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MEDIA RELATIONS • MOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY • UPO BOX 1100 • MOREHEAD, KY 40351-1689 • 606-783-2030 LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER, LEXINGTON, KY., SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1990 i;:>resident seeks new image for KSL administration to promote "a posi­ Student, faculty recruiting tops list tiv~ atmosphere on campus." In recruiting faculty and stu­ of goals under new administration dents, Wolfe said it was important to take into account the heritage of By Mark R. Chellgren Wolfe, who came to Frankfort from KSU as the state's only historically Associated Press a post as provost of Bowie State black institution of higher educa­ FRANKFORT - Kentucky University in Maryland. tion. It is crucial that that legacy be State University's new president Though most of bis address remembered and built upon, Wolfe said yesterday the school must was general in nature and designed said. develop a new image, recruit and to set a tone, Wolfe was specific on Campus programs must be retain better faculty and students the issue of conduct. changed to ensure that students and raise more money, especially "Simply put, abusive behavior, stay until graduation. Wolfe set a for staff development. the use, distribution or sale of goal of reducing dropouts by 20 The speech by KSU President controlled substances or alcohol or percent to 30 percent. the disruption of the decorum of More money is needed to pro­ John T. Wolfe to a university con­ vide scholarships for students, al­ vocation was the first comprehen­ campus life will not be tolerated," sive statement of his agenda for the he said. low faculty more time for study - short of sabbaticals - and to school since becoming its 10th pres­ Similar pleas for civility came improve the staff. ident earlier this summer. from faculty leader Marty Woelfel Wolfe also .promised to recall Wolfe and the presidents of the and student body president the university's history in other student body and faculty senate Vanessa Giddens. ways, in part by returning the alluded to the turmoil that has "Let's stop so much negative school to former glories in acailem­ plagued the campus in recent years. and focus more on the positive," ics and athletics. Wolfe said students, faculty and Giddens said. "Over time, our academic pro­ staff must project a more positive Wolfe's predecessor as presi­ grams will be outstanding, our image. dent, Raymond Burse, had polar­ athletic teams will be champions "This encompasses what we ized much of the campus with a again, our graduates will excel at think of ourselves, what we project .. management style that offended even greater heights· and we will to others and how we market our­ many. celebrate our achievements in ap­ selves and what it is we sell," said Woelfel called on the incoming propriate ways," Wolfe said. THE COURIER.JOURNAL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1990 KSU needs to ·project more positive image, . new president says Though most of his address was By MARK R. CHELLGREN 1 historically black Institution cif Associated Press general in nature and designed to higher education. It ls crucial that set a tone, Wolle was specific on that legacy be remembered and FRANKFORT, Ky. - Kentucky the issue of conduct. built upon, Wolle said. .. State University's new president "Simply put, abusive be~avlor, - campus programs must be­ said yesterday that the school the use, distribution or sale of con­ changed to ensure that stuilents: must develop a new image, recruit trolled substances or alcohol or stay until graduation, be said,· set.: and retain better faculty and stu­ the disruption of the decorum of ting a goal of reducing dropoutsby dents, and raise more money, es­ campus life wm not be tolerated," be said. , 20 to 30 percent pecially for staff development. He also said that more money ls The speech by John T. Wolle at Similar pleas for civility: came from faculty leader Marty Woelfel' needed to provide scholarships, give a university convocation was the faculty more time for study and re­ first comprehensive statement of and student body presld~nt Vanessa Giddens, ce fiectlon - short of sabbattcals - his agenda for the school since he _and improve the general staff. became Its I 0th president earlier "Let's stop so much negative and this summer. locus more on the positive,''. Gld­ "Over time, our academic pro­ Wolle and the presidents of the dens said. · grams will be outstanding, our ath­ student body and faculty senate al­ Wolfe's predecessor as ,pres!- . letic teams will be champions again, luded to the turmoil that has dent, Raymond Burse, bad polar­ our graduates will excel at even plagued the campus In recent ized much of the campus with a greater heights and we will cele­ years. management style that offended brate our achievements In appropri­ Wolle said students, faculty and many. ate ways," Wolle said. staff must project a more positive Woelfel called on the Incoming image. administration to promote "a posi- "This · encompasses what we tive atmosphere on campus." · think of ourselves, what we project Wolfe said it was Important to others and bow we market our­ when recruiting faculty and stu­ selves and what It is we sell," said dents to take into account the heri­ Wolfe, who was provost of Bowle tage of KSU as the state's only State University in Maryland be­ fore coming to Frankfort. -A service of the Office of Media Relations- THE COURIER-JOURNAL, FRIDAY, AUGUST.31, 1990 3 may be interviewed for UK presidency By RICHARD WIISON, Staff Writer Akron since 1984, did not return His lengthy relationship with Go• telephone calls from The Courier­ Wallace Wilkinson bas convince LEXINGTON, Ky. - The committee searching for a new Univer­ Journal last Friday or yesterday. many UK faculty members and otl sity of Kentucky president bas apparently decided to Interview only Ockerman said after an Aug. 22 ers that be Is a front-runner to su, three finalists early next month. _ screening committee meeting that ceed Roselle. Members of the school's board of trustees were notified yester• the finalists' names would be re­ Wethington earned his undergra< day that they will have the opportunity to meet the finalists at leased after the first finalist vtsited uate degree at Eastern Kentuck University in 1956 and his master' reception-dinners at Lexington's Hyatt Regency Sept 11, 12 and 14. UK the week of Sept 10 for a round and doctorate degrees from UK i1 The candidates' names have not been made public. But they are of interviews with faculty, student 1962 and 1965, believed to be Interim UK President Charles Wethington, Peggy and administrative groups and a Elliott, who earned degrees a Gordon Elliott, chancellor of Indiana University's Gary campus, joint session with the panel and Transylvania University, Northwesl and WIiliam V. Muse, president of the University of Akron, In Ohio. trustees. em University and Indiana Univer Foster Ockerman Sr., chairman of the presidential screening Earlier release of the names, be slty, has beaded IU's Gary campu committee, could not be reached for comment last night said, would put the candidates "un­ since 1984. She had previously be!, After a July 31 meeting of the screening panel, Ockerman said der loo much pressure" on their a variety of administrative post lhe committee had narrowed the field to four finalists. But earlier home campuses. He said the candi• there, beginning In 1974. this month, after another meeting, be declined to say if four final­ dates also bad requested that their ists were still under consideration, or If anyone had withdrawn his names not be released before the Muse, who has degrees fron name from consideration. Northwestern Louisiana State Uni campus Interviews begin. verslty and the University of Arkan Searches for university presidents are often fluid, with candi­ Wethington, who bas headed UK's dates sometime withdrawing from consideration after being de­ sas, bas been a professor and ad community college system since minlstrator at Texas A & M, th, clared finalists. Thus, someone who is now a finalist might decide 1981, was named Interim president not to come to the campus for an interview. last December after David Roselle Georgia Institute of Technology an, Wethington and Elliott have previously declined to comment on resigned to become president of the the University of Nebraska. whether they are finalists for the UK post Muse, president of University of Delaware.

THE COURIEB_:,JO!JRNAL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1990 _ __ Ohio college official mum on status for UK post,: ,.•• The Bluegrass Bureau lngton and Peggy Gordon Elllott, and 14 In Lexington to meet the !!­ chancellor of Indiana University's nalists. Ockerman, who is also chair~ LEXINGTON, Ky. - The presl- Gary campus. Wethington and El• man of the board of trustees, ha! dent or the University or Akron said llott declined earlier to comment on hinted that more than three people yesterday that he was "not In posl- their roles In the search. may still be under consideration for tion" to confirm or deny that he is a The names o( the finalists have the UK post. , finalist In the search for a new Uni- not been released. But Foster Ocker• In a telephone Interview yester: versity of Kentucky president man, chairman of the presidential day, Muse called UK "a very floe . "I think any Information about search committee, has said they will Institution,'' which would offer an candidates should be released by be made public next month when excellent opportunity to a new presl- (UK) ,'' William V. Muse said. the candidates come to UK for a se- dent. Muse, president of the Ohio uni- rles of Interviews with UK faculty, "The only thing that I would ac- verslty since 1984, Is one of three students, staff, search committee knowledge Is that I have had some candidates believed to be finalists members and the UK trustees. contact by the University of Ke~ for the UK post. The other two are Trustees have been Invited to lucky, and I'll Just leave II at Illa!,"! Interim UK President Charles Weth· three reception-dinners Sept. 11, 12 he added. · LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER, LEXINGTON, KY. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER I. 1990 Reports of UK finalists draw a cool response

· By Jamie Lucke Applegate said he was looking Herald-Leader education writer forward to meeting the candidates. Reaction among University of But he said, "The fact that the Kentucky faculty yesterday was finalists are coming from these less than enthusiastic to reports institutions will, I'm afraid, confirm about two finalists for University of some of the fears of my colleagues Kentucky president. about the search." "At first glance, the institutions Robert Guthrie, a chemistry pro­ that they are coming from, if these fessor and member of the 1987 are in fact two of the finalists, presidential search committee, said, _suggests we did have some trouble "It sounds to me like it's a done attracting the level and quality of deal." people we had hoped we would," The mood among faculty is said James Applegate, professor largely one of resignation, said Don and chairman of the university's Leigh, an engineering professor and communications department. former president of the University Many faculty warned the search Senate. "I think they're finding it . was slanted in favor of interim hard to have much hope that any­ .President Charles Wethington. one other than Wethington will be Those fears were not eased by appointed." reports that Peggy Gordon Elliott, But Michael Kennedy, a profes­ chancellor of Indiana University sor in the College of Architecture, · Northwest in Gary, and William said: "It will be interesting, now -Muse, president of the University of that the candidates are known and : Akron in Ohio, were Wethington's there are 10 days for people to rivals for the job. react. Someone may catch fire." LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER, LEXINGTON, KY .. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1990 Akron, Indiana educators reportedly finalists with Wethington for UK job until Kentucky confinns who may Muse was the first dean of the By Jamie Lucke or may not be a candidate and College of Business at Appalachian Herald-Leader education writer make a decision at that point as to State University in Boone, N.C., and The president of the University whether or not I want to go through business dean at the University of of ,Akron in Ohio and the head of with it." ·Nebraska. Indiana University's branch cam­ Muse said in telephone inter-. He became dean of Texas pus in Gary reportedly are finalists view that several things "make the A&M's College of Business Admin­ for the University of Kentucky pres­ University of Kentucky a really istration in 1979, which grew under idency, along with UK Interim Pres­ special institution." his leadership to the fifth-largest ident Charles Wethington. It is one of only a few universi­ business school in the nation. He William Muse, 51, has been ties that are both the state's flag­ became vice chancellor for academ­ Akron's president for six years. ship and land grant university and ic programs in the A&M system in Peggy Gordon Elliott, a Kentucky perhaps the only university that 1983. native and 1959 graduate of Tran­ has its own statewide system of Muse served as president of the sylvania College in Lexington, has community colleges. Southern Business Administration been chancellor of Indiana Universi­ "The thing that makes it partic­ Association in 1982-83. He is a ty_ Northwest for six years. ularly attractive is Kentucky has fonner international president of Both declined to confinn they some very solid academic programs Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity and a were finalists, saying such an an­ in a number of areas. It has been an fonner chairman of the board of the nouncement should· come from UK. institution that has served the Teke Educational Foundation. UK officials refused to identify needs of the state well." He is the author of three books the finalists, one of whom is expect­ Muse said he was aware that and numerous articles in the areas ed to be named president Sept. 18. Wethington, 53, was perceived as of higher education, management Foster Ockennan Sr., chairman the front-runner, in large part be­ and marketing. of UK's Board of Trustees and the cause of his friendshiP. with Gov. presidential· search committee, said Wallace Wilkinson and his wann Peggy Gordon Elliott the names were being withheld at relations with lawmakers. Muse ac­ the candidates' request until Sept. knowledged that such a perception Elliott, whose resume does not 10, when the first candidate is to might discourage outside candi­ include her birthdate or age, gradu­ arrive in Lexington for interviews. dates from pursuing the UK job. ated from Mayfield High School But three UK trustees said yes­ But he said he had been assured and later earned a degree from terday they had been told by reli­ the UK search was open. Lexington's Transylvania College - now University - in 1959. able sources involved in the search Since Muse's arrival, the Akron that Wethington, Muse and Elliott school has grown by about 3,000 Like Wethington, she began her were finalists. The trustees spoke students to an enrollment of 30,000, career as a high school English on the condition that they not be including 4,000 graduate students. teacher. She has spent 24 years at identified. The Courier-Journal re­ The school offers 16 doctoral Indiana University in Gary, begin­ ported yesterday that the three programs and a community college ning as an English instructor in were thought to be finalists. with two locations, Muse said. 1965. The school's endowment has She was the school's director of The schedule of interviews with student teaching, director of the groups of UK faculty members, quadrupled to about $40 million during his presidency. · office of field experiences and direc­ students and trustees suggest there tor of professional development, are three candidates. The search "I've got really a nice situation special assistant to the chancellor, committee originally said there here in Akron," Muse said. "The assistant to the chancellor and act­ were four finalists. university has made very signifi­ ing chancellor. cant progress over the last six One finalist withdrew, accord­ IV Northwest is a 5,000-student ing to several trustees. But it's years. I've got a good relationship with the board of trustees and commuter campus, offering 43 de­ possible another will be added be­ grees, including several at the mas­ fore Sept. 10, a trustee said. community, and the school and everyone has made it very clear ter's level. As an American Council on William Muse they want me to stay here .... "So when there's speculation I Education Fellow in Academic Ad­ ministration, she reported for a year Muse - who was chief academ­ might be leaving, it creates a lot of ic officer of the four-campus Texas to the IV system's executive vice anxiety on the part of everyone." president. A&M University system before be­ Muse, a native of Mississippi, coming Akron's president in 1984 She has written and edited nu­ earned a bachelor's degree in ac­ merous publications in the area of - said yesterday that UK was "a counting at Northwestern State Uni­ very fine institution." elementary, secondary and teacher versity in Natchitoches, La,. and a education, and serves on nwnerous "It's the kind of opportunity master's and doctor of philosophy professional boards. She is past in business administration from the · that someone like myself might be president of the Association of interested in. At this juncture it's an University of Arkansas. Teacher Educators. uncomfortable situation for me and He taught at Georgia Tech and Ohio University. He also was chair­ She earned a master's degree for the campus here to speculate from Northwestern University in about whether or not that might man of Ohio University's marketing department and director of the divi­ 1964 and a doctorate in education come to pass/' Muse said. from Indiana University in Bloom­ "So I just simply have to wait sion of research, which published a ington in 1975. book he edited on business and economic problems in Appalachia. She could not be reached yester­ day and did not return numerous earlier phone calls. She said THE COURIER-JOURNAL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1990 through a spokeswoman that any announcements about the UK UK names interim dean of students search should be made by UK. LEXINGTON, Ky. - Effective Oct 1, David Stockham will be Elliott said she was nominated the University or Kentucky's Interim dean of students. for UK's presidency by retired ITJ The f!nanclal aid director will temporarily replace Doug Wilson, President Hennan Wells. who Is leaving UK to become executive secretary to the Oklahoma state university system's board of regents. Stockham bas been director or rtnanclal aid since 1982 and bas worked at UK since 1970. Bob Halsey, Stockham's assistant, will assume bis boss's duties during the interim period. THE COURl!:R.JQVRNAL. MONDAY, SEPTEMBE:R 3, 1990 SEARCH FOR UK PRESIDENT

•Autocrafic manager' ••• posslblllty that the UK presidency may be Western thought and arL He should have filled by such a person. metaphysical and phllosophlcal vision or ·-your Aug, 17 editorial, "Open up UK the highest order. Several candidates in the searcb," regarding the selecliou 9f a ·new WAYNE A. CORNELIUS ~dent of the University of Kentucky, was Louisville 40299 final four have no sueh powers or mind. commendable. Dr, Charles Wetbinglon's po­ Several of the final four would be laughed at by Ohio State, and properly so. tenftal as a successful permanent UK presi­ • • Delay the decision dent should be based on hls perfonnance as ■ It would be far better for Kentucky If this head or the community college system. As someone not part of the University of Choice Is delayed a year and the searCh re­ Leadership ablllty Is indispensable for Kentucky system, I want to express a hope opened. The UK faculty needs to be more the next UK presldenL Without trying to that the new UK president will have out­ aggressive. It Is, really, a question not only of define this ablllty, let me Just say the racul• standing intellectual range and academic Wisdom, but also or Integrity and honor.••• fy will need to respect this person and be credenllals. II Is wrong to care abOut the willing to accept his or her vlsiol! for some­ finest possible coaches but not the finest WILLIAM McMAHON lblng better at UK and his or her way of possible presldenL Bowling Green, Ky. 42101 pursuing IL _ My friends In Kentucky's community col­ u the way in which Wethington Is per­ leges say that under Dr. Charles Welhing- ceived as a leader by many Jefferson Com• ton's leadership, their student evaluations munity College faculty Is any indlcalion,.he (sleazy little popµlarlty polls) are used to could be a failure, The feeling Is that he Is determine raises and promotions, and to an autocratic manager who prefers not to get higher student evaluations, they have Involve the faculty in major decisions. I lowered academic standards. served as a part-time faculty member at Can anyoue name a set of Initiatives tak· JCC ror five years and full-time there this en by Wethington to raise academic stan­ past year. In addition, I have held full-time dards? He had plenty of chances. The lead• professorships at Penn State University and er of a major university should certainly be Miami University. a warm and stable human being, but also The sole criteria for faculty promotion be deeply familiar with the mainstream or and tenure In the community college sys­ tem Is student evaluation or faculty. Anyone . In our view--- knowledgeable In college teaching Is aware The Daily Independent, Ashland, Ky., Friday, August 31, 1990- that one can obtain an excellent student evaluation and at the same lime provide very poor Instruction. Enforce the standards Based on leadership perfonnance, II ap­ pears that Wethington Is not qualified to lead UK in continuing Its pursuit or aca­ Unprepared should not be admitted demic excellence. As a life member of the UK Alumni Association, I am upset by the to Kentucky's public universities Kentucky's eight public age of college freshmen ad universities do not need to mitted without completing toughen their standards for the required courses be re­ admitting students; they duced to 5 percent and that nc need to enforce the standards college credit be given for they have. remedial work. While a committee of ed­ Those are solid recom­ ucators and residents has mendations. Universities called on the Kentucky should not have to spend time Council on Higher Education teaching students what they to raise admission standards should have learned in high to the state universities, school, much less give them committee members admit credit for it. The higher the the real problem is that percentage of poorly pre­ standards adopted seven pared students a university years ago have been largely has, the greater the pressure ignored. to lower its academic stan­ In response to criticism dards. that the state universities were admitting too many Some students who have students who were un­ not taken college preparatory prepared for college work courses in high school may and, as a result, were spend­ later decide to seek a college ing too much time and money education. Kentucky's on remedial education, the community colleges, which council in 1983 adopted a list still have open admissions of 20 high school courses policies, are the place for students must complete to them to begin their college qualify for admission to Ken­ careers. Once they have tucky's state universities. proved their abilities at a But that didn't solve the two-year college, they can be problem, says the committee. admitted to a four-year uni­ As many as 20 percent of the versity. students admitted have not Universities should never completed the required view students as simply dol­ courses, and the universities lars signs whose tuition will continue to offer remedial help balance the books and classes, including some for whose presence on campµs college credit. will fill dormitory rooms. The committee has rec- That is a disservice to all nn...n,o.-...:1i"l,A f.1-..-.• f.\..,...... ,._..,.,.._~ ., h_EXIN_(,_T_9_~t!.ERALD-LEADER, LEXINGTON, KY., TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1990 Tran. "Some of the buses get really jam-packed with students." Most LexTran buses seat 40-45 Ne\N ·parking permits people, Sparer said. "But that doesn't count what we call the 'jam factor.' I've seen 70 or 75 people keep UK~commuters jammed into a bus." About 3,550 students used the LexTran service each day last spring. LexTran surveys the UK off· Pral ltown streets routes each spring, but Sparer said the agency may need an earlier household. Households with handi­ survey to determine whether new By Barry Reeves capped persons can buy three per, Herald-Leader staff writer buses are needed. mits. Visitor permits are also avail- But adding buses would' mean When Glenn Hammond drives, able. . additional cost to UK, which pays to the University of Kentucky this· Applications for the permits are for the campus bus service, Sparer week for classes, his favorite park­ available at the county's Division said. Students ride free. ing spaces will be off limits. for Tax Collection on East Main "That's one thing that would He was among the 150 to 180 · Street. The Pralltown parking pro­ have to be addressed," said UK's students who parked their cars in gram is a one-year experiment, Lexington's Pralltown neighbor­ Thornton. "We'll iust have to wait which the council will re-evaluate and see what happens before we hood, near UK's campus, As of next summer. start talking· money." ' Saturday, vehicles parked curbside Third District Councilwoman in Pralltown must bear a city-issued Debra Hensley said other neighbor­ parking tag - meant for residents hoods near the UK campus, includ­ Parking structures only- or they will ·be towed away. ing downtown and Transylvania Jack Blanton, vice chancellor of · Hammond said he chose Prall­ Park, "will be watching this pilot administration, said the university town - Colfax, Prall; Montmullin very closely." has considered building as many as­ and Winnie streets and Congress "This could set a precedent," four parking structures. The- prob­ Alley - because it was closer to she said. · lem· is price. his classes than the large student Ironically, many of the students An above-ground parking struc-: lot at Commonwealth Stadium. who used to park in Pralltown may lure would cost about $7,500 a: More than one-third of UK's 15,675 hunt for street spaces in Transylva­ space and an underground struc-: parking spaces are at the stadium, a nia Park, whose· residents also ap­ ture about $11,500 a space, .Thorn­ mile or more from most academic proached the council last spring ton said. · buildings.· about crowded parking conditions. A 500-space, above-ground ''I really had absolutely no alter­ structure would cost about $3.75: native at all," said Hammond, a Could affect bus service million. finance junior. "My teachers were "You've got to make a whole lot getting upset with me because I If many of the former Pralltown of money to cover the debt service· was late, so I had to do it" parkers choose to leave their cars at on a parking structure," Thornton. It's a frustrating issue for UK the stadium lot, they may further said. ''Most people just don't realize· officials, said Don Thornton, asso­ clog an already-burdened bus sys­ how much money it takes to build ciate director of parking and trans­ tem operating from the stadium to one of these.'' portation for the Lexington campus. the campus, a LexTran official said. Blanton said, however, that the "The problem is not that we don't LexTran runs routes through school had listed parking structures have enough parking spots, because the stadium froin 7:15 a.m. to 6:10 among its future objectives in its we do," he said. p.m., using as many as six buses campus master plan. "It is just not _that convenient during peak hours. From 8 a.m. to But legislators have not been ... Basically, our hands are tied in noon, as many as 650 students use receptive to the .idea. the parking office." the bus system each hour, accord: ing to a recent LexTran survey. "]. haven't found one legislator Asked for permits Hammond, who took the bus willing to shell out that kind of when he used a "K" sticker to park money, when there · is already After receiving numerous com­ in the stadium, said the route took enough parking," Blanton said. plaints about student parkers as long as 40 minutes. "But you can see that eventual­ crowding residents out of their own "It can be a real burden during ly, we are going to have to build neighborhood, the Urban County the peak hours," said Rick Sparer, some structures. I don't see any Council last spring selected the assistant general manager at Lex., way around it." Pralltown area to try out residential parking permits. The parking tags cost $10 a vehicle and are required for parking on Pralltown streets between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. Monday through Friday. Under city guidelines, residents can purchase two permits for each

THE COURIER-JOURNAL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1990 _EXINGTON HERALD-LEADER, LEXINGTON, KY., SUNDAY. SEPTEMBER 2, 1990 . ,...... "'._ .. ·''·'.! Union probing complaint at NKU Professors group looking atcom •':taint:.'.~ HIGHLAND HEIGHTS, Ky. - A Northern Kentucky University ~ /},rP.,/t-i'. .J-Fi&I.J •~~-:f:J history prof=r's complaint that he was passed up for a promo­ HIGHLAND HEIGHTS - A Northern _Kentµcky:,·,l:Jnivetsjty; tion because of union activities has drawn the attention of a state history professor's complaint that he was passed 0:pfoc"ilpromotjor\. professors group. because of union activities has drawn the attention .. of a/ state; The Kentucky Association of University Professors is looking professors group. into the complaint filed by John De Marcus. The Kentucky Association of University Pr,of~rs is looking During an "informal Investigation" hearing on. campus Thurs­ into.the complaint filed bl(_ history instructoc,Jqhn.:_DeM,,rcus. day, 23 students turned out to support DeMarcus and to demand an explanation of why he was not named chairman of the univer­ During an "informal investigation" hearing on campus Thursday, sity's history and geography department 23 students turned out to support DeMarcus and to demand an Last year, the faculty voted for DeMarcus to become chairman explanation of why he was not named chairman of the university's of the department Provost David Jorns and Darryl Poole, dean of history and geography department. the College of Arts, rejected the appointment Last year, the history department faculty voted for DeMarcus to Students supporting DeMarcus say they think his rejection become chairman of the department. Provost David }oms and Darryl stemmed from his Involvement with the prof=rs association and Poole, dean of the College of Arts, rejected the appointment. his drive for collective bargaining at NKU In 1986 The Daily Independent, Ashland, Ky., Saturday, Se_p!~mber 1, 1990- w-o rds of praise President Keith Keeran said. With the construction of the KCC's commitment Earlier, Keeran indicated the new Cook Family Foods plant, funding for the Gray­ Only five months after center could serve as a site for programs of a YMCA that son spur of the A-A Highway, considering a move from the possibility of a second 1-64 Grayson, Kentucky Christian may be formed in Grayson. The student life center is interchange, an improving College has announced plans school system, and extensive for a $5.5 million student life the latest in what has been an center. That can only be ambitious building program residential and commercial for the college during the growth, many positive things viewed as a commitment by are happening in Grayson. the college not only to stay in past decade. That growth has been made possible because It's good to know Kentucky Grayson but to continue to Christian College will con­ grow with the community. of the strong support the col- 1eg e enjoys from area tinue to play a vital role in Construction on the new the community's future. . building will not begin until churches, and that support is the college has raised at le,ast likely to continue. The pos­ two-thirds of the necessary sibility of the building doubl­ funds. ing as a community recrea­ When completed, the cen­ tion center should provide the ter will be used by the com­ impetus for broad-based munity and the college, KCC support.

THE COURIER-JOURNAL, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1990 Herbal cosmetics maker fallows in footsteps of mountain ancestors Elizabeth Josephine Peters MARTHA palachian festivals at Morehead worked a little imagery from na- and now takes orders ln the com- lure into the closing moments of ELSON munlty and sells them through one of her English classes at More- SPEAKING shops ln Louisville, including the head State University recently, ask- OF PEOPLE Rainbow Blossom Natural Foods ing. her students lt they could figure Store, Farmington Historic Home out an e. e. cummings' poem about and Blairwood Country Club gift a falling leaf. ______shop. But because she keeps a low pro- At a festival last year, Doris Her- file about her interests outside the II p.m. Some of the women in the ter of Louisville saw the cosmetics classroom, most of her students community have taken the class display and was so impressed she aren't aware that poetic leaves_ ._over and over. arranged to become the Louisville aren't the only kind Peters knows a "We make everything from lip distributor. Herter packaged them lot about. gloss to goat-milk soap," she said. in decorative baskets, calling the She uses herbs and other natural Louise Hickman, retired head of line the Elizabeth Josephine Ken- ingredients to make her own line of Morehead's information sciences tucky Appalachian Collection. cosmetics. department, has taken the class and "I thought, 'This I could sell, be- "They (her students) don't think said she now makes her own mols- cause I believe in it,' " Herter said. of you as being anything but intel- turizing cream. "I was interested in She said a biochemist and nutrition­ lectual," said Peters, who hl\S learning how to make things that 1st she consulted about the natural taught for 15 years at the universi- would not contain chemicals. If we ingredients _ in the products re­ ly.. can make things that will do as well marked, "If you're interested in At home after class, in a modern or better, why not do it?" what you're putting into your body, subdivision perched on hills outside Making natural cosmetics is you'd better be interested in what Morehead, Peters is likely to be something Peters learned from her you put on your body - because it fourul in her kitchen carefully grandmother and mother as she absorbs." · blending and cooking ingredients was growing up in the tiny town of Peters, who is in her 50s, said (some of which she grows in her Mount Zion, in eastern Tennessee .. she hopes to preserve her Appala­ backyard garden) to make herbal One of her earliest recollections ls chian heritage through the llne and lotions, soaps, powders, colognes of her mother and grandmother she believes it's important to do and creams. taking her to find slippery elm something constructive with her She grows lilacs, roses and Iaven- trees and carefully peeling back the hands: "II keeps you bumble." der, which she sorts as she sits In dark outer bark to reach the while On the tags that accompany the her backyard gazebo. She buys alb· inner bark, which they clipped to baskets, Peters quotes a verse from er· ingredients - including honey, use in making a hair-setting lotion. Proverbs: "Give her the fruit of her oltve oil, almonds, glycerine, After seeing the results on lier bands; And let her own works chamomile, lemons, oranges, peach- own long, curly blond hair, she de- praise her in the gates." es _and strawberries. cided: "Nature can make you beau- Peters also gave 40 talks last Her husband, Jack W. R. Peters, liful." year to groups In the region, ar- a business professor at Morehead She continued to make and use ranged through the speakers bu­ an(I retired Air Force ottlcer, says her own cosmetics but never told reau at Morehead. Speaking to the she gets so "completely Immersed" many people about it - tor fear Estill County Historical and Genea­ in- making her potions that he stays they'd laugh, she said. She also logical Society recently, she dis­ clear of the kitchen made creams for her two daughters cussed "Women ln Appalachia" and "I feel like I'm In a ·magical and granddaughters to use. (The "Sense and Scents of Appalachia." world," said Betty Jo Peters, who Peters have four children and six Peters said In llterature, partlcu- works mostly using a double boiler, grandchildren). larly, Southern women have the Im- blender and mixer. But two years ago, she was asked age of being sweet, soft and glow- Peters also teaches a popular to give a talk to her sorority and ing. Peters said her natural cosmet­ evening class at Morehead titled decided lo discuss her homemade ics are intended to help preserve "Soaps, Perfumes and Pretty cosmetics - having run out of oth• that image today: "I still belleve In Things." She said she and her stu- er topics. She found that her aud!- that myth." dents "work up a storm" making ence and others wanted to buy her "Speaking of People" appears their own cosmetics, starting after products. Tuesday and· Sunday in the Features work and breaking up sometimes at She began to sell them al the Ap- section. 11,E COURIER.JOUf!_l'.!AL, TUESDAY, SEPTE~•B~i14, 1990 Asked by Stephen Ledford, a writ­ BIG MAN ON CAMPUS er with the campus newspaper, meant, he said last week .as he hur­ whether he'll continue a student LEARNS THE ROPES ried to bis next meeting. leadership program, McGowan said: One appointment fiowed into the "I don't think it was bad, but I think next as a constant stream of visitors it could be Improved. I .•. found It trooped through bis office - Bellar• too corporate and lacking sub­ New president mine vice presidents, students, com­ stance." munity leaders, fund-raisers, teach­ Aod, as he often did, he took the ers and reporters. With almost ev­ opportunity to wax philosophical, of Bellarmine : eryone, McGowan was quick with a making the distinction between joke and a welcoming smile, but. be managing and leading. "Running a didn't waste time getting down to shoe store doesn't require leader­ orients himself· bilslness. ship. Leadership Is John F. Kenne­ · He encountered a wide range of dy, Martin Luther King. issues and problems. In an interview "I want to really get Into a study as classes begin with a reporter for the campus of leadership, not deal with it on a newspaper, he discussed his philos­ surface level. Leadership In the fi­ By ROBIN EPSTEIN ophy of leadership. nal analysis Is service. It's not an staff Writer : With former Louisville Mayor Wil­ ego trip." son Wyatt, he tossed around the In the coming months, he will de­ Jay McGowan reached up and poked at a ~es of world-renowned figures velop his priorities, which are likely flimsy ceiling -grate in the elevator of. a new._ who might be invited to speak at a to Include enhancing residential ac­ dormitory. "These will go," be said. · lecture series Wyatt endows. tivities, services and programs. He met with a committee deslgn­ In bis former job as vice president for McGowan wants to see the total student affairs at Fordham University, be llig a lay ministry Institute. He pledged to Install sand volley­ enrollment of traditional-age stu­ learned "everything that can go wrong in. a dents Increase from the current residence ball." ball courts and hire a new housing director, .Over a sandwich lunch In 1,200 to up to 3,000 or 4,000, and Now, as president of Bellannine College, envisions up · to three-fourths of his mandate is- considerably broader. ,It in• his_ office, he planned the music for his October Inauguration. them living on campus. Ac~ompllsh­ cludes recruiting students, developing cur­ lng that will require more regional riculum, raising money and elevating. tlie · (He cbllse three hymns, a Dixie­ land baiid ·and an Irish folk singer.) recruiting and building Bellarmine's status of the college in Louisville and the name outside Kentucky, McGowan region. · McGowan, a tall man with wavy, graying hair, survived the first week said. It also would mean a new li­ As students began brary and more dorms, food serv­ classes last week, of operations using the tools he de­ veloped as vice president of student ices and recreation facilities. McGowan looked, lis­ One good way to increase Bellar­ tened and learned as affairs at Fordham University In the Bronx, N.Y.:. humor, diplomacy and mlne's draw In the region, much as be could an occasional dose of point-blank McGowan said, Is to build on the about the college be honesty. strengths II already has, such as the took over in July. Get­ In one meeting, he teased the Thomas Merton Center. ting acquainted with Rev. Leonard Callahan, vice presi­ When he saw the center's tiny everything from aca­ dent for religious affairs, about Cal­ basement location, McGowan said demic offerings to boil­ lahan"s "sinful" efforts to get he was "unimpressed with its mod­ er rooms, be revealed McGowan to miss a difficult putt est circumstances." For the world's an eye for detail and McGowan during a golf game. largest collection of works on spirl• an intellectual vision of . In discussions with associate pro­ tuallty and social Justice by the Cis­ what a liberal-arts college should be. vost David Goldenberg, McGowan terclan monk, he "expected to see a "I'm trying to become knowledgeable called Beliannine's continuing-edu­ place not only accessible for re­ about who's here, what's being done, and cation program "an excellent mess" search, but also a place that allowed what's not being done," he said. "I can't In need of planning and support and for international conferences." bring Bellarmine. to the next level without asked for abriefing OD the strengths It would be wonderful for bleary­ knowing where it is now." _ and weaknesses of the college's pro­ eyed students heading for class to One of McGowan's earliest decisions was grams for adults. cross paths with Buddhists headed to replace the brownish carpet in his spa­ In his travels through the campus, for the Merton center, McGowan cious top-fioor office with a light oatmeal McGowan_ seemed always at ease. said. shade and to get rid of the curtains that had He took care not to knock what has "Students should be sure to have hung in front of a panoramic campus view. gone on in the past at Bellarmine the perspective that ours is a global, But he kept the same wide, wooden desk but didn't hesitate to speak his interdependent, interconnected used by his predecessor, Eugene V. Petrik. mind, world." The office refurbishing mirrors McGowan's attitude toward Bellannine as a whole - there are some details that need adjusting, but the basics are just as they should be. A friend who is a college president told McGowan that assuming that role was the most exhausting and exhilarating thing she bad ever done. Now be knows what she .THE COURIER-JOURNAL, TUESOAY,...SEPTEMBER 4, 1990 Colleges seem to be playing g~mes? with their athletes RICK ell,iibility standards - and the lnal>­ · The contradiction In the pbllo­ BOZICH lily of one to earn even a hlgh­ sophy preached by erum and many .SPORTS scbool diploma - create a picture other Division I coaches is they will COLUMNIST of.!! program struggling to find play­ accept players with substandard ers· wbo can handle the· academic academic credentials, while they and athletic workloads. would rarely consider taking play­ Ever unflappable, Crum Is con­ ers with substandard athletic cre­ cerned, but not alarmed, by the dentials. You can't win with those numbers. He seems just as con­ guys. And the purpose of a college The question, as posed by University of cerned by the outside perspective sports program is to win. Louisville basketball coach Denny Crum, Is that a student-athlete must earn a To accept players who come from purely philosophical: Wliat is the purpose of degree for bis academic career to disadvantaged academic back-. a university? Is It to award degrees, or Is It be considered a success. The fact Is; grounds and expect them to make It to educate? Crum argues passionately, that these on their own is to risk letting too The answer, of course, Is neither one. kids are better off academically many of them fall off track, just as We all know the purpose of any college simply by their exposure to the col­ we'have seen at U of L Crum's ap­ that intends to call Itself a major Institution lege environment The mere posses­ pl'!)llch is that these young men Is to provide us with the entertaining diver­ sion of a diploma won't make life have to learn to make It on their sions of football and basketball • . magically better for anyone. own in the classroom, as weil as In We are reminded of that fact every Satur­ This Is a debate I have entered life,, day from Sept l through April 1. We're ad­ with Crum and bis veteran assistant, ";:B sounds wonderful. But it nsually dicted to· the thrills, the competition, the Jerry Jones, on several occasions. doesn't work that well, Pride moti­ bragging rights. Nothing as trivial as the Often, the coaches like to Invoke vates some players. Others see problems some of these athletes·have pursu­ this line: Wl!at do you expect, every Crum's laissez-faire approach as an ing diplomas can distract us. school to be like Princeton? Invitation to cut comers. Felton What Is the purpose of a college? To play No. That's totally unrealistic. Few Spencer, a highly motivated young big-time college sports. What Is the purpose schools can be like Princeton, or man who proved you can play qual­ of big-time college sports? To pump up the even like Duke or North Carolina, ity basketball and earn a degree In school's coffers with network television and two proven winners on the court four years, told me after last season NCAA Tournament (or bowl game) money. and in the classroom. that some of bis teammates did not To bring the school, and surrounding com­ Crum Is correct There Is nothing respect Crum's approach to disci­ munity, substantial national publicity a col­ magical about a college degree. It Is pline. and that they're always lege could never generate through aca­ what you do with the degree that searching for bis limits. They knew demic achievements. counts. But surely he Is intelligent they would always be in the lineup. To entertain folks who always have been, enough to understand that a degree It is also possible some read bis and always will be, more concerned with IS the standard by which students style as a sign that he's too busy to Johnny Jumpshot's scoring average than bis are judged, just as coaches are get Involved, leaving the day-to-day grade-point average. To produce memora­ judged by victories and losses. Rare job of monitoring classroom work to ble trips to exotic spots like Hawaii, Alaska, is the employer who will look at a Jones and Steve Milburn, U of L's Tokyo, Las Vegas and the West Coast To job candidate and say, 'You didn't director of academic athletic serv­ expose ·the slim percentage that will suc­ earn your degree, but you're better ices. Those two men are serious ceed to scouts from the professional sports off for your college experience. I'll about academics. But as U of L leagues. And to create jobs that provide sub­ hire· you anyway.'" president Dr. Donald Swain noted, stantial wealth to the coaches who climb to And just as It is unrealistic for ev­ only Crum can invoke the ultimate the top of their profession. ery school to aspire to Ivy League motivator - not playing those who And If some basketball players get their academic standards, it is equally un-· don't perform In the classroom, It is degrees in the process - 38 percent over realistic to force every high-school clear that a tougher look at academ­ the past IO years at U of L - great, fantas­ superstar into _college, atbletlc:s;. But ics is a look Swain wants Crum to that Is what the does-tiiday, take. tic, wonderful. And if they don't, well, as ,system. Some young people aren't qualified. The risk Involved would be fewer those kids leave the locker room, make cer­ Others aren't interested. Those who victories and more defeats on the tain somebody tells them· they should be lack the academic qUallflcatlons basketball court, but more victories thankful that their lives have been enriched and the interest to accept the sub­ and fewer defeats in the classroom. by the college experience. stantial challenge of earning a de• And If you understand the true pur­ Anybody who has observed the vital aca­ gree will struggle greatly. That, I pose or a university, it is certainly a demic signs of the University of Louisville fear, Is what we're seeing at U of L risk worth taking. basketball program over the past three The system forces many of these years cannot be shocked by the nllmbers players into school when the reality reported by Pat Forde in The Courl1>r-Jour­ is their real goal is to play profes­ nal's weekend series, "Student Athletes: a sional sports. That's part of the sys­ sporting chance?" From 1981 througl} 1990, tem that must be changed, by the only 6 of 37 scholarship basketball .players formation of serious professional graduated ,in five years. minor leagues In basketball and The academic suspensions of Tony Kim­ football. There's nothing flawed bro and Keith WIiiiams, the repeated class­ about these young men, What is room problems of Jerome Harmon,. the in• flawed is a system that forces them ability of four members of U of L's, latest into a situation In which they usual­ recruiting class to meet toughened: NCAA ly cannot succeed, THE COURIER-JOURNAL, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 2,_1990 Graauation rates give U of L failing mark By PAT FORDE , · According to the NCAA, the corre------rhere Is also an adjusted method, Staff Wrlier sponding national football. grailu- which the NCAA uses secondarily atlon rate has fluctuated between and which the College Football As- The University of Louisville~ basket­ 34.6 and 38.5 percent sociatlon subscribes to. That method ball program was the most successful In . Despite U of L's low rank, Swain does not penalize a school for alh• the nation In the 19805. Two natlonal ti• said he has already seen progress In letes who transfer while in good . ties and an ·unmatched four trips to the t~e football team's academic per- standing or those remaining for a Final Four put Denny cfum•s Cardinals f~rmance in recent years. sixth year of school. at the college basketball pinnacle. IIINon-revenue sports at U of L - :1 als; produces !higher graduation But for all,lts' success on the court, the those outside of football and men's ra es. or examp e, KentuckY won the 1989 CF A Academic Achieve- program has experienced significant fall• basketball - also trail most of the men! Award with an adjusted gradu- ure In the Classroom. rest of the Big Ten, SEC and &!:etro ation rate of almost 90 percent. Un- From 1981 to 1990, 37 scholarship play­ schools. ers at U of L completed the five-year pe­ Only 37 percent of the non-rev- adjusted, UK graduated 67 percent. The adjusted rates are also open riod In which th~ JICAA allows athletes enue-sporl athletes who enrolled at to considerable debate. For exam- to participate ...: and expects them to U of L between 1980 and '83 gradu- graduate. Only six graduated on time, ated within five years, 20th among pie, Mississippi State, in its 1987-88 That's 16 percent !lie schools responding. UK was reporting form, claimed a I 00 per- even worse (36 percent), but IU cent adjusted graduation rate in ev­ Add Fellon Spencer and Craig Hawley, ery sport. If this Indeed had hap- who will not count In NCAA statistics un­ graduated 62 percent pened, the school's football team til 1991 but who both graduated In only : ii Players· at most schools often would have lied with Notre Dame as four years, and U of L had eight of 39 find that the time spent on their national champion in the CFA Aca- players graduate on time In the period. sport severely hampers their aca- demlc Achievement Award. Thal rounds off to 21 percent demic performance. The NCAA uses the unadjusted , it7eaves Louisville well behind its ■ The steps necessary to be draft; rate as Its main gauge. neighboring universities, Kentucky and ed into a professional football or "It provides a comparison with Indiana. From 1981 through 1990, UK basketball league are often road- the general student body that you graduated 15 of 32 players within five blocks to graduation. can't get with adjusted rates," said years (47 percent), and IU graduated 26 Football and basketball players Todd Peter, NCAA assistant director of 42 (62 percent). frequently spend so much of the of research. "When you try to start Even eliminating the five-year cutoff spring semester their senior year laking away people or adding peo- and including the seven other cardinals being tested by pro scouts or attend- pie, it becomes a real nightmare for who got degrees In longer than five ing related functions that they drop schools lo keep track of." years, Crum's graduation rate Is 38 per­ out of school. Classroom standards cent (15 of 39), Louisville also lags behind most of the , II Counselors assigned to help ath- Swain said that besides gradu- other schools surveyed In the Southeast­ l~es cope with those demands and atlon rates, the number of credit still survive academically are often hours that athletes pursue during a ern, Metro and Big Ten conferences for given virtually Impossible tasks. Alh• school year and their overall grade- Incoming classes In the years l 98Q-83. . letes who routinely spend more than point averages are areas that must Whlle Crum vigorously defends his 20 hours a week on their sport have be improved. program"s academic performance, u of L comparatively little time for tutor- "I'm displeased," swain said, " ••. President Donald Swain does not ing or guidance. I will say that I was more concerned Although he expressed confidence In Crum, Swain said, "I simply want Im­ Graduation rates about the academic performance of the football team earlier in the '80s. provement as soon as possible" in basket­ Despite the low graduation rate of I'm much less concerned about that ball recruiting practices, graduation rates Louisville's athletes, It Is still higher now, I think (football coach How­ and overall academic performance. than that of the general student pop­ ard) Schnellenberger has that head­ He said no Jobs are now In Jeopardy, ulation. Of the freshmen who en­ tered U of L from 1981-83, only 22 ed In the right direction and has the but added, "If we do not successfully ad­ academic performance of his play­ just to the rising academic expectations percent got degrees there within ers improving. I'm very pleased nationally, then we may well have to five years. That number Is lowest of With that." make some changes." all the schools that responded. Swain said that Crum, who came. To examine where the U of L, UK and Some university officials are to U of L in 1971, for his career has IU athletics programs stand among their quick to point this out But athletes graduated 48 percent of his players. peers academically, The Courier-Journal also have greater Incentive to stay H9wever, he added that In recent requested graduation rates from the 28 In school. They get financial aid, years: "We have a problem with schools in their conferences, along with and they have access to a more ex­ basketball. I think we all know that the schools' annual reports to the NCAA tensive academic support network The world keeps changing, and I on players' academic status. than other students. draw a little bit of a parallel be­ The annual reports, begun four years Swain acknowledged that athletes tween the three-point shot, which· ago, cover recnlltlng classes from the: are different from typical students. Denny Crum had to adjust to, and 1985-86 to 1988-89 school years and "We are a commuting university the constantly escalating academic graduating classes from the 1984-85 with a large number of part-time standards for athletes, which Denny through 1987-88 school years. • students, and It ts a great triumph, a Crum also has to adjust to .... I'm Based on that Information and inter­ success story, to have those people confident Denny Crum will adjust, views with more than 60 faculty mem­ graduate, even If It takes seven, but he's in a period of adjustment." bers, administrators, coaches and former eight, nine years," he said. "Obvi­ Swain said he has already begun athletes, the newspaper- found: ously, you've got student-athletes trying to Improve the situation. who are full-time students, and He pointed to the class-attendance ■ UsiJJg the NCAA'~ _11\~thod of com­ that"s a different situation." j,utlng graduation rates - the per­ policy Instituted in 1989 for U of L ~entage of Incoming freshmen who However, Swain added that he Is athletes. It states that two unex­ graduate within five school years - "hard-pressed to consider an athlete cused absences In a week result in a V ofL has a rate of 23 percent In who stuck with It and kept working conference with the athlete"s head basketball. It ranks 15th over the and got a degree In eight years a coach. Three in a week or an aver­ tour-year period among the 27 failure." age of two or more a week require a Schools that responded. UK ranks Several coaches and counselors meeting with the academic perform­ third (58 percent). IU, which did not expressed displeasure with the Idea ance committee. Another miss in submit Its 1986-87 reporting form, Is of using graduation rates as a meas­ the following week results In a seventh ( 42 percent). uring stick. Some say the inconsis­ week's lneligiblllty. : According to the NCAA's Aca- tent ways schools report Information SWaln also cited a rule Schnellen­ 4emic Reporting Compllatlons from make ll Impossible to compare berger adopted that requires his 1987-89, the corresponding national rates; some don't like the five-year players to have a 2.0 grade-point average for basketball players at DI­ measuring period; some say the em­ average (on a 4.0 scale) to be eligi­ vision I public schools has held phasis on graduation rates will cre­ ble to play. The university's policy steady each year at 25 percent. ate a greater temptation to cheat or says an athlete who falls below a 2.0 give athletes "junk" degrees. may continue to compete during a ■ The U of L football team gradu­ The NCAA's traditional, unadjust­ one-year probation, after which his ated 28 percent of the players who ed method of computing graduation case Is reviewed. · enrolled between 1980 and 1983. rates Is simple: the total number of Swain said he has suggested that That's 17th of the 27 respondents. freshmen in each sport who entered Schnellenberger's rule be extended UK is eighth (48 percent) and IU Is school In a given year Is divided to the entire athletics program. ninth (46 percent) into the total lrom that number who graduated five years later. Nl,'. /C..c ➔ UoPL Con-t:::l_ He said be also bas Instructed Ray Nystrand, special assistant to UNADJUSTED GRADUATION RATES !be president for atblellcs, and pro­ fessor Burt Monroe, NCAA faculty FROM FRESHMEN CLASSES 1980-83 representative and chairman of !be . Unadjusted graduation rates compare the number of Incoming faculty academic performance co111- freshmen with the number of those freshmen who graduated within five mlttee, to work with athletics dirtrc­ years. Players who transfer to other schools are counted as ncit tor Bill Olsen and !be athletics de-­ graduating. Those who transfer in are not counted. partment to Improve athletes' aca' Rates were computed using data supplied by the schools and the demic performance - with empha­ schools' NCAA reporting forms covering the 1984-85 through 1987-88 sis on basketball. school years. Some schools did not provide information for each year, "I expect we'll see a good deal of and Northwestern provided only pe.rcentages, not the numbers from attention paid to that In the coming which they were computed. year," Swain said. All Men'• Other. BIG TEN students basketball Football eporta Questionable recruiting Illinois 71% 29% (4-14) 49% (41-84) 63% (176-281) In recent years, however, most of Indiana 53% 42% (5-12) 46% (29-63) 62% (91-147) !be attention has been devoted to Iowa 52% 31% (4-13) 54% (50-92) 62% (204-327) problems with the basketball team, Michigan 75% 50% (6-12) 54% (41-76) 67% (132-198) which is by far U ofL's biggest Michigan State 57% 25% (2-8) 48% (31-65) 57% (83-145) bread-winner and attention-grabber: Minnesota 28% 15% (2-13) 18% (17-92) 35% (79-229) Northwestern 82% 100% 74% Unavailable ■ Four of the six members of Ohio State 63% 45% (5-11) 55% (37-67) ' ' 72% (306-429) Crum's 1990 recruiting class are In• · Pllrdue 67% 38% (5-13) 44% (39-89) 73% (121-165) eligible under NCAA academic Wisconsin 58% 40% (8-20) 38% (41-107) 54% (207-385) guidelines, the most non-qualifiers among recruiting classes considered SEC - the nation's best That includes star Alabama 46% 18% (2-11) 22% (15-67) 44% (56-127) recruit Anthony Cade, who recently Auburn 54% 24% (4-17) 20% (20-99) 45% (93-205) was reported to have not yet gradu• Florida 60% 22% (5-23) 16% (17-107) 42%·(83-196) 18% (3-17) 21% (21-99) 45% (104-233) ated from blgb school. Georgia 52% Kentucky 37% 58% (7-12) 48% (48-100) 36% (62-173) "I think, frankly, It (the recruiting LSU 27% 15% (3-20) 28% (28-101) 27% (60-223) class) was embarrassing to the Uni• Mississippi 49% 22% (4-18) 41% (41-99) 50% (50-101) versity of Louisville," Swain said. "I Mississippi St. 45% 10% (1-10) 45% (21-47) 43% (35-81) reacted that way, the trustees react­ Tennessee 43% 7% (1-14) 27% (28-103) 36% (79-220) ed that way, and many of our best Vanderbilt 75% 72% (13-18) 65% (65-100) 65% (39-60) friends have reacted that way." METRO ■ In June, talented Jerome Har• Cincinnati 41% 21%(3-14) 24% (24-98) 42% (139-329) mon punctuated a troubled three Florida State 48% 17% (2-12) 41% (34-83) 51% (84-165) years at U ofL by being dismissed Louisville 22% 23% (3-13) 28% (27-97) 37% (77-208) , from the university for at least one Memphis State 25% 13% (1-8) 26% (19-72) 32% (26-82) semester for academic failings. De­ South Carolina 54% 44% (7-16) 38% (42-112) 47% (117-251) spite Harmon's problems, Crum said S. Mississippi 36% 13% (1-8) 28% .(21-76) 31% (22-71) - he would welcome blm back to the Tulane No Information provided team if he regained bis eligibility Virginia Tech 55% 31% (5-16) 34% (38-106) 54% (140-258) next year. Olsen was asked about the quality ADJUSTED GRADUATION RATES of Crum's recruiting decisions. "Well, I'm not pleased with !be re-' Adjusted graduation rates account for transfers Into a program. sulls," he said. "I mean, the judg• Schools are not penalized for players who transfer out In good ments may have been very correct academic stand_lng or who return for a sixth year. and valid. I'm not pleased with Men's Other whatever contributed to the re­ BIG TEN baGketball Football sports sults." Illinois 50% (4-8) 54% (55-102) 80% (201-250) Entering his ninth year as direc• Indiana 60% (6-10) 66% (39-59) 81% (100-123) 63% (5-8) 63% (53-84) 84% (218-260) tor of U of L's academic athletic Iowa ' services, Steve Milburn probably Michigan 60% (6-10) 68% (42-62) 88% (151-171) bas a belier feel for the delicate Michigan State 36% (4-11) 60% (36-60) 65% (92-141) athletics/academics balance at the Minnesota 17% (2-12) 26% (19-73) 51% (84-166) university than anybody. He re­ Northwestern 100% 80% Unavailable ceived virtually universal praise for Ohio State 56% (5-9) 68% (40-59) 81 % (327-403) Purdue 58% (7-12) 61% (43-71) 83% (129-156) bis work from the U of L coaches, 73% (222-305) administrators, teachers and former Wisconsin 42% (8-19) 61% (43-71) athletes Interviewed for this story. SEC Milburn says, "I can sleep at night Alabama 33% (2-6) 39% (15-38) 72% (68-9.4) because I really think we're trying Auburn 40% (4-10) 38% (20-53) 80% (105-131) to do the right thing." Florida 36% (5-14) 24% (17-70) 73% (106-146) There Is a difference, however, Georgia 23% (3-13) 28% (22-79) 60% (107-179) between trying and succeeding. Kentucky 75% (6-8) 83% (43-52) 81% (58-72) "I think, ·blslorically, we bave re­ LSU 18% (3-17) 35% (28-81) 41% (74-182) cruited kids that are not - in terms Mississippi 56% (5-9) 57% (47-83) 69% (65-94) of their academic background and Mississippi St 50% (2-4) 88% (21-24) 79% (44-56) test scores and those kinds of things Tennessee 40% (2-5) 58% (28-48) 75% (80-106) - people tbal you would want to Vanderbilt 88% (15-17) 74% (67-90) 78% (42-54) bet the farm on, In terms of gradu­ . ation," be said. METRO "I don't even care what their test Cincinnati 38% (3-8) 36% (24-67) 67% (140-208) scores are, I would just like to sign · Florida State 36% (5-14) 44% (34-78) 63% (93-147) kids who really; really want to go to Louisville 38% (3-8) 40% (31-78) ·55% (96-171 l school and get a degree," Milburn Memphis State 25% (1-4) 39% (21-54) 55% (33-60) added. South Carolina 60% (9-15) 51% (45-88) 71%(141-199) "Of course, they all tell you that, S. Mississippi 20% (1-5) 33% (21-84) 50% (32-64) but then after they've been here a Tulane No Information provided while I've had kids ... tell me .•., Virginia Tech 31% (5-16) 53% (36-68) 75% (127-169) 'Steve, I .really don't care about Data on Memphis State and Florida State provided by The (Jackson, Miss.) school. I never liked school. Tbe Clarion-Ledger only reason I'm here is to play bas­ ketball.'" ,-. _...., ·! GRADES AND TEST SCORES : Grade-point averages and entrance-test scores for incoming freshmen : football and men's basketball players for the 19.85-86 through 1988-89 : recruiting classes. The numbers were computed !rem the schools' , NCAA reporting forms. Some schools did not provide Information for : each year. · : ACT scores can range from 1 to 36. SAT scores can range from 400 to : 1600. Coro Overall . lllCTEN GPA GPA SAT ACT llllnois 2.78 2.86 892 19.98 Indiana 2.70 2.61 891 18.52- Iowa 2.70 2.83 821 19.84 Michigan 2.70 2.59 850 19.40 Mich. St. 2.67 2.66 827 16.78 Minnesota 2.58 2.66 823 17.52 Northwestern No information provided Ohio State 2.67 2.58 819 17.42 Purdue 2.71 2.71 861 18.33 Wisconsin 2.83 2.87 916 19.59 SEC Alabama 2.56 2.55 766 16.58 Auburn 2.50 2.60 713 17.25 Florida 2.47 2.62 744 17.09 Georgia 2.75 2.60 832 18.60 Kentucky 2.76 2.73 831 18.82 LSU 2.60 2.60 803 15.57 Ole Miss 2.51 2.60 770 16.97 Miss. St. 2.65 2.58 855 16.87 Tennessee 2.51 2.56 814 17.04 Vanderbilt No Information provided METRO Cincinnati 2.53 2.44 755 16.78 Florida St. 2.48 2.54 768 13.88 Louisville 2.61 2.53 830 15.85 Memphis St. 2.68 2.64 764 15.12 S. Carolina 2.52 2.58 817 14.90 S. Miss. 2.64 2.63 635 16.48 Tulane No information provided Va. Tech 2.72 2.69 846 17.50 D8.ta on Alabama, Florida State, Memphis State and South Carolina provided by The (Jackson, Miss.) Clarfon-Ledger THE COURIER.JOURNAL, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBEH ~. l!Ml However, officials at ti ofL, the here. We've also bad some that talking about 4 ½·5 years right United States Football League dur­ Unlverslty of Kentucky and Indiana weren't as good. . . .'' be said. "I there. · · · I'm glad we haveb lhal Ing the spring or their senior years. Unlveridty said the bead coach must would say there probably would be kiod or th10g available, · · • u a But even If those six players are not Crum and Schnellenberger ac_llvely stress the Importance of more students come to a school with the same time, s10ce II doesn't count counted against Miami, only eight of academics to players. ail urban mission that are from ml- toward a degree, 11 kiod of puts 22 graduated. 1 J'The coach . has the ulllmate ' oorlly-type backgrounds, where they them In a hole." , Still, Schnellenberger could have defend academic records weapon,'' u of L President Donald \ cion't have the same academ)c tnlln• Schnellenbef1Jlen Football first a positive .academic legacy et U or L Swain said. "Thal ultimate weapon . Ing, maybe the same parental guld• u of L's football graduation rates with the 2.0 GPA requirement, . ~ ~\, ilcailemtc conviction. The standard, Is) you don't play unless you do well ance and upbringing, maybe the are an extension of Scbnellen- swain and Olsen think so highly of By PA"J;WORDE 'w)llcb has been roundly applauded, Stall Writer In class.'' . same educational opportunities." . berger's academic legacy at Miami, the rule that they said II likely wlll ts tougher than university requlrll- '.Said C. M.. Newton, UK athletics , Many U of L athletes begin In re- where be was bead coach during be recommended for other sports. ' ' ments tor eligibility. " :<• ,, , ·: . Desplie the difficulties their players dltector: "If graduation is Important medial classes, making It difficult to the 1979-83 seasons. "I'm hoping that that Is something ·Scbnellenberger .said part .of bis to. the bead coach lo a particular I earn a degree even lo fl\re years. swain and Olsen both said they that helps make, In a statistical way, have encountered lo the classroom, pi-obl~m _In getting good .~udents"lo University of Louisville basketball sport, It's going to be important to Most of Crum's recruits In the last asked Miami officials about Schoel- dramatic Improvement (lo gradu­ bls flrsfyear.u1t u or L was bis com• e\ierybody. It will be important to five years have begun in the univer- lenberger's academic lrack record 1 •atloo rates),'' Olsen said. coach Denny Crum and football coach 0 I · pelill~e\ '.:~jjtillog .d~4van'8Ji!l • • assistant coaches, the support peo- . slty's Preparatory Division. Thal Is and were satisfied. "I don't know what more I can do Howard Scboelleoberger vigorously de­ · Now Ilia! the,.roothall program ap­ pie, the-trainers, managers and the 1 for students who have met the mini- But according to The Miami Her• to make these kids graduate than fend their programs' academic per­ pears to blive- tunied the corner; be playen. And players wlll graduate."-1-mum requirements for admittance aid Miami graduated two of 22 sen• make them have a 2.0,'' Scbnellen- formance. .said, .be_cancb_e_mor.!l_selecllve with ·Stlll-C::rum-polnts-out-the-oumber to·the-unlverslty-(a-2.25-grade-polnt-1-1or'p1ayers·1n-1981-82•·fn-I982-ll3·the- · berger said. Crum says the goal of many of bis recruits, and his graduation record of, bis players·n~w playing as prores- ' average or a score of 16 on the new, , numbers were five 'or 18; and In Grade-point policy aside, Schnel­ players Is not to earn a degree, but to will conlloue to improve. slooars and 11\e number who have enhanced ACT - under the old test 1983-84, when the Hurricanes won lenberger bas required bis players play professional basketball. He be­ come back ~ finish their degrees the minimum score was a 12), but the national title, 11 .was eight of 28. to spend many hours on their sport. lieves !hill whatever education they Cium: Laissez .faire after playing. · , . . , . 1 have not been accepted Into a de- The players on that teBJ!I were all All of the eight former U or L play- pick up illong the way Is valuable. · Crum's academic· philosophy bas . "Slxleeil of Die kids that have not gree-granting college et U of L Scllnelleoberger recruits. _ ers Interviewed for this story agreed "I guess It comes down to, what Is the closely mirrored his coaching and gotten their degrees In the 1980s are For acceptance into such a col- ' A Nov. 6, 1985, Herald column by with columnist Pope's assertion: that purpose or a university?" Crum said. disciplinary philosophy: laissez stm making a living playing profes- - Jege, a student must score better Edwin Pope said that during Schoel- the time put Into football often was "IS It the primary purpose of a univer­ faire. Players are expected to_, be slonal basketball or some kind," he than the national mean on the ACT lenberger's tenure at Miami It was too much to do an adequate Job sity to give degrees, or Is It to educate? mature enough to handle academics said, ticking off seven players In the (the mean last year, .with the old "an open secret -that lo many con- , scholastically. It's to educate, to provide an opportuni­ without the head coach watching National Basketball Association and test, was between 18 and 18.5) and ' mets between football and scholas- In fact, several players mentioned ty for people to team more so they can over them •. nine playing ellber Internationally have graduated In the top half or bis I lies - practice vs. class, meetlbge what was an unofficial team motto: become a more Integral part or society, · · "One of .lhe things about life ts, or lo the Continental Basketball A5- or her class. I vs tutoring sessions, training room "If you wanted to study, you should so they can function In society with suc­ people have. to learn to make decl• soclallon. · Prep Division officials said 18 vs· study hall - football took prece- have gone to Harvard.'' cess, so they're not on welfare. Wheth­ slons," said Crum, Who generally His numbers are Inaccurate. Of percent of last year's Incoming deoce.'' Scbnellenberger's response: "All er a person bas a degree or not doesn't leaves academic watchdog duties to !lie 24 players without degrees, 13 freshmen enrolled In Prep. Among Schoellenberger pointed out that players think they practice too determine whether or not he is an Inte­ longtime assistant Jerry Jones. W)!re playing pro basketball last basketball players In the last five nearly all the seniors be bad during much. I thought so when I was a gral part of society. "That's one or the reasons I don't winter. Five were lo the NBA, six years, the- percentage was 53 per- bis first four years at Miami were player.'' "If, for example, If you took all the believe in total structure for a col­ w'ere overseas, one was In the CBA, cent (9 of 17); among football play- I recruited by previous UM coaches "I think coach Scbnellenberger basketball ,players we bad that did not lege athlete. II I have to make every aM one split time between Europe ers It was 30 percent (35 of 117). Carl Selmer and Lou Saban. He also has, as his prime directive, winning graduate bUt can.go out In their profes­ decision for him, then he'll never and the CBA. Of that 13, Lancaster Prep classes do not count toward was playing primarily with Bob football,'' Milburn· said. "I under­ sion and earn a inlliloii ,~oilers a year learn to function In the real world." Gordon left his CBA team during the graduation. Crum and Steve Mil·· Weber's recruits for bis first years stand why that Is - that's the most oi" 2 million dollars a year or a hundred . All the former U or L basketball ~n. and Brown said be does not burn, director or U of L's academic at Louisville. Important thing lo him, he's been thousand dollars a year, ••. If that was­ players .Interviewed said that they plan to play basketball intematioo- athletic services, think players who "As you know, any time a new told that's the most Important thing. their goal, and they reached that goal; believed Crum cared about academ­ ally this fall. spend their first year In Prep have coach comes to, a lot of players de- I guess If we lived In an Ideal world, then they were succe!j!lful In college. ics bot that ii was their responsibil- Crum also stressed that he doesn't little chance or graduating In five clde they'd rather be playing some- I'd like to think that there are some Whether they got an academic degree ity to get a, degree. · believe U or L can be compared years. where else " Scbnellenberger said. more educational kinds or lnspira- or nOL" ·, · ·. · "Coach Crum figures you're able wlth UK or IU. He emphasized that "The first year of (a Prep Dlvi• Although' Scboellenberger talks of lion there. . .• I guess that some- He added: "Let me milke someUllng to,take things as a man and do them U of L bas an "urban mission" - slon athlete's) schooling IS going to the high turnover that accompanies times everything bas to be colored, clear: I'd like to see every one or these the rlghi way,'' said Wiley Brown, a serving more needy, lnner-dty stu- be used to try and make up what b~ coaching changes, dozens of players In bis view, In te~ or what helps •ltlciii get a· degree. It would make me , member or the I 980 championship dents than neighboring schools. missed In the first 18 years,'' Crum he recruited have left u of L Ac• the team and whats going to bring ivefy ,proud of them. Especially the teanl who says be ls still 22 hours "It's all· right to compare us to said "You're assuming a kid can do cording to the school's 1985-89 me- about winning football. I can't argue short ·or his degree In communica­ somebody else who's an urban uni• that I don't think that's possible. So I dla guides, of the 1'32 freshmen and about what he's done." 1opes1i,that came from backgrounds tion. "He doesn't really go out and 1·that ,;;were not really sound and versity and stale-t1upported like we now to say that the kid is going to be ' lransfers recruited In that time, i;d\dn't prepare. them educationally,'.' say, you do Ibis and that, or if not are,'' he said. "But to compare ap- admitted to the regular part of the I nearly half - 60 - left the team J: Sclioellenberger points to the poll­ he's going to do something. He'll tell pies with oranges, I don't think you µnlverslty after a year and is going,, before their eligibility had expired. !):1 ibil put Into effect last year - you what you've got to do, and If get anything really valid." to graduate In the next four years, Schnellenberger said that the {~lilrlng all · football players to you don't do it, the_n thal"s on you." Because or the different. mission that's ludicrous.'' · graduation figures for bis only re- Chris· west; who graduated In. and atmosphere, Crum said, U or L Said Milburn: "Even with the best crulled senior class at Miami were ,lllaliitaln a 2.0 minimum grade-point 1987, said, "Basically, you've·got to 'average - as an example of his recruits different athletes. student in the world, who never I hampered by "five or six" players pretty much look out for .yourself." "We've had a lot or great students flunks a class, never drops, takes leaving school early to play In the the maximum load possible, you're · MSU Clip Sheet A tampllq of recent artlda of lntaat to Morehead State UnJventty

MEDIA RELATIONS • MOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY • UPO BOX 1100 • MOREHEAD, KY 40351-1689 • 606-783-2030 THE COURIER-JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1990 Swain was on target ONE who's ever studied grades doesn't inspire confidence. MSU ARCHJVES Donald Swain's body lan­ It players fail to graduate but guage at a University of reach their goal of earning big A Louisville basketball bucks in the pros, he says, "they ~me knows the man is a vigorous were successful in college." Coach, THE COURIER✓OURNAL , WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 199 ::ardinaJ fan. Anyone who's heard that doesn't wash. Too few young- 1im speak about the basketbaJJ sters make the big time. Even Lexington restricts UK parking ~rogram knows that U of L's presi­ when they do, there's the problem LEXINGTON, Ky. - More than 150 University of Kentu ient is keenly aware that Denny of how they're to earn a living students have lost their favorite parking spaces In the Praut1 : rum and his fighting cardinals when their knees give out before neighborhood near the campus. nave brought their hair turns Curbside parkJng was banned starting Saturday for any veh their school hon­ gray. His is also a Without a city-issued parking tag - meant for residents only. )r, fame and regrettably nar- others may be towed. more than a few row view of what Student Glenn Hammond said he chose to park in the a ::ontributors. a university edu- because It was closer to his cl8S.5es than the large student Jo So it must be cation is about. ~mmonwealth Stadium. More than one-third of UK's 15,675 p, jifficult for Dr. However, he's not mg spaces are at the stadium. a mile or more from most acade1 iwain to face the buildings. !lard truth about alone - many The Lexington-Fayette County council selected the Pralltci llis team's poor fans say it doesn't area last spring to test parkJng permits after residents complain 1cademtc per­ matter if athletes The program is a one-year experiment. which the council 1 fail to complete re-evaluate next summer. The tags cost $10 per vehicle and : rormance, but he their education. required for parkJng on Pralltown streets between 7 a.m. an1 raced it forth­ D r . S w a i n p.m. Monday through Friday. rightly in Student makes no bones The city will let residents buy two permits for each househc 4.thletes: a sport· about what must Households with handicapped persons can buy three permits. v ·ng chance?, a se­ be done: Recruit- tor permits are also available. ies by staff writ­ in g practices, Ironically, many of the students who used to park in Prallto· !r Pat Forde. graduation rates may hunt for street spaces in Transylvania Park, whose reside Young athletes and overall aca- have already complained about parking. 1ave been chron­ demic perform- And I! many of the former Pralltown parkers choose to 1~ c a 11 y short­ ance need to Im- their cars at the stadium lot. they may further clog the bw :banged by U of prove soon. By :~~ng between the stadium and the campus, a LexTran offic ~, and the univer­ ALE PHOTO Coach Crum's Cards aren't all voicing his dis- ;ity continues to winners in the classroom. pleasure, he bas ,e regularly em­ helped launch the >arrassed by some team members' process. He might also urge the >oor academic performance. From athletics program to add more tu- .981 to 1990, only 16 percent of the tors - Indiana University has :cbolarship players at U of L com­ about three times as many as U of >leted the five-year period in L. He also suggests that requiring vhich the NCAA allows athletes to players to maintain a C average - >articipate - and expects them to a rule now used by the football pro- :raduate. What's more, the pro­ gram - be extended to all sports. :ram's recruiters seem either The problem of poor academic 1blivious to the problem or have no performance by basketball and nkling as to bow to start fixing it football players extends to many - only two members of U of L's Division I schools and can't be nuch VfiUnted six-player recruiting solved at any one of them individ­ :lass are eligible under NCAA aca­ ually. While pushing for improve­ lemic guidelines. ment at home, Dr. Swaln should try While he pays lip service to the to persuade presidents of other Di­ 1eed for better scores in the class­ vision I schools to join his cam- ·oom, Coach Crum's attitude about paign. _A service of the Office of Media Relations- i MSU ARCHIVES 1990 · MJU Clip Jheet A 1ampllng of recent articles of interest to Morehead State University

MEDIA RELATIONS • MOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY • UPO BOX 1100 • MOREHEAD, KY 40351-1689 • 606-783-2030 LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER. LEXINGTON. KY .. THURSDAY._ AUGUST 30, 1990 UK ·enrolls· record numbEir' of Natrona! ~------. •-- ~ . . ' :Merit Scholars UK Merit Scholars ~ ' - ;~,~~al~:L~~dJ._r,y~-~~ur8~U· j}. · Twenty-six. ·members of By Andrew Oppmann · this year's· fresliman class at and David A. Hall Scholars, arguing it did not want to -the University of Kentucky' are' . Herald-Leader stall writers I, restrict its scholarship dollars. National Merit Scholars.'. They The University of Kentucky en- . \ . The Merit Scholar competition are: __ ,.. ,.~ . , rolled 26 National Merit Scholars in I involves three stages: semifinalist, Thomas Appel, Scott De- this year's freshman class, a record ' finalist and scholar. The merit ' 'pot, W,Va,; S. David Blake, mark that officials said was dtie to scholarship corporation does not Lexington; Brian Edward Bol- .· the school's aggressive effort to award its own money. Instead, it ing, Lexington; Paul Brewer, attract top academic achievers. · serves as a funnel for millions of Morehead; Bradley David It doubled UK's previous. best dollars in aid from corporations and Burkhart, Hopkinsville; Beth . - set in 1986 - when 13 Merit universities. Cluxton. Aberdeen, Ohio; Matt­ Scholars were enrolled.· This year, UK gave money to Cutts, Morehead; Paige Danie~ · --••This is further evidence· tliat the merit corporation for 19 of the Morehead; David C. Giles, Lex, UK is maturing as an· academic 26 scholarships, said Kate Johnsori, ington;· · • institution,'' said Joe Fink, UK's UK's scholarship coordinator. The Scott S. Gordon, Murray; admissions director. ''Perhaps one other seven .were funded by the Jason Lewis Harris, Beaver of the best-kept secrets in the com- corporation through other contribu- Dam; Jason Herbert, Perryville; monwealth is the academic strength tions. Diane Herrick, Lexington; Mi­ of the University of Kentucky." The scholarships sover fees, tu- chael Hill, Murray; Noel Holz, South Charleston, W.Va.; School officials said they ition and housing costs. Shannon Lee Keith, Pine Knot; thought the enrollment "'.'as the ~t Some money UK used for this Kristin King, Lexington; Betsy among the state's pubhc and pn- year's scholars came from the Com-. Law, Louisville; vate institutions this year. Transyl- monwealth Scholars Program, a Mary Madden, Henderson;• vailia University and Centre'College · state-sponsored effort to encourage Bradford Mallory, West Padu- . traditionally have been among the top students to attend Kentucky . cah; Laura Alison Martin;·> state's top recruiters of the _schol~. schools. The 22 scholars from Ken- Madison, Ind.; Lisa Menne; vn,: Transylvania has 13 scholars this tucky got money from the program. la Hills; Tiffany Orr, .Marion;: year; Centre College has two. To become a Merit Scholar, . Aaron Sparks, Louisville; Bri- · The University of Louisville - high school students must be an Stamper, Grayson; Randy· which led the state with 21 Merit named semifinalists on the basis of Yarger, Corbin .. · Scholars enrolled last year - has I their scores on the Preliminary 10 Merit Scholars in its freshman , Scholastic Aptitude Test, adminis­ class thi.s year; . .: . · .... _ ·· tered in the fall of a student's junior ing UK's number of Merit Scholars year in high school. was one of the priorities set by "It's rather heartening for me to I 'Robert Hemenway, chancellor of ,,"ee us being successful against th~ Semifinalists must be recom• UK's Lexington campus. · comJ:!Ctition," said lJK interim I'res1- ' mended by their high schools and dent Charles Wethington. ''Our fac- must score among the top I percent Hemenway said he hopes to ulty and staff are working hard to of the nation's seniors taking the increase tJiis year's total by 15-20 attract the top students.~. . Scholastic Aptitude Test before be- for next year. · coming finalists. · · UK's emphasis on attracti,:ig . . Eastern· Kentucky University \ Merit Scholars is a reversal of _its . The ment corporation and colle- enrolled one scholar in its freshman ; earlier stand against . awar_ding grate spon_sors, such as UK, then ... class this fall; West em Kentucky · , scholarships through the Nati01p1l, sel~ scholars from among the·· University, four; and Morehead I Merit Corp., a non-profit., group finahsts. _Qf .the 14,(!00 ~tuden!S State University, three. Infonnation ; .based in Evanston.. n.r,t-;-( :'; .?.Yr, ! who quahfied as sem,finahsts this . was not available yesterday from ~-.. · · -- , ,.. ,.-,,·_.:~,::?·,--"d··,f ot;. Y~, 6,100 _were awarded scliola!- · Murray State University, Northern 1,,,. Until 1985, the •'""loo1 I n .,., ships. · • .' ,_ ··.. . . . · ~-.d te money specifica!Jy_fo,i:_¥~h-. ·.... ·< .. _... ,- ... ·•. Kentuck): Um:ver,;1ty '.1nd Kentucky

_ ey_o,., · · .Adm1ss1ons official~ said-..; __ boost-, ,. . State_....,_...._ Umvers1ty: ___ ~ .... ______..., ·· · .,,_ • · · -A service of the Office of Media Relations- ::XINGTON HERALD-LEADER. LEXINGTON, KY., THURSDAY; AUGUST 30, 1990 Chancellor to investigate OCC allegations :THE COURIER.JOURNAL, THURSDAY, AUGUST 30, j~ ' . OWENSBORO - The acting chancellor of the University of Kentucky· Community College system is personally looking into · College president under scrutiny allegations about President Jim McDannel's mana));ement of Owens­ OWENSBORO, Ky. - The acting chancellor of the University boro Community College. or Kentucky Community College system Is looking Into allegations about President Jim McDannel's management of Owensboro Com- .'fhe chaiJ:man of_ the ·school's advisory board, Mike Fiorella, ' munlty College. · . declined to cite specific charges. But he said they were "serious : The chairman -of the school's advisory board, Mike Florella, enough that the advisory board members felt a responsibility to . declined to cite specific charges. . share those with Dr. McDannel and pass them along to the , Acting chancellor Ben Carr Jr: met with OCC faculty members chancellor." · .. · · · · Tuesday, one day aft~r three members of the advisory board met ., with him In Lexington . , ·· Acting Chancellor Ben Carr Jr. met with OCC faculty members McDannel said he met last week with board members, who Tuesday, one day after three members of the college's advisory board asked him about appropriations to some programs and questioned · met with him in Lexington. · whether he was delegating authority properly. ' The board has no authority over the president, so Carr will McDannel said he met with Fiorella and other board members oversee the Investigation of the allegations, Florella said. last week. He said· they asked him about appropriations to some programs and questioned whether he was delegating authority properly. · The boon! has . no _authority over the president, so Carr will ~versee the investigation of the allegations, Fiorella said. No lmetable has. been set

LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER, LEXINGTON, KY .. THURSDAY, AUGUST 30, 1990 ·More blacks· called for on UK staff : By 8arry Reeves Newton said the meeting was "a coach for basketball and one sports H•rald-Leader staff writer good exchange of ideas and infor- information assistant. Black leaders, meeting with mation." He would not elaborate. "We've met with Louisville and University of Kentucky officials Coleman, pastor of the Shelby we're going to start meeting with yesterday, said they were concerned Congressional Methodist Church in the others within the next couple of about the lack of black staff mem- Shelbyville, said the meeting fol- wee\

·1 Athletics Director C.M. Newton cans," he said. he said. , met with Coleman, •NAACP repre• There are eigl_it blacks among Newton said no future meetings 1 sentative Mike Wilson, Lexington· · about. 80- staff members in UK's were planned. "But I am sure that Urban County Councilman Robert athletics:· three assistant football we will see each __ 'other again;" . he Jefferson and Urban League Presi- ' · coaches, ·two assistant men's ba~­ said-•. ~-:_ ::·.,;,· __ dent P.G. Peeples . for · about 1½ ketball coaches, one assistant wom­ Staff f!)riter Jerry Tipton contrib- hours. -,_.,-·.- -,, ,,: .. _ , en's ~sketball coach, a strengt):i: u_ted to_ .!Ji#. :prticle . .. , · LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER, LEXINGTON, KY., THURSDAY, AUGUST 30. 1990

. Proctor played · twCJ years - go in to it. It's not fair to the kids. Proctor knew his . including the Eagles' last Ohio Val-. This is their first game of the ley Conference championship sea­ season, too." son in 1966. He then embarked on a Proctor recalled a saying from a time would come coaching career ihat took him to the friend, Cle be McClary. In one battle· junior college and high school in Vietnam, Mc-Clary was wounded · By Rick Ba_ iley • ranks, then assistant coaching jobs seven times. He had 30 operations st on the Division I level. He was a Herald-Leader aff writer • defensive line coach at Utah when and was hospitalized 2½ · years. -A MOREHEAD - The letter was on the football hired by Moreh~d. retired Marine Corps lieutenant, he secretary's desk, ready for mailing. In his mind, Proctor had plotted speaks in high schools, prisons and churches and on special occasions. Then the phone rang., · his way to a head coaching job. "I'd A college teammate from two decades ai:o was on stay as an assistant four or five "I brought Clebe to Utah two the line sharing the news that he was applymg for the years," he said. "The head coach · years ago (after the Utes has lost . coaching vacancy_ af their alma mater. would get out, and I'd step up." five of six games), and we won our ' After hanging up; Cole Proctor walked to 0e desk, That's the way colleague Larry last four," Proctor said. "Clebe picked up his letter applying for the same Job and Marmie did it at Arizona State, would say, 'FIDO' - forget it and · drive on. Whether the last play was stuffed it.in his desk ~rawer. . . . ,, succeeding John Cooper when Coop- "! don't believe m competmg with a friend, er moved to Ohio State. good or bad, it's history. Let's focus on the next one. That's what I have Proctor said. That scenario didn't work for to really be attentive to. So, after the 1983 season, Bill Baldridge, then an Proctor. Instead, he said, "I gave the assistant at Kansas, became the head football co~ch at · Morehead job a shot, and it all "It comes to the point where Morehead State. Proctor stayed on as an assistant worked out." . you have to be somewhat of a poker player. For all those years, Tom coach at San Diego State. , . With his college debut ap- Landry didn't seem excited because Proctor didn't regret his decision. "I knew my time proaching, Proctor is focusing on he kept his poker face. He was would come," he said. ... the Eagles, not his personal feel- It _And when tJ.ie. Mor~ead ings. looking into every aspect of the Ml!· game, and he was going on to the Eagles VIS1t_ Marshall Umvo/Sity on "It's just an opening . football next event.'' ~turday mght, Proctor will make game," he said. "I always get excit­ h1s debut as a head coach at a four- ed. But the fact Cole Proctor is a Yet Morehead's opener, Proctor agreed, is "very special." year school. head football coach ... I can't let "I'm an emotional person, and I The Morehead . vacancy . oc- that get in the way. This is More­ get· excited. 'I'm excited about Mar­ curred last year when Baldridge head State University's football decided his health wouldn't allow team and that's the way I have to shall. What a rivalry this is. An,d it him to continue as c9ach. ' will be a pressure cooker up there." "When the job came open this time," Proctor said, "I talked to Bill. I hated that he had to get out, but he left with relatively good health. This was the first head coaching · job I applied for. But I had always wanted to get back here." . . Proctor a self-professed. "damn Yankee," ~e to Morehead via a strange route in the '60s. The Con­ necticut native had played two years at State College of Iowa, now Northern Iowa, then returned home. He was working and playing indus­ trial league basketball when ~is high school coach, Joe Corbitt, hooked him up with Morehead coach Guy Penny. '

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MEDIA RELATIONS • MOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY • UPO BOX 1100 • MOREHEAD, KY 40351-1689 • 606-783-2030 LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER, LEXINGTON, KY., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1990 ' projects a 5 percent to 6 percent student affairs at U of L. "Our increase on last fall's record enroll­ percentage of part-time commuters Enrollment up ment of 7,962. and adult population just keeps • Western Kentucky University growing." president Thomas C. Meredith ex­ UK officials are not worried at al I 8 state pects a record 15,000 students this about being caught up in a num­ fall. Just a month ago, Meredith bers game. thought Western's enrollment universities would be down, but an increase in "That is not an issue as far as upperclassmen altered expectations. I'm concerned," Wethington said. By Barry Reeves • Murray State University offi­ "It's a moot point. Herald-Leader staff writer cials expect about a 5 percent "While university enrollment is All eight of Kentucky's state universiti~ increase, which would bring the up, we are proud that we are university close to its peak enroll- continuing to have an increase in reported increases in fall enrollment, most m ment of 8,350. · the ·5 percent range_ the quality of students. . . . Aca­ • Northern Kentucky Universi­ Kentucky State University had the biggest demically, this is the strongest class ty's preliminary figures indicate a 9 we've ever enrolled." increase: Preliminary numbers showed a 12 percent increase enrollment. percent increase in enrollment. KSU has 2,446 If Louisville's projection is cor­ An estimated 40,600 students students enrolled this semester, up from 2,190 rect, it will surpass UK as the have enrolled in UK's community last fall. state's largest university. UK has college system, an increase of more The University of Kentucky, boosted by its an estimated 23,100 students on the than 11 percent. UK's Lexington community college system, showed an increase Lexington campus. U of L had campus showed a 1 percent gain. of 7.2 percent, according to preliminary figures 22,246 students enrolled Aug. 31, but some night and weekend class­ The increase UK officials are released yesterday. UK reached a record high happiest to see is the 13 percent of 63,700 students, increasing for its fifth es had not started, said John Drees, consecutive year. Of that number, 23,100 are on assistant director of news and pub­ growth in the number of black the Lexington campus, and the rest are in the lic information. students on the Lexington campus. 14 community colleges. About 782 blacks are enrolled this "UK has a much tougher admis­ fall, compared with 691 in fall 1989. Despite UK's gains, the Univer­ sions policy, so I guess, we should sity of Louisville might surpass the be a little bigger," said Bruce Bur­ Other universities have not yet Lexington campus enrollment, U of sack, assistant vice president for broken down enrollment by race. L officials predicted. "We have had an unusual amount of attention focused on education in Kentucky in the past year," UK interim President Charles Wethington said, "so that has shined a very positive light on higher education in Kentucky. LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER, LEXINGTON, KY., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1990 "I just believe that in Kentucky, the people have seen the need for Chemical fire at college more education. The opportunities are much greater" with a college education. forces evacuation in Hazard Around the state, enrollment Staff, wire reports figures look like this: HAZARD - At least 60 firefight,rs battled a chemical blaze at • The University of Louisville Hazard Community College for six hours yesterday, during which the projects its largest enrollment ever campus and a nearby car dealership and golf course were evacuated, - 23,706, a 2.3 percent increase. authorities said. · • Eastern Kentucky University The fire was set off by a series of four explosions that occurred officials expect a significant in­ when phosphorus that a professor accidentally spilled in a chemical crease on last year's record of storage room came in contact with other chemicals, the city fire 14,268 in the fall. department said. The professor, Greg Wilson, escaped uninjured. • Morehead State University Lt Sam Gibson of the Hazard Fire Department said there were no reports of injuries, but toxic fumes were reported blowing downwind from the school. The blast blew ciut windows near a biology laboratory about 2:30 p.m., and it was extinguished by 8:15 p.m. Firefighters kept the blaze from spreading beyond the storage room, said Lt. David Pierce of the fire department. But they had trouble extinguishing it because of the highly flammable nature of the chemicals, he said. Classes were canceled at the school last night and today.

-A service of the Office of Media Relations- THE COURIER-JOURNAL, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1990 Lt. Sam Gibson of the Hazard Fire Kincaid said school officials be­ Chemical. fire: Department said that there were no lieved phosphorus in a chemical reports of injuries, but that fumes storage room exploded when it got were reported near the school. · wet. A fire department official re­ ported the fire was contained to the at Hazard Reports conflicted last night on storage area but still burning ~early whether the fumes were toxic or four hours after the initial report. whether it was just smoke, The Haz­ college forces: ard Country Club and cardinal Classes ,. were canceled at the Chevrolet were evacuated. • school yes,erday evening and·today. evacuations A spokeswoman for the college, Lori Kincaid, said the fire began From Staff and AP Dispatches when a chemistry professor,· Greg Wilson, went into a storage area ad­ HAZARD, Ky. - A chemicai' jacent to the chemistry Jab to get blaze in a chemical storage area at­ some phosphorus. , Hazard Community College kept at Kincaid said that although she least 60 firefighters at the scene for· doesn't know exactly how, the: phos­ several hours and forced the evacu-, phorus apparently got wet and: ignit­ alion of the college and a nearby.. ed. Wilson threw the phosphrus con­ country club and car dealership. • · tainer into a sink and told students The fire had been contained to a. to get out of the lab, she said. chemical storage room in the main The fire alarm was activated and college building last night. : :: the building was evacuated. : Lt. David Pierce of the Hazard· The explosion didn't occur' until Fire Department said that the stor-­ 20 or 30.minutes later - after fire age room contained up to 200 differ-. officials were already on campus, ent chemicals, "Really we don'.t Kincaid said. · know what we may be dealing. Witnesses said the blast blew out with," he said. windows near a biology lab about Disaster and Emergency Services· 2:30 p.m. EDT, officials and the fire department's Kincaid said the fire was confined hazardous-materials unit were at the to two rooms on the lower floor of scene, Pierce said. the two-story building.

·The Daily Independent, Ashland, Ky,, Wednesday, September 5, 1990

"There is a!50 the ~anger that students will become complacent about ev~cuatmg a bwlding, and that could result in a real tragedy " MSU officials· Green smd, ' ~ offerin_g re~ards for information on false alarms, Rosenberg smd the uruvers1ty was essentially reactivating a program it began several years ago when the school was plagued by a rash of attempt to end telephoned bomb threats. State la~ ma~e~ pulling a false alarm a misdemeanor punishable by a $500 fme? a Jml sentence of up to a year, or both. All. of the fire alarm pull stations on campus are being fitted with false fire alarms p)ashc cove~s and devices that emit a sound when alarms are disturbed, said Gary Messer, coordinator of occupational health and By KENNETH A, HART Independent News Writer safety at the university. The covers seem to be having the MOREHEAD - New "get tough" policies adopted by Morehead desired effect. State University officials are aimed at discouraging students from turning in false fire alarms and vandalizing school property, "We've had two instances where The school has posted a standing $1,000 reward for information pull station covers have been ac­ tivated and the alarm hasn't been leading to the arrest and conviction of anyone who needlessly triggers pulled," Green said. a fire alarm, said Dick Green, the university's director of public safety, Rosenberg said the covers cost Also, the alarm boxes in campus buildings are being modified to the school nearly $18,000. About 300 make it easier to identify people who set them off and school officials are being installed in residence are warning that any student found guilty of pulling a false alarm will halls, he said. be expelled. I?ay ~aid he is pleased that the un1vers1ty had responded to the False fire alarms on campus have been a source of friction between problem, the university and the city, Earlier this year, Mayor Larry Breeze proposed an ordinance that "This isn't going to take care of would have allowed the city fire department to charge a $200 base · 100 percent ?f them, but at least rate for runs both inside and outside the city, they are making an effort," he said. The ordinance, which the city council rejected June 11 by a 3-2 vote, _School officials also are taking was aimed at helping the city recoup some of its expenses from aim at the problem of vandalism on answering false alarms, particularly those at Morehead State. campus. The fire department answered 137 false alarms at the school last Mike Mincey, vice president for year, Chief Ronnie Day said, at a cost of more than $50,000, student life, said cash rewards are Already this year, Day said, firefighters have made about 125 trips bemg offered for information about to the campus, intentional damage to school prop­ Since students returned to classes Aug. 18, Day said, the fire erty, department has made 15 runs to the university. Only one was for an "As it stands now, the costs of actual fire, . repairing acts of vandalism end up Some false alarms at the university are caused by equipment bemg passed on to all students in the malfunctions, but school officials have admitted that the over­ form of higher fees," he said. "If I whelming majority of them are pranks, were a student, I'd think twice be­ Bill Rosenberg, director of general services at Morehead State, fore I'd stand by while someone said the school's actions to discourage students from pulling false damaged university property." alarms were a response to the concerns raised by city officials, Mincey said the size of the reward Green said university officials also are concerned about the would depend on the nature of the dangers false alarms present for firefighters, as well as the element offense. of "crying wolf" that such incidents can create. LEXINGTON HERALD-LEAOER. LEXINGTON, KY .. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1990 Federal priorities But the reality is that the re­ search university, where teaching of Students at mercy of colleges' p'riorities undergraduates takes a back seat to research, publishing and graduate more exciting than teaching. As a result, But some critics say that the educations, is becoming more prom­ As professors in colleges and universities across the research has gradually displaced teach­ problem is deeper than has been inent. nation are pressured to publish or conduct research,· ing as the principal concern of many suggested and that undergraduate Charles J. Sykes, whose Pro/s­ faculty members. teaching will never get the attention cam: Professors and the Demise of teaching is left to second-rank instructors who do not "It is time for us to reaffirm that it deserves until faculty members Higher Education, published in communicate effectively on the undergraduate level. education ~ that is, teaching in all its · are rewarded as handsomely for 1988 by Regnery Gateway, was one forms - is the primary task, and that teaching as for research and pub­ of the harshest industry critiques of our society will judge us in the long run lishing. recent years, blames the enormous By Don Wycliff on how well we do it," Kennedy said. Faculty members "simply are New York Times News Service influx_ of federal money into higher CLOSE-UP: It was an unusually blunt and forth­ not rewarded for spending time education since 1945 for much of American higher education has be­ with undergraduates," even though ' right statement that carried special this change in priorities. come the envy of the rest of the world Higher education weight because it came from the occu­ 7 in 10 say they are more inclined In a study, recently published, but, increasingly, a disappointment at pant of one of the most prestigious posts toward teaching than toward re­ for the Cato Institute, he says that home, search, says Ernest L. Boyer, presi­ colleges be fluent in English, And in in American higher education. But if federal support has .shifted the em­ Increases in tuition far in excess of Kennedy's public admission was unusu­ dent of the Carnegie Foundation for phasis of faculty members from Congress and virtually every state legis­ the Advancement of Teaching. inflation, highly paid professors who lature, bills have been introduced to al, Stanford's problem is not. educating students to earning re­ rarely teach, foreign teaching assistants enforce greater accountability from col­ The Carnegie Foundation for the Others say the industry must search dollars. who cannot be understood by English­ leges and universities in a broad range of Advancement of Teaching, in a survey find ways of evaluating teaching Not all elite research universi­ speaking students and a growing num­ areas and to assure that individual stu­ last year of 5,000 faculty members at a !hat are as reliable as tho!ll! used to ties can be tarred with the brush of ber of critical books all have fed a dents and the taxpayers get their mon­ wide variety of schools, including com­ assess research and publications. student neglect. Yale University, widespread public impression that some­ ey's worth. munity colleges as well as research the University of Virginia and the thing is wrong in the academy, or at least Donald Kennedy, as president of universities, found 35 percent in agree­ Support for the system University of Chicago are among in the part that is supposed to educate Stanford University for the last 10 years, ment that "pressure to publish reduces Not everyone accepts that the those consistently cited for excellent undergraduates. has watched the discontent over under­ the quality of teaching" at their institu- dissatisfaction with undergraduate undergraduate education and for That is not just the impression held graduate education develop, and Kenne­ tions. education is justified, among them faculty members' dedication to un­ by an unsophisticated public. In a recent dy sounded an alarm in a speech to his The sentiment was strongest at professor Martin Trow, a public dergraduate instrucyion. survey of the chief higher education campus in April. research universities and doctorate policy expert who formerly directed Solidifying teaching officials in the 50 states, the District of "There is a suspicion that we have institutions, where more than .half the Center for Studies in Higher Columbia and Puerto Rico, the quality of lost focus in designing and delivering a the faculty mem~ agreed. Education at the University of Cali­ Perhaps because they have had undergraduate education ranked .as the well-planned, challenging and inspiring fornia at Berkeley. the most substantial' problems, it is most important issue confronting acade­ education to our undergraduates," he Schools react Trow says surveys of students !He major research universities that mia. said. over the years consistently show seem to be making the most vigor­ At Syracuse University last year, Many of Stanford's best ·teachers of For competitive reasons higher education is no less an they are satisfied with the quality ous attempts to reinvigorate under- undergraduates created an organization undergraduates are "undercompensated of the instruction they receive. But graduate teachi.ng. · and unappreciated," he said. industry than any other in Ameri­ to press for better advising and instruc­ he also acknowledges that students In the end, the issue may be less tion from the institution, In July, Gov. ca's free enterprise society - and Publish or perish might not necessarily be the best a matter of choosing between teach­ Robert P, Casey of Pennsylvania signed to head off attempts at regulation, judges: legislation requiring that all faculty Research is a requirement for tenure schools are reacting to the public ing and research than of balancing and is generally more· lucrative and often clamor. Harvard is in a category of 30 to them. • members in the state's universities and 50 major research institutions that On some campuses, administra­ "Scholarship surely means the critics frequently cite as some of the discovery of knowledge, as in re­ tors and faculty members are revis­ worst offenders in their treatment ing curriculums, creating new ap­ search," Boyer said in his speech to of undergraduates. Still, said Henry the American Association of Higher proaches to advising students and Rosovsky, · acting dean of the fac­ limiting the use of teaching assis­ Education. "But scholarship also tants. tulty of arts and sciences, students means the integration of knowl­ still compete to attend those institu­ edge, the application of knowledge. tions and, at Harvard, give favor­ And scholarship also can be defined able reviews to most of their teach­ as the presentation of knowledge, ers in most of their courses. as in great teaching." LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER, LEXINGTON, KY., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1990

went on to lead the U.S. literacy pro­ Her forte, she said, is "a more open Play· 'Cora' gram under President Herbert Hoover performance that involves poetry and to head the World Conference on and art." Literacy. "Cora Wilson Stewart is kind of Duncan and fellow actor Michael a local heroine. But I didn't know Ioaks at Iif e O'Connell wrote the show. Both poi-tray many details about her life because several characters. she was also a controversial figure Miss Cora als_o involves a presenta­ in the commW1ity," Duncan said, of pioneer tion of slides from the time period and noting that Cora Wilson Stewart music by the White Horse String Band. was ostracized in her lifetime be­ In his pictorial history of Eastern cause she didn't assume the tradi­ tional woman's role. She also was in education Kentucky, author Stuart Sprague in­ divorced twice. cludes photographs of a session of a By Tom Carter moonlight school, so called because "She was a real leader in the Herald-leader staff writer classes were held on moonlit nights so community, but naturally, when adults could find their to the you are a leader, gossip goes along owadays, literacy and an way with it," Duncan said. improved education system schoolhouse. The photographs show adults squeezed behind child-size desks. The original moonlight school, are banner issues in Ken- the Little Brushy Schoolhouse, has N tucky, . "She transformed a purely local been restored and is now on the But nearly four decades ago, Rowan effort into an international movement," Morehead campus. County's Cora Wilson Stewart and her Sprague wrote of Stewart. In support of Miss Cora, Dun­ "moonlight school" for adult~ brought "To be able to write meant the can has receivea a $10,000 personal those issues from the mountams to the ability to correspond with loved ones. growth grant from the Kentucky White House. To read meant not being such an easy Foundation for Women. The life and work of Stewart, who mark in business transactions." ' Miss Cora will have its premiere isn't mentioned in many Kentucky his­ Stewart, born in the Farmers com­ today at 7 p.m. in Morehead's tory books, is the basis for a theatrical munity of Rowan County in 1875, wrote Button Auditorium. presentation called Miss Cora. Actress several primers for adults. Laura Lee Duncan will present it for the Other scheduled performances Actress Duncan is a graduate of include a presentation Monday in first time today at Morehead State Eastern Michigan State University. University. Saturday is International Louisville at the annual conference Miss Cora is not her first original of the Kentucky Literacy Commis­ Literacy Day. theatrical work. She also has developed sion. "The play is the story of the mo­ performance programs about female ments leading up to the evening of the poets, including June Jordan and Nikki Duncan and O'Connell also are first moonlight school," said Duncan, 'Giovanni. making the presentation available 25, who will · take the show on a free to schools and community or­ As an actress, Duncan said, her ganizations. She has received mon­ statewide tour of more than 70 perform­ interest lies in non-traditional work. ances. ey from various businesses and corporations, including the Bank of "That first night, 10 or 12 people Morehead, the National Endowment were expected to show up, but 1,200 for the Humanities and the Lexing­ people came from the county and from ton Herald-Leader. the 50 area day schools." Duncan is a Rowan County native. For additional information She developed the performance piece about the performance, call Duncan based on her longtime interest in the at (606) 783-2793. Cora Wilson Stewart story. Stewart was a Rowan County school superintendent in the early 1900s. After founding the first moon­ light school for adult education, she / 0 MSU Clip Sheet A sampllns of recent artida of interest to Morehead State UnJvenity

MEDIA RELATION S • MOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY • UPO BOX 1100 • MOREHEAD, KY 4035 1-1689 • 606-783-2030 THE COURIER·JOURNAL, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1990 State's public universities show enrollment increase

Associated Press "We have bad an unusual amount of attention focused on education in LEXINGTON, Ky. - All eight of Kentucky in the past year," be said. Kentucky's public universities have "So that has shined a very positive reported Increased enrollment this light on higher education in Ken• fall, a surge that higher-education tucky. officials attribute to heightened "I just believe that In Kentucky, awareness of education as a whole. the people have seen the need for The University of Loulsvllle has more education. The opportunities projected its largest enrollment ever are much greater." - 23,706, a 2.3 percent increase Kentucky State University in over last year. Frankfort had the sharpeSt upswing UK's Lexington campus Is expect• with a 12 percent increase, accord• log a student count of 23,100. Over• Ing to the preliminary figures. En• all, early figures show that UK post• rollment at KSU this semester Is ed a 7.2 percent Increase to reach a 2,446 students, up from 2,190 last record high of 63,700 students, fall. which was spurred by higher enroll• As for the other universities: ment in its community college sys- ■ Eastern Kentucky University tern. officials expect last year's record of "UK has a much tougher admls- 14,268 students to be broken. slons policy, so I guess we should be a little bigger,'' said Bruce Bursack, ■ Morehead State University proj• ects a 5 percent to 6 percent in• as.5istant vice president for student crease from last fall's record enroll• affairs at U of L "Our percentage of ment of 7,962. part-time commuters and adult pop- ulation just keeps growing." ■ Western Kentucky University one positive trend for UK offl• President Thomas C. Meredith, who cials ts a 13 percent growth In the last month said he thought enroll• number of black students on the ment at the Bowling Green school Lexington campus. About 782 blacks would be down, said he expects a are enrolled this fall, compared record 15,000 students this fall. with 691 in fall 1989. ■ Northern Kentucky University's "We have set out to recruit black preliminary figures Indicate a 9 per• students and black faculty mem• cent Increase in enrollment bers, and I think this reflects a lot of ■ Murray State University offi• effort from a lot of people. We are cials expect about a 5 percent in• definitely proud of that," said UK crease, which would bring the uni• Interim President Charles Wethlog- verslty close to its peak enrollment too. of 8,350. Wethington said all of Kentucky's All enrollment figures are final public universities have benefited Nov. 15, after exact totals are sub­ from the recent emphasis on educa• mltted to the state Council on High• lion. er Education. LEX 11\1GTO:'IJ HERALD- =A!J~:::i ,-x \iGTON KY ~Q1QAY SEPTEMBER ' 1990

:,vould_come to Lexington for an Candidate for presidency interview. Muse. who has headed the University of Ak• ron for six years, said he had of UK might withdraw been studying reports on UK and Muse, 51, 1s one of three talking to officials about the By Chad Carlton fi nalists mentioned for UK presi- search process. Herald-Leader education writer dent. The others are Wethington The UK search is Muse's AKRON, Ohio - University of Akron and Peggy Gordon Elliott, a Ken- fourth presidential foray in two President William V. Muse said yesterday that tucky native and chancellor of years. He withdrew as a finalist at he might withdraw today as a candidate for Indiana University Northwest in Colorado State and Texas A&M University of Kentucky president. Gary. One other finalist dropped universities and was eliminated Muse said he had heard that UK interim out. from the Louisiana State Univer­ President Charles Wethington was the front- Muse said he would announce sity search. runner. That will be a factnr in whether Muse today whether he would inter- His candidacies have drawn will interview for the J•Jb. he said. - view for the job. UK plans to criticism from some in Akron ·· rd have to be pretty naive not to try to identify the finalists officially who have questioned his loyalty check those kind of Monday and bring the candidates to the university. However Muse things out," Muse said. "It doesn't in for interviews next week. said he did not seek the jo'bs but serve my purpose here to pamci- Muse said he would talk with was selected by professional pate in a search where there is a the professional search firm hired search firms. high probability I would not be by UK and with Akron officials Muse said he ,,a:. not unhap­ successful.'' before announcing whether he py at Akron and had unfinished business. - A service of the Office of Media Relations- LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER, LEXINGTON, KY., FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 7, 1990

UK's flagship role and land­ grant status in Kentucky make the presidency attractive, Muse said. Muse has made several dra­ Gray surprised · Reported finalist matic changes at Akron since coming in 1984 from Texas A&M University, where he was vice chancellor for academic pro­ he is not finalist says she thinks grams. The university's endoWJTient has quadrupled - to more than for UK president UK search is fair $40 million. Construction is almost com­ By Jamie Lucke and Kit Wagar By Andrew Oppmann plete on an $18 million building Herald-Leader staff writers Herald-Leader staff writer for polymer science research and Harry B. Gray, a world renowned scientist with GARY, Ind. - Peggy Gordon Elliott, mentione< teaching. as one of three finalists for the University o Muse also is credited with a yearning to come home to Kentucky, said yesterday he was disappointed and surprised not to Kentucky presidency, said yesterday she though boosting the number of minority UK was conducting a fair and open search for a nev students and faculty members. have been invited to interview for the University of Kentucky presidency. leader. Gray, director of a scientific institute and UK's Board of Trustees has "expressed : professor of chemistry at California Institute of commitment and an obligation to have a fair an, Technology, was one of 77 candidates who agreed open search," said Elliott, chancellor of Indian; to be considered for UK president. University Northwest in Gary. But he was not among three finalists that the "I hope I don't have any reason to question tha search committee invited to UK for interviews next commitment. week. "They have made the determination to viev Despite UK's decision, Gray, 54, was a top each candidate equally," said Elliott, who wa contender for president of two private universities nominated for the UK job by former Indian; - Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh this University President Herman Wells. year and Rice University in Houston in 198.5. Elliott would not confirm that she is : "He's a hell of a guy. He ran a division of (Cal candidate. But she decided yesterday to speak abou Tech) and was in very good touch with students the UK job after her name was mentioned in recen and alumni," said Ralph O'Conner, a Houston news reports about the presidential search. businessman who headed Rice's search. "People UK Interim President Charles Wethington an< who worked with him thought he was really the William V. Muse, president of the University o cat's pajamas." Akron, have been mentioned as the other tw1 Dana Scott, a professor and search-committee finalists for the UK job. member at Carnegie-Mellon, said that with Gray as Some UK faculty leaders have expressed concen president, "The University of Kentucky would be that Wethington would have an edge in the selectio1 way ahead." process. Although he is recognized as one of the world's Elliott said the university would send a stron1 most brilliant chemists and considered a Nobel signal to women in the state - and in highe Prize contender, Gray has less top-level administra­ education - by considering a woman. tive experience than any of the three finalists. As "To interview a woman at a first-class universi chairman of Cal Tech's division of chemistry and ty would be a bold step. To appoint a woma1 chemical engineering for six years, he said he president would be remarkable," she said. oversaw about 500 people including graduate If she were offered - and decided to accept - students and 40 faculty members and a $13 million the job, Elliott said she would "continue to suppor annual budget. and initiate the kinds of bold steps" taken by UK' In 1986, he became director of the Beckman trustees "in demonstrating to the state and th, Institute and helped raise $70 million in private nation that it is committed to excellence an< funds to build and equip a center for about 40 Cal integrity in all arenas of university life." Tech scientists working in several disciplines. Among the board's initiatives that Elliott sai< Gray grew up in Bowling Green, where his impressed her were; father was school superintendent. He graduated • The vigorous investigation of allegation from Western Kentucky University. against the UK men's basketball program and th, "All sorts of other places, very major places, reforms that followed. have interviewed me and ... UK is the only place I • The school's selective admissions policy am didn't make the cut,'' Gray said yesterday. He said its open enrollment philosophy at the communit he received a letter to that effect from UK board colleges. Chairman Foster Ockerman Sr. several weeks ago. • The improved core curriculum, or undergradL Gray said that he thought the UK search was ate class requirements, at UK. "wired" in favor of interim President Charles If she became UK's next president, Elliott sai, Wethington but that he wanted at least a chance to her priorities would be to mainta.in "high academi share his ideas with the search committee. standards, research support, commitment to acces He said he was never contacted by anyone from to quality education for all of Kentucky's citizen! UK or the professional search firm that is ~ssisting continuing the tradition of professional servio the UK committee. encouraging international education and building After receiving the rejection letter, Gray and his climate that is also supportive for women an wife, Shirley, a Beaver Dam native and mathemati­ minorities." cian, decided to send letters to the search committee members thanking them for their consideration and Elliott, 52, is the chief executive officer fc Indiana University orthwest, an urban camp1 outlining some of Gray's ideas. with an enrollment of about 5,000 students. But Shirley Gray said that when she requested their names and addresses, the committee's secre­ She has been a teacher and administrator at tl Gary campus for 24 years. tary, Paul Sears, would not give them to her and referred her to Ockerman instead. She spoke to Elliott is a native of Mayfield Graves County. Ockerman but still has not received the names. 19591 she earned a bachelor's degree from Trans) Sears and Ockerman could not be reached for vania College in Lexington, now TransylvaP comment. University. Proctor, WKU 's Harbaugh to reun ite on opposite sidelines at Morehead

By Rick Balley drufs· Honoring the 101 st Herald-Leaoer s1aff wr,ier OVC notes Austin Peay' football team is Jack Harbaugh remembers the year in Morehead, 1967. the coaches· honoring the l0lst ..\ irborne Divi­ year he spent as an assistant foot­ went their ~parare ways. "I'm not a sion from Fort Campbell by wear­ ball coach at \forehead State. On big phone guy.'' Proctor said. "but I ing it emblem on game jerseys this occasion, he and his wife. Jackie, always knew where Jack was and sea on. needed a baby sitter. we would talk 'poradically.'' ~he school in nearby Clarks­ One ·iner was pecial. Her Harbaugh's additional connec­ viii . Tenn., has invited soldiers name was ~larti Proctor, whose tions to Morehead mclude a visit to remaining at the post and military husband, Cole, wa in graduate the last '.\forehead-Western game in dependents to be it guests for school and helping basketball coach 1988. The University of Pittsburgh Saturday night's opener against the Bobby Laughlin as a graduate a·. had an open date that weekend, so Cniversity of Tenne ·see-Martin. sisranr. Jack. the assistant head coach, and At halftime. Austin Peay will Marti Proctor would sit for the Jackie visited John. who was on Bill unroll the world's longest ''Eagle­ Harbaughs' two sons. John and Jim. Baldndge·s ,\lorehead staff at the gram'' to honor th~ 101st. The "Cole told me once ... Jack Harbaugh time. school hope, the ~ymbolic message said. "that if not for her influence. \Vestern won 3-1-0. and Don will reach 101 yards. It will be sent neither would have been able to mnh. its tailback and all-star can­ to Saudi Arabia, where the Scream­ advance in football. didate. cored his first collegiate ing Eagles have been deployed "He's probably right. touchdown. A few months later. on during the current crisis in the John Harbaugh is recruitmg co­ Feb. I. 19 9. Jack Harbaugh was Middle East. ordinator and right end coach at the named head coach at Western. Best game Uni versity of Cincinnati. Younger By the way. when Harbaugh This fa ll's first "Game of the brother Jim 1s a quarterback with was at Pin. he worked for his Year" sends defending national the NFL Chicago Bears. cousm - head coach :'vlike Gott­ ch~pion Georgia Southern against ·•Mv wife didn't bab\·-sit for the fried. a former star quarterback at OVC defending champ .\,liddle Ten­ Harbaughs a lot." C~le Proctor :'\ lorehead. nessee at \lurfreesboro on Saturday chuckled. "but l know Jim is a great night. quarterback today." EKU passes test Georgia Southern defeated the The two coaches will get togeth­ Eastern Kentucky passed its Blue Raiders twice last year - 26-0 er when Harbaugh bnngs hi. West­ iirst test this season - a randomly in the regular season and -15-3 in ern Kentucky Hilltoppers ro ~lore­ conducted drug test by the :--;CAA. the !Divi ion I-AA playoffs. Tim head to face Proctor's Eagles at 7 As pan of a new policy, each towers has replaced the retired p.m. tomorrow. Western will open Division I and Division I-AA team Erk Russell as the Eagles head its second season under Harbaugh: will be tested between ..\ug . 20 and coach. Morehead will play its second game '.\ov. 20. The 36 Colonel chosen at tower won his tir~t game last under Proctor. random had no violations of any week. 17 IO rJ\ er \·a Idos ta State. After their "get acquainted" illegal or performance-enhancing .\liddle routed Tenne:;see tare 38-6.

LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER LEXINGTON, KY . FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 7. 1990 UK team helps with fire investigation THE COURIER-JOURNAL, FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 7, 1990 HAZARD - A University of Kentucky quick response team lJK spill poses no immediate danger arrived yesterday at Hazard Community College to help determine the extent of environmental damage from a chemical fire. LEXINGTON, Ky. - A fuel spill at the University of Kentucky does not pose an immediate threat, even though it's larger than The blaze forced the evacuation of the college and neighboring originally thought, a city environmental official said. businesses Wednesday. o injuries were reported. UK also faces up to $215,000 In fines for the Aug. 13. spill of Classes were canceled yesterday and today, said Lori Kincaid, a 1,400 gallons of helicopter fuel. Environmental officials originally spokeswoman for the college. ·•If any sessions are held Saturday, estimated the leak at 500 gallons. they probably will be moved to an alternate site." The spill occurred when workers at a new helicopter transport Kincaid said officials told her the fi re started with an explosion in pad atop a parking siructure next to the UK Chandler Medical a laboratory in the main campus building. Witnesses said the blast Center forgot to close a valve while testing a fuel line to the roof blew out windows near a biology lab about 2:30 p.m. from a 10,ooo-ga11on underground storage tank. Ed Hughes, president of the college, said the fire started when a Cleanup has been delayed because officials don't know the ex• tent of the splll. If it is not cleaned up soon, the gas could move professor accidentally spilled phosphorus, which ignites on contact into more sewer systems or rise to the ground. with air. At least 60 firefighters battled the blaze for six hours before bringing it under control. The campus and a nearby car dealership and golf course were evacuated. LEXINGTON HERAL~hE!IDl:H ... Ex \JG - N "v Kincaid said the fire was confined to two rooms on the lower floor ;:M '),d .:,t:PTEt-.1BEP '-:190 of the two-story building. Setting it straight

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The date of the premiere per­ formance of .Wiss Cora by Laura Lee Duncan was incorrect in yester­ day's Herald-Leader. It i~ a~ 1 p.m. today in Burton Aud1tonum at Morehead State University. There is no admission charge. MSU Clip sheet A umpUna of recent artida of interest to Morehead State University

MEOIA RELATIONS • MOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY • UPO BOX 1100 • MO REHEAD, KY 40351-1689 • 606-783-2030 -The Daily Independent, Ashland, Ky., Saturday, September 8, 1990 -----In our view---- . MsuAR w. or d S O f praise CHJVE:s The right me age The Sunday Independent, Ashland, Ky., September 9, 1990- We a pplaud Morehead St~te University's efforts to Great trend reduce the number of false fire alarms on campus. More Kentuckians going to college The unversity has posted a standing $1,000 reward for . All eight of the state's pub­ ment at the University of information leading to the he universities reported en­ Kentucky and its 14 commu­ arrest and conviction of any­ rollment increases this fall. nity colleges to a record one who needlessly triggers a That's great news in a state 63,700, including 23,100 on the fire alarm. At the same time, that, according to the 1980 Lexington campus. census, ranks at or near the alarm boxes are being modi­ Kentucky's undereducated fied to make it easier to iden­ b?ttom in the percentage of high school graduates going adult population is a major tify people who set them off. obstacle to economic devel­ Signs have been posted above to college and the percentage of adults with college educa­ opment, but the trend in re­ the alarm boxes warning that cent years has been en­ students who set off a false tions. In this area, Morehead couraging. Not only are more alarm will be expelled from Kentuckians attending col­ the university and prosecuted State University projects a 5 to 6 percent increase on last lege, but more adults are in court. earning their GEDs and False alarms always have fall's record enrollment of 7,962. It was not so many fewer teens are dropping out been something of a problem of high school. Our hope is at the university, but in the years ago that MSU was ex­ periencing a steady decline in those positive developments past year, the problem will be reflected in 1990 cen­ r_eached epidemic propor­ enrollment. Ashland Community Col­ sus, and the stigma of having tions. The Morehead Fire the nation's most poorly ed­ Department responded to 137 lege again has reported a ~ecord fall enrollment, help­ ucated adult population will false alarms on campus dur­ be erased. ing the last school year , at a mg boost the overall enroll- cost to the city of at least $50,000. By warning them that false LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER LEXINGTON. KY MONDAY SEPTEMBER 10 1990 alarms are more than just childish pranks, MSU is Report: State colleges lag in faculty pay sending the right message to ' FRAN~FORT - _A n~~ report indicates that faculty salaries at students. The new steps won't ~~17o/ck~hstadtef umvers1he~. two-year colleges and trade schools bring an end to false alarms, :, 1 ag 10 acuity pay m most other Southern •rates. . The_ avera~e Kentucky faculty member at a four-year public but a dramatic decline can be ~ 1v~rs1ty rece_1ved $37,077 in 1989-90. according to the report by the expected. ut em Reg10nal _Education Board. The regional avera · e was S39,9-t9 and the nahonal average was $42,518. g . The report ~ys Ken~cky ranked ninth of 14 states in the re ion ~h fac~ lty sa!anes at maJor universities granting doctoral deJees e mvers1ty of Kentucky is the state's only school in tha~ category. ~enrucky ranked seventh among 10 states in the region in faculty saLoa:i~1 at_ second-rank doctoral universities. The Cniversity of u1sv1 11e 1s Kentucky's only school of that type. . The_~tate also ranked_relati vely low in faculty pay at its regional un1ve:51 t1es, co~prehens1ve two-year colleges and post-second . vocat1onal-technical schools. al') . Accordin~ to the rep<>rt, Kentucky's university faculty salarie:­ kep~ pace with the regional average from 1981 to 1984 th f ii ~hmd: Dunng the last decade. Kentucky's univer. ity facul~, ~~ari~ ave nsen ~ percent, compared with 92 percent regionalfv and 9 percent nanonally. · ·

- A service of the Office of Media Relations- LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER, LEXINGTON, KY., MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 10; 1990 Cooper Union tops list of college buys Associated Press 100 public and 100 private schools around Faculty members and students have won 21 Nobel NEW YORK - Cooper Union, which the country that emerged as best values in Prizes. charges its 1,000 students just $300 each a a computer analysis that weighed tuition • Rice University, Houston, has an academic leads a new list of best college buys charges against 17 measures of academic reputation rivaling Ivy League schools. year, • The New College of the University of South in a Money magazine guide. · performance. ·Florida, Sarasota, combines the small feel of a private Seven of the top 10 schools that offer The list excluded all two-year colleges school with a public college price. "the best education for the buck" are in and narrowly specialized or sectarian • State University of New York at Geneseo, a strong liberal arts branch of the 64academies. • State University of New York at Binghamton, a Guide to the Best Colleges in America," Top on the list is Cooper Union for the highly competitive "public Ivy,'' strong in liberal arts. going on sale at newsstands today. Adva~cement of Science_ and Art, a highly · • Trenton State College, Trenton, NJ., offers a The top three values - Cooper Union, strong core curriculum for liberal arts students. selective pnvate college m New York City . • State University of New York at Albany, with California Institute of Technology and Rice founded by real estate magnate Pete; strong programs in public administration, criminal University - are private. The remaining Cooper 131 years ago. justice and other government-related career tracks. seven in the top 10 are public universities. • University of Virginia, Charlottesville, long con­ The rest of the guide's top 10 are, in sidered one of the top state universities with partiru­ The 108-page publication, produced in order: larly excellent English and economics departments. collaboration with Peterson's Guides, lists • California Institute of Technology Pasadena • University of Florida, Gainesville, boasts 114 has a teaching faculty of 274 for 799 und~graduates'. majors in 52 disciplines.

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LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER, LEXINGTON, KY., Kentucky radio statiq~ MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1990 to join in NPR look Fire forces class cancellation! at Hazard Community CollegE at origins of prejudice Staff, wire reports HAZARD - Classes at the Hazard Community College campL By IVONNE ROVIRA ation for even voicing their con­ have been canceled this week because of a chemical fire Wednesda, Associated Pres.s cerns on the radio. But classes at off-campus sites will be held as scheduled, as wi Reporter-producer Ron Smith of nursing classes and activities planned at the college's Conference an From Appalachian exiles in the WEKU In Richmond said that even Continuing Education Center. Cincinnati suburbs to Amb ·nationals with the promise of anonymity and Administrators and staff should report to work at regular time and. homosexuals, young people In the use of equipment to disguise today. Kentucky often learn firsthand how voices, he could get only four Arab painful II ls be "different" nationals on tape, "all of whom are The fire started Wednesday afternoon when a professor spille Kentucky's seven National Public going home really soon, by the end phosphorus,. which ignites on contact with air. The blast blew ot Radio afflllates next week will ex­ or the year," windows near a biology lab and forced the evacuation of the colleg plore how prejudice ls transmitted NPR was to bave featured Prewitt and neighboring businesses. from generation to generation. Nelson, a Winchester businessman, At least 60 firefighters battled the blaze for six hours, keeping : National Public Radio In Washing­ on a network segment on prejudice from spreading beyond a storage room. ton, D.C., wlll be broadcasting arising from the use of non~tandard No injuries were reported. "Class of 2000: The Prejudice Puz­ English. But Davis said be decided Classes were called off last week after the fire. zle" on three of Its regular news this week not to use that story be­ Cleanup, assessment and structural testing were expected to b programs from tomorrow through cause it lacked "enough young next Saturday, said Ben Davis, voices." completed later this week. NPR's executive producer of the Nelson said be was Interviewed project The series will air on about a speech-training program be "Weekend Edition," "Morning Edi­ will Implement by year's end to tion" and "All Things Considered." smooth out the Appalachian accent Most of the state's NPR affiliates of employees wbo will be dealing will lead Into "All Things Consid· with customers on the telephone. ered" with their own locally pro­ But the Idea survives In a feature duced material. on "Winchester Wall," produced by While some have Just one story WMKY. It Is scheduled to be aired for the week, most - like WFPL In Tuesday. Loulsville and WKMS In Murray - "There was a perception that any­ will air a different local feature thing that was worth anything hap­ Monday through Friday, pened from Winchester west," said An hour-long special containing a J obn Back, WMKY's news and pub­ feature from each of the seven Ken­ lic affairs director. "If you were tucky affiliates will be broadcast from Eastern Kentucky, you were statewide at 2 p.m. EDT next Satur­ considered not as educated, not as day, leading Into a national, two­ sophisticated, not as aware of hour call-In show on prejudice and things. youth. "Now that's changing, and we're _:Sometimes people feared retail- going to explore lhal"

THE COURIER-JOURNAL, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1990 UK still seeking vice chancellor LEXINGTON, Ky. - Tbe University of Kentucky bas begun a second search· for a vice chancellor for minority affairs. Mary Burg, assistant to Lexington campus Chancellor Robert Hemenway, said a search commitlee would begin reviewing appli­ cations in October. An announcement of !be vacancy appeared in Wednesday's edi­ tion of !be Chronicle of Higher Education. No applications had been received as of Friday, Burg said. Lauretta Byars, an associate professor in social work, has been acting vice cnancellor since _William C. Parker retired June 30. Byars said she had not decided whether to apply for the job. During the first search, the finalist turned down the job. LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER. LEXINGTON, KY .. SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 8, 1990 Centre will cancel classes to examine crisis Herald-Leader staff report much about," said Centre President be Saif Abdulla, chairman of the John Ruedy, a Middle East historian Centre College in Danville will Michael Adam?', political science department at Ku­ at the Center for Contemporary wait University. Studies at Georgetown University. cancel all classes Sept. 17 for a An understanding of the situa­ d?ylong examination of the Persian Also among the day's nine Ruedy has written extensively on tion is vital as the United States Palestinian and Israeli issues. Gulf crisis. stands .at the edge of its largest speakers will be Fouad Moughrabi, The last time Centre suspended military involvement since Viet­ a Palestinian and professor of politi­ All sessions will be in Weisiger classes to concentrate on an event nam, Adams said. cal science at the University of Theatre on the Centre campus and was 20 years ago, when the United Tennessee at Chattanooga, and are open to the public. There is no States was embroiled in the Viet­ Persian Gulf Education Day will Alam Payind, a native of Afghani­ admission charge. nam War. include five sessions throughout the stan and director of the Middle East "What we're trying to do .. is day, featuring experts discussing Studies Center at Ohio State Univer­ Persian Gulf Education Day at broaden our students' knowledge of recent- ~vents in the gulf. sity. Centre is sponsored by the Knight a region that few of us know very Among the nine speakers will The keynote speaker will be Foundation.

LEXINGTON HERALD'LEADER, LEXINGTON, KY .. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1990 UK searches again for minorities aide cy appeared in Wednesday's edition Hemenway said UK decided not Although black enrollment at 2 of 3 finalists of the Chronicle of Higher Educa­ to interview the two other finalists. UK is up about 13 percent this fall tion, a national higher education The vice chancellor for minority compared with last fall, blacks ac­ were turned back weekly publication. affairs advises the chancellor on a count for about 782 of UK's 23,100 Lauretta Byars, an associate wide range of can\pus issues, He­ students, 3.4 percent, enrolled at the after 1 declined professor in social work, has been menway ·said, and plays a crucial Lexington campus. acting vice chancellor since William role in "making the university an By Dale Greer C. Parker retired June 30. Byars attractive place for minority stu­ Ernest Middleton, chairman of Herald-Leader staff writer said she had not decided whether dents and minority faculty and the search committee, said the vice The University of Kentucky has she would apply for the job. minority staff." chancellor of minority affairs launched a second search for a vice George Wright, a history profes­ UK has been increasing its ef­ played an important role in attract­ chancellor for minority affairs. sor at the University of Texas at forts to recruit minority students ing minority faculty and students. Mary Burg, assistant to Lexing­ Austin and a UK graduate, was the and faculty because· cultural diver­ UK is not going to get minority ton campus Chancellor Robert He­ only one of 'three finalists offered sity makes for a stronger institu­ students until it gets minority facul­ menway, said a search committee the job during the first search. tion, Hemenway said. ty and will not get minority faculty would' begin reviewing applications Wright, former director of the Aus­ UK must also abide by a Ken­ until it gets minority students, Mid­ in October. No applications had tin campus's Afro-.(\merican Stud­ tucky Council on Higher Education dleton said. been received as of yesterday, she ies progr11m, declined the offer in plan, approved last May, to increase said. April and was promoted to vice black enrollment at state universi­ "That will be the role of the vice An announcement of the vacan- provost. · ties. chancellor of minority affairs." uK""finaTiSf'P"UfiS""OUi;"SOme on faculty want longer search "This whole thing . has been Leigh said Wethington had When asked whether he shrouded in such secrecy. One is failed to meet the qualifications thought the UK search was being Wethington, Indiana educator remain operating with little direct informa­ established by the search committee run fairly, Muse said, "That's a tion. Apparently lots of good candi­ because he had not proven himself difficult thing to make an assess­ By JainieliJcke Ockerman, chairman of the presi­ dates didn't apply, and at least one as a scholar. Wethington, 54, was and Chad Carlton dential search committee, was out of ment on." withdre'f 'after getting the feeling never a tenured professor and never Muse, in his sixth year as Ak­ Herald~Leader education writers town yesterday and could not be that somebody already had a major­ published his research. He spent reached. ron's president, is highly regarded '•lflieIUniversity of Kentucky lost a ity of the lxiard of trustees' votes." almost his entire career as an ad­ by Akron community leaders, who second . presidential finalist yesterday, The UK board's vice chairman, Wil­ He referred to a widespread ministrator in the UK community consider him an aggressive, suc­ reduqi\k the competition to two con­ liam "Bud" Burnett, said: "As far as I campus rumor that the first ,candi­ college system. cessful president. His rating among tenders. 'Some faculty members said know every election finally gets down to date who dropped out did so after Muse, the Akron president, said faculty members is mixed, but tljefM\i.iild push for a longer search to two people. We do that for the president being told by a trustee that W eth­ he had decided not to pursue the many think he has done a good job. biitig \ii additional candidates. of the United States." ington had a majority of votes. UK job "after quite a bit of delibera­ Asked about the oossihHt" n< University of Akron President Wil­ Burnett said he was not familiar Faculty members came close to tion." liam V. Muse said yesterday he would extending the search, Wethington with details of the search because asking that the search be reopened When asked if Wethington's said: "I feel very confident in the not coine to UK for interviews next he was not on the committee, but he in 1987 when all the finalists except candidacy was a factor in his deci­ week., Interim President Charles Weth­ ability of the Board of Trustees, said he thought the committee had Roselle and Wethington dropped sion, he said: "I really don't think it aided by the search committee, to ington's status as the front-runner con- ' done an excellent job. out. But Roselle won over the facul­ would be appropriate for me to tti6uted to his decision, Muse said. make a good decision about the Asked about the widespread ty in interviews, Subbaswamy said. comment. Let me just say the larg­ next UK president, and beyond that With Mu$e out, Wethington and perception among faculty members This time, "people are very est factor in my decision was the I won't comment any further .... I Peggy Gordon Elliott, chancellor of Indi­ that no one bi,t Wethington bad a upset that we have only one exter­ progress we've made and are mak­ am convinced that the search com­ ana University Northwest in Gary, are fair chance, Burnett said: "I don't nal candidate and one candidate ing at Akron." mittee and the board have conduct­ the only finalists scheduled for inter­ know anything about their percep­ who doesn't meet one of the criteria Pressed on the issue, Muse said, ed a free and open nationwide views witli campus groups next week. tion. I haven't \!liked to them." at all, namely a record of scholarly Wethington's apparent advantage search." ,Another of the four finalists selected · Many faculty members are achievement," Leigh said. was a factor in his decision to by the search committee in July dropped "very frustrated," •said physics pro­ withdraw. out last nionth .. fessor K.R. Subbaswamy. He said UK engineering professor Don Leigh he, too, might introduce a resolution said he probably would ask the UK urging the board to extend the Senate on Monday to pass a resolution search. demanding a renewed effort to attract He said events had proved fac­ additional finalists, even if it meant ulty leaders correct. They did not ~ extending the search beyond Sept. 18. want to allow Wethington to seek z 0 0 That is the goal set by board chairman the presidency while he was interim >- a, Foster Ockerman Sr. for naming a new president because they thought it (!lz "' president. The Senate is made up of would scare off outside candidates. r~presentatives elected. by UK faculty The trustees split sharply over the ~ ffi~ members and students. issue in December after David Ro­ ;Not all faculty leaders agree, howev­ selle announced he would leave UK ·~ ~::) er: 'Connie Wilson, a social work profes­ to become president of the Universi­ .ii a. ...J w sor and former UK trustee, said she ty of Delaware. opposed the resolution and supported Subbaswamy also complained 0...J >'co td Wethington for president. that faculty members would not ~ c3 w z ''What this (resolution) would do at have enough time to evaluate the I ::, Q) this stage is further make hard feelings candidates during interviews next z co and·further let the university and every­ week and convey their opinions to ~ (!l one involved look bad." the board by the following Tues­ z E She,iiaid only the four faculty mem­ day, /,;S bers oh ihe search committee could say ...J whether the search process was flawed, ~ and they had not complained. president - also will steer UK's decisions Best seats in Kentucky ?bout _its considerab)e real estate holdings, mcludmg Coldstream Farm - decisions One possible .explanation for Wething­ ~t could have major economic repercus­ The flnal two ton's strong board support is his 34-year sions. friendship with Gov. Wallace Wilkinson. Two finalists - Wethington and Peg­ However, Wethington was one of two Faculty feelings important gy Gordon Elliott, chancellor of Indiana finalists in 1987, before Wilkinson was University Northwest in Gary - are ex­ considered a serious gubernatqrial pros­ The effects of hiring a new president pected to be interviewed by various cam­ pect. His qualifications include strong polit­ could ripple long after Wilkinson's time in pus groups this week. ical skills and a successful record as head the political limelight is over and the : Two other finalists dropped out. Wil­ of the UK community college system. His current trustees have applauded their last liam Muse, president of the University_ of tenure as interim president has gone free throw. Akron, withdrew Friday. A fourth finalist, smoothly. Bitterness accompanied Roselle's de­ J~n Wefald, president of Kansas State Wethington has no accomplishments as parture. Some professors blamed Wilkin­ University, dropped out last month. a researcher or writer, however, and faculty son for not giving Roselle the support he : No names or resumes have been re­ members view this as a serious shortcom­ had sought. Some were disappointed in leased officially by the search committee, ing. Roselle for leaving after only 2 ½ years. another source of frustration on campus. The governor, who by the end of his Coupled with the controversy over the The finalists were chosen from an term will have had the chance to appoint current search, some serious wounds could unusually small field of applicants - 77, all but four of UK's 20 trustees, has two fester at UK. "The president and the board compared with 160 in 1987 when Roselle appointments pending. The terms of trust­ of trustees may be properly called the head was chosen. ees Jerome Stricker of Covington and of the institution, but the faculty is its heart In other recent searches, Murray State former U.S. Sen. Walter Huddleston of and soul," said Robert Bell, chairman of an University attracted 141 applicants for Elizabethtown have been expired for annual UK fund-raising campaign. "Even if president this year. At the University of months. everything else is going right, you have to Delaware, Roselle was among 115 people And Wilkinson has more appointees on have a high-spirited, aspirational faculty." seeking the job. Kentucky State University, the board now than in December, including Bell spoke out in December against a much smaller school, attracted 61 presi­ the newest trustees, Robert P. Meriwether, allowing the interim president to seek the dential aspirants. a Paducah neurosurgeon, and Louisville permanent job. But he said that extending Board chairman Foster Ockerman Sr. banker Daniel C. Ulmer Jr. the search to attract more candidates now appointed trustees to the search committee An appointment to the UK board is one probably would accomplish little. who had supported Wethington for interim of the most coveted possessions in the "I have very mixed emotions about it president, although the board was sharply state. It carries no pay but offers such all. I don't think the search and the way divided on the issue in December. benefits as great seats at UK sporting they've gone about it has been in the Ockerman passed over UK student events and invitations to cocktail parties university's interest or Charles Wething­ government president Sean Lo~an, who and dinners at Maxwell Place, the 120-year­ ton's interest But he has the potential to be voted against Wethington for mtenm presi­ old presidential residence. a good president," Bell said. dent. The student seat on the 10-member In addition to guiding the academic "But they can't overlook the importance search committee went to a UK medical ship, the trustees - and their chosen of dealing with the faculty." student.and Centre College graduate. When a seat became vacant, trustee THE COURIER-JOURNAL. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1990 Robert Stephens, the state's chief justice, asked to be appointed but was turned down. Stephens had voted against allowing UK presidential search the interim president to seek the permanent job. When the committee hired a profession; al search firm, Lamalie Associates Inc., the spurs questions about fee was a relatively low $14,000 because the search was well advanced when the consultants came in to interview candi­ integrity of pr9cess dates. · Wethington's longtime ties to Gov. Wal• UK rejection letters were sent to some ANALYSIS lace Wilkinson also made some profes­ candidates, who, on the surface, seemed as sors leery of the search, as did Ocker­ qualified as the finalists. Harry B. Gray _­ By RICHARD WILSON man's appointment of predominantly a Kentucky native, renowned sc1ent1st, Staff Writer Wilkinson-appointed trustees to seats on professor and head of an institute at the the search committee. California Institute of Technology - was LEXINGTON, Ky. - In the past, when Now, nine months later, UK is poised interviewed by Rice and Carnegie-Mellon the University of Kentucky board of to meet perhaps as few as two finalists, universities, but not UK. Donald Zacharias, trustees searched for a new president, including Wethington, next week, and president of Mississippi State University: the finalists have included top adminis­ then choose a new president Sept. 18. also was rejected. Although Zachanas trators at some of the nation's major uni­ With yesterday's withdrawal by Uni­ experience as president of a smaller Ken­ versities. versity of Akron President William v. And since 1963, there has been little Muse, the only other finalist besides tucky school, Western Kentucky Univ~~si­ Wethington is believed to be Peggy Gor• ty, was viewed by some_ as a liability, suggestion that the searches have been anything but open, objective and success­ don Elliott, chancellor of Indiana Univer­ Wethington became a finalist even though ful. sity's Gary campus. he was turned down for president of But the current search, which ts wind• Muse's ·withdrawal follows that of an­ Eastern Kentucky University in 1984. Ing down and is expected to culminate in other of the four finalists - Kansas State Some faculty leaders are expected to the choice of a new president later this University President Jon Wefald, who introduce resolutions Monday urging the month, has been a target of skepticism took his name out of consideration after board to extend the search and recruit since it began early this year - a few some-)friends were told by UK more finalists. weeks after Charles T. Wethington, pres!• sourcejl that Wethington had the dent of th_e ·UK community college sys­ votes fo become president. Ockerman could not be reached to I respond about the possibility of extending tem, was installed as Interim president. Have the concerns Forgy voiced While ii may be unnecessary to say it been ~eallzed? the search. again, Wethington's appointment was But Ockerman has said repeatedly that viewed by many UK professors, and UK' political science Professor the search was unbiased and open. Ocker­ even some trustees, as the first step to­ Malcolm Jewell says that a number man says the search committee followed ward handing him the presidency he un­ of pot~ntlal candidates, asked to put the procedures and qualifications used to their names In nomination "made successfully sought in 1987 when the Job ' select Roselle. went to David Roselle. phon~' calls (to UK contacts) and ·de- Former trustee Larry Forgy, who cidedj that they would not have a failed to persuade the board in DeceJII• fair fhance of being considered" her that Wethington should not be named and thus stayed out of the competi­ interim president if he was going to be a tion. : candidate for the presidency, predicted "T~ere are so many signals being that a Wethington candidacy would drive sent 9ut - by people on the board away good candidates who saw a fix in and qthers - that Wethington has It the making. locked up or there were 'X' number of votes committed to him," Jewell said.; THE COURIER-JO\JRNAL, SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 8, 191, -t.JIF search questioned Alaon'official • Contln~ed Whatever the !acuity sentiment abandons bid ""j may be, no UK !acuity group has for UK post Adlled Don Leigh, an engineering taken a public poslllon on the prof$Wr: "A lot of faculty that I've search or the candidates. That may By RICHARD WILSON beeni talking to are pretty discour­ change on Monday, however, when Staff Writer aged/ with the whole process." the three Lexington campus !acuity . Whether or not the Wethington members on the search committee LEXINGTON, Ky. - University factqr is responsible, this field of 11-· discuss their work with members at at Akron President Wllllam V. nallsts clearly is not as strong as lt the University Senate. Muse yesterday withdrew his has l>een In the past at UK. I Several professors said privately name from consideration tor the In; 1969, for example, wben the yesterday that they anticipated a se­ presidency or the University of trusf ees picked Otis Singletary - ries at resolutions ranging !ram con­ Kentucky. .whQ< at that time was vice president demnation of the search process to Muse, 51, was one at three re­ of !Jle three-campus University at a request that the board at trustees ported finalists and was scheduled Texas system - the other !Ive final­ delay selection at a president to join the other two at UK next ists !Included a vice president at the Whatever occurs, the search will week tor meetings with the .University of North Carolina sys­ be remembered as the most contro­ school's faculty, students, adminis­ teni; a vice president at the Univer­ versial in recent Kentucky higher trators and members or the board sif}l of Wisconsin; and A. D. Albright, education history. at trustees and presidential search a veteran UK administrator who committee. · weht on to serve as president ot The 1963 search that brought Uni­ None at the •finalists' names Northern, Kentucky University and versity or California administrator have been released, but The Cou­ executive director ot the state Coun­ John w. OSWald to UK became the rier-Journal reported last week cil :an Higher Education. model later emulated by Kentucky's that the other two are UK Interim other public universllles. Against this backdrop, many fac­ President Cliarles T. Wethington ulty and even some trustees are con­ U history repeats Itself, and this and Peggy Gordon Elliott, chan­ vinced that Wethington is a shoo-In, year's search becomes the new cellor at Indiana · University's an~ some trustees acknowledge prl• model, some difficult days are Gary campus. -valely that he already has the votes ahead on other campuses across Trustee Chairman Foster Ocker­ ori the board to Kentucky. man, who is also chairman of the succeed Roselle, lnfonnatfon for this story also was IO-member search panel, could gathered by ataH writer Jim White. not be reached tor comment last who left UK to night. become presi­ Carolyn Bratt, a UK law profes­ dent at the Uni­ sor and member at the search versity ot Dela­ committee, said last night that she ware. was disappointed that Muse had Paul Eakin, a withdrawn. mathematics ·;I thought he was a very· viable professor, said he believed the candidate,'' said Bratt, who is also search was over before it started. a UK faculty trustee. Word or Muse's withdrawal "I think the game is up, and prob­ came In a short statement re­ ably has been tor some time. It's leased by University or Akron kind al a vindication of (critics) spokesman Phil Zimmer. Muse did who have spoken out from the be­ not state his reasons except to say ginning," he said. that he wanted to slay at Akron Others question the qualifications and "continue to play a leadership at the finalists and wonder why role In achieving the vision that stronger finalists didn't surface. we share tor the university and Search committee members have this community." remained mum on who was in the M~, who has been president pool. at the 30,00~dent Ohio school But lt is known that two of the since 1984, said he was honored to stronger nominees - Gordon Gee, have been considered tor the UK president of the University of Colo­ post. rado, and Dr. W. Ann Reynolds, In the past two years, he has also chancellor of the California state withdrawn as a finalist tor the presi­ university system - got top jobs dencies at Colorado State University elsewhere. Gee went to Ohio State and Texas A&M University. He was as president, Reynolds to City Uni­ eliminated from a search at Louisi­ versity of New York as chancellor. ana State University. On the other hand, former West­ ; He told the Lex!ngton Herald­ ern Kentucky University President Leader Thursday that be was con• Donald Zacharias, who now heads ,lidering withdrawing as a finalist al Mississippi State University, did not ·µK because Wethington was the make the !Ina! lour, even though he !rant-runner for the presidency has ties to Kentucky and his school there. - like UK - is a land-grant univer­ A Misslssipl native, Muse received sity.. his undergraduate degree from Despite !acuity concern about Northwestern Louisiana State Uni­ Wethington, he does have support versity and master's and doctoral !ram that quarter. · degrees from the University of Ar­ "I don't think anybody dfsputes kansas. He bas been a professor and that he has done a very good job In administrator at several universi­ the eight months that he has served ,lies, including Georgia Tech, Appa­ as acting president," said Constance lachian State University, Ohio Uni­ Wilson, a social work professor and versity and the University of Ne­ !armer !acuity trustee. braska. She also disputes the contention Before becoming Akron's presi­ at some professors that Wething­ dent, he was vice Chancellor of the lon's lack of research experience Texas A&M system. should disqualify jlim as a candi­ date. "He met the qualifications last lime ... and he meets the qualifica­ tions this time," she added. LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER, LEXINGTON, KY., SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1990 Elliott, recently divorced from her hus­ band of 26 years, a steel executive whose Candida~e a steel rosebud, colleagues say car<:Cr brought her to Gary, said she had decided the UK job was worth pursuing. ,------, qerself a "daughter of the commonwealth "It's my home state," Elliott said of By Andrew Oppmann of Kentucky. Kentucky. "It matters to me. It's a culture Heral~-Leader staff writer PROFIL,E: Peggy .Gordon Elliott : $he went to elementary school for a that matters to me and an enterprise that GARY, Ind. - Friends and faculty year in Pike County, but grew up in matters to me. members call Peggy Gordon Elliott a steel Mayfield, a Western Kentucky town in "I don't think the University of Ken­ rosebud - a gracious and polite woman Age: 53 (}raves County. As a high school senior, tucky h'.1s gotten the credit it deserves. It's who brags about her Southern ties through Born: Matewan, W.Va. Grew up in ~he won a state debating title at a UK a real Jewel, and it's important that it's her Kentucky roots, but stands firm and Mayfield, in Western Kentucky's c,ontest. !~ere and strong at the turn of the century. Graves County. figh\5 for Vl'hat she believes is right. : Her first paying job was in the summer I d hke. to see us do the bold things in Family: Divorced, two children · As chancellor of Indiana University , df 1955, working as a typist for Gov. A.B. academics that we have done in sports. Northwest, Elliott, who is said to be a Education: B.A., Transylvania ",Happy" Chandler's second gubernatorial "And I would be a symbol that would fih;tlist for the presidency of the University College, 1959; M.A., Northwestern I campaign. She went to Lexington to get a say to the daughters and women of the of Kentucky, now runs the campus she University, 1964; Ed.D., Indiana liachelor's degree in English from what commonwealth that there aren't any limits came to more than a quarter-century ago as University, 1975; Post-doctoral study, was then Transylvania College. to what women can achieve in this state. an English instructor. Indiana University, 1976-77. In 1959, the year she graduated from That there are no glass ceilings." Things have been going her way re­ University Experience: Chancellor, Transylvania, she left for Gary as a high But some UK faculty members were cently. Fall enrollment is expected to ex­ Indiana University Northwest, 1984 to school ~nglish teacher. She has been in lukewarm about Elliott's credentials as ceed 5,000 students, which would be the present; acting chancellor, IU­ northwest Indiana ever since. chancellor of a regional campus with 5,000 second-best mark in its 31-year history. A Northwest, 1983-84; assistant to the She left Horace Mann High School in students and 150 faculty members. They $10 million science and academic building chancellor, IU-Northwest, 1983; 1964, about the time she earned a master's openly doubted her qualifications to be is under construction. Top area students special assistant to the chancellor, degree from Northwestern University in among the finalists for the presidency of a can vie for 100 full scholarships. IU-Northwest, 1981-83; American Evanston, Ill. She joined JU-Northwest as land-grant university with 60,000 students, A period of faculty harmony with the Council on Education Fellow, IU an English instructor in 1965, rising more than 2,300 faculty members and 14 top administration alsc. has blossomed System in Bloomington, 1980-81; through the teaching ranks and into aca­ community colleges. during Elliott's term. The Gary chapter of director of professional development, demic administration. James Applegate, chairman of UK's the American Association of University IU-Northwest, 1978-80; director, office As a researcher, she has published communications department said of Elliott Rrofessors, usually a strong watchdog of of field experiences, IU-Northwest, more than 40 books, articles and mono­ and William Muse, president of the Univer­ a~ministrations at other institutions, has 1977-78; director of student teaching, graphs, most dealing with education. She sity of Akron in Ohio and a former f~llen inactive in recent years. IU-Northwest, 1975-77; director of received a doctorate in secondary educa­ candidate, "At first glance, the institutions i Faculty members and students credit secondary student teaching, IU­ English, IU-Northwest, 1965-69: 1971- tion from Indiana in 1975. t~at they are coming from ... suggests we ltlliott and her leadership style for the Northwest, 197 4; supervisor of 73. By 1983, she was a full professor at did have some trouble attracting the level sj:hool's recent era of good feelings - her secondary student teaching, IU­ Publications: More than 40 books, Indiana University and acting chancellor of and quality of people we had hoped we habit of seeking advice from the faculty on would." Northwest, 1973; instructor of articles and monographs. JU-Northwest, a commuter campus that major issues, her frequent visits to campus grants 55 associate, bachelor's and mas­ But Elliott said she didn't think some offices and functions, her tough but friend­ Susan Binkley, a senior and former "My feminist friends don't like the ter's degrees. The next year, she was UK faculty members understood her role as ly dealings with lejPslators. named chancellor. a chancellor in the Indiana system. : "Peggy Elliott knows the art of accom- editor of Gary's twice-monthly student term," she said recently. "I consider grace under pressure as courage. But, then, I Elliott has been nominated for posts at She said that as chancellor of JU. 1\'lodation rather than confrontation," said newspaper, said: "She's a gentle, sweet woman who can put up a heck of a fight. think labels are pretty simplistic. What you other universities during her time at JU. Northwest, she is a member of the Indiana P,radeep Bhattacharya, an associate profes­ are and what you stand for are what Northwest, but said she had taken her University's administrative council, which ,;,):>r of biology who has been at the Gary "We wouldn't have what we have now if it wasn't for her .... That lady goes to matters.... name out of consideration because she did helps manage the system's eight campuses chmpus since 1973. "She represents her not want to leave Gary. That changed with and 94,000 students. (!Dint of view in a charming way that bat for this campus every day." . "I don't have huge power needs. I don't Elliott, 53, knows about steel rosebuds. rleed to take a lot of credit for things. But I the post at Kentucky. "They shouldn't be saying that she's cfoesn't ruffle many feathers - even if she just running a campus of 5,000 students in disagrees. In a speech at Transylvania Uriiversity, her have huge accomplishment needs. I want to She would not confirm whether she alma mater, earlier this year, she said the get things done." was a finalist at UK, but said she had northwest Indiana," said Mary Veeder : "It is very difficult to find any criticism chosen to remain a candidate. Elliott was former chairwoman of The Faculty Organi'. elf her. We have had administrators who world needed more of them - more women "who will push for progress, wilf Ties to Kentucky nominated by former JU President Herman zation, the governing body of the Gary ·, !ji,.ve been slightly high handed, do things Wells. faculty, "She's running one of the largest ffom the top and hand them down. We've not yield in the face of resistance, weari­ rless, hate or indifference." Although she was born in West Virgin­ most politically active parts of the nJ never felt that is the case with her." ia in 1937, Peggy Gordon Elliott calls system. c) TcEI.. "f<05t:d'-"P " c,r,__-f•,l "Her job is a lot larger than it looks." "I believe that researclr is vital to the "I'm plain-spoken," she said. "I don't like adminstrators who are vague, and I Also, Elliott said, "There was a com­ University of Kentucky and higher educa­ have a low tolerance for bureaucracy. ment in the paper about a faculty member tion. I believe the campus should stay a at UK saying, 'We'd really like a faculty place where academic freedom is not only "I'm an 3-dvocate and a broker. I believe person who has earned rank and tenure at respected, it is encow-aged." you should get good people - both faculty and staff - find out what they need, try to a first-class university.' . Elliott said she thought her leadership style would transfer well to the larger get it for them and then get the heck out of "Well, I have .... I'm a full member of their way.'' the graduate school faculty. Lexington campus and its community col­ "I have earned rank and tenure at leges. Indiana University. There is only one board of trustees here - none of that was administratively granted." As for spending all of her career in A PRESIDENT FOR UK Gary, she said, "I've never seen anything THE COURIER-JOURNAL, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1990 wrong with stability. "I'm from a family of Kentucky farm­ What qualifications? •.. ists don't consider Wethington to be one of ers, and I know what it's like to be patient. their own. If Wetbington's Ph.D. didn't I'm not a hunter that has to keep moving to Professor Michael Adelstein's remarks in come from Harvard, Princeton, Yale or ... find new game.'' the Forum on Aug. 15 and your editorial on (fill in name of critic's graduate school), it Aug. 17 raise interesting issues concerning doesn't really count .... Tough and ordered the University of Kentucky and the selec­ Another line of criticism is equally un­ tion of its future president. fair, that he is somehow a political pawn of When Elliott was first named acting Adelstein makes :: conv!ncing argument the Governor. The fact that he was runner chancellor at ill-Northwest seven years that the next UK president should have a up to Dr. David Roselle before Gov. Wal­ ago, she said she did what came naturally national reputation similar to its recently lace Wilkinson was elected seems to slip to her: She held a series of get-acquainted employed men's basketball and football the critics' minds .... receptions with the faculty and staff. Fin­ coaches. He infers that Dr. Charles Weth­ And, finally, some criticism subtly caters ger sandwiches and Indiana-red punch. ington does not have these qualifications. In to the notion that anyone born and educat­ your editorial responding to Adelstein, the "There were some who grumbled, 'Oh, ed in Kentucky somehow does not measure concern Is not the person selected but the up against national candidates. We native great. She gives good parties,' " said mode of selection. You seem to infer that if Veeder, an associate professor of Enghsh. Kentuckians feel a slight sense of Inferior­ the selection process is "open," the individ­ ity about ourselves and our institutions, but "But after a while, these parties began ual selected will be qualified. this is simply not a valid generalization and to work. We got to where we really knew To me, both of you fail to discuss the important issue: What are Wethington's is particularly untrue in _Wethington's case. her. And we felt she cared about knowing I think It's lime for a candidate whose us. qualifications? Does he possess a doctor or philosophy (Ph.D) degree, or is he a doctor long-term interest is here In Kentucky. "People make a mistake by thinking Wethington ls not looking for a stepping ,she's just blond, blue-eyed, pleasant and of education (Ed.D)? What is his record regarding publication and employment oth­ stone. He has dedicated his career and has social. She's tough, ordered and under­ er than the University of Kentucky commu­ accomplished much for UK and the com­ stands public education." nity college system? munity colleges. He has earned his chance. And, Veeder said, she understands I agree with the thrust of Adelstein's ar­ And if selected, bis success or failure will what's important to her people. gument that the University or Kentucky de­ depend on his abilities, his energy, his dedi­ Last spring, toward the end of the serves the most qualified person . for the cation, and his skills, not on credentials es­ tablished 25 years ago. semester, IU decided it would charge all job. I regret that your editorial did not em­ phasize Ibis point but chose to emphasize Charles T. Wethington is a Kentuckian of sophomores, juniors and seniors a fee to proven ability and notable accomplishment. use university computers. It would have the method of selection rather than the qualifications of the candidale(s). He would be a fine choice for president of cost some an additional $100 a year, Gary's the University of Kentucky. student government said, and could be the THOMAS C. BRITE Hardinsburg, Ky. 40143 WILLIAM L. TURNBULL straw that would break the backs of some Lexington, Ky. 40502 financially strapped students. The day Elliott heard about the fee, she ••• 'A natural leader' rallied her troops. • •• A 'learned man' "She called me that day and told me to I really enjoyed reading the Aug. 23 Fo­ rum column by Hans Gesund, chairman of This is in response to your Aug. 17 edito­ get to her office fast," said Jeni McIntosh, the Department of Civil Engineering at the rial regarding the University of Kentucky Gary's student body president. "She made University of Kentucky. presidential search. it a personal issue. . .. I had the privilege to meet and talk with I commend you for challenging Professor "I got there, and she had called together Dr. Charles Wethington , , . on two different Michael Adelstein on his notion of scbOlar­ faculty and staff. 'Here's what I think,' she occasions. I knew from the Lexington and sblp as it relates to Dr. Charles Wethington's told all of us. 'What do you think we Louisville papers that he bad been chancel­ presidential qualifications. I am a scientist should do?' " lor or UK's very fine community college and professor and have been at UK for The result: IU said it would rethink the system and had done an excellent job, and, more than 20 years. As one of Adelstein's proposal as it applies to Gary. The fees will like Gesund, I regarded Wethington as a colleagues, I know that his Idea of scholar­ not be charged this year. fine role model and representative of the ship is restricted (as in most university set­ community college faculty .... tings) to a highly specialized expertise in a Veeder said she was not aware of any Well, after talking with Wethington for very narrow area of an academic discipline. problems between Elliott and the faculty. no more than five minutes on each occa­ The more universally accepted definition of "I realize it sounds like the Good Ship sion, I formed the opinion that here was a a scholar is a "learned person." Learned Lollipop around here,'' she said. "But man one could trust, like and admire. A . , . persons have broad knowledge and wisdom perhaps her only fault is that she can gentleman who seemed to be a natural developed from being observers and ana­ overstate what she can do - she cannot leader, a people person and, along with lysts. They reflect an inner quiet confidence, pull every rabbit out of every hat. She that, a scholar .... are compassionate, are open to new experi­ sometimes signs on to more proposals than Gesund made a strong case for why ences and work hard to Integrate that expe­ we can pay for. Wethington should be chosen by the UK rience and knowledge. They are people of "But I would rather have that than Board of Trustees as the next president or vision who step back and look at the large someone who is not receptive to new UK. I agree completely that "the universi­ picture. They are not motivated by self-5erv­ ty needs a leader who can work well with lng interests but rather are committed to the ideas,'' Veeder said .. all Kentuckians and can mobilize their service of others. These characteristics are Said Lynne Merritt Jr., a professor support for the institution. That is some­ also descriptive of Wethington. He Is a emeritus and former IU vice president for thing that some past presidents have failed "learned man." research: "She takes time to get all of the miserably to do." He has a proven record of leadership in facts. But once she makes up her mind, she NORWOOD DICKSON Kentucky higher education. He not only follows through. That's where the steel Lexington, Ky. 40509 knows the higher education processes in rosebud comes in." the state, but he knows well the people who provide the resources to attract and main­ Advocate and broker • • • 'A fine choice' tain the kinds of scholars Adelstein has in In bis Aug. 15 Forum column, Michael mind. His experience and vision will serve If she was offered - and decided to Adelstein praised Charles Wethington's ac­ Wethington well to lead UK in the 1990s. accept - the UK job, Elliott said the school complishments, but then predicted the total With his leadership, UK can provide the would "continue to lead important academ­ downfall of tbe university if Wethington is people of Kentucky with the high quality of ic and service initiatives rather than just be named president. instruction, research and service to which a follower." He and other critics say Wethington they are entitled. lacks the "credentials." This smacks of old­ T. W. SWERCZEK fashioned ivorv tower _cmnhhPrv Th,=11•i"' .,,Ht- Se. f. It t99o MSU ARCHIVES J.Je., MSU Clip Sheet A sampllq of recent artides of interest to Morehead State University

MEDIA RELATIONS • MOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY • UPO BOX 1100 • MOREHEAD, KY 40351-1689 • 606-783-2030 -The Daily Independent, Ashland, Ky., Monday, September 10, 1990 MSU's chief PR man has worn Kappes, a former city council­ man, said serving as the school's many hats Monday legislative liaison was one of the most enjoyable aspects of his job. By KENNETH A. HART Profile He has done so during the last four . Independent News Writer sessions of the General Assembly. MOREHEAD - Had he been a Kappes admits to being a wor­ Kappes said he originally set out bit more fluent in German, Keith kaholic, and his colleagues say to become a journalist. Kappes might have wound up in that his drive and savvy make him He attended Ashland Community Europe rather than at Morehead among the best at what he does. College and Marshall University, State University. "I've spent a lot· of years with and during that time worked as a Kappes, a Hitchins native, was public relations and development reporter for several area news­ working as a reporter for The activities, both in private industry papers, including The Independent, Associated Press (AP) in Ohio in and in the collegiate atmosphere, The Ironton Tribune in Ironton, 1969 when the wire service ap­ and Keith's one of !lie best ad­ Ohio, and The Herald-Dispatch in proached him about a job over­ vancement men I've ever known," Huntington, W.Va. seas. said Bob Howerton, executive di­ One of his more memorable as­ . Kappes• accepted, but the AP rector of the MSU Foundation. signments, he said, was covering decided he needed to brush up on Howerton said Kappes' years of Founders Day ceremonies at his German and granted him an service to the university and his Morehead State for The In­ 18-month leave of absence to go eastern Kentucky background dependent on the day President back to college. make him invaluable when it John F. Kennedy was assassinated. Kappes enrolled at Morehead comes to soliciting donations. Kappes' background also includes State, where he fell in love - not stints at radio stations in Grayson only with his future wife but tlie "Keith bas so mue •. experience and Ironton. In addition to his reg­ school and the community as well. and depth within this, institution ular duties at Morehead State, he So when the AP came calling, that he knows many alumni and serves as a part-time member of the Kappes · said, "Thanks, but no important citizens of the area," school's journalism faculty. thanks." Howerton said. "That experience Kappes is widely known in More­ Morehead State later gave him a is very helpful in fund raising." head for more than just his work at job as a writer in its news bureau, Bill Redwine, Morehead Sate's the university. He and his wife, and he's been an integral part of alumni-relations director, said Janet, have eight children, ranging the university ever since. Kappes' nature sometimes makes in age from 6 to 18. All have first Today, the 47-year-old Kappes is him tough to work for. names beginning with "K." the school's vice president for "He can be somewhat demanding, Kappes said he and his wife university advancement. His but he is very fair," he said. "He hadn't planned on having so many duties include serving as the point would never ask one of his staff to children "but after we had the first man for the university in its deal­ do someting he wouldn't do, or three or four, we thought, why stop ings with the public, outside fi­ hasn't already done, himself." there?" nancial contributors and the Ken­ Redwine said Kappes is without Both Kappes and his wife are tucky General Assembly. peer in developing relationships be­ members of the Church of j esus An affable man with a booming tween the university and outsiders. Christ of Latter-day Saints, "and laugh, Kappes has been Morehead "It's ·amazing the people he they encourage a lot of children," State's chief public-relations man knows, and the history of the uni­ Kappes said. since 1973. He also was in­ versity that he has in his head is just The oldest of the Kappes children, strumental in the formation in 1980 unbelievable," he said. Kolby, is a freshman cadet at the of the MSU Foundation, the One of Kappes' new duties as vice Air Force Academy in Colorado school's non-profit fund-raising president is overseeing Morehead Springs, Colo. The youngest, Kory, arm. State's sports program. Although just started first grade. During his time at Morehead, Athletics Director Steve Hamilton is Kappes has had 13 different titles still responsible for the program's and survived numerous changes in daily operation, he now reports to leadership. He bas served under Kappes, rather than directly to five presidents, from Adron Doran Grote. to C. Nelson Grote, the school's Kappes said he welcomed the current chief. challenge. "I've always tried to serve the "College athletics are taking a lot university faithfully," he said. "I of beat here, as they are around the thinkI'm still here because I've country," he said. "But overall, I never lost sight of my loyalty to think we have a good athletic direc­ the institution." tor and a good program." Kappes' loyalty was rewarded Kappes' other duties include su­ July 1 when Grote made him a pervising Morehead State's ac­ vice president, promoting him tivities in community relations, from executive assistant for uni­ conference services, development, versity advancement and filling a media relations, printing services position that had been vacant for and publications. 17 years.

-A service of the Office of Media Relations- LEXINGTON HERALD-Lc-u:,m.- -~ ... SttJa"erfls' THE COURIER-JOURNAL, TUESDAY, SEPTEM,BER 11, 1990 ACT scores stagnate ACT scores except for minorities are holding Associated Press years, offering fresh evidence that school reform may have stagnated. NEW YORK - Average scores on Two weeks ago, the College Board steady the ACT, the predominant college­ - which sponsors the SAT, the oth­ entrance exam In 28 states including er main college-entrance test - re­ Kentucky, were unchanged In 1989· ported that averages bn the verbal Minorities' results 90, but minority students continued section of the test were the lowest in to improve. a decade and that math scores were continue to improve unchanged for the fourth straight The average national composite year. score among 817,096 graduating Associated Press high school students was 20.6 on a The ACT tests English, mathemat­ NEW YORK - Average scores scale of 1 to 36, according to Ameri• ics, reading ability and scientific on the ACT,· the predominant col­ can College Testing, the organiza­ reasoning. lege-entrance exam in 28 states tion that administers the exam. The SAT and ACT are supposed to including Kentucky, were un­ Because the students took a new test a student's readiness tor col­ changed in 1989-90, but minority form of the test, results were not lege. But the ACT is generally con­ students continued to improve, the directly comparable to previous sidered a broader test of high school test's publishers reported yester­ years. But ACT officials, based .in mastery than the SAT, which tests a day. Iowa City, Iowa, calculated that the more limited set of math, reading The average national composite scores were unchanged from those and language skills. score among 817,096 graduating of the previous year. The new version of the ACT, giv­ high school students was 20.6, on a en to students for the first time last ACT averages have- siayed practi­ October, included new measures of scale of l to 36, according to cally the same for the last live American College Testing, the Iowa writing ability, new advanced math questions and a new reading test City, Iowa-based organization that The SAT and ACT are sup­ emphasizing reasoning skills. administers the exam. posed to test a student's readiness Students in 1990 took a new for college. But the ACT is general­ The SAT is also being revised but form of the test, called the "En­ !y considered a broader test of high won't be ready until 1993. hanced· ACT Assessment," there­ school mastery than the SAT, ACT officials do not release state­ fore results were not directly com­ which tests a more circumscribed by-state test results. parable to previous years. set of math, reading and language Among the ACT results: But ACT officials calculated skills. ■ Students who took at least four that the scores from last year and The new version of the ACT, years al English and three or more the previous school year, which given to students for the first time years al math, social studies and used the older version, were un­ last October, included new meas­ natural sciences, averaged 22.3. Stu­ changed. ures of writing ability, new ad­ dents taking less than that averaged ACT averages have been practi­ vanced math questions and a new 19.1. cally unchanged for the past five reading test stressing reasoning ■ Black students averaged 17 .0, years and offer fresh evidence that skills. up 0.4 from 1989 and up 0.8 from school reform might have stagnat­ Among the ACT results: 1986 Ieveis. ed. • Students who took all or more ■ White students averaged 21.2, Two weeks ago, the College of a recommended core high school Board - which sponsors the SAT, 0. 1 lower than a year ago and down curriculum, defined ·as four years of 0.3 from 1986. the predominant college entrance English, and three or more years of test in the remaining 22 states - math, social studies and natural ■ Mexican-Americans scored reported averages on the verbal sciences, averaged Students 18.3, up .2 from 1989 averages and 22.3. 0.4 ahead of 1986 levels. section of the test had sunk to their taking less than that amount of lowest levels in a decade, and math course work averaged 19.1. scores were unchanged for the ■ Other Hispanics scored 19.3, un­ fourth straight year. • Black students averaged 17.0, changed from the previous year, but up 0.4 from 1989 and up 0.8 from up 0.3 from 1986; The ACT is a four-part· exam 1986 levels; ■ Asian-Americans scored 21.7, testing English, mathematics, read­ • Caucasian students averaged down slightly from 21.9 a year earli­ ing ability and scientific reasoning. 21.2, 0.1 lower than a year ago and er, but up from 21.6 In 1986. down 0.3 from 1986; LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER.-LEXINGTON. KY .. TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER 11. 1990 Industry wants more from education

Associated Press adapt were requirements for today's for much of the research at univer- LOUISVILLE - Kentucky's worker and would be even more sities, but the schools should also universities and colleges are not important in the futur~. do more to target research toward doing enough to train and retrain Philip Block, vice president for real-world problems. the state's work force, three of the human resources at Ashland, _said Jerry Collins, personnel manag­ state's largest and most influential universities should take a cue from er for United Parcel Service at its employers said yesterday. business because both were ulti- Louisville operation, said universi- Higher education also is not mately offering a product. ties must work with industry for cooperative when industry calls for "The education system must the· benefit of everyone CQncemed. help or offers assistance, they said. take its product to the workplace The industry representatives Personnel managers for Ash- and try to see how it can serve the were called together to present their land Oil Inc., Toyota Motor Manu- business community," Block said. case to educators at a conference facturing and United· Parcel Service John Allen, manager of person- put together by the Council on said education ~d the ability to nel for Toyota, said industry pays Higher Education. THE COURIER✓OURNAL, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1990 Hazard classes canceled for cleanup All classes at the Hazard campus al Hazard Community College will be canceled this week during the cleanup from a Chemical lire last Wednesday. · Classes at off-<:ampus sites will be held as scheduled, as will nursing classes and activities at the College's Conference and Con­ tinuing Education Center. Administrators and support staff should come to work at remilar limes. TH.E COUf31EfrJQl,iflt,A!,, TUESDAY, S~TEMBER 11, 1990 cles;, and bav!' ~ courage to reject applicants "wllct are excellent· _re- u'niversllles and making work In searcliers and lousy teaebm" · State- leaders public schools a duty for college tac- · ■ Provide on,campus training for . ulty members. . faculty members to boost the quality · : Cox said that duty would extenil of teaching, · · across many disciplines. Professors University of Louisville President of business, for example, could help Donald Swain said Newman's Wl1111- of universities public schools do a better Job of ings about an overemphasis on· re­ managln~ their resources, he said. searCb and publlsblng don't apply to Newman said that, across the Kentucky country, "the universities at the mo- "The siate needs research," and sketch role in ment are not players" in school re- · Kentucky has done too little to re­ forms - In part because they re- ward It, Swain said. · • main mired l.n old mOdes of leach• He i11so said that If helping out Ing that public schools are starting with school reforms turns Into a ma­ school reform to discard. jor new mission, higher education For re_forms to lake root, "teach· will need more money. ers commg out of the ~versltles Two legislators who attended the College, public-school · must be change agents, prepared conference said contributing to to adapt their methods to multiple school reform can earn higher edu­ styles of lean;,;Jng,. N~ said. cation more state support - whleb faculties may swap ideas They typically learn a cel'f!lln rela• could translate Into more money, By MICHAEL JENNINGS lively rote made of teaching, and House Majority Whip Kenny Rapi­ Staff Writer they go out and practice it," he said. er . 'D-Bardstown, pledged to seek Besides better-trained new teach• m~re money for universities If their Leaders of, Kentucky"s universities and colleges be­ ~rs, _Newm~ said, -schools need performance In the reform effort gan a planning process yesterday that could make high• massive retraining of current leach• warrants It · er education a major player· In, Improving the state's ers. _"';lie desperately need the uni· Referring to a debate over bow . public schools. · vers1ties and colleges to take the much of the money to be raised That Involvement could send college and public­ lead at that.O' )le ~d. through new taxes should be count­ school faculty members Into each other's classrooms, .. To provide solid support for ed as sebool-reform money, Sen. Mi­ laboratories and business offices In a common effort to sch~! reforms, Newman said, uni· cbael Moloney, D-Lexlngton, said sharpen teaching at all levels. . vers1lles must, among other things: money for higher education should As described yesterday at a conference In Louisville, ■ Encourage college students to be counted because of universities' getting universities Into the school-reform business also ."mentor" publl~hool youngsters mission of supporting reforms. could require changes In their hiring and promotion in danger of dropping out. How well universities perform standards, with teaching and community service ■ Reward goad teaching and re- that mission will determine flDan. playing a larger role and research and publishing tak· search on teaching and learning cial support, said Moloney, chair­ Ing perhaps a -lesser role. through hiring and promotion poll• inan of the Senate budget panel. Such basic Changes will be necessary If universities are to help In the "powerful break with tradition" LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER. LEXINGTON, KY., TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1990 promised by the school-reform law passed this year by the Kentucky General Assembly, said Frank Newman, president of the Education Commission of the States. Coll·eges urged to help Newman, whose Denver-based organlmllon helped guide the reform effort, was a featured speaker yester­ day on the second and final day of a "Decision Makers '90" conference, attended by about 230 Kentucky edu­ i·mprove public schos-rs~ cators at the Radisson-Hurstbourne Lane In Loulsvi1le. Faced with a January deadline for formulating a By Siona Carpenter ?Diversi?f:S' playuig'.a·red11ceUniversity of Delaware The state's flagship university deserves better treat­ drew 115 and Kentucky State University in Frankfort ment in selecting its leader. Many have given up on the - with an enrollment less than 5,000 - had 61 presidential search by calling it a done deal. But by resigning ourselves to that scenario, we not only fail applicants. ourselves, but also the future generations of this state. Slice of humble pie On Dec. 28, UK's Board of Trustees appointed Wethington interim president over strong objections Although removing himself from the search would from many. The trustees allowed the interim president be an incredible slice of humble pie to digest, Wething­ to be a candidate for the presidency. Their refusal to ton could better serve the university as an administra• take action planted a seed of suspicion that the search tive assistant or liaison to Frankfort than as president was stacked in favor of Wethington. of a university that would be bitterly divided. Wethington is a friend of Gov. Wallace Wilkinson Regardless of whether the search is reopened, - who made his dislike for former President David Ockerman should resign his position as chairman of the Roselle no secret - and Ockerman, who is chairman of presidential search and the UK Board of Trustees. the Board of Trustees and the presidential search Ockerman - who was praised for his leadership committee, was appointed by Wilkinson. abilities when he was appointed to the board by When UK began looking for a president, Ockerman Wilkinson - has shabbily handled the search, to say promised the university community and citizens of the the least. Ockerman has done little to show that he is commonwealth that a fair and open search would be truly concerned about the university's national reputa­ conducted to find a replacement for Roselle. tion and maintaining a search that has a spirit of However, he has done little to reassure us that the fairness and honesty. presidential search is not a thinly veiled attempt tci Even before the search began, Ockerman showed railroad Wethington into the Administration Building, that his loyalties to his constituents were stronger than To many, the engineer of the train is Wilkinson, who to the university. When Roselle was pleading with has been a disgrace to this state since he entered office. Frankfort for a sign that higher education would get It should be little surprise to many, then, that the the funding it needed, Ockerman silently sat by and quality of candidates for president has been substan­ watched a potentially great president hang. tially worse than what the university had in 1987 when And when it came time to appoint a presidential it was looking for a replacement for Otis A. Singletary. search committee, Ockerman slighted UK students by This week, the UK community will have the oppor­ selecting Teel Bruner, a third-year medical student with tunity to meet the two individuals the presidential no UK undergraduate experience, over Student Govern­ search committee chose as finalists. ment Association President Sean Lohman, who was While both candidates - reported to be Wething­ chosen by students to represent their interests on the ton and Peggy Gordon Elliott - may have strong Board of Trustees. credentials, neither .has impressed faculty nor students Ockerman slacked search committee as individuals with the proper qualifications to be UK's 10th president In addition, Ockerman stacked the search committee Today (Monday), some faculty members will con­ with five Wilkinson-appointed trustees, further reinforc­ sider a resolution that calls for the presidental search to ing the perception that the search was fixed. be reopened - and the UK faculty and faculty repre­ Ockerman's first responsibility is to the university sentatives to the Board of Trustees to withdraw their not to the political whims of the governor. ' support of the search. Kentucky, it has been said, is a story of missed This is a step in the right direction. opportunities. The University of Kentucky has the opportunity to Faculty, students share concern become a great regional university and one that, given The faculty has the academic interests of the the proper gmdance, can lead the state into the 21st university as its primary concern, something the search century. committee lacks. This concern is shared in the minds of But unless the presidential search is reopened students who come to UK seeking the best education Wethington removes himself as a candidate and Ocker­ the state has to offer. man steps down from the Board of Trustees the We are not persuaded by those who argue that university will have taken a step in the wron'g direction reopening the presidential search may cause too much - a step this institution cannot afford. &hOOi~S'Mtnisiees asked to reject 'fundamentally flawed.' process "' -- "I think that was the tundluilental flaw In the By RICHARD WILSON "I think If there has been any­ "Once again, this is a motion that and JIM WHITE process," Carolyn Bl"lltt - one of three Lexington­ thing that has happened to our pro­ should have been brought up last Bratt and Lyons said later that Slaff Writers campus faculty mlliil~el"II on the JO-member search cess, that has had as. much harmful spring,'' said student body president they would not lake part in further committee ·_ iii' af." tiitervtew after the ·senate effect as anything that bas been work by the search committee. Loys I• ,•-i-' Sean Lohman. "II Is too late for this . LEXINGTON, Ky. - The University of Ken­ rheetlng.;,,4~•,r 'J.J,';IT.:-i.t. ~-,i\,i(.,et;• .. [i;, ,i,-, ,' ·1•l· .. ~ ·.• , . ..,i,..?"••· Jt,'·• . ' ... ~ . - done,'' be said. motion. This Is a direct slap In the Mather, the third UK professor on tucky's . top faculty group called on the school's She and oth~,J-•3\"e .o'o!lln'd~.,· ~s: ~.:'lgton's As for Wethlngton's appointment face of Dr. Wethington.'' the panel, said he had not yet decid­ board of trustees yesterday to reopen Its search for appolntment,ledi!llaoy:,potential presldentlal ca11di­ as Interim president, Ockerman said Hans Gesund, an engineering pro­ ed what he would do. a new UK president. . datcs to forgo applying for the UK Job because they the board acted on "what (It) con­ fessor, agreed. He said Wethlngton's Bratt also said that she believed Calling the current, 8-month-old search "funda­ believed Wethington, a longtime friend of Gov. sidered to be In the best Interest" of stint as Interim president made him most of the 20 other professors from mentally flawed," 'the University Senate voled 50- Wallace Wilkinson's; had an inside track. the university. even more qualified for the full­ the Lexington campus scheduled to 25 to recommend that Charles Wethington be re­ "There Is no doubt In my mind that a sitting •"Dr. Wethington did not request time presidency. Gesund noted that meet today and tomorrow with placed as Interim president If he CO!llinues as a interim president caused problems, added William to be Interim president. That is what corporations, and even universities candidate for the post In a new search. The r~lu­ Lyons, a polllleal science professor and another we requested him to do,'' Oekerman Wethington and Elliott would not like UK, promote from within. participate In the process. tlon, hammered out after a nearly 90-minute ~e­ faculty member on the search panel. said. But some supporters of the resolu­ .bate, also urges UK faculty to withdraw any con!m• , ."I do believe that the constant din Wethington, who will be Inter­ The senate resolution, she added, tion contended that II was aimed was not binding on anyone. ued support.for the current search. It Is not blndmg ot horror stories drove some people viewed by campus groups today, only at the search process, not at on any faculty member. · out," Lyons added during a report could not be reached for comment any individuals. "Essentially what ·;· The thrust or the tac;ulty deb~te, which took on the search at yesterday's senate· after yesterday"s senate meeting. El• we are now saying now Is what we place· before a standing-room-only audience, was meeting. Iiott, who Is scheduled for similar have always believed, and I don't , y,heth,er, the action .was too late to affect the ongo­ Bratt, a UK law professor, also Interviews tomorrow, said that she think It's too late to say that," said ing seJll"Cb, which has produced only ~o fln~ists said three candidates, Including We­ still plans to come to Lexington. Mike Cibull, a pathology professor. who begin interviews al UK today with vanous fald and Muse, withdrew after being Although ii was not mentioned "It speaks to the process of allow­ campus groups. told by some UK trustees, whom she during yesterday"s senate debate, ing the interim president to be a They are Wethington and Peggy Gordon Elliott, would not Identify, that Wethington many faculty members have pre­ candidate for the presidency and chancellor of Indiana University's Northwest Cam­ already had enough votes to be viously expressed skepticism about for the politicization of the process pus at Gary. Two other finalists - Kansas State named president. the fairness of the search since Ock• of selecting the president of a uni­ University President Jon Wefald and WIiiiam Bratt said she bad no problems erman named .fl ve trustees appoint­ Muse, president of the University of Akron, earlier versity. This Is making It no more with the search until recently. "Bui ed by Gov. Wallace Wilkinson to the than a state office. And ii Is not a withdrew their names. when the board of trustees Individ­ search panel. Opponents of yesterday's resolution contended it ually began to spread the word that During his report, Lyons said state office in my opinion,'' he said. was a slap in Wl!thington's face. But supporters ar­ ii was a 'done deal,' then the pro­ members of the search panel The original resolullori, proposed gued that the resolution condemned the process - cess fell apart, through no fault of "knew, going In, that there would be by Michael Freeman, a mathemat­ not the finalists' qualifications or the search com­ the search committee at that point." rumors and speculation circulated ics professor, called for the senate mltiee. Ockerman said he was offended that (the search) was a done deal.'' and other faculty membeCS: Includ­ Foster Ockerman, chairman of both the search by charges that the search was any­ But he defended the search by ing thOse on the search committee, panel and the UK board of trustees, said later be thing but open and objective. "All of polnllng out the lnitlal 77 contenders to withdraw from the search pro­ was "inclined to Jet the process ruil Itself out." He the members of the committee par­ Included some strong candidates. cess "until a genuinely open search has· said previously that be eXJ)'l!eled the trustees to ticipated In the whole process and Several opponents of yesterday's ts Initiated." name a new president at a Sept. 18 trustees' meet- there was no objection to It," he resolution by the University Senate But the final version included an ing. . said. "We bad a harmonious com­ - whose 150 members are mostly amendment by philosophy proiessor Wethlngton's appolntm,int as Interim• president mittee, It acted In concert.'' faculty, but also Include some stu• Joan Callahan urging the trustees to last December is belfc>.,,d to have redUced the Ockennan Instead blamed the dents and administrators _: argued postpone appointment of a ·new number of applicants or 1 ,ltninees for the UK post. news media for driving away at that such a protest should have president, and to replace Wething­ least Wefald and Muse by disclosing come earlier. They said the resolu­ ton as Interim president if he be­ their names before the search com­ tion was damaging to the remaining mittee made them public. finalists and to UK. comes a candidate In a new search. LEXINGTON HERALO-LEADt:H, LCXINU I Uf\l, r\ T ., I uc~un • , VL• , L•v•LJ'-', , , , , ,Nv

The resolution, calling for the Ockerman said that he did not a: '- Ill CO ~.d~ ~~~.,~ ~=.,~~=~.,~ •=~~~ w!'l=o presidential selection to be post- tell any candidates that Wethington § gf>~ ca s ~:S~ Et::§:a g.~~:S$ . cog.g e.c eM~~ 1 poned beyond Sept. 18, was hotly had the job sewn up and that he -o~ ~=cc°'>•=~ B~~=c~.,c w·==·s -v e,1 5 zOOQ) • 7-.; sk ... 8~~ • 851 ~g~g£~,s3gz~1~ i u-·~ .... C: _J :: te debated by a packed house. knew of no trustees who had done ::c ~c:·~~= ~Cl) OJ:~::~~~~ ~_gjg~6:. ~ KJ~ ~ o .Q 15 ~ Opponents said the resolution so. M~,c1.c~8.c1""~""11J11J~~~aso d'C~~~-::s ai ·- came too late, a slap at Wethington Ockerman blamed the press for u."' E Z-~ ~- 'E~ ~tii;; _; ~~ ~ ~!lti·1;l'-afe 5~5l ~:§ ~al IL ,_ ·tn ..J and the Board of' Trustees and hounding outside candidates out of --oasorll~-~e- ""Cl~- ->.o~ ~=~ wo~ .. cu:i-o....,c. as cu u- -.c1 ...., .. P'l: .. 0: C -, E %! damaging to UK. the search by making them fear g.,3uSE~f~~=~~5~J~8~igi~g- Ul·c G» -~c.ascu aP'C .... cioSc ~0~.CI •rll:::I:: >,(d t::::, trustees to start Bratt and others, however, said that their candidacy would be re­ C::i...Cl> >"Cl- -~-::SQ.lo~ o~~~-2"G.>G.)C1._, ■a -o.c~••eBuJ.,~~-"~t-•.,~~~-,s.,o 8. the criticism was directed not at vealed on their home campuses too 0 (/) Wethington but at the process. early. <1>E:i•""=--~!!l~·~~-.,•~~ • ~==~.,•~.,~co~~u c-.,e-=~s­ ., - ~.,~ -o,o~., .,a~= 8 0-1::<1>9 c Among students who hold 18 of Lyons also said a lawsuit won ..= C..9.£? t ~ § t~-aQ Ul~ »i~:a 'gas~ Cl e·-,g_@ J!! en 1.,e-~ ~.,=~~~•-=~1t.So~.e.~ ·~ the 133 voting seats on the Senate, by the Herald-Leader after the last ...., co ..., >. 0 as .c ~ ::s .,. o._ as as - - l1J '-:! V, --~~.,-~~~-.osu•=.,~-" .,.0 <( another search most opposed the resolution. And UK search in 1987 had hampered D ca § ffl =§o.~u-0 9~ag- • ~~~B~gS~-~ She. said three candidates, in- there was little sign of support on the search because the committee "' en te ..as....,~ 1:S .o.,-"SE:-.::3 - o~:5~~---ci~o»c-»­ -~ifoa•.su_·-5-gil: Resolution calls effort eluding two finalists who dropped campus yesterday for a student was unable to meet candidates pri- - ca ~Cl)~-~~~~~~Uo~aeva'C~>.<~~8~D~ 1out had received word from one or walkout, called for by the Kentucky vately in person without violating a:- c.55~ ~~B8., b~iE~~~sa ~-11:8~ to find new president mo~e UK trustees that interim Pres- Kernel, the student newspaper. the open meetings law. w ro 'fundamentally flawed' 'ident Charles Wethingon had a Student Government President Nonetheless, UK attracted some 2 ! ~~~,g~~~ gs6rt8~~1~~"' 'E•~~-~~~ 1 majority of votes on the_20-mem1:'er Sean Lohi:n,an said: "We've kn?~ i:ood candidates, Lyons said. They ,_w ~•~.,.,og ~.dt§~~~a ~=5 --~=~•·~ a. 5!••§§~al ·~5.,g~~s .. ,~is g~-iu~.,~ By Jamie Lucke board. She said the mfonnat1on all along 1t s a mess ... Why 1s 1t included Gordon Gee, who accepted w = ~3--3~c =- o- u ~- ~u., ~s- 'g "It'..., 1n ca ca O >i C. >. ca ao-a cu .. - .c: Herald-Leader education wriler (/) - -s .8 g....: ~ = 5 e . i might have been conveyed by a comiJ?g up_ the day before (candi-, the presidency of Ohio State Uni- ·-ca ~~=8~sJ01·~1ala•~BE~~ third party. date mterv1ews are to begm) .. ·. It vers1ty, and Ann Reynolds, the new ... <~i-~.,g~~. - o,.d.Od<1> --"="'- E: ~<1><1JW•• .::~<1> Universify of Kentucky faculty ~ 1 "At this point, one can only should have come up long ago." president of the City University of 0 t., .;.,o---~~ .o.~c.=S~u.,j.l!l .,.,.,~ .,~-~tis••= ., • gB members officially called on the ! (/) en ~s E:f·- ·.o 1 wonder what kind of signals Dr. Said law professor Martin Mc- New York. w .. ~-=s~:~~~B:iti~~s-aB~~S8~1,.,,~~!2m school's trustees yesterday to junk ::,,_ G) the CWTent presidential search and Elliott will receive as the clock Mahon Jr.: "To pass a motion like "Indeed, there was a point ~o-a1e~l~-.l!l1~e~._.o_ kUU~o .Oeo~Ce .... ~.,.,•"'od8•aa.,a2.,1 ~o.=-a- C =a _j 9.,.-r~OIO>C.dh =- ~90,-0909~-<1>0,o~ start a new one in which the interim winds down," Lyons said. this is to throw yourself in front of somewhere a month or so ago when <( ..G) I .C.:,,:: g c~.f:!.C;§ El:~ e~ e= ~ ... ~ »-5 .. 3::: §:S-o president would not be a candidate. • He referred to Peggy Gordon a freight train out of principle." we really felt we had made some z al=~-~- .o.,"o e~.,al~B"'E: ~o.o,2~ -d a: .0~~ 0 Elliott, chancellor of Indiana Uni- Math professor James Wells headway in getting some very ::, .c a.,cu 8 CU 000t.o==@e=u~==o••"'l!•g~~e-ae .. oo CU :,~Cll-asOca o:1.do, ... COtn By a 50-25 vote, the University - 0 Senate passed a resolution con­ versity Northwest in Gary, who said UK was in' danger of losing a strong contenders into this ball­ -,0 .. ~5~t~~3B~~~~t~~ cutt~~Es~~~~~~ became the only presidential finalist 27-year tradition of fair and open game," Lyons said. a: ffl ~-~~o,P •e~o~ C._~e8='ll>-~- <1>.dc.C.,;<1> demning the eight-month search as w -=-acu.!:cl...J :::s (l) ,:!"C9->o 0C •-cu~ aS>.S oo= "fundamentally flawed" and asking from outside UK when the other presidential searches. • • • ir -~:i: ~fil=•-~~Ju=Q-cuiUwc-...,+i~aS -...: ~c=~~,S~=~~-=.,CU :> .. ~ '-'CUc•,..~ ::, .. o~ ~~~.,.,- - ~ .,.,.,,.-•.,.,~~ ~au ~ the board to postpone selecting a two withdrew. Elliott is ~.cheduled Many speakers yesterday said Staff wn'ters Andrew Oppmann, 0 0 »~-cu cuu- 0 cu ao.ccuo .c: cue,..~ o . to be interviewed by vai:ious ~m- the search was compromised from Elizabeth Wade and David Hall 0 ... ~~B.i:-~~al~~•~l~~~i,~:•~•a:11 .. ~ permanent president. w G) ~cu6ucu-ao~Z ~Stn.c~~c-aS.c~EI: S~ot~S~ William Lyons, one of four pro­ pus groups Wednesday m Lexmg- the start by the perception that contributed to this article. ,...I fessors on the 10-member search ton. Wethington, a longtime friend of ~S l.l!l~-~1·~~.6~~~., ,~~-~~-6S6 i committee, said the committee fol­ The other finalist, Wethington, Gov. Wallace Wilkinson, had the E "'"' _c,8~:,,~ .EJ:13.,i!t;E._5 -o§c.!J.odlncal @ lowed all the steps of a fair and formerly chancellor of UK's commu-1 inside track. The UK Se!late and ca -si:-'"'"'a"'~ .:a .... o. s= -~ 8.a .. - .. ~ = open national search. nity college system, will be mter- student government had VI!'(orouslr •~,~~ 11~J,~1:11i iifl~.11~~! I viewed today. opposed allowing the mtenm pres1- -.a t;5 g .,. ~fli:,.o J&S-;'~ti,,ti ii'i~ ~ .!;al~- ., ~= - But Lyons said',.other factors discouraged outsiders, including · Both finalists could face no- dent to become a candidate for the 0 :,, ~ 5 - :,8 i~ - ~=- ! ~ i:l -8 ;; alo m~ g e • ~8 .l!l ~ ~ gfg ~ . g shows from the 20 Lexington-based permanent job last December, and ., - 1; -a ,~ -~ a ., - "'~.., ., '" - " - 'i5 u:,:, e some highly qualified candidates, .. ·c = Q.) :S cu ~~-a ~~ i "O ~>-tr- S e c ~ :a ~ u Bf ~ from pursuing the job. professors supposed to help ques- the board narrowly split on the en :~~))~ "There's not a whole lot that tion them. Yesterday's faculty sen-I issue. g~t ~o.=8~~~~~~~la~al~~~~~,~~§itis~~~gJ~0 ~a-.ot.,~l~~.l2.,.,6 anyone can do when board mem- , ate action urged UK faculty mem- Board Chairman Foster Ocker­ ·-0 >.~ cu ~ ~~- 9 cucu~~o- ~ -- • hers put the word out that there are · hers to boycott the remainder of the man Sr. said it would be up to the .c s lg,o~~J~~~ia'Ef~hi~=tH~~••1;~il 15 votes against you going in," search process. board to decide whether to start a 1 Lyons said. He would not elaborate The non:binding resolution does new search. ~,: 11-~~~1°:~1il~11~~;sill§!::1 not pertain, however, to the 10 One trustee contacted last night Jlilb~lc.l ~-!~~~~~t!~ e:~-~l~~I after the meeting. == ., ~s!- ~ •o .,,~.,.,o 0 g~•~~.,--- UK Senate President Carolyn community college faculty mem- said he opposed junking the search ~~Co,o,~al§tldf"'l"'f~S =~~ 1~3 ,.,§, Bratt said the search fell apart at hers scheduled_ to help c~nd~ct the and starting over. "This has gone .E!~f-lol~~~~- ~g~~~~~~j~gBIJJ=~ the end because of trustee involve­ interviews, which also will mclude on long enough," trustee Tracy ~~ ~12~.os~~E =uil:o.~ ~~.o-~i~~~B ment. administrators, students and trust- Fanner of Lexington said. ees. q A~a - 3 -'-13-IO MSU Clip Sheet A aamplJ.nc of recent artlda of lnterat to Morehead State Unlvenlty

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By RICHARD WIUON Wethington's meeting with a fac­ with people and to generate finan­ Staff Writer ulty group yesterday was boycotted cial support tor UK in the legisla­ by nearly all of the Lexington 20 ture and elsewhere. campus professors scheduled to LEXINGTON, Ky. - The University of Ken­ It named president, Wethington tucky's student senate yesterday became the sec­ meet with him. That was in re­ said he did not anticipate problems sponse to a part of the university ond campus group in two days to call - apparently winning faculty support. UK, he senate's resolution calling for the in vain - for postponement In the planned selec• said, has a solid faculty and staff. withdrawal of support for the tion of a new UK president next week and a re­ WethJngton said his message to search process "until a genuinely opening of the presidential search. the groups he met with yesterday But the 12-10 vote was much closer than the 50- open search is initiated." Apparently all 15 of the faculty was that UK bas come through the 25 margin by which the faculty-dominated Univer­ past several months during his stint sity Senate adopted a similar resolution Monday. members representing UK's com­ munity colleges attended. as interim president "in sound con­ Meanwhile, the man whose candidacy for the dition, in good shape, and it's now presidency has sparked the controversy in the Judith Rhoads, a Madisonville Community College professor and time for the univers.ity to move for­ search, Interim President Charles Wethington. was the two-year colleges' faculty trust­ ward." interviewed by members of the campus communi­ ee, declined to comment on the boy­ At yesterday's student senate ty and held a news conference yesterday. cott or the faculty resolution. But meeting, most students stressed that Foster Ockerman, chairman of UK's board of she said the search should continue their criticism of the search was not trustees and of the presidential search panel said according to schedule. aimed at Wethington or Elliott. after the student senate vote that the search would Wethington - who headed the One, Sean Coleman, said the proceed as planned and that he still expects a new community-college system for nine search was flawed from the begin­ president to be selected at next Tuesday's trustees years before being named Interim ning when Ockerman named a UK meeting. president last December and has a medical student - instead of stu­ Ockerman said he bad no comment on the stu­ reputation as an outstanding admin­ dent president and student trustee dent senate action. "I think that was probably done istrator - is considered the front­ Sean Lohman - to the search pan­ at the urging of the same people who caused the runner to succeed David Roselle. el. adoption of the resolution by the faculty senate," Roselle resigned as president last Although students protested that he said. year to become president of the move, it did no good because their Several student senators who opposed yester­ University of Delaware. protest "was either not heard or ig­ day's resolution said it was too late and added that Much of the controversy provok­ nored," Coleman said. Reopening it would only create more tension and turmoil than ing the resolutions stems from Weth• the search, be added, would only already surrounds the 8-month-old search. ington's dual role as interim presi­ further divide the campus. But supporters said students also needed to be dent and candidate for the full-time But Allen Putman said students beard on the issue. post. That, plus his longtime rela­ were "selling themselves short," if Ashley Boyd, co-sponsor of the resolution, tionship with Gov. Wallace Wilkin­ they didn't renew their protest of charged that UK's board of trustees bad "played son, has led many faculty members the search. games" with the search from the to argue that be has an Inside track He acknowledged, though, that it outset. for the job and has led numerous would be a waste of time to reopen "We need to send a message for potential candidates to forgo apply­ it. " Most board members already the entire academic community that ing for the post. Ockerman's ap­ have their minds made up," be said. students are not willing to play pointment of mainly Wilkinson­ games with the search or their edu­ named trustees to the search com­ cation," Boyd said. mittee bas also provoked skepticism Wethington spent the day in about the objectivity of the search. closed meetings with faculty, stu­ Wethington said yesterday that he dent and administrative groups has known the governor since Wilk· where be answered questions and inson was a high school senior, and outlined his views of the presidency. that they continue to be friends. The other finalist, Peggy Gordon That relationship, be added, has giv­ Elliott, chancellor of Indiana Uni­ en him access to Wilkinson. versity's Gary campus, will take "I think that's an excellent advan­ part in similar meetings at UK to­ tage" for a UK president, he said. day. As UK's chief lobbyist in recent Two other finalists - Kansas years, Wethington said his relation­ State University President Jon We­ ship with members of the General fald and William V. Muse, president Assembly was also helpful to UK. of the University of Akron - earlier Wethington also confronted an­ withdrew their names. other criticism some faculty mem­ During an afternoon news confer­ bers consider a shortcoming - his ence, Wethington said he was obvi­ lack of extensive research and ously concerned about the faculty teaching experience. and student calls for a new search. While acknowledging their impor­ But be noted that opposition to any major decision at a university is not tance, he said they are not the only uncommon. important qualifications for the He said it was his "strong belief' presidency. He said he also has oth­ that the process needed to continue er skills, including public relations, and that UK's trustees needed to decision-making, the ability to work name a president as "quickly as (they) can." -A service of the Office of Media Relations- LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER, LEXINGTON, KY., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12.1990

Absent professors "I· think we need to send a Students urge/ message to the faculty, students, Conspicuously absent from yes­ Board of Trustees, the entire aca­ school to restalrt terday's sessions with Wethington demic community that University were most of the professors from of Kentucky students are not will­ the Lexington campus who had ing to play games with our univer­ hunt for chief been asked to participate. sity or our president," Boyd said. UK Senate President Carolyn By Jamie Lucke The student resolution called on Bratt said two of the 20 faculty Herald-Leader education writer trustees to postpone the selection of members attended. The_ professors a president, reopen the search and - Interim President Charles Weth­ are expected to boycott interviews appoint .an interim president- who ington, one of two finalists for with Elliott today. would not be a candidate. · University of Kentucky president, However, more than 40 UK yesterday defended the eight-month The resolution said students administrators, an elected faculty appreciated Wethington's service as presidential search and said UK representative from each of the 14 needed a swift end to the process. interim president and encouraged community colleges, trustees and him "to step down from that posi­ But UK's student government, students participated in the inter­ by a narrow vote, demanded a new tion and remain a candidate for the views, a luncheon meeting and permanent position." search in which the interim presi­ dinner. dent could not be a candidate. The three Lexington-based fac­ 'Sound and strong' Student leaders condemned the ulty members on the search com­ search as "fundamentally flawed" mittee did not attend any of the Wethington said his message one day after Lexington faculty sessions. during the meetings was "generally leaders in the UK Senate issued a Don Colliver, an agriculture en­ that the University of Kentucky is similar denunciation. gineering professor on the Lexing­ sound and strong. .. . We've made· By a 12-10 vote, UK's Student ton campus, said he bucked the headway in these last few months, Government Association joined nonsbinding faculty resolution and in this interim period." with the UK Senate in asking the participated in a morning session He said he had not ducked trustees to launch a new search. with Wethington because "at 'this problems - including a coal com­ But board Chairman Foster stage of the game, I think we need pany's fight to mine near UK's Ockerman Sr. said he would recom­ to be building bridges rather thari Robinson Forest in Eastern Ken­ mend that the board name a presi­ barriers. The senate made a deci­ tucky and issues related to develop­ dent Tuesday. sion. As an individual, I feel we ing UK's Coldstream Farm in Lex­ "The board will make that deci­ need to be working together to ington. sion. But as far as I'm concerned I achieve the goals of the university." But he said UK had to delay think it would be extremely detri­ Another Lexington professor some important steps, including mental to this institution to try to who decided to attend the candidate launching a massive UK fund-rais­ restart the process,'' Ockerman said interview, Joanne Bell, a social work ing campaign and appointing a vice last night. professor, said she did not know president for research, until a new "I think it would create uncer­ whether the process was flawed. president was in place. tainty, turmoil, and a do-nothing But she said asking Wethington to Asked to describe his relation­ iperiod of time would exist that be interim president while a candi­ ship with Gov. Wallace Wilkinson, would be of great detriment to the date was "an incredible expectation he said they had known each other university, so I think we've got to of anyone. Perhaps if that had been since Wilkinson was in high school act." different, all of this would have but had never been in business or Wethington - who was ap­ been different." politics together. pointed interim president in Decem­ "We've been friends through the ber despite student and faculty Students participate years. And we continue to be. I objections - said he obviously was have a relationship with him that concerned "when faculty and stu­ Student leaders decided to par­ allows me to be able to have access dents express concerns about the ticipate in the interviews even to the governor of the common­ process." though they withdrew their support wealth of Kentukcy." But he said that letting the of the search during an emergency controversy delay selection of a meeting of the Student Senate. Wethington said he did not permanent president would not be Ashley Boyd, who sponsored think the controversy over the in UK's best interest. the student resolutions, said that search would hurt him as president. "I've come through this interim the process was not flawed because He said he would meet with faculty period and the university has come of the candidates and that it would and students to try to heal whatev­ through this interim period in be rude for students to stand them er wounds might be left from the sound condition and good shape. current controversy. up. Boyd also said students should J ;And it's time now for the university know about the candidates in case "We have a very good, solid :to move forward." there was no new search. faculty and staff, and once deci­ : Wethington said he had been The students approved a resolu­ sions get made, and I believe that is ;acquainted with most of the s~ch tion withdrawing support from the very true in terms of the presiden­ 'committee members for some time. search on a voice vote. cy, then you will have people get !: "So I am truly convinced that in The second, more controversial behind the president of this univer­ '.this search committee we do have action was passed after a livdy sity and move it on to bigger and l\Jeople of integrity and that the debate in which some students said better things," ,process has gone on accordmg to reopening the search would tear t .. what I have asked for from Day apart the university even further iOne ... that we do have a free and while providing no chance · of a ~pen nationwide search. And I'm different outcome. ~onvinced that has happened," "The consequenoes of reopening :Wethington said. the search are going to be too •· He spoke at a news conference traumatic for our university,'' said ;.esterday after a round of inter­ student Daris McCullough. views with various campus groups. But Boyd said it would be The only other remaining fina\­ healthier for UK in the long run to ist, Peggy Gordon Elliott, chancell?r have a credible search. of Indiana University Northwest m "Students have been crying foul Gary, will go through the same since the beginning, but the Board round of interviews today .. Two of Trustees continued to play the other finalists have dropped out. game." She said it was clearly a The board is expected to choose "done deal" when the interim presi­ a new president Tuesday. dent was allowed to be a candidate, thereby discouraging outside candi­ dates from applying. THE COURIER-JOURN~L._ WEDNESDAY,.SEPTEMBER 1f~ 19® Candidate for UK's presidency unhurt in_crash on way to campus· By MARY DIETER cut in front of It, Woods said. Stall Writer The second set of rear wheels on the truck struck the front end INDIANAPOLIS - Peggy Gor­ of the car, sending the car into a don Elliott, a candidate for the concrete barrier In the median, University of Kentucky presiden­ Kay Rogers, JU-Northwest's di• cy, was involved in a wreck yes­ rector of news and communica­ terday on her 'way to her tllght to tion, said that Elliott was talking the Lexington, Ky., campus for with her on the car telephone Interviews. when the accident occurred, El­ Neither Elliott, chancellor of liott told. her, "We"ve Just been Indiana University-Northwest in hit by a truck" and, after the car Gary, nor the driver of the car in came to a stop, she said Handley which she was a passenger were had skillfully controlled the car Injured. The other vehicle in­ keeping it from darling back Int~ volved - an IS-wheel tractor­ traffic. trailer - did not stop at the acci­ After authorities were sure dent scene, according to Univer­ th~.t Elliott was not hnrt, she was sity Police Chief Bill Wood~. · taken to Chicago's O'Hare Air­ The Indiana State P,Jlice- inves­ port by another officer who had tigated the accident, but no re­ been sent out by JU-Northwest port was available yesterday. police. Woods said she made the Elliott was a passenger in a tllght, although the plane had to 1989 Chevrolet driven by Mark wait a few minutes for her. After Handley of Crown Point, a cadet she arrived In Lexington, she vis­ in the JU-Northwest police de­ ited the UK Medical Center and partment The car, headed west was pronounced healthy except in the left lane of the multilane for slightly elevated blood pres­ expressway, was about a half• sure, Rogers said. mile from the Illinois state line Elliott Is to be Interviewed this on Interstate 80 when the semi morning.

LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER, LEXINGTON, KY,, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1990 Low drama UK's presidential 'search' will reap no Oscars he University of Ken- · the governor's office. As long as tu. cky's student newspa­ Wilkinson is. the producer, the final per and the University scene of this script will remain Senate are right. unchanged. The Board of Trustees 0 T is loaded with his appointees, or : UK's search for a new president Was "fundamentally flawed" from people who look to him for reap­ C the start. The process now conclud­ pointment. They will not, as a UK ipg should be junked and a new professor put it in the University A ~ch begun, with anyone acting Senate debate, "throw (themselves) as interim president barred from in front of a freight train out of fueing a candidate for the perma­ principle." rient post. Principle is in short .supply on 1 But having acknowledged the the UK Board of Trustees right moral correctness of the stands now. The board is playing politics taken by the University Senate and Kentucky· style, where principles the Kentucky Kernel, one is left to are as scarce as ... well, as scarce face the bleak reality of the Wilkin­ as qualified outside applicants. son/Ockerman/Wethingon era at Along with many others, we UK. ·regret that a university so recently This long-running melodrama poised to assume its rightful role - produced by Gov. Wallace Wil­ as an outstanding flagship for Ken­ kinson, directed by UK Board of tucky has been dishonored and Trustees Chairman Foster Ocker­ debased. man Sr. and starring interim Presi­ We regret, too, the debasement dent Charles Wethington - is in to Peggy Gordon Elliott, chancellor its final act. The plot was obvious of Indiana University Northwest, from the beginning. But the play­ who is visiting UK today as the acting will continue to its anti­ "other'' candidate. Surely, even she climactic finale, when Wethington must realize her role in this drama assumes the UK throne. is that of a potted palm. Face it: Wethington isn't going Yes, the University Senate and to resign the interim presidency. the Kentucky Kernel are right; and Ockerman isn't going to resign as they deserve plaudits for taking a board chairman. The trustees principled stand. But principle aren't going to order a new searc,h. went out of fashion many months The only resignation that would ago among the ruling elite of our matter would have to come from university. THE COURIER-JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1990 UK needs a fresh start T'S too bad that It's the trust• school, and be is Gov. Wilkinson's ees and not the editors of the boyhood pal and UK's Interim Kentucky Kernel who are president Need any more be said? I calling the shots In the Uni­ His credentials, considerable In versity of Kentucky's search for a some areas, aren't the issue. The new president The editors have badly nawed process by which UK correctly sized up the situation and arrived at this point is the Issue. It believe a fresh start is needed. looks rigged. At the outset UK was Most . trustees, on the other band, saddled with heavy baggage - an seem to blind to the problems. athletic program on the mend and As we've observed time and a president who Jacked critical sup­ again, UK's search for a new pres!• port Now a tainted search com­ dent bas been tainted. The difficul­ pounds its problems. ty started when David Roselle UK wouldn't crumble under Dr, needed . Gov. Wilkinson's support Wethington, but encumbered by a and didn't get it, and It worsened controversy over his selection, it when the board would be unlikely overloaded Its f to move forward search committee in any but the with trustees most superficial named by ·the ways. In all likell­ governor. hood it would re­ It was no sur­ gress rather: than prise when the prosper. Faculty search produced would find reason only 77 candi• to leave. (Monday dates - far less the University tfian the 160 can­ Senate voted in didates the last favor of reopen­ search for a ing the search for president generat­ a new president, ed. Some fine and yesterday the candidates clear­ Student Senate ly chose not to en­ did the same.) ter the fray and Fil£ PHOTO Outstanding others withdrew. A statue ol James Kennedy teachers and re­ More embarrass­ Patterson, UK's first president. searchers whom ing still, after the the university will committee settled on four finalists, try to recruit would go elsewhere. two bowed out Grants would go to other schools. When individuals are thinking Eventually, the state's leaders about applying for a college presi­ would look at UK and ask, "Why dency, they usually know people hasn't it moved forward?" with ties to the Institution, and they It's not too late to tum the tide, make phone caJJs. "What's going but to do so the trustees would on? Is It a truly open search?" have to actively counter the stigma Some callers were apparently told of a fix. They could start by nam­ that it would be futile to apply, and ing a new committee containing a · others were discouraged from con­ majority of people who played no tinuing to be part of the bunt role in the current sorry search. Ostensibly, there are two candl• Then they'd need to persuade Dr. dates under consideration today: Wethington that the best way for Peggy Gordon Elliott and Charles him to aid bis beloved university is T. Wethington. She has spent the to be either a candidate or Interim last 21 years at Indiana Universi­ president but not both. It's not too ty's Gary campus, a commuter late.

LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER, LEXINGTON, KY., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1990 Kentucky ACT scores decline FRANKFORT - Kentucky high school seniors last year scored THE COURIER-JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1990 lower on the ACT college entrance exam than the year before and continued to lag behind their national and regional peers. Kent State embarrassed There also were fewer Kentucky students taking the test, by Klansmen on catalog according to figures released yesterday by the state Department of Education. ' KENT, Ohio (AP) - Kent State The American College Test is the predominant college entrance University has recalled 4,000 cata­ exam in Kentucky and 'Z7 other states, mainly in the Midwest and logs II bas already mailed and will West. d~Y 16,000 others because Its The Kentucky average composite score was 19.9 on a scale of 1 to cover features hooded Ku Klux 36, That compared with averages of 20.0 for the Southeast Region Klansmen. and 20,6 for the nation. The test was taken by 24,942· members of The University Press catalog doesn't mention that Its cover is a Kentucky's class of 1990, down from 25,547 in 1989. dupllcate of one of its offerings, "The Steel Valley Klan - The KKK In Ohio's Mahoning Valley," a book by Youngstown State University pro­ fessor William Jenkins. "I certainly apologize to anyone who was offended. I know I certain• ly .was," said university President Michael Schwartz. Se. +. 14- ,~~o ~en C ?o MSU Clip 8heet () A sampling of recent artides of interest to Morehead State University :r:

-A service of the Office of Media Relations- L~INGTON HERALD-LEADER, LEXINGTON, KY., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1990 1 ransylvariia patrols on a ro"' -on two.wheels, in 21 speeds "On a bicycle, you can go places "When we have people out on cars can•~" UK Police Chief W.H. By Ellzabeth Wade campus walking around we like to McComas said. "You can go up and Herald-Leader staff writer try to have the bike ou~" said Ken down sidewalks and go in between Doug Gilvin wears the same outfit when he Adair, director of Transylvania's buildings. It's also a healthy thing cruises Transylvania University's campus on his 21- Department of Public Safety. Tran, for the officer." speed mountain bike: Navy shirts and shorts, black sylvania retired its golf carts in At the University of Illinois high-top tennis shoes, a police radio and a gun. favor of the b_icycles when_ the '.carts three of the school's 24 office~ "When they see me they don't know what I am became too difficult to mamtain, he patrol the Champaign-Urbana cam- until I get up close," said Gilvin, one of two said. pus on bicycles, said Illini officer Transylvania police officers who have started to "Not only is it good exercise for Ronald Nesbitt patrol the three-block downtown campus on bicycle. th~ officers, but it's quicker," Adair ."!he bicycle has been a very said. . positive benefit It's just over- "Kids are probably the ones who are the most Wtth the ~aze, of on_e-way looked," he said. "We feel the bicy- shocked." streets and traffic st~!~ _it can ~le unit has served positively to Gilvin and another officer, Barry Ratliff, watch take 10nger for a pohce crmser _to mcrease our relationship with the over the campus by bicycle from 4 p.m. to midnight travel through the campus, he satd. university community, during the school year. It's an idea that has worked , "It's been a big change because "We're not· closed in like the at campuses across the country, including the it's been very unusual to see a cop officers in the cars. We can hear University of Kentucky. on a bicycle," said James Brown, of better, and we can see better," Advocates say the patrols allow campus police f.ikeville, a ~or _at T~n~ylvan_ia . The bicycles allow campus offi- to be more maneuverable, able to cut through TheJ'.'re a httle more vts1ble with cers to work faster and more quiet- congested areas and one-way streets. the bicycle than they were when ly, Transylvania's Galvin said they were _walking ar?und,-, I think it . "It'~ s_o quick and concealable," LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER, LEXINGTON, KY .. will help unprove thm~. satd G1lvtn, who checks buildings, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14. 1990 At UK, camp~ pohce office1:3 responds to calls and escorts stu- are given the option t? cover therr dents on his patrol. "I go up on beats on foot or with 10-speed grass and sidewalks, and I don't OVC notebook J bicycles. worry about slowing down. I'm in I love with it." · Record watch -The Daily Independent, Ashland, Ky., Thursday, September 13, 1990 Morehead quarterback Chris Swartz seems to set a school or conference record each week. He became the OVC's all-time comple­ tions· leader two weeks ago against Marshall. He became the school Morehead leader in· plays last week against Western Kentucky. But Swartz was limited to eight arts programs completions on 17 attempts for 59 yards in the Eagles' 24-0 loss. His next TD pass will tie the AIM to please school standard of 37 set by Charles "Izzy" Porter. The Eagles visit Ken­ MOREHEAD - From Chinese acrobatics and a Shakespearean tucky State Saturday night. farce to a Civil War musical and haunting native American flute OVC leaders 'melodies, the 1990-91 Arts in Morehead (AIM) series will offer Some statistical leaders after the programs to please the whole family. OVC's first full week of play: AIM is a cooperative effort between Morehead State University and Rushing: EKU's Markus Thom­ the.Morehead/Rowan County Arts Council. as 139-yard average; Middle's Joe The season will open at 3 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 29, with the Chinese c;.;mpbell, 98.5; Austin Peay's Reg­ Magic Revue, a group of Chinese acrobats with a blend of gymnastics, gie Williams, 78. magic, dance and comedy. The afternoon performance is scheduled for Passing: Tennessee State's MSU's Athletic-Academic Center. James Wade, 161-yard average; Also included in the season are: Tennessee Tech's Bert Browne, 156; • "A Comedy of Errors," a North Carolina Shakeiipeare Festival TSU's Bethea, 138. production, 8 p.m. Oct. 14, Button Auditoriwn. Receiving: Morehead's Jerome • Meridian String Quartet, 8 p.m. Dec. 3, Duncan Recital Hall. Williams and TSU's Melvin Water, • "An Evening With Mark Twain,': a one-man show with Marvin 5 receptions a game; TSU's Tim Cole, 8 p.m. Jan. 17, Brech Auditoriwn. Cross, 4. • Atlantic Winds, the wind section members of the Orchestra of Tackles: Morehead's Darrell New England, 8 p.m. Feb. 8, Duncan Recital Hall. Beavers, 31 (22 tackles, 9 assists); • "Banjo Reh and the Blue Ghost,'' a Civil War musical, 8 p.m. TSU's Shanks, 28. March 14, Button Auditoriwn. • Stan Bwngarner, classical guitarist, 8 p.m. April 9, Duncan THE COURIER-JOURNAL, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1990 Recital Hall. • R. Carols Nakai, native American flutist, 8 p.m. May 1, Duncan Kuwaltito speak at Centre College Recital Hall. The head of Kuwait University's political science department Is Also included in the series is a special holiday trip to Lexington for a one of 10 speakers scheduled for Persian Gulf Education Day on performance of the ballet classic, "The Nutcracker,'' on Dec. 15. A bus Monday at Centre College in Danville, Ky. will leave the campus at noon. Reservations will be required and there Saif Abdulla, a Kuwaiti, was in the United States when Iraq will be an additional $5 fee. invaded his country last month, said Diane J ohnsoo, assistant di­ Season tickets for the nine programs are $30 an individual and $50 for rector of college relations. Abdulla studied at Indiana University a family. They are available through members of the arts council and from 1966 to 1973, earning his bachelor's, master's and doctoral from MSU's Academy of Arts, located in Rader Hall 206. They can be degrees there. From 19~0 to 1987, he was cultural counselor at the ordered by writing AIM, P.O. Box 950, Morehead, Ky. 40351 or calling Kuwaiti Embassy to Washington, D. C. (606) 783-2659. Abdulla will speak OD the future of the Middle East from 7 to 9 Single tickets are $6 for adults and $3 for non-MSU students. p.m. Monday lo Centre's Weisiger Theatre. All sessions are free Supporting membership categories are also available. andOther open speakers to the public.Include Palestinian Fouad Moughrabi, a political .______. science professor at the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga, and Alam Paylnd, a native of Afghanistan and director of the Middle East Studies Center at Ohio State University. THE COURIER-JOURNAL, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1990 I Mt: LUUHlt:H·JUURNAL, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1990 UK faculty's leader to seek reopening of search 2nd finalist at UK By RICHARD WILSON called the search "fundamentally Trustee Chairman Foster Ocker- ist, were impressed with both educa­ Stall Writer flawed" and also withdrew faculty man said he he anticipated no pro­ tors. We do have two good candl• support for It "until a genuinely cedural move to block any consider- dates," be said. says she thinks LEXINGTON, Ky. - The Unlver- open search Is Initiated." ation ol the resolution. Two other finalists - Kansas slty of Kentucky's top faculty leader The resolution's supporters con- "If somebody wanls to make a State University President Jon We­ said yesterday that she will ask the tended that Wethlngton's appoint- motion, a motion can be made," fald and William V. Muse, withdrew school's board of trustees to consld· ·ment by the trustees last December Ockerman said. their names earlier. trustees will be fair er reopening !Is presidential search as Interim president led many po- But he said be still thinks a new Besides meeting with various next Tuesday rather than electing a tenllal presidential candidates to president will be named at Tues- campus groups earlier this week, By RICHARD WILSON Wethlogtoo's dual role as Interim new preslde!lt then. forgo the search because they be- day's meeting. Wethington and Elliott, chancellor Staff Writer president and presidential candidate While law professor Carolyn Bratt lleved bis relallonshlp with Gov. Sean Lohman, president of UK's of Indiana University's Northwest bas provoked much of the searcb's declined to speculate on the board's Wallace Wilkinson. gave him an In- Student Government Association, campus at Gary, also attended sepa­ LEXINGTON, Ky. - The second controversy. The faculty-

LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER. LEXINGTON, KY., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1990 Presid:ential finalist Elliott to· attend UK-lndian·a game By Jamie Lucke highly qualified candidates at this Herald•leader education wrjter Either Peggy Gordon Elliott tun' e. " Peggy Gordon Elliott will get an qr Interim Pres,ident Ulmer, who attended a trustees unexpected, second chance to im­ dinner with Elliott Wednesday prove her status as underdog final­ Charles· Wethington is night, said the board was very ist for University of Kentucky presi­ expected to be named.UK's impressed with her. "She was ex­ dent when she returns to Lexington 10th president Tuesday, tremely articulate and comprehen­ for a football game Saturday as the sive in her approach to the job, trustees' guest. despite growing demands She's certainly a viable candidate." Either Elliott or Interim Presi­ for a new search. Ulmer did not attend a similar dent Charles Wethington is expect­ dinner with Wethington Tuesday ed to be named UK's 10th president man of Lexington said he was . because he helped as a host at a Tuesday, despite growing demands disappointed in the campus groups large fund-raising event for guber­ for a new search.· for taking a last-minute stand natorial candidate Martha Wilkin­ UK law students became the against a process that they appar­ son, Gov. Wallace·Wilkinson's wife, latest campus group to condemn ently had supported for eight · in Louisville that night. the presidential search as "funda­ months. Elliott was· not expected to re­ mentally flawed" and ask for a new_ "The facts are the same as turn to UK before the new president one. when we started the search-process• was named, but the idea came up The resolutions, adopted and appointed the committee, and during the Wednesday dinner. Yes­ Wednesday by the Student Bar we all worked together in a ,bona terday she received an official invi- · Association, are consistent with a fidemanner. Then when the candi­ tation through the search commit­ survey of law students in which 87 dates' ·number was reduced from tee's consulting firm, said Kay percent said the search was flawed; four to two, for some reason, they Rogers, an Indiana University 84 percent said a new search should thought the search was fundamen­ Northwest spokeswoman. be conducted; and 59 percent said tally flawed. I don't understand it." "She has been invited to have an interim president should never Ockerman said that premature lunch and sit with the trustees at be a candidate for UK president. news media publicity contributed to the game on Saturday," Rogers The two-day survey drew candidates dropping out, but that said. signed responses from 201 of the the · search process was not to As interim president, Wething­ approximately 450 UK law stu­ blame., : ton· would have been there anyway. dents, said Franklin Jelsma, a law "It's not unusual. for the group Rogers said she did not know if student from Louisville. (of finalists) to resolve itself to two. Elliott had planned to attend the Jelsma said the problem did not As a matter of fact it happened game before. involve the candidates' qualifica­ three years ago. It happens often." The contest pits Indiana Univer­ tions, but the selection process. Wethington and former UK sity, where she has worked for 25 Wethington's perceived advantage President David Roselle were the years and one of her alma maters, as interim president has been remaining two candidates for UK against her home state's flagship. blamed for causing some candi­ president in 1987 after several other It poses a tough choice of ward­ dates to withdraw. finalists dropped out. robe colors for the woman who "It reflects poorly on the univer­ Ockerman said it would not be bought a special Wildcat blue suit sity," Jelsma said. "People are not for her round of official interviews. satisfied with the way the universi­ in UK's best interest to delay select­ ing a president. Red, blue or what? ty has handled the process, espe­ "She doesn't know what she's cially the board of trustees." Trustee Daniel Ulmer Jr. of Louisville agreed, saying that pro­ going to wear," Rogers said. "She The UK Senate, made up mostly longed agonizing would only delay said she'll take suggestions." of faculty, and the Student Govern­ planning for UK's future. "I just While Elliott is generally re­ ment Association called for a new don't see any validity in doing that. garded as the underdog for UK se11!'ch earlier this week. Maybe if we didn't have any candi­ president, the Hoosiers are the fa. · Board Chairman Foster Ocker- dates - but we obviously have two vorites Saturday, by 2 points.

THE COURIER-JOURNAL, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1990 · Supreme Court justice to speak at UK LEXINGTON, Ky, - U.S. Supreme Court Justice AnthOny Ken• nedy will deliver the Judge Mac Swinford Lecture at the Universl• ty of Kentucky Sepl 27, The lecture, "Modem Democracies and the Spirit of the Consti­ tution," will be in the concert hall of the Singletary Center for the Arts. Kennedy will also talk with faculty and students. Toe lecture series honors Swinford, who served as U. S. District Court judge for the Eastern and Western Districts of Kentucky beginning in 1937. He died In 1975. i MSU Clip Sheet A sampling of recent artides of interest to Morehead State University

MEDIA RELATIONS • MOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY • UPO BOX 1100 • MOREHEAD, KY 40351-1689 • 606-783-2030 LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER, LEXINGTON, KY., SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1990 It did for Mark Davis. Since Eastern Kentuckians graduating two years ago from high school in Letcher County, the 20-year-old has worked various jobs, including busboy and car take initiative in move I salesman. Those jobs convinced him he should go to college. But the nearest to feed into UK system school was at least a half-hour drive, and Davis did not own a car.' By Frank Langfitt When he heard about the new Southeastern Kentucky bureau sch?Ol, he rented an apartment in Whitesburg. Now he studies biolo­ WIDTESBURG - When this gy, English and math in sleek city of 1,400 people decided to start white classrooms along the bank; its own community college, local of the North Fork of the Kentucky leaders did not beg the state legisla­ River. · ture for money. Nor did they ask the University The college also has drawn of Kentucky to pitch in. Instead, students who did not want to leave they took a cue from the popular the region for personal or cultural ads for Nike athletic shoes. reasons. · They decided to just do it. While the expansion of college In less than two years, citizens education excites many, experts are and local businesses donated concerned that the system might be enough money to tum the town's spread too thin and quality will old Coca-Cola bottling plant into a suffer. Private colleges also worry new school, which includes a li­ that they will be undersold by brary, computer room and book­ schools like Whitesburg that charge store. $320 for a full semester of courses, much less than their tuition. When the Whitesburg campus Herald-Leader . of UK's community college system In April, private Pikeville Col­ opened late last month, 375 stu­ But Whitesburg is just one of lege asked the state to keep Pres­ dents enrolled - 50 percent more several rural Kentucky communi­ tonsburg Community College from than expected. ties !!)i,.t have united in the last two expanding into Pike County. Although the smell of wet paint yeai:i;_Jo start UK branch campuses. Pikeville College President Wil­ and the sound of hammers still fill •·With the help of a $160,000 liam Owens said the state would be the one-story building, chief admin­ grantfrom the Pike County govern­ wiser to help expand existing pri­ istrator Eugene Meade is already ment/~ a citizens foundation will vate schools than develop new pub­ thinking about expansion. begirCraising money this week to lic ones. Impressed by the community's buy and renovate a building for a ·Gov. Wallace Wilkinson sided response, UK said it would help pay campus in Pikeville. with Prestonsburg, which planned for future facilities. __ • Businesses and citizens in Bell to expand beyond the city into the · "If they need to grow, we will County have offered five sites, free rural eastern half of the county. find some way to do it," said Ben of charge, for a $9.9 million state­ As the people of rural Kentucky Carr, acting chancellor of the com­ funded building to house a college continue to demand and support munity college system. and a county vocational-technical higher education, officials expect The story of the Whitesburg school in 1992. the community college system to . campus runs counter to the old • After waiting more than 20 grow. notion that the leadership of East­ years for the state to fund a cam­ "What is happening in Whites­ ern Kentucky is parochial and di­ pus, the people of Carrollton in burg is an example of what is' vided. __ Northern Kentucky raised $10,000 happening statewide," Ayers.said: .. City Mayor James Asher and last year to renovate space they other leaders persuaded coal com­ found in a local mall. Enrollment panies, banks and several hundred has more than doubled from 70 to private citizens to donate more than 144 since school opened in January. $800,0bO for the school. Observers say these communi­ Tile movement is all the more ties represent not only a growing noteworthy because it occurred in demand for higher education in I.etch~ County, where many have rural Kentucky, but also the in­ accusi:d the local board of education creased willingness of citizens and of ducking the state's new school­ leaders to pay for 1t. reform movement. There is also a growing recogni­ -'!I've never seen anything like tion in Eastern Kentucky that high­ this~; ,said Bruce Ayers, president of er education is a key to future Sou11l.east Community College in employment, even in the increasing.' Cwy..'berland, which runs the ly mechanized coal industry. WJnasburg campus. "It's truly a "It boils down to wanting to get grass_:.;oots movement." a job," said Gary S. Cox, executive ~ny attribute the project's suc­ director of the state Council on cess;~ the city's progressive leader­ Higher Education. ship;:including Asher, author and Eastern Kentucky critic Harry M. Cauolll and the Appalshop arts center: -A service of the Office of Media Relations- THE COURIER-JOURNAL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1990 Battle for education doctoral program could pit WKU against other schools By MICHAEL JENNINGS panded uses of technology, "the blg themes Whether Western ls the primary sponsor, Staff Writer of the refonn are there," be said. "tbls .program needs to be out there," Pank• Pankratz ls helping translate some of ratz said. FRANKFORT, Ky. - Western Kentucky those themes Into real!!}' for the state's pub­ Ke_ntucky school officials were Invited University may soon start what could be a lie schools. He ls executive director of the yesterday t9 compete for places In another bruising battle In an effort to open a doctor- Council on School Perfonnance Standards, training program that could help them mas­ al program that ls closely tied to Kentucky's which will spell out learning goals for Ken­ ter some of the refonn law's principles. scbool-refonn law. tucky youngsters and design a multifaceted Gov. Wallace Wilkinson and an official of The fight, if It comes; ls less likely to be assessment system to measure schools' sue­ the Southern Regional Education Board an­ over the merits of the program than over cess at meeting those goals. nounced that school dlstrlcts lo 15 Southern the break with precedent Kentucky law Fewer than 1 percent of Kentucky's pub­ states can compete for spots In the training gives clear authority to offer doctoral de- lie-school educators bold doctoral degrees, program. Each dlstrlct chosen will also get grees only to the University of Kentucky and among those degrees earned ln the last a $75,000 grant and University of Louisville. six years, fewer than half were conferred The training program, dubbed "The Lead­ Higher · education officials say there -by universities In Kentucky, Pankratz said. ership Academy,'' will accept officials of 12 would be strong resistance to a doctoral pro- "You could make a case that higher edu• school districts In the region over the_ next gram at any of the state"s six other unlversl- cation bas not made It possible for public several years. Alton Crews, the academy's ties, commonly called regional universities. school folks to get higher degrees," be said. director, said each dlstrlct will pick five "You're talking about opening up Pando- If approved promptly by the faculty coun• leaders, Including Its superintendent, to at­ ra's box," said Roger Pankratz, wbo wrote ell at Western, the proposal for a new doc• tend seminars and work with mentors. most of the plan for the proposed doctorate toral program will go before the state Coun­ Crews said the academy ls aimed at help­ ln education. ell on Higher Education In January, There lt Ing schools adapt to new standards. Most But Pankratz, an associate dean at West- could run Into tough sledding. superintendents are trained to stress obser­ em who also bolds a key Job In the state's "There are statutory questions to be an• vance of a prescribed educational process scbool-refonn plan, said Kentucky badly swered about the ability of a regional uni• rather than achievement of learning out­ needs the training program, even If Western verslty to offer a doctoral program," said comes, be said, and that must change. bas to share II or give It up. · Gary·cox, the council's executive director. The academy "fits very flnnly and snug­ The proposed doctorate would require On the other hand, the council bas begun· ly'' Into Kentucky's scbool-refonn plan, three years of work aimed at turning out to see a need to offer doctoral and profes­ Crews said. While there ls no guarantee that tbe kind of principals and superintendents sional programs outside Lexington and Lou• any Kentucky school districts will be cho­ Kentucky's schools will need to make the tsvllle, Cox said. Both schools offer doctor• sen, "I do belleve that the field ls riper here refonn law succeed, Pankratz said. ates In education. than perhaps lo some other states," be said. In the program's emphasis on such "Their clear preference ls to see that The academy ls sponsored by the Atlanta­ themes as leadership for change, Innovative done cooperatively'' between either U K or based Regional Education Board and NCNB assessment of student pertonnance and ex- U of L and a regional university, be said. Corp., a bank holding company. -The Sunday Incl!!pendent, "1shland, Ky., September 16, 1990

Mount Rushmore flag he said. Th'g ceremony also evoked strong Saturday marked the first tir emotions from the National Guard- " that the Mount Rushmore Flag h awakens patriotism at smen who participated in it. been flown in Kentucky, Valenti said. - "Just looking at the guys, you can The fl_ag was sewn together a1 I(entucky Logging Show see the pride coming_ out of them," dedicated at the Kennedy Library ' said Sgt. Bob Simpsdh of the More- Boston. It is based at the Bost, By KENNETH A. HART head-based Co. E 206th Engineer National Historical Park, and Independent News Writer Battli!ion. stored in a wooden chest aboard ti MOREHEAD - The sounds of cannon fire echoed through the hills of The cannon salute ·was provided U.S.S. Constitution, which is a Rowan County Saturday as one of the largest and most traveled by tieJnbers of the National · chored in Boston Harbor. American flags in the country was unfurled. . . . Guard's HHB 2nd Battalion, 138th Other historic occasions whe1 In what onlookers called a breathtaking display of patno!1sm, _the Field Artillery Unit, _which is based the Mount Rushmore Flag hi Mount Rushmore Flag - measuring 45 feet by 90 feet - was hmsted mto · Le ·; waved include President Bush's i the air by crane as part of the eighth annual Kentucky Loggmg Show. rThexm un°~'. Rushmore Flag _ so auguration, ceremonies markin The flag-raising ceremony, which featured ~ canno~ salute by the 1 the !25th anniversary of the Batt Kentucky National Guard, highlighted Saturdays ~ctiv!tI~s at the_show, named because it w1111 first used in of Gettysburg and the 200th ru which concludes today at Morehead State Umvers1ty s Demckson 1987 lo covet· the Ab!'aham Lincoln niversary of the U.S. Coast Guard. Agricultural Complex. . . sculpture on Mount Rushmore -J!s The flag-raising ceremony helpe The logging show, held in Morehead and m Bowlmg Green on alternate touring the country ai; part of_ 1!1e boost attendance· at the loggin y·ears, is sponsored by the Kentucky Forest Indust~ies Ass,ocrntion U.S. Department of #ie lnter10r's show to an all-time high. LassitE (KFIA), and is designed to showcase the hardwood mdustry s latest "Take Pride in America" program, said about 6,000 people were o technology. , . . said Marc Valentine, the flag's of- hand, making Saturday the large1 About 3,00~ people looked skyward as the flag was rai_sed to /~e strams ficial keeper. •· single day in the show's history. of "My Country 'Tis of Thee," and then stood at attention as The Star­ Frank Lassiter, executive direc- Other highlights Saturday ir Spangled Banner" was played over the pubhc-address system .. eluded the lwnberjack and skidde The current crisis in the Middle East heightened the emotions of the for of the KFIA, said the organiza- competitions, which boasted $4,61 ceremony. Morehead State University President_ C. Ne~on Gr?te aske_d lion began negotiati.Ii,g with the :(n· in prize money between them. the crowd to keep the American troops stationed m Saudi Arabia m their .terior Department a~ut a year ago Robert Nixon's oxen team wa thoughts as the flag was being unveiled. . _ to brmg the flag to Morehead. • also a crowd favorite. Nixon, c Morehead Mayor Larry Breeze said seeing a nalI?nal symbol_ ~ke the "We had heard thali(the flag was Manchester, Ohio, brought two o Mount Rushmore Flag in the midst of the Persian Gulf cr1s1s was going to be going from St. Lo\lis to . the huge animals to the show t inspiring. · !ik th t d ·t ak Boston, and it just so happened that ·i_ demonstrate how logs used to b "In trying times like these, you see something e a , an I m es our show fit right irito their plans," moved from the forest. you even more proud," he said. State Rep. Walter Blevins D-Morehead, said the ceremony was a The Sunday Independent, Ashland, Ky., September 16, 1990- stark reminder that the flag stands for freedom, "bu! ~~en you hear the guns, it reminds you how fragile that freedom really 1s. College reports enrollment increase PIKEVILLE - Pikeville College's fall enrolhnent has increased for the sixth-eonsecutive year, totaling 972 for the semester. Of the 972 students enrolled, compared to 925 for 1989, 891 are enrolled ~ull time (compared to 873 last fall). Six-hundred-four students are returmng upperclassmen and 747 are from Pike and Floyd counties. LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER, LEXINGTON, KY., SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1990 At. issue:· date rape It has become a real danger for college women icoleSnow is·a petite campus rallies on violence against rape. It's just as much a crime, he blonde at the Universi­ women, she received menacing , said, as if you walk down the ty of Pennsylvania phone calls from male students. street with a $10 bill in your hand, N who could have been "It can happen again, Nicole," they and someone steals it. the inspiration for the Beach Boys told her, "You can be raped ballad "Surfer Girl." But instead again." But unlike theft, the emotional scars of acquaintance rape linger, of catching waves on a California Nicole Snow's story is chilling­ beach, she recently testified before torturing the victim for life. Ex­ ly common. According to figures perts say rape victims experience the Senate Judiciary Committee. presented to the committee, one in Her voice cracking, swallowing guil~ nightmares, loss of self-es­ seven college women will be raped teem, insomnia, frequent flash­ tears, she related by the time she graduates, most the tale of the backs, even emotional break­ often by someone she knows, downs. high school boy­ Acquaintance rape victims friend who raped find it especially difficult to report Obviously, there are cases her on a date. the crimes to authorities, Prosecu­ where women falsely accuse men tors and police investigators give of rape. Those women, although in She was 15. the vast minority, should be pun­ She kept her tor­ less credibility to a charge of ment secret for "rape" coming from someone who ished accordingly. years, because knew or who may even have pre­ Date rape is the tragic byprod­ , she feared no one E viously had consensual sexual re­ uct of a dysfunctional society. would believe her __R_B_E __ lations with-the victim. Publicizing the problem helps All-American But as Sen. Joseph Biden solve it by alleviating the victi)n's sweetheart was that sick And points out, anytime someone stigma and by placing the stigma when she finally did speak out at forces sex on someone else, it's where it belongs - on the rapist. It's serious, and may be fruit of 'sexual li_beration' f we are to believe the fig­ tending that anyone who is "psy­ may be the fruit of sexual libera­ ures on "date rape" cited at chologically or physically pres­ tion, We're told in the words of Senate hearings recently, the sured into sexual contact is as George Michael's hit song: "Sex is . college campus has become much a victim of rape as the natural, sex is good, Not every­ I person who is attacked on the body does it, but everybody· a more dangerous place for young women than a New York City street." should," subway, I have no doubt that many Sex experts tell us that women Something fishy is going on, young women are engaging in sex have as strong a sexual drive as What evidence do we have that that is psychologically coerced. men - ignoring scientific evi­ one in seven col- · But there is a big difference be­ dence that testosterone, which pro­ lege women is tween being pressured and being motes sexual arousal in both men raped before she physically overpowered and vio­ and women, is in rather more graduates? Not lated, Those who want to broaden potent supply in males, especially much, at least not the definition of rape to include young males, Is it any wonder much that would , every instance in which a woman that young men have a difficult hold up in court. ~S,"'--''"'1/ is pressured ,into having sex trivi­ time these days believing women And that's the ~-· · alize ·a brutal act of violence. Re­ mean it when they say no? ' point One of the · member what feminists have been leading authori- • • telling us for years - and they're What this problem calls out ties on date rape, CHAVEZ right on this one - that rape is for is not more criminal prosecu­ a professor at not a sexual act, tion but some old-fashioned les­ Cornell University, was quoted in In fa~ at least some of what sons in morality, The Washington Times as con- is being described as "date rape" Creators Syndicate Inc.

LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER, LEXINGTON, KY., The Daily Independent, Ashland, Ky., Saturday, September 15, 1990- MONDAY. SEPTEMBER 17, 1990 Mideast situation Classes to resume Monday at college HAZARD (AP) - Classes will resume Monday al Hazard Commu- nity College, where a fire forced classes to be canceled last week, focus of forum college officials said Friday, A fire in a chemical storage room Sept. 5 forced officials to call off Tuesday at EKU classes until cleanup and testing were completed. Should the United States and· Preliminary results of testing done by Environmental Enterprises Iraq go to war? Inc. (EEi) indicated no abnormal levels of volatile chemicals that A group of faculty members would have escaped from the storage room to cause a health hazard, from Eastern Kentucky University There also had been no structural damage, and Berea College will discuss that EEI and school officials tested air, water and debris for hazardous question Tuesday, The discussion or unhealthy chemicals and monitored air quality in the entire facility will be at 7 p,m. in the Kennamer after the fire. Room of the Powell Building at EKU and is open to the public. The talk is part of the EKU World Affairs Forum Series and is sponsored by the Council on Inter­ national Affairs, a student organi­ zation in EKU's Department of Government. LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER, LEXINGTON, KY., SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1990 I: this UK or Calyersville? Trustee§ write a new chapter to 'Cheating ·0ur Children' cross the commonwealth, tension is build­ has (a) packed the Board of Trustees; (b) dumped a ing. Fingernails are being chewed. Maalox talented and honorable president; and (c) prepared to is.flowing like Ale-8-0ne. Can we really ins.tall ~ crony. UK, y,e are t~ld, is the state's flagship A wait until Tuesday to learn the identity of uruvers1ty - but this could Just as well be Magoffin the next president of the University of Kentucky? County. Will it be Peggy Gordon Elliott, the administrator There is one difference, however .. In counties like whose light has been hidden under the bushel known Magoffin, the pillaging of the school systems can be as Indiana University Northwest for the past quarter­ explained to some degree by poverty. School jobs are century? understandably fought over because hardly any other Or is it possible - we can dream, can't we? - work is available. , that the Board of Trustees will, once again, give the It is less clear why Wilkinson's trustees are nod to acting President Charles Wethington, the playing the same game at UK. All of them are well­ governor's pal? heeled, and Lexington is hardly a poverty zone. While we hold our collective breath, let us note So, while the outcome of Tuesday's presidential that the appointment of Wethington would keep alive announcement may be less than suspenseful, one very a lamentable Kentucky tradition. Some months ago, big mystery remains: we described that tradition in the series, "Cheating What is going on in the minds of Chairman Foster Our Children," which told how local politicians fre­ Ockerman, Vice Chairman William E. Burnett Jr. and quently use local public school systems to employ the rest of the Wilkinson trustees? their friends. Does the well-being of Kentucky and its children In such systems, jobholders from superintendent have any place in their calculations? Does the title on down to the lowliest steam-table attendant are "trustee" not imply a trust that goes beyond politics? hired or sacked with each shift of the political wind. Or is their job simply to fulfill the whims of the Now, consider UK. There, Gov. Wallace Wilkinson governor who appointed them?

LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER, LEXINGTON, KY., SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1990 Predictions about UK that came true The follcwing is excerpted from a taJk search is waiting his or her time. It is a good job, a respected job, and an given by Larry Forgy to the University of The second symbol we will erect is important job for Kentucky. It must be Kentuc/zy Board of Trustees, of which he that after almost 40 years of slow progress held by a person who has come through a then was a member, on Dec. 28, 1989. in extracting the University of Kentucky fore-ordained competitive process that • Forgy made a motion to bar any interim from the political process, she is right was fair and open. That can only occur if UK president from being a candidate for back in it This board well knows the all candidates have had an equal place at the permanent post. political winds in this commonwealth al­ the starting line. If the process is dam­ ways blow briskly; and at times, like aged, then the individual it produces is y motion is quite direct. ft today, they blow at gale force. But there is damaged. And, whoever gets the position ensures an open, competi­ that way will not be able to perform it tive, unbiased, national another certainty about these winds: They change direction abruptly. The prevailing A final symbolism we will create if we search for the next presi­ do not adopt this motion is one that holds dentM of the University of Kentucky. wind of today may be only a memory tomorrow. that this board is calloused toward the If the interim president of our institu­ opinion of its faculty. tion is also a candidate for permanent job, Thus, the decision was wisely made A university is not bricks and mortar. it will be impossible to conduct such a years ago by our predecessors on this It is an aggregation of scholars teaching board, and by the leadership of this state, bright young minds. The young minds search. It is as simple as that that the state university, the flagship insti­ Like it or not, we live in a world of will continue to be here. They are our tution, must stay above the fray to grow children. But the scholars come or stay images we create for ourselves. The loftier and prosper. We must preserve that inde­ our responsibilities, the more important here because they so desire. One of our pendence or do irreparable injury to the greatest problems any university has is to the images. If we do not adopt this motion, institution. several symbolisms will attach to the recruit and retain a qualified faculty. action, whether or not true. The third symbol we will erect if the This board simply must not appear The first will be this: Everyone will interim president is also a candidate for disdainful of its faculty's views. While this think the whole selection process is cut the permanent job is that that individual board holds the ultimate sovereignty of and dried; that the interim president has did not attain the exalted office of presi­ the institution and must make this deci­ the inside track, and no one else need dent on merit alone but also on politics. sion, it must not turn a deaf ear to those apply. The higher education community in The history of this institution proves that who are conoerned. this country is a close-knit fraternity. those who live by that sword die by it All the faculty requests here is an This university has only had nine open, unbiased, competitive, national Word will go out in that fraternity that 1 anyone who h=mes a candidate in our president3 in its almost 150-year history. search. No back room deals. No politics. LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER, LEXINGTON, KY .. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1990 Wilkinson disavows role· in UK presidential search

Herald-Leader staff report have approved resolutions this week condemning the search as Gov. Wallace Wilkinson yester­ day disavowed any involvement in fundamentally flawed. They said the University of Kentucky presi­ Wethington's perceived advantage dential search and said he had no as interim president had driven response to demands by student away candidates. and faculty groups for a new Two of the four finalists - search. University of Akron President Wil­ liam Muse and Kansas State Uni­ "I have no reaction to it. I haven't been involved in it," Wilkin­ versity President Jon Wefald - withdrew. son said at a morning news confer­ ence. "I haven't discussed it with anyone and therefore have no reac­ tion to it or comment about it." Wilkinson and interim Presi­ LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER, LEXINGTON, KY., MONDAY. SEPTEMBER 17. 1990 dent Charles Wethington, both Ca­ sey County natives, have been friends for more than 30 years, since Wethington taught Wilkinson in high school. Either Wethington or Peggy Why are others laughing at UK? Gordon Elliott, chancellor of Indi­ ana University Northwest in Gary, The farce and fraud being to Wethington himself. He has a is expected to be named UK presi­ played out at the University of good record leading the community dent Tuesday. Kentucky over the selection of a college system and he was a final­ Wethington is considered the new president almost certainly has ist when David Roselle was ap­ front-runner, and some observers made this state's flagship institu­ pointed UK's last president. If his attribute his strong trustee support tion of higher education a laugh­ to the governor, who appoints the old friend the governor had stayed . majority of UK trustees. ingstock in the nation's academic out of the selection process, and . A motion is expected to be world. had let that process be conducted : made at Tuesday's board meeting No matter what the presidential honestly, Wethington possibly , to junk the current search and start selection committee and the UK could have been picked this time · a new one in which the interim Board of Trustees do now, it will : president could not be a candidate. around. Or, he could have lost out . Board Chairman Foster Ocker­ be a long time before the institu­ to someone with better academic : man and several trustees have said tion recovers from the raw power and administrative credentials. ; they oppose a new search and want play instigated by Gov. Wallace Evidently, neither Wilkinson · to elect a president Tuesday. Wilkinson to move Charles Weth­ nor Wethington was willing to take : Faculty trustee Carolyn Bratt ington first into the interim presi­ that risk. The result is a fiasco, and : will introduce the motion calling for dency and soon into Maxwell Place : a new search. It was endorsed the selection of the president of UK ; Tuesday by the UK Senate. pennanently. has been turned into a gubernato­ ' Despite the short-term incon­ As the time approaches for the rial political power play with the venience of a new search, Bratt said preordained elevation of Wething­ worst possible consequences to the : it would be far better for UK's long­ ton to the presidency, all but one of reputation of that institution. : term health. the so-called "finalists" have recog­ The presidency of UK - and , The UK Senate, made up main­ nized their part in the farce and : ly of faculty members, and the UK any other state university, for that : Student Government Assooation dropped out. Only Wethington and matter - has become no different a little-known chancellor of the than the secretary of finance, to be Gary campus of Indiana University changed with each new state ad­ remain in contention. Many highly ministration and handed out to the qualified academics didn't bother cronies of whoever is in power in to apply for the UK job because Frankfort. they reportedly were told Wething­ If Wethington has any honor ton has a lock on the trustee votes. left after taking part in this disrep­ Others with superior backgrounds utable mess, he will remove him­ apparently weren't even considered self from consideration and ask by the rigged search committee that a new search be made with all dominated by Wilkinson appoin­ trustees taking part in finding the tees. very best possible individual to The student body newspaper become UK's next president. has called for a boycott of the search process, and last Monday, Otherwise, he undoubtedly will members of the Faculty Senate become president, but he is Wal­ called the process "fundamentally lace Wilkinson's toady today, to­ flawed," a nice way of saying the morrow and, at least, for a time, thing was a set-up from day one. after Wilkinson departs from the They're a little late in making that political scene. That puts him on observation - so obvious all along the level of all those highway con­ - but the faculty also is correct in tractors who are buying state busi­ calling for a renewed search and ness from Wilkinson, hardly an that Wethington step down as in­ impressive position for the head of terim president if he is to remain a the state's flagship university. candidate. - The (Frankfort) To a degree, all of this is unfair State Journal THE COURIER-JOURNAL, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1990_

19th-Omtury American educato111, that' so many fUnctlons have been ,Univei:sities' ~ole observed that "all were touched by dumped Into the category that It 1 the American faith In tomorrow, tn· has lost all meaning. The term now the unquestionable capacity of Is taken to include sitting on com­ of servtng nation Americans to achieve a better mittees, advising student clubs and world." This commitment to practi­ performing department chores. cality was remarkably enhanced by As Important as these functions often overlooked the Land Grant College Act of 1862, are, they should not be confused which gave federal land to eacb with scholarship. As Emerson ar­ BY ERNEST L. BOYER state to support education In the 111>­ gued, action Is an intellectual re­ eral arts and provide training to source for the scholar, and service -The-writer Is president of the Carnegie Foundation !or support the nation's agricultural the· Advancement of Leaming and a senior fellow of the has lost meaning precisely because Woodrow WIison School at Princeton University. and mechanical revolutions. It Is often disconnected from Intel­ Today, however, while 11service" lectual life. Too frequently It means RINCETON, N. J. - Is the modern universi­ Is routinely listed as a priority by not doing scholarship for the com­ ty sufficiently engaged In service· to the na­ many unlversltles, It Is accorded lit• mon good, but merely doing good tion? Are today's scholars too much In the tie attention, even In programs works. -- • PIvory tower, unresponsive to national and where the application of knowledge One of the great strengths-or the world affairs? These questions, never wholly Is most appropriate. university Is its capacity to stand dormant, recently have been raised with renewed Twenty years ago, Christopher back, to engage In objective cri­ lnlenslty. · Jencks and David Rlesman of Har­ tique. Being ''too much of the 'Harvard University President Derek Bok argues in vard pointed out that the affiliation world" can compromise the Integri­ h!s"lmportant new book, Universities and the Future of professional schools wltll. univer­ ty of the acr.demy at Its very core, of-America, that "university leaders have not worked sities bad tended to dampen tl!elr Surely, the university must con­ SUff!dently hard to bring their Institutions to attend_ commitment to service, ·- even tinue to be a center for free Inquiry to our most Important national problems." though the purpose of these schools and reflection. Still, the application · Bok, who ls retiring after 20 years at Harvard's was to bridge theory and practice. or knowledge to contemporary so­ helm, candidly critiques higher education's failure professional schools, according .to cial and civic concerns can and to engage Itself In solving crises beyond the campus, should be a more highly valued notes that "there has been no dearth of criticism Jencks and Rlesman, have, oddly He enough, fostered "a more academic part of seholarly endeavor. What's regarding the vicissitudes of general education, the needed on America's campuses tp­ neglect of-undergraduate teaching, the abuses of In­ and less practical view of what stu­ dents need to know." day ls a recognltlon that ~ appli­ tercollegiate athletics and the yearly surge In col• cation of knowledge Is scholarly lege, tuitions. Yet no such outcry has occurred over The universities' current detach­ ment stems, at least Iii part, from work that nows out of serlqus Inqui­ the lack of strong schools of education and public ry and, In turn, leads to new· knowl- administration or the failure to mount Impressive internal priorities. The conventional view of scholarly excellence tends edge and new insights, · research programs to Increase our understanding of Universities need not -be trans­ poverty, chronic unemployment, homelessness or to be hierarchical, contributing to what some observers have called formed into centers for social serv­ the virulent drug epidemic."_ ice or political action. Their work, Given the nation's historic link between higher the "culture of separation." Tenure and promotion depend more on re­ at the core, Is disciplined Inquiry education and service, It's troubling that this essen­ and critical thoughl Still, in medi­ tial function ls now often overlooked, Ralph Waldo search and publication than the ap­ plication of knowledge, and unless cine, in law, in business and In edu­ Emerson, In his 1837 address to Harvard's Phi Beta cation, for example, learning and Kappa Society, argued that "he who has put forth his the reward system Is changed, It's unlikely the academy will address practice should be better Joined, re­ total strength in fit actions, has the richest return of connecting the academy more vital­ wisdoms." Itself to national needs. Another reason celleges and uni­ ly to the larger society. ln 1906, an editor celebrating the leadership of WIi­ C Los Angela Times Syndle111te-- liam Rainey Harper at the new University of Chicago versities have rejected service Is articulated what he saw as the essential character of the American scholar. Scholarship, he observed, was regarded by the British as "a means and measure of self-development," by Germans as "a means In Itself," but·by Americans as "equipment for service." And historian Frederick Rudolf, In describing ' LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER, LEXINGTON, KY., MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1990 UK service aids in care of aged services for the nearly 13,000 full-time Burdon said this generation university employees and their fam­ spent as much time caring for its Benefit program ilies. parents as it did for its children. The service was founded in 1988 More than 2 million people vol­ helps workers by UK's Sanders-Brown Center on untarily provide care for aged rela­ Aging. IBM and other local companies tives, and at least one-third of those care for parents also buy use of the service from are in the work force, according to Sanders-Brown as part of their em­ statistics compiled by the American By Elizabeth Wade ployee benefits package. Association of Retired Persons in Herald-Leader staff writer It was recently offered to UK Washington. More than 70 percent employees and retirees after a study of the people who care for elderly When Linda Hougland's mother showed that more than 90 percent of parents are women, most of whom became ill at her home in Paducah, UK employees over the age of 40 have are older than 45. Hougland needed answers. But supply­ used sick leave and vacation time to· ing answers from Lexington wasn't One of three families at UK provide care to aged parents. easy. needs elder care assistance - a "I was 300 miles away trying to "One of the objectives of this number that is growing annually, help my mom and trying to convince program is to service employees in Burdon said. her she needed to take care of herself," relation to their elder needs so they "By the end of the decade most saic(-Hougland, administrative staff don't have to use leave time to care for companies will provide the kind of officer for the University of Kentucky elder needs," said Ronald Burdon, elder care services we provide for Counseling and Testing Center. coordinator of UK's Elder Care Consul- their employees," Burdon said. "It's Faced with the possibility of a long tation and Referral Services at the a need employees and their families hospital stay, Hougland's mother was Sanders-Brown center. "Child care have, and, companies are having to was the issue of the '80s. Elder care concerned about who would care for respond." · is the issue of the '90s." her husband, who also had had health UK Elder Care assists employ­ problems. President Bush vetoed a bill this summer that would have required ees in locating, selecting or using Hougland turned to UK's new El­ businesses with 50 or more employ­ services related to the aged, includ­ der Care benefit program for help. UK ees to grant workers up to 12 weeks ing medical services, nursing Elder Care provides unlimited free use a year of unpaid leave to care for a homes, power of attorney, transpor­ of telephone consultation, information, child, an aged parent or spouse. tation services, elder day care, home educational materials and referral delivered meals and subsidized housing. c!Ju/'1 w '.J "They helped me with the ter­ Burdon said counselors expect­ minology (of my mother's illness) so, ed to help more than 300 families I could help Mom by explaining the this year, spending an average of procedure (of getting medical care)," she said. "It helped so much to four hours on _each case. relieve the anxiety." Although Hougland and her sis­ Jean Cox, chairwoman of UK's ter were able to care for their father benefits committee, said the service during their mother's illness, Houg­ would benefit UK employees across land said UK Elder Care continued the state. to check on their situation. "The university is more sensi­ "For this time we were able to tive now to the needs of employees take care of it ourselves," Hougland throughout their lifetime," Cox said. said. "This time certainly raised the "I think it will get a very positive issues, but I feel more able to response. It improves the working handle it." environment to know the university is concerned about this."

LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER, LEXINGTON, KY .. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1990 The snob factor Everyone knows that campuses· seethe with politics By Rollln J. Watson Higher education, like all profes­ president of then-Eastern Kentucky I think that a great injustice is sions, has its own myths and illu­ State College, was appointed UK's being perpetrated upon the most sions that can, at times, become a president in 1941, the board made capable educational leader in this kind of guiding mythology for the clear that it wanted a native Ken­ commonwealth. He can hardly de­ whole enterprise. The most falla­ tuckian. Donovan was no scholar, fend himself against the accusation cious assumption in higher educa­ but at that time the faculty wanted of being part of a political process, tion's prevailing mythology is that someone who would overturn a when, in fact, he is part of a scholarship is completely unrelated board action to abolish the faculty political process, as we all are. to politics and that university presi­ senate, and Donovan did just that dents - in order to truly under­ I am also offended that the stand education - must be pub­ When UK was searching for a attack upon Charles Wething1on lished scholars. Most of us know president the last time, the LeJdng­ did not intensify until a week or so that higher education is one of the ton campus in self-serving fashion ago, shortly before the agreed-upon most political organizations in our met in a rump session to drum up conclusion of the selection of a new society. opposition against Charles Weth­ president at the University of Ken­ ing1on and support for David Ro­ tucky. Kentucky is a political state, but selle. so are all of the others. When I was · Given this travesty of "faculty a student at the University of Mary­ Rarifled air at the flagship moral sanctity," it puzzles me, as land, we endured the disgraces of. one who has served in higher edu­ Spiro Agnew, who was then our Some of those who spoke in cation for 25 years, that when governor. We at that great universi­ opposition to Wething1on said that former Gov. Lamar Alexander was ty also knew that Curly Byrd, a he had served "only'' as chancellor appointed president of the Universi­ longtime president of UM, was a of the community college system, as ty of Tennessee a couple of years political appointee. if one from a community college ago, there was no outcry from the should not be permitted to breathe faculty; clearly, here was a politi­ What the University of Ken­ the same air as a faculty member tucky needs now is a president who from the "flagship campus." cian who was chosen for liis ability is intelligent, who is experienced, to lead a large corporate enterprise, The political point is that the and to get it funded properly. who can work well with the legisla­ LeJdng1on campus wants to have ture, and who understands his role the power to pick someone who will When President Eisenhower's as one that involves all of the do its bidding, forgetting the com­ brother, Milton, then president of "little" components of the organiza­ prehensive,' statewide enterprise Kansas State University, was tion, such as the community col­ that the university is. leges and the extension programs. brought to the prestigious Johns Wethington is tough, smart and Hopkins University in the 1950s, it UK needs Wethington belongs to no one. He may have certainly wasn't because he was a known the governor ·from youth, great scholar. When Derek Bok, the Charles Wething1on is such a but he is not the governor's man, Harvard Law School dean, was person, and those of us in the nor is he anyone else's. He is appointed president of Harvard, few community colleges, who know him strong-willed and cool, but he is scholars said much, because his best, are deeply offended by the decisive, diplomatic and highly administrative and fund-raising po­ small group at "the main campus" skilled; those of us who have tential were recognized. who are trying to block him. worked for him know that he is There are dozens of other in­ Kentucky has remained behind objective, courageous and brilliant. stances when people of proven abil­ other land grant universities be­ Perhaps we should recognize ity who are not scholars have taken cause it has, for the most part, had some of the myths that are being the helm of universities, which, like weak leadership. Where was the used to harm a good man who will it or no~ are large corporations. strong leadership in Kentucky dur­ make a great president of the Uni­ ing the expansion era of the 1960s versity of Kentucky. UK snobs are wrong and 1970s? It existed in people like Bob Martin at Eastern Kentucky If we are to believe the local University; certainly, it was not at The author: RoOin f Watson is press, it is only Kentucky which UK. allows politics to enter the realm of president of the University of Ken­ presidential choice in higher educa­ Looking for villains tucky's Somerset Community Col­ tion. A recent article by a former lege. UK professor reflected the same When the faculty has the power kind of fallacious, pompous snob­ to control a search, the process is bishness that is now being carried "pure." When the Board of Trustees out by the faculty senate at UK. takes control, the process is "taint­ Can only a few faculty determine ed." In politics, everyone on the who will make a good university other side of the fence is a villain. president? When Herman Lee Donovan, LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER, LEXINGTON, KY., SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1990 UK c.hief faces rebuilding task!_ observers say depend on alongside you," said "Any time you have a divided and students within the total sys­ By Chad Carlton A.D. Albright, former president of and unhappy faculty, you've hurt tem. I really believe that." "When this process is over - and Andrew Oppmann Northern Kentucky and Morehead your university image on the na­ on Tuesday or at the end of another Herald•Leader staff writers search - we have to find a way to State universities and past interim tional scene," Sexton said.· Wounc:ls to heal The next president of the Uni­ president at UK. That's because professors and regenerate that energy." versity bf Kentucky will need some others in higher· education have a If the board Tuesday picks Connie Wilson, a social work civil engineering skills and a lot of If faculty remain discontented, strong communications network, Wethington or Elliott, that person professor and a former faculty elbow grease. morale could plummet and UK's top said Albright, who served as execu­ will have to heal wounds that the trustee, said the turbulence would The first tasks of UK's next professors might look for jobs at tive director of the state Council on nine-month selection process has make the presidency "a very tough leader will be polishing the univer­ other universities, Albright said. Higher Education. The connections caused, faculty leaders said. job, psychologically." sity's image, which has been. tar­ Other universities also could take come from conventions, seminars "Many bridges will need to be Although Wethington's candi.' nished by allegations of political advantage of faculty dissatisfaction and the often transient nature of builr ·said JoAnn Rogers, past

MEDIA RELATIONS • MOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY • UPO BOX 1100 • MOREHEAD, KY 40351-1689 • 606-783-2030 THE COURIER-JOURNAL, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1990 Morehead's enrollment sets record MOREHEAD, Ky. - Morehead State University reported yester• day that its fall enrollment is a record 8,510. "Last year we shattered all past enrollment records, and this year we swpassed that milestone," President C. Nelson Grote said. The preliminary figures released yesterday represent a 7 per• cent increase over last fall's enrollment of 7,962. The number of full-time students was 6,529, compared with 6,150 last fall. Morehead's enrollment has risen 49 percent since 1985, when the number of students fell to 5,695. LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER, LEXINGTON, KY .. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1990 Centre College turns to the gul Arabs are never portrayed in Amer­ history to help with our future." Visiting experts lead ican popular media, he said. Usual­ He said Iraq eventually would ly the image is of "oily sheiks or be forced to withdraw from Kuwait daylong effort to gain terrorists.'' and predicted a new sense of unity In visits to 13 of the 22 Arab among gulf states would grow out insight on Arab world countries, he said, he learned that of the crisis. By Andy Mead Arabs are much like people any­ Abdulla was visiting the Uni­ Herald-Leader staff writer where. versity of Utah when Iraq invaded DANVILLE - Most Arabs are "I have found Arabs to be his country. One of his four children not rich, have never seen an oil well hospitable, warm, caring people ... still is in Kuwait. He said he had not heard from her since Aug. and have never ridden a camel. who want their children to grow up 4. Most Arabs are neither masters to believe in God, to get a good nor members of harems. education," he said. Most Arabs do not live in tents. John Ruedy, a historian from "We have more than 100,000 Georgetown University's Center for men and women in Saudi Arabia, Contemporary Arab Studies, talked yet what do we know of Arabs?" about the region's history. · asked Jack G. Shaheen, a professor He said Kuwait was a part of from Southern Illinois University. the Ottoman Empire with historic He was one of a dozen experts ties to Iraq until the Kuwaiti ruling gathered at Centre College yester­ family asked England for protection day for Persian Gulf Education in 1899. Day. Classes were canceled so the "Most Iraqis believe passionate­ school's nearly 900 students could ly that Kuwait is part of Iraq, and I attend what one professor said think Americans must understand reminded him of a 1960s-style that," Ruedy said. "I'm not sure that teach-in. Students from several high the historical claim has validity one schools, retirees and others from the way or another; I'm saying this is community also attended. · the way Iraqis believe, practically Centre. had canceled classes to a man and woman." once before, in May 1970, after National Guard troops killed four The featured speaker was Saif students at Kent State University. Abdulla, chairman of the political That was when U.S. soldiers science department at Kuwait Uni­ were fighting in Vietnam and most versity, who was to talk last night. Americans knew little about the In an interview earlier yester­ .country or its people, Centre Presi­ day, Abdulla said the crisis in the dent Michael Adams said. The region might eventually bring main purpose yesterday, he said, about changes that would help was to "avoid once again acting in Arab countries play a more impor­ ignorance." tant role in the world. Topics included history, reli­ "We need to reform," he said. gion, conflict and the future of the "We need more democracy, more gulf region. A one-hour synopsis education. We are obsessed with will be shown on Kentucky Educa­ history without being able to use tional Television at 6:30 p.m. Satur­ day. Shaheen, the Southern Illinois professor, studies American percep­ tions of Arabs. Humane, heroic

-A service of the Office of ·Media Relations- THE COURIER.JOURNAL, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1990 TAKING A CLOSER LOOK 1,000 crowd Centre College 'teach-in' about gulf crisis By KIRSTEN HAUKEBO, Staff Writer body," he said in an interview. ''We have a constitution which has been adopted by the DANVILLE, Ky. - Faculty members at Cen­ people ... we have separation of powers, we tre College called· it a "teach-in" reminiscent have a judicial system, we have a relatively of the 1960s. free press. n To Saif Abdulla, head o(Kuwait Universi­ But education also needs to be improved, he ty's political science department, it was a said, "to reduce the dependence on beliefs in heartening example of Americans' freedom of supernatural things, on fatalism, and increase speech - something unavailable to Kuwaitis the understanding of science and technol­ under Iraqi ·rule. · ogy." And he called for a permanent multina­ More than 1,000 people, mostly Centre stu­ tional security _arrangement to rein in expan­ dents, crowded into- Newlin Hail at the small sionist countries such as Iraq. _ Central Kentucky college yesterday for Per­ Abdulla said he believes an Iraqi pullout of sian Gulf Education Day, a marathon series of Kuwait can be achieved solely through the lectures and discussions on the past, present continued economic blockade, citing news ac­ and future of the troubled region. counts of Iraqi soldiers slaughtering zoo ani­ An hourlong program of mals for food as a sign of the day's highlights is their desperation. He said scheduled to be shown at he disagrees with other 6:30 p.m. Saturday on speakers who said yester­ Kentucky Educational day that by sending troops Television, said Clarence to the ~gulf. the United Wyatt, executive assistant States risks further alien­ to Centre president Mi­ ating other Arab states. chael Adams. In a morning lecture on The event was conceived the region's history, Fouad to give students an in­ Moughrabi, a political sci­ depth look at t_he crisis ence professor at the Uni­ that began with Iraq's in­ versity of Tennessee-Chat­ vasion of Kuwait Aug. 2. tanooga, warned that !>Y Although he doesn't fully sending troops to the Mid­ accept the comparison to a dle East, the United States teach-in - Persian Gulf "is on a collision course Education Day was organ­ with the Arab states, As ized by faculty, not stu­ soon as • the shooting dents - Adams said his starts, they will forget experiences as a student about Saddam Hussein as 20 years ago sparked the some kind of unsavory idea. STAFF PHOTO BY MICHAEL HAYMAN rogue" and will see only "As a child of the '60s Salf Abdulla of Kuwait Arabs being killed by myself, I remember how American weapons. we criticized our college and our teachers for Abdulla countered in an interview: "That is not telling us about Vietnam. The analogy is exactly what they're trying to put in the minds not totally accurate, but we're committing of Americans. This is a bunch of hl!mbug be­ about 200,000 troops - and they're the same cause it serves Sarldam Hussein." The real age as these students - so I thought they threat to the United States, he said, would be ought to know more about it," he said. if Saddam continued unchecked. And Adams said he wants to guard the A total of 12 guest speakers took part, in­ small liberal-arts college against becoming cluding Joseph McMillan, the Pentagon's isolated by holding events that draw visitors. country director for Saudi Arabia and Yemen, A featured speaker was Abdulla, a Kuwaiti and Jerry Bodlander, Middle East correspon­ who was doing research at the University of dent for Associated Press Radio, who returned Utah in Salt Lake City when his country was to the United States last week. invaded. His 22-year-old Indiana-born daugh­ Centre students were required to attend at ter· remains trapped there; Abdulla lost con­ least two of the five sessions, but officials said tact with her two days after the invasion. the turnout was higher than expected. Abdulla earned his bachelor's, master's and Said sophomore Rhonda Bridges: "(The cri­ doctoral degrees at Indiana University and sis) is something we hear about every day ...• from 1980 to 1987 was cultural counselor at But this is a more in-depth view. It keeps us the Kuwaiti embassy in Washington. He was aware there's more to it than what we hear appointed to his position with Kuwait Univer­ when we tune into the radio." sity in July and now volunteers with the U.S.­ Albert Rossodivita, a student teacher at Jes­ based Citizens for a Free Kuwait. samine County Middle School, said he attend­ In his speech on the Gulfs future, Abdulla ed the lectures to help him compile a current expressed hope for greater democratization of events lesson. His students think Saddam "is the Arab states similar to pre-invasion Kuwait. just an insane guy," he said. "We want them "Kuwait is a good example for democracy to know the history - that they (the Iraqis) in the Middle East, to the surprise of every- have their reasons" for the 'invasion. THE COURIER-JOURNAL TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1990 UK likely to. pick president today; several trustees oppose new search By RICHARD WILSON, Staff Writer "We've gone a year without a "It is my recommendation that (permanent) president, and the uni­ the board go ahead and resolve this LEXINGTON, Ky.. - The University of Kentucky is versity needs to have a president matter. We have two qualified can­ expected to name-a new president today - but first the and get on with its business,'' said didates, we've gone through the board of trustees-will have to reject a resolution calling Huddleston, a former U. S. senator. process, and as far as I'm con­ for reopening· a search· that was pronounced "fatally Former Gov. A B. "Happy'' cerned, we've done it in a correct flawed" by the university. senate. Chandler of Versailles said he ex­ manner," Ockerman said. Despite .the controversy - in. which the faculty, the pects Wethington to be named UK's Two of the search panel's original student senate and the· campus newspaper all called for 10th president today, The university four finalists withdrew from consid­ a renewed effort - several trustees said yesterday that senate's resolution, he predicted, eration. They were Kansas State they oppose reopening the process. will be "virtually unnoticed" by the University President Jon Wefald And it appears very likely that interim President board. and WIiliam Muse, president of the Charles Wethington - considered by many the front­ Chandler also lashed out at critics University of Akron. runner for the position since the search began - will be who claim that Wethington's candi­ If Wethington is named president, chosen over the other finalist; Peggy Gordon Elliott, dacy is being sponsored by Gov. he will be the first UK official to as­ chancellor of Indiana University Northwest in Gary. Wallace Wilkinson, a longtime sume the post since 1956 when ..... If Wethington is named president, he will be the first Wethington acquaintance, Frank G. Dickey became president. UK official since 1956 to be chosen for the post, and the "That's hogwash. I know the gov­ Dickey, an Oklahoma native who first Kentucky native since 1941. ernor fairly well and he's never said grew up in Lexington, was dean· of (Although A D. Kirwan is listed as UK's seventh a word to me," Chandler said. UK's College of Education •a'f the president, the title was given to him retroactively after "I do think (Wilkinson) is for time of his appointment. He ;.was he spent the 1968-69 school year as both interim and him, though." president until 1963. ·: .:_ acting president. Kirwan, a Louisville native, was a not­ Stt!dent trustee Sean Lohman But Wethington would be the first ed historian, and he was also UK's head football coach, said he had not decided whether he Kentucky native to lead UK:.Sll_lce dean of students and dean of the graduate school He would seek trustee consideration of Herman Lee Donovan, Dickey's died in 1971.) · the student senate's resolution that predecessor, who was president Wethington, 54, headed UK's community-college sys­ aiso calls for a new search, If he from mid-1941 until he retired in tem from 1981 until he was named interim president in does not, he said, he would at least 1956. Like Wethington, Donovan December after David Roselle resigned to become presi­ make them aware of the sentiment also had a link to Eastern Kentucky dent ·of the University of Delaware. Wethington, a behind it. Student opinion on a new University, having been president of graduate of Eastern Kentucky University who earned search remains divided, he said. that school from 1928 to 1941, when graduate degrees from UK, was previously director of Trustee Chairman Foster Ocker­ it was Eastern Kentucky State Col­ UK's Maysville Community College. man Sr. said the search committee lege. Elliott, 53, has headed !U's Gary campus since 1984. will meet briefly this morning to Donovan, who died in 1964, was a Previously, she held a variety of faculty and administra­ formalize its report. The panel will Mason County native. Wethington is tive posts there, beginning in 1965. She earned her un­ make no specific recommendation a native of Merrimac in Taylor dergraduate degree at Transylvania College (now Tran- for president, but merely report County, sylvania University) in Lexington both Wethington and Elliott's and graduate degrees from North~ names to the full board, he said, western University and !U. Ockerman said he would recom­ Trustees are expected to consider mend that the board name a new a resolution adopted Sept. 10 by president today. UK's university senate, composed primarily of faculty, to reopen the THE COURIER-JOURNAL, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1990 search. The resolution, which calls the search "fundamentally flawed,'' is expected to be presented by fac­ The ties need not bind ulty trustee Carolyn Bratt, a law professor. F THINGS go as expected, a tions that come to them out of a Several trustees said yesterday motion will be made today to deeply flawed search process. that they oppose reopening the reopen the search for a new Even those who think Charles search, adding that a new president University of Kentucky Wethington has many fine quali­ should be chosen now. I ties and could be a creditable president. It should pass. "I believe that the search has It's not too late to change direc­ president for UK - and we count been fair and it's time to elect a new tion. The train has not pulled into ourselves among them - must see president and move on,'' said trust­ the station. The ride is not over that his chances for real success ee Jerome Stricker of Covington. until the trustees say it is. would be ruined by achieving the Stricker said he believed that sup­ As they chug along today, presidency in this way. His entire porters of the senate resolution - watching people and events pass tenure - and it could be a long and a similar one passed by UK's outside the windows of The Weth­ one, since he is only 54 years old student-government senate - rep­ resented only "a very loud vocal mi- ington Special, we hope they will - would be shadowed by the cir­ nority." . take a few moments to think about cumstances of his selection. "I think a quiet majority is in fa. what it means to be a member of Most people treat the word vor of ending the (search) process the UK board. "trustee" casually, but it implies a and electing a new president," he This is the hard part. This is special responsibility to be a good added. what it really means to be a trustee steward. It's not always easy, as The university senate's resolu­ at the state's most important insti­ when the board must make deci­ tion, adopted 50-25, also withdrew tution. The easy part is sitting on sions about the disposition of sen­ faculty support for the 8-month-old the 50-yard-line at football games, sitive property, responds to athlet­ search and called for Wethington to or waving to friends from mid­ ic scandals or selects a new leader. step down as interim president if he court seats at basketball games. It will not be easy to reverse the continues to be a candidate in a re­ It's fun to be seen among the current search process. However, opened search. state's powerbrokers at the UK it will be worth it - for UK cer­ The resolution's supporters con­ president's pre-game buffets. It's tainly, but also for Mr. Wething­ tended that Wethington's interim gratifying to drop the cocktail con­ ton, if he ultimately is chosen. status led many potential candidates versation trump: a mention of your In the final analysis, the current to forgo the competition because invitation to a quiet dinner at Max­ search did not produce the quality they believed he had an inside track well Place. But those who enjoy of competition for the presidency on the permanent appointment. those perks must face up to the that it has produced in the past - Although he said he would listen less-pleasant, and more important, or that the position deserves. to arguments for reopening the board duties. Throw the switch. Re-route the search, trustee Walter "Dee" Hud­ Perhaps the most significant sin­ train. dleston of Elizabethtown added that gle act of board membership is There'll be a bit of a lurch. The he believed little could be gained by voting to make someone president. engineer may complain. But the a new search. In this instance, members are be­ board, and the university, will be ing asked to act on recommenda- on the right track. • •

LEXINGTQN HERALD-LEADER, LEXINGTON, KY., TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1990 Trustees expected to select Wethington for UK post today years, Faculty leaders in Lexington By Jamie Lucke the last nine years as head of the charged the search process was Herald~Leader education writer 14-campus system. The. board "fundamentally flawed" because A planned motion to start a new search for the named him interim president in the board let Wethington pursue next University of Kentucky president has gained December when David Roselle re­ the permanent job while he was little support among trustees, paving the way today signed after 2 ½ years at UK to interim president, thereby discour­ for the expected selection of Charles Wethington as become president of the University aging outside candidates who sus­ UK's 10th president. of Delaware. pected the process was rigged in Although few trustees would confirm publicly Wethington's lone rival for pres­ Wethington's favor. that they planned to vote for Wethington, several ident is Peggy Gordon Elliott, 53, The board split 10-9 in Decem­ board members and other observers said any other chancellor of Indiana University ber on the issue of whether the outcome was unlikely. Northwest, a 5,000-student college interim president could be a candi­ in Gary. She grew up in Mayfield in date. After a late arrival, former "! would guess it's pretty one-sided," UK engi­ Wes tern Kentucky and graduated Gov. A.B. "Happy" Chandler pro­ neering professor Don Leigh, a former University from Transylvania College in Lex­ vided the margin of victory for Senate president, said yesterday. ington. those who supported allowing the Former Sen. Walter "Dee" Huddleston, a trustee Two other finalists - Universi­ dual roles. from Elizabethtown, said: "! don't know of any ty of Akron President William Since December, Gov. Wallace assurance that a new search would produce any Muse and Kansas State University Wilkinson, a longtime friend of better candidates." President Jon Wefald - withdrew Wethington, has appointed two new Huddleston said he had spoken to other trustees their names from consideration. trustees and reappointed a trustee who agreed "a new search would be futile." Statements by an unidentified who supported Wethington in De­ Wethington, 54, was an administrator in UK's trustee or trustees that Wethington cember. statewide system of community colleges for 23 already had 15 of the 20 trustees' The student trustee, student votes influenced several candidates to drop out, according to two pro­ body President Sean Lohman, said fessors who served on the search last week that he had not decided committee, Carolyn Bratt and Wil­ whether to support the motion for a liam Lyons. new search, although UK's Student Government Association last week The University Senate, made up voted 12-10 to demand a new of Lexington-based faculty and stu­ search . dents, last week voted 50-25 to demand a new search. At the Sen­ "If the purpose of the search ate's urging, most Lexington-based was to tum out two good candi­ faculty, including the three Lexing­ dates, we have two good candi­ ton professors on the search com­ dates, and in that sense the search mittee, boycotted interviews with did its job," Lohman said. "l can Wethington and Elliott last week. understand asking for a new search Bratt, a trustee and UK law based on all the other factors in­ professor, has said she will make a volved, but I'm not sure it would be motion today, calling for a new good for the university." · search in which the interim presi­ dent could not be a candidate. But several trustees - includ­ ing Chairman Faster Ockerman and Vice Chairman William "Bud" Bur­ nett, both of Lexington - have said they opposed starting a new search. MSU Clip sheet A. 1a111pl.lJII of recent artida of interat to Morehead State Univenity MSU A ,,RcH,v. MEDIA RELATIONS • MOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY • UPO BOX 1100 • MOREHEAD, KY 40351-1689 • 606-783-2030 t: -The Daily Independent, Ashland, Ky., Tuesday, September 18, 1990 Fall enrollment at MSU sets record decrease in sophomore enrollment placed on the importance of a col­ By KENNETH A. HART to normal attrition. lege education. Independent News Writer "College isn't for everybody, and Dailey said school offficials are MOREHEAD - Fall enrollment after their freshman year, students looking for the enrollment growth to at Morehead State University has will sometimes decide they want to continue, but not at its present pace. reached an all-time high for the do something else, " he said. "I think soon we'll be seeing more second consecutive year, according The university's freshman class modest growth, in the 2-3 percent to figures released Monday by the registered the largest gain with range," he said. school. 3,240 students, a 13 percent increase However, Dailey said any slow­ Preliminary figures for the fall over last fall's figure of 2,863. down in on-campus growth the semester, which began Aug. 21, However Ranvier said the figure school might experience in the fu­ showed an enrollment of 8,510 stu­ for fres~an enrollment was in­ ture could be offset by the devel­ dents - a 7 percent gain over last flated because it includes new stu­ opment of off-campus centers in fall, when 7,692 students were en­ dents who have transferred to the Ashland and Prestonsburg. rolled. university and have not yet been Morehead State's enrollment has Last fall 's enrollment topped the classified. . increased by 31 percent since fall previous high mark of 7,676 stu­ The junior class grew by 6.2 per­ 1987, and by 49 percent since 1985, dents, set in 1978. cent over last year, while the the when enrollment fell to 5,695 stu­ ·'Last year, we shattered all past senior class registered a 9.1 percent dents. . th enrollment records, and this year, gain. The nwnber of graduate stu­ Gains were also reported m ~ we surpassed that milestone," uni­ dents increased by 3.4 percent, from nwnber of students living in uni­ versity President C. Nelson Grote 1,450 to 1,502. . versity housing. The figure for the said in a prepared statement re­ Ranvier said he felt the univer­ current semester is 4,032, compared leased by the school's Office of sity's record enrollment was an in­ to last fall 's figure of 3,835. Media Relations. dication that the school is meeting More than 60 percent of the full­ The nwnber of full-time students the needs of its eastern Kentucky time students are living in campus - those taking 12 hours or more of service region. "I think a lot of people are taking residence halls, university spokes­ classes - was reported at 6,529, an woman Judith Yancy said. increase of nearly 6 percent over another look at Morehead State and last fall, when there were 6,150 full­ saying, 'Maybe we need to go to time students. school there,'" he said. Enrollment gains were reported Porter Dailey, the school's vice at nearly every class level. Only the president for administration a~d sophomore class registered a slight fiscal services, said he felt the in­ decline with 1,373 students, com­ crease was due in large part to pared to 1,448 last fall. renewed emphasis that has been Morehead State Registrar Gene Ranvier attributed the 7. 5 percent

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-A service of the Office of Media Relations- THE COURIER-JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1990 UK puts outlying tracts of forest land.1 up for bid in effort to resolve conflict::;~ By JAY Bl.ANTON within the main block of the East­ signal to the people of Eastern Ken.: Associated Press ern Kentucky forest. tucky," said Sturgill, a longtime· University officials have been ne­ coal operator in the region. ..; ,;, LEXINGTON, Ky. - In an at­ gotiating with Arch Mineral Corp. However, Arch attorney Blair., tempt to resolve the controversy to trade the outlying forest tracts for Gardner characterized the universl,'. over proposals to mine in Robinson the mineral rights to 105 acres the ty's decision as a possible steir Forest, University of Kentucky offi­ St. Louis-based mining company backward in negotiations. cials were given the go-ahead yes­ leases within the forest's Clemons Gardner said Arch is not likely to terday to place seven outlying ,tracts Fork watershed. Arch has filed a bid on the mineral rights for the: up for bid to mining companies. permit application to strip mine tracts. ~' .. ,.... Toe proposal approved by the land in the watershed, which is a Moreover, Gardner said, even· if· school's board of trustees yesterday center for university research. other companies mine the land, the• would allow the university to sell Toe company so far has declined revenues generated from the mining.. the mineral rights for more than to trade its mineral rights, contend­ probably would not be enough· t~ 1,200 acres. ing that the coal on the outlying purchase Arch's mineral rights in Toe university estimates that 10 tracts is not of sufficient quality and Clemons Fork. Arch has 3.1 million• million to 12 million tons of recover­ that access to the area is difficult. tons of coal worth about $15 mil;; able coal is located .in the outlying But trustee Jim Rose said yester­ lion, Gardner said. .., tracts; UK spokesman Bernie Von­ day that putting the land up for bid Toe state's leading environmental' derheide said some mining compa­ will allow for a trade with Arch or groups have protested Arch's appli­ nies already have made informal for the university to pay Arch out­ cation to mine in the watershed, fil.; queries about mining the property. right for its mineral rights. ing a petition to block mining in.the: Vonderheide said no timetable Trustee WIiliam Sturgill said the forest. A legislative hearing on the'. bas been set for the bidding pro­ proposal also would aid Eastern petition before the Cabinet for Nat-· cess. Kentucky economically by provid' ural Resources will be scheduled for, The move is designed to protect ing jobs and revenues.- -• - - December, UK attorney John Darsie the university's research interests "l think we're sending the proper said. -·

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to the 105 acres. UK votes to seek "This is not in any way to location to Arch's 3.1 million tons imply that we are not continuing inside the main forest our negotiations with Arch," he "We have made it clear to the bids on mining said. "We will continue to move university that we will not surren­ right along in the possibilities of der any properly without being working out some kind of a swap." given property of an equivalent UK attorney John Darsie said economic value," Gardner said. tracts near forest mining the outlying areas - the Laurel Fork, Bear Branch, Beaver If UK proposed paying Arch for By David A. Hall Dam Branch, Fishtrap, Rose its coal with money earned through mining the outlying areas, Gardner Herald•leader staff writer Branch, Little Caney Creek and Quicksand Substation tracts - said, Arch would consider a trade. The University of Kentucky Board of Trustees would also generate jobs in Breath­ But he said Arch would continue to voted yesterday to seek bids to mine 4,000 acres itt, Knott and Perry counties. seek state approval to mine within outside Robinson Forest after failing to reach a the forest. compromise with Arch Mineral Corp. Arch, owned by Ashland Oil Arch wants to strip-mine 105 acres that it leased Inc. and the Hunt family of Dallas, "If we are given a -choice be­ within the main boundaries of the 10,000-acre had said it would begin laying off tween mining our property or to forestry research site in Breathitt and Knott counties. workers in late October, in part receive a cash settlement, our choice UK, however, said mining there would endanger the because of problems gaining state is to mine our property," he said. forest's watershed and offered to swap rights to approval to mine in the forest. The state will consider Arch's outlying 4,000-acre tracts. Blair Gardner, an attorney for request in mid-December. Arch has not agreed to the swap, said UK Arch, said he applauded UK's deci­ President Charles Weth- sion to solicit bids. But he said it ington, and theschool now would not resolve the dispute. wants to determine the val- ue of the outlying tracts. "I regard the decision to lease a UK has estimated there are step backward in resolving our 10 million tons of coal in situation with the university," he the area, worth $200 mil- said. lion. "Since our best deter- Arch has argued the outlying tracts contain 16 million tons of mination of what coal is out there and Arch's best poor-quality coal and only 1.9 mil: determination are not in concert," Wethington said, lion tons comparable in quality and "it appears wise for us to actually go to market to determine what is the value of the coal in these outlying areas." Wethington said the board's action did not signal an end to negotiations with Arch. He said it would indicate whether the Laurel Fork tracts could gener­ ate enough money to compensate Arch for the rights WetiiingtoD"CiiOSen, ending divisive UK search ',~,j /;1 ·1q. ,.. The other finalist for the post was By J.UCHARD WILSON and JIM WHITE ha've the respect of the faculty and Judith Rhoades, the community But others said it would take Peggy Gordon Elliott, 53, chancellor students, aS well as the community Staff Writers of the Indiana University-Northwest college system's trustee, suggested some tinie to overcome the division at large," Bratt said. that the Lexington campus's resolu­ among faculty. caml!IJs in Gary. She noted that some trustees may LEXINGTON Ky. - Easily oveniding a mo­ Gov. Wallace Wilkinson, a long­ tion did not represent the opinion of "I think it's going to take a lot of not · appreciate the faculty's pen­ the community colleges, which have good will on the part of all parties. 1 tion tor a new' search, the University of Ken­ .time friend and fellow Casey Coun­ chant for process. But process, she tucl!Y board of trustees yesterday selected long­ tian, Jater hailed Wethington's ap­ 40 percent of UK's faculty and 60 think there was a lot of very genu­ said, is the heart of what universi­ percent of its students. "We feel the ine concern about the nature of the iime Jli>llege Chancellor Charles T•. Wethington pointment and said the new presi­ ties do. Jr. ti> be the school's 10th president. dent will infuse UK ''with the same process was effective and should be search,'' said political scientist Wil­ "Surely you would· agree that if completed today . . . any delay liam Lyons, a faculty member of the The 17-3 vote, which drew an overflow audi­ energy and enthusiasm" that has we as faculty used a fundamentally mad~ UK's community-college sys­ would be detrimental" to UK, she search committee. "How much of ence to _the_ n:ustees' meeting in_ the Patterson flawed process in our research, the added. 'Ofiice'· Tower, ended a controversial eight­ tem "the finest in the nation." results of that research process that concern will spill over has yet "Dr. Wethington takes the helm Bratt's motion was defeated by a to be seen.'' month process that saw UK faculty and student would be suspect and· unreliable," voice vote. groups call for a new at a :time when the future of the Under the university senate reso­ Bratt- added. That action led Bratt, Betts and search. Univ~rsity of Kentucky is as bright The same _integrity used in re­ lution, Lyons, Bratt and Loys Math­ as it has ever lieen," Wilkinson said. Lohman to cast the only initial votes er, the third faculty member of the It was a major tri­ search and the awarding of grades against Wethington's appointment. Wilkinson's friendship with and. degrees, she said, is no less im­ search panel, withdrew from the umph for Wethington, Wetliington led critics to contend The vote, later made unanimous by last week of the search process. portant when searching for a uni­ acclamation, came after the trustees 54, who was a runner­ tliat Wethington was the front-run­ versity president. hp for the presidency 3½ years ago when the ner for the presidency since the discussed the two finalists in a 50- job went to David P.- Roselle, who left late last "You adopted a flawed process mlnute closed session. search began last January. All five last December. It is . now time for UK presidents year to become president of the University of - Elliott, in a prepared statement, trustee members of the 10-member you to rectify that mistake," Bratt James Patterson, 1869-191 o. Delaware. presidential search panel were later said she was treated fairly by said. She also told board members UK and thanked university officials Henry Stites Barker, 1910- Wethington, UK's interim president since De­ Wilkinson appointees to the UK that they must take their "trustee­ cember 28, received a standing ovation when board. for their hospitality. She also said 1916. ship" very seriously and protect UK she believed UK would "flourish" Frank McVey, 1917-1940. he, his wife, JudY, and their two children were Before yesterday's vote the trust­ from politics. - lntrodu~ at yesterday's board meeting by ees rejected consideration of a reso­ under Wethington's leadership. Herman Lee Donovan, 1941• Bratt's position was supported by Reaction to Wethington's appoint­ 1956. Trustee Chairman Foster Ockerman Sr., a Lex- lution by the mostly-faculty univer­ Ray Betts, the other Lexington cam­ ington ll!WYer, _. sity senate to reopen the search. ment reflected the controversy sur­ Frank Dickey, 1956-1963. pus faculty trustee, who also said rounding the search. "I'm deeply honored by your selection of The resolution, adopted 50-25 last board members had a "sacred John Oswald, 1963-1968. me," Wethington said, "and I feel very humble week, called the search "fundamen­ trust" to assure that the best presi­ The standing-room-only crowd at A. D. Kirwan, 1968-1969. tally flawed." lts supporters con­ the board meeting included numer­ at this· point." dent possible was chosen. Otis Singletary, 1969-1987. tended that Wethjngton's dual !'Dies ous community-college officials He acltnowledged the divisiveness his candi­ Sean Lohman, the student body David Roselle, 1987-1989. dacy had• caused, and said: as interim president and candidate who supported Wethington. president and student trustee, Charles Wethington, 1990. "I want•to ask the faculty and staff and·stu­ for the permanent position dis­ agreed. Lohman said student opin­ "He has tremendous support dents, supporters and non,support- 1 suaded many potential candidates, ion on the issue remained divided across the state and from a lot of ers, all to-keep the best interests of who believed he had an inside track and that the student senate's call for Lexington campus faculty. The fact r , , "' ~ tliis institution at heart and join on the job. a renewed search was not an attack that a group came at the 11th hour with : me, as I will with them, in The resolution, and a similar one and brought up the issue of a adopted 12-10 by the student senate, on either Wethington or Elliott. h~lping move the University of Ken­ But Lohman said a new search flawed search should not diminish tucky forward," called for Wethington to step down the fact that we've just selected an as· interim president if he remained was necessary to "restore the faith :He also pledged to the trustees of the university community in the excellent 10th president," said G. ttiat he would do everything possi­ a candidate in a new search. Edward Hughes, president of Haz­ Faculty Trustee Carolyn Bratt, the hoard of trustees and in our state's ble to deserve their trust. flagship university.'' ard Community College. :"I ~an assure you that today and university senate's presiding officer, UK faculty at Lexington and in told the board that long-term bene­ Only two trustees spoke against tqmorrow and next year and howev­ Bratt's motion. the two-year colleges will unify be­ er long we associate with each oth­ fits 'would outweigh any short-term hind Wethington, said Jim Kerley, probiems a new search might cause. "I think 1 speak for many alumni er, y!)u'll have my complete, abso­ of this university. It is time to move president of Hopkinsville.Communi­ lute time, commitment and energy "A search untainted by either the ty College. "They'll pull together. perce_ption or the reality of it being on, it is time to elect a new presi­ giverf to being the best president dent and to support the new presi­ They have to. The alternative is to that I can be." - a fail accompli will produce an un­ injure UK," he said. tainted: president who can and will dent," said Jerome Stricker of Cov­ inltton. LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER, LEXINGTON, KY .. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1990 Wt=li•ingtun pic:~ed cl~ u:r ~hief last week, Rhoads said. "We would presidential search conducted in The board met yesterday in •d 11 f 'ty . 'J Pres, ent ca S or uni like to have a president named comI?liance with Kentucky'~ open clo~edsessionfor_45minutesbefore today so the university can move meetings law, Ockerman said. vol!!'g 17-3 P!-lbhcly and. then de- Charles Torner ·'· ·tt · t It ·h forward." He said the search committee clanng Wethmgton president by a er umu UQUS searc The candidate interviews last had "worked harmoniously and unanimous ~cclamation. Wethington Jr. week were boycotted by ·most main (was) in full agreement as to proce- Wethington - who left the campus faculty members after the · dures and activity." room during the deliberatio!'s a".d ,Age:54 , . By Jamie Lucke The trustees rejected a faculty­ and student government-endorsed University Senate, made up of Lex- But Bratt disputed suggestions returned after the vote _with his Edticat!oii: St ' Bernard High 'Hereld-Leade_r education writer motion for a new search, also by a ington-based professors and stu-' that press coverage caused the two wife, Judy, and children, Lisa ~oore School, Clemen1sville, 1952. Bre­ Charles Wethington became the, 17-3 vote., , .. dents condemned the process as finalists to withdraw. and Kennan Wethmgton - said he scia · College, 1952-64; Eastern Kentucky University, BA., 1956. University of Kentucky's 10th presi­ Trustee Carolyn Bratt, a· ,law "fundamentally flawed" by a 50-25 "One withdrew before his name did not think the controversy had , dent yesterday, to the applause of a vote. I was revealed in the press," she said. hurt UK's national image. University of Kentucky, M.A., 1962; professor and member of the presi­ Ph.D.,' 1965. large group from UK's community dential search committee, said the Trustees Sean Lohman presi- "The other withdrew after he had "We simply will have every colleges but without the votes ~f the dent of the UK student body, and determined ht could take the glare . opportunity . to move, ahead and Career: Teacher, Liberty High two most qualified finalists - Ak­ School, 1956'57; _San Juan, Calif., three trustees who represent stu­ ron University President William Raymond Betts, a history professor, of tlie spotlight, but not the unfafr' ~evelop a kmd of nal!onal re~?ta- dents and main campus faculty joined Bratt in voting for a new advantage of incumbency bestowed l!on that we always have had .. public schools 1962-64. Muse and Kansas State University Instructor, educational psychology, 'members. President Jon Wefald - withdrew search yesterday. by this board on one of the candi- He endorsed the strategic plan Wethington - a Casey County UK, ·1965-66. because they thought the search Bratt, Lohman and Betts also dates." that Rosel!~ J1elped develop, calling Director, . Maysville' Community native Who. headed .. the community was a "done deal" in Wethington't , were the only trustees who voted Bratt said that Muse's and We- for an emphasis on undergraduate collegiisystem for nine years before College, "1967,71; assistant vice favor. against Wethington. fald's credentials and experience teaching an~ res~rch, ,a m9fe 'di- . president,, UK community college becoming interim president in De­ "We warned you (in December) Lohman said he voted against were superior to Wethington's and ".erse student and ,.facu(ty popul_a- cember - was named president by system, 1971-81. of exactly what would happen," Wethington because Elliott was the Elliott's and that they wanted the !Ion, and statewide ~ce. . ._. _ Vice president UK community col­ a 17-3 vote of the Board of Trust- Bratt told the trustees, urging them choice of the 28 students _ half job. "I want to see us µike graduate ees. lege system, 1981'82; chancellor, not to ignore faculty opinion again. from the main campus, half from Despite, the presence of a few programs. into WestiJ Kentucky. I UK community college system, Afterward, he called for unity. "I know some of you see no the community colleges _ -who stud~t protesters carrying signs want to ~ us take rural healt,h 1982-88; chancellor for the commu­ "To those who may have had a need to pay any heed to the facul­ interviewed the candidates last and an overflowing chamber - programs mto East Kentucky-/cl nity college system and university difference of opinion about me or a ty's opinion, and others of you give week. dozens of students and faculty want this institution to. truly be oile relations,. 1989-90; interim presi­ difference of opinion about the proc­ only polite lip service to the need to Lohman said a new search was members were shut out when the that serves the entite·" co'!'mon- dent, 1989-p"resent ess, I am simply asking them: 'Let's , consider faculty opinion,'' Bratt needed to save UK's reputation and crowd exceeded the 250 people wealth of Kentucky," Wethmgton Family: W~e. Judy Woodrow; two move forward; let's don't look back. I said. to restore faith in the board. 'allowed by the fire marshal - the said. adult children, Lisa Moore and Let's all pull together for the benefit But trustee Judith Rhoads, a But board Chairman Foster· decision yesterday lacked the dra- Kennan Wethington. of this University of Kentucky,' " he , professor at Madisonville Commu­ Ockerman of LexinITTon defended ma of the December meeting when said. nity College and a search committee the process as a bona fide nation- Wethington barely was named in- terim president. Wethington, ·54, one, of two fi- I member, said UK was more than wide search. Ockerman, who was nalists, said he w.ls uniquely quali­ the Lexington campus and medical chairman of the search committee The trustees cast their votes fied to pull the community colleges center. Forty percent of the faculty at the request of faculty leaders, with little comment yesterday. and main campus together and to ' members and 60 percent of the blamed the news media for forcing The decision ended Wething- strengthen UK's statewide base of 63,000 students are in the 14 com­ out finalists through premature ton's nine-month interim presidency support. . munity colleges, she said. publicity. - a term that began amid contro- "I clearly expect that all facets Wethington and the other final­ He said the state's open meet- v~rsy, i,:i pa,:t because of his long and all sectors of the University of ist, Peggy Gordon Elliott, chancellor ings Jaw also hampered the process friendship with Gov. Wallace Wil- Kentucky will join me in clearly of Indiana University Northwest, by preventing the committee from kinson. Many professors blamed making this one great university," were regarded as excellent candi­ meeting personally with candidates Wilkinson's lack of support for he said. dates by the 14 community college until the final stages. Because of a David Roselle's decision to leave professors who interviewed them lawsuit filed by the Herald-Leader UK after 2 ½ years to become in 1986, tfiis was the first university president of the University of Dela­ ware. ,. Se +. 20 1990 MSU ARCHIVEsFile Cop\ MSU Clip Sheet A sampllq of recent articles of interest to Morehead State University

MEDIA RELATIONS • MOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY • UPO BOX 1100 • MOREHEAD, KY 40351-1689 • 606-783-2030 LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER. LEXINGTON, KY., LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADE~. LEXINGTON, KY., THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 20. 1990 THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1990 Morehead K-State chief wants has record tuition system studied By Mark R. Chellgren ple to go to college," Boothe said. Associated Press Boothe warned that a svstem enrollment based entirely on income ·levels FRANKFORT - The new pres­ could hurt students who work or By Barry Reeves ident of Kentucky State University Herald-Leader staff writer have families. "They're being in a said yesterday that the state should sense penalized for their industri­ Morehead State University has consider basing college tuition on a ousness." broken its enrollment records for student's ability to pay. University of Louisville Presi­ the second consecutive year, enroll­ "Accessibility to quality educa­ dent Donald Swain and Boothe said ing 8,510 students this fall, the tional programs is the issue," KSU school announced yesterday. the differences in rates among the President John Wolfe told a commit­ types of institution often caused Enrollment at Morehead has tee of the Council on Higher Educa­ problems. risen 7 percent from the 1989 figure tion that is studying the tuition of 7,962 and 49 percent since fall of policy for public universities. Jefferson Community College, where tuition is less than half what 1985. The council sets tuitions for the it is at U of L, draws students away "A big part of it is that we have eight state universities and the re-established our credentials with community college system based from the senior institution, Swain the public schools of Eastern Ken­ generally on a percentage of per said. tucky," Morehead President C. Nel­ capita income in Kentucky. Differ­ He said a system that charged son Grote said. "One thing about ences are built in for tuition at the all students the same rates for Morehead is that there is a feeling community colleges, where it is the lower and upper division classes, of excitement all around the univer­ lowest; regional universities like regardless of the location, might be sity. Eastern and Western; and the doc­ preferable. "And students like to go where toral institutions of Louisville and Tuition based entirely on the things are happening - renovation the University of Kentucky. number of credit hours taken was of dorms and other building and University presidents who got a also discussed. such." chance to make their pitches to the Full-time students, defined as Morehead had an enrollment of committee yesterday made it clear those taking 12 credit hours or 5 695 in the fall of 1985, including they are not happy with the system. more, pay a flat tuition regardless 4146 full-time students, taking 12 Leon Boothe, president of of their number of classes. Swain h~urs or more. Since then, full-time Northern Kentucky University, said said a student could take six or enrollment has increased 57 per­ he agreed that tuition rates general­ seven classes and pay the same as cent. ly should be kept as low as possible one taking four. The enrollment figures include to encourage people to attend col­ students at Morehead's regional lege, even if it meant more state Boothe said that penalized part­ centers in Ashland, Prestonsburg, funding, time students. West Liberty and Pikeville. More­ "The state is probably getting The council is reviewing tuition head also offers classes at several policy for the school years begin­ high schools and smaller colleges. their investment back far more in the long-term by encouraging pea- ning in 1992. "We are just doing what we should have been doing all along," THE COURIER-JOURNAL, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1990 Grote said. "We're doing a very effective job of marketing the uni­ New look at tuition policy suggested versity and just word of mouth. "The best form of advertising is FRANKFORT, Ky. - The state should explore basing college tuition on a student's ability to pay, John Wolfe, the new president the students. If one is satisfied, then of Kentucky State University, said yesterday. he or she will spread the word and "Accessibility to quality educational programs is the issue," all of their friends will follow." Wolfe told a Council on Higher Education committee that is Grote said Morehead was "rap­ studying the tuition policy for public universities. idly approaching our peak enroll­ The council now sets tuitions for the eight state universities and ment" He said he did not expect the community-college system based generally on a percentage of any more large increases. per capita income in Kentucky.

THE COURIER-JOURNAL, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1990 2 colleges to offer graduate courses LEXINGTON, Ky. - Graduate courses will be offered at Padu­ cah Community College and Owensboro Community College next spring following approval Tuesday by the University of Kentucky board of. trustees. Leonard Peters, acting vice president for Research and Gradu­ ate Studies, said UK had also looked at sites in Hopkinsville and at Western Kentucky University and Murray State University. The program will support cooperation between UK, Murray and WKU on delivery of joint doctoral programs, Peters said.

-A service of the Office of Media Relations- THE COURIER-JOURNAL. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1990 Time to look ahead T WAS clear, looking at the Community College President Ed scene in Lexington yester- Hughes' facile characterization of day, that the University of concerns over the search process I Kentucky remains stuck in as something that "came on the the past. The UK board proved it- 11th hour." As Mr. Hughes knows, self to be insular, political, dated. the process has been under attack . The selection process through for months. which Charles Wethington became Gov. Wilkinson, as usual, UK's new president was an old- missed the point in saying that Mr. fashioned exercise of raw power, Wethington takes the helm at a having little to do with the larger time when UK's future "is as purposes and values of modern bright as it has ever been." That's public higher education. the problem: The future is only as This means, most likely, that bright as it's been. There's no real Kentucky still isn't ready for the prospect for something better. academic big leagues. It means On the other hand, it's a done Kentucky's kids will have to wait a deed. No good end is seived by while longer before they can stay dwelling on how Mr. Wethington at home, pay in- came to be presi- state tuition and dent. If he and the enjoy the kind of Governor private- education that ly cackle together other states - In- about whupping diana and North the pinheads and Carolina, for ex- pundits who op- ample - manage posed them, so be to offer. it. The more im- It means the portant question development of at is what kind of least one. really president he'll be. great public uni- He has an ex- versity for Ken- cellent adminis- tucky youngsters trative record. He will continue to knows much of take second place the university in- to manipulation timately. He and infighting. brings to the job a This is to take STAFF PHOTO broad acquaint- nothing away UK's Wethington ance among the from the quality . state's powerful of teaching, research and public people and institutions. He's skilled service that outstanding individual in the politics of state funding. He professors offer on a number of doesn't have to learn the character state campuses, including UK's. of Kentucky, and the university's However, it does mean that they are impact on it. condemned to work, for the most He is a self-made man who came part, in isolation, without the kind from modest circumstances to win of visionary support they need. a place of great honor and prestige. A university dominated by a Like his friend, the Governor, he board that can airily dismiss the has come a long way from a small legitimate concerns of its faculty place, and it was not an easy thing and students, on a matter of such to do. Of course that kind of strug­ importance as the selection of a gle to achieve can either embitter new president, is in trouble. Such or ennoble. an institution is unlikely to devel- Mr. Wethington may have taken op the critical mass of outstanding a lesson from Gov. Wilkinson scholarship, teaching and service about how to become president of that is necessary for greatness. the University of Kentucky. But if The scene yesterday was depress- he looks to Mr. WIikinson as a ing. The picture of Mr. Wethington model for seiving in high office, as celebrating his selection by hugging opposed ta · winning it, he is long-discredited trustee A B. Chan- doomed to failure. dler is an image out of the past. We think he's a better man than Equally disturbing was Hazard that. We wish him well. THE COURIER-JOURNAL, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1990 LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER, LEXINGTON, KY., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1990 Bellarmine. ranked 10th in Money magazine's top private college buys ---~-~--­ By ROBIN J<;PSTEIN 1,000 colleges and universities be­ Staff Writer cause 44 percent of its students are Wethington's ·hour part-time and 67 percent of them Bellannine College Is ranked 10th are older than 25, said Jersey Gil­ in a Money magazine story on the bert, the story's author. country's top 100 private college The magazine obtained its raw New president's words set an agenda for UK buys, just behind Indiana's Hanover data from Peterson's Guides Inc., a College and just ahead of Yale. leading college guide publisher that fter 25 years of service community colleges to athletics to · "We're not surprised by this arti­ sends annual questionnaires to the at the University of Ken­ agriculture. It's a complex institu­ cle, but we're delighted to read nation's colleges, Gilbert said, tucky, Charles Wething­ tion, one which can truly be great if about it," said Bellannine's new Figuring out which colleges deliv­ ton now reigns as the all of us are working in the same president, Jay McGowan. "I think er "the best education for the A it's important because it lets the na­ buck," according to Gilbert, was de­ institution's 10th president. This is direction . . , . tion in on what I think is Louis­ termined by comparing actual cost his hour - and the hour of his "I may not always agree with · ville's best-kept secret." with the cost that statistical analysis greatest challenge. what some may have said, but I will ,· McGowan said he hopes the mag­ suggests a school would charge Like many Kentuckians, we ·azine's endorsement of Bellannine's based on 17 measures of academic defend to the end their right to have quality and value will attract stu­ perfonnance. have had misgivings about the said it. I assure you that I will look dents from around the country to Among the measures was stu­ process that led to Wethington's forward rather than back. I will . the school of about 1,200 and in­ dent-faculty ratio. Bellarmine's is selection and fears about the lin­ invite every individual who has been .crease appreciation among local 12:l, which is lower than the nation­ gering effec;ts of that process. It's a part of this process and who has business leaders. · al average of about 14.5:1, Gilbert The only other private Kentucky said. · time now to set those concerns and been interested in this process, school among the top 100 is Centre Tuition and fees at Bellarmine to­ fears aside. whatever that person's position may College in Danville, at 57th. tal $6,000, and room and board add There's work to be done. If the have been, to join me in moving the Cooper Union, a New York City $2,310. The national tuition average work is done well, the concerns University of Kentucky ahead. to the school where art, engineering and for both private and public schools 'architecture are the only majors, (baseil ··on out-of-state fees) is and fears will be quickly forgotten. kind of institution we would all like ranked first among private schools $7,500, Gilbert said, In his remarks Tuesday to the to see it become." -in Money's fall issue, It charges Bellannine's tuition could come university's Board of Trustees, Those remarks make an excel­ $300 per student but spends $15,000 under-scrutiny as McGowan plans Wethington outlined the task at on each of them, made possible by for growth and improvement, but lent starting place for the new its $100 million endowment. only as a last resort, he said, Tuition hand: president and for the institution he In the magazine's (anking of pub­ would not go up without a compara­ ,;We want to make this one truly leads. With them, Charles Wething­ , -lie schools based on out-of-state tu­ ble rise in financial aid, he added. great university. In order to do that, ton has outlined both his goals and .. ition, the University of Kentucky is Increasing the endowment and we need to have everybody pulling those of all who value the Universi­ 39th and Indiana University-Bloom­ the enrollment are the first places .,ington is 83rd. he'll look for more revenue, together -from the Lexington ty of Kentucky's unique role in the • :: · The University of Louisville was McGowan said. "In no case would campus to the medical center to the life of this state. Let's get to work. · not included in the study's pool of we lose our competitive advantage." • MSU Clip Sheet A aampUna of recent artida of interat to Morehead State Uni•ersity

MEDIA RELATIONS • MOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY • UPO BOX 1100 • MOREHEAD, KY 40351 -1689 • 606-783-2030 _EX,1\JGTON HERALD-LEADER LEXINGTON KY FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 21 1990 OK f1eldhouseI plans expected soonMSU ARCHIVES

By Mark Maloney State lniversity, which has a near­ stad1um. Herald-Leader staff writer ly full-size artificial-surface footba ll Even though fieldhouse con­ Plans for the L'niversity of Ken­ field. a six-lane running track and struction will nor affect the outdoor tucky's $7 million fieldhouse/indoor field-event areas. A computerized track, UK will have neither its practice facility - to be located system drops nets from the ceiling annual Kentucky Relays nor the next to Commonwealth Stadium - so that more than one team can Southeastern Conference Track and are expected to be fi nished within a practice at the same time. Field Championships next spring. few weeks. Both were scratched earlier this The UK Athletics Association year, when it seemed likely the "Probably the first or second has set aside $3.5 million for the week of October. we'll have all this fieldhouse would displace some of facility. The other $3.5 million must the field-event areas. tuff nailed down," UK Athletics be raised through donations. Director Cvl. ewton said yester­ UK track coach Don Weber said day. Fonner UK football coach Jerry UK would host the SEC outdoor Claiborne heads a UK fund-raising meet in 1992. LSU will host the Newton said the decision was 1991 SEC meet. made "just the other day" to break effort which. Newton said, has not ground adjacent to the east end of reached full speed. "We're going to Meanwhile, Weber said the out­ Commonwealth Stadium. the ide kick it off probably the first of next door track may be redesigned this nearest Cooper Dri\'e. The stadium month," Newton said. year. Construction at the outdoor track could mean that next spring's was one of three sites considered. A construction schedule and The other sites were between the other specifics should be completed State High School Track and Field varsity baseball field and outdoor by then. Meet would have to move. track. and the CK tennis complex. "Back when we first ~tarted "We were hoping that we could this," '.'/ewton said, "what I'd want­ get it in there," Newton said of the ed to have was, when our student baseball-track site. "But it's an aw­ athletes returned (to fall classes), to LEXINGTON HERALD-LEAOtR. LEXINGTON KY have something up: 'This is the fully large building and. when we FRIO.AV SEPTEMBER 21 1990 really got looking at all the con­ future site . . .' and, hopefully, to get cerns you have there and what we ground broken right after the first want out of this facility, it was of the year. Whether or not we can UK~ decided that that would not be the do that, I don't know." appropriate place for it.'' Newton said the fieldhouse The fieldhouse is expected to be would be far enough from Common­ more books ,-imtlar to u year-old facility at Kent wealth to allow for expansion of the

LEXINGTON Hl=GALD-LEAOER _EXINGTON KY on humanities FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 21 1990 Herald-Leader staff report The Cniversity of Kentucky li­ OVC notebook brarv 5vstem launched a campaign ye5terday to raise a S3 million Big play endO\\·ment for books and publica­ \ Morehead ~tare freshman John tions on the humanities. Dziedzic caught his first pas· as a "\\'e want to :See that our librar­ 'collegian in the Eagles· 35-13 \·ic­ ies are exceedingly strong so that tory over Kentucky Stare last week. THE COURIER-JOURNAL. FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 21 , 1990 we can ensure this uni\·er:,itv i!> [t was a 51-yard touchdown pass exceedingly strong," said L" K P·res1 v-om quarterback Chris wartz. UK libraries on endowment drive dent Charles Wethington. Baseball, anyone? LEXINGTON, Ky. - The University of Kentucky libraries have L'K official hope the "Challenl{l for the 90s Campaign" will net Two fonner :\forehead baseball begun a $3 million endowment drive for humanities literature and I publications, the school announced yesterday. S2.25 million needed for a 8750,I:X)O ;,)layers are involved in major­ federal matching grant. It ha, league pennant chases this fall. The libraries plan to use funds fro m a National Endowment for the Humanities Challenge Grant to establish the endowment, said raised Sl.2 million alreadv and Lr­ Willie Blair of the Toronto Blue Paul Willis, director of libraries. The libraries must raise $2.25 has received $250.000 in· matching Jays and Drew Hall of the Montreal million - $3 in donations for each $1 of the $750,000 grant. Li• federal funds. Library officials must Expos are relief pitchers. Toronto brary officials hope to complete the campaign by July 1992. raise the rest by July 1992 to get the took over first place in the Ameri­ full grant. can League East on Wednesday. Athletics Director C.:vl. ~ewto1: :\fontreal is chasing Pittsburgh and is chainnan of the fund-raising the New York Mets in the >lational campaign. Basketball coach Rick League East. Pirino and football coach Bill Cu~ are honorary co-chainnen. Record watch ~forehead's Swartz, who seems "I'm proud to head th,. tean to set a record each week. has his that will help this library 11nprm t sights on another OVC mark when the education students receive a the Eagles visi t Liberty Universirv L'K. " '.\e,\tOn said. Saturday. He is 29 pass attempts CK's library system mclude:­ away from tying Michael Proctor's the main \ 1argarer I. King iacillt\ career standard of 1,158. and l-1 branches acn.::,s the l:kxine ton campus. Last week, Swartz .. et :i -:chool record for career TD pa,,es -A service of the Office of Media Relations- The Daily Independent, Ashland, Ky., Thursday, September 20, 1990------In our vieW----- Charles Wethington· U .K. president .must unite campus To no one's surprise, credentials, who would ,hav_e Charles Wethington Jr. has brought prestige to the ~m­ been named the University of versity and whose selection 'd would have emphasized Kentucky's 10th pres1 ent. U.K.'s commitment to high Now that the decision has been made, there is little academic standards. Roselle doubt about his first chal- was such a person. lenge: To unite a campus At the same time, we rec­ community sharply divided ognize that Wethington over his selection. brings certain strengths !o the presidency. The dramatic In achieving that goal, we growth the 14 community commend the concialatory colleges experienced under response of faculty ~nd stu- Wethingtort's guidance has dent leaders followmg the won the new president many U.K. board of trustees' 17-3 avid supporters throughout vote in favor of Wethington, the state, who view his ap­ the former head of U.K.'s pointment as great news for community college system the community colleges. and interim president since Wethington has been one of the departure of David Rose- the most active lobbyists for Ile last December. Both the the University of Kentucky, University Senate and the and that has won him the U.K. Student Government friendship of many legis­ Association had passed reso- lators. His political skills a~d lutions calling the presiden- connections are a plus m tial selection process flawed Frankfort.. because the interim president Wethington is a native was a candidate for the job. Kentuckian, who received his Attempts to convince the master's and doctorate de­ trustees to begin a new se- grees at U.K. and who has lection process got nowhere. sp·ent his entire career at the Student trustee Sean Loh- university. His dedication to man and faculty trustees the university has never been Raymond Betts and Carolynn questioned. He will bring Bratt, who cast the three stability to U.K.'s pres­ dissenting votes, all said af- idency. That's important i_n ter the meeting they were the wake of the turmoil willing to work with the new caused by the investigation of president. "I think everyone U.K.'s basketball program will realize that the success and the rapid departure of of Charles Wethington's Roselle. presidency will be the sue- Wethington likely will en­ cess of the University of joy a long tenure ·~s U.K.'s Kentucky," said Betts. president. Our hope 1s that he We share some of the con- will put to rest quickly the cerns of faculty and student doubts of his detractors by leaders over Wethington's emphasizing the high ac­ selection. A strong argument ademic standards Ken­ can be made that the trustees tucky's leading researc~ should have selected a pres- university needs to make it ident with strong academic among the nation's best. • 199 r LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER, LEXINGTON, KY .. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 0

During his 44 years as a teacher bumper. Only he could coax the car Wethington's father dies, and principal, Mr. Wethington into motion. taught hundreds of children of all ages. He worked in numerous one­ He lived on a small farm with day after son's triumph room schools scattered across the his son Steve and visited his friends By Jamie Lucke Casey County countryside and at at a Clementsville cafe called the Herald-Leader education writer Liberty High School, friend Clifford Company Store, daily except when it rained or snowed. He was last Charles Turner Wethington Sr., a retired educator Clements said. "He was an excellent teacher there on Saturday, and as usual and farmer died Wednesday, the day after his oldest worshipped Sunday at St. Bernard son and ~amesake became the University of Ken­ and an excellent storyteller," Rep. Raymond Overstreet of Liberty Catholic Church. tucky's 10th president. said. "He had more stories than Mr. Charlie, as he was called by his friends in Casey During interviews for UK presi­ Tom T. Hall." County, was remembered yesterday as a learned, yet dent last week, Wethington told simple, man. He wore overalls and seldom was seen He and his late wife, Effie students that his father had in­ without a book, magazine or newspaper in hand. Hendrickson Wethington, also a spired him with his patience and teacher, were lifelong students. He died Wednesday at Ephraim McDowell Regional "stick-to-it-ness." They upgraded their academic cre­ Medical Center in Danville after a short bout with dentials as the state increased re­ After being taken to the Dan­ pneumonia and a two-day hospitalization. quirements for teachers. ville hospital on Tuesday, Mr. He was 88. Wethington learned that his son Yesterday, the rural co1m:1unity of Clem~~ville He studied at Berea College, St. Mary's College, Eastern Kentucky had been named UK president, said mourned the passing of one of its most colorful otizens, Williams and Clements. even as it celebrated the triumph of a favorite son. University and Campbellsville Col­ lege, where he earned a bachelor's Services will be at 11 a.m. today "He influenced this community so much with his degree around 1960, about seven at St. Bernard Catholic Church in philosophy of life, which was 'Make something of years before retiring. yourself, regardless,' " said Betty Williams, a longtime Clementsville with visitation from 8 friend of Mr. Wethington. Mr. Wethington, a Casey Coun­ to 10:30 a.m. today at Bartle Funer­ al Home in Liberty. "He was a great historian who could tell us about ty native, was an outstanding base­ the days of long ago. He had such an impact on ball player and an avid fan, espe­ cially of the Cincinnati Reds, whose Survivors include five sons peoples' lives." games he sometimes attended with Charles T. Wethington Jr. of Lex'. his sons. mgton, Ben Wethington of George­ town, Ind., Paul Wethington of In later years, he drove a bat­ Louisville, Steve Wethington and tered Ford with a grader blade for a Vincent Wethington, both of Elk­ horn; two daughters, Barbara More­ field of Independence, Mo., and Alice Buckley of Frankfort; two brothers; 10 grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren. THE COURIER.JQl,JfiNAL, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1990 ~ew UK president's father dies Ff~in Staff and Special Dispatches Chapel schools. Wethington was a graduate of :LIBER1Y, Ky. - Charles T. Weth­ Campbellsville College and had at­ ~on Sr., whose son on Tuesday tended Eastern Kentucky Universi­ was· named president of the Univer­ ty, and Berea and St. Mary colleges. sity of Kentucky, died Wednesday at Survivors besides Charles T. Ep!)raim McDowell Regional Medi­ Wethington Jr. of Lexington include cal· Center in Danville. four other sons, Ben Wethington of . Charles T. Wethington Sr,, 88, Georgetown, Ind., Paul Wethington lived on Dry Creek Road in Elk­ of Louisville, and Steve and Vincent horn. He died of an infection in the Wethington, both of Elkhorn; two blood, according to 'a hospital daughters, Barbara Morefield of In­ spol

MEDIA RELATIONS • MOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY • UPO BOX 1100 • MOREHEAD, KY 40351 -1 689 • 606-783-2030 _EXINGTON HERALD-LEADER. LEXINGTON KY SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 22 1990 PCHIVf-.:> Morehead State OKs development plan THE COURIER-JOURNAL, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1990 MOREHEAD - Morehead Stare University's Board of Regents approved a campus master plan yesterday that is designed to guide rhe school's development well into the next century. Morehead State officials The plan, developed with help from Burgess and Niple Ltd .. is aimed at leading the campus toward planned growth rather than OK plan for campus growt~ piecemeal development, school officials said. Morehead State's plan addresses pedestrian and vehicular tr~ffic Associated Press property together and to clearly d 1 1 patterns, parking, potential building sites for classrooms and '''1c :-., fine its boundaries. For systemat student housing and other land-use matters. MOREHEAD, Ky. - Morehead growth, the school will need to a President C. elson Grote said the long-range plan would l.>t State University's board of regents quire land adjacent to the campu revised when necessary. He said the plan would not drive the approved a campus master plan Fri­ he said. university's decisions, but would assist it in making decisions. day that is designed to guide the Grote said that other public ur ''The plan doesn't say we have to have 10.000 students, ~ut tells school's development well into the versities got money to buy lai us what we need to do to serve 10,000 students,'' Grote said. next century. from the 1990 General Assemb Jack Austin, chief planner for Burgess and Niple. told the r~ge~ts The plan, developed with assis­ and that Morehead State will mal of a need to tie the campus property together and to clearly define its tance from the firm of Burgess and such a request in its 1992-}g, Niple Ltd., is aimed at leading the boundaries. budget planning. campus toward "planned growth," He said meetings were held wi rather than "piecemeal" develop­ owners of property neighboring tl ·The Daily Independent, Ashland, Ky., ment, school officials said. university to explain the implic It will assist the university in ad­ Saturday, September 22, tions of the master plan and to re2 1990 dressing such topics as pedestrian sure them that its implementatic and vehicular traffic patterns, park­ will be gradual. ing, potential building sites for classrooms and offices, student In other action, the regents a MSU regents adopt housing and other land-use matters. proved several policies that rai School President C. Nelson Grote admission requirements and ac said the long-range plan would be demic expectations once studer 3tricter admission rules revised and updated when neces­ are enrolled. sary. He sai_d it would not drive the Under the new standards, the ur By KENNETH A. HART university's decisions - just help it versity will require a combination Independent News Writer make them. higher grades and test scores f MOREHEAD - The Morehead "The plan doesn't say we have to unconditional admission. The po :it.ate University Board of Regents have 10,000 students, but tells us cies also set a minimum ACT sco 1pproved a set of new, stricter ad­ what we need to do to serve 10,000 for provisional acceptance. missions standards Friday for in­ students," Grote said. The new policies also call for st coming students and approved a Jack Austin, chief planner for dents whq are accepted with belo• master plan outlining the university's Burgess and Niple, told the regents average AC1' scores to take reme< long-tenn goals. there is a need to tie the campus al or developmental courses. Under the new admission guide- lines, students . must have a high "The committee decided that we school grade-pomt average of at least ted to do both of these things " 1.8 on a 4.0 scale, plus score a wan . ' minimwn of 12 on the American she sa~d. . guidelines been in effect at the be- th College Test before they can enroll. Ber~~~ _year, _befo~e d e~ ginning ~f the current semester, Objectives outlined in the plan 1 The policy will go into effect next canust caore at i'easmct omrngo; ~e~. Rogers said. . . elude construction of four new clai f ll kin h · · m s 300 Board Chamnan Bill Seaton of room and office buildings, constn a , mar g t e f1rst tune that stitutional fonnula that is used to Ashl d ·ct th stand ds will tion of a housing row for fraterniti Morehead St.ate has had a minimwn determine eligibility. an sai . ~ new ar . academic standard for enrollment Th f u1 t d t' hi h help school offlc1als con~entrate their and sororities, expansion of parki . ' e onn a uses a s u en s g efforts on students with the best space on campus and renovation said Judy Rogers, the school's dean school grade-point average, which is h f f 11 University Boulevard, the schooo of undergraduate programs. multipiled bv 100 and ACT score c ~Icthinke~ 0 ~t?mbesp1etmthag cto ege.t st ·ct c · - ' · ' 1 s . we no wa e main thoroughfare, to reduce at Mor e hea d St.at e Pres, ent . ::-lei• hi h . wt· lied b •t • limi. ed h II h son Grote said the new standards are w c 1s m 1p Y10 , as_cn ei:a. th~ t resources we ave, e traffic. designed to help weed out students For example, _a student with a high said. Jack Austin, chief planner w with little chance of succeeding m school grade-pomt average of 3.0 and However ,_ Faculty Regent Alban Burgess and Niple, said the plan " college, plus help the university tar• an ACT score of 20 would score 500 on Wheeler said he was concerned that "a catalyst for thinking." He s. there was no set timetable for get those who need academic coun- the fonnula. . the policy would create a dis- seling before they can enter school. Students with forn:ula scor~ of . t be f . . al completion. ··I really do think it's a move in the between_~ and 380 will be actn:utted ~ire:~na e nwn r o provis10n "Whether it takes five years or right direction," he said. as p~oviswnal students_and will _be "That's good, because these stu• years is immaterial," he said. Rogers said the new guidelines reqwred to take special remedial dents need the help, but it's also bad, Grote said progress on the pl were formulated by the school's Un· classes _that do not _count towards because they need more resources," would hinge upon the amount dergrduate Curriculum Review gradua~on, Rogers said. he said. "We need to be careful in funding the university receives ea Committee in response to a recom· Previously, students -~ho scored how we allocate funds to that pr

-A service of the Office of Media Relations- VUl'ILJ'""'' • ,_,._, • -•··-- His insistence that UK cooperate with of the South" than as a cainpus where RICHARD Another question is whether his back•: the 'NCM in getting to the bottom of a ground will .deprive him of the knowledge: scholarship flourished. WILSON messy basketball scandal eroded his sup­ It's now up Through a careful selection process, the and vision a president needs to lead ani;l­ LEXINGTON port. Friction with Gov. Wallace Wilkinson inspire. He'll need those qualities because: board chose Oswald, a University of Cali­ BUREAU CHIEF was no secret, and became an obvious fac­ to ·:-W:ethingtort fornia vice president. He was promised - tor in Wilkinson's replacement of some he'll be setting the tone for a new genera-: and given - the resources to reshape the pro-Roselle trustees. Within 2½ years, Ro: tion of faculty members. school. And, within months after his arri­ selle resigned to become president of the Can he overcome a widespread belief· to ·.prove he's val, a new optimism prevailed. University of-Delaware. that he won the presidency through a' New faculty members were attracted fully selected. Singletary ultimately Wethington's supporters argue that he flawed search process, instead of fairly? from some of the nation's best graduate brought stability to the university. His man­ knows the university, the state and the cor­ Will his friendship with Wilkinson leave th¢ right·man schools and the statewide community col­ agement style and behind-the-scenes politi­ ridors of power in Frankfort well. They're him tainted as a political appointee? lege system was started. Serious research cal maneuvering also served UK well as it right, and those qualities will serve him Will the ever-growing community col• n 'i'etrospect, the University of Ken­ became mandatory, evaluation of faculty continued to grow and improve. well. But whether he has equally important leges, now that their leader is president, tucky board of trustees has shown was strengthened, and the school began to But much of his tenure was beset by strengths in other areas may tell the •kind expect more attention and support from an amazing ability to pick the right attract the bountiful federal support that problems stemming from increased compe­ of president he will be. Lexington than he can legitimately give president at the right time. was necessary to separate comprehensive tition for state dollars, unexpected budget Except for his 8½-month stint as interim without furthering the factionalism that ex­ I universities from schools whose major pur­ cuts and efforts to strip away the communi• ists between the two-year schools and the But whether the board's appointment president, Wethington's entire career has main campus? last week of ·Charles Wethington as UK's pose was limited to teaching. ty colleges. been in UK's community college system. 10th president is consistent with that past It was the beginning of the modern UK. By the time Singletary retired in 1987, By contrast, Oswald, Singletary and Roselle Will the political skills he undoubtedly remains to be seen. But after five years, the change gave way UK was again ready for a president with were not only accomplished scholars and possesses enable him to keep a supportiv~ youthful vigor to lead it out of malaise. administrators, they also had labored on board of tnistees intact. or will appointe'!!s: Each ;of the university's presidents has to tighter financial times, student activism of a future governor undercut him? :'. ; had a different challenge, and Wethington and a new administration in Frankfort that That man was David P. Roselle, then 47, several different campuses and had circu­ is no exception. was skeptical·of both Oswald and UK. Os­ provost of Virginia Polytechnic Institute lated in a variety of educational, govern­ The appointment of a native son as tm's; wald resigned and returned to California. and- State University. Roselle came to Lex­ mental and corporate arenas. president is a proud moment for most Ken.-, Nearly 30 years ago, when John W. Os­ tuckians. : • ~ wald came to Lexington to become the Uni• A. D. Kirwan served as interim president ington, inspired the faculty, alumni and , Only time will tell if Wethington's singu­ versity of Kentucky's sixth president, the for the 1968-69 academic year. others and convinced them that together lar ties to Kentucky will enable him to de­ It is now up to Dr. Wethington to prove school'§ respectability 'was questionable. His successor, Otis Singletary, a Univer­ the school could ascend to greater heights. velop the same connections and respect that he, too, is the right man at the right UK wa.rlmown more as "the Country Club sity of Texas vice chancellor, was also care• But it wasn't to be. necessary to push UK's interests. time.

n-iE COURIER-JOURNAL, SATURDAY, SEPTE~BER _22, ~90 1 1 U ofL panels

named to find In his letter Swain wrote "there "We are stretched too thin and The committees have been asked The third committee will be com­ likely to erode our quality unless we to suggest changes in the universi­ posed of deans and vice presidents. are no preconceived notions about ways to save can break out of our current bind," ty's structure, organization and fo. All three committees are "to think the outcome." Swain wrote committee members in cus, and to come up with specific . Swain wants the committees to of ways to improve quality while "think the unthinkable," Fitzpatrick $5 million a letter mailed yesterday. • programs and services U of L could also reducing costs," Swain wrote. said. "There no sacred cows, U of L's budget for the 1990-91 stop offering, Swain wrote. 15 are The committees have a Nov. but there is no hit list." . By ROBIN EPSTEIN I fiscal year is $274.3 million. Business Professor Alan Attaway, deadline for forwarding suggestions Staff Writer The $5 million in savings Swain chairman of one of the 12-member to another committee chaired by An article in Thursday's edition of asked the committees to l'ind is committees, said, "We can't do ev­ Provost Wallace Mann, whose mem­ the student newspaper, The Louis­ .The Unlversi!Y of Louisville has needed for 8 percent faculty and erything unless we get a lot more bers have not been finalized. Its rec­ ville Cardinal, said rumors that the embarked on a planning process staff salary increases in 1991-92, money from the state. And we know ommendations will go to Swain by College of Arts and Sciences' may be that would yield at least $5 million U of L spokeswoman Denise 'Fitzpa­ that's not going to happen." late January, said Larry Mehlbauer, dissolved are circulating. • In savings over the next three years trick said. They receiyed a 7 percent Swain picked the members of two director of planning and budget. But Mehlbauer, Howart6 and and muld dramatically alter the increase this year, and Swain has of the three committees after solicit­ All sectors of the university com­ Mann said yesterday that -~uch a shape of the entire university. "all but promised" them 15 percent ing names of people who would be munity will be asked• lo give. feed­ dissolution is highly unlikely. The University President Donald over the biennium, she said. "open-minded, creative .•. and not back to the president's draft deci­ fact that most of the courses in Swain has appointed faculty, staff, Without a reallocation of funds, be alarmed at the prospect of sions, and Swain will take his final U of L's general education require­ students and administrators to three salary increases would leave no change at the university" from the decisions to the board of trustees ment are taught in the College of i:lannlng com'!lltt!)eS and ~hari:ed money for anything else, said geog­ faculty and staff senates, the stu­ for approval in March or April, Arts and Science is a testament to them wfth rethinking U of L's pnor­ raphy professor David Howarth, dent government association, the Mehlbauer said. the college's importance, Mann lUes for the 1990s, how it 'spends who chairs one of the committees. provost, vice presidents and deans. said. Mehlbauer said the r~quire­ r.;nnev and how it onerates. ment is a top priority at U of L. THE COURIER.JOURNAL, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1990 Murray's new skipper Admiral's image is still developing but people like what they see

By FRAN ELLERS ground to catch the attention of a pass• Staff Writer er-by. There were children laughing In foun­ MURRAY, Ky. - A photography ex­ tain sprays, stoic KGB officials standing hibit at Murray State University durii:ig before fading historic landmarks, story­ the summer focused on the Soviet book winter scenes and lots of churches, Union but visitors ·were searching the including the only Baptist ~hurch in image; for:something else - the ma!1 Moscow, behind the camera, new Murray Pres1• "Surprising sensitivity •.. for a mill• der.t Ranah! J. Kurth. tary man," one visitor wrote in the gal­ In one picture a peasant woman held lery log. "A good omen." up hefty heads 'of cabbage ~ai picked "The choice of some of the mat colors up the lines in her round, gnnrung face. Elsewhere, war veteran with stumps a Perhaps most critically, he must for legs struggled from his seat on the also find the middle ground be­ tween calming a university COllll!l!l­ And quietly, Kurth has begun to nity that has seen two controversial draw a line in the dirt. presidents - Kala Stroup and'.'Con­ greatly disturbed me," cautioned The proposed strategic plan had stantine Currls - depart in the last another. emphasized making Murray's un• seven years, and leading it forward. "Very enjoyable!" exclaimed a dergraduate program the best in the With those actions will come the third;·· "What's next?" · state; he gave it a national focus, signs-that many in the university That question still hangs in the partly to challenge the school and community are seeking to see if the air as Kurth, who was U. S. military partly to eliminate the competitive regents made the right choice in attache In the Soviet Union and tone with other state universities. In Kurth. president of the Naval War College the last several years the university Kuith's one stumbling block so before he retired in July as a rear has crafted a slate of programs for far has come in the public domain: admiral, wades into. the ordered engineering assistants; Kurth in­ In what most describe as opening chaos of a state university after cluded legislators' suggestions that jitters, he recently complained to spending 36 years in the military. it look into creating a college for en­ the public radio station at Murray . Making slow, deliberate moves - gineers. State that he hadn't known a speech and few ripples so far - he has "Risk has been part of my past," was being taped for broadcast, and spent his first six weeks at Murray he told faculty and staff in opening he asked to be notified in the future. boning up on university operations, remarks. "There's no reason not to In an interview, he said he simply getting to know the campus con­ have it part of my future. My view Is wants to know who Is audience is - stituencies and gradually revealing this: There's absolutely no alterna­ he has no problem witli being re­ an agenda for the university. tive to hard work and acceptance of corded. But public universities are "Some might call it cautious­ challenge in the pursuit of intellec­ fish bowls - a switch from the mill· ness," said Farouk Umar, president tual growth." That means, in serv­ tary - and he'll soon learn that, ob• of the faculty senate. But that's only ing students, "to have reading lists servers say. temporary, Umar .said. "We're not which are more than they had ever The board of regents has a lot of standing still - by any stretch of hoped to be given, to have more pa­ confidence that Kurth will build on the Imagination." pers to write than they had ever what's already begun, Chairman Kurth has pored over a newly hoped to write - that they have to Kerry Harvey said recently. drafted "strategic plan" for Murray, articulate, orally, their ideas In ways "The institution has an enormous suggesting changes, and he has which cause sweaty palms, and that amount of positive momentum," studied the school's budget and per­ they write more examinations than Harvey said, referring to issues that sonnel history. they're comfortable with." were resolved in the last year, such Instead of making rounds of the Those with early impressions of as faculty and staff raises, funding campus and community "like a Kurth describe him as intelligent, for a new arena, an easing of ten­ ward politician," he has slipped into candid, diplomatic and interesting sions on campus. "That's an impor­ a chair at a table of students, met - reflections of his life as a military tant piece of all this ... A great deal with Murray's midlevel managers, . diplomat and Harvard scholar. of groundwork has been done to , and taken questions at faculty and But he has not yet been called make sure that this administration staff forums. He has caucused with upon to make critical· decisions or to succeeds." Western Kentucky legislators, at­ go head to head with some of the Kurth pledged to his faculty and tended community events, and lec­ bread-and-butter Issues that Murray staff "the strongest leadership that I tured on his exhibit. will face this year: recruiting can muster, accompanied by· the Internally, he's demonstrated that against other. area universities that strongest emphasis on collegfality' "he knows what Issues to focus on have become more aggressive, rais­ and consensus that you would tli(ilk - and which ones are not essen­ ing money to equip the new indus­ possible." · . '" tial," said Provost Jim Booth, who try and technology building, picking "I respect you," he -said, "and•-1-• was acting president until Kurth ar­ a solid vice president for finance want to plumb your minds for what;'. rived. "He delegates extremely well and public relations, and matching ever help I can get, because that's" - and.knows what to delegate." Murray's budget with its goals. the road to success for me." · .. · MSU Clip Sheet ~ ~ A aampllq of nunt artida of lnterat to Morehead State Univenity ~0 MEDIA RELATIONS • MOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY • UPO BOX 1100 • MOREHEAD, KY 40351-1689 • 606-783-2030 ~ . ,✓-::-- - z. ~ . ~qe IDailt1 ~n~epenb~nt ~- , f'?.n.~ay, Sept~n,ber 2~ ~ 1990-: of knowledge. Students· who !) barely meet the university_'s · · ' · In ~~r vieW------, new· minimum standards will . have to put in a lot of ext~a 7 hours of study to pass their college classes._ _ . ·, -words ,o~ piaise ··: :: / -Universities must be honest with you·ng people. They are doing marginal students a · Higher stai1dards ~ ·: ~ · .c'fhe ~university's : new ·.ad- favor by - telling them they ';u. ., ' t..: l..;1!.,, ,.ll !.),.,: · • . ' mission standards are, to be are ·•-riot T ·ready ..for -college ! Cheers for ·the Morehead . sure, minimal. To be admit- . ' work before they waste their .. 1 State University 'Board of ' ted to the university, a stu- . money on tuition. f ., • ol f I ., 1 \ Regents for ,establishing a 1~ dent -must have -an ·--overall Kentucky has a shortage ~f minimum requirement for --1 high school ·grade point av- college-educated adults and 1t · enrollment for the first time - ~ erage -or 11.8 on a 4.0 scale, , needs to encourage more , , in its history. !he c_hange. will ~• plus a . ~!nimu~ score of 12 high school seniors .to con- ; , .~nagl~J.h~ ~~11vez:s1ty; to con- ! on -~the American College ' tinue their educations. ,How- • centrate -more of - its re- Test A 12 ·on the ACT is· an -' ever admitting students _v~l]9. _ ? _s~~rc~s 'on student~ ,\\f hO are t extrkmely _lo w -score--requir- ... ' . .·- . . ' ! ~~t_]!~~Ir _t_~~-~ s_u~c~~_faj. . ! i~g only a minim~~J!lO~nt . . can't.do the work is n~ way ~o i'

LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER. LEXINGTON. KY., TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER 25, 1990 1 achieve that goal. ..._' --- ·· -·· - .• _ _ _ •_t... :.__:__ - -·" O}(f rijt~in]fi8S ' 1_66S8n' rUT8s,l VOte to iet hol.lses serve beer~ ~ • ,I By David A. Hall ~ote went against a recent trend toward Herald-Leader staff writer . stricter controls on alcohol at fraternity Th~ University of Kentucky's frater- . events. UK .~e one of a handful_ of nity counc1 voted yesterday to allow its schools ~tion:111de to go to ~ . "bnng 20 chapters to serve beer in their houses. your poho/ oi:i ~<:Oho!. citing th: =v-oted' o. n.... th .-e m~.. eas ,,ur...-e.--E':'"1g

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MEDIA RELATIO NS • MOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY • UPO BOX 1100 • MOREHEAD, KY 40351-1689 • 606-783-2030 ties. The board's primary responst- THE COURIER.JOURNAL. FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 28, 1990 bilities are to set policy for the cam­ puses and to select presidents. Jones emphasized that his pro­ posal was not tied to the UK trust­ ees' recent selection of Charles Jones calls for new Wethington as the school's 10th _ _ _ president. In calling for support of Wethington, way to fill positions Jones said nothing is to be gained by discussing pos­ sible problems with the search. QD university boards "It is time to forget all about this other stuff that That system, he said, may or may not have gone "allows a governor to on," he said. "Let's devel­ choose a trustee for a uni- LEXINGTON, Ky. - - Lt. Gov. op a system for the future versity frequently based on ho_w that would never allow Brereton Jones yesterday proposed much money they raised for them rn a plan which be said would under­ anyone to even dream that a campaign. Frequently it's based an impropriety might have cut political appointments by K~n• on how many votes they d~liv~red tucky's governor to state umvers1ty taken place," he added. for them in a particular election m a Before Wethington's ap­ boards of trustees and regents. particular part of the state," he told In a speech to the Rotary Club of the Rotarians. _ pointment last week, UK Lexington, Jones called for . a faculty and student groups Jones, a former . University of change in state law to create an in­ said the search was flawed because dependent group of citizens to rec- Kentucky trustee, said that trust~s Wethington was allowed to be a ommend three people to - and regents should be people of m­ candidate while serving as interim the governor for appoint- tegrity, ability and comnutment to president. In calling for a new ment to each vacancy on education. . search, the two groups said Weth­ the campus boards. "The basic idea is to appomt peo­ ington's dual role led many poten­ Jones, a Democratic ple interested a~~ committed to tial candidates to forgo the search candidate for governor, education and willing to serve for because of the perception he would said his proposal was not the right reasons,_ as opposed to get the job. tied to appointments by those people who Just want a pres­ Some critics of the UK search Gov. Wallace Wilkinson tigious appointment, or who have also noted that five of the seven or any previous governor. raised a Jot of money and thereby trustees on the IO-member presi• Instead, he said he was want to get good ~asket_ball ~ck­ dential search panel were named to critical of a system that ets," he added later rn an mterview. the UK board by Wilkinson, a long­ sometimes led to appoint­ Under current law, the gove~or time Wethington acquaintance. ment of regents and trust­ names the majority of goverrung Jones said his proposal is still in ees for the wrong reasons. board members at each o_f th~ "idea form," but he noted that he state's publicl)'•Supported uruvers!- has had preliminary discussions of the concept with legislative lead-:cs. LEXJNGTO\J hERALO-LEADER LEX1'JGTON KY FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 28 1990 Diana Taylor, a Jones aide, said that the proposal would be administra­ tion legislation in the 1992 General Assembly if Jones is elected gover­ nor next year. Jones proposes plan Jones said that legislation would designate groups_who would choose representatives 1or the panel that to guide college picks would screen potential board ap­ pointees. He said they might include By Jamie Lucke want a prestigious appointment or such groups as the Prichard Com­ Herald-Leader education writer raised a lot of (campaign) money mittee for Academic Excellence, the state Chamber of Commerce and Lt. Gov. Brereton Jones yester­ and thereby want to get good basketball tickets." others. The panel would recom­ day called for a screening system to mend three names for each board prevent governors from handing Jones. a Democratic candidate for governor. stressed he was not vacancy to the governor, who would out seats on university governing still make the appointments. boards as political rewards. criticizing the -election of Charles Wethington, a longtime friend of Similar proposals have failed in Jones told the Lexington Rotary the past two legislative sessions. Club that a law should be passed Gov. Wallace Wilkinson, as Univer­ sity of Kenrucky president last Jones acknowledged the concept requiring the governor to choose was nOl new. "I don't pretend to say one of three nominees, chosen by an week. Ll< faculty and srudent education council, when appointing groups branded the selection proc­ universitv board members. The ess "fundamentally flawed" and that I have just discovered a brand governor· has complete control of said the trustees should start a new new principle in higher education," most such appointments. search. he said. "The important thing is that Jones said the council's job .. , would urge everyone in this I think it is logical, reasonable and would be to find trustees who are room to roll up your sleeves and get fair." "committed to educanon and will­ behind" Wethington. Jones said. Jones' proposal apparently did ini{ •o -..?ne for rhe right reasons. as not excite the Rotarians. During a oppv:aed ·o tho.e people who just question-and-answer session follow­ Cc.o"t.) ing his remarks, no one asked for any further elaboration of the idea. Jones also again called for a code -A service of the Office of Media Relations- of ethics for state government's ex­ ecutiv!! branch. would be admired by everyone, but that his plan was vague. Joe John· JONES: Screening ·system could son said that without a ~pecific p~n for choosing the screemng commit­ keep politics out of college hires tee it was impossible to comment on Jones' idea. nominees submitted by a screening From Page C1 committee. But the govern?r would A spokesman for Gov. Wallace have appointed the screemng ~m­ "He is president. It is our Wilkinson had no comment on our mittee with one member commg Jones' proposal. Neither did. a university and it is time for us to from 'each of the state's seven spokesman for the gove1;1or's wife, forget about all this other stuff 1;~at congressional districts. Martha Wilkinsoi:i, who 1~ a Demo­ may or may not have gone on. Jones suggested letting groups cratic gubematonal candidate. But Jones said: "Let's develop a that have been involved in ~duca· system for the future that would tion issues, such as the Pnchard "I can't put us in a position never allow anyone to even dream Committee for Academic Excellence where we co~ment on ';~er:( single that an impropriety might have and state Chamber of Commerce, thing a candidate does, said Mar­ taken place." choose some screening council tha Wilkinson's press secretary Ed Lynch. Jones seen:ied _to favor a mo~e members. drastic reduction m the governor s Jones said he was working with Democratic candidate Gatewood power than that proposed in bills legislative leaders to iron out the ·Galbraith praised the idea. "That's that died in 1988 and ~990- R~P­ specifics of the plan. one of the very few things he's ever Ernesto Scorsone, D-Lexmgton, m­ A spokesman for Democratic said that makes any sense ,to me. troduced legislation that would It's a good idea and I hereby adopt gubernatorial candidate Dr. Floyd have required the governor to it." Galbraith said. choose trustees from among three G.. Poore said Jones' idea ------probably LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER, LEXINGTON, KY., FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 28. 1990 Eastern wins OVC's academic award for second straight year By Rick Balley three games, and new Coach John Herald•Leader staff writer OVC notes Palermo isn't happy. "Maybe our players aren't what Eastern Kentucky has won the Ohio Valley Conference academic Montana at hon:ie against No. 20 we think they are," he said. "The achievement banner for the second Eastern Washmgton. Eastern key thing is the people we thought straight year. Washmgton was ranked lOt~ last would be playing good in certain Created in 1986, the banner is week but lost to Northern Anzona. positions aren't." awarded to the OVC school that has · Four Big ?kY Conference teams Palermo is afraid the Governors the highest nwnber of honor roll '.1re ranked this _week. Nevada-Reno are allowing defeat to become habit. They have lost 15 straight games. recipients participating in confer- IS 10th and Boise State 14th. T_he ence-sponsored sports. yankee Conference has three teams "Turning the attitude around Robert Baugh, Eastern's acting m. the Top 20: No. 3 New Hamp­ has been a lot more difficult than I athletic director, said winning the shrre, No. 11 Rhode Island and thought. The guys said they want­ banner "is as prestigious as the No. 17 Massachusetts. ed to win when we came here. winning of any of the league's Another Game of the Year this Unfortunately so far they haven't sports championships. It's a tribute week: No. 7 Eastern Kentucky at shown they really want to pay the to all the athletic teams" No. 19 Western Kentucky. No. 1 price. Too many guys want to do it "Once again," said OVC Com- Middle Tennessee is at Tennessee­ the easy way, the wrong way to get missioner Dan Beebe, "Eastern's Chattanooga. things done. They don't want to do student-athletes have honored their Record watch it the difficult way which will lead university by their commitment to Morehead quarterback Chris to success." combine athletics with high aca- Swartz set another OVC record in demic achievement." last week's loss at Liberty Universi- OVC leaders Eastem had four Medal of Hon- ty. His 47 passes against the Some statistical leaders after the or winners, signifying the highest Fl~mes moved him past Murray's OVC's third full week of play: grade-point average in a conference Michael ~rocwr on the all-time Rushing: Middle Tennessee's sport. EKU winners were Robert attempts hst with 1,176. Joe Campbell, 114.8-yard average; Teague, baseball; Kevin Huibregtse, Swartz has the rest of his senior Eastem's M¥kus Thomas, 99.7; golf; Danielle Mahaffey, women's seas?n to catch Proctor in career Morehead's Williams, 80. volleyball; Lisa Malloy, women's passmg yardage, plays and touch­ Passing: Tennessee State's cross country, indoor track and down passes. James Wade, 212-yard average­ outdoor track. An Eagle teammate, Jerome Morehead's Swartz, 188; Tenness,,,; Morehead State was second and Williams, is going after a record of Tech's Bert Browne, 185.3. Murray State third in the academic his own. And he needs Swartz's Receiving: !\forehead's Dave competition. The four Tennessee help. Pingue, 19 receptions; Morehead's schools were next - Austin Peay, Williams is 23 receptions away Williams, 18; three with 15 each. Tennessee State, Middle Tennessee from the Morehead record for career Tackles: TSU's Simon Shanks and Tennessee Tech. catches. Mark Ledford had 152 57 (44 tackles, 13 assists); Murray The banner will be presented at receptions from 1981 to '83. Wil­ State's Danny Amato, 47; Murray's halftime of the Eastern-Middle Ten­ liams has gained 1,101 yards as a Shelton Burrus, 43. nessee football game on Oct. 6. receiver and 1,571 vards on the Punting: TSU's Colin Godfrey is Game of the Year ground during his career. first in Division I-AA with a 47.5- This week's Game of the Year Turnaround? yard average. No other OVCpunter in Division I-AA matches No. 2 Austin Peay has lost its first is averaging 40 yards. THE COURIER-JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1990 I ~ Campus censorship Centre College plans full scholarships (l.) • ..-i ;., I Colleges try to hutton students' lips for outstanding freshmen next fall ~ A growing number of col- exclusion