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UK loses battle of bluesCats start off hot, but Duke

extends lead to win 75-68

PHOTO BY SCOTT HANNIGAN | STAFFFreshman forward Nerlens Noel drives to the basket against Duke in the State Farm Champions Clas-sic in Atlanta on Tuesday night. UK lost to Duke, 75-68, in the teams’ first matchup in 11 years.

ATLANTA — The GeorgiaDome had the feel of a gamein late March on Tuesdaynight. There was blue every-where you looked. And it wasthe Blue Devil blue that leftAtlanta with that tournament-like confidence.

UK lost to Duke, 75-68,the earliest in the season ithas lost a game in the JohnCalipari era.

UK was without sopho-more guard Ryan Harrow,who stayed in Lexingtonwhile still recovering fromthe flu.

The Cats came out hot inthe first half, leading by asmuch as six early on. ButDuke fought back, aided by a15-4 run that put the BlueDevils up by two at the half.

Freshman Alex Poythressled UK with his best statisti-cal half of the season. He tal-lied 10 first half points to go

along with three rebounds.The two teams totaled 19

team fouls in the first 20 min-utes. Four Cats entered thelocker room with two fouls.

Duke senior Mason Plum-lee, who had 14 points in thefirst half, picked up his fourthfoul with 16 minutes left.Calipari immediately subbedin freshman Willie Cauley-Stein, hoping to take advan-tage of the 6-foot-10 for-ward’s absence.

But the move wouldn’tpay off. Duke extended itslead to 12 in the followingfour and a half minutes with a9-1 run, capitalizing on sever-al UK turnovers.

The Cats struggled tostring together quality offen-sive possessions. The BlueDevils were consistent on thedefensive glass, making surethe UK big men couldn’t geteasy second-chance points.

But with five minutes left,graduate student Julius Mayshit a transition three to cut thelead to five. Goodwin fol-

lowed with a layup that sentthe capacity crowd of majori-ty Cats fans into a frenzy.

It wouldn’t get any closer.Two free throws and a layupby senior Seth Curry gaveDuke a seven-point lead itheld onto in the final minute.

The Blue Devils’ surgecould be largely attributed totheir 3-point shooting. Theyfinished 8-17 from behind thearc, including 4-6 in the sec-ond half.

Poythress continued hisstrong play down the stretch.The freshman finished with20 points and eight rebounds,including several highlight-reel dunks.

Freshman Archie Good-win, starting at point guard inplace of Harrow, added 16points, six rebounds and fourassists.

The Cats return home toplay Lafayette at Rupp ArenaFriday night in a continuationof the Barclays Center Clas-sic. The game is scheduled totip at 7 p.m.

By David Schuhdschuh@kykernel.com

An ever-growing Duke rivalry

ATLANTA — By the timethe clock struck zero, ulti-mately ending Kansas’chances of victory againstMichigan State, the transfor-mation to blue in the GeorgiaDome’s red seats took that oftwo slightly different hues.

Similar at first glance,that of Duke’s and UK’s rev-eled and jeered at the sight oftheir teams’ emergence fromthe tunnel — staking theirclaim on the college basket-ball world within the loomingwalls of the dome.

Although its relevancewas yet to be cast, the Catsknocked off the Blue Devilsin the 1978 title game.

The legend of two teamsand their fan bases had yetto show significance.

When Christian Laet-tner’s shot found the bottomof the net on March 28,1992, the definition of hatefound a new example.

For the Blue Devils ithad yet taken hold. Twentyyears after beating the Cats,the Blue Devils had the splitseries with UK. The firstwas an 86-84 tournamentgame that went in the Cats’favor, the other a Blue Devilvictory in December 2001.

Nov. 13, 2012, should bethe shift into a new phasefor the two teams.

Whether or not Duke beatUK 75-68 is beside the point.

Simply, the two teams to-gether can draw. And the bat-tle in the low post betweenfreshman forward NerlensNoel and Duke’s MasonPlumlee was nearly enoughto blow the top off the venue.

Nobody can argue it was-n’t the toughest battle for anyteam this young season. Itmay end up being the high-light of the regular season.

Next season’s ChampionsClassic will conclude theplaying cycle among theteams started in 2011. Andgiven the tournament-like at-mosphere this particulargame generated, the everydaysports fan would be done aninjustice if not presented withit on a consistent basis.

Pitting the two againsteach other another 11 sea-sons from now just wouldnot cut it.

Indiana, Kansas andNorth Carolina have beenregular foes throughout thedecades. However, collegebasketball has changed. Therising Duke team that UKfaced in 1978 is now aperennial power with thewinningest coach in NCAAmen’s basketball history.

It’s time to show the im-plications of these two meet-ing, so bring them to theforefront and shed light onthe growing rivalry the twofan bases displayed at theopening tip.

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A program geared towardboth Muslims and non-Mus-lims with a focus on increas-ing understanding about Is-lam and Shariah law comesto campus Thursday.

“Shariah Law: The Mythand Reality of Islam inAmerica,” hosted by UK’sMuslim Student Association,will take place at 7 p.m. inthe Student Center GrandBallroom.

A free dinner will be pro-vided at the event, and thefirst 100 people to arrive willreceive a free T-shirt.

Ihsan Bagby, associateprofessorof modern and clas-sical languages, will be giv-ing the introduction.

Shaykh Abdul NasirJangda, founder and directorof the Qalam Institute, an Is-lamic institution of highereducation, will be deliveringthe main speech.

After the speeches anddinner, there will be an op-portunity for guests to askquestions or write questionson cards to be answered.

Some members of theMSA hope being able to sub-mit questions with cards willallow people to ask thingsthey may fear would offend

Muslims.“It is the perfect opportu-

nity for students who haveconcerns to ask a profession-al who is educated, ratherthan talking to someone whomaybe researched on the In-ternet,” said Faria Morshed,secretary of MSA.

One MSA member hopesto see a repeat of the successthe program saw last year.

“I hope people will bemore educated about Islam,”said Emaan Qureshi, MSArepresentative to the IslamicSociety of Central Kentucky.“Last year people left feelingmore educated. Hopefullywe’ll have a great turnout andpeople will be able to under-stand what is going on.”

Humza Qureshi, presi-dent of MSA, believes stu-dents are open to othergroups of people but couldgain a better understandingof Islam by attending theprogram.

“I think for the most part,especially on a college cam-pus, people are very under-standing and tolerant andopen to new ideas, but at thesame time they are some-times not as informed as theymaybe should be,” he said.“It’s not really somebody’sfault if they don’t know anybetter, to assume something

about a religion or a group ofpeople.

“Basically, we want peo-ple to have a clearer under-standing of Shariah and real-ize that Muslims don’t wantto implement Shariah law inAmerica. Part of Shariah it-self is that you are not sup-posed to supersede the law ofthe land unless you are beingforced to do somethingagainst your religion, whichwe are obviously not inAmerica because there is re-ligious freedom.”

Qureshi would like to seeincreased solidarity and un-derstanding result from theevent.

“We want to get the ideaout there that Muslims arejust like any other group outthere in America and they’rean integral part of Americansociety,” he said.

Qureshi said he thinksstudents owe it to themselvesto look deeper into peopleand cultures different fromtheir own.

“I think as educated peo-ple we have to questionthings that we hear and see.We shouldn’t just take thingsas fact without any furtherinvestigation or trying to findthe truth,” he said. “As edu-cated people, we have to ed-ucate ourselves.”

Shariah Law presentationfocused on understanding

By Morgan Eads

meads@kykernel.com

Program offers opportunity to learn about Islam

The last time UK’s foot-ball team took the field, it ex-perienced a historically badloss at home in front of a his-torically small crowd. Formany in the Bluegrass, it wasthe football program’s lowestpoint in recent history.

But a new dawn has be-gun for the Cats, and the sunmay just begin to peak outover the horizon. Since that

bleak Saturday afternoon, thefootball program has firedhead coach Joker Phillips andregrouped during an openweek. The time off wasmuch-needed by the Cats,and the termination ofPhillips is the end of a sagathat has overshadowed muchof the season.

Now detached from itseight-game losing streak andthe firing of its head coach,UK can approach the finaltwo weeks of the season as a

clean slate. Phillips acceptedan opportunity from UK ath-letic director Mitch Barnhartto coach out the remainder ofthe season, beginning Satur-day with a matchup againstDivision I-AA Samford onthe team’s senior day.

Traditionally, senior dayis meant to honor the outgo-ing seniors for their service tothe program throughout theirrespective careers. As theteam’s final home game ofthe season, it is the last

chance for these departingplayers to play in the stadiumthat served as the setting formost of their careers, to playbefore the fans that supportedthem since their arrival inLexington.

In addition to UK’s seniorclass, Phillips will also becoaching for the final time inCommonwealth Stadium onSaturday. But for Phillips, heis not coaching like it is hissenior day.

As far as UK’s lame-duck

coach is concerned, Saturdayshould have nothing to dowith him. It’s not why heelected to coach in the Cats’final two games.

“I don’t need any treat-ment, special treatment oranything,” Phillips said. “It’snot my senior day. I wantthose guys that have beenhere and given all they havefor this program to be re-warded.”

But don’t tell Phillips’team it shouldn’t be playing

to win for its head coach. Asmuch as Phillips wants tocoach his seniors to a win ontheir senior day, his entiresquad wants nothing morethan to send Phillips off on ahigh note as well.

“Now it’s just like,‘We’re doing it for us,’ ” jun-ior defensive tackle TristianJohnson said. “This is the lasttime a lot of us are going tobe together with Coach

By Ethan Levineelevine@kykernel.com

Samford the last home game for seniors, Phillips

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So, it was with great apprehension that di-rector Bill Condon showed the Motion Pic-ture Assn. of America an early cut of the fran-chise’s fifth and last installment some sixmonths before the film was ready for release.It was a must-do for the filmmaker, who shotboth parts of the final novel, “BreakingDawn,” in one long six-month shoot. Withoutgiving too much of the film’s plot away, somevampires die via the gruesome method.

“Certainly, with any other movie, thereare a thousand ways to kill people,” Condonsaid in a recent interview. “With this one,it’s a variation on the same theme. If theywere going to be offended by the idea of be-headings, we would have had no movie.”

Still, the MPAA’s ratings board initiallyhanded “The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn— Part 2” a provisional R rating, according to

the director. The MPAA didn’t immediatelyrespond to a request for comment Tuesday.

Condon then wrote the ratings board aletter explaining the necessity of includingthe beheadings in the film. And, both Sum-mit Entertainment Co-Chairman Rob Fried-man and the studio’s president of produc-tion, Eric Feig, contacted the oversightboard on the picture’s behalf.

What did the MPAA take greatest issuewith? The sound effects that accompaniedthe vampire decapitations. “Their big notewas the accumulated intensity of (the film’scritical scene). In the end, there were veryspecific suggestions about how we pull backon the sound and the crunching of the headbeing separated from the neck,” said Con-don. “And we did that.”

The film, which opens Friday, is beingreleased with a PG-13 rating for “sequencesof violence including disturbing images,some sensuality and partial nudity,” accord-ing to the MPAA’s disclaimer.

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Phillips and with the seniorclass. So you just got to doit for this group, and we’rejust going to keep on work-ing as a group.”

Senior defensive endCollins Ukwu will be play-ing to share in a memorablevictory with his head coachas both prepare to leave theprogram.

“It’s crazy how(Phillips) brought me in,then I saw when he becamea head coach, and now he’sleaving,” Ukwu said. “It’sjust crazy how it happened,but at the same time I amso happy for him, and thethings that he has donemade me a better man aswell. I just want to thankCoach for everything.”

Phillips said senior widereceiver Gene McCaskilltexted him following his ter-mination to thank him for“saving his life.” Phillipsshrugged off the notion thathe saved McCaskill’s life asa role model in the program,responding with, “‘Thanksfor taking the opportunity tosave your own life.’ It’s notabout me; it’s about him andwhat he did. (He) took ad-vantage of an opportunity.”

This kind of an off-fieldrelationship betweenPhillips and his playersmade him beloved. It’s thosesentiments that makePhillips one of the mostpopular lame-duck coacheswith any fan base in recenthistory. What Phillips failed

to accomplish on thefield may have costhim his job. But theimpact he made onhundreds of youngmen throughout histime in the programwill last forever.

“I am happy for(Phillips) teaching medifferent values whileI’m here,” Ukwusaid. “Letting us learnhow to tie our tie andmanage money andthings like that. Theseare things that heprobably doesn’t talkabout in the media.But he told us whenhe is gone he wants usto be a better man.”

FOOTBALLContinued from page 1

from the front page

To infinity, and beyond!Well, about 23 miles up

for 15 to 20 hours.NASA is partnering with

the Louisiana Space Consor-tium to offer students thechance to launch their ownexperiments into the upper at-mosphere next fall.

Student-built payloadsand experiments will takeflight on a scientific balloonas part of the High AltitudeStudent Platform.

According to RebeccaPowell, a public relations spe-cialist with NASA at WallopsFlight Facility in Virginia, theeffort is part of NASA’s ini-tiative to “foster excitementand start careers in space.”

“It’s a unique experi-ence,” Powell said. “It givesstudents hands-on experienceunlike any other ... not manystudents get the chance to flysomething they built to theedge of space.

“You can learn in a class-

room but until you get yourhands onto something, andbuild and test it yourself, youhaven’t really tested yourselfor had the full experience.”

Graduate and undergradu-ate students from across thenation will compete to havetheir instruments aboard thesmall-volume, zero-pressurevessel.

Because the balloon willonly have room to carryroughly 12 instruments (200pounds) in addition to othertest articles, selection will becompetitive.

Students will need to fol-low strict guidelines and re-quirements while buildingtheir payloads.

“Requirements includethat they (payloads) drawfrom science and showthought to a question,” saidDr. Greg Guzik, project man-ager of HASP and assistantdirector of LaSpace.

Offering some advice,Guzik said, “Make certainyou have a good adviser whocan devote time to the project,

and people in your team whocan cover all of the requiredbases.

“You need to be able to fitit within the constraints of theHASP program and into thevehicle. What we’re reallylooking for is good team or-ganization that is student led.”

Many students who par-ticipated in the HASP pro-gram have gone on to workwith prominent space-relatedcompanies such as SpaceX,Guzik said.

According to the HASPpage on LSU’s website, se-lected students will not becharged for their flight to thelaunch in New Mexico, butthey must provide the fundsfor the development and inte-gration of their experiments.

A question-and-answerteleconference for parties in-terested in the fall 2013 flightwill be held Nov. 16. Thedeadline for applications isDec. 14.

For more information orto apply, visitlaspace.lsu.edu/hasp.

By Judah Taylor

news@kykernel.com

Students’ ideas cantake flight with NASA

PHOTO BY MIKE WEAVER | STAFFFormer UK head coach Joker Phillips willcoach his last home game Saturday.

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Reading Mr. Blackerby’scolumn in Monday’s Kernelwas one of the more unpleas-ant experiences I’ve hadwhile reading our university’snewspaper. While I agreewith the core of his argu-ment, that the RepublicanParty needs to make changesin order to stay relevant,most of his comments werecompletely off the mark andreflected a gross oversight ofcrucial considerations.

Right from the start Mr.Blackerby demonstrated hisignorance of the situation,stating that Republican Sen-ate candidate Richard Mour-dock “said that if a womangot raped it was because Godintended it to happen” andthat he was “ashamed” thatMourdock was not “run outof town” by his fellow Re-publicans. However, if onelooks at Mr. Mourdock’s ac-tual remarks, the then candi-date stated that, after strug-gling with the issue for sometime, he “came to realize lifeis a gift from God … I thinkeven when life begins in thathorrible situation of rape, thatit is something that God in-tended to happen.” While Iagree that putting “rape” and“God intended” in the sameline is never a wise politicalmove, it would have beeneven more unwise for theGOP to completely shunMourdock.

Mr. Mourdock was heavi-ly favored in a traditionallyconservative state during ayear when every Senate seat

was crucial. Although he didend up losing the seat by amoderate margin, 49-45, itwas by no means a landslide;the race might have been sal-vageable if not for personssuch as Blackerby twistingMourdock’s words. The Re-publican Party did not allowMr. Mourdock to “create thenotion that Republicans areanti-woman,” that was doneby overeager journalists hun-gry for more political banter.

In regards to gay mar-riage, Mr. Blackerby utterlydestroyed any ounce of re-maining credibility he mayhave had. He states, “Reli-gion should have no place inour party’s decision.” I canhardly believe that his partyis the same Republican Partyof which I am a member. IsMr. Blackerby aware of thefact that religious conserva-tives who believe gay mar-riage is directly against theteachings of the Bible com-prise a large portion of ourparty’s base, and that comingout in favor of it would do ir-reparable harm to the GOP?While what “two people doin their own homes” may be“none of our business,” to doas Mr. Blackerby did and castmarriage laws purely as anissue of government interven-tion and individual freedomis ignoring the strong reli-gious ties associated with theword marriage and the deepideological divide betweenthose supporting and oppos-ing gay marriage.

Looking finally at hiscomments on immigration, Iwas again appalled at hismisunderstanding of the situ-ation. He repeatedly recom-mends putting the focus firston securing the borders, ig-noring the fact that Romneydid just this, saying Americashould “field enough border

patrol agents, complete ahigh-tech fence, and imple-ment an improved exit verifi-cation system.” He then con-tinues to ramble about allow-ing illegal immigrants to stayin America, ignoring any andall disadvantages to thosewho follow the legal pathand failing to address any ofthe multitude of concerns ac-companying illegal immigra-tion, repeating we should “letthem stay” to win “at leastsome Hispanic votes.”Sounds like a plan.

Instead of dwelling onblunders and pointing fingersat specific politicians andpolicies, the GOP must lookat its standings on social is-sues and see where changesmust be made. The need towin Hispanic votes is clear,and some softening on immi-gration may be required. Aspublic opinion become morefavorable to gay marriage amove toward promoting civilunions and more rights forgay couples may be neces-sary.

Considering the issue’sdivisiveness abortion will al-ways be an issue, and Repub-licans must remember thesesharp divides and handle theissue with greater care in thefuture. However, in the shortterm the GOP’s greatest con-cern and focus should not bein social issues that are large-ly decided by states andcourts. Instead Republicansshould focus on continuing tofight for the economic libertyand independence, which hasallowed our country to pros-per, and for the independencethat has been and will contin-ue to be jeopardized by ourcurrent president.

Matthew Bendure is aneconomics and internationalstudies junior. Emailopinions@kykernel.com.

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The days of UK’s currentpro-style offense and 3-4 de-fensive scheme are coming toan end.

A 40-0 loss to the Van-derbilt Commodores was the

nail in thecoffin onwhat hasbeen headcoach JokerPhillips’ ca-reer as aCat.

In whathas been aseasonmarred byscreen pass-es, aimlessruns, sacks,broken

tackles and failed passbreakups, Phillips’ currentgroup has two more chancesto send the coach out on agood note.

While Samford shouldqualify as a win for thestruggling Cats, it isn’t apushover. Sitting 7-3, theBulldogs have yet to play aquality FBS opponent but

know how to win. Ask No. 6 Florida about

playing such a team. Until alate blocked punt returned fora touchdown, the Gatorswere set to be doomed byLouisiana-Lafayette on Satur-day at the Swamp.

With that said, if theCats expect to knock off theBulldogs, providing Phillipsat least a second win in hisfinal season, their stale of-fense must improve signifi-cantly.

1. Running gameIt’s become evident that

for the Cats to find successthis season, it must comefrom contributors in thebackfield. However, thatwasn’t to be during UK’sprevious loss.

At that time, sophomorerunning back JonathanGeorge, junior running backRaymond Sanders and fresh-man quarterback Jalen Whit-low combined for 99 yardsrushing on 28 carries.

Of those three, George— by far UK’s most success-ful rusher this season —mustered only 44 yards on14 carries, the most of anyCat.

Samford’s largest loss ofthe season, at the hands ofGeorgia Southern, was attrib-uted largely to the way itsopponent ran the ball.

There, Georgia South-ern’s quarterback and full-back rushed for a combined295 yards and four touch-downs.

2. Run defenseSimilar to how Georgia

Southern treated the Samforddefensive line, Vanderbilt ranat will on UK. Four rushershad a combined 43 carriesfor 216 yards. It wasn’t thefirst time the Cats have beentreated to this type of per-formance, but needless tosay, the Commodores would-n’t have been expected to doso.

Given its increased per-formance in recent weeks,the UK defensive line wentfrom a group that wasn’t aconcern, to one that will haveto be on top of things to slowthe Bulldogs’ junior runningback Fabian Truss. Truss hasrushed for 1,026 yards and11 touchdowns on the sea-son.

3. Passing gameAs if the passing game

hadn’t been present, the Cats’inability to find a balancewith the running game didlittle to help create opportu-nities through the air againstthe Commodores.

Whitlow continued tohave to try to make thingshappen, often resulting inshort passes underneath theopposition’s defense.

Once the reigns werehanded over to fellow fresh-man quarterback PatrickTowles, it appeared the Cats’

play callers were insistent inmaking the absent passinggame something it couldn’tbe.

Towles’ attempts quickly

skyrocketed late in the game,as he finished with 23, butonly eight resulted in com-pletions.

Samford will be a step-

ping stone to improving thetwo young passers, but a pre-dominant use of the runninggame will be what is neededto make that happen.

Running, passing game both need work2 running backs, QB combined

for 99 rushing yards against Vandy

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PHOTO BY LATARA APPLEBY | STAFFRunning back Jonathan George, shown against Georgia, has been UK’s most successful rusher this year.

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