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NOVEMBER 26, 2007

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CELEBRATING 36 YEARS OF INDEPENDENCE

 

UK begins plans to attract non-traditional students

By Jill tutor

jlastemkykernelcom

UK will look into its past to find
the targets of a new program for in-
creasing enrollment.

Double the Numbers, a program
announced by the Kentucky Council on
Postsecondary Education last month.
will use state funding and private grants
in efforts to double the number of col-
lege graduates in Kentucky to 800.000
by 2020.

At a press conference tomorrow. the
CPE will announce the beginning of the
program‘s first phase. which will en—
courage non-traditional students with 90

or more credit hours to return. said C PE
communications director Sue Patrick.

“All of our institutions want to
serve these people. but the focus has
been on traditional students." Patrick
said. “Financial aid has been focused
on traditional students."

A $500,000 grant from the Lumina
Foundation for Education will help
with assessing how 45 accredited Ken—
tucky colleges and universities can
work to bring adult students into higher
education.

UK will receive about $50,000 from
the grant for an internal self-assessment.
Patrick said. The evaluation will look at
UK’s efforts to bring in non—traditional

students. to accommodate the need for
night and weekend classes. and to help
students find financial aid.

An eight—person UK committee has
already completed an initial assessment
report. which expresses two main con—
cerns. The first is that there may be
“significant need" to hire new advisers
for returning students.

“The time devoted to advising these
(non—traditional) students is likely to be
significantly longer than for students
currently working on their degrees."
says the UK report. made earlier this
year on the CPE‘s request.

The second concem the report lists
is that developing a degree program for

non-traditional students that combines
University Studies courses with a de—
gree track would require "considerable
planning and attention" from UK facul—
ty and administrators.

lncreasirig the number of rettiming
students is only one of the several goals
of Double the Numbers. which also
seeks to increase the amounts of gradu.
ating high school students. of commu-
nity and technical college students
moving on to four—year institutions. and
of people receiving (ieneral Education-
al Development certificates.

The Double the Numbers plan has
the same end year as l'K‘s Top 20
Business Plan _. 3020. Both stem from

 

a bill passed by the state legislature in
l997 mandating that institutions dedi-
cated to higher leaniing. including both
UK and the ('PE. work to lift Kentucky
from close to the bottom of national
rankings.

if the state legislature falls shon,
the (‘PE will find a way to manage. as
it has during a few tight budget years
since the l997 mandate. Patrick said.

However. the program the CPE will
launch tomorrow will be one of many
that depend heavily on the funding giv—
en by the state during the legislative
session beginning in January.

“They need the money to be able to
fund the programs.“ Patrick said.

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Rich Brooks called it disappoint—
ing. Keenan Burton said it was devas-
tating. and Andre Woodson could
barely fight the tears back as he tried
to put the loss to the Tennessee Volun-
teers into words.

However the players chose to de-
scribe it. they all agreed on one thing:
This loss hurt a little bit more than the
rest.

For the 23rd consecutive season.
No. 19 Tennessee (9-3. 6-2 Southeast-

ern Conference) defeated UK (7-5. 3—5
SEC) on Saturday in front of 69.813
fans at Commonwealth Stadium. ex—
tending the nation‘s longest active win~
ning streak of one team over an oppo—
nent in the Football Bowl Subdivision
The 52-50 loss in four overtimes added
yet another chapter to a long history of
lieanbreaks against the Volunteers.

UK had fallen to Tennessee sev-
eral times on Senior Day during the
losing streak. but sending off this
group of seniors 47 a class many
have credited with turning the pro»
gram around —with a loss made it

sting that much more.

“l definitely wanted to leave here
knowing l was a part of the team that
finally ended that streak and could
move on from that." said Woodson.
UK‘s senior quarterback. “But union
tunately. l'm just on another team (that
lost to Tennesscei."

And as they have done since l985.
the Vols left the ("ats with a sour taste
in their mouths to end the regular sea«
son. Unlike most years during the
streak. UK will still have the chance to
play in a bowl game. but allowing
Tennessee to advance to the Sli('
championship game in Atlanta w hilc
spiraling to a 2.5 record in their last
seven games left the (tits thinking
about what could have been.

“it‘s a great college football game.

UK 83, TEAM. btfli'
Crawford’s career game leads romp in Rupp

but the way i look at it. the wrong
football team ended up winning." said
Brooks. the [K head coach. nThe
streak livcs."

l‘hc (‘ats ltad their opportunities to
finally steal one away from the \ttls

Trailing ‘l-Zts’ with 3.13 left in
regulation. t'K drove from its 9-yard
line all the way“ down to the Ten
nessee l. Woodson. who was 3‘H‘or-
62 for 430 yards vv ith a career—high si.\
touchdowns. riiarched the (‘ats down
the field on ltlaot- l 7 completions.

With eight seconds remaining.
Woodson tumbled the snap. scrambled
and fired a pass past the outstretched
arms of Burton. a senior \v idc receiver
The (‘ats had to settle for a legv‘ard

See Football to t‘dt'lr”: 4

By Travis W_Ildron
Maldr'on@ltykernel.com

lf UK fans needed a pick-me—
up Saturday night. Joe Crawford
wasted no time in giving them one.

After UK's narrow loss on the
football field to No. l9 Tennessee.
the senior guard ensured the has—
ketball team would not suffer the
same fate in Rupp Arena. scoring a
career-high 32 points to lead the
Cats to an 83-35 victory over Texas
Southern in front of 21.445 fans.

Saturday marked C rawford's
48th career double-figure scoring
performance. but it was the first time

he had scored at least 30 points.

After earning his first start of
the season. Crawford nearly
eclipsed his scoring average (15.3)
in the first five minutes. netting l3
of the Cats‘ first 2| points and
sparking a 15-0 run that gave UK
(3-l) a 21-5 lead over the Tigers
tl-4). The Cats never looked back.
pushing the margin as wide as 53
points before the final hom.

“Joe's playing well. he‘s prac-
ticing better. and l think he's start-
ing to earn an opportunity." UK
head coach Billy Gillispie said.

Crawford has now scored at
least 20 points in three of UK‘s

“hummus-anew

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f.

four games. and he said his offen-
sive explosion is the result of
Gillispie helping him change his
mentality on offense.

"When l‘m open. l‘m going to
shoot it." (‘rawford said ”That‘s
what Coach told me. He even took
me out of practice when I wasn't
ready to shoot. This year. I have a
new approach — when l'm open.
l'm going to take it and not think
about it."

UK entered the game near the
bottom of the Southeastem (‘onfer—
ence in scoring offense but blitzcd
Texas Southern early. notching 43
first—half points while shooting 77

percent (l7-22) from the field. It
was l'K's best first-half shooting
performance since Jan. l4. WM.
when the (fats shot 7‘) percent
against Ole Miss, l'K finished the
game Naif-54 for (vl percent
shooting.

Meanwhile. the Cats had their
best defensive performance of the
season. holding the Tigers to Just
l0 field goals and 20 percent
shooting. Texas Southern's 35
points were the least by a UK op»
ponent since Morehead State man»
aged rust 32 in I995. and it was the

See Baskflhlll on page 4

Off-campus
housing
committee
formed

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The Lexington-Fayette Urban
(‘ounty Council unanimously agreed
on Tuesday to form a committee that
would examine issues with off-campus
student housing in the neighborhoods
surrounding UK.

.liilian Beard. the 4th District coun-
cilman. said the new committee would
be similar to the existing Town and
Gown Commission. but “with longer
tentacles that would touch the commu—
nity as a whole."

“l‘m happy we camed it forward
and appointed a task force.“ said 5th
District (‘ouncilman David Stevens.
who originally proposed regulating off-
campus student housing. "Hopefully
we can work forward to solve this is»
sue."

About 90 landlords. students and
residents came to the planning corn~
mitt-cc meeting at the Lexington—
l’ay ettc Gov eminent Center to discuss
potential housing regulations based on
those used at Pennsylvania State Lilllv
v'ersity.

At Penn State. only three non~relat-
ed students can live in an off-campus
house. and student houses mast be lo—
catcd at least I240 feet apart.

Stevens. along with UK Assistant
Vice President for Community Engage
ment Lisa Higgins-Hord and Vice Pres-
idth for Facilities Management Bob
Wisemaii. visited the Penn State cam~
pus in State College. Pa. earlier this
.‘ear to see how effective the rules were
there.

Stevens said the area around t'K‘s
campus faces problems from “too
many cars. too much litter. too much
noise and alcohol abuse." Penn State\
regulations could serve as a model for
Lexington. he said. but he does not
expect Lexington to adopt the same
plan.

Local landlords said the Penn State
plan would hurt the neighborhoods
around UK.

“We consider this proposal not so
helpful." said Bill Lear of Touchstone
Properties. "It reminds me of people
vv ho want to have a great university
without the students. We want college

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li\e»action-vyith—a-toL-ch~of—ani-
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cal single dad in NYC who falls
for a Disney-esque fairy
princess (Amy Adams) come to
life.

()ffscreen. the Maine native.
41. plays Prince Charming to
makeup artist wife Jillian. 41.
daughter Tallulah. 5. and 9—
month‘old twin sons Darby and
Sulli\an. Hc channs L's,

Q: You get to dance in this
film. Would you ever do Danc-
ing With the Stars?

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We had four weeks to practice.
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really the best part, it makes the
moiie special. 1 wish 1 had time
to dance more.

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ter think of the movie?

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costumes. the princess pan of it
and. ol course. the animated
chipmunks.

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character or a softie like Me-
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1 get frustrated with the back
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they‘re not together. it‘s time for
them to move forward or break
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prised?

— Aimee Agri'xti

Rachael's redesigned
dressing room

By Rachael Ray's own ad-
mission. her dressing room at
the NYC studio where she tapes
her eponymous talk show was
“very disorganized and overall
embarrassing.“ To the rescue:
Kristan Cunningham, a show
correspondent and host of
HGTV‘s Design on a Dime.
who redid the room as a surprise
while Ray. 39. was on vacation
in September. The five-day
process — and Ray‘s reaction
7 will air on the Rachael Ray
show November 20 (syndicated.
check listings).

Lush look No pink piIIOWs
licrel "Rachael isn't girlie.”
says Cunningham. who created
a fusion of midcentury modern
and ‘40s glamour by mixing
pieces such as a $430 Restora—
tion Hardware chandelier and a
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windows (previously covered
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Faculty senators can submit council nominees

Between now and noon on
Friday. members of UK‘s Uni-
versity Senate can nominate
themselves or fellow senators to
serve on the University Senate
Council.

In December. three sena-
tors‘ terms on the council will
expire. and under University
Senate rules they will not be el-
igible to serve on the council

Software that ‘1'

again for a year.

Following nominations. the
top six nominated names will go
onto the ballot. and during vot-
ing in December. all voters will
rank their top three picks.

The Senate Council has 12
voting members: nine selected
from the 94 elected members of
the University Senate. two
elected student representatives

and the Student Govemment
president. The two faculty
Board of Trustees members also
sit on the council. but they do
not vote.

Faculty senators interested
in making up to three nomina-
tions can go to the University
Senate Web site (www.uky.edu/
USC) and click on the “Senate
Council Elections“ link.

HOUSING

    

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town to be a thriving 24/7 environment. and we
won‘t do that by taking students out."

Lear said UK must take a more active role in
dealing with the concems of local residents and
landowners. The university is growing in size to
reach its goal of being a top-20 public research
university. but it has “done nothing to help sup-
port this issue by looking into the housing situa~

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rent to anyone. no matter what race. age. gender,
etc.." and that placing limitations on who can
live in a house near UK could have legal ramifi—
cations.

Student Govemment President Nick Phelps
said many of the complaints about students stem
from a lack of communication. and students
moving off campus for the first time don‘t know
what their responsibilities are as renters, so they
often look to their neighbors for examples.

In discussing off—campus student housing.
the council should “endorse students and build
them up. not break them down by discrimina-
tion." Phelps said.

Beware of

1stens’ to songs

could help you find new favorites

By Tom Avril
The Philadelphia Inquirer

PHILADELPHIA __ Sure. you‘ve
heard U2. Hard to avoid the Irish rock—
ers. a musical force since the 19805.

But how do you find — let alone
decide if you like —- some garage
band that’s cut the killer new track that
no one’s ever heard of?

In his gleaming white lab at Drexel
University. Youngmoo Kim has an an-
swer: raw computing power.

He‘s an electro—DJ of sorts. part of
a new wave that seeks to help con-
sumers sift through the countless
downloadable tunes on the Internet.
It’s a crowded field. with plenty of
Web sites already promising con-
sumers “if you like this. then you‘ll
like that."

But most of those sites base their
picks largely on what other consumers
have purchased — perhaps reinforcing
mass-market tastes at the expense of
undiscovered gems. Kim and other re—
searchers have embraced a more fun-
damental approach: using computers
to “listen" to the music itself.

The technology is in its infancy.
having emerged only in the last few
years. And Kim. both an engineer and
a trained choral singer. doubts it will
fully replace the human ear or the so-
phisticated instrument attached to it —
the brain.

But software can run through thou-
sands of songs at a speed no consumer
— or record-company executive —-
can match.

“It could really help democratize
the music business." Kim predicted.

The concept is a new frontier for
the Internet. said Eric Garland. chief
executive officer of BigChampagne. a
California company that analyzes sales
of music downloads.

It‘s one thing to type in a song (or
book, or movie) on a search engine
such as Google, he said. But if you’re
looking for a recommendation. you
can't very well type in a name you
don‘t know.

“Search is great," Garland said.
“Discovery is a more fundamental
problem. What should I be looking
for?"

As engineering labs go. this one
knows how to rock.

Someone has brought in the toy
guitar from the Guitar Hero video
game. which grad students are trying
to tweak for use as a music-teaching
aid.

A giant touch-screen stands to one
side. which the engineers use to play
virtual instruments that they've invent-
ed — including a “polytheremin.” a
souped-up version of the thing used to
make those spacey “wooo-ahhh"
sounds in 19505 movies.

Kim. a Drexel assistant professor
of electrical and computer engineering.
once sang the classics as a member of
the Boston Symphony Chorus. But he
knows pop.

With a few taps on his keyboard.
the speakers are blaring the opening
bars of “Pride (In the Name of
Love)." the live version from U2's

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“Rattle and Hum."

A human being hears the driving
guitar chords. The relentless drumbeat.
Bono crying out. “One man come in
the name of love

But to the computer. the first frac-
tion of a second “sounds" like this:

E9 0F A2 14 C0 0C DA FD E907
5E 06 C309 5E 02

How to analyze that data in a way
that‘s relevant to the human experience
of listening?

It's a tough problem. one that
drew hundreds of scientists to a con-
ference in Vienna. Austria. in Septem-
her.

In some ways. the ear is far superi-
or to a computer. A person can quickly
tell the difference between Aretha
Franklin and your sister goofing with a
karaoke machine. Computers aren't
there yet.

In other ways. the machine has the
edge. and not just because of its sheer
speed and memory.

People are good at telling apart
sounds of different frequencies in the
low to middle part of the spectrum _,
a range that includes most of the
sounds in human speech — but not so
good at the high end. said David Pocp-
pel. a University of Maryland profes—
sor of biology and linguistics.

Some of the acoustic components
of the letter “s.' for example. sound to
us “like high—frequency noise.” Poep-
pel said.

Yet a computer handles all fre-
quencies equally well.

So the software developed by
Kim‘s lab makes adjustments to
mimic the way people hear ‘-

scrunching up the data from the high
end of the spectrum. and spreading
out the low end. A similar technique

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The software then breaks a song
down into 20 component wave-forms
— ranging from ultra-low to very
high frequency — and computes how
much of each one is present in the
music.

It‘s a broad characterization of the
song's musical timbre. or audio texture
— whether it‘s smooth or spiky. soft or
loud. (Other computer scientists have
opted to analyze features such as tern-
po and rhythm.)

The program then calculates how
much each of the 20 values varies
when compared with the others — a
process that yields a distribution of
230 numbers for each song.

The statistical “distance" between
one song’s distribution and another is
called the Kullbacklciblcr diver»
gence.

If you like one song. in theory.
you‘ll also like the ones that are statis-
tically close to it.

The analysis can yield surprises.

When Kim ran the numbers for
UZ‘s "Pride." the closest song was
"Low Man‘s Lyric." by the heavy met—
al group Mctallica — a song Kim had
never heard of.

"I'm sort of afraid of what this is."
he said. as he cued up the Metallica
track on his speakers.

“Very different tempo." Kim said
after listening for a few moments,
“And yet the harmonies are actually
quite similar."

The database contained just 1.00”
songs when the computer made that
pick. so presumably other songs out
there are even closer to I’Z's “Pride."
Ultimately. Kim said. the best solution
may be a mix of analyzing the music

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Drexel University researcher Youngmoo Kim plays keyboards on a display interface in his lab on Nov. 7 in Philadelphia, Pa. Kim is
working on software that recognizes musical patterns.

and other data. like sales patterns. But
there‘s no question that when a ma—
chine listens. it offers a different brand
of insight,

“The computer has no biases built
it " Kim said. “It doesn't say ‘Oh. UZ
and Mctallica would never sound the
same.”

Can software alone get the job
done‘.’ Computers have muscled into
other fields that once were dominated
by subjective judgment. among them
scouting baseball players and fine
wines,

Music industry people scoff at the
notion that their ability to predict hits
could ever be matched by a computer
program. said BigChampagnc's Gar—
land,

But at the \ery least. he predicts
that software such as Kim‘s will be
valuable to consumers. enabling them
to rediscover forgotten tiincs among
thousands on their iPods.

Wouldn't it be wonderful.” Gar—
land said. “if someone or something
could come into your own music col»
lection and make it new 1’”

Thc challenge excites the youngish
crowd of engineers who have taken it
up. said Dan Ellis. an associate profcs»
sor of electrical engineering at Colum-
bia l'nivcrsity.

“There are
quippcd.

But Iillis said the task also makes
him and other researchers uneasy.

They can readily test \\ hcthcr their
design of a bridge or computer circuit
is successful. It‘s not so simple when
they bring technology to the subjective
realm of the arts.

”The problem with this is: The ac—
tual right answer is not completely
Ellis said.

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By Richard Burnett
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ORLANDO. Fla. — Just in time
for Cyber Monday and the online holi-
day shopping rush. high-tech Grinches
are cranking up their fraud attacks
with a new round of bogus e-mail.
identity-theft experts say.

They always peak this time of
year. as millions of shoppers spend
more time on the Web. Online shop-
ping has grown at a double-digit pace
in recent years. More than 70 million
are expected to surf the Web this year
for presents.

“We do see e-mail and phone
scams picking up during the holiday
season." said Linda Foley. executive
director of the Identity Theft Resource
Center. a watchdog group based in San
Diego. “Much of it is because we are
simply so distracted. Our inbox gets
full: we go through it so quickly. we
don't pay as much attention as we
should. Scam artists try to exploit
that.“

From fake c-greeting cards and
charity pleas to foreign lottery
scams. the pace of illicit “phishing”
e-mail spikes by more than 33 per—
cent during the holiday season. ac-
cording to Symantec. maker of the
popular Norton computer-security
software.

Unsolicited and unwanted. the of-
ten authentic-looking missives have
one central purpose: trick you into giv-
ing out account numbers or other in-
formation that can be used to steal
your money. They may also lure you
to click on fraudulent Web sites that
use malicious software to capture data
from your computer.

Either way. they fish for personal
data. hence the term “phishing” e—
mail.

“I get them all the time. and I work
in a police station." said Sandie Jemi-
gan. who conducts crime—awareness
programs in Seminole County. Fla. for
the Seniors v. Crime group. “We have
an c~mail filter. but it doesn't block
these things. I got one last month
claiming to be from Washington Mutu-
al. telling me there was a problem and
if I didn't call this specific number to
verify my infomiation. they would put
a block on my account."

.lernigan didn‘t hesitate to hit
delete. well aware of the scam tactics.

Banks and c-commerce companies
have guaranteed they will never use
unsolicited c-mail to ask customers for
personal information or notify them
about an account problem.

Many companies post alerts on
their Web sites about the bogus e-mail
or run commercials warning people
about the threat of identity theft. Some
recent ads even target the infamous
"Nigerian c—mail scams." which try to
entice people into sending money to
the perpetrator under the guise of bo—
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