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An alleged sexual misconduct incident re-ported to UK Police on Friday turned out to bemisreported.

On Aug. 26, at 11:14 a.m. UK Police sentout a Crime Bulletin giving details of a report-ed incident, where two males walked a femaleback to campus after having attended an off-campus party.

“When the group reached the area of Roseand Huguelet both suspects forced the femaleto touch them,” the report said. “One suspectstarted to pick the victim up and that is whena group of witnesses noticed somethingwrong.”

Later that afternoon, after the report hadbeen issued, UK Police issued a follow-up re-port that said the case was closed.

“After issuing this morning’s crime bulletinregarding a reported sexual misconduct inci-dent, two individuals came forward,” the fol-low-up said. “Upon further investigation, UKPolice is no longer investigating this incident.Charges will not be filed, and the case isclosed.”

UK Police Chief Joe Monroe said the inci-dent was misreported because the victim wasintoxicated.

The two males were juveniles and non-tra-ditional students, Monroe said.

“They had set her down by Haggin (Hall)and somebody walked by and had thought thatsomething was odd,” Monroe said. “So theydid the right thing, in that they contacted thepolice. When we got there the initial report wegot were kind conflicting.”

Monroe said that the safety bulletin causedthe two juveniles involved to come forward andgive their side of the story. UK Police inter-viewed the males and the victim again, and nocharges are being filed, Monroe said.

Misconductincident

misreportedBy Drew Teague

news@kykernel.com

National and local media outlets, profes-sional reporting groups and scores of UKfans reacted to a story that garnered nationalcoverage Tuesday when a Kernel reportercalled two potential student athletes withoutgoing through UK Athletics.

When Kernel editor and basketball re-porter Aaron Smith attempted to interviewtwo walk-ons for the UK basketball teamwithout first contacting Media Relations, hisaccess to a set of one-on-one interviews withbasketball players was revoked.

The Associated Press Managing Editors,a nationwide group of newspaper editors andbroadcast news directors, issued a statementobjecting to UK Athletics’ action.

The group’s statement said the revoca-tion of Smith’s access “amounts to no lessthan an attempt to bully the newspaper intosubmission and to censor news concerningoperations of the University of Kentuckyathletic department.”

Smith originally called the athletes,whose phone numbers were listed on the UKwebsite’s directory, to confirm that theywere, in fact, on the team. Freshman basket-ball player Anthony Davis tweeted Sundaynight that they were, and Smith said hewanted to confirm the information throughhis own reporting.

As of press time Tuesday, the new play-ers, Brian Long and Sam Malone, were notlisted on UK’s basketball roster.

The APME statement continued to saythat the level of abuse of free speech demon-

Media groups,fans respond

to UK decisionBy Becca Clemons

bclemons@kykernel.com

See KERNEL on page 7

Vending machine pricesincreased over the summer

Although most studentsdon’t think twice about theprice of their daily refresh-ment, paying a quartermore could cause them toput a cap on their spend-ing.

A 25-cent price increaseis now in effect for allCoca-Cola 20-ounce prod-ucts on UK’s campus:DASANI water, POWER-ADE and carbonated softdrinks.

The price increase wasapproved in 2003, whenUK signed a contract withthe Coca-Cola Company.

The contract stated thecost would increase from$1.25 to $1.50 on Coca-Cola products in vendingmachines starting summer2011.

Most people on campus

aren’t aware of the price in-crease.

“Students may take astep back from the productsif they were more aware ofthe price change,” said JakeMemolo, an equine man-agement sophomore. “Iwill, too.”

Lauren Cook, a politicalscience and internationalstudies senior, also didn’tknow the cost of drinkschanged.

Though the minor in-crease might be overlookeddaily by consumers, whenthey look at the yearlongpicture, the price increasecould have them thinkingtwice.

If someone on campuswere to purchase a Coca-Cola product from the vend-ing machines every day for ayear, it would cost $91.25more than it would a yearago.

“The buyers will be splitbecause some will not beable to afford it,” Memolosaid.

Bradford Jordan, a fi-nance professor, said that$1.50 a day for a drink isnot that significant to one’syearly financials. But by it-self, spending as a whole isa decision that gets out ofhand with so many wants –entertainment, fast food,beverages and clothing.

Student spending is de-termined largely by im-pulse; want, instead of whatis actually needed, he said.

Purchasing a soft drinkfor $1.50, Jordan said, issomething that can be cutfrom someone’s spending ifhe is trying to save moneyby determining betweenneeds and wants.

The current contractwith the Coca-Cola Compa-ny expires July 2015.

By Justin Richter

news@kykernel.com

Drinks are now $1.50, an increase of a quarter

Riggs receivesweekly honorfrom C-USA

-Sophomore forward Tyler Riggs put intwo impressive displays over the weekendmaking him Conference USA’s first Offen-sive Player of the Week this season.

He scoredthree goals overthe weekend;one in theopener againstDayton last Fri-day night andthen the tyingand go aheadgoals againstNo. 9 Michiganlast Sundaynight.

On Sunday,Riggs came off the bench in the 78thminute and scored moments later during ascramble inside the 6-yard box.

Four minutes later, Riggs became the

PHOTO BY BRANDON GOODWIN | STAFFSophomore setter Elizabeth Koberstein set a UK record with 70 assists in three games in the Florida StateTournament. On Tuesday, she had 15 assists in UK’s straight-set loss to the Cincinatti Bearcats.

UC spikes Cats 3-0

After a 2-1 weekend atthe Florida State Tourna-ment in Tallahassee, Fla.,and a UK player beingnamed SEC Freshman of theWeek, the Cats fell 3-0 toUniversity of CincinnatiTuesday night at MemorialColiseum.

UK started off last week-end defeating Albany 3-1 tokick off the tournament,then lost to Florida State inthree sets. The more climac-tic conclusion of the week-end was the team’s victoryagainst then No. 23 Tulsa.

Sophomore ElizabethKoberstein set a UK recordwith 70 assists in the upsetover the Golden Hurricanes.

UK seniors GretchenGiesler and Becky Pavanwere named to the all-tour-nament team, while fresh-man Jackie Napper wasnamed SEC Freshman of theWeek.

“It felt good because Ihave felt like my first threeperformances were prettygood, being a freshman,”Napper said, “coming inthere and not knowing whatmy place was and figuring itout.”

Napper tallied a total of27 digs in two of her firstthree career matches. Shebecame the first freshman toearn double-digit digs in thisamount of time under headcoach Craig Skinner, ac-cording to a UK Media Re-lations release.

Tuesday night, the Catsfell short to the Bearcats inthree sets (25-20, 25-19, 25-

By Samantha Rothbauer

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See VOLLEYBALL on page 2

Volleyball fallsin straight sets

to Bearcats

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See RIGGS on page 2

Next GameWho: Kentucky vs WrightStateWhen: Friday at 7:30 p.m.Where: UK Soccer Complex

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hero after slamming a breakawaygoal into the back of the net to se-cure the 2-1win over the Wolver-ines and a 2-0 start to the season.

It was Riggs first multi-goalgame of his career and it helpedUK beat a top-ten opponent forthe first time since they defeatedSouthern Methodist University in2007.

This is also the first time thatRiggs has been named the C-USAOffensive Player of the Week, butif he keeps up his good run ofform there may be more. The winalso secured the Cats a nationaltop-25 ranking coming in at No.21.

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Youku said Monday that it had signed adeal with the Glendale animation studio to dis-tribute the “Kung Fu Panda” movies in China,marking the first time that DreamWorks re-leases have been made available in that coun-try through the Internet.

Both of the previously released “Kung FuPanda” films, which were hugely popular inChina, will be immediately available onYouku’s premium on-demand service for lessthan $1. The movies will subsequently beavailable for free viewing on Youku’s Holly-wood Movie Channel.

The deal comes two months after WarnerBros. reached an agreement with Youku tostream 450 of the studio’s movies, includingthe “Harry Potter” and “Lord of the Rings” se-ries with Chinese subtitles, on its website for acharge of 46 cents to 77 cents.

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“Youku is an innovative company with ex-traordinary reach in China, and we are thrilledthat the “Kung Fu Panda” features will now beoffered through their platform, which presentshigh-quality content to consumers online,”said Kelley Avery, head of worldwide fran-chise strategy and distribution for Dream-Works Animation.

Meanwhile, in another sign of China’s al-lure to Hollywood, RealD Inc. of BeverlyHills announced that will partner with BeijingSAGA Luxury Cinema Management Co. toequip the Chinese theater chain with 3-D tech-nology. The RealD agreement will add 100 3-D-capable auditoriums, the partners said.SAGA said it plans to install RealD 3-D tech-nology in as many as 20 theaters around thecountry within three years.

In November, RealD announced a dealwith Wanda Cinema, China’s largest theateroperator, to add as many as 500 3-D screens inthe country.

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RIGGSContinued from page 1

13), dropping their record in2011 to 2-2. It was a closematch throughout, and aconstant battle for bothteams, but UC came outwith the upper hand.

“We didn’t perform verywell. It wasn’t a good per-formance by us,” headcoach Craig Skinner said.“Cincinnati played verywell and we didn’t respondto it.”

The Cats started off onthe right foot in all threesets, but their steam ran out.

“We need to have a bet-ter mental focus and just bemore aggressive and matureon the court,” seniorGretchen Giesler said, whoconcluded the match with17 total attacks and a .118attack percentage.

“If you’re not motivatedafter a match like that,there’s not a whole lot that Ican say to make it differ-ent,” Skinner said. “But

that’s a motivating situationand athletes have to under-stand how to respond to aloss like that, but give creditto Cincinnati. That was agood performance bythem.”

Although the Cats weredefeated, it wasn’t all bad.

“We have a lot of goodpieces that are there,” Skin-ner said. “We just got totake advantage of some ofthe strengths that we haveand we weren’t able to dothat tonight. Cincinnati tookus out of rhythm.”

Any time UK was trail-ing in a set they made playsthat showed they were bat-tling back.

“We had some goodplays and some big killsfrom individuals andblocks and great playsfrom defense,” Gieslersaid. “But we just need tostring those plays togetherand go for runs and buildthe momentum instead ofbecoming laid back on thecourt.”

After obvious good ef-

forts from UK’s side of thecourt, they were simply out-performed by the CincinnatiBearcats, who tallied 10team blocks, 97 total at-tacks, 35 kills and 30 as-sists.

“Kentucky is a greatteam; I mean they beat Tul-sa last weekend,” Cincinnatihead coach Reed Sunaharasaid. “We were coming inhere going, ‘oh my God,’but every time we playthem it’s a battle andtonight was another battle. Ijust thought we caught themon an off night.”

UK ended the matchwith 33 kills, 114 total at-tacks, 30 assists and eightteam blocks.

“You really start to findout about your team whenyou get into competitionand play good teams, andwe have a good scheduleso that’s what we’re tryingto do right now,” Skinnersaid.

“We get a chance towork it out right here athome.”

VOLLEYBALLContinued from page 1

With three goals in two games, includ-ing the game-winning goal against No.

9 Michigan, UK forward Tyler Riggsearned Conference USA’s first offen-

sive player of the week award in 2011.

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kernelsportsethan levine | sports editor | elevine@kykernel.com

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The last time Cats fanssaw former quarterbackMike Hartline under center,he was in the midst of asenior season in which hewould lead UK's pass attackto second in the SEC statis-tically.

The last time Cats fanssaw Morgan Newton undercenter, he was replacing asuspended Hartline in theBBVA Compass Bowl andwas being pounded by amediocre Pittsburgh Pan-thers team that managedjust an 8-5 record in a weakBig East Conference in2010.

More than eight monthshave passed since thatgame, and with Hartlinegraduated and gone forgood, the job is now New-ton's to lose. With a sourtaste already in the mouthsof Cats fans, Newton willhave to have a successful2011 season as commanderof UK's offense, and he hasworked tirelessly in the off-season to meet the expecta-tions of his teammates,

coaches and fans.Luckily for Newton, he

has not had to go it alone.Phillips is a former wide re-ceiver who acted as UK'soffensive coordinator forseven years from 2003-2009 before becoming headcoach.

Current offensive coor-dinator Randy Sanders hasbeen coaching quarterbacksand receivers since 1989,and in the 22 years thatcomprise his coaching ca-reer, Sanders was an offen-sive coach on 21 bowlbound teams.

Wide receivers coachand passing game coordina-tor Tee Martin, a formerUniversity of Tennesseequarterback, brings his col-legiate and professional ex-perience at the position toLexington for Newton andthe other quarterbacks onthe Cats' roster to absorb.

With good coaching andeven better work ethic,Newton has his teammatesand coaches feeling confi-dent that he is the man tothe UK's offense.

"I think he's come light-years from where he was

last year," Martin said."He's done a great job ofjust listening, taking coach-ing, understanding what heneeds to do better, under-standing what he needs todo to become a great SECquarterback."

"I think he feels com-fortable with his role andwe feel comfortable withhim behind us," center MattSmith said. "He's definitelyfit the role and I think he'sdefinitely coming on as aleader and able to run theoffense."

Behind Newton at quar-terback sit three guys withzero combined pass at-tempts at the collegiate lev-el. The primary backup,grayshirt freshman MaxwellSmith of Granada Hills,Ca., first enrolled in classesat UK last January, butcoaches are confident thatthe young quarterback candevelop quickly to providedepth at the position.

"No, we don't have abackup quarterback that hasany snaps, so we've got tostart getting one ready,"Phillips said. "We'velearned a little bit of a les-

son from a few years agowith Morgan, we had to putMorgan out there as a truefreshman. But we had abackup that had played afew snaps."

"I would hate, four, fivegames, he's thrown in therewith his first snaps havingno experience. We have tofind an opportunity to gethim some snaps."

Also at quarterback onUK's roster are BookieCobbins, an athletic dual-threat throwing the ball ortucking it away to run, andRyan Phillippi, a third gen-eration UK football playerwho first enrolled in classesin 2008 but has neverdressed for a game in hiscareer as a Cat.

With an obvious lack ofdepth at the position, thepressure is on Newton tosucceed as the starter, andon the coaches to prepareNewton and develop hisbackups, especially Smith,for the long term.

"I’ve picked up a gooddeal just looking at (Mor-gan) and his footwork, he'sgot some pretty quick feet.I'm working on a quick

drop back," Smith said."But me and him get alongreal well, he helps me outand I help him out."

"Last year I was able tomake some plays a little bitin the bowl game," Newton

said, "but this year, beingable to consistently come inand hopefully make plays,is exciting."

Newton prepares for full season as quarterbackBy Ethan Levine

elevine@kykernel.com position preview:quarterback

key departure: Mike HartlineIn 2010, Hartline finished first in the SEC in comple-tions and second in passing yards as UKs quarterback.

x-factor: Morgan NewtonAfter two seasons of inconsistent playing time as thebackup, the offense is now Newton’s to lead in 2011,and will hinge on his ability to manage games in pres-surized situations.

top newcomer: Maxwell SmithA grayshirt freshman in 2011, Smith enrolled in classeslast January and has worked hard this summer tolearn the playbook and prepare himself to fill in forNewton is need be.

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South CarolinaKey Returner: Alshon Jeffery, WRKey Loss: Chris Culliver, CB (San Francis-co 49ers)Who to Watch: Marcus Lattimore, RB

The ol’ ball coach should have all the pieces tothe puzzle this upcoming season as the Game-cocks, who have lost very little dating back totheir Chick-fil-A Bowl loss to Florida State,look to redeem themselves from their SECChampionship blowout at the hands of Auburn.With the exception of running back TrentRichardson of Alabama, the Gamecocks bringthe most firepower to the table in running backMarcus Lattimore and wide receiver AlshonJeffery. Stephen Garcia, who is back for whatseems to be his eighth season of eligibility, willonce again take center for the team unless hegets on Spurrier’s bad side … again. TheGamecocks’ defense should be back in typicalfashion along with their newest weapon, defen-sive end Jadeveon Clowney, the number oneplayer in this most recent recruiting class.

GeorgiaKey Returner: Aaron Murray, QBKey Loss: A.J. Green, WR (Cincinnati Ben-gals)Who to Watch: Caleb King, RB

A.J. Green is no longer a part of the fraternalorder of NCAA merchandisers that causedhim to miss the Bulldogs first four games ofthe 2010 season. He is now receiving hispunishment as a member of the CincinnatiBengals. Where does this leave Georgia?They actually are sitting pretty with the re-turn of quarterback Aaron Murray, who nowhas a season under his belt. Murray shouldexpect to see more passing opportunitiesthan he did last season after the dismissals ofveteran running backs Caleb King andWashaun Ealey. Fans are still excited thoughas running back Isaiah Crowell, the nation’stop back of the 2011 recruiting class, shouldget his opportunity to prove his worth. Geor-gia’s defense returns seven starters includingleading tackler, safety Baccari Rambo.Freshman All-SEC defensive linemanKwame Geathers will assist Rambo on thedefensive side after earning MVP honor’sduring the spring.

FloridaKey Returner: Jeff Demps, RBKey Loss: Urban Meyer, head coach(ESPN)Who to Watch: Matt Elam, DB

Florida as usual should have plenty of playmak-ers on each side of the ball, but the question is,how will the offense transition to a pro-style of-fense implemented by new offensive coordina-tor Charlie Weiss. The new head honcho inGainesville, Will Muschamp, brought in Weisswho will hope to turn John Brantley into thequarterback that many expected to see upon thedeparture of Tim Tebow during the Urban Mey-er era. Though for these players, one seasonmay not be enough time to take in the change,expect the Gators to return to the top in thecoming seasons.

KentuckyKey Returner: Danny Trevathan, LBKey Loss: Randall Cobb, WR (Green BayPackers)Who to Watch: Brian Adams, WR

The Wildcats look to fight their way to the topthis coming season despite losing top playmak-er Randall Cobb to the NFL. The defense, theCats weakness during the 2010 season, shouldbe their strength this upcoming football seasonwith the return of leading tacklers linebackerDanny Trevathan and safety Winston Guy inco-defensive coordinator Rick Minter’s newscheme. In addition to the defense, the offensiveline with such returning names as Larry War-ford, Stuart Hines and Billy Joe Murphy, shouldbe one of the best that UK fans have seen inquite some time, helping quarterback MorganNewton and other members of the offense getthrough the motions of gameplay for the firstfew weeks of the season.

TennesseeKey Returner: Tauren Poole, RBKey Loss: Luke Stocker, TE (Tampa BayBuccaneers)Who to Watch: Justin Hunter, WR

Well, well, well, look who we have here. TheTennessee Volunteers under the direction ofhead coach Derek Dooley hope to not be disap-pointed yet again this season under the circum-stances that cost them their bowl game againstUNC and then earlier in the season against LSUwhich had Dooley ready to soak himself inGatorade. Come November, UK studentsshould expect to see Tyler Bray taking snapsfrom center for the Vols, barring injury. Once ayoung team, Tennessee returns 13 starters, sev-en on offense and six on defense. The defense,with mainstays linebacker Herman Lathers anddefensive tackle Malik Jackson, should be thefocal point for the team as the offense works outthe kinks under offensive coordinator JimChaney, who groomed Drew Brees at Purdue.The early part of the season should help get theteam going with a rather easy schedule, otherthan a showdown with Florida.

VanderbiltKey Returner: Larry Smith, QBKey Loss: John Stokes, LBWho to Watch: Casey Hayward, CB

Quarterback Larry Smith will once again takecenter for the Commodores on offense, but theymay look to the defense and cornerback CaseyHayward to help the team rise to the top of theSEC. Hayward was second in the SEC in inter-ceptions and was the league leader in pass de-flections, the definition of a ball hawk. Line-backer Chris Marve, the active leader in careerstops at Vanderbilt, will join him. Marve playedthe second half of last season injured, but stillmanaged 80 tackles. As impressive as those twomay seem, it was safety Sean Richardson thatled the team in tackles last season, finishingfourth in the SEC for solo tackles. Vandy mayhave finally found it’s defensive equivalent tothe offense of Jay Cutler and Earl Bennett, butit’s early and if I were a Vandy fan, I wouldn’tcount my chickens until they hatch.

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Last season’s SEC slate threw alot of wrenches into everyone’s pre-dictions. I mean really, did anyonesee Auburn with a big, strong, un-proven quarterback named Newton (Ibelieve UK has one of those in its ar-senal) demolishing the SEC on theirway to winning the National Champi-onship? Or how about Florida with ateam full of speed and experience, de-spite the loss of Tim Tebow, under-performing to the level that they did?

In breaking down the SEC East forthe 2011 season, many factors need tobe brought into focus. Such factors in-clude coaching changes (I’m lookingat you Florida), departed players, re-turning players, arrests (Yet again,looking at you Florida), violations, etc.,I think you get the gist of it.

With that, here are my two cents,love them or hate them, on how thingswill unfold in the SEC East this up-coming season.

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The official cast announcement wasmade during Monday’s episode of “Bache-lor Pad” on the network. The new crew’sdancing partners will be announced duringWednesday’s telecast of “Good MorningAmerica.”

The contestants have a lot to live upto: Season 12 of ABC’s dance contest,which featured contestants such as KirstieAlley and winner Hines Ward, averaged22.5 million total viewers, up 4 percentcompared with the 11th season, accordingto the Nielsen Co.—putting the show No.

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Aaron (and the Kernel) got exactly what hedeserved. If he had any questions regardingthe players' status, he should have gone toUK Athletics. Now he knows their status andhe clearly violated the rules regarding playercontact. This is what happens when a pre-tend journalist gets greedy ... He had unbe-lieveable access to the players and blew it.I'm glad UK revoked his access. There in no1st Amendment violation. The Constitutiondemands free speech, not free access.

- Thalethia Routt, counsel general associate at UK

(This) is so clearly a violation of FirstAmendment rights for the university to con-dition access on gathering or publishing in-formation the way the university wants youto do it.

- Jon Fleischaker, Kentucky First Amendment lawyer

Sounds to me like these "student journal-ists" need to keep in mind that it is a privi-lege to have access to UK student athletes,and not a right. Threatening legal action andall that non-sense is just another product ofthe entitlement culture that stigmatizesmost college students today anyhow. Thefact that the Kernel had to even write aboutthis in such a subjective manner clearlyshows it's just sour grapes.

- ChristianGuy, commenter on Kernel website

It’s entirely possible that the student news-paper guys were thinking these were more stu-dents than athletes ... I don’t have a big prob-lem with them being banned for one session.

- Gregg Doyel, national columnist for CBSSports.com

The moral of this is two-fold. First, have writtenand publicly available policies for interview re-quests. This is something we preach heavily inour textbook. UK acknowledges in the Kernelstory that its policies are "unwritten."

And second, just like the first UK inci-dent a month ago, if you are a PR person, don'tbecome the story. This could have been handledmany different ways, not the least of whichwould be a one-on-one conversation with thereporter, reinforcing the"unwritten" policy andsuggesting subsequent policy violations will re-sult in something more punitive.

After all, this was a story about Ken-tucky basketball walk-ons by the student paper,written in August, six weeks before the season.Now it is national news.

- Steve Dittmore, assistant professor of recreation andsports management at the University of Arkansas

It's a classic case of how an institution uses"access" as a reward/punishment system tokeep "reporters" in line, and a great illustrationof why "access' is often overrated. You get ac-cess as long as you do what the institutionyou're covering is happy with what you do. Ican't imagine how that could be defined asjournalism.

- King Kaufman, writing programmanager at Bleacher Report

Reaction to UK Athletics, Kernel disagreement over walk-ons

‘Tucky Tweets about Free Kernel

Be careful who you talk to or Big Blue Nationmay revoke your citizenship. At least they’ll proba-bly violate your First Amendment rights.

In an arguably illegal display of punishment, UKAthletics banned the Kentucky Kernel from partici-pating in a set of men’s basketball team interviewsafter writer and editor Aaron Smith scooped the sto-ry of a pair of walk-ons making the team.

On Monday, the Kernel ran a front-page storydetailing the punishment and still ran Smith’s 89-word story announcing the walk-ons. The reportingand gumption not to apologize for their actionsshould earn a tip-of-the-hat to Smith and the wholeKernel staff.

UK Athletics is a different story. Let’s start with theincident in an isolated sense. DeWayne Peevy’s quotessuggest that UK athletics has a gentleman’s agreementnot to contact players directly, and according to Peevy’stweets, that policy is written in “every media guide.”But does a policy constitute a rule that carries a punish-ment when broken? No, it’s not a contract. Was Smithaware of any retribution he may receive for contactingplayers away from the watchful eye of UK Athletics?Probably not.

But you don’t even have to get to that point tosee the lunacy of the sanction. The players had noteven been officially a part of the UK team, so dothey truly fall under the protection of the UK mediaguide? How could Smith have been aware he wasbreaking a rule if he wasn’t aware the players wereactually players?

Further, Peevy’s lack of clarity in his interviewwith the Kernel makes it hard to understand whatline Smith actually crossed. Imagine this: A walk-onmakes the team, tells his friends, assuming UK Ath-letics lets the players even have friends, and thefriends tell the Kernel. Would the reporter be subjectto sanctions? Or, better, what if the walk-on comesand tells the Kernel himself? I assume players aretold not to volunteer information, but would the re-porter be expected to plug his ears and sing? Wouldhe or she be punished for asking questions in thatsituation? Who knows.

So, in response to good journalism, UK Athleticskicks the Kernel to the curb and locks them out ofplayer interviews. UK Athletics is overacting like achild. Peevy would not even compromise the pun-ishment even though he called it a “minor viola-tion.” UK Athletics has crawled up into its tree-house and the Kernel can’t get in because the pass-word is censorship.

In a broader sense, the policy breaks down evenfurther. If a student sees Darius Miller on campus,talks to him, then writes about the conversation on ablog, could UK Athletics ban the student from see-ing a game for violating the policy? Controlling thedissemination of information by punishing outsideparties is ludicrous.

On top of that, UK Athletics is punishing an or-ganization that speaks to the heart of UK fan base:UK students. The Kernel is consistently pro-Wild-cats, consistently well-written, and, in the hundredsof interviews prior to this misunderstanding, consis-tently compliant. UK Athletics should be fosteringthis publication and giving its students access to ex-clusive information in an effort to repay the millionsof hours spent cheering for UK teams.

While it is consistently downtrodden under thecorrupt foot of the NCAA, in this instance UK Athlet-ics is taking a page out of the NCAA’s handbook andenforcing a rule that doesn’t really exist. How ironic.

UK Athletics needs to take a long look in themirror and realize that the solution is not to punishnews outlets. Other schools dream of having thislevel of exposure for their athletics programs. Butinstead of relishing in the attention, controlling itsplayers’ public statements (Really guys? You letthem use Twitter?), and creatively satisfying the ap-petite for sports news in Kentucky, UK Athletics ison a diva-sized power binge and is using its desir-ability to control news organizations.

Ultimately, it sounds like UK Athletics is an-noyed that another organization stole its limelight.In the Twitter generation, they need to learn thathoarding information is impossible and just frus-trates fans and reporters.

Bravo to the Kernel for good reporting. Hopeful-ly Kernel reporters keep pushing until the crotchetyorganization that is UK Athletics lightens up andstarts having fun with UK sports.

Or until Peevy rewrites the Constitution.Roy York is a second-year law student at the

University of Kentucky and a former Kernel staffmember. Email opinions@kykernel.com

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over UK policy

If you put "free" in front ofanything people will blow it up.Calm down, crusaders, this storyshouldn't be a story. #freekernel

- BBK_Kyle

The sportsjournalist Ialways strivedto be like#FreeKernel

- kstewart708

On behalf of @SportsReflector,I send my support to a fellowSEC student reporter.#freeKernel ?

- JamesCarskadon

Nice to see the #freekernelmovement is going nationwide

- jhowerton2010

ARI SOGIN, Kernel cartoonist

Until Kentucky agrees to #FreeKernel, I think I'llrevoke SI coverage of their mediocre football team.

- Andy_Staples

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Darius Miller was tabbed as a po-tential glue guy for a young title-con-tending UK team by his two-time U.S.coach.

“He’s a good teammate and a goodperson,” said Matt Painter in a telecon-ference Monday, head coach at Purduewho coached the U.S. team in theWorld University Games. “I think UKhas an unbelievable chance to go farthis year, if not win it all. Because ifDarius Miller is one of your guys in themix with a lot of talent, especially a lotof young talent, I think he’s going to doa great job of piecing some things to-gether because he’s kind of that quin-tessential teammate.”

Miller averaged 5.6 points and 3.6rebounds in eight games playing for theU.S. team in the Games. Painter said heplayed Miller as a undersized powerforward, but noted that Miller is reallya “big guard.” Painter said his ability topass and handle the basketball from thepower forward position helped the U.S.team stretch opponents’ defenses.

The Games were Miller’s second in-ternational competition, as he alsoplayed for the U.S. team in the 2009FIBA U19 World Championships.

Painter, who also coached that team,noticed improvement in Miller’s game.

“His improvements from two yearsago are great,” Painter said. “He’s bet-ter in all phases of the game, in termsof shooting the basketball, handling thebasketball and his overall decision-making. He’s really evolving into a bigguard. He’s still going through thatprocess, but he’s made some big steps.That staff has done a great job withhim, because he’s made improvementsin all areas of his game the past twoyears.”

US coachpraisesMiller

By Aaron Smith

asmith@kykernel.com

strated by the university is not tolerated atschools in other states and is “particularlyabhorrent at a taxpayer institution.”

The Associated Press Sports Editorssent a separate statement to the university,calling its decision to rescind access “dis-turbing on many levels.”

The statement, signed by APSE Presi-dent Michael A. Anastasi, referred to the“abridgement of basic First Amendmentrights to decide access issues based on whatthe publication writes.”

“This is a form of censorship, some-thing institutions of higher learning shouldfind as repulsive as the media do,” Anastasisaid in the statement.

“Ultimately, the decision to talk to themedia rests with the athlete and if you don’twant your players to talk to the media with-out the SID office interceding then youhave to get that message to the athletes.And, we believe you did as the athletes inquestion chose not to talk.”

He also said that if the purpose of theone-on-one interview event was to train hisplayers in dealing with the media, as Peevywas quoted saying, then the interviewwould be part of a learning process, and“maybe you can see that how this type ofpunishment is out of line with what you aretrying to accomplish.”

The local chapter of the Society of Pro-fessional Journalists, an organization com-prised of reporters dedicated to ensuring thefree press, also issued a statement saying itsmembers were “strongly disappointed in theactions taken by the University of KentuckyAthletics Department against the independ-ent student newspaper.”

“The Kentucky Kernel sports reporterwas carrying out one of the most basic andimportant duties a journalist is charged with— trying to separate fact from fiction,” said

Adam Baker, SPJ president for the Blue-grass Pro Chapter, in the statement sent tothe Kernel via email.

Baker said UK officials can’t stop a re-porter from asking a question, and their“excessive punishment” shouldn’t havebeen implemented, is an abuse of powerand is a “shameful blow to the FirstAmendment.”

“Punishing a journalist for doing his orher job is unacceptable,” he said.

UK’s SPJ chapter president Brooke Mc-Cloud released a statement as well.

“We are taught as young journalists toserve those who seek information and de-liver that information with the absolutetruth,” McCloud said. “It is the foundationof democracy.

“I find it a great shame that the samedepartment I grew up supporting and admir-ing is denying mine and my peers’ journal-istic and democratic rights.”

The Bluegrass SPJ chapter also urgedUK officials to reverse their decision.

Fan reactions to the situation have beenmixed. Some responded on Twitter Mondaynight and Tuesday with the hashtag #FreeK-ernel, while others criticized Smith’s action,saying he and other media should not be al-lowed to call players directly.

Associate Athletic Director for MediaRelations DeWayne Peevy, who revokedSmith’s media access, said that UK’s policyis in place mainly to protect athletes fromreceiving an overwhelming amount ofphone calls from the media. Many whocommented on the Kernel’s website andtweeted about the story agreed that players’privacy should be respected.

The story was popularized on Twitterlate Monday night after SI.com collegefootball reporter Andy Staples tweeted,“Way to go, Kentucky SIDs. Nobody everwrites about the walk-ons. Someone does,and you revoke access.”

He tweeted soon after: “Until Kentuckyagrees to #FreeKernel, I think I’ll revoke SIcoverage of their mediocre football team.”

Gregg Doyel, a CBSSports.com nationalcolumnist, had a different view.

Via his Twitter handle, @greggdoyel-cbs, he said, “Re: Kentucky. My bad! Thestudent paper is punished for ONE session.Not the whole year. Non-story. Move on,haters.”

Peevy also responded on his Twitter ac-count shortly after the Kernel published itsstory late Monday. He tweeted in response toother journalists who were commentingabout the Kernel’s story, telling them tocheck their facts and defending his decision.

His last tweet of the night, and lasttweet as of press time Tuesday, said: “Gottalove UK. No dull moments.”

Thalethia Routt, a counsel general asso-ciate in the Office of Legal Counsel at UK,posted a comment on the Kernel’s websiteunder the Kernel’s story about the UK Ath-letics situation.

“Aaron (and the Kernel) got exactlywhat he deserved,” her comment said. “Ifhe had any questions regarding the players’status, he should have gone to UK Athlet-ics. Now he knows their status and he clear-ly violated the rules regarding player con-tact. This is what happens when pretendjournalist get greedy ... He had unbeliev-able access to the players and blew it. I’mglad UK revoked his access. There is noFirst Amendment violation. The Constitu-tion demands free speech, not free access.”

When asked by the Kernel if she wasthe one who posted the comment, she saidthat she was and that she had been in a badmood that morning.

A person with the Twitter handle@smyzo, who appears to be a UK fan, saidin response to UK Media Relations lookinglike a bully, “Uh, media can’t go callingUK players directly, its their #1 rule. Howis a 1 day ban being a bully?”

The APME, in its statement, urged UKAthletics to restore Smith’s media access,although the one-on-one interviews in ques-tion had taken place earlier that day. TheAPSE said the same.

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“ This is a form of censorship, something institutions of higherlearning should find as repulsive as the media do.”

Michael A. Anastasi, Associated Press Sports Editors President

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