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Monty for the 2008 state legislative session —— will occupy all of the Martin Luther King Boulevard
. the North Campus dorms and Memorial Coliseum.
to a new building for the College of Law. The complex. tagged as UK’s second-highest construction
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g ministration will hear a presentation about UK’s parking issues
and what possible solutions exist, said Ken Clevidence, associate
vice president for campus services.

“There’s no silver bullet as far as solution of the overall park-
ing challenge.” Clevidence said. “It’s going to take a lot of differ—
ent people, and some will have to give up things that they don't
want to give up."

Thornton believes that options exist, but they must be ex-
plored now, not pushed onto the back burner.

“We need to take a lot of soul-searching and analysis to deter-
mine what’s best for the entire university,” Thornton said.

“The university is not in a position to deny that we’ve got a se
rious problem.” he said, adding that he’s “confident that the uni—
versity will make decisions that will help Parking and Trans-
portation (Services) keep up with the demand in some way"

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UK’s newest parking garage, on the corner of Press and Vir-
ginia avenues, is nearing completion. But don’t expect more park-
ing garages to pop up anytime soon.

“I don’t see any space,” Thornton said. “We're out of room for
surface parking lots.”

When looking to expand campus, it’s easy — and practical 4—
to pick on parking lots. said Lance Broeking, director of finance
for UK Campus Services.

“We recognize that parking lots aren’t the most attractive
thing on campus. and frankly, they make great building sites for

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Universities track student
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Thousands of college stu-
dents spend hours on the In-
ternet Web site
Facebookcom, and now
many university administra-
tors are doing the same.

According to documents
from the annual Association
for Student Judicial Affairs
Convention. more colleges
are beginning to use Face-
book to discipline students
violating school policies.

Created in 2004, Facebook
allows anyone with a work-
ing university email account

to post profiles and pictures,
link themselves to “friends"
and join social groups. These
posts can be incriminating
for students.

In a live online feed.
Chris Hughes, founder of
Facebook, told The Kernel
that he estimates there are
about 25.000 subscribers
from UK as of March 2006.

The University of Mis-
souri at Kansas City was
among the first of several
schools to start a task force
specifically targeting the reg-
ulation of students’ accounts
on Facebook and

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MySpace.com. another on-
line personal profile directo-

ry.
The University of Cali-
fornia at Santa Barbara and
the University of Miami use
sites like Facebook to ensure
the campus remains safe. ac-
cording to the Association

for Student Judicial Affairs.
“That’s not our approach
here," said Donell Young, ju-
dicial coordinator in the De-
partment of Student Life at
the University of Missouri
and the task force leader. “It
isn’t about the discipline for
us here at MU. We set up this
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ternships but are left wondering where to
find housing and figuring out what to do for
fun while interning.

Fran Larkin. an ‘05 graduate of Notre
Dame. founded the Web site wwwinternna-
tion.c0m in order to help interns find solu-
tions to these problems.

“It’s also good for students who aren't
going to be in their house this summer and
are looking for a way to fill it," Larkin said.

Larkin said while he was an undergrad-
uate, he had three internships and interned

in Boston, Milwaukee. Wise. and Brussels, .

Belgium. After negative experiences with
finding summer housing. he decided to cre
ate InternNation following graduation.
InternNation has been up since April 2.
Larkin said about 200 students and 20 ca-

Website brings interns together

reer centers have registered. Students at
more than 100 national universities can reg-
ister for free. Larkin said his goal for In-
ternNation was to create a safe environ-
ment for interns because they are often sent
to cities they don’t know.

The Web site lets users browse and post
housing listings and communicate with oth-
er students who may have internships near-
by.

Cindy Edwards. career coordinator at
the James W. Stuckert Career Center. said
lnternNation has a lot of potential. but she
also said students need to be cautious.

“(lnternNation) could be a great net-
work for students to use," Edwards said.
"With any new thing like this. students
need to do their research before going into
any agreement with anyone."

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Is the third time the charm for Jude Law
and Sienna Miller? The on-again, off-again
pair seemed like a couple once more on April
22 at dinner at Santa Monica. California‘s
Giorgio Baldi. (The duo first ended their en-
gagement last July ~- after [.aw admitted he
had an affair with his children's nanny --
then reconciled in the fall. only to split up
again in January.) But during the meal.
"they looked very much back together." a
source tells Hot Stuff. "The kissing and hold-
ing hands was constant." (Law's rep declined
to comment.) They were so conspicuous.
says the source. "[diner] Mark Wahlberg was
staring at them making out!" The following
day. Law. 31;. and Miller. 24. took two of his
kids. Iris. 5. and Rudy, 3. to lunch at the Urth
(Taffe in Santa Monica. "Sienna was holding
Rudy the whole time in her arms and mak»
ing him laugh." says a source. When the
foursome went to see Ice Age 2 later that day.
Miller held hands with both kids. So what
could these recent dates mean? A source tells
Us, "They have a weird hold on each other
that will never let go."

Tobey 8 Jen: Engaged!

Spider-Man is settling down. Hot Stuff
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girlfriend of over two years. Jen Meyer, 29,
are engaged. (Maguirc's rcp declined to com-
ment.) Meyer. who recently launched her
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Branqelina - Their Lite in Africa

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kids Maddox. l. and Zahara. l. Jolic. :30. gave
a speech at a school on April 22 and taped a
documentary the next day for UNICEF
where she chatted with children "who were
drawn to her like magnets." a source tells Us.
She and her family have also visited an

relationship a third try

African art store and even dined on chicken
and fries from a local KFC. a source tells Hot
Stuff When Jolie and Pitt do manage to rest
at Burning Shore -- a resort they have rented
entirely for nearly $5.000 a day -- a source
says they "sun themselves on the veranda
while the kids play on the lawn." (They even
got Maddox a turtle!) And though they sent a
notice to the media asking for privacy. their
presence has not been ignored: A radio sta-
tion held a contest to name Jolie's baby. "We
chose Naledi, which means star in [the lan-
guage] Setswana." DJ Vicky Matjila tells Us.
As for the birth. hospital officials are in the
dark. A source tells Us two American scouts
recently looked at the water birthing unit of
a local medical center. But Penny Dawson.
general manager of the Welwitschia Hospi-
tal. tells Us she has heard no news about
Jolie: "We wish we knew if they were com-
ing, so we could make the necessary prepa-
rations."

Lindsay Lohan - Her Many Men!

The Hollywood-hookup wcb continues!
On April 19, Lindsay Lohan. 19. got close
with Kristin Cavallari's cx-boyfricnd Brody
Jenner. 22. in New York City. "They were at
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her room at the Mercer Hotel." a source tells
Hot Stuff. (They were at the same table at
Bungalow 8 the next night too.) Jenner
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Keira Knightley's ex. And recently the Just
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Finals Week is finally here and I’m willing to bet that there will be ubiquitous celebration
among my fellow college students. Celebration for getting that “A,” or, for most of us, just
passing. But more than likely, it’s celebrating three months of no tests. papers, or classes. It’s
time for you to have fun without worrying about school. For some, drinking is a quintessen-
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Wow. This is a great beer, and is good for anytime of the year. This beer
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Racing a year-round affair
for Lexington horses

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Keeneland‘s spring meet
closed Friday. but don’t tell
that to the horses.

For them. training is a
365-days-a-year way of life.

Training horses is “es-
sentially like caring for peo-
ple at a hospital." said John
Ward. owner of John T.
Ward Stables in Lexington.

The horses have to be fed
and exercised at certain
times to keep them in a rou-
tine.

At a time when most peo-
ple are tucked under their
blankets asleep. a race-
horse‘s day begins at 4:30
am. Grooms. who typically
care for about three horses.
begin by cleaning out hors-
es‘ stalls. checking the water
and separating the good
straw from the bad. Ward
said. They also brush and
wash the horses.

Another important task
of the groom is to take hors-
es‘ temperatures and ensure
the animals have eaten all of
their grain from the previ-
ous day. If something is
wrong, the groom makes
sure to tell the trainers.

Horses are put in sets to
train together at the same
time. The stable keeps track
of which horses are training
at different times with labels
bearing the horses‘ names
affixed to a magnetic board.

 

Donna Ward. John
Ward's wife. who is also a
trainer at the stable. said.
“depending on the amount
of light." sometime between
6 and 7 am. horses are taken
to shed row. a dirt track that
encircles the stalls, where
horses walk around briefly
before being mounted by
riders. Trainers place specif~
ic bandages on the horses,
then they follow the lead
pony to either the training
track or the main track.

Riders then work out the
horses. Routines usually in-
cludes galloping at a moder-
ate pace around the track.
followed by jogging at a
slower pace the remainder
of the time.

After the workouts. hors-
es return to the stable.
where the groom removes
the saddle. bridle and saddle
pad. Horses are then trained
to “empty out“ .__ urinating
on command following a
race so that horses can pro-
vide urine samples after
races. Horses then graze be-
fore returning to the stalls
to be groomed again.

Horses are cleaned. and
bandages are placed on their
legs.

If a horse has a race
scheduled. grooms adminis-
ter medications. The most
common medication. Lasix.
which is given to prevent
horses from bleeding in the
lungs. is administered four

Horses and rid-
ers participate
in morning
exercises on
Keeneland's
practice track
last week. The
track incorpo-
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running surface
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which will be
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hours prior to post time.

When horses first begin
training. they are given an
“easy regimen" at first.
Ward said. As the training
progresses. distance is
added to workouts. Training
involves strengthening mus-
cles and developing horses‘
cardiovascular and plll~
monary systems for in-
creased workloads. As hors-
es develop. their bones be—
come denser and the horses
“change shape.” allowing
them to carry their riders
over race distances, Ward
said.

Donna Ward said most
horses enjoy the process.

“Some are like people.
and would rather have an-
other occupation." she said.
“But good racehorses enjoy
what they do.“ She said
when their racing careers
are over. its apparent that
the horses miss the routine.

The reward for horses is
their 24-hour care and a con
stant supply of mints. which
are used as treats for their
hard work.

The ultimate satisfac-
tion. Ward said. is “when
you‘ve worked with a horse.
and it does exactly what you
want it to do.“

She added that the most
satisfying part is “when you
get the horse to perform to
the best of its ability"

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By as early as the end of 2008, about 1,400 spaces at UK will have been eliminated. Some
parking spaces, such as those behind Memorial Coliseum, are already gone, and construc-
tion on Huguelet Drive will take away 123 parking spaces once the semester ends. Below is
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— Lance Broeking, director of finance. UK Campus Services.

Tickets aren’t Where
parking cashes in

Citations rank as third-highest source
of funding behind permits and meters

Perception is often reality for many peo
ple who tind themselves on the receiving end
of the parking citation process.

Parking officers have been known for
years to some as "parking Nazis." an extreme
term that expresses people‘s hatred. So sure-
ly the parking department must make the
most money off of those tickets tinder wind-
shield wipers And they've got to assign more
and more citations each year. right'.’

Wrong. The numbers don‘t lie.

Parking citations provided just less than
10 percent of the parking department's rev
enue for the zoo-i of) fiscal year. Parking per-
n'iits provided the majority of funding at al-
most 8:: percent Money generated from me
ters and visitor parking. which added up to
21 percent. was followed by parking citation
revenue

And l'K Parking and Transportation Set“
vices issued 1.552 fewer citations iii 2005 than
the department did in 2001.

"The concept is that (writing citations)
offsets the cost of enforcement." said Ken
Clevidence. associate vice president for [K
Campus Services

lion Thornton. director of UK
Parking and Transportation Set"
vices. attributed the drop in cita-
tions mainly to the fact that some-
times. parking staff has to shift
elsewhere. oft of their monitoring
shifts. And that happens for several
reasons. he said. including the su-
pervision of the medical center's
parking system. which started sev-
eral years ago.

“Some of that depends on shift»
ing resources_ wine of that depends on avail-
ability of personnel.‘ Thornton said, With
the medical center.
work rlue to illness or vacation. then we have
to provide people. which means we‘re taking
a ticket writer off their assignment and
putting them in a cashier's booth.

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special events. where we have to reserve
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New parking facilities and better technol-
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enforcement.”

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it their personnel are off

“As we add more mechanical gates on sur-
face lots and build more parking structures.
that leads to fewer violations. because you're
certain to have more violators in a surface
parking lot without gates than you are. in a
gate-controlled parking garage.“

Another factor is the recent in-
crease in parking citation fines. he
said. During Winter Break. the
parking department eliminated an
early payment discount and raised
other fees.

“When you see an increase in
citation cost. there‘s a decrease in
.people that take a
chance for a $15 citation are not
willing to take a chance for a $25.
$50 or $100 citation." Thornton

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said.

“I think it may have caused fewer viola-
tions. which is. I think. a benefit to everyone
at the university." he said. “We'd be better off
with everyone being legal and not needing to
monitor.

"We‘ve never made a profit off of parking
enforcement. We've always had to offset the
cost of enforcement a bit."

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A rendering of the new building for the UK College of Law, to be located on Scott Street.

No more holding back
progress for UK Law

On a sunny. mid~April day with
temperatures in the mid-705. the most
Allan Vestal could do to cool off was
cuff his shirt sleeves. take off his tie
and sit in front of one of his giant of-
fice windows. which was cracked open.

“But we also have quantitative
problems ~- we don‘t have enough
classrooms and we don‘t have enough
classrooms of the right size." said
Vestal. dean of the UK College of Law.
“We've hired two new entry-level facul-
ty officers for the next year. and as I sit
here. I can't tell you where we‘re going
to house them because we've simply
run out of faculty offices."

Space issues, are one of several
main reasons that the College of Law is
working on a new building that will sit
on Scott Street. across from the Taylor
Education Building and Dickey Hall.
The law college is fundraising $15 mil-
lion in private donations; the remain-
ing $60 million is expected to come
from the state.

The 3.3-acre site will eventually be
home to a law complex that about dou-
bles the current size of the College of
Law and will contain five buildings and
two courtyards.

“In terms of allocation of space. it

roughly doubles everything." he said.

“We've really run out of student
space in this building. and that's one
thing the new building will be better
at “ he said. “This building. from the
beginning. has been pretty inadequate
to student space."

But bigger facilities don't necessari-
ly mean the law college intends to ac-
cept significantly larger classes. Vestal
intends to keep the student-faculty ra-
tio low. and extra classrooms will help
him accomplish that goal.

“We have an entering class of about
145 every year. so the question is. do
you teach first-year classes in two sec—
tions of roughly 75. or do you teach
them in three sections of 50?" he asked.

“One (reason for teaching smaller
sections) is that you can do more writ-
ing if you're teaching in a smaller sec-
tion.“ he said. “Another one is students
get called on more frequently. and
that‘s a good thing."

From Vestal‘s view. there are a lot of
good reasons for the new law building
— besides the need for effective ventila-
tion and airconditioning systems.

“This buildin has been holding
our progress bac for a long time."
Vestal said of the current facilities
“We need a larger building to better
configure the way we teach now“

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future buildings " Broeking said. “If we didn‘t
build mildings on parking lots in a lot of in-
stance ; we just wouldn’t have space for the build-
ings to go up’

[onion was a motivating factOi for the UK
Colleg .of Law when it picked the Scott Street site
over a new building on the corner of Rose Street
and E clid Avenue. said Allan Vestal. dean of the
colleg iRenderings show one wing of the proposed
facilit ;occupying all 361 spaces in the parking lot
on that street.

“It 1 always a concern when you‘re taking park-
ing s; 1095 from surface lots to replace them."
Vestal Said. “Whenever you do a project of this
magni ude. parking is one of those things you have
to take into consideration.“

Th $3.3-acre site presents a chance to have a bit
of on-s rte parking. he said.

“W i have a problem with parking now." Vestal
said. i] ghlighting the college's outreach programs
and hi tdesire to expand those opportunities. "The
law so] IOOI serves a broader constituency than just
the un versity community if the building can be
configi :red to have some parking. that‘ll be a plus."

In .spress release about the new building. Vestal
touts tae Scott Street location's conduciveness to
adding “muclrneeded” parking. But in an inter
view, he said parking isn‘t the “main driver" of the
buildir g process.

"It really isn‘t a major motivator." Vestal said.
“It‘s much more important to get the right mix of
classrooms. the right amount of space."

Devanathan Sudharshan. dean of the College of
Business and Economics. and Vestal both view
their low buildings as important pieces to UK‘s
state-n randated push to become a top-20 public re-
search institution by the year 2020.

"If you look at the university's plans for
growtl .. there has to involve an increase in B&E."
Sudna 'shan said.

Th it college‘s building will sit on top of a 272
space or on North Campus. Current plans for the
new B&E building include the desire for under
grouiir . parking. but it's still too early in the process
to tell whether that will become a reality he said.

“Any Illllt you talk about eliminating parking.
it causes problems he said. 'We don t know that
yet: it all depr- iids on what funding we get and
what the university decides to do."

Sudharshan said he‘s aware of the parking is-
sues at play

We haven't had detailed discussions (with the
parking department) but it seems like a feasible
possib. lity. he said of the underground parking.
"The chief architect has been involved in the plan
ning. so we aren‘t doing it in isolation."

Moves like building on top of a parking lot here
or eliminating some parking spaces there also don‘t
happen in isolation. Broeking said.

"Parking is one of those things where it domi-
noes across campus." Broeking said. "If there's an
impact somewhere on campus. you‘ll feel a ripple
on the other side of campus. because of the way
the parking patterns shift."

That pattern shift is the result of the figurative
chess game that Thornton plays on an almost daily
basis. But not only is his department running out
of moves. it's also low on funding.

1 just (it hit think one thing is going to solve the
pioblem l‘hornton said. "And I dont