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Newsroom: 257-1915 Advertising: 257-2872 Classifieds.............3 Features.................2 Opinions.............3 Sports..................4 Horoscope.............2 Sudoku................2 Five former UK football players will move to NFL Four sign with different teams 4 Next Kernel issues in August The fall edition starts the first day classes do Pick up a copy Aug. 24 Students move in to dorms K-Week begins for all new undergraduate students and lasts through the following Saturday Freshmen learn about school spirit at Big Blue U New students participate in activities and learn about campus organizations at Campus Ruckus New and returning students do community service through FUSION (Register online at www.ukfusion.org) First day of classes for all students The Christian Student Fellowship sets out to break a world record at the World’s Largest Water Balloon Fight at midnight UK football kicks off in Nashville against Western Kentucky. Ticket informa- tion can be found at ukathletics.com/tickets The first home football game versus Central Michigan starts at noon. Ticket information can be found at ukathletics.com/tickets The last day to drop a course without it appearing on a transcript Back to school calendar For Henry Clay, the way to change the world was to become a leader of the Whig Party. For UK’s new student government leaders, the way lies in WIG. The Wildcat Interest Group, or WIG, was created this summer by Student Gov- ernment President Micah Fielden and Vice President Nikki Hurt, who traveled last month to Frankfort to visit with the secretary of state and the governor’s executive as- sistant. WIG’s goals are to form relationships with lawmakers, to mobilize students across the state to promote a “pro- higher education outlook” in Frankfort and to provide stu- dents with government in- ternship opportunities, includ- ing ones in Washington, D.C., Fielden said. “From local to state and national levels, we must be representing students and be champions for higher educa- tion,” said Fielden, who, as SG president, also serves on the UK Board of Trustees. One goal for the lobbying efforts is to bolster support for the Governor’s Scholars Program, which both Fielden and Hurt attended as Lexing- ton high school students, as well as for the Governor’s School for the Arts. “Funding for GSP/GSA is essential as it helps keep some of our best students in the state,” Fielden said. “By providing competitive schol- arships, students that could easily go to other colleges in the nation will stay in Ken- tucky. This helps raise the ac- ademic standards within the state.” Hurt said WIG’s director, Matt Doane, is working with the Career Center and various offices on campus to create government internships. Doane said he is working on a “Wildcats in Washing- ton” program to help stu- dents find internships and housing. “Wildcats in Washington will make the entire process a little less overwhelming and hopefully establish our fellow students in D.C. to become great ambassadors for our state and university,” Doane said. Successful internships are ways that “students can di- rectly show their support for community engagement and work toward their career goals at the same time,” Hurt said. Students can get involved this fall by applying on the Student Government website (www.uksga.org), and they will be encouraged to contact elected officials with letter drives and phone calls, Field- en said. He said that just eight let- ters written to legislators about the same issue will make them feel that there is a problem that needs to be solved. He said to imagine what 150,000 letters could do. “The long-term goal is to use the Board of Student Body Presidents to help spread ‘WIG’ programs throughout all institutions of higher learning in the state,” Fielden said, referring to a group of student government presidents at Kentucky col- leges. “In this way we can mo- bilize our peers, the 100,000- plus people in higher educa- tion in the commonwealth that need to be politically ac- tive and engaged.” Student leaders push lobbying in Frankfort By Austin Ryan [email protected] PHOTO BY BRITNEY MCINTOSH Student Government Vice President Nikki Hurt (left) and President Micah Fielden met with Kentucky’s secretary of state last month in Frankfort. PHOTO BY JOY PRIEST | STAFF An employee found bed bugs — two dead and one live — in a computer kiosk near the Rose Street entrance to the W. T. Young Library. Possibly as part of what ex- perts in the entomology communi- ty are describing as a regional epi- demic, bed bugs were discovered on campus for the second time in a week Friday in the W. T. Young Library. “I was in the library using the computers on the second floor around 3 p.m. or so, when a library employee began asking patrons to finish their business on some of the computers,” UK graduate and Lexington resident Brad Vien said. Vien said no explanation was given as to why the library em- ployee asked them to leave, but he said some workers began to rope off areas with yellow caution tape. “I didn’t think much of it until a little later when I saw an exter- minator with OPC Pest Control in- specting all of the furniture around the computers,” he said. UK spokeswoman Kathy Johnson confirmed, in an email to the Kernel Tuesday, that bed bugs had been found in the library. She said that three bed bugs — “two dead and one live” were found in a “single computer kiosk.” “One dead bug was sent to the Student Center for identification on Friday while OPC was treating there,” Johnson said. “An OPC official went over to the library right away to determine the situa- tion.” Vien returned to the library on Saturday to find the public section of computers on the second floor still blocked off. Johnson said the OPC official found no other bed bugs in the im- mediate area and labeled the bugs found there as “drop-off” bugs, meaning they had probably been brought there from another loca- tion on a person’s backpack or clothing, as opposed to from a colony or infestation within the li- brary. This week, OPC will be treat- ing the area in the library were the three bed bugs were found, which is located on the first floor along the wall next to the Rose Street en- trance. OPC also will focus on study spots and other areas where people congregate. Since it is a public terminal, li- brary staff have closed the public terminals on the second floor as well, where Vien was completing work on Friday, Johnson said. The areas will reopen after appropriate treatment and further inspection shows no live bugs are present. “We’re not planning on using a heat treatment in the library be- cause we just had a sighting in- stead of the need to do a heat treat- ment,” OPC President Donnie Blake said. A heat treatment was used on Friday to eradicate the bed bugs found in the Student Center. “Anytime you have a public building you have the opportunity for introduction,” Blake said. “The key is if you get an introduction or sighting, you immediately do an investigation.” Blake said bed bugs have been Buggin’ out By Joy Priest [email protected] See BED BUGS on page 2 More bed bugs found on campus — this time in main library Wildcat Interest Group urges a connect with politics Former Kernel editor travels to Europe Martha Groppo shares her experiences in Paris 3 August 24 August 19 August 26 September 14 September 1 September 10 August 22 August 20
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kentuckykernelest. 1892 | independent since 1971 | www.kykernel.com
Thursday 7.28.119173
partly cloudy
tomorrow’s weather
indexFirst issue free. Subsequent issues 25 cents.
Newsroom: 257-1915Advertising: 257-2872
Classifieds.............3Features.................2
Opinions.............3Sports..................4
Horoscope.............2 Sudoku................2
Five former UK football players
will move to NFLFour sign with different teams 4
Next Kernel issues in AugustThe fall edition starts the first day classes do Pick up a copy Aug. 24
Students move in to dormsK-Week begins for all newundergraduate students andlasts through the followingSaturday
Freshmen learn aboutschool spirit at Big Blue U
New students participate inactivities and learn aboutcampus organizations atCampus Ruckus
New and returning studentsdo community servicethrough FUSION (Registeronline at www.ukfusion.org)
First day of classes for allstudents
The Christian Student Fellowship sets out tobreak a world record at theWorld’s Largest Water Balloon Fight at midnight
UK football kicks off inNashville against WesternKentucky. Ticket informa-tion can be found at ukathletics.com/tickets
The first home footballgame versus CentralMichigan starts at noon.Ticket information can befound atukathletics.com/tickets
The last day to drop acourse without it appearingon a transcript
Back toschool
calendar
For Henry Clay, the wayto change the world was tobecome a leader of the WhigParty. For UK’s new studentgovernment leaders, the waylies in WIG.
The Wildcat InterestGroup, or WIG, was createdthis summer by Student Gov-ernment President MicahFielden and Vice PresidentNikki Hurt, who traveled lastmonth to Frankfort to visitwith the secretary of state andthe governor’s executive as-sistant.
WIG’s goals are to formrelationships with lawmakers,to mobilize students acrossthe state to promote a “pro-higher education outlook” inFrankfort and to provide stu-
dents with government in-ternship opportunities, includ-ing ones in Washington, D.C.,Fielden said.
“From local to state andnational levels, we must berepresenting students and bechampions for higher educa-tion,” said Fielden, who, asSG president, also serves onthe UK Board of Trustees.
One goal for the lobbyingefforts is to bolster supportfor the Governor’s ScholarsProgram, which both Fieldenand Hurt attended as Lexing-ton high school students, aswell as for the Governor’sSchool for the Arts.
“Funding for GSP/GSA isessential as it helps keepsome of our best students inthe state,” Fielden said. “Byproviding competitive schol-arships, students that could
easily go to other colleges inthe nation will stay in Ken-tucky. This helps raise the ac-ademic standards within thestate.”
Hurt said WIG’s director,Matt Doane, is working withthe Career Center and variousoffices on campus to creategovernment internships.
Doane said he is workingon a “Wildcats in Washing-ton” program to help stu-dents find internships andhousing.
“Wildcats in Washingtonwill make the entire process alittle less overwhelming andhopefully establish our fellowstudents in D.C. to becomegreat ambassadors for ourstate and university,” Doanesaid.
Successful internships areways that “students can di-
rectly show their support forcommunity engagement andwork toward their careergoals at the same time,” Hurtsaid.
Students can get involvedthis fall by applying on theStudent Government website(www.uksga.org), and theywill be encouraged to contactelected officials with letterdrives and phone calls, Field-en said.
He said that just eight let-ters written to legislatorsabout the same issue willmake them feel that there is aproblem that needs to besolved. He said to imaginewhat 150,000 letters coulddo.
“The long-term goal is touse the Board of StudentBody Presidents to helpspread ‘WIG’ programsthroughout all institutions ofhigher learning in the state,”
Fielden said, referring to agroup of student governmentpresidents at Kentucky col-leges.
“In this way we can mo-
bilize our peers, the 100,000-plus people in higher educa-tion in the commonwealththat need to be politically ac-tive and engaged.”
Student leaders push lobbying in FrankfortBy Austin Ryan
PHOTO BY BRITNEY MCINTOSHStudent Government Vice President Nikki Hurt (left) and PresidentMicah Fielden met with Kentucky’s secretary of state last month inFrankfort.
PHOTO BY JOY PRIEST | STAFFAn employee found bed bugs — two dead and one live — in a computer kiosk near the Rose Street entrance to the W. T. Young Library.
Possibly as part of what ex-perts in the entomology communi-ty are describing as a regional epi-demic, bed bugs were discoveredon campus for the second time in aweek Friday in the W. T. YoungLibrary.
“I was in the library using thecomputers on the second flooraround 3 p.m. or so, when a libraryemployee began asking patrons tofinish their business on some ofthe computers,” UK graduate andLexington resident Brad Vien said.
Vien said no explanation wasgiven as to why the library em-ployee asked them to leave, but hesaid some workers began to ropeoff areas with yellow caution tape.
“I didn’t think much of it untila little later when I saw an exter-
minator with OPC Pest Control in-specting all of the furniture aroundthe computers,” he said.
UK spokeswoman KathyJohnson confirmed, in an email tothe Kernel Tuesday, that bed bugshad been found in the library.
She said that three bed bugs —“two dead and one live” werefound in a “single computer kiosk.”
“One dead bug was sent to theStudent Center for identification onFriday while OPC was treatingthere,” Johnson said. “An OPCofficial went over to the libraryright away to determine the situa-tion.”
Vien returned to the library onSaturday to find the public sectionof computers on the second floorstill blocked off.
Johnson said the OPC officialfound no other bed bugs in the im-mediate area and labeled the bugsfound there as “drop-off” bugs,meaning they had probably beenbrought there from another loca-tion on a person’s backpack orclothing, as opposed to from acolony or infestation within the li-brary.
This week, OPC will be treat-ing the area in the library were thethree bed bugs were found, whichis located on the first floor alongthe wall next to the Rose Street en-trance. OPC also will focus onstudy spots and other areas wherepeople congregate.
Since it is a public terminal, li-brary staff have closed the publicterminals on the second floor as
well, where Vien was completingwork on Friday, Johnson said. Theareas will reopen after appropriatetreatment and further inspectionshows no live bugs are present.
“We’re not planning on using aheat treatment in the library be-cause we just had a sighting in-stead of the need to do a heat treat-ment,” OPC President DonnieBlake said. A heat treatment wasused on Friday to eradicate the bedbugs found in the Student Center.
“Anytime you have a publicbuilding you have the opportunityfor introduction,” Blake said. “Thekey is if you get an introduction orsighting, you immediately do aninvestigation.”
Blake said bed bugs have been
Buggin’ outBy Joy Priest
See BED BUGS on page 2
More bed bugs found on campus — this time in main library
Wildcat Interest Group urges a connect with politics
Former Kernel editortravels to EuropeMartha Groppo shares her experiences in Paris 3
August 24
August 19
August 26
September 14
September 1
September 10
August 22
August 20
a common occurrence in re-cent years. Prior to 2003,Blake only remembers treat-ing one bed bug case. Now,he says he and his crew aredealing with hundreds of newcases.
“Unfortunately bed bugshave become a certain prod-uct of the social realm today,and this is a common occur-rence in public buildings,”Blake said. “It’s a matter ofhow you handle it and … I’venever seen a group of folksthat are so diligent in trying tomake sure everything is takencare of than the folks down atUK.“
Some students in the li-brary on Wednesday ex-pressed concern about the bedbug sighting there.
“I don’t live on campusso it’s not mandatory for meto come to the library,” busi-ness management transferRicky Hall said. “The ideathey’re around is very con-cerning.”
Others didn’t seem tooconcerned.
“I didn’t know about itwhen I came in today,” saidAlessandra Wayne, a familyscience senior. “It makes mefeel weird, but I have to getmy work done.”
Blake said that while peo-ple are nervous about thebreakout of bed bugs on cam-pus, UK shouldn’t be viewedas a university with a hygieneissue.
“There are no preventa-tive tools for bed bugs,” hesaid, adding that the successrate for getting rid of them isin the upper 90th percentile.
“It has nothing to do withhousekeeping … it’s all aboutawareness.”
Blake said bed bug caseshave nothing to do with howclean a person or facility isbecause the bugs are attract-ed to humans, which theyfeed off of for their “bloodmeals.”
He has been workingclosely with one of the topbed bug experts in the coun-try, Michael Potter, an ento-mology professor at UK, toeradicate the pests. Blake saidhe hopes he and Potter cancreate awareness in the com-munity about this issue thathas grown massively in thepast seven years.
Johnson said a follow-upinspection in the StudentCenter Friday found no livebugs or larvae in treated ar-eas. OPC is currently inspect-ing the rest of the StudentCenter, she said.
A heat treatment was usedin the Student Center, whichraises the temperature of thearea to 135 degrees. Accord-ing to OPC employee JustinSells, this kill the bugs, and
people can return to the areawhen it cools down, afterabout two hours. Blake said,however, that a lot of thetimes, the area will remainclosed for further inspection.
UK’s Physical Plant Divi-sion custodial staff membersare being trained to recognizebed bugs and evidence oftheir presence, Johnson said.Staff members are also beingtrained in procedures for re-porting bed bug sightings.
The areas in the StudentCenter and Young Librarywill be reopened “after treat-ment and further inspectionshows no live bugs are pres-ent,” Johnson said.
Bed bugs have not beenfound anywhere else on cam-pus at this time.
Johnson said after lastweek's incidents and realizingevery location on campuscould be at risk, UK has rec-ognized a need to extend itscontract with OPC. What wasinitially a contract throughhousing will now be extendedto include all of campus. UKand OPC are currently in ne-gotiations.
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“You’re the perfect combination of sexyand cute” is the invincible pickup line for RyanGosling’s ladykiller character in “Crazy, Stupid,Love.” That fits the movie’s delightfully contra-dictory qualities, too. It’s romantic, touching, alittle risque and screwball, yet reassuringlydown-to-earth.
At the center of things is bland, pleasant Cal,the human equivalent of Muzak (Steve Carell,playing it straight and never better). Over a dull,date-night dinner, his wife of 30 years, Emily(Julianne Moore), announces that she’s havingan affair and demands a divorce. Cal, shell-shocked, steps out of their moving car on theway home, landing hard on the rocky road ofmidlife singlehood. Soothing his bruises withmeat-market vodka-and-cranberry, Cal wins thesympathetic attention of pickup king Jacob(Gosling). He teasingly tutors the 50-year-oldnear-virgin in the ways of courtship circa 2011.
Yet this is no mismatched-buddies bro come-dy. Dan Fogelman (writer of the ingeniously fun-ny cartoons “Bolt” and “Tangled”) adds appeal tothe premise through multigenerational complica-tions. The movie includes several whammiesguaranteed to leave your jaw on the floor.
The story expands to include Emily’smidlife crisis and her halfhearted romance withan accountant colleague (Kevin Bacon) whopromises to become a duplicate copy of thesweet, bland bore she has just fled. Enchanting-ly saucy fledgling lawyer Hannah (the always-exemplary Emma Stone) accompanies a friendto the pickup bar, becoming the only woman toresist Jacob’s precision-honed come-ons, andthus the one who captures his playboy heart.
Old pro Marisa Tomei makes a big mark in abrief role as Cal’s overenthusiastic first hookup.Young Jonah Bobo gives an attractive, unforcedturn as the divorcing couple’s lovesick 13-year-old, and as his wallflower baby sitter, Min-neapolis native Analeigh Tipton delivers a per-formance that is a sustained feat of magic. Un-less I miss my guess, this huge-eyed, coltishbeauty will be a very big thing in short order.
The film emphasizes character and emo-tional values over jokes for their own sake.What makes the movie so interesting are thesmall incidents—offhand exchanges whereironic banter contains the odd lance of stingingtruth, little moments of life observed in tellingand persuasive detail. Every significant charac-ter in the film is forging a new life in a newworld, where the old certainties and simplicitiesand optimism about happily-ever-after are out-dated, a dilemma presented with amusementand chagrin.
The movie is at its best when the cast is try-ing to shinny up the greased pole of romanticfrustration. The conventionally sentimental andwarmhearted ending feels misjudged, a forgiv-able flaw in a work full of carefully observedlife. As the woebegone Mr. Average, Carell hasa wonderful way of scrunching up his face intoa smile of agony, while Gosling shows a slyknack for comedy as the Top Gun of the singlesscene. The film is funny throughout but it hassomething better, a kind of rambunctious au-thenticity that quietly infiltrates your heart. Youleave the film with the feeling of having madefour or five interesting new friends.
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PHOTO BY JOY PRIEST | STAFFPublic access areas in the library are temporarily closed as OPC continues inspections.
BED BUGSContinued from page 1
To avoid bed bugs ...—When buying used clothing at a yard sale or other
places, launder clothing before wearing or bringing ithome.
—Be very, very careful about used furniture. You shouldknow the source. Inspect it for bed bugs and dark spots,which can be leftover feces, and indicate their presence.
—When traveling, make sure you inspect your mat-tress and box springs. Never throw your suitcase on thebed upon arrival at a hotel or motel. Always place it on thesuitcase carrier.
—Notify landlords or appropriate officials immediatelywhen a bed bug is found.
INFORMATION FROM DONNIE BLAKE, OPC PEST CONTROL
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The French are rude and nasty.How many times have you heardthis? Probably a couple dozen. Well,
France was thecountry in which Ibegan my 22-country trek thisweek. After mystint as a Kerneleditor, I decided totake a very longtrip. (You would,too. It’s exhaust-ing. All featurespress releases andcomplaints can beforwarded to thenew features edi-
tor, Joy Priest. That’sJ-O-Y P-R-I-E-S-T.) This summer,I’m traveling through Europe, and Iwill circumnavigate the globe in thefall.
But back to this nasty French-men business. I’ve decided I don’tagree with the rumors, but it tookme a while to get to that point ...
For being the City of Love, Parisdidn’t show me much of it. It rainedthe entire time, I was fined 40 eurosfor not writing the date on my trainpass in pen, had to reserve a seat onan otherwise empty train for another36 euros, and then had to pay 20 eu-ros to leave the country since Fran-cois, the dashing train agent, failedto tell me the train he advised me toreserve goes through Belgium.These experiences left me beggingParis to stop hating on me. Thesebad experiences hindered my viewof the French, perhaps, but in themidst of the annoyances, I learnedthat the City of Love is more aboutloving it.
After four semesters of Frenchcourses at UK, I was pleased to seethat I could actually understand
what was going on. I could ordermy duck confit and strawberryglace with confidence (the onlymeal I had something other than abaguette with various combinationsof cheese or meat the entire time Iwas in France). The churches I vis-ited, Notre Dame and SainteChapelle, left me breathless. I tookin more art than I can fathom at theD’Orsay, Louvre and Pompadou.The ornate splendor of Versailles isunforgettable. Let’s face it: theFrench know how to impress. Theyhave a flair for the ornate, delicate,an imposing that can only be grownwith time — time that Americahasn’t quite enough of to developyet.
I was surprised to learn that theParisian metro doesn’t open till5:30 a.m. — a time at which manyof our American cities are alreadybustling with commuters. Walkingto the train station to catch my 6a.m. train to Berlin, I hardly saw asoul. Sayings abound about theFrench “working to live” while oth-er people “live to work.” A bitharsh, perhaps, but “living to work”does partially summarize our Amer-ican intensive approach to life attimes. My bad experiences inFrance reminded me to take a deepbreath, hum “Que sera sera” andsay “C’est la vie” a little more of-ten when I couldn’t control thethings not going my way.
But with beautiful art,baguettes, the Bastille and bou-tiques — what more can a girl real-ly ask for? In the grand scheme ofmy big adventure, Paris did showme some love.
Martha is a journalism and his-tory senior. Visit her blog atmuliebrousmartha.wordpress.com.
Learning lessons thehard way while abroad
MARTHAGROPPO
Kernelcolumnist
‘Captain America’ comes off aspropaganda, not good filmmaking
Captain America is a characterthat will have a hard time beinganything other than propaganda.The hero is virginal, white-bread,corn-fed American values — agood-hearted boy from Brooklynwho doesn’t like bullies. That’s notinherently a bad thing. Just like Su-perman will always be a near-in-vincible alien and Spiderman aconduit for teenage issues, a manwith a stars and stripes shield willalways be, at the very least, patriot-ic.
The downside for the newmovie is that there is a time andplace for hardcore nationalism, andI’m not sure that the silver screenin 2011 is that time and place. It is-n’t that we’re less patriotic nowthan we were in the 1940s (whenthe movie is set), though I’m surethe case can be made. It’s simply amatter of creating interesting storylines. Propaganda films are notknown for deep characters or intri-cate plot lines. Captain America isa comic whose first issue featuredthe title character socking Hitler inthe jaw. Subtlety and character de-velopment have no place in Hitler-punching — just ask Eli Roth’s“Bear Jew” in “Inglourious Baster-ds.” But that’s OK for CaptainAmerica. His character isn’t about
nuance or depth. It’s about Nazibeating and the good ol’ U S of A.Good filmmaking, however, isn’tnecessarily.
As a result, the movie is bor-ing. Even if you haven’t seen it,you can probably guess the story— good fights evil, good gets thegirl, and evil is “personally es-corted to the gates of Hell,” inthe words of “Captain America’s”Tommy Lee Jones. The superherohimself is a static character withlittle opportunity to grow. He isso good and so pure that there isnever a question of him abusinghis powers. The only course ofaction with a static character is tothrow him or her into an unpre-dictable situation. Remove thesuperhero’s powers a la Super-man. Transport them out of timeor place. “Captain America” doesnone of those things. Instead, theaudience is treated to two hoursof Nazi killing montages withouta chance for failure or growth.So, the audience never has a mo-ment for true suspense either.The title guy is surrounded by amotley cast of characters onlypresent briefly enough to be iden-tified by their physical attributes— the Asian, the man with theridiculous mustache, the Nazidoctor who looks like TrumanCapote. You don’t get to knowthem, and you don’t feel badwhen they disappear from thescreen — either by death or by ascreenwriter’s waning interest.
Don’t get me wrong, I lovecomic book movies. I have seen
every movie released by Marvelstudios since they took over thebulk of their comic properties. Sofar, the change has been a wel-comed one. The Edward Norton“Hulk” movie made it easy to for-get the Ang Lee travesty ever oc-curred, and “Iron Man” made peo-ple forget how much they hatedcomic book movies. Yet, of the in-dependent Marvel releases, “Cap-tain America” is probably theworst. There is little to no humaninterest, because it’s almost impos-sible to identify with the characterafter he is transformed into a superhuman. The first bit of the movie isby far the most interesting, buteven then the purity of soul andspirit is just shy of unrealistic.
Propaganda is meant to bewatched by the already convert-ed. It doesn’t have to be wellshot or developed, because thosewatching are doing so to havetheir opinions and views validat-ed. And for those people who be-lieve in the infallibility of theU.S. government and the purityof the American dream, thismovie probably would be inter-esting. For anyone who has beenslightly disillusioned, it’s twohours of red, white and blue witha smattering of Nazi punching.However, if the end of the movieis any hint, I am excited to seethe “Avengers” movie. I hope itwill move Captain America fromstatic propaganda to dynamicmodern hero.
Amanda is an English senior.Email [email protected].
AMANDAWALLACE
Contributingcolumnist
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sports
The UK pros vs. Domini-can national team game isn’tofficial yet, but it’s about tobe.
“Today, we are meetingwith the client,” said CarlHall, Rupp Arena’s directorof event management. “Weare finalizing the last piecesof the contract.”
The organization incharge of the event is Pro-Camps Worldwide. The groupusually does athlete camps —including UK men’s basket-ball head coach John Cali-paris Camp that featuredBrandon Knight, DeAndreLiggins and Josh Harrellson— and it is their first exhibi-tion game they are directing.
“It’s a once-in-a-lifetimegame,” said ProCamps’ Julie
Roberts, director of sales andmedia, of why the group de-cided to direct this game.
Hall said the game hascleared “significant hurdles”to get to this point, includingthe relative inexperience ofProCamps and finding a datethat fit a majority of the NBAplayer’s schedules, but didn’tanticipate any last-minutehangups.
Hall said the game hascleared “significant hurdles”to get to this point, includingthe relative inexperience ofProCamps and finding a datethat fit a majority of the NBAplayer’s schedules, but didn’tanticipate any last-minutehangups. Hall told the KernelWednesday that a final dealshould be reached withinhours.
While early discussionsabout the game included the
possibility of having formerCalipari-coached, non-UKplayers on the team, it is nowexpected to be all NBA play-ers with direct UK connec-tions.
The first available time toget tickets for the game willbe Thursday at 10 a.m. East-ern time.
That time slot is only apre-sale, however, and is notavailable to the general pub-lic.
The game is listed to beplayed at 7:30 p.m. Aug. 15.Tickets range from $15 to$1,200, not including fees,according to Ticketmaster.
The pre-sale is listed asrunning for 12 hours, from 10a.m. to 10 p.m. After that,tickets will go on sale to thepublic Friday at 10 a.m.
Check kykernel.com foran updated story.
Pros, former UK players,to ball in Lexington
By Aaron Smith
2010 STAFF FILE PHOTOTailback Derrick Locke and quarterback Mike Hartline are both former Cats who signed with NFL teams, now that the lockout isover.
Five UK football playerswere signed by NFL teams asundrafted free agents on Tues-day.
Defensive end DeQuinEvans, quarterback MikeHartline, tailback DerrickLocke, defensive tackle RickyLumpkin and wide receiverChris Matthews all agreed toterms with different teams —Evans with the CincinnatiBengals; Hartline with the In-dianapolis Colts; Locke withthe Minnesota Vikings;Lumpkin with the ArizonaCardinals and Matthews withthe Cleveland Browns.
However, Locke said onhis Facebook page Wednes-day that he failed his physical;he was later released.
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