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PORTRAIT BY MIKE WEAVER | STAFFDr. Mary Lynne Capilouto stands in the driveway of Maxwell Place, the president’s home, where she resides with her husband President Eli Capilouto.

This summer, Dr. MaryLynne Capilouto and her hus-band, President Eli Capilouto,chose to be a part of UK’s legacyand relocate from their home inBirmingham, Ala., to begin the2011-12 school year with UK stu-dents.

“It is a tremendous honor,”Capilouto said in the sittingroom of her new on-campus res-idence, Maxwell Place. “I’m thepartner to the president, and to-gether we feel an awesome re-sponsibility.

“There is such a rich legacyhere, and you want to take good

care of the legacy and take it tonew heights … and I’m happy tosupport Eli.”

Upon arrival, the Capiloutosmade the decision to live full-time at Maxwell Place. (FormerPresident Lee Todd and wife, Pat-sy, split their living arrangementsbetween Maxwell Place and apersonal residence during Todd’stenure.)

Capilouto said she and herhusband wanted to live in the his-toric mansion, located in the heartof UK’s campus, because theywanted to live where “there werea lot of people.”

The Capiloutos were given atour of Maxwell Place by theTodds on the first day the new

president was selected for the of-fice.

“This is such a grand home… that first day Dr. and Mrs.Todd hosted breakfast, and thatwas my first tour of the house,”Capilouto said. “I was like a lit-tle kid exploring. I was takenaback when she asked me if Iwanted to see the attic. This at-tic’s great.”

Maxwell Place, which is fullydecorated before a new first fami-ly moves in, got a bit of a second-story renovation courtesy ofCapilouto.

“We’ve put some fresh painton the walls,” she said. “We’vemoved all of our furniture to thesecond floor and made it ourown.”

Capilouto has heard manystories about Patsy Todd’s cook-ies. A legend went that if a stu-dent rang the doorbell at Maxwell

Place while the Todds were in of-fice, Patsy Todd would give thema fresh-baked cookie.

The Capiloutos are currentlybrainstorming what their own leg-end will be, but Capilouto saysshe thinks creating one would bea good way to get to know stu-dents individually.

“I really take the opportunityto get to know the students andlearn about what they’re goingthrough in their classes,” she said.

Capilouto has proven she isn’tshy around students, after her“waltz with the Wildcats,” whenshe danced with the football teamduring freshmen move-in.

She expressed her love forstaying young and active, being asports fan and liking JokerPhillips.

“He’s a good coach,” shesaid. “Recruiting is tough and

By Joy Priest and Taylor Riley

jpriest@kykernel.com

See CAPILOUTO on page 2

Mary Lynne, wife of the president, adjusts to new home, role on campus

The other Dr. Capilouto

While it was not as easy as watching anapple fall from a tree, scientists may havediscovered evidence for the next break-through in the study of physics.

Researchers have found that through re-peated testing, neutrinos arrived at a specif-ic destination faster than the speed of lightin a vacuum, which nothing is thought pos-sible of doing.

A neutrino is a fundamental subatomicparticle that has little mass, but no electriccharge.

The experiment was conducted from2009 to 2011, by a large network of re-searchers working with CERN, the Euro-pean Organization for Nuclear Research.

The scientists who collaborated withCERN conducted the experiment by creat-ing neutrinos with a particle accelerator inGeneva.

These neutrinos were directed through730 km of the earth’s crust to a particle de-tector called Oscillation Project with Emul-sion-tRacking Apparatus (OPERA), locatedat the Gran Sasso National Laboratory inItaly.

Researchers found in this study that theneutrinos arrived at the project in 2.43 mil-liseconds, or as UK physics professor Dr.Susan Gardner describes, they arrived 60feet before light would have.

“I think that they really have seen some-thing,” Gardner said. “The question iswhether what they've seen should be inter-preted in the way they've claimed.”

According to UK faculty, there are manyvariables that could be the source of this sig-nificant result, called systematic errors.

These errors could include the miscal-

Particle maytravel faster

than light

By Jarrod Thacker

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See LIGHT on page 3

Faculty and studentsdiscuss experiment

One national organization will be oncampus this week, bringing along one oftheir famous board members, John Legend.

Teach For America, a corps for collegegraduates to teach in underprivilegedschools across the country for two years,will be on campus this week to promotetheir organization.

Nolan Jackson, TFA’s campus campaigncoordinator at UK, said many events areplanned for this week to get undergraduatestudents involved with the organization.

“We’ve sent out invitations to studentswho have been recommended by our cam-pus coordinators,” Jackson said. “Tuesdaynight, the Student Activities Board is spon-soring a lecture on campus with John Leg-end, who is a board member on TFA.”

Jackson and others will be tabling allday Tuesday outside White Hall ClassroomBuilding to pass out information to allthose interested, especially those who wantto apply.

“Any graduating senior can apply,”Jackson said. “TFA is a two-year teaching

Corps aimsto teachAmerica

By Drew Teague

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Attorney general visits UKto discuss open government

Democrat Attorney Gen-eral Jack Conway is sched-uled to participate in an opengovernment forum at UK.

The forum will takeplace Tuesday at 6 p.m. inthe William T. Young Libraryauditorium.

Republican Todd P’Pool,second-term Hopkins Countyattorney, canceled because ofa scheduling issue.

Conway, who is seekingre-election, will answerquestions discussing hisstandpoint on open govern-ment topics like Kentucky’sOpen Meetings Act andOpen Records Act.

“The attorney general’srace is second only to the

governor’s race in the Nov.8 election,” said BuckRyan, director of the CitizenKentucky Project of theScripps Howard FirstAmendment Center. “It isfirst for people who careabout the First Amend-ment.”

The goal is to “focus at-tention of the future attorneygeneral on the subject mat-ter,” said Al Cross, directorof the Institute for RuralJournalism and CommunityIssues. “It helps him realizethere are people who reallycare.”

The forum is sponsoredby the School of Journalismand Telecommunications, theInstitute for Rural Journalismand the Scripps Howard FirstAmendment Center.

By Elizabeth Suh

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PHOTO BY LATARA APPLEBY| STAFFKentucky Attorney General Jack Conway willspeak at an open government forum Tuesday.

Students can be tested forHIV Wednesday from 11 a.m.to 2 p.m.

University Health Serviceand AIDS Volunteers Inc. areoffering the free service,which will be in rooms 206and 251 of the Student Cen-ter.

The test will consist of anoral swab and students can getresults in 20 minutes, accord-ing to a news release.

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LOS ANGELES — An “Arrested Devel-opment” comeback on the big screen? It’s themyth that keeps on giving since the show wentoff the air five years ago. But fans of Fox’squirky comedy who have longed for its returnin movie form can now breathe a little easierwith creator Mitchell Hurwitz's latest morselof hope.

On Sunday, during a New Yorker Festivalevent that reunited him with the show's cast,Hurwitz promised the audience that a filmadaptation of the Bluth clan was still in theworks and there's even a set of nine or 10 tel-evision episodes, each focusing on a certaincharacter, that would serve as a curtain raiserto the movie. Hurwitz said he was abouthalfway done with a screenplay with his co-writers Jim Vallely and Dean Lorey. No details

on what studio is backing the movie or the TVepisodes, nor which network the TV portionwould be broadcast on.

Current “Up All Night” star Will Arnett,who appeared in "Arrested Development" asGob, confirmed the news on Twitter: “I'm pee-ing with @batemanjason at the moment ... andwe can confirm that we are going to makenew AD eps and a movie."

Jason Bateman, who starred as MichaelBluth, also took to the masses and tweetedSunday: “It's true. We will do 10 episodes andthe movie. Probably shoot them all togethernext summer for a release in early ‘13. VERYexcited! (c) 2011 the Los Angeles Times Visitthe Los Angeles Times at www.latimes.com

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The female Dr. Capi-louto

When speaking to both ofthe Capiloutos, addressingthem becomes somewhatconfusing because they bothhold doctoral degrees in den-tistry. Is it Dr. and Mrs. Capi-louto? Dr. and Dr. Capilouto?Dr. and Dr. Mrs. Capilouto?

Mary Lynne Capilouto,former dean of the Universityof Alabama-BirminghamSchool of Dentistry, was oneof two female deans at a den-tal college when she started inthe 1990s (the other, Dr.Sharon Turner, the currentdean of UK’s College of Den-tistry, was dean of OregonHealth and Science Universi-ty’s School of Dentistry at thesame time).

Turner described Capi-louto as a “delightful person,easy to work with and a veryhard worker.”

“Knowing her back-ground and her leadership,and her ability to understandwhat happens in the dentalschool … I’m thrilled tohave her here,” Turner said.“She knows my everydaylife.”

At UAB, Capilouto start-ed a community outreach pro-gram that allowed students to

get real-world training in theless-fortunate areas of Ala-bama.

“It had a profound impacton the students, and quite of-ten students would come tounderstand the region and be-come interested in a ruralpractice,” Capilouto said.

She said she is continuingher focus on oral health issuesin Kentucky.

“Kentucky and Alabamahave a lot of similarities asfar as dental health issues,”Capilouto said. “There arelarge amounts of poor accessand lack of understanding oforal health issues. Both havelarge populations that are un-derserved.”

Capilouto said she is im-pressed with the current deanof UK’s College of Dentistry,and she is hoping to get moreinvolved with UK’s commu-nity outreach.

Turner said she thinksCapilouto wants to become in-volved because of her publichealth dentistry backgroundand because of the extent ofthe dental school’s outreach.

“She is trying to get herlicense squared away so wecan get her on the faculty,”Turner said. “She can be li-censed as a faculty-licensedperson or get her credentialstransferred from Alabama.”

Turner said she simplyhasn’t been here long enoughto complete that process.

“We’d love to have her,”Turner said. “We do think shewants to contribute to ourmission, particularly our out-

reach mission.”

Mrs. Capilouto

Eli and Mary Lynne Capi-louto have been married 33years.

“We met in dental school,”Mary Lynne said. “He wastwo years ahead of me. Therewere only two women in theclass (1973), and it was atough road for me.”

Eli wanted to return toMontgomery, Ala., where hisfather was already a practic-ing dentist, but a professorconvinced him to remain tojoin the faculty. A couple ofyears later, Mary Lynne didthe same.

“He knew who I was, butI didn’t know him,” she said.“I remember him gradingsome of my clinical work …we started dating during myresidency.”

The summer after she fin-ished her residency, they gotmarried.

The couple works hard tokeep the romance amidst theirbusy schedules, and theyshare a lot of the same hob-

bies.“We start off the day

everyday with breakfast to-gether, and we try to end theday together,” Mary Lynnesaid. “We like to read thenewspapers, you know?”

The Capiloutos share alove for gardening and acade-mia. Mary Lynne said back inAlabama, the couple main-tained their own garden attheir residence.

“My husband’s bestfriend besides me and thedogs is the lawnmower,” shesaid.

The university settinghas always been the couple’scommunity, Mary Lynnesaid.

“We’ve grown up at auniversity,” she said. “Weboth understand the value ofeducation on the quality oflife. It’s what we know;where we are comfortable.”

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“The next deadline is ourthird deadline and that’s Oc-tober 26. So anybody that isinterested can visit the web-site and start the application.It’s really simple.”

After students submittheir applications online,there will be an interviewstage and a final selectionstage, Jackson said. Studentswill get a chance to put pref-erence on a region after theyhave been selected.

“You take a test to quali-fy for the certain classesyou’ll teach,” Jackson said.“Then you’ll be trained overthe summer before you’reactually placed in yourteaching region.”

Jackson said TFA is oneof the country’s most promi-nent organizations and isgreat to help start a career orgraduate school applications.

“TFA was actually re-cently ranked as one of thetop ten best ways to jump-start a career by BloombergMagazine,” Jackson said.

Kelsey Hayes, formerStudent Government vice

president and current TFAteacher, joined the corps be-cause of the mission of TFA.

“I truly believe that oneday all children in Americawill have the opportunity toattain an excellent educationregardless of their back-ground, socio-economic sta-tus, or the zip code they areborn into,” Hayes said. “Ialso witnessed, first-hand,the achievement gap as I wasgrowing up.”

Hayes teaches eighthgrade English and reading atPatrick Henry Middle Schoolin Houston.

“Any student who trulybelieves in the mission ofTeach For America and iswilling to dedicate two yearsof their life to this workshould apply,” Hayes said. “Iwould love to have anotherWildcat in the classroom atmy school.”

Hayes said her studentsare inspiring because of thethings they have overcomein their lives.

“Not only are they smartand have big dreams, someof them overcome more ad-versity every day than Icould have ever dreamedof,” Hayes said. “I Teach forAmerica to give my studentsan opportunity to make it outof the neighborhood”

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR

This letter is a response to an Oct. 3 columntitled “State candidates unaccountable.”

I find the recent article stating that Gov.Beshear is dodging voters and not showing wherehe stands on issues to be horribly incorrect.Beshear took the reigns of this state after an ad-ministration who promised to clean up waste,fraud and abuse and just plain cleaned our bankaccounts out!

Beshear then takes what little income he hasleft, works with the Kentucky legislature, includ-ing a very stubborn Sen. David Williams (whoseems never to care about the Commonwealth,but rather proving his personal beliefs correct),and creates a sustainable budget for the state.

Was it great? No. Did it cut funding for post-secondary education? Yes. It kept our state afloat,and although I hate my increased tuition as muchas the next person, I am glad I have a governorwho stood up, made the tough calls and took careof the poor, hungry and downtrodden.

Beshear’s record speaks for itself and he doesnot need to engage in useless banter withWilliams to prove anything.

Brian Riggs is a KYKernel.com reader. Emailopinions@kykernel.com.

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR

This letter is a response toa Sept. 28 letter to the editor ti-tled “The ‘American Dream’starts at the top.”

Nothing important “starts atthe top.”

In the words of VermontGov. Howard Dean, “At everyturn when there has been animbalance of power, the truthquestioned or our beliefs andvalues distorted, the change re-quired to restore our nation hasalways come from the bottomup from our people.”

The author of “The ‘Amer-ican Dream’ starts at the top,”however, does not appear tobelieve in “the change requiredto restore our nation.” And, al-though I respect the author’sinsistence in this still being“the land of opportunity,” thelamentable truth is belief doesnot change reality. The U.S.has many, many problems —many of which become clear inan analysis of the author’s ex-pressed points.

First is the author’s engage-ment in an either-or fallacy inmaintaining that one can live inonly one of two possible politi-cal systems: servitude under atotalitarian “communist”regime or servitude under acorporatist kleptocracy. Thetruth is this Manichean view ofreality ignores the infinite di-versity of human political sys-tems.

Furthermore, aside fromfailing to grasp its immensity,the author seems to believe thatbecause economic inequalityexists everywhere, its enormityhere is somehow justified.Myriad diseases, say tuberculo-sis, exist across the planet. Thisfact would not console mewere I to live in a region whereTB was a serious problem.

Thirdly, the author misun-derstands the gravity of poverty

in Haiti. Comparing “beingpoor” in the Haiti to “beingpoor” in U.S. is comparing ap-ples to jet engines. Nonethe-less, just because poverty inHaiti is much worse thanpoverty in the U.S. in absolute-ly no way justifies its persist-ence here. AIDS is also worsein Haiti. Does that mean thatwe Americans shouldn’t worryabout it?

As for trickle-down eco-nomics (or “supply-side eco-nomics”), eminent economistJohn Kenneth Galbraith, Orderof Canada, revealed that it hadbeen implemented in the U.S.in the 1890s — to just as inef-fectual results (Ever heard ofthe Panic of 1896?) — albeitunder a much more appropriatename, the “horse and sparrowtheory,” for, “If you feed thehorse enough oats, some willpass through to the road for thesparrows.” Need I explicatefurther?

Just because an industrycreates jobs is in no way alonejustification for its continuedexistence. In many parts of theworld, human trafficking, drugdealing, assassination and pros-titution all create jobs, many ofwhich are “higher paying” and

even “more stable” than otheralternatives. Does this meanthese systems should continue?Furthermore, that big businesscreates many jobs is no justifi-cation for its continued manip-ulation and exploitation of ourpolitical and economic sys-tems, and the lives and well-being of countless Americans.

The article then engages inanother either-or fallacy, dictat-ing that our only options are ahedonistic, consumption-in-duced haze of life, tightly con-trolled by corporate fascistoverlords; or “an agrarian, sub-sistence society” without“[m]ost of the products we useevery day.” Veering off of thisrhetorical slippery slope, I ask,if “disbanding” big businesswere to lead to such a state,how did it arise in the firstplace? Surely at no point inhistory a transition occurredbetween the two extremes;surely at no point did abundantsmall, independent businessesreplace these truculent oligopo-lies.

Further, the author’s claimthat “just because the poor arepoor doesn’t mean they havebeen victimized” depends en-tirely on the employed defini-tion of “victimized.” If oneisn’t victimized by being borninto a culture of poverty, inwhich generations of one’sfamily members, neighbors andpeers have lived in poverty, ina neighborhood in which thesociocultural and economiccapital and infrastructure nec-essary to earn a decent livingdo not exist and crime is oneof the few, if not only, viableways to find a way out, I don’tknow what the author wouldconsider “victimized.”

The author seems to misun-derstand the reality of trying tolive on the minimum wage.Undercover journalist Barbara

Ehrenreich’s book “Nickel andDimed: On (Not) Getting By inAmerica” recounts living onminimum wage for two yearsand reveals the truly arduous,almost impossible, lifestyle; themany “hidden costs” to thepoor; the numerous forms ofsubtle discrimination; and thechronic pain and injuries result-ing from her menial manual la-bor. She, and others, discov-ered that it is often, in fact, theimpoverished off of whosegenerosity we live, not the re-verse.

All of these are very realproblems we — we all, asAmericans, as human beings— face. For those of us whoare enormously priviledged, itis our responsibility, our duty,to fight for the rights of thoseless fortunate than us. Study af-ter study has shown that themost important factor in deter-mining an individual’s wealthand livelihood has been thewealth of the individual’s par-ents. We must realize that the“hard work” we may believewe have put into life pales insickly comparison to the back-breaking effort and the labori-ous physical and mental agonyendured by those less fortunatethan us.

And the truth is, if onewere to assume, if only mo-mentarily, that the AmericanDream were not indeed dead, itwould absolutely never comefrom the top down. As U.S.denizens, as believers indemocracy, it is our responsi-bility, and our responsibilityalone, to resurrect it from thebottom up.

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culation of distances, the un-intended addition of particlesor even an error with the syn-chronized atomic clocks thattimed the neutrinos.

Some UK faculty and stu-dents appear to be cautious inregards to CERN’s claims.

“It's such a startling re-

sult, it would mean rethinkingour idea of relativity,” saidTim Gorringe, a UK physicsprofessor. “To be accepted inthe scientific community, itwould have to validated byother experiments.”

Similar experiments havebeen conducted in the past,like the U.S. based Fermilaboutside of Chicago, Gardnersaid, but none have had suchan impressive margin of erroras CERN’s.

Lauren Chism, a physicsfreshman and member of theUK Society of Physics Stu-dents, was excited to hear ofthe findings, but was disap-pointed when learning that itwas only one laboratory’s re-sults.

“I'd like to see somereplication of it, but I don'tthink it will happen,” Chismsaid.

Will Bates, UK physicsjunior and member of the

physics students society, saidhe believes that media hypehas bloated expectations ofthe study, but accepts thatwhat we currently know ofthe natural world may bewrong.

“That’s the thing aboutphysics — we describe thethings around us the best wecan until we find a better wayto do it,” Bates said.

The implications of thisdiscovery, while interesting,

are not especially significant inregards to how we understandthe universe, Gorringe said.

He said that Newton’sLaws of Motion apply toeveryday things, and wouldbe valid in most cases. WithEinstein’s discovery, it be-came apparent that those lawswere not precisely right, espe-cially at speeds near light.

Gorringe said that this sit-uation is not drastically dif-ferent.

“We learn as we go,” saidChristopher Crawford, a UKphysics professor. “We eitherlearn something new about na-ture or about new techniquesin our research processes.”

Verification of CERN’sresults could take severalyears if another experimentcan duplicate its results, or itcould take a few weeks ifsomeone in the physics com-munity can identify a system-atic error, UK faculty said.

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Saturday's week sixmatchup between UK andSouth Carolina is the thirdgame of a daunting three-game stretch on the Cats'2011 schedule. It began withtheir SEC-opener at homeagainst SEC-powerhouseFlorida and continued whenthey traveled to LSU to takeon the No. 1 team in the na-tion. South Carolina marksthe third consecutive rankedteam the Cats will face toopen their conference sched-ule.

“I was kind of ready forit because that's what Isigned up for playing in theSEC,” UK freshman runningback Josh Clemons said.“You're going to have to facehard teams like that back-to-back-to-back.”

UK lost to both Floridaand LSU by a combinedscore of 83-24 in the previ-ous two weeks. Despitekeeping both games closeearly, UK was not able tostay with its SEC counter-parts for a full 60 minutes offootball.

Against Florida, the Catsand Gators traded punts untila turnover by the UK offenseset Florida up with its firstscore of the game. UKwould turn the ball overthree more times for thegame, allowing Florida torun away with a victory.

Against LSU, the Catsdefense single-handedly keptUK in the game in the firsthalf, entering the lockerrooms down just 14-0. Butan inept offense that showedno ability to move the foot-ball against the Tigers' men-

acing defense prevented theCats from ever making it agame.

“My defense alwaysplays well,” senior line-backer Ronnie Sneed said.“Florida did rush for 400-some yards on us, but it was-n't the effort that they gave,they just out-schemed us andreally out-ran us. They al-ways come to play hard andthey didn't show me any-thing that I knew they could-n't do.”

Upon first glance, UKfeels South Carolina is a beat-able team in comparison to itslast two opponents. TheGamecocks lost their firstgame of the season Saturdayagainst unranked Auburn by ascore of 16-13. Auburn's de-fense held South Carolinasophomore running backMarcus Lattimore to just 66yards rushing on 17 carries,an average of less than fouryards per carry.

South Carolina headcoach Steve Spurrier said hewould like to “shake thingsup” this week in preparationfor UK, which UK headcoach Joker Phillips said hehopes means giving the ballto Lattimore less throughoutthe game. If Lattimore, whoPhillips called a HeismanTrophy contender, can becontained by the UK defensefor a second week in a row,the Cats will have a chance tocompete with the Gamecocks.

"I hope they shake it upand don't turn it over to 21(Lattimore)," Phillips said."That's the shaking up I'dlike to see done. You couldgo in there and hand it off to21 and still have success.(South Carolina is) rushing

for 197 yards (per game). Idon't know what shaking upneeds to be done whenyou're putting up the num-bers that they're putting upoffensively, averaging 31points a game."

Spurrier, however, willhave revenge on his mindwhen the Cats arrive in Co-lumbia. Last year in Com-monwealth Stadium, UKrecorded its only win over aranked opponent all year bydefeating the then-No. 10Gamecocks by a score of 31-28. It was the first time in 18attempts that UK had beatena Spurrier-coached team.Saturday, Spurrier will belooking to prevent it frombecoming a trend.

"That's just like if a teamcame in and beat us, the nexttime we play them we're go-ing to come out and playthem extra tough," Sneedsaid. "They felt like they hadthe game last year and wesort of snuck in and took itaway from them, so I'm sureCoach Spurrier is definitelygoing to have those guysfired up and ready to go."

Amid their recent three-game losing streak, datingback to a home loss toLouisville on Sept. 17, theCats have managed to keeptheir spirits high. Clemonssaid that as a freshman, hehas followed the leadership ofhis quarterback, junior Mor-gan Newton, and of seniorslike linebacker Danny Tre-vathan and safety WinstonGuy, to stay positive and con-tinue working hard.

While it may not showup on the scoreboard, theteam feels that they are im-proving every week andcoming together as a footballteam. When they take thefield in front of more than80,000 screaming Game-cocks fans, they will leave

the losses behind them andline up expecting to have achance to defeat South Car-olina.

"You have to erase thebad things and try to comeout and have a new week,"Sneed said. "We try to goone game at a time. We lostone, now it's time to comeback and try to win the nextone. Just because you lostdoesn't mean you're going tolose the next one, so we justhave to keep fighting."

"We're all coming to-gether as a team, there's justlittle bits and pieces that weneed to work on and getthings going," Guy added."We got a lot of football left.Things are going to comealong and we just got tokeep practicing hard andthings are going to come inour favor in the end."

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UK remains positive throughdifficult stretch of schedule

Thunder, Celtics work out at UKThe NBA lockout is still in effect, so NBA players

keep coming to UK.Sunday night, Kevin Durant tweeted that he was

on his way to Lexington. Today, UK football graduateassistant coach Andre Woodson tweeted that not onlywere the Thunder at UK, but also Rajon Rondo and theBoston Celtics.

Woodson also tweeted that Derrick Rose would becoming to UK Tuesday. UK would neither confirm nordeny the NBA players were on campus working out.

UK sophomore Terrence Joneswas named to the Wooden AwardPreseason Top 50 list Monday.Jones averaged 15.7 points and8.8 rebounds per game last yearand was named SEC Freshman ofthe Year by conference coaches.

Players, coaches believe team is still improving