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Lexington Herald-Leader Tuesday, December 1, 1998 .Colleges reacting to dorm fire Despite having $15 million strong public colleges and uni •Safety changes available and ready to be spent versities accept responsibility for in the next few months, fi re safe their own situations as well as .will take a while ty improvements will not be for their own destinies. made overnight. By Gordon K. Davies When the unexpected hap Only a limited number of pens, especially when a promis I expect that every one of us firms do this kind of•work. ing young life is lost, it is diffi who ever has left a child at col Students will have to be shuffled cult to stick to the idea of lege felt some apprehension as about in order to empty whole autonomous colleges and univer we drove home that she or he halls or floors so additional fire sities. It is easy to encourage was suddenly beyond our ability safety devices can be institutions to run to to protect and keep safe. installed. The ceilings government for help, Surely. every parent's heart of older buildings just as children run goes out to the family of Michael may contain asbestos to parents. Minger. the student who died in that has to be I respect those a residence hall fire at Murra,· removed as part of the Kentucky trustees State Un1versny earlier this fa ll. work. l3ecause some and administrators When something so senseless halls already are who planned over the happens, especially when it is scheduled for demoli years to improve fire the result of a foolish and crimi tion and replacemem. safety, and I respect nal act - apparently a prank these plans may be those who have that went terribly wrong - we adjusted. accepted this respon need LO act as quickly as possi l{esidence halls are Safety, like sibility even if it was ble to protect the innocent built and maintained heat and unanticipated. against its happening again. with student fees. The electricity, i,s Does this indicate That is what we did. The universities are land part of the cost a lack of compassion presidents of our state-supported lords - caring land of renting a for Michael Minger colleges and universities con lords. but landlords room. and his family? l ferred with me immediately and nonetheless. Safety, don't think so. For began to estimate the cost of like heat and electrici Gordon K. Davies Michael's fami ly, the bringing all residence halls up to ry, is part of the cost natural order of the current fi re safety standards, of renting a room. things, in which chil regardless of when they were I recommended that fi re safe dren bury their parents, has constructed. ty improvements should be made been reversed. This is the occa At the direction of Gov. Paul using university reserves and sion for great sadness. Patton. his aides convened a bonds repaid over 20 years from All of us - the presidents. working group of top adminis student housing fees. The state the Council on Postsecondary tration officials to ensure that Council on Postsecondary Education, the administration of uni versity administrations would Education agreed with me for Gov. Patton, and I - are deter not be impeded as they moved three reasons. mined to improve fire safety quickly to undertake necessary First, this is the fastest way and to make this sad event an renovations, and that they would to get the projects started. The opportunity to learn behavior get immediate guidance about reser\'e funds and bonding that will help the citizens of what has to be done. authority are in hand. Second, Kentucky and the colleges and We found that some universi using these sources of funds universities that serve them. ty administrations had made fi re respects the financial strucrures Education can be a cruel safety a priority some years ago. of public higher education. business. Despite the best carefully building the costs into which require that student room efforts of their teachers. young student room fees. Some did not, and board be self-supporting. people will occasionally do setting fees as low as possible. Finall y, the increases in room things that can break our Some had planned to issue hous fees that will be required at hearts. ing bonds for fire safety some institutions can be phased We have seen too many improvements during the 199 • in over the next se,·eral years. deaths and acts of violence in 2000 budget cycle. building the Compared to other states. the our colleges and universities costs into student room fees over room fees charged by Kentucky this fall, incl uding another fire the next 20 years. universities still will be modest. that recently consumed a frater Within weeks of the fire at Kentucky has set its sights on nity house. We ha\'e to make all Murray tate. ,,·e had a plan to helping its public colleges and of these events occasions for u:;e u1m·ersn ,· fund reserves and univer:;i1ie · becom~ nationally teaching and learning that \\' ill housing bonds to put $15 million distinctive. Across the country. help protect some other parent'~ in to fire safety. Vl'e are setting the strongest state institutions son or daughter tomorrow. priorities campus-by-campus, are highly autonomous and self. usually to work first on the governing. ■ tallest buildings. We are consult· This is a responsibility as Gordon K. Davies is presi ing with the state's fire marshal well as a privilege. The boards dent of the state Council 011 as we proceed. of trustees and presidents of Postsecondary Education. .. Lexington Herald-Leader Tuesday, December 1, 1998
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ASSOCIATED PRESS in people's lives. rounded, instead of sheltered, col WILLIAMSBURG A "Not only is this a good expe lege student." growing number of college stu rience to prepare myself to teach, Bridgette Pregliasco, the Uni dents across the state, from but it's also an outlet for me to versity of Louisville's assistant Pikeville to Murray, are helping minister and to work with these vice president for student life, in food shelters, hospitals, kids and show them the love of said universities obviously want schools and senior citizen cen God," said Shipp, a Louisville students academically well-pre ters. freshman who plans· to be a mid pared when they graduate. For many, it's volunteerism, dle-school teacher. "But society also has an ex while others receive some college Colleges have various names pectation that they come out as credit for their work. for the effort. Some schools call it leaders and contributors to soci But Cumberland College is leadership studies. Others call it ety," she said. "In order to do the only college in Kentucky to "experiential education" or com that, you can't just focus on aca actually require community ser munity service. On other cam demics only." vice and leadership training for puses, it's called "service learn The growth in students' com all students. Since 1993, all stu ing," But officials on many cam munity service is reflected in re dents at the private, Baptist-re puses say it's here to stay and sults of a recent survey by Cam lated college must complete a will continue expanding. pus Compact, a national coalition minimum of 40 hours of commu "Putting students out in the of colleges that promotes public nity service to graduate. community in direct contact with service work. Emily Shipp recently drove a social problems Jets them see The survey showed the school van along rural Whitley some practical applications at group's member schools grew County backroads to give local work, and it also stretches their from 240 to 550 between 1990 teen-agers a ride to a country comfort zone," said Lynn Sparks, and 1997. The number of stu church. ' coordinator of community ser dents in these schools participat Two more vans, also driven vice at Asbury College in ing in community service soared by Cumberland students, Wilmore. from 203,000 to 837,000 students brought other youngsters to the "It better prepares students in seven vears. Last vear. the, rh11rrh fnr rlic-M1c-c-innc:- r,n 1,-:il,u,e .. ,.,...... ,,. ....i. ... ···~-1...l •\..~···-- ~--:-~ ~---:1...... :..1 .,fl _:,i:_..:. :_ - . The Daily Independent, Ashland, Kentucky, Monday, November 30, 1998
"Dog owners just line up for this type of thing," Clifton said. In a Sept. 21 letter to the COntroversial MSU study halted Humane Society, Scott W. Rundell, MSU's veterinary animals were to be treated technology program coordina with a new anti-arthritic med tor, defended .the study by imal rights group hails end of canine arthritis drug tests icine for three months, then saying the dogs were slated tl) at root of most . _ _ "I used to -get -calls from year, compared· with 800,000 of controversy· people wanting to know the in the 1960s and 1970s. value of their timber. Now I BEREA (AP)- If you put a get calls about preservation Covering the needs blindfold over his eyes, John and water quality," said Volk. Perry said the· sale of tim Perry would still traipse the Forest land was first donat ber, and water from the for forest floor like it's his own ed to the college in 1898 by a est's 150-acre lake, is where living room. forestry professor who wanted the col[ege gets most of the He sticks his hands in the it used for classes and to pro $10,000 a year it· fakes to pockets of his well-worn jeans vide wood and income to the manage the forest, not includ and strides past branches, school. By 1919, 5,400 acres ing staff salaries. stepping carefully. had been donated. · The forest is also a research He proudly names trees,· The Berea forest is home to center for Berea College, the talks about them like they're more than 700 types of trees, University of Kentucky and · his children, and frowns at plants and shrubs, including the U.S. Forest Service. the disrespect some- people some that are endangered, Research includes every have for the forest communi and wildlife. thing from the kinds of spi ty. But plants and animals ders living in the forest to Perry, the forester at Berea aren't the only part of the for more extensive studies on the College, is passionate about est landscape ' effects of fire. his job - and about the 8,000 People use its trails and "It's ideal for study. Berea acres of forest the college camping areas. is a good example of what can owns in Southern Madison The college, which once ran happen with good manage County and parts of Jackson a sawmill, still dabbles in tim ment," said Robert Muller, as County. ber sales. harvesting 200,000 sociate forestry professor at As the college this month to 300,000 board feet each UK. celebrates its 100th anniver sary of managing forest land, Lexington Herald-Leader Perry wants residents to Tuesday, December 1, 1998 share his passion. Haney, once the target of a complaint that he illegally paid off bets on a video poker Not just selling wood UK eyeing machine, did not explain how he lost the Today, Perry and other money. foresters say the passion is bar owner's Haney associated with a number of UK about understanding that football players who came to the bar regu there's more to forestry than larly. He said they were his friends and he selling wood. gambling for had their photos on the wall. Today's forest also is man Police have been investigating Haney's aged with water, -wildlife and bar since a Nov. 15 wreck that killed a UK recreation in mind. sports link football player and a student at Eastern "Forests have ·become fairly Kentucky University, and injured another controversial because of dif By Bill Estep player. ~- ferent opinions on what HERAL.DlEADER STAFF WRITER The three-youngmenhad been~with ~ _ should or shouldn't be hap The University of Kentucky is Haney during the early morning hours be- - pening in them, yet here's an investigating whether gambling fore the wreck. He said they left sober. example of the land working by a Lexington bar owner was However, all three were legally drunk for multiple benefits," said connected with UK sports. when the vehicle driven by UK football Perry. James Haney Jr. is already un player Jason Watts crashed about 7 a.m. in But not everyone on cam der scrutiny as the result of a Pulaski County, police said. pus thinks the forest should wreck that killed a UK football The wreck killed Arthur Steinmetz, 19, have so many uses. player. a UK football transfer, and EKU student "Let's preserve it and leave The school has notified the Christopher Scott Brock, 21. Watts, who it alone," said Ralph Thomp NCAA of the gambling inquiry, but was badly injured, was released from the son, a Berea College biology UK is not under investigation, an hospital Nov. 24. professor, who's opposed to NCAA official said yesterday. Watts, 21, had a blood-alcohol level of any forest disturbance, in Several UK football players fre 0.15 percent after the wreck - the legal cluding wood sales. quented a Leestown Road tavern limit is 0.10 - and was charged with DUI owned by Haney, who listed $8,000 and two counts of manslaughter. He has Changing ideas in gambling losses in a bankruptcy left school. Robert Volk, chief forester filing last year. Lexington police, the Pulaski County for the · state Division of The link between football Sheriff's Department, state alcohol regula Forestry for the Bluegrass players and an acknowledged tors and others involved in the investiga district, says attitudes toward gambler has caused concern. two tion are scheduled to meet Wednesdav. In the forest have changed with UK officials said yesterday. vestigators also met last week to discuss the forest's purpose. "As soon as we saw that, it the case. including whether more charges raised a red flag," said Larry Ivy, will be filed, Lexington Police Chief Larry senior associate athletics direc Walsh said. tor. Lexington attorney David Van Hom, Sandra Bell, UK's assistant who represents Haney, has said his client's athletics director for NCAA com gambling losses were not related to sports pliance, said her office is looking betting. Van Hom refused to say what into the matter. Haney did bet on. "I think it's the only responsi The state Department of Alcoholic ble way to respond to that," she Beverage Control received a complaint in said. In a document filed last year in bankruptcy court, Haney said he lost $8,000 "betting" in 1996. • THE COURIER-JOURNAL• TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1998 wf?_€C-K.. (c.,,,¼~) t~;.:J.. ,ff.~.piii~\.~ ·' ~I~_.,_-;• ,~~. ::pllniit . ;, I f=.'111."i· '. An ABC investigator found one ma chine at the bar. Haney said it belonged to somecne else and later removed it, an ABC investigator said in a report. 'However, another state investigator found a tabletop video poker machine in the bar in April of this year. ABC Agent Robert Raisor told Helen Haney, Jim Haney's wife, to get rid of it, according to a memo in the file. success in public The machine was gone during a fol Harvard law grad relations by the low•up visit, Raisor said. . . . . ' number of press 1s uruvers1ty ~- ,-. . releases.,,, t it Bell and Ivy said there is nothing to in turned out. Npw dicate Haney's betting was connected to first black yp- '· - it measures· Suc sports at UK. cess by the num Bell said there is no timetable to finish ber of percep the review, and would not say what her of By MICHAEL JENNINGS tions and atti fice is doing, such as interviewing football The Courier-Journal· tudes it has players or Haney. changed, he Bill Saum, the NCAA official in charge Reflecting a national trend toward said. more aggressive marketing in higher Hall, Axelrod of gambling activities, said yesterday that Hall and Simpson all UK and the NCAA "a1 e reviewing the in education, the University of Louis denied that mar formation together." ville has created a vice presidency for keting meant dolling up their university relations. schools' images in misleading ways. The NCAA will rely on UK to do the Daniel Hall, 47, was promoted to legwork, Saum said. the new post last week, becoming "In order to market effectively, you Saum stressed that UK is not under U of L's first African-American vice have to have a good product, and our NCAA investigation. president. Hall, the U of L presi product is quality education for our community and our state," Hall said. "We're just trying to learn more about dent's assistant for university rela tions since 1985, said he will make "It isn't about covering anything the situation," Saum said. "Obviously, if up or hiding the blemishes," Axelrod these are casino debts, then it's none of our the same salary as in his old job, a little more than $100,000. said. "It's simply about positioning business. His appointment is one result of a ourselves the right way in the public "If it's sports gambling-related bets yearlong effort by U of L to reshape arena." then it might be something we want t~ tis marketing and public-relations Simpson said universities are look at more closely." functions. Hall said he will try to pre adopting time-tested marketing meth ods that should not be confused with Haney and his bar, which has been in sent "a sharper, more crystallized" image of U of L that enables it to Madison Avenue-style advertising. "It his family for 40 years, have been investi meet measurable goals in student re · is not smoke and mirrors; it is not gated before. cruitment, fund raising and public just marketing the president," he Haney pleaded guilty in 1997 to serv perception. said. ing alcohol after hours and paid a $50 fine. "This is not intended to gloss over U of L also has created the posi C.harges of ~isorderly conduct and posses any weaknesses" U of L may have tion of associate vice president for sion of maniuana and drug paraphernalia but to "have a public-relations func communications and marketing. Hall were dismissed. tion that is worthy of the quality said it will be filled early next year, product that we're offering," he said. freeing him to spend more time on In February, the ABC got an anony The University of Kentucky recent mous telephone complaint that Haney's governmental and community rela ly hired a marketing director to help tions. bar kept hard liquor hidden under the reshape its public relations. If univer Hall, a Louisville native and Har counter and was selling it without a li sities want to compete for money, the vard law school graduate, spent five cense to minors and others. best faculty and the brightest stu years as chief of staff to former U.S. The complainant also said Haney had dents, "then it's not enough to just Rep. Ron Mazzoli. He managed Maz sponsored a golf tournament for a diabetes keep doing what we've always been zoli's congressional offices in Louis charity but kept the money. doing," said Lloyd Axelrod, who ville and Washington and helped worked for more than 20 years in draft civil-rights, antitrust, immigra Raisor, the ABC agent, said in a memo corporate public relations before be that he inspected the bar in April and coming UK's public-relations director tion and other legislation. found one bottle each of bourbon and vod last year. UK has had two black vice presi dents - Fitzgerald Bramwell, its cur ka behind the bar. Hard liquor isn't al Officials at both U of L and UK say they are following a trail blazed rent vice president for research and lowed in the bar because it has only a beer graduate studies, and John T. Smith, license. by Indiana University, which closed its news office several years ago and who was vice president for minority Raisor said in his memo that Helen opened an office of communications affairs from 1975 to 1982 and then Haney said the liquor belonged to her and and marketing. Christopher Simpson, vice chancellor for minority affairs her husband and she took it to their home IU's vice president for public affairs until his retirement in 1984. which is attached to the bar. · and governmental relations, said uni Until Hall, no African American . ~aisor l~ter issued the bar a warning versities nationwide are belatedly had attained vice presidential rank at c1tatton, which does not carry a fine or adopting marketing tools long used U of L. The university has had two penalty. in business and politics. black deans, neither of whom is cur In the past, he said, JU measured rently serving. ■ Herald-Leader staff iwiters John Clay and Sarah Webster contributed to this arti cle. ~ ~ IV/SU C/iµ She/Jr ~ll'- A sample of recent articles of interest to Morehead State University UNIVERSITY COMMUNICATIONS M OREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY UPO BOX 1100 MOREHEAD. KY 40351-168~ 606-783-2030 THE COURIER-JOURNAL • KENTUCKY• WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 2. 1996 Alice Lloyd president to leave Associated Pres~ Sieben denied that the confhci with Bailey prompted his resignation PIPPA PASSES. K\' - Run-ms "We draw our studenrs from 100 with local politicians did not prompt President Timothy counties, not Just Knott County:· Sie his resignation. AJ1ce Lloyd College ben said. President Timothy Siebert said. Siebert said During the 1998 General Assem ~ieben said he and his wife, Jane. co11fllct with state bly, Baifey added a measure. whi ch have decided to return to Missouri to passed. that required Pippa Passes be near their eX1ended fa milies. Sen. Benny Ray (and other rowns) to collect propen~ taxes. The town consists primarily 01 Sieben announced Monday to fac Bailey did not the college. and the tax would appl~ ulty and staff members that he wi ll 10 about five household !> leave at the end December, but that prompt his Bailey argued that the rown·s sta he will serve as an off-campus con tus as an mcorporared c11y made It sultant for the college in Knott Coun resignation. eilg1ble tor S39.000 annually m statL ty until Jan. L 200(J coal-severance raxes and road tund~ AJ1ce Llovd. m Pippa Passes. has Theretore. he said. it should collect 500 students. The college also oper local propeny taxes ates The June Buchanan School. a and a fn end. John Burchett. were During his admmistrauon. Siebert privare high school. eventually dropped. said. the college's enrollment has In December 1996. Buchanan offi Benny Ray Bailey fi led a bar com strengthened and student retention cials expelled Chet Bailey. the son of plaint against Jeemes Akers, a law has improved. The school 's budget 1s state Sen. Benny Ray Bailey, D-Hind yer and head of The June Buchanan balanced and the college raised more man, afrer the youth was charged Schoel at the time. The elder Bailey than S9 million in -14 months. he with driving under the influence of also tried unsuccessfu lly to have said. marijuana. Akers indicted on a perjury charge The college's board is scheduled ti and sued unsuccessfully ro have hi s meet Dec. 12 to discuss the searer The char~es a~amst Chet Bailey. son reinstated for a new president. Lexil'lif.on Herald-leader Wednesday, December 2, 1998 the mind to think for itself. net of feed ing it cold facts to prepare it for a stan Take it from a dardized test. College today is much different college student: than it was 25 years ago. The same i! true of the ever changing job market which demands thinkers who can Portfolios make adapt ro new situations_ Today's Ken tucky students require the skills devel a difference oped by the portfolio exercises if they It has recently come to my attention are to compete and excel with others that a debate is now underway in around the nation. Frankfort regarding the future of port John Blevins folios. New Haven. Conn. Although I was less than enthusias tic about them in high school, I am writing to strongly urge the legislature THE MOREHEAD NEWS-MOREHEAD, KY to continue "counting" portfolios in the TUESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 1, 1998 assessment of schools and students. 1 can honestly say that I feel portfolios to be vital to students' education today. Controversial dog When I made the transition from a poor. rural high school in Metcalfe County to Yale. it was safe to say that project is put to sleep my skills lagged considerably behind A controversial research pro avoid the intentional harm to most of the other students. Fortunately ject that tested a new arthritis animals. for me, though, I found that my writing treatment on dogs, was termi The project was sponsored by skills were just as strong as my fellow nated by Morehead State Uni a pharmaceutical company, versity on Wednesday. freshmen. Since my grades depended which MSU officials refused to The 18 dogs used in the pro name. completely upon my ability to write ject were relocated in accor The three-months research tenn papers and test essays in a clear dance with US Department of project is designed to test anti and logical manner, had I not been able Agriculture regulations. The arthritic medicine for animals _ to write, my career here would have dogs are no longer connected It was not clear how far into the been quite short indeed. with the university's veterinary project the vet-tech program is, What some people do not realize is technology program. or when the dogs will be eutha University officials would not that writing. much more than the repe nized. comment further on the matter. The dogs did not develop titious memorizing that characterized MSU came under fire from arthritis on their own. The pro Kentucky education for so long, is es the United States Humane Soci ject required that ligaments in sential to becoming a better thinker. ety, for using the dogs in arthri their hind legs be surgically cut, Writing shapes and structures the tis drug research. according to the humane society. mind, giving one the power to expres~ The project was to result in The dogs were to be treated oneself clearly and persuasively. the death of 16 doge - although with the anti-arthritic medicine MSU'e vet-tech coordinator said Many opponents to the portfolio for three months, then put to the dogs were scheduled for sleep. may disagree, thinking that current euthanasia when the university The dogs w ere apparentl_y 1>0rtfolio exercises1.hreaten AC'f'scores: took them. strays obtained from a n Education, however, should be more The humane society, in an unnamed animal shelter outside than simple preparation for the ACT. Oct. 13, letter, eaid the experi Rowan County. The national Education should consist of shaping ment may cause considerable humane society was tipped off pain and distress for the dogs by a Morehead State student and urged the university t o about the project. ~\ • THE M~REHEAD NEWS-MOREHEAD, KY TUESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 1, 1998 ... ' MSU- gets award for energy conservation Morehead State University ger Hall, Claypool Young Art 1as received the Governor's Building, and Laughlin Health l':nvironmental Excellence Building. Energy savings from 'I.ward for Energy Conservation. these measures total $84,170 The award was presented by annuaJly with a payback of 2.4 'fatural Resources and Environ years. mental Protection Cabinet Sec In 1992, MSU began a recy t"etary James E. Bickford during cling program collecting paper ohe 23rd Annual Governor's and aluminum cans. The pro :!onference on the Environmellt gram now recycles 13 items, m Bowling Green. which has increased the collec Morehead State University's tion efforts to more than 200 oarticipation in the Institutional tons (18 percent of waste) of '.:onservation Program through materials. che Kentucky Division of Energy MSU has increased energy iemonstrates substantial ener awareness throughout the cam fl' savings. pus by distributing materials Technical assistance studies and making students and facul nave been performed on several ty aware of the energy conserva ,ampus buildings to identify tion activities that can be taken. ,mergy saving measures. Twelve Governor's Environ From the measures identi mental Excellence Awards were fied, low cost/no cost items have presented to Kentuckians, busi oeen implemented. MSU also nesses and organizations, who April Haight, left, Recycling/Energy Conservation manag nas installed higher cost light have outstanding contributions to the protection and preserva er, accepts the Governor's Environmental Excellence mg upgrades and energy saving Award for Energy Conservation from Natural Resources :ontrols in Baird Music Hall, tion of Kentucky's natural resources and its environment. and Environmental Protection Cabinet Secretary James Breckinridge Hall, Lyman Gin- E. Bickford. The award was presented at the 23rd Annual Governor's Conference on the Environment. THE MOREHEAD NEWS-MOREHEAD, KY FRIDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER27, 1998 Effects of cocaine: Professor gets funds for continued research This is the second grant the By KIM HAMILTON gressively stronger every time professor has received from the Staff Writer the drug is administered, for National Institute of Health. weeks, months, even years later. The first grant, for $101,000, Dr. Bruce Mattingly, a pro It changes the brain's chemistry fessor of psychology at More in a fundamental way, he added. assisted with research conduct head State .University, has "For instance, a person who hB.S ed from 1995 through 1998. received a $91,990 grant from never smoked cigarettes doesn't the National Institute on Drug get up in the morning craving a Abuse to·_cqntinue, his research cigarette." on cocaine,addiction for the next The primary objective of the three years. research is "to determine the Mattingly, who ·is serving as involvement of the brain interim°'cliair of.the-department dopamine receptors and various of Psychology, has studied psy environmental factors in the chostimulant drugs for the past development and persistence of 12years. cocaine-induced behavioral sen His current research involves sitization," he stated. behavioral sensitization to The Jong-term goal of this cocaine, which "is thought to be research, Mattingly notes, is to responsible for the intense crav develop effective drug treat ing that deveiops with repeated ments for cocaine and other cocaine abuse," he said. stimulant abuse by reversing Drug craving is considered to the craving for the abused drug. one of the leading causes of "We're looking at cocaine relapse in drug treatment pro now, but we think this relates to grams. drug addiction in general," he He and his students use labo said. ratory mice on which to perform A number of MSU students the experiments, because they are ·directly involved in the can duplicate the same neuro research and have been invited chemical responses that humans to share the results of their have. efforts. "This can help us understand • As a result of this research, the cravings humans have and we had 37 presentations at hopefully we can eventually state, regional and national reverse that,• Mattingly said. meetings by 26 students," Mat "With cocaine, the more you tingly said. take it, the stronger the craving Many of his former students gets. The craving becomes pro- have gone on to pursue graduate and post-graduate work in psy chology and medicine. v'" JViSU Clip A sample of recent articles of interest to Morehead Stats University UNIVERSITY COMMUNICATIONS. MOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY UPO BOX 1100 MOREHEAD, KY 40361-1689 606-783-2030 THE COURIER-JOURJ~AL. !,THURSDAY, DE_CEMBEfl 3, 1998 south ·earo11iia teclim~7edliciiti911 1t·'"~f,_ ~ rogram, said ihe 'recruited.:McCall ·· ec· ;sc Ii·~·,·oo .1 "s·· f,ram Virginia as h\s deputy a few years ago "because I thought he had T the potential ,to lead t!te, sy~t~m. ~,be board reached that same conclus1on a year and a half later, and I stepped ~Oiiid :g;t ,~, ,... aside and he moved in." The South Carolina system is made up of 16 colleges and employs 4,000 full-time personnel serving more than 86,000 students in credit courses and another 106,000 in continuing-educa tion programs. The· system's annual budget is around $300 million. It also chief today operates a jobs program that 9,500 trainees complete·annual)y. . McCall has held his current ·post lf appointed, he will head the since July' 1994. Previously, he was South Carolina system of 13 two-year commu deputy executive director of the nity colleges and 25 Kentucky South Carolina system for one year. educator likely . Tech vocational schools. It was He was president of Florence Dar created by the General Assem lington Technical College from May to head system bly as I?art of the state's higher 1988 to June 1993 and before that educat10n reform packai:e. J elf was president of the Paul D. Camp Hockaday has been mterim Community College in Virginia for By RICHARD WILSON president. The Courier-Journal A secretary in McCall's office four years. yesterday afternoon said he McCall earned a doctorate in edu LEXINGTON, Ky . .:_ A South was unavailable because he cational administration. at Virginia Carolina educator 1s the leading was en route to Kentucky. Polytechnic Institute and State Uni contender for appointment to The other two finafists for versity in 1976. He earlier earned a day as the first president of the job are Barry Russell, exec master's degree in physics at Virginia Kentucky's new system of tech utive vice president and chief Tech and an undergraduate degree in nical and community colleges. operating officer of the .North physics and mathematics at Wilming The Kentucky · Community Carolina Community College and Technical College System's System, and Jerry Young, presi ton College, now the University of board of regents, meeting in dent of Chaffey College in Ran North Carolina at Wilmington. Maysville, is expected to tap cho Cucamonga, Calif. Michael ·B. McCall as the sys The expected appointment tem's top executive. McCall, 51, would come several months is executive director of the after a misfire !Jy the system's South Carolina State Board for board. Earlier this year, after Technical and Comprehensive choosing three finalists, the Education. . board decided to name none of Neither McCall nor Martha them and reopen the search. Johnson, the board's chairwom Jim Morris, executive direc an, could be reached for com tor of the South Carolina Man ment yesterday. Bryan Arm ufacturers Alliance, said McCall strong, the board's spokesman, has done an outstandin~ job in declined comment on the selec that state. "If Kentucky s look: tion. "The three finalists for ing for someone to lead an ini president are really all solid tiative to strengthen its involve candidates. From my observa ment in educating the work tion, I think that the board force and attracting new capital would be comfortable with any investment I don't think you of the three," Armstrong said. could find anyone any better." But several observers of the Morris, a former head of the search process said board members are leaning toward choosing McCall today. L!tl2!:~er harm than good Thursday, December 3, 1998 Keep teacher certification in education department entucky's teacher-licensing tion and cooperation between those board needs more staff, who oversee the public schools and Kmore money and more clout. those who oversee the public The legislature can - and should schools' teaching force? How could - supply all three. two missions be more compatible or We don't, however, see much intertwined? long-term advantage in removing The legislature doesn't have to the board from its home in the De- wait for the education commission- partment of Education and attach- ;;r to ask for more money for the ing it to the governor's professional standards office or another cabi- board. The legislature net. FJi.'ttachiriJ~ad lier can appropriate money This idea is being ,•. · . , _ . . to expand and improve floated by Senate Ma- ~ certification to the staff. If a lack of jority Leader David ffitthe governor.'s. statutory authority is 1 Karem. He apparently ' ·'• · • · hamstringing the stan- hopes a more au- , · office. could THE COURIER-JOURNAL• FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4, 199B Morehead rules guard Cleaver ineligible From AP and Special Dispatches his time at Tennessee-Martin would affect his eligibility because he didn't Morehead State University de- attend a full semester or participate dared junior basketball player Brad in sports. Cleaver academically ineligible yes- Cleaver will meet requirements at terday, effective immediately. the end of this semester and be rein- The 6-foot-3 iuard failed to pro- stated after a six-game penalty. He vide th~ university.with comJ?lete in- . cou/d retur~ for the Jan. 7 game formation ·about h1s.academ1c back•.• agamst-Austin Peay. . ,,,,., ·._. . . , .. ground and was in violation of t~e Morehead·. will administratively NCAA's satisfactory-progress re•• forfeit its two ,victories, over Hun quirement, Morehead State said in a tington College arid Asbu~llege. statement. Cleaver, who transferred to More head after earning an associate's de gree from Kansas City. Community College, didn't report that he en-· rolled as ·a full-time student at Ten nessee-Marlin in January !996 and dropped out after a brief time, the statement said. ffe ~ompleted enough _c_red/t.J19Jtrs. -t~s_;-m_'dll~l."_!~~fj!!'<;AA,•treq1;11r~m~.\l~G .. .,... e •on·1.tS Je semes ers lllJUntQr ciilleue, ,buf lie'/; shorHvhen,ii cslxth' ., !seriie"tef··t'l'enliessee·M~{£1:i$,fl0 •'sfd~~r.Jl_;f#~~;fi{~df~'il/M';' "it~ , o Morehead>'.ilthlet1c, director -1',flfie Mincey said Cleaver wasn't aware '" ,;,,;;;,.,<,,'\' •. ,f1tl1 i,~· ••~nf' ;1qt',lh. M:JU Clip A sample of recent articles of interest to Morehead State University UNIVERSITY COMMUNICATIONS MOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY UPO BOX 1100 MOREHEAD, KY 4 0351-1689 606-783-2030 THE COURIER-JOURNAL • MONDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1998 Lexington Herald-Leader Sunday, December 6, 1998 : "Men are just not as interested in I higher education as women," said Alan Mcivor, vice president of U.S. universities Colleges enrollment services at Beloit in Wisconsin. who two years ago be gan urging the Associated Colleges of the Midwest. a group of 14 liber are attracting more reporting al arts colleges, to study the issue. "They have these non-academ ic interests: the butcher, baker, the foreign students shortages candlestick maker. But at a resi dential liberal arts college, where kids learn as much from each oth By WILL LESTER er as from their professors, I think Associated Press KEY FACTS of men we should be concerned about the WASHINGTON - For Natasha ■ Japan is the leading mix of students, about gender bal- Malhotra. 20, of the United Arab country for foreign students By Tamar Lewin ance, about attracting more young Emirates, the decision to attend col in the United States, with NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE men who are as strong as our lege in the United States was easy. 47,073, followed by China, women applicants." "U.S. degrees are the most mar 46,958, and Korea, 42,890. Slowly but surely, college cam- There is no clear consensus on ketable," Malhotra, now a senior at ■ More than two-thirds of puses that for decades were domi- what men are doing instead of col New York University, said in a tele all foreign students receive nated by males are becoming the lege, and why they are less com phone interview. "To get a job the majority of their funds place where the boys are not where I'm from, you need a degree from family and personal In a trend that is reshaping mitted to higher education. But ed- from either the United States or the sources. More than three everything from recruiting to so- ucation experts say it is probably a United Kingdom. I like the living quarters receive most of cial life, women increasingly out- confluence of factors, from girls' conditions here a lot better." number men at colleges and uni- greater success in high school to a Malhotra is not alone. their funding from sources The number of fo reign students outside of the United States. versities. Even if the imbalance stt:ong economy that may give attending colleges and universities ■ 65,494 foreign scholars never becomes extreme, it raises boys a sense that they can make in the United States increased 5.1 - by definition not enrolled concerns about the consequences th'ir way without higher educa percent in the 1997-98 school year at U.S. institutions - were of fewer men getting advanced ed- tioh, whether in computer work or teaching or conducting to 481 ,280, according to a report re ucation, and the sense that the lib- th' military. leased yesterday. But among coun research during 1997-98, an · beco l "You start with who does well tries competing for foreign students, increase of 5 percent. About eral arts education may me in high schoo~ and mrls are ahead 6 the domain of women. u the U.S. share of such students con four in 10 come from Asia. th tinued to slip. ■ Among the most Although census figures show ere, which some people say is be The study - which also fou nd the impressive foreign student that there are slightly more col- cause they tolerate boredom bet number of U.S. students studying enrollment increases are lege-age men than women, accord- tet." said Patricia Albjerg Graham, abroad increased by l I .4 percent to those shown by U.S. ing to U.S. Department of Educa- president of the Spencer Founda nearly 100,000 - was prepared by community colleges, where tion statistics, there were 8.4 mil- tion of Chicago, which specializes the Institute of International Educa in educational research. tion, a leading private agency in the international enrollments lion women and only 6-7 million "Then there are racial and eth- international exchange of people have jumped by 20 percent men enrolled in college in 1996, the and ideas. over the past four years to a last year for which statistics are nic differences; black girls persist Among schools with significant high of 73,443. available. in ·school more than black boys. foreign student enrollment, New There are nearly six women Those differences account for part York University's was the largest at officials say that universities over for every four men at ew York of what's going on, but I think the 4,964, followed by Boston University seas often charge half the tuition of University, Fordham University, larger difference is that men feel it and Columbia University. more than $20,000 a year levied by "We literally recruit around the some top private universities in the the University of California at San- :iei:,t o get a job that can support world," NYU President L. Jay Oliva United States. ta Cruz, the University of North emG.. . . . said. "The time that you learn the The steady decline in the U.S. Carolina at Chapel Hill and Beloit . iven the . w,demng mcome most is when everything is a com share of international students is a College, among others. gap between h1g.h school gradu- parison and a contrast. If you i:o to cause of concern despite the in The number of men enrolled in ates and those with advan~ed de a school where everyone thinks, crease in the number of students college has declined each year grees, though, many ~uca~ion ex acts and responds the way you do, a last year, said Allan Goodman, good bit of education is not occur president of the institute. min 1991 to 1995 but rose in 1996,1Perts W0 !117 that me~ s fai.lure .t~ ring." "The increase in foreign student w)1ile the number of women has ptll'Sue_h!gher . ed_ucaho~ will sen- New York City led the nation's enroll ment is the result of many fac . t d'l ously lumt thetr life choices. nsen s ea I y. "W eed t be ed h cities with 29,855 foreign students. tors, includin~ stronger efforts by : Women outnumber men in I . · en . 0 . co~cern t at California was the leader among many U.S. universities and colleges every category of higher education: h1~her. education 1s losing poo~ and states, followed by New York, Tex to internationalize their campuses," lie, private, religiously aftiliat- m1!1ol:ty men, that ~ore Afri'?cln as, Massachusetts and Florida. Goodman said. four-year, two-year. And IArhencan men ar~. gom~ to pnson But the U.S. share of students Asian students make up over half ~ studying abroad has dropped from of the international student enroll ng part-time students, older ~ to colleg_e, said Arth':11" 40 percent to 30 percent over the ment in this country, led by stu s ents and African-Americans, ~e, _the president of Columbia last 15 years, mostly because tuition dents from Japan, China and Korea. skew is much larger. U11.vers1ty's Teachers College. costs in this country have climbed The United States Information i. and other countries have offered at Agency, which paid for the study, tractive alternatives. Great Britain, plans to identify barriers to interna Canada, Australia, France and Ger tional educational exchange and de THE COURIER-JOURNAL • SUNDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1998 many· were cited as countries that velop a plan to keep this country a often lure foreign students. Institute leader at attracting foreign students. Morehead State sells collection of 8,000 LPs MOREHEAD, Ky. - For two days, vinyl records were the rage again as music lovers flocked to buy albums collected by Morehead State University. For album lovers, it was a smorgasbord of sounds: Folk and funk and Franklin Roosevelt's in4ugural a~; bongos and.pa.Djos and ,Broadway tunes: the Beatles,· Bob 0y1an; the Bee Gees and othe1$ .. f -., It took the Camden-Carroll Library 40 years to collect the 8 000 LPs. It took two days to,.U--eio; · 1 - ' fMID aal•!Mlflir'mfid ~ -,f J bMfcbael'Bter; a riffio a~d tefevi~ npro es~i. n !t ·b\ly'!(utl- dr~ds of records, but still thought the sale was a bad idea. "The phtlosophy that they have to keep buying the most inoder'n technol-· ogy is bunk." - · · · However, university librarian Elsie Pritchard said, "I don't think we've.checked out more than one or two.per month." . • . _,._/\1115~v1 I I ICIQIU"L.CQUCI Saturaay, December 5, 1998r---,-.-.-.-.----u-=1r PHOTOS BY FRANK ANDERSON/STAFF Record buffs waited for. the doors. to open.yesterday at Wetherby Gymnasium at Morehead State University. A final day for vinyl The universi Morehead State sells ty's library was selling library's LP collection its LP collec tion to raise By Frank E. Lockwood moneyto buy NORTHEASTERN KENTUCKY BUREAU compact MOREHEAD - When Morehead State discs. Today University decided to sell its album collection, is the last Jerry Lane got the blues, Suzanna Brown day to buy al grabbed the Beatles and Jarrod Callihan bums ranging claimed Count Basie and Bessie Smith. from Bruce The cost $1 per album. Springsteen "There's a lot of good stuff here;• to Bessie Maysville"s Brian Silvey said yesterday as he Smith. clutched a 1950s-era recording from the New port Jazz Festival. "I think it's phenomenal." It took MSU"s Camden-Carroll Library 40 years to collect the 8,000 LPs. It'll take two days to sell them. ·' radio and television professor Michael Biel, more than a decade. All sales are· 52, said as he scoured through a box, That's not surprising. For millions of vinyl Biel planned to buy hundreds of records, Americans, turntables are relics, like tele- Tbe · sale but still thinks the sale was a bad idea. . ·'. graph machines and 8-track tapes. . ends today·· in ..,,,_'.'"This is"m.y university and ·I tried to talk ·. 'But nostalgia lovers hate to see them go. the foyer of them out ofit," Biel 'said; "The philosophy ' .-"I' grew up with LPs," said Suzanna MSU's Wether- that they have to keep buying the most mod- Brown, 37, of Ashland, as she claimed al by Gymnasium. em technology is bunk." bums by Foreigner, Aerosmith and Amy Proceeds go to But LPs are hardly a hot item at the li- Grant The school is selling buy compact hrary, said Elsie Pritchard, an MSU libraril_lI! Others, including Lane, say music sounds its LPs for $1 each. discs. since 1972. better at 33¼ revolutions per minufe. For album "I don't think we've checked out more "There's nothing like vinyl It has a differ- lovers, it's a smorgasbord of sounds: Folk and than one or two per month," she said. · enfforie than compact discs," said Lane of funk and Franklin Roow.:elt's inaugural ad- That's not to say · Lexington, as he dresses; bongos and banios and Broadway Pritchard, who helped ,. _·,.;~-:;c,"·"· ,•i':ti;~;,,w-;•>'l(;r ,, scooped up classics from tunes;Bob_Dylan,.TbeBoss,theBee~.,.~e.?.•build·thecollection; was Sflt' , •.::\'it· thel940sand1950s: t 1 ;a: ,·. "'-'"'"'""-~ ""•'-~.n'"'".-1,.,.,·:1 m<•11'.,>!,.'-''''k·< ,,-" "'" ·• -'"-.:.• 1"t'-'- ""'"11ww u1 uit: DU The Daily Independent, Ashland, Kentucky, Friday, December 4, 1998 . .. i),":' • ' f}-;, background." 21st century," said Martha C. McCall, who oversees 16 Johnson, regents chairman. South Carolina technical col- KCTCS, part of a higher ed leges in his current position, ucation·- reform law pushed beat out Barry Russell, the through the General Assembly second-in-command of North by Patton, combines 13 com Carolina's community college munity colleges formerly con system,' and Jerry Young, trolled by the University of president of Chaffey Commu- Kentucky with 15 former Ken- e nity Coll!lge ~istrict in Sou~h- tucky Tech schools. The sys- -n.dary ·education, ern Cahforma, for the Job tem serves 90,000 students un,de'r': overseem_g the Kentu~ky each year and has an annual Commumty and Techmcal Ibudget of $300 million. College System. _ _ _ McCall will be paid $180,000 The KCT~S board ?f ~e- per year, plus benefits that in gents formalized McCall s h1r- elude a car allowance. It is com ,~g -1~g: a !l!,ee;ing ,,Th~s~ 1 parable to what Kentucky uni day mornmg-- ·at Maysville versity presidents, are paid Community College. [KCTCS spokesman Brya~ 'J.:.W~:)i~!iev~hi~_ succe~sf\111Armstrong'sai.d. '·'Lf', !- :; statewide expenence", his The candidates met with· demorisfrated leadership ca- the colleges' faculty members, pabilities and his emphasis on students and staff last month developing people make him in public forums and were in the right person to lead Ken- terviewed by the regents. tucky's community and tech- Thursday's vote was largely a nical college system into the formality. ~ 3 g: !:!J"'g §"·:" gre g ciiC wr:>ei>c.it110'0,r:>tTl t113"'"'t:l i:l'<>"' -S.riS"-- 0'0,a~= ·« The Daily Independent. Ashland. l\entuc!· t's no coincidence the schools vanced curriculum and high ex- that scored lowest on state pectations. "You will never reme- Itests have the least-prepared diate a child to world-class stan- teachers. dards." As a group, middle schools are Also helpful is a discipline pol- showing less improvement than icy that relies more on parent con- elementary and high schools. As a ferences than suspensions - only group, middle school teachers three kids were suspended last have the shakiest foundations in year - since kids who are not in the subjects they teach. school are not learning. Only 28 percent of math teach- Inspired by high expectations ers and 23 percent of science and guided by strong teachers, all teachers at the middle-school level kids, even those from poor homes, are certified in the subjects, and it are learning at high levels. H it shows. Middle schools fell well can happen at Morton, it can hap- short of their improvement goal in pen at any school that recruits the scores released last week. strong teachers and challenges As a short-term solution, the kids .. state must give teachers, who The latest test scores point up through no fault of . . another policy their own are Various studies have shown that, area that Ken, teaching subjects apart from family background, tucky must ex- they don't fully un- teacher quality is the single most plore. derstand, a crash important factor in how much Elementary course in content. students learn. schools, previ- Taking a ------ously the pace- longer view, this setters for im- correlation between lagging per- provement, seem to have reached formance and under-qualified a plateau, though they still have a teachers points to the need for bet- long way to go. What will it take ter teacher preparation. to keep improving? Innovation Various studies have shown and early intervention. that, apart from family back- Daviess County is pointing the ground, teacher quality is the sin- way by basing curriculum on re- gle most important factor in how search about how the human much students learn. Kentucky brain develops. The youngest kids cannot improve the quality of are learning music, dance, foreign schools without improving th~ .,;:.w•• . language, even chess. quality of teachers. "We're not trying to make Not all middle schools are lag- classical pianists; we're trying to ging, however, and the experience make neural connections in the of one that's making strides is in- brain," explains Superintendent structive. Stuart Silberman. As a result, Morton Middle School in Lex- Daviess County elementary ington had the fifth-highest score schools are posting big gains in of any middle school in the state. achievement. Unlike the two Lexington magnet But to make the most of what schools that outscored it, Morton .we know about the human brain, doesn't get to pick and choose its · we must teach children before students. Almost one in four Mor- they ever reach school. The first ton students qualify for free few years of life are crucial to in- lunches; a third of the middle- tellectual development. Fortunate- school students from the Blue- ly, Gov. Paul Patton is gearing up grass-Aspendale housing project to make early childhood learning attend Morton. a priority of the next legislature. Every one of these kids is Kentucky can be proud of how taught algebra and a foreign Ian- much it has done to reform educa- guage. And all of Morton's math tion over the last decade. But to teachfil;l major~ in the subject. fully realize reform's· promises, the M?r:t?n §, ~~P!!C!)Jµ1~ made__ 1t a. ."''"'state_ now: must face_ up to two big, pnonty,.to :eCT?It math maJors fo,.-":.,,challenges:.Giving every single ., math-teachmg Jobs. - · · child a strong start on learning Key to Morton's success, says from birth. And making sure principal Jack Lyons, are ad- every child has great teachers. Lexington Herald-Leader Cexington Herald-Leader Monday, December 7, 1998 Saturday, December 5, 1998 Don Eilwards HERALD-LEADER COLUMNIST Expand UK alcohol policy Few will The editorials in this sampler partment to determine whether the come from other newspapers and do charge has merit. n~t necessarily reflect Herald-Leader Newton also said that athletes heed UK's mews. charged with other alcohol offenses, such as underage drinking and e applaud University of public intoxication, will be suspend sobering Kentucky Athletics Director ~ and required to undergo counsel WC.M. Newton for the athlet mg. ics department's zero-tolerance poli It's somewhat unclear to us, message cy on drunken driving and alcohol however, how the university can advertising. justify applying the new policy Haney's Newton announced the new poli only to student athletes and not to Tavern had cy in November in the wake of a been sitting in students holding academic scholar tragic pickup truck crash that took ships. It also would seem that such - . ... . plain sight on ' ~,J Leestown Road the life of UK football player Artie polices should apply to university tAJ,z for 40 years of Steinmetz and Eastern Kentucky employees, such as faculty mem .. ,~\ non-notoriety, University student Scott Brock. The bers, administrators and coaches, in until about 15 driver of the pickup, UK football police officers raided it Thursday positions of leadership. as if they were storming the player Jason Watts, faces charges Clearly, as athletic director, Bastille. of drunken driving and second-de Newton is not in a position to make Until the past two weeks, gree manslaughter. rules for the whole university. His most people in Lexington couldn't Under the new policy, the uni authority extends only to the athlet have told you where Haney's is versity will sever sponsorship ties ics department. and couldn't have cared less. It was just one more nonde with alcoholic-beverage companies But if the university is really se script neighborhood beer bar until that pay about $400,000 a year to rious about saving the lives of stu its second-generation owner, Jim UK. dents by cracking down on drunk Haney Jr., 53, was charged with As for the university's 400 stu en driving and other alcohol-related eight misdemeanor counts accus dent-athletes, they will be kicked offenses, then why shouldn't the ing him of selling alcohol after off teams and lose their scholar hours and to minors. university's non-athletic students Even then, such charges al ships if they are convicted of have to meet the same standards as most never make the front page or drunken driving. Those arrested for athletes? the 6 o'clock news in a university DUI will be suspended pending an -The Advocate-Messenger, town full of fake IDs and thou investigation by the athletics de- Danville sands of underage would-be drinkers. But this case was different. What do you think? Do vou It involved University of Ken- think that even one student ivill Lexington Herald-Leader tucky football players who had drink less because there's no bar- Saturday, December 5, 1998 been drinking at Haney's before a rel at the Tennessee game? double-fatality truck accident If the barrel sent such a pow- UK students up for Rhodes honor: Two University of Kentucky seniors will inter Nov. 15. . erful. h d message,I why. wasn't it abol- There had been a less-publi- is e a ong time ago - or at view for Rhodes Scholarships today. Andrew cized death earlier in November. least when school started and Grotto. a philosophy major from Winfield. Ill.. A 20-year-old UK student named there was a big flap over kicking will be one of two representatives from Kentucky Chad Alan Clore had left Haney's student drinking off campus? interviewing in Chicago, along with students house at 3 a.m., climbed a fence The university continues to ig- from a district that represents Illinois, Indiana, and was killed when a train nore the real message it's sending Michigan and Ohio. Melody Flowers. a political struck him on railroad tracks near to students: science major from Huntington, W.Va., will repre West Main Street. Do as we say, kiddies, not as sent her home state during interviews in The death was ruled an acci- we do. Washington, D.C. Her district also includes dent. In other words, "We've got to Delaware, the District of Columbia. Maryland. A blood test showed Clore do something about that student North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia. The was drunk, just as blood tests in drinking - but in the meantime, other Kentucky representative is Meg Gleason of the wake of the much-publicized bring up another case for our big Louisville a senior at Saint Louis University in truck wreck showed that the dri- donors in the skyboxes." Missouri. Four Rhodes Scholars will be chosen ver, UK football player Jason That's right. No empty barrel from each of eight districts, for a total of 32 stu Watts, 21, and his two passengers at the game, but full bottles in the dents. The awards provide up to three years at were all drunk. Arthur Steinmetz, luxury suites. Oxford University. Students apply as representa 19, and Scott Brock, 21, died in Students get that message. tives of either their home state or the state where the crash. Loud and clear. they attend college. It is sad to say, but Clare's The police raid. of Haney's death alone would never have looks good in the news media and brought this to its present level of reassures the public that "some- public attention. thing is being done about this." He was a UK student, too, but It diverts attention to the bar he wasn't on the football team. and away from the problem of It was only after football play- student drinking at a university ers were involved in a double fa. where the party life is a way of tality that the university decided life. it was "sending the wrong mes- Meanw~ile, for every tavei:n sage to students" by having.a tra- t~t gets raided - and _Haney's 1s ditional beer-barrel riyajry: at. +he ~till.o~, ~!1.~e owp.c,r.p,f:Sumed UK-Tennessee game. ' -~-- -,'.'~•-•:t;i:.: :mnocent until proven· guilty ...:.... So UK abolished the barrel (a d~s ':'nyone _doubt that students tradition that had been started by will simply fmd another place to boosters, not students). A nice hang out? . . public gesture but nearly as emp- It's as easy as gettmg a drink ty as the barr~l. at th_e football game if i:ou sit in the nght part of the stadrnm. Lexington Herald•Leader Sunday, December 6. 1998 Booze banned e,·eri•where except the Iuxury ing staffs and anyone who benefits from em Readers' views boxes. Of course wealthy people don't drink ployment at the university. and drive. They probably have drivers for Would anyone be less dead if run over by such occasions. a history major or maybe a security guard? UK, media blow Those middle- and lower-income groups Coach Tubby Smith's statement about can't be trusted not to drink and drive. I sup judging case-by-case is just another way of pose they believe a drunken college kid saying ·'depending on who it is." For any pol a tragic accident caused the Carrollton school bus crash. Let's icy to be effecti,·e. it has to be enforced 100 change it to the Newtonilvy/Haney Act of percent. 1998. I have never seen the movie Jcny Ralph Haile out of proportion .WcGuirc. howe,·er the phrase "show me the Lawrenceburg I disagree with the University of Ken money'" must have been coined by the UK tucky"s new alcohol advertising policy. partic athletic department, Rights of young restricted ularly the timing of it. I also disagree with the Tom Fowler manslaughter charges against Jason Watts. Lexington UK football player Arthur Steinmetz and the UK center. Eastern Kentucky University student Scott The auto accident invoh·ing the UK foot Haney treated unfairly Brock"s deaths haw focused attention again ball players and friends was sad. and lessons As the parent of two teen-age boys, my on alcohol use in American society. should be learned about seat-belt use, drink thoughts and compassion are with the fami-· The senseless loss of life of such talented, ing and driving and allowing oneself to be a lies of Arthur Steinmetz. Christopher Brock dedicated' young men raises the question of passenger of an intoxicated driver. and Jason Watts. It was a tragic waste of two whether alcohol should even be legally per UK's decision to ban alcohol advertising lives and the ruin of another. mitted. in the face of this tragedy sends the wrong My thoughts and compassion are also Why are the young allowed to drink at message. It implies that the alcohol was the with the family of James Haney, Jr. In the all? Should not the university and the town source of the problem. The alcohol was not November 24 article regarding Haney, the re outlaw student alcohol consumption to ensure the evil. Driving after consuming too much porters printed facts that had no bearing on that such tragic accidents do not happen alcohol was. this case. They were incidents that could be again? To be consistent, UK should also ban all found in almost anyone's life at- one .time or A deeper look at the alcohol-banning ar motor-vehicle advertisements. People also another. Haney, like so many others in this gument, howe,·er, reveals inconsistencies. misuse motor vehicles by driving while intox nation, has struggled with health and money Thousands of students regularly drink; of icated. Drunk driving requires three ingredi problems for years, all the while he and his this multitude, two died and the newspaper ents: alcohol, a vehicle, and a driver. But the wife were raising five children. reported these deaths, giving them headline only cause of drunk driving is the driver. The The reporter even went so far as to sug coverage. other two are simply products being misused. gest that the "upward-bound college stu Certainly, every Friday and Saturday Similarly, charging Watts with dents" were lowering themselves to "choose night features student an:ests for intoxication, manslaughter is inappropriate in this case. to drink at the kitchen table of Haney." What but the overwhelming majority of students __ Had"the,accidenf·killed a person· in.another kind of message are we sending young people drink responsibly, taking care not to harm vehicle, then the charges make sense. But the - that only those of flawless backgrounds. others. passengers in the Watts vehicle are no less measurable wealth and excellent health Alcohol abuse is not a youth problem but innocent than Watts himself. They chose to should be befriended? an American problem. reaching across gener let him drive, be his passengers and not use An overwhelming majority of this nation ations. We are witnessing not the young's ir seat belts. While the accident was a tragedy, would then be without friends. I hope that responsible alcohol use but America's irre and no one deserved what happened, the pas anyone who read that article will .realize that sponsible alcohol use, to which the young sengers were not "victims" of Watts actions; the Haneys are not at fault in this tragedy. have also fallen prey. they were accomplices. They are being treated unfairly and mali Why should the young be penalized for a In short, both the manslaughter charges ciously in an attempt to find a 11 bad guy" to society-wide problem? Do they not earn their and the UK advertising policy are consistent blame. We should all hope the news media adulthood at age 18. when they must defend with our society's problem of not making in never decides to pick our lives apart and al the country? dividuals take responsibility for their actions. low all the glass-housed to judge us. ls not UK earning millions from the talent Kim M. Jackson Connie Minor that these young people regularly contribute Tucker. Ga. Lexington to the football field? Why must the responsi ble majority suffer simply because of the irre Cheers for alcohol ad ban Why single out athletes? sponsible actions nf a few? New laws and prohibitions will only serve I want to say "Hooray and three cheers" Your Nov. 29 editorial raises this ques to strangle the rights of the population as a to the UK Athletics Association for taking off tion. "Why only athletes?" ff people are upset whole. The solution involves teaching respon the worthless alcohol ads from their media when they think athletes get special perks. sible alcohol use. safe driving, self-confidence. outlets. I have long felt that the ads have led shouldn"t they feel_ equally upset when ath striving ior excellence, and :,;elf.esteem. to a big-time increase in beer drinking among letes are singled out for special punishment? Only through these teachings will Ameri the young people. I support C.M. Newton's policy 100 per can democracy thrive. But as you can tell, the alcohol makers cent: but to he fair, it should include all other Dhruva R. Sen don't care how many young people get killed, scholarship students, the teaching and coach- Lexington hurt or crippled in drunk driving wrecks just as long· as the alcohol makers get a big time profit. And for the UK higher ups to get the alcohol ads off is a great step in the right di rection. I only wish other universities would do the same and get the ads off the air. Morris Stangle Eminence What about luxury boxes? It was quite appropriate that the athletic department executives at the University of Kentucky discontinue the tradition of the beer barrel trophy for the annual Tennessee foot ball game. The tragedy that caused the death of two.young men the previous Sunday was certainly just cause. The UK campus policy regarding alcohol was also a. smart move due to 'other needless deaths in recent years occurring in and around UK. The UK football stadium alcohol ban was also wise in view of the incidents oc curring there. They are all examples of great wisdom by UK. · Then there is the Newton/Ivy Act of 1998: THE COURIER-JOURNAL• SUNDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1998 UK students say crackdown just relocates their drinking "It would not be American university that is ~ich with ''If people want to combination of the campus' tj'ack Eastern Kentucky University Unusual to see a cultural and social activities, but all Officials, police student Scott Brock had been drink, they are going to drink," down and vigilance by bar ow_ners - party with 200 _pe~; quickly nod their heads. opines Demetrios Karanthanasis, a under ressure, of course, from state drinking at Haney's Tavern, a pie at 2 a.m., target areas on, small beer joint, hours before "All you can do here is go out to 21-year-old from Lexington. "The ban alcoho1 regulators and the !,lnlversity Walsh says. "It's eat," says Kairis, gesturing with his just makes it more inconvenient." - is driving student dpnklitg'further Steinmetz and Brock were strange that young around campus killed when Watts' pickup beer bottle to make his point, "and By that he means more students underground. ~ . .'{ people are smart drink." are driving to places to drink where crashed· in Pulaski County. enough to go to col At the door to Boogie Niles, a dis Blood tests showed that all This is exactly what troubles peo they might have walked before the co across the street from Rup1rj\rena By THOMAS NORD lege, yet they carry ple like Ruth Staten. crackdown. His fraternity, Sigma Chi, The Courier-Journal three were drunk. Watts, the on these kinds of ac-. where students dance, next t,foffice Ione survivor, has been charged Staten heads the substance-abuse designates "sober drivers" to make workers and conventioneers• from tivities. Maybe they program for the University Health sure members and their friends make LEXINGTON, Ky. - It is 1:30 with manslaughter and drunk thought this was nearby hotels, bomic~r Billy ,Strick- en driving. Service, and she has a front-line view it safely home from off-campus par land accepts no excuses. ..' · in the morning and Bryan Elser iionnal." of the drinking culture. Her depart ties. is engaging in a subtle act of Nevertheless, UK's tough ' To some extent, it He checks every IQ - rio :exc~p stance on student drinking - ment refers students who have drug Such parties are in the past for defiance. is normal. Not necessarily healthy and alcohol problems to _places Shannon Martin, a 26-year-old junior tions - and he can spot a fake hke Elser, a junicir at the Univer both on and off campus - has behavior, but according to some stud Mark McGwire can spot a curveball. created a standoff of sorts be where they can get help, and 11 tries from Lexin~on. As she chills out at sity of Kentucky, is sitting on ies, part of the college mainstream. to educate students on the power of Lynagh 's Insh Pub & Grill, a low-key "You have to be absirutelf ~onsis twcL!n W('ll-inlentioncd "grownups" the roof of his house. He is lis According to a now-infamous sur• alcohol. bar that caters to an easy mix of col tent," says Strickland,~3, after turn hming to music. He is yelling ancJ studenh like Elser and his room vey published by the Harvard School lege students and locals, Martin sug ing away a crowd of'.40-sometlting mate, Brad Bannwart, who say that It is a losing battle, she concedes. back and forth to his friends of Public Health, more than two in Young people are bombarded with gests that the problem would go couples when one of the?iYomen dO\vn on the ground. He is college drinking will never go away. five colle~e students in America have mixed signals almost from birth. Par away if the school didn't worry· so could not produce P(C!Of ofaiti!,):I ,!D drinking a bottle of beer. "They made the campus dry, so it's engaged m binge drinking. Precisely much about it. everyone, whether they tire 8.il~BO. pushing all the alcohol parties off ents and educators warn them about And hr. is practically begging defined, that means consuming five the dangers of alcohol, but are barely "It gets tiring, after a while, to go He says you have1il; btciiiffii·you the Lexiniiton police to come :campus," says Bannwart, a 21-year Or more drinks in a row if you are a heard over the din of beer and wine to someone's house that you don't ~Old junior from Henderson. never know when state Alcoholic do something about it. · male, and four or more if you are fe commercials on television. even know and stand around !!rin~ Beverage Control officials are going Granted, it looks like a • But sometimes even that is not far male. Once they get to college, the pump ing bad beer off a keg," she' 'rehough. . says. · to come around and Icy, tri s!l!.ig you. bunch of college kids hanging : In other words, it means drinking is primed. "It's something you grow out of." It's just not worth it, because the club out on an unusually warm ' · Take this past Halloween, when to get drunk. Wade into any crowd oT "There's a pretty high tolerance Not all students share that senti Elser Bannwart and their roommates is popular and doesn't need. bnder- night for the first Saturday in college students, and the stories start for drunken behavior. It wouldn't ment, counters Jason Johnson, exec age drinkers to get by. 1i December. You couldn't be invited about 30 friends over for a fiowing like the beer. thrill me to slip on someone's vomit utive director of academic affairs for more wrong. party at their large rental house on . "There was a girl in my dorm Watching- Strickland at'. work in an elevator, but to some students the UK Student Government Associ makes one almost feels sony for the "They're just not letting us Aylesford Place, a street lined with freshman year who drank so much it's like: 'So what? It's Friday ation. ha\'e any fun," complains Elser, old homes full of college students. she almost died from alcohol," re folks who try to put one past him. night,' " muses Staten. "There is a Johnson, a 19-year-old sophomore A lanky young man shuffles up in a 20-year-old engineering stu , Although it was not a large party calls Leah Daffron, a 21-year-old sen from Louisville, said drinking in dor by some standards, Lexington police piece of me that worries when we are bajlgy jeans and a Tommy Hilfiger dent from Goshen whose droll for from Charlestown, W.Va. "Some sending our kids off to a climate mitories - the majority of whose c.kmcanor belies the stereotype dropped in with a $200 citation for of lhcse kids come here from small shirt. He looks 17, if that. Sliickland where ijrinking is such a big part of residents are under 21 - has been eyes his license, then.scans ~tkid's of the "Animal House" boozer. Violating the city's noise ordinance. towns, and they go just buck wild." the atmosphere." banned for years, while Greek organ "This is a student neighborhood," face. t;-~ "" 1 "They are trying to stop some > This is never more apparent than izations have been moving away I hing that can never be stopped.'' Elser says. "If people are going to BOOZE OR BOREDOM? "What street do you live on," at The Two Keys from wild parties anyway because of Strickland says abruptly. . UK and local police obvious tlitch they shouldn't live here." Tavern, a legendary liability concerns. ... Students say the drinking will con ~All you can do here The young man stammers. He has ly beg to differ. When the is go out to eat and drink' Lexington bar that Parents, he says, want to know state's largest university an tlnue. Put pressure on something, has catered to col that their children are going to be in just stepped into ~ proverbi,al. bear they argue, and it has a tendency to · It is moments before last call nounced last summer that it lege students for a safe environment when they sehd trap, and he knows 1t. · , 1,r." was cracking down on campus squirm out from underneath your Thursday night. Daffron and some "I dunno," he mumbles. \ ;: · palm and come back more defiant friends are whiling away the evening decades. On Friday them off to college. drinking, officials did it with night, Nervous Mel "There are always people who are Strickland pounces. the safety of students in mind. that ever. on the small patio in front of Kitty "Good night!" he shouts; . then , Lexington's top cop is unmoved by vin and The Mis going to drink in the dorms," John O'Shea's, an Irish pub on Limestone takes are playing son says. uwith the new policy, it And it is hard to ignore such such protestations. . Street, a small hub of bars and res C~;:i~ts the ID. "I got a {f,k~ · one a message, particularly as the ·: Chief Larry Walsh has been pohc taurants just off campus. cover songs from cracks down on J'eople who drink campus still reels from the Nov. ing the city for 32 years, so he 1s not the '80s, but only a and get out of han in the dorms.''. The young man shuffles off,.into "When I first came here, I did hor few pe&ple are lis the darkness. · . · /::. 15 death of a UK football player naive about college rible in class/' offers Drew Kairis, a who police say had been drink life. But what he tening to the music. NOT ALL FUN AND GAMES · A humorous tableau, to bl! sure, 22-year-old senior from Cleveland. "I The action is ing at an off-campus bar that sees, he says, goes was away from my parents, and I Drlnking's effects worry has come to symbolize the beyond the benign around the bar, went wild." where college stu some officials - and students school's troubles with student antics that Elser and Part of the problem, says Kairis, is UK was once known aS the 11Coun drir'rking. his cohorts would dents drink bottles the lack of much else to do. That of confidence and try Club of the South" for its free Police say Artie Steinmetz, have you believe are sounds hard to believe in Lexington, wheeling drinking culture. But now a going on. perform a modern~ teammate Jason Watts and a fairly large city, home to a majo_r day mating dance. THE COURIER-JOURNAL• ICENTUCKY • SUNDAY, DECEMBER 6. 1998 This college reunion is special . ,, was still searching for Deke through MIDWAY, Ky. - Donna houses; slow, gentle handling. letters and phone calls, but the trail Temple calls it a dream they can She was so fond of Deke was faint and she had virtually given come true. Dr. Sally Jarrett, be ill-treat that she tned her best.. to take , up hope of ever finding him. chairwoman of the equine ed." him with her to Hawau, but 1t . . studies program at Midway Or, said didn't work out. This. tall, at ~ge 35. Temple ~n- College, calls it unbelievable. Temple, After numerous discus- rolled m the equme program at M1d Some might even call it a "He could sions with prospective buy- )Vay College: she had _dreamed of go modern-day version of the have ended ers. she reluctantly sold him 1~g to school there since she wa~ a classic horse story, "Black up on a to a woman in northern Ohio girl, _and she hope~ to study equme Beauty." ranch in who promised either to give ~hys1cal therapy. Midway ow~s ab?ut Several weeks ago, while BYRON California him a lifelong home or to i>O horses used 1~ the school s ndmg driving home from classes at CRAWFORD or Colora contact Temple if she ever program and equme studLes. Midway College in Woodford do." decided to sell him. As luck would have it. the 14-year- County, Donna Temple In 1991, family and career "1 visited him yearly on my old horse that Midway students have glanced across a plank fence circumstances required Tem trips back to the mainland in known as Radar, or Virginia Gentle- mto a pasture and saw the ple to move to Hawaii from 1992 and '93," Temple re- man - and who_ was donated to the sorrel gelding that has led the Toledo, Ohio, area and to called. "He was well looked school by a V,rgm1a horsewoman as her on a four-year search sell Mr. Peach Pie, a regis after and in excellent condi- an unregistered thoroughbred in De· over hundreds of miles and tered quarter horse she called tion." cember of 1996 - turned out to Tern• through several states, doz Deke. She had bought him in But during Temple's visit pie's long-lost quarter horse, Deke, ens of letters and scores of 1986 for $500 when he was in 1994, his new owner told or Mr. Peach Pie. phone calls. an untrained 2-year-old, and Temple that she had suffered DNA tests have confirmed his true "I just cried," Temple said. she had trained him in Eng a broken coll~rbone when identity, but Temple said she knew "I never really thought I'd lish and Western riding styles Deke refused a iump and that her old horse almost immediately, ever find him again, because and in driving disciplines she had sold him to a horse and she thinks he knew her. horses can go to slaughter- "with tender, loving care and trader. "He walked up to me and stuck his "I was devastated," Temple nostril into my ri~ht ear," she said. said. "I felt guilty, of course, "That's a horsy thmg - the way they for selling him. I made ur- identify each other - and he did that gent phone calls to all the for about five minutes. Then after he stables I knew within Ohio, got finished, he started rubbing his Michigan and Indiana. I head on my-back, up and down, like wrote letters, called friends he used to do when I'd take his bri and sent out pictures. I drove die off." everywhere around northern Since the reunion, Temple has Ohio and Michigan for 10 been feeding Deke carrots every days looking for him. I called chance she gets. But he is usually. the horse trader several working. He is used in Midwav's times, but he couldn't re cr:edit equitation courses, by i'he -·AT OTHER SCHOOLS member the horse or the peo school's intercollegiate riding team Here's a sampling of what other state universities in Kentucky ple who owned him." and in many Kentucky Hunter-Jump· are doing to address drinking by students: Nearly three years passed. Then, in early 1997, when er Association events. Eastern Kentucky University - Has started a media Temple and her husband, Mi Temple has asked to buy him from campaign to encourage students to avoid binge drinking. Has a chael, were able to move the school when he is too old to be of task force studying a variety of alcohol topics, including whether back to the mainland, they service, but she has been given no 18-year-olds should be admitted to bars even though they cannot settled in Lexington, Ky., be assurances. legally buy alcohol until they are 21. cause of Donna's love for "We also have had a couple of oth University of Louisville - Students 21 or older may have horses and basketball. She er people express interest in the alcohol in dormitory rooms and in sorority and fraternity houses. horse, before Donna realized that he was her horse. It is an awkward situ Has a committee studying whether changes are needed in the ation," Jarrett said. "He's going to be school's alcohol policy. very difficult to replace .... He's one Western Kentucky University - Its student health service is of our most dependable and well recommending ways to reduce excessive drinking. A community rounded horses, suitable for every task force also is studying the problem. Bowling Green passed a level of rider." · law requiring anyone buying a keg of beer to register by name Temple says school officials ham and to sign a form promising not to serve alcohol to anyone suggested that when a replacement under 21. The College Heights Herald student newspaper has horse is found. they might take silent stopped accepting ads that promote irresponsible drinking. bids from her and the two others who are interested in buying him. But Temple is fearful that if the bids but it signals something darker to and fruit-juice confection. He paid are silent, she may not get Deke Staten, who has been studying col- $15, and he has clear-cut plans. back. She prefers open bidding. lege drinking patterns for years. "We are going to get intoxicated," "I can't put a price on my emotion More and more, she is ·hearing from says McAfee, a 22-year-old senior al attachment to the horse." she said. students who are talk of losing self- from Madisonville .. "If ,·erbaI bids were taken, I'd just control, of slipping grades, of getting McAfee and four buddies are walk keep going. ['II beg. borrow or what into situations. that they woulan't get ing to a nearby house to continue the ever I have to do to get the cash to into were it not for those shots of te- evening. They are quick to offer their get him back. quila, opinions on the university's anti-alcq- "I think the other two people want They ~et concerned about how this ho! stance. . to use him for showing, but he'll be is affectin!l them in school, she says. For the most part, they understand 15 in March and I just want to retire "A lot of 1t comes halfway through why the school would want to dis him." the semester, when the,r grades courage drinkini:. But by pushing it aren't good and they are starting to off campus, officials lose whatever worry about that. Or they are engag- control they may have had over it, Byron Crawford's column appears ing in sexual behavior that isn't typi- says Matt Jorgensen, a 23-year-old on the Kentucky page Sundays, cal of who they perceive themselves senior from Louisville. Wednesdays and Fridays. To contact 1 as being. ' ''Allowing us to-drink in fraternity him, call /502) 582-4791. Such concerns are far from Shan- houses might keep us out of our non McAfee's inind. It ls 12:45 a.m., cars," says Jorgensen, a 12-pack of and he has just made it under the Michelob beer at his side. wire at Big Daddy Liquors, a well• Taking this in is Hal Salsbery, the stocked store at the corner of Euclid clerk at Big Daddy Liquors and an and Woodland ,where dozens of stu- unofficial-expert on college drinking .. dents pop in just before the· r a.in. .He predicts a backlash. : last call. . . "The more pressure you. put on •. McAfee displ~ys his flrid ;_ B:Cl!rd· . k\ds, the more th_J}'._~sist," says Salli· ·•board''traX ·.~ontahilng 30 te~:tjlJie ... )leiy,'22:"The harder. you push us,. shots of· 'Ba-Hama-Mama," a.,rum·. the harder we'll push back." ·: Lexington Herald-Leader j 3 Sunday, December 6, 1998 Roomies help singles cut costs after college For younger adults, lips on sharing space rules, respect help Living with roommates isn't easy, es pecially when you're a working single trying to craft your own style of living. keep homes in order Fran Katzanek, author of-Reality 101, of By Hallmah Abdullah fers tips on getting along with roomies. rHE DALLAS MORNING NEWS ■ Establish rules: This means everything from wlio scrubs the pots and averne & Shirley made it look like so 1 much fun on TV. buys groceries to rules. about bringing They roomed together in those thrift dates to the home.. : L ■ Talk about oifferences: Are store-decorated digs - hanging out and goof ' ing off. And don't those roommates on NBC's you a neatnik? Creatively sloppy? An early-morning jogger? A late-night party Friends look like they're in perfect coffeehouse, er? Compromising and understanding Gen-X bliss? Better press rewind. These days, for many these differences will cut down on con flict later. young adults, rent is high and money is scarce. ■ Put roommates on the lease: Increasingly, college graduates are finding No one wants to be left holding the fi. a hard time making ends meet, said Howard nancial bag in the event a roomie has to fienberg, a research analyst at the Statistical move out . --Assessment Service in Washington, D.C. More· people are graduating-from college with lower ·· · ■ Decide how bills will be paid: Some ·roommates divide all bills down starting salaries. In addition, many are carry the middle. Others divide some bills and ing a greater amount of debt. pick up their own tab on others. Figure "Even (high-paid) professionals, like out what works for your home. · lawyers and business people, are interested in ■ Understand rooming with others because their student loan Respect privacy: that roommates are adults with separate repayments offset their otherwise exorbitant lives and interests. starting salaries," Fienberg said. After college, the luster of living with - THE DALLAS MORNING NE'NS roommates tends to wear off, said Fran l Worn.an;, . accuses MSU Police officers of abuse using the master key obtained 12-year-old named in lawsuit from MSU ," according to the lawsuit. is theatre director accuser The woman claims she was Morehead's Children's Theater, sexually assaulted by the offi By STEPHANIE DAVIS Luther Henry Dowell, of sexual cers. She also claims the officers Managing Editor abuse. separated her from her daugh The Morehead News does not ter and abused them, both phys A Morehead woman has identify alleged victims of sex ically and mentally, and "terror accused three Morehead State crimes. ized" the girl by saying she University police officers of rape In the civil suit tiled on Nov. would be taken away from her and other abuse in an incident 23, the woman accuses MSU mother. that allegedly occurred on cam officers Rodney L. Coffey, The lawsuit also alleges that pus last year, Howard Curtis Ill and Shawn the mother was physically Also named as a plaintiff in Bentley of rape, assault and abused when she was "humiliat the lawsuit is the woman's 12- excessive force. ed and tortured by placing a year-old daughter. She is the She is seeking $5 million in cord restraint around her neck same girl that has accused the punitive damages. and treating her as though she founder of the now-defunct According to court records, was a 'dog,'" and was pulled vio the alleged incident occurred lently up the steps to her apart Lexington Herald-Leader about 4 a.m. on Nov. 25, 1997 ment using the cord around her Tuesday, December 8, 1998 after MSU police entered the neck. woman's ap~rtment at Carter Attorney for the woman is Hall on the MSU campus. Bobby G. Wombles of Lexington. Evaluation of The lawsuit alleges that Wombles represented Londa police obtained a search warrant Higdon who accused motor vehi teachers should and entered the apartment cle enforcement officers of sex based on false information sup abuse at the l-64 weigh station plied to .them by William "Billy" in Rowan County. ' . : ,. .. imitate business · Jennings about possible drug MSU and the officers have activity, .. not responded to the lawsuit. Your seril:5, "The Learning Gap," A civil lawsuit represents was outstandmg, and thank you for "(The) officers entered the I premises without giving the on))'_ one side of a case. ·· . · addressing this most important issue. plaintiffs sufficient time to No criminal charges have Our children's education is largely a awake and come to the door, by been tiled against the officers. classroom experience. The quality of that experience is directly linked to the knowledge, skill and energy of the teacher. All the programs aside, the in dividual teacher's performance makes all the difference. ' One concern, which was only briefly addressed in the articles, is teacher evaluation. While this is a diffi cult issue, it is vital if we are to main tain performance standards. The busi The purpose of an evaluation is to ness community has moved· evalua provide a means for people to maintain tions to an art form. Many managers in 8'.'pected standards. Evaluations pro- businesses around the country are eval 1 v1de the opportunity for clarification of issues, coaching for improvement and uated as often as quarterly or at least 1 annually to help keep them on track. recognition of good performance. Most Tenured teachers are evaluated I employ~· appreciat~ candid feedback from their employers .. ·· · , ; · : . only every three years and noii'.tenured I• 11~!~- :.~;l·'yth_~r,.,_,,-:.,: ,~ -;c-t;:l'~·t .'tr;t,-,t.n cr.:nr.~t :,11.1 teaclieis annually ·'., a,/~cl<'.M-•':<,W.:•'{"'· . , .. :.,.~,.. e. exce1 1ent recommeni:lat1ons • •• •• "; 1. : · • :,i:f.,'\~t(~)l•~f\~tr-¾ri ··• •' Tots, m my opm1on, ts not suffi outlin~ in ·y?ui .seiies "ciiukl go· to· cient. Non-tenured teachers need to be waste if. not bed to a.fair and timely evaluated at least semi'.am:iually and system of_teacher.. eyahiation that actu tenured teachers at.leastannually. .i ally_ _m~sures classroom. 'performance . ., - .... }., " .. ' ...... The system's failure to-effectively· oh'a·'regular' liiisis! Atlclitiiirial reform evaluate performance does the greatest must include this element if it is to disservice to the, teafiliers:-;.'il<'veh ;the1 ;::nuz:.~Ji\~p~~!Y J~ ~P~?ve- 1-~~i~'·"·~i~~it~¥t~?~:t'.~~~-!-~i:./ best perroriii@~if'not'Hel,rinfilv'iauaw ~ -,.~, · • ,.:,Y'·('-k1 accountable o~ a roiitliie'iiasis,.. is 'iiu6:'1 .. · ·, •• Danlel p; Stratton ject to rv>nr =rformance. -,--·.,.-•. ~- .. , ·~¥ -· ...... ~. ___._.....,....i...PJ)5~~i!J~- ..__ ...... ~~~~ raw · 7•Sbfr ,,.._ • .,tr:'''':ll'."'!'"I .. ' . MSU ARC,, V Dc.c.. . q (1 98 1 MSU Clip Sheet A sample of recent articles of interest to Morehead State University UNIVERSITY COMMUNICATIONS MOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY UPO BOX 1100 MOREHEAD, KY 40351-1689 606-783-2030 ""HE COURIER-JOURNAL • \r\lEONESDAY DECEMBER 9 1998 LARGE GIFTS Western's TO COLLEGES Among the largest gifts to Kentucky colleges and business universities are: 1heir time between Louisville and Vil ■ $58 million from Ralph lage of Golf. Fla. college in 1Y34. A few months later. he Waldo Beeson of Ford said yesterday that as a Birmingham, Ala., to Asbury school gets became a founding partner in Yeager, young man, he would not have pre Ford and Warren. which became the dicted that one dav he could make Theological Seminary, 1990. state's largest independently owned such a gift to Western. ■ $14 million from C.M. accounting firm. It later merged with $10 million "Not in my wildest dreams. In "Bill " Gatton of Bristol, Tenn., Coopers and Lybrand. which recently to establish the Caroll Martin merged with Price Waterhouse. 1934. if somebody had offered me S10,000 a year fo r life, I would have Gatton College of Business Western President Gary Ransdell at the University of Kentucky, Louisville donor said the gift will help boost the uni signed a contract." \'ersity's standing. Ransdell said Ashland lawyer Harold E. Kelley, 1995. made fortune Western will receive about half of another accounting alumnus of Busi ■ $11 million (anonymous) Ford's commitment soon: the other ness University, said he was not sur to Centre College, 1982. in accounting half is deferred until his wife's death. prised that. Ford was giving, but he ■ $10.7 million from Harry The money will be invested and is was stunned by the extent of his gift. A. Kendall of Louisville to By CHRIS POYNTER expected to provide S500,000 a year. "I didn't know he had accumulated Kentucky Wesleyan College, and RICHARD WILSON Part of Ford's gift will establish a that kind of money," Kelley said. Kel 1958. The Courier-Journal professorship in his mother's honor. The gift mcludes $9.5 million in ley, a donor to several colleges, re called a recent chat with Ford about from dedicated professors inspired BOWLING GREEN, Ky. unrestncted money for a "Gordon philanthropy. "I said. 'We need to do Gordon Ford knows the impor- Ford Dean's Fund for Excellence." this.' and he said, 'I'm going to do him. He said he wanted to give back tance of higher education. In the An additional $500,000, to be dou- to Western - and he challenged oth 1930s, his mother taught in a one- bled by state matching money, will something big down there' (at West room school in Muhlenberg create the professorship in his moth ern)," Kelley recounted. ers to do the same. County so she could send her son er's name. and Ford will continue to Ford said the education he got "They need it," he said. "I had it." to Bowling Green Business fund a scholarship program for ac University-which merged with counting and business majors that he Western Kentucky University in began m 1992, bringing the total 1963. benefit to $10.6 million. Yesterday, Ford, 85, affirmed Income from the fund - to be set hiscommitmenttoeducationand up as an endowment - will support Lexington Herald-Leader to his alma mater by donating student and faculty scholarshi p, rc Wednesday. December 9 . 1998 $10.1 million 10 the school's busi-· search projects, improvements in A total of $110 million in ness college. It is Western's technology, and social and leadership matching funds was appropriated largest single gift and among the development for graduates, business largest smgfe gifts to any Dean Robert Jefferson said. UK board for the state's public universities, Kentucky college. The fund's focus, Jefferson said, $67 million of which is already ear Ford, a retired LouisviUe busi- "is to establish study at Western's marked for UK. nessman, got a standing ovation Gordon Ford College of Business as accepts The board also heard UK's from university officials and the premier undergraduate program plan for preparing its computer alumni of the fo rmer Business in Kentucky."' system for the year 2000. University after the announce- Ford has several ties to Western. $12 million Gene Williams, vice president ment. He said f'M~!ll"IIIIIIIII.. His mother attended the university yesterday was and his sister, Martha Louise Ford, for internal systems, who ex, one of the hap- • graduated from it. He is a member of plained the $13.6 mill ion project piest days of the WKU board of advisers and a di- in gifts to renovate all its computers, his life, and he rector of the WKU Foundation. He said UK will be prepared for the spoke fondly has also provided 10 or more scholar- new renniry of his mother, ships a vcar lor Western students By Jacinta Feldman the late Mattie since 1992. Also, he and a group of HERALD-LEADER STAFF WRITER Newman Ford, the business university's alumni have The University of Kentucky'~ who received endowed a business professorship. her teaching Ford said he is giving the money Board of Trustees accepted $11.7 certificate , because he has been so successful. million in donations at its meeti.ntt from Western Gordon Ford "I just think education is what's yesterday. :r in 1909. aald of hla necessary to move the world along," The money included S2.4 mil "My•mothe .r -dOnatlon: " -•· 1he said. · • lion from U.S. Surgical Corp.and worked my ..T hey need · For4 has been Jdving to education $3 million from the estate of way through It. t tlad It.".,• for a long time. About 30 years ago; William T. Bryan. The gifts were college," Ford he and three other Louisville Ba tist accepted with 15 others. sai " ' b~ i ess 11 Qn · _!l, s of .;lbe • bkf I I I ~ l.:r. " ~· · ~etaughtjl e, ste ·(1 • ~ ~ .. "Min~ . of Muhlen6erg Bunty in one operate~ for several years, but finan will establish a center of excer'. room school where you'have all cial problems fo rced it to merge with eight grades, a potbelly stove and lence and professorships for mini the University of Louisvitte. mally invasive surgery. outhouses .. . which the boys on Ford is a native of Greenville and Halloween would get a lot of fun . has been a trustee of the Southern The money donated by Bryan, from tullUJ'lg them over,".,he said Baptisf Theological Seminary and a ~936 graduate from Sanibel, Fla, with a smife. "She befieved in Bellarmine Colfege, both in Louis wtll create and endow chairs and education back at a time when ville. He and his wife. Glenda, divide professorships or research initia everyonedidn't.Andshewassure tives for the school. that her son was ~oing to gradu- ate from college.' The school is hoping some of the " . .,, . ' .. ~ - \~·.,.,..•~ ·,' . .,...... ' ' I . . l ' ' ~ ' .~' j , .. ...:.. . . . - ..,L .... _~,,· • ,,. . ·.~ .~ ~ · ~ rr r, Louisville . .\liqnij.w~imreil .iut'Zl; IDO,k a job with a Louisville account ing firm after graduating from Lexington Herald•Leader Wednesday, December 9, 1998 810 THE COURIER-JOURNAL• WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 9. 1998 4 athletes UK trustees accept charged $12 million in gifts to endow chairs in dorm Bv RICHARD WILSON Foundation, of Boone County, to the rape case The Courier-Journal Sanders-Brown Center on Aging to establish the R. C. Durr Chair in Alz- LEXINGTON, Kv. - The Universi- heimer's Disease Research. ty of Kentucky board of trustees ac- ■ $400,000 from the estate of Hel Cumberland College cepted S12 million in gifts and en Frances Farmer to endow a schol pledges vesterdav to create several arship fund in the name of her par football players are held endowed.chairs and professorships. ' ents, Jimmie E. and Frank L. Farmer, Some of the gifts qualify for for a Kentucky high school graduate. By Judy Jones matching grants from the state's Re- Part of the proceeds will also endow SOUTHEASTERN KENTUCKY BUREAU search Challenge Trust Fund, which a scholarship fund named for Helen was created by the General Assembly Fanner to benefit music students. Four Cumberland College football players last vcar. ■ $250,000 from Nancy Blazer, of remain in jail as police and the college contin The largest gift was S3 million Ashland, to create and endow the ue to investigate an alleged rape at a dormi from the estate of William T. Bryan, Paul G. Blazer Jr. Professorship in tory. of Sanibel. Fla., a 1936 UK engineer- Stroke Research in the Sanders "We don't like to let ourselves fall into a ing graduate. That money, which Brown Center on Aging. false sense of security, not in the world we could increase by another SI million ■ $ 00,000 from Dr. Robert L. Ber- from estate earnmgs, will be used to 2 live in now," said Michael Colgrove, dean of create several chairs. professorships gen, of Alpine, N.J., to endow the student affairs. or research initiatives. Robert L. Bergen Professorship in Demetrus Shannon, 19, of Glasgow was A donation of nearly S2.3 million Opthalmology in the College of Medi charged with rape Thursday, Williamsburg from the Ephraim McDowell Cancer cine. Police said. Research Foundation will create two ■ $200,000 in 1997-98 and 1998-99 endowed chairs in the Markey Can- from the estate of Floyd H. Wright, Rod Bostic Ill, 18, of cer Center and support research plus more money from UK and the Plant City, Fla., and there. state to create a SI million endow- Dushon Green, 18, and The United States Surgical Corp., ment to fund the Commonwealth Torre Crockett, 19, both of of Norwalk, Conn., committed Chair in Health Sciences in UK's Ocala, Fla., were charged S2.4 million to create a Center of Ex- medical center. with complicity to commit cellence for Minimally Invasive Sur- ■ $!00,000 from the Owsley Brown gery in the College of Medicine's sur- Frazier Family Foundation, of Louis rape, a felony. gery department. Some of the money ville, to help pay for a lecture series The men have pleaded will also establish two professorships. in the College of Human Environ- not guilty, and a prelimi Two Sl million gifts were also ac- mental Sciences' department of inte nary hearing is set for 1 p.m. Monday before cepted. One was from Lucille Caudill rior design, merchandising and tex Whitley District Judge Kimberly Frost-Wil Little, of Lexington, to establish a tiles. son. All four remain in the Whitley County new fine arts library named for her. ■ Approximately l05 acres of land Jail under $25,000 fully secured bonds. UK will match Little's gift. in Logan County, valued at more· Other gifts or pledges included: than $100,000, from Monroe and Police say the victim, an 18-year-old fe ■ $560,000 from Dfa!ysis Clinics, Judy Hall, of Paris, III., to the College male student was raped about 8 p.m. at Ma Inc., of Nashville; Tenn., to endow of Agriculture for a wildlife habitat. han Hall, a men's dorm. The Herald-Leader the Robert G. Luke, M.D., Research ■ $50,000 from Ors. James and does not identify victims of sexual assault. Chair in Nephrology in the College of Barbara Holsinger, of Lexington, to- Opposite-sex visitation is allowed in Medicine's department of nephro- ward endowment of a Holsinger Pro Cumberland's dorms but only with doors Iogy. lessor of Anatomy in UK's medical open and lights on, said Williamsburg Police ■ S500.000 from the R.C. Durr center. Capt. Don Hamlin. Lexington Herald-Leader Two women visited Green and Crockett Wednesday, December 9, 1998 Thursday night, but all four ended up in 13ostic's room, he said. Shannon joined them later. Two men held the women down on the beds and tickled them. he said. Someone closed the door, locked it and turned out the lights, Hamlin said. . . .; While Bostic held one of the ·women, Shannon raped her, Hamlin said. The other female tried to respond to her friend's cry for 1 help, but was held down on aricither bed by Green and Crockett, Hamlin sajg. . ·ft,_'H•--~~e. ._ ''~.t a.s.sauJi...... Jid•,·,:' sto~,f(R' ·. ,."J:.,H.fl_. lsomm '. AU OR' tU · .~. · .,.,., ,... - ' I -: '. The aill~-~ial·WI ilifk~w~ Baptisi Convention, has 1,720 students with 900 living on campus. Training in rape prevention is offered routinely at the college, Colgrove said. Shannon was a 1998 graduate of Glas gow High School. The Daily Independent, Ashland, Kentucky, Tuesday, December 8, 1998 Local technical college 1st to offer By WILLIAM KELLY gree. Previousiy, the college has Or THE DAILY INDEPENDENT Next year, the college will issued certificates in applied begin offering students associ technology that were more ASHLAND Ashland ate degrees in applied tech comparable to a diploma, Tom Technical College is the first nology. Stanley, chairman of the col in the state approved by the And school officials are al lege's Department of Applied "They don't want a wall be Kentucky Community and ready considering other de Process Technologies, said tween any educational insti Technical College System to gree programs to follow in the Monday. tutions," said Jack Trautwein, issue a two-year college de- near future. Colleges and universities instructor in ATC's applied generally accepted only a few technology program. "They credit hours from the diplo want them all to recognize one another's training." ma-level applied technology To make the new system program, and then "it was work, the technical and acad strictly out of the goodness of emic branches of KCTCS are their heart," Stanley said. expected to develop partner "This will be the first school ships similar to one that Ash in the technical branch that land Technical College recent will have the honor to issue ly inked with Ashland Com an actual degree," Stanley munity College. said. Under the agreement, the "We've broken a lot of community college has agreed ground," he said. "They that, if needed, it will offer (KCTCS) are using us as an classes necessary for the tech example for all the others to nical school's students to meet follow." their basic academic require Since July, the state's com ments. munity and technical colleges Stanley said that will be a have been jointly managed by minimum of 15 credit hours in KCTCS, which is part of Gov. areas that are tailored as Paul Patton's initiative to de much as possible to the needs velop a "seamless" system of of industrial employers - education that incorporates mathematics, physics and both the technical and acade chemistry to name a few. mic branches. Stanley said the technical college is now negotiating a contract with Morehead State University wherein MSU would eventually accept ATC's applied technology de gree toward its own require ments for a bachelor's degree in industrial technology. " Trautwein said the col lege's goal is for its graduates to be able to make every cred- A sample of recent articles of interest to M orehead State University UNIVERSITY COMMUNICATIONS M OREHEA D STA TE UNIVERSITY UPO BOX 1 100 MOREHEAD. KY 4 0351-1689 606-783-2030 Lexington Herald Leader Friday, December 11.~~ day present - gift certificates to LCC appears to be the first be applied to spring semester tu- area college· fu offer gift certifi ition. . cates for tuition, ..said. . Debbie tcc·grrt The idea arose from a brain McGuffey, spokeswomifilfor the storming session of administra Council on Postsecondary Educa- tors, said Paul Taylor, dean of , ..w~ch ov _pul;>lic col- student a~ irs they ~ . I .::W~ugbt l rould.._,_,.:.,.:bt:..t ~ usedJL.J.~- t!'r- ~~• ':.e .WC $~::n.wia, . ne ·-· .~ ... •E;t·said - The college plans' testing on me as novel." ' 'f.11. , •• . e ps-pay ihe idea before deciding whether · Gary Cox, president of the As to try it again. "We thought, 'Let's ~tion ot ~ > Ken see if this works,"':'said Taylor. "If 't'Ucky Co11egei"i'tid Universities, not, we won't continue it." · also said he ~lkno w of any tuition~~ _ Soine people have called, Qther colle&el ' •-~ idea. _ . - Q_,.: ~ ,. .(l - ./'. expre!Sing interest in the gifts, But how wo a1t strike a stu but not many have been buying, dent who rushes to collect Santa's Educators say Taylor said. treasures - only to discover a Students who receive the cer sheet of paper? program unique tificates can turn them in with "It would be great," said LCC their tuition payment, due by Jan. freshman Cory Graham. "It's a ter By Kevin Hall 11. Students must be enrolled and HERALDliAOER STAFF WRITER rific idea because my top financial registered at LCC to use the cer obligation is tuition, and it would Partridges in pear trees are tificates. lessen the load." out. and tuition gift certificates Prices start at $74 per credit are in this Christmas. hour, which can be used toward Lexington Community College ~ Y credit class at the college. is marketing an uncommon holi- THE COURIER-JOURNAL • FRIDAY. DECEMBER 11 . 1998 YALE STUDENT PRAISES WRITING PORTFOLIOS It has recently come to my Since my grades depended ever, should be more than sim ers to develop relevant, yet attention that a debate is under completely upon my ability to ple preparation for the ACT. challenging, exercises. But wav in Frankfort regarding the write term papers and test es Education should consist of most of all, keep the portfo future of portfolios. Although I says in a clear and logical shaping the mind to think fo r lios! If you diminish their sta was less than enthusiastic manner (there were no multi itself, not of feeding it cold tus now, students and teachers about them in high school, I am ple choice tests) , had I not facts to prepare it for a stan will become even more apa writing today to strongly ~e been able to write, my career dardized test. Besides, the thetic and contemptuous to the . [egislature to continlle here would have been quite skills dev.eloped by portfolios ward them~ Progress is being counting portfolios in their as short indeed. . will always lead to better test made. Just ask the professors sessment of schools and stu What some people· don't re scores when the portfolio is around the state. .dents. I can honestly say that I alize is that writing, much used properly. College today is much dif feel portfolios to be vital to stu· more than the repetitious Obviously, the portfolio is ferent than it was 25 years dents' education today. memorizing that characterized far from perfect. Some schools ago. The same is true of the When I made the transition Kentucky education for too waste too much of teachers' ever-changing job market. from a poor, rural high scho~l long, is essential to becoming scarce and valuable time in which demands thinkers who in Metcalfe County to Yale, 1t preparing and grading them. can adapt to new situations. was safe to say that my skills a better thinker. Writing Today's Kentucky students re lagged considerably behind shapes and structures the As I know from experience, some teachers prepare irrele quire the skills developed by most of the other students. mind, giving one the power to the portfolio exercises if they Fortunately fo r me. though. I express oneself clearly and vant exercises which waste ev ervone's time. But let's not are to compete and excel with fou nd that my writing skills, persuasively. Many opponents others around the nat ior. greatly enhanced by the port of the portfolio may tend to bum down the barn to kill the Please keep the portfolio. folio exercises now in ques disagree, thinking that current rats here. If portfolios take up tion. were just as strong as the portfolio . exercises threaten too much time. reduce some of JOHN BLEVINS skills of my fellow freshmen. ACT scores. Education. how-• that required tirrie. Urge teach- New Hdven Conn 0652 Lexington Herald-Leader Thursday, December 10, 1998 WKU gets $10.6 million commitment ASSOCIATED PRESS tional, not only for Westem. but for Business University in 1934. BOWLING GREEN - The the community and region as well. which merged with Western Ken Western Kentucky University It will provide a solid foundation tucky in 1963 to become the Bowl Board of Regents has named the for growth into the next century." ing Green College of Business Ad school's business college in hon Ford was a founding partner ministration. or of Gordon Ford, who has in the accounting company of The commitment includes made a commitment of more Yeager, Ford and Warren in $9.5 million in unrestricted funds than $10.6 million in gifts. Louisville. That firm merged with in the "Gordon Ford Dean's Fund "The Gordon Ford College of the firm of Coopers & Lybrand, foi: Excellence." Also, $500,000, Business reflects the impact that which recently merged with Price combined with matching funds this commitment will have on Waterhouse. Ford is a retired from the state, will create the Gordon Ford Western Kentucky University," partner of Price Waterhouse Coop Mattie Newman Ford Professor was a found President Gary Ransdell said at a ers. Ford's mother, Mattie New of Entrepreneurial Studies. ing partner ceremony Tuesday. man Ford, attended Western Ken Ford also will continue to of a Louis "This gift, the largest ever re tucky in 1907-09 and received a fund a scholarship program for ville account ceived by the university from a teaching certificate. Gordon Ford accounring and business majors ing company. single donor. will be rransforma- _graduated from Bowling Green that he began in 1992. ~,\..9. Qoy>L/ De(l. ISj 1998 MSU Clip Sheeuf CHIVES A sample of recent articles of interest to Morehead State University UNIVERSITY COMMUNICATIONS MOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY UPO BOX 1100 MOREHEAD, KY 40351-1689 606-783-2030 THE COURIER-JOURNAL• TUESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1998 The Daily Independent, Ashland, Kentucky. Sunday, December 13, 1998 in folk art. received hon La-wyer for suspect MSU awards 450 orary Doctor of !Iumanities degrees. Dr. James E. degrees Saturday Davis of Athens, Ohio, for MOREHEAD - More mer chair of Ohio Universi in Murray fire says head State University con ty's Department of English, ferred approximately 450 received the honorary Doc graduate and undergradu tor of Letters degree. state has no case ate degrees,.as well as Kimberly Leah Collins of three honorary doctorates Morehead, a dean's list stu dent who graduated Satur By JAMES MALONE because he had not seen the to native Eastern Kentuck The Courier-Journal document. ians, during winter com day with a Bachelor of Arts The bill of particulars quotes mencement ceremonies Sat- degree in elementary educa MURRAY, Ky. -An attorney Mounce as saying that she and urday. · tion, was the student speak for one of seven defendants McDonough entered Hester Minnie Adkins of er, building her speech charged with planning a fatal Hall at the front desk at 2:07 Isonville and her late hus around the advice of poet fire at a Murray State Universi a.m. But McDonough told po band. Garland Adkins, who Robert Browning, "Let your ty dormitory Sept. 18 said yes lice they entered through a reach exceed your grasp." terday that a prosecutor had back entrance using his access are recognized as pioneers failed to show a case against card, the prosecutor's report Lexington Herald-Leader his client. said. Sunday, December 13, 1998 "There's nothing here," -said Police have said the fire was Steve West, who represents discussed earlier in the evening College names Interim chief: Joe Alan Melissa Mounce of Paducah, during a party at an off-campus Stepp, vice president for student and community after reading a bill of particu house where three rugby-club life at Alice Lloyd College, was made interim lars that Commonwealth's At members lived. Ward's disclo president of the school yesterday. The executive torney Michael Ward filed yes sure says.that phone calls were committee of the school's board of trustees terday to meet a judge's dead made from the house to a line. rugby-club member on the named Stepp after the resignation Nov. 30 of col The document, which re fourth floor of the dorm asking lege President Timothy Siebert, who decided to quires prosecutors to outline whether there was a fire near return to Missouri to be near family. "We feel their evidence, mentions four of by, and to the residence of Fred that Joe Stepp's 16 years of service to Alice the seven defendants. Ward has McGrath, a student who has Lloyd College make him highly qualified to lead until Jan. I to disclose all of his been charged with first-degree the college through this time of transition," board evidence to the defendants. murder. But prosecutors have Authorities assert the fire not yet disclosed McGrath's ac Chairman Robert M. Duncan said in a statement. was set as a hazing prank by tions that night. The executive committee will immediately begin members of the Murray State The four-page document also a search for a new president rugby club. Michael· Ming'er of says that McGrath denied Niceville, Fla., died in the fire knowing about the fire, but it and Michael Priddy, 19, of quotes defendant Jeremy Baker Paducah, was seriously-burned. as saying he called McGrath TH&: COUl'llER-JOURNAL • SUNDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1998 West, whose client has plead "sometime after the fire" and ed innocent, said the document "discussed the fire with him." Tnterim Alice Lloyd College chief named reinforced his belief that It also says "other witnesses PIPPA PASSE~, Ky. -Joe Alan Stepp, vice president for student Mounce was not involved in the .stated they heard statements at and commumty hfe at Alice Lloyd College, was made interim presi fire,Hif said all he knows from the party earlier in the night dent of the school yesterday. what police have told him and that it would be funny if there The exectHive com"'!ittee_ of the school's board of trustees named from reading grand jury testi really was a fire at the Hester Stepp foll~wmg the res1gnahon Nov. 30 of President Timothy Siebert. mony is that Mounce and a Hall dormitory." Siebert said he and his wife have decided to return to Missouri to be friend, Michael McDonough, Police knew about the calls near their extended families. gave some conflicting answers because the student who re to police i~ their three .inter ceived them, Ryan Leader, con views. tacted them the morning after J .V. Kerley, McDonough 's the fire, according to the docu lawyer, declined to comment ment. THE COURIER-JOURNAL• TUESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1998 .;J;{otida couple-0pledges $I million ;if.o:r,'.donation to Spalding University By THOMAS NORD said yesterday in a telephone inier- the university's vice president for The Courier-Journal view from his home .m Highland university advancement. Beach, Fla. "The Lord has been very -Although it has existed for 184 For the second time this year, good to us, and we try to repay 1t years, Spalding is a small school that Spalding University is on the receiv- whenever we can." has struggled against larger, better ing end of a $1 million gift. Bill Merke said the decision to known institutions for donor dollars . . .;A Florida couple that already had make this latest donation was Ashley said he was hired last year to established a scholarship fund at the spurred by the couple's pride in the raise that profile and, in tum, raise Louisville school pledged·the $1 mil- students who received scholarships more money. · lion. during a-recent visit, Spalding from the Joseph-and Elizabeth Reilly In June, Spalding announced that officials announced yesterday. Scholarship Endowment Fund. an anonymous donor had pledged $1 .,They are Bill and Shirley Merke, ''We met the recipients over the million over the next decade to im- who first got involved with Spalding past two or three years, and were prove student services such as life on several years ago when they estab- very, very impressed with the caliber campus, orientation programs and lished a scholarship fund in honor of of the recipients," said Bill Merke, a student organizations. ,·Shirley Merke's ~nts.______retired: executive with United Parcel Founded in 1814 by. the Sisters of · :.-Neither 'Bill or Srnrley Merke at- Service. . _ Charity of Nazareth, Spalding Uni tended Spalding or-lived -Jrrtouis---The endowment · finances· two ·-versify is7iestlmowri for its. nursing ville;'they owe'llieir·involvement with $5,000 tuition grants each year in the and education programs. Enrollment 'tb~:.s.choq!"Jg:S.hirl_e:(M~r!<.lfs.aunt( . fields of nursing and hea)th science~. is l,?84;the hig~est in 30 years. '§~~1;~:~~1~¥~44~~~~~ffuf~~f:C~~ ..~~~~~v:r}:,~he1lli:l'Ji1~~~~~=l~f.;~~:~~~ ~Moolffah1t !!t1s,;:!Y!!Y.-'iP!!!:M!'.!~~~11;,so'!!putefli,'Said.Jeff,~~ll'¥•. ~~~cP'!"11Cl!!ai'!'genda,_ _, :. : .. · · \lexJngton,Heraldteader Sund~;liecember 13;'1998 1;~;,:,;;:::: ··: ...ij-,J;n,:n;Em~e:-r...";;.."9.\L4=,~~G"'·~ ""· -~ ·-- -•·-· · -- · ~~~L~~;£I~0t:~:1~i~~i~~~3~:~:!~~~~~~:.~:~&i~- ,~:-'.::'!;1,?',\.-..i~ ~4.,:,17/. .ia~~~~i;:!jU;.:-;,,~iitt.~...!trf.l~:.!:f:i~d~n •j:>~1;, ,~~fj:? , . rn1(/ll,f~F~~l~~l!.rf:?>li~IWi: __ , ::.:_,_~, ... Jnw starujards fqr. ~ggfwrs - ..-QµaUty te~h~rs :~~1:"Y.~ ·:t>ei~--pay By: Gov; Paul ·E. Patton '. ··6tcllpatio~;for:rnani~~ble women. Y compliments on the series on This practice has caused the teaching • teacher cornpeten,cy which con- profes~ion to command a lower corn- .M eluded Nov. 22. If we as a·soci- .pensation schedule than other profes- ety _in Kentucky are truly committed to .si9nal fields which require similar excellence in.education, then .we.must .. _..§ky)s.Jl.llc:I.Pr.eJl3!'8!iQ!l, The li!trriei)!_ to realize that the single most important these other professions are corning · · element in that equation.is the class- down. We can no longer-fill our class- room teacher. Parental involvement is a . rooms with the same highcquality indi- close second, but the teacher is No. 1. 'Viduals while paying a below-market If we expect our schools to prepare rate for their services. We must recog- .our children for the unprecedented nize teachers' value to our society if we challenges of the 21st centurv, then we are to continue to have the best and have every right to expect our teachers brightest leading the classroom. to have the ability, the motivation and In no other occupation does an indi- the preparation which is required to do vidual have such a unique knowledge the most importa,JJt jqb _in oµr COl)l)l)O!l: . C!f the ~halJ~!1g~- anjl re~cl!!_ of .!he weal~. Make no_:m,istake .ab.out.i~ the : profess10n'~<1 wl\icll they commit !hem• most unportant Job entrusted to .us as a selves. We must ensure that our best society in Kentucky is to pass along to high school graduates have a positive our children the accumulated know!- impression of the profession with edge of the ages. which they have been personally.in- Collectively, when it comes to our volved, as students, for the previous 12 primary responsibility as a state, which or 13 years. To promote this, we nitist is to educate our people, our teachers ensure that our teachers are fairly com- are the most important people in- our . pensated and have conditions of em-. government; more important than our , ... j:>loyrnent which will attract the kind'of school board members, more imwrtant .. Jeachers we need to lead us into the than our state:legislators.and·moie ·im:,.;:~next millennium. · portant than our governor:., .. . •.. -· • We must increase the total cornpen- While we have every right to de- sation package for,.(!le_teachers.of..K~- mand that they know the subject they tucky! We ri)ust1£mnpensateJhem as, are employed to teach and that they the professionals we expect them to be. approach their task as a profession, not One of the most productive ways to do as a job, we must also understano that this is to increase'the number of days they have·an obligation to themselves ..· our schools are in•session ·and ·increase and their families to apply·theirtalents. ,,teacher COrnJ)eilS!ltion acmrdingly.... to an endeavor which provides for their . ·.•~-: My long-term goal for Kentucky is own future. We.must recognize t_hat'to .. ,r,_•tir,Jil:!~-the nation, not just in teacher get the right,J)e9ple.to do'.tliis'cntical ·•0 \'""coinpeilsation btit also fu!teachef.''.,. _ job we must pay,t)."e _ri _..:_:' ~ :,·, ,., '::'::'"sa~lii~ei,i)eiik~til_tjitg'jn t!Je ~f'.eilii; .· Historicall tfutfod€0filis\feffi1Mi•~{e(el:1rstudents'lin1~cif:.Youitfourt'· women accessyt8fri1aiiy'professi8ns~''..&.":lifu't'sen~•wi1Ih~Iji':us;achleve that'-" leavingteaching as the most attractive ·;goal.··· . ,. ' . . .: . · . •, ~..: . .. · .-..:_:_ ... ~·-· .~... ~· THE COURIER-JOURNAL• SATURDAY, DECEMBER 12. 1998 HIGHER STANDARDS FOR TEACHERS People .are_ beginning to tests multiple times and still take the test should also be · ers · with on)y bachelor's de understanil what will make get a job." lowered. I certainly would not grees because they are cheap KERA: s'.Ut~essful; Kentucky's • ·These are obvic>'us probie~. "fee,! comfortable with a doctor er. Remember, you get what stud_er#.~l#!J,urred to)~~ . that. need co~ .if Ken-·'.· wl\<>·:l"as '! _c -student_ and you pay-for. at•high~(,l~!f,.liut _a ~Qns1d- . tucl By Bettye Lee Mastin HERAIDUADER STAFF WRITER ILMORE - Thousands of retirees are going back to school, not to Wstudy, but to live. Retirement communities that have been built near colleges are attracting retired alwnni and faculty members to live near their. fonner institutions, Newsweek maga zine reported in November. AD. Albright's nearly _40-year career in Kentucky higher education didn't include Asbury College or Asbury Seminary, but he A~D. and Grace Albright spent time at the piano in their and his wife, Grace, live nearby in the re home in Wesley Methodist Village near Asbury College. tirement community of Wesley Methodist Village. . "We visited-two in Ohio that have as AD. -served as president-at Northern sisted living and comprehensive care At a glance Kentucky and Morehead State universities, which are the next stages for Wesley Vil'. and as ·il!terim president and executive vice !age," AD. said. Residents can take free classes at As A.D. and Grace A~ president at the University ofKentucky. bright have ii•i,atio And while . the Albrights are bury College and Asbury Seminary, al home" with. cathedral MethQdists, the denomination was not the though neither has an official relationship ceilings and an en reason for moving to the village developed with the village. There is also access to col closed patio room. by-thir United Methodist Retirement Com lege and seminary libraries, chapel services The 1,468 square muriify Inc.· The non-profit project does not lectures, indoor walking tracks and swim'. feet include six consfdet religious, racial or national back ming pools and exercise equipment rooms and 1½ bath- grounds when accepting residents. There are woodworking and exercise rooms. "We Jwanted a place to live more for classes, Donovan Scholar writing work comfort, convenience, safety and free from shops, Senior Net computer classes, movie outside maintenance," Grace said of their nights, Bible study and prayer groups. m~;in 1996 from a Lexington retirement -Famlly memories hoine;foJh~ Jessamio~ County community. -:~-:.",:_~";~..;-- With six ·rooms, the Albrights have . Peaceflit,surroundlngs space for furnishings from their childhoods ' 't",:,i;>'.,., :.1;'I)ie:~dows from the "patio room," studies and travels. ' w)ligi'~es ~s an office, over!<>?~ a hay fieldtmid -white fences that d1V1de the See RETIRE~ village1rom U.S. 29. 0 "[-Jike the surroundings, the birds singing in the morning," AD. said. ''You're without coughing and sneezing, yet you're close enough to Lexington." hi Lexington, where A.D. was an Urban County councilman in 1984 and 1985, he and,))is ·wife tried a retirement home for abou(15 months. Earlier, they had lived about,20,years on Lakeshore Drive before an~ after. he retired. · - 1'{hen·did I retire? Which time? I've re tired_-three times," AD. said. "!left as executive director of the Ken '< tucky. Council on Higher Education in 1976 and went to Northern Kentucky (Universi ty) for seven years. I was on the Urban County Council, then was at Morehead ~ir State first as a consultant and then as pres ·-:;'...' "· ~- ...,. ident" ''". . He and Grace explored out of state be fore settling on Wesley Village and visited other communities that are handled by the firm that supplies management services for Famlly mementos include a lamp, Wesley Village. right, from Grace's father's store. Versailles. her husband complained. RETIREES: When A.D. received "I didn't regret it," Grace said. a Rockefeller Founda ''l didn't come home with a suit tion fellowship at New case of junk." They settled York University, "we From 1969 to 1970 the /\\ had two little boys who brights lived in Belgium, where near Asbury:) were used to playing in A.D. was a Fulbright Scholar. Ile (c-.¼ u a big lot in Nashville," served as a consultant at a univer Grace said. "I stayed sity in Zaire, a consultant to the Grace's home was iri Etowah home and taught school ministries of education and fi. in cast Tennessee, where her fa. in · Nashville, and nance in Algeria and lectured at !her, Carl Carroll, worked for the Arnold got through in Oxford and Leeds in England. L&N Railroad an >, • Q) THE COURIER-JOURNAL• SATI:JRDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1998 Education giving ACC -offering-fee big-time .government monwealth's Iiigher education and corporate bean- system last year. amnes·ty pro-gram counters say, "Find a The same day that Western million.dollars here, a announced its gift, U of L an Amillion there, and eventually it nounced thatthe·family of Jean adds up to real money." and Bernard Traeger was do- for former students Looking at university ft- nating $1 million toward the de nances that way, the last week velopment of Cardinal Park. $81603 in unpaid fees, she said._ has been a good one for Ken- That gift will· help U of L im , Dvorak said she recently tucky. Three schools - West- prove in a category in which the debts to be wn'tten off sent letters to 640 former stu em Kentucky University, Uni- school now lags: student life. dents who- would be eligible versity of Louisville and Univer- Asphalt and vacant · lots soon By KENNETH HART for the waiver informing them sity of Kentucky - announced will be turned into intramural OF THE DAILY INDEPENDENT of the offer. major gifts. And with each one, fields, softball and soccer stadi The amnesty program cov the overall outlook for higher urns, a track, volleybalf courts, ASHLAND - Ashland ers a number of different education improved. a natatorium and a fitness trail. Co=unity College President types of debts, from library Retired businessman Gordon A few yesrs from now, U of L Angeline Dvorak has a mes- ~nes to lab fees to parking Ford donated $10.1 million to should be a much more appeal sage for more than 600 former ti,ckets, Dvorak said. It does Westem's business school, one ing campus to look at and to, students who withdrew from n t apply to student loans or of the largest donations any experience. Kentucky college or university Meantime, UK announced it school owing the college mon- money owed to institutions ever has received. ·Most of the will use $3 million in private ey. other than the community maney will go into an endow- grants to establish two en Come back, all is forgiven. and technical colleges. ment fund to support scholar- dowed chairs in pediatric re At Dvorak's behest, the Dvorak said she decided to ships, research projects, and search. Thanks to the 1997 Kentucky Community and push for the fee waiver after a improvements to technology. higher education reforms, Technical College System re- recent audit revealed that "This is an important gift for which included incentives to get cently implemented a system- ACC was carrying uncollected Western and will cause people donors to endow chairs and wide waiver of uncollected fees on its books as accounts to begin to put it in a signifi- professorships, that money will fees older than 3½ years. receivable. cantly different category," said be matched by the state. That means former stu- That shouldn't have been the· school's president. Together, the three -schools ~ents with back fees pre-dat- done, she said, because any That's the way it is with gifts: announced that an additional They propel departments or $17 million would be put into mg ~une 1995 are eligible to money paid on those fees schools or universities into bet- higher education in Kentucky. rece1ye amnesty, Dvorak told would not go to the college ter categories. Every Kentucky That's not bad for one week. A ACC s board of directors but to the University of Ken: school needs that boost. That'la million more here, a few million Thursday. tucky Community College why the _Governor and General more there - pretty soon we'll Dvorak said she is hoping . System, which governed the Assembly revamped the com- be enjoying real improvements. that the offer will entice those community college prior to Lexington Herald-Leader p_eople to re-enroll in school, the formation of KCTCS last Sunday, December 1~. 1998 smce they can now do so with- year. out penalty. ACC plans to write off "It's bothersome that others She said she believed that $81,603 in unpaid fees Dvo- unpaiq fees were a "huge bar- rak said. ' aren't trying to stop fellow rier" to some people returning "We needed to get it off the athletes (from drinking and to school. books," she said. But she cautioned that the Under ACC policy, stu- driving) . ... They don't want to offer wouldn't be extended be- dents can't graduate if they yond the upcoming spring se- have unpaid fees. Dvorak ac invade someone's s-pace." mester. knowledged that there might C.M. Newton, UK athletics director "This is a one-time once-in- be some students who would a-lifetime offer," she ~aid. now be eligible to receive their .. ~~ • .Students also . shouldn't degrees under the waiver S8,"'1 vie~:the program as an indi- ·rm really interested in Newwn 'J u preventing cation that ACC is· becoming se!'mg who shows up," she • te ffi rt less diligent in its fee-collec- said. ~-!11 ""e. . . es IS am e o rwn e ftio rts ' D vorak said. The couldDvorak have said both the short- programand 1x di school currently has ·a pro- long-term financial benefits Research, spoke to the sports ed- gram in place . to help keep By Lori Becker Hayes itors about alcohol and college students from incurring back for ACC: HERALOlfADER STAFF WRITER athletes. For one, the increased en- University of Kentucky Ath- The discussion came on the rollnient from having former letics Director CM Newton said heels of a major policy change stµ,dents return to school yesterday that if student-athletes that has brought Newton and the :W6uld produce additional tu- watched out for one another, university national publicity: UK ition revenue, she said. they might be able to prevent athletes convicted of drunken dri- . _But beyond that. Dvorak tragedies like a recent crash that vmg· will be ki cked Off th err· said she is hop1·ng those stu- left two young men dead and a teams d I th · schO Jarshi UK ,,ootball player charged with an ose err hps. l dents will fim"sh work on thei·r driving drunk. Newton also banned alco o ads degrees, enabling them to Newton said that when he from all outlets connected with the land better-paying jobs and was a college player in the 1940s sports department. move into higher tax brack- and '50s, athletes kept drunk a r~:~nd~fl~nNo~~ :trih~~ ets, which would also benefit teammates from getting behind ACC the wheel and shielded one an- killed Kentucky football player "T. Arthur C. Steinmetz and another ax money is what fuels 0th~from possi~le troubl~. passenger, Eastern Kentucky Uni- this inStitution," she said. make b:gch:'~ bi/th~r! \~ ' versity student Christopher Scott ving) .... They don't want to invade no feeling among other athletes Brock. The driver. UK football play- someone's space.·· to keep them from making these er Jason Watts, was indicted last Clayton said attitude seems to choices," Newton said yesterday week on two counts of second-de- be prevalent among young people lot of kids who need an intervention at the Kentucky Associated gree manslaughter and one count of today. Drinking has become so ac- as much as he did."" Press Sports Editors Association first-degree wanton endangerment. ceptable that friends . are Jetting Newton said he hopes the new winter meeting at the Sheraton Newton said he's certain Watts' friends drive drunk. : zero-tolerance alcohol policy will en- Suites Hotel on Richmond Road. teammates knew of the player•s "We need to teach students to courage athletes to look out for their "Somewhere we've taught them drinking problem, yet no one intervene when it looks- like your teammates. not to step in and intervene." stepped in to help him. friend has _a problem with alcohol," "I'm hoping they won't Jet others _Newton and_UK sociqlogy_ "It's bothersome," Newton said, Clayton said. throw away the privilege of being professor Richard Clayton, direc- "that others-aren't trying lo stop lei- "Jason Watts was put in the -on the team?-Newton-said. tor of the Center for Prevention low athletes (from drinking and dri- spotlight, but there are probably a !HE COURIER-JOURNAL • • sur,DAY, DECEMEJC:R IJ, 18WJ I UK's 'line-in sood'. on alcohol abuse pra-sed one count of wanton endangerment. ", , , We actually wrestled him down, coach Newton, is that where you have Sociology professor Killed in the Nov. 15 accident were got his keys, got him back to his special efforts to build teams and UK football player Artie Steinmetz, room. I wasn't as concerned, I have to build concern for your teammates, says eliminating 19, and Eastern student Scott Brock, admit, about him driving as I was even in those situatiors you don't 21. All three legally were intoxicated about what coach (Bear) Bryant have someone inteiv~ning, which ambiguity important at the time of the early-morning acci- would do to him if he caught him." must mean that we've got some pretty dent, according to authorities, Newton and Clayton said any sense strong norms in society and our youth By RUS'IY HAMPTON Under UK's new policy, an athlete of team unity or responsibility has all culture to let people do what they're The Courier-Journal convicted of driving under the influ- but vanished. In its place are societal going to do. , ence will be taken off,scholarship and norms and pressures that.say it's OK "It's like, 'It's not my choicei it's LEXINGTON, Ky, .:.,.. The adoption be suspended;fro111,\the,teain. Addi- to drink ·and tliat it's an individual de their choice.' Somehow we've got to of a zero-tolerance alcohol-abuse poli tionally; a UKHitbletejharged with 'cision and·{esponsibilil}', change those norms - not just cy for University of Kentucky.'ilthletes public ,lntoxlcation:'or underage con- ' · ·· "Jason''' Watis · making the bad among athletes, but afllons college was applauded yesterday .by the man sumptlo~.of.:al.. c;q!).ol-will be .. placed on choice of abusing alcohol is one is students in general - to mtervene who heads the school's center for pre- probatlo~ ,:anil\t1$f'~tfi), :~om- sue," l' The Daily Independent, Ashland, Kentucky, Friday, December 11, 1998 Player's locker Three cars damaged looted during game in MSU break-ins MOREHEAD - A Murray MOREHEAD - Morehead State University men's bas State University police are. ketball player said jewelry investigating the theft of and a compact disc player, items from a car parked be with a combined value of hind Ginger Hall last week $1,000, were stolen from his end and the attempted break locker during a game at in of two other cars on the Morehead State University same parking lot. last week. Campus police said a tool Aubry Reese told More was used to punch out the head State University police passenger door lock on a car that the items were taken belonging to Brianne Steele from the visitors locker room of Thompson Hall around 1 at the Academic-Athletic a.m. Sunday. Center last Thursday around Compact discs, valued at 9 p.m., between halftime and $500, and a cellular phone the end of the game. charger worth $50 were The stolen items included stolen from the car. A CD a gold necklace with a bas player that the thief or ketball charm valued at thieves tried unsuccessfully $600, a $200 gold bracelet, to remove was also damaged two gold earrings worth a police said. ' combined $100 and the $100 Several hundred dollars in Sony CD player. damage was done to two oth er cars on the lot in unsuc cessful attempts to break into them. -, Anyone with information about the incidents is asked to call MSU police at (606J 783-2035. THE MOREHEAD NEWS-MOREHEAD, KY TUESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 8, 1998 Woman accuses MSU Police officers of ab-use using the master key obtained 12-year-old named in lawsuit from MSU ," according to the lawsuit. is theatre director accuser The woman claims she was ,Morehead'• Children's Theater, sexually assaulted by the offi By STEPHANIE DAVIS Luther Henry Dowell, of sexual cers. She also claims the officers Managing Editor abuse. separated her from her daugh The Morehead News does not ter and abused them, both phys A Morehead woman has identify alleged victims of sex ically and mentally, and "terror accused three Morehead State crimes. ized" the girl by saying she University police officers of rape In the civil suit filed on Nov. would be taken away from her and other abuse in an incident 23, the wom·an. accuses MSU mother. that allegedly occurred on cam officers,.'Ri(l!µey L. Coffey, The lawsuit also alleges that pus last year. How!'r;4l9lf ~jifIU and Shawn the mother was physically Also named as a plaintiff in Bentle)'~o a e, ·assault and abused when she was "humiliat the lawsuit is the woman's 12- excessi - ~ if.½>:. . ed and tortured by placing a year-old daughter. She is the Shet' '•ng $5 million in cord restraint around her neck same girl that has accused the ·puniti ·. _'. ---~-!""geB .. - and treating her as though she founder of the now-defunct According to court records, was a 'dog,'" and was pulled vio the alleged incident occurred lently up the steps to her apart about 4 a.m. on Nov. 25, 1997 ment using the cord around her after MSU police entered the neck. woman's apartment at Carter Attorney for the woman is Hall on the MSU campus. Bobby G. Wombles of Lexington. The lawsuit alleges that Wombles represented Londa police obtained a search warrant Higdon who accused motor vehi and entered the apartment cle enforcement officers of sex based on false information sup abuse at the 1-64 weigh station plied to them by William "Billy" in Rowan County. ,Tennings about possible drug MSU and the officers have activity. not responded to the lawsuit. "(The) officers entered the A civil lawsuit represents premises without giving the only one side of a case. plaintiffs sufficient time to No criminal charges have The Daily Independent, Ashland, Kentucky. awake antl come to the door, by been filed against the officers. Wednesday, December 9, 1998 Woman files rape suit against MSU officers serve the search warrant. university's master keys to get By KEvlN EIOELBACH The suit seeks a total of $5 OF THE DAILY INDEPENDENT inside, according to the suit. million in punitive damages MSU reports from that MOREHEAD - The police from the defendants. night show that the officers came to Delores Roe's door MSU Director of Public quickly discovered. their infor Nov. 25, 1997, looking for co Safety Richard Green would mation was wrong-and left af caine, says her attorney, Bob not comment on the lawsuit. ter 10 minutes, Wombles said. by Wombles. MSU Director of Communi When they didn't find it, cations Pauline Young said But he said his clients con they spent about an hour the university doesn't com tend that the police remained threatening and sexually as ment on lawsuits as a matter for about an hour and abused saulting her, he said. of policy. them in a variety of ways. Ac Roe and her daughter, now She did say that the three cording to the suit, the police: 13, filed suit against three of officers are still working, and ► Took off Delores Roe's ficers with the Morehead there is no talk of suspending clothes, held her down on the State University Office of them from duty at this point. floor and violated her with Public Safety Nov. 23 in Rowan Circuit Court Clerk their fingers. Rowan Circuit Court. Jim Barker said his office did · ► Threatened her daugh Defendants in the suit are have a copy of a search war ter with taking her away from MSU officers Rodney L. Cof rant served on the Roes. He her mother. fey, Howard Curtis III and declined the Daily Indepen ► Placed a cord restraint Shawn Bentley; William Jen dent's request for a copy, say around Delores Roe's neck nings, identified in the suit as ing that because no criminal and dragged her up the steps a student whose tip prompted charges were brought against of her apartment "like a dog." the police to search her apart the Roes, the search warrant Wombles said that Roe's ment; and unknown defen was not an open record. dants who helped the officers The suit claims that Jen daughter saw an officer put a nings gave the police false in pistol to her mother's head formation that drugs were in and threaten her during her side the Roes' campus apart interrogation. ment in Carter Hall, a dorm "This is the most extraordi for family student housing. nary story you've ever heard The informant told the po in your life," Wombles said. lice a shipment of coc?ifle was "I've heard some awful bad due at the Roes' apartment about 11 p.in~Nov. 24, accord things, but this tops them all." ing to the suit. Claims- made -in a lawsuit The officers served the present only one side of a search .warrant at 4 · a.m. on case. Nov,~25,-cby:using-one-~f .the Top moneymakers in education The new KCTCS president will be the fourth-highest-paid president in Kentucky's system of postsecondary education. . .. about Michael· B. Mc Call, first ,presidenf of the Gordon Davies/Council on Postsecondary Education Kentucky •Community ancl • I 111 Technical College System Charles Wethington/Universw of K1Webi Question: What will Mc Call do as president? John Shumaker/Universizy of Louisville --Answer: McCall will gov I ■ ml!lli;J ern the state's system of 13 Michael McCall/Kentucky CommmtyanctTechnical College System community colleges, formerly I I mIIDfil controlled by the University James Votruba/Northern Kentuc University of Kentucky, and _15 ,technical • • •II · colleges, formei:Iy jiarfof .the .state's Workforc£,Develop Gary A. Ransdell/Wester~niversity ment Cabinet. The system was created as part of Gov. Ronald Eaglin/Morehead State University Paul Patton's 1997 higher-edu ■ I :JE.OOl.ili.J cation reform act, which tout Robert Kustra Eastern Kentuck University ed the system as .the engine I 111 that would drive the ·state's Kern Alexander/MurrnyState ~niversity economic development.. I ffl'kZ:1:1 Q: Will community college presidents and technical col George Reid/Ken~University leges directors report to Mc- Call? · · · Averap° com~~e president A: Indirectly; yes. The system has· two chancellors Avera e technical college director that govern each . branch of • I I I community·and-technigd col Source: Council on Postsecondary Education TIM BLUM/STAFF leges. Th!_!Y-ans-wer to'McCall. The conimunify-.colleges, how .ever, have a1:lvi~"•boards' to , NC z - ,_ whom their presidents also re Carolina State Kentucky Community _port.· - ::, ,:;: ,_" . .,. ' Board of Technical and and Technical College k · ·· ._ , Q: To whom,will McCall ru:isWer? ·, ~- ,:· ,~ '°'·,- • _,, • · Comprehensive Education System :: '.A: McCall ~eports t9 !;he ■ 16 two-year colleges that ■ 28 colleges in two branches it 14-member KCTCS .Boru;d .of t · Regents. Eight'-nienibers are provide both technical and liber- - 13 in the University of ·. al arts education. Kentucky Community College ... appointed by:_ the ,governor. ■ 86,000 students in credit System and 15 colleges, with S\1J.dents, faculty. a11fstaff,of courses; 1D6,00D in continu- 11 branch campuses, in the l:!oth,comm!Wfy ll!!d:tecbni£31 ing-education courses. Technical Institutions Branch. ':: colleges -elect ,;.i,<-iegehts to ■ 4,000 ful~time employees. ■ 45,000 students each represent them ... ·· , · •:··•·. ■ $300 million annual budget semester; additional 144,DOO "' . -_ · Q: rs-ihere imyone";1se to ■ Overseen by a 12-member in continuing-education courses ;·whiim McCall musf'ansW:ei-? . board appointed by the gover- and business-training programs. f ,,, -A:' Kgl'~.1fan!l J1hStsecondary;"Edue(\hop,;-as ■ Overseen by a 14-member . do the eight put?licJour:year Board of Regents. Eight ! · ·universities:.. The councif,is appointed by governor, six f charged, witlP;setting• overall elected by faculty, staff and t students. policy for postsecondary edu . cation in the state. t - FROM STArF REPORTS Lexington Herald-Leader Sunday, December 13. 1998 ■ BOWLING Eagles' ,Kulick makes Team USA By Doug Bradley Joining Kulick and Kuhn on Mich.; and Jeremy Sonnenfeld oi HERAl.DlEADER BOWLING WRITER the team will be Jackie Edwards Macomb, Ill., who rolled the first Kelly Kulick, the reigning col- of Simi Valley, Calif.; Kasandra sanctioned 900 in ABC histon· lege player of the year, earned a Hyman of Dyer, Ind.; Tennelle Feb. 2, 1997. . berth on the 1999 Team USA Grijalva of Orange, Calif.; Jennifer Kulick, who has been named squad last Saturday in Reno, Nev. Daugherty of Lincoln, Neb.; Dian the college bowler of the year the Kulick, of Union, N.]., is one of dra Hvman of Dver. Ind.: Robin last two years, led Morehead State several All-Americans on the top- Marshall of Wichita Falls. Texas, to the 1998 national championship ranked Morehead State team. and the 1997 amateur champion. in April. The Morehead women's Kulick, who is a member of Janette Piesczynski. squad is expected to be the No. l Team USA this year. finished On the men's side, Michael team in th" season's first poll. third in the National Amateur Mullin of New York won the na which will be released· this week. Championships, which took place tional amateur crown. defeating The Morehead women have last weekend at the National Tony Manna Jr. of Omaha, Neb .. won four of"the six tournaments Bowling.Stadium. Kulick's finish 246-203 in the final match. in which they have participated was a re1,~t.of heLpeJjormance .. _ Joining Myllin and Manna.on this season and finished second.in_. _ last year. Team USA are Scott Pohl of Ea- the other two. Fellow Team USA member gan, Minn.; David Haynes of Las The Eagles are the pre-season Debbie Kuhn of Baltimore won Vegas; John Eiss of Orono, Minn.; favorite to capture the champi• the amateur title and will be the former amateur champions John onship again in Wichita. Kan .. ir captain: of the 1999 women's Gains of -Davidsonville. Md., Ver April. They have won two natior. ,sowfd:-"-· non Peterson of Dearbom-Heit!hts. al titles. in 19R9 anrl l()QR The Daily Independent, Ashland, Kentucky, Sunday, December 13, 1998 :Community-technical college -president ready for challenge COLUMBIA, S.O. (APJ - "Almost all of them have Michael B. McCall, hired been trained by the state's this month to head Ken technical colleges.'' tucky's community and Earlier this year, howev technical colleges, says the er, controversy erupted over · biggest challenge will be how BMW Corp: was spend continuing to build the sys ing its Special Schools train tem from scratch.. ing dollars. "Part of the appeal of this Documents obtained by a job for me was the very fact local newspaper found tha:t this is a new system," Mc state training dollars paid Call said in an interview for a BMW leadership semi with the Lexington (Ky.) nar that involved a rafting Herald-Leader last week. trip in North Carolina and "We have the chance to put cost nearly $200,000. into place a system that The newspaper filed a meets the state's goals and Freedom cif Information Act be the envy of the nation." request for more details, but McCall, 51, beat out edu McCall refused to release cators from North Carolina Mlchael McCall documents. and California for the job. The law has since been He will officially begin work Loom and Caterpillar. changed to require broader Jan. 11 with a three-year . In 1997, the state saw disclosure, and a full audit contract for the $180,000-a nearly $5.5 billion in busi of the program is now re year job. ness investment and more quired. The North Carolina na than 29,300 new jobs. The funding for BMW tive will be the first presi Many in the state at was negotiated before Mc dent of the Ph-year-old sys tribute that economic Call was appointed execu tem of the state's 13 commu prowess to McCall's success tive director of the system. nity colleges formerly gov in building ties to the busi McCall said such trips were erned by the University of ness community. not the norm in training Kentucky and its 15 techni "The technical colleges programs. cal colleges. are very much the fair Education observers also As executive director of haired child of the state's say McCall has guided the South Carolina's system of business and industry com colleges through a transi two-year colleges, McCall munity," said Fred Sheheen, tion period for the system has earned a reputation as a a former commissioner of and the state's higher-edu leader who can make 16 rel South Carolina's Commis cation picture. atively autonomous colleges sion on Higher Education. The South Carolina col work together - an act that "It's partly because of the leges traditionally have fo some education observers history of the colleges, but. cused on technical educa have called "kingdom-bust · Michael has been instru tion, but in the past decade ing." At the same time, he mental in making sure that or so have begun to- offer has helped make the system the business community more liberal arts classes to the "fair-haired child" of the knows what they have to of prepare students to transfer state's business community fer," Sheheen said. into four~year colleges. by responding to their work The system's Special (Kentucky i is experiencing er-training needs. Schools program provides an opposite shift, in which Creating the Kentucky worker training, at the technical schools are being system was a key, and con state's cost, for any new, ex enhanced.Y tentious, part of Gov. Paul panding or relocating busi And in 1996, the South Patton's higher-education ness. Carolina General Assembly reform, passed by the Gen The state's business lead passed a groundbreaking eral Assembly in May 1997. ers say the he! p they get law that required the state Patton touted the two-year from the technical colleges to tie .every dollar distrib colleges as the place where is invaluable. uted to all of its public col many Kentuckians would "Mike has been very cre leges to how,well those col develop the work skills that ative in molding education leges performed. would win them netter-pay programs to meet our hiring Sen. Nikki Setzler, a De ing jobs and help lure new needs," said Larry Wilson, mocrat from West Columbia business to the state. The .chief executive officer and and chairman of the Sen governor was critical of the founder of Policy Manage ate's education committee. previous system, saying it ment System Corp., a Co said McCall earned the was difficult to navigate. lumbia business that cre trust of the legislators. "Ac South Carolina's compre~ ates computer software for cessibility has never been a hensive technical colleges - the insurance industry. problem with Michael," Set schools that offer both acade For example, Wilson said; zler said. mic and vocational courses - starting in January, the lo College presidents agreed . get high marks for enhancing .cal technical college, Mid "One of Mike's greatest the state's prosperity. lands Tech, is providing strengths is building con According to state eco computer-programming sensus," said Keith Bird of nomic development figures, courses. at PMS C's head Central Carolina Communi South Carolina community quarters as part of an infor ty College in Sumter. colleges provided worker mation technology degree. "He watched out for training· in 1996 •for more "We employ 6,000 people everybody's interests as well than-181 compHnies, among and-hire at least· 100 more · as the -state's ·as-a· -whnle;" · - _ them BMW, Fruit of the every year," Wilson said. Bird said. THE COURIER-JOURNAL • KENTUCKY • SUNDAY, DECEMBER 13 1992 :hallenge appeals .,to coll1ege -chief • ,ociated Pres~ South Carolina's comprehensive audit of the program is now required. technical colleges - schools that of The monev for BMW was negotia1- ;QLUMBIA, S.C. - Michael B. fer both academic and vocational ed before McCall was appointed ex Call. hired this month to head courses - get high grades for en- " ecutive director of the system. He 1uucky's community and technical hancing the state's prosperity. ' said such trips were not the norm in lei;tes. says the biggest challenge According to state economic-devel training program:-.. l be continuing to build the system opment figures. South Carolina com The South Carolina colleges tradi m scratch. munuy college~ provided worker tionally have focused .on technical ·Pan of the appeal of this job for training in 1996 for more than 181 education. but in the past decade or was the vecy fact this is a new companies, among them BMW, Fruit so have.begun to offer more liberal tern," McCall said in an interview of the Loom and Caterpillar. arts classes _to prepare students TO h the Lexington (Ky.) Herald- In 199i, the state got nearly lransfer into four-year colleges. (Ken 1der lasl week. "We have the S5.5 billion in business investment tucky is experiencing an opposite 1nce to put into place a system and more than 29,300 new jobs. shift. in which technical schools are t mee1s the state's goals and be Many in South Carolina attribute being enhanced.) envyofthenation.'' that economic prowess to McCall's And in 1996, the South Carolina dcCaU~~success,in•·boilding.1ies-tolthB'.:busi....m. ;.1:Geneml Assemblf-passed·.a•ground• m North~cil'Otirta allcf:Califomia ness community. breaking law that required the state the job. He will officially begin "The technical colleges are very to tie everv dollar distributed to all of rk Jan. 11 with a thfee..fear con- much the fair-haired child of the its public 'colleges to how well those :t for the $180.000-a-year-Job. state's business and industry commu ·college:s performed. .1cCall, a.North Carolina native, "nity," said Fred Sheheen, a former Sen. Nikki Setzler, head of the I be the first president of the l½- member of South Carolina's Commis Senate's education committee, said r-old system of the state's.13 com- sion on Higher Education. ASSOCIATED PflESS McCall earned the trust of the legis nity colleges (formerly governed ··Jt's partly because of the history "We have the chance to put into lators. "Accessibilitv has never been the University of Kentucky) and of the colleges, but Michael has been place a system that meets the a problem with Michael," Setzler echnical colleges. instrumental in making sure that the state's goals and be the envy of said. 1.5 executive director of South business community knows what the nation," said Michael McCall. Collegefresidents agreed. ·olina's system of two-year col- they have to offer," Sheheen said. "One o Mike's greatest strengths es, McCall has earned a reputation The system's Special Schools pro- "We employ 6,000 people and hire is building consensus," said Keith 1 leader who can make 16 relative- gram provides worker training, at the at least 100 more every year," Wilson Bird of ~entral Carolina Community utonomous colleges work togeth- state's cost, for any new, expanding said. "Almost all of them have been College m Sumter. At the same time. he has helped or relocating business. trained by the state's teChnical col "He watched out for everybody"s : . -·· De.c-. 1,-11, (998 ~1lJL lup1.,/ MSU Clip Sheet s A sample of r,cmt articles of interest to Morehead State University UNIVERSITY COMMUNICATIONS MOREHEA D STATE UNIVERSITY UPO BOX 1100 MOREHEA D, KY 40351-1689 606-783-2030 Le~ Heralo-Leadef' · ~. . 0ece.,eer,lfs, 1998' Bo8!d's I-Vote margin ·means EKU, notb of L, will get school-safety cent.er tBy Unda,;;,,, B. JjBlackford ' • fl■rl■11••"· - ~ EDUCATION WRrTER ' ' r · FRANKFORT - A cieepty di vided board yesterday awarded the state's $15 million Center for School Safety to Eastern Ken tucky University - even though independent experts rated it much lower than a competing proposal. Members of the new center's board of directors split 6-5 over the decision, but denied that polit ical pressure sent the center to EKU, which is the employer of Rep. Harry Moberly, D-Richmond, For' University of Loutsville: -, · one of the sponsors of legislation Kevin Gamty, Jefferson District chief judge; Blake Haselton. chair that created it. man, superintendent Oldham County Schools; Sherron Jackson, par "I'm not aware of any pressure ent repr8'8ntatlve, Council on PostaecoAdary,,td~on employee; Maurtoe .~. admlnlstratt\ A sample of recent articles of interest to Morehead State University UNIVERSITY COMMUNICATIONS MOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY UPO BOX 1 100 MOREHEAD, KY 40 35 1- 16 89 606-783-203(' The Daily Independent. Ashland, Kentucky. Thursday. December 17, 1998 The air strikes would prob ton Iron. "Something just time" when Clinton 1s having ably cease then out of respec1 Take out needs to be done. political troubles at home . for the Arab world, Hu said. "This guy" s just going to "Quiie frankly, h e's getting Hu said he believed im keep playing games with us his money's worth. pe_achment had a bearing or Saddam and the rest of the world. "I'm a little disappointed Clinton's decision, but said, "J That's the way he is, you that the Repuolicans have not don't know that this will have now, say know?" rallied behind. our soldiers," any positive impact on his sit Desert Storm Navy veteran said .Macka1., who has a broth uation, on his future." Jason Tolliver's first thought er in the milltatv. Marcus Woodward, chair vels, others when h e learned of the Clinton and British Prime man of the Boyd County De strikes: "Maybe they'll finish Minister Tony Blair made a mocratic Party, deplored the Urge support it this time. promise during the last show second-guessing of the presi "We ought to get rid of Sad- down in November that they dent. for military, dam," said Tolliver, who now would act swiftly if this h ap "It's extremely unfortunate works at North American Re- pened again. that the long-standing axiom president fractories in South Shore. That's what they have in government of leaving poli ·'He's j ust going to come back, done. Mackav said, and Sad- tics at the shore and not pro By KnlN ENw, HClf ain't he?" dam has not lived up to the jecting it internationally ha~ OF THE DAILY INDEPENDENT Ashland native Jeffrey U .N. resolutions put in place been broken by the Republi Dunham, a former lieutenant at the end of the Gulf War. can Party." Woodward said. Fiiush the job. colonel in the Army, said he Russia and China have al That was the senti- hoped America had enough ready denounced the attacks. "It's a real shame people ment of veterans and oth- stomach to eliminate Saddam and France is sure to follow. have accused (t he president ers this morning as they once and for all. The only nation that has of using this as a means of de reacted to air strikes un- He didn't think Clinton or- strongly backed the U.S. and laying impeachment. Obvi leashed on Iraq Thurs- dered the raids to divert at- Britain is Israel. ously, the impeachment process will go on." day. tention from his own political "Quite frankly, I think if "When they went in t roubles. most world leaders had their Woodward's opposite mun there in '91, if they had Indeed, if anyone was play- druthers, they'd lock Saddam her in the Boyd County Re shot that sucker then and ing politics in the situation, it Hussein and Bill Clinton in a publican Party, Mary Kay got it over with, our might have been Saddam, he room and just let them slug it Wheeler, said the timing of young men wouldn't be said. out/' Mackay said. , the operation concerned her. over there now: said Dr. Charles Mackay, an as- "But' I'm always in support James, 1,.. ';James of s1§tant professor of history at Clinton had to act decisive ofour armed forces - totally," Catlettsburg, commander Morehead Stat e University ly, said MSU assistant profes she said. ofVFW Post 1017 in Ash- agreed. ' sor of government Xiaobo ~ l&DCl. "lf_ tffl,y .~ ahead "What gets lost in all of this But he's not sure uie Om _wi~ "What ~ey're do~~ is that Saddam Hussein is a States and British forces will nowlUMJ i.il,t over with, I p retty savvy politician him- be able to completetheir stat- PAUL GOffBRATH and TOM we'll:be hetttf.pff. self," Mackay said. ed objectives by Friday, when LEWIS of The Daily lndepen- Fred M~f Ash- Saddam probably planned the Muslim holy days of Ra- dent news staff also con- land, a Worl II vet- his actions around "this very madan begins. tributed to this story. ~ of Poot THE FLOYD COUNTY T111ES WEDNESD~Y, DECEMBER 16, 1998 ~r·r~(t'~:·l: New ·book tells the story of enol_!gh. th=~:!1°:!dEverybody -sbould back~hie:. a country doctor Of 'the year the president," Mann said. Over the past 50 years. Dr. was a hospital. The Catholic ered, but it took three days to con Ground troops should Claire Louise Caudill and nurse Church was investigating bow they vince the woman that she was read~ be WJ8(i in Iraq "if that's Susie Halbleib have traveled an iso- could participate, and Caudill to get up and move around. what it takes," said Post lated mountain region in eastern remembers that all it took was one Patients especially appreciated 1017 member and Kore Kentucky by means of truck, sled, look at her office to convince Caud.ilJ's approaches to medicine. an War veteran David boat. and even on foot. Together church officials to start building. As friend and patient. nurse Ellie Allen of Westwood. they have assisted in the births of The clay Monsignor Towell came Reser says that Caudill "is able to Veterans of OJ>eration over 8,000 babies and worked to to visit, Caudill says, "we had two look at a patient as a total person. Deaett Storm, the 1991 improve the health of innumerable sets of twins and a singleton that She has always practiced holistic air and ~ war that women. night. and we had just had another medicine, before it was even pushed Iraqi forces out of Now. through interviews and a one and someone in the labor room. known. She scaned a birthing center Ku..&. -said the raids one-woman play "Susie n' Me." So there were five babies all lined before people even talked about it. addressed the unfinished author Shirley Gish chronicles the up. And [Towell] came in and went She was ahead of her time in man) . business of getting rid of lives of two remarkable women in kind of pale. He thought surely we many thi ngs. When I think of Saddam. the new book Country Doctor: The must need a hospital." Louise Caudill. I think of a healer. "It's the same-old song Story of Dr. Claire Louise Caudill. As a result. the St. Claire and dance," aid Lin Gul in the very best sense of the tenn: · For her work in bringing health Medical Center was a realicy by the Caudill and Halbleib still prac lett, who -wu. ill 'Special and prenatal care to the Morehead Forces in Desert Storm early l960s. tice in Morehead today. Though and now works for Iron- region. Dr. Caudill was named the Doctor and nurse have had their Caudill no longer deli vers babies. Country Doctor of the Year in 1995. share of unusual experiences. One her other patients will not let her But long before that nat ional award. young man remembers the story of retire. Caudill and Halbleib were celebrat how his father had to use a blow The book is set for publication in ed figures in their city, and the girls torch on the back door of Caudill's January by the University Press ol named Louise and Susie in honor-of house during a blizzard so that she Kentuck~. the doctor and nurse team are could attend his birth. almost too numerous to count. Halbleib tells of a woman in In 1957, Caudill and Halbleib active labor who arrived at established their own office in Caud.ilJ's mother's home at two in Morehead. but they soon Tealized the morning. She was put intc ~~~-j-~~·=«1ne Dally 1naepenaent, Asn1ana, Kentucky, Saturday, December 1:i. 1:i:ii:;' Creative steps ACC adjusts to better serve students Faced with declining enroll or to June 1995. The one-time ment, Ashland Community Col amnesty program does not in lege is taking some creative clude student loans or money steps to attract more students owed to institutions other than by better meeting the education . community and technical col needs of area residents. leges. Beginning with the spring The hope is that forgiving semester, virtually all day past parking tickets, library classes at ACC will meet only fines, parking tickets and the two days a week. The 75- like will bring some former stu minute classes will either meet dents back into the classroom. on Mondays and Wednesdays, Beyond that, ACC likely would Tuesdays and Thursdays, or have a difficult time collecting Fridays and Saturdays. In ad fees that have been owed. for dition, night classes will meet such a long period. one time a week, instead of the ACC is to be applauded by current two. The new schedule will make trying different approaches to it easier for students to balance recruit students. Of course, the their college classes with job best approach is to offer out and family obligations. Like standing programs for those most community colleges, ACC who plan to transfer to a four attracts many older students year college and to those study who are able to attend only ing for a two-year degree. ACC part-time. also is excelling in this area. In a bolder move, ACC is for The 5.8 percent decline in en giving $81,603 in unpaid fees rollment ACC experienced this owed by more than 600 stu fall is not good news. The entire dents. They are students who area benefits when more people left school with unpaid fees pri- seek postsecondary degrees. The Daily Independent. Ashland, Kentucky, Saturday, December 19, 1998 -First in Kentucky Ashland Technical College takes lead While Ashland Community program combines what ATC College is seeking creative and ACC have always done ways to attract students, its sis best. · ter school - Ashland Technical The academic demands of College - has become the traditional vocational educa state's first technical school to tion programs have increased offer a two-year degree. In or greatly over the years with to der to achieve this commend day's crafts requiring extensive able goal, ATC students will skills in computers, mathemat have to take up to 15 hours of ics and other academic areas. academic courses at Ashland Rather than duplicate existing Community College in addition programs in a community, it to the vocational and technical makes sense for technical training they receive at Ash schools to work with communi land Tech. ty colleges in meeting those Beginning next year, the academic needs. technical school will offer stu ATC currently is negotiating dents associate degrees in ap with Morehead State Universi plied technology. Previously, ty to accept the new applied the school has offered only cer technology degree toward its tificates in applied technology, own requirements for a bache and credit earned from courses lor's d~ee in industrial tech taken at ATC often were not ac cepted by colleges and universi nology. That will make the new degree even more ·valuable and ties. The two-year degree pro further s!cew the line between gram is just the type of "seam technical schools and colleges. less" education Gov. Paul Pat We commend th:ose at the ton e;;_visioned ~hen he pushed technical college for taking- a for the creation of the Kentucky lead in changing postsecondary Community and Technical Col- · education in Kentucky for the lege System. The new degree better. THE COURIER-JOURNAL• KENTUCKY• SUNDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1998 Renovated house praised Bv DAVID GOETZ The Courier-Journal When University of Louis ville President John Shu• maker gets home from work, it won't come as a surprise if he forgets to remove his hat. So open is the feeling of the newly renovated Presi dent's Home on Longest Ave nue - so high are the 12-foot ceilings. so bright the decor - that enterin~ the foyer is still a bit like bemg outside. That bright and open char· acter, in contrast to many of the massive, old homes in the Cherokee Triangle, is what struck visitors and volunteer tour guides alike yesterday as the. public got its first full look at what professional decorators with a $1 million budget can accomplish. "This is one of the nicest houses I've ever seen in the neighborhood," said visitor Gus Thomas of Louisville. The president's home, which has received a $1 million renovation, is located on "Nothing else compares to Longest Avenue. The house is owned by the University of Louisville Foundation. it." The house, owned bv the color scheme radiates from University of Louisville Foun that source into wallpaper, dation, was a Designer Show carpets and hangings in var· House in May for a Rotary ious shades of yellow and Club of.Louisville fund-raiser. cream. But the work was incomplete While some of the polished and only a handful of rooms mahogany furniture has been were open at the time. with the house, other pieces "You really did not get the have been built new for feel of the house," said Su Bittners, which handled the zanne Woods, who came decorating. A large, leafed back yesterday for a second table in the dining room can look. "You do now - the seat 24. flow.'' Above the kitchen on the The biggest change is a second floor, which will two-story addition that in· serve as primary living space eludes a huge kitchen large for the president's family, a enough to handle catered new sun room gives way, special events. The house is through double doors, to a used extensively for universi deck overlooking a mani· ty functions and meetings. cured lawn and garden. The president's family will There's a new master bed On a break in the kitchen were, from left, Brandy use the kitchen and an ad room and bath, a study, a Rayburn, Bobbie Tuggle and Kavin Brown. joining breakfast nook, and bedroom for one of Shu possibly a small den with an maker's teen-age sons, a for pingpong and pool. That, a longtime patron of the uni entertainment center at the guest room and two more with the addition, brings the versity, financed it. rear of the house, but the baths on the second floor. In total floor space to about The public will get one last .rest of the first floor is clear the garret above, a bedroom, 10,000 square feet. chance to view the entire ly designed for public enter study and bath provide space Bittners executive vice home todav from noon to 5 taining. for an older teen-age son. president Ben Small directed p.m. AdmiSsion is $5 or 1s Central to the decor is an The basement has been the renovation. Owsley free with a ticket stub saved elaborately carved fireplace painted and partially finished Brown Frazier, vice chairman from last spring·~ Rota!"'' of pale yellow marble. The as a game area, with tables of Brown-Forman Corp. and show house. THE COURIER-JOURNAL• SUNDAY. DECEMBEF: 2l, 199_; a: U of L trustees -WKU awards 1,100 degrees at ceremony BOWLING GREEN, Ky.'- Western Kentucky University conferred ,;: give Shumaker more than 1,100 degrees during fall commencement yesterday. State historian Thomas Clark received an honorarv doctorate, the ! i 5-year contract fourth in the school's history. At age 95, Clark continues to research 32 E and write books, overviews and other works on the state's history. ~u"'Cl> WKU President Gary Ransdell told the graduates that their educa ::coCl> '" ASSOCIATED PRESS tion did not end with commencement, but that education should be a lifelong process. § >, LOUISVILLE - The University "Your experience.at Western is one chapter of your own personal ~~ of Louisville extended President .£: :5 novel," he told about 600 graduates participating in the ceremony at x- John Shumaker's contract yesterday E.A. Diddle Arena. "You are the author. and onlv vou can determine -3 c7, from June 2000 through June 2005. how your story will unfold." • · The trustees' executive commit Lexington Herald-Leader tee also approved raising his salary Saturday. December 19. 1998 from $191.000 to $200.000 a vear. OVC honors 6: The Ohio Vallev Conference has Trustees Chairman J. Chester selected six individuals to receive its prestig10u, Porter said the board thought Shu• Scholar-Al:hlete Award for 1998-99. Among the wir. maker's performance has been ners are,Sam Hoehner,.a baseball player at "nothing short of phenomenal" since Morehead State. and Sarah Blossom. a track and he assumed the. job in July 1995. cross-countrv- . runner from Eastern Kentuckv.. "The universitv has made un precedented strides toward becom• ■ BOBSLED il)g ?. natio!]_ally_ recogniz_ed re.search institution, and a place committed Shimer, U.S. 7th: Germany's Christoph to delivering a top educational expe Langen won the gold medal in the two-man compe rience for its undergraduate stu tition of the LaPlagne World Cup at LaPlagne. dents," Porter said. The extension France. USA I, with pilot Brian Shimer and brake also includes life and disability ir.- man Paul Wise. finished seventh. ~11T"!:lnr11 nr.l;r'Sc:- JI ll: COUHllH .IOUHNAI • SA1URDAY, DECEMBER 19 IU98 U of L extends Shumaker's contract, raises base pay to $200,000 Shuniaker's contract, which SHUMAKER SAID he will con Goal is to ensure was negotiated when he was tinue to push for research excellence PRESIDENTS' hired in 1995, was due to expire while making sure undergraduate president won't in 2000. But it stipulated that ne education does not suffer. He said he BASE SALARIES gotiations on a new contract will also work lo raise faculty and consider leaving could take place this year if he staff salaries to competitive levels. University of Louisville did a good job. J. Chester Porter, Shumaker called the contract ex President John ShtJmaker By MICHAEL JENNINGS the trustees' chairman, said con tension a "very moving" show of received a pay ir\crflase yesler The Courier-Journal tract negotiations began in July. confidence. It should add stability to day, taking his bas$ salary from Porter described the decision to U of L's IO-year plan for gaining na $191,000 to $200,000. Here are University of Louisville Presi add five years to Shumaker's ex tional prommence in several research other Kentucky college presi dent John Shumaker has a new isting five-year deal as a rare vote and academic programs, he said. dents' base salaries as of Ocl. contract that gives him job securi of confidence. Shumaker said there's an effort to 29, 1998. ty until June 2005 and makes him "We are attempting· to cause foster similar stability iri athletic pro the highest-paid university presi, Dr. Shumaker to want to staX grams through long-term' contracts Charles Wethington, $192,651 dent in Kentucky. here and be happy in Louisville, ' with Tom Jurich, the athletic direc University of Kentucky The contract extension, ap Porter said. If Shumaker is wooed tor, and John L. Smith, the football proved yesterday by the executive by another university, "we hope coach. The goal, he said, is to "lock Jam·e~.Votruba, $169,600 committee of the U of L board of he will simply say, 'I'm not inter in good people so that they're c~m Northern Kentucky Universtty trustees, raises Shumaker's ested' - as opposed to attempting fortable and are more or less im $191,000 base salary to $200,000 to come back and bargain with us mune to inducements from outside." Gary Ransdell, $152,976 and makes lhe raise retroactive to each year." Western Kentucky University Shumaker said he was not con MALCOLM CHANCEY, chair last Ju_iy I. The highest-paid uni man of the U of L Foundation, said Ronald E;aglin, $150,000 versity chief in-the state previous sidering another job elsewhere, BY SAM UPSHAW JR., rnE COUR!EA-JOUANAL yesterda:f that in addition to other Morehead Stale University ly w~s University of Kentucky although "people call all the time" to benefits ti provides Shumaker - in U of L President John Shumaker, left, smiled alter signing a new contract. With him President Charles Wethington, sound out his uiterest. "There was no were, from left, Trustees J. Chester Porter, Jessica S. Loving and Frank B. Hower Jr. cluding two cars, a country club Robert Kustra, $150,000 whose base pay is $192,651. immediate pressU:re there," he said. membership and a salary supplement Eastern Kentucky University Shumaker, 56, also was given PORTER SAID that under Shu - the foundation might give him in $1 million in new life insurance ce_n!ive payments if he meets fund Kern Alexander, $132,679 cov~rage and new disability insur maker, U of L has moved toward Murray State University prominence as a research univer.siiy, ra1smg goals. ance coverage equal to 60 percent The foundation followed the trust of his salary over $!00,000. become a more powerful engine of George Reid, $120,000 economic development, and forged ees' .lead in trying to give Shumaker He remains eligible for the "some degree of comfort and security Kentucky State University same merit-pay increase given to fruitful partnerships with Louisville, ' U of L faculty; that figure varies Jefferson County and the state. and keep the headhunters away," from year to year. Porter said Shumaker had a hand said Chancey, a retired banker who A privately funded package of in increasing U of L's endowed chairs also heads a $200 million U of L fund supplemental benefits that Shu and professorships from 25 (o 39; in drive. maker receives from the Universi creasin!f the endowment from $183 Shumaker would be an attractive ty of Louisville Foundation will million m 1995 to $317 million; creat catch for "practically any public or also grow slightly to a total value ing Metropolitan College, a novel private university in the country, and we want to make sure that he stays estimated at $75,000 to $80,000 a state-university-industry partnership that supplies student workers for with us for the duration of his college year. president's career," Chancey said. Such supplements, whether United Parcel Service; and bringing provided by universities or private rigorous attention to NCAA rules and donors, make it hard to compare gender equity in U of L's athletic pro the total remuneration of college grams. presidents. "They all get houses, "As we see .it, John Shumaker they all get cars, they all get ... clearly is the right per.ion at the right other benefits of various kinds," time for U of L, 'and we are fortunate said Kenneth Walker, vice presi indeed to have him continue to lead dent for finance of the state the university,". Porter said. Council on Postsecondary Educa tion. TIIE MOIIBIIEAD NEWS-MOlrnllEAD, KY TUESDAY MORNINll, DECEMBER 16, 1998 ~PORTS Sawyer Brown concerts lift MSU weight room By DENVEH nnowN The w1•i1:bl room iH lornl,id llm11 goin~ lo the football stadi Spurts Writer insitle llni A•·ademit· Alhlclic um and 11 will help us gain Center 111:nn-ai from Ilic cufll stningth, t!flpeciully the big cnlrn1w1• lo llw Elli11 T. ,Julnumn g11yH, for k11urki11g nr1111111I 011 The M8IJ E111:I•· l11rnk1•ll1111l Au·na. 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A sample of recent articles of interest to Morehead State University UNIVERSITY COMMUNICATIONS MOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY UPO BOX 1100 MOREHEAD, KY 40351-1689 606-783-2030 ;( l.eJll"""'n'=!if,1:ii~-·-·~::~;t;,l~-=•-W ....· er·' ·2ti'~--- -c:,:;,~·,.. wt:UJR::;,uoy,. ~ . r I' __ , _ ,.,,.1r,.t11-I'--~ • c·.. --·u :. _. :- ..,~-~•,,i:a;·,:-i ,. -'"•~ .. ,., ····-.. J,;,~-,..-1,.,-~=, .-;-,;;..·N.:.'?'"--'.:.:...... 3,.::;q:-,....,._,.,., •• - - ·· ,.._~ ~twoulcl'lnl!Re'li''lilflif~ .,:: •• ; ' . ~ . -- ' }.;.J;. ,~ \ J,; ,t;-;-~.·en ·, -=·said,~._.~,.w • 'T?~llf•·iJio:·--ntl,,iir . '"""""'' .. , _ • ~, _ , ;;: . ~--,. ·.,,.___ 0'.,,_·4"~.• •. •;~---~·l~,.(- " ~- - -:-,..,: .• · ,~ 1 • Dms as HB -"· •'ftll(',w.a'become-t_tea~her:- ·-·•··8. _;t,e1iifin. / ~'.lUto'·"""••:,l,,..th':e'",.:;;. , -~~ i~~jf,~t,·'Jb ,,~~~i{it~-trut:{·' · }II ~I.; ~ , ·w;·1.i:e _,.;'[., grm•m~~,,~ .: ... u~~ t "al'il'. . 0 :_; ,•.,ire~,.~ '"tiwlir~ •-• - .!.-'. 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Rbrfl!ic.key asked bun to gwde I names'ti{ schi>larships>with ma- l field still remembers how her col- the endowment effort for tliree jar gifts. _ lege prospects were tied to her years, or until the iir,t scholar- "That is a lot of money if you pocketbook. shi]l5 go to ,tudems. add it up," Goins said. ·Things were tight." she said. Goms said he an_d others The plan is to raise enough "It would have been nice to have called school districts tor advice monev so that interest on the fund had a little exrra income.· on non-profit fund-raising corpo- pays ·for the scholarships. "This She didn't, though, and had to rations. Some county and mde- could go on forever,'' Goms said. leave Morehead State l'niversity penden\ districts had endowment He's confident the fund will , before· earning a degree. :':ow a funds. Goins said. bur none were be able to giw a year's college secretary at Paris High - "·here just ior scho:arships. tuition to all graduates who qua!- her son i, a sophomore - Stub- Paris is a ,mall scho_ol, and . ify. it doesn't, the inter~! blefield is among the alumni and that's why the scholarship fund If !!en• , erated will be evenly divided area residents trying to give to- can work there, officials said. among qualified students. he day's students a better chance at About 50 seniors graduate each said. · higher education by offering a year, and fewer than 15 __ are ex- But rather than contemplat- J new source of financial aid-- · pected to qualify for the sc~o_Iar- · ing the fund coming up short, The Paris Education Endow- ships. With UK's current hlltlon, Goins is encourag~ ?Y the early !' ment Fund, a non-profit corpora- that's at most about $40,0QQ._m 1' response to fund ra1sm_g _and pos-· tion, started raising money this , aid a year. , . ,, , .. sibilities beyond the angina] goal ' year for-scholarships to be a'ward- ! "Most school districti!'in the ' "Down the road, we could I .. ed annually beginning in 2001. state couldn't do I I work this thing out to pay for College-bound students who grad- it," Hickey said._ , I two years of college," ~e said_ uate with a B average will get i f. Seieral ·stu- - ~--~ money equal to tuition for the ~t , dents including year at the University of Ken- Clark' Sturgeon tucky - now S2.680 - for use at _ a sophomore their school of choice. whose class will Other non-profit organizations be the first eligi- help school districts with scholar- ble for scholar- ships. enrichment and other_ ~ro- ships - are grams. state educanon officials glad the district Homer Goins said. But a fund dernting all is doing it. is the fund's money to ,cho!arships for col- "A lot of coordinator. lege-bound seniors with good students don't grades is unique in Kentucky, ha,·e enough money to go (O they said. school unless they get an athlenc As Homer Goins. the Paris scholarship or something ltke fund's coordinator. put it. "We're that," he said. ''I'll probably pa~ going to give it to everyone who for a lot of my schCJ?lmg myself. will work."' Sophomore Jessica _Lewis ."'.lid The fund,raising goal is that having help with tumon · $300,000 by 2001, ..,~ said; would ea,;;e_ber min4.du.tj,n~_that i ati(\iit'ffl.:000.~.- :.~~."•~·.. ,. ,first.yearaincollege;,q;:,,c..,_,~1'~--·· t 'L!!!.•1•·•::..t.~ . ..,:_lt•••,.,.:>,'6J:Hk't;Ji..,i), . . 1 ~--:.~t:.-.... ;;{~,; ~-:1::!tt·:.;'U!_li:~3\~~ ✓.! I By TOM LEWIS/OFTHE DAILY INDEPENDENTj The old Trail Theater -In Morehead Is under renovation to •: used as office space and storage. :.,~.' ~ ,: I ":._ J-r'-·,r- ,i ,,(t '' A sample of recent articles of interest to Morehead State University UNIVERSITY COMMUNICATIONS MOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY UPO BOX 1100 MOREHEAD. KY 40351-1689 606-783-2030 Lexington Herald-Leader ------v•.VedncsElay, Dece-n:me,,_,.-30-'r-!J.,.g,.gg,______ Ediforials Spending on teacher preparation fell below the average for all disci plines by 1.6 percent to 21 percent, depending on the institution's clas- Cash cows sification. · And in 16 of 18 cases, less was Teacher preparation ranks low in university budgets spent to prepare students for teach ing than for other professions. eachers are educated on the ducted at the University of Mon This allocation of resources sug cheap. tana-Bozeman, reinforces the long gests universities place greater val T A study last year found held notion that education pro ue on training an architect or a "clear evidence" that, with very few grams are "cash cows," generating, pharmacist than training a teacher. exceptions, "education programs but not consuming, revenue for uni Does this allocation reflect our val are less well funded than other pro versities. This study was the first ues as a society? And if it does, fessional progran~s·· at U.S. univer large-scale attempt to refute or how can we credibly demand that sities and colleges. confirm that suspicion, and the is teachers and schools meet higher The implications are troubling. sue merits further investigation standards? Without more and better teachers, Relying on data from 170 cam As Kentucky strives to improve public schools won't be able to puses, the authors looked at how the quality of the teaching force, it meet- the challenges of the 21st, or, much universities spend for a credit makes sense to take a sharp look at for that matter, 20th century. hour of instruction in various disci how much we're investing in And as long as teacher training plines. Only one Kentucky school, teacher preparation. Because you al is the discount bin of academia, stu Northern Kentucky University, was most always get what you pay for. dents whose love of learning would part of the.data base. make them the be!;t teachers will Lexington Herald-Leader shy from education as a major. Wednesday, December 30, 1998 The lower funding "becomes even more significant," the study says, "when we take into account Passing down· a passion characteristics of education pro eafing through year-end re "It has been a pervasive value grams which should make them ports from the National Edu of the people in the upper Midwest more expensive rather than less ex Lcation Goals Panel, we were that they place a high value on edu pensive." struck by a statement explaining cation - from early childhood to These characteristics include why Minnesota's teachers are so post-secondary and adult learning. fewer lower-division courses that well qualified for It stands to rea enroll large numbers and are often their jobs. son, then, that taught by part-time faculty or grad Minnesota with all the focus uate students; the low faculty-to has the highest and energy going student ratios required by student percentage of into educating teaching and other practicum expe high-school and the young, when riences, and the higher percentage middle-school these students of graduate students in education. teachers who grow older (and Despite these cost drivers, edu hold a degree in enter the teach cation programs are under-funded their main teach ing profession ) almost any way you look at it. ing assignment. they bring with The study, paid for by three Almost 30 years them that pas- teacher education groups and con- of strict licens- BARRIE MAGUIRE sion for learning . . mg require- and discovery." ments help account for the success. In other words, students who But regulations are only part of the were taught well become teachers picture, says Don Krukow, the who teach well. Kentucky's chal state's director of educational li lenge is to ignite that passion and censmg. build that tradition. Nina TeweH Tim Wagner WKYT-TV: Nina Tewell and __ Tim W11gner have ~n J.)alil_ed marketing consultants for the Lexington television station. Lexington Herald-Leader Monday, January 4, 1999 Honoring a healer PHOTOS BY D'ART LYKINS The\Rev:-,em Watson gave opening remarks at a fun\'lral for Dr. c. Louise.Caudill yesterday. About 500 friends, fam ily ·and patients attended the service at Morehead State University's Academic-Athletic Center. Doctor's pioneer spirit, generosity remembered By Frank E. Lockwood Later, she had her own clinic NORTHEASTERN KENTUCKY BUREAU and then, in 1963, a hospital de MOREHEAD- Dr. C. Louise I livery room: St. Claire Medical Caudill, who delivered 8,000 babies, Center. founded a hospital and practiced med She never lost her enthusi icine here for more than half a centu asm or sense of awe. "I think ry, was laid to rest yesterday. every delivery is a miracle. I re Caudill died Thursday in Lexing allv do," she told an interviewer ton at age 86. in i993. About 500 friends. family mem At the funeral, Caudill's cas bers and patients attended Caudill's ket was surrounded by 35 floral funeral at Morehead State University's arrangements containing hun Academic-Athletic Center before her dreds of roses. burial at her family's cemetery. Eight rows of seats were They remembered a practitioner filled by employees of St. Claire who cared more about patients than Medical Center. profits and never turned a poor person The hospital was named ai away. ter Caudill (her first name was A memorlal to Caudill was on display at They honored a gifted healer who Claire) after she spearheaded the the St. Claire Medical Center yesterday. spent a lifetime helping others. drive to bring a hospital to More· head in the 1960s. She also They praised a pioneer who stud served as its first' chief oi staff. ied medicine when women doctors When Caudill opened her were almost unheard of in northeast practice in 1948, there were no ern Kentuck\". "Louise ·can never be replaced.'' interstates. For a time. funeral home hearses and the ciogcatcr,· said Frankie Calven. Rowan County's er's van were used a$ ambu librarian and one oi Caudill's patients. lances. "She wasn't just a doctor: she was a The nearest hosprtai was two friend." hours away. In this Appalachian town of 8,400, Caudill was sometimes referred to as Caudill and her nurse and "the Mother of the Community" be loyal friend, ·susie Halbleib. cause she had helped deliver so many· spe11t_the. ne:,ct 50. years working oi its babies. to improve health care in the re She delivered about 2.000 babies g10n. in homes. traveling to often-primitive Caudill's pastor. the Re· .. Bih ciweliings ~ some of them lacking Warson oi Morehead's hrs. eiect;icr•~·. n.1nnintT wa1e;- and floor~ Chnsnan Churct. saic h, n~ · Lexington Herald-Leader Friday, January 1, 1999 DR. C. LOUISE CAUDILL4.-9-12-1998 Dr. Caudill was instrumental in and her nurse in Morehead. Me ·11 establishing !\forehead's St. Claire Susir. based on interviews Gish Medical Center. which was named conducted with Dr. Caudill and in her honor. She helped raise Halbleib. was a hit in Morehead. Ii $294,000 in 1960 to build the facilin· was performed the next vear ar and helped secure staffing for ii. Lexington's Opera House. · Revered The hospital, which opened in 1963, Gish. now retired as a More was named Outstanding Rural Hos head State professor and living in pjta!_ in. tlte..U.nitcl..S.tates.iQ 1993. _ Taos. N.M., said: "LknQW...Di..rn, __ Dr. Caudill was the first chief of greater person living or dead. Morehe-all- staff at St. Claire Medical Center. Dr. Louise was absolutely phe serving from 1963 to 1972. She also nomenaL There was an energy served on the hospital's board for tram this woman vou could liter- many years. ally feel. And there was a radi Yesterday, there was a framed ance about her. doctor portrait of Dr. Caudill with a pink "She had courage, and she was ribbon draped over it in the foyer an inspiration to others. All of it at St. Claire. was done in the most genuine wai·. Beneath the painting sat a large and with great spirit. · basket of flowers: snapdragons, "I really believe Dr. Louise was dies at 86 daisies, roses and carnations. a healer. If she put a hand on vou "Thank you Dr. Louise for a you felt that." · · lifetime of care," an anonymous Last year, Dr. Caudill's sister. Caudill delivered 8,000 babies, note said. Lexington philanthropist Lucille "It's hard for me to believe that Caudill Little, established an en worked to improve their lives Doc's not here," said Bob Bishop. a dowed professorship at the Uni retired pharmacist and a lifelong versity of Kentucky College of By Jennifer Hewlett, Frank Lockwood friend. "She was just a marvelous lvledicine in Dr. Caudill's honor. and Art Jester person, a brilliant person ... am· The UK board approved setting HERALD-LEADER STAFF \VRITERS bod)' that knew her admired her.'' up the Dr. Claire Louise Caudill Dr. Claire Louise Caudill, a well-known doctor "I just don't feel like I can sal" Professorship in Family Medicine. and civic leader in Rowan County and the sur enough to emphasize what she;s which is supported by Little's rounding area, died yesterday at Universiry of meant to me and the communitY. I S500,000 endowment. Kentucky Hospital, apparently of a heart attack. don't have the words," Bishop said. Earlier in the 1990s, Dr. Caudill She was 86 · and Bishop said he had asked her if was chosen from more than 100 lived in the Forest she'd thought about retiring. nominees as Countn- Doctor of the Hills subdivision "She just said, 'Well, I like Year. The award is given by the in Morehead. what I'm doing. I've taken care of Country Doctor Museum in Bailey Dr. Caudill, a them this long. I've got to keep it KC., and Staff Care lnc., an Irving: family practitioner up."' Texas, firm that provides fill-in in Morehead for Her death stunned many. physicians to clinics and hospitals. about a half-centu "We were devastated," said Dr. Caudill, the daughter of a ry, delivered about Morehead Mayor Brad Collins. one Morehead banker and_ lawyer, re 8,000 babies, many of Dr. Caudill's patients since child ceived a bachelor of science degree in rural homes hood. "She probably saved my life from Ohio"State University in 1934, with no electricity, three or four times when I was a master's degree from Columbia during her career. growing up," he said. University in 1936 and taught Although she Dr. Caudill delivered three of physical education at Morehead stopped delivering 1.-_ __.;::e.::...._....:1L----' Collins' children and his stepdaugh State for seven vears. She went on babies at age 70, ALE PHOTO ter. "She really is a special lady to to attend the Universin· of ·1she continued to Dr. C. Louise Caudlll us and we're going to miss her.'· Louisville Medical School, where ,.practice medicine fought to improve prena He remembered Monday morn she was one of two women among b!;:ause her pa- tal care. A Morehead hos ings in the 1950s when patients 100 graduates to receive a medical ,ti~ -would,, not pital was named for her. lined up in a stairwell outside her degree in 1946. She did an intern ~-JJier retire. She Main Street office above a pool hall. ship at Women's Medical College in was- a tireless ad- "There'd be a line all the way Philadelphia in 1947. vocate for full modem health care for the people of from the top of the stairs to the bot Over the years, she treated northeastern Kentucky. tom," he said. three, sometimes four. generations "She had such a vital spirit it seemed it would "She truly cared about people," of families. Her office walls held never die, and, of course, her spirit never wm:· Collins said. "It's a great loss for not only plaques and certificates said James McConkey, a retired Cornell Universin• this town." honoring her. but photographs o:" English professor who once taught at Morehead Outside Citizens Bank, the flag children she delivered and cared State University, and wrote extensively about Dr. was lowered to half-staff. And at for. In early years. she did not send Caudill in his -1992 book Rowan's Progress, which Coffee Tree Books, customers look bills. In later years. she sent bills was excerpted in The New Yorker magazine. ing for Dr. Caudill's biography only twice a vear. "I've thought about how much of a model she were turned awa\". Early in her career. Dr. Caudil: was for everybody - not just as a woman. or as a The store's 50 copies had sold and her nw-se worked out of the woman doctor, but for everybody. out before Christmas. small office above the pool hali. She was just one who never gave "I'm sure she doctored a lot of They opened a new clinic equipped up in her belief in human beings to patients completely free of charge. with a delivery room and nvo labo:· do what was best in them. She cap She put her whole life into the med rooms in 1957. tured people's minds and imagina ical profession:· said Rowan Coun Even in her 80s. Dr. Caudill tions and made them see what is ty Judge-Executive Clyde Thomas. was still working four days a week possible and what they can do." "She delivered fow- of our chil and swimming every dm· in .::: McConkey said the radiance of dren and the standard deliver\' fee small pool at her home. But she Dr. Caudill's nature not only helped was $75," Thomas said. "That'i! get had lost the speed needed to pia, in the healing of her patients. but you about 15 minutes in the emer tennis. a lifelong passion. · also united Rowan Countians in gency room now.~ She had been oresidenr of th, civic efforts. The book about Dr. Caudill, Northeast Kentuck)· Hospital Fou~ Dr. Caudill and her longtime Country Doctor: Thr S/o,T of Dr. dation and was a charter membe:· nurse and friend, Susie Halbleib. Oairc Louisr Caudill. was written of the Academy of Famih· Pracnn· struggled to improve health care in by Shirler Gish and published by She also served on the ·1,entuck the region. They were devoted to the Universit,· Press of Kentucky. Council on Higher Education iror. women's health issues and pushed Although it was being sold in 1972 to 1980. She was a past pres•• for better prenatal care. As a_ri,suit. l\Iorehead. it has an official publica dem of People~ Bank in .. Sanm manv babies born in Rowan were tion date of Ian. Ji. · · - -Hook, and liad been chamnaii ,;. named Louise or Susie after them. In 199J: Gish. also an actor· the board of Peooie.s Bani: 111 M, ,,·._ pla,.,,,Tight nerrormec' :•, one head and Sane·.- ·tied;. woman shov ar>m.:~ tht' ohYsiciar_ cJent, Ashland, Kentucky, l'riday, January 1. L9ci,i until her death, never missing CJuin· L11tiltie l :,11uldl \V.t:, 0111 11111:. 1111,, d )lilt 111 ill,· a meeting, Neff said. born Aug ID, Hil~. a ,L,ugh later yc,ii".•,, ... 11.111g "IJ' :-;u111e• "She's without a doubt the ter of the l:il,· Dn,,11'1 Boone one c,ln p.i) y,111, lw will; if'ht~, Region mourns death most significant person in and Etta Proctor Caudill of' can't., he \Vcm't.'' bringing us where we are to Morehead. She was also pre Dr. Caudill ,erv,·d w11I, " day - and beyond," he added. ceded in death b_y a brnther, 11urnhcr of" n:gimwl 11wdi<·al of Dr. C. Louise Caudill Dr. Shelley Bennett, a gen Boone Proctor Caudill Sr. groups and on the Eentucky tucky Chandler Medical Cen- eral surgeon who lives in After earning her bachelor Council on Higlwr Educalirni' By TOM LEWIS ter in Lexington, Morehead Morehead, said he first met of science degree from Ohio from IU72-1980. She was a OF THE DAILY INDEPENDENT lost more than arguably its Dr. Caudill when he was a State University in 19;14 and deaconess of the Ji'irst Christ- , MOREHEAD Lois most beloved family physi- surgical intern in 1971. her master's degree from Co ian Church of Morehead, a Anne Holley of Morehead cian. It lost one of the most in- "I know she helped solidify lumbia University 'in 1936, member of the Daughters of was expecting her first child fluential figures in the history my decision to practice medi Miss Caudill taught physical the American Revolution and shortly after Dr. C. Louise ofhealth care in Northeastern cine in a small town," Bennett education at Morehead Teach a past president of the Peo- Caudill launched her family Kentucky. said. "Although I was working ers College for seven years. ples Bank of Sandy Hook. i practice in the late 1940s, "The contributions Dr. with Dr. Warren Proudfoot at She then went to the Univer Dr. Caudill received nu-' and her family graced Dr. Caudill made to the Morehead the time, it was evident she sity of Louisville Medical merous awards including till' Caudill's Morehead office area and Eastern Kentucky was the quintessential family School, earned her medical Citizens Award for Doctor of many times over the ensuing are legendary," said Dr. Guus physician that every town degree in three years and was the Year from the Kent11cky Lobach, a family physician should be fortunate to have·." one of only two women to Academy of Family Practice decades. who works with Morehead's Lobach said Dr. Caudil!'s "She didn't just cure u::;," graduate in 1946. She com in 1974, Woman of the l'l'ar · SL < :laire Medical Center and ··true dedication and mission pleted her internship at from the Kentucky Federation Holley said. "But she made R11,;sell's Our Lady of Belle- ary zeal" also influenced his Women's Medical College in us feel better in every re of Business and Professional Louisa Caudill fun I e Hospital. " ... I think an desire to work in a place like Philadelphia in 1947. Women in 1979, several 11011 spect." era came to an end. She was Eastern Kentucky. She then returned home to orary doctorates, Country That is the enduring im truly one of the great human- "She is a shining light," he Morehead, where she and her Doctor of the Year in l 994 ~ " ~. age that thousands of area itarians." said. "She was one of the few nurse and lifelong friend from the Country Doctor Mu- .-i i5.. :g 8 l' residents will have of Dr. It is unclear, two days re- piiople who understoodwhat Susie Halbleib joined three seum in Bailey, N.C., and ~ --3.: 8 '.' Caudill - that of a down-to moved from her death, what it was really all about." other doctors in building a Staff Care Inc. of Irving, ...,,::r::l'O r, i:;::i::ro:=-.~. earth country doctor with a Dr. Caudill's most lasting While most evident in her practice. Texas, the Alumni Fe II ow ::, ,., n c quick wit, seemingly as con legacy will b~ - the 8,000 ba- home Rowan County, Dr. For years, Dr. Caudill and Award from the University of ~ ~5-~ E cerned about the pie you had 1 0 hies she delivered, the thou- Caudill's influence stretched Halbleib traveled mountain Louisville in 1996 and the '-'_.. ~ "'(b ::s :::,,,. just baked as she was about sands of lives_ she touched as • well beyond the county line, roads to treat the sick and de 1997 Distinguished Rural " '"-5 ;::i. 8 .... ,--o your nagging cough or awful doctor and friend, the exl!m- said OLBH President and liver babies in homes that of Kentuckian Award from t h e :::, cl " pain. pie she set for other medical CEO Bob Maher who said she ten had no running water or Kentucky Association of Elec- , g" S 8 @ But when Dr. Caudill, 86, providers to e1!1ulate or St. was one of this 'region's most electricity. tric Cooperatives Inc. She was ' Ul '" ~ § died early Thursday morn Claire, the regional hub for influential health care trail Dr. Caudill and Halbleib the first woman to receive " .;, ,., ,_, ing at the University of Ken- health services that she is blazers. opened one of the area's first that award, which was estab- , 5, 8 'lil 8 credited with founding in "She was very revered by maternity and birthing cen lisbed in 1982. • -~ ,~•?, ~ 1963 and that bears her first the staff there (at St. Claire)," ters in 1957. But Morehead Despite the nccumplish name. he said. "She certainly had a was still about two hours from ments and recognition, Dr. 1 "I think she was a living great deal of influence on the the nearest hospital. Caudill remuined down to legacy for all of us," said St. values of that institution." In 1960, Dr. Caudill orga earth. During an interview Claire President and CEO "She was an excellent fami nized a group to raise funds with The Daily Independent Mark Neff. When hospital ly practitioner with a lot of for a new hospital. She then last fall about the founding of personnel would pass Dr. outside interests," said Dr. sought the aid of the Catholic St. Claire, Dr. Caudill said, , Caudill in the hallway or see Max Wl)eeler, an Ashlapcl Church in managin_g the hos "There wasn't anything fancy her in the cafeteria, he said, family physician who' knew: pital; and. $t. diiiire Medical about it. I just did my job and "It kind of connected us with I Dr. Caudill for three dec~<4ls, Center opehed in July 1963, I was lucky." I our beginnings." , " ·• ... But I think just the :ciir~ with Dr. Caudilfserving as its "I love people," she said of Dr. Caudill continued her she had for her patients a'ha first chiefof staff from 1963 ta her decision to practice n1ed1- family practice into this year the way she cared for them;:is 1972:--· cine. "People are the fun ofit." · and served on St. Claire's what people will remember Dr. Caudill did not send Dr. Caudill. is survived by '-- board of directors from 1976 the most;/' , bills in the early years of her two sisters, Lucille Caudill I p family practice and onl_y sent The Daily Independent, Ashland. Kentucky Tuesday. December 29. 1998 The Sunday Independent, Ashland, Kentucky, January 3, 1999 'Louis ·Magda 1919-1998 Dr.L-oui-se-Caudill Dr. Louis Steven Magda III. 79, of Morehead, died Sunday at his home. Dr. Magda was born Aug. Physician leaves a tremendous legacy 18, 1919, in Besenyotelek, ____,H.ungacy, a son- of the late- --NN'fl'ertheastern Kentucky-lost including-the-National· R~u-ra.+t Louis Steven II and Katalyn one of its greatest human trea Health Association's Rural Sabo Magda. sures Thursday with the death · Practice of the Year in 1993, He was a banker and stock broker until 1956 when he of Dr. Louise Caudill at 86. the 1997 Distinguished Rural was forced to flee Hungary be What a legacy she leaves! Kentuckian by the Kentucky cause of the Russian Invasion . That legacy includes St. .Association of Electric Coopera He taught high school in Claire Medical Center in More tives, and 1996 Country Doctor Ashtabula, Ohio, and Woost head. More than anyone else, of the Year by the Country Doc er, Ohio before corning to Dr. Caudill is responsible for Morehead State University tor Museum in Bailey, N.C .. retiring in 1986 as professor founding St. Claire in 1963 and Dr. Caudill, who continued emeritus. He continued to guiding its steady growth into a to practice in Morehead until teach at MSU after his retire ment. regional medical provider dur early in 1998, dedicated her ing the past 35 years. He was a member of the long, active life to improvin~ No other individual did more Catholic Church, served in the quality of life in her native to improve the quality of med the Hungarian Army during World War II, where he re ical care in rural Rowan Coun community. The work she started will continue to serve ceived the German Iron Cross tv than Louise Caudill. Her. and Medal of Honor. He was a decades of work in the medical the people of Rowan County for prisoner of war in a Russian field earned her many honors generations to come. Prison Camp and later head ed the Hungarian Police THE COURIER-JOURNAL• MONDAY. JANUARY 4, 1999 Academy following the war. He received a Ph.D. from Cave Run Lake resort likely to be dry Joszef Nador School of Eco MOREHEAD, Ky. - Local officials said eight developers in_terested nomics at the Universitv of in building a resort at Cave Run Lake on U.S. Forest Sernce land Budapest where he was -pro shouldn't expect to sell alcohol. fessor adjunctus. The site set aside for development is in dry Bath County, whe:e a Surviving are his wife, Bob proposal to allow alcohol sales was defeated by a 2-to-l_ margm m a bie Mary Vuesics Magda· a 1994 referendum. Ray Bailey, the incoming Bath County Judge-execu son, Louis A. Magda of M~re tive, doubts sentiments have changed. head; and two sisters, Mony The absence of alcohol won't .necessarily be a deal-breaker. said ka Sabo of Budapest, Hun District Ranger Dave Manner. The potential investors haven't been gary and Kato Sabo of Be identified. senyotelek. A 1991 Morehead Stkte University study said a resort is probably The funeral will be con economically feasible with or without alcohol, although-alcohol sales ducted at 11 a.m. Wednesday would mean bigger profits. at Northcutt & Son Home for At a minimum, the resort would have 150 rooms, a restaurant v.ith Funerals in Morehead by Dr. seating for 350, and a JOO-boat marina. An 18-hole golf course 1s also Don Flatt and the Rev. Bill a possibility. Buelterman. Burial will be in Lee Cemetery in Morehead. Friends may call after 5 'Lexington Herald-Leader p.rn. today at the funeral Thursday, December 24. 1998 The EPSB executive director and staff home. are accountable to the !'PSB and _the In lieu of flowers, contribu .Autonomy would commissioner of educa~10n;, There is a tions may be made to· the famous saying that begins you cannot MSU Foundation. improve oversight serve two masters." Your paper has often indicated t~at of teaching one of the major obstacles to education reform in this state has been the lack of For many years, you have advocat willingness to change and demands to ed changing the status quo to improve Lexington Herald-Leader maintain the status quo. I find you Thursday, December 24, 1998 education in the commonwealth. How guilty of the same charge you have lev ever, your Dec. 3 editot:ial criticizing a eled so many times agamst opponents Welfare on the way? proposal that would give Kentucky a of education reform. I hope you reco?· fully autonomous Education Profession sider your position and choose to agam The announcement of the appoint al Standards Board is way off the mark. advocate for positive change by sup- ment of Michael McCall to the office of You begin by admitting, "Part of rting EPSB autonomy. president of the Kentucky Community the problem is bosses at the Depart po Tim Dedman and Technical Colleges System may ment of Education treat the standards Member give us a view to the future of the Education Professional Standards .Board board and its staff like an airer· Lexington brave new world of postsecondary edu thought." Yet the solution you propose cation in the commonwealth. is to ''appropriate money to expand and The Herald-Leader informed us that improve the staff." I would find this in South Carolina, under McCall's lead laughable were the identified problem ership, that "state's community colleges not true and the solution shallow. You will provide $6 million to S9 million ir, admit a major problem exists with the worker training for B!v!W over the next status quo and yet your solution is to five years." A recent Time magazine ar simply throw more money at it? ticle described this as corporate wel A report by an often-quoted nation fare. Will KCTCS administer "Aid- tu al study suggests one way to improve Dependent Corporations" to poor and the profession of teaching is the estab underprivileged companies like Bil/IW? lishment of independent, teacher-major They certainly are in need oi million; ity, autonomous standards boards. -of our tax dollars: - · · · - · · ·Keniucky's EPSB meets all of these cri Roy Silver teria except for autonomy from the Benhar> Kentucky Department of Education. about it,'' Nantz said Thurs The Daily Independent, Ashland, Kentucky, Saturday, January 2, 1999 day. "It's kind of hard to pre dict whether it's going to have much effect.'' ~Restaurant -tax-takes Wendy's owner Rob Mc Grath did not think the new tax would hurt his business, effect· in Morehead and while he's not thrilled about paying higher taxes, he BY ToM LEWIS At nearby Boomerang's. co said there are good_j!r_g_u_:: ____ _ owner Bill Poe said he expeck THE DAILY INDEPENDENT ·edthe-tax to.nave a signifi - rnents·-ror recreational im MOREHEAD - Follscs who cant impact on business and provements and a conference ate in a Morehead restaurant wondered why the city opted center in town. at the start of the new year for a tax solely on restau "If it's spent right, I'm for may have noticed that their rants, which are already it," McGrath said. "If it's not, bill was a little higher than heavily taxed. I'm against it." usual. ''Why couldn't they sprea~ The tax also applies to It wasn't because of a cost it around to everyone else? eateries at Morehead State of-Iiving increase in the price Poe asked. " ... It seems that University operated by corpo of menu items. Rather, it was they're hurting the business rations under contract, like because the city's new restau more than they're helping the Taco Bell and Burger King. rant tax took effect Friday, to business." "Virtually every progres mixed reviews from restau If the city will consider a sive fourth- of fifth-class city rant owners and managers. restaurant tax, it should also in Eastern Kentucky has a "I feel that it's not fair," consider allowing liquor to be restaurant tax," Collins said, said Lisa Lin, dining area sold by the drink in restau citing West Liberty. manager at China Garden. rants, he added. Paintsville, Prestonsburg and Downtown at the Dixie Harlan. He predicted that "We've already heard a lot of Grill - one ofMorehead's old about half of the revenues complaints from our cus est restaurants - co-owner generated by the tax would tomers." Olen Nantz said customers come from out-of-city resi The tax, approved by the had not been talking about dents, including people travel Morehead City Council with a the new tax. ing along Interstate 64 who 4-3 vote in October, requires "I haven't reallv thought stop in Morehead to eat. all eateries to pay the city a 3- percent tax on their gross re The Daily Independent, Ashland. Kentucky, Wednesday, December 30. 199t tail sales. The only way to cov er that expense, said Cutter's between Dec. 11 and 13. Road House owner William MSU police probe Someone forced open the door Wells, is to pass· it on to the stadium thefts of a 1991 Ford Probe belong- customer, ing to Shaun Gazzara of "I'm sure its going to have MOREHEAD - Morehead Mignon Tower and stole 50 some impact on some of the State University police are in compact discs valued at $500 consumers," Wells said. "I vestigating the theft of several and a Whistler radar detector don't really see a reason for it, items from MSU's Jayne Sta worth $85 and siphoned dium between Dec. 11 and 14. about $5 worth of gasoline but there's -·nothing I can do According to campus po about it." from the car. lice, suspects broke into the During the same time The reason, council mem stadium and took a Toshiba bers said when they approved frame, the sunroof of a Dodge laptop computer, valued at Stealth owned by Hubert the levy, is to he! p upgrade $2,000, from an assistant the city's ·recreational and Hall of Fields Hall was bro football coach's office; three ken out, and suspects took a tourism opportunities. The ul pairs of Nike tennis shoes, Rockfort stereo amplifier timate purpose for the tax - worth $60 each, and a Texas worth $650 and 70 CDs val according tel Mayor Brad Col Instruments graphic calcula ued at $700, in a black nylon lins, who first proposed it tor, valued at $75, from the case. The sunroof damage about 2½ years ago - could track and cross-country sup was estimated at $1,000, po be to hell' pay for a new down ply room; and three pairs of lice said, and the car's interi town conference center. Nike tennis shoes from the or was damaged by rain. A feasibility study present football storage room. ed to the city council last April Anyone with information by the Lexington planning about the break-in and thefts firm Booker Associates said a is asked to call MSU police at restaurant tax could generate (606) 783-2035, $900,000 a year to help cover the city's debt on a proposed Car break-ins at $6.3 million conference center in the heart of downtown. MSU investigated But council members, in MOREHEAD - A parking cluding some who voted for lot behind Morehead State the restaurant tax, still don't University's Ginger Hall has agree on the need for a confer been the scene of car break ence center or on the proposed ins for the third time in location. about a month. Since the tax only applies · According to MSU police. to restaurants within More the latest incident occurred head. "It's just going to put the people inside the city lim its outof business." said Lin. whose restaurant in the Trademore Shopping Center is on the northern edge of the city. " ... Plus, my employees are really complaining.'' be cause the extra tax will cut in to the tips they receive. Wells said he. expected cus- . --tamers tobe frustrated by the new charge for a while _but did not think it would trigger a drop-off in business. Lexington f erald-Leader Sunday. D cember 27, 1998 Stu ty, but for the big foundations and some crease of 15 percent over previous years. ing. The .authors noted that some alumni "I hate to put it this way, but tl1ese Experts doubt UK benefactors that support academics, that The success of this fall's fund-raising are reluctant to give in such a year, fear people are often the bird dogs for f11nd success is often a turnoff," Sperber said. efforts, and in part the success of the foot ing the appearance that they are support raising," said William Stier, who teac)ies can use ~~hletics Academic fund raising is a big focus ball team, make this a good time to start a ing the school only because of the team. future athletics directors at the State Uni- for UK, as it tries to match nearly more aggressive push, Wethington said. Only one of 12 studies conducted be versity of New York at Brockport. , $67 million in state money for research "Such events as the opening of the tween 1934 and 1984 found that athletic "They may not be willing to give to boost rcademics and graduate studies. William T. Young Library, the national success increases alumni giving, but it themselves, but they are often the path University officials say they will have championship of our men's basketball was unable to distinguish whether the in- ways to those who will," Stier said, By Holly E. Step raised close to $40 million needed for the team, the research challenge creased gifts went to acade adding that they may work for compa HERALD-LEADER EDUCATI N WRITER match by the end of the month. They ex fund, the turnaround of our •;. mic programs or the athletic nies that are more likely to give. Most Kentucki~ns can tell you right pect to have the full amount by next sum football program ... we simply department. l ,' However, Stier said, that effort only off the number of NCAA championships mer. believe this a good time to works when the sports team and pro the University o/lKentucky Wildcats And within a year or two, UK plans embark on a major cam _i Two types of donors gram is clean. have won in basket all. (Seven.) to launch a major university-wide capital paign," he said. University donors seem to "If it's a runaway program where Or the number of bowl games they campaign Ill support academic programs. fall into two distinct groups, winning- at all cost~ is the only goal, it is have played in foof,ball. (Ten, including UK President Charles Wethington said Scant evidence Indiana's Sperber said. definitely going to hurt the university," the Jan. l Outback rmvl.) winning teams allow him to cut to the But experts caution that One group, mostly alum he said. But ask how CTany Rhodes Scholars chase when talking to potential donors. there is little definitive infor ni, tends to draw a greater "For it to be an advantage, there has UK has produced, or how many Nobel "I don't have to spend the first 15 mation that successful teams distinction between academic to be a commitment to academics from prizes UK graduate have won, and you'll minutes of a conversation explaining spur donations. ,,·,¢: • -~' and athletic support. UK President. the top that translates down to the athlet probably get blank [stares. . why the team isn't doing well," Wething A 1996 study by Illinois "These are the people that ic program." (The answers are nine and two, re- ton said. college professors found that Charles.,,/.' feel good about the quality of University of North Carolina profes spectively.) I WethJrigton:: , 1 "It certainly is a great asset in build while postseason bowl the education, are proud of sor John Billing agrees. University offi~ials say the visibility ing support," he said. games and tournament ap sald·now'ls.a. their degree, and give money Billing, a professor of physical educ., that comes with bo I games and national pearances boost the number good time·fqr . to support the academic pro tion, exercise and sport science at Chapel championships cer ainly won't hurt their Raking in donations of overall gifts a university an aggressive grams," Sperber said Hill campus, has surveyed college presi efforts to gain the road, private financial This fall has been bountiful for UK, receives, there is not much fund-ra_lsl~g - "These are the same peo dents on the value they place on athletics. support they'll neetto launch UK to the with announcements of several major gifts. evidence that successful camp!'IJ_gn;" ple who often cut back when "We found that college presidents val ' top 20 of public un versities. This month, UK received $3 million teams are the best lure for problems (such as NCAA ue sports as fund-raising and political Studies say, ho ever, that there's no in private grants to create endowed academic donors. sanctions or players' legal tools," Billing said. proof that love forlt11e Wildcats' athletes chairs for research into cancer and chron Other studies over the past 50 years problems) arise with athletic prognuns." Presidents, he said, see them as a way translates into money for Wildcat acade- . ' ic diseases aff~cting children. have found little con-elation between ath The other group consists of what to talk to donors about the needs of: the 1111CS. In October, the Ashland Foundation letic success and academic fund raising. Sperber calls Booster Eds. university in an infonnal, social situation "High-profile sports programs are a donated $1 million for research in chemi A 1984 study looked at the alumni "These are the people who give almost - a better opportunity than office visits. double-edge swordjfor colleges' academic cal engineering, and Louisville business giving records for 99 NCAA Division I exclusively to athletic programs -- their "While football is the lure, a president fund raising," sai, Murray Sperber, an man and UK alumnus Oliver H. Ray schools and found little evidence to sup only contact with the university comes will have three or four hours to talk to , Indiana Universit professor who has mond gave $2 million to the civil engi pmt the conventional wisdom that money from the team and they rarely think of donors about the excellent academic pro- I written extensively about college sports. neering department. for academics follows successful sports academic programs," Sperber said. grams and their needs." , ' "If the teams ar winning, some people Last year, private donors gave more seasons. It did find, however, that suc Sperber's critics say he underesti "That one-on-one face time is an in ·may think more fa ombly of the universi- than $47 million to the university, an in- cessful sports may slightly hurt fund rais- mates the value of athletic boosters. credible benefit." II IL t;lJIJHll:R-,JOURI-JAL • FRIDAY, ,JANUARY 1, 1988 UK raises Mumme's pay to $4 million over five years By RUS1Y HAMPTON coach in the five years) make more than Mumme said the contract 47 years. The Wildcats, 7-4, steak and dessert,·~ Mumme The Courier-Journal Southeastern Mumme among SEC football should squash speculation that play Penn State today at II said with a laugh. Conference. coaches. he was looking for a new job a.m. in the Outback Bowl. Newton was not available f(Jf TAMPA, Fla. - On a night Only Flor- Mumme's salary was at the college or NFL level, and Athletic director C.M. New 1.:omment last night, but in a renowned for revelry, Universi ida's Steve $450,000 a year. His new deal should enhance recruiting. ton said in November he was statement released, by the ty of Kentucky football coach Spurrier is worth $800,000 annually and "The exact figure is not im negotiating a new deal with school he said: · Hal Mumme was really given a ($11.7 million represents a 78 percent in portant," Mumme said. Mumme. Mumme said the "The conlract rc1~rcscnls ,1 reason to celebrnte last night, over six crease in pay. "What's important is that peo· terms were finalized Wednes long-term commitment by both and it didn't have anything to years), Ten "This means a lot because it pie can't go to recruits and say, day afternoon. That night, the University of Kentucky and do with ringing in the New nessee's Phil- puts me up there with the Au 'he's not making as much as Mumme and his wife, June, coach Mumme in our contin- Year. lip Fulmer burns and the Tennessees, in the other guy, he's always go were seen dining with Newton ued efforl lo build and sustain Mumme has signed a new Mumme ($5 million that range," Mumme said. ing to be looking for a job.' " and his wife, Evelyn, at Bern's a championship football pro contract worth $4 million over over five "We're not at that level yet as The announcement came on Steakhouse, a popular Tampa gram .... I am delighted that 11.,1 1 the next five years, making years) and Auburn's Tommy a program, but we're trying the eve of UK's first New restaurant. totally commilled to building a11, him the fourth-highest-paid Tuberville ($4.5 million over hard to get there." Year's Day bowl appearance in "We were celebrating over sustaining a championship-level In111 ball program at UK and that thi. commitment means that he will lh ·11,e pally lnueµendent, Ashland, Kentucky, Tuesday, December 29. 1998 our coach for years and years t, come." Mumme came to UK in Dccc111li,: 1 or 1996, replacing Bill Curry, wli, was fired following his third consb·u tive losing Sl:a~on. · 01 ve Hill native gets top MAP job The Cat:i wt:lll 5•i, in M111111111. 1 "Daragh's varied experi oil pipeline and fransporta first season, hut with quarterbii('!i Tim Couch. running Mumme's high Dara :h Porter ence in finance, business tion company owned by Ash powered olfense, UK set a slew (,I analysis and human re land Petroleum Co. In 1996, school and Suulheastern Confereu,: • name~ president sources provides a good lead she was named vice president records. : ership fit for the pipeline or of business analysis for Ash The high-scoring gaml!s .i11 1 ganization," Frank said. land. She joined MAP when it Mumme's daring style - he routin,~h• of pip~line firm "She's a solid example of the was formed at the beginning fakes punts and allempls on~itl1 managerial talent and depth of 1998. ldclrnffs and fc,urth-llown convl.!rsi,11\. MAP possesses and we're ex - endeared him to the legion:, , I fRoM sr4 IIEPoms She is a two-time More blue• and-white backers and earned cited about her move inside head State University gradu him a $160,000 raise. FINDJ~y - Olive Hill na our organization." ate who received a bachelor's This season, lJI{ 1mstcll i1s Iii.ii tive Dara h Porter has been Porter will remain in Find degree in accounting in 1977 \'\·inning record since HJ8!J and (.; named pr sident of Marathon lay and report to Kevin M. and a master's degree in bu'si making its first howl appean.rn1-'c Ashland l;'ipe Line LLC. Henning, senior vice presi ness administration in 1984. since rn,13. IJK sold all 40,000 season Porter, lmost recently finan dent, supply and transporta She completed Indiana Uni tickets fc,r 58,000-seat Commoll cial plan' ing manager and versity's Executive Develop wealth Stadium. Construction is 1111 tion. dcr way to add 10 luxury suite,, 11, treasurer for Marathon Ash Porter joined Ashland Inc. ment Program in 1990 and the stadium and bring seating cap;u\ land Pe roleum LLC, as in 1977 and held several posi Harvard University's "Fi ity to 68,0110. · sumed re ponsibility for the tions in the accounting and nance for Senior Executives" UK fan Don Allen of Lcxingl1111 pipeline mpany Dec. 1, ac course in 1996. who spent the week! in the Tamp;. cording to J .L. "Corky" Frank, Daragh Porter human resources depart Bay area, said Mumme has madl: president of MAP. ments from 1980 to 1987 and MAP is the country's sixth football fun again. ''If you give uS MAPL, a wholly-owned sponsibility, for more than 1987 to 1993, respectively. In largest refiner. It is owned 62 some success in football I'm not surp 6,000 miles of common carrier 1994, she was named con percent by Marathon Oil Co. if you can huild a stadium hii{ subsidiar of MAP, represents enough to hold .1~ all,'' Allen said. r ownershi , or operational re- crude oil and product pipeline troller of Scurlock Permian and 38 percent by Ashland system. Corp., a Houston-based crude Inc. THE COURIER-JOURNAL • THURSDAY, DECEMBER 24. 1998 POLICE BELIEVE that someone splashed gasoline or some other ac- celerate on the carpet at_Hester Hall and.lighted it. The roaring fire filled Fa mil . y· -presses· co ll eg·e the floor with thick, acrid smoke. , Residents crawled on the floor and felt their way·along walls to escape; others hung out windows and had to .on lack .of Sprinkl. ers be rescued by firefighters. Gail Minger sits alone for hours in . Someone had set a similar fire in By CHRJS POYNTER her living room, staring through the nearly the same spot f1v~ days _e_ arh- The Courier-Journal sliding glru;_~doorJo.\'larcl thelak~ut ~~r. but~~dents extmg[!cshed 1t. b1;:_ back. John Minger, a real-estate'ore anyon~ was harmed. Authonues NICEVILLE, Fla. - After Mi agent, often shuts the door to his of- have not said whether the fires were chael Minger's death in the dormi fice and cries. Melissa Minger, a pre- connected. . . tory fire at Murray State Universi medical student at Converse College Aft~r the. ftrS t· fire, on a Sund~y ty, his family's first glimpse of Mi in Spartanburg, s.c., who is two min- mormng, Michael Mmger cal_led his chael - a son, twin b,other, music utes older than Michael, worries that parents. He told them that h_e mhale? student and aspiring broadcaster she'll forget Michael's quirks - the so_me smoke:- and he womed that it - was as he lay on the stainless I k d Of h" · 13 h IDlght harm his lungs. steel table at a Murray funeral c un )'. soui:i is ~ize- s oes on "I want out of this dorm " he t 0 Id the stairs, his expressmns. th 1 home, a white sheet covering his "There's nobody that knows him e~. . thin frame up to the chest. better," she said a few days ago. Michael had been try!ng to move John and Gail Minger had been "Half of me is gone." off campus smce the _spnng semester awakened earlier that day, Sept.18, The twins were the Mingers' only of 1998, when he hved on a non- by the ringing telephone to learn children. Michael Minger was a born smok1_ng floor of another dorm. He their son had died in an early singer, and as a child, he splashed in told his parents that students sm?ked morning fire. the bathtub with his sister while his anyw~y and_ made nmse all _mght. They left their Florida home that mother helped them memorize Bible Housmg off1C1a!s told the Mmgers morning, driving nearly JO hours verses. Melissa could recite the that students younger than 21, except to claim Michael's body and drive verses easily, but Michael preferred th0.se who are mamed, are required him home in a Suburban, the cas to sing them. In middle school, while to live on campus. ket unlocked so they could see his other children were singing rap and THIS FALL, Michael moved onto face. The Mingers, including Mi rock music, Michael rehearsed Italian the fourth floor of Hester, designated chael's twin sister Melissa, sobbed and German opera arias. a non-smoking, quiet floor. But John as they walked into the morgue At II, he won a spot in the prestig- and Gail Minger said students didn't and ·saw Michael, 19, a sopho ious American Boychoir, the U.S. obey the rules - and it frustrated more who had a smooth tenor version of the Vienna Choir Boys, Michael, a serious student who didn't voice and dreamed of living in a and spent a year traveling around the drink or smoke. People often pulled big city, being a sportscaster and country, performing with the chorus. the fire alarms as pranks, forcing singing in a chorus. When Michael was in high school, residents to evacuate the building in "He had been freshly washed, his parents drove him an hour to the middle of the night. and his hair was clean. He had the Pensacola three times a week to Gail Minger called Murray housing most gorgeous head of hair," Gail work under a respected vocal coach. officials and complained several Minger recalled earlier this week At M_urray State, Michael was a ~o- times, she said. She grew increasing- as sbe and her husband sat on cal maior ~nd s~ng m the ui:i1vers1ty ly concerned after the first fire and their son's bed in Niceville, Fla. choir. Earhe~ th1~ year, ~e p1ck_ed up called university officials to let them Her voice trailed off as she spoke, a second maior: JO~rnahsm. Michael know. At the time, the Mingers didn't and John Minger lifted his silver loved sports, especially college foot- know the first fire had been ruled an glasses to wipe away tears. "l took ball and basketball, and he wanted to arson. my hands and went through his hair. He was magnificent looking. be a broadcaster. The last time the Mingers spoke to He . was our little prince lying A FEW WEEKS before his death, their son was Tuesday, three days be there." Michael got his first break at report- fore the fatal fire. Gail Minger ended Three months have passed since ing - and he was so excited that he the conversation with her usual ad the arson at Hester Hall stunned phoned his family. He secured a monition: "Be safe, and I love you the Murray campus and led to press pass to the first two Murray very much." She then told him that statewide calls for improved safety football games. He proudly hung the they'd speak again on Fridav. in student residence halls. Hester bright green pass around his neck That Friday at 6:10 a.m., the Hall, like many older dormitories and sat in the press box overlooking Mingers' phone rang. Gail Minger in Kentucky, did not have sprin the stadium, keeping statistics. answered, thinking it was one of her klers, which might have saved Mi His family salvaged the press pass husband's-real-estate clients from an chael life. from belongings in his dorm room; it other time zone. But it was a coun- Seven young men and women now hangs from the corner of Mi- I f M · h h f with ties to the university's rugby chael's dresser in Florida. It's cov- se or ram urray Wit I e news o club have been char~ed in the fire ered in a thin, gritty film of the same Michael's death. The family's minis- - one of them with Michael's soot that blanketed his room and his ler already had been informed, and murder. All have pleaded innocent. body. Minger died of smoke and soot he was on his way to the Mingers' Officials have said the fire, inhalation. His body was found near house. which also seriously injured stu the door of his room. That day, friends and family drove dent Michael Priddy, may have Three weeks after the fire, Mi- the Mingers to Murray. They arrived been started as a prank to harass chael's parents went to his room. around 7 p.m., midway through a new members of the rugby club in They retrieved his smoky clothes, memorial service for Michael at St. Hester Hall. compacts discs and a bookbag con- •John's Episcopal Church, where Mi In January, Gail Minger plans to taining several tapes of Michael sing- chael had been active. They walked meet with Gov. Paul Patton and ing. The recordings were made dur- · in the front door as students and fac other government and higher-edu ing his vocal class days before his ulty sang a hymn, the loud organ re cation officials to ask for improve death, and the Mingers have listened verberating through the small ments in dorm safety. The family to them repeatedly, smiling -when church. won't discuss exactly what they'll their son hits the right note and After service, the Mingers went to ask, but the Mingers want Murray laughing when Michael reluctantly the funeral home to see Michael. officials to acknowledge publicly takes cnticism from his vocal coach. They kissed him. caressed him, and that they had the money to install They recovered Michael's favorite told him they loved him. Though his sprinklers, but chose to use it for shoes and a new blue shin his par- body had been scrubbed, they no ents sent him but he never got to !iced thick soot on his feet. )ther projects. They also want the wear. In Michael's compact disc play- miversity to establish a scholarship er, they discovered "Ave Maria" - The next day, they took his body n their son's memory. music they believe he was listening home. Murray's general• counsel. John to the night of the fire to help him "! didn't want him in the belly of !all. said that until the familv makes fall asleep. The fire, which never an airplane without me," Gail Minger :pecific requests to Murray. h would reached Michael's room. was hor said. 11 He was alwavs with us." Me ,e inappropriate for anyone from the enough from afar to melt pan of the lissa Minger slept n·ext to her broth- miversity to comment. CD. er's casket all the way home. The Mingers talk by telephone fre- Gail Minger said stepping into the The family didn't want Michael in 1uently with the Priddys, the family room was something she and her a funeral home. so thev carried his f the injured student. They said they husband needed to do. casket into their living room. ave received hundreds of letters and "I wanted to see and smell what he Michael was cremated, and his ards from people around the coun- did." she said. "II was terrible.·· ashes rest in a cherry box with a 1' who learned of the death irom Gail Min!(er said one the most dif- cross on the front. It sits in a lighted ews reports. ficult thmgs auout the tragedv is her. alcove above the firep!a~e in th~ liv-_ THE FAMILY is facing the first son's death cenificare. wfiich fists the -ing room. hristmas without-Michael. Though death as a murder. Michael Minger and his twin sister 1e holidays are difficult, every da,· were to be the first on the Minger ithout Michael is difficul1, the side of the famil\" to earn a colle~E 'tingers said. THE COURIER-JOURNAL ..! THURSDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1998 tiles after the original tiles were wrote: "In our experience we cannot 'Safe' tiles __ ..scorched-in--the-firsHire.-Oniversity--imagineirslttiation where our urere:-· officials say they are certain they re• tardant acoustical materials would be placed the damaged tiles-with the described as 'black snow' or 'powder' of·ceiling highly rated Armstrong tiles. as a result of any fire scenario." He Murray officials say they buy the also said that the company has had tiles as needed from area home-im• no· previous problems with the tiles. provement stores. Fritz said Armstrong would contact blamed The replacement tiles had good Kentucky investigators to offer assis• safety ratings from Underwriters tance. -1:aos:-Tlie company, near Chicago, Ken Rhodes, an engineer with Un- -for smoke--- tests products and rates them for derwriters, said that all fires are dif• how quickly they allow flames to ferent and, in the Murrat case, the By CHRIS POYNTER spread and how much smoke devel- presence of a fire-fueling accelerant The Courier-Journal ops. was important. Investigators say' The flame and smoke properties of someone poured a petroleum-based A mystecy has emerged from each product are •Compared with product on the fourth-floor carpet the fatal dormitocy fire at Mur• those of redwood and concrete. Red• and set it afire. ray State University. Why did wood can catch fire and produce "I'm guessing they had one hell of the ceiling tiles in Hester Hall smoke; concrete does not. a roaring fire," Rhodes said. "You - said to be amonl,l the safest available in, the nat10n - burn In the Jaboratocy, the Armstrong can burn most anything if you get it to a powder, adding to the tiles allowed flames to spread at only hot enoughi' thick, black smoke t!iat killed· a fourth the speed that flames will Rhodes said there are two basic student Michael Minger? spread on a piece of redwood, while classifications of tiles: "mineral" and . Investigators are stumped. So the smoke was a tenth of what red- "cellulose." He said mineral tiles are is the Armstrong Corp., which wood produces. composed of rocklike material, while makes the tiles used in drop These two ratings - a'25 for flame cellulose tiles are made basically of ceilings. Engineers for Under• spread and a 10 for smoke develop- paper. _ writers Laboratories, an inde ment - put the tiles in the Class A The Armstrong tdes at Hester were pendent organiz,'tion that tested categocy, meaning they· are among 72 percent perlite; 22.5 percent cellu the product for fire safety, say it the best available and help hinder a lose;. ~nd 5.5. percent. starch. This is highly unusual that the tiles, fire. Products that allow fire to class1f1es the Illes as mmeral, Rhodes made mainly from a rock spread faster are rated as Class B or said. known as perlite, would be so Class c. Rhodes said "there's no way" that volatile. those tiles would burn unless they "I've never seen ceiling tiles react THOMAS FRITZ, a manager of were exposed to extreme tempera that way," said Art Haneline, Mur product fire performance for Arm ture. ray's fire _marshal, who has 23 years strong, would respond only to written "When you've got that much per• of firefighting: questions from The Courier-Journal lite in there, you are still going to The white tiles disintegrated into a about the ceiling tiles. have a lot of integrity left unless it's fine powder, Haneline said. He de In a two-page response, Fritz a very severe fire condition.'' scribed it as "black snow." Piles of the powder - I to 4 inches high - covered parts of the fourth floor of The Sunday Independent, Ashland, Kentucky, January 3, 1999 Hester Hall, he said. An engineer for Underwriters Labs said .. that, . under normal circum Murray student's family still stances, the tiles should withstand fire for 90 minutes to two ·hours and should simply appear scorched. County attorney Minger, 19, a sophomore who lived pushing for safety at the opposite end of the hall from where the fire was set Sept. 18, died from inhaling smoke and soot, the looking into new lead in dorm fire case state medical-examiner's office re NICE\"ILLE. Fla. 1AJ>1 - Oflidals have .c:aid the firC". ported. His body was found near his 1'\lichael l\linger. whn cho:-C' which also serioush- inmrPd Three monthf: lrn,·c> dorm-room door. Kentuck, ·:;; Murra\' State student Michael Pri°ddv. ma\' \ lniversii\', and his "twin si.s- hm·<· hern ... tart Pd as n. rr:mk passed sint'e an alleged arson at Murrm· State HIS F-'MiLY and the family of 1Pr. Meli.~sa. a pre-med .stu to harass tlP\\ member. .:. of" th<· Michael Pt'id(ly,, a student seriously drnt in f-outh Carolina. werf' rngb)· cluh in llest<•r flail. dormitorv Hester Hall injumfitj,tiiifpi'e;have hired lawyers to be thf' first on the Minger Family m~rnber·\o- of the dP· killed a student. stunned who' sji'eciaiij'~ in fire investigations .side of the famil\' to earn col- fendants have m:iintained the Murray campus and lf'ge degrees. · that police are unfoirly pick• led to statewide calls for to look into tile matter' further. Despite being dyslexic and Jack Flowers, an assistant fire ing on rugli_,· duh members improved safet\' in stu h:winJ? Attention Deficit Dis and that the> phmw n1llc: wen• dent residt>nce ·hall:-.. marshal for Kentucky, worked on the order. l\.lichael had n 3.B:I initiation pranks. case with state police. Like Haneline, grade-puint avera/.l'(' rit l\.lur This month. l;;1il J\IinJ?er. Flowers, who has investigated fires r:i\'. wht>rr he was a ,·11irc> and I\IichaeJ's. mother. plani-. to smoky clothes. compacts discc; for 25 years, said he had never en .Jn~u-n:1li.s111 major travel from Nice\'ille to meet and a bookbag containing se, - countered such destruction of tiles. lf<' oft1•n said h(• couldn"t with Go\'. Paul Patton and ernl tapei:; of Michael .singing. wait to w.1lk onstage to grt hi·~ ThP r('tnrdings were mndt• The tiles ''were the most combusti· other government ;ind hig-her diploma and especially wnnt Pducation oflicials to ask for durinJ!" hi!- voice class d,wi:; Lt· ble thing at the fire," Flowers said. t•d his grandfather. Wilson imprn,·pmpnf,;; i11 drirm ::nfPtY fore his death. am! the> "It appears that is where the vast ma !\linger. present. The famil\' won't disc-uss ex• Mingerr-- have listened w jority of the smoke came from." The universit,· will award ncllv whai thev'll ask. but the them repeatedly, smiling Richard Hartz, an arson specialist tlw diploma Ma~:~- hut it will l\li~J?erl-- wani Munar offi. when tht,ir son hits tlw rig-ht lie Minger·, R].yPnr-old dais to acknowledge publicly note and laughing when for the state police who investigated grandfot her who accepts. Michael reluctantlv take-. the Murray fire but has since retired, that thev had the mone,· to in ThrrC' wonth~ ha,•1· passed stall sp1'inklers but dlose to l'riticism from his vofoe coaeh said he doesn't have any answers. In :-.mc·e an alle~ed arso11 ,it !\lur· use it for other projel't5. They They recovered Michael's fo vestigators believe most smoke came rm· Sta It' dormi11w f lf'stpr es ,·oritC' shoes and n new hi uf' 1 also want the university to from the ceiling tiles though some I [:;II kill,•rt !\lid1•,., • •n1n,,,I tablish a scholarship m their shirt his parent:-- sent him hut also came from the carpet and wall· thf' !\lurnw campus nm! lf'd 111 \o-un ·s mPmon·. hc> ne,:c-r got to wear. In i-talf'wiclE· · cnll:-. for unpf•WM.I Murray·:-- general counsel. Michael's compact disc play('r. paper. thev di1-,c-ovPred -Ave !\.1aria .. - Students who lived on the fourth snlC't, in student rf'sidPncr• .Juhn Rall. said that until the halls: Hester Hall. lih man.,· famih· makC"S sppc•ific rP• muSic they belie,·e hf' was ilf•· floor of Hester said the smoke was so oldc>r dormi1uriei-. n1 Kt•JI· quf'stS to J\.lurray. it n·ould be tening to the night of the fire to thick and so black that they had to tuck\· did nul ha\'(' spn11· 111:ippropriatt• for an_\·onP from help him fall asleep. The firr·. crawl and feel their way along the kl(•rS. ·which micht ha,·(, sm·l'rl 1lw uni\"ers1tv to criml!lent. which n,,,·er reaehed Mic-hnpl', .. wails to escape. !\IichaPl's lift· The t,.IinJ!E'rs talk hy telt-• room. was hot enouch Iron• Seven voung men and pirnne trequently ,\·1th the afar w melt part ofth~ CD. FIVE DAYS earlier, one or more women wiih 11e:-: to the ltlH· l'riddvs. the fomib: Of the h1- Gail !\linger said sreppm_l' arsonists had started a fire in nearly ver.'-itY's ruf!h\' duh ha,1• 1,,,1>11 111red student. They· said they into the room was som/lthin:.: the same spot. Police have not said dwn!~d m tii1• firP - 11111• of hm·p recei,·ed hundred:-- of let• r--hr and hn hu.:-band .lnh1, tlll'rn with !\.lid1m•I"!- munl•·I lt•r."- and cards from peopl'"' ,weded In do. whether the two fires were connect .. I wanted tn :-"'r and .-;mel! ed: Students put out the first fire All lrn\l• plead~d innocPn! an>und th•· coumn whn La~I wPt•k. ('nlluw:i:-- 1·111111- l1•arned of the death fron• what hr did." sh,.. ~micl .. ,1 w:1~ quickly, and no one was injured. The I\' l'ommcmwealth's A11c'l1·1w, news reporl.5-. lPITihJ,-. tiles in place at the time were ~lib• Ward said he want'- to Thre<' weeks after the firt-. scorched and had to beTeplaced. -tnlk 111 police•-ahuut t•,·icif'll('f' !\lichaPl's parents went tn hli The university replaced all the ceil 1ha! 11nplieate:-. another p1•1 • n1nr-: Thf'\' retrif>,•Prl hi- ing tiles on the fourth-floor wing oi son W:1rd said if the ne\,· IC'.td Hester Hall with new, 2· by 4-loot ri:lll:-- oul. he may be torced 1" ;.t't'"ll.'-IO~'' n·hetnPr cnnn.<" •.. •:nnst other,.:. a!read,· 111d1, ,_,;1 m tnf• casP snoulu srni· Lexington Herald-Leader Wednesday, December 30, 1998 College paciage deal UPS ·gets workers, Louisville students receive tuition, pay Ry Holly F Step,.,______educati?,n throu~h Metropolitan __ _ _Patton_di_smiss~s;_ those charges. HERAIDUADER EDUCATION WRITER College, Patton said mastatement "oaymg"1he benefits of tJPS remain- · · · · - - --- LOUISVILLE - While his How it works mg m Louisville and a more-edu- high school buddies are enjoying cated citizenry far outweigh the their winter break from college, In its first semester, which costs. Dallas Harshfield is spending his started in August, Metropolitan Metropolitan College director in a backoffice·in a drafty ware- College has struggled with some in- Ash says the campus, which is ex- house in Louisville. evitable start-up pains, such as set- peeled to be built by fall. is one Hefting packages and sorting ting up student tracking systems thmg that makes the partnership a overnight mail for United Parcel and hiring recruiters and coun- trailblazer. Service is -not how most college selors. College officials say they "In most cases, when states of- students passed the last few had only five months from the an- fer this kind of package to a busi- days before Christmas. nouncement to the start-up. ness, they don't do much to address But Harshfield, l9, an aspir- "There wasn't much downtime the personal needs of emplovees .. ing politician majoring in politi- (to make this work) and there's no Ash said. · · cal science at the Universitv of other example of how this should For instance, a dorm for resi- Louisville, doesn't mind. · be done," said Dan Ash, Metropoli- dents who all worked at night A new program gave him the tan College's executive director, woul_d probably be quiet during best possible Christmas present who works solely for the program. daytime sleepmg hours. On-site _ a free ride for college, and a "Metropolitan College" is a day-care service would help night- lucrative job on top of that. school in name only, and it doesn't shtft workers address familv needs Harshfield and 800 other stu- actually award degrees. Instead, it Ash said. · · dents·have completed their first works more like a clearinghouse. The college's broad scope is semester in ·Metropolitan College Students are admitted by, and also a plus, said Bob Sexton exec- - a partg~hip between three enrolled in, the partner schools. ut,·ve d'tree tor of t h e p nchard: colleges aiid'UPS that gives stu- Their classes are taught by regular Committee for Academic Excel- denisa· :iwtion-free educat1on college professors, but meet be- lence, the state's largest educa- tween 5 and 10 p.m., so students · d with class schedules that allow · non-a vocacy group. can them to work at night at UPS. work late nights. "M ost state-offered worker- The fall courses begin earlier in · · - Education observers sav the the summer, and end at Thanks- trammg programs are 1llilited to ·p w'1ll become the· pro- · · d fr , one type of academic program that Partnershl givmg so stu ents are ee ,or only benefits that one industry," totyp~ for Kentucky's economic- UPS's holiday rush. Spring classes said Sexton . .. development incentives, and pos- run on a normal schedule. ·sibly for the nation's. The program covers other Eyed for Imitation Metropolitan College was the costs in addition to tuition - in- The state is trying to imitate key component of an $80 million eluding bus passes to get to class the program in other areas. state-incentive package that se- and work. Students pay for their In November, General Electric cured ~ -nearly $1 billion UPS ex- own textbooks. announced it would move the pansion of i1s international air hub. For Louisville's Kevin Stone, headquarters for its Information The company had worried the college makes it easier to move Technology Solutions subsidiarv about :finding enough people for the up the education ladder. to Northern Kentucky. Worker 2,000 package-bandling jobs it Stone, 26, who was already a training programs from Northern would_.need to expand. The ideal UPS employee, is working toward Kentucky University and North worker:-18-·to 24-year-olds in col- an associate degree in computer in- ern Kentucky Technical College lege, asmiiJ!'grol!p in Louisville. formation systems at JCC. He hopes were the deciding factor, GE offi Metropolitan College - which ·to transfer later into U of L's com- cials said. includes Jefferson Community Col- puter-science program - a process The GE training program lege, Jefferson Technical College, that hasn't always been easy in probably will serve a couple hun and U of L - was the state's so- Kentucky. dred students. lution. "It's nice to know that I will be Martha Johnson, chairwoman The state picks up half of the able to go on and get a bachelor's of the Kentucky Communirv and students' tuition - amounting to degree, and know my classes will Technical College System Board of about $1.5 million a year of the to- count toward a bachelor's degree." Regents. said the roles of colleges ta! incentive package. UPS pays the Stone said. and universities in the state's eco other hali "And knowing that it will be nomic future will only grow. "Our package-handling opera- paid for is really good, too." "This is what ·the reform act tions rely on college students who \\"as all about, using education to are educated, highly motivated and Llttle controversy so far increase oppornmities for the able to work part time," said John Metropolitan College so far has state's citizens," Johnson said. Kinney, a UPS human-resources garnered high marks and few criti- Metropolitan College's Ash manager who works with the Met- cisms for its educational offerings says he sees a future where the col ropolitan College program. and economic benefits. lege serves other businesses in the "Before Metro College, we sun- . Public outcry from city resi- Louisville area as well as UPS. ply couldn't find the work force we dents in June blocked a plan to And the GE and UPS deals needed," Kinney said build dorms and classrooms for mark a new way of working Since the UPS expansion an- Metropolitan College on land in an1ong the state's colleges. nouncement in the spring, more historic Stansbury Park, across Technical and communirv col than 1,500 people applied to Metro- from U of L's enrrance. The citv oi leges have long worked with indus poliran College, and about 800 got Louisville had planned to donate n,·. but four-year colleges have jobs and the accompanying schol- the land. rarely been so involved. arships. Nearly 200 more are on College officials have backed "Frankly, (these programs) are waiting lists. away from that plan and said they a iar cry from colleges that in the It's a win-win situation, says would find another space. past have spent more time squab Gov. Paul Patton. who told the The program was also men- bling than cooperating," Sexton area's education leaders to do what- tioned in a recent Time ma · · In November 1997, the wheels were set in motion to keep the state·s : latgisi "'npl§yer, Urii!ed Parcel Service; in Louisville. Barely four' months later, UPS officials announced a nearly $1 bil lion exJJ Program details Here's how Metro• politan College, a partner• ship between United Parcel Service and three Louisville colleges, works.- . _. ■ Hiring and admis• sions. Students ·must· be hired by UPS and also ad• mitted into one. of the three colleges -!-Jefferson Com munity ·College, Jefferson Technical College or. the University of Louisville. ■ Reqliireinents.· Stu• dents must maintain at least a D average in all their classes and have a good work-attendance record. ■ Jobs offered: 15 to 20 hours a week.as package handlers in UPS's Next Day Air Operation: Shifts start between 10 p.m. and 4 am. Wages begin• <,11 $8.50 an hour, with full health bene• fits; paid,vacations and'hol• idays. Most jobs average $10 to $12 ari hour. ■ Academic pro• grams offered: 19 certifi cate, diploma and degree programs, with all required classes scheduled in the evening. But all courses at the three colleges· are open lo· students. For more information about Metropolitan College, call the UPS Employment Center at (502) 359-1877 or toll-free at (888) 316-3704. - FROM STAFF REPORTS