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Kentucky cruel

Tuesday. March 28. 2006

olls lacking workers on eve of $6 elections

interested in working who fulfill
the requirement of not having any

 

Celebrating 35 years of independence

The election board is in charge
of running and monitoring the

the polls.
Overall Collins said the prepa-

Student Center polling locations.
During last year’s election. 86

Commons polling location

has zero staffers

By Sean Rose

dates.

she said.

affiliations with any of the candi-

“We have so many openings.”

 

THE KENTUCKY KERNEL

With the Student Government
elections less than a day away,
some campus poll locations are
still lacking workers to operate
them — including locations where

Collins said
the election
board’s five
board members
would try to pick
up the slack, but

 

Poll Worker Meeting

What: Informational meeting for poll workers
When: Tonight at 8
Where: Student Center room 206

 

 

no one has signed up to work any some polls might
hours either day

“Our biggest hurdle to jump is
getting poll workers," said Katie
Collins. chairwoman of the SG
Election Board of Supervisions.

She said it’s hard to find students

low staffing.

participation, we will."

have to close early as a result of

“We don’t want to close any-
thing early.” Collins said. “But if
we’re forced to because of lack of

in poll workers

elections process, which will occur
tomorrow and Thursday That job
includes maintaining polls and
keeping
dates from cam-
paigning
closely
polling booths.
As of yester-
day, Collins said
the biggest gap
was at the Com-
mons — where no one has signed
up to work any of the seven hours
of voting tomorrow or any of the
six hours of voting Thursday. Stu-
dents are paid $10 an hour to man

candi-

to

ration process is coming

she’ s worried about
whether the election will
go smoothly

“I'm not confident be—
cause you never know,"
Collins said. “It’s kind of
touch-and-go with all of
this stuff.”

Polls at the College of
Agriculture and the Col-
lege of Law are scheduled
to be fully staffed, and
Collins said it was easy to
find workers for the White

too
the

together but added that “But |f we' re

forced to
because Of
lack Of partici-
pation. we will
(close polls)."

Hall Classroom Building and the

had to close one poll
and limit the hours of
several others due to
low staffing, an issue
that has plagued SG
elections as of late.

Students wanting to
work polls can go sign
up in the SG office in
the Student Center. Poll
workers are paid posi-
tions. The meeting for
workers is tonight at 8
in room 206 in the Stu
dent Center.

Katie Collins so

Election Board of Claims

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Ky. schools
don’t plan to

follow UK’s
union push

UK staff members say effort is still

onto unionize over salary issues

By Dariush Shata
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Staff representatives at other state-funded
universities in Kentucky said if UK were to
unionize. it’s unlikely that would lead them to fol-

“ low suit and unionize as
If people at

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(UK) would do Kernel, Staff Sen. Paul
, Wilson said if UK’s staff
It, people at unionized, the staffs of
other universi-
ties would be
more apt tO do

other universities in the
state would likely follow
suit and “Suddenly
you'd be talking to every
staff member in the

state of Kentucky“
it n But staff leaders at
' other universities said
their staffs would likely
Samantha Ganqe unionize only because of
staff, UK College of Law local issues and prob.

lems.

Recent talk of unionization has been circulat-
ing throughout UK after President Lee Todd pro
posed a twotier salary pool raise system that
gives faculty a 5. 5 percent salary pool raise and

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Psychology senior Ryan DeLuca (left) and hospitality management and tourism junior David Reichelderter take a run in the UK/Lexington- Fayette Urban Coun-
ty Government Arboretum yesterday afternoon. The first day of spring was March 23, but you wouldn't have known it - the first few days had highs In the mid-
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Fine Arts on

verge

of dropping degrees

By Brandon Cannada
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Two Fine Arts bachelor's
degree programs —— acting
and design technology — are
close to being suspended from
UK’s curriculum after a mo-
tion to that extent passed
unanimously at the Universi-
ty Senate Council meeting
yesterday.

No new applicants for ei-
ther degree track will be ac-
cepted for the fall semester. al-
though the 20 or so students
currently in the program will
be allowed to finish their de-
grees, said Nelson Fields.
chairman of the Department
of Theater.

“We feel that the focus of
the programs are too narrow
and that they don’t give
enough attention to other lib-
eral arts," Fields said. “The
trend over the past few years
is that the Master of Fine

Arts degree programs are ac-
cepting less (Bachelor of Fine
Arts) students and more
(Bachelor of Arts) students.”

In university paperwork
filed to suspend the acting
program. officials with the
College of Fine Arts wrote
that the program “is not liv-
ing up to its potential" and
that the “number of students
enrolled and completing the
program is not justifying fac-
ulty requirements."

As required in the suspen-
sion procedure, all professors
in the Department of Theater
signed off to approve the pro-
posed suspension of the two
Bachelor of Fine Arts majors.

The full University Senate
is expected to vote on the mea-
sure in its April 10 meeting.

“We’re not saying that it is
an unvaluable degree. but a
lot of our (Bachelor of Fine
Arts) students want to pursue
upper-level degrees and they

don’t have as good of a chance
of being accepted as their
Bachelor of Arts counter-
parts," Field said.

According to Fields. some
students may be taking the
Bachelor of Fine Arts pro-
grams in order to avoid some
of the required courses that
the Bachelor of Arts program
demands.

“Our better students tend
to op for the (Bachelor of
Arts) program," Fields said.

Acting senior Veronica
Riggs said she doesn‘t think
that's the case.

“People want to take class-
es more specific towards act-
ing instead of design.“ Riggs
said. “They don‘t think they
will get enough time spent on
acting if they take the (Bache-
lor of Arts) route.”

Aaron William. also an
acting student. expressed sim-
ilar sentiments about the cur-

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Showcase tO spotlight
undergraduate research

By Adam Sichlto
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Research.

The word often carries connota-
tions of erudite faculty with doctorate
degrees or graduate students toiling
away on nights and weekends, sacri-
ficing their personal lives to advance
their theses.

But next month. the
spotlight will shine on
undergraduate research
work ,, and Friday is
the deadline to apply for
what‘s going to be a hen-
eficial program. said
Robert Tannenbaum, co-
director of the UK Office
of Experiences in Undergraduate Re-
search and Kreative Activities. other-
wise known as eUreKa!

“Often times. when we talk at a
university about research. we're talk-
ing about faculty members and grad
students. but the fact is that an awful
lot of very high quality research is be
ing done by undergraduates, and
thereby they're learning an enormous
amount and many of them are partici-
pating in projects of the highest cal-
iber." Tennenbaum said.

“At a research university. research
starts from your first day on campus. if
you choose to participate in it." he said.

To apply

I Apply online at ww.ulty.edu/
EUREKA/Showcase/showcasehtml

I Deadline tO apply is Friday. For
more information, call 257-6420.

UK‘s first-ever Showcase of Under-
gtaduate Scholars takes place April
25. and the event is Inodeled after a
similar one at the University of Call-
fornia-Irvine. The showcase will fea-
ture undergraduate work in a variety
of forms. including publications. do
signs. performances and presenta-
tions.

‘ ‘Research‘ is mis-
leading." Tannenbaum
said. “People start to
think about scientists.

“What we mean
about all these creative
activities includes the
stuff that goes on in art.
performance music. de-
sign. philosophy writing
papers everything in addition to the
natural sciences and engineering." he
said. “We don't want people ever to be
misled by that word."

Tannenbaum said about 25 stu-
dents have signed up to participate so
far. Students can register for the event
online. and their work ultimately will
be published in a book of abstracts de-
tailing the projects.

“lt‘s been our experience (with oth-
er events) that there‘s a flood of regis-
trants up to the very last minute and
even beyond." Tannenbaum said. “Ac-
tually I‘m very impressed that we’ve

See Showcase on page 3

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March 28. 2006

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EVIEW

Former Floyd guitarist revives
refined sound on ‘lsland'

By Nathan Thacher
THE xrmucxv KERNEI.

Are you a fan of Pink Floyd’s “Dark Side
Of The Moon" or “Wish You Were Here"? Or
a better question, do you have functioning
ears and a history of drug use? If so (or
even if you don’t). you’ll certainly enjoy the
meandering lullabies found in David
Gilmour's newest album. “On An Island."

Released March 7. “On An Island" is
Gilmour‘s first full~length album of new ma-
terial since “About Face" was released in
1984. It certainly seems that in his spare
time. Gilmour has been mulling over and
building upon those spacey. languid. helium-
filled melodies he played so well on “Dark
Side" that subsequently made Pink Floyd 3
household name the world over.

In fact. Gilmour's sound seems as if it's
hardly changed or deteriorated at all -. his
guitar work on the album is as steady and
atmospheric as it‘s ever been. and his sooth—
ing. airy voice still sounds perfectly intact.
The familiar guitar-drum-bass combination
is backed up by a long list of instruments
(piano. saxophone, harmonica and cello. as
well as a full orchestra) and an even longer
list of contributors. including his wife. Polly
Samsom-Gilmour (vocals. piano). fellow
Floyd alum Richard Wright (vocals. key-
boards). David Crosby and Graham Nash
(vocals) just to name a few of the many This
all creates a very Floyd-friendly feel. in a
less hallucinatory. much more sedated way

The album opens with “Castellorizon.”
an instrumental that features some loom-
ing, ominous symphonic arrangements
played behind Gilmour‘s soaring. bitter-
sweet guitar work. The next two songs. “On

An Island” and “The Blue." are aptly titled
and rightly put next to one another: the
cheery. soporific two-part vocal harmonies
combined with sparse drum beats create
feelings of warm. dreamy floatation. You
can almost feel the sun on your shoulders
and the sand in your toes.

But just like the buff. tan beach bully
who kicks sand in your face while you’re
sun tanning. the next track. “Take A
Breath." growls and stomps sharply and it’ll
snap you right out of your slumber. After-
ward. there is a pacified. saxophone-heavy
interlude in “Red Sky At Night" that beck-
ons you to fall back onto your beach towel.
But the next track. “This Heaven," flares
right back up with a trudging bass drum
line and a bit of swaggering. bluesy guitar-
bass picking.

And after that. there’s nary a note or
drum beat in the remainder of the album
that will bother your rest. “Smile." another
aptly-named track. is a lilting lullaby that's
calm and reassuring enough to actually use
as a lullaby. capable of taking down a sugar-
rushed first-grader in mid leap. The notes
are often sparse but long. and in no hurry at
all. always welcoming and never surprising
or very jarring.

In short. the sound of this album is
wrapped in silk. stuffed with cherub down.
and slathered with AstroGlide (see also:
smooth). Gilmour seems confident and com-
fortable using his patented, time—tested for-
mula of sonic Valium; “On An Island" is im-
mediately accessible and endearing for initi-
ates and Pink Floyd devotees alike.

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UK FCA takes it to the streets

By Charlie Denison
THE mmcxv KERNEL

When it‘s Spring Break.
what comes to mind? Parties.
silliness. drunkenness. par-
ties. (Zancun. Florida. parties.
wildness. mayhem. and more
parties. For many students.
this is the case. For 1211K stu-
dents. Spring Brcak in Pana-
ma City. Fla.. meant some-
thing else: going and serving.
UK's Fellowship of Christian
Athletes joined more than 400
people and four teams to com-
municate and connect with
several spring break tourists
to spread their message.

For Liz Mandell. a psy-
chology senior. and Bailey
Westerfield. a biology senior.
Spring Break was different
than usual. The program was
called Beach Reach. founded
in 1980 by Buddy Young. a stu-
dent and part-time Baptist
Student Ministry Director in
Dallas. The program used to
just take place in tents on
South Padre Island. Texas.
Now. the program has several
groups involved in South
Padre and Panama City The
program also uses vans to
pick up spring breakers and
share the Gospel to them. and
even provides free pancake
breakfasts for their guests.

On its first day the group
passed out van—ride cards to
spring-breakers they came
across. with numbers travel-
ers could call for rides. When
it was time to start driving.
the calls came in. and they
continued each night.

“It can be hard to be so
bold." said Westerfield. “It can
be hard for people to respect
our views since faith is such a
sensitive subject."

“I was surprised." said
Mandell. “Over 90 percent of
the people we picked up freely
talked.”

Westerfield said almost
everyone they asked was a
Christian. but as details
poured in. there were plenty
parts of the Bible they didn‘t
agree with. However. relation-
ships began to form espe-
cially with five girls from In-
diana University

“One girl had parents who
just divorced." said Mandell.
“There was one night she
broke down. and we were
there for her."

Another member of FCA
who went on the trip had par-
ents who divorced as well and
provided a shoulder to cry on
for the IU girl.

“We dropped the
girls off at a party
while she was still
crying. “said Man-
dell. “They called us

an hour later to go
back."

Every day of the
week. the girls
would call up a van
and even attend the
pancake breakfasts. One day
the IU girls came over just to
go to the beach with them.

“God‘s love is better than
temporary satisfaction.“ said
Mandell. “It‘s unconditional
love."

Mandell did not want to
misrepresent Christ‘s love.
She considered herself a tool
available to be used. Although
she said it was hard not to be
selfish sometimes. she re-
mained open and “in it for the
Lord."

“The entire week. there
was only one straight rejec-
tion I faced. “said Westerfield.
“The majority even allowed
us to pray for them in the van
before they left."

Westerfield said she had
an experience with a
Methodist who believed all
Catholics were going to Hell.

'

“God's love is
better than

back about a half temporary
satisfaction."

Liz Mandell

psychology senior

Thomas Baber. a Catholic and
member of FCA who was in
the van with the Methodist.
was shocked.

“It's hard to know what to
say sometimes." said Wester-
field. “No one wants to hear
that they are wrong.The high-
light for me was getting close
to someone sincere."

For the participants. the
experience was not about con-
demning the partiers they
helped ,, it was about getting
to know them. listening to
them and communicating
with them.

“We weren‘t shoving the
Gospel down their
throats - - we were
just being our-
selves." said West-
erfield. “We were
there to plant seeds
of love. It was about
openness and ac-
ceptance."

Inside the Lagu-
na Beach Christian
Retreat Center.
where the group
stayed. was a prayer room.
within which Mandell said
she had a hard time being
able to focus.

“There was so much
prayer.“ said Mandell. “People
were screaming. It was so
loud."

Westerfield said the
prayer room was evidence
that the groups were there to
pray and that the prayers
were heartfelt.

For Mandell. Westerfield.
and 10 others from Lexing-
ton. Beach Reach was not just
an experience for them. but it
was a way of spreading love

a positive message of kind-
ness and grace.

“Love what you love.“ said
Mandell. “Not what loves
you.“

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Staff

Continued from page 1

 

In an email to The Kernel, Todd said he
preferred merit-based pay schemes over collec-
tive pay increases, such as those brought about
by unionization.

“I think the value of a merit-based pay sys
tem is that it inoentivizes ’ and rewards —— in-
dividual achievement and merit ” Todd said
“Acrossthe—board compensation schemes pro
vide a disincentive for rewarding merit and m-
dividual achievement.”

Bill Forman, chairman of the University of
Louisville’s Staff Senate, said UotL considered
unionization about a year ago but the idea nev-
er took flight.

“I don’t even know if we had a majority (in
favor of unionizing) when we considered it,"
he said. “The majority would have to feel that
unionizing would be beneficial to most staff.”

That was also the case at Western Ken-
tucky University.

“I can’t speak for other universities," said
James McCaslin Staff Council Chairman at
WKU. “I personally don’t see that happening at
Western.”

One reason McCaslin doesn’t see the WKU
staff unionizing is because of the good rela-
tionship between the staff and the administra-
tion at WKU.

“We already have a good form of communi
cation between staff and the administration

without bringing in a third party," McCaslin
sai .

For now, the costs are also outweighing the
benefits, he said.

“I think it would more so divert resources
that are already strained,” he said. “I don’t
think that the benefit of a union would out-
weigh the price."

In the meantime, UK s administration said
it stills prefer the current system of represen-
tation.

“Our preference is we continue to work
through the Staff Senate," said UK Spokesman
Jay Blanton. “They’re the elected representa-
tives of the staff.”

Forman said he feels universities will
unionize based on their own needs.

“Each situation is an individual situation
based on the university, based between staff
and administration and et cetera, and I think
that would make the situation different for
each one," Forman said.

But another UK staffer said UK’s leading
role in the state could carry the effect farther,
but she also acknowledged that other factors
are at play.

“I think it depends on each situation," said
College of Law staffer Samantha Gange.‘ UK is
a flagship institution. If people at the Universi-
ty of Kentucky would do it, people at other uni-
versities would be more apt to do it. They‘ 11 def-
initely look at it and they ll definitely talk
about it."

“It does have potential,” she said.

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Fine Arts

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riculum.

“The (Bachelor of Fine Arts) classes
are not too narrow, it's just not the right
classes offered," he said. “We’re not trying
to take the easy way out by doing (Bache-
lor of Fine Arts) instead of (Bachelor of
Arts); we just want to learn more about
acting than things like scene design.”

“This is happening because of a lack of
support from the university,” William

added.

In a memo to Fields, Robert Shay, dean
of the College of Fine Arts, writes that the
time the program is suspended will be
used to rewrite the Bachelor of Arts cur-
riculum and make a final decision as to
whether or not the suspension will be per-
manent.

“We did this with the well-being of the
students in mind," Fields said. “We want
all of our students to be ready for the pro
fessional world, and the (Bachelor of Fine
Arts) programs are just not getting that
done."

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gotten 25 already.

“We’re also hoping that a number of
students who do projects in their courses
or for their departments will also see fit to
display those at the showcase," he said.

The benefits of participating are clear,
Tannenbaum said.

“One benefit of course is the satisfac-
tion. the personal intellectual reward of

participating in and doing this kind of
scholarly activity," he said. “This is the
equivalent of a publication ~ something
one can put on a resume. That sets you
apart from a large number of peers when
applying for a job or a graduate school.

“You want to be set apart from your
peers; you really want to be able to Show
off what you’re doing,” he said.

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Cocaine permeates sewage in Virginia

By Bill Turque
m: ”summon POST

If government studies are a re-
liable guide, about 25,000 residents
of Fairfax County, Va. — 2.5 per-
cent of its population — have used
cocaine in the past year. The same
data from the National Survey on
Drug Use and Health suggest that
about 9,000 have partaken within
the past 30 days.

Those estimates. based on per-
sonal and computer-assisted inter-
views, rely almost completely on
the candor of the respondents. The
Bush administration, hoping to
someday broaden the govern-
ment's knowledge of illegal drug
use, is probing the mysteries of
Fairfax‘s sewage for a clearer pic-
ture.

Earlier this month. the county
agreed to participate in a White
House pilot program to analyze
wastewater from communities
throughout the Potomac River
Basin for the urinary byproducts
of cocaine.

“It‘s a very strange request,“
Board of Supervisors Chairman
Gerald E. Connolly, Democrat. said
of the White House program.
“We’re ready to do anything and
everything we can do to eliminate
illicit drug use. But I‘d want to
know a lot more about what this
will actually lead to."

The White House Office of Na-
tional Drug Control Policy said it
is not seeking to single out specific
localities. It also is premature, offi-
cials said, to conclude that levels of
metabolized cocaine in sewage of-

fer a more accurate index of con-
sumption than traditional survey
research.

But David Murray. special as-
sistant to national drug czar John
P. Walters. said wastewater testing.
which has been tried in Europe.
“certainly has that potential."

“We think it will be very, very
useful,“ Murray said.

County workers collected five
days' worth of water samples be-
tween March 13 and March 17 at
the pollution control plant in Lor-
ton. Va.. according to a March 20
memo from County Executive An-
thony H. Griffin to the Board of
Supervisors.

The plant. which processes
about 67 million gallons of sewage
a day. takes in commercial and res-
idential waste from about half the

county. including Fairfax City, Vi-
enna and Fort Belvoir.

The samples, which totaled
about 500 milliliters. were shipped
to the Armed Forces Institute of
Pathology in Rockville. Md.. where
they will be analyzed for traces of
benzoylecgonine. the main urinary
metabolite byproduct of cocaine.

Critics of the administration‘s
drug policies said the effort
seemed harmless enough but also
wondered what it would add up to.

“It can't hurt to check," said
Bill Piper. director of national af-
fairs for the Drug Policy Alliance.
a nonprofit group committed to
ending the federal government's
war on drugs. “I‘m skeptical that it
can be a useful gauge for policy
analysis.”

The wastewater research had

its genesis in Europe. Last year,
scientists of the Mario Negri Insti-
tute for Pharmacological Research
in Milan tested the waters of the
Po River in northern Italy. to sur-
prising results. According to the
Times of London, they concluded
that the Po carried the equivalent
of about four kilograms of cocaine
and estimated that the 1.4 million
young adults living in the Po River
Basin were consuming about
40,000 doses a day, more than twice
the existing national estimates.

To confirm the findings. the re-
searchers studied wastewater from
smaller cities in other regions of
the country, including Sardinia.
After allowing for the difference
between water from the P0 and
undiluted sewage. they said that
the results were similar.

It can’t hurt to check. I’m skeptical that it can be a useful gauge for policy analysis.”

- Bill Piper, director of national affairs. Drug Policy Alliance.

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