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Americans may know athing or two about Iraq as acountry, but few get the chanceto know its people.

New programs, however, areworking to bring people fromboth nations together, and UK isa common meeting ground.

The Iraq Education Initiativebrings Iraqi students to study inthe U.S. at schools like UK. Cur-rently, seven students at UK arehere through this program.

“To study in the U.S. was adream for me,” Zana Majeed, abiology student working on hisPh.D., said.

Majeed, from Erbil, Iraq,was drawn to UK’s biology de-partment because it was interest-ed in him — he was contactedby the school after applyingthrough IEI, which sponsorsIraqi students to study in theU.S. as part of a government-lededucation reform.

The goals of the program in-clude providing students with an

education that they can use to-ward their home country’s rede-velopment when they return toIraq, Pat Bond, senior assistantdean of the UK GraduateSchool, said.

Bond said students arrivehere with various levels of Eng-lish competency, and they partic-ipate in English as a SecondLanguage classes to improvetheir skills before beginningtheir academic studies at UK.

UK became involved withthe IEI when Bond traveled toBaghdad and met with about500 Iraqi students.

The first group of studentsparticipating in the initiative ar-rived in Lexington in August.

“These are our pioneers,”Bond said. She wants to bringmore Iraqi students to UK in thecoming years.

Osamah Mahmood is anoth-er student from this initial group.

He will study for a master’sdegree in civil engineering atUK once he finishes ESL class-es.

Bond said the studentsdemonstrate a tremendousamount of courage by choosingto study halfway across theworld, in light of the lingual and

cultural barriers.“Life here is simple,” Mah-

mood said. He was surprised tolearn that not all Americans are

By Becca Clemonsnews@kykernel.com

New program brings Iraqi students to UK

See IRAQ on page 2

In most of No. 15 UK’s (18-5, 7-3 Southeast-ern Conference) 23 games this season the Catshave been able to rise to the top. But when itfaced No. 4 Tennessee (22-2, 10-0 SEC) the Catscouldn’t do the same.

Tennessee outrebounded the smaller Cats 45-23, blocked four shots and held on for a 73-67win in front of a raucous 7,126 fans, a MemorialColiseum season high.

“I’m real disappointed we lost that game,”UK head coach Matthew Mitchell said. “I’m re-ally, really disappointed. It seemed like in thecritical times Tennessee was able to make a fewmore plays, wish we executed a little bit betterand won the game.”

The Cats’ size was a problem going into theseason, with its tallest starter being 6-foot-2, butafter UK was only outrebounded once in its lastsix games, it seemed the Cats had turned the cor-ner.

That is, until Tennessee game to town. TheVols have five players 6-foot-2 or taller, four ofwhich played and tallied 30 rebounds.

The Vols also scored 38 points in the paint.Mitchell said Sunday he was concerned with

Tennessee’s size but after the loss he wasn’tmaking excuses.

“I think (size) is a big factor but it makes youhave to be sharper in other areas,” Mitchell said.“There is nothing you can do about the rosters,they are what they are, they have who they haveand we have who we have.”

When UK went into the half with a 33-30lead, UK senior forward Victoria Dunlap led allscorers with 16 points and appeared to be on herway to another solid game, until the Vols’ sizeand physicality came into effect.

“They went zone and they’re just so big withthe zone and that was a good adjustment forthem,” Mitchell said. “They paid more attentionto (Dunlap) and got bigger people on her.”

Dunlap finished the game with 20 points on2-7 shooting in the second half.

By T.J. Walkersports@kykernel.com

See HOOPS on page 2

This January, local charity Women and Phi-lanthropy awarded a grant of nearly $19,000 tothe UK Honors Program to support educationabroad for honors students.

The Honors Program was one of manycampus organizations that applied for a charita-ble grant from the philanthropy, which wasstarted by Patsy Todd, the wife of UK PresidentLee Todd.

“[Women and Philanthropy has] gotten to-gether a group of women and some alumni…and those women get together money for afund,” said Dr. Frank Ettensohn, director of theUK Honors Program.

He applied for the grant last May, and theHonors Program was chosen as a grant recipi-

By Allie Huddlestonnews@kykernel.com

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awarded grant

See HONORS on page 2

Several student groups at UK are going toFrankfort on Tuesday to join other Kentuckiansin opposing the Kentucky Senate Bill 6, whichproposes stronger measures against undocu-mented immigrants.

In its current form, the bill proposes to “al-low for determining the immigration status of aperson on reasonable suspicion, the arrest of anunlawful alien upon probable cause and thetransference of a convicted unlawful alien to theUnited States Immigration and Customs En-forcement or the United States Customs andBorder Protection,” according to the KentuckyLegislative Research Commission.

The UK Chapter of the National LawyersGuild said in a statement, “The legislationwould sanction racial and cultural profiling as aremedy to illegal immigration. We reject this ap-proach categorically. We believe that addressinga problem's root cause is a more just and effec-tive way to redress a failed policy than the par-ing away of our civil liberties. Fear and suspi-cion do not solve problems; they create them.”

This bill resembles the Arizona bill that setoff national outrage earlier in the year. However,several states are now trying to enact bills simi-lar to Arizona’s.

The UK American Civil Liberties Unionsaid in a statement, “SB6 punishes undocument-ed persons and their friends in a way suggestiveless of immigration policy and more of a witchhunt.”

The bill will also “specify that officials oragencies may not be prohibited from sharing theimmigration status of a person under specific in-stances; indemnify a governmental law enforce-ment officer where the officer has been broughtinto a legal action,” according to the KentuckyLegislative Research Commission.

“I cannot begin to understand how our legis-lators thought that a bill as harsh as SB6 was theanswer to whatever they perceived our immigra-tion issues to be,” third year law student SarahMills said. “This bill will not solve any of ourimmigration problems. What it will do is costthe tax payers of Kentucky millions of dollars ata time when we absolutely cannot afford it.”

UK Kentuckians for the Commonwealthsaid in a statement that it “disdains legislationthat would fund racial discrimination at the ex-pense of the taxpayer.”

The bill has passed in the Senate and is cur-rently before a House Committee.

One amendment to the bill does, “require anunauthorized alien to have been arrested prior tobeing turned over to federal authorities,” accord-ing to the Kentucky Legislative Research Com-mission.

“I think the worst part of the bill is section 8which makes it a crime to ‘transport’ an undocu-mented person,” Mills said. “I believe that thissection was put in to target their documentedfamily members and charitable organizations.There are no exceptions for school bus drivers,ambulance drivers, church transport, lawyers, noone except police who are transporting them tojail.”

People from all across Kentucky are expect-ed to attend “Stop SB6” Lobby and Rally Dayin Frankfort.

By Gary Hermannnews@kykernel.com

UK groupsprotest inFrankfort

As Spring Break ap-proaches, some UKgroups are already prepar-ing for the beginning ofthe Fall 2011 semester.

The start of everyschool year kicks off withK Week, which providesincoming freshman withfun activities, free foodand a chance to meet newpeople before classes ac-tually start.

Approximately 400students make up the KCrew, who put on eventsthroughout the week andact as mentors to newstudents throughout theirfirst year at UK.

Now, K Crew andFUSION site leader ap-plications are officiallybeing made available tostudents.

“The K Crew shouldbe outgoing, successfulstudents with a greatknowledge of UK,” saidCameron Hamilton, jun-ior, who serves as K CrewCoordinator along withjunior Christie Baughman.

With so many posi-tions available, the coordi-nators hope that older stu-dents will take advantageof the opportunity to helpnewcomers and apply.

“Next year I hope Iwill be able to assist mygroup in making friends,

having fun and gettinginvolved,” said freshmanBridget Mahorney, wholooks forward to joiningthe team.

K Crew application arelocated in the New Studentand Parent Programs sec-tion of the UK website, orare available in 518 Patter-son Office Building.

The deadline for sub-mitting is March 11.

Once selected, thenext step is a group inter-view, followed by both aspring and fall trainingsession.

FUSION, whichstands for “For Unity andService In Our Neighbor-hood,” is another event

that planners are seekinghelp with.

This day-long serviceevent also takes placeduring K Week and is thelargest of its kind in Ken-tucky.

Although the Execu-tive Team and Coordina-tor application deadlineshave already passed, stu-dents can still apply to bea Site Leader.

It is a site leader’sduty to direct groups ofup to 20 students and wel-come them to campus.

“We’re really lookingto increase upperclass-men participation,” soph-omore Geraldine Goh,FUSION executive direc-

tor, said.The site leader appli-

cation was originally dueFriday, Feb. 11. Howev-er, there has been talk ofthe possibility of extend-ing the deadline.

While the primarygoal of both K Week andFUSION is to make thetransition into college assmooth as possible forfreshman, this doesn’tmean that leaders won’tbenefit from participatingin the events a secondtime around.

“You meet a ton ofnew people, it’s a great re-sume builder and ofcourse you gain leadershipskills,” Hamilton said.

By Amelia Orwicknews@kykernel.com

K Crew, FUSION applications available

UK Hoops loses toTennessee 73-67

Students unhappy withKentucky Senate Bill 6

Money supports studyabroad honor students

PHOTO BY COLLIN LINDSTROM | STAFFOsamah Mahmood, who goes by Mike, participates in class onFeb. 3, 2011. Osamah is a member of the ESL program at UK.

PHOTO BY COLLIN LINDSTROM | STAFFFreshman guard Kastine Evans fights for control of the ball during the UK Hoops game againstTennessee on Monday. Evans posted 19 minutes in the game.

Falling short

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like the ones in movies, incities like Los Angeles andNew York, and the normalcyof people in Lexington helpedease the culture shock.

“People here are very niceand helpful,” he said. The stu-dents even said Bond is like amom to them.

Academic support has alsomade the students feel wel-come in a new environment.

“Our professors want totalk to students,” GraduateSchool Admissions OfficerKathy Ice-Wedding said.“They really want to make apersonal connection (withstudents).”

The students cite manybenefits from coming to studyin the U.S., not all of themstrictly academic.

Majeed said he has hadunique opportunities to con-nect with other UK students,such as visiting with fresh-

men in a UK 101 class.“Traveling will open your

mind,” Majeed said, addingthat learning about foreignpeople, language and culturein the U.S. has changed hisworld perspective.

Center for ESL DirectorLiga Abolins said ESL classesinclude students from all overthe world.

“I met for the first time inmy life people from China,Japan, South Korea, (and)Poland,” Mahmood said,adding that he had not yet be-fore had the chance to meetpeople from around theglobe.

He said he liked the “cul-tural pluralism” and diversityin the U.S., as well as the ac-ademic life.

Mahmood has even foundtime to get involved on cam-pus, having participated in theWorld’s Largest Water Bal-loon Fight in August.

Majeed said he likes theavailability of resources atUK that he uses in his studies.

“When I went to the biol-

ogy department, I was veryhopeful to do new research,”he said, “because, in ourcountry, it’s not easy to getnew instruments.”

Bond added that Iraqiprofessors have done a verygood job with the materialsthey have, even though manyare outdated.

UK is also part of a statedepartment grant that will al-low six faculty members fromIraqi universities to come toUK and “catch up,” Abolinssaid.

The first two professorswill arrived in March.

“The University of Ken-tucky is working on allfronts,” Abolins said.

Bond hopes that both na-tions can benefit from the ed-ucational exchange.

“I think it’s a very excit-ing move for the university tobe involved in,” she said. “It’sa chance to expose our stu-dents to the real change mak-ers in Iraq.”

“What’s important to meis that we do this well.”

IRAQContinued from page 1

Outside of Dunlap’s great first half,the entire UK team was forcing Ten-nessee to play a game it wasn’t comfort-able playing. Tennessee had 17 turnoversat halftime and only three assists.

Tennessee head coach Pat Summittsaid halftime was the best thing to hap-pen to the Vols in the game.

Despite not forcing as manyturnovers in the second half, UK had itschances to win the game late.

After falling behind by 10 points with13:45 to play in the game, sophomoreguard A’dia Mathies free throws put UKahead 59-58 with 6:10 remaining.

But then Tennessee guard MeighanSimmons took over. Opposite of Dunlap,after only scoring six points in the firsthalf she finished with 15 points, includ-ing nine of Tennessee’s final 16 points.

Summitt’s record improves to 45-7against UK.

HOOPSContinued from page 1

ent from the fund after a two-round selection process.

The Honors Programplans to use the grant of ex-actly $18,942 to finance stu-dent education abroad.

The Honors Program al-ready has education abroadprograms in countries in Eu-rope, Asia and Africa, as wellas Latin and South America.

This year, the HonorsProgram is offering new pro-grams in Ecuador and India.

“I’ve always felt thatevery honors student...shouldhave a foreign travel experi-ence of some sort,” Ettensohnsaid. “They need to get outof their backyard and learn.”

He believes that educa-tion abroad is important forstudents, and the grant willprovide funding for morehonors students to travelabroad.

“I would like every one ofour students to have this op-portunity,” Ettensohn said. “Iknow it is not possible tosend every student abroad,but hopefully this grant willhelp.”

Honors students whowant to travel abroad with theadditional support the grantwill provide can start theprocess by meeting with aneducation abroad advisor.

Students can make an ap-pointment by calling the Edu-cation Abroad office at (859)257-4067  ext. 252, or byemailing the office at educa-tionabroad@uky.edu.

“I think it’s really impor-tant for [students] to see howothers think and work,” Et-tensohn said. “There are otherideas and other cultures. Iwould like every student toexperience that.”

HONORSContinued from page 1

PHOTO BY COLLIN LINDSTROM | STAFFTennessee assistant coach Mickie DeMoss wasthe head coach of the UK women’s team from

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MATTHEW STALLINGS, Kernel cartoonist

shannon frazer | opinions editor | sfrazer@kykernel.com

tuesday 02.08.11 page 3kernelopinions

(This is in response to the Kernel arti-cle from Friday, Feb. 4.)

“What UK wants” is not really whatUK wants; it’s what certain people at UKwant.

When I was reading through the Kernelon the Monday after the presidential searchforums — designed to give students, facul-ty and staff the impression that their opin-ions mattered — I stumbled upon an articlewritten by a student that stated UK needs a

president who is an educator and not abusiness person. Every student I’ve talkedto agrees with that idea.

But apparently Dr. Britt Brockman, viathe Kernel, does not agree.

He, as chairman of the UK Board ofTrustees — the very same Board ofTrustees that denied a request by a groupof students, faculty and staff to speak at aboard meeting concerning the now infa-mous Wildcat “Coal” Lodge for bureaucrat-ic reasons — thinks our school needssomeone who is a politician and under-

stands the value of sports because sports,read sports marketing, is the cash cow ofour beloved university.

When our teams do well and rake inmassive television and advertising con-tracts, officials like the ones who sit arounda big table on the top of Patterson OfficeTower also make roll in the dough, whilestudents are forced to pay more for tuitionand housing, even though the value of theireducation is decreasing.

A school is a school is a school, not acorporation to be bought and sold and mar-

keted. The only foreseeable reason to have a

businessman at the helm of our Common-wealth’s flagship institution is to makemoney. Period. Not to fulfill its purpose ofeducation the best and brightest of Ken-tucky’s next generation.

This is my plea to the Board ofTrustees: Make the right decision andcharge UK’s 12th president to be an educa-tor first and a businessman last.

Tristan RootPhysics junior

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

“Employees are required to wash hands before return-ing to work.”

“Did you wash ‘em?”Really? Is this necessary? Does our

culture really need reminders to wash ourhands? Apparently, the answer is, “Yes.”

An August 2010 study conducted bythe American Society for Microbiologyand the American Cleaning Instituteshowed that hand washing rates are up to85 percent.

However, rates depended on the sitewhere folks were observed.

For example, a low of 35 percent wasseen for males in public restrooms at Turn-er Field in Atlanta, compared to 98 percent

of the females at the same venue. For all venues that wereobserved, the ladies cleaned up better at 93 percent, versusthe guys at 77 percent.

In the 1840s, Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis advocated for handwashing to help prevent transmitting illness to pregnant

women during childbirth. He and other clinicians and re-searchers were met with disdain and hostility when theyadvocated for hand washing.

Perhaps hand washing seemed odd at the time. The lackof indoor plumbing made it difficult to get water. To makethe water comfortably warm, it would have to be heatedover a fire. You’d think that after 150 years and the avail-ability of warm, running water, hand washing would havecaught on more.

We have come a long way since the 1800s, and handwashing is still the single most important means of prevent-ing the spread of illness, but we still have a ways to go.

When available, wash your hands with soap and warmwater. Rub your hands vigorously together, while singing“Happy Birthday” to yourself, for about 15 to 20 seconds.Be sure to scrub all surfaces of your hands; soap combinedwith scrubbing action helps dislodge and remove germs.

When soap and water are not available, use alcohol-based disposable hand wipes or gel sanitizers.

Jill Kindy is a health education coordinator for Univer-sity Health Services. E-mail opinions@kykernel.com.

JILL KINDYGuest

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How hand washing became habit

PAGE 4 | Tuesday, February 8, 2011

This weekend, as I waskicking back to watch “Red,”which has Bruce Willis doingwhat he does best — drop-ping one-liners and blowingstuff up — I found myselfthinking about the state of theaction hero in today’s movies.

As the end credits beganto roll, I came to the depress-ing realization that the actionhero is an endangered species.

It’s hard to believe, butClint Eastwood is 80 yearsold. Meanwhile, Harrison Fordis 68, Sylvester Stallone is 64and Arnold Schwarzenegger is63. Let’s face it; with the ex-ception of Willis, who is 55,our biggest action heroes aresenior citizens. They can’tkeep this up forever.

Hollywood is aware ofthis and has tried numeroustimes over the last 10 years tocreate new action heroes, butthe results have been largelyunsuccessful. (Exhibit A:Josh Hartnett)

I think I know why Hol-lywood has yet to find a trueheir to the throne of Stallone.

The lightweight crop ofblow-dried, manicured prettyboys they drop into big actionmovies today look more athome prancing around on theDisney Channel than they dorunning away from explosions.

Here’s another piece ofadvice I have for Hollywoodas it continues to try and cre-ate new action heroes: charis-ma and talent are important.

This is something itshould’ve taken into consid-eration before it decided totry and turn Channing Tatuminto an action hero.

Tatum, like many of theyoung bags of hair gel who starin action movies today, hasslightly less charisma than a bagof Cheetos, but he also appears tobe completely devoid of actingability.

I’m not saying that an ac-tion hero needs to be a masterthespian capable of doingShakespeare, but he should atleast be able to deliver rudi-mentary line readings withoutsounding like he’s trying tolick peanut butter off the roofof his mouth.

While I’m on the subjectof acting talent, it can be ar-gued that Christian Bale, WillSmith, Nicolas Cage andMatt Damon were all suc-cessfully turned into actionstars, but I counter that argu-ment by pointing out thatthey have always been actorsfirst and action heroes second– and there’s a big differencebetween an actor and an ac-tion hero.

Those guys are fine actorswho manage to find successin the action genre wheneverthey dabble in it, but theydon’t really feel like true ac-tion heroes.

Whenever they do an ac-tion movie, it feels like they’replaying “action hero dress-up”and throwing the audiences abone so they can earn enoughbox office clout to go andmake an “important” film.

We never get that conde-scending feeling from Bruce,Sly, Arnold or the rest of theold guard. They make actionmovies because they love ac-tion movies—not becausethey feel as if they have to.

Out of the new generation,only Jason Statham, SteveAustin and Dwayne “The

Rock” Johnson seem to be onthe same wavelength as the old-er generation of action heroes.With few exceptions, their filmchoices have remained consis-tent within the genre, and theyseem to have “it.”

The jury is still out ontheir ability to inherit the ac-tion hero torch from the cur-rent kings, but their chancesof taking over are infinitelybetter than the weak-kneed,charisma-challenged, prettyboy meat sacks that Holly-wood tries to make happen.

Until then, let’s all sitback and enjoy the old guardwhile we still have them.Nobody does it better, andthey probably won’t be at itmuch longer. When they’regone, there’s no guaranteewe’ll ever see their likesagain.

Here’s to the action he-roes. May they live foreverand blow up as much stuff aspossible along the way.

Where are all the action heroes?

Many performances focuson one media, but the innova-tive collective “ResonateHole” plans to use electronicsounds, videos, music andmore in its upcoming UK per-formance.

The collective will pres-ent their newest artistic proj-ect, “What is a Hole,” at theLittle/Gaines Artist SeriesTuesday night at 7 p.m. Theseries is designed to show-case Kentucky artists work-ing collaboratively around aunifying principle or theme,according to its website.The event is scheduled to beheld in the Niles Gallery atthe Lucille Little Fine ArtsLibrary.

Resonant Hole is a localcollective founded by RobertBeatty, an artist, graphic de-signer and the Art Directorfor UK’s radio stationWRFL.

Beatty was sitting on hiscouch with an agonizing

toothache when he first decid-ed to express himself invideo form.

“I was just sitting therewith my guitar, in so muchpain, when I got the idea towrite a song and make avideo,” Beatty said. “Ishowed it to my friends, whothought it was cool, and theystarted making them withme.”

The collective wasformed with the premise thatit would not be a mainstreamgroup or like any other band,but would remain anony-mous, Beatty said.

“When people think of us,I do not want them to thinkwe are just another band, or

expect us to have a certainsound and look,” Beatty said.

Along the way, Beattyhas had some of his friendsand colleagues from WRFLjoin him, creating the collec-tive. Trevor Tremaine,WRFL’s music director, hasbeen writing and playing mu-sic with Beatty since theywere in the 10th grade.

“We played in a bandcalled Hair Police from 2001until a couple years ago, andhave continued our work nowwith Resonant Hole,”Tremaine said.

Ainsley Wagoner, one ofthe vocalists in the collectiveand WRFL’s general manag-er, was recruited and encour-aged by Tremaine to startwriting her own songs, whicheventually turned into pieceswith Resonant Hole.

“I am very proud to be apart of the collective,” Wag-oner said. “We basically gath-ered at Robert’s house arounda pot-luck dinner and wroteand sang songs.”

By Chris Henrynews@kykernel.com

Student group performancecombines video and music

If you goWhat: “Resonant Hole”When: Tuesday at 7 p.m.Where: Niles Gallery, LittleFine Arts LibraryAdmission: Free

features

sports

By the time UK head coach JohnCalipari had boarded a plane to make thetrip back from Gainesville to Lexington,something had shifted.

March is closing fast, he hasn’t seenhis team make the necessary progressionand all of a sudden Tennessee (15-8, 5-3Southeastern Conference) is coming toRupp Arena to play a UK team that is 4-4 in conference play.

“I’m looking at that tape right afterthe game on the plane, and I saw thesame things I saw against Mississippiand Alabama,” Calipari said. “I was call-ing guys to the front of the plane.”

And Calipari’s teachings may havecaused the pilot some confusion.

“The pilot came out and said wehave a decompression problem, we haveto turn around,” Calipari said. “I said it’sonly me, we’re fine. Just go to Lexing-ton.”

UK now sits at 16-6 with a middling

.500 SEC record. They’ve lost fourgames on the road, three of which wereby less than three points.

“It’s frustrating,” Jon Hood said. “Idon’t think we’ve hit complete bottom.We’re by no means where we were lastyear. A couple shots hit, we’re talkingabout this a different way.”

But those shots haven’t been fallingfor UK.

“All sickening to lose,” Calipari said.“But that last one is the one I got angryabout.”

That’s because the changes he want-ed UK to make weren’t made againstFlorida. UK again was outplayed andfailed to come up with clutch plays. Notonly that, but UK again had a stretch inthe second half that put them in a dou-ble-digit deficit — which, once again,proved too much to overcome. Caliparisaid he has been discussing whether thecoaching staff has to take more controlof the games during times like that, interms of taking timeouts and calling dif-ferent plays, to avoid those stretches.

“You’re losing this game in thisstretch, not the last shot,” Calipari said.“That’s what we got to eliminate. We’llwin close games. I’m not concernedabout that.”

While Brandon Knight’s last-secondshot clanged off the rim, the miss willhave long-term benefits.

“If Brandon had made that shot, Iprobably would have looked at the tapedifferent and would have thought every-thing was O.K.,” Calipari said. “It’s not.”

Calipari said the team hasn’t shownthat “brother’s keeper” mentality thatlast year’s team had, nor has this year’sversion shown the “will to win” as lastyear’s. Calipari’s still working on bring-ing that out, but compared to his previ-ous media sessions, Calipari soundedlike a sense of urgency was upon UK.

“When you lose in this sport, it’s acrisis,” Calipari said. “If you lose a roadgame, or a couple of games, that’s theword.”

Follow Aaron on Twitter @KernelA-Smith.

By Aaron Smithasmith@kykernel.com

UK’s time for change is now

Bruce Pearl has sat outthe first eight SoutheasternConference road games,watching Tennessee’s gamesfrom hotel rooms, after beingsuspended for recruiting vio-lations. He’s been through ateary-eyed interview on na-tional television.

Next, he makes his 2011conference coaching debutagainst UK Tuesday at 9p.m.

“(Commissioner MikeSlive) really punished me by

allowing me to come backand go to Rupp Arena and theO-Dome,” Pearl said, refer-ring to the upcoming gamesagainst UK and Florida, in hisSEC teleconference. “What awonderful award to be able tocome back and go to thosetwo places.”

Pearl said his team will“gain a voice” on the side-lines to instruct and coachduring games. The volumefrom Tennessee’s benchmight also increase if the of-ficiating goes as he antici-pates.

“We’ll probably get a

worse whistle with me inthere,” Pearl said.

His counterpart, UK headcoach John Calipari, doesn’tsee his presence making asizeable impact. Caliparicalled Tennessee the “mosttalented team in our league,”citing their size and depth.

But Pearl might not bethe only one coming back.Scotty Hopson, who is com-ing back from an ankle injury,went through a walkthroughbut will be a game-time deci-sion. Last year, Hopsonscored a combined 36 pointsin three games against UK.

“Scotty is questionablefor the game,” Pearl said. “Ifhe does play, he’ll play limit-ed minutes. He’s trying to getback. He tried to get back forAlabama, couldn’t go. He’strying to get back for thisone.”

Calipari, who said Ten-nessee is “obviously betterwith him,” is preparing likeHopson will be on the floor.

“I believe he’ll play,”Calipari said. “It’s comingdown here, it’s Kentucky. Mybelief is he will play.”

Follow Aaron on Twitter@KernelASmith.

By Aaron Smithasmith@kykernel.com

Pearl returns to the sideline at Rupp PHOTO BY LATARA APPLEBY | STAFFFreshman Brandon Knight makes a pass against Florida in on Saturday. Calipari said Knight needs to emerge as a leader.

CORYSTRINGERKernel

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