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Trustees approve contract to reduce energy use

By Rick Burchfieldnews@kykernel.com

The UK Board of Trustees met Tuesdayto finalize plans to reduce energy use oncampus — one of which was the approvaland institution of an energy savings perform-ance contract with Ameresco, an energy serv-ice company out of Louisville, Ky.

An ESCO, such as Ameresco, provides acumulative energy and water management re-port and evaluation along with an overall en-ergy and water improvement service. Bymoving in the direction of energy conserva-tion, the energy savings contract is a cost-ef-fective way to improve and create energy up-grades, according to a recent UK news re-lease.

One of the main benefactors of employ-

ing an ESCO at an institution like UK isthat it guarantees a return of the initial in-vestment over a set time, usually between11 to 12 years. If the funded project doesnot meet and provide the returns in the al-lotted time period, the ESCO is responsiblefor the difference. UK will be fronting afirst phase budget of $25 million toAmeresco, including a trial audit of 10buildings on campus.

Bob Wiseman, vice president for facili-ties management, said in the news release theuniversity’s overall goal was to decrease en-

Board chooses Louisville-based company

See Board on page 6

By Melody Bailiffnews@kykernel.com

Student Government President RyanSmith announced plans to implementchanges at year’s end at Tuesday’s Board ofTrustees Student Affairs Committee meet-ing.

Smith said the SG Senate was in theprocess of trying to split finals week. Thefinals schedule would take place on aThursday and Friday, and resume the Mon-day and Tuesday after. Smith said it wouldimprove student retention rates.

“It gives students a spread-out schedulefor finals, and academic performance hasimproved when schools have switched,”Smith said.

Under this system, Dead Week would

begin the Thursday before finals and go un-til Tuesday. Students would take theWednesday after Dead Week off.

The SG Senate will be voting next weekand the decision will then be reviewed bythe Staff Senate. If it passes, the split willbegin Fall 2010.

“There is a strong possibility this willhappen,” Smith said. “The faculty is sup-portive and last year we were able tochange the dead week policy. We are hop-ing to succeed again on this issue.”

Smith said the idea to split finals weekcame up when SG researched fall breaks atother schools, finding that half of thebenchmarks they researched had a fall breakand split finals.

Smith said if UK does get a fall break, itwill fall on a Thursday through a Monday,either before or after mid-terms. The timehas not been decided yet. If students do geta fall break, they will come back from win-ter break one week early.

SG president proposesfall break, split dead week

SG sellsparking

for end ofsemester

To help students duringfinals week, the UK StudentGovernment is offeringparking to minimize stresslevels.

Student Governmentpresident Ryan Smith an-nounced during Tuesday’sBoard of Trustees’ StudentAffairs Committee that SGhas 1,200 temporary parkingpasses for students near thelibrary beginning the Mon-day of Dead Week and end-ing the Friday of finals.

The passes will be validfor all surface lots, excludingresident lots and the parkinggarage located next to K-Lair. They are $7 a piece andwill be sold on a first come,first serve basis.

Passes are on sale now atthe UK Student Center TicketOffice. Students can pay withcash, check, credit card andUK Plus Account. A boothwill also be set up at the nextUK men’s basketball lottery,Dec. 7, in Memorial Colise-um. Cash and personalchecks only will be acceptedat this time.

— MELODY BAILIFF

Board ofTrustees

PHOTOS BY BRITNEY MCINTOSH | STAFFAbove: Jeanne Jessop, left, and Emily Underwood hold candles at the AIDS vigil in Phoenix Park on Tuesday evening. Jessop lost a family member to AIDS,and both Jessop and Underwood have friends who are currently living with AIDS. Below: Tyler Lear, a German freshman at Transylvania University, andKathleen Johnston, a biology freshman at Transylvania University walk from Third Street Stuff to Phoenix Park for the AIDS vigil on Tuesday evening.

Jolly‘Canadian’wraps upcaravanBy Emily-Kate Cardwell

features@kykernel.com

The Holiday season is fi-nally here, and many say De-cember is the season to bejolly.

Gabe Kea, winner of the“Funniest Person in Cincin-nati,” will be appearing on

c a m p u sWe d n e s d a yfor the Come-dy Caravanseries inhopes ofs p r e a d i n gsome holidaycheer.

Althoughhe is a St. Louis native, Keaoften boasts of Canadian citi-zenship. Following his col-lege days, he embarked on asolo expedition to Europewhere he found it was best toidentify himself as “Canadi-an” rather than “American.”

See Comedy on page 6

Kea

Vigil lights LexingtonBy Cassidy Herrington

news@kykernel.com

Accompanied by a full moon,nearly 200 people illuminated bycandles marched downtown, gather-ing in honor of the 21st WorldAIDS Day on Tuesday evening.

At 5:30 p.m., participants of thevigil gathered at various coffeeshops, such as Third Street Stuff,Starbucks on Main Street, CommonGrounds and Dunkin’ Donuts, final-ly congregating in Phoenix Parkwhere they were greeted by theLexington Black Voices choir andhundreds of lights.

AIDS Volunteers Inc., AVOL,

sponsored the service and ExecutiveDirector Mark Royse said AIDS ed-ucation is vital.

“To the young people tonight, Ichallenge you to educate yourself, forsilence equals death,” Royse said.

AVOL is a Lexington-basednon-profit organization that pro-vides service to 72 counties in Ken-tucky and offers free, anonymousHIV/AIDS testing. Royse said thedisease is 100 percent preventable,urging students to get tested.

“When you’re beginning yoursexual life, that’s the time to knowwhat puts you at risk,” Royse said.

Cats combine offense, defense to clobber RedHawksBy Nick Craddock

sports@kykernel.com

Defense has been the calling cardfor the UK women’s basketball teamthus far this season, but the Catspulled an ace out of the hole on Tues-day night.

The Cats coupled their usual de-fensive intensity with a scorching of-fensive performance on their way tolambasting Miami of Ohio 107-53 infront of 4,123 fans who left Memori-al Coliseum grinning from ear to ear.

“We just played some terrificbasketball,” said UK head coachMatthew Mitchell. “The defensiveintensity in the first half was wherewe want it, and we finally got ontrack tonight shooting the 3-point

shot, which I thought was comingon.”

The Cats forced the RedHawksinto 28 turnovers and shot a stagger-ing 70.6 percent from 3-point range.

More importantly for UK, it wastwo usually solid 3-point shooters,junior guard Carly Morrow and sen-ior guard Amani Franklin, who shooktheir offensive dry spell that hasplagued them to start the season.

Morrow was 4 of 6 from beyondthe arc for the game, while Franklinwas a perfect 2 for 2 on her way tofinishing with 16 points and nineboards.

“For the most part we were con-necting on all cylinders,” Franklinsaid.

See AIDS on page 3

See Basketball on page 3

WORLD AIDS DAY

Freestyle artistMusician lays it all on the line to

pursue his dreamSee Pop on Thursday See Hockey on page 3

PHOTO BY SCOTT HANNIGAN | STAFFA’dia Mathies gives a no-look pass to teammate Amber Smith during the Cats’ 107-53 win over Miami of Ohio on Tuesday night.

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Cool Cats, Buckeyesready to take icewith rankings up forgrabs

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TORONTO — Director David Cronenberg, who cast Vig-go Mortensen as a Russian mob lieutenant in "EasternPromises," tells how his star would disappear from theLondon shoot on weekends, not revealing where hewas going, and return Monday with photographs andobjects, tattoo books, and snatches of Russian streetslang he had gleaned during his stealth getaways toMoscow and St. Petersburg.

For "The Road," it wasn't possible for Mortensen topursue that same sort of diligent research. After all,how do you delve into the apocalypse?

"One of the things that attracted me to this story isthat there is nowhere to hide," says Mortensen of thefilm based on Cormac McCarthy's Pulitzer Prize winner— a novel about a father and his young son wanderinga devastated, ash-dusted America. "Not that doing re-search is hiding, necessarily, but 'The Road' is verybare-bones. You know, people say, what happened?Was it a war? Was it an environmental catastrophe?Climate change?

"And in a sense it doesn't matter, because it's a de-vice, it's a means to exaggerate a concern that every-one can understand. ... And that's inherently dramatic,but it's also, as an actor, a big challenge. There are notricks. You either have to believe that these people arefather and son, that they love each other, that they real-ly are going through some difficult things, or you don't.And you have to believe their harrowing emotional jour-ney."

Harrowing, indeed. A bleak, beautiful film, directed

by John Hillcoat (and shot mostly in western Pennsylva-nia), "The Road" — with its depiction of solitary, fright-ened survivors and roving bands of cannibal marauders— is not exactly your typical Thanksgiving feel-goodfare. But it is, in its own dark way, a celebration of thebonds of family, of father and son, husband and wife(Charlize Theron, seen in flashbacks).

"My entry point was obviously being a parent, andhaving a boy, and remembering how he was at thatage," says Mortensen, the soft-spoken "Lord of theRings" icon. In "The Road," Mortensen's nameless char-acter is left with his son (also nameless), who looks tobe 8 or 9 — and is played by the spookily talented Aus-tralian Kodi Smitt-McPhee.

Mortensen, in a hotel room following the gala pre-miere of "The Road" at the Toronto International FilmFestival in September, cannot wax more effusive abouthis diminutive costar, who was 10 at the time of filming.

"If you don't have a child that has the gift, the emo-tional availability, and more than anything the intelli-gence to have that through-line ... if you don't believehim, and believe the boy and the man's relationship,there's no faking it in the story," he says.

Mortensen went out of his way to befriend theyoung actor — spending off-time together, going to mu-seums and baseball games, hitting a Mexican bodegain Pittsburgh to buy boxes of glazed crickets — insectsthat the two of them are seen eating in the film.

Mortensen breaches postapocalyptic frontier in ‘The Road’

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Investment committee to lowerfuture endowment payout

By Chris Robbinsnews@kykernel.com

The Board of Trustees Investment Com-mittee looked to reduce spending from theuniversity endowment, and discussed long-term strategies to increase returns from its in-vestments at its monthly meeting.

On Tuesday morning, the committee tookunanimous action to reduce the percentagepayout from the university’s endowment to4.5 percent in July, down from the currentpayout of 5 percent. The reduction is an effortto restore growth to the fund.

“We’re being realistic about what’s hap-pening out there,” said UK President LeeTodd. “I haven’t heard a lot of whining its justbeen, ‘Go ahead and get it done.’ “

The vote also reduced the payment of theendowment management fee into the generalfund from a projected $3.4 million to $1.9million over the next two years.

“The feeling we’ve gotten is get the pain

over with in a two-year period and not extendit out,” Todd said.

The reduction in distributions was antici-pated after the endowment dropped by 32 per-cent in 2008. Due to the recession, the valueof endowment investments decreased.

The vote extended the period used to cal-culate additional distribution from the endow-ment from 36 to 60 months. Since this calcu-lation occurs on Dec. 31 every year, this evensout the impact of the recent economic down-turn on available funds by averaging it outover a longer period of time.

Robert Palmeri from R.V. Kuhns and As-sociates, an investment firm that consults thetrustees, advocated cautious and low-risklong-term investments to the committee.

“The more you spend the less there is inthe endowment so the principle erodes overtime,” Palmeri said.

The endowment is invested into funds andthe earnings are used to support scholarships,chairs, professorships and basic research, aswell as academic and public service programs.

The endowment management fee goesinto the university’s general fund along withstate appropriations and money collected fromtuition payments. The committee did not dis-cuss where the difference in the general fundwould be made up.

Board ofTrustees

Wednesday, December 2, 2009 | PAGE 3

By Aaron Smithsports@kykernel.com

The hockey team got a wake-up calland hopes it didn’t merely hit the snoozebutton.

UK (17-4) dropped to No. 4 in theSoutheast rankings after a pair of losses atIllinois on Nov. 21-22. UK head coachRob Docherty said the team simply gotoutplayed and outhustled. UK will lookto rebound quickly with No. 1 Ohio Stateon tap this weekend in games with post-season implications.

“These two are the biggest games ofthe season,” Docherty said. “Two goodwins will put us back in the top two (ofthe rankings). A split isn’t good enough.”

UK doesn’t play any of the other topfive teams in the Southeast region, com-pounding the importance of the OhioState games.

“We’ve been gearing up for thisweekend for a while,” junior goalieDerek Steinbrecher said. “We know whatcaliber hockey we can play, and we havethis one chance to show that we are theclass of the Southeast division.”

With the second half of the scheduleappearing to be weaker than the first half,UK will have fewer opportunities tomake a run for a spot in the top two. UKwill still have the opportunity to play itsway into nationals, but the chance to earnan automatic bid that’s given to the toptwo teams in each region is sitting right infront of the Cool Cats.

“We couldn’t ask for a better sce-nario,” sophomore Billy Glass said.“This is our last realistic chance to moveup in the rankings, and this is our onlyshot at taking down one of the top divi-sional teams.”

Despite losing its No. 2 ranking,UK was helped by other top teamsstruggling, leaving the door open forthe all-important automatic bid. Beating

Ohio State would be breaking the doordown.

“We have to find (Ohio State’s) loop-hole, stay calm, and don’t get frustrated,”Docherty said. “If they stop 10 shots,shoot 20 more. We have to keep slappingaway and keep crashing the nets, find away to get garbage goals.”

UK will be missing senior DanielAmpleford, who broke his collarbonethree games ago against Eastern Illinois.Ampleford anchored the second line,ranked fourth on the team with 32 pointsand was a key cog on the power plays forUK.

“You can’t replace Daniel as a player,but we can try to replace his position,”Docherty said. “We have to pick up theslack and get more input from the thirdand fourth lines.”

Docherty and the rest of the team has

been preaching depth as the primary rea-son for their success. That claim willnow be tested. Taking over the center po-sition on the second line will be freshmanAnthony Simandl, who is making thejump from practice team to second line.

“It’s been a little nerve-wracking try-ing to fill Daniel’s shoes,” Simandl said.“It’s been tough adjusting to the speed,but I’m pumped to get a chance to play.”

UK knows the outcome of its seasoncould be determined this weekend andthe players are looking to embrace thegravity of the situation, and the pressurethat comes with it.

“We like getting excited before thebig games,” junior Taylor Vit said. “It’swhy we play the game. Whether wewere the No. 1 team or the No. 4 team,this weekend has been pegged as thebiggest series of the year for a long time.”

After back-to-back losses, Cool Catshope for rebound against No. 1 OSU

Cheer practice scheduled for Carolina gameThe Big Blue Nation is

trying to get in sync.The Student Athletic

Council will hold a cheerpractice Wednesday at 5 p.m.for UK fans, said Student Ath-letic Council President AmberMcGehee in a statement.

The goal of the practice isto have all fans on the samepage on Saturday for the Cats’next home game against No.10 North Carolina.

McGehee said the StudentAthletic Council will alsovideotape the eRUPPtionZone doing specific newcheers, actions and chants.This video will be made avail-able to all students and willhelp teach the students who sitin the eRUPPtion Zone for theUNC game and future games.

Entry for the practice willbe through the security en-trance located near the loading

docks. Free parking will beavailable in the Cox Streetparking lot.

Those with eRUPPtionZone tickets will sit in theeRUPPtion Zone to start butothers will be filled in as nec-essary for the practice.

UK and UNC are sched-uled to tip off at 12:30 p.m.The game is being televisednationally by CBS. It will bethe Cats’ first game against a

nationally ranked opponent.

— METZ CAMFIELD

If you goWhat: Cheer practiceWhen: Wednesday at 5 p.m.Where: Rupp ArenaAdmission: Free to studentswith free parking in the CoxStreet parking lot

SophomoreBilly Glassand the Catssaid theyknow howimportantthis week-end’s gamesare to theirfinal ranking.

PHOTO BYSCOTT HANNIGANSTAFF

About 50 people journeyed from Third Street Stuff,and among the group, AVOL participant Thomas Tollivercould be heard singing “This Little Light of Mine.”

“Like most people, I have lost friends to HIV andAIDS,” Tolliver said. “We need events like this to height-en awareness that this disease is still alive and well in oursociety.”

Sam Graper, a participant in the vigil for a secondyear, said education is part of the prevention.

“It takes knowledge promoting safe sex, not juststrictly abstinence,” Graper said. “I don’t think it’s talkedabout in the school system and other places it could be.”

Currently, there are more than 30 million peopleworldwide with the disease. In Kentucky, AIDS is the10th leading cause of death, and two out of 10 people di-agnosed will die, Royse said.

Barbara Hall, a social work junior, is a volunteer atAVOL and helped coordinate the event.

“African-American women are being diagnosed thefastest, which is different from what it used to be,” Hall said.

According to statehealthfacts.org, there are nearly5,000 diagnosed cases of AIDS in Kentucky. AfricanAmericans make up 38 percent of people diagnosed withAIDS, Royse said.

“I hope events like this erase the stigma of HIV andAIDS because we’ve lived with this disease now for 30years and we need to bring it out of the closet,” Tolliversaid. “HIV deaths don’t capture headlines the way theyused to.”

AIDSContinued from page 1

Franklin said aside from a period of play midwaythrough the second half, where UK let up on the gas a lit-tle bit, nothing went wrong.

Nothing went right for Miami of Ohio, who finishedwith a poor 26.8 percent shooting percentage from thefloor. Even the RedHawks’ star freshman guard CourtneyOsborn, who came into the contest averaging almost 20

points per game, wasrendered virtually inef-fective. Osborn finishedwith 22 points, but madeonly 5 of 19 field goals.

In fact, the Cats real-ly only needed the firsthalf to decide the out-come, as they used a 15-0 and 12-0 scoring run totake a commanding 57-21 lead at the break.

The Cats opened the second half with a 9-2 run, andthe crowd could sense nothing was going to go wrong forthe home team when Franklin launched a 3-point shotthree minutes into the half and it bounced around severaltimes before falling through the hoop.

The effective 3-point shooting also helped alleviatesome of the pressure on UK’s top scorer Victoria Dunlap,who collected her 17th career double-double.

“We really wanted to come out in the second halfand keep our intensity level,” Mitchell said. “I was glad,after not doing that at first, that we managed to finishstrong.”

BASKETBALLContinued from page 1

“For the most part wewere conneting on all

cylinders.”AMANI FRANKLIN

Senior guard

OPINIONSWednesday, December 2, 2009 Page 4

WILLIAM KILUBA, Kernel cartoonist

Smith-Hayes legacywill be student input

Each year Student Gov-ernment executives battlethe perception that their of-fice does nothing – SGPresident Ryan Smith andVice President KelseyHayes face the same scruti-ny, but are looking to createa program that will lastlong after they leave UK.

In a sit-down interviewwith the Kernel EditorialBoard, the duo expressedtheir pleasure with the year-to-date results of the pilotrun of the TallyCats pro-gram and their desire to im-prove the program movingforward by making it a partof campus culture.

Incorporating TallyCatsto the UK culture is onegoal to make their plan sus-tainable for years to come,but they are attempting toadd a sustainability elementthrough promotions withCoca-Cola, which hopes tointegrate re-use and recy-cling, which will generaterevenue and provide anotherway to add TallyCat points.

Other initiatives like theDead Week parking pass, afall break, split-finals week,a permanent student feescommittee, Senate and vot-ing reform are applaudablegoals. Most of the ideas andinitiatives they expressedare welcome and long over-due. However, with all ofthe recent controversy sur-rounding Wildcat CoalLodge and the flawedBoard of Trustees policy,

the most important thingSG can do right now is en-hance the student voice.

Smith said UK adminis-tration has been receptiveto the ideas and proposalsof his administration, whichis nice for SG, but for thestudent body it means little.

When students are notable to speak to a boardthat represents them, some-thing is wrong, regardlessof what state laws and pro-cedures say.

It may not be somethingSmith himself can tackle asa member of the Board ofTrustees or through student-led legislation, but lobbyingto the very top should be anoption that SG advocates.

It’s clear the current ad-ministration is aiming highand attempting to produceresults beyond those of pri-or SG administrations. Sofar they have avoided send-ing embarrassing e-mailsand attempts to repeal taxesthat don’t exist, but in orderto truly succeed, Smith-Hayes must fight a systemthat at times can silence thevoice of those it serves.

Leaving a legacy maynot be an explicit goal, butproviding undergraduateand graduate students witha university that hears themout would give students anexperience far more valu-able than any programcould offer. And make thisadminstration one for theages.

Scholarship moneyneeded elsewhere

I am appalled at reading that the UK Athletic Associa-tion is giving $500,000 to the Robinson Scholars program.Doesn't everyone know that eastern Kentucky has coal?Coal is the lifeblood of the region and is doing great thingsboth economically and socially for the region. The in-creased use of mountaintop removal coal mining is only go-ing to make more money and pour jobs into the region.

Why do these kids need a college degree when a miningjob making big bucks is waiting on them? And with all ofthe flat land MTR is leaving, great blue and white collarjobs are opening up everywhere. Let's use this money to ed-ucate poor central Kentucky kids who don't have the greatfuture that the kids in eastern Kentucky have with all of thecoal that is being produced. Per Joe Craft and Friends ofCoal, the region is thriving and has unlimited possibilitiesonce those pesky mountains have been removed and gottenout of the way.

Jerod Smithhistory junior

Q. Sitting in on the Board ofTrustees meeting when the Coal Lodgevote came up, what was that like foryou? Talk about your decision.

Smith: This is a controversial issueand I talked to a lot of people aboutthe issue and as hard as it is to say noto $7 million and a free building, I felt(it was wrong). UK is a little unique.We don't have Papa John's CardinalStadium; we have Rupp Arena; Wehave Commonwealth Stadium. Wedon't have any building on campusnamed after an industry, much less anindustry with the significant amount ofpeople on both sides of the issue.

I felt it set a bad precedent, a reallybad precedent. It's great they are goingto have a nice facility, but I just thinkit will make drawing a line down theroad much more difficult if an industrysuch as the liquor industry or the to-bacco industry (want in). I know Dr.Yanarella said similar things ...

People fell on both sides of the is-sue, everybody had an opinion... Therewas a letter that was given to me about10 minutes before the board meetingand I got copy distributed to everyboard member and let them know theseare the sentiments of students here to-day. I had a pre-written statement that Iread and my opinion of it.

Q. What are you doing to help thestudent voice resound more so that asituation like this does not happenagain? Should there be more studentinput on the Board of Trustees?

Smith: That is a state statute; thestate mandates the number of boardmembers, the number of faculty, staff

and student representatives. It's a statelegislature issue to change. There's theopportunity to lobby for students, butit's a difficult position because we areessentially a state institution and thegovernor appoints the majority of theboard members ...

Hayes: There are some student or-ganizations that are working to gettheir opinions heard for the Decembermeeting ...

Q. Do you feel like the most effec-tive way would be to educate stu-dents of how to get on the agenda orto change the process to make itmore accessible?

Smith: We can educate folks onhow to go about it and they can workthrough Student Government and workthrough me to get on the docket.

Q. What is SG doing to help stu-dents out with dealing with the to-bacco ban? Where do you stand onthe issue?

Smith: We have continued to workwith Ellen Hahn and Anthany Beatty onways they can improve communicationto students. We have worked with themand Jimmy Stanton to get a list of fre-quently asked questions to promote someof the most common misconceptions ofstudents about this new policy ...

This was a decision by Dr. Todd.Not a board decision, it's not somethinga voting body or a referendum on a bal-lot will change, so our goal in SG is toeducate students on what it is, how itwill be enforced, the idea behind it, sothat we can help to build that culture...

Hayes: We are also trying to edu-cate students and find better ways to

educate students about the alterna-tives... Letting students know aboutthose things and letting them knowabout their options instead of just say-ing “smoking ban, sorry … ”

That's something we emphasized inthe beginning, because when they dis-cussed this at the compliance meetingsthey were just talking about a ban … Ifyou're going to do this by a specificdate there needs to be alternatives andthey need to be available at a cheaperrate for students. We provided that in-put from the very beginning ...

Q. Are you continuing with anyplans from the past administration,like the Campus 365 Plan?

Hayes: Yes, we actually have thesame thing. We have spoken with thedeputy chief of staff's and all of the ad-visory board members. Instead of uscrafting a policy and having others car-ry it out, the advisory board memberswill develop and carry out plans. Theycame up with plans for their board andthey worked with us and the deputychief of staff and they worked with usand we put it into one document.

Q. What will be your legacy afteryou leave UK?

Smith: I don't know that we reallyhave been concerned too much withour legacy. We are more concernedwith having ... programs that are a sta-ple of SG that encourage student par-ticipation and improve students’ expe-rience within the university both under-graduate and graduate experiences.

Hayes: We are working to makesure that our programs ... are sustain-able for years to come.

Government must spend money, embrace high-speed trainsThere is a certain liberty that

comes from having your economyshattered into a thousand pieces by

the bombs ofwar — you haveroom to innovateas you rebuild.And as thebloodiest war inhistory came to aclose, the Euro-peans and theJapanese wereforced to gatherthemselves col-lectively to buildconstitutions,

health care systems and national in-frastructures in order to survive.

It was during this period of tur-moil and growth in the decade fol-lowing World War II, that the Japan-ese were challenged with finding asolution to the overloaded commutebetween Osaka and Tokyo. Their so-lution? The world’s first high-speedrailway line, famously nicknamedthe “bullet train.”

Around the same time, theFrench started working on the sameidea for the heavily-traveled routebetween Paris and Lyons, leading tothe creation of the TGV.

The United States, meanwhile,was a little too busy at the timewith Vietnam, Selma andStonewall to be tinkering withtrains, and what funding the gov-ernment did allocate toward trans-portation was spent on the subsi-dization of interstates and airports.A generation passed and littlechanged in American transporta-tion. What little federal funding didgo to trains became a favoriteperennial punching bag of ourfriends on the right end of the po-litical spectrum and the will tochange how this nation moved nev-er managed to materialize. Trains,it seemed, were yesterday’s newsin the land of the free.

But then, as a bridge fell inMinneapolis and the cost of gasreached as high as the greenhousegases polluting our atmosphere, De-mocrats swept into Congress on atidal wave and began to change thenational dialogue on energy andtransportation.

With the economy tanking lastyear under the weight of decades ofderegulation, corporate greed andthe subsequent election of BarackObama to the presidency, the na-tional political environment was fi-

nally right to introduce a plan tobuild an all-American high-speedrailway network to compete withwhat the Japanese and the Frenchhad already been enjoying for al-most half a century.

Within the much-maligned stim-ulus bill passed by the DemocraticCongress and president this year isan appropriation of $8 billion toserve as a down payment on thisnetwork, and construction shouldbegin in the next couple years.

Obama’s plan currently calls fora national network of railwaysstretching from sea to shining sea.Personally, I dream about turningthe dull five-hour drive from mynative St. Louis to Chicago into amere hour and a half trip, leaving inthe morning for an afternoon base-ball game, then off to Boystown fordinner and a few of those dirty mar-tinis I’m so fond of, then hoppingon a train back to my place by mid-night, all without ever kicking offmy shoes for airport security. Imag-ine the possibilities!

Interestingly, Louisville isplanned to be one of the stops onthe American bullet train’s path, al-lowing Kentuckians access to thesystem.

Speaking of Kentuckians, in arecent piece in the Lexington Her-ald-Leader (“Lexington, Louisvillemust be partners, not rivals,”11/15/09), the ways in which theold rivalry between Kentucky’s twobiggest cities are hurting its growthand prosperity were laid bare. High-speed rail has the potential tochange that dynamic. It has alreadyproven itself where implemented asa key driver for regional develop-ment.

For those looking to rejuvenateKentucky’s coal- and manufactur-ing-dependent economy, high-speedrail is the way to go. The common-wealth would benefit from unprece-dented levels of investment energy,with significant increases in landand real estate values, if its leaderscould manage to summon the politi-cal will to expand the national planto Lexington, connecting the state’stwo biggest cities with this high-speed conduit of capital and ideas.High-speed rail is the future, andFrankfort needs to get on boardwith Washington. I’m talking toyou, Steve Beshear.

The Chinese government, citinga desire to connect its nation andpeople together, has wasted little

time implementing funds toward itsown version of Obama’s plan. They,quite frankly, have outdone us.Construction from Beijing toGuangzhou has already begun, withmany of the lines scheduled to becompleted by 2013.

While some are busy labelingthe president as a socialist, the realcommunists are handing us our haton the world stage, sweeping us —with a smile — into the dustbin ofhistory. As in so many areas, fromthe economy to infrastructure andtransportation, America — andKentucky — has a choice before itat this crucial moment: progress orbe passed over.

Wanton government spendingmight not be the solution to every-thing, but neither is standing stillwith a paralyzed pocketbook. If wewant to continue to be the greatestnation on earth, we can’t elect vi-sionary leaders and then tie theirhands with teabags and childishtaunts, as has been the custom fartoo often in our politics over thelast year. We need to move – now.

Of course, there’s always learn-ing Mandarin.

Sean Taylor is a linguistics jun-ior. E-mail opinions@kykernel.com.

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It was on this trip that he found aknack for comedy by sharing storieswith his foreign acquaintances.

Kea has previously performed inLexington, but Wednesday will be hisfirst performance on UK’s campus.

“I like college campuses becauseI’m younger than most comics, so myhumor seems to go over well,” Keasaid.

Author of his own material, Keasays his comedy comes from everydaylife.

“It’s true up to a point, and thenmaybe a little lie—a believable lie,” hesaid.

Kea said his humor has a rating ofPG-16-and-a-half and that his comedicidol is Ryan Singer, his opening act atUK.

The two often play off each other bypoking fun at one another. When Singerwas asked who his comedic idol was, hejokingly assured that it isn’t Kea.

Singer said that he is looking for-ward to this show and he advises stu-dents to, “take a break from studying,err, drinking, and live in our reallyweird world for an hour and a half.”

The duo will hit the stage onWednesday at 8 p.m. for the last Come-dy Caravan show of the semester. Ad-mission is free and open to the public.This week for Comedy Caravan theCat’s Den is offering $1 sub sandwichesto the first 150 attendants.

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ergy demands by 10 to 15 percent.“Beginning next fall, the campus

community will see the effect of thisproject in everything from changes tolighting to more extensive buildingretrofits,” Wiseman said.

Arts & Sciences dean presents toBoard of Trustees

Mark Kornbluh,former Michigan StateUniversity history de-partment chair and cur-rent dean of the UKCollege of Arts and Sci-ences, addressed theBoard of Trustees con-cerning the continuingsuccess of the college.

Among some of the ideas and factspresented to the board was the impor-tance of the undergraduates currently

pursuing majors at the College of Artsand Sciences.

Kornbluh, hired as the college’sdean in June, said the undergraduates inthe College of Arts and Sciences madeup the largest population among UK un-dergraduates, as well as the largest pop-ulation in the state.

Kornbluh called the college a“world-class research institution,” andsaid its future should emphasize on dis-covery, invention and progression ofgraduate education and research.

“Issues like global warming re-search and linking that type of researchto teaching is extremely important,” Ko-rnbluh said. “Linking our research tothe education of undergraduates is es-sential to our future.”

After wrapping up with a quick re-view of the presentation, Kornbluhdiscussed the entrepreneurial and en-terprising future he envisioned at theCollege of Arts and Sciences. Heplans to incorporate what he called an“internal research generation” duringhis tenure.

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CORRECTION:

In the Dec. 1 article “‘Affrilachia’ poetreturns to alma mater,” Lisa Brown,director of student and multiculturalaffairs for the School of Journalismand Telecommunications, was mis-quoted as saying Frank Walker was“complacent,” when the actual termused was “compassionate.”