A 0/07 L Cats march to Atlanta hoping to erase sting Addllavortoaholidaygatheringwitnthisweeli's oiweeliend'sloss BACK PAGE recipe from our ‘Student Chet' PAGE 3 SPORT THE Ken‘mc l FEATURES ky Ke rnel Tuesday. December 6. 2005 Celebrating 34 years of independence ‘We are serious about this' must-1n smr UK president Lee Todd talks about the university's Top 20 Business Plan during its unveiling yesterday in the Worsham Theater. The chart behind hin depicts how much more money UK will need from the state each year in order to reach top-20 status by 2020. President Todd presents his Top 20 Business Plan outlining the costs and criteria for UK's goal of top-20 status By Megan Boehnke m: xrmucxr mm President Lee Todd presented his Top 20 Business Plan yesterday, which defines for the first time how much it will cost the university and Kentucky to reach the state-mandated goal of becoming a top20 university. The plan, which Todd revealed t0130 students, faculty and staff in a forum in the student center, includes criteria for measuring where UK currently stands among 88 public research institutions -— Plan draws praise, questions By Dariush Shaia THE mnucm KERNEL Students, staff, faculty and adminis- trators got their first look at the Top 20 Business Plan, the university’s first model of how to meet the state-mandat- ed goal of making UK a top public re- search university. In a presentation yesterday morning in the Student Center’s Worsham The- atre. Todd lined out the university’s overall plan of action and how much money will be required for UK to meet the goal set out by the state legislature “ ' ' ' in House Bill 1 of I m DOSItIVE 1997- . because as a “I squeezed this (forum) in because I Student,u felt it was impor- tant," said public there has service and leader- ship senior Miguel been 3 [Gt 0f Carlin. - ' Some students dlSCUSSIOn thought the plan _ was clear in stating aDOUt top 20 the university's but nobody goals. “As a student. really knows the Top 20 Busmess Plan provides a What top'ZO straightforward and ,, transparent plan was that’s going to help the state of Ken- Ryan Ouarles tucky and what is diplomacy m agricultural next for UK," said economics graduate Ryan Quarles, a diplomacy and agri- cultural economics graduate student and the student representative to the Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Ed- ucation. “i think it was realistic, particu- larly when it came to numerical data." Quaries said he is especially positive because the university has put forth a plan of action. “I'm positive because as a student here for four years- now, there's been a See Reaction on page 2 Firstissuehee.$ubseguentissuesl§cents. 35th —— and determines the costs of cracking the top 20 by 2020, as mandated by Kentucky House Bill 1 in 1997. “I would hope that this plan adds a re- ality to our top-20 push, that we are seri- ous about this," Todd said. The first phase in the plan is to halt enrollment until 2008, while at the same time adding 27 faculty members each year over the next three years. After sev- eral years of growing freshman classes, Todd wants to decrease the student-facul- ty ratio and get it “back on track," he 0 said. This means that the university will need to invest more money into the plan early, inevitably increasing tuition costs. “While the cost will go up, the goal is to increase the value of your diploma from this research institution,” Todd said. If the university receives the annual increases from the state legislature that it hopes to, students’ tuition will increase by 9 percent each year until 2012 and 4 percent each of the following eight years. “(The plan) differentiates us and tells them (legislature) that we are serious about this,” Todd said. “I know if we don't ask, we won’t get it.” See Plan on page 2 Composite Score: How UK measures up The nine aspects of composite score 35 UK's rank among 88 public research institutions Postdoctoral Appointments Undergraduate ACT/SAT Scores Student/Faculty Ratio Six-year Graduation Rate Graduate Education Doctorates Granted Faculty recognition Citations Awards Research Federal Expenditures Non-Federal Expenditures Growth Targets: How UK gets there Undergraduate Graduates. First Professional Postgraduate Appointments Total Students Faulty Research Expenditures 2004 2020 Increase 24,962 8,002 18.492 7,252 6,200 750 670 33,364 2,545 375 7,325 625 295 26,039 1,920 $298million $768 million $470 million Charting Tuition: What it could cost students Amount proposed by Council on Postsecondary ' Education I increase wlll vary with gmmumm. 'l‘undingllKreclms i ._..l ............. Amount UK has requested 0 2 46 annuaununannaana State funds (millions of dollars) “alumnae" wwaiykernetcom Provost finalist Visits campus By Sean Rose THE KENTUCKY mm About 10 years ago, Terry S. King was on UK's campus for a scientific meeting as the head of an en- gineering department. This time, he wants to stay King is the dean of the college of engineering at Kansas State University and one of two finalists for the job of UK provost. He will speak at a public to rum from 3:30 to 4:30 this afternoon in the Center Theater in the Student Center giving background on himself, his vision for UK and taking questions from the audience. UK‘s former provost, Mike N ietzel, left last spring to become president of Southwestern Mis- souri State University. Though King is applying for one of the chief ad- ministrative roles at UK, he said the administrators should not lose touch with what goes on in the class room. “It’s important for the adminis trators to see that happening, to participate in it and understand it,” King said in a phone interview Friday “The ability to interact with students becomes so impor- tant." King spent seven years as the head of the engineering depart- ment at Iowa State University and has been at Kansas State for the past eight and a half years. King said he sees UK’s key issue right now is its push to become a top20 public university “It’s my view that it’s the overriding, dominating issue over time," King said. “That is a major under- taking. “It’s absolutely imperative that a provost make sure the academic side is running smoothly” He said if he were to be hired. his role in the UK’s efforts to become a top20 college was to man- age resources and provide leadership concentrating on certain issues. “It's a matter of marshalling resources and creat- ing an environment where that can happen,” King said. “I feel it's very important to develop a limited number of priority areas and put the resources be- hind those priority areas so we can accomplish them.” SeeVlsltonpageZ Mayoral candidates offer Visions for downtown By Shannon Mason THE KENTUCKY KERNEL Two out of the four candidates for Lexington's 2006 mayoral race presented their visions for down- town Lexington last night at the Downtown Iexing- ton Corporation’s annual meeting. At the meeting, which was the first public fo rum for the candidates, Jim Newberry, a partner at the law firm of Wyatt, Tarrant and Combs, and Bill Farmer Jr., urban county fifth district councilman, revealed their plans for downtown in 5minute pre sentations. Incumbent Mayor Teresa Isaac and Charles Martin are also candidates in the 2006 mayoral elec- tion, but were not present at the DLC meeting. DLC offi- cials said Isaac had been "EVENtuallY. I called out of town and only - said that Martin had been in- WOUId “ke t0 vited. Newberry opened his pre- $99 a ShUttle sentation by stating his feel- ' ings toward downtown. SEI’VICC or “I don’t like (1 wntown," Newberry said. “I fave down- tTOIIYS Sgt Up to help link town." Newberry said he looked . for the area from Transylsfii- transylvanla. nia University to UK to be t e academic center for the region downtown and looked for downtown Lex- d UK" ington to be the arts and cul- an tural center of the region. “I’m a big believer in downtown Lexington." New- berry said. Newberry said he was a strong supporter of the College 'lbwn Plan. He said the College Town Plan focuses on the area from Euclid Avenue to High Street and from Upper Street to Rose Street. in this plan. Newberry said Limestone Street Samarium! Jim Newberry We“