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Legion's leaving; freshman guard to transfer from UK

By Travis Waldron
tvvaldron®kykernelcom

After an aftemoon ﬁlled with spec-
ulation and rumors. UK head coach
Billy Gillispie conﬁmted last night that
freshman guard Alex Legion will trans~
fer from UK.

"It‘s unfortunate and not what I
wanted to bear. but I understand."
Gillispie said in a statement.

“We met with Alex and his mother
Friday. and she informed us of her de-
sire to seek a release for her son."
Gillispie said. “Shortly after that meet—
ing. Alex told me that he still wanted to
be a part of our program. He played in

the game against North Carolina Satur-
day and seemed happy when I spoke
with him Sunday.“

UK Athletics spokesman Scott
Stricklin said Legion would be released
from his commitment to UK. If Legion
enrolls at another school for the spring
semester. he will not be able to play in
any games until January of the 2008-09
season because of NCAA rules.

Legion. a 6-foot-5 guard. has aver-
aged l7.S minutes per game while
earning two starts in six games this
year. The lnkster. Mich.. native was
part of a four-man recruiting class that
ranked in the top 25 by many recniiting
services. Legion was the No. 44 recruit

in the class of 2007. according to Ri—
vals.com.

“You always hate to lose a
valued member of your pro-
gram. and Alex was deﬁnitely
that." Gillispie said. “He has
tremendous potential as a play-
ers and a student. but most im-
portantly. he is a wonderful
young man. We hate to see him
leave. but if he can be happier
elsewhere then all you can do
is wish him the best."

FOX Sports broke the
news yesterday just after 4
pm. citing an unnamed source.
Gillispie. who missed practice yester-

day to attend the funerals of fomter UK
players Ralph Beard and Tommy Kron.

said during his weekly radio
show last night that Legion
did not practice yesterday.
Gillispie would not con-
firm or deny the rumors on the
show. only saying that there
was “definitely some cre—
dence" to the report. At the
time of the radio broadcast.
Gillispie said he had not spo-
ken with Legion since Satur—
day‘s North Carolina game.
He confirmed the transfer after
meeting with Legion last night.
Legion did not enter UK's game

against North Carolina until the 11:06
mark in the second half. but Jeff Good-
man of FOX Sports said Legion‘s deci-
sion to transfer was not based on play-
ing time.

"Whoever gets it earns it." Gillispie
said following the UNC game when
asked why Legion sat out the first 28
minutes of the game.

Rodney Legion. Alex Legion’s fa-
ther. had no comment on his son‘s
transfer as of last night. saying that he
“doesn‘t have much contact at all" with
his son.

STAFF WRITER ERIC LINDSEY CONTRIBUTED
TO THIS STORY

LIGHTING UP CHRISTMAS

Chamber
measures
higher-ed
progress

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jlaster@kykernel.com

The state can measure its progress toward
higher education goals today as the Kentucky
Chamber of Commerce releases a report of analy-
sis and recommendations based on the 1997 Post-
secondary Education Improvement Act.

With Kentucky situated near the bottom of
national education rankings. the state legislature
passed the act 10 years ago mandating that UK
become a top-20 research institution by 2020.
along with other educational improvements.

A task force created by the Kentucky ChamA
ber of Commerce has worked for the past eight
months to assess how these reforms — including
new state organizations and new funding strate-
gies — have affected the state. and what Ken~
tucky still has to do.

“The bottom line of the report is it afﬁrms the
goals of the ‘97 reforms." said Dave Adkisson.
Kentucky Chamber of Commerce president and
CEO. "So this is a 10th anniversary review of
what we‘ve been doing,”

Today‘s release will include a review conduct-
ed by the National Center for Higher Education
Management Systems of Boulder. Colo. The or-
ganization used data like graduation and enroll-
ment rates. interviews with postsecondary educav
tion officials and state officeholders. and com-
ments from IX open forums held across the state
to gauge public opinion on higher education prob-
Iems.

Colleges‘ dependence on state govemment for
funding is one of the issues the 26-member task
force has examined. Adkisson said.

“The funding in Kentucky is still heavily in—

See Chamber on page 3

Prof says
alternative fuels
beneficial,
not a cure-all

By Wi_ll Aaron

news®kykernelcom

Many scientists across the nation are experi-
menting with more environmentally-friendly fu—
els. but one UK professor said that while altema—
tive forms of fuel are beneficial. they are not a
cure-all.

“There will never be a point where we drop
what we‘re doing and switch to another source:
there are serious costs involved." said Rodney
Andrews. director of the Center for Applied Ener-
gy Research. “The need is so large and complex:
there is no one magic answer."

Society cannot depend solely on renewable
energy sources. Andrews said. Development of
alternative forms of fuel relies on fossil fuels. he
said. and the costs involved and economic im-
pacts of developing these fuels must be consid-
ered as well.

For approximately 30 years now. researchers
representing the agriculture. chemistry. biology.
forestry and engineering ﬁelds at UK have made
concerted efforts to change energy consumption
habits and reliance on fossil fuels.

“Energy is a large research topic for UK. very
spread out across the departments. Andrews said.

The US. consumes almost 21 million barrels
of petroleum per day. Andrews said. and this rate
demands that scientists investigate more efficient
uses of available resources as well as renewable
sources of energy.

UK researcher Burt Davis and his team have

See Fuel on page 3

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Street vendor Ross Greenhill sells inflatable candy canes balloons and other toys to people waiting for the Downtown Lexmgton ChrIstmas Parade orocessmn to travel
down Main Street on Saturday Greenhill says he 3 been selling the inflatables at parades for 10 years

Thousands of people. young and old.
lined Main Street Saturday night to
catch a glimpse of the parade ﬂoats
that rolled by as part of the 2007
Downtown Lexington Christmas
Parade. The parade. which consisted
of about 50 different organizations.
started at Midland Avenue and trav-
eled down Main Street to the Robert
F. Stephens Courthouse Plaza. There.
Santa Claus tumed a key. setting off a
display of lights and ﬁreworks. The
parade was organized as ajoint effort
between the Downtown Lexington
Corporation and the Lexington-
Fayette Urban County Government.

Emily Rice, left
and Eric Whitak-
er kiss near the
ChrIstrnas tree in
the Robert F
Stephens Court»
house Plaza
downtown while
waiting for the
tree‘s official
lIghtIng Satur~
day

N o charges ﬁled in My Space suICIde case

gLJool Currier
St. Louis Post-Dispatch

ST. CHARLES. Mo. — The St.
Charles County prosecutor said
Monday there will be no criminal
charges filed in the case of the
teenage girl who committed suicide
after being bullied on the lntemet.

Prosecutor Jack Banas said that
based on available evidence. the ac-
tions of the people involved in the
Internet bullying did not meet the
standards required by state laws for
either harassment. stalking or en-
dangering the welfare of a child.

Banas announced his decision at
a news conference called to discuss
the Megan Meier case. Megan. 13.
of Dardenne Prairie. Mo.. hanged

herself last year. Her parents said
her suicide was the result of harass-
ment via her MySpace web page.

Her parents said an adult neigh-
bor created a teenage boy who pre-
tended to be interested in Megan be-
fore he began bullying her. The
neighbors admittcd to police that
they created the account.

The prosecutor‘s office had been
investigating whether any laws were
broken or charges could be ﬁled.

Megan hanged herself Oct. I6.
2006. shortly after receiving cruel
messages on the social networking
Web site MySpace. Megan's par-
ents. Ron and Tina Meier. found out
six weeks after Megan‘s death that
the boy their daughter had been
chatting with online never existed.

The boy‘s profile. they Ieamed.
was the creation of Lori Drew. her
daughter and Drew's employee.
Ashley Grills. The Drews and the
Meiers live four doors apart in Dar
denne Prairie.

Vicki Dunn. who is Tina
Meier‘s aunt. said she was disap—
pointed in Banas‘ decision. but she
understood the limitations of state
law. “I‘m not happy with what's
happened." she said. “All we can do
is move forward and look at the big—
ger picture. and get laws changed."

Banas said the fake MySpace
page was not the creation of Lori
Drew. He said the Web site was cre-
ated by Grills. 18. and that Drew was
aware that she had created the proﬁle.

For six weeks. Megan ex—

changed messages with Josh Evans
through MySpace. The password to
the fake MySpace account was later
given to another teenage girl. Banas
said. who sent messages to Megan.
as Josh Evans. saying Megan was
mean and no longer wanted to be
her friend.

It was Grills who sent the last
message before Megan committed
suicide. Banas said. That message.
through Josh Evans‘ profile. said
something to the effect of. “The
world would be a better place with-
out you." Banas said.

“I think you have a lot of facts
that have gone out across this coun-
try that are a misstatement of facts."

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PASADENA. Calif. ~ Jim
Parsons. who plays the tall.
nerdy Sheldon on CBS' "The
Big Bang Theory." is no science
whiz. While he was both a com-
petent and obedient student. he
failed a science course in col-
lege because he took it for the
wrong reason.

“I said I wanted to be a me-
teorologist because we were liv—
ing on the Gulf Coast and there
were hurricanes. We went
through Hurricane Alicia which
intrigued me to no end." he says
over lunch at a restaurant here.

“I realized later on it was the
sheer drama of it. I really don't
care about studying meteorology
I took it for a science credit.
and it‘s the only time i ever
failed a class. I didn‘t need to
fail it. I was overwhelmed by
the theater I was doing and com-
pletely under achieving in stud-
ies outside of that. It was pathet-
ic." he shakes his head.

Parsons. who resembles the
genius he plays on the show. is
actually the veteran of 15 failed
pilots. "i like auditioning. very
much. I enjoy working on
things. getting prepared." he
says.

When he read “The Big
Bang Theory" he says he knew
he could play the part. “My first
pilot was ‘Blitt Happens' with
Fox. The Farrelly brothers di-
rected. It didn‘t go. The next one
was for CBS. It was "Tastef
Jane Krakowski‘s show. And
that didn‘t go. But that‘s where i

met up with CBS and did a
holding deal with them for the
next year.“

He managed a six—parter on
“Judging Amy“ and tried all of
CBS‘ pilots for the next year.
None of them worked.

"That‘s the way it goes." he
says. shrugging his bony shoul-
ders. “That‘s what‘s so rare
about it. I tested for several that
year and just didn‘t get them.
That‘s why 1 had to prepare for
this one because I felt this was
probably the one that was going
to fit. so you‘ve got to be ready
if the door's going to open."

He got the script the night of
the Academy Awards. and Par—
sons would much rather have
been at one of the Oscar parties.
but instead he sat on the floor of
his sub-let apartment and wrote
and re-wrote all the lines.

“I knew if I didn‘t get the
pan and felt I could‘ve done
more. I really couldn‘t live with
myself because 1 just knew it
was a wonderful fit — whether
or not they thought so [ wrote
them all out. which I still do to
this day. I‘m very visual. 1 liter-
ally need to be able to see it in
my head. and when I get stuck.
nine times out of ll). 1 can tell
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something. It‘s a little comput—
eresque. It's not funny until it's
in you so you can come out and
play everything under it that‘s
there for the lines. But it can be
an arduous process to get there."

Getting there hasn‘t been
easy for Parsons who attended
graduate school with seven oth«
or students at San Diego/The

()ld (ilobe 'l'hcatcr on a scholar—
ship. Armed with a master's dc-
grec he headed for New York.

Along with unemployment
and a short-term Job with a con
struction company. Parsons
managed to make ends meet.

His dad was the president of
a plumbing supply company and
his mom is a first grade teacher.
He has a sister. who‘s also a
teacher. His father was the hu
morous one. says Parsons. 34.

His dad was killed in an
auto accident six years ago.
“And I still don’t know all the
ways that changed and affected
me. but there's no way it did-
n't." he says.

"It changed the whole futili—
ly dynamic. When I went home
after that I still hadn‘t graduated.
I had a final project and I know
they told me. ‘You don‘t have to
come back right away.‘ It was
very interesting that i knew I
had to go back and do that be
cause whether or not you could
be of use at home l reali/ed
in the end I could only be of use
to the family fully if I did what i
needed to do and then went on.

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moved to New York and have a
terrible sense of direction my
dad was very good at it -- and I
understood the city and how to
get around so quickly that it
bogglcd my mind. And still. to
this day. I think it had something
to do with that (his death)."

Once he hit LA. the gift
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fluenced by legislative politics." he said. "Each
university goes to the legislature on its own and

asks for funding."

A more rational system would be for the
Kentucky legislature to give money based on the
state‘s goals instead of those of individual univer-

sities. Adkisson said.

Beginning in January. UK — along with other
Kentucky universities — will petition the General
Assembly for funding. UK President Lee Todd
said programs. such as the university‘s plan to be
come a top-20 public research institution by 2020,
would not be successful without state dollars.

“This year‘s full funding of the Top 20 Busi—
ness Plan by the General Assembly has been crit-
ically important in our efforts to increase faculty
numbers. lower class sizes and continue increas-
ing research efforts that will help Kentucky."
Todd said in a statement to the Kernel last

month.

The state must "quicken the pace“ to achieve
better unity among universities and other goals of

the act by its 2020 deadline, Adkisson said.

One of the areas the state needs to improve in
is college affordability. which he said is as much

an image issue as a monetary issue.

“In one sense college may be affordable, but
parents around the state may not think so." he said.
The report has recommendations but there is
no call for speciﬁc dollar amounts. Adkisson said.
“There is not a price tag on this plan. but it

calls for a strategic plan.“ he said.

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chemical catalyst. Andrews said.

cleaner burning alternatives.

Andrews said.

been experimenting with the Fischer—
Tropsch process, in which coal can be
made into a viable liquid fuel with a

Fischer-Tropsch fuels are low in
toxicity and provide a cleaner substitute
for diesel fuel. according to the U.S. En-
vironmental Protection Agency. The
substitute can also be mixed with con-
ventional diesel to produce less hydro~
carbon and carbon monoxide emissions.

UK is also in the process of devel-
oping new strains of bio-organisms.
which are key in the production of bio
diesel fuel. Andrews said. As these bio-
organisms are modified. bio-mass fuels, 1
such as ethanol. will be replaced by

Ethanol is a colorless liquid that can
be made from corn grain starch. sugar
cane or other materials. including grass.
vineyard grapes or wood. according to
the US. Department of Energy. About
one-third of gasoline in the US. con- i
tains some tom of an ethanol blend.

UK researchers have partnered with
the Kentucky Rural Energy Consortium.
the University of Louisville. Oak Ridge
National Laboratory and the Consortium
for Fossil Fuel Science to make head—
way in finding alternatives to fossil fuel.

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Last fall. Megan and the Drew‘s
daughter were friends but had been
quarreling. According to a police re»
port. Lori Drew said she had “insti-
gated and monitored" the fake My»
Space account because wanted to
know what Megan was saying on-
Iiric about her daughter.

Both the FBI and St. Charles
l County Sheriff's Department investi-
gated the Meier casc over the past
year and could find no appropriate
criminal charge. Prosecutors didn‘t
see a crime either. and high~profilc
law timis did not pursue a civil suit.

The Meicrs haw sworn to fight
for new laws that punish people for
online misconduct.

Last month. Dardenne Prairie
and Florissant. Mo.. passed ordi»
nanccs making lntcriict harassment a
crime. In coming weeks. St. Louis,
St. Louis County. St. Charles. ()‘Fal—
l lon. Mo.. and St. Charles County are

expected to consider similar mea-

sures targeting onlinc harassment.

Also. state lawmakers have
promised to introduce legislation dc»
signed to protect the people who
communicate over the Web and pun»
ish those who abusc it.

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Global warming? Trees offer bizarre clues

By Sandi Doughton
The Seattle Times

CARSON, Wash. — Suspended 20 sto-
ries in the air. Ken Bible looks down on the
crown of a 500—year-old Douglas fir and
ponders a mystery.

It's not the obvious one: How does a
man without superpowers hover above the
treetops?

That’s easy. The University of Washing-
ton forest ecologist rose to his lofty perch in
a metal gondola hoisted by a 285-foot—tall
construction crane.

The vantage point allows Bible to study
the upper reaches of this old-growth forest.
where a reproductive orgy is under way.

“We’ve never seen anything like this
here," he says. reaching over the edge of the
open-air gondola to grasp a limb laden with
cones.

He counts at least 30.

“Normally. a branch like this would
have about three." he says. “Why so many
this year? We really don‘t know.“

Maybe global warming nudged the trees
to procreate. Perhaps it‘s a natural cycle.

In either case. Bible wants to pinpoint
the trigger. Did the forest crank up cone pro-
duction in response to temperature? Is mois—
ture the key? Or could the flush of fertility
be traced to high spring winds that whipped
up a sexy cyclone of pollen?

The work is part of a bigger effort to fig-
ure out what climate change. both natural
and man-made. will mean for the North—
west‘s iconic forests. The University of
Washington’s Wind River Canopy Crane.
erected in 1995 near the Columbia River. is
proving an ideal tool.

The crane and the research area that sur—
rounds it have already helped answer sever-
al fundamental questions about forests and
their ability to counteract global warming. A
cooperative venture with the Forest Service.
the crane is the largest in the world dedicat-
ed to forestry research. and the only one in
North America.

It was here that scientists put to rest the
myth that mature forests are biologically
moribund. By rising above the treetops. they
were able to take measurements that showed
old forests continue to grow and act as a
sink for carbon dioxide. a major greenhouse
gas.

Studies here also proved it doesn‘t make
sense from a global-warming perspective to
cut older forests and replace them with
seedlings. which grow faster and had been
thought to absorb more carbon dioxide. Old
forests are storehouses for such vast
amounts of carbon that it would take many
decades for new forests to catch up on the
carbon balance sheet.

Riding the crane is like taking an eleva-
tor to the sky.

As the gondola glides upward. the
gloom of the forest ﬂoor falls away. Sun-

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light floods in and the temperature climbs
10 degrees. Branches draped with tattered
lichens called old man‘s beard float past.
When the gondola reaches its apex. star—
tled hawks sometimes circle around to sCC

who's intruding on their bird‘s-eye view of

the forest canopy. which spreads out in
every direction like a lumpy green blanket.

The Douglas firs here can reach between
180 and 220 feet above the forest floor. The
species mix also includes Westcm red cedar.
Pacific silver fir and grand fir.

In addition to counting cones. Bible and
his colleague Matt Schroeder are using the
crane on this November moniiiig to examine
the buds that will detemiiiie how many new
branches the trees will produce next year.

There‘s abundant evidence from around
the world that crocuses. lilacs and other
ﬂowering plants are blooming earlier each
spring in response to rising temperatures.
But nobody has figured otit how to look for
a similar response in full—grown trccs. Buds
may hold the answer. says Bible. director of
the crane facility.

"The first thing we’re going to look at is
whether these buds are going to break L‘éll‘lb
er in the spring over time."

Wamiing is expected to bring more fires
and insect infestations to Northwest forests.
says Mark Harmon. an Oregon State l'iii-
vcrsity forestry expert who has used the
canopy crane in his research. But experts are
split on whether forest productivity will in
crease over time.

Carbon dioxide is a basic building block
plants use to generate energy through photo»
synthesis. so it‘s possible higher C02 levels
in the atmosphere will act like a fertili/cr.
But other nutrients could eventually put the

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Perched in a canopy crane, researchers Dave Woodrutt. right, and Dan .Johnson, from Oregon State
University, take samples from a Douglas fir, November 4, 2007, in Carson, Washington

brakes on forest growth. as would the drying
predicted as snow packs diminish in the
Northwest. Harmon said,

That uncertainty about what to expect rc-
flccts how little is known about the basic bio—
logical rcspoiiscs of trees - even the mainstay
of the region‘s timber iiidtistiy. Bible says

"We know nut to nothing about DOLL
glas fir. and it‘s thc species we know the
most about." he said.

Without a better understanding of the
way trees will respond to .i changing cli»
mate. it‘s hard to c\:ilu.itc programs that
claim to offset carbon cmissioiis by planting
trees or protecting forests

Many of thc c.\isting data gaps could be
filled if the federal goycriiiiient funds an
ambitious proposal toi .i natioiiwidc net
work of ecological icoiiitoring stations
called NEON tbc .\.itiotial licological
()bs‘cr‘yiitory Network.

The 10,000 acre \\:iid Riycr l;\pcri
mental l‘orest. now home to tbc canopy
crane and a wide array of othcr forestry l'C'
search projects. l\ on thc shortlist to bc lll
cludcd in the network

The area would be wired with a \chty
of sensors to monitor llic way changing cli-
matc and different land use pr'acticcs. such
as logging. afft .‘t flora. l.lUllil. \(tll cliciiiistr}.
and the entire web of lit. .

hi the meantime. ll blc and Scliiocdcr
plan to spend part ot llli wiiitci poring mei
weather data from the past year. to we it
thcy can tease out thc factors behind this
year‘s bounty of cones. which seems to c\'
tend well beyond the boundaries of the re
search area.

"lt‘s a \cry bigr citric ycar rill around,"
Bible said. “There has to be :i reason."

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OUK Timmy Foundation Meeting,
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213

~ltalian Conversation Practice,
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take care of graduation details at the December Grad
Bash. Gratis can check their UK record for stops, speak
with a financial aid representative, get their senior
portraits taken, learn about university career services
and alumni assor iation. and shop for alumni

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merchandise and graduation supplies. Parents are
invited to attend. Parking is mailablc behind the King
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