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8 Winning with Jesus: a Q&A with Cameron Mills

Getting an “A” in embarrassment

How I see it: The Problem with Big Blue Madness

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Big or small a compliment can change it all

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Former University of Kentucky basketball player turned evangelist,Cameron Mills, preached at UC’s Fall Awakening on September 16-18.

Mills graduated from UK in 1998 after a 4-year-career wearing the number21 for the Wildcats. His lifelong dream was to follow in the footsteps of hisfather and play for the ‘Cats. Turning down a full scholarship to the Universityof Georgia, Mills became a walk on for the Wildcats.

After earning two national championship rings, Mills exceeded his dreams.When his career ended he totaled 4.3 points, 1.1 rebounds, .6 assists and .3steals per game. His career shooting percentages were 47.27% from the field,47.37 from the 3 point line, and 82.35 from the free throw line.

Now he spends his days spreading the gospel through his ministry basedout of Lexington. Mills preaches in chapels, revivals, churches and sportingevents across the country. He is heavily involved with the Fellowship of Chris-tian Athletes.

“I do this,” he said referring to being the guest speaker at the Fall Awak-ening.

Dean Whittaker, UC’s campus minister, selected Mills to speak after hear-ing him at the Kentucky Governors Cup Academic Showcase in February.Whitaker said, “I was very impressed and blessed by his message to the stu-

dents there.” “I had been praying for God to allow me to enlist someone who could di-

rectly speak into the athletic component of our campus, and with his past ac-complishments Cameron fit well. He balances preaching the gospel withsharing candidly from his own life, and God's Spirit speaks through him,”Whitaker added.

The event in itself saw 80 “decision cards” turned in. Whitaker said stu-dents were “sharing their desires to live more boldly for Christ and seekinghelp to overcome needs through Him.”

Each night’s attendance averaged about 400 students. Whittaker added, “I saw work in students' lives bringing freedom from

some deep wounds and problems.” Mills also appreciated the student body’s reaction. “The response has been

amazing. One thing I liked about this event was I’ve gotten to develop rela-tionships with you all.”

Whitaker concluded, “One thing we want all students to know is that thereis support and hope through Jesus and the body of believers, and we are all inneed of God's grace and deliverance.”

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Have you ever had just a simply horrible day? A day where all you can dois wish you would’ve stayed in bed? Or have you had a day where you findyour footsteps becoming more of a dragging motion?

But now I want you to think back to a day where nothing was going right.Imagine how you felt: that sick feeling in your stomach, the heaviness of yourfeet, the slouching within your shoulders, but more importantly the negativityof your emotions. Now have you ever had anyone compliment you when you’refeeling this way? If you have, do you remember the change in your emotions?That warm fuzzy feeling in your stomach? It put a smile on your face and apep in your step didn’t it? That’s the power a compliment has. Complimentsare a wonderful thing; they can give you a boost; whether you give them or re-ceive them, their just fantastic!

The idea of compliments is that they can go a long way; they will travelwith the receiver and deliver for the entire day, and who knows, they may passit on. But I wanted to test this idea, I wanted to not only see how giving com-pliments could affect me, but I wanted to see how much it could affect thosearound me. So I decided, I would put the power of compliments on “trial” andsee how I felt at the end of my study.

On September 12, 2014 I decided that I would make it my personal goal tocompliment as many people as I could in five days. But with there being somany people on campus and having so many things going on in my life at thesame time I had to make rules and restrictions. Or else things would get veryconfusing within my experiment, and I would possibly start becoming a pest.No one likes a pest. I had to set the following ground rules for the next five days:

1.) I had to compliment every fifth person I encountered. I made it everyfifth person, because I would get exhausted having to compliment every person I ran into.

2.) I HAD to compliment them no matter what; if I was having issues with a person it didn’t matter. I still had to give them a compliment.3.) I had to be loud enough for the person to receive my compliment. If the person had headphones in as awkward as it was, I still had to compliment them. There might have been a slight chance they heard me.4.) I couldn’t compliment the same thing back to back, that would be ex-tremely awkward if either one of the two receivers overheard me. 5.) I was not allowed to tell anyone outside of the newspaper office aboutmy study; if everyone knew about my experiment, I wouldn’t get the responses I desired because they would expect it.

With all of these rules I needed amendments, or restrictions to my study. Istill had classes and practices, I didn’t want to be rude and interrupt either onebecause I needed to compliment the fifth person I looked at. So my amendmentswent like so:

1.) If I was having a conversation with someone, I was allowed to excusegiving complements during the conversation because it would be rude for me to focus more on counting and complementing rather than focus on my conversation.2.) When class would begin, my experiment would end for that amount of class time. I had no right to interrupt my professor’s teaching, just so I could compliment someone.3.) When I was at practice my compliments came to a halt as well. During practice it was time to focus on my sport; I didn’t have time to count or compliment.4.) And I could not compliment someone while I was eating or they wereeating. No one likes to talk with their mouths full.

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So I had my rules and amendments, and I was ready to start my study. OnSeptember, 12th I began my five days of study when I was walking to myfirst class Friday morning. The first day I was excited to see how compli-ments would both affect me and those around me, so my mood was alreadyglowing before I even began. On the short walk to my first class I compli-mented four people, they all smiled and replied with a thank you. Thosesmiles were absolutely contagious. All I could do was smile for whatseemed to be all day long. But on the first day I decided to tally how manypeople I complimented. When the first day came to an end I counted mytallies, I complimented a total of 55 people. Once again all I could do wassmile.

On the second day my mood was the same, I was ready to go out andspread some compliments. As farfetched as this may sound, I think theweekends brighten a person’s mood anyway. But on this Saturday youcould just tell everyone’s moods were shining bright. When I compli-mented my first handful of people it was around breakfast time in the café.I received my smiles and “thank you’s” as I did the first day, but on thesecond day I also started receiving compliments of my own. I felt like ahappy little fool throughout the day because I was cheerful and happy butsmiling so much I was sure my face would break eventually. Thankfully itnever did, but the thought made me laugh. After the second day I realizedthat complimenting someone is beneficial for you as well, because younever know when you’ll get a compliment in return. I complimented 72people on the second day.On the third day I was convinced that the reason I complimented so manypeople on the second day was because I forced myself to be out and about,more than what I normally would. So on the third day I resolved to stickto my normal schedule. While working on school work and doing laundry,I was able to compliment more people than I believed I would be able to.But on Sunday I came across one of my rules that I made but never thoughtI would run into throughout the study. Having to compliment someone nomatter what. I ran into a girl who I just could not stand; she’s just one ofthose people who you would rather go your entire life without compliment-ing. I literally just stared at her, for what seemed like a year. I just couldn’tfind anything to compliment her on. But I also got a sudden bad case ofcottonmouth. Finally I found something, and in the end I ended up makingher smile. Then, later in the day she thanked me for my compliment. Mo-

ments like that were the reason I wanted to do this experiment. At the endof day three I complimented 43 people.On the fourth day I starting realizing that I had numerous people withinmy study that were in the same category. Some people love receiving com-pliments, but there are some people that do not know how to accept a com-pliment. On the fourth day, maybe because it was a Monday, I noticed morepeople unable to accept my compliments. On occasions I would compli-ment someone, and I would receive looks as though I was crazy, or theywould look at their shoes as though they we’re extremely interesting. Mon-days are always weird, but I still ended up complimenting 54 people atthe end of the day.On the last day I planned to go big or go home, I wanted to compliment asmany people I could. Sadly, this did not happen. I was so busy with classes,meetings and everything else that I didn’t have a lot of time to complimenta lot of people. At the end of day five I only complimented 34 people. Butthe amazing thing about the last day is as I was walking to my 8 a.m. I re-ceived a compliment. Apparently throughout the five days of my study Icomplimented this guy three out of the five days. He approached me andtold me that the last three days I have made his day with my compliments,and that I’m the nicest person he’s ever met. That compliment truly madeeverything about this article come together. And I received a complimentthat would last me a lifetime. At the end of my study I truly felt content with life. It made me feel like Iactually made a difference -- well not so much of a difference, I just feltgood that I was able to make so many people smile. Throughout the fivedays I learned so much, but the most important thing I learned is that acompliment truly can make a difference, not only in the person receivingthe compliments but also giving them as well. At the end of my study Icomplimented 246 people, well 244, counting the awesome guy I compli-mented more than once. It was Mark Twain who said, “I can live for a goodtwo months on a compliment.” This is very true because afterward all youcan truly do is smile. But I now encourage all of you to do as I did, well not all that I did, thatgot pretty tiring. But when you’re going about your day, find someone andcompliment them. It could be absolutely anything. But just giving a com-pliment can make a huge difference. Complimenting people is a great wayto complement your day.

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The one comforting aspect about going to col-lege is the predictability of classes. The time andplace of your classes typically doesn't change. Ei-ther your professors tell you what they're goingover for the next class period or you've already readthe material, and the closest thing to off script theclass ever gets is a pop quiz. As hectic as the restof your college student life may be, it's safe to as-sume that nothing out of the ordinary is every goingto happen in your classes. But, every once in awhile, something strange happens. When it does,it usually turns out to be pretty embarrassing. Be-lieve it or not, several students have been caught insurprise classroom embarrassment and are willingto tell the tale.

Elizabeth Guillermo, theatre arts and commu-nication arts double major, typically enjoys theclasses she has to take. However, Gen Ed's are acompletely different story. Going from small de-partments where you have the same professor fornearly every class, to a Gen Ed, where you don'tknow any of the people around you, much the lessthe professor, can be pretty daunting. It's difficultto really talk to anyone if you don't really knowthem. Or, in Guillermo’s story, the difficulty canbe talking at all. Guillermo recalls, "When I lost

my voice, my teacher knew that I had and calledme out on it. When I tried miming that my voicewas gone and that I had sent him an email, he askedme to yell. I just sat there in mini-panic mode for asecond before he told me that he was joking and heknew my voice was gone. No big deal, but every-one was staring at me and it felt like it took foreverfor them to stop."

Some embarrassing moments are completelyaccidental. But, sometimes you put yourself in asituation in which embarrassment in inevitable.Kasey Malone, senior missions and ministry major,put himself in one of these situations his freshmanyear when he failed to pay attention in class in oneof the most obvious ways. He says, "The first dayof web design, one of my friends asked me to'babysit' her toy dinosaur. I spent most of the classtime playing with the toy, and making dinosaurnoises the whole time. To make matters worse, Iwas sitting in the front row of the classroom. Later,to add to the situation, journalism professor Jere-miah Massengale, in the middle of lecturing, said,'There are no dinosaurs in my class,' and that em-barrassed me enough to put the dinosaur toy awayfor the rest of the class."

Even in my own college experience, I've had a

few embarrassing class stories. The most embar-rassing one for me, however, was on a project duedate. My sophomore year, I stayed up all night tofinish a project for one of my classes. You'd thinkthat'd be the end of it, and I could just zombie walkthrough the rest of my classes, right? Well, thisproject happened to require a 15-minute presenta-tion of the work we'd done, so no nap for me. Bythe time I got to the class, I was so wiped out Icould barely remember my e-mail password so Icould retrieve the presentation. By the time I actu-ally got to presenting, I mumbled so badly that peo-ple had to ask me to repeat what I said severaltimes. My presentation had about 15 minutes ofcontent, but it took over 20 minutes for me to actu-ally get all the information out. Everyone in theclass made fun of it afterward, and it was the lasttime I did a presentation without getting at least alittle sleep the night before.

We always seem to complain about how boringclasses are. The same classes every week for anentire semester, with the same content can getpretty monotonous. But, no matter how "pre-dictable" your class routine may be, you can betthat there will be something around the cornerready to liven things up a little.

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For 32 years, Dr. Robert Dunston, better known around campus as Dr. Bob,has been teaching religion classes at UC.

Dunston got his undergraduate degree in math at Virginia Tech and workedas a computer programmer for two and a half years. Nevertheless, God haddifferent plans.

“I felt a call to ministry and went to seminary,” Dunston said. He went onto get a degree from Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Union Semi-nary, and finally get his Ph.D. from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.

Dunston continued, “When I first felt a call into Christian ministry, I wasat that time working with deaf people using American Sign Language.” Hesaid he felt that he was going to work as a pastor to the deaf or something ofthat sort in the Baptist world.

“When I was at Midwestern Seminary the longer I stayed there, the moreI got interested in what my teachers were doing and the ministry they had inteaching,” he said. After seeking counsel from his teachers, he decided that theLord was in fact leading him to teach.

He and his wife Norma came to visit in February 1983, moved here in Juneof the same year, and have lived in Williamsburg ever since.

“I guess my original plan was to start off in a college and eventually moveto a seminary one day. But once I got here, I just enjoyed the college environ-ment so much. I enjoy teaching with folks who teach business, biology, chem-istry, human services and criminal justice.” He continued, “I like having that kind of wide diversity of subjects and not justpeople who are teaching theology, New Testament and Christian education. Itis so much nicer here, for me, to have that broad exposure.”

In his time at UC, he has taught children of his previous students. “I am

pretty close to now probably having grandchildren of people that I taught whenI first got here,” Dunston said. “That has been a lot of fun to try to maintainthose family connections too.” He mentioned that there are actually facultymembers that he had in class.

Dunston said one of his favorite parts of teaching is always getting to knowthe new students he hasn’t had in class yet. He also loves watching the “lightscome on” inside a student.

“It is always fun, I think, not just trying to teach information they mightnot know but to help them begin to think about things on their own--why theybelieve what they believe-- to investigate maybe new avenues of faith, newways of looking at things,” Dunston said.

He continued, “The nice part too is students help me. Sometimes I am likethat is an idea that I never thought about. That is something for me to learn aswell. It’s kind of a back and forth.”

His advice to students struggling to survive college is this: “I think one tipwould be not to postpone things till the last minute. I have done enough of thatin college and seminary myself and have hopefully learned the lesson not todo that.” He continued, “Probably it’s not a bad idea to create some sort of a calendarwhere you can see what’s coming up. It’s just trying to be organized and knowwhat’s coming up.

“Just be open to new ideas and excited about the possibility of learningand expanding horizons,” he added.Dunston concluded, “I love being here and working with the students. I don’tknow if I can be here another 32 years, that may be too long, but I would liketo be for a little longer.”

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I sat down with Cameron Mills, former UK bas-ketball player now evangelist and speaker at UC’sFall Awakening services, and asked him a few ques-tions. Here is what he said:

Myriah Snyder: Can you tell me a little bit aboutyour salvation testimony?Cameron Mills: I was 7 years old. School had beencancelled from snow, and when you’re seven yearsold, that’s exciting. I wanted to go out and play inthe snow. Mom said no; it was too cold. I didn’t un-derstand how it could be too cold to play in thesnow. She said I could watch television all day in-stead. I obviously wanted to watch cartoons andBozo the Clown. I wondered into mom and dad’sroom and grabbed the remote, and mom turned it towhat she wanted me to watch, which was a televan-gelist. You can imagine as a seven-year-old kid thatis the last thing that I wanted to watch. She said if Icould sit still for 15 minutes (which as you can tellI can’t sit still well) when it is over, I could watchwhatever I wanted. We made that deal, and I sat still.As a child, I had grown up in a few differentchurches and I heard the gospel preached and taughtwell. But the truth of the matter is until you hear it,until your heart clicks, until you’re called, until Jesussays come on, you don’t hear it. That’s the morningI got it. The theme of his message that morning was,of course, the gospel -- sin and separation from God,Jesus’ cross and bridging that gap, the shedding ofblood and the washing away of sins. The theme wasthe difference between knowing who Jesus is and

knowing Jesus, and I certainly at 7, going to all thesechurches and being heavily involved in church andknew who Jesus was. I knew from Matthew to theend of John; I could tell you who Jesus was; I couldtell you the plotline of His life. I could tell you thatHe was born on Christmas or at least that is whenwe celebrated His birth. I could even tell you the dif-ference there. I knew His Parables; I knew His dis-ciples. I could tell you the story. But I did not knowHim. And it wasn’t until that morning that I realizedthe difference. It was that morning that I gave mylife to Christ. I said a prayer, and it was the prayerof salvation. I confessed my sins (not all of them)but just said ‘I am a sinner and I need salvation andJesus, you’re the only one that can save me.’

What exactly is it that you do now?That is a great question because there are differentoffices in a church. I’m an evangelist. I do not pas-tor. I do not have that gift. Gosh, I don’t have thatgift. I am not administrative. Pastors, they tend aflock. I would be such a bad pastor that I can’t eventell you what a pastor does. I travel, I preach. I al-ways say, I preach messages that I need to hear. Alot of times it’s the same messages. But every nightI tend to need to hear it. I do this. The last few nightsat University of the Cumberlands have been someof the sweetest nights for me. You guys have beenso amazing, so sweet, so kind and so receptive. I getit. I understand that even though this is a heavilyBaptist and Christian school, not every kid whocomes here is a Christian, but that doesn’t mean they

can’t be when they leave. And that’s why I love FallAwakenings and convocations and bringing inpreachers and focusing on what truly matters. Be-cause it’s not biology, and it’s not history. All thatstuff is wonderful and all that stuff is important, butit’s not what’s really important. What’s really im-portant is that these kids come to know Jesus Christbecause that’s what’s going to change their life andchange their eternity.

When did you first feel the call to ministry?I first felt the call to ministry at 12 years old. Thetwo most influential people in my life other than myparents and Christ were my youth pastors. My rela-tionship with my youth pastor made my initiallythink that it had to be youth ministry because, theidea of going on mission trips to Panama CityBeach, how could ministry get any greater than this?Of course that’s what you see as a kid. What youdon’t see is that the youth pastor never sleeps be-cause he is worried about his kids. You never seeeverything that is going on. You never see the ad-ministrative stuff (which I’m terrible at) going onmonths before the trip. And then add to all the ad-ministrative stuff he has to prepare for all his les-sons, he has to prepare himself. I didn’t even knowyou could do what I do now. I didn’t know this wasa job. But it was 12 years old when I thought, ‘Okay,I’m going into ministry. I don’t know what it’s goingto look like. I don’t know what I’m going to do. ButI can’t not spend my time (at least the bulk of it)sharing who Jesus Christ is.’

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How did all that fit into you playing basketball at UK?Actually, it fit perfectly. I had so many opportunities at UKto share my testimony. When I shared my faith, I got askedto share my faith more. Really what happened for me thatgave me the first ‘Oh, maybe I can do this’ thought was anFCA rally in Maysville, Kentucky. I was a freshman at UK.I was heavily involved in Fellowship of Christian Athletesand we drove up to Maysville. On the way up there, weplanned this rally for 200 high school students. We put to-gether a skit, and Max (the leader) looked at me completelyout of the blue and said, ‘Cameron, do you want to shareabout 20 minutes; do you want to preach?’ I don’t remem-ber being shocked even though I look back and I think‘Why wasn’t I shocked?’ He and I had never had a conver-sation as far as I can remember about preaching. I just re-member him looking at me and saying that and me sayingokay, like an idiot. We stopped at Wendy’s so I grabbedsome napkins and started scratching out some thoughts andscripture on sexual purity. 15 minutes from Maysville, Maxlooks at me and says ‘What are you going to talk about?’thinking I was going to talk about faith or trust or some-thing. I said ‘I’m going to talk about sex.’ He went whiteas a ghost thinking no, no, no. I go up there and I spoke for20 minutes about sexual purity, told the story that I told theother night about my parents and my mom praying over myunderwear and all that silly stuff. And 20 minutes after thatI had about 15 kids coming up to me thanking me, whichwas encouraging to me because I needed that. Had I gottenup there and had kids tell me that was the worse sermonI’ve ever heard, I probably would have never preachedagain. I talked to a girl and she shared that she needed mymessage. When I left there, I thought, ‘This is what I amdoing with the rest of my life.’

If there is one thing you have to tell new Christians…I would say read through the book of John and the book ofProverbs. Find a church that teaches the Bible, and don’tget discouraged because Satan is going to come hard afteryou.

If there is one thing you have to tell young Christians…Read through the book of Romans, the book of Job and thebook of Genesis. Don’t get discouraged.

If there is one thing you have to tell Christian athletes…CM: Nothing you will ever win will ever be as great asJesus. Courtesy of Multimedia and Athletic Ser v ices

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Recently this thought troubledme: why does God keep forgivingus when we keep sinning? It’s ourhuman nature to sin, and evenwhen we try it still has a way ofcreeping back into our lives.Telling our self to stop trying toprevent sin appears a viable option,but we would be missing the point.Giving up would imply we neededto take action towards a goal ofearning forgiveness as if we are incontrol of our own lives. This is farfrom the truth. 1 Corinthians tellsus “We are not our own, for we arebought with a price.” This is whereGod’s grace abounds. Jesus al-ready paid the debt for our all oursins, even those we unknowinglycommit. We serve a God of unend-

ing grace and mercy so do not be-come discouraged in your weak-ness; instead let God be strong. Hislove knows no end and He has aperfect plan for you.

I encourage you to talk openlywith God and ask him to revealareas of your life where his gracecan intervene. God wants to hearfrom your honest heart. If you arenot a follower of Christ, God stillextends His gift of forgiveness andeternal life to you as well. “Forwhosoever shall call upon thename of the Lord shall be saved.”Romans 10:13 reminds us thatJesus took the place on the crossand paid for our sin when He knewno sin. If you are a born again be-liever I urge you to take the time to

thank God for his grace. We are allunworthy but the price has alreadybeen paid.

Lord, thank you so much for send-ing your only son to die for mysins. I realize I am so very unde-serving of your forgiveness. I couldnever pay the price on my own. Itamazes me that through the deathof Christ you have given life towhosoever shall call upon yourname. I pray for those who do notknow you, may you open theirhearts to receive your call. Forthose who already know you I praywe would be a light for You byopenly sharing the gospel and hon-oring your word. In Jesus’s name Ipray, Amen.

College life is difficult. Tests,relationships, deadlines and main-taining a social life are all so hardto combat into one sometimes. Wethen get overwhelmed and becomediscombobulated. Our core isshaken, our nerves spike and wetend to freak out. Sound aboutright? I know I have experiencedthat more than a few times in mylife. But as I have examined eachencounter I have had with thisissue I have found that the onlyway to overcome it is throughChrist. See, we tend to think thatsince we are humans we can do itall on our own. We get this Super-man mindset that we can do italone, when in all reality we can-not. Even Jesus knew that aloneHe was powerless. The savior ofthe world, the most powerful per-son to ever walk the planet knew

that in order to overcome the oddsHe faced, He could not do it alone.

The story picks up in Matthew26. Jesus and His disciples were inthe garden praying and He wasabout to be betrayed and arrestedfor false charges brought againstHim by the Pharisees. The Biblesays that He took Peter, James andJohn along with Him, and Hebegan to be deeply distressed andtroubled. “My soul is over-whelmed with sorrow to the pointof death,” He said to them. (Mark14:33-34). We see that even Jesuswas overwhelmed by this circum-stance. He became distressed. Heknew that in a few short momentsthat He was about to be put on trialfor all the good He had done andeventually be murdered. As thestory continues we see that Jesusrealizes something. God is with

Him and is pulling Him throughthis because he has complete re-liance on Him. He knew that inorder for Him to be able to over-come this, He could not do italone. The same goes for us.

In life when we try to over-come things on our own, we maybe successful for a short while. Butafter the shine wears off, we seethat we really didn’t get to far. Goddesires to do things for you and Hedesires for you to rely on Him. Itis only then that He can workthrough your life in a full capacitythat allows you to overcome allodds and situations. Our strength,peace and hope are found only inHim and by Him all things arepossible! Stop relying on yourselfand start relying on God. You willbe amazed at how far He can reallytake you!

Jesus paid it all

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You’renot alone

Saying that college basketball is a big deal inKentucky is a broad understatement. Being one ofthe 22 continental U.S. states that don’t act ashome to a professional athletic team, the Univer-sity of Kentucky Wildcats basketball program fillsthat void by becoming the default choice for many.UK diehards begrudgingly wait out the summermonths for October, when the first official colle-giate basketball practices are permitted to begin.

Most schools participate in “midnight mad-ness” events, which are essentially just a teampractice that’s open to the public. But UK sets thebar at another level with their yearly Big BlueMadness event. Hundreds of fans camp out alongthe streets days before tickets become available inhopes of being able to claim a couple free ticketsto a practice game. A practice game! Now, I’m notnecessarily questioning the behavior of these indi-viduals; I would totally do the same if my scheduleallowed it. My real gripe with BBM isn’t the fansthat want a seat in Rupp Arena come Oct. 17, it’sthe people that use it as a chance to line their pock-ets.

Again, I’m not a quarter-life curmudgeon. Iapplaud entrepreneurial efforts of all kinds, butonly if they’re within the constraints of the law.According to KRS § 518.070, “a person is guiltyof ticket scalping when he intentionally sells or of-fers to sell a ticket to an event at a price greaterthan that charged at the place of admission orprinted on the ticket, unless authorized by the is-suer or by law.” While ticket scalping is regulatedwithin the state, it’s done so poorly that it haspretty much become a non-issue.

Anyone who is familiar with BBM knows

about the exorbitant amounts of inflation thesetickets receive each year for a free event. Ticketsfor this year’s BBM went on sale over the weekendand quickly made appearances on a multitude ofticket resale sites. As of now, one can purchase aticket through StubHub anywhere from $19 (ab-solutely worst seats available) to $590.25. IfCraigslist is more your thing, you can expect tospend anywhere from $80 to $1,000 for an enve-lope, pen, marker, etc. and get BBM tickets“thrown in for free.” How generous. This kind ofloophole allows these conmen to sail directly underthe radar of any type of criminal charges. Andthough actually enforcing the statute against scalp-ing would greatly decrease the number of peoplewho continue to profit off Kentucky’s fanatic fanbase, the possible solution could be much simpler.

To get further to the root of the issue, let mego ahead and contradict myself for a moment. Isaid my problem was solely with those who scalptickets to free UK sporting events, but I also havea grievance with the people who are stupid enoughto buy them. Yes, stupid. I mean, come on, people.Quit being suckers. If everyone who paid theseridiculous sums of money to scalpers for free tick-ets just stopped doing so, then the market they relyon to be able to gouge the general public wouldcease to exist. Just stop it! Seriously. As long asthere are people willing to pay $1,000 for ticketsthat actually cost nothing then there will be peopleselling those tickets for $1,000. It airs live on tel-evision. Watch it at home on your high-definitiontelevision set while sitting on your comfortablecouch and eating snacks that didn’t force you todip into next month’s mortgage payment.

BY TIMOTHY W YATT

Editor-in-Chief

How I see it:The problem with Big BlueMadness

In early September the UC women’s golf teamopened their 2014-2015 season by winning in the BillSergent Invitational tournament, shooting a combinedteam total of 617. The Patriots were led by UC seniorBri-Ann Tokariwski (from Winnipeg, Canada). Tokari-wski earned medalist honors by shooting a combinedscore of 151 (+5), winning the tournament after a two-hole playoff. UC’s Shannon Bishop also shot a totalof 151 (+5) on the tournament, earning second place.

I sat down with Tokariwski recently and we talkedabout her success and what it felt like to competeagainst a teammate for first place.

Tylar Baker: What was your preparation for thetournament?Bri-Ann Tokariwski: The way we prepared for thetournament was really on the coaches. They preparedus every single day. We would practice on the mainparts that we struggle with and they encouraged us tobecome stronger. They were the biggest factor in mypreparation.

What did it feel like to know you were battling ateammate the whole time?I honestly didn’t know that I was until I was on hole16. My teammate Shannon (Bishop) and I were tiedgoing into hole 18 and I had no idea. Coming off ofthe course, I birdied 18 and my coach told me that Ineeded to prepare for a playoff. It shocked me. I hadno idea that I would be in a playoff with one of myteammates.

After winning, what was going through your mind?It felt really good to know that I won, but was heart-breaking at the same time. Shannon and I supportedeach other the whole time, but beating her really wasdifficult. It was one of those situations where you haveso many emotions its overwhelming. But, neither oneof us were mad at each other so that made it better.

BY TYLAR BAKER

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Three questions withBri-ann Tokariwski of UC

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