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Accounting junior Ty Youtsey, left, sells a parking spot to John Pfleiderer for Saturday’sUK football game against WKU. Low attendance at football games has led to more emptyspaces.

PHOTOS BY TESSA LIGHTY | STAFFMaryanne Sherwood waves a basketball championship flag to capture motorists’ attention while trying to sell parking spaces for the UK Football game Saturday.

“Innocence of Muslims,”a recent anti-Islam film thathas caused uproar in Libyaand Egypt, continues to in-voke violence and protests inthe Middle East.

In the Libyan city ofBenghazi, mobs attacked theU.S. Consulate, killing threeAmericans and the U.S. Am-bassador to Libya, J. Christo-pher Stevens.

The film depicts the-prophet Muhammad as a childmolester, terrorist and buffoon.

Even positive visual depic-tions of Muhammad are for-bidden in the Islam religion.

Humza Qureshi, presidentof the Muslim Student Asso-ciation at UK, said that the re-action to the film was bothironic and tragic.

“The person they wereclaiming to defend set a pro-lific example in his teaching,”Qureshi said. “When he wasteaching Islam and spreadingthe word, he faced mass op-position, ridicule and abuse,but he met it with patience.”

Muslims across the worldhave protested the killing ofthe ambassador and the vio-lence that’s taken place.

“Libyans in Lexingtonwere all shocked and dis-mayed, because he was a bigpart of the revolution thereand a friend of the people,”Qureshi said. “The media’snot portraying that.”

Qureshi added that he andother Muslims at UK havebeen exposed to both Muslimand American cultures, whichadds to their understanding ofthe issue.

The Muslim Student As-sociation will seek to educatestudents this week by passingout pamphlets and talking tostudents on campus.

The actors and actressesinvolved with the film wereled to believe that the filmwould be about entirely dif-ferent subject matter.

The producer, who wasinvolved in other legal issues,has used aliases and hasclaimed to be a supporter of afew different religions.

Although he surely faceslegal action of some sort,journalism professor MikeFarrell doubts that the produc-er will be convicted for violat-ing the First Amendment.

“Ethically, do I think it’s aterrible practice? Yes. I don’tthink that you should misleadpeople in what you’re askingthem to do,” Farrell said. “But

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One year removed fromwitnessing Western Kentuckylinebacker Andrew Jacksontell ESPN and its viewers thatUK is supposed to be SEC,it’s time to give him his duefor knowing what many re-frained from alluding to.

It’s arguable the Catshave sustained an over-

whelming setback in their32-31 loss to the Hilltoppers,the Toppers first ever winover an SEC school.

Head coach Joker Phillipshas questionably been on thehot seat. Now it’s not thecase. Turn up the heat.

It may ease the pain tojust agree with WKU headcoach Willie Taggart’s no-tion that running back Anto-nio Andrews “could be ourReggie Bush.”

He isn’t. Rather a venge-ful former Mr. Football inKentucky who sought toshow the Cats they missed

out.In trying to resolve per-

sonnel issues Phillips en-sured his young talent tookto the field.

While the young re-ceivers have helped sopho-more Maxwell Smith fit thepart of a true quarterback, hedidn’t do much to aid themor the defense in throwingfour interceptions, setting thelatter up for another jab byWestern’s run.

In losing their pound-for-pound battle, the youngerdefensive players were once

Joker, Cats suffer overwhelming setback

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Relevance in question as SEC looms

After dropping games toLouisville and Western Kentucky,the UK football team has a losingrecord early in the season.

Even in victory, the footballteam struggles to draw a crowd.

In its win against Kent Statelast weekend, UK played in frontof the smallest home-opener crowdsince 1973.

However, the football programisn’t the only one taking losses.

Low game attendance meanstrouble, not only for Joker Phillips,

but for many others in Lexington.Those who have raked in mon-

ey parking cars on game day in thepast are suddenly finding it hard tofill spaces.

Mechanical engineering seniorMatt Wagner, who charges fans topark in his driveway on UniversityAvenue, said that six of the 13spots available were filled for theKent State game.

Some have recognized the ef-fects of low attendance early onand are employing creative strate-gies to attract passers-by.

Analytics junior Austin Harvey

Low football attendanceimpacts community

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See PARKING on page 4

Volleyball: No. 13Florida spikes UK

Women’s soccer wins, undefeated in SEC

Phillips’ postgameremarksonline online

PHOTO BY LATARA APPLEBY | STAFFUK freshman wide receiver DeMarcus Sweat appeareddejected after Saturday’s loss to WKU. Sweat caught atouchdown pass late in regulation to tie the game.

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The Oscar-winning animated feature“Finding Nemo” doesn’t need to fish forcompliments: Newly rereleased in 3-D, the 9-year-old Disney/ Pixar marvel about a single-father clown fish searching for his son is awelcome sight on the big screen, where youcan feel the undiminished immensity of theocean and the bulk of a whale in a way TVcan’t touch.

That alone could be reason to take thetykes, even without the third dimension or thegem of a new “Toy Story” short, “PartysaurusRex.” And a parent may not even have muchchoice in the matter, once his or her kid getswind of all this and begs to go. But since momand dad are still the ones paying the premiumfor 3-D, is it worth the trip?

The story itself and the vocal performanc-es argue for yes. Albert Brooks makes thefrantic dad’s anguished desperation visceral ina way kids may not immediately appreciatebut remains a gut-punch to parents. Ellen De-Generes as the dotty sidekick he acquires aftera diver captures his son, Nemo (Alexander

Gould), gives seemingly offhand commentsemotional soul.

Would that the 3-D were up to this ster-ling level. The slight murkiness endemic tomuch 3-D isn’t a problem with the oceanscenes, where most of the film takes place.But those are precisely the scenes in whichthe movie’s lovely, shaded palette often be-comes solarized — burned and overexposed-looking. Removing the 3-D glasses revealsperfectly nice, smooth colors on-screen, sothere’s the culprit.

Meanwhile, showing before “Nemo” isthat marvelous 6 1/2-minute “Toy Story”short. The nervous T. rex, Rex (WallaceShawn), learns that while he may be a partypooper with his friends, he’s a party animalwith the bathtub toys of young Bonnie, the lit-tle girl at the end of “Toy Story 3.” Brisklysuspenseful, with great music and vocal char-acterizations, this third “Toy Story Toons”makes you hope Disney will change its mindand put a “Toy Story 4” on track.

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there’s no First Amendmentissue there.”

An investigation will takeplace to determine whether al-Qaeda used the video as anexcuse to attack the embassy.

“It just doesn’t seem co-incidence that it took place onthe 11th anniversary of9/11,” Farrell said.

The unrest that has fol-lowed since the film’s releasehas led many to ask questionsand reconsider the relation-ship between the Westernworld and the Middle East.

“The relationship be-tween the Middle East andthe Western world is verycomplex,” Qureshi said.“People look at these isolatedincidents and take what theywant from it, but it’s part of amuch larger issue than peoplethink.”

Nada El Majzoub teachesArabic at UK and said she isfascinated by her students’passion for learning about theMiddle East and Muslimworld.

“In my language classes Iwitnessed wonderful interac-tions between Arabs andAmericans and my very inter-action with my American stu-dents has been very reward-ing,” she said. “What is im-

portant for us as Arab Muslimstudents and educators is leadby examples and prove to theworld that terrorism is notwhat defines Islam.”

On a larger scale, she saidit is important that the U.S.government know if it is

building tolerance and cross-cultural understanding withthe Middle East.

“If I may refer to (Secre-tary of State) Hillary Clinton,she asked why a US ambas-sador was killed — which Istrongly condemn — in a

country they have liberated,”El Majzoub said “I answerher with another question:Were you really thinkingabout liberation, and only lib-eration when you helped theLibyan people? If yes, whatabout Syria?”

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FACT: America employs more tax preparers(1.2 million) than law enforcement officers

(765,000) and firefighters(310,400) combined, as the fed-eral tax law grew from 400pages in 1913 to 72,536 pagestoday.

So, hey, we should have apresident who can fix that,right?

FACT: One in three Amer-icans over 65 depends on So-cial Security to stay above thepoverty line of $10,788 annu-ally. Without it, the poverty

rate among seniors would rise to 45 percent fromthe current 9 percent.

So, the president should be able to work withCongress to secure Social Security’s future, cor-rect?

FACT: The military’s budget has doubledover the past decade from $343.5 billion aroundwhen Sept. 11 hit in 2001 to $695.7 billion. Bycomparison, we figure China ($120 billion) and

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So, as the national debt hits $16 trillion andas war fades in Iraq and Afghanistan, can’t thePentagon take a cut?

FACT: Not sure people really care aboutfacts. But if you do, please join us at:

Constitution Day at UK 2012, 11 a.m. to 1p.m. Monday, on the north lawn of the MainBuilding University of Kentucky.

That’s where we will engage first-time votersin the U.S. presidential election in a lively discus-sion of Article II of the U.S. Constitution.

(You know, the Constitution has seven articlesand the second one deals with the president,right?)

The eighth-annual Constitution Day at UK isbeing organized by my Honors Program class,“Citizen Kentucky: Journalism and Democracy,”which is engaged in a research project on key de-terminants for young voters in coming to publicjudgment about which candidate they support forpresident.

As a founding father of Constitution Day atUK who has embraced this research project overmany years, focusing on races ranging from gov-

ernor to U.S. Senate, I am displeased to report toyou my findings: For young voters, party affilia-tion and news coverage are not key determinants.I repeat, not. Whoa, Aunt Nellie, got your atten-tion now, I hope.

So if we want young voters to face the facts,then we need more creative outlets like Constitu-tion Day, where we will distribute a voter guide.This year we will partner with UK’s “Year ofRussia” initiative by inviting Russian journalistand professor Oksana Silantieva to reflect on howthe U.S. presidential election is being portrayed inher country.

She’ll also give us a glimpse of life without aU.S. Constitution when punk rockers get prisontime for protesting the power of the church andleader Vladimir Putin.

As you might suspect from my opening, we’llembrace a project by journalist-turned-prof FrankSesno (FacetheFactsUSA.org). If you sign up,Sesno’s team can deliver you a fact a day byemail.

We can compare notes at UK on Monday, or225 years to the day the final draft of the Consti-tution was signed. And that’s a fact.

Buck Ryan, director of the Citizen KentuckyProject of UK’s Scripps Howard First AmendmentCenter, can be reached at buck.ryan@uky.edu.

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UK President Eli Capilouto sent out an email on Friday af-ternoon titled, “Message About UK’s Smoke-free Campus.”

The email said, “I am proud that UK is one of over 500colleges and universities that do not allow the use of tobaccoproducts. I am writing to ask that tobacco users please respectour tobacco-free campus policy.”

It appears UK has taken few steps to “not allow the use oftobacco products.”

A walk around campus on a given school day would indi-cate that UK does not take the enforcement of this policy seri-ously.

There is a “Ring of Fire” that often forms around campusareas where large groups of smokers congregate. These areasinclude: the Rose Street entrance to Chandler Hospital underthe walkway, Good Samaritan Hospital facing Maxwell Street,the student center near Avnue Of Champions, the EngineeringAnnex and the White Hall Classroom Building.

The north side of the White Hall Building, which basicallyserves as a ‘smoking section’ between classes.

Capilouto’s email did not outline any new plans for en-forcement or increased penalties for violators.

Until there are more stringent consequences for the smok-ers, students, faculty and staff will continue to violate the poli-cy.

Lee Todd was president when the smoke-free policy wasput into effect. However, he did little to enforce the policy.Capilouto has inherited this policy, but can be the president

who actually makes strides toward a smoke-free campus.If UK does not have a commitment to the smoking ban, the

administration or Board of Trustees should move to abolish thepolicy. There is no reason to distribute information to theschool community and putt up signs declaring UK as tobacco-free if in reality it is not.

It is a good pitch to incoming freshmen and their familiesthat UK is smoke-free, but if they tour on a day that UK is insession they are likely baffled by the people blatantly smokingon campus.

For all of the initial uproar that followed UK’s announce-ment of the smoking ban in November 2009, which includedstudents putting a cigarette in the mouth of the Patterson Statuein protest, the smokers required little change to their habits.

Most of these smokers do not even attempt to hide thatthey have chosen to defy UK’s policy.

If UK does move to enforce the smoke-free policy therewill likely be an uproar from smokers on campus who havegrown accustomed to diregarding it. However, since this policywas in place before many of UK’s current students arrivedhere, they have agreed to follow it by attending.

Capilouto concluded his email by saying, “Thank you foryour commitment to this policy, but also to the health andwell-being of your fellow students, faculty and staff.” Howev-er, if the smokers have so little commitment to their own healththat they smoke despite the obvious risks, they clearly alsolack a commitment to health of their fellow students, facultyand staff.

Capilouto has shown he is willing to take bold steps tomove beyond the previous administration’s inaction on proj-ects such as updating campus housing. Capilouto can onceagain make a bold step in the enforcement of UK’s smokingban.

Smoking ban remains many words and few actions

PHOTO BY TESSA LIGHTY | STAFFStudents smoke at UK on Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2011.

again sent into battle, but possibly toosoon, to the point it could be a confi-dence killer.

Simply, Phillips doesn’t haveenough Band-Aids to fix the team’smetaphorical boo-boos.

UK paid $500,000 for a loss – aloss to a team from the Sun Belt. Here’san idea, use that money to improve therecruiting facilities so recruits are moreprone to come and improve the falteringprogram.

Despite Phillips’ postgame thoughts,such a game is a risk with the quality ofteam being placed on the football field.

“I don't think a lot more to risk,” hesaid. “We're both lining up and playingfootball. We've got to play the guysthat are on our schedule. I don't consid-er it more risk.”

Feedback from fans came in the cho-rus of boos and tweets that filteredthroughout the stadium during the gameare likely an indication they’re at theirwits end, subsequently making it a risk.

All that’s a far cry from a week agowhen the Cats’ 33-point victory createda positive mindset – mind you it wasKent State, who attempted to return afumble to its opponent’s end zone theprevious week.

UK players of future and past eventook to their social media outlets to ventover the Cats’ struggles with the Hill-toppers.

Jalen Battle, a commit from theclass of 2013, tweeted, “KENTUCKYIS ABOUT TO RUIN A GOODNIGHT,” among other negative com-ments, including questioning the de-fense.

Fellow 2013 recruit Skai Mooretweeted, “(Just) when I put Kentucky inthe (running).” That resulted in a re-sponse from Battle that said, “SMHTHERE GOES ALL HOPE OF HIMCOMING WITH ME.”

Former cornerback Randall Burden,

the most recent of Phillips’ players tospeak on the game, said he was morededicated to getting a funnel cake thanhis team. Likely a joke, but not a goodlook for the Cats from a recent departure.

One of the state’s more belovedCats, Wesley Woodyard, tweeted,“Western Kentucky.... Really it's West-ern freakin Kentucky!”

The Cats aren’t coming off of pro-bation, which would be a reasonable ex-cuse for a loss to a team that entered theFootball Bowl Subdivision in 2009.

It was also the case for head coachRich Brooks in 2004. At that time theOhio Bobcats dealt the Cats a 28-16 loss,two weeks after they thumped the Indi-ana Hoosiers in two games they hosted.

The final result of that season was a2-9 record. Ohio ended up losing itscoach. While it was because of firing, Ianticipate Taggart to get some qualityoffers that could lead him astray.

A search regarding that 2004 seasonwill unveil many articles discussing

Brooks being in the hot seat due to histeam’s play in his second season. Hadthere been Twitter, I’m sure speculationwould’ve been even more fueled and to-day’s UK program may not even resem-ble itself.

Year in and year out, media and fansalike seemingly are tricked by the prod-uct about to be rolled out for the season,many taking the bait that the season isgoing to be different from the last.

Again, one side of the ball deflatesthe other’s progress.

At night’s end, the UK defense fi-nally crashed through to get a big stop,but they to were tricked when WKUquarterback Kawaun Jakes found theball in his possession before steppinginto the end zone to secure the victory.

Rick Minter’s postgame commenton the team and conclusion encom-passes Saturday and the program’s re-cent luck, or lack thereof.

“We’re the ones crying over spiltmilk.”

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and his roomates have takenturns dressing up in a gorillacostume and advertising theiravailable parking in an attemptto entertain, and beat out theircompetition.

“The UK football team ison the down,” Harvey said.“We’re a basketball school,and who’s going to come fora game like Kent State?”

However, some local busi-nesses are seeing steady or im-proved crowds, likely becausefewer people are actually at-tending the games.

Communications senior

Heather Fields works at TinRoof, and says that everyseat was filled for the KentState game.

“Honestly, I just think westay steady no matter what,”Fields said.

Although others, such asticket scalpers, are not solucky, some are hopeful thatthe situation will improve as

the season continues and thecompetition gets tougher.

“Today’s better than lastweekend because Western fansdidn’t have far to travel,” Har-vey said. “It should get betterwhen the SEC starts.”

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White defeated Blue 121-93 in the Alumni CharityBasketball Game at RuppArena on Saturday afternoon.

The score is relatively ir-relevant, but the events weresignificant for the UK basket-ball program for these fourreasons:

The CharitiesThe weekend’s events,

which included an auction atUK head coach John Cali-pari’s house Friday, led to do-nations to charity of$350,000.

Players and coaches dis-tributed checks to charitiessuch as Samaritan’s Feet andthe West Liberty RecoveryFund during halftime of thegame in front of the Ruppcrowd of 10,173.

DeMarcus CousinsCousins led all scorers

with 42 points, and scoredmany in a most unconven-tional fashion — from behindthe 3-point arc. Cousins shot18-for-24 from the field, in-cluding 5-for-10 from 3-pointrange.

Cousins joked about hisrange after the game. “I was alittle shaky on my first shot,but I kept shooting — that’swhat shooters do,” he said.“It’s something in my arsenal— I’m not trying to show toomuch.”

Cousins said Calipari ad-mitted he had been holdingback, but cautioned againstthoughts that Drake may bethe better coach for allowinghim to fire away.

“He can sing a bettersong, but I don’t know aboutcoaching,” he said.

Fan InteractionSeveral former Cats

signed autographs and talkedwith the fans in attendance

Saturday, sometimes leadingto lines extending through theaisles of Rupp.

Cousins went as far as au-tographing his massive sneak-ers and giving them away tochildren in the crowd after thegame.

“It’s always great to comeback here,” Cousins said.“Always the same love (fromthe fans). We had a lot of funan really enjoyed it. We had ablast and hope everybody elsedid too.”

Celebration of TraditionCalipari involved a mas-

sive amount of former playersand coaches in the alumniweekend, having many ofthem introduced to the crowdduring the game.

Former multi-sport UKstar Wah Wah Jones was an-nounced by Calipari as the“Greatest athlete to play atthis school.” Jones then tookcenter stage with Anthony

Davis as they both displayedtheir Olympic gold medals.

Most of the members ofthe 1996 national championswere present and played notonly in the alumni game but inan exhibition against playersfrom the John Calipari Basket-ball Fantasy Experience.

“He has done a great jobof bringing everyone togeth-er,” said Tony Delk from the’96 team.

Their participation onceagain fueled the debate overwhich UK championshipteam was the greatest – 1996or 2012.

When asked which teamwas better, former Cat JohnWall was definitive with hisanswer, with one caveat.

“2012. But they have tobeat the 2010 team first,”Wall said. “We can take them,we can take on any challenge.But the ’96 team can stillshoot.”

Alumni Charity game a success for charitiesBy Les Johns

ljohns@kykernel.com

PHOTO BY LATARA APPLEBY | STAFFSenior wide receiver La’Rod King gets tackled after a reception in UK’s 32-31 overtime lossto Western Kentucky on Saturday. King had a career high 10 receptions.