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Eastern Kentucky University Encompass Eastern Progress 1989-1990 Eastern Progress 2-8-1990 Eastern Progress - 08 Feb 1990 Eastern Kentucky University Follow this and additional works at: http://encompass.eku.edu/progress_1989-90 Recommended Citation Eastern Kentucky University, "Eastern Progress - 08 Feb 1990" (1990). Eastern Progress 1989-1990. Paper 18. http://encompass.eku.edu/progress_1989-90/18 This News Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Eastern Progress at Encompass. It has been accepted for inclusion in Eastern Progress 1989-1990 by an authorized administrator of Encompass. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Features Activities Sports | Weekend weather Video bliss Roommates turn Women athletes Friday — chance of Video rentals prove matchmaker in showers, 42-50? Satyr- recognized for day — cloudy, 35-50. pure entertainment blind date scheme academic ability Sunday — partly cloudy, to students Page B-1 Page B-5 Page B-7 35-50. THE EASTERN PROGRESS Vol. 68/No. 19 February8,1990 18 pages Sfcident publication of Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond. Ky. 40475 O The Eastern Progress, 1990 Moberly withdraws bill requiring govt. class By Ken Holloway lesser degree lo any person unless the student Moberly said there were many questions News editor The Kentuc has earned credit for the course or has previ- about the bill which he believed was detracting ously passed an examination on the same. House BUI 292 could have been a big thorn Ge from some other important business like the to the sides of students who may not have had The bill woul have permitted the college or financing for higher education. a strong backgound in American government university to determine whether the student had "The bill was getting more attention than it But because "it was not that important of a bill," satisfied this requirement if the student success- really deserved. We need to concentrate more state Rep. Harry Moberly, D-Richmond, de- fully completed a substantially equivalent course on the budget," Moberly said. "We don't need ter 164 to require every state-supported college or examination at another accredited college or little things like this bill to detract from our cided to withdraw the bill Wednesday. and university to provide a course of instruction university. HB 292, also sponsored by stale Rep. Wal- concentration about the budget." in American government. HB 292 went lo the House Committee of Because of the importance of Go v. Wallace ter Blevins, D-Morehead, would have created a The bill would have prohibited a college or Education Jan. 12 and was still in the commiue new section of Kentucky Revised Statue Chap- university from conferring a baccalaureate or before. Moberly withdrew it. S« BILL, Pose A7 Herry Moberly City mayor calls shots; five resign By Jeff Newton, Jennifer Feldman and • •/ think it was quite Terry Sebastian clear that Mayor Since Jan.2, the day Ann Luxon Durham took office as mayor, Durham mas the Richmond city government has under- gone a dramatic metamorphosi s. insistent force behind Under the previous administration, the city commission and the mayor all of this, and that they had waged veritable small-scale wars over issues such as garbage collec- would be fired if they tion, underage drinking and the loca- did not resign. ** tion of a landfill. Now, an ordinance that would ^^^^^^^^^cjjn^ckey effectively merge twocity departments and dissolve up to nine positions ager, ABC administrator, sanitation Progress photo by JEFF COATNEY passed in a four-minute second read- director and assistant sanitation direc- Former Qov. Collins speaks to students Jan. 31 about her administration during a Kentucky government class. ing without so much as a whimper. tor—have been asked lo resign. The ••• resignations were accepted unani- A typical city commission meet- mously. Several allege that they were ing now is much quieter, less vindic- replaced so Durham could stack the tive. commission "with her people." Gov. Collins returns to classroom In all, 32 ordinances have been Smaller changes, such as the Kentucky home she taught and a long-time admirer She has traveled around the proposed by the Richmond City removal of the "No Smoking" signs in of Collins' politics. United States and to Panama, Ja- Commission this year, which Dur- the courtroom, can be chalked up to to bright minds, Collins' speech highlighted her pan, Mexico and Hawaii since her ham, as mayor, chairs. All 32 have the administration of Durham, a career as governor, related her ac- term ended. She recently spent two passed without a single dissenting smoker. Collins says tivities since leaving office and semesters as an executive in resi- opinion appearing in the minutes. Some commissioners explain the By Becca Morrison fielded questions from students. dence at the University of Louis- The only hint of discussion came smooth-running meetings by pointing She said improvements in the out that they talk often on the phone Staff writer ville's school of business and one during a Jan. 16 meeting, when city areas of education and economic as a fellow at Harvard, she said. attorney Robert Moody requested that and in person about ordinances being Though Harvard is home lo some development were the most impor- Collins cited the arrival of the an order to enter into an agreement considered, and say they have noticed of the brightest minds in the country, tant achievements of her admini- Toyota automotive plant to Geor- with the MARCCenter be passed over, a harmony among themselves absent former Gov. Martha Layne Collins stration. getown as the chief economic gain he later indicated his approval of the from past commissions. said she has encountered some ex- 'The two go hand in hand," her administration made. order, according to commission min- "I think the chemistry is different citing exchanges with students in Collins said, "as the citizenry is Toyota, she said, resulted in an utes. wiihthiscommission,"commissioner Kentucky comparable to those she educated, more jobs come to the actual $1.2 billion investment for Since then, there has been no dis- Dale Carrier said. T see a lot more experienced while spending spring community." the stale of Kentucky. cussion of any ordinance, including cooperation with this commission, semester last year as a fellow at the As governor of Kentucky, The plant also "made Ken- one which merged the city sanitation which is what a city commission esteemed Ivy League college. Collins said she tried to be an tuckians go back to college," she and city street departments and laid should have." Collins visited the university last ambassador, concerning herself said. With 70,000 Kentuckians ap- off a handful of city employees. Nei- However, Carrier acknowledged Wednesday lo teach a Kentucky with the image the state projected. plying for 3,000 jobs, some were ther was discussion rendered when he received information on the re- Government and Politics class and "I'm proud of Kentucky," inspired to further their education, the commission unanimously voted lo structuring of the two city departments to appear on a university television Collins said. "We have a great deal she said Collins described her efforts to repeal an ordinance requiring a regu- only minutes before its first reading. program, 'Town Hall," which fo- of resources — our light has been Collins was questioned during woo the Toyota company lar time and day for the commission He said he had discussed the ordi- cused on her role as governor. hidden under a bushel for too long." the filming of'Town Hall" by host to Kentucky when she was meetings. The commission can now nance over the phone with other Collins came at the invitation of After leaving office, Collins Blanchard, and panelists Scott Chil- governor. call meetings at whim as long as they commissioners, but could not recall Dr. Paul Blanchard, the university still continues to "promote Ken- give the local media 24 hours notice. when or to whom he talked about the government professor whose class tucky." S« COLLINS, Page A6 Under her administration, five city plan. officials — city attorney, city man- see DURHAM, Page AS Judicial boards to hear Soviets desire capitalism, McConnell says By Heather Hill McConnell said the United open house violations Staff writer Stales' policy of containment, or By Terry Sebastian should be delegated to the j-boards. Political and economical stopping the spread of communism, Assistant news editor "At the very end of the fall semes- changes occurring in the Soviet in combination with the communi- For the rest of the semester, the ter. Sieve came to me again with a Union was die topic addressed to cations revolution, is making it hard judicial boards in Mattox, O' Donne 11, proposal where we would try this on a students in a university paralegal to carry on atrocities these days. "Dan Rather may be right out- Case and Martin halls, as pan of a pilot trail basis," Myers said. class by U.S. Sen. Mitch McCon- program, will review their own open Myers said his safeguard with the nell. side the door reporting to the whole new policy is that the sanctions will be McConnell was at the univer- world with gunshots in the back- house violations. ground," McConnell said "We're The new policy will enable the j- See J-BOARD, Page A10 sity Monday to express his views on foreign policy in an effort to drum conspiring to bring about a dramatic boards of these four residence halls to change in world order." hear cases concerning open house up support for the upcoming elec- tion. He said now the United States is violations instead of the cases being wrestling with what is the appropri- sent to Dr.