins.“ the
channel will show movies at 8 and It) pm.
every day of the week and at l and :3 pm. week-
ends. There will also be informational videos
on issues such as alcohol awareness. identity
theft and drug use. In between the movies.
slides of upcoming student events will be
shown anti a live feed of WRH. will play

“Hopefully. down the road. this will be a
way to get ntass communication to students."
Thuringer said. “Especially freshman and
sophomores that would need to know informa-
tion and wouldn't be able to get it another
way"

The project has targeted Student Activities
Board. Student (‘rm'ermnenr Resident Student
Association and “RH. as possible student
groups to give funding further down the road if
Channel 50 lasts through the trial month. it
was set up ultimately to be another form of
communication for campus events. especially
for undergrads.

"We wanted to draw in first-year students
to let them know what‘s happening." said
Rhonda Strouse. director of Student :\\‘il\'lllt‘.\.
Leadership and involvement. "We wanted to

See TV on page 2

Student

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Junior guard Jenny Pfeiffer loses the handle on the ball in the second half of the Cats’ loss to Auburn last night.

 

Don't let refs hide behind whistles

Lots of things went wrong last night.

Rebounding and defense, two of the stal-
wart characteristics of this UK Hoops edi-
tion. deserted them last night at Rupp Arena.

The front line for
Auburn, stacking up at 6-
foot-S. 6—f00t-4 and (Hoot-7.
intimidated and dominat-
ed the Cats’ front line.
which are no midgets
themselves.

The trio of Marita
Payne. Alexis Ogubie and
KeKe Carrier registered
the lions‘ share of Tigers'
13 blocks. while UK — who
set an NCAA record for
blocks in a game with 19 ._
got zero.

But it was the way Payne blocked UK
point guard Carly Ormerod's layup attempt
in the second half that had fans out of their
seats and Mickie DeMoss‘s temper nearly
out of it’s shell.

Payne sent the Ormerod offering back,
then with a gloating smirk on her face. stood
over the UK freshman as she lay on the
ground.

“I'm very upset with that," DeMoss said.

The officials explained to DeMoss that
they “didn‘t see it. "

“It's amazing to me that three officials

Johnson

SPORTS EDITOR

didn‘t see it. but the 6.000 people at the game
saw it." DeMoss said.

There were several questionable calls
throughout the game. but none were more
ballyhooed than the apparent taunting.

Ormerod. when asked about the situa-
tion, literally squirmed in her seat before
shaking her head and saying. “I'm not going
to touch it.“

DeMoss refused to speak on any other of-
ficiatingrelated subjects. noting. “l‘m not
permitted to comment on the calls."

What happened to free speech?

DeMoss shied away because she didn't
want to be disciplined by the Southeastern
Conference, which can fine or suspend any
player or coach it wants to for criticizing offi-
ciating.

Every league has this rule, as does every
professional sport. NBA. NFL and Major
League Baseball managers and players get
fined for it all the time. but they don‘t care
because they‘re making millions of dollars
and a 325.000 fine isn‘t going to make them
miss a Bentley payment.

DeMoss is making 3180.000 this year in
base salary Not to say that monetary reasons
are the only ones she has for not comment-
ing. but a fine of several thousand dollars
would be a hit to take.

What’s also a reason for not criticizing of-
ficials is that a coach doesn't want to lose

credibility with all the zebras in every game:
they won‘t listen when she has legit com-
plaints like last night's. let alone when she‘s
just trying to call their attention to some-
thing.

She also doesn‘t want to appear to be
making excuses for her team‘s poor play

But level-headed. conscientious coaches.
in every sport at every level. can discern the
difference between a play that may cost their
team the game and a play that should just de-
serve to be called. like last night‘s pathetic
display of bravado by an Auburn forward
who is listed a full nine inches taller than the
point guard who took the shot.

Ormerod said literally zero Words about
the altercation, but she was visibly unhappy

DeMoss said very few words. even when
pressed. but she has had practice and has
handlers who tell her the rules of engage-
ment before she is interviewed.

And like DeMoss said. the Cats‘ effort last
night was about their poorest of the season.

The call didn‘t change the game. Lots of
things didn‘t go right.

But everyone else on the floor last night
will be held accountable by the media and
the public for their actions. Referees. at least
in a public forum. won‘t be.

That‘s censorship.

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Film and propaganda and
Nazis. oh my!

These were just some of

the subjects discussed by
English senior Andrew Bozio
in the auditorium of the W. T.
Young Library last night dur-
ing the 12th annual Edward
T. Breathitt Undergraduate
Lectureship.

The lecture is a competition presented by
the Gaines Center for the Humanities in
which any undergraduate can apply to pre-
sent a lecture on a subject of their choosing
in humanities and win a $500 prize. Bozio‘s
lecture. titled “This Machine Kills Fascists:
The German Film Industry from 1919 to
1934." drew a line fmm German films to Ger-
man society in the time between the two

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Diversi 1

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comfort in their jobs.

The task force differs from
the President’s Commission
on Diversity in that the task
force is centering only on is-
sues relating to blacks, where
the commission is addressing
broader issues of diversity.
Still, Todd said he wants the
two groups to work together.

The task force also pro
posed diversity training for
faculty and administrators.

“There’s been a sort of
presumption, however falla-
cious, that they (administra-
tors) are well-versed in this."
said UK sociology professor
Doris Wilkinson. special con-

 

sultant to the task force and
UK‘s first full-time black fac-
ulty.

Committee members also
weighed in with other con-
cerns and requests.

“It’s this context of being
a toozo university that wor-
ries me," said task force mem-
ber Ron Eller. a history pro
fessor. “I'd like to see us exam-
ine this (diversity) in the con-
text of becoming a topzo uni-
versity."

“I think this is a real op
portunity for the university to
step back and assess itself,”
he said.

But task force members
said while the situation is
bad, there is definitely light at
the end of the tunnel.

“I believe we would miss
an opportunity if we did not
take a real good look at
why there is an absence of

    
 

African-Americans,” said 'Iler-

ry Allen, associate vice Presi
dent for employment equity

“1 think that this task
force clearly took the presi-
dent’s words to heart and is
going where institutional pol-
icy needs to go to address this
issue seriously and without
excuses,” said Ernest Yanarel-
la, chairman of the Universi-
ty Senate Council.

Turner said he’s looking
forward to what comes next,
which includes determining
the content for and preparing
the surveys.

“The past is our perspec‘
tive, but the issue is what’s in
front of us,” Turner said.
“This was a good meeting. I
think this is going some-
where."

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let students know what’s hap
pening become more connect-
ed and let them know where
to go."

Resident advisers in cam-
pus dorms believe that it will

help new students know
what’s going on.

“I think it would be a good
resource." said Melissa Cow-
art, the assistant hall director
of Kirwan Tower said. “If or-
ganizations are made aware
of this resource it would be
very beneficial to students."

Altanaeya Powell. another
RA in Kirwan Tower, agrees.

“Last year I was really
confused about things on

campus, like SG; I definitely
think it will help,” Powell
said.

A website for the channel,
Channe150.ukyedu, will be
available for students to sub-
mit their opinions on the pro
ject.

“This is not going to be
successful if students don't
buy into it," Strouse said.

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world wars.

“The way cinema changes
reflects the change in German
society as the Nazis came to
power.“ Bozio said.

He added that he chose the
subject from a previous inter-
est in the time period and was
interested in how “art could
be political resistance to fight
the Nazis."

His lecture went on to ex-
plain while one style of film.
expressionism, combated the
Nazi takeover. the Third Re-
ich embraced another style.
realism. and used it as propa-
ganda.

Dan Rowland. director of
the Gaines Center said that
usually seven or eight people
apply for the lectureship each
year and are judged by an out-
side committee of faculty

members.

“It's a pretty big achieve—
ment." Rowland said. He
added that it was a very
unique competition and he
hadn’t heard of another like

it.

“We think this is the only
sponsored undergrad lecture
ship in the country." Rowland
said.

Gaines Center assistant
director and faculty Lisa
Broome-Price agreed the
award was “very prestigious"
and that Bozio well deserved.

“He‘s certainly one of the
smartest and most well spo-
ken students I’ve met."
Broome-Price said.

Bozio said he was hopeful
that he would be chosen as
the winner but was not count-
ing on anything.

“When I got it, I was very
excited," Bozio said. “I really
wasn't expecting it."

The Gaines Center. which
sponsored the event. was de-
signed to give the best educa-
tion to a small, selective
group of the best undergradu-

ates. Students can apply to be
accepted as Gaines Fellows
with an application and an es-
say. Rowland said usually 12
or 13 are accepted out of
about 40 a year. Bozio is a
member for his class.

The deadline for applica-
tions this year is Monday.

Second year medical stu-
dent Eileen Broomall attend-
ed the lecture last night as
well as the past four. She is a
former Gaines Fellow and
said she enjoyed the quality of
the presentations. »

“I’m always impressed
with the level of knowledge
they have and the profession-
alism they show." Broomall
said.

Bozio said he was also ex-
ited about presenting the lee-
ture because he hopes to be a
teacher in his future.

“This is fantastic practice
for what I hope to do with the
rest of my life,” Bozio said at
the start of his presentation
last night.

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points, scored 15 of them in one
stretch as she single—handedly kept
her team in the game early in the
second half. She scored UK‘s final
five points of the first half and first
10 of the second frame to keep the
Cats within striking distance.

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could get no closer than 10 points,
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the Cats at bay.

The lanky 6-foot-4 freshman
guard had an answer each time UK
tried to cut into the Tigers’ lead,
scoring three consecutive times af-
ter UK baskets in the first minutes
of the second half. allowing her
team to maintain a double-digit ad
vantage.

“I thought she was outstanding
in the second half,“ Former said.
“She came out and really gave us
all she had. At 6-foot-4 and able to
handle the ball, she's hard to de-
fend against."

Auburn used a 10-point run to
stave off a final rally by UK. The

Cats went on a 10-0 spurt to cut
Auburn‘s lead to 57-53 with three
minutes remaining before a short
jumper by Marita Payne spurred
the final Tiger push in which
Auburn edged its lead to 67-53.

DeMoss was unsure if the loss
could be chalked up to overconfi-
dence.

“I don‘t know," she said. “I
would be amazed if we were over-
confident. That would be ridicu-
lous. But you’re dealing with 18-,
19-. 20-year-olds We've got to go
regroup."

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Gymnasts host Auburn

The No. 15 Cats (3-0) will take
on No. 9 Auburn (2-4) at 7:30
tonight at Memorial Coliseum.
Auburn brings a talent-laden
squad for their first Southeastern
Conference road match. They are
ranked in the nation’s top 10 on bal-
ance beam (fifth) and the uneven
bars (seventh). and Julie Dwyer is
fifih in the nation overall in the all—
around, with a 39.225 average.
Dwyer is also 12th in the nation in-
dividually on beam. For UK, junior
Krystle Cook is 15th nationally in
the all-around, and freshman
Heather Hite became one of only
six gymnasts to register a 9.9 on
the beam this season. She is also
the seventh in UK history to regis-
ter such a mark. The Auburn-UK
series is tied 24-24.

SPORTSBRIEFS

Softball last in pre-season poll

UK, coming off a 20-41 (4-25
SEC) record in 2005. was picked to
finish last in the SEC Eastern Divi-
sion in the SEC Softball Preseason
Coaches' Poll. Tennessee. coming
off a trip to the Women‘s College
World Series. received nine of 11
first-place votes for the overall and
Eastern Division championships.
Florida and Georgia also received
one first-place vote apiece for the
division and conference titles. Al-
abama received seven first-place
votes in the West. followed by
Auburn and Louisiana State, who
received two votes apiece. “We are
in an extremely tough conference
and we are still trying to play
catch-up," said second-year UK
head coach Eileen Schmidt. “Every
coach will tell you that preseason
polls do not matter. It's not where

we're picked before the season
starts, it‘s where we are at the end
that's important."

Witten wins pro tourney

Former UK All-American Jesse
Witten won the Grand Slam Men’s
Futures of Tampa Jan. 15, earning
him $10,000 and likely raising his
ATP ranking to the top-400 for the
first time in his career: Witten. who
was named an All-American five
times while playing for UK, didn‘t
drop a set for five straight matches
in his championship run. He was
also was named to the 2006 USTA
Rookie Pro team, and in Septem-
ber. Witten won the Ecuador 1N-
tures tournament.

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Friday
Jan. 20. 2006
PAGE 4

Editorial Board

Adam Sichlto, Editor in chief

Tim Wiseman, Managing editor
Andrew Martin. Asst. managing editor
Brenton Kenltel, Opinions editor

‘Vies Blevins, Asst. Opinions editor
Chris Johnson, Sports editor
Crystal Little, Projects editor
Doug Scott, Features editor
Josh Sullivan, Staff columnist

 

IN OUR opimgn

Van restrictions right
move for road safety

UK has proven it cares about
the safety of its drivers and pas-
sengers.

Growing safety concerns re-
garding UK’s fleet of 15-passen-
ger vans have prompted the Uni-
versity Accident Review Board
and Vehicle Safety Committee to
issue new, much-needed policies
to improve safety.

Safety concerns became a na-
tionwide issue when a 2004 Na-
tional Highway Transportation
Safety Administration study
showed lS-passenger vans with
10 or more passengers have a
rollover risk three times greater
than vans with fewer than five
passengers.

UK now mandates that all 15-
passenger vans have the rear
seat and its seatbelts removed.
The vans are allowed to carry no
more than 11 people, including
the driver, and the amount of
luggage being transported can
lower that number as well.

In addition. a one-hour Web-
training program is now re-
quired for all 12- and 15-passen-
ger van drivers beginning March
1. An NHTSA tag that hangs
from the rearview mirror or a
dashboard placard must be
placed in each van to reiterate
the vehicle's potential hazards.

Previously, UK only required
training for drivers from the Col-
lege of Agriculture. That train-
ing is an integral part of ensur-
ing safety for all drivers and pas-
sengers in these vans, and is rec-
ommended by the NHTSA. Now

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all drivers, not just those from
the College of Agriculture, will
benefit -- thanks to mandatory
training, the likelihood of
rollovers will substantially de-
crease.

These stricter safety regula-
tions come on the heels of a No-
vember Kernel report that found
nine of UK‘s benchmark schools
have discontinued the use of 15-
passenger vans. Of the 10 that

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still use them, eight require dri-
ver training.

“We’re going to use them in
the safest way possible and over
time, eliminate them,” Frank
Butler, UK vice president for fi-
nance and administration, told
The Kernel last week. “We won’t
be buying any new ones.”

Alternatives to lS-passenger
vans include shuttle buses and
heavier, dual-rear-wheel vans.
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more conducive to driver safety
as well.

“Our goal is to have a no-acci-
dent history here and make all
travel as safe as possible,“ Butler
said in the same interview last
week.

We stand behind that mission
w safety should be on UK’s short
list of top priorities. The univer-
sity’s stricter regulations for its
lS-passenger vans are an excel-
lent illustration of that commit-
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Don’t let funds earmarked
for education go elsewhere

In his budget address Tuesday
night, Gov. Ernie Fletcher advocat—
ed repealing Kentucky‘s prevailing.
wage law in order to increase fund-
ing for construction projects for ed-
ucation.

The wage law requires contrac-
tors of state con-

expect construction-business own.
ers or unions to base their stances
on repealing the wage law because
the savings are promised to go to
education, other Kentuckians may
be more sympathetic to a repeal for
that very reason.

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struction projects
to pay workers the
regional “prevail-
ing wage,“ as deter-
mined by a formu~

Critics of the
wage law say it ar-
tificially inflates

Governor Fletcher
should keep his word
la. on education funding
for once

expected to save the
state $40 million
over the next two
years, and it is rea-
sonable to assume
that people would
rather see that go
to schools than, say,
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the price of con-
struction projects,
while unions and workers believe
that repealing it Would lead to
workers being underpaid.

This editorial board takes no
stance on whether the law should
be repealed. but one thing is abun-
dantly clear: If Fletcher is going to
use education as the selling point
for repealing the law. he must live
up to his promises.

Although it would be foolish to

$13.7 million per
year “Unbridled
Spirit" advertising campaign.

Considering Fletcher's record of
falling short on promises to fund
education, it’s imperative that he
be honest with Kentuckians about
this proposal. Kentuckians have
the right to decide what to do about
the prevailing-wage law. but a cru-
cial part of making that decision is
knowing where the money's going
to go.

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Chipotle column left bad taste

A good piece of advice for Andrew Martin to re-
member (in response to his “Queso” article) is, don’t be
lazy with language. While putting together a sensible
article about his experience from visiting Chipotle,
Martin managed to lump together all nutritional ac-
tivists into a group of tax-loving “moralists” he loving-
ly called "nutrition Nazis."

While I agree with the premise of his article, what
Martin doesn‘t seem to understand is positive nutri-
tion activism and why it is important. What’s worse is
that he chose to use verbiage that is askew of reality so
that he might satisfy his taste for alliteration. Nutri-
tion Nazi has a nice ring to it, doesn’t it?

Here’s the reality. Take yourself and two friends.
Draw straws, and one of you gets to be the one to die of
cancer, another gets to be obese and probably inherit
complications such as diabetes or heart disease, and
‘lucky,“ and might make it to old age to
die a peaceful, painless death. However you’ll likely
take three or more prescription meds and try to sur-
vive off pension plus a meager retirement. Why the
grim future? Americans lack a strong nutritional and
preventative health education.

Since some want their freedom so ba