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By Brian Shlonskynews@kykernel.com

As tuition, housing and other studentexpenses are continuously rising, manystudents have turned to renting textbooksto help cut costs.

CampusBookRentals.com began in2007 and is viewed as one of the pioneersin textbook renting. The site has the na-tion’s largest selection of rentable text-books, accommodating students on over5,000 campuses.

Alan Martin, CEO of Campus-BookRentals.com, said by renting text-books, students can keep their money touse on other needs.

“The biggest benefit is that you savemoney upfront,” Martin said. “It’s thesame reason you would rent a video in-stead of buying it. It helps students keepcash upfront to use on other expenses.”

According to a poll issued by the com-pany, Martin said the average savings forstudents who rent as opposed to buy isaround $250 a semester.

“Students have consistent savingswhen renting, and you’re always going to

By Melody Bailiffnews@kykernel.com

Students from universities across thecommonwealth hope to make a difference,one poster at a time.

Undergraduate students who have beenworking with faculty mentors will presentresearch and scholarly work on posters tostate legislators Thursday at the Capitolbuilding in Frankfort. Students hope legisla-tors will recognize the effectiveness of theirresearch and what it means to the state ofKentucky.

Students created the posters, which in-clude information on a variety of majors suchas engineering, nursing, communications andpsychology. The posters display the student’s

research topic and any results or comparisons. “Posters-at-the-Capitol demonstrates the

high quality of scholarly work that comes outof Kentucky public institutions,” said EvieRussell, student adviser and programs coordi-nator for Experiences in Undergraduate Re-search and Kreative Activity.

“It exhibits the scholarly and creativeachievements from some of our best andbrightest students,” Russell said. “This dayreflects the collaborative efforts of studentsand dedicated members of our faculty.”

UK students began submitting their re-search abstracts during the fall semester. Agroup of administrators and faculty decidedwhich 14 projects would go on to Frankfort.Nineteen students will represent UK at theevent.

Russell said it was difficult to choosewho would represent UK and found it unfor-tunate all projects could not go.

What: “Posters-at-the-Capitol”When: Thursday, Jan. 28■ 11 a.m. to noon — Brief remarks■ 11 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. — General postersession viewing■ 1:30 p.m. to 3 p.m — ReceptionWhere: Capitol building, Frankfort, 2nd floorAdmission: Free

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By Jennifer Parlinews@kykernel.com

Students might be seeing one lessscantron sheet at the end of the semester.

Teacher and course evaluations areslowly transitioning into using onlinemethods to get student input about classes,said Roger Sugarman, director of Institu-tional Research, Planning and Effective-ness at UK.

The online evaluations were first usedin Spring 2008 and 83 courses participat-ed. That number jumped to 825 coursesusing the online forms in Fall 2009. Sug-arman said the use of online evaluations isstill just an option at this point because hewanted faculty to feel more comfortablebefore making the switch a requirement.

“We are trying to encourage the onlineevaluations, but we’re not requiring it,” hesaid.

“I think the university is interested infacilitating a switch to online course eval-uations.”

These teacher and course evaluationshave been used throughout the universityfor the last 18 years. The assessment con-sists of questions about the course materi-al, the instructor and the learning out-

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PHOTOS BY BRITNEY MCINTOSH | STAFFFreshman John Wall and DeMarcus Cousins react sourly during a timeout in UK’s loss at South Carolina on Tuesday. Despite Cousins 11th double-doubleof the season and a second half surge from Wall, the Cats couldn’t overcome South Carolina.

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Wake up call

COLUMBIA, S.C. — From here onout, this is what it’s going to be likefor UK.

Even if the Cats are no longer un-defeated — which, by the way, wasthat really going to last all the way tothe Final Four? — the intensity oppos-ing teams bring won’t change.

Every aspect of the game will bemagnified, especially on the road. Thefans will be louder. They’ll yell and

scream for anything. Tuesday, theGamecock faithful were even cheeringMiley Cyrus (or is it Hannah Mon-tana?) during an otherwise eventlesstimeout.

Ask Kansas, ask Texas. Now youcan ask UK: If you’re No. 1, the op-ponents aren’t going to bring anythingless than everything they have, everysecond they’re on the court. (Nextweek, you can likely ask Kansas

again.)Maybe President Obama should’ve

driven that point home more when hespoke to the team Tuesday afternoon.

If the presidential conference callwas on any of the players’ minds dur-ing the game Tuesday, I can’t blamethem. Needless to say, it’s not everyday you receive a thank-you from per-

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Kernelcolumnist See Pennington on page 6

Nothing will be easy from here

By Metz Camfieldmcamfield@kykernel.com

COLUMBIA, S.C. – They survived the defending nationalchampions, they took down Connecticut in the “World’sMost Famous Arena” and they overcame a raucous Gatorenvironment. Devan Downey was too much to handle.

The 5-foot-9 South Carolina senior guard scored agame-high 30 points and had an answer for every UK bas-ket. When the final horn sounded the “Garnet Army”stormed the court and the Cats had fallen 68-62 just one dayafter being named the No. 1 team in the country.

“Hats off to South Carolina, they out-worked us,” UKhead coach John Calipari said. “Obviously Devan was hardfor us. We’ve had this happen to us in other games butwe’ve been good enough in the end to win it anyway.”

See Basketball on page 6

Cats lose first game astop team to Gamecocks

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ONE-HANDED SLAMS Local bars capitalizeon success of UK’smost famous player

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South Carolina fans rush the court after toppling No. 1 UK at home. It was the first winover a No. 1 team in South Carolina’s history.

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Patrick Swayze's Widow Her HealingHeart

He was one tough critter," Lisa Niemi writes of latehusband Patrick Swayze, who died from pancreatic can-cer in September at age 57. In an essay for Redbook'sFebruary issue, Niemi, 53, describes his fierce will to con-tinue working in TV: "He was going through chemothera-py but refused to take any pain medication that wouldinterfere with his performance."

Soulmates"The first time we danced together, it was like

magic," recalls Niemi, who thought she'd wed in her thir-ties but accepted his proposal "fresh out of high school."After 34 years of marriage, his absence is painful "on acellular level," she writes. "I can still feel the contour of

his hand in mine."

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Q: You're in a long-distance relationship, justlike your character. Any difficult moments?

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By Emily-Kate Cardwell features@kykernel.com

Since its American onset inthe 1970s, hip-hop music hasshown no regard for territory,crossing cultural and socialborders. It has UK in its sightsnext.

The Student ActivitiesBoard’s Multicultural AffairsCommittee and CATalyst areteaming up to host a three-part event titled “Why WeLove Hip Hop.” The series isdesigned to spark studentawareness about hip-hop mu-sic.

SAB Multicultural AffairsDirector Jasmine Whitlowsaid the series was created toeducate students about the do-mestic, international, religiousand cultural borders hip hophas crossed in its history.

“Hip-hop music is awidespread interest that couldpull a lot of people in,” Whit-low said. “We hope to gatherhip-hop lovers together totalk about this genre that hasevolved in many ways sinceit first stepped on the scene.”

Whitlow said this serieswill offer a unique approachto the way people perceivehip hop. She hopes it will en-gage a diverse crowd of stu-dents who listen to hip hopmusic or are interested inlearning about the progressthat hip hop has madethroughout its history.

“Some people might notlisten to new hip hop, butthey love old school artistslike Run-DMC and The Sug-arhill Gang,” Whitlow said.“This series is an opportunityto listen to different kinds ofhip hop and learn how it haschanged.”

Although UK has offeredclasses on hip hop, Whitlowsaid this series will be morefocused on the music itself.

“We’re going to focusmore on the music, but peo-ple are more than welcome todance if they want to,” Whit-low said.

The topic for the firstevent is “Old School vs. NewSchool Hip Hop.”

Different types of emcee-battles will be featured at

each event, and the best MCwill receive a prize. A panelof judges and disc jockeyswill talk about differences inhip hop and how it hasevolved.

“The panel of judges andDJs will be guests from theWRFL radio station who allhave a background in hip hopmusic,” Whitlow said.

“International Hip Hop”and “The Role of Women inHip Hop” will be the topicsof the second and thirdevents. These two events willbe held on March 23 andApril 9, though the order ofthe two topics is yet to be de-termined.

“Why We Love HipHop” will launch on Jan. 28.All three parts of the serieswill be held at 7 p.m. in theCats Den.

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If You GoWhat: “Why We Love Hip Hop”When: Friday at 7 p.m.Where: Cats DenAdmission: Free

A flier posted throughoutcampus Tuesday designed tolook like an excerpt of a Ker-nel article was not affiliatedwith the Kentucky Kernel inany way. The headline of theflier declaring “Students de-mand climate justice on cam-pus,” was not part of any Ker-nel article and the mastheadwas used without the knowl-edge of Kernel staff.

It was not clear by presstime who posted the fliersaround campus.

The flier said students oncampus opposed to the use of“outdated and unhealthy tech-nology to power classrooms

and facilities” had a “stand-off” with UK President LeeTodd, gave him a list of de-mands and “refused to com-promise” in their mission.

UK spokeswoman GailHairston said the statementsmade in the flier were not true.

“At this point there hasbeen no meeting between stu-dents and the president, and nopresentation of demands hasbeen made,” Hairston said.

The flier said the studentbody “declared a war oncoal” and aims to have allcoal removed from campusby 2015.

— KATIE SALTZ

comes for the course. Last semester,there were 5,939 courses, of which3,755 were evaluated.

The IRPE is the department re-sponsible for collecting the student as-sessments of courses and teachers. Af-ter the evaluations are analyzed, theIRPE sends the results to each partici-pating college’s administration. Sugar-man said after his department sendsout the results, it’s up to each collegeto take action.

If a course or a teacher receivesnegative reviews, it is up to the indi-vidual colleges to decide how to han-dle the situation.

“Its up to the dean and the depart-ment chair of each college,” Sugarmansaid.

The Nursing, Pharmacy, Dentistry,and Law colleges conduct their ownevaluations. Some colleges, such asthe College of Engineering, are re-quired to ask specific questions aboutthe class material.

Sugarman said student evaluationsare good for the university culture tohave student input on courses and pro-fessors. Wendell Fisher, an animal sci-ence freshman, said he believes whathe writes in evaluations can make adifference.

“ … if you don’t take (the evalua-tions) seriously, then you won’t get se-rious results and it matters,” he said.

Some students, however, feel theevaluations are not taken seriously bythe administration. Michael Morgan, afinance and accounting senior, said theevaluations don’t make a differencebecause some teachers never changetheir methods or course work.

“I feel like once (professors) gettenured, it doesn’t matter because cer-tain teachers have been doing the samething for years,” he said.

Results of teacher and course eval-uations can be found on the IRPE Website, www.uky.edu/IRPE.

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“We are committed toproviding all our studentswith diverse educational op-portunities that enhance theirclassroom experience and (to)develop their intellectual cu-riosity,” Russell said. “Engag-ing students in substantive re-search projects stimulatescritical thinking and builds a

strong foundation for ad-vanced research and profes-sional development.”

Electrical engineeringsenior Sam Nicaise said hechose to do his project on thedynamics of building a solarcar because it combines dif-ferent aspects of involvementand is an attractive topic thatgrabs attention.

“We are trying to promotethis idea, and it is especiallyimportant for legislators tounderstand there is potential

here at UK,” Nicaise said.Nicaise said he wants to

show legislators the benefitsfor the state by using solarenergy research and themoney used in this area ofresearch is being spent wise-ly.

“It is so exciting and agreat networking opportuni-ty,” he said. “You meet hun-dreds of students who haveput a lot of time into it and itis a great opportunity to seeresearch, technology and peo-

ples’ passion.”Mechanical engineering

sophomore Amber Gay willpresent a poster on friction stirwelding. Gay wants to helpKentuckians understand theimportance of friction stirwelding, which is cheaper, lessharmful and better for the en-vironment than regular weld-ing.

“I am really excited totalk to my representative andshow them what I have beenup to,” Gay said.

POSTERSContinued from page 1

save at least half of the price the booksnormally sell for,” Martin said.

However, some bookstores sellingtextbooks instead of renting argue thesavings is little to nonexistent.

“For a simple example, say a newtextbook sells for $100,” said CarolBehr, general manager of KennedyBookstore. “Rentals typically charge42 to 46 percent of the sale price, andat the end of the semester there is nooption to keep it. If we know the pro-fessor will be using the book next se-mester, we’ll buy it back for half theoriginal price, in this case $50.”

Behr said Kennedy’s looked at acontract for renting books at the begin-ning of Fall 2009, but felt it wouldserve no benefit for students.

“There are hidden policies and stip-ulations, such as what condition thebook must be returned in, and if it islost or stolen, the student may findthemselves paying double the originalprice,” Behr said. “There was a trend inrenting 16 to 20 years ago, but it didn’twork well because of obstacles thatcame with it. Now, with the currenteconomic situation, students are startingto explore renting as an option again,

but it’s not economically viable.”Despite the upfront savings in cost,

some students still prefer purchasingtextbooks over renting because of thefreedom ownership allows them.

“The reason I don’t rent is becauseI like writing in the books and usingthem in the following semesters,” saidelectrical engineering sophomorePhilip Morris. “Many of my books fol-low directly into the new courses, soit’s good to be able to look back at oldrules.”

Although Kennedy’s currentlydoes not offer textbook renting as anoption, they haven’t dismissed the ideaentirely.

“I won’t say that we’ll never renttextbooks,” Behr said. “If it seemedlike a viable option that would helpstudents and became very popular,then we’d probably do it.”

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EVALUATIONSContinued from page 1

PHOTO BY ADAM WOLFFBRANDT | STAFFStudents pass a flier posted near White Hall Classroom Buildingcontaining false information of a meeting with President Todd.

The UK men’s basketballteam got the chance to speakwith President Barack Obamaa little earlier than most No. 1ranked teams.

The Cats fielded a callfrom Obama early Tuesday af-ternoon. The presidentthanked the team for raisingover $1 million in disaster re-lief efforts with their “Hoopsfor Haiti” campaign and con-gratulated them on becomingthe top-ranked team in thecountry.

Freshman forward DeMar-cus Cousins told the presidenthe was looking forward to vis-

iting the White House after theseason, referencing the trip toWashington D.C. that nationalchampions traditionally make,according a UK athletics blogpost. Freshman guard JohnWall challenged Obama to agame of “horse,” and juniorforward Patrick Pattersonthanked the president for pro-viding a source of inspirationfor the team.

The team raised more than$500,000 during a telethon.Matching funds pushed thattotal to over $1 million.

— BEN JONES

Obama speaks toCats before game

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“ ... if you don’t take (theevaluations) seriously, then

you won’t get serious resultsand it matters. ”

WENDELL FISHERanimal science freshman

Campus flier gives false information

“I won’t say that we’ll neverrent textbooks. If it seemedlike a viable option ... then

we’d probably do it.”CAROL BEHR

general manager of Kennedy Bookstore

I am part of an organi-zation that is spending your

money. Because

of this fact,my organi-zation feelsthat it isimportantto commu-nicate whatwe are do-ing withthat money.

The or-ganization

about I am talking is theStudent Sustainability Com-mittee, a group of studentscharged with spending thestudent fee for sustainabili-ty.

Our creation is an epictale, full of deception, bro-ken hearts and eventuallyvictory over the forces ofobstinance. Suffice it tosay that we grew out of aselect committee formed bylast year’s Student Govern-ment President, Tyler Mon-tell.

This select committeewrote a constitution and se-lected the members of theSSC from diverse organiza-tions which truly representthe voice of all students atUK.

After this group was putin place, the UK Board ofTrustees and the Councilfor Postsecondary Educa-tion in Frankfort agreed toput a Environmental Stu-dent Fee in place, chargingthe SSC with spending it.

Since the beginning ofthe semester, we have beenhard at work ensuring yourmoney is used in a waywhich benefits all students;providing opportunities forgifted students to do mean-ingful work, giving UK stu-dents the chance to seerenowned speakers and sup-plementing programs oncampus which actuallywork.

In September, the SSCpartnered with SAB tobring Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.to campus. Mr. Kennedygave UK students and Lex-ington residents a lot offood for thought. The eventwas a success, and we wereproud to have worked withSAB to bring such an im-portant public figure tocampus to give a great lec-ture.

Also this year, SSC hasfunded an internship.Stephanie Hopkins, a biolo-gy and anthropology senior,has been working on astorm water mitigation proj-ect which may eventuallyplace rain barrels acrossUK’s campus. By the endof the year, we will have anoperation pilot site at theGaines Center on NorthCampus.

Finally, we have alsopartnered with the ResidentStudent Association and SGto expand the WildcatWheels Bicycle Library.Since its inception, thisbike fleet program has beenimmensely popular across

campus and this year wewere able to liquidate thecity of Lexington’s yellowbike library for a very smallfee, which we were happyto take part in paying.These bicycles will giveseveral students a chance totake part in a mode oftransportation which is bothhealthy and good for theenvironment.

We were busy last se-mester and we aren’t aboutto stop. We already haveanother intern selected towork on a renewable energyproject, and we have plansto bring author Jeff Biggersto campus to speak aboutcoal and Appalachia.

We hope you approve of

the way which we arespending your money. How-ever you feel, we wouldlove to hear from you. Doyou have a great idea aboutwhat SSC should do next?Do you want to know howyou can get involved withsustainability on campus?Do you just want to let usknow how we are doing?Feel free to send us an e-mail atukysustain@gmail.com.

The only reason theSSC exists is because ofstudents. You are our boss-es. We would love to hearfrom you.

Robert Kahne is a publicpolicy graduate student. E-mail opinions@kykernel.com.

WILLIAM KILUBA, Kernel cartoonist

Student inputimportant foropen position

Campus, guess what? It’s cool to care again. We knowit’s hard, what with the harsh weather and all. Classes havestarted up, your schedules are filling up and you don’tknow when you’ll have time to catch up on last season’s“LOST” before the premiere tonight.

We have a proposition for you, though.On Friday, the Kernel ran an article regarding the nar-

rowing down of candidates for the open vice president forStudent Affairs position. This position, once filled, will af-fect anyone who sees themselves attending UK next year.

This person will make decisions that affect each andevery student who attends this university. From parking tomeal plans, Greek life and student involvement, the vicepresident for Student Affairs will oversee every aspect ofstudent life. It only makes sense that you, the student, getsto know who might be shaking things up for you in thenext few years.

Luckily, the university is giving both the students andthe candidates a chance to get to know each other.

In an e-mail sent out to the university on Thursday,Provost Kumble Subbaswamy informed the campus of thefour candidates who had been selected to come to campusand listed the dates of the four forums that students and staffcould attend. The first forum scheduled for Jan. 28 withDavid Parrot of Texas A&M University, and students, facul-ty and staff should make it a priority to attend.

Like we said, it’s cool to care again. At least, we’d liketo see students care about this issue. The Office of StudentAffairs and the position of vice president for Student Af-fairs — one spot below Provost Subbaswamy — are theadministrative point of contact for students.

Get informed, give feedback. Let us know what youthink of the candidates. Attend the forums and write in. Ifyou’ll be attending UK in the fall, get to know these candi-dates. The Kernel plans to be there. Hopefully you do, too.

Faceless fliers irresponsible, ridiculousI would like to thank whomever it

was that reported our student body hasdeclared war on coal with the fluores-

cent fliers that wereduct taped to anythingpossible on Tuesdaymorning.

I was certainly un-aware of this declara-tion, as I’m sure themajority of the studentbody was also. As astudent in mining andengineering, I don’twant the student bodyto be misled or misin-formed about a sub-

ject related to my major. So, let’s clearthings up.

The student body has not declaredwar on anything. Coal is America’smost readily available, least expensiveand most abundant fossil fuel resource.

Burning coal generates over halfof our nation’s electricity, 90 percentof Kentucky’s electricity and givespower to all the classrooms and facili-ties on our campus.

One statement from the flier said,“Students on UK’s campus have band-ed together in solidarity to relay to theuniversity’s administration how ardent-ly they oppose the use of outdated andunhealthy technology …”

Seriously, let’s cut the crap. Theonly thing our students have been soardently about is Kentucky basketball.

“Outdated and unhealthy”? Last time

I checked America, China, India, Russia,etc., share the same atmosphere and it isan absolute fact that coal produced inAmerica is more environmentally friend-ly, cleaner burning and extracted in asafer manner than in any other nation.

If you nameless protesters are sotruly concerned about our environmentwhy do you continue to attack the U.S.coal industry? Better yet, why did youall waste all that paper for fliers?

If your actual motive was envi-ronmental protection, you would pro-mote more mining in the U.S. andmore exports to foreign nations in anattempt to slow production in coun-tries that have less regulation or noregulations.

The environmental movement inAmerica is so disconnected with realitythat they support technologies that willkill more jobs. These ideas in mostcases completely lack any form ofpracticality and most importantly lackthe ability to improve anything.

We’ll take an idea off the flier sinceit has a picture of a windmill. You pro-mote windmills as the savior of our en-ergy needs, yet you forget the fact thatlarge windmills are constructed fromsteel. In case you haven’t heard, steel isthe combination of iron ore and carbon— the carbon comes from coke that isproduced solely from coal.

You claim coal mining destroysthe natural landscape and the moun-tains, while coal miners rebuild themountains once operations cease.

Your windmills, however, are per-manent installations, and I for onewould rather see a reclaimed mountainthat has growing, thriving vegetationon it rather than a treeless mound cov-ered with steel blades.

Your windmill solution is not onlyridiculous, but it contradicts everythingyou claim to want to fix by the simplefact of the need for steel.

The current environmental move-ment is the nation’s largest group of ig-norant people that follow lawyers andpoliticians from cities and states thatwere built on and with coal and cannotcontinue to prosper without coal. Youare a group of hypocrites that use coaland coal by-products every hour ofevery day for your way of life.

As far as I’m concerned if you tru-ly wish to discuss an end to coal min-ing you, should go to your house, cutyour electricity off, quit driving yoursteel-framed car, women should quitusing cosmetics (they are made fromcoal by-products), remove all steelfrom your home, then remove practi-cally everything else from your homedue to the fact that coal energy or coalsteel was used in the manufacturing ofpractically everything you have.

Do all of that, then you can go printoff a bunch of fliers, until then youshould keep your ignorant, misinformed,and harmful conclusions to yourself.

Chance Robertson is a mining andengineering junior. E-mailopinions@kykernel.com.

Committee success requires campus feedback

Experience abroadextremely beneficial

When students goabroad, they often face a cul-ture shock when they arrive

in theirdestination.What aboutreverse cul-ture shock?

Howare yousupposedto copewith thefact thatyou left be-hind anoth-er life in

another country, especially ifyou enjoyed your life abroadeven better?

When I arrived inPoland, my living condi-tions were not what I wasused to. I didn’t have theluxury of my car and Istayed in a tiny room,something I hadn’t donesince freshman year.

Having to walk every-where, being forced to befar more independent andnot having the best livingconditions all had a positiveimpact on me. I was able toavoid everyday stressesfrom home such as trafficjams, parking tickets andlong work hours. These sim-ple differences also allowedme to save my money.

The lifestyle was justmore relaxed and didn’t re-ally require too much. I waseven able to enjoy simpleeveryday tasks like reading agood book or cooking din-ner with some friends.

In Poland, the Americanlifestyle is viewed as stress-ful and fast paced. There isnothing wrong with beinghard-working, but we justget so caught up with vari-ous demands that we forgetto enjoy life.

In addition to the ap-pealing, simplified lifestyle,the interaction I had withindividuals from othercountries was unforgettable.I was able to hear aboutways other people live andabsorb their different cul-tures. Knowing what is go-ing on in the world andmeeting people from othercountries is crucial to ob-taining a bigger perspectiveon issues.

We are constantly affect-ed by what is going on inother countries, so keepingup with current events isnecessary. Even a brief dis-cussion with someone whohas another point of viewallows for more understand-ing and opens up options.

We are so fortunate tohave so many students oncampus from differentplaces and we should takeadvantage of their presence.We constantly study andlearn about different cul-tures, so why not interact?

While there were manypositives about beingabroad, there were plentyof things I missed, especial-ly family and friends.

I also missed having ac-cess to everything, includingsimple conveniences oncampus such as the UK li-braries and the ability tocheck out a book and take ithome. Our campus is solucky to have a library open24 hours a day, five days aweek. You don’t realize howconvenient things are in thestates until you’re not there.

The way to deal with areverse culture shock is totry to combine the twolifestyles.

Keep in touch with peo-ple from abroad, which isnot difficult thanks to tech-nology. Stay informed onevents from all over theworld simply by just keep-ing up with the news every-day. Get involved. Numer-ous organizations and clubson campus focus on othercountries and constantlyhave events. Finally, if theopportunity comes along toreturn to that country, thentake it!

Sylvia Miga is an inter-national studies junior. E-mail opinions@kykernel.com.

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Despite a strong performance by freshmanforward DeMarcus Cousins and a second halfthat saw UK freshmen score all 33 of theCats’ points, UK couldn’t contain Downey.

The No. 1 Cats (19-1, 4-1 SoutheasternConference) went to Cousins from the begin-ning of the game to the end. Going up againsta smaller South Carolina team, Cousins wasthe focus and wanted the ball constantly. Hefinished with 27 points and a dozen rebounds.

“No. 1 is not a championship,” Cousinssaid. “We’re playing for a championship.”

The Gamecocks, led by Downey, theSEC’s leading scorer, stayed with the Catsthroughout the first half, never letting UKstretch its lead to more than seven. The Catsled for most of the first half after taking anearly lead on a 3-pointer from freshman guardJohn Wall.

Downey wouldn’t let the Gamecocks fadeaway, though. He scored half of South Caroli-na’s 26 points in the first half and drew foulafter foul on UK’s guards.

But he wasn’t done there. Downeystretched the lead to four on a backdoor cutand layup over the outstretched hands of

freshman forward Daniel Orton with 15:36 toplay.

After a Sam Muldrow jump shot overCousins made the score 39-33, the Cats wenton an 14-3 run where they scored on five con-secutive possessions, highlighted by a Wall 3-pointer at the 11:45 mark that caused a time-out by South Carolina coach Darrin Horn.Chants of “Go Big Blue” ignited inside a rab-id Colonial Life Arena.

“My feeling all year has been if it’s closewe’ve got Number 2 (Devan Downey) andwe’ve got a shot,” Horn said.

The two teams exchanged baskets throughthe final closing minutes. Downey was fouledand hit a fade-away jump shot with one sec-ond remaining on the shot clock to give SouthCarolina a 54-51 lead. But as the entire gamewent, Cousins had an answer with a fade-away jump shot while being fouled that wentdown to bring the Cats within two.

In the end it was just too much Downeyfor the Cats. The speedy senior had an answerfor every UK basket and was the emotionalleader for a crowd and team that often beat ataller UK squad on the glass throughout thegame.

“Their offensive rebounding was it,” Cali-pari said. “… If we offensive rebound or keepthem from offensive rebounding we stillwould have won the game.”

haps the most powerful manin the world.

But every day, theseplayers can find distractions.One game, it may be a par-ticularly rowdy student sec-tion. Another game, the stu-dent-athletes may havemidterms looming in thebacks of their minds.

Were the Cats playing abit distracted on Tuesday?Never mind the Cats’ chatwith Obama hours beforeESPN-induced 9 p.m. tip.This was UK’s first game asNo. 1.

Simply, this team isn’tgrown up enough to knowhow to play like No. 1. Notyet, at least not on the road.

A team so reliant uponfreshmen (only freshmenscored for UK in the secondhalf Tuesday) has to learn asit goes. So far, the Cats havedone as good a job as is pos-sible at just that. But playingas the nation’s top team isn’tsomething they’ve had tolearn quite yet. Until Mondaywhen UK officially wasbumped up to No. 1 status,this team played with the we-think-we’re-the-best chip onits shoulder.

All of a sudden, everyoneelse thought they were thebest, too. Now what?

It looks like they’ll goback to having to prove whatthey believe.

Nobody should believethe Cats are any worse than

they were when they left Lex-ington on Monday. SouthCarolina came in inspired, ledby one of the nation’s premierplayers. Devan Downey, littlebut loud, put up Kobe-likefigures: 30 points on 9-of-29from the floor.

Downey’s 31-percent per-formance was fine, though,because the nine shots thatfell went with great timingand significance. In most cas-es, the shots he missed wereroutine. The ones he made,spectacular. By the looks ofit, he wasn’t about to losethat game.

UK didn’t play with quitethe same urgency.

“This is what happens toa young team,” said UKcoach John Calipari, who losthis first game since his Mem-phis team lost to Syracuse onDec. 20, 2008.

Even though the Cats lostthat bagel from the loss col-umn Tuesday, teams won’tapproach them with any lessfervor.

From here on out, itwon’t be any different.

James Pennington is ajournalism senior. E-mailjpennington@kykernel.com.

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PHOTOS BY BRITNEY MCINTOSH | STAFFDeMarcus Cousins wrestles for a rebound with a South Carolina player. Cousins carried the Cats in thesecond half.

South Carolina senior Devin Downey celebrates during the Game-cocks’ win over No. 1 UK. Downey led the Gamecocks with 30 pointsin the upset.