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In pursuit of a suspect who had sold cocaineto a police informant, city police were led to anapartment that smelled of burning marijuana. Af-ter knocking and hearing what sounded like evi-dence being destroyed, officers entered andsearched the apartment without a warrant.

The incident resulted in Kentucky v. Kingcase No. 09-1272. According to The New YorkTimes, the police, who believed their original sus-pect lived in the apartment, heard sounds of evi-dence being destroyed. After knocking and an-nouncing their presence with no response, policekicked down resident Hollis D. King’s apartmentdoor and began searching.

The Kentucky Supreme Court suppressed theevidence after concluding that it was not validsince the police searched without a warrant. Theyruled that the risk of evidence being destroyedwas the result of police creating their own emer-gency circumstance that would allow them tosearch without a warrant.

The United States Supreme Court overturnedthat ruling on May 16. It ruled that police actedlawfully and had probable cause needed in orderto enter the apartment without a warrant.

Sarah Welling, a UK law professor, said thatdefending Justice Ruth Ginsburg had a good pointin her argument that police should not be allowedto knock and announce themselves, then proceedto search without a warrant because they think ev-idence is being destroyed.

“If police come and knock saying, ‘Hi, we arethe police we are out here,’ they are hoping tohear movement to allow them to enter or be ableto get the consent,” Welling said. “The problem isusing their startle or alarm to get them insidewhen they could just get a warrant. If they createdthe emergency by startling the people and thenthey burst in, then there has been an exception tothe exception created.”

Ann Gordon, a senior law major, agreed withthe initial Kentucky Supreme Court ruling.

“The police busted down the door to thewrong apartment,” Gordon said. “Of course Hol-lis King was not expecting them there so he prob-ably panicked at that moment not considering hisconstitutional rights, like telling them they could

Ky. SupremeCourt rulingoverturned

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Warrant not needed if evidence destroying is heard

Outgoing First Lady Patsy Todd said themost important thing she does withMaxwell Place, the on-campus presidentialhome, is preserve it.

“There’s just so many human stories,”she said about the house.

Located next to Chem-Phys and theKing Library, the Maxwell Place groundsserve as a shortcut to the W.T. Young Li-brary. It’s a homing beacon of sorts in themiddle of campus.

At least that’s the feel the Todd and herhusband, outgoing UK President Lee Todd,want it to have.

Throughout their tenure, the Todds haveoffered cookies to those knocking at theirdoor (but nothing store bought — “I want‘em homemade,” Patsy Todd said). The tra-dition they started, though, goes beyondeasing a student’s midday sweet tooth.

“It gives students a reason to knock onmy door,” Todd said.

She said that even after she and thepresident leave their posts at the end of themonth, they won’t stop involvement withthe university, and especially its students.

“We’re looking forward to spendingtime with students when we’re not in the

presidential position anymore,” she said.“We’ll just have to have students around allthe time.”

The house has more connections to theuniversity community beyond its locationand residents. In multiplerooms, cabinets and ta-bles made by the UKPhysical Plant Divi-sion mesh with an-tique furniture,giving the homea feel of noveltyand warmth. Portraitsof important peopletied to the university andstate — like Stephen Foster, who wrote “MyOld Kentucky Home” — line the walls.

Katy Bennett, of UK Public Relations,said Maxwell Place has been used by Greekorganizations and the Confucius Institutefor special events, among many others.

She said there’s a living quarters abovethe garage, not attached to the house, whereit is rumored students used to live, includingthe Todds’ daughter Kathryn.

Todd had taken most of her personalitems out of the house as her departuredraws near, but personal family photos stillhang in some rooms.

She chose the furniture and fabrics up-holstering the items that will replace herown.

“When I took my personal things out, Ireplaced them with warm things,” Toddsaid.

The Todds lived for four full years atMaxwell Place, but they have split the restof their time between it and their other

Living on campusBy Becca Clemons

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Patsy Todd reminisces about presidential home

PHOTOS BY BECCA CLEMONS | STAFFStudents can walk through the Maxwell Place grounds on the way to campus buildings. The house also hosts group tours and special events.

Summer brings further con-struction on the new UK men’sbasketball dormitory, the Wild-cat Coal Lodge, which is en-croaching upon employee park-ing places in the process.

According to Capital ProjectManager David Collins, only 50of the 150 parking places avail-able at the E Lot adjacent to theJoe Craft Center and buildingsite will be available during

construction.Any person that normally

parks in this area may need toseek other available parkingduring this time, UK Parking &Transportation Services said onits website.

Once the building is com-pleted, projected in March2012, 17 more parking spotswill be made available, saidCollins.

However, the estimated dateof completion may need to bepushed back due to delays that

were met early in the project.“Completion of the founda-

tion system for the building wasdelayed by the excessive rainsthis spring, and by subsurfaceconditions found that were notreflected in the geotechnical re-port that had been generated,”Collins said.

Adding to the delay, theproject bid also came in overbudget in July 2010, whichcaused designers to reduce thesize of the building and thenumber of available beds from36 to 32 and deleting a teamroom. Donors increased theproject budget as a result, from$7 million to $8.05 million, toincrease its scope.

The Codell ConstructionCompany began working on theWildcat Coal Lodge, whosename has drawn controversydue to its affiliation with thecoal industry, in February afterthe project was successfully re-bid, Collins said.

Including basement andpenthouse spaces, the three-sto-ry dorm will be 20,911 grosssquare feet, and is expected toachieve a LEED certification.

Leadership in Energy andEnvironmental Design is an in-ternationally recognized greenbuilding certification systemused to help implement environ-

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Craft Center parking woes continue

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Construction on Coal Lodge takes away 100 E Lot spaces

Steam line upgrades have closed sections ofHuguelet drive this month, and traffic will remainaffected through July 29.

The eastbound lane past the entrance and exitof the Kentucky Clinic Parking Structure to RoseStreet is closed to through traffic until July 8, ac-cording to UK Parking & Transportation Services.

The sidewalk on the eastbound side is alsoclosed.

The westbound lane will remain open duringthat time, but will close July 11 through 29.

Those wanting to travel eastbound onHuguelet from South Limestone or Virgina Av-enue will be directed up Limestone to WashingtonAve, then to Rose Street where they can turn backonto Huguelet.

The Martin Luther King North E Lot — alsocalled the UK HealthCare Good Samaritan E Lot— will close June 11 and 12 for paving and strip-ing maintenance work.

PTS said the timetables for both projects areweather-dependent.

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Huguelet closedfor summer

UK First Lady Patsy Todd reads from poems that date back from the early 1900s. The writings areabout Kentucky and its people, and were donated to the university.

PHOTO BY BECCA CLEMONS | STAFFParts of Huguelet Avenue, east of the Kentucky ClinicParking Structure, will be closed through July 29.

Farewell to Enes KanterAlthough ineligible to play, he was able to help theteam in practice 4

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not enter without a warrant, for example. Hedidn’t have the time to think about it beforethe police entered his apartment looking forsomebody else.”

Economics major Dudley Sewell, dis-agreed.

“Although the police entered the wrongapartment, they at first believed that theirsuspect lived there,” Sewell said. “If theyheard evidence being destroyed then theyneeded to search the apartment before thatcould happen. After realizing it was thewrong apartment, they still had a drug caseon their hands that had to be dealt with.”

Welling said King could have opted notto answer the door or answer and not speakto police.

“He didn’t have to allow the police in,”Welling said. “He should have stood on hisconstitutional rights. However, he didn’tknow that.”

COURTContinued from page 1

home. Todd said her son tended

to their house while the rest ofthe family stayed at MaxwellPlace, but he eventually want-ed to get a place of his own.

Maxwell Place has a mu-sic room, dining room, multi-ple living room areas, an en-closed front porch and patio,kitchen and multiple bed-rooms — one of which iscalled the Spindletop Room,after the UK-owned propertySpindletop Hall in northernLexington from where someof the furniture was taken.

“People enjoy usingMaxwell Place, but especiallythe adjoining rooms,” Toddsaid. “This house is meant to

have people in it.”The layout of the house is

mostly open, with few actualdoors connecting rooms andmore open doorways. Naturallight enters through numeroustall windowsand glassdoors.

Most ofthe rooms arefilled withf u r n i t u r e ,lamps anddecorationsof some sort— all exceptfor Lee Todd’s office, whichis bare except for a couple ofcabinets, a rug and a deskchair.

Current University of Al-abama-Birmingham ProvostEli Capilouto and wife MaryLynne will take the helm of

the university as its new firstfamily, beginning in July.

Patsy Todd said she ex-pects the Capiloutos will liveat Maxwell Place, as is thetradition. Whether they will

continue thecookie-givingtradition is yetto be deter-mined. Whenasked by theKernel if hewould havehome-bakedcookies pre-

pared for stu-dents, Eli Capilouto said,“We’ll do something.”

“I’ve always told our stu-dents that Maxwell Placeshould be a part of your her-itage,” Todd said. “Thisshould be a place where youcan always come back.”

MAXWELLContinued from page 1

mentally conscious building design, con-struction, operation and maintenance solu-tions, according to the U.S. Green BuildingCouncil.

The new dorm, located directly besideof the Joe Craft Center, is replacing the JoeB. Hall Wildcat Lodge that was built in1978.

According to Collins, the old dorm wasin need of an upgrade to remain in service.

After receiving renovations in 2000 toaddress safety and systems issues, anotherproject to renovate the former dorm wasplanned by the Capital Project and BondOversight Committee in January 2009, butwas cancelled when donors offered to fundthe construction of the Wildcat CoalLodge.

A decision to determine what is to be-come of the Joe B. Hall Wildcat Lodge hasnot been made at this time.

LODGEContinued from page 1

Editor’s note: This col-umn is the first in a series offour about each of the outgo-ing UK men’s basketballplayers from the 2010-2011season.

Enes Kanter sat in hiscustomary position on thebench, between the playersand the coaches, almost as ifhe were in basketball rosterlimbo. In his hands rested anempty clipboard, oddly sym-

bolic of his situation. He wasn’t going to playin this game, UK’s Southeastern Conferenceopener against Georgia, but that was no sur-prise. He hadn’t been able to play in any ofUK’s previous games.

This game was a little different, though. Itwas the first time he had been allowed to trav-el with the team, but only because days earlierthe NCAA had ruled him permanently ineligi-ble. What should have been a positive experi-ence — traveling on the road for an SECgame with his UK family — was an entirelynegative one.

“It was the worst I’ve ever seen him,” saidUK Athletics’ DeWayne Peevy the week afterthe game.

Kanter didn’t make many more tripswith the team. And if that Georgia trip wasthe worst, it didn’t sound like it got muchbetter being at home. “I cry when I watchthe games,” Kanter told Yahoo! Sports inMarch.

Oddly, the month of March altered hislasting perception. Those “What if” feelings,so prominently expressed early in the year, di-minished once UK made the Final Four. WhileUK could have theoretically won the title withKanter, it also could have lost in the secondround. The season ended up being too much ofa success to truly bemoan Kanter’s loss.

Still, he can be credited for a decent por-tion of it. He played and instructed the bigmen, primarily senior Josh Harrellson, andgave them the best scout team center a teamcould ever imagine. Before the Ohio Stategame, as Harrellson was set to go up againstJared Sullinger — a player Kanter had ab-solutely torched a year earlier at the NikeHoops Summit — Kanter gave advice to theplayer on which UK’s chances of victorylargely hinged.

On the bench, Kanter was another set ofeyes watching the game. He didn’t really doall that much coaching — he kept a lot of statsand never transitioned to wearing a suit, in-stead opting for warmups — but at times hewould scribble down some basic notes like“Brandon Knight, good pass,” and give histeammates pointers.

Even though he played a valuable role inpractice, Kanter felt constricted, restrained.Why would he want to play basketball without

a score being kept for a year? His desire to seemeaningful action was evident in practice. Af-ter the whistle blew, Kanter would pull aKevin Garnett and snag the ball out of the air.“That’s his move in practice,” Jarrod Polsontold the Kernel in February. “I guess he hatesto see the other team score.” It must have beeninfinitely worse watching teams score on UKin real games and not being able to do a thingabout it.

Kanter was the ultimate representation ofnegative space. The biggest storyline of thoseearly season games was his absence, ratherthan anything the guys actually playing wereaccomplishing. Countless stories were pub-lished — and highly read — about how therewas no news regarding the Kanter news. Inthe UK locker room, Kanter’s locker was lo-cated at the most prominent and central posi-tion, with Knight to his right and TerrenceJones to his left. It was always empty, but thename tag was never taken down. Even his No.0 jersey was as much a non-number as it wasa number.

Now he moves on to the NBA, where hewas set on an unalterable path after the NCAAdecision. He will do just fine — a top-10 pick,and talented enough to fit into a variety of sys-tems. I watched him in practice once, andwhile he showed an aversion to passing (per-haps on coaches’ commands for scouting pur-poses), his post skills were elite.

His father said earlier in the year Kanterwould have come back if he was still eligible.It’s a noble thought, but ultimately we have noidea what would have occurred had he beenable to make an actual decision. Regardless,Kanter is one of two departing UK playerswho didn’t have the option of returning, andso he leaves UK with only footprints by whichwe can remember him.

Kanter transitioned from being a martyr atthe beginning of the year, felled by theNCAA’s injustice, to an invisible myth by theend of the year. As the season wore on, Kanterlargely receded into the background. His pub-lic appearances were rare. The Undertaker en-trance at Big Blue Madness; a single round ofmedia interviews after the season was over; asingle UK Athletics play — that of a first pitchat a baseball game; and a smattering ofYouTube clips that made you want to presspause and never look again at what mighthave been. “He’s just real goofy off the court,”Polson said — but, regrettably, fans weren’table to really see Kanter’s personality.

It is easy to construct a persona for himwhen we’ve barely heard him talk and neverseen him lose, and maybe that’s for the better.Because of it, he will go down with one of themost unique and memorable legacies in UKhistory.

Follow Aaron on Twitter @KernelASmith.Email asmith@kykernel.com.

Saying ‘goodbye’: Enes Kanter

AARON SMITH

Kernelcolumnist

PHOTO BY LATARA APPLEBY | STAFFEnes Kanter during the UK vs. Dillard University at Rupp Arena on November 5, 2010.

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growth�on�a�whole�other�lev-el,�and�to�fully�understandand�enjoy�that,�we�need�to�beable�to�understand�how�wegot�to�where�we�are,�andwhere�were�going.�

So�bust�out�the�old�pic-tures,�read�the�notes�youpassed�in�High�School,�andmaybe�check�out�the�old�My-Space�account�if�you�werebrave�enough�to�keep�it.�Af-ter�all,�you’re�only�youngonce.

Annie Hughes is a politi-cal science senior. Emailopinions@kykernel.com.

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through�the�summer�to�bulk�up�to�groove�his�motion�andgain�consistency�in�his�release�point.

But�his�growing�made�it�hard.�He’s�listed�at�6-foot-9,but�he�was�still�growing�into�his�body.

“I’ve�grown�an�inch�every�single�year,”�Meyer�said�thisseason.�“It’s�been�somewhat�tough�for�me�trying�to�stay�co-ordinated.”

That�sophomore�year,�he�showed�those�same�flashes�ofpotential,�and�they�came�more�frequently�than�his�first�year,but� he�was� still� inconsistent.�There�were� times�when�hisstuff� was� straight� from� a� video� game,� when� his� fastballwould�seemingly�only�make�contact�with�air�and�the�catch-er’s�mitt.�There�were�other�times�when�he�seemed�all�tooaverage,�like�the�time�he�came�on�in�relief�and�gave�up�sixruns�without�making� it� out� of� that� same� inning.�He�wasdropped�to�starting�Sundays�midway�through�the�year,�and�about�of�mono�hampered�the�end�of�his�season.�But�he�didshow�improvement.

That�brought�him�to�his�third�year,�perhaps�the�decisiveyear.�Had�he�“turned�the�corner”�that�coach�Gary�Hendersonwanted�him�to�turn�a�year�earlier?�Henderson�had�warnedagainst�the�hype�perhaps�being�too�much�—�not�too�muchfor�Meyer�specifically�to�handle,�but�the�collective�hype�ingeneral�that�gets�heaped�on�talented�freshmen�—�his�firsttwo�years.�But�now�Meyer�had�to�live�up�to�the�hype.�Hehad�the�talent,�and�he�had�the�experience,�and�now�he�had�tofind�a�way�to�meld�that�for�the�season.

He�did.�In�March,�batters�reached�base�exactly�one-thirdof� the� time� against� him.�He� posted� a� 5:2�K:BB� ratio.� InApril,�he�stayed�about�the�same.�And�then�in�May,�Meyerwent�into�legitimate�SEC�ace�mode.�He�had�a�1.61�ERA�thatmonth.�Batters�hit�.210�and�had�a�.297�on-base�percentagethat�month.�He�finished�the�year�as�one�of�the�best�pitchersin�a�loaded�conference,�earning�second-team�All-SEC�whileleading�the�league�in�strikeouts.�The�plan�to�transform�himfrom�raw�potential�to�realized�dominance�had�been�accom-plished.�“It�took�a�little�longer�than�we�would�have�hoped,but�we�got�it�done,”�Meyer�said�in�a�teleconference.

With� that,� Meyer� was� selected� 23rd� overall� by� theWashington�Nationals,�making�him�the�second-highest�se-lection�in�UK�history.

He�still�has�work�to�do;�his�release�point�needs�to�im-prove� in�his�ability� to� replicate� it,� and�his�command�stillisn’t�top-notch.�But�the�power�arm�is�still�there,�and�anytimea� tall,� lanky� pitcher� is�whipping� fastballs� around� like� hedoes,�it’s�an�enticing�prospect�—�and�potential�finally�real-ized�after�three�years�of�seeing�it�slowly�emerge.

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It is always a risk when aplayer turns down a profes-sional contract from an MLBteam coming out of highschool. If he decides to go tocollege, he has to staythrough at least his junioryear. All sorts of things canhappen between entering col-

lege and being draft eligible:poor performance, stuck atthe bottom of the depth chart,injuries.

When Alex Meyer turneddown a multimillion dollardeal from the Boston RedSox out of high school afterbeing drafted in the 20thround, it was a risk. Sure, hecertainly had the potential toend up making his decisionworth it — look at any pic-ture of Meyer throwing andyou think of a slightly lesserversion of Randy Johnson —

but there are also many thingsthat could lead to regret bygoing to college.

Meyer ran into some ofthese. His freshman year, heshowed flashes of that poten-tial, beating Louisiana Stateon the road. But it was rareand fleeting. Coming into hissophomore year, he was ex-pecting to assert himself as afrontline Southeastern Con-ference starter. He was namedthe Friday starter, typicallyreserved for the staff ace. “Iwant people to know I can gothrow seven quality innings,not leave them wonderingevery weekend,” Meyer saidat the time. He had worked

Potential realized: Meyer 23rd pick in draft

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Alex Meyer pitches in aMarch 2010game againstEvansville.Meyer was chosen 23rdoverall in theMLB draft onMonday, makinghim the the second-highestselection in UKbaseball history. Heturned down adeal with theBoston Red Soxafter beingdrafted in the20th round outof high school.

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UK baseball star initially chosethe college route over MLB

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