A sample of recent articles of interest to Morehead State University INSTITUTIONAL RELATIONS MOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY UPO BOX 1100 MOREHEAD, KY 40351-1689 606-783-2030 lExlNGTON HERALD-LEADER, LEXINGTON, KY. ■ TUESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1996 lEXlNGTON HERA~lEADER, LEXINGTON, KY. ■ TUESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1996 ■ KENTUCKY Morehead to get tire plant: Premier Bandag 1 will build a Bandag Retread plant in Morehead that tJliniate control ' eventually will have more than 30 employees, state ; officials announced yesterday. The 21,000-square-foot ~ ! tire-retreading plarit will be built on 3 atTes on tlnclusive learning' could make UK true community Baldridge Road and is expected to begin operating by ~- Jan. I. The company said 10 to 15 employees will be -·~ hroughout much of its history, attended the 9th National Confer­ hired initially, with others added as production the University of Kentucky ence on Race and Ethnicity in High­ increases. State officials said Premier Bandag, a divi­ sion of S & S Tire Corp., has received preliminary f has been perceived as an insti- er Education, held in San Antonio approval for tax credits under the Kentucky Rural Eco -t:1tion that was unfriendly, if not last summer. And last week, the nomic Development Act for creating jobs. l'.rQstile, to people of different races group visited West Virginia Univer­ lffid creeds. sity to observe that school's Office ;~ Old attitudes die hard. Even to- of Social Justice, 4iY, there are many promising high However, UK still has a ways to . LEXJ!iGTON HERALD-lEAoER, lExlNGTON, KY. $'.dlool students who would not at­ go. That was evident by the initial ■ TUESDAY, OcroBER 1, 1996 ti:nd UK because they're skeptical omission of UK Lambda, which rep­ imout the campus climate. And resents lesbian, gay and bisexual Judge halts contract me current UK students have students, from the committee meet­ iii)enly complained about the isola­ ings. The group representative has on new U of L stadium tion and hostility they've experi­ since been added to the team. eiked at the university.. A judl(e !n Frankfort yesterday barred the Univers UK faculty member and author ty ?f Lomsvdle from av.:arding a contract to begin war ;; Fortunately, a team of UK facul­ Nikki Finney summed up the uni- on its new.football stadium. Franklin Circuit Judge tl'S staff and students has begun versity's initiative accurately. Roger Cnttenden issued an injunction sought by gJ!appling with the issue of how the "What we're doing now cannot be ' ~C Construction & Excavating Inc. The company ll!liversity can become a more "in­ the result of an uproar," she said. ' ~lai1:1ed the sch?~l's contract t? RAM Engineering is 1 dhsive learning community." The "This cannot be a reaction to a re- I di~~ =/a~n~~ious and not m conformance with bid Eilfort is long overdue. action." , John McLaughlin m, the attorney for MAC said ~ Last spring, a black student was She's absolutely right. Instead, I the school was "not fa_ir in its bidding specificati~ns," i\lacked in an apparently racially success will hinge on how well this : and.that_led_ to confys1on among the construction com­ Ilff>tivated incident. The attack new attitude becomes absorbed into pa"!es biddmg for mvolyernent in the seven-phase. $42 sparked student protests and fo. . . , . million construction proJect. ~ins on how the campus could the umvers1ty s rnmdset. MAC was the original low bidder on the $7 ·1r ~the air. How will we know? Admittedly, site work phase of the project But the school r:1~: it won't be easy. But we think two the pn~es fo~ the phase SWJl

High to b\!come, a two-time,.1 also has be~n · elected· to the_ -all-Ohio Valley' Conference·., .. MSU At;hlet1c Hall of F~e. selection for the- Eagles. The'_(:. Stanley,. an:•~shland nahve: three-year · 1ettennari' led th~.'.;"' ,who•_ lett~red ~- both football; :Eagles'"in both ·scoring' and\!;/and 'bas~etb~; .}Vas s~le~te~' 'rebounding· durin rthe 19591 ,,,ibec11-us~ ..o( Ip$ pr~we~s on . . , ,: g , , , ... h,.the, gridiron .. , Playing .. at a 70_ and· 19_70-11•_ season~. ,Hll;m:, time1·when°·th~1'platoori, sys-, -still ranks 17th .on MSU ~ all- , tern was: non-1:!xistent i Stan­ }t~e~ scorfu~ .'1ist·,;w_iilil 1,1?a.:'.~;., iey\~as a qua4{~rback:· defen- ' p_om~r ·desp~~e,, p~ay~g; at a~," sive back arid ;tiunter for the . time when freshmen · wer,e.-;,;1.Eagles from-1937 to-1939 . . not eligible-for varsity ball;: "· . .-, We congratulate.· both men Day later became a sue, . , ·for !Qeir select~on,·

THE COURIER-JOURNAL• TUESDAY, OCTOBER 1.-1996 $12 million shortfall forces cuts at UK that would have carrled over to this of Kentucky residents. However, its plans to offer engi­ Lexington campus academic year, said Jim Chapman, as­ "If you lose 1,000 out-of-state SIU· neering courses in Paducah and a sistant chancellor. Instead, the cam­ dents and gain 1,000 in-state students, project to enhance the engineering didn't have usual pus fell short by $399,500, which adds it's like you lost 2,000.'' Chapman program were not cut. up to a deficit of nearly $800,000, he said. The college had planned to use the tuition surplus said. Chapman said the Lexington cam­ money to provide more lab and de­ The additional shortfall comes from ~us has alwafS had a surplus of fu. sill'! sections, Dean Thomas Lester Associated Press two other programs - costing nearly ttion - sometimes as mucti as $1 mil­ said. He said the college would have $370,000 - that administrators had lion. to cancel some lab sections meaning LEXINGTON, Ky. - University of expected to pay for out of an antici•. Campus administrators generally 1 Kentucky officials say a miscalcula• pated surplus at the end of this year, used the sui1>Ius money to finance class sizes will go up. lion of tuition revenue is responsible Chapman said. one-time projects. Chapman said it "There's definitely more of a load for a shortfall of nearly $1.2 million Now administrators don't count on was a mistake to assume there would on the instructor." he said. on the Lexington campus, forcing that' surplus. · be a surplus. Richard Furst, dean of the Gatton some last-minute budget cuts. The Lexington campus - which "Obviously, it would have been bet­ College of Business and Economics, Elisabeth Zinser, the Lexin~on covers all academic programs except ter if we'd never suggested they were got a budget cut of $20,000. The Lex­ campus chancellor, acknowledged the medical center and tbe communi­ going to get these dollars," Chapman ington campus also discontinued pay­ that the problem would hurt several ty-college system - has a nearly $250 said. "I hate to call them cuts. I wish ing for some exchange students' fel­ academic colleges. But -she defended million bud~et, Zinser said. we could call them unrealized expei:• lowships,. meaning that his college the campus' planning, saying that Zinser said she is working with oth­ tations. But in people's eyes, they're will have to pick up the tab, he said. projections and predictions were only er officials to see how !tie campus cuts." But Furst said the college had been that. · could improve tts budgeting process. Part of the shortfall was distributed holding some money in reserve after "Those things do happen because It probably will hire its own budget among ·different colleges based on hearing earlier that there might be a uncertainties will come into play," officer, she said. whether they lost enrollment, Zinser budget problem. she said. "Nobody should blame any• The problem with the tuition esti• said. She acknowledged that meant Douglas Boyd, dean of the College body. It's just that these things hap­ mate arose primarily because of a de­ some colleges were affected more of Communications and lnfonnation pen." . crease in the number of out-of-state than others. Studies, said he didn't foresee much The Lexington campus had expect­ students who enrolled in fall 1995, UK's College of Engineering was of a problem. The shortfall meant that ed a $400,000 surplus of tuition rev­ Chapman said. Tuition and fees for one of the hardest-hit, haying to return $25,000 earmarked for a media re• enue from the 1995-96 budget year out-of-state students are triple those nearly $200,000 to the central office. search project will be delayed a year. 1 In O'O' --, -, J °'"" c ,· I. '2. l'Y/t.. MSU ARCHIVES /1/J:JU Clip :.:heet A sample of recent articles of interest to Morehead State University INSTITUTIONAL RELATIONS_ .. MOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY UPO BOX 1100 MOREHEAD, KY 40351-1689 606-783-2030 THE COURIER-JOURNAL_• WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1996 changes already undertaken during difficult budgetary times. negativism," borrowinj1: a phrase The nattering nabobs, Smith said, from the late former Vice President "count among their small number too -Task force Spiro Agnew. Gary. Cox, executive dire,ctor of t~~ many cynical scribes who purport to Coun'(il on Higher Education, called interpret for the public what they per­ proposes· .. Smith s memo re~ettable. ceive as the public interest." "I find it offensive and.sad that we "It is as if these jaundiced and pow­ can't have a discussion of ideas and erful few have been to an educational 'electronic;_ present different points of view with­ Mount Sinai and are the only recipi­ out, in a sense, being taken to task ents of advanced wisdom .... I find it for it," he said. curious that those charged with in­ Al an earlier meeting, Cox voiced forming a literate public can be so un­ university' several criticisms of a preliminary draft of the report, saying representa­ informed with respect to our efforts." Would use Internet, tives of private colleges and technical She later declined to comment on scliools should have been involved fn Cox's criticism and said the memo discussions on the Commonwealth "was aimed at no particular person." TV to extend access University. He also said the package Several other commission members of proposals, sounded "like a budget­ said they agreed with parts of the to higher education request document, rather than pro­ memo. By RICHARD WILSON posed savings." "I think it captured the feelings The Courier-Journal Smith's memo, which named no many of the presidents had," said one, said the panel's work had been Morehead State University Ron Eag­ FRANKFORT, Ky. - In the first unjustifiably criticized and that the lin. tentative steps toward improving umversities were not credited with higher education in Kentucky, a com­ mittee of·educators approved a pack­ age of recommendations yesterday Educators' recommendations that rely heavily on new technology. II Create a Commonwealth University through which existing or Prominent among the proposals new courses at the state's schools would be offered was creation of an electronic Com­ electronically. monwealth University through which ■ Create a Kentucky Electronic Library system that allows the state universities would share users to obtain information electronically from campus and other courses via interactive television or libraries. the Internet. That proposal and 14 others from ■ Establish a network of technology academies to improve the Commission on Higher Education academic skills in teaching and research. Institutional Efficiency and Coopera• ■ Begin a Commonwealth Trust Fund for Excellence to tion were approved without discus• recognize and reward efforts by universities to promote quality sion in a IO minute meeting. and create a scholarship pool to keep the state's top students in The package now goes to the Task Kentucky. Force on Postsecondary Education, II Create a special fund to test model programs requiring headed by Gov. Paul Patton; five oth• research, innovation or emerging technology that could lead to er administration officials; and 12 improvements in academic offerings or administrative services. legislators. None of the recommenda• ■ Have the schools concentrate on improving efficiency, and tions contain price ta~s. find ways to improve administrative and academic areas through The task force's final proposals, increased cooperation among the universities. due next year, will be sent to a spe­ ■ Change higher education funding to reflect cial session of the General Assembly, recommendations by the commission and forthcoming ones by which Patton plans to call next the state's Task Force on Postsecondary Educatiori. spring. The commission cited higher edu­ cation's major problems as better ac­ cess to higher education, continued The Daily Independent, Ashland, Kentucky, Tuesday, October 1, 1996 imP.rovement of programs and the ab!lity to change offerings quickly to serve students. "The effective use of technology can provide greater access to an un­ dereducated citizenry and deliver quality programs of instruction," the final report said. A consultant to the task force headed by Patton had said last week that technology alone was not the an­ swer to upgrading the education of Kentuckians to compete in a rapidly changing workplace. The Commonwealth University, which backers acknowledge needs more planning, is patterned after similar efforts in other states. The proposal calls for offering a bache­ lor's degree in general studies begin• ning in the fall of 1998. An earlier commission re~ort said that the state's public uruversities currently offer more than 400 courses by television or some form of distance learning, enrolling more than 4,530 students. Yesterday's report also recom• mends usin!l technology to stream­ line academic offerings· for Kentucki• ans and creatin~ a network of "tech­ nology acaderrues" to help faculty members improve teaching and re­ search skills. Accompanying the package was a memo from Kentucky State Universi­ ty President Mary Smith, the panel's c~airwoll!a_n, th_at call~ the commis: Doan said there have been sistants later decided to file of­ ► Graffiti no repeat incidents. ficial complaints. Richard Green, public safety Doan said though MSU con­ FROM PAGE 1 manager; said the presence of ducts programs on diversity at you will pay, we know what officers photographing the dormitories and elsewhere, it's you drive! We know you are graffiti and gathering informa­ not unusual to see an increase queer! If you don't want hurt tion may also have demon­ in all types of misbehavior at or your truck hurt, leave strated that the university is the start of a school year. NOW!!!" the message read, ac­ serious about such problems. "At the beginning of school, cording to. a university police Doan said earlier this semes­ you get a lot of people who are report. ter, racial epithets were writ­ not used to being in a diverse Someone also had written ten in shaving cream at an­ environment," he said. "A lot "Fag" on the door. other dormitory. The shaving of these things start as pranks University officers were un­ cream was cleaned up, how­ and students don't realize how able to lift fingerprints from ever, before MSU police could offensive they are," the calendar. There have been document the evidence, Green Following an alleged gay- no arrests. said. ,. . bashing incident at MSU last Dean of Students Myron The graffiti incidents were year, the university com­ Doan said he and other admin­ not reported to Kentucky State munity held a rally to raise istrators talked with students Police as hate· crimes because awareness about campus vio­ at Cartmell Hall after the inci­ the targets of the graffiti did lence. Green said the rash of dent there. not file formal complaints, reports last month could signal "They responded positively Green said. that the rally had the desired in that they knew it was "The way I understand it, it effect. wrong," he said. doesn't become a crime until "I'm hoping in a way that In the Cooper Hall case, you've got a victim. But we ... last year's incident is what Doan said he talked to eight treated it as a hate crime and · prompted people to let us residents on the floor, convey­ filed an internal incident re­ know about these things," he ing the message that such be­ port," he said. said. "I think maybe there is a havior is not acceptable and That way, Green explained, better level of awareness hoped it filtered down to the the evidence would be pre­ · among the residence hall staff guilty party or parties. served if the resident as- and the students." LEXINGTON HERAL~LEADER, lExlNGTON, KY. i WEONESIJ_AY, OCTOBER 2, 1996 KSU chief chides- critics of report­ on colleg~ reform Higher education not getting credit Smith, who is chairman of the commission, said she was not di­ recting her letter at any particular due, Smith says individual. ASSOCIATED PRESS FRANKFORT - Kentucky ''.I am referring to the fact that State University President Mary no matter what we do, it is per­ Smith yesterday chided critics of a ceived in a negative way," Smith report that purports to recommend said. new cooperation and efficiency in She said the commission made higher education in Kentucky. a good faith effort to respond to the request of Gov. Paul Patton when Smith said public higher educa­ he created the commission, which is tion in Kentucky has not gotten to advise the larger Task Force on credit for the accomplishments it Post-secondary Education. has already made and repeatedly has to fend off "nattering nabobs of The task force, composed of leg­ negativism" who do not understand islators and some of Patton's key the complexity of the issues in­ staff members, faces the daunting volved. task of overhauling all of higher ed­ ucation. Patton has said he is stak­ Smith's letter accompanied the ing the reputation of his entire ad­ final report of the Commission on ministration on the outcome. Higher Education Institutional Effi­ ciency and Cooperatiori, which was The commission is composed of approved without discussion and the eight university presidents and debate in a meeting that lasted less some other key officials from public than 10 minutes. higher education in Kentucky. Pat­ ton asked the commission to recom­ During that meeting, Gary Cox, mend ways to improve delivery of executive director of the Council on academic services, reduce duplica­ Higher Education, said the tone and At the last meeting of the com­ mission, Cox said the recommenda­ tion of academic programs, improve message of the letter was indicative administrative efficiency and ex­ of the problems of public institu­ tions ignored critically important is­ tions. sues, such as the role of private plore the use of new technology. higher education and the state's "I find it offensive and sad that technical education programs and Of the i5 recommendations in we can't have a discussion of ideas ignored the importance of students. the final report, at least nine of and present different points of view Cox also said the whole package them would appear to involve more wlthnnt in ~ (:Pnc:~ hi:iinrr folr~m tn ~rnmrtPrl mnr,::i, lilrP ~ hnrlm:>t rP- state tax money for higher educa- WEDNESOAY, OCTOBER 2, 1996 ■ LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER, LEXINGTON, Kv. ■ COMMUNITY ,.3 COLLEGE HOMECOMINGS 'iWf"Jii'iW.41filt;j Centre commemorating Harvard defeat ·--- Centre College, Danville, OcL 25-26 - Morehead State University, Morehead,-- BY LINDA VANHOOSE ■ Oct. 25: 8 a.m., eighth annual Alumni Oct. 24-27 . HERALD-LEADER STAFF WRITER Seminar, a daylong series of lectures and dis• ■ Oct. 25: i p.m., MSU Athletic Hall ni •t.-ussions by Centre faculty .and alumni, $25, Fame induction, Adron Doran Uni\"ersity entre College's Oct. 29, 1921, includes lunch; 8:30 p.m., Grease! Tickets Center, Crager Room.Tickets, Sl2. must he victory over No. 1-ranked available through Norton Center box office. bought in advance, (606) i83-2080. CHarvard University is re­ (606) 236-4692. . ■ Oct. 26: 11 a.m. to l p.m., brunch. l)mtn garded by· some as one of the ■ Oct 26: 8 a.m., 5-kilometer run, Boles Center, 'Ciager Room. $10 adults. S5 children Natatorium; 11 a.m., parade, Main Street and 12 all.d under; 1:30 p.m .. Eagles versus St. greatest football upsets in sports campus; 1:30 to 2:10 p:m., Vince DiMartino · Joseph's College, Jayne Stadium; reserved history. Big Band, Norton Center lawn: 2:30 p.m. 1tickets $5, ~erai adiriissio~ s:i: immediaie!y Now, almost 75 years to the Colonels versus Trinity Tigers, half-time cele­ ,. fol!owiJig the gain~ the annual fish fry by the bration featuring Cawood Ledford, Class of day after the game, Centre will ·-t9. Morehead/Rowan County Shrine Club, park· pay tribute to the· heroics of the ing lot behind Alwnni CUnion College, Barbotirville, Oct. 25;~5 whose homecoming this weekend . "Traditions '96.'' is the first of the season, will tie in parade, 1.ancaster A venue; 2 p.m. EKU versus Southeast Missowf. Roy Kidd Stadium. Hang­ ■ Oct. 25:_ 8 p.m., bonfire and chant q>n. its festivities with the profession­ er Field .. test followed by a street dance. baseball field: al hockey debut of the Lexington ■ Oct. 26: 10 a.m., Hall of ~rune ceremony, Conway Boatman Chapel; 1:30. p.m. Union Thorough blades. Georgetown: College, Georgeto~, Oct. ~ ! ven-es North Greenville, Birch-Nau Field; 8 Highlights of Kentucky col­ 10-13 p.m. coronation, chapel. leges' fall homecoming celebra­ "Under Construction." ■ Oct 10: 9 p.m., The Drifters, Alumni Western Kentucky University, Bowling tions, in alphabetical order: Gymnasium, the classic '60s band performs Green;Oct. 21-26 its greatest hits. including "Up on the'Roof," "Reeling in the Years, Happr 90th Birth· •on Broadway" and "Under the BoardlV!'lk." dayWKU." Asbury College, Wilmore, Oct.11-13 $15. ■ Homecoming and Parents' Weekend, ■ Oct. 11: 3 to 5 p.m. symposium, "Build· .. · Oct..22: 7 p.m .. Temple Grandin Lecture, Garrett Conference Center auditorium. "Magical Moments." · ing a Personal Financial Foundation, Asher ~ !I: Oct. 24: 11 a.m .• Moto.wn singer Rick · ■ Oct 11: 10 a.m, actor-musician Wesley Science Center, $5; 10 to 11 a.m. and noon tci Putnam will recount the life of the Prophet 1:30 p.m. art exhibit, Atihe Wright Wilson Kelley, Downing University Center lobby; 8 · Fine Arts Building; 1:30 p.m. Georgetown ver­ p.m., Bowling Green Western Symphony Elijah in the chapel; 7:30 p.m., homecoming Orchestra, First Baptist Chw-ch. coronation and Festival of Music, Hughes sus Bethel College, Hinton Field $5. Auditorium. ■ Oct. 25: noon, Hall of Distinguished Kentucky State University, Frankfort. alumni luncheon, Bowling Green-Warren ■ Oct. 12: 2 p.m., soccer match, Asbury ··.QcL 11-12 · f.:ounty Convention Center, $?-5, (502) i-15· Eagk-s versus King College; 8 p.m., Billy ■ Oct. 11: 10 a.m., Founders' Day convoca­ ,139:X 7 p.m., Big Red's Roar, Diddle Arena Riggs, the y.orld's first and only "dis-illusion­ tion, Bradford Hall Auditorium; Whitney M. with com~ian Vic Henler. ist," shatters the "Myths of the Supematural," Young Jr. statue ground-breaking ceremony, $4, Hughl'S Auditorium. ■ Oct. 26: 5 p.m., Western versus Indiana back of Chandler Hall; 8 pm, Mr. and Miss Stale, Smith Stadium, tickets (502) 745-5222; KSU coronation; 10 p.m., "An Evening of Berea College, Berea, Nov. 22-24 step show immediatelr after game, Diddle Afrocentrism," Holida}l Inn ballroom. Arena. ~ ■ Nov. 22: 8 p.ffi., stage band concert, ■ Oct. 12: 9 a.m.. parade, downtown Alumni Building snack bar. Frankfort; 1:45 p.m.;' ,!(SU versus Lane Col­ ■ Nov. 23: 11 a.m. parade, Chestnut Street; .lege, Alumni Stadiu~;~)·.~ 1 pm. Black Music Ensemble Concert, Phelps Stokes Chapel; 7:30 p.m. basketball game, 'Lindsey Wilson College, Columbia, Berea versus Milligan College, Seabury Cen­ Nov.15-17 . ter, $6.50. ■ Nov. 16: 6 a.m. pancake breakfast, Columbia Fire Station, Merchant Street, a ,lQ. ■ Nov. 24: 10:45 a.m., worship service, Union Church. vear-0ld tradition during homecoming week· end: 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., carnival on Horton Campbellsville University, Camp• I.awn (in case of rain, event moved to Biggen; bellsville, Oct. 11-12 Sports Center); 2 to 3 p.m .. "Using the Inter­ net: Fun. Function and Hazards to Your Psy• "The Four Seasons of Sticcess," celebrating chological Well-Being, ].L. Turner Leadership the school's first homecoming 3s a universi­ Center computer lab, 85; 6:30 p.m .. women\~ ty. basketball versus Sue Bennett College, Bigger •■ Oct. 11: noon, Golden Heritage luncheon, Sports Center; 8:30 p.m., men's basketball ,·er• Student Union Building, Little Auditorium, sus Cumberland, Biggers Sport!-Center. $8, reservations must be made by Friday; 7 p.m .• humorist Ray Corns. former Franklin Circuit Court judge, will be the featured per­ fonner at lhe annual Alumni Banquet, Powell Athfetic Center, $10, reservations must be made by Friday by calling (502) 789-5216. ■ Oct. 12: 1:30 p.m., Tigers versus North Greensville College, Tiger Stadium; 8 p.m. South German Saxophone Chamber Orches­ tra, Powell Athletic Center.~ :idults, $2 any­ one under 18. THE COURIER-JOURNAL • WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1996 l'HE COURIER.JQURNAL • WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1996 !Vice president U ofL awarded the contract to RAM last week. McLaughlin said at U of L quits; Suit creates MAC filed a formal crotest of the_• award of the contract ast Thursday., MAC Construction also alleged that has assault obstacle · the bid bond offered by RAM wasn't signed by a registered Kentucky in· charge pending surance agent, as the contract re••· for stadiumr quired. The Courier-Journal Owsley said the low bids on the two contract packages that have ~een re­ Patrick Flanagan, vice president for bid so far - site preparation ani! research at the University of Louis• timetable structure - total nearly $1.1 million ville, resigned from his post Monday. less than the initial low bids. He said U of L President John Shumaker U of L hopes to complete rebidding announced the resignation at a board Bidder challenges on all seven phases by Oct. 10. · of trustees meeting and said it was He said state law allowed U of L to effective immediately. He gave no ex• contract U of L let revise the scope of what bidders were planation for Flanagan's decision. asked to do in the second round. "You'll have to ask him," Shu• . By MICHAEL JENNINGS But another losin,: bidder com­ maker said. and PAUL BALDWIN plained in an interview that U of L Flanagan could not be reached for The Courier-Journals should not have been able to solicit comment, but his lawyer, James L new bids if any of the original bids Theiss, cited "ongoing litigation in A construction bidder's lawsuit has were within the budgeted amount. . the Oldham County courts." Flana­ thrown a stumbling block into the Mark Eichberger, vice president of gan, 53, of La Grange, was charged path of plans to open a University of Whittenberg Engineering & Construc­ with fourth-degree assault Sept. 2 Louisvilfe football stadium in time for tion called U of L's handling of the after he allegedly struck his wife, Mi• the opening game of the 1998 season .. bid 'process "highly irregular" and chele C. Flanagan. MAC Construction & Excavating of said his company had made an oral A university news release said Pat• New Albany, Ind., obtained a temp!)­ protest to the university. He said rick Flanagan, a biochemist, plans to rary restraining. or~er !-fonday m Whittenberg was the low bidder in teach and conduct research in the bi­ Franklin (Ky.) Crrcmt Court prevent•• the first round for the structure con• ology department. A U of L vice presi­ ing U of L from awru:ding RAM .E~gi­ tract but lost out to F.A Wilhelm Con• dent since January 1991, he formerly .neering & Construction of Loutsville· struction in the second round. directed the National Science Founda­ the contract to prepare the ground at At a U of L trustees' meeting Mon•· tion's ecology division. the 92-acre site off Floyd Street. day, a civil-righ)S advocate off~red a Also Monday, Shumaker an­ Judge Roger Crittenden set a full different objection to the ch01ce of nounced plans to turn U of L's Insti­ hearing for Friday. RAM over MAC. The Rev. Louis Cole­ tute for International Development-. Larry Owsley, U of L vice president man of the Justice Resource Center previously a non-profit venture - into for administration, said work would. said MAC should have gotten the con• a profit-making arm of the universi1>' have begun this week had MAC's law­ tract because it would allot some of development office. He said the insli• suit not forced a delay. He said con­ its work to African-American subcon• lute would help U of L and other struction can still meet the two-year. tractors, while RAM would not. schools export degree !'rograms to deadline if it can start promptly after other countries and that 11 should be­ Friday's hearing. gin to turn a profit after three years, , MAC was the low bidder for site The institute, founded a year ago at preparation in the first round of bid• Shumaker's urging, has already . ding for the seven phases of stadium opened or laid plans for U of L degree · construction, which is budgeted for. or non-degree training programs in at $42.5 million. U of L called for new· least a dozen overseas locations. Shu• bids because the initial low bids ex-· maker said it should be able to attract ceeded the budget bf $4.3 million. private investments to expand its po• RAM, which submitted the second-· sition in the international education lowest bid in the first round, was low,; market. bidder in the second round, ahead of, MAC. MAC complained in court that RAM's adjustments to its second bid were a total revision, not, as U of L had instructed, a subtraction from the revious bid, said MAC Construction Cawyer John J. McLaughlin Ill. "We believe the university as a. public bidding entity should be re­ quired to follow its own guidelines,", McLaughlin said in an interview. · 01 I A-.}d- - '-1-1 s-1 ~ Oc.+. '-1-2 I Ohio Valley Conference in foot­ alone to avoid delay ball for Division I-AA independent status. · schools guaranteed $1 million in After eight· turnovers con­ Lawsuit challenges lease payments over 15 years. tributed to a 52-6 loss at Dayton· to Now, however, Georgetown will open the season, Morehead has de­ help city, county rely on private fund raising to cover feated Valparaiso and Kentucky the $1.75 million still needed. would have given Crouch said the operation of the Wesleyan. This is the first time the stadium could have become a na­ Eagles have soared above :soo By RICHARD WILSON tional model of civic cooperation. three games into the· season since The Courier-Journal The stadium board, he said, thinks it 1986 when they won their first six acted appropriately in planning the games. Georgetown College will pick up undertaking, "and we regret we will "It's nice to get a taste of .victo­ the total cost for construction of a not have the opportunity to set a pre­ ry, and we want a little more," Bal­ community stadium that the Cincin­ cedent in Kentucky by doing so." nati Bengals football team will use The stadium and two adjoining lard said. "We're a decent team for summer training. practice fields, which can also be with a long way to go. But we've The school's trustees approved used for soccer, will be about a half• made tremendous strides the· last the move yesterday to prevent de­ mile east of the Georgetown College three weeks." lays in the project, said Georgetown campus. About 5,000 fans saw Morehead President William Crouch Jr. Con­ In addition to the stadium, the win its home opener against Ken­ struction must begin immediately college also plans to spend another for the stadium to be completed in $3 million to build a JOO-room dor­ tucky Wesleyan on Saturday. "It time for the Bengals to use next mitory, 125-seat auditorium, six new was like a homecoming crowd," summer. classrooms and a 150-seat cafeteria. Ballard said. "Folks are excited. Scott County farmer George Ad­ Those facilities,- which college offi• They want to see competitive foot­ ams filed a lawsuit Aug. 29 in Scott cials have said were already needed, ball, and that's what· they've seen Circuit Court challenging the joint will also be used by the Bengals. so far. The players haven't been financing of the $3 million stadium It could not be determined wheth­ wild; but they're not reserved, ei­ by the college, Scott County, its er yesterday's announcement would school system and the city of alter other possible uses of the sta­ ther. They're having fun." . Georgetown. dium. Under the original agree­ The !IIOSt improvement has Adams claimed that involvement ment, Scott County High School been with the special teams. of the college, a private Baptist would play its home football games "They've been_ outstanding, school, violated the separation of there, and backers said it also twice as good as last year," Ballard church and state clauses of the state would be available· for cultural said. "In the past they've been our constitution. events and entertainment. Achilles heel, really poor. Now· Crouch said fighting the lawsuit Crouch said the college still plans would have taken months, and a de• to make the facility available to oth• they're the most sound, consistent lay in construction would have ne­ er groups. · part of our game. When you have a . gated the agreement with the Ben­ "We encourage the use of the sta­ huge difference in athletic ability, it gals. The National Football League dium. We want the community to shows up the greatest in the special team signed a seven-year contract share in the use of this facility," teams." to train at the Georgetown site be• said college spokeswoman Leigh Bryan Meredith was cited ginning next July. Ann Hiatt. · for his long, high kickoffs. "Before, The 4,500 to 5,000-seat stadium, Crouch called it "extremely bene­ which the college will use for home ficial" to have the Bengals come to we .were getting short, low· kicks­ football games, was to be governed . Georgetown for their summer and big returns," Ballard said. "He by representatives of college, city camp. The school's trustees, he puts it consistently inside. the 5 · and county and local schools. said, "are very pleased that a side with great hang time, and we have . The original plan called for the benefit is what it is going to do for better athletes running down the college to put up $1.25 million in the economy of this community." land and other contributions. The The training camp is expected to city and county would give $500,000 draw tourists and enhance the a~rh !!nr1 <::rntt ("'nnntv rmhlir !1""'~'~ lm::1~p . .

LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER, LEXINGTON, KY. ■ FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1996 Mark York, assistant to the sec­ retary of the state Natural Re­ Buried drums sources and Environmental Protec­ tion Cabinet, said Western was no­ at Wiill bring tified immediately of the discovery. He said WKU workers helped exca­ vate the soil from around the bar­ investigation rels. There is no way to tell what the ASSOCIATED PRESS containers hold until test results are BOWLING GREEN - Environ­ completed, York said. mental inspectors collected samples "We need to see if any of the yesterday of unidentified sub­ material may have leaked out," stances found in drums buried on York said. Western Kentucky University's Water and soil samples are be­ farm. ing collected. It could take two to The drums, thought to contain four weeks for test results to be re­ pesticides, were discovered turned, but inspectors are hoping Wednesday by state investigators. they can speed up the process. Western then announced it would be conducting an internal inquiry to determine who had violated univer­ THE COURIER-JOURNAL.• FRII;l6'LOCI9BER 4, 1996 sity procedure by disposing of the drums on the farm. In July, the Daily News of Bowl­ ing Green reported that a pit had Buried drums found been dug on thi! farm and filled with _construction debris and other items. . on- farm run by WKU; State investigators found a 55- gallon drum buried 2 feet below the surface and about 100 yards from contents unknown dirt that had been excavated for that pit. One-gallon and 5 gallon Associated Press versity's academic affairs office short­ ly after the discovecy of the pit. containers were found in the same BOWLING GREEN, Ky. - Environ­ Hughes has said his job change was area. mental inspectors collected samples not related to the initial discovery. -Gordon Jones, acting head of yesterday of unidentified substances Jones said no one would have au­ Western's agriculture department, found in drums buried on Western thorized the material being buried said he was unaware of the drums Kentucky University's farm. there. "That's not the way we oper­ existence until their discovery. The drums, thought to contain pes­ atet" ·he said. ticides, were discovered Wednesday Disciplinacy or legal action will be Jones moved into the position by state investigators. taken against anyone found responsi­ after Luther Hughes transferred to Western then announced it would ble for burying the containers, said the university's academic affairs conduct an· internal investigation to university attorney Deborah Wilkins. soon after the discovery of the pit. determine who had violated universi­ There is no way to tell what the Hughes has said the move was not ty procedure by dumping the druins containers hold until test results are on the farm. completed, said Macy York, assistant related to tlie initial discovery. ·• In July, the Daily News of Bowling to the secretacy of the state Natural Jones said no one would have Green reported that a pit had been Resources and Environmental Protec­ authorized the material being dug on the farm and filled with con­ tion Cabinet. buried there. struction debris and other items. "We need to see if any of the mate­ "That's not the way we oper­ State investigators found a 55-gal­ rial may have leaked out," she said. lon drum buried 2 feet below the sur­ Water and soil samples are being ate," he said. face and about 100 yards from dirt collected. It could take' two to four University attorney Deborah that had been excavated for that pit. weeks for test results to be returned, Wilkins said an internal investiga­ One-gallon and five-gallon containers but inspectors are hoping they can tion will be conducted to determine were found in the same area. speed up the process. who buried the containers against Gordon·Jones, acting head of West­ "Once the cleanup is complete, we. em's agriculture department, said he will conduct our mvestigation and university procedures._ was unaware of the drums until their also review our procedures for han­ Disciplinary or legal action will discovecy. dling pesticides to make sure this be taken against those responsible, Jones assumed the position after does not happen gain," Wtlkins said she said. Luther Hughes transferred to the uni- in a statement 1 I l-\do2 - ....., - 1 '::J - I J> MSU ARCHIVES 11//SU C/iµ Sheet A sample of recent articles of interest to Morehead State University INSTITUTIONAL RELATIONS MOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY UPO BOX 1100 MOREHEAD, KY 40361-1689 606-783-2030 The Daily Independent, Ashland, Kentucky, Friday, October 4, 1996 MSU, -~amey ·Home form ...r .. ·s·. -.h1· p Will sh~e reso~c~s, expertise through Partne· professional trammg agreement commitment to the region.'1 Some have had run-ins with By GEORGE WOI.FFOIIO Hall said he did work-study the law. OF T HE D AILY INDEPENDENT a t Woodsbend Boys Camp in Morgan County while he was Jack Webb, director of SUMMIT - Morehead State m ajoring in socia l work at MSU's Ashland center, said University and the Ramey­ MSU in the 1970s. few of those will come from Estep Homes Inc. signed a pro­ " It exposed me to what a current classes there, which fession al training agreement treatment program was a nd focus on elementary education, Thur sday to share resources "although the number may in­ made me decide what my life's crease in the future.'' and expertise. work would be," he said. Glasser said the cooperation Education m ajors at MSU He said the homes have had isn't the first for the school w ill observe classes at the five practicum students from and homes. "We've been here h o m e. Their counterparts MSU and Ohio University in before, acting as consultants. studying social work will do the past four years. They work They're doing an accreditation on -theTob training as counsel­ four- or eight-hour shifts. study, and we're ready to lend ors, r ecreation. directors and Hall said staff members were a hand." . . caseworkers. excited by the agreement. Eaglin stressed that pro­ In return, .MSU will provide . " The services MSU can offer grams discussed Thursday con sultant. services to the us will enhance our ability to were only a beginning. "There h om es, keep the agency in­ train our staff," he said. "Ad­ are partnerships yet to be forged." formed of professional develop­ ditionally, it will allow our program to grow and adapt to He said MSU expects to ment opportuni~ for-its staff the continuous changes in the work in a mutual program of and open its ~6hnso~den social services field." grant-writing, seeking outside Libra r y to t~aff for re­ Dr. Ma rc Glasser, dean of funds for the homes. "They'll search and self-training. MSU's gradua te and extended give us opportunity for stu­ MSU Pr esident Ron Eaglin campus programs, said 10 to 20 dent experience outside the and Ramey-Estep Executive Di­ students , plus some faculty regular public schools. All rector Rocky Hall sig!}eq the members, will be involved at these are examples of getting agreement at a table in front of the homes each year. our creative juices flowing.'' - the Ra mey Home building, "We want the teachers we Eaglin said MSU's associa­ which serves as agency head­ provide for the Ashland area tion won' t preclude other schools. "There are roles here quarters and as a residence to be the best they can be, and this will let them experience a for other institutions." hall for troubled youths. Most of the 77 residents of "This truly is a remarkable unique group of young men,'.' he said. the homes attend classes in a pa rtne r ship," Eaglin said. The home houses youths school behind the Rame y "When the homes asked us if aged 14-17 referred by the Ken­ Home. They will move to Vic­ we'd be interested in sh aring tucky Justice Cabinet because tory Hall at the Estep Home resources, there was no ques­ they are homeless, have tru­ once that $1.5 million struc­ tion about pursuing it. This ancy problems or are other­ ture is completed and open in joint venture is further proof wise beyond parental control. February. to the Ashland area that More­ head State is serious about its

lExiNGTON HERAU>-LEA0ER , LEXINGTON, KY. ■ SATURDAY. OCTOBER 5, 1 996 Opinion backs university firearms ban ASSOCIATED PRESS But the General Assembly has Judge-Executive W.M. Morris to FRANKFORT - A university restricted the ability of local gov­ bar weapons at county parks is im­ governing board can prohibit peo­ ernments to regulate fireanns. Un­ proper. ple from carryir.g weapons on uni­ der the concealed weapons bill First, only the county fiscal versity property, but the authority passed this year, the legislature did court can vote to ban concealed of local governments to regulate the allow local legislative bodies to bar weapons and then only in buildings carrying of fireanns is much more concealed weapons from govern­ operated by the county. not an en­ limited, the attorney general qffice ment buildings. tire park, White said. said yesterday. But Assistant Deputy Anorney The opinions do not carry the The University of Louisville General Scott White said the unilat­ force of law. has a policy that prohibits the pos­ eral action by Daviess County session or storage of deadly weapons or destructive devices. LEXINGTON H ERALD-LEADER, LEXINGTON, KY. ■ S UNDAY, OCTOBER 6 , 1996 "There is no absolute right un­ der the Kentucky Constitution to Patton vows higher education session: Gov. carry arms onto the property of an­ 1'a~I P~non sai_d in_a speech that he \\"ill call a special other,'' Assistant Attorney General leg1sla!1ve session 111 April or May to deal with higher Kent Young said. "The governing edu~a t1on. ~at ton announ~ed the timing qf a special board of a university, like a private sess1on_wh1le speakmg Fndar at the annual convention property owner. may direct those of )he Kentucky Association of Chiropractors. ··You'n• who come upon its property to S t't' me talk more and more about higher edu­ c:n 1m;innpfi" rnt1on, he said. · Toe simdafln11epericienfl:•AsJllilnd;Kent®_ky;5:9CtO~:!>; ~, · u1;i~~~?a-~:~~~;ti~n,·: -~~~{~;, ' .J: ~ -~u -~ ~:uA:l.;,I.&· ,•, --1-L~·e.~~ 'Chick;~l?:£11i~i:~iiE1ii;;1,t~11r;~ . force~fu~the·.TrEState community The Tri·S~te\}'1~'{-1~~b}g;.;a . . - . ·. :uued resident· with·the ·de­ arture of Ashland Com-. 11inity Cdllegei&-esident harles "Chick'!".Dassance. Dassance's.·'announcement iat he is leaving Ashland to ecome· president .. of. Central· -' lorida Community College · 1 Ocala ·comes:sas .. no :sur: rise. Once it ·-was. learned 1at he was, a';fmal1st°for .the lorida· job; ·man}'::in this ommui:J.Hy .. assumed the ,CC ·president, wpilld ·sooli,be ~turning· to· .the · state from rhich he came?J;,;,c,.,__ .' :··... · 1 Indeed,· it was: 1:he- g1·ciwing 8-S-8 8 s-;;; 'll,; I l!l ~-"' ~S-o =-=- eports: the::·four~member ·• Charles Dauance fl~ il 5 ~.!g.;[;;!g~"' S-i§l~:l.s-m [ · residential seaffhteam---re- . .,_ ·:,. , 5 ~ ~; c,.[isij'::i:,"' a I "!;~~::le. eived·,wi:i'lle}visitµig ·Ash.- :.,... United-W~y campaign. - 0 ':-.ci.go~i~~ 8 8 ~ ~,; J~-~ ;.t 5 1nd that.~.., · conv.iil.ce,d..· · them-•-· .·. :.·Dassance, played key roles g!l.., si "!!!-:!->i ~fG.a·fr[~ ,:-iii ~-;?a.~g !il =·=-~ =~e!.ii[~ ~ iil a-=- 1ass~e?~w~f.ef~f~s~·.man . ''.-:'in. developing an agreement ci. a O .. s- o n ..- :,;- a1f ~ :s =-:z: g. .g .., ~ Jr the19b-";,,;,/\'f!f,f;;':"- ~ :; •... · - between:Morehead State Uni- si ~ ~ [~~ :.;1" ~§ :;.3qse:lir . '_'The;~'.w.~,~~~Ji~clarity in. :v~rsity',. Kentucky Tech- till [!tiJJ · ,i~,l;J"' $ ~I ms .... when.. yv,!!/left for tl,ie ·Ashland ,,,nd ACC to better c: :s ~ c __ .., ,.,,a .n 'l' ~~ ---0 . t· ,.. ·h ··1 · .... ""'""st.,.":e"'~ ~""§"'!:'--· 1rport=+, Q e_opi~ • om~; co9rdinate J>ost-secondary .,, e,5:g~m~~~ :S ~ .. f 2:i n! new we had found the right . learning' . opp'ortunities here l!l §.Ir-an. ., 'ls .,,0 "'· 3. r;i, ~ "'g - i resident for the college" i:i"q"" ;qc" " · <>·;;i "' . _. . . .. >·. . ' . aIJ,d .a.-pact .between Marshall ·. "' · · ~ --« ci. ' • ;;·" c. S' .; aid Will Ii"b)'1"'y~ce.,chamnan ., U .. · "+.r. · d·ACC th t ill .., o,; n "'"' :;i'l:· .,, A :s i::, o !!! :$l f Central'Fli:irida'S::.board•'of ,.. Il!V~1;8l•,,- ~. a w ~ii! isi:.i.~ 5.iii ;;i:~oting such: i;!ila]1J~~l~:~!:~ " ;, ....-,;- .,,,,;:,;f~.c,ioc--·: · .·>. · .. .thmgs· as the .development of a,_..,,. 8 iii!!. .,, li-" gi i.iil"~an"' i a iii ' ne , · · · . , • .:;".,_\ ~,i:·-<·, ' -· •· . . · 0 ~ .. ~a""'-::-=-•= Cll ::r'g,>g CD 3 Dassance who: came to ·, a quality ..theater program, ".,·g 9~ ~.g ~g c. "'i~ ::.~s-~ iirB ~shlariit a·:iutijf:: more than r,>ass~ce riot only ill:c~eased · ~;[!go~_[~~ [ i ~ [ ~ ; ~: ~ :Jur years··ago ;,.ii; only the educational opportunities for . g·~e.n ~§ "'· o ii!,;~ o "'nl.,. hird person to 'iead the com- -students interested in drama, i., ~ [ "E. ! gi !li ~ .g ?- ~ [ i·J: ~ i nunity college:He succeeded bu(_provided .a place where g~f_i.;ffe,~ :< ~ ~~ [s'r.·ei !S=is Jr. TOil¥° Ne\\'.b~ITY• who w~ ..me~be~s·~_-of-.tlle.,co~unity .lir~ "s-a O g,oner.~ [ oq~~"Q"' :Sn, :ellor : of th.. e , Un~ve~sity of · stage. The productions also iil £Vii- a~ iii ; g Q .r ~ :..i a· c: '='~ ci. iil" Centuck.y's community col- have added .to the cultural . ::s~ ~ -n:.g nl:5 ci.c ii!.§,.,c:,... ifr ..~ flPJ g-g:s.~~c iil"~g, iii ege system.pr.. Robert, Good-dir activities. of this .community. . .,.ago .'.:n>n,C.o..,~:s~ [lll°~.i!" ~8 ail~,;.,.,,~:,:,n> g" ~-gs- ias t er -serve d ,as Ace s ec- Dassance's departure is a ., ~ iil ci.- ? - is: e. ~ ~ ., .or - in the· days before the double· blow for ·quality edu- iii ~ ii!.~ [. ~ g O 0. ~• ~ iii 8 P.:;: [ s- . ll h'd· "d t ti . . · -~gi::r. ;;i13,;.:;r .,.,o ,o ege a a presi en - or cation. While ., the college is "'=-"' « •· ·"""'~ -g ;;i g- a ;;· fl . Ef.-a ei - l£ !!I~ )6 years · , · · ~aq -::,~ - ~ ~o- C'D [g ii s PJ · . ·. · _ losing an outstanding presi- 5l g ~ !" ;;- .:: g l'l § s~ ~ a g:.; 0 Jimmy J .. Miller, who rep- dent Paul G. Blazer High B ii!. "'~g.§ s 2':;! : a«~§ ";;">Io- 0 0 ·esents the "aculty1 on ACC's ' • ~.., " .s ti. a: "' ., e.-- ., .g ., • . ' School is losing a quality sci- ""'~ · ~ « -- • " ' " " " · " 1dv1sory board, called Das- . ;ance a "tremendous re- ence te:icher · and gracio~s ;ource to· the . people and a w?man m Sara Dassance; his ~odsend to us.". wife .. In addition to his able lead- While we are sorry to. see ~rship -of the college, Das- phick Das,sance leave. Ash­ ,ance assumed a high profile l3;11d, we con~~tulate hnn _on :n the community. He ac- hIS new position and WISh :ively supported numerous only _the best for him and his ~ommunity activities and family. He can leave with the volunteered his services for knowledge ·that he has made many worthy causes. Last a difference and that the year, he ·accepted the chal- many good things he has lonaina .. nt'I thnP.rnmmm;n'7 rinnP. will 'not ·soon be fore:ot- named Jane .:ancf. ·snowif.her maturing. into a .. young enfre­ preneur... As .she,;,grows, the words· '!See -Jane,"·-,.. see· Jane run," and .. "See Jane run ... her own business" are superim­ posed on· the screen. "As Jane goes through life and wonders what she'll ·be, By l- -. h MSU, ARCHIVES iVISU Clip S ee·t· A sample of recent articles of interest to Morehead State University INSTITUTIONAL RELATIONS MOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY UPC BOX 1100 MOREHEAD, KY 40361-1689 606-783-2030 The Daily Independent, Ash_lan_d, Kentucky, Monday, October 7, 1996 What was asked of the commission on·higher education; what it delivered ': · · • - · · to evaluate our efforts to do :· M R. ...._ · · . . liiitWW•ilrg··•,M•·"·"'M•'""'EfoN"·;.,.;RwM!#'RW even more. Eyes entrusted to B"I 11111 ..neDgren ~M•,:.:.,;;,,,V. · . VI.

;·~~~Aft·.. •.,.:.~,:;:::;-~.,...!- ••;;:~:-·"7..,~•,.f,ry--::--1: .....:.._,·_._ -~this.-.::~t:~;.. :: nC~. ' ~-:-:-~:----,,r~t~ .. -_;;t-?-· _. er .near y .a year ll --~,, _· .... _!)(llII_\,..,.,"'•·· , -..,·"\<•,_,,,, 0., •. Paducah.~ ghng that exas~ed _state _legisJa:• .. ·' ·Paxton'.said he· didn't knovV:-yet t?rs, -the Co~c1! 9n Higher Ed!':~-- , whether' the ·moriey would. come t1on stepp7d m with a compromise -· from the state oi-"UK But he said ·he that callea on UK and ¥urray to was optimistic about getting it. engr~eer work together to offer :vanous bach- . H · · · d .· h ·· · · elor's degrees in Paducah. e cnl!c1ze_ t e , compromise O'Hara said the increase in ~!an the Council on Higher Educa­ program building costs came about because lion bsu~mitted to ~he Gen~ral As­ the project was delayed three-years ?e~ I~ s 199~ session, saymg that and the original estimate was based it did~ t take mto account all of Pa- on 1993 prices: · ducah s costs. cost_,rises- Fred Paxton, publisher of the "The costs are reai and genuine, Paducah _Sun and a vocal supporter and they have been there all along," BY ANGIE MUHS of the engineering effort, said yes- he said. "I think they should have HERALD-lEADER EDUCATION WRJJ'ER terday that Paducah civic ·leaders been included· all along, .but we Getting aproposed engineering had simply wanted to· brief Patton's weren't _given any input into the program irt Paducah off the ground staff on t he proJect· b ecause h'1s ad- plan." and runni,lg is- going to cost the ministration was new. · · But Kern Alexander, Murray state $1.2.inillion more than expect­ The group met with Crit Lu- State's president, said last/ night ed - for a total of $5.million;sup­ allen, Patton's cabinet secretary; that he didn'.t know anything porters say. If Ed Ford, deputy education secre- about the $1.2 million cost in­ that money isn't allocated, ·the tary; and Gary Cox, executive di- crease in the building. He also en!(ineering program can't operate, rector of the Council on Higher Ed- said he hadn't known about the said Paducah Community College ucation. . $3,8 million in equipment and in- President Len O'Hara. , Patton was not in the meeting. frastructure costs. ''Without it, you've got a build­ ing and you don't have the machine "It really wasn't a request at "This is the first 'I've he~rd that makes the building run,"- he this point, but it was just a briefing about it," he said. "I would hope said. "If you don't have that money, on the situation," said Mark Pfeif- they're not serious, because it's a you don't have a program that's go­ fer, a spokesman for Patton, "He's breach of the agreement and ing to function in the manner we taking all this under advisement at faith." said it would." O'Hara an_d-a delegation of Pad­ ucah civic leaders last week briefed members of Gov. Paul Patton's staff on the project. . They say the bulk of that mon­ lExlNGT0N HERALD-LEADER, LEXINGTON, KY, ■ TUESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1996 ey - about $3.8 million - is for needs the state already knew about, Marshall fans can now such as computer networks telecommunications connections: and furniture and equipment · see Herd live on Net · ~ But the cost of the new engi­ Some day, football fans the world ~ver may look neering building - the bulk of which was paid for by private do­ back wit_h ~titude to the Sept 14 game between Mar­ shall University ~nd West Virginia State College. nations - .. has risen by $1.2 mil­ Not for anythmg that occurred on the field:.Marshall lion, from $7.4 million to $8.6 rriil- ·lion. ' hardly broke a sweat in its 42-7 win. What happened in The Paducah engineering pro­ the press box, though, might just revolutionize the way posal has been one of the most di­ fans follow their favorite teams in the future. visive issues to hit higher educa­ The game was broadcast live over the Internet '.'No doubt about it, this was a significant eveni" tion in- recent years. PCC initially sought to offer engineering bache­ said Rick Widdifield, one of the three men who ~ngi­ lor's degrees in Paducah, working ~eered _the ~istori_c broadcast. "To our knowledge, this 1s the first tune video from a live sporting event has wit!1 the University of Kentucky, been broadcast over the Net which runs the community college system. "It wa_s s~p!y a matter of adapting the technology But Murray State University and makmg 11 workt said Widdifield, national sales manager for a Huntmgton, W.Va.-based business called anc! town officials objected, saying Internet Processing, the program wasn't needed -'- and if there was a demand, Murray To ~~smit_the game, the Internet Processing crew set up d1g1tal video cameras in the Marshall Stadium cquld meet it. press box and linked them to computers on site and at the company:s office. Internet Processing will broadcast Marshall's Nov, 2 game against The Citadel, To see the free hve broadcast, the company's World Wide Web · page 1s: http://www.netwholesalers.com · q I ~d?- -L}-1 r5-11p Oa.+. ~' J 99" - . MSU ARCHIVES MSU Clip Sheet A sample of recent articles of interest to Morehead State University INSTITUTIONAL RELATIONS MOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY UPO BOX 1100 MOREHEAD. KY 40351-1689 606-783-2030 ,24 C0"!.,UNITY ■ LEXINGTON HERALO-LEADER, LEXINGTON, KY,1 ■ IVEDNESDAY,,OCT0BER 9. 1996 College .renames "building for trustee - -~ ~ ·_ ~ -'-'=~1¥i:i:it1:~;:~/,L -:.:•,·'/ . ·:-BY LiNDA VANHOOSE>· :,,: classrooms and offices. ln-1993, HERALD-LEADER srAffwRITER · the cafeteria was closed when the he-Rev: w:w: ")3ill"'.Slider's Robert D. Cranmer Dining :and · first. contact-. with. Lindsey Conference Center opened, and the Wilson College;.wiis in 1937 college started renovation plans. . T The humanities center houses .vhen he visited •the Columbia 1 .:ampus during'': ·a · .Methodist an art gallery, a recital hall, a church youth camp:;::, ... sculpture court, 13 faculty offices, Slider returiieiftp. the tanipus two seminar rooms, -a classroom, cnany times, first as' a high school and piano and writing laborato­ 1nd college student and then-as ·a ries. During renovation, an atrium \.1ethodist minister.';.:··· connection was built to Phillips One of his favorite memories Resident Hall, and an elevator was · added. . Jf the school involves not a specif­ ic event or person. but the campus Center for the region itself. Especially-this time of year. ·"The fall colors remind me of The· center will pro­ my own days at .college," said vide south central Ken­ Slider, for whom the new humani­ tucky with· a place to ties center will be dedicated this showcase local, state Friday, "with the sunlight coming and regional .performing through the trees and the leaves and visual arts. It will changing their colors:'' ·: ' sponsor a fall and 'Slider's involveirterit with· the spring arts series featur­ school increased substantially in ing regional artists. 1977 when he was appointed to To make the arts the its board of trustees in 1978. more accessible to the s·mgers. ·. . . He was chairman from .-1982-84, region, the center will "It's going to help a lot ·with one of the college's most critical attempt to keep all the choral. program because it rimes as he helped pave the way events free. · gives us a first-class recital hall in- for 'Lin~_sey Wil59!,1'S . transjtion For students, the center will di- stead of the auditorium we used to from a two-year to. four-year col- rectly benefit the college's visual practice in. It also -has a very lege. - •. ,w,- ~ · arts arid choral programs. prominent place ·for our student "We're real excited about its and visiting artists to display their Slider, educated-at tliii Univer­ opening,". said David Young, a ju- work. good to have all .of the is ·rt·s sity of Louisville, a retired Unit­ nior from Lawrenceburg who is a arts under one roof -on our cam­ ed Methodist minister. He was member oC the Lindsey Wilson pus." ·· pastor of Christ · Church : in Louisville in 1961-86. Under his. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1996 ■ LExlNGTON HERALD-LEADER, lExlNGTON, KY. ■ COMMUNITY 15 leadership, ChrisCChurch grew . into one of the best-known United Methodist churches in Kentucky. Pikeville ·has-big plans Humanities essential Lindsey Wilson's humanities center:is named in Slider's honor · for Founders' Day because of his contributions to the college and his strong belief in the . BY LINDA VANHOOSE College gym beginning at 10 p.m. relevance that such studies have HERALD-LEADER STAFF WRITER It will be followed by a midnight in everyday Christian life, accord­ ikeville College has planned breakfast in the gym. ing to· Lindsey Wilson offi- a lot of activities for this All events are free and open to cials. Pyear's Founders' Day cele­ the public. Slider's name is syn­ bration. onymous with the notion Festivities begin with a special CAMPBELLSVILLE that daily· enrichment of chapel service at 11 a.m. Thursday the soul through_ a. purpose­ in the Allara Library courtyard. A Campbellsville University has ful program and the hu­ picnic lunch, student games and named its new board of trustees' manities · is essential to musical entertainment will be in room after a Campbellsville physi­ learning and caring. the courtyard from .11 a.m. to 2 cian and his wife. The· center, formerly p.m. known as the Humanities Room 15 of the Administrative Building, was opened in · At 7:30 p.m., the PC Music En­ Building, now used as a class­ 1925. The 18,000-square-- sembles will make their debut un­ room, will be redone and named in foot office building originally der the direction of Brad Daniels, honor of Forest and Roberta Shely, housed the college's gymnasium, coordinator of music ensembles. It 1943 and 1942 alumni, respective­ will be in Booth Auditorium, cafeteria and some offices, and at ly . the time, it was considered to be Recor

. .. Just"'.an oversight?_ · UK seems to forget _the mission it drafted for itself

. . ometimes it's absolutely · fund-raising efforts across the uni­ amazin_g how the most impor- versity, including athletics, acts as Stant thmgs can be over- a traffic cop to prevent a college . looked. , " · from asking a donor who has al- That's what puzzled.us when ready pledged somewhere else. Can we.checked back over the Universi- . anyone realistically believe that .. ty of Kentucky Strategic Plan, To tens of millions raised for an arena our amazement, nowhere in the · will not dampen donations to acade- plan's 37 strategic goals was there mic programs? mention of a new basketball-arena As for UK's commitment to What could the UK staff, faculty leadership on issues facing the rest and· trustees have been thinking of the world, we need not loqk fur. about? Thirty-seven areas targeted ·ther than Rupp Arena. If UK pulls to improve UK and nowhere a men- out of Rupp, built for UK basketball _ tion of the one most overwhelming as its major tenant, Lexington tax- need. . payers will be left looking for an- • Well, it is great to know. that · other• tenant to pay the remaining such an oversight is soon to be cor- debt of the.Lexington Center Corp. rected. After all, the four overall . . - close to $26 million today. All · goals that guide the strategic plan that so Lexington, a city of 235,000, are very clear. Briefly, they state cari have two arenas that seat more the university will pursue: scholar- · than 20,000. Do we really need to ship arid academic excellence; lead- seat 20 percent of the population on ership in addressing issues facing any given night? Likewise, it is Kentucky, the nation and the world; hard to imagine how this arena better stewardship of its human, fis- speaks to UK's stewardship goal of cal and physical resources; and an - · its own resources. And for the life academic community uniting the of us, we can't see what it does to university and community college bring the comrriunity colleges into systems. the Pniversity of Kentucky commu- Can't everyone see how soaking nity. _ private donors to build a basketball There is no question there could arena within a couple of miles of be some selling points for the new the 23,100-seat Rupp Arena will fur- arena. The university would cap-. · · ther these_ goals? · ture more revenue from parking · Well, we've got to admit,- we and generate more income from cor- can't. porate skyboxes at its own arena Pick any of the four goals and than it does at Rupp. And it would you wind up scratchin_g your head. give Kentucky a bigger arena than We're mystified about any link the University of Tennessee's between .academic excellence and Thompson-Boling Arena. · an arena. In.its plan, UK notes that We looked carefully but we nev- private donations can never replace er found skyboxes or bragging core public funding but they can rights in the strategic plan. "make a real difference in the 'mar- Maybe it wasn't an oversight gin of excellence.' " UK's develop- · when the new arena was left out. ment office, which coordinates Amazing, isn't it? Oc.,+. 10,, /99? nl/SU l,/1,:, A sample of recent articles of interest to Morehead State University INSTITUTIONAL RELATIONS MOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY UPO BOX 1 100 MOREHEAD, KY 40361-1 689 606-783-2030 TJ-lE COURIER-JOURNAL:• THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1996 Myrray "p~Sitlellt: Strip UK --- -~-- -- - But UK ranks poorly, Alexander said, in the numbers of advanced of 2~year_ colleges· graduate and professional degrees awarded, a well-recognized indicator Alexander said that the UK col­ of high quality-higher education. leges, which enroll about 43,000 stu­ "The economy and standard of living Alexander calls dents on 14 campus~s. have focused of Kentucky would undoubtedly be too much on academic-oriented pro­ greatly erihanced by an additional 300 for attention grams, and not enough on job-train­ to 350 doctorates per year," he said. ing efforts below the associate-de• But the state policy that makes UK to job· training gree level. Those efforts, he said, are Kentucky's major doctoral-degree the province of a series of technical university, he said, also makes the By RICHARD WILSON schools operated by the Workforce state far less productive than most The Courier.Journal Development Cabiriet. nearby states. UK's.avoidance of more "high-lev­ "The University of Kentucky can't LEXINGTON, Ky. - Murray State el vocational, technical and skill do it and they're not doing it. I don't University President Kem Alexander training," he ·said, has led to a state­ know if they won:t do it, but they're has called for the University of Ken­ wide "postsecondary educational not doing it," Alexander said. tucky to be stripped of its community program (that) is "highly inefficient, UK offers nearly 60 Ph.D. prri-· college system, arguing that the two­ misplaced and disorganized." grams. The University of Louisville, year schools spend too much time on Noting that he taught courses in the only other school authorized _to academic-related programs and not community college administration for grant the degrees, offers 21 doctor­ enough on job training. 18 years at the University of Florida, ates. Alexander also contends that UK is Alexander said yesterday that Ken­ Moreover Alexander said, few UK limiting the state's potential by not tucky's pre-baccalaureate and voca­ research-doctoral programs were operating nationally competitive tional-technical programs "should be highly ranked in a 1993 evaluation by graduate and research programs. merged and patterned after programs the National Research Council. In that Alexander outlined his position, in California, Illinois, Virginia and evaluation, which surveyed 8,000 fac­ which was among numerous observa­ Florida. "They should be put together ulty members in the United States, tions about Kentucky higher educa­ under one board and one head. It's as only three of UK's doctoral programs. tion, in a 40-page paper he gave to illogical as it can be to put it all un­ won ratings in the top half of their_ Gov. Paul Patton and shared with re­ der the institution that's been desig­ fields. gional university presidents and oth­ Alexander said these and other sta-. •nated as the advanced graduate, tistics show that UK is over-extended. ers. A copy was obtained by The Ph.D. institution." Courier-Journal. "You get to be ranked nationally by .UK's two-year college system was being visible in Washington and with_ While UK's administration of the established in the mid-1960s by the community colleges has been dis­ these big foundations using your ad­ General Assembly, which since has vanced graduate, research Ph.D. ere- . cussed for years, Alexander's call to rejected several efforts to realign it. end it was the 'first since a task force dentials to bring in resources." · . UK President Charles Wethington UK, he said, "is the only institution headed by Patton began studyiog the Jr:--and Ben Carr, chancellor of the state's higher education system. Al­ in'Kentucky that can do that because community college system, said they everybody else has been foreclosed exander advocates turning the ad­ could not comment- on Alexander's ministration over to a separate board. from doing it." paper because they had not seen it. "They ought to be competing with Alexander said in an interview yes­ Alexander said that any college re­ terday that h'I! prepared the paper for (the University of) Wisconsin at the form efforts "must pay particular and Defense Department, not Murray a discussion on higher education he primary attention" to UK as the had a few weeks ago with Patton and State at Paducah," Alexander said. state's flagship university because For the past couple of years Murray Ed Ford, deputy secretary of Patton's citizens make a significant tax effort cabinet. Ford said yesterday that Al­ and UK have had a well-publicized to support it. face-off over their respective roles in exander presented his ideas, but that In his paper, he said UK ranked neither he nor Patton had yet read the a new engineering program in Padu­ second in the United States in 1992-93 cah. paper, which the governor is to share in the amount of state money it re­ with other members of the Task Force ceived per full-time student. The Uni­ on Postsecondary Education. versity of North Carolina in Chapel "I thought this was relevant infor­ Hill ranked first. mation that hadn't been discussed in · any forum that I knew of," Alexander said yesterday. · L00NGTON HERALD-LEADER, LEXJNGTON, KY., ■ THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1996

_Maintaining; . .}r;:.;~;:~:. . _:_. :, .....: ·. ·: .. -~ ... _: the------· -'wall.-·. ·. - ·Georgetown Coll~ge is _wise to fund stadium privately I ' • ' • ··1·n a state facing a host of prob- .·: . It ~as the wise thing to .do. . tional point. It would have been im­ lematic_ public issues and some There 1~ no "'.aY, of ever for~casting , proper for tax money to be spent rather, important election .deci- what this nations courts' will do, . building what is essentially a sjons; yoti wouldn't think debates '. _ but Adams raised a valid constitu- ' church school's facility. over ·sports facilities could consume 1 -so much time and energy this sum­ THE COURIER-JOURNAL • THURSQAY, OCTOBER 10, 1996 tjier and fall in Kentucky. But they ·cjid, and-they still do. · · . : Should Lexington put public . money into a minor-league baseball UK's. talk of building stadium? Should Louisville do the same? Should the University of. Kentucky build a new basketball a new arena ·upsets arena on campus, leaving Rupp Arena as a cavernous rat hole down which millions of public dollars will Lexington offici~ls be pounded? . ·- · . (This latter prospect ought to comparing Pitino to longtime UK If school leaves coach Adolph Rupp. ·prompt fourth, fifth and ·sixth Council members are worried t\)oughts for any Lexington official Rupp, city loses about how a new arena would affect who's inclinecf to buy into the base­ downtown, as well as the budget of Lexington Center, which is partly ball stadium idea. A professional $2 million a year supported by the city. franchise certainly would owe less "This is incredibly damaging to the loyalty to .the community than UK Associated Press city," said Councilwoman Kathy Pratt. "I'm really rather offended by does,-and the city sure can't afford LEXINGTON, Ky. - Urban govern­ it." two rat holes.) · · ment officials aren't cheering the Uni­ Councilman Robert Jefferson said versity of Kentucky's plans to study the council's budget-and-finance com­ While these controversies con­ the feasibility of a new basketball are­ tax mittee should start looking at how ·tinue, one argument over dol­ na. much the city and taxpayers stand to lars and sports complexes apparent­ Urban County Council members lose if UK decides to go ahead with a ly has been settled in a manner expressed concern Tuesday about the new arena. potential financial blow if UK leaves A 1995 audit - the most recent that's beneficial to the public, . city-owned Rupp Arena. available - showed Lexington Center ·Georgetown College has decided to "It is very distasteful to hear that had a $6.8 million operating budget in · go it alone in building a football the university is even thinking about fiscal 1995. something like this," Councilman Roy On top of that, Lexington's multi­ stadium that will serve the school Durbin said. "It really hurts to even million-dollar debt on the arena will and as a training camp for the think they would treat our city this· not be paid off until well into the next Cincinnati Bengals. · way. century. . "Now we know where their priori­ The city gives Lexington Center . Prior plans had the college join- . ties are," he said. 11It1s not academics; about $160,000 a year to help pay the mg with the Scott County school it's basketball." $2.9 million annual debt service on system and _city and county govern­ Durbin also sits on the board of the the project's bonds, which were is- Lexington Center Corp., which man­ sued ,in 1976. · ments to bmld the facility. That ages Rupp Arena for the city. Miller said she remains in contact drew a legal challenge from Charles UK President Charles Wethington with university officials and is willing Adams, a Scott County farmer who said Monday that the university will to negotiate with, them about Rupp. argued that the joint venture · conduct a feasibility study later this "I'm willing to try and make some year to help determine whether it new accommodations if that would be breached the wall separating should try to raise money for a new desirable," she said. church and ~tate ~~cause the pri­ arena. She mentioned possible negotia­ vate college 1s aff1hated with the Mayor Pam Miller told the council tions about sharing concession rev­ that the university's departure would enues with the university or reconfi­ Baptist religion. Rather than endure create an estimated $2 inillion hole in guring the seats inside Rupp. the delay caused by a protracted Lexington Center's annual budget. Joe Burch, UK's vice president for court case, college officials decided Durbin had perhaps the harshest university relations, declined to re­ words for UK - and for coach Rick spond to any specific comments by to forego public help. Pitino, who has often talked about an council members. on-campus arena. But he said the university "is going "(Pitino) is not a legend yet, he to continue to be happy to work" witli hasn't won 800 games," Durbin said, the Urban County Government. A sample of recent articles· of interest to Morehead State University INSTITUTIONAL RELATIONS MOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY UPO BOX 1100 MOREHEAD, KY 40351-1689 606-783-2030 LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER, LEXINGTON, KY. ■ FRIDAY ..OCTOBER 11, 1996 sity. "'They're really operating most­ ly as junior colleges and not as com­ prehensive community colleges.'' UK president faults Eaglin also echoed Alexander's questions about UK's doctoral pro­ grams. "If wfre going to have any capacity to attracl high-tech busi­ Murray chi ers report nesses, the brain power businesses that appies aiid oranges are being we're going to have to have more of BY ANciiE MUHS compared," he said. a research presence," he said. "The HERALD-LEADER EDUCATION WRITER At least one other regional uni­ question that has to get answered A regional university presi­ versity president said he shared is, do the community colleges deter dent's suggestion that the state take some of Alexander's concerns. UK from moving in that direction?" the community colleges away from "Some community colleges have But Eaglin also said he didn't the University of Kentucky contra­ gotten into vocational training, but t~ink Alexander's report was nega­ dicts Gov. Paul Patton's admonition it's not all over," said Ronald Eaglin, tive. "What's wrong with explain­ to the universities to work together, president of Moreliead State Univer- ing a situation as it exists?" he said. UK's president said yesterday. Murray State University Presi­ THE COURIER-JOURNAL • FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1996 dent Kem Alexander wrote in a 40- page report sent to Patton, regional university presidents and others that UK's community colleges "fall UK chief defends far short of' fulfilling an obligation to provide career and technical edu­ cation for Kentucky. That led Alexander to suggest management that such programs ought to be merged with Kentucky Tech techni­ cal schools under one board and oni.head. of 2-year colleges •.- ,dJK President Charles T. W~ihington Jr. said yesterday that he had not yet read Alexander's report. He says they But Wethington said that UK President Alexander's action created a situa­ Charles offer right cb1sses Wethington tion of potential conflict. called the "It puts an institution into a po­ at right price criticism a 11 sition of having to oppose something l.', regional that another institution has pro· By RICHARD WILSON , ... university posed," Wethington said. "This is The Courier-Journal J0.l. Interest." W:6 not the kind of effort that will lead LEXINGTON, Ky. - The Univer­ ,':""< to coordination and cooperation." sity of Kentucky is doing a good job Alexander was out of the office running the statewide community "I think if the total effort of the and could not be reached yesterday. college system, said UK President (colleges) could be assessed, one The idea of separating the com­ Charles Wethington Jr. would find that those colleges have munity colleges from UK is nothing He defended the university's ad- a major part of their effort placed in new, but Alexander's report comes ministration of the 14-campus sys- the training and retraining pro­ tern against contentions that the grams for business and industcy, at a time when Gov. Patton has schools would be better off meqied which mainly don't show up in en- vowed to put higher education and with state vocational-techmcal rollment reports," he said. its siructure under a microscope schools and run by an independent Ben Carr, chancellor of the UK and reform it. board. system, said about half the pro- Wethington said he hadn't Wethington was respondin!( to re- grams offered by the colleges lead known about Alexander's report, marks by Murray State Umversity to technical degrees; not ones that but said he wasn't surprised. President Kem Alexander in yester- allow graduates to transfer immedi­ day's Courier-Journal. In an inter- ately to four-year colleges. "I guess I'm not surprised by view and a 40-page paper given to UK's operation of the community President Alexander's recommenda­ Gov. Paul Patton, Alexander criti- colleges has become a periodic issue tion, because this is not a new rec• cized the UK colleges for focusing in higher education, but changing ommendation from the regional uni- . too heavily on academic-oriented their administration would require versities," he said. programs and not enough on job- action by the General Assembl¥, Alexander's report also ques­ training efforts below the associate which created the current system m tioned UK's effectiveness in doctor­ degree level. . the mid-1960s. UK has always beat Wethington said he was not sur- back efforts to strip the schools, al­ al programs, citing a 1993 National prised that Alexander would suggest though critics have contended they Research Council evaluation in stripping the two-year schools from could be more effective if adminis- which only three UK doctoral pro­ UK. tered by an independent board. grams ranked in the top half of "This happens to be the latest Alexander noted that UK is well- their fields. He also presented a opinion that's been expressed so funded by Kentucky taxpayers and slew of statistics that concluded many times over the years from one questioned the school's effective­ UK ranks second in the country in or more of the regional universities. ness as the state's primacy graduate the amount of money it gets for "It appears that the regional uni- and research university. He also out­ versity interest in separating the lined statistics that showed it com­ every full-time student compared community colleges from UK con- pared poorly with top schools in with its average per capita income. tinues to be alive and well," he said. surrounding and nearby states. Wethington stopped short of Alexander called the state's post- Wethington said he had not stud- disputing Alexander's calculations secondacy-level vocational-technical ied Alexander's paper. but said he thought state policy­ and community college programs "I am not prepared, nor do I pre- makers should instead rely on the inefficient and disorganized. fer to comment specifically on some Council on Higher Education and Wethington, who headed the com- infonnatlon that has been compiled munity college system for eight in this fashion," Wethington said. the Southern Regional Education years before becoming UK's presi: He suggested, however, that some of Board for their stalistics. dent in 1990, said the system has Alexander's contentions were "I think that data has proved to been economical and is offering the skewed by the way his comparjsons hP rrPrlihlP nvPr timP ~nrl P1N11rp.i;. rial,t ldnrl nf nrnrYramc:o u,ara m.,,,-1_.. tn nth .. .- ...... ,,;.;,.,, The Daily Independent, Ashland, Kentucky, Thursday, October 10, 1996 ·Morehead's start has that in some way, somebody is going to step up. Big plays are town--b-rizzillg taking place because of that." Not that the job of rebuild­ eraiiy thrown to the wolves. ing is complete. "We are a long,. long way By TONY CURNUTTE But I had people tell me that if from being the type of team we OFTHE DAILY INDEPENDENT they didn't look at the score­ board and didn't know the sit­ can be, should be and are going to be," Ballard said. The early season success of uation, that they would have Morehead State University's "There's so ·much im­ thought we were playing for a provement we can do of­ football teatn has not . only championship or winning the been a welcome sign to coach­ fensvively and defensively." football game." The Eagles travel to Wofford es and players but to the Good times are back because town, as well. College this Saturday. Morehead State has refined its "I'm going to take a Willie "The nicest surprise is how game. Fundamental mistakes Nelson C.D. on the road with winning has affected More­ happen less frequently and the me this week because we're on liead,"said Eagles coach Matt team has clicked on all cylin­ the road again," Ballard. said. Ballard, who has overseen the ders. "They are an outstanding op­ transition to non-athletic "The open week we had after ponent. We don't match up scholarships over the last the Dayton game was ex­ well with them. They're bigger three years. "I can't go any­ tremely important," Ballard and stronger than we are. where - anywhere - where said. "We made big strides in "They should have beaten someone doesn't say to me terms of assignments. It's ex­ Furman. They completely shut something about the Eagles. actly what the doctor ordered. them down. The only reason "I have people coming up to We took full advantage, work­ they lost to them was because me saying, 'Hey great game, ing extremely hard and what of turnovers. We don't have to I'm pulling for you, keep it we've seen is our team blos­ be perfect offensively, but we up,' things like that. Tha_t'.~ soming, and getting better need to be pretty mistake-free. -nea~ Folks are really fol­ every week. We can't turn the ball over .in lowing these guys." "We've had a lot of people the limited chances and op­ stepping up in big ways. These portunities we'll get due to After a lopsided season­ guys are starting to believe their wing-T offense." opening loss to Dayton, More- head State has put together a ■ lExJ H LEA LExJ K ■ w EKENDER 9 ~ri~~~~1~~: ;J*EE~five wins. The initial an- SolOiStsttak0°"· ' : '.: '· ting to step out of the wind section, nouncment that MSU was t t ,·• but we chose to be in the front row, c11tting athletic scholarship~ cen er s ag· e where it feels more.like we're part of th ~~io ~!u~;r~i:fJ~etc~n o~h: · - · · . · . • : '. : · e IT~::!~ert also includes Mo=t's football basis led to a rash of overture to The Abduction from the transfers and hard times. Seraglio and Brahms' Symphony No. 3.) Ballard admirably kept the ml con··.·ce· rt·· The Strauss work, with its story ship afloat and even pumped line about a princess and a bear who enthusiasm into the program. turns into a prince, is rarely per- This year's juniors and se- BY KEVIN NANCE formed. "It's one of his last works, and niors are a testimony to hard HERAl.l>l.EADER ARrs WRITER as usual with Strauss it's pretty diffi- - work, Ballard said. poor orchestra players. So anony- cult to play," Acord said. "I think 'the "We lived by hard work mous, so thankless; sitting there audience will find it a great piece and and persistence,'' he said. doing the grunt work night after a lot of fun." "\Ve-tried to keep our focus night, while guest soloists _waltz in at and perspective on going out the last minute and hog all the glory. · and having fun. That was the Tonight at the University of Ken- thing we stressed from the L--- tucky Singletary Center.for the Arts, first week. however, the Lexington Philhannonic Acord is giving three of its best players a · "Good things have hap- P"~;r,;";!Il chance to step out of the pack and go .. pened and nobody deserves it for some glory themselves. more than the seniors and ~lh\.J Flutist Robert Pritchard, clarinetist juniors. The juniors were lit- Michael Acord and bassoortist Peier Simpson will get their turn in the spot­ light. Pritchard will play Bach's S~ite No. 2 in B Mi,wr, while Acord and Simpson will team up to perform Richard Strauss' programmatic Duet­ Omcertino. Pritchard "Bob and Peter and myself are real appreciative of the opportunity to do it," said Acord who, like Pritchard, is _a professor of music at Morehead State University (Simpson teaches at UK). "I think in patron surveys, some of the ·concertgoers suggested \!)at they'd like 19 near more of the talent in the or­ chestra, so this is chance to do that." Don't think the soloists are getting a big head, though. Acord and Simpson chose to stand not in the usual soloist LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER, LEXINGTON, KY. ■ FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11. 1996 Turf over teamwork University presidents ducked hard education choices

K, let's say you're in an hon­ It seems quality rather than ors program and you and quantity is the problem in Ken­ Oyour equally talented class­ tucky. A network of universities mates are assigned a team project. and community colleges puts some You have a production and dis­ post-high school education close to tribution system that has problems. a vast number of Kentuckians. The The product is not quite up to mar­ trouble, as a consultant to Patton ket standards and you have plants has pointed out, is that many stu­ scattered all over everywhere, some dents are not ready for higher edu­ making one thing, some another cation and Kentucky is not pre­ and several making the same thing. pared to deliver high-quality educa­ No one is quite sure whether cus­ tion into the future. "If you are seri­ tomers are getting the products ous about moving into the economy they need. And everyone thinks this of the 21st century, it's going to be .haphazard system is inefficient. awfully hard to do it without a The boss has said he is willing to stronger research university than spend some money to solve the you have now," Dennis Jones, the problems but first you've got to consultant, told the university presi­ iron out some of the problems and dents. cut costs by making the system And it is going to be awfully ·more efficient. hard to get that stronger research · So you have a few meetings, university while turf battles among you complain about people who politicians and university adminis­ criticize your team and in the end trators scatter unnecessary pro­ ' you come up with a report that grams around the state. says this: The company should of­ The university presidents did fer its products on the Internet; inef­ not recommend the Paducah Com­ ficiencies and production problems munity College engineering pro­ should be studied. This will cost gram - a dubious usher into the more money and save none. 21st Century at best - but it re­ .. Congratulations; you can be a flects the problem. Although the en­ university president. gineering program has not yet en­ Last week the heads of Ken­ rolled its first student, we learned tucky's public higher education in­ this week that backers say they stitutions came up with a plan to need another $1.2 million to get it answer Gov. Paul Patton's charge going. Money flowing to Paducah to suggest ways to improve Ken- for a questionable program is flow­ ·tucky's system of public higher ed­ ing away from stronger, more im­ ucation and make it more efficient. portant programs elsewhere. As some observers have comment­ The university presidents are .ed, the plan reads more like a bud, not alone in avoiding the hard get request than a problem-solving choices required to improve higher document. Leading the list of solu­ education in Kentucky. But some- 'tions is a proposal, with no price . how it is more disappointing that .tag attached, to create a "virtual they - whose life work, after all, is university" to beam education into education - would tum away from every nook and cranny of the state. the task, holding onto their fief­ There is certainly a role for doms with one hand while waving technical innovation in education, a technological wand with the oth­ ];>ut we believe the presidents were er. When you've got both hands Jar off the mark with this sugges­ occupied already, it is probably tion, perhaps intentionally. hard to contribute to a team project.

THE COURIER-JOURNAL • FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11. 1996 Foundation honors Transyivania professor LEXINGTON, Ky. - A Transylvania University economics profes­ sor has been honored as one of the nation's top instructors. The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching hon­ ore_d Larry L)'.llch as Kentucky Professor of the Year. The program, which recogmzes unc;lergraduate instructors selected winners in 47 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. Lynch was chosen from 585 faculty members throughout the country. Lynch, who has taught at Transylvania since 1979 also works as a consultant on tax and economic issues for the K~ntucky General Assembly. "Profess?r Lyn~h has an extraordinary dedication to teaching," Tra!'sylvama President Charles Shearer said in a news release. "He is a highly respected member of the Transylvania faculty and has al­ ways ~een•.~ popu!ar ~rofessor because of his rapport with students and his ab1bty to mspire them to think, question and learn.'' THE COURIER-JOURNAL • FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1996 B&W's $3 million tops off U of L stadium fund drive By MICHAEL JENNINGS turning down such a gift. '. an $18 million lo- The Courier-Journal U ofL President John Shumaker I cal bond issue. said the university had "no hesitancy Brown & Wtl­ The Brown & Williamson Tobacco at all" about accepting the gift. He liamson Chair­ Corp. put the fund drive for a new called it the latest example of Brown man Nicholas B&W Chairman University of Louisville football stadi- & Williamson's generosity toward Brookes called Nicholas um complex over the top yesterday U of L, where the company funds a the club "a show- Brookes with a $3 million gift. business-~chool professorsh_ip, merit piece" and an as- announced the 1 In return, the university will allow scholarships, an qrb!"' af!airs devel- set in Louisville's gift. Brown & Williamson to attach its opment fund and a discrelionruy fund competition for name permanently to a posh, 2,000- that Shumake~ controls. new industries. U of L officials esti- seat club spanning the length of the Brown & Williamson has •~really mate it will be used 100-150 times a stadium's second floor. The stadium made the university a better place . • . year for receptions luncheons meet- itself will be named for the pizza chain and we•,~ proud to h~ve them as a ings and other eve~ts. ' Papa John's, whose owner, John partner, Shumaker srud. . Daynard . said he expected that Schnatter, pledged $5 million in May. Bank One of Kentucky Chrurman some· universities would engage in The 45,000-seat stadium already M:iI~olm Chancey, ~ho hea_ded fund "considerable soul-searching" before was fully funded, but the Brown & rrusmg for the stadi_um, srud he of- accepting gifts from tobacco compa­ Williamson gift ensures that an athlet­ fered Bro':"11. & Williamson the club nies. He pointed to the furor in the ic training center also can be finished spons9rship m return for support, i:iut U •ted Kingdom over Cambridge Uni- by the start of the 1998 season. he said no brand-name adverlismg ru . , . . Richard Daynard, chairman of the will be allowed in the club, and smok- vers1ty s acceptance of 1.5 !1"1lion Tobacco Products Liability Project at ing will be banned in most of it. The pounds froll_l . BAT , Industries - Northeastern University, said 1t was stadium itself will have a 5,000-seat Brown & W1U1amson s parent ~0'!1· "somewhat ironic to have the manu­ no-smoking, no-drinking section. pany -. to set up_ a professorship m facturer of a deadly product proudly Chancey said the gift, which brings mternat1onal relali?~- , funding a fitness facility." But Day­ total corporate giving to more than In response, Bntam s C"".cer Re­ nard, whose group promotes health­ $27 million, completes the $60 million search Camp_aign announc~d '! w?uld related lawsuits against tobacco com­ needed to build the stadium. Further no longer give funds to 1nslitulions panies, acknowleoged the difficulty of corporate gifts will be used to reduce that accept tobacco-company cash. The Daily Independent, Ashland, Kentucky, Thursday, October 10, 1996 Patton's visit brings $289,975 check to PCC for high-tech training program

By GEORGE WOLFFORD president, said the computer­ OF THE DAILY INDEPENDENT based training program "ls the latest in a series of lttnovatlve PRESTONSBURG - Gov. initiatives undertaken In part­ Paul Patton, in the last stop of nership with private enter­ his swing through Eastern are one of several a t-rlsk groups targeted benefit from prise, government agencies Kentucky this week, dropped to the training. other programs and other academic institu­ off a check for $289,975 for are aimed at dislocated work• tions to increase access to Prestonsburg Community Col­ ers, single parents, welfare re­ post-secondary education In lege to use for high-tech career cipients, high school dropouts the hills of Eastern Kentucky. training. and people with outdated job _In a ceremony Wednesday at skills. "We feel it's essential to May Lodge of Jenny Wiley make use of the latest techno­ State Resort Park, Patton pre­ Dr. Joan Lucas, dean of aca­ logical advances to deliver ed­ seriied-the grant money from demic affairs at PCC, said the ucational services to everyone the Appalachian Regional grant will help some 500 resi­ who needs them, especially Commission to Paul Gear­ dents of the Big Sandy Valley those who can't come to a tra­ heart, chairman of PCC's Advi­ move from at-risk status to ditional classroom setting." sory Board. "having the necessary prepa­ The governor, In concluding The grant will be combined ration to perform their Jobs . more effectively or to compete a tour that Included Morehead, with a $73,000 match from PCC effectively for open positions Ashland and Paintsville, said equip a dedicated high-tech to in the Job market. his Patton to the People visits computer laboratory on the not only gave the public op­ college's Prestonsburg campus "In· addition, those who portunity for close discussions and a mobile high-tech com­ choose to do so will be pre­ with cabinet members, but In­ puter lab for off-campus train­ pared for further vocational troduced those members to the ing. Software and staff train­ training." broad state community they ing are included in the pack­ Dr. Deborah Floyd,. PCC serve.. • .. age. Most of the money will be spent for the campus center, creating 25 computer worksta­ tions with related hardware. The mobile center will have 13 laptop computers with re­ lated hardware, and can be taken to any site where busi­ nesses, individuals or organi­ zations contract for specific training. Individuals with disabilities ---- 9)Ad-d--9-15-f3 ()c.f. l'I, /~'It, MSU ARCHIVES MSU Clip Sheet A sample of recent articles of interest to Morehead State University INSTITUTIONAL RELATIONS MOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY UPO BOX 1100 MOREHEAD, KY 40361-1689 606-783-2030 ...:.,1,.-,.,.,,c)c. c-\ Hijhu The Sunday lndependent,Ashland, Kentucky, October 13, 1996 E~i N>, Dd. "1 I 9q f:. Pa._ 1e fJ :;_ c, :~:<:::.... :'0/'✓ 5p:\Xtt~*,,:?7-/{:/)ft:-IN:. 01JR<\tlew>:.T0KSP{_: :..CY'\ ~-::/'.2/f 3:~•N. ~:: ·::,: -~ On .. A _a 1181:::trole: .·~ 2''/~C&ni~uriity coll~g~s -~~st offer Line ·-both· academics· an1r Job·;trairting

The president of Kentucky's .In · proposing a .separation who i::aiiriot afford the cost of Morehead State University has of the state's 14 community · Jiyi.I).g away from home to at­ found a new way to colleges from the Universlty tend college, those who be­ communicate with the campus­ of Kentucky, Murray State cause of poor academic through voice mail. University President Kern records in high school must Ronald G. Eaglin has left one­ minute pep talks for students and Alexander has raised what prqve- that they can do col­ faculty members each week since may be the key question re- · lege work, and those whose the fall semester began. garding this issue: What is jcib · and · family obligations His subjects have included tips the role of the community prevent them from attending for students on doing better colleges? · college on a four-year cam- academically and reminders of Until that question. is. an- pus. · · · •·: · · upcoming events or exams. In one message, he encouraged students to swer~d,_ it, i~ .. d~cn!! to . de:, .. _ , ,The two-plus-two programs register to vote ...I'm not worried termme. how, best2cto .. govern · · Ashlab:d"Community College about running out of things to say," the two-y~ar coll~g~5...; :.~: . ·:..;; _ offers ..in,. conjunction with Dr. Eaglin notes. In-~ 40-page paper giveIJ,)'o Mor~head State University He says the messages have had a positive impact. For example, G?v; Paul _Pi¾t_ton an~ sh~ed .make it possible for people to officials responsible for tutoring wit~ reg10nal ·university earn· four-year degrees with­ assistance at the university saw a 37- presidents, ;Alexander calls· out leaving Ashland. per-cent increase in demand after for the creation of a separ;ite Alexander's proposal to di­ the president mentioned the service boar_d to govern the com- vorce the community col­ in one of his voiceamail notes. Dr. Eaglin, who has been at munity colleges. . leges from UK is not a n~w Morehead for four years, thinks that Al~xander, who served. as idea.. State -Rep. Freed curd, the messages have improved his presiden~ of _Western Ken-. D-Miirray, chairman of the relations with students ...When I see !ucky Umvers1ty before ci:nn- · House. Education Committee, students around campus. they mg to,Murray Sta!e, c~n- . filed, a bULduring the 1996 sometimes wave," he says. ·•1 feel more connected to them now." ten.ds. t,he community c~t · General Asseml:lly that would The idea of using telephone l~ges place too _much emplfa: have created a se·parate messages was suggested during a SI!\ on. a_cademic,related p_ro: • board for.the community col­ retreat for administrators and grams and not enough on Job · · · · faculty members as a way of training. He claims that UK's, leg~s an4 pos~-secondary vo­ improving communications avoidance of "high-level vo-· cational;techn1cal schools. between the president and cational, technical and skiii •· , The b_ill ~ent now~ere, but professors. Dr. Eaglin decided to direct a training" at the community. C~d ~1dn t expect It_ to., In ponion of each message to students. colleges has led . to. a state'. · fihng It, h~ was plantmg the as well, when he learned that it wide '.'postsecondary educa: se_ed of an Idea ~a~ he !3-opes wasn't technically feasible to tional program (that) is hig~- will gro\_V to frm!1on m fu- separate the telephone numbers of ly inefficient, misplaced and;., tllre se~s1~ms. . . faculty members from those of the 3,000 students who live on the disorganized." . },,,_\:;"·. . Curd s Idea _is not a radical campus. As ·w.e see it, community: one. (?ommumty colleges and colleges 'like the ones in Ash,. vocat~onal _schools are _gov­ land, Maysville and Prestons: erned, by smgle boards m a burg have dual roles. _number o_f. othe: states, and One is,to offer two-year as~ · 1:µose familia~ with those sys­ sociate degree programs ~hat terns say a ~m?le board ~an will allow graduates to .im- c1;1t costs, el~mate dup~1ca­ mediately enter the job mar- tia.n .. and Improve Job- ket. Many of the associate de- . trammg programs. . gree programs offered at · Is that_ what is best for community colleges are simi- Kentucky? Maybe, but any lar in nature to the voca- effort to increase cooperation tional programs offered on: ·between the community col­ Kentucky Tech campuses .... _ leges ansJ. vocational schools However, the community should not come at the ex­ colleges also play a vital role · .pe~s~,;::of \\Teak~ning the rolEl in helping many Kentuck-' ,of community colleges· in: ians earn their four-year col- helping students work to­ lege degrees. Community col, ward four;year degrees. leges are the best - and :cDo·the:community colleges sometimes the only - option place too much emphasis on for many wanting to begin academics? In our book, it's work toward bachelor's. .. de- not possible to overempha- lExJNGTON"HERALD-i..EADER, lExJNGTON;'.KY:- ■ SUNDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1996 Academic needs are huge .. That the university should even consid- . ·' · er. raising millions of dollars for a. new are- I have· devoted the-better.. part of1tpy na at a· time when already depleted academ­ adult life to the University of Kentucky. I ic programs face yet another round of major .care a great deal for.the institution-and the budget cuts·and wh~n it h~s not i:iounted a many people who make it work. major capital campaign raises senous ques- I am not-opposed to intercollegiate ath- tions about its priorities. letics. On the contrary, I have held season I hope that those who share my. concern tickets for football and basketball for many for the future of the University of Kentucky years, and I am an avid.and loyal follower will voice their opposition to this proposal, of the teams. and will at the same time, pledge renewed I was, nevertheless, terribly disheart- support,' both verbal and financi~l, ~or the ened to learn that the university administra- university's mission as an mst1tutton of tion is considering the possibility of build- higher learning. ing a new basketball arena. GEORGE C. HERRING There is no demonstrated need for such Al.UMNl PROFESSOR OF HISTORY, FORMER CHAIRMAN OF THE HISTORY DEPARTMENT AT UK a ·structure. l.ExlNGTON The .,Purpose of a university-is not to serve its wealthy athletic boosters, and the very thought of an avowedly academic in- stitution constructing luxury skyboxes · is frankly repulsive. · THE COURIER-JOURNAL, Wednesday, October 2, 1996 TIME FOR QUALITY: MERGE UK, U OF L ORE ON professorships. schools are heavyweights. · . I mentioned the other "There is a symti"iosis there that day that I have been lob­ makes us all better,'' Adams argues. bymg Ned Breathitt - "No place in the state is more depend­ M ent on the University of Kentucky artd gentleman and public servant - about the need for some more lucra­ the University of Louisville for good tive appointments to the faculty at graduate and professional scliools the University of Kentucky, where he than are we (at Centre)." chairs the board. Centre enjoys many strengths, from Gov. Breathitt subsequently ·re­ an idyllic sellin(l to a stroni; student body. But as with any institution of ported that he ====-=~ brought the is- higlier learning, the faculty is the foun­ .sue up with UK dation on which greatness must be President built. "I believe within another couple of Charles Weth­ years we should have nearly a fourth ington, who is of the faculty of almost .100 (al Centre) sympathetic but in endowed positions," Adams pre­ wants to know dicts. where I expect The paucity of such positions at UK him to find the and U of L - our two major public re­ money for these search-oriented institutions - is an DAVID high-visibility embarrassment. Which brings me to HAWPE academic posi­ the second way to attack this problem. tions. To ensure that it is focused" on qua!· One answer ity, UK could cede the community col­ might be a sur­ lege system to some new, separate en­ charge on bas­ A young pianist practices at tity, which would unify all the state ef­ ketball seats. For the moment, I don't Centre College, which has been forts at post-secondaiy education. think it's wise to consider raising the successful In raising money. Next we maneuver to prevent U of L price of football tickets. from lanltUishing in a permanent alli­ In all seriousness, we need to campaign to boost endowed professor­ ance witli the regional universities - think about this. And I have come up ships on the Danville campus - from an alliance for mediocrity, given the with two answers. two to something more impressive - endless funding tradeoffs it entails. The first is rich people. is enjoying great success. I won't scoop How? We simply merge UK and U of L I don't mean to pick on L D. Gor­ him on .the actual numbers, but when under a single administrative board. I they are announced they'll be worth think this makes sense, ~en the simi­ man, the Eastern Kentucky baron la!ity of the two schools missions. who has found such great satisfac­ shouting about. Adams is my ideological or.posite on Don't panic. There would still be a tion in his close relationship with the University of Kentucky campus at Lex­ university's athletics program over the KET election ni(lhl pane . He's got a lot of Republican m his background. ington and a University of Louisville the years. But let's do it anyway. campus here. And, yes, each would If he chose to, L D. could call a In addition to being a veiy thoughtful, veiy dynamic educator, he is at feast a have its own football and basketball meeli!1g in Hazard, and the people teams. , who count in the coalfields would moderately conse!Vl!live guy. Our po­ show up. He's not tbe kind of guy who litical perspectives are, I suspect, a bit But they would be halves of the gets many turndowns. different. same university. This new adminis­ He can be veiy persuasive. But on this issue we agree. As he trative entity-- the State University If he decided to put the arm on the wrote the other day, the accessible tu­ of Kentucky (SUKY) - would have other big boys in the mountains, he ition rates at Kentucky schools, public the necessaiy influence to piy from could raise some big bucks to buy and private, "cannot provide the meas­ state government the resources it some top scholar-teachers. ure of qualitr, we so desperately need needs to be competitive. Among oth­ Other people do it. In fact, they get In Kentucky. ' In addition to affordable er things, it could wheedle enough pretty inventive about it. I read just the admission prices, Kentucky's top money for a high-powered group of other day that Robert Bass, the Fort schools also need top thinkers, re­ Commonwealth Professors, who Worth mo~, and his wife, Anne, are searchers and teachers - great minds would sit in endowed chairs on the about to give $10 million to Duke Uni­ with good classroom skills. two campuses. versity for just such a purpose. Centre ranked 42nd overall nation­ This may sound radical, but some­ Ordinarily it takes $1.5 million or ally in quality in the latest U.S. News & body needs to be talking about radi­ more to establish one of these special World Report poll, only two P.laces out cal departures. Gov. Paul Patton has academic positions. But with the Bass of the top tier of the 40 best liberal arts said he wants to be remembered as gift, Duke can cut that number to $1.1 colleges in America. "We will get there the education governor. He has ap· million. By lowering the price tag, the within the next two to five years," pointed two (or is it three ... maybe Basses hope they'll entice 25 more Mike assured me. Centre also has been four?) study groups to help him de­ folks with fat wallets to endow chairs rated the fourth best value on a nation­ cide how to proceed. · for new professorships. al liberal arts list by U.S. News, and I hope one of them will remind I'm sick to death of hearing that this 33rd best overall value by Money mag­ him that nobody makes histoiy by re­ kind of thing is possible only in places azme. duci~ waste and duplication. like North Carolina, because "we don't Although one can always question There s no hall of fame for clerks and have that kind of money over here" in polls ana their methodology, these accountants. Kentucky. clearly are terrific rankings. Kentucky Take Centre College. schools can compete. And remember, David Hawpe's column appears I heard recently, from Centre Col­ great state systems are best anchored Wednesdays and Sundays in The Fo­ lege President Mike Adams, that the when both their public and nrivate rum. . THE'COURIER~OORNAL ":'TH£ FORUM ;-.suNDA'f OCTOBER 13::19~6 • . . . • ...... , being. Roosevelt History Month; 1t

"Qu;l\_~fy. edu~~9)l'~,•.~t'!· mi_ght ~ a ~ood ~e;;IO e~don 1 Whatever comments-others might this poll!t, smce Roos.eve!! IS, among , make about David Hawpe's "Time other things, the .. fat.'1.er of the mod• , for Quality: Merge UK, U of L" (Oct., em weHare. state. : 2) comment certainly needs to.' be, · . Government· - whether federa!, m~de about the implication that com• · state or local - has no money that 1I muoity colleges are not "focused on doesn't first take fi:om u~. The_ sooner quality." The.thousands of Kentucki- we undersl!ffid this basic pomt, ..the_ ans who have graduated from or at- bett~r. Tak\Dg from .~ne !l!"oup ac- tended the commuoity colleges over cording to 1t~ mefill'! to ~ve to ~; the past 30 years and more would ?th~r group .a~ording to its needs ?aducah b'?"stef:i'. dream of an engineer­ disagree. IS dishonest; II IS theft! mg school m their city (which now appar­ · Yes, Hawpe's essay could be read Simply because government takes ently will require nearly $5 million from that the University of Kentucky. is by coercion through a system of vol- stretched too thin or that cannot untary compliance (try not vo_lunteer- ·the st~te to finish and equip, as costs have UK outstripped the $7 million so far raised). tend to so many .educational con- ing!), rather than at the pomt of a {Is-~ all. thi~ weren't bad enough, the cems satisfactorilr and still be -~fo- gun, does not change the morality of uruvers1ty presidents openly went to war. cused on quality.' Yes, the needs of the situation. If each of us cannot be Murray State's Kem Alexander called the community colleges . have riot secure in the fruits of our labor ... for UK to ·be stripped of its 14 community been met at any point of .their _histo- our incomes, without government colleges, on grounds they don't do enough ry, whether those needs are adequate telling us to whom or what we shall real-world job training. They should be salaries for staff or faculty, adequate be forced to "contribute" ... then merged with the vo-tech schools under a maintenance of buildings, adequate this is not a free country, is it? separate board, he said.-Morehead State's advances in technology, or adequate Spread the word, Mr. Hawpe .... Ronald Eaglin, jumping into the fray said counseling services for students. HN the UK s!lteµites are :•really ope,;,ting Yet the community colleges' person- CLAUDE A. BO 2 nel have, by and large, provided qua!• Louisville 4027 mostly as Juruor colleges and not as com­ prehens!ve comm~nio/ colleges." ity experiences and quality education UK l!ierarchs_ d1s~_ssed such carping as for those in Kentucky underprepared THE COURIER-JOURNAL • the regional uruvers1ties' latest episode of for the universities as well as often un• campus· envy ..They noted that half of the able to pay for attending them. • SUNDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1996 That reality should not be lost in community colleges' programs lead to any discussion in general about what technical degrees, not to degrees that al­ ~hould happen with higher education Abaaweek low grads to funnel immediately into ihe in Kentucky and, in particular, what four-year colleges. shoul~ happen with .the community Alexander also gratuitously raked UK colleges. I am proud to be a professor over the coals for failing to compete na­ in a commuoity college and proud of for Kentucky tion'!1ly with its 60 Ph.D. programs. UK the quality of the students who have President Charles Wethington huffed about suspect data, but (for good reasons been in my classe_s. · universities I suspect) didn't attempt a rebuttal. ' RUTH FALK REDEL Ph.D The_ open feu

beelf '.incr~ililile: tif,see!the•;dif• M:SJJC-8:r.ps _gels:," ference '.' Jones· saicf~K:t»·•Y..; . · ln;,th~,_first· iw_ij~~s;if~!l­ program,. MSUCorps. had.:rio ' fecl~r~1··--runcls~'~- .. ·- problemrmeeting, its \goal ,for improving the academic ~ecords of 75 percent of the at­ risk students served. The first for 3rd .year year 84 percent showed im­ provement, and the second year. the figure rose to 92 per­ Volunteers aid students, communities cent Attendance also has im- Corps volunteers are, like Lin­ proved. ... By MADELYNN COLDIRON don, returning for a second 'Swim.· said he pliins to re­ OFTHE DAl~Y INDEPENDENT year. Participants may serve apply· for funding next year one or two years. and would iike to see 75 Amer­ · MOREHEAD - "Mr. Chuck" Lindon, in his junior year as icorps participants involved, will be around for another an education major at MSU, helping even more family re­ year, tutoring, mentoring and said he has gotten close to his source and youth service cen­ encouraging students at Rod­ students while he's been get­ ters. burn, Farmers and Tilden­ ting career-building fJXperi­ Hogge elementary schools. -- ence. Chuck Lindon is beginning "It's a lot of time, it's a lot of his second year as a volunteer work, but it's been very fulfill­ in the Rowan County schools, ing," he said. "I didn't realize thanks to a third year of fund­ how much it would mean to ing recently approved for me, and then when last year MSUCorps, Morehead State was over, I wanted to do it University's arm of Ameri­ again." corps, President Clinton's na­ Doug Jones, director· of Rod­ THE COURIER-JOURNAL • SUNDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1996 tional service program. bum's family resource center, Lindon, 24, a Wolfe county said the attachment works native, is one of 31 MSUCorps both ways. Lindon's pupils no-· Study looks volunteers, who receive an an­ lice immediately if a schedule nual $7,945 living allowance change takes . him elsewhere. and a $4,725 educational award Jones said on those days, he at top-paid for their work. constantly hears, "Where's Mr. This year's $426,000 federal Chuck?" college· chiefs grant for MSU allows the pro­ Lindon tutors 125 students gr_iµn_ to oper~te in 13 Eastern in the three elementary Associated Press Kentucky counties, including schools and also serves as a Rowan, Boyd, Carter, Elliott troop leader for the non­ WASHINGTON - After four years and Lawrence. as president of Washington's Howard traditional Boy Scout troops University, Franklyn Jenifer pocketed MSUCorps' program focuses he has set up in each school. on helping children to be more severance pay of $676,980 when he He also has voluteered to help left in June 1994. With salary and successful in school by work­ the local Habitat for ·Humanity benefits, it brought his year's com­ ing with area family resource chapter, the community's pensation to $800,318 - more than and youth service centers, said Christmas project for needy any. other U.S. college president. director Steve Swim. The vol­ families and in a summer Five months later, the Chronicle of unteers tutor students, work Higher Education reports, the univer­ reading program with the sity laid off 400- employees to com­ with parent5 and perform com­ Rowan County Public Library. munity service work where pensate for a $6.9 million shortfall. "There is no way we could For a study released yesterday, the they are based. operate the programs we do Chronicle compiled statistics on col­ "Family resource centers do without the Americorps vol­ lege presidents' remuneration from this type of work, but they just unteers we have," Jones.said. federal tax returns filed by 479 of the don't have enough arms or nation's biggest and best-known col­ legs to do it all," Swim ex­ He said the service corps has leges. They cover pay and benefits for plained. made its biggest impact in tlie 1994-95, the most recent year avail- lives of·the..children. "It'sjust able. · Nine of this year's MSU- Behind Jenifer, the study showed, was William · Richardson, who re­ ceived $631,063 as president of Johns Hopkins University. including a S250,000 "final payment." Third­ The Su_nday Independent, Ashland, Kentucky, October 13, 1996 ranked was John Silber of Boston University, with compensation of member of one of the eight $400,000 and benefits of $165,018. College marks The Chronicle explains that "com­ new women's professional pensation" includes salary, bonuses, 10th anniversary basketball teams. severance payments and other fees. OWENSBORO - An U.S. Sen. Wendell Ford "Benefits" are deferred compensa­ Olympic gold medalist praised the founders who tion, future severance payments and joined in celebrating the pushed for a school that employer contributions to pension or 10th anniversary of brought affordable health plans. Owensboro Community education to thousands. College. Ben Carr, chancellor of Teresa Edwards, the 14 schools in the co-captain of the U.S. University of Kentucky Olympic women's Community College System, basketball team, said the called OCC "a wonderful grass-roots effort that example of how education created OCC resembles her forms a partnership with latest venture - as a the community." j.EXIN(!ION !iE~l,EADER, LElQ~GTON1 KY; ■ SUNDAY, OCTO!!§!Ll,.~. :!J!j1§.

.• BY ANGIE MUHS of college tuition. Democrats have argued that . • ~-HERALDilADER EoucATION-WRITER·: . Several candidates, ·in fact,,in· y. the program ·is· a successful ·one · -·. University of Kentucky seriior· response to questions ' from the· that has ·saved money for ·the tax­ Stacy: Heinemal);:preparing to vote__ Herald-Leader,, cited paying -for._ ,,payers,:..... , "·· <-·~.; .. • • . · · in ·.hef!'firs( presidential election college as the niost crucial higheii' ,-The' area o( student aid•,• and grad~te a few _months later, education issue.. , . · such as federal grants like the Pell is keepirig·:a 'close eye \.sµpporfRepuli1icaµ.Boli':Pille'jp. ''lishing Individ-· · "I thJnk - imporlailt to provide opportunity. 'thi,piesidential el&:tion rniiinly:_6e:. i:,ifal' Retirement. everybody·· But Democrats;.pointing to last <·tause··she'"supports Ii\!/ ecoiiortiic 'Accounts_ that. · n·eeds year's . budget battles, !Jave. ac- policy· . positions.· "Because I'm could be used opportunity, cused the Republicans of trying to gr<_1duating, I'm concerned about to pay for col- but I don't. cut student aid. · getti!,lg'·~ job'· when I get 'out," she · lege, , and ·has know what That political wrangling has said:· . ., :: .:- · . also suggested the role of left some students confused, said . · :}But'f!einernan, a political 'sci: -_-tax credits. .• the Heineman, the UK student who ence• maJor from Ashland, also Dole also · · supports Dole. says- she is concerned that future has suggested government "It really has mixed the issue college students get the opportuni- .allowing low, ought to · up," she said. "I have,n't heard ty for postsecondary education or . middle-in- ' be." ' much response from Republicans, through-student aid or loans. · · -come . families• STACY HEINEMAN. and I wish we would." She's hot convinced, though, to invest up to · UK senior Another issue that both parties that President Clinton's propo~al $500 a year in a ______have tackled has been the use of to provide tax deductions,clof savings account · .. · affirmative action in college admis­ $10,000· -for education expenses and earn interest tax-free to help · sions _or scholarships, a- subject would w:o~k. . :< . , .. ,.. ; ___ . · pay college costs. . .. that has prompted legal challenges · "I think everybody nee9s,op-' . · Dole and the··Republican party ·around the country.· · portunity, but I don't know :what also have focused on Clinton's di- Clinton has said that affirma' the.role· of the government ought;_ rect,leiiding program, which· pro- · tive action programs might need to to be," said Heineman,· who said vides money directly to colleges, . be fixed, but .they should not be she has not received student loans. bypassing banks and guarantee abandoned. . "I don't know about· the Clinton . agencies. . . Dole, on the other hand, said plan because I don't know how·_ Dole has said that he would_ during his acceptance speech at that's going to be paid for." eliminate the plan if elected. Re- the Republican National Conven- When it comes to higher educa- · publican Sen. Mitch McConnell tion that he was opposed to affir­ tion, issues. in the campaigns this and Ernest Fletcher, the Republi- · mative action. · The· Republican ye;rr, money is one of the biggest · can running for the U.S. House, platform also endorses the Califor­ issues.;__ , _:. . · . . . also have said they're concerned nia Civil Rights Initiative, which Candidates from both parties tliat direct lending diverts money would eliminate affirmative action say .they want to help families from students and into bureaucra- at public colleges. California voters ·cope ·with the ever-increasing cost cy instead. · will vote on that issue this fall. ~-••/- ) I I l f,t; - I I '' <7 ,:;,- - -i - 1 J - I~ M ~.J LI .:: .,,,.. "Jhtl~~At HIVES A sample of recent articles of interest to Morehead State Umvers,tv INSTITUTIONAL RELATIONS MOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY UPO BOX 1100 MOREHEAD, KY 4 036 1- 1689 606-783-2030 LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER. LEXINGTON, KY. ■ TUESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1996 1 But higher education has often had the reputation of "raise all they can and spend all they get," Jones said. Ky. colleges "The question is, what should it cost to educate a student. It's a very, very elusive question," Jones said. Patton said after the meeting that "there's still a lot of infonnation out there to be devel- not 'poor,' o~~t he said he remained optimistic that he could push through refonns. "h may be a little more difficult than I thought it was, but I generally operate that if we can demonstrate there is an obviously bet­ study says ter way to do something, then some way or other we can get the political will to do it," Problem may be state is not Patton said. I Jerald-Leader staff• •• writer Jack Brammer keeping watch on spending cv11lrib11ted to this report.

BY ANGIE MUHS HERALD-LEADER EDUCATION WRITER THE COURIER-JOURNAL • -TUESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1996 FRANKFORT -- A consultant studying ~ighei: ~­ ucation yesterday said the state's public umv~rs1t_1es aren't seriously underfunded when compared with sim­ Study disputes view ilar schools in other states. · . , Instead, Kentucky's problem may ~ that 1t doesn_t link how it gives out money to what kmd of results 1t wants to see, said Dennis Jones, the that state spending president of the National Center for Higher Education Management Sys- tems. Jones told Gov. Paul Patton's task on colleges is low force that his observations accounted . . for all sources of income, not just statE appropna~1ons. By MARK R. CHELLGREN don't get the entire picture," Alexan "The overarching conclusion is that in the ma~n, t~e Associated Press der said. institutions have about as much money as other hke t~­ Gov. Paul Patton, who rook on tht FRANKFORT, Ky. - Kentucky's issue of higher-€ducation reform stitutions on a per (full-time student) basis," Jones said spending on higher education is com­ proclaimed it the mea~uring stick fo1 in response to a question from_ Patton a_bout how Ken­ parable to that of other states, con­ his administration and has repeated!~ tucky institutions compared with those m other states. trary to complaints by universities, complained about turf battles amon{ "There's not a lot of evidence, at least at the four­ according to a report prepared for a universities, didn't have much to sa) year level that institutions are badly under­ study of the post-secondary educa­ yesterday about the exchange. tion system. " It leaves the uninformed observe, funded, given the multiple sources of funds," What Kentucky does not do is en­ fairly well confused," Patton said. Jones added. sure that universities carry out state Money was the primary topic a1 Jones said he couldn't say for sur~ objectives, essentially leaving budget­ the task-fo rce meeting. whether the state's public two-year communi­ ing and priorities to the individual in­ Depuiy state budget .director Ror ty colleges, which are run by the University stitutions. Carson pointed out that state uppro• of Kentucky, are underfunded because he Dennis Jones of the National Cen­ priations to the universities are dif• ter for Higher Education Manage­ ferent from those for any other agen­ hasn't gotten enough infonnation. . ment Systems told the Task Force on cy. Basically, the institutions get a Jones acknowledged there ~re s~1:1e •~• Postsecondary Education yesterday pot of money - $757 million this equities among Kentucky umvers1t1es 1_n that money decisions in Kentucky year - and decide for themselves funding, but he said they aren't as dramalH: need to be considered in a larger con­ how to spend it. ' as in other states. text. Jones said that keeps the policy­ Instead he told the task force, it should "h's much more a question of its makers in state government from be­ focus on fi~ding ways to reward colleges fi­ link to policy than it is how many ing able to ensure that universities hundreds of millions of more dollars keep on track toward larger gopls. nancially for doing things that are in the are you going to need," Jones said. University administrators have state's interest. Meanwhile, the carping among the long resisted stronger slate direction Some states have offered competitive universities escalated yesterday. of spending at their institutions. And grants to universities that develoJJ:d pro­ Last week. Murray State University they have been strident in complDin­ grams to meet specific needs, Jones said. Oth­ President Kem Alexander criticized ing that the state's intere~t in higher ers have reserved certain parts of the budget the University of Kentucky's domina­ education is declining. tion of higher educa1ion in Kentucky. While the percentage or tax money to target key programs, he said. He said the community college sys­ has declined in relation to Cltheri um­ "It's much more a question of its link to tem should be taken away from UK, versiiy sources of funds, state ttind­ policy than how many hundreds of millio!ls and he questioned the method of fi. ing is not out of line with that of oth­ of dollars are you going td spend," Jones said. nancing higher education. er states, Jones said. He also said Patton - who said his task force is still "I am appalled that a president of a Kentucky's tuition rates are not r,ut gathering infonnation and ~hould ~tart debat­ Kentucky university would produce of line with those of other states-and for public consumption a document are low enou~h to make higher ei.1u­ ing issues in January - :>3td ~~ sllll want~ to so illogical, misleading and inaccu­ cat ion accessible for most people, talk about whether umvers1t1es are using rate as this," UK Vice President Ed Senate President John "Eck" Rose, their money wisely. Carter wrote in a letter to Alexander. 0 -Winchester, agreed that universi­ "What I'd more prefer to get into 1s the ef. Carter said Alexander's initial pa­ ties are in a position to commit the ficiency of the money that we're spending,"· per •·reverts to the amateurish, unin­ state to long-tenn spending, almost Patton said. formed, simplistic, misleading and in­ by default. accurate analysis" of higher educa­ But Rose said there is little political State Rep. Danny Ford, R-Mount Vernon, tion policy of 25 years ago. inclination to do much about Q~r­ said he also wanted to talk about efficiency Alexander said yesterday he ex­ hauling higher education. He said as a part of funding. pected such a response from UK, es­ Patton is the only person rea.lly beat­ "If you've got a business and it's not op­ pecially since, he contended, the in­ ing the drum. erating properly the way it is, you don't ju~t stitution has been so adept at mis­ "There's going to have to be a lot put more money into it. You try to find a dtf­ leading others. of support and maybe even pressure fcrcnt way of doing the job," Ford said. "They've conducted a shell game in certain areas for this to come of runnml! monev around so that vo11 ~hn11t " Rnc.:o <:!'l irl LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER, LEXINGTON, KY •• TUESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1996 MfilTay, UK continue spat;· Patton wants an inquiry

BY ANGI~ MUHS ing and inaccurate as them," Carter wrote. HERALD-LEADER EDUCATION WRITER Alexander fired back with an eight-page FRANKFORT - An escalating war of letter yesterday to UK President Charles T. words between the University of Kentucky Wethington Jr. "It is indeed unfortunate that and Murray State Universiiy heated up even you are unable to discuss an important public more yesterday, with the two universities policy issue with civility without launching trading accusations of everything from being into such a strident attack upon-me personal­ "illogical, misleading and inaccurate" to com- ly," he wrote. He also accused Carter's letter mitting libel. . of libeling him. Gov"Paul Patton - who has said repeat- • Alexander also dismissed UK's response, edly that he wants universities to work to­ saying in an interview that UK "has conduct­ gether - said yesterday that he was con­ ed a shell game of moving monies around so cerned about the fracas and wanted someone you don't get the entire picture." to get to the bottom of it. Yesterday, Paiton said he had read The fight between the two universities Alexander's report, but declined to say wha_t started last week, when Murray President he thought of its contents, including the pro­ Kern Alexander sent Patton a 40-page report posal to take community colleges away from that blasted UK's research efforts, its produc­ UK. . tion of doctoral graduates and its efforts to But during his task force's meeting, he provide vocational and technical training at said he wanted someone to figure out who the community college level. was right. Alexander also presented statistics that "It leaves the uninformed observer fairly seemed to suggest that UK was better-funded well confused," Patton said. than many of its counterparts. He also said Some other regional university presi­ he thought the state should take the commu­ dents, though, said they thought Alexander nity colleges from UK's control and place had made some valid points. them under a separate board. "It obviously points out we've got prob­ UK then on Friday responded with a let­ lems in terms of both.ends of the spectrum, ter from Ed Carter, its vice president for man­ with job training and research," said Eastern agement and budget, that described Alexan­ Kentucky University President Hanly Fun­ der's findings as "amateurish, uninformed, derburk. simplistic, misleading and inaccurate analy­ Jack Moreland, the acting president of sis." Northern Kentucky University, said "we're Alexander's analysis failed. tq, take into very concerned with some parts of the fund­ account UK's medical school, agriculture out­ ing formula and I think Kern raised that. reach and other public service programs. "I know there was an issue taken about "I am appalled that a President of a Ken­ the quality of his work, but f can say to you tucky university would produce for public that I have absolute confidence in how he consumption a document so illogical, mislead- presented his infonilatiori."

The Daily Independent, Ashiarici~ keiiiucky,-·-Monday, October 14, 1996 A"CC program aids evening students An innovative pilot pro­ Credit. The program is of­ gram at Ashland Community fered free to the· children of College a,ttacks a concern of all students enrolled in many parents who attend evening classes. If successful, evening classes at the school: it will be expanded to Mon­ What are the kids doing days and Wednesdays. while mom or dad are in Adults who are going to class? college often find that they Beginning this week, stu­ do not have enough time to dents in the third through help their children with the sixth grades can take their school work. The pro­ part in a tutoring-. gram not only helps children enrichment program while their parents are going to with their homework, but it class on Tuesday or Thurs­ will assure parents that their day evenings. kids are doing something ACC students trained as productive while they are in "college colleagues" will class, serve as paid tutors and The program is a great monitors in the program idea. We commend Dr. James funded by a private grant Winter, coordinator of the from Consumer Credit Coun­ ACC Ashland Public Schools seling, an affiliate of Travel­ Cooperative Program, for se­ ers Foundation-Commercial curing the funding for it. woulLI lllll l clluns l(J KL:qJ ll VI· question of able." LEXINGTON_ HER~lD-LEADER, LEXINGTON, KY, ■ TUESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1996 whether it can be Jan Schach, chairwoman of the done. A desirabili- University Senate Council, agreed ty study raises that many faculty don't want lo see Educators greet the question of city-UK ties strained. She cited the whether it ought city's 1994 decision to help UK to ·be done." build its new W.T. Young Library arena idea ,. with Betts said he by agreeing to issue the bonds UK felt that way even needed for the project. though he was a little enthusiasm ------UK basketball fan. "It's created a strong sense of "I, for one, rise up and cheer vocif­ cooperation and we'd hate to see erously, even though that's not my that end," she said. Some wonder if UK has its usual disposition," he said. But Schach said she thinks The subject also has become a many faculty are taking a wait­ priorit\es in the right O!der topic of discussion on faculty elec­ and-see approach. . . . ' . tronic mailing lists, several profes­ "I don't think there's a sense of sors said. anxiety at this point," she said. "It's BY ANGIE MUHS Alvin Goldman, a UK professor more of a sense of curiosity," HERALD-LEADER EDUCATION WRITER for 31 years, said he sent an elet;· Another state university presi­ The idea of a new basketball Ironic mail message to UK Presi­ dent said he was worried that if arena for the University of Ken­ dent Charles T. Wethington Jr. ex­ UK pursued the project, it might tucky has fans excited, but many pressing his concerns about the hurt other schools' efforts to raise people on the academic side aren't project. money for academics - both from cheering. Goldman said he was mainly the state or from private sources. Instead, some faculty are ques­ concerned because of the potential "The problem here is one of tioning whether UK has more impact on the city budget and on perception and the perception is we pressing needs than a new arena. downtown Lexington if UK pulls have more than enough money to EKU's Hanly Others say they're concerned Funderburk out of Rupp Arena. do all those kinds of things," said that town-gown relations will be "I would be surprised if there Jack Moreland, Northern Kentucky wants atten­ severely strained if UK pursues the tion placed was widespread support for the University's acting president. "I project. . . idea among the faculty," he- said. don't care if you're talking about back on aca­ Even a few other state umvers1- demics. "Everyone in our community bene­ private sources or public sources, it ty presidents say they're· worried fits from a viable downtown, and all comes out of the back pocket of about what kind of impact the pro­ taking basketball games awav the citizens of Kentucky." ject might have on ~igher ed1;ca­ tion overall - especially at a time when the ·state's governor is vow­ ing to examine higher education .. THE COURIER-JOURNAL• TUESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1996 "We have a great opportunity in Keiltuckv to do something about higher education," said Eastern Unions protesting Kentucky University President Hanly Funderburk, referring to UK's Caroiyn • "" I Gov. Paul Patton's task force. "And Bratt says ': " -most headlines have to do with exclusion block work it's a percep­ funding _a stadium Jo~ football jn tion Issue. Louisville and a basketball arena m Lexington. on U of L stadium "We need to divert the attention back to the academic side quickly," By MICHAEL JENNINGS that U of L try harder to involve mi­ he said. The Courier-Journal nority-owned businesses before · ·· Gov. Paul Patton yesterday awarding five more contracts neces­ A union picket line arid an irate sary to complete the $42.5 million said he had no comment on UK's alderman posed fresh obstacles yes­ project. plans to conduct an arena feasibili­ terday to constructiol) of a new Uni­ Bather said Friday that without ty study. versity of Louisyille football sta!lium. such increased efforts, the revenue · In a state like Kentucky, it's not Site-preparation work started Sat­ bonds "will never get issued." ioo surprising that talk of a basket­ urday but was blocked yesterday by In its winning bid for site prepara­ ball arena might overshadow talk pickets from three unions protesting tion, RAM listed an African-Ameri­ of academic reforms, said Ron Ge­ RAM Engineerin~ & Construction can-owned business, Kentucky Trans­ Inc.'s failure to hire union members fer Line, as its subcontractor for on­ oghegan, chairman of the Ke~tucky for the work. Larry Owsley, U of L site conventional trucking. Kentucky Advocates for Higher Education. vice president for administration, pre­ Transfer officials say they were puz­ ,. But Geoghegan said he hoped dicted the problem would be resolved zled when they learned they were that Patton's reform effort would today by opening another gate to the part of RAM's bid because they'd had treate a vision of academics that 92-acre stadium site near the campus' no contact with RAM about acting as would attract public attention. southeast corner. a subcontractor. ,; "Whether the university arena That will allow picketing to contin• Kentucky Transfer President Dery! situation is going to have any im­ ue on Floyd Street without impeding Sweeney and Vice President Jim Bell work, he said. Although spokesmen say that over the past week they've pact on this remains to be seen," he for the Teamsters, laborers' and oper­ tried without success to get RAM Vice said. ating engineers' unions said they President Richard Chilton to tell them :· Still, several UK faculty me?'• would pkket the other entrance, too, what he wants their company to do bers also said that they are womed Owsley said there· seemed to be and. what it will be paid. "He doesn't about the university's image if it agreement that the work could go on. have any idea to what degree he's go­ 11 built another arena. . David Swift; business representa­ ing to use us, Sweeney said. "We have always had to deal tive of Teamsters Local 89, said un­ Bell said he thought his company ions fought. hard to pass a law - in was "penciled in to make it look with a long shadow cast by the force on the stadium project - that good" for RAM, which, like all bid­ basketball program," said Carolyn requires workers to be paid the area's ders, was encouraged but not re­ Bratt a law professor and former prevailing wages for their trades. quired to involve subcontractors faculty trustee. "But this is more "We want our part" of projects owned by blacks or women. "I feel a than a shadow. This is a multi-mil­ where the law applies, he said. little used," Bell said. lion dollar effort to build a building RAM's conduct was also an issue Repeated efforts to reach Chilton i~- play games in." . for 12th Ward Alderman Paul Bather, on Friday and yesterday were unsuc­ By saying that 11 would do a who said yesterday that he would try cessful. to get affirmative-action strings at­ Owsley said yesterday that the uni­ feasibility study; UK already sent a taclied to $18 million worth of rev­ versity was "seeking confirmation" of certain message, said history Prof. enue bonds Louisville and Jefferson the efforts RAM and other bidders Raymond Betts. . County have pledged to the stadium made to involve companies owned by ' "I would have preferred a desir­ project. minorities and women. 11We're re~ ability study rather than a feasibili­ · In a letter to Owsley, Bather ques­ viewing all our options, and we're go­ ty study," said Betts, director of th~ tioned whether RAM acted in flOOd ing to do whatever we can" to get · Gaines Center for faith toward an African-Amencan­ more of those companies in on the the Humanities. owned subcontractor. He also asked project, he said. "A feasibility . THE COUR.IER-JOURNAL • TUESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1996 fort resident, who has visited his par: Kate Zheng, who four years ago ents three times already. "I'm study­ transferred to U of L from Tian Jin ing civil engineering, and being Medical University outside Beijing, downloaded with Speed School work had to adjust to American slang but does not help at all." otherwise had a ready-made support Most colleges have programs to LETTING put new students at ease. U of L's group. "One of the professors from Louisville went to my old school in Pathways program assigns a trained China quite often," she. said, "and counselor to help each new arrival. there were a lot of Chinese people At UK, where about half the resi­ coming here from that same univer• dent students are freshmen, Mel,anie GO sity, and we knew each other," Tyner-Wilson, assistant director for Others, including U of L freshman the office of residence life, said, "We Kyle Chism, have heavy credit loads have floor meetings, ice-cream .§Q:_ Campus freedom that limit their time to socialize. cials, programs between residence "Since I moved to Louisville I lost halls ;vhere different groups meet often can bring all my friendships," said the Frank- one another." homesickness, too COPING WITH HOMESICKNESS By LAWRENCE MUHAMMAD The Courier-Journal Longing for home - that comfy kids a Jot. They'll talk about how blend of place and personalities it they feel sick and inake the kid Dormitoiy life can be liberating- night-Joni:; took a lifetime getting used to - feel responsible. So parents need pizza parties with no grown-ups around to spo!l is a two-way street. Cfiildren miss to reach out as well to their sup­ the fun. · it going out on their own, but they port systems (and) get help with But it also can make you homesick; as Univer­ also leave parents with an empty mourning.'' sity of Louisville freshman Heather E. Sarne dis­ ' space at the dinner table and a Porter suggested Jetting chil­ coveted while living in Miller Hall. houseful of memories. dren know you've been there. Tell "I wanted to go to college far away from Adult and adolescent psychia­ them about your own homesick­ home, and I'm glad to be on my own," said the trist Miren Isumendi and clinical ness in college or in the militaiy physical-therapy major, who graduated from psychologist Robin Young Porter or when you moved away from West Islip High School on Long Island, N.Y. offered some advice on coping. home the first time. "But I miss my parents and my friends. I miss "Some parents !lO through with­ But, she added, "a Jot of this home-cooked meals. I don't have my own bath­ drawal, 11 lsumend1 said, 11 especial­ speaks to the relationship between room, my own kitchen. Community living doesn't ly if it's the last child, or an only the parents and the child. Some agree with me." child. Sometimes the parents have kids can get close to other people And being from Louisville with a campus near been so involved with the children on campus precisely because they home isn't much consolation, says Charmaine they haven't spent much time with are close to their parents. But mu­ Findley, an Eastern High School graduate and each other. They don't feel like tually agree on a time, once or another freshman resident of Miller Hall. they know each other. They can twice a week, when you call each "It's still an adjustment," Findley said. Not overdo it, offer their children too other. That way, it's predictable only must she cook and do laundiy- chores she much help. and children know they'll get a once relied on her mom to do - but the I8-year­ "Do say, 'Yes. Come home.' As­ call at that time." old business major calls home "a trillion times a sist them," lsumendi said, "but let In extreme cases, said Pam Cur­ day. Actually, now I'm down to two times a day. them know they should. hang in tis, assistant director of program­ · It's more convenient to Jive on there and work on their goals." ming for housing and residence campus, and I do need the "I think that parents and chil- life at the University of Louisville, transition of livins away from . dren both mourn when they sepa­ overworked new students "can of­ home and budgetm~ my own rate,': Porter .said. "This may be ten have the symptoms of depres­ money. This is my first step in the first major separation parent sion" and may start failing tests !tying to live on my own." and child have undergone, and the or drop out. . Like many other U of L parents sometimes have a difficult In such cases, said Porter and freshmen, who make up about time detaching from the child. lsumendi, students should seek 60 percent of resident stu­ Sometimes the parents call the professional help. dents, Findley and Sarne are eight weeks into campus life - a time when experts have · found a predictable yearning for the comforts of home. · Students might be writing or calling home more frequentfy these days, or pressing for home visits; and family-life experts advise parents to _THE COURIER-JOU~NAL _ • TUESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1996 respond carefully. "Let them know that you're there, let them WKU committee wiifiiivestigate dump --- come home and visit, but don't tty and solve their problem," said Dr. Miren Isumendi, a psychia­ BOWLING GRE~N, Ky. - Western Kentucky .University President trist specializing in adults and adolescents. Thomas C. Meredith armounced yesterday that he has appointed a "There has to be a fine balance between letting committee to investigate the dumping of pesticide-filled drums and the kids know you support them and Jetting them other waste at WKU's farm. . sort this out and find their own solutions. Let "Once we complete our investigation, we will take appropriate kids know you have faith in their good judgment measures against those responsible,'' said Deborah Wilkins a WKU and that they can make good decisions." lawyer who is on the investigating committee. ' Kirsten Black, a senior at the University of . State investigators discovered buried drums that contained a pesti­ Kentucky, said her mother, who lives near San cide on the farm Oct. 3. In July, the Daily News of Bowling Green Jose, babied her from afar when she transferred reported that a pit had been dug on the farm and filled with construc­ from West Valley Community College in Califor­ tion debris and other refuse. nia. A stateme".t from WKU yesterda;: said an ~nvironmental company "My mom was really e~cited," Black said. 0 1 had tested s01I from around the buned contamers, which were 2 feet got care packa~es. She sent me and my room­ beio:w. th<: surface, and found no contamination by toxaphene, the mate both Chnstmas stockings, Easter baskets pesticide m the drums. and Valentine gifts." An official _with the company also said there was no ground water New and transferring students should "devel­ around the pit, so there was no concern about contaminating water. op a campus support system as soon as possible, get the professors to know them, have an adult they can talk to on campus," said Robin Young Porter, a Louisville climcal psychologist special­ izing in children and adolescents. A sample of recent articles of interest to Morehead State University INSTITUTIONAL RELATIONS MOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY UPO BOX 1100 MOREHEAD. KY 40361-1689 606-783-2030 WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1996 ■ lExJNGT0N HERALD-LEADER, lExJNGTON, KY. ■ COMMUNITY 13 .. 'CAMPUS NOTEBOOK Morehead ~bedin-Q construction ofbetr toWer~~~iof fedesi.gn I •

BY LINDA VANHOOSE year. ■ Barry Milner, a Morehead HERAUH.EADER STAFI' WRITER State University senior from Cyn­ onstruction has started on a Honors and. awards· thiana, has "won a composition 40-foot hell tower that More­ ■ Matthew Felice of Lexing­ contest sponsored by Jackson Hill Chead State University offi­ ton, who anticipates graduating and the Brass Band of the Tri­ cials think will become a · from the University of State. Milner won $1,000 for his landmark for generations Kentucky in 1998, recent­ original music, "Olympic Fanfare to come. ly received a $2,500 Schol­ and March," which he wrote dur­ In 1994, Morehead re­ ·arship A ward from Phi ing ·the summer while watching ceived a $1 million gift Gamma Delta Educational the '96 Games. from Lucille Caudill Lit­ .Foundation Inc. Felice, a · The composition, which is tle,._ a native of Rowan telecommunications ma­ nearly three minutes in leng1h, County, who pledged to jor, is a 1993 graduate of will be performed by the Brass pay for inost of the tow­ . Paul Laurence Dunbar Band of the Tri-State at 7:30 p.m. er's construction cost. High School. Dec. 10 at Paramount Theater in "The idea for the bell · ■ Aaron Hogue of Ashland. tower· grew out of discus- Fellce W:aynesburg was recently sions with Mrs. Little," selected as president of said Ronald Eaglin, More­ the first-ever Cumberland head's · president. "She College Baptist Student. wanted a way to honor ' Union Freshman Council. her husband and to instill The council is part of a in future _generations new leadership program what she describes as the designed to give fresh­ essentjals of life ~ jus­ man leadership experi­ tice, love, service and wis­ ence. ·dom. These words ·wm he · ■ Renee · Shaw, a inscribed on the tower." Hogue Western Kentucky Uni- The-hell tower,. to he, .•. . versity graduate student in front of Camden-Car­ from Portland, Tenn., has roll Library adjacent to been named the national '· University Boulevard; is winner in the radio in- the first phase of a p,ro­ . aepth ·reporting category posed redesign of the cen­ of..the Society of Profes­ tral. campus, which was :"sional Journalists Mark of severely damaged by a -·Exceitence competition. storm in 1995. It will be Shaw has worlced with constructed in red brick·• · Western's Public Radio and limestone and will · Service for two years. She replicate the collegiate MIiner " ": . assists with the produc- Gothic architectural style · ., tion of daily newscasts of those earlier buildings: . and helps supervise students who Completion of the tower is an­ work as interns for the public ra- ticipated before the end of the dio staff. · · •

THE COURIER0JOURNAL • WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 16,.1996. rfalk~~r-·i(.:,_newtUl~~:-arena prompts· professois 'to"• question_ priorities_~ .~ ,.·, -: ..: . :--:·· .. ---~-. .. ·• ··-· -=-··::-_ ,_ ,. . Associated Press ·,-.. _..,. um for football in Louisville and a "Butthisisniorethanashadow. This . . basketball arena in Lexington. ' , is a multimillion-dollar effort to build LEXINGTON, Ky. - Some faculty "We need to divert -:the attention a building to play games in." members .are.questioning whether-the' . back to the academic· side quickly," University of_ Kentucky has, .bigger· he said. .. ·., ·, ;;::; - •· By saying that it would do a feasi­ needs than a new basketball arena. Gov. Paul Patton said Monday he bility study, UK already has sent a Even other universities are. worried · had no .comment on UK's plaris to certain message, said histocy profes- about the. impact· the project -might, conduct a feasibility :study on a new sor Raymond Betts. · ' have oli lµgher education overall, · arena.' · , " · , ,? ,·,; "I would have preferred a desirabil- "We have a· great opportunity in: Several UK faculty'·meinbers .also ity study rather than a feasibility• Kentuci')':'to do something about. said-they fear for the university's-.im- study," said Betts, director of the higher edui:ation,"-said Eaiteni.Ken- ·. age if it builds· another arena;, Gaines Center for the Humanities. "A tucky University President Hanly ''We have always had to deal with a feasibility study raises the question of Funderburk, referring to Gov. Paul .long shadow cast- by. the basketball· whether it can be done. A desirability· Patton's task·force. "And most·head- · program,"-.said Carolyn Bratt, a law study raises the question of whetherit lines have to do with_ funding a stadi-1- ·professor and former faculty trustee. ought to be done.". ·· . ,., : ·- - ',. " . . . ' - The Daily ln_dependeiit, Ashland; Kentucky, · Tuesday; October 15, 1996 Reffeesenianvevot:ffire:, uiii=. •t · -· _., The proposal .must now be versity's staff·and thii'BoarcJ•of .y;., ...... 0 .. • reviewed by MS"!) staff andiaI>• . . Regents \tiild"·the council that l ,. . ,. : ·~ . .· proved by the .B.oard . of· Re- their ··group~''wanf'.the street l • · · ' gents: Jf the university takes closed for safety reasons'. · ownership of the- street,_ it "I worked here before when Proposes would have to .file legal act10n it was open and witnessed ...... iri Rowan Circuit Court or get quite a few accidents,"· said d j ng consent from adjacent prop- Todd Thacker, a maintenance dee . erty owners for the closure to technician. become final. . The Faculty Senate and Stu­ Apparently alarmed over a dent Government Association 's ree citizen request last month to have taken similar stands. t t, reopen· the short street, MSU officials were out in full force Wilson Street resident Vir­ MSUmust for· Monday night's council ginia Williams, who made the meeting.. request last month to re-open review, OK University President Ronald the street, was skeptical of Eaglin said he was concerned claims of pedestrian injuries Morehead's plan about the safety of the 3,000 when·Third· Street was open. resident students, 3,200 com­ She believes opening the By MADELYNN CoLDIRON muting students and ·700 fac­ street would alleviate conges­ OF THE DAILY INDEPENDENT. ,ulty and staff members who tion on Second Street. City of­ regularly walk on the street, ficials think just the opposite. MOREHEAD - The perenni­ which is surrounded by sev­ "l am not in favor of open­ ally debated closure of Third eral major campus buildings, ing• Third Street whatsoever," Street on the Morehead State "This is the most heavily Mayor Brad Collins said, even University campus will be­ traveled pedestrian area in the before MSU officials made come permanent if the univer­ city of Morehead, probably in their presentation. sity agrees with a proposal Eastern Kentucky," he said. made Monday night _by the The city council ceded con­ The street, though closed, trol of the street to the univer­ Morehead City Council. . can still accommodate emer­ The council voted to deed sity in 1983, said Keith Kappes, ·gency vehicles, Eaglin noted.. vice president· for university the street to MSU, which ;:He said the university. is will­ would in turn fake re­ advancement.• In 1990, the :ing to consider the city's pro­ council allowed the university sponsibility for the street's un­ posal for· a land swap, but em- derground utilities and give to close the thoroughfare for the city some. property it o~s , •phasized that the board wjll construction. It has remained in ilie city park:;:t' ' - ::·· make the final decision. closed ever since. · There are only two other property. owners along Third Street besides the university. Both of them have access from other streets. THE COURIER-JOURNAL • WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1996 Faclilfy voice to··be ·heard· in hirings " . . . .,·, ·• The trustees also voted . at that at B~pt1st seminary meeting to re51!i_ct_ the right o~ faculty members to cnticrze the senunary - • . · the faculty overwhelmi~gly voted in moves.so divisive they co~pelled one By LESLIE SCANLON favor of the revised policy the truSt· student to walk the sem1Dary's. halls The Courier-Journal· ees approved yesterday. in a hooded black robe, carrymg a · "For the most part, we're pretty scythe. A new policy that gives the faculty . happy with the changes," said D8!1 of Southern Baptist Theological Stiver a professor. of Christian phi- The policy adopted by the trustees Seminary a clearer voice in hiring losophy and chairman of ~he Facu\ty yesterday gives the faculty ~ clearer new teachers was approved yester- Committee. Ideally, he srud, the dis- voice in making faculty appo':lltme~ts day - a move some see as a we!- cussion between the faculty and the _ saying faculty members Will be _ID· come sign of cooperation between administration would have taken volved in interviewing and evaluating the faculty and Southern's presi' place before the seminary's long- candidates. But the policy also makes dent, the Rev. R. Albert Mohler Jr. time hiring policy was changed last it clear that Mohler 'and the ~tees Mohler yesterday voiced "~eep year. ~ _ have considerable power to hire the appreciation" to the faculty dunng a Stiver described it as "a credit to people of their choosing. . . meeting of the seminary's Board of all parties that we were still able to "Full consent between all_ parties IS Trustees - a marked change from sit down with some openness" to desirable" in selecting candidates, ~e the mood in April 1995, when the develop the new p'olicy, and he policy states, but "lack of consent IS trustees passed a policy that restrict- hopes that approach will be a model not sufficient grounds to halt the pro­ ed new 'hires to people who agreed for addressing other issues in the fu. · with Mohler on the role of women in cess." the ministry and muzzled faculty nn:~culty hiring has been a matter Mohler also has the option to make members from speaking critically of of controversy at the seminary be- a presidential appointmen! of a facul­ the administration. cause it has been one of· the tools ty member, rather than go1Dg through The new hiring policy does not, d that the the normal search process. however, •signal a repair of the deep Mohler has use _to ensure . . between Mohler and the faculty faculty echo~ ~,s _conserval!Ve VI· The trustees also authorized con­ rift tinuing negotiations between South­ d Of sion for the mslltution. - a rift that has led to an exo us Previously, Mohler has imposed ern and Campbellsville University; ID long-time faculty members from his own theological litmus test on an effort to work out an arrangement Southern.. . - prospective faculty candidates - re- to transfer the Carver School of The administration likely · was fusing to hire a candidate for the Church Social Work from Southern to nudged toward increasing the facul- Carver School of Church Social Campbellsville by July 31. 1997 · ty role in hirings by a critical report Work in the spring of 1995 because issued last February by the Associ- the man did not provide satisfactory ation of Theological Schools in the answers to questions Mohle: posed United States and Canada, which about women serv1Dg as semor pas- cited the seminary's failure to in- tors, homosexuality and abortion. volve the faculty in decisions on hir- In April 1995. the trustees adopted ing and faculty discipline among a - stn· cling new faculty ap number of "deficiencies requiring a po1 icy re • remediation" at the seminary. pointments to people who believe th~t Still the administration was will- "only men should serve the church ID ing to 'adopt recommendations from the office of pastor." the faculty that Mohler described as 11constructive and clarifying," and '1\ 1--"idd-LI-I~ -JO Uc.,f, 11,)i9? MSU ARCHIVES n/1:JU l,li,-J Jh~~t A sample of recent articles of interest to Morehead State University INSTITUTIONAL RELATIONS MOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY UPO BOX 1100 MOREHEAD, KY 40361-1689 606-783-2030 LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER, LEXINGTON, KY. ■ THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1996 What makes Lynch such an ·;;r. fective economics professor? .,. Transy "I read a lot, pay attention tR what's happening in the world an~ bring it into the c!assroom," h~ sa,i,g-., professor_ Keeling, who 1s now workmg on a doctorate at the Massachusetts rn-· stitute of Technology, also ex­ takes top ""· plained what made Lynch a special professor. "Professor Lynch stressed 1M state ·honor logic underlying both economiI analysis and the human behavior BY MATT McCARTY that was its focus," Keeling wrote HERALD-LEADER STAFF WRITER in a letter recommending Lynch for When John Keeling entered Professor of the Year. Transylvania University, he had Lynch received his doctorate in planned to major in psychology. ~~ economics from the University of But after taking a princip,les Kentucky in 1966, then worked for course taught by professor Spindletop Research Inc. until 19_74, Lawrence Lynch he decided Ao In 1974, Lynch began teach1p/i" study economics. .. "' at UK. In 1979, he joined Transyl­ Keeling, a recent Transylvanill vania as an assistant professor. graduate, isn't alone in recognizing "I had taught part-time (before' Lynch as an effective- teacher. 1974) and I liked it," he said. "I rea!J Lynch, 57, was recently na~ ly do enjoy teaching very much.",",'. the 1996 Kentucky Professor of.~~e Lynch said he likes teaching;~,; Year by the .... , Transylvania because it's a sni~l) Carnegie Founda­ liberal arts college and he can worli tion for the Ad- with smaller groups of studentS: vancement of "I'm· not so pigeonholed," he said ·of Teaching in the university. • Princeton, NJ. Lynch is also a tax consultant There were to Kentucky's Legislative Researc)1 585 nominees in Commission and helps the sta\e the nation, includ­ forecast tax revenue and predict _t_h_~ ing 15 from Ken­ effects of proposed tax changes. tucky. The foun­ i-11 I )1 dation named a "I read a lot,, winner from 47 pay attention states and one to what'sn;: each from the happening.In; District of Colum­ the world,,. THE COURIER-JOURNAL • THURSDA_Y,_()_CJOBER 17, 1996 bia and Puerto and bring Rico. -The honor :n:-: is named after the into the'"· :: Owensboro school gets interim president Carnegie Founda­ classroom~~:' -◊WENSBORO, Ky. - The new interim president of Owensboro tion, but is ad­ I really do . Community College says the job may help determine the next step in ministered by the enjoy teac6:.' his career. ing very·:: "This may make me decide" whether to pursue a community col­ Council for Ad­ lege presidency in the future, said David Brauer, who takes over vancement and much."-· " Monday. He was chosen by Ben Carr, chancellor of the University of Support of Edu- LAWRENCE LYNCH. Kentucky Community College System. cation in Wash- Transylvania IJl'lf. Brauer, the academic dean at Henderson Community College, will ington D.C. versity professor serve until a permanent successor to John McGuire is found. Lynch found _____ McGuire, OCC president since 1991, starts Nov. 1 as president of St. out he was being 4 ~, Charles Community College in Missouri. nominated last , ", Brauer, 46, has been with Henderson Community College for 14 spring while on sabbatical doing,r.~:. years and dean of academic affairs for eight years. He will commute search about corporate income tax daily from Henderson. when university officials asked hmi for his resume. · THE COURIER.JOURNAL • TljlJRSDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1996 U of ·L agrees to seek minority contractors

health-sciences-research building. Owsley said the state or the Ken­ New policy applies· Contracts for both projects should be tuckiana Minority Supplier Develop­ awarded by the end of the year, Ows- ment Council would be asked to certi­ to future projects ley said.) . fy companies .claiming to be owned Civil-rights activist Anne Bmden by minorities or women. but not stadium said Owsley's priorities were predict- _Jrustee Harry Jones said he had al­ able. . ways considered U of L to be "at the By MICHAf:L JENNINGS "The interest of African Americans· forefront, a_t the cutting edge" of affir­ The Courier.Journal is always put last/' she said~ "Having mative action, and still thought so a stadium by '98 is put first." But Coleman said that's clearly noi Reacting to pressure from civil­ Five companies owned by women· the case. rights activists, the University of and one African-American company "If the. university had an effective Louisville agreed yesterday to push have been listed as subcontractors by program in place, we would not be harder to use minority-owned busi­ here now," fie· said. nesses on future university construc­ companies who won the five stadium tion projects. contracts awarded so far, which are • But the push won't apply to work worth $36.8 million. But managers of Also yesterday, Owsley armounced on the university's $42.5 million foot­ Kentucky Transfer Line, the black­ these contracts for stadium work: ball stadium, and it _appears unlikely owned company, say ·they have-not gen~ral trades (worth $11.6 million), to defuse criticism that U of L is do­ been told what, if anything, they will Sullivan & Cozart Inc.· electrical ing too little, too late to help minor­ be asked to do on the project. (worth $4.8 million), Henderson Elec­ ity-owned businesses. Officials for the company that listed t~c Co.; mechanical (worth $3.4 mil­ U of L officials had urged bidders Kentucky Transfer, RAM Engineering hon), Bodemann Mechanical Contrac­ for seven stadium contracts to seek & Construction Inc., could not be tors. Of those, only Sullivan & Cozart out minority. and female subcontrac­ reached for comment. . _ proposed using minority or female tors, · and they handed out lists of Owsley said all five contractors subcontractors. companies that might be interested. have agreed to strengthen efforts to But contracts went to the low bid­ find work for minority-owned busi­ ders, who were not required to show ·nesses and have listed jobs they might any effort to recruit minority or be asked to do, including installation women subcontractors. of storm and water liries, trucking Under a policy approved by U of L and electrical excavation. trustees;-executive committee yester­ Owsley said U of L would model its day, however, companies bidding for new policy on requirements the state future university work will have to Finance and Administration -Cabinet document efforts to meet percentage imposed on bidders for a $56.5 mil­ goals for minority and female sub­ lion expansion of the Commonwealth contractors. And those failing "to show a good-faith effort risk having Convention Center. The cabinet, us­ their bids thrown out. ing City of Louisville guidelines for But the Rev. Louis Coleman, head minority business participation, asked of the Shelbyville-based Justice Re.­ .bidders to document their efforts at source Center, told the trustees that charmeling at least 15 percent of the the university's handling of the stadi­ work to companies owned by minor-. um contracts has allowed bidders to itieS Or women. engage in "racism at its rawest." U of L will set participation goals · Businesses owned by African based on its own job-market analysis, Americans "have been stepped on, but they will be no lower than the have been slam-dunked," he said at standard set by other state contracts, yesterday's meeting. Owsley said. Larry Owsley, U of L vice presi­ The new policy also requires the dent for administration, who recom­ university to monitor work once the mended the new standards, said the contracts are in place. When minority university would open itself to law­ suits and risk missmg the scheduled or female subcontractors drop out of fall 1998 opening of the stadium if it a project, contractors will have to try changed the rules now for awarding to replace them with comparable the remaining contracts. companies. (The new policy will apply to a $7 million traming facility m the sta­ dium complex and a $28 million Oc-i-. IS2 /'!i'JWe feel we need to be compen- 13-mch coal 1s worth somethmg?" he asked. '.:. ;" said company vice president .. ·., .•. ·, ,. .., .,. . •d', B y· Ketron, who attended. the · ·, • " · - a, - - o·• board meeting. "We don't- want to Inthe end, the board decideirto ask a committee to· mine Lilley Cornett woods and ruin get more· ·information about the matter before the nexi it, but .we are· prepared to do.that if meeting .in January. Specifically, the committee will we are forced to." · · co?Sider whether_ Enterprise's coal can feasibly ])e, The land. conservation board gets money from th~ mmed and look mto the property rights is.sues i11; ,ale of special license plates, from environmental firii!$ · · volved ...- , ._; · ·.; . . .,- c· .. :'. .:.. , · · · ::r; and from the state's portion of the unmiµed minerals tax: It is in the process of buying 16· natural areas · . ,__ N~tural Resources commissio~er Biil Marti~ s.afii" around the state; but this was the first"time it had beeij: controversies over mining beneath the-forest have been. asked to·purchase mineral rights'. - · · · '.;:1 around since at least. the early 1980s. He temporarili,! ' · • "s~ppe~ down !IS _board chairman_ during yesterday'.~- , d1scuss10n ·because he used to run the· EKU progran1 that._oveniees Lilley Cornett Woods and has· done reJ. search there for 25 years. · . · . . ~; .. ·,, ....· ,--~; . :.:i-:-~... ,:.: . ,. . ":. ; ~:!: I· ".', Lilley Cornett waJ, a coal mine"r who toiled fli~:- 10 cents an hour and and saved. After World Wadi' _h\\~t~te~ )!uying,:l31n~,i1!1~,.~1;,fus~d, to allow th~ qees., ~o be,cutr-Hts;~htlar~ spfcf;Jhe;l~i!iJJo ,\h~ state m 1969, but the coal remained,mit.hi. theci:oal companies: ::J:grux~J ,9'{I'il ~cbur.; '-1 l r>,c;J-d,-Lj-15 - f Cc.+,~. l'191,, MSU ARCHIVES. I / • MSU ·Clfp Sheet A sample of recent articles of interest to Morehead State University INSTITUTIONAL RELATIONS MOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY UPO BOX 1100 MOREHEAD, KY 40351-1689 606-783-2030 The Sun_day Independent, Ashland, Kentucky, October ·20, 1996 Program spreads folk-art ___._ . . 111e'ssage via _·c·hildren "There is as much strength By CATHIE SHAFFER in folk art as .in what contem­ "What's wonderful is the OF THE DAILY INDEPENPENT porary artists call fine art;'' :way children accept folk art," she said. "Children. need , to '.Brewer said. "We target MOREHEAD - When Bi­ know that this is their heri­ :fourth-graders on the elemen­ anca Brewer hears a child ex­ tage - this is as valid an ex­ :tary level; it's a great age to claim, "My Papaw makes ·pression as any other form of ·introduce them to folk art be­ those, too," she feels a little ·cause of their level of cogni­ art. ·uve development. thrill' of excitement. She "They can look at a piece . knows then that the message · "These kids are so open. by Minnie Adkins, ·for ex­ :They get so excited, and they'll being promoted through the ample, and see something :say 'The old man down the Kentucky·Folk Art Museum's unique, something they ·can 'road does that' or 'My grand­ Folk to Folk education pro­ relate to because it · comes mother paints like that.' They gram is getting through. from their culture. Just · as can see the artistic aspects of The progra111's mission is to French art is . undeniably the works, but they can also serve as a roving advocate for French, folk art is equally see that it's created by ordi­ the.kind of art familiar in Ap­ unique." nary people just like them." palachia - works .created not Next summer, the folk art The program goes to middle according· to the standards of museum will move to a new and high schools as well, fine art but· 'as an undeniable location· along U.S. 60, with a Brewer said. Although it's self-expression ·of one's cre­ much larger building, more used by art classes in those ativity. parking and easier access for schools, English teachers also Brewer, the museum's edu­ the public. It will also foster often participate because folk cation coordinator,.is enthusF an expansion • of the Folk to art enhances many aspects of ·astic about carrying out that Fo!k_ school outreaqh pro­ the language arts. The Folk to mission of the program, gram. Folk education program also which will reach nearly 100 "When the new building is meshes with KERA require­ schools in 13 counties tl;lis created, the children• will be ments, she said. year. able to come here and see folk Another aspect of Folk to "We'll serve around 6,000 art in its appropriate setting," Folk is mini exhibits, which children this year," she said. the ·director said. "Our pro­ are taken throughout the state "These are children who gram is two-fold -- we take to community locations, such might not have -_any exposure selected pieces ·of art to the · as libraries and community to art if not for this program. schools, and then the children buildings, as well as schools. A It may be that their schools can come to the museum to $3,000, grant from the Ken­ are located too far away to see the collections. tucky Arts· Council will allow allow for- field trips to art ven­ "The problem now is that for an expansion of that por­ ues in Ashland or Lexington, our space is so cramped that tion of the program. or there simply may not be we can have only a limited any money for those •kinds of exhibit, and we can only ac- . "We know that some people trips. · commodate small groups. will take their children to a "Another problem is that When the renovations are city with a museum where many schools don't have art completed in the new build­ they can experience art first­ teachers. Any art education is ing, we'll not only have a hand," Brewer said. "But for given by their classroom space large enough to truly be many children in this region, this program may be their teacher, and is very limited." :'able to appreciate this art riiisyear, the program is first and only introduction to : we'll also be able to have th~ art of any sort, and folk art in active in Rowan, Carter, El­ . permanent collection on dis­ particular. "When we're there, liott, Morgan, Lewis, Fleming, play for the first time. The .im- , we talk about the difference Bath, Lawrence, Robertson, -pact for these children will be tremendous." between fine art and folk art, Pike, Wolfe, ·Menifee and and how art is a expression of_ Montgomery counties. Ad- . . A $25,000 grant from Ronald the creativity that's in eaca ditional counties will be i · McDonald House Charities ' one of us. That's really what added annually· for the next will help Folk to Folk expand this program is· about - help­ - two years. the program,· which added a ing children see that art isn't The typical · classroom . art "folk art mobile" last year. meeting someone else's stand­ education usually focuses on The van's exterior has been ard, but as a way for ordinary fine art, says museum direc­ ·creatively decorated by volun­ people to have an outlet for -.teers from the community, and their feelings." tor Jill Jayne Reed, who adds -'commands instant attention that it's important for chil­ ,when it pulls up to a school. dren to realize that any ere- . ative expression is art. LEXINGTON HERAUH.EADER, LEXINGTON, KY. ■ MONDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1996 College,s recruit on~Iine using-hlgh-tech ·experts

BY ANGIE MUHS feel it's well worth the money." .. : HERALD-LEADER EDUCATION WRITER College guides on the Net Gary Martin, head guidance Cyberspace is giving JoAnna counselor at Henry Clay High Lio one more way to judge the col­ Here are a few of the many Inter­ School, said he's had students sub­ leges she's interested in these days. net sites that offer college guides for mit college applications on-line. ; students. Their Web pages had better be So far, students using the Inter-'' good, says Lio, a 17-year-old senior ■ College Board: http://www. collegeboard.org net for college research are still ·in at Lexington Catholic High School. ■ CollegeEdge: http://www. the minority, he said. But he eii0 "If it's not set up right - if it's CollegeEdge .com peels that to change. confusing - I'm not going to both­ ■ CollegeView: http://www. er with it," she said. "And if you "This is going to be a major collegeview.com deal in two or three years," he said.. don't have a Web page, that kind of ■ College Town: says something about the school, http://www.ctown.com Alvaro Fernandez, a Lexington too." ■ Peterson's Education Center: Catholic senior, said he liked the The Internet is adding another http://www.petersons.com convenience of the Internet. Instead front to the fiercely competitive ■ Princeton Review Best Colleges: of thumbing through 4-inch-thick war that colleges wage for stu- http://www.review.com/undergr/best college guides, he punched in char­ _colleges.html acteristics he wanted in a college. dents. · ■ Cumberland College's CyberChat The latest example is Cumber­ room runs from 8 to 9 p.m. on Tues­ "I could do it from home," said land College, in Williamsburg, day nights. You can reach it at · Alvaro, 17, 'who said he registered which just started an Internet chat http://www.cumber.edu/CyberChat. for the SAT on-line and has used room that lets prospective students html · the College Board's on-line guide to "talk" live with its faculty, admis­ Most Kentucky colleges also have research colleges. "It's a lot more sions counselors and students home pages on the Internet with infor: accessible." mation about their programs and how through electronic mail. to apply. Some also have virtual cam­ · But there also are some issues So far, a chat room for prospec­ pus tours. .. that have to be addressed, said tive students is fairly rare, said A search engine such as Yahoo! is Swanson, of the national college Roger Swanson, associate executive a good place to start looking for those registrar's group. director of the American Associa­ colleges. "For people who have comput­ tion of Collegiate Registrars and ers, or good schools with computer Admissions Officers. Several companies producing· access to the Web, this is wonder­ But other colleges are signing computerized college guides de­ ful," he said. "But for students who up with a burgeoning list of compa­ clined to talk about their fees. But don't have this, it leaves them with­ nies with titles such as Col­ Mike Conner, ·collegeView's vice out some tools. It's the gap between legeView, College Town and Col­ president, said his company's fees haves and have-nots." legescape - just to name a few. range from $3,000 to $25,000, de­ And even those enthusiastic The Web pages' most common pending on the length and com­ about the emerging technology cau­ element is a search engine that al­ plexity of the college's presentation. tion that it's not perfect. lows students to sort through thou­ He said about 270 colleges have "None of this replaces the .actu­ sands of schools to find the ones paid for an expanded presentation al experience of going on the cam­ with the majors .and demographics on the CD-ROMs and about 125 pus," Swanson said.- "There's a cer, they want. Some also include on­ have paid for expanded presence· tain atmosphere that only being line applications or financial aid in­ on the Internet, spending between there can create." formation. $15,000 and $20,CJ90 on average. Counselors also say they advise Colleges are looking for new "We're like the yellow pages," students to take what they see with ways to use computers and the In­ Conner said." "You get a free listing, a grain of salt - a lesson that Lex­ ternet to recruit students for a sim­ and we let you buy something that ington Catholic senior Jeremy ple reason. makes you stand out above the Kasper said he already learned. "They're always looking for crowd." "It's a good place to start, but ways to get an edge on the compe­ Does it work? some of the little nit-picky inforn1a­ tition," Swanson-said. ' lion was wrong," he said. That also fits in with colleges' Cumberland, which had its first "CyberChat" last Tuesday, hopes Martin said he also advises stu­ efforts to sell students on their . dents not to forget _that a Web page computing resources, he said. the project- will appeal to students because of its convenience, Wake is just an extension of a glossy brochure. Mike Konopski, director of ad­ said. missions at Georgetown College, "Sometimes, you call students "I tell them to remember that agrees. The school advertises to it's easy to put together pictures students that its campus - even and they're not home," she said. "We thought, if we set this up that make everything look beauti­ dorm rooms - is wired for the In­ ful," he said. ternet, he said. · every Tuesday night, if they have questions, they'll know this 1s a So he sees it as virtually neces­ convenient time to reach us." sary for Georgetown to try some high-tech marketing. For this year, Wake said the college spent the college paid to have a multime­ about S6,500 on the project, includ- . dia presentation included on Col­ ing distributing 25,000 postcards legeView's CD-ROMs, he said. and airing TV spots to promote it. The college encountered some . "From a marketing standpoint, technical glitches that kept some you should be right out front with students from logging on to its first that," said Konopski, who said the chat, Wake said. But she said she's college spent about $12,000 on the still optimistic about the proiect. presentation. "We want to attract students who enjoy surfing on the "If vou get just one student out Internet and want to apply that of that." it's worth it," she said. "We academically."· The Daily Independent_,_Ashland·, Kentucky, .. Satu_rday, October 19, 1996 WKU fraternity charter revoked BOWLING GREEN - The national organization Kappa Sigma Fraternity has revoked the charter of its affiliated fraternity at Western Kentucky University for hazing _, ' . BY LEWIS KAMB "It doesn't get us near. where violations. ~ \ ~KNIGHT-RIDDER ,WASHINGTON BUREAU The fraternity's national : WASHINGTON - More col­ we probably ought to be. But headquarters in lege students should have an easier It makes up a lot of lost Charlottesville, Va., said it time paying for their education ground." was notified Monday by the neoct school year. JEFF ANDRADE university of alleged I :In the fiscal 1997 budget adopt­ budget official in the Department of violations and immediately z ~ recently, Congress agreed to Education suspended the charter .§ 1rn;rease student financial-assist­ pending the outcome of an ance programs by more than $1.3 funding cut earlier this year by the investigation. bi11ion from last year to $7,56 House Appropriations Committee. The board of directors of billion, enough money to assist 8.2 . "We have a lot more opportuni­ Kappa Sigma voted Friday million students, or about 900 000 to revoke the chapter's m9re than in the current school ties for students," said Jeff An­ drade, an official in the budget charter. year. office of the Department of Educa­ Kappa Sigma, founded in : College officials and higher tion. "It doesn't get us near where 1869, is the fourth-largest education activists said students we probably ought to be. But it fraternity and has been in could thank election-year politics makes up a lot of lost ground." existence at Western since fm: the change of heart in Congress 1965. which tried six months ago to cut The increase in Pell Grant The investigation, which funding was hailed by Elmendorf college aid programs by almost as Western launched this milch. ~d oth~ as the major budget week, is the second this victory m the battle to increase year, according to Howard : "We think this budget is a student' aid. supstantial step in the right direc­ Bailey, the university's tion," said Edward Elmendorf, vice The $230 individual grant in­ dean of student life. president of government relations creases may seem small. But for Bailey would not detail fot the American Association of individual students like 30-year-old the violations but said they St,tte Colleges and Universities Jean Bond, a mother of two attend­ involved incidents in the ec~oing others. ' ing the University of ·oregon the spring and fall. : Nearly all major student aid increased aid will at least allo~ her University policy defines programs received additional fund­ to ke<:P up with rising higher h;izing as practices that are ing in the new budget education costs. part of initiation or "It will help' make up for raises : ■ Funding for the Pell Grant affiliation with an prpgram that provides assistance in tuition," said Bond who is organization that include to· about 3.8 million low-income working toward a jo~alism de­ _endangering the mental or students was increased by nearly gree. Tuition charges for in-state physical health of a $1:billion, a funding boost that will residents at Oregon jumped from participant, forcing or increase . the maximum grant per $3,381 · last year to $3,540 for -the coercing consumption of student by $230 to $2 700 the 1996-97 school year. "It will proba­ liquor, drugs or other highest level ever for this program. bly just keep me at an even keel " substances, or harassing said Bond, who also works part­ :- ■ The new budget adds $64.7 participants by malting millio1,1 to the Perkins Loan pro­ time to help pay her college ex­ them do degrading or gt,IIII, a low-interest loan program penses. disagreeable work or fm: ._ tlie neediest college students. Liz Hermsen; a political science abusive and humiliating The $158 million program had major_ at Penn _State University, conduct that tends to bring been·cut by about the same amount was Just as excited over the in­ the reputation of the in· the fiscal 1996; which ended creased funding for college work organization or university Sept 30. study, the program that provides into disrepute. students with employment oppor­ '. ■ The budget increases the federal work study program by tunities while in college. $213 million, increasing total fund­ "There's always people looking ing to $830 million. for work study," Hermsen said. She ' Ii The State Student Incentive said more funding for work study Grant program, a matching-grant translates into "opportunities for program designed to encourage more work experience to help get a states to pay for financial aid, was job, and less debt" for students given $18.6 million more for stu­ once they graduate. dent aid in the coming year. That didn't fully offset last year's reduc­ ~°1\i_:';'.hich cut the program nearly. m ;µ;µr, to $31.3 million. ~ a related action, the Republi­ ~ontrolled Congress also yield­ ed.;:;to President Clinton on his controversial direct student-loan pr!)gtanl, -approving a $55 million inerease in administrative costs thuS:avoiding cuts in other studeni aidj:irograms to support the $13 biUicin loan program for 1997-98. ::Under the direct-loan program, s~~nts can borrow directly from the!t· college or university and avija dealing with a secondary letiiling agency. The program w~h accounted for more than 39 percent, or about $11 billion, of all •• • • r ., ~"'"'",-.,.. __ , ___ , The Daily Independent, Ashland, Kentucky, Friday, October 18, 1996 THE COURIER-JOURNAL • MON[)AY, OCTOBER 21, 1996 More carping COMMUNITY COLLEGES Murray State University president the Kentucky Tech system will result Kern Alexander's paper, "Notes on in the development and implementa­ And they call this cooperation? Postseconda,y and Higher Education tion of workforce development activi­ in Kentucky" ... describes an educa­ ties that will provide grant opportuni­ In vowing to be Kentucky's game of running molleY . tional paradigm of formal education ties from which the institutions and "higher education governor," around so that you don't get that includes seconda,y, postsecon­ their constituencies will benefit. He P'aul Patton has called on the entire picture," he said. dary, non-college, baccalaureate and would know that these partnerships graduate professional education, and will result in increased learning op­ state-supported universities As stated in this space , on-the-job training. Alexander posits portunities involving interactive tele­ and community colleges to Sunday, we disagree with Al­ that "postseconda,y non-collei:e vo­ communications, increased availabil­ : eliminate their "turf battles" exander's comments, hut one cational and technical educatmn in ity of computer technology resources, Kentucky is even more inadequate increased response to workforce : and work together for the should expect a more rea­ than [in] most states." He asserts training needs ... increased empha­ i common good. ' that Kentucky "has no such system soned response from UK of­ 14 sis on basic skills education, in­ : So how is this new spirit of ficials. of education" but does have a frac­ creased technical associate degree tionated and duplicative series of programs, increased enhancement of : cooperation going?· Not well. To listen to those involved community colleges and technical . '·1·· ' ' economic development outreach into ; · In the latest of a long line in higher education in Ken- and vocational schools" with the rural areas, and increased GED prep­ : of battles between state uni'. Kentucky Tech system filling the void aration and literacy training. left by the community college sys­ He would know that the University versities, Murray· State Uni­ f~~~• t~~t ith::OJ~t s~~P~:: tem .... He declares that the commu­ of Kentucky community college sys­ nity colleges provide academic prep­ tem provides a unique access to high­ versity President Kern Alex­ edly working for the · same aration rather than vocational/techni­ ander last week criticized the goal. er education and to continuing edu­ cal/skill training. cation for those individuals whose University of Kentucky's Ironically, the spat be­ Alexander states th~t the commu­ ... economic and/or academic situa­ dominance over higher edu­ tween UK and Alexander nity colleges in Kentucky have not tions often preclude their acceptance cation in Ke'ntucky and fulfilled the mission inherent in the into institutions of higher education: comes at a time when a' con­ original design of the "great proto­ older adults, economically disadvan­ called for a separation of the sultant has · said higher edu­ type systems" ... developed to pro­ taged and academically uuderpre­ vide postsecondary vocational and i4 community colleges from cation in Kentucky is not un­ technical training. Had he read the pared individuals, and individuals derfunded. . with disabilities. UK's control. 1996 Report of the Commission on With further research, Alexander 'Alexander's 40-page dia­ Dennis Jpp.es of the Na'. · the Future of the University of Ken­ · would know that Jefferson Commu­ tucky Community College System, he nity College, for example . . . has tribe prompted this i'esppnse . tional Center· for Higher Edu-, would know that the actual mission from UK Vice President Ed cation Management Systems of the community colleges includes: been instrumental in the formation of Carter: "I am appalled that a broad access to higher education; an Alliance for Business/Industry said the problem in Ken­ high-quality programs that meet the Services, which includes the Jeffer­ president' of a Kentucky uni­ tucky is how higher educa­ needs of the colleges' immediate son Community College Center for versity would produce fo:r · tion dollars are utilized. In­ communities; teaching; student serv­ Workforce Development, Kentucky public consumption a docU:­ ices, including developmental stud­ Tech,,and Career Resources Inc., and stead of working together, ies; workforce training for business the Jefferson County Public Schools. mimt so illogical, misleading each state university in Ken­ and indust,y; and collaborative ven­ This alliance will provide workforce and inaccurate as this;'' add­ tucky establishes its own tures with other higher education development opportunities within the and/or postsecondary institutions. Louisville community.... in'g Alexander's paper "re­ budget and priorities with ... He would know that the current Alexander correctly refers to a verts to the amateurish, un­ little regarq to the larger collaboration between the University .. historical misconception" of the informed, simplistic, · mis­ context. · · of Kentucky community college sys­ community college system in Ken­ tem and the Kentucky Tech system tucky. The University of Kentucky leading and inaccurate anal­ We · think Jones is right, commun!IY college system, with its \ I I , S i • • I '~~ ' ~ , , \ will result in. adult literacy and adult ysis" of higher ed~batioµ pol- but in light ofthe'continuo'us basic education programs, in associate non-traditmnal bent, fulfills its mis­ icy of 25 years ago:· · degree technical programs, in college­ sion ... and continues a growth ne­ carping between state: uni-. level general edutation and transfer cessitated by the flux of educational J\lexander said he expected · versities in Kentucky, it may programs, and ih workforce training pedagogy in relationship to valued such a 'response 'from''''uIC:· for business and indust,y. community members whose non-tra­ require some· ma}or changes ditional needs remain its top priority. ''They've conducted a shell • to get t~em to work together. He would know that the current , ~' I ' . partnerships being established RICHARD GREE"', President among the University of Kentucky, Jefferson Community College the community college system, and I rnJisvillP. 40:m~ Oc., t. d 'S_ I 99 Ir q \A;;).';l -L\-\ '5 - t IV/SU l,/tp tihrJJ1:ARCHIVES

INSTITUTIONAL RELAT A sample of recent articles of interest to Morehead State University . IONS MOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY UPO BOX 1100 MOREHEAD. KY 40351-1689 606-783-2030 The Daily Independent, Ashland, Kentucky, Monday, October 21 199S served in a variety of posi- ' tions, both teaching and super- vising. By 1978, _Webb finally X en e campus reached one of his goals - he E t d d . became superintendent of the . ea wants to be ~I~~nup County School Dis- h d • "I had strived so hard to be- come GC superintendant. I fi- . ghbor nally got a phone call one working nel night and I plowed into it with both feet. I felt that through all By JENNY PEMBERTON of my experiences, I had N!NRIJ!ill.. enough background to be the FOR THE DAILY INDEPENDENT reach more students by being superintendent. And I was a principal and getting in­ . there for 10 years." ASHLAND - With an al­ volved in school administra­ Danny Craft, chairman of . legiance to his alma mater, tion, so I went back to college the Greenup County school H._ Jack Webb has found him­ to work on my master's de­ board, said he admired Webb's self returning lo Morehead gree." leadership skills. State University many times After only one year as an el­ "Jack is a very strong per­ over the years. Recently, his ementary teacher, Webb re­ son who is never afraid to alma mater came to him. turned to Morehead to work make a decision. He's not Webb is the new director on a master's degree in princi­ afraid to admit he was wrong " for Morehead State Uni­ palship and supervision for Craft said. "He always had the versity's Ashland Area Ex­ grades K-12. After completing best interest of the school sys- tended Campus Center. Wi!bb the degree, he returned to his hometown of Greenup where tem at heart." · · said he was challenged to Although the superinten­ make a difference. he began his first administra­ tive role in education. dency was the position he had "I was offered this position "I came to Daneylton to be­ always dreamed of having an­ and given_ the opportunity to come a principal. I felt there other position came along 'that make the MSU extended cam­ really was a need in that sparked his interest even pus a working neighbor in school and that I could make a more. Ashland. We want to develop difference. I started out by in­ "I resigned my position as a pure two-plus-two program stilling a positive attitude in superintendant in 1988 to be­ and complement Ashland the children and promoting come director of pupil person­ Community College." their self-esteem. We began nel. I was ·responsible for at­ ~~We_bb. ~;ti!l,)t is important winning basketball games for tendance and keeping kids in lo offer the additional two the first time in years." school_ and-really felt like I ac­ years so non-traditional stu­ Webb said he had a quest to comphshed a lot in this role " dents who complete their as­ become superintendent and al Web~ ~eceived a state awiu-d sociate degree at ACC can the age of 26, after one year as reco!:!uzmg Greenup schools principal, he applied for the as_bemg.o_ne of the top·10 dis­ continue their education at tricts with increased at­ home. The extended campus superintendent's position with the Greenup County system. tendance from the 1987_88 currently offers bachelor's school year to the. next degrees in elementary educa­ Although he didn't get the position because of inexperi­ "With 1,200 stud~nts (at tion, business and nursing. Greenup County High School) In addition, students can ence, Webb wasn't dtssuaded from moving ahead. He re­ we managed to maintain a 95 work on master's degrees in perce1_1t attendance record. various fields. turned again to MSU where he became director of a new pro­ That 1s very significant for Bill Seaton of Ashland, a gram called Upward Bound. such a large number of stu­ member of the MSU Board of Webb said the program al­ dents living throughout Gree­ Regents, said ·he thinks Webb lowed him an opportunity to nup County." is perfect for. the job. "He's an share his 'I can do it' philoso­ Although Webb looks back MSU graduate, he knows a lot phy with others. on 33 years of varied and suc­ of people, and has good rela­ "This was what I called an ?essful ~oles in education, he tionships with them. I think investment program. I worked is. lookmg. forward to the he is an ideal choice for the with low-income high school /lungs he can do in his new job." students who had the ability to Job. Webb is approaching this achieve. Many of them felt At 55, Webb said he is not new position with the same very negative about them­ r~ady to fully retire and is ex­ zeal and positive attitude that .selves, but we gave them op­ ?1ted about new opportunities he has in.his past positions as portunities they might never m education, which runs in an educator. He said attitude have had. Many of them be­ the family. Webb's wife Joie is everything. came very successful." teaches German in ·the J;ontor{ . "My mother and aunt were Webb said the Upward school system; )Joth teachers and they both Bound program selected 100 "I have high expectations instilled in me the 'I can do ii students from various counties and. I expect :a !ot _from myself. attitude' that r have been· able and brought them to the More­ ~ think what s ms1de you is so to keep .as my philosophy. If head campus for eight-week l~portant. I've made · lots of you wo.rk hard enough and re­ · sessions. During that time mistakes, but I don't mind, be­ ally destre · lo do It, you can they visited museums, histori­ cause I have learned from achieve:"· cal sites and a variety of plac­ them. And that is the message But Webb doesn't keep his es they had never been. I want to send to the stu­ zealous attitude to hinlself. He dents." uses it · to motivate the stu­ We literally turned people's Webb, also president of the dents,around him. Webb began lives around. All walks .of life MSU Alumni Association, said teaching·-elementary schoorin have come out of that program he wants to focus on_ putting 1963 after receiving a bach­ and beert very successful. the needs of the students first elor's ·degree from Morehead After several years there at the Ashland campus. · State. University. Although he Webb said he ·felt he had '.'I feel very optimistic about achieved- tiie experience. he loved teaching; he said he felt this. program right •now. By like he could do more. needed and wanted ·to return puttmg the students first I "I thought I could probably hQ!ll_e to Greenup. He returned know _I am going in the right to the classroom, where ·he d1rect10n." LEXINGTON HERAUH.EADJ;R, LEXINGTON; KY. ■ TU_E~DAY, ·OCTOBER 22, 1996 P[:tton -· won't s~ y· whether he backs new arena for ·UK Taking stand might not be wise now, governor tells Prichard committee

BY ANGIE MUHS mine problems." HERALD-LEADER EoucATIDN WRITER Earlier in the meeting, Bob Sex- FRANKFORT - Gov. Paul Pat- ton, the Prichard committee's exec­ ton won't say whether he thinks the utive director, asked Patton University of Kentucky should build whether he would support creating a new on-campus basketball arena. a multi-million-dollar fund for acad- "l'm not going to put, my dog in emic excellence, an idea the group that fight," Patton quipped yester- put forth in a 1981 report. day in response to a question from The fund would be used to re­ the audience at a meeting of the cruit outstanding professors and of­ Prichard Committee on Academic fer scholarships to top students, Excellence. Sexton said. Patton, who has said he wants "lt's kind of the academic equiv- to stake his administration's record alent of a basketball arena," Sexton on reforming higher education, ac- said to laughs from the audience. knowledged after his remarks that Patton, in a brief speech and in the decision to build an on-campus a question-and-answer session, also arena was a higher education issue. shied away from specifics on other But he said he didn't want to higher education topics, including take a stand and later have it inter- the perennial question of whether fere with the changes he's trying to the higher education governance make on a larger scale: structure ought to be changed. "[ think it might .detract from But he told the audience that "I the bigger picture of what I'm try- don't \vant to leave the impression I ing to do at this point," Patton said. don't have ideas about the way it "I'm not saying it's not related to ought to go." . the overall situation with higher ed- "I don't want to prejudice the ucation: I'm just not in the business debate," Patton said, adding that he of prescribing solutions yet. I'm ]is- also didn't know yet if his ideas tening for problems, trying to deter- were "the right ones." THE COURIER-JOURNAL • TUESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1996 U OF L ERRED ON STADIUM GO-AHEAD BY THOMAS F. MOFFETT

The writer Is a board member of to sue on behalf of economic de­ sports. the Kentucky Alliance Against Rae- velopment for the minority com- Taking strong action to ensure 1st & Palltlcal Repression and a , munity that has been shut out of minority contracts has not pre­ trustee of Grace Hope Presbyter!• the action forever? vented the growth of Atlanta. Why an Church In Loulsvllle, We say it's.high time to stop ac- is U of L not interested in being HAVE BEEN (and main) a cep~g the. i~ea tl!at justice for out front, setting an example for re . African Amencans IS a fine goal, Louisville's business communi!)>? pro'!d support~r _of ~e Um- but only if it can be achieved so Why was it assumed without dis­ vers1ty of Louisville s . sports gradually that nobody notices and cussion that completing the stadi­ 1program as well as of its rec- gets upset um on time· is more important ord of diversity and oppo~!f- . I can imderstand that U of L than taking strong action to insist . But ~ atte'!ded the uruvers1ty trustees must .consider the nega­ that genuine good-faith efforts re­ trustees !'leeting on Oct. 16 wb_en live consequences of disappointed· place fuzzy pretenses in securing they h~stily voted to proceed with fans, •financial loss caused by de­ minority sub-contractors on bids !!warding contracts for co~c- lay, and the possibility of legal ac­ worth $26 million? tions of t!'e new p of L stadil!ffi. lion by bidders who thought they If we cannot count on U of L for What I :wi~essed m that meeting had won. What I could not for the the bold leadership needed, we was a timid, bel_ated effort to fol- life of me.· understand was why must look to our .business, civic low th~ leadership of ~te govern- none of the trustees (lis far as I and government leaders. Papa ment _m the future, instead of._a could hear) even raised the ques­ John's attomer has declined the fortbright statement that U of L IS · lion as to whether there were 0th­ invitation, calling it inappropriate willing to take risks right now in er considerations that might possi- for corporate givers "to be 1rYin order to make·a real difference for bly outweigh those · to manage the project for U of L 8 th~ young people at risk it says it When U of L is s~king funding Papa Jobn's apparently had no exISts to_ serve. For the record, I , by explainin!! its unique role in such worries about using its influ­ am a white alumnus of U of L, and · Kentucky's higher education sys­ ence in the selection of a name for I was ashamed of my alma mater , tem, it speaks eloquently about its the stadium. that day. 1 importance as an urban university Where ilre ·the leaders with the Some folks are saying it is I confronting some of the most ·vision to see that the future of our wrong to saddle U of L with a law- critical problems facing our na­ . nation ~ yes, our national securi­ suit over its failure to secure any lion. It recites proudly its record ty - is intimately dependent on minority sub-contractors under i of assisting econolDlc develop• strong and prompt action for mi• the stadium contracts, since the I ment efforts in the minority·com­ nority economic development? university made a reasonable ef- I munity. That is something that truly fort. . But when it had a chance to cannot wait any longer. I do not We ask, Why is it wrong to use make a strong statement by its . believe that completion of the sta­ a lawsuit to serve notice that the deeds, a dozen of its trustees dium on schedule is equally criti­ time for mere effort is long past didn't even take five minutes to cal. It is still not too late for this and the time for effective action is discuss whether that opportunity community· to insist that we all now? Why is it okay for a com- I might be more important than ad­ change our priorities no matter pany that feels it has been treated hering to a schedule designed to what risks are involved. nnfi:i;rlu tn sriu:i. h11t i.t ;c nnt nlci:iv nmmntP it~ nAtinnal ima~P. in SIMCldl fD Tha COUrler.Joumal THE COURIER-JOURNAL• TUESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1996 'Cumberland College COLLEG!S SITES 11 College Board: http://www.collegeboard.org l!I CollegeEdge: sells itself to students http://www.CollegeEdge.com Iii CollegeView: http://www.collegeview.com ■ College Town: in Internet chat room http://www.ctown.com ■ Peterson's Education Center: Associated Press said Mike Konopski, director of ad­ missions. http://www.petersons.com LEXINGTON, Ky. -The Internet is So he sees it as virtually necessary ■ Princeton Review Best adding another front to the fierce for Georgetown to try some high-tech Colleges: http://www.review. competition that colleges in Kentucky marketing. For this year, the college com/undergr/bestcolleges. and nationwide wage for students. paid to nave a multunedia presenta­ html The latest example is Cumberland tion included on CollegeView's CD­ ■ Cumberland College's College, in Williamsburg, which just ROMs, he said. CyberChat room runs from 8 started an Internet chat room that lets "We want to attract students who to 9 on Tuesday nights: prospective students "talk" live with enjoy surfing on the Internet and http://www.cumber.edu/ faculty, admissions counselors and want to a_pply that academically," said CyberChat.html students through electronic messages. Konopski; He said the college spent So far, a chat room for prospective about $12,000 on the presentation. students is fairly rare, said Roger Several companies producing com­ The college encountered technical Swanson, associate executive director puterized college guides declined to glitches that kept some students from of the American Association of Colle­ talk about their fees. But Mike Con­ logging on to its first chat, Wake said. giate Registrars and Admissions Offi­ ner, CollegeView's vice president, But she's still optimistic about the cers. said his company's fees range from project. But other colleges are signing up $3,000 to $25,000, depending on the "If you get just one student out of with a burgeoning list of companies length and complexity of the college's that, it's worth it," she said. "We feel with titles like CollegeView, College presentation. it's well worth the money." Town and Collegescape. Cumberland, which had its first Gary Martin, head guidance coun­ The Web pages' most common ele­ "CyberChat" last week, hopes the selor at Henry Clay High School in ment is a search engine that allows project will appeal to students be­ Lexington, said he's had students sub­ students to sort through thousands of cause of its convenience, said Sue mit college applications online. schools to find the ones with the ma­ Wake, vice president for institutional So far, students using the Internet jors and demographics they want. advancement at Cumberland. for college research are still in the mi­ Some also include online applications "Sometimes you call students and nority. he said, but he expects·that to or financial aid information. they're not home," -she said. "We change. Colleges are looking for ·l)ew ways thought, if we set this up every Tues­ "This is going to be a major deal in to use computers and the Internet to day night, if they have questions, two or three years," he said. recruit students for a simple reason: they'll know this is a convenient time Martin said he advises students not To sell students on their computing to reach us. 11 to forget that a Web page is just an resources. -- -=--•·--- Wake said the college spent about extension of a glossy brochure. "l tell Georgetown College advertises to $6,500 on the project, including dis­ them to remember that it's easy to put students that its campus - even dorm tributing 25,000 postcards and airing to~ether pictures that make · every­ rooms - is wired for the Internet, TV spots to promote it. thmg look beautiful," he said. Patton open to higher-education ideas By MARK R. CHELLGREN merger of the University of Kentucky mentum for it," he said. Associated Press and the University of Louisville. On other education topics, Patton: Still, Patton said the current Coun• ■ Declined to take a position on a FRANKFORT, Ky. - Gov. Paul Pat­ cil on Higher Education has a lot of new basketball arena at UK. He· said ton said he has some ideas for over­ authority that it does not use, largely he may have to do so eventually, but hauling higher education but does not because it lacks political clout. for now, "I'm not going to put my dog want to stifle debate or foreclose any He has said previously that he will in that fight." . other perspectives. · stake his administration on the out­ Nevertheless, Patton said some come of the higher-education debate. ■ Said school-management coun­ central issues are that Kentucky does But the political _popularity of the ef­ cils should be examined to see if they not produce enough people'with bac­ fort is still a question, as noted by Pri­ are becoming the new focus on school calaureate degrees and falls short in chard Committee Vice Chairman Wil­ politics, patronage and jobs. the quality of doctoral programs. liam Wilson. ■ Said the most basic thing that In a discussion with members of "Do the people really want higher­ education advocates can do in Ken­ the Prichard Committee for Academic education reform?" Wilson asked. tucky is help instill a greater appre­ Excellence yesterday, Patton would A similar question was raised earli­ ciation for the importance of .educa­ not rule out even drastic changes· in er by Senate President John "Eck" tion. ''You cart'! pass a law to moti­ the way universities are governed, in­ Rose after a meeting with Patton. vate.families. And we don't have a lot cluding a single board for all universi­ . Patton acknowledged the obligation of motivated families." ties, a separate structure for commu­ to raise interest in the subject. nity colleges and perhaps even the 11 1 ~ we c;an generate some mo- , Oc. +. 2.3 7 11:f'lt. MSU Clip A sample of recent articles of interest to Morehead State University INSTITUTIONAL RELATIONS MOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY UPO BOX 1100 MOREHEAD, KY 40351-1689 606-783-2030 lHE-cotJl!IElhJOURNAL, WednesdaY, October 23, 1996 · Sophomore David Bone tops Bal­ . -II . -d--' h ·-_ .wearing that stuff. I don't want llllY• lard's three-back option game with ar as·· body to il!'OW _I play,'_" Bai!anl said. 358 rushing yards - which average Ba ,.. - -One uruverstty faction still wanted out to 6.8-yards-per-carry and 71.6- :- . .h d football to be dropped completely, an- per-game. Fullback Anthony Ravizee ,~e ea· ' '-"~- other 'Y1!5 angry that _the Eagles were has 319 total yards for 63.8 a game. M0 '.I. ' . downsmng. Caught m between, the Murray transler quarterback Doug Turner has completed 49 of 91 passes; ";Eto;ew~:er:~~:i~n:1~ but has tossed nine inten:eptions. ·oii"'fBe'" toad: Linebacker Scott Marsh has 42 tack­ .... _ ------~---.-,_: ' ··· ·''That was a special group,'' Ballanl les, and tackle McKenzie McKnight . - ·· · ;· said. "They captured the hearts of 40, 10 for losses. ; ··i r . . - .- - people around here. Especially the Do the guys miss the OVC? t8, ~ecovecy ' [ old-timers, who still scratch their "The down side is · not reading ~ .-. ___ , ~ =• __ ,~r.; , heads and wonder, 'How did that about us in the OVC news releases or ,By.JI?,fTERHlJl"!E_ ·: : ~;:;",',l; , i•-,;. .. , bunch do that?' It had a lot of heart weekly statistics," Hamilton said. "It's "The Courier:.Jourillil•· ~ • -- - •· ' and determination. And it carried like a divorce. 11 over." · . "We do miss the OVC," Ballard . Matt Ballai-d had .41 people foHtis Ballanl, working on an interim ba­ said. "But four of the first five teams first football practice at Morehead. sis in '94, was honored that the school we played this year could hold their State'Universily in 19940 ... _. C ,,;:__ • offered him a four-year contract after own with the middle or lower division He had·to·practice what he callell the season but had to think long and of the OVC. I don't see any of them "half-lines" - center-guanl-tackle-: hanl before accepting. Hamilton said playing Dayton or Wofford. When the quarterback-fullback-halfback :vs: · to him, "Here it is, but are you sure half the-defense."•·_, · -- ' - _,_ ,.,,,. you want to do this?" and was sur­ OVC stats come in, I'll look at them · The · Decision, a move to non­ prised when he said yes. and wonder how we would have done scholarship football, had been set'in The Eagles went 2-8 in their OVC against so-and-so. But that chapter's stone. months earlier. Then-colicb­ farewell last season. Now, with four behind us;" Cole Proctoraisagreed,-quif o· mu: of their last five games at home and When Hamilton returned from f:!t't, and dozens or~,- four in which they should be competi­ Wofford last week, ·there was a mes­ :1 tive (the exception being Western . sage on his office answering machine The Eagles ·hadn't ,been very imod Kentucky), they're aiming for their· from a member of the crew handing anyway, 6ut in 1994 you wondered first winning season since 1986. the first-down chain. · about their safety. They lost 71-7'."to __ "One of our goals going in was to ''Your kids were the greatest bunch Marshall, 63-6 to Middle Tennessee try to have a winning season and one of anybody who's been in here,'' the and 73-6 to (gulp) Austin Peay:;:' of the bil!ll8SI turnarounds in the voice said. "They didn't trash talk, ''We were outmanned · as bad ·-as country," liallard said. "And if we do they weren't ragging the other team, I I've ever seen a team in this world;'' that, we'll have earned every bit of it. didn't hear a· cuss word the whole athletic director Steve Hamilton said. This is a quality schedule." day. I just wanted to tell you you were They. finished 0-11, but their foot­ a class outfit .., ball days. in the Ohio Valley Confer­ An estimated 5,000 fans attended ence -were numbered. Soon . they · their first home gmne. The factions Hamilton beamed. would be essentially playing a sched­ are silent, if they still exist at lill. ''That's a reflection totally on Bal­ ule of-NCAA Divis10n I-AA.or lower ''The nice tbiilg is what our guys lard," he said. "It'd be great to be · non-scholarship opponents. If .they say: 'Coach, they say food things and winning the OVC and beating Murray could live long enough to _get there: talk to us on campus, " Ba!lard said. and Eastern. That would be my . They did, and to say they're flour­ · Said. Hamilton: "I haven't heard druthers if I had druthers. But to hear ishing might not be overstating the any criticism of football for the first that we are winning some games, that· case •much. Morehead is 3-2 heading time in a long time. The faculty and we are competitive, and that we've into its·homecoming·game Saturday other people, which·talked about get­ got a super bunch of kids, that just -:- j!Jsl its second at home; period,­ ting rid of football, are rooting for us. really makes me feel good. I think againsl 5-2.St: Joseph's (Ind~.,.,,_;. There's excitement I didn't think we're going in the right direction." The Eagles were routed; m their would be there. I'm surprised. I Saturday's homecoming will honor opener by longtime Division ,,m thought there might be a backlash. Morehead teams from 1946· (6-1), 1966 power Dayton· 52-6, but they Jed, 6-0 "Ihave to give all the credit to Matt (7-2, its last OVC championship) and before seven turnovers doomed diem: Ballanl - he's fantastic the way .he's 1986 (7-4, the last winning season). ··They lost their most recent game Oct. been optimistic about everything, and "Now 1996 is under way," Ballard he and his staff have made this thing said, "and we're hoping folks will re­ -12 41-14 to Wofford, a school set to 11 join the relatively big-time I-AA work. .1 member this group, too." -.Southern Conference in 1997. The staff now coaches 90 y1ayers. In between Morehead won three There are 60 freshmen, -15 o whom straight, including a 24-0 shutout on are being redshirted. Close to 30 up­ the road against Valparaiso, now 3-3. perclassmen still receive some athlet- , - _''We've come a long way in a short IC aid, but that will drop to around 20 period of time, but we've still got a in 1997, 10 in '98.and none by '99. five-year .. .long, long way to go to be the type It amounts to a savings of · -· team we're capable of,'' Ballanl said $350,000, with the money going ·to yesterday...... football recruiting, sports travel budg­ -A long way? Ballanl asked his play­ ets and gender equity. W'rth Ii 58 per­ ers in '94 why they didn't wear their cent feniale enrollment, Morehead is Morehead football shirts and sweaters still .not in compliance with -NCAA _around campus. ''They said, 'I'm not ,gender-equity gwdelines. LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER, LEXINGTON, KY. ■ WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1996 Survey .of .faculty finds support for split from UK to oversee community colleges, as­ 23% at community suming that academic ranks were retained and salaries improved, 55 colleges respond percent of respondents said they would favor such a system. Twen­ BY ANGIE MUHS ty-seven percent said they would HERALD-LEADER EDUCATION WRITER not, and 18 percent said they didn't Most community college faculty know. members-don't want to merge with The survey also asked about the Kentucky Tech vocational sys­ merging with the KentuckY Tech tem, but they're more willing to system under three different scenar­ consider being taken away from the ios. In each case, a majority of re­ University of Kentucky, according spondents said they would not fa. to a faculty group's survey, var that change. The survey, which was conduct­ ed by the Kentucky Community More than three-fourths of re­ College Faculty Alliance, was in­ spondents gave UK poor remarks in providing salaries, travel money cluded with a position paper sub­ mitted · to Gov. Paul Patton's task and other financing. About 80 per­ force on post-secondary education. cent of the respondents said they Patton had asked various groups to didn't think they were treated fairly submit papers about their opinions. compared with UK faculty mem­ bers. Barbara Ashley, a spokes­ woman for the alliance, said the UK President Charles T. group first conducted the mail-in Wethington Jr. and Ben Carr, chan­ survey in the spring. The survey cellor of the community college sys­ was mailed to all 1,075 faculty tem, both said they had not seen members, she said. the survey and did not want to comment until they had reviewed it. The group decided. to include the survey results with its paper to But Carr questioned the word­ Patton because the governor has ing of the question that asked said he will look at the structure of whether the community colleges higher education, said Ashley, an should separate from UK, pointing associate professor at Jefferson out that it assumed · improved Community College. salaries. "We thought that with all the "You'd be foolish not to be for talk about separation and merger that," Carr said. "It looks like it's a and staying with UK, this might be loaded question." good information for the governor Jimmy Jack Miller, the commu­ to have," she said~ "We do think he nity college faculty trustee on the does want to know faculty views." UK board, also said he had not seen About 23 percent of community the survey results. college faculty members responded Miller said that the issue of pos­ to the survey. The respondents sible changes in governance struc­ were nearly evenly split between ture has been a hot one among fac- I those who said they were members ulty members at colleges he's visit­ of the American Federation of ed in the last few weeks. Teachers, a union group, and those But most faculty members want who said they were not., · to heat the details of any proposed When asked whether the state change before they form any opin­ should create an independent board ion, he said. Oc.t ..Z¥, l'f'I' M:JU Clip I A sample of recent articles of interest to Morehead State University INSTITUTIONAL RELATIONS MOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY UPC BOX 1100 MOREHEAD, KY 40351-1689 606-783-2030 THE COURIER-JOURNAL• THURSDAY. OCTOBER 24, 1996 U OF L TOUGHENS BIDDING RULES BY JOHN W. SHUMAKER

The writer Is president of the Univer­ Justice Resource Center, Louisville requirements will face disqualifica­ sity of LouisvIIIe. Minority Business Development Cen­ , !ion of their bids. HE UNIVERSilY of Louis­ ter and Kentucky Commerce Cabinet Starting over on the bid process were among the organizations we ap- for the stadium at this point, howev­ ville has a proud history of proached. . opening doors of opportuni­ er, clearly would be the wrong thing ty for African Americans Des_pite these efforts, the extent of to do. Not only would it be patently T minonty participation in the stadium unfair to the businesses that submit­ and other minorities. This legacy is an inherent part of our institutional project has been disappointing. Few ted bids, but it would drive up the minority-owned companies bid on price of the project. It also would de­ mission, culture and values. the project, and those that did re­ Recent![, the university has been lay construction, forcing us to break spond were not the low bidders, a promise to the community that we accused o straying from that mission which we are required by law to ac­ in its hiring of contractors for the would open the stadium for the 1998 cept. football season. Papa John's Cardinal Stadium com­ After our bidding process for the plex. The accusations are wrong. In stadium was well under way, the l am confident that our new policy fact, the university has undertaken state put in place more stringent will yield greater minority participa- . an extensive effort to involve African­ rules for including minority contrac­ !ion in future projects, including a American and woinen contractors in tors in its bid package for expanding $7- million football training center at the project. the Commonwealth Convention Cen­ the stadium and a $28 million health Before we solicited bids for the ter. We welcomed that change in sciences research building. We will football stadium, U of L launched an state policy. . request bids on these projects in the aggressive campaign io communicate When I heard about the new rules, coming year. with minority subcontractors to en­ I immediately asked the Executive U of L's commitment to minority courage them to bid on the project. Committee of the U of L. Board of business development remains We provided a list of more than 100 Trustees to approve a policy incorpo­ strong. We will monitor the stadium minority-owned businesses to all pro­ rating many of them in our own bid­ project to ensure that 18 percent of , spective bidders. We held· a pre-bid ding. procedure. As a result, we will all work is performed by African conference aimed at matching poten­ have a minimum participation goal Americans and women. We'll contin­ tial minority subcontractors with for involvement of minorities and ue to work actively with a wide array prime contractors. women-owned businesses in all fu­ of organizations to improve the way What's more, we networked with ture construction projects. we enlist minority participation. dozens of local, state and national Bidders will have to document and Our intent is to have a record of leaders to get the word out that report their efforts to involve minor­ minority participation, as well as a U of L was seeking significant minor­ ity- and women-owned businesses in stadium, in which everyone can !aka ity participation in the project. The each project, and we've put teeth· in pride. Louisville Urban League,, NAACP, this rule. Those who fail to meet our Special to The Courler.Joumal ~heeq l l\?;)A ,-y-HlVES) 5 - 4/

A sample of recent articles of interest to Morehead State University INSTITUTIONA L RELATIONS M OREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY UPO BOX 1100 M OREHEAD, KY 40351-1689 606-783-2030 LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER, LEXINGTON, KY. ■ SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1996 facility would make it more difficult to raise money for the university." Bergmann said that she could- Yatton's avoiding of arena issue may ... .. !"!!: "'"r:r: ,... ,, t... .,+ P:ttt"'"'' position because she hasn't fol­ l9wed Kentucky's task force. hurt reform, higher ed officials s~y But Patton might have to get in­ volved, because the arena might BY ANGIE MUHS But many say that even study­ drain academics, she said. "The is­ HERALI>LfADER EDUCATION WRITER ing an arena takes a certain amount Most of the time, Gov. Paul Patton likes of attention away from larger poli­ sue is, does the university have con­ to talk about higher education, repeating his cy questions. trol of its athletics," she said. "I think that's a legitimate academic pet themes with little prompting and all the "It takes a lot of discussion issue." fervor of a country minister preaching salva­ away from where the· discussion tion. should be, which is on how to im­ Nathan Smith, a council mem­ But ask Patton whether the University of prove teaching and learning," Sex­ ber from Fort Mitchell, said he also Kentucky ought to raise money to build an ton said. "I'm not going to presume would want proof that the state wouldn't eventually end up paying on-campus basketball arena, and the self-pro­ to tell the governor what to do, but clainied higher education governor changes to meet his goals, he needs to get part of the project's costs somehow. the subject faster than a UK fast break. the focus back on academics, how­ "(UK) also said they were only His refusal to take a stand - at least for ever he chooses to do that." going to use private money for the now - could hurt the state's efforts to re­ Even Hayes, who said he thinks Paducah engineering project, and form higher education, because tinie and at­ Patton should stay out of the issue, now they're coming back asking for tention needs to be focused on academics, not said "there's a danger it could" take money," Smith said. "I'm concerned athletics, some higher education authorities away from the task force's focus. not only as a council member, but say. "l think that's something Presi­ as a taxpayer." "If the governor won't come out and say dent Wethington and the athletic Gary Cox, the council's execu­ what he feels on this issue, I'm not sure it department would have to be aware tive director, said he thinks the bodes well for him doing something on high­ of, and see that it's kept in the council would have to sign off on er education," said Murray Sperber, an Indi­ proper perspective," he said. any arena project - even if it's ana University professor who has studied paid for by private dollars .....: if UK college athletics and written a book on the Others, including several members or an affiliated corporation such as subject of the Council on Higher Education, the Athletics Association were in Robert Sexton, executive director of the the statewide board that's supposed charge. Prichard Committee for Academic Excellence, to oversee UK, are raising questions Even if the council didn't have a said he wishes the governor would push the about the effect on higher education legal role, Cox said he thought focus off the arena and back to academics. if UK decides to build an arena. council members would want to of­ "It certainly looks like a matter the gover­ Some of them say they're con­ fer their opinions. nor should pay a lot of attention to and take cerned even though UK has said it Council member Joe Bill Camp­ seriously," Sexton said earlier this week. "It would use only private donations if bell, who doesn't think the council affects everything he's trying to do." it pursued the project. has a say over the arena, said he Others argue that Patton has a better "The principal issue is whether doesn't think discussion of an arena chance of driving reform by picking resources that may be available to would detract from Patton's overall his battles carefully. higher education whether refonn efforts. "I can't think of a worse way to they're from public or the private "lf you're keeping a tally, I cer­ take (reform) on than to take on a sector - should be used for this tainly come down on the side of project such as this, which is pe­ purpose, instead of other needs," supporting the University of Ken­ ripheral," said Larry Hayes, a mem­ said Jim Miller, an Owensboro tucky athletics program and letting ber of the Council on Higher Educa­ lawyer and past chairman of the it do what it wants to do, when that tion and former Cabinet secretary council. doesn't involve taxpayer money," in Gov. Martha Layne Collins' ad­ That's not an uncommon debate Campbell said. ministration. throughout the country, said Bar­ Another council member, Ron bara Bergmann, past national presi­ Greenberg, said it's too soon to The two issues - the basket­ dent of the American Association of ball arena and higher education re­ draw conclusions about how the University Professors. arena study might affect the bigger form - are set to unfold along par­ "Why don't they raise the mon­ allel timelines. picture of higher education reform. ey and give it to the academic pro­ UK's Athletics Association on But Smith said he wasn't so grams?'' said Bergmann, who sure. Tuesday endorsed a feasibility chaired an AAUP task force on ath­ study on a new arena, which offi­ "l think the governor, by de­ letics. "I have to think that raising a fault, will end up involved in it cials say will take six to eight $100 .million for a new basketball months to complete. somehow," he said. Patton, meanwhile, is pushing his t::isk force to finish gathering in­ fom1ation about the state's higher education system by December and THE COURIER-JOURNAL • SATURDAY. OCTOBER 26, 1996 start forming recommendations af. ter that. ~e offers free room, board He has said he intends to pur­ PIPPA PASSES, Ky. - Alice Lloyd College has sue a special session in the spring agreed to give free room and board to students from - meaning that the arena study the school's 76-county coverage area in Eastern Ken­ might be finished about the same tucky, northeastern Tennessee, southwestern Virgin• time. ia, southern West Virginia and southern Ohio, college Some observers even speculate President Tim Siebert announced yesterday. that the governor might be mulling The roughly $2,700 grant applies to all students whether to push a change in the who meet eligibility requirements for the federal Pell Grant program. The money for room and board community college structure - a comes from individual donors and foundations, col­ move guaranteed to provoke fer­ lege spokesman Stephen Reed said. ,·ent opposition from L:K. which The Knott County college has long been known for ha~ vigorously fended off prior at­ giving free tuition to needy Appalachian students. tempts to wrest the community col­ lPtr~ from itc: rnntrnl LEXINGTON_ HERALO-LEADER;· lEJ

LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER. LEXINGTON, KY. ■ SUNDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1996 · COMMENTARY rhink what UK could achieve•with $80 mil I he news of late has been filled wilh learn that requires an icy floor. (If it's such ¢ona~commanda; of a restaurant chain, blow to Main Street and a damaging blow !he big squabble between !he Uni­ a poor contract, why did they sign it in and there are rumors that Eastern Ken­ to town-UK relations. rversity of Kentucky and the Lexing­ !he fust place?) tud"}' coal money is awaiting call And !here is lhe legislature's probable n Center Corp. over UK's rental of Rupp More ominously, Rick Pitino, head bas­ Luiisford is said to lust after the gov­ reaction when a school that can raise $80 rena. I have not put my dog into this ketball coach and God once removed, is ernorship (why, for God's sake?) and hav­ million for a basketball palace comes to {ht for sevcial reasons: said to want priority over rock concerts so ing his" ilame on the home of the Big Blue Frankfort insisting that it needs more ■ I had always as- that his players can practice where they· would do him no harm. Such are Ken­ money for such trivia as professors, etc. 1med that UK owned will be playing, lhus gaining !he advan­ tucky realities. As it does. Perhaps it is inevitable that upp; tage bf playing in familiar surroundings. There are problems, !hough, Gov. Paul Kentuckians will forever be more con­ ■ I have no idea Since rock music and basketball ~ not Patton has promised to be the education, in cerned with UK athletics than with the hat should be d6ne; the principal motivatirig factors my life, · not the-basketball, governor, and refuses academic excellence that is UK's real pur- .ld I must bow to !he infallibility of !his word to take part in !he squabble: UK President . pose and the heart of its yalue to the state from on high. ~ ■ People don't take Charles Welhington has been committed and its future. Nearby states - wilh iy advice anyhow. I am · The cost ofa basketball palace on the to the new UK library all along, but he is UK campus is -estimated at $60 million to Duke, and the universities of Virginia and 1e only person who op- · too much the politician to want to oppose North Carolina - attract respect and in­ ,sed lhe dismissal of JOHN ED $80 million, a tidy sum for a school that anything concerning the Big Blue, and is had a devil of a time financing its new li-. vestment not because of their sports teams. ,olball coach Bill Curry. wisely awaiting the report; of a committee but because of their faculties, research and slill do. PEARCE brary, despite the continuing generosity of appointed to study the matter. horseman-businessman W.T. Young. Piti­ endowed chairs that make them appealing However, as I under- HERALD-LEADER Pitino says that he waflts only what is to sought-after teachers. rand it, UK athletics of- COLUMNIST no, however, declares that raising such an dais feel that they are amount is no problem. and apparently he good for UK, and it is reasonable to as­ UK will never achieve the reputation etting a bad deal from is right sume that he is referring to the Big Blue that would make it the fitting flagship of :te Lexington Center officials who control Should Mr. P demand deed to lhe Wli• (although the athletics department has our university system until it can attract :upp, and threaten to build their own bas­ versity, the state Capitol and Fayette shared its wealth with UK'S under-nour­ for its professors the support now shown ·etball palace if they aren't given a better County, only the mean or reckless would ished academic side, including the long­ for its players. Think of the endowed pro­ ontract say him nay. Already an manner of hoped-for librazy.) fessorships that could be financed wilh Specifically, UK complains that it· . wealthy pro-jocks, alumni and otherwise, But there are other factors involved, $80 million. attracting outstanding teach­ 1oesn't get enough money from parking, 1 have rushed forward to offer their milli­ such as the future of Rupp Arena and of ers, gaining for UK the kind of prestige lrograms and concessions, it has to share ions. Bruce Lunsford, one of our newer downtown Lexington. Taking the Big Blue that such people bring, and providing an fopp with too many rock concerts, and millionaires (head of Vencor Inc:), is out of Rupp would be a knife to its heart, educational le\'el that Kentucky students iOw has to compete with an ice hockey among those in the forefront, as is the re- : and crippling Rupp could well be a lelhal sorely need and deserve. LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER, LEXINGTON, KY. ■ FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1996 M~ybe ,_athletes at URI will get the right message:

- BY BARBARA Yosr fter another episode of Ath­ letes Behaving Badly, Uni­ A versity of Rhode Island Pres­ ident Robert Carothers is trying to send a message: . Athletes should be held to the same standards as mortals. Athletes who behave violently off the field will be benched. Pardon my cynicism, but we've heard those sentiments before. Maybe this time, the story will end differently. · .A year ago, running back Lawrence Phillips was suspended from the University of Nebraska football team after assaulting his girlfriend. Coach Tom Osborne in­ sisted that such behavior was intol­ erable. But Phillips was back on the team when the Big Red won the national championship. He REX BABIN/ALBANY TIMEs-lJNLON signed a professional football con­ tract. He got a Mercedes. Then he tims and the damage to the house. why the Oct. 7 incident was so . · · was picked up for drunken driving. He huddled with his football coach, shocking. It wasn't supposed to Phillips didn't get the message. Floyd Keith. They agreed to forfeit happen in Providence. During this month's baseball the next game. Carothers wants to make sure it -playoffs, Roberto Alomar heard an­ While URI boosters, alums and doesn't happen again. He @ickly. · . other message. Baseball told him the community of Providence have organized an all-day seminar. on vi­ that bad behavior is acceptable. if been overwhelmingly supportive of olence. He's turning the ugly inci­ you're an athlete, a good athlete, the college's decision to cancel the dent into a "teaching opportunity." and if you're patient enough to game and recommend five players Somecne has suggested he . take your medicine at a more con­ for criminal assault charges, some would make a good baseball coin­ venient time. The Baltimore Ori- of the players involved are puzzled . missioner. He doesn't want the joli. . oles' Alomar, irked at an umpire's What did they do wrong? Their And he doesn't want to run .for'· call, spit in the umpire's face and teammates had been dissed. They president of the United States. made rude remarks about the death were due their revenge. . He just wants to be a messen­ of the man's son. That's the code of the mean ger: "I hope the message is that ' America was outraged. But streets that are sending more young people are responsible for baseball waved him home. Alo­ young pecple to college these days. their own behavior, that there are mar's·punishment was a five-day College is supposed to be a "safer, consequences to what you do. Solv­ suspension - next year. saner'' place than society at large, ing problems with violence is not Now, Robert Carothers is trying Carothers says. acceptable." again. As his football team sat idle on Whether that message reaches On Saturday, the football stadi­ Saturday, Carothers was hosting young athletes before they form um at the University of Connecticut "Meet the University" day, welcom­ . habits of behaving badly is the was empty. UConn's opponent.,­ ing prospective students and their ending that hasn't been written yet. Rhode Island - forfeited the game parents to .a campus that has sud­ Carothers says he received an in the.wake of a melee on the cam­ denly become famous for taking a e,mail note from somecne at anoth­ pus in which scores of URI football stand against violence. A CBS ' er university. On that campus, the players showed up at a fraternity News crew dogged his steps. He ..._writer said, the fraternity boys house and beat up some brothers. was fresh from an appearance on ·would have beeh punished for in­ juring the hands of the football The frat boys' offense was NBC's Today. A New York Times columri had applauded his actions. players. booting out teammates crashing an Carothers wouldn't name the earlier party. The jocks retaliated It was an unsettling experience college. Maybe it was Nebraska. with a show of force. Someone for a man who is more intellectual threw a blow, and violence erupted. than jock, a poet, an administrator ■ Barbara Yost writes for the Carothers visited the fraternity, who prides himself on URl's schol­ Phoenix Gazette: horrified at the bruises on the vie- ar-athlete program. Perhaps that's NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE Cl \ I> d-d- - Lj - ) 5 - 3 M:JU c1;µOc.f. 29, 199(,, :Jhee1HIVESl r,

A sample of recent articles of interest to Morehead State University INSTITUTIONAL RELATIONS MOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY UPO BOX 1100 MORFHFAn KY 40351-1689 606-783-2030 LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER, LEXINGTON, KY. ■ TUESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1996 KSU enrollment down 9.5 percent; students blame poor administration

AsSOCIATED PRESS Brown said secrecy surrounded meetings and activ­ FRANKFORT - Kentucky State University's en­ ities of the board, and ·he complained that information rollment has dropped 9.5 percent since last year, a at the university - including the daily police log - is problem that some students contend can be traced to closed to public scrutiny. an incompetent administration: Other students said that McCullin Hall is plagued Students also have raised allegations of rodent-in­ by drug activity, infested with roaches and rats, has fested dorm rooms. harassment by campus police and only one working shower on the third floor and a leak­ crimes in an all-male dormitory. ing roof that is close to collapsing. The issues surfaced during a meeting of regents who aporo\'ed, without discussion, a preliminary report Vaughn Little, vice president of student affairs, re­ showing enrollment at 2,336 students compared with ported that campus housing officials were investigat­ 2,579 last year at the ll0-year-old historically black in­ ing the alleged beating of one student by three others stitution. wielding a chain. The racial composition is 42.7 percent white, 52.2 Little made the announcement after students told percent black and 5.1 percent categorized as other. the regents that six campus police officers were in the More than 30 students crowded into the meeting dorm at the time of the alleged beating but that no ar­ room Friday and for about three hours urged Presi­ rests were made. dent Mary L. Smith and university officials to take ac­ Board Chairman Anthony Remson thanked the stu­ tion. dents for speaking out and promised action on. their Cory Brown, editor of the school newspaper, asked - grievances. why students and some faculty members were leaving in increasing numbers. "We do value your opinion and we're going to work "This , has got to stop," said the senior from on some of these things," Remson said. Louisville. "I'm ashamed. I'm really ashamed." He said Regent Anthony Howard, who served on the board he "hasn't seem much of a vision" from KSU officials when he was a KSU student, assured the group that .since the day he enrolled. their complaints "won't go away." THE-COURIER.JOURNAL • KENTUCKY./ REGION • TUESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1996 Students blame enrollment drop at KSU on incompetent officials Associated Press into the meeting room Friday and Vaughn Llttle, vice president of for about three hours urged Presi- student affairs, reported that cam­ FRANKFORT, Ky. - Kentucky dent Mary L. Smith and other·uni­ pus housing officials were investi­ State University's enrollment has versity officials to take action. gating the alleged beating of one dropped 9.5 percent since last year, Senior Cory Brown. editor of the student by three others wielding a a problem that some students con- school newspaper, asked why stu­ chain. tend can be traced to an lncompe- dents and some faculty members Llttle made the- announcement tent administration. were leaving in ever-increasing after students told the regents that Students at the HO-year-old numbers. six campus polic_e officers were in historically black institution also "This has got to stop," said the dorm at the time of the alleged have raised allegations of rodent-in- Brown, of Louisville. "I'm ashamed. beating but that no arrests were tested dorm rooms, harassment by I'm really ashamed." He said he made. campus police and crimes in an all- "hasn't seen much of a vision" from Board Chairman Anthony Rem­ male dormitory. KSU officials since he enrolled. . son thanked the students for speak­ The issues surfaced during a Brown said secrecy surrounded ing out and promised action. meeting of regents who approved, board meetings and activities and "We do value your opinion, and without discussion, a preliminary . complained that information at the' we're going to work on some of report showing enrollment at 2,336 university - including the daily po­ these things," Remson said. students this year, compared with lice log - is closed to the public. Regent Anthony Howard, who 2,579 last year. Other students claimed that Mc- served on the board when he was a The racial composition today is Cullin Hall is plagued by drug activ- KSU student, assured the students 42.7 percent white, 52.2 percent ity, infested with roaches and rats that their complaints "won't go black and 5.1 percent categorized as and has only one working shower away," adding that he would do other. on the third floor and a leaking roof what's necessary to fix the prob- More than 30 students crowrlFl'rl th~t ic:: nD!:n" rn11 ...... ,.,,, •--- 9 l ~-;)-;). - '--l-115 "'~ _ Oc+. 3o, l'l't~ MSU AR.CHIVES IV/SU C/fp Sheet A sample of recent articles of interest to Morehead State University INSTITUTIONAL RELATIONS MOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY UPO BOX 1 100 MOREHEAD, KY 40351 • 1 689 606-783-2030 LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER, LEXINGTON, KY. ■ WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1996 Elijah NI. -Hogge, among the first to serve on court of appeals, dies , BY JENNIFER HEWLETT secretary of public protection and versity. He received a law degree HERALD-LEADER STAFF WRITER regulation before being named to from Washington & Lee University Former' Kentucky Court of Ap­ the Court of Appeals. in Lexington, Va. Mr. Hogge was a peals Judge Elijah M. Hogge died More recently, he was a legal lieutenant in the Navy during yesterday at St. Joseph Hospital in adviser to the Kentucky Racing World War IL Lexington. He was .79 and lived in Commission and was affiliated with He had been a member of the Frankfort. . the law firm of Hazelrigg and Cox board of directors of Citizens Bank Mr. 'Hogge in Frankfort. of Morehead and the Northeast was on the court "! knew Lige as a great support­ Kentucky Hospital Foundation, from its inception er of the Democratic Party," said which established St. Claire Medical in 1976 to 1983, former Gov. Martha Layne Collins, Center in Morehead. . when he was de­ who is a former clerk of the Court He received an honorary doctor­ feated by Dan of Appeals and state Supreme ate from Morehead State. Jack Combs of Court. Mr. Hogge, she said, had a Survivors include his wife, Nor­ .Pikeville in a re­ great sense of humor and cared ma Foliotti Hogge, and a brother, ·election. bid. Dur­ deeply about his ,profession. Robert Lester Hogge of California, ing part of his Mr. Hogge From 1957 to Hl71, Mr. Hogge Mo. Mr. Hogge's two children, Elijah tenure . on the was commonwealth's attorI\eY for M. "Roe" Hogge and Tina Leslie Court of Appeals, the 21st District, wliich included Hogge, died when they were young Mr. Hogge was chief judge pro-tern. Rowan, Bath, Menifee and Mont­ of complications from cystic fibrosis. Mr. Hogge also had held cabinet gomery counties. Previously, from Services will be at 3 p.m. Thurs­ positions in the administrations of 1942 to 1953, he was Rowan County day at Morehead First Christian former Govs. Wendell Ford and Ju­ attorney. Church. Visitation will be after 5 lian Carroll. Mr. Hogge served as He was a Morehead native and p.m. today at Northcutt & Son secretary of transportation and as a graduate of Morehead State Uni- Home for Funerals in Morehead.

THE COURIER-JOURNAL • WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1996 U of ·L courses to give lessons in

corporate communications for managing ·horse events. Churchill Downs, said the courses. on event management would be a trade show held in July. · good coniplement to internships, By KIRSTEN HAUKEBO Both shows were held at the Ken­ which many U of L students already The Courier-Journal tucky Fair & Exposition <:e!'ter, do. which is the sixth-largest exhibition "Events are becoming more and From the Breeders' Cup to the facility in the country, said Susan more important for lot of organiza­ more than 15,000 horse shows in the McNeese Lynch, vice preside_nt. of tions, be it racing, college basketball United States each year, horse communications for the Louisville or rodeos: It seems to be what the events are big business: and Jefferson County Convention public responds to," he said. But where can an aspiring equine­ and Visitors Bureau. U of L is the only accredited uni­ event manager learn how to plan ev­ Charlie Hemphill, director of · versity that awards equine students a erything from world-class horse shows for the American Quarter bachelor's degree in business admin­ shows to a regional rodeo? Horse Association in Amarillo, Tex­ istration: The university also offers a In Louisville, starting next year. In as said there's a great need for for­ certincate in equine administration January, the University of Louis­ for people who already have a four­ ville's Equine Industry Program will m;.i training in horse shows and fa- cility management. . . • . . year business degree or a master's in offer one-of-a-kind courses prepar­ business administration. ing business-school students to man­ "I started by participating m and judging shows," he said. "It oc­ age horse events and facilities. curred to me after I took this job that U of J; instructors also are plan­ ning, subject to university approval, there's nowhere for anybody to go to a Center for Equine Events and Fa­ learn in -a textbook how to do iliis. cilities Management that could be­ It's all by experience." come a headquarters for research, , In the past, some horse shows information and continuing educa­ didn't even operate within a budget, timi for horse events and facility but shows are becoming much more managers. professionally managed, he said. Many people in the horse business Horse-event managers need to have asked for such a center, said know everything from how to dis­ Richard Wtlcke, executive in resi­ pose of manure to how to arrange dence at U of L's business school. hospitality for corporate sponsors. "There's no national or international Safety also is a big considera~on, association for people who deal with said Damon Thayer, commumca­ events and facilities that are strictly tions director for Turfway Park race­ equine. 11 track in .Florence, Ky. "One of the Louisville is a good home for the big reasons horse events work is that center because the city hosts a lot of people love to be near horses, but horse events, like the Arabian horse you have to manage it so that both shQw two weeks ago and Equitana people and horses are safe," he said. USA, the mammoth four-day horse Karl Schmitt, vice president of BY RowN J. WATSON '1;~d d~~::~~o~trti~°lal- ~~ t:: must Dt: wuung toJOUK a~ lacies in the mythology of . assumptions.that have remained• higher education are: sacrosanct, such as the fact that the ■ That higher learning has lit­ . regionals'·e.xtension operation$ are tle relationship with politics; really four-year community ·col- ; • ■ That higher learning has leges. . .., nothing to do with business; and The flagship University of Ken­ ■ That its leaders are scholars tucky has had 'its rescurces drained who are neither politicians nor by a discrganized array of instifu!. businessmen. lions, and every time the flagship; Perhaps the debate over the fu. acts like a flagship institution ii ill- lure of higher education would . curs the resentment of the region! have a better chance of being pro­ als. ductive if we looked carefully at The state's community colle11es these myths and created from them were placed under the governance . bolder, more incisive observations. fight for his or ·her share of the of the University of Kentucky in'·' As one who believes that higher OOl?"ty, Often the element of quali­ JOIIN llvERMY£R 1964. . . . · :: · education in Kerttucky has every­ ty 1s not even factcred into the With that arrangement, ihe · ;; . thing to do with politics, is highly equation. the two eastern regionals, Eastern community colleges have t;uly ,; dependent on business, and that its To preserve the regional uni­ and Morehead, into one university been protected from local politic;,, leaders must be adept at both, I versities - which is a misnomer at Richmond; because they are part of a much.,, have four proposals to put forth. because they are large colleges as ■ Upgrade admissions require- larger system. The decisions made All four proposals derive from opposed to true universities - ments and academic rigor at the re- by UK have allowed our commuiii- · the third myth, which relates to the their presidents try to divert atten­ ~onals, turn their extension opera- ty college system to be one of thi> · leadership of higher education. We tion from their own shortcomings lions over to the community col- most C?5t-efficient aspects of hig{ier have seen recently that there is by attacking the leges, and hold education. They have remained ,i plenty of reason to believe that state's flagship · them account- true to thefr mission. Gov. Bert , 1 Thorstein Veblen, that brilliant so­ university: They able for good Combs' vision for them turned 01,11 cial critic, was insightful when he particularly at- · teaching; and to be in the best interest of Ken- oci described what he called "The Cap­ tack the commu- .• ■ Leave the lucky because he defied politics,: tains of Erudition." In characteris­ nity college com:: community col- and used common sense. : , ·tically florid tones, Veblen created ponent of it, · · leges in the UK The political and economic .,; a verlial portraiture whose bold . which is mistak; :. system where powers of the commuriity.colleges hues of truth have not faded, de­ enly seen as the· ' they belong, are vastly underestimated; they are scribing "the captains of erudition" most vulnei.lbJfi fund them well, very important to Kentucky's ..._,,. in these terms: part of the Uni-·:. and cluster the towns and cities and to the state's "In the businesslike view of the versity of Ken- . : · Kentucky Tech overall economy. '" captain of erudition, taken from the l!Ick1s orgamzj:;' schools around We should keep only the UnP . standpoint of the counting-house,. tion. . ., ·: the community versity of Kentucky as a statewide learning and university instruction With this in· ~­ colleges as Ten- university and the University 0('' are a species of skilled labour, to be mind, the Gover- · nessee has done. Louisville as an urban university ' hired at competitive wages and to nor's Task Force. Hold these insti- and make all others truly regional turn out the largest merchantable on Post Sec- · tutions to the colleges that feature excellence·iil' output that can be' obtained by ondary Education should look same standards of accountability under!lTI!'1uate teaching. • shrewd bargaining with their em­ closely at these four proposals: as the regionals. In this way, we can best pro,~ ployees .. ." ■ Create a University of Ken­ In th!s configuration, with the ·· vide acre:5 ~!11 high quality to ; ; The captain of erudition, he tucky system that governs all of community colleges serving as .Jead Kentucky s □t~ns. elaborated - like his countefJ)3rl the regional universities and two­ institution for a group of technical And there will be no further in big business - is a kingdom year colleges; schools, cooperation and integra- need for "captains of erudition." - builder whose interest is not in ■ Merge the western region­ lion °.f curriculum is assured. The ■ Rollin J. Watson Is president.al learning, which Veblen regarded as als, Western and Murray, into one t!"'hmcal schools offer one-year cer- Somerset Community College, : a "species of leisure," but primarily university at Bowling Green and tificate programs, most of which which Is part of UK. • in enhancing his own power, in • spite of the cost to society or toed­ ucation. People who manage colleges and· universities today are expected to conduct themselves in a busi­ nesslike way, and they must be politic enough to realize that the business of governance includes an intricate web of business and politi­ cal people, as well as scholars. The utility of knowledge - an idea Ve­ blen despised - is so well accept­ ed that higher education is now spoken of as a part of "work force development" But the.reason certain "captains of erudition" continue to thrive in public higher education is that the entire system in our commonwealth is set up to encourage kingdom­ building. The governance of higher edu­ cation is highly political, and in­ fighting is rampant Institutions are funded on the basis of enrollment, a situation which forces leaders to attempt to.expand their kingdoms. Through a long history of polit­ ical machinations, a higher educa­ tion configuration has developed that is simply untenable for a small state: Kenmcky does not need and cannot afford eight universities. With the limited money available, Oct. 31, J'1q~ '1 l ~~- LI- 15-J M:;U Clip :;heet A sam le of recent articles of interest to Morehead State Universit SU ARCH IVES INSTITUTIONAL RELATIONS MOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY UPO BOX 11 00 MOREHEAD, KY 40351-1 689 606-783-20 30 THE COURIER-JOURNAL • THURSDAY. OCTOBER 31 , 1996 'Uphill battle' in court awaits suit over stadium contracts be "airtight" to stand up in feder­ agency involved was the Depart­ al court. ment of Education, and its find­ Proving U of L U of L law professor Russell ings dealt not just with U of L but Weaver said a suit could succeed with Kentucky's entire system of discriminated by only if it proved the university in­ higher education, which it said tended to discriminate and tied c_ontained remnants of segrega­ not insisting on that finding to a historical pattern t10n. of discrimination. At best, that Kentucky responded with a bigger role for would be "an uphill battle," he plan to expand opportunities for minorities faces said. African-American students and Officials of the National Black faculty, and Gary Cox, executive tough court test. Chamber of Commerce are to director of the Kentucky Council meet this weekend in Louisville on Higher Education, said "no­ with Coleman, Bather and Afri­ body has been more successful" can-American business owners to than U of L in attaining the plan's put together a lawsuit and a re­ objectives. He said the federal By MICHAEL JENN1NGS findings and state plan had noth­ The Courier-Journal quest for an injunction. If a coun stops work, plans to ing to do with university contract- The Rev. Louis Coleman and open the stadium for the 1998 ing. Bather's letter also cites "over­ Louisville Alderman Paul Bather football season might have to be whelming evidence of discrimination contend that the shadow of dis­ abandoned. against African-American contractors crimination falls across the con­ Harry C. Alford, president of attempting to do business with the struction site of the University of the National Black Chamber, said university." It says black-owned com­ Louisville's new football stadium. yesterday that he expected a suit panies have gotten less than 0.01 per­ They want work stopped on the to be filed within two weeks. He cent of U of L construction contracts $42.5 million project until a court said it will probably be based even though minority-owned busi­ decides whether they're right, chiefly on Title 6 of the federal nesses account for 5.8 percent of all and they are moving ahead with civil-rights law, which forbids ra­ construction companies in the Louis­ plans for a lawsuit. cial discrimination by institutions ville area. In an interview yesterday, Two legal experts say a suit - including public universities - Bather conceded that the 0.01 percent could succeed - if it is airtight that receive federal aid. fil$1,lre was "a guess - a ballpark." ,_'ld proves intentional discrimi- Bather, the 12th Ward alder­ His source for the 5.8 percent figure '11:ln, has asked NAACP head­ was a 1994 study of purchasing by the 1:auon. One of them qu 1.:stioned city of Louisville, not U of L. :ne visdom oi a ,u I legal <..tarters to help with a lawsuit. The srudy's author. U of L sociolo­ r ma'.e that she i.:" • ;O '"E'rilv 1d lasr wetk tr" Louisville gist Scott Cunmings, said he kni:,, oi n, ,tile to rac _asc·u .. mnna,.ve . tv\CP 1.hapt"r sec. :1.ded hlS re­ no study of racial dispamies in U of L acnon. quest - prompting the res1~a­ purchasing. Larry Owsley, the univer­ At issue is the university's not tion of its longtime legal adV1Ser, sity's vice president for administra­ requiring contractors to seek out Cecil Blye Sr. But Bather said tion, is trying to fill part of that gap. minority-owned subcontractors. Monday that leaders of the Na­ To answer Bather's and Coleman's U of L made a policy change tional Association for the Ad­ accusations, Owsley is assembling requiring that effort on future vancement of Colored People had records that he says will prove the contracts, but university officials not yet responded, and Alford university has aggressively recruited said it cannot legally apply the said the Black Chamber of Com­ minority-owned and female-owned policy to the stadium. merce was not counting on businesses when it could legally do Universities generally have NAACP help. so. been supporters of affirmative ac­ Coleman. head of the Justice He initially reviewed contracts for tion, and for civil-rights advocates Resource Center, said he was design work, for which the university to challenge one in court would leaving planning the lawsuit to can pick and choose amon~ interest­ be "either courageous or foolhar­ Alford. Coleman's group is a ed companies, without havmg to ac­ dy," said Virginia Davis Nordin, a member of the National Black cept the low bid. ln 12 years, U of L University of Kentucky professor Chamber. awarded 15 contracts to six minority­ of higher-education law. "They're In his letter to NAACP Presi­ owned firms and 15 others to five really putting the whole store at dent Kweisi Mfume, Bather paints companies owned by women. risk, and you have to wonder if a picture of discrimination for at In the last si.x-Jears, Owsley said, this is the right issue." least 16 years. But some of his companies owne by minorities or She said rulings against minor­ claims appear suspect. women were paid $503,000, about 11 ity scholarships at the University Bather says the U.S. Justice percent of the $4.6 million U of L of Maryland and a preferential Depanment found in 1979 that admission policy at the University U ot L had di_scriminated against of Texas )?w ~r hool show affir- -ran \rnPrr- ms ·· '1 1 , - • ecrs ,ne uc::my lllUt::i,JCIIUClll, /"\~111a11u, f\C.11\.U\,,r'

Continued from.Page I College offers plots for its alumni spent on design work. The review of Never underestimate the opened a cemetery exclu­ minority companies' involvement in construction is incomplete, but Ows­ creativity of America's col- . sively for alumni, faculty ley said the level will probably be low, leges and universities in and staff of the college. To since qualifying low bidders have finding ways to raise money. date, it has sold about 250 been under no requirement to recruit ·minority subcontractors. Earlier this year, we wrote plots overlooking the beau­ The pattern of scant minority in­ of how Ohio State University tiful school founded in 1808. volvement continues on the stadium, So far, with $36.8 million worth of the alumni can be buried in a The project is helping raise work already awarded, only one Afri­ scarlet-and-gray casket em­ funds for the small college can-American-owned firm has been blazoned with the OSU em­ and giving alumni a chance listed, and its owner, Dery! Sweeney, to spend eternity near the says he still doesn't know what his blem. Well, Mount Saint trucking company will be asked to do. Mary's College in Em­ school they love. The idea David L. Cosby, owner of a con­ mitsburg, Md., has taken this doesn't appeal to everyone; of struction company that bears his name, said it would be a waste of time idea one step further. It has course, but to each his own. for an African-American business to seek a subcontract unless there are· clear goals for minority recruitmenf LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER, LEXINGTON, KY. ■ THURSDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1996 Two African-American business­ men who won contracts directly from saying that information pertains to U of L, rather than through a prime . personnel matters. contractor, said their relations with Some officers Ridgel did say Tuesday that in­ the university have been good. dividual allegations of harassment Jared Watson, owner of Jared Wat­ disciplined proved true in some instances. . son & Associates of Lexington, said University Police Chief John that in the last four years his com­ Mason declined to comment on pany has done mechanical and elec­ for harassing trical engineering for an elevator-reno· Ridgel's statement but said, "I think ovation project and two parking ga­ the university police department is rages at U of L. Carey Anderson, KSU students doing a very good job." president of Anderson Design Group, Students complained last week said it has done architectural design -AsSOC!ATED PRESS during-wboiml0 of-regents meeting. on several university projects, includ' FRANKFORT - Disciplinary They said they had been rounded ing the two garages. · action has been taken against some up at all hours of the night and in­ "I think the university has made a Kentucky State University campus terrogated about alleged criminal good-faith effort to work with us,:• police officers for harassing stu­ activities, that they have been false­ Watson said. Anderson said he had dents, a university vice president ly accused of drug activity and that not "experienced anything that would lead us to believe that we weren't de, said. . ' students are sometimes harassed sired - wanted." .. , Gud Ridgel. who oversees the for walking in groups. ~ •, ·.J1e businessman who helped school's police deparnnent. declined ,, University officials· say most ·ecru,r a minority-owned rirm for uni­ to identify the officers or to provide problems alleged by 30 students at s·ersity work said Owsley has tried details about possible punishment, the meeting are untrue or exagger­ hard to reach out to minority-owned· ated,,.,, .. ., , businesses. Larry Leis, president•,of· .. " ' •·'" the Louis & Henry· Group, an engi­ neering firm in Louisville, said the THE COURIER-JOURNAl.f ;THURSDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1~ university was "getting a terrible rap'' on the issue. Some KSU police to be disciplined But a co-owner of the company FRANKFORT, Ky. ~ Disciplinary action has been taken against Leis solicited was less enthusiastic.­ some Kentucky State University campus police officers for harassing· Elias Zewde, head of the Louisville of' students, a university vice president said. flee of KHAFRA Engineering, said the Gud Ridgel, who oversees the school's police department, declined only substantial work his Atlanta­ to identify the officers or to provide details about possible punish­ based company has performed at ment, saying that information pertains to personnel matters. U of L so far is modification of an air­ Ridgel did say Tuesday that individual allegations of harassment conditioning chiller system. proved true in some instances. · Louisville Water Co., by contrast, Students complained last week during a board of regents meeting. has given KHAFRA "direct assign­ They said that they had been rounded up at all hours of the night and· interrogated about alleged criminal activities, that they. have been. ments on a continuous basis," Zev,d.e falsely accused of drug activity and that students are sometimes ha- said. "That is what I call a true act of , rassed for walkinjl in groups. · , · leadership in terms of providing op­ University officials say most problems-alleged by some 30 students portunity." at the meeting are untrue or exaggerated.