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PHOTO BY LATARA APPLEBY | STAFFA member of a church in East Bernstadt, Ky., hugs Cassie Gray, whose daughter and son-in-law, Debbie and Wayne Allen, died in a tornado the night before. Gray is sitting where the Allens’ home used to be.

In the wake of the stormKentuckians emerge to clean up, comfort one another

Town takes ‘time togrieve the losses’

Families comb through the rubble

PHOTO BY BRANDON GOODWIN | STAFFBusinesses and homes lie in shambles in downtown West Liberty, Ky., after being hit bya tornado on Friday.

WEST LIBERTY, Ky. — The last textDoris Shuck received before the torna-do hit on Friday was at 5:58 p.m. Itwas from her 19-year-old son, Austin,and read, “Mom, take cover.”

Shuck, a pharmacy technician anddirector for retail company Thirty-One,hurried to the basement of her home.She used a chair for protection as thewinds swept over the hill in front ofher house.

At 6:04 p.m., her mother textedher, “Are you OK?”

And at that time, Shuck emerged

with scrapes and bruises to find herhouse completely blown away.

“It had gone through that fast,”Shuck said, watching as her familypicked the hillside for any salvageablebelongings on Saturday afternoon.

A fire truck from across the roadhad blown through the home, said Ani-ta Chaffin, Shuck’s sister. Over the hill,debris from the home now rested ontop of the truck.

After finding her home destroyed,Shuck said she was taken to the hospital,which is less than a quarter mile fromher home, by volunteer firefighters.

That was where her husband,

By Taylor Moak

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See WEST LIBERTY on page 4

EAST BERNSTADT, Ky. —Carol Rhodes and her familywaited in her home off LittleArthur Ridge Road, listening toreports of tornadoes close by.

They wouldn’t go to thebasement, though. They werestubborn. Rhodes’ husband,Don, was especially so.

But moments later, he wasthe first to spot the tornadotraveling toward them acrossthe ridge to the west.

“We were reluctant to godown the stairs,” said TammyTackett, the Rhodeses’ daugh-ter. But her father insisted. “Hesaid, ‘I say get down there.’

“We barely made it.”Don Rhodes was the last

one down. The twister man-aged to suck the sock and shoeoff one of his feet before hehunkered down with his family.

‘It happened so fast’

Friday’s storm came roar-ing through Laurel County

around 7 p.m.“It happened so fast that

we didn’t have time to think,”Tackett said.

Three were reported deadin the county by Friday night,and by late Saturday morningtwo more deaths had been re-ported.

At least 21 had been killedaround the state as of Saturdayevening, and at least 39 liveshad been claimed from Ala-bama to Indiana.

The tornado damage inLaurel County was in itsnorthern part, in areas just out-side East Bernstadt, which hasfewer than 800 people.

Gov. Steve Beshear said ina statement Saturday that thedevastation around the statewas unlike anything he hadever seen.

Lt. Gov. Jerry Abramsonand Sen. Tom Jensen assesseddamage in East Bernstadt Sat-urday morning, where deathsoccurred on Hensley, LittleArthur Ridge and Old Hareroads.

A total of 41 people in the

county were sent to the hospi-tal — most in London, Ky.,but six were taken to UK Hos-pital, said Trooper First ClassDon Trosper, the KentuckyState Police spokesman inLondon. More than 300 havebeen injured statewide.

On Little Arthur RidgeRoad Friday, Rhodes and herfamily were praying in theirbasement as the tornado en-gulfed their home.

“All we could do is laythere and pray,” she said abouttheir final moments leading upto the tornado. “There ain’t noway we’re gonna have time tomake things right with God.”

Richard and Pat Adams,Tackett’s in-laws from LetcherCounty, were told afterwardthat Tackett’s daughter, Des-tiny, “barely got there.”

“They thought she wasgone,” Pat Adams said.

Destiny Tackett called thescene “horrifying.”

“I really don’t rememberanything,” she said. “We justheld on to each other and we

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how you can help Visit americanredcross.org to donate or sign up to volunteer, contact your local Red Cross chapter for

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The number of deaths reported nationwide afterFriday’s storms, from Alabama to Indiana. 87

97The number of deaths reported statewide afterFriday’s storms, as of Sunday afternoon.

The average number oftornadoes for all of March.

The number of reported tornadoes during Friday’sstorm.

39

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LOS ANGELES — It started as normal Holly-wood friction an actress who wanted betterlines and a writer annoyed by her suggestions.But the squabble on the “Desperate House-wives” set four years ago took an unusuallynasty turn that led Thursday to a downtownLos Angeles courtroom.

Actress Nicollette Sheridan told a jury thatseries creator Marc Cherry slapped her in thehead during a rehearsal after she repeatedlyquestioned him about deleting what she con-sidered to be a particularly funny line for hercharacter.

“It stunned me,” Sheridan said of what shedescribed as a “nice wallop” to her temple.Her face reddening and her eyes filling withtears, she told jurors, “It was unfathomable tome that I had just been hit by my boss.”

The actress, 48, is suing Cherry andTouchstone Television Productions forwrongful termination and battery. She con-tends that after she complained about Cher-ry's conduct, he retaliated by killing off hercharacter, the promiscuous real estate agentEdie Britt.

By her lawyer’s estimation, departing the

ABC hit cost Sheridan about $6 million in in-come and other damages.

Cherry, who sat stone-faced at the defensetable throughout Sheridan’s testimony, con-tends he only gave Sheridan what his lawyercalled “a light tap on the head” to demonstratehow he wanted her to hit another character ina scene. His attorneys have said Edie's demisein the fifth season was plotted months beforethe incident.

But in her testimony, Sheridan said that onthe contrary, Cherry had told her in 2008 thatEdie would not be killed off because it wouldcreate an uproar with fans. She said she wasunder that impression on Sept. 24, 2008, whenshe confronted Cherry about removing a linein which her character used a Beatles song totease her on-screen husband's songwritingstruggles: “She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah.How hard is that?”

After the second time she asked, Sheridansaid, he pulled her aside and smacked her. Shesaid he later came to her trailer, apologizedand gave her an even better line: “Play thatfunky music middle-aged white boys.”

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The creator of the “It GetsBetter” Project, Dan Savage,will be coming to campusTuesday to talk about hisproject and how it applies tothe UK community.

In September 2010, multi-ple cases of bullying led tosuicide among the adolescentgay community.

Savage, along with hishusband, Terry Miller, decid-ed to do something about it.

That September, the paircreated the “It Gets Better”Project, which showcasesvideos made by gay adultstelling youth that the struggleagainst bullying and adversitygets better.

Soon after its creation, theidea went viral.

Today, the project has itsown website with more than2,500 videos and its YouTubechannel has more than 3 mil-lion views.

The project started in theU.S. but has spread to othercountries, including Australia,Sweden, Denmark and coun-

tries in Latin America. In an attempt to make the

gay community feel welcomeat UK, the Student ActivitiesBoard, along with WildcatStudent TV and many otherUK organizations, created itsown “It Gets Better” video.

“We had seen otherschools create videos ... wewanted to show that hate isn’tsomething we will tolerate atUK,” said Sarah Jones, SABdirector of engaging issues.

SAB wrote letters to 40prominent student leaders andwell-known faculty to get oth-ers involved in the video. The

letters explained the projectand what the groups hoped toaccomplish in making thevideo, Jones said.

Gay and straight membersof UK’s community appear inthe video, encouraging stu-dents to remain hopeful intheir pursuit against adversity.

Savage is the editor of “ItGets Better: Coming Out,Overcoming Bullying, andCreating a Life Worth Liv-ing,” and will speak againsthate aimed at the LGBT com-munity, according to a newsrelease.

He also will talk about theproject’s importance to UK’scommunity and campus.

While the project wasstarted to raise awareness, ithas now grown to inspirehope for the future of LGBTyouth, Jones said.

Following the lecture,there will be a question-and-answer session with Savage,as well as a book signing.

“Everyone deserves to berespected for who they are,”Jones said.

For more information,visit itgetsbetter.org.

‘It Gets Better’ Projectcreator coming to UK

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Dan Savage began project to help gay community

Governor says death toll at 21 after Friday’s storms

Gov. Steve Beshear said in a news brief-ing Sunday afternoon that the Kentuckydeath toll from a series of tornadoes Fridayhas reached 21.

Beshear is requesting a federal disasterdeclaration from the White House.

“The damage I saw yesterday was theworst I’ve seen,” he said. “It was total devas-tation in West Liberty. It looked like a bombhad been dropped in the middle of town. Itwas a war zone.”

He said that as of 8 p.m. Saturday, searchand rescue efforts had been completed acrossthe state.

However, officials at the Kentucky StatePolice post in Morehead said search and res-cue efforts were still being conducted inWest Liberty as of 4:40 p.m. Sunday. Onlyemergency personnel were allowed to enterthe city.

The state is now moving into a cleanup,recovery and assessment mode, Beshear said.

“I’m reminded once again of how resilient

our people are in Kentucky,” he said. “Al-ready, communities are working together toprovide shelter, food, clothing and a listeningear. We may be down, but we are not out.”

He said communications remain “spotty”in some affected areas, but “we are in fullcommunication with these communities.”Cellphone towers remain down in many ar-eas.

Beshear urged people trying to locatemissing family members to register their in-formation at kyem.ky.gov (the link is locatedon the right side of the Web page). The infor-mation will be sent to local emergency man-agement teams.

He also told people to stay away fromstorm-damaged areas to allow emergencypersonnel to work.

More than 400 National Guard troopshave been dispatched across the state,Beshear said.

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A statewide tornado safety drill will beheld on Tuesday at approximately 10:07 a.m.

UK Alert, the campus emergency notifica-tion system, will send out a notification as atest.

Since March has been designated as SevereStorms Awareness Month, KentuckyEmergency Management had scheduled thedrill before Friday’s tornadoes had occurred.

In an email sent to campus, UK Policeasked everyone to review tornado and severeweather procedures and the building’s emer-gency action plan.

“In the event of pending or inclementweather, the drill will be rescheduled,” theemail said.

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Tornado drill set for Tuesday

if you goWhat: “It Gets Better” DanSavage lectureWhen: Tuesday at 7 p.m.Where: Memorial HallAdmission: Free and open tothe public. Tickets can bepicked up at 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.at the Student Center TicketOffice.

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UK Hoops falls in SEC Tournament

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A final-sec-ond 3-pointer missed the mark, send-ing the 2011 Texas A&M women’sbasketball team to its third loss of theseason to Baylor — this time in theBig 12 Conference Championshipgame.

Despite the loss, three weeks laterthe Aggies were cutting down thenets as national champions.

UK Hoops suffered a disappoint-ing SEC Tournament weekend, buthistory proves a deep run in March isstill possible.

The Cats battled back from a 14-point first-half deficit Friday in thesecond-round game against the Flori-da Gators.

UK head coach MatthewMitchell changed the direction of thegame early in the second half whenhe inserted senior guard AmberSmith into the lineup.

“We just told her she needed togo in and make some plays,”Mitchell said of Smith. “I thought sheplayed probably her best game of theyear.”

Smith, along with senior KeylaSnowden and junior guard A’diaMathies fueled a 71-67 comebackvictory.

“I’m not sure exactly how wewon the game,” Mitchell said. “Forus to overcome poor shooting andfind a way to win is something I’mproud of the players for doing.”

The Cats had another slow startSaturday in the SEC Tournamentsemifinal against LSU, falling behind10 points after allowing a 10-0 Tigersfirst-half spurt.

LSU dominated the glass, outre-bounding the Cats by 15 for thegame.

The Tigers confused UK with azone defense and kept the lead indouble-digits for most of the second-

half. “We weren’t able to get the ball

inside, attacking the gap,” Mathiessaid. “It was mostly our fault. Wewasn’t attacking when we shouldhave.”

LSU outscored the Cats by 28points at the free-throw line, takingadvantage of the 30 team fouls calledon UK, and won the game 72-61.

“You lose by 11, get outscored by28 at the free-throw line. We clearlyfouled too much. You’d like to seethe free throws a little bit more even,”Mitchell said. “We had a chance towin today — just couldn’t get itdone.”

Mitchell said he was disappoint-ed with the team’s performance butpleased with what they had accom-plished thus far.

“I think we have a really goodteam. For whatever reason we didn’tplay very well,” Mitchell said. “Towin the tournament, you have to playwell for three days, and we didn’t dothat.”

Mitchell recognized his team forwinning the first regular-seasonconference championship since1982.

“I think it’s a great accomplish-ment to play the best over a 16-gameschedule,” Mitchell said. “I’m realproud of the team for being thechampions of the regular season. It’ssomething we should draw someconfidence from.”

The Cats can also gain confi-dence from recent history. Lastyear’s Final Four in Indianapolisfeatured two teams that lost in theirconference tournaments, includingnational champion Texas A&M.

Additionally, SEC regular-seasonchampions tend to fare well in theBig Dance.

Seven out of the past 10 years,the SEC regular-season championhas advanced to the Final Four.

Mitchell said he believes the

strength of the SEC will help histeam be ready for the tests it will facein the NCAA tournament

“I think we will be very muchbattle-tested going into the tourna-ment,” Mitchell said. “It makes youeven prouder to be the champions ofthe regular season when the confer-ence is so strong.”

The Cats (25-6) will next play inthe first round of the NCAA Tourna-ment March 17 or 18. Their seed-ing, opponent, region and locationwill be decided and announcedMarch 12.

The latest ESPN “Bracketology”has UK penciled in as a No. 3 seed,playing the Des Moines Region, withfirst and second-round games takingplace in West Lafayette, Ind.

The Cats will not idly wait forthe announcement. They plan on tak-ing advantage of the off time to re-gain some lost confidence from aless-than-stellar performance inNashville.

“We need to get in the gym andget some shots up and get confidenceback,” Snowden said. “I think a lotof people are lacking confidence intheir shots — their abilities right now.The main thing is we just got to playtogether.”

Mitchell agreed with Snowden’sassessment.

“I think Keyla put it well there.We at times this season had a realdedicated group getting into thegym,” he said. “They’ll have a lot oftime this week as we await and seewhere our destination is in the tour-nament.”

Mitchell said he is pleased withwhat the team has done but believesit can achieve more.

“We’re already a special team.We’ve done something that hasn’tbeen done in 30 years,” Mitchell said.“We have to decide how special wewant to be. We have a lot left to ac-complish.”

Deep NCAA run still possible for regular-season champs

By Les Johns

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PHOTO BY TESSA LIGHTY | STAFFLSU’s Taylor Turnbow blocks freshman Azia Bishop during the SEC Women’s Tournament semifinals Saturday in Nashville, Tenn. UK lost 72-61.

Cats savor SEC perfection, look for greater feastsGAINESVILLE, Fla. — This team hasbigger things on the horizon. An SECTournament is three days away, and the

tournament to win itall is just beyond that.

But stop, fornow, to savor this fi-nale.

UK took whatwas supposed to be adifficult matchup —playing a true roadgame against a teamranked in the AP pollfor the first time allyear, on Florida’sSenior Day, in abuilding that had yet

to see a No. 1 team come to town —and handled it with customary ease,winning 74-59.

Terrence Jones lived up to his po-tential to be one of the “top five” play-ers in the country, as head coach JohnCalipari deemed him after the game,with 19 points, four rebounds, threeblocks and two steals.

“If he plays that way for us, we’renot just good,” Calipari said. “We’rereal good.”

Anthony Davis, surrounded byposters mocking his unibrow andtaunted by chants of “one and done,”

showed the Florida fans that the onlything that matters happens on thecourt. He scored 22 points, grabbed 12rebounds and blocked six shots.

“The way we’re going to win thisgame is through you,” Davis said hewas told him at halftime by assistantcoach Kenny Payne. “We need you toplay. That’s what I tried to do.”

Jones succeeded and pulled UK toa win that capped an extraordinary reg-ular season.

With the win, the Cats obtained 30regular season wins for the first timeever. There aren’t many more “firsts”the Cats can accomplish at this pointin their storied history, but they justdid.

Their undefeated conference seasonwas the first time since 2003 a major-conference team has done so (that lasttime was UK, as well). No matter howweak the SEC may have been this year,that’s a giant accomplishment, even ifCalipari is already moving past it.

“I’ve had a couple other teams doit, so we weren’t worried about it,”Calipari said. “I told the team, it was anice thing, hasn’t happened that often,but that’s not why we’re playing.”

One shot in the final seconds at In-diana way back in December handedthe Cats their only loss on the season.

It’s a shot that, although months re-moved, lives on through an ESPNcommercial advertising its mobile plat-forms. Out of 30 wins, the sports net-work selected that moment from UK’sseason to use.

“I want to thank ESPN. They’vedone one of the greatest services forour program by having that advertise-ment,” Calipari said. “Every time theyshow it, our players get mad.”

Mad enough that Jones joked aboutwanting to sell his iPhone every timehe sees it. Although he retained histechnology, he also retained his bitter-ness over Christian Watford’s arcingshot.

“I turn the TV off,” Jones said.“Every time. I don’t watch it.”

Even if ESPN doesn’t show them,there were so many other momentsthis year to remember: beating Kansasin Madison Square Garden to get theseason going, Davis’ clutch blockagainst North Carolina, throttlingLouisville in Rupp Arena, crushingnearly every team in conference playand coming back against those theydidn’t obliterate.

Jones can watch those instead.And, the way UK is playing right

now, there will be plenty more mo-ments to watch in the coming weeks.

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Sunday’s UK win over Florida made these Cats the third UK team in the modern era to finish the SEC regularseason undefeated. Alabama also went without a loss in 1956.

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GAINESVILLE, Fla. — UK(30-1, 16-0 SEC) secured a74-59 win over Florida (22-9,10-6 SEC) Sunday at the O’-Connell Center inGainesville, Fla., to earn aperfect SEC record for thefirst time since the 2003 sea-son.

“(The Gators) are good,”UK head coach John Caliparisaid. “That’s as good aswe’ve played all year.”

In claiming its first 30-win regular-season in schoolhistory, the Cats also becamethe only No. 1 team to play inthe O’Connell Center.

“It’s a great accomplish-ment just because I feel wedid it together,” sophomoreforward Terrence Jones said.“Every player that playedcontributed and played withconfidence.”

Jones scored the Cats’first eight points to give theman 8-2 lead. Three minutes in,Doron Lamb buried a three tobring the Cats’ lead to 11-4.

“(Jones) came out verystrong,” freshman forwardAnthony Davis said. “I thinkif Terrence played like thatevery game, I think it’d bevery hard for anyone to beatus.”

But the Gators strung to-gether a 10-2 run to give

Florida its first lead of thegame, 14-13, with 13:56 toplay in the half.

UK’s deficit didn’t lastlong. The Cats immediatelyreclaimed the lead, scoringsix straight points to make thescore 19-14. Later UK piecedtogether a 9-4 run to lead 28-18 with 7:44 to play in thefirst half.

The Cats continued tomaintain control of the pace,leading 36-22 with five min-utes to play in the half. Jonescounted for 15 points in thefirst half and ended the gamewith 19 points, four reboundsand two steals.

“If he plays that way forus, we’re not just good,”

Calipari said. “We’re realgood.”

UK went into the lockerroom at the half with an eightpoint lead at 40-32.

Florida came out attack-ing at the start of the secondhalf. The Gators strung to-gether a 12-6 run to close thelead to 46-44 with 16:31 toplay. While the Cats were de-fending the perimeterthroughout the first half,Florida found a way around itand attacked down low toscore from all angles.

“Florida played well,”Calipari said.

Patric Young, a Floridasophomore forward, endedthe game with 21 points and

nine rebounds, performing onpace with Davis, who record-ed 22 points and 12 rebounds.

“They couldn’t get theirthrees up because we are long,but Patric Young is a beast. IfPatric Young plays like that,

they’re fine in the postsea-son,” Calipari said.

But the Cats matchedFlorida in scoring. Davispulled up for a 3-pointer —his second of the season —and Jones made a three togive UK a 64-55 lead with7:41 to play.

As the SEC tournamentapproaches next week, UKprepares for New Orleans tokick off postseason play, andthe idea of the potential helpa loss could bring is not in theplayers’ minds.

“We don’t worry aboutlosing,” Davis said. “We justtry to go out here and play ashard as we can and try to getbetter.”

Cats defeat Gators for 16-0 conference record

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PHOTO BY QUIANNA LIGE | STAFFUK freshman point guard Marquis Teague attempts to maneuver his wayaround Florida forward Patric Young for a pass.

Next GameWho: Kentucky vs. Arkansasor LSUWhen: Friday at 1 p.m.Where: New OrleansTelevised: SEC Network

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Richard, found her. People at the hospitalheard him yelling her name while he searchedfor her in the rubble.

Richard Shuck and their daughter, Lind-sey, had waited out the storm in a friend’sbasement. Austin Shuck, a sophomore atMorehead State University, was at schoolwhen it hit.

Doris Shuck said the losses were hard for11-year-old Lindsey. Austin Shuck hadn’t seenthe damage yet.

She had taken her laptop, an iPod and herphone with her to the basement, and that waswhat she walked out with. She said the familyhad found some CDs with photos on them andwere searching for an external hard drive.

Chaffin said Shuck had volunteered afterHurricane Katrina in 2005.

“It’s a lot easier being on the other end ofthis,” Shuck said.

Looking at downtown

Sarah Fannin stood at a vantage point onthe hill by the hospital where Shuck was taken,

looking down at what was left of West Liberty.Most buildings downtown had been destroyedor badly damaged by the tornado.

“We love our little town,” she said.Fannin is UK’s extension agent for agri-

culture in Morgan County, where West Liber-ty is located.

She pointed out what was left of the ex-tension agency, which lost half its roof. Shesaid she could see the blinds blowing out ofher office window.

But, even though the office was destroyed,Fannin said it’s hard to be concerned whenstanding with someone who lost a home.

When UK dismissed all university em-ployees at 3 p.m. Friday, Fannin said shethought the weather might be bad and headedhome after leaving work.

Other businesses, though, did not close,and many people were in town since it was

the beginning of the month and they had justreceived income checks. She said town wascrowded at the time the storm struck.

Officials had not released the number ofknown deaths as of late Sunday.

Only emergency personnel were allowedinto downtown while house-to-house searchand rescue was performed over the weekend,according to the Kentucky State Police post inMorehead.

“We’ve not been allowing general publicin since (Friday) night,” said Sgt. Greg Watts,a fish and wildlife conservation officer whowas working a checkpoint into the city Satur-day.

Many people were visibly upset aboutnot being allowed into town to check onfamily, friends or businesses, but Watts saidit was to prevent confusion during the rescueeffort.

He said officials are worried about volun-teers turning into victims because of unsafeconditions inside the town. Disasters likethese call for different measures, Watts said.

As of Sunday afternoon, Kentucky’s totaldeath toll was 21 people, and more than 300were injured in Friday’s storms, state officialssay.

Morgan County had been hit by a differentstorm earlier in the week, Fannin said, whichhad produced a smaller tornado.

“It’s a leap year, so I figured it wouldn’thappen for another four years,” she said. “Nev-er dreamed it would be another couple of days.”

She said the extension agency had beenhelping farmers who had been affected by theearlier storms, but Friday’s storm would limit

the agency’s ability to help.“Now, we aren’t going to be able to do

what we normally help out with,” she said.Of the six people who work in the exten-

sion agency, Fannin said four had been ac-counted for.

“Not being able to contact them,” she said,“you just don’t know.”

She said two people from her church,Woodsbend Church, are believed to be two ofthe state’s casualties after Friday’s storms.

Fannin said the town would do what itneeded to get back on its feet.

“We’ll take time to grieve the losses andhopefully start rebuilding,” she said.

Driving home

Blake McCowan is a first-year pharmacystudent at UK. A native of West Liberty, hesaid he returned home late Friday to check oneveryone.

McCowan lives about a mile outside oftown and said he had to walk part of the wayhome because the storm had left debris be-hind. His house had some trees down, but forthe most part was OK.

After driving around on Friday night, hesaid he could tell West Liberty was a differentstory.

“We knew it was bad,” McCowan said,“but we didn’t know it was this bad.”

He said no news was certain about WestLiberty, as most information was transferredby word of mouth.

“As far as what’s going on in town, it’s allrumor.”

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Morgan County West Liberty

PHOTOS BY BRANDON GOODWIN | STAFFAbove: People leave West Liberty on Saturday. Authorities only allowed emergency personnel into town. Top right: Wood sticks out of a tire in the parking lot of the Appalachian Regional Healthcare Hospital in West Liberty.Bottom right: Though damaged by the tornado, the hospital was still treating emergency room patients.

Left: This home by the hospital was destroyed on Friday. Forest Gillespie, an HVAC mechanic who livesnearby, said the area "was a beautiful neighborhood."Below: The tornado went through the main part of West Liberty, said Anita Chaffin, whose sister lost herhome in the tornado.

“We knew it was bad, but we didn’t knowit was this bad.”

BLAKE MCCOWAN, a first-year pharmacy student

made it out eventually.”Tackett, a 16-year-old attending North

Laurel High School, said she never thoughtsomething like this would happen to her andher family.

“It’s unbelievable,” she said.

Picking up the pieces

Around noon Saturday, Rhodes’ purse wasfound in a pile of wrecked belongings in themiddle of what used to be the home across thestreet. Her IDs and cards were still inside herwallet.

Piles of framed photographs with brokenglass made their way to her front steps as theday went on. The concrete steps, like some ofthe belongings weighing them down, were theonly major part of the house left intact.

Parts of the foundation were crumbled. In-sulation, a jar of sugar, perfume bottles —everything a house can hold — were sprawledacross Rhodes’ yard and those of her neigh-bors. Many of their belongings had blowndown the hill off the ridge.

“It took me and my husband 47 years toget it together,” Rhodes said, “and in five min-utes …” She trailed off, surveying the damageagain and again.

“You see it on the TV,” said Becky Lewis,Rhodes’ sister who arrived Saturday morningfrom Benham, Ky., “and you just don’t thinkabout it being yours.

“You see all those it touched and they’realive. That’s a miracle in itself.”

In early afternoon, a group of the Rhodes’family and friends succeeded in prying TonyTackett’s truck from underneath a camper andpontoon boat.

To their surprise, the engine started andthe truck was soon being driven around thedisaster area.

However, losses drastically outnumberedwhat could be kept.

The Rhodeses’ neighbors directly across thestreet, Wayne and Debbie Allen, were killed in

the storm. Concrete blocks and debris in thedistance were all that remained of their home.

Debbie Allen’s mother, Cassie Gray, saton one of the blocks, crying. In addition to thedeath of her daughter, her grandson, Eric, andhis fiancée were hospitalized.

The pastor from a nearby church tried toconsole her with prayer.

When she gathered the energy to stand up,Gray eventually made her way to a black carstill sitting upright on her daughter’s property.She was helped inside and closed the door tothe rest of the world as minutes passed.

The Rhodeses, meanwhile, were gatheringbelongings in boxes amidst the hum of PikeElectric Corporation’s truck setting up poweron a new light pole. The company had beenworking on Little Arthur Ridge and nearbyhills all day.

“You can only restore to whatever’s left,”said Roy Wilburn of Pike Electric. “It’s hardto say because it’s all so bad. But the goodthing that came out of it is they still got theirfamily and their health.”

The Rhodeses were thankful for that. Still,little was salvageable in the destruction.

“I don’t think they even know whatthey’re going to do,” Tammy Tackett said,“because they don’t have insurance.”

Securing the scene

National Guardsmen, Kentucky State Po-

lice and the Laurel County Sheriff’s Depart-ment closed or set up checkpoints at roadsleading to the most damage. Residents wereallowed in Saturday morning to look for anybelongings.

“We’re here just to support the communi-ty,” said Staff Sgt. Joshua Matlock with theKentucky National Guard on U.S. Route 25near Bentley Road. “If they’re not residents ofthe community, we don’t let them in.”

Trosper, the KSP spokesman, said a rea-son to close the roads was to prevent peoplefrom rubbernecking or going to a disasterscene just to view damage.

Off Bentley Road, homes were withoutroofs and trees were uprooted. Some housesand trailers were gone altogether, diminishedto piles of rubble. Damage could be seen fromthe lanes of Interstate 75 North, which runsparallel to Bentley, and traffic was slowed formiles behind the scene while people looked.

“I saw a trailer flipped upside down, ahouse completely collapsed,” said Jacob An-des, a North Laurel High School senior whovolunteered with the Red Cross. He said hebrought food to the National Guard at around4:30 a.m. Saturday and saw trees standing ver-tically inside houses and no power whatsoev-er.

Police, firefighters and guardsmen con-ducted searches throughout the day, startingwith the morning light.

Although many were without power —and some were without homes — the RedCross shelter at the Laurel County Fire De-partment wasn’t getting visitors Saturdaymorning.

“No one showed up all night,” said RedCross volunteer Danita Andes. But “we gotsome calls this morning of people wanting toknow about the shelter.”

A caring community

Carol Rhodes and her family arrived backat her destroyed home as soon as sunlight hitSaturday morning.

As time passed, more and more communitymembers arrived with residents to help sortthrough the rubble and console their neighbors.

“It’s hard,” Rhodes said. “It’s really hard.”But her family and friends were helping

them get everything sorted out.“It’s just hard to believe,” Pat Adams said

after arriving. “We would always turn at abarn to get to my son’s house. That barn’sgone. I’m not going to know how to get to hishouse anymore.”

In a few weeks or months, much of themess on Little Arthur Road will be gone, too,as residents work to clear their properties. Butfor now, families like the Rhodes’ must con-tinue to gather what they can and pile it onthose untouched front steps.

“Compassion is what it takes,” Tackettsaid, addressing the support her family has re-ceived from friends and neighbors.

“God took care of us,” Carol Rhodes said.

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PHOTOS BY LATARA APPLEBY | STAFFA man from East Bernstadt, Ky., rests during cleanup on Little Arthur Ridge Road, where five homes were destroyed and two people were killed. Officials blocked off the road from the public all day Saturday.

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Above: Carol Rhodes sits on the front steps in front of what used to be her home on Little Arthur RidgeRoad. Rhodes and her husband, mother, daughter and granddaughter barely made it to their basement intime. Most of the home was dislodged from its foundation.Below: Members of a local church try to console Cassie Gray, whose daughter and son-in-law died in Friday’s tornado. Her grandson and his fiancée were taken to UK Hospital with severe injuries. Thegroup is gathered in what used to be Gray’s daughter’s home, which was completely flattened.

Friends and family of those who lived on Little Arthur Ridge Road helped clean up, starting at dawn Saturday. The tornado swept many belongings off the ridge toward the east.

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There were boots, cow-boy hats and an Americanflag here or there: all tradi-tional pomp and circum-stance for a country concert.

Brad Paisley brought hisVirtual Reality World Tour2012 into Lexington Satur-day, playing to a packedhouse in Rupp Arena.

Scotty McCreery, thewinner of the 2011 season ofAmerican Idol, opened theconcert.

Although the tour washighlighted by Paisley’sname, a few attendees werethere for something entirelydifferent.

“The Band Perry,” KacyRhoades, an interior designsophomore, said. “They’reone of my favorite bands.”

‘The hottest band in countrymusic’

Hailed as rising stars incountry music and nominat-ed for “Best New Artist” atthe 2012 Grammys, TheBand Perry opened for Pais-ley with songs almost asrecognizable as those ofPaisley himself.

The trio began with alove song dedicated to Ken-tucky called “All Your Life.”Kimberly Perry displayed anincomparable ardor for hermusic, belting every note in avoice tinged with a countryscratch, yet saturated withpassion.

Touted by Paisley him-

self as “the hottest band incountry music,” The BandPerry continued with thesongs that made it famous.The arena shrank into dark-ness for the solemn elegy“If I Die Young,” and theband cleverly introducedtheir “You Lie” with Em-inem’s “Love the Way YouLie.”

Look for The Band Perryto be one of the premierebands in country music soon.Until then, they played an ex-cellent opening for Paisley, of-fering a main attraction beforethe main attraction.

Virtual reality

There was no grand an-nouncement for Paisley’slong-awaited arrival. Hesnuck onto stage, catchingthe audience by surprise.

Perhaps intentionally, ashe opened with one of hismore recent hits, “Camou-flage,” and welcomed thecrowd saying, “All you Lex-ington rednecks sure lookgood in camouflage.”

The audience took it asthe most flattering of compli-ments.

Where Perry displayedher passion through voice,Paisley did so through hisguitar. He picked, playedand improvised his waythrough the night, often go-ing down to his knees, eyesclosed, focusing entirely onthe chords emanating fromthe guitar.

At one point, he playedan interlude using a BudLight bottle as a guitar pick.

The Virtual Reality tourwas named so because coun-try music is reality, Paisleysaid.

Country music also helpsfans get through toughertimes.

“Between our music andbeer, it oughta be easy,” Paisley said.

He continued with“Ticks,” “Online,” and “Thisis Country Music,” a cooltribute to the genre that gavePaisley his name.

He made fun of the fa-mous with “Celebrity,” andcontinued to poke fun at theKardashians for the rest ofthe evening (including a hu-morous video short featuringWilliam Shatner).

“I’m Still a Guy” wasbriefly paused for Paisley togive some advice to the audi-ence.

“This is not funny. Wehave a problem. Women, yeswomen, it’s your fault,” Pais-ley said. “See you take aman, he’s tough, he’s rugged,and you shine him up likehe’s some new car.”

The evening was not allhumor. Paisley’s fond andnostalgic tribute to histeenage years, “Letter toMe,” was sung in the back ofthe arena, to the “cheapseats.” His “Whiskey Lulla-by” was sad and solemn, dra-matically enhanced by Per-ry’s reappearan ce for a chill-ing duet.

Paisley also thanked thecrowd for its generosity. Inlight of the storm that rav-aged parts of the state Friday,volunteers from the Ameri-can Red Cross stood outsidethe ticket gates with donationcans.

“We had some torna-does,” Paisley said. “A lot ofyou gave at the door andtexted to donate.”

Paisley thanked the

crowd and offered words ofsolace.

“I know this communitywill come together and getthrough this,” he said.

The only flaw brought adigital Carrie Underwood onto sing “Remind Me.” Al-though the duet was beauti-ful, Underwood’s digital im-age, designed to look as realas possible, came off asfoolish and unnecessary,though the crowd cheered asif Underwood were reallythere.

‘It’s so great to be back in Lexington’

Paisley returned for anencore, finishing the nightwith “American SaturdayNight” and “Alcohol.”

The concert was almost apre-game for the party thatwas the finale. The Band Per-ry returned to the stage, with

some VIP fans armed withinfamous red Solo cups.

“I’ve never had so muchfun at a concert,” said nurs-ing sophomore Caitlin By-ron. “I loved all the bands,and sang along to prettymuch everything. My family

came down, and it was greatjust listening to the musicand being with them.”

The musicians could nothave agreed more.

“Here’s to country musicfor bringing us all together,”Perry said.

Paisley plays for ‘Lexington rednecks’Scotty McCreery, The Band Perry open show

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PHOTOS BY MIKE WEAVER | STAFFBrad Paisley performs during his Virtual Reality World Tour 2012 at Rupp Arena on Saturday. Paisleybegan the show with his song “Camouflage.”

Set in Hollywood duringthe roaring ‘20s, “The Artist”is a silent film — about silentfilms.

Superstar George Valentin(Jean Dujardin) is relishing hisfame and fortune in the indus-try. Crowds line the block tosee his latest pictures.

After the flashy premiereof his latest film, a beautifuland giddy fan hoping for anautograph crosses Valentin’spath. When he sees her, he gra-ciously offers an opportunity topose for pictures. Unable tocontain her excitement, shekisses him on the cheek justbefore the press snap the pic-

ture. With the entire film indus-

try pondering the identity ofthis girl, the driven PeppyMiller (Bérénice Bejo) takes itupon herself to use the buzz asa springboard for her actingcareer. With the advice andconnections of the famousValentin at her disposal, Millerrises quickly in the silentmovie scene.

However, during the peakof their fame, the new technol-ogy of sound begins to takeHollywood by storm. Millerembraces the new direction,while the arrogant Valentin re-fuses to change his style. Thetwo actors head in completelyopposite directions in terms ofsuccess when Miller’s careerbegins to completely over-shadow Valentin’s.

When “The Artist” began,I was completely immersed inthe time period it portrayed.

The older 4:3 aspect ratio,combined with the black andwhite film immediately set thetone for that authentic ‘20sfeel.

The film’s silence wassuch a different experience be-cause the story’s delivery re-lied entirely on how the exag-gerated facial expressions ofthe actors flowed with thespeed and intensity of the or-chestra’s score.

This pulled me into acompletely new state of “at-tention to detail,” because Iwas forced to focus on thisdifferent method of delivery.

The result was truly in-credible to say the least. Itopened up so many doors ofappreciation that today’smovies have suffocated withspecial effects and over-pro-duction.

Director and writerMichel Hazanavicius certain-

ly did his homework. It trulyfelt like watching a film thatwas made 70 years ago. Thefact that this film was madein 35 days makes him morethan worthy of the Best Di-rector Oscar.

The performances by Du-jardin and Bejo also earnedthem the well-deserved nomi-nations of Best Actor and BestSupporting Actress at theAcademy Awards.

Dujardin’s performancewas so convincing that itearned him the Oscar.

In the end, the authenticdelivery of the times throughthe acting and productionmade this the most enjoyablemovie of the year for me.

The Academy had a simi-lar experience with the filmand awarded it Best Picture atthe 84th Academy Awards.

I highly recommend see-ing it at The Kentucky Theaterwhile it is still in its re-release.I’m so glad I did.

Steele’s Reels: 5/5 Stars

Steele’s Reels: ‘The Artist’ Feels like watching a film from 70 years ago

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MCTDirector Michel Hazanavicius poses with his Oscar.

Kimberly Perry, lead singer for The Band Perry, opens for Brad Pais-ley. Perry and her two brothers played favorites such as “You Lie.”

The UK baseball teamtook on the University of Illi-nois-Chicago in a three-gameseries this weekend at CliffHagan Stadium in Lexington.

The Cats’ first got on theboard in the fourth innng ofgame one. An RBI groundinto double play by freshmanAustin Cousino scored a run,but thwarted a big inning.

UK struck again in thefifth. Sophomore J.T. Riddlesingled and scored on a fresh-man A.J. Reed double. TheCats led 3-1.

An insurance run wasadded in the sixth for a 4-3UK win.

In game two, the Cats ex-ploded in the bottom of thethird. UK had bases loadedwith no outs, but, unlike ear-lier in the day, they wouldtake advantage.

Senior Thomas McCarthysingled to left field toscore sophomore MattReida and Cousino.Three batters later, asacrifice fly gaveUK a 5-1lead.

T h r e emore runs inthe seventh fi-nalized the win forUK, 8-2.

Junior Jerad Grundy got

the win on the mound, hissecond of the year.

“The startersare giving us real-ly good starts,”UK head coachGary Hender-son said.“ T h e y ’ r e

pounding thestrike zone and

keeping the walks toa minimum.”

Sunday’s series finale

was all UK from the start.After scoring three runs

in the first, junior Zac Zellershit a two-run home run overthe left field fence in the sec-ond.

UK added six in the third,two in the sixth and seventh,and five in the eighth, cruis-ing to a 20-0 victory.

Cousino continued his hotstart, going 7-14 with fiveruns scored on the weekend.

“I’m just doing the little

things,” Cousino said. “I’mseeing the ball well out of thehand and squaring up. I’mnot going to switch anythingup right now.”

UK is one of three unde-feated teams left in DivisionI. The Cats are tied for thebest record in the country at11-0, riding their best startsince 2008.

The Cats play TennesseeTech at Cliff Hagan Stadiumat 4 p.m. on Tuesday.

By David Schuh

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If you’re from Kentucky, youknow that there’s a strong sense ofcommunity here.

In happy times and in sad, Ken-tuckians stand by each other. Nostatement has been more true sinceFriday, when tornadoes devastatedareas of Kentucky and many otherstates.

We at the Kentucky Kernel feltthat bond with our fellow citizens incovering the aftermath of tornadoes inWest Liberty and East Bernstadt.

Members of surrounding commu-nities, along with people hundreds ofmiles away, traveled to help friends,family and strangers clean up thedamaged areas.

And while we were part of thatgroup of strangers entering their livesduring a difficult time, those affectedtreated us with kind words and out-stretched arms.

Our thoughts go out to the peopleacross Kentucky whose families andhomes were destroyed by Friday’s tor-nadoes.

But we know that with such astrong support system here, they willrebuild.

Gov. Steve Beshear said it wellduring a briefing Sunday:

“I’m reminded once again of howresilient our people are in Kentucky.Already, communities are workingtogether to provide shelter, food,clothing and a listening ear. We maybe down, but we are not out.”

Kentuckystandsunited

Daybreak the day after adisaster is a time of shock.

Once the sun rises, thedebris and remains of whatwas before are exposed, anddevastated people are left topick up the pieces.

Saturday was the “dayafter” for West Liberty, Ky.,a small town about 80 mileseast of Lexington that waslargely destroyed by torna-does Friday.

Before daybreak onSaturday, I left Lexington with Kernel photog-rapher Brandon Goodwin to travel to WestLiberty. News reports from Friday showed thetown leveled and said many people had com-pletely lost their homes. Others were reportedto have lost their lives.

I couldn’t sleep on Friday night thinkingabout the story I was covering the next day. Ikept mulling nervously over the questions Iwould ask and how I would approach peoplewhose lives had been radically changed in amatter of minutes.

By sunrise, Brandon and I arrived in WestLiberty. When we tried to get into town, wewere turned away, but we were told we couldsee the tornado’s path on the hill beside thehospital. So that’s where we headed.

Before we rounded a bend that gave us afull view of the town, we could see the dam-age, but I wasn’t prepared for what we wouldfind.

I almost cried when I stepped out of mycar.

The whole hillside looked like it was cov-ered in toothpicks, the insides of what hadonce been homes.

Over the hill, all of West Liberty was inview. No building downtown seemeduntouched.

Many businesses and houses were com-pletely flattened. Others were still standing,but only partially, with roofs and walls gone.Cars looked liked miniature Hot Wheels thathad been run over.

“This is the worst disaster we’ve ever hadin the county. Ever,” said Jerry Stacy, a resi-dent who lost his home.

Throughout the day, Brandon and I met andtalked to more people than I can remember.

Forest Gillespie, an HVAC mechanic, rodeout the storm in a Jeep. The windows werebusted out, and the car had been picked up bythe wind and turned 180 degrees, but Gillespiewas fine.

“It was a smack in the face — real quick,”he said.

We also met Doris Shuck, who had a firetruck go through her house. Shuck took shelterin her basement and emerged to find only herfront porch still standing.

“My kids have to have a mom,” she said.“That’s how I got out of here.”

From early until mid-afternoon, Brandonand I kept observing, kept asking questions,but most importantly, kept listening. We weretrying to understand the immensity of what wewere witnessing.

One woman walked by me crying and justshook her head. She didn’t need to use words to

tell me she was feeling pain and disbelief.At one point during the day, Brandon and I

walked to the tallest point on the hill to seeeverything.

As we walked, we stepped over items thatused to be in people’s homes — an old familyportrait, a painted sign with the name “Julie,” abar of soap, salt and pepper shakers.

As journalists, we were surprised to see anewspaper had survived the storm and waslying in the rubble. It was a Lexington Herald-Leader from Sept. 12, 2001, the day after 9/11.

Brandon and I noted how odd it was thatof all the days it could have been, the paperwas from the “day after” one of the mostmemorable disasters in this nation’s history.

And for residents of West Liberty, Friday’stornado will not be forgotten; neither will thedays after, as the town begins to rebuild.

Taylor Moak is a journalism junior andthe Kernel’s editor-in-chief. [email protected].

Day after reveals perseverance

TAYLORMOAK

Kernelcolumnist

CHRISTOPHER EPLING, Kernel cartoonist

PAGE 8 | Monday, March 5, 2012

Caleb, 7, dances with participants during the line dance and flexes his muscles. He is celebrating fiveyears in remission this weekend.

Doubling the efforts

The time was cut in half, but theenthusiasm was doubled.

Dancers and organizers ofDanceBlue 2012 didn’t care theywere only dancing for 12 hours.What mattered more was raisingmoney to help children with cancerand their families.

With a grand total of$834,424.57, DanceBlue raisedaround $160,000 more than last year.

“Just because of the weather, can-cer doesn’t stop,” saidMadeleine Jung, an arts ad-ministration junior whodanced for Alpha Omi-cron Pi sorority.

As intensestorms whippedacross the state Fri-day, the DanceBlueteam announced the 24-hour no-sitting, no-sleepingdance marathon would be postponeduntil 8 a.m. Saturday. It was initiallydelayed until 10 p.m. on Friday.

Jung, like many other dancers,decided to still stand and dance forthe 24 hours, though the marathonwas cut short. Organizations such asAOPi and Kappa Kappa Gammaheld dance parties throughout thenight.

Jung didn’t give in to sitting,even at the beginning when theDanceBlue team gathered dancers tosit. Along with others, she squatted

on the ground.Her attitude reflects that of

many dancers who were disappoint-ed they couldn’t dance the full 24hours. DanceBlue had to make aFacebook announcement tellingpeople to not rally at Memorial Col-iseum on Friday night.

Since its inception in 2006,DanceBlue has raised $3.5 millionfor the Golden Matrix Fund, whichgoes to the UK Pediatric OncologyClinic and the Markey Cancer Cen-ter.

The clinic helps families whosechildren have cancer.

“It’s such an amazingprogram. It all goesstraight to the hospital,”said Trey Edwards, a UKjunior who was diag-nosed with Leukemiawhen he was 8 months

old.Edwards, who danced

with his fraternity, Phi DeltaTheta, spoke in front of otherdancers and supporters during Cele-bration Hour.

Like the children helped byDanceBlue, he also went throughtreatment at UK’s hospital.

When Edwards was diagnosed,he said he had a 50 percent chanceof surviving. He wasn’t even sup-posed to make it to his second birth-day.

But when he was 2 years old, hewent into remission.

“There is hope. There is a

chance, especially with such a won-derful program,” he said to thecrowd. “I’ve been blessed. I’vegrown up to be healthy.”

Edwards said that today, chil-dren with Leukemia have about an85 to 90 percent chance of surviv-ing, which has increased so muchbecause of new technology fundedfrom events like DanceBlue.

“It is about the money. It isabout the technology,” Edwardssaid, but “it’s all about the attitude.”

He said having a positive atti-tude makes all the difference whengoing through treatment and Dance-Blue provides support to the chil-dren and their families.

Edwards wanted the familieswhose children have cancer to knowthat like him, their children cangrow up healthy.

“This isn’t the end,” he said.Though most people were upset

they couldn’t dance for the first 12hours, Jung said that attitude didn’tcarry over to the marathon.

Throughout the day, hourlythemes, such as Rave, Derby andGrand Ol’ Opry, kept dancers moti-vated. Dancers played Americantrivia, Family Feud and a life-sizedgame of Candy Land to pass thetime.

At every hour, DanceBlue pre-sented a donation from various or-ganizations, and every three hoursdancers ate food catered by localrestaurants.

One of the most notable distrac-tions of the day, though, was whenthe men’s basketball team made asurprise visit.

Excitement spread from dancerto dancer as everyone realized theteam popped into the 10-minute linedance.

Basketball players, especiallyTerrence Jones and Eloy Vargas,danced as if they had been there thewhole time, getting in to the routinejust as much as the veteran dancers.

But as the day wore on, dancersremembered why they were there:

For The Kids.Children and their families

joined in on the fun, playing gamesand dancing with participants.Dancers piggy-backed kids aroundMemorial Coliseum, let them drawon their faces and helped them witharts and crafts.

“I can’t even put it into words,”said Logan Sparks, the public rela-tions chair, about the success of thisyear’s DanceBlue. She said thechairs don’t even know the finalamount until it is revealed.

In its seventh year, DanceBluehas come a long way.

From 180 to nearly 720 dancersand 30 student organizations to 120,DanceBlue has consistently increasedits numbers since the first year.

Just from last year alone, theproceeds increased by 23.8 percent.

“When you’re standing up there,and we see those numbers, it makesit all worthwhile,” Sparks said.

“I think we did twice as hard forhalf as long.”

By Rachel Aretakis

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DanceBlue raises $834,424.57,marathon shortened to 12 hours

PHOTOS BY ALEX LOVAN | STAFFMason, 7, celebrates after singing to "Break Your Heart" during the talent show at DanceBlue Saturday. This year’s Dance-Blue raised $834,424.57 for the UK Pediatric Oncology Clinic and the Markey Cancer Center.

Above: Dancers participate in the final line dance at DanceBlue on Saturday. Below: Kelsey Connor, a speech pathology senior, is pied in the face by Ade Igho-daro, a biochemical engineering senior, during the carnival hour of DanceBlue.

Awards 2012Golden Matrix Cup:

Alpha Gamma Delta sorority

Adopt-A-Family:Kappa Alpha Theta sorority

Ultimate Dancer:La’Rod King

Overall Spirit:ROTC

Morale Cup:Morale Team 12

Small-team fundraising:NAPS

Medium-team fundraising:UK Pre-Pharmacy

Large-team fundraising:Delta Gamma sorority

PreviousDanceBluefundraising

totals

When you’re standing up there, and we seethose numbers, it makes it all worthwhile.”

LOGAN SPARKS,DanceBlue public relations chair“

2006: $123,323.16

2007: $241,514.64

2008: $424,855.86

2009: $600,888.82

2010: $636,638.58

2011: $673,976.60

2012: $834,424.57