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Monday, December 12, 2005

Second provost finalist visits UK today

By Sean Rose
THE KENIUCKV mm

Kumble Subbaswamy‘s first fac-
ulty job was at UK in 1978. Twenty-
seven years after his assistant pro-
fessorship started. he's returning to
campus today aiming at a slightly
higher position.

Subbaswamy, the current dean of
the College of Arts and Sciences at
Indiana University, is visiting UK to
day for a public forum as UK’s other
finalist in its search for a new
provost A UK’s highest-ranking aca-
demic official. The other finalist ~—
Terry King. dean of the College of
Engineering at Kansas State Univer-

sity ~~ had his forum last week.

UK President Lee Todd formed
the provost search committee in
April to receive applications and
narrow the field down to a few final-
ists. from which he will choose the
university’s new provost. UK hopes
to have a new provost to start next
semester.

UK's former provost. Mike Niet-
zel, left in June to become president
of Southwest Missouri State Univer-
sity. Nietzel is UK‘s only provost
since Todd integrated the provost
model at UK in 2001.

Like King, Subbaswamy said the
most important issue facing UK is
the push to become a top~20 institu-

Celebrating 34 years of independence

tion.

”It seems like
that will be the
most important is-
sue over the next
five years." Sub-
baswamy said. “It’s
really the imple-
mentation that be-
comes the provost’s
responsibility."

UK needs transparency and ide-
alistic thinking to accomplish its
goals, Subbaswamy said.

“I believe what an academic ad-
ministration needs most of all is the
trust and confidence of the various

Subbaswamy

If You Go: Provost Forum

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Who: Kumble Subbaswamy. UK provost finalist and dean of the College of Arts and Sciences

at Indiana University
When: 2:30 pm. to 3:30 pm. today
Where: Center Theater in the Student Center

For more information and evaluation forms. visit www.uky.edu/Provost/search.html

people who report to the provost," he
said. “It‘s a place where we should
start out being idealistic in the uni-
versity confines.

“There's no room for complacen-
cy; we all need to be working toward

the same goal he said.
Subbaswamy said he looks for-
ward to convincing people that he’s
the right candidate for the job, say-
ing he has an advantage because of

See Provost on page A2

 

 

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Freshman Jason Dardas leads the nationally ranked UK rifle team in smallbore average, and is second in his average air rifle score. Dardas suffered second-degree
burns the day before he was supposed to move to UK. Earlier in life, he lost the top Knuckle on his index finger, which riflers typically use as their trigger finger.

BACK ON TARGET

team in smallbore average without benefit of traditional trigger finger

Rifle freshman leads

By Maggie Fennell

THE KENTUCKY KERNEL

Jason Dardas is juggling get-
ting into UK's nationally ranked
pharmacy school with competing
on UK's nationally ranked rifle
team.

But that's no sweat after what
he had to do to even get here.

After suffering seconddegree
burns on his face and arms the
day before he was scheduled to
come to Lexington and join the
rifle team. as well as molding his
talent without the benefit of a
trigger finger. Dardas is helping
lead the UK rifle team into con-
tention for a national champi-
onship.

Less than 36 hours before
Dardas was supposed to move in
at UK. he experienced a burn ac-
cident with black powder. He and
a friend were lining the bottom of
a pit in his backyard. But they
didn't see a lit cigarette in the

bottom of the pit, and when they
threw in the black powder. it ex-
ploded. Dardas suffered burns on
his arms and face.

“I was going nuts. That was a
mess, a total nightmare." said
Carlene Dardas, Jason’s mother.

“I was in the hospital for 10
days. It was kind of crazy trying
to fit in with everybody and not

Rifle freshman
Jason Dardas holds
the medals that he
won in Puerto Rico
at the Championship
of the Americas

‘ over the back of his
competition jacket.

Dardas competes
without the benefit
of a true trigger fin-
ger, using his middle
finger instead.

thinking too much about how I
was going to shoot." Dardas said.
“They told me. ‘Don’t shoot
until it‘s healed.’ " he said. “I
stopped for a month and a half."
He said he went ahead and
shot before being completely
healed, but only when the coach-
es weren‘t around. Now, he leads
the team in smallbore average

and is second in air rifle competi-
tion by 0.1 points.

Dardas’ rifle scholarship fur-
ther complicated the matter, be-
cause his family worried
whether UK would let him keep
it. since he wouldn’t be practic-
ing for a while.

“It was not fim," Carlene Dar-
das said. “It was a little hairy for
a while. The doctors said he
couldn’t go to school. They played
it by ear."

Except for being out of prac-
tice for two months, the accident
didn't stop Dardas from joining
the team. His coach, Harry
Mullins. said that delay hasn't
caused any long-term effects.

“I think that he has made a
really quick and great recovery"
Mullins said. ”Trying to train be
fore he was supposed to just
shows how hungry he was to get
into the matches.“

The UK shooter originally got

See Rifle on page A2

 

International

By Mallory Bonbright
TIIE xtxruch KERNEL

As the holiday break ap
proaches, most UK students are
eager to make their way home,
but for many international stu-
dents, the end of the semester
meanst watching campus empty
ou .

With expensive ticket prices
and a short winter break. inter.
national students find it hard to
journey home to visit with fami-
ly and friends. who are often
times living on different conti-

students call

nents.

“I am just in the US. for col-
lege and my immediate family is
still in Kenya," said pharmacy ju-
nior Puia Shah. “I cannot go
home for Christmas break be-
cause time is too short to go so
far. so I usually travel (within the
U.S.).8

Some international students
said winter break gives them the
chance to travel across the coun-
try and experience American cul-
ture

English senior Oak Chung’s
family lives in South Korea. It‘s

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campus home for holidays

been three months since he‘s
been home. and he will be spend-
ing winter break here.

“I am going to Rhode Island
to visit a friend." Chung said. “I
might go to Times Square to cele
brate the holiday"

International students not go
ing on trips for the break will
still have a place to stay Smith
Hall. a new dorm located on UK's
South Campus, is open during
the break for those who cannot
return home for the holidays.

UK also offers host families to
international students through

the International Hospitality Pro
gram. The host family may invite
its student over to celebrate. said
Karen Slaymaker. assistant direc-
tor for international student ser-
vices.

“It can be difficult for stu-
dents far from home around the
holidays,“ Slaymaker said.
adding that UK ofl‘ers counseling
services to help new internation-
al students.

“The students are very sup
portive of each other and cele

brate together."

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Trustees
set to OK
top-20 plan

Eight capital project priorities
expected to pass tomorrow

By Megan Boehnke
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UK‘s Board of Trustees is expected to
pass UK President Lee Todd‘s top-20 busi-
ness plan in its meeting tomorrow

“My prediction is that it will be a unani-
mous approval." said Roy Moore. a faculty
representative on the board. “All the mem-
bers are well—informed on the details of the
plan. I think there is very strong support
among the board members. or at least the
board members I‘ve talked with."

The plan. which Todd presented in a
public forum a week ago today, outlines the
cost to the state and the university to make
UK a top20 research university by the year
2020, as the General Assembly mandated in
1997 with House Bill 1.

As part of the plan, UK is asking the
state for a $17.7 million increase to its gen-
eral funding this year.

“I‘m impressed with (the plan) and fa-
vorably disposed toward it," said trustee
Phillip Patton. “We're actually trying to put
a number on it and define a goal and put
specifications on it," he said.

The members have been updated
throughout the devel-
opment of the plan and “The ideal

received a briefing .
from Todd last week. goal IS that
we have a

said Russ Williams, a
trustee and staff repre—
sentative to the board. . . .

“As we have made SIHQIE'dIQIt
progress over the last . .
eight years, we really tUlthfl
needed this plan to out- - ,,
line some specific goals "ml-ease-
we need to be working , ,
toward." Williams Russ Williams
said. “It provided us di- stall trustee.
rection we need for the on UK's top-20 plan
next 12 years."

If the board passes the plan. members
said they will continue to promote the plan
in whatever role the university wants.

The role of the board “will all depend on
what the president and the administrative
staff wants us to do. Once we pass this (to
morrow), I think we will be telling the Gen-
eral Assembly that we support it." Williams
said, adding that the board members would
be willing to talk to legislators if asked.

Patton said UK needs to get the funding
it’s requesting. whether that money comes
through Gov. Ernie Fletcher’s budget pro-
posal or the legislature's budget proposal.

“I’m hoping they will get (the funding
the university is requesting) or close
enough that we can begin to make the sig-
nificant strides we'd have to meet the goal
by 2020.“

UK calculated annual tuition increases
based on the amount of funding it receives
from the state each year.

“I know the university wants to keep it
reasonable." Moore said. “We don‘t want to
price tuition so high that students aren’t
able to pursue an education at the Universi-
ty of Kentucky.“

Williams agreed that legislature will
take the cost to students into consideration
when deciding on how much funding to give
the university.

“The ideal goal is that we have a single
digit tuition increase.“ Williams said.

“The state is really in a tight position."
he said.

“There is a lot Kentucky tries to do with
limited dollars it's always a tough
process and a hard process to watch as they
try to allocate the people‘s money."

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Provost

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his previous experience at
UK. He worked at UK from
1978 to 1997. eventually serv-
ing as the associate dean of
the College of Arts and Sci-
ences and chair of the physics
and astronomy department.

“In terms of a learning
curve. I think I would have an
advantage for sure." Sub-
baswamy said. “I‘m not going
to pretend that I know every-
thing, but I feel like I have an
advantage knowing what
used to be there at least nine
years ago.”

He lefi to serve as the dean
of the College of Arts and Sci-
ences at the University of Mi-
ami; where he stayed until he
went to Indiana University in
2000. He's served as the dean
of the College of Arts and Sci-
ences at Indiana since then.

Subbaswamy said he fond-
1y remembers his time at UK

and that he left to see if he
would enjoy a full-time ad-
ministrative job.

“It was a great 18 years I
had over there," Subbaswamy
said of his UK experience.
“I'm adventurous; I'm a risk
taker.

“I do enjoy getting the
most out of complicated orga-
nizations." he said. “It's sort
of like being a conductor of a
very large orchestra — that’s
how I think about it."

Subbaswamy said he ap
plied to be the new provost af-
ter friends at UK encouraged
him to do so. He said he's
ready for a more challenging
job and he’s excited by UK's
ambitions.

“I feel like I’ve outgrown
the confines of arts and sci-
ences." Subbaswamy said. “It
could be a very exciting time
for (UK) with changes.

“As we’re moving into a
knowledge-based economy,
flagship universities are go-
ing to be more and more im-
portant in a state’s economy."
Subbaswamy

If he gets the job, Sub-

baswamy said he would as-
sess what’s working well and
develop an implementation
plan for the top-20 business
Ian

“I think there’s a lot of
discussion and deliberation to
take place." Subbaswamy
said. “It's silly to think that I
would have all the answers.

“I follow the adage, lead.
follow or get out of the way.’ ”
he said.

Subbaswamy said he "ab-
solutely" thought he was the
right man for the job but that
Todd and the search commit-
tee must make that decision.
He also said he’s looking for-
ward to getting to know the
people and issues of UK again
at the forum.

“I’m a people person; I
love interacting with people.”
Subbaswamy said. “It's im-
portant that people have a
chance to speak their minds.

“It’s a fairly important po
sition to fill and people need
to feel comfortable.”

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into rifle after another acci-
dent cost him his first love ~~
baseball ~- as well as what
would turn into his trigger
finger.

“Before I got
really into (shoot-

ing), I shot one or iS that Of the

two times a
week."
said. “When I got

really into it. I cam 0f the
5““ “early every shooters I have “1

day."

He decided to coached."

play baseball in-
stead of focusing
on rifle when he
was young. but
his baseball ca-
reer didn’t last longer than
Little League.

During one of his base-
ball seasons as a kid. he acci-
dentally crushed his right in-
dex finger between two 75-
pound lead bars. The finger
was destroyed from the sec-
ond knuckle up.

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chose the amputation."

He eventually decided to
quit baseball and go back to
the shooting range. “I wasn't
a great batter, and thought I
had some potential in shoot-
ing," he said.

Most rifle participants
use their index finger to

shoot. which put

Dardas in a pinch.
instead of
quitting. he fig-
ured out another
way to shoot, even
without the top
half of his index
finger.
couldn’t
reach the trigger
with my index fin-
ger and I just kind

Harry Mullins of put (my middle
ur rllle head coach finger) in there,"

he said. “1 auto-
matically used my
middle finger"

Mullins said Dardas is
pretty comfortable with his
burn and finger accidents.
“They were accidents and I
think that he treats them in
that manner. He will not talk
about them unless someone
else brings it up. but then he
has no problem with it,"
Mullins said.

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Now that he‘s made the
team. he has to come up with
a way to juggle school. shoot-
ing for a nationally ranked
college team and shooting for
the US. National Develop-
ment team.

In addition to shooting
for UK. Dardas also recently
returned from the Champi-
onship of the Americas in
Puerto Rico with that same
national team. He shot in all
three events. winning an in-
dividual division. He also
won the Championship of
the Young Hopes in the
Czech Republic and has
trained in Germany.

“I think he definitely has
a career after college,"
Mullins said. “He has the
skills to compete at the major
international level:

“His skill level is that of
the upper 15 percent of the
shooters I have coached," he
said.

“He has a go-getter atti-
tude when he is shooting,"
Mullins said. “He will do
everything within his power
the day of the match to bring
in the best numbers."

Even without a true trig-
ger finger.

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By Josh Sullivan
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INDIANAPOLIS - UK
headed north hoping to erase
the memory of last Satur-
day’s humbling home loss to
North Carolina, but the Cats
lett Indianapolis in disarray.

Led by senior forward
Marco Killingworth's double-
double. border rival Indiana
dealt the Wildcats their worst
loss under head coach Tubby
Smith, 79-53. in an RCA
Dome divided down the mid-
dle by Kentucky blue and IU
red

“Indiana got in our face
and just manhandled us."
Smith said.

Killingsworth dominated
in the post, scoring 23 points
on seven-of—eight shooting
and pulling down 11 re-
bounds.

“Killingsworth was very
physical inside," said Smith.
“We just couldn't find a way
to stop him. When we did
double team him, he found
open people.”

With just more than a
minute to play, Hoosier head
coach Mike Davis pulled
Killingsworth out of the
game. The Indiana crowd
went crazy as the Gfoot-8 big
man wrapped Davis in a bear
hug from behind in celebra-
tion of the defeat of a team
that had plagued them both
for years. Killingsworth went
0-4 against UK while playing
for Auburn before transfer-
ring last year. Davis was win-
less against the Cats since
taking over for Bobby Knight
five years ago.

“We finally got
Davis said.

When the Hoosiers
weren’t busy punishing the
Cats in the paint, they were
hounding them on the defen-
sive end. Indiana held UK to
a season~low 31 percent
shooting from the field. UK
missed its first 20 shots from
beyond the arc, before senior
guard Brandon Stockton
sank a 3-pointer from the
wing with three and a half
minutes left to play to pull
the Cats to within 14 points
at 5945.

Sophomore point guard
Rajon Rondo was shooting 50
percent from the arc on the
season, but missed all six of
his 3-pointers on Saturday.
He did set a new career-high
in points with 21.

After the game, when he
was asked why he thought
the Cats were struggling in
the early part of the season,
Rondo said there was “no
leadership." When asked
where UK needed to look for
that leadership, he said. “My-
self and the seniors."

The 26-point defeat was
UK's worst loss since Dec. 9.
1989. when the Cats were
blown out at Kansas.

Looking ahead to Uofl

The Cats will try to avoid
their third consecutive na-
tionally televised loss when
they host fifth-ranked
Louisville in Rupp Arena

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Indiana senior guard Lewis Monroe knocks the ball out of UK sophomore Rajon Rondo’s hands during UK’s 79-53
loss to the Hoosiers Saturday in Indianapolis. Rondo finished with a career-high 21 points.

Saturday.

“It’ll be a tough game for
us coming off of a game like
this." head coach Tubby
Smith said after the loss to
Indiana. “There are going to
be some problems."

The schools have split the
four games since Pitino re-
turned to coach his former
team‘s most despised rival.
Last season. led by a 25-point
effort from Patrick Sparks,
the Cats edged the Cards 60-
58 after trailing 32-16 at half-
time. completing their
biggest comeback from a
halftime deficit since 1994
against LSU.

Smith says the Cats must
get back on track quickly af.
ter losing two of their last
three games to rivals.

“Losing has a tendency to
breed." he said. “It‘s like a
bad disease; it's contagious.
Settling for mediocrity be-
comes a habit."

Sophomore guard Joe
Crawford sees the UofL
game as a chance to re-
bound from a disappointing
early December stretch.

“Playing good against
(UofL), that’s going to be
one of the main things we
need to do to turn things
around," he said. “That‘s
our main rival: fans want
that win more than any-
thing else."

The trip to Rupp Arena
will be UofL’s first road
game of the season. The
Cardinals have won their
first five games. led by an
experienced backcourt com-
bo. Senior shooting guard
Taquan Dean leads UofL
with an average of 20.4
points per game. He and ju-
nior point guard Brandon
Jenkins dish out a combined
7.8 assists per game.

By contrast. UK‘s guards
struggled to find their team»
mates on offense. Against In-
diana. the Cats had four as-
sists and 19 turnovers.

“As soon as we get a little
pressure. a little adversity.
they go one«on-one.“ Smith
said. “When you get four as-
sists. it means you’re not
looking for people."

Ramel Bradley said UK
can‘t afford to come out
timid against the Cardinals.

“It‘s a big rivalry. They‘re
going to be pumped: we‘ve
got to find it within ourselves
to get pumped." he said.

UK: Morris penalty should
be less severe

On Friday. UK released
the 21-page appeal it filed
with the NCAA Student-Alh
lete reinstatement staff after
Randolph Morris was de—
clared ineligible by the mem-
bership services staff two
weeks ago.

In the document. UK con-
tends that Morris and his
family never knowingly com
mitted an NCAA violation
while the sophomore center
explored his chances to enter
the NBA this summer. The
Student-Athlete Reinstate-
ment staff ruled Friday that
Morris was ineligible for the
remainder of this season.
adding that he will have two
years of eligibility left.

“...We think it is extreme-
ly important to note that. al-
though the Morris family
made some bad decisions
during the process. they did
not engage in any activities
which indicated that Ran
dolph had no intent on main-
taining his collegiate eligibil-
ity." Sandy Bell. UK’s assis-
tant athletic director for com-
pliance. wrote to the NCAA.

In the document. UK out»

lines a schedule for Morris
family to repay by March 7
the more than $7 .000 spent by
NBA teams to hold workouts
for him. The first payment. a
check for $2.000 to the United
Negro College Fund. has al~
ready been made.

UK recommended that
Morris be suspended for nine
regular season games. saying
in the document that “the
loss of 30 percent of his regu-
lar season games" would be
appropriate for “any inadver-
tent mistakes“ made while
preparing for the draft.

The document also con-
tains a letter from Morris to
the NCAA. Morris writes. "I
always wanted to protect my
eligibility This is why my
father spoke to Mrs. Bell
about what the NCAA rules
were. We felt like we under—
stood those rules and did
what was necessary to pro»
tect my eligibility"

Morris also addresses his
lack of communication with
Smith after deciding to enter
the draft. Morris informed
Smith of his decision in a
faxed letter. then avoided
contacting the coaching staff
while preparing for the draft.

“The reason I did not con-
sult with my coach was I
thought it would have been
too difficult to talk about."
Morris wrote. “It is similar
to the situation after recruit-
ing is over and you have to
inform coaches. who you
have developed a relation-
ship with. that you are not
coming to their school. That
is a very difficult conversa-
tion to have because you
know that you are disap-
pointing someone. This prob-
ably was not the most mature
decision to make and I now
regret having made it."

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Adam Sichko. Editor in chief

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Wt aiieviate textbook burde

This week. students are bracing
themselves not just for finals. but
also for receiving a pittance from
the bookstores for textbooks that
cost hundreds of dollars at the se-
mester‘s beginning.

And these maddeningly low buy-
back prices will be surpassed in ag~
gravation only by the prices stu-
dents will have to pay for next se-
mester‘s books.

There‘s a simple solution for ease
ing the pain on students‘ pocket-
books: buying books online from
other students or discount book-
sellers. But as of now. UK makes it
difficult for students to do so. Faced
with a short window during which
to buy books, students have to rely
on nearby stores that charge more.
such as Kennedy Book Store and the
UK Bookstore (which is operated by
Kennedy).

UK could put textbook lists on-
line or mandate that each college or
department do so. in order for stu~
dents to have enough time to get a
good deal. Instructors are supposed
to turn book requests for the spring
semester in to UK Auxiliary Ser-
vices by Nov. 1. which means stu-
dents could have ‘2 1/2 months to
find cheap books instead of a couple
of weeks at the start of the semes»
ter.

But instead of pursuing such a
policy. UK leaves its students out in
the cold. At a time when costs for
students . including tuition and
textbook prices ,, are rising steeply.
the university has failed to help out.

A Government Accountability
Office report in July found that col
lege textbook prices increased at
twice the rate of inflation between
December 1986 and December 2004.
nearly tripling in that time.

When the textbook market is
this bad for students — many of
whom are already struggling to pay
their ever-increasing tuition ,- UK
needs to be acting in students‘ inter-
est. not for Kennedy‘s bottom line.

To help students take advantage
of potential Internet savings. The
Kernel filed an Open Records re-
quest for all textbook orders submit-
ted by UK professors for spring
classes at UK. The book orders 7
complete with course number. sec-
tion, instructor. book title. author
and ISBN are now listed at
wwwkykernelcom.

There are some limitations: The
list only contains classes for which
book orders were submitted by Nov.
8. Only required texts with complete
ISBN numbers are listed. Optional
books and books without ISBN
numbers don‘t appear. But even our
incomplete list is far more than
what the university has done to help
students deal with expensive books.

In an interview with The Kernel
last fall, Carol Behr, general manag-
er of Kennedy Book Store. said UK
doesn‘t release ISBN numbers on-
line because of support for the UK
Bookstore.

“(Students) can come in and get
the information if they want. but
we‘re not going to make it easier for

them," Behr said.

Under the lease agreement,
Kennedy pays the university
$900,000 annually to rent the space
in the Student Center. More than
half of that revenue is used to fund
scholarships.

Most of the bookstore lease mon-
ey is used for a good cause. but that
doesn‘t excuse the monopolistic tac—
tics used to fleece students of as
much money as possible. The book-
stores obviously have no reason to
keep prices low. since students are
essentially forced to shop at them
unless they want to risk receiving
their books too late into the semes-
ter.

There's no quick fix to the prob-
lem, though. Professors are asked to
submit book orders for upcoming
semesters while they‘re still teach-
ing their current classes. In an in-
terview last year, political science
professor Steve Voss said the dead-
line to submit book orders was too
early as it is.

“I should be reading the books
I’m teaching for my class now in-
stead of reading books for next se-
mester." he said.

But even though earlier hooker.
der deadlines may not be a feasible
part of the solution. there's no rea-
son for UK to stand by while stu-
dents have to pay for overpriced
textbooks. And until UK administra-
tors see fit to help students save
money on textbooks. this publica-
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