04r11, S: t'ft't8 MSU ARCHIVES nl/SO' CtJµ Sh~et 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 Couriu-Joumal, Sunday, January 4, 1998 Patton's:-_budget to esca;pe· big,,1eb:ilfg~·s . . , '-, .... '\.~ 'V! <·.;.~.. ,,. . ...: - - . --.r ~- . - ·_-, :: .,,. - . , · } · · J··' · 2000 ~oolyear. In a recent interview, D~bra Mill.er, execu;iv_.e,"!fl!J:tor of $30 billiOn P an tO StfeSS Pat- . .. . th~ gr,oup !{!!_ntucky YO!,l~:MY.?cates, •d · .& ton said that because 'lawmakers said: 'We re happy to-~,the·atten- high er-e UCation fe1Oflll, approved . . tion being given tne Juvehile"Justice . ·d. • . that plan last spring, he assumes they budget. Yet w.e're not seeing near)y COnStfUC tiOn Sp~Il ' mg are committed to. approvjng the sec- enoug~ atten(!on at the_Jront end m .. · and and tbird·funding increases. the social,51:Mces p_ro~ tbat.h~lp ByTOMLOITUS '• · Patton also.said-public schools and preven! d_elmquency. W~•re,worned The Courier-Journal social-service programs,will.be:a~e- tbat,.wttb·all the tax.~,m recent. quately funded. But.he has never giv- years and more cuts,liemg·proposed, FRANKFORT, Ky. - Gov. Paul Patton; a en those areas-a high priority in'his that t~ere_,.,_on't ~.11!~~~Kentucky governor's re-election, bid just around the comer, the 1998 General Assembly easily could degenerate into 60 days of political THURSDAY posturing and one-upsmanship. . :8 -.i'O""''!liJ".IT•~"''~''"""~r_~m.,~&~t·.B~9'!J. 4lli!',,;.J,t~q~;~~l~~- But- something funny has happened on the way to the 1o a.m. State and Capitol, where a stormy and unproductive session seemed Local Government. 113 likely only a short time ago: There has been a sudden out- :, f•'.$'\¼jl~~~ffi break of harmony and high-mindedness. . •· · Noon Appropriations and Reven~.e 149 • In the]ast six weeks, Gov. Paul Patton and lawmakers of both pohtical parties have made a pronounced effort at con . -.. , ciliation and compromise as they laid plans for the.session . "Right now, it does appear that we are all on the 'Love HOUSI;, Boat,' " said maverick Republican Sen. Tom -Buford of Nicholasville. "It's been a pretty ~ood cruise so far .... llnf\l':,;,. :.. ~. ~i)iinitm(' . Everybody is !tying to be so cordial. ' , · -~--!!i!om• Added Democratic Sen. Tim Shaughnessy, of_ Louisville, . . MDIIDAY-. :.· < who in past sessions seemed· to· delight in"·taunting Republicans, "A number of us are trying to get through the 2 p.m. Economic_lleveiopment- 129 '98 session with as little partisan bloodshed as possible." If it lasts, legislators said, the bipartisanship could help TUESDAY the legislature pass a college-scholarship program for good l!;i.iit':iitt'/Jl~iifilt,~A,1$:I] students; tougher sentences for adult and juvenile criminals; 10 am: Appropriations and Revenue 129 tax cuts on vehicles; health coverage for uninsured children; and a tax break for small-business owners who buy health ~{~f~~~~I msurance. S1ate Government · · 125 ls there something new in Frankfort's drinking water? Is this the same town where Democi;itic and Republican sena tors spent most of the last regular session, in 1996, snarling over a constitutional amendment on intangibleproperty taxes? Where lilst-January"s,senate'coup placed· outcast Democrats and insurgent Republicans in charge (sort of)? Where Greg Stumbo, the House's most powerful Democrat, and a slew of usually irrelevant Republican representatives a"8ered Patton and Senate leaders of both parties by torpe do mg October's special session on health insurance? Ah, it seems nothing concentrates the political mind on the true business of governing so well' as an approaching election. Or two. · Four red-letter dates on the calendar are driving state politicians' urge to be seen on good behavior: Jan. 27, the deadline for fifing to run for the House's 100 seats and 19 of the Senate's 38 seats; the May 26 primary; the Nciv. 3 elec tion; and next January's filing deadline for the 1999 gover nor's race. Eager to show that state government, in its closest sem blance to two-party government since 1971, can produce results, the Frankfort gang appears to have taken a page from the Washington crowd in 1996. That's when President Clintol) and the GOP Con!l"ess for swore gridlock and enacted welfare reform, a mmimum wage hike and a health-insurance bill on the eve of that year's HOW TO FOIL.LOW election. The burst of productivity helped all incumbents. While it's premature to say a self-preservalio[l instinct will TltE ACTION drive Kentucky's leaders to similar cooperation and action, CONTACTING.LEGISLATORS the run-up to the s_ession has been'placid.. · _-- • , l . . On Dec. 3,'Seilate Republicans offered an agenda that TOLi FREE NUMBERS: Patton and Democrats pnvately praised as sober and respon II To check the s_tatus of a bill: sible. Patton's fellow mountain Democrats, Stumbo and Sen. Benny Ray Bailey, who are populist-liberal critics of the f.800-809-0020 administration, have made no inflammatory statements. At ■ To leave a message for a legislator: a Christmas party thrown by Eastern Kentucky road-builder 1-800-372-7181 Leonard Lawson, Patton and Stumbo reportedly exchanged pleasantries and no hints of ill will: . . . '; _·-; .. -. . ■ TTY numb~r for, hearing,impaiied:. - Seriate'l)eniocratic Leader_ David Karem partly-atin'biites i-800-896-03® .. . the chamber's newfound harmony to unease he says many ■ To check the schedule of upcoming of its 18 Republicans felt over opposing Patton on his busi ness-backed proposals on higher education last May. legislative mee1ings: 1-80D-633-965q Patton's performance in that special session and ea_rlier, ■ .To leave a message.for.someone on •workers' compensation, have· made, him a darling of attending a legislative meeting:•I Republican business_ leaders, Karem said. GOP senators 1-800-59,?4399.- •li . ,.:, '' See LEGISi.:AtivE" '? 0,. rt=-.~ . -~~"- i · or.I~-~staff:. • 1ieiicffi'. , mg:,, · - t ,\iff;·; ~'\:.~1.: ,. • • fj] ,·•,'{ ii &~1/~~e1fh bh'm~issi~n . hQ.n.\.e.'p-ag~ad~.~ 1>riJ~tJ:rrt@!fic"i""'-' . , UllllU 1..,..-c,t.,,fa ln:1·110/1-i.-,.,..,l!o htnl•....!:._-.J • •- Lexqton Hemld-t.f'~der · Saturday, December 27, 1997 Legislative harmony Morehead Stat,e Pollut.es It is a beautiful sunny day· in More h~d, yet an ugly, oily, gray hau fills the ".alley. M?rehead State• University's coal raises session hopes fired heatmg plant once again has blan keted the town in noxious gases and soot Continued But Patton aides fret privately that tax-cut fever could rage out of control. The h_ea!~ hazards associated with "want to be seen as being players'' and The legislature, they noted, no longer these ~mtSSJons ar_e well documented. not mere obstructionists, he said. Scrubbing technologies exist to greatly re has key players with a track record of th But Senate GOP Leader Dan Kelly opposing tax cuts and defending the du~ e amoun~ of ~ticles and air pol dismissed suggestions that irate busi state's revenue base. luting gases released m burning coal. ness leaders or approaching elections _As part of ~SU's "Bright Future," I have changed the tactics of Republican Over two decades, the legislature had senators. budget chairmen who liked to salt away as_k.• ~ en · will the university be in "The difference in the dynamic is any surpluses and who were happy to bnghtenmg !\forehead's i--ky? g that we've had this change in rules and brand tax cutters as panderers whose Doug Doerfeld attitude" toward greater openness and nostrums risked harm to widows, crip Elliotville mutual respect, Kelly said. Democratic ples and orphans. But one such spoil senators have accepted the new reality sport, Sen. Mike Moloney, retired in of shared power, he said. "They can't 1996. The other, Rep. Joe Clarke, was just entirely dominate the process any shorn of power in 1995 and will retire more." at the end of this year. Regardless of what caused it, there Already, rumblings for more tax cuts Lexington Herald-Leader does appear to be momentum in the are faint ly audible - such as ditching Saturday, December 27, 1997 Senate toward bipartisan cooperation. the rest of the intangibleproperty tax, Democratic Sen. Joey Pendleton of which would mean a revenue loss of Hopkinsville said "it's not going to be Blllwoul as much bickering as it has been in $35 million a year;orkillingthe remain years past because we helped ing "provider tax" on hospitals and UK-request 0 (Repub!tcan ~enators) pass something" pharmacists, which would Jeopardize -the bill rolling back health-insurance funding of Medi caid, the state-federal reforms that passed the Senate in health program for th e poor and dis Ital~ October but failed in the House. abled. Even Stumbo, who for Patton's aides But Senate President Larry Saunders BY Eldh• Wade i4• is the biggest question mark hovering and Kelly have urged restraint. ~$Tiff~ over the session, says achievements are Some lawmakers and some Patton possible in this year's session, if the aides fear a late-session, House-Senate governor shows compassion toward "free conference committee" over the those being hurt by welfare reform and budget bill. In such a gathering, a new isn't rigid on such debatable ideas as document could be written amid great boot camps for juvenile offenders. time pressures. Almost certain to have In 20 interviews with lawmakers. lob front-row seats in such deliberati()ns byists and Patton aides, a consensus would be Bailey and Stumbo, who are emerged that the 1998 General Assembly has a chance to cobble togeth concerned that Patton won't put enough er a modest record: money in the budget for social ser.•ices. ■ Up to $150 million a year in new But Bailey pooh-poohs such fears - college scholarships for high school although he has continued to resist the students who earn good grades, to prod Patton ad ministration's shift of more young Kentuckians to be serious Medicaid to managed-care partner students. ships run by providers in different ■ Stronger punishment for crimes regions. And Patton, as he begins to committed by adults and youths - and, gear up for re-election, is sensitive to perhaps, a serious debate of less cost liberal Democrats' accusations that he's ly alternatives ro incarceration. a Big Business Republican. ■ Lowertaxesoncars-perhaps new Posturing and partisanship still could as well as used. be the order of the day for rhe upcom ■ Tax relief for small-business peo ing session - thanks to the approach ple who buy health insurance - and ing elections. first-time health coverage for many In the Senate, where Benton busi uninsured children. nessman Bob Jackson's victory in a ■ Sockingawayanother$100 million in the state's Rainy Day Fund (now $200 recent special election preserved million) amid an electionyear shower Democrats' 20-18 edge, Democrats are of state road and building projects - worried about retaining the seats of made possible by a strong economy. retiring Ca ucus Chairman Nick Prospects were less certain that Kafoglis of Bowling Green and toppled Patton and lawmakers would settle two President John "Eck" Rose of long-running controversies. Winchester, who is running for The high-stakes resting and account Co ngress. Republica ns appear con ability system at the core of the state's cerned about losing the seat of Barry 1990 school reforms is virtually certain Metcalf of Richmond, who is running co undergo change. But how much is for the U.S. Senate. Democrats claim unclear. Elizabeth Tori of Radcliff and Ernie ; ,~dJ1~lth insurers continued their Harris of Crestwood also are vulnera · ' 'tl,:Jj:' .' ·. ·1the real cause of the ble. -.: ,. · •. . • sessiotil .tieJA\~e - , e of.tfit1•rA . a - In the House, 10 members have ' • f{ ( n ~ ,'\j ,F< r, announced they won't seek re-elecrion. ,._,.,,..,,_:.,.. . '0 J; p ' 1 ~t the Democrats' nearly 2-w-l edge nde · ' · appears secure. Leadership races scheduled for next January probably will lurk jusr below e. the surface in both chambers. o tax cuts But, as Shaughnessy said. "There's is Patton's plan - and, so far, that of a feeling that too much friction does the Senate Republican Caucus. n't get you anywhere." ;plibJi;crs:'.l!filtwowd reqtiiJ.'e Uk'· t9,,1~~;)s\at~;~~~t Pr.~l fqr_,.!ll"_A~1_J!_}!) · ,,<..~ ~ .,::.;;/ I - '\ ' • ' ~::i•q~,:Yh);,;[jt~Jl~ft - : ti-. ta! projects,,~q\!_;.;li91!4;,gx~.l/l~ ·have ~he'W,T. Young Library) t~\ co~mlttee1 said-_JegjsW~~,warifW day," he said. "I• hope we can get it av~1d lettmg.,~~t~-agenc;ii:s I!l~f shot down again." · their ?wn dl)C1s1ol)s,;9µ b1g-t~~~l UK worked out an arrangement spending. ! · · ·. ·"'"I with tlie city.toJinance the library Once buildingstare.-built.:ffie after
The lql'gest growth in enroll 44% of freshmen ment in remedial courses came at the community colleges, with an 11 percent increase over four years. need remedial Math classes were the most . . common among remedial classes taken by freshmen. From 1992-to 1996, the percentage of university freshmen - enrolled in remedial class, study says math fluctuated between- 26 per cent and 31.6 percent ;,r By Holly E. Stepp . national averages, are similar to en- The study also found 11'lit HERAlDlEADER EDUCATION IWlfTER rollment figures in other Southern what makes a remedial studed.t Nearly half of the freshman en- states. . • varies among the universities. tering Kentucky's public universi- A 1996 study· By tlie National At the University of Kentuck}'; ties in 1995 didn't learn some basic Center for Education Statistics, a a student with a math -ACT semi,' skills well enough to begin college- part of the U.S. Department of Edu lower than 18 would probably be level work, according to a study re- capon, found that 29· percent of placed in a· remedial math cla!;gr , leased this week by the Council of first-time freshmen across the na But at Western Kentucky Univer Postsecondary Education. tion took at leasrone remedial sity, a math ACT score lowlif, The report, which will be pre- course in the fall 1995 semester. than 22 will qUlllify for a remedia); sented to the council next month, In the South, 36·percent of first course. : ft~ will probably begin a debate on time freshmen took, at least one re The average combined ACY how much remedial education the medial course, according to a 1996 score is about 21 points. state's public universities should survey by the Southern Regional The result, the study says, is~ provide. Education Board. "One institution's remedial stu'.• In Kentucky, 44 perrenf of first/:: It's uncl~ wh_ether ,t!te-council dent may very likely be another !irge freshman enrolled_ 1n at least take ~YJ~iiecii!SictiO!!. the institution's fully-prepared si:t:1-' ~ 011. dent." .. - one remedial coursed~.·,:.~fKm11_· _re~d ..,;dunngcil'. 1~E~~!fl~ngb_' 1995. __ semes_' - ter,- "tJi'· ere · ·.~.• -said:'r.~i-:.n;; ,:u;; .. ·,,.,..,"'-".,sat .mun •·•-'!",---SM,u;;.:,¥Y0IDan·DC:JJ•.-__ •••.,..,,,,_ '" 1e ~;::I::~=~~~~!f'~ 1'~i¥'~~~~~~'\iicrK~i!s lege-level study and.don't apply to- , ~\l!._m-state and out-of-state stu- ward graduation requirements . ··dents. A.breakdown of the figures . · . for the groups separately was not Kentuc ky' s remedial education., available. enrollment, while higher than the
Lexington Herald-Leader Sunday, December 28, 1997
said. 'UK malres offer This prQgram is designed to J counter that tendency and to help conduct research in student readi ness by comparing the selected stu tojum~tart ·dents to a ·control" group of fresh men who haven't taken the advance courses. local seniors ~ft said. "They will be treated just like = "It's going to be a positive expe any other UK student," Swift said. By Unda J. Johnson :::?ience, no matter whether they go "They will be on campus every day HERALD-LEADER EDUOATION IWlfTER .:lD UK or not," said Cara Brennan, a and get to rub shoulders with real Some Fayette County seniors may be preparing for ::t!K junior. UK students. They can go to the life at the University of Kentucky a semester early. - Brennan, working-as a student student center after class just like That's if enough students apply for a joint program 1sistant in UK 101, will help in anyone else." recently launched by the public school system and the :::siruct the seniors in all aspects of The program hinges on getting university. •llege life. enough ·applications, said Swift. If UK professor Louis Swift told the school board ear :: The class deals not. only with fewer than 20 students apply, he is lier this month that the program is aimed at selecting :::liine management and study skills, n't sure the experiment will be 25 students representing a cross-section of the district's ::l))lt also with date rape, sexually worth the effort. But, he also said population who will take two classes at UK next se :tt;insmitted diseases and alcohol that if the program doesn't begin mester to help them adapt to college life. '"l!buse. The university has offered this semester, it w_ill start in the fall. "We really wanted to expose students (to) what the ~ 101 as an optional course for UK will cover $12,950 of the expectations of college are and what some of the chal =entering freshmen for about eight cost of the pilot project and asked lenges will be," he said. ·. :;tears, Swift said. the school board to pick up the re The deadline to apply is Jan, 5, and Swift, assistant = "The point isn't orienting them maining $10,600, the student-fee dean of undergraduate studies, said he expects most of :::tb. the college atmosphere," Brennan portion of the program. the applications to come in during that week. '.fliough ::mid, as in showing them the li The board approved the plan classes start Jan. 14, he said the selected students :::ll!:ary. "It's teaching them how,to be after Superintendent Peter Flynn would have time to enroll. UK recently mailed 130 let -miccessful from all those different assured board members that the ters to seniors already accepted by the university, ask' ::aiigles." money would be raised from pri ing them to apply. . = Students who drop out of col vate donors, including foundations, · Each of the high school seniors will choose one :::lege do so for a variety of reasons, and would not come from the bud three-hour course to take, and all will enroll in a one :::'said Swift. get. hour class called UK 101. They will earn college credit = •Often you find that . seniors that can be used at UK or transferred to other colleges; :::I!trring their spring semesters only • ~end class half_the day and spend Herald-Leader Education Writer '""'1!e other half working and tend to Holly E. Stepp contributed to this ar ~t ~ut of the habit of studying," he ticle. ' The Daily,. t Independent, . ., Ashland,t Kentucky, Saturday,. - January- 3, 1998 'C·a0_ :Us:. · o;-assume eontrbl· of colleges at fil_e~tifig here~ By GEORGE WDLFFORD Southern Association of Col "They don't )lave any issue OF THE DAILY INDEPENDENT leges and Schools - tiie las! with the UK name on degree. hurdle in the path - between The issue is that' they want a ASHLAND ~ Angeline nqw and Jan. 13 .. ·.:,,,. ,J: •c,,• very clear authority residing .;iThat accreditatfon,should re- Dvorak, applicant for 'the . ~ ·, ...,_ . in one single governing board presidency of Ashland Com lieve fears that aros~~ among - the KCTCS board. Conceiv munity College last spring, community college fa~ulties ably there will still be a way to showed up for a maelstrom after the Southern Association ·preserve the UK logo, but _they and a milestone. reported in November tba!, sev-1 want to be .sure. KCTCS. has era! components of the new the final. authority over She arrived the day Ken structure didn't appe!/,r .to I degree-grantiftg.'' t4cky Gov. Paul Patton pub align, delaying its approval. \. .. The two ·educators said no licly unveiled his controver That delay sent out shivers 'presidents foi- KCTCS or its sial proposal for merging all , to community colleg~ pers,op- [ parent .. C.o:uncil _on .Po:stsec post-secondary education nel who believed ·it meant ondary 'Education are likely to under a common manage · promised funding - and• iaises be chosen until ·spring. ment. - wouldn't be forthcoming. "SACS has signed off on a Now. D.v.orak. as ACC "We will be able tg .P.Ut. moper, management transfer for Jan. president. is about to see in community college hands, 14, but it has iden.tified some that management take effect Newberry said, "although spe issues we need to work on," - in her own back yard. cific allocations have yet to be Newberry said. "It has given Dvorak's application was made." us plenty' of time to do that. SUl)l:essful and she replaced At least one reason the ini House Bill ,1, that created Charles Dassance. who tial meeting was scheduled in KCTCS, has a mechanism for moved south to head Central Ashland was that KCTCS' first resolving tliesetKinds of issues. Florida Community College board chair - Martha John If they can't be resolved by the at Ocala. Patton was just as son, representing the com two boards (KCTCS and UK) successful: pushing through 'munity college side of the then ·they go to the Council on legislation ·that put com house - lives here. She. said ~ostsecondary· Education." munity colleges and .voca six two-day sessions are' set ·in Beyond.KCTCS?Dvoi;ak says tion al schools together 1998, three at commwiity col ACC will focus on two major under the Kentucky Com 'ieges, three at tech campuses. programs_"tf' a . year-long cel munity tind ,Technical Col- The six are also divided geo ebration ':of "the' school's 60th lege System':~·.·~: · graphically, three on each side annivers::irf. anci. ,;tiilling stu ' l"'.j, of Interstate 75, in an effort at dents·;_ho.w -they caii',.use new The acron)'ltl is KCTCS. equity and giving tJ:ie board nicknam~ "Cactus." a tax law 'to. gef college educa chance to see schools across tions almcist'.'free. ;;/ • Dvorak,,,o came aboard The state. Dvorak • .,s'aid A,-1::C:.S 1998 in time i edication of the "At this first meeting,.we ex agenda will include continued school's•-· w Goodpaster pect to review interim person work toward academic excel Building' and to see .ACC nel policies, then take them lence, IJUtting a'n. -another reap the fl)!lit of an .earlier out on the road for faculty I teachilig-leari:iing conference applicatiafi'.;1hat brought $1.7 staff comment before adoption "and spending a lot more time million ~h·e said• would ·:,on July 1. We want to take ev collaborating.-)yith UK, More "bringitechi,ology ·to ACC ;,-. ecything out there for peciple head State·university and Ken that will jlut' •us' 1ight 'yea'fs ifto seil·- and comment on," John tucky Tech on collaborative ahead'Iu'('\vhere';'we' Ii/We -~~'son said. projects and programs. been." ~.a...,•r~.. ~--: ·T·'"· • •·· · ·:.~-i: Dvorak said the total for all "The legislature has pro -A,,~ tii'l'"""ii~ -· -- •wh. · ·community colleges will be posed more autonomy for com , -~~_;;.~~ ~>=.'tq· e_;r~ .. --~~&~~ rr.-/11.;t;, --.uw;eJ\ 'f!l. ·-,liefo~ .. ,-l;)lie~ar:. $4.2 million and that staff munity colleges and we'll push ,.rJvtd:':OvofaJ(·l'I~ t'~~c1 raises of 7 percent for staff and to have as much as possible as on progi:afus oChei' awn, 5 percent for faculty are sched we see .new, programs needed said the first major change 'uled at each school. in this (geographic) area," she under her administration Newberry said the associa said. will come Jari. 13-14 when tion had problems accepting The shift of management KCTCS meets ·here an.ddor •the _principle of split gover will officially take place when ma!ly .._ 'takes.•over ma_nage nance, created by the General KCTCS's board of directors ''.A'.ssefubly's compromise that meets at the Kentucky Tech's ment. divided management between That session is scheduled KCTCS and the former parent Ashland Campus. at the Ashland Campus of · University .of Kentucky. Kentucky .JI'ech. formerly known a~jthe Ashland Vo Tech Sch_\M)l. Tony /Ne\Vj)~_rry, for'ther · ACC president1:and Univer sity oftkentiicky vice chan cellor .. foi: community col legel.,acadimiic affairs, will dir~t thi; ~e.s~ia,n,,i,n. his role asjoordi!)atoi-. oT KCTCS. He spid he ·expects all com munity cplleges to get full accreditation from the ;-;:_~7., ... ~-.- . THE COURIER-JOURNAL • SUNDAY, JANUARY 4, 1998 U of L's neglected scholarship
By SUSAN REIGLER in Louisville. The heyday of the program given that one-on-one tutorials and Special to The Courier.Journal was in the late 1970s and early 1980s "remarkable" (Riley's word) lec when the scholarship's funding, com tures are given by the world leaders who constitute the university's fac. RESIDENT John Shumaker has bined with low overseas student fees in Great Britain, allowed a scholar to be ulty. made the metamorphosis. of the Fellow students come from all Univernity of Louisville his goal sent each year for two years, so there comers of the globe. Any student P for 2007. He envisions an urban were two Humphrey Scholars studying in studying in the ancient university sprawl of buildings where academic activ England at a time. has a unique opportunity to expen ity is pursued with varying degrees of suc But in 1979, newly elected British ence and appreciate other cultures, cess becoming a first-rate university with a Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher raised as well as promote-understanding overseas students fees from £500 (about of his or her own. reputation for "instructional and research The chance to pursue any inter excellence." The local media have made $750) a year to £5,000 ($7,500). Subse quent fee increases and inflation meant est, from music or drama to athlet much of Shumaker's ambition to attract ics or wine-tasting, is offered by the high-powered reseaicil faculty and emi that by 1986 a student could only be sent multitude of extracwricular clubs nent scholars to endowed chairs. every three years. run by university students. This vision will get a lot of help from But Oxford is perfectly willing to ac The currerit endowment for the the university's endowment, which, as cept a Louisville student each year, and a Humphrey Scholarship is $125,000. reported in a story in the Oct. 30 Courier place is reserved. It would need to be doubled in or Joumal, has grown to an impressive Due to the efforts of the former British der to Insure sending a Louisville $233 million. trustee of the scholarship, the late Sir scholar to Oxford each par. Ox Morris Barr, and current trustee, Dr. Da ford University has done ,ts part by The story also mentioned that the en reserymg a place for the Humphrey dowment would provide more money for vid Emms, Harris Manchester Col Scholar m spite of the fact that an "academic scholarships, lecture series, lege, Oxford is now the home of Humphrey,Scholars. (Oxford Uni international pool of- well-qualified visiting scholars, libraries' special collec versity is made up of some three students, including wealthy ones tions and student travel and research." dozen colleges established over who can afford their own lees, is I would urge President Shumaker to the histocy of the university from applying for admission. · devote some of the university's riches to the 12th Century to this decade.) A In short, $125,000 from the Uni versity of Louisville coffers, devot a very special scholarship that U of L al Mary Churchill Humphrey Cente llBIY re ed to P.~ this singular op. ready has. Unfortunately, it has experi Sebo~ Room was po~ for its vay best students,. enced funding shortfalls in recent years cently dedicated at Harris Man seems like a worthwhile inwstment because of increases in tuition and fees. chester College. in U of L's future acallem!c quality. This scholarship has the potential to OXFORD IS happy to welcome A university with the ~ of be help stop the "brain drain" of Kentucky's Humphrey Scholars because these ing "top" needs OUlstallding stu brightest high school graduates, a prob young men and women have been dents, as well as first-rate faculty. lem often lamented by business and civic distinguished contributors to the university's academic and cultural Susan Reigler was a Hum:lhreY leaders. In fact, it could be a recruiting life. Past scholars have gone on to Scholar from 1977-79. She fuis a tool for top students from out of the state become members of factilt)' and re master's degree in_ zoolOflY from as well, many of whom could wind up search staffs at U of L and Harvard Oxford Unive,sity. gmentty, she is staying in Louisville upon graduation. and Yale univerities, as well as fine on sabbatical leave from St Francis Thus, a "brain gain" would result. liberal arts colleges in Vuginia and HiJih Schoo~ where she has taught Missouri. .8Cll!IICI!. .and. .music-hisu,,y for 15 The Mary Churchill f!umpQrey Cente - ·omrn:bolllrworksfor an educa ·naty · Memoriar Scholarship is a little years. During her classroom career, tional video firm in New York City. she won two national teaching known academic treasure. It was estab Another is currently a Truman Fel awards. She is also The Couriei lished by a gift from a Louisville philan low in the Department of Govern Joumal's restaurant critic, and she thropist in order to send one student ment at Harrard, where he is earn is a fretl.uent contributor to the Fea each year from the Universit)/ of Louis ing a Ph. 0. tures and Arts sections. 'Louisville trustee Dr. Mary ville to England's Oxford Univernity for Hawkesworth, erofessor in u of two years of study - long enough to L's political SC1ence department, earn a degree. sums up. the importance of the The Humphrey Scholarship is nothing scholarship by saying, ''The Hum less than U of L's very own version of the phrey takes a student from Louis prestigious Rhodes Scholarship, But it's ville and thrusts him or her into the most prestigious academic envirop open only to U of L graduates. ment m the world." Instead of having to compete national ly with hundreds of candidates from h un 11:VAN RILEY just returned dreds of universities for 32 places, quali from Oxford. He graauated with a First Class degree, the highest pos fied U of L graduates only·nave to com sible achievement on the compre pete with one another. This certainly hensive final exams, in Politics, makes for more attractive odds. Philosophy and Economics. Many American universities have one "The experience (at Oxford) was year or semester-long exchange pro multi-faceted. From the veiy start, I grams with overseas institutions,.includ had to think about everything." Ri ley was struck by the responsibility ing Oxford. But a full two-year scholar given students by Oxford faculty, ship to one of the world's greatest cen who treat scholars as intellectual ters of learning and culture is a rare equals. This is quite a challenge, thing indeed. Since 1950, 15 U of L students have I C stltdied at Oxford on the scholarship after first gaining undergraduate degrees Lexington Herald-Leader Friday, January 2, 1998 p OTHER VOICES $tndent first, athlete. later • : This editorial appeared in the destructive illusion that college is r1ie New York Times and does not only a pit stop on the way to the 1Jecessarily reflect the views of the professional leagues. Less than one lftrald-Leader: percent of high school players get college scholarships, and fewer than - ean Smith, the University of 1 in 1,000 go on to the professional North Carolina basketball ranks. Most end up without degrees Dcoach, retired this year as the or legitimate careers to fall back on. ~giate game's most victorious The Smith .proposal would per c'am:h and one of its most respected mit freshmen to receive scholarships leaoers. At a time when college even if they sat out the first year al, sy9.'rts were plagued with ppony together, allowing them to get their ttanscripts and athletes who earned bearings as students. It would also m11fions for their schools but. not an insulate them from the travel, media ool'ication for themselves, Smith ran interviews and missed classes asso .a'i('.exemplary program that pro ciated with a varsity basketball duc;ed a basketball dynasty, yet schedule. graduated more than 90 percent of its players. Smith proposes that freshmen re :::.coaches and athletic directors ceive full financial aid as long as \l,~lly listen carefully to what they make satisfactory progress to Smith has to say. But there was a ward graduation. Critics say- this Il.illiceable silence last week when he would be too expensive. But that s~gested, in an interview with seems far-fetched given the revenues $iiiir ts Illustrated, that freshmen generated by big-time college sports. ,itlrtetes should be barred from var On New Year's ·Day, for example, ~ity sports so they can get acclimat the four top football bowls paid out tid to college and the idea they are more than $8 million each to partici students first, athletes second. pating teams and their conferences. : Smith noted that he had opposed Smith is dead right when he ar the 1972 rule change ·that allowed gues that some of the money could f.eshmen to play varsity sports in be set aside to support freshmen the first place, a change that intensi athletes. As the coach put it "We'd :J;.ed the competition for young talent be saying, 'You're here as a student ,ind forced colleges to begin romanc first. Once you've shown -us .your ing athletes as early as junior high ability as a student, we'd be happy ~ol. The rule also popularized the to have you as an athlete too."' 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 THE COURIER-JOURNAL ••·W~DNESDAY, JANUARY 7, 1998
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C Pat.ton:_ Young offenders and students merit help '=' "Let us measure every proposal . . Endorses UJ.•d that comes before us by its effect on Patton also touched bnefly on his .f: tud t them " he said. "Let us conduct our- proposal that all teachers get a .LOf s en s, selv.;; as if our child was watching state-required minimum salary in- _J:J: d .our every niove." crease, and he app~ared to ~ndorse t een Ouen ers Patton made promises of spend- a proposal to fo~ve state mcome · ing that showed compassion, wheth- tax~s owed by la1d-o~f workers at er to abused children or battered Fruit of the Loom textile plants and By ROBERT T. GARRETT women, but he quickly followed other workers who lose jobs to for- The Courier-Journal such pledges with a warning that e1gn trade. tax cuts and fiscal prudence will Patton said that health-care insur- . FRANKFORT, Ky. - Gov. Paul make the next.two-year state budget ance - a subject that has bedeviled Patton endorsed an initiative last tight, despite good economic times. the last two regular sessions and a night to help families pay colle~e costs, and he ·signaled that he w!ll He noted that the state has cut six special session-in October- would propose more state spending on jails taxes in the·last few vears, reducing remain a top concern in weeks and treatment programs for young ,.General Fund revenues by about ahead. _ _. offenders, as well as other efforts to $300 million annually - or 4 per- The governor appeared to be help children. cent. plugging his two major environmen- During his State of the Common • \Patton: did not -mention it;in his ta! initiatives - often referred to fa- wealth address to a joint session of ts~&, but·bis·aides liave.signaled cetiously as "hogs and logs" -that the legislature, Patton offered _an tliafhe will" proposFspeiiding $13 would control lagoons holding ani- overview of bis thinking on- the two million to free up $50 million of fed- ma! wastes at large hog farms and year sis.le ~udget he will submit to era! money for buying health insur- require better training of loggers lawmakers m about two weeks. ance for some of the up to 125,000 and education of timberland owners. In a inove that could encourage -poof children in Kentucky. "If we're going to continue to en- more youngsters ·to go. to ... college; Also, Patton is expected to revive joy the unique beauty which is Ken- Patton indicated that his budget will a proposal that died late in the 1996 lucky, then we're going to.have to P,ni{>Ose a . tuition-aid program to regular-session that would make it continue to regulate:polluting activi- 'h~tp the.stud~ts of Kentucky.and ·easier for the state to terminate the . ties, protect our forests.and preserve their parents.par the cost of a postse- ·rights of abusive and-neglectful par- our wildlife," Patton said. condary education." This would in ents. · Patton, who has angered the Unit- clude tuition to technical schools. Patton's anticipated anti-crime . ed Mine Workers union by.support- Patton did"not endorse outright a package will include measures to in- ing tighter eligibility standards for ·prefiled bill by Louisville Democratic c~as~ h~!PJ_or _b;i,tter~d.. women and workers'.. compensation awards for Sens. -.Titn Shal!llhnessy and .David other~ctims ofdomesnc v.iolence. , black-lung disease and other work- Karem:that~entually would divert '"·-«tjlffiiestic':c.violiincl''and child . related illnesses' ,or ·injuries, ex- up to $150 million· a year of lottery .abuse are making some of our pressed pleasure aMast year's rec- revenue to •.college scholarships for high-school gradµates with at least a , homes a· living hell for;many adults ord-low number of coal-mine fatali- B average. -- . (°ana: 1yes,~for all too manywf our tiesin·Kentucky:five. But l'atton .. _smiled approvingly ;childl'eii;~~·the,gove!!lor S!li ~- 1-tion,._piognims and·.' to improve In his . .25-minute-long ·.·.speech, school security. One such measure which "'.as in~~ptl!d liy ~Jiplause would require the state to keep clos- :is times;','Pattoii~s~l$sues ·af . er tabs. on·incldents .of school vio- 'fecting cW)dien and ev_en~ lence "anthilke stroilge,: .preventive '. Fratikfo~arej)Jourth~ in me •.Ill!ll!5\lf.llS, . -~,..;r--! .. ..ii 1)-t'ln• _w. ~! ,;_ ~ Lexington Herald-Leader entertainment facilities.~,'Economic condi Wednesday, January 7, 1998 tions, including low intercist rates and Ken tucky's strong credit rating, favor spending the money now, he said. "If we're going to-build a new Kentucky for a new millennium, we must invest in our ,Governor communities," Patton said. Ford, the Republican leader, said he hoped Patton also would look at returning some of the surplus to taxpayers. "We have to be cautious on how to spend the surplus seeks end. . money," he said. But Patton warned of a seeming paradox: Despite the anticipated cash surplus this year, the budget for the next two years will have "extremely limited" revenue to continue ongoing programs or start new ones. to 'battles' The governor said that cuts to six taxes over recent years meant that the state's rev enue will grow only by an estimated 4.1 per State of the Commonwealth cent in the next year. Patton, w~o presents h_is budget on Jan.' targets crime, scholarships 20, said he wtl! propose a 4 percent increase in elementary and secondary education By Angle Muhs funds, and that he intends to follow through HERALDlEADER FRANKFORT BUREAU ~ on his pledge to pump $100 million in new FRANKFORT - Gov. Paul Patton stuck to popu money into the state's colleges and-technical lar themes last night in his State of the Commonwealth schools. , address, urging lawmakers to But that will not leave much more for get tougher on crime and sup other programs beyond a 3 percent inflation port a college scholarship pro ary increase, he warned. : gram. "We'll be proposing new expenditures, He appealed to lawmakers but this budget will not be without pain," to avoid partisan bickering, es Patton said. pecially with elections looming Conspicuously, the topic of the state;s_ later in the year. health insurance laws was nearly abse,nt. "Let's forget past conflicts from Patton's speech, getting only a one-sen-· and battles,• Patton said to ap tence mention. plause from legislators. "Let's The governor called a special session o~ put aside political aspirations, health insurance last fall, only to see it col and let us please refrain from lapse when legislators couldn't agree on a. partisan demagoguery." _ _ plan. Legislators say the topic will be coil' Legislators liked what they ·· .,,·-~=~ tentious again this session. • heard as the 1998 General As- .. . . . - Patton also hit on what is expected to be' sembly_ began. What hl!.-sald one of his major initiatives "The _governor hit on ite~s ■ Excerpts of Gov. during the session, improv that are 1,!"!lport a proposal · spee_ch a)>l!"ars on prisons. "We must also, to use $150 .million in lottery Kentucky Connect at make our courts more effi: money .to finanre,college ~chol, ·WWW,-~~-n!U~kycon~~ , stud. ·,ts based. • ,. ...f- com/ga98. •· .... "cient, our punishmeni; arshi ps ,9i; ,...... en . so1 e-: ..• __ : , :,· more relevant and our PQ~· ly·onacatlenucment- , ·-,·.:'"""-l"'•i•'"••r-.,. ·;, )ice officers better paid," he Patliln' ditl '\i~t '.specificaijy"'iiie'i(ti~tl!J:!~.tt;?ir ,said. · the proposal's leai:lmg backers, Sen. TinfShaughnessy Patton said his crime · • and Sen. David Karem, both Jefferson County ' package would focus heav, Democrats. ily op juvenile justice programs, saying that But Patton said "the time has now come treatment for youthful offenders should bes for Kentucky to begin a major new initiative" gin tatter the first crime, not after the first to help students and parents pay for college. "The willingness to adcjress this issue mUifler." will be the litmus test of our commitment to r.0ur prisons are full of adults that we a new future for Kentucky," Patton said. failed when they were children," he said. "Vie' Those remarks were enough to bring may have some ad_ults who are so far gone S~aughnessy and Karem to their feet, grin !hit prison is the only way to protect our, ning broadly and clapping. selves from them, but I refuse to ·give up op After the speech, the our kids." · legislature's top two lead .Patton also singled out a mention of th~ ers, House Speaker Jody need for programs to fight child abuse aticl' Richards and Senate Presi domestic violence. His wife, Judi, has maac!; dent Larry Saunders, said that her signature issue. ·'· they would prefer not tying "Parents who abuse their children aren!t;. the scholarships to lottery fit to be parents, and any male who would hit· receipts. a woman is not worthy to be called a man;•: _Saunders and Richards Patton said. :, ·: endorsed new money for Patton said the 1990 Kentucky Educati~ scholarships, as long· as the Reform Act had,been the General Assembli.s. scholarships are based on "finest hour." But ·he alluded briefly to ci~ need as well as grades. cerns about ~e state's testing system, whi _ Some other legislators have determines the schools that will recei questioned whether the state can afford the shares of a multi-million-dollar pool of in~ tab. tive mo~ey. . .:::• Patton devoted much of his 25-minute "While the~tune ~s come to make 1~ speech to the state's financial outlook. provernents which time and experience ha__~ Patton argued that an anticipated budget made apparent, this is no time to retreat aiill surplus of $223 million should be spent on we will not retreat," he said. '.f one-time building projects such as "roails, ■ .. water, sewer, and recreational; :cultural and Herakl:ila'air:siaff. writers Jack Brammd and Siiian''Fertza'niiez'contributed to iliis re~ . bmt. · ,.,. · :t < • - ~- .,. • , ·,' ~IJ!lltJR,Heral(H.eader ' ·• WEl!l.l\\l!iday(,!an~~ry 7; 1998 3'wlmg, D-Middlesboro, said m an mter- -~'etu1e:, 0··-i'. · ,,; ,<.a,,fjf-\t.-,';-mocrat ·· have been openly critical of Patton, say- view. r~J~)iif,f'Qr eri?;J'w~lr'Miiitttckli/fchildre; ing he hasn't looked out for his home re- ~ederal changes in the _welfare_ sys- "',W:9!;1llinior:'.E~Keilti{tlflt/'~' Stuinbo'' gion. . . tern intended _to get peopl~ mto tram(ng ¾otfjJJ:\l,~.--·,, s~'tef~g;t0'i'P,•t;fu~;fllit',j,ro,_;, The fiercest d1V1de came more than a programs '!r Jobs are hitting the region :~!w-:-makmJtsla~'.gciverHMel~t'\S ";effi:'I year ago when Patton ~uccessfully hard, he said. 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"'11~@ ~.3 oo-3.., s:,g,.... cii-c.~ Men O ~ w--i re ~ gJ ., 0.. -· ct n, "' n, :, "' i < 'C " C' 'i' (!) g;~w~ !::1 0., ~ a.. i::. a.. ::::r'()'q M- td ::I ("p O 3 (t) 3 -;ii •oc~s s~-•o~ ro=>=-,,,on.,. ~g•n~ "'<~§~~s"'q~. ~•c"'.,-3 ~ ('Do oo·~= ui~~::;('D r=g (1) ct) ::;·=e!.~ ~ ="< i' ~ ~ c5 'g ...,. Cb .-,. '< g ::S Ef Pl ti> ~q-~ 2. ::S ::S ::;:~ as,~-tn ~cit 7 ::r: ("D ctl "<« ~ g B-:e: 8 ~ - n g · n, = o ct1 o l'tl :I'< CD= ::i 0t:t C" <:: Spending :blueprint to be u,nveiled later I,,,&~ ~~ ontb ~ B,SuMIIWAMD " We don't want to appear •Kentucky lawmak8rs. ...., INDEPENDENT FRANKFORT BUREAU hoggish, but that's where the noted that students became ill· needs a e," he said. "That's because of problems at -FRANKFORT - The Ash y;,tiere the um.are roads are." Hitchins Elementary JQ'IO oth, land area and Eastern Ken HJ>w many of the projects ers point to dilapidated build tucky may see a l'.erita~ bo: .al'€ funded once the legislature ings in t:11.eir dJstrica. Patton nanza when Gov.~ Jtattori' finishes tinkering with the ex is ex»ected. to ill~__, the unveils. his budget later this ecutive' budget probably won't School Facilitie&- Co~on, month, •tth 7112f111• ~ be known until near the end of Fund with. money ~ked for the worst probl to be ~ b ---.elool the session. But Eastern Ken eonstru'Mton;--:jo'lfr d)ttrses, tuckians hold key positions in · >Paramount ~ . Adkins said $2 lllil}ion to $2.5 camwounds, roads, prisons state government, from the governor on down. Sen. Benny million is expectec} al· or other Ray Bailey, D-Hindman, chair-& located ' to the ~ wllidl =.lwra W$S made the power:ful Senate Budget particnldl/~ ~ -'-1ilitlflilil. Co¥ittee, where Sens. Char tive• in recognition ~• a major a seat that a goYernor hasn't local fund-raising effbit. lie Borders, R-Russell1 Glenn Freeman:' D-Cumberland, and ► Golf courses.~ Adkins said ln!M~~ Gary Johnson, D-Pikeville, constructiu or.c~, at Yatesville and lakes -ectmdrnic. also sit. In the House. Adkins OraHJri :a/;~1hik· and ·Rep. John Will Stacy, D would promote to~-·and conditions ·are good, the state encourage private ~ent, has a surplus, interest rates West Liberty, chair budget re view subcommittees. Rep. Hu possibly in lodges. are low and Kentucky's bond bert Collins. D-Wittensville. ► J ohnson Cou cam1r ating is e~cellmt. · chairs the Transportation ground and beach at P ts· Adkills ~lrers sail ·tl)ey Committee, Rep. Herbie De• ville Lake.: cmw · expe to see fttndlttg tbr the , skins, D-Pikeville, chairS' the are pushing for project, Para111.0W\4 ~•, Center iJi . Natural Resources and Envi while Blevins and Stacy . are Ashland; JtMlole l9lf c:olirses ronmental Protection Commit hoping that a smaller amount at ~vtlle ,ind Grayson tee,..AAd. Rep. Greg Stumbo, D will be available to beain Jake. lakes, a campground a nd Prestons6urg, is majority lead front development hi Morgan at,. Pai,navfik_ er. County. IJeach Lake in Patton's strained relation Joh?lwn County and possibly a ► Mo rehead Stale 1Iruver ship with some members of sity. A $14 million Breckin primitive recreation site in . the Eastern Kentucky delega ridge Hall renovation is' the,. Morgan County; extensive ren~ tion, as well as polls showing top construction project, but >vatiQn ef the &lliott Qo,nty his popularity in that part of MSU also will benefit from Coorthopse; ~ '...., ll the state at ifs lowest. .might some $10 million expected to >f Breckinr,id%)1 ~ serve to influence the,governor be allocated to regional univer ~ead State University; a new as he prepares his last budget. sities for enhanced programs, before his 1999 nH?lection ef ljii~~t~,I Adkins sai,d. Stacy is ,eushing >ranc at . · ,; ·1.80£ fort, several lawmakers for $4 'million to $5 fnil&n for >rison beds, ~Y at separate agreed. West Liberty's MSU campus, ?risons in EIMolf and KnMt But Adkins said he expected where more than 4(»·studebts that legislative delegations ties; w •~J'Ultt.d currently are meeting in a ren >rojects. from all over the state W\)uld ovated bowling ajley. be. pleased with the bu(lget. ~ .1 ►Elliott County CotirthQuse. Still under considerati® -ar~ "I think he's trying to be Adk.inS ,said $2.S miWoh ln1ds fo~ such"- 'things ·as the fair fo the whole state," Ad a ren tentucky Highlands Museum kins said. ovation ls badly needed and n Ashland, a ballpark in Flat Some of the projects are ex will include a new, tw6, story, voods and a sewer study for pected to be funded with cash 7,000-square-foot addition. ireenup County. Ashland also available because of an anti 1~pears to be in. the running cipated- urplus, while others or one of four juvenile treat w!lltbe boni:led or have funding nent c nters4 altho~ the lo all~ted from special funds. :ations may not be announced Here is a closer look at SE>me mmediately. of the programs and proj_ects "It's a good step for Eastern expected to be included in the· tentucky," said• Senate Presi two-year spending plap: lent Pro Tern Walter Blevins, ► S chool constructioll and )-West Libe'rty, who added renovation. -This is at the top hat he expects to see· other of the list for most Eastern ~ for the area once the Midget is in the hands of the ,eneral Assembly. TIE COURIER-JOURNAL • SUNDAY, JANUARY 11, 18 Lawmakers wary of using r boitds to aid college researc~ I 1 By MICHAEL JiNNINGS cil in Novem " Do we want to commit the ~te The Courier.Journal ber, would in to a 20-year pattern that's not been 1998 crease incentive tried before?" he wondered. · f · State Rep. Robert Damron thinks funding for the Other skeptics include Councill on there might be a good reason that no state's two re Postsecondary F.ducation , meml,er other state bas issued bonds to buy search universi Walter Baker, a former legislator and brainpower for its research universi- ties from the state ~upreme Court justice. • ! ties. • c& turrent $6 mil- "I just do not see the fiscal se9si Perhaps it's a bad idea, said Dam .t. ,.,..,.,,.mblv lion a year to bility of what's oroposed, . Baker ron, a Democrat from Nicholasville -~----"- $16 million. The said. " And I hope I'm~:• • and head qf a legislative committee incentive ~ I Baker said issuing bonds to,under that monitors state bonding. for Kentucky's write endowments, and then ~ The Kentucky Council on Postse six regional universities would grow state money to pay off the debt, condary Education thinks enough of from $6 million a year to $7 million. "seems a roundabout way that ~lti the concept to ask the l~slature to The state would issue $100 million mately would be more costly t9an put Sll million annually mto it - a in revenue bonds. for the University just a straight-out appropriation', to commitment that would have to con of Kentucky and University of Louis endow academic chairs. 1 tinue for each of the next 20 years. ville and SfO million for the regional That's true, said Ramsey, but dilly Gov. · Paul Patton is likely to put schools. All the new incentive money in the very long term. It would. t!ke the council's request before the legis would be used to repay to debt. 19 yea'rs of annual contribution$ of lature. "Right now, our intent is to To repay the borrowed money and SlO million into endowments to sup make sure that that's in the budget," the interest on it, the legislature port more professorships than issu- state budget director James Ramsey would have to appropriate about S11 ing bonds for brains. •' said last week. million a year for the next two dec But Ramsey said using tbe same The idea is novel: B<'rrow $110 mil ades. $10 million annually to par off bopds lion by selling bonds on Wall Street, The universities would raise pri would allow UK and U of to set 'Up, match that amount with money vate money to match the amounts between them, 48 endowed ·chjirs raised privately, and use the money raised by the bonds. If all works as right away, producing a -draml)tic to shop for the best and brightest planned, the state's investment of $11 jump-start toward research ex!el- professors and scientists in the na million a year would quickly yield lence. i tion. $220 million in university endow Under Baker's preferred a\,proach, ments. he said, they would slowly fll8Ch that The proposal was aired before If U of L got $100 million and "fo total by adding a few chairs e~ch Damron's capital projects and bond cused it in three or four areas, then year. oversight committee Dec. 16. Judging we'd be doing more research than "One could perhaps a~e that, from Oamron's description of the re most major centers in the country," even in the long term, thlS is not ception it got, it might not survive said Greenberg, a Jewish Hospital more expensive, if you build in _the legislative scrutiny. Healthcare Services executive. The calculation of the benefits of having " It wasn't a very enthusiastic en benefits, he added, would spread these people sooner rather than-lat- dorsement of that proposal at all," through the local economy. er," Ramsey said. • said Damron. The novefty of the idea, U of L President John Shumaker Retiring bonds that support endow the amount of money involved and a and UK President Charles Wething ments would probably be more ex legislative bias agamst bonded in ton heartily endorse the idea. Eastern pensive than paying off bonds used debtedness all weigh against it, he Kentucky University President Hanly to build roads or buildings. • said. Funderburk likes it too, and said he The interest rate paid to inveiltors Council memberRonald Greenberg doesn't believe regional schools like on the brain bonds likely would be of Louisville came up with the bonds his would be shortchanged. higher than typical government for-brains idea. He, Ramsey and oth Joseph Marks of the Southern Re bonds because any earrungs the in er advocates. Ne it as a way to quick• gional F.ducation Board and Dennis vestors make probably would. be ly propel the Univeaity of Kentucky Jones of the National Center for taxed by the federal govemment,.of- and University of Loulsville toward Higher Education Management Sys ficials say. • prominence and tum the schools into tems said they know of no other state That's because the borrowed mon economic engfms. - that has attempted a bonds-for-brains ey would be held in endowments Governments usually use bonds to approach. Jones said he sees merit in rather than spent quickly, as is the pay for building roads, offices, pris it. case with most government bonds.. ons and other expensive projects that "I mean, the name of the game is And, for the universities, ther~•s a are needed sooner than they can be how do you create enoush capital to vital side benefit to the bond propos paid for. The council wants to use buy an asset," Jones said. "And it's al: the concept instead to set up endow certainly worthwhile to think about Once the bonds are issued .the ments to lure top professors, even assets other than (buildings and state is committed to repaying them entire research institutes, to Ken land) these days." over the next two decades. Year-to tucky. The fact that the idea has never year regular appropriations cou_~ be The plan, u approved by the coun- been tried gives Damron pause. at the whlm of polittcs. Lexington Herald-Leader THE COURIER'10t.JRNAL • SUNDAY, JANUARY 11, 1998 Sunday, January 11, 1998 Morehead cheerleaders win competition . Morehead cheerleaders take top honors: MOREHEAD, Ky. - Morehead State Unlversity_'s <:<>:~ varsity Morehead State University's co-ed varsity cheerlead cheerleaders and the all-girl ~heer squad wo~ their d1vts1ons at a ~rs-and the all-girl.cheer squad won top honors in national cheerleading comoetition, the schQOI said yesterday. their division at the national cheerleading competi The co-ed squad claimed the Division ~ title for the eighth cons~ tion, the school said yesterday. The co-ed squad tive year Friday night at the 1998 National College Cheerlea~ing Championships at MGM Studios in Orlando, Fla., tne school_said . ft claimed the title in Division I for the eighth consecu was the ni~th overall national title for the co-ed squad, which a)so tive year Fx,-iday night at the 1998 National College won in 1988. The all-~! squad won its first natio!'3l title after placing Cheerleading Championships at MGM Studios in second in the competltion last year, the school said. Orlando, Fla., tht school said. It was the ninth over 'he Daily Independent, Ashland, r..entuck)', Sunday, January 11, 1998 all national title for the co-ed squad, which also woo in 1988. MSU chee leaders THE COURIER-JOURNAL• MONDAY, JANUARY 12, 1998 win national titles MOREHEAD (AP) - More UK cheerleaders win national contest head State University's co-ed LEXINGTON, Ky. - The University of Kentucky cheerleading squad won its fourth straight championship at a national cheerlead varsity cheerleaders and the ing com~tition in Florida. t6p all-girl cheer squad won The UK cheerleaders won the Division I-A championship, beating honors in their divl1.lon at the out two other Southeastern Conference schools Saturday night in national cheerleadinl competi Orlando. It's UK's eighth overall national title. tion the school said Saturday• The University of Alabama finished second, followed by the Uni The c T,HE COURIER-JOURNAL• MONDAY, JANUARY 12, 1998 Poll: Few college freshmen interested in politics By ROBERT GREENE said they frequently discuss politics, After all, less than half the voters the highest in a decade. A!lsocleted Press down from 30 percent in 1968. cast ballots in the 1996 presidential UC!A freshman Corinne LeTour Freshmen and some activists point election, the lowest since 1924. neau, 18, has another view. She says WASHINGTON - Three decades to several reasons: a sense of power Cynicism and a lack of younger the campus brings together people after the Vietnam War, the civil lessness, a lack of burning issues, a politicians have alienated many as with different backgrounds and cul rights struggle and free-speech dis, desire to shun political labels or even well. And many don't like political pi tures, requiring extreme sensitivity, pules brought turmoil to college cam a relucten'ce to antagonize acquaint geonholes. and that may be why people hold puses, a record low number of col ances in a new social setting. "I think sometimes people are down their discussions. Politics "is a lege freshmen show inuch interest in "At the age I am now, it doesn't afraid of the label," said Matt Pruitt, touchy subject,'' she said. "You don't po11tics, according to a survey re- seem that important," said Jessica 21, a junior end spokesmen for the want to touch on someone's nerves leased yesterday. · Grace Evans, 18, a freshmen at the College Republicans at the University when you've just met these people." The annual freshman survey by the University of Nebraska. "I don't of Washington in Seattle. "It's either Students also are cut off from their University of California at Los Angel think our opinion matters in the the liberaf Democratic Party or the usual sources of information. "You es for the Washington-based Ameri grand scale of things." conservative Republican Party, and are isolated from a lot more news can Council on Education found just Dana Gaylin Mathes, a 21-year-old students aren't really interested in media," she said. "You're not going 27 percent believe that keeping up senior. and president of the Cal one or the other," .,. home clicking on the TV by yourself WIiii political affairs Is an Important Berkeley Democrats, said: "What The poll of more than 250,000 stu as much. You're not by yourself es life goal, less than half the percent gets people Involved in politics Is the dents found 55 percent identifying much to just sit end concentrate on age recorded In 1966. Just 14 percent bad things." themselves as middle-of-the-road - what occurred." The Daily Independent, Ashland, Kentucky, Sunday, JanuaJY 11, 1998 .. Sue Bennett's.failure- .scares small colleges.~ the, last ,private two-ye,ar: ,col Cheek, who took over as;,thJ ·totigh stanGiards won't.be relaxed~ officia:l'·says lege in 'the state .,..· will go :,university's president· in July, four-year. It will add four new stands behind Sue Bennett's lion to the IRS and its own en- Four other Southern colleges Huston can point to 68 years buildings_, inclµding a student 1 Ely STACY MORFORD dowment at the time its ac- in the past decade have lost ac of successful St. Catharine center and applied sciences '.~~;.;1; u!~~;;ln~~c~~d~i; tul THE ASSOCIATED PRESS creditation was revoked. its Ii- creditation and six are on pro- graduates, but Sue Bennett building, and the campus will ition to an affordable levei - brary was · void of the up-to- bation, and all but two of them proved even a century of his be completely wired with In to the I point Pell grants and l LONDON - The closure of date journals and technology . have fewer than 4,000 students.' tory makes little difference in · ternet service. state gr,in ts could L'Over · th_eJ Sue Bennett College· six deemed necessary for a mod- · The standards might be• judging modern education. All this while still assisting cost for our studentst CheeK 1nonths after it lost its ac- ern educatiol), and nothing tougher for ·small 'colleges to To keep itself from .becoming as many students as possible said'. 1 creditation has been nervously seemed to be changing. meet, but they ,won't be re, the., next accreditation casu with financlal aid and scholar- A full 26 percent of Sue Ben'' ~yed by small rural colleges as' Operating in the red and re- !axed, Rogers §aid. The agency, alty, St. Catharine is, embark ships. . nett•s budget went to scholarJ an indicator of bad things to lying on loans until student is begiltnini(.to revise its re ing on an ambitious expansion Ten percent of .St. Catha ships and aid. SAC consultants' come. · •, ·. aitf and tuition checks arrived quirements for the first time of Its program, facilities, arid rine's budget goes to student said the school would have td j Most of Sue Bennetfs 300 each seinester was the only in 15 years to tighten re perhaps ·most important in the aid, and about 85 percent of its cut it by more than half and • ~ti1dents came from the. sur- way the college could serve its quirements an~ place more realm of accreditation, its en students· receive assistance, tllen raise an endowment tel rounding Appalachian inou11- community, Cheek said. But emphasis on technology. dowment. Huston said. get by. tains and for many, the Lon- according to Rogers, that ere- Sue Bennett's closing as well -To pay for it, the school that In the end, it was student as• Huston is hoping St. CathaJ don schoors location made it ated an instability that threat- as .the. potentlat for tougher sistance that caught Sue Ben rine's 1998 fund-raising caml' their only option. en'ed education. and more costly standards has never raised more than $250,000 in a single year is nett in the chronic cycle of paign soon will be able to buy ' That option died when the "Defining quality of instruc- worries presidents of other counting on alumni. busi debt that led to its loss of ac whatever the accreditil]g agen~ college closed Nov. 26. , tion is like defining happiness. small rural colleges. creditation. Without ac "It would take an· ignorant Yim can't do it,"" Rogers said. William D. Huston is among nesses and supporters to dig cy deems necessary. .', 1noron to say education in "What we can do is look at the them, and he is taking no deep and create a $12 m !Ilion creditation, the federal govern That judgment day is draw-.• Eastern Kentucky is improved indicators. Does. the school chances. His St. Catharine Col building and .endowment fund ,ment pulled its student aid, ing near. The accreditation reJ without Sue Bennett," school have sufficient resources? Is lege in Washington County has by next Christmas. the state suspended its license view team arrives at St. Catha president James Cheek said. its faculty well trained? How an enrollment of only about 50 Huston has big plans for the to confer degrees, and Sue rine during Holy Week and ; But the agency that weighed do its graduates perform in students more than Sue Ben tiny school. St. Catharine Bennett was forced to close. leaves on Good Friday. ~ Sue Bennetrs value to the pub- , grad school or the business nett, and like Sue Bennett, it !'ic and found it la.'ckin/l wortd? . has religiously sacrificed insti enough to revoke accreditation · . "Individually, the answers tutional wealth for student llolds a different philosophy on· ,won't tell you what. quality .i~, scholarships. , . ijigher education: survival of:°-;: but. you p,ut them together and·:. · "We're not a rich school, but \}1e fittest. ,-,;,.', i_',-",lyoti:can get a.fairly gocid read- , we're not mired in debt," Hus ;, Financially, Sue ':Senneif;,(,jng:,of the quality of that insti- . .tori, said. "We're like most mid- ~asn't fit at all, said/·Jani&s<::rutitin." . ' . I :: die, class families. Toward the ~ogers, pr~si_d«;nt of tlie-;$~u#)-· ;,'- ' Tile s_tiin~ards ':~hat led. to ' e_rid of the sii'11e~ter, it gets a ~rn Associat10n of College Ac- Sue Bennetts 'closmg are the httle lean. You hope the fur creditation. It was chronically same for all colleges and uni- nace doesn't blow or the car In debt. owing 1iearly $2 mil' versities in the SAC"s region. doesn't break down." Lexington Heralo-t.,~r Monday, January 12, 1 8 . • • were two assistant professors, the newest people in the department, and r ve al ways felt he was my could prompt mimg on affmnative action friend," she said. Makoba, who is in Africa dur for the sociology department job ing a school break, could n?t be __,w..-ro N BUREAU Cl ' ... u created when Makoba was hired. reached for comment. . re- , • p - Yvette Farmer se l'1 of bias bastd on race or sex. But R,11 Makoba received more money Farmer's c:.uit ,1rru!-ed the um mentbet'! fee peculiar whenever she ~ in state and federal courts than she did. His starting salary - versity of violating t~ o. fe?eral discussed equality in t~e ~ iology class- Kf-t divided over whether federal $35,000 a year wi th an incr~ase to laws: Title VII of the C1v1l Rights es she taught at the U111 vers1ty of Neva~a. Today's topic: ·efvil rights laws perf!1it an empl~y- $40,000 after he completed his doc- Art, which bars employers from "l was talking about how education er with a predommantly white toral dissertation exceeded the discrin11nating against anyone be ;. should get you on an even playing fiel~," 7 .work force - but no record of past advertised ceiling. cause of race, and the Equal Pay Farmer said. "and here I was, standing m Racial hiring pre.,erences - I 1 : State of the Commonwealth new financial-aid initiative ought to ...., , en C ~ QI! , &.. tii , -'"CU) Cl) • (ti r.., • - , • C c,S Q,) t1D • 00 • u, • • • C: m • • .._, a., i.. Ul CU e .cf ...J '..: "'O >. 0 bD M•"'~------:~ ~~---~.a -2- •- :.S..g-; ~-•;.p --s.rJ.c;8, t..-~ • .. ; i: .9•~ e~s l1- - U::. ~ :9• -~ 6 ~ -8• :g- t-e a-1:• --~0 -a- • ~ ~ ~ (n .5 :address that a "major new initia stop well short of the one proposal ,1_W'.\;, -::.•c:~...... -ao. '"C >1-,"'UJ- e]eO.corn.,~UJ-= g-g....,6')5080=.°(50~~•,-t ..... o~~ I.cc: f~gJ:o .. ~ CG.I cuasg} ••I"'\ CUOQ.)_,•-•a • o_e.-t:,a.,: 0 1-o ..,::,=a.Jo i::_. -c: ..., e-Q,) cn.C: ..- 0 (ti ~ ::::> Cl et1E3 •'""QJa> :tive" to help students and parents on the table at the moment That's 8 :pay for post-secondary education the seriously flawed plan being ~~ i3 =~~ ~ Ul ~ fo·a_i•l;i: -g~.s; ~~~~@ ~; ~~:9~! i~ S ~ frgt fA~ ~ ! E !° ~ t 8.c ~ [~__:g t§.~'o ~ g~ , , ,, -c,_ • cu- a,::, ...., • ...., wo '"CQ) i;:;; cn_ Q,). cn5 Q.l....,b.Q ...., en u:i...,.,tti 1,.., •- 0 :"will be the litmus test of our com pushed by state Sens. Tim Shaugh f;~;.l,_.j ~ ~§~~]gj ~~-~,s~~s ~]·1(tll ~~'o~-=~ Et~-~~-~~f-s,g-a;.s~-i:95E ~-S:gi~ gi~ci::l~]=~~~;i ;mitment to a new future for Ken nessy and David Karem. ~/ ~ .. >C.9·a-e;u .. "'-!-- ~,23~- c::, c: ..t!J -"Oo,...:ioua1 a.:.'~ci>c:ci::IC::::,~"Obl) -::s""'ci> -~"OQ.), ... rr,08 11:1 .. -s B~ ~ 5~~~:3! t.E i·~-;-s:j] ~ ~ ~ ~~]-s ~~ ~ ;9 !tucky." The bill these two are sponsor =r~·: = -· m~ e8 ·;•~,~·~!a 1 s~ t;f ·[s~: ~i ~-[ -s-s~ s~at> .. : , Mind you, we're not knocking ing would use all the state's lottery ~Q.) ~•U==-~~ 0:g ,u C: _g.!!3 tu ~"o tlJ • ~Q.) :i i3 ci::I '•-'f'. QJ ~a]~ :-a~ :~..C: 6 ~I~ ~ e_g 8::J ~ g.s ... 8J~g ~ so~~~ a~:€ g-s a :till! notion of providing more finan revenue - currently running at ~'.; "'C' ·9 ~-g8 f!=Q.)•i :S .!a~:~~ E~ ~ ~-.:~ ;!-s ..~]~ ~: .. -: S ..rn ~-;2.~ e~:2::>]"-g~ c:: "8~,S i~·§ :t S:g ~-~ ~z., ~ ~ ! ~ ~ ® 1u B ., " a., ci::, a., 0 Q). ::,. o ..... = C ... 0 =rn_. a., - ® ..... o- .. c:: ._rn - -bD icial aid to kids who want more than about $150 million a year, or about ea'; 'C th Q) " "'u N"''g O t< ~ .c 8"' Q) .c ~ 'll-~::, "'2 bD e]-S 23 u ~ .e ~ _g :{g .d ~ ffi ci::I e ID ~- ~ E: "5 ~ ~ ::S ~ t; ·- ~ 0 ·s :;3 ~ "O O 8! ~ 2 .c:: s ;a high school diploma. A good 3 percent of the state's total General ' - ~... ,. rJ «s E o "!?cn2-e._:: >..c ~ 8 ~ ...,--i::- o:;tl"S E P..- p,.c: cu «s>< ci::1..., • t;-~ ...,:gas ... k; Q) a.,_._s;!id c.·: . :?~exlngton Herald-tea\jlif ·•J~!)llday, January 13;.;1998 ;:Slow pitch to :: "We try to-keep.basketball out -'·'•,~! i\:as'imP,(essegt,Vith the way of colleges Associated Press 'Where's this money going to come from?'" WASHINGTON - President Clin There are questions about the size becomes ton will seek billions of dollars to of future budget surpluses and how hire tens of thousands of teachers much will money, if any, might be and build or repair schools, with a available from a proposed settlement focus on poor and rural areas. with the tobacco industry over smok official The school construction proposal ing related health-care costs. would cost at least $5 billion and the Congressional Republicans and teacher proposal around $7 billion, Democrats already started taking up although the numbers aren't firm. the issue late last year with legisla Board gets control of Clinton also will request at least $200 tive proposals. million to boost spending for bilin In a National Press Club speech 13 schools tied to UK gual education. education aid for mi last month, Sen. Edward Kennedy, D grant children and colleges with high Mass., propose\! recruiting 100,000 enrollments of Hispanic students. new teachers a year for IO years. A By Holly E. Stepp The numbers for programs over the bill offered last week by Rep. Bill HERALD-LEADER EDUCATION WRITER next five years come from congres Paxon, R-N.Y., calls for hiring A major portion of Gov. Paul sional and administration sources. 100,000 new teachers over five years. Patton's sweeping post-secondary Congressional Republicans, while However, it would pay the $8 billion education reform act has been irnple· recognizing the need for new teach cost by taking money from Clinton's mentc'CI. At least on paper. ers because of growing enrollments, prized Americorps, an education pro are alreadv concerned about the cost. The Kentuckv Community and gram known as Goals 2000 and the An Education Department budget National Endowment for the Arts. Technical College System Board oi document obtained by The Associat Regents voted yesterday to take over Paxon's bill also calls for denying ed Press shows nearly 30 programs teachers a chance at tenure, some• the management of 13 of the state's that would get increases as part of thing teacher unions would oppose. conimunitv colleges previously tied the administration plan to raise aca demic achievement. Trying to keep a 1996 campaign 10 the University of Kentucky. promise, the administration will pro "This is quite a list," said Jay Dis pose to spend at least $5 billion on The transfer became official yes· key, spokesman for the House Edu terday at a meet- school repair and construction. A cation and Workforce Committee. proposal last year to spend that much ing of the KCTCS "How are they going to pay for it? to stimulate S20 billion worth of con Board of Regents And how are they going to fight for struction over two years was shelved m Kentucky The it? ... You will see us join with him during balanced-budget talks, anger Tech's Ashland merger of on some but also have a message of. ing many urban Democrats. campus. the The merger communi of the community colleges with the ty coUeges with the technical schools The Daily Independent. Ashland. Kentucky, Tuesday, January 13, 1998 will be completed technical in July when the schools Kentucky Tech will be Patton gives endorsement institutions are transferred to completed KCTCS from the in July. to scholarship program state Cabinet of FRANKFORT (AP) - The student's grade point average Workforce Devel- idea could be called, "Get an at the end of each academic opment. A, we'll pay your way." year. Scores on the American Some shake-ups in the systems·. Sen. Tim Shaughnessy, with College Test (ACT) or the top management were also an· support of Gov. Paul Patton. Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) nounced. wants to provide college schol also would be used. Some ad arships to Kentucky high ditional weight may be given Tonv Newberry, who served as school students with good to students who get good vice chancellor for academic affairs grades. not based on need. grades in courses identified in fur the UK community college sys tem. was named interim chancellor But Patton told the Council a pre-college curriculum or ad on Postsecondary Education vanced placement exams. of the svstem. Newberry replaces on Monday he first wants to Under the plan, high school Ben Carr: who resigned as UK com provide enough money for the students would receive a schol munity college system chancellor. _ state's two scholarship pro arship covering an eighth of Carr will become UK President grams that are based on ability their four-year college tuition Charles Wethington's assistant for to pay. That will mean about for each year in high school administrative affairs. Carr had been $14 million more per year. they have a B average. They chancellor of the UK community col 'Tm totally committed to the would earn a scholarship cov lege system since \991. The new po needs-bas~d first," Patton said. ering one-fourth of their four sition does not involve a salary Shaughnessy, a Louisville year tuition for each year in change. Democrat, wants to earmark high school they have an A av This position will r~turn _him Wa: the proceeds of the Kentucky erage. So students who earn an close working relat1onsh1p with Lottery for the academic schol A average in each year of high Wethington, whom he worked for arship plan, which would be school would get a full tuition when Wethington was chancellor of phased in. Last year. the lot scholarship. the community college system in the_ tery raised $151 million for the The scholarships would be 1980s. General Fund. about 3 percent available to attend any public of the total. higher education institution Jack Moreland, former interim Shaughnessy said the for and private colleges and uni president for Northe!'!' ~entucky mula could take into account a versities. University, was named mteru:n c~an cellor of the Techniqtl lnst1tut1ons Branch of the new system. Moreland was hired in July to oversee the day-_ to-day operations of KCTCS. Neither position will be filled per manently until a president is named_ to oversee KCTCS in the sp1ing. 0 I ___;_7 Thu,;day. January 15. 1998 New assignment perfect fit and junior high kids through high school." for Fick This spring, the junior varsity baseball team will be coached by Fick. who calls himself "one of the !-'featest fungo hitters of all time." Fick also plans to return this !"lERALD·lEADER STAFF WRITER :-:ummer to the Cincinnati Astros. a baseball team that competes in an He spends his t wer ..w league. weekday morn Plagued by stomach problems in ings counseling his last \'ear at Morehead. Fick said physically and his health has improved. sexuallv abused "I looked like Babe Ruth run children. "The ning around the bases last sum most important mer," said Fick. the Astros' first· job I've ever baseman. "l want to get my arm in had," he said. "Not even close." shape to pitch again.'' He spends the early afternoon teaching freshman English at the high school. then heads to the "Plav Pen" to coach the Indian Val lev South varsitv basketball team . . Indian Vallev South is a 450- student. Division Ill high school in Gnadenhutten. Ohio. an Eastern Ohio community of 2,000 people fewer than three hours from Cincin nati. It is where Dick Fick landed THE COURIER-JOURNAL' • THURSDAY, JANUARY 15, 1998 after his coaching contract at Morehead State was not renewed _A after last season. Fick was on the Yerge of ac · 1998 Kentucky General Assembly_ cepting a scouting job with an NBA team last summer. "[ was at an Arthritis Founda tion event in Cincinnati with Bob by Huggins (the University of Cincinnati coach and an Indian Budget offers· Vallev South alumnus)," Fick said. "Bobbv asked me, 'What do vou want to do?' I said, 'Teach and coach.' He said, 'I'll call you to firefighters and morrow.' .. Fick wound up talking with Superintendent Bob Fogler and Athletic Director Don Spine!!. "I took the job sight unseen. police incentives and thev did the same," said Fick. who wa"s spending time in More head and Cincinnati, where his Extra-training pay of basic trainin~ and 40 more hours annually to quahfy for the extra pay. daughter lives. Now. Fick and his would be raised, Grants to volunteer fire depart wife. April. reside in Dover, a few ments, which also come from the miles up Interstate 77 from available to more fund, would be increased from the Gnadenhutten. current $5,000 annually to $6,500 and "Thcv want me to trv and get $7,500 in the next two budget years. the basketball program.back up." By MARK R. CHELLGREN Volunteer firefighters are not eligible Associated Press for the individual training stipend. Fick said. "Charlie had it at the State police officers would each championship level." Charlie FRANKFORT, Ky. - A state salary get a $1,000 raise, in addition to the 5 Huggins. Bob's father. won state supplement for pohce and firefighters percent salary increase for all state championships there before retiring who complete training programs employees, in the coming year and a several years ago. would be increased and would gp to $250 raise in the second year. Indiana .Valley South is 3-7 and more people under Gov. Paul Pat State police Commissioner Gary ton's proposed budget. Rose said that would make I.he agen competing in the East Central Ohio Patton said yesterday that he will cy more competitive; its starting sala League. "We're the smallest school also propose an additional pay raise ries lag behmd 22 city and county in that league," Fick said. "When for Kentucky State Police and an en police departments in Kentucky. we get in the tournament, we'll hanced retirement program for mo Patton said his budget will also in play schools our size." tor-vehicle enforcement officers. clude a new $20 million radio system It has been two decades since Police and paid firefighters who for the state police, an automatic fin complete a set training program now gerprint-identification system for Fick has coached in high school. are eligible for a $2,500 payment most jails in Kentucky and 400 new He was a college assistant before each year from a fund that gets mon state police cars. he became head coach at Morehead ey from a 1.5 percent premium on State police dispatchers and arson in 1991. His record was 64-101 in property- and casualty-insurance pre investigators would get smaller six years. miums. Patton said he will propose raises. "When you're at the college an increase in the payment to $2,750 Motor-vehicle enforcement offi in the coming fiscal year and $3,000 cers, who have some general law•en• level, you take young men and in fiscal year 2000. forcement authority on Kentucky make them into men," he said. "In Patton also wants to make sheriffs highways, would be eligible for re high school you take boys and and their deputies, plus university tirement after 20 years of service, make them into young men. I run police, eligible for the stipend. rather than the standard 27 years. the whole scope from elementary Officers must complete 400 hours There are 170 motor-vehicle officers. ' M~":U Clip .-:~ 1',,ee /L. MSU /\,HIVES INSTITUTIONAL RELATION~ sa;:gte of recent articles of interest to Morehead State University REHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY UPO BOX 1100 MOREHEAD, KY 40351-1689 606-783-2030 THE COURIER-JOURNAL • TUESDAY, JANUARY 20, 1998 Patton will outline his budget tonight Higher education last year. He also has indicated he'll troubled youths, and health insur fully fund existing student-aid pro ance for uninsured poor children. and juvenile justice grams based on financial need and Patton's budget is certain to be will start funding a major new pro heavy with bricks and mortar. He'll among key concerns gram for college scholarships based ask that surplus revenue be partly on academic merit. spent on "community development" In news conferences over the past proJects across the state, and he will By TOM LOFTUS two weeks, Patton has said the budg seek approval for major new borrow The Courier-Journal et will call for significant increases m ing to fmance construction of roads, spending on juvenile justice, police schools, university buildings and oth FRANKFORT, Ky, - Gov. Paul salaries, school safety, programs ior er state needs. Patton today will release a proposed state budget for the next two years sure to call for big boosts in funding THE COURIER-JOURNAL • TUESDAY, JANUARY 20, 1998 for postsecondary education, juvenile Justice and construct10n projects. Patton will outline his budget in a i p.m. speech to a joint session of the 1998 Kentucky General Assembly__ _ Generai Assembly in the House chamber. The speech will be tele vised live on Kentucky Educational Television. The budget amounts to the most significant comprehensive policy Teacher says politics statement of Patton's 1995-1999 term of office. And he hopes it will solidify a record that will enable him to be come the first Kentucky governor in blocked leave modern history to win election to a second, consecutive term. Two years ago, Patton had to cope ,vith unforeseen state fiscal problems UK official rejected and craft a budget within two months of taking office. He was forced to request by woman Barbara Ashley propose what he called a "continu ation" budget with few initiatives. intending to lobby had planned to Since then, strong state and na spend the spring tional economies have churned healthy growth in state revenue. And Bv CHARLES WOLFE semester lobbying Patton will show today he has no Associated Press shortage of ideas for how that money the General would be~t be spent to help the state FRANKFORT, Ky. - A teacher at achieve his long-range goal of bring Jefferson Community College says Assembly on ing Kentucky's per-capita income up her request for an unpaid leave was to the national level. (The 1994 na turned down for political reasons. behalf of a union. tional per-capita income was $22,047 The teacher, Barbara Ashley, had while Kentucky's stood at $17,721: planned to spend the spring semester according to the 1997 Deskbook of in Frankfort, lobbying the General Economic Statistics produced by the Assembly on behalf of a union - the a reason. "They know the reason," state Economic Development Cabi Kentucky Community College Faculty she said. net.) Alliance. Ben W. Carr, who was UK chancel Patton will offer his idea for spend Instead, she is.still teaching soci lor for community colleges, disap ology and direcnng a professional proved it, also without stating a rea ing some $30 billion in anticipated son. A UK regulation says only that a state and federal dollars during the development program for faculty. two:year period that begins July I. She and Phil Flynn, an alliance mem leave "may be given." It sets no cri Leg1slat1ve committees will begin ber from Owensboro Community Col teria. But Carr said in a telephone in hearings on the proposal later this lege, each manage to make it to terview that Ashley's request failed to week and probably not adort a final Frankfort one day a week, they said meet his personal criteria. budget until the very end o the ses yesterday. "riook for two things - a benefit sion in April. Ashley got a leave two years ago to the institution and .. , a strong en, Patton's budget will fully fund the and spent it as a lobbyist - a first dorsement from the president" of the postsecondary education reform plan for the fledgling alliance, which has community college. "If those two lawmakers adopted in special session about 400 members and is affiliated aren't there, I normally disapprove," with the American Federation of he said Teachers. "But I don't believe, at that In Ashley's case, JCC President point, they had any clue as to what I Richard Green merely transmitted was doing," she said in a telephone her request with no recommendation, intetview. Carr ,aid. He declined to comment In May, using vacation time, Ash about Ashley's union activities. ley lobbied again - for raises for Ashley used the state's open-record community college faculty - as the law to find whether Carr had ever legislature shifted 13 community col before denied a request for unpaid leges from the University of Ken leave. UK could produce none. tucky to a new system that includes Carr ,aid he has stopped some vocational-technical schools, The leave requests before they were made transfer became official last week. by letting it be known he would dis In September, Ashley submitted approve flulm. "Not everything gets another leave request, without stating to me on p<:t.oer," he said. • ._... ,.. .. 'SlVI I nt:"1 dlU·Leaaer Saturdav. January 17. 1998 Doran turns 6 lectures into book years. Restoration Movement leaders rejected ■ :tfflifi RFJITORIKG 0 This book is a tran \E\\' (ES'J'.\.\JENT creeds and denominationalism. Instead, 'Restoring New Testament CIIRISTIAI\ITY script of six lectures Do they turned to the Bible as their only au Christianity' ·---~->i--•·-•·-··--·--- ran delivered in Septem thority. The movement gave birth to the ber 1996. Doran starts Adron Doran (21st Century Christian. $9.99) Churches of Christ and to the Disciples of by describing the New Christ denomination. Some Kentuckians might know Adron Testament church. He Doran for his work as president of More -:-~-- then moves on to the Other chapters cover difficulties en head State University irom 1954 to 1977. Restoration Movement countered by the Restoration moYement IJR. AllROK Doiut-- Others might remember that Doran in the mid-lSOOs, which and the work of Restoration pioneers Bar served four terms in the Kentucky House Doran sees as a rebirth ton W. Stone at Cane Ridge, Ky., and of Representatives. from 1943 to 1951. of New Testament Christianity. Alexander Campbell at Brush Run, Ya. Perhaps less knmm is that Doran has Doran·s plain language will appeal to been a Church of Christ minister for 68 Kentucky history buffs - much Restora tion history was made in this state - and Lexington Herald-Leader to those who attend Churches of Christ or Saturday, January 17. 1998 Disciples churches. late February to meet with the re - TODD VAN CAMPEN gents and other university and 4 named his position at Henderson State, community groups. Dunn was director of governmental Gilbert led the 11-member relations at the Universitv of Cen- search committee, which was tral Arkansas as well as a -professor as finalists formed in August. It reviewed more of political science. than 80 applications and inter Fulkerson, 57, has been presi viewed eight candidates before nar dent of the State Colleges of Col for EKU rowing the list to four. orado since July 1994. The svstem He called the finalists "exem has 26,000 students on four- cam plary" and said the committee puses - Metropolitan State College presidency worked diligently to craft the list of in Denver, Adams State College in qualifications for Funderburk's re Alamosa, Mesa State College in By Holly E. Stepp placement. Grand Junction and Western State HERALDlEADER EDUCATION WRITER Funderburk has been president College in Gunnison. Three university presidents and of the 16,000-student universitv Fulkerson, a Missouri native, a lieutenant governor are finalists since 1985. The regents expect to earned his bachelor's degree from for the top spot at Eastern Ken name a president in time to assume William Jewell College in Liberty, tucky University. office July I. Mo., master's degree from Temple EKU's Board of Regents' presi Conn, 56, a native of Cleveland, University and doctorate in speech dential search committee yesterday Tenn .. who has been president at from Michigan State University. Be announced the names of possible re 1.700-student Dickinson State Uni- fore taking his job in the State Col placements for President Hanlv 1·ersity since 1994, has strong ties leges system, he was president of Funderburk. who will retire June 30. tn Kentucky. Adams State College from 1981 to The finalists are: The Berea College alumnus 1994. ■ Philip W. Conn, president of earned a master's degree and doc Kustra, 54, was elected 111inois Dickinson State University in Dick torate, both in public administra lieutenant governor as part of Re inson, N.D.; tion, from the Universitv of South publican Governor Jim Edgar's tick ■ Charles D. Dunn, president of ern California in Los Angeles. From et in 1990 after s·erving as a state Henderson State Universitv in I 977 to l 984, he was a vice presi senator and house representative. Arkadelphia, Ark.; - dent and professor at Morehead He has been chairman of the 111inois ■ William M. Fulkerson, presi State University. During the mid- Board of Higher Education since . dent of the Denver-based Colorado 1970s, he was executive director of 1996, an appointment by Edgar. State Colleges System, which over the Kentucky Legislative Research Kustra, a St. Louis native, sees four public colleges in the Cummission. earned his bachelor's degree from state: Dunn. 52, has been president of Benedictine College in Atchison, ■ Illinois Lt Governor Robert :l.600-student Henderson State Uni Kan., master's degree from South W. Kustra, chairman of the Illinois versity since 1986. He is a native of ern Illinois University, and doctor Board of Higher Education. Magnolia. Ark .. and received his ate from the University of Illinois in James Gilbert, EKU Board of b~chelor's degree from Southern Champaign-Urbana. All three de Regents chairman, said the finalists Arkansas University_ grees are in political science. Dur, will visit the Richmond campus in Dunn earned a master's degree ing his tenure in the Illinois Assem in political science from the Univer bly, he was adjunct political-science sity of North Texas and a doctorate professor at Roosevelt University in in political science from Southern Chicago, the University of Illinois 111inois University. Before taking Chicago and Northwestern Univer sity in Evanston, Ill. THE COURIER-JOURNAL~ SATURDAY, JANUARY 17, 1998 Four finalists named for EKU president RICHMOND, Ky. - Illinois Lt. Gov. Robert Kustra is among four finalists for president of Eastern Kentucky University that a search committee announced yesterday. Kustra is chairman of the Illinois Board of Higher Education at Park Ridge. · The other finalists are: . , , - . .-, -. : . ■ :Philip We!ley ,Conn, president of Dickinson (N.D.)' State Univer- sity. ~--- ···< •. · . · · · ·- ■ Charles Dunn, president of Henderson State University in Arka- delphia, Ark. · ■ William Fulkerson, president of State Colleges in Colorado. Eastem's president, Dr. Hanly Funderburk, will retire June 30. The finalists are expected to visit the campus early next month. The Herald•Oispatcn - Huntington, WV, Monday, Jan. 19, 1998 , rile Da!lv lndcocndcnt. Ashland. l\entuclw. Mondav. January 19. 1998 Another year, another national title Marshall's Congratulations to the Morehead State Eagles or Morehead State University competing for titles, the tuition co-ed varsity cheerleaders for cheerleaders often perform at • being named national cham area high schools, serving as go1ngup pions - again. both good-will ambassadors For the eighth consecutive for tile university and excel From staff and wire reports year and ninth time overall. CHARLESTON - Marshall lent recruiters. They recently Univefsity and West Virginia Uni the MSU co-ed cheering , received a prolonged stand \'ersity students will have to dig a squad claimed the top honors ing ovation after a dazzling little deeper in their pockets next fall if they want to go to school. in Division I at the National halftime performance during College Cheerleading Cham The state University System the Ashland Invitational Board of Trustees approved a pionships. In addition. the Tournament at Paul G. Blaz tuition and fee increase of nearly school's all-girl squad won $40 a semester for state under top honors in the national er High School. graduates. The board usually does It takes a lot of natural n't vote on such issues until May. competition. but university officials asked that The string of national ti ability, superb conditioning, the decision be made earlier to give tles comes as no surprise to the courage to be thrown parents and students advance high above the gym floor, notice. anyone who has ever seen A portion of the increase will the MSU cheerleaders in ac and hours and hours of prac fund raises for university employ tion. The squad regularly tice to perform at the level ees, said Joe Powell, board finance committee chairman. wows spectators with its MSU's cheerleade'i·s do year At Marshall's main Huntington gymnastic ability and preci after year. They have earned campus. tuition and fees will jump sion drills. recognition as one of the na from $1, 137 to $1,174 a semester. Phil Watkins, a Marshall senior When not rooting for the tion ·s best. from Parkersburg, said he wants to see where the increase is going. "[ want to know if there is a good rea Lexington Herald-Leader son. If there is a good reason. then Tuesday. January 20. 1998 I don't have a problem with it."' ill WILLIAMSBURG Watkins said. At WVU's main campus in Mor gantown. students will pay $1,296 Cumberland College instead ofSl.258 a semester. Powell said the increase will "go into the pot." but a chunk of it will gives honorary degrees go to scholarships. Longtime Kentucky sportscaster Ca wood Led "[n West Virginia we want to ford. state talk-show host .-\lbert Smith and author make access to the university sys Esther Bun-oughs received honorary degrees yester tem one that wouldn't penalize one that would be short as far as eco day from Cumberland College. Ledford was known nomics are concerned." Powell said as the "Voice of the Kentuckr Wildcats" during 39 Sunday. "Judging from peers in years of play-by-play broadcasting. Smith is pro other states. the tuition is fairly ducer and moderator of Cu111111e11/ 011 Ke11/uc/1v, reasonable." which airs on Kentuckv Educational Television. The trustees unanimously ap Burroughs is author of Empowered, published by proved the increase Friday based •he Women's Mission Union. which has sold more on the assumption that the state rhan 50.000 copies. She is on the Home Mission legislature will approve a 3:25 per Goard staff in Atlanta. cent increase in higher education funding as in past years. If not, students could get an even higher THE COURIER-JOURNAL • TUESDAY, JANUARY 20, 1998 tuition and fees increase this fall. As long as tuition still covers Cumberland College honors 3 with degrees activitv fees, Allison Nichols. a WILLIAMSBURG, Ky. - Former University of Kentucky sports Marsh~ll Junior from Ripley, does caster Cawood Ledford, talk-show host Albert P. Smith and author not have a problem with the Esther Burroughs received honorary degrees yesterday from Cumber increase. land College. "We get the Artists Series and Ledford was known as the "Voice of the Kentucky Wildcats" dur all the athletics through tuition," ing 39 years of play-by-play broadcasting. Smith is producer and moderator of "Comment on Kentucky," which airs on Kentucky Edu Nichols said. • A,,, long as there are cational Television. Burroughs is the author of "Empowered." She these opportunities, I don't have a has devoted her career to the education and spiritual growth of wom problem with the increase." en, and works for the Home Mission Board in Atlanta. The biggest increase will be at Marshall University Graduate Col lege in South Charleston. As part of an effort to make tuition and fees more comparable to Marshall's main campuses, stu dents will pay an additional $52 pushing their totals from $869 to $921. . The former West Virginia Grad uate College merged with Marshall last year. !\•londav, January 1~. 1~~1-j In this budget year. the state es ··If that's a budget buster. that's timated it would spend about S6 bil the kind of thing we need to be bust• 3ome agencies liorL Next year, its budget will be ing the budget over," he said. about $6.16 billion, said budget di Still, even without a potential rector Jim Ramsey. The budget for tax cut, Patton;s budget will leave the 1999-2000 year is estimated at several state agencies absorbing $6.4 billion. he said. what essentially amounts to a cut. get short end But from that growth money, They will receive only 3· percent Patton already has pledged several budget increases, Ramsey said. But projects. He wants a S20 million that figure - even though it keeps bud~~t increase_ for the Cabinet for pace with inflation - amounts to a [)f state budget Fa~1he~ and Children, and a total of. cut because the agencies will have tc Sl:, m1lhon over two years for a cen- · pay for a 5 percent raise for state ter for studying ways to make emplovees, he said. By Angie Muhs schools safer. Patton also wants to · HERALD-LEADER FRANKFORT BUR51.U boost the budget for juvenile justice Some of the agencies also will be FRAXKFORT - One of Gov. Paul Patton's fa programs by nearly $71 million over asked to cut other money from their rnrite sayings is "you have to take the bone with the next two years. budgets as part of an effort t( the pork chop." streamline state government. For the past two weeks. as he unveiled parts of And his budget will contain an- he General other S62 million in new funding for "Some of them will tell · you his budget proposal, Patton has been dangling pork post-secondary education _ money that's going to create some prob ssembly chops in front of legislators - in the form of that was promised during a special lems," Ramsey said. Gov. Paul promises to pay for new programs in politically at itton will tractive causes like getting tough on crime and in legislative session in May. But Harry Moberly, the House's iliver his suring more children. Patton also has said he'll pro- budget chief, said he hasn't hearci 1dget message It's been part of a public relations blitz of daily pose giving elementary and sec- many complaints yet from people 7 p.m. news conferences designed to spotlight what Patton ondary education budget increases representing programs that might esday m the sees as the triumphs of his budget. of 4.2 percent next year and 4.3 per- see cuts. ,ntucky General cent the year after that: ,sembly·s But those new programs mean that Patton's Moberly said he will be con 1use of oudget 11ill have only bone for some state agencies The other question around the cerned only if program advocates ~;:1resentatives - a fact the governor himself has acknowledged. money in the year-to-year budget show him that people served - not amber. It will "This budget will not be without pain," he said centers on whether a tax-cut mood the people who run the program - broadcast on during his recent State of the Commonwealth speech. prevails among some legislators. are hurt by cuts. ,ntucky Questions about Patton·s budget are likely to Borders, for instance, said he fa. Patton's budget probably will be ucational start bubbling to the surface this week, as lawmakers vors changing the state sales tax on fairly popular among legislators. levision (KET• get their first·crack at the governor's wish list. He'll ,annel 46). used cars to apply only to the price Moberly predicted. formally present the two-year budget on Tuesday. actually paid - and expanding that Reaction to the details that have emerged from "I believe there's sufficient mon concept to new cars. If both happen, ey to do what the governor wants to Patton's announcements has been generally positive. some budget estimates have said the ··On balance, I would give this budget a fairly do," Moberly said. "I've seen very state could lose as much as $40 mil strong support for the initiatives." high mark."' said !-louse Majority lion a year in revenue. Leader Greg Stumbo. who often has Other lawmakers say it's hard to That money would have to come been at odds \\'ith the governor. say for sure how the budget process from somewhere in the budget, and will go until they get the chance this But others say there are still Patton and legislative leaders have week to pore over the details and questions to be answered. preached caution and moderation. start asking questions. "The ker is, do we have the dol But Borders said he and manv lars to do these things. and what do others still think the tax cut is need "The governor's had his day the dollars add up to be," said Sen. ed. now," Borders said. "He's passed the Charlie Borders, R-Russell, the vice baton to us." chairman of the Senate budget com mittee. Senate budget chief Benny Ray Bailey also said he wasts to review the final figures carefully. "It is a little bit of concern to me when we announce all these big spending items:· said Bailey, D l-lindman. "It seems to be a lot on the table." Money for new projects and ex pansion of programs over the next two years will be coming from two sources - pots of money that are quite different. Some of the Patton initiatives come from each pot. One is the budget surplus that's expected at the end of this budget year, which ends June 30. State offi cials ar_e estimating that it will be at least $225 million. Patton wants to earmark about $100 million of that for the state's rainy day fund. I-le has s~.id he wi!l · spend the rest on projects ranging from improving technology in schools to building two nursing homes for veterans. Much of the money also wi!l be spread out for projects all over the state, ·._ ·:The other pool of money for new initiatives is the expected growth in the amount of new revenue - main ly from taxes - that the state ex .pects to collect. · ;,p o.:i,ly Independent. Ashland. Kentucky. Friday. January lo, l!cJ!cJtj f\CC spring enrollment down 13 °/o earned at community colleges Some students might have y KENNETH HART would not be transferable been scared off by the delay in F THE DAILY INDEPENDENT under the new system, she accreditation by the Southern said. Association of Colleges and ASHLAND - Preliminary "There was a lot of misinfor Schools. she said. And others gures showed Ashland Com- mation about the KCTCS had ,·oiced fear that credits 1tmity Col!ege·s spring enroll- transfer," she said. earned at community colleges 1ent is down 13 percent from KCTCS formally took control would not be transferable year ago. of the state's community col under the new system. she As nf today. ~.027 students leges Wednesday. said. ad signed up for spring class ACC Board Chairman Bruce "There was a lot of misinfor Leslie said it was not necessar s at ACC. compared with mation about the KCTCS ily bad that enrollment was de transfer ... she said . .340 in last year's spring se- clining, "as long as it's for rea 1ester. KCTCS formally took control sons that are identifiable and of the state's community col The spring enrollment figure has nothing to do with the in ,as also a decrease of 244 stu leges Wednesday. stitution itself." ACC Board Chairman Bruce ents. or 11 percent. from this McCullough also pointed out chool year's fall semester, Leslie said it was not necessar 0 ACC's enrollment shot up sev aid Willie McCullough, dean• ily bad that enrollment was de eral years ago in the wake of clining, "as long as it's for rea ,f student affairs at ACC. ns," he said. ' A total of l.001 students who sons that are identifiable and ACC's Dvorak said student has nothing to do with the in egistered for fall classes did concerns over the transfer of ,ot return for the spring se stitution itself." control of the community col McCullough also pointed out nester. McCullough said. She leges from the University of aid her office was in the pro ACC's enrollment shot up sev Kentucky to the new Kentucky eral years ago in the wake of ess of calling every one of Community and Technical Col hem to find out why they leges System might have also lidn 't come back. had an effect on enrollment. "So far. it's been a combina ion of things." she said. The Daily Independent, Ashland, Kentucky, Friday. January 16, 1998 ·some have transferred to >ther institutions, some have ;one to work. a couple have Campus day care iad babies." McCullough said she be ieved that transfers would ul may up enrollment, .imately be revealed as the nain cause for ACC's enroll nent decline. She said a num ACC president says >er of the former students she Board Chairman Bruce Le rnd spoken with had opted to By KENNETH HART slie agreed. Noting the 14 per :ransfcr from ACC to other OF THE DAILY INDEPENDENT cent drop in spring enrollment local schools. including More at ACC. he said a child care head State University and Ken ASHLAND - The president center "might be a hidden so tucky Tech. of Ashland Community College lution to some of our enroll The school won't have final wants to make on-campus ment problems .... enrollment figures for the se child care available to stu Leslie said the ACC Founda mester until Feb. 6. Students dents. tion Board had recently dis can sign up for spring classes Angeline Dvorak told the cussed on-campus child care, until Wednesday, and "any school's board of directors and "was receptive to the idea thing could happen" to enroll Thursday that she had helped of providing some start-up ment numbers in the next establish child care centers at funds at some point." week. McCullough said. two of the schools where she Dvorak said a recent survey ACC board member Richard workerl previouslv. and was of students indicated that child ··sonnv" Martin said it might launching "a full-blown inves care was a major concern. he be1icficial for the board to tigation" into the possibility of ACC S.tudent Government look at spring enrollment fig doing the same at ACC. President Lisa Maynard said ures for other area schools She said she thought an on many ·of her fellow students with which ACC competes for campus center was needed be had voiced desire for on students. including MSU, Mar cause "the child-care require campus day-care so they could ments for college students are check on their children be shall University, Ohio Uni tween classes. versity's Southern Campus very unique." Day-care centers often Dvorak said she had already and Shawnee State. begun to scout out possible lo "We need to see if this is an charge by the day, which can cations for a center. One might areawide thing, or if we're los be costly for students who only be the former home-economics ing our students to these other need to leave their children for area on the first floor of the institutions," he said.· a couple of hours while they classroom building, she said. ACC President_ A:_rrgell!J_e. attend classes, Dvorak said. She estimated that it would Dvorak said student concerns And many centers aren't open take about $8,000 to make the over the transfer of control of at night, making them unavail room "kid-proof." the community colleges from able to students who have She said she hoped to con the University of Kentucky to evening classes. tract with existing child-care the new Kentucky Community Many students also have providers to provide the ser and Technical Colleges System problems with transportation, vice at ACC. might have also had an effect and the- availability of .. on• Dvorak said . the center on enrollmenti'·· .-· ., ,,.s, - . campus child care· would make would be· operated on a not-fcir Some students might· have attending school much more prcifit basis. · · been scared off by the delay In convenient for them, Dvorak , said~· · · ___ ...... --· · ·- · ·"It-'would not be· free child accreditation'. by the 'S.o~thern care, but it would be low-cost Association . of. ~Colleges and: : The service might also en child care," she said. . Schools, she said. And ·ot)!ers tice more people - particu Dvorak noted that on had voiced fear that. ci;e_dits l!!rly single mothers - to seek campus child care at ACC was higher education, she said. not a new idea .. ~)le said six By VEDA MORGAN teachers and students in local The University of Cincinnati, for The Courier-Journal schools. When they complete the pro example, requires prospective teach grnm, they earn higher starting sala ers to spend their fifth year as in The idea is applauded by manv nes than other new teachers because terns in area schools before they educators: Require future teach· they already have master's degrees. start teaching careers, but those ers to _spend their undergraduate BUT STUDENTS at U of L say hours are not counted toward a mas years m colle~e grounding them it's almost impossible to hold down a ter's degree. selves m the fiberal arts and sci job to pay tuition and living expenses At the University of Virginia, stu en~es, then \mmerse them during because the final year is so demand dents who already have undergrad ~ f_tfth year m learning and prac ing. uate degrees must enroll in a two ttcmg the art of teaching. Still, they say the approach - es year full-time master-of-teaching pro Only then, send them off on pecially the on-the-job training - gram. First-year undergraduate stu teaching careers with master's will make them better teachers. dents attend the College of Arts and degrees in hand. "I feel very frustrated and very Sciences, then later enroll in the That's exactly what the Univer ovemrhelmed because there's so School of Education and work on sity of Loui5;'ille started requiring much work to do, but I feel it's worth their undergraduate and master1s de this year. It s part of a national it," said Susan Lorah, a single parent grees simultaneously. movement to improve the quality with two children who is studying to Ohio State University's program is of teacher education by giving become an elementary teacher. similar to Louisville's m that educa students more time to learn the Lorah said she considered switch tion certificates are awarded only to subjects they'll teach, as well as ing to another university when she students who complete master's de more on-the-job training. learned about U of L's master's de grees. With the graduate school re Jefferson County Public gree requirement, but it was less ex qmrement, the students "are a more Schools officials say the approach pensive to stay at U of L. select group ... and they can work makes a difference. But thev also She scurried to get three scholar harder and get more done," said say they fear that would-be teach ships to pay for tuition and books. Daryl Siedentop, senior associate ers - and minorities in particular Because Lorah doesn't have time to dean in Ohio State's College of Edu - will choose other careers be work, her mother has to help pay her cat10n. cause they can't afford to wait rent and Lorah "borrows to the max" Siedentop said a large part of the five years or more to start earn to make ends meet, she said. change 1s intended to make teaching ing a living. Because many stu Shante Hardin, a student in ''a more professional occupation." dents take more than four years U of L's middle-school education pro JEFFERSON COUNTY school to get their undergraduate de gram, said she got a job at Winn-Dix officials understand the reasoning, gree, the requirement could mean ie because she started running out of but the district has been hiring more six or. more years of schooling in money. But she said she recently had than 400 teachers a year the past few some instances. to quit so she could keep up with her years and is worried about the sup If the number of teachers pro school work. ply. duced by U of L declines, it could Hardin received a scholarship through the Minority Teacher Re Already, the district has difficulty cause problems for the Jefferson finding enough math, science and County district, which recruits 45 cruitment Project, a joint venture of U of Land the school district, but she special-education teachers, and this percent of its teachers from year it had to hire almost 30 teachers U of L. The district is worried that has had to turn to student loans to pay her bills. "I think it's very chal who have degrees but are not certi U of L's new plan will worsen the fied to teach - the vast majority in local impact of an impending na lenging. especially for those of us special education. tional teacher shortage. who don't have resources, such as U of L already has seen a drop our families," Hardin said. School district officials also say in the number of education stu U of L officials acknowledge that they're concerned about the drop in dents. About 320 earned teaching the program is intense and say they minority students from U of L's pro certificates last year. About 170 also are concerned about the decline gram because it's already difficult to are expected to complete the in enrollment. "It's a problem," said find minority teachers, and the extra longer program this year. The Ray Nystrand, dean of U of L's year could become too great a finan number of African-American and School of Education. cial burden. other minority graduates dropped Nystrand said the decline is exag "The rub is that instead of a four from more than 30 to 18. gerated because many students to-five-year program, it becomes a The demand for new teachers rushed into the four-year program five-to-six-year program," Greer said. is expected to accelerate in the before it ended last year, although he Nystrand acknowledges that U of L years ahead as large numbers of acknowledges that the five-year plan will have fewer minority graduates is likely to scare some students off. than it's had during the past three older teachers begin retiring. In years. Jefferson County, about one-third "IF THE GOAL is to get to work Jefferson County is working to hire of the district's roughly 5,700 as quickly as they can, this will slow more teachers from schools such as teachers are expected to retire in them down," Nystrand said. Bellarmine College, Spalding and the next two to four years. Across But Nystrand said the new ap Western Kentucky universities and the nation, 40 percent of public proach produces stronger teachers. Indiana University Southeast to make school teachers are expected to And school principals say they like up for the lower enrollment at U of L. retire or leave the profession by teachers who came through the pro It also is working with U of L to bol the 2003-2004 school year, the gram as it was being phased in. ster enrollment and find money for U.S. Education Department says.· \1/heeler Elementary School frinci struggling students. "It can be devastating to us if pal Julie Thomas, whose schoo hired But the district could be forced tci we need 800 teachers and we can a graduate, said she supports U of L's recruit more teachers from out of only find 500," said Rita Greer, a approach because the fifth-year stu state if U of L's enrollment doesn't school district personnel special dent-teachers start in the fall and i!'crease. That is extremely competi ist. "We don't want to hit a crisis spend most of the year with the same tive and 1s expected to get worse. situation here." students and teacher. The district now hires about 30 per U of L is the only college in "It's just much more in-depth ... cent of its teachers from other states. Kentucky that requires aff stu and they get a much better picture of Already, recruiters from other dis dents seeking a teaching certifi what it means to truly be a teacher," tricts are carrying checkbooks to job cate to i1et master's degrees. The Thomas said. fairs and offering $2,000 sign-on bo University of Kentucky requires She said the school also benefits nuses, Greer said, master's degrees for those who want from the university professors who Nystrand said U of L is working to teach grades eight through 12. spend time at the school helping hard to turn people on to the field of U of L's approach is designed not U of L students and current teachers. education and help them pay for only to produce better qualified U of L belongs to a group of about their schooling, and he's optimistic teachers but also to meet the needs 80 universities working to improve that enrollment will increase. of an increasing number of people teacher education. Known as the Janet Carrico, Kentucky Education with undergraduate degrees who go Holmes Partnership, the group is Association president, said she's back to school to become teachers. committed to linking colleges with lo heard nothing but good things about At U of L, which began phasing in cal schools and requiring graduate U of L's program. its program about six years ago, pro level training for beginning teachers. "There may certainly come a time, spective teachers must earn a bache But the colleges have taken differ if there is a teacher shortage, where lor's degree before entering the ent approaches to improve teacher that is a factor, but I would bope that teacher-education program. Then education. we wouldn't solve that dilemma by they spend a year learning teaching decreasing the standard," Carrico methods and working full time with said. "That's not a good resolution." Lexington Herald-Leader 00 1 :olf~~ciiV :- bargaining m, ·y t ·. ,c, , I; ; :wm, -k: r: KEJ\ President Janet Carrico ~aid that collective bnrgaining does ublic workers, governments, schools n't have to be confrontational, and I hat it gin:s public cmployrcs a fair ~ar up for fight over divisive labor issue ,·uice in determining their pay and \\"nrk comlilions. Angie Muhs and Bill Estep Patton said the specifics of a bill "It's a civilizPd way \fl nrnke m1 THE COURIER-JOURNAL• FRIDAY, JANUARY 16. 1998 ALD-lEADER STAFF WRITERS will determine how hard he'll work for FRANKFORT -- There's no bill to the issue. His labor liaison, Danny Ross, agreement," she said. · Carrico displlted 11ml n1lll'l'tin· :m• over yet, hut battle lines an· he has given him n copy of a prnpo~;1I, lw bargaining drivl's up costs in Bill lets state workers · . drawn over what could be one of said . most divisive issues of the 1998 ses Ker lawmakers in the House and schools. in part because it can mean. n: collective bargaining for public Senate said collective bargaining faces better morale, \Vhich ean lead tn better performance. ployees. an uphill battle this session. Opponents, take part in campaigns Carrico said the teachers' lobby Both sides are gearing up for the however. fear Patton could level the field if he pushes hard for collective supports a strong no-strike rule as I It. By AL CROSS Wells and Pendleton said the bill A coalition of business interests, bargaining. part of the prop four times as much as it was. She cial aid. said she was fortunate that her par "We do have some loans for pevaluation effectively raises school cost ents paid tuition before the crisis short-term problems," he said. By Sarah A. Webster hit. The school probably will not HERALD LEADER STAFF WRITER Still, money is now tight. "My defer tuition across the board for In Central Kentucky and across friends are getting jobs," she said. foreign Asian students because the United States, Asian college stu Suan Jong Yeo, president of the there is no guarantee that the prob dents are feeling the pangs of UK Malaysian student organization lem will be short-term. crashing financial markets in their and a senior in electrical engineer "We don't know when this cri homelands. tirne," she said. "My tuition is about ing, said that about 30 new sis is going to end, if ever," Blanton Classes at the University of double." Malaysians enroll in his group said. : South Korea's currency has lost Kentucky resumed Wednesday, and every semester. This semester, Although it has been difficult, m'ore than half its value against the preliminary enrollment figures however, there have been only 14 Blanton said, most students from U.S. dollar, and currencies in Hong show the number of new foreign new faces. Asia are finding a way to make K!mg and Indonesia are also suffer students has dropped by almost ends meet. iltg. The Associated Press reported 'Worst-case scenario' half. to just 84. · "Some are from pretty well-to that Asian students enrolled in U.S. At UK. three-fourths of the for Yeo himself has not suffered be do families, and their grandparents colleges are seeking jobs, loans and eign undergraduate students are cause of the market crisis. In a are sending money," Blanton said. extensions on tuition deadlines. from Malaysia, one of the Southeast smart move, he exchanged all the "By and large, they are working it ; Seyung Chung, president of money he would need for U.S. cur out. It's just difficult." Asian countries hardest hit by the L1<"s Korean student association, Carolyn Holmes of UK's Inter financial crisis. rency when he came to UK. knows five students who are post "Some students get money sent national Affairs Office said there is For them, Director of Interna p(,ning their education because of to them every semester," he said. a lesson in the crisis. "This is a tional Affairs Mike Reed said, the tlie crisis. Chung said he has tried to ex demonstration that the economies crashing Asian financial market ' "They are upset," Chung said. plain to UK administrators that for of foreign countries do affect us," •·really is a crisis." '"!'hey really hope the situation gets eign students need help. "l told she said. In Malaysia, the value of the lo better soon." them this is a wor~t-case scenario," cal currency dropped 40 percent, : Chung said that because he is a he said. which means the cost to Malaysian tr.'.1ching assistant, with a U.S. in UK Vice Chancellor Jack Blan students to attend UK effectively :cime, he is somewhat protected ton has five Malaysian students in i11rrcased. f1j11n the devalued currency. a business class he leaches. And al UK charges out-of-state stu ; Dcwi Prakosa, an Indonesian though he knows they are hurting, dt•nts about $14,000 a year for tu ";ho is enrolled in UK's graduate · he said there is little UK can do to ii ion. room and board. business school, said her tuition i~ help IJ!'yoncl offrring regular finan- llui See Nee, a UK mechanical engineering student from Malaysia, said she got a fast-food job to help cast• the financial strain. "/\II of us are having a hard .Ta.n. 21 1 l'i'18 Miu 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 . ,.- l,J;~?Gt~ N, ~~ .Qi&.L · . ~,r..~. A:S _· •· S:E~··.--; :_ 1·s-,u,y·~·•,_,..,.,; 'i' ~: .~s~(!:L~: ·texln~.n-~~ralcJ:.L:eader .... ·· ··• · ··· · .-~~.::,~c,;•·, ,,-'-.:·c,... ·._,-,,~ •. ~., .,, •. 1 . . ,;;,.)~:-, Wednesday/)anuary 21, 1998 P.atidi's"':uuttaet,··,annoa■ ·· ,:,:--,~~%f ,,,,,,-; ,:; ... "'N' -P~.;:ctl: e/ .. ,}• .; :<,,;,'.i,\, ry:!y1,-.:,Hr~: •..,..;,.;;\;i;j°J'D:··- ~~•.. ,,, ~•;. -1. ;··},1'fu-~,~ ---~ -·-· _., ""---=;~3, __.,. • •• r- J ,!._ •• ·- - >.t, --~-H:ft.... ;~.·;, -~-- ~ :-•-··"~;:.-1• :. ~--· -> ... -;,::1,_r-•ji1;"l<3-~.1l7P..~c.Gc;,yt·., ·tt\f...1,q,;{ ~ _ --;1J ::•.<, . ~ ~.. "If~;~~~~~-~t:the governor jstin/l' debt; They ~d !1fli,,;ffgure is , • ' . : nas ··llsteped: to· ·legislators' con- 111· !me. with the ',amount(recom- ·I·: wns.. ~he.:'sfild?-'''···-·:·' ··-•, . inJnd.ed:.\>y'inv~tirJ''tS:·'iiaiiliers · · ,·. • . , ~~l( The stiile's,tbtal-budget for the .who rate·the state's '1m~i,;aJ'fundi- .r 0 -'' "• c,,, ..,,,,,. , #dxttwo years;,... including money tion. . -·: . '•-'·?·:,:·· '-:~•- · Pop. u . ' - ~ - ...... ,,~-,..-"_, ... , fr9m all sources; including the fed- House Speaker ;:fody:·Ripuirds, erJ!l government - is roughly D-Bowling Green; said lie expects Leaders from both- $31'4:billionJ: Patton's priorities for: construction yi;HtshighliglJ!sinclude: . projects to,~Pi\'!c co~_gp~~-:: ,, '.•• l ■ ,Beefing. up the state's pnson ■ Creating modes.t tax-:reliet- political"parti~: !lJ!llt~ by ~dding nearly 2,.000 new though, ri~t, eno~li,~-~9;,~pease ~I!:lw.ij§,-,!t:?15!1,~:~4~lmon- everybo9y; . . ·'-'•'" :,:,;1 .. _ , express optiipism,; .. ~)fJ!JAibµi,.d.il)g,W¢e,n,e;>,'.:detention ,. __ Qile Patto11,.p~;"'.pitched -•.:: ' . ~' . Iiaijfers:for .. juvenile offenders, and earlier ih the· year,JifSeruite. Re• By Angle Muhs fotexpandfugjarlother; ..,,, ·, ,,, , publicans/ woitld;iefllMpJe deduct HERAI.DlEAPER_fRANKFOl:fT.BU~i;;~~. -.·:· 1 ; : : Ii ~pjng-ii!ore !lloney: into tlfe?t?)lt?'~f:heaifl.l:J~~~pin FRANKFORT -.,. Gov .. _; Paul efforts,_ to protect. childr~fu.from. tlie1r state mcomeJax,,if,tliey.,are Patton unveiled his $12.6 billion ~~µse,,.!!11:~!,Wh-th~;s;ta!e'~.:c,)lrciiii: P?:Yiiig;~J!~the=cost's1),f~i~~- two-year state spending:plan yes p.\lr,-:s~pj\ed,s~f:!ll1 •~1~,agen- ance. th.emselves. Patton;.,sa1d · 1t terday, offering few surpri~'and . 'ti' . , . c· ··H ,.. : iiies:;H9'.o/e)f~; !ti.woil'~/;i'eate'inore · ".',?\lid :C;_?.stthe, statfa~.tjt~~. )lill- drawmg pos1 ve revie~;.r~.,:i 7,_,.-~ .. jwcial worker Jobs - a step that hon:a.year.- , ,.:, ,.,c1,~,, :' ,·. ' Patton, in a speech totlie"C,ener'. cltildren's advocates say is needed. ~ '.'Other . tax" dits; •whiclt"Would al Assembly last night, told. law : · ■ Borrowing $970 million - eventually cost $8:5:'roUffnn'a~~.' makers·that he thought his.propos• ilie·most ever proposed by a gover- would offer tax cr'editi'.ror,~ple als were based on sound fiscal prin :11Qr in, a two-year budget, officials who invest in smal[1 businesses; ciples and conservative estimates of !;,\id. and would allow ·, rompliities ·'fo the money coming in. ·... '::1 ! More than h.alf the borrowed ~f\luct part of their1gist;,1fliri ~- "It's• better·to be conservative money, $525 milhon, would pay for 111g,,~ployees. •Mot4~"pfOgr3!,1 and not0make the promise ... than new buildings, equipment and re- wQitld create tax credits for efforts it is to betray the people," he said. pairs at Kentucky's universities i§/{~yitai)z_e do~t()~:.ar.eas,in "It's 'myf-iritention' tci'.lieep every and technical schools, fulfilling q_ges, : . . . • ; · ;, ,,, ; .. ,_- proinise-.:. in°this proposed bud; get!'•f ., .. ' .,, ; ·" ·, ' promises Patton made during last "Patton;who note··.·.· .d'' .th , ' . 'tia· ti' fiilaiice'• , ..J," . • , e \.,Ullll1:,jUJW,W0\1Se·an . wi , ,e'!' ~e,\V, 1Il1 , v~;.,p,,.;..,-, , . fncluding. $62:~,",\iiJl!i,iJp. f,9r.:.sc···hotjL, , ati, Lancast;~stCity:.-''i(fHiiJf,;ian'd1i ' ;"~l~;~~etrsociaJalt,c?il',,~\JS,~~t_l; p.r~ grams,m. cnme,• . seI'Vlces and , cobstruction;·$87:mimon fcir)i mas:· · $29 ooo,f--"~r:efcll'.'• -:Cto·"•''tyi!i'li:1'1 theiiies'!ifiii~iF66unaJs iSive··state 6ffice":6ffildingHifFrafuc'!\ t<'n ·1ct: t,~i.. ~il:t R:_::;~iji.,t~~~- ~tJt- ~ ,·ecJucaiia11,:::c: fort; and '!;17 inillio'lf'1ii'l'ffiifljru,]l ,~ /.-·;Th·fl;t,•~!i'.'!\i;,t;~!Pi,❖w~~;f,, '"h:;;~ "l'.4-1•r,.fe,:,ea~~dl-.:c m·: the ''.'pac~t%.'~,;~· ' . • ,. ,· •. · -..• a·. ~ <1:r!,ll . e,govemo,'f.:'!"'Pµ,,so,muc -; 'JU:l~ce•an!tlativ~7,\n,c,1 u mgt:.,20 ' ,, ' l:k o\i:tliftable)riai(it'sr 6ihlfl61 w,irts~oiirmg •11r'~: &ruei-~n"i:es m1Jhon;for: a, ~d10:'~ystem fodh~· -,,:, a nell:"of 'a~.h6ne0\ioot-t1'siiid¥. f1wf't1etaiiea inanY. of hli;';Jiuaiet' 1 1 ,.c, '- 2,000 1,000 0 1987 1988 1989 1990 19911992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998'1999'2000' General Fund All fund appropriations, . appropriations FlSCAL YEARS 1999-2000 .,/ ASCAL YEARS 1999-2000 Postsecondary Human education Medicaid services Human 14. 7% Education 18% 9.6% ---...... ,44.5% Transportation 10.3% l/ Medicaidl;, _ 10% . All other All other 18% 20.2% Total: $12.6,billion Total: $°31.4 pillion Top new construction projects Major projects to be funded by borrowing under Gov. Paul Patton's budget, ranked by cost: THE€01:JFl_lER.J01:lRNA!:,-W'EBNES0AY"C""JANIJARY·21~1998· PATTONS BUDGET FOR 1998-2000 Higher ed,juveniles benefit I .,.__ 'Ihel_egislators:...,. w._no.mu__ st P_'as_s.a_ .. liiic!iru~ttr'end'lifth~i!!': ,_ i Scholarship A!>nTt ..0-~"iiei'alJy'gave -PROJECTS Gov. Paul Patton's budget includes these construction projects. Each is listed wtth the state's share ofthe project's cost. Universities ■ Prestonsburg Regional Postsecondary Education Center, $5 ■ Northern Kentucky University sci ence building, $38 million. million. ■ Hopkinsville Regional . ■ Morehead State Univeraiiy. .. · Postsecondary Education Center, $5 Breckinridge Hall renovation; $14 mil- million. lion.. . ,,.J . ■ Elizabelhtown Regional ■ University of Kentucky mechanical Postsecondary Education Center, engineering building, $19.Smilllon. $10.6 million. -■ Murray State University Carr Health ■ London-Corbin Regional Building, Cutchin Field House renova Postsecondary Education Center, tions, $10.8 million. $10.4 million. ■ Eastern Kentucky University class ■ Glas~ow Regional Postseconda,y, room building, $20 milliqn. Education Center, $6.1 million. ■ Kentucky State University student center renovation-addition, $8.3 mil Other lion. · · . ■ New state office building, ■ University of Louisville research building, $32 mHlion. ,-· .. · . : Winchester, $2.5 million. Ill Western Kentucky University D Breaks Interstate Park addition, instructional technology-journalism $1.3 million: building, $18.5 million. l!I Advanced Technology Institution, IJ UK allied health building, $20 mil- Bowling Green, $265,000. lion. · l.l Ben Clement Mineral Museum, Crittenden County, $169,000. Community and . technical colleges ■ Ballard County jail, $100,000. Ill Hazard Community College class II Breckinridge County Courthouse room building, $4.3 million. elevator, $150,000. li1 Danville Technical Training Center, _ II Campbell County fire training cen $4.6million. ter, $240,000. ■ .Madisonville Commun~ College II Cavema MemorialHospttal, science building, $2.9 million. · · . $350,000. II Shelbyville Technical Training . II Center for Women and Families, Center, $7.2 million. Jefferson County, new roof, $75,000. II Somerset Community College aca ■ Estill County Courthouse renova- demic support building, $6.8 million. tion, $200,000. . II Clinton County TechnolQQy Center, ■ Hancock County emergency vehi $3.5 million. · · ·,,'." ' . cle building, $100,000. ■ Hindman,echnical College of Arts ,■ Lancaster City Hall renovation, and Crafts, $2.7 million. . · ' • . . • '' .•l $200,000. . . I! Maysville ~Commun_ilY. ~!leg~J,_ech ■ letchel: ~untv,atllletic _complex, rncal center, $1.6 mill10n: . ,: . _. .., $29,000.. ,•.. f!Jr his first term would.be-$1.24 bil THE COURIER-JOURNAL• WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 21, 1998 lion, compared wi$1r.$1Jil",billion, dur , care will hµrt h~_th:. ~ for- the ing the term of Gov. Wallace'Wilkin poor, particularly mJuiiiI ~,;; - son, who borrowed more than any ANALYSIS But the governor.ha~ bmlt power other recent governor. ful momentum on hts side by !nclud Expect the issue to be thoroughly ing popular programs and pro1ects m debated over the next two months. his buo~et _ i~ems that_ wou d have Patton also is embracing at least 10 be tmrimed tf the leg1slature puts the concept of Sen. Tim Shaugh Economy, the brakes on his Medicaid plan. nessy's merit-scholarship program_ ■ Patton is pushing some costs off for college students. His budget ap into the future. He proposes I? issue propriates $10 million in the 2000 fis nearly $1 billion in bonds dunng \he cal year to begin funding the pro '96budget next two fiscal years for. att~ctmg gram, but the- cost will soar much top professors to the Umvers\ty. of higher in' futui:e budgets if-the legis Kentucky and-University of Lomsville lature approves anything -close to and for new building,;; wh_at Shaughnessy, DcLouisville, en_ allow new The bonds are simply _a _way to VISlons. borrow money - comm1ttmg the But Patton is doing the same sorts state to paying over the ne:ct 20 yea!> of things all governors do, and he is largess for things that will be reahzetl within correct when he says his budget uses the next two or three. . conseivative estimates for future rev But there is nothing irresponsible enue growth. about a well-managed debt. Patton If the economy remains strong the By TOM LOFTUS emphasized yesterday that, 113rtlydb~ The Courier-Journal governor elected in 1999 should have cause so few bonds were issue m no problem following through on 1996, his new bonds are not e~c.es FRANKFORT, Ky. - What a_ differ- what was started here. If the econo sive . Even with the nearly $1 b1ll10n my turns sour, well, don't spend the ence a few months makes. . in ~ew bonds, the total added debt Last spring Gov. Paul Patton had kids' college fund just yet on the pre to use about every state dollar he sumption they'll get state-funded could find to convince lawmakers the scholarships. state could afford hi~ plan to restruc THE COURIER-JOURNAL • WEDN_ESDAY, JANUARY 21, 1998 ture higher education and pay for it with $100 million by 2000. Now, Patton also is callin!l for $14 million more per year for tuition as Money put: aside· .-- sistance and $10 million in start-up funding for college scholarships ·based on a high school student's aca demic record. to aid students, - And there's more: Extra raises for state and local police; $71 million to fight juvenile crime; $15 million for school safety; $13.9 million a year to provide health coverage for unin lure top teachers sured children; and dozens of con struction projects for college campus es and communities statewide. - By MICHAEL JENNINGS Patton supports Part of-the reason that Patton can The Courier-Journal merit-based afford all of this neat stuff now is scholarships, a Gov. Paul Patton's budget contains proposal of that Kentucky is benefiting from a strategies intended to help the need Sen. llm surging economy, which is expected iest students attend college, keep the Shaughnessy, to generate -revenue increases of ablest students in Kentucky and at loll, a more than 4 percent in each of the tract some of the nation 1s best teach LoulsvlUe next two years, more than double the ers and researchers to Kentucky uni Democrat, who current inflation rate. versities. would use -Moreover, two years ago - when The budget fully funds the state's · lottery revenue Patton took office only to learn of need-based college-grant programs lorlham. unanticipated budget problems - he for the first time in the nearly 25 played it smart. He offered few initia years of their existence. It also con- · Patton said needy students who work tives in a "continuation budget" that tains money to start a state-financed hard in. school should be able to get included very little new debt. program of merit scholarships. both·, without sacrificing any federal Another part of the reason is that Current funding for the state's two aid !or wJlich they might also qualify. Patton is not supporting any big tax need-based student-grant programs, Patton's budget would dramatically cuts. He's backing a change in car about $30 mtlho'! annually, would increase the amount of money the taxes and a new tax deduction for in grow by $14 mtlhon next year and state's universities could use to at dividuals who do not get the tax $15 million the folloV:ing year. Paul tract eminent professors. It allots Sll benefits of an employer's health in Borden, exe_cut1ve director of the million annually to debt payments on surance plan. Those are expected to Kentucky H1sher Education Assis- $110 million in revenue bonds that save taxpayers just S5 million a ~ear. tance Authonty, which administers the governor wants for endowments the grants, said the new money to support research and teaching. But- there are two more significant would enable the agency "to help all . explanations for how Patton was able of the very needy students"·who ap- Patton said the apparently unprec- to offer a. budget that promises so ply for aid. ed~nted_ strategy should enab!e the much: The Colle~e Access Program and Umvers11)'. of KentuckY and Umvers1- ll He stopped providinjl double-dig Kentucky Twtion Grants, both found- ty of Louisville to add 100 endowed it percentage-increases ni state mon ed in the 1970s, assist more than chairs _between them. UK would get ey to Medicaid. 24,000 students annually, but another two-thfrds of the total and U of L, Medicaid, the program that uses 12,000 are turned away when money one-third. The new money w~uld ~o federal and state money to provide runs out. The CAP program provides . mto a trust f_und, and each umvers!ty health insurance to the poor and dis students whose families' incomes fall ~ould draw its share only by prov1_d abled, cost the state about $200 mil below the poverty line with annual mg a dollar-for-_dollar match from its Iibn'in 1988.' By·this ye'ar;" that mim grants of $1,200; the tuition grants own funds or pnvate sources. ber had soared to nearly $630 mil provide another $1,500 annually for· . _IF PURSUED Iong-tenn, the lion. Medicaid gobbled up so much of needy students at private colleges in strategy should enable UK and U of the annual revenue growth during the state. · L to vie with the nation's elite state The budget earmarks an additional · · · · th b f the last decade that governors could $10 million for student aid in the umversi 1,es m e num er O en- propose few new programs. dowed chairs, Patton said. Top uni- 2000 fiscal year. Patton said he sup- versities typically support 200 to 300, But Patton is slowing Medicaid ports devoting that money to a merit- he said. growth by pushing forward with a scholarship pfan. plan to move Medicaid recipients The plan's main sponsor, Sen, Tim A central aim of last year's post- from the current fee-for-service sys Shaughnessy, D,Louisville, {ll'O· secondary-education-reform law is tem into managed care. Regional, poses diverting lottery revenue mto the elevation of UK to high rank provider-run partnerships will care scholarships. Eligibility would be among comprehensive research uni for patients for a fixed monthly fee based on a combination of high- versities and U of L to similar status and assign them to primary-care doc school grades and ACT scores. among its peer urban research uni- versities. tors who will control th,e1r patient's PATTON TOLD The Courier- use of medical services. Journal's editorial board this week Patton said he wants bond pro This move is pro1· ected to save the that he views merit scholarships as a ceeds to go into endowments and · I b "t th universities to pay for endowed state about $71 mil ion.)letween now goo d way to give a ax re ate O e chairs out of endowment income. He and the end of the iwo:yea( budget. people that really need it." He said it told the editorial board that some U Patton faces a sales Joo- m· gemng should also enable parents to show the_, Iegtslature. IQ ac,ceptJhiS plan, their children the tangible benefit of of L advocates want to_ spend b_qnd however. Some lawmakers--, notably working hard in high school. proceeds directly, adding that he's · Be.nny Ray _Bailey, *•-., ,Hindl]lan Leonard Hardin, chairman of the "not even sure if I support that." Democrat who heads tne- Senate state Council on Postsecondary _Edu- Hardin wants a less restrictive poli qudget . cofui;iittee ::.. say. managed cation, said the council endorses both cy. "Part of it could be endowment. full funding of need-based aid and but hopefully . . . we would have state-soonsored merit scholarshios. some leewavthere." he said. Lexington Herald-Leader Wednesday, January 21, 1998 ! HIGHER EDUCATION . · B:udget to boost scholarships, attract professors-1 ,, By Holly E. Stepp ing excellence," Patton said yester quired to match the bonds dollar But that would mean a longer versity of Kentucky mechanical en arship program, set to begin in flf HERALD-LEADER EDUCATION WRITER day as he presented his budget to for dollar. lime to build the universities to na gineering building; and an•Eastern cal year 2000, • ,. Education leaders say the state the General Assembly. Patton said he thought the idea tional prominence. Kentucky University classroom The governor stopped.short~ needs investments in brain power The proposal would use $10 would work because universities "The unique part of this plan is building. completely endorsing a similar pl\lR to raise the academic standing of million in a research trust fund to could offer professors guaranteed that it would provide a large and Patton's budget also includes by Sen. Tim Shaughnessy, I) issue $100 million in bonds for UK its two largest universities and in support for their research - fund immediate injection of cash into our $14 million in the first year and $15 Louisville. '':; vestments in its neediest students and U ofL. ing that would be immune to any universities," said council member million the following year to fully Shaughnessy's plan would ti~ to raise college attendance. Those bonds would be split 2- fluctuations in the state or universi Ron Greenberg, head of the coun fund Kentucky's existing scholar . Gov. Paul Patton's budget pro lo-l between the two research uni ty budgets. cil's incentive and investment com state lottery revenues to provide ships that are awarded based on fi partial scholarships for high sch Student Government Association's fi university did not intend to appeal. School didn't respond nancial records for 1993 to 1997 or "Whatever has not been provided to in the association's budget for 1998, de Mr. Rice will be provided," Greene adequately 2 cases, spite a Nov. 26 attorney general's or- said. according to,tuJings der to do.so. . In the second case, RobertK Lan Attorney general opinions are le drum of Lexington asked on Nov. 7 !lally binding in cases of open meet to inspect regulations and Board of By CHARLES WOLFE ings and open records. Regents policies that related to open Associated Press The university has given no reason records requests. · for its "repeated fail4re" to honor In a return letter Nov. 13; Greene FRANKFORT, Ky. - Kentucky Rice's requests, said Assistant Attor said records would be sent to Lan State University has repeatedly ney General Amye L. Bensenhaver. drum "as soon as possible." On Dec. broken the state open-records law, "The records which Mr. Rice· re JO, Landrum complained to the attor the attorney general's office said in quested are of a clearly public na ney general that he had received rulings yesterday. ture, and no justification for with nothing. In separate cases, the office said holding those records has been pre Assistant Attorney General James KSU failed to respond - or respond sented," Bensenhaver wrote. M. Ringo said the law requires a ed only vaguely - to people who Rice, a KSU alumnus, said he was public agency to make records avail asked to inspect public records. a concert promoter and had ques able within three days of receiving a In the first case, Lacy L. Rice Jr. of tions about how university money request. Or, it must give a detailed Indianapolis said the university did was being spent on student enter explanation for a delay, including the not answer his request for copies of tainment events. .place, time and earliest date the rec financial records for student events The university's general counsel, ords will be available. "As soon as at homecoming in 1997. Harold S. Greene Jr., said he agreed possible" is not specific enough, Nor did it give Rice copies of the with Bensenhaver's opinion, and the Ringo said. Lexington Herald-Leader Wednesday, January 21, 1998 Open-records law broken by KSU, atto~ey general says in ruling I 1 ASSOCIATED PRESS can be appealed to circuit court, but The university's general counsel, FRANKFORT 1- Kentucky KSU had not done so, Assistant At Harold S. Greene Jr., said the univer State University has repeatedly bro torney General Amye L. Bensen sity did not intend to appeal. ken the state open-records law, the haver said in an opinion yesterday. attorney general's office said in rul· In a second case, Robert K. Lan The university has given no rea drum of Lexington asked on Nov. 7 ings yesterday. / son for its "repeated failure" to honor to inspect regulations and Board of In separate cases, the office said Rice's requests, Bensenhaver said. Regents policies that related to open KSU failed to respond - or respond "KSU had not one but two oppor records requests. 1n a return letter ed only vaguely _I to people who tunities to comply with (the records Nov. 13, Greene said records would asked to inspect public records. law) .... KSU took no action. This be sent to Landrum "as soon as pos Lacy L. Rice Jr. lof Indianapolis omission is exacerbated by the fact sible." On Dec. 10, Landrum com said the university did not answer that the-records which Mr. Rice re• plained to the attorney general that his request for copies of financial quested are of a clearly public na he had received nothing. records for student events at home ture, and no justification for with coming in 1997. Nor did it give Rice holding those records has been pre Assistant Attorney General copies of the Student Government sented," Bensenhaver wrote. James M. Ringo said the law requires Association's financial records for Rice, a KSU alumnus, said he a public agency to make records 1993 to 1997 or the association's bud was a concert promoter and had available within three days of receiv get for fiscal year 1998, despite a questions about how university mon• ing a request. Or, it must give a de• Nov. 26 attorney general's order to ey was being spent on student enter tailed explanation for a delay, includ do so. tainment events. ing the place, time and earliest date Attorney general opinions are "Whatever has not been provid the records will be available. "As legally binding in cases of open ed to Mr. Rice will be provided," soon as possible" is . not specific meetings and open records. They Greene said. enough, Ringo said. 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 Thursday, January 22, 1997 Welfare for the wealthy Political scholarship plan overshadows the real needs n his budget speech Tuesday for the "get a B, go half-free, get an night, Gov. Paul Patton said a A, you don't pay" scholarships, but Imerit-based college scholarship who will see their higher education program would one day be viewed costs soar as this publicly financed as "the most important piece of leg program removes any effect market islation enacted in the last session forces have on maintaining afford of the Kentucky General Assembly able tuition rates? in the 20th century." To the state's education system, Wow! That's a rather bold, even still struggling to fulfill the promise precocious, prediction. Here we are, of recent reforms, which will be barely two weeks into a legislative subjected to so much grade-inflation session that will stretch into early pressure as a result of this proposal April, generating who knows what that high school diplomas will be changes in Kentucky law. And the come meaningless? governor already has singled out Maybe it's important to the ad this one proposal as the most im vancement of math education in the portant thing lawmakers will do in state. 1998. Parents and students will need a We can't help but ask: Important Ph.D. in that subject to figure out to whom? the complicated formula of factors To Patton himself, as another - ACT scores, level of courses tak way of using state revenue to buy en, number of semesters achieving support for his 1999 re-election bid, an A or B in those courses, etc. - over and above the tens of millions that determines who qualifies for in pork already contained in his how much under this byzantine budget? plan. To Senate Democrats, from Taxpayers will need a similar whence the ill-advised scholarship Ph.D. to compute the amount of idea sprang, who may see this wel their pay they'll have to send to the fare for the wealthy as a means of state down the road a few years, buying the votes necessary to stave when grade and tuition inflation off a feared Republican takeover of makes a bottomless pit out of Pat that chamber? ton's initial $10 million investment To the state's abused and needy in this foolish idea. · children, whose welfare is neglected By then, though, Paul Patton in a budget that leaves social ser \viii be gone from the governor's of vices caseworkers overworked and fice, whether or not he wins a sec underpaid just so kids from well-to ond term. Perhaps some of the Sen do families can get a free ride to col ate Democrats will have passed lege? from the scene, as well. To Kentucky taxpayers, already And it will be their successors burdened by an inequitable tax sys who have to cope with the effects of tem, who now face the prospect of skyrocketing costs and devalued ed an open-ended entitlement program ucation caused by the most cynical for people who don't need it? political ploy "enacted in the last : To aspiring college or technical session of the Kentucky General As school students wr1 don't qualify sembly in the 20th century." The Daily Independent, Ashland, Kentucky, Wednesday, January 21. 1998 King fete has many meanings_ Testimonies, ::During the march, Ruff The evening's two keynote pushed a stroller holding her speakers offered warnings to music at daughter, 5, and son, 2, "so the audience. that they can see the legacy of "The dream won't last if we Rowan event Martin Luther King and con don't carry it on," said Susan tinue his dream. They are the Ray Johnson, coordinator for By TOM LEWIS future ... 1 want them to realize the Robert H. Williams Cul OF THE DAILY INDEPENDENT i~ wasn't that Jong ago." tural Center in Lexington and · Marcher and MSU senior a 1972 MSU graduate. "The ivlOREHEAD - "Can I get history major Dan Plyler, who movement has really stagnated a witness?" the Rev. Bill Wat is white, grew up in a racially ... Dr. King is dead. He can no son repeatedly asked Tuesday longer lead us. One of us will· night at the Morehead First mixed area of Louisville and hopes eventually to earn a have to be a leader." Christian Church during this "This Is a divided country. city's annual "Unity in the Ph.D. in African-American studies. "There needs to be There is a clear line of de Community" celebration of marcation between the haves illartin Luther King Jr.'s more racial unity things around here .. . Instead of and the have-nots," added the birthday. Rev. C.B. Akins, pastor of the Each time. Watson's ques• 'them and me,' it needs to be •we,'" he said. First Baptist Church of Brack tion was answered with a col• town in Lexington. lective .. Amen!" from the John Hennen, MSU assistant professor of history, didn't Blacks need whites as their crowd of 155 - blacks and brothers and sisters, not as whites - followed by some• want people to forget that King's mission extended be their keepers, Akins said. "It's one's spontaneous explana true, we all came here on dif tion of what the King holiday yond racial issues. ferent ships, but we're all in means. "When King was assas the same boat together now." "This is a true day of per sinated, he was standing up severance ... said Demetrius for the rights of public em Akins said A fr i can Wheeler. who is studying ployees in Memphis," Hennen Americans need a revolution, communications at Morehead said, and King wrote a pro but not the .kind involving State University. found critique about the injus guns. "We need a revolution "What this day means to tices of the Vietnam War. that begins with a revelation me is that a little black girl Morehead's East Main Street that we were put here by God who grew up in Lexington was closed during the march. to be change agents in a world . Bluegrass-Aspendale can be Marchers entered the church gone wrong." at Morehead State Univer to the African rhythms of a Tuesday's celebration was sity,'' said Francene Botts percussion trio. What followed coordinated by MSU's Office of Butler. MSU's director of was a series of remarks, Minority Student Affairs and human resources. speeches, songs, Scripture the Rowan County Ministerial "What this day means to readings and poems reflecting Association. ' me is there's still something the many facets of King's lega missing ... and more work to cy. Lexington Herald-Leader be done, said Anthony David Tl1ursday, January 22. 1998 Burns. an MSU graduate stu dent studying journalism. "We should all try to help UK fraternity bans others get up to that higher plateau." Asking the question a final time. Watson testified him alcohol in chapter house: self. "Listen to those who By Julie Roller Delta international fraternity, headquar- were there. Listen to those tered in Lexin;rton. _ who sacrificed. because the HF.RALDLEADER SfAffWRITER rlrcam lives on." ,\s 1lw 1·11i,wsity of KentuckY ex Straub said the frate111itv is trving to an,id the usual negative .-\-11111ui I lous1• Indeed. the chorus of plon~s the idea of banning alcohol ln its camµuswidc h1Jusing, another fraternitv images. speakers and soloists who Altwies supponcd the derision. came to the church's podium. has gone ahead and adopted a booze free policy. "It shows that thev understand the with a portrait of King to one The LIK chapter of Phi Gamma Delta benefits and are willing to make the side, created a harmoniously voted unanimously Monday to adopt an change before 2000," he said. diverse symphony of inter- alcohol-free policy it will implement in After a pledge died at MIT last se pretations of what the King its house next month. mester, Phi Gamma Delta announced all h.oliday stands for. The fraternity's decision coincides of its chapters would go dry by the year .. Tuesday's celebration began with UK's consideration of prohibiting 2000, a plan shared by other national with a chilly, candlelight alcohol in all of its housing. fraternities Sigma Nu, Phi Sigma Kappa march from the MSU campus David Stockham, UK dean of stu and Ph.i Delta Theta. to the church. Marchers con dents, said alcohol-free chapter houses At UK, both Sigma Nu and Phi Sig gregated at the base of MSU's are a trend for the future. UK is looking ma Kappa have chapters. Little Bell Tower - which at the possibility of campus-wide, alco Jay Tipton, 18, a Phi Gamma Delta bears the words "love, wisdom hol-free housing, he said yesterday. member, likes the new policy. • • • I "It does make our insurance ~J_i!_tle service, JUShce" on Its four "This (frat) is the frst one to say ,ides - words fitting for the hey, we're doing it right now," Stock cheaper and it won ·t be that big of a• Jccasion. _bam said. "Th.ey are on th.e cutting change," he said. Michelle Ruff, a black grad edge." Stockham said alcohol-free policies ~ate student In communica Bill Straub, 22, president of UK's Phi probablv won't curb fraternity drinking;: tions at MSU, said when she Gamma Delta chapter said the fraterni "Rules don't always change behavior,•· µiought of her ancestors eating ty's ban doesn't eliminate liquor. "We're he said. . ll1 segregated restaurants, by no means saying th.at you can't drink Last October, UK's Sigma Alpha Ep:· ~sing segregated bathrooms if you're 21," he said. ''You just have to silon chapter lost its charter after allega,· and drinking from segregated do it somewhere else." tions of underage drinking and hazing water fountains, it brought The policy will ban. alcoh.ol from the pledges by showering them with·beer. tears to her eyes. ch.apter h.ouse and grounds in order to The chapter denied all the charges. Ari provide a "safe, clean, study-conducive investigation by the national organiza'' living condition," said Nick Altwies, as tion found no evidence of physical haz-. sistant executive director of Ph.i Gamma ing or forced drinkin~, b~t it did fmd ~; "measure of wrongdomg. ' . . 'ilc fJailv Independent. Ashland. l\entucky. Wednesday. January 21. 1998 -Regional projects in Patton's budget Priorities for surplus due Friday By SUSAN WARREN teractive television classroom this spring with a $500,000 op studio for long-distance -learn erating budget over the bien INDEPENDENT FRANKFORT BUREAU ing, will have state-of-the-art nium. An additional $70,000 classrooms, laboratories and was allocated from the General FRANKFORT - More faculty offices. Fund for operating and ·starr money for schools. roads and A Head Start program that ing the Yatesville Lake camp infrastructure needs would will be displaced by the reno ground. flow into Eastern Kentucky vation will receive a new Patton promised to increase over the next two years under home, to be paid for with the amount of coal severance the spending plan proposed $576,000 in federal funding and tax collections available to Tuesday by Gov. Paul Patton. $144,000 from MSU. counties to 35 percent in the But Patton delayed until Fri The budget authorized $6.6 first year and 38 percent in the day the release of his much million for construction of a second year of the biennium. anticipated plan to spend regional post-secondary edu Currently, it's 31 percent. That money from what could be a cation center on the campus of would leave the return 12 per $500 million surplus. a pro• Prestonsburg Community Col cent short of the 50 percent au posal that some Eastern Ken lege. The 33,000-square-foot thorized by the General As tucky lawmakers hope will in project represents a collabora sembly. clude a number of special tive elTort of all post-secondary The governor recommended . projects for their districts. institutions in the region. increasing the percentage/ 3 Capital construction funding Sites have not officially been percent a year starting with for Morehead State University, chosen for some 1,800 new me the year 2000 to get it up to the first-time funding for opera dium-security prison beds for 50 percent. tion of the marina at Yates men that also will be financed Patton also funded for the ville Lake and increased re by bond sales. Patton did say first time an OITice of Coal turn of coal-severance tax that more than one prison may County Development to pro money were among allocations be in the offing. Several East mote diversification In coal included in the executive bud ern Kentucky lawmakers have counties. Recommended by the get. said that two prisons would be Kentucky Economic Develop Setting priorities for spend built, one in Elliott County ment Partnership Board, the and the other in Knott. The o!Tice would identify eligible ing the surplus proved to be budget includes $3.4 million difficult, Patton said. counties for specific infra for site acquisition and prison structure projects. Funding for "I will have the list no later design. than Friday even if it upsets the o!Tice, which would be lo Sites also are up in the air cated in the Economic Devel everyone in the common for three of four new 48-bed se wealth," Patton joked during a opment Cabinet, was recom cure juvenile detention cen mended at $645,000 over the bi press briefing. ters, authorized at $5.3 million It is from the surplus ac ennium. each. Patton has said one of The governor also recom count that funding for the Par the centers would be located amount Arts Center renova mended $230,000 worth of cor near Interstate 64 between porate tax credits contained ·in tion, new money for the Ken Ashland and Morehead. Rep. proposed legislation to en tucky Highlands Museum. golf John Vincent, R-Ashland, is courage Job training. Similar courses at Grayson and Yates pushing for a Boyd County legislation sponsored by · Rep. ville lakes and other one-time site. Rocky Adkins, D-Sandy Hook, spending projects would come. Dilapidated schools in East during the 1996 session was ap "Everybody's happy to be on ern Kentucky and across the proved by the House but killed the list: nobody's happy to be state, some built by the Works in the Senate. on the bottom of the list," Pat Progress Administration in Adkins said $2.5 million for ton noted. The list will include the Roosevelt administration, renovation and expansion of some 150 projects_.totaling $500 will be replaced with the help the Elliott County courthouse million, Patton said. but ac of $62.5 million in new bonding would be included in the Judi knowledged it was doubtful capacity for the School Facili cial budget, which has not yet that all of them could be fund· ties Construction Commission. been released. · · _- · ed. Rep. John Will Stacy, D-West Patton provided no details The projects would be given Liberty, chairman of the bud on specific Road Fund projects, priority based on geographic get review subcommittee on which are expected to be an- education, is trying to come up nounced soon. · and political fairness, as well with a way to earniark a por as need, he said. , tion of that money to go where How many of the projects be the need is greatest. · come reality depends on Ken Patton recommended new tucky's economy. Patton said bonding authority to generate the $500 million estimate was funds to match federal revenue optimistic and would require available for water and sewer the economy ·to remain as line extension. The governor strong as it is now. An eco proposed spending $5.6 million nomic downturn would reduce for the sewer fund and $5 mil the figure. · , · ·,,r- · -.~ i: • · · lion for, .. the·. drinking water The pi'oposed'''$14 :· million program, both'of which would· renovation 'oftlfreckinridge be allocated ·to Jo~ -~ommuni Hall' at "MSU was f:nicluded in ,ties. Speciflc.,pr6)ects,havi;i nQ.t Patton's. propose'd~apital con ,been named, but East/)rn:Ken,, stru·c't'ion1•·but1ge{ifitiHt11~ t r1- tiJ.cky's need Jo~ ~11c,h \nfra-. nanced by .the sale orbonds. structure has· been well- The refurbished . hall, which - documented. · · .J·•·:,. • will house theater~:,·p~ublic •a The new marina at .. Yates•• radio, stud!!_nt,J!!~Y.~!1n-_pro v,llle Lake .. is _expected·to.open . ductlon programs·_anilfliil•' in- Thursday. January 22. 1998 Georgetown athletes learning to make the cut with etiquette By Jefferson George ::ENTRAL KENTUCKY BUREAU CEORGETO\\"N - You'd think nothing could rar Minding their manners , le James Ra\'. :tanding r3ller than o feet and \\·eighinl! 330 Athletes at Georgetown Co llege are learning abo ut ;,ounds. t!1e ~~orgeto\rn College foo tball player casts etiquette so they can better represent the school at 111 1mpo~111g t1gure. As a lineman. Ra y bench-presses formal dinners and other events. A list for football dose to :->00 pounds. and probably gi\'es opponents sec players called "Tiger md thoughts about facing him on the tield. Yet here he \\'as bemg sacked by sugar packers. Touchdowns" ,.,alad dressmg and a lot of silverware. includes these Ray and about :30 other players a-aded in helmets reminders: and pads [o!· coats and ties this week as part of an eti- 1ue~te trammg program at Georgetown College. If the ~emng was classy. the practice still was grueling, with ·1s many rules to remember as a team playbook. Frnm negotiati~g through multiple forks. spoons tnd kmves - sramng outside and moving toward the plate - to holding themseh·es to one roll at a time. the players 1ackle9_ ~roper dining conduct through a pro L.'Tam school othcials say 1s unique among L' .. colleges and uniwrsities. In rhe program - required for ;di Ceorgeto\rn College .nhlete· --rart111g next school \"ear - ::i tU· dems are taught formal dining eti quette. "a lost a rt" in today's fast iood rnlture. college Presidenr Bill Lroucn said. Ymmg people olten ., gTO\\' up not learning proper table ti " manners. he said. " ..\II you han: to do is go to any 1. Kick off with intro~ons. I I -;chool catetena in the country," 2. Huddle and be sure to Crouch said. include those around you in / I But \\·h1le lrxitball teams at other conversation. ~chool tocus 011 :-.plin ing ot ien:;e:-,. 3. Don't sack the conversation Georgetown pl.i ~'ers keep :;air and by including religion, politics or pepper together. Instead of \\'orking sex. I only to shake defenders. players hold napkins in their laps. Looking 4. Watch illegal use of the ior a touchdown signal has bt!en hands. When you're not eaung. joined by a fork face-clown on a plate hands are quiet and 111 your ar the 3 o'clock position the inter- lap. 11a11011al s i,CTJ for "I hJ\'e rinisht' THE COURH:R-JOURMAL • FRIDAY, JANUARY 23, 1998 UK fraternity decides to ban alcohol LEXINGTON, Ky. - The University of Kentucky chapter of Phi Gamma Delta will implement an alcohol-free policy next month. The fraternity's decision coincides with UK's consideration of pro hibiting alcohol in all of its housing. The fraternity's policy will ban alcohol from the house and grounds to provide a "safe, clean, study-conducive living condition," said Nick Altwies, assistant executive director of Phi Gamma Delta internation al fraternity, whose headquarters are in Lexington. Lexington Herald-Leader Friday, January 23, 1998 Some medical students woilld get help with tuition and Revenue committee yesterday. ry care physicians. three medical schools. Patton wants aid for new Pikeville school Tuition at the Pikeville college - Osteopathic medicine focuses largely on But yesterday, Tony Goetz, who han which began enrolling medical students family care practice. dles UK's lobbying in Frankfort, said UK By Angie Muhs Pikeville College's school of osteopathic this school year - is $22,000 a year. Each would not oppose the scholarship provi HERALD-LEADER FRANKFORT BUREAU medicine, state budget director Jim Ramsey Patton, who is from Pikeville, has year's entering class is 60 students. sion. The scholarship offer is unlikeh• to said. served on the college's board and has said · ·FRANKFORT - Tuition for Kentucky hurt UK's ability to get students, he said. residents attending a new osteopathic med The money would come from the coal Tuition at the UK and U of L medical in the past that he has donated money to ical school in Pikeville would drop by more severance tax collected by the state from schools for state residents is $8,400 a year the school. Goetz, an associate dean in UK's med than $13,000 a year under a scholarship coal-producing counties. - or $13,600 cheaper than at Pikeville. Sen. Benny Ray Bailey, the Senate bud ical school, said the funding was not a sur pr.o,·ision in Gov. Paul Patton's proposed The scholarships would be offered to The osteopathic medical school at get committee's chairman, is an Eastern prise because Bailey had told UK officials budget. Kentucky residents to make the Pikeville Pikeville College, a private school, had been Kentuckian who has long been an advocate that he would seek such a measure. . 'That budget would allocate about $1 college's tuition equal to that charged by pitched by people who argued that doctors of improving health care in the region . "This just helps their students with the million in the 1998-99 budget year and the medical schools at the University of educated in Eastern Kentucky are more Before the osteopathic medical school tuition," Goetz said. "We've been answering about $1.6 million in the next year toward Kentucky and the University of Louisville, likely to stay there and address that re opened, some officials at UK and U of L questions and being as helpful to the folks scholarships for in-state students at Ramsey told the Senate Appropriations gion's scarcity of doctors, especially prima- had questioned whether the state needs in Pikeville as we can." THE COURIER~JOURNAL • FRIDAY, JANUARY 23, 1998 ' The Daily Independent, Ashland, Kentucky, Thursday, January 22. 1998 RadonatWKU Radon is a naturally WKU will move 3 e~p!oyees, forces moves occurring, colorless, BOWLING GREEN - odorless radioactive gas Three employees have been that has been linked to lung 3 students to avoid rad.on gas moved to new offices at cancer. Although the Western Kentucky Environmental Protection University, an'd three Agency has issued Associated Press sity said in a statement. The areas all Although the EPA has issued rec recommendations, it does tested at levels above which the U.S. ommendations, it does not have reg students will be moved to new housing because of not have regulatory BOWLING GREEN, Ky. - High Environmental Protection Agency ulatory authority in radon cases, and authority concerning radon, levels of radon gas have led Western recommends some action be taken Western's testing program is volun high levels of radon gas. Kentucky University to move three within a few months. tary. The university and Western's testing program is voluntary. employees to new offices and to plan In the Kentucky Building, where A radon expert from Auburn Uni announced Wednesday that to move three students to new hous three offices and a storage room it had completed a The university said in a ing: · were affected, three employees have versity, Jack Hughes, was on the statement that isolated The university announced Wednes been moved. In Central Hall, the Western campus this week to make preliminary radon survey recommendat10ns for reducing radon of nearly 1.800 rooms and areas in the Kentucky day· that it had completed a-prelimi . high reading was in an apartment Building, Central Hall and nary radon survey of nearly 1,800 that is vacant. In Zacharias Hall, levels. He said options can range found three problem areas. rooms and found three problem three students living in two rooms from sealing cracks in floors and Zacharias Hall showed areas. will be moved. foundations to changing ventilation readings greatly above what ··Radon is a naturally occurring, The testing also indicated that and filtration systems. is recommended for colorless, odorless radioactive gas there are potential trouble areas in Radon seeps from the ground and residential structures. The . that \)as b~en linked to lung cancer. other parts of the campus. The uni enters buildings through cracks and areas all tested at levels ]l.ooms m three structures - the versity will conduct tests in those other openings in foundations and above which the EPA K~ntucky Building, Central Hall and areas over six to nine months to de areas in contact with the ground. recommends action. Zacharias Hall - showed readings termine the average radon risk, said South-central Kentucky's karst, or greatly above what is recommended Charlotte Reeder, WKU environmen cave, topography allows the gas to fo_r r~sidential structures, the univer- tal health and safety coordinator. travel to the surface more easily. . , /11/";l t CliJ." 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;" SUNDAY. JANUARY 25 1998 ~xhibits celebrate 'Miss America of Folk Art' In 1990, the Adkinses began hold DIANE HEILENMAN ists the two have inspired. · ing their annual picnic. In 1991 her , Courier-J oumal But she just about quit art this work was part of the_ decor of ~ winter, the 63-year-old Adkins said. swishy house featured m Metropoli linnie Adkins likes to keep busy, One of her last works was a quilt tan Home magazine. In 1992 she . it shows. she did while waiting with her hus won the first Jane Morton Norton : shows in the hun band at the hospital. Award from Centre College in Dan ds of folk-art collec- His death from cancer ville, Ky., given because of Adkins' ; from Bill Cosby to in November, while role as an artist, businesswoman and •llis George who own expected, was still a art patron - roles Norton had filled cins' distinctive huge blow: "I just from a more sophisticated and 1ed and painted ani didn't think I could go wealthy base in Louisville. s. It shows in the on." Also in the 1990s, Adkins was nber of awards she The two met 4 7- named an Appalachian Treasure by won for her art and years ago when he bor Morehead State University; received inspiration to self rowed a shovel to dig the Outstanding Leadership in East lht Kentucky artists. out his truck, which Kentucky Award, also from More [er latest award will was stuck in mud. For head; and was tap~ed by the Folk be Kentucky Gover the past 25 or so years Art Society of Amenca for an Award 's Award for lifetime they collaborated daily, of Distinction. inction in the arts. It making art at her child > be presented Feb. hood home on Pleasant It wasn't all easy. n Frankfort. Adkins Valley Farm in Elliott Garland Adkins - chided by his be proof of Adkins' County. It's a place wife in a self-portrait s~ul~ture in JS!Iy also shows in an exhibition some people now call Minnieville. scribed "Garland and Mmn1e are so mrks by her and her late hus- In the collaboration, Garland Ad funny one likes art, and one likes d, Garland Adkins, on display at kins would rough out the shapes of money" - had been known to say Kentucky Art and Craft Galleiy the cows, horses, pigs, bears, foxes he was only making art for the mon ouisville. It is accompanied by and other animals they created. ey. Later, he conceded, "it becomes ,xhibition of works by folk art- Minnie Adkins would finish off the more than that.•· carving and paint the sculptures. Early on in the art-making effort, a It has only been in the past few woman watching Minnie Adkins weeks that she has been able to pick carve her blocky, stylized animals up a knife and paintbrush again. observed: "I think you need some art ------"!'f She had done a horse, she said, lessons." ', YOU go • • • changing the tail slightly, making it Adkins said she has always whit The Kentucky Art and Craft more bushy and dramatic than the tled, ridden horses and been a gener ;alleiy, 609 w. Main St., is more plain and simple tails her hus- al tomboy. Her art and the business •pen from JO a.m. to 4 p.m. band shaped. of art are part of the Lord's work, londays through Saturdays. No one would expect less spunk she said, and "if it pleases Him, from the woman called the "Miss that's ~ood enough for me." "Master Makers: The Art of America of Folk Art." Adkins' insight into marketing art linnie and Garland Adkins" is Minnie Adkins is Kentucky's liv- and her extraordinaiy creative ener n display through March 21. ing legend of creativity and entre gy have launched various sidelines. preneurship. With her husband, she She has branched out in the past "Minnieville: Folk Art from created an international nexus of several years with quilts and portrait linnie's Hollow," works by , folk art at Peaceful Valley Farm - sculptures as well as forays into rtists influenced by the Ad- outside Sandy Hook and near Ison- complex group scenes. She has done inses, is on display through ville - in Eastern Kentucky. a black-bear glass vase in a limited edition of 50 for. the Huntington larch 14. The farm is the site for an annual (YI. Va.) Museum of Art. June picnic that attracts "about 400" Adkins said selling is no longer a guests, Adkins said, and is devoted stru~le. to good food, good company and "It s been a lot of years since we good sales. It is a way for area folk took orders. I've got beyond orders. I artists to expand their market. just make stuff and people just come ''We think it's real helpful to all of here and pick them up. When Gar the folk artists," she said in a recent land passed away, I didn't have any telephone conversation from her one come for a couple of months," home. "I love trying to help people she said. to help themselves." She is back at work now, but not working at art eveiy day. "! don't Her emergence as a folk artist be have to do thatso much." , . gan years back when she and her • Still, she-is-active with many ven husband. went to Morehead to pick tures, among them painting animal up an unemployment check after the designs on potteiy_ thrown by Day coal company he worked for closed. ton, Ohio, ceramicist Tess Little and At the time, Minnie Adkins was sell making small carvings of animals to ing little hand-carved roosters for 50 illustrate "Bright Blue Rooster," a re cents at the Ilea market. The couple cently released book and musical stopped to look in the window of an taP,e' done with Danville musician art galleiy and left Morehead with a Mike Norris (Tarepin Productions, new notion that her untutored carv $40), - ing might be something more valu "I guess I have to have something able. to do all the time," she said. "I like "There wasn't much of a market to keep busy." fo~ folk art when we got into it," _she ' S81d,_. •.. .. , • ..,, .. ,Her'. first art sale was hi 1973, she · sald,Jiut nothing,i:eally,took_off.until I 1989;,Jvhen · -her-work ,.was; among thatfeatured in the handsome book of regional folk art; "0,Appalachia," by Ramona and Millard Lampell. - "After ..that book ·come· ·out, then pei>P,lii.'all over th·e couritiy;bega.!I to comirlieie aridvisit. lfjti'st'Created a ··t- "f • ·,~.. " Adlrin~ir-11ed. . . ~~l .. ~)'~~r..;a'!.J e_~':'~*.;~~,t J '' IL...... ,.....,.._,, llLI ,-uvunl~J-\L - IVIUl~_!JJ-\ J Jr-\l'IUMI 11 L-v, ...... I Law to broaden talent teacher through its main program - a high school drama and journalism teacher in Elizabethtown who has been teaching for five years now -· in leaching used little Texas has certified nearly 5,000 a year from 1994 to 1996. That number whether the program should be represents more than 11 percent of Few with credentials broadened. has not been a major is all the teaching licenses granted in sue before the panel. she said. the state during that time. Mary outside education But at Karem's behest, the group Gawron, the director of the Texas will reconsider its approach at its program. said entry requirements are have been hired meeting todav. Lieb said she did not actually much more selective than in know what action the board might college. By LONNIE HARP recommend to expand the program "Our program requires experience, The Courier-Journal and generate interest. a bachelor's degree, a state-mandated Karem said he will draft a bill to test and professional experience. Col . FRANKFORT, Ky. -After 12 years spell that out if the panel's sugges leges take anyone who meets the ba m the Army, Gary Hurt, a former tions aren ·1 ambitious enough. He sic grade-point-average require tank-company commander, now said he expects the issue will get a ment," Gawron said. "And we end up leads high school English classes in strong show of support from this with people who.have a heavy sense Jefferson County - thanks to a little year's legislature. of-commitment and maturity, notj'ust known state law that allowed him to "People sometimes say the General 20-year-olds who may have defau ted exchange education and work experi Assembly sees a problem and over to education because they couldn't ence for a teacher's certificate. reacts. but here is a situation where meet the requirements of some other "This is the best job I could ever it seems like the people running this program." imagine," said Hurt, who majored in program are just waiting for us to Michael Carr, the personnel direc literature and holds a graduate de overreact." Karem said. "We need a tor for the Fayette County schools, gree in human-resource development. creative. adaptive solution that is said the district's program, which is He is also a major in the Army re more aggressive and provides flexi run in cooperation with UK and fo. serve. bility. From progressive Democrats to cused on minority teachers' aides. But Hurt is one of only about 100 conservative Republicans. the legisla has worked well. He said that if alter people to benefit from the law passed ture has said that this is something native certification is expanded,. the in 1990 as part of Kentucky's educa that needs to be done." state should concentrate on areas tion reforms. And he and some law Local school officials who have such as mathematics, science and.vo makers say it's a mistake for the worked with the few non-traditional cational-technical education. where state's school districts not to use the 1eachers that Kentucky has managed schools have a shortage of teachers. law to attract new teachers. to produce say the alternative route Rita Greer, the director of. the al "You should be more concerned has enormous potential and strong ternative program for minority teach with hiring talent" than meeting ev drawing power. . ... ers that Jefferson County runs in co ery certification requirement, Hurt "I wish I could count'the number operation with the University of Lou said. "The real world has a lot of les of phone calls from parents and oth isville and Kentucky State University, sons we can pass on to kids." er people who said Jhey w~uld love said the district has been more than Alternative teacher certification, to think about teachmg," said Crtck happy with .the 31 teachers and 16 part of the Kentucky Education Re ette Todd, the teacher-training coor teachers-in-training it has enlisted. form Act of 1990, was supposed to dinator and former director of alter ''We've got former social workers, business majors and people with ex open classrooms to college-educated. native certification for the Covington school district. "But because the pertise in hospital administration," midcareer adults like Hurt who she said. "They are coming into edu lacked formal teacher training. But state's program was focusing on ~i norities, l had to turn them away, lit cation because this is where they hardly any have gotten in under the want to be. They are old enough to plan to lure talented people from out erally." Since 1993 when the program have been around and make that de side the teaching profession. cision, so they know what they In the past seven years, about 100 started. 97 adults have participated in want." people have joined the ranks of the abbreviated teacher-training pro grams run by the Fayette County. Alternative-certification programs state's 39,500 teachers through alter have a record of attracting people native certification. according to state Jefferson County and Covington school districts. Covington aban who gravitate to leadership roles. officials. Nearly all of the certificates "These are independent thinkers and were granted through recruitment doned its program after three years because officials there found it was learners." Greer said. programs for minortty teachers in Hurt, the Army officer, an Louisville. Lexington and Covington. producing teachers in areas where its is now schools were already fully staffed. English teacher at Jeffersontown THE LAW PERMITS each High School. He credits Jefferson school district to devise its own pro LAWMAKERS EXPECT resis County's alternative certification pro gram to attract, train and certify peo tance from teachers colleges and the gram for the training to launch his ple with bachelor's degrees and suit Kentucky Education Association if teaching career. able work experience. they introduce legislation to push the "It took a while to learn all the lin The Education Professional Stan program. go of schools and the bureaucracy," dards Board, which certifies teachers. Shirley Rains. dean of the Univer he said. "No matter how much you was supposed to take the lead in de sit.v of Kentuckv's College of Educa love teaching, it's a learning pro veloping the program and promoting tion said that while the alternative cess." it in districts throughout the state. certification program was included in Hurt spent two years as a teachers' It has final say over the program KERA, it goes against the grain of representative on the school council. and so far has authorized only the the reforms. He and other teachers with business minority-recruitment programs and "We've learned a lot about teach experience say that hiring motivated, certification in a few other specific ing and learning and how you apply experienced adults coufd be ·a big instances. that knowledge,_ and t~at's why w~•re gain for schools. · · · Some state lawmakers, including protective," Rams said. "At a time Nanette Smith-Abrams, a ..fonner Senate .. Democratic leader,. David when the state is calling for more ac administrative coordinator,,·,ar.• a · Karem, blame·the .17-member board countability from teachers and wants heavy-equipment distributer·' riow - compose~ largely of teachers.,a_nd them to know more and do more, teaches elementary school after be representatives -from the state's why would you want to open a door coming certified through Jefferson teacher-education colleges - for not and let more people in when. you County's program. She said her busi acting aggressively emiugn:· · · don't know how much they know ness skills and, degree in computer· Karem says the board isn't inter and how well they can perform in a science have helped her in teaching. ested enough in opening the profes classroom?" "I'm going to do this until I retire," sion to outsiders. Supporters of alternative certifica she said. "It's the best decision I ever "This needs to happen," said tion say that argument doesn't hold made." Karem, of Louisville. "It was a com ponent of KERA, and it was there UP;'What you find is that this actually even before KERA. But the way gets higher-qualifie~ peo~le . into things stand now, James Baker or teaching," said Emily Fe1stntzer, any other former U,S,c secretary ·of president of the National Center for state could not teach·social studies in Education Information, a ·private re a Kent11cky !ugh ~hool." · .Lt\),·, ' search organization in Washington, OVl!A THI! YEARS;- th1Vi;tan D.C. The- group estimates· that at dards board has discussed alternative least 60,000 people are teac!ling na tionwide with alternative certificates. certification regulations at its meet • .• • • • 'L ings "a number of times," said Susan· TEXAS 18 ONE. state that bas -Lieb, the board's executive secretary quickly expam)ed altemativ~ certifi and thestate's top teacher-eilliaition cation. On paper, its requirements and certification· official;:·Wliether are »imilar.to :l{e_ntu,cki(s: _Bilt,Wbere enough people ~-p~cipatipg,-,or.-- Kentucky.,,has._ .p~u~~,.. Q.niL.~Pe .Law to broaden talent in teaching used little Continued A SHORTCUT TO THE CLASSROOM The following is a sketch of how Kentuck}'.'s alternative certification was designed to work. The certrfrcates are allowed for any teaching discipline except special education. Prerequisites: ■ A bachelor's degree and an undergraduate grade•point average of at least 2.5. 11 Passing grades on tests of general know_ledge, . . communications skills and content of a specific teaching field. ■ An academic major or five years of work experience in a teaching field. ■ Sponsorship by a school district and an employment offer. After meeting the initial standards, candidates are granted a one-year temporary certificate and placed in a state-approv~ local•district training program. The programs would be run with the help of a college or university. Training requirements: ■ A full•time, eight-week seminar on basic teaching skills and school policies. . . ■ Half•time supervised classroom teaching for 18 weeks with weekly critiques by members of a local "professional support team" made up of the school principal, a veteran teacher, a college-faculty member and an instructional supervisor. Three formal evaluations and training on testing and child•development also would be required during the semester. .. ■ Full-time teaching for 18 weeks wrth monthly cntrques and two evaluations. By the end of the second sem_ester, the program requires completion of at least 250 hours of training.. . ■ A comprehensive evaluation by the school pnncrpal wrth a · recommendation to the state teacher-standards board whether to approve the candidate for permanent certification. The Daily Independent, Ashland. Kentucky, Saturday, January 24, 1998 Stonewalled KSU ignores open records law In another victory for the no reason for its •'repeated public's right to know, the of· failure" to honor Rice's re fice of Attorney General Ben quests, Assistant Attorney Chandler has strongly criti· Generals Amye L. Bensen cized Kentucky State Univer• haver said. "KSU had not sity for repeatedly violating one but two opportunities to the state open·records law. comply with (the records However, unlike most mat• law) .... " ters involving the state's In a second case, Robert K. open meetings and open Landrum of Lexington asked records laws, this one does on Nov. 7 to inspect regula• not involve the media. In· tions and Board of Regents stead, it involves the efforts policies that related to open of two private citizens to ob· records requests. In a return tain what are clearly public letter Nov. 13, the university records from the university. said records would. be sent to It is sometimes overlooked Landrum "as soon as ·pos that openness in government sible." On Dec. 10, Landrum is not just for the media - it complained to the attorney is for everyone. general that he had received Lacy L. Rice Jr., a Ken nothing. tucky State alumnus who Assistant Attorney General now lives in Indianapolis, James M. Ringo said the law said the university failed to requires a public agency to respond to his requests for make records available with• copies of the Student Gov in three days of receiving a ernment Association's fi. request. Or; it must give a nancial records, despite a detailed explanation for a Nov. 26 attorney general's delay. · ..... order to do so. · .. KSU'.s apparent stonewall Attorney general opinions ing. of requests.: for public are legally binding in cases records is inexcusable. Not ·or open meetings and open only is the unverisity ignor records. They can be ap• · ing the law by its inaction, pealed to circuit court, but but its reluctance is creati.J:,lg KSU had.not done so .. the impression: that it · has The university has given something to hide. Lexington Herald-Leader AS Saturday, January 24, 1998 UK faculty petition decries emphasis on athletics ,, By Holly E. Stepp said that, regardless of the decision exhaust" before it would consider with personal seat licenses - ~ERAUHEADER EDUCATION REPORTER ''I think man.1J of the faculty made about facilities for basketball, building an arena. which allow fans to purchase the ·, A group of University of Ken members are sick and tired it would not "det,•r or dilute our I !erring said the petition doesn't right to buy season tickets for cer i11cky faculty members is launching of seeing of money being dedication to our academic mis take exception to purchasing Rupp, tain seats - and corporate suites :i. campaign to convince university rai.~ed fm· athletics. " sion." adding that buying the 21-year-old with annual leases of at least administrators that academics "Tile academic programs of this arena would not likely include an $~5.000. Karen Mlngst c,hould come before basketball. UK political science professor institution will always be a higher immediate renovation. · Herring called that proposal , Concerned that the. recent de priority than our athletic pro Other faculty members who as "elitist," saying that UK basketball bate over a home for UK's men's grams," the statement reads. sisted Herring in drafting the peti has always been a unifying factor basketball can't help but detract penditures sends the wrong mes "While all of us at UK are com- . tion said that even the possibility in the slate. ftom academic goals, history pro sage about what the university mitted to academic excellence. plan that UK might solicit private funds Mings! questioned whether fessor George Herring and some thinks is important," he said. ning of our athletics programs is a for athletics is objectionable. there were enough donors to sup colleagues are circulating a petition The petition began circulating . need that also must be addressed." "I think many of the faculty port fund raising for both efforts. Ip present to university president this week and will be presented to The athletics association's members are sick and tired of see "The very people and corpora Gharles Wethington. the board of trustees and the athlet board authorized Wethington to nc• ing of money being raised for ath tions that would be interested in :, Herring, who has taught at UK ic association"s board of directors. gotiate the purchase of Rupp Are letics," said Karen Mingst, a politi buying into a new arena would be for 30 years, said the issue boils Hming said. na, an option that Lany Ivy, UK se cal science professor. the very same ones that would be down to one thing: priorities. The university administration, nior associate athletic director, said The petition also objects to a targeted for academic campaigns," "To commit to these lavish ex- in a sl:itement released yesterday. the university \\'ould "fully proposed plan to fund a ne\\' arena she said. Lexington Herald-Leader Saturday. January 24, 1998 THE COURIER-JOURMAL • SATURDAY, JANUARY 24, .t998 THE COURIEl1-JOUr~M/\l • SATURDAY, JAMUARY 24, 1998 ■ BOWLING GREEN Centre gets anonymous $1million gift Peeping Tom suspect banned at Western A DANVILLE, Ky. - Centre College has received a $I million anony BOWLING GREEN, Ky. - A Western Kentucky University assis WKU professor banned from campus: mous gift in honor of a former college president, Thomas A. Spra tant professor accused of peeping into a female student's dorm room Western Kentucky University assistant professor gens, and his wife, Catharine. The donation, announced Wednesday has been banned from campus. accused of peeping into a female student's dorm. · . during Centre's annual Founders' Day observance, will be used to Steve Dennis Boilard, an assistant professor of government, was room has been banned from campus. Steve Dennis ' endow a new scholarship fund. arrested and charged Oct. 16 with breaking the city's Peeping Tom law. Two students, Annell Butler and Monica McCullough, told police Boilard, an assistant professor of government, was : The gilt was made by a former college tmstee. Centre will use it to arrested and charged Oct. 16 with breaking the .1 ! award eight Spragens scholarships each year, starting this fall. Boilard looked into McCullough's' room at East Hall. In a pretrial diversion agreement in December, Boilard was or city's peeping Tom law. Two students, Annell dered to stay off campus for 12 months. The charges will be dropped Butler and Monica McCullough, tolci police that if he follows the order. Court documents also said Boilard no longer Boilard looked into McCullough's' room at East will be employed by the university .. Hall. In a pretrial.diversion agreement in December, Boilard was ordered to stay off campus for 12 months. The charges will be dropped if he follows the order. Court documents also said Boilard no longer will be employed by the university. ... ~n. 21 19"18 1 _!I/ISU ARCHIVES MJU 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 Lexington Herald-Leader Tuesday, January 27, 1998 Easler-teacher certification~ backed.. By Linda B. Blackford 2.5 GPA minimum. . only been used about 100 times "Thi.s givey HERALD-LEADER EDUCATION WRITER ■ Successful completion of a since 1990. Critics blame the stan the .. FRANKFORT- People with a classroom internship. dards board for protecting teacher wealth of experience and college ■ Passing whatever teachers' colleges. opportunity degrees - but wi thou! formal exam is set as criteria. "You have institutional resis for someone teacher training - may find it a. ■ Packet from local school dis tance to change," Karem said. in anotner little easier to teach in Kentucky's trict showing the standards board The proposal passed the board profession -io classrooms. why the candidate is qualified to 11-3, but not everyone embraced it. move into.the The state's teacher certification become a full-time teacher. "I have a real problem with an . board will send a streamlined al "Someone has .to take responsi individual going into a classroom classroom. " ternative certification proposal to bility for assuring this person in before demonstrating that they Ray Nystrand the General Assembly, members fact meets the standards," Nys can teach," said Tim Deadman, a dean of the decided yesterday. trand said. board member and a Fayette University of 1 "This gives the opportunity for The· alternative certification County teacher. Louisville S'.~ someone in another profession to proposal is a favorite subject of Rita Greer, the hiring director College of.'~ move into the classroom," said Senate Majority Leader David for Jefferson County schools, said Education antl ·a Karem, who has promised to spon she thought the proposal could member of the Ray Nystrand, the dean of the Uni Education: ~ versity of Louisville's College of sor legislation. help districts with specific· teacher Professional'· Education and a member of the "For years the legislature has shortages. For example, she can Standards , Education Professional Standards been trying to allow for those now go to libraries to try to recruit Board Board. unique individuals who could con school librarians, which are in Hopeful but uncertified teach tribute an enormous amount to ed- short supply in Jefferson County . ers would have to meet the follow . ucation and it ought to be made "That's the kind of person I ing requirements: easier for people who want to do would be looking for," she said. ■ 10 years of exceptional· ex that," Karem said yesterday. "But I don't think we should use it perierice. The state has an alternative as a carte blanche." ■ A bachelor's degree with a · certification program, but it has THE COURIER-JOURNAL• TUESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1998 THE COURIER-JOURNAL• T~~SDAY, JANUARY_~?. 1998 Second-careerteachers 'Patton lists projects, N AN IDEAL world, all qualified to teach in those areas. teachers would be experts The core problem isn't board priorities for surplus in the subject matter they recalcitrance but professional teach and have degrees tradition. For years, efforts to . ·h d f' 1 fromI colleges that excel in train move education forward have Amount this year t e current an next :sea years on these proJ· eels. (His plan calls for ing great educators. In reality, been constrained by the state's finding qualified teachers is a certification process, which likely to be enough spendinggovernment the restcomputer on school technology and state constant struggle, especially for prizes inputs - specific require- , and putting part in the state's Rainy urban schools, and many class ments - over i:esults. E!'f?rts. to fOf top 41 Of 139 . Day fund to protect against unfore- rooms are led by insufficiently adopt alternal!ve certification seen budget woes.) prepared teachers. programs are hindered by old The governor said yesterday he is That's why it makes sense for laws, regulations and ap- By TOM LOFTUS confident the state will show a sur- Kentucky to prod the Education proaches to teaching. Rather The Courier-Journal plus of about $300 million at the end Professional Standards Board to than helping mature adults who I of the current fiscal year on June 30. accelerate the development of possess college degrees ease : FRANKFORT, Ky. - Gov. Paul That would be enough to fund the alternative certification pro into teaching after careers in , Patton finally released his much-an- JQJ>..11 projects on his list. The re' grams for college-educated business, manufacturing and the ticipated spending plan for surplus maining 98 projects would have. io adults who yearn to teach but military, the requirements im- furids yesterday. The costs of the wait until it is known whether the lack formal teacher training. pede them by being too narrow projects range from $20 ll!illion to state has a surplus on June 30, 1999. The board needs to stop idling and rigid. move families living near Louisville The state would need a $200 million and start moving. Developing Certainly teacher certification International Airport to $20,000 for surplus then to fund the rest of the such programs was mandated guidelines must be in synch each of three small fire departments. projects on t~e list. , by the Kentucky Education Re with the goals and objectives of In between are projects of every Patton said the task of r.a~k:ng education reform. And of course size and description: community cen- hundreds of reque~ts was d:ff:cult, form Act of 1990, but so far the they must be based on high ters, water and sewer lines, airport and he appeared relieved to hand the results are slim: Only about 100 d d Th al h Id b expansions courthouse and J'ail ren- ma!(er 9ver to the-General ,¥sembly, people have become teachers s t an ar s. ey so s au e . . • . I wh:ch 1s sure to change rt before through alternative certification. enlightened and acknowledge ?Vations, induStrnal parks, state pa:k passing the plan later this session. Meanwhile many math, science that the expertise schools need 1!'1provements that include $27 m:I- ; "I've done my part. I've already and special education classes doesn't always have to be ac- hon for 11 golf courses, and mo~ey taken my licks for making my judg are taugh~ by people who aren't quired the way grandma got it. for a dozen museums and performing ments," Patton said. " ... Being at arts cent~rs.. . . the top of the list is better than being ~atton s hst ranks_proJects by pm- at the bottom of the list. But being on or:ty, __llecause fundnng for the _139 the list is better than being off the project~ is contingent on the state list. An.~ .!_here's probaply just as producing surpluses the next two many prliJects off the hsf as there years, a project's ranking on the list were put on." 1s crucial. · The governor said he drew up the The top two priorities are veterans' list based on recommendations from nursing homes proposed for Knott and Hopkins count:es. Last on the list is a sewage treatment plant for Carlisle County. The list names projects in 80 coun ties. Patton's plan is to spend nearly hail of any available surplus from the state's General Fund at the end of THE COURIER-JOURNAL• TUESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1998 139 community projects listed in Patton's order of priority The C-J Frankfort B~reau Technology, Floyd, $2,640,000 65. Cutshinwaterprqectleslie, $250,000 30. Versai11esNJoodford County community center. $3 6G. Mason County water lines, $150,000 104. Greenup County athletic comple•. $250.000 These are· the 139 community de million 105. Lou1svi!le Science Center mobile exhibits, Jeffer- 31. Country Music Han of Fame, Rockcastle, 67. Bath County courthouse renovation. $700,000 son, $500,000 • velopment projects that Gov. Paul $2,168,000 68, Custer water lines, Breckinridge, $550,000 69. Camp Nelson Civil War Battlefield, Jessamine, $1 106. Franklin downtown development, Simpson, Patton wants to fund with the state's 32. Coca.COia Museum, Hardn, $2 million ·million $20~000 33. RadclittNine Grove industrial park, Hardin, 107, Hickman-Fulton County riverport, $700,000 surplus, listed in order of prioritv. $000,000, 70. Regional jail, Owsley/LeeNJolfe countias, $500.000 1. Veterans' nursing home, Perry County, $4,7~5.000 71. Oldham County sewers, $3 million 108. Western Kentucky tourism center, Grayson, 2. Veterans' nursing home, Hopkins, $4,725,000 34. Bluegrass Museum, Daviess, S3 million 72. Lake Malone road, Muhlenberg, $173,000 $200.000 3. Cincinnati-Northern Kentucky International Airport 35. Murray State University renovation of animal health 109. Robertson County water project, $200.000 technology center, Calloway. $700.000 73. Mount Olivet sewer project, Robertson, $400,000 improvements, Boone, $17 million 74. Pennyrile Golf Course renovation, Christian, $3 110. Maintenance money for parks, $4 million 4. Louisville lntemational Airport, relocation of homes, 36. Maysville Community College campus at Cynthi million 111. Fleming County industrial land purchase, Jefferson. 520 million ana, Harrison, $2.5 million $300.000 37. Renovation of building for local arts council and 75. Job Training Center, Fayette, S2 m1llion 5. Coldstream Research campus infrastructure, F,1/ 76. Salyersville waste-water plant expansion, Magoffin, 112. Park improvements, Fayette, $4 milb'on etta, $5.5 mHHon historical society, Edmonson, $950,000 $50~000 113. Beacon House, home for recovering substance- 6. Columbia sewer lines, Adair, $2 million 38. Cumberland golf course purchase, Harlai;i, $1 million 77. Red Fox golf course, Knott, S3 million abuse patients, Jefferson, $250,000 , 1 7. Adair County industrial park develapment, $500,000 78. Louisville Zoo exhibit, Jefferson, $2 million 114. Kincaid Lake golf course, Pendleton. S3 million , 8. Green County industrial park development, 39; Lincoln County senior citizens center, $360,000 40. Pike County civic center, S6million 79. Flatwoods infrastructure, Greenup, $75,000 115. Nicholasville swimming pool, Jessemine, $4SO,OOO . 80. Paramount Theater eKPansion, Boyd, $2,160,000 $600,000 9. Russell County industrial perk development, 41. Paintsville Lake campground, Johnson, $2,850,000 81. Hart County jail, $600,000 116. Black Oak speculative building, Lowis, $100,000 42. Grayson County courthouse renovation, $150,000 1 $100,000 82. Powell County volunteer fire districts, $300,000 117, Manchester emergency service, Clay, $125,000 1o. AlJSS81I County gas line, $2 millior\ 43. Montgomery County community center, $1 million 83. Marshall County/Draffenville sewers, $500,000 44. Greenup County water project, $525.000 118. West Liberty water plant. Morgan, $1 million 11. Greenbo Lake state park waste-water plant, 84. Perryville Battlefield development, Boyle. $800,000 119. Farm youth center, Grayson, $50,000 Greenup. Srmillion 45. Lost River infrastructure, Warren, 5125,000 Grayson l...al(e Golf Course, Carter, $500,000 120. Knob Lick water lines, Estill, $300,000 46. Kentucky Railway Museum, Nelson, $500,000 85. 12. Rough River Marina improvements, Grayson coun 86. Major infrastructure improvements at state parks, • 12L Marshall County rescue squad, $20.000 ty. $800,000 47. Kentucky Center for the Arts renovation, Jefferson, $4.5 m~hon $4 m~Iion 122. Joh.nson County rescue squad building, 13. Barren RivPr dock replacement. Barren, $450,000 87, MetcalfeCOuntyparl<, $150,000 ,1 $125,000 . ' 14. Audubon Goll Course erosion contro~ Henderson, 48. Cokjstream Research Campus research building, 88. Menifee County wellness center, $50,000 ' $300,000 Fayette, $1.2 million 123. Hacker Volunteer Fire i;>epartment, Clay. 520,000 89. RiverPark Center, Daviess, $3 million 124. Horse Creek Volunteer Fire Department, Clay, 15, Boonesborough Electric upgrade, Madison, 49, Tollesboro industrial site, Lewis,.S250,000 50. Water lines, L.aRue and Nelson counties, $1 million 90. Meade County riverport. $600,000 $20,000 SSBS,000 91. Black OakNanceburg wate_rlines, Lewis, $200,000 125. Highview Hilt Park, Ohio, $100,000 16. Jefferson Davis Monument repair, Todd, S450.000 51. Clay County sewer lines, $1.9million 52. Marion County community center. $300.000 92. Business-development job-training incubator, Fay 126. Hardin County library, $40,000 17. Cumberland Falls water lines, Whitley, $550,000 ette. $1,050,000 1Z7. Vanceburg depot renovation, Lewis, $50,000 18. Whitehall heating and air conditioning, Madison. 53. Mayfield/Graves County senior citizens center, 93. Morehead State University wellness center, Row S175,000 $700,000 12a Mason County clerk office remodeling, $150,000 an, ssoo,ooo 129. LoganfTodd counties regional waler project, $2 19. Blue Llcks lodge, Robertson, $2.5 mmion 54. Underground Railroad artifacts, $50,000 94. East Clark County water lines, $400.000 55. Minor improvements within state parks system, $5 million 20. Dale Hollow lodge, Cumberland, $1.5 million million 95. Dare to Care warehouse, Jefferson, $250,000 130. Dale Hollow golf course, Cumberland, $500,000 21. Pineville golf course, Bell, $3 million 96. Cumberiand golf course improvements, Harlan, $2 131. Anderson County park, $150,000 22. Louisville riverfront land for baseball stadium, 56. "Exceptional Center" for people with mental/deve mnuon ., Jefferson. $4 mmion , lopmental disabOities. Marshall, $100,000 132. Sconsville water project, Allen, $250.000 57. Grayson County airport renovation, $200.000 97. Mason County jail remodeling, $250.000 133. Menifee County community education center, 23. Four Rivers Arts Center, McCracken, $12 million 98. Old Kentucky Home golf course, Nelson, $2.4 $50,000 24, Bowling Green-Warren County airport, $6 million 58. Park City park improvements, Barren, $50,000 million 59. Cave City downtown improvements, Barren, 134. Henderson riverfront improvement. Henderson, : 25. Berea Artisans Center, Madison $6 million $100,000 99, Group homes for mentally disabled, Fayene, $1 $1.Smi!lion 26. Hindman Educational Complex, Knott, $.3 million million Z7. Washington County water lines, $2 million 60. Garter County water lines, $600,000 100. Water systems, Ohio, $500,000 135. Jackson County vocational school, $2 million 61. Berea sewer improvements, Madison. $300,000 136. Farm preseivatioo program, Fayette, $750,000 28. Yatesville Lake golf course and road, Lawrence, $6 101. Wilderness Trace child development center, million 62. East Pulaski community park. Pulaski, $40,000 Boyle, $450,000 137. lniington community development, Breckinridge, 63. Mineral Mound golf course, Lyon. $5 million $50,000 29. East Kentucky Center tor Science, Math and 64. Williamsburg airport, WM!ey, $2 mmion 102. Clay County education center, $235.000 . 103. Nicholas County public health building. $400,000 138. Greenup County911 sys1em, $35,000 139. Carlisle County sewaQe treatment, S900.000 THE COURIER-JOURNAL• TUESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1998 Top gradu~tes may come with Jefferson schools also may award gu~r~J!_t~_e 'mastery' diploma THE JEFFERSON COUNTY GUARANTEE Under S~perint~dent Staph.en Daeschner's proposal, students who By VEDA MORGAN meet certain requirements would be given a "diploma with mastery and THOMAS NORD endorsement." It al'! e"'!ployer, university or technical school found The Courier-Journal those students lacking m knowledge or competence during the year after they graduated from high school, the school district would retrain Jefferson County's school superin the former students at no expense tci the employer, the school or the tendent wants to guarantee emploY, graduate. · Business leaders, principals and district staff set standards tor two ers and colle~es that top students w!II proposed diplomas - the basic diploma and the diploma w~h mastery perform satisfactorily within their endorsement. The school s ~em also would offer something less than first year of graduation or the school a diploma- a "certtticate o1 completion'' - for students who merely system will retrain them for free. pass the required number of classes. The idea was proposed last night Here are the standards for the two diplomas. by Superintendent Stephen Daesch ner as part of a wide-ranging plan to improve competency of students in t~l~~lglim:c~JP!~~ .· ·-,/~!Y/Jfatt~l£1!1i:;r~1JJ;1r · all grade levels . i,-: ~.-itlo[lo,·-:c,'.~.ih'iw.rf,~yliof:ia&_· .oliowlng•·~,:jg'<;fl'll~m!@~.'~t~~•,(md,.,,,I . A few school systems in the United ~1~11tA"2'o'ijfadi!lo1tlt'av~if1n·core'st:16jecilt1;1!!;,,~r,~:f}P States offer so-called "student war ranties," but there is little data to m:!;=~~tbv,;~.ci~fs1gtJi;ymt~tfiJ~iif;,:J~1;nri1:!~f'fJ,;\~~Jf~fJ:.;t-'4+1i1. show whether they work, said Kathy pJtficti~!1fa6iiifulW~t6igi~~;\1~tl,S';;',[;'ill~!,;c1;'/m,; Christie, a policy analyst with the ff-f■' '.'f,tlf: Denver-based Education Commission ;t■ Ascore ot appr.~ilJic~:pf:.~i>~ ii/idi119~¼-fil~~-hlict~alii~ii,:;h of the States. She said few students covered by · ';'iii ~-:!,~~f afi~';Jn'i'i~;~tioii~i~·~J;,9'.~J~dff6 :· ~-, :/; :~;t such guarantees have been sent back II A score of apprentice or above ·on math portfolio 'to high school or agreed to go back. ■ An academic or technical major "Put yourself in the shoes of the graduate," she said. "They've already. graduated, and now you want to send Jfoif:i](jMM ,irRl ' itirffit(eii"'oafeMe"" . \i;(GRAD,UATE,GtJARANTEED)tlJZ}s'tir~',l/il>~i,jl/,~s';c 1•. 4' , them back to their old high school ''''' ', and sit in with the seniors?" ,,c:;;,:rnel•t1"·'•i···-·1.:-···tw····d·. stiideht m1.1s1 mea'°nuire~ls ,-,,,, ...... ,ll '\if'"·.. ,.. !!S)SL,1pqrn~,scp_~e. ·ctr :mpre ...,. ,:, ~Vii! •!?~a1.1V:v~. •.i.r.fl.a. .J[lg,!!'lq,9n math·and·wrtt1ng,poitfohos;, pass·a,,;'t' ·No graduate is compelled to return K(R!?IT'PJi!erJ~~t;.pay,e_J1QJcaqe[J1li; of!~chriicalirfaJot{arid·have fl\ie'of llia to school for retraining under , seven tollciwmg items·~.-,,. ,n,·· "'" .,, ..... ,,,,., .. ~~,-w~,,. · ···" · ··•· ·•~ .... -- 1 2 Daeschner's plan, but the district j ,;:: ■ -~ 2.s:g·r~d~POlnfitJ};~firi:J8lf i·tHJ~@~!~)l}ff-; l?~'.:1;Y~~-»\ '~-~ ri might offer classes or computer soft ' ': ■ 100 hours offielcl.~pefience, lngliiding 30 hours oi service learni~g ware to help them. ■ 93 percent attendance in high school · · · " : · .. If a graduate was working or at · tendin~ college out of town, the dis ■ P., score of proficient or higher In two o! eight areas on the KIRIS test trict might pay for him or her to take II A senior project . · · ·; · . .. · courses elsewhere, Daeschner said. ■ Evidence of having taken an Advanced Placement test or the La Vonda Willis, 17, a senior at International baccalaureate exam Male High School, said that it would ■ "Necessary skills" as determined by principals staff and local be a disgrace to be sent back to high business leaders · , ' school. La Vonda, a Governor's Schol ar who aspires to be a laW)'.er, a_lso released yesterday, students would said, "If our school system 1s domg A spokesman for the Kentucky still be given those tests, but there Department of Education said no the 1· ob it's supposed to do, there would be other ways to measure stu district in the state guarantees its wou dn't he a need for this type of dent progress, such as writing port graduates; Jefferson County cited program. 11 But Mike Bose, a vice president of folios. The goal is not to use stan one district in the nation, in Oregon, dardized tests exclusively to evalu that does so. the Louisville Area Chamber of Com ate students. Jefferson County officials said merce, applauded the proposal: "Dr. Tests would be given at each that the North Clackamas School Daeschner is putting his money grade level - not just 10' students District in Milwaukie, Ore., about where his mouth is. . .. The school leaving elementary and middle eight miles southeast of Portland, of system is saying, 'We back our prod school - and the results would be fers a certificate of mastery and uct.'" used to determine how well students guarantees the performance of the Daeschner also wants a more dis have mastered basic skills, graduates who have one. School of tinct ranking of achievement at Students who were struggling ficials there didn't return phone graduation. For instance, a student would still move on to the next calls. · who completes only the required grade level, but they would receive Christie, of the Education Com number of classes would receive a additional help in the areas where "certificate of completion," rather mission .of the States, a non-profit they fell short and would be research group, said that although than a diploma. grouped in classes with other strug Students who do better would get warranties work for things such as gling students. cars and dishwashers, students are one of two new diplomas - a mid Daeschner's plan also includes level "basic diploma" or one with teacher training and the establish not cars and dishwashers. She also "mastery endorsement." Skills of .men! of standards of achievement questioned the district's proposal to graduates with the higher diploma for each grade. · .. guarantee only students at the mas would be guaranteed. Laura Kirchner, president of the tery level. "What are they doing The district estimates that no more Jefferson County Teachers Associ with the other kids?" Christie asked. than about 15 percent of its students ation, said she likes the idea of test ''That's a little worrisome.n initially would qualify for the mastery ing students at each grade level, but She predicted that the guarantee endorsement. she added: "This is something we would generate more publicity than "We think a diploma needs to did 20 years ago. , .. You're talking improvement. mean something," Daeschner said. about teaching to strengths and "Currently, a student who gets all weaknesses. That's been good teach "I think there is an element of D's can get a diploma. We're saying ing forever .... Good teachers have public relations here," she said. we want some ... performance stan done this all along." dard that raises the bar." But Pam Borie, the mother of two Plans to develop the tests and per Jefferson County students who is ac Last spring Daeschner first out formance standards were approved lined his plan to require students to when the board accepted Daesch tive in tqe parent-teacher association pass reading and math tests to ad ner's plan in April. But if district-wide, praised the proposal, vance from elementary and middle Daeschner's proposal for the new saying parents would be spared the school and to graduate from high high school diplomas and to guaran financial burden of paying for reme school. Under a more detailed plan tee the performance of graduates dial courses or private tutors. are to take effect, the board must approve them. , ,J;_n. 23, /992 Msu ARCHIVES 1'11SU l,/1JJ Sh~at INSTITUTIONAL RELATI A sample of recent articles of interest to Morehead State University ONS MOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY UPO BOX 1100 MOREHEAD, KY 40351-1689 606-783-2030 THE COURIER-JOURNAL • WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 28, 1998 For good students, Georgia pays way; Kentucky may, too By RICHARD WII.SON The Courier-Journal ATHENS, Ga. - When Melissa Bugbee graduated from Georgia's Sourt:e: Georgia Student Oconee County High School in 1996, Rnance Commission she was offered admission to Stan ford, Duke, Harvard and Emory uni School year vers1t1es. Bugbee was an academic all-star with a straight-A average. 1990-91 But Bugbee - attracted by a state program that uses lottery revenue to 1991-92 offer free college tuition to good stu dents - enrolled at the University of 1992-93 Georgia. Now Kentucky officials are con 1993-94 sidering a similar program, one that 1994-95 would offer free education at a state university or other post-secondary 1995-96 school to good students. The goal is to keep them in Kentucky and en 1996-97 able more of them to go to college. As part of his budget proposal to 1997 -98 Not avaflable the legislature, Gov. Paul Patton wants to spend $10 million in 1999- 2000 to begin a merit scholarship BY STEVE DURBIN, THE COURIEFWOURNAL program first proposed by Sen. Tim Shaughnessy, D-Loiiisville. Legisla "I agree with the approach that we get the schlllarship back ·by earning tive details of the plan are being de really try to help the needy students better grades. veloped and should be announced first to try and make a college educa Stepben Partch, chancellor of soon. tion affordable to everyone," said Georgia's state university_system, ac Georgia officials say their pro Cleary, who's also president of the knowledges that most 8OPE recipi gram has been a success, though Kentucky Association.of Student Fi ents probably would have gone to they have sketchy data to prove 1t. nancial Aid Administrators, colle~e without the stipends. Students say they work harder to get The HOPE program began in 1993 "It s going to take a little longer good grades in high school and col with a cap of $66,000 on annual fam for the students who perhaps_haven't [ege. ily income. It was later raised to traditionally thought about ,oing to Ninety-seven percent of the state's $100,000 - and then totally removed. college to realize now that it s possi freshmen who entered the University That caused little controversr, said ble," Portch said. "That's where we of Georgia this school year are at University of Georgia politica scien probably haven't seen an impact tending on HOPE scholarships. tist Charles Bullock. yet." . . And some teachers say the pro Bullock said the program mostly Enrollment in Georgia's state col gram has led more parents to get in helps people with comfortable in leges and universities has gone up volved at the high schools because comes and compared it to the federal only about 3 __percent in the last five they realize college tuition is at stake mortgage income-tax deduction. years, and high school gtade-point - though teachers also said it places "It helps the middle class," he averages and college entrance exam enormous pressure on students to get said. "It doesn't help you if you're scores have climbed only slightly. good grades. real P,?Or." Since its 1993 start, the Geo~a Bugbee said the program kept her Miller rejects such criticism and lottery has pumped $463.7 milhon at home. Attending.one.of the pre points out other financial aid is avail into grants for nearly 291,300 stu mier schools, she said, would have able. "! don't know of any low-in dents. The lottery also finances the cost up. to $30;000 a year, and none come student in Georgia who wants state's pre-kindergarten and school of the four schools offered her more to get a college educatmn, or go to a technology programs. than "a few thousand dollars" in technical school, that is turned down Scholarships cover tuition - from scholarship money. because of their finances," Miller about $800 a year at technical "Considering that I plan on going said in an interview. schools to about $3,000 a year at ma to graduate school, it didn't seem like Some critics have suggested the jor state universities - and manda the most practical thing to do to program leads to grade inflation. tory fees. The state also provides a spend that much money on,an under Miller called.it "insuftin1;l" to suggest $JOO-per-quarter book allowance, graduate education,':• sa_id · Bugbee, teachers or.professors give unearned Syreathia Buckingham,-il semor at who also received a scholarship that grades. North Cobb High School, said she covers her living and travel expenses. But some professors, who ac spends "four to five hours a night" The Georgia program, which knowledge they cannot document studying to keep her B average. stands for Helping Outstanding Pu grade inflation, say it occurs. Without a scholarship, she said, sbe pils Educationally, was the brainchild "I don't think it's a major problem, will either have to work a year to of Gov. Zell Miller, whose 1990 gu but I'm sure in some instances B's save money for college or go to Ken bernatorial cam1>aign was based on have been given that might have nesaw State, a commuter school, starting a·. lottery, whose proceeds been C's if it weren't for concern while working at leasi p,rt-time and about HOPE," said William Provost, would be used solely for education. living at home. "This. is the .GI Bill of Georgia," director of the University of Georgia Sonny Conyers, a Kennesaw State Miller,)iiiid,- "Afijl) ftls '.llbill, on'the ·, freshman English program. sophomore and commuter, said the same preinfse. You give soinething, UNDER HOPE, any high school stipend .is saving him thousands of you get something.'.' student who graduates with·at·least a dollars because he lives at home. His PATTON FIRST proposes-,full B average gets free tuition ara state expenses, this year, Conyers said, funding of Kentucky's need-based college or; o_ther _post-secondary will be about $100 for books. ·college financial,aid,;,programs for school. HOPE scholars who-go to pn "It means I'm gQing free _except for low-income students before expand vate colleges in Georgia get,a maxi that," he said. · ing the program to include all stu- mum of $:f,000 a year toward tuition. dents. . In college, students musi maintain Doug Cleary, financial aid director a B average - a.':criterion that has at Asbury' College in Wilmore; Ky., cost about half the- HOPE scholars · backs that approach. . their stipends, officials say. Tiley.can H~P F Sek, ~sk, p ~ Id_) MAJOR SftlDl!NT CHIAIII' PROGRAMS OIEOROIA STUN and AVAILABLE IN KENTUCKY teachers say the stipends pnmde an incentive to crack the books because • KENTUCK¥ 111 . QAANT8; Gtanl9 • ., ,1:&00. the grants lessen the financial burden on parents and curtail the need for student jobs or hea~ loan debt. Offi cials also contend 1t has begun to s~~-~~~ . keep better students in the state. ■ COLLEGE ACCESS PROGRAM: Awards not exceeding $1,020 Zack Cimcotta, a University of this tor full-time needy public ~ private _college stude~ts. Georgia junior, said Im scholarship Sti~ for full-time students attending propnetary or vocational- gave him more time to study. "I now technical schools are $155 a quarter. . don't have to work aH hours of the 1 night to pay for school." he said. liigh school teachers like Susan - - ~~~~~Amounts vary. - Mortensen say it has already ■ FEDERAL PELL GRANTS: Maximum grants o~ $2,700 for needy changed many students' attitudes. college underg'raduates and technical and propnetary school " It used to be their junior year be fore they would wake up and do students. . _ well ," said Mortensen, an English ■ AJDERAL. iuPP~AL-&OUCA'QONAL . teacher at Winder-Barrow High School in northeast Georgia. "Now they're thinking about col ' . =r.~.--.~ lege as freshmen and working harder Additionally most of the state's public and private colleges and . . sooner," she said. "They realize universities offer merit-based scholarships of varying amounts ~ ehg,~le someone will pay them to go to students. Many of them are at least partial!Y pegged to ~~ financial school and they set higher goals for need FOf instance, the most lucrative stipend at the University al .. themselves." Ken~cky is the four-year Singletary Scholarships, ~ h covers ~ . Mortensen and other teachers also room and board, a book allowance and $500-a-ye~r stipend. This year say parents have become more in that schoiarship is worth $7,174 for a Kentucky resident. !wenty volved in their children's education. IOholarehip&.,. offered annually, mostly to Kentucky residents. " I don't think I have a student who couldn't tell me their GPA right off " I som~times get kids in tears be the top of their heads," said Jennie cause they failed a class, or they do Dugiar, a North Cobb High social not get that magic grade," Withers stua1es teacher. "The HOPE makes said. " I do wprry about the pressure students much more aware of their because parents say they want their grades." children to be eligible for HOPE." Conrad Fink, a Uniwnity of Geor gia journalism professor, said the program is bringing brighter, better The Daily Independent. Ashland. Kentucky, Tuesday, January 2 7. 1998 prepared students to that campus. "When I first got here, I had to struc ture courses for a broad strata of stu dents, from the A-plus genius to the 'Little used option C-plus student who was just trying to get through. "I simply can get more quickly into Kentucky slow to allow professionals more advanced material now " Fink with teacher training in classrooms "l.ll 5tat ~ "~n. ~av 1d K~. em ,s Teachers acknowledge that sume t achLr-er ;or, co. -=- students take easier courses to help right: , laking it easier for The KenrUl.AY Education As their grade-point averages. professionals who lack for sociation and college educa FOR THAT reason, beginning mal training in education to tion departments have been with last year's freshmen, the state teach i1igh school remains cool to opening the class will consider onJy core courses - one of the unmet goals of the like ones in English, math and sci rooms to those who have not 1990 Kentucky Education Re taken the required teaching ence - to calculate high school aver form Act. ages. courses. For low-income students who don't KERA was supposed to Having knowledge in a make the grades for HOPE scholar open the teaching fields to particular field does not au ships, federal Pell grants provide scores of college-educated. tomatically make one a good $2,700 this year, only about $300 less midcareer professionals who teacher. [ndeed. some of than the maximum HOPE stipend. had extensive knowledge and those for whom a subject And Pell grants only require recipi work-experience in their ents to maintain passing grades. For comes easily can become a student receiving both, the amount fields. but lacked the college frustrated when another is of the Pell grant is deducted from the teacher education courses re slow to comprehend the HOPE stipend. quired for certification in same material and be ineffec But even some HOPE recipients do Kentuc ky. Allowing such tive as teachers. But others not always find themselves ready for people to teach, proponents college. may have an understanding argued. could help eliminate of 'young people and a gift for "High school was a piece of cake. I shortages of certified teach came up here with a 3.8 (high school imparting knowledge learne>d grade-point average) and thought this ers in such fi elds as science from the experierce of teach was going to ~e easy, no _prob_lem," and m,1thematics and gi e ing those in private business. said Mike Wilcox, a University of young people the opportunity Those who receive alter Georgia junior from Savannah. to learn from those with vast native certification need to Wilcox admits he partied too much knowledge in their fi elds. be closely monitored and ad and said he is now working at Wal However, more than seven Mart to stay in school because he lost vised by veteran teachers. his HOPE scholarship. years after KERA adoption. With many major employ Others, like University of Georgia only about 100 people have ers downsizing, a number of freshman Mike Walsh, say the pro joined the ranks of the middle-aged professionals gram keeps the pressure on them fo r state·s 39.500 teac hers with many years in private a B average. Walsh received a C last through a lte rnative cer industry are suddenly find quarter in an English course, so now tification. according to state he needs an A to balance it. The aca ing themselves without em o f f i c i a I s . K a r e m , D ployment. Such professionals demic miscue, he said has already e, provoked pressure from his parents Lou isv ill says the state Ed should be allowed to teach to work harder. ucation Professional Stand high school students without "They don't want to pay the tu ards Board, which certifies being forced to return to col ition and I understand that. They teachers. isn't interested lege to take education cours prob~bly can't afford to pay it right enough in opening the pro es. now," Walsh said. fession to outsiders. Something is wrong with a Some counselors, like Winder-Bar He·s probably right. The row High's Pat Withers, say parents system that allows long-time sometimes put too much pressure on 17-member board is domi business executives with ad their children. nated by teachers and repre vanced degrees to teach col sen tat i ves for the s tate's lege, but not high school. LeX(ngtorfHeralcH.eader 69t!I Dlltrld: •Jon DcMd ReinllcrUl, R~ ,. . , Woooesoay-iJanuary 28, "1998 70tt1 Dlltdct Mat)' Waflm&\'Qrd. ~--Pet& WDrtrlrlgtOn, D-£winC Janes C. stmn...R.: . .::. ' 71at D1mtct: • ..lom Wtll Stacy, D-West Liberty. • • 72nd- Dlll1rld:. Jim La,oel1, 0-PsiS: caro1yn R. Beidler. DPreston. Candidate filings 73cd D1mtct: L.any A. Lawson. D-WinctleSter. RJ. Palmer, D.Wll'IChester. MeMn Hodd, D¥f"' cheSter: Wood{ Momson. R-Wa::o. 74111 Distlfct: •A(lflal Amok!, D-Motslt St~ Jeff D. Moore, R-loe. ASSOCIATED PRESS 75th Dls'll1ct: •KathyW. Stein .. ~. 76th Dlsbkt: •Ruth Ann Palumbo, D-lexine;ton:· Jerry lundeigan, l>lexitlgton. · 77th Dlsb1ct: • Jesse Crenshaw, D-1.exireon. • These '.1l"e the candidates woo filed for the 1998 pri 78ttl Distl'lct: •lhoma$ M. McKee, 0-Cynthia"la. mary elect10n by yesterday's deadline (incumbents.are 79th Dtstrtct: Susan Westrom. ~: "l.a'ry Brandstetter, R-lexington. 80th District: •Danny Ford, R--Mount Vemon. marked with asterisks): 81st Dbt1ct: •Harry Moberly, DRichmorxt. Jeny Barclay, R-Richmond. • 82nd Dlstrlct:William A. Jones. D-WiU!amsburg; Willian Fulton, D-Rockl'IOld: •etiates L Siler, R· Wiliiansoorg; I.any W;rJtte Ta"Jb', R-Wilfiarnsburg. U;S,.Semite ·_ .. 83rd Dlltrkl: • Jeffrey H. HooYer. R-Jamestawm. -~ _...., __ . ..1e-,-;.- - "-'.'- 84th District: C\il!ey Abner, [).8uckhom; •Scott Aleiander, 0-Hazartl. Scotty Baesler, D-Lelington; Jim Brtwn, l).l.QIJisviJle; Jim Bunning. R-Soutngate; Stew Henry, 0- 85th Dlltrlet •Torrmy Turner, R-5omefset. • • 8Sttl Dlltl1d:: Pat Hauser, D-&m:louMlle; • Jim StewM, R-flat lick. • • • l.ouiSV!le; Sany tv',etcatf, R-i!id'lmond; Cha'lie e>,t,,en, 0-Louis\lllle; Ken Bucha'lan ~ 06elea; El'ld OaYid L Wlilians, 0Cave aty. 87th DlstJkt Wiman Albert H~s. 0-MWesboro; Bo Ausmus A-Mictilesboro: Scott M~[I, """'"~ . _,,_.,._'. 88tt1 Dlsbti:t Gtl)' D. Gibson. D-0..rnbertnt "Thomas R. Pope, [H1alal; 0a'I Pcrtin, ~ -;;:~-.-. -,~~-~-~~.,~ ..~l/X::-:-·;:_ . 1t\-_ l Jotrinie L Turner, R-H.mn. ..._ • US H 89th Dlstlict: tecil Clair' D-leroSe: Tffllthy .JomsOn. D-Booneville; Len Noble, D-Jadcson: • MiJie "- -• -• .!,.~~~:_::.." ,f-?£ ~:~:kfil1':..ttl-W~.~t?~ _ L Rader, R-Mc:Kee. • ~ • 1st District: Tom Balow, ~; ·Ed Whitfiekl, R.ttopkilSville. 90tfl Dlstrlc:t •j!arba'a White Colter, R.Ma'lchester. .. • 2nd Dbtrkt: Bob Evans, D-SradfoRM!le; •Ron Lewis, R-Cecilia 91at Dbtr1ct: Jb" E. HcM:W. DWhiteSbufg; *Pool Mason, D-Whitesbug; Tootie Seals. D-Na!&t.• 3!d n:1:~~nia WOO 1st Dtstrlct *Charles R. GeYeden, D-Wo.liffe; Lary Wilson, RM~ 2nd D!strlct: Rid'lie GallcN;ay, D-Mayfiekl; "Fred Nesler, 0-Ma)iiekl. 3rd Dbtrfct: •Frank Rasche, D-Paducal. 4th Distlkt: Gerald Watkins, D-Reidland; Mike Cherry, 0-Prlnceton: Jim Morpnew, D-Paducah; Saoo/ F. luianie, R-Princ:eton. 5th IJlltJtct:: Robert 'Buddy" Buckirf.han, DMlnay, Amos M. McCarty Jr., 0-Muney. 6ttl IJlltJtct:: •J.R. (Rf, 0-Bermn . 7th Diltltct:. John A. Arnold Jr., 0-Sttrgis. 8th Dlrbtct: •John w. hlans, ~:JlrrfflJ Burks, R,Gracey. 9UI Dlltl'k:t • Janes E. BNce, 0-Hopdnsville, 10th Dlltrict: •wie Bmlard, D-Maisalville. 11th District: •Gross Clay Lindsay, D-Henderson. 12tfl District: • Jim Gooch, 0-Proviclence; Larry Gene Cowan, D-C1ay; Charles Judson J.rreTI, I). Nebo. 13th Dlstrlc:t: Richard 8. Thomson, D-Owensooro: •Brian Crall. R-Owenst>oro. 14111 Dll1rk:l: Boo Payne, 0-Lewisl)ort Jerry Kaelin, l>Oirrensboro; •Mn A. Treesh, R.fhilpot. 15ttl IJlltJtct:: •Brent Yonts, DGree!Ml!e. 18!11 Dll1llct: •ShekkJn E. Balgl'l, R-RusselMlle.. 17111 District: "'Woody Alen, ~- 18tfl Dlltzkt: •~ o. 8141er, fl:-t1aned. 19tfl DIS'lltct: •l):)ttle J. Sims. 0-Horse ca,..e; A.W. "Woody" Pullian, 0-MunfooMle; StM Hom- bad(. R-New Hawn. 20th District: • Jody Richards. D-Sowl~ Green. 21st District: •Roger Thomas, D-Srmlhs Grove: John Cesler, D-Smiths Gtwe. 22lli District: "Rob Wilkey, D-franklin; EMs Russell, R-Scottsville. 23rd District: •Stephen R. Nunn, R-Glasgow. 24th Dbtlkt "Willian U. Scott. D-Ray,t,ick: Carl E. Meece, R-Liberty. 25th Dbtiict: • Jimmie Lee. D-Elizabettrta,m. . 2Gtb Df5trk:t: • John Michael weaver. [)Ra:lcll!f: Ray C. Story; R-Rine'f,'llle. 27UI District: Joe _M. H~er, D&clldenl:ug: Jrrn Thompson, D-8attJelown: Tony Golladay, 0-Sran dent:ug; David A. Hatfield. D-Vine Gr~ Theresa L Padgett. R-&ron. 28th Dlstrfct: •Charles Miller, D-LouiSVille; Michael E. Clontz, R-Lou1svdle: Doug Hawkins, R· Louisvine. 29th District: •Keyjn D. Bratcher, Rlouisville; Joyce McClain, 0-Louisviue. 30th District •Tom Burch, 0-Loutsvitle; Patrick Hugties, R-1.ouisville. 31st District: •Steve Riggs, D-Louisvme; Jim Kute, R-Loulsvllle. 32nd District: •susan D. Jotins, D-louisville; Scott w. Brinkman. R-Louisville. 33rd Dlstrfct: *Bob Helertnger, R-lou~l!e. 34th District: •Mary Lou Marzian, OlOll:Svine; Ray Abbott, 0-louisvillc: Too:f t..arr/, R4.oulsville'. 35th Dlstrfct *11111 wa;oo, 0-Louisw!e; Donna D. lm,1ot, R-1.ouiSVll!e, 361fl Dlstrfet: •1.tmnie Napier, R-1.ancaster. '·. 37th Dlstrfet: •Perry B. Clark, 0-louisville: Dan Speer, R-falrdale. 38th District: •Denver Butler, D-1..ouiSV1!lc; Robert G. Wciod Jr .. R-Louls111ne. 39th District: "Robert R. Damron, 0-Nitholasville. 40th District: •Dennis Hor!ander. D-Shive!y. 41st Dlstrfct: •Tom Riner, D-Lou!sville. 42nd District: •Eleanor Jordan, 0-louisvilte: Chris Zertah Collins, R-Louisllltle. 43rd D!str1ct: •E. Porter.Hatchel' Jr., D-1.ouisville. • 44th District: • Joni Jenkins, 0-loutsville; J. Brent Mazfield, R--5hivefy. 45th Dlslr1ct Carolyn Stone Ea.varos. 0-Lexington: •Stan Caw, R--lexinglon. 46th District: •Lany Clark, 0-1.oufsville; Tommy Riddle, R-1.ouisvnte. 47th Dbtrici: •Ron Crimm, R-Louis.-ille; Wiiliam Anthony Bohnert, D-louisvrtle. 48th Dlslr1ct: Mike Kennedy; D-Louisvrne: "Bob M. DeWeese, R-loulsville. 49th D1str1ct: Joe Welts, D-ShepherdsviDe; Lary L Belcher, 0-Shepherctsvme: Russell Webber; R· Shepllerdsville; "Allen Maricle, R-Pioneef Vdlage. 50th 0lstr1ct: • Jodie H!l)11on, o&rdstown: David Floyd, R-Barostown. 51st District: Russell Monlgomely, D{:ampbel!sville; •Ricky Lee COl, R--Campbeffsville. 52nd Dlstrfct: Mllur J. Bo\ze, D-Sumside: BeMie Ray Garland, R.somerset;· 1'ien Upchurch; R- Somerset; Bruce A. ~. R-Plne Knot Ronald D. Boil$, R-Monticello. • 53td District: Christopher Brian Eatoo. D-Tompkinsville: "Bill'( O. Polston, R-Tompkinsvme; Ra'{ Mullinix, R-Burkesville. • • , ' S4th District: Terry D. Crowley, D-Oarr,,ue; John w.o. Bowl~ D-Oanville; Harold McKiMey, D- Danllllle; Mike Harmon, R-Oooville. • 55th District: • Jack L. Coleman, D-Surgin: K. Lou~ Dean Sr., R-Harrodsbufg. , 56th Dlstr1ct: • Joe BantlW5, D-Versailes; Jerry Atwood. D-Midway; Mark w. Shelby, R•Versail!es. 57th District: "GIPP'f Graham, 0-frankfort. . . 58th Olslr1ct: Wayne A. J 59th Dlstrfct Clayton. E. Stoess Jr•• ~ Valley; r1111 Feeley, R-Crestwood. . .•.• 60th -·Dlstrid:. "Paul H. Marcotte, R-Union. 61&t Dlstrfct: •RCJ)al W. Adams, DOy Ridge. . , , 62nd District: 811ly F. Vance, 0-Georgetown; •Clla1ie Hoffman, 0-GeorgewM'I; Steve Roberts, (). Georgetown. • • 63rd District: Jon D. Draud, fl.Crestview Hills: John 0,00 Middletcwl, R-Eclge#ood; John D. Llnl\, ft. 64ttl Dlsb\ct: *Thomas Robert Kerr, D-Tlf)1ot Mill: Anita 0. St!ffen, R~rw:Seperdence •• ' 65th Dfltrict: •Arnold R. Sinpson. DCcMngton. G6tfl -Dtstrict: Terry Reberls, 0--Hebrm: •aaue waton. R.florence. . 81lfl District: •Jm catlahan, 0-Wilder. " ' ~ • 68ttl Dllblct: Jeffrey o.·wittirow, D,aJexaidrla; James A. Dmey, 0-Cold Sprrc; KIMn MlrphJ Manes. D-Higtlland HeJgtits; Stu Stormer,Jl:-IJemula; ~enten. R-Cald,S~ Joseph M. Rsc:hef, R..fort Themas. ~. .· . _: Subsidy for private med school hurts high-ed reform t .started out as a private, vices are common thi:oughout rural r-pro~t ~~ical s_chool ~- Kentucky. What are we supposed to M. Eastem~tucky 1s now;,.,., .do- start·a publidy0subsiclized slated for a state 'subsidy. And wJlat private med school in every region a subsidy! . . '· of the state? . Tuckedaway in Gov. Paul,Pat- No, a better public policy would ton's budget is a plan to use coal be to. find creative ways to-disperse severance inoney to award $13,600- some of the doctors we are training a-year schol1U"Ships to in-state stu- at. UK and U of L intci rural. parts of dents who,attend Pikeville:College's the state. srliool·ofosteopathic niedicihe. There is also the fact that the · -Want some perspective-on that Pikeville school was conceived and figure? · ~: promoted as a private solution to - In-state tuition at Kentucky's Eastern Kentucky's doctor shortage. two public medical schools - the "Tuition would run the school once University of Kentucky and the Uni- it got started;" supporter and state versity of Louisville - is $8,400 a Sen. Benny Ray Bailey said back in year. Patton's plan is to 1994. niake up the difference At the time,. there were ex- between the UK/U of L pressions of con- tuition rates and the . cem that this $22,poo a ye,ar the · , . school would fol- Pikeville·school · ~.:'.'low tlie West Vir- c!targes. · ,:, ginia ~ool of · Do a little "?''"Osteopathic math with those Medicine, figures. You'll · which began find that the as a private governor fatjlity in wants taxpay- :" 1974, joined ei-s to spend the state high- more support- i