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UK security improvements include text messages

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Getting a text tnessage from a uni—
versity administrator could mean it‘s
going to be a bad day.

Text—messaging students about
campus crises is one component of
Wide Area Rapid Notification. the
emergency notification system that UK
signed a purchase order for on Monday.
The system is the most recent in steps
taken to improve safety and emergency
response at UK.

”Obviously. the more resources we
have for communication. the better
chances we have for getting it to more
people." said Christy Giles. the director

of UK‘s Office of Emergency Manage-
ment. "So we don't want to limit it to
one means of communication."

When the deadliest mass shooting
in US. history hit Virginia Tech's cam~
pus in April. Giles who had been re»
searching notification systems for two
and a half years v and other adminis-
trators quickly made a decision. she
said. because they realized UK needed
a system in place.

“When Virginia Tech happened. I
was bombarded with phone calls from
companies." Giles said. "We narrowed
it down to three companies. and one
JUSI really stood out to us,”

In the next few weeks. students will
be able to sign up for the system. which

can notify them in a crisis situation
through cell phones. text messages.
voicemail. e-mail and fax machines.
The administration will be sending e-
mails to students. faculty and staff with
instructions on how to provide contact
infomiation.

“Obviously. we would like every-
one to opt into it." Giles said. "The
more people in the system the better we
can get the word out quickly."

Universities with similar systems
have not seen high participation on
campus. The L'niversity of Maryland at
College Park, which has about 34.000
students enrolled. began its system four
months ago: about one-fifth of students
have signed up.

"The only flaw is that people have
to register for it. and only about 7.000
opted in." said l'M spokesman Paul
Dillon. "We would love to get I00 per—
cent of cell-phone users. but is that re—
alistic'.’ It would be helpful if we had 80
or 90 percent,"

The University of Florida. which
has been Using a text-messaging system
for three years. has a little over 11.000
subscribers. While that is only about a
third of student enrollment. UF reprev
.sentative Steve ()rlando said it should
be enough.

"If we send an alert that there's an
armed gunman and one person in a
classroom gets that message. it's done
its job." ()rlando said.

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A proposed federal revision of moun-
taintop-removal regulations that will he
published today has ignited controversy as
to whether the change will increase strip
mining and harm mountain streams.

Mountaimop-removal mining. which
is common in central Appalachia. involves
blasting the tops of mountains and moving
the remaining debris. called spoil. to sur—
rounding valley s.

Currentlv miners must abide by
buffer-[one regulations stating that no
land within I00 feet of a flowing stream
should be disturbed by surface mining ac-
tivities. according to the Kentucky Depart.
ment for Natural Resources.

But the proposed regulation change
from the US. Office of Surface Mining
Reclamation and Enforcement is expected
to strike the llltl—foot buffer as long as
miners follow current laws calling for cre-
ating minimal amounts of displaced spoil.

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UK employee
charged with
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A College of Education employee re-
signed Wednesday after he was arrested and
charged with using a computer to solicit a
minor for sex. according to court docue
ments.

William Eric Pittman. an information
specialist for the college.
attempted to arrange a
meeting for sex with a
detective posing as a 14-
yeaerld girl in a chat
room on May l7. accord»
ing to a police report. He
resigned from the univ er
sity following his arrest.
said UK spokesman Jay
Blanton,

Pittman pleaded not
guilty at his arraignment in Fayette County
District Court yesterday,

The 35—yearsold was a communications
officer for the College of Education and
staned working at UK in January. Blanton
said. The job was mostly administrative.
and Blanton did not know if it involved
contact with students.

According to the police report. Pittman
used a Yahoo chat room to contact Der.
William Lindon of the Kentucky State Po»
lice Electronic Crimes Branch and “main-
tained conversation about meeting for sex."

Court documents do not say what com~
puter Pittman was using at the time. antl
Blanton did not know whether UK would
investigate Pittman‘s use of UK computers.

Pittman is scheduled to appear in court
again on Sept. 28 at 8:30 am.

 

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Giles chose the WARN system be-
cause it was the most interactive and al»
lowed for student feedback. she said.

"It was very user~friendly. and in an
emergency situation you want some-
thing quick and easy to navigate." she
said. "It's letting us know who‘s getting
messages and when we send to wrong
numbers. I can send out a notice that
says classes are closed. and I can give
options that say. ‘Please respond with
l: “I need help.“ or 2: “I‘m 0K." "'

The WARN system will comple-
ment other high—tech safety measures
that UK has already implemented.

In an emergency. a red box pops up

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Ten yearolrf Neal Wilkins, right, of Frankfort plays in a fountain with his tjous-n AthO" Walker, 10, of Franktort, in Hen

to add to the existing riverfront park by asking UK architecture students to nrainstorrr rnprovemmts

Envisioning an unhindered future

Architecture students propose big changes for small town riverfront

By Blair Thomas

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Tim Skinner stood at the edge of

the water glancing back and forth
between the river and the town at the
top of the boat ramp behind him.

“Henderson is a community on
the cusp." said Skinner. a L'K gradu—
ate and president of an architecture
firm in Henderson. Ky. "We know
we want to see change. we know we
want to look more like
cities over there. btit we‘re iust not
sure what we're ready for.“

To e\plot'c Henderson's potenA
tial. Skinner took his vision 7 and
his finances to the l'K School of
Architecture .

Skinner asked l'K architecture
professor and Henderson native Dru—
ra Parrish to direct the Henderson
Project and find a group of arcltitecr
titre students who wanted a chance
to reinvigorate a Kentucky commu-

the river

 

The rommunity wants to restrurtiire H
for boats along the river in Henderson

nity.
“Small towns are architecture's
greatest laboratory Parrish said. “It

allows us to test our ideas instead of

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Parrish took lo I K stttdettts and
a small group from the Southern
California Institute of Architecture
in l.os Angeles to his hometown in
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tierson, Ky. on Tuesday The Henderson Project is looking

the waterfront.

"We didn‘t tell them what to do.
we didn't give them any guidelines.
1 rust asked them to look at the com-
munity. talk to the people and decide
what they could improve " Parrish
said.

Skinner. president of Skinner
[)esign Associates and one of the
project's financiers. said his commu
nity on the Ohio River is one of the
“dying small towns in America."

"We‘re unique. but we're small."
he said “There is so much potential
for growth and economic impact. but
lI seems that no one really knows
how to go about change."

Skinner‘s inspiration to lead the
project came from his mentor.

Henderson architect Jim Bethcl
wanted to revive the town‘s water-
front. and after his death in 2004.
Skinner and Bethel‘s son Mark. also
a UK graduate. decided to fulfill that
goal.

See Henderson on page 2

City to honor Victims of lasty cats sFlight 5191 crash

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(In Monday. it will be one year
since Larry Turner. a former l‘K as-
sociate dean of agricultural extension.
boarded (‘omair Flight 5 l9l .

Tumer. 52. was on his way to a
conference. while Jon Hooker. 27. a
former UK baseball player was on the
flight with his new wife. Scarlett
Parsley Hooker. 23. starting their
honeymoon the morning after their
wedding.

A City remembrance service will

be held Sunday at Southland Christ~
ian Church at 2:30 pm. to remember
those lives and the 47 others lost after
(‘omair Flight SIQI crashed shortly
after taking off from Blue Grass Air~
pon In Lexington on Aug. 27. 2006

Marianne Blodgett. aide to Mayor
Jim New'bcrry. is planning the ser-
vice.

“We want to remember those we
lost in our community." Blodgett said.
"So many people were touched di-
rectly and indirectly."

Sunday‘s service will remember
the 49 victims as well as recognize

See Monday's Kernel for
complete coverage of the
one-year anniversary of the
Comair Flight 5191 crash.

and thank the first responders who
were at the scene. including local fire
and police as well as medical examin-
ers.

The Kentucky State University
choir and at least three religious de~
nominations will provide music.

Newberry and Gov. Ernie Fletch-

er will both give remarks. WKYT
news anchor Denny Trease will read
the names of the victims. Turner's
brother will speak and thank the first
responders.

“It‘s really going to be a good
service." Blodgett said.

All students are welcome and en-
couraged to attend. Southland C hristr
ian Church is located at 5(va Har-
rodsburg Road. Doors to the event
open at 2:15 pm,

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"We didn't want to just put in
fountains or plant some trees." Skin-
ner said. "We wanted big changes.
new ideas. and bringing in the archi-
tecture students really achieved that."

The students developed ideas that
would bring economic. recreational
and design benefits to the town that
sits across the river from Evansville.
Ind, he said.

Proposals included a waterfront
facelift that would add walking trails.
running paths. gardens and fountains
to parking lots and areas that are over-
grown and unkempt. Wildlife conser-
vation. wetland expansion and urban
growth were also concerns the stu-
dents had to address without hurting
Henderson‘s smallvtown feel.

Nick Kinney. an architecture se—
nior. developed a plan for converting
Henderson‘s power plant into a
wildlife sanctuary.

“I wanted to take this community
that is built off of industry and not en-
vironmentally friendly and show them
they can be." Kinney said.

Kinney‘s plan included building a
footbridge over the river. installing ki-

netic-energy river turbines. which use
the run of the river for power with
minimal environmental impact. and
shutting down the current plant to use
the area as a conservation site.

Students presented their projects
to community members and local
businesses on June 15 and again on
Aug. 2 and received positive feed-
back.

Henderson native Ethel Terrell. 64.
said the students‘ ideas were encour-
aging for a town in need of more
recreational opportunities.

"When the students first arrived.
we didn‘t know what to think of
them." Terrell said. "Who would think
to put a movie screen on a grain silo'.’
But when you really started talking to
them. they made a lot more sense than
any builder I've ever talked to."

Terrell was excited about the pos-
sibility of seeing changes made to the
riverfront. she said.

“Oh. sure we've got some foun-
tains and a playground for the kids."
she said. "That's something that they
just added a few years ago. but it's
just a few benches in a park. There’s
only so many hours you can sit and
just stare at the water."

The community was most recep-
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Henderson residents Chelsea Slemp, 19, and Chaz Buckman, 2t), walk Eilll’l’q a dock on

the Ohio River on Tuesday

Boat Ramp. one of the town’s two ac«
cess points for boats to the Ohio Riv—
er. and the economic enhancements.
such as waterfront hotels and artificial
mangrove units that allow farmers to
grow soybeans on the water's surface
and catch catfish in the same area.
Skinner said.

"At first 1 thought some of their
ideas were kind of out there." Skinner
said. “But some of the ones that I

thought were the strangest. lll.i' algae
farming to produce power. lt.|\ .- gotten
serious bites fiom big name Indus
tries."

Parrish said the piojcci w .Isii‘t
only about adding parks and maiiiias
to the town but addressing a more im
portant national issue.

"Kentucky is the pci'lcct place to
really \Istiali/c the ci‘uiiibliiig small
town economy.” l’aIi'isli said

 

EMERGENCY

Continued from page 1

 

on UK‘s Web site with a notification
so that viewers can find information
more easily. Giles said. UK used that
feature once over the summer when
there was an assault near campus on
Scott Street.

Another Web site designed to
communicate awareness to the cam—
pus community is the Emergency
Management Web site
(www.uky.edu/EM). which outlines a
guide of what the community can do
while response teams are working
during a crisis.

An intemally created system. UK
Mobility. works similarly to the
WARN system. but subscribers can
choose whether they want to be con-
tacted through email. voicemail or
text messaging. That system is ready
to run and is simply waiting on sub—

scribers.

“It is going to be able to be a
warning. alert system. but it‘s going to
be a lot more than that k a communi-
cation exchange system." said Doyle
Friskney. the associate vice president
for information technology at UK.

Friskney hopes UK Mobility will
evolve to have fixed groups in the
system for professors and organiza-
tions to send out information. much
like listservs. without a response fea-
ture. Anyone on campus or in the
nearby community. such as medical
staff. could subscribe.

“We‘re just providing another
method for communication using
next-generation technology." Friskney'
said.

To parallel the administration‘s ef—
forts to improve communication. UK
police took time during the summer to
hone officers‘ emergency training.

All officers completed their train—
ing and recertification for "active

shooter response" situations. where
someone has opened fire in an unse—
cured area. This training will continue
throughout the year. and in October
two UK officers will become certified
instructors.

UK police have also purchased
laser simulators. which allow officers
to be trained on different scenarios
from school shootings to traffic stops.
Maj. Joe Monroe said. The simulators
help train their judgment on appropri-
ate use of force.

The agency also sent seven mem~
bers of the response team to New
Mexico for a spectal session on how
to identify explosive devices and what
countermeasures to take to combat ere
plosive threats.

The police are working on on
hancing the 9“ system on campus so
that a call received from a campus
phone or city building would automat—
ically transfer call location informa-
tion to the police database.

 

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putting debris in the sti‘eaiiis." said
Brittany Zw'icker. a cotiiiiitiiiications
disorders senior and eo-coordinator of
(ireentliuinb. a campus environmental
group.

"They can reconstruct the streams
to some extent. but by then all the or—
ganisms have been swept away."
Zw‘ickcr said. “You can‘t replace that."

The current and proposed rtile also
states that no surface mining activity
should cause significant detrimental
effects on the water quality of the
stream.

The regulation revision will be
subject to a (itlxlay comment period.

Under current regulations. miners
have to receive exemptions to deposit
debris into debatable areas. such as dry
ditches.

Kentucky (‘oal Association Presi»
dent Bill Caylor said dry ditches were
never supposed to be treated as flow—
ing streams. but because the law said
they were. miners had to continuously
receive exemptions for those areas.

The revision would not change the
amount of mining that is currently oc—
curring; it would simply adjust the rule
to eliminate routine exemptions. Cay—

Skinner and Mark Bethel privately
fund the Henderson Project. which
will not use any of a $10 million fed-
eral grant awarded earlier this year for
improvements around the town.

Next. community focUs groups
will discuss which ideas they find
most practical for Henderson. Project
leaders will then present UK students
with a more specific focus so they can
develop a final plan for the tow n.

“Realistically. we're looking at
eight years for this project to be coin-
plete." Parrish said. “But we will fol—
low it through because the students
want to see it happen. and because
Henderson is a great canvas because
it's beautifully gray it isn‘t overly
unique or distinctly benign. but some
of these ideas could pUsh it over that
edge."

As long as the community believes
the ideas are feasible and necessary.
Kinney and Parrish said they are inter-
ested in returning to Henderson to see
the project through.

“It‘s these students~ small projects
that will pave the way to create empty
containers for future designs." Parrish
said. “That is better than taking 25
students theie with hammers and nails
and demanding results."

lor said.

"This new change is intended to
codify existing practices that have
been occurring for the past 30 years."
(‘ay‘lor said. “This does not mean that
we will be doing more surface mining
as a result of the change. It will be
business as usual."

Some environmental activists say
revising the rule may result in greater
damage to streams in Appalachia.

"This is a terrible thing to happen
to the state of Kentucky." said Erik
Reece. who teaches English and writ-
ing at UK and has written a book on
the effects of mountaintop removal in
Appalachia.

Reece said the revision of the laws
would result in an increase of moun-
taintop removal mining.

“They will continue ,7 no question
at a quicker pace." he said.

"The Bush administration has
loaded the (Department of the Interior)
with people who used to be in the coal
industry." he said.

According to an environmental re—
port from the Office of Surface Min-
ing. 724 miles of streams have been
directly impacted by excess spoil from
l985 to 200]. If that continues at its
current rate. another 724 miles of
streams would be buried by 20l 8.

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