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By Morgan VanCliefnews@kykernel.com

With a new semester, new class-es and new loads of homework, stu-dents are having trouble thinking ofanything other than academics. TheStudent Involvement Fair is here toremind everyone that college ismore than just going to class.

“I think it’s the easiest way forstudents to supplement their class-room learning by getting involved,”said Ben Duncan, chief of staff forthe Student Government Associa-tion. “Students can get some real

world experience and start workingwith others.”

The Student Involvement Fairwill be held on Wednesday andThursday from 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.on the first floor of White Hall Class-room Building.

Thirty organizations will havebooths set up on one or both of thedays. Tables will be set up around theperimeter with signs and posters ad-vertising each organization.

This year, the fair is hoping tobecome part of the traffic of a nor-mal student’s day.

“(The) Classroom Building is

usually a pretty packed place, espe-cially when it’s cold outside,” saidAnna Hays, SG deputy chief of staffof organization outreach. “Wewould like to use this as an educa-

tional opportunity to share informa-tion about upcoming events andmembership opportunities.”

UK is home to more than 350student organizations, all covering awide range of interests.

In the past, spring involvementfairs have been held in the StudentCenter, but Hays wants to bring in-volvement on campus without forc-ing students to go out of their way.

Hays said being part of a studentorganization means more than justadding another line to your resume.

“Often students would encour-age people to become involved be-

cause it’s a resume builder, but Iwould say it’s an experience thatwill give you a chance to grow pro-fessionally while maximizing yourexperience as a student,” Hays said.

The fair gives a chance for stu-dents to be reminded of the impor-tance of being involved, Hays said.

“It’s important to be a part of astudent organization because it pre-pares you for what’s next in life. Itmaximizes your time at UK. Itgives you a chance to meet newpeople and try new things,” Hayssaid. “There really is an opportuni-ty for everyone.”

Involvement fair encourages adding to college experienceIf you go

What: Student Involvement FairWhen: Wednesday and Thursday, 10a.m. to 1:30 p.m.Where: White Hall Classroom Build-ingAdmission: Free

Snow, low temperatures cause late cancellationsBy Roy York

ryork@kykernel.com

Instead of carrying just thenormal backpack across cam-pus Monday afternoon, chem-ical engineering freshman NicJohnson was carrying a pair ofskis and poles.

Johnson lives in Blanding IIon South Campus and said hewas in his third hour of classes atabout 3:30 p.m. and had beenskiing to class all day.

By 10 a.m. Monday, Lexing-ton had received around threeinches of fresh powder, andmany roads in the downtownarea were covered with snow.UK officials decided not to can-

cel or delay classes and remainedon a normal schedule despite theinclement weather.

Johnson said skiing fromhis dorm to the ChemistryPhysics Building, located at505 Rose St., took him about10 minutes, and he was notworried about the sidewalksscuffing his skis because hewas getting a new pair.

“I’m a little pissed that westill had to go to class andevery other school was can-celed ... but it’s understand-able,” he said.

Vice President for PublicSafety Anthany Beatty saidthe decision not to cancelclasses was made before 6

a.m. when road conditionswere not dangerous, but hesaid weather conditionschanged rapidly after 7 a.m.and forced officials to rethinkthe decision.

At approximately 10 a.m.on Monday, UK removed thebanner on its Web site tellingstudents that the universitywas open and on a regularschedule. Then at approxi-mately 12:30 p.m., UK Alertsent out e-mails, text mes-sages and phone calls statingMonday classes after 5 p.m.were canceled.

“We try to make the bestdecision for the campus,”Beatty said. “The forces of na-

ture changed very rapidly thismorning … It changed soquickly on us that we didn’thave time to delay classes orcancel classes at that time.”

While UK remained openand classes were in session de-spite heavy snow and highwinds, UK spokeswoman GailHairston was having no part of it.

Because of the worseningconditions, Hairston said shecould not make it to work anddecided to work from home.

Wind gusts in the Lexing-ton area were as high as 31miles per hour, according tothe National Weather Service,

See Weather on page 6

PHOTO BY SCOTT HANNIGAN | STAFFUK students trudged through harsh weather conditions to get toclasses on Monday.

Dialogue openat council’s

‘family’ meetingBy Derek Craigmylenews@kykernel.com

Changing the way UK students live ison the agenda for Tuesday’s Lexington-Fayette Urban County Council meeting.The council will discuss possible changesto the definition of the word “family.”

Lexington attorney Richard Murphyrecently wrote a letter to the council in re-

sponse to the proposedchanges.

“The council is con-sidering limitations onwhere students can liveunder the zoning ordi-nance,” Murphy said.

This would mean therewould be a limit on the num-

ber of people who could share a household, hesaid.

There will be no vote at the Tuesdaymeeting, but a public comment section isscheduled.

Student Government President RyanSmith said he encourages students to at-tend this meeting because he said the pro-posal will impact UK students if it ispassed.

“It’s hard to tell when something willbe passed ... it’s important for all students,particularly those off campus, to be in-formed about issues [that could affectthem],” he said.

The proposal would make off-campusliving considerably different, as the defini-tion of the word “family” would change.Under the ordinance, “family” would bedefined as: “any number of people relatedby blood, marriage, or guardianship; or nomore than four unrelated people; or twounrelated people and their dependents; orfour or less people who reside together inone household and eat meals together.”

This would stop UK students planningon living with five or more unrelated peo-ple from being able to do so unless they geta permit from the Board of Adjustment.

To get a permit, roommates wouldhave to fill out an application six weeksprior to moving in, and they would haveto have a public hearing to determinewhether they were a “functional family”of five or more people.

Currently, people who share commoncooking facilities are considered a family.This has been the definition for the past 30years.

“There will be more hearings, butthey’re rushing this because April 15 is

See Council on page 6

High-tech heart attackBy Brandon Goodwin

news@kykernel.com

At 11:40 a.m on Friday, Henry Wall goesinto ventricular fibrillation and his heart stopsbeating.

In seconds, five nursing students step intoaction, working to give CPR. The first studentprepares medication, two students work tolower the bedside rails, and the others initiatechest compressions, while counting out loud to30. Nothing changes. They resort to the defib-rillator.

“Clear!” yells Ryan Bowlds, a nursing sen-ior, waiting until the staff backs away fromWall.

Two hundred volts charge through him.Still nothing. Bowlds switches back to CPR,but their revival efforts are inadequate. Timewanes. They set the defibrillator to 300 volts.

This time, Wall’s chest rises. Vital signs re-turn to normal, and Bowlds and his team takea breath. Their training is complete.

Henry Wall is a robot. A teaching tool for senior nursing students,

Wall is commonly known as SimMan. He isone of five robots at the College of Nursingthat can simulate anything as simple as breath-ing to more complex tasks like cardiac arrest,dying and even giving birth.

“That’s a good day’s work,” said PaulaKral, part of a team of simulation experts incharge of the scenario. “So now let’s look back

and try to problem solve how this might havegone better.”

Down the hallway from the simulationroom, 44 other senior nursing studentswatched the exercise on two projectors: onedisplaying a live video stream of the hospitalroom, and the other a shot of SimMan’s vitalsigns. While the test students worked, theirpeers critiqued the team’s every move.

The students are given a second runthrough of the scenario, and with near flawlessexecution Bowlds and the others are wel-comed back into the classroom with applause.

“So what did we like about our team’s per-formance?” said Darlene Welsh, assistant pro-fessor in the College of Nursing.

Students responded with appreciation ofthe teamwork shown.

“That’s right,” Welsh said. “They wereworking and thinking and problem solving to-gether. That’s why they got it on the first try.”

Nursing senior Amy Crush said she feltstressed just watching the demonstration.

“Just by watching the first round and themimproving so much on the second round, thatis really going to prepare us well,” Crush said.“The whole time I was sitting in there thinkingthat I wanted to do it. I am a hands-on learner,and this is extremely hands-on.”

Nursing senior Anne Eifler said studentsusually work on dummies during this part oftheir curriculum, but the robots are more help-ful.

“ … I like that he talks back to you, andyou can physically see his stats dropping, andhe tells you how he feels,” Eifler said.

Mary Jayne Miller, coordinator for theclinical simulations facility at UK, is the headof the simulations department, which consistsof more than 10,000 square feet of labs andclassrooms dedicated to training nursing stu-dents.

Becoming the first university in the state toown human simulators, the College of Nursingpurchased SimMan in May 2001. Even now,the price tag is steep.

Miller said UK’s College of Nursing

PHOTOS BY ADAM WOLFFBRANDT | STAFFNursing seniors (left to right) Anne Eifler, Ryan Bowlds and Tim Cunningham work with SimMan to bring him out of ventricular fibrillation.

Lawless

DIALING LONG DISTANCE: DeMarcus Cousins receives unexpected phone calls See page 6

Senior nursing students get hands-on training using robotic patients

SimMan is a $100,000 interactive human simula-tor capable of breathing, dying and responding toactions performed by students.

See Nursing on page 6

What: Lexington-Fayette Urban CountyCouncil meeting When: Tuesday at 1 p.m.Where: Government Building, 200 E. MainStreetAdmission: Free

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Do people in Hollywood make too much?

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There are not enough communists in Hollywood.Do I have your attention? Well, I didn't really mean

it. This is not a political column.What I really mean is that there are not enough so-

cialists in Hollywood.Feel better?Seriously, I don't care about the politics of Holly-

wood, but I do care about the economics of Hollywood.I think it's time to spread the wealth.How much money do these people need?It might just be my particular perspective, as an

underpaid print journalist, but it seems that some peo-ple in Hollywood are making too much money in thiseconomy.

That's right; we may live in a capitalistic society, butthat doesn't mean that the privileged class in Hollywoodshould make so much more than teachers, doctors or abartender who can mix a perfect martini.

OK, you're probably wondering what got me allworked up? It was an article in Vanity Fair's annual Holly-wood issue — the one with the cover photo by AnnieLeibowitz of the nine whitest young actresses in thebusiness. Apparently, there are no promising Hispanic,Asian or black actresses.

Anyway, I digress from my socialism argument.In "Hollywood's Top 40," writer Peter Newcomb has

compiled a list of the 40 biggest money-makers during2009.

Heading the list is director Michael Bay, who report-edly made $125 million last year, due in large part to hisinvolvement in the film "Transformers: Revenge of theFallen." The movie grossed more than $800 millionworldwide, and Bay had a significant piece of that sub-stantial pie.

That $125 million wasn't his upfront salary. Like somany big stars, directors and producers these days, he

received "back-end profit participation," which meansthat he got paid a percentage of the profits. The down-side would come into play if the movie was a flop, butthe success of the first "Transformers" almost guaranteeda huge payday for the sequel. The director took in $75million for directing and producing the film, $28 millionfor his share of the DVD revenue and $12.5 million forthe merchandising profits.

Director Steven Spielberg was second on the list (hemade $50 million just from an annual royalty and con-sulting deal he signed with Universal theme parks in1987), and "Harry Potter's" Daniel Radcliffe was the high-est-ranking actor on the list ($41 million).

Interestingly, "Avatar" director James Cameron wasonly 4th ($50 million), but that was calculated when hismovie had made a mere $830 million. Its worldwidegross has now exceeded $2.2 billion, so we can assumethat he has made at least $150 million, with much moreto come.

You're probably thinking that these people deserveto be compensated for their talent and hard work. Idon't disagree. But once you've made your first $20 mil-lion in any given year, how much money do you reallyneed?

And I believe that many of these people wouldagree with me — at least in principle.

I've been interviewing movie people for more thantwo decades, and I can assure you that not a single per-son on the Vanity Fair list would call themselves a busi-nessman. Trust me; they all call themselves "artists," andI would like to know what happened to the idea of a"starving artist?" Or the concept of "suffering for theirart?" Or "I'm not in this for the money."

People who say they're not in it for the money arealready rich.

Features

Couture comes to Cats DenAs models parade down the runway display-

ing world-renowned designers’ collections atNew York City’s Fashion Week, students at UK

are inspired to do the same.Aside from the week-

end when Hollywood’smost elite arrive for the an-nual Kentucky Derby intheir exquisite khakis, pas-tels and extravagant hats,Kentucky’s initial impres-sion on someone from theoutside looking in isn’t ex-actly a fashion-safe haven.

As out-of-state studentsarrive to Lexington from

big cities such as Chicago, New York orCincinnati, finding fashionable items can seemintimidating and far-fetched. Students oftenseek out other means of finding fashionableclothing by either going to other city malls oreven shopping online.

“I shop online for several reasons … a lot ofthe stores I shop at aren’t located here, like For-ever 21 and Bakers,” said Jamisha Robinson, amerchandising, apparel and textiles sophomore.

Although not the nation’s fashion capital, thecity of Lexington and UK are taking steps to-ward a more fashionable tomorrow. DowntownLexington has many quaint boutiques to browsethrough, and Fayette Mall is aiming at gettingmore fashion-forward stores like Forever 21.

Along with bringing fashion to a forefrontin the city of Lexington, the Student Activi-ties Board is bringing it to UK’s campus forthe second year in a row.

Bravo’s hit television series “Project Run-

way,” hosted by supermodel Heidi Klum, hasfilled both living rooms and dorms the like overthe past few years. Now in its seventh season,“Project Runway” intrigues viewers to knowwhat really goes into producing a garment.

Recognizing a slight void in the diversity ofactivities available to students, SAB decided toadd their own flare to “Project Runway,” andcreate Project Catwalk.

“We were motivated to start a fashion com-petition based off the show’s model because wehad been thinking about all of the differentpockets of students and student interests,” saidKaty Hall, pop culture director of SAB.

Similarly to “Project Runway,” designersare given tasks, and their models present theirdesigns in a runway show; each task is to becompleted over about a three week period.

Project Catwalk has provided an outlet forcreativity among students on UK’s campus.

“There are a lot of really creative peopleon campus, and I think more and more peopleare stepping out fashion-wise,” Hall said.

The next Project Catwalk will be on Feb.22 in the Cats Den at 8 p.m. The challengewill be “Wildcat Couture.”

Shelisa Melendez is a journalism junior.E-mail features@kykernel.com.

SHELISAMELENDEZ

Kernelcolumnist

If you go

What: Project Catwalk: Wildcat CoutureWhen: Feb. 22 at 8 p.m.Where: Cats DenAdmission: Free

Tuesday, February 16, 2010 | PAGE 3

By Nick Craddockncraddock@kykernel.com

The UK women’s basket-ball team has exceeded allpreseason expectations.Therefore, it seems only fit-ting junior forward VictoriaDunlap has done the exactsame thing.

Dunlap’s performancesfor No. 16 UK (21-4, 9-3Southeastern Conference)have her flying under theradar as an SEC Player of theYear candidate.

The buzz around theleague finally seems to besinking in for Dunlap, theonly player in the SEC torank in the top five in bothscoring (17.7 points pergame) and rebounding (8.7boards per game).

“I haven’t talked about itin the past. I mean, it’s kindof been going in and out ofmy mind, just thinkingthere’s a possibility that Icould be (Player of theYear),” Dunlap said. “But if Ido or if I don’t, it would benice that people recognizethat I can play.”

Not only does Dunlaprank in the top five in offen-sive statistics, such as scoringand rebounding, but she alsoleads the league in steals andranks in the top five inblocked shots.

All these statistics equalone dominant post player inDunlap, who, like her team asa whole, was not receiving

much preseason praise. Boththe coaches and the media didnot select Dunlap as a first-team All-SEC selection.

Opponents are beginningto take notice of Dunlap,however, as 25 games intothe season Dunlap has regis-tered double figures in all butone game, tallied seven dou-ble-doubles, three SEC Playerof the Week awards and hasled her team in scoring andrebounding in 12 games.

Even Dunlap’s coachhadn’t quite thought of justhow well she’d been playinguntil recently.

UK head coach MatthewMitchell said UK’s secondgame against Arkansas onFeb. 7, was the lightbulb-over-the-head moment forhim because Dunlap hadmade some plays she hadn’tbefore.

“(Dunlap’s) a rare combi-nation of a person that is ex-tremely gifted and extremelytalented,” Mitchell said. “Alot of times my experience asa coach is that people willrely on that and not alwayspush themselves as hard asthey can.”

The opposite seems to betrue for Dunlap, who is sali-vating to get a full summer towork on her game, specifical-ly ball handling and shooting15-footers and outside shots,she said.

Dunlap’s statistics haveimproved in each of her threeyears in Lexington, and if her

past efforts are any indica-tion, more improvementshould be in store for the fu-ture. This past summer Dun-lap set out to improve herfree-throw shooting and lead-ership skills.

“It’s been vocally (lead-ing) in practice and some-times in the games,” saidDunlap of her role as a leader.“But it’s still mostly perform-ance, leading through exam-ple, but vocally, I’ve emergedfrom my little shell.”

As for the free-throw

shooting, Dunlap has trans-formed from a 40 percentshooter as a freshman to the14th ranked free-throwshooter in the SEC at 68 per-cent.

“Good players in thisleague are either very talentedor they work extremelyhard,” Mitchell said. “Thegreat players in this leagueare players that have the com-bination of being very talent-ed and having a great workethic … Victoria has a chanceto be just that.”

Dunlap emerging as conferencePlayer of the Year candidate

Junior for-ward Victo-ria Dunlapgets a lay-up againstFlorida inMemorialColiseum.Dunlap is adarkhorsePlayer ofthe Yearcandidate inthe South-easternConference.

PHOTO BYZACH BRAKESTAFF

Bringing it all together: Season windingdown but heating up for Cool Cats

By Chandler Howardchoward@kykernel.com

The curtain is closing on the regularseason for the UK hockey team. As itdoes, the team is searching to regaincomposure and attain its identity after anunstable showing Friday and Saturdaynight.

Fans saw two different teams in themost recent bouts of ice hockey. Theclub split games with Penn State, win-ning 5-3 on Friday and losing 6-1 onSaturday. The Cats, after leading 4-0 en-tering the final period on Friday, felt theoverall intensity and focus levels decline.Penn State made a charge and scoredthree late goals, turning it into a closergame than the team had hoped for.

“We played an impressive 52 minutesof hockey. Unfortunately, the games are60 minutes long,” head coach RobDocherty said. “We need to learn that it isnot over until that final buzzer sounds.”

The concluding minutes of Friday’sgame seemingly carried over to Saturdaynight, sophomore forward Billy Glasssaid. Penn State is currently on the cusp

of making it into the tournament, ranked11th. The top 10 teams in the region ad-vance to tournament play, so the motiva-tion was certainly evident.

“They clearly outworked us,” juniorforward Taylor Vit said. “It was obviousthey wanted the win more than we did.”

The Cool Cats (23-10) now standwith only one team left on the regularseason schedule. Life University will beat the Lexington Ice Center this Fridayand Saturday. Though the weekend’sgames will not count toward the finalseasonal rankings because they will havebeen released before the games. Still, theteam understands what needs to occur.

“It is hard avoiding the mindset thatthese games don’t mean anything rank-wise,” Glass said. “But we still must usethem as a time to work on our chemistryand pin down our strategy for regionals.We cannot take them lightly becausethey are an unranked team.”

The final rankings should be releasedby the end of the week, Docherty said.Docherty, Glass and Vit agreed the lossto Penn State should have little affect ontheir final regional position, which is

currently sixth. This will additionally de-termine the Cats’ tournamentopponent(s). The regional tournamentwill be played in Wooster, Ohio, on Feb.26 and 27.

The entire weekend was not justmediocre for the Cats, though. Seniorforward Daniel Ampleford returned aftersuffering a broken collarbone in mid-No-vember. Glass said Ampleford was oneof the most physical players on the icethroughout both games.

“It is great to have Dan back,” Vitsaid. “Obviously, it will take a little bitof time for him to return to top playingshape, but he played very well and weare all excited to have him back.”

The Cool Cats are now left withpreparation time for the final stretch ofthe season. The Southeast RegionalTournament will remain in the back oftheir minds, however.

“Playing at the regional competitionis a completely different game,” Glasssaid. “We have tested the waters of ouropponents and now we need to focus onour energy on becoming the best teamwe can be going into them.”

Sports

The Cool Cats(23-10) have

one remainingopponent ontheir regular

season sched-ule, Life Univer-sity. The teamswill face off at

the LexingtonIce Center Fri-day and Satur-

day.

PHOTO BYADAM

WOLFFBRANDTSTAFF

Picture this: John Wall slips in thesnow and breaks his ankle. Whileluckily — and I do mean luckily —

this didn’t happen to-day, but realistically,the likelihood thatsomeone on campusbraved the blizzard todisastrous ends isquite high.

While many of uswould value JohnWall’s safety overthat of the averagestudent, it appears theuniversity is even

willing to risk the safety of their all-star by choosing not to cancel classesin adverse weather conditions.

Of course students are alwayslooking for an excuse to get out of at-tending class, but most are enragedwhen a legitimate reason exists andisn’t granted.

Students this morning crossedtheir fingers as they checked UK’sWeb site only to read that classeswould be held as scheduled.

I was shocked when I looked backand forth from my computer screen tomy window that showed evidence ofmany hours of consistent snowfall. Iwas dreading thinking about the trip Iwould have to make to attend all ofmy classes, and I’m sure many othersdid the same thing.

With a wind chill bringing the airtemperature to as low as 1 degreeFahrenheit and snow reaching asmuch as 6 inches in some areas, itseems absurd to think UK would ex-pect its students to endure this weath-er. But in a shock to everyone, UK’sreputation of taking nothing short ofan ice storm to close was only rein-forced.

UK’s officials really need to getprivy to the fact that snow like wehave gotten since Sunday evening re-ally can make conditions dangerous.UK should follow the lead of other

schools and businesses in the area andadvise people to stay home.

According to the Kentucky Trans-portation Cabinet, the roads todayyielded “the worst travel conditions ofthe year” which makes me so glad theuniversity asked all of its staff andstudents to head out and come toclass, regardless of the hazard theweather was presenting.

UK did not decide to cancel classesfor the day, except for those after 5 p.m.

Unfortunately for most studentsthough, this cancellation did littlegood as they trekked through thesnow to get to their classes.

The safety of drivers (both stu-dents and faculty) is something theuniversity needs to take more seriouslyin winter weather situations. When theroads are unplowed, it seems a littlestrange the university demand thateveryone be forced to make their wayto campus on the treacherous roads.

By 11 a.m., many streets were still

unplowed, including Tates CreekRoad and Man O’ War. Commuterstudents and faculty had it tough try-ing to get to campus alone, but oncethey reached campus, their troubleswere far from over.

Students and staff were up to theirankles in snow and though most ofthe campus walkways were salted, thewind deposited fresh layers of snowevery few minutes. For some reason,keeping the school open on a day likeMonday seems like a safety hazardfor more than one reason.

Students all over campus werestunned to find out that they would beforced to weather the elements.

And it’s no wonder since everyonebut the university officials seemed toget the memo that it wasn’t in any-one’s best interest to be out and aboutin this winter weather.

Cami Stump is a journalism andpolitical science sophomore. E-mailopinions@kykernel.com.

MATTHEW STALLINGS, Kernel cartoonist

UK athleticsmust find way to curb scalping

Last year, it was not a problem. This year, it is agrowing trend. Next year, it could be regularity, unlesssomething changes.

The UK men’s basketball team is in the midst of amajor redemption from last year’s implosion, which hasdramatically increased the demand for Cats tickets, notonly affecting general admission tickets, but student tick-ets as well. As a result, both the lottery and scalping havebecome major campus issues.

At the Feb. 8 lottery, tickets were such a hot com-modity that doors to Memorial Coliseum were closed forthe lottery when the crowd reached 8,000.

Such high demand has turned a $5 ticket into one ofthe most valuable commodities in Lexington and broughtabout increased student scalping.

According to a Feb. 11 Kernel article, UK PoliceChief Joe Monroe said UK Police has always dealt withscalpers, but the scalping of student tickets had not reallybeen brought to their attention until recently. Whichmakes sense, because until recently, national title hopeshave not been as realistic.

Monroe said the scalpers could potentially face crimi-nal charges and lose ticket-buying privileges for futureUK sporting events.

“(By scalping) all you’re doing is hurting yourselfand your chances for more lottery tickets in the future,”Monroe said in an announcement at the lottery. “If yougo out there and scalp your ticket tonight, we’re comingafter you and we are going to put criminal charges onyou and take away your chance at tickets in the future.”

Craigslist, eBay and Facebook Marketplace areamong many Web sites where scalpers have taken ticketsonline to exploit loopholes like adding a pair of plasticknives or a T-shirt to sell tickets at face value and garnerthe profit from willing buyers.

It’s hard to blame students for being opportunistic andusing the lottery as a means to buy groceries or even padtheir pockets, but breaking the law is breaking the law,even if someone is willing to pay $90 for a T-shirt.

Clearly, students are dedicated to their Cats — somestudents spend over tenfold for a ticket and they shouldbe rewarded for being great fans. Students must also un-derstand that the hype surrounding the team is at an all-time high, and it may not be possible to get tickets as fre-quently as in the past.

However, moving forward, UK athletics has to thinkof ways to offer seats to the students who make RuppArena one of the most excitable venues in the country sothat students avoid selling tickets for grocery money.

‘Snow bunny’ system unacceptable“Make like a snow bunny ... ”

was what the official UK twitteraccount said this morning, but formyself and most students, the at-tempt at humor simply wasn’t ap-preciated.

UK’s complete inability to em-pathize with the situation that theirstudents and faculty faced thismorning is astounding.

Reasonable students and facultyalike do not expect the school toshut down or delay classes everytime it snows. In most cases, it’sbetter for all parties involved forthe university to simply remainopen and running accordingly.

On days like today though, thatsimply isn’t the case.

I commute to campus five daysa week from Paris, Ky. It’s a 35minute drive, that is largely just asmall hassle.

Driving 1 1/2 hours this morn-ing though, was downright scary.To get to my class on time I leavewhen it’s still fairly dark, thatcombined with the heavy snow andwinds made visibility very low.

Every road from my farm driveto K-Lot was covered in snow andslush. Few cars dared to go above35 miles per hour and almost everysurrounding county school systemwas shut down (Fayette Countywas already scheduled to beclosed).

The excuse that the decision to

operate on a regular schedule wasmade before the snowy weatherhad set in is irrelevant. Situationslike this morning demand adapta-tion and flexibility and announcingmid-day that classes are canceledafter 5 p.m. is not adaptationenough.

Not delaying or cancelingclasses on days like today forcesstudents (and faculty) to decide ifshowing up for lectures to takenotes and receive attendance pointsis worth risking their safety and thesafety of others. That is simply un-acceptable.

Patrick O'Dowdcommunications junior

Not closing university dangerous for all

Evening cancelationsrisk most of campus

The decision to cancel classes after 5 p.m. is almost no differentfrom operating on a regular schedule.

Given the fact that the decision was made between noon and12:30 p.m., and it did not come into effect until 5 hours later, it posesno benefit to the people who wake up early to go to class and work.

The majority of the student population does not have classes af-ter 5 p.m., and most faculty have left or are leaving campus. I un-derstand that UK provides a large portion of the jobs in Lexington,but it does not compensate for the safety of the people.

Today was the worst day of snow by far this semester. The con-dition of the weather at noon will be no different from the weatherat 5 p.m.

Without a doubt, classes should have been canceled for thewhole day.

Jasmin Fosterhuman nutrition sophomore

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‘Fun-loving’ Cousins takes phone calls in stride

By Metz Camfieldmcamfield@kykernel.com

Can you hear me now?With the number of

phone calls UK freshman for-ward DeMarcus Cousins re-ceived the last couple days,one might mistake him forbeing in a phone commercialtesting his service. Many ofthe calls haven’t been veryfriendly, though.

“It started like right afterthe (Tennessee) game,”Cousins said. “I got calledsome N-word ... It kind ofmade me mad in the begin-ning, but now I’m like an-swering the phone holding aconversation with them.”

Following UK’s (24-1, 9-1Southeastern Conference)game against Tennessee onFeb. 13, some Mississippi Statestudents, Cousins believes, gota hold of his phone number.

Cousins said he probablygot 100 phone calls after thegame and close to 1,000 textmessages. Thankfully, he has un-limited text messages, he said.

“Some were racial, andothers were girls like, ‘Let’smake out,’ ” Cousins said. “Idon’t know what to expectfrom Starkville.”

Cousins has been the fo-cus of attention for the studentsection in nearly every roadgame. In Gainesville, Fla., forthe Cats’ matchup against theGators on Jan. 12, fans puteye black over their eyes anda sign saying that Cousins hadelbowed them as well.

The costume and sign be-ing in reference to UK’sgame against Louisville onJan. 2 where Cousins caughtLouisville forward JaredSwopshire with an elbow.

Against South Carolina,the “Garnet Army,” as thestudent section is known,screamed at Cousins for al-most the entire game to try toget in his head, and accusedhim of hitting a student uponleaving the court.

Cousins said this wasn’tthe first time people have got-ten ahold of his phone number,but it has never been this bad.

“They’re just showingtheir ignorance,” Cousins saidabout the racial slurs.

Part of the reason for

Cousins being singled out ishis emotional state on thecourt. Whether it’s toward of-ficials or opposing players,Cousins wearing his emotionson his sleeve has been welldocumented.

But while his on court de-meanor may rub some thewrong way, his off-the-court,goof-around, say-and-wear-what-comes-to-mind statureis loved by the fans.

His patent “Peter Parkerswag” after the games is begin-ning to be mimicked, for whichCousins calls himself a “trend-setter.” His coach loves it, too.

“He’s a fun-loving kid,”UK head coach John Caliparisaid.

Before the Tennesseegame, Cousins wore a head-

band with his nickname“Boogie” on the front. Theequipment manager at UKcame up with the headband,but the officials asked him toremove it before tipoff.Cousins said he will continuetrying to wear it during thegame, joking that by wearingthe headband, perhaps insideout, it might help the officialsrealize when he’s being hit.

“They check (the moni-tor) for everything else,”Cousins said.

“If they see my nameturned around they’ll know Igot fouled.”

On Tuesday, whenCousins and the Cats traveldown to Starkville, Miss., toface Mississippi State, he willbe going up against the SEC’sleading shot blocker and re-bounder in senior forwardJarvis Varnado. Cousins saidhe might slow down a littlebit against Varnado, but most-ly “just play ball.”

In addition to not chang-ing his style of play much,Cousins also said he wouldn’tbe changing his phone num-ber until after the game.

“I want to see what theyhave to say.”

After the winagainst Ten-nessee on Feb.13, UK fresh-man DeMarcusCousinsreceived about100 phonecalls and 1,000text messagesafter someonehe believes tobe a Mississip-pi State fangot ahold ofhis phone num-ber and passedit around.

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and light snow was ex-pected to fall in Lexingtonuntil around 10 a.m. on Mon-day. The National WeatherService said the heaviestsnow will continue to fallalong Interstate 64 and inNorthern Kentucky.

Beatty said he makes arecommendation to the ex-ecutive vice president of theOffice of Finance and Ad-ministration Frank Butlerwho makes the final deci-sion on whether to cancelclasses.

Beatty said information isgathered on road conditionsthrough the Office of Emer-gency Management fromsources such as the NationalWeather Service, UK Police,state officials and the UKPhysical Plant Division, butreminded everyone to keeppersonal safety as the top pri-ority.

“We’d ask that everyoneuse their best judgment onkeeping themselves safe,”Beatty said.

If students felt unsafedriving to campus or going to

class, Beatty said those caseswould have to be handledfrom an academic standpointby professors or other aca-demic officials.

Beatty said even if thedecision is made to cancelclasses and close the univer-sity, each campus divisionwould go to a plan-B sched-ule where essential person-nel would still be expectedto report to campus.

While many students liveon or near campus, other stu-dents dealt with the deterio-rating conditions during theirmorning commute.

In an e-mail to the Ker-nel, UK Parking and Trans-portation Services spokes-woman Chrissie Balding-Tune said UK Parking lists3,609 BCTC and UK stu-dents as holding commuterparking passes. Students whohave commuter passes musthave 60 or more credit hoursand live more than one mileaway from campus.

According to the KentuckyTransportation 511 service, thedriving conditions on Mondaymorning were fair on US 68(Broadway) and US 27(Nicholasville Road/Limestone).

Lisa Rogers, a mechani-cal engineering senior who

lives off Tates Creek Road,said her normal drive toschool takes about 10 to 15minutes

Rogers said the roadswere a little slippery and visi-bility was low early thismorning, but she gave theuniversity an “A for effort.”

“They tried to clear thesidewalks off, but they’re stilla little slippery,” she said. “Itjust makes me wonder whatthey’re going to do tonightsince we’re supposed to gethit again.”

Additional accumulationsof less than one inch are pos-sible through Tuesday morn-ing, according to the NationalWeather Service Web site.

Information about classclosings and delays is avail-able through the UK Website, local news stations andUK Alert.

Beatty said UK Alert wasthe fastest and most efficientway to get emergency infor-mation to students.

“I would highly encour-age students and staff … tosign up for UK Alert,” hesaid. “It will get that informa-tion to you.”

Staff reporter Katie Perkowski contributed to this report

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when the moratoriumcomes in,” Murphy said.

Councilwoman DianeLawless, who represents theUK area, said the Zoning De-partment will give a presenta-tion on the process theamendment would follow andthe Law Department’s sug-

gested language. Lawless said time will

then be set aside for publiccomment.

The meeting is at 1 p.m.at the Government Building,located at 200 E. Main St.

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bought one of the firstgeneration SimMans, and ifthe department were to buy aproduct like it now, it wouldbe a $100,000 investment.She said the two new simula-tors the college just boughtcost $45,000.

“When you are looking atcomputer-driven human be-ings, it takes a lot of money forthat technology,” Miller said.

But to her, the benefitsoutweigh the costs. Over theyears, the nursing departmenthas built SimMan and his fel-low simulators into their cur-riculum. The seniors are notthe only ones getting trainingfrom the robot.

“We are in cooperationwith the Children’s Hospital,and they bring nurses overhere to do simulation eventsfor training purposes,” Millersaid. “I think that will in-crease, and the hospitals aregoing to want more simula-tors to do hands-on training

with the staff.”Training with the simula-

tion equipment starts as earlyas sophomore year, Millersaid. This year, sophomoreswill use SimMan at least twice— a birthing mother simulatoronce and BabySim at leastonce before their junior year.

“I appreciate this,” saidnursing senior DominiqueBaker. “[Without it] I wouldn’tknow what to do. You havethe book of knowledge, butyou really don’t know how itfits into real life situations un-til you are put into one.”

NURSINGContinued from page 1