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Faculty trustee candidates advance By Bailey Vandiver news@kykernel.com
UK faculty voted in the initial round of faculty trustee elections on Wednesday. The top three candidates, Professor Robert B. Grossman of the College of Arts and Sciences, Dr. Patrick C. McGrath of the College of Medicine and Professor Margaret Mohr-Schroeder of the College
of Education, advanced to the second round of voting. Grossman is a professor of chemistry and the incumbent for this seat on the board. He said he had been active in university governance even before he became a trustee. “I feel that I’ve been an effective trustee the last few years, earning the trust and respect of the appointed trustees, and striving to keep the academic mission of the university at the
forefront of our discussions,” Grossman said. Grossman’s biggest aims are protecting tenure, guiding the development of disciplinary processes and “emphasizing that all parts of the university, not just the hard sciences and medicine, are important to the overall mission of the university,” he said. McGrath is a professor of surgery, the Ward O. Griffen Endowed Chair in Surgery,
Chief of General Surgery and the Section Head of Surgical Oncology. Mohr-Schroeder is an associate professor of STEM education, specifically mathematics. She is also the chair of the secondary mathematics education program. Dr. Sidney W. Whiteheart of the College of Medicine and Professor Christopher W. Frost were candidates but will not advance to the final round of
voting. Two faculty representatives serve on the Board of Trustees. Dr. Lee X. Blonder of the College of Medicine is still serving her term, which lasts six years. The three final candidates will be able to share their election statements with all UK faculty via a UK Trustee Election listserv. The final round of voting opens at noon on April 19 and closes at noon on April 26.
50 years later, family reflects on crash that killed UK faculty By Blair Johnson news@kykernel.com
some of the most famous scientists in history, including James Watson, one of the scientists credited for discovering the structure of DNA. “Our mother said there were only a handful of others doing the level of research as our father. He often went back to work after dinner to finish up his projects. He was very dedicated,” Schweet’s son, Rick, said, who was only 9-years-old when his father died. Even though the plane crash was 50 years ago, his children can remember the days spent with their father. “He really loved the outdoors. He loved fishing, hunting and camping,” Rick said. “I have seen pictures of Laurin and I camping with him while carrying backpacks larger than us.” Laurin and Rick received full tuition scholarships to UK. They said the time was hard for their family after their father’s death, but they were glad they could receive an education from the university. “Grief and tragedy are universal and they cut across all cultures and all age groups. It is a constant in our lives that we share. When you think about it at that perspective, everyone can relate to it, even though it happened 50 years ago,” Laurin said.
April brings a time of reflection and sorrow for the Schweet family. This month marks the 50th anniversary of the tragic plane crash that killed Dr. Richard Schweet, a professor and founder of the current Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry at the UK College of Medicine, as well as eight other passengers, three of whom were UK faculty. The faculty include: Dr. R.C. Simonini and Dr. Jerome Cohn from the College of Medicine, and Dr. S.O. Navarro, associate professor and chair of the Department of Computer Science. According to a 1967 article in the Courier-Journal, passengers were scheduled to fly to Louisville from Lexington for a connecting flight, but the plane was delayed in Roanoke, Virginia for mechanical difficulties. Instead of waiting on the original plane, two others were chartered from Lexington Air Taxi Service to take the passengers to Louisville. One plane held six passengers and landed safely in Louisville. The second plane held the other eight passengers, including Schweet, but crashed shortly after take-off. “I remember a family friend, a girl who worked PHOTO PROVIDED BY LAURIN SCHWEET Dr. Richard Schweet’s children, Rick and Laurin, were 9 and 11 at the time of their father’s death in the plane with my father at UK Medcrash. ical School, yelled that our mother wanted us to go inside. We went to the living room. She said she had bad news to tell us; our father was killed in a plane crash,” Schweet’s daughter, Laurin, said, who was 11-years-old at the time of her father’s death. Schweet was appointed a Senior Research Fellow and an Established Investigator of the American Heart Association during his time at The California Institute of Technology. He was a part of a research team that studied the formation and function of aminoacyl transfer RNA, which was a substantial scientific breakthrough in the PHOTO PROVIDED BY LAURIN SCHWEET PHOTO PROVIDED BY RICK SCHWEET 1960s, according to his obitDr. Richard Schweet served in World War II and founded the department Portrait of the Schweet family circa 1965. uary. of Molecular Biology at UK. He rubbed shoulders with
Important Kentucky bills for students
By Nailah Spencer
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Kentucky state senators and representatives had to pass their last bills before midnight on Thursday, March 30, which concluded the 2017 Regular Session. All bills passed by both the House and the Senate will become law by July 2017. Bills that have an emergency clause will become law 90 days after being signed by the governor. Although the session has ended, Kentuckians should still be aware of bills passed. These
bills affect the entire state of Kentucky, including UK students. Here are four bills that students should know about: The first bill that directly affects students is Senate Bill 153, which could cause smaller universities to struggle. Kentucky universities will be required to compete for funding, even though not all universities have the same resources, sizes or sources of financial support. According to the Legislative Research Commission (LRC) website, the goal of this bill is to increase the retention and progression of students toward timely credential or
degree completion, increase the numbers and types of credentials and degrees earned by all types of students, increase the number of credentials and degrees that garner high-salary jobs, close the achievement gaps by increasing the number of credentials and degrees earned by low-income students, underprepared students and underrepresented minority students, and facilitating credit hour accumulation and transfer of students from KCTCS to four-year postsecondary schools. The second bill that could directly affect students is
House Bill 14, which is related to hate crimes. According to the LRC, this bill means a sentencing judge can find a person to have committed a hate crime because of a person’s actual or perceived employment as a state, city, county or federal peace officer, member of an organized fire department, or emergency medical services personnel. This can affect student protesters. Senate Bill 17 could also affect students. This is an act relating to the expression of religious or political viewpoints in public schools and postsecondary institutions. According to
the LRC, this bill permits students to voluntarily express religious or political viewpoints in school assignments without discrimination and teachers to teach about religion without discrimination. The fourth bill is Senate Bill 136. This is related to in-state tuition for Kentucky National Guard Members. According to the LRC, an active member of the Kentucky National Guard who enrolls as a student in a Kentucky public university as a non-Kentucky resident shall be considered a Kentucky resident for tuition purposes.
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Bourbon bottles fund tutors
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By Sarah Jayne Johnson news@kykernel.com
UK’s Center for Academic and Tutorial Services (CATS) was successfully expanded to the south side of campus last fall to accommodate the 22 varsity athletic teams. With a growing number of student-athletes spending a majority of their time on south campus, a closer expansion was created in the Joe Craft Football Training Facility. Prior to the expansion, the main athlete’s tutoring facility was located in Memorial Coliseum. According to a press release, the first-of-its-kind support program in the nation provides primary academic support for more than 500 student-athletes. The press release also states that UK athletes have a cumulative grade point average of better than 3.0 in nine consecutive semesters. “It features academic support space for use by student-athletes on the south side of campus,” UK Athletics Director of Strategic Communications Guy Ramsey said. UK athletics, Maker’s Mark and Keeneland partnered together to help benefit the CATS program by fundraising through the sales of commemorative Maker’s Mark bourbon bottles. The partners plan to raise $2 million over a fiveyear period from the sales of the specialty bourbon bottles. There will be a series of five bottles total in order to benefit the CATS program. The first bottle of the series pictured legendary coach Adolph Rupp. The second bottle from Maker’s Mark featured Joe B. Hall cutting the net for UK’s fifth national championship win in 1978. The third bottle will feature the 1995-96 men’s basketball national championship team, “The Untouchables,” which went on sale April 7. Maker’s Mark and Keeneland worked with the UK athletics department to challenge companies to raise a matching $2 million. Keeneland was the first to agree in 2015 to the cause and pledged $100,000. “The entirety of the CATS expansion was funded up front, so the money raised by bottles in 2018 and 2019 will serve to replenish the funds spent at the beginning of the project,” Ramsey said. Friday morning, April 14, Keeneland will be hosting four members from the 1996 UK championship team, Cameron Mills, Derek Anderson, Jeff Sheppard and Jared Prickett, to sign the commemorative bourbon bottle. The last two bottles of the series will be released in 2018 and 2019.
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Dangermuffin heals through music By Matt Wickstrom features@kykernel.com
Founded in 2007, Dangermuffin returns to their roots while also shaking things up on their sixth studio album “Heritage”, an eight-track blend of jam, folk and Americana influences. Dangermuffin pulls from a wide array of influences to manufacture their eclectic sound, with each member of the band coming from different musical backgrounds. Lotti grew up listening to folk artists such as Gillian Welch, Lucinda Williams and Steve Earle. Lotti referred to electric guitarist Mike Sivilli as a guitar virtuoso heavily influenced by jam icons Phish and went on to describe bassist Steven Sandifer as a student of a variety of grooves including oldtime and jazz, comparing him to a musical historian. “Heritage” sees the Folly Beach, South Carolina-based group shaking up their lineup, moving Sandifer from drums
PHOTO PROVIDED BY MASON JAR MEDIA Dangermuffin will bring new tunes off their record “Heritage” to Lexington and The Burl on April 19.
to upright bass and bringing in Markus Helander to handle percussion. The group auditioned Helander and were blown away. According to Lotti, he was even more excit-
ed to bring Helander into the band when he discovered he was from Finland, where Lotti has distant family from. With the theme of the album being about getting back to your
heritage, passing on Helander at that point wasn’t an option. The group recorded “Heritage” at the Unitarian Church in nearby Charleston. Per Lotti, the church is the second
oldest in CharlestonThe band recorded all the vocals for “Heritage” in the church after midnight in the dark, helping to capture the essence of the space. “To get into that church was very special. The approach with the album was to use all-natural reverbs instead of digitizing everything. Mike [Sivilli] got very ethereal on the electric guitar with some of the pedals, so we wanted to give him sonic space to do that.” Of the eight tracks compiling the record, the most sentimental may be “One Last Swim”. The song is about an avid Dangermuffin fan named Kirk whom the band met at a show in Columbus, Ohio. After the show, the band went to Kirk’s house where he and his friends performed Dangermuffin songs for the group. The band quickly formed a tight relationship with Kirk, organizing meetups whenever they came nearby. A few years later Kirk was diagnosed with
a terminal illness. With the song already written, Lotti looked back on the lyrics and started realizing how eerily similar they were to Kirk’s situation, adding that connections like the one they fostered together are one of the most gratifying aspects of being a musician. “When I last saw Kirk we were writing a bit of music and he explained that he’d be traveling the world for his final month alive, and he decided to finish in Folly Beach, spending the last couple months of his life there because of the band,” Lotti said. “What a humbling experience as an artist to have your work mean that much to someone.” Dangermuffin will return to Lexington for the first time since 2010 to perform at The Burl on April 19. “One day we’re going to realize that we’re all walking around in this society just traumatized, and what better thing is there than music to heal,” Lotti said.
PRHBTN brightens Nightlife tradition boogies back to downtown blank walls in Lexington
PHOTO BY CALEB GREGG I FILE PRHBTN mural “My Name is Mo” by MTO is located at 1200 Manchester St. in Lexington.
By Megan Brown features@kykernel.com
If a picture paints a thousand words, then a mural paints a million. PRHBTN is an organization redefining the negative stigma associated with graffiti and street art. The organization was founded by John Winters and his wife Jessica seven years ago after they watched the movie “Exit Through the Gift Shop,” a documentary following the life of street artist Thierry Guetta. “It stands for prohibition without the vowels. We saw street art and graffiti as a prohibited art form that was being kept out of and wanted to change that,” John Winters said. PRHBTN works solely in Lexington and is responsible for 18 murals around the city. Some of these include ‘Louis’ on Elm Street, ‘Turkey’ at the corner of Broadway and Main and ‘Moonshine’ on Short Street. According to Winters, the “My Name is Mo” mural in the Distillery District is one of their most controversial. How-
ever, he feels its edgy content captures the character of the area. Also, London-based street artist Phlegm’s untitled second mural at the corner of Short and Lime shows the ever changing nature of street art after his first mural was covered. Another one of these murals is the multi-colored Abraham Lincoln on the backside of The Kentucky Theater. Created by Eduardo Kobra, the mural marked a huge milestone for the organization as it was the first extensive project done on a public building. “It had opened the doors to bringing so many artists and exposing more and more citizens to global art,” Winters said. Winters also said that depending on the size of the mural, it can take anywhere from five days to a month to complete. The process starts when PRHBTN gets permission from building owners to paint their walls. After that, artists can specifically choose which wall they think would be best. Sometimes artists work with interns or volunteers, but usually it is up to the artist on how
they want to complete their mural. PRHBTN is a non-profit organization that not only works on assembling artists of all skill levels together, but also provides music entertainment at locations across Lexington. PRHBTN is funded entirely by sponsorships and donations, allowing them to hold commission free gallery shows that give artists the ability to keep all of the profits they make. “Every year we get to see amazing art brighten up blank walls in Lexington,” Winters said when he described the passion the organization has for sharing this art form with their city. Annually, PRHBTN hosts a show in October, which acts as a forum displaying this denounced art form. 2017 is the seventh year of the show and the event includes activities such as a gallery show, presentation of new murals and live music. The gallery show is in the Loudoun House and PRHBTN plans to add new murals all over the city. The full schedule of events will come out during the summer.
PHOTO PROVIDED BY DOWNTOWN LEXINGTON CORPORATION I LAURA FARNSWORTH Central Bank’s Thursday Night Live event has been a staple of downtown nightlife between April and October every year since 1995.
By Becky Feigin features@kykernel.com
Central Bank’s Thursday Night Live event has been a staple of downtown nightlife between April and October every year since 1995. The event began when the Lexington Chamber of Commerce took roughly 100 members to South Carolina to observe a similar concert series. The Chamber of Commerce was intrigued by what it saw and decided it would be a great way to give people in Lexington something to do after work. Since then the event has blossomed, playing host to some of the top local and regional entertainment and vendors. Laura Farnsworth, senior event coordinator for the Downtown Lexington Corporation, has been planning Thursday Night Live for the past eight years. Farnsworth has seen plenty of changes come to Thursday Night Live in the past seven years. “It’s really transformed into what it is today, which is a huge social party with thousands of
people, but at the root of the event it has always been about the music and bringing people downtown,” Farnsworth said. Every week a different band performs. To determine what artists will perform, a committee streams around 200 demos that are sent to Downtown Lexington Corporation. Bands that have a bigger following and that the crowd enjoys are asked back often. “There’s a lot of loyalty with who we bring back,” Farnsworth said. Farnsworth said the Thursday Night Live crowds are loyal every year, and when the event starts each Thursday at 5 p.m., many people who just got off work downtown will stop by to relax and enjoy the music. Once 7:30 p.m. hits, the college crowd starts filing into downtown as well. “Over the past three or four years the college students have really come out to see the music,” Farnsworth said. “They are starting to realize how cool of a place it is to be.” Skybar, a rooftop bar downtown, is the walk around drink partner at Thursday Night Live. Downtown Lexing-
ton Corporation also scatters craft beer vendors throughout Cheapside Park during the event, which helps to pay for the logistics to run Thursday Night Live. A non-profit organization is featured every week of Thursday Night Live. The non-profit comes down and pours draft beers for attendees. At the night’s conclusion, the non-profit gets all the tips from the night for their organization. “I think last year we gave back $24,000,” Farnsworth said. “It’s something we’re really proud of.” Thursday Night Live’s 2017 season began on April 6 and will continue each week through October 12. The event’s second chapter of the year will feature music from Swing Street and members from Dress for Success Lexington will be on site pouring beer. According to Dress for Success Lexington’s website, their mission is “to empower women to achieve economic independence by providing a network of support, professional attire and the development tools to help women thrive.”
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Dream dates do come true BAILEY VANDIVER Kernel Columnist
“How many retweets would it take for you to go to prom with me?” These tweets from “regular” people to celebrities go viral on Twitter, often reaching the number of retweets that the celebrity requires. Twitter did not work for one high school girl, but it turned out all she needed in order to have her dream date was a punny poster and a long wait in line. South Oldham High School senior Kendall Brown asked De’Aaron Fox to prom at a stop on his autograph tour that began after he declared for the NBA draft. After waiting in line to meet him she showed him a poster that read, “I’m De’Aaron you to go to prom with me.” She then tweeted the video — in which she had to explain the pun to him — with the caption, “to all you non-believers.” Fox agreed to the date, if his schedule would allow him
PHOTO BY MICHAEL REAVES I STAFF After waiting in line to meet him she showed him a poster that read, “I’m De’Aaron you to go to prom with me.”
to come. The ironic part of the situation is that a college freshman going to prom with a high
school senior is not newsworthy. It’s even common. But Fox is not your ordinary college freshman.
He’s been a celebrity since the moment he accepted John Calipari’s invitation to become a part of the UK basketball team. His celebrity status grew with every fast break, every dunk and every game day. He’s months away from signing a contract that will bring him millions of dollars, and his transformation to celebrity will truly be complete. Some say Calipari creates NBA players, others say he creates players who don’t quite live up to their potential. But what Calipari, along with the UK basketball program, truly creates are celebrities. Why else do people camp out for days just for the chance to be in the same room as these players? Why else would people spend thousands of dollars to follow them around the country like groupies? Why else would a girl ask one of them to prom as if he’s a member of a boy band or the star of a movie? Because Wildcats become celebrities. Hopefully Brown and her classmates are ready to dance alongside one of them. Email opinions@ kykernel.com.
Employers choose resumes over potential SAVON GRAY Opinions Editor
Who remembers the good old days when graduating high school meant you were pretty much promised a decent job, or when a high school diploma wasn’t even necessary to get a job? Who remembers the good old days when going to college guaranteed success? When simply going to class and gaining knowledge proved to employers that you were a valuable asset to their company? Certainly no one who is currently in college. We have transformed from a society that looked at your po-
tential after graduating, taking into consideration what you have learned and how well they assume you will adapt to the pressures of the workplace, to a society that solely bases your worth on what you have accomplished. “I’ve got people around me getting internships and I’m watching myself struggle to get one,” Journalism sophomore Chadwick George said. “I know that in order to be considered ‘successful’ by employers my resume needs to be full of experience and just thinking about it stresses me out.” The internships you accumulate, the extra curricular activities you participate in and the leadership positions you assume are what employers are looking for in this day and age.
Is it better to hire people who you know can work immediately, or someone you have to teach? While this answer might seem obvious, let us reflect on our own lives. How would you fare if your resume and experience were the only things you were judged on? Would you get the position you want? Or would you prefer your future employers take your potential, attitude and personality into account when they interview you? College students already face enough stress without extra curricular activities. Maintaining grades, financials, social lives and other responsibilities already consume the minds of struggling students. Now, throw in the threat of not getting your dream job because you are not
involved in enough outside of the classroom. This is a perfect mixture for stress and depression. This system of hiring and the expectations put on students puts them in an unfair position. It forces them to literally give up any free time, any time they have to themselves to clear their mind and de-stress, and in turn pick up extra stress, all in the hope that it pays off with a job after graduation. The stress college students are under is at unimaginable levels, and they are only getting worse. It is time we reevaluate the way our entire educational system operates, and treat students like learners and not workers. Email opinions@ kykernel.com.
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Airline shamed by violent removal PAIDIN DERMODY Kernel Columnist
A violent video posted to Facebook this past Sunday showed a passenger on a United Airlines flight from Chicago to Louisville being forcibly removed from his seat and dragged down the aisle off of the plane, while other passengers watched in horror. United claims that it needed four seats for flight crew members to get to their next destination, and to accommodate this they offered to compensate four paying customers to take a later flight. After no passengers volunteered, the airline says it randomly selected four individuals to give up their seats to the crew. One man refused. Why is it that United Airlines didn’t have the foresight to tell four people the flight was overbooked beforehand and not let them board the plane to begin with, which would have kept the entire incident off the plane and in the terminal? All organizations have the responsibility to manage the expectations of their clients, but once United let those people on board they lost control of the situation by giving them “false” expectations. The individual victimized in this incident was a doctor. He yelled this fact out to the security officers forcibly removing him from his seat. Soon after this plea, he busted his face open on an armrest and witnesses saw a bloody man being dragged against his will down the aisle. This man should have been given priority status to get back to the hospital in
Louisville where he needed to be to treat his patients. The airline could have easily figured this out about the passenger before choosing him to give up his seat. United Airlines wanted the seats for a four-member flight crew at the last second.
Paying customers should be given seats over flight crew who are being shuttled back and forth. This had nothing to do with overbooking. Did they really not know 15 minutes earlier, prior to general boarding, that the flight crew was coming? It is hard to believe that scheduling snuck up on the airline that quickly. Paying customers should be given seats over flight crews who are being shuttled back and forth. A car could have been rented to get the flight crew from Chicago to Louisville, which would have prevented this whole fiasco from happening in the first place. The award the courts will ultimately give the victim will invalidate United’s actions. The Chicago Department of Aviation said it was outside of its standard operating procedure, and its security officer was placed on administrative leave. United’s CEO already apologized for “overbooking,” but not for what they did to this innocent man simply trying to get back to his patients. Email opinions@ kykernel.com.
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Humphries decides to turn professional
UK softball dominates rival Louisville
PHOTO BY ADDISON COFFEY I STAFF Kentucky right fielder Breanne Ray hits a single during the second inning of the game against the Tennessee Volunteers at John Cropp Stadium on Friday.
By Chase Campbell sports@kykernel.com
Following a devastating series against SEC opponent Tennessee, where the UK softball team was swept, the Cats traveled to Louisville Wednesday to take on their in-state rival. The Cats obviously took out some degree of frustration on the lesser-composed Cardinals, as they ran up the score, 10-1 in six innings. From the very beginning, UK made sure to assert themselves as the dominant team, as they took a 6-0 lead before the end of the third inning. Pitcher Erin Rethlake netted two RBI during this scoring run. No team would score again until the fifth inning,
when Louisville scored a run on a double by catcher Jenna Jordan. The Cardinals wouldn’t score again all game, as the Cats took the sixth inning for themselves, helped along by a three-RBI play by Breanne Ray. This gives Ray 20 RBI on the season, moving her to second on the team, only behind the homerun-prone Abbey Cheek. Cheek had a good day at the plate herself, getting two hits in her three at-bats, scoring one run and netting one RBI. Seasoned pitcher Meagan Prince also seemed to take the series against Tennessee as a challenge for this game, as she had more strikeouts than hits allowed, netting a third of the team’s 18 outs,
becoming a defensive powerhouse all on her own. The most interesting part of the game, perhaps, was that the Cats scored 10 runs without ever getting the batter past second base on a hit. There were no homeruns or triples hit the entire game for the Cats, but UK still managed to get their runs with efficient batting and base-running. The “timely hits” that head coach Rachel Lawson wanted in the Tennessee series finally came to the Cats during one of the most important games of the year, and they will need that consistency to continue as they host a brutal Florida team for their series that begins on April 14.
PHOTO BY MICHAEL REAVES I STAFF Sophomore Isaac Humphries is signing with an agent, ending his two-year career at UK.
By Chris Leach sports@kykernel.com
Two and a half weeks after Isaac Humphries had a career game against North Carolina in the Elite Eight, the sophomore from Australia has decided to go to the next level and turn pro. Humphries is also signing with an agent, which will end his two-year career at UK. Humphries is the fifth player to leave last season’s roster, and the fourth to sign with an agent. Bam Adebayo is the only player to declare for the pros and not sign with an agent. “This decision didn’t come
easily for me. My goal has always been to play professionally,” Humphries said. “There is no better place to prepare you to take that step than the University of Kentucky.” The seven-foot Australian averaged 2.8 points and rebounds per game his sophomore season. Humphries often struggled to earn minutes in the Cats’ loaded depth chart, but made the most of his minutes when he got them. Humphries got a big opportunity in the Elite Eight when Adebayo and other starters got into foul trouble early. Humphries stepped in and played a season high 21 minutes, scoring a career-high 12 points on 5-of-8 shooting. If it weren’t
for Luke Maye’s game winning shot, Humphries would have been one of the hero’s of that game. Because of Humphries’ stellar performance in that game, the seven-foot sophomore was named to the AllNCAA South Regional Team. Now, Humphries will focus his attention on improving his game for the professional leagues. Humphries will explore options of playing in the NBA, or internationally. “I want to thank the Big Blue Nation for its unwavering support,” Humphries said. “Coming from Australia, I had no idea what to expect when I got to Kentucky, but you made me one of your own.”
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German fellow researches Trump presidency By Kat Manouchehri news@kykernel.com
Hamburg-based television, radio and online reporter for German Public Broadcasting (NDR/ARD) Mareike Aden spoke to UK journalism classes earlier in the week about her journey from Germany to Russia and throughout the West covering national and international politics. At 33-years-old, Aden has already lived in over three countries and speaks several different languages. Traveling the countries alone, she sends her podcasts to Hamburg by creating a make-shift studio in her various hotel rooms, sometimes covering her entire
body under a blanket to reduce the echo and recording her updates from the week. Aden is currently in the U.S. researching President Donald Trump’s electoral victory and the degree of satisfaction among his voters in the early stages of his presidency. She received the Transatlantic Media Fellowship, which is helping her complete her study. She has been visiting the various states that have been known to flip between democratic and republican majorities during election seasons. Her next stop in the U.S. is Youngstown, Ohio and Erie County, Pennsylvania. “I really wanted to go to a
swing state because I feel that whenever I am in Washington, D.C. or New York City that I am kind of in these bubbles, and you would very rarely find anyone who voted for Donald Trump,” Aden said. Aden said her biggest observation so far has been that Trump managed to win votes from various types of people who come from all different backgrounds and who all had varying reasons for voting for him. “These people in real life would have a lot to argue about life, but then, he’s managed to cater to their opinions or to what they find important,” she said. Aden said there are various
groups of people from different social classes that voted for Trump, and she thinks it is pertinent to her research to travel to smaller cities around the country to gain insight. “I want to speak with blue-collar workers there as to why they feel betrayed by the Democratic party, why they voted for Trump, and really get to know how they feel now,” she said. Aden covered the Brexit referendum and the aftermath in London. Shortly after, she flew to the U.S. and reported on the presidential election campaigns as part of an Arthur F. Burns Fellowship.
PHOTO BY BAILEY VANDIVER I STAFF Mareike Aden is currently in the United States researching President Donald Trump’s electoral victory.