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ILLUSTRATION BY BRANDON GOODWIN | STAFFAbove: Four Loko flavors uva, lemonade, watermelon and fruit punch. The other flavors are orange, cranberry lemonade,blue raspberry and lemon lime.

Are you for Loko? Four Loko, the alcoholic en-

ergy drink that combines caf-feine, taurine, guarana and alco-hol, has been the subject of con-troversy because of recent inci-dents involving the drink at Cen-tral Washington University andbans of it. The drink has recentlymade its way to some stores nearUK’s campus.

Phusion Projects, based inChicago, makes Four Maxed andFour Loko. Four Loko containseither 6 percent or 12 percent al-cohol by volume, depending onstate regulations, and Four Maxedcontains 10 percent, according toPhusion Projects’ website.

According to the website, 82total stores near UK’s zip codecarry Four products.

Big Daddy Liquors, locatedat 372 Woodland Ave., startedselling Four Loko about a monthand a half ago, manager James

Swanberg said.Swanberg said when the

store first started selling thedrinks, sales were good, andabout five weeks ago the prod-ucts started selling “reallygood.” He said the store was anearly adopter of the product, andno one had raised concernsabout drink’s safety.

“They seem super happyabout it,” he said.

Shenanigans Wine and Spir-its, located at 561 S. Broadway,opened in the second week ofSeptember, and owner Cassan-dra Spears said Four Loko wasavailable when the store opened.She said the Bowling Green,Ky., location started selling ittwo weeks later.

“The first week the sales werekind of slow, but they quicklypicked up, and now we sell out ofit every weekend,” she said.

Spears said the store has hadto order extra because the drinkskeep selling out. She said they

have been outselling competingalcohol energy malt beverages.

Spears also said no one hasraised concerns about safety, andthe store has not discussed dis-continuing sales of the products.

“If anything, it’s increased thesales of the product,” she said.

Andrew Smith, director ofthe Alcohol and Health Educa-tion Office at UK, said the de-partment does not have specificpresentations geared completelytoward the alcoholic-energydrinks, but they are a significantpart of existing presentations.

Smith said a potential toabuse products that mix caffeineand alcohol exist. Because oftheir caffeine and sweet taste,those drinks have the ability tokeep people awake and delay theactual signs of feeling intoxicat-ed, he said.

Smith said drinking Red Bulland vodka has been a commonmix for students who drink, soproducts like Four may be thenext step up.

“They might find that moreappealing,” he said.

After nine Central Washing-ton University students who

drank Four Loko were hospital-ized last month, several collegeshave banned the drinks. On thePhusion Products website, a newsrelease addressed this incident.

“No one is more upset thanwe are when our products areabused or consumed illegally byunderage drinkers — and it ap-pears that both happened in thisinstance. This is unacceptable,”said the news release.

Smith said if the Alcohol andHealth Education Office findsthere’s a need to more specifical-ly address caffeinated alcoholicdrinks, it would revise existingpresentations or add new ones.

Dr. Ryan Stanton, director ofemergency medicine at UKHealthCare Good SamaritanHospital, said the hospital hasnot seen any complications be-cause of caffeinated alcoholicbeverages.

Stanton said no particulardangers exist with these prod-ucts, but a more psychologicaldanger exists because the caf-feine causes a delay in intoxica-tion feelings, causing people todrink more than they normallywould.

By Katie Perkowskikperkowski@kykernel.com

Four Loko: too loco?Alcoholic-energy drink makes

controversy, hits stores near campus

The UK Student Government’s “Cats Cruis-er” program has not met an easy road on its pathto realization. The anticipated start date has beenpushed back multiple times, and now membersof the community who live near some of the pro-posed routes are speaking out about the program.

LexTran associates, SG representatives andcommunity members were given a driving tourWednesday where questions were answeredand feedback was accepted. The tour took placeon a 17-passenger LexTran vehicle, identical tothe ones that will be used for the program.

Community members living in neighbor-hoods near UK’s campus expressed concernsabout students being dropped off and picked upin residential areas late at night where familiesmay be trying to sleep.

Kathy Franklin, a resident in the SevenParks neighborhood, said the service wouldhave an impact on families, and the creatorsneed to look beyond UK and student issues.

“The issue is the impact on neighborhoodsat a time of day that we’d like to be quiet,”Franklin said.

The goal is to get as close to students’ resi-dences as possible without stopping in fron t ofor next to a residential home, SG PresidentRyan Smith said.

SG Deputy Chief of Staff Max Stefka saidchanges have been made to the routes alreadyfor the convenience of students and drivers.

Homeowners like Franklin and ColumbiaHeights resident Janet Cowen worry about theservice becoming a “drunk bus” that transportsinebriated students to and from campus, disturb-

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The long-awaited rulingon UK freshman Enes Kanteris in. The Turkish forwardwas ruled permanently ineli-gible by the NCAA on Thurs-day.

According to the NCAArelease, Kanter received“benefits above his actual andnecessary expenses whileplaying for a club basketballteam in Turkey.”

Kanter played three sea-sons for Fenerbahce in hishomeland from the 2006-07to the 2008-09 season; hecompeted on the club’s seniorteam in 2008-09, duringwhich the NCAA EligibilityCenter found that Kanter re-ceived $33,033 more than hisexpenses for the 2008-09 sea-son.

“Enes took advantage ofan opportunity to play at thehighest level available to him,but the consequences of re-ceiving payments above his

actual expenses is not com-patible with the collegiatemodel of sports that ourmembers have developed,”NCAA vice president of aca-demic and membership af-fairs Kevin Lennon said inthe NCAA release.

UK will appeal theNCAA’s decision. During theappeal process, Kanter willbe allowed to practice, butnot compete or travel, withthe team. UK made the fol-lowing statement:

“We appreciate that the

NCAA has an appealsprocess to allow this youngman to defend the uniquenessof his circumstances,” UKathletic director Mitch Barn-hart said in the NCAA’s re-lease. “Enes is a great kidwho is working hard in theclassroom and enjoying beinga college student. It is ourhope that he will be allowedto continue his academic andathletic career at Kentucky.”

UK spokesman DeWaynePeevy declined further com-ment on the situation.

By Nick Craddock and Chandler Howard

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Kanter ruled permanently ineligible

PHOTO BY BRITNEY MCINTOSH | STAFFFreshman Enes Kanter makes his dramatic entrance at Big BlueMadness at Rupp Arena on Friday, Oct. 15, 2010.

The UK employee arrested earlier thismonth on charges of growing marijuana in herhome was fired by UK Thursday.

Tracey Ellerbe was termi-nated from her job as theCenter on Drugs and AlcoholResearch manager for com-munity-based services Tues-day, UK spokeswoman KristiLopez said Thursday.

Ellerbe had been sus-pended without pay becauseof the investigation, Lopezsaid.

On Nov. 1, Lexington Police found 75marijuana plants in Ellerbe’s home after theLexington Fire Department responded to a fireat Ellerbe’s home at 611 Longview Drive, thepolice report said.

According to the report, Ellerbe said shewas growing the plants for personal use andagreed to let officials search her house.

Ellerbe is scheduled to appear in courtagain Tuesday.

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LOS ANGELES — Just about a year tothe day that he left CNN, Lou Dobbs is return-ing to cable news, this time as host of his ownshow on News Corp.'s Fox Business Network.

Fox Business Network is expected to an-nounce that it has signed Dobbs as early asWednesday afternoon. It's the latest high-pro-file hire for the cable network, which launcheda little over three years ago and is in 57 mil-lion homes. Although that is far fewer homesthan its chief rival, CNBC, Fox Business lastweek managed to beat CNBC on electionnight, both in viewers and the key adults 25-54 demographic.

Dobbs' show will premiere in early 2011.He will also appear on other Fox Businessprogramming.

When Dobbs left CNN last November af-ter clashing with management there, he saidsome leaders had been urging him to "go be-yond the role at CNN and to engage in con-structive problem-solving as well as to con-tribute positively to the great understanding ofthe issues of our day."

At that time, there was speculation that

Dobbs would seek some sort of political of-fice. He had become something of a lighteningrod on several issues, most prominently illegalimmigration. It was his commentary on thattopic that often led to fights with CNN brass,including Jon Klein, who was then presidentof CNN's domestic operations.

Although Dobbs played up the idea that hewould enter politics, many within the mediaindustry anticipated that he would find a newhome at Fox, either with Fox News Channelor Fox Business.

Dobbs has not been off the radar for thelast year. He continued his nationally syndicat-ed radio show after he left CNN and is expect-ed to keep that gig with Fox Business as well.

Dobbs will instantly become one of thebiggest names on Fox Business. Neil Cavutois its most prominent on-air personality. Otherhigh-profile anchors and reporters includeCharlie Gasparino and Dennis Kneale, bothformer CNBC staffers, and Gerri Willis, anex-CNN correspondent who hosts a show forFox Business.

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“A lot of people think it’sa drunk shuttle, but there’s noway a university’s going to

sign off on a drunk shuttle,”Elizabeth neighborhood resi-dent Harck Pickett said.

Smith said one of thegoals of the program is safety,and by providing safe and re-liable student transportation,assaults and drunken drivingwould be prevented.

Buses will run at what are

seen as the highest risk times,Stefka said, when the moststudents are out.

Stefka spent the past sum-mer researching similar pro-grams at benchmark institu-tions and found that a campusof UK’s size needed more thanjust a taxi service. Pennsylva-nia State University, Auburn

University and the Universityof Florida are schools thathave similar transportationservices. Stefka said Auburnsees about 1,500 students perweekend using its driving pro-gram, which uses the samesized vehicles during the samehours as Cats Cruiser.

“We’ve gotten a substan-tial amount of input from stu-dents relating to the desire tohave some kind of transporta-tion,” Smith said.

Homeowners also ex-pressed concern for the noiseemitted by the vans late atnight, every half hour.

LexTran General ManagerRocky Burke said the busesare smaller than regular busesand are much quieter as well.

Other community mem-

bers could use the buses as wellfor the cost of the regular $1LexTran fare, while studentsride free with a UK student ID.

Stefka and Smith, alongwith others, have been work-ing on evolving and changingthe program for a matter ofmonths, and Stefka said theconstant modification mayhave been the cause of somemiscommunication with com-munity members.

Cowen said she’s not op-posed to helping students butdoesn’t think a route downthe 600 block of ColumbiaAvenue is necessary.

Franklin said restrictingthe program to main roads,avoiding residential streets, isthe best idea.

Diane Lawless, 3rd Dis-

trict Lexington city council-woman, said amendmentshave been and can continueto be made on the route andthat “we’re moving in theright direction.” She said shewill continue to be a link be-tween UK and surroundingneighborhood residents.

“I think [the ride] was re-ally constructive, and I reallyappreciate and value theirfeedback,” Stefka said.

“We just want to servethe students in the best waypossible,” Smith said.

SG plans to try the pro-gram starting Dec. 2 until theend of the semester, Smithsaid. After that, final prepara-tions can be made for CatsCruiser to begin in the spring2011 semester.

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Election season has come and gone, and with it has re-turned the ability to actually tolerate watching television asad campaigns have fallen to the wayside. In all seriousness,

though, I hope many, if not all of you,were able to take the time to vote lastweek as our government continued itsconstant change.

Elections on campus have wrapped up,including elections for freshman senators.After a ruling by the Student SupremeCourt disqualified one candidate for ille-gal campaigning, four new members havebeen added to the Student GovernmentSenate.

Congratulations to Tyler Fields, KellyRice, Tommy Crush and Emily Willett onall of their hard work and dedication. A

record 27 freshmen decided to throw their hats in the elec-tion ring this year, and it was great to see the amount ofpassion in our freshman class. A record number of fresh-man voters came out, too: 1,295 freshmen made it to thepolls to elect their student representatives.

Thank you once again to all of those who participatedin the elections this fall and those who ran for election.You are the future leaders of this university and it is greatto see how strong your passion is for this university.

We have begun to finalize all of the last minute detailsas the Cats Cruiser made its second mock run last eveningwith representatives of the Neighborhood Association, UKadministration and eight student representatives aboard.The buses, provided and driven by LexTran, drove the fourset routes that will see the most student travel at night onthe weekends. Each route will have eight to 11 stops alongthe way and will provide students with a free, safe meansof getting home. The mock runs were planned not only toiron out last minute details, but to demonstrate the direneed for this program as it pertains to student safety oncampus. The map of routes and stops will be availablesoon for all students to see, as all the final administrativedetails are completed.

The holidays are quickly approaching, so in the spiritof Thanksgiving, help us represent the Southeastern Con-ference and defeat the ACC in a canned food challenge. Alldonations of non-perishable canned food items will be giv-

en to a Lexington food bank, and in friendly competition,we will keep track of our cans to submit to the SEC total.You may drop off canned food items at the SG office be-tween now and Nov. 19. If you know of an organizationcollecting canned food items, let us know this week by e-mailing UKStudentGovernment@gmail.com, so we canadd it to our total. Stay tuned tohttp://canu101.weebly.com/ to track the challenge.

Speaking of the holidays, Parking & Transportation hasdecided to provide its Student Ride Home Express programagain this year. Students may purchase a ticket for trans-portation home during the holidays for an affordable fee.Buses will be running to eight area locations for the dura-tion of the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays. If anystudents are interested, visit the PTS website for more in-formation.

Last Friday the Presidential Search Committee startedto undergo the process of finding President Todd’s succes-sor. The committee met last Friday and will meet again thisweek to discuss the procedure of going about the search forour next president. It is an exciting process and I look for-ward to updating you as we begin the search for the nextUK president.

Finally, I would like to remind everyone of some of theongoing year-round services SG is currently providing oncampus. For any student organizations on campus that mayrequire additional funding to help put on an event or trip,please visit our website, www.uksga.org, and fill out afunding request form. Completed forms are sent to the SGSenate for approval and appropriation.

Warm-up Wednesdays are back again this year as win-ter and the POT wind tunnel slowly start to set in. SG rep-resentatives will be set up outside of Whitehall ClassroomBuilding every other Wednesday giving out free hot choco-late and other great giveaways, so be sure to stop by. Also,the first 300 students who stop by the office will receive afree t-shirt, so come down to room 120 of the Student Cen-ter and see us.

As Thanksgiving break approaches, I wish safe travelsto those of you who are going home and that you have agreat time relaxing with your friends and family. You de-serve it!

Ryan Smith is Student Government president. E-mailopinions@kykernel.com.

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PHOTO BY BRITNEY MCINTOSH | STAFFFreshman guard Stacy Poole goes in for a dunk at Big Blue Madness at Rupp Arena on Friday, Oct. 15, 2010. At 6-foot-4, Poole is one of theguards who will fit into the “small ball” lineup if UK head coach John Calipari decides to use such a strategy this season.

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UK, as it stands now, hastwo options for a lineup: onethat includes a big man, andone that doesn’t.

When UK tipped off eachof its exhibition games, it wasthe small lineup on the floorto start the game.

The Cats had the 6-foot-8Terrence Jones jumping atcenter, and every player wasbetween 6-foot-3 and 6-foot-8.

“We have just got to watchand try to play this out and justsee what's the most effectiveway for us to play,” UK headcoach John Calipari said.

The small-ball lineup isstill an experiment, and onethat Calipari remains commit-ted to trying, but not commit-ted to using.

“I don’t know if I’m go-ing to play the small lineup orthe big lineup,” Calipari saidregarding what starting fiveUK would use for its seasonopener against East TennesseeState Friday. “Probably won’tknow until game time what Iwant to do.”

The small version willcertainly be used at least tosome degree throughout theseason, either by choice ornecessity, and it could be usedextensively.

Calipari said the key toplaying without a big man onthe floor — which currentlywould be Josh Harrellson orEloy Vargas — is the tough-ness and rebounding of thesmaller guys. If those twothings don’t happen, the smalllineup can’t be used.

“Unless they really wantto go in there and fight and gocrazy, you can’t play that kindof lineup,” Calipari said.

Offensively, the smalllineup places five players onthe floor who all seeminglyexcel in the dribble-drive sys-tem. Brandon Knight, DoronLamb, Darius Miller, DeAn-

dre Liggins and Jones can allpenetrate lanes and kick theball outside to shooters.

“With me and Darius (atthe 4 and 5), there shouldn’t beanother post player who canstay in front of us,” Jones said.

The team can also run,and run, and run when thosefive players are on the floor.

“It opens the game up alot more, guys are a lot freer,”Knight said. “That’s just theway we play. We play fastand we run the court.”

Jones has often ended upon the receiving end of fastbreak opportunities during thetwo exhibition games.

“Everybody should runthe floor, (Calipari) says,”Jones said. “I just want to runthe floor to start the break.”

Defensively, UK has tocrash the boards hard to com-pensate for the lack of height.But the Cats can also do moreswitching on screens, moretrapping and more scrambling.

“We can do some thingsthat will scramble up thegame, which is in our favor,”Calipari said. “A grind-it-outgame with this team, we’retoo young. If they grind it outwith us, we’re going to haveproblems.”

With the frenzy of bodiesinherent in scrambling, com-munication is the key.

“A lot of talking, on theweakside a lot of bouncing,and making sure you’re readyfor help side,” Knight said asthe keys for defending with-out a big man.

Calipari has pointed outpast examples of small teamsthat had success, includingone from a not-so-distant pastin a not-so-distant location.

“Denny Crum used to doit,” Calipari said of playing asmall lineup. “The guy wonnational titles playing thatway. National titles atLouisville.”

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Caliparisizes up his

lineupoptions

Key matchups:

Derrick Locke vs. His shoulder

After missing four games with ashoulder stinger, Locke said that heplans to makes his comeback seniorday against the Commodores.

Despite missing time because ofinjury, Locke still leads the Cats inrushing yards (574) and rushingtouchdowns (seven); although youngtailbacks Raymond Sanders, DonaldRussell and CoShik Williams gotplenty of playing time in Locke’s ab-sence, UK head coach Joker Phillipssaid that no combination of playerscould replace one of Locke’s biggestassets: his speed.

“(Locke has the) ability to makeplays in space and that is one ofthings we need to this week: makeplays out on the perimeter,” Phillipssaid. “He’s a guy who can throw theball out to in space, also…he givesus a lot of multiple formations on of-fense because of the things he cando”

Given that Locke set such highpersonal expectations for this season(he wanted to eclipse 1,400 rushingyards and 20 touchdowns), one has tobelieve he will be trying extra hard toimpress the fans in his final homegame.

“I want to give them somethingto miss when I’m gone,” Locke said.

Edge: Locke

UK defense vs. Not having toface Warren Norman

The injury woes of the Cats’leading rusher may have improved,but the Commodores lost their toprusher and kick returner two weeksago to a dislocated right wrist.

Norman was the SoutheasternConference Freshman of the Year in2009 and set a conference record for

all-purpose yards with 1,951.Norman was also the sole cata-

lyst for the Vanderbilt offense thisseason, leading the team with 77 car-ries for 459 yards and four touch-downs, in addition to a 25.4-yard av-erage on kick returns. Given UK’ssuspect run defense, Norman wouldhave had a chance for a big day.

And to make matters worse, theCommodores’ No. 2 tailback, ZacStacy, and No. 3 tailback, WesleyTate, are unlikely to play against UKdue to injury.

That leaves fourth-string seniortailback Kennard Reeves to boost anoffense ranked 118th out of 120 Di-vision I teams. Yikes.

Edge: UK defense

UK vs. Pressure to clinch bowleligibility

Saturday’s game isn’t necessarilya must-win for the Cats to advance toa bowl game, however, a loss head-ing into their bye week would surelycause some anxiety.

Not only would the Cats have tostew in the defeat of losing to theSEC bottom-feeding Commodoresfor an extra seven days, but then UKwould have to defeat the TennesseeVolunteers—something that hasn’tbeen done since 1984—in the finalweek of the season to become bowleligible.

The general consensus amongplayers this week at practice was thatno slip-ups can happen this weekend.The players also want to get to thebest bowl game available; meaningtwo wins in the final two gameswould go a long way to achievingthat goal.

Moreover, the 16-man seniorclass doesn’t want the distinction ofbeing the group that ended the UKbowl streak. These players have helpbegin the turnaround of this footballprogram and now the pressure tocontinue this success is mounting.

Edge: UK

Final Edge: Sizeable edge forUK

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