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Local barber pleases himself, worned/ over health By JEFFERY RICHARDSON tivities. gMdcn ing. elc .. as well as customers from all walks of life Louisville DeSales work activities." Woodlwll said . Aller surgery. howcver . the worker even more on the weekends .~ By NIKITA STEWART finds that his job skills are affected. Link eJL: plained the procedure of a A dreaded ner ve di sease has plagued IheGi\J Corvette Assembly Warren Central haircut . The synd,-ome causes physical Plant. affecting to I>crccnt of the "I always leave it up to them." He pain and discomfort. Most cases UAWmernbers . Most of us only see one slice of li fe . also gives his customers a mirror, so requi re immediate medical as But Harold Li nksees the who le loa f. that they will be able to guide the The "carpal tunnel syndrome" sistance. including surgery. A barber for T7 years. Link, better haircut, occur s when work requi res frc known as "Scoutchie" by customers. "Sym ptoms that you look out for " I think that's my secret. .. As quent bending lmd twisting of the arc ("o nsUmt I)ain. inabi li ty to lift has had an opportunity to view "all wrist and arm. It can Icad to irri long as you keep the customer happy. m achinery. lack of sleep. num· walks oflife." that's what is important." tation and swell ing due to excessive bncssiln

2 Lim ited Edition Secretary Bailey cares about people

enjoys work By FELICIA JOHNSON and sororities, as well as enter Union County High tainment and recreation, "' I ~njoy seeing stude nts come with judge int o college and impr ove their Ma ny Americans believe that a social standards."' Bailey said By DARICE BUTLER sol id education is essent ial for su~ ., ' find it intel'esting, amusing Pleasure Ridge Park cess, and sometimes s

/ Malone's goal is enhancing GM full~ t ime physician to care for its profit for Gl\1 in disabling people, "Our company doctor'S ide;l of opportunities e mployees They a lso have a It·s obviously in G i\1's best intcrests "' therel- of my patients who employee. said her life has become Josephine Blount. who now given me so much discomfort that C to 5.8 percent this year. The same smaller pool of black students from gram for both recruiting and re One problem Westcrn and other ing everything they C;ln to recruit type of decline is true for black which to draw and every state uni taining minority faculty members. state universities face, he said is bOlh black faculty and students. fuculty . versity is after them. He said the state has given the lack of available pt.'{lp le in some She said Western has a long his Western $9 1,000 over a two-yeilr career fields. Another is limited Mrs. Cheryl Chambless. admis Chambless said Western's black tory of black student recruitment. period to hire black instructors budget to hire top flight pro s ions director. and Dr. Robert student recruiting goa l is about 8 "Minorities are welcome here, and without -terminal degrees_ The new fessionals. Haynes, academic affairs vice percent under t he s tate's des it's an envi ronment they find con teachers will be given time oITwit h "Until there is a value on higher president. were responding to egregation plan, and the university ducive to getting an education ," full salary to wo rk on their PhD, education, we're going to get more criticism recently leveled at all has come close at times to meeting she said. and the only requirement they have mi ssionaries a nd less prac state universities by the Kentucky that goa!. is to remain with the university one titioners," said Haynes. Commissionon Human Rights. However, she said the university Chambless said another import year for every year they are given He explained that until there is The commission said min6rity has an active minority recruiting ant equation is retaining the financial support, additional support for salaries in recruitment of black faculty and program and has even developed students once they come to the education top line professionals studcnts has actually gotten worse special scholarships for minority campus, and the university has Western has recruited several will not return to the campuses to over a fi've-year period instead of students in an effort to boost en hired somone whose sole respon. people in this program since it be teach. lnsome instances this leaves better. rollment. s ibility is to wo rk with minority gan and this year will hire two new the universities with less than the Citing enrollment statistics, the In 1983, the percentage of black students and their problems. minority professors. he said . best people in the classroom_ Educator Sisney no 'buddy' but tries to be a friend

By NIKITA STEWART room teacher and once served as an he cared, and the man returned to Warren Central assistant director of the National Bowling Green High recently for small percentage compared to the Sisney. who enjoys playing his Teacher Board.. his IO-year class reunion. He is now ones that you can reach." saxophone and body bui lding, has a Ricardo Sisney gets respect. But He tries to interact with the an office manager for a con He said he hates to pick up a fa mily life with wife Shirley and as assistant principal at Bowling students, but not on a struction company, and he thanked newspaper and read the name of a daughter LaTanya . His wife Green Hi gh School, he gives it, too . "buddy- buddy" basis. "If you do Sisney for his help. former student who has committed teaches at T.C. Cherry Elementary "I respect them, and they respect become a buddy," Sisney said, Sisney said that he liked "being suicide or broken the law. School. me. I don't want them to be afraid .. they might try to take advantage able to see a s hy, in ~ r ove. rted Sisney works with others in the I Sisney said he would like to be a of me .. .I just want their respect," orthesiluation ." freshman develop into a 'mature community. He is a deacon at State principal "That's a goal that Sisney said, explaining his special He just tries tobe,a friend. young lady or man with tbe ability Street Baptist Church and is on the :! ventually will be achieved. As !s is tant principal is training relationshi p with the students. "I try to remember what was im to assume a promising career. ~ boards of di rectors for the Bowling Sisney, 48 , attended Kentucky portantto meinhighschool. I listen However, not a ll cases are sue· Green Chamber of Commerce and ground." State University and Western. He to their problems. I try to be con cessstories. the Salvation Army. Sisney said his attraction to his received an undergraduate degree cerned." "There are those who are so In the past he has sponsored the job is "definitely not the salary," ile in biology and a graduate degree in Sisney cited the example of a re brainwashed with negative Key Club a nd the Student Union said jokingly ."1 guess it's just l.e erlucatioJl administration. bellious young man who had a drug thoughts from home that no matter which are the two largest clubs at ing able to work with people frt;m Before becoming assistant prin problem when he was in hi gh what you do, you just can·t reach Bowling Green High, averaging 80 all nationalities, social and ccun cipal 16 years ago, he was a class- school. Sisney advised him. showed tpem," he said. "But that is only a members each. omica! background, ~ , ' .. . , " . " . , , '."""" Opinion Let's rally around nation's youth Many successful people weren't elementary. middle and high deemed it necessary. graduate. We must correct this born rich or with all the odds in school students. Of course, this took time and problem. We need to show them their favor. Business and industrial leaders money, but it produced wonderful how important a high school , and Some of these people talked to should also join the other people results. even a college education, is to sur and inspired many of the Minority and organizations that "adopt .. There are many intelligent vive in the highly competitive work; Journalism Workshop participants students. students who want to go to college force. tbisweek. When they "adopt" a student, and make something of them A job at ~ local fast food restau They were Gloria Ballard. they check on the student's pro selves. But the harsh reality is that rant is not going to make it. Reginald Glass. Milford Reed, gress, help the student get scholar many will never get the chance. Just throwing money at the Everett Mitchell, Lela Randle and ships and make sure they graduate When financial aid is being con problem is not going to help. We Tommy George. These people have from high school. In a way they stantly cut many of tomorrow's need to gather people and groups struggled to be what they are today become a second or third parent. leaders may be cut short of their who are willing to work together and are an inspiration to our A very successful New York man goal. and come up with workable sol nation's youth. "adopted" a whole sixth grade Scholarships are available, but utions to stop this problem in its But. they are only a very small graduating class. He told the ' not nearly enough to goaround. tracks. handful of the successful people in students that if they -graduated . But many of the nation's students So what do we do? Do we talk to America. Unfortunately, many of from high school he would pay for may not even make it out of high them, inspire them or help them the .others are afraid to help the their college education. school. Many are dropping out. along the way, or do we leave them youthwho are like tbeyonce were. He also funded field trips for the For instance, in Detr;oit about 50 to fall through the cracks of These successful people should class and allowed them to come percent of the incoming high school society? take some time out to talk to local and talk' to him any time they freshmen are not expected to -LaDonna Murphy, duPont Man ual Closer examination shows newshounds' real values Two years ago, nothing dis keeps you from being slugged and gusted me more than seeing the laid out. reporter in action. Well, maybe my I don't believe in badgering a , \ nosey neighbor across the street, person with questions, if th~y ' re \ but she doesn't count. She's not going through some trauma in ,, getting paid for being nosey. their life. You won't get the an Television hasn't opened a very swers any faster or easier. From hospitable door for the newshound the tongue fly words that even reporter. In fact the door has been mother couldn't scrub away with a sLammed in his face too many barofLavasoap. times. Face the facts. When people ex Lead-weight bags under his eyes press their true feelings about \ reveal his moodiness as well as his newshound reporters, honesty ?ul3t.tc.. resistance toward sleep, He sports doesn't always make the best quo a stern, statue-like expression on a tes .. ln times like these, it's some face that is unaffected by comment times best to give people time to or criticism. collect their thoughts. His hand has become home sweet Since time is money, getting home for his ever-so faithful pen, thoughts collected don't onen get as daring thoughts are pressed the reporters paychecks. Every down on paper with overwhelming one who has some deep, dark sec confidence. ret finds comfort in avoiding the But how does someone who has newshound like his mother-in-law. Little compassion for reporters, end They are given the false belief as the next reporter. Now I'm be look bad. up being one himself? Why try to fit that all reporters are out to distort ginning to take note of a very scary Actually, life without the news the reporters' shoes when for so the truth for their own financial observation. I've actually become hound reporter would be like life long I've wanted them to experi gain. That simply isn't true, one of those reporters I used to love without tears, anger and laughter. ence the same torment that they've I work for my school newspaper to hate so well . [ find that people Of course, with some articles the innictedon others? in Louisville. And when I really who have mastered the skill in get real joke is that the reporter hon I guess you could say curiosity is come up with an idea that could ling on people's nerves generally estly admitted he wrote the story . a powerful tool for the imagination. spark some controversy, people go into this business pro But whatever the newshound You wonder if all reporters have automatically know when to duck fessionally. writes he's sure to get a strong that vulbJ.re-like quality inside that around the corner, [n the near future, I'll withdraw public reaction. It may not be a causes them to prey on the de But I have better things to do most of my opinions about re friendly reaction, but he still drew fenseless to satisfy their hungry than make a person's life mis- porters. [say 'most,' because you in the few readers he had and gave appetites. erable. I never set out to get any- stH! have those hounds that hunt them words to reaUy reflect on . It's At this point, I wanted to see if I body on purpose. That's what they through the wastebasket daily, just that his methods in getting the could help change this image by have nightclubs for. picking out the scraps of gossip to story are sometimes far from be using a more laid-back approach, When push comes to shove, I can be fed to the publIc. These re ing desired, Usually your laid- back approach .be. ~~ p~shy , ,*s.~y .and persistent . . por,ter. Il),~~e t~'l.W~ oU~~ \>r!'<'The Courier-Journal; Gloria Ballard, fash Western , helped start the students on their JoAnn Thompson . workshop admin~ professional newspapers. toured media fa ion editor at The Tennessean : and Tommy writing. " I love working with the kids:' he istrative a ssistant, also has been associated cilities, wrote and edited newspaper stories George. sports reporter for the Detroit Free said. with the workshop four years. She is adver and learned photography. Press_ Gary Hairlson, photography instructor . is tising adviser to the College Heights Herald The workshop lasted I I days and was" a Along with other speakers they gave the a photographer at the .Jackson Sun in J(jck and also handles all the paper work and chance of a lifetime," said Lisa Wright. a students an in-depth view of interviewing, son, Tenn. He taught in the workshop two budget and buys supplies for the workshop. junior from duPont Manual Hi gh School in reporting . newswriting and photo· years ago when he was the university pho Tracy Newton, bookkeeper for the College Louisville . journalism. tographer at Western and has been involved Heights Herald, helps Thompson with any The workshop allowed students to live on Many activities were scheduled during the in the workshop all four years. He is a native thing that needs to be done_ "1 like meeting the Westel'O campus and gave them a tasteof wo rkshop , including trips to Opryland, The of Henderson. all the students lmd watching them learn." college lire, while learning about journalism. Tennes!5ean. WBKO-TV , the Daily News and ,; I like bei,ng around the young journalists This has been her second workshop. Introducing. • •

she plans to go to the Rai-bizon School Uigh School, might give the impre;· come _a jou~na list. She wahts 10 be a biology. composition and Latin. She of Mode li ng so she will nave a career sian that he isstiIT and scholarly. leacher t~ en beconle a gu idance participates in a wi de variety of to fall back on. But the 17-year -bea junior this Call. Cobble Murphy Richardson has some ideas about on "What The Role OlThe American She is active in student govern· what he wants todo in the luture. "I'd Journalist Should Be." ment. French Club. Future Teachers like to have my ow n talk show. and She said one or the most enjoyable of America, Future Homemakers of also do some songwriting. " a spects of the workshops was America and concert, pep and RichardSQn said he enjoys li ving in " meeting new people." marching band. Louisville because he gets to meet a Cooking. eating and sleeping. as J ohnson's poem about the Chal LaDonna Murphy Eugene Cobble lot of people. but he likes small well as talking and hanging out with lenger di saster, w Ode to the Brave:' Friends say LaDonna Murphy is towns , too. friends. are things Brown likes to do. First impressions, such as "this was published in a competition that run.loving, unpredictable and en "A small town gives you a sense of She is active in the band as a nag girl. guy is really going to be a pain," can included high school and college ergetic. belonging, warmth and love ." he Brown plans to attend Middle Ten be misleading. students. Murphy is involved in com nessee University and major in busi· ~ugene Cobble's 3. .8 grade.point Although she is working on a book munications at duPont Manu al in ness adminstration:-' ARer college ' average at Hume ~Fogg A:c'ademic about herself, !:he doesn't plan to. be- LouisviUe. Her favorite courses are . Continued on page 6 Former waitress now zesty fashion plate By PATRICE BROWN vie\i'ing somcone for a fcature McGavock story, the cnvironmenl can be as much a part of the intcn'iew as the ,"'or a woman whosta rtedoUl asa person I)(!in g interviewed." wuitress a t Shoneys. Glor ia " Go with a lead alread v in Hallard . fashion editor for The mind:' she said. "Carry on a'con Tenncsscan. ha s come a long way. versatiun instead of going fro m Ba ll ard. a 35-year-old graduate qnestion toans\\·er. ·· from the Unh'crsit y of Tcnllessl'C. Ballard not only writes about has been interested in journalism fas hion. bu t also other features si nce college. such as things I'etated to children She came to Western Kelllucky a nd interr .. cial marriages. University to talk a bout featul'e In her spare time . she Ba llard stories ,lIld spent three days teaching enjoys reH ding:. running. cooking student s in the Minorit y J ournatim and gardening. . Workshop . Although Ballard and he r hu s " You can turn almost anything band . Henry i\·lartin. a Nashville into a feature story_ .. Ballard said. allomey. are both working people. "but it must bcpre<.""isc."" they a lways find ti me to spend with Feature stories a re not hard news their two children. · stories . They are informal. enter She says that they h"ve a SO-50 taining stories that appear to he parenting relationship. but one written for the pleasure of the at wa ys ha s to know what thc other reader. one is doing . Ballard s aid . " When inter· Ball,u'd is a perfect eXHmple of how a woman with two children can make it in the working world. 'Best comes from worst' By LISA WRIGHT fornliltion he needed fOI' the story Louisville duPont M anual and took it home. When George got home he realized that he had no The fi rst time you do anything pal>cr to write on. so he found a you may find it difficult. but ne\'er hrown paper bag and began givc up. You may suprisc yourself. writing. Chris ShanOOllfSI.atford That'S what TommyGeorge. now That story won him first place in GI?ria Ballard, fa~h ion editor of The Tennessean , explains that play of stories is determined in 11 sports writer for the Detroit Free a Quill and Scroll contest with over Press. learned in high school . 6OO students . dally budget meetings. Ballard spent three days with the students before conducting a tour of the He was given an assignment for ··Sometimes.'" George explained newspaper office. the school paper. He got all the in- to the class ... the best sLO ries turn out ofthe worst situation . Profiles team and is the vice presidcnt of the Ccmtrat High School. Ad exec Journalism Club. said . " 1 don ·t favor one over the Stewart. a native of Killeen, Texas. Wright. 16 . a junior at du Pont other." He plans to go to the Uni\'ersity of has lived in Bowling Green two Manual Hig h School in Louisville, in for money Tennessee and major in journalism. years . said she Ywants to be a journalist and Hichardson is a member of the Then he plans to go to graduate Journalil; ln and Optimist clubs, In her spare time she enjoys read work rorTheCourier-Journal." By EUGENE COBBLE school and then ITT Technical In· ing. dancing, singing and horseback She first became interested in works as a page for the Shawnee Li stitute. Hume-Fogg Academic brary. and enjoys basketball , riding. MI also enjoy a good joke journalism in the eighth grade when During hl~ spul'e time. he enjoys every now and then," Stewart Said. bowling and track and field . partying. listtming to music and rid she wrote sports stories. '" like to Reginald Glass would be the rirst Asked to des('ribc himsetf. nich· Slime of her school activities in know what·s going on and to tell ing around '.I'i!h friends. clude Pep Club, Spanish Club, to admit he's in the advertiSi ng ani son said : ·' It·s like ' have an aller people what·s going on . " business because he likes to " make Shannon works two jobs ~ at Bur Afro-American Hi story Club and Wright has spent the last two years ego. At rirst , people may not think ger King and Arby·s. He thinks of money." I'm a social person. Once you gel to treasurcrofDrama Club. in a communication class improving himself as a hard working person She first became interested in a "You've got to get out there and know me. I 'm very energetic, ou t her writingskills. "eager to strivc for that c)( tra touch journalism career during the firth play tha t capitalist game," said going and a wise·crack ." "Next year I plan to write for the of success."' grade when she kept a daily journal, That·s modesty for you. school newspaper and take typing so Gtass. account executive for direct and in hig h schoot. she has written that J can get better in that," she marketing at The Courier-J ournal . articles for the Centrat Intelligence, said . Wright said that when she Glass talked about his can~e r in her student newspaper. graduates she plans to major in jour She enjoys writing so much she advertising with students in the nalism at Western Kentucky Univer "Iinority Journatism Workshop said she plans to allend college and sity. Wednesday, June 24 . Chris Nikita pursuea career in journalism. Wright said the workshop has been His prime fun ction at the ne ....'S· helpful ,, ' feel that this experience is Shannon Stewart paper is sales, working to persuade going to help me in my ri eld . When I leave here. I am going to know a lot businesses to buy s pace in the more than when J arrived." newspaper to sell their products. "Advertising pays 85 percent of the Lisa In her spare time, she enjoys base· ball. horse racing and talking on the bills at the newspaper."' he said . ChrisShannon Wright telephone . ,, ' like to talk. I love to and for people who sell it " Th e "Being a Leo makes me fee l like Nikita Stewart talk ." pressure is tremendous . I have King orthe Forest ." said Chris Shan- She was chosen most outstanding In school she likes English. co m known people who have broke n non. " • freshman and voted best dressed in municalions and lunch _ "espe· under that pressurc.'· Shannon. 'a [5-year·old junior at the 1986-87 schoot year, but Nikita , - ciallylunch." Strlltford High School in Nashville, Stewart said her most important Even though she is working hard to Glass lold the students they said the first day orthe workshop was trait is she "never cheats." Lisa Wright futfill her plans, she takes great should try the business side of the boring, "but now it's kind of inter. " If I accomplish something I Lisa Wright kn ows that the road to pleasure in her effort. neWSpaper. It·s "wide open for esting." should be given the credit, not some excell ence is paved with courage and "When I write, I like to writesports minority employment," he said . Shannon 's favorite subjects in one who hasn't contributed to my determination . stories and city stories -the kind of " All you have to do is learn the school are geometry, social studies success," said Stewart, a ul never want to quit at anything," stories about people a round me, system. and you can accomplish and science. fie is on the baseball 15-year -old sophomore at Warren shesaid . UI nevet' giveup." about ~ ke me. H anything you want. M • Limited Edition 7

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By CHRIS SHANNON Opryland General Manager, Julio Strafford Pierpaoli said, "That was proven when we added the Grizzly River A boat carrying 20 passengers I{umpage in 1980, Like the Grizzly, departs up a 50-foot. man-made The Old Mill Scream is a popular mountain. The boat plummets off fumily ride, the side of the mountain down a The Old Mill Scream joins 20 50-foot double dipped flume and Olher rides and attractions al SPLASH . You 'reall wet. Opryland, while "Way Out West", The Old Mill Sc ream is "The Big Broadcast" and "Heart of Opryland's newest water ride and Hock 'n' Roll " a re part of a Iineupof students attending the Minority a lmost a dozen musical pro Journalism Workshop at Western ductio ns. Kentucky University got a chance Donnie Beauchamp, photo, to spend the day al the Nashville jOUll1alist for the l)Ublic relations amusement park orfice a~ Opt'yland, has worked at Li stening to the sounds of old newspapel ~ such as The Port time country music, sipping on a Lauderdale Ne,:s, The Daily News glass of pink lemonade student Ni and TheNashville L:1nner. kila Stewart said, ,, ' like the One-day admission is$15.95 plus screaming Delta Deamon because lax, it wasn't scarry it was just a fun Patrice Brown, while eating ride," some cotton candy, said , " The J effery Richardson said , "It was price is loo high jus t to r ide ri,des a time togetawayfrom work ,"' and you have to pay for your own Two mi llion tourists walk food too," through the gates of Opryland each Andrea Briggs said , " It was a year, They nock to well known new experience fo r me and I think rides and shows such as The Grizzly that the water rides were the best ,'" Ri ver Rampage, Old Mill Scream La [)(lnna Murphy slated while Opryland's newest ride, the Old Mill Scream, was a favorite with workshop students, Right, and The Screaming Delta Deamon, gelling off the Old Mill Scream, "I Heather Stone and T aisha Rucker get a special view of the ride, thanks to Donnie Beauchamp, " Everybody loves a water ride," loved the bigsplash i111heend ,"

The skylif! carries visitors from one side of the park to the other. L ~ I Right, Nikita Stewart and Patrice Brown cuddle with the Honey Nut Rucke

His goal a t Dow Jones News paper Fund Inc ., is to encourage more. minorities to chose journal ismasacareer. Tom Engleman. the organ ization's executive director . said he believes the Minority Journalism Workshops. like the one Dow Jones sponsored at Western this year, is more than meeting that challenge. "The Newspaper Fund has been successful in terms of the number .

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Murphy shines in sequel 'Untouchables' tops summer films ByLADONNA MURPHY station to try to take Capone's By CHRIS SHANNON The bookkeeper into custody. At zero Stratford Louisville duPont Manual hour, when the bookeeper arrives, UNTOUCHABLES the station is almost clear except It·s not easy to make a sequel to It's prohibition, Al Capone is for a few people and a lady trying to the highest grossing mm of all ..... bootlegging liquor and Eliot Ness is He ruled Chicago w irh get her baby in a stoller up the time. but comic actor Eddie Mu ..... ___...... - out tostophim. ls this a time warp? absolute power. Ift1 steps. Ness helps the lady up the rphy pulls one over without a hitch. ___"F No. It's the new blockbuster hit ---- ... A PARAMOUNT " ICTVIIE ~ steps but it·s too late - the shooting In his latest money maker. MBeV' ~ The Untouchables" directed by starts. During the action the erly Hills Cop II," Murphy plays Brian DePa1ma. Jimmy Malone. an old cop who, be--- stroller is bumped and starts roil Axel Foley. a wise cracking cop stupid but funny aspect. Reinhold is This story is set in 1930'5 Chicago cause of the corruption in Chicago's ing down the steps with guns blaz who pays no atlention to rules. Mu a great actor and deserves to be and big time ganster AI Capone is police department, is forced to ing around it. Will the baby rphy's talent is all dressed up. considered best supporting actor in practically running the town. walk a beat. heeomes one of the survive? See the movie and find The movie begins with Murphy a comedy movie. Aston remains the Crime is running rampant. The Untouchables. Andy Garcia a nd out. back at the Detroit police force hard nose in the movie_ Treasury Depar tment sends an Charles Martin Smith star as the My criticism of this movie is that driving a $50,000 Ferrari through The movie was basically about agent, Ness, to Chicago to set the other Untouchables. they concentrate too much on the the streets of Detroit. He needs the selling illegal arms for profit to an town straight. With the help orthree This movie differs from many bootlegging operation and not car as a cover while trying to ex other country. It would spoil the other men the agent shows Capone others heeause it doesn't depend on enough on the many other crimes of pose a phony credit card ring. movie if I told you more. There is that crime doesn't pay in the long gore for it·s excitement. Director AI Capone. Andy Bogomilli (Victor). the bad never a dull moment with one run. Brian De Pahna's use of suspense "The Untouchables" is a must guy that smuggled everything that rib-tickling line. shootout or chase Robert De Niro seems as if he infilmcanbecomparedwiththatof see movie and may beoneofthe few he could get this hands on from scene after another. was born to play the role of-A I Cap- the late Alfred Hitchcock, espe good films to come from the sum- drugs to art. had killed Foley's "Beverly Hills Cop II" is rated one. Kevin Costner is powerful in cially in the train station shoot out mer lineup. ~ friend in the first movie. Foley gol a "R" and it's a great movie. You will the role of Eliot Ness. the to: (~ h scene. Rated R. with violence and pro call from L.A. saying that Victor die laughing in your seat. Chances Treasury Department aR l'nl who is In this scene Ness and Stone, one fanity. had been gunned down in cold hood are you haven·t heard the last of sent to Chicago. SeanConneryplaysof the Untouchables, go to the train by a gang of professional serial Murphy. This film is one of his best Rating: * * * * * robbers. performances ever. It should be the After convincing his boss to let best orthe summer lineup. him go, Foley heads off for sunny The ending is great. I will let you California. in on some of the end1ng . There is Food services cooking under Murphy teams up with old bud one of those great Murphy dies Judge Reinhold and John As s hootouts where the bad guys ton_ Reinhold is a witty side ki ck to a lmost kill Foley. while they are Louis Cook's leadership the. talented Murphy and does a trying to get away. good job giving the audience that Rating: * * * * * By LISA WRIGHT LouisviJIeduPc;»ntManual

Twenty-two years is a long time 'Predator'shows horror but imagine being in the same place for 22years. For Lo.uis Cook , director of food By USA WRIGHT The hunt has begun services at Western Kentucky Uni Louisville duPont Manual versity. it 's no i~agination . During the summer, Cook is re " Raw Deal:' "Commando" and s ponsible for the f(tOd and its "The Terminator" are all previous arrangement at the Hilltopper Din movies starring a husky Austrian nerTheatre. {hat continues to knock America olT The theatre started in 1983 in the infect. Garrett Center Ballroom. and per Arnold Schwarzenegger has been troy the beast. formances are held eac h night, earnirig millions of dollars the past By the middle orthe film, he has Wednesday through Saturday. few years for his great roles in lost at least threc men to this hor All the actors are from Western ror, and by the end he is all alone, manydilTerentfilms. except one actress who is a student louis Cook .. "Predator:' his latest movie. is except for a girl that he's found at the University of Kentucky. The while invading the island near the about an unseen horror that is con actors also serve double duty as Western owns the theatre which portunity.·' Cook said. jungle, to find some of the soldiers tinually killing off Schwar waiters atthe theatre: has nine staff me mbers and 10 This summer 's lineup includes that have been captured by island zeneggers' men. Between ISO and 175 people at· actors. the play. "No Sex Please. We 're e .... The setling for the film is in a tend the theatre each night and pay "I feci that the theatre provides British" and a musical. "They're "Predator" is rated R. jungle area where Schwarz.enegger $L3.5O , the cost of the dinner and students with experience and staff Playing Our Song. " and his mercenari~ ,seek to dei- Rating: * * * "'.'-:'."\' .. .. ,':: show. member.s. · with ~ employment 'OP" ,.,.,.. '. " ,,[,hr·. • : .I.r.: 10Limited Edition Spare time? Professor does double duty

By LA DONNA MURPHY would be interesting to see the Cathoun has been a pretrial Louisville duPont Manual practical side of soci{)logy . release ofncer for a year and a half. Sociology is a science dealing with Cathoun has also been a sociology For a man with two jobs, he still social'relations and institutions . professor at Western Kentucky finds time to be an unofficial big Tn order to be a pretrial release : University for the last three years. brother to a widowed friend's four officer a person must be a college In the past he v,;orked at Old Do sons and his two god children. graduate; Calhoun said. It is also minion for two years and also at Thomas Calhoun. a sociology hclpful to have taken a sociat Union College in Ohio for three professor. is also a pretrial release science. years. officer. As such. he helps circuit Calhoun interviews persons who F orty-year-o ld Calhoun was and district court judges determine have been arrested. He gives in born in rural Mississippi. a~te nded whether pesons charged with a formation to the judge about the a segregated high school and spent crime should be released on bail person's past criminal record. his fou r years in the Air Force. and if so the type and amount of residency and job stability to assist He received his bachelor's de· bond to be posted. in making a decision on how soon. if gree in sociology at Texas Wesleyn Calhoun said that being a pretrial at all , the person s hould be and his master's at Texas Tech. release officer "helps me to be a released. Calhoun is currently working on a Andrea BriggslLouisYil1e Butler better teacher" because he can He thinks his sociology back PhD in sociology at the University Thomas Calhoun is a sociology professor and pre-trial release officer. give his student s real life situ ground has helped him in this job of Kentucky. ations. because he understands human be Asked about his spare time he Calhoun became a pretrial reo havior and can give the judge bet said jokingly. '" I have no spare Students tour Tennessean, lease officer because he thought it ter insight. time."' learn ropes of business

By ANDREA BRIGGS There is a daily budget meeting Louisville Butler to discuss and decide on the most important news that has some Running a newspaper is not all bearing on the people of Tennessee. news and facts, it·s a money The meetings are attended by edi making business. , tors fro m each department of the newspaper. Gloria Ballard. fashion editor of The Tennessean. said. "Over 65 The budget meetings can last percent of the newspaper is adver anywhere from 20 t045 minutes. At tisment, and only about 35 percent the meetings. editors talk about is actually news." story placement and dummies are Students attending the Minority made as a guide to show where the '.Journalism Workshop toured Nas arUcles are to be placed. hville's morning newspaper. The Tennessean has a library to The Tennessean is one of the aid the rcporters on stories. The largest newspapers in the state. library, used only by the staff, has The 17s-year-old .paper was orig articles filed for the use of a re inally named the Nashville Wigg in porter. Reference books are also 1812. then in 1907 it was given its available to help the reporters. current name, The Tennessean. There are about 2.000 employees Th.e Tennessean, a two-edition at The Tennessean. working newspaper has six sections and together to put out the best news covers eight counties. including paper they can. some parts of Memphis and Knox Since 65 percent of thc money made for the newspaper comes ville. The newspaper is printed on a from the ad department. adver three-story press which produces tising is a chief factor in the running of the newspaper. about 60 ,000 papers daily. In the newspaper's warehouse. about"SOO Account executj!,:'es sell adver Nikita StewartlWarref'l Central tising space to corporations and Angela Townsend is "a fighter" against bias and racism. to 600 tons of newsprint is stored. About 100 rolls are used each day. businesses in either display ads or classifieds. The money from ad Most of the newspaper is printed Teacher leads fight for town fairness two days before it is to be dis vertising pays for the cost of run tributed, Ballard said. ning the newspaper as well as the salaries. By NIKITA STEWART volves students at Warren Central, church activities in Bowling Green. Warren Central Warren East and Bowling Green The Townsends have two Daily News shows group High. daughters, Jacienda, 15, and Akisha, Some lead and some follow . To become a full member ofSUTE, 5. Jacienda was accelerated two Angela Townsend, an English a student must maintain a 3.0 cumu years and will be a semor at Warren complete side of paper teacher at Warren Centra l Hi gh lative grade-point average. To be Central next year. She is also a Gov School, is definitely a leader in the come an affiliate member, a student ernor's Scholar. Akisha will be in the Bowling Green community. must maintain a 2.5 gpa or be first grade. By DARICE BUTLER completing work on that day 's "I'm a fighter, ~ Townsend said, as socially active as a dub officer or a Townsend's greatest errorts are to Pleasure Ridge Park newspaper. In the newsroom, Tom Ross, as she spoke on obtaining fairness in the leader in the community. help minority students excel in all sistant city editor, explained that community. She said that there is Townsend is now discussing plans areas. "U's an experience for a min Blooming green plants, wood still plenty of bias and racism, and with printers for a magazine which ority student to go 10 school and come the newspaper receives its national she works against it. will center on minorities or out successfully," she said. framed newspaper pages decor and state news from the Associated atively hung on stark white walls She has been involved in organ teenagerS'. Although she appears to be a P ress, a news wire service, but all izations such as the NAACP Youth "Writing is not a problem," small, shy woman, her deter and· a young tour guide greeted Bowling Green and area news Minority Journalism Workshopers Group, the Red Cross and a local Townsend said, because she took mination, courage and self-esteem stories are produced by reporters when they visited the Bowling Bibleschool. writing courses at the University of make her one of the most prominent employed by the newspaper. Green Daily News. Townsend sponsored the Afro Kentucky and Xavier University. people in thecommunity. "Sometimes stories you plan for American History Club, an organ Although 'Townsend is occupied And when she works with today's edition don't always work ization for black students and others . The tour began in the classified with many dirrerent activities, she teenagers in the community or at out," he said. at Warren Central High School for school, she passes all of these attri advertising depart.(l1ent, moved always finds tilVe for her family. six years. Her husband Wendell, manager of butes loothers, through the newsroom and display The Daily News is a regional "J 'm dealing mainly with min finance for General Electric in Lou There are IIlmilarltle~ between advertiSing department into the anernoon newspaper, serves eight orities who excel academically and isville, is also a valuable asset to the teaching and community work, she composing room and ended in the counties and has an average daily socially, "she said, as she explained community. He has worked with said. "I'm still dealing with kids who press room and circulation de circulation of 21,000 and a Sunday her own sponsored program, United Negro College Fund in Louis need motivation, encouragement partments where employees werf> circulation 0(25..Q90. Students United To Excel. which in- ville, and he is heavily involved in anddirection." " """ -" ,''.. I. ~,' I '. " " _ ,., . ,>, ,- . " . Urnited Edition II Sports Drag racer looking for his 'lucky break' his wife's car. unbeknownst to her . ::: • By FELICIA JOHNSON He said he hoped she didn't rind oul Union Co unty about it. " I started drag racing because I To Bowling Green drag racer Le0- kept getting speeding tickets. One nard Boards, win ning is everything_ Leonard day I went to the race track. I liked it, He hasn't done much of it yet. bu t a nd 1 decided to pic k it up. ~ he plans to. Boards Like ma ny race car drivers , Boards, 33 , a nd looking for a Boards works on the cars besides "lucky break" in a highly com · driving them. pelitive sport, races in the Pro ET "Cars from Kentucky, Indiana, division of the National Hot Rod As· California and Canada are brought sociation. pany, and he uses hi s salary to sup. here. When I am busy, l have some "The most I ever won in a single porthisracinghobby. one else to help me," he said , refer year was $1,000," he said, but with a Boards spends his weekends ring to the other drivers who com little luck and some additional fi nan preparing for the ~ bi g time" on the pete at Beech Bend. cial support he thinks he could do drag racing circuit by participating Boards is married and has four better . - in local competition at Beech Bend children, but he said they rarely International Raceway_ watch him race. "They also don 't Boards competed. last year in the "1be faster you drive the higher stand in the way of my career ," he JeHery Ricl1 ardson/DeSales NHRA points meet at Indianapolis your bracket, and the top bracket said. Leonard Boards had to drive his wife's car in the drag races last and fini shed. in the money. losing in pays $500 ; that is, if you win,." he P artially because he considers said. On the local level, " my bracket himself ha rd working and-deter Sunday because his car was out of commission . The Bowling the third round of eliminations. Wh en he isn't racing, Boards pays $350 a week. M mined. and partially 'because of the Green driver is looking for a break thai will put him in the big.time works for DESA InternaJional lnc .. a Boards' race car has a mechanical speed of his car , he said, " I think I driver's seat. Bowling Green manuracturing com· problem , and last Sunday he drove - can go lotheverytop." Martin faced with tough decision

By PATRICE BROWN tunities in life. Marlin faces a tough dedsion _ a McGavock This year Marlin comple tl'CI his career in J apan or pro basketball ? basketball career at Western and ·· ' ·m undecided .. · said Martin. Basket ball has not m ade accepted a job with Pa nasonic in who was in Bowling Green this Clarence 1\1 :lrtin big- headed. but Japun. But on J une 22 he was draf· week on vacation. it ha s given h im many opPOt·- ted by theNBA·:; UI ah J azz. Wh a tever decis ion Marlin makes. he said he will not change. ··'·m a low·key. down·to·earth kind of guy .. ' Martin said ... J"m not a nashy. namboyant person." Martin . 23. was one of three Westem 1)layers drafted by the NBA . Tell is Prank was the Golden State WatTiors· fi r·st·round choi ce and Kannard Johnson was t he Cleveland Cavaliers· second·round selection. Ta isha RuckeJfHume-Fogg Martin. 6·feet·8. 230 pounds: lore Coach Virgil Livers works wilh Hilton lsable at W arren Cenlral. ligaments in his knee in his SOI)h. ornore season (the fall of (983). but the injury did not end his career. For Livers, there was life When he graduated th.e NF L ·s Dall as Cowboys were interested after professional football but !\lartin wasn·t - he believed he was too thin for football . lhat he By DARICE BUTLER determ ined . '" ca nllet adversity would need to gain a l least 35 Pleasure Ridge Park keep me down." he said. pounds. Li vcrs- decision 10 continue his .. , like meeting and talking to His professional football days are career in football was made while peOI)le , especially kids.-· I\-Ia rtin over. but that hasn l stopped Vi rgil in college. Coaching was a way that said. ·'College wasn·t easy. Some· Liver-s from continuing wit h his he could stay in the gamc. thing easy is not wor-th having. A footuall skill s. pl aying the gu itar ··II·s someth ing I·ve always person should set high goals for and piano. sinAinl!. writing songs. wanted to do long before college.-· themselves. The one thing you you or Jiving life to its fullest. said Lh'ers. can never lose is your knowledge.·· Li\·ers. a forlller football player Martin said he likes being inter· with the Chicago Bears. is now a After playing defensh·e bitck for viewed when the writer is .. .. I)re high school football coitch at War. six years wilh the Chicago Bears. eise. persistant and open and Hsks ren Centt·a[ lIigh School in Bowling he 1)layed two years with the questions thai int erest the inter· Green. Chicago Blitz in the United States viewer and the reader. Pr"inl the When Livers r·etired. his college Football Leabru c. truth . not your own opinion ,. coach wanted him a:; assistant He felt t"ecci\'ing a good edu. During i\larlirl"s leisure time. he coach at Western. But Livers he.lrd cat ion was just as important as cnjoys resting at home. being with of an opening e(1)le who would Wa lker cha rges SI.50 for shoes have let the opportunity pass. she polished orl the feet and SI.75 off the went back to St. LOllis and le,lrt1l'd fect. The chat'ges for boots are 52 on to s hine shoes with the help of the feet and 52 .50offthe feet. Charles Smith. her instructOl' at the She charges more for ,Ill "off the SchoolofShoeology. f(.'Ct" polish because the shoes are She graduated in 1982 and estab- not steady, so it is harder. li s hed the Bowling Green Shoe Walker has trained fourpeol)le in Shine Parlor. Since that time her her field, but she is still the only p.l rlol' has expanded from a shop on business in Bowling Green tlla't 428 E . MainSt to94 1Col lege St. provides her services. Asked about the number of CllS- " I enjoy meeting a lot of nice Ta lsha Rucker/Hurne,Fogg tomers. she replied, " You might people," she said. Earnece W alker has taken a shine to Bowling Green. have 10 one day. You might ha\'e 15. Walker has turned an old side You might have 20 or 25 the next walk pastime into a successful d,,'." b lI siness, something she plans to

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Continued from page I from the movie, "The Candidate. ,. a certain style and wit about the thing and take J ackson made in 1984 when he in::ld ing tnere," Parker said. Parker said "J ackson is good at being make light of being black. just as Kennedy vcrtantly called New York Ci ty , " Il ym ie "Second," Parker said, " he is innam, able to address an issue in a very mem made light of being Catholic ... Town." matory. Unfortunately his strong rhetoric orable way. He is just a master doing the But equally im porta nt. Highland said. is Despite his naw. Highla nd said thai J ack· turnsorra lot of people. In that I mean white thing. He does it on purpose. It 's not by strong financial support which will enable son has a ce rt a}~ appea l to the people. , people. Whites tend to see him as an ex accident. It is all by design." Jackson to build an effective media image ,, ' think that Jesse is perceived as a strong tremist." Despite Jackson's appeal. Parker said and an effcdivc national campaign organ man a nd enormously partisan in civil J ackson's pro-Arab stand on Mi d-East that he is notable to win the election because ization. rights," he said. issues aiong wi th his recent trip to Cuba America is not ready for a black president. Hi ghland said J ackson will attract sup However, he was not sure how J ackson 's where he met with Fidel Castro are exam· That, he said, will take time. po rt from a distinct portion ofthe society. popula rity would innuence his standing in - pies of why he is labeled as an extremist, "The first step is to have a black vice "I assume thai the a \'erage Jackson voter the primary rijCes. Pa rkersaid. president," he said. "Obviously, there is a is going to be moderately liberal. strongly " I don't know , it's too early to tel l. " he He said that Jackson is "clearly liberal." first step for everything, and sooner or later opposed to conservative policy. supportive said. and "in this day and age of Reganitcs , to be a black is going to be elected ." of social welfare progrums and a reduction Like Parker, Highland believes that liberal is to be an extremist." As convinced as Parker is about Jack in spending for national defense . blacks need to be brought d(.'Cj1Cr into the Parker said that if Jackson is to h,H'e a son's cha nces. Highland has an opposing Whi le J ackson can onl)' expect the sup polit ics gradually. chance, "his challenge is to br ing in the view. port of liberal and radical elements of the " My suspicion is that he is more likely 10 whites ." He said that Jackson voters "are "With the right amount of financial sup Democratic Party, according to l'lighland, receive the nomination for vice president going to be primarily black, in any region port, the right packaging and righ~ words:' one of Jackson 's major problems in this than president," he said. and there aren't cnough blacks to win him Hi ghland said. ,, ' would say that he is a r ace is that he is famili ;!r. but not wel l Highland said the time has come to fully the nomination. much less thcelection." viable candidate for I)resident." known 011 the nationa llcvel. in tegrate minorities into the system. in· Parker acknowledged a Washington Post IIigbland - a Western journalism pro, " In Biloxi. Miss .. they don·t know J ack c1uding the prcsidentill ilevel report that Jackson was receiving "white fessor and 2O-year journalist - said Jack son . Tha t's the kind of thing that Jesse has to " By the end of the century," he sa id, "the sympathy" in Iowa for his comments on son would gain support, primarily whi te o\'ercome. majority of people in this country will nOl be farm issues. support. and have 11 chance to remain on top "The onl y way they are going lO know him white Anglo.Saxon protestants . ParkeI' said ' " It 's conceivable thaI Jack through the primaries ,lI1d even win the is through the media: ' Hig hl and said . At thi s point. there has been little activity son may have the most votes on no mi nation. "They (the media ) will be looking athim for in \V anen Co unty regarding the presiden· Super_ Tuesday, when 12 states have Iheir "Of course. you have to remember that what he stands for and what he says," he tial race. primaries on the same day. To win (the you are talking to a white liberal. A white sa id. John Deeb. the Democratic Pal'ly chair nomination) , Jackson'S got to have a ma conscrvative will say that he doesn't have a "The one thing that can get J ackson in man for Warren County, said earlier this jority in Atlanta, and he doesn 't have that chance ," trouble (however), is telling people exactly week that he kn ew of no organization set up yet. It is possible lhat no one candidate will Highland compared J ackson 's bid to John what he thin ks ," Hi ghland said. "Some in the county for rallying support behind have a majority on the first ballot." At lanta Kennedy's in 1960 , which he covered us a times you 've got to temper your views. That J ackson 01' any other De mocratic candi is the siteofthe Democratic convention next reporter in West Virginia. Ue said there are doesn't mean you lie ; it only means that you date. summer. similarities between the two elections . don" tell people exactly what's on your ,, ' really can', say what the people of this Parker sa id Jackson 's candidacy wi ll not "Jackson is Ule first black in my lifetime mind." county feel abOut J ackson without taking an divide or weaken the Dc mocractic Party. to be a Serious candidate for president," Highland said this was cause for the mis- opinion poll ," Deeb said." J jUst can't say." "That fear has been expressed, " he said, " said Hi ghland, "just as John F . Kennedy but' don 't think so." was the first Catholic to be elected He said Jackson's presence promotes president. " Rocky road to Washington begins democracy with "d ifferent voices being Highland sa id if Jackson were to dowell in heard." the primaries and win the no mination , .. the At the moment, Parker said, J ackson is a bigot and the redneck will say that this is with primaries in Iowa, New Hampshire definite frontrunner, and with the exception the worst thing that can happen to the co un ~ of U.S. Rep. Paul Simon, D-Ill .. stands out try. And, of course, they said the same thing Iowa is , of course, important to Jackson primaries in J une with the convention in from his the rest of opponents about John Kennedy. and every candidate since it the first state to Atlanta sometime in early July. J ackson starts off wi th a reservoir of "What J esse will have to overcome," he have a caucas for nominating deiFgates for more potential voters than any other Demo sa id, "is the same thing that that J ohn Ken, the DemocraticConvention. The states select delegates, whose num· cratic cand idate." Parke r said. "You could nedy had loovercome _ fear. People feared The Demoeratic nomination process be bers arc determined by populat ion and stand the candidates up in a line, and they'd Kennedy would a llow the Vatican and the gins early next year. The Iowa caueus is other factors , for the convention. These all pretty much look al ike. The other candi Pope to run the country, while in J ackson'S followed the Ne w Ha mpshire primaries on delegates vote according to the wishes of dates look li ke that they could have been case, they don't know what he might do ," March 1. "Super- Tuesday" follows on their constituents on the first ballot of eon typecast to play the role of the dashing Highland said if J ackson is to imprOVe his March 8 with primaries in 12 states . Arter vention voting, and will. in turn, select the young presidentia l candidate, sort of like chances of winning "he will have to develop - - t h~ t , -the re~in i ng states will finish their Democr atic preside.o.tial nominee.