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Director Cameron Crowe discusses his
Kentucky-themed film ‘Elizabethtown.’ PAGE 3

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Diversity debate old news for some

By Troy Lyle
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For many UK student organiza-
tions and cultural centers. diversity
isn’t anything new ~— it’s a reality
they deal with on a daily basis.

Diversity recently entered the
spotlight after UK’s top administra-
tors cited an increase in UK’s re-
quired minimum ACT score and an
increasingly selective pool of appli-
cants as possible causes for a 40 per-
cent drop in black freshman enroll-

ment this year.

As a result. UK's Board of
Trustees was forced to apply for a
waiver Sept. 20 to add new under-
graduate and graduate programs
through the end of 2005.

“Diversity has always been an
issue." said Chanté Corey. second
vice president of UK’s Panhellenic
Council. “But now since the recent
criticism. they’ve decided to take
more of an interest."

The hospitality management se-
nior said the administration is al-

ways saying diversity is a big issue.
yet nothing seems to happen.

“There's a lot of attention paid
to the needs of white students,"
said Corey. who is black. “We seem
to be forgotten.”

Rosalind Welch. president of
the UK's Black Student Union.

called the ratio of minorities to'

whites at UK “outrageous." espe-
cially since it’s the state’s largest
university

She said the reason blacks
aren't coming to UK isn’t because of

test scores; it's because they‘re
choosing to go elsewhere.

“Compared to the University of
Louisville. UK is severely lacking
in scholarship dollars." said the
secondary education senior. “If UK
can't offer scholarships or other
forms of aid. then what can it do to
get them here?”

She continued by adding she
hasn‘t heard other minorities say
they are experiencing these prob-
lems.

And according to this fall's en-

rollment numbers. they haven't.

UK administrators said only
black freshman enrollment fell in
2005. with all other minorities expe
riencing some form of growth.

Ricardo NazarioColén. director
of the Martin Luther King Jr. Cul-
tural Center. said the term diversity
is often used to soften the blow.

The real issue right now con-
cerns blacks‘ access to higher edu-
cation. he said.

“People should address the

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ished, UK offered the Lexington Fire
Department a place for hands-on
training. On UK's south campus, Cap-
tain Brian Steele and Lt. Tim May led
recruits in training exercises to prac-
tice breaching walls, forceful entry
through doors, taking out windows
and routine ventilation processes.
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weeks, with nine more weeks of
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Kentucky town is ‘Almost Famous’

By Ryan Ebelhar
um um Critic

Some Central Kentuckians got the
chance to see neighboring E-town on
the big screen in Cameron Crowe's
newest flick, “Elizabethtown.” Wednes-
day in an advance screening.

The screen , held at Regal Cinema
in Hamburg Pav ion. gave a nearly full
theatre of Kentuckians the first chance
to see their hometowns become famous.

As a Kentucky native. when I heard
that Crowe was irecting a movie that
took place in Elizabethtown. Ky. my
first thought was, “What on Earth is
there to make a movie about?"

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No offense to Elizabethtown. mind
you. If a Hollywood director made a
movie about my hometown of Owens-
boro. Ky, I would have had a similar re-
sponse. But seeing as how Crowe also
directed “Almost Famous." ‘I had faith
that this would be a great movie as well.

In the movie Drew Baylor (Orlando
Bloom) is a designer at a major shoe
company. and has just released the
“Spasmatica” which is supposed to be
the shoe that revolutionizes the world.
Instead. it is a total flop. which leads to
his company losing nearly 81 billion.
Distraught over his failure and new-
found unemployment. Baylor concocts a

suicide machine. out of a knife and an
exercise bike. to end it all.

Just before he takes the final plunge.
he receives a call from his sister (Judy
Greer) informing him that his father.
Mitch. has just died while visiting fami-
ly in Elizabethtown. Baylor then drops
the suicide bit and goes home to see his
dad's side of the family for the first time
and make the final arrangements for
his funeral.

Altho h his father was a native of
Kentucky. ylor himself had never ac-
tually visited the state. On the plane to

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Security glitch
threatens few
U—Connect users

By Dariush Shafa
m: KENTUCKY mm

A small flip of the figurative switch is all it takes for
someone to see what is in a UK student‘s U-Connect com-
puter locker, but administrators have a way for students to
protect their data.

“This issue came up last year and depending on how a
student sets their parameter. it can be shared or not
shared," said Doyle Friskney. associate vice president for
information technology.

Friskney said that the problem is not very widespread.
with only 75 to 80 users with unsecured lockers out of
40,000.

Of those with unsecured lockers. Friskney said it’s
probably accidental.

“Students are allowed to give share permissions.
What‘s expected is students most often want to use this
when they create a Web page and they want other people
to be able to see it.” Friskney said. “Some students, and
I’m just making this assumption. possibly accidentally
when they’re trying to give their Web page permission to
be shared. accidentally give their whole locker permis-
srons."

The process is possibly confusing to the computer illit-
erate user though. so Friskney said students shouldn't
hesitate to make use of UK’s Information Technology sup
port staff.

“They can send e-mail to the locker master and we'd be
glad to help them in the labs." he said.

Though securing the lockers is something Friskney
said he himself would do. it’s not really necessary if stu-
dents don’t feel they have anything they want to protect in
their locker space.

“If it were me. Doyle Friskney I’d probably want it
secured,” he said. “It really depends on the students and
how they feel."

In the end though. Friskney said IT services is ready to
help out.

“We’re just prepared to help students understand the
resources we give them." he said. “If they need help secur-
ing it, we stand prepared to help them."

For questions. call IT support at 257-1300 or e-mail
them at helpdeskiazukyedu.

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Organization uses
mobile bike rallies
to roll out proposal

Greenthumb wants increased access
for bikes, more racks on campus

By Juliann Vachon

TH! KENTUCKY KERNEL

Student organization Greenthumb is on a mission
to improve biking conditions at UK so more students. fac-
ulty and staff will choose to park their cars and ride a
bike.

Greenthumb. the largest student environmental orga-
nization in Kentucky. was started in 1996 to promote envi-
ronmentally friendly sustainable living.

Part of that promotion includes a multiphase plan
aimed at connecting all the important places on campus
with several bike lanes. as well as increasing the number
of bike racks near department and classroom buildings.
said Pawan Tyagi. a Greenthumb member working on the
project.

“At the beginning of this semester many ‘Greenthum-
bers' realized the need to establish a bike-friendly UK
campus. so we decided to intensify our efforts." Tyagi
said.

He said Greenthumb is using petitions to collect
names of people wishing to see better biking conditions.

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Continued from page 1

African-American issue di-
rectly." Nazario-Colon said.
“And then deal with diversity
as an overall umbrella of ac-
cess for all people. regardless
of ethnicities. backgrounds
or social status."

NazarioColon also serves
on the President‘s Commis-
sion on Diversity. which is re-
sponsible for many of the
new initiatives President Lee
Todd is proposing to address
this fall‘s shortfall in black
freshman enrollment.

To ask how to increase di-
versity isn’t exactly the ques-
tion UK should be asking it-
self. he said.

“What we really need to
be asking is what we mean

Bikes

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Tyagi hopes these peti-
tions will be helpful when
they go to UK administrators
with their request letter.

In addition. educational
rallies are being held every
Thursday at 12:50 pm. in
front of the Chemistry and
Physics building. he said.

These mobile biker ral-
lies are aimed at educating
people biking at UK and
throughout Lexington. as
well as teach people proper
biking etiquette.

Erin Colvin. a nursing
sophomore and frequent bike
rider. said she thinks UK's
administration does an “OK"
job. but believes improve-
ments will help make biking
more popular on campus.

“If the administration
would make it easier to ride
and park near classes it

by a top20 institution."
Nazario-Coldn said. "To me.
top—20 means a top-20 re-
search institute. Does that
mean every academic depart-
ment needs to be top20'."’

He said UK should be ask-
ing more questions such as
why students come to UK.
who’s in charge of diversity
and how do you know when
you've achieved diversity.

Nazario-Coldn said he
personally thinks UK is
heading in the right direc-
tion verbally. adding “that's a
good start."

“But now we have to have
a plan and implement it." he
said.

He continued saying in
his opinion the Office of
Multicultural Affairs should
be the one to conduct this
matter.

“My department needs to
have the lead." Nazario-

would be much more benefi-
cial to students." Colvin said.
“By not being able to ride
through campus they really
discourage students from
riding their bikes."

Chemistry professor
Robert (lrossman who serves
on the Bicycle-Pedestrian Ad-
visory Committee. a part of
the Metropolitan Planning
Organization. said he served
on the steering committee for
the recently developed Cam-
pus Bicycle l’lan.

Spearheaded by UK archi:
tect Warren Denny. The Cam-
pus Bicycle Plan is a “vision—
ary document" that maps out
how biking conditions could
be improved on campus.
Grossman said.

“They (college towns)
should lead the way in de-
signing bicycle and pedestri-
an-friendly roads and trails."
Grossman said. “Yet Lexing-
ton is far from being bicycle
and pedestrian friendly."

()rossman said in order
for this project to gain mo-

Colt‘m said.

That means making this
big university smaller. he
said.

“We have to get people to-
gether — the diversity dia-
logue must include every-
one," Nazario-Colén said.
“You cannot have true
change unless everyone‘s in-
volved in the dialogue and
the decision making
process."

Welch agreed, reiterating
the need for faculty. students.
staff and the administration
to come together as one on
this issue.

“I can‘t stress enough the
importance of getting every‘
one involved. especially stu-
dents.“ she said. “It's stu-
dents who get students to
come here."

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mentum students must get
involved and write letters to
President Lee Todd telling
him that UK needs to invest
in more bicycle facilities.

“The more people who
ride bikes," he said. “The
more likely the administra-
tion will accommodate
them."

He also recommended
that UK faculty and staff
take advantage of the $2.25
daily parking permits and
that these permits be made
available to students as well.

Greenthumb co-coordina-
tor Niles Barnes said biking
should be more of a priority
these days.

He said biking is a faster.
cleaner. cheaper and safer
way to travel.

“We‘re demonstrating a
viable means of transporta-
tion.“ Barnes said. “For most
students. cycling is just a su—
perior mode of transporta-
tion."

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The Poore Philosophy

So I was home for fall break
visiting the familyl— which by
the way requires igh levels of
medication and an inordinate
amount of antacid — and I dis-
covered most of America has
gone nuts.

First of all, my mom must
have thought
I starve my-
self at college
because she
fed me
enough food
to sustain
Panama.

This con-
sisted of nine-
course meals.
And that was
just the appe-
tizer. I like to
refer to this
as my moth-
er’s Thanks-
giving pre-game, where she con-
ducts trial runs of the eight
straight days of cooking she
does leading up to the Novem-
ber holiday.

I realized most of America
had gone crazy when I had be-
come immobi e on our living
room sofa watching Animal
Planet and found “Dog Show."

I was confused at first be-
cause my eyes were glazed over
with mashed potatoes and I
couldn’t clearly see the TV.
Judging from the sound of the
announcers. I thought I'd
turned on Saturday football.

CUE PASSIONATE, DRA-
MATIC ORCHESTRAL MUSIC.

“Hi Bob, we’re here for day
two of a fierce competition be-
tween Madame Lady Tinker
Bell and Chloe the Psycho
French Poodle. Bob, the air is so
electric you can cut it with a
knife!! And look at the size of
those pooper-scoopers! Boy, the
hometown favorites really
brought out the big guns for
this one!!"

After this announcer ~
whom we’ll just call, “Insane”
— finished his introduction,
flashy graphics with pounding
slams and loud sirens flew
across the screen. I was expect-
ing to see Mean Gene Okerlund
of the traveling circus formerly
known as the WWF. The French
poodle sufficed.

Next, a shaggy dog named
Louie appeared with a woman
dressed in what looked to be no
less than a dress covered in Lite
Brites.

While in my food-induced
daze, I quickly snapped to the
realization that these animals
are worth more than the gross
domestic product of Portugal.
And their owners have one
screw loose for every dollar
they’re worth.

The announcer’s voice ~
three octaves below James Earl
Jones —— became much more
rapid. I thought he was going to
eject from the broadcast booth
and attack small children. He
was caught up in the stats and
hobbies of one particular dog
we’ll call “Insane.” This dog ap-
parently enjoys crocheting, re-
building his carburetor and en-
joys the high intellectual activi-
“ff of biting the mailman‘s toes
o .

Maybe I still thought I was
watching football, but I swear
the trash talking ensued. I was
expecting (penalty flags to be
thrown an maybe they should
have been.

After watching “Dog Show“
for a while, my mom quickly re-
alized I hadn’t eaten in over
three minutes and brought
more food.

Home never looked so good.

Derek
Poore

KENNEL COLUMNIST

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Wrtirvisits to share worn dentity

Renowned author Bharati Mukherjee kicks off UK English Department's conference
with a reading of her works that explore the experience of immigrants

By Steve Lopez
THE rrnrucrv kERNEL

After struggling to find her own
identity as an Indian woman in the
United States, Bharati Mukherjee
writes about that same hardship
when it comes to American immi-
grants and the isolation they can feel
in the land of the free.

As part of the UK English De-
partment‘s “Crossing Cultures: An
Interdisciplinary Conference,“
Mukherjee, a distinguished fiction
writer, will give a reading at 7:30
tonight at the Singletary Center for
the Arts Recital Hall.

“Mukherjee is one of America's
leading writers of fiction today“ said
Gurney Norman, associate professor
of English and director of UK's Cre-
ative Writing Program. “Her work
concerns the experience of immi-
grants to the United States. which re-
veals a part of American life that
most people are unaware of."

The conference started yesterday
and will continue through Wednes-

Crowe writes a ‘1

By Ryan Ebelhar
THE kmucror KERNEI.

Small-town Kentucky life and all
intricacies. from Ale-8~One to
winding back roads, will
be immortalized on film
for audiences this week-
end. in the most unlikely
of places: Elizabeth-
town, Ky. In a phone in-
terview with director
Cameron Crowe this
week. he explained why
he selected what many
in Hollywood consider
an eccentric location.
Crowe chose E-town as the setting
of his latest film, which came as a sur-
prise to most people in the state. The
reasons behind Crowe‘s decision.
however, are quite simple. The direc.
tor‘s father was born and raised in
Kentucky and lived in Elizabethtown
for the latter part of his life.
When he died. Crowe traveled to
Elizabethtown to bury his father and
to see his family. The film was written

its

Crowe

day. Mukherjee's reading is also part
of the Kip Cornett Visiting Writers
Series.

“Each year. the English depart-
ment brings to campus noted Ameri~
can poets and fiction writers to serve
the student body and the UK commu~
nity," Norman said. “Mukherjee‘s
reading is the first of this school
year."

Along with her established writ-
ing career. Mukherjee is an English
professor at the University of Cali-
fornia at Berkley. She has authored
six novels. published books of short
stories and co-authored several non-
fiction books with her husband,
Canadian writer Clark Blaise.

Three of Mukherjee‘s books will
be on sale at tonight’s reading, a
book of short stories, “The Middle
Man and Other Stories“ and two
novels, “Jasmine" and “Desirable
Daughters." On Wednesday, Mukher-
jee will participate in a question and
answer session from 10 am. to noon
in room 230 of the Student Center

The reading is being co-spon-

as “a love letter to Kentucky" and to
embrace his heritage. The character
Mitch Baylor is based on Crowe‘s own
father. and the movie parallels the as-
pects of family and togetherness that
he experienced during his return to
Kentucky.

Expectations were high coming
into the Toronto Film Festival last
month. Crowe was so sure of his film
that he debuted a rough cut of the
film at the festival in front of 1100
fans and critics. The reaction was in-
credibly harsh. leading Box Office
Magazine to declare it “pretty much a
disaster on all counts." Crowe went
back into the studio and trimmed 18
minutes from the movie, leaving it at
two hours.

Crowe’s films are known for their
soundtracks. and how well the music
meshes with the rest of the film. He
said the inspiration for this was the
movie “Harold and Maude." which
opens with the Cat Stevens song
“Don't Be Shy." This sets the mood for
the entire movie and finding the per-
fect piece of music to go with the film

ove letter to Kentucky’

sored by Women‘s Studies and the
Office of Multicultural & Academic
Affairs. The conference itself is
sponsored by the College of Arts and
Sciences Dean's Lecture and Visiting
Professor Series along with the Eng-
lish Department. Further support
comes from the Committee on Social
Theory and the departments of an-
thropology, history and geography.
“Mukherjee's reading is a signifi-
cant cultural event for Kentucky :
her writing challenges the idea that
one's persona identity is based on a
person’s local traditions," Norman
said. “Many of her characters are
newly arrived Americans who must
invent their own American identity"

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makes both the music and the film
stronger. Crowe said. In “Almost Fa-
mous" this was the band Stillwater
singing along to Elton John‘s “Tiny
Dancer” on their tour bus: in “Say
Anything" it was Peter Gabriel‘s “In
Your Eyes" as Lloyd Dobler played it
outside his ex girlfriend’s window:
and in “Elizabethtown" it is Elton
John's “My Father‘s Gun" as Drew
Baylor views Mitch's body at the fu-
neral home.

Box office receipts are not what
concern Crowe. When “Almost Fa
mous" debuted in 2000 it was a finan-
cial failure. and Crowe was told to
“pack it up and go home." The movie
was then released to DVD with limit-
ed fanfare and rocketed to the top of
the charts and is now considered to be
one of his best works. Crowe said he
views his films as one of his children
and won‘t give up on it; money isn't
the most important part of the movies
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Louisville he meets Claire. (Kirsten
Dunst) a flight attendant that strikes
up a conversation because Baylor is
the only one on the plane. They don't
connect immediately, as she mostly
comes across as strange. She draws
him a map to get from the airport to
Elizabethtown and leaves him her
phone number.

This is where the Kentucky nostal-
gia kicks in.

The second Baylor hops in his
rental car and begins his journey to E-
town (and gets lost because he failed
to follow Claire’s emphatic advice,
“Remember 60-31”) you become inun-
dated by Louisville‘s scenery Of
course. while viewing the film. I was
reminded of the countless times I‘ve
driven through those two tunnels on I-
64, to come out on the other end and
see the skyline.

We are greeted with images of
Louisville Slugger Field, the larger-
than-life images of Louisville‘s fa-
mous residents on the buildings. Keep
ing the film true to that good 01' Ken-
tucky culture, we see characters

drinking Ale-B-One, and one character
has an ear-X-tacy bumper sticker on
the wall in his house. While most of
the world can‘t fully appreciate these
details. we Kentuckians can enjoy
them. Crowe describes this film as “a
love letter to Kentucky"

80 why E-town’.’ The answer is
simple. The story is autobiographical
k to an extent. Crowe’s father was sta-
tioned at Fort Knox and lived in Eliza-
bethtown. When he died, Crowe had to
travel there for the funeral. He made
this movie as a tribute to his father
and his experiences in Kentucky.

Unlike many films set in rural
states, “Elizabethtown“ doesn‘t take
this opportunity to once again portray
Kentuckians as ignorant hillbillies.
complete with no shoes and cheesy
banjo music.

Greg Melnyk. UK telecommunica-
tions alumnus. who attended the
screening. agrees.

“This was the first movie that por-
trayed us accurately not as rednecks."
he said. “It's a small town story that
was unique and didn‘t poke fun.“

As far as the quality of acting in
the film. Dunst is a fine actress, but I
couldn‘t tell if her southern accent
was meant to be poking fun at Ken-
tucky. or if that's really what she
thinks we sound like. Bloom puts on a
solid performance throughout the

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film, despite his not-so—stellar attempt
at an American accent. Sarandon per-
fectly plays a wife struggling to adjust
to life without a husband; her perfor-
mance at the memorial service is
heartwrenching. The family Baylor
has in Elizabethtown epitomizes what
I come to expect from the rural
branches of my family at every re-
union.

Bloom has been seen almost exclu-
sively in films where he portrays
someone with a sword in the Middle
Ages. For this reason he was cast as
Baylor. Crowe said he wanted some-
one that could be seen as a “stranger
in the strange land of Kentucky" He
felt that Bloom‘s inexperience playing
such a character would lead him to
give a more natural performance of
someone coming from urban life being
dropped into rural Kentucky

As is true with all of Crowe‘s
movies, the dialogue is the most im-
portant part of the film. Crowe bases
his dialogue on what he claims are
“conversations I wish I had." As he
says, it is impossible for movies to
replicate what happens in real life. In
fact, Crowe says he often carries a
notebook around and writes down
things he hears people say to use in
movies, as in “life is more poetic then
what‘s in the movies."

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CHRIS STEWART, THE KENTUCKY KERNEL

 

UK shouldn’t handcuff
search for police chief

It has been almost a
year since former UK Police
Chief Fred Otto III resigned
from his post due to "quese

the average department is
going to run into. and edu-
cated and informed people
will ask questions and ex-

able and visible to students.
and should also exercise a
higher standard of personal
ethics than others in the

the chief‘s desk at the po—
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tionable ethical behavior" pect answers." Franklin apermanent chief. past.
in his graduate studies at told The Kernel. “That‘s Assuming that a new Comments made by Ken
Eastern Kentucky Universi- s o m e - chief is Clevidence. UK‘s public
ty. In that time. the UK Po- thing a eventual- safety director. regarding
lice Department has been p 0 l i c e The time has come for 1y found. the police search are reas-
headed by two different in- chief will 0 n l 3 surinl‘gh
terim police chiefs. neither have