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Cats'postseason ends
in double-overtime loss,
one game shy of Final Four

By Ben Roberts
THE unrucxv KERNEL

AUSTIN. Texas (‘huck Hayes did-
n't envision his cancer as a Wildcat end—
ing the way it did Sunday

As the final second of UK‘s 94-88
loss to Michigan State ticked off the Er-
win Centt r scoreboard. the senior for-
ward sat t'itn his head lowered on the
bench. empty seats on either side of
him.

His schixrlrecordtying 110th con-
secutive game as a starter had seen it
all. A last second 3-pointer to end regu-
lation. two overtimes. ll) tied scores and
19 lead changes.

But it ended with the Cats six points
short on the scoreboard. and Hayes de-
nied of his last attempt at a Final Fotu:

“It‘s tough." said junior guard
Patrick Sparks. "There are a lot of ham
emotions going on in the locker room
right now. Especially for those guys
(Hayes and senior guard .losh (‘arrierl

we wanted to send them out right.
and we didn’t do that. W x're all pretty
down right now“

Sparks forced the first extra period
by draining a :i-pointer at the second
half buzzer to tie the score at 75. The
shot came after missed :i-pomters by
Sparks and junior forward Kelenna
Azubuike. but the (‘ats recovered both
offensiv . rebounds for a third chance.

“It was wild." Sparks said of the so
quence. “I went from ‘Man. that was
our last shot' to “Their s the ball: go get
it and shoot it.‘ It was a wild moment."

UK took the momentum from the
last second :i-pointcr and parlayed it
into a 7975 lead at the beginning of the
first overtime. The (‘ats forced two
turnovers to start the period. and it
took the Spartans three possessions zutd
.38 seconds to cross half court for the
first time.

()n that trip down the court. Michi-
gan State missed four field goals and
one free throw. and grabbed five offen-
sive rebounds before getting the ball to
Shannon Brown. who hit a :Hminter
and cut the lead to one point.

Hayes was on the bench during the
possession with four fouls.

“Chuck is the guy that gets a lot of
those rebounds." said UK head coach
Tubby Smith. “When he was hampered
with fouls they were really control-
ling botli backboards. especially the of
fensive glass.

“That is demoralizing when you
give up those offensive rclxumds."

Hayes had to sit out the beginning of
each overtime period dtte to the foul
trouble. He said his absence was a big
factor in the Spartans' 12-6 rebounding
advantage in the two overtitnes

“I wanted to get back in so bad and
do whatever 1 could to help the team."
Hayes said. “And I felt so bad because.
by me getting in foul trouble. I wasn't
able to contribute the way l wanted to."

With the shot clock turned off and
the ball in the hands of freshman guanl
Rajon Rondo. the (‘ats had the last
chance to win the game at the end of

See Loss on page 2

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0 A breakdown of Sparks' shot
0 UK tans endure heartbreaker
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in disbelief as the Cats' lead in double overtime disappeared.

In the end, he’s still just Chuck

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Everyone is on
a first-name basis with (‘harles Ed

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As he tells everyone. you can just
call him (‘huck

For the last four years. (‘huck
Hayes has answered every time his
name was called. He did it all in
cluding the dirty work with class

In that time. he became a part of

everyone‘s family. He was the guy

next door. your son. your brother.
“(‘huck is a special person.” said

[M head coach Tubby Smith “He is

a special young man. He under»
stands what sacrifice means. what
commitment means

“He is a living example for all
players to follow. He has done so
much for us. things that you can't re
ally look in the box score and see."

last night against Michigan
State. it was the same t‘huck.

He finished with 16 points. five
rebounds. three assists and a steal.
but as always he did more. Through
screams or by example. he was his
team's leader.

This time. Hayes' dream ending
scented inevitable. The Final Four
the perfect reward for the broken
bones and the bruises he had en-
dured for his (‘ats was finally
within his reach.

He deserved this ending. and he
knew it was oh-so-close.

His (Tats had just received one of
the sweetest bounces in college has-
ketball history when Patrick Sparks'
last-second desperation shot danced

Summoner-'2

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Tracing the Cats'
tournament run

First round

UK 72, Eastern Kentucky 64: The Colonels
cut the lead to five points with 4:15 left. But
freshman point guard Rajon Rondo made a
game-clinching steal with 32 seconds left.

Second

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UK 69, Cincinnati 60: Randolph Morris grabbed
12 rebounds as the Cats faced their neighbor to
the north for the first time in 15 years. An NCAA
opening-weekend record 40,331 fans looked on.

UK 62, Utah 52: Seldom-used big men Shagari
Alleyne and Lukasz 0brzut shut down Utah All-
American center Andrew Bogut. Bogut scored 20
points but missed eight of his first 10 shots.

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Michigan State 94, UK 80 (201'): The Final
Four was just out of the Cats' reach. as the Spar-
tans outscored UK 13-7 in the game's second
overtime session.

Final Four Schedule

The Final Four
tips off Saturday
afternoon.

All games will be
broadcast on
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Equestrian team hosts first meet,
makes leap toward varsity status

By Chris Johnson
in: mnucxv mm

UK’s club equestrian team took a huge
step in its push to become a varsity sport
Saturday when it hosted its first-ever home
meet against South Carolina at the Ken~
tucky Horse Park.

Though the final score was in favor of
the Gamecocks, UK considered the meet a
success. and South Carolina also came away
from the experience impressed by the hos—
pitality and professionalism of the Cats'
first organized meet.

“I was really pleased," said Kristen
Race. an equine science senior and the
equestrian club's president. “We won three
of the four events, and even though South
Carolina won the overall. the girls worked
really hard; the coaches and judges said
they were really pleased. And South Caroli-
na said it was the best meet they‘d ever
been to. from a management perspective."

Joe Humphrey. South Carolina’s assis-
tant coach and a Kevil, Ky. native. was im-
pressed with the Cats’ home facility and the
organization of the event.

“I've been coming to the Horse Park
since I was eight years old.” Humphrey
said. “Access to three arenas is great. how-
ever they did it. You can tell the hard work
they’ve put into it."

Race said private donors have been in-
strumental to the fledgling program‘s
growth and its ability to put on Saturday’s
show. including the Horse Park donating
three of its exhibition arenas, rings that
would normally cost $4.500 to rent.

“The Horse Park really took care of us.“
Race said. “Private donors have really
helped us out. too. We had to borrow most of
the horses we’re using because we only
have one. and we get no money at all from
the university"

“Normally when you spend a lot of
money on a horse. you don‘t want a lot of
people riding it. but these people were more
than happy to help us out." said Michelle
Zimmer. a coach for the equestrian team.
“They trust us.”

Zimmer and Race designed the jumping
course. organized the horses that were be-
ing rented. and set the schedule for the
events.

“I’ve seen varsity programs who haven‘t

been this organized."

"When you Humphrey said.

"They have really

say horses, donea soodjob."

Everyone involved

everybody with the Saturday
. meet agreed that it
thlnks was a very good illus-
tration of how varsity

KentUCky. equestrian would go if

given the green light

Being from by Mitch Barnhart
Kentucky I and the UK Athletics

Association. UK needs

WOHder Why another women's

sport to satisfy Title
they don't IX requirements that
oblige a school to have
have a the same number of
” men’s sports as
program. women's.

“It just makes
Joe Humphrey sense." Humphrey
SouthCarolim's assistant said. “When you say
coach horses. everybody
thinks Kentucky Be-
ing from Kentucky. i

wonder why they don‘t have a program.“

Georgia‘s equestrian program is the m w I sun
paramount 0f NCAA equestrian. Last Katie Mesten of the UK equestrian team competed in the English fence jumping competition
April, the UK team went to Georgla and 10$! during Saturday's horse show with South Carolina at the Kentucky Horse Park. The equestri-
by a few pomts JUSt W991“ before Georgia an team would like to become a varsity sport at UK, and attain funding from UK Athletics.
won its second consecutive NCAA champi-
onship. Close matches are somewhat unusu-
al in equestrian. with the scoring based on
a 1.000point maximum.

“Georgia's athletic department has been
100 percent behind the team since they
crossed over fmm club status.“ Humphrey
said. “With that. quality coaches. and quali-
ty riders. that‘s a good combination for a
program."

“We have an amazing team this year."
Race said. “We‘re number two in the region.
14 total points behind Miami."

“We were the high point team at a meet
at Midway. and the reserve high point team
the time before.“ Zimmer said. “if this goes
successful. maybe they Would consider us
for varsity"

Not being a varsity program has hurt
the UK riders in competition. team mem~
bers said.

“Miami (Ohio) and Morehead State offer
equestrian as a class. so their girls spend a
lot more time riding than ours." Zimmer
said.

The last meet of the year for UK is at
Miami next Saturday

“it's on their home turf. with their hors
es." Race said. “Home field advantage is
huge in equestrian because you set up the . 3.: , ’ w,
course and you know the horses. We'll have ,' "
four minutes to warm up with the horses , . .- , ‘y g k

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. before we show them."
Despite UK‘s not offering equestrian as
a class and not having it as a varsity sport.

UK’s team as a whole and its individual rid- . . . . ‘ I!“ WV l mu
ers are still competing with the other teams UK equestrian team coach Michelle Zimmer speaks with Mesten while she rides before the

5 Horse n e 4 Horsemanship event of Saturday's show. Mesten has qualified for nationals in flat showing
'9 o 909 and can qualify in jumping with two second place finishes Saturday against Miami (Ohio).

 

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Faculty
candidates
speak out

Trustees election begins today

By Adam Sichko

THE KENTUCKY KERNEL

Two competitors for a faculty spot on the Board
of Trustees debated ways to enhance the learning
experience at UK and the search for a new provost
Friday

Faculty elections begin today to pick either in-
cumbent Michael Kennedy. a geography professor: or
Jeff Dembo. a dentistry professor. Kennedy‘s first
term on the board ends in June.

Kennedy touted his experience on the board. not-
ing that the board elected him to its executive com-
mittee -_ the board's most powerful group.

“There’s a learning curve you have to go
through." Kennedy said. “I‘m gaining confidence.
and most (board members) respect what I have to
say“

Kennedy also explained *“
several initiatives he began as
a faculty trustee. including BOT CANDIDATES
creating a Web site for com-
munication with faculty mem-
bers and making formal state-
ments to the board.

“I do that to send faculty
messages to the administra-
tion.” Kennedy explained.

“And it gets their attention."

As both a former chair-

man of the University Senate
and an academic ombudsman.
Dembo said he‘s no stranger
to the influence and collabora-
tion needed to be an effective
faculty representative to the
board.

“I‘m comfortable in that re-
gard." Dembo said. “The facul-
ty need to decide who's going
to be the most persuasive and
influential.“

In the debate. sponsored by
the UK Women's Forum.

Kennedy said teaching re- ,4, 7 ._,

sources must be more ade-

quately addressed in order to enhance the UK learn-
ing experience.

He cited one professor who said larger class sizes
forced a change from assigning six- to nine-page
term papers to one- to two-page in-class responses.
The professor wrote that "admittedly: that's not as
good an educational experience. but it's more man-
ageable for me.“ Kennedy said.

“Trying to teach under these circumstances. it's
just not a good teaching environment." Kennedy
said. citing record enrollment and larger class sizes
as factors. “We have a problem with faculty morale

See Trustees on page 4

to administer
Easter blessing

By Daniel Williams

in: “summon-eon

ROME The hand of an unseen assistant
moved a microphone out of the shadows of the pa
pal palace anti into place at an open window.

Sitting in front of it. Pope John Paul H tried to
broadcast a blessing to the tens of thousands of
pilgrims. worshippers and tourists in St. Peter's
Square below.

But all he could manage were rasps and gri.
maces. His hand traced a cross in the air. and tears
flowed from the eyes of many in the hushed crowd.

The pope sat for 12 dramatic minutes at the
window. it was his longest period in the public eye
since he left the hospital two weeks ago after un-
dergoing throat surgery.

The 20-minute trip from the hospital to the Vat-
ican was televised.

During his appearance Sunday. the pope
coughed spasmodically. moved his head in a
writhing motion and occasionally pressed his fin-
gers to his temples.

Still. afterstlently delivering the blessing. he
abruptly gestured to someone behind as if signal-
ing that he was not yet ready to retreat into his
apartment.

When finally he was rolled away and a sheer
curtain was drawn over the window. the crowd ap
plauded warmly.

Observers in the Easter Sunday crowd had
mixed feelings as they left the square. “I was in-
spired." said Marcello Giuliani. from Calabria in
southern Italy “He wants us all to go on with good
work until the last breath."

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in their intercollegiate league.

"Two of our girls have qualified
for regionals. and one is five points
behind Miami‘s lead rider for the
number one ranking in our zone."
Zinuner said.

That rider. freshman Katie
Mesten. is also very close to qualify-
ing for nationals - she has almost
met a set point total that only a few
riders across the nation meet.

“1 have to get two second (place
finishes) at Miami next week to
qualify." Mesten said. “That's our
last regular-season meet. so I‘m
kind of nervous about it."

Mesten has already qualified for
nationals in the flat showing event.
and can qualify in jumping with her
showing next week.

No matter how she does. the UK
team will have made several strides
this season with their first tournav
ment being a success.

“South Carolina‘s head coach
was really pleased," Race said. “She
said. ‘You did such a good job plan-
ning this. Any time you want a job.
come down to South Carolina.’ “

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Mary Margaret Colliver. a longtime spokes-
woman for UK. was struck by a UK Physical
Plant Division utility truck. The accident oc-
curred Tuesday night at approximately 7:45. and
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Dembo advocated better
counseling and tutoring ser-
vices for students, and he
said UK hasn‘t done well
“treating students as unique
individuals.“ One-on-one in-
teractions between a profes-
sor and a student while
hampered by growing class
sizes 7» are critical to the
process, he said.

“We all should have the
opportunity to do that. but
we haven't figured that out
yet." he said. “Engaged stu~
dents and engaged faculty
make the best combination.
You can't have one without
the other."

Both Kennedy and Dembo
said faculty members must

be influential and make their
voices heard in the universi-
ty search committee for a
new provost.

Current Provost Mike Ni»
etzel is leaving in July to be-
come the president of South»
west Missouri State.

N ietzel was the tempo.
rary provost when President
Lee Todd installed the
provost system in 2001.

Nietzel then took the job
permanently in October 2002.
despite previously saying he
wasn‘t interested in it.

“We don't want to hear
the same things as last time."
Dembo said. "I‘m not so sure
President Todd has heard
that yet.

“We have to be influential
to let the president know. this
is how we have to get it
done."

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(From left to right) Bernie Mac. Ashton Kutcher, Zoe Saldana and Hal Williams star in Guess Who, 3 modern take on
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, starring Sidney Poitier, Katharine Hepburn and Spencer lracy. Guess Who focuses
more on the difficulties of connecting with in-laws and less on race, according to director Kevin Rodney Sullivan.

By John Horn
LEMliSithS

HOLLYWOOD As a
very young actor. Kevin Rod
ney Sullivan played a
school-age extra in Sidney
Poitier‘s 1970 crime drama
They Call Me Mister Tihbs.’

It was Sullivan‘s first
paying role as a film actor.
and a fleeting part at that.
yet it marked the beginning
of Poitier's long influence
over Sullivan's career. Sulli-
van counts Poitier's ground-
breaking Guess Who's Com-
ing to Dinner as one of his
inspirations for pursuing a
Hollywood career.

And without Poitier's
trailblazing. Sullivan says.
doors would not have
opened as quickly for black
performers and directors
like himself.

So it is fitting that if any-

one were going to try to up- .

date Guess Who's (‘oming-
to Dinner. it would he Sul-
livan, who nevertheless
concedes that he‘s at risk
adapting a film that is
both culturally and per-
sonally resonant.

“I was definitely ner-
vous about it. anti I had a
lot of trepidation about
walking on hallowed
ground." the 46‘year-old
director of Barbershop 2
and How Stella Got Her
Groove Back said. “But I
felt it was extremely rele
vant to do a funny movie
about interracial ro»
mance."

And so Guess Who. a
very loose interpretation
of the original comedy di
rected by Stanley Kramer
that won two Oscars. arrived
in theaters Friday.

Instead of a white family
meeting a black potential
son»in—law. the new film has
at its center a seemingly
progressive black family
(Bernie Mac plays the fa-
ther) whose daughter There-
sa (Zoe Saldana) is engaged
to the white Simon (Ashton
Kutcher).

A lot has changed in the
world since Guess Who's
Coming to Dinner debuted in
1967 with Spencer Tracy and
Katharine Hepburn as the
liberal parents wrestling
with their own prejudices
when their only child
(Katharine Houghton)
brings home her black fi-
ance.

One thing. however. re-
mains pretty much the
same: When it comes to in»
terracial romance. Holly-
wood remains as uncomfort
able about black~and-white

love today as Tracy‘s charac
ter was nearly 40 years ago.

“It‘s still a tricky thing to
deal with and something
Hollywood has generally
avoided.” Sullivan says.

To see just how tentative-
ly the industry approaches
it. you don't have to look
much further than The I’eli»
can Brief. Denzel Washing-
ton may have starred oppo-
site Julia Roberts in the
film. but anyone looking for
sexual sparks between the
two came away disappoint-
ed. Tom Cruise played along
side Thandie Newton in Mis-
sion: Impossible 2. yet they
hardly fogged up any win-
doyvs.

For the most part. pas-
sionate interracial romance
remains limited to movies
made outside the studio sys-
tem. where it often remains
the crux of the story. rather
than random casting.

While ‘Guess Who' 5 Coming
to Dinner' brought race re-
lations to the forefront of
the minds of moviegoers,
‘Guess Who' director Kevin
Rodney Sullivan said he

doesn't see it as a ‘white'

or ‘black' film.

Halle Berry and Billy
Bob Thornton's Monster's
Boll. filmmaker Spike Lee's
Jungle Peter and the recent
release of In My Country.
pairing Samuel 1.. Jackson
with Juliette Binoche. all
used interracial romance as
a flash point.

All of which suggests
that Sullivan‘s film may be
only slightly less topical
than its predecessor.

Sullivan says that mixed
race couples. especially our
side of large metropolitan
cities. “still get looks. and
more attention than they
should.

“I do think the chal
lenges for interracial cou-
ples aren't that different
than they were «ill years
ago." he says.

All the same. the director
says. Guess Who Is (‘oming to
Dinner neede