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Friday, September to. 2005

Study
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at UK

Dayton law professor puts UK Law
School among top-10 'whitest'

By Tricia Spaulding
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The UK College of Law is one of the top-10
“whitest" law schools in America, according
to a study by Professor Vernilla Randall at the
University of Dayton in Ohio.

Randall, a race-law expert, said UK's law
school is 92 percent white — a grossly skewed
misrepresentation of the minority population
at large.

Randall said a major contribution to this
problem is relying solely on test numbers as
“proof of intelligence and ability,” as law
schools only want to improve their national
rankings.

Her study also stated law schools “misuse”
the Law School Admissions Test in the admis-
sion process, which creates a “discriminatory
process.”

Utilizing an applicant’s entire profile for
admissions would allow more opportunities
for minorities to make it into law school, Ran-
dall said.

UK uses a “full-file review,” said UK Col-
lege of Law Dean and professor Allan Vestal.

The admissions committee, which is made
up of faculty members, a student representa-
tive and the associate dean of admissions,

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Spotlight Jazz Series opens with No.1
singer-songwriter Lizz Wright

By Jenisha Watts
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The Spotlight Jazz Series, the longest run-
ning collegiate series in the country, will start
the year off at UK with singer/ songwriter
Lizz Wright, the No. 1 artist on the Billboard
Contemporary Jazz chart.

Wright will perform songs from her latest
album, “Dream Wide Awake" Sunday at 7 pm.
in Memorial Hall.

Wright said she was inspired to create the
album while traveling around the world on
tour.

“When you are on tour by yourself, dis-
tance and time become unreal." said Wright.
“It makes you have a deeper root within your-
self.”

Charlie Olvera. music performance sopho-
more and director of Spotlight Jazz, wanted to

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Sophomore Mike Barnes and seniors Chris Zaremski and Josh McConnell hope to lead the Cats to consecutive winning seasons for the first time since 2000-01 and 2001-02.

 

 

 

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Drew Matichak, junior goalie, blocks shots during UK hockey
practice Tuesday at the Lexington Hockey Ice Center.

Club Cats put their

money Where

others’ mouths are

Derek
Poore

SPORTS EDITOR

They’ve never had the varsity
blues because they‘re not a varsity
sport.

They don’t have a big-time, Divi—
sion I budget or the backing of a su-
perpower athletics department.

But the UK hockey team packs
one of the rowdiest crowds in the
rarest of places for the northern
sport — Kentucky. And in the days of
athletics departments whining about
being unable to sustain sports or how
teams lean on the revenue of football
and basketball. UK hockey sucks it

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Puck Nasty

Following a 20-win season, UK hockey reloads in pursuit
of recognition and a national championship

By Laura Nelligan
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It’s not a bar, you can’t get alco-
hol. and it’s 55 degrees inside.

But thousands of UK students
pack the Lexington Ice Center every
Friday and Saturday night when
their Cool Cats are in town.

And starting with tomorrow
night’s opener against Northern
Kentucky University, they are offi-
cially back in town.

“Without a doubt. we have the
best fans in all of club hockey." team
captain Chris Zaremski said. “We
pack the house every night...it's one
of the main reasons I came here.”

The season was scheduled to
open today against Louisville, but
the Cardinals didn't have enough
players at the time of tryouts to field
a team. Luckily, according to Sos-
nowski. the Norse of NKU stepped
in.

“We’re really using the game on
Saturday to look at all the individual
players. get them into a game situa-
tion. and see what they can really
do," said Sosnowski, who is entering
his third year as coach of the Cool
Cats.

Sosnowski said he was very hap
py with the senior class and that he
puts a lot of pressure on them to
lead.

“In the off-season. we sit down in-

Next Game

Saturday at Midnight
UK vs. Northern Kentucky

dividually with those guys and chal-
lenge them to become leaders and
lead the group of young guys,” he
said. “The most positive thing that
these guys bring to us is leadership,
that they are gonna work with the
young guys and mold the young guys
into a team. With a 25-man roster.
one of the things that we really try
and get away from is the cliques. We
try and mold them into getting every-
one together as a team.”

Senior captain Chris Zaremski.
who was an assistant captain last
year. is enthusiastic about his leader-
ship role and confident with the
amount of talent on the team.

“Being the team captain is a real-
ly exciting privilege for me." Zarems-
ki said. “We've kind of been going
through a rebuilding phase since I’ve
been here, but (this year) we brought
in probably the best crop of rookies.
Without a doubt we have the most
talent on the team.

“It is really exciting to be in a po
sition where I can help lead the tal-
ent and get the team going in the

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Health Services advises student insurance

 

By Shannon Mason
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Elementary education senior
Katie Canterbury is covered un-
der her father’s health insurance
— at least for a few more years

She hopes to have a job with
her own insurance by the time
she is dropped from her dad’s in-
surance in {our years.

“I think that's (what every-
body hopes,” she sat

Many students are dropped
from Medicaid when they turn
19 and others are dropped from
their parents' insurance when
they turn 23, said Dr. Gregory
Moore, director of University
Health Services

This is one reason. Moore

said. that about two million col-
lege-age young adults are unin-
sured and twice that number are
underinsured.

Moore said being underin-
sured means the student‘s policy
may be very inexpensive and just
cover accidents or only a small
portion of the hospital bills.

Moore said another reason
students do not have health in-
surance is because they are in a
“late adolescence" mindset.

“They think it won‘t happen
to them," he said.

While most students do not
think they will need insurance.
Moore said there are always acci-
dents when insurance is ex-
tremely beneficial.

Lindsay Joseph. a second-

year master's student in the Col-
lege of Public Health. is current-
ly doing her capstone project on
uninsured and underinsured stu-
dents.

“l‘m looking into the causes.
problems and outcomes of being
an uninsured or underinsured
student." Joseph said. “Then I‘m
going to apply that to UK and do
an assessment of the situation
and see what is the best direction
for us."

Moore said the university of-
fers a health insurance plan to
students that costs about $650 per
year. Joseph said her advice to
students would be to become ed-
ucated about insurance.

“Regardless of your cover-
age. educate yourself." she said.

“Know what you have or what
you should have.“

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For more information on health
insurance check out the University
Health Services website:
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