By Nini Edwardsnews@kykernel.com

College students to retireesdecked out in brightly-colored,metallic beads enjoyed music, foodand beer Tuesday evening as partof Bourbon n’ Toulouse’s Fat Tues-day celebration.

The only music playing was thescreaming of Cajun orders combinedwith the commotion of voices. Theenergetic crowd dressed in a mix ofcasual wear, massive amounts offlashy beads or a feathery maskstood elbow-to-elbow to get their fillof more than 250 pounds of crawfishand other Cajun dishes.

Customers were greeted with$2 keg beer after finally squeezingthrough the jam-packed door. Peo-ple like Dickey Lyons, former UKfootball player, could not resist thearoma of butter and beer that filledthe restaurant.

“Bourbon and Toulouse is thebest restaurant in Lexington, handsdown,” he said.

As Lyons and two friendsfeasted on what looked like an en-tire weeks worth of crawfish, theyenjoyed the calmer side of theevent, eating their meal in ChevyChase Inn next door. While con-

suming his crawfish at a steadypace, Lyons expressed his affectiontoward the local Cajun eatery.

“Walk into Bourbon andToulouse and let the good timesroll,” Lyons said.

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Definition of‘family’ remains

up in the airBy Allie Garza

agarza@kykernel.com

For residents living nearUK, the definition of familycould forever effect howmany students will live in theneighborhoods surroundingthe university.

The Lexington-FayetteUrban County GovernmentCouncil met Tuesday to dis-cuss the definition of familyand the density issues affect-ing the districts in the greaterLexington area.

The definition of family,according to the original hous-ing ordinance, is that of a per-son who lives alone, or two ormore persons living togetheras a single housekeeping unitwho use common kitchen fa-cilities. This does not includefraternity or sorority houses,community residences, board-ing or lodging houses or othersimilar buildings.

Many who reside in theneighborhoods surroundingUK do not meet the above de-scription.

Council members dis-cussed how Building Inspec-tion is currently sending outnotices to property ownerswho they’ve received com-plaints about regarding thenumber of adults living to-gether.

“The thing we’re dealingwith isn’t about students,”said 3rd district council-woman Diane Lawless. “It’sabout density.

“In retrospect, instead of

this being a student housingtask force, it should havebeen called a rental propertytask force,” she said.

Lawless discussed withthe council an ad she saw onCraigslist, where a renovatedproperty on Westwood Courtwas listed. The home hadnine bedrooms, four baths, al-lowing up to 18 occupants,perfect for a fraternity orsorority, the ad said.

“This is not proper single-family use,” Lawless said. “Iagree we need to put a num-ber on what is reasonable forsingle-family use. This does-n’t just impact students.”

The voice of the students,however, was absent. Whenthe order of agenda items waschanged, Student GovernmentPresident Ryan Smith, whohas attended many of themeetings, had to leave earlyfor a midterm.

Smith feels students havebeen caught in the middle andthe only alternative the city isproposing will affect studentsin a negative way.

The city has not enforcedthe statutes for a long time,

Woman struck near campus

By Taylor Moaktmoak@kykernel.com

An accident involving apedestrian and a car occurrednear UK’s campus Tuesday af-ternoon.

Lexington Police OfficerAndre Grider said Cynthia

Hammonds, an employee at theVeterans Affairs Hospital, wascrossing South Limestone toTranscript Avenue near the UKMedical Center around 4:30p.m. Tuesday when she was hitby a car.

UK Police Chief Joe Mon-roe said the Lexington Fire De-partment transported Ham-monds to UK Hospital. As of7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Hammondswas reported as being in stablecondition.

UK Police and the Lexing-ton Police Department re-sponded to the accident. Gridersaid Hammonds had the right-of-way and was hit by the caras it was turning left during ayellow light onto Limestone.Grider was unsure of the extentof Hammonds’ injuries.

Monroe did not identifythe driver of the car, but thecar involved was a silver Kia.The driver cooperated withpolice.

Rochelle Bolandspeaks to Com-missioner of LawLogan Askew atthe city councilmeeting aboutthe proposedhousing plan onTuesday.

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PHOTO BY BRITNEY MCINTOSH | STAFFFreshman center DeMarcus Cousins mimes a phone to Mississippi State fans, who called and texted him in the days leading up to the game.

Stark victoryMississippi State students provided

game no one will forgetSTARKVILLE, Miss. — Getting over TheHump isn’t easy.

Humphrey Coliseum, referred to by itsfull name about as often as Tubby Smith is

called “Orlando,” is smalland seems unimposing ifyou get there early enoughbefore the game. Thenagain if you get there earlyenough, you’d be sure tosee the thousands of stu-dents waiting to get in.

At The Hump, studentsdon’t buy tickets. They lineup and wait. Once thehouse opens, about 3,500are let in. The rest file back

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Cats comeback leadsto tough conference win

By Metz Camfieldmcamfield@kykernel.com

STARKVILLE, Miss. – Downseven with three minutes to play,John Wall and the Cats willedthemselves back to life in front ofa crowd of 10,788 on the road atMississippi State (18-8, 6-5Southeastern Conference), win-ning 81-75 in overtime.

Water bottles fell to the floorfrom the disgruntled fans thatpacked Humphrey Coliseum, andthe UK men's basketball team (25-1, 10-1 Southeastern Conference)left unscathed.

“Oh, it did (have the intensityof an NCAA Tournament game),”UK head coach John Calipari

said. “And their fans were terrific.The stuff at the end is just unfortu-nate. And let me say this, that wasprobably 15 people in the wholebuilding, out of 12,000, that wereidiots.”

UK (25-1, 10-1 SEC) was ledby a balanced scoring attack ofthree players with 18 or morepoints, and three double-doublesfrom Wall, DeMarcus Cousinsand Patrick Patterson, to close outthe Bulldogs.

With the game tied at 20, Walltook a pull-up jumper from 15feet away and on the next posses-sion hit a spinning fade awayjumper while getting fouled. The

See Basketball on page 4

Winter weather cancelsearly Tuesday classes

By Katie Perkowskikperkowski@kykernel.com

For the second day in a row UKoperated on an altered schedule dueto snowy conditions.

According to a UK alert sent atapproximately 5 a.m., all classes be-fore 11 a.m. were canceled Tuesday.Classes after 5 p.m. Monday werealso canceled due to snow.

Vice President for Public SafetyAnthany Beatty said the decision todelay classes Tuesday for two hourswas made based on several factors.

UK officials held a conferencein the morning and informationfrom the National Weather Servicesaid the area would get more snowflurries, but officials were con-

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One professor is usingBlack History Month to ex-amine health as well as histo-ry.

Ingrid Adams, Nutritionand Food Science’s professor,

sees problemswith the di-etary lifestylepeople liveand wants tohelp informthe public ofhow they canlive in health-

ier ways. Adams will be speaking

Wednesday at 4:30 p.m. inroom 211 of the Student Cen-ter as part of the Carter G.Woodson Lecture series, in alecture entitled, “Dietary andPhysical Activity Habits ofAfrican Americans in Lex-ington, Kentucky.”

Adams does not just focuson solely African Americans,but the entire population, andwants to drive home the mes-sage of how we can betterourselves through nutrition.

“My main goal is to workwith all individuals in Lexing-ton, but this particular study I

will report on Tuesday willexamine African Americans,”Adams said. “We need to fo-cus on all groups.”

The African AmericanStudies and Research Pro-gram hosts the Carter F.Woodson Lecture series andchose Adams as their speakerfor this event. Adams was thefirst in the department to get agrant, said Sonja Feist-Price,director of the AASRP.

Price said Adams was aneasy choice for the lecturebased upon her research ideas.The event will be an opportu-nity for Adams to show herresearch, Price said, and helpstudents understand how touse diet and physical activity.

“It all boils down tophysical activity so this im-pacts every face of our exis-tence,” she said.

Price said this lecture willhopefully connect with notjust African-American stu-dents, but the entire UK popu-lation in attendance and hopespeople take the informationpersonally and make it posi-tively impact their lives.

Adams had a love for nu-trition from a young age andit has carried her through hercareer.

“I started off with a loveof teaching nutrition, even af-ter high school I worked to-wards acquiring knowledgein nutrition,” Adams said.

Adams has spend muchof her life devoted to nutri-tion and would like to see theworld, and especially Ameri-cans, starting to eat better intheir daily lives. But whileher goal is widespread, hermessage is simple.

“My desire is for peopleto eat healthy,” Adams said.

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Smith said, and now students are bearing thebrunt of the punishment.

“(Students) are doing everything legalthey know,” he said. “Why should they bepunished?”

Grandfathering needs to be in place to al-low existing homes in zones R1 and R2,which include student-populated streets, to bemaintained as is, he said.

“They need to prevent this issue from be-coming more severe and prevent a mad dashto find housing (elsewhere),” Smith said.

Although he wasn’t able to speak to the

council members in person, Smith plans tomeet with Lawless on Wednesday to discusshis concerns.

Lawless realized students had class andthat others had taken time off from work to at-tend the meeting. She plans to hold a specialplanning committee meeting on March 2 at 11a.m. to further discuss possible ordinanceamendments.

Smith said it is important for students to beaware of the housing situation and what is hap-pening during these council meetings. Whilehe said he plans on always having the studentsrepresented by either himself or someone inStudent Government, students should be at themeeting to voice their concern.

“It sends a stronger message if studentsare there,” he said.

HOUSINGContinued from page 1

cerned with ice conditions, Beatty said." ... We had the possibility for more ic-

ing," he said.Beatty said the Physical Plant Division

was making good headway early Tuesdaymorning except for on the tops of parkingstructures throughout campus, so that was aconcern as well.

Beatty said the issue of the snow emer-gency in Lexington declared by Mayor JimNewberry caused concern, because the univer-sity did not want to have issues with towing ofcars interfering with campus and snow routes.

"The decision was made ... to give every-body time to catch up," Beatty said.

According to the National Weather Serv-ice, the forecast for Fayette County onWednesday predicts snow showers until mid-day with a slight chance of snow in the after-noon. Temperatures are expected to be in theupper 20’s.

WEATHERContinued from page 1

shared that sentiment to cele-brate the day before MardiGras. Amid the beads andlaughter, many customerscould not get enough of thefood. Patrick Brown, a geog-raphy senior, was in atten-dance for his fifth year at theFat Tuesday party.

In the heart of the busynight a loud crash came fromthe kitchen as a shelf holdingkitchenware fell into the sink.But instead of panic, the partycarried on. Customers’ ap-plause filled the room, and de-spite the stress of the busynight, employee BenjaminBecker, known as “MoneyCat Maker” around thekitchen, did not seem to mind.

Becker did not miss abeat as he stood in the B&Tcrowd talking to his friends.

Not sweating the wildness,Becker simply said, “Need todrink more bourbon.”

The environment may becrowded and fast at this timeduring the year, but the NewOrleans mentality of the easy-going personalities are themain attraction at Bourbon

and Toulouse. Lyons, a NewOrleans native, would know.Lyons is usually in New Or-leans during Fat Tuesday butsaid the atmosphere of B&Treminded him of home.

“If you are in Lexington(during Fat Tuesday) youneed to be here,” Lyons said.

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ensuing free throw pushed theUK lead to five at 25-20. TheCats stretched the lead to sev-en at 29-22, but the Bulldogsclosed the half on a 7-3 run tomake the score 32-29 at thebreak.

While the Cats absolutelythrottled Mississippi State onthe boards in the first half tothe tune of 28-11, their 34.3percent shooting from thefield, including 1-for-12 frombeyond the arc, allowed the

Bulldogs to stay within threepoints.

Timely 3-point shootingfrom senior guard BarryStewart kept Mississippi Statein the game and with threeminutes left the Bulldogs helda 67-60 lead.

Sophomore guard DeAn-dre Liggins performed thefirst of numerous timely playsfor the Cats on the ensuingpossession, draining a 3-pointer with 2:42 to go tobring the Cats within four.Patterson and Cousins pro-vided key defensive stops,combining for two blocks, adrawn charge and a steal. A

Bledsoe layup and Patterson15-foot jumper finished theUK comeback and sent thegame to overtime.

In overtime, UK scored 10of its 14 points from the chari-ty stripe, and played tight de-fense, allowing only five pointsfor the Bulldogs. Counting thefinal three minutes of regula-tion, Mississippi State scoredjust five points in the finaleight minutes of the game.

"Every game we play wegrow up a little bit," Cousinssaid. "We're maturing as ateam and as individuals. So,we came in and we knewwhat we had to do."

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I’m not the only one com-plaining about school being insession despite the snowy con-ditions around campus. And it’swith good reason that studentsand university employees areunhappy.

The complaints don’t stemfrom a united preference to becooped up in residence halls,apartments and houses all dayinstead of going to class; rather(at least in my case) I dreadthe commute on foot. Stomp-ing through ice, snow andslush is no fun, especiallywhen I live a few short blocksfrom campus.

It’s frustrating that Lexing-ton requires its property ownersto uphold their own sidewalks,even when they are adjacent toheavily-travelled roadways andget a lot of student traffic. Imean, do you see how muchsnow there is out there?

Even if those residents wereoutside for hours at a time withheavy-duty shovels, the forecastfor more snow in the comingdays is certainly bound to gen-erate more aggravation than

concern among the tenants.According to the Lexington-

Fayette Urban County govern-ment’s Web site, Lexington’sDepartment of Public Worksand Kentucky Department ofHighways control city snow andice removal from public road-ways. It has a fleet of 49 snowplows.  Snow emergency routesare designated across Lexington,and I think a similar practiceshould be put in place for thecampus and surrounding com-munities.

A Feb. 1 posting on theLFUCG Web site reminded resi-dents to clear snow and ice assoon as possible. It said, “Cityordinance requires homeownersor occupants to be responsiblefor clearing the sidewalks ontheir property within four hoursof a snowfall or ice storm.”

Obviously near-campus resi-dents consider clearing the side-walks a lost cause if snow willonly pile up there again. And ifother students and Lexington in-habitants have to coordinate al-ternate transportation or not goto class at all, it’s the weather’s

fault. Kentucky’s unpredictable

winters make it difficult tocome up with a standard trans-portation plan, though.

I’ve heard of an initiativetaken by some northern collegecampuses to install heated side-walks for icy wintermonths.  While I believe UKprobably has some larger finan-cial issues to address before itssidewalks (and don’t get mewrong, I admire the campusgrounds crew for their efforts inmaintaining the walkways oncampus), students’ safety shouldbe a priority.

I would at least like to bringthis issue to the attention of UKprofessors and instructors. Ifstudents are late to class be-cause of car issues or are forcedto walk to class on unshoveledpavement, expect some delay, orworse, some injury. It’s not ourfault we have to trek throughwhat winter indiscriminately lefton our doorsteps.

Shannon Frazerjournalism senior

Students deserve high quality,well maintained, safe housing just likeanyone else, and city officials andneighbors who often have lived inthese neighborhoods for decadesshouldn’t be vilified as hateful just be-cause they don’t want a house next tothem converted to a rooming house.  

There’s a difference between fouror five people living together in ahouse and a house double or tripled insize and 10 or more people living in ahouse.  Students should support rea-sonable attempts to limit excessivedensities in establishedneighborhoods.  

These attempts, along with othermeasures,  will ensure that the densitylevel in established neighborhoods aresustainable and we don’t have moreNorth Elizabeth streets, where there’sno street parking, sewers routinelyoverflow, and home invasions occurregularly.  

Is this really quality housing (stu-dent or otherwise), and does this reallyserve the students’ interest (but gosh,the landlords sure have done wellthere, haven’t they)?  

The houses are going to rent forthe same amount per bedroom becausethey have to compete with the nearby

apartment buildings (do your ownrental survey if you don’t believe me).

So demanding quality housing isnot incompatible with affordable hous-ing nor does it mean students won’t bewithin walking distance. 

The Kernel ran an article showingthat apartments for 5,000 studentshave been built in the last severalyears within walking distance of UKand more planned.    

The question and only question be-fore us then is will established neigh-borhoods become slum housing com-plexes with inadequate parking, stormand sanitary sewers, and badly out ofcompliance with basic safety codes asdocumented by the Student HousingTask Force Report, or will they be inwell-maintained properties with ade-quate infrastructure to support them.

Not only should students supportreasonable limits on density in estab-lished neighborhoods they should de-mand that housing in the area aroundcampus be regularly inspected andbrought up to code so students aren’tsubjected to living in fire traps. De-mand action before someone dies.

Mark BarkerUK information technology manager

OPINIONS — LETTERS TO EDITOR

Sports

Students should supportproposed housing changes

UK, professors shouldconsider those who walk

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to their dorms.Those students fortunate

enough to make it in — theycomprise about 35 percent ofThe Hump’s total crowd —know they’re lucky to get in.They show it, too, by the un-canny amount of sound theycreate.

Rick’s Rowdies, asthey’re called, made their ini-tial impression on UK longbefore the Cats arrived inStarkville. Thousands of Mis-sissippi State students some-how gained access to DeMar-cus Cousins’ cell phone num-ber and flooded him withhundreds of calls and thou-sands of text messagesthroughout the week.

The telephone tensioncarried over into Tuesday’swarm-ups. As soon as stu-dents were let in, they fileddown to the closest seats tothe floor to begin to heckleCousins. He didn’t respond,other than with a few gigglesto himself. He waited untilthe game to respond.

In the first half, Cousinssliced through the lane,caught a pass and scored eas-ily at the basket. Looking to-ward the students, he held hishand to his ear, miming aphone.

Rick’s Rowdies knewthey deserved it. No boos, no

jeers. Just silence.As the game went on,

and State hung with the Cats,the students stayed rightthere. During each timeout,they matched the decibel lev-el of the already-blaring mu-sic. Every UK free throw,The Hump sounded morelike The Runway.

When DeAndre Ligginspulled up for his would-begame-winner, though, TheHump went dead. But the rimclanked — you could hear itfor a split-second — and thecoliseum woke up. Five min-utes left for the party.

The fans struggled to car-ry the momentum into the

overtime. They even stoopedto the lowest of low, throw-ing open water bottles on thecourt. State kept launchingup ill advised 3-pointers, andthe Bulldogs’ overworkedlegs were too tired to powerthe shots to the rim.

Even in a losing effort,those 3,500 youthful voicesgo a long way in a 10,000-seat arena. And those faithfulfans will always rememberthe night the Bulldogs almostbeat No. 2 UK:

Because their ears willnever stop ringing.

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

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PHOTO BY BRITNEY MCINTOSH | STAFFMississippi State fans stare at freshman guard John Wall afterUK’s 81-75 win over the Bulldogs on Tuesday night.

PHOTO BY BRITNEY MCINTOSH | STAFFJunior forward Patrick Patterson goes for the ball during UK’s 81-75 win over Mississippi State on Tues-day in Starkville.