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MSU Clip Sheet • 1/ A sampling of recent artides of interest to Morehead State Univenity INSTffiJTIONAL RELATIONS MOREHEAD STAlE UNIVERSllY UPO BOX 1100 MOREHEAD. KY 40351-1689 606-783-2030 THE COURIER.JOURNAL, 1UESDAY, MARCH 1, 1994 A 'CHALLENGE' FOR HIGHER EDUCATION
Educators ~d legislators are working working hard to make· sure ·they. use our support. A state's ability to gener- : hard in Frankfort to determine how Ken- our dollars wisely and to be even ·more . ate and retain quality jobs depends on:' tucky's education dollars will be spent responsive to the needs of the regions the availability of highly trained per during the next two years. It is arguably and the state they serve. _Changes .ate sons_ to hold those positions. Thus, a·' one of the most important discussions taking place with expanded adult re- quality higher education system is criti going on because finding the right an- training programs, more concentration cal to Kentucky's financial future. It swers is important to all Kentuckians. on research, and a dramatic change in very literally is the only way we will be ' The Kentucky Advocates for Higher training teachers to meet requirements able to compete regionally, nationally · Education, a nonprofit education sup- of the Kentucky Education Reform Act. and globally in years to come. port group, is concerned that we not The universities need to do even '. t, sacrifice the long-term future of our .' more. They are aware of that. The Ad J. DAN LACY, Chairman ·, state universities to short-term money vacates also are aware of that need, Kentucky Advocates for Higher Education, woes. Admittedly, as state tax dollars and we intend to help the universities Inc. are stretched thin, this presents a tre- identify areas. where they can be of Ashland, Ky. 41114 mendous challenge. even greater service. . . Lacy is vice president of corporate For their part, the universities are At the same time, we must continue communications for Ashland OiL
. lExINGTON HERALD-LEADER, l.Ex!NGTON, KY. ■ TUESDAY, MARCH 1, 1994
•. LExJNGTON HERALD-LEADER, LEXINGTON, KY. ■ Hemenway withdraws TUESDAY, MARCH 1, 1994 ■ COLUMBIA. from nmning_for post Lindsey WIison ~nroliment rises: Spring enrollment at Lindsey Wilson College is up 15.2 percent, college officials said:The nuinber of resident students also has increased 32 percent, at OU; artother:"chosen> creating a crunch in student housing, said Lind sey Wilson President John Begley. Begley attrib- · BY DomE BEAN He 'was chairman of ' the UK • uted the higher ~ollment'to a ·1,0.6 percent · . : HERALD-LEADER Eoui:ATioN WRITER . English ~epartment from 1981 un- increase in the retention rate for resident stu- . · til 1986, when he left to become dents.,. :· · University of Kentucky Chan- deaµ of the, College of Arts and cellar Robert ?emenway_ droJ?ped Sciences at the University of Okla O!,lt of the i;unmng for Ohm Umver- homa. He returned to UK in 1989 s1ty pres1del)t yesterday,_. soon ". as chancellor. · ·before a n~w president was rlamed. · _, · · . . Hemenway was one of three· . . Asked yesterday about the fre- finalists interviewed during the . ·. quency_ of his job search~, Hemen weekend before the Ohio Universi- ,.. way.said ~e has not apph~ for the ty trustees named . Florida State · · pres1denc1es hut was nonun:ited for University Provost Robert Glidden . them. . : . : . .._ as iµ; unanimoljs choice, .· .- . · . , Hemenway said. he is happy at The search marked the fourth- . • UK and does •not want to leave time since 1990 . that Hemenway · unless it ,is to. go to "an institution , has been in the running for a · that , wotild pro0de • some of the university presidency. Besii:!es be; ,:;same kind .of chJ!llenges.'; ,:-. : ing a .finalist for the Ohio. job;'.'·, , He declined to elaborate on his Hemenway has made the final. cut ' . vrithdrawal statement. which for positions at the University of •,-. thanked the Ohio University board Nern:35ka,_ the_ University·_of ~is-, .. of regents .for fori¥ght di~- soun and FIDnda State Umversity. : sions that helped him make his · Hemenway, a' former ji:nglish ;- ·decision. 0.. • " ,. • • __ • • . professor '!°d fonner-,cha~. of .', :· C~l ~ Eufiitg''er'. c~rt~m'. .UK's English department. 1s chan--_:,···" ? . • • ' al - cellDr of UK;s •Leidngton campus;"' ... an ~f Ohio Umv8!'511y's,board, so one of three top UK adniinistrative··; dechned. to comment ,on· ,Hemen- , positions,,· · He oversees· a1·1 aca dem1c · ·'·:. way's, withdrawal.. . . ,· ,. ·,, .. ,· programs and operatio~s, exclud-. :· · ;_;-, Hemenway· was 1name l.Exi~GTON HERAllJ.~DER.!...l.ExJNGTON, KY. ■ WEDN_ESDAY, MARCH_ 2, 1994 ■ EDUCATION Tec1cher preparation. bill · ·this earth and wanted to go into a classroom to teach world religion, .O es orw d he couldn't get into the classroom,". · ar I m V I Karem said. "The good Lord would t , would have four years to finish it. have to take an 18-month class." :ertificatio.n centers heate_d debate1Teachers who had not b~gun a ·Jels:u~::ter~:7 th~hbil! spark _ . . master's program by the tune the go to the- centers to demonstrate bill became law would have to would make it easier for Jesus, ''but . BY LUCY MAY , their skills in order to teach in develop an individual professional he would have to have a portfolio," d I h · which is a collection of teachers' HERAJJ>.lEADER EouCATION WRITER 1· public schools. Under the bill, the , ~velopmen_t P an t a~ might or work and credentials. RT _ Lawmakers centers would be up and running · might not mclude getting a mas- FRANKFO b 1996 ter' The committee also approved ok an initial step yesterday to; Y · s. . House Bill 176, which mirrors fed- volutionize how college students The Kentucky Education Assa- Sen. Tim Shaughnessy, D-Lou- era! law that protects the privacy :come teachers and how teachers ciation opposes the centers and isville, questioned whether the cen- of student records. The sponsor, tin experience that leads to higher would rather see those functions , ters . would get state money to Rep. Frank Rasche, D-Paducah, laries. performed at colleges and universi- duphca!e. the efforts of colleges and said it was necessary because of The Senate Education Commit--~ lies, said President Marne! Moor- umversities. . . parents' concerns about the securi- , approved Senate Bill 238, spon- I man.- · ' Gary 0>x, ex~tive directo~ of ty of student records kept on com- red by committee chairman Ed . . th~ Councd on f!1gher Education, t . d D c th" h" h Id Sen. Gerald Neal, D-Lomsville, said that shouldn t happen because puers. ,r ,th · yn iana,d ti ic '£°~h asked whether the centers would the money colleges and universities it e r'recoTmmk eFn a onsTo h e : basically be testing teachers. 'receive will depend on how good a ,vemoti s · asto fleetorce on eac er , "ls thi s what tea ch ers are ra1s-· ·Job · · they do rather than·· therr· enroll- epara on 10 e · I ing hell about all over the country? ments The bill wa~ _approved ~er , That they've gone through school ~ David Karem D-Louisville •ated deb?te and indicati~n.s that ' and_ a\\ this and are being tested , argued ·that the bill should make it e committee could reVIs1t the agam? Neal asked. easier for people to get teaching easure to make some changes. The answer was yes. . certificates without going through The most contentious part of Under the bill, teachers who colleges cif education. e bill appeared to be the creation have begun a master's program "If Jesus himself came back to "Educator Certification Centers." ,w and veteran teachers would THE COURIER-JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2, 1994 Bill W(?Uld ·require tysting of teachers By MARK SCHAYER A CHANGE IN DIRECTION? Staff Writer Sen. Tim Shaughnessy, D-Louisville, asked-Gary Cox, ·· · FRANKFORT, Ky. - Some tea~h- executive director of the Council on Higher·Education, how ers would have to take tests to funding for .university teaching programs would .be affected pfl)ve they• can teach under a bill· under a bill to change the way_ teachers are trained and approved yesterday by, the Senate. certified. · · · • · · · • . , Education Committee. . •- . " ,. • . · Cox: !'We're going to·fund higher education to meet the · · . Senate Bill 238 would set up Ken- needs·ot-the public schools.••· "' · ,,.u ., ... ,,,,_ , •. ·• .•.. ·"· tuc;ky Educator Certification -Cen- . .. Shaughnessy: "We've never funded higher education to ters where new teachers and those meet the needs of-practically anything in·this-state;" · -·- ·---· ·· · who want to improve their rank on -., ,,,;; . . ,., a; . '·'"·· ' the-salary scale would be tested·on-· the classroom ·or the 'number· of· sue be studied further. their teaching ability. . · . credit hours they_ have earned. , . "There are lots of unanswered The bill would d~ aWl!y with the "I'm convinced'·this is a better questions,~ ...said .. KEA_ President ~nt tea~her-certification system,' · way . to., ~each teachers how to. Marne! Moorman. ~•There'.s still. n~t which reqw,res teachera to complete - teach.''.. smd ·sen.. Ed Ford; ,D,Cyn- a well'defiried·plan· as to liow tl!is IS a, master's degree or 30· graduate thiima, ·tlie bill's sponsor and Edu- going to be-done." · • ·· credit.hours by their 10th year. to, cation Committee· chairman:· Ford · Moorman•·said;the bilrsends the continue teaching. • •: compared the-new system to the ex- wrong message to teachers; whO'llf!!. Teachers who have entered a ams lawyers and doctors must pass • strugglingito,implement reform. ""I gra!luate program would be. given. before·,they·can·:practice..• . · :.:·· · don't need,to remind'you lif•the-un-· time. to.complete it, and renewal of.. The::centers are·opposed,by:the,, rest am MSU ARCHIVES , _,. /" .... MSU Clip Sheet A sampling of ~nt articles of interest to Morehead State Univenity INSTIMIONAL RELATIONS MOREHEAD STATE UNfVERSllY UPO BOX 1100 MOREHEAD. KY 40351-1689 606-783-2030 lExlNGTON HERALD-LEADER, LExlNGTON, KY. ■ SUNDAY, MARCH 6, 1994 administration is not necessarily an adversary of the faculty." FootbaQ program poses Rodney Stanley, chairman of the Faculty Senate, said most pro IitnlUS:::: fest, for· MSU fessors applauded Eaglin's move to . cut football scholarships. ,''I think. overall the morale is/ much better here than it has been presl~e11t's· popularity in past years," Stanley said ''He is just much more open and receptive BYSCO'rTWRN Eaglin's popularity is a notable to faculty." NORTHEASTERN KENTucl NASHVILLE - The'-&usty habits, some of which appeared , At about 9 at night Friday, Rand McNally tells me it's about Thursday evening in the closing with his team on the bus outside 400 miles from. Morehead State moments of their 83-78, first-round • Nashville's Municipal Auditorium, University to . win over Eastern Kentucky. They ready to make the last ride home, Michigan State beat every team in the OVC except Fick took a question on the side University, but I the kingpin, Murray State, which walk. know· better.T · defeated Morehead 104-86 Friday know that in bas night in the tournament semifinals "How far do you feel from ketball tenns, it with a second-half performance Michigan State?" is 461 days and a that contained all the doubt of a The would-be Waikiki postman small fortune of blizzard. looked straight ahead and couldn't maturity. CHUCK "Right now," Fie~ said, "they're think of what to say, What an That is the the only team in the league that's oddity on the basketball landscape: time gone by and CULPEPPER Fick unable to come up with a line. the commensu, -~---- better than us. We know th9t, and • • HERALD-LEADER we understand that." "Our goal," he eventually said, "is rate gam Smce SPORTS COLUMNIST to meet them in an NCM Tourna Dec. 1, 1992, Surely some other coaches don•~ but the comment indicated ment some day, and we're closer to when. Coach Dick that than we've ever been." Fick took his Morehead State Ea: hope's acceleration within the pro gles ·to East Lansing, Mich.,. for an,. : gram. Asked to define the season Tha~ just after Cline had said, evening with even fewer lilghlights · in just a few words, some More "I would like to play them again." than tile average Chicago Cubs head players just couldn't; they felt Whoa, man. Careful, now ... season. Fick's band of young play moved to go on for sentence after ers, who barely knew the way. sentence. around their faces with their ra "I think there's no question it's zors, lost 121-53. on the rise," Cline said after much There are many people playing preliminary analysis. basketball in the land today, but "It was the building of a kind there are not many who have ever of unity among friends and team lost 121-53. . mates," said Mark Majick, the But if you're trying to concoct sophomore guard who only prac storybook happenings the way the ticed last year after transferring second-tier programs· like More from Navy. "Last year, this wasn't head routinely are, there is :some- really a team. This year, everybody .thing becoming now about that kind of got together ... I just feel 121-53. It is such an apt !'E'ierence really close to everybody." . point, a singular valley to be rel- ished when it's long gone. Figure in the Eagles' endearing Can't you just see it now? Caiiit ; little habit after winning, some you see it right under the opening thing they picked up from the credits as they roll, hefty Michigan coach. In. honor of Fick's most State with its Shawn Respert and hopeless lifelong passion, the, Ea Mike Peplowski pounding the dick gles would chant, "Cubs win! Cubs ens out of wee Morehead State, the win! Cubs win!" The way broad images suckering the audience, in caster Harry Caray does when the stilling hope that the underdog will Cubs do (which is to say, generally, drink its (skiin) milk, grow up, rise infrequently). up, and_ one day, well, just look at So you see, the story could them now. grow irresistible. And if Morehead So, look at them now. could just infuse a large body - Two seasons have passed since you know, somebody with the that night in East Lansing. One of ' frame of a heavyweight and the them was a 6-21 year you could ruthless disposition of a figure have forecast without the help of skater, somebody to shoulder.a few • any.900-number psychic. The one of Boardley's wildly manifold re that ended Friday night in the Ohio sponsibilities underneath the 'bas Valley Ccnference Tournament in ket, to gather a few rebounds - Nashville was 14-14, progress by well, then ... arithmetic if nothing else. It cer Well, at least 121-53 has found tainly looks fine numerically for its rightful place. It has become, as the coach, who sometimes joshes Cline said, "one reason we get up April, his wife, how it might be at 5 in the morning." · time to move to Hawaii to become a mailman, There are hints in the way the Eagles play these days that a very nice story might be brewing over there in the hills to the east of Lexington. The story could draw endless appeal from the nadir marked 121-53. The Eagles - such as 6-foot-7 junior forward Tyrone Boardley, sophomore point guard Marty Cline, junior swingman Kelly Wells and junior swingman Johnnie Wil liams - play with a clarity of purpose. They have a lot of smart MSU Clip Sheet A sampling of recent articles of interest to Morehead State Univenity INSTIMIONAL RElATlONS MOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY UPO BOX 1100 MOREHEAD. KY 40351-1689 606-783-2030 lEXJNGTON HERALD-LEAD~~. LExlNG!O.!!,_l 1..EXINGTOi-fHE~l.EADER, I..EX1NGTON.KY, ■ TUESDAY, MARCH 8;1994, l!/fif ,_ ,,,,,,,,,,_ ., -~ . -:;- .-r, ~r:.z;; "" ,\ ,- \, '~ \Ji'-·. .,_-.;;,, ~,~.• .an :-~· \si .k~»-· ,,ily) l~~, ;;;cf" '}''"' ~'..'. . , !~---. consider·th!l· economic,factors.fac l.ExlNGTON HERALD-lEADER. l.ExINGTON, KY. ■ TUESDAY, !'.!ARCH 8, 1994 ing'Morehead. ''Don't deprive. a young man ,. . . .. - _:. '\}.~ the opportunity to get an education The F.a:gles': athletic]fudget for Morehead·-. 1993-94 is about $2.4 Iiiillion.°Foot• because he happens to play foot hall's portion, is. 'aboµ~ "$800,000. ball," Proctor told the regents. He But receipts froii1titket;slµes have also expressed· concern on the ef declined the last four And scholarships fect of non-scholarship football on years;, minority students;·: .' revenue from stuc1entactivHy_iees - ... If you look at Division III is projected .. to be lower ·in-· the· . for football current budget tlian the year be football, which is what we· would fore. be, you see mainly white players and players who can afford to Proctor said he recognized ear get sacked attend schools at mainly private ly in his tenure "that there was institutions." BY RICK BAILEY little support or direction- for foot ball from the athletic administra HERALD-LEADER_ STAFF WRITER "We're concerned," Eaglin said, tion. To find there was no infra MOREHEAD -- Morehead "and we work hard bringing Afri can-Americans into this institu structure to operate a· successful State University will pursue non program was disappointing." · . scholarship football by 1998, the tion." school's Board of Regents decided Proctor. said ·23 players·.. Iiave· unanimously yesterday. . He pol~ted out that Morehead is emphasizing minority. recruit-· left the program for various· rea "It's a tough decision," said sons since Eaglin's announcement MSU President Ronald G. Eaglin, ment and retention at the graduate and undergraduate levels. on Jan. 21 that he was recommend who had recommended the move, ing non-scholarship football at the citing rising costs of the football But, Eaglin said, it would have school. Thirty-five players remain program and de been ''unconscionable of me" not to • on partial or full scholariiliip. .-· . · . clining ticket •··•· -.:- ., I sales. "But I lExlNGTON HERALD-lEADER. lExlNGTON, KY. ■ TUESDAY, MAR':fl 8; 1994 . think it's the only play during his sophomore season and th way to save foot ball at this insti Morehead tran;!~\ow, Bruton and Stevens will conb tution.11 ,. ue to be part of one of the largest or~ It's now up to ·· • • tions for minorities on the MSU campus · Eaglin to negoti team. Bu~~~~hi? is decli ate·with the Ohio deCISIOil :; ~\~ii. · Valley Conference to ·allow More · · ks . ''Very few mirioiity players are stayii head to. remain a member of the mass . although most of the freshpien minorities a .conference· in other sports. · : · spar staying," Bruton said. "The lifestyle of. bla, Current OVC policy requires athletes isn't easy because there aren't mat members to field teams in all :v,odus . . things to do." . . ., ... conference sports: For now, league e:A: · · · · .. The returning players also are concern, schools are committed to maintain about their safety on'the field. NCAA Division I-AA· football at Those returning concerned "We'll be very limited," Stevens sai .the national -level. ·.... ,_ _-,.,." -~ ... ·" for their safety on field "Some players might have tci go"ooth way; : Eaglin will present his case to "Not many guys are showing up in t fellow presidents at the OVC's BY RICK BAILEY . weight room," Bruton said. "We've lost. a I spring meeting June 2-3 ~'! Mur HERAll>lEADER STAFF WRITER ' of key players, and it will be hard for us freesboro, Tenn. _, ._...... • . MOREHEAD' - It is l)ard, compete in the OVC." , . The OVC could create a second Jerry Stevens ai:imits to lisiei;i ;to Conn said several offensive linemen a tier of football· for schools like his ex-teammates. · ·· 1· ··::·· ':· departing. He is one of three redshirt fres Morehead or ask Morehead to leave · "A lot are leaving ilie program;1 men who plan to stay._ . , ·. the league. ·:! ·:"' but' ih'ey 'acin'i-know where they're' · "I want to see what happens," he sai It's possible that Morehead going," Stevens said. "They · just "Plus, I'm close to home., I• understand wt could offer some scholarships for say, 'Anywhere but here.' " players are leaving, but I don't know what · football after 1998, depending on expect" ',• ,=, • ~-•• -..,:-'1?'.-'1..,a,,_.,_:• l. '. .. other OVC presidents' response to ii~~f7t!&~:~~:~~d- While the younger Eagles may fly els Morehead's action. Eaglin said yes ed they will not be back. .. where, SO.l!l.!! yeteran_i;>lay~,~on't be gorn terday's decision gives him some will.. be a sophomore anywhere. · · · : ':_ . . · • · flexibility in liiniting ·the scholar . Ste;ens wide receiver at Morehead State ''I'm close enough· to my degree that ships offered at Morehead between would be a waste of time to transfer," sai iero and the current ljmit of 63. this fall. His ex-teammates still are fellow students who have indiciited senior-to-be -defensive lineman Mike Conn< "It seems we need to be at one they will not be part ·of a program from .Oakland, N.J. _ " ,.., .. end or the other," he .said. ''Proba that seems destined to be reduced However, the safety factor bothers · hrn bly we'll stop in the middle." to the non-scholarship, level by too.· ·. . · Players now under scholarship 1998. .. . . will receive their full_ aid through •~en we line up .. against Marshall i ,. Morehead's Board of Regen.ts. September (in Morehe;id'§ opener), we'~ hav the end of their eligibility. yesteitlky a,uthori_i.ed · ~esideilt''. three defensive linemen, -iand ·one is a wall Non-scliolars!iin":· fiibtball . had Ronala G. Eaglin to negotiate a on," he said . · ~ij ...... ;.; .• , •• been proposed atM~iprefore. non-scholarship ,.football; .-league Ea Jin said he had. resisteiHtaking Morehead already-~ losfthe four .qua with the.. Ohio· Valley ·.conference; terbacks . it. expected to have _for sprin a skice for the first riioritlifof'his All will presiclency ''until! understood the current scholarships be practice. Adam McCormack, a former all-stat long-range program." .,_ hbilored; but' 'aii. exodus ,\lf Eagles quarterback at Covington Catholic who star already has begun. T\'!enty-three· ed as a freshman last fall; said in January h In addition to rising costs and players have indicated' they will would be seeking different options. shrinking revenue, Eaglin ''ex not · return this fall. Several are pressed concern about declining · Connor . also was upset the assistar seeking their·release through Ath coacbes have been cut from five to four. Othe financial support from. the. state, letic Director Steve Hamilton: · •, uncertainty surrounding gender eq Division I-AA schools are allowed six aide! · ''I'. tcy: to .. talk to them;" ;said.' but Morehead· has had five, now four, sine uity and the ineffectiveness of the Stevens, from Montgomery County National Collegiate Athletic Associ-. head "coach Cole Proctor arrived in 1990. High·Schooic!'but:itdoesn'f~iirtn . ''I had more assistant coaches- in big! ation in addressing cost. contain do much good." ·. • .• ,., ment ;-·.;· _; :!. J. ;~ f;'- • ,.· school,", Connor said:.'T find it unfair to tak Stevens,_• wingback Step hon every scholarship from' one sport It's , "The fact of ihe ma~ is, there Bruton from · Clark·, County and, are just not enough dollars to do matter of where his ,(Eaglin's) priorities Iii what we want ·1o do," he said .•Tlie offensive-lineman· Adam-Conn from and it's not with the football program." Bath County are among- the youn "':Tonnar also 'isn't buying the arguinen decision could save tlie school up ger players who are.staying. to $450,000 annually, he added._ about the effects of gender equity on athleti, ."I want more maturity on the budgets. "Gender equity- is so complicate< yesterday's action drew a ·neai: field .and to raise my .GP.A,~ Ste-. ed response , from football . Coach you can't use that as an.'excuse.''. · Cole Proctor. ·• ... · ,.._ : ·- "·•· , .. , ' __.c_vens,sai lExlNGTON HERALD-lEADER, l.ExJNGTON,· KY. ■ TUESDAY, MARCH 8, 1994, Ex-Morehead administrator Monroe. Wicker/;deadla.t\.86-i •.~\.•!·"- ., :• ,--~--,._,, ·•·• • •t:' ,, ,-,.,,~~•,l'• MrJU Clip rJheet A sampllnc of recent articles of interest to Morehead State University INSTITUTIONAL RELATIONS MOREHEAD STATE UNMRSITY UPO BOX 1100 MOREHEAD. KY 40351-1689 606-783-2030 The Daily Independent. Ashland. Kentucky. Tuesday. March 8, 1994 MSU honors donor Gift targets fine arts MSU will use the four an By J1M ROBINSON Little, 84, said she hoped her leges. including the University nual $250.000 installments Lit- OF THE D AILY INDEPENDENT gift would re-emphasize the of Kentucky, Midway College tle has pledged to endow its arts and creativity in a world and Transylvania University. fine arts program. MOREHEAD· - As a child, where sports seem to domi MSU. with Little's help, Fine arts students and fac- Lucille Caudill Little would go nate. hopes to raise another $2 mil- ulty members honored Little into the woods near h e r "We've got in my mind to lion. said President Ronald Ea- with an hour of musical and Rowan County home and "sing I balance the training we give glin. dramatic performances before and act and be myself." our young people," said Little, It renamed its college of hu- about 200 people who gathered As an adult. she didn't just who studied at the Julliard manities the Caudill College of on MSU's campus for a lunch have her niece Susan Skinner School of Music. Humanities in her honor. eon to thank the Lexington read about Joan of Arc; she Little, whose father. Daniel Skinner now an Episcopal philanthropist. made her feel the flames that priest. said Little's gift is a Mary Whidden , an MSU fine consumed the saint. Boone Caudill, was a promi nent Morehead ba nker and tangible example of her devo- arts student and . one of t~e " You're about to burn.'' tion to the arts. perfor13:ers, told Little the gift Skinner recalls Little shouting Rowan County circuit judge. at her from across the room. amassed a fo rtune with her "It k the transforming symbol~ed to the rest of t_he late husband. W. Paul Little. a ma es ativit umvers1ty and the commu111 ty On Monday, Little was hon power of art and ere_ Y "that we are important " ored fo r showing her devotion Lexington horseman and land concrete." Skinner said. " It · to creativity and imagination developer. makes it real." in a most concrete way: a $1 The gift to r.tSU is the latest million gift to Morehead State in a series of endowments University. she's made to Kentucky col· [Ballk pledges giff of $50,000 to MSU; picke~ for big loan nancing proposals for the com MSU has an option to renew puters. Peoples Bank of Sandy · · P.orter Dailey, MSU's vice it contract with Citizens as its By JIM ROBINSON Hook and Peoples First Bank president for administration deposit ba nk each year O F THE D AILY INDEPENDENT of Morehead declined to bid. through 1997. The board of re and fi scal services, said lhe The fin ancing arrangement gents voted Monday to ex tend MOREHEAD - A Morehead bid from The Citizens Bank was so large neither Citizens Citizens' contract through bank that pledged $50,000 to was the lowest and best of the nor Morehead National could June 30, 1995. Morehead State University's two MSU received to finance provide it on its own. The uni private foundation on Monday the purchase of 1,360 desktop versity approved the use of a Dailey. who recommended to was picked by the board of re computers by 1998. larger correspondent bank. r egents Monday that they gents to loan as much as $3 Dailey said MSU is not re Citizens is working wilh award the bid to Citizens, is million to the school over the quired to take the lowest bid. Star Bank, N.A., in Cincinnati also a member of the founda next five years to buy comput Citizens agreed to loan MSU to rmance the loan. tion's board of directors. l le ers. $541,814 at 4.87 percent interest Kappes said it's not the first said he was not aware the MS U a dminis trators said for fiscal 1993·94. MSU can bor time The Citizens Bank has bank had pledged $50,000 to there was no connection be· row up to $600.000 from Citi made a gift to the foundation. the foundation when he re tween the gift from The Citi zens in each of the succeeding Two or three years ago, the viewed the bids and decided zens Bank and the awarding of fo ur years at an interest rate bank gave the foundation a which bank to recommend. the financing contract. connected to three-year trea piece of land in Farmers worth Kappes said foundation of " It would suggest probably sury notes. about $30,000. he said. ficials had been working on good business on their part... The other bid for the financ He said the bank wasn't the pledge from Citizens for said Keith Kappes. MSU's vice ing came from Morehead Na doing any business with the months and it was finalized president for university ad tional Bank, whlch offered to college then. around Christmas. vancement, who also serves as finance the computer buy at Citizens is the depository for Citizens' gift would not have executive director of the More an initial interest rate of 5 per au of MSU 's accounts. The uni been made publlc except for a head State University Founda cent. MSU officials said the versity a warded Citizens its new arrangement between the tion Inc. difference in lhe interest rates business two years ago over foundation and U1e board of re " They've been very sup the two banks offered would Morehead National and Peo gents requiring the foundation portive of the institution over have been about the same dur ple 's First of Morehead in to report gifts of more than the years. They've helped us ing the last four years of the competitive bidding. People's $10,000 to the board. in a lot of ways. They're good loan as during the first. More First had been U1e depository Monday was the first lime citizens and good friends." h ead National's president, for the four years before that. the foundation was required to "It's not a back-scratching Terry Ensor. also has ties to Before passage of a state law make such a report. thing at all." said Alpha the fou ndation - he is on its requiring the school to desig lt reported that the bank had Hutchinson, chairman and board of directors. nate a depository, MSU split made the first of four $12.500 chief executive officer of Citi Morehead National and Citi its business between Citizens installments of a $50,000 unre zens Bank. "We do everything zens were among four banks and People's First, the only stricted gill it will make to the we can to help the university." from which MSU requested fi. two banks in town at the time. foundation. posal before it was announced. Regent Buckner Hinkle, who .\Football' said he supported Eaglin's plan because of what he termed MSU's financial crisis, to suffer nonetheless said he thought the proposal wasn't given proper consideration. atMSU "If this truly is the para mount issue it seems to be, we By JIM ROBINSON need to have more discussion OF THE DAILY INDEPENDENT than we had," he said. '.'It's somewhat disturbing," MOREHEAD - President said Chuck Uhl, a senior of Ronald Eaglin doesn't think fensive ta_ckle. "It really didn't Morehead State University can seem like we got a fair shake." afford a big-time football team, Proctor said that 23 of the 58 and Monday he got the go scholarshiped players have de ahead to begin dismantling it. cided to leave Morehead. Eag The school's board of regents lin said that only IO have re- Monday unanimously agreed quested transfers. · to allow Eaglin to try and get Eaglin got some unexpected members of the Ohio Valley support from MSU's biggest in Conference, where MSU plays, dividual benefactor. to remain in the league with a Lucille Caudill Little, wh9 football team without players the school honored Monday for on scholarship. giving $1 million to the fine Eaglin's plans calls for phas arts program, said collegiate ing out by 1998 the 63 scholar sports are overemphasized in ships MSU can offer football remarks during a separate cer players annually, a move he emony. says could save the school as "We've got to have a bal much as $450,000 a year. ance," Little said. "We've got The decision came over the to inspire the intellectual pur objections of MSU football suits and the arts." coach Cole Proctor and amidst Faculty regent Bruce Mat some concern from regents tingly said the idea of doing themselves. away with football scholar Proctor called the decision ships shouldn't come as such a "very sad" and said football is surprise. Former MSU Presi being singled out unfairly for dent A.D. Albright in 1985 and cuts. an athletic committee two "l don·t think that football years ago had made the same costs people their jobs," Proc recommendation. tor said. "I don't think that "It's just a matter or priori football costs people their sala ties," Mattingly said. "It's not ries. I think there are a lot of a matter of I would like to get things being blamed on foot rid of football. It's a matter of I ball; and it's just not fair to think we have to spend for the do." academic concerns first." Eaglin said an ongoing Whether the presidents of money crunch, declining en the schools in the OVC will let rollment, waning interest but MSU go to a nonscholarship spiraling costs in football, and football team is another mat concern over gender equity ter. prompted him to zero in on Eaglin said they didn't dis MSU's football program. courage him from the ap With almost $800,000 of proach during a workshop Sat MSU's $2.2 million athletic urday. bu_dget going to football, Eaglin The OVC would have to said he felt the sport was the change its rules to allow MSU only place he could make sig to remain in the league and nificant cuts. compete with member schools Faced with federal rules re in other varsity sports. quiring public universities to And while Proctor said he support male and female doesn't know how the presi SJ)orts equally - a goal MSU, dents feel, some OVC football with 26 percent of its athletic coaches and athletic directors budget going to women's want to kick MSU out of the sports, is not meeting - Eag league if it eliminates football lin 91aid football is the smart scholarships. place to cut in the long run. If MSU does eliminate foot "This is an emotional issue " ball scholarships, it would not he said. "If one looks at the continue to play the same facts and figures, it's a very ra schedule. Eaglin said MSU tional issue. I personally think would schedule other schools there is no alternative for this that don't offer football schol institution." arships. : Several regents raised ques It also would reduce the tions about the proposal, and number of games it plays and at least one echoed Proctor's possibly eliminate the spring concern that it was being ap practice program to save proyed without much delibera money. tion. "The fact of the matter is Proctor said no one con there's just not enough dollars tacted him to discuss the pro- to do everything that we want to do," Eaglin said. .l.. MSU ARCHIVES MSU Clip Sheet A sampling of recent artides of interest to Morehead State Univenity INSTmJTIONAL RELATIONS MOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSllY UPO BOX 1100 MOREHEAD, KY 40351-1689 606-783-2030 lExlNGTON HERALD-LEADER, lExlNGTDN, KY. ■ THURSDAY, MARCH 10, 1994 Key Democrats land money for hometowns BY MARK R. CHELLGREN '.. \• ·,, - :·n • '.•"f_"~' ,,,,t:vr,< : '!_1 ° '"rH1G'Jli,,.:tlt'""',!f';.:· • 1w_"lJ.¼':.!t·'.)ilfi.'",. AssOCIATED PRESS BUDG~J~_IJQCOIW~l:r;JEE1~ECO~IVl~DATION~~; i;,,J! . FRANKFORT - The proposal for a new building at Ashland Wr~N~,~c~~\''::: :/':~;{;::~;:::. '!:::~~:~-~~i·'.;.:;_: -:.- .. it,,~~~~;~~;:·: . Community College got the legisla ■ Stat~1~1d.to •~al _scliool~:;~d~.$~9 mtlllon,, ,Vi .: ~.:, ·,:.,, -~;f ;;,•J'Hi tive hammer yesterday, and the ■ \l{el!tf!'!'jKe~uc_k>'. University: ~-5_1Q,,00Q'lit~ei/t ~~M~e for '!'.~!fled_, .• pieces landed in the fonn of pro · · 'stuUent hoiJslng·b_ulldlng ~n~'r~_nova~?n proJei;!_~_?,Rep_, JodY,~'.";;~,k' ·. jects in hometowns of influential . • Richards, D-Bowll~g Green; •is House'majority·qaucus chalrman1,-Z;I:; House Democrats. ■ East'lffl•Kentuc! compromise. . , -0 ,:;:,r~~eai:ch·center.-:Rep.:umy,Cla~,-~L,ou},svlile;-:ls:llt~ Ho11iu~:S.P!;ak!!'r•"• The subcommittee· decisions are only the first step in. the L~~::£~~'. .. ·_· -:-~· -;r,;::/{' (i, ·,:,· _:;: 0?'. ':·: :\J ?~:. r~f\*;~:~i\,; legislature's work on· the budget 1 The subcommittee's actions· _still ■ Ashland Community College: 'No money for cla·ssroom bullding;f.';•.1·:, full · \i must go before the budget ■ UK:,Delete $500;000_ to ,enhance UK engineering school.; c;. J;~ \ '•; •,; committee and then the whole ■ P,aducah Community College: · No moriey f6rfd_ur-year:englneering~;:f '., ' House.· The same process will go on in the Senate. - . :P_f'?~~!"t ~ ::;r -~~: ..~:}<~~~:·1:t '. .,~~· }~_ ·:/-·. :~1111( ··--~'Sl~i~tw:\::!. ~~ .;.:;~>J ■ Scnp~~!!l~~~;Qel!!\~c~tflli!ll,9_1'\:i/ ,,~ \t~;f,:;t~:f,;;,~:,i,_,;,;::,c: -;,· . - The House subcomrnitteitchair IIDls,lllil,l_lsbeil)Kllic:a_t~~;p~ Dele!e:$4, ll'lllllori~/1-!'J ,~~f,[,;;, ;, 1 man, Rep. Harry Moberly, candidly ,~-,am.1;-~~~~~!~~'~£'rs;;,R~1 .. e~~!_$;5vmm~q,r:i~- ->:v>~,,:.ii~~~il-(.~,-~•·."-i said the Ashland project was :, •:...1 ~ lt!1~ f.iit~_,itt:: .l~ht.!i:,<.~{.:r .Jf:;.t~t:? :u:J,f:tt'. ~~,n)A~J;_'i, t·--'t~_.~1;-. ,.,: .'" --~~· dropped because legislators from that area did not "support progres The biggest cut was $15 ,mil _"Tha~ facility was authorized sive goals," which means the pro lion from the family resource and , for design and planning. two years jects of House Democratic leaders. youth service centers projects .. Mo ago and. we had. been. proceeding The new projects fell into the berly said the remaining money I, along with the'strortg·feellng we districts of House Majority Floor • would still allow the opening of 125 would be able to construct· a, new building in the next bienniiun." Leader Greg Stumbo of Prestons new centers. •• . '!,' . burg; House Majority_ Caucus . 1 The real political maneuvering . . UK's major projects -:- a ~ Chainnan Jody Richards of Bowl was in higher education. 'million library and a new mechani ing Green; Marshall Long -of Shel The Ashland college building cal engineering building , ::-". _re byville, chainnan of the Appropria proposed by Jones disappeared mained in the subcommittee's ver- tions and Revenue Committee; from the subcommittee's , recom sion of. the budget- ·,, -. · , House Speaker Pro 'Teni Larry· . . ' ., ·.•{~- ·~ ~; mendations, ·but the panel added Smaller items were added at Clark of Louisville; and Moberly, money for a new building at Pres D-Richmond. · .Western Kentucky University and tonshurg 'Community College and Eastern Kentucky University ..Ahd The biggest cost item the su~ · an affiliated building in Pikeville. the University of Louisville· ·got committee handled was the deci The community ·colleges ,. are sion tci. add $29.7 million in the· assuranceJor.'a )lealth science·cen• supervised.' by•_ !lie UniveJSity'.rof ter, provideci-:it'raises local money.· coming two-year budget to ·the Kentucky." UK President Charles ....,,--. ... _,. ~-,~'' basic state aid to local schools Wethington, said yesterday that all ·,• .,Jn'.iiriilthfu::part of the budget,ia program, called SEEK the projects were high on the heretofore-unknown proposa\ for a That, might not be. -all: ,,The new . vocational school·. at;c SitellJy:; community college's wish• list but 0 House will.negotiate with·_the'Sen, that the Ashland project carried a ville was included. -·· ·--:c """'· • ate over .the idea of givirig even higher priority, . Money was cut for a 11lan to more money to SEEK, Moberly iiave 'UK. 'offer engineermg·· pro said. grams at Paducah Community -Col-. To make up that money,, the. lege. . forces, from Murray State subcommittee cut pieces,of initia,·, University and UlC' bickered over tives proposed ih Gov. Brereton the proposal .. Jones' budget The' subcommittee·· cut $2 million, from · the school: rewards program in eacli year of the budget, along with $2 million each year from tl/,e . distinguished educators program. THE COURIER-JOURNAL, TUESDAY, MARCH B, 1994 :,Five-year UK pro~ra,?:~gYW~ip~~:~1;1~ _engine~ring,:,~gt~~:i :. • The University of Kentu~ky has an- d~gree and for a master's mti\!smess but "".ilHnclude,mternships ~~local.and re-,it~~g~'fent. , . . . , , , : ., .. _,. nounc~ a ne~, five•Y.l;W: p,rogrru.n ·to help will be able to do bot~ by fpll~';Ylllg a ye~t;e gin scie~c;es 1!11, ,.. _.. orma. o~ , . • w:int :, to comb~e an . engmeenng de~ The pro~m "Just mt~grates the proces~ and, it technical ba~kgrouitd can e ect to · terns, firiimce, management .and marketirtg, with a master's m busmess administration. mo~ than if they had tried to get the,,enfll• do well. Job-seekers with that bac~und will have 40 faculty members, ,1,300 under , Th~ program, intended to ~eei a growing neenng degree ~d then get the MBA, srud and a couple of years' experience land jobs graduates; 250 MBA studep,ts and 35 doc corpotate demand for business graduates Fre~ Tru!\, associate dean. of the College ~f with starting salaries. that average $53,000. to~ students. Rich~ Furst, de~ of the with technical backgrounds, will begin this Engmeenng. UK also announced yesterday that it has Busmess and Econonucs college, srud there fall. A student in the program must fulfill Trutt said the program is intended for merged four departments in the College of will be a national search for a director of. the usual requirements for an engineering students who will be freshmen next fall. It Business and Economics into a new School · the school. • ,JHE,CQU~ER-JOURNAL, TUESDAY.,MAl;ICl;l 8A991 THE COURIER-JOURNAL, THURSDAY, MARGl:l 10, 1994 . , , _ Mbiirci'"·¾V\t:9; kr tl:1:~lv.,·11;•~,r .~itte~n. u "" ,,.;,,.. G Ass . I • • • . , ,.. . • .;ed ,L .1c ,e ,,,.l,':...,.i;,., ,.. ~ . '"· , 1 1 , 1994 1\.ru'HUGKY '· ." l~·~ '•' • ,;,,.~;,.;,.e(l'>',,:J' ENERAL EMBLY ' 1 t'· '.t' ,,,,, .. id''ii\e:i-1,', • ·~ - .. ·¥,.. L; .., , ,~-1 :. · · ·· _-· __ · ·· .. aum1ms ra o~ -pnnc1pa ·.. Ie.:t-· , _ , 1 . .I.., f/ 1 ,..,::~ • f , . . , . I· · ...,,, \ : . .,. - , 1...v·:· , '-'"" · 1 • ' ;•· '· 1 ·: • ~: \'l~·-1 , -: 1 f, Ubd ' ,'t ,, ,, ·. ':, ~; _:;; h . ·;~-( ' •• 'i" .~- u·,-,· \ ffi'. ' t' . , ' '·;a};~~ 'd'' b':':,t··'.: Fri>.~Staff ~S~al-Disp~tche;·-~~=o~i;;i~~ciJ:~~'.p~I i\ ' I C . ~.OREHEAI?,-.·-Ky•. .:.-'., Mo~' sch!?(!~:"~~..,superinteii' 'derlt• : : , , g~ JD~· '. · e.'.·,·, rQver, ·: · a~a-sma, ,,;w, .,e.," · '" e,,, ,, ~1 ,QP,•'" L e,• w .. ".. , ,e , :•,•. : , ~ Wfcli'er, a retited Morehead State l'IJl~.tojij;Jjurg schools,· ,. • ,., By roM _LOFTUS Park,th~t;'had been, includ,ed .iii, Jo~es'' shall, !,-ong, chairman of the' budget The' s~comptittee found tli~ iitoney Ut)i'y~i's,ity ~.dministrato,r.'.lm'' d_form',_er (>... ilfe·..li'wii.'' ,,a na,.: ti¥... e 'of·.. Follli1 '.Staff Wnter $100 m1l,h<1n bond issue for park 1m- committee. ,,. . . , , by slas~mg Jones' proposed e~ansion PttiiciPhl, IJ!ed S.~1 U!!I"e~\}'. ,.J!~ , , iideJ!t j:if_ Mol:1~, lieaf· ~t .proyeme_nts. . · The· recommen~attons o_f the House for fanuly and youth service centers at, of,Keit~ljiOSP.!. In ~odl [;I:)lib iilid, Rilwl1tll nly etll1 1 :·.'. ;. FRANkFORT, Ky, - Budget writers LikeWJSe, funding for most of Jones' budget sub.committees will be com: schools by $15 million over the two- Jte, ~1811~;.,.1,ii'~ ..:~, ~· .~r/~, , f~ ttl'.eac rs Asf&:i. on,[~.d mer ,in ~ouse subcommittees yesterday proposed_improvementsatCumberland· binedandco'!5id~redto~ay~y-thefull· yearbudget.' ·' ·, i•He;;lfild b, ~i e\fi9spi v~l jbero ffi.e F.jist: }Kentuc;J ~ I completed the,ir makeover of the 1994- Falls,, and Lake Cumberland, ~rt budget comnuttee. The bill will be sent , Also cut were the size of increases a. ur,fli ,. \ , »st ,Th\.i .; ~. /J, (~~~\_ii Nd\!9~(e!:\W\:!ltiC1J1Jiss 96 state budget by stripping pork from p11rks was ctJt, .as.. was money to btiild , to the House;floqr for.a vote that could Jones proposed for school rewards pro, , ~clter jbmeil ~o!'llliead m i!l~?J. c1atto11:1: ·: . ; ...... _,, . 1,. districts of troublesome Republicans tlie long-awruted lodge at .Dale Hollow occur. as soon as tomorro~. . . .. gram teacher preparation primary I , ~or of admiss10ns and publi~, , , Sumvors. Include two so~, .~!/, butlayingnewlardbackh i'~\ ' ;;J'I f~1•'-·S:, \!,-;;',,\·:, • . . ' ·..:_,;· :~- .. r .,: , J.~~ ;~i ~-,:: "· 1994 KENTucKY GENERAL AssEMBLY · ! ~ THE COURIER-JOURNAL, THURSDAY, MARCH 10, 1994 -_· . -, ·•- .... ,;,J .. , ... .,. -i · ;,.,,, , ... :(-1., ... ,.--ti.art;,_- • , . -, . - ... -; .. ·. ·n·.. 1··. UK-·-··-· .Panel-backs independence · S.,-~,i~·-;'_~-An'ate'i!a-p•p-r:o-~·,As·s ,.':·1_}~• .. :_ .·A-1•_,~.r~,;~_;,·., _,·. ,, •"mg·ne:t'l,s·c·ou·n· ,·.,._,. 'YY, , ,,,,c··- ·-a·.-··.. /.·· ... · .',: , ,s.,:·'~.>~d __;f!_J,; 1.:ff_ •. •· ,. -,_·-~:•··"\\{::-··-r;,·••:. ,i•: .... :. , , :•'· ,1_, ., .•. ~!_-,_ .''·.~'I:•.. ·, ~ ·:.~·\.; 1, :for teacher-standards• ' board• J ! - 1 1 l!!Y JU~J~P~~\;,~t'' ! •; ''. ';ralsed.) 0!)u!j"co1'J1~ 'vfi>wd, •render ' P!'l!~' 19-~~.' '¥91114 ser~P. Ken!i. Walter''illeviris/ useless iJiecaiise; it Associated Press miss teachers." ;~t~ W:ntfr .... 1' ), ,·! . ,~L\f.nL ', ,,· !JD~b!)ldmg:i>PlnjOll/i'.lil' ci>D!Plalnts tu,cky Emi~!lon ~cation ~n; , exempted num~rous_ soµ~ol'll, Sen. I: l 'By •removing the board from the , , ,. · i , · .. , , :'ti\'. ii•· 0 ; tf:about n~ j:ove~) 9Gmp~ts iers where new !ea~ers, and l)!C\s~ ''.'l'O!ll'!3u(ord;!{-J~,:;, ~d Jhat ' . FRANKFORT;' Ky. - The board depal'lll1en~, ''you still don't have 'in• 1', ,, ~~:r, ,;,~y.. :b >~l!!le : , woul~ :wa1ve )thelt · ~t, to go. to who wanted to unprove their 'raitk · -p~cpcally anyone (!Ju!d qllhlify. ~or i that· sets standards for Kentuclq, de~ndence. Yoil just .bave lnflu- , ffi!J1Pllilii\s !li!'I It·~'-a. ~!I ,of "'~url' and 'WQllld ha~ to1_rust IIY to on the salary l!C41e, would be tested ,' exemption; the bill' passed U,l, teachers would ·become independ~ ence in the other direction,'' said '1!1_. oney_, t!i~ Senate Pl!l>S.AA !! ~il:l yes- fl:SOlve their co_ mplam~ with the me- on their. teaching ab!llty_. • _ · : ·· l311~ BIIM!15, I):W_~ l:i~~. _Sl\ld ent under a bill approved yesterday Northup, R-Louisville. ieflla:,: !1,1.at )V9.u!4, c;f!!li~!' !I !Jews !Ha 9utlet. 1 ._.. : . · • • The bill woulc! not affect_prospec, the bill would lift~ m()~ ~µ~tors ·by the House Education Committee. The chairman of the standards .~lll}f,i! .a~' Ill~ YllfYlll'!lilY, ~t ~~- · Not!ng .tl!atm~ participation live teachers who are now m gra!N' against wl>,om c_omplaiil~ have ~n The Education Professional Stan- board, Daniel Greene .of -David in :.niP!\Y s jO~P;l1~~.9h·, · ,c, Viould ~ .yo)µ!ltary, Sell. Richard · ate school, and renewal of teaching · . registered with· the !ltto~ey gener- dards Board is now attached to the fl!Jl1cil ".l'Dil!d 110 m~re :, Prepara~on, which recolllJ!1~nded ::<;0unties;IR1p!lse a.~_percent.tax on told the committee. · suspendlng seven, Greene said. ·" · ·_ · ~Ila__ t~ MaJoo~,f; ~d.~H _P~!ld :_, "~--~t ~!151_._ble Joul'Jl8!isls ways _to unprove teacher training. : ... fen_tlll, _' .cars_; _· Loclll. gQV~mmeqts _The . board, which certifies and Th~ revocations have rarely ~n ;~['1m,Jhe ~~I'.! l!l!l~·!!l'l.CP.!!n•, ,wo,iw! ~!!i)l ~!llli~fe than an-' . Repubp_yan ~n. µndy: Casebier; would stl)l:haye to-approve 1rtax. •, d1Sciplmes teachers,- "should not be for Jess than five years, Greene ilald, !!ii \fO~d not ol!ly JlWi ~Iv¢ .. e@i:s lfi\V ~l!i!l~ e~ !!ffu.(aj cop- . a Jefferson County teach~_r, sajd the . Holl§e Bill ~~2, ww,; d\l_f!lllled .on a ·under the thumb of the commission- Most ranged from 15 to 55 years, he ~~Pl!llf!_, llj _l,lg~-'Jt!Je_ .. ,!11~!1,•'llut il!fucfl>f-la~f!!-! , •:t_:,. , . _• b_ill would oqly ad_ d _,o the__ low mo-_::.~ vo_-~e_ earlier,tlijs wee__~ ~utre• er,'' said Rep. Harry Moberly, D- said. '· : '!Qii!~ .$.9 · Sffll~l,,Pl!~I!!!,, f!!l'I/PIS After se:n: lilick !Caf~!" a .119wl· · rale many teachers have because of , ~ by 1ls sponsor, R~1 Jpn C\illa• Richmond, · The board was created under the 1,~4Sf!i;nmjlfs!l!l·i$J9!ii!IJt',11!\!ce ipg Cire,e!I·. Dem~ ~11tended.,ll),e.Kentucky Education Refo~. ~Q,~outtigi!I!',. ,,. :'. . . But Rep. Anne Northup. sald,the 1990 · K;eritucky Education Refomi. . ,;itJjijlrlµJlity_ for ~,ti!: µi~ !I l!la!e- ·' that th~ cquqg! 'wo11Jd µa~ more Act. "I think they will view this as ·~from the t~ woilld, ltave · board is also pressured by the Ken- Act. Its 15 members include eight : !ll~llti' !!~4e4 !Wl,11!;-Q,J.o.u~F- '~b!Jity if ii; Wll!'l''COmpletelyprl• yet another slap ill .the face,'' he. IQ ,be ~-by _a .IOCII\ goyemm~nt lucky Education Association, which teachers and two iichool admlnlsfra- , . 'We lt~V~!ll i!!lt'$l,.lili!lion.to· ~!ely~~~~1!1sal~h\l"7'luld •~d.. -.. _ . · · 1 for,ecpnoDJJ<;d~JoplJlent .. Thebill, . is ''llying to make it harder to dis· tors. ,.fl!J!c!BP.J'!>gpil!llli~t,WPl!l!J.~!l·l!lce ~!!ple~t~ll~V!lm~,~pponel\ts _ ,The Senate also passed SB168; p~s~d6~39, g~ to the ~enate: 1PPP!l\11!I!lty;_ !!r' 1!!1~~.'!.,WJID• " !'$e illl the:inoney; · . : · ' which purports to regulate tele, · :.. ihe ijouse ~ :vo\ecHo autho~ I,lere4 Se!), •Dan J{~J)y, Rr~Pril!gfi~ld. ,; · .. He said the bill would jlelp ~pie . phone solicitations by requiring . school· syste,ns _to crel\le their own /'I.'!$. j\J$t 1see~ IQ ni@ in-.*~ ,cur- wron~~ lty the ~~ to .see~ re- callers ~o state their b!15iness W!I~ security forces; with _officers . al- 1,~l!t"l>u~~t \lnVIJ'!l!l!!IAAt to· bll: I!!· t diess :without :eiq,ensive· litigation. 30 seconds. It would also penm\ res lowed to cany Y1eapons .and make 1jPo~fO!!~Jme&!!/'' :1J;:' ·_,,,,: u··Thebill was·passed-23-12 and·turn of any mercbaildise bought ~$.The'officers·would'haveto ' .The news council Wl>l!III be .:;µp- ,i sent-to•the House. ·: •' _ · through, '·telephone' -1 solicitations bave 400 hours of ITiii!1ing. : . r11ort,id by:\\ $2 lili!liori' ~QdQWlllent, ', 'Also-'lipproved and sent ·to the wjthin 14 days and cancellation of, That bill, {fll 549; ·p~ed. 47-40 ,;, _1!!1){ f!l>m·the stpte llJJ,4 half from 1;,Ho~ W8!i S!1238," which would . any purchase ~ment. . i and also·goes to the_ Senate. · , Ip~t~ ij(1\JI'~. Cf!t~ 1~1!1e .WQl,l!d ju~ ·the state's· current teacher- . ' Sen. T'l!JI PJli)pot,' .R-Lexington, lnfllrmatlori for thl~ ~ry was aliso ;J19t p14t )lp:IJl! half !ll!ti! .P\11 rel!! was ~rtificatjon ~eiq. 'Q1e bill; ' ap- · ¢!~ the ~ill; spo~refl by Sen; gathered by The ~'!8~~-!''1'8e. · .~:· ¥-SU_ ARCHIVES ftt14rc..~ 11. l't'l'f 91Ad.;i.-3-,Jr9 .. ·· · ,·:,i. MSU Clip Sheet A sampling of recent artides of interest to Morehead State University INSTIMIONAL RELATIONS MOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY UPO BOX 1100 , MOREHEAD, KY 40351-1689 606-783-2030 lEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER, LEXINGTON, KY. ■ FRIDAY, MARCH 11, 1994 . , House: panel keeps.,.m:q~h• pf Jones' ·budget Ashland college gets money for ~ew classroom building_·"·' The changes were part of the . $100 million bond issue that law BY CHAD CARLTON The move apparently was a makers authorized for sale two AND JACK BRAMMER scripted effort by Democratic lead' HERALD-LEADER FRANKFORT BUREAU years ago. ers to help Rep. Rocky Adkins, D- ' The two 'new parks would be at FRANKFORT - Several of Sandy Hook, in his re-election bid. , Carr Fork Lake in Eastern Ken Gov. Brereton Jones'. key initiatives The conunittee also went along ' tucky and Nolin Lake in Western were scrapped last night by the with several additional projects Kentucky. The biggest losers under House budget conunittee, but legis that will benefit the districts of the changes are Cumberland Falls, lators left' much of his proposed Democratic leaders. . Lake Cumberland and Dale Hollow budget intact. . · · , The budget includes $46 mil Lake. The committee tentatively lion in bonding authority for the ■ Prisoris: The conunittee signed off on the plan !as_!_ night_ Conunonwealth Library at the Uni . voted to postpone the governor's butwill return" today - for · formal versity of Kentucky· and $10 mil proposed $35 million expansion of approval. The House is expected to lion for a performing arts center at the .state prison in Muhlenberg vote iin the bill early next week. Hazard Community College. · · County in Western Kentucky. The conunittee made only one UK President Charles Wething • They also scrapped proposed significant change in the proposals -ton said construction on tlie library - juvenile detention centers in West approved by budget subconunit should begin this summer. em and Northern Kentucky. A tees. · Lawmakers restm:ed money· The committee ·agreed to delete juvenile jail slated for Breathitt for a classroom building at Ash the governor's proposed $500,000 County in Eastern Kentucky sur land Conununity College. increase in the University of Ken vived, but with a 25 percent cut. House budget chief Marshall tucky's engineering program. Bick- . ■ Tax collection: The com Long, D-Shelbyville, said he ex .ering between UK and the Univer mittee largely went along with the pects few changes ·mi· the floor:-- sity of Louisville led to the move, governor's proposal to add more Republicans will try • to win • Moberly said. than 100 employees to the Revenue back several construction projects The committee also pared the Cabinet to crack down on tax that Democrats cut governor's proposal to spend cheats and, recover an extra $34.5 The House conunittee purpose $500 000 to start an engineering ' million over the next two years. ly didn't spend about $10 million of pro~am at Paducah Community ■ Fayette Connty: The pro the $100 million in bonds for state College. posed budget includes $4.5 million · park improvements. "We've got In a notable move, the commit over the next two years for Fayette some poker money,"· Long said. tee agreed to take $2.5 million from County's justice center to relieve · The bill will probably undergo a state savings fund to fill 50 courthouse crowding. more changes before- it clears the county extension agents' positions ■ Transportation: _Highway Senate-and reaches 'the governor's. ' that are vacant. crews would get up to $8 million desk. Here are highlights of the ■ Human Resources: The over the next two years for snow conunittee's plan. panel rejected Jones' proposal to and ice removal. ■ Education: The committee turn the state's unemployment of agreed to add about $30 million fices over to private contractors. ■ Other programs: Not only more over two years to the state's The move would have cut 1,200 did lawmakers reject several of basic funding formula for schools, workers from the cabinet's payroll, Jones' proposals, they. also rejected which could translate into pay transferring them to vacant state' his wife's plan to put aside $5 raises for teachers. positions or letting them work for million to keep farmers .from sell contract agencies. · ing their land to commercial devel To come up with the extra opers. The so'.called PACE pro money, lawmakers chopped several "It was determined that this program wasn't broken," said Rep. gram would have paid farmers to of.Jones' proposals, including $15 keep land in agricultural use. million from •family resource and Paul Mason, D-Whitesburg. · youth services centers and $4 mil The committee also refused to ·■ Legislative budget: The lion to reward teachers who meet go along with the governor's plan committee · approved spending reform goals. · to expand Medicaid rolls by more $500,000 to renovate the .basement and first floor of the Capitol Annex Rep. Harry Moberly, D-Rich than 200,000 people. . for conunittee rooms and staff of mond, chairman of the budget sub ■ Pay raises: Most state fices. committee on education, said the . workers would get 5 percent raises cuts would not hurt because there in each of the next _two 'budget Lawmakers previously ap would be money to open another years. proved $3 million to make individ 125 centers to help children and Judges, who lobbied for much ual offices for all 138 lawmakers in their families with other social higher increases, would get 7 per the annex. That project is under service needs. cent raises in each year. Circuit way. Rep. Joe Barrows, D-Versailles, clerks and their deputies would get objected to cutting money for similar increases. teacher rewards, a program that Prison guards, probation and could pay an extra $3,000 to some: parole officers, state troopers and "We're digging ourselves a gi dispatchers would also get bigger ant, giant hole if we start the next raises than most state workers. school year with 'the· money not ■ State parks: The commit there," he said. tee's proposal would add two state, Ii Universities: The conunit parks and expand other park pro tee restored money for a classroom jects in leading Democrats' dis building at Ashland Community tricts. College that had been cut Wednes day by a subcommittee. The Daily Independent, Ashland, Kentucky, Thursday, March 10, 1994 ACC building erased by budget planners Farley voted against health ~awmaker mum on move to rechannel funding care reform legislation last After it stripped the ACC week, and has frequently op project from the budget, the store funding for a new build Marshall Long, D-Shelbyville, get its final revisions and be posed other bills supported by subcommittee added debt ser ly SUSAN WARREN ing at Ashland Community said the panel would meet approved by the committee on Democratic leaders. vice for an $8.5 million well ~DEPENDENT FRANKFORT BUREAU College 4:hat was deleted dur late this afternoon to begin Friday, Long said. "I wasn't aware my vote was ness-classroom building for ing a subcommittee meeting final work on the budget. The The budget review subcom that valuable," said ·Farley, Prestonsburg Community Col FRANKFORT ::._ The House Wednesday. two-year spending plan pro mittee on education Wednes tongue in cheek. lege, in the district of House mdget committee might de Appropriations and Rev posed · by the administration day took out $4.5 million in Majority Leader Greg Stumbo. ide tonight whether to re- Farley, who learned about enue Committee Chairman of Gov. Brereton Jones could bond authorization that Jones the ACC funding from a re University of Kentucky Pres had proposed for ACC and di porter, said he thought there ident Charles -Wethington said vided it among projects in the might be another reason for although that project is need home districts of members of the action. But he would not ed, the ACC building was a the Democratic House leader- . elaborate. higher priority. It was ranked ship. "No one has ever tried to ne first by the Kentucky Council ACC is seeking the ap gotiate with me about my on Higher Education. propriation for a new class vote," he said. "That would "That facility was autho room building to accom have been trying to bribe me." rized for design and planning modate what has been record Long refused comment on two years ago and we had be~n '. s~::;j ,. growth.. whether the project would be proceeding along with the . ""C:)" u "Our enrollment has dou restored, or why it was taken strong feeling we would be bled since 1980 and we've ba out. able to construct a new build 00 sically not added any class "" =-=·::;j State Sen. Charlie Borders, ing in the next biennium," he "'~ ro room space in that time," said. ~ ACC President Charles R-Russell, noted that Republi .,D~ cans again increased their The subcommittee also I "Chick" Dassance said this (.) numbers in the legislature added projects in the districts a: (l) ~ morning. The school has 2,830 ...: students enrolled this semes with the election Tuesday of of Speaker Pro Tern Larry ::;; ter. John David Preston to the 25th Clark, D-Louisville, Caucus ~u•...-1 Chairman Jody Richards, D ~ Rep. Harry Moberly, D District Senate seat. The 0 Paintsville Republican was Bowling Green, Moberly and 1i: Richmond, chairman of the Long. LL subcommittee, said the action scheduled to be sworn in today _j ::a & for the seat vacated by Demo was taken because of a "per ...:z u crat David LeMaster, who re a: 00 ceived lack of cooperation and THE ASSOCIATED PRESS :::, ~ willingness to vote on tough signed in the wake of a 0 ro Boptrot-related conviction. contributed information to this issues," among some members sto,y. ~ w sa~ of the northeastern Kentucky "The days of holding you 1i: - (l) delegation. :::, hostage for a decent piece of 0 00 ~ Rep. Don Farley, R-Ashland, legislation are just about to (.) w ""C:S 0 who had called the ACC come to a close," Borders said. II project his top priority for this I- ~ ~ Borders pledged to work ::;j .00 session, said he was "glad to hard to restore funding for know" his vote was important ·~ (l) ACC if the budget is sent to ., ~ to House Democratic leaders. the Senate without it. So did Rep. Rocky Adkins, D-Sandy Hook_ anri RPn_ Rnn r.vrm::: n. ~ege debts hinder graauates tor years .puuu1., JUI.I I U.l_ ...,~IA:i ..., l'.'!tl.,UUtill~ AsSOCIATED PRESS on the 12.5 million who, month after Four in io said their payments were borrow to get an· education WASHINGTON - Hillary Wicai has month, pay off their loans. · easy to handle. her dream job as a television reporter, but But for one in four, the debt affected BY TODD PACK ance Authority. she can't afford the clothes that make her Collectively they owe $41.9 billion. decisions on whether to marry; more than HERALD-LEADER BuSINESS WRITER look professional on the air. Many are still in debt 10 years after _The average student borrows graduation. a third who did marry said it influenced She's trying to pay off "an enormous In Kentucky, students and re $2,400 a year, the agency said. decisions about starting.a family. . cent graduates often face big debts. debt, probably $20,000 or $21,000" for the In many schools, 70. percent of the Four in 10 work two jobs or more Amy Carman of Frankfort bor fun Laurick, a 1988 University year at Northwestern University's Medill student body must borrow. One survey of Kentucky graduate still owes because of their debts. More than a rowed a total of $5,700 so she could School of Journalism that helped her land said the average undergraduate borrower $5,600 of his '$7,000 siudent Joan the job. And that's on a salary of $16,000 quarter said their loans caused them to attend Western Kentucky Universi carried away a $7,900 debt Those who live with family or relatives, and 35 on which he pays $100 a month. ' a year. also borrowed for an ·advanced degree ty. Five years after graduation, she percent . said they postponed needed owes $3,305.03, plus interest He's also still paying off a "All my clothes are gifts," says Wicai, owed $31,000. health care because of their debt. who works for WLFI in West Lafayette, $5,000 credit card debt. "I used it to Joanne Peevey, director of career and About 13 percent said they were Paying $61 a month, she'll Ind. "Every. single thing I have for work make her last payment in 1999. buy books and ·to eat," said Laur was given to me. My mother, my grand counseling services at the University of forced to drop out of college - leaving ick, a senior merchandising manag mother - they shop for me for bargains." Houston at Clear Lake, said some gradu them perhaps worse off than if they had Carman, a spokeswoman for er at JCPenney in Fayette Mall. ates with loans leap at the first job offer For college graduates, student debt never gone. the Kentucky Historical Society, that comes along "rather thari taking the said she doesn't regret the loan. Laurick said his student debt can influence the course of their lives in "The amount of earning power you him time to find the job that fits their skills "It let me pay my way through has forced to delay having a other, more important ways. A study and interest. So they pay a price." have· with just some college is not much · family, and "I won't be buying a finds that many postpone marriage, delay more than with a high school diploma," school,"· she said. house this century, that's for sure. having a family, hold down two jobs, To measure the after-college effect of said Ted Marchese, vice president of the Nearly half of all Kentucky even put off medical care. college debt, educational researchers Jo American Association for Higher Educa college students must borrow mon- "It was worth it," he said. Much attention has . been paid to seph Boyd and Carol Wennerdahl ques tion. "So these kids are in a bind; $6 an ey to attend school, said Paul P. Without a college education, "I college borrowers who: default, but rela tioned 551 recent college graduates who hour doesn't go far when you have a $110 Borden, executive director of the wouldn't have the income level I tively little to the effect of indebtedness had borrowed. nionthly debt." Kentucky Higher Education Assist- have now." l.EXINGTON HERALD-LEADER. lExlNGTON. KY. ■ FRIDAY MARCH 11 1994 ... ■ AMENDMENTS ' ' "'.... .-i.... Measure would let assembly ,: 'r:I.J. ':i" ::l: ~ hold session during off-years ,: ~ < ~ C ii: "C §4 AsSOCIATE0 PRESS their classification. u.. Sen. Tim Shaughnessy spon ■ ~ FRANKFORT - The General .a Assembly would meet during off •sored the bill to add the special ~ session amendment to the ballot z ''r:I.)_ years under one possible constitu 12 = tional amendment approved by a The amendment would allow the "'z ~- Senate committee yesterday. The legislature to meet for 30 days and ~ consider branch budgets and any -' ="C panel also approved a proposed amendment to require local bal other subject lawmakers would "'C anced budgets. consider during a regular session. ~ ~~ -' ~- The State Government Commit Lawmakers· could not consider 6 constitutional amendments or call ~< tee chose the two proposals as ~~ issues its members think should go for a constitutional convention. :,:"'"" z ~ ~ on the November ballot. ' "My intention in drafting this 0 ~ The second proposed amend legislation is to protect the nature ' "'z ment, in addition to requiring local of the citizens' legislature," said ~ -' governments to pass balanced bud Shaughnessy, a Louisville Demo ' gets, would allow them to change crat. Msu ARCHIVES /V1a.,c.h l'f i 99 Herbert Jackson of Dayton,- Ohio, "basically we've added no He served as Morehead mayor and John B. Jackson Jr. of- Ca- from 1978 to 1981. margo; and two sisters, Ruth Turner classroom space during that Before joining Morehead Sl'ate, and Daisy Rogers, both of Dayton. time," Dassance said. The Jackson taught at Science Ridge The funeral will be at 2 p.m . .t The Sunday Independent, Ashland, Kentucky, March 13, 1994 Prudent. niove- Morehead State made right decision irt dropping football scho!arships Morehead State Univer sity's board of regents made the right decision when i~ This decision is not gave President Ron Eaglin about winning and authority to begin phasing losing; it's ab.out dollars out football scholarships. and cents. . At a time of declining en rollment, tight state finances and little fan support, More head · cannot afford- to con letic budget on women's tinue spending the $450,000 a sports; there is no way it can year the scholarships cost. A reach parity and maintain its federal mandate r_equiring football scholarships. colleges to fund male and fe The biggest obstacle is the male athletics at about the school's membership in the same rate adds to the need Ohio Valley Conference. The for MSU to make dramatic university must get · confer cuts in its most expensive ence approval· to compete in male sport.. football without offering Coach Cole Proctor criti scholarships - or to partici cized the · decision as being pate in all OVC sports except too hasty, but this is hardly a football. Without that okay, new idea. Former President the university could be A.D: Albright first proposed forced to withdraw from the doing away with football conference; however, since scholarships in 1985, and an other OVC schools face the athletic committee made the same financial crunch as same recommendation two Morehead, there is reason to years ago. In fact, just about hope that an agreement can every study of ways to cut be reached that would allow university costs has con the university to continue in cluded that maintaining a Di the OVC. . vision I-AA football program Morehead does not have a: was too expensive to justify. rich football tradition. Even Major universities with when New York Giants quar self-supporting football pro terback Phil Simms was grams have little trouble slinging the ball for the Gold meeting requirements to en Eagles, the team was not fund male and female atl)letic winning. . programs equally. However, But this decision is not those univ.ersities that subsi about winning and losing; it's dize their football programs about dollars and cents. At a - and that includes just time when far more im about every non-Division I portant academic programs program - are having trou are struggling for funds,· the ble reaching gender parity in university cannot afford to athletics. MSU now spends spend tens of thousands of about 26 percent of its ath- dollars on football. THE COURIER-JUUHNAL, bUNUAY, MAHLH l~, 1~~4 OFF•THE•FIELD U ofL_fo,o.tball-playe_rs INCIDENTS. Incidents involving University in· rash. Qf clashes, but of Louisville football players that were reported to local. police between September!' coach sees no trend.- and January: · ■ Sept. 19: Wide receiver Ke By BEN Z. HERSHBERG the influence of alchohol. vin Cook arrested by Jeffer Staff Writer At Indiana University, one player son County police on was charged with illegally firing a charges of alcohol intoxica Two University of Louisville foot- gun, according to sports informa- . tion and disorderty conduct. ball players were suspended from tion director Kit Klingelhoffer. No . the team this school year for break- one was hurt. , ■ Nov. 6: Defensive back ing school and team rules, two oth- However, incidents were reported Deran Wiley cited in a com ers pleaded guilty to charges of as- at other schools that were more se plaint filed with campus po sault in off-campus incidents, and a rious than those involving U of L lice for allegedly pointing a trial is pending for another player football players. That includes a handgun at a student during charged in an alleged assault at a case in which two Murray State an argument in a dormitory. downtown nightclub. football players were among six stu- He was suspended from the Reports of verbal harassment of dents charged Wednesday with the team for breaking university U of L students also have been filed sexual assault ofstudent at a donni and team rules, though foot ball coach Howard Schnel with campus police. naming at least · tory last Monday,_ ·and charges of at lenberger said the gun could three other players. And the owner tempted rape and burglary against not have been fired. of a Baxter Avenue nightspot said two University of Washington foot he's asked the university to keep ball players in the fall. ■ Dec. 2: football players away· from his bar Benedict• said the numbers and Cook arrest because of- their unruly behavior. kinds of incidents are less important ed again by Mike Ryan, co-owner of the than why they happen. .county po Brewery, said he's a big U of L sup- "We do not support the idea that lice on . porter. but decided to write to the athletes are (inherentlytmore likely- charges of university last spring after football to commit any kind of act than 0th alcohol in players had I:ieen aggressive toward er students," Benedict said. toxication other patrons on several occasions. The sociologist · said' ·rese~rch and disor Ryan said the incidents were·report- shows that several factors usually· derly conduct He was sus ed to police. He· said he's since are involved in athletes' violence. pended from the Dec. 28 Li talked with university officials, who fJchohol generally is ·. one of berty Bowl. have been very cooperative. But the them, Benedict said. And the group ■ Dec. 24: ban remains. aspect of football also has an effect, Linemen U of L. football coach Howard he said. Players are trained to ·pro Chris Schnellenberger said even one inci- tect or encourage each other on the Ha_mpton dent of off-the-field violence by his field, and that pack mentality could and Thom players is too .. mui:h. But he believes explain why players often- are in as Carroll human nature makes it impossible valved together in violent incidents beat up a to eliminate. all such.problems. And off the field. The coach's attitude to 23-year-old lie thinkS that among his more than ward such incidents also is impor man in the \OQ players, having eightirivolved in tant, Benedict said. parking lot of the Golden sucli incidents since September is He thinkS the.common practice of Nugget Lounge. The players not unusual. housing team members together in were convicted of fourth-de "I feel as a: football team this a football dormitory adds to the risk gree assault, a misdemean group of young men has comported of off,tlie-field violence by making or, on Feb. 22, Each agreed themselves in a very proper man- them feel less like other students. to pay $786.93 to cover the ner," Schnellenbergersaid. The National Collegiate Athletic As victim's medical bills. ,, U ofL• football players have had sociation has banned the practice ■ Jan. 1: problems with the law in past years, starting in 1995. • Reserve as well. Between 1990 and 1992, 13 Schnellenberger said he doesn't linebacker were charged with crimes, including think there is a particular reason for Tyrran rape, assault, disorderly conduct his players' run-ins with police. He's Scroggins, and drunken driving. . a stem disciplinarian,. Schnellen-. 22, arrested · Dan Keller, U of L public safety berger said, contending that his_ cur and director, said· campus police do nol few - II p.m. weekdays and 2:30 charged have records indicating whether a.m. lhe nights after games - is as with assault football players are more or less rigorous as any coach's in the coim ing a 22-year-old man early likely to get in trouble than other try. Those who break team rules are New Year's Day in Hurricane ·students. He said there had been disciplined, he added. · O'Malley's, a downtown fewer on-campus incidents involv- Schnellenberger strongly opposes nightclub. The case is pend- ing football players this year than in the NCAA plan to eliminate dormi . ing. the past, partly because of a new tories that house only athletes. policy banning large public parties. _.. "It's the one way to assure bond ■ Jan. 15: Three football . There· are no reliable national sta- ing and the adherence to rules and players, who were not Identi tis tics eitl\er on 'how often college regulations," he said. fied in records, reported to football players or either athletes are His players seem to agree. But campus police for allegedly involved ·in -crimes, said Jeff- Bene- several who were involved in inci verbally ·harassing and chas dict, research coord,inator for the dents that were reported to police ing five female students and damaging one student's car Center for the Study of Sport in So- did say they feel a gulf between after a dance at the Masonic ciety at Northeastern University in themselves ·and other students. Temple. No. charges were Boston. He is studying.criminal be- Chris Hampton, a lineman, said filed, and a student who filed havior by college athletes. he often felt "the pressure of going the report said It was re Though it's impossible to say out and knowing everyone is think solved by having the players whether U of L football players have ing, 'There's the football players, pay for the car damage. been involved in more complaints, let's stay away from them.' " on average, than players from other Sometimes, Hampton said; play schools,_ Benedict said, "If you look ers are made targets by others. Peo at a small group of students (the pie think, "We can fight them and size of the football team) and there get a reputation" for being tough: Nystrand, who monitors athletics _are eight incidents in_ one semester, Reserve linebacker Tyrran Scrag- for President Donald Swain, said it doesn't look good." gins also said he feels isolated from there have been more off-campus A check with campus police and other students. athletic officials at some schools in "There are 100 some players on incidents involving U of L football the region and a look at newspaper the team," Scroggins said. "We see players in the past six months than accounts support that idea. each other every day. We're iri a he .recalls in other years. At the University of Kentucky this group. We have to stay in that "I can't explain these specific school year, two players were ar- group. We're all we have." events," Nystrand said. "l sure rested on charges of driving under U of L Dean of Education Ray don't intend to excuse them. l.EXtNGTON HERAUJ.l.EADER, l.EXINGTON, KY. ■ SUNDAY, MARCH 13, 1994 Campus social life switching;:.:-_·; focUS~:to coffee, tea and SJ)orts . ASSOCIATED PRESS . • AMHERST, Mass. - When students at the University of Mas sachusetts want to have fun these days, they get together and nimba At neighboring Smith College, they meet for afternoon tea. Campus social life is no longer limited to the keg'party. ''It is defi. ''You actually nitely a very get to know drastic change somebody on from tile keg an lntelllgent party or ·the bar level, when scene," said you're sober Adrian ;Heng, a member of the and not Ballroom Danc slobbering ing Club found fJW!JY·n- ed at UMass ·last ADRIAN HENG semester. ''You Member of ., AssoclAlED l'REss actually get to Ballroom Dancing Residents of Baldwin House at Smith College in Northampton, lmow somebody Club at University of Mass., played a board game during their weekly afternoon tea. on an intelligent Massacliusetts level, when ties. . appealed to them at the predomi you're sober and nantly white school. not slobbering away." '.'The whole culture is more wellness-conscious,'' · said Earl So the sophomore from Phila Dances and discussion groups Smith, dean of \:(>!by College in delphia created the Hip-Hop Rei are edging aside all-night beerfests Waterville, Maine,. which extended view, an on-campus. dance club as students adjust to new attitudes weekend hours at its recreation that serves no alcohol. Whites, as .about alcohol, tightened enforce complex. "Certainly our students · well as blacks, have flocked to the ment of liquor laws and concern are. The promotional stuff does dances. about crime, particularly date rape. sink in after a while about what "They're not into the frat thing, A Vanderbilt University pro alcohol can do to your body.:• they're not into the drinking thing,'' gram this . year gave $60,000 to Coffeehouses are enjoying a re students who agree to run non Butler said. ·"They're tired of doing surgence on many campuses, re the same thing every single week. alcoholic parties. placing bar's as popular hangouts. "We've got a fearful generation We found the hip-hop culture to be Coffeegrounds, a student-creat a common thread." . that's come of age now; between ed coffeehouse at Johns. Hopkins AIDS, dating violence and the University in Baltimore, draws Le;ih Weaver, co-founder of a much more serious repercussions standing-room-only crowds Friday women's discussion group at Carle of driving · drunk," said Mi'ke nights until 2 a.m. ton College in Northfield; Minn., O'Neil, coordinator of the Vander · said circumstances• have trans• bilt program. "It hasn't replaced keg parties, but it reaches another audience," formed the way young people The university also keeps its said Sari 1Jrichek, a seriior who co spend their free time. weight room, track, swimming pool founded the coffeehouse. .and basketball courts open Friday "Our generation is the first one nights until 1 a.m. for students who Other changes in the social life that has grown up and had to be would rather play than party. on campuses reflect the increasing afraid of those things: Don't have Other schools have taken simi diversity of students. sex because you could die, don't go lar action. Randolph-Macon College Madia Butler and fellow black out with only one person because in Ashland, Va, this year started students at Franklin and Marshall you might get raped,~ Weaver said. scheduling intramural sports on College . in Lancaster, Pa., found "People in my generation have a lot the same night as fraternity par- there were few social activities that to ~ scared about" . . 3' MSU ARCHIVES A,£1..-c.tt IS, 199./ C}iA-~~-~-J-::t ),7;;:/ MSU ~lip :Sheet A sampling of recent artides of interest to.Morehead State University INSTITUTIONAL RELATIONS MOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSllY UPO BOX 1100 ' MOREHEAD. KY 40351-1689 606-783-2030 THE COURIER-JOURNAL, TUESDAY,MARCH_15, 1994 Ex-Union coach Ballard named at Morehead on interim basis By JIM TEIUiUNE We've got to regroup, get in the two dozen players made plans to Staff Writer huddle, and then it's 'go, man, go.'" leave and last Friday coach Cole Ballard steps in as .the. interim Proctor agreed to be reassigned. · Matt Ballard, removed less than coach under a one-year contract Ballard said he's had no chan~e four months ago as head football that will take him through the 1994 to talk to players one-on-one but coach at Union College, has been season. A national search will be that the room was "filled" when he given the job of stitching a tattered conducted after the coming season, spoke to the team. Morehead State University program athletic director Steve Hamilton back together. "They were very, very attentive," said. he said. "They looked you in the "When you're faced with any Ballard returns to Morehead, eye. That's a good first step. We're kind of adversity, it can knock you where he spent 1984-87 on Bill Bal here to meet the needs of these out of focus," Ballard said yester dridge's staff, the last two as assis guys. You've got to take care of tlie day, shortly after he was hired and tant head coach, at a chaotic time. person first." met with the team. "This is the time Eaglin announced in January that He said he would begin meetings to re-examine where you're at and he would pursue a few-to-zero' what you're doing. with current assistant coaches today scholarship program. A week ago and plans to bring in one new full "If I didn't get a strong feeling he was given approval by his board that the president (Dr. Ronald G. time aide. One assistant, defensive of regents to begin such discussions backs coach Kevin Carty, said" early Eaglin) has a· commitment to the with Ohio Valley Conference presi yesterday he "wants out and I'm young people, I wouldn't be here, dents. Some assistants left, abouf working on it." LExlNGTON HERALD-LEADER, lExlNGTON, KY. ■ TUESDAY, MARCH 19!1_4 15, Ballard said he hopes to operate multiple offensive and defensive Ex-Union Coach Ballard schemes similar to the ones he's had at Union in recent seasons. ' Spring practice begins in about two 1 weeks. gets interim ·Eagle job Ballard, 36, a native of Charlotte, N.C., and a 1979 graduate of Gard BY RICK BAILEY Morehead President Ronald G. ner-Webb, compiled a 33-25-1 rec HERALD-lEADER STAFF WRITER Eaglin received authority last week ord in six seasons at Union, an Almost before the news of Cole from the Board of Regents to NAIA school in Barbourville, Ky., Proctor stepping· down as More negotiate the school's position with with a non-scholarship NAIA Divi- head State's football coach cleared the Ohio Valley Conference. He ' sion II program competing in the media fax machines late Friday, wants permission for Morehead to Mid-South Conference. Athletic Director . Steve Hamilton cut football grants and remain a His 1992 team finished 8-2 and was, seeking a successor. member of the league in other was ranked No. 17, missing an By Saturday, Matt Ballard was sports. NAIA II playoff invitation by one on campus. By yesterday, Ballard Morehead will have 50 scholar spot. His '93 club started out 3-0 · was hired and had met with his ships for the '94 season before a and reached a No. 7 rating but fa]. players. gradual phase-down begins if the tered and finished 5-5. Ballard was given a one-year OVC approves Eaglin's plan. When school officials asked him contract . as the Eagles' interim "I-le (Ballard) is realistic," Ham to fire his two full-time assistants head coath. The school will con ilton said. "He knows where we following a season-ending 80-49 duct a national search to fill the job want to go, and he's excited and loss. to Tusculum, he refused. and after the 1994 season. · enthusiastic." was dismissed himself. "I'm really glad to have Matt," "I appreciate the opportunity," How much p~essure is there in Hamilton said. "He said (the job) is Ballard, 36, said. "I look forward to , trying to stabilize ii program under a great opportunity. I'm tired of the challenge." a one-year contract? negatives, and we're fortunate he Among Ballard's first tasks · , "None whatsoever," Ballard said.-· was available." will be meeting with players who "A one-year contract is the only one Ballard was on the Morehead have indicated plans to leave I've had for 15 years. I've got a job. staff from 1984 to '87, serving as school after the current semester. to do today. I'm not concerned with · assistant head coach and defensive As many as 24 Eagles may trans a year from now. coordinator. fer. "If I've done a good enough job,. then maybe things will continue on. He had a 35-25-1 recorp in six "He will give them the opportu nity to rethink their decision," If not, then I shouldn't be allowed to seasons as head coach at Union stay." College before he was fired after Hamilton said. "We hope several last season. His 1992 team was tri will reconsider •because a lot was champion of the Mid-South Foot done emotionally. But they've got ball Conference with an 8-2 record. to want to be here." "I talked io the people there (at Morehead has not had a win Union) .... Neither side had a bad ning season . since 1986 and only thing to say about the other," · one since 1979. Proctor had a 15-29 Hamilton said. record in his four years. His first Ballard, wlio had been a finalist team, in 1990, went 5-6 and defeat- ' before Morehead hired Proctor, will ed top-ranked and unbeaten East try to calm a caldron of discontent ern Kentucky. among the players in the wake of Proctor was reassigned to the the school's decision to move to Department of Health, Physical ward non-scholarship football by · Education and Recreation until his rnno . ' - LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER, LEXINGTON, KY. ■ TUESDAY, MARCH i5, 1994 GENERAL ASSEMBLY:· A STATUS REPORT With less than three weeks left for General Assembly to meet, this is what's happening wnh some of the major bills. · Issue'. . Action i',-A·a"'RTION -~"·,·•·1\;r.,•••ii&iAc½ , E,, ;•,•,'Vt'•¼¼ »"'Hllil' """M: ·,_,,; · "7•t:"',r;'$ ~{r.,~.,•L. ·" ; _· .. _, __ S(~:;J%,'~~~Hf!~~;.;..~..cl0~'~6£Ji _,·c *"~l\t.'.:il§I SB 136, 114,353 - Minors mustget Senate approved parental consent bill consent of judge or parent; 353 offers (SB 136) Friday and sent it to House. more consent options. · Other bills stuck in Senate Judiciary SB 116, 130-Regulate abortlqn clinics. Committee; chairman says they will not SB 115 - Requires women to wait 24 · be discussed. hours before abortion. · .PR~E:l:ISlC.CIMJ!E:N.S~TJO . HB 928 - Cuts costs of workers- Passed House committee. House might compensation program by cutting vote this week. · benefits; places $10,000 limit on · attorneys .fees. @> ,:..R·IM. E.,:;"-:,¼'-~,,.,,,._,,;;,wm0•,;~'i~1~HS q>,;,,'Mi;:;;:;;:4'#fa:;;,;,;Wf,;BR;!rt,¥;Jl,;,_,k14;:\;;,;,;~:.rr#&J£:'.($W# &}'.t.~ .,. . .D:S::.1;.,&1_.,;;;;:;;:::·:s:f&ff.:6·,:cr§]:i;,t -C',t.l.Jl\::il.t~~k'ti!t2l}!:L':'.:'.;fd'.::-~~·::::~2t:•~ HB 359 - Prohibits minors from having Governor has sighed juvenile gun bill. handguns. Other two,gun bills have passed House, HB 312 and HB 231 - Makes felonies of await vote In Senate Judiciary. . having gun at school or receiving a Vote fraud bill passed Senate; awaiting stolen gun. vote In House committee •. SB 281-Allows state to take over local elections where vol~ fraud Is rampant. 11 , E.A' , l.i_ ·"'H•CA'REREFOR (. , ;., . • - . , 4,. . , ·= .. ·-- .~\1.1• '.';;',h;,,;, .,.,:_;,,c ~~~--.:--f..,.,-~,::,L,.,,,1,w,.,.,,,,_-i,..n:..-..-, or_;,:, ?J¼ ¼¼l~@l;,:.,1;,,,,. ',J,t'l'1.;i,_;i,tn!l~•1 ,u...,,._h,.,_Jdi,"1\Wi ,. HB 250 - Creates board to regulate Passed full House and the Senate health care, including authority to reject • Budget Committee. Senate might vote insurance-rate increases; establishes this week. . purchasing pool to reduce insurance costs; allows anyone who can afford health insurance to get ii; taxes health-care providers. 1:s_1;~,:,e_E!-:T~1 HB 215 - Requires motorists to wear seat Si~ned by governor. Takes effect belts or face $25 fine. mid-July. .~$1J~~Q:GAM~~LilN~i•f:1~$z;;v.w::t~!,;-~':f·!tM~_]t;Rjt-~E:':t~~;; t~ t:·~J~4'~:k~ Voters would have decided whether to Bill never, Introduced. let Kentucky's horse-racing tracks operate casinos. !~ bOCA1; .GQVEl'INME1'1'1" .ETH HB 238- Requires ethics codes for cfy Ethics bill signed by governor, codes and county officials; does not set must be in place by Jan. 1. minimum standards. Audit bill in House Budget Committee. HB 443 - Requires state to audit county Purchasing bill stuck in Senate Local officials every four years. · Govern111ent Committee. SB 239 - Stricter standards for local purchasing. SB 51 - Guarantees minority SB 51 passed Senate; awaiting vote in representation on school councils at House. . schools with at least 8 percent minority SB 238 passed Senate; awaiting· House population. · action. SB 238 - Creates new certification centers for teachers. ttADOPJ'l0N2!": ~tdttf&!hf'ij-~;:p:,±.,,b,_:/.t-J! ·hr-:~ J- J~ 'if+~~:;wr1:1 _.-~;J.:.t:. · :_·. :t:,,;::;;:fi'lfi'i/\¼:J £"'"""'-'· ·"· °""' -~ -- ---"-''-"'--"'-'=·:§1;,;,:»d1-w,.~J-- ~-~t,,..,. .;;;,-~d,)fii__.'.;;L --~~--'A'-•,.J.<;.,,~;i. ,,~~ · HB 191 - Requires judges to monitor Passed by House; awaiting Senate vote. private adoptions; speeds up approval of , prospective adoptive homes. t;·~!=l(ABUS!= HB 95 - Requires extra oversight of Passed by House; awaiting action in sex-abuse cases involving children. Senate Judiciary Committee HERALO-LEADER MSU' ARCHIVES ..dl cu·ch 17 1qq4- 9IA~~-3- L- lVlSU ARCHIVES j MSU Clip Sheet A sampling of recent artldes of Interest to Morehead State Univcnity INSTIMIONAL RElATIONS MOREHEAD STAlE UNIVERSllY UPO BOX 1100 MOREHEAD. KY 40351-1689 606-783-2030 THE COURIER.:JOURNA( FRIDAY-;'MARCH 18, ·1994' ,-B~udg· e·.. ,•t·· p•as·se· s;\:)i\3/;;;, HOUSE BUDGET HIGHLIGHTS ~ · · ,- · , - . lii'At-·l~ i:a' :H,:.r1_ ·? _- .. ,~~::~ '. .r:-h·~-r;}) ;,_.,;r)~.'__ \·_t ·(~ •C •• Hlghlighis .of. th.~ 1-!ouse'.'versicift.cit. tt,ii budget, focusing on r, changes made to Gov. ,Brereton· Jones' 'budget proposal: ,. · ~' '·«.91}.§~~ W1!,c •·''it' f::., ;;: · ·. }·P,UBLIC SCH.00~ : ...... _ .. • ■ Shifts $a0.1 million from special KERA programs to surprising·;·qp,_a11gel basic school funding; nils Increases basic funding by, ... ,..... · · about 1 · percent per year - on top of the 3 percent I'! '~ TOM LOFtlJS;.-·, ! _.:, ;'(, ·.}· J :· l '''·' 1. '.' 1 year lri Jones'. budget.: About half the money .comes 's·taff, wn•t'er' ~: 1l · I :.~i-l"i >;-·· •, ' ; ,. s · >1 from Johe~! :i;ilajl .fQr more school family and youth · ' • • • . -~•.'!. I\ ' ,,' : .•. •,; serviceicen!ers:,The·House would still allow 125 new· i -FRANKFQRf;• Ky. ;~ The ~:~e ·passed thii t .... cehters ove(theJt\lxl two yeais. state budget bill yesterday after making a sur- ' prising change that would give $2 million a year 1 ".{ :'' · Cs ■ Retains Jones: Increases fod.niiversitles of 2 percent ·.to private schools to transport students, ·. t~,-: .. ', In 1994-95 arid :3' percent iri 1995-96. . . · .... : .. The amendment,.offered by Rep. Jim Yates, a· :''\-'.;/ ■ Retalns'·n,oriey·tor construction projects, including a. ,· Shively Democrat, was the ·. only· significanti '.';r--',;:i;'; libr_ary and mechanical engineering. bu!lding at t~e. \ : , change made in yesterday's floor action: It was • ,ii.w1S:t Unl\'.ers!tY,Io!$entucky anc;I a h,ef!ll~-s~1er:icl!s b~1ld1ng . ~ ·approved 55-31. despite the pleas. of Rep, Mar-; shall Long, the House budget committee chair- : ivic:l;,/!;:"&n,c;l,-!'?.ot~,!! ~~(jJ,U.~ a) th.El:, ~mvll'.s1ty_ ?f Lciulsv1lle. .!'., • man, who warned that the budget was precar- . .,:ii(ii;i'. ;{ ■ C~~/J~ :,ipil.l,1pn_,f9_ erihB!l(?e,.engmeenng progr~s at ..· .:,,-.--. UK~. :-!, 1 .:·, •.•. ·,, .~.. ·'•1';.•·.·•v·,.··.· .. ~-,· .,., ·iously balanced and could afford no mo.re spend- 1 ing; ·'•r--' .. · · · • ,;.ijECONOMIC:DEVELOP.MENT.<.-... ,, -,.' ' Rep. Harry Moberly, D-Richmond, said the ~lt,;p;.,,:il Cuts $5.4 milliori'for Jones' pet project to preserve state should not pay for private school ,transpor i1:1rirt-'· agricultural liinds·and puts it lrito·pet projects for ·' tation in a budget that falls $25 million short in · ''. • 1 . powerf1.II :lawmakers. · fully funding transp9rtati,on for public school :':: PARKS: --:'."''.' ,•,:·' · : ,. ','i · "" ' . students each year. . · · , . Btit the lime!Jdment proved ·popular, dividing , . · , ■ Cuts: imJ?royeinents proposed by Jones, at Lake · even a House Democratic leadership that tradi ,. .,.,,.,, ··Cumberland, Cumberland-Falls, Carter Caves and Dale :;; .. , ··1. !iol!ow,.s.tate parks,. . · · ·· . tionally .stands united against such late budget amendments. House · Speaker Pro· Tern Larry' :'..:, ■ Adds projects. at Carr Fork Lake, Blue Licks , .. : Battlefield, Kincaid Lake, Lost River Cave, Burchett .~lark, ?f. Louisville; and Democratic Whip Ken ;//,,/ Flats':F.lecre~tlonal Area, Nolin _Lake ,lll)d-Paintsville .· .ny ~pier, of Bardstown, voted for it. ··· · Lake · · · . The House then approved the amended budg '','· . . . .. et, House Bill 302, by a 93-6 vote with House .,. "UMAN.RESOURCES . -~ . Speaker Joe Clarke among the· six no votes.· , · ·· "11 Does 'not increase the number' of Medicaid ... ,.- . Clarke, who is in his first term' as speaker · :: .·'' .-re.clplents,·a Jones·priC:,rity. In fact, because the House·'·· : after serving two decades as budget 1 .,,.,, ... ,, · :did not_ Increase ,a~ on health-care providers, . · · . committee chairman, said his vote ,. . :- . ·.:·Medicaid and other patts _of the.Human. Resources . , was aimed i>rin!arilt at the version ·-_:,,,,.:-.. : budger.may. have·to be cut. , of the·, budget proposed by Gov.· · :•·\'.,:.; ■ Retains,increases In welfare benefits (Aid to FamUles . / Brereton Jones in January._, • ·· · · · ·' · · with Dependent Children) that Jones proposed for· , "The budget, as it arrived here 1995-96.. from the governor, was· overinflat- ■ Scraps Jones' plan to reorganize, and potentially ed. It has too many (construction) privatize, the Department for Employment Services. projects. It raised the indebtedness· STATE EMPLOYEES . too high," Clarke· said, "I . think .we're creating poor fiscal policy the .. · .' . ■ Gives 5. percent annual raises to state workers . : way the budget's structured." · . ■ Gives extra raises to workers considered underpaid: , · The budget now goes to the Sen . prison guards, patient aides at mental institutions,. . . l ate with two major problems which , .-/ ;' veteran_ P(O~atjo~. and· parole officers, state police . . ·. •. . .' Long, a Shelbyville Democrat, ad- .... _, ..... _. ,_.officers with the master trooper;: rank, state-police.- , ..... :,··• .. , mil~ could. throw it out of balance, 'dispatchers, ,deputy coµrt; clerk.s,a11d,i1!dges. , :,, , ...... ,...... 1 First, the·HB 302 spends $62 mil c:CoRRECTIONsW'.,-/;_, ! -: c:>, ;;,::_· ...... •: ,: ... •; . ·.·' . i lion a year in revenue that will be'· ' f .'·'. ,. • ~~; ' : . • . .., •• . . ' • ' . . - . • : . ' • ., • :..; • 1 i realized only if a · separate billj ~~~~~~~r~s ph~E!. ~!., ·, .:. · passes to recover certain tax rev-1 ;;1':'\} ,:tftijf!n~~!- ci~u~~~ ~~~~~. ,'enue from industry that was lost 10· '."'<:.· :,\. ■ Cuts mo~e{for-juvenile jails in Northern Kentucky ... court decisions last year: ·And .that· . ,.. ,; . ,: ~ and. W_estern ,K~l')JUcky; reduces. funding for one in measure, HB 455, has not yet been ' Breathitt County. · ' called for a vote·because Democrat-· . ·'LOCAL GOVERNMENT- · ic leaders do not yet have the votes, forit.· - ·., ·., ' ·· · ' ·• Restores local government grant program at a cost Second, the budget provisiclns on of about $4.5 million per year. , the Cabinet for Human Resources · TRANSPORTATION "is completely out of balance," ac- ■ Provides $a million more per year for snow removal. Mike cording to Sen .. Moloney, 11.a , ■ Retains Jones' plan to divert about' $40 rilllliori per . . Lexington Democrat who chairs the ;,-,,,. , • year.from Road Furid to Kentuck.Y,;Stat~P,olic.e i;md,::·'.. ,:· ... Senate budget committee. Moloney, . ·'.. 11 Reyel')UB' 0ablnet•budg ts. · •"-- '" .. '··' " '·· .. ""' ·' 'said the Jones administration was to: ~•... ,i ~;!1 -:~: :;."::, '""CtJ '"';-;.:,!~::; 1 ' blame because it. ;0ie<:l:3 may'yet .qf~ed 'pack'\ ,.books.:-?· :¥ __, 'f .. ·. ·. ··, ,, · . )' The'Houseapproved an aniend: · . House Speaker Pro Tern Larry .. ty ·of Kentucky's engineering. pro-: gram ·and $500,000 to start a. two-, amf!!dment pushed by i,i Louisville , e1thei;p1,11£,e, ~t~ or,1!1 a.H~us&-f4: . Rep. }Jany Moberly, D-R1~- ment sponso~ by Rep. Jim Yates,.. Clark, D-Louisville, said the cabinet ' ' -- • • •• t . . - lawmaker....: would give $4 million:· Senate~ · conference,. .. i:ornnuttee,.v m(!nd, . who : heacl!l the educapon D-Louisville, to provide $2 million doesn't deserve the extra money. year , ·eng1I1eenng; ·program at Paduc:ah Coinrimnity Co~ei:e., ; to J>.rivate and parochial.sch90ls t(),1 .: ,Sfai;.~~~d.:.;'. •·: ,..,,..::.,1-~;- ··• ·/.. _ , .. budgetsu~nu_ruttee, lashed out at .. in. each__ of the next ~o years for : ·'. p,;. an "~iii~ he cited. a: i lielp transport students.. . ;( <. ..L t · House .budget chief Marshal(' Jones for fa!Jing ~ pyt more money , pnvate s~ools to transport stu, · $10,000 newspaper all tjie cabinet ·· · ..The House went along. with the; · . The bill passed 93-6 with _at_ ·r;:;;;;._. D_ SheJbuul!le, told.:rnembers-• .m the 1>its1_c funding_ formula for dena ..,--,,:. ' , -·bo_ught last·year to defend Cincin-.. I '·' =•.,., ·· '_. · · · · •· schools · · · ,, · · · · ·· • governor's .proposal to give 5 per-' notaCbllarek(le.pponent, Ho~ Speak. ,. ei:J; •. ththeyb·.hadd_ ;~sh~".biisiness_oh ., ''It'~'c\~r"thiii ili!s ad~nistra:.::, _LonCog, Mo~lyChairmanand_H01,1seFEdeedu.-' nati businessman CarJ'Lindner, .a: cent pi,iy raises each·_year to most 11oe ···-··-.. . ' . '·F""'°/'S'"' .... e u ge;,· w~ '" ' •', , •...,... -,.. •, ..... "".. .. . • ...... ,·cation mnuttee r . major contributor _to Jonei;'. cain- ~fate ~orkers._ Thi: House budget . 1 Clarke, (n:Danville, .~4 · hllf~ . •-f 'H,¢ti,is~rei~ W'~ bill \~- tion ~oes ~ot hlJ:ye a_!righ, P:J~1:~. ·. Curd. argued against the .. proposal. , paign,· ~ an~wspaper pu~lisheii · .mcludes . larger raises for prison : couldn't vote for a· budget' that contin11e .. a $62. million-a-year· tax ·for educati!Jn r¢fonn, he said.. But'tlie amendment passed on the unflattering articles about him. guards, probation and parole .offi- · : includes so 'inariy construction pni:; on .. miiiiufacturers, ., which_, doesn't .t, Moberly .earlier got $30 million·. . shoiilders ofLouisville, Northern , : : The House· rejectecf ~vei-iif ·of · cers, state police dispatchers and ' . · jects and_ so much additional deb~~ jyij?av,te_1_1oµgh,, "..otesit?c,J>F ip ~ MSU ARCHIVES • MSU iClip ·Sheet A sampling of recent artldes of interest to Morehead State University INSTffiJTIONAL RELATIONS MOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY UPO BOX 1'100 MOREHEAD, KY 40351-1689 606-783-2030 l.ExlNGTON HERALD-lEADER, l.ExlNGTON, KY. ■ TUESDAY, MARCH 2ij, ,1994 Later, although he came from a line of physicians ....c his father was LAWRENCE W. WETHERBY 1908-1994 a country doctor and his grandfa . ther was !I doctor during the Civil War years- Mr. Wetherby chose to study law. He graduated from· Ex-Ky.. governor remembered the University of Louisville School of Law in 1929. : He was a star end on the U of L for 'highways, integnttion football team in 1927 and 1928, and was named to the U of L Football · Kentucky writer John Ed BY JENNIFER HEWLETT Hall of Fame. ·· Pearce said, "He was an ebullient Mr. ·Wetherby ·also was active HERAU).lEADER ST"FF WRITER man. He had a very positive per Lawrence Winchester Weth in Democratic politics, an interest sonality. I think everyone who that began at age 14 when he erby, who turned the s!3te's lieu knew him thought he had a great tenant governor post mto more worked in his home precinct. smile. He had a great booming He was hired immediately after than a ceremonial office before laugh. You could .hear him a block stepping up to serve as Kentucky's graduating from law school by away. . Henry J. Tilford, who had been chief executive for five years in the "Because he carried on several 1950s, died Sunday night. He was chief justice of the Kentucky Court programs that had been started by of Appeals, then the state's highest Lawrence W. 86. Gov. Earle Clements, people forget Mr. Wetherby died at King's ·court. Over the years, the Louisville Wetherby that he started many very progres law firm of Tilford & Wetherby Daughters Memorial Hospital in sive programs. For example, the also included Mr. Wetherby's Frankfort after becoming ill at his , Kentucky Turnpike from Louisville brother, George, who had been Frankfort home. He broke a hip in to Elizabethtown was the first of state highway commissioner and early January and had been in and our superhighways ~ the forerun director of the State Athletic Board out of hospitals ~ince then. ner of the parkways and the inter of Contrpl. · . Mr. Wetherby, a Democrat, was states. It was built despite consid Lawrence Wetherby married governor from 1950 to 1955. He erable political · criticism, but Helen Dwyer of Louisville April 24, finished the last year of the late proved enormously . popular and 1930. They had a son and two Earle C. Clements' term after Cle profitable," Pearce said. , "I don't daughters. · . · think Lawrence probably got the ments was elected to the U.S. . From 1933 to 1937 Mr. Weth Senate in 1950. credit that he deserved." erby was an attorney for the Jeffer Mr. Wetherby was 'elected gov · Said Kentucky historian Thom- son County Juvenile Court. Then he ernor in his own right the next as D. Clark: "Lawrence Wetherby was appointed a right-of-way agent year. He had been elected lieuten went a long, long way to keep this for the State Highway Department. ant governor on the 8aJile ticket state calm and collected right after He was reappointed as an ;ittorney with Clements in 1947. the Brown vs. Board of Education for Jefferson County Juvenile Court Mr. Wetherby was Kentucky's decision (the 1954 landmark U.S. in 1942. 48th governor and the only native Supreme Court ·decision requiring ' His juvenile court work led to of Jefferson County to hold the integration of public schools)." his being appointed the first Jeffer office. During Mr. Wetherby's stint as son County Juvenile Court trial · While he · was governor, Ken- governor, teachers'· sal_aries were commissioner in 1943. He resigned .· tucky's turnpike system was start increased. A separate Department in 1947 to run for lieutenant gover ed; there were improvements in of Mental Health and the Kentucky nor. mental health services; and an Youth Authority, which provided He was a member of the An effort was made to put all K~ for the care of delinquent and chorage District school board from tucky public schools on more equal neglected children, also were estab 1946 to 1947 and of the board of footing through a new system of lished. governors of Mary Hurst School for funding. He was instrumental in . In 1951, when organized crime Girls and active in many organiza integrating schools and supported and open gambling were rampant tions and causes. the enactment of Kentucky's first in the nation, Mr. Wetherby sent Mr. Wetherby was a member of anti-strip mining law. state police pn gambling raids in the Democratic city and county "I thirik that in the long run Campbell and Henderson counties. ·. executive committee:,when. party history will show. that Lawrence Mr. Wetherby, a lanky manj leaders i'iersw!ded him to run' for Wetherby, although initially with a baritone voice, had beeri . lieutenant ·· governor. He ·defeated eclipsed by 'governors of greater active in politics for many years in ." Republican Orville M ifoward. . visibility, will be shown to have Jefferson County befor~ he was ;' . ,The lieutenant.,go,vernor :had been a progressive governor, a man elected lieu.tenant governor. He con few•· duties until ·:Mr:. Wetherby· of great integrity and a true gentle- · tinued to be in the public eye after assumed the job. But Clements man," said John Kleber, editor of he was governor, serving as a state assigned tasks to Mr. Wetherby Mr. Wetherby's public papers and senator and as head of the state · , that were s~dom given to earlier dean of the Caudill College of Democratic Party. :' lieutenant governors;, The two were_; Humanities at Morehead State Uni From farm to law school / close politically and personally. . •; versity. Mr. Wetherby, the son of the · i . . . As lieutenant governor, he was. "He led the way in the integra- · late. Dr. Samuel David and Fanny'' ,. president of the.Senate and chair tion of Kentucky schools, an act of. Yenowine Wetherby,was born Jan. . man of the .Legislative ·Research great courage and foresight ... He ' 2, 1908; in Middletown. He worked Commission, 'which, unlike 'the old did a great deal to foster Ken on his fatller's farm as a youngster. . Legislative Council, was profes tucky's industrial development. He In 1925 he graduated from An sionally staffed, fully financed and was the man w110 planned and had · chorage High School, where he a continuing operation. In addition, constructed the new state fair played footb_all, ,basketball and Mr. Wetherby, at Clements' re grounds. He built a great many baseball. 'Thinking he would be quest, was instrumental in prepar regional airports," Kleber said. come a farmer, he ,took an agricul-. ing the state's 1948-50 and 1950-52 ' tural course at the University of budgets. . Kentuckv. · political friends. One person began When he was first electeii to calling the informal dinners ''var- WETHERBY the state Senate, Mr. Wetherby ·also"• mint suppers." was secretary of the Democratic His son, Lawrence W. "Larry" FROM PAGE ONE State Central Executive Committee. Wetherby Jr., died several years During budget-preparation Later· in 1966 he was named state ago. 1 days before the first General As Democratic Party chairman. Surviving are his wife; his sembly after Clements' election, Mr. But Mr. Wetherby came under daughters, Suzanne Hines of Wetherby had his own room at the fire within his party in 1968 after . Frankfort ahd Barbara Perry of governor's mansion in Frankfort he voted for Republican Gov. .Louie Mount Vernon, Ohio; 15 grandchil- because there was no residence for B. Nunn's budget and 5 percent dren; and 18 great-grandchildren. the lieutenant governor in Frank sales tax bills. He resigned as party Services will be at 2 p.m. fort at the time, and he otherwise chainnan after the May primary Wednesday at Harrod Brothers Me- had to commute to Frankfort from election in 1968. morial Chapel in Frankfort. He will his home in Jefferson County. Mr.· Wetherby was. an avid lie in state in the Capitol Rotunda Mr. Wetherby assumed the hunter and fisherman and contin- from 1 to 5 p.m. today. There will $10,000-a-year job as gqvernor on ued in these pursuits after retire- be visitation at the funeral home the same day that Clements was , ment. When· he' was governor he from 7 to 9 p.m. today and after 9 · often had served wild game to his a.m. Wednesday. r sworn in as Kentucky's Junior u:s: senator in WashingtOIL _ ·· THE COL.iRiER-JOURNAL,-TUESDAY, MARCH 29, 1994 Mr. Wetherby went on to win the August 1951 Democratic guber natorial primary by a record-break House-votes-to prohibit ing majority. He was elected to a full four-year term the next Novem ber, defeating Republican Eugene Siler by more than 58,000 votes. smoking--bans -A leading tobacco supporter in the House, Democrat Donnie Ge dling of Cloverport, suggested that Obstacles to success By RICK McDONOUGH legislators from urban areas where A number of problems, includ Staff Writer little tobacco is grown have no busi ing a state revenue shortfall, a coal ness wading into the smoking de industry depression and a drought, FRANKFORT, Ky. - House mem bate. faced the Wetherby administration. bers continued trying to buck the "We don't come to Jefferson One of his greatest challenges was national trend against smoking in County, the big cities and tell you improving education. . public places yesterday. They also all how to live your life," he said. He supported the 1954 Mini made it clear that they don't like ur "This bill has nothing to do with mum Foundation Act, which at ban legislators interfering in what me trying to enforce my smoking tempted to create equal educational they see as a rural issue - the fu policies on any other area of the opportimities for all Kentucky pub ture of tobacco. state," Northup said. "It has every After a debate that lasted more lic school students. Wetherby thing to do with the tobacco people Mr. than an hour, the House voted 75-13 also supported the development of imposing ••. what you want on our to pass a bill that says smoking no educational television and was in longer can be banned in most public local community." strumental in establishing the buildings. Senate Bill 316 would re Rep. Charles Geveden, D-Wick bookmobile project. quire state and local governments to liffe, said tobacco and smoking He helped attract industries to ·provide smoking areas ·intiielr were not the real issues at hand. the state by personally leading buildings, even if it meant adding a The real question is whether it's Chamber of Commerce tours. A room. right for the legislature to force state agriculture council was estab Also, in what Majority Leader some local governments to spend lished to coordinate the work of Greg Stumbo, D-Prestonsburg, de various agencies and organized money creating indoor smoking scribed as a compromise; they add areas, he said. farm laborers. ed an amendment to the measure Mr. Wetherby's administration that would put cigarette machines "It's wrong for us to tell the city also was recognized for building out of the reach of minors. The of Wickliffe or the ciiy of Mount the Watterson and North-South ex amendment was needed to save the Sterling or the city of Albany that pressways in Jefferson County. He state $5.5 million in federal anti they have to do something within led a movement to build canals on drug money. their facilities to accommodate the Big Sandy River and improve But the House's leading tobacco somebody," he said. locks and dams on the Kentucky company foe, Republican Anne Several legislators talked of how River. Northup of Louisville, said it wasn 'I Mr. Wetherby and \;lements much of a compromise.· Stumbo's important tobacco-crop income is to supported Democrat Bert T. Combs amendment, she said, "gives a little farmers in their districts, nnd they in a 1955 gubernatorial primary credibility to a terrible bill.'' __ said it's important to protect smok race against former governor A.B. Public health clinics across the er's rights to keep that income com "Happy" Chandler. And Chandler, stale, including 14 in Jefferson ing. rather than concentrating on his County, could no longer be smoke "By passing this bill, we're saying opponent, attacked Mr. Wetherby's free, she said. "This is where moms smokers still have a right in this administration as one of waste. bring little children who are sick," state," said Rep. Drew Graham, D• In 1956, Mr. Wetherby was she said. Winchester. · named to run for the remaining However, Northup opposed four years of Alben Barkley's U.S. amendments that would exempt Rep. Tom Jensen, R-London, said Senate term. But he was defeated jails, state universities, state hospi the controversy over smoking has by Republi_can John Sherman Coop tals and _facilities for the mentally ill been caused by the intolerance of er. and mentally retarded. The exempt nonsmokers. In 1960 Mr. Wetherby moved to ed buildings would be allowed to "We need to send a message, and have smoking bans under the bill, Frankfort and practiced law and the message needs to be loud and which now goes back to the Senate. became a consultant to Brighton clear: We're going to tolerate tobac Engineering Co. "What we ought to do Is exempt !!Vei:y: __ building in this state," co and we're going to tolerate smoking in this state," Jensen said. Two-term senator Northup said. He was 20th District state sena TH_E COURIER-JOURNAL, TUESDAY. MARCH 29, 1994 tor for two terms, beginning in 1966. Mr. Wetherby, who repre Murray names candidates sented Franklin, Shelby, Scott, An As one presidential candidate, G. Davis Gearhart, was touring derson and Spencer counties, was Murray State University yesterday, the school released the name president pro ternpore of the state of the second candidate. who is scheduled to visit today. Senate during his first term. Robert A. Altenkirch, dean of the College of Engineering at Mississippi State University, is the second of three candidates who will visit the campus this week. The name of the third candidate was not available. - Altenkirch, 45, taught for 13 years at the University of Kentucky in Lexington. Gearhart, 41, is a vice president at Penn State. Wednesday, March 23, 1994 • Appalachlan News-Express Kentucky ~usinesses rely on higher education for training business managers have been reluctant to provide training By jAMES J. WISEMAN • Northern Kentucky Appliance Park in Louisville. big boost in its efforts to woo Say you're a business University just started a new because they fear the trained There are similar success new industry. In short, every,' workers will be lured away by owner. And· you' want to make course for local manufacturers stories.throughout Kentucky. body wins. sure your employees keep up to help their maintenance per Southeast Community College, Wes Archiable, human pie make the difference! , competitor firms before they ·with the latest changes in tech sonnel keep up with new devel · in Harlan, works with 15 area resources manager at the have recouped their invest- _ Nationally, some $30 bil ment costs. But a new report nology. Where do you go for opments in.robots, hydraulics coal firms to provide advanced Sachs Automotive plant in lion is spent on training each training help? Florence, explains it this way: indicates that workers who year by U.S. corporations, but receive training are actually These days, the best . "The technology is changing so most of that is accounted for by answer just might be your local less likely to leave their Guest Column ' ) fast these days that we can't· fewer than 10 percent of the college or university. find people with the appropri employers than those who firms. The federal government don't. Surprised? Don't be. ate skills. So we turned to chips in another $18 billion, Almost overnight, Kentucky's and pneumatics. training to some 1,000 miners Northern Kentucky University. · As more and more but most of that goes to disad Kentucky business owners and colleges and universities have _- • Hazard Community each year. Western Kentucky They help us train our own. It's vantaged or dislocated work become great training College is home to a fabulously University provides special extremely valuable for us." managers realize that, look for ers, not to upgrade the skills of them .to keep turning to resources for business and successful program, which training - all tailored to meet In today's new global mar those already on the job. industry throughout the state. helps former coal employees the needs of!ocal industry - ket, any business like Sachs Kentucky's colleges and uni For example: - . and others start their own _for more than 10,000 people that hopes to succeed over the So those dollar totals, big versities for help. • Madisonville Community businesses. So far, some 300 annually. · _ long term has }o find some way as they seem, are not really James J. Wiseman is vice College helped local businesses new businesses have sprung up The list goes on and on. In to provide ongoing training for that great. The United States president ofpublic affairs for by providing training to nearly - ranging from sign shops and most all of these cases, the its employees. All companies still lags far behind other Toyota Motor Manufacturing 2,000 of their employees _last restaurants to equipment businesses are paying for the have ready access to the _' industrialized countries in. U.S.A Inc. and a former chair year. That's a 1,200 percent rental stores - and nearly all training dollars, most notably .man of the Kentucky Advocates training, so it's not a financial newest technology, so there's Germany and Japan. increase since the program of them are going strong. strain to the school. no real competitive advantage for Higher Education. started in 1986! Much of the · • Jefferson Community Meanwhile, the college train any more in merely having the Candidly, many American training focuses on skills that College has designed perma ing is a bargain com pared. to newest equipment. What improve quality, such as team nent company learning centers what it would cost the business counts most is the ability of the building and problem-solving at the Ford Assembly Plant :to set up their own in-house employees. In other words, peo- courses for line workers, and General Electric's courses. Plus, Kentucky gets a - , M~U- ARCHIVES . MSU Clip Sheet A sampling of ~nt articles of interest to Morehead State University INSTITUTIONAL RELATIONS MOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSllY UPO BOX 1100 MOREHEAD, KY 40351-1689 606-783-2030 The Daily Independent, Ashland, Kentucky, Tuesday, March 22, 1994 · • . said he thought a study could _be justified to determine if the Reso- ·I Utlon Ca11 Ing Ashland area's needs are being _ d met by Morehead State Uni- f or college stu y ~=::ii~ and Marshall Uni- . - · The Ashland Board of City adopted by House ~~~t:!~n;~:?:~~!~,~~s~ · - four-year college for the city. employers that they could The House resolution speci- - By SUSAN WARREN have well-educated employees fies that the task force doing INDEPENDENT FRANKFORT BUREAU if they locate in the Ashland the study would include repre- area. sentatives from the University FRANKFORT -- Rep. Don Rep. John Will Stacy, D-West of Kentucky, MSU, the Council Farley, R-Ashland, has won Liberty, spoke against the on Higher Education, the House passage of a resolution plan, saying Ashland Com- . Chamber of Commerce of Boyd calling for a study of the need munity College, Morehead and Greenup Counties, the for a four-year college in Ash land. State University and the Ash- city commission and Boyd land State Vocational- County Fiscal Court. The House adopted the reso Technical School served the A labor representative and lution Friday and sent it to the Senate. area well. four legislators also would be The measure calls on the Rep. Harry Moberly, who included. Legislative _Research Commis chairs the House budget re- The task force would have to sion (LRC) to authorize the view subcommittee on educa- submit its findings to the LRC study and earmarks an expen !ion, said last month that he by Oct. 1, 1995. diture of $30,000, $10,000 more didn't think Kentucky needed than originally anticipated. another four-year college. It Farley said a four-year col currently has eight public uni- lege might be helpful in pro versities. moting economic development But Senate Minority Whip of the area. Charlie Borders, R-Russell, Besides creating jobs, he said it would show potential LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER, LEXINGTON, KY. ■ THURSDAY, MARCH 24, 1994 "The people wlio need highly Under the bill, teachers would ,House panel trained teachers - that is the help create their own "individual students - can't wait any longer." professional development plans." backs changes One key amendment extended The plans could call for getting a· the deadline for teachers to enroll master's degree, as in the current in a master's degree program. Un system, or for moving up the in teacher der the original bill, teachers en teaching ranks through a yet-to-be-' rolled by February 1993 would developed system that would stress have had four years to complete · high quality of teaching instead of education master's degrees, a requirement to the number of advanced courses BY LUCY MAY earning a higher salary under the teachers take. current system. HERALD-LEADER EDUCATION WRITER Teachers at the top two levels The amendment gives teachers on the salary schedule, known as FRANKFORT - Lawmakers until May 31, 1995, to enroll and took a shaky step yesterday to rank 1 and 2, would not have to go four years after that to complete through the new system, said Ro ward changing the way Kentucky's · master's degrees. teachers are taught and continue land Goddu of the Education Pro their educations. The KEA, the state's iargest fessional Standards Board. teachers union, opposed the origi The House Education· Conimit Under the bill the standards nal bill, saying it changed the rules tee barely passed Senate Bill 238 board would develop the new con in the middle of the game for tinuing education system and a after approving several amend veteran teachers. ments to earn .the blessing of the new system for granting alterna Kentucky Education Association. When asked whether the KEA tive certification. now supports the bill, KEA Presi The goal is to dent Mame! Moorman called the Starting in 1996, new teachers have teachers amended hill acceptable. also would have to pass tests on who are better the subject matter they teach. prepared to teach He stressed that one feature of the bill would allow teachers to use When the vote was first taken, under the nine committee members voted yes, changes brought the professional development time and activities they spend doing two voted no and six abstained. It about by the takes 10 votes for approval. Kentucky Educa their jobs toward what they must tion Reform Act, do to move up the salary ranks. Rep. Russell Bentley, D-Top said Robert Sex Rep. Jack Coleman, D-Burgin, most, who had abstained, changed ton, executive di criticized the KEA for whipping up his vote to a yes to get the bill out rector of The opposition to the bill among its of committee. Rep. Stephen Keith, Prichard Col1lf'tit members and then changing its R-Manchester, and Rep. Harry Mo tee for Academic stand "at the 11th hour." herly, D-Richmond, voted no. Excellence. · But Moorman said the amend Some lawmakers wanted to ments made the difference. slow down the changes that would come with thP hilT urhirh ~vtn,-, • I . I I The Sunday Independent, Ashland, Kentucky, March 27, 1994 and Kentucky Tech-Ashland Campus that groups students for specific degree programs. Not an option . Farley says a four-year cbl 'lege would show potential employers that they could State cannot afford and does not have well-educated employees need another four-year college if they locate in the Ashland area. An undereducated work There are at least two com- force is a problem in many pelling reasons why a four eastern Kentucky counties, year, state-supported college_ Ke~tucky already but not in Boyd and Greenup in Ashland is a bad idea: has eight public . counties. Indeed, this com ► Kentucky cannot afford universities - all of munity's problem is a ''.brain · to fund and operate another drain" ·_. too many of the four-year college. ·· which are underfunded best and brightest of our col ► There is not a demon by state government. lege-educated ·young people strable need for another four and others are 'being forced year institution of higher ed- to move elsewhere to find ucation. . - jobs. . . Rep. Don Farley, R to make sharp spending cuts If this were 1920 and the Ashland, has secured House iil recent years, and all have schools that would become approval of a resolution au regularly boosted tuition Kentucky's regional universi thorizing the expenditure of rates to balance their bud ties were just. being created, $30,000 for a study of the need gets .. · we · would . be among the for a four-year college in Ash It would be fiscally. ir strongest advocates for the lo land. The resolution calls for responsible for the state to · cation of a . four-year, state the creation of a task force further strain inadequate college here. B:ut this is 1994; composed of representatives higher education dollars by and there is no money and no from the University of Ken creating another four-year need for another state college tucky, Morehead State Uni college. The General As - not in Ashland, not any versity, the Chamber of Com sembly ·can't even find the where. merce of Boyd and Greenup funds to construct a much Counties, Ashland's city com needed building at Ashland mission and Boyd County's Community College. There is fiscal court. . no way Frankfort could find Many area residents sup the money to meet the con- - port the idea of a four-year struction costs a new four college here. Indeed, Farley year · college would create, has made working for a col much less the necessary lege a major campaign prom funds to operate a top-drawer ise since he first ran for of institution. fice in 1990. Ashland's city lExlNGTON HERALD-LEADER, l_ExlNGTDN, KY. commission last year ap With the exception of the community college system, ■ THURSDAY, MARCH 24. 1994 proved a resolution endors- higher education enrollment ing the concept. · has been stagnant in Ken Teacher certification One has to look no further tucky in recent years. Instead bill adopted by panel than Shawnee State College of encouraging more area in Portsmouth to see the pos residents to further their ed HERALD-+lEADER STAFF REPORT itive impact a four-year col The state board that certifies lege can have on a com ucations, a four-year college teachers would become independ munity. A four-year college in Ashland likely would at ent of the Department of Education in Ashland would be an asset tract students who now are under a bill approved yesterday by that would increase educa attending other area colleges. the Senate Education Committee. tional opportunities, improve Morehead State University HB 588 would transfer the Edu a stagnant economy, create could have the most to lose cation Professional Standards from the establishment of a . Board from the education depart cultural activities and en state college here, as its role ment to the Education and Human hance the quality of life. · as the regional state uni ities Cabinet. The standards board With those and other ad versity would be lessened. supports the move, an~ Education vantages, it is tempting to Commissioner Thomas Boysen op . There is no shortage of op poses it. jump on the band wagon. portunities for area residents Tempting, but .... who want college educations. The measure now goes to the· Kentucky already has eight full Senate for its consideration. public universities - all of Ashland Community College, which are underfunded by Morehead State, Shawnee state government. Higher ed State, Marshall University in ucation in Kentucky has Huntington, Kentucky Chris been shortchanged in the ef tian College in Grayson and fort to fund elementary and Ohio University's Southern secondary education under Campus in Ironton provide a the Kentucky Education _Re variety of educational op form Act. portunities. It already is pos Universities rightfully com . sible for area residents to plain they do not have the earn bachelor's degrees with funds to attract and keep out :·out leaving Ashland by tak standing faculty members 'ing courses at ACC and and to maintain and improve MSU's Ashland center; those academic programs. All eight opportunities will be in ., ...... • ...... ,...· .... • ..... ,., 1-...... 1,...,...... ,. -C' ,,...... ,.l creased by the new consor- I . Senate slashes funding House had reinstated said the budget wa; out of It was not clear how far the l,~iitiiri ~EXINGTON HERALD-LEADER, LEXINGTON, KY. ■ WEDNESOAY,MARCH 23, 1994 Moloney's panel cuts millions from construction projects BY CHAD CARLTON The committee took away HERALD-LEADER FRANKFORT BUREAU Senate budget · $1.9 million from schools' basic FRANKFORT - Bricks and funding program and instead put mortar came tumbling down the money in a program to increase across the state yesterday as the panel's hit list the number of family resource cen Senate budget committee cut mil New construction projects ters to be opened over the next. two lions of dollars in construction took the biggest hit when the years. projecis to balance the proposed Senate budget committee The basic funding program is state budget. sliced the proposed two-year the main source for teachers' sala Senate budget chief Michael state budget yesterday. This is ries and could affect pay raises. R Moloney, D-Lexington, began a partial list of deleted proj~s But even without yesterday's cut, chopping construction projects af and their cost: Moloney said there's no way that ter fellow committee members ■ Commonwealth Library at all teachers will get the 5 percent rejected a bill that would continue University of Kentucky - $46 pay raises they hoped for. a $62 million-a-year tax on manu million The House recommended open facturers. ■ University of Louisville ing 125 centers over the next two - -"What we have in front of us football stadium - $7 million years; Gov. Brereton Jones had . . . is not a · balanced budget," state portion of the $60 million recommended opening 300 more Moloney said. "We have, in my project centers in that time. The House judgment, a responsibility to at ■ Fayette County justice cen earlier took $15 million from the tempt to balance that budget in ter - $26 million fund for family resource centers this committee." ■ Northern Kentucky conven and switched it to the fund that tion center - $25 million pays for teacher salary increases. Moloney showed how serious ■ U of L research building - he was when he recommended $14 million · The centers help link students cutting money for the $46 million ■ Kentucky History Center in and their families with social serv Commonwealth Library at the Frankfort - $10 million ices and provide such things as University of Kentucky, a project ■ Hazard Community College medical screenings and immuniza he fought diligently to begin two student performing arts center tions. · years ago. Other cuts included - $10 million Moloney called for increasing state funding for a $26 million ■ Prestonsburg Community that number to 150 centers over justice ·center for Fayette County College wellness center - $8.5 two years, saying that the House and a $10 million history center in million recommendation would be damag• Frankfort. ■ Ashland Community Col ing. Universities were the big losers lege classroom building - $4.5 million In a cut sure to draw howls in yesterday's cuts. But millions of from county officials, the commit ■ Design of new state office dollars in state park projects are tee cut $13.7 million in grant mon likely to fall today as the commit building in Frankfort - $4 million of $101 million project ey to area development districts - tee considers the other half of the money that's funneled to county state budget. ■ Northern Kentucky farm ers' market - $3 million governments to pay for everything A stem and determined Mo from backhoes to secretaries. loney ticked off the items to be cut, ■ Eastern Kentucky Universi often without stopping to get for: ty wellness center - $3 mil The cominittee also cut the ma! approval from fellow lawmak lion governor's proposed fund to help ers. Sen. Walter Baker, R-Glasgow, ■ Convention center at Lake poor communities deal with flood called the approach "a scorched Reba in Madison County - $2 control - a $5 million price tag for earth policy." million the state that could bring in The wholesale elimination of ■ Bluegrass music museum $95 million in federal funds. pork-barrel projects and politically in Owensboro - $2 million Also cut were extra salary in important budget items is intended ■ Coal mining museum at creases for deputy circuit clerks to spark enough outrage from law Benham in Harlan County -· and deputy property valuation ad makers and constituents to get the $616,000 ministrators, and additional em votes for the tax measure. ployees for commonwealth and For weeks, legislators have Moloney retorted, "I would sug county attorneys. 'been pressured by the Kentucky : gest that since the Louisville Cham ■■■ : Chamber of Commerce and local ; ber of Commerce has been so Herald-Leader staff writers . industries to reject House Bill 455, :. helpful in passing HB 455, they can Lucy May and Jack Brammer con ;the manufacturing tax bill. Yester-. ; pay for it." tributed to this report. day's budget cuts will likely spawn , The Senate budget committee · cries from a variety of other groups • deferred a vote on the tax measure ,- from university presidents and • because there aren't enough · sup : teachers to county officials and porters to pass it, Moloney said. : state government retirees. The bill would plug a $62 mil : Some of the funding will likely lion-a-year financial hole that : be restored if the committee and opened up when the Kentucky ; the full Senate go along with the Supreme Court declared the law on ; tax bill, Moloney . said. But other sales tax exemptions for industrial , cuts will stand. supplies too vague. ' "There's a lot of sentiment to HB 455 would raise half the : cut projects notwithstanding House money - $30 million a year - by : Bill 455," he said. rewriting the exemptions for new ' Some lawmakers objected when and expanded industry and indus ; Moloney suggested deleting pro trial supplies. The rest of the mon : jects important to their districts, ey .:.._ $30 million to $35 million a · : but the items got the ax anyway. year - would come from an in , Sen. Larry -Saunders, R-Louis crease in the property tax rate on : ville, said Moloney's proposal to machinery used in manufacturing. ; cut $7 million in bonds for a Aside from construction pro · football stadium at the University jects, the committee made several : of Louisville would add $2 to the other important deletions and : cost of each game ticket. changes. UK receives mixed reviews on se~m, \Vomen's salaries women; in 1992, women represent BY Dome BEAN ed 68 percent of the staff. HERALD-LEADER EDUCATION WRITER UNDERREPflESENTATION OFWOMEN • Of the more than 125 recom The University of . Kentucky mendations made by the first received mediocre grades yesterd:iy ON UK FACULTY "Women's Report" of 1989, UK has on progress toward gender eqmty addressed only about a dozen. during the last 3 ½ years'. . "The UK Women's Forum is The UK administration has tak disheartened by the lack of prog en some steps to .reduce campus ress made by the UK administra sexism and has made progress on • Assuming the same rate of increase tion -in improving and· equalizing women's salaries, according to a working conditions and the status study by several UK , women's experienced fr9m 1989 to 1993. . . of women at UK," said Marguarite groups. . , Floyd; chair of the forum. • However, the study gave .the "It is clear that we have not university low marks_ in other ar-:.. really progressed very far s_ince eas: .. ' 1989 " said Ellen Rosenman, drrec ■ Since 1989, when the first tor ~~ the UK Women's Studies "Women's Report'' was issued oil , , Program. "We need very strong campus, the percentage of wonien . and unequivocal support from the on the faculty has gone up only university administration." two percentage points, from 21 "We are well aware of the percent to 23 percent. continued concerns of women on "At that rate it will take until . this campus," UK President the year 2047 before wome!l: ho!~ ,- ·.'93 2047* Charles T. Wethington said in re 50 percent of the faculty positions, . sponse to the report. said Carolyn Bratt, a UK law Source: UK HERALD LEADER "It is likely we'll not always be professor anq former faculty repre able to do as much as people would sentative on the UK Board of · net increase of only one in . the like but we will keep working at Trustees. number of women serving in top it." Ii Almost two-thirds of the 44 level leadership positions. To more aggressively address departments at UK have one or no ■ Gender segregation has in equity problems, the • women's women faculty members. creased in lower level, lower status, groups, called the Consortil!m for ■ The change in gender com lower paying professional staff, Gender Equality at UK, said UK position at the highest administra secretarial and service-maintenance should: tive and academic levels has been job categories. • . ■ Create a· standing commis "agonizingly slow.'; In 1989, 64 percent of the UK sion on gender equity to regularly In four years, there has been a professional staff. was made up of advise Wethington on policies and LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER, LEXiNGTON, KY. ■ SATLRDAY, MARCH 26, 1994 practices that affect women faculty, administrators, staff and students. Transylvania University kicks off ■ Establish a formal system of monitoring and reporting equity $50 million fund-raising campaign , progress to the UK community. ■ Create an Office of Staff "Small independent colleges are Ombuds to hear. staff grievances, BY ERICA PATTERSON always in need, and I don't think HERALO.LfADER STAFF WRITER including those about gender is we'll ever outgrow that," said Wil sues. Transylvania University offi liam T. Young, chairman of the ■ Create a seat on the UK cials yesterday announced plans board of trustees. Board of Trustees to be filled by a for the 214-year-old college's larg The university already has staff representative. est-ever development project: a raised more than half the $25 sweeping campaign that would ■ Undertake a study of the million projected for the first phase climate of institutional support and raise $50 million for scholarships, and hope to raise the rest by June new buildings and other ventures, respect for undergraduate and 30, 1997. The donations were made graduate women students. Officials will _look to founda a year ago during a "silent phase" tions, corporations, . organirailons Wethington said he could not of the campaign, Shearer said. respond to all of the issues raised and the community to support the Sarah Emmons, director of pub campaign, Transylvania President in the report because he had not lic relations, said some projects seen a copy. Charles Shearer said, would begin as the money becomes New money is necessary to available. Construction of a new ! .. '. ■ ·$7,niillion for tlie En-.~ help pay for student scholarships, performing arts center and class •db~eilt · .for., sclio!arships;_ faculty development and other pro room building included in the pro land programs, feattirilig acij:: jects; said campaign chairman. ject will not begin until enough ldentic'' programs and' •merit;· Warren W. Rosenthal, a member of money has been raised to pay for rscholarshlps: :,.:,.ic' •, ', ,: .. tiie coiiege's board of trustees. - them, however. i •' '.': ■ $2 niillion' to build_ a Transylvania's board of trust ; new:•jietloniiiitg arts' center ees approved in October 1991 a ~Fund~ralslog~1iI~;~\ iaha fiihcl'oiieratiilii:costsand; 1 long-range plan, including a study, ·_·_ . b'I'' .· t· 1·' •'' .,,•. , '_"''_1•• ••"• Ji teiiiilt>nlehb: AJunum: tu~n_1J' of the university, which listed ob :;o ec ves ·t,,,h' ·, •. · ·:: /> ",' • ' , ' ' ' : ' ";, '· ., , Caudill Eittle donated $1 mil, . jectives ''vital for Transylvania's •• ,·:Tnt}ibjecj:iv~;_'pf:~tqe j ,lion'tfor -the . centet,1\which•c1 continued growth," Rosenthal said. ;€ampaign, for• .Transylvap!ll , ;wilu!il•comi>leliienf the Mfrcfi:i, "The first phase of Transylva THE COURIER-JOURNAL, SUNDAY. MARCH 27, 1994 · Athlete's life makes him intent on l(eeping black cultural lties alive By MARK E. McCORMICK of Kentucky State, said such a cen bails iii ihe Glenmary Golf and Rec Staff Writer ter would be important for every reation Club. "I grew up watching one, not just African Americans. cowboy movies, but I didn't know Cultural ties have always been impor "When you, read a lot of history, if we participated in the taming of the tant to Doug Williams, the Super Bowl's you're .studying art, you might read West." Most Valuable Player in 1988. about some black musicians, but Roundtree said he wanted things Wanting to maintain those ties was one what about architecture, science to be different for future genera reason he attended the historically black and medicine?" Smith asked. "Very tions. little has been written about Afri. "Unlike me, our children will Grambling State University in Louisiana. can-American history." "It helped me to deal with so many ob- . have aplace they can gci-aiici see," Smith said young people today i stacles - overcoming some of the stig hands on, the contributions we have have been deprived of information made. We need more of these mas of being a black quarterback - and · about the accomplishments of a giving me the will to overcome. I call places around the country." · large segment of the population. Curt Sullivan, president of the Grambling State my survival kit." "When you read history books, So when Williams, who played profes Kentucky region of KSU's alumni it's almost. as if they never existed," association, said the center would sloiiaf footliaii for ihe Washingtordieci_ she said. ''We need to do the re do a better job of informing people skins and is now an assistant football search so that publishers can no than trying to cram decades of his coach at the Naval ,\cademy, was called longer say, 'We didn't know.'." tory into the month of February, upon to take part in a fund-raising week Roundtree, known for his title which has been designated as Black end benefiting the Kentucky State Uni role in the movie "Shaft," said his History Month. versity Center of Excellence for the Study knowledge of African-American. his He said the weekend events of Kentucky African Americans, he was tory was limited when he was a should help the effort along. more than happy to oblige. child. "1 think it's a positive first step," "The one reason I came here is be "My experience growirig up, I Sullivan said. "More events like this cause of Kentucky State," Williams said. wasn't cognizant of our contribu are needed to raise money and to "It's an opportunity to come and do tions on any level past the church," raise consciousness. I hope it's not something I like - play golf - and do Roundtree said while swatting golf the last.'' something important." KSU officials hope to raise $250,000 of the $5 million needed to build the center with the heip ofWilliams, football Hali of Farner Jim Brown, actor Richard Round LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER, LEXINGTON, KY. ■ SUNDAY, MARCH 27, 1994 tree, and other sports and entertainment Most of the construction on the celebrities. 6-foot-square gray playhouse was The festivities conclude today with a UK group completed yesterday, but it will CelebrirtNIP Breakfast in the Keeneland take at least one more day of work Room of the Hyatt Regency hotel in Lou to wrap up, Russell said. isville. When completed, sometime in 1997, the building Rachael Fox, a Chrysalis House center could serve as a combination mu mother of three, said at least 10 seum, cultural center, classroom and children visit the shelter on most even think tank. Mary L. Smith, president weekends, and the playhouse will playhouse give them somewhere to play out side. "I'm sure they're going to love at shelter it," Fox said. BY DARLA CARTER Alpha Phi Omega and mem HERAf..D.lEADER STAFF WRITER bers of the UK Department of When Nick Russell was knee Agricultural Engineering chose to high to a grasshopper, he learned participate in the project because how to drive a nail with a hammer. it's a worthy one that will make Twenty-five years later, Russell Chrysalis House more like a home, is putting that skill to use on the Russell said. construction of a playhouse at the Some of the volunteers found Chrysalis House, 120 Bassett Court that giving their time can be as in Lexington. beneficial for them as it will be for Chrysalis House is a shelter for the children who get to use the women who are recovering from playhouse, said Ginni Button. She the effects of drugs and alcohol. is director of the UK Student Vol The playhouse will be used during unteer Center, which links students visits by those women's daughters, with projects like the playhouse. sons and other young relatives. Russell, 30, is a member of the .Volunteer Lorie Wayne, a com UK chapter of Alpha Phi Omega munity member who came to help and is leading an effort by the out the UK, students, said she liked service fraternity to construct the the project because it was a change playhouse. from her usual work as chapter director of the March of Dimes of "I like construction work, and Lexington. (this project) is a good way to learn more about it," he said. "I like doing this kind of stuff because it's so different from budg et and finance," Wayne said. "It's a neat way to give (Chrysalis House) something that's a little different." ,b. MSU ARCHIVES -3-~:--~- MSU ~Clip Sheet A sampling of recent artides of interat to Morehead State Univenity INSTIT\JTIONAL RELATIONS MOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSllY UPO BOX 1100 MOREHEAD, KY 40351-1689 606-783-2030 THE COURIER-JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY, MARCH'30, 1994 Senate stand against taxes blocks budget compromise By TOM LOFTUS evening, during recesses of the mean cutting something else or Staff Writer House and Senate, but did not re adopting what Rose said he consid solve any major problems. Members ers irresponsible moves, such as F'RAN1(FORT, Ky, - House budg- will return today. raiding the budget's $100 million et conferees are working on alterna- The biggest difference in the surplus or generating one-time rev is tive ways to raise revenue so pro- budget versions that the Senate enue to pay for recurring expenses. grams and construction cut by the cut funding for a score of major Senate can be restored to the budg- construction projects and programs. Accelerating collection of the cor et. It made the cuts largely· because of poration tax would result in a one ·But as of last night, the Senate a change it made in a tax bill on time windfall of $40 million to $50 members of the conference commit- industry that lowered revenue ex million. Corporations now pay 70 tee said they hadn't heard any alter- pectations. percent of their estimated income native that could pass the Senate. As passed by the House, that bill tax during the year the tax-liability The option getting the most dis- - HB 455 - contained two provi is incurred. Under the option, they cussion by lawmakers outside the sions: One tightened the state sales would pay 90 percent. committee's closed door would tax exemption on industrial sup The option was suggested by the speed collection of the corporate in- plies, which would raise about $30 Kentucky Chamber of Commerce come tax, generating a one-time million a year. The other raised the weeks ago as an alternative· to windfall of at least $40 million for property tax on manufacturing ma HB 455's property-tax increase. the General Fund. · chineiy from 15 to 45 cents per $100 Some interested outsiders pa House Majority Leader Greg of assessed value, which would trolled the hallways outside the Stumbo called that' "a . viable op- raise about $35 million a year. closed meeting room yesterday tion" for paying for the deleted Senate leaders couldn't get morning, including University of projects during the next two years. enough votes to pass the property- Kentucky President Charles Weth ·But Senate President John "Eck" tax increase and deleted it from the ington and University of Louisville Rose said senators would resist. The bill. The Senate then had to cut President Donald Swain. mbve might pay for the projects for about $35 million in spending and two years, he said, but in 1996 law- did so largely by slashing politically At stake for UK is a new libraiy makers would have to confront the sensitive construction projects. and a mechanical engineering question of how to pay debt service House conferees want the cuts.re building. U of L lost money for a after that. "If this is done, it's going stored. During a break in yester health research building and afoot- to put us in a veiy precarious situa- day's conunittee meeting, Rep. Mar ball stadium. · tion in 1996." shall. Long, the House· budget com Swain said he is optimistic .that : :The conference committee's six mittee chairman, said: ''We like our the committee will restore· U of L's senators and six representatives budget. And we came up with the projects and other Jefferson County convened just after 9 a.m. yesterday bucks we needed in the version of initiatives. ·, to address the big differences be- House Bill 455 we passed to pay for •"Jefferson County is pretty well tween the House and Senate ver- the projects, and the programs," · represented on the conference com sions of the budget •measure, House But Rose, a Wmchester Demo mittee," he said, J'/lferring to Senate Bill 302. · · crat, said the Senate "carmot pass Majority Leader David Karem and The committee met off-and-on additional taxes." House Speaker Pro Tem Lariy throughout the day and into the So restoring any projects would Clark. Teacher-training bill dies;KEA blamed' By MARK SCHAVER teachers and teachers who want to layed·its implementation so that the Staff Writer rise .on the state salary scale would teacher'training issue could be stud-, :t be tested on their. teaching ability. It ied further. Ford .said the. amena~: m :F'RAN1ITORT, Ky. - ,A bill that would have replaced the current ment was unacceptable. - ' · 8 would have changed the way teach- system, where teachers earn ad Sheriy Jelsma, the chairwoman ~ ers are trained has died, taking with vanced degrees to qualify :for a of the task force and the secretaiy ffi it an amendment to limit discussion higher ranking. of the Education and Humanities ~ of homosexuality in the classroom. The KEA originally opposed the Cabinet, said .the changes gutted the o · When Senate Bill 238 was re- bill, then dropped its opposition last original bill. She said she hoped a· ~ ferred back to the Senate Education week after the House Education compromise could be crafted by the ,~ C9mmittee late Monday, it effective- Committee extended a deadline for time the General Assembly meets lY. scuttled an attempt to bring when teachers had to· choose to en again in 1996. . ~ teacher training more in line with ter the new system. Rep. Freed Curd, D-Murray,, the o sc'hool reform, KEA President Marne! Moorman chairman of the House Education ffi · ·supporters blamed the Kentucky said the union decided to oppose Committee, said the governor's of- en Education Association, the teacher's the bill again when that extension flee apparently did not lobby· hard ~ qnion, for the bill's demise. was not included in the version that for the bill because the committee :The sponsor, Sen. Ed Ford, D- passed the House Friday,. He said never contacted him abouOt. !5 Cynthiana, said the bill would have other parts of the bill also were not Freed said he supported"' the 0 allowed teachers to earn higher pay spelled out clearly enough. , changes made in the House. I if they could prove their teaching . The bill contained the main rec "Teachers that are doing their job ~ ability. ommendations of the Task Force on now already have a full load.?·· - "It is contradictoiy to the tradi- Teacher Preparation, which Gov. An amendment to the bill that ~ tional union line, where we keep ev- Brereton Jones formed last yeat .to would have banned the teaching of ,.. ~cybody in line by paying evecybody recommend ways to improve teach- "alternative lifestyles that promote the same· and asking for less work er training. · ' or.· condone· deviant sexual behav-. iind more money," he said. I It passed the Senate largely in ior'' died too. Curd, the amend . _The original. bill would_ have set ,tact, but the House, adopted. an ment's sponsor, .said that issue ds ' LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER, LEXING[ON, KY'--■ WEDNESQ_AY, MARCH 30, 1994 ■ THE BUDGET · . - -- 'We 're still about as far off as ... when we started' BY CHAD CARLTON ON THE CHOPPING BLOCK AND JIM WARREN HERALD-LEADER FRANKFORT BUREAU House and Senate budget negotiators are debating which of FRANKFORT - House and the items cut from the budget by the Senate might be restored. Senate budget negotiators tenta- The following is a partial list of Senate cuts. tively agreed last night to restore money for programs to help dis Construction projects abled infants and toddlers and to •Numerous state parks projects such as lodges and golf courses stop jailing mentally ill people. - $15 million. The Senate left in money for park repairs but took out new construction projects. But after nearly six hours of •Commonwealth Library at University of Kentucky - $46 million meetings yesterday, the budget •University of Louisville football stadium - $7 million state portion conference committee hadn't even of $60 million project tackled taxes or construction pro •Fayette County justice center - $26 million jects, the two thorniest dilemmas in •Northern Ky. convention center - $25 million the budget debate. •University of Louisville research building - $14 million •Vocational schools in Shelbyville and Danville - $18 million in "We're still about as far off as bonds we were when we started," said •Kentucky History Center in Frankfort - $10 million House Democratic Whip Kenny Ra •Hazard Community College student performing arts center - $1 O pier, D-Bardstown. million However, Rapier, the chief vote •Prestonsburg Community College wellness center - $8.5 million counter in the House, thinks legis •Ashland Community College classroom building - $4.5 million lators in his chamber will support a •Design of new state office building in Frankfort - $4 million of one-time acceleration in corporate $101 million project income-tax collections, which could •Northern Kentucky farmers' market - $3 million provide enough money to restore •Eastern Kentucky University wellness center - $3 million some projects and programs de •Community center at Lake Reba in Madison County - $2 million leted by the Senate. •Bluegrass music museum in Owensboro - $2 million Lawmakers are trying to close •Coal mining museum at Benham in Harlan County - $616,000 a $35 million-a-year gap between the House and Senate versions of Human services cuts the budget •Increase in welfare payments of 5 percent in second budget The ·Senate refused Monday to year - $20.7 million go along with a threefold property •Early intervention programs for disabled infants and toddlers - tax increase on manufacturers, $12.8 million which the House had passed earlier •Operating funds for homes for the mentally ill - $7.9 million to pay for politically important •Funds to keep mentally ill out of jails - $7.2 million construction projects and balance •Increased day-care subsidies for low-income families - $5.2 mil the budget lion Senators would likely be more •Supported living program for mentally retarded - $3 million willing to accept an acceleration in •Legal defense for child sexual abuse victims - $2 million corporate income tax collections •Fayette County juvenile treatment program - $1.9 million than almost any tax increase, said •More intensive tuberculosis treatment and immunization for Senate Majority Floor Leader Da 4,000 more children - $1 .4 million vid Karem of Louisyille. •Expand mental health centers for sex offender and victim treat ment - $1 million But Karem said it would be •Increased cancer screenings and mammograms - $688,000 unwise to use the one-time money •Expand spouse abuse centers - $500,000 to make the first payments on 20- year loans for building projects. Other program cuts •Grant money for county equipment and operations (funneled . "In essence, you're borrowing through area development districts) - $13.7 million from next month's income/' Karem •Flood control matching funds to river communities - $5 million said. "You're creating some sort of •Transportation funds for private school students - $4 million illusion that you have money you •State police computer system expansion - $3. 1 million project didn't have before." •Filling 50 vacant agriculture extention agent jobs •· $3 million •Substance abuse treatment programs - $1.3 million Budget negotiators said they •Added staff for commonwealth, county attorneys - $1 million generally agree on many minor •Incentive grants to develop juvenile detention centers - points. But most of the big-ticket $500,000 items and the money to pay for •Fayette County diversion center for parole violators - $388,500 funds over the next two years for them have been set aside until the •Increased funds to local. jails - $176,000 panel reconvenes this morning. . the program. Salary increases The program to stop the jailing The budget impasse left the (Budget includes 5 percent annual pay raises for most state of mentally ill peopTe was proposed health-care reform bill in limbo. employees. The ·following were proposed incentive raises on top last year by Gov. Brereton Jones The measure awaits a concurrence of those pay raises). after the state gained national noto- vote in the House, but leaders there •Deputy property valuation administrators - $1.4 million riety as one of the few that contin- say they can't muster the necessary •Veteran troopers, $1.3 million (added $800,000 to pay troopers ues the practice. · votes unless construction projects for insurance riders). Across Kentucky, mentally ill are restored to the budget •State retiree pensions - $1 million. people who are picked up for •Deputy circuit clerks - $1 million disorderly conduct or other minor The budget negotiators decided •Veteran probation and parole officers - $607,000 offenses often are held in jails until that at least two of the programs •Veteran prison guards - $260,000 they are taken to mental hospitals. cut by the Senate to balance the The House budget included budget were more important than , L-----.-.---.------~· $7.2 million in state and federal adding construction projects, said I The ear\y mterv~ntmn p~ogram The program would help chi!- fu d th Senate President John "Eck" Rose, ,w~uld provide s~rvices to disabled. dren overcome SP!"'Ch, hearing and n s over e next two years to D-Winchester. To add them how- . children from birth to age 3. The other physical disorders. cover coSts such as transporting ' tat ti d 't 'd mentally ill people to hospitals. ever lawmakers will have to find s e curren Y oesn provi e The House budget included mon~y elsewhere. such help until a child turns 4. $12.8 million in state and federal THE COURIER-JOURNAL, WEON~SDAY,_ MARCH 30, 1994 Teachers question se~ch process as Mll.ITay~gree_ts third :firi:alist.~::: --. . . . . -...... , . . . . ·• ~ . By JAMES MALONE . ,-. .·:· · ·-:·· candidate's school about his track the process 'rather ·than the specific Staff. Writer · .. record. . ,.~ . ·.·~~-- ·:,,_ ., .. :.candidates,.F)mlce'said. ..:.L•J__ . ~- "Withholding information gives . Slaff congress president Shirley MURRAY, Ky. - The third final-· an air of secrecy," France s1!idc : Reamer favored having a search ist for the presidency uf Murray · Murray officials have- .not said committee seat filled from the .State University arrived on campus howmanyfinalistswillb!!_invitedto school's staff congress, winch rep yesterday amid renewed concerns campus. · · · · '.. ·- resents the 800 non-teaching staff over the protocol used to choose When France contacted regents members on: campus. Reamer said and present candidates. · · and KornJFeny Iiltemational, the _she also would like to see finalists' James Kerley, president of Hop- outside consultant regents hired to names and re.sunu!.sJ·eieased ear_li, kinsville Community College, dined screen the 120 applicants, she :said er. -~,. .. ___ , . __ with Murray regents last night and she was told the names we~ being "It's important for (candidates) to was to tour campus and meet with disclosed at the last minute because start "th 'd d rt," 581"d faculty, staff and students today, ac- of applicants' concerns ·about J"ob WI WI _esprea suppo David Merkowitz, an executive with cording to a-schedule of his visit, security. . . . · · ·• .':.:·.. .. the American· Council on Education Kerley, 43, was named to his posi- · Korn/Ferry consultant ; ·John • W; hingt high · • - tion in 1989; before that ·he was Kulmle did not return phone. calls, m as on, a er-education dean of academic affairs at Madi- and regent Sid Easley could not be study group. - ···.':. '~: sonville Community College from reached for-comment. '', .;.._ .... ,:.·-·;-. · -Cloaking the process in secrecy, 1986-89. His visit was announced Easley, however, on Saturday told however, can -occur when candi less than 12·hours before he arrived the Murray Ledger and Times that dates insist on it, he said. But doing on campus yeste rday afternoon. "an exten ded publi c dis cusSion· of socause can of bethe counterproductivemood it sets. be- Nancey France, president of Mur- (a candidate's) credentials prior to The American Association of. Uni- ray's faculty senate, said there is the interview may well result in "dissatisfaction" with the method their. premature withdrawal from versity Professors, in a position· pa- . the school has used to identify the the process." . _ :.. • per, says the faculty should play a three finalists. Regents comprise the _ Some faculty members hav:e a significant role in the selection of a entire search committee. hard time buying that argument, college president . - · .;· Roughly 12 to 24 hours before a France said. Murray regents were' to meet !list finalist was scheduled to visit, the If it threatened someone's job to night to designate an acting presi search committee has identified the be announced as a candidate last dent and to take action on a sabbati candidate and released a resume. week, then why would the same cal leave for current President Ron- France said the faculty had want- candidate not be threatened by re- aid Kurth, who was not rehired. ed finalists' resumes a week in ad- lea.sing his name this week, France Kurth has been named dean of fac vance so they could informally in- asked. · · - · - - ulty at the Air Force War College in quire of their counterparts at the The faculty senate ls questioning Montgomery, Ala. THE COURIER-JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30, 1994 The debate on post-tenure review ■ The plan is to be used for four at UK's College of Arts and Sci• years starting in the 1995-96 school UK college ences has been divisive, and faculty year and then evaluated. ' .... members will watch the way it's The plan doesn't say what will used ''very, very closely," said Mi happen if a professor's work doesn't to review,, chael Kennedy, a professor in the improve .. But the review and follow geography department up reports could be used in admm• He is past president of the ·UK istrative action to dismiss a pnir~ Chapter of the American Associ sor who doesn't improve. 'lliat tenured . ation of University Professors ..'The would be done using regulations association, nationally, has general• that are in effect but rarely used. ly opposed post-tenure review be The regulations say that even a te~ professor~:-- cause it fears the concept can ellmi• ured faculty member can be fired .,.i nate tenure, Kennedy said. ....-."' for neglect of duties, incompetence Goal is to help:·\- The UK chapter also opposed the or immoral conduct, Edwards said. - . :,.; initial versions of post-tenure re The gaal of post-tenure review 11· view proposed by Edwards, Kenne isn't to build a case for firing a pro faculty nnprove dy said. The association and mariy fessor but to help faculty meJl!bers faculty members see the plan a& un stay engaged in their work,-'.•~• performance fair and including too few ch~ wards said. ·· .a.: and balances. He said perhaps only 1 to 3 ~ By BEN Z. HERSHBERG After much debate, the plan W!IS cent may need help to maiotaim nr Staff Writer modified so that the associatio'n improve. ·.~ found it worth a trial, Kennedy said. The University of Kentucky's Col The plan says: :.-.:. lege of Arts and Sciences has,lij) ■ Post-tenure reviews will be con proved a plan for-a detailed review ducted every other year, in the of tenured professors who are, !ie year lieved to be performing poorly. . , after the biennial review cycle. ·, < The plan puts UK in the lead in ■ Professors may be reviewed if the national debate on post-tenqre they request it or if they receiveca review in higher education, __ , ,. merit rating of 2.5 or less on.the Few universities have adopted seven-point scale used in the biebm• such plans, said Richard EdWards, al evaluation of teaching, resemm and service for two consecutive dean of arts and sciences - UK's evaluations. . biggest college, with about 350.~ fessors tenured or to be considered ■ At the choice of the fa~ for tenure. .. ii:: member, a review can be conducted Tenure gives professors the .. right by a ,department chairman; a three to remain in their positions at a uni member faculty review committee versity through their careers. appointed by the dean; or a sub The University of Louisville's committee of arts and sciences 1ac• trustees adopted the concept., of ulty appointed by the faculty. , =:-: post-tenure review earlier this-year, ■ If the review finds major pn,11. but faculty and administrators are !ems in the professor's work, the • still developing plans to put the pro professor and his or her department cess into effect. chair will write a plan to solve them. The professor's progress will:•tle· monitored for three years. I . . LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER, LEXINGTON, KY. ■ WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30, 1994 • Newton says Pitino\_endorsement on UK letterhead 'a- goof' BY DOTTIE BEAN happen again," Newton said. with the blue UK basketball office He guessed that the letters were "That's proprietary _infonna- HERALD-LEADER EDUCATION WRITER A letter advertising the April letterhead. books - he has also published a mailed to about 40,000 people in tion," he said. "I work with coaches· new book called First Things First University of Kentucky Coach 20 Lexington appearance of Ste Wyncom President Larry Hol the Lexington area. all over the country ... and if I go( phen R. Covey, author of the best- man said he obtained the letterhead - and urged the reader to attend Rick Pitino's endorsement of a Holman _said he has used a · into saying what honorarimp.____ qne and bring a friend. motivational speaker should not selling book, The 7 Halnts of High and an envelope from Pitino's of copy of the UK letterhead before, coach got I would open -up," a ly was mailed out have gone out under UK's letter Effective People, fice. for a letter signed by Pitino. tremendous problem for ,my. busi- The fee for attending the pro head, Athletics Director C.M. New this month by Wyncom Inc., a for- The company paid all the print ness." · gram ranges from $195 to $229 a profit Lexington consulting compa "This is the first I've heard that ton said yesterday. ing costs to reproduce the letter that is a problem." Pitino was not "~~~ilable for person - depending on how many "We just goofed on it. It was a ny. and bought the stationery and comment. :~;.~_F :··:' ~pie were from the same organi- Wyncom paid Pitino for his zatton. mistake; it is one we will address The letter bore Pitino's signa -envelopes used in the mailing, Hol signature, but Holman declined to The letter for Wyrtcoin was not and have addressed and it won't ture and was on stationery printed man said. -say how much. the first time UK Ieiterhead and Newton said he had not . yet · Pitino's signature have been used talked with Pitino about the letter. to promote a private enterprise. In Regardless of who paid the 1991, Pitino solicited participants printing and mailing costs, "It is an for a seminar on motivational tech inappropriate use of our mark," niques at which he was speaking. Newton said. "It's !lie first I've heard that it He said there wasn't much UK has happened," Newton said yes could do about the incident now terday. since the letters had already bee~ "All I can say is we are aware mailed. of it now, and we'll see that it "We can't stop what has hap doesn't happen anymore." pened. All we can do is make sure Newton said there apparently it doesn't happen anymore." has been a misunderstanding in the UK President Charles Wething athletics office about UK's policy ton said he was unaware of the toward the use of its stationery. letter but that it is inappropriate to Employees knew not to furnish, use university materials for non- stationery and envelopes at UK. university purposes. cost for such purposes but thought furnishing a letterhead to copy was OK if it didn't cost the university anything, he said. Newton said there may have been other times when a letter or. UK letterhead was furnished to. charitable organizations for copy ing. "It could be I have even sent something out for a charity my-· self," he said. The Pitino letter sent out by. Wyncom talked, about Covey's MS;U Clip Sheet A sampUnc of reccnt·artida of interest to Morehead State Univenity