,v,:.;u Clip A sample of recent articles of interest to Morehead State University February 2, 2000 UNIVERSITY COMMUNICATIONS MOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY UPO BOX 1 100 MOREHEAD, KY 40351· 1 689 16061 783-2030
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': ,>-?:tit~fi'.t '. 1n •-••/"·-:."· Mstjr,o·•fiost 'benefit· o.-•~~,i;.,;.,_-..,-...1.,.__.,.,c #,, ..... • concert for 'Beaker' •·· ·-·; i=t!•·f•'1t~ ;, . By KIM HAMILTON Center. The cost is $7 in Staff Writer,. ,, . : advance and $10 at the door. . "Tony is the type of person Morehe~ StatelJniversity who would do anything for students are planning an your and not ask for · · evening of.entertainment in anything in return," said . · support of a fellow·:Eagle. Burke, president of Tau · ' · Ori .Thursday;Feb. 3, the ·.· Kappa Epsilon, the fraternity Broken :W-mg Cancer llenefit ·. to which Baker belongs. "W.e ConcertforToiiy·Bai 1, FEB. 1,:2000 't'.~~e -r· •. • , .},-•:, . By TOM L!wiJ;'""..!~r-t:-~.~-. 7'··\:·~~~;t. : Schacli' said he heard about El- , ~l~cided 'lif't~)-be' ii'i~~~'tfug ·OF THE DAILY INDEPENDEITTU , ' liott County's "ecologically .sensi-! for his·.students:see how -the area ::· SANDY HOOK - Those who, tive and b_eautiful" Laurel Gorge could•best capitali;e on that natur- al resource_ .·. , r-·: · ·: · . · - ·. ·are interested in readying Elliott I what we want the county to -County for.more progress b1;1t don't : l;lut..the ~de~:wiil IoolF~t El look like in the next 10 or 15 liott CQ~ty;~- a regional context, have the financial wherewithal to . years," Gwenda Adkins, El ·do it are getting some help from · and thell'·work could extend be liott County extension agent, I yond the Laurel Gorge to things students at:the University_of Ken-· said of the UK group. · • • , • • I iucky:•--.,~" ,' · · . Adkins said the county like beautification efforts in 8andy : : Twenty-one of UK's fifth-year . would likely have to pay pro-· Hook, he said. ·1andscape architecture students : fessionals $200,000 or more to The class has started gathering ·are spending this semester work- ' prepare the comprehensive s_tatistical data on things like El ·ing on a conceptual master plan for plan and to do the GPS sur liott County's population work ·land· us1i' in Elliott County. vey. The only expenses in force , and infrastructur~. The ·.. Meanwhile, a few UK forestry . curred in the UK_ projects will groups first trip to the county will · :students began doing-a Global Po be when students stay be Monday for a meeting to get 'sitioning System survey of Elliott . overnight, and those costs will pu~lic ideas and input. County's scenic Laurel q Most students, however, par By James G., Moseley ticularly when young, need fre The philosopher and teacher new century presents new quent, continuing contact with a Aristotle is reputed to have given real person, a teacher who cares a Persian king who sought a "fast opponunities and requires about their learning and their new ..-decisions. Nowhere is track" education for his son this . A lives, someone who ·can nurture advice: "Sire, there is no royal this m~re.evi.dent than in higher . them through the learning' ·· -· road to truth." , - education;!ii,:b\-:, . 1 Now~ than ever, the best · Process. Therefore, we need to in In our desire fcir aquick fix chance-for:iridividuals ahd soci corporate these new technologies · for Kentucky's education and eco eties to. advaDCe, lies in gaining into our trac;litional institutions nomic challenges, let's not ask and effectively using lmowledge. rather than,hoping that more ~d more of technology than it can Scie~ce and c;ommerce depend in bett1;r_ computers will replace our deliver. We need teachers at all creasingly on new forms of tech trad(tional educational system, · levels of learning for the promise nology, with advancement in all making the process _both simpler of technology to be fulfilled in the :,, fields requiring and less expensive. ·· lives of our students and children the ability to see History provides a mbdel that Even at the undergraduate · questions that with appropriate adjustment, may and graduate level, it is great· new technology serve as a· lesson for our future'. teachers who make a difference in reveals and to The foremost universities of me- · the lives and learning of students. ,.imagine new av dieval and early modern times be- All but the very best research in enues to an-. • gan - and still are - assem stitutions will be dinosaurs when ··swers, which, in ~lages of ·sma11· colleges: institu-. I technological advances provide !ions such as. Oxford and earn,,:;, 1 students everywhere with access ~l~;.~,:;'. ·/ · bridge where a stu, 1 . to the truly great minds of the · ..·,. _ -~-~I-r1tj'i~i/ .-· dent ventures ! ~Y- We need to turn ouf educa ,,.~,,- , A.J/'or young.,. "''\ out to hear i tiona! institutions into centers of 1f.:''fl)J'-1 , pie, :then, the lectures learrung and teaching, both to en issue'ofw . ·llf education to by the s!ll'e their survival and for our so _acquire is pressing. Likewise, for 'greatest cety's <;<>mmon advancement and states and nations, .the matter.of i:nin~·at ,... , prosperity. _what kind of education to provide the univer, j ~IS c!'ucial for suivival and pros:"· sity and re-• St_uderits and parents who .penty. And a new solution ap- · turns 'for · have nrunediate choices to make - together with politicians who pea)'S imminent through recent ' regillar tu- advances in information and com torial ses confront decisions about our .munication technology: the oppor sions with a ,teacher at the college ~tale's future - should be look tunities presented by the "virtual" home base. · ' · ·' • · mg for real colleges. university. . 'fhe tutor gives reading ~d ·• Because of the virtual univer wntmg assignments and reviews James G. Moseley is vice sity's powerful appeal, we should and guides the student's work, so President and dean ?I the college -consider whether it may, like . that each student is led forward at Transylvania University. some older technologies, be a in ti)e qpique way that he or she two-edged sword. As an estimat needs to be successful. ed 10 million ·homes become "net . In a similar way, the World worked" by 2003 (compared to ~•de Web (or whatever it evolves 650,000 today) and enrollment at mto) can be the university of the online institutions skyrockets, we future. Students would continue would be wise to wield this new to_ have frequent personal contact tool-by its handle, rather than to with a ~eacher in a college setting, . grasp its cutting;edge blade. pr~~ the encouragement of Unquestionably, the ability to md1V1dual differences and the in bring new learn- . ing to re- .. tegration of learning and life. . In the new century, everyone mote places • wi)l ha".e access to such a virtual via the Interne1 ~ 1Vf!Sity, but not everyone will and the oppor- likewise be able to access real col tunity to give , leges to provide an environment ordinary citi, of motivation, care and enc:our-· zens equal ac- agement _For adult learners seek cess to the greatest m~ tecfytical skills,. the virtual minds of univ~1ty_ alone may well suffice. .· our But a lifetime of experience as a fime:,·;· ;/ teacher 1!Ild a parent has taught Provide ··r. ·: ·wonderfuF. me that. young people need per sonal teachers to learn how to ... resources,'. '. \ learn. .. . :, .for teai:)jt; ···:. ':-:,_ . ers and ·learners, for educational institu- . tions and for, states and nations charged with providing th!!Se ed ucational opportunities. The Daily Independent, Ashland, Kentucky, Monday, January 31, 2000 Grl«rffllte students Seek-U.Dion rights 'H~"':~ 1-:~,f.~J,C •.•.... ; ··••· ·. ' ~ -,. ·cm~CAPt--,-Kristina . University administrators trative law judge to decide if Dziedzic"is'. not your father's argue -that, even if""midents I teaching assistants are indeed . union organizer. ' ·. . .are 'working for the ·school, 1 employees - a key argument She doesn't wave picket they are students first - and for student labor organizers. signs. Her collar is far from their teaching assistantships But Legg said graduate blue. And when the Universi simply provide .financial aid students at Yale are doing ty of Illinois at Chicago gradu while training them for an fine without union represen ate student talks about her academic career. tation. They receive full tu work, she sprinkles in words Bill Murphy; associate ition waivers and stipends of like "pedago ." · . . chancellor for public affairs at $10,000 or more and general Yet Dzi~c is typical of the University of Illinois at ly do not teach until their graduateJitudents across ,the Urbana-Champaign, said third year. coun ' --~up union sen- graduate student .unions cre As at Yale, University of ate a students vs. administra- Illinois administrators have - tune~~.-·:~ll)JSh for ~tter refused to recognize the stu ;'beneJi~'higher salaries tion mentality. But the stu 7fcir. stwlents ·who teach cir do dent union movement - in dents actually work for profes this case, the Graduat.e Em ., res~:···-:,--· \·:: . sors, who see themselves as . Froilli:tYale to the Universi- ployees' Organization, affiliat anything but management, he ed with the Illinois Federation ' ty ofefalifornia system, gnidu- , said. ate student workers are fight of Teachers. "The problem with unions David Kamper, an Urbana ing for;;_ and sometilnes win as they have been described ning _:_ collective bargaining by organizers on campus is GEO member working toward rights;. As of December, 27 that they really follow a facto a doctorate in history, said the campuses had recognized ry model," Murphy said. benefits aren't on par with graduate student unions, with Some graduate students what faculty members receive. organizing efforts under way agree. He and Dziedzic, a Chicago at many other schools, accord "It's not the coal mines at GEO organizer, argue that ing t.o the Chronicle of Higher the turn of the century," said the university's idea of stu Educatiott · . .. · David .Legg, a doctoral stu dents assistants learning how .. · Studenfifsay it's on:ly fair dent in sociology at Yale Uni to teach from seasoned men that th,ey :get the same bene vers1ty.. ':The principle · of tors may have been true 30 _.fits. as ·facolty members at a : unionization here is much years ago, but not now. -time-.:When·tenure-track jobs more ideological and idealis- "I'm completely and totally nioresom:e and:freshman tic." · responsible for my class," ··are··sea•-·•··•··•···. · ··•···· ·a1o .mw,)!~~-grpwmg;,. ng Legg started an anti-union Dziedzic said. "I'm not an ap group at Yale in 1995, the prentice to anyone." S.~~~,Zr);~duate year graduate student union She said graduate students ·: ·"Uiiaii'iitriduate . classes organizers launched a "grade have little opportunity to turn that .. oou!d. and probably strike," refusing .to issue assistantships into full-time shoulifJxi' ltiiught by faculty grades for fall semester class jobs when universities hire are being given to graduate es. more part-time faculty and students," said Dziedzic, an In November, the National· fewer full-time professors art histocy. student who has. The U.S. Education De taught composition classes at Labor Relations Board ruled partment recently found that UIC for the past four years. that while a strike was not graduate assistants at the "You often end up doing protected by federal law, ad University of Illinois taught work· that has absolutely ministrators may have illegal 31.5 percent of the .credit nothing to do with what ly threatened students who hours taken by undergradu you're i,tudying. Then it's ob participated. The NLRB sent ates in 1997-1998. vious that you're a worker." the case back to an adminis- Lexington Herald-Leader Tuesday, February 1. 2000 Opportunity ·knocking Teachers should welcome proficiency legislation t's only human nature that some There has been-wide- spread concern in recent years that whatever, and will do well classroom veterans would bristle by any yardstick. at having to prove their profi middle-school students are under I performing because their teachers We wpuld bet that ciency in subjects they've been these teachers could offer teaching for years. have a shallow understanding of · their academic subjects. · a wealth of insight into the But teachers should lower the professional-development defenses, long enough to see this Under House Bill 437, which a task force spent a year shaping, needs of veteran teachers legislature as an opportunity to en and the obstacles to filling hance and elevate their profession middle-school teachers untrained in those needs. and to, create the tools for their academic fields would have to . The effort to upgrade accomplishing this. demonstrate their knowledge middle-school teacher qualifications So far, it seems the . through a yet-to-be-determined shoul~ produce a prototype for harshest reactions to a leg means. Those who didn't measure n:i,eanmgful, teac~er-driven profes islative package of teacher ~p would be required to take addi s10nal development in Kentucky. tional college classes. standards is coming from . Teachers should.be jwnping on middle-school teachers, We would bet that many mid ~his bandwagon, not trying to stop many of whom were dle-school teachers already have 1t. trained and certified to ~eefed up t~eir knowledge teach in elementary m, math, saence, history or schools. Lexington Herald-Leader Wednesday, February 2, 2000 Bill proposed tb ban bets on college games The JX)int-shaving scheme that landed Kevin Pen "Sports gambling_ has become a black eye on toe dergast in a federal prison began with illegal bribes to many of our colleges and universities," said Sen. Northwestern basketball players. It ended with his co Sam Brownback, R-Kan., who is sponsoring the hort doing something legal -.walking into a UIS Ve legislation with Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt. gas casino and placing bets on the fixed games. Charles Wethington, president of the Univer "Without Nevada, without the option of betting sity of Kentucky and chairman of the NCAA execu money in Nevada, the Northwestern basketball JX)int tive committee, said a ban would strengthen the shaving scandal would not have occurred," said Pen NCAA's argument that newspapers should stop dergast, who spent two·months in prison for his role publishing point spreads for college games. in fixing three Big Ten basketball games in 1995. He Rep. Shelley Berkley, D-Nev., callea the bill "a lent his supJX)rl to a bill introduced in the Senate yes red herring, an exa-cise in finger-pointing" that terday that would ban betting on college SJXlrls. blames Nevada for the nationwide problem of illegal sports gambling. Lexington Herald-Leader Wednesday, February 2. 2000 Patton says Jax. increase is essential, Governor sees worsening in state's By Jack Brammer money problem unless ac_t~on taken HERAI...DlfADER FRANKFORT BUREAU to counties to pay for jailing juveniles. . Patton re ed · · . FRANKFORT - Gov. Paul But the state only expects $118 ·11· • peat his not10n that his entire pack- . fr m1 ion m new age must hang together or ·t ·11 fall Patton warned state lawmakers revenue om economic growth. That would mean ·responsible to sa I' . , w1 apart "It's not yesterday that imJX)rtant services, only $10 million available for new spending he [ crease all spend· Y '~hgm~gd to cut all taxes and in- particularly education, will have said. • mg, e sa, . to be cut if they do not raise tax- "the administration believes certain other~-· Senate budget chief Richie Sanders, R-Smiths es. pansions are necessary and in fact mandatory if we Grove, sai_d the Legislative Research Commission The Democratic governor told are to live up to our commitment to properly fund has q1;1est1ons about Patton's decision to put his the House budget committ~ that postsecondary education and to prepare Kentucky's spe_ndmg proposals and tax plans in one budget the state's revenue problem will, economy to grow in the 21st century," he said. 6111 be worse in two years if it is not Patton cited several new efforts that he said After returning f~om a long weekend, legisla addressed in this year's General were necessary: $74.5 million for postsecondary ed tors yesterday remamed skeptical about the tax Assembly. ucation, $20.9 million for elementary and secondary plan's c~ances,, but declined to declare it dead. Patton spoke about 40 min- education, $20 million for pay equity .for state Many said they d heard from wary constituents. utes yesterday before the commit- workers, $10.6 million for community living for the tee, marking his first direct sales mentally retarded and $10 million for adult educa . "I do think there's a lot of selling yet to do on pitch to a legislative panel about tion. this proposal," said House Minority Leader Dannv his two-year proposed budget. Patton has proposed tax changes that would Ford, R-Mount Vernon. · Patton describel:l in detail to raise about $144 million a year for the General . Hou_se Speaker Pro Tern Larry Clark, D-Louis lawmakers what he said was a Fund, which pays for-most state programs. "!lle. said the governor did a good job of presenting need for more state revenue. . That tax plan includes changing the state in- his plan. "All this is still in the early stages." He said his budget includes · come tax to remove about 190,000 poor Kentuck- Sen. E.~~to Scorsone, D-Lexington, said public . : • - ; ians from the tax rolls; extending the state's 5·per- reaction 1s. mixed, but at this point, I'm hearing $107 nul110n to pay for proW"!"s cent sales tax to services such as car, TV and com more negative comments than positive. that lawm~kers approved durmg I puter repairs; applying more business taxes; and j recent s~10ns. . removmg the state property tax on vehicles. "You get the gene~al comment, "I don't want They mcluded, he said, $30 Patton said more than half of the tax increases any mcr"'.'s~ at_ all' But the tax they seem particu milli?n for state'.s'!pport~ schol- would fall on businesses, while higher-income peo larly to dislike 1s the gas tax," he said. ars~1ps; $28.7 m1lhon for increas- pie would also bear a larger burden. ~atton said ~s Kentucky's first two-term gover ~s m the cost of teache~s. health To raise $319 million over the next two years , nor m modern times and the first governor of the msuran~e: n"!'rly $6 million. for for the state Road Fund, Patton wants a 7-cents-a- ' 21st century, "I feel I have a special obligation to cost-of-hvmg mcreases for r~~ed gallon increase in the gasoline tax at the pumps. address the tough issues that'll make a difference. teachers: and nearly $10 milhon Patton argues that without increasing the gas tax, "Taxes_ will always be a tough issue but we·re the state's ability to sell bonds to finance other not proposmg a major tax increase," he said. parts of state government - such as-higher educa tion - will suffer. A sample of recent articles of interest to Morehead State University February 3, 2000 UNIVERSITY COMMUNICATIONS MOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY UPO BOX 1100 MOREHEAD, KY 40351-1689 (6061 783-2030 The Daily Independent, Ashland, Kentucky, Wednesday, February 2, 2000 _B,ussell educator gets State·award By TAMMIE HETZER-WOMACK dent Scho~l District. · ;'11· · When Casto's students OF THE DAILY INDEPENDENT . "Whatever it takes 'for learned an American history ~hem t~ learn, in my opiruon, topic;-· they also were taught RUSSELL - For fifth 1s OK, Casto said. "Some about a composer from the grader Lauren Ratliff, learn times you can't.teach straight 1 time period, Casto said. .' ing involves more than a down the center. You have to At the end of the school textbook_ allow yourself to veer off and year, Casto had her students It's dance, music and cos take a more eclectic ap- pick their favorite classical tume design, mixed with tra proach." · · · composition. ditional reading, writing and Casto won the state award Mozart's "Marriage of Fi arithmetic concepts. for a creative assignment she garo" was selected and Casto's But without a former Rus gave her students with the husband, Mark, took the . sell Primary School teacher, hopes they would take an in sheet music from the Inter Lauren· said she would. not tere~t in the history of immi- net. ,know'liow to tie arts into her gration, she said,:,.-, ;, · He slowed the tempo, and ~ daily s):hool routine; . Casto !ldo_p_ted the "Difl'er against this backdrop the ~ :f:,9:~n's .· teacher; Greta ent Ways of Knowing" model students composed their own p:1astii,,recently won the third created by Andrew G. Galef, opera about immigration. ·· anmial'-"Kentucky Education founder of .the Galef Insti The students produced '.'_and· tli~;• Arts Leadership tute, a national school reform their own costumes and Award for her work with pre organization based in Los scenery and made a class trip vious students like Lauren Angeles. • • to ACC to perform the opera and her dedication and com Like Casto's class, DWoC for family and friends, Casto mitment to her current stu has bee~-u?llzed by nearly saia: · . •>\1rt1.l: ~;-,., ~... · · _dents at the p~~ school. 400 schools with 6,000 ele Casto· herself_ was particu Sometimes you can't mentary school teachers us larly pleased with the final ing the system which reaches award-winning product she teach straight down the said. · ' center. You have to allow young learners through the use of arts in classroom prac "They showed me how yourself to veer off and tices. much they knew about immi take a more eclectic ap Every student has a differ gration and I was amazed " proach. ent type of intelligence factor Casto said. "And they showed me that they know in another they use to learn, Casto said, way than just bubbling in a ;;a Casto whether through print, move test." ment, art, music or games. The opera made a special The award stemmed from So Casto asked her hus impact on both Laura and Casto's innovative strategies band, Mark, a fine arts Corey Hall, who now attend to ensure her students real teacher at Russell middle and Russell-McDowell Intermedi ize their individual artistic high schools, for help in devel ate School. - strengths and talents. oping an art-infused program "She was always dedicated Casto admits that some for her students. to music and tried to teach as times her methods are a bit They soon decided classical much as she could fit in a "unorthodox" as compared to music and opera would at-· day," Laura said. "I love her. the more traditional teaching tract the students' interest. She's my favorite teacher yet." methods of her parents, Jim Casto embarked on a lesson "I enjoyed learning about and Debbie Miller, longtime . .plan which taught Mozart, ~ots of composers," Corey said . educators at Ashland Com Beethoven and Bach every But, best of all, she had pa munity College and the Race day. tience with me." land-Worthington Indem,n- ThG Dally Independent; ''Ashland, Kentucky, Wednesday, February 2, 2000 ...... ', ·- .. ., ...... , ' . -~ - ~ ...... ·'!'i."" . By, ~f¥ll'!••es, ;,• J'.' 'c·- 1998-~9 school year, tile coun- rollment, Dvorak said - by , Oi'.THE:tlijl:tlNDEPENDENT·:j..:( cil'reported' on Jan .. 25 that concentrating on academic ex- ACC was making· continuous cellence. · · ASHLAND·.--: Under· a · progress on only two of four of i "If you try to play the num mandate to, increase minority its objectives under the plan. bers game, you're gonna lose, representation·· on campus, The council therefore said Ashland . Coimnimity College that' ACC cannot start any because you're heart's not in has created a ·new position to new degree pro=ams until 1·t the right place,.-Dvorak said. he! do. that. ' · . · · •.· is . making "'- continuous ACC has a lot to offer both minority and international ' ~~ college hired Hunting- fcrogress on at least thr 0 f ton. res1"dent· Kevm" Harn·son our obJectives.• • . . · ·•··. · ee students, Dvorak said. in Jari~ as its full-time as- The council .did ,the same The college has several mi- sistant dean 'for campus .and thing ·to Prestonsburg Coni- . nority scholarships, Harrison minoritf affairs. ' · munity College, and to two said, as well as low tuition Harnson faces _the chal- oth~r. communio/ colleges · in and fees. It can draw on mi lenge .' 6f'':trying ' · .,, ·:· . Kentucky; , : .. nority populations in the Iron 1 ton, Huntington and tii .increase mi-: T ~ -~i,.f!ii<~..--.•A ,,.;w.... ,, ' ,· _: on· . the'·_;; oilier Portsmouth areas, he said. . ns'e~n1txti·•:.'-l'L.~~;-__.ea- ii .u ~ titT ·itne · nand; ,. the:' ·council .... = -... · yoB.'u- · -,~.,,~; ' l>."~..... ,. . r, . d· th ·t M He said he plans to make reirion_•• ..fit'..Ke_ ·,n-: Il\µD. :ets ·giµ:qer~!"'.:;•,!?<{);' oun a .ore some contacts in local church -tu.,.cfl'' -:n '"'b:'ere you're: g(i:ri:iia fo!!'e; lf.& h~ad State Um".er- es as well a,{ in schools that . " .. ·-- ·· ~ -· · ·, · h. -=~·', s1ty was making resi erlis"',,_.,,,:.. are cause'youre, .. ,. .... h', . hteana'· l .,... acceptable _have:diversity or multicultur- civerw;he,u¥ng- . n~tJ~-t-~ ,ng_ . P a,':.~'. progress on six of al clubs. .-;-.:,;:· -·. · . ly white. • ,,~-, ..Angelin~ Dv:o~ its ei11ht objectives. Ashland also has a good .. ,--~~re.~ 99 "'°t'm'•""·· ,_,•:,v;ii.-~-,J. The school has bus :l:;9m, Harrison said, perceulnt tJ?.e :;A~li-:l'~gp. P;~~~l 355 minority and some tllllg international stu- op ati""."'4£, · m ~"'-.- .. ,-~ ..,. · ·• ... - .. " 141 . t t· I dents will look-for. . · P CC' .• :'c"'•-• m erna 10na A. _'! ' S~l'Vlce . . . students out of a · ·The fact that .the college arjla ot.~~d,. Ci0.er, _ElliQ~ total enrollment of 7,500, has no residence halls will be and• .. .Qi:!!:f!nl.ip__ :.. ~untles_. 1s Francene Botts-Butler, head a large issue, he said adding white, A'.CC ·President· Ange- of multicultural student ser- he hopes to work something line Dvoiali!-said .. , .: .. · · · vices, said.. :'· . out with apartment complex Asiae·.from· the· benefits of . That's a minority enroll- es on the bus routes. diversity; );he college . needs ment of about 4. 7 percent. : "Other than .that, if some IIIOIJ.!-.noii-;wl:iite faces in order The council. granted MSU one wants to donate and build to 'nijlet• ~ii..J:oall!. of. the ·.Ken- i .aµt'.""atic. program eligibility a dorm for us.. ." he said, tti~f'tm'u!itiilt:ijn Postsec- ·sta~~. ' Botts-Butler said, laughing. ondacy)f~~iln'.•. •;-~ .. :.-. ,.. , whic;h means the school ,ioes- .. ...,._The _; eo'jffi9u•s · Jt~1;1J4cli.y .b'.tliave.. tQ_put_on.D-.~dog-and- r,.SU:-l'Br."'Egual-.Qpport~ties pony_~AP~.to starj;_ a new de- 1n>Higfuir•,Education calls for gree program. : · . · b.lac~.~riii>'.kFJll) ,1.1 {l!)rcent , • ACC dm;isn't have a new de- _of-.th&~toody, o percent giee-program "on the burner" of}A1f6:ei--fliiel s~ and 3 per,. now, Dvorak _said, but hopes cent.of_faculo/. 9y_~002, , ;;,t !I ~have som1: m the future. · .....,'J'h~.school. ~~ts tliat ·goal·- ~,She _qu«:stioned the wisdom · . m enrollinent;·:But not among of forbidding new degree pro- the faculty, '.wR'.!11:8~ on!! l! pllr- grams !18 punishme~t fo: :11ot cent are bl~;. · -· · attractmg more mmonties Hai-risoii's"'birlng· boosts There may be new degree pro: the ·percentage, of. blacks grams that would' attract mi- among the"'bigher ·1evel staff norities, she said. to 14 percent. Born in the Ba- But the college will handle hamas,_ lie'. is the ?nlY black the issue the same way it among ~e !19Ven higher-level turned around a decline in en- staff members. : ·. . ·. Using::'figllfes . from·· the ; ' ..: ,~- ...... -- I ·--· THE COURIER-JOURNAL• THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3 2000 ---~•--, -•~ I THE VOTE Here's how the -_Senate votes·· raise Kentucky and Indiana 'l \ f, ' • • • • ._ • • i • -·· members of the U.S. Senate voted on a bill to raise the $5.15 ID m1mmum-wage hourly minimum wage by $1 over three years: '_'That's not t~e kind ot tegis Bunning (R-Ky.) For latton the president can sign " McConnell (R-Ky.) For Democrats call White House spokesman Joe Lugar (A-Ind.) For Lockhart said, citing a three Bayh (D-lnd.) For hike ·too little, · year phase-in and "tax cuts for the special interests." __ anq,.~ fight looms The minimum-wage boost is ADout II munon Amencans in a bill that would overhaul are paid the minimum wase, ·Ass£ai~ Press bankruptCf laws. The Senate and Democrats argue that with approved 1t 83-14. The House niany people flush from the passed its version of the bank- . booming economy, the time is WASHINGTON - The Sen ripe to raise it. ate yesterday approved a Re• \ ruptcy bill last May, but with 1 out minimum-wage provisions. They note that as is, it pays publlcan,blll tbat .would boost $10,700 a year for 52 40-hour !he lliinlinwii wage by $1 an , Last Novemlier, the House weeks - $3,200 below the pov hour over three years. Presi Ways and Means Committee erty line for a family of three. dent Clinton and Democrats approved a separate GOP bill to GOP lawmakers say raising say !bat's too long to wait increase the minimum wage by the minimum wa~e would help With 'inany Republicans ea $1 over three years. It incfudes low-income families by less · ger to avoid attacks over the is a $30 billion, .five-year tax-cut than meets the eye because sue, some increase in the $5.15 package, some $16 billion of manY, recipients are teen-agers, hourly minimum seems likely which is a reduction in the_es~ not parents of low-income fam before the elections. · tate tax paid by upper-income ilies. They also say businesses But with Democrats also ob people who inherit substantial could eliminate up to 500,000 jecting to the bill'~ $18 billion · assets.- jobs, rather than increase mini m tax cuts over five years - The bill would increase the mum salaries.· · mostly for small business own · minimum wage by 35 cents an ers - it isn't clear what the fi hour in• March 2000, bf 35 nal bill will be. Democrats want cents more in March 200 and a two-year phase-in and much by 30 cents. in March 2002.. . smaller-tax aits...... THE COURIER-JOURNAL• THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2000 o.c~·-orm __ to~_recruit._ --..... -;1,..··- ·-····.·-- .:.-:~ ,~,.~·-:, .. --~~~·.•·· ·. -:-::i;;._i~,1.~~ .C-cr~t:· candidates. . for-.-. state. - school' commissioner tice with offices nationwide and. a large database, and we · were im ~:r~uma1 .. pressed that they've conducted nu FRANKFORT, Ky. - The commit merous searches in Kentucky and tee coordinating the search for a new were familiar with the education state education commissioner yester structure here,,.she said. . day selected an executive-search firm The firm also coordinated the most · from Washington, D.C., to recruit ap recent searches for presidents at plicants for the position. - Morehead State University, Murray The state Board of Education's State University and Midway College. search committee selected Korn/Ferry . Former Education Commissioner International to coordinate the effort WIimer Cody resigned in December after: interviewing representatives after more than four years as the .from it and ilnother search firm. · state's school chief. While some Ken Korn/Ferry, which organized the tucky educators have expressed in search that brought Gordon Davies terest in finding a successor from to Kentucky as president of the within the state, the board has asked Council on Postsecondary Education, bid $50,000 on the commissioner for an extensive nationwide search. search and said ii expects the pro -Korn/Ferry was not involved with cess to last about three months. the two previous national searches Jane Venters, chairwoman of the for Kentucky education commtiision school board's search committee, ers.. said the firm should be able to begin The two representatives from the its work a few weeks after a contract company's Washington; D.C., offices is drawn up. . . who will handle the search said yes Venters said the firm's famUiarity · terday that although they have Iio ex with Kentucl_<-)', its national resources perience in filling top state education and its relatively quick time frame department jobs, they think _their gave it an advantage over the other contacts in education circles as well finalist for the work: · -- as in the business and non-profit sec• "They have a large education prac- tors will yield a solid pool of fioolislL M3U Clip A sample of recent articles of interest to "{'orehead State University February 4, 2000 UNIVERSITY COMMUNICATIONS MOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY UPO BOX 1100 MOREHEAD, KY 40351-1669 16061 763-2030 THE MOREHEAD NEWS FEB. 4. 2000 ~ - ·, Tectinical offered in the evening at the "A lot of stuilents. a:re .hired school. before they finish their coHege• Perhaps _ those factors diploma," Brown'said. "We contribute to the school's place in the mid-90. percent.o( increased enrollment this our graduates and completere·. eriroll"rnent year, which is up 5 percent We have one; eni''"pfi,yer in over last spring; Morgan County who.has so . . much faith in· one-,of:our· "I'm very excited about students that ·h•e-ie'. sending 1ncreases what we may be able to do with Ashland Community him to his dealerslrlp'a' school.• By KIM HAMILTON· Last Wedne~iia';v; XCTCS, ·. Staff Writer ·. :: · College, Maysville Community College and Morehead State comprised of ''16'" technical University, where we have the Rowan Technical College is -coheges and '13 c~~~;,_ity potential to expand our colleges, was selected.as one of weathering the transition from _progr8JIL • being a vocational school to a eight recipients nationwide to Right now, the school is in receive a $300,000· griint from technical college and is even . : ~ .... · eajoying an increase in , the process of ·proposing a Mi croso ft . _ -:~::.:.-. ~- .- "'"·" ·'"" •· .. enrollment this year. degreed program, an associate Rowan Technical· College "Now that we:have a new of applied technology in will benefit from a ·portion of machine tool technology, to th t. : .. .;; . . name and a chancellor for the e gran _ .,... :i:·l ~~';-~~: _ . technical college branch, there the Council on Post Secondary is some real direction for us," Education. Brown said he is . The .·grant ::ti(·to. help said Jamie Brown, director. planning to start that program students in underservea areas in the fall. ... · in "We definitely_play a major.role • ,. .•• I prepare for jobs the field of in training people for the "It's critical it gets information technology, futui:e in technical education.• approved, we feel the degree Brown -said he just Tbe vocational school system carries 'in~re wei&"b.t tnan ·a, developed an agreement that was changed to ·Kentucky diploma for emp}oy~ent,·It he ii,. waiting to sign with Community and Technical could mean higlier pay and_ Carter and Morgan· County College System in 1997. certification as well," he said: : _schQols to give credit for "The transition has been Brown hopes to , off~:i: '. programs if the students working smoothly," Brown general e'ducation cours·es · · ~aintain a "B" average,;:~, said. ·"We've changed names ~·· -~- : -.jo.' sevenil times in the past few through • MSU's _distance -·, "That's House Bill,One's years, ·but we can't complain. learning program_as well, ·seamless education. Iiistsad of It's been really neat.• which will- · enhan_ce the ~-taking two years, it" miiy only There is a major push now school's programs", '"! ·. .. .:take one, which ·putil the as far as :recruiting and Cooperatives _ and '·student ahead of everyone else internships.in. the diploma in the field," Brown said,· marketing, he added Staff , ·• . ~ . . . ~ ~ . . ... members attend ca:reer days at programs are working well, he high schools to spread the word said. •· and sevenil courses are now Lexington Herald-Leader Friday, Februarv 4, 2000 1)-ansy is aw~4,ed $1 ~i~l~on ml!t~hing challenger· grant. HERALD-i..ooER STAJ,; REPORT tinued professional growth and · dents will receive annual stipends Transylvania' University has development, which in turn will of $2,000 and faculty will receive been awarded a$1 million match expand and enrich the learning stipends amounting to $1,000 for ing challenge grant from the opponunities _for students, said each student supervised. _ William R. Kena,n Jr_ Charitable Transy President Charles Shearer. Trust to help support faculty re ■ Support for projects and- re The fund will support four search that faculty members un search and .professional develo~ · programs which include: · · ment as well as other initiatives. dertake during sabbaticals. ■ Awards to support·faculty ■ Create Kenan Distinguished This _is the largest single grant members to pursue independent of its kind. that 'J;'ransylvania has Visiting Professorship to bring to ever received. . · research and professional develop campus: natiomµly_ recognized ment activities during the sum The whic1i'wtll create teachers a~d scholars to invigo gran( mer. As many as 20 grants will be rate curre4t faculty and provide the Kenan Fund for Faculty and awarded annually, with a maxi students access to a unique learn- ·Stu~~! ___g!',richment, is · being mum individual award of $3,000. ing experience. ;, ,·- matched with $2 million from oth ■ Awards to support students' , r .. . r -· er sources, which will create a $3 s1;ll111Der f\'Search with Transylva million endowment ,. ·• . ma faculty. As many as 10 stu- The endowment will enable the school's faculty to pursue con- Lexington Hera!duac:ter _i!iday, Febru~ 4, 2000 Army offers .. µew e.ducatioi 'p~a~sI.• . , ---··to c ·•. _entici!:recmits ;~~- ~-lJ< -- _ •~ , want to complete a two-year college de-. · . . . ASSOCIATED mss gree before serving. As p;!!:J;-4f the taj)': sh~I tl\e,Aqny pad m meeting its re- WASHINGTON The, Army· reserve service,will bfl!!inliiidatory ·at' cru,tmg goal last- year. Its expected to lallllched two education programs yester- · some enlisttnerit'l:enters. ·it•:i Lexington Herald-leader Friday, February 4, 2000 :;en. Katie Kratz Stine, a Fort Thomas Republi ,,. "'·¥,-.. ;,, can who is chainnan of FRANMRJIJ!Bll1l00 the Senate Economic De RT..:_ Gov. Paul .Patton is pushing a velopment i Committee, velqp an economy in Kentucky more de said the initiative allows pendent · !\rains than brawn. Kentucky to become "an \\'.'rth · ~~Jody Richards and several oth- incubator for ingenuity." - ~ legisla at his sule, Patton annollllced a $53 mil- University of Kentucky lion effort ferday to help the state gain a competitive President · l Charles edge in the said is "a knowledge,based economy.• Wethington said i he was The ney for the program is in the budget Pat- ''heartened• by th~ propos ton pr to lawmakers last week. . al. He said he did not know The P ":9lled the "Ne'." Economy Initiative," yet how it will affect UK calls for creation of more high-tech jobs, help for and its researcll centers small manufacturers to modernize their workplaces such as Coldstre,jm Farm. and the chance for university researchers to receive Richards last,week did more f THE LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER FEB.7, 2000 THE LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER FEB.7.2000 -, THE COURIER-JOURNAL MONDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2000 ~ ~~gies_p_~s:t· for felon. after gift _· Todd, who also_drew publ\c•. Wendell ~trode,pastpresi-·. ., - ····-~. . By MEGAN WOOlllOUSE 1ty when he organized a chanty ' dent of the Western Kentucky 1 We were v1ct1ms m the pro- The Courier-Journal bicycle ride f?r ~i~ trip to pri.s- · University_ Alumni Association, \ cess and we've go,ne forward; on m West V1rgm1a, could not said if die money helps the you _co~\d.s~y wev,~ ha~ our A former prison company ex- be reached for comment. school;he's all for it. . heahng, W~,s sa1q. Oby10usly ecutive convicted in a corrup- Todd served six months and "I think Western has a mis-1 Mr. Todq .1s hav1~g his t?O- tion case will have a professor- Frey five years !n pnson. Todd sion that they're trying to ac- !'1aybe this ~ener_os1ty and g1~ ship named after him at West- got the-much hght~r_-_sentence-.1 complish," Strode• said. "This mg to the u!11versity mean~ hes ern Kentucky University, fol- after lie pl~aded gmlty_l!Jld.co- . (donation) helps accomplish h~d so~~ kind.pf restoration of lowing his donation of operated With authonues. , I that mission. 1 would say, ' himself,,,, ....· :, · $500,000. Western announced Todds : 'Thank you Mr. Todd. We're But some stud~nts and facul- ~estem will name the J. gift i!' a r~cent ne~s. r~lease ~oud lhat)OU'~ a member of. \Y at. Wester~ said the_y_ had no Chfford Todd Professor of Lon-: headhned 'm part; . 'G1vmg to 14oiiti we~!imi UCentilc~y" faiii•. idea about Toad's past, •. . .. gevity and Healthful Living WKU up by 68 percent to ily f.,•·:· · · ·· ·· ·_. · Shannon Back;_an editor of teaching po_sitfon for Todd, who . $4.4 mmion ?V_er six m~nths." . Todd~ a .Simpsonville farmer the cainpu~ newspaper, T~e pleaded gudty m 1994 to a fed- School offic1als att:tbute' the· ·anifbuilde~ ls a1950 graduate Colle!ie-.:He~ghts_·Herald, -~aid era! charge connected to a increase to Ransdell S· a~s- of Western J.. • r.·,;r:. · . •· that 'knowmg ·what he did," scheme to bribe fo"!'er Jeff~r- sive fund raising and a pro• , · At Westlrt'n, like most univer- she's Osurprised that" -:-vestern son County correction~ chief gram known as Bucks for sities, there are no rules requir- named a professorship after Richard Frey. Todd ~aid Frey . ing officials toknow:a benefa()-_ Todd.. . . nearly $200,_000 to wm a con- I Brains, in which the state tor's backj:rotind. A Foilndalion Notmg the InC(e~sed 1mpor tract f?r his company, U.S. matches private donations to Board reviewed Todd's gift, but tanc~. of:fun~ ra1smg .for um- Correcuons Corp. , colleges and universities. only to ensure that he received yemlles, .Western psychology The decision has rankled / Gary Cox, president .of the - -, Professor Ray Mendel said the some observers - though , Independent College Associ- the proper recognition. prevailing view appears to be many at Western see nothing I ation in Kentucky, said that al- Randy Cohen, who writes an "money is money and it doesn't wrong with it, including Presi- though Gov. Paul Patton's ad- ethics colu111n .for 1:he. New matter where it comes from." , ministration has allocated more York Times, ~aid he reluctaptly · However, if the money isn't dent Gwy Ransdell. · · money for ~igher ed~cation, agreed that as, long as tJu;.~on- tainted by criminal activity, the "To have his name on the \ college_, _presidents still face ey, was not tamted by crmunal university should accept it, he professorship does not compro- fund-ra1smg pressure. · · activity, the university was right said. · Individuals who have rnise the school students or the , "It's very important· to be to accept it,, • · ... . .,. broken the law, he added, de- faculty," Ransdell said. "He 1. successful to .. ,, contin'!e the Scott Jafcliick, editor of The serve the chance to make made a gift to strengthen our:: (state)program, CoxSald. C~ronicleofll_igllerEducalion, -,~ends. __ ,,. ...,... --· ,: · academic program. I don't I: Some at· ..ye_stem say Todd's said such, ~tb1cal deb~tes. are I . "I don't knov.: if }'.~U can b!JY know too much about his back- background 1s irrelevant.--_·__ hardly new, The notonous back respectabd!,ty;', be. said, grou!'d, but he's been .~ery · Todd, fon:ner dlai~•n of· , ju!'k-bo11d_ . ~alesman Miciiael "but ycilr'1:an-ii'c¢Umulate a genuine and very generous. .U.S. Correcti?ns, admitted he MIiken served prison time fot track record cif doing good." Former U.S. Attorney Joe· paid Frey bn~es to get and has donated millions toward· Amanda Coates, president of Whittle, whose office_prosecut- keep a lucrative county con- cancer research after he was di- the student body and a senior e_d a number_ of pubhc corrup- tract to house 1_nmates. . agnosed with the disease. majoring in health care admin- t1on cases, said he supports any "''· Todd sold,h1s company to his , "Certainly if you look at the istration, said she believes Todd effort to boost education. former partners and employees· history of philanthropy there "you \Yi!l never find. Joe for $15 million before they are an awful lot of people who iS ·11vr;_fy noble" because he ~1.ttle_ tellmg an educanonal learned ?f. the bribery. The haye given money who aren't wants to help students. And she mst1tuhon to turn down man- co'!lpany later sued fodd, aJ, '.g01ng, t. o be . confused · with , said.; s!le. sees nothing wrong ey," he said. " ... I'd rather legmg he defrauded It. The ,MotlierTeresa-i'.Jlifchick'said ' with naming the professorship have (the teaching position) c?mpany also .~ublicly apolo- "Rhodes Schoii!'rs are named after Todd. · , ·"-• named after Mother Te_resa, but g1zed for. Todd's acuons an,d for a great colonialist in Africa. "If I was in the position to she's not around, so it's good agreed to pay the i;overnment s There are a-lot of people who donate a half-million dollars." old_TQ ThQ writer Is president of the thing, and the purposes of educa creasing number of graduates: but change is upon us, acceler Council on Postsecondary Edu tion - all are different. Berry is The market for advanced ated by the Internet. The chal cation In Frankfort, Ky. right: It is important to use the education beyond high school is lenge - a really interesting right verb tense - present, not huge, but the market for more challenge - is to figure out how FTER reading Wen 1 dell Berry for all future. Forget whether terms like ''live-in-a-dorm-four-years ' cbl to include in this work-oriented these years, I'm deep "indetenninacy" and ''relativity" lege experiences is not. Postse education what we value most ly honored that now are metaphors (although the. condary education's growth will from our human heritage: "the A great physicist Niels Bohr wrote be fueled largely by lifelo g Berry has read me - even if it best that has been thought and was only an 800-word op-ed arti that "when it comes to atoms, learners who return again a d said" by our predecessors, as cle and even· though he seems to language can be used only as in again to update their skills a d Matthew Arnold put it. How can • • • • • 1 disagree with poetry"). The critical point is acquire new ones. ' we continue to teach under most of what I that, more and more, our citizens The people of nations havi g standing and respect for differ said and the are turning to our schools and advanced economies are turni g ence among human beings; the way I said it colleges for the skills and knowl to no-frills education. Like t e ability to work together in ("Education: edge they need to succeed in this stripped-down cars that we a d groups; mastery of reading, The Pace of technological economy. Many our parents bought (and I h e Change Means writing and speaking; and the have a highly practical approach Berry will agree that this i a use of mathematics and the ba Opportunities, to education. That's nothing new. simile), this kind of educati n Challenges," consists of the basic necessiti : sic concepts of science? Education always has been use We can argue about whether Jan. I). ful. (If it weren't, asked Alfred classes and labs, advising a d I'm not North Whitehead, why bother mentoring. A substantial num r technology is here to stay. Or being face of the new students have neit r we can develop new ways of Gordon Davies tious. I'm hon- with it?) But what is useful today isn't what was useful only 50 time nor money for intercol teaching and learning, and new ored because years ago - or even 25. giate athletics, health clubs r forms of institutions to support he really read what I wrote. Lots A young woman who will re fraternities and sororities. them. Either the technology will of people read but not many ceive her associate's degree this Again, that's not so ne . master us, or we shall master it. really read. '.- spring told me that. next she When Henry Adams aske a That's an interesting challenge. Berry sees that the changes would seek Microsoft certifica young student why he had co e I hope that The Courier-Jour occurring.in technologically ad tion as a network programmer. from the Midwest to attend H - nal takes up Wendell Berry's vanced societies like ours have "It's more valuable in the job vard just after the Civil War, t e suggestion that it sponsor seri profound, even radical, implica market," she explained, "than a young man shot back, "Beca e ous discussion of the points he tions for education. The ways we bachelor's degree in computer a Harvard degree is worth m - and I have made. Again, it's an use language, how people learn, science." That's the future of ey to me in Chicago!" honor to be read. ,what it ~eans "to know" some- the bachelor's degree for an in- We can deny it or deplore t, 5PKlal to The Courler-Joumal Lexington Herald-Leader Saturday, February _5, 2000 WKU land at center-of accusation ASSOCIATED PRESS the board fully understood the cir BOWLING GREEN - An ex "Nothing illegal was done cumstances at the time," said regent at Western Kentucky Uni STAFF, V.,RE REPORT • The lead sponsor of a lengthy bill on teacher preparation and training said yesterday that he • intended to drop one controversial feature. That provision involves Kentucky's practice of allowing teachers to earn a ranking, and with it a higher salary, through extra rourse work. Critics say too many teachers go for rankings in administration or counseling, even though they have no intention of being an ad• ministrator or counselor. The bill · by Rep. Harry Moberly Jr., D-Richmond, would have rescinded the extra salary after three years if the teacher were not working in a position Moberly. •, related to the ranking. Moberly said the idea was to prod teachers io , . pursue rankings in their academic fields if they intended to stay in the classroom. . He told the House Education Committee that instead, he would propose· a study of ranking by the Education Professional Standards Board, the state's teacher-certification agency, "We need people to get rank in their subject · matter," Moberly said. ' ·· · Judith Gambill, president of the Kentucky Ed ucation Association, said she was pleased that Moberly had dropped the provision, which she discussed with him last week. "I'm very optimistic about the meeting we had," she said. The teachers' union still has several other con cerns, like the makeup of a new board to oversee teacher quality. THE MOREHEAD NEWS FEB. 4, 2000 MSU maintenance employee charged with swiping cash from bowling alley By CHRIS TURNER taking money after the bowling alley was Staff Writer closed on Jan. 25," he said. Lanham said that after the videotape was in A Morehead State University physical plant police possession, he contacted the physical , employee has been charged with burglary for plant and two supervisors identified the man allegedly taking money from·a cash register at on the videotape as Mains, who was then the MSU Bowling Alley. arrested on Jan. 26 after a warrant was issued. Billy M. Mains, 40, of Pine Grove Road, was The cash register contained $20 in mark~d allegedly videotaped eµtering the bowling alley bills, Lanham said. and taking money from the cash register, Mains allegedly used a master key that he according to Gary Lanham, chief of MSU's was issued by the university to get into the Public Safety office. bowling alley. Lanham said that money had been reported He was charged with third degree burglary, stolen froin the bowling alley on two other a Class D felony, and -is currently lodged in the occasions. Rowan County Detention Center under a • A surveillance video camera was installed $2,500 cash bond. above the cash register, and we videotaped him . . .• -';' ·'#.:_" -.-.------. •--~~ r',..LW~",~ 1 MSU ARCHIVES' .MSU ·Clip Sheet ' A sample of recent articles of interest to Morehead State University February 8, 2000 I UNIVERSITY COMMUNICATIONS MOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY. UPO BOX 1100 MOREHEAD. KY 4035.1-1 689 16061 783-2030 February 7, 2000 The Dally Independent Ad£ e.vroHlltent catinues to~limlt BJ KEvut ElflflVCI! . · , OF Ttre DAILY I~ * the first fall increase since dents. 1992. ASHLAND - Enrollment Prestonsburg Community at Ashland Community Col The staff called every stu College spring enrollment is Jli'ho lege has increased for the denj; enrolled in spring down this year by about ftpei,~ a 1999-and who applied for fall cent, 2,180 students ver~ ond semester in a -~1"r, about 7 percent over-tile 1999 classes but didn't enroll, 2,314, Armstrong said. ·•· - · spring semester. Dvo~eaid. Fall semester enrollu;ient Spring semester ~lb.. In some cases, they were had also declined by nearly 2. ment stood at 2,269~_· .. , able to get financial aid or percent, from 2,432 in 1998'$' as. a( Friday, ~ .. . ' ; other help for students who 2,387 in 1999. . • 2,111 during spring .. ' couldn't otherwise return. Mayo Teehmcal Collegejn 1999. , ~- ·. In. aome cases they found P~ville has seen sprlifi The main inCJ'.eaSe .came iri. good news, Dvorak said, such enrollment increase-'6 percent over last year, 492 students full-time, ntst, as students who weren't com ACC President:da;!di. . · _Dvo,,. ing back because they had versus 464. Secondary school rak said. She--a · P~.. , found jobs or were leaving the students have also inc;reased from 81 last spring to 98 this area for good opportunities. year. Enrollment trends at other post-secondary schools were mixed. Ashland Technical College has 403 students this spring, ' ; versus 422 in spring semester of that increase to the sclmol a year ago, Kentucky Commu offering more Friday and Sat nity and Technical College urday classes. System Public Relations Di "We've had ,a real down rector Bryan Armstrong said, sweep of enrollment, and now However. the numbers will we're starting to build," Dvo change, Armstrong said. The rak said. school plans to start a truck Enrollment for the fall driving program Monday with 1999 semester had also in 10 students signed up, and a creased by about 13 percent, culinary arts program is set to begin in March with 20 stu- THE COURIER-JOURNAL• TUESDAY. FEBRUNW 3 ~oou LEXINGTON. Kv. ~Ianv of the 19 students who UK fraternity house lived iri the Sigma Pi house lost most Qf their bel,rngings. The damaged hy hlaze '>tudems probably won't be \ i:-,uerntt\· h,::us•.: .; :hie ro move bar:,; in che house ·_·niversay or' Kentucky caugnc rhis semester, university offi :ire late Sunday night. :)ur n1) ::1als said. ,me was injured in-the.blaze. The fire was contained m a It took 25 firefighters lo few rooms on the third floor. minutes to extinguish 1he fire. which started on the third but the entire building had .:moke rlamage ,rnrhi,,·,ries ; !oor. Firefighters said the lire said. may have been caused by an unattended space heater. JV/ S LJ l,:/1p A sample of recent articles of interest to Morehead State University February 9, 2000 UNIVERSITY COMMUNICATIONS MOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY UPO BOX 1100 MOREHEAD, KY 40351-1689 (606} 783-2030 . Lexington Heral Lexington Herald-Leader. Wednesday, Februal)'._9, 2000 Workers would get more political roles · Merit-system state employees could take ac tive roles in political campaigns under a bill ap proved by a Senate committee yesterday. Senate Bill 96 would guarantee that state employees could assist _in voter registration drives, speak at political rallies and contribute to campaigns. Em ployees would remain barred from political activ ities while at work. Currently, state employees can face disciplinary action, including being fired. for asking their neighbors to vote for candidates, said Charles B. Wells, executive director of the Kentucky Association of State Employees. The approximately 31,000 merit-system state employ ees can attend political rallies during personal time, but can't give speeches, he said. The bill cleared the Senate State and Local Government Committee on a 9-1 vote. The dissenting vote was cast by Senate President David Williams. The Dally Independent February 8, 2000 UK..~t11depts impressed after 1st Elliott visit rel Gorge. and community center; devel- ByTOM 1.EwJa "Elliott County is one of the -opni_e_nt _of a resort_~_n Grayson OF THE DAILY INDEPENDENT prettiest counties in Ken Lake,' pollution-prevention . SANDY HOOK - University of Ken tucky," Boyd County resident education, a movie theater, a tucky landscape architecture class mem Bill Ruggles said to applause. cultural center, a welcome bers_ assigned the task of helping Elliott Ruggles, who enjoys hiking, center, better marketing of County·map out its development efforts said if Elliott County devel the. county's arts and crafts :were met by more than the county's nat oped a trail system, it could and improved infrastructure. .ural beauty "during their first visit Mon- become a popular destination "We need help. We need day:-. · ,._. • '•{~* ,. ,. , ·. · · · · · · for hikers, much like the Red· plans, and that's why we're .Th~;",;~~ ~o gr~eted b~ scores of River Gorge. , glad you all are here," Adkins area residents eager to help with that as Others suggested trails for told the UK contingent. signment. horses and all-terrain vehicles Horst Schach, chairman of "The people of Elliott County - and as well. Sister Sally Neale of UK's landscape architecture this is kind of.refreshing - are motivat Sarah's Place Women's Re department, said the class ed to do this," said Webster County resi source Center said something hoped to meet again with the like a "wildflower walk" could public in March or April to dent Jeff Townsend, one of 21 fifth-year be planned in conjunction share some of its preliminary landscape· architecture students from with an annual festival. ideas. The class will have its UK who are spending this semester Residents said develop final,plan ready in May. working o~ .ir conceptual master plan for ment of Laurel Gorge will re , He· ·and the students said land use in Elliott County. sult in spin-off businesses like they'' ·were pleasantly sur The class. arrived in Elliott County hotels, restaurants and gas _prised by Monday's turnout. about 2:30·p.m. Monday and visited the stations, and UK Cooperative -~cliach .-:.' cautioned the sce~ic Lalll'.?.l Gorge, which is being tout- r Extension Agent Gwenda Ad crowd _!}!at;-~lie_ work is being ed as the· centerpiece of the county's I kins said she wanted local done liy ·students and should tourism development efforts. . . people to develop those, probably be reviewed by pro -•~:.,• . . . . - ·_ \•- -- - The students then met with the public fessionals before it is imple rather than waiting for largl! mented. to get a feel for what local residents en chains to do the job. · visioned as the community's strengths But he said the information Others at Monday's meet- I his class prepares will help and their vision for the future. About 50 ing cautioned that steps need residents showed up. the county in applying for to be taken to make sure de grants: The class began by presenting some velopment does not ravage El sobering statistics it had gathered about liott County's splendor. Elliott County, such as the fact that al- . "People want their kids and most 60 percent of the county's workers grandkids to see what they've have to commute elsewhere to find jobs. seen," Judge-Executive Student Kevin Clark of Bowling Green Charles Pennington said. noted that in 1997 most of the 25 coun- Residents told the UK . ties with the lowest per-capita income in group that beautification ef the nation were in the Western United forts in Sandy Hook are on States, and only one was in Kentucky - the 'right track. Elliott County. "In a three- to five-year But after seeing the county, Clark and span, the appearance of his classmates said there is hope. Sandy Hook has changed "You guys have a lot to offer," he said. completely," said David Brick " ... I've lived in Kentucky 14 years, and ey, president of the Elliott I've never seen anything like it." County Chamber of Com The students then asked the audience merce. to discuss things that they think Elliott Other ideas shared by resi County has going for it. Responses in dents included a better road cluded the Keith Whitley country-music system, restoration of old collection, its artisans, its colorful histo buildings in the county, con ry and lore-the John Swift silver mine, version of one of the WPA remnants of moonshine stills and an un buiit schools in Sandy Hook der-appreciated Native American influ into a library and/or youth ence - and natural attractions like Lau- ~t\t.Q.orL\ ~ ...h MSU ~CHIVE'S M:iU Clip v ee, A sample of recent articles of interest to Morehead State University February 10, 2000 UNIVERSITY COMMUNICATIONS MOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY UPO BOX 1100 MOREHEAD, KV 40361-1689 (6061 783-2030 THE COURIER-JOURNAL• THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2000 A __ 2000 Kentuc!_cy General Assembly______~ :college campus security bill ,called overkill, inconsistent tember 1998. His parents said an ar the House budget committee and also Critics focus on son fire in the dorm, Hester Hall, five an employee of Eastern Kentucky days earlier was not reported to the University in Richmond, focused on infractions that fire marshal. the bill's requirement for campuses Had they known of it, her son to report arrests of anyone "referred would immediately have moved out for campus disciplinary action" for would be reported of the dorm, Gail Minger told the liquor or drug violations. committee. The EKU campus has about 1,500 By CHARLES WOLFE 11We were not given accurate or re disciplinary referrals a year, few of Associated Press liable information. ln short, we were which lead to arrest but all of which lied to," she said. would have to be logged just in case, FRANKFORT, Ky. - A campus se Matthew McBride, a former Mur Moberly, D-Richmoncf, said. curity bill prompted by a fire that ray State student who .had lived in "This is a serious bill, and serious killed a student at Murray State Uni Hester Hall, said in a written state parts of it need to be passed," he versity ran into trouble in a House ment to the committee that the uni said. But inclusion of trivial infrac committee yesterday. . versity "tried to keep the fire under tions weighs it down, Moberly Without• saying they flatly opposed wraps." · warned Wayne. . the bill, some legislators said ti was Jack Flowers, an assistant state Another critic, Rep. Tom Kerr, D inconsistent. It seemed to require fire marshal, said his investigation of Taylor Mill, said the bill's list of re campuses to report relatively trivial the fatal fire was complicated by portable crimes omits two felonies - infractions, such as possession of burn patterns from the unreported terroristic threatening and wanton beer in a dorm room, but not some fire five days earlier. endangerment - unless they are felonies, they said. An aggressive investigation of the committed as a 11 hate crime" because The sponsor, Rep. Jim Wayne, D first fire might have prevented a sec of a victim's gender, disability, reli Louisville, said he was willing to ond, even 1f the arsonist was not gion and the like. amend the bill. A hearing by the caught, Flowers said. · Wayne's bill, House Bill 322, is be House Education Committee was As for public reporting of on-cam int: debated against a backdrop of continued until next week. pus crime, Kentucky Press Associ cnminal and civil court cases. If the bill becomes law, all colleges ation attorney Jon Fleischaker said The Mingers have sued the univer and universities in the state would information has always been hard to sity and some manufacturers. The lo have to keep a daily, public log of get. cal prosecutor, Calloway County crimes occurring on campus. Fires .or "There's been a consistent effon to Commonwealth's Attorney Mike threats of fire would have to be re cover up that information," Fleis Ward, is being sued by five people he ported to the state fire marshal. Vio chaker told the committee. originally charged in the case, then lations could bring a $500 fine. But one of the General Assemblv's dropped. A former Murray State stu Wayne introduced the bill because most powerful members criticized ihe dent, Jerry Wayne Walker, is await of a dormitory fire that killed Murray bill as "overkill." ing trial on charges of murder, arson State student Michael Minger in Sep- Rep. Harry Moberly. chairman of and assault in the fatal lire. Lexington Herald·Leadcr Thursday. Februa,v 10. 2000 .Education BIii backs teacher certification: The ~ouse Education Comm11tee yesterday appro\'ed " measure that would set up a special trust fund . to hclp_teachers_obtain the national gold-standard 111_ the neld. A bill by Rep. Jon Draud. R-Crestview I l1lls. would set a goal for the state co have at !east one National Board for Professional reach mg Standards-certified teacher in each school by 2020. The certification is an intensive. 1·earlo11g P!·ocess that requires teachers to analvze their teaching_ styles _m both writing and on video as wel! as takmg? st~-hour exam in the subjects the; teach. Draud s btll would pav the fees for teachers, give them time to prepare and, on suc c~ssful completion, give them a S2,000 bonus. I,entucky has 37 national board certified teachers. - COMPILED FROM STAFF. WIRE REPORTS Lexington Herald-Leader Thursday, February 10, 2000 M.ove sencts ·mixed messages to IUK students, employees UK burst upon the museum While it's encouraging to Meredith E. Nelson - space scene in October, quite to those who support the arts that the surprise and consternation of UK will undertake such a cam COtfTRIBUTING COWMNIST the history museum's backers, paiim, the entire effort to move The Uni, who had been making plans for the museum was half-hearted versity of Ken- the space since the city began the construction of the new court- · and without the extreme convic .,1"., :)u~ky Art Mu- ' houses. This sudden appearance ti.on that history backers dis .; -: · • sewn and the · 1 played, 'Ji 'll:i':: Lexington His- , of a contender for the building, ,\ · --~, tory Museum which is badly in need of renova The other kicker is that the art museum, currently housed in "•· l have found tion, threw a kink into the esti inates for the project. Renovation 20,000 square feet of space, will • .. : ., ...... themselves in 0 be moving into half of a 40 000- a' fentative situation for the last of the sp<1ce for art was estimat at $62 million; for history, square-foot renovated spa~ four months, and on Jan.19, pre ea even though the art museum '.sented tliemselves before the Ur $7 .4 million, Neither of these are ban County Council as perma, attractive figures to the city. • said it wouldn't move into any History backers held their space that wasn't bigger and nent dance partners for the good able to house more collections. of the Lexington community. ground as if they had the last Former Gov. Edward T. kickball on the .playground, A community cannot survive "Ned" Breathitt, a member of the knowing that the space had al 'without either its art or its histo- UK Board of Trustees, engi ways been intended for them, . ry, I hope this new museum neered this liaiiashake between Christmas came and went, and space will be a grand and fiscal the two previously sparring enti suddenly, after watch- ly responsible effort that will ties. It would seem that the two ing the faltering efforts ! give adequate attention to the parties have agreed to share the of a certain other histo- · two subjects, which are the clos space to·be. renovated within the ry museum recently est to my heart. .old Fayette County Courthouse bailed out by the city . Keep an eye on the proceed downtown. · · " and UK, a contingent, mgs as they con,tinue to unfold. The space, originally intend' including noted Ken- ed solelyJ~~~e history muse< tucky historian , um, is si:neawed to be vacant in Thomas Clark, decided 2001 arui coula be renovated and that a local history mu- ready for occupancy by 2003. seum could not be self The UK 'Art Museum occu supporting in Lexingtoi;, pies' a· qwef comer in 'Singletary Art and history backers com-· Center for the Arts on campus, a promised and decided to share ' ·20-year-old facility at Euclid Av- • the space. The deal allows for a i enue and Rose Street. capital campaign designed to ! This 'iiibve to downtown generate $8.5 million, Of that, $7 1 would certainly generate more million would go to renovate the · publicity foflhe UK Fine Arts courthouse, with galleries for art 'program, whicli has floundered .. aI)d scaled back galleries for his- j runder budget cuts for the last tory. The other $1.5 million is in .. three years in·a row. Fine Arts tended to .fund an endowment. desperately needs this outpour- UK will pay the operating costs •ring of support from its parent for the entire museum space, and 'figure. . the history section will reim Unfortunately, this idea fur. burse UK for staff and utilities. : !her alienates the student body f!ow~er, the art museum's r~ from the university by removing location 1-:l hardly encouraging to the museum to a location that is students ~ the College of Fine not easily accessible between or Arts. It gives the impression that · after classes, something that is "!"ual art museums cannot sur dangerously close to becoming a vive on campuses, but belong trend at UK. ~n!y d?wntown and in conjunc Besides the Rasdall Gallery tion with other museums where in the Student Center, the UK (!iey can be supported by the pub Art Museumis.one of the.only. he rather than the intelligentsia. -.accessible and: recognizable If the museum does . places for UK students, staff and move, serious consider faculty to enjoy permanent and ation needs to be given ,traveling collections of visual art. to the use of the feft. As a student, I wandered · over space in the Sin through just to see what was gletary Center. Perhaps there and, as an employee, I still a multipurpose perfor do. I couldn't help but be drawn mance space is in or in by the bizarre sculpture on der, or an alternate lo the lawn next to Singletary. cation for fine-arts stu- I fully understand the art . dents to showcase their museum's desire to escape the proJects. I hope it does not be confines of Singletary, with its come another meeting room. parking and space limitations. . What this all comes down to But UK is certainly aware that is ~t UK is now going to be. there are 5,300 students living on paying for a museum space that campus, many of whom walk by 1t didn't realize it wanted until the museum everyday. If the mu- i !a,st October, along with finding seum is bypassed, isn't it partly i itself a~ a partner in a capital the fault of those who are sup- · campaign that could take three · posed to be marketing the muse to four exhausting years. um to students and faculty? ~\Q_ Q_c,pq -- MSUARC~ES Iv/JU Clip Sheet A sample of recent articles of interest to Morehead State University February 11, 2000 UNIVERSITY COMMUNICATIONS MOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY UPO BOX 1100 MOREHEAD, KY 40361-1689 16061 783-2030 Lexington Herald-Leader F~day, February 11, 2000 E.I\P _establishes variety of new_ scholarships~ their high school graduating class · learners who have' been out of HEAAIDlEADER STAFF REPORT an~ have a 3.5 or better grade high school at least three years, .:>~~_terp)~entu~ky Univ~rsity pomt average. these two-year renewable awards has establishea a set of new schol- , ■. The EKU Freshman Non of up to $1,000 for the academic arshlps designed to attract more Resident Achievement Scholar year are available to students who o_f the best and brightest students ship. Available only to non-Ken must have at least 12 credit hours to the' Richmond campus. tucky residents, the criteria are -earned afEKU, a 3.25 grade point , 1 .. The EKU Presidential Initia the same as the Freshman Resi average and who are enrolled for tive Scholarship Program will al dent scholarship. at least six semester hours. low. EKU to offer an additional ■ The EKU Transfer Scholar The application deadline for 225 one-time• awards of up to ship. These one-time awards of up all awards is April 1, except for $1,000 .and '$7 two-year renewable to $1,000 for the academic year the Adult Achievement Scholar $1,000 scholilrships next fall. are offered to first-time EKU stu ship deadline, which is May 30. ;-::~~-The·riew financial aid was an• dents who transfer to the universi For an application, or for more in ilciunced recently by Eastern Ken ty with a minimum of 30 hours from an a=edited college or uni fonnation, call EKU's Division of J~,gcy Pr":5\deiit Bob Kustra. _The. Financial Assistance at (60p) 622- program IS funded by the Eastern vers\ty, 3.0 grade point average 2361 or, toll-free in Kentucky !Kentucky University Foundation, · .an_d two letters of recommenda- (800) 262-7493. ,, ' 'ahd its donors through a_ distribu-J tion.. ~ -_~ tion, of the endowment's excess ■ The Colonel · Scholarship. • · These two-year renewable awards -~ . · -~"""Jt focuses not just on in- of up to $1,000 for the academic creased enrollment, but ·on the en year recognize Kentucky high . rollment of an increasing number school graduates who have .. of academically talented stu demonstrated leadership and '." dents," Kustra said. . I achievement, earned a minimum .i.. The scholarships will be avail- i 3.0 high school grade point aver age and provided two letters of ,1 able_ for th~ 2000-01_- academic I year.. . - .. · . recommendation from high school .,. The scholarships are: · · administrators. The scholarship may be ·renewed for the sopho , 0 • • ■ The. EKU Fresliman Resi dent Achievement ~cholarship. more year provided the recipient These one-time awards for first- .. maintains a 2.5 grade point aver time, first-year EKU students of age. . up to $1,000 for the academic year ■ The Adult Achievement are available to Kentucky resi-, Scholarship. Designed. for adult dents who are in the top third of Lexington Herald-Leader Friday, February 11, 2000 Pa~o~ seeks _stipp(jrt of education leaders By_Holly E. Stepp Some of them said The tax proposal they would support Pat HERALDUA!JER EDUCATION WRITER" ton's efforts. .. · Gov. Paul Patton lined up al" would generally raise the gasoline tax by 7 "Most tax increases lies for his new tax plan yester get passed when the day, meeting with the state's cent~ a gallon; increase the mcome tax for peo- . public perceives there is higher education leaders to ex a crisis," said Bob Kus plain Kentucky's revenue picture. pie making more than $100,000 a year; and. apply the sales tax to tra, Eastern Kentucky · ~atton met with university University president. presidents, members of the uni some services. . The go".ernor's proposed "~d I would say that versity governing higher education in this board and the Council higher education budget includes fundmg for new incentive funds state is in serious need on Postsecondary Edu- and·. I would call it a en'. cation to pitch his new. for _enrollment, retention and re crmtment of students as well as sis." tax plan. Morehead State Uni Deliverini. much of money to attract scholars and re searchers to the s~te's campuses. versity ·President Ron the new spending Patton Eaglin said he hasn't de has proposed ,Jor the . ~atton has said that his leg islative package must be passed cided how to lobby on state's colleges and uni Patton:s behalf, but praised him versities, as well as oth in its entirety or it will fall part · for trymg to boost higher educa er state programs, relies Patton suggested the school tion. on raising about $144 presidents write letters to alumni "I am pleased with the bold million a year in new and oth~ groups in support of the steps th~ governor is .taking .to mone!' from truces. plan, said some presidents who at- move this state forward in !lie· tended. new millennium," Eaglin said. Lexington Herald-Leader Match made'. Thursday, February 10, 2000 itf!the heavens Book, long-term relationship have The reason Wendell was at Despite the contrast in person tracted to Linda: •She laughed_ at alities collaboration finally worked couple counting their lucky stars mY jokes." for th~ Perrys. Their book-writing Wendell's creative energy keeps venture has made-them happy, and show how the planets might have him busy when he's not at his more so has their marriage. Sy Sofia Javed "We're both pretty stubborn, HERAl..DlEADER STAFF WRITER influenced their lives. practical job as a clerk at the but we're stubborn about different Fayette County District_ Court offi";, en Linda Perry-first met things" Wendell said. "Linda's er husband, Wendell Per- 'lmmedlately struck' He often dabbles m new proJ ects. But whether writing or_ draw stub~rn about things that have to Wry, in college, somel'lling in- Although Wendell's sincere in- do with practical, real-life situa ing,, V{end~l.l is alway~ gamfully side her went "Boing!" terest in astrology prompted their tions and I'm stubborn about occupied, according to Lmda. It was love al first sight for the collaborative effort, the couple say things that have to do with ab soon-to-be freshman at Morehead astrology does not play a lead role She appreciates this about him stract ideas. So we get along pretty ·state University. in their daily lives. But it might now, but back in college, it's what well." "As soon as I saw him, I knew have affected the beginnings of kept Wendell from noticing Linda. Linda and Wen dell have a 9 he was the one," she said. . their relationship. •He was always running around." year-old daughter, L\la, who .~' Wendell, a self-taught astrology Linda, who graduated from she said. this to say about their book: lt s buff, is not surprised. Venus was in Morehead with a bachelor's degree Eventually, the two got togeth too thick."· · · · · Aries the day Linda was born, and in art, first met Wendell during a er through mutual friends. They it is natural for her lo. fall in love visit to the university in 1971 be were married in 197 4. impulsively, he said. fore her freshman year. Her father But :what about those contrast- But he is quick to shift the cred- wanted a tour of the art building. it from the power of the · Most of the profes- ing sun signs? Linda is a Taurus stars lo his ·own certain ------sors were too liusy, so and Wendell is a Leo. The two twinkle. Upcoming they asked a young, signs traditionally don't gel along "It was my blue eyes appearances eager a~ student to , well. that got her," Wendell ■ Wendell and Linda show Lmda and her Wendell said the couple's fust said, with a slight grin Perry will be Inter- ·parents around. few attempts at collaborating on and a glance at his wife viewed by Morehead "Wendell was the' creative projects failed, possibly be- for a nod of agreement. State University's radio first man my age I met cause of their differences. Wendell said al- station, WMKY, at 9 in Kentucky," said Lin- When Wendell wanted to write· though their sun signs a.m. on Valentine's da, . originally from fiction, he tried to persuade Linda; don't agree with each Day. Belhngham, Mass. "I to work with him as an editor. Lin-, other, the rest of their ■ The couple will sign was immediately da has an additioDal bachelor's de-, horoscopes prove he copies 01 The struck." gree in journalism from UK. She and Linda are very Mars/VenusMarch 18 at AffairBarnes on & Bu I Wen d eII , & has worked as a teehni ca I wnter.· compatible. And the Noble Booksellers, Morehead native, said and she now edi~ publications for' stars have been.right on i932 Pavilion Way In his nature is to take the UK Alumni Association. But: track for:the couple. · Lexinl!!J>n. more time to fall in working with her husbaIJdfilidil't "I think our hero- love, and Linda agreed. appeal to her. scopes foretold our rela- For a year after their first en- Later, Linda planned to write:. tionship pretty well," Wendell said. counter, Linda would say hi to Wen- promotional pieces- .fcii-. ·Wendelrs. The Perrys, both 47 and happi- dell as they passed in the hallways. artwork. Tl)at ·didn'f-work either· ly married for 26 years, co-authored But Wendell would just walk right because nudes. and sociaLcritiques• The Mars/-Venus Affair (Llewellyn past her and ignore her, she said. were too hard·tt(promote;, Wendell Publications, $17.95). They spent ''.I walk around in a daze even said...... :~ :·.c· . · ..: . four years working on it: now," Wendell said in his defense. Even iheir latest ·effort, · The Lexington couple's book "At that age, I hit earth every third t,,l N[arsl Venus Affair,.q~d___:b€~. should be available in bookstores step." gmnmgs,, ~ende!l;_•Sl!td:. by Valentine's Day. Wendell's horoscope describes .·e~ presented Lmda with a · raft: Tlze Mars/Venus Affair de- a great amount of creative activity. that took hint siiliti, six months to scribes the characteristics associat- With a bachelor's degree in fine write, they argued about it for a: ed with 144 possible combinations arts from Morehead and a master's few weeks and fought for a couple of Mars and Venus, the two planets degree in fine arts from the Univer more - thoug_h a. tin._.ar.ent'. 'that govern sex and romance. De- sity of Kentucky, Wendell consid was sparked even by; ".(Jt scriptions of celebrity love lives ac- ers himself an artist first. whether they fought · . . . '· ":, company each combination lo He has exhibited his work - primarily nudes and social satires "We didn't fight;" Linda ex: plained. "We diseussed. He wanted - all across the country. He won to do it one way ___ " first place in the Lexington Art League's The Nude '89 exhibit. "And you wanted to do it the right way," Wendell replied with a But he put his art exhibits on the laugh. back burner for a few years while he But in the end, their differences explored the field of writing. proved they are more compatible "I have a very creative horo than not. · · .,,,,: • · scope," he explained. "Everything falls in creative areas." Linda is very . down-to-earth He added jokingly: "I'm bur Wendell said. She is very focused'. dened with that." She likes things to be in black or Wendell's dialogue is always white, with no shades of gray. sprinkled with a healthy dose of Wendel~ on ih~ other hand, can hnmor - a trait from his horo be very vague arid "wishy-washy." scope that intensified Linda's at "But irI)lecide I .want. to do traction to him. something,'.no:!113tter·'how long "He always makes me laugh," term it may .t,e.:fll. do i.t.' .W,he11 I she said. "He's got a really good get an idea, in.ll)~f;u,ad,J'Jr JJ1$ue sense of humor. I guess that was it and purauif!t'lni!~e it unfil. one thing tliat attracted me lo him." I get what I want• MSU ARCHIVES MSU Clip Sheet A sample of recent articles of interest to :Morehead State University February 14, 2000 UNIVERSITY COMMUNICATIONS MOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY UPO_BOX 1100 MOREHEAD, KY 40351-1689 1606) 783-2030 TID;_MOREHEAD NEWS-MOREHEAD, KY FRIDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY U, 200(! ·"That's something we really try to emphasize when we 57 Eagle recruit," Swan said of success in the classroom. "Academics are our number one priority. We're really proud of our girls and with Kambi (Meyer) with at:hletes on a 4.0 and with seven other players on the Dean's List. "It's a real tribute to the faculty and staff because all athletes have to miss a lot of Dean's _.List class but those folks work well with making sure the kids maintain their course-work," "We do want to stress Swan said. 22 compile academics here at Morehead Last year, the volleyball State," said Lady Eagle Eagles ranked second in the basketball coach Laura Litter, nation in all of NCAA Division perfect 4.0 a former MSU athlete herself. I for team GPA, just behind "They're students getting a Eastern Michigan. By DE~R BROWN Last year'. Morehead State Sports Writer degree first and athletes second - obviously it means a received the prestigious Ohio Valley Conference Academic It's hard enough trying to lot to me, primarily to know that they are keeping their Achievemettt Banner, besting concentrate on three-point the other nine league schools, shooting or fielding a ground priorities in order and that they're goal-oriented. for the sports department's ball. Now, pile on top of those collective .2.84 GPA. MSU has nerve-racking tasks a pile of .h Among those to earn.. ,..,the ,_., onor were: six from•i'~ne won the award five times in-its books and term papers.· , I_!!b · ·b•·,·1- .. ·-·----- ··r· · · 13-year history.· • • bl ? F t = •v. ase a, team, one rom the Ummagma e. or mos u•; -i?j'hen's basketball team four us. But not for the Moreheadj,i:~om the women's bask~tball State• student-athletes. ·~·-,1' · .. team , three f rom th e men• s Fifty-seven Eagles ~nd.. cross country team," six from Lady Eagles were reco~mzed,, the women's cross country 1999Fall on the MSU Dean's List for· -- . . -- . ·· the Fall 1999 semester. In team, 12 from the football Dean's List order to qualify to Dean's List team, two from the rifle team, honors, an undergraduate t'!f0 fro,:n the women's soccer honorees (3.5 must have taken at least 12 team, eight from the softball hours with a 3.5 grade-point- team, three from the men's or greater) Rifle average ' for the· current tennis team, two from the Baseball Mary Ellen Gill; 4.00; i semester. women's tennis team and Nathan Bishop; Adam Erica Workman, 4.00. Even more remarkable, 22 eight from the volleyball team. Crawford, 4.00; Sam Hoehner, Soccer student-athletes achieved a With the help of mandatory 4.00; Thad Kingsolver; Charlie Holly Beach; and Sar perfect 4.0 GPA for this past study sessions, the coaching Rutledge, 4.00; and Matt Vosmeire, 4.00, . fall. staffs are recognizing the Saale. .. 0 Softball "When this list came out, I'd absolute importance of grades. Men's basketball Dana Fohl, 4.00; Amy F like to say how proud we were "Whenever I have time Justin Cornell, 4.00. Karen Gillum, 4.00; Heat! of our student-athletes and a way from the court, I'm Women's basketball Hoying; Heather Hugh, their academic achievements," reading material and going Abby Adams, 4.00; TiffanyMicele Sturm; ~ol]y Surrs said MSU Executive Vice over notes," freshman. Hornsby; Shelley Schaberg· 4.00; and Amy Wilkinson. Presiden~·of Academic Affairs basketball Eagle Justin and Laurie Vmcent. ' Men's tennis Mike Moore. "That's a tribute Cornell said. "The· professors Men's cross country : Jon _Paul Bryant, 4.00; G, to the faculty. anclthe. student do a great job helping me keep Kalle Hallanoro, 4.00; Markrawkins; and Christo: athletes, especially, for all caught up with my Smiley, 4.00; and Tony Teats. oehler, 4.00. . . their time and dedication and assignments and the coaching Women's cross country Women's tennis work that is takes to be staff has us at study table Susie Anderson; Vanessa Robyn Adams; and Ar involved with athletics. about every night." Cornell Antkiw, 4.00; Kelly Austin, Haybarker, 4.00. "And to be able to maintain has had several 20-point 4.00; Cara Goetz, 4.00; Karen Volleyball such a high performance in games for Head Coach Kyle the clailsroom is remarkable," Macy's Eagles and he has Lutes; and Aurelia Skipwith. Amy Almond; Emily Be Football Sarah Eckrich; Kim Harr: Moore said. maintained a 4.0 in the Bill Ballard; JeremyNatalie Mas~; Rach, The 57 individuals· come classroom. Binakonsky; Phillip Mes~er; Kambi Meyer, 4.C from MSU's 13 athletic teams The entire athletic Blackbum; Brian Blair; Scott and Lisa Shepherd. (with cross country and track department posted a 2.84 GPA Davis; James Harris; Dennis and field ·combined, and men's with Head Coach Mike Swan's Ledford; Jeff Morrett; Patrick and women's rifle combined}. volleyball players leading. the Osborne; James Parker, 4.00; The tally comprises nearly 20 way among MSU's teams with Randy Saunders, 4.00; and percettt of the total number of a collective 3.4. Adam Stegeman: MSU's student-athletes competing for the Blue and Gold in the Fall semester. fhe Daily Independent. Ashlana. Kentucky, Sunday, February 13. 2000 Dlormer Morehead_mal} ~n top )f the World (Trade Center) 3y TOM LEWs , YORK CITY - Grow- ing UJ!. in Morehead, Kyle .. , _ Crage£i dmits that he never ...... \ imagige himself in an office ~ -:,,_'t~;- ~i.lh ~)f .t~.~_;-.J l ·, .-c,;)·. . ~on thi: 3rd flooz: of the _World --~-,. ,v i,I~--- ,J:t. f!. . Ii , , 11 ~.(i'~:b"f ~:·~-- -. 111· -_ '-1'~} _ ":, -• ;- , ad~ enter with a vrew of 1 e Em ire State Building. v • traveling the country Morehead American . aseball program and 1 1at' 11· 'th I Morehead State l'Jiti've ' 'ty's baseball team, ~~• ays he probably would have! . ghed at that notion . • er saw anything like thisr' In the first round of awards. the class of 199H earned about si:: An issue for other states million in scholarships. Of those graduates, 56 percent used their Grade inflation has been an is awards in the fall college semes sue for other states that have im ter. plemented merit-scholarship pro But Stine worries that an A at grams in recent vears. another school mav not be the Georgia's HOPE scholarships same as the A that her children are the oldest, started in 1993. and Most Ky. receive at Highlands High School are the model for Kentucky's pro in Fort Thomas. gram. Individual school districts de According to a recent report termine their own grading scales. from the American Association of In some places, 95 to JOO points State Colleges and Universities, equals an A; in others, the margin the percentage of high school stu students dents eligible for Georgia's award is 10 points. The scholarships, though, grew from 46.8 percent in fall don't distinguish between an A at 1993 to 59.5 percent in fall 1998. one school or an A at another. Georgia requires students to Stine's proposal, Senate Bill earn a 3.0 average or better to re qualify for 204, would calculate grade point ceive a scholarship covering all averages using the actual numeri tuition and fees. cal value assigned to the letter While it is too early to deter grade. mine whether grade inflation is re That means the awards would ally happening in Kentucky - be based on 27 levels, ranging 1998-99 was the first year the tuition aid from 74 to 100. The current sys state tracked high school stu tem. based on grade point aver dents' grade point averages - ages from 2.5 to 4.0, uses 19 cate statistics from the first year of New state study spurs !(ories to determine awards. scholarship recipients show stu The changes, which would be dents who are doing well above gin with this fall's school year if average work. fears of grade inflation the bill is passed, would deal with Seventy-five percent of the grade inflation by recognizing the 30,000 1999 graduates who were By Holly E. Stepp differences in schools' grading eligible for the scholarships had B HERALD-LEADER EDUCATION WRITER scales. Stine said. averages or higher. Of those, 15 A year into Kentucky's experiment with lottery "At Highlands, it's really hard percent had perfect 4.0 averages. funded college scholarships, most high school stu to get an A. It really means some By contrast, only 38 percent of dents are earning the dollars with ease. thing," Stine said. "That would the 1999 graduates scored in the And that has some wondering if it's too easy. continue to be true." top half of the program's range In the first year of the Kentuckv Educational Ex for ACT scores. About 11 percent cellence Scholarship program: What makes an 'A'? of seniors earned ACT scores of about 62 percent of high school When the General Assembly 28 or better, the top level for the students did well enough to earn created the scholarship program scholarships. ·money for college. in 1998, its few critics pointed to More than 70 percent of the the possibility of grade inflation. qualifying ninth- through 12th A few months after the schol graders had a B average or higher, arship law was passed, Hardin ~How•it.works making them shoo-ins for the County schools lowered their scholarships, a recent state report grade standard for an A from 95 · The Kentucky Educatlonal found. to 92. Other districts have also Excellence Scholarship was cre For some educators and legis considered changes, although it's ated in 1998 by the General lators, such statistics reek of grade unclear how many have adjusted Assembly: It uses revenue from inflation. their grading scales. the state's lottery program to And at least one legislator be Lois Gray, Hardin County su guarantee scholarships for high school students who earn at lieves she has a way to prevent perintendent, said it was a fair schools from relaxing their grad least a C average and score a ness issue. After surveying sur 15 on the ACT. ing scales to help students earn rounding districts, Gray said the The money can be used at more scholarship money. 95 was a higher standard. any Kentucky college. Sen. Katie Kratz Stine, R-Fort "We didn't feel it was right to Currently, a 2.5 grade point Th~mas, has _imro?uced a bill that would change penalize students here because of will earn a student $125 towarc ho\\ students grade pomr averages are calculated stringent requirements here," college. A perfect 4.0 earns for the lottery-funded scholarships. Grav said. $500. Students can earn those "This would begin to bring equity to the Sen. Tim Shaughnessy, D awards for each year of high school. awards." Stine said. Louisville, who sponsored the lot At issue for Stine. and mam· A score of 15 on ·the ACT tery scholarship legislation, said ,earns a one-time supplement of her Northern Kentucky con the criteria shouldn't be changed award of $36; scores of-28 or stituents, she said, is the pro because the Council on Postsec above earn $500. · · ,. gram's grade-point criteria for the ondarv Education has dealt with · The maximum amount a· stu scholarships. the issue. dent could earn is $2,500 a The scholarships work like The council mandated in No year. That could be renewed for this: Students earn monev for col vember 1998 that school districts four years•of college, for a total lege each year of high school they would have to use the grading of $10,000. earn at least a C average. The scales in place when the law was higher their grade point average. passed. (Hardin County has not the more money they earn. changed its standard back.) The total amount earned over "We are only a year into this four years makes up the scholar - we are working only on projec ship, which is awarded when the tions right now," Shaughnessy student graduates. Students also said. "We should address 'this if earn a one-time supplement for need be in the 2002 session, once their scores on a common college we have four years of informa admission exam. the ACT. tion." The maximum award, for a By then, 1998's freshman class perfect A average and a 28 or will have spent the full four years higher on the ACT. is S2.500. re earning awards. If there is grade newable m·er ioui Years for a tot~ .. of SlO.OOt• . inflation going on, Shau!(hness,· said, it will be apparent. · THE COURIER-JOURNAL • NA 11vn - "'.':u::._"::-::._":.:_·:._:· ·__:.:::,_: _____ PLl~li~ favo!ri Uottle bill Trash pickup Tuesilay; the Appropriations The poll also suggests that and Revenue Committee is Kentucky residents feel the en meas.ure also scheduled to .vote on whether to vironment in their areas of the send the bill to the full House. state is good, but they are not highly popular The bill' has three main pro- satisfied· . with state govern ..visions: deposits on beverages; ment's environmental protec By JAMES BRUGGERS including soda, :beer, water, tion effort. The Courier.Journal ~ports drinks, wine, distilled spirits and some vegetable While 64 percent': rated the juices; a quarter-:eent sales tax environment where they live as Apparently unhappy with lit , on beverage cupund wrappers excellent. or good, 49· percent ter and illegal trash dumps, a gave state government a ra_ting solid majority of Kentuclty resi sold at fast-food restaurants; and mandatory trash pickup at of only fair or poor in protect dents favor legislation that ing Kentucky's environment. would require beverage con- households throughout · ·the state. The poll did not ask For too· long, · nobody has tainer deposits and mandatory about the quarter-cent sales cared about Eastern Kentucky's household garbage pickup. tax. . environment, said Garrett, the Both measures, which face a Gov. Paul Patton has put for Booneville resident. . · ~ make-or-break vote in Frank ward an alternative plan; also "They didn't care what East• fort on Tuesday, are favored by opposed by the' industry, that ern Kentucky did, as long as roughly two-to-one margins in would tax beverage containers we sent plenty of coal and tim The Courier-Journal's Blue- a penny a piece today for curb ber out of state to make the fat grass State Poll. · side recycling an other envi cats rich." "I like the beauty of nature," ronmental pro\l:rams, including said Don Flatt, 63, of Morehead Flatt, a retired· history profes cleaning up illegal landfills. sor at Morehead State Universi and a supporter of the so-called Patton. also wants mandatory "bottle bill." "I'd like to see us trash pickup. · . ty, said he's seen the . state make pro~ess with its environ do anything we can to preserve The bottling and retail indus it." Flatt was among those sur tries have not opposed provi mental mitiatives, including veyed in the poll who agreed to sions in Patton's plan and in stronger regulations: on the a follow-up interview. , the bill supported by Stumbo strip-mining of. the coal indus that would require Kentucky try. "But .~e still have a long The poll results ·-pleased way to go. ., ·,,,," . . . House Democratic Floor Leader residents to liave garbage serv- Greg Stumbo of Prestonsburg, :.P!· . ,' .· who has been going head-to t,;f In the poll, 62 · percent fa- • red deposits on and bat Don Fl ■tt, 63, of head with the bottling and re cans Morehead,. tail industries over a bill that es. Support · was highest a· retired ; ,, would require· 5- and IO-cent ong younger people, and refundable : deposits on many ose who live in the Bluegrass Morehead kinds of beverage containers .• d In Eastern and South Cen State·'· .1::;,t It's one of the most hotly con- · Kentucky. Universiiy history pro tested issues of this legislative ' ILLIGAL du~ping ha~ long session. fessor and been a problem in Eastern and bottle·hm Stumbo said the newspaper's .110uth-central Kentucky, and poll is 1:onsistent with tliose by this was reflected in the poll re- supporter. others in recent years that have . suits. . ".The bl!llu.ty , shown broad support for !'.!Jo.!~ · Ainong resiaeiits· or'Eastenf of ·our envi- ; , , .. tie bill, first proposed in K~ and south-central Kentucky, 80 !!DDmelit is worth a little, " i • •-fticonwiiience."· l ~- i~ tucky 26 years ago. . · · · •Pti'ce!it d~sc_ribed ill~gal dump •: -;:n,r.::- l~ t.1-.., "It's a true epic battle as to Ing as a maior .or mmor prob whether the people will win :Iem, compared with 59 percent' what they want or whether the . in the rest of the state. special interests are going to Although 89 percent of those win in this legislative process." · surveyed said they already have The bottling industry chal regular home pickup, most lenged the result of the poll, a want to make it martdatory for Q. lath survey of 800 Kentucky adults everyone in the state. State envlronme between Jan. 31 and Feb. fr. wide, 63 percent said they fa wherayou The more f.eople learn about vored mandatory trash pickup good, only Stumbo's bi! , the less they like for everyone. In Eastern and (Percentw it, said MicliaefBrown, a Pespi south-central Kentucky, 72 per- said on Cola Bottling Co. executive m cent favored it. . or poor Louisville and president of the In Owsley County, east of the Kentucky :Beverage IndWltry Daniel Boone National Forest, Recycling Program. · · · bottles and cans "are every For example, Brown points where," along with . illegal ' ~I , Diiiiiiiiim .. , . r"t••-::----1'.ft'..!,;,,L. out that, under the bill's provi dumps of old car parts, refng \ ..!._~_on inter:i~ws wittl 800 Kentuct .. 'Te~~h.i11g i~_-__ something that ·ch_anges constantly' Master's candidate at U of L learns classroom : ropes from English teacher _at Oldham sc.hool . By CHARLES WOLFE That commitment is quick- learning · the ropes under , ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER ly put to the test. Knowing. Dewey Hensley, a ninth-year their subject is not enough, teacher. Hensley said he CRESTWOOD --Af, Ken- Fischetti said.·They must be prefers to work closely with . tilcky looks for ways to pro- able to use new technologies the apprentice, rather than · duce better teachers, Zac Eck- and to handle diverse class- observing and critiquing. He els might be a prototype. rooms with students who calls Eckels a co-teacher. · The 23-year-old Iowan is a learn in different ways. Hensley, a Berea College · master's candidate at the Uni- They must be focused on graduate from Tomahawk in : versity of Louisville. His student results in a system Martin County, also earned · classes, however, are a bit far- whose premise is that all stu- the U of L master's. When the . ther east. Eckels is teaching dents can learn at high levels. education program was limit- . English under a mentor at "New teachers really aren't ed to graduate students in South Oldham High School. afforded the opportunity to 1989, he was in the first class. Last semester, some of his spend several years getting . Traditional preparation own class work took place at ready to be good," Fischetti "was all about delivery," · Central High · School in said, . · Hensley said. "It was as if my ··Louisville. · , Producing good teachers - only job was to spew out infor . -Teacher training is done at and improving the quality of mation, and it was up to.kids ' the graduate level in the uni- teachers already in the field to jump up and get it." · versity's School' of Education. - is one of the top issues in The U of L program taught :~~r:~e is ~"t~r of:~-in ;~:.r_Gen~ral_ -~~e-~~~Y. this ~:~fn~~v!o\o ~~i!b~a=~ Students who enter ..the A wide-ranging. bill on with information," he said. "If · program are already. steeped teacher quality is pending in content doesn't connect to a ·. in their academic · area. The . the House. Part of it deals kid's life and future, of what · progrll!Il, is 'd~igqed .t\> •get with improviilg· ;cqllege-level relevance is iF" · · · them off the. c~pus an,d mto teacher preparatiori programs · · · area schoolii ,at;Je,st}ialf the and recruiting . il higher cal- week. · . :· . ,,. · iber of student into the profes- ~eachiµg ,. .i_a . s9methin~ sion. ._ .. , ..•.; . ~ , . · ;_ .. . :' that cli9:ng!?s.;;:~~stan~ly, · :./If w~ :·believe ·a. quality . : ~: · Eckel!! _s_!ll.~.- .m~ .m~rn~w. ·-- .f,ea~er.,1.~ p.ecessll!,Y m every · -., ··: ~ou'v:e got toi1¥Y.,ii'i.!,O_u~,- cl1!9BrO!)lll, _thel).- ')YJ!'ve_ got to · , ; ~tl); .IJ!,~_r,!)aj W';_;f.. ~~~----~nB~!l. 9,µality_ .teacqt!.;'.S ¥~P · mg. · •,,., ··· 1.. • ·'''••·""'"" 0-coming, · said: Helen Moun- ,:· Jolin Fischati;'.:f'profi\ssor-tjoy, chairwomiin'of the'Ken . · of secondary· education, said tucky Board of Education and · taking the approach of a pro- member of a;, task ~force on · fessional development school whose findings the legislation means students 'Will first have was based. ... gained a knowledge of the At South Oldham, Eckels is · field they intend to teach. Then comes a year or more of . concentration· on the art of : teaching itself. They get im . mersed in the profession, • working regularly with THE COURIER-JOURNAL• KENTUCKY• SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2000 schoolteachers, counselors ·-: and administrators. 'FRANKFORT ·:. ··-~i; have very strong stu- . "· derits who have.commitments College not liable, t . ·to teaching in tlie same way ' appeals court rules I -, · that niedicaLsdiooFand law Prestonsburg Community College j •. . :w~~~~pl~p:ra~:ea ~:d' , cannot be held liable for damages suffered by a student who was raped law," Fischetti said. · ·· in the school's parking lot, the Court of Appeals ruled yesterday. The student was attacked in April 1991 as she was returning to her car. The subsequent criminal investiga tion led to the conviction of a man who had apparently been stalking the victim, following her, and leav ing threatening notes at her home and on her car. The lawsuit against the college al ' leged that it had failed to have prop er security to deter such incidents and had not provided proper light• ing for the parking area. Jbe court said there was no negli gence on the part of the college or the Board of Claims, which rejected her case. Monaav. feoruarv 14, "'uvu Legislators, editors should as}< teachers about certification By John Hutcheson Sr. our editorial makes three erroneous certificanon and wants to impiemem an assumpnons: that evervone. espe evaluanon and_ proficiency standard of ther s~cient progress toward or posse; Ycially the legislators, are knowledge educators' protessional ability ro teach. sion ot ~ master's degree. which is 60 a_ble regarding teacher standards and cer duet~. as ~ou ~ut it, a •'shallow under- hours;)! college credit above a bachelor'! t1ficanon: that all or ·almost all middle standing at therr academic subjects." degree. _The teacher may renew his or school teachers have the same cerntica Anoth_er issue, not brought out bv ei- her cemficate a second time but must non: and that e~er:yone thinks like vou ther_ :he bill or t!ie editorial is that of dual possess the master's degree before the do. l am not quite sure which is the most °:'°"canon. This is required for teachers end oi the second renewal. dangerous. 01 art music. physical education and. most . - Would Herald-Leader editors wel unportant special education. The latter is The cost ot each additional hour of come _legislation that calls into question ~n such short _supply that the General As- credit 1s $129 an hour, which doesn't in therr Journahsuc proficiencv and then sembly 1s senously considering paving in- elude books and other fees. Most middle d3.:es to offer a corrective action plan re cennves to maintain and recruit add.iii nal school educators would welcome an op- qwrmg them to provide up to as many teachers in these areas. 0 portunlty to provide input into their pro- • as 30 hours of additional college credit Most of this dual certification is K-8, fess10nal developm~t.needs. It's a sham [or re-certification? I think not. 1-8, 6-12 or 9-12. Kentucky educators are ~ few legislators hsten to us. Like you. ~ost of the teachers being questioned provisionally certified to teach initially ey could learn a lot from a teacher. carry certification in either K-8 or 1-8 for up to five years on a bachelor's de, W~ re _not tr;;ng to stop the bandwagon; gree. During this time, they must profi- we re llli/{ trying to apply brakes to the that the state has already designated as steamro ;uific1em knowledge and expertise to ciently exhibit standards of teaching er. teach m llllddle school. which. in most through completion of the Kentucky areas. is grades six through eight Now, Teacher m.temship Program. To renew the state legt5lature is questioning this their oertificates, they must also show ei- THE COURIER-JOURNAL MONDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2000 Most stu4,ents qualify for lottery-funded aid The award for a perfect A average Legislators wonder: and a 28 or higher on the ACT is $2,500, renewable over four years for if program created j a total of $10,000. In the first year the awards were given, students Several months after the scholar• grade inflation .- earned about $13 million in scholar ship law was passed, Hardin County ships. schools dropped their grade standard Associared Press 1 Stine said she is concerned that an for an A rro111 95 to 92. A at another school may not be the Lois Gray, Hardin County su11enn LEXINGTON, Ky. - A year into: same as the A that her children re• tendent, said it was a fairness issue. Kentucky's experiment with lottery ceive at Highlands High School in A survey or surrounding districts funded scholarshirs, about 62 per Fort Thomas. --·---- found. the 95 was a higher standard cent of high schoo students did well School districts detennine their she said. · , ' enough to earn money for college. own grading scales. In some places, "We didn't feel it was right to pe• A recent state report also found : 95 to 100 points equals an A. In oth· nalize students here because of Sirin• that . m?re than 70 percent of the ers, 90 to lO0 is an A. But the pro gent requirements here," Gray said. quahfymg students 1n grades nine i' gram doesn 'I distinguish between an through 12 had B averages or better Statistics from the first year of A at one school or an A at another. scholarship recipients show many which has some lawmakers and edu: Stine's proposal, Senate Bill 204, cators wondering ii schools are in students are doing well'above aver• would de_tennine grade-point aver age work: 75 percent of the 30,000 flating grades so students can qualify ages using the actual numerical val• for the money. 1999 graduates who were eligible for ue assigned to the letter grade. The the scholarships had B averages or Sen. Katie Stine, R-Fort Thomas awards would be based on 27 levels, has introduced a bill that would higher. Of those, 15 percent had per• change how grade-point averages are ranging from 74 to 100. The current feet 4.0 averages, ·-·· calculated for the lottery-funded system. based on grade-pomr aver scholarships. ages from :.!.5 to 4.0. uses 19 categor "This would begin to bring equ,rv ies to detennme awards. to the awards," Stine said. · "Al Highlands, it's Students can earn money for col really hard to get an lege for each year of high school A. It really means they earn a C average or better The something," Stine higher their grades, the more n{oney said. "That would they earn. continue to be true." The total amount earned over four Some critics · years is awarded when the student warned of grade in• graduates. Students also can earn a flation when the one-rime supplement for their scores General Assembly on the ACT, a common college ad created the scholar m1ss1on exam. ship program in 1998, · ..... ,,.... o·-", ·-·-·------Monday, February 14, 2000 'te·gos test' no_ standard for getting into college tween one and four. The robot isn't What good teacher can last Kathleen Parker the end-point apparently. Rather, long in a decaying neighborhood where hoodlums are tolerated, SVNOICATED COLUMNIST the process is supposed to reveal which of the students emerges as a where sex, drugs and violence are Forget the leader, one of the markers for pro daily social exercises, where chil brain games. jected oollege success. Other mark dren - for whatever the reason - Forget reading ers are perseverance, drive, motiva have little interest in learning? aloud to your tion, adaptability and the ability to Better than Legos, why not munchkins. For• work well withjn a group. give these students tough, clean, get flashcards, I admit that I was never very demanding schools with well-paid, calculators and good at Legos - and I work motivated teachers? Instead of oomputers. If alone, thanks - but this strikes making excuses for failure to learn YOl! want your kid to go to college, me as yet another effort to excuse the material necessary for oollege buy him Legos. inoompetence under the presump success - not to mention real The latest craze in oompetence tion that everyone deserves a col world performance - why not in avoidance for the educationally lege education. stitutionalize hard work, responsi challenged is oollege testing via Too many exceedingly bright bility, acoountabiHty? Lego building. That's.right After students have emerged from dis years of hearing how standardized mal backgrounds to succeed in col If a child can't read well testing cheats minorities and the lege to support the thesis that stan enough to perfonn well on a tradi disadvantaged of the higher educa dardized tests are unfair to the so tional test,- how long will she last tion they so richly deserve, educa cially disadvantaged. Likewise, too in oollege classes, which typically tio(,ists have oome up with a new many exceedingly advantaged chil demand voluminous reading, oom bag of tricks. dren perfonn poorly on standard prehension and analytical think ized tests to.oonvince me that fi ing? Or will we offer special oours Johnny can't read, and Mary es to Lego legacies so that they get can't oompute? Not a problem. If nancial security predicts academic success. good grades regardless of perfor- . they can build a robot out of Legos mance? · in 10 minutes, they're oollege mate You either can read or you rial under a pilot program being can't; you either can do math or Perseverance, motivation and tested by Colorado College and you can't That's about as simple · cooperative play are all good quali eight other schools - Beloit, Car as it gets. · · ties, ,which should be measured leton, Grinnell and Macalester ool What more likely is true is that and valued as markers for school · leges and the University of Michi minority children who also oome performance. But those measures · gan, the University of Delaware, from economically depressed should be taken in kindergarten or Rutgers and Penn State universi neighborhoods tend to receive infe first grade, not at the end of the ties. rior educations owing to a plethora game as a oonsolation for failure. ' The gist is this: Some children of problems, not the least of which In the real world, we call that who do poorly on standardized is the high turnover rate among too little, too late. tests have other qualities that teachers exhausted by an inoompe oounselors think would make them tent education system. TRIBUNE MEDIA SERVICES INC,· good candidates for sucx:ess in ool lege. The Lego test and other exer cises - public speaking, oonflict resolution and personal interviews -' are designed to measure those qualities. More or less, the Lego exercise works like this: A group of eight to 10 students is given a box of the oolored blocks and shown an as sembled Lego robot in another room. : Each student views the robot individually, then the group is giv en 10 minutes to try to reproduce the robot. · Evaluators rate students' per formances, .awarding a soore be- Lexington Herald-Leader Monday, February 14, 2000 :college not liable for attack, rape: ing her antl leaving threatening notes at her Prestonsburg Community College cannot be held home and on her car. The victim said she had not :liable for damages suffered by a student who· told anyone about the threats, except her minis was attacked and raped in the school's parking. ter, who told her to tear them up. The suit' :lot, the Court of Appeals ruled Friday. The stu against the college alleged that it had failed to dent was attacked in April 1991 as she was leav- · have proper security to deter such incidents and ing a class and returning to her car. A criminal had not provided proper lighting for the parking investigation led to the conviction of a· man who area. The court said there was no negligence on apparently had been stalking the victim, follow- the part of the college or the Board of Claims. A samp/11 of r11c11nt artic/11s of int11r11st to Mor11h11ad Stat11 Univ11rsity F11bruary 15, 2000 UNIVERSITY COMMUNICATIONS MOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY UPC BOX 1100 MOREHEAD, KY 40351-1689 1606) 783-2030 THE MOREHEAD NEWS FEBRUARY 15, 1999 '. MSU professor authors book ' By CHRIS TURNER He wrote the text for the Staff Writer He has degrees in book before Suza12nah was education, journalism and Dr. Wayne Willis knows the happiest day in born, and then spent the next theology, and studies art and his life. four years doing the 23 photography. It was when he and his wife, Melinda, paintings that are the received their daughter Suzannah, who was 6 illustrations for the book. Willis has five more days old at the time. The story in the book is one projects for young readers in Willis, 43, who teaches in Morehead State that Suzannah, who is now 8, the works. University's education department, decided to often wants to hear. Having worn many turn this joy filled day into a children's book "She took an early copy of that might help other foster parents tell their different hats - he's been a the book to school with her minister, grocery clerk and children the adoption story. and read it to a kindergarten factory worker - he considers "Adoption is a long process. and the summer class." the role of father being the that we knew she was on the way, I had some Willis believes that the most challenging and time so I started writing this story about this book will enable parents to fulfilling. family who adopted a baby," Willis said. answer the many questions This free time resulted in "This is How We that adopted children have The book is published by Became a Familv." about their beginnings. Magination Press and will be The story is about a couple who long for a He and his wife have lived available Feb. 23 at bookstores. child. and a pregnant young woman who is not in Morehead since 1988. ready to be a mother, and of the events that Melinda Willis is also a Willis will be at CoffeeTree bring them together for a professor in MSU's education Books on March 4 at 1 p.m. to happy ending. department. discuss and sign copies of his The story gives children the Willis is active in the local book. opportunity to ask questions Baptist Church, where he about their own adoption story teaches an adult Sund11.y and gives parents a unique School class, helps with the .opportunity to tell it. nursery, and currently serves Willis spent about four and as chairman of the board of a half years trying to find a deacons. He also, on occasion, publisher for the book. gives sermons during the worship service. ,- .' ,,_.. ' ~ ,•j.1; . Chris Turner photo Wayne Willis of Morehead is the author of parents to discuss the adoption story with a forthcoming children's book about a their children. To the right of Willis is one family who adopts a child. This is How We of the 23 paintings he did to illustrate the Became a Family can be used by adoptive book. THE COURIER-JOURNAL TUESDA)'.1,f.EBB!JARY;,t: ~, »enort: KSU contract' 'enhancers':not. ...:-. ,. ___ unusual ..,.~ ~ . ·.,· · ,. ··'···- .. _,, ...... , .. ·•"··· _. • ~ J"\I • :: c:4' ' ; ;. ... .,,. ;•· --~~- /;... '. ,•i:,{ ' 0::--{;; /'. . .. • ·- , By CHARLES WOLFE.', •··':- · ·· 'cations Corp. was required to oon• ·-ott hoiels and motels for travelersbn . $4;000 .for shirts for participants in Associated,Press · :.:, .i.,::r,;;,· ·. · tribute a $300,000··a year "casli en•: university business. · • . his golf outing. The company also · · ·· , . · ·.· "·' ''""". · ,.. hancement" to the university: As~ Those paled beside the enhancers' contributed $3,000 for a Governor's FRAN~fOIH, KY,, -,_ ~ compa_ny .. ond. ,... contra~,:.. . with. .. MCI ... some other universit_ies have co~x~d .. Scholars banquet. . . _ .- . that got a fooil,seiv1ce t:onfract with Telecommllmcahons, · called ·for· a · from venaors:· - · · ... ··• · Aramark donates $12,000 m cater- Kentucky • State University after $100,000 enhancement, UK disclosed. To get its soft drinks into the Uni- ing at Morehead State. 5Weetening its, bid with "enhancers" "There are no inherent violations" versity of Louisville, Pepsi-Cola do- One of the ·more unusual enhanc was not doing anything unusual, the as long as the enhancements benefit nated $2 million for the football sta- ers was from Subway, the sandwich lttorney general has found. the institution. not an individual, dium and $100,000 for a track. chain. It gave the Univeclity of Louis- In fact, the practice is common- John Cubine, director of administra- It purchased luxury suites and tick- ville 25 6-loot sandwicl!es each year. olace, according to a report present• live seivices for Attorney General els for both football and basketball, Cubine said it could not be deter Jd yesterday_ to a legislative commit- Ben Chandler, told the Government donated $10,000 a year for use at the mined whether enhancers caused the ·ee that reviews state contracts, Contract Review Committee. university's discretion and promoted institutions to pay more than they .. All but pne of the eight state uni- Kentucky State's food-service con- the university in billboards and teie- would have paid otherwise. One iersities reported getting enhancers tract with Sodexho Marriott Manage• vision commercials, among other could argue a ban on enhancers ri their con.tracts for food and bever- ment Inc. has been controversial on things. would simply increase the contrac- 1te se_ivices: Contractors chipped in campus. In November the committee At Murray State, Pepsi donated tor's profits, so common are they in ~ras ~r~atand small - from free asked Chandler's office to review the $100,000 for construction of the MSU public and private contracts, he said. ;'obmanne 'sandwiches to millions of contract, which took effect Aug. I, Regional Special Events Center and But the report said the institutions, lollats for sports stadiums: 1998, and runs through July 31. It in- S100,000 for its scoreboard. Pepsi when issuing a request for contract .. Tlie exception was the. University eludes these features: also returned $87,000 a year for ath- ,proposals, should spell out the types Tf:J{eptucky, which reported no en- ■ A $10,000 annual contribution to ietic marketing and promotion and of enhancers they seek - something 1ancers in·1ts cafeteria contracts. UK a "host fund" for KSU President $4,000 a year for athletic academic few have done to date. lid not'abstain from the practice en- George Reid. scholarships. State Sen. Marshall Long, whose ifely, however. · ■ A $5,000 contribution for Reid's At Northern Kentucky University, district contains the KSU campus . . In one of its contracts for telecom- inauguration. Sodexho Marriott gives the president said the report exonerated the uni- ')!J}!ications services, GTE Communi- ■ 25 free nights per year at Marri- S10,000 a year in free catering and versity. Lexington Herald-Leader Tuesday, February 15, 2000 University contracts have extras Service providers often add donations of cash or products to contracts with schools To get its soft drinks into By Charles Wolfe A second contract, with One of the more unusual ASSOCIATED PRESS the University of Louisville, enhancers was from Subway, MCI Telecommunications, Pepsi-Coia donated $2 million FRANKFORT - A com the sandwich chain. called for a $100,000 enhance• for the football stadium and pany that got a· food-service ment. UK disclosed. $100,000 for a track: · It gave the University of contract with Kentucky State "There are no inherent vi Louisville 25 six-foot sand University after sweetening .-• It purchased luxury suites wiches each year. olations" as long as the en · and tickets for both football its bid with "enhancers" was Cubine said it could not hancements benefit the insti and basketball, donated not unusual, the attorney tution, not an individual, John be determined whether en general has found. $10,000 a year for use at the Cubine, director of adminis university's discretion and hancers caused the institu The practice, in fact, is tions to pay more than they trative services for Attorney promoted the university in commonplace, according to a General Ben Chandler, told otherwise would have paid, report to a legislative com billboards and television the Government Contract Re commercials, among other One could argue a ban on mittee that reviews state con view Committee. things. enhancers would simply in• tracts. The committee in Novem At Murray State, Pepsi crease the contractor's prof All but one of the eight ber asked Chandler's office to its, so common are they in state universities reported donated $100,000 for con review Kentucky State's food struction of the MSU Region public and private contracts, getting enhancers in their services contract with Sodex he said. con tracts for food and bever al Special Events Center and ho Marriott Management Inc. But the report said the in age services. another $100,000 for its score The contract, which took board. stitutions, when issuing a re Contractors chipped in ex effect Aug. 1, 1998 and runs quest for contract proposals, tras great and small - from Pepsi also returned through July 31, included $87,000 year for athletic should spell out the types of free submarine sandwiches to a enhancers they seek - some these features: marketing and promotion and millions of dollars for sports thing few have done to date. stadiums. ■ A $10,000 annual con $4,000 a year for athletic aca tribution to a "host fund" for State Sen: Marshall Long, The exception was the demic scholarships. KSU President George Reid. At Northern Kentucky whose district contains Ul)iversity of Kentucky, Frankfort and the KSU cam . l"hich reported no enhancers ■ A $5,000 contribution University, Sodexho Marriott for Reid's inauguration. gives the president $10,000 a pus, said the report exonerat in its cafeteria contracts. ed the university. UK did not abstain from ■ Twenty-five free nights year in free catering and the practice entirely, howev per year at Marriott hotels $4,000 for shirts for partici er. and motels for travelers on pants in his golf outing. university business. In one of its contracts for The company also con telecommunications services, However. those benefits tributed $3,000 for a Gover GTE Communications Corp. paled beside the enhancers nor's Scholars banquet. was required to contribute a some other universities have Aramark donates $12,000 $300,000 a year "cash en coaxed from vendors. m catering at Morehead hancement" to the university. State. Lexington H~ii'iji,;;v,. Tuesday, ~nary 15,' :20oo ' ' I. • • ' • \ : Northwestern is one of several univer l.essons'ln onllne clas f8&lstratlon finan~l-aid office and the registration of si~es. including Cleveland State and fice, said PeopleSoft's Laura King. She is When:students at Northwestern Uni Boise State, tha~ insjalled programs from versity wanted to register. for winter PeopleSoft to replace outdated non-Y2K ' director of marketing for education and classes in, Nov~,:it was supposed to ~pliant computer· systems. But serious government at the. co~pany based in be as.easy as·pomt and click..;, , · ·., glitcl_ies 1!ave delayed tuition bills and fi Pleasanton, Calif.. . I f, • The u!liversity iri .cvanston, Ill., was nancial aid - and winter registration Stephen Palfrey, an anai~t for San one of many that spent-millions of dollars -"When more than a handful of ~tu- ford C. Bernstein and Co. in New York installing 'new software by PeopleSoft to dents tried to register siinultaneously, the who follows the software industry, said help students register online instead of on P?rtal just _shut down," said Rebecca the problems are common when business campus. But as hundreds of students Docon, associate provost of university en es have massive switchovers; and that tried to register from their rooms, point rollment._ She had to set up an emergency they can't always be attributed to tpe and click \Uffied into crash and burn. , registration process at the school's com software. · puter labs. Officials -at 'PeopleSoft, one of the "The implementations of these sys ------! ·- - -- . . With spring registration right around tems really tend to be pretty complex • world's tpp makers of business-manage the corner, Northwestern administrators Palfrey said. . ' ment software, say the problems were to are ~ of a repeat performance. ~ expeqed, especially as large universi It 1s extremely complicated to transfer ties scrambled to prepare their systems old university systems, fragmented from for the Yl;Br 2000, department to department, into new ones I I that share records from, for example, the The Dally lndepende~t ~~~~uary 14, 2000 _UK f)roject benefiting ~lliott County 1:lome people look at Elliott learning experience for the stu Of the 25 counties with the na Co_unty and see only the nega dents, it is an excellent way for tion's lowest per capita incom( ti~es. Twenty-one University of UK to extend its expertise to the in 1997, Elliott County was th1 Kllntucky students look at El region it serves. only one in Kentucky. liott County and see its possibil- . The UK students made their While the UK students ac iti~s. And they are getting a lot first visit to Elliott County last knowledged those negativei of! positive input from Elliott week, and they were greeted by , during their visit; their inten1 Cqunty residents in coming up residents eager to assist in their , was to accent the positives .. El with ideas to help develop the work. About 50 county residents \ liott .County is rich in histoey coµnty's potential. showed up for a: meeting. At a and folklore - the John Swift ,The young. ,people from UK time when many public meet- ! silver mine, Kentucky's only di ---.-· ..." I are fifth~year landscape archi ings are- attended. by only a i amond mine, remnants of old tei:ture students who have taken handful of people ...:... and some- I moonshine stills, to name just a on the task of developing- as a times no one at all - that's im few - and it is blessed with semester project - a conceptual pressive. It's a sign that many ' beautiful natural attractions master plan for land use in El in Elliott are eager to partici like Laurel Gorge. The challenge liott County. Although the stu pate in anything that ·can im is .how to best capitalize on those de,nts are not yet professionals prove the county. and other assets. arid Horst Schach, chairman of The negatives of Elliott Coun That's some of the work the UK's landscape architecture de ty are well documented: With students will be doing in the partment, recommends that few jobs in the county, Elliott weeks ahead. The more input their plan be reviewed by profes has amo~g the highest unem they have from Elliott residents sionals, Elliott County is receiv ployment rates in the state, and the be!ter their plan will be. ' ing for free _what it likely could of those residents who do have not afford to do on its own. Not jobs, 60 percent of them must go orily is the Elliott County land outside the county to find work. use plan a practical, hands-on THE COURIER-JOL,RI\AL • 'UESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 2000 ! JOB 1RAINING VERSUS LIBERAL ARTS EDUCATION Wh~t a treat to see argu- ; ·reileved he might be 150 years But I h9pe :,ve do _not ~onfuse nated. What kind of argument ments (if that is not too strong , later to see students pondering s~eduhng mgenwty with cur- is that? It's a business argu a word) between such wor- · the nature of evil as treated in nculum .. Sh~w me a_ person ment familiar to any manufac thi.es as Wendell Berry and his fiction and in-that of his I whose educati~n c?nsists s~le- lurer of support h11Se or crack Gordon Davies on your edito- . good friend Melville. But do , ly of preparat,~n for the Job ers. But it should not be an ar- ' al k h b th t h I- market, and I will show you an gument in the academy: Uni- n . pages. . .. • you now w Y . o .e~ no uneducated rerson. Beginning versities are not.a business; we ~aya~yoldreadeqomm. ogy ner~s and ht-lovm E~g- students o any age don't. are not selling hamburgers. ! m qmte. sure that both Ber- hsh maiors read and enJ~Y know what they want until we I have danced all over the . ry ,an~ DaVJes know (surely at such wnters? Because we m- as educators tell them. That is board here (metaphor, Wen . ' least m part because of their traduce our students to them. j ·the role of the educator. If we dell) and not exactly followed lib.era! arts educations) that To them and to Van Gogh and . don't know better than they a logic model (Gordon), but the concern about the ad- Mozart and Shakespeare. what is best for them, then we we are all still in the rough vances of technology as a po- What sensible human being are in the wrong field, tential slaughterer of the aes- could argue that a 4-year, ··It's an old argument: job · draft stage, aren't we? English thetic soul is at least as old as dorm-living experience is Cl'I!- l ~ vs: a broad, liberal arts professor's grades: Wendell, A the Industrial Revolution. In cial to_ an education? O,f 'education. Now, there are peo- .• minus; Gonion, Bplus. America, for one example, I course, we should offer . pie who would argue that key : .. ::·· MARY ELLEN Mill.ER would cite Hawthorne, who courses in various formats: · programs in the arts that do Western Kentucky University feared that scientific advances regular classroom, correspon- not produce a certain null!b~r . . Department of English would de-humanize us. How dence, distance learning, etc. of graduates should be elim1- Bowling Green, Ky. 42101 __ MSU ARCHIVES MSU Clip :Jhet::t A sample of recent articles of interest to Mo;ehead State University February 16, 2000 UNIVERSITY COMMUNICATIONS MOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY UPO BOX 1100 MOREHEAD, KY 40361-1689 (606) 783-2030 Lexington Herald-Leader __ . Wednesday, February 16, 2000 . TNN show features Morehead students By Frank E. Lockwood NORTHEASTERN KENTUCKY BUREAU They travel by van to tourna ments - west to St. Louis, east to MOREHEAD - Move over, Grand Old Opry. Step aside, Philadelphia. north to Chicago Shania Twain. and south to Atlanta. Friday nigh~ The Nashville They're on the road during Network spotlight belongs to a fall, winter and spring breaks. On l.Jow ling team from Morehead Thanksgiving, they drove 400 State University. The occasion: an miles to· a St. Louis tournament, appearance on Rocktn' Bowl a pausing to enjoy a turkey buffet new television show that fea~es dinner at a Super America truck some of the nation's premiere col stop in Dale, Ind. · lege bowlers, a house band, cheer Ebonite, the Hopkinsville-based leaders, a raucous crowd and bowling equipment manufacturer, about $.50,000 in prize money. is a major sponsor, supplying gear and paying $2,000 each time the This isn't the first national women win a major tournament. recognition its bowlers have Dexter Shoes also helps, selling its brought the 8,200-student school. $180 bowling shoes to the team for Despite a limited budget and a as little as $45. m1mped practice facility, the TNN paid travel expenses for women's team has two national Rocki11 ' Bowl, bringing Morehead titles and the men's team has con, and 15 other co-ed bowling teams tended for titles in recent years. A to Las Vegas in December and joint team has appeared on ESPN. January. The Kentuckians got a Now comes Rockin' Bowl; an warm welcome from the crowd, . ..______...,;;;::;:::..:::::=!!! MTV-era mix of traditional which chanted "Morehead, More- Robin Crawford concentrated on her release. bowling with glitz and oddball head, Morehead," frame after · Coach Larry Wilson said the show is "a great antics.· Contestants bowl with frame. recruiting tool.• · strobe lights blinking or while T earn members hope that kind -- sitting in recliners. of reaction will provide an even "It's great advertising and bigger boost to an area in which it it's a great recruiting tool," already shines: recruiting. Despite Morehead bowling coach Larry its small budget and an aging, Wilson said of the show, which six-lane bowling alley, Morehead aired last night and will air State consistently attracts some of again at 11 p.m. Friday. . the best college bowlers in the Sixteen of the top collegiate United States - especially for its teams are competing for a top women's team. prize of about $18,000. The More "People always want to go to head bowlers aren't allowed to say the best ... so when we're No. 1, who won the tournament until the people want to come here," said finals are televised next month: Jessica DeCrescente, a sophomore But it wasn't them. they said. from Mechanicville, N.Y., who started bowling at age 4. She's Still, tonight's program has a ranked 13th in the nation among happy ending for Morehead fans. female college bowlers .. Facing the·St. john's University Red DeCrescente, who has attend Storm, Morehead picks up a con ed Cornell and Sienna, transferred , vincing first-round win and $1,000. to Morehead after the school won In between frames, Rocldn' its second national title. Bowl gives viewers a quick video The Kentucky school's tuition tour of the Morehead campus, zip is a lot lower and its bowling pro ping through its student center, gram is a lot better, she said. And past its library, under its Caudill she has flourished, watching her Bell Tower and up to Eagle Lake. grades climb from 2.7 to 4.0. While the national publicity "The location, being out in the won't hurt, it's the $1,000 that will middle of nowhere, isn't bad now come in most handy. because it keeps me more focused .- The team doesn't get any on my work," she said. ' money from the university, Wil The school recently had six son said, so each team member bowlers who are academic All pays annual dues of up to $400. Americans, including DeCres They also help organize steak din cente. Its national championships ner fund-raisers at a community came in 1989 and 1998. center. This year, the women's team has three of the top-20-rated bowlers in the country, according to collegebowling.com. All three have bowled perfect games and have averages above 200. "We have the potential to win it all," Wilson said. Lexington Herald-Leader A better degree program Wednesday, February 16, 2000 e would wager that most teachers who pursue gradu- Thai: would change if higher edu W. ate degrees in administra- cation lost its captive audience of Unfortunately, the sponsor, Rep. tJon or counseling don't want to be teachers. Colleges and universities Harry Moberly, plans to drop this come administrators or counselors would find better ways to accommo provision in deference to teachers. "They just see no practical alternative· date teachers seeking master's de- He'll push for a study. for obtaining the state-required mas grees. And teachers and the Educa But the sooner the state ends the ter's degree. financial incentives for these .Iess So, instead of deepening their tion Professional Standards Board would get aggressive about explor than-useful degrees, the sooner Ken !mowledge in professionally stimulat tucky teachers will be able to choose mg ways that would directly benefit ing alternative routes for fulfilling from a richer selection of profession students, they sit through courses in the master's requirement. al development options. school finance or psychological test This is the sort of shift that House Bill 437, the teacher-quality We would urge Moberly to.re mg or whatever they can get during consider and his colleag1:es to sup the summer or evenings. package, would spark by rescinding the extra salary for a master's unless port th_e original provisic: ,. They It's a deadly system, good for no would be doing teachers a favor. ~ne except the colleges and universi the teacher is working in a position tJes that treat their education schools related to the degree within three like cash cows that produce tons of years tuition revenue without requiring much upkeep. Use assessment iscores for merit scholarships ~., ..~~:~-,~.'= .1. Who was the 17th res,- Some might argue that know- ...... l 0~ dent the Umted States. . ing who was the 17th president By Thomas R. Guskey . This is an extremely diffi~t of the United States is a rather rade inflation is again a item for moSt students and typi- trivial learning goal - and that hot issue in Kentucky. Be- 1 cally fewer 1han lO p~rcent an- might be true. The point is that Should we conclude from this cause schools use different · swer_ correct\y. We might then while each of these items mea- that prospective graduate stu G th percentages to assign letter C?ns!der a~kmg e same qu_es- sures the same learning goal, dents in physics, mathematics grades, legislators are concerned hon ma differ~nt forn:iat, .th1s. each varies greatly in its difficul- and literature are a bunch of fail that students facing higher per- time as a mult1ple-ch01ce 1te~: ty. ures? Of course not. Percentage centage cutoffs will be disadvan- d t ~o U~t!s~:11 res,- . Suppose that items similar to cut-offs without careful examina taged in the Kentucky Education en ° e m . es. each of these four types were tion of the way they are deter Excellence Scholarship program. ~- f b~~ km coin combined in a larger assessment mined just aren't that meaning This program offers lottery-fund- ·c· ut ew SOGnson designed to measure students' ful. ed sch?larships to ~tudents who o' MI!Fct F:llmrant learning in a high school course. We need measures that are earn high grade-pomt averages · ar 1 ore Those four assessment devices more comparable across all during their high school years. Although this remains a fair- would present vastly different schools. American College Test To rectify this, a proposal ly difficult item for most stu- challenges to students, and the mg scores are one possibility. has been introduced that would dents, the multiple-choice format scores students attained on such But in many cases what those use percentage grades rather leads to about 30 percent answer- ·assessments undoubtedly would tests measure doesn't match the than letter grades to determine ing correctly. Suppose we next reflect those differences. school curriculum very well. rewards. Under this proposal, the adjust the possible responses, Focusing on only a percent- The statewide assessment student who earns an A at 95 \ making the distinctions a bit eas- age is seductive. but very mis- system, on the other hand is percent is given more credit than ier for students: leading because tests and assess- specifically designed to allgn the one who earns the.A at 92 3. Who was the 17th presi- ments vary widely in how they with the curriculum of Kentucky percent. It's reasoned that this dent of the United States? are designed. Some include items schools. The performance stan will level the playing field for A. George Washington that are so challenging that stu- dards on these assessments are students who atte!'d sshools that B. Andrew Johnson dents who answer a low percent- the same for all schools in the use different gradn:ig_ s°;nd11:ds. . C. Jimmy Carter age correctly still do very well. state. Why not tie scholarships to Unfortunateir, 11 1sn t qmte D. Bill Clinton Take the Graduate Record distinguished performance on that simple. Settmg; percentage Now identifying the correct Examination, for example, a test these assessments? Not only cut-o~s for gra~e~ 1s a complelE:- response is much less difficult used for admission to graduate would this provide a comparable ly arbitrary dec1s1on that says ht- for students and about 60 per- schools. Individuals who answer measure across all schools but tie about the standard~ of ~at cent are able to answer correctly. only 50 percent of the questions also it might enhance stud~nts' school or the expectations 11 sets Of course, we could make a final correctly on the GRE Physics motivation to do well on tests for studen~s' learning. 1:he really adjustment to the possible re- test perform better than more that at present are high stakes important 1~ue 1s the difficulty sponses to make the item easier than 70 percent of those who for educators, but no stakes at all or co1l'plex1ty of the proc~ures still: take the test. For the GRE Math- for students. used to measure that 1""1:llng. 4. Who was the 17th presi- ematics test, 50 percent correct The Kentucky Education Ex Tests or assessments d~s1gned to dent of the United States? would outperform approximately cellence Scholarship program is a measure the sam~ leaf'.'m& goal A. The War of 1812 60 percent of the individuals who 1sood idea. But like many good can vary w1d~ly m their d1fficul- B. Andrew Johnson take the test. And among those ideas, 1t may need some refine ty or complexity. C. The Louisiana Purchase who take the GRE Literature ment. Suppose, for example, we D. A Crazy Day for Sally test, only about half get 50 per- were interested in assessing stu- About 90 percent of students cent correct. dents' knowledge about the 17th are able to answer this item car- president of the United States. rectly. Those who don't are usu- We could ask this question in an ally drawn to the "A Crazy Day open-ended format such as: for 'Sal!y'' ~esponse because they recognize 1t as the one response that doesn't belong with the oth ers. ll (l__Of.ll\ rh Ms cH,ve-s /VJSUC/fp ~ ee r ' A sample of recent articles of interest to Mor~head State University February 17, 2000 UNIVERSITY COMMUNICATIONS MOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY UPO BOX 1100 MOREHEAD, KY 40361-1689 (6061783-2030 :Bill texpands ways teach,ers . C8.ll prove qualifications~==·- . · ·- ·· · - --· · f th Moberly dropped another ·. · ''" ···: ,- - In ilie previous version o e ial 1·ece-of the bill that By Unda B. Blackford b!ll, middle ~chool ~ch~ who :i::i.vhave P made sure that ' HERAIDlEADER EDUCATIONWRITTR did not maJor or mmor m the ch ' graduate degrees are FRANKFORT ..c:. Middle subjects they t~ would have: ~:e~ to their teaching: Many school ;teachers could use .~ to sho~ they laiew the content chers get graduate degrees in prof~onal developmeri~. !rall!· ~Y !~ting or cl~m evalua- . ~dministration because those ing·as proof ~t t~ey_ are quab- tion. · r, -· • courses are convenient to take. fled to teach m their field, undeP In the current version, rruddle Jane Rowady a language arts a revised teacher-quality bill pro- school teachers could also ~h~w ch t S~uthern Middle duced yesterday. . .. their competence through distill- ~hoorwh~ has elementary, certi- "We want to be flexible abo~ guished achievement for teach- fication, said teachers wont nee· how a teacher may show their ing, professional development or essarily like the revised measure. qualificatio~" Rep. Harry other alternatives, and outstand· "l just don't want to s~nd Moberly,-D-~r!. the spon-, · ing performance by students on any money or effort proving sor. of House;~~, .told the, . halfway through my car~ that House F.ducanon Committee yes- tes\he last method ;,;.ould be the · --- ·· tenlar.ilddle school test s~-;;;;·iag first time that •student. perfor- I'm qualified,"she said .. mance has ever been linked to The committee did not vote behind every other grade level, any type of teacher evaluation in on the bill· yesterday, but will and some experts say that's part· Kentucky; - .. , ..• ,•· continue to discuss it next week, ly because too many middle · ' If middle schooheacliers can- said.chairman Frank Rasche. sch~!-t~che:s have eleme1:1~ I -- 1~ot prove their·conipetency, they . ~ti~n,. instead of trammg would have to take classes to · ·. ·.- .. m~-s_ub~ tlley teach. . ___ make up _a 111!1jQ., \[,,11)!1).0r.. . _ _ Lexington Herald-Leader Kno~~f tParr,. Cre~k b~~~~~~ •e~~nd Thursday, February 17, 2000 Willard:=·.-'Sprout' John'.son_·m.~s at 89 By Jannlfer Hewien-- · It was a Cm- if they were from Carr Creek. He HERAll>tSIEI srA1F1MmER ,derella team that went out in the back and came Willard "Sprout" Johnson sat sportswriters · out with a stalk, s-t-a-1-k, of ba- ' on the bench the entire 1927-28 across the coun- nanas," he said. "I'm not saying basketball season as his Carr try, and even hu- that we would have beaten Vien- Creek High Scliool team made inorist Will ' na anyway, but that (eating all of headlines across the United Rogers, wrote tliose bananas) contributed to States. about. Through- their poor performance," he said. But his goal was to get an ed- out that season, "This was 1928. This is get• ucation, and that's what he did, in Carr Creek called ting close to Depression in this the classroom and as a meinber of Mr. Johnson no timeouts and country, soup lines· and every- the legendary team. He went on to no players thing else. Three of those guys serve as a basketball coach and fouled out. Mr. graduated from Eastern {Ken- teacher at his old Knott County Johnson got to see the world be- tucky State College) with·majors school for '!:"/ years. yond Appalachia for the first in math - that's of the first five. Mr. Johnson, called "Mr. Carr time. "These boys all came out of Out of the eight, six of them were Creek" by some people, died Appalachia. They had no gym. college graduates," Miller said. Tuesday at Hazard Nursing Their fathers were all coal miners. Mr. Johnson was a starter on Home, apparently of complica- They played on a dirt basketball the 1930 and 1931 Carr Creek , tions from a stroke he suffered court. They won the regional tour- teams that went to the state tour- three months ago. He was 89. nament without even having uni- nament. He later went to More- Mr. Johnson, who retired from forms," said Jim Calhoun of Lex- head State College on a basketball the Carr Creek school in the early ington, a 1member of Carr Creek's scholarship. 1970s, was head coach of the 1948 1956 state championship team. "He was a true leader of Ap basketball team, which finished Mr. Johnson got a lot of mem• palachia, the total Eastern end of third in the state tournament. He ories out of that magical season. .tlie state," Calhoun said. • All the was an assistant coach of the He talked about how the Bristol, schools and all of the elite in edu- 1956, team, which won the cham- Conn., team gave each of the Carr cation knew Mr. Johnson." pionship. He was inducted ·into Creek Indians a gold watch after Mr. Johnson, who was in the Knott County Hall of Fame in Carr Creek defeated them in .na- volved in numerous community 1991. tional tournament play. He talked organizations and was a Deacon No Carr Creek substitutes got ·about the Carr Creek team buying and Sunday school teacher at to play in any of the team's regu- bananas at a Chicago grocery be- Smithsboro Baptist Church at lar season or tournament games fore the game against a Vienna, Sassafras, is survived by his wife, during the 1927-28 basketball sea- Ga., team, which ended Carr Nelle Johnson; a daughter, Ann son. 11,e team lost the 1928 state Creek's tournament play. ·. J Pratt of Carr Creek;,a son, Richard championship to Ashland "in four "One reason we think they got Johnson of Lexington; four sisters;. overtimes,13-11. Although Carr beat pretty badly was they got four grandchildren; and twa · Creek didn't win the state champi- hungry," said Don Miller of Lex- great-grandchildren. onship, the team was invited to ington, a ,member .of the Carr Services will be at 11 a.m. Fri participate in the national champi- Creek 1948 team and author of the day at Hindman Funeral Services. onship tournament in Chicago book The Ca" Creek Legacy. Visitation will be from 6 to 9 p.m. and won three lf Lexington Herald-Leader Thursday, February 17, 2000 "For some time, Dr. Zinser has UK challcellor been discussing the peed for more emphasis cin the outreach efforts THE COURIER-JOURNAL o_f the university and on interna February 17, 2000 exp~¢.ted to take t10nal programs, and her interest in leading such an effort " W eth ington said in the letter. ' · UK investigating new position Wethington said that, after fo. cusing on the university's under graduate education and research pharmacy school's By Holly E. Stepp· programs, it made sense for HERALDUAOER EDUCATION l' Fayette County ' ' UK looks Into financial_ d!screpancles: The University of Kentucky ts mvesttgatm~ financial discrepancies in several accoui:ts m the College of_ Pharmacy. UK Chandler M~tcal Center Chancellor James Holsinger said yesterday in a statement that the errors were found though a routine review of finan~tal records t~at was done late last week:Holsmger also ~td law enforcement officials have been notified. Holsinger was out of town yesterd;iy and could not be reached for comment. Mary ~garet Colliver, spokeswoman for the medt~l center, said she could not comment on spec1fics of the investigation. THE COURIER-JOURNAL THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17. 2000 Campus crime bill loses key provision By CHARLES WOLFE Associated Press tors had complained the bill Gail Minger said she under required reponing of trivial stood that legislators wanted FRANKFORT, Ky. - A bill matters. to prevent frivolous lawsuits, prompted by a fatal fire at Michael Minger was killed but "this has nothing to do Murray State University was and two other students injured with being frivolous." stripped yesterday of !anll'!~ge when fire broke out in Hester Universities should be ac that could expose umvers1t1es Hall, a Murray State dorm, in countable for deaths and in to lawsuits. September 1998. A former stu juries they cause, "not just The chairman of the House dent is awaiting trial on mur itty-bitty, little, silly things a Education Committee said the der and arson cli"JJles. lot of you have been bringing waiver of sovereign immunity Gail Minger said an arson up," she said. was dragging down the bill. fire five days earlier m rne Wayne's bill would be titled same dorm was "swept under "That probably is the last the Michael Minger Act. But the rug" and not reported. in its current form, "I will not impediment to swift passage Had they known of it, her son of the bill," said the chairman, allow my son's name to be on would · immediately have this bill," Gail Minger said. Rep. Frank Rasche, D-Padu moved out of the dorm, cah, who proceeded to have it Minger said. Some on the committee deleted by amendment. She and husband John were sympathetic. "l think we But the mother of fire vic Minger are trying to sue Mur have . . . made a travesty of tim Michael Minger burst into ray State. An order dismissing the whole bill," said Rep. Tom tears and upbraided members their suit is being appealed. Riner. D-Louisville, who voted of the committee. "The uni against it. versities will laugh at you," Under the Kentucky Consti tution, state and county gov Wayne said he would try to said Gail Minger of Niceville. have the bill amended on the Fla. ernments and their institutions have sovereign immunity from House floor to restore the sov If the bill becomes law, pub negligence suits. The idea is ereign immunity waiver. lic and private colleges and that taxpayers would be suing If that fails, he said, Gail universities in Kentucky could themselves. Minger will get her wish, and be fined $500 for failing to re But the General Assembly her son 1s name will be re port a serious crime. such as has the power to waive sover moved from House Bill 322. arson. eign immunity and has done The Mingers declined to The fine was a token, sn under limited circum comment after the meeting. Minger said. Waiver of sover stances. eign im~unity was to be the Jennifer Hall, a Louisville real punishment. anorney who helped Wayne The sponsor. Rep. Jim craft the bill, said deleting the Wayne, D-Louisville, dropped sovereign immunity waiver from the bill requirements lo would make the bill inequita report disciplinary actions ble. "Private colleges are go such as possession of alcohol ing to be liable and public col in dorm rooms. Some leJ;?:1sla- leges are not," she said. . M .. ~,_, ,..,. S , t..:;i(P cShe.f!rARCHIVEs I I - A sample of recent articles of interest to Morehead State University February 18, 2000 UNIVERSITY COMMUNICATIONS MOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY ' UPC BOX 1100 MOREHEAD, KY 40351-1689 (606) 783-2030 1 •. Student credit-card bill clears ·House Measure would limit vendors' pitches Lexington Herald-Leader on college campuses in Kentucky Friday, February 18, 2000 By J.K. Wall HERALO-l..EAOER BUSINESS WRITER "Mama's not here to take care House lawmakers have approved of you anymore," Upchurch said. Some never get out Consumer and ~ent to th~ ~nate a bill restricting But he voted against HB384 be Credit Counseling Services of Cen credit card soh~1tation on state college cause he favors a stricter ap- tral Kentucky counsels five t0- 10 . campuses, tappmg a controversy about proach. · people a month whose. problems who's to blame for student credit prob "Instead of limiting (vendors) started with college credit card lems. giving free gifts, maybe they debt, said.Johnny Cantrell, direc Some ,blame credit card vendors. should limit the line of credit," Up lor .of operations. At age 30, , they're still 'recovering from it.'.-,'.lii Others say-students are adults 90 church said, suggesting' a $250- ihey're responsible. Rep. Buddy Bhck $500 limit per card. While HB384 would· res~ mgham, D-Murray, sponsor of the bill Currently, students can. get on-campus vendors, cqllege l~ dents· said credit card- compam~ s~ t~ al1'ee wit_h bof!i. . •:. : • ,. ": / cards with a "credit line of thou We re J~st trying to keep a vulner sands of dollars, not to mention come at them just as hard with with ads, phone calls and-·mail able popul~t10~ from (vendors') aggres multiple cards. ings. . . . ; sive pronuses, he said. But he added Studies show about 65 percent . '.'The most obnoxious thing is "Most (students) are adults ·ana they - to 95 percent of college students should be responsible for thcir debt.. the 5 billion things they put in th~ have at least one credit card and bags at the bookstores,• Joyce, the T!1e bill was contentio~ ii{:j,he.:.. 40 ~eel!\ !PJll.pen;eqt of student Bank . • .,.•·1·, ...... <. • ' tiK senior, said. UK Dean'of Stu . . mg ~nd Insurance Goriimitf cardholders ~ a balance. · dents David Stockham said UK· passmg With the mmun'um 11 · .tee, but tl\r · • vo es · Celia Hayhoe, a Uµiversity of won't allow credit card vendors swept . ough. tlie' House 92-3 · ' Kentucky professor ' in family on campus, though some operate, Wednesday. It now heads to !he~~ • ate. .--- ..... studies, reported debt . varying undetected, students say. But off from $50 to $5,000 in her survey campus textbook stores are prime . Buckingham doesn't ~'i"rb ~ihitl: of student cardholders between venues for vendors to reach stu- nate campus vend~rs;· he just wants to 1997 and 1999. The mean balance dents. . k_eep them from enticing studerits to . was $500-$700. UK sophomore Anna Simpson SI~ up. His bill, House Bill 384 pri- "A majority of students use manly would: . ' . regretted tiling an application at a their credit responsibly," Hayhoe vendor's booth. She got mailings ■ Forbid gifts (T-shirts cap; said. "The students we hear about every week and phone solicita phone cards) used .fo attract ;tudent; are those students who don't." to apply for the cards. tions at 9 a.m. Many students think their "They don't 'bother telling you . ■ Require card vendors to register peers misunderstand credit cards how big of a hassle it's going to With schools before any soliciting. as "free money." Although credit be," she said. ■ Demand prominent display of education might help, students annual fees and interest rates doubted it would be well-received .■ Require schools that all~w solici· on campus. tallon to teach students about credit. . "Honestly," UK senior Josh Buc~ingham's bill holds students Joyce said, "I probably· would respons1b)e by reaffirming the federal have skipped it." . Fair Credit Act, which clears parents Hayhoe and and her family ot debt responsibility unless they're co studies colleague, Raymond s1gnees with their child. Forgue, said the larger problem is Nine stat1;S introduced bills similar how credit debt, along with loans, to Buckingham's in 1999. holds students back once they Rep. Ken Upchurch (R-Monti start careers and families. cello) called Buckingham's effort a "A lot of them use credit cards "Big-Brother-looking-over-your and do run up small debt," Forgue shoulder bill," stressing that stu said. "While it's manageable, they dents must learn responsibility. find that ... they're kind of behind the eight ball before they get ciut of the blocks." . :.(;:,::,~,:- Lexington Herald-Leader Friday, February 18, 2000 Most co~~ge aid goes to the affluent Instead of giving a needy low From 1989 to 1995, the amount of By Tony Pugh income student a $30,000 full aid grants, whether based on need or KNIGHT RIDDER NEWS SERVlCE \ scholarship that generates no rev · not, increased for all income groups, enue, an institution can give the WASHINGTON - As parents the study found. But total grants for· across the country rush to meet March same amount - $5,000 apiece to deadlines for college financial-aid ap high-income students soared by 62 six merit aid ·students - and plications, many are in for an unpleas- percent - almost triple the 22 percent reap the remaining amount of tu· increase for middle-income students ition from all six. Many schools ant surprise. · and almost four times the 16 percent At the expense of those with low use the additional revenue to pay er incomes, colleges and universities growth rate for low-income students. for other need-based aid, said are giving about three-fourths of • Any money that goes to Tiin Christensen, director of plan their grants to middle- and upper-in merit aid is going to come at the ning with the National Associa come students - whether they need expense of need-based aid," said tion of Student Financial Aid Ad financial aid or not - according to a Donald Heller, an associate edu ministrators. new study. cation professor at the Universi "So that's a·small investment The trend reflects the growth of ty of Michigan who co-aut~ored with a large return," said Chris "tuition discounting" or "merit aid," in the study with Thomas Laird, a tensen. "That's a meaningful con which institutions offer annual grants doctoral student at the umvers1- tribution to the budget of the in ranging from $3,000 to $5,000 to at stitution and clearly a worthwhile ty. --c-,-;- • tract academically superior students, Because higher-income stu thing to do financially and acade regardless of their need. The practice dents typically perform bett~r on mically." generates revenue and helps increase ___ · , standardized In an era of increasingly com a school's academic standing by at tests, as studies petitive and costly higher educa tracting better students, which. in have shown, tion, Christensen and Kurz said, turn, helps to recruit more prestigious Heller said mer· college and university adminis faculty. it aid recipients trators must balance their social However, when coupled with re tend to be more goals against marketplace reali cent tuition tax breaks for the middle affluent, and ties. class and a shift in federal student aid inost probably "It can't be either-or," Kurz from need-based grants to loans, merit would attend ·said. "They have to· be hard aid further reduces money available to \ college. with oi headed ousinesspeonle who gen : without aid. erate revenue to provide quality help low-income families finance un · "If dergraduate education. · we're con- education, and at the same time cerned about they have to keep their mission "Colleges and universities are turn clear.• ing their backs on the principle of who goes to col- meeting financial need as they adopt lege, it makes programs, such as merit aid, that are absolutely no aimed mainly at more affluent stu 1sense at all to dents," Michael McPherson, president give money to a of Macalester · College in St Paul, student to enroll Minn., recently told a U.S. Senate com- if he or she is go mittee. . · · I ing to go to rol lege anyway," Heller said. "It is increasingly clear in our view ~ that, unchecked, this trend will lead to But Kathy Kurz, vice presi growing stratification in U.S. higher dent of Scannell & Kurz, an edu education, and increasing inequality of cation consulting firm in Pitts income and opportunity in society at ford, N.Y., disagrees. large." Many parents, regardless of For more than 30 years, most col income, are worried about how leges geared their financial aid toward to pay for college tuition, which helping needy students, and federal has risen much faster than medi. · and state government aid subsidized an household income and the that approach. rate of inflation, Kurz notes. Mer it aid is targeted not only at top That began to change in the late students, but also at those from 1980s, as budget-tightening forced families with incomes where a states to slash spending on higher edu discount of several thousand dol cation. At the same time, cuts in feder lars may affect their choice of al spending shifted most student aid college. from grants to subsidized loans. Mean As more schools offer merit while, college tuition skyrocketed. aid, their competitors are pres The shift toward merit aid coincid sured to do the same or risk los ed with all this, according to a new na ing students, Kurz said. · tional study in the Journal of Student Colleges find the financial ad Financial Aid. vantages of merit aid equally compelling. THE COURIER-JOURNAL• FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 2000 Money 1 missing'from UK·accounts college next month. Holsinger By JUDY JONES "We still don't know the (to said he has ordered such audits The Courier-Journal tal) amount, but it is signifi previously when the chairs of cant," Holsinger·said. surgery and dentistry changed, LEXINGTON, Ky. - An em The College of Pharmacy re so the new manager can get a bezzlement investigation is un ceives money from federal and clear idea of the school's finan der way at. the University of state agencies and from phar cial picture and deal with any Kentucky College of Pharmacy maceutical companies to con personnel issues that arise from in which at least $100,000 may duct research on drugs. The ir the audit. have been taken from some of regularities wer~ discove~e~ in the school's research funds, accounts involvmg the chmcal The audit was not prompted college officials said yesterday. by a recent audit of the state trials of this research, and most Department of Education focus, A routine audit of ihe phar likely involved private funds ing on Randy Kimbrough, also macy college's books last week from drug companies. a long-time employee investi found at least $100,000 missing University of Kentucky Police gated in. connection with miss from accounts involving clinical have been notified, and other ing funds, Holsinger said. She trials of pharmaceuticals, said investigators may be brought was indicted in January and James W. Holsinger Jr., chan in, depending on the sour~e of charged with embezzling more cellor of the UK Medical Cen the funds missing, Holsmger than $500,000 in state funds. ter. So far the investigation in volves a former employee, Hol said. singer said, but the audit is Holsinger said the internal continuing and could involve audit was ordered to prepare more money or additional peo for the arrival of Ken Roberts, ple. who will become .de~!' .of the Lexington Herald-Leader Thursday, February 17, 200' Campus crime bill weakened Mother of Murray arson victim criticizes lawmakers' action ;•• I • ~ By Unda B. Blackford But House Education Chairman Frank Rasche HERAIDl£ADER EDUCATION \\1UTER said the immunity clause was hurting the bill's FRANKFORT ~ The mother of a chance of passage, and the committee deleted it. Murray State University student killed The sponsor of House Bill 322, Rep. Jim Wayne, in an arson in 1998 broke down in D-Louisville, had already dropped from the bill re tears yesterday after legislators weak quirements to report disciplinary such actions as ened a campus crime· bill that would possession o(.alcohol in dorm rooms. Some legisla also hold universities liable in the case tors had complained the bill required too much triv- of such tragedies. ' · , ial reporting. , ·· . "We're just asking these people be Legislators. defeated another amendment that held liable .if someone is injured or would have eliminated the reporting of hate crimes killed," said Gail Minger, the mother of in the bill. ·" . · Michael Minger, who was killed. ·But the weeks and hours ·of haggling over the The bill would fine Kentucky's Michael Minger. bill, as it is called, were finally too postsecondary schools $500 for failing much for Gail Minger. to report a serious crime like arson. "My husband and I have been here for five weeks But Minger said the accountability working on this and we can't stay· here anymore," needs to be there "or the universities she said as she started to sob. · will just laugh at you." The committee should have passed the bill intact · Minger and her husband, John, iq~tead ;stem admitting enough mi- ffilSSlons start~g m 1~99. nonty students. -- "We ,do not live In a color- blind society. Race is still a fac- THE COURIER-JOURNAL • FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 2000 Uof L employ~es' W-2 forms are inghowto~seit,hesaid. "ldidn'tpanicoranything," ~oul:ed1 ~ up - aga'. m· The university has about . . • • 9,000 employees, from profes- Miller said. "I Just l?oke~ at 11 Jruvers1ty blames "At the present time we sors to janitors. Some work•~ a_nd figured I wai:? t gomg to · th h d d 't kn h f' reported wages were off as ht· file my taxes soon. )0 Uffiall an onbl owdt e hextent owflbel tie as 18 cents, Nichols said, Nichols has sent a campus- pro em, an we ave an a u . ff b s , ·1 Iert' g people 'OffipUter error lot of staff working on the while others were o Y a wide e-ma1 a m ' problem," Lawrence Nichols, much as a few hundred thou- · about ~problems. ~etters By CHRIS POYNTER associate vice president for bu- sand dollars. · h will also be mailed to current The Courier.Journal man resources, said yesterday. . The university hopes ~o d a;;~ and former employees. In the first mistake in Janu- corre~ted form~ b ;';;" e The human resources de- 2 28 Attention, University of Lou ary, the huma~esources~e- CWo~~: s~~~llde:t~oy iheir partment didn't notice the lat- isville workers: Don't file your partment mailed W-2s, only to old W-2s, Nichols said. est mistakes until workers be- :axes. discover_ later that some no~- Those who have already gan calling the office reporting This isn't a Christmas pre taxable mcome was prmted m mailed their tax returns_ must odd figures in the "wages ;ent from the federal govern the wrong boxes on the forms, file a corrected form, Nichols d" b Ox That's because among other problems. The W- earne • • nent. There are major prob 2s were recalled and new ones said. Employees who used tax W-2s are automaucally-sealed ems with the university's W-2 printed. services, such as H&R Block, after they're printed so others Officials discovered the new will be reimbursed for their ex- can't view them, Nichols said. forms.Again. In the latest foul-up, em mistakes this week and are penses. . .. _ "This is an inconvenience, ployees have received W-2s scrambling to print corrected Jerry Lee Miller, who works and certainly one we would that have their wages wrong. W-2s befor~ people ~op their in the reference section of Ek· hope to have avoided," Nichols One worker, who earned tax returns mto the_ll!a1I. strom Library, was shocked said. . · $18,000 last year, for example, Both computer errors and when he opened his W-2. It got a W-2.that said he made human errors led to the mis- said he'd earned $515,300. $500,000. takes, Nichols said, The uni- versity has new tax software, and employees are still learn- 'M:JU Clip A sample of recent articles of interest to Morehead State University February 21, 2000 UNIVERSITY COMMUNICATIONS MOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY UPO BOX 1100 MOREHEAD, KY 40361-1689 (606) 783-2030 THE ASHLAND DAILY INDEPENDENT FEB 20. 2000 Adkins, state treasurer sponsor pre-paid college tuition plan By BETH GOINS Kentucky's schools would It also wouldn"t eclipse a OF THE DAILY INDEPENDENT n't lose·money in the program, decade-old Kentucky Higher FRANKFORT-A bill that Adkins said. The bill calls for Education Assistance Au would allow parents to pre the pre-paid college fund to be thority savings program that pay their child's college tu invested, and the interest allows families to put money ition at today's tuition rates is would pay the difference in to a way for college expenses expected to go to the House 'day's and tomorrow's tuition. but doesn't guarantee tu Should the fund's invest floor next week. ition, Miller said. The bill. proposed bv State ments fail to live up to expec tations, the state's unclaimed "Both programs would Treasurer ,Jonathan -Miller work together," he said. and sponsored by Rep. Rocky property fund -;- which now The forecast for the plan's · .!kins, D-Sandy Hook, could stands at about $38 million - passage is good. •ave parents half of what they would be used for backup. The bill is co-sponsored by would normally pay for tu- "It's an opportunity for 68 other representatives and ition by the time their chil families to think ahead about passed the Appropriations dren are ready for college higher education,"" said More and Revenue Committee Fri 'Miller said. ' head State University Presi day with no dissenting votes. Ifit is approved, parents - dent Ronald Eaglin, who has At least 22 state senators or anyone who wants to help stepped forward to endorse have endorsed the legisla pay for a child's education - the plan. along with leaders of tion, as have U.S. Sen. Mitch would pay into a state fund the rest of Kentucky's state McConnell, R-Ky., retired the amount of current tuition universities. U.S. Sen. Wendell Ford, D rates at the school they think The plan encourages stu Ky., and a slew of prominent their child will attend, with dents to attend Kentucky educators and organizations, the option to transfer the schcols, and those who get de such as the Kentucky AFL money to another school or grees here are likely to stav CIO and the Kentucky Edu withdraw it. here, Eaglin said. - cation Association. "Kentucky needs young Nearly 20 other states The payments - in incre people," he said. ments or in a lump sum - have similar plans - includ would guarantee today's tu Adkins and· Miller touted ing West Virginia - with ition rates at any of Ken the proposal as a way to put few problems, Adkins said. tucky's public universities ac- higher education in the grasp He saw no reason Ken cording to the plan. ' of the state·s working fami tucky shouldn't follow suit, While tuition at private or lies. he said. But Theresa James, an out-of-state schools isn't guar "As postsecondary educa ,\sh land mother of six, doesn't tion becomes more impor anteed, money paid into a think ifs a good idea for her child's account for one of those family. tant," Adkins said, "it only schools would grow at the rate While she and her husband makes sense for us to make of tuition at the University of help pay for their children's post-secondary education Kentucky, which has the tuition '- they have a son and more affordable.'" highest public tuition rates in daughter in college now and the state, l\Iiller said. two others planning to go soon "If you save for UK and - James said she wants her your son gets into Notre children to share in the re For mor~ Dame, you can take that mon sponsibility for their educa tion. information ey out and apply it to Notre You can see more · Dame," Miller said. "You'd If it were already paid for, students might not take it as about pre-paid tuition at just have to make up the dif the state treasurer's web ference (in tuition)." s,•rioush·. she said, and be site at http://www.state. If a studen1: chooses a less t,•mµted to squander their ky.us/agencies/trea- expensive school, the differ l'oll0ge y0ars. sury /Tuitionlntro.htm ence would be applied toward --1 just dun"t want it to be books and other school-relat that ens,·, .. shr snid. ·ed expenses. the proposal But tuition is only about hnl I' of' the total cost of col says. lege, Eaglin said. Room and The money put into the pre board, food, travel expenses, paid plan wouldn't be subject and clothing all add to the to to taxes until the student be tal college bill, and the pre gins college. Then the student pay plan doesn't cover those - who would likely fall into a costs. much lower tax bracket than Pre-paying tuition could his or her parents - would be relieve some of that burden, responsible for the tax bill, hP said. Miller said. LexlngtOn Herald-Leader S!!ndey,_f'ebruaffl20, 2000 , ii1111 ¢1UN111 MI BY HEIWDlEADER STAii' WRITElS . Kyle. Macy's ~ports ~k On the show, Adkins com show on WKYT-TV IS becommg pared basketball and politics a real political gabfest. and talked about the outlook for A few weeks ago, the More Eastern Kentucky in the ses head State coach had as his sion .. guest the chairwoman of the He also ribbed Macy for state Republican Party, a former switching parties, comparing classmate at UK. After the show, the move to a bad pass on the Macy switched his political affil court. iation from Oemocrat to Republi "We'll give him another can. chance in the near future to Well 0 last week Macy bal correct his turnover," Adkins anced the political scales a bit. said. His guest · was state Rep. Rocky Adkins, D-Sandy Hoo~. In addition· to his 14 years -m Frankfort, Adkins has a serious hoops background. From 1978 to 1983 he was a standout on the Mo~ehead State basketball team. Lexington Herald-Leader Monday, February 21, 2000 Teachers··still .essential-. By Mary Beth Susman At Issue .James G. Moseley's commentary on the advent of virtual universities and elec Feb. 2 commentary by James G. Mosley, tronic learning was one of the most "Virtual university will need real colleges• thoughtful I have read on the subject. I and my- colleagues at the Kentucky Com interaction with their instructors and fel monwealth Virtual University, which deliv low students than they typically did in an ers online courses to Kentuckians, try to unwired classroom. And they report that think every day about how technology can the interaction is·more personal and that improve not only access to learning but they are more comfortable about ~ontribut also learning itself. Information technology ing to discussions ancl adding their per- is a compelling medium and can be con spectives. : fused as the end rather · Research shows that when course con than the means to en tent is created with rich multimedia pro hanced learning. viding multiple sensory experiences, stu Although a Web dents learn more and they learn faster. A based college curriculum virtual walking tour through the Metropol provides learners the op itan Museum of Art in New York allows portunity to go to college closer inspection of a painting than one from their homes, offices, could get standing in the museum - and libraries or cafes, the in the viewer can hear music of the period, vestment bv all involved observe scenes of the community where isn't worth ·it if the teach- Susman the artist lived and watch an expert ex ing and services offered plain the work of art. Students also can are inferior. Without car- talk with each other about what they saw · ing faculty, counselors and mentors at the and heard. end of the wire or on the campus, a stu If content alone were sufficient, we dent soon grows disenchanted and alienat could merely place students in libraries ed. and leave them on their own. Being con Technology can help integrate people's nected to a community of learners who in education with the rest of their lives. No clude informed and enthusiastic guides need to say goodbye to job and family and (teachers) is essential. And it is not just go off to a campus for years. Electronic young learners who need it. All learners learning can link people around the world, benefit from frequent contact and nurtur people who othenvise would never meet, to ing. Whether in the classroom or in virtual discuss ideas and solve problems. · space, information technology helps, not Online instruction invites mastery of hinders. learning. Guides who forsake course work that traditional learning too brighter and longer-reaching lights leave rarely does. Teaching can be tailored to a the learner in the dark. · student's best learning style in ways that classroom professors often have neither ■ time nor resources to do. Faculty and stu Mary Beth Susman is chief executive dents who comm11nicate through the Inter officer of Kentucky Commonwealth. Virtual . net invariably repi:'t that they had more University in Frankfort . I Ht: 1.;CJUHlcli-JOUHNAI. FEB~UARV 20: 2000• E-tailers.. . woo. textbook dollar! .,.,,., ' Stevens says they were "trying to answer the ques Lexington tion: What's the fastest, easi est and cheapest way of get finnleads ting a textbook in the hands of the 15 million college stu dents in the United States." way; stores The result was ecampus .com, which began selling to fight back students in August, in time ' · for the fall semester: · · ·· '.-· "We. went from really a By HAROLD J. ADAMS flip chart that· was a blank The Courier-Journal .. --·-- ,,:- . ~-- sheet ilf paper·to a function at the Web hostiniftacillties of Abo ing e-tailing dot-com busi- Two summers ago a pair veNet In Vienna,.Va., and an identi ness in,a matter of ·roughly cal backup site at the Richmond of new companies on oppo 20 weeks," proclaims Ste- site sides of the United Roa_d headquarten of ecarilpus in vens, who took up the posts Lexmgton. . ', States started selling college of president and chief execu- textbooks over the Internet The company haa been financed by tive officer at ecampus. $90 million raised in two private to·grab slices of the $8.5 bil He says ecampus is Dow lion that students spend at share offerings last year. an independent company. Traditional college text sellers college bookstores each year. But it maintains very close Last summer a Kentucky aren't rolling over jn the face of such ties to Wallace's, which Ste well-heeled competition. The Nation company called ecampus vens says is its largest share .com joined the fray and al Association of College Stores · holder. The two companies (NACS), whicli represents more than quickly jumped to the head share a common warehouse of the class. Meanwhile, tra 2,800 bricks-and-mortar outlets, has in Lexington for what Alex mounted a two-pronged response ditional stores are fighting ander says are· separately back in what has become a that amounts to trying to beat the e• fierce battle for the college managed distribution oper- !a!lers on one hB!ld, and trying to text dollar. · • ations. . . Jom them on the other. . . VarsityBooks.com Inc., in The ecampus board is This month, NAC:S wrote to ecam: Washington, D.C., and BIG chaired by Wallace's vice pus and BIGWORr;>S, accusing them WORD5.tom in San Francis chairman Clisby Jennelle. It of "false and misleading" advertising co, along with ecampus.com also includes William Hains-. an~ demanded that_tbey. eithei:.prove of Lexington, Ky.; promise worth, executive viceJ'resi their claims of deep discounts or students 1ow prices and no dent and chief financi offi' change the ads. TIie association has long lines at checkout count cerof Wallace's. ~lready. s_ued VarsjtyBooks for refus ers. Just a few clicks of the , The five-member board is mg a similar demal\4. mouse and the hooks are on . rounded out by Stevens, The offending ads claim that ecam their way to students;' Ohio State University presi pus sells its top 50 textbool Lexington Herald-Leader Saturday, February 19, 2000 Fir~ in UK research office is ~vestigated; no one hurt By Holly E. Stepp not comment on the extent of HERALD-LEADER STAFF WRITER damage or what was burned. Officials from the University The Office of Research In of Kentucky and Lexington Fire tegrity is a compliance office Department are investigating a that makes sure that the univer fire in one of the university's re• sity's research programs ai:e con search offices. ducted in accordance with laws The :fire occurred Saturday on the humane us« of animals in Kinkead Hall on Funkhouser and human subjects. Drive. The building houses most UK's research program at• of the administrative offices for tracted more than $130 million in UK's research programs. grants and contracts from outside Deb Weis, spokeswoman for sources last year. Those grants UK Research and Graduate Stud fund a variety of projects, includ ies, said the fire started in the .ing medical research as well as third-floor offices of the universi projects in the humanities. ty's research integrity divisioIL ■ . Weis said the fire was con; Reach Holly E. Stepp at (606) tained in a single office and nci 231-3484 or at hstepp@herald one was hurt. But she said could leader.com. Lexington Herald-leader ·the411·- ... , Monday, February 21, 2000 NEWS FROM THE rn.JDENT PRESS ~------EKU bans cigarette sales Georgetown seeks PBK chapter Beta Kappa helps validate the quality of Eastern students can no longer buy Georgetown College, in an effort to your degree from GeorgetoWIL" cigarettes on campus after President enhance its national liberal arts reputa - DEREK JONES, TiiE GEORGITONIAN Bob Kustra decided to stop allowing to tion, is working to obtain a chapter of bacco sales in the bookstore and the Phi Beta Kappa. UK's Black Voices sing on Powell Building game room. Phi Beta Kappa is the most .presti• . "When it came to my attention that gious academic honorary in liberal arts If you hear spiritual tones filllng the we were selling cigarettes I asked why, education. Georgetown sought to ac University of Kentucky Student Center with so many studies showing smoking quire a chapter of Phi Beta Kappa in on Wednesday evenings, the UK Black causing certain serious illnesses or 1989 and failed. · . Voices are present, singing the praise death," Kustra said. . In 1989, Georgetown only had three and worship of gospel music. Some students feel this is a positive Phi Beta Kappa faculty members, and , A small group of students organized decision. the average ACT of entering freshman the gospel choir in 1970, and the official "Maybe this will help students stop was 4 to 5 points lower than it is today. lll!iversity organization still sings.strong smoking," said Stacey Legler, 21, a fash Only 70 percent of faculty held doctoral with around 50 members this year. ion merchandising major from degrees and Cooke Memorial was the li "It's a spiritual uplifting for me dur Louisville. brary. ing the week," said Tia Newby, a biolo The campus will not lose large Today, Georgetown can boast of gy senior, the choir's president. amounts of money from the sales stop, having 12 Phi Beta Kappa faculty mem Joyce Beatty, scholarship director for Kustra 'said. bers, an average ACT of 25 for entering Minority Affairs, is proud to be the ad Considering the new health and well freshman, 90 percent of faculty having · viser of the Black Voices. ness center, and the millions of dollars doctoral or terminal degrees in their "It lifts my spirits to see these stu from taxpayers to build it, selling ciga field and the recent construction of the dents coming to sing and (have) fellow rettes on campus is not promoting Learning Resource Center. ship with each other," Beatty said. health issues, Kustra said. To be eligible for a Phi Beta Kappa The choir performs frequently Other students disagree with the chapter, a school must have at least 10 across the state and nation, heading to president's decision. They say it is their faculty Phi Beta Kappa members. Chicago, Washington, D.C., and even choice to buy cigarettes on campus. The Phi Beta Kappa application oc• . Canada. Beatty hopes ·to take them The bookstore has received several curs in a three year cycle which starts abroad in the future. complaints about the policy, said Ben this year. Currently there are 255 Phi Community involvement and using Roop, acting director of the bookstore. Beta Kappa chapters in the United music as an evangelistic ministry also "I'm not a smoker, but I don't think States. plays a big part in the choir's efforts. Eastern should inconvenience those who Two other Kentucky schools have a They perform yearly at federal prisons Beatty said. ' are by making them go off campus to Phi Beta Kappa chapter: University of buy cigarettes," said Derek Collier, 21, a Kentucky and Centr~ College. - L.AMIN SWANN, KENTUCKY KERNEL philosophy major. Michael Campbell, a Faculty Phi - SHA PHILLIPS, E!'5TERN PROGRESS Beta Kappa member,l,... ~aid that "Phi •• ••P ••• ,-•••• • 0•.,... :n:• _:.; f,. . ,'. 1;.._- •• ,:- ·, ~ • ..,._ -. ·,:1, .. •.!_ 1~.._..... ,r..: .:. • .- ,.,.,~.~ . --··- . SI. . ' . ....:_.._1_.. _,.._ -- ... ::· .... : {i;:'· By Mikki Olmsted an easy, tax free 40 bucks to help get Bowling Green residents, she said. · coNTR1eur1NG WRITER ·; through the weekend. . :. Then she smiled, and asked, "Have BOWLING GREEN - The waiting . One recent Thursday afternoon was you ever noticed how many plasma cen- area is quiet, except for the call for a man Nashville freshman Melody Hill's fourth ters are around college campuses?" to step into acubicle to be processed.· A visit to !lie' center. Hill says although she· Adam Roberts, a junior from Stan few minutes later, the same man is called works 40 hours a week, she doesn'.t al- ford, is a medical receptionist at the cen ~gain, - oilly, ,this· time ~e disappears , ways have mon~y to meet_ her expenses. ter. When money gets slim, Roberts re mto a large open· room with 2,2 maroon The extra cash she receives from the verses roles to sell his plasma. beds and plasma collection systems be- ' plasma center stretches her checkbook It was more than 3½ years ago when tweenthem.!!~••"""' .. ·. ,.-/, · throughthenextpayperiocL- • · c· Robertsfirstwalkediritoaplasma'cen- Hope Ree_ves, a junior from Wes tern . "It doesn't hurt,• Hill said. "It doesn't ter in Lexington. He said he wanted to Kentucky University, remains in the wait- bother me at all. It's a way for me to pay donate plasma for his ailing grandmoth ing area She sits back into the black faux- for my phone bill, gas .... It takes me er, and since he had donated blood in leather couch,·· and flips haphazardly about an hour. I get my money, and I'm high school, Roberts thought the experi- through a magazine. This is her first trip out of here." ence would be easy. to the Bowling Green Biologicals Plasma The plasma collection system ex- He remembers how much he didn't Center, her first time.donating anything tracts the white blood cells from a like his first time · · involving needles, and she insists she's not · donor's blood, then pumps the red blood. "I saw one lady have a reaction,• nervous. · : '. ·:. ;· · cells back into the body. Because plasma Roberts said, "I was like, 'Wait a minute. . Then a medical receptionist calls her is 90 percent water, the oi!.ly drawback I'm coming to do that?'• name: It•~ her' turn to step through the is the possibility of dehydration; accord- But one of the first things he did door: . :' '•. '" "" ' '' " - • . ing to a pamphlet published by Bowling when he came fo Western' was ask if .·,.,,. In almostev;,';y'coilege'io'wn acr0s.5 ''·Green Biologicals. Diinonr·i:aii resµme Bowling Green had a plasma center. He America, students,can sell body'fluids" daily activity immediately, provided· became a regular, donating twice.a week from plasm;( fo" s~ in exchange for': . they drink plenty of fluids afterward. for two years. Then in October, Roberts . (JU!~. cash;ulfhe wait is, minimal, the_;;;~; , According to _Gm,a Y,ill_is,. assi~tant ·aecided·he'd applr. {~r ,~ position with pam·15 bearable, and the payoff makes,. -~ger at Bowlmg G'reen B1ologicals, the center, , -...., .••. , . , ::everything \voithwhile. At this plasma,. students_ 1!1ake up the bulk of donors; · .;,,:• "Soiiie'people look down on it, but I center, studeµts earn $15 the first visit · · however, most of the center's regulars don't," Roberts said. •r know people and $25 the:second, and they can sell are area residents.-They do not tally the need it ... and I get a good feeling from their piasma~i!li to twice a week. That's number of student clients compared to doing it~ · · Associated Press Coll_egiate llc~nsing ls a $2.5 billion busmess nation that resulted BLOOMINGTON, Ind. - In wide, and licensed sales at JU in the deci diana University and .two other total about $1 millian annually. sion to brin,: Big Ten schools gave partial Some merchandise, however, their universi enaorsements Saturday to a has been found to be produced ties into the group seeking to stop universi under sweatshop conditions in organization ty-licensed products from being the United-States and abroad together. made in sweatshop conditions. McKiiig made it clear ihe 11It is impor IU and the universities of three Big Ten schools would tant that we Michigan and Wisconsin said leave the consortium if it does make' WRC they would conditionally join not verify that manufacturers successful, the Workers Rights Consor comply with codes of conduct which 're-· tium, an alliance with workers to ensure workers' rights. quires a num and human-rights organizations "We will participate in the ber of univer- that monitor factory conditions. I sities to join,!' Brand said. "It "We take this step without process so long as we are mak would be beneficial if JU can endorsi"l1 all mg progress toward achieving play a role in getting more to the provisions these goals, and we commit to Join and that's where we are 11 of the current using our best efforts to ad- , headed. ·• working draft," V8!1,Ce the process," McKaig . . . said Richard said, Committees consisting of IU in December requested McKaig, IU stu~ents, faculty and staff will · full disclosure on labor prac dean of SIU· ad.vise the three universities, he tices from all contractors and dents lincf vice srud. · · subcontractors that manufac chancellor for Students in a group called ture JU-licensed products. So student affairs. "No Sweat!" had urged JU to far it has responses from 60 "We plaii to join the ·consortium, whose percent of licensees, and it said attend and ac- members also· include Brown 11 will end agreements with the University, Loyola University of others if they haven't respond- tively partlcl_; \ ed bv March I · pate'; In , the New Orleans, and Haverford-' ·: , '(.,. '· . ' . ,; : .- ~ . . ' . founding con- Bal!!.!'.lld_pberlin colleges.- ' ference of the IU President Mrles Brand WRC in~ ano his coun in New : terparts at the City,'' .. be said WISCOnsin at . a campus . and Michigan news c:onference ·schools held discussions Lexington Herald-Leader Saturday, February 19, 2000 Another bad move Wethington should let next_ :tJK president fill key post niversity-of Kentucky Presi-, ·his scheduled retirement next year. dent Charles Wethington is · This ham-handed maneuver was re Utrying to hijack a key ap buked, but only after a great peal of pointment from ,.his still-unnamed. . · needless diama and intrigue .. successor. Work akeady has begun on· Wethington this week an choosing a president who will take nounced plans to select a new Lex, office in mid-2001. That person, not ington campus chancellor to replace Wethington, should decide who will Elizabeth Zinser for whom he is succeed Zinser. creating a new vice-presidency. Wethington hopes Zinser's succes In the meantime, an interim sor will be chosen by July. chancellor, who would not be a can The Lexington campus chancel didate for the permanent post, lor is the chief academic officer and should be appointed. second-most powerful administrator The next UK president will in at UK, ranking behind only the herit a backlog of challenges and president. _ may well want to restructure the Wethington is a lame duck who university's top-heavy administra exhibits little interest in a gracious tion. The last thing the next presi: departure. The UK board was em dent needs is a cabinet that's any barrassed last year by a sneak at more cluttered with Wethington tempt to extend his contract beyond cronies. Lexington Herald-Leader Saturday, February 19, 2000 Bellarmlne signs on to high-tech area: The city of Louisville plans to tum a rundown block of its Main Street into a home for high-tech businesses. And Bellarmine College will be its first resident. With $5.2 million - half state, half city funds - Louisville plans to renovate 130,000 square feet in mostly abandoned build ings and warehouses to attract high-tech start ups. the mayor's office has reported. The devel opment will be called eMain USA. Bellarmine announced it will open the Center for eBusi ness and eComrnerce in eMain USA to pro vide educational support for the companies and other workers engaged in e-commerce. It plans to provide interactive conference facilities, high-tech classrooms, Internet connections, consulting and common areas. The center will open in the fall in temporary facilities. A sample of recent articles of interest to Morehead State University _ February 23, 2000 UNIVERSITY COMMUNICATIONS MOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY UPO BOX 1100 MOREHEAD, KY 40351-1689 16061 783-2030 Lexington Herald-Leader Wednesday, February 23, 2000 NKU budget generosity· defended Extra needed to catch up, says postsecondary council president By Holly E. Stepp HERAI.Dl.EADER EDUCATION WRITER ''.'J:his budget addresses an institution that has tr~d1t1onally been left behind in state dollars• he FRANKFORT - The state's Council on Postsec said. ' ondary Education launched a counterattack yester day, aft_er being criticized for its budget plans. According to council figures, Northern Kentucky Legislators and some universitv presidents com -. has had the lowest average annual budget increase plained last week that the budget gave too much to of all colleges over the past 12 years. Eastern Ken Northern Kentucky University and its region, and tucky. University has seen the highest average an not enough to poorer areas of the state, such as nual mcrease, 10.9 percent, while Northern Ken Eastern Kentucky. tucky's average increase was 7.4 percent Council President Gordon Davies said yesterday Even w11h this budget's increase Davies said he plans to counter that idea with hard numbers N_orthern Kentucky will still be at 1e:ist $1,000 be'. that show where the higher-educa- _____ hmd the rest of the schools in per-student funding lion money has gone in the past ''We were Davies said he also wanted to show that Easi and will go in this budget. ern Kentucky will get its fair share of bricks and Davies' presentation to the under mortar. Bailey and others have complained that the House budget committee Thursdav attack. We only new construction projects are the prosperous will start the next volley in what want to stay areas of Lexington, Louisville and Northern Ken has become an ugly debate over on the high tuckv. how state money w!ll b~ ~ivided road B t Under the proposed budget, 24 percent of the among the eight umvers1t1es and• · .. ·. U dollars for construction and renovation would go to the Kentucky Community and we will the eastern ha~ of the state, which has 23 percent Technical College System. respond to of the population. In the past 10 years, nearly 32 "We were under attack," said the notion percent of the construction dollars have gone to Davies, ?f comments made by three that thi,s Eastern Kentucky. umvers1ty presidents last week budget i,s durmg a Senate budget hearing. . ,, "We want to stay on the high road. unfair. .. . But we will respond to the no- Gordon Davies tion that this budget is unfair." president, Under the proposed budget, all postsecondary Lexington Herald-Leader the universities and the KCTCS council Wednesday, February 23, 2000 would receive a 2.4 percent increase in their base budgets. Northern ---- Campus crime-report leglslatlon: A bill Keiifucky and four other schools would get an addi t~at would _r~qmre_ Kentucky colleges and universi tional increase to help bring them in line with com ties to pubhc12e cnme statistics hit a roadblock parable schools in other states. yesterday. House Democratic leaders sent HB 322 The budget also would give each school more sponsored by R~p: Jim Wayne, D-Louisville, to th~ money for initiatives in enrollment and academic House Appropnanons and Revenue Committee to programs. Overall, the proposed budget increases de:enmne how much it could cost the state. Wayne range from 7.8 percent for the University of said he wanted the bill to go to the House for a Louisville to 34.4 percent for Northern Kentucky. vote, and he's ~ncerned someone in his party is Sen. Ed Worley, D-Richmond. said last week trymg to stall it m committee. The bill was weak that the budget seemed to favor Northern Kentucky. en~ last week by the House Education Committee Sen. B~nny Ray Bailey, D-Hindman, voiced similar wh1c_h removed _a portion that would have allowed' complamts. P THE 'AS LONG AS I GET MINE' APPROACH TO EDUCATJON - N academic hit squad conduct "benchmark" schools to whose funding plaiting his political advantages to the comes with the office key. . ed a surprise attack on higher levels the Kentucky institutions aspire. max. . Davies is right: "They're really saying, education reform last week. ln a Senate budget hearing last week, Thanks to well-placed legislative help, 'Give us the money and leave us alone.'' A Led over the top by Bob Kustra riddled the CPE's afproach to Eastern has.been treated well over the It's a perfectly predictable thing. It had Kustra, the former Illinois politico who benchmarking with bullets o contempt. years. The school enjoys, and will con to happen. -But I'm sorry it happened in now runs Eastern Kentucky University, He condemned it as unfair, not objective tinue to enjoy under the CPE plan, a sig the middle of the legislative session." the attack unit included Morehead State and an injustice to his faculty and stu• nificant per-student funding advantage Of course, that's the way Kustra, Eag President Ron Eaglin and Murray State dent body. The mildest thing he said over its big rival, WKU. lin and Alexander like it, because they President Kern Alexander. Bringing up was, "This is a most imperfect process." Actually, it's unbelievable that any of the rear was University of Kentucky He blasted the inadequacy of a 2.4 the university presidents would whine have area legislators (in some cases uni President Charles Wethington, the most percent funding increase per year, even about this higher education budget pro versity employees) placed where they· mild-mannered of the antagonists. though Eastern has enjoyed the largest posal can influence the budget decisions. Because he is relatively new to biennial increase in It is a breathtaking Other presidents held firm. WKU's Kentucky, perhaps Kustra can be forgiv funding of any stale irony that, at the very Ransdell, for example, pleaded, "Don't en his assault on the university durmg the moment Kustra was break up this budget. I would encourage: integrity and compe period 1988 through shooting from the hip, the Senate and House not to bust up this· tence of the Council 2000. '• Gov. Paul Patton was budget and create a free-forall in the last. on Postsecondary Besides, as Western standing out in the four, five, six weeks of the General Education, on Presi Kentucky University rain, trying to sell a Assembly. I think the public will have lit-: dent Gordon Davies President Gary Rans- budget plan that in- tie tolerance for tossing the CPE's efforts and on the CPE staff. dell pointed out, the 2.4 chides $84 million in aside." Maybe he just doesn't percent is not the only new money· for higher The time for guerrilla warfare against fully appreciate the money these presidents education! · the CPE plan was earlier, before every have to work with. All Kustra accom- state university's board chairman except history that preceded They now have control plished was to help the DAVID House Bill I, which one signed on, in writing. of their own tuitions enemies of hi(':her edu- Oh for the days when heavyweights HAWPE mandated the current and fees, and some of cation spending, who reform. Or maybe he that money can be used can pojnt triumphantly like Mike Moloney, Walter Baker, David'. understands all too well. . to meet special needs, at his carping and de- Williams and Eck Rose were on hand in For decades, the regional universities, including higher faculty ,' mand,/.'Why give them a Senate budget hearing. in particular, blew legs out from under salaries. (Perhaps $5 · more money? They The new post.coup Senate budget· any effort to fund state institutions ra million over the b1enni- can't; even asree on chairmari is smart, and a nice guy. But tionally. They insisted instead on "equi um in Eastern's case.) how · to divide up he meekly invited Kustra (and the other ty." Whal that really meant was forced This is a complicated what's being offered!" traitors to tile process) to submit their• mediocrity. issue, but by one calcu- Eastern Kentucky Kustra doesn't like ideas for changes to the committee. Mo The institutions' presidi;nts busied lation Bob Kustra could University's Bob Kustra: the trust fund concept, loney would have sent him yelping back: themselves with an effort to ensure no have a 14 percent fund- defender of a system because it doesn't give to Richmond with his tail cut off. school got a special advantage. As a re ing increase, if ;,ou guaranteeing mediocrity? him all his dough up The essence of reform is supposed to sult, nobody got enough to make a real count base funding, . front. For example, he be greater control in the hands of the·. difference, m terms of quality. tuition and fees, trust funds and mainte- says give him the enrollment and reten CPE, which was encouraged to drive "That's exactly the wrong" kind of ar nance and operation money. lion money up front, and if he doesn't some of the institutions! priorities and gument to make," says Davies. "With Also, as Dan Hall from the University produce, yank it back. behavior with funding incentives. that approach, you end up with an equal of Louisville told tlie committee, U of L Of course, by that time It's already 11 ly funded, mediocre system of colleges. Discretion in this budget is vested in is studying how to move money around, . spent. · the Council on Postsecondary Educa- ·. It's Kentucky comparing itself to itself, in order to reward existing faculty and He wants to turn the trust funds into when we're really competing with those lion," Alexander growled. fund new initiatives. "trust me" funds. Well, exactly. outside the state." "There is no way to reform the system Eaglin offered the most laughable ob, HB 1 gave CPE the job of creating a unless you begin to do things different~ servation on this topic, insisting, "I've budget plan fo1 . •nSlderation by the ly," Davies says. And he's absolutely been a college president for 16 years. I David Hawpe's column appears. Governor and the General Assembly. right. · don't think I've ever played games to get Sundays and Wednesdays in The Forum. · CPE did the job, replacing the old formu Apparently, all Kustra can see is the money." You can read his columns at www.cou la with one based on the spending of politics of this situation, and he is ex- If he didn't, he's the only one. It rier-journal.com. Lexington Herald-Leader / Wednesday, February 23, 2000 P3.tton is expected to scrap most of his tax plan By Jack Brammer Patton still is considering "! be)ieve that we will pass a HERAL.OlEADER FRANKFORT BUREAU keeping - and possibly even rais budget, I believe the governor will FRANKFORT - Gov. Paul Patton ing_ from 6" percent to 6.5 percent recommend a budget that we will today is expected to scrap most of his - the state sales tax on interstate be able. to do those things. Obvi controversial tax plan, including a 7-cent phone calls and cable and satellite ously, if we don't pass the gaso gasoline-tax increase over two years and television services. line tax we won't be able to do the removal of about 200,000 poor Ken Patton's proposed state budget anything additionally in roads." tuckians from state income tax rolls. is based on the tax increases - Asked if.this year's legislative Patton declined to specify yesterday meaning he and lawmakers must session will provide tax relief to his intentions on his tax plan, but hint remake it if they decide to scrap the low-income Kentuckians, Richards ed that he is ready to change it. taxes. The plan would raise $144 said, "I don't know if that can be million a year for the General Fund. done at this time, but I do think there will be a time hopefully we • "! would suspect that we would be Asked yesterday if he might consider a smaller gas-tax in can do that." gin to focus in. on these things that we Richards was silent on the really ought to be addressing in this crease, Patton said, "! would never recommend to the people of Ken governor's plan to eliminate the session of,the'General Assembly and we state property tax. on cars and may de-emphasize those things that it tucky something that claimed to address the need when it doesn't." trucks, only saying that the gover would be more appropriate to be consid Patton said he has no regrets nor will make some recommenda ered at a later date," he said before tions today. meeting last night with House Democra for recommending the plan. . ''My i#l By Bruce Schreiner ASSOCIATED PRESS Last year, the surcharge accumulated L_OUJSVILLE - With financial $3.4 million to finance spinal research backmg from the state and a hospital at U of L and the University of Ken company, the University of Louisville tucky. yesterday announced three endowed Other funding comes from the chairs in neurosurgery meant to vault "bucks for brains" program, in which the school into prominence in spinal the state matches private contributions cord research. raised by universities to endow profes Joel Kaplan. dean of U of L's sorships and other initiatives to propel School of Medicine, said two of the the schools to national stature. c~a1rs had been filled and a nation Norton will contribute another $2 wide search was ongoing for the third. million over the next 20 y( ars for Christopher B. Shields who heads spinal cord research, Kaplan said. The U of L's department of ~eurological contribution will be matched by the surgery, will occupy the Norton Hospi state. tal chair in neurological surgery. Nor · Shields does much of his spi~l ton Healthcare provided S2.02 million cord work in the emergency room. to help create the endowed chairs. "He's done the work demonstrating Scott R. Whittemore. vice chainnan that the quicker you can reverse com for research in the department of neu pression of an injured spinal cord, the rological surgery, will occupy the Hen better the patient's outcome and recov ry D. Garretson chair. ery will be," Kaplan said. "This is making us one of the lead Whittemore's research has focused ers in spinal cord research," Kaplan on repairing and regrowing spinal said of the three S2 million endowed cord cells, Kaplan said. His work has chairs. helped yield such techniques as stem Nearly $1 million comes from a cell transplantation, which can regrow S12.50 surcharge the state added in and repair spinal cords, ·he said. Ka 1994 to the cost oi a moving violation. plan hopes to fill the third endowed chair within a couple of months. M~U~:v. AKG(l~S .__..,, -, MSU Clip Sheet A sample of recent articles of interest to Morehead State University February 24, 2000 UNIVERSITY COMMUNICATIONS MOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY UPC BOX 1100 MOREHEAD, KY 40351-1689 (606) 783-2030 The Daily Independent, February 23, 2000 Lexington Herald-Leader ...~·--- Thursday,,February 24, 2000 Education for everyone In response to Joni Kling"s Jan. 29 letter, the foundation of our economic system is the price mechanism. Con sumers with the ability to pay the mar S~yjng for. college ket-determined price receive the goods . __ ,,._. -"j,. ~ -~~-. - ...... ,· . while consumers who are unable to pay don't. This is the way the system Plan will. reduce cost of higher education works in a market economy unhindered The ·Pre:Pa.id College Tuition ments. and untampered with by government Savings Plan will enable par In the last 20 years, tuition interference. ents to significantly reduce the rate increases have exceeded the Education cannot be considered an cost of their children's educa rate of inflation. that trend other commodity subject to the whims If of the capricious forces of supply and tions by allowing them to pay for continues, the pre-paid program demand. The notion that only those college at today's tuition rates. could reduce the cost of a college students with parents wealthy enough It· is anc: excellent program education by thousands of dol to afford education get it is abhorrent. that will make higher education lars for children now in grade Rather, the right to an education is an more affordable for young Ken school. ideal held dear by most American citi tuckiaµs by ~ncouraging their The money paid into the plan zens - so much so. that many citizens parents - ·~:otjiers - to not on who have never had children or whose would be used to create a trust children are beyond school age un ly start siviiig_ for their college fund. Interest from that fund grudgingly pay school taxes to ensure educations but to actually begin will help assure that . state that future generations of young Amer- paying for ~em\ '· · schools do not lose 'money from icans are educated. . .. The sa,yulg!! __ plan would be the program. Government involvement in educa created by House Bill 180, spon Lower tuition rates · are not tion does not have a perfect track sored. by Sfa&tRep. Rocky Ad the only way the plan can save record, but that is no reason to throw the baby out with the bath water. In kins and promoted by new State parents money. Taxes on the Treasurer ·:Jonathan Miller. one form or another, government in money paid into the fund would volvement in education is here to stay. With 68 of the 100 members of be deferred until the tuition One exciting and promising new ap the Kentucky· House of Repre- credits are actually used. Then proach is the for-profit, publicly funded : sentatives having signed on as the amount paid is taxed as or but privately run schools that are dra · co-sporuiorst·imd 22 of the 38 dinary income at the tax rate for matically reshaping U.S. education in : state''sen.a.furs having endorsed several states. Competition within a the student, not the parents. school district where the for-profit it, HB "1Scf.s.eems certain to be Since most students would be in , adoptt;d_ b,¥. th 2000 General k, firms battle it out with the traditional 7 a much lower tax bracket. than public school is not only desirable. it is sembly ail~gned by Gov., Paul their parents, that alone could democratic. Patton. result in a significant savings. Competition and the right to an ed I Frankly, it is difficult to imag- The Kentucky Higher Educa ucation. however. are incompatible. 1 ine how·. any legislator who They are not what has made America tional k,sistance Authority cur 1 wants . to encourage more Ken flourish. rently offers tax-incentives to ' tuckians to continue their edu- Katherine Glntlng Lexington cations after high school could those who pay into its college ' oppose thls bill, which asks for savings plan. However, that the expenditure of no new tax plan does not allow for the early payment of tuition at today's THE COURIER-JOURNAL dollars and should not result in THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 24, 2000 a loss of revenue for colleges. rates. With one of the nation's lowest Only about 4,000 Kentuck DANVIU:.E percentages of adults with col ians have taken advantage of Centre,College graduate lege educations, Kentucky needs the current plan during its 10 wins British award years of existence. Expect far to do everything it can to en A Centre College graduate is one of courage more of its young people more to use the Pre-Paid College two Americans selected for Britain1s to attend college. Tuition Savings Plan. For those Marshall Sherfield Fellowship to study in England next year. HB 180 would do just that. who can afford either regular Gregory D. Smith, who is working Under it, any individual - not monthly payments or pre-pay on a doctorate in chemistry at Duke just parents - can contribute to ment of the full amount, it is a University, will study at University College, London. He 1s a 1995 gradu a child's pre-paid tuition plan. better deal. ate of Centre in Danville and a 1991 The program would guarantee Almost 20 states have similar graduate of Apollo High School in tuition at any of the state's uni or identical plans to the one Ad Owensboro. The Marshall Sherfield award en versities, community colleges or kins is proposing. Kentucky ables American scientists and engi technical colleges in exchange needs to join those states in neers to undertake post-doctoral re for early purchase of either full helping parents plan for their search in Britain to foster contacts be tween the countries. •. ·. t!,lition c~sts or in monthly pay- kids' college. ··- ..• --··· •·1 ! ., •• ..... · Lexington Hera1.Ji::;J~r Thursday, February 24, 2000 .Teacher •• •. ,.. • •• . .•., • ' bill clears.~"' ~ '· i ' ... .. - - ' first hurdle ------~--,.. -:;,.~·r·.-:-;-- - , By Unda B. Blackford However, the state's largest teach HERALDLEADER EDUCATION WRITER performing schools. ers' union .Jias :vowed to continue to It also would make the Education FRANKFORT - Comprehensive fi~ht fu.e,blj!'s;~ff:e~-~gt,hen Professional Standards Board - legislation aimed at improving the ~l~~}~.f_~~~j:~ 1~j_,-;!5 :.:2.. which oversees teacher certification quality of teachers in Kentucky passed now - independent of the Kentucky its first major hurdle yesterday, de "It isn't over yet,• said Judith Gam Department of Education and in spite continued opposition from teach- bill, president of the Kentucky Educa charge of most teacher-quality issues. ers. tion Association. The biggest controversy over the House Bill 437,....,,-, which looks at The bill is based on the yearlong bill comes from its section on middle , every)hing fri>II\~ preparation in work done by a task force on teacher school teachers. In Kentucky, about colleges tO': on~the-job · training !of quality that released a set of recom 2,000 middle school teachers are certi classroom . teachers ·- passed the mendations last year. fied to teach grades K-8, without nec House Edµciilbf.~i1i1iitJlle 18-3 witli It would hold teacher colleges ac essarily having specialization in what only minor•ad,itislineirts. It tiow moves· countable for the results of their grad they teach. --,- . --:..-..:--~~: -. The bill would make these teach to the full House. · · ·· uates. It tries to get teachers to focus ~ · on learning more about the content in ers show, through a variety of ways, "I think we came out with a strong: areas they are teaching, and hands out that they have expertise in their cho bill intact and I believe we have a' . pay raises to teachers who teach in sen field. strong chance to pass it on the floor," Icrucial shortage areas, or move to low- said Rep. tJari:x Moberly, the bill's _main ~~n!"it.'iz'l,I';;..,;.,, •.. - . - .:, . ··, THE COURIER.-JOURNAL . . ... ~-- ...... ' ·- FEBRUARY 24, 2000 House panel passes teacher-quality bill ... :~- ... By LONNIE HARP The Courier-Journal FRANKFORT, Ky. - Alter task force appointed by Gov. Paul home thinking we're hanging them," three sessions of painstaking Patton. It would require colleges, she said. "'The standards board better questions and answers, a state education agencies and school have some good running shoes, be lengthy bill aimed at improving systems to focus more attention on teacher quality won approval cause where I'm from is Gunchester, improving the knowledge teachers not Manchester.'' from the House Education have in the subjects they teach. Committee yesterday. It would also expand efforts to re But Robert Sexton, director of the An amendment left teachers cruit minority teachers and teachers Prichard Committee for Academic one seat shy of holding a ma in subjects and regions where they Excellence, said the options listed in jority on an expanded board are scarce; create new alternative the bill for middle school teachers to that will oversee teacher certifi• avenues to becoming a classroom show their competence - good test cation and define how some of teacher or school administrator; and scores by students or documentation the quality provisions will encourage colleges to overhaul their of specific training over the years - work. teacher•training programs. are not worth arguing over. And some teachers left the The competence provisions for 11 It's a very low bar, so teachers committee meeting promising middle school teacliers, however, to press their fig~t over a re• would barely have to know what have emerged as a lightning rod for their students are supposed to know the bill. And even House members quirement .that sollle middle who voted for the plan said they in order to meet it," he said. He add· school teachers with education would like to see those provisions ed that he hopes the opposition to degrees and general certifica• changed before the measure leaves the bill from leaders of the Kentucky tion show they have compe the House. Education Association will die down. tence in the subjects they teach. "I probably have 500 teachers in "It would be hard to imagine the Backers of the bill expect my district, and I've heard from ev main teaching organization in the that pans of it to remain a tar ery one of them with their concerns stale opposing a bill lo improve get for some teachers but noted about middle school teachers," said teaching and the damage that would that it had cleared an important Mary Lou Marzian, a Louisville do to their public image," he said. . hurdle yesterday. Democrat who voted for the plan. KEA President Judith Gambill said "I'm surprised how easily the Rep. Barbara Colter, a Republican after the vote that she was pleased bill passed," said Rep. Harry from Manchester, also said the mid• with extensive deliberations on the Moberly, a Democrat from die school provisions have riled edu• bill but.will continue to fight for an Richmond who sponsored the caters in her area. She said educators measure, House Bill 437. It was who have already earned a certificate other seat on the standards board approved 18-3. would not welcome having the Edu and no competence reviews for veter• The bill is the product of a cation Professional Standards Board an teachers. question their know-how.·· "We all agree we want to find "Our teachers are sitting back what's best for public education: we just disagree on how to get there," she said. THE COURIER-JOURNAL FEBRUARY 24, 2000 Patton's original plan would With the gas-tax matter shelved, · ·Patton tried io rally public support Patton have raised about $288 million Patton spent most of fiis time yester- for the plan, touring across the state : in new General Fund revenue day arguing that his new tax plan "is \ fo_r three days last week. Patton de- ' over the 2000-02 budget. His the minimum that we can do and still cltned to term his concessions a po- drops new plan, largely through the say that we're still making adequate lifical defeat and seemed upbeat- as 1communications tax, raises progress," he shelved much of the plan and 1$178 million. That means the PATTON SAID adjusti~g to the 1vo~edto ge~the rest later. difference of Sll0 million must reductions m ,?15 pla~ was gomg to 'I articulated a four-year agenda. gas-tax I be cut from the budget Patton be a struggle. He sat~ he would sug- And I've got about three years and 10 1proposed in January. gest some cuts to legislative leaders 1months left to work on it" hes 1'd • Lawmakers never warmed to in the _next few days. Patto_n did note As to whether he pla~ned t~ c~ll a increase : his plan, and from the outset thal hts proposal to reconftgur~ 518te special session to consider taxes later , its chances were doubtful be- personnel and pavroll laws is not th,·s year· he s 'd "I d ' · · · J'k J b ct·· ·t · t d • at . on I want to cause Repubhcans are m the I e y to e passe m 1 s .enure y an get b d th·15 . . majority in the state Senate. that could save some mpney. eyon session .... ~ will be Governor says , Senate President David Wil- House Majority Floor Leade_r Greg prepared to address any subJect tha1 ' Hams, R-Burkesville, said yes- Stumbo, D-Prestonsburg, said the teeds urge~t care tf there appears to he lost battle terday "We'll.take any part of . cuts that must be made would be rel- \ e support m the General Assembly ! ·., ' - · , atively modest in an overall $7 billion o do that." but not the war any_ kind of blarn~ that the adllll\lis'-1 annual state General. Fund budget, · - tr~tton wants to give - or the rnaior• ' and that Patton told House Demo- By TOM LOFTUS ill (Democratic) party of the House cratic leaders yesterday that much of The Courier-Journal wants to_ give .... Th~re's not strong-1 it could be done by delayin~ funding sqp_port m_the Repu~hcai:i cauc1;1s for ·tor some construction proJects and Bowing to public and legisla- mBJor tax m~reases m this particular sortie programs from the first year to tive opposition, Gov. Paur Pat- se'.ssion and n ap~ears that,,our pres- the second year of the budget. ton dropped his plan yesterday lcn,ce has made a difference. Stumbo and-Rep. Harry Moberly, a to raise the gasoline tax and ::And the mam quest10n that sm:-- Richmond Democrat who heads the apply the sales tax_ to the cost fa!=ed ycs1erday is whet~er Repu~h- House budget committ~e._ ~aid they of labor for car repatrS. cans can swallow Patton s altei:nanve still thought Patton's pnont1es would Instead, the governor offered p['.an. Williams made no commitment be funded. These include the "Bucks a scaled-down plan that would . yesterday. but his general comments for Brains" program for endowed largely raise new revenue from lcduld be of little comfort to Patton. professorships at universities, and a new 7 percent tax on tele- •"It could very well be that we will new money for early-childhood devel communications services, in- riach the decision which is always opment, and increased funding for eluding interstate long-distance \the preferred decision for Republi- programs for the mentally ill. telephone calls and satellite 1V. ca'ns to reach. And that is no new But one Republican senator, Tom . Als9 gone from Patton's plan _ta) tax reform actually adopted in !touted hab,ltty companies ~ubiect to BY LATE January1 when he was st this session. But I think we the6i . ate mcom~ tax._ (In limited ti-1 required to reveal his tax plans with .have Cert au~· ly el eva Ie d. th e_ su b - a 11tv ·.compames ' investors- poo his. proposed budget, gas prices. at Ject t~ a pomt wh~re 1t 'Y1,li be funds, commoJ'!ly for in.vestments in the pump had soared. a _topic of debate m the 1mm~- real estate or venture capital.) . Senate Democratic Leader David dtate future. And there will Patton repeated his contention yes- K f L · ·11 ·d "Th come a time when I believe terday that the state's road system is ar~m, o ou1sv1 e. sa1 . e gas that we'll have broad support" b di . d f tax Just came at an absolutely, unbe- atton told reporters at a new's a "Im nee O revenue from a gas- lievably grotesque, horrible time." p tax mcrease. But he said "The un- conference. usually high price of ga'soline has made it politically impossible to pass · our proposal at this time.'' · I . ·• ·• i , . . , . • . : PATTON'S BUDGET REDUCTIOM ' .• 'tPATTON'S.NEW TAlfPLAN . Patton's plan raises less new General Fund revenue than his previous · plan. Because of that.some spending in his proposed 2000-02 budget ih~ey'::.,idatton tax plan ha:s.thi~e\Jements. Here is how much money must be cut. HeFe·s a look at the amount of revenue generated by the raise in each of the next two years: two plans and how much must be cut from Patton's proposed budget: 2000-01 2001-02 2000-01 2001-02 Require limited liability New revenue companies to pay generated by original corporate license tax: Nothing $2.5 million Patton plan: . S143.2 million S144.5 million Revise way rate 1s set New revenue for state real estate generated by property tax: 6.5 million Patton's revised plan: S57.3 million s·~20.7 million 11.3 million 9eplace current Difference that :elecommunications must be cut from the · :axes with new budget: · · $85.9 million $23.8 million 7 percent tax: 50.8 million This chart refers.only to Ge~eral Fun? revenue. Patton's original tax plan 106.9 million called for a 7-cent-~-gatton increase 1n the gas tax, which goes to the Road fDTAL NEW REVENUE S57.3 milUon S120.7 million Fund. The gas-tax increase, and som~ at.her proposals affecting the Road Fund, were dropped yesterd~y. resulting ma $246 million loss in revenue over the two-year budget period compared with Patton's original tax pro- posal. · · ,Lexington Hereld-Leeder Thursday, February 24, 2000 I I Patton drops gas-tax boost ,Governor scraps much of tax plan, will propose budget cutE By Jack Brammer · Many customers would not Williams, R-Burkesville, ex HERAlDUADER FRAM . ~.. , ... -- . ·•·- - ·-,-. . ... ,.... ' -·- . '.• ...... , -.- -~, .p•-c•~•,• 1~ ow;a. 'on new ciif pu riipi from the' sales· . . sed ''""'--·-·•-·'>-•-'".:;:Jn interstate cornme .. , •~~~~t17£$JN,. • Lexington Herald-Leader •■ KENTUCKY VOICES ~day, February 24, 2000 ;Truth about KERA: Reforms Ihave hurt, not helped, education• to retract that statement a few ics contend with' justification that \ Rick Chrisbnan davs later when it was deter attempts to teach how to think is mined that dropout rates had ac merely a subterfuge for teaching CONTRIBUTING COLUMNIST tually increased. what to think. Like the Perhaps the most telling out KERA further extends the children's tale come of KERA's decade-long epistemological folly of its em of the deluded legacy is the declining ability of phasis by maintaining that criti emperor who Kentucky's high school graduates cal thinking is not only teachable, compelled his to perform college-level course but also measurable. As a result, subjects to work. According to a June 1999 teachers spend too much time bear witness to repon by the Kentucky Council teaching students how to elicit his non-exis- on Post-Secondarv Education, 42 higher scores on tests that erro tent new clothes. so too has the percent of seniors who entered neously purpon to measure criti Kentucky Department of Educa public colleges in 1997 required cal thinking, and too little time tion beguiled the public with the remedial class work in math and teaching basic language and largely contrived accomplish 18 percent required remedial help math skills. tments of the Kentucky Education in English, increases from the The serious validity problems !Reform Act. previous year of 36 percent and of the erstwhile KIRIS testing I Exaggerated claims of 16 percent, respectively_ program were revealed in a study IKERA's achievements, along with These record levels of inade by the Rand Institute. Rand lthe media's depiction of KERA's quate college preparation repre found that the dramatic gains detractors as right-wing boobs. sent a disturbing phenomenon for shown by the testing bore little lhas enabled the department to en which the department seems to ; correlation to the results of na- lgage in an era of mostly fruitless have little explanation. tionally standardized tests such ~ucational experimentation_ The central question with re as the ACT college entrance , As KERA approaches its JO- gard to KERA, however, is not so • exam and the Comprehensive lyear anniversary, the depart much in how it has failed to meet Test of Basic Skills. ment's output of self-congratula its promise, but why. The answer While the KERA-based scores tion has intensified. Last March, lies witr;n the very hean of its of 11th-graders from 1992 to 1998 it was announced with great fan philosopnical underpinnings. approximately doubled, Ken fare that Kentucky had finally at Today's education reform tucky's ACT scores remained flat. fained progress as measured by a movement rests upon the notion (During this same period ACT nationally recognized standard that our schools· should not teach scores nationwide enjoyed steady ized test, the National Assess what is pejoratively referred to as gains.) Between 1990 and 1997, ment of Educational Progress. "rote leaning" (i.e. the mastery of Kentucky's CTBS scores for all Later, a lone observer discov established factual knowledge), tested grade leyels actually de ered that special-education stu but rather to teach "critical think clined. dents were included in the test's ing skills." As this theory goes, While Kentucky's replacement 1992 sample, but excluded in students must first learn critical 1 CA TS testing system does incor 1998. The excluded students with thinking processes to acquire porate nationally standardized disabilities would have otherwise skills and apply knowledge in test scores into its formula for de composed 10 percent of the 1998 real-life settings. termining cash rewards, at an testing sample. Since students Austrian economist Fredrick only 5 percent weighted factor, its with disabilities score the lowest Hayek described the fallacy with . influence is token at best. performance levels in other test in this line of thought some years · Hans Christian Andersen's ing, it seems apparent that.the ago. In his essay of the same tale of the Emperor's New Clothes purponed comparative reading name, Hayek defined the "fatal ends with the naked emperor gains between 1992 and 1998 conceit" in part as the misplaced haughtily walking in procession, were inflated. belief that our ability to develop clothed onlv in his own hubris, According to the National As knowledge and skills is depen too proud to admit the obvious. sessment of Educational Progress, dent upon the presence of reason. Let's hope that the Kentucky De when comparing reading scores In reality, the converse is true. partment of Education will even between 1998 and 1994 (a vear Experience tells us that the abili tually see through KERA's illuso when only 4 percent of the sam tv to discern truth and to solve ple was excluded because of spe ry success and allow our pt•blic problems requires a learned schools to get back to the ,asics. cial-education status) the percent knowledge of facts. Education age of Kentucky's students scor does enable people to develop ■ ing at proficient levels did not dif critical thinking skills. but critical Rick Christman is chief ex fer significantly. thinking is not teachable per se, . eculive officer of Employment So Similarly, the Depanment of rather it accrues with time as a lutions, a Lexington human-ser Education announced last August consequence of the rigorous study vices organization. Reach him by that high school dropout rates of facts-based knowledge. e-mail at employsolulions@mind had declined_during 1997-98. only Funher, many of KERA"s crit- spring.com. Lexington Herald-Leader Thursday, February 24, 2000 Education·' Some would be exempt from dorm rule: campus crime. Both bills were prompted by the The second of two bills related to the death of a 1998 death of Michael Minger who died in an Murray State University student in a fire was arson fire in a Murray State University dorm. approved by the House Education Committee y~ Minger's mother, Gail Minger of Niceville, Fla., terday. HB 321 would allow students with disabil said her son had multiple disabilities that affected ities to waive any requirements about living in a his sense of direction and left him unable to drive. dorm. The bill was sponsored by Rep. Jim Wayne Although the Mingers requested alternative living D-Louisville, who also sponsored a bill that would arrangements, Murray State required him to require public colleges and universities to repon remain in a dorm until he became a junior, Gail Minger said. . THE COURIER-JOURNAL _F)::!;JRUARY 24, 2000 , $600,000 believed embezzled fromKSU Checks to vendors tigation of Kimbrough, who has removed from an automated check- · KSU officials said yesterda~_.t_hat pleaded innocent. printing system, written to an individ- Reid was not availabl_e and ofocia!; allegedly diverted The University of Kentucky is ual and deposited. The canceled were. referring questions to True• 1investigating the alleged embezzle checks were then retrieved, portions !inn, which reP.resents the college. , to an individual ment of about $!00,000 from its erased and filled in with the names "In all likelihood, th\S has 11s root. College of Pharmacy. of legitimate vendors and logged into in some accounting d1fftcu1t1es tha1 _"I'm not surprised about any KSU records as being paid, he said. predated President Reid," True said Bv LONNIE HARP In the instance of the Marriott "He is working dilijlently to clear Uf The Courier-Journal thmg anymore," Hatchett said yes terday. "It leads me to repeat my check, dated Jan. 4, 1999, he said financial problems.' . FRANKFORT, Ky. - State po mantra that if you don't have that someone with access to blank Reid has faced criticism overfman lice and the state auditor's office prope_r i~ternal controls in place, university checks removed one from cial management at the college are investigating the possibility you mv1te theft, fraud and all a series waiting to be printed by a though the university got some goo, that at least $600,000 may have kinds of weaknesses. That applies computerized accountmg system. news last week when the ~ttorne; to everyone in every public enter That check was then ~ritten for the eneral's office said that \IS foo, been embezzled from Kentucky ~196,000 owed to Mamon but 1Ssued fervices contract with Mamott wa State University. prise where tax dollars are at m another name and deposited, Hat- in line with those at other colleges State Auditor Ed Hatchett, who risk." ch-.it said. it was subsequently ai- The companfs bid contained announced the investigation yes- On Feb. 18, Kentuckv State ndseh~~ terday, said the alleged embezzle- President Geoq~e Reid suSpended tered after it had been deposited to perks, mcludmg free f~odfia ment appears to involve a series of an employee wnhout pay m con make it appear the check was written rooms for the presidents of ice. . checks meant for vendors that nection with the KSU case. J. to Marriott and deposited by the Sen. Marsh~ll Long, a ~emocr. were diverted and cashed, then al- Guthrie True. a lawyer for KSU, company, he said. from Shelbyville, said un~fra< tered and'replaced in KSU files to s~id the _unive_rsity is cooperating Other checks also appear to follow Ho~se-Senate_ government co th make it appear the vendors had wnh the mvesttgauon. that pattern, he said, adding that offi- review committee meetmg th;~ve• been paid. "T~e university is extremefy dis- cials are now working to determine report shou~d remove ~ny conKSU State police are investigating appointed that any employee the total amount of unauthorized sy surrounding contracllng at • and officials from the auditor's of- L - - - • ; - ·•• - • • transactions. fice are examining three years w~uld be mvolved m something hke The KSU investigation comes at a · thlS, but they resP.onded promptly time when the university was taking worth of payments to university' and believe that will result m a sub• steps to get its financial system in vendors. Hatchett said he expects stantial recovery of the money," Ttue stronjl' shape, criminal charges will be filed as a said, · Reid, the president, hired the Price result of the investigation. Officials began looking into the Waterhouse Coopers accounting firm KSU's is the third major alleged matter at KSU earlier this month last year to produce a report on how embezzlement case involving pub- after officials at the college discov the university could upgrade controls lic funds in recent weeks. ered a $196,000 payment to Marriott in its business officeo · Former 'state Education Depart- In;ef!lational Inc: that the company Hatchett's office has been working ment budget chief Randy Kim said it never received. Another check with KSU officials to implement the brough was indicted Jan. 19 by a I als~ was found made _out_ to a corpo· . recommendations..:- , . ·· . ' . . .. federal grand jury on charges she ration that n? one rev1ewmg the doc Hatchett said yesterday that the embezzled more than $500 000 in ument could identify. embezzlement probe "makes .us be state education funds. Hatchett's Hatchett said the alleged elJ!bezzle lieve it is more important than ever office also:is involved in the inves ment occurred through an ·elaborate to· get these controls :1n place as scheme in which sine-le checks we~ Quick as oossible." · ,. .. Lexington Herald-Leader Thursday, February_24, 2000 At least $600,000 embezzled from KSU Hatchett said auditors have Checks to suppliers found there was at least $600,000 !ice in the investigation. in "misappropriations." Attorney Guthrie True said cashed; tracks covered "I'm fearful this may go as Kentucky State President George high as $1 million," he said. Reid contacted Hatchett's office STAFF, WIRE REPORT · Kentucky State Police Lt. ]er· and the. state police after the dis FRANKFORT - At least rv Nauer! would confirm_ only crepancy was found in early Feb $600,000 is missing from Ken that officers are "par11c1patmg m ruary. He declined to comment tucky State University in an em an inquiry." further. bezzlement scheme that might go While the release from Hatch· "Right now we are awaiting back as far as three vears. said ett's office said "suspects have the outcome of the auditor's and State Auditor Ed Hatchett yester· been questioned and charges are state police's investigation," said day. anticipated soon," Nauert said he True. Hatchett said checks intended had no idea where Hatchett ob Hatchett said the matter came as payment to university vendors tained that infonnation. . to light when the uni~ersity's were removed, cashed, and then University officials said yes food-services provider asked replaced in the system to make it terday afternoon that attorneys about a payment it said had not appear as if they went to the in· from the Frankfort law finn of been made. Officials discovered tended companies. Johnson, Judy, True and ~uru:nieri that the check had been altered. "Transaction documents were had been helping the a\ld1tor s of- altered, forged and in some cases destroyed," his office said in a press release. 1'~ [ 6-fLf MSU ARCHIVES MSU Clip Sheet A sample of recent articles of interest to Morehead State University February 25, 2000 UNIVERSITY COM.MUNICATIONS MOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY UPO BOX 1100 MOREHEAQ, KY 40351-1689 16061 783-2030 Lexington Herald-Leader Friday, February 25, 2~0 Aiming the budget ax Cutting 'Bucks' program is a lamebrained idea he demise of Gov. Paul Pat prophetic, it will reflect a "lesser national grants and recognition t ton's tax refonn plan leaves a amount of gray matter" on the part also can play the role of incubate T$100 million hole in his pro of lawmakers. for economic development in thif posed budget. And that's assuming · In a state whose economic state. lawmakers react favorably to Pat struggles are a direct reflection of As initially envisioned, state ton's fallback position - an in its past education deficiencies, the funding of this crucial program crease in three truces that will gen last place legislators ought to look would come in three installments erate about $178 million in new rev for savings is in the education bud beginning with $110 million in enue over the next two years. get. And one of the last places in 1998. Patton's proposed $120 mil So, now the cutting begins. the education budget to tap for ex lion appropriation represents the Which programs included in the tra cash is the $120 million Patton second installment. governor's original budget survive? wants to-spend on "Bucks for If we don't keep this commit Which go by the wayside? Which Brains." ment this year and again in two must get by on a leaner fiscal diet? This program, one of the most years, we would be telling the One of the first comments by a visible parts of higher-education re world that Kentucky isn't serious lawmaker on where cuts might be fonn, provides a dollar-for-dollar about educational and economic made came from Republican state match to universities that raise pri progress. Sen. Torn Buford. vate contributions for endowed We also would be telling the "Maybe we can't afford all of chairs. world that there's a serious defi 'Bucks for Brains,"' he told The . Those endowed positions are ciency in brainstern activity· in ou (Louisville) Courier-Journal. "Maybe used to attract the best and bright General Assembly. we'll only have enough money for est professors to Kentucky campus 'Bucks for Brainsterns' or some es to share their knowledge with lesser amount of gray matter." students and to conduct the kind of If Buford's comment proves research that can not only attract Lexington Herald-Leader Friday, February 25, 2000 Panel defeats scholarship bill By Holly E. Stepp 2002 session. HERAl.Dl.EADER EDUCATION WRITER EDUCATION ·--···············---- By then, •l998's FRANKFORT - A measure that high school freshman would have changed how the grades mine their own grading scales. In some class will have spent are calculated for the state's lottery places. an A is 95 to 100 points: in oth four years earning funded merit scholarships yesterday ers, the range is 10 points. The scholar scholarship money, failed to clear its first legislative hurdle. ships, though, don't distinguish be giving the state more Sen. Katie Kratz St-ine. R-Fon tween an A at one school and an A at daia to analyze. another. Thomas, said her bill would combat Shaughnessy also '-=='-"--' grade inflation in the Kentucky Educa Stine's proposal. Senate llill 204. said he worried the 5tine tional Excellence Scholarship program. would have calculated grade point av new ranges would en- But it failed to gain a majority vote in erages using the actual numerical val courage even greater grade inflation. the Senate Education committee. ue assigned to the letter grade. II The current law awards scholarships Stine's measure would have thwart• would have also changed the amounts on 19 levels. awarded at each grade level.· cd schools that try to give their stu Others agreed. Sen. David Karem. dents a competitive advantage ior the But Sen. Tim Shaughnessy, D D-Louisville, said it would be better to scholarships by changing grading Louisville. who drafted the original wait because it was impossible to de scales. scholarships legislation. said it was too termine the financial impact of the The scholarships work like this: early in the process to change the crite changes. ria. Students earn money for college each The measure failed to pass out of vear of high school they earn at least a "There is certainly a lot merit in committee by a 6-4 vote, with two ab C average. The higher their grade the issue." Shaughnessy said. stentions, meaning that it did not re point average, the more money they "But we are not even two vears ceive a majority. It is unlikely to come earn. The amount earned over four into the process: we don't have the up again during this session. vears makes up the scholarship. which hard data to say what's really happen is awarded when the student gradu in!( with the scholarships," he said. ■ ates. adding that he would be willing to ad Reach Hol(v E. Stepp at (606) 231- Individual school districts deter- dress the issue in the interim and the 3484 or at [email protected]. THE MOREHEAD NEWS FEB 25,2000 Reach to Recovery "I've been so grateful "She took this and made it Dedicated group needs they've kept the Reach to a focus of her life," Reser said, Recovery program, so that "She works with us, hospice, breast cancer volunteers when I needed it, it was there. her church and visits shut-ins. Now we want u, make sure it's She's very forceful in her By Km! HAMILTON going to continue to stay beliefs," Slaff Wriler here," Smith said.· · ·:•;· · "It's my most favorite Reser; who began working· program," Powell said from Imagine getting the diagnosis: breast cancer. with the program in 1988 and her home. "You'd be surprised It's happening to more and more women (and~ f,:w Tharrett, who began in 1982, at how many cards and notes I men) and is one of the most prevalent. cancets in are retiring at the end of get from people,"•. :~1, ,;:r• -, < ··. Rowan County. March. Powell, who began in "She has excellenf:i>eople There is hope; however, and more and more brc~sl 1995, is ill right now and on skills," Reser said' of Powell. cancer patients are becoming breast cancer survivors. medicarleave, but is not yet "She can take a subject and --'f'ake·Rowan Oountians Ellie Reser, Frances ' saying she will retire, turn it around and make it Tham,tt. tlary Northcutt Powell and Jo Smith. frr With them goes much of the about you,• •. ·· .·· · example. These women have stood the test and have program, so Reach to "I'd rather have people recovered. Recovery is looking for breast know the truth, and it doesn't . As breast cancer survivors, cancer survivors who can be bother me to talk about it," they too~ it .upon themsel~es visiting volunteers with the Powell said. ·· · to help others who are gomg program for St. Claire Medical When a person has surgery through the illness. , Center's service area. to removfbreast tissue, scar .Their program, Reach ~o. Training for the volunteer tissue forms that tends w feel Recovery;Js a milestone m program is April 1 at 10 a.m. as though the shoulder is being held down. So visiting cancer rehabilitation, They, in Cafeteria D at the hospital. volunteers teach exercises on help women who have had It is sponsored by the regional mastectomy and lurnpectorny reaching, hence the name American Cancer Society, "Reach to Recovery." surgeries by visiting them and · Lunch will be served during For details, call Smith at relating . their own the training,· 784-7679 or Reser at 783- e·xperiences. They also he~p Smith' started a breast 6808 . with getting prosthesis .. cancei::. support group which equipment, teaching exe!cises meets lhe first Wednesday of and talking about emotional, the .month in the hospital physical and cosmetic needs, cafeteria at 11:30 a.m. "It's not all downhill once "I felt like we needed a you hear the word cancer," support groqp for breast Reser told a patient. The cancer only';". Smith said. patient told her it helped to ~People in attendance are see that Reser had recovered, mostly women who can talk "It's an encouragement to about the medicines and how say that even though you have they and their husbands cancer you can live through might feel about their it, I li~ed through it," Smith mastecwmy." said. The volunteers in the "When they say you have program see 25-30 patients the big C, nobody can im~ne yearly. what it feels like. You thmk, Powell has been one of the that's it, I'm gone," Tharrett lead volunteers for five years said. "You can't help the way now. you feel." Kim Hamilton photo Mary Northcutt Powell, left and Ellie cosmetic needs during their years of Reser, have helped breast cancer volunteer visits with the Reach to patients with physical, emotional and Recovery program in Morehead. THE COURIER-JOURNAL FEBRUARY 25, 2000 Centre vetoes duo's dorm-roo,m auction By MEGAN WOOLHOUSE "Why stay at a hotel 5 to JOO miles away when '[Ou can. star, Chesnut figures they can charge The Courier-Journal within 500 yards o the actJon? between .$10 and $20 a person_ as the students asked. , tour guides or escorts for the nation DANVILLE, Ky. - In the en The offer appeared online for al media and other visitors. Chesn~t trepeneurial ,spirit th•! helped IO days but there were no bid said 2,000/'ournalists are expected m their college land a national po ders. Although $200 might. Danville or the debate,. and he litical debate, two Centre Col sound expensive for what Ches- · thinks money can be made m arrang lege students tried to auction nut describes as a typical c~I ing student mterviews. He'd also be their dorm room on eBay, an lege "crash pad" - mmi-refng willing to take interested parties on Internet auction site. . erators walls painted white and tours of "hole-in-the-wall" restau But' the cinderblock ambi rants and places freq~~~te_d by ,stu· ence of the room of freshmen decorated with sports, posters ... Lucas, Chesnut and Matt Cun - tiie offer did include k~y perks. j de~~e·i1 pick them up from th~~r- ningham proved a tough s_ell Guests could have had a true col for visitors to the Oct. 5 vice Iege experience, dining at the cafete port," he said. . presidential debate. ria using the students' meal cards, Lackeysaid many in the communf:· There were no bidders. T~en Chesnut said. They would have. had ty are thmking about business opp_or- • school administrators got ~md access to the 27-inch color telev1s10n tunities. Two new hotels are beint· of the idea and rejected 11 - in their dorm room as well as a DVD built near Danville, she said, a11a· pointing out that Centre stu player and movie collection. There many people are requesting to vend,: dents can't sublet their dorm was a bonus: Chesnut or Cunning sandWlches or coffee. "· rooms, even for a night. Id ham would buy and deliver Star "No one was quite as quick on th~: Now the two 19-year-o bucks coffee from the campus cafe take as the students," she Said. 11 In freshmen are hoping t~ey can each morning. . my view it was sort of unfortuna,e'' tum a profit as tour guides for that we couldn't let it go through and_ Hoping to att_ract reporters, t_h~y 11 the debate. . . mailed their offer to local and nation see what happens. '·. "We're always Iookmg. for al media, including CNN. . , Chesnut, who claims to· be th!!' ways to make a buck," Chesnut Nancy Lackey, Centre's dean of mastermind of the plan. said he's' said. · ' · • ., cc.· student life, learned abou~ the p!an been finding ways to make money_ Thousands ofviallors are ex from a reporter interested m wntmg since he was 12, when he sold rare• pected for the debate in Dap. baseball cards ·at a bootli in a mall.' 1 about the students. Later, she met -· ,J·:·r ~;r-,:-:-.-·n ·:~f· with the ·two and told them .their In recent years, he's bought and solU' ville, a ·college town of 16,000 housing contract doesn't allow_them G.l. Joe action figures, baseball cards that hopes to capitalize on the to sublet their rooms. But she did s_ay and other items on the Internet. •t; event's media deluge. that she was amused by the1r creativ- ·.-"That is my goal - to have a bu~\~ Within hours of last month's 'riess started before I get out of ~•re~ announcement that Centre had ity."I told them how muc hi.enJoye d said Chesnut, who hopes to be mcot been selected, Chesnut and the idea," she said. porated by the Ii!"• he graduates. • Cunningham had a plan. They Chesnut an economics major, and posted their offer on eBay, try Cunningh~m. who studies eng:ineer tnjl to lure gotential ':llstomer:s with tlieir 'Centre Vice Pres1• ing said they weren't subletting as dential Debate Package." such, but offering a se,yice. But t~e Lexington Herald-Leader two friends from Cadiz, Ky.,· S81d Friday, February 25, 2000 "Experience history and stay . .. on Campus, closer than anyone they didn't'wantto cause any trouble Education else!!!" the offer stated. . . and withdrew the offer. Now they ~re Hotel rooms in DanVtlle are concocting a new ·moneymaking Tuition plan advances: The House yester-. taken, 1/'ey warned. plan. ~ ,: ·--·· · ~-, day unanimouslv approved a measure, House B111 180. to create a guaranteed pre-paid, college NOTEBO'OK I Lexington Herald-Leader tuition plan. Nineteen states offer such prowams. Friday, February 25. 2000 Morehead-women ---- ...... ~ to salvage broken season Rick Bailey pressure, up-tempo," Coach Lau - "Doctors looked at our weight ra Litter said. "We would play we've not been able to play up to training program. A therapist HERAIDUADER STAFF MUTER end line to end line and finish as our potential." . looked at what we were doing," At one time. strong as we could in hopes it Freshman Jody Sizemore, Litter said. "There was nothing at the ratio was 8 will carry over." Kentucky's Miss Basketball from all we should have done. It was to 1: Eight coli- With the newfound resolve, Leslie County, was among the one of those freak years. We've finned stress the young Lady Eagles lost _in first casualties. She averaged 12 had four key players who missed fractures on the ovenime at Tennessee-Martin, points and eight rebounds and a great deal of the year." Morehead State then defeated second-place Mur- shot 60 percent in the first three Litter, who coached Sullivan Lady Eagles' rav State 82-73 last weekend. games then left for the season Junior College into a national pow basketball team t Morehead played Southeast Mis- with three stress fractures. "A er, is finishing her third year at to one victory on the court , souri last night and closes the major blow," Litter said. her alma mater. She has a 14-63 That lone victory was the sea- season Saturday against Eastern Sophomore center Tasha record with two games to play. son opener against Davis & Elkins. Illinois. Gales missed the first seven "I never doubted I knew what What followed were 23 consecutive "We finished the Mw:ray games with a stress fracture. For I was doing or how to do it," she setbacks, 15 in the Ohio Valley I game with three.pl?yers 1,:i te:" her effort on the road trip (47 said. "I'm a winner. The majority Conference. 'Three more losses, and because of pam, Litter said. You points, 26 rebounds among other of the players are from winning the Lady Eagles would have gone I felt bad as a coach, but they f~lt highlights) she received her third programs. With a little luck and a winless in the league. i good because they won and did OVC Newcomer of the Week hon whole lot better health, there's no "We decided to play our style what we wanted. Physically, or of the season. question we have the potential to the last four games ... full-court · be one of the top teams in the OVC. I believe in the near.future Morehead is going to win." , A sample of recent articles of interest to Mor~head State University February 28. 2000 I UNIVERSITY,COMMUNICATIONS MOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY UPO BOX 1100 MOREHEAD, KY 40351-1689 (6061 783-2030 The Daily Independent, Ashland, Kentucky, Friday, February 25, 2000 Under the proposal, tuition "Instead of being a key to would be economic security, higher edu Pre-paid guaranteed cation becomes a locked door at th_e state'_s _·:1,/1/(j___!_,,. ·.;.. •·· 1 - a door that can · only be pubhc uru-. ~ffl...~-,·-ia::i:u opened by those with resources tuition versities. -~•- · often greater than the average Money in- ► House Bill family," Adkins told the Howie vested in the 180 would allow before Thursday's vat&•·•;,...;~, . fund could Kentuckians. to The bill passed 98-0: -· ... plan also be used pre-pay a stu John Vincent, R-Ashland, at any pri- dent's tuition at and Robin Webb, D-Grayson, vate or out- today's rates. · were among the bill's 68 co passes of-state sponsors in the House. school, al- · . . Republican Lindy Cashier of though without the paid-m-full Louisville has agreed to spon By BEIH Go!NS guarantee as the state has no sor the bill in the Senate, OF THE DAILY INDEPENDENT control o~er the· tuition at where nearly two-dozen of the FRANKFORT - The state those schools. 38 state senators have already House of Representatives Because tuition rates double endorsed the plan. unaoimmtsly passed the pre about every 10 years, famili!!s If House Bill 180 passes the paid tuition bill Thursday, that participate in the pre-paid Senate and is signed into law by clearing its path to the Senate. fund can save approximately Gov. Paul Patton, Kentucky House Bill 180, sponsored half what they would"normally would become the 20th state to by Rep. ·Rocky Adkins, 'D pay for a student's .ediication, offer a pre-paid tuition program. Sandy Hook, would allow Ken Adkins estiinated. t".';;t Y :·,;, tuckians to pre-pay a student's tuition at today's rates, Lexington Herald-Leader Sunday, Febru!)_I)'. 27, 20 Many college programs Among the issues raised .in Council officials said that the report · · many of the unproductive pro underuse~, report says . In some areas of teacher educa grams could be either merged into t1_on_ programs, the number of spe other majors, offered at fewer ,ciahzed and duplicated program_s schools or shifted to the Kentucky ASSOCIATED PRESS statewide mean few graduates are FRANKFORT - 'A state re · Commonwealth Virtual University. produced each year in graduate In a letter to college presidents port shows that nearly half the de fields such as n:1sic teacher educa this month, council President Gor gree programs run by state um ~on and vocatit,·ol teacher educa- don Davies said he expects univer versities arentt producing enough graduates to be worthwhile. ~o~- - - sities to close some programs. Some new ·,rograms have "We recognize this will be a The report by the Council on yielded no grade-ates. For ·exam Postsecondary Education showed ple, Murray State enrolled its first difficult review," he wrote. ''But it that 47 percent of the 1,120 degree students in an international rela is necessary to ensure that we use programs at Kentucky's eig!'t pub tions major in 1995 but has not taxpayer funds as efficiently as lic universities don't meet nurumum produced any degrees in that area. we can." standards for producing graduates. For administrators at private The study· found that doctoral "We were concemea the num colleges, frequent program re programs were most likely to be in views are a fact of life. ber would b~ high, but I didn't efficient. While the council and Ken- . imagine ..... i it •· "If there are programs without tucky college representatives agreed enough -majors or people takinp; would be this that an average of five degrees a advantage of them, we seriously ' high," said Bill year would be a sign of productivi think about curtailing them · or Swinford, a se ty at that level, 57 of the 93 doctoral shutting them down because nior acadeillic programs didn't produce thatmany. we're a private institution and affairs associ8te Also, of the 81 associate de don't have money coming through for the council, gree programs, only 26 met the a magic pipeline," said John Ward, which circulated standard. vice president for academic affairs the report No state university met the at Centre College in Danville. among the uni productivity measure for geology, versities this It has been more than six years general physics, music or drama since colleges had such a review. A month. and theater arts programs. commission created by former "Most insti Onlv the Universitv of Ken tutions see Gov. Brereton Jones identified tucky met the undergraduate cut about 200 programs then but col themselves as off of 12 degrees a year-in its phi leges resisted cuts. isolated silos of losophy program. education, and Universities have until May to that's not what recommend whether underproduc we want," : he ing programs should be dropped, said. ' modified or allowed to continue. The full council will act on the is sue in July. ' . , THE COURIER-JOURNAL f:EBRUARY 26. 2000 . : -- .. . ~;a11P1:p~1ai:@~~:!.w~11~a0 ··:· ·- .. ? Many college maJors An analysis of degree programs MASTER'S llt SOCIOLOGY at Kentucky universities showed Moreheed Stale University 10 the number of degrees awarded · J1Jilliiiitlyof:JfelililUY1'::~1'7~.( · annually, on average, over the past ,:,,.""':- •. ·.a:. .. • . ·t'. . ";>~-:• have rew grad.pates. .five years, The following is a sample , .,.... m·Kontucky.Unlv1rslty., 4 of the breakdown. The universities :·,Uruvii1111j'JJI LaulavlUa~•.i:·.:.. ..3 state mean only a handful of gradu- shaded fell below the minimum State asks schools ates are produced• each year in standard set by the Council on BACHELOR'S IN graduate fields like music .teacher Postsecondary Education. GENERAL COMPUTER to study'whether education and vocational · teacher BACHELOR'S IN AND INFORMATION 1 education. GENERAL ■CONOMICS SCIENCES to keep programs ■ A few new programs have yet to University ol Kentucky 50 yield any graduates. For example, University DI Kenlucky 28 Weatem Kenlucky University 23 · By LONNIE HARP , Murray State enrolled its first stu- University ol Loulnllle 24 The Courier-Journal ', . / dents in an international relations ,Wfflifi'lf:lfftl!lliW~Jl!IIII. Northam Kentucky University 23 major in 1995 but has not produced :Miiiriv,llili'.Oiillliiillfm.~Jl\i'k'll Kenlucky Slate University 16 FRANKFORT, Ky. - Nearly any degrees in that area. ,:EaSllii!• ...... ,. .. ..,. • .-..,,;;tl~'J' ..1/Mii~.UitlversllyJfa:,:;, ... ~8 half of the degree programs run The study found that doctoral pro- · _.,. •-•~-"'"' ' ii;tiiWi1£1jljl~•UnlnnllM',L\;''7 by the state's public universities grams were most likely to be ineffi- ' BACH ■LOR'S IN MUSIC may not be producing enough cient. While the council and Ken- TEACHER EDUCATION BACHl!LOR'S IN · graduates to, be worthwhile, ac- tucky college representatives agreed ' Morehead Stale Unllierslly .. 15 SPEECH AND cording to a state re.ptirt. that an average of five degrees a year I Unllierslly DI Kenlucky 13 RHETORICAL STUDIES The '7ounci) on ~ostsecondaz would be a sign of productivity at 'll!iitii1il'ICimiiclfilli!lr~i Northam Kentucky Unlvanlty 31 Educallop qtiletly informed co • I that lev~I, ·57 oI the 93 doctoral ~ro- ;Weillitli·Kl-..••""· ....m-=,,,,.• · W leges this month ·of a study grams didn't make the cut. Asso~1ate · . . •. . •~?,~...... ,••"-":'":•111 , estem Kenlucky University 14 showing 47 percent of the 1,120 de~ree programs at four-year umver- ,Mu111r.S1itf•lllilii~18V!i;S 1,Mlitelieiilllile.Uillve~;:;J;iA• d~gree pro,gram~ at l_{~ntucky',s sit1es, expected to yield an average of :Kiiriltick'tSlata'.Ulilvarillf:ls~:•iJ;:J f;Mil/tlli.11M.:Ulllvllllllfi;~J,'.:lsl:'. eight public umvers111es don t ' 12 degrees a year, were also likely ...... ,, ... , ·""' v . , .. , ,·, _. . ., ,,.,..... meet minimum standards for miss that mark. Of the 81 associate D■G!IElla BUT·NO GRADUAT,lf!~t,~•'i'J1¥1i'?"sfA:::'< ·•·/,;'.: , .. producing grad. uates. degree programs, only 26 met the The following· la a sampling of degree 'programs that averaged fewer "We were concerned the num- standard. than one graduate a year over the past five years· ber would be high, but I didn't ...... imagine it would be this high,'_' COUNCIL OFFICIALS said they Eastern Kentucky University Certificate, In Medical Record. s Administration don't expect colle~es to slash all Kentucky State UnNe-ity B h I I Ge I Ch try sat'd B'll1 swi ·nt ord , a· senior· aca- courses in an unpro uctive maJor.• In- M - . . ., . ac e or .s n nera . em1s demic affairs ·associate for the stead, ,they could restructure the pro- orehead State University Maste(s mArt Teacher Education council. "Most institutions see gram. . · Murray Stale University Masle(s In Water Science themselves as isolated silos of Council officials said more viable Western Kentucl(y Universlty Bachelor's in Interdisciplinary St.udies education, and that's not what degree programs could mean a better University of Kentucky Bachelo(s In Speech and Theater we W'!Jll.". . . variety of courses, a higher percent-_ U • ity Loul ,,., Umversilles have_ until May to I age of full-time professors and an op-! mvers. o.,,I ~~; ~,., , , Master's la Human and Animal Pharmacology rec~mmend whether underpro- portunity to shift money within uni- Northern Kentudty .Unlverstty ~s In Midd.e School 'Teacher Education ducing programs should be , versities i.n an attempt to meet Ken- Soun:o: Coundt on P 1 .&11y Educollon ,.. • , ... •· dropped, altered, continued or ; tuc) By J.K. Wall demand for MBAs HERALD-LEADER BUSINESS WRITER usiness is good for Kentucky's i'v!BA pro· the road. But the commute time taxed its faculty, so grams. . this will be its last semester at Midway. Riding several years of surgmg de· mand. they are expanding enrollment or Convenience drives most Kentucky MBA pro• increasing selectivity. grams. They serve a regiorml, part•time student body. The schools seek students with a few years working BSome numbers: experience who want an iVIBA. Courses are offered on ■ Morehead State University began a virtual mas• ter's in business administration program and enroll• nights and weekends so the students can work. With its virtual MBA, Morehead State made con• · ment jumped from 86 to 375 from 1995 to 1999. . venience its top selling point. Students constrained - ■ Enrollment in the MBA program at the Um· versitv of Louisville grew from 461 to 562 between bv time and travel can still earn the degree. Even this distance•learning program draws most of its 1995 and 1999. students from the immediate region. ■ MBA enrollment has remained steady at the Universitv of Kentucky. but the number _of appli• Onlv at Thomas More and UK do full-time stu cants jum.ped by 50 between 1998 and 1_999. dents niake up a majority of MBA candidates. Richard Furst. dean of UK's Gatton business ■ And Sullivan College, a for.profit school. re· centh· started the state's 11th MBA·program. school. said UK tries to provide the high-quality. Bob Taylor, dean of Louisville's College of Busi• selective program that every state needs. Schools that have larger student bodies have a different ness and Public Administration. said the growth mission, he said. shows that MBA programs significantly increase "(Larger programs) take the students that maybe revenue. "l don't think (schools) would expand their pro UK can't take," he said. "It doesn't mean that strate• gy is wrong. It's just a different strategy." gram if they didn't find it a financially viable thing . ·' to do." Taylor said. _ , _ Fueling the demand No administrator could or would say how vmble. Business·school officials generally don't handle fi. Three to six years after undergraduate com rmncial decisions, they said, and it's difficult to spht mencement: all the schools interviewed send direct costs of professors teaching in several programs. But mail promoting their MBA programs to alumni and minority graduates. After a couple years in the work when enrollment rises, tuition revenue increases. and world. schools wager, people will see an MBA's ben· the cost per student drops. . "We're more than paying our way," ~aid Jac,k efits more clearly. Over director of Eastern Kentucky U111vers11y s Schools also work career fairs and send MBA program. _ _ mailings to people who took the Graduate Manage Despite the revenue stream, school exemnves um ment Admission Test, an entrance exam. formlv said MBA programs were not expanded for To reach businesspeople, schools host open hous the monev. Instead thev cited the nobler motivation of es. contacting personnel directors, and holding sym· continuing and expanding t!ieir _educatiorml missions. posiums at companies in their area . - . Susan Jordan, UK's MBA director, said mcreased The selling point in all the promotion 1s the edge applications will raise UK's national reputation be· an MBA holds over his or her peers. cause the school can be more selective. For the cur· "An MBA is great to open a--.. ·-- · , rent arndemic year, UK received about 300 MBA ap- door that mav not otherwise have been open," Jordan plirntions. and enrolled 80 students. _ said. She said an MBA can mean a jump in salary of "We tn· to keep it very selective." Jordan said. Sl5,000 to $30.000, or more. "There's tremendous demand at all levels, !butJ we're Rajani Menon, a UK MBA student, was recently not viewing (the MBA) as a moner-makin1; endea\' hired bv Cinergy in Cincinnati. She has a degree in or." UK might add an executive•MBA program for education, but after two unsatisfactory years of those thoroughly experienced in business. teaching, she decided to get her MBA. While most schools are capitalizing on the stron1; Menon said she was inundated with interviews demand. it's not universal. when she began her job search. Cincinnati's Xavier lJniversit)· started an :l!B.-\ "You will get a job very easily," she said. "The program at Midway Colle1;e in 1996. in addit!m1_t" pay scale is very good." Xa,·ier·~ 1,150-student on-campus program. Xa\'1er rt.'nt~ classroom space and sends its professors on WHAT IT TAKES TO START EARNING AN MBA KENTUCKY'S FAU. 1999 ADMISSION MBA PROGRAMS ENROLI.MENT COST REQUIREMENTS ------...... __ _ Bellannine College• 222 not available GMAT. 2 letters of recommendation 1Lou1sville1 Brescia University MSM 37 $160/credit hour. (GPA x 200+GMAT+1 pt per mo._ work exp.)=1000. (Owensboro) and $200 in fees Conditional acceptance if total =950. Eastern Kentucky Universtty 115 lo-state: $145/credit hour; 2.5 GPA; 400 on GMAT; (GPA x 200+GMAT)=950 (Richmond) Out•state: $391/credit hour Morehead State University 375 $147 /credit hour. 2.5 GPA; 400 on GMAT; (GPA x 200+GMAT)=950 (Morehead) and $30 technology fee Murray State University 197 In-state: $130/credit hour: (GPA x 200+GMAT)=ltl00 (Murray) Out-state: $374/credit hour Northern Kentucky University 182 In-state: $128/credit hour: 2.3 GPA; 450 on GMAT; GPA x 200+GMATl=l000 (Highland HeIghts1 Out•state: $374/credit hour Sullivan College 103 $240/credit hour GMAT or GRE; work exp. (Louisville, Lexington) Thomas More College 160 $324/credlt hour 2.5 GPA; GMAT: 2 years work experience; (Crestview Hills) basic busmess classes. letters of recommendation Unlve~ of Kentucky 239 In-state: $182/credit hour; 2. 75 GPA; GMAT: basic business classes (Lexington) Out•state: $544/credit hour University of Loulsvllle 562 In-state: $196.50/credit hour: 3.25 GPA; 530 on GMAT (Louisville) Out-state: $596.50/credit hour Westem Kentucky Univenllty 165 In-state: $150/credit hour 2.5 GPA; 400 on GMAT: !GPA x 200+GMAT=1050I: (BowlJng Greem work experience; letters ol recommendation ·····························································································----························•······························· (MORE) •Bellarmine enrollment and actmIssIons informatton come from Peterson·s 1999 MBA Guide; 6ellarm1ne declined to explain cos! structure. ' ' toii~J!Si: llusinesses, too, are also fueling the demand with Feltham and Dyer both thought the economy's educational-assistance programs for their employees. shift from manufacturing companies toward "knowl For instance, Kentuckv Utilities reimburses employ edge-based" operations helped increase MBA de ees for taking courses ioward a degree that relates to mand. Knowledge-based describes companies mak their job. ing money, often with computers and the Internet, Cliff Feltham, -community-relations manager of by improving service and delivery of existing prod KU, said the company's philosophy is that more edu ucts or services. cation improves job performance. "It's just become more and more necessarv to Training employees also fills the company have a graduate degree iri this economy," Dyer said. pipeline that leads to management jobs and helps re tain workers. he said. Lexingt0n Herald-Leader Monday, Februarv 28, 2000 · has wings, anri it wili sureiy take flight Protect yourself rvioney . , I . :~··•· :--..:., . . - if students aren't travel savvy, aware of scams Here are some tips from experts on how to. avoid t'l!Vel scams: ' By J.K. Wall president of Student Express, a trip ■ Bewa/e of high-pressure tactics. A legite HERALD-LEADER BUSINESS 'WRITER mately good deal today will be a good deal consolidator. "The thing is how a com tomorr01:, or next week. It's almost routine. pany deals with what happens." When there's a tourist travel rush, ■ ·Be wary of great deals. Few companies Consolidators can always transport can afford to substantially undercut other people get ripped off. For students, that stranded travelers or find them a room, companies, Don't assume everyone else is means spring break. Armstrong said, but it usually costs Jacking yp the price. Travel fraud costs Americans $12 more· money. Too many companies ■ ChecK a company before you buy. Find billion annually, says the American Soci won'fpay it, particularly if the foul-up where the company Is based. Then check its ety of Travel Agents. Students - novice wasn't their responsibility. reputation and complaints with consumer shoppers looking for cheapness at all The key for students is telling the protection agencies. costs - are particularly vulnerable. good from th,e bad. Area college stu ■ Read the fine print; It may alter the mean "Unfortunately, sometimes college dents said Web sites were their 'main ing of ari advertised statement or describe students let their common sense go on restrictlcins.1_. . ····~: _. research tool. But a Web page doesn't vacation before they do," said James make a company legitimate. ■ Watch' for hidden costs. Many offers Ashurst, spokesman for the society. "There are 6-year-old kids that can require port charges· (on international trips), Four main factors cause students hotel taxes, serviC!I fees or fuel surcharges. problems: put together Web sites that look damn professional," Ashurst said, These often aren't disclosed until after ■ Trip consolidators - companies you've agreed to buy. Ask detailed questions joining travel. lodging and food into Most students interviewed, howev about w~at the price covers. packages -- may oversell hotel and er. passed on the bait to plan their own ■ Get names of the airlines, airports, hotels plane space. Companies offer cheap trips. and reataurahts Included in your package. "You trv to find connections," said Call them to confinn reservations. If the con prices by buying blocks of hotel rooms solidatoC:can't give detailed answers, drop and airline seats in advance. The,· UK freshman Rachael Humbert, such as the deal.1 count on some cancellations. But wheii friends. grandmas. aunts, or anyone who ■ Ask cdnsolidators for referrals. Ask friends that doesn't happen, they have more lives somewhat near a beach. Then the and aoqyaintances about their experiences. students than space. students form a carpool to get there. ■ Pay with a credit card. If something goes ■ Or they might' undersell and "You can do it yourself for cheap wrong, your card company can cancel the have to suddenly consolidate guests er," said Steve Wilson, freshman at charge. '(hat's not an option wrth cash, and passengers. When flights are con· Eastern Kentucky University. check or,money order. Don't give your credit solidated, it might force students to Jason Norton. an EKU sophomore, card nulllber·over the phone unless you leave from a different city. read the promotional literature for trip know the company. ■ Trip consolidators often hire a packages. He compared deals, called ■ You can cancel a charter flight without telemarketing firm to sell packages. some companies to ask questions, and penalty if the operator makes a major Since the telemarketers get paid b,- the change: change of departure or return date called the hotels they deal with. sale, and face no further rcsponsibilitv. He ended up choosing to drive to or city, substituting a hotel not named in there's great incentive to exaggerate lo contract,:raising price by more than 10 per Daytona Beach instead. cent of package price. sell the deal. ■ The rules are often different than "There's some that were noticeable ■ Booking with a travel agent will give you people expect. Most trip consolidators how cheap they were," he said, "(But) better connections. with the travel companies I'm kind of skeptical." should something go wrong. . use charter flights, which may be run b1· small companies with no backup Norton is the model student travel ■ Local travel agents strongly recommend buying c8ncellation insurance. It's an extra planes in ,case of problems. Charter er,. according to travel experts. They $30-$40; but It can save·several hundred flights can be delayed up to· 48 hours say that ifa deal sounds too good to be dollars. ' without violating federal laws. true, it probably is. I Even with the best planning, prob "There's a price for travel and it's - SOURCES: FTC, BBB, ASTA, GOING PLACES TRAVEL ' AGENCY, ASHWOOD TRAVEL lems are still possible. difficult to get below that," said Andrea "There can always be things that Foster, regional director of the Federal go wrong,'' said Steve Armstrong, vice Trade Commission's Atlanta office. The Sunday Independent, February 27, 2000 ·-.,.,.---,- -•--~----:·--- -- : itechnolo. - -- [._ .... -~· ,__:.J.,,.1...0 .... --· - Story by Tom Lewis Not bad for a department' ., · .,:·.•"::.· .... _ .... - .. 1 Photos by John Flavell . t):iat started_ ':I decade ago in a , dle when he· •:iiong Kong -12 hours aw· little room with ~l!e camera saw a com- ·:_ via distance learnin te~ IRONTON_ To find the and a mo~est editmg system. mercial for the~ology. g latest radio and television Aca~em1cs . . tel~communi- The instructor wore an ii technology the Tri-State has Bemg a uruversity_ p_ro- . ,. cation~ pro- frared detector that the car. to offer, you might be in- !:!am, the t~leco~mumca-· •·, · gram m Iron- ,era followed as he moved. I dined to drive toward Hunt- !10ns cen!ers pnmary·focus. ton. · :the class is here and the ington, with its bevy of radio 18 educational. .. · ·· . ·• , The hand~- : teacher elsewhere and a st, and TV stations. OUSC offers an electromc. on opporturu- : dent has a ue f h If so, you'd be headed· the media associate degree, and ties 9:Dd the freedom to be es a button q an~ \t' e pu~ wrong wayl students have the option to creative "really tllrned me on zooms in 0 ~ hi e earner, When Ohio University go on ~ comp_lete a bac~e)or's to the progr~," he said. Economic m. Southern Campus.opened its degree m busm~~s ~dm1ms- _Behnke said he has main- d I t new $1.7 million telecommu- _,dt.. ,,•L --· 1 tained a 3.5 grade point aver- eve opmen nications center in August, it tration or organizational age or better. He plans to get M1:1ch of the technology also opened the door to a communication or to pursue a' a bachelor's degree and then that 1s used for educational broad array of opportunities bachelor's degree in telecom-· hopes to produce news or purpos1;s may also assist in for the region: educational munications at Ohio Univer- sports. . . economic development ef- business, community deveiop- sity's Athens campus. "Actually it's turned my !forts, Surgalski said. ment news and information The focus of the program . life around in a lot.of ways," The Ironton complex has progr'amming and more. I at the Ironton campus is . he said of the P.'rogram. · .. ,· the abflity to host vide() con "The goa,l of the roject is ~ore hands:on ~han_academ-, ,The prograri(~ new digs!••· · ferencmg to anywhe_re i_n th to improve ,the quahty of life · 1c, Surgalski said, with the ~ave boosted student interest ~o~ld. The commumty 1s al and economic development in goal of prep_arin~ pupils fo~ m electro_nic _media at OUSC, mVIte~ to hold news _confer. the region through improved entrr-level Jobs m electromc Surg:alski. said._ The program el!ces m ':ln area !)Quipped education and information medi_a. . . . . admitted its largest freshmen with aud10 !Ind VIdeo conne access for students and edu- With that m mmd, it 1s not class ever, ,,s;_Ia:st fall and'. tors for radio an:d TY news cators, government and busi- unusual for first-term fr~s_h-. -:=:~:-~-·~ ··---"-•...:.:----":-'-·· crews and a proJection. ~ere, ness personnel and communi- men to take a $15,000 digital · enrollment is at an all-time :that drops from the ce1lmg ty members," said Don call!era into th_e field for their high at 65 .. , . · for presentations. · Moore, OUSC director of elec- proJ,ects, he sai_d. -:W~ real!~'".! Surgaiski said olie of the'· T~e state-?f-the-art pro- tronic media. ,don t put any.limitations_<>, ·,. reasons OUSC decided toup- d~ction studios canals~ be .The new; center offers stu- the students. , . , _ , grade its telecommunicati~ns u~ed for. ~roadcast-quallty dents and community meiil- N? one ~n OUS(? s e!ec- 1 · program was because it saw a VIdeo proJects. hers access, to two television tron:ic media staff 1s !1 pro- need to expand its recruiting ,Outreach studios; a 50,000-watt radio fess10nal _ed~cator". either, horizons beyond the 'Iii-State Surg:alski said the OUSC station with live broadcast Surg!1l;Ski swd. Moore has a into areas like Cincinnati, center 1~ starting a heavy cap~bility; digital and analog teleVI;SIOn b_ack~ound, Sur- Columbus, Lexington and emphasis on community pre aud10 production and editing galski was m city and ca~le Charleston. rooms; a distance learning ' TV manageme_nt, and _Bnan "Next we want to focus on gramming. classroom; and video editing Corea ha~ radw expenence: stiidents that have a passion The school smtes for Beta, digital and "We hnng real-hfe expen- for electronic media," he said. has been the ence to _the st~dents .- One such student is fresh- hub for Iron SVHS-a maybe Just a little different man Emeri D. Scott II of Eu- ton's commu step above focus "than what that book clid, Ohio. nity access ca typical home says. . He said he wants to, be a ble TV chan VHS technolo Student reaction cinematographer or do sports nel for five Brooke Thacker, a second- . production. He looked at years. Now gy - formats. 1 ''We'offer year student from Lucasville, telecommunications schools the hope is to the whole said OUSC's electronic media : all over Ohio and decided expand those program has a very personal I that the education he is re- kinds of ser spectrum 1of technology," touch. ln~tructors get to , ceiving at OUSC for what he vices across said David know their students, and I- is paying in tuition is a great the Ohio Riv- Surgalski, as "they know what they're talk-· value. er. sociate direc , "It's almost a family at The Ash mosphere," he said. · land Board of tor of elec'tron ing about," ic media ii.t Distance learning City Commis ousc. ' she added. The Ironton campus' new sioners suc Second-year telecommunications center cessfullv Surgalski student Ned said most, local has a fully .active, two-way Behnke of distance learning classroom. radio and TV Ashland has a stations are Using video technology family with a and fiber-optic telephone envious of the 3-year-old technology lines, a class here can inter daughter. He act with an instructor hun OUSC's new was diagnosed center houses. dreds, even thousands, of with multiple miles away and vice versa. Leon Harris, a sclerosis and CNN anchor Last fall, an OUSC in was having structor taught a class in (MORE) and 1983 Ohio University trouble find- graduate, said the center had ing a career assembled gear that even he could han- CNN did not havP.. -···,,·,·-;;:""·"'·-•·•.....,.,.--, . -·· duce.~;;':,,,;:_r~~f"-. · , · pre!lseii .t\d_e~ ·coi:nmuni The department has also cat1ons, COl'Jll, :_~~ i(loclil · The show,4:{ormatted and scripted just'lik:e a typical produced a series on welfare educ~t1?nal access channel to fraud for the Ohio state audi the city s cable lineup. The new~cast on a commercial TV stat_1on, and much of the tor's office, a series to involve groundwork is being laid for parents in their children's ed such a channel, and it is ex t:qmpment - like fluorescent pected.to originate largely hghts_ that are heat-free, com ucation, a program in con from OUSC's studios. putenzed and can be set with junction with the National "We,don't want it to be the touch of a button _ is Funeral Home Association on OU's facility. We want it to more high-tech than what is how not to attract infectious b: everybody's," said Surgals fo~d at many commercial diseases during the embalm ki, a former manager ·of Ash- stations. . ·· ·: ing process and public service land's cable system. · , · Students· rotate from post BllI!Ouncements. It has also He said Irontcin's local ac ~ post, on camera and be assisted in pulling images cess channel had carried a · hind the scenes, throughout from security tapes to help couple ,of Ashland Mayor the _term to get a feel for the prosecutors. · ··-·· · Rudy Dunnigan's "state of ?Ut1es and pressures of each the city" addresses and two JOb. TOM LEWIS can be reached by or three Ashland Christmas OUSC students also do a phon~ at (606) 326-2653 or by lot of outside work to help e-mail at tlewis@dailyindepen prepare themselves and to pa~d~th. th;k~tii~chiin-__ ._...... __ __ _ dent.com nel, the Ash serve the community. For in land local ac stance, a crew with four cam cess channel eras and slow-motion instant will likely air ~epiay capability tapes Hunt college cours mgton Bliz_zard hockey es from games, which then air on OUSC and Ashland Com WHCP in Portsmouth munity Col . ""'.e'r~ no ESPN," S~rgals lege. k! swd. But we do provide . '. Hesaidhe · high-quality productions." hQped to in Other educational access clude more · programming produced by Kentucky the electronic media depart• news on the ~ent a!ready includes a pub ·w~ekly 30- h~ affrurs show, program mmute news mmg for and by senior citi ·shbwthat, zens and retirees, political .OUSC stu debates and live local election ldimt.s pro- :- · returns. . ... ,;ip l . ~ ·: , The Daily Independent, February 26, 2000_., ..n •··•,.------One does not have to look far to recognize that women are un Gender equity der-represented on · Kentucky boards and commissions. Webb said her childhood aspi Bill would encourage, but not mandate ration was to follow in the foot steps of her father - Grayson more female appointments to boards optometrist Robert C. Webb - - ly worded so as not to require as a member of the state Fish As· one of the few women in the governor to appoint a specif and Wildlife Commission. But the ~entucky General Assembly ic number of women to vacan to date, that commissiem has on and as a woman who has broken cies. Instead, it simply encour ly had male members. into several male-dominated ar ages the governor to make ap Rep. Susan Johns, D eas, it is only appropriate that pointments to achieve as much Louisville, noted that for years one of the first pieces of legisla gender balance as possible. women did not serve on the tion ,to be sponsored by fresh But from a symbolic stand state Real Estate Commission, man Rep. Robin Webb D- even though about three-quar ' . ' Grayson, deals with general eq- point, Webb and other female legislators say HB 380 is impor ters of all active real estate uity. agents in Kentucky were House Bill 380 would encour tant. Webb, an attorney who women. age - but not mandate - more worked. for a time as an under HB 380 is no guarantee that gender equity on state boards ground coal-miner, said the bill such inequities will change, but and commissions appointed by it is a small step in the right di would send ·a message to girls the :governor. It is a needed rection. Both women and men that they can aspire to achieve cha~ge that is more symbolic benefit when women are given a anything they want, and to boys than actual. bigger · voice in the decisions that they shouldn't feel threat Fr;om a practical standpoint, that impact the lives of all. HB 380 does little. It is careful- ened by women wielding influ ence. LexingtonHerald-LeaderMonday, February 28, 2000 \' V -Ro:txran;'s1 success story 1 By Frank E. Lockwood With unemployment at 30-year low, NOR™EASTERN KENT\JCKY BURE"AU MOREHEAD - According to county is shedding its poor image the Appalachian Regional Commis sion, Rowan County is economical ly distressed. "\Vhen we move into this facil Thev also come here to study. ity, it'll be paid for in cash," opera But you wouldn',t know it by Morehead State University has tions manager Mark Hamrick told about 8.600 students, and with the latest employment statistics. Or job applicants last week. "So we the gigantic distribution center go nearly 1,000 workers, it's the don't have creditors nipping at county's largest employer. ing up west of Morehead. Or the our heels trying to close us down." huge, multicounty industrial park Local _historian Jack Ellis said So fat, 2,500 people have ap that is home to the center. Rowan County has always been plied for the jobs at the center, "an island of activity in a sea of In a county with 24,000 resi which is expected to begin receiv dents, only 329 people were unem non-activity' because jt had ac ing merchandise in May. Those cess to-transportation - rail ployed in December, the state says jobs can't come soon enough for - the lowest rate in at least three ways at first, then Interstate 64. many of those who were apply But the area has had its share decades. Boosters look at such ing last week. numbers and see them as a sign of setbacks. losing several major "I'll take anything, as long as employers over the years. Among that Morehead, after years of lag it's a job," said Wilma Smith. 36, ging behind, 'is moving into Ameri them: a factory that made spokes of Carter County, which has dou for Model T Fords, an ironing ca's economic mainstream. ble-digit unemployment. board manufacturer, a brick-mak- "We're doing well for an Eastern Kentucky county," said Rowan Coun The battle against poverty ing plant and a clay-tile faciiit'., ty Judge-Executive Clyde Thomas. While jobs are more plentiful In the 1980s, Thomas said, For years, the road to opportu these days, there's still plenty of "We were sort of standing still, nity headed out of the mountains, stagnant, and most of our new out of the county or out of the state, poverty in Rowan County. persons in the work force were Thomas said - and most of those Morehead's First Church of having to leave the city and roads were unpaved. God holds a "community feast" county to get jobs." Rowan County still has 80 miles once a month, giving needy fami That changed after local offi of unpaved roads, pockets of pover lies a warm meal and a bag of gro cials hired a full-time economic ty and wages that are well below ceries. Volunteers serve between development director in the early the national average. 200 and 275 people each month. 1990s and bought large tracts of But with 'the help of a booming Some of them are single-par land suitable for industry. ent families trying to get by on In early 1997, Guardian Auto economy, "we're getting that one low-wage salary. Others are changed." Thomas said. motive opened .a plant north of senior citizens on fixed incomes Morehead, creating more than Family Dollar, a North Caroli or people with high health-care na-based retailer, is clearly helping 300 jobs. Other, smaller, compa costs and no insurance, said nies followed. Since 1990, the in that regard with the $50 million, program coordinator Terry Cor l million-square-foot distribution county has paved 150 miles of nett. roads and built better bridges, center it is building on 93 acres at . "There are people who are the Menifee-Morgan-Carter-Rowan sewers and waterlines . hungry who don't get supper, Officials think the county's Regional Industrial Park west of who don't get breakfast," Cornett Morehead. increasingly diversified economy, said. "Most of us have food or supported by health care, manu To attract our basic needs met, but there are Family Dollar, facturing, education and -retailing many people who don't."· jobs, will fare well in the future. officials agreed Officials are working hard to to waive the lo They also see additional op change that. And they say Fami portunities in the recreation, trav- cal l percent ly Dollar is just the beginning. occupational There are still about 400 el and tourism industries. If in tax for 10 acres available for development vestors follow through on plans years. During at the regional industrial park, to build a resort lodge and con that time, the which was funded by coal-sever ference center in Bath County, Barnum company will ance dollars. near the Rowan County line, the get to keep that The combination of good Cave Run Lake area will become money. a year-round destination, officials • --- .. Family Dol- land,.solid infrastructure and in terstate highway access will lead predict. · lar plans to hire to additional expansion, said So why is Rowan County still 550 workers, Morehead-Rowan -County Eco officially designated by the ARC and most will nomic Development Council Ex; as a "distressed" area? earn $8.55 an ecutive Director Del White. "I Because ARC bases its classi hour or more, think our growth will hold out as fications, in part, on poverty fig said the compa long as we have people to put to ures from the 1990 census, ac ny's regional work," White said. cording to ARC senior economist Jackson vice president, Because the county has near-· Greg Bischak. David Barnum. ly full employment, many of In 1990, nearly 29 percent of That works out to about $17,800 those workers will have to come the county's residents were living per year 'in a county where the from elsewhere in Eastern Ken in poverty; unemployment was at 1997 per capita earnings were tucky. 9 percent. It's likely that Rowan $10.162. Nationally. the average "We're like a mini-Lexing County's poverty rate will drop for that vear was $21.141. ton," White said. "People come to substantially after the 2000 cen Employees will also have job us to go to the doctor, to go shop sus, Bischak said. security, if the past 1s an}'. md1ca ping, to buy cars, and they come Thomas welcomes the tion. Family Dollar, which has here to go to work." changes. "I remember how it has 3 400 stores in 39 states, hasn't been," he said. "I just count our !~id off an employee in its 40- blessings every d,!Y." year historv. officials say. was an All-Area doing so many things." By RocKY STANLEY ' Player of the Webb had 11 assists OF THE DAILY INDEPENDENT Year at West again.st Murray State this MOREHEAD' - Jeremy Carter High season and was credited with Webb, the son of a basketball School. And be five steals in three different coach, has always played like fore that, he games. the next game was his last. grew up in the He only wishes the team Well, tins time it's true. West Carter could have fared better. Webb, a senior forward fro!il gym while his "We lost so many close Olive Hill, ,closes out a solid father, Jim Webb, was head games," Webb said. "The team collegiate career Saturday is the only thing that matters. night when Morehead State coach of the Comets. I wouldn't care if! didn't score entertains Eastern illinois. a point if we were winning." Morehead's · ... "I think about 74-58 home loss all those hours spent in the ROCKY STANLEY can be to Southeast reached at (606) 326-2671 or Missouri ! last gymnasium night eliminated · with my dad by e-mail at rstanley @dailyin the Eagles from when he was a coach," Webb dependent.com contention I for a said. "It makes me very spot in· , ·next thankful." week's Ohio Val . Webb will always hold a ley Conference special place in MSU history. Tournament. Last season, he may have ac Lexington Herald-Leader MSU is 4;13 in complished a first at More Sunday, February 27, 2000 the OVC and 9, head by playing all five .posi- tions.· · · · · 17 overall. ' ■ BOWLING Webb, · from • When point guard Teddy · Olive 'Hill, has Docks broke his hand and his started 'every backup was also out of action, game this sea Webb quarterbacked the team Morehead's son and · gets for a handful of games. And coach Kyle Ma he filled in a couple of games cy's nod as'More- : at center when the Eagles head's . most were short-handed. Crawford valuable player. "One thing the coaches said "Jeremy's been an out to me was, 'Jeremy, whenever standing player for our pro you become a coach, you don't gram," Macy said, "He leaves have to take anything from honored everything he has on the floor. anybody because you played .He may not be the most tal By Doug Bradley ented player out there, but no Division I basketball and HERALDLEADER BOWLING WRITER body has done more things to played every position,' "Webb The nationally ranked More help this team." said. head State bowling program re Webb -.6-foot-6 and 210 This season, Morehead centlv had one of its stars hon pounds, 'leads the Eagles .in needed Webb to hit the boards ored." rebounding, steals 'Ind mm- as hard as possible. He has re Robin Crawford, a junior sponded by leading the Eagles from Henderson, Tenn., has been utes piayed. He also shoots in rebounding in more than named the 2000 Alberta E. 52 percent from the field and half of their games and aver Crowe Star of Tomorrow by the ranks among MSU's assist aging 6.1 for the season. WIBC. leaders. But numbers are not Webb tied a career high Crawford, an All-American the full measure of Webb's with 13 rebounds against the past two seasons, was a mem contributions. · Tennessee State. ber of Morehead State's 1998 na "If not for Jeremy taking "I think it's just a mentali tional championship squad. The charges, we probably wouldn't ty, actually wanting to get the award gives her a $1,500 scholar have many," Macy said. "He's ship renewable for up to three the first one to dive for a loose ball," Webb said. "Boxing out ball. His; influence on our years if she remains in school. gets you some rebounds, but Crawford will be recognized . all great rebounders just go by the WIBC at its annual meet yo~nger player;~has be~n very get the ball." ing in Reno, Nev., on May 1-3. positive. Jeremy won't be for In recent OVC statistics, gotten, that's for sure." Webb ranked in the league's With about three weeks re top 10 in rebounding, steals maining in the season, the re alization hit Webb that his and assist-to-turnover ratio. college car~er was fast wind He also averages 8.4 points, mg down., including a season-high 23 "I was thinking about all against Tennessee State. the hard work put in, giving it . It's easy to see why Macy all I have," Webb said. "It doesn't want to lose the valu kind of hit me. Gosh, you don't able senior. have much longer to play." "I've already thought about ' Webb reflect- that," said the MSU coach. ed further back. "It's difficult finding someone Prior to coming who can step into that role of to Morehead, he , dE COURIER-JOURNAL• SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2000 THE COURIER-JOURNAL MONDAY, 0: Was there ·anything you could have FEBRUARY 28. 2000 done to avoid the lnJu~est ... A: We've had therapists, orthopedic specialists and trainers look at our preseason workouts, FRANKFORT weight programs, and there was nothing in there that should have caused stress fractures. It's just KSU-police officer with one of those freak accidents. But ii has been · suspended without pay tough. A lot of them were not full-fledged stress Laura fractures, but if they kept going, they would have The Kentucky State University been. campus police officer charged with the theft of state police propeny was Litter 0: How did you manage to keep spirits suspended without pay Friday. up during a 23-game losing streak? The suspension of Lt. Edward Ty Morehead State women's teams won just 12 A: That's been a typical question, 'How did we rone C~rter was confirmed by Car games the past two seasons, but the Lady Ea do it?' No. 1, we're a family, and we stayed to• , s_on Smtih, KSU's vice president for gles started this campaign with high hopes. gether and helped each other pull through all the , finance and administration. Third-year coach Laura Litter welcomed JO hard times. I've said all along the OVC is very Carter, 30, of Louisville, was ar newcomers, including Miss Kentucky Jody balanced and on any night anybody can win. It's rested about 7 p.m. Wednesday Ken Sizemore of Leslie County. not like we've been blown out of many games. tucky State Police said. H~ was But the season has.been a disaster. Heading We had two overtime games and several others charged with a misdemeanor count into last night's home game against Southern we've been in it but just haven't had enough of theft by unlawful taking and pos- Jllinois, the Lady Eagles were 2-25 overall and depth to finish ii off. l-17 in the Ohio Valley Conference. session of an obscuring machine. Morehead has the onus of being ranked Q: The·win at Murray had to be sweet. Court r~cords say Carter "had in his 315th.and last in the Ratings Percentage Index A: We're headed in the right direction. We just possession a miniature board cam of NCAA Division I teams. The Lady Eagles needed more players. We played our full-court era, which had a KSP propeny num beat Division II Davis & Elkins in the season pressure, up-tempo style. The entire year we've ber removed, defaced or otherwise opener, then lost 23 straight games before last played with a seven-player rotation, (The last few obscured (0 render it unidentifiable." weekend's upset victory at Murray State. games) are our kickoff for next season. We want Carter 1s accused of stealing the As the losses have piled up, so have the in ed to finish up strong. ca~era from the campus on Feb. 6. juries. The Lady Eagles have endured eight Q: How has the Morehead community re He IS to be arraigned March 6. stress fractures, and Litter has been forced to redshirt three players. acted to the losing season? She recently talked about the trying season A: People have seen us progress throughout with The Courier-Journal's Jody Demling. the year, and the community has stuck behind us. They felt for us. They've seen what we've been Question: How rough has It been? through this ·season and helped remind us to Answer: From the very beginning we just ren keep our heads up and know that our time will into one injury after another. I've coached 17 come. We have not lost confidence as a staff or years and had a total of two stress fractures, and team. We know our time will come; it's just a mat now we ·get eight in one season. It's mind-bog ter of staying healthy. gling, disgusting, frustrating .. , you namen. Q: Sophomore Tasha Galens sat out sev Q: Were any of the Injuries related? en games to start the year but is leading A: No. There were three metatarsals, one heel the team In virtually every statistical cate and the other four in shins. Jody Sizemore had gory. Sizemore will be back, plus you've two in one leg and one in the other. They say it added several top-notch recruits. Is win• can be caused by overuse. ~ody worked extreme nlng just around the corner for Morehead? ly hard during the summer on her own. She felt A: We're very excited about next year. I saw like she had a lot to prove to the people of Ken somewhere that we're the fourth-youngest team in tucky. She had run every day and worked hard; the nation in that we have nine active freshmen she was in tip-top shape. But within two weeks that have played at some point this season. The after we started, she began complaining about her Mure is bright. · shins and stress In .the iiijj:., They said hers were probably_beca'use of ovenJS8. Lexington Herald-Leader Lexington Herald-Leader Saturday, February 26, 2000 Saturday, February 26. 2000 UK starts moving earth Boards and commissions for engineering facility House passes gender-equity blll: The House yesterday passed a bill dealing with gubernatorial With three backhoes in the background already appointments to state boards and commissions, and at work. University of Kentucky officials and donors their gender makeup. The bill would not force the held a groundbreaking ceremony yesterday for a governor to make appointments based on gender. new mechanical engineering building. The $24.8 mil But it says that when a board or commission's mem lion project is scheduled for completion in Januarv bership does not reflect gender equity, the governor 2002. The brick and limestone building will feature a may make an appointment to achieve as much gen glass atrium between two wings, and will complete der balance as possible. Rep. Robin Webb, D an engineering quadrangle in the center of UK's cam Grayson. said the bill carries "an important symbolic pus. It will house laboratories, classrooms. confer message" for today's youth. She said it could encour ence rooms, computer laboratories. a career center, a age girls to aspire for leadership, and for boys to student commons area and administrative offices. accept it. The bill passed 93-1 and goes to the Senate. -J.K. WALL THE COUR!!:R-JOURNAL SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 26 2000 Study of higher teacher pay urged Two senat?rs filed a resolution_yesterday calling for a study of ways the state can increase teacher salaries and benefits. :·Ho_pefully, ne_xt session: w_e'll be in a position to address salaries," s_a1d Lindy ~aseb~~r. R-Lou1sv11le. who is ch.airman of the Senate Educa tion Committee. As_ we loo~ at the teach mg profession, we've ~at to look at. pay and reahze thats what helps keep quatitv teachers m the classroom." ~ Casebier and S_en. Bob Jackson, D-Murray, filed Senate Concurrent Resoluuon 88, which calls on the leg,slature's interim House-Senate edu catlo~ panel to propose improvements to base teacher pay and insurance benefits by September 2001. The Sunday lndepen~ent, February 27, 2000 ' KeieP. on New p~ogram at Ashliu1_4 Technical College fills void Story and photos BY MIKE JAMES SHLAND - Enticing p1.rtnership ¥.ith CDL Train new business devel ing Services and Consulting rently employed as a night opment is an integral Inc., which contracts to pro worker at a loading dock, he A part of AsJiI~d Tech vide the trucks, instructors was taking another course at. nical Colleges m1ss10n, ac and coursework through the ATC and heard about the cording to Richard Kendall, school. program. the school's director. . The arrangement provides · He enrolled because he And when businesses the company built-in credibil wants to make more money scope dut a new location, they ity - it has to meet stan and was encouraged by the look for the resources they dards of the Kentucky Com- , promise of quick employ need to keep them produc0 munity and Technical College ment, he said. "Most places tive, he said. · System - while bringing the you put in an application and "They want an abundant school a program it couldn't it's three or four weeks before supply'ofresources to operate afford to mount on its own. you hear anything," he said. and to trans With modern tractor trail "All I have to do is get my port their ers selling for more than CDL and I have a job." products," he $100,000 each, ATC couldn't Cooper estimates there said. buy even one, much less · will be 350,000 openings in That's launch an entire program, dustrywide in the next two why, when Kendall said. . years. recruiters The course is offered in a Nationwide, there's an im from major full-time day schedule for mediate shortage of about 20 trucking percent ofthe total need, said companies four weeks or part-time at night for eight weeks, said co Greg Collins, a recruiter for came to him Star Transport.. -· . · · seeking he! p ordinator Lloyd Cooper. in filling It includes 48 hours of He projects a need for more what has be new drivers - and new train- come an end classroom work followed by -- ·- _·_'}'--:.· less string of 112 hours behind the wheel, ing programs - for the next job openings, he said. 15 years. • he ,saw a He agrees Ashland is a double op Jobs waiting good area for such programs ' portunity. Designed for peopje wit? because it is the hub of the He·saw a little or no commercial dn Tri-State. chance to ex ving experience, the course And because of recent clo pand the prepares students for their sures .and layoffs at Ca school's edu commercial driver's license bletron, Ironton Iron and cational base test. Ashland Inc., there's. a good while at the Students are screened for potential student base, he same time drugs and undergo back said. , adding to the ground checks. . There are more trucks on region's ap Many are pre-hired before the road than ever before be peal as an in they ever turn the ~e:y in t?e cause of a restructuring of the dustrial loca ignition of the trammg ng, way industry handis prod tion. said instructor George Mc ucts, Cooper said. ff, Coy. "We like to see them go Fewer products are ware Brand new to work within a few days af housed; instead they are Ashland Tech's tractor ter graduation," he •said. trucked to multiple destina trailer: driver training pro tions immediately after man 1 Erick Kegley, 21, of Ash gram is scarcely a week old, land said he has an offer from ufacture or import, he said. its first three students s_till Star Transport Inc., an Illi In addition, the booming Jearningthe basics of backing nois-based firm whose trucks economy .has overloaded the their rigs through a course vf blanket the eastern U.S. Cur- nation's freight system, Mc orange cones. Coy said. But •all three already have :job offers; as soon as they · pass the four-week course they'll :go on the payroll of a major trucking firm. The :college was able to of fer the program through a ' ' ere histories 0 e PrQ~,-~~-Sunday. Februa,y 27, 2000 ~ Honesty makes for good reading • Reviewed by John R. Thelin dependent" - colleges have both in or those of us who live in the past and present made a contribu , Lexington area, it's under- tion to the life of the commonwealth. ;. standable that the University For example, private Bellarmine of Kentucky dominates our im- is a part of its community, whether . age of higher education. It also this be defined as Kentucky · Fis important that we appreciate the Catholics, its immediate neighbor variety of strong colleges and uni hood or the greater Louisville area. versities throughout the common- Morehead State University acknowl : wealth. edges its origins as a private, : Fortunately, we have three im- church-related institution as well as ' pressive campus histories that allow its regional commitment. Even , us to look beyond the (Big) Blue though the University· of Louisville Horizon. · is prominent today as a state univer sity, its heritage is self-described as ■ "semi-private." On balance, what we These three college histories tell see is that these three institutions amazing tales of dedication and sac have contributed to creating a re rifice. Nowhere is this more evident sponsible, educated middle class than in Donald Flatt's history of throughout the commonwealth. Morehead State University, A Light in the Mountains. ■ Flatt's institutional story fleshes These books give us pride with out the perpetual role of state and lo York, the University of Louisville out pretense. None of the authors cal politics in shaping the campus. embellishes the writing to inflate an has been acquiring a true national institution's importance. Nor do they Amidst a succession of controversies university presence. involving ambitious administrators The authors and the institution gloss over the problems in each cam and even a few ruthless governors, pus history. This modesty ironically gain respect for their candor on an kindles a reader's interest and ap · . there are earnest students and devot important issue: the universi(is , . ed faculty. And, from time to time slow and half-hearted initiatives in plause. Donald Flatt, professor emer quiet heroes, such as interim presi race relations .. Although Kentucky's itus of history at Morehead State, ac dent A.D. Albright, brought healing Day Law prevented blacks from at complishes the difficult task of and direction to a troubled campus. tending historically white institu blending a thorough account of the Flatt closes with the promising tions, it did not prevent them from campus with, the always provocative note that there are signs of maturity. voting. Hence, in the 1920s saga of Kentucky's state politics. Morehead State University has out Louisville's black community voted For The University of Louisville, grown some of the abuses of state against increased municipal tax-sup authors Dwayne Cox and William politics intruding into presidential port for a segregated U of L. The Morison bring impeccable skills as searches and academic decisions. history of U of L eventually included archivists combined with their expe ■ the incorporation of Black Louisville rience as historians. This combina I suppose praising The Universi Municipal College into the university tion gives them the confidence to . of Louisville qualifies as a "Cardi structure. Finally, U of L showed display wit and good humor about a nal sin." But who can blame me? some signs of fair play by achieving beloved institution. This is a well-written book about an racial integration voluntarily, in ad Bellarmine College's history interesting university. vance of federal mandates. gains from the writing skill of long Usually "house histories" are ■ time literary contributor and English stuffy and self-congratulatory, yet Wade Hall's history of Bel professor Wade Hall, who orches the strength of this account is that larmine College, High Upon a Hill, trates the voices of several campus that the authors acknowledge U of shows that history is not reserved constituencies. L's limits as well ·as its successes. for the old. Bellarmine's pioneer Campus histories run the risk of Take the university seal: several class entered in 1950 and set into depicting our colleges and universi versions have each proclaimed a dif motion the energy of a young insti ties as two-dimensional museum ex ferent founding date. And, thanks to tution that was effective and inspir hibits. The refreshing change here is an enthusiastic mayor, in 1948 the ing. Among the genre of institutional that the three books - each in a dis university "rediscovered" its birth histories, it succeeds in portraying tinctive, different style - shows date to be 1798, not 1837 or 1846! its history as a family effort. Rather that higher education in Kentucky is , The University of Louisville re than emphasize a chronological ac lively and complex. These books mains nationally significant because count, its presentation relies on such give us an opportunity to pause and its evolution reversed the pattern therries as "students" and "conimuni appreciate our Kentucky colleges found elsewhere. It relied first on its ty relations." It is different and effec and universities as admirable works medical school and then its law tive. in progress. school to form its historic core. Only ■ ■ later were the college of liberal arts What these books show is that John R. Thelin is professor of and other fields added. each institution has its own story. educational policy studies at the Uni And, with leadership by presi This illustrates the diversiiy within versity of Kentucky. He is the author dents who came with experience at the state's public higher education of several books on the history of such institutions as Harvard, Van system. Also, clearly, the lines of American higher education and is derbilt, the University of California public and private are often blurred, president of the Association for the and the State University of New and ithat the private - or rather "in- Study of Higher Education. 1 I .. holM,Ships help fill New,,\1-·, .,.. Klii ·c~@llegm~ I ,,.,r;•, .. ' t~ •• ":! . ,;_ ___ ..;·--·~• . . '. ~--~ ;{'l:T•" •·-·""'.._.._-_.... • State'.rewaros students for high school success Lexington Herald-Leader Monday, February 28, 2000 .·.,, That change, Shaughnessy By Holly E, Stepp said, proved to be a good one .. HERAl.D,l.EA[)ER EDUCAOON WRITER "I was a bit wary of lowermg "I thought I wouldn't be able As ·a student arPowell Coun the grade-point average (required to go to college at all, but now I ty High School, Ann Kell was • for the award) to a 2,5," he said. can stay at home, help my family certain that college was well be- "But if that is helping get more and go to school," she said. yond her reach. · · students into college, that 1s a "That's pretty good." "l knew I couldn't afford it - good thing for Kentucky," he said. the money,iust wasn't there - Students with perfect gracjes and I didn't think1 would be able and high scores on the American to get the scholarships to pay for College Test can receive as much it," said Kell, 19, of Stanton. as $2,500 year. But 'she received a pleasant In the program's first year! 56 surprise the fall of her senior year percent of the high school seniors - counselors told the Class of who earned KEES awards used 1999 about the new scholarships, them last fall. Many of_ the re paid with money from the Ken maining 44 percent are usmg their tucky Lottery. Earn good grades, awards this semester. they said, and you can earn mon Almost every college in the ey toward a college education. state has some stuaents under the Now, Kell is in the middle of program. . her second· semester at Central . About 54 percent of scholar Kentucky Technical College in ship recipients, about 9,100 s11:1- Lexington. She's studying office dents, attended a four-year pubbc technology, with her sights on university. Of those students, the earning an associate degree and University of Kentuck:( enrolled then transferring to a four-year !he most ·KEES rec1p1ents, fo\ university to major in accounting. ~wed by Wes tern Ke~tuck:, Um- · I "If it · hadn't been for the yersity and the Umvers1ty of : ..., .... '\'"'!'I~·---,.....-····. . schQ)arsh1ps;'l ·would be some tc>uisville. · where in Stanton just working," , About 15 percent of the_ stu Aents went to four-year pnvate said Kell. Lexington Herald-Leader Sunday, February 27. 2000 New UK president .must be exceptional By Alan Hawse nizing that the university is a piece of major decision is in the making, the puzzle and a key part of a unified ~~Uy obvious in Fayette Countv school one that mll affect the economv education svstem in this state. . d s recent fiasco in searching for a SU· permtendent. Now is time for the UK board A. ot Kentucky for decades: Who · ■ Be a visionary. UK's problems will be the next president of the Uni are not operational. ln general. the col to contam the lame-duck administration versity of Kentuckv? leges are well-run, budgets are met, Thhe laSt ~o presidential searches i~di So ynu say to Yourself, "Nonsense students are taught. UK's problem is a ca1e t at durmg the days leadin u t Everything is tine at UK. We won th~ clouded vision oi its role in the educa ~ ~ec1s1on, there w_ill be a veJ p~b8c :,SCA,\ championship in ·95 and '98, art" bout the Job. With multiple front-page tion svstem and the economv. 1 an_d although we aren't doing that well ■ -Be a powerful leader. To move fin IC es, '!e":'s conferences, posturing and this year. what we really need to do is UK in a new direction. the president ger-pomtmg. All parties involved in the locu~ on a ne\v point guard, not a new straearkch fnehed to get beyond this and not lose must lead 12,000 employees and cotegoal. P:es1dent." This is typically the level of 31.000 students. But he or she will also dialogue that characterizes issues per be required to provide indirect leader Properly positioned, UK can be the taining to UK. ship - by example·- to city and f:ongest moral force in the state, provid- . This is not a theoretic-al discussion Tpurpose and leadership on issues criti state i,;overnments. ca do everyone, whether or not they at 1~f 1Yory-tower academics. It is a ques ■ Be a good fund-raiser. Money is tion of who _will take the leadership the fuel that faes the growth of a uni te'! ed college - any college. But that re role m tom1111g the economic future of versity. Many public schools. like the i~~esth a president possessing imagination e courage to use it the region. The average person will University of Virginia, have developed , say, "I don't attend uK and I don't endowments that are manv times that · work at l'K. so why do I care?" Be of UK's. and the gap is widening. The (ause the eConomic wealth of a corn president must be able to effectively mun_ity is tied to the strength of its ed build the relationships required to gar- .. ucation svstem. And ner financial support from industry, UK is at the center of private individuals and the govern this svstem. ment Kentuckv cannot lf this person sounds like the Sec- succeed by competing with Third World ond Coming, you are right It is going to economies for manual be a significant challenge to find a top labor. In Silicon Val quality candidate, The slogan of education ley, with Stanford in Kentucky is "Education Pays." This University at the epi time it had better, the person just de ce1_1ter, new wealth is . Alan ·Hawse scribed is going to be expensive. bem~ ':'eated at a is site direc As a graduate of the University of Ken prod1g1ous rate. Wher- tor for Cy- tucky and the Georgia Institute of Technol ~ver new, h1gh-paymg press Sem 1._ ogy, l find it interesting to compare the Jobs are•bemg created;--- · , strategy of these two schools. Georgia look for top universi- . conductor s Tech is in the middle of a very ambitious ties. Places like Kentucky De- project called the Yamacraw Mission. It is Austin, Boston and ve/opm~nt a strategic economic development initiative Atlanta have great .. Cen_ter ,n t~t combines the efforts of private enter schools like the Uni- · Lexington. pnse, eight public universities and state versity of Texas, the government. The project shows that Geor ~settsJ11stitute of Technology gia has recognized the relationship of its and Georgia Tech. . economy and its universities. Even Pittsburgh, whose economy Contrast this with UK which has an was a bastion of Rust Belt economics advertising campaign that sells it as is being_ reborn through its partner- ' "America's next great university." The uni ships with Carnegie Mellon and Pitt. versity system of Georgia has a mission; There is a strong correlation not UK has a marketing strategy.. only between the behavior of a univer There are two basic possibilities for the sity and a regional economy, but be search for the next president. tween the institution and the behavior The first is that the board of trustees, of its president. A single person can the governor, the faculty and the city will thus have a large effect on the econo set aside individual, short-term interests my. and focus on the long-term well being of lt is critical that the next president: the state. ■ Be an outsider. A fundamental The second possibility is an ugly politi- principle of academia is to prohibit in breeding. No good department at UK hires students who completed their ~l war r~ulting in a backroom, clandes doctorates there. This is not to say that tme select10':1 of a president, likely a crony these people are not of high quality of whoever 1s best at the political maneu venng. From many of the articles written but that it takes a constant stream ~f ~bout the la~t two presidential searches; it new blood to make the university 1s clear that 1f one or more groups see this .1-,TfOW. as an opportumty to consolidate power or ■ Have impeccable academic cre to ensure a successor in their image the dentials. A superior academic back process will fail. · ' ~'found is required to ~,amer the re Political maneuvering _has already. be spect of the faculty. Universities oper gun. There already have been significant ate under a different set of rules. poli tics and procedures. To safely navigate efforts by the current UK administration to manipulate the succession process. These the minutiae, the candidate must have mclude an attempt to gerrymander the practical experience in a major re search <:>'?ffiittee and what appears to be a search university. · rather d1smgenuous setup of the new chan- ■ Be a rising star. No matter how cellor for president. · good an applicant is, this is not the time to hire someone who is coming ExperienCI; i':1 r~\ting leaders by pri home to retire. This president needs to vate 3?d p~bhc 1nstttuttons reveals that if be dialed into the new economy, recog- a'! ms1der 1s a candidate, good candidates will not enter the process, This was :MSU Clip ..,"h eeMSU AlCHIVEs ' A sample. of. recent articles of interest to Mbrehead. State University February 29, 2000 UNIVERSITY ,COMMUNICATIONS MOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY UPO BOX 1100 MOREHEAD, KY 40351-1689 (606) 783-2030 The c-a,lv lnaepccdent. February 28. 2000 Morehea'd students pull tog:ether to raise funds for friend, mascot By MICHELLE P0LAK0VS ate him. FOR THE 0.\ILY INDEPENDENT The MSU student learned in December that he has lym ~!OREHEAD - Morehead phoma. ~late l'ni\'er~itv ::;tudents While he has been in and ha\'l' been raisin'g money to out of the hospnai taking lwlp a fellow student who .,;uf chemothernnv : :·ea: mPnts. .· -r....: i'rnm \·,mohoma. memOen~ 11( the · r·::atPrnitv i·1111y 11ake·r. ·a 22-year-old Baker belongs t,,. T,,a 1-.:aopa Jun1<,r from ::ihepardsville, has Epsilon. hav~ been holding a . hPPll l'lltl'rt:lining fans and series of fund-raisers to help 1,-adin~ \!SL' students during offset the cost of his treat Tony Baker, a ball,:ames as "Beaker,'' the ments. 22-year-old Eade~ mnscot. "We are just happy to be Junior from De sen bed as a great guy able to help out in any .way Shepardsville. ·., h<> would not hesitate to that we can." Barr· Burke, suffers from iieiµ another. Baker is finding president of Tau ,~appa Ep lymphoma. out just how much his friends silon. said. "He is the type of and follow students appreci- person that you could ask to do anvthing for "you and then Baker dressed as Beaker, want nothing in return." the Morehead State Univer So far the TKEs have raised money by collectiriis sity mascot,- spare change from other cam· pus organizations, holding a concert and sponsoring a so cial event wit~ Delta Tau Delta, another MSU fraternity. Other orga nizations and: individuals have , also helped: "A lot of giving has been just because peo- ple wanted to give." dean of st u · dents · and Baker's cheerlead ing_-·oach, Mvi-on Doan. said. Doah said~ the donation::; are nearing $7,000 with oth,•r events·still planned. The Daily Independent. :=ebruar-1 28. 2000 "Tony is very loyal to tlw school and very loyal . to oth,,r people. Because he is so cmin~ ----Jeremy Webb ends stellar MSU career toward other people, we feel it is important to do this for him." ,Jeremy Webb was not the field goal attempts. Doan said. ''We know he'd be tallest, fastest or most athletic But the numbers only tell player ,;n the Morehead State part of the story. No one plays doing' it for ui!." Uni\'crsity basketball team. He Baker has been amazed' I"· with more determination than the outpouring of support and simply was the most valuable Webb. He dives for balls, goes especially appreciative of the pla~-.-P.r. one-on-one with players much letters and pictures he recei V('S Tlw \\'pst Carter High School f'rom 'elemerl.tary ::;cho(>I t I u larger than he and leads by ex dents, Doan said. ~-·aduale and former All-Area ample. Burke said the TKEs :i I'<' P.a,vcr of the Year ended' a stel Webb never played on a win considering another concert 111 lar eollcge basketball career Sat Baker's behalf and possibly " ning team during his four years unlay when MSU's regular sea , silent: auction. Donations mm· at Morehead, and for that, we're be mailed to Broken Wing Can son ended without the Eagles certain he is disappointed. But cer fund, UPO Box 1296 More qualifying for the ·Ohio Valley head,' Ky., 40351, or ;;11 Bart at a time of turmoil and transi Burke at (606) 783-3062 for Conference tournament. The 6- more _information. foot-6 Webb led the team in re tion for the Eagles, he always bbunding, steals, minutes gave his best and was a positive, played and hit 52 percent of his steadying influence. Lexington Herald-Leader Monday, February 28, 2000 • • :Ir o ao Strong economy puts graduates in demand Online Job process? "The market is so good now, every By Jacinta Feldman One answer to the fairs' overcrowding HERALDUADER STAFF WAITER body's always saying, 'Oh. you'll find a job. no problem.' But there's a_lways that might be takin~ them online. Ralph housands nf siudents will walk n1ire in the back of \·our mmd saymg Hrown. whn organi:·es the UK busine~s Htil , ,( Kentucky colleges this ·What if I don't !ind a )ob. or what if I do 'rhooi's job ::iir. said the cullege hopes to ::e::ir with two things: :1 degree ,lllti I don·l like it" .. said Emily Comstock. :mwe it:. ini> i;:iir !n an Internet site. Stu and rile need to do something a Uniwrsitv of Kentucky finance and dents would be able to log on whenever with it. management major from Apopka. Fla. She they wanted. and companies wouldn't TThose newcomers to the professional h,raduates in May and is looking_for a job. have to deal with the hassle of coming to work iorce are in luck: Experts say Coveted rem1its are those wllh practt· campus and setting up a booth. there's nei·er been such a good time to cal experience and computer skills, said "What we are doing is trying to trans look fur work in Kentucky. ,!oil\· Slone, assistant director of the UK fer what we do from an event to a Employers are flocking to college Care-er Center for Business and Economics. process." he said. campuses 'to try to snatch up young pro ..\cross the board. she hears there is not The University Career Center already fessionals before they even hit the job enough technology background, Slone said. ------+-:'.'"~~--- 1 . has CyberCAT, an online-service where market. "Regardless of whether you're talking "It's been a good situation for kids to companies post their jobs. Students.apply 1 to a large compam· or a small business. come out of school t_he last couple of , · and submit a resume electronically, and we are all competing for people with te<:h· then the companies choose whom they years," said Art Harvey, director of career \ nical skills," said Lesley Sizemore-Hardm, services at Ea:;tem Kentuckv University. want to interview when they visit the • I manager of recruiting at Lexmark. . Harvey has been in the career-ser- campus. vices office at EKU since 1979 and has ; "You find more and more compames . While campus job fairs are popular, seen the job market fluctuate. He knows j have to create v.ery( compelling offers to mey usuaily don't produce job offers, why companies hire students. attract the talents," she said. Brown said. More often, job fairs are just "They have to 'have the need for em Campus job•fairs are a cost-effective practice runs for other job interviews. ployees," he said. "And they have the way for employers to meet with hundreds "It gives them a bit of confidence," he need at this time." said. "Looking for a job doesn't have to !Jnemployment rates across the state of potential hires in one afternoon, and be. a crisis.'' , .., ,~.-:t, ,. have been dropping for the last few several companies are taking advantage UK senior Comstock said job fairs are years. Kentucky's average joblessness fell of this recruiting tool. Last year the Gal- very important for all students. She said from 5.62 percent in 1996 to 4.61 percent - ton College of Business and Economics' they might not bring a job, but they get in 1998. according to the Department for 1 job fair had close to 100 participating the student's foot in the door. Emplovment Services. companies. At EKU's Spring Job Fair, the She went to job fairs, made connec The number of filled jobs in Kentucky- 1 140 participating companies were tions, had interviews, and even has a job is expected to grow 1.5 percent a year, crammed so tightly inside the school's offer sitting on the table. But she's hold large Keen Johnson Ballroom that Harvev ing off on accepting because she thinks slightly higher than the national average 1 of about 1.4 percent. said Earl Turlev. au plans to shrink the event. · she might find something better. thor of Kentucky Occ11patio11al 0111/00/1 to .. I don ·1 think it'll be that hard," she 2006, a study of the state's projected em said. "it's just finding a job that you fit ployment over a 10-year period . and th.1t fits you." . --· . . -·- . ·- ·-- --•w.. -" "___ --- . THE COURIER-JOURNAL ' FE~l'l_U~RY_29, 2000 ~i·Kentoll Fiscal Court's closecl~ .·- . lrt~tings ruled ltlegaI~ .:,,.,, ; . -~-~-- .... ~. ~ ' me_eting! the attorney general's Assistant Attoniey "-n_eral. - ·_. . -:~",~c,'!'<: ., . 's chastis' e·d r ~ discussion ol these matters in KSU l ·ffice satd yesterday. Amye Bensen~aver said it was . , contravention\ _of th~ principle for destroying . And on a related topic, the not possible to determine the ... that 'the fonnatiori of public . R 'd allor~ey general said Kentucky f th policy is publiec business and report Oll el I State University violated the exact nature o e conversa- shall not be coilducted in se- . ' \ spirit of the open-record law by tions, but their ~ffect was_ ap- ere!,'" Bensenhav' said. . ' having a consultant des!roy all . . . : . - She also said th ·1 a meet! - By~ R. CHELLGREN ., ~copi~s of an ev3:luat1on of . parent becaus_e titform__ a~o!1 e_~- on Noy. 20, -l!IJ!9 _· af'wlii~ ~•~,ated,Press ., ;i-"' ._;tii ,Ples!d~t;ttGeorgeRe1d. , . Ic?anged ~uencedp~blicde.~1- thei:e was a_f' :b\_"J{effcir , _-'3t ·, I , • ·::-' •;,.r,;, -~•~)iccording to the opim~n, SIODS. "lt;tS also apparen~ that 'those.attendiitg~au $lg'~••~• • FRAN~ORT, Ky; - Kenton ; Kenton County Judge-Execuuv_e .. the public was de rived ofan. ··cuiiiv men ·wlio:ill'alr«j 'ed".ttie County Fiscal Court violated Richard Murgatroyd met pn- 1 •- "·•·• --- ' ,, .J!~~ . . · . "i · t ••a1s•~~I' d' · the state open-meeting law by \ vatelywilh individual members· opportunity .10, obs•~~ ~~11;,. j :i~~::glaw ~-.-8i~;. _.Jh,~ ho_ldingaseriesofJ!~.vate~th-, ofFiscalCourtinlate!999,and, . ,.,-. - . ,, --·---- ··~ ·-The state 1aw•~,.,,~,c:i ens enngs to dl~~ss a Jatl loca(!on apparently the:( reached agree- ! cannot be '~l!eiJ and by requinng pe_ op_ le to sign me'!t _on some issues_ re_Iated to_ . I themselves' in 'order•- ,.. ·' In to attend .a Fiscal .Court I the Jail. · , -- -··· , , .. bl' .;..rn..i.~l · ..-u li.i.•1~f.i..:,liil- ti~•··•··••:~-.• ,_\. ·•.•'\,,.:. :.- ~~~1!1~~ , I ,...:u.:.K~-J. .-, THECOURIER-JOURNAL SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2000 OWENSBORO ·'-··: Ban on new programs at college is removed ''We find this practice consti• meeting was illegally conducted A ban on offering new degree pro tutes a clear violation . : . and in secret. grams at Owensboro Community should be discontinued," Ben- Bensenhaver said KSU can College has been lifted by the Ken senhaver said. · not be ordered to produce a tucky Community and Technical Kentucky State hired an out public record that does not ex College System board of regents. side consultant to review Reid's ist but the case was referred to The decision Friday cleared the th~ Department of Librarie~ way for at least three new programs job performance and paid this f, 11. The college plans to offer $13,000 for the work. KSU and Archives because "it is equally clear that KSU failed to degrees in computer networking, counsel Harold Greene said the hospitality management and bio consultant only presented his discharge its statutory duty to technology skills, occ· President review orally to regents. manage and maintain its rec Jacqueline Addington said. But Bensenhaver said there ords" in keeping with state law. Approval for the networking pro was an 84-page report distribut An official of the archive de gram will be sought from the college ed to the regents that clearly partment said its inquiry is con- system board in April, she said. qualifies as a public recor~. tinuing. , OCC was prohibited from offering The opinion noted that an earh The opinions, released yes any new degree _programs in 1999 er decision had declared that terday, carry the force of law. because it failed m 1997-98 to meet minority-hiring guidelines, accord ing to college system records. OCC has made some progress, which Is why the boarded lifted the Lexington Herald-Leader ban, officials said. Minorities repre Saturday, February 2S. sented about 7 percent of OCC's fac 2000 ulty and about 2.5 percent of its en rollment in 1998-99. MBA ,turns keys· -·" -- ._: . for 1.Cent1:e.giid .... Greer opens doors for himself in business world . ___ _. By Stephen Franklin A: Whe~ T looked at business justment? KNIGHT RIDDER NEWS SERVICE s~~ools, I was coming from a very tra A: It can be difficult And it is If you want something, Dave d!ho~al, non-corporate background. I not always just in terms of race or Greer tells himself, you have to make d1dn t know the politics or culture of color. In some cases, it is in terms things happen. And they have hap COrJ?Orate America, .so coming into of different regions and different pened. busmess school I was at somewhat of backgrounds. We don't socialize After he earned good grades at a disadvantage. The program only the same way. We don't communi Centre College in Danville, the busi lasts for two years, and before long cate the same way, so it can be ness world did not throw open its you really should know what you difficult. But I ·think the people doors to welcome him. The best job _want to do. So I had a steep learning that you are looking at, the people who come to business schools, are offer he got was to sell cars at a deal curve to learn about all of these-indus ership in his hometown of Bowling tries. among the best in their groups and they are used to interacting in Green, and a few years of that work Q: What impact did business various environments. only steeled his determination to school have on you? Q: How did affirmative ac move on and up. tion play out with you during So he considered an MBA and A: I was able to jump to a net recruiting? . was accepted at the University of work of resources of classmates A: We could talk about affir Chicago Graduate School of Business. from all over the world and from mative action all day. But at the, where he became one of a very small all different ages. I learned more number of minority students. from them than I did from the end of the day, it is--i;ril~hi~g For his degree in international classes, because you know the that we African-Americans have business, he went to Cairo as an in hallmark of business school now to look beyond because we can't rely upon corporate to al tern for giant business-consulting is teamwork. You had to do busi-. America ness plans and business presenta ways give us jobs and. to always firm Arthur Andersen. Upon gradua tions. I took a business trip to In give us opportunities. We have to tion last year, he landed a job with a donesia to study the economy start to build our own resources. black-owned Detroit firm, Barden there. Those all had an impact on In the bigger scheme of things, we Cos., as a development manager for my learning. have to look to something more new business in Africa. Barden owns Q: It is often said that fundamental as far as what we the Majestic Star Casino in G~ Ind., graduate business schools are doing because there are re an automotive conversion plant in emphasize how to make mon~ sources in the African-American ey but community that · are not being Namibia and other real estate. not how to be respon sibl.,, that they emphasize brought together. There are peo Here are recent excerpts from how to maximize profits but ple who want to invest and do Greer, now 29, discussing his life and not the human potential. How things but they don't have the in challenges facing African-Americans do you feel about that? formation. in the business world: A: I would agree with that. Q: But what if you can't Q: I imagine that somebody Q: In graduate school, get in the front door? coming out of a grad school, espe when you looked around, how A: There is a lot more to be cially the University of Chicago, did you find the way you and opened. And even if they do 'get in who happens to be black, is a hot other people of color - the front doors, there is still a lot commodity in this market be black, Asian, Latino - fit to do. · .. ~=~-·~; _,, cause of the pressure on .some into the greater mix? How companies to diversify. Did you was the welcome and the ad- consider that?