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Student swipes, teacher gripes Alumnus at the In the pros - two Students and teachers complain about each other Met?! former players play for Pittsburgh Page A-5 Page A-8 PageA-101 November 10,1988 Laboratory Publication of tho Dopartmont of Mast Communications 12 pages Vol.67/No. 12 Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, Ky 40475 ©The Eastern Progresi 1988 Board gives enrollment figures, revises Model admission policy By Any Caudill posed to aiming for an enrollment with the Board of Regents' policy of no Editor 50 percent being children of faculty.as discrimination regarding race, creed The Board of Regents Saturday had been the policy in the past or socio-economic level. announced the third highest enroll- Model will continue to strive for a Nursery school admission will now ment in university history and approved half-male and half-female enrollment. be separate from the rest of Model changes to Model Laboratory School's Upon receipt of the child's applica- admission. Nursery school parents will admission policy. tion for admission, the child's name is be able to enroll their children in nurs- University president Dr. H. Hardy placed on one of two waiting lists, ery school without paying additional Funderburk announced to the board either a male or female list Model fees and still maintain their that enrollment figures recently sub- Model's assessment program will admission pcrrogative. mitted to the Kentucky Council on also be clarified to show that assess- Higher Education show a university ment is for grade placement and not Applications for nursery school may enrollment of 13,664, up 565 from last for admission. be submitted anytime after the child's fall's figure of 13.099. Model offers instruction in kinder- second birthday. Dr. John D. Rowlett, vice president garten through eighth grade for learn- Nursery school applicants' names for academic affairs, confirmed this is ing disabled students. are also placed on a male or female list the third highest enrollment in univer- Certain categories of exceptional and taken in order of the date the sity history. children are not provided with serv- application was received. A projection by a planning com- ices due to a lack of staff. An assessment procedure is also mittee four years ago predicted the Summer school at Model is intended done on nursery school applicants to university's enrollment at this time to to support requirements of the Col lege determine readiness for the program. be about 11,940 if current conditions of Education and other university col- Admission to nursery school is remained. leges and is open to students who at- independent of admission to Model so Model Laboratory School's admis- tended Model the previous semester. parents of nursery school children who sion policy has undergone revisions. Admission depends on available space. wish to enroll their children at Model Model will now accept students on The new policy will also clearly after completion of nursery school need a first-come first-served basis, as op- state that Model is in accordance with to submit a second application. Student Association President Hunter Bates, center, Francis Siaw, left, and Michelle Adams hang a pro-vote banner outside Burnam Hall voting polls. Lighter pleads guilty Bush takes campus precinct, to reckless homicide Iwins county, state, nation By Donna Pace Bush, who spent election ev- Republicans representing the Managing editor ening in Texas, was to be contacted state on both local and national Vice President George Bush will by Republican Sen. Mitch levels gathered in Lexington Tues- enter the White House with the ap- McConnell through a private phone day night to celebrate the victory. proval of close to 60 percent of line. Louie Nunn, Republican gover- those who voted in the campus McConnell, co-chairman of the nor from 1967 to 1971, described precinct Tuesday. Bush campaign and one of the first the campaign as a "casugation" on Bush received 57.9 percent of two men to support the vice presi- the part of both candidates. the campus vote taken in Burnam dent when he announced his quest "Let's just say the quarrel of the Hall, while Massachusetts Gov. for the presidency, said he would pygmies is over, and the battle of Michael Dukakis garnered 209 of relay the message, "We did it in the giants has begun," Nunn said. the 507 votes cast for a total of 412 Kentucky." Both amendments on the ballot percent "I think the other message to the were approved by voters on cam- In Madison County, Bush car- folks in Frankfort is, 'We're (Re- pus, locally and statewide. ried 9,715 of the votes to Dukakis' publicans) on our way back,' " The lottery was approved 352 6,794. Of the 45 local precincts. McConnell said. to 148 in the campus precinct while Bush controlled 39, although in The senator advocated an in- locally it passed 8,022 to 5,846 and one, Dukakis lost by a one-vote crease in the popularity of the Re- statewide by a margin of 681,019 margin. publican party, which currently is to 435.233. Bush captured 55 percent of the the minority party by a ratio of two The second amendment, giving votes in Kentucky. and one half to one. (See BUSH, Page A-4) Hummel Planetarium to open after nine years of sitting idle Melinda Lighter with her attorneys, Jim Groves, left, and Frank Haddad. By Amy Caudill Editor By Brent Risoer and Michelle Magruder, who died charge. After nine years of waiting, Jack News editor when a car Lighter was driving struck Haddad requested Lighter receive Fletcher finally got his planetarium. Melinda Lighter pleaded guilty a utility pole on North Second Street a reduced sentence or probation, but Actually, he had it all along — it just Monday morning in Madison Circuit A test taken on Lighter at Pauic A. Smith recommended the maximum wasn't open. Court to causing the deaths of two Clay Hospital after the accident re- penally of five years on each count of A 1979 contract between the uni- university students last spring. vealed she had a blood-alcohol level reckless homicide to run consecu- versity and Spitz, Inc., called for Spitz She was scheduled to stand trial of .288, according to Richmond po- tively. to furnish the newly completed Hum- that day on two counts of second degree lice. Additional information concern- Chenault granted Haddad's request mel Planetarium with working equip- manslaughter, but the jury was never ing the circumstances of the accident that the accused remain free on her ment called to the courtroom because she is being withheld because Lighter is $40,000 bond. Lighter, from Mount Spitz partially honored its end of had decided to plead guilty to amended also involved in a civil action brought Washington in Bullitt County, was the agreement. It furnished the equip- charges of reckless homicide. by the King and Magruder families. accompanied by Haddad and her other ment but none of it was functional. Lighter, 21, a sophomore at the Defense attorneys approached the attorney, Jim Groves, both of Louis- The breach of contract resulted in a University of Louisville, waived her prosecution about allowing Lighter to ville, as she heard Chenault inform her lawsuit by the university against Spitz, right to a trial by jury and for future plead guilty to the two lesser charges of the consequences if she chose to and the building sat idle with faulty appeal of her conviction by entering of reckless homicide, a Class D fel- enter a guilty plea. equipment for nine years. her guilty plea. Chenault set the sen- ony, last week, according to Com- She answered Chenault's questions The lawsuit dragged on, and Spitz tencing date for Dec. 1 following monwealth's Attorney Thomas J. clearly and used a tissue to wipe tears finally agreed to furnish the long- completion of the pre-sentence inves- Smith ID and Lighter's attorney, Frank from her eyes as the 30-minute hear- awaited equipment. tigation to be done at the local Ken- Haddad. ing ended. The revival of Hummel Planetar- Hummel Planetarium will open next week. tucky Parole Board. A second degree manslaughter When asked by Chenault if she had ium began last August. The star ball and multimedia center for the nine-year wait and was largely She had been indicted by a Madi- charge carries a five- to 10-year sen- ever had treatment for mental illness, "It's been a long lime. But we've are housed in the dome surrounded by responsible for dealing with the crisis. son County grand jury on two counts tence as a Class C felony while the Lighter said, "I'm presently seeing a of second degree manslaughter for her penalty for reckless homicide is one to stuck with it and we've got a real nice a carpeted theater area where specta- While waiting for the suit to be psychiatrist but I wasn't before my facility," Fletcher said.