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PHOTO BY LATARA APPLEBY | STAFFRobert Edwards, UK grounds crew employee, salted sidewalks in front of White Hall Wednesday.

Determining whether UK gets delayed orclosed for bad weather depends on more thanjust snow.

Anthany Beatty, UK vice president assis-tant of Public Safety, said that UK’s Office ofEmergency Management and Physical PlantDivision are hard at work while many peopleare sleeping.

Christy Giles, Emergency Managementdirector, and her team speak with the Nation-al Weather Service, UK Police Department,UK’s Physical Plant Division, the Lexington-Fayette County Urban Government, LexTranand Kentucky’s 511 travel hotline before aclear decision can be made.

Once Emergency Management finishes itsreport, Giles gets into contact with Beatty tosend Emergency Management’s recommenda-tion.

Snow and ice do not have to meet a certaininch accumulation before action is taken, Beat-ty said, but rather a consideration of all the dif-ferent conditions.

Beatty said the safety of students, facultyand staff is UK’s biggest concern when consid-ering closures because many people don’t liveon or near campus.

Considering this, road conditions play alarge role in determining school closure, Beattysaid. And it is not just UK campus roads.

UK takes into account the condition of allLexington as well as Fayette county roads.

Beatty then contacts Frank Butler, execu-tive vice president for Finance and Administra-tion, who makes the final decision to closeschool.

The decision is made usually around 4:30a.m.

Even if the decision is to keep school onregular schedule and without delay, UK’sPhysical Plant Division pre-treats and plowsroads.

The division plows and salts 70 roads and91 parking zones with a fleet of 25 snowplow trucks and 43 salt spreader, tractors andother snow clearing equipment, according toUK PPD’s snow removal plan online.

Physical Plant Superintendent George Rid-dle said this year the division has added evenmore ground to cover, with the addition oftreating the roads and sidewalks around GoodSamaritan Hospital.

“We have a finite amount of manpower,”Riddle said, “a little bit of robbing Peter to payPaul. But so far, it has not delayed any of ourother operations.”

Riddle said their success with managingthe new area has been with the “reallocation ofmanpower.”

Hospital areas, like ambulance entrances,hospital parking spaces and hospital drivewaystake priority before all other campus areas, ac-cording to UK PPD’s snow removal plan.

Barney Byrum, Lexington safety coordi-nator for the Lexington Department of PublicWorks and Development, said they usuallysend out their plows after one inch of snowaccumulates, but they work completely inde-pendent from UK’s Physical Plant Division.

By Brandon Goodwinnews@kykernel.com

Closings a complicated process

One UK program offers students the uniqueopportunity to work towards earning both abachelor’s degree and master’s degree at thesame time.

Currently, 28 master’s programs at UK par-ticipate in the University Scholars Program,director of Enrollment Management for theCollege of Arts and Sciences, Jason Pieratt said.

“Many master’s programs at UK do not cur-rently participate in University Scholars,” saidPieratt, “but maybe with the Kernel article andother efforts to publicize this program more,other master’s programs at UK will considerbecoming part of the University ScholarsProgram to provide this excellent opportunity toUK students.”

Pieratt himself is an example of the successa UK student can obtain through UniversityScholars.

“While simultaneously completing the mas-ter’s program in Statistics and bachelor’s inCommunication, I had the chance to work as aTA for STA200 and STA570 and also worked asan RA graduate statistical consultant in theCollege of Agriculture,” Pieratt said. “I complet-ed the Bachelor’s in August 2004 and master’sin December 2004.”

University Scholar participant Mark Taylorlearned about the program through his advisorduring his junior year.

“Encouraging advisers to spread the wordabout the University Scholars Program, espe-cially to upperclassmen, is probably the bestway for it to grow,” Taylor said.

The admissions requirements for the pro-gram are: an overall GPA of 3.2 or higher, amajor GPA of 3.5 or higher, senior standing bythe first semester of the combinedbachelor’s/master’s program (90 or more earnedhours), students must be finished withUniversity Studies requirements by the firstsemester of the combined bachelor’s/master’sprogram and apply to the Graduate School withthe addition of completing the UniversityScholars form to note how graduate levelcoursework will count for transcript and tuitionpurposes.

Taylor is glad he overcame some initial anx-iety about joining the program.

“First hearing about it seemed intimidating,because the first thing that came to mind was,‘Does this lock me into a commitment to UK forgrad school?’ But that is not the case,” Taylorsaid. “You can apply, be accepted and backdown if you choose to do something else whenyou graduate.”

“You have nothing to lose but a little bit ofyour time in the application process, and somuch to gain if UK becomes your choice forgraduate school,” Taylor said.

By Gary Hermannnews@kykernel.com

Studentscan now

double upon degrees

On April 5, 2004, Leonard Pitts, Jr. wonthe Pulitzer Prize for commentary.

On April 12, 2011, UK students, facultyand members of the Lexington communitywill have the opportunity to hear Pitts deliverthe 34th annual Joe Creason Lecture.

For the past 34 years, the School of Jour-nalism and Telecommunications has broughtan outstanding journalist to the UK campus tomeet and talk with students and deliver aspeech on the topic of their choice.

“We try to mix it up as far as the type ofpeople we have in here,” Beth Barnes, directorof the School of Journalism and Telecommuni-cations, said. “We’re trying to get people whohave a national presence, and the Creasongives us that opportunity to go broader.Leonard Pitts fits that bill.”

According to leonardpittsjr.com, Pitts haswritten professionally since 1976 when he wasan 18-year-old college student doing reviewsfor the black entertainment tabloid SOUL.

Pitts joined The Miami Herald in 1991,

By Brian Shonskybshlonsky@kykernel.com

Creason lectureto bring Pulitzer

Prize winner

PHOTO BY LATARA APPLEBY | STAFFJasmine Lee, a freshman psychology major, got directions from Jared Tippets, director of New Stu-dent and Parent Programs on Wednesday.

Steve Brown has seen achange among many of his play-ers.

When he first arrived at UKin 2003 to become an assistantcoach on new UK coach RichBrooks’ staff, the defensive play-ers were struggling to run a 40-yard dash in less than five sec-onds. Now the defensive playersdisplay 40-yard dash times thatare more on par with the norm inthe speed-oriented SoutheasternConference.

However, Brown doesn’tknow if it’s now time for him tochange; UK head coach JokerPhillips hired Rick Minter as co-defensive coordinator in Decem-ber, and Minter has taken overthe play calling and practicepreparations from the incumbentdefensive coordinator Brown.

“I have no idea (if I’ll be onstaff next year),” Brown said. “Idon’t have any idea what God’splan is for me, but my numberone thing is to make sure thatwhatever I’m doing, I’m doing

my best. I’m meant to be ateacher—I’ve been blessed withsome ability to have played—and I have got to teach themhow to do it and if it’s here orwherever, I don’t know.”

At his introductory newsconference, Minter called Browna “classy guy” and said that helooked forward to working withhim.

Staying classy, however, hasbeen tough for Brown in the face

of a demotion and a seasonwhere the UK defense surren-dered 28.5 points per game and353.9 yards per game.

“I’m not going to say it has-n’t been extremely tough,”Brown said. “Hopefully, by myactions and by the way I ap-proached it, some of the playersunderstand if they go throughany personal adversity how tohandle it as opposed to be beingsour.”

Brown then drew an analogyfor reporters, saying it would belike a sports reporter being sud-denly demoted to the role of per-forming “the elementary schoolweather reporter.”

Minter is already in theprocess of instilling new defen-sive philosophies. Junior corner-back Randall Burden said thatBrown emphasized the second-ary helping the front seven more,whereas Minter wants the sec-ondary to back off and try to getmore turnovers.

There have also been rumorsthat UK could shift to a 3-4 basedefense under Minter and attimes during the Cats’ 27-10 lossin the BBVA Compass Bowl,UK went with a three-man de-fensive line.

The transition from Minterto Brown has also been hard onthe players.

“Everybody is getting along,but obviously it’s hard for uswith Coach Brown not callingthe plays anymore,” Burdensaid. “But we have to learn it

By Nick Craddockncraddock@kykernel.com

Brown adjusts to new role on staff

See CREASON on page 2

Program offers bachelorand master’s at same time

Road conditions aprimary factor

PHOTO BY BRITNEY MCINTOSH | STAFFDeAngelo Tyson gets taken down by Taylor Wyndham in the first half ofUK vs. Georgia on Saturday, Oct. 23, 2010.

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“One of the things I like about bringinga columnist is they bring a different perspec-tive and are willing to speak a little morespecifically sometimes,” Barnes said. “Wehave a lot of students interested in columnwriting that would benefit from hearing andmeeting him (Pitts).”

According to the Miami Herald, Pitts’ col-umn on the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks receivedsuch a large response from readers that Pittsreceived over 26,000 emails in response.

In addition to his column, Pitts is also theauthor of three books, including “BecomingDad: Black Men and the Journey to Father-hood,” “Before I Forget” and “Forward fromthis Moment,” the latter of which is a collec-tion of his columns.

Barnes said Pitts is a good example of acolumnist from a journalism backgroundwho is a co-observer of what is going on inAmerica.

“Leonard Pitts is someone who peopletend to respond to very strongly, negative orpositive, which is important for journalismstudents to understand,” Barnes said. Peopleare not always going to like what you write.”

The Creason Lecture will begin at 6 p.m.on April 12th in the Worsham Theater in theStudent Center. The event is free and opento the public.

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eventually so we’re just get-ting used to the new play call-ing.”

However, Minter’s playcalling proved to be no moreeffective than Brown’s in hisfirst game selecting the plays:UK gave up 261 rushingyards to Pittsburgh, a Com-

pass Bowl record.The month of preparation

for the bowl game, saidMinter, was more of an op-portunity to get know a lot ofhis players and move towardhis planned changes.

Whether these changeswill include Brown is yet tobe seen.

But even if Brown optsfor a change of scenery, hesaid that witnessing thegrowth of his players during

his time at UK has been themost rewarding.

“You see these guys growup from 17, 18-year-oldyoung men to a little olderyoung men means a lot,”Brown said. “Plus you get achance to be around guys likeRicky Lumpkin and ShaneMcCord, who are a part ofyou forever, until the day youdie.”

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2011 will be the year of the social me-dia. You heard it here first.

In a year-end telecast,ABC News reported thatFacebook had recently sur-passed Google with thenumber of site hits. That’sright, the search engine gi-ant Google.

In my attempts to rea-son why a social network-ing site would get moreweb traffic than a site thattells you practically any-thing you want to know, Ihave come to a conclusion.

Social media just has more going for it.

The Jan. 5 swearing-in of RepublicanSpeaker of the House John Boehner in frontof the 112th Congress was covered via livefeed on Facebook. It was the first time a so-cial media outlet had streamed about thecongressional event. Bet you didn’t see thatcoming in 2007 when Nancy Pelosi washanded the gavel.

But you can probably think of severalinstances when celebrities and politicianshave met public outcry or buzz because ofsomething controversial or questionable theyposted on a social media site.

For instance, “refudiate” wouldn’t havebeen named the Oxford Dictionary word ofthe year for 2010. without Sarah Palin, viaTwitter.

UK fans are aware of a few student-ath-letes who have lost their social networkingprivileges for one reason or another.

And who could forget Kanye West’stwo-hour Twitter apology to Taylor Swift af-ter he interrupted her during her 2009 MTVVideo Music Awards acceptance speech?

President Obama even has creditedmuch of his pre-election support to Face-book users. His campaign has been dubbed“The Facebook Campaign.”

According to the CNBC program “TheFacebook Obsession,” college student sup-porters created the group “Barack Obamafor President in 2008” on Facebook, whichenabled thousands of students to hear aboutand attend a rally at George Mason Univer-

sity. Ironically, event coordinators had pre-dicted about 100 students would turn out.

Social media encourages the newswor-thiness of events otherwise deemed unnews-worthy, and that is precisely why these web-sites will continue to grow and change withthe times. They are the means that enablenews to become news.

Consider it community journalism withan expansive, Internet-linked community.

The power of social media is ever-grow-ing, and I predict we will continue to seethis in 2011. Don’t forget, you heard it hearfirst.

Shannon Frazer is a journalism senior.E-mail sfrazer@kykernel.com or followShannon on Twitter @KernelFrazer.

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MCTThe Green Hornet, starring Seth Rogen and Jay Chou, will be released Jan. 14. Rogen dropped more than 20 pounds for the role.

Perhaps “The Green Hornet” is direc-tor Michel Gondry's mocking wink at theHollywood of masked heroes and the fan-boys who made it that way.

A violent, clumsy, jokey, badly-plot-ted and miscast mess, “Hornet” almostmakes sense, taken on those terms.Gondry is, after all, the director of “Eter-nal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.”“Green Hornet” is certainly not like anyother masked hero movie, unless you re-member “The Spirit” or “Kick-Ass” andthe good and very, very bad parts of bothof those.

It has all the superhero movie ingredi-ents: rich, bored crime-fighting anti-hero,his sidekick, a cooler-than-cool car, and a

supposedly super villain. But Gondry,turns this film of the radio and then 1960sTV series into an epic miscalculation.

A slimmed-down Rogen stars as play-boy Britt Reid, who tries to ignore every-body's words of condolence at his crusad-ing publisher dad's funeral. Dad (TomWilkinson) was always a humorless mar-tinet to Britt.

But Britt finds himself impressed bythe chauffeur who makes his morningespresso, a gadget freak and martial artsmaster whose name he never learned. It'sKato (Jay Chou), by the way.

Kato gives Britt a sense of purpose.He customizes Britt's father's favorite oldChrysler into Black Beauty, an armed-and-pimped-to-the-max muscle car. Theyset out to play some superhero pranks,which Britt pushes the unhappy editor

(Edward James Olmos) of dad's oldnewspaper to publicize as the crimes of“The Green Hornet.” He'll be not a hero,but a villain vying for control of the un-derworld. That'll fool everybody. So willthat little mask and fedora Britt dons.Kato will be his sidekick.

Their foe? A crime lord, Chudnofsky(Christoph Waltz), whose name is so un-pronounceable that everyone makes ajoke of it. Chudnofsky frets over the factthat he's not scary enough.

Cameron Diaz makes a glorifiedcameo as the office assistant who re-searches social ills the Hornet and Katoset out to solve. And look for EdwardFurlong as a strung-out villainous under-ling. They have parts too small to sharethe blame that this soon-to-be-infamousflop will be warrant.

By Roger MooreMcClatchy

Green Hornet lights up theaters

10. Chewbacca: If one were to listen to any “StarWars” geek for any length of time and who would reallywant to you might think that this overgrown shaggy dogwas one of the eight wonders of the universe. He's not, but Iagree that Chewie proved an able sidekick to the dashingHan Solo on the Millennium Falcon.

9. Kato: The Green Hornet wouldn'tmake it through a single night of crime-fighting if not for his martial artist side-kick.

8. Garth Algar: Shwiiiiing. Therewould be no “Wayne's World” if not forWayne Campbell's best friend, sidekickand cable show co-host.

7. Tattoo: Played by Herve Vil-lechaize on the TV show “Fantasy Is-land,” the diminutive actor was sidekickto the mysterious Mr. Roarke. He wasvery good at pointing out "de plane, deplane."

6. Dr. Watson: Who would Sher-lock Holmes bounce ideas off of if notfor his trusty sidekick?

5. Ethel Mertz: Without Ethel,Lucy Ricardo would have been arrested.Ethel was Lucy's partner in crime, butalso her conscience.

4. Robin: Unlike the relationshipbetween The Green Hornet and Kato,Batman would get along fine withoutRobin. Having said that, it's always niceto have someone else around in tightsand a mask so it's trick or treat everynight.

3. Ed Norton: In Norton's case,Ralph Kramden would just be an obnox-ious, abusive loudmouth without thegreat Ed Norton.

2. Barney Fife: There is a reasonthat this show runs continually on TVsomewhere in the world decades after itwent off the air, and the reason isDeputy Fife. Don Knotts' Barney is asfunny a character as ever existed on thesmall screen.

1. Tonto: Tonto, who saved theranger's life and nursed him back tohealth, is one of the most dignified andhonorable characters in fiction.

All-time sidekicksThe best of those helping the leading man

Barney Fife

Robin

Chewbacca

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Ethel Mertz

Tattoo

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