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Wednesday, February 22, 2006

 

Celebrating 35 years of independence

Kentucky Kernel

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UK's retention rate decreases slightly

By Chris Miles
m: krurucm KERNEL

As the spring semester
unfolds, at least one in every
10 UK students will not re-
turn to continue their under~
graduate studies.

The Institutional Re-
search department of UK has
recently put out an unofficial
statistic that says 9.3 percent
of all full and part-time stu-
dents that were enrolled at
UK in the last fall semester
have dropped out and will

not continued into the spring
of 2006.

“This rate is really com-
parable to the last ten years,”
Roger Sugarman, the direc-
tor of Institutional Research,
said. “It’s not a cause for con-
cern.”

The Institutional Re-
search department has pro-
jected that the retention rate,
or the percentage of students
continuing their studies, of
students from the Fall 2005
semester to the Spring 2006
semester is about 90.7 per—

cent. That means for every
10 UK students that were en-
rolled last semester, only
about nine of them returned.

“We would be delighted if
no one left,” Sugarman said
of the retention rate. “But
this is normal."

Compared with the last
inter-semester period be-
tween Fall 2004 and Spring
2005, there has been a slight
decline in the amount of stu-
dents that have returned.
The retention rate between
Fall 2004 and Spring 2005 was

officially tagged at 91.2 per-
cent.

Not all the students who
leave UK are dropping out of
college; many are simply
transferring.

“This is normal for UK
and most large research uni-
versities," Sugarman said.
“We find more and more that
students are attending more
then one institution to get
their degree."

This trend, called
swirling, is a national one.

Sugarman stressed that

this is normal for UK. But he
did also point out that UK’s
retention rate is lower then
most of its benchmark insti.
tutions.

The reasons for students
dropping out of school are
varied.

As Mary Bolin-Reece, the
counseling and testing direc-
tor at the UK Counseling
Center, pointed out, students
will drop out for reasons
ranging from family issues,

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What rhymes with ‘geek’?

Cartoon
controversy
stirs debate

By Robin Bryant
m: KENTUCKY KERMEL

Danny Cotton, a
sophomore jour-
nalism major,
read his poem
last night at the
poetry slam. He
uses a cigarette
as a prop for the
poem. The poet-
ry slam was part
of Geek Week, a
celebration of
the College of
Arts and Sci-
ences.

Students on campus, both Muslim and
non-Muslim, are speaking up with opinions
on a series of cartoons which have created
an uproar in Muslim communities world-
wide.

The cartoons, which depict the Islamic
prophet Muhammad, were first published by
Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten in Sep
tember. Since then, the cartoons have spread
through Europe and the Internet.

Protests and violence have also erupted
in the wake of the cartoons and there have
been attacks on embassies and diplomatic
buildings in Afghanistan, Iraq. Lebanon and
Bosnia and more than a dozen people have
died in demonstrations.

According to the Quran, the holy book of
Islam, no prophet should be drawn for fear
that people may begin worshipping the en-
graved images instead of God, or Allah.

“I’m not Muslim. but I've seen the car—
toons and they offended me." said Kate Met-
zger. a public service and leadership senior.
“I really don't think any compassionate hu-
man being would really want to portray a
prophet as a suicide bomber or a terrorist."

Muslim Student Association President
and third-year law student Roula Allouch

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Last night. Geek \Veek rolled on with a poetry slam
in the Cats Den. The week-long celebration promotes all
the programs within the College ofArts and Sciences,
including the humanities and the social, natural and math-
ematical sciences. The yearly event is planned by the 15
Arts and Sciences student ambassadors and all events are
free and open to the public.

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February 23

 

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February 22

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When: 2 pm.

Lecture explores suicide bombing

By Keith Brooks
mt KENTUCKY KERNEL

 

ists' motives.

The Patterson School of
Diplomacy and International
Commerce presented the speech,
and asked Bloom, who has a doc-
torate in political science from
Columbia University and has
worked with the Office of
Counter-Terrorism for the State
of New Jersey, to return after
she participated in a lecture last

Mia Bloom.
author of the
book “Dying to
Kill: The Allure
of Suicide Ter-
ror," spoke
yesterday
evening in the
Center Theater
in the Student
Center.

A terrorism expert led a lec-
ture about suicide bombings and
terrorism last night in the Cen»
ter Theater in the Student Cen-
ter, discussing motivations and
reasons for the act. along with re
lated topics.

Mia Bloom, a professor at the
University of Cincinnati and au-
thor of the book, “Dying to Kill:
The Allure of Suicide Terror"
dispelled the myths about sui-
cide bombing and offered several
explanations about the terror-

said she believes in upholding freedom and
is also eager to inform others that violence
shouldn’t be the an- H '
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lims on campus and thlnk any COM'
in America. value .

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also organized a fo-

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brary on Sunday to

discuss the cartoons portray a

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“Muslims are upset , ,

at the depiction of su|c|de bomber
our beloved prophet . ,,
but the violence that or a terrorist.
has ensued is not ac-

ceptable under is-

lamic principles."

M e h m e t
Saraeoglu. an engi-
neering graduate
student and Turkish
Student Association president. doesn't con~
done the violence either.

“A Muslim individual cannot have hatred
or a negative thought in his or her heart
about any religion or a religious person and
their sacred values," Saracoglu said. “Other-
wise he would not be accepted as a Muslim
anymore.“

Saracoglu still questions the media's
judgment.

“Newspapers are not allowed to use any
articles or drawings which advocate anti-
Semitism," Saracoglu said. "The Western
media displays this kind of fastidious atti-
tude towards Judaism; however. it does not
care about the holiness of the figures at all
when Islam is at issue."

Some students argue that censorship is-
n‘t a moral option.

“Freedom of the press should be the
right of all humans regardless of where you
are in the world." said architecture sopho
more, Amanda Hamilton.

However, some students think that free-
dom of the press means more.

“The First Amendment was created for
everyone, it's a right we all have in the Unit-
ed States.“ said Nathan Garrison. a chemical
engineering sophomore. “That’s not the case
in other parts of the world. so we should
maintain that freedom. But when you're of-
- , _ fending a large portion of the world, it
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physical or mental illness.
overwhelming workloads
and that a university atmos-
phere might be too large and
unfriendly for them.

“Maybe they feel too far
from home." Bolin-Reece
said on one example. “It is
very case by case. very indi-
vidual.“

Sugarman agreed there
could be a wide variety of
reasons for students to leave
school.

“There are many factors
for (dropout) rate," he said.
“Students may not be pre-

pared for the course work.
Some students might be
homesick or feel like they
should be attending a small-
er school." -

Bolin-Reece explained
that when a student comes
to the counseling center
counselors do all they can to
help them deal with their is-
sues and stay at UK.

“We look at the total life
demands of the student,
such as work and family."
Bolin-Reece said. “We look
at all of the pieces of the
puzzle. If the student can
find a way to stay enrolled,
then we look at how they
could stay in."

The counseling center
helps students make their
decision whether or not to
drop out of UK by helping

outline a specific cost and
benefits model.

“We ask students what
they have control over and
where they could make
choices,” Bolin-Reece said.
“It’s seldom that there is one
answer, but we help them
make a decision.”

Sugarman said he felt
there are things that the
university can do to help
make the retention rate
higher. including connecting
to students.

“The university is doing
everything it can to respond
to the needs of students and
make a big place smaller."
Sugarman said. “We'd like
to see them get their under-
grad degree here.”

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Wednesday. Feb. 22, 2006 I PAGE A3

With new faces, . Court
revisits to abortion debate

By Charles Lane
mt “summon POST

WASHINGTON a The
Supreme Court agreed Tues-
day to decide whether a 2003
federal ban on the procedure
known as “partial-birth abor-
tion" is constitutional, setting
the stage for its most signifi-
cant ruling on abortion rights
in almost 15 years.

Without comment or
recorded dissent, the court
granted the Bush administra-
tion's request to review a low-
er court’s ruling striking
down the law, which passed
Congress overwhelmingly but
has yet to be enforced.

The case will test the new
balance of abortion opinion
on a court whose membership
now includes two Bush ap-
pointees, Chief Justice John
G. Roberts Jr. and Justice
Samuel A. Alito Jr. Given
their conservative leanings
and the court‘s past vote
count on the issue, the federal
ban’s chances appear strong.

Arguing that an appeals
court’s invalidation of an act
of Congress was worthy of
the court’s attention. the
Bush administration persuad-
ed the justices to take the case
without one usual criterion
for doing so ,,- a division
among lower courts. Since the
first appeals court struck
down the law last year, two
other appeals courts have fol-
lowed suit.

Performed by fewer than
two dozen physicians in the
country. the procedure.
known medically as “intact
dilation and evacuation."
takes place relatively late in
pregnancy, generally after the
20th week. when the fetus‘s
head may become lodged in
the birth canal. Under those
circumstances, the doctors
draw the fetus out feet first.
then puncture the skull to
vacuum out the brain and col-
lapse the head. permitting the
rest of the fetus to be re-
moved.

It is unclear how often the
procedure is done. Abortion
rights organizations say the
annual number is in the hun-
dreds: anti-abortion groups
say thousands. There were 1.3

million abortions in the Unit-
ed States in 2002. of which 88
percent occurred during the
first 12 weeks of pregnancy,
according to the Guttmacher
Institute.

What is clear is that few
other issues in American poli-
tics trigger stronger emo-
tions. A 2005 poll by the Quin-
nipiac University Polling In-
stitute showed that three-
quarters of the public sup-
ports a ban, except when a
mother’s life is at stake.

But some physicians, in-
cluding the plaintiff in this
case, Leroy Carhart of Ne-
braska, say partial birth abor—
tion is sometimes safer than
the alternatives. which may
include the dismemberment
of the fetus before its extrac-
tion.

For the Supreme Court,
the issue is whether the con-
stitutional right to have an
abortion means that any law
regulating this procedure
must contain an exception to
protect a mother‘s health.

In a 1992 decision reaf-
firming the abortion right
first announced in Roe v.
Wade 19 years earlier. the
court barred abortion regula-
tions that pose an “undue bur-
den" on women.

The court applied that rul-
ing in 2000 to a Nebraska ban
on partial-birth abortion that
was similar to laws in 25
states. It struck the law down
5-4. ruling that it was so
vaguely written that it could
also criminalize other proce-
dures. and that it lacked an
exception for the mother‘s
health.

The federal Partial-Birth
Abortion Ban Act of 2003 was
Congress’s answer to that rul-
ing. It banned the procedure
except when necessary to save
the life of the mother. And it
deliberately omitted an excep
tion to protect the mother’s
health. Indeed. as drafted by
its Republican sponsors. the
law formally declared. based
on expert testimony. that such
an abortion could never be
necessary to preserve health.

The US. Court of Appeals
for the 8th Circuit, based in
St. Louis. said in July that the
lack of a health exception

made the law unconstitution-
al under the 2000 Supreme
Court ruling that had re-
quired a health exception
whenever “substantial med-
ical authority” supports the
necessity of the procedure.
Congress’s findings to the
contrary were not sufficient,
the 8th Circuit ruled.

But the Bush administra-
tion argues that the federal
law is more precisely drawn
than the Nebraska statute.
and that the courts must defer
to Congress's findings regard-
ing the medical necessity of
the procedure.

Oral argument in the case.
Gonzales vs. Carhart. is likely
to take place during the run-
up to the 2006 congressional
elections, and the high politi—
cal stakes were evident from
the statements of pro-choice
and antiabortion organiza-
tions.

“We fear the new court is
ready to further undermine a
woman’s access to legal abor-
tion." says Jennifer Brown,
vice president and legal direc-
tor of Legal Momentum. a
women’s rights organization.

Douglas Johnson. legisla-
tive director of the National
Right to Life Committee. said
that “Unless the Supreme
Court now reverses the ex-
treme position that five jus-
tices took in 2000, partly born
premature infants will contin-
ue to die by having their
skulls punctured by seven-
inch scissors.“

When the court voted 5-4
to strike down Nebraska's
partial-birth abortion ban in
2000. former justice Sandra
Day O'Connor cast the decid-
ing vote.

She is no longer on the
court. and has been replaced
by Alito. who sat on his first
oral argument Tuesday As a
federal appeals judge. Alito
voted to strike down a New
Jersey partial birth abortion
ban. saying that his court
must follow the Supreme
Court's 2000 ruling. But in
1991. he voted to allow Penn-
sylvania to require spousal
notification prior to abortion.
He said that the state‘s rule.
and its exceptions, did not
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Bro ken hang: Sld
hot-shooting Bradley

By Chris DeLoteii

YHE KENTUCKY KERNEL

If UK is going to solidify
its NCAA Tournament posi-
tion in the final four games
of the regular season. the
Cats will have to do it with
out sharpvshooting guard
Ramel Bradley.

The sophomore broke his
left hand in practice on
Monday when he slammed it
against a basket support.

“I was frustrated,"
Bradley said. "I went to the
basket and missed a lay-up,
so I punched (the support)."

Bradley noted that his
aggravation had been build-
ing.

"I‘ve been struggling the
last few games and I‘ve been
frustrated.” he said. "I want
ed to be on the court a little
more than I have been."

Head coach Tubby Smith
said Bradley will not need
surgery:

“He‘s in a splint." Smith
said. “but they don‘t have to
do anything else to it. He‘s
doing OK."

Smith was unsure how
quickly Bradley will return.
and was unwilling to coni-
mit to a certain date.

“The timeline is two
weeks to more or less."
Smith said. “It depends on
how he goes, It's not like
he‘s incapacitated. He can
run. He can stay in shape.

“It‘s not his shooting
hand. so he can still shoot.
and I know he'll do that."

Bradley. one of HRS best
3-point shooters. is fourth on
the team in scoring. Over
the past 11 games. he has
made 14 of 28 3epoint at-
tempts and has emerged as a
top scoring threat.

According to Smith.
Bradley's injury will open
up opportunities for other
players. especially Preston
LeMaster

“It expands some of the

Sophomore guard Ramel Bradley will likely miss the final four games of
the regular season after breaking his hand in practice on Monday.

other players‘ roles. like Pre-
ston LeMaster." Smith said.
“He‘s a very talented player
and he grades out positively
every practice. This might
be his chance."

Smith said the team will
also count more on Brandon
Stockton, who has started
both games since Smith im-
plemented his new ratings
system.

The players acknowl-
edged the need for team-
mates to fill Bradley‘s role.

"It‘s an opportunity for

my teammates to step up."
said center Lukasz Obrzut.
“Somebody’s going to have
to replace Ramel’s role and
catch it and run with it and
keep scoring and winning."

Bradley said he won't en-
joy having to sit on the
bench for the remainder of
the regular season.

“It’s gonna be tough." he
said. “but I'll still be over
there motivating my team
mates."

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