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Thursday, April 6, 2006 Celebrating 35 years of independence

Hospital construction to change road layout

UK official says extension of Huguelet Avenue
to Virginia Avenue will begin next month

By Shannon Mason
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Students can expect a change
en route for the beginning of the
fall semester.

Construction on the exten-
sion of Huguelet Avenue to Vir-
ginia Avenue is scheduled to be-
gin in May, and Dr. Michael
Karpf, executive vice president
of health affairs at UK, said he
hopes the project will be finished
by August.

“Our goal is to have it done

before students come back for
the fall semester,” Karpf said.
“And that’s a goal we can hope-
fully meet. If we don’t meet it, I
know we’ll be really close."

Huguelet Avenue will extend
through part of campus to con—
nect with Virginia Avenue, and
Rose Street will be closed from
Huguelet to South Limestone.

As for the construction of the
new hospital parking garage,
Karpf said everything is going
according to plans.

“We are still very much on

schedule,” he said.

The new garage will be locat-
ed on South Limestone Street be-
tween Transcript Avenue and
Conn Terrace. In a previous in-
terview, Karpf said the new
garage will take 14 to 16 months
to complete and should be ready
to open in summer 2007.

Karpf said he has a prime
view of the construction site
from his office.

“It’s quite a scene.” Karpf
said. “You can’t get the full pic-
ture from the ground.”

“There are about 5 to 6 big
pieces of machinery trying to get
everything cleared out,” he said.
“(The garage) is going to be ab-

solutely huge.”

Each of these projects is a
part of the first phase of the UK
HealthCare expansion.

The three«phase project,

scheduled to finish in 2020, also

includes building a new critical

care facility and an ambulance
facility.

Karpf said they are finishing
the schematics right now and in
May, pictures of what the new
hospital will look like will be
available. By that time, Karpf
said pictures of the hospital lob-
by may also be available, but that
it would be a few more months
before pictures of the hospital
rooms will be available.

Karpf said that right now
“mock-ups" of the rooms are be-
ing taped out on the floor of the
basement of the Charles T.
Wethington Building.

“You can actually go down
there and see the size of the op-
erating rooms and the patient
rooms,” he said, adding that
more features of the rooms will
be added to the mock-ups in the
future.

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SG funds
tutoring
at last
meeting

Senators pass resolution condemning
‘stereotypical' mural at Memorial Hall

By Sean Rose
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The Student Government Senate wrapped
up its year with the ﬁnal meeting last night,
giving $2,000 to a tutoring program amidst
reminiscence and farewells.

“Thanks for a good year guys," SG Presi-
dent Becky Ellingsworth said at the begin-
ning of the meeting.

The $2,000 goes toward a summer trial of
a peer—tutoring program used during the reg-
ular school year.

Jim Breslin. the coordinator of the pro-
gram, said students showed interest in a sum-
mer program.

“We always try to be conscious of what
the students are asking for,“ Breslin said
adding that at the very least it would allow
them gauge students’ response to the summer
program before deciding to make it an annual
occurrence.

Senators also passed a resolution calling
for the immediate removal of the mural that
hangs in the entrance of Memorial Hall stat-
ing it “depicts African Americans and Native
Americans in a stereotypical and inferior
light.“

“It’s been protected because Memorial
Hall is a historical site,” said the resolution
sponsor Sen. Sam Gaines. “That's all well and
good but I think there are some more positive
situations we can highlight."

Another resolution passed to encourage
the creation of a textbook rental service de-
signed to provide cheaper textbooks.

“We don't want to do anything concrete
yet," said sponsor Sen. Will Fuller “But we do
want to get this on the ground."

A constitutional amendment passed for
the second time last night decreasing the
number of signatures required for candidates
to obtain to run for SC ofﬁce. Amendments
must pass the senate with a threefourths ma-
jority on two separate occasions.

Candidates for the president and vice
presidency must obtain 500 student signa-
tures instead of the previous 1,000 and sena-
tor-at-large candidates must obtain 300 signa-
tures instead of 400. Freshman and college
senatorial candidates must obtain 2 percent
of their class or school instead of the previ-
ous 3 percent.

Act sponsor Sen. Ben Carter said previ-
ously that the reduction is designed to give
candidates more time to campaign and dis-
cuss the issues.

Ellingsworth also appointed Perry Greer,
a ﬁrst year law student, as a Supreme Court
associate justice replacing justice Clint Quar-
les who graduated in the fall.

A resolution to expand the route of 221-
RIDE during the night was scratched from last
night‘s meeting. The same resolution was
tabled when it was ﬁrst heard in February

A member of the General Education Re-
form and Assessment Committee met with
the senate last night looking to form a stu-
dent forum either in the remaining part of
the year or next year to improve elements of
UK like USPs.

The ﬁnal adjournment of the year closed
with a cheer item the senators and optimistic
advise from Senate President Nick Phelps.

“Everybody worked really hard this year,’
Phelps said. "I hope that you'll bridge people
that did not get reelected and bring them
back in."

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Angelica
Prekopa, an
anthropology
freshman, made
balloon animals
for her talent
last night at the
Beauty Pageant.
She learned how
to make the
balloons on the
Internet. All ten
contestant paid
a $5 entry fee.
The event raised
$207 in pro-
ceeds.

Lecture to explore
Islam and evolution

By Joe Hillenmeyer
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For Dr. T.O. Shanavas, the
major evolutionary question
has little to do with apes and
everything to do with belly but-
tons.

“Did Adam and Eve have
Belly Buttons?," a lecture spon-
sored by the Islamic Studies De-
partment, aims to give students
who attend a new understating
of the Islamic culture and the
Islamic civilization's perspec-
tive on evolution. The lecture
will take place tonight at the
Student Center’s Center The-
atre from 6 to 8 pm.

“The Islamic perspective (on
evolution), when taken in a reli-
gious context is fairly progres-
sive." said Dr. Suleiman A. Dar-
rat, director of the Islamic Stud-
ies Program at UK. “(The Islam-

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ic perspective) is that there is
evolution and creation: there is
no reason why they should be
contradictive.”

Shanavas, a pediatrician
and Indian native who has
spent more than 35 years in the
United States. wrote the book
“Creation and/ or Evolution: An
Islamic Perspective" and is vice
president of the Islamic Re—
search Foundation in
Louisville.

His book analyzes evolution
by combining information from
the Quran and different parts of
Muslim history. Shavantas
pushes the idea of intelligent
design where evolution is part
of a universe constructed by a
higher power.

Muslims had the idea of evo
lution as a part of creation as

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Photos by Tricia Spaulding

Bridgett Schnarr. an intcn'or design freshman.

won the Pretty in Pink Beauty P; gcant last night

in Memorial Hall. The pageant was organized
by Kristen Fulehcr. an integrated strategic com—
munications freshman. She designed it as a pro
ject for her Emerging leader Institution (Ilass.
All proceeds went to the Susan B. ( Iolcman
Foundation to help ﬁnd a cure for breast cancer.

Potential staff union
to be discussed today

STAFF REPORI

The American Federation of
Teachers and the Communica-
tions Workers of America will
hold a news conference at noon
today at the CWA union hall on
Delaware Avenue to discuss UK
staff members' initiative to orga-
nize a union.

Recent talk of unionization
has been circulating throughout
UK after President Lee Todd pro
posed a twotier salary pool raise
system that gives faculty a 5.5 per-
cent salary pool raise and staff a
3 percent salary pool raise. This
also spawned costof-living con-
oerns among some staff.

'Ibdd held a town hall-style fo
rum during Spring Break to lis-
ten to staff concerns and try to
address them, but many believe
nothing has changed.

“I think a lot of people who
were angry before the meeting

are still angry." Staff Senate
Chairman Kyle Dippery told The
Kernel in a March 20 article
about last month‘s meeting. “I
don’t think a lot of minds were
changed.“

Todd said in the same article
that he did not intend to make
anyone upset by proposing the
unequal salary pool raises.
adding that this is the unfortu-
nate result of having to stretch
funds.

“The issue is that we have ﬁ-
nite resources. We have to priori-
tize." Todd said. “All of our em-
ployees are important. They con-
tribute to this institution. But the
fact is that we need to pay faculty
more competitively to recruit
more teachers to lower classroom
sizes, retain them, and dramati-
cally improve the research engine
at this institution to grow jobs
and create opportunity for this
state."

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with gossip king

Perez Hilton

Man who feeds off Celeb news

we Dig" tough to keep up with himself

By Samantha Bonar
Los ANGELES TIMES

HOLLYWOOD . . He's a Hollywood gossip-
monger's dream and a troubled celebrity’s
nightmare. He‘s like US Weekly, the Star. the
Enquirer and Life & Style all rolled into one
sweet yet snarky. sagacious yet salacious gay
man. Mario Lavandeira. better known as Perez
Hilton he of the eponymous Web site. is so
popular he 15 becoming a celebrity in his own
right scoring loads of swag at Sundance and
hanging with his ‘cousin‘ Paris Hilton at par-
ties.

The regular features on Perez‘s photo-illus-
trated Web site include celebrity gossip. of
course, but also “Separated at Birth” photos (a
recent pairing: the old Star Jones and the new
porky Britney Spears): “Personally Perez."
about his celebrity interactions and party hop-
ping; animated shorts (including the hilarious
“Dirty Colin." a riff on the infamous Colin Far
rell sex tape); and “Wacky. Tacky and True."
He is also known for his celebrity nicknames:
“Baby Zahara" for Nicole Richie. the Federjerk
for Kevin Federline.

Perez started his Web site in 2004 as page-
sixsixsixcom, a play on the New York Post's
gossip page. and debuted perezhiltoncom in
May 2005.

What sets it apart from other celebrity gos-
sip sites. Perez says. is that while other sites
have a tone. his has an identity. the character
he has created. “I also actively and aggressive-
ly try to break stories on a daily basis." he says.
relying on contacts including friends in the in-
dustry and at celebrity magazines. restaurant
and shop workers. publicists and celebrities
themselves.

Perez came to LA. to pursue an acting ca-
reer after graduating from the Tisch School of
the Arts in New York and started his Web site
for fun while working a temp job at E!. a posi-
tion he lost after blogging about a particularly
memorable visit to his workplace by Janice
Dickinson. the erstwhile big meanie, uber-
Botoxed judge on “America's Next Top Model."

He still does his Web site for fun, but with
about 600,000 hits daily. it is now his day job,
with all the attendant Hollywood action.

Perez has made a few enemies along the
way He was once elbowed in the face at a club
by a friend of Richie.

Now he's on E! News, has a reality show in
development called “Gossip Queen," a book
deal and a regular stalker.

“Do you want to hear some gossip?" Perez.
28. asks in a conspiratorial stage whisper as we
walk down Robertson Boulevard one recent
Saturday.

This night on the town with the Miami-
born Cuban American princess offered a peek
into Perez's world. The self-proclaimed “gossip
gangster" has deceptively innocent baby blue
eyes. carefully coiffed facial scruff and an en-
dearing smidge of pudge.

He needed to buy two birthday presents for
two parties he‘d be attending later, so we head—
ed for Kitson. a clothing store so trendy there
was a velvet-roped line outside waiting for the
privilege of perusing $68 T-shirts and $125
hoodies.

Inside: Perez in action. He ran into a friend
from People magazine and warmed up with a
query about what to get his friends. a publicist
and an actress. Then, during a pause in the
conversation. he nonchalantly queried: “15
Britney pregnant again? Tell me."

The People person said she didn‘t think so
and explained why, but Perez was unconvinced.
“She is so pregnant." he said after the woman
walked away.

Perez checked his Sidekick constantly:
tracking feedback and tips posted on his Web
site.

“There‘s David LaChapelle."
nonchalantly. looking up.

“Dave Chappelle?!" I asked.

“N0. the photographer." he said.

“Oh.“

Exhausted. I was heading home. but the
night was just beginning for Perez.

It‘s a tough job being a gossip gangstar. but
somebody‘s got to spread it.

Perez said

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