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Isaac asks UK to pay for police

Bills: Isaac says UK can pay, Athletics say ticket
price increase not intended to cover police overtime

By Darlush Shafa
SiAf’F WRITER

The University of Ken-
tucky may soon be paying for
police at university basket-
ball and football events.

Mayor Teresa Isaac re-
cently stated that a bill
would be sent to charge the
university for the use of off-
duty police officers who pro-
vide security and traffic con-
trol at major UK athletic
events.

Currently the university

does not pay for the use of
police officers that staff
these events. In a recent let-
ter to UK President Lee
Todd. Isaac said that the city
would "no longer be able to
provide no-cost police ser-
vices."

During the 2001 football
and 2002 basketball seasons,
the overtime costs to the Ur-
ban County Division of P0-
lice totaled almost $176,000,
at an average overtime-
hourly rate of $29.17 per offi-
cer. This year, the estimated

overtime rate is $32.00 per
hour. Though the price has
gone up, the city will only
charge a total of approxi
mately $127,000. The bill in-
cludes a charge of $88,882 for
football games and $38,073
for basketball games.

Director of Public Rela-
tions Mary Margaret Colliv-
er stated the UK administra-
tion's official position.

"We understand the city
is having budget issues as
well as the university," Col-
liver said. "We are in the
process of trying to work
with the city as well as other
law enforcement agencies in
order to develop a plan for se-
curity and traffic control."

Isaac said she feels that
with the city undergoing
budget deficits, UK should
shoulder some of the respon-
sibility for the financial bur-
den.

UK recently raised ticket
prices for basketball and
football games by $5 and $7
respectively, although ticket
prices for some sections at
Commonwealth Stadium will
remain unchanged.

"UK is able to pay for the
police department." Isaac
said.

Isaac also says Lexing-
ton citizens are in favor of
UK taking responsibility for

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‘fhe statue of former UK president James Kennedy Patterson was relocated by construction crews on Tuesday as part of the Main
building renovation. Patterson was moved to the area between Whitehall Classroom Building and the office tower that bears his
name. Known as the "Grand Old Man" of the university. Patterson was UII president from 1869-1910. ffe died In 1922.

ONEYEARLATER

Controversy, contracts
and fundraising highlights
Barnhart's first year

By Derek Poore
SUMNER EDITOR lfl CHIEF

One year, four new head coaches,
and a K-fund later, Mitch Barnhart is
thrilled with the interaction and lead—

Ieliisihip he's had and worked with at

However. he believes facilities and
programs can still improve in year
two.

"I’ve really enjoyed the relation-
ship with the student athletes and our
coaches," Barnhart said. "I‘ve enjoyed
the opportunity to work with Dr. Todd.

"Our facilities are good. .but I
wouldn‘t say that they were all we want them to be at this
point."

During his first year at UK, Barnhart had many tasks
to master, but said the transition to Lexington was the
most difficult.

"It’s difficult when you come in and you’re trying to at-
tack so many fronts. to change the direction of your pro-
gram," Barnhart said. "We came in under incredible
scrutiny.

"Reshaping our staff and administration that was

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ONEYEARLATER

Barnhart survives
first year at school

Mitch Barnhart came to UK one
year ago as the transfer student that no
one wanted to play with in elementary
school.
Some of the kids called him names,
like “outsider,” because he was the first
UK athletic director since 1934 not to »
have ties to UK. Some of the kids threw “’
rocks at him for the way the hiring of ‘
new football coach Rich Brooks went. JG"
Even though Barnhart should have told
UK President Todd about the issues at my“);
Oregon some 20-odd years ago, Brooks' M” E
character showed to be clean, with him
serving on the NCAA infractions committee. Still after all
that Barnhart has gone through his first year, he has per-
severed and has changed the face of UK athletics.
PROGRAMS 101: A-
Barnhart gets an A‘ for actually caring about sports
other than men's basketball and football. He actually went
to a tennis match. No joke, I saw him at one.

 

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Supercomputing project sets new record

Performance and invention: Supercomputer cost
efficient, uses technology created by UK research

By Derek Peore
SUMMER EDl‘fOfI IfI CIfIEt’

Room 672 in Anderson
Hall is not much bigger than
a few closets, giving the feel
of a standard 25-student high
school classroom. But this
humble room houses the
world's cheapest terraflop su-
percomputer.

On Wednesday. July 16,
electrical and computer egi-
neering students, faculty and
even some high school stu-
dents volunteered their time
and worked in assembly-line
fashion to construct the Ken-
tucky ASYmmetric Zero, or
KASYO.

Hank Dietz and his stu-
dents have squeezed a clus-
ter supercomputer out of a
budget of less than $40,000 —

 

and that
includes
the pizza.

T h e
KASYO has
the power
to do
r o u g h l y
one tril-
lion float-
ing point
operations
per second — or one ter-
raflop.

Dietz, an electrical and
computer engineering pro-
fessor and the James F.
Hardymon chair, said the
whole project involved any-
one with a strong love of
computers.

"This is really a sort of
outreach," Dietz said, refer~
ring to the wide array of peo-

 

 

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ple working during last
week‘s all-day construction
marathon in exchange for
pizza slices, soda and the
unique opportunity of work
ing on such a project. "How
many people can say that
they helped build a super-
computer?"

Clustered supercomput-
ing is nothing new to UK. In
April 2000, Dietz and volun—
teers constructed KLAT2. the
Kentucky Linux Athlon Test-
bed. In comparison, KLAT2
had a speed of 180 GFLOPS.

KASYO is a record for fi-
nancially optimal supercom-
puting.

"We’re absolutely certain
it blows away any world
record," Dietz said. He also
said that KASYO will have
the performance of $100 per
GFLOP. whereas the KLAT2
carried a GFLOP of perfor-
mance for around every $640
spent. This sets a new record

for price and performance.

Dietz also pointed to a
cluster network built out of
70 Playstation 23 at the Uni-
versity of Illinois at Urbana-
Champaign that doesn't get
the bang for the buck like
KASYO.

"The best they can quote
is 70 Playstation 2'5 with an
incredible $50.3000' Dietz
said. "Ours is $40,000 with
128 machines."

Dietz also said that the
PlayStation 2 cluster does not
have the same type of pro-
cessing environment that the
KASYO does.

"(The) problem with the
P82." Dietz said. “it's de-
signed for playing Doom and
Quake and. yes. it has amaz-
ing FLOP performance. but
it's all in the graphic proces-
sor. It‘s very good at doing
heavy math and displaying
them as pixels."

Dietz brought his Com-

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Electrical engineering graduate student Shashi Arcot. left. helps Bill
Dieter, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering.

The entire method be-
yond KAOS‘s last two super-
computing creations has
been the advent of their own

pilers, Hardware Architec~
tures and Operating Systems
idea from Purdue University
where his students helped
develop the concept of "Com-
piler-oriented Architecture"
from 1986 to 1999.

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well as the breakneck run for
the finish. These scenes are
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and emotionally involving of
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Based on the best-selling
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Seabiscuit tells the true story
of four individuals. from
whom no one in the racing
community really expected
much. Red Pollard (Tobey
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halt-blind jockey who spends
more time getting pummeled
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the death of his son. And
then there‘s Seabiscuit. a
runt of a horse that everyone
gave tip on.

Back in 1938. Seabiscuit
and his handlers overcame
great odds and captured the
attention of a nation mired
in its Great Depression. beat-
ing the unbeatable War Ad-
miral in a match race. Seabis‘
cuit's story will once again
bring people to their feet.

However. Seabiscuit is
definitely a plot-driven. feel-
good movie and nothing
more. It‘s characters feel a lit-
tle flat and are not explored
as much as they should be.
Every moment of real emo-
tional significance. like the
death of Howard's son and
Red‘s separation from his
parents. feels rushed. The

Extra!
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Seabiscuit
wins!

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script seems abridged in
these moments, as if Ross
wanted to make as much
room as possible for quotable
one-liners about underdogs,
little guys and second
chances. And trust me, there
are plenty of those.

Most of the actors give
respectable performances.
Cooper especially shines
through as the idealistic
trainer who sees something
good in every horse. acting
with understated strength.

In the end. the story is so
good it has to be true. I could-
n‘t help but be entertained.
and sometimes, that‘s all that
matters. If it’s true that
everybody likes an underdog,
then everybody will love
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Bad luck keeps plaguing Reds' Griffey

There are plenty
of reasons for people
in Cincinnati to boo.
The Bengals haven't
been tp the playoffs
since 1990. The Reds
haven’t been to the
playoffs since 1995.
The Reds have some
of the worst starting
pitching in the histo-
ry of baseball. And
let's not forget about
having to watch those ridiculous Sky-
line Chili commercials — "it's more
meatier here" — every day.

But booing Ken Griffey Jr. as he
limped off the field with a ruptured ten-
don in his right ankle last Thursday
was classless and appalling.

Here is a guy who, since taking a
massive pay cut to come home. has suf-
fered freak injury after freak injury.
And it is not like he got hurt washing
his truck. He got hurt playing the game
and playing it the only way he knows
how: hard.

Had this been another beloved
Cincinnati home-grown player, say Pete
Rose, everyone would be in mourning
after each freak injury Everyone in the
Queen city would plant rose gardens in
their front yard and local “sports know-
it-alls“ would compliment Rose for his
intensity and all-out commitment to his
team.

Griffey is no different.

Injury number one of 2003 oc-
curred April 5 against the Chicago
Cubs. With the "I‘ll-celebrate-after-
every-inning-even-if-I-allow-five-runs"
pitching of Josias Manzanillo (12.86

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ERA), Griffey dislocated his right
shoulder diving for a ball with the bases
loaded. Like Rose. Eric Davis and those
before him. Griffey was giving his all to
try to help his team win.

Posed for a big season after a stellar
spring in which he batted .367 with six
homers, this was a depressing scene.
The guy tries so hard yet something
bizarre happens to him.

What strikes me as sad about this
latest setback is that Junior had found
his swing. Going into last Thursday's

You have to figure that there is
nothing else that can happen to Griffey
Unless he gets the bubonic plague.

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games, many
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in his tour
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plished in Reds
history. Griffey was
rounding first running
out a double when he pulled
up lame.

In four years in Cincy. Griffey has
suffered injuries to both hamstrings.
his right shoulder and right kneecap.

By season's end. Griffey will have
missed 270 games in his four seasons
as a Red. His games played has de-
clined in each of his past four sea—
sons: 140, 111, 70 and 53.

In that same time he has only hit
83 homers.

It is sad how the career of one
of the greatest players of this gener~
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REVIEW

Continued from page 1

Ask former AD C.M. Newton if UK
even had a tennis team and you’d proba-
bly get a blank stare. Barnhart has al-
ready changed the perception that UK is
just men’s basketball.

His commitment to all athletic pro-
grams was shown by the quality of
coaches that he brought in. He went out
to get some of the top assistants in the
country: John Cohen, Mickie DeMoss
and Mo Muhammad. And agree with the
hire of Brooks or not. there is one tal-
ented coaching staff around him. Barn-
hart was ambitious enough to go after
Bill Parcells. Plus he gave Tubby Smith
some respect by giving him a nice little

contract extension. hate the game.”

Fundraising 192: 3- Random PR Fodder 203: B+

What a pickle he was in on this one. Public relations material. such as
UK ranked second to last in the SEC last week with 11-year-old Brandon
with only $4.053 million raised. nearly Prater selling lemonade to buy season
six times less than what Florida gets. tickets for football, only lands in your

So Barnhart came up with the K- lap every blue moon. Barnhart and UK
Fund to get ticket holders t0 pay more football players Jeremy Caudill and
for their seats at football and men’s bas- Ellery Moore went to the kid’s lemonade
ketball games. At the same tune, he dld‘ stand and bought some lemonade. Then
n’t change student ticket prices. That Barnhart gave the kid a personal check
has to be commended. to cover a season ticket for football.

Many complain that forcing some Final Grade: 3+
ticket holders to pay more for their seats Barnhart’s real test may lie in the
iS fleecing “long-time UK fans." Well, results of his new coaches. If his new
that is a good complaint. BUt UK'S coaches, mainly Brooks, succeed, then
fundraising has been a joke and some- the kids will stop throwing rocks and
thing had to be done. Suggestions on maybe invite him over for an ice cream
other ways to raise money can be sent to social. But if his coaches fail, he‘ll have
the Kernel. Seriously, I’ll read them. to buy a pair of Reebok pump shoes to

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months ago and he looks great. I am
very proud of him because he sticks
behind his decisions and I respect
that. It is a lot easier to work for a
band. if he works for Alanis Mor-
risette or somebody, opposed to be-
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tion was pushing the world of rock to
places it hadn‘t dared to venture before.
while laying the foundation for alterna-
tive rock. With their first album in 13
years. Strays. Jane's looks to pick up
where they left off. Brace yourself.

In the midst of touring on Lolla-
palooza, Stephen Perkins of Jane's Ad-
diction talks to the Kernel about the
new album. Strays. touring and much
more.

Kernel: Now that Jane's Addiction is back
together, what's different? The same?

Perkins: The difference is I think the
obstacles back in the day pulled us apart
and now the obstacles pull us together.
We bond together against things that

two days off. And of course we have got
a very comfortable bus with bunks. We
have learned a lot about how to keep
healthy on the road. We have health
clubs at every hotel. we do yoga classes,
we all go swimming. and at the gig there
is a little workout area. And of course.
we aren‘t doing coke and heroin any
more. so that's good. We've learned how
to treat our bodies better over the years
and how to put a little discipline and dy-
namics into our health.

What standards did you set for recording
Strays and what are your expectations for it?

I don't expect anything. except having
a good time playing the songs live. Be-
cause what can you expect, it's just
music and you put it out and
you don't know what is going
to happen. You just make the
best honest music that you
can make and I think the
same thing happened in
'86. We were misfits in
the scene. The scene
was M'citley Criie and
Guns N‘ Roses and we

Perkins has

in the same place at the same time, but
we are getting there somehow.

What are you listening to?

Right now, I am very impressed with
the new Led Zeppelin DVD and CD. We
are having a great time with that; 30
years later and they still impress me.
The Music, I think they are really cool.
They have some good songs and I think
they have a good spirit behind them.
The new Queens (of the Stone Age)
record is epic. But I've spent so much
time involved with the new Jane‘s move-
ment that it is hard to get my fingers
out.

You are a hot commodity as far as session
drummers go. What was your favorite experi-
ence as a session drummer?

I think my favorite experience
recording with somebody else
. was with Trent Reznor
and Nine Inch Nails. We

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studio and we explored all the
different drum rhythms. He is a

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best music that we can

make and be honest

with the lyrics and have appropriate
music to match the lyrics.

You were in a jam band with Flea and
John Frusciante called the Three Amoe-
bas. Are there any tapes floating around?

John Frusciante and I have the
tape recordings. We talked a little bit
about releasing it with Warner
Bros, but we didn't take it too seri-
ously. Some of my best drumming
back in '92 through '97, I think we
jammed and it is all there. It is kind
of private you know. Frusciante and
Flea are such a dynamical music
team that it really got me to a new
level. It was a lot of fun playing with
those guys.

With all the different bands involved
with Lollapalooza, there surely must be
some crazy pranks going on. Is that true?

We’ve only been touring for a lit-
tle bit, but things are just starting to
loosen up. We had Mike (Einziger)
from Incubus come on stage the oth-
er day and play “Mountain Song."
We hired a bunch of actors (Dream
Circus) to run around the venue and
they (mess) with people.

Drummers are known to travel in
packs, so whom are you hanging out
with?

Joey (Castillo)
from Queens
and of course
Brad (Wilke of
Audioslave), ~ _.
Jose (Pasillas of i _
Incubus) and all
these cats.

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back stage, a bunch of hand drums;
we are doing drum circles. The
whole list of musicians is amazing.
You get inspired off of all these cats.
It is rubbing off on each other. I
think the list of drummers is even
more impressive than the list of
bass players on the tour. And then
you talk about the singers and gui-
tar players and it is a whole differ-
ent situation.

What has been your favorite song to
play on this tour?

The title track on the new record
Strays right now is my
favorite to play because
of the sense of freedom.
The musician in that
song gets a chance to re-
ally go off. Playing
"Three Days" and "Ten"
is always going to be a
great feeling for me be-
cause those songs have
a lot of history and the
lyrics mean a lot to me.

When you look down the
lineup and see Audioslave,
Jurassic 5, Queens and so
on, do you think that this
is the best lineup ever?

I think if you look through the
list of bands through all the years,
all the tours have been pretty shock-
ing. You've got the Beastie Boys and
the (Smashing) Pumpkins, Primus,
Ministry, everyone has played here:
Soundgarden, Pearl Jam. But right
now you've got the best musicians
on board. We even had a bunch of
bands that wanted to come, but
couldn't make it because of schedul-
ing. We looked around and said,
"Who do we want to be on tour with
that can play their instrument? Who
can play and care about the song
and care about the craft?" And that
is what we wanted to surround our-
selves with.

That said, do you guys feel challenged
to top the rest of the bill?

Everyone is putting on a great
show. (Are) you kidding, going on af-
ter Audioslave, going on after
Queens and Incubus? Basically, it is
just a great inspiration watching
these cats play all the time. You see
the bands get better and better as
they go. What I think is most excit-
ing is the jam room in the back.
Right now go in there and there is
the (former) bass player from the
Roots jamming with the drummer
from Audioslave and (Jane’s singer)
Perry (Farrell) comes in there and
sings and it is just a big jam back
there.

Since this is the first Lollapalooza
since '97, do you guys plan on doing it
again next year?

That is a great idea. What the
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It's been 13 years since
Jane's Addiction's last al-
bum. They released the
beautiful, bludgeoning,
challenging, groundbreak-
ing and utterly flawless
Ritual de lo Habitial in
1990, then called it a day.
What has happened since
1990? Kurt Cobain killed
himself, Fred Durst has
led a new trend in horri-
ble, thoughtless music and
someone like Justin Tim-
berlake is considered a tal-
ented musician. The world
needs Jane's Addiction.

That being said, the
quality of Jane‘s Addic-
tion new album, Strays, is
almost secondary to the
fact that they are back in
the music foray That’s not
to say that it’s a bad al-
bum...it's not. The problem
is that the title of Jane's
first major label album
aptly describes their new
one...Nothing’s Shocking.

The draw of albums
like Nothing's Shocking,
Ritual de lo Habitual and
the indie debut, Jane's Ad-
diction. was the way they
pushed the boundaries of
art and acceptance, and in
doing so created new
styles of music. For exam-
ple. "Mountain Song," from
Nothing’s Shocking. still
sounds fresh, and it was
written in 1986.

Strays is different
from today's radio staples
only in that the musicians
know how to play their in-

struments. Dave Navarro's
solos are tasteful and
flashy. Steven Perkins'
drumming is skillful and
hard-hitting. Chris Chaney
almost fills the shoes of de-
parted Eric Avery with his
smooth and solid bass
work. Perry Farrell spews
opinions and warnings in
unintelligible barks just
like he always did.

It's a shame the songs
aren't as hard-hitting as
the musicianship. The al-
bum opens with the un-
abashedly riffdriven
"True Nature." It hits hard
from the opening and does-
n't let up all that much.
"Strays" is the closest the
band comes to old Jane’s
form on the album. It
starts out dreamy. then ex-
plodes into a noisy tirade
about saving our planet.
The rest of the songs. save
for the boring "Every-
body's Friend." follow the

formula of riff, chorus,
solo, louder riff, ending.

As stated before, this
isn't a bad album. It's just
too safe. The artwork does-
n't provoke any thought
and neither do many of
the lyrics. Jane's is at its
best when they make peo-
ple feel uncomfortable
with their own views.
Strays merely makes peo-
ple nod their heads to riff
after riff. It has its mo-
ments, but none compara-
ble to "Three Days" or
"Ocean Size." Having
Jane's back can only help
the state of music, no mat-
ter how good or bad the
songs are. After all, Jane's
will always be a band that
is better understood live.
And ultimater like the
last few Stones albums.
Strays is just a reason for
the band to go on tour.

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