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Customers and vendors ofthe Lexington Farmers Mar-ket have taken keenly to itsnew Saturday location at theFifth Third Bank Pavilion inCheapside Park. The newpavilion holds the FarmersMarket on Saturdays from 7a.m. to 3 p.m., replacing theold site on the corner ofMaxwell Street and SouthBroadway.

The pavilion creates anew space for the market,said Sarah Buzogany, assis-tant manager of the Lexing-ton Farmers Market. Thesight of the pavilion helps thepublic to remember the Lex-

ington Farmers Market whenthey pass. It is a more legiti-mate and accessible loca-tion.

The Fifth Third BankPavilion can accommodate 28farmers on market day. Farm-ers sell a wide variety offresh, local products thatrange from spring greens, let-tuce, fresh fruits and vegeta-bles, fresh meat and poultry,various herbs, flower andvegetable bedding plants, rawhoney, bread, olive oils andjams.

The new location has abetter ambiance, said EdRaggard, a farmer at RaggardCreekside Farm and vendorat the Lexington Farmers

By Melissa [email protected]

With the university unableto provide any increase in payfor most of its employees, theUK Board of Trustees ap-proved a $2.5 billion budgetTuesday that will provide one-time payments of up to $1,000to eligible faculty and staffearning less than $70,000.

In addition to this pay-ment, UK is covering the cost

of increases in health care formost faculty and staff mem-bers, despite a projected $7million shortfall.

The 2010-11 budget re-flects a 1.4 percent reductionin state support during the fis-cal year. State support for UKis down $28.6 million sinceDecember 2007, according toa UK news release. With cer-tain costs constantly increas-ing utilities, employeebenefits, student financial aid

UK is covering the short-fall by reducing budgets foroperating expenses like sup-plies and travel and eliminat-ing vacant positions.

This budget is far fromperfect, said UK PresidentLee Todd in a news release.But I think it is a fair budget one that acknowledges theeconomic climate in whichwe find ourselves, while al-lowing the university to con-tinue to leverage the momen-

tum our students, faculty andstaff have established duringthese difficult financial times.

This budget also in-cludes a modest FightingFund that can be used by theProvost to retain our best andbrightest faculty who havebeen targeted for recruitmentby other institutions.

The board also approvedthe appointment of MichaelTick as Dean of the Collegeof Fine Arts and Robert

Mock Jr. as vice president forStudent Affairs.Trustees accept gifts,pledges

The UK Board ofTrustees accepted nearly $1.5million in gifts and pledgesfrom three donors during itsmeeting Tuesday.

Alliance Resource Part-ners and Alliance HoldingsGP pledged $1.2 million tocreate the Alliance Coal Chair

in Mining Engineering in theCollege of Engineering.

A $10,000 gift from the es-tate of Joanne I. Bell was accept-ed to create the Joanne I. BellDiscretionary Quasi-endowmentin the College of Social Work.

The Don Jacobs Charita-ble Foundation provided$240,000 to create the Divi-sion of Urology LeadershipEndowment for Resident Re-search and Education in theCollege of Medicine.

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New atmosphere, same tradition

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By Kelsey [email protected]

UK parking and Las Vegas seem to be anunlikely pair. But this year in Sin City, UK Park-ing and Transportation Services is being honoredfor being more than just parking spaces andbuses.

The International Parking Institute namedUK PTS the 2010 Parking Organization of theYear.

The award was presented on May 12 duringthe Industry Gala, which took place at the 2010International Parking Institute Conference andExpo. The conference is the largest gathering ofparking and transportation professionals in theworld.

Chrissie Balding Tune, PTS spokeswoman,said PTS won the award for offering a full pack-age.

I know there is a connotation on campus of(PTS) just (being) about writing citations or hav-ing to pay permit fees, but we do have thingsthat will educate the community about the otherprograms we offer, Tune said.

In addition to parking and permits, thereare shuttles to basketball games, campus busesand the Ride Home Express, which offers stu-dents a ride home to 29 cities from Atlantato Cleveland, Ohio beginning with FallBreak 2010.

PTS was also recognized for utilizing socialmedia outlets like Twitter (@UKParking) and aradio station, 1700 AM, to keep the campuscommunity updated.

The University of Kentuckys Parking andTransportation Services exemplify how talentedand dedicated parking professionals can favor-ably impact their community, said Shawn Con-

UK Parkingwins big in Vegas

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Lexington Farmers Market at home in new downtown pavillion

Fraternityintroduced

to new living arrangements

By Rosalind [email protected]

Alpha Tau Omega will leave behind its homeof more than 50 years as the fraternity movesinto a new building in preparation for the fall se-mester.

The fraternity signed a new lease with theuniversity for the building which was formerlythe Sigma Phi Epsilon house on PennsylvaniaCourt, said Gail Hairston, a UK spokeswoman.Alpha Tau Omega will move into the house,which this semester housed students from thegeneral university population, before the fall se-mester begins.

The former Sigma Phi Epsilon house is oneof two Greek houses to become available recent-ly, a rare occurrence, said Lance Broeking, UKcampus services administrator.

The last couple years have been unique,where weve had the opportunity for some of theGreek houses to become available, Broekingsaid.

This availability provides Alpha Tau Omegawith an opportunity of its own, said Alex Brewer,Alpha Tau Omega president. It is sad to see itgo, Brewer said, but added that the fraternitynow has updated facilities and the opportunity tomake the house their own.

The current Alpha Tau Omega house located

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By Sarah [email protected]

After several years of planning and go-ing through nearly 50 submissions, a vol-unteer committee announced their decisionto place a memorial sculpture in the Ar-boretum in time for the fifth anniversary ofthe Flight 5191 crash.

The volunteer committee revealed aminiature version of a memorial sculpturelast Thursday, which will soon be placed inthe Hospice Remembrance Gardens at theArboretum. Douwe Blumbergs design of49 silver birds in flight is the chosen de-sign.

Blumberg said after hearing what thecommittee was looking for, he immediate-ly pictured the winning design for the me-morial.

I think everyone can appreciate thebeauty and hopefulness represented in the

birds flying free. For loved ones of thoselost, the memorial is very powerful,Blumberg said. Sometimes when an ideacomes to you, you immediately know itsperfect, and this was one of those cases.

Blumberg said although he couldntbegin to imagine what those touched bythe crash were going through, the sculp-ture was in some ways, a way to show hisempathy.

I myself am a pilot and have a lot offriends who fly for Comair. On the day ofthe crash, we all freaked out because noone knew who was on it, Blumberg said.It was truly traumatic and it really stuckwith me.

The memorial will be 17 feet tall andinclude the names of the crash victims andthe first responders at its base. However,

Flight 5191 memorialdesign unveiled

PHOTOS BY ALLIE GARZA | STAFFBonnie Proffit of Lexington purchases two bundles of beets from Jefferson D. Smith IV at the Smith Family Farm tent at the Lexington Farmers Market onTuesday, June 8.

PHOTO PROVIDED BY DOUWE BLUMBERGSculpter Douwe Blumberg designed the Flight 5191memorial 49 silver birds in flight.

The Lexington Farmers Market occurs every Saturday at Cheapside Park in theFifth Third Bank Pavilion near the Old Fayette County Courthouse. The glass pavil-ion with a metal roof covers more than 5,000 square feet.

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Jackie Chan, Oscar nominee? Not as far-fetched as you might think. In the new remake of "TheKarate Kid," the frequently hammy veteran Hong Kongaction star gives a performance of such restraint andemotional depth that you'll sit there with your mouthopen ... at least when you're not tearing up.

The rest of the movie isn't bad either, espe-cially young Jaden Smith, who exhibits a charm andunforced range way beyond his years (he has the rightgene pool: His parents are Will Smith and Jada PinkettSmith). This "Kid" can't escape some clunky ideas itinherited from the 1984 original a thick vein ofsadism (a karate tournament that allows 12yearolds towhale mercilessly on one another? I don't think so) andthe laughable notion that a youngster can be trans-formed into a real martial arts contender in just a fewweeks. In other regards, though, this effort from directorHarald Zwart is an improvement.

Young Dre Parker (Smith) is none too pleasedwhen his widowed mom (Taraji P. Henson) uproots himfrom his Detroit home and accepts a position with hercompany in Beijing. Feeling adrift, Dre thinks he mayhave found a kindred spirit in Meiying (Wenwen Han), apretty, violinplaying Chinese girl who attends his newschool. But their attraction draws the attention of a gangof kung fu bullies led by Cheng (Zhenwei Wang). Chengis a student at the martial arts academy of Master Li(Rongguang Yu), an egomaniacal creep who advises hiskids, "Your enemy deserves pain." Dre is saved from asavage beating by Mr. Han (Chan), the quiet mainte-

nance man at their apartment building. After that he begins begging Han for martial

arts lessons. Han's regimen isn't exactly what Dreexpected. He spends a couple of weeks doing nothingbut taking off and putting on his jacket. Ah, but there's amethod to Han's seemingly pointless exercises. It allleads up to a martial arts tournament at which Dre willhave to prove himself against Li's best fighters.

This "Karate Kid" (actually, isn't "karate" aJapanese term? And isn't this kung fu? Never mind ...)works on several levels. It really captures the feel of lifein modern Beijing and should open the eyes of youngerviewers to the way life is lived in other countries. It hassome great scenery (although it's doubtful that in reallife martial arts students are allowed to practice theirmoves on top of the Great Wall).

The tentative romance between Dre andMeiying is wonderfully innocent and sweet. But thefilm's heart lies with Han, who for much of the first hourseems almost a ghostly presence, a gray, shadowy manwhom you see only out of the corner of your eye. In theoriginal, Pat Morita's Mr. Miyagi was a comic presence.But Han is a damaged man carrying some major bag-gage; the scene in which he reveals his loss to Dre is thefinest dramatic moment of Jackie Chan's career. Ofcourse, it all comes down to a brutal tailkicking at thebig tournament.

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Market for 31 years. Its getting better all the time.The glass pavilion covers approximately 5,700 square feet

and sits on granite pavers. The pavilion has a metal roof and iscooled with fans donated by Big Ass Fans. The park has per-meable pavers that decrease the amount of storm-water run-offby allowing water to pass through.

Cheapside Park provides electricity, water, public bath-rooms and better scenery, said Abigail Keam, a beekeeperwho has been selling honey products at the Lexington FarmersMarket since 1999. The pavilion is more pedestrian friendlyand more interesting.

The pavilion is part of Mayor Jim Newberrys effort totransform the Lexington downtown area through improvementsto the streetscapes and the renovation of Cheapside Park.

The Fifth Third Bank Pavilion officially opened April 16.Fifth Third Bank Central Kentucky President and CEO SamBarnes, Newberry, council members and representatives of theDowntown Lexington Corporation, businesses and the Farm-ers Market joined together at the ribbon cutting ceremony.

The Fifth Third Bank Pavilion will be the location for theFarmers Market on Saturdays, along with art shows and festi-vals, Thursday Night Live and other events throughout theyear. The Lexington Farmers Market also has locations onSouthland Drive on Sundays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and atMaxwell Street and South Broadway from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m.

rad, executive director of the InternationalParking Institute, in a UK news release.

PTS was in competition with several otheruniversities and municipalities, including theUniversity of Georgia, the Winnipeg ParkingAuthority and the Philadelphia Parking Au-thority.

Tune said it was an important recognitionfor the department because of a typically neg-ative view of the parking department on cam-pus. The award is an opportunity for studentsto see the positives of PTS, she said.

The IPI was founded in 1962, and is in itsfourth year of the Professional Recognitionprogram. Award recipients are nominated andthen chosen by a committee of memberpicked by the IPI chairman of the board.

Because of its innovation and leadershipin its field, PTS will be highlighted in the June2010 issue of The Parking Professional maga-zine, along with other award winners and fi-nalists.

Tune said the award will help students andparents to see the big picture of what PTS hasto offer.

I hope for students, and especially forparents when they are coming to campus ...realize we have experience and have been rec-ognized by our peers, Tune said.

Blumberg said the most unique detail is whatis contained inside the sculpture.

Putting mementos from loved ones sealedinside each bird is whats so powerful. Thefamilies really appreciated it, Blumberg said.The memorial is an extremely unique piece;one so connected with what it represents.

The memorial is expected to be in placeat the Arboretum by the fifth anniversary ofthe Flight 5191 crash in August 2011. Blum-berg expects the memorial will hold somesignificance for all those who visit it.

With so many hospitals located nearby,the Arboretum has become a place wherepeople go when theyre struggling with dif-ferent issues, Blumberg said. Our goal wasto help create a place for reflection andsomewhere people can come to when theyneed an uplifting environment.

MARKETContinued from page 1

PHOTO BY ALLIE GARZA | STAFFFresh peaches from Georgia are sold at the Lexington Farmers Market on Tuesday. The Farmers Market is held Saturdays at Cheapside Park,Sundays on Southland Drive and Tuesday and Thursdays at South Broadway and Maxwell Street.

on Hilltop Avenue was builtaround 1958-59, Broekingsaid, and is in the same situa-tion as many of the Greek fa-cilities on campus that werebuilt around the same time.The building is in poor con-dition and was not built toaccommodate the electricalneeds of students today.

The older house, its 50years old and its been en-trusted to fraternity guys, butit has character, said DaveLowe, Alpha Tau Omega his-torian.

And Alpha Tau Omegahas been in the Hilltop Av-enue house to give it thatcharacter from the beginning,Brewer said.

From the day it wasbuilt, it was built to be ourhouse, he said.

Lowe said the fraternitysalumni always have stories totell about the house. AlphaTau Omega alumni did awalk-through of the house atthe fraternitys annualFounders Day event, saidAlpha Tau Omega memberand finance senior Max Stef-ka.

We wanted to give thealumni a chance to comeback to the house and see itfor one last time, Stefkasaid.

The Hilltop Avenuehouses central location oncampus places it on the same

block as the W. T. Young Li-brary and music can often beheard coming from the house.

Its location also placesthe house on the site desig-nated for the library in theWilliam T. Young LibraryEndowment Agreement. Theagreement requires the uni-versity to use the site of thelibrary only for library pur-poses until 2050 and to keepthe property in a pristinepark-like setting.

The agreement also iden-tifies four non-library relatedstructures that were on theproperty at the time thehouses of the Sigma Chi, Sig-ma Phi Epsilon, Alpha Gam-ma Rho and Alpha TauOmega fraternities. Thebuildings, the agreementsays, were to be eliminatedas soon as is practicable, butnot later than 10 years afterSept. 15, 1998, the date theagreement was made.

Sigma Chi and Sigma PhiEpsilon moved in the 1990s,Broeking said, leaving AlphaGamma Rho and Alpha TauOmega on the site. Becauseof the leases Alpha GammaRho and Alpha Tau Omegahave with the university fortheir buildings, the universitywould not force the fraterni-ties to move, Broeking said,but rather it is the universitysposition to help the fraterni-ties move when opportunitiesarise.

Other uses for the housewere considered, but the con-dition would mean costly ren-ovations, Broeking said. The

house also does not meetAmericans with DisabilitiesAct standards, he added.

The house will morethan likely be demolished,Broeking said.

After Sigma Phi Epsilonlost their charter, they wereno longer able to lease theirhouse from the university,Hairston said.

Rather than allow thewhole Greek community oncampus to bid on the proper-ty, consideration for the for-mer Sigma Phi Epsilon housewas limited to Alpha TauOmega and Alpha GammaRho, making fulfillment ofthe endowment agreement apriority, Broeking said. Manyfactors were considered, suchas the fraternities financialstanding, membership andhistory on campus.

Negotiations startedonce the house became va-cant, Brewer said. Rightaround summer 2009 waswhen we were approachedabout it.

Stefka said working withthe university on the movehas gone well.

(The university) hasbeen supportive throughoutthe whole process, Stefkasaid, There are a lot of is-sues moving a fraternity fromone house to another.

The house on Hilltop Av-enue will be missed though,Lowe said.

Its kind of like leavingyour childhood home, hesaid. Thats kind of dramat-ic, but Ill miss it.

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I have never felt so stared at in my entirelife and not in a good way.

Everywhere I went with the group I waswith, people stared at us likewe were from another plan-et. And after living on theirplanet from May 14 to 30, itseemed like we were.

I arrived in India on May14, and even before ourflight from Amsterdam toDelhi took off, I felt like theodd person out. Waiting atthe gate to board our flight,we were the only white orAmerican people in sight,surrounded by men and

women of all different cultures, including peo-ple from the Middle East and areas of Europe.People I had never been exposed to before.

When we walked off the plane and intothe airport in Delhi, I saw men with large gunshanging around their shoulders not a com-mon sight at the airports I go to regularly. Iimmediately felt overwhelmed and outnum-bered.

I was staying in Delhi with a group of UKstudents and two teachers as part of a first-year summer program called Writers WithoutBorders. About 12 students were on the trip,and the majority of our days were spent travel-ing to the Bawana Resettlement Colony an

hour and a half to two-hour bus ride from Del-hi and interviewing families that have re-ceived homes from Habitat for Humanity tosee what the houses have done for them.

Im a blonde-haired, green-eyed collegestudent. Not too tall and not too short about average. A million other girls with sim-ilar characteristics are running around UKscampus wearing similar clothes, since itseems like a lot of people buy the same exactbrands and styles. I had never really been outof the ordinary appearance-wise in any of myclasses; I had never been the minority in anyenvironment. Until now.

It wasnt until this trip to India that I fullyunderstood one of the points of a diversityclass I took this past year. I am a whitewoman, living in a white persons world inAmerica. Some people argue that the difficul-ties for minorities of the past are not presentanymore, and they are right in certain aspectsbecause policies and social change havehelped move some areas toward equality.However, whenever I look around in my class-es, particularly my smaller journalism classes,there is maybe one person of a race other thanCaucasian, and sometimes even that isnt true.

Constantly being the only person withdark skin or of another race in a class madeup of all white people must be discouraging,and to me the idea seems terrifying. When Iwalked around India, I was in a group of

Americans, but that is the only reason I did-nt get completely overwhelmed. I knowthere were other factors that contributed tomy feelings of being overwhelmed, like lan-guage barriers and a new environment, but Icould not even imagine being so outnum-bered all the time.

I dont know exactly what type of pointIm trying to make, and I know that after only

two weeks in a different country and being theodd person out I cant say at all that I knowwhat a lifetime of that is like, but I do knowthat I have respect for minorities who have thecourage to live and to receive an education ina white persons world. Because I dont think Icould do the same in their position.

Katie Perkowski is a journalism senior. E-mail [email protected].

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What does summer mean to you? For mostcollege students, it means working a job youcouldnt when school was in session, laying by

the pool or vacationing on somebeach. Unless of course you arereading this newspaper in someclassroom thinking about doingall of the activities previouslylisted.

Yet all of those options haveone thing in common: no schoolor at least not a full course loadof schoolwork for those stu-dents choosing the summerschool option. Recently, theKentucky government finallypulled its head out of its rear

end and passed a budget a budget that tookmuch debate and a special session that cost thegovernment, and subsequently the taxpayer, evenmore money they do not have.

The largest point of interest to students at UKwas the rising cost of tuition and college in gen-eral. With tuition rising at an average of 5 per-cent the previous few years, it comes as no sur-prise that tuition will once again rise by 6 percentfor the 2010-11 school year.

Which leads to the question: When will col-lege become unaffordable for the average highschool student?

It may have already happened, but leave af-fordability behind and turn attention to accessi-

bility.One of Barack Obamas goals in his 2008

campaign that led to his presidency was gettingkids to college. On his campaign website, heposted these statements: We need to put a col-lege education within reach of every American.Thats the best investment we can make in ourfuture.

While that may be true, it does not tell thewhole story. Being college educated is somethingthat has lost its luster over the years. As moreand more people obtain their degrees from one ofthe thousands of colleges in this country, moreand more people enter the job market looking forthose white-collar type jobs.

In an economy that hasnt grown in a decade,a tough job market develops.

Obama goes on to say, To be successful inthe 21st century economy, Americas workforcemust be more innovative and productive than ourcompetitors.

When talking about disturbing trends in col-lege affordability and access, Obama says,These trends not only threaten our competitive-ness in the global marketplace, but also our abili-ty to maintain and improve our economy athome.

This is where Obama loses me. By hand-ing out college degrees to anybody who canfork up the thousands of dollars necessary toattend college, we create a society of Ameri-cans who feel they are entitled to white-col-

lar jobs and nothing less. Correct me if Im wrong, but isnt there mil-

lions of dollars in stimulus money floatingaround requiring blue-collar type workers? Isthere something wrong with going to vocationalschool and learning a trade?

To be competitive in the 21st century econo-my, it doesnt require a college-educated work-force, it requires a workforce that finds its pas-sion and talent and exploits it. If your passion isworking with your hands, learn to be a servicetechnician or a plumber. Think about all thetimes when your air conditioning goes out oryour toilet overflows. Who is going to fix thesethings?

The stigma of certain blue-collar jobs drivesthis notion that everyone must attend college,but at what cost? We know the costs of tuitionto a student, but do we know the debt we aregiving to society by sending everybody to col-lege?

The future of our country depends upon theworkers who can produce the innovative ideasand implement the innovative technology intoour everyday lives. If we have a bunch of Ameri-cans who sit around and think of groundbreakingideas, we wont have any Americans to go outand give it to the people of America. Our com-petitiveness in the global marketplace relies onthe doers, not the thinkers.

Austin Schmitt is a finance and accountingjunior. E-mail [email protected].

PHOTO PROVIDED BY KATIE PERKOWSKIUK students traveled to India as part of a new summer program called Writers Without Borders. Thestudents wrote about families affected by Habitat for Humanity on their trip in May.

Student finds new perspective from world travels

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Mens basketball

Hood, Harrellson travel to China

UK forward Josh Harrellson and guardJon Hood recently returned from a two-week

trip to China in which they,along with other collegiatebasketball players, compet-ed against local basketballclubs as part of the SportsReach program.

The team took part in acultural exchange programgeared toward learningmore about the Chinese cul-ture and sharing some of itsown. The program focusedon expanding knowledgeand appreciation of the Chi-nese civilization.

Sports Reach playedagainst many of Chinastop teams, including theBayi Basketball Club. Theteam boasted a 6-3 record,

while Harrellson led it for a majority of thetrip with 13.1 points and 9.2 rebounds pergame. He shot 58.7 percent from the field.Hood averaged 5.3 points and 4.3 boardsper game.

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Jones, Vargas sign, help UK notch an-other top recruiting class

Terrence Jones and Eloy Vargas haveeach signed a financial aid agreement to playfor UK in the upcoming season.

Jones ranks ninth on ESPNUs Top 100list, 13th overall by Rivals.com and eighthby Scout.com. Jones is 6-foot-9 forwardwho averaged 30 points, 14 rebounds andsix assists his senior season at JeffersonHigh School in Portland, Ore. He is a for-mer McDonalds All-American and heplayed in the Jordan Brand Classic All-American game.

Vargas is a 6-foot-11 Dominican Republicnative who averaged 25 points, 13 reboundsand five blocks as a sophomore last season atMiami-Dade Community College. He wasranked 41st on ESPNUs Top 100 list and26th overall by Rivals.com in 2008.

The duo helps UK and head coach JohnCalipari notch its second-consecutive top re-cruiting class as ranked by Rivals.com. UKnow has four five-star and two four-star ath-letes joining the team for next season, accord-ing to Rivals.

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Football

Cats-Cards battle set for September 4

The date for the 2010 Battle for the Gov-ernors Cup is in ink. UK and Louisville willface off in each of the teams opening gamesof the upcoming football season.

The game is set for September 4 at 3:30p.m. in Louisville, Ky. The game will beshown on ABC Sports as part of a three-gameregional telecast.

Included in the intrastate rivalry gamewill be new coaches for both teams: JokerPhillips at Kentucky and Charlie Strong atLouisville. It will be the 23rd meeting be-tween the teams. UK won the last three andleads the overall series 13-9.

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Undrafted Maxwell signs with Saints

The defending world champion NewOrleans Saints have signed former UKlinebacker Sam Maxwell out of free

agency.Maxwell made a name

for himself his final seasonwith the Cats, earning sec-ond-team All-SoutheasternConference. He started all12 games his senior sea-son, compiling 80 tacklesand six interceptions,among other notable statis-tics.

Maxwell was part of the first senior classto go to four consecutive bowl games for UK,but he was sidelined throughout the most re-cent game due to a shoulder injury.

Maxwells signing notches the 26th con-tract signed by a UK player in the last threeseasons.

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Baseball

Bat Cats fall short in final series

For the second year in a row, UK con-trolled its own destiny.

For the second year in a row, UK sawdestiny fall through its clutches.

UK entered the last series of the seasontied for seventh place in the SoutheasternConference, primed to make it into the SECpostseason tournament. To seemingly maketheir task easier, the Cats were facing last-place Georgia.

But UK lost the first game of the series,setting up a must-win second game.

The Cats, with the fate of their 56-gameseason now down to nine innings, lost 20-0.Georgia recorded 22 hits, all singles. It wasthe worst loss for UK since 1998.

The disappointing defeat dropped the

Cats to 31-25 (13-17 SEC). While that wasUKs sixth consecutive winning season, itwas not enough to extend the 2010 cam-paign. The Cats were officially out of thepostseason.

UK continued to practice in hopes of be-ing selected for the NCAA Tournament, butultimately was not chosen to participate innational postseason play.

AARON SMITH

Five Cats picked in MLB Draft

UKs postseason hasbeen an active one. Fiveplayers were selected onthe first day of the MLBDraft: Second basemanChris Bisson (fourth round,San Diego Padres), left-handed pitcher Logan Dar-nell (sixth round, Minneso-ta Twins), outfielder LanceRay (eighth round, Min-nesota Twins), shortstopTaylor Black (28th round,St. Louis Cardinals) andright-handed pitcher MattLittle (31st round, DetroitTigers).

All five players are jun-iors, and have a year of eli-gibility left should theychoose to return to UK.

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Softball

Softball concludes consecutive winning season, falls early in NCAAs

All the good things certainly came to anend for the UK softball team, perhaps too ear-ly in its eyes.

For clear reasons, the program had neveranticipated a more successful season than itdid entering its most recent campaign. Afterposting a UK-record 34-win season, reachingthe NCAA Tournament for the first time inschool history and returning nearly everystarter from the prior year, the Cats naturallyhad high hopes for 2010.

The Cats advanced to post-season playyet again, becoming one of 37 teams to qual-ify in back-to-back seasons.

But despite qualifying for NCAA Tourna-ment play for the second consecutive year,UK could not perform to its likeness. Theteam saw its final outs during the ColumbusRegional on May 22.

After defeating Ohio State 6-5 in itsfirst game of the regional, the Cats hadhopes of advancing to Super Regional playin Athens, Ga. However, the team thendropped a 1-0 contest to 11th-seed Califor-nia in a game that saw seven UK runnersstranded on base.

Still, the double-elimination format al-lowed it to again compete with OSU for achance to play in the final. But with a 5-3loss in their second match against the Buck-eyes, the curtain closed on UKs decoratedseason.

UK wrapped up its 2010 outing 32-27(13-15 Southeastern Conference), only twowins shy of its 2009 mark. The combined 66wins bests any back-to-back seasons postedby the program by more than 15 wins.

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Mens tennis

Quigley-Cox fall in NCAAs

The UK mens tennis tandem of sopho-more Eric Quigley and junior Brad Cox wereedged out of the NCAA Doubles Champi-

onships following a 6-3, 6-1deficit to a duo from NorthCarolina. The 22nd-rankedCats appearance in theNCAA quarterfinals was thefirst from UK since 1987.The duo earned All-Ameri-can status following itsSweet 16 performance.

Quigley also earned All-American status in singles

play, advancing to the Sweet 16.The team finished with a school-record

25 wins and posted a final national positionof 12th, with individuals earning impressiveInternational Tennis Association rankings.

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Gymnastics

Gym Cats 2011 schedule released,features top NCAA teams

The UK gymnastics team must fill a tallorder in 2011.

According to schedules released earlythis week, the team will fight through aschedule containing nine teams that quali-fied for last seasons NCAA Tournament re-gional round. The Gym Cats will host fivemeets at Memorial Coliseum, including theJanuary 7 opening night match against Illi-nois.

UK will face three Southeastern Confer-ence opponents at home and three on the roadas part of its six-meet conference schedule.The SEC Championship is March 19 inBirmingham, Ala.

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News

Kings Island to host UK DayUK faculty, staff, students, alumni and

fans can save big on admission to Kings Is-land on June 12, deemed UK Day at theamusement park.

The UK Alumni Association has plannedvarious activities at an all-you-can-eat picnicat Picnic Grove, located between PlanetSnoopy and Boomerang Bay. The picnic areawill be open from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Toattend the picnic, an admission/meal ticketmust be purchased.

Picnic tickets and discounted park ad-mission tickets are available through June10 at the UK Day website, (www.visitking-sisland.com/ukday). UK Day admissiononly tickets for those ages 3 and up are$21.99.

UK Alumni Association staff will behanding out prizes throughout the day tothose wearing UK apparel.

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Admission only:n All ages: $21.99

Picnic meal only:n Adults: $13.05n Juniors/Seniors: $7.19

Kernel staffer places second in HearstUK journalism senior and Kernel alumna

Allie Garza finished second in the nationalmultimedia competition of the 50th annual

Hearst Journalism Awards,often called the PulitzerPrize of college journalism.

She won the award forher video and photoslideshow to accompanythe Kentucky Kernel article"Cutting its roots: Ken-tucky crop's future unclear,"which highlighted the UKtobacco ban and the tobac-

co industry in Kentucky. The article and mul-timedia can be seen on the Kernel's website,(www.kykernel.com).

"It's gratifying and rewarding. It's themost prestigious award in college journal-ism," she said. "I'm honored to have placedso high among so many other talented col-lege journalists. I know some of them andthe quality of their work, so it means a lot."

Garza said her intention with the projectwas not to criticize or endorse the tobaccoindustry, but to show how deep the ties arebetween UK and the state's most prolificcrop.

With Garza's win, UK tied for 7th placein the multimedia competition. UK also fin-ished in the top 10 in news writing and pho-tojournalism.

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