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L · ··- EHEAD, KY 40361-1689 606 783 2030 EXINGTON· H~LEADER; LEXINGTON, Kv;c ■ SUNDAY, DECEMBER' 22, 1996 - - 11 POLITICAL NOTEBOOK complaining loud and long that the The Sunday Independent, Ashland, Kentucky, •git d~ system cost them too much money. December 22, 1996 l er e There was some general agreement 20 colleges H on the pieces needed for a major .. .- overhaul of the system, and a lot of bac· k tutor ~:IT beast legislators had signed on. ; yy The train already had a head of a1· ne : . steam before Patton got on board .. PrOpOS S ,P p . tt although without his strong lead~- WASHINGTON (AP) - _l Or . a On, ship it migh~ not h~ve gone any- Promoting . his goal · of . . where. To his credit, he took over "shining the light of lit- ·-- and drove it. eracy" on millions, Presi- ·"t·ame With postsecondary education, dent Clinton said Satur- . there b/ls been no widespread cry day . he hopes to use a to for change: There isn't general new work-study program agreement on what it will take to to enlist an army· of lit- As college students cranuned to make the system considerably bet- • eracy tutors on college finish up finals last week, some ter, at least not yet, and therefore no campuses.. .. higher education advocates started consensus among legislators. Clinton .said 20 leading trying to turn up the volume in a Patton has taken a political risk college_ presidents have ~mpaign that could be a key factor by making improvements in post- pledged · to dedicate half m Gov. Paul Patton's next big test secondary education a centerpiece their federally fu.nded - making significant improve of his goals. But he knows how work-study slots to those ments in postsecondary education. tough a challenge he faces and he students willing to work At a meeting in Louisville, cur has laid some good groundwork. as reading tutors for rent and former members of the In the workers' comp debate, young children. Council on Higher Education Patton developed a key ally in busi- "Right away this sharply criticized the way higher ness. He'll cash in those chips now to should give us thousands education is governed in Kentucky get business il
1 .... , turn' placed with lower-cost part-time in- tal\..eS wrong ~~~rs, there should ~e higher pri- The faculty was proID1sed more re If both operated 150 days a year, sources when enrollment grew, but By JAMES MALONE the cost could excee~ $1~0,000. that hasn't happened, Daughaday The Courier-Journal There has . been no disCUSSIOn of said. "I certainly think there are mis charging fares to defray the costs. placed priorities." MURRAY, Ky. - Murray State Uni · When Alexander pitched th_e f!!· versity President Kem Alexande~ has Retiring foreign l1111P.1age instruc gional shuttle idea to HopkinSVJl!e m tor John Ferguson wd he too has a plan to make the road to higher l995, it drew a lukewarm reception. education a little smoother for some heard questions raised about spend Cost aside, there were concerns ing priorities - and whether more students. his that Murray would lure ~es'!men and But he has hit a detour -,-- and money should be going into profes critics think he's not even on the right sophomores from Hopkinsville Com sors' salaries. munity College, President ~!Ill Kerley "I'm not surprised by the (bus) pur route. · said. And would non-traditi~nal stu Last year· the university purchased chases," he said. "I've seen so many dents find the service useful. ,, things that cannot be rationally ex three well-used school buses from the "These are not plush buses, Ker Calloway County school system for a plained in the minds of some people." ley said. "Would a 35-rar-old mother Still, Ferguson said he supports Al total of $13,500, and it plans to refur ride every day on one. And what hap- exander's efforts to improve the uni bish them for perhaps $24,000 more. pens if you miss the bus?" . . versity. Alexander, who made higher en Kerley thinks the answer lies !11 "At least he's doing something," rollment his top priority when he ar Murray offering more programs m Ferguson said. . . rived on campus in 1994, envisioned a Hor,kiiisville via television. Jim Willis, president of Murray's regional bus service that would shut ' It's one of those things that was faculty senate, said that while he tle students from Hopkinsville and probably a good idea in a perfect hadn't heard about the buses he Paducah to Mumy, about an hour world where everyo~e ~ad lots of backs Alexander fully. away, making the campus more ac money," said Hopkinsville Mayor "I have not found the faculty to be cessible. Wally Bryan, whom ,Alexander ap concerned," Willis said. "I have never However, the two cities balked at proached about partiClpating. been anywhere where there wasn't the university's suggestion that .~ey Paducah Com something to gripe about. This uni help improve the buses and subslClize munity College their operation, which could run to versity is growing." President Leon For his part, Alexander said bus six figures annually. . ard O'Hara said Now the buses are sitting idle in a he did not recall service has worked at other universi fenced-in comer of the university's Mumy's propos ties, and Murray State will benefit motor pool - and have never been al, but city man from his plan. used, said Johnny Herndon, Murray's ager Jerry Hoo Sid Easley, chairman of MumY:s director of transportation. ver said there board of regents, said, '.'We were go Did Murray State leap before it seemed to be lit ing to build a bridge, and we will. looked? tle interest in it. They were so dam cheap we couldn't No, said Tom Denton, its director On campus, afford to tum them down." of administrative services, who called the reaction has Gaiy Cox, executive director of the the buses "an asset to the university." been mixed. Council on Higher Education, said he Murray officials have been "look Retiring Eng isn't aware of a similar program at ing at potential uses" and may pare lish Professor another state-supported university. the concept down to one bus, he said. Charles Daugha "I'd be interested," he said, "in see But Alexander insisted in an inter dav said that, at a ing how many students use it." view that all three will be up and run ning next year. Asked aboui reports that the buses are not even m work ing condition, Alexander said all are in good repair. One delay involved a decision about whether to install $10,000 air conditioning units on each bus, an idea ultimately rejected because of the cost, Alexander said. Instead, the university will spend about $8,000 on each to paint, carpet and install new seating, he said. That would bring the total invest ment to about $37,000. If all goes according to plan, Alex ander said, two of the buses would make two round trips a dar to Padu cah and Hopkinsville - bnnging stu dents to class and returning them home, as well as providing the oppor tunity for excursions to the two cities. Alexander said many students at Murray, which now has a record en rollment of roughly 8,500, are "ma rooned" on campus. They 11 would like to go to Paducah to shop," he said. He also cited the dangerous roads that Murray students must drive to the university's Breathitt Veterinaiy Center in Hopkinsville. A bus trip, he said, would be safer. The third bus would shuttle fresh men parking near the football stadi um to campus classrooms and serve as a backup for the others, he said. Alexander said he doesn't have cost projections for drivers' salaries, fuel, insurance and maintenance. But the state Department of Educa tion said that, when salaries are in cluded, it costs as much as $2 a mile to operate a school bus. Given a 100- mile round trip to each city, and two trips a day, the operating cost could be as much as $400 daily for each of • l.ExJNGTON HERALD-LEADER, l.ExJNGTON, KY, ■ SUNDAY, .DECEMBER 22, 1996
COMMENTARY Learning thrives when professors have academic freedom
BY ARTHUR RAINES to both the fac control are vested in the office of cantankerous and eccentric Gus( . ecent attacks on the system ulty member superiors. Universities have their like people in other walks ol lifel of tenure for faculty at the and the institu- presidents and vice presidents and But ii they are effective in their ei'· sitions, they deserve better treatc. - RUniversity of Minnesota and tion. • j deans, and those individuals should elsewhere is an issue requiring ex Similarly, the institution has an be accorded proper respect and def ment than being fired just becaui;e amination inside and outside of the expectation that valued, proven in erence. But the administration de someone higher up doesn't like :: university. The notion that some dividuals will be available and be rives its power and authority from them. ... select group is immune from losing counted upon, year after year. the trust and confidence of the fac Our system of higher educatioh its employment sticks in the craw It is true that an experienced ulty. is the best in the world, attractirtg• of most working people, particular 60-year-old lull professor with aµ In a university or college, the thousands upon thousands of stu dents from every comer of the w• ly in these times of economic uncer international reputation may cost proper role for faculty is to have a tainty and downsizing. as much as two inexperienced and lull share in governance with the globe. We would do well not to yn One thing to keep in mind is untried instructors. But whom administration. C.Onsensus-building dermine a basic tenet that faculty· that tenured faculty do lose their would you choose to educate your is essential. Faculty are not em require to exercise their freedoms jobs for cause, as in the case of kids? Great universities are great ployees in the usual sense: They se• in research and teaching, unintimi "moral turpitude," bona fide finan because they have outstanding fac lect the students. They vote on dated by intervention, inside or : cial exigency and the tennination ulties and the faculty performance rank and tenure for faculty, thus outside the university community. of a program or closure of a school is stable and predictable. The quali determining future staffing. And Having lived in a university en· of the university. ty of the faculty and the training they participate in important deci vironment for more than 40 yealli, l sion-making. have observed that not all faculty The granting of tenure by a col program is what attracts good stu are equally industrious, effective or lege of university is not taken light dents. One risk in freely speaking one's mind is that at times one will productive; some take advantage·of ly by the awarding institution, nor The very best of bright new the freedom and trust that are part is it easily gained. faculty will always opt for a disagree or clash with the people who hired you. The ability of an of the academic life. The fact that· Many schools are in dire finan tenure-track opening, which offers some of them are protected by cial straits, and tenure is an imped the potential for a stable position, academician to speak out (responsi bly) on issues, or carry on research tenure should be seen for what it. iment for administrators to hire over one that is not eligible for is, however: an unfortunate cost of. and fire faculty based on enroll tenure. It's unfortunate for higher that others may be unhappy about, is central to academic freedom. a system dating back to the Middle ments, expenses, demand for a par• education in America that more Ages, one that arose out of necessi- ticular class or whatever. and more part-time and tenure-inel Tenure protects research from ty and is still needed today. r But the tenure system also pro• igible faculty are being hired and being quashed and people from be ing punished for their expression. .. vides important btnefits. It allows that ever more classes are being ■ Arthur Raines is president qf.a a faculty member to embark on an taught by graduate students. And it protects people against arbi chapter of the American Associa academic career and invest himself Governance in the context of a trary actions by administrators. tion of University Professors · at in an institution with the expecta• university is not the same as in a Abolishing it would create open Georgetown University, where he tion of building a research or teach private corporation, the military or season on selected faculty. teaches. ing program that will bring credit the clergy, where authority and University professors can be THE WASHINGTON PosT -... Eliminating tenure would bring more efficiency, productiviij Br W1WAM H. WA!.UCE. the faculty boards simply look for the course State legislatures and univers'1: s'tlie academic community at fought every of least resistance, and do not back ty governing boards all over the, tempts to downsize and make proposal to im those presidents who are trying to country should wake up to what: -~ AJ tself more ·relevant 10· ·the prove the academic program - not meet mandates of change and effi they are paying for and look at the world if serves,'tentired faculties because of substance, but simply ciency. Recent events suggest, how value received. Even if currently:,;" are·ableiO stand in the way of bad- because the proposals represented ever, that this may be changing. tenured members were grandfa- ... ' ~. ly· neeqe,r'cliapgii,ifanil improve change. Change in itself is a threat Members of the academy react thered, faculties of the future , • • ,:menis"i!f i:uirlciilij" :·:·changes that to faculty members in an environ to proposed changes in the tenure should be required to confonn tO.; ~~~_pfoes.' S"ary 'f~nses to_ the ment that does not demand ac system with varying degrees of system of employment contracts ~l:!>anging p-'• lit,the'commumty. countability in tenns of either outrage. The first argument heard under which their perfonnance i~ ffi-';711!.f•"~.·"tiiiii" "f this outra teaching quality or research output is that tenure preserves academic evaluated before their contracts c!j ~·~b'tlliiiie would en- once the tenure decision has been freedom, and indeed, we are hear renewed. '; hanCe-the•effidency and productivi made. ing it today. In fact, the system The academic profession, lik~;. ty, as well as the quality, of higher Personal and professional ethics works in quite the opposite way. any other, should reward its out- .. • education in America. also suffer in the process. It was Rather than being protected by standing pe.rfonners. It should ,}. As one who has spent a num my experience that faculty mem it, young and promising non make their efforts worthwhile and I ber of years in universities - as a bers under circumstances without tenured faculty members often find encourage their professional deve\;j,., faculty member and as dean of a effective review and accountability that if their views are not in sync opment. .,,,,~ business school (Old Dominion Uni can be, and often are, neglectful with the tenured members of their But like other professions, it~:· i versity) - as well as many years and sometimes even abusive of faculty, they cannot obtain tenure. should recognize market and sex;\?·.:. in the world of business and fi. their students - the paying cus In this way, tenured faculties con eta! demands for change. It should nance, I have seen academics from tomers. trol the ideological identities of also cull out its non-perfonners, :, .. inside and out. Financial circumstances in their departments. who have given higher educatio11:t3- I believe the tenure system is a many public and private universi The second argument of facul bad image and who hide under t)le cancer on our system of higher ed ties today require downsizing, ties is that tenure ensures the sov lifetime employment protection of, . ucation that perpetuates incompe which could yield positive results ereignty of the faculty in matters of tenure. ~: •. tence, ignores unproductive perfor by both consolidating and upgrad university governance. But the mance and exacts an enonnous ing programs. Yet university presi practical effect of this situation is ■ William H. Wallace, an econ~9: cost from taxpayers and other sup dents are powerless in the face of that it enables the faculty to control ic and financial consultant, is a !a porters of our educational institu belligerent faculties that threaten and, if it wishes, prevent change. mer college teacher and adminlf: tions. them with votes of no-confidence. Both are perverse uses of tenure, in trator. .... ·· In my role as dean, I found that All too often, university governing my judgment. THE WASHINGTON POST TODAY ■ LEXINGTON.HERALD-LEADER, LEXINGTON, KY. ■ SUNDAY, DECEMBER 22, i996 .efore she found out tr \nearp stu· dents I"".•,□:·:.:' r,,, ... eaf mutes people or, usedworse, t~ deaf be called and dumb. "dea! ,.Marlaina was de: · · . . . . ~ ·. ; For centuries thef were thought to ...... Martha Mattingly h • •:J., . ·; ):le mentally defi□ent and were put .begun collecting mm · · · . . · mto asylums or other institutions :boxes for her bal wor k t O fit m, - ... :~~.. alo!1g with people with mental illness .. . . 2'daughter. , • · and retardatiorL · · · · "And .. then when I realized tt •ty Even today in this Boyle County college my child's never going to be able en I . town, some_people s~ of "the D&D School" hear them, and she'll never even keep Id t . when refemng to the Kentucky able to hear her own child cry . School for the Deaf. Sure enough. the There's a catch in her voice as s ---...... \lfficial name of the complex of hand says this. "So we switched to u some buildings on Second Street was corns. Now she has hundreds ARTICLE BY KEVIN NANCE once the Kentucky Asylum for the u_nicoms, beca1:1se to me she's s1 .PHOTOS BY MARK CORNELISON Tuition of the Deaf and Dumb . tml. She's one m a million, like t . Her_ald-Leader Staff . But the .deaf community, as it unicorn.'' now proudly calls itself, has come a · The staff psvchiatrist at t . 1il\.PiiF.~ · long way. Louisville Oral School for the De ')"'ANVILI$ -A< 1, .,,,, "" ·: Deaf people now demand the where she enrolled Marlaina duri . ·. •1· loos~-limbed in his baggy hip-hop ':right to determine their own fates her preschool years, explained ti .· •~ denuns and. ball cap·-wom side when many parents receive su : :;' ways, Herbert Tackett is a Big '.·-' as they did in 1988 at Gallaudet ·college, the nation's leading deaf news, it's like losing a child. , . · Man on Campus at the Kentucky \i\nd that's the way I felt," sa . .,.J'!';,,.,r,· · School for the Deaf. Only a sopho :school in the Washington, D.C., l 'area, where students protested for l\Jattmgly, who now works at t . more, he's already president of the student 'eight days after a hearing candi Kent1:1cky School for the Deaf a, · body. He starts at forward on the basketball dormitory house mother. "Becau Algeb~'s a breeze;·a career in engineer •date for president was appointed !ean:1· the child that you had carried j . ~g 1s square 111 his sights: He's way cool and a •over two deaf candidates . One of those candidates, Harvey mne months - the expectatio ruce guy, too. He owns.the place. • · · th_at you had fur your child die .. But wh~n Herbert.'stepir:off. the campus Corson, is now the first deaf superin- 1enden t of the Kentucky School ·for still can't say I'm JOO percent 0 , without an mterprete., as he sometimes does, it. because theres still little thin problems arise. Three years ago at a McDon ..the Deaf. Ironically, Elisabeth Zinser, ald's, when he was trying to lip-read and speak ~he candidate who was appointed th~t _happen every day that y; 'president - and who left after the sai, Gosh, I wish Marlaina cou he ordered a Big ~ and a Coke but got ; hear that.' " cheeseburger and a Diet Coke. He complained wave of protests - is now chancel lor of the University of Kentucky. Marlaina wishes she could he and was told: "But that's what you said." thos~ things. too. She'd like to he Soon after that, he de The Gallaudet College incident, cided to stop using his ·the watershed moment of a deaf music, of course, but even ma voice and rely instead on civil rights movement that had than that. she'd like to hear wh what he feels is his natur ·.been gathering steam for decades, nature sounds like: wind blowit al language: American ~ontinues to resonate in the deaf through trees, waves crashing on Sign Language. "I hated to ;community in Danville and else beach. She'd especially like to he use my voice anyway be :,vhere. These days, most deaf peo· what dolphins sound like; for yea cause it was embarrassing -P.le reject the term "disability" as she has collected figurines of de for me," he says in sign applied to deafness: they insist that phms along with the unicorns language. ''Forget that" ::being deaf is not a deficiencv but "I wa_nt to hear what the ;,,or Now, if he meets a merely a difference, similar to skin suu?ds hke," she says, But if sl hearing person, he writes color or ethnic background. can t fully enter the world of ti notes back and fonh. And At the same time, thev celebrate hearmg, Marlaina and her moth he is always willing to their history, customs, values and, want he; to be as much a part of teach ASL, as it's called, above all, their language - Ameri as possible - especially now, ' to hearing people who can Sign Language - as a distinct. she prepares _to go to a hearing c, care to learn. Most don't, separate culture. Deaf culture. lege. As Mattmg]y puts it, "It's tin though, so Herbert's But like most subcultures, deaf for her tu leave the nest." world is populated mostly .culture finds itself under pressure to ~!though Marlaina says she a by other deaf people - ·.blend into American societv. That prec1ates _deaf culture and expec· including his classmates jorces deaf people, especially the tu mamtam her ties to it - "I wai and teachers, his parents ·y'oung, to face central questions: Giv to ?e h~lf-and-half," she says _ and most other members en the communication barriers, how shes thnlled to have found a hea of his family. He's com- ·'lJuch blending with the hearing mg boyfnend, Mikey Rogers , . fortable in that. war Id; in . world is possible? How much is Mount Sterling, and tu have enter, 1t, he knows who he is and where enough, how much is too much? And and won the Miss Bovie Count he stands. He's at home. :how "mainstream" can you become Pageant last summer · But his friend and classmate 1vithout losing your deaf identity? She's also excited about bein Marlaina Mattingly, 17, is busy In answering these questions, "mamstreamed" in a journalis, makmg a second home for her- ·:inost deaf young people often feel cla~s at Boyle County High. Then self. Born deaf to hearing parents, Marlaina pulled in opposite directions by assisted by an interpreter, she pa has spent most of her young life at this school hearing family membets on the one ttcipates m staff meetings fur Reb, speaking in sign language to deaf friends and hand and the deaf community on Pnde: the school newspaper. Sh to her mother, who signs fluently. "the other. The school itself tries tu contnbutes arttcles and column• As Marlaina approaches college age how ·stay neutral. often about event_s and people i ever, she's venturing out from the deaf 'world "Most deaf people do function the d~af cummumty. and tries t that cradled her for so long. For one class each in both worlds, and we do encour blend mto the crowd of hearing sn day, _she goes to a hearing class at Boyle Coun age deaf students to shift gears to dents. ty High School. She has a hearing boyfriend. <:ummunicate with different groups, . But communicating through c1 Next year she plans to enroll in a hearing uni but there are always choices to mterpreter is slow and awkwan v~rs1ty, Morehead State. And next month she make," Corson says. "Some will try which means that manr nuance. W(ll compete in a beauty pageant - not the to function primarily in the larger get lost or, ,:orse, are never a l\Jiss Deaf Kentucky Pageant, but the Miss society. and some will prefer to tempted. So thmgs rarely get muc Kentucky Pageant. . stay mostly within their deaf com past the level of "Hi" and "Hm,• . Asked whether she'd prefer.to be called "a munitv, where thev feel comfortable you?" di ~f pers?n" or simply "a person," Marlaina and ,,•here thev can communicate said m sign language, "A person, a person. and socialize without too much dif Just a person." . · ... ficulty. At the school, we're not married tu a particular ideology on this point. They have to make up "their own mind:-::." .. . ' - H€ fl 12. I NG "We were really very excited In Deaf Culture class, Herbert is when we found out Herbert was ( ( ,J I ,J one of the most enthusiastic stu deaf, because we like deaf people, dents. He watches intently as the most of our family ·is deaf, and we teacher, Barbie Harris, explains the understand deafness," Boling says. ,he hearing students, history of sign language. Monks "We thought it would be easier to who had taken vows of silenoe cre most of whom have lit have all our children deaf, because ,- tie experience with deaf ated sign language in the sixth cen it would make it easier with com tury. In 1815, the American educa: •people, seem a little afraid munication and cooperation in the ,of saying the wrong thing. tor Thomas Gallaudet traveled t
Many top BY WILLIAM H. HONAN colleges no NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE college chlsses longer Georgetown University's require abandonment of English the requirement majors to that English ma study the jors . study ·at greats, least two authors, because of among Chaucer,==.===::..i a desire for,,«;, . Shakesp~~.-a!)~ _Milt9:1 .-;:- \Y)rich · ,,•\'·''i·:,drew·•,cnticisni·,:and :·nromP.teo ·:a ,more,cou-.,,,.,-__ ch"·;,c,.:,r.:,·• ..,.,· ,,: .,.w_.. · - ...~~~ir::..-;,tea -1n-1--ui:,~:Q'ear.~t:1s f!'•·'·_'no:w-=;u~e, rcholces·and ''l''·".'f -;-;norm,-.-a · · ;;,, ''new•s ""•tu'\l uy ·b· y~-,;th·· e•· ·N· a 'ti ...ona , ·1 an explosion ,,. ,Alumni Forum find.f .., ., -<; · 1 in modem · · ·. Two-thirds of 'the 67 colleges literature.. and universities responding to the Rhonda Cobham-Sander, chair Among-lzy League institutions forum's survey submitted course woman of the English department studied, only Harvard requires a · lists and requirements ·for' English ar Amherst College, said that be course in Shakespeare. At Colum majors that indicate required cause of the growth of "must read" bia, the .forum reports, an. English .courses on the great writers are literature, she neglected American major "can graduate with no great falling by the wayside. literature in her own undergradu er knowledge of Hamlet and The In their place are an increasing ate education. Tempest than a chemistry major." . number of courses on popular cul "Consequently, what we try to The . report also states that . ture topics, like "The Gangster : do," she said, "is teach students while well-known liberal arts col Film" (Georgetown), "Melodrama ·how to read, where to go to find leges, like Amherst, Carleton, Hav and Soap Opera" (Duke University) what they want, and different erford and Williams, might be ex- : and "20th-Century American Box rimethods." .. ~~-~_teac;_hJh~gr~t ,\YI_iters in : Ing Fiction and· Fihri" (Dartmouth Until recently, English majors some' depth, ,"of the 25 'national !· College). ·, · •. at most colleges and universities libei.J arts colleges studied, only "It's happened because English , were required to study the works Claremont McKenna, Hamilton, professors. don'.t ,wanr to teach . of at least one of the three writers Middlebury, _Smith and ·Wellesley Chaucer aiici'• ':.Sliakespeare any ·generally regarded as pre-eminent require a course in Shakespeare for more," said Jerry L. Martin, presi English authors: Chaucer, Shake- their English majors." dent of the forwn, a: non-profit ..speare cir Milton. Beginning with . -Roger Shattuck,. a professor at educational-organization of alumni, . the class of 1999, Georgetown will -Boston, -University, said, "This require no such courses. ,. • ~~onors•. iW; .:\rU~t~;{o~~~. i~- I . study clocuments nationally what .:.!995 .. 'TheY,, wanti;to, di, ··.:.::Only 2.3 ofthe sgioiils:respond ·.inrujy ,of: us__ have o~ed: f!iat .tea ~RJ ;: .g tci'the •fonnrt•s·survey··required culture courses because ·that's what 111. -· -· - - -- .. --- --· shoddy propaganda 1s· replacmg ' 'the students want"; . English. majors to take a Shake- the study of great literature." · •._, : ,The. survey-contacted 'the "top -speare_course. Furthermore, a 11um- . .: . , , Robert Brustein, artistic direc- _'150" sch6ols;:listed by ,U.S: News•& ber of.schools,~ among.them such . ,tlJfofthe'American-Repertory The · World Report, and ·20 others to elite institutions as Amherst and· ater -in · Cambridge; Mass., said, :provide ,regional balance.· ·. · • the University of Michigan - have "Most English departments are English-major programs in which now held so completely hostage to ·· Professor ·wmiam W. Cook, fashionable political and theoretical chairman of the department of it is possible to avoid reading a single play or sonnet by Shake agendas that i_t is unlikely Shake ·English at Dartmouth, said he was _speare can qualify as an appropri- "not upset if, a ·tiny minority of · speare. a,te au th.. qr. " '.,• .. · ' 'Students don't study Shakespeare." 0 ·'"• . '"" ·-,'· ·ustn· ,:¥}:· ,'.~ne_\.m .... •t··· "~' • ...d"'"" ~.r;!'!~~~e- ,.-.,,.a,. :·~~1t·heisat~.~~!1~~~?;t,W.$;( :;~n.• , · '''.:"'Cook".addealithat<'tlie.-"move ;;iiway·from greaf'aiiUrors: resulted from "the· explosion: of'::available :cfuaterials" .and ·tlie',desiie .of·the -faculty "to -provide more choice.'' THECQURIER-JOURNf\~t.,• FRIDAY, JANUARY 3, 1997 Ul.( seeks $24 milfi()p (~-:expaqa, impfQV~ st~ • A sample of recent articles of interest ta Morehead State University INSTITUTIONAL RELATIONS MOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY UPO BOX 1100 MOREHEAD, KY 40351-1689 606-783-2030 THE COURIER-JOURNAL • KENTUCKY • MONDAY, JANUARY 6, 1997 The rest had to represent sea graphical regions of the state. That move, - he said, has frequently 'Eighten reins led to panichial decisions, not ac tion in· the best Interest of the . ·t·. state as a whole. _on ·un1vers1- 1es, For years crit Ex-Gov. ics have contend• Edward ed that the coun• Breathitt cil was either too changed higher weak to guide education. , higher education Breathitt says or did not exer- cise the powers it h,ad. -in 1972 on a legislative committee that But some' council members, noting Ex-governor calls recommended revisions in the higher that they are appointees of the gover education council. nor, argue privately that their recom• The council's responsibilities now mendations have been igoored by a for revising system include the development of statewide governor or ,the legislature, or that in higher-education plans, recommend trusions by the executive and legisla• he helped create ing university budgets and campus live _branches forced decisions not in construction projects .to the governor - the state's best Interest. By RICHARD WllSON · ,..,,;.,. ,and legislature, ap11rovmi1 _new d~_ \ •McCann and Btealbltt said they did To~ uma1 · ,.· -,_;,_'#.;;;,l'a ?'P!Ograms'lll!d setting.tuition. . t ,,:,, -not lm LEXINGTOr.> HERALD-LEADER, l.ExlNGTON, KY. ■ FRIDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1996 College to sell land to fund projects: Brescia Co_~~e,~ill auction abou~ 15 acres· in four. tractsJan.13 to raise money for projects. The"land is on U.S. 60 West between Industrial Drive and Audubon Acres subdivi LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER, LEXINGTON, -KY. ■ WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1996 sion. The tracts range in size from 1.687 acres to 9.521 Linds_ey Wilson COH!;!ge names provost: Lind- acres. Doug Hood, Brescia's business manager, said sey Wilson College has._named William B. Julian as its "We have a lot of needs as a small, independent col n~w pro~ost and df!all of 1;liefaC}llty, Julian is currently lege." The Catholic liberal arts college had a fall enroll vice president for academ1c'affarrs at Monmouth Col- ment of 753 students; that was up Jl percent from last lege in Monmoutl,,. Ill;)J~ will begin at Lindsey Wilson y¢ar. Bill,.Thompson, a former,niembe!'o£the college's -which is.in Columbia,,onJiul:-2Julian.succeeds Walter' '-~d~Iioard of•··-·••. trustees, donated'tlie)and'dufiii.,. . . . , ~- . ,,. g a'ca,.. P. ital·•' - .,. •Reuiing, who was named int~ident ofl;indsey ,w, ,-rai,;mg,;ampaign m 1986-:saidSister:Viviiui·,, ~-- ~ ·Wilson last summer. :,: ·, 'i -"(,...~...-. , ::"J.'if:-~- .. ~-- ::i~ Bo~les;'presideht ot Bfesda-.':-rhec8llege' ne1a~onto'''ffie 1 property and even earned some farm income from it, H~ said. But earlier this year,the college officials decided to sell it. Sister Vivian said the college has already sold one small lot'for $11,000 to a nearby home owner. The Daily Independent, Ashland, Kentucky, Thursday, December 2§, 1996 ~iversities -~fail ·fo :meet 'gOai o:h tea:cher"'.teSt scor-es Kentuc~y Stat~, Moi:~head anc,l_Eastern lag~ing · At Kentucky State, the 76 Bud Harty, dean of More- LEXINGTON (AP) - Three percent pass rate was an in;t· head_ State's Colle~e of Ed- of Kentucky's eight public uni- provement; the previous year s ucation .and Behav10ral Sc1- vers i ties didn't meet the rate had. been 12 percentage ence, said he expects More- state's goal of having 90 per- points lower, the council's re- head's pass rate to rise in the cent of aspiring teachers pass port found. future because of changes the a national exam. Kentucky State said in its re- college has made in its admis- The annual higher education port that the college's ed- sions standards. accountability reports, re- ucation faculty have worked The college now plans to re- leased last week, found that with other departments to bet- quire that students pass the fewer than 90 percent of ed- ter link general education re- core part of the National ucation students passed the quirements with the general Teacher Examination to get test at Kentucky State Univer- skills portion of the test. into the teacher education pro- sity, Morehead State Univer- KSU also has reinstated a gram, Harty said. sity and Eastern Kentucky · class designed to help students Harty said he hopes the Ken- University. do better on standardized tests, tucky Education- Reform Act The pass rates for the Na- tional Teacher Examination at said President Mary L. Smith. also will help students. the state's eight public uni- "Most of the examinations "The bulk of the KERA kids versities ranged from 76 per- students take on campus are are going to hit campus next cent at Kentucky State to 97 not standardized tests," she year and it's going to be a dif- percent at the University of said. "That's basically it, as I ferent kind of freshman," he Louisville. see it." ,,.:,., said: To pass the examination in Kentucky, a student. mus~ , sco~• -~!)r .than the -!mt!Q.m.: :-10 ;-perceilkof,.test-takers,, na:·1 ·tionally. That's not that~pigh· of a standard, acknowlei!ges T1ie cJiiiicu:; oit Higher~ Ed- · ucation, which compiled the · report.. It described the stand ards as "quite low." "The bar is so low that al Morehead, Eastern, Kentucky State most anyone can jump over fail to meet low teacher-test goal it," said Bob Sexton, executive director of the Prichard Com Three of Kentucky's eight At least two of the univer- mittee for Academic Excel public universities - .More- sities already are -taking lence, another education head State, Eastern Ken: steps to improve how well group. tucky and l.{entµcl{y Stat~, ,:,.~c!llt!A;~~tJ.1,~gq~g_g.• Wl.J!l_!f!,;J~§t,. The council's figures found have tripped over a '7ery• low;.,, _,,·~,Mo1:e1!~a,d:~h~.~,'.".~egµl},, i:~ that 90-percent of the 1,627 col standard. All three iieea to: --.·,qtililli.g,_stii)len~·,to·:pass\:the., lege stuqeiits -who took-the test in 1994-95:.passed on the first take immediate. steps to:eliin-_:,~J:9.re). p~rj:-~ ~f-J_h~;cNa'OoJ!al try. The students who took the inate deficiencies in ·theii-•,· ·'';\Teacher:;;Examµmtlorf ,'ffefore' test included. education majors teacher-education programs.. , being··adniitted'to. tlie teacher., and students who majored in The three tax-supported, .•education:program. The'hope other subje~ts, but were pursu universities failed to achieve ·.· 0·'is ·tha.,t those·. Wlio.· .are···irot ing secondary· certification so a sta,te goa) of h~v4tg,~9-~~:~:~\ef.~J\E!~d:;:J1:1~.~iiI:i.:..'Y.(lJ::,9.~ they could :teach that subject. cen f _:,ofsc•asp iringJ:J,feachets..:,&s~)!eehmfti.QUfr~oefore:"tlitW Th~passr-rates at Kentucky State;JMorenead and Eastern .pass 'the' Natfonar"Teaclie~':.,!frave· ~frl."v'ii~fecl-'?Hm'e. and were 76 .. percent, 83 percent Examination. When one con- money .in the ·teacher educa and 87_percent,.respectively. sii:lers how easy it should. be· · •)fonj' pi'ogram.;(;, .,-~ .-. .. ,. -· './ . One,,•n17J1blem .. that might to-i.pass · the · exam~ ij!.-KE!)l·,:c;r:.;:~;Ken~cky-7.Sfafe '.' 'has ,.•,rein• l~skewtlrutitll.m, though, is' that tucky, it is distressn.ig tliat ..-l!!,i!-J~· ' -- Boara.:·:~:co,;ir, · · · To pass the exiµiµIij(ioii'.[ip·~w;{i~~e~if!i"~i]\ifesf,".'ways{·t9' i. ~•TMt~'.JPJ~t~~la!n J;O)!le I .Kentuck ;.:;ai-istticleifE,~- -•·s~2 'ud~•e"'J!, .. ,~fsc:nool~IS~how'T· re- \differei:ices'ibe'catiiie.one.oompo- : - ,. ,c.· ...... ,y... ,"" ·· •,e .. , •• , .. "' ' , ~-~~;,;.,r.,J_.".~" -~~-i~1rir··• .. ,,. --•-.. · .,J.> · · · 1:sl..,co,?!t'@1™,~E,f.-tvt~'P,t-;Jth,;.;i!,>.o~~-;~t;.i>.~~.,ffi· ..~lit~e~1' ~~~r" ;neriti&\ilit;i,tist;1upks:at,pi:of~s, I -- .,lle),'~eni ,o .:,< es , M"Pl,l.;'fi!•,►: .N~c,;;,~\W •: . e"ni ,, · ev~~'r.O 'sioilal'•r.:glill]jji,'.'o,,lisometlilitg ·.:a tionally:-· That's ·ru,~No.,.won3"':~le,a,:fiii~g~on,,,fo~efi't'el'fiJ~e studenf•iiiiglif hot be' 'as' frunll 3 iar with,early. on in their ed-. der -the,Kentuc~,£6JWcµ~~.Ji~:.:tvorld11jf1Y9t}£;~(~~s: etrer§'J~it ucation,'!.she· said. Higher Education described .. ;,as Niilld::-to ·rate ·,a 1teacher And -while the council uses the standard as "quite iow.,,. -0 2! educiltiolf;;•pl'Ogrlml by how the exam as a way to gauge "The bar is so low that al- .\11'.ell .it{l\graduates;edo oµ the universities' progress, future most anyone can jump over "'Na-H'o'rnt1· 1:r:ea'cher :Ex teachers soon might have to it," said Robert Sexton,, ex- ,,.;;anunatiohfas. to.Judge 'ii law meet a different, higher stand 1 ard. The standards board is ecutive director of · the Pri- :,, schoofby,now: w,ell-.its ·granu looking·.at new ways to test chard Commit1;ee for. Aca, :·ates 'do,,.on,b~·eiciu;hinations. teachers and plans to phase .demic Excellence .. ,.Yet,:AnanY~::~--·: ,'1nlpr9,;y.eip.l!J$l'~.. .i,n~oi:ger out the National Teacher Ex would-be· future teachers af' '"'for -1:!f~~u,«inonfp~QgraJlls amination, Lindsey said. the three universities failed .at Morehea:·d,.tEastern ·'4nd to do so. Kentucky State}.. - -- .. ·. ~; _ The D~ily_l~~~P!/n,~.flnt,.Mhland, Ken!!,!c.ky, .Wednesd_<1y, Janua_rr_ 1,._ 1_997 Goals·'for 1997 Our part of Kentucky has Patton faces· a tremendous many good things going for challenge in trying to change more of its residents attend it. the status quo. It's going to colle~e and post-secondary We have one of the lowest require all his courage, de vocational schools, it's going crime rates in the nation. termination and political to hav~ to do a better job of We are a caring com muscle, but the prize cer educatmg and training those munity; time and again the tainly is worthy of the effort. who do. people .of this region dig If Kentucky is going to deeply into their pockets to meet the economic demands support worthy causes and to of the next century, it's not help those in need. only going to have to have We have a large corps of well-trained workers who are productive and dedicated. We are developing what could be economically impor tant regional industrial parks in Greenup County and Rowan County. . We have,excellentaccess to rail, r-i-v~r- ~q1d ,,l_lie-l_lwJlY tran~rtation~ -~- ",--· ·-~ --,, ··: We are.. ~ajoying almost ·a -dec;id~ts-:"~ofth· of-:iIJiproye ments _in the quality of el em~ntary. and sec_ondary edu cation. In listing our goals for 1997, we are focusing on those ·steps that need to be taken to make this region - and all of Kentucky - more conducive to growth and de velopment. !""' to Higher education (0 Paul Pattoii-' came .to office "' pledging ,·to be Kentucky's "higher education governor." This should be the year he begins to fulfill that promise. Kentucky cannot develop an excellent, efficient system o.f_post-secondary · education as long' '~#le system lif' di vi_ded- into· so many -parts, with each part - the Univer ~ity ·ot Kentucky, the Univer-, sity--of;J.p'u!sville;.:::the·.. :re-:, gional un1y¢rsJµes;' tlui:com-·' ~unity 'coJ!ilges and-- thi!' vo cational-.technical schools- __,_ 1 fighting over turf, _political . influendf and'money. A more '1 . ~entralized:;:system.7;-Qf<:g'QVer- 1,nan-Ce''lSv~,e••/.c'i!-e"'n···, _ ,- · ::,5, •u'il,l'-';_,,w,,._t,pfftat;J_ ';'"!'"~':'!·)'--;c;r•1:l:'.. ;,,it ··•"•'... ""· &i#•TII~~~acitibfiTiiJ:'a~afi'i'llit.a · etrore!iy.~me)iliive~lti'il's~if ··comni.unity·colleges:;riof:~ill.y has· resulted" in- needless"dU plication of programs but the failure of the state to de velop a research university that's not just good or very good, but that's of national caliber. · ' . LEX1NGTON HERALD-LEADER, l.ExJNGTON, KY. ■ SUNDAY, JANUARY 5, 1997 maximire· profits. The solution Ira' In U.S., niath,.education fads: ditionally has· required complex equations. But the students here can draw diagrams and the answer add up to zer9· improvement.- is less important than getting them BY RICHARD LEE COLVIN al educators would be unthinkable to "think about strategies, talk with Los ANGELES T,M,s I in a country such as Japan, where other. children and then pull the Scientists, doctors, engineers instruction changes slowly, guided . math ·out o! that," said _Judy A:ider.- - you leave the room. While · by classroom _successes. son, wh~ drrects_ a National Science we're at it, mathematicians and';, In ~e Umted ~tales, 1;10 central Found~l!on_proJect help!ng South MBAs, you join them. · , _,, ~\ · ~ucation authonty, national ~-- er.n United States averagci( d1v1de the fracl!on ½ by ¼? Why 10 high school seniors can compute about a C-minus, far back of sucti: not a?k: How many qu1!f!e!? are with decimals, fractions and per. honor roll nations as Singapore,: thei;e ma half-dollar? Eas1':1", nght? centages. Fewer. than one in 10 can Japan and Belgium. · ~'. . Under. the Reform_ philosophy; use beginning algebra. T~e result hardly surpris.ed students ~ave bee~ given ~lcula- Voices as prominent as Albert Amencan educators _ it mer tors, freemg up hme previously . Shanker, the president of the Amer- I repeated what has long b:e~ spent nil?'~ crunching for '.'higher. ican Federation of Teachers, say known order. thmkmg." They are to work Americans need to decide exactly . Ba~!- · th h in groups to get a feel for how math what math students should know at '. m 1957 • oug , w Iien is used on the job each level. And Americans should the _Russians_ blasled Sputnik into Students might figure out what not flee from testing performance orbit, Amencans were shocked d b k · They realized their children wer~ pr~ucts a a ery should have to because failure may hurt some. being taught math less suited for, LEXlNGTON HERALD-LEADER, LEXINGTON, KY. ■ TuEsD~Y, DECEMBER 31, 1996 :ii~. ;;:Je;o I~~~ f~ffi::~P~(~~ "KS"U boar·· d say:s 1·t has plantmg. As a result, the nat1op. • was dangerously short of top s.ci------entists and matheinaifcians.- ·'"'; an· ·d ·1-- • ts 'kno~u~s ~~e M~ cf!i~~l~ti~t swere. ·.. eompll.3]R , · -toppled later by Back to Basics. - · . ,,.,_,, ·,,. "Right"now, it's at a starldstill as far Which was supplanted by Reform HERAU>l£ADER STm·RE!>oRT · • · • • as -students are concer.ned,".. she said. which, even now, is giving rise to ... · . F~ORT - Kentucky State Backlash. Umver.s1ty board members yesterday "They haven't come to me to voice an For four decades, the United sai~ the university has an~wered com- opinion one way or another.." States has skittered from one math plamts from students this fall that One student involved in the October fad (o another - each bringing sparked intervention from the governor. protest, Cory Brown, asked to speak dur rewritten textbooks, new training The board voted yesterday to send ing the meeting. But board chair Antho courses for teachers and new home- lo the Council on Higher Education re- ny Remson said no and then quickly ad- work assignments to befuddle par- ports from the uni~ersity a?ministration journed the meeting. · ents schooled under an earlier or- about the students complamts and cam- "Whatever. the administration says, thodoxy. Today's parents, whb pus management issues. . that's the way it is," said Brown, the edi were forced to memorize multiplica- The CHE got mvolved m November, tor of the school newspaper. "I don't lion tables, might find their own when Gov. P~ul_ P?tton asked it to inves- think this board has actually on its own children being handed calculators hgate the s1tuat10n after a group of looked into the allegations. If they did, I in the frrst grade. about 3_Q_students protested campus liv- should have been the first one other. than U.S. math instruction oscillates ing conditions, the KSU police and what the board to see these reports." qetween the same poles that shape t~ey said were administrative inefficien- But after the meeting, Mary Smith's and reshape U.S. culture, politics c1es. husband, LeRoy, angrily confronted and even morality. Americans are KSU President Mary L. Smith told Brown in the hallway outside the board tom between discipline and libera- the board yesterday that she was confi- room, calling him a "Judas Iscariot" at tion, between demanding perfor- dent the college had resolved all legiti- one point mance and promoting self-esteem mate complaints. Smith's outburst appeared to be pro - a two-step that,. in education, "Every single comment has been ad- voked by seeing Brown interviewed by a causes them to fixate on facts and dressed," she said. television crew. formulas one moment, then com- Student regent Tracey Bush, in re- "Thirty students out of 2,300 stu pla~n 11:e next that such "rote learn- sp?n:e to questions from other. regents, dents doesn't make a point. valid; said mg fads to produce "true under- said she thought the situation "seemed LeRoy Smith; who worked at KSU for 27 standing." to calm down a lot after the (October) y~ as football coach and faculty mem The mood of the moment places meeting." . · ber. _"You're trying to get pilblicity·for greater. value mi getting children to yourself. It's ·not about dealmg··with questions." - · l . , .: - : .•·,., _ feel good about math than on im 7 proving their test scores. But Amer icans are re-evaluating, worried that things have gone too far. Such conflict among profession- Ja. n. 8 2 / qCf 7 C\ \ ~ dd-- LI - IJ - l 5 IV1SU Cliµ Sheet A sample of recent articles of interest to Morehead State University INSTITUTIONAL RELATIONS MOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY UPO BOX 1100 MOREHEAD, KY 40361 -1689 606-783-2030 LEXINGTON H ERALD-LEADER. L£X1Nu l0N. 1-\\ . • WEUNESl)Ar. JANUARY 8. 1997 A control -switch MSU ARCHIVES Governance of higher education needs to gain strength t's certainly norewo11 hy when <.1 blah. The same things are being sitting chairman of the Universi said about them today that were It\' of Kentuckv Board of said 10. 20. 30 years ago. Tru~tees says the state Council Oil How manr recall that the Higher Education needs more au Prichard Conimittee. known for its thorirr. If for no other reason, it's \\'ork in helping reform elementar~ note\,:Orthv becau -e an\' increa~e in and secondary education. was origi the councii's power must necessari nall~· created by the Council on ly come at the expense of the \·,1 ri I ligher Education? Ir ·pent a ~'ear ous ·tate univer ities· boards: and producing a thorough analysis of aclrncating a reduction in his higher education's problems in Ken board's power isn't something you tucky, along with a set of recom expect a chaim1an to do. mendations for moving the state to But Edward T. " ed" Breathitt ward academic excellence. i ·n't your everyday university Ir hard to remember because board chairman. He's a former go\· most of those recommendations, e111or - the former governor who like the suggestions contained in pre ·ided over the birth of the Coun dozens of other studies conducted cil on Higher Education three m·er the years (enough to fill a cou dt:cades ago. So, he probably has ple of \\'ings in the new UK library). an affinity for the agency that other were widely ignored. Whenever board chairmen don't have. changes were suggested, whenever But don't be misled into think the rnuncil tried to exert ome real ing that Breathitt' · think- control (as it did in the ad 111g is warped by ·ome pa ministration · of former ternalistic interest in the No one - not Govs. Julian CarToll and council. On the contrary. the council. not John Y. Brown Jr.). the his instincts are pretty governors, not un iversitie and their much on target when he legislators - friends in the legislature sa~: ·. as he was quoted re has ever exert immediately cut the cently in The (Louisvitle) ed any reason ground out from under the Couner-Joumal, ''We've able control reform movements. got to have a strong coun over Kentucky's eight state A a result, we now cil that can look at ,;,,,·hat i universities. have a council of limited in the best interests of ed powers that has been ucation in general, and Balkanized by statute - that exercises oversight and final with a makeup that must include approval on what to do." one alumnus from each of the If our current gO\·ernor, Paul state's univer ities and nine mem Patton, wants to fulfill his commit bers cho en to represent geographic ment to reforming Kentucky higher regions of the state. Small wonder education, some change in gover that it can't exercise effective con nance - a stronger. more indepen trol over the individual institutions dent Council on Higher Education: nor act as an effective spokesman a "superboard ;" something - is a for higher education. Small wonder. virtual must. too, that this state keep revisiting We're here today, dogpaddling the same higher education prob around the same water we've been lems over and over and over again. treading for a quarter-century and To olve those problems and n1ore, largely because no one - not gi,·e this state the kind of higher the council, not governors, not leg education system its people need islators - has ever exerted any and deserve. we must find a reasonable control over Kentucky's method of governance that curtails eight state uni versities. the empire-bu ilding, turf-protecting ;-;ame the issue: duplication of instincts of the individ ual universi programs. off-campus instruction. tie::; and their friends in the General reacher education. governance of :\S::,embly. If Patton reall y wants ro the community college '. an exces: reform higher education. that's the of professional schools. blah. blah. task before him. =1""an, 'I, I ~'17 Jv/JU Clip A sample of recent articles of interest to Morehead State University INSTITUTIONAL RELATIONS MOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY UPC BOX 1 100 MOREHEAD, KY 40351-1 689 606-783-2030 LExlNGTON HERALD-LEAD'!', LEXINGTON, KY. ■_THURSDAY, JANUARY 9, 1997 'Loyal Demo~rats' snub leader -roles willing to name Republicans as vice Bv JACK BRAMMER chairmen as the House does. AND CHAD CARLTON But if the 15 Democrats contin- HERALD-WDER fRANKRlRT BuaEAu ue to refuse chairmanships, Repub- FRANKFORT - Republicans may end Iicans probably will be offered the up heading most of the Senate's standing spots, said newly elected Senate committees because most Democrats are re- ·President,Pro-Tem Walter Blevins, fusing to accept chairmanships in the deeply :_'D-W~t:Liberty. · divided chamber. "I hope it doesn't come to that," The 15 remaining members of the Senate he said. But, "We'll have no choice." Democratic caucus voted yesterday to decline The committee selections will the usually prized chairmanships in the Re- be made by a panel now controlled publican-powered coalition headed by newly by Blevins, ·saunders and Republi- elected President Larry Saunders, D- can leaders. Louisville. The mountain senators who ''We don't want to be figureheads or joined in the coup probably will pawns," said Senate Majority Caucus Chair- head three committees, Blevins man Nick Kafoglis, D-Bowling Green. said. The move complicates the ongoing orga- ·:Sen. Benny Ray Bailey, D-Hind- nizational session and raises questions about man; an 18-year Senate veteran, how the new.coalition_gov,eriunenf~ll Wl)!'k. will.head 'llie Appropriations .and -- --. Deiiicifals;!fo1d,1{20:18i advaiitage'iivet I Revenue {{mmittee:-·•.•,;J,-t\'.'4 •;:;f,\' , ·Re' ribliw"fu~the ·38,mem ·~ . -. £,>But - . w . ' '' h en are'a!so' ~ ·r~r "''c'Wit C .>'-1'.'Jm'-:li>";,,;J.Wil•"V"'~-~,c•.0."_''',~ci_,.,,,_,,;~•-·_··;iJi(over.ill£o'"';/ifJok •m,,;·~~- ..... ' clJJm~~GI ,, 'p·· ,.,,.JlS, °!Bl~vins ' f ·c .. --sa·dlSen:L 0 & politi?tl factions: the 18-mem- ; ~~~•~-'Gary Johnson ?~ Pikeville ~)~~f~~'1fc:'Jl/fJ!;cl1Jtil~~ :i~~'.ne to run the Judiciary_ Com- ;1&x:r1il.wlici.ha.ve.:been',tokei1. oti't Kafoglis said committee chair- :m therr·.caucuir for hatching· the manships no longer mean as much ;/;!;lup with the GOP. because of rule changes demanded '.!; Saunders met with several of by Republicans and Saunders' 'rtie self-described "loyal Democ- pledge to allow votes on more bills. :rats" yesterday, hoping to convince . . · Tra_ditionally, chairmen have them to join the coalition. had the ,power to bottle up bills ;:: ..Sen .• Joey Pendleton of Hop- , they):l1dn'.t like. .-,_ , '.1lnsvi11R_Qn~nf,t;!J~.Dem9¢t:ati,c-loy.•,, ... Kafogli.s~d.the 15 )¥iµocrats · Saunders rejected talk that Re '~sts'(~(f'~m~j~ Sauilil'ei-s';i' · ill · '&'!'"'""th ~ th"'r. ' ( publicans· have taken over the Sen ~-~?{\~4~p'~Ji~'~' , w ,,s~ ,_age, er,in _ e•15;1u~t i ate: ~That'~_lJust simply not true," he said,'· >'·"t - _,. < ~r~~w~yJi:~~~~!r :ES~_,~~!dlr.tnl~)~ · ·, Tiiiailµtioti got its first test l'~_tigfield --: serving as Sa~nders' on bills,• , .- . . · i, yesterday when Republican Floor .iily!$el'li dunng yesterdays pro- Kafoglis said Democrats are.ac- Leader Dari ·Kelly of Springfield ~gs. knowledging they:effectively will proposed _changing the minutes of ;::,,(~ipg th_e_g~pµl;>H~ns. ~.c;tl_!iiig' ,be·:me'.miriority p;@y:iliitifSeriate I -,TuesdaY!s:elections. to 1_1.ote that an. -e~fili6tstt,de\:i"~~1,1d\u1mi't?Be1.' ?' d. r,~-;,-••-hi.... ·.·1··· ·--~-- ,_0-"'"'.'-n·1d' 'ob'"· "oofwas;,'inadil":when"Rose --' ·u~,,-,{iti:]l.. ,~,,..,_i:1""41_1··.,., ...... ':lli'~"·f, 2!!__11~~el;,PJJ:,~~--¥~1. 'i!oc -~ .,-.. 1,•,,,. .... , •;.•,,·.- .,., • ~ '0,t.~ ~·.. en :cai(J"t!,;/~)11:;lft 'jaga'.'m' ,m"'' ·,htt·o·-:-VPai·l"'Q~!°.,h~'!";,~1.i.~:.,._'-';·\i,;, .•.. 1~.• ,1 ~red a-recess-(or a party caucus. ,.. •'fffli" -&me Ho· •'ffi'li''··ars-i, ·.. , • . ·- •i-~•-''p""1-,"'"'>""'•"";-.. ,, ::•: .. {· ~~n~~itil:ar~cii=u rrbm ·Ka.rem, ii4t\fo.hlie':las~teJ~tlonfa;'iira;. , stic~~:~~1!tg,'.: t~-t we the chaml>er voted 23-14 to approve >00sed me. 9f..bemg a baby,.k11ler, , ··R · ._- h the''f:Senate '. Kell}'.!s ;;riiotio~. Democrats Saun ~-_qleton;said in reference to the I i" ~e,.;,'f o.:,~-.id"_n:2"· ·,.,~ Jltxiffi ... , "· ,,, ,._ ,u· ··•- ,,· -: . eauer ,or·-1usears.-sat =uocraw. , ders}lBlevms;:i3a/1efr,Freeinap 8,Ild ,..1 •fr ~n ISSUt · . f · caucus members.- Jiave 'askea Cov. Jolilislin;":vbteil '\vitlfRepublicans in ~- tt... e ore Sat e dsenes, do. t,_pdnvthaatet· ·Paul Patton,-a staiihcli. Democrat, to approVing' theimotion. One Democ -e~ mgs, un er~_pre 1c e _ · te 'th'Sen te·Ma' rity 'rat,~·ncitpresent: •iigveral,Democrats-would-join his -communica .- -WI,,:,.-. a_· ,J0 , ,¼~"1.ttJ~~{.!':.:-/.;~, . ~-:~;~'.·-·at-r ~•:1y1ifoiccepf:C~,lri~hi?·· Leathdei: Dbehalfayid:~~ J?,Lomsville, 0 r.t;ea i$a:dffder§-~i;.4fill\;~f ·· e5ftfT'£u; ~ .,;11" ·...• -: _-,- ;.0j.)!i):'.·J·~~-:..:,: · ·. =ui&rot1~•ior~li1•19-·-i?~~:~lfl. :·~ "We --d&iiii'e1riJ,tiiliiart~of.the ~11-··"=p•ip'o·Fni!aW~li'11& foiiffii";. .I?~r·uliiiciilj!.l!ligeli.:i 0 -?-:t1fose'isaid;•/ ...,,,""" . ' ng,."· "d- ayi;=ei,w1m:.announce!:",,;,,.,,.,.>fiu_•,.;r,. ... ,1_.k,.,.,. "-" ,·~-. ,- , ··-•11..,',f;,.:,..~;,ri1~_-::i&6P_~M,~ ...... : \:.:.i'.0 "'C0mmtu.cc'·'ass~ts I \.AJtnmlt.,~...,.";i::,.,.~•f;f,..~.')1\·~J1\~t'i.'1,lv,~..;,e·-i ·'~i.::~ ··"'" ·,;;•tt•};."ftt;'",·f•.:.,11 ~ ··,s""·tli-~ ~ I ~,f~t;,-~1:{.Ai~;,1,j\tf1,'.2::rt10t·,1, i·:tT~" 1,0•_•,-;~,..,_-i:~!~f;-?;~' ;;,,"'"'' cons ,u__ c;,ma ow ,~ e ,.·,,.. _Patton bas'aii:used tlie'five De- ~i~n to_ run as lo~;~.. 10. t!ays~· ' mocrats·: w\lo .. sided with ~epubli- -.,.. t:}.;p"{ -d•ti···.,wm the .. presidency_ ..._ .. ,,- , '·Saun-. ··fi .. cans· o·.f-'d' esemn- g· th e party' and se t• -oeri; ~-!1- _ 1s, ~<>~ _0 ~m~~~~ <> I· ting up' possible gridlock. :We~;,a~. to,'fw.~~~hal)ges;~t Patton met·with Saunders for :g.ve.... M·'·t· ~!!IJubhcans,more,pQwer;·•·:,. · ifi-.-,, - ,:.c; .• ,,, ,/:_____ a bout 30- mmutes· yes t er d ay mom- •- . -~ ,sign ~1 ·cwe(e.:.C=•~es ing. Saunders said he told the gov- ffiat give Repubhcans _ numerical ernor that the Democratic caucus C?ntrol ,of ~o committees;an adcli- "will come-back together." tional sea("on·the powerful-budget. Sa d - 'd p tt uld be pane1 an d'h•. a If .o_f.th e seats·on· the · un" ersk sat 'th a on• p wo d f;"'""cii;;i:fi1fCo ·ttee: :-:;·: ,._,,, __ ,_·· able to wor,. WI me. atton e- ~W_;_J:1a~i6n_,'.."_ilfil-i." 1J:1 sa.id'.ilk'a~!N& dined to·comment -·, · -- · ' ~JTuilil)i$1\'>tit Republicans iit cliarge t',9f~tiYi'.cqmmittees, but would be THECOURIER-JOURNAL • THURSDAY, JANUARY 9, 1997 Luck of:tSOllle-:U of .L students_ means ,SO·-ttliist~retake:jlaw ·test Ewald said. "If so~e students were severely disadvantaged ..• we need to No one's accused be fair to them." :i. tin" • t t Those who didn't use Because professors have wide ~ti 0 f· the study guide the tude in how they prepare and a~ cuea g, es · ister tests, "I'm not sure the adminis questions came from tration has any choice" but to back gave some an edge Render's decision to give another test, By ANDREW MELNYKOVYCH ''feel they have been Ewald said. ''This is the first time The Courier-Journal anything like this has happened." disadvantaged." Ewald said complaints about the About 80 University of l.Duisville exam surfaced soon after it was giv law students have been told they will Linda Ewald, associate dean en with some students going to Ren have to retake a portion of a final der and others to the law school exam because many of them had pri- dean's office. · or access to multiple-choice questions In addition . to complaints about that were on the test. b ks Id fairness from students wbo didn't use The students have not .. been ac- answers - in several oo so as the study guide, the others were un cused of cheating, said Linda Ewald, bar-exam study guides. happy because it contained numerous the school's associate dean. "There is All the questions on Render's test typographical errors that Render cor f · d ct th art could be found in an exam repro- rected while students were taking the ofno anyevidence student," o D11Scon she said. u on • P duced in a single study guide, Ewald test, Ewald said. . Instead, she said that some stu- said. . She acknowledged that having to dents were lucky enough to have used "He believes a disproportiona1 e take the exam again will be. a ~ard a commercial study guide that con- number of students had seen the ship on students who are begmnmg a tained the questions Professor Edwin exam from which he took,,quhestio~, new semester. Students in the class Render used on the test When Ren- so they had an_ advantage, s e SB! . are in their second or third year of der found out he decided, in the in- "Tho~• wbo didn't have the P~• law school terest of fairness to the studen_ts wbo . questions _!eel they hi/Ve_ bee!} disad- Ewald said she·has met with affect hadn't used the pide, to ,withhold · ~ ·. _ : · :· • -. ed students. An informal mediation grades IIJ!Orls el!C!J'. of the 1990 freshmen in terms of.en rate Up 11 · ·.,.-. rollment and graduation. won't be re - ·· year on student-athletes graduation, ported until June. .". and enrollment rates. The new stuc!Y,·: But Todd Petr, assistant research. • •t• .:_ put side-by-side six years' data -·tlJ!!: '.:0 · director, said the numbers so-.far bear. • mlnon• les ~ freshman classes of 1983-1989 --iii ·out the NCAA's expectation•in shi>~ ··1· • .- -:~i heti=~~":~T~ib·gen~· ing tlie enrollment·_of,black,athleti!l. • '"''t., 'jij ~y.b~llt,P.Jll-~on 1n:a ! e lfQ~. d~~tlie~~,Cf19~ at.Dk. ~ ~ • • . ~,,, VISlon.€1< schoolii,that.give. athleliiJ;, ,;As you"niise'"tlie:sfuit~. . ,::-,- scholarships-had total enrollment,Qf. Y9J! __ By DANA'FIELDS ,.,, . 3,589 and a graduation rate of 35 per-• have an impact on people o~ously-_at Associated Press ,_,,._;: cent. In the 1986·freshman class, eth the lower end of tlie scale intenns-.¥,, :-,;r · ,. ,; '"" ro.llm~tJ~ll to 3,041, .but_ th~._grl\ffi!,: test scores and grade-l_)Oinl averagef, :: -r OVERLAND>PARK,•,Kan.. --,T,h~, ation·ratelOSe.to 44:pen:ent,_. Petr said."'.'You're:cu~ IJ!!Ople '1.i!tt' I . . •· and that'&'""eciflca'lieenethe:case· ,numbeiiofiblack athletes,enrolling; in, .,,.By•'tlfl!':falFof'J989)leiifullirie · ,. with 1thiFniilionty, ··- · •ofita--..: Divisionll: schoolsithat,graiit sch~;' blacltfmale"lind"feiifale!I"stude_nf_ L ·ships:.is,»il:ithe.iri!bound,after fallinl!, letes was uj>1to'3,:f91l'wliilethe gra· · '- off when Proposition 48 was adop\eil · ation rate was 46 percent. · p~i~.::·=it~ifQ"1 1'!:• ments occasionally since 1986. Th.; 10 years.ago, the NCM reported y~, Among black male student-athlete¥r terilay.. . .~.,, ., ,... · .. •)' "' enrollment rose.from ·2,883 freshml(if latest revision-was last-spring, wl);~1f .,dn, ~fi!S!i•-term~dy.of!'..tl!°e'.'.: in 198310·2 977•in'.1985''then·tumhlelfi. sliding scales, ofgrilde-point,averag!li!; academii:istandaro:rule's,ilnpaet, tg_e- to 2;418 itl.Ul81t;,tlie1iref~ of~- and'test,stores-were'adoptect,_;•jlie: NCAA' also .said -gi-aduation ·rates'.foi, position= 48; The•nunibet was bacl!; lllt.' lower a student's GPA;·the higher the: all student-athletes at such Division;;t: to-2·'708 in'1989: ,, .. _... · --- ·-••. test score,must lie. · •· · ·· - . In Philadelphia yestenlay,a-public- schools continue to exceed.those.of I ,Forstudent-athletes'ofallracesiui(t'. .interest Jfegal >groupi.1 filed", tfedei'ij, the general stude11t populations. ~ ~-: genders;total freshman ·enrollment~. a: The-NCM: ,said; blacks made,uJI: Division 1,schools that;offer.. atbletic- · lawsuit ,a~ -the·=NCM of dis_;.. 27~ pen:ent•.ofallS!Udent-atblet~~:~n;~ scholarsbips-,,was ·,13,144-cin.: -~~t cri,minating- against{blai:~ -~etes:oy tenng_. ,tha,sd!,ools m,:,1985, fa1i!ng.1fi_, l2,8nin,1986·and 13;962,for.,the'u» .usmg SAT' scores'loidetermine•fresli• 23 &i~;:lll.)1986 By,-1989 tt had I .pg,~--~19ffll,t;\la,,ll ~d"'°~ men eligi_· 'bi!i!Yifo~:~rts._ '"'"·;"'- . ·_..,, ::.._· ; College enrollments nationwide ap pear to be sli~htly · up this year. In Kentucky, they re' slightly down, coii ttn~g ·,a four-year ~<>W11Wai;d trend. Tlie'overall pattern Is one of stabil ity. Some obseivers say that suggests population and economic trends are . ·canceling each other out. 1 . lri ,Northern Kentucky, for example, ,''we.,, have low. unemployment and · ,pfenty'·of ·job, opportunities,'hfactors ,tllat'feadsolriep~ students to · f<>:rgo:·,or,I defer:, college, sald>ILaum •· -Koehff vice1rbieslderit, for ,enrtillnient l •~iitent"irat,,ll'llomas ,More Col ; \J~ila~th~ijp! llll~ artS'School, In ,CrestvJ,ew;Hlllf)f,m '('JJ/ill 1Mld:'.J ! 11 \.. 1r,s1t1i'~d~;•uhrervaillilg'lreiid, ex- •;·" · '1hl .schllOl e~ilm ts.· ••• -ifi:e'ilin, .. Ii.••t~ , uo~,,~- l!mllD"'"t· ·11DY:-uc,.. --_-.rE.1 0$6II' • ljlf! . i'il!J sfu!I " 1$\a(',.Thomas Mote. 1.~ \i,'c\ID;~;111rr1i.2ii ,=~i i:!L~_t efniunber·~_ln the rn~1···e'sijld;,, '1... ;'ii :·•n·i995,Vti 1 ·•·IJ!Jfl .. ~D,_-~l.!._"~ -,....e • ~••••· un ·ell on·•wuca-'•"._, ' tlo "i'\/111!1 • · a!. elieral · atteril ~!~ ... Q1~.-- .::. !; .~Jg ' ~\ •)·:- ... . "! • THE COURIER-JOURNAL • NATION • FRIDAY, JANUARY 10, 1997 CLINTON AND EDUCATION Student loan defaults lowest ever L__ -·--::. Drop cut losses rules,. ~hoots .with default rates higher ·than · 25 percent for more PRESIDENT CLINTON'S EDUCATION PLAN .Oll than three consecutive years. lost nearly $1 •5 billi their eligibility for student loans. A Toe package, which would add $42 billion to education '92 tO '96iI school with a one-year default rate spending over five years, includes: from of. more than 40 percent could also ■ The HOPE scholarship plan, a $1,500 tax credit for each lose eligibility. of the first two years of college. By RICHARD WHITMIRE Over the past four years, the Edu- Gannett News Setvice cation Department removed 672 in- ■ A $10,000 tax deduction for all education and training. , stitutions from financial-aid pro- ■ Building a corps of 1 million volunteer tutors to ensure all wASHINGTON - At a White grams because of excessive default children can read independently by the fourth grade. House ceremony celebrating the ' rates. Most were small trade ■ Connecting every classroom to the Internet by 2000. lowest-ever default rate for student schools, stich as beauty schools. ■ Renovating and replacing crumbling schools by .offering a loans, President Clinton .made it Over the past l½ years, new tech 50 percent interest subsidy for new school construction and clear yesterday that he hopes histo- nology to track students with bad renovation. rians will remember him as "the loan·histories identified 125,000 with education president." prior defaults, Riley said. Plus, Edu- ■ Testing students to determine whether they learned "what "The c~re :of !"Y second-term ef-_ . cation_ Department officials used - they were supposl1(1 to learr," before advancing them to the fort to ~uild a bndge ,t\l the 21st c~• new ,,jiQwers to collect, including next grade . · ...... ·· ,.. . · tuiy will be:•draniatic advan=:-.m~ ,...,.,;i;,u "· d -"''"'"o· !ding ed . ,. 'd. Clin .,.,., , -1>,,_-eemg wages an w,wu , ■ Rewai:~ing,teacheni:.~o•d(!_/W~U and giving schools fresh . ucation,.·· ~ - . ton, repeating .mcome-tax refunds. '· powers to ·remove ineffectiva·'i_El.achers. ··· - - ~. campm~•-~eton~.. ,. : Those savings are examples of ef- ■ Further expanding·the popillare·charter school ·movement, The fact IS, he.smd, some p~ forts to ''reinvent government," said pie who want, to go to college still Riley •nue have used every tool along with school choice among public schools. can't get there " · "~ The default rate for student loans available to slash the default ra~ fell to 10.7 percent in 1994, down ~d save taxpay~rs hundreds of mil from a high of 22.4 percent in 1990, lions of dollars. said Clinton and Education Secre- tary Richard Riley. And the most re- cent numbers available showed the losses from student loan defaults fell from $1.7 billion in 1992 to $249 mil- lion in 1996. Asked about the likelihood of winning his education initiatives in Congress, Clinton said: "The chances are very good .... lf the at mosphere of this Congress reflects what happened in the last two months of the last Congress, we think the American people (will) get these tax cuts, II . Clinton and his aides think educa tion was the key to his re-election. They poiot to· !lie election-time scramble by Republicans in the last Congress to restore funding to the very. education prpgrmns they had previously cut. Riley echoed Clinton's confidence. '_'A lot of those issues were de bated in a general way in the cam paign, and !"think ,the campaign clearly said the American people put education as a top priority," he·said. While Republicans are giving edu cation issues newyespect, they con tinue to. push for vouchers that would include parochial schools - especially for inner-city children. Legislation allowinJ! tax credits that I can be used at i:el)gio!J!I colleges wjll al!r&cl-'!"lendnie!)ts;that would per;, IDlt pnvate-sc~\i',-~ouchers -Jor younger-child.reri::rJi{.-- _i'~::::.~ In 1990 and '1992:Congress gave the Education Department new au- thority and technology to "curb 'the· rising loan default rate. Under new /1_///';ill Clip INSTITUTIONAL RELATIONS MOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY UPO BOX 1100 • - LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER. LEXINGTON. KY. ■ SATURDAY. JANUARY 11, 199h7 to 'improve them "[ looking for ways to trim t_he state ·p t monev t ere · budget in other areas, Hardm 5!1l_d. think-there's a flavor now of ·How Ramsey said state officials atton Wan S do we use this money to a~comphsh started the vear with a $60 million certain objectives?' " he said. . . surplus. They also expect a strong The state's eight umversilles economy to produce more budget and 1-l community colleges ~ot surpluses, possibly as much as $150 a dditi Ona l about $735 million in state funding million over the next few years. this year. and are in line now to get At least one legislator has sug- •on about $750 million in the 1997-98 gested that video slot machines $10 0 milli budget year. might also provide more revenue to Kentucky Tech's posHecondary the state. Sen. Tim Shaughnessy, D- •gh d schools received $60.8 milhon this Louisville, said in a recent in!erview ~or hi er e y~a~ and are slated to receive $63-3 that some of that money might be ,lI m1llton next year. used to support higher education. The magnitude of the percent: Members of the U of L Board of By ANGIE MUHS age increase would depend on how Overseers, an informal advisory HERAUrLEAOER EDUCATION WRITER fast Patton moved to raise higher group largely made up of business Gov. Paul Patton is looking at ways to in crease Kentucky's higher education budget by as education's budget. leaders, reacted well to Patton's re- But historically, _in the P~st marks, said Robert Rounsavall lll. much as $100 million a year, possibly as soon as decade. higher educallon budget m- its chairman. three Years from now. creases have been far less than the "It's a significant number, cer- Some new budget increases could start flow universiries sought. · . tainlv in the view of what he ing into higher education coffers as s?on as July, The last major budget increase stressed was a tight budget pie- said Jim Ramsey, the state budget director. But proposal was in 1990, as part of ~d- ture," Rounsavall said. the increases probably wouldn't reach the $100 ucation reform. But the universities Ron Geoghegan, chairman of the million mark for two or three years, he said. That money, though, comes with a condition. never saw that money and instead Kentuckv Advocates for Higher Ed- had their budgets cut after the state ucation, · said his group had urged "He stressed that he wasn't willing to put that monev into the system as it exists, without seeing hit financial problems. Patton to increase the higher educa- "lt's only in the last year or so tion budget by about $50 million a changes," said Melissa Forsythe, Patton's spokes that we've returned to the level of year. woman. "And he means basic, serious change." If Patton were able to find that money, the in the budget that was recommended "This can be hailed as nothing creases would be a major boost for higher educa in 1990," Cox said. but good news," he said. "Higher ed- tion; its funding was cut in the early 1990s and Hardin said that Patton. in his ucation is a component that's been remarks Wednesday, did not talk at ignored and needs to be strength- funding increases since then have been meager. length about where the state might ened." Patton's proposal also is nyice as much as the get the money. But he cautioned_ the funding increase recommended by the Kentucky group that part of his plans might ••• Advocates for Higher Education, a citizens Herald-Leader staff writer Chad depend upon the success of hi~ E~ Carlton contributed to this story. group. power Kentuckv mmative. which 1s . Details on how the state would THE COURIER-JOURNAL • _MOND.A.Y, JANUARY 13, 1997 actually find the money are vague and rely mostly on predictions of state budget surpluses and savings Kentucky cheerleaders elsewhere. Even so Patton's remarks are "great news' for higher ed~cation," are national champs said Gary Cox. executtve director of the Council on Higher Education. The Courier-Journal Ramsay, U of L's director of spirit groups. By luck of the draw, the "It's very consistent with what Ladybirds had to perform first out of he's been saying," Cox said. "It's Three Kentucky universities won 17 teams, "which is a very tough just that now there's an actual dol top honors over the weekend in a draw ,, he said. " ... We had to national cheerleading and dance- sweai out the other 16 teams' perfor- lar figure associated with it." team competition in Orlando, Fla. mances.,, Patton has said since taking of The coed cheerleading squads "The pressure was on us to be at fice that he wants to find more mon from the University of Kentucky and our best," said Kristin King, a mem ev for state universities, community Morehead State University won first ber of both u of L national cham colleges and post-secondary voca .place in their divisions at the Univer- pionship squads. "We went out and tional· schools. sal Cheerleadi~g Association n_atioi:- showed we were the best. The crowd al championships. And the Umvers,- was behind us the whole way." :But this week may have been ty of Louisville's dance team cap- Th u f L d ·th 12 men the· first time that he's publicly tured its second championship m e O sgua , WI . '?~ . floated a number for the possible in dancin~, won first place m D1V1s1on three years. IA, which includes major universi- crease. Patton used the $100 million The victory by the UK squad, ties Ramsay said. The dancers had figure on Wednesday at a Universi coached by Saleem Habash, was its flo~ to Florida Thursday for free, a ty of Louisville Board of Overseers third in a row in Division IA and sev- trip they had won when the tape meeting, according to two people enth overall. And Gavin Duerson, a they submitted in October to qualify who were there. UK sophomore from Berea, placed was ranked No. 2 among the en second in the mascot competition. trants. The top five got free trips, he ;He didn't say he could get it the Morehead won Division I, its sev- said. first year," said Council on Higher enth consecutive championship. Ramsay said the dancers' overall Education chairman Leonard Also, Morehead's all-girl squad was grade-point average is close to 3.1, Hardin who attended the speech. second and its dance team came in "which says a lot about their charac "He said it might be $25 million the third. A two-person stunt team made ter and their status as students." first year, $50 million the next and up of Shay Whitehead, a jun!or from In St. Louis, the Dazzlers dance so forth." Lexington, and A~am Spnnger, _a team from duPont Manual High senior from Castalia, Oh10, came m School in Louisville won a national Patton did not say how the new sixth for Morehead, which is championship - the jazz division of money might be distribut~d. Ram coached by Myron Doan. the American Spirit Championships sey said that Aims McGumness, a For the . Ladybirds, the victory - on Saturday. · consultant advising Patton's task gives U of L nine national champion- The Dazzlers also were runners force, is studying ways in which the ships - six in cheerleading, two in up in the grand national champion money might be used. dance and one for mascot - the ship, said Joan Stewart,_ a math But Cox said he would guess most among university spirit groups teacher at Manual and director of that the governor-might want to fo across the country. UK, with eight the Dazzlers. cus· on specific areas and target national titles, is second. Nineteen students from Manual The Ladybirds performed Satur- competed on Saturday, she said, and day·night b_efore a crowd. ~f about th. e aw~ :,vere ~o,u~ced_,yes)~r- 1 6,000 at Disney World, 1s111d .Dale .· c!~y.. ·•1 - . · ,_ • LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER, LEXINGTON, KY. ■ SUNDAY. JANUARY 12. 1997 Highe1- education could face major surgery .; . . Patton, others see sweeping change as cure ·• ii BY ANGIE MUHS ■ Advanced vocational-training Patton also has. in the pasl M·J;1 f - :?:~ HERA~LEADER EDUCATION WRITER programs report to a state agency week, publicly pitchc>d the idea thal · The next public soul-searching of and have_ no fonnal connection with he might eventually spend $10( 'for H"t~her higher education may be the one that de- umversit1es or community colleges million a year more on higher edu termines Kentuckv's destiny as it enters - even though many people m cation - a potent incentive to gel Educa ion the 21st century. . higher educatio~ think their pro- colleges to cooperate with reform. Fretting about the condition of higher grams overlap m some. respe~ts. But the governor will have tc An occ~sional education is a time-honored tradition for There_ ne<;ds to be more s,stemw1de senes figure out ways to link the mon K tu k coordmation between the two, they mundane workings of higher educa enBc yh.. . d d say. ~t t is llme aroun , ~ore an more ■ Many worry that the state's tion to the public's larger concern! promment peo~le -:- mcludmg some past flagship, the University of Ken- - like constantly rising tuition in and presem university ~ard members_- tucky, isn't attracting enough cut- creases, and whether their childrer are suggestmg that a radical restructurmg ting-edge research or producing can get good jobs after finishinf might be_ needed to correct the current enough people with the most ad- college, Albright said. system 0s ills. vanced degrees. "I think, both here and national That's one example of the "wild ideas" Kentucky needs a "national- ly, the public isn't satisfied witt that Gov. Paul Patton said he wants high- class" university, said A.D. Al- what they're getting for the amoun1 er education to consider. bright. a former president of More- of money they put in," he said. Many of those people are arguing that head State and Northern Kentucky the Council on Higher Education should universities and a former executive Planning before changes be given much more power - and some dire~tor ?f the coun~il. . . ,, Some say, though, that thei of them say they'd even consider support- 'UK is a good mstitution, Al- think Patton should first figure oul ing a "superboard." one board to govern bright_ said. "?ut it's not_ a national- what kind of system he wants be all colleges, if strengthening the council class mstitution when it comes to fore he starts talking about whal failed. strong advanced graduate pro- kind of changes might be made - "We'd be better off if we had an all- grams and the kind of research that especially when it comes to tinker powerful coordinating board to knock makes recognition widespread." ing with who controls· what. heads and say, 'We know you'd like a ■ The formula the state uses to dental school and a law school and all the give money to the colleges also is "I don't like getting the can other schools, but there's a limit to what coming under more scrutiny. ahead of the· horse," said Ron Ge we can afford and still have excellence,'" While the formula ended free- oghegan, chairman of the Kentuck} said Morton Holbrook, a retired Owens- for-all lobbying from every college, Advocates for Higher Education boro lawyer and former council more people are starting to question "What's missing right now, befon chairman. it, especially the emphasis it puts we talk about changes to make, is a . Right now, Patton, the man on ';.nroll~en1, . sense of what we want." pushing the reform, has been tight- . I thmk it guarantees medioc,; But former Gov. Edward ·.:r. lipped about what solutions he nty at the. expense of excellence, "Ned" Breathitt, the chairman of tlit might back. in the next month or so. said council 11;ember Larry Hayes, UK Board of Trustees, said lif What is known are some of the who was cabmet secretary under thinks some major changes have tc problems. Kentucky's public higher Gov. Martha Layne Collins. be made if Patton wants to get any education - while far from crisis thing done. ,- - is also far from greatness or Satisfying the public pr9minence. Patton, 1vho is quietly meeting Breathitt said he has thouglit- "I don't think there is nearly with university presidents and oth for a long time that the council enough broad-based quality at our ers knowledgeable about postsec needs to be strengthened signifi. institutions,'' said Joe Bill Campbell, ondary education and mulling the cantly and given more power, al though he does not want a sup~ a Council on Higher Education testimony from consultants and cit board. ,;,, member and former chairman of izen groups, says he is well aware _, the Western Kentucky University of the system's problems. Breathitt said he thinks -a board. "We must articulate to the pub strengthened council could have re Among perennial problems lic that we can do better" in postsec solved cases like a highly pulili many people cite as needing atten ondary education," he said in a re cized battle between UK and Milf tion from Patton: cent interview. "And to do better, ray State University over whetlter ,■ Kentucky still languishes we have to change something." to put an engineering program in near the bottom of the nation in the He does say he expects no less Paducah - a dispute that m&ny ed percentage of its residents who than major change, repeatedly cast ucators and businesspeople think have bachelor's degrees. ing the matter as a problem requir spotlighted the problems· with the It's had success getting more ing solutions on the magnitude of system. people to go to college :__ but near the Kentucky Education Reform "It's like arbitration," he said. ly two-thirds of students seeking Act, which six years ago turned ele "You may not like the results. But bachelor's degrees haven't graduat mentary and secondary education at least you get it settled." ed, even after six years. Many drop upside down. out and ar.e lost to the system. "If our high school and elemen tary schools were dropping out peo ple at the rate higher education is, we'd have even more of revolution than we've already had," said Bob Sexton, executive director of the Prichard Committee for Academic Excellence. · Higher--;=d•p1ay;rs,,~ee Patton'~ resolve ' cation wo?dc~p ·pace if it doesn't you're trying to accomplish a ~jor The real danger for Patton Jovernor's staking reputation on issue change, to6i'¥lill Ron Geoghegan, a . thing that requires the Genera(As- would be if universities mobilized BellSout\l elteJ;.utive who is chair- sembly's support." . groups of alumni to get lawmakers ;hows he's serious, council members say man of the kentucky Advocates for But Campbell said he · still to fight proposals for change, said Highe~ Education. thought Patton . could .. ovefcome council member Nathan Smith, a Bv ANGIE MuHs Previous· governors didn't go Others. cite the relative ease that, noting that he wquld' ·i;ieed Northern Kentucky businessman. HERALD--lEAOER EDUCATION WRITER that far, said Joe Bill Campbell, the with whit:h Patton revamped only 20 votes in the Senate to pass "I think it's going to become so For more than a year, Gov. Paul longest-serving council member. workers'· compensation, another something. · .. political," Smith said. "I think Gov. 'atton has been talking about the "Words are cheap, but when a thorny topic, "He has the political say,vy, to Patton has great stamina, but my ,eed to reform higher education. governor says he'll stake his repu ".Wor!(ers'. •compensation was make the best of that situation and biggest fear is that they'll just wear Now, just when the General As tation as governor on how higher dealt with iri ways that the busi- come out on top," lie said: · him out." :embly has heen thrown into tur education does, he's made it a prior ness commul)iiy in previous times noil, the time is drawing closer for ity," said Campbell, who also might ~Qt _have thought could be LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER, LEXINGTON, KY. ■ MONDAY, JANUARY 13, 1997 'att0n to say how he intends to do served as chairman. "And that's a done," Said Robert Rounsavall III, a hat - and then try to push it difference. He genuinely wants to Louisville businessman who chairs hrough. make change." an advisory,group for the Universi More freshmen reject casual· sex, And higher-education players Those public statements also ty oJ Louisville. "That's sort of be ire trying to figure out whether this make it more difficult for Patton - hind this ke_oeric enthusiasm people iovernor will fare better than the who is also the first Kentucky gov have righ~ n\)w." . ither governors who talked about ernor who could serve two terms Finally, Patton wields a power abortion, embrace volunteerism :hanging higher education but - to back down from the issue, ful incentive in holding out the lidn't get anywhere. even if it gets· politically sticky, prospect of more money for higher THE WASHINGTON POST dismay with the growing apathy that students have, But even with the recent up- said Jim Miller, another former education - , money that he says The nation's largest annual survey of college fresh shown in the survey about government .and politics. 1eaval in the state Senate, many council chairman. the institutions won't get if they men portrays a class that is more civic-minded, more That remained low again this year; only about 30 per :hink Patton may be more deter don't change. self-confident and more supportive of a range of con cent said they considered keeping up with current nined than past governors to get "It may be difficult for him to servative social values than students have been in keep support on board if he gets too However, others argue that Pat events "very important." But it did not decline, as it ,vhat he wants. decades. has for most of this decade. · "I don't know if previous gover radical, but I think he'd also lose ton may face a tough road because The survey, an important gauge of attitudes and support if he didn't back up the there has hot been much legislative In this year's survey, researchers said they were oors were willing to spend the polit aspirations among college freshmen since it began in heartened most by the rise of community service. ical capital," said Leonard Hardin, commitment he's made," said outcry for radical change. the 1960s, reveals many striking trends this year: Miller, an Owensboro lawyer who About 72 percent of freshmen said they had performed :hairman of the Council on Higher The uncertainty created by the Record numbers of them are doing volunteer work, in volunteer work in the past year, which is 10 percentage Education. "I think this governor is still sits on the council. recent change in state Senate lead terest in careers in law or business have hit new lows, points higher than it was in 1989. About 38 percent' ~•illing to spend the political capital Patton also may be enjoying a ership might also hurt Patton's ef and students seem to think more highly of themselves said they volunteer once a week. Both figures are the lo do what's right." convergence of other factors that forts, said Morton Holbrook, a past than ever. A record percentage also reported being fre highest the survey has ever recorded. · And many point to Patton's other governors didn't have, many council chairman. quently "bored in class." College officials said they thought the trend is the ·m·n words as examples of his deep observers said. "The events in Frankfort have On social issues, the survey shows that student result of growing campaigns in high schools to encour ~ommitment to the subject. "I am as For one, there's a growing seriously weakened his ability, I support for keeping abortion legal has declined for the age, even require, students to do community work. ;erious as I can be," Patton told a recognition among the business think, in nearly every area," Hol fourth consecutive year. And the percentage of stu "There is clearly more genuine interest in that among ~roup in August. "I will stake my community that the economy is brook sai~. "):oil just can't have a dents endorsing casual sexual relationships has dwin students," said Robert Canevari, the dean of students ~ntire governorship on this effort." changing and Kentucky higher edu- General Assembly in disarray when dled to a new low. at the University of Virginia. "We're seeing much more More than 250,000 freshmen at nearly 500 universi of it on campus, and I don't think it's just for most stu ties nationwide took part in the survey, which is being dents to pad their resumes." released today by UCLA's Higher Education Research Strong majorities of freshmen want more gun con Institute.. trol and tougher environmental laws, and support gay In recent years, college analysts have expressed rights. LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER, LEXINGTON. KY. ■ SATURDAY. JANUARY 11, 1997 Some Republicans may defect from new coalition By JACK BRAMMER, CHAD CARLTON AND BILL EsTEP HERALO..LEADER FRANKFORT BUREAU FRANKFORT - The General Assem bly's organizational session ended yester day in disarray, anger and uncertainty over who will lead Senate committees that con sider legislation. Meanwhile, cracks began showing in the new Senate coalition led by five dissi dent Democrats as some of their 18 Repub lican allies contemplated defecting. Newly elected Senate President Larry Saunders and his second-in-command Wal ter Blevins, both Democrats, used their Re publican power base to assign Democrats to committees and chairmanships against their wishes. But self-described "loyal Democrats" angrily refused them. In refusing his post, one Democrat, Sen. Dan Seum of Louisville, looked directly at Saunders and said, "Sir, I cannot serve un der you. You, sir, are without class." Saunders didn't respond as he sat shak ing his legs and biting his lips. The 15 Democratic loyalists named their own chairmen - and Gov. Paul Pat ton vowed to work only through them. Patton said he won't work with fellow Eastern Kentuckian Sen. Benny Ray Bailey, a coup leader and the new chairman of the powerful budget-writing committee. Instead, he will recognize the loyalist Democrats' choice for _bud get chief, ousted Senate President John "Eck" Rose of Winchester. Patton dubbed the 15 loyalists "the Valley Forge Democrats." "As Washington and his Army endured the bitter cold and isola chairmanship, said "the Republican "If the Democrats -can get to tion of winter in defense of a fledg Party is in control of th.is leadership gether and get 20 votes, I have no ling nation and the principles of team" and that he wants no part of problem with voting for them." democracy, these Democrats must their "selfish, callous agenda." While Senate Republicans were endure the status of a minority par Rose accused Saunders of twice winning at one end of the Capitol, ty when the people of Kentucky lying to his fellow Democrats - their House colleagues at the other elected a majority of Democrats to once by promising them he would end were complaining that Democ lead the Senate," Patton said. not seek Republican support for the ratic leaders were mistreating them "They should not participate in Senate presidency and again by in making committee assignments. the shame of committee chairs not saying he would let them present House Republican Leader Dan, selected by leadership of their their own list of committee appoint ny Ford of Mount Vernon accused choice and dependent upon the Re ments. Democrat leaders of violating rules publican leadership for their au Saunders denied the by blocking him from atten~ing the thority." accusations. assigning committee's m~tmg. Saunders, a Louisville Democ The big question is whether "It's time that we stopped play rat, dismissed the loyalists' selec Saunders' coalition will stay intact. ing games in this House and look tions. Republican Sen. Albert Robin, for what's right," he said. · "I would not fault the governor son of London declined an appoint Ford said Democratic leaders in dealing with any Democrat but ment as vice chairman of the State denied some Republicans· their he must realize that any legislation and Local Government Committee. cnoices to punish them for voting he presents still. will have to go Robinson said the job is "mean for Rep. Tom Riner, D-Louisville, through a committee and the loyal ingless" as long as a Democrat for speaker pro tern instead of Rep. ists' chairmen don't have any com heads the panel. Sen. Gary Johnson Larry Clark, D-Louisville. Riner, a mittees to chair," Saunders said. of Pikeville, one of the dissident De conservative .who often sides with Patton said he realizes that win mocrats, was named chairman. Republicans, lost handily. ning approval of his legislati~e pro Robinson said he's not con House Speaker Jody Richards, posals will be much more d1ff1cult vinced the coalition will stick to, D-Bowling Green, said the vote was in the deeply divided Senate. gether. "I don't necessarily see a a factor but not the main reason. Republicans, who were appoint long marriage," he said. Majority Floor Leader Greg ed as committee vice chairmen, Robinson safd he might be will Stumbo D-Prestonsburg, said Re may end up heading the panels. ing to switch and support the 15 publica~s had input into the Leaders of Saunders' coalition Democrats. "My commitment was process and that Ford was not admitted they were naming loyalist not everlasting. It was through this barred from taking part. Democrats to chairmanships to session/' he said. force their hand - either join the Republican Tom Buford of coalition or risk constituents' anger Nicholasville, who was denied a by turning down p)um posl!!, seat on the budget panel, also indi Freshman Sen. · Ernesto 'Scor cated he might be willing to switch sone of Lexington, wl,9· declined the to the Democratic loyalists. Banking and Tri_sifrance Committee The Daily Independent. Ashland, Kentucky, Friday. January 10, 1997 man will head the Economic Development and Labor Com mittee. Johnson got the top spot on the State and Local Government panel. Governor Loyalists were named to ! head the other seven com m it tees. They are: Tim Shaughnessy of Louisvllle, Health and Welfare: Bob Leep er of Paducah, Agriculture and sides with Natural Resources: Jell' Green of Mayfield, Judiciary; David Boswell of Owensboro, Trans portation; Dan Seum, Louis ville, Licensing and Occupa tions; and Scorsone, Banking and Insurance. Sen. Gerald loyalists Neal of Louisville co-chairs ed· ucation with Sen. Lindy Case bier, R-Louisville. Republicans, In exchange for Calls regional coalition their support of the coalition, got majorities on two panels - State and Local Government and Banking and Insurance. a danger to the area They also picked up another "I think it will run the real seat on the Rules Committee, By SUSAN danger of hurting the moun giving them four of nine. That WARREN tains," he said. "This regional ·at-large position went to Sen. INDEPENDENT coalition is very, very. dan Gex Williams of Verona. FRANKFORT BUREAU gerous because Eastern Ken Blevins held hope Thursday tm;ky has an awful lot of spe that some sort of compromise FRANKFORT cial programs." could . be reached to reunite - The coalition Four of the five renegade Democrats. Saunders, D that took control Democrats who helped engi Loulsvllle, and Blevins, Balley, of the state Sen neer the coup are from East- Johnson and Freeman were ex ate Tuesday de -ern Kentucky. . pelled from the caucus after cided today to ig Newly elected Senate Presi they engineered the coup. nore the wishes dent Larry Saunders huddled. Blevins and Saunders met of loyalist Demo in his office late Thursday, Vf1th Kafoglls, caucus chair crats who said with Pro Tern Walter Blevins,: man, Majority Leader David they wouldn't D-West Liberty, and Sen: Karem, D-Loulsvllle, and Sen. Benny Ray Bailey, D-Hindman,. Fred Bradley, whip, to try to serve and name find common ground on which them to chair making decisions on com to compromise. But Kafoglls standing com mittee appointments. said the caucus later agreed to mittees anyway. The three, along with Sens. stand firm unless the dis The loyalists Gary Johnson, D-Pikeville, and sidents agreed to allow the ticketed for those Glenn Freeman, D caucus to select a Senate presi posts planned to ·refuse them Cumberland, engineered Tues dent and maintain control of this morning, said Sen. Ernes day's coup that ousted John the Rules Committee. to Scorsone, D-Lexington. "Eck" Rose, D-Winchester, as "That's our bottom line," president. said Kafoglls. That left committee leader The new regime had hoped ship in question. Among op Minority Leader Dan Kelly, ill feelings would dissipate by R-Spr!ngfleld, said it was too tions - Republican co week's end and the Democratic late to seek a compromise can chairmen could run them or caucus would reunite. But that didate for Senate president, ! the Legislative didn't happen. so Senate lead since Saunders has risked his · Research Com ers named committee chair political career to help lead the mission could men this morning. Insurrection. appoint chair The rebels got three of those "My members are fairly sat men. positions. Bailey was ap· isfied," Kelly said. Meanwhile, pointed chairman of the all· the loyalists important Appropriations and THE ASSOCIATED PRESS were strength contributed to this story. ened in their re solve Thursday when G',iw. Paul Patton said he LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER, LEXINGTON, KY. ■ MONDAY, JANUARY 13, 1997 planned to deal with them, not UK, Morehead' capture with the alliance of five rebel Democrats and top cheerleading titles all 18 Repub Two Kentucky universities cheered their way to na licans. tional titles during the -weekend. The University of "I have allied Kentucky cheerleaders claimed first place among large myself with the schools competing in the National College Cheerleading 15 Democrats," Championships in Orlando, Fla With that victory, UK Patton said. becomes the first school in its division to win the title Patton said he supp orb;° Jhe three years in a row. Wildcat cheerleaders have claimed the title seven times. Meanwhile, Morehead decision of the Democratic State University's varsity squad claimed the Division I caucus to· refu;e chairman- title during the same competition. It was the seventh ships. ___ . ...c-::;., ~~.;;~ . consecutive title for the ~forehead squad. Morehead The, go_y~rnor-_ajso ·.eXJ:l.~Ssed also won the title in 1988. Gavin Duerson, who wears concern about a bacldash,;in · the UK Wildcat costume, placed second in the mascot the Senate that . would harm _competition during the championship. · · _;., • . ~ Eastern Kentucky. fHE CUUHlt:H-JUUHNAL • ~A I UHUA l, J/-\"Utm 1 , , , , "" r House committee assignments Johns, Lindsay, Long, Napier, Nesler, Associated Press '\ Banking and Insurance: Bruce, chairman; Gooch, Polston, Thomas, Ratliff, Scott, Sims, Vincent. Here is the new membership of the R. Adams, Baugh, Cave, Crall, Crimm, Education: Curd, chairman; Alex House's standing committees: Damron, Deskins, Geveden, Hatcher, ander, Lile, Riner, Sims, Barrows, Agriculture and Small Business: Long, Riggs, Simpson, Treesh. J. Clarke, Coleman, Colter, G. Gra D. Graham, chairman; R. Adams, Cities: Simpson, chairman; Crimm, ham, Kerr, Marzian, Miniard, Mober J. Arnold, Dwight Butler, Gee, Scott, Wayne, Brandstetter, Burch, Calla ly, Murgatroyd, Rasche, Siler, Stein, A. Arnold, Baugh, Bruce, Coleman, han, L. Clark, Miniard, Reinhardt, Walton, Zimmerman. G. Graham, Hoffman, McKee, Nesler, Riner, Treesh. Elections and Constitutional Polston, Stewart, Thomas, Turner, Counties and Special Districts: Amendments: A. Arnold, chairman; Walton. Riggs, chairman; Hoover, Weaver, P. Clark, Lindsay, Stewart, Allen, Appropriations and Revenue: Mo A. Arnold, Baugh, Cox, Gee, D. Gra J. Clarke. Coleman, Curd, Ford, Mari berly, chairman; Crensaw, Deweese, ham, Gray, McKee, Nunn, Polston, cle, Marzian. Lee, Long, R. Adams, Adkins, Bar Rader, Riner, Scott, Sims, Thomas, Health and Welfare: Burch, chair rows, Brown, Callahan, L. Clark, Yonts. man; Deweese, Johns, Nunn, Stein, Colter, Ford, Hatcher, Heleringer, Economic Development: Palumbo, J. Arnold, P. Clark, Damron, Gooch, Lile, Lovell, Marzian, Mason, Murga chairman; J. Adams, Crall, Haydon, Heleringer, Hoover, Jordan, Marzian, troyd, Napier, Newsome, Rasche, Alexander, Allen, Bowling, Brandstet Mason, Miniard, Palumbo, Stine. Siler, Stacy, Treesh, Wayne, Worth ter, Dwight Butler, Crenshaw, Judiciary: Bowling, chairman; Lov ington, Zimmerman .. Deweese, Hogancamp, Horlander, ell, Stine, Wilkey, Bratcher, Cave, P. Clark, Crenshaw, Deskins, Geve den, Heleringer, Hogancamp, Hoover, Johns, . Kerr, Lindsay, Miniard, Rasche, Simpson, Stein. Senate committee .members Labor and Industry: Gray, chair man; Anderson, Denver Butler, Hor Associated Press (YC), Moore, Stivers, D. Williams, lander, Yonts, Adkins, J. Arnold, G. Williams, Neal, Boswell, Blevins, Brown, Collins, Cox, Gee, Hoffman, Here is the new membership o(the Nunnelley, Green. Jenkins, Jordan, Nunn, Siler, Turner. Senate's standing committees. Education: Neal*, Casebier (Repub. Licensing and Occupations: Den An asterisk indicates Democrats lican co-chairman), Harris, McGaha, ver Butler, chairman; Damron, Hatch who refused appointments by the new Stivers, Westwood, G. Williams, Bai er, Maricle, Bratcher, Burch, L. Clark, leadership as committee chairmen. ley, Kafoglis, Karem, Scorsone, Seum. Coleman, Crimm, Horlander, Jenkins, On those committees, the Republican Health and Welfare: Shaugh Jordan, Lile, Lovell, Marcotte, Pa vice chairmen (YC) will serve as act nessy', Julie Rose (YC), Buford, Phil lumbo, Reinhardt. ing chairmen. pot, Reeding, Westwood, Pendleton, Natural Resources and Environ On three committees, appropri Herron, E. Rose, Nelson, Saunders. ment: Deskins, chairman; Allen, ations, economic development and Judiciary: Green•, Philpot (YC), Brown, Pope, Adkins, Alexander, An• State and Local Government, a Demo J. Rose, Tori, Westwood, D. Williams, derson, Collins, Cox, Gooch, Maricle, crat accepted the chairmanship. Karem, Johnson, Scorsone, Nelson, Newsome, Stewart, Yonts. Agriculture and Natural Re Neal. State Government: Geveden, chair sources: Leeper', Harris (YC), Bor man; Ballard, Bruce, Marcotte, Na ders, Kelly, McGaha, Metcalf, Green, Licensing and Occupations: Seum•, Metcalf (YC), Buford, Kelly, pier, J. Adams, Barrows, Dwight But Bradley, Herron, Pendleton, Rose. ler, Callahan, L. Clark, J. Clarke, Appropriations and Revenue: Bai Philpot, Roeding, Boswell, Bradley, Shaughnessy, Leeper, Kafoglis. Crall, Ford, Lee, Reinhardt, Stacy, ley (chau:man), Borders (YC), Case Wayne, Weaver, Wilkey, Worthing- bier, Moore, Sanders, D. Williams, State and Local Government: Johnson (chairman), Robinson (YC), ton, Zimmerman. · G. Williams, Blevins, Freeman, John Tourism Development and Energy: son, Saunders, Nunnelley, Pendleton. Harris, McGaha, J. Rose, Stivers, Tori, Nunnelley, Leeper, Freeman, Kerr, chairman; G. Graham, Hoffman, Banking and Insurance: Scor McKee, Murgatroyd, Vincent, sone•, Buford_ (YC), Borders, Case Bailey. R. Adams, Ballard, Bowling, Brand bier, Robinson, Reeding, Tori, Brad Transportation: Boswell*, Moore stetter, Bratcher, D. Graham, Gray, ley, Seum, Herron, Sliaughnessy. (YC), Kelly, Metcalf, Robinson, Sand Haydon, Pope, Rader, Ratliff, Riggs, Economic Development and La ers, Blevins, E. Rose, Nelson, Karem, Stine, Walton. bor: Freeman (chairman),· Sanders Kafoglis. Transportation: Collins, chairman; Jenkins, Nesler, Ratliff,- Stacy, Ander son, Ballard, Denver Butler, Colter, The Daily Independent, Ashland, Kentucky, Friday. January 10, 1997 Curd, Haydon, Hogancamp, Lee, Mar cotte. Mason, Newsome, Pope, Rader, Turner, Vincent, Weaver, Wilkey, Marshall studying Worthington. merger with college HUNTINGTON - Marshall University announced Thursday it is studying a proposal to merge with West Virginia Graduate College in South Charleston. MU President J. Wade Gilley and Dennis Prisk, head of the graduate college met earlier this week with ' legislators to talk about the deal that would join the schools. If the proposal gets necessary approval, the · graduate college would become West Virginia Graduate College of Marshall University and remain in its present location. Gilley said the move would save about $1.5 million in administrative costs over the next five years and cost no jobs. 1,-,~ L,UUHltH-JUUHNAL • :C,UNUAY, JANUAHT Ii. I~~/ graduation rates. NCAA figures • show that freshman enrollment of black athletes at Division I · Raising the bar schools did fall from 3,589 in the base year of 1983 to 3,041 in 1986, the first year of Prop 48. O MUCH for those who in the latest Emerge magazine about NCAA evidence that But by 1989 it was back up to predicted, in effect, that 3,491. For black males alone, the black student athletes graduation rates have risen. "We looked at the SAT test number fell from 2,883 to 2,418, Swouldn't cut it. scores of African-American col but by 1989 it was back to 2,708. The NCM's first long-term lege athletes who actually The trend seems to be in the study of the academic crack graduated the year before Prop right direction. down that is summarized in the 48 went into effect," he recalls. In the words of Steve Mil phrase "Proposition 48" shows "When we applied the admis burn, University of Louisville di a recent increase in the number sion rules required by Prop 48, rector of academic services for of black athletes enrolling at Di we found that a significant pro athletes, expecting more of stu- . vision I schools. The graduation portion would have been denied dent-athletes is a good thing: rate for black male student ath admission. It is obvious that if "It's a good move if it forces letes is moving up, too, from 34 you raise the entrance require the students· to prepare them percent of the class that arrived ments high enough, you can vir- selves better in high school. ... I in 1985 (the tually guaran think Prop 48 did that to some last year be .... tee a 100 per extent. Before Prop 48, in the old fore Proposi "The .trend seems cent graduate days, you'd get kids in on their tion 48) to 43 rate for the visits who didn't know what they percent of the ~o be;:irt\\the riglJ.t .... small number scored on tests or what their class that .direction.· ... ··. ',- < of students ad grades were. In the last five or showed up in mitted. This is six years, that has totally 1989. o,~xpecting ·more,of -•". ·.. not progress, changed. Now kids come in and Arthur Ashe student,athletes· is · it's institution will tell you how they stand." wouldn't have al racism!'' There is nothing racist about been sur .a good thing." ···" OK, so let's believing that black student ath prised. The Af look at enroll letes can make the grade aca rican -Ame ri - ment then, not demically. can tennis champion supported the crackdown, arguing at one point that Proposition 48 stan dards actually were too low. He insisted that, if the bar were raised, black students would rise THE COURIER-JOURNAL • MONDAY, JANUARY 13, 1997 to meet it. Over the years, University of Louisville Coach Denny Crum has been among the critics of College freshmen some aspects of Proposition 48. While saying he agrees with it in spirit, he has criticized some particulars. For example, in seem more optimistic 1989 he supported John Thomp son in the Georgetown basket ball coach's boycott over a rule change that eliminated fresh about all but money man athletic scholarship help for "partial qualifiers" - re .lots of confidence. More than ever be' cruits who met the required Survey finds record fore rated themselves as "above aver grade point average for high age" or in the "highest IO percent'.' in school work or who made ~ 32% had all 'A's academic, leadership and other abili minimum score on college apti ties. tude tests, but who didn't do during high school Rising tuition and scarce financial both. "It's the minorities and support helped explain why a record kids with deprived backgrounds By ROBERT GREENE 33 percent of students cited financial that we're hurting," Mr. Crum Associated Press assistance as a very important reason said. "It's a step backwards." for choosing their colleges, said Alex A more general critic is Barry A record number of "A" students ander Astin, UCIA professor of edu Mehler of the McIntosh Com entered college last fall, more confi cation and the survey's director. mission for Fair Play in Student dent than ever about their abilities The survey was sponsored by· the Athlete Admissions, who writes but increasingly worried about how to American Council of Education, a pay for their education. non-profit group representing col According to an annual survey of let;es, universities a~d related associ- college freshmen released yesterday, ations. · they also prefer community service Of students surveyed, 41 percent such as volunteer work to traditional expect to hold down jobs while in politics: a record 72 percent reported school, compared with a low of 35 some kind of volunteer activity. percent set in 1989. More than 6 per More want to enter helping profes cent expect to work full-time and go sions such as teaching or medicine, to school, up from a low of 3.2 per shunning business. Interest in law cent when the question was . first dropped to an all-time low. asked in 1982. ,, .. _ The optimism coupled with their The survey results. almost fit need to help defray college expenses Gretchen Rensi, 18, a freshman at · and their commitment to volunteer Wayne State University in Detroit. work means many first-year students An "A" student in high school, are stretching themselves thin, said Rensi is holding her course load to researcher Llnda Sax at the Universi the minimum 12 hours and attending ty of California Los Angeles. classes year-round so she can fit in a "The way it seems to me is that variety of volunteer and part-time these students are very committed to paying work, even though she has a many activities at once," she· said full scholarship. from her office at the university's The scholarship helped her choose Higher Education Research Institute, Wayne State, as did its good program which conducted the survey. in occupational therapy, wliich she Their high school records may be a will pursue as a graduate student. little inflated, the result of a general She has. tutored, taught Sunday pressure on teachers to pump up school, volunteered in a hospital and grades for college-hungry students; A helped coach. volleyball. record 32 percent had A averages in "I enjoy doing 1t, and I think it's high school, compared with a record important to give back to the commu low of l5 percent with C averages. nity," she said. "I lov.e to stay busy. I Students_ &So entered college with try to keep a balanced life." A sample of recent articles of interest to Morehead State University INSTITUTIONAL RELATIONS MOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY UPO BOX 1100 MOREHEAD, KY 40361-1689 608-783-2030 THE COURIER-JOURNAL • TUESDAY JANUARY 14 1997 Financial aid increasingly sways Some universities not generally re- ""'--.------• • garded as academically elite - in- IMPORTANCE OF Coll ege · C_ h 01ce. eluding UK, the University of Okla- homa. Iowa State University and Flor- FINANCIAL AID ida State University - are among the Chart shows percenlaije of Survey finds students most successful at enrolling National freshmen listing financial aid Merit Scholars. as very important in the work more, study· .. UK ranked 10th among public uni selection of a college. . versities in landing freshman National less than in the past Merit Scholars last fall - 72 - ac cording to the report. U of L and Indi By MICHAEL JENNINGS ana University were not on that list. The Courier-Journal The top-ranked school was the Uni versity of Texas, with 299; Purdue Holly Bond is in many ways a typi University was 15th with 54. 20% cal college student of the I990s. (Selection of National Merit Schol The Prestonsburg, Ky., native said ars is based on performance on stan 15% she selected the University of Louis dardized tests, including the Scholas ville over the University of Kentucky tic Assessment Test, high school 10% and the University of Nevada at Las grades and recommendations.) Vegas because U of L offered her Since 1991, UK has made a pitch 5% about $4,000 in grants. tailor-made for cost-conscious Nation "Financial aid played a big role in al Merit Scholars. As freshmen, they 0% my getting to go to college at all," receive free in-state tuition (or an 1980 '95 she said. equivalent amount if they are •from source: The_Hlgher Education Reasearcll Institute Now a senior majoring in political out of state), free room and board and al the UnlVers_ily of ~domia at Los Angalas: ,,.. science and sociology, Bond, 23, $450 for books. The aid package BY STEVE DURBIN, THE COURIER·JOURNAL finds herself stretched· thin trying to changes, but remains generous, for keep up with her expenses, her stud the rest of their undergraduate ca more than 85,000 hours of community ies and her commitment to helping reers. service last year, much of it coordi others. She works about 40 hours a UK's package helped attract Na nated by the university's service week at two part-time jobs and de tional Merit Scholars like Matt Grun learning office. votes up to five hours a week to AIDS kemeyer, who enrolled at UK four "I think there's a renewed spirit education and other volunteer work. years ago after financial concerns in among young people coming into col Sjte manages to study about six jected a dose of hard realism into his lege that they have a role in making hours a week. educational ambitions. their community better," Gifford said. And in all those respects, she is "My parents would not have been The national survey also showed typical, according to an annual na able to contribute very much to my college freshmen had a low level of tional survey of college freshmen that education," said Grunkemeyer, who interest in politics, even in a presiden was conducted last fall and released will graduate from UK this spring and tial election year. Only 29 percent yesterday. plans to attend medical school. "And said they considered political aware Of 251,000_ freshmen surveyed at maybe for that reason I didn't apply ness very important or essential - far 4~ umvers1t1es and colleges nation to, say, Harvard or Yale or Duke or below the all-time high of 58 percent wide, one-third called financial aid a some of these schools that are just ex- in 1966. very important reason for choosing orbitant in their costs." · Grunkemeyer offered a simple their college, and 72 percent said Grunkemeyer has no regrets about analysis: "We haven't had our Viet they had done volunteer work during attending UK, and he said most other nam." the past year. · National Merit Scholars there feel the Today's college students typically . Those were th~ hi~hest perceniages same way. have some concerns with a political m those categones m the 31-year his The · three public universities dimension, such as environmental tory of the survey, which is conducted ranked the highest by U.S. News & ism, but "seeing a rain forest being annually by the Higher Education Re World Report last year - Virginia destroyed isn't as touching as seeing search Institute at the University of Michigan and North Carolina - were American soldiers coming home in California at Los Angeles. among the 15 public institutions that body bags," Grunkemeyer said. · Only 36 percent of freshmen said enrolled the most National Merit The national survey also showed: they spent six or more hours a week Scholars last fall. James Walters, director of under ■ High school "grade inflation" ap studying, compared with a high of 44 parently continues unchecked; A rec percent in 1987. graduate admissions at UNC-Chapel Hill, said his school doesn't need to ord 32 percent of freshmen reported Two-thirds of freshmen were at earning "A" averages in high school, least somewhat concerned they offer special incentives to talented wouldn't have enough money to com students, given its prestige and rela compared with a low of 13 percent in plete college, and 41 percent said tively low cost. "We do enjoy - and I 1969. they expected to work while attend> don't want to sound )laughty - a re ■ Interest in teaching careers is ris ing school. · .,,, '"· ,.,, ,•o , . [!l&r~~bly s_trong academic reputa- ing, and interest in business and law • Alexander W. Astin, director of the • tion, he said. '""' ;-1 i~ ·•?. is.dropping. - - ..; . :,, ·. ' survey, said the failure of federal and Like Bond, the U of L student - and ■ Support for legalized abortion state financial aid to keep pace with like many of the students surveyed in and approval of casual sex are both in e_ducational costs is changing the way : the UCIA study--, Grunkemeyer vol declirie. Bond, who supports abortion students pick their colleges. "Rather ·unteers his time to help others. He and rights, said she could see evidence of than pi_ckingJjt_e_Cl)!lege, !IJat offers . his roommate, fellow National Merit growing conservatism among stu the J110st aepropriate program, more Scholar Janak Talwalker, started a aents when she helped staff an AIDS students will be making choices on : group that visits residents at a Lexing- education booth at the U of L student the-·basis of low cost ·and the ·avail 1 ton nursing home each Sunday. center in November.· ability of financial aid," said Astin, Bond belongs to Alpha Phi Omega "Some of the people just seemed to who 1s also a UCLA professor of edu- a coed service fraternity with more be-really freaked out by condoms," cation. · · · · than 80. members:·-Derilse Gifford she said. (They were handed out as The same financial pressures affect U of L's ~ce president for studen1 af'. part of the project.) even the students who are arguably ~ ••said ,u of+o1-slllclents--proVIded :lliet'iiallon'i-firlest - National Mer!L -saiolars.. -Acro,;oiiig to a report re \-The-Oally•lndependent;-Ashland,Kentucliy~~Mohday,~Jahuaiy;13;:-1997.: leased this ·month 6y· UK, the list of ., ... bll"'_ ... ----It! ' •~ 0 • th t:M~Il SJUJagitakes•i; 1NaUonarCollege:<,:,NJ¥;,:,;ij,i;_ pu ~ cumvers es """, attract e . nB!st rNill!onalxMerit Scholars·•·sug~' gests that sonfe'academlcally talentiir , ~Woo~t~~«Jr~:g~~t1~·~:· f~~~~~,~~12'~~~~ students base;,their choice of a co!,I . _:,.MOREHE;~.IJ- Morehead 1m;r~~gJhe wee~8!).d,; ,.. ; state UnlVersii§~ Va'rsit',w 7 ~8-~tl~~Frt1··:'~?;;. .;·~...,ajt!~~~;tq, ''*.c<:lliellY. :1>n,,fillancial incentives: 0 . chee~leading squad c!aim'~d \fu,'itfwas the,iieveii't!i l < :: • fthe,D!vislon Jnatfonal..,i1!,,\,; 1.1<01).Se®ti_ve.Wl.!!-.f!lr&,l,e~,M"f., ~heerleadin1r.title:a~.•,.,,.,.;,:;· ·-"-"""'-"'= ·•t m,~~-~i~91,!8.!l,,.11!_a~~®:~RW•.;,,«:: "Im LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER, LEXINGTON, KY. ■ TUESDAY, JANUARY 14, 1997 , NCAA changes course, lets athletes hold part-time jobs "I have great reservations,''. said In contrast to the rancor over the Sorensen, who failed in a bid to work proposal, delegates coasted >artial qualifiers also granted fourth year of eligibility have the proposal put off until later. through the final pie<:ej of a vast new Earlier yesterday, delegate~ they want during the academic year. "At the beginning of the year, each structure of the NCAA itself. : : BY DOUG TUCKER cruised through the final pieces of But they can earn only the difference of us university presidents sign a No longer will Division I schools AsSOCIATED PRESS legislation that put the new govern- between the value of their scholarship statement that guarantees unequiv meet orice a year under one roof with . NASHVILLE, Tenn. - In a ing structure in.place. and the c~st of attendance at their ocally that our institutions are iri the smaller schools and vote individ adical departure for the slow-to In other action yesterday, dele- school, which can vary greatly from control of all aspects of athletics."· : ually on policy and rules. 'rhe new hange NCAA, delegates voted yes gates voted down a move to add a one institution to t)ie next Sorensen was applauded by system, putting c~llege. presidents erday after more than an hour of 14th scholarship in men's basket- f:or example, if a f?Otball schol- many delegates at the end of his re and conferences in control, will lake onfused and bitter debate to let Di ball and, after first partially approv- arsh1p at Oklahoma 1s valued at marks. But later, so was Bridget Ni: effect Aug. 1. · ' ' ·ision I athletes hold part-time jobs. ing it, decided against requiring $15,000 per year and the cost of at- land, a member of the student-ath; Then with a suddenly influen• football and basketball players to 1endance for an out-of-state student lete advisory committee who made ial stude~t-athlete advisory commit register their cars with the NCAA. 1s set at $18,000, an out-of-state foot- impassioned arguments in favor. l'C still exulting over that- vote, dele The debate on the part-time job ball plai:er could earn up lo $3,~- "Consider the welfare of the stu •ates also decided to grant a fourth measure took on a Keystone Kops Lettmg. athlete~ wo~k dunng dent-athlete. Look at this legislation ;e.,r of eligibility to partial qualifiers appearance when the session was the academic year !S a big step for on the principle of honesty and ,·ho get a degree in four years. temporarily adjourned while ex- NCAA schools, wh1c~ have alwa_ys trust, not fear of abuse," said Ni Both concepts had been voted perts huddled on what effect it f~ared tha_t such a thmg would m- land, who ran track and cross coun uld have on NCAA bylaws. vtle _cheat1~g as, well as create an try at the University of Buffalo: !own by previous conventions. But, wo ,, . admm1strahve nightmare. n this last full NCAA convention Can we take a break for 15 mm,; "Do you really want to start keep- "Give us the opportunity to iefore the organization assumes an utes to get answers to quesllons, ing time cards for your student-ath- work." !ntirely new system of governing one delegate asked from the floor. letes at McDonalds?" asked a delegate. While approved by the total of :allege athletics, delegates took "What questions?" responded Alabama President Andrew Division I schools, the measure a~ ,vhat could be the first steps toward Bo~ Sweazy of_ Texas Tech, who Sorensen spoke on the fear of abuse, tually was voted down 51-61 by Di: vision I-A, the major powers. But 1 new era of cooperation between chaired the session. the possibility that some schools as part of Division I, they, too, will 1thletes and athletic administrators. "The questions you can't an- might inflate earnings in order to adopt the new rule. Letting athletes work part-time swer," came the reply. attract top prospects. s the most revolutionary legislation As finally approved by a 169-150 he NCAA has adopted in years. vote, the measure lets Division I ath "This is a major shift in concept letes hold part-time jobs whenever :or this organization," said Sam LEXINGTON HERALtr,LEADER, LEXINGTON, KY. ■ TUESDAY, JANUARY 14, 1997 3mith of Washington State, chair nan of the NCAA Presidents Com 1 :nission. ''For years we've said we Q: will not provide any additional fund: Ex-UK employee says he will pay restitution to frate:miijes):? ing in any way from any source. : , l" l,,Ji, , · l'i;f "The NCAA is trying to move tq: BY DARIA CARTER The Fayette Commonwealth's Attorney's dit said.- sity July 15, citing personaI1reasons -,--,ali. ward a recognition that students pla)' HERALD-LEADER STAFF WRITER Office says it will recommend one year in Soon after the audit, a Fayette County ready had made partial restitillion of about;! A former University of Kentucky employ prison for each count, if McCoy pays the resti grand jury indicted McCoy on 20 counts of a larger role than they've had the las! $5,000, UK officials said. , ,,.: · . · · i :1 several years. We made some progr~ ee has agreed to pay nearly $8,000 in restitu tution as promised.The maximum penalty un criminal possession of a forged instrument, But James Kuder, vice chancellor for Stu-: t,xlay into where wr need to be." : tion after pleading guilty to embezzling funds der state law is five years for each count. court records say. dent Affairs at UK, said he's glad to hear that! from the UK fraternity system. McCoy came under scrutiny last year af Howeyer, the commonwealth's attorney's McCoy also will be gh-'.ing the rest of thej Jay T. McCoy, 29, pleaded guilty Friday. ter an audit uncovered missing money from a office has agreed to drop the remaining counts money back. . l · '" .. · :·,'i to three counts of second-degree criminal pos PNC bank account used for UK's fraternities. in exchange for the guilty plea and restitution. "We certainly were interested in getting-' session of a forged instrument, according to The audit said that McCoy had written The plea bargain achieves two goals: se the restitution," Kuder said., He.said ,the moo;; Fayette Circuit Court records. more than $11,000 in checks to himself and curing a felony conviction against McCoy and ey belongs to the Interfraterriity Council, a•: McCoy also agreed to pay $7,894 in resti made nearly $3,900 in unauthorized pay getting the stolen money back, said Assistant group of students. . · 1.;•-: •• ·• -' (•,- /i tution within seven days, court records say. ments. He also withheld more than $600 in · Commonwealth's Attorney Connie Payne. McCoy's attorney, Denise Davidson, could C:.nntm,rinrT ;~ rc-"t fnr l"ln 'H rh,.,..J,..c: intnf'lr1"r1 fnr thr> TTnitf"rl ,~T:w th,. nil- Mrrm• -- whn rpdn-r,Prl' frnrn thr ,mivPr- nnt hp rF>~rhPrl for rnmmPnt The Daily Independent. Ashland, Kentucky, Monday, January 13, 1997 Many colleges do not offer the basics Over the past several years, in the humanities and the "so study after study has brought cial sciences"? Organizations the painful news of how igno like the National Alumni rant our high school graduates Forum in Washington and the - and even graduates of Ivy National Association of Schol League colleges - are of ars in Princeton are fighting things that were once consid the good fight. They need pub ered basic. Now a study by the lic support as much as the National Alumni Forum shows public needs the information why. they supply. Not only can you graduate What we all really need most from some of the leading col the catalogues of the colleges of all is to understand that aca leges and universities in the to which they may be transfer demic tenure is an insulation United States without ever ring a major part of their in from reality that breeds unre having read a word of come over the next four years. alistic and self-indulgent peo Shakespeare, you can even Most colleges do not send par ple. Such people are especially graduate with a degree in En ents or students their cata dangerous in fields where glish without having a clue logues. Instead they send out there is no objective test of be about the bard. Imagine the slick advertising brochures de liefs, other than whether oth parent who has shelled out a picting lovely landscapes, smil ers go along ·with the fads. total of a hundred grand over ing students, friendly profes four years for the family's sors and glowing words. prize offspring to go to Prince Send for the catalogue. Many THOMAS SOWELL is a senior ton or Stanford, only to get colleges will charge you for it, fellow at the Hoover Institute, back an ignoramus who has no Stanford, Calif. idea who Hamlet or MacBeth l but it will be money well might be. spent. In fact. it may be one of Worse yet, such a graduate the best investments you ever will have none of the penetrat made. Once you begin to look ing insights into human na through the course descrip ture that have kept tions in the catalogue and see Shakespeare's works alive for what drivel is being offered at : more than four centuries. extravagant prices, this may : Princeton and Stanford are save you from wasting a lot of just two of the places where · hard-earned cash. Shakespeare is not required So many English depart for English majors. Among the ments across the country have other colleges and universities gone off the deep end that with distinguished names there is something to be said which hand out degrees in En today for-a college education at glish to students who have institutions that do not have •never read the most distin English departments - Cal guished writer in the history Tech and M.I.T. for example - of the English language are if ·such institutions are right The Daily Independent, Ashland, Kentucky, Amherst, Columbia, Cornell, for the particular individual Monday, January 13, 1997 Johns Hopkins, Oberlin, on ot)ler grounds. . Northwestern, Penn, Rice, and The larger question is: What Deborah Crawford Swarthmore. can be done about the degen 1952-1997 To add insult to injury, plac eration of American education Deborah Lynn Chipley es that do not require Burnett Crawford, 44, of Shakespeare often offer trendy Clearfield, died Sunday at her English courses on "politically home. correct" subjects - "black, Mrs. Crawford was born gay fiction" at Amherst, for ex Sept. 14, 1952, in Troy, Ohio, a ample, or courses on prison lit daughter of Mary Ellen Jay erature at Georgetown. Chipley .of Covington,· Ohio, Shakespeare is just one of and the late Kenneth Charles the casualties of the repudia Chipley. tion of standards and academic She was retired from More hostility to Western civiliza head State University where tion· in general. Other great she worked for 22 years in the classics, including "The Feder business office as a data entry alist Papers," have vanished specialist. ·- from the curriculum, while Additional survivors include students are assigned off-the her husband, Calvin Ray wall subjects like lesbian poli Crawford; a son, Steven tics and a host of things best Burnett; a stepson, William summarized as "victims stud Crawford of Morehead; two ies.'' stepdaughters, Stephanie With college application Crawford Adams and Melinda deadlines coming up, parents Crawford· Smith, both of More would do well to look through head; a brother, Kevin Chipley of Troy; her grandmother, Freida Fine of Lodlow Falls, Ohio; a grandson; and three stepgrandchildren. The funeral will. be con ducted at 1 p.m .. Tuesday at Northcutt & .Son Home for Fiinera1s··1n 'Moi-ehead.'lil")he Rev. Tim Rhodes. Bu'rlal ··will be' in Btowri Cemetery. '·-,,: . Friends ·may call ·aner 5 p:m: today at the funeral home. · ' THE COURIER-JOURNAL• SPORTS •TUESDAY.JANUARY 14, 1997 40 percent from three-point range. He is among four players returning from a team that went 20-11 last season un der Stan Hardin, who left to become an assistant at Georgetown College. St. Catharine coach Emmons, however, had doubts the Patriots would jell so quickly with all the new blood. is off to flying start "I thought it would be a problem at first because of so many new people, and they're well-coached." . but everybody has worked together," Collins, a 6-foot-2, 200-pounder, he said. "There's a desire to win, and Ex-Morehead stands at the hub of the Patnots' suc everybody has it." cess, averaging a team-leading 19.7 In all, Tyndall brought In six new player has team points and a nation-leadin!1 14.4 as players, inclu~ starters D. J. Chris sists per game while attracting atten tian of Cincinnati and 6-5 power for tion from the likes of Iowa State, Illi ward Richard Smith of Mt. Olive, N.C. winning often nois, Oklahoma and Baylor. Christian, a 6-6 center, is one of "He's our best player and has seven players averaging at least nine By DAVE KOERNER been very unselfish and is a great points and sparkled in the Hiwassee The Courier-Journal leader for us," Tyndall said. "When game with 25 points and II rebounds. your best player isas unselfish as he Smith is averaging 9.8 points and is Donnie Tyndall knew the odds ts, it makes everybody unselfish." viewed by Tyndall as "probably our were against him last summer when Tyndall, 26, a former point guard most improved player." he became the head basketball coach himself at Morehead State, said Col The leading reserves are 6-8 fresh at St. catharine College. lins is "probably the best point guard man Tobiah Hopper, who played at "By that time most of a school's in junior college" and, in fact, con• both Christian County and Hopkins recruiting is finished," he acknowl siders St. catharine's three-jlllard ville high schools, and 6-7 freshman edged yesterday. backcourt as the best in the Junior Brian Lyon of Paintsville, Ky. But six months later the junior college ranks. · Hopper is averaging 13.3 points and college world is doing a double-take Collins' running mate is 6-footer a team-high 7.1 rebounds. Lyon, a as Tyndall and his 11th-hour band of Dewayne Saulsberry, with 64 Dan brother-in-law of former University of recruits have worked their way to Emmons rotating between small for KentuckY player John Pelphrey, aver ward national attention. ward and shooting guard. ages 11.3 points. The Patriots sport a glossy 16-1 Saulsberry is averaging 17.3 points Despite the late.start in recruiting, record and are ranked 15th in Divi and 4.5 assists and has buried 52 Tyndall expected his team to do well. sion I of the National Junior College percent of his three-point shots for a "We beat the bushes," said Tyn Athletic Association following last team that ranks first nationally in ~all; who played for Athletes in Ac week's 98-88 victory over perennial scoring at 115 points a game .and has power Hiwassee. an average winning margin of 37 llon for one season and was an assis Tonight the Springfield, Ky., points. tant at Iowa Central Community Col- · school will try to add another nota Both Collins and Saulsberry are lege · for two years before going to ble victim when it challenges Sulli transfers and were among Tyndall's St. Catharine. "We got on the phone van College, which is unranked at last-minute signees, with Collins and on the road from about 5:30 in 15-3 but won last season's national coming in from current No. 2 Talla the morning to 1:30 in the morning, championship. hassee and Saulsberry leaving No. 7 and (we) were very fortunate to get "They are extremely good," Sulli Jacksonville (fexas) after starring at some kids who turned out to be good van assistant coach Tony Hill said. Muhlenberg North High School. players. "They press you from start to finish; Emmons, a graduate of DeSales, is " ... Yes, I thought we'd do well, they press you in both a zone and averaging 12.4 points and is shooting but that's a coach beinll optimistic. I man-to-man. They shoot the three. guess everyone else, wtth Stan leav "Their point guard (DeJuan Col ing, thought we'd be rebuilding." lins) is a good Division I prospect ... The Patriots won their first 11 games before losing 100-85 at No. 10 Wabash Valley (lll.). Tyndall said his team's biggest shortcoming is size, which could be a problem against Sullivan. "We're not super big," he said. "I guess what womes me the most is at ~mes when we play a big-time athlet ,c team, can we rebound for 40 min utes." On the other hand, Tyndall likes his club's savvy and work habits, includ ing a grade-point average that has im proved from 1.84 to 2.62, "We had conditioning at 6 in the morning, and I think that had a lot to do with the season," Tyndall said. "I think the guys felt, 'If we can get through this, we can get through any thing.' IJ '-'"""'' I, ,,,...... ' ' , ' ' /11/'Jl' Clip A sample of recent articles of interest to Morehead State University INSTITUTIONAL RELATIONS MOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY UPO BOX 11 00. MOREHEAD, KY 40361-1689 606-783-2030 The Daily Independent. Ashland, Kentucky, Wednesday, January 22, 1997 Encouraging new generation Education and Recreation at He -is.developing an il- ::>aCl. Sffi struggle contin.ues Howard University.' lustrated encyclopedia about .\. , 1 Despite his experiences w these black athletes. Banks I ith- racism, Banks said he said he has a '"sense of nr- v1 Ore h ea d gra d ua t e says i~ad no regrets about 8:ttend- gency·· to-finish the project be University of Mississippi-, m? Morehead State, which he fore their stories are forgotte1~. y MADELYNN COLDIRON MSU basketball game. sa1? fosters_ an atmosphere of The subject. he added. is FTHE DAILY INDEPENDENT It was the one that led him umty, not Just among blacks more extensive than he to leave the basketball team but among all ~tud7nts. thought because "bigotry and MOREHEAD - It was just in his sophomore year, feel-, Banks s~id rn those racism in the United States are picture of the 1959 More ing that the coaching staff' ground-br7akmg da}'.s, he 8.J!d . still so pervasive that none of ead State University basket did not support him. Banks other Afr1can-A_mencan a~- us _ black or white - have ill team, but it symbolized was told not to suit up before Ilet:s at. p_redo~mant!y wh~te · managed to escape its impact: .. ne man's ground-breaking the game because the Univer- · umversihes did not reahze I As African-Americans attam ruggle for racial equality. sity of Mississippi's contract the impact they would have_ j their goals. Banks said. '"We've Among the team's sea of prohibited its teams from in integration. But t~ey all got. to remember that there ai·e hite faces, there stood Mar playing against any team faced the same quest10n, he so many others who have iall Banks, then the first with black members. said: "Do w_e have the guts I pulled us along, the further we lack MSU and Ohio Valley "I could not deal with this and maturity to . play the go." · · · . onference athlete. The Ash issue," said Banks, who game no matter what?" He ended his presentation .nd native returned Tuesday joined the track team the fol- on· an optimistic note. telling ight to Morehead as the key lowing year and became an young people .. '_'.Listen to ote speaker for the com- OVC sprinting champion. what's happening,· because we 1unity's Martin Luther King A ·copy of the 1959 basket- .are ready to pass the torch on ·. unity celebration. ball team picture - .the one to you. and hopefully. by the There was a companion to with Banks - was presented time you're my age this tra!)Si• 1at picture, Banks revealed to him Tuesday night by one tion bf racism and the: prob- , the crowd of about 100 peo of• his former students, MSU !ems we're having;_ we· won't .e who gathered· for speech minority affairs director even.know it existed.'." ; and a candlelight march. Jerry Gore. ·· The other team picture did Banks went on to become Jt include him. MSU's first African That was the one repro- American faculty member 1ced on the cover of the pro and currently is director of· ·am · for the December 1959 the. Department of Physical LEXINGTON .HERALD-lEA~l.ExJNGTON, KY, ■ THUR_~DAY, JANU~RY 23, 1997 Mor~head· unlikely·to give Fick • heard anything officially. I've never Fick said he had two• options af- repn :Vi asked to leave here, but if they ter _the one-year extension: go after · e e· bring in somebody else ... I'll go on Jumor-college players and rebuild and do a good job somewhere else. quickly or start over with younger BY RICK BAILEY. "Steve has told me for several players. He went with a youth H~ER STAFF WRITER yea_i:s that I was not the apple of the movement, and Morehead was 7-20 Recent victories over two tradi president's eye, but we've weath- overall and 2-14 in the OVC last onal rivals aren't likely to get Dick erect that storm. The president has year. The Eagles got off to a slow ick an extension on his basketball been positive and professional in start this season until their current iaching contract at Morehead the dealings I've had with him." three-game winning streak. tale. Fick, however, doesn't feel the _''Maybe that wasn't the Fick is in the final year ·of his same _about Hamilton, Morehead's smartest thing to do for safety in" mtract, and university officials athletic director since 1987. "The regard to my job," Fick said. "But ·I· ·ill decide whether to renew it only person I'm upset with. is Steve can see ~his young .t~ (with OJJIY'. ·ithin two weeks, President Ronald Hamilton," Fick said. two semors) developing into possi•• aglin said. . • . At issue was a contract exten- bly a championship contender wifu tro•_Jh~~9yet~~rhii!§,nh~ljtt~ .!IPP!Y:.sTlib'.Pctib ott.n]· 1a:s!~~... ng _arm ow t as uc:c:n an·.. ·. e· a em1~e,~esbted1·· ,or,..\<"-e.pu 1c ht~cl.i':1!3:;_;ieartm,,:·· .. lintraciable situation. Wrenching '¥..higher education ultimately_will'be, :real concessions arufcruingesJrom '""'Won in vibrant and engaging class- •j a syst~m. !!_lat has rew~ei:1 e1,!1pire-J;/r~~~ ·:-:,:~~"':. .. ,j, ,,:,, .. :.·.· A sample of recent articles of interest to Morehead State University INSTITUTIONAL RELATIONS MOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY UPO BOX 1100 MOREHEAD, KY 40351-1689 606-783-2030 PattOADUUDVei1s plan to •11 • from some of the bureaucratic fine- ~]je fill 10DS tuning that occurred in recent months sa ~ T i !se~a~~~;:i;r.ment's work processes Patton stressed that improving The EMPOWER ininative has been services, as weU as saving money. Efficiency to gain a source of concern for state workers. was a goal of EMPOWER One of the who feared layoffs. But Rep. H.G. still-unfunded programs, providing $125 million a year "Gippy" Graham, a Frankfort Demo Internet access at public libraries, crat, said yesterday he was generally would save no money, and its sole pleased with the plan. purpose is to improve service to the by 2003, he says "There appears to be minimal dis public. placement.... So very few should be By TOM LOITUS adversely affected, but I'm going to Actually, most of the new money to The Courier-Journal continue to watch how this evolves," be created by the streamlining will Graham said. not be from reducing the bureaucracy FRANKFORT, Ky. - After nine Some state workers were more but from more efficient tax collection months of analyzing the state bureau wary. "I commend the governor for by the Revenue Cabinet. cracy, Gov. Paul Patton unveiled an some parts of this - like providing us elaborate plan yesterday that spends more training and making electronic EMPOWER's plan for reducing millions to save millions. job postings where all state workers 1,000 state jobs states: "Employees EMPOWER Kentucky, his plan to can find them." said Luann Kelly, a who are identified as being subject to make state government more efficient, senior caseworker for the Department layoff will be retrained for existing will begin saving money immediately of Social Insurance's office in Nicho government positions. Those who do and will save the state more than $125 las County. "But I'm worried that not wish to be placed in another job million a year by 2003, he said. they're planning to cut I.000 jobs and or be retrained ... can voluntarily re The plan's goal is to reduce the not promising to avoid layoffs. That tire or resign and receive a severance state's work force of 33,967 full-time may not affect me, but it might affect package." employees by 1,000 within seven me in five years, and it might affect That package, in addition to accu years, and to take advantage of my co-workers." mulated annual leave and compensa emerging technology to increase rev- · Patton proposed EMPOWER Ken• tory time. would provide one week's enue. pay for each year of service with a Patton didn't rule out layoffs but tuckY (which stands for Empower Our Workforce with Effective Re minimum of four weeks' pay and a said employees whose jobs are elimi maximum of 26 weeks' pay. nated wiU have the opportunity to be sources in Kentucky) a year ago dur retrained and transferred. ing his first State of the Common Patton said, "We really see very lit The plan was the product of a team wealth Address. "By rethinking and tle cause for concern because we're of administration officials and legisla redesigning the way government serv going to be committed to relocating tors whose goal was to sift through ices are delivered, we intend to free and, if necessary, retraining the peo myriad work processes of the bureau u~ money now committed to the oper ple involved in state government." cracy and decide how to spend a one ation of state government while con time appropriation of $103 million to tinuing to deliver the same services He said the EMPOWER plan was produce savings rear-after-year. The better," Patton said. developed with the active involvement EMPOWER Steenng Committee was In essence, the proposal called for of more than 200 state employees. created by the 1996 General Assem using one-time surplus money (the bly. "They are the experts. the people $103 million) available at the end of who do the job," he said. The committee produced a plan, the last fiscal year for technology and however, that would cost $178 mil• streamlined business processes that Those employees were initially led lion. produce recurring savings - which by Patton's first cabinet secretary It calls for using $87 million to fully could fund improvements Patton Margaret Green, who resigned last fund two programs: one to expand plans to propose for universities. August. Since then EMPOWER has and integrate technology in the Rev been headed by Green's successor enue Cabinet to improve tax collec Patton and top administration offi Crit Luallen, with help from Ron tion, and the other to make changes cials who worked on EMPOWER said Bingham, an executive loaned to state in the Finance Cabinet, which in tum the projections for savings are conser government by his employer Lexmark would streamline purchasing and re vative. The projections are only for International. duce the need for renting warehouses savings to the state's General Fund for storage. ~nd don't include savings anticipated The state also had a $4.5 million The remaining $16 million, plus m the smaller Road Fund. Nor do the contract with Deloitte and Touche $75 million that the General Assembly projections account for likely savings Consulting Group to help lead the would have to approve, would be project. used to start five otherJ'rograms - including one that woul provide In· temet access to public libraries in all 120 counties. It· seemed yesterday, though, that the General Assembly would look fa. · vorably on providing the extra mon• ey. A member of the EMPOWER com• mittee, Rep. Harry Moberly, the Rich mond Democrat who chairs the House budget committee, praised the EMPOWER effort. And Patton said at a news confer• ence yesterday, "We think it will be a wise investment" for the legislature to fully fund the five other programs. The administration estimates that the two fully funded programs will , begin producing ;small ·savings this · year, sa~ more than $30 million next year and save more than $125 million a yecar by 2003. Jf the other five pro grams are fully funded. the annual savings generated by EMPOWER would approach $150 million by 2003, !ll, administration ~ed. LEXINGTON HERALl>LEAOER, LEXINGTON, KY. ■ WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 15, 1997 S"CAA limits basketball players' entry into drtit\1 ' 1,,,., ASSOCIATED PRESS , gument to partially . rescind the with professional sports contests, president of the NCAA, drew a stand in having their voices heard. pieces of a far-reac~ilik I~illi~ : NASHVILLE, Tenn. - The right for undergraduates to go early except horse racing and dog racing. ing ovation from more than 2,600 del At the urging of Bridget Niland of iug process. No longer will llifWJI!!. , [AA voted yesterday to make into the NBA draft. ■ Authorized NCAA testing of egates as he pronounced the end of the student-athlete advisory commit schools join smaller institutions; bas 1 tball players think twice before go Three years ago, the NCAA de athletes who test positive for banned the four-day convention, which tee, schools agreed to let partial quali ollce a year with every co)legeJiav- : early into the NBA draft, just one cided to permit undergraduates to drugs by athletics organizations. proved historic on at least two fronts. fiers who get their degrees in four ing one vote on rules and policy.. , ,I y after giving athletes more liberty enter the draft and retain their eligi ■ Turned down a measure to For one thing, it was the last years have a fourth year bf eligibility. Gaining near,unaniinous , .ap-' a more say than ever before. bility so long as they did not hire let basketball recruiters make un full convention in the NCAA's 91- Plus, making what everybody proval was a streamlined; ~ta : In another significant action on an agent or sign a contract. limited phone calls to prospects 48 year history, ending a long and col agreed was a giant leap of faith, Di tive fonn of government. Beginning rlast day of the final full conven The new NCAA rule specifies hours before and after the first day orful tradition of democracy within vision I schools.voted narrowly to Aug. 1, the new, mullilayered _system n of the NCAA, delegates voted to that athletes who enter the draft but of the national signing period. collegiate athletics. let athletes hold part-tiine jobs. . will mean the big-tinie schools.are, ,,i' financial protection to all men's aren't selected will retain their eligi Gene Corrigan, commissioner of For another, the athletes them During a heavy schedule Mon ruled by a Ixx:1Y of <:<>liege w,~ilejiiii o.women's NCAA championships bility. But if a team drafts them, their the Atlantic Coast Conference and selves made a major breakthrough day, delegates approved the final elected by maJor conferences. •• · Olympic sports. Many were in dan• college careers are over. r of losing their funding. In other action yesterday before LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER, LEXINGTON, KY. ii WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 15, 1997 The measure to protect Olympic adjournment, delegates: orts championships was ap ■ Voted to prohibit coaches and ~v.ed after lengthy debate, but administrators from taking part in NCAA 'Madness' rule alters(: legates voted almost without ar- any gambling activity associated start of basketball pl"acticel . ------. BY TERESA M. WALKER game," Bell said. · ~'::'.) "It has to do with whether ·..10. AssoclATED PRESS . we want our students out In . Midnight Madness offers ti,!~~ NASHVILLE - Staying up for qmtk start to the basketball sea~ college basketball's Midnight Mad the mlddle of the night In for fans who can't wait another ness won't keep students from miss the inlddle of the week." minute more for their favorite team ing class the next morning, thanks TODD TlmNER, Kentucky, Vanderbilt and to the NCAA con Vanderbilt .athletic director Arkansas were among those whQ · vention. waited until Saturday last fall. .- Delegates vot "It was left up to the schools, ed yesterday to es three days of practice this fall be and we think they handled it \'.etY start on-court cause the nearest Saturday is Oct well," Bell said. "I don't think it was practice on the 18. In other years, they will gain a something we needed to legislate;_" Saturday nearest day or two of practice. Arkansas decided to vote fur Oct. 15 starting Kentucky, with its popular Mid the change after the Razorbacks' this fall. Last fall, several schools night Madness, voted against the experience with holding Midniglit tipped off the moment the first day change. Sandra Bell, assistant ath Madness during the week, said struck Oct. 15, which fell on Tuesday. letic director for compliance, said Randy Cale, .the Razorbacks' coril- officials worried about conflicting "It has to do with whether we pliance officer.•. · ·1\. want our students out in the middle with high school football. "It always works better as a . of the night in the middle of the "If we do have a Friday night weekend event," Cale said. "\V~ week," said Vanderbilt Athletic Di madness, we would do it very late may lose a couple days (of practi~i rector Todd Turner. to make it possible for someone to But we thought it works better Ior The rule change will cost coach- go to their high school football our fans." L1 1A d-·d - Lf - 1~ - e ~11eet A sample of recent articles of interest to Morehead State University INSTITUTIONAL RELATIONS M OREHEAD STATE UNIV ERSITY UPO BOX 1100 MOREHEAD, KY 40351-1689 606·783-2030 LEXINGTON HERALD-LEAOER, LEXINGTON, KY. ■ FRIDAY. JAN UARY 24. 1997 Minnesota's model MSU ARCHIVES Higher education system can't be easily transplanted missaries from Kentucky are ghettos found in Chicago, ew taking the northbound train York and Cle\'eland. Ein search of ways to reorga Economist William Ouchi, in nize the state's web of universities. fact. uses Minneapolis/St. Paul as a community colleges and technical • model for hm,· cooperative civic re chool . Herald-Leader writer Angie lation result in strong economies. !\1uhs reports that Minnesota is a "What is remarkable," Ouchi wrote favorite de, tination for those Ken in 198-1, •·is that Minneapolis is a ruckian looking for a better way. communitr. lt is a community of l\Iinnesota remodeled its system people \Yho are connected ro one an in 1991. Eighteen communir~· col other. \\·ho place peer pre -:::-ure on leges and tech choob were consoli one another. who remember for 50 dated into 10; these colleges and all or l 00 year who has been helpful regional universiti~s were placed in the past and who has not." under a single board ; administra The energies and needs of the tive staffs were cut, and the col individual, Ouchi observed, "are leges were asked to cooperate in balanced by a network of concerned providing programs and classes. peers. with an interest in the long Aimes McGuinness, a consultant run health of the community." Pow to Kentucky's higher education task er i n't concentrated: it i spread force. says the new system has among hundred of competing and worked better than he expected. c~perating group and organiza "They're able to come up with a nons. \·ery clear tatement about what Yes. mavbe the ne\Y svstem they think Minnesota·::: future prior help:-- :\ li nnesota·s colleges do a bet ity should be ... McGuinness ex ter job. But \\'Ould thi same ystem plained. In ·hort. people are cooper \\'Ork in a place that lack a tradi ating. l\linnesotans told l\1uhs. tion of cooperation, that is riddled ls the Minnesota , y tem a good "·irh competing intere t . that lack~ solution for Kentucky? Maybe. But the unity that comes with a tight it's a big mistake to think a system, knit community? alone, makes for a solution. The Simply, would this system work reason for the success of the college in Kentucky? mergers in Minnesota we suspect, We suspect that picking among has more to do with the nature of · systems like they were items on a Minnesotans than a bill passed by dinner menu won't do much for this their legislature. state. GO\·. Paul Patton is demand Minnesota is a state that works. ing. first, that university" presidents Although isolated (and to our (and the communities they repre minds. unbearably cold). it indu, - sent) cooperate. He' got that right. tries thrive and its people earn high Gntil they do, tinkering with the incomes. The state's politics are organizational chart won't change a dishwasher clean. Its cities lack the thing. THE COURIER-JOURNAL • FRIDAY, JANUARY 24, 1997 Huston to head St. Catharine College LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER, LEXINGTON, KV. ■ FRIDI\Y, JANUARY 24. 1997 SPRINGFIEI.D, Ky. - St. Catharine CollE1e trustees appointed ■ 5PRINGAELD William D. Huston as the college's new president to succeed fonner Gov. Martha Layne Collins. ' s'( Catharine appoints president: St. Catharine Collins resigned last year to take a position with the University ' O]I.Jege trustees appointed William D. Huston as the of Kentucky. , college's new president to succeed Huston was a cabinet secretary for Workforce Development un former Gov. Martha Layne Collins. der former Gov. Brereton Jones. He was recently commissioner of Collins resigned last year to take a the Department of Technical Education under Gov. Paul Patton position with the University of Ken and is a consultant for the Kentucky Transition Project at UK. rucky. Huston \.vas a cabinet secre Huston, a graduate of Murray State University, is the ninth president of the 66-year-old college and its first male president tary ·for Workforce Development under former Go,·. Brereton Jone;. He \\'a~ recentlv commiS: ioner of the Department of Technical Education under Gov. Paul Patton and is a con- sultant for the Kentucky Transition Huston Project at UK. Huston is a graduate of Murray tate Universiry. He also is the first male pre:;ident in the institution's history. lExlNGTON HERALD-LEADER, LEXINGTON, KY, ■ FRIDAY, JANUARY 24, 1997 New group to present report on higher education Committee seems to have ties to Murray State president . Gary Cox, executive director of BY ANGIE MUHS However. Lavit said he did agree with many of Alexander's the ·Council on Higher Education, HERALD-LEADER EDUCATION WRITER said he did not know Lavit and had A previously unknown group is conclusions. "l think much of what jumping into the fray over how he says is true," he said. not heard of his group or its report. Lavit said he did not know how Kentucky divides money among the Alexander did not return sever stgte's universities and community al phone messages left at his office much Salmon and the other three colleges - one of the most sensi consultants would charge for their and home. services. He estimated it could be tive topics in higher education re Salmon also could not be form. several thousands of dollars, reached. A woman at his home said "I haven't gotten an invoice The Committee for Efficiency in he was traveling to Kentucky. Public Higher Education will hold a from them," he said. "I think I can Lavi! declined to give more de get some people to help me with it, news conference today to present a tails about what the consultants had concluded, saying he wanted to but if I have to pay it out of my report by four outside consultants pocket, I will." on higher education financing, said wait for today's announcement. Ted Lavit, a Lebanon attomel" who He also declined to say how Lavit's report will be only the described himself as the group's many members his group had or first on higher education finance to leader. give any of their names. emerge this weekend. After the Murray-UK flap, Gov. Paul Patton The group appears to have sev "There are only a few of us told the Council on Higher Educa eral ties to Murray State University now," he said. "The committee is tion to settle the matter. The coun President Kem Alexander who cir mainly friends and associates who cil is scheduled to hear their con culated a report last fall that result have listened to me sound off on sultant's conclusions at a Monday ed in an acrimonious dispute· be this." meeting. · tween him.l!Ild University of Ken tuc~r, Th_e_40-page report, which Alexander wrote, suggested UK re ceives a disproportionate share of state funding. Lavit said in an interview yes LEXINGTON HERAUrlEAoER, 1.EXJNGTON, KY. ■ FRIDAY, JANUARY 24, 1997 terday that.his actions had not been ■ '"DANVILLE prompted by Alexander's report or the ensuing controversy. Centre College honors appeals judge: A U.S "I think all of us as taxpayers ~om t of Appeals Judge has become only the fifth per-· need to be vigilant abo:.;, what sonro r~ce1ve Cen_tre College's highest honor. Judge we're spending and how," he said. Piei c~ Lively received the Isaac Shelbi• Medallion in a "I'm not sure I'm satisfied in how surpnse ceremo_ny durmg the college's Founders Da , it's being spent in this case." The award carnes the name of Shelby, Kentucky's fi~t iovelr an?done ?f the founders of Centre. Lively a However, Richard Salmon, the anv1 e res1 ent, 1s a 1943 Centre graduate and h~s lead consultant on the report, is a sewed on the college's board ·of trustees for 44 yea professor _at• Virginia Polytechnic H(;-has served as a judge on the coUrt of appeals fo~25 Institute who has worked exten Y~"\During Founders Day, the college also awarded sively with Alexander - who t . ~ onorary degrees I? former faculty members: Max taught for six years at Virginia P.. Cav~es, ':ho taught history and was dean of men· Tech before becoming Murray's Katherme Nichols, who taught home economics and.art president in 1994. an.iJ..was dean of women; and William H Owens now -Sa~o~· ancl Alexander both tes pres1?ent of Pikeville College, who taught math ~d tified as finance experts on behalf physic~ and was an administrator. of the 66 school districts that sued the state of Kentucky, in the land mark case that led to the Kentucky . Educatioti:Reform•Act . -•·· · Lavitafso '.vorked as a lawyer in thaUase· because he had had pri or experience·with a federal case in volving education, said Jack More land: who.''was one of the superin tendents pursuing the lawsuit. -;J ' ;e; :-; ;;~.,:~ • • . , •. Moreliirid,,now serving as inter- mi pf~ide,nfipf Northern Kentucky University, said Lavit and Alexan der were friends then. He said he had no reason to think that had changed.-_ .• · But Lavit said he had contacted Salmon independently, and had ap proached him solely because. of his expertise in education finance. Alexander _"has nothing to do with my committee," Lavi!" said. '.'.l did call and tell him I wanted to see his repo)t, ._and he cooperated and that was about it." Fick pointed out during his sta,· THE COURIER-JOURNAL• SPO""S • FRIDAY, JANUARY 24. 1997 that his• program's graduation rate ranked first three times among Ken· just wish Morehead would see fit to tucky's Division I basketball schools. Fick says ·_ let me follow through on them." He also noted that he was ordered to "· The Eagles have only one senior schedule at least three "i;uarantee among their top eight players and just money" games a season against much Morehead· · two on the entire roster. better opponents to generate extra Fick's record in 5Y, seasons at the funds. school is 6!-92, includin~ a 7-20 mark "I felt I did what I thought I was last season. His only wmning season hired to do," Fick said. "Anybody might not came in 1994-95, when the Eagles who questions the direction of the went 15-12 and Fick was named co program I have trouble with. Coach of the Year in the ave. "I was told that winning and losing extend deal Fick said he was asked by Hamil wouldn't be a factor. I scheduled ev ton how many years he would like for erybody but Mars. and I think we had By DAVE KOERNER his contract to be extended after that Mars next year. We didn'1 win The Courier-Journal season and requested three. Instead. he received one additional enough games, and that's the only reason why this is happening." Barring a sudden about-face by• year, which he said was "a kick in the Morehead State officials, · basketball groin. It knocked me on my-. I was Information for this story also was coach Dick Fick's contract won't be not real fired up with that. .. gathered by The Associated Press, renewed. . Fick confirmed last night that ath-• letic director Steve Hamilton and vice president for student life Mike Min cey met with him earlier in the day The Daily Independent, Ashland, Kentucky, Thursday, January 23, 1997 and said they are recommending to President Ronald Eaglin that his con tract not be extended. A decision is expected early next week. Neither Hamilton nor Mincey would comment. Fick, however, was strongly opin- . Not a priority ionated about the recommendation. · "I don't like the timing of it all,"" said Fick, whose contract will expire March 31. . . UK has greater needs than arena "I don't know why this couldn't · It may be sacrilegious to the possibility of building a have waited until March 31, and I'm. not even going to ask why." ·'. ' say this in a state where the .new on-campus arena or add Fick said he also is perturbed that_ University of Kentucky bas ing thousands of seats to Me the recommendation is sandwiched ket ball Wildcats are wor morial Coliseum, home of between a rare three-game winning streak and a four-game road swing. shipped, but we just can't get the basketball Wildcats be Morehead is 5-10 overall and 3-5 in excited about the prospects fore the construction of Rupp the Ohio Valley Conference but re of building a huge basketball Arena. cently defeated rival Eastern Ken arena on the UK campus. However, state law re tucky· 77-55 and defending league champion Murray State 86-78 to con If one were to prioritize all quires that the university clude a three-game homestand that the needs of the University of formally solicit proposals began with a 72-62 \'ictory over Ten Kentucky, a new basketball from a number of companies · nessee-Martin. Until then, the Eagles had lost 14 arena would be way down before selecting one to do the c:onsecuti\·e conference games and the list. Rupp Arena - study. UK had not done that hadn't put together a three-game win owned by the city of Lexing at the time Ivy made his pre ning streak since the 1994-95 season. ··we're nor just winning games. ton and the centerpiece of its mature announcement. In we're representing the university downtown - may not be the stead, the UK athletics de preny well," Fick said. biggest and best indoor partment already had in Morehead's fate in the conference race. however. will depend heavily on arena in the nation, but it formed other companies hop a four-game road trip that begins to still is much larger than .ing to compete for the study morrow at Tennessee State, then will most college arenas. UK play contract that Huber, Hunt continue at preseason favorite Austin Peay. Middle Tennessee and Tennes ers still regularly experience and Nichols had been se see Tech. the thrill that comes from lected. "Those are playing before more than UK official now are doing .four very impor 23,000 w'ildly cheering fans. some backtracking. Athletics tant games," Fick said. "For Those advocating the on Director C.M. Newton has this to happen campus arena argue that said that no contract for the now, then some since it would be built with study will be awarded with body is saying that basketball is private donations, no money out going through the bid not very impor would be diverted from other ding process. tant." university programs. Don't That's a wise step, but Fick, however, Fick said he "will believe it. Private contribu rather than spending thou continue to tors are not bottomless pits. sands of dollars for a feasibil coach the heck out of these kids. I Every dollar given to build a ity study, UK should aban basketball arena is one less don plans for an on-campus dollar that .likely will be con arena and• begin negotiations tributed to'some other, more with the.city_ of Lexington on pressing UK need. ·· a lease"agreement for Rupp The latest chapter in UK's Areriii''that ·is more to the efforts to build an arena university's lilting. came last week when Larry • Inflated egos and the desire Ivy, UK's senior associate to have the biggest and best athletics director, told the college arena in the nation Lexington Herald-Leader that must not prevail over com the Indianapolis firm of mon sense. An arena would Huber, Hunt and Nichols had . be nice, but there are far been selected to investigate greater needs. l.ExlNGTON HERALD-LEADER, LEx!NGTON, KY. ■ FRIDAY, JANUARY 24; 1997 If Eaglin decides not to extend his contract, Fick said he would fin ish this season anyway. Thumbs down "Without a doubt," he said "T~ey would have to carry me out: Brmg in the military police to get LMorehead A.D. recommends Fick be dismissed ~e out (during the season). I'm go mg to coach these kids. BY MARK STORY Fick's record at Morehead "I am not interested in keeping HERALD-LEADER STAFF WRITER Steve Hamilton happy. But I am Morehead State Universitv athletic direc Year Overall ovc very interested in keeping my stu tor Steve Hamilton has recommended that '91-92 14-15 6-8 dent-athletes happy." Dick Fick not be retained as the school's '92-93 6-21 6-10 If he is terminated, Fick said he men's basketball coach. ·93.94 14-14 8-8 would have two regrets. The first is University president Ronald G. Eaglin is '94-95 15-12 10-6 that he would not be at Morehead '95-96 7-20 2-14 all that stands between Fick and a pink slip. "96-97 5-10 3-4 through the graduation of his son Eaglin said last night that Hamilton and Career 61-92 35-50 Jeff, a junior at Morehead. ' university vice president Mike Mincey sent The second was that he would him memos vesterdav recommending a ~ot be able to complete the rebuild coaching change before ·next season. "But it is not over until the president mg process with his team. The Ea "It is sitting on my shoulders now," sings," Fick said. "And Dr. Eaglin has al gles. have _won three straight, in Eaglin said. "l got the memos today. and I ways been very, very upfront and profession cludmg wms over rivals Murrav will talk to Coach Fick (this) morning." al in his dealings with me." State and Eastern Kentucky. · Eaglin said an announcement on Fick's In 5½ seasons at Morehead. Fick has com With his fate to be decided this fate could come this afternoon. If not. he said. piled a 61-92 overall record and a 35-50 mark morning in the meeting with the decision will come Monda,·. in the Ohio Valley Conference. Eaglin, Fick was asked if he would The president-declined to say if he was Onlv one of his teams. the 199~-95 squad sleep tonight leaning one way or the other. "I think the ap that went 15-12, has compiled a winning "! am going to go to sleep and propriate thing for me to do is speak with the record. That team finished one game short of think real positive thoughts," he coach first," Eaglin said. the OVC title and earned Fick conference said. ''But I will probably wake up Fick said last night he did not know how coach of the year honors. at 2 or 3 in the morning and get,.: Eaglin would decide, but "if i•ou go with the This year, the Eagles are 5-10, 3-4 in the very melancholy." '"" track record and the way these games are ovc. Fick said he had made no P~.. usually played, I think usually (the recom Under Fick, Morehead's greatest acclaim past this season. If he has to leave• mendations) "are accepted by college presi has come off the floor. According to gradua Morehead, he said he might pursue· dents. tion rates putilished yearly by ihe another college head coaching job,~ Herald-Leader, Fick's program has Might try to get a job scouting in-. consistently ranked at the top the NBA. ... among state schools in players Might even think about return- . earning degrees. ing to the high school level to But Fick said he was told yes coach, ''maybe a Christian schoo[,, terday morning in a meeting with someplace where you could really Hamilton and Mincey that they help kids," he said. . , wanted to see the school's basket "But I don't want to leave More ball program "go in another direc head. (If that is what happens), it is tion." not what I want." "The direction we are going in, we are graduating our kids," Fick Macy Interested said. "We've won three (games} in a Former University of Kentucky row, we've got good young kids, star Kyle Macy said last night he good young kids who are very would be interested in the More good socially. head job if it opens. "But obviously, we are not sat Macy, who has no coaching ex isfying the direction Steve wants perience, was widely rumored to be the basli:etball program to go in. I a top candidate for the job last don't feel like our entire basketball year, when it was widely rumoretj program has been evaluated. And that Fick would be fired. that bothers me a lot" "I am very interested," Macy Hamilton said last night he said. "If the job opens, I would ·defi could not comment on his recom nitely like to talk to them, definiteli/= mendation. like to be interviewed, to be in Fick had criticized the More volved in the situation." head AD in a story in Thursday's Macy, the color analyst on the Herald-Leader. He blamed Hamil UK radio network and an employet;, ton for not getting the coach a. of Lexington's Central Bank, said· three-year contract extension after he has had no communication wiili'· Morehead went 15-12 in 1995. In Morehead officials to date. stead the coach got one extra year. Fick called that "a kick in my heart." B'!t Hamilton said the article play~ no role in his recommenda tion. "I hadn't even seen-the paper when we met," he. said. The Daily Independent. Ashland. Kentucky, Wednesday. January 22. 1997 people do ... he said. Mays said he had been in MaYs said he also wanted trigued by the notion of start Ex-bank Ashland to have another lo ing his own bank for at least call \' own e d a nd operated 20 years. He wouldn't say if chief bank. Currently. Bank of Ash that was a factor in his de land is the only bank in the cision to step down as chair cit\· that falls under that head man of First American in Oc starting ing. Communit:-,· Trust Bank. tober. formerly First American. and "It's something I've thought own bank National City Bank are owned about for a long time and have by holding companies based in been encouraged to explore ... Mays, partners Pikeville and Cleveland. Oh 10. he said. .. After 1 left First respectively. American. I had more time to will seek state, One of Mays· partners said think about the things that FDIC charters the local factor was why he were important to me and my had decided to get involved family." By KENNETH H ART with the venture. Mays. who would serve as OF THE D AILY INDEPENDEI\T " I think there's room for an president and chief executive other locall y owned and oper officer of the new bank. said ASHLAND - The former ated bank in the area ... said he had offers from other finan president and cha irman of William R. Seaton. a retired cial institutions, but those jobs First American Bank is start· Ashland Inc. executive. would have taken him out of ing a bank of his own. The other partners in BSE the area. He said he and his John H. Mays said he and Corp. are Dr. Robert Goodpas fa mily wanted to remain in his partners - a group that in· ter. a retired Ashland Com Ashland. eludes two doctors, a retired munity College president and Mays said he and his part educator and Mays· f ath e r-in -law ; Dr. ners h ad each in vest ed a retired busi Charles Rhodes, an Ashland $200,000 in the venture as seed ness executive cardiologist: and Dr. Bruce money. The next step will be ha ve Stapleton, a local internist. to apply for charters from the formed a cor "Not only do 1 respect John Kentucky Department of Fi p o ration .,.,. as m y son -in-law and my nancial Institutions and the known as BSE friend. but I respect him for Federal Depos it Ins ura nce Corp. for the his business background. his Corp. purpose of es enthusiasm and his love of Both agencies must deter t ab l is hi n g a. banking," Goodpaster said. mine if public convenience holding com- Mays Mays said he was confident will be served by the new pany to char- that the economy of the Ash bank. and if it will have a rea ter a new bank in Ashland. land area could support an sonable probability of success. The name and location of the other bank. If the charters are approved. bank haven't been determined. Jo Ann Bell. president of the the company will offer stock to but Mays said he is committed Chamber of Commerce of Boyd the public at $20 a share. Mays to putting it in the downtown and Greenup Counties. said said he hoped to raise $6 mil business district. she thought the new bank had lion through the offering. The bank would be the first a good chance of succeeding. Mays said the permit pro new one in Ashland since Paul Mays "brings a great deal of cess will t a k e a bout four Grumbles chartered the Bank experience and lot of knowl months. If all goes smoothly. of Ash land in 1966. Mays edge" to the venture. she said. the new bank should be open began his ba nking career "I think growth is good for our in about a year. he said. under Grumbles in 1973. area and I wish h im well. Mays said he has set up an Mays' bank would give Boyd Competition's good for every office on the fourth floor of the and Greenup counties a total one." G. B. Johnson Education and of 12 banks and savings and Bell said she also thought it loan institutions. Economic Center. He said any would be good for Ashland to one with questions about the Mays. 49. said the question have another locally owned he has been asked most fre new bank can call him at (606) bank. 325-9646. quently since he launched the "When it comes to knowing venture is "Does Ashland re cu st om ers on a one-to-o ne ally need another bank?'' level, sometimes customers Through research and meet feel more comfortable with a ing with various people. Mays home-grown bank." she said. said he had determined that the answer is a resounding "yes." "I look at the other banks opening branches and the sav ings and loans converting to stock institutions and I see the same opportunities as those Msl' c1;p shPeR,IVES A sam le of recent articles of interest to Morehead State Universit \ P,.,dd-L - ).;l -) INSTITUTIONAL RELATIONS MOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY IJPO BOX 1100 MOREH.EAD, KY 40361-1689 606-783-2030 lEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER, LEXJNGTON, KY, ■ SUNOAY, JANUARY 19, 1997 something, somebody's back gets up and the political wheels start turning and you almost crush the Kentucky looks· dialogue." Minnesota's experience In Minnesota, merger also was an emotional, controversial subject. north for ideas The state Senate approved it; the House balked. The bill finally squeaked through a few minutes before midnight on the last .day of a legislative session. to fix colleges That was 1991. Since the switch-over took place in July 1995, , "We have· some· complacency the path hasn't always been Minnesota sizes up. :out there," said Leonard Hardin, smooth. lchairman of the Council on Higher · Eighteen community and tech :Education. "So it's very question nical colleges have been consolidat radical revamping •able if this could be done without ed into 10 institutions. The central BY ANGIE MUHS :some structural change." administrative office went through H"'-'ID-LEADER EouCAn □N W•ITER : That was how Minnesota raw- a restructuring that reduced its When Minnesota state Sen. :makers saw things, Moe said. staff from 236 to 132. About 145· Roger Moe and his colleagues "We have articulation agree- full- and part-time faculty members looked at their public higher-edu- :ments between campuses that I at technical and community col cation system, they saw colleges ,don't think would have ever leges also were laid off. that didn't always cooperate, often ;worked together if we hadn't had a Judith S. Eaton, the new sys tried to do the same things and 'central board to make it happen," tem's chancellor, acknowledges that lacked a coherent vision of future :said Moe. He said that Ed Ford; a change has not come easily. '.'People priorities. :top adviser .. to. Patton, recently : woke up.. on July 1, 1995, with a sig So they pushed through a con- :spoke with him'.about Minnesota's ' nificant number of them not pre troversial, sweeping merger that :experience. . pared for the merger in their put technical colleges, community ' Those talking about change heads," she said. colleges and all four-year schools :now tend to fall into three main But Eaton, who said Ford except the University of Minneso- ;camps. visited Minnesota and !net with her, ta under one board. : ■ Some - includi~g former remains upbeat about the prospects When some Kentucky. law- Govs. Edward T. Breathitt' and Br- ' for the future. She contends the makers and higher education ob: ereton Jones - argue that the merged system is guiding institu servers survey :C:Ouncil on Higher Education does- tions towards new cooperation and the education :n't have enough authority now, and · flexibility, without sacrificing local landscape here, :ought to be strengthened. · input. many of them ■ Some - in- "People are talking to each oth voice some . of· eluding several er in ways they didn't before," she the same ·criti- members of the ' said. "We're not managing or regu cisms .:.that :council - take it a lating these institutions, because we for Hi~er spurred the step further. They can't do that from St. Paul. We Minnesota say the council have the big-picture operations. We Educalion legislature to . -should have more don't deal with the day-to-day oper An occasio-nal action. ,power, but also say ations at the colleges." series And now fuey'd be willing to .Aims McGuinness, a consultant -----• Gov. Paul Pat- ·support having a advising Patton's task force, said he ton and his advisers are studying 'superboard' that was initially unsure whether Min Minnesota's changes as they pon- would run all state nesota's change would work. But he der how to improve higher educa- 1 universities if that thinks it has so far. tion in Kentucky. Some aides have failed or were "They're able to come up now even traveled there to study the deemed unworkable. with a very clear statement about new system. ■ ,A few others what they think Minnesota's future ... Whet!ter Keii\ii£k.y. will.~dopt have even floated priority should be," he said. "My a dramatic structural ·change such I ideas that involve feeling about it now is much- more :;as Minnesota's remains to be seen. putting the U11iversi- · ·f· ·c· positive than I would have been be :,Patton said in the past that he did- ties of Kentucky and Louisville un- fore." i.n't see any topic as .off-limits for der a singl_e board, the regional uni- •-,ca,Blit. Minnesota state Rep. Lyn ::discussion - including the issue of versities .under· an:cither, and the don Carlson, an~ear1y--opponent of ::who governs what. He has said re- community colleges and Kentuck-y the merger, said he's still worried ' h h h h d Tech schools under yet ~another ,: ___ ; ___ c;. __ ;,c,;,about what kinds of ,1)eatedly, t oug , t at e oesn't .board. """"' ·::--· 1:· 1 :want to ·change structure for the added costs the :·sake of change. · · · ·· -;. . . ; Those ideas are nothing new in · state may face. He ,: "The objective is to get more ef- Kentucky...... , .. said he thinks the :ficient delivery of more services," <· · But the subject has been one of state could have ad : Patton said in a recent interview. "If the most emotional and politically dressed the coordi :·changes in governance will push ~harged areas of debate in higher nation issue with J:that along, certainly I'd be willirig i;cJucation - ·and the· topic that outf·taking such a 'd · • would provoke the most resistance ,to conSI er It. -., a.Patton tried to change it . .' drastic step. '"&~son said he _1:riire~ 'alt;ffi~tl~~~ ;f,?~: ¥.k,'il~ ;;,'f~Sen-,Pa'\rid.,Karem, ·D-1.ouisville; :: ,,_~~,-;;_Jri_...... · -~-,,.-;,;,•ti.g_ ,,,h•~§t~1'·" ~ ··iifres··<1iffirult'-fo'aisclissc~es·: ...... "·> __ <;reasll)gi, ,:,-.. uoug_ .,._, peop_ e ·" ~·,· ·s""'""c".:~e"'°w··1·t·h·o'u'·:t·.·.,:,..,,::,g'"·'"p"um• · · ·.· ·· t1~itw&~ti~1~·••gi,,--"'"_,;..,-:,.,, ... ,.. --. --.. ave·•·suggestea1·thiit::,: KentucW~' • • •< .""'!' _ ~- . ,reaw:racy .wasccre,, · · h.t eed ·1· .h...... hh, ;,:<, · ffieled= pqlitically, ·~- - over 1t". · ,,•,·.. ·--, _ n o_c apge. o~.1.,or~---z·t'..,.,, ...... ,· ,,, r,_, ,;;,. .... -.~...;~-¥.,...,)- .....-: ati • -~:·adrtiinistra- • izes·-its~iimffiiti~~,·rrnunity;l .. i. thmgs_:OIJllhl ,.,.,~ ~-'>""" i:b:_,., ~~~Al,li'\lf~thQS\! !!'.be., ,M.Hv.,,,s •·e-rc ,~,._,:s•sai ;..~ I ., •colleges iiiidi&tiffiaitsc °&ils'if it';,) ri~ahe>.'-tableC: 'withouf""fear of ·.wor11,fITT!, p~y:c ec "· · ~-.... ,... --.,.h- ,.,_, .• ~---- -• I ~risa1•:~"-·said •· 'Kai-em;··- the·· .'. •-i~ts !o _111.!""\!!n""' !lllP~n;>ve--. [ ' . ..c., -....?.""ti·"•·•.·fl"" '"~~~;:i,--,-.-...,r.. . ·_" '<'•"' ms..• ''" ,. -~ 1 "~'· 1Gnt5:).::~· ?,:t~~ · - ~ .:-- .. :,. l ocra c{bffi:J,eau1:r:."icilt'"8S~ .,ol ' "'"· .,..,;..,,,~ · ·,. ~t~ .,, W!tiiik1riiZa'6ilut) MOR.€-> COLLEGES: One Superboards "don't have to em- · ., ploy as much diplomacy as I think more power, you may as welt'~ust :possible route sometimes we have to do," said make it a superboard," said Funder- Prather, a Somerset elementary burk. . 1s 'superboard' school principal. "We can't go in Morehead State University Pres and say, 'you will do this.' " ident Ronald Eaglin said he fears FROM PAGE ONE But former Gov. Breathitt, who that a discussion of structure might ·------thinks the council has to be divert attention from other funda "They've had strengthened, says he doesn't like mental issues that need to be tack- such a full plate in the idea of a superboard, even led. : just trying to get the merger to though he's heard more talk in fa "If the first thing we do is get work," said Carlson, chairman of vor of it than in the past. into structure, all that's going to ;do the House Education committee. "l "In the first place, it's a heck of is politicize the process, and w~en think the jury is still out on it." a battle to get it done, and you lose we get done, we'll have painted the Most students haven't seen more than you gain," said Breathitt, Titanic and rearranged the deck many effects of the merger, said chairman of the UK board. "Mem chairs,'' Eaglin said. Mike Nesdahl, president of student Eaton, the Minnesota chancel government at Minnesota's South bers of a university board feel an obligation when-they're committed lor, said she told Patton's aides that west State University, a school sim Kentucky should plan thoroug4ly ilar to one of Kentucky's regi~nal to one school, and I would hate to lose that." and gauge the political culture be universities. fore it goes ahead with. major But Nesdahl says he's been try Another idea tossed around would group universities under changes. :• ing to get an·accounting report on "This is very complex and takes his student government's treasury three boards. The council would then coordinate their activities. a long time," she said. ''Just beca4se from the central office for more you say it doesn't make it so." •• than a month. Student lobbying Proponents say that would bring coordination, while providing But state Sen. Tim Shaugh- groups also don't feel they have as nessy, D-Louisville, said he thinks much access to the administration ' more opportunity for local input ' than a superboard would offer. ' he and other legislators have ,to as they once did, he said. consider the question as part o( a "I think it's just trying to handle '.'The more I see, the more I like broad picture. ,• too many things at once," he said. 1 the three-board setup," said Burns "I'm going into this with an "It seems· like it just made more red Mercer, a former council chairman open mind and nothing sacred," he tape." who now serves on Western Ken said. . .. ,.i.,;,: •' Moe, the Senate majority leader, tucky University's board. "You do says those issues will be resolved need some local views. If you had a soon. superboard, I'm not sure communi "Have there been glitches? Yes," ty colleges would get enough atten he said. "But that's insignificant to' tion." the long-term positives that wiU Others question, though, come out of a coordinated syste/ whether Patton should change the that's much more streamlined." structure. Dispute resolution Eastern Kentucky University President Hanly Funderburk thinks As iri Minnesota, talk abc t ·changing things in Kentucky I s the council already is powerful, but stemmed largely from conce 1s just doesn't use its power. He ques about coordination. The percep Jn tioned to whom college presidents that Kentucky's system is plaf ed would ultimately be responsible - with turf fights that don't gef ;et the council or the college's govern tled was fueled, many think, y a ing board - if the council had bitter dispute between the un; !I"Si more power. ty of Kentucky and Murrayi ,tate • "If you're going to give it much University over an engineering pro gram· in Paducah that dragged on for much of 1994 and 1995. Proponents of strengthening the council say it doesn't have enough authority to settle disputes now, meaning that the real power lies with individual institutions. Council member Hilma Prather, who said she's leaning towards f?-. voring a superboard, said she thinks the current council can't en force coordination that would pre- vent disputes. • ~· ·~· -·":lfADER STAFF WRITERS ':lt FRANKFORT - Kentucky's j~~i~ self-proclaimed "higher-educa !yi' tion governor'' served notice yes -.dJf terday that unless he sees ade . ·:>, quate cooperation from state uni versities, he may take a new nickname: The roads, water lines and sewer projects governor. Gov. Paul Patton, who has staked his administration's repu tation on overhauling higher ed ucation, called for consensus among the state's often con tentious universities during· a The governor said he is focus only comments I've heard about speech to academic and govern ing on six questions concerning any change being unacceptable is ment economists. higher education: Does Kentucky 1 the stance of UK on the, co~!,l!lity- 4 The price if universities don't •.::"";-": '·· have enough? How- niuch more is college system."• •• '-"l''r.i}\. go along? An additional $100 needed? What is the quality.? Is it UK.President •··cbarles '~0 ·'r. million a year that the governor accessible? Does it meet needs? And Wethingtci1i"'Jr. ackn~wledgecftlia'f'' has promised to cobble together is it efficient? he has publicly said that he does from streamlining government not support removing theTi:cow and improving tax. collections.· 'Throwing down ·gauntlet' munity colleges from UK's contro_l'. No cooperation in reforms, no money, Patton said. -. Patton's , comments were, met But that doesn't-mean he's,0p "I may decide to be the infra. wftff praise from Leonard Hardin, posed to change, Wethington said. chairman of the state' Council cin "The state is changing, the structure governor the first term Higher Edui:atioii'. ''-~- . ,, .. and then try to be the higher-ed world is changing and higher ed~ ucation governor the second "Good for him," Hardin said af cation must change as well," term," said Patton, who may ter ·being told of the governor's re- Wethington said. "We've all been seek a second term in 1999. , marks. "The same old story - just challenged to do more with . less, _ The governor's comments at give me more money and leave me and that has involved change." ;.:_ the annual Economic and Finan alone - will not cut it with this -... ~.• "'"'"""-• -····· ·• cial Outlook Conference were a governor. Re-focus for excellence stern warning for higher educa "I think he's serving notice/' Universlty' of Louisville Presi tion to get on board with his call said Hardin, the chairman of Na dent John Shumaker said he and for major \mprovements or get tional City Bank. "He's throwing tcip ···administrators have s(lent left behind. They also revealed down the gauntlet" · months planning internal changes his frustration with institutional Patton's speech drew quick re to re:focus oii "15 or ·20• areas in reluctance to change, and hinted actions from state university_ presi which U of L could achieve excel- that he may not be able to bring dents, who hastened to say they in lence. · :·' ' , about big changes. . _ tend to cooperate with the governor Shumaker said U of L is -pre "One thing that the higher and embrace change. pared to consider any idea put for education institutions need to "There's some apprehension of ward and that he hopes for open de- understand is that they're there to what change will mean, but I don't ,,, ... bate. l..~f•~~--.c-;i<"·.Ju ~-, 1/:,· ' ' serve the people, not themselves," sense, at least among the regional Patton said. " ... And I just simply presidents, that change can't hap _ , •. :'i/.i:re n~t go1hg i~,\:ircle'our pen," said Morehead State Universi wagons," he said: "We think the op believe that they're not able to rec portunity is too great" ognize that and come up with the ty President Ronald Eaglin. "The kind of proposal that is good for all of the people of Kentucky." LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER, LEXINGTON, KY, ■ FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 1997 "l will not be a party to another Lindsey Wilson College names president: patch job," he said. , Walter S. Reuling was named president of Lindsey Wil He said he might "change direc son College, replacing John B. Begley, who is stepping tions" from the higher education re down. Reuling was scheduled"to serve as interim presi forms that he had pledged to make dent from July 1 through June 30, 1998 ..Begley had a centerpiece of his first term - planned to step down as president on July 1 to become . -.;;fiossibly to take up water and sew chancellor but was named chancellor retroactive to Jan . 1. Reuling, 63, who has been provost and dean of the N;F.,E9.i~~j~i,!_croads - "if people college's faculty since 1992, will serve as Lindsey Wil- •':t;r;y"11to:~---~Qborn, ._try .to .be .'. '.P.?,!'Qchial;;'°tiy to · be.'Sl"egiimal or S pay atJeast $240., _Qiicjn court-.· ·qrqerej!,_jptangtble-tax l'efdiidd,'Over tlie1 THE COURIER-JOURNAL • SATURDAY, JANUARY 18, 1997 \Wams' e.s:['.'~Q;:, :·:~:bite.·~:~; r •• ,:: • , , • .liinivers.it~·• : \ • ,-;it ,1' t•· ~ittun·••:. -~·::.11 .\. -. , f.. -•r;ru }a, f0 aen~,:;_, ,: :n ..~1 :, :: t•.'iyi ti J ,f.•.~ ~.,,_1 1, ~ ' IC '. • ;;' ' • 1-· '· ! • ,'} I IJ !t,.r.. L, ,•, ., -"' 11 \.:.J-1 -. ··1 'f.,\~. ~ fs 1,1 ;ir-_.,J, ;:•~-;~•••'fl· , 1·'.r •.1 :,;1 ,\/! ' • . : .:• .., .... ; ·-t•,'•·•~-•~- :~•'••'''t'ui,:. ~• •~:i.J•>,?,1-!.1,~,1. •••'-';If,••·•·"~'~•••1 ~·• ••~i._ tJ·, _,. "ll ',t:, t'· ... fh' '-•.•'• •·: ity,"Patton:toldtheannualEconomic plans to ask t!ie legislatµre to aP.f Sllve,;!IIO!l,ey, sft:eamliile progr""!S •s!'chasessionc~ul~b~delayed.;,:; ~vOrK oge er · and Financial Outlook Conference in prove new funding- abOl!I $100 mi!t and g':I along with_ ,eacb_ ~ther,,,!'.1:· ,.. "I, W!'l,11 ,to ,.do I! ni!jit; J ao~t,wim.t , h ,, · . ,, } ,, Frankfort. "l may decide to be the lion by budget-rear 2000 - for a pn- stead; 11 offered a wish ,list for ne,yl,lo be-tied {o a deadline:" 'he;~llld, ·: · or C ange or ose infrastructure governor the first tenn, ority program m his first-tenn. programs and facilities. . . Gacy Cox, executive director of the , , , , and then try to be the higher educa- "l think that should be higlier edu- "One thing that the higher educa- council on Higher Education, which Ldd1"t1"onal money lion governor the second tenn." cation," he said. But he added, "It's tiol), institutions need to understand oversees the system, said "the gover- . Patton has staked the success of not unthinkable to think that I would is that they're there to serve the peo- nor's comments make it clear that ·he his administration on whether he can change direction if people try to be pie - not themselves, not their inter- expects higher education to be wilt; y TOM LOFl1JS " make major improvements in the sys- selfish, try to be l?.arochial, try to be nal special interests," he said, "And I ing to change and certainly members he Courier-Journal tem of post-secondary education. regional, or ~n I willing to make just simply be!leve that they're not of the council agree with that.", --~ _He rep~ated yesterday: "My ~m- the hard dec1S1ons that 1t takes to a~le to "'?'gruze that and C., ; •· •• 5!11d he ~Oils •not u1,1. ~~d conven; .. fonnat10n •. He said he wants that interest as a tremendous opportunity ·If selfish interests make fundami11•' . We !night b~tter serv~ the c~m- tio_nal wisdom that 'it·wiU ~• hard to· ~ompleted_by Feb. 10, the next sched- to take drlllnatic steps,". Shumafler I chan~e impossible, the new mon- monwealtli bdl not patc.~mg up the ~nng about•fundlllnenlal· cl!llll:ge to ,uled meeµng of !hf\ Task Force on said "It would be a tragedy l!lis 0 10 ~t~e Jni~rsme~~=~~i;r ~~:. ~m~:e:bj<: lnii1 -~~i: ~~g:i~~g: IID~~~-:irre1:~i~=~d~~'::ice ~::~ 1t~e~~ic:~;:·~~~~ he ;state.if we squ!18de~, this OPP?,:iimiw ges and vocational schools will go sensus," he said. "Higher ·education lllnQng higher education interests t spent a lifetime helping to . Alumni Association Hall or' '" pioneer in breaking down ra-• break down the walls of rac- Fame. · cial barriers and has contin- ism that have divided this ,,.Banks CUIT!!U4Y is director ued to fight for racial equal- nation. · of the Deparlment of Phyl?i- ity. Banks was the first black cal Education at Howard athlete in the Ohio Valley University in Washington; Conference, competing in track and field for what was D.C. then Morehead State College l+! c, str a11g~1 to controversy West Liberty la~maker ~=~~~ Sena:.~1;~~t ~~ I ~Ff• IN=:~;;K:RTI~u::~t :¥i!::lt~;~~:~~r:t,~ [~,.J1~!-t111~!J;{jll. be said that people have been Dental Corps, Blevins set up underestimating. Walter· his first office in a trailer in Blevins for a long, long time. · Morgan County. He treated The West . Liberty dentist poor children under a program -..: ' began his political ··care~r sponsored by the Ga~eway c;~paigned _ face to face, with the same sort of David Area Development District. said Adkins, D-Sand}'. ~ook. vs. Goliath moxie that now Eventually he moved to "He has, in my 0P!,lll0n, had has propelled him to second . Morehead, a less isolated loca-. a successful legislative career in command of the state Sen-• It_ion he figured would be better • so far," Adkins said. · ate. . . ·· i ·. for a single man, and set up The Senate presented a new It was 1981 and then-Rep. shop. It was there that he met environment and new cha!· Woody May, a popular Demo- and married his wife; Carla. Jenges. crat from West LigertY,_ wp.s _ They have three children and "I didn't like the Senate as whip of the-House. 'Blevins; currently are. separated, he much," Blevins ackn~wledged 31, just five year_-s out of. d~n- said. last week. "Everythmg was tal school, ·de_c1ded the 11).;,. controlled. There was , no· de cum bent. pol had beeµ; ~Mad-man' campaigner bate because the outcome was around long. enough - a_nJ!, , It was also from Morehead always known." . challenged him ... It "was ··rn_e,;; that he launched his political In addition, the Senate "was first upset he pulled off.. ·:: career. He describes his cam not as lively" as the House, he . "I didn't feel too welcom~, ,. paign against May as "old- said. . : . II t Blevins said about the-r~cep: fashioned." . · · · , :· .. ,.... :· Still, Blevins m1tla Y go tion· he received whe_n he ar-. ·, "I did it with a lot of knock along well with then-Senate rived in_ Fr_ankfort · fa~:'.]~~~; ing on docirs," Blevins said. President John "Eck" Rose. It first sesswn m·1982. ··-·-"; : r '.'One thing about Walter wasn't until Blevins supported It's a feeling that has re- ,1 Blevins," said Stacy, "he, will Sen. Benny Ray Bailey's run surfaced intermittentl}'. ·dur-, .campaign like.a.mad man.''. for floor leader in 1993 that the ing Blevins'• 10 years m the · ; Blevins kept ·ms House -seat rift began, he said. Rose, a · House and five in the Senate, for .10 years before moving to Winchester Democrat, sup · but never more strongly than. (the Senate to once again sue ported Floor Leader David , two weeks ago. , . · it:eed May, this time on friend- Karem of Louisville for .the Blevins and four other ·. lier terms. post. Democrats joined with 17 Re- : After he lost his House seat, Over the next few y~ars, publicans. to claim control of IMay had run successfully for Blevins said, he grew m?re the 38-member chamber. The the Senate. He and Blevins and more dissatisfied with plot succeeded, cat~~ultip.g. ~orked together closely on leg Rose's leadership. Blevins to · the_pos1~!o_n ~f_~islation and projects beneficial "Everything was very well presiclent pro tern, the cham- to'West Liberty and Eastern orchestrated," he said, but ber's second highest. · J{entucky. . • members did not feel free to ·. The cqup was a bold m_ove, : '"reere 'Yere ~o .?ard feel vote their consciences. ·. . .. but then Blevins has never in~. Blevms said. He was a : '.'If:youvoted against le~~.er been one to take the path of real gentleman.'' - . . . ship, you were os~aclzed,, .. he least resistance. . So when May became ill m said. . . ·.,_ - ·: '. · · · . .· "Walter grew up under pr_et- 1 1990 and could no long~r serve, sen. Charlie ·Bor-£e~s:. _R fy tough conditions," said Rep. Blevins ran in a special elec Russell, was. one ·-to c~1tlcize John Will Stacy, a contempo- tion to fill his seat. . • . Blevins for too. often yoting .the_ racy of Blevins .. in · West Lib- Blevins describes his years ''party 'llne"·with'Rds._e·and t~e ·erty. "He worked his way in the Hous~ as "very p~oduc Democratic leadership, _He said through. Walter did i_t_ the ha;-d Jivet count.mg amon~ .his,suc he-often warne~. ills -co~e,ague way.'' ·- •'•'.-:> f" ,-:' ·: . :· · ..,~e~ses ,the. .co,nstrl,!ction .,pf,- a 'ofiriiiri!flcations,,\'{_illi)JJ:!,£2n;.J ·:. Blevins' mother died when new• prison at West Liberty .. ''stituents:--- j"."'·:2-:.-,n'+;· :•.. ,he was 19. His father worked .He served, qn ti).~ powerful AP· Now, however, Borders said. for the county health depart- p;o·prfahons and ~avenue Blevins ''.ls lik~a.. d_iff11.rep.t.l,),e!"'.l ment. · . · ··.•. ·--:,.,·-:T'"'fs Committee and chaired the Sari. -·~ -'··-:-' ... f:·•:~~:,.,;'.-:~··:•··':.~-: .. - . ~· Blevins describes his begin- Water Management. Task -"it ·ap;~ars W~ter ii:~s made )i.ings as "meager" and credits Fotce. · - ~ ··:' ' ' . a~decision to listen ~o,1the peo- .. Upward Bound for helping ere- Active o!l env1ro_nmental IS· pie of his district,"·· Borders ate his dream of getting an ed-. sues, Blevms received o_ne of said. · . . -~- , ucation Upward Bound Is a two Earth Day awards from Hard feelings ;:_i,_~~?': -progra~ -that .exposes under- the Environmental Quality · Blevins' discoritenl ctjntin :privileged children to college... Commission given-on •the'25th ued1ogrow ·dtµirig: gie ·1994 •·It.also _fostered in'.him the. _li!J:lliyers~_9f.E~_Da:(,"' ,,'.,,; · session'·. when, .. ov~(.the. 9bJec .~ed to,.:)'.gty_e .·~pyi~t!JJ!lg.: . ,-t,!Nr~~il~!"ll_i,,~eq.!u.c!,t_r.i~l-~; tio. · ..,it!th'en .~GovlBr\iI'!lton · .. 11ck__,'..'..BlilJ,'.lns.~r.d._~-> ·:tfll?~'\!fl"_;i ,leagu. e: -in}__ Jh_.~:0. -~-!lU._S,e~t~ep .. .. \Jii~ls-'·~d ,mticlleoi'Th'.~,;Hpuse, ·'He woi:k_ed· ~ls way1firough; Jlpcky ,1i!ki1Js .. ,.,_\l._e,s~,r.Jg,td 0 Rose had . chopped '· from . the, chool delivermg. newspapers;, B!evins•,as-.~liard-worklrig .and_- .budget a number> ofJ.projects_ imowing· lawns and working-at likable. -,:,~_ :; •· · ··. · · headed for Eastern ·Kentucky a drive-in movie theater•. He · [ Blevins sought support for · and. elsewhere m1the,;;s.tate. $pent. fou__ r years_:at,;M;orep.ead ; his ,Iem0 1ation,,.!.llUCh: l)ke .. he·.1 ... - . - . . - Mo/2.F-7 r.SUite::;.UrilveJjJtyii:andaiiiother;.; .. . ·-• -- . said. Blevins "certainly did do. And he believes that many not keep his word to me." loyalist Democrats are misin Blevins said he and the formed about how the coup other insurgents hadn't was precipitated. Rose emerged from the highly planned to carry their fight contentious session as a candi "I don't think they've heard outside the caucus until it be the whole story," he said. date for governor, but finished came clear that Rose was seek third in the May 1995 primary "Once they do, maybe they ing support from Republicans. won't be as loyal." won by Paul Patton. When that happened, he said, "There was no question that "I think everyone is some all promises not to cross the what surprised by the action many members had hard feel aisle were off. ings about Eck," said Adkins. that took place in the Senate," Shaughnessy said he had said Adkins. "But if you talk "I think that's part of what liked and gotten along well brought this ·on." to Walter, his explanation is with Blevins until the take he was doing it for Eastern Later in 1994, Blevins' sling over, although he never con shot fell far short of toppling Kentucky. sidered Blevins a particularly "We have got Eastern Ken U.S. Rep. Hal Rogers after re effective legislator. districting combined much of tucky people in key positions . "We had a pretty good rela in the Senate," Adkins added. the old 7th Congressional Dis tionship until a couple weeks trict with Rogers' 5th. "To make those key positions ago," said Shaughnessy, a Lou work for Eastern Kentucky, By the 1996 session, as Re . isville Democrat. publicans gained more seats there's going to have to be and more control in the Sen Blevins acknowledged that some healing take place." ate, the atmosphere grew more he has some fence-me_11ding to tense and less was ac THE COURIER-JOURNAL• THE FORUM • SUNDAY, JANUARY 19, 1997 complished, Blevins said. It was during that session I ._UILDING ON STRENGTH iN that Blevins found himself with a ·new district, the result of redistricting that for the HIGHER EDUCATION first time gave him Ashland ODAY, let's talk about a government -If KHEAA gets bigger by doing work for program that works. · other states or entities, are Kentucky taxpay and Boyd Couniy. Some Demo I heard that. You don't think there ers exposed? No, ultimately the U. S. Depart crats, fearing Blevins was vul is one. ment of Education stands behind the loan nerable and would lose the T guarantees if KHEAA uses up all of its restrict- You've been listening to Newt _Gingrich. seat to the GOP, urged Adkins Listen to me on this. ed reserves. . , ' to run against him. I'm about to suggest entrepreneurship. KHEAA Executive Director Paul Borden ar Adkins said he declined out Don't faint. Read on. gues, "Nobody cares as much about Kentucky of respect for Blevins. If and when Gov. Patton is finally able to students as we do. As the consolidation of convene his special session on higher educa such services continues across the country, The Patton administration tion, we need to change we can keep the jobs and services, and control went so far as to offer Blevins the status of the Kentucky the benefits here," a job in an attempt to clear the Higher Education Assis Makes sense to me. way for an Adkins' candidacy, tance Authority (KHEAA). Why a "rfiimicipal corporation" approach? but Blevins turned it down. He We should tum it into a Because that would enable KHEAA to move said at the time his place was "municipal COIJ>Oration quickly, in meeting t~e needs c:i(!J!ose ou~ide and political subdivision," Kentucky for whom 1t would supP.lY services. in the Senate, and he was something like the Ken Without that status, KHEAA cant be nimble determined to hold onto the tucky Housing Corpora enough, For example, ~,:\ would hav~ to seat despite the odds. tion. wade through state goverrn,,ent's molasses Blevins' relatively easy vic That would not oniy speed procurement processes. tory over Ashland Republican preserve government If some large bank in Georgia wants Randy Memmer in November, oversight but enable KHEAA to take over some work, it wants folks along with the defeats in the KHEAA to expand fur who can move quickly. ther, as it already has in KHEAA over the years. has invested time May primary of two key Rose taking over as guarantor and resources in the latest technolo!lf for supporters from Eastern Ken for the siate of Alabama's servicing loans, while si_mi_lai" agencies m ot~ tucky, helped set the stage for programs of this kind. er states have built buildings or spent their the coup. Believe it or not, there's an opportunity to money in other ways. KHEAA also has fo. 'be an entrepreneur in government services, cused hard on controlling default rates, while Slighting East Kentucky others were not as tough-handed. The proverbial straw that And Kentucky is in position to compete, There's a consolidation underway across the Think about it: broke any chance of holding country. Ohio is in the process of closing down Neither KHEAA nor the Kentucky Higher the Democratic C..!!_ucus to its student assistance administrative work and Education Student Loan Corporation gether was Rose's· 'reljlsal· ,to transferring it to a Minnesota agency. Indiana (KHESLC) has spent any taxpayer dollars on support an. Eastern· Kentuck already has transferred similar work to a pri personnel, operations or capital. Both have vate, non-profit entity in Indianapolis. covered their costs out of revenues from stu ian for _tjl.e presig_en! Pl"Q _tel!J.'S dent loan operations and services provided to seat vacated by Sen.. Charlie Why is Kentucky able to be a player? private lenders. · Berger of Harlan, or the chair I Because our very own KHEAA has such a Every dollar of Kentu~ky tax money that's manship of the budget commit 'terrific record. appropriated to KHEAA ts passed through to The program is so strong, financially, that students. tee, Blevins said. !this year KHEAA able to waive for Ken "If you're pushed into a cor was Indeed in.each year of the· current bienni tucky students the usually required I p~rce!'t um· KHESLC is transferring $2.5 million to ner with no place to go, you loan insurance fee. That meant $1.5 D11ll10n m have no choice," he ·said. "Not · KHEAA, to hei{> fund and administer our J the pockets of college kids; to help cover cur' state's scholarship and work•studY. programs. only were the (Eastern Ken rent year costs-. In addition to this structural change, we tucky) senators slighted, but Who would object to the change of status simply need to put up more money for Ken- so.were the 100,000 people th~y, 'for_.KHEAA, as outlined in a new report by tucky kids. . ., .,l, · ,. ;,~ represented.... 0,:.i, ·. ·;,;;...-;g;, KIPP Research and Consulting? We need (I) a substantial increase for the Well, maybe Rep. Joe Barrows, who over CAP grant program (about_ 15 percent ~f Rose's track record indicated the years has been concerned that KHEAA which goes to students at pnvate, non-pro.fit that he likely would block might be too distant from government, not Kentucky _schools), and (2) • a substantial pr.ogress for. Eastern Ken sufficiently accountable: gtowth in the work-study progriim (the latter tucky, Blevins contended, and I'm not sure what would provoke that view. pays $2 of the student's hourly, wage, and the would have negated any ben KHEAA is a quiet, publicity-shy agency that employer pays the remainder; for every _doll~ efit to the region of having its has performed very well. Maybe its operations KHEAA invests, it generates about $2 m pn first governor in more than are just a bit too complicated to encourage real vate salary money for students), three decades. trust Legislators don't like comJllexity. What's the need? _ . . Of this I am sure: KHEAA ls important, Each year, -Paul Borden can count on get Tim.. Shaughnessy;~ one For the current academic _year, it has of ting CAP _grl!l)t aP.pµ~tions_from 20,000.stu . Seil. fered 41;500 awards from venous student aid dents who are qualified, but·for whom there o{'the Democrats -who_ re:, programs: CAP ilf!mts; Kentucky _Tuition j~isn't egougti ca,sh,. __ .., ,_:.c"":• ... , ... riiained loyal'.'to;Ro$8, saw thi! . , There are more glalhoro~, lll9~e ,prov~ ,, · · !n"'··0:-rt1,."erifuf:llgnt: ~~ f:.::r:~t~~tk~trp~~~' ' tive;issu~~ l!>.P"! op thot~sess1on ~-~e~:. ~~~g§~;~~~~i{d :'Blevins -l\a~; Nlitlonal Guard t\l&l'on assliltll\te, Slli!te $32- I .da; but none more uru;ned1ate,_'"'"'". ~!."" ' .,1:1~" promised -t~ leUhe Democr.atiQ_, million in all. • · .. ·. . j :'· ... ·c. .. -" .. " KHEAA is a student loan lnllurance llgellcy Caucus resolve the--leadership for the state, too, with a cumulative total of -- iravid Haw11e's toruili,f"~rs suliiayi issue.. ;f,;~-~ :-~\-""'.. ~ :___ . _..---=~~;~ more than $2.6 billion in loans guaranteed or , and Wednesdays in The Forum. ':'" All •.iwe'c~liave,.--up_;~ther.e, insured. ~ . , ~ ,.~::=~:~,;: ,t:.:.O~ivC:J °:!!:~ -·••• "• ·(Frankfort> isrlour.::woid/'.: lle, Defaults?. The record is good. _And the re serve that backs these loans•;is, one,of the,· :strongest.in the nation,..,.r ~,1~ ri-~rh» "'i,t-ri-r• •••-c· • • LEXJN6TON HERALirLEAOER, LEXlNGTON, KY, ■ FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 1997 Other states with lower than av "We've taken a giant step, but erage test scores, such as Kentucky it's only one step," said Roger Noe, Kentucky and Tennessee, got high marks for the interim president of Ashland Community College. "States that their reform efforts. ranks high , have led the nation (in quality edu The authors of the report say I cation) are now being joined by that's because states such as New , Kentucky. That's excellent." Hampshire and Iowa are reason in reforming The report gave Kentucky an ably pleased with . their schools. "A" for its standards and testing Therefore, there isn't incentive for program, and a "B" for the quality those states to reform, and so they education of its teachers. It received a "C-" in aren't doing all that they could. BY KENT FISCHER AND Boe GEIGER the area · of school climate, a In the area of school climate, HERAlD-lEADER STAFF WRITERS category that includes items rang• where the report included the most WASHINGTON - Kentucky is ing from building conditions to information about what was actual among the nation's leaders in edu• ' teacher involvement in decision ly happening in classrooms, the na cation reform, but still has a long making. Grades ranged from "C+" tion's schools received their worst way to go to improve its schools, , to "B+" on how much Kentucky grades: an average of C-. That's the according to a new report ' spends on education, and where it same grade Kentucky received. Kentucky schools are better spends it. than the national average in all but This category counted factors , "I think we have a genuine right one category the report evaluated: such as class size, which studies Its standards are higher, its teach• to stand back and say 'We are have shown has a big effect on stu ers are better and it does a good job 'proud of ourselves' even if we do dent achievement. •. of ensuring that all schools have , have a long way to go," said Robert . The report say;;" that elementary adequate resources. ISexton, director of the Prichard students in classes of 19 or smaller However, the report does not Committee for Academic Excel- . achieve at higher levels, while conclude that reforms in Kentucky I lence. Sexton is also a member of achievement declines if there are and other states have resulted in , the board of trustees that guided more than 23 children in a class. · · better test scores. the development of the report. In fact, Kentucky continues to In 1994, 69 percent of Kentucky "This is national attention say classes in kfridergarten through struggle with its test scores. While ing that what Kentucky is doing is test scores nationally are disheart• sixth grade had 25 or fewer stlF important, and that other states are dents, the report states. · ening, Kentucky's scores are even trying to do it, too," Sexton said. lower. · The report contains only pass "Public education is riddled But the report has also given ing references to such politically with excellence but rife with medi• KERA critics some ammunition. controversial reforms as charter ocrity," said Ronald Wolk, the re• The report gave better grades schools and school vouchers. W cilk port's editor. to states that had certain policies in said there is not yet enough experi Despite that, ihe report finds place, such as school councils or ence with these reforms to judge many states are making improve• state-wide curricula. But it made no their effectiveness. .," ments. Among the sta~ getting attempt to determine whether those the best grades for their~arts are Wolk said preparing the report things actually boost student learn convinced him that either "our de Kentucky, West Virginia, Vermqnt, ing. Maine, New York, New Jersey and mocratic system and our economic Tennessee. "I'm always skeptical of things strength ... will be eroded, or She said the large number of U of L alumni who don't seek jobs need not Nature of students be viewed negatively, since it prob ably reflects "a level of satisfaction" among many who· remain outside the work force. may skew jobless rate Bernier-Clarke said it's clearly a positive sign that most U of L gradu ates who seek jobs find them. "I think that really does say something, not for U of L graduates just for the quality of education, but it speaks to the employment opportuni percent - who were unemployed and ty in the Louisville area,'' she said. 'Pure enjoyment not seeking work. Only 2.5 percent of · The three state universities in large its graduates said they were jobless urban areas - U of L, the ·University but job-hunting. That gave U of L the oflearning'lures 1 of Kentucky and Northern Kentucky third-lowest percentage of disappoint University - reported the highest adults and retirees ed job-seekers among the state uni percentages of alumni who were un versities. employed and not seeking. work. In· By MICHAEL JENNINGS Officials at U of L and the state The Courier-Journal Council on Higher Education say the those urban settings, "You may have university's non-traditional student a lot more executives and people who After more than 20 years of chip- body - more than 40 percent of stu are making large enough incomes ping away at a college education, Lin- dents there are over age 25 - may that one income can support the fam da Dailey has a powerful incentive to help explain its high jobless rate. But ily,'' said Ron · Crouch, director of finish it. they say they can only guess. U of L's Kentucky State Data Center. She doesn't want or need a job. Her "It really is a mystery to me," said Some U of L officials .suspect the husband, Matt Dailey, a United Parcel Roger Sugarman, the council staff way their school's survey was con Service pilot and retired Air Force member who oversees the gathering ducted might have resulted in a mis lieutenant colonel, provides all the in- of annual accountability data. leadingly high response rate by un come her family needs. Barbara King, head of U of L's employed alumni with a lot of time on But she said she does want to pre- ACCESS program (Adult Commuter their hands. The questions required vent her two children from gaining Center/Evening Student Services), for the accountability report were ap bragging rights. said some non-traditional students, pended to an eight-page alumni sur Her son, Jason, is a junior at the including retirees, att~nd "for the vey distributed by the university rela University of Kansas. Her daughter, pure enjoY!'lent of learning." U of L tions office. Jennifer, attends Jefferson Communi- waives tuition charges for Kentucky Dailey, 48, who's about 10 courses ty College. residents over age 65, and more than shy of a bachelor's degree in health "And I can't stand it because 200 are enrolled, she said. . promotions, said most of her class they're going to be smarter than I Many other non-traditional stu mates - regardless of age - do want am," she said. "So I've got to go back dents are struggling to enter the work to find a job after graduating. to school." force after a divorce or job loss, King But she said she intends to apply Daile_y's motives for attending col- said. . her studies to volunteer work, such as lege might help explain why a sur- LeeAnn Bernier-Clarke, director of teaching teen-agers about birth con- pnsingly large number of University U of L's career center, said U of L trol, . · .,c.--:. of Louisville alumni say they don't probably has an unusually high en "!just would like to know how to have a job - but also aren't looking rollment of women, like Dailey, who give ·something back to the commimi· for one. don't intend to convert their degrees ty," she_said. ·. Last year, under a state law intend- into jobs. The jobless rate for U of L's ed to make Kentucky's higher educa- alumni could also be inflated by wom tion system more accountable, all en who work out of their homes part state universities were required to time, using home computers, but survey alumni who received bache- don't consider themselves to be em lor's degrees between two and five ployed, she said. years earlier. "When you look at an urban area On U of L's survey, 19.7 percent of in a state that is primarily rural, the respondents said they were job- you're going to see these national less, which was by far the largest un- trends," such as telecommuting, employment rate for any of tlie eight "where you wouldn't see them in 0th- state universities. I er ·areas,'' Bernier-Clarke said. U of L, however, also reported the largest proportion of alumni - 17.2 JOBLESS Al.UMNI BY MARC NORTON:. THE eOt.JRIER-JOUANAL ... -· .- . , _:J"a.n. 1.-;.,~'tf:/'I .. . MSU ARCHIVES MSU C/1µ Sheet ,- 1 A sample of recent articles of interest to Morehead State University °t\ /\-d-a--lj-1~ -lo INSTITUTIONAL RELATIONS MOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY UPO BOX 1100 MOREHEAD, KY 40361-1689 606-783-2030 l.ExJNGTO_N HERAU>I.EADER, l.Exl_NGTO~, KY. ■ WEDNESDAY, JANUARY, 1997 Sister ··honors sister_.through service" Under the new ·policy, which "Y ~u're my heroes, and I know will take effect in the. fall semester, ·chair at UK you're heroes to most Kentuckians they must withdraw by the end of for the contributions you've made," the fourth week of· classes in order Breathitt told the sisters, as board to get a 50 percent refund. They BY ANGIE MUHS members gave them a standing · will not receive any refund if they HERALD-LEADER EDUCATION WRITER withdraw from classes after that. A Lexington philanthropist is es ovation. In other action, the UK board "We had an extremely liberal tablishing an endowed professorship changed its policy on tuition re policy," said UK President Charles at the University of Kel)tucky Col funds for students who withdraw T. Wethington Jr. "This allows us lege of Medicine in honor of her sis from classes. to get ,a better handle on our rev ter, a renowned Morehead physician. Students formerly could receive enue picture earlier." The UK board yesterday ap a refund of half the fees paid if they Student trustee Alai) Aja and proved setting up the Dr. Claire withdrew from classes before the faculty trustees Loys Mather and Louise Caudill Profem;orship in .'Dr. Claire end of the eighth week of the acade Jimmy )ack Miller voted against the Family Medicine. mic term. change. Louise Caudill The money to support the , is sister to award will come from a $500,000 , philanthropist endowment set up by Lucille Lucille Caudill Caudill Little, Caudill's sister. Little.· Caudill has practiced family THE COURIER-JOURNAL~ WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 22, 1997 medicine in Morehead for nearly 50 years, delivering thousands of ba UK adopts new refund policy on withdrawals bies. She also helped lead the effort LEXINGTON, Ky. - A new policy on tuition and fee refunds for to build Morehead's hospital, St. students withdrawing from classes was approved yesterday by the Claire Medical Center . University of Kentucky board of trustees. Little, the widow of horseman Students withdrawing before the end of the fourth week of class and developer W. Paul Little, has will be entitled to a refund of half the registration fees paid or ov.:ed given away millions of dollars dur- · for that term. No refund will be available after that. The new pohcy ing recent years, most of it to col takes effect next fall. The board also authorized establishing a professorship in th_e D~ leges or to the arts. partment of Family Medicine and renamed graduate fellowships m The sisters are natives of More honor of the educator who started them. · head. The Dr. Claire Louise Caudill Professorship will be funded by the Former Gov. Edward T. "Ned" w. Paul and Lucille CaudiU Little Foundation. Claire Caudill has been Breathitt, the chairman of the UK a family physician in Morehead for nearly 50 years. board, called the sisters ''role mod The graduate fellowships were renamed the "Daniel R. Reedy Quality Achievement Fellowships" in honor of Reedy, who stepped els in Kentucky for citizenship and down last month after 6½1 years as dean of the Graduate School. Jo..n.. '2-'1, l'1'11 MSU ARCHIVES MSU Clip Sheet . Asam le of recent articles of interest to Morehead State Universit P,,';}.d-l\-)J- -5 INSTITUTIONAL RELATIONS MOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY UPO BOX 1100 MOREHEAD, KY 40361-1689 606-783-2030 THE COURIER-JOURNAL • MONDAY, JANUARY 27, 1997 TUITION UK economist Tuition figures for public and selected private colleges and universities in Kentucky: Regional scnools .$1,740 argue~ for raising Doctoral sctjqols 2,340 ·Ky. Wesleya/1 8,950 Bellarmine :,. 10,320 Transylvania 12,150 college tuition Centre 13,000 NOTES: Doctoral schools are appropriations - student aid and the University of Kentucky and Current policy what he calls "tuition subsidies," University of Louisville; regional money that makes up the difference schools are Morehead, Murray, between what a student pays for edu Northern Kentucky, Eastern aids wealthy, cation and what that education actu Kentucky, Western Kentucky ally costs. He generally restricts it to and Kentucky State. essay contends state tax assistance, though universi Tuition at doctoral schools, ties also get federal money, private regional schools, Bellarmine ANALYSIS grants and millions of dollars through and Kentucky Wesleyan is an services such as housing and dining nual, based on two semesters. By MARK R. CHELLGREN that also support the entire operation. Centre's is annual, based on tri Associated Press Tuition is set for two-year periods mesters. Transylvania's is annu in Kentucky by the Council on Higher al, based on two semesters and FRANKFORT, Ky. - University of Education, a board of citizens ap a mini-term. Kentucky economist Dan Black pointed by the governor who are sup posed to oversee the direction of the makes it sound like the tuition rates · Black also makes a seemingly con at Kentucky's public universities are eight universities and accompanying community colleges. tradictory argument that increases in just about the worst thing that could The council's policy in recent years the cost of higher education are due happen to higher education. has been to set tuition using a fonnu to improvements in service and qua) Black says current tuition policy la that takes into account the per cap ity, which private schools are able to subsidizes wealthy people, fosters ita income in Kentucky and tuition at finance more easily. That theory academic and administrative sloth, competing institutions. UK and the would seem to ignore the large "tu makes universities less competitive University of Louisville have one rate ition subsidy" public universities get and. less efficient and takes money and the six other universities have a from tax money that private institu away from other areas that could use lower rate. tions do not. taxpayer financing. Black said that policy is flawed be In a provocative essay, Black sug cause it ignores inflation and com Black contends that public universi gests letting universities set their own pares current income in Kentucky ties are less able to pay for improve tuition. He also espouses a voucher with older figures for other states. ments because of restrictions on tu system to have the state provide mon Further, he said it is regressive, in ition. The result, he said, is that uni ey for use at public or private institu that wealthy people benefit the same versities will have to eliminate or re tions, and he would base the vouchers from the tax subsidy as poor people duce some functions "or prepare "lo on financial need. and also pay the same for tuit10n. provide a lower level of service." Even Black admits such ideas Low tuition also tends to let stu might be uviewed as heresy." But at the same time, Black said dents take longer to earn their de schools that get tax assistance com He wrote his essay, "More Efficient grees, costing more tax money, and promise the quality of their services Financing of Higher Education: The tends to encourage them to choose simply because they will attract stu Case for Tuition Increases," for the majors that would lead to lower-earn Kentucky Annual Economic Report, dents based on cost alone, giving ing employment. them a sort of monopoly. published by the Center for Business Based on the notion that anyone and Economic Research at UK. who gets a college degree will earn "The lack of competition creates a Black starts with the premise that more, Black said, peopl~ who cannot complacent environment where large higher education gets two kinds of afford tuition should borrow for it. bureaucracies thrive, and the incen "Providing guaranteed loans at mar tives to remove bad instructors or ket interest rates or even subsidized eliminate inferior programs is greatly loans would correct this imbalance," reduced," Black said. he said. Black also seems to say that price differential alone has some influence on at least the perception of quality in higher education - if it costs more, it must be better. But an example of what some might call ivory-tower thinking is in his position that raising tuition would free "millions of dollars of revenues that could be returned to taxpayers or used for expenditures in other areas of need." In other words, tuition funds would replace tax money now going to high er education. Black starts his essay with a refer ence to UK students' reaction to pro posed tuition increases, which he re ferred to as "indulgent protests." In the real world of higher educa tion in Kentucky, asking university administrators to simply replace state tax money with higher tuition would be like asking the faculty senate to repudiate tenure. THE OOURIER-JOURNAL • SUNDAY, JANUARY 26, 1997 Women urged to work with ·raculty, staff for change at their colleges Associated Press fluence at a women's college than at a "We wanted to make sure people larger university, he said. have an understanding that there are SOUTH BEND, Ind. - Students at "We're saying the arena for leader other people who have an impact on women's colleges from across the ship is here and now," White said. students outside the classroom," she countJy are learning that their roles "As a women's college, we are saying said. on campus are as important as those to our students, 'Don't wait to take The conference is one in a series of of faculty and administrators this responsibility,' which I think is a little weekend. annual conferences that St. Mary's different than at Indiana University. has sponsored since 1990. This year's About 400 students, faculty and It's a bigger boat to tum. It's a much conference drew the largest participa staff members from 23 women's col more complicated hierarchy." tion from other· women's colleges. leges have gathered at St. Mary's Col Margaret Roman of the College of lege for a weeklong conference called Last year's conference looked at stu St. Elizabeth in Convent Station, N.J., dent health. "Play of the Mind." What makes the said, "I think women have great conference unusual is that faculty, ideas, but they're not always heard Ronian, director of the honors pro staff and students are being treated as • because they're not in the power posi gram and coordinator of a women's peers, said Patrick White, associate tions to make them heard. studies minor at St, Elizabeth, has at dean of faculty at St. Mary's. "l want my students not just to tended five previous conferences. Sessions will examine the roles of have a voice, but I want them to know "When you think of women's col- students, faculty and student-develop where they can use it so that changes •leges, you pretty much generalize that ment professionals and the relation can occur." they're all a particular way, which is ship among them,.White said. Georgeanna Rosenbush, director of incorrect/' Roman said. 11 (Partici• White said the loosely structured student activities at St. Mary's, said pants) get a new idea from other col conference was designed to show there's significant interest across the leges, and they also become bold how collaborations can lead to power countJy in bridging gaps between stu about their· campus culture because ful changes in a campus culture. Such dent-development professionals and they become very proud of who they collaborations can have a stronger in- faculty. are in the exchange." THE COURIER-JOURNAL • KENTUCKY • MONDAY, JANUARY 27, 1997 Bellarmine College to offer a fast track to graduation The Courier-Journal a minimum score of 25 on the Ameri participant's tuition costs - currently can College Test or 1120 on the Scho $40,800 for students who take four Able students who are conscious of. lastic Assessment Test. years to graduate. time and costs could speed through Qualifying students must also earn, Those accepted will start getting . college and cut their educational ex while still in high school, at least 12 college counseling while still in high ·penses through a new, accelerated semester hours of college credit school, Wilkes said. :bachelor's degree program at Bellar through advanced-placement classes He said Bellarmine officials decided mine College. or by other means. They· will be ex to offer an accelerated degree after Beginning ·next fall, freshmen who pected to take two courses in each of talking to Bellarmine graduates who qualify for the program can earn de three summers, starting the summer had managed to complete their de grees in three years in business ad after they finish high school. grees in less than four years. ministration, communications, eco• They will be charged half the usual "We know that some of our stu nomics, English, international busi- tuition rate - $305 per semester hour dents come to us very focused about ness, psychology or sociology. . - for summer classes. what they want to do,'' he said. "They Admission to the accelerated pro Ed Wilkes, Bellarntine's vice presi may be looking for a way to get their : gram is limited to 25 students, all of dent for enrollment management, es good education and get through as whom must have a minimum high timates the accelerated program quickly as possible" and begin their : school grade-point average of 3.4 and should trim at least $8,000 from a careers or pursue graduate studies. LEXl~GTON HERALD-LEADER, LEXINGTON, KY. ■ SATURDAY, JANUARY 25, 1997 Consultant group c9ntends UK gets more than fair share of funds By ANGIE MUHS The Council on Higher officials, who strongly disputed his HE~LEADER EDUCATION WRITER Education, at Patton's re findings. LOUISVILLE - A group of Many of the consultants' opin quest, hired its own consul consultants yesterday fired the first ions and recommendations also ap volleys in a war of dueling statis tant to determine whether peared to coincide with views ex tics over how well-funded the Uni the resources are distributed pressed by Alexander during an in versity of Kentucky is. · fairly. The council is sup terview with the Herald-Leader sev · A group of four out-of-state pro posed to hear his conclu eral weeks ago. fessors said they had concluded sions on Monday. The Council on Higher Educa that UK gets a much larger share of tion, at Patton's request, hired its the state's resources than other college classmate of Murray State own consultant to determine Kentucky universities and similar University President Kern Alexan whether the resources are distrib institutions in other states. They der. uted fairly. The council is supposed also questioned UK's effectiveness Alexander wrote a 40-page re to hear his conclusions at its meet in doctoral programs and said ther port in October that largely con ing Monday. thought UK should not run the cluded the same things that Lavit's Lavi! denied yesterday that his community college system. consultants did. That report. dis report was meant as a pre-emptive The professors' study was com tributed to Gov. Paul Patton and strike. missioned by Ted Lavi!, a Lebanon others in higher education ..touched Rather. he said he had become lawyer who acknowledged yester off a flurry of barbed correspon f1ustrated that Kentucky's univer~i day that he is a longtime friend and dence between Alexander and UK SEE CONSULTANTS, ➔ THE COURIER-JOURNAL • SATURDAY, JANUARY 25, 1997 CONSULTANTS: Group says: .UK accused. . . CHE funding skewecl ::·- ,._,..... - (eon~,,,., ,.,i) of doing· too little ties weren't more highly regarded in national academic rankings. _ ·• . "We have to undo the inequities and inefficiencies," said Lavit, who compared the situation t9 the lawsuit that led to the Kentucky Education Reform Act. "Ken with its funding tucky is at the bottom of the barrel, and everyone knows it." .: them. Patton asked the Council to Lavit said he is chairman of a group called_ the; Critics echo gauge the merit of Alexander's analy,. Committee for Efficiency in Public Higher Education:· sis, and its consultant, Ron Phipps of He attended the news conference alone, however, and· the Institute for Higher Education Murray State . Policy in :Washington, is scheduled to would not give other members' names or say how large · report to the Council Monday. . . his group is. . ,:: president's ideas But Salmon sliid the timing was de He said Alexander had not financed the work of termined by his own work schedule. participated in it. By MICHAEL JENNINGS "We didn't intend it to be a preemp Richard Sahnon, the lead consultant and a profes The Couri'er-Joumal tive strike,"· he said. sor at Virginia Polytechnic Institute, acknowledged Alexander could not be reached that the panel had reviewed Alexander's findings. A group with ties to Murray State yesterday. Gary Cox, the Council's University President Kem Alexander executive director. said he was "not But the panel's work is statistically valid because it released a report yesterday that con going to second-guess" Lavit on the relied on data collected by the federal government from tends the University of Kentucky is wisdom of commissioning a study of all universities, he said. generously funded but under matters the Council already had un- Salmon, a former colleague of Alexander, criticized productive. der scrutiny. , the way the Council on Higher Education had calculat-. The report, prepared by school-fi Alexander is a former colleague of ed some figures, saying they presented a skewed pic nance experts at the urging of a Salmon's at VP[ Lavit called himself friend of i'Jexander's, covers much of "a close friend" of Alexander's. All ture. the same ground and draws some of three men were associated with the The council.removes what it says are non-student the same conclusions as a paper Alex lawsuit by. 6& Kentucky school dis related expenses when it calculates how much money_ ander gave to Gov. Paul Patton in Oc tricts that led· to the passage of the each college spends or gets per student. tober. Kentucky Education Reform Act. "I'd compare total dollars to total dollars and see. According to both analyses, higher Lavi!, an attorney for the school how they stack up," said Salmon, who contended the education in Kentucky is well-funded, districts in that case, said he has dis both in comparison to other states cussed the possibility of a similar law council ignores two-thirds of UK's appropriations. and in terms of its citizens1 means, suit dealing witln inequities in higher "You'll get a better comparison of what the taxpayers . but the money goes disproportionate education funding. "This is not a mat are providing." ly to a single school - UK. ter that I want to lead to litigation ... But Gary Cox, the council's executive director, dis Both Alexander's re!'2rt and the hut these inequities and inefficiencies agreed, saying such an approach would be misleading. one released in Louisville yesterday must be corrected." he said. · For instance, UK gets money for its cooperative exten take UK to task on indicators of edu Salmon said! ,concentrating educa cational perlormance. The new re tional missions and resources to the sion service, but doesn't use that to teach students, he port, drawn up at the request of Leba extent evident at UK isn't necessarily said. . non attorney Theodore Lavi!, shows bad. But he said his analysis of UK's "That's just a fundamental fiscal policy position of that UK ranks behind comparable means and its performance posed the this agency," he said. "You need to look at it in two cat state universities in student retention, question. "Sfuu,ljjl some of the re• egories." academic reputation, evaluations of . sources be spread to some of the oth• Cox said he had not seen a copy of the report and research quality, number of doctor er institutions?'~ could not comment on its findings. . ates awarded and amount of faculty Lavit complained that some inter publications. ested parties were "not going to be The new report also argues for an heard" when l?hipps reports to the other of Alexander's ideas: combining Council Monalay. Council spokes the 14 community colleges now con woman Debbie McGuffey said yester trolled by UK with vocational and day that ·Cox denied a request from technical schools, which are con Alexander to make a presentation at trolled by the Workforce Develop Monday's meeting. but later told all ment Cabinet. The report's main au eight universily presidents they could thor, Richard Salmon of Virginia comment during the meeting on Polytechnic Institute and State Uni Phipps' report . . versity, said universities that have "I think we fe\t like he (Alexander) community colleges typically run had opportunities to speak with the them as programs that tend to slight consultants a,-,,Ji provide documenta local economic and social needs. tion, and we cfidn 'I feel like another UK Vice President Ed Carter, who presentation was necessary," she earlier rebutted Alexander's· report, said. said yesterday that the new report The report, released yesterday, is ti sounded enough like ii' for the same tled "Financing Higher Education in criticism to apply. Carter had called Kentucj By MARK R. CHEUGREN THE AsSOCIATED PRESS FRANKFORT - To read University of Kentucky econo At a glance mist Dan Black, it would seem tuition rates at Kentucky's Tuition rates at public public universities are the and selected private worst thing that could happen colleges and universities in to higher education. Kentucky: . Black says current tuition INSTITUTION ...... TUITION policy subsidizes wealthy peo Regional schools... 1,740 ple, fosters academic and ad Doctoral schools... 2,340 -I ministrative sloth, makes uni I Ky. Wesleyan...... 8,950 rn versities less competitive and Bellarrnine ...... 10,320 less efficient and takes money Transylvania ...... 12,150 8 away from other areas that C Centre ...... 13,000 :n could use taxpayer financing. m In a provocative essay, Black Doctoral schools: :n University of Kentucky and c'.... suggests letting universities 0 set their own tuition rates, es University of Louisville; C tablishing a voucher system to regional schools: :n Morehead, Murray, z have the state provide money r► for use at public or private in Northern, Eastern, Western, and Kentucky State. • stitutions and base the vouch• :iii: ers on financial need. Rates for doctoral, ffl "More efficient financing of regional schools and ~ higher education: The case for Bellarmine and Kentucky C tuition increases," was written Wesleyan are annual, n for the Kentucky Annual Eco• based on two semesters. nomic Report. Rate for Centre is annual, ~ . Black starts with the based on trimesters. Rate • premise that higher education for Transylvania is annual receives two kinds of ap based on two semesters propriations - student aid and a mini-term. and what he calls "tuition sub sidies," money that makes up the difference between what a quality of their services simply student pays for education and because they will attract stu what that education actually dents based on cost alone, giv costs. He generally restricts it ing them sort of a monopoly. to state tax assistance, though Black makes a number of universities also get federal questionable assertions. money, private grants and mil One, he says the current sys• lions of dollars through ancil tern that applies the burden to lary services such as housing all taxpayers implies that Ken• and dining that also support tuckians value higher educa the entire operation. tion more than residents of Tuition rates are set for two· other states. But the fact is, year periods by the Council on Kentucky has one of the lowest Higher Education. Recent poli college-going rates in the na cy has been to set tuition tion. using a formula that takes into An example of what some account the per capita income might call ivory tower think in Kentucky and tuition rates ing is in his position that rais at competing institutions.. ing tuition "would free up mil Black said the policy is lions of dollars of revenues flawed because it ignores infla that could be returned to tax tion and compares current in payers or used for expendi come rates to dated figures tures in other areas of need." from other states. Black starts out his essay by Black says public uni a reference to student reaction versities are less able to pay at UK to proposed· tuition in for improvements because of creases, which he. referred to restrictions on tuition. By as "indulgent protests." being less able to pay for them, In the real world of higher Black said universities will education in Kentucky, asking eliminate or reduce some func university administrators to tions "or prepare to provide a simply replace state tax dollars lower level of service." with more tuition money But at the same time, Black would be like asking the fac said schools that receive tax ulty senate to repudiate ten assistance compromise on the ure. LEYJNGTON HERALD-LEADER, LEYJNGTON, KY. ■ TUESDAY, JANUARY 28, 1997 N~w teache~ ~The state's teaching c;olleges feel they're not need to redefine what ~ is they expect first-year teachers to be able to do~ and help them grasp the demands of the state reforms. ready for KERA ~Woulc!be teachers need to do more more student ~aching while in college. f:;L)UCA or✓ ~As reformers move to Most say college did rt restructure high schools, they gGJrOf:.M should upgrade teaching ~~-~!"..,..,__.. standards, too. not prepare them ----"_#"-=-- A status report SOURCE: Kentucky lnstitUte for HERALD-lEADER Education Research By KENT FISCHER Teachers who graduated within HERALD-LEADER EDUCATION WRITER Teachers survey the last two years said they think LOUISVILLE - More than The Kentucky Institute for Education they are better prepared to imple half of new teachers say that fresh Research surveyed 1,066 new ment KERA than those who gradu out of college, they were ill-pre teachers on how well prepared they are to meet the demands of the Kentucky ated immediately after the 1990 re pared to implement the state's edu Education Reform Act. form act. cation reform efforts, according to a That's a sign that the universi new survey. ties are improving, said Carl Mar Most said they didn't know ~ tray, dean of Western Kentucky how to evaluate student portfolio ~o~ University's College of Education. work, or how to prepare students ~~ "I'd say it's a positive report, for the state's new testing program. ~~ s~he~L- but it indicates that there are areas They also didn't know how to use that we need to ... bring into the the state's curriculum guidelines to curriculum and the instruction," ·shape their lessons. ~ said Martray, whose college gradu All are important elements to ated 823 teachers last year - the the state reform effort. ~ . d to inco ime most of any program in the state. Overall, the majority of new ~·a!lll~]W'Jo\9-- \ According to the survey, high teachers said that they thought school faculty said they felt they ~ssons, - 1 their universities and colleges did a were the least prepared of all new good· job of preparing them for teachers to enter the classroom. their foray into the classroom. But SOURCE: -Kentucky Institute for HERALD-lEADER Educators said that's probably their good feelings faded when Education Research because KERA's initial years have questioned about the 1990 Ken The teachers were quizzed in been primarily focused on reshap tucky Education Reform Act. ing the elementary schools. Only "It's terribly important to deal many areas, including how well prepared they were to implement recently has attention been shifted with the KERA expectations in a to the high schools, they said. much more systematic way," said KERA and whether they think they The survey also revealed that Roger Pankratz, executive director are making a difference in stu dents' lives. very few teachers - 14 percent - of the Kentucky Institute for Edu said they were taught how to use cation Research, which released the To · solve the shortcomings, survey. teaching colleges need to require computers to invigorate their stu dents. "The people in the schools and more student teaching, a report ac companying the survey says. Cur Educators said citizens should the people in the universities all rently, 10 weeks of student teach be concerned about the report's have different expectations of what ing is the norm. findings because a quality teaching a new teacher should ·be able to force is the most important element do." Universities and the state also need to more clearly define exactly to improving education. College administrators ac what they expect new teachers to Teachers are also a vital link to knowledged the survey reveals be-able to do when they start their there is much work yet to do in im making the state -reforms work, jobs, Pankratz said. proving the state's teaching pro said Rosa Weaver, principal of R. In addition, teaching colleges C. Hinsdale Elementary School in grams. But educators said the sur and the state must develop meth Kenton County and chairwoman of vey is good news because it ods to see if new teachers meet the state Education Professional showed most of their students those expectations. Standards Board. thought their colleges were of high "Teaching is a complex job, "Teachers have to be well quality. and evaluating teachers is as com trained," she said. "You just can't "The proof will be five years plex as ever," said Bett'y Lindsay, mandate a reform and not have from now," said Shirley Raines, the Executive Secretary of the Ken that professional development" to dean of the College of Education at tucky Education Professional Stan show teachers how to implement it. the University of Kentucky. "There dards Board. isn't a course that we teach that While KERA was approved by hasn't been substantially changed the legislature in 1990, the brunt of LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER, LEXINGTON, KY. by KERA." its most sweeping reforms weren't ■ TUESDAY, JANUARY 28, 1997 The Kentucky Institute for Ed iriiplemented until the 1992-93 ucation Research - an indepen ·increased education funding: A program that school year. helps poor students with their college expenses would dent group that monitors state re And that's one reason universi forms - hired a Louisville survey get increased funding under a budget proposal by ty administrators said it wasn't un President Clinton, officials confirmed yesterday. Under company to call 1,066 of the state's til the last three years that they be 5,488 newest teachers. New teach the plan, some money would be shifted from tuition gan to incorporate KERA into their tax credits to Pell grants, raising the yearly aroount ers were defined as those having teacher education programs. three years of experience or less. available per student from $2,700 to $3,000. More stu Expecting teaching colleges to dents would become eligible as well. Clinton planned to The survey has a margin of er adapt their programs before many discuss the proposal at a news conference today. ror of plus or minus 2.2 percentage of the reforms were in place is un points. realistic, several administrators said. ~OURIER-JOURNAL • TUESDAY, JANUARY 28, 1997 )tahy new teachers feel ill-prepared for KERA By GIL IAWSON MEASURES .Of- TEACHER .PREPARATION The Courier-Journal New teachers were asked to evaluate how well their college New teachers in Kentucky give prepared them to implement or participate in these KERA initiatives. good marks overall to the universities ■. Extremely/ ; c:;;] Moderat_ely - . . □ Moderately/Very poor/ and colleges that prepared them for . very well , GlliJ well. _.. ·~ • . no preparallon the classroom. But they don't feel as ·Wrltliigpoitfo/ios • · •·},•."·--. .- • -·" · · ~·. ·"'" ··· ~ well prepared to deal with major ini tiatives of the· Kentucky Education , ' , - I' , 33% ::? Reform Act. Those are the highlights of a survey 7 outlined yesterday at a meeting of the ==~:a:~i~~;li;.t;; ·-'·"·"--••W'J'"·~J state board that oversees teacher cer tification and accredits teacher-educa tion programs at Kentucky's colleges rk I transformations and universities. The survey - conducted for the Kentucky Institute for Education Re search - interviewed 1,066 teachers who have been in the classroom for three years or less. The margin of er ror was plus or minus 2.6 percentage points. . Overall, about 60 percent said they had been extremely or very well pre pared for the classroom. But far fewer gave that response when asked about their preparation for eight KERA ini tiatives. In fact, no more than 36 percent said they had been extremely or very well prepared for any of the eight. Based on the survey, the institute 1:111-~~----.....!4!;9~•;.(!!._jf recommended that college students 1 NOTE: Due to "don't kno\'t responses and/~; roundiftQ , ttJ;~··ierceniages may not add to 100. preparing to teach get more class S_ource: The Kentucky Institute for Educatio!) ~eJearth . , . room experience. That struck a chord with Judy BY STEVE DURBIN, THE COURIER.JOURNAL Leathers, a librarian at Johnsontown Elementary in Jefferson County. to be prepared" to enter the class While attending the University of room. But she acknowledged that her ■ More than two-thirds of those Louisville, she spent a lot of time in school, like others, needs to do more surveyed said they were extremely or classrooms observing and teaching, in the area of technology and in pre very well prepared to establish a posi she said. paring high school teachers. tive learning .environment, communi "That was a ~eat experience," said The survey found that new high cate high expectations, use different Leathers, who 1s in her third year of school teachers felt less prepared teaching strategies and communicate teaching. "You can't put a dollar 11 than elementary school teachers. The the core concepts of the content areas amount on that. institute recommended that the stan Another third-year teacher, Nancy they taught. But less than half felt dards board take a special look at that way about being prepared to Brock of Southern High School, said preparation programs for high school she would have liked more classroom measure student ability, address disci teachers. pline problems, design instruction for experience while she was at Indiana Some other survey findings: University. students of diverse ethnic and cultural "It looks very easy in a textbook," ■ UK and Kentucky State Universi backgrounds and use technology in she said. ty got ·the best marks for classroom instruction. Roger Pankratz, who heads the in preparation, while U of L got the low est. Seventy-two percent of UK and ■ Most new teachers support the stitute, presented the repon • to the underlying concepts of KERA, such as Education · Professional Standards KSU graduates said they were ex tremely or very well prepared; 44 per the belief that all children can learn Board, which met in Louisville. He and most can learn at high levels. The called on the board to clarify what is cent of U of L graduates had that re sponse. most disagreement came on the ques expected of new teachers regarding tion of rewards and sanctions for ■ Teachers who went to private col KERA. schools. Fifty-nine percent said they "There is some uncertainty on who leges and universities in Kentucky should take the leadership role" in gave higher. marks for overall prep thought schools should be subject to seeing that this is carried out, Pank aration than students of the state's rewards and sanctions, while 38 per ratz said. eight public institutions, cent said they should not. Representatives of state teacher . ■ Teachers in their first and second The telephone survey was conduct colleges say that they have begun to years gave higher marks than those in ed by WIikerson & Associates, a pri change because of KERA and that their third year, suggesting that prog vate polling firm in Louisville, from many of the law's. initiatives are in ress is being made. The report also July 25 to Aug. 13. Some additional cluded in their teacher-preparation noted that- a survey of 125 principals sampling was done later in the year. programs. showed that 70 percent said new For example, U of L students work teachers today are receiving better on writing ponfolios - a collection of preparation than when they were a student's work required under trained. KERA- said Beth Stroble, an associ ate dean. U of L students also have produced booklets that explain the workings of youth-service centers and school based decision-making councils - two other KERA initiatives. Stroble said many college teachers supported the reforms even before they were passed in 1990. "We aren't just doing this because KERA made us do it," she said. Shirley Raines, dean of the Univer sity of Kentucky College of Educa tion, said her school is emphasizing KE~ because .::we want our people L~INGTON HERALD-LEADER, LEXINGTON, KY. ■ TUESDAY, JANUARY 28, 1997 1U of L sets sights on research goals BY ANGIE MUHS HERAlD-LEADER EDUCATION WRITER LOUISVILLE - University of First joint ~-_1Jr;~f: L:· Louisville President John Shumaker yesterday unveiled an ambitious plan to transfonn the college into a "nationally pre-eminent metropoli doctoral progralll,iOK'd tan research university" within the next 10 years. HERALDWOER SrAFf Rm>RT • : "part-ti~e. studeribtJviuch of -the . The plan - which Shumaker FRANKFORT - The Univer- demand;is expected ·10 come from acknowledged comes in direct re sity of Kentucky and the Universi- social work faculty members at sponse to Gov. Paul Patton's call ty of Louisville will team up to of- regional universities who don't for higher education to refonn itself fer a joint doctorate degree in so- have their_ doctorate degrees.· - would require the university to cial work, star?ng thi~ fall. Both schools ·said they initial more than double the amount of re . The Council on Higher Educa- ly intended to·starttheir own pro search support, from $33.8 million t1on approved th_e program yester- gram but then decided to combine to $80 million, by the year 2008. day - the first iomt UK and U of their efforts. · In the same "time frame, the L doctoral degree. program - . . . . __ .. ,.- .. plan calls for U of L to nearlv dou with several council members . The two-schools have worked ble its endowment from $253 mil praising it as an example of coop- · together on programs_ in the. past, lion to $500 million. U of L also eration. _.. but this is the firsf-joint doctoral should have at least 20 nationally · The program is expected io degree program, said UK Chancel ranked research and graduate pro enroll about 10 full-time a~d 10 !or Elisabeth Zinser._ grams by then, Shumaker said. The plan also calls for U of L to ventions, he said. In the same vear, double the number of doctoral U of L and the University of U of L earned about $35,000 for the graduates to 140 by the year 2008. Kentucky are responsible for much same thing .. "It's very critical for us that we of the academic research in the But he told board members that have a clear message and a clear vi state. They also are the only two he expects that could change. · sion," Shumaker said. "We're essen public universities that offer doctor tially setting a trajectory for the al degree programs; the highest "This university and this com university for the next 10 years academic level. m~nity are at a crossroads," he that involves some re-engineering." Calls for both of them to said. Shumaker said he and universi strengthen their performance in Faculty trustee Theresa Butler ------ty officials do not those areas have become increas said she thought many faculty were yet know how ingly common since Patton an excited about the effort. nounced his desire to refonn higher U of L would much it would "I think Dr. Shumaker made us have to cost to reach education. an active participant in this," she raise more those goals. The Greater Louisville Econom said. But he told money from ic Development Partnership also re Trustee D. Harry Jones said he donors and the Board of cently conducted a study that cited Trustees that he thought the plan could work be probably the need for Louisville to have a cause different groups of the uni hoped to save prominent research university. enter Into money through versity appeared to be united be research streamlining the Shumaker acknowledged that U hind one goal. partnerships university admin of L has lagged in some key areas. The plan "may be the most ex with istration and real For instance, Stanford University citing thing· that's happened since business. locating some of made about $38 million in patent I've be~n on the board," said Jones, the existing bud- and royalty income from faculty in- who said he had served 16 years. get. He also said U -----• of L would have to raise more money from donors and probably enter into research partnerships with business. U of L officials are already talking with Jewish Hospital and Alliant Health System about potential ventures in medical research, he said. Shumaker told the board he would probably have an estimate at next month's meeting. "The price tag over 10 years, I think, is going to be within our reach if we're willing to make the stretch.'' he said. Shumaker reeled off a list of 10 "areas of strength" and 16 other "emerging" programs as possible fields to focus on. Among the subjects he men tioned were biochemistry, cardio vascular research, ophthalmology, teacher education, industrial engi neering and telecommunications. lExJNGTON HERALD-LEADER, LExlNGTON, KY. ■ TUESDAY, JANUARY 28, 1997 'IY1orehead St. will not renew Fick's. contract Morehead's new coach isn't like ly to match Fick's sideline behavior. Ex-Cat Macy.is interested in Eagles' post Fick gained national attention - Freshman forward Lee when he reacted to an official's BY RICK BAILEY Coomler was aware of call during a game against Ken HERALD-LEADER STAFF WRITER -Fick's uncertain status tucky by stretching out on the Last year, the Morehead State admin :when he signed with More Rupp Arena floor. istration told Coach Dick Fick that win '.liead. Jim Valvano, the late ESPN an ning the NCAA Tournament would not "He's one of the rea alyst and former coach, created guarantee his job. Faced with another los . ·sons I came," Coomler said. the Dick Fick Award for coaches ing season, and little hope of even reach .:".This gives us an urgency who were "into" the game . ing the tournament, the university ,;to win for Coach . . . and "I didn't plan that TV stuff,'' announced his contract would not be re ;prove to the school that Fick said last sunnner. "It just hap newed. he's a good coach, and this pened." A search committee will be named to :·isn't all his fault. He's still But Fick's sideline style never day to find a successor to the flamboyant ':the coach till the end of the changed, from occasionally flinging Fick, whose animated sideline demeanor ~season, and we'll deal with his suit coat into the stands, loosen drew national attention but who is almost :ir then." ing his tie till it seemed to almost certain to finish his six-year tenure with Eaglin said in the state- touch the floor, and carrying on a only one winning record. )nent that he appreciated Fick's ef running commentary with officials, Former University of Kentucky star _fort in "continuing and reinforcing players and fans. Kyle Macy said he was interested in the the university's emphasis on the He once was caught holding his Morehead vacancy. academic success of our student tie like a hangman's noose. The "I'm not saying, 'Yes, I want the job,' athletes." · pose later was on posters with but I'm definitely interested in finding out The graduation rate of Eagle MSU's schedule. more,'' said Macy, who has no coaching . basketball players has ranked at the But Fick apparently wore out experience. "If I ______. top of Kentucky's Division I his welcome at Morehead. decide I want Fick's record -schools. His relationship with-his play the job, I'll do at Morehead ' Fick's third team, in 1993-94, ers wasn't always harmonious. John the necessary ______was 14-14. The next year, More Brannen was a rising star with the steps to get Year Overall ovc head finished 15-12 and third (one Eagles, but when he and Fick were them interested '91-92 ••• - . 14-15 6-8 game out of first place) in the Ohio unable to get along, he transferred in me hopeful- '.92-93 · · · · · • 6-21 6-10 'Valley Conference. Fick shared to Marshall. ly. 93-94 ••..• 14-14 8-8 He became a Rhodes Scholar 10-6 •OVC Coach of the Year honors with · In a state- '. 94-95 • • · · · 15-12 nominee and is starring for the 95-96 ••..•• 7-20 2-14 'Tennessee State's Frankie Allen. ment, M. ore- ,96-97 ...... 5-11 3-5 . Fick sought a three-year con Thundering Herd during his senior head President career . .... 61-93 36-51 tract extension but received only season. Ronald Eaglin ______one. The Eagles were 7-20 last sea Morehead fans also grew weary said he would son amid rumors that Morehead of Fick and responded by staying follow the recommendation of Athletic Di would buy out the final year of his away from Johnson Arena. rector Steve Hamilton and Mike Mincey, mntract. But that wasn't in line The loss of revenue in preferred vice president for student life, and allow withuruversity policy, and Fick re seating has been costly to the bas Fick's contract to expire March 31. turned as coach. ketball budget. Even though Eaglin had already an Morehead had only two victo "I spend time with kids in the nounced his intention to review the pro ries this season, both against non community, and they don't have gram before the end of th~ ~eason, Fi~k Division I foes, when the Eagles big checkbooks," Fick insisted. said he was upset by the timmg. He said won three in a row from Jan. 16-20 "When I'm gone, they can get some he wanted the decision to come after the before beginning a four-game road body who can deal with adults a lot season or on March 31. trip. . better." "I don't feel this is in the best interests Fick will finish the season The focus seems to center on of the kids and it's not in my (best inter while the search continues for his Macy. ests)," Fick said. "But it's time for the uni successor. Macy°'s biggest obstacle could versity to move on." "We would like to have a coach be removed as soon as Eaglin The decision was not totally unexpected. in here when the season ends for re agrees to a recommendation from "Steve told me last year if I won the cruiting purposes," said Hamilton, the athletics committee to make a NCAA championship I still might not be who declined to comment master's degree preferred - but back as the basketball coach," Fick said. on recent criticism from not required - as a qualification Fick also is unhappy that the coaching Fick. for a full-time coach at Morehead. search is beginning now . Morehead has one se Macy, whose name surfaced ." Any mention or comment about the nior among its top nine last ·season amid rumors that More person who is going to be the nex_t coach players and only two on head would buy out Fick's final is a personal affront to my family and the team. "We do have year, has a business degree from me," he said. _. _ some needs to fill," Hamil UK. Macy, 39, is employed by a --•:ws a distraction," he said, "but ton added. Lexington bank, has an athletic they are going to play hard. " Four members of the flooring business called Sports Senior guard Doug Wyciskalla, search committee will Court, runs a summer basketball the team's leading scorer, said the come from the Intercolle camP. and is the analyst for UK bas news was depressing. giate Athletics Committee, ketball radio broadcasts. "It hurts to see someone with and Eaglin will appoint the impact he's had to not get his three members. Hamilton contract renewed. He's still my will serve as a non-voting coach, probably the last coach I'll member . .have. He's not necessarily a father "The committee will recom ,figure but more of a mentor, some mend a candidate to me, and I'll -one you look up to. We're lookmg make a recommendation to the · to make the best of it." president through Mike," Hamilton explained. THE COURIER-JOURNAL • TUESDAY, JANUARY 28, 1997 The extroverted, quick-witted Fick arrived at Morehead amid much fan fare and immediately was embraced by fans media and the university. Morehead will not The~ were Dick Fick look-alike contests. And at one point, the late Jim Valvano, an analyst on cable renew Fick's deal sports network ESPN, established the Dick Fick Award for coaches who Hamilton declined to specify rea were "into" the game after Fick laid By DAVE KOERNER sons for not renewing Fick's contract down on the sideline at Rupp Arena The Courier-Journal but indicated that he want~d the J?fO· following an official's call against the !lfaID to be more competitive which, University of Kenfilcky. As expected, Morehead State Uni m tum, would bolster sagging atten- Fick's popularity might best be versity president Ron Eaglin yester dance. · epitomized by a scene that unfolded day declined to renew the contrae\ of Hamilton also said ~e wanted, to during his first season, following a basketball coach Dick Fick. · see more improveme_nt m acade~uc~, although the graduation rate of F1ck s narrow home Joss to Murray. Fick however, might not leave instead of driving home, Fick chose quietly.' He said that he h as " an ax t o program has ranked first three times among Kentucky's Division 1 basket• to be alone with his thoughts and set grind" with athletic director Steve out on foot, a walk that took him Hamilton and that he might file a ball schools. . . ''We want the commuruty to get tn· along a lengthy stretch of poorly lit lawsuit. roadway. "If there is litigation, it will be per volved with our (basketball) pro- " Hamilton said. "We want to Soon a car pulled up behind him sonal and will be between Steve and and stopped, with three men getting me " Fick said by phone from r.am~ore competitive. Wmning or C!a'rksville, Tenn., where his team losing games is not totally what we out and approaching him. At the time played Ohio Valley Conference rival evaluate a coach on, but it is part of Fick thought he'd be mugged, but in "t n Austin Peay last night. 1 stead the men wanted their picture Fick, 44, declined to be specific on • Fick's record at Morehead was 61· taken with Fick and- offered him a why he might seek legal action but 93 going into last night's game. More ride. said, "There were things that were head is 5-11 overall this season and 3- Fick said if that scenario occurred promised me." 5 in the OVC. today, "certain people in Morehead Fick suggested that the friction be Morehead slipped to 7-20 last sea would run me over or drive on by." gan following the 1994-95 seas~n, son and lost its final 10 OVC games, a He noted that he never asked for skid that reached 14 this season be publicity, especially the ESPN Award, when Morehead went 15-12 - ·its fore the Eagles recently put together a only winning record in 5½ years un but acknowledged tliat many people three-game winning streak that m probably have become wearisome of der him - and he was named co cluded victories over Eastern K~n Coach of the Year in the OVC. him. tucky and defending league champion "Yes, some are tired of it," he said. Fick said he was asked by Hamil Murray State. ton how many years he would like Average home attendance has "They would rather just win." for his contract to be extended at plummeted during Fick's stay, from _a Meanwhile, some of his players that time and requested three. high of 3 219 in 1991-92 durmg his said Fick's departure will be More instead, Fick received one addi first seas~n to only 864 this season head's loss. tional year, which he said was "a kick for seven dates. Morehead has_ draw_n "I feel he's done the best job he can in the $f0in." Fick said Hamilton later more than 1,000 fans 9nly twice this do, but for some reason (school offi told him that he instead requested season and atiracted Just 321 for a cials) don't think he's achieved two extra years. Dec 23 game against Marian College. enough," senior guard Doug Wycis Hamilton recently acknowledged J~hnson Arena's capacity is 6,500, kalla said. "I feel their expectations that he did recommend two years but with the record average home atten are a lot higher than they should be." thought that the administration was dance ·3,850 in 1983-84, the last sea "It's the business and part of the voicing its support with the one-year son the Eagles reached the NCM game," freshman . forward Lee addition. Tournament. Comnler said. "But what really hurts "I've worked my whole life with Although the school's athletic de is that he's a great person and teaches one-year contracts and was always partment is funded largely by stude!)t you a lot about life." comfortable with it," said Hamilton, a activity fees and state money, Eaglin Hamilton said a search committee major league pitcher for 11 seasons. recently said the declining attendance should be named today and hopes Hamilton also said, "I have never is a concern. that a new coach is hired by the end been less than honest with Dick "If we're not concerned about hav of the season. Fick." . ing students and ,alumni and towns Fick said several cuts were made m One of the leading candidates ap people coming to our games, then pears to be former UK All-American his program's budget, the Jarg~st b~ why are we doing it?" said Eaglin, ing a near 50-percent reduction m who regularly attends men's "°:d Kyle Macy, a starter for the Wtldcats' travel, leaving about $28,500 a year. women 1s games. '"Yes, attendance 1s 1978 national champions. ''We now sleep three players to a important. 11 Macy, 39, has never been a head room, which means somebody gets In a recent interview, Eaglin con coach but expressed his interest. the floor - or a cot," Fick said. firmed that some alumni approached "I would be interested in learning Hamilton acknowledged the cuts him in hopes of buying out the final more about it," said Macy, who has but noted that several budgets were several business interests and is bas reduced, largely because of gender year of Fick's contract. ketball analyst for UK radio broad equity. . "l basically told him that that was casts. He currently is employed by a Hamilton and vice president for his call that we didn't do those sorts Lexington bank. student life Mike Mincey had recom of things " Eaglin said. "He decided Fick, meanwhile, said he might mended last week not to renew Fick's to stay 0 ~, and we h_ono_red it." pursue a job with the National Bas contract, which expires March 31. Fick however, mamtamed that ad ketball Association or return to Eaglin was out of town and did not mini8trators wanted to reassign him within the university, and that he kept coaching at the high school level. return a reporter's phone call. . He previously spent six seasons as his job only by obt;tining a lawyer. However, in a statement, he said: an assistant at Creighton, although he ''We appreciate the effort that coach "There was a movement to get me out and anybody who tells you that had been named an aide at Loyola Fick has put into the basketball pro Marymount shortly before taking the gram . . . particularly by continuing did° not occur is lying straight to your Morehead job. and refnforcing the university's em face," Fick said .. phasis on the academic success of our "I have no regrets about coming to student athletes." Morehead at all," he said. The Daily Independent, Ashland, Kentucky, Monday, January '2!7, 1997 MSU declines Morehead State President student athletes," Eaglin to renew Fick Ronald G. Eaglin said he said in a statement. "We was following the certainly wish him well in MOREHEAD - Morehead recommendation of State will not renew the his future endeavors." Athletics Director Steve Eaglin said a committee contract cif basketball coach Hamilton and Vice Dick Fick when it expires would be appointed President for Student Life immediately to begin.the at the end of the season, the Mike Mincey in deciding Ohio Valley Conference search for a new head against renewing Fick's coach. school announced today. contract. Fick, one of the country's Fick was not immediately "We appreciate the effort available for comment. most colorful coaches, is in that coach Fick has put into his sixth year as coach of Morehead State plays at the basketball program over Austin Peay tonight. the Eagles. The team has this six-year period, Fick was the OVC struggled to a 5-11 record particularly by continuing co-coach of the year for the this season, including 3-5 in· and reinforcing the 1994-95 season. the OVC. Fick's overall university's emphasis on . -record.at-Morehead State-is the academic success of our THE COURIER-JOURNAL• TUESDAY, JANUARY 28, 1997- Claudia Sanders' death· ends ·charity trust The institutions said they are cret recipe of II herbs and spices for :olleges, others grateful for the money they have re chicken in 1939 but didn't start ceived through the years. The loss, HELPED BY TRUST achieving worldwide fame with it ,ill miss aid they however, is going to mean belt-tight Berea College · until he besan lining up franchise ening and appeals for replacement Bellannine College restaurants m the 1950s. eceived for years money. Pikeville College Claudia Sanders, a waitress at his David Joyce, president of Union Transylvania University Corbin restaurant who became his ,sociated Press College in Barbourville, said it got Union College · second wife, worked alongside the about $150,000 a year from the Shriners Children's Hospital, : , colonel to sell the idea and make the LEXINGTON, Ky. - Several Ken-. Sanders trust and used it for student · · Lexington , • , business go, packing spices at night cky charities and colleges will re aid. The college won't cut that aid, . Lexington Theological in their garage and shipping them to ive one final helping of assistance so it will have to make up the loss restaurants. elsewhere - perhaps with smaller Seminary ,m the fortune built by the Louisville Metro Area Harland Sanders sold the business under of Kentucky Fried Chicken, raises for employees next year, he in 1964 for $2 million. said. Salvation Army ii. Harland Sanders. The two set up the Colonel Har ~It will be sorely missed," Joyce Kosair Charities, Louisville The death of Sanders' widow, Kentucky Council of land Sanders and Claudia E. Sand audia, on Dec. 31 meant the end of said. ers Trust in 1965 in Toronto, using charitable trust that the couple ·set Capt. Sam Herny, commander of Churches , shares of the company that fran , in 1965. The trust distributed mil the Louisville-area Salvation Army, Kenwood Heights Christian chised KFC restaurants in Canada. said it got $80,000 last year from the Church, Louisville ,ns over 30 years to 11 institutions The trust charter named 14 insti Kentucky. trust. That amounted to 10 percent Aurora College, Aurora, Ill. of its annual budget for direct aid tutions to receive a portion of the "It's a tremendous loss of philan Mount Moriah Christian annual income - 5 percent for such as rent assistance, food and Church, Henryville, Ind. ropic giving to many institutions clothing for people down on their sojlle, 10 for others - from the Kentucky," said the Rev. Nancy Lincoln Chiropractic trust's investments. Of the 14, 11 luck. College, Indianapolis. Kemper, executive director of the "It's going to have a si~ficant were in Kentucky, one was in Illinois ,ntucky Council of Churches, one impact on our operation,' Henry and two were m Indiana, Harland the beneficiaries. said. "That's going to have to be lose the money, but the effect won't Sanders' native state. The last checks are due soon. picked up somewhere." be great. The university got $70,000 The trust was structured to split There is a successor to the trust, The Shriners Children's Hospital to $80,000 a year from the trust and into two new trusts - one in Canada 1ich contained 30 million Canadi- in Lexington, which got an average invested it in a scholarship fund, us and one in the United States - ei dollars - the equivalent of $22.3 of about $140,000 a year, said it ing the interest for part of the ther in 1977 or upon the death of ;[lion in U.S. currency at the pre would feel the loss but could replace school's minority scholarships, Mey both the Sanderses, whichever came nt exchange rate - when Claudia the money. er said. later. 10ders died. Some of the Kentucky Bart Meyer, vice president for de "The fund itself is going to contin Sanders died in 1980, but the oups plan to ask about continued velopment of Transylvania Universi ue doing what it has been doing all money kept coming because Claudia ndmg from the new trust but said ty, said the school, which is in Lex along. It just won't grow,'' he said. Sanders outlived her husband by 16 , unlikely they'll get ·it. ington, is disappointed that it will Harland Sanders developed his se- years. THE COURIER-JOURNAL • TUESDAY, JANUARY 28, 1997 Municipal College is recalled fondly By 1£SLIE SCANLON classes were small, so "you got to The Courier-Journal know your faculty members personal ly, and they knew you personally. The The tuition, she recalls, was $25 a interaction was outstanding." semester. Linda Wilson, director of the Uni At age 80, she can recite the names versity of Louisville's Multicultural of all her professors, describing them Center, has studied the history of Mu as "first~class teachers" and saying: nicipal, which operated as U of L's "None of us had any problems in campus for black students from 1931 graduate school." to 1951. The history of the school, Bessie Russell Stone, a retired li born of racial segregation, "reflects a brarian who lives in Cincinnati, grew great deal of what Louisville was like up at 2345 W. Chestnut St. in Louis at that time,'' Wilson said. ville. From 1933 to 1936, she attended For blacks, options for attending !,ouisville Municipal College, graduat- college were few. ''You had Kentucky . mg a year early because she took State in Frankfort, which was then summer-school classes at Kentucky more a vocational kind of education," State University in Frankfort. She WIison said. Municipal stressed the made wonderful friends at Municipal. liberal arts and the sciences, "the cul "Everybody knew everybody." tivation of minds and excitement." The students - denied entry at Graduations were held at Quinn many movie theaters, restaurants and Chapel African Methodist Episcopal other institutions - socialized with Church, one of the oldest congrega · each other, usually at home or at tions in the city. campus parties, theatricals, concerts The graduates went on to become and dances. Students who came from doctors, lawyers, e'ducators, nurses, out of town boarded with local Afri. librarians, business executives. can-American families. The football team - the Bantams, K M. Hall, who lives in Louisville with purple-and-white uniforms - and is retired from the distillery busi played teams from other black ness, graduated from Municipal - schools, including Tennessee State, then the only Louisville college open Fisk University in Nashville, Tenn., to African ·Americans - as did his and Wtlberforce University near wife, the former Thelma WIison. Hall Xenia, Ohio. described his education as "a wonder Many of the students who went to ful experience" that "made me a Municipal formed lifelong friend broader person, by being connected ships. "The L Club,'' a social club of with people who were of advanced education. Louisville needed. it. You men who played sports for the Ban couldn't afford to go away to college." tams, still meets occasionally. Newton Mccravy Jr. attended Lou ''We don't meet like we used to, but isville Municipal College on a basket we still gather," Hall said. "When ball scholarship, graduating in 1951. anyone we know is sick or passes, we ''We. were all very close, faculty all rally. We go as a group." and students," McCravy said. The ····------crn-~-~--=-q-~-r;;,1 - ::S 0-an. 29 2 11'1'1 MSU ARCHIVES MSU Clip Sheet A sample of recent articles of interest to Morehead State University INSTITUTIONAL RELATIONS MOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY UPO BOX 1100 MOREHEAD, KY 40361-1689 606-783-2030 THE COURIER-JOURNAL The Floyd· County Times Wednesday, January 22; 1997 WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 29, 1997 ,Clinton., Rosi~nberg is ..chosen :proposes for civil rights ·h.onor by Janice Shepherd He brought legal cases to stop dis college aid Managing Editor criminatory practices and acts of intimidation by whites against A Prestonsburg attorney was blacks before the justice system. changes recognized Monday night for his One of those cases involved the efforts to stop discrimination. The Washington Post illegal acts by the KtiKlux Klan John M. Rosenberg, who heads against blacks in Louisiana. Rosen WASHINGTON - President Clin• the legal services organization for berg talked about that incident in a ton yesterday proposed changinji his the Appalachian Research and De speech during a brotherhood rally packa~e of tax cuts and aid for higher fense Fund, wasaward in November. education to include a substantiaf ex ed the Martin Luther · pansion of the highly popular Pell "The opinion in that Grants program, the primary tool that King Jr. Civil Rights case, directing the Klan the natiOn's poorest students use to Award at Hazard High to stop those actions and help pay for ccllege. School. preventing future acts Administration officials said Clin The award was pre ton's decision is panly an attempt_ to begins, 'this is an action blunt criticism from higher-education sented for "his outstand by a nation against a groups and congressional leaders that ing work and dedication . Klan.' Ours today is an the college aid proposals he is touting in promoting and living action by our communi are designed to help middle-class stu• the philosophy of Mar ty against the values of dents far more than poor families. tin Luther King .Jr.," Clinton said he wants to raise the the Klan - hate, big maximum Pell Grant college students Sandra L. Kaikumba, a otry, and white suprema can receive annually from the f~ coordinator of the annu cy. It appeals to the government to $3,000 - $300 more al King birthday celebration said. bases of human character, and we than the current level. To r•Y for it, Kaikumba said Rosenberg's re he plans to retarget some o the mon must continue to expose and con ey he had planned to ~nd on an sume and nomination fonn showed demn it." other prominent college-aid proposal be had provided the "greatest (ex Rosenberg served as Chief of - a Sl,500 tax credit, or Hope Schol ample) of living up to Dr. Martin the Justice Department's Criminal arship, for tuition. Luther King's philosophy." Rights Division. During his term in Clinton said Pell Grant increases, "Rosenberg has fought segrega coupled with the Hope Scholarships that office, he helped prosecute and a $10,000 tax deduction for col tion. He has done outstanding work county officials and Klansmen who lege tuition, reflect an "unprecedent with fighting racism and with (get killed three civil rights workers in ed commitment to higher education." ting equal) voting tights," she said. Nesoba County, Mississippi. The estimated cost of all the initia Rosenberg spent eight years in tives, which also include more money Rosenberg's selection for the for work-study programs, is $36 bil the 1960s with the Civil Rights Di award was made by a cultural lion over five years. vision of the Department of Justice. diversity advisory committee from More than 3.6 million students now the Hazard Community College's receive-Pell Grants, but Clinton's pro two campuses: the main campus posal would expand that number by making students who are financi!!11)' and Lee's campus. The ten-mem independent from their parents eligi ber committee reviewed the nomi-• ble for the grants. nations. Pell grants are gaining new atten "Everyone voted for tion in Congress, and on many cam puses, because they are widely seen Rosenberg," Kakumba said. as a direct way to address a siitnifi The award was presented by cant and growing national prolilem: Hazard Community College Office The fact tliat rising college costs are of Minority Affairs and Perry resttictin!I the access needy students County Black Mountain have to higher education. House Ways and Means Committee Improvement Association. Chairman Blll Archer, R-Texas, whose committee has jurisdiction over· tax matters, has expressed con cern that Clinton's education tax credit - which is contingent on stu dents earning a B average their first year - could lead to grade inflation. Clinton's proposals will be compet ing with a host of other education tax initiatives in Congress. Senate Republicans are champion ing a package of education tax cuts. Under one, taxpayers would be al lowed to make non-deductible contri butions of up to SI.000 to "education savings accounts" on behalf of chil dren under 18. .,I.EXlNGTON.HERAl.l5LEADER, LExlNGTON; KY. ■ WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 29, 1997 , c1a8S." ~ --·~ ··------·,-~,~----~-- -~- ;-, ..... _,...,.,., Schmocker, 28, sperids an hour every .~1nter1ret. helps\ Sunday night in an on-line chat room with her c!assmates, 15 of th~ 60 who applied.for the pilot program:- _.·/, ';::'.', :', - ... · : , stnilents ···1earn Students access the class either from on . ' campus computer terminals or from homes in Somerset, Danville or Lexington. They repre sent various majors i_ncluding education, psy while saving chology, general busmess and math. "It is very major oriented. It teaches stu de~ts how !,o·u~e this technology in their spe time, expense cific fields, said Andy Harnack, an English professor who has been at Eastern for 20 BY JENNIFER ALMJELD years and now teaches the Internet course. HERAl..lH.EAOER STAFF WRITER The class also teaches students to use e From her home in Lexington, in a den filled mail, publish their own home pages and learn with old papers and books and scattered toys, how to publish online. Heather Schmocker attends class at Eastern Ken- Harnack thinks the Internet is important tucky University in Richmond. • not only for the workforce, but is also a new Schmocker, mother of 2-year-old Melanie, is trend in higher education. taking Eastern's first course taught entirely on "They will support what we do ordinari line while she works toward the requirements for ly," Harnack said. "They will become an im medical school. portant part of education. They already are." EKU is among several universities across the Harnack said that in many cases on-line· state to embrace the Internet as a teaching tool. classes may be more appropriate for study Advanced Composition Online, or English than the more standard classroom setting. 301, is a 3-hour course designed to teach students "To do a course like this you must read how to access information on the Internet and constantly and you must write constantly" how to formulate their thoughts for cyberspace. Harnack said. He said students cannot pr~ The class is convenient for Schmocker, who is tend_ 10 be paying attention - they either taking only six hours this semester to allow time part1c1pate or they fail. to study for the medical school entrance exam. Students are assigned weekly readings or "It works well with my schedule," she said. "I assignments, such as sending e-mail mes don't have to drive down there. I put Melanie in. sages or finding specific articles online. Us bed and go down to the living room and go to ing the computer, they then discuss the find ings and can ask questions of the teacher and their classmates. Transcripts from one class THE COURIER-JOURNAL 1 • WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 29, 1997 meeting often cover more than 20 printed pages. Marie Ison, a senior environmental re Aiming high at U of L sources major, agrees that the class encour ages students to really get involved with IAN .offered by Univer level in the rankings of publicly their studies. sity of Louisville Presi assisted institutions. "When you are in a class with 80 people dent John Shumaker is At times in the past, the U of L campus has been a diffi you might be afraid to ask a question," Ison A just the kind of thing cult place to find consensus on said. "I'm not inhibited at all in this Internet that's needed in the current de the future. It's been a fractious course." bate over higher education. While place. Resistance has slowed This push in technology is in line with short on detalls, it points in the progress, as former U of L Presi many of Gov. Paul Patton's plans for higher right direction: Up. dent Donald Swain discovered education. Internet courses were mentioned He is calling it a plan to "re in his effort to provoke change. in a state plan for all colleges to share cours engineer" U of L, and, in fact, it Dr. Swain also demonstrated emphasizes engineering, medi that a determined, engaged CEO es offered through distance learning. Educa cine, science can make a tors hope the plan will allow more people ac and technol real differ cess to a college education. ogy. These are ence. The Shu The University of Kentucky also recog appropriate maker Plan is nizes the many benefits of Internet learning specialties for evi\lence that and is now working on a course to be taught a university his successor on the Internet, said Bernie Vonderheide, a · with an urban has the capac UK spokesman. mission, as are ity to think two other and act in Campbellsville University is also begin areas where he those terms. ning to teach for the Internet. has focused: And, most im "The course is not being taught on-line, business and portant, there but it teaches freshman how to write on-line," education. are indications said spokesman Marc Whitt. Such a pro that he has file will appeal made some of For students, the main benefit of these to the local the right po classes may be the ability to spend time do business com litical inroads, ing other, equally important things. munity. That, in turn, will provide before telling the world where "I spend the time I save playing with U of L a crucial base of support, he was headed. Like it or not, her," Schmocker said of her daughter. "We as Gov. Paul Patton and the Gen progress in higher education is a take walks, play and go to the park. She real eral Assembly begin to rational political issue. It will be arbitrat ly loves the park." ize and elevate the state's post ed fn Frankfort. secondary system. Any plan can be improved. While satisfying the special For example, there's nothing on interests of the Greater Louis the surface of this one that ex ville Economic Development ploits the potential of U of L's Partnership, the plan also serendipitous Center for Public should appeal to those who sim Issues and the State Data Cen ply believe Kentucky needs ter. An endowed chair in public more high-powered research policy might do just that. and scholarship. It calls for 20 Perhaps the most .positive new endowed faculty chairs and news is that the Shumaker plan a doubling of research funds was revealed on the same day and general endowment. · U of L and the University of Driven by a major capital Kentucky got approval for a campaign (rumored to be in the joint doctoral degree in social offing, headed by master fund- work. If those two institutions ~": _1'>1~~~!~ .~h!'!lc_ey), this ~an get t,cgethe.r, on_ ~omel1!\'!g, · l.EXINGi-ON HERALO-lfAOER;-LEx1NGTON, ·Kv. ■ WEONESDAY;' JANUARV'29;'·1997 New• . engtneermg·..• -&···•-•; building for 'UK' now Patton goal BY JACK BRAMMER state," he said at the time, opting HERALD-LEADER FRANKFORT BUREAU instead to back spending $12.5 mil FRANKFORT - Gov .. Paul lion for UK's Pin Oak research Patton, an engineer by profession, farm. is backing a new mechanical engi Patton said yesterday that a neering building for the University mechanical engineering building at of Kentucky. UK is not the only construction Patton, speaking late yesterday need on state university campuses. to members of the Lexington and "There- are a lot of needs out Louisville chapters of the American there," he said, mentioning a sci Society of Mechanical Engineers, ence center for Northern Kentucky said he would propose state dollars University. for a UK mechanical engineering Patton; who is meeting this building in his next capital con week with university presidents, struction budget. said he still is looking at a speciai The governor did not know session in April or May. "It will be whether that would come during a hard to have it then but that's what special legislative session he is con I'm pushing for," he said. sidering for this spring to deal with The governor · took a softer higher education or in the regular stance yesterday toward higher ed session of the 1998 General Assem ucation interests than in recent bly. comments. "We need to build that. We need a top-notch physical building On Jan. 17, Patton told econo there," Patton told the 50 or so engi mists that he will devote his time and state dollars to improving neers present. Tom Lester, dean of UK's Col roads, sewers and water projects if lege of Engineering, called the gov higher education interests do not ernor's comments "very positive." reach a consensus on reforms in He said mechanical engineering postsecondary education. classes at UK now are spread out "In fairness to them, I haven't among four buildings. proposed -anything specific yet." The project would cost $24 mil Patton said yesterday. "I can say lion, Lester said. Of that amount, they haven't rejected anything yet." $20 million would come from the The governor said he told his state and $4 million in private con Cabinet earlier this week that he tributions. would consider placing on a ses . In his two-year budget proposal sion's agenda "any emergency-type in 1996, Patton did not recommend legislation." state money for a mechanical engi Asked about a request from neering building. Kentucky Farm Bureau to consider "I didn't want to let my person health-care reforms in a special al affinity to mechanical engineer session, Patton said he was "look ing color what was best for the ing at the situation." The.Daily Independent, Ashland, Kentucky; Tuesday, January 28, 1997 MOl!en·ead'.s. ·. . ·;.. ,, . . . . timing has Fick upset Lawsuit may·be coming MOREHEAD - Morehead basketball cciach," he said. State's announcement that Fick might not leave quietly, Dick Fick will not return as however. He said that he basketball coach next season might file a lawsuit, saying he cmne as no great surprise, but has "an ax to grind" with the timing still upset Fick. _ Hamilton. "I don't feel this is in the "If there is litigation, it will best interests of the kids, and be personal and will be be it's not in my best interest," tween Steve and me," Fick Fick said. said. Now Fick is left to lead a He declined to be specific on largely inexperienced team for the possible legal action. the remainder of. the season . "There were things that with a black cloud hanging were promised me," Fick said. over his head. Hamilton said: "I have never Also casting a shadow on the been less than honest with program is the hot rumor that Dick Fick." former Kentucky star Kyle Morehead State started this Macy is in line to replace Fick. season 2-10 before posting "Any mention or comment three straight wins, including about the person who is going victories over Eastern Ken to be the next coach is. a per tucky and Murray State. Then sonal affront to my family and Fick's status became a top me," Fick said. story, and consecutive losses Macy claims to be intrigued dropped the team to 5-12. MSU by the position. . lost at Austin Peay Monday. "I'm not saying, 'Yes, I want "It's a distraction,'' Fick the job,' but I'm definitely in said. "But the· kids will play terested in finding out more," hard." Macy said. "If I decide I want The Eagles posted one .500 the job, I'll take the steps nec season and one winning cam essary to get them interested paign under Fick, who has a in me." career record of 61-93 at the On Monday, MSU President school. Ronald Eaglin· said he would Eaglin praised the coach's ef follow the recommendations of forts in "continuing and re athletic director Steve Hamil inforcing the university's em ton and vice president Mike phasis on the academic suc J Mincey that Fick's contract, cess of our student athletes." which expires at the end of During Fick's tenure, More March, not be renewed. head consistently ranked at Even last year, Fick had the top of the state's Division I· some idea of what was coming. schools in graduation rates. "Steve told me that even if I Eaglin also said a .search won the NCAA championship, committee will be selected I still might not be back as the today to find the new coach. THE~--- COURIER-JOURNAL•------·------=--==----· • WEDNESDAY, - JANUARY 29, 1997 UK'S TURN TO RISE TO THE CHALLENGE AM glad I just sent my annual all too rare in Kentucky public higher aspire to. The U of L vision lies pri , gift to the University of Ken- education. We settle for what we marily in science and technology. . tucky. think the political system will toler UK's future greatness can come m · In this column Tm going to ate, not what the next generation of the liberal arts. · nagI at UK President Charles Weth Dr. Wethington ought to propose, students will need. ington. Maybe my check will get We· feed the ego of every wide and raise money for, some endowed there before he reads what I say. place in the road by building a com chairs of his own - more, indeed, I give to the UK journalism school munity college on the shoulder. We than U of L, given UK's statewide because that's where I learned my argue about what (fill in your town's · role and flagsbip status. And they craft. I spent four years as a writer name) deserves, rather than what the should be installed at the core of the and editor on The Kentucky Kernel. state as a whole needs. university's pro~, in departments We had great fun, pushing to inte- like English, Philosophy, History, Po , grate the ·athletic Predictably, a study group domi nated by the regional university litical Science; in social sciences, lan~ program, expos presidents answered Gov. Paul Pat guages, arts and literature. ing the brutality ton's challenge for boldness pro ln some areas the two universities' of . the · Charlie ov programs will overlap. In others, each Bradshaw era in posing more of the same. <\s if can define a special emphasis. For ex football, helping ample, nobody is going to close either to reveal unau of the medical schools, but it makes all thorized prac kinds of sense to let U of L develop ag tices, running an gressively in the area of high-end, · undercover sting high-tech medicine, based .in the to prove the sale downtown Louisville medical complex. of tickets by ath UK already has achieved national rec letes at a service ognition in family practice, and it has station on New an obvious role in rural health care de ,Circle Road, pro- livery; the point would be to build fur. ther on these specialties. l.::::====l voking NCM sanctions. This is not to say that UK should After all the trouble I helped to restrict its interest to the traditional cause, I feel the need to give some core disciplines, denying itself a lead thing back. So I send a little money. role in the burgeoning of science and On the other hand, I'm the first to technology. For example, it alread)' say so when I think the folks at UK has important scholars in commum are doing something stupid. there's a big constituency for that. cation and information studies, and Murray State University President nationally-recognized research into Like spending time on a fantastic aging. basketball arena project when the fu. Kern Alexander, my choice for most bizarre performance in· a supporting Dr. Shumaker - in his earlier un ture of higher education in the state role, has used the occasion to pick a fortunate attempt to entrepreneur a is being debated. fight with UK. position for U of L in the overseas In an earlier nag, I criticized Uni And at UK, there's more talk about market for American university de versity of Louisville President John who can fill Derek Anderson's sneak grees - was right about one thing. Shumaker for his foreign travel. At ers than what role UK should fill in Any front-rank university in the com the time, I thought his appointment the future. ing century must have an internation book had too few local entries. Now Charles Wethington, usually al perspective. Scholarship and re This week he was busy redeeming adept as both president and politi search push right past national his supporters' confidence rather cian, unaccountably has let John boundaries, as politics and commerce than his frequent flyer points. Shumaker occupy center stage. now do. Both U of L and UK must en After consulting with administra I suspect Dr. Wethington ol spend gage the wider world. But UK has a tors, faculty and students, he shared ing time on site selection for an on special opportunity in its Patterson with the public and the board a plan campus arena that will be a monu diplomacy program - and in other for U of L's future. And the future he menLto hubris. They ought to call it efforts that have got little attention has ·in mind is quite appropriate. the Egodome. over time, such as its programs in Better than appropriate, it's a star Or maybe he's busy defilading the Indonesia and Malaysia. It can devel turn that he has in mind. community colleges, lest somebody op a broader international role. You read the list of things he breach UK's control of them. Dr. Shumaker's plan is an implicit, wants to do (nearly double the en He should be in the lead. at the and friendly, challenge to UK, Ken dowed professorships, . the grant forefront of battle, not hunkered tucky's other center for scholarship money for reseatch and the school's down, shoring up the revetments. and research. It will be interesting to endowment) and you say to yourself, Actually, he and Dr. Shumaker hear Dr. Wethington's answer. I hope "Can he really do all of that?" ought to be on the same side. What he looks forward, rather than spend · It's good to hear that kind of ques U of L's president has proposed is a ing too much time looking behind his tion. It suggests an ambition that is nice fit with what I think UK should back. . ' THE COURIER-JOURNAL • WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 29, 1997 Plan :to·boost·~u of-~L!s rating -too timid,· Shaughnessy says ::He wants more · natural extension of former U of L State Sen. Tim President Donald Swain's efforts to Shaughnessy ratchet up the university's research endowments, grants, calls the plan capacity. He said Shumaker is wise "same of the to emphasize applied research over doctoral_ gra~?ates best news , . , pure research, "which means we match it up with our community." By MICHAEL JENNINGS"· In a long time," The Courier-Journal · · but says It's Thomas Hanley,, dean of U of L's not ambitious Speed School of Engineering, said The only obvious thing wrong with enough, · Boyle's advice and Gov. Paul Pat University of Louisville President ton's call for greater efficiency in John Shumaker's plan for boosting higher education helped guide him his school to national renown, says similar. praise for Shumaker's strate in nominating programs for en state Sen. Tim Shaughnessy, is that gy for advancing U of L to the top tier hancement. Bioengineering was an it's not ambitious enough. of research universities. In 1995 obvious pick, he said: On Monday Shumaker unveiled a U of L attained Research II status un Hanley said bioengineering, draft version of a IO.year plan to give der the Carnegie Foundation for the which draws together engineering U of L first-rank standing in a hanilful Advancement of Teaching's system disciplines, hard sciences and of research, graduate and undergrad for classifying universities and col- · medical fields, also provides an ex uate programs, most .of them linked leges; and Shumaker is aiming at Re ample of why deans had to collabo to the economic and social needs of search I status, which only 89 univer rate in nominating fields in which the metropolitan area. sities now ·have. U of L already shows strength and Shaughnessy, a Jeffersontown The strategy Shumaker outlined to should become stronger. While he Demoaat who has criticized U of L in members of the Greater Louisville can't speak for other deans' degree the past for Jacking a clear sense of Economic Development .Partnership of approval with Shumaker's pro the kind of school it wants to be, yes last Saturday, and described at great posal, "I'm with it a hundred per terday caJJed Shumaker's proposal er length to U of L's trustees Monday, cent," he said. "some of the best news .•. in a Jong is "absolutely on target," said Brad Still, the task has been daunting, time" from his alma mater. "What I Richardson, president of the partner- Hanley said. "It's been consuming want him to know is that he bas the ship. · me - !eying to get the input from support of a number of folks. who . Richardson said Shumaker's plan is the faculty, hying to put it down in want him to be even bolder." in line with the advice of partnership a logical manner. and !eying to Shumaker's proposal, hammered consultant M. Ross Boyle, who said match it up with the needs that are out in large part by the university's Louisville needs to 1ienerate "technol coming forth from the city." deans since October, would add 20 ogy niches" to build economic mo David Howarth, acting dean of endowed chairs to the current 25 and mentum. The plan is aimed in part at arts and sciences, said earlier this at least double U of L's endowment, providing research and academic un month that he agrees with Shu annual harvest of federal and private derpinning in such areas as telecom maker's idea of focusing improve grants and annual production of doc munications and the distribution of ment efforts on a limited number toral graduates. products and infonnation. - 20 or more - of research and Given the amount of ground that Shumaker's desire to boost U of L's graduate or professional programs. U of L - a perennial also-ran in na prowess in biomedical sciences and But if only a few programs achieve tional ratings of graduate and re bioengineering are also "just sort of distinction, "there is a trickle-down search programs - must make up, natural lie-ins" with Louisville's eco effect" that benefits all parts of the the goal for additional endowed nomic-development needs, Richard university, he added. chairs isn't aggressive · enough, son said. Hanley said deans have been Shaughnessy said: "We ·don't have George Fischer, co-chairman of the asked to estimate the costs, in per the luxuey of makin!f them up at. (the partnership's task force on higher sonnel, enrollments and dollars, of rate of) two a year, he said. education, technology and workforce boosting selected programs to na Officials of a group that is working development and a former chairman tional prominence. Shumaker to position Louisville for an economic of the U of L trustees, called Shu "should be close" to a clear picture talieoff in the next centuey offered maker•~ plan "lofty and bold" and a of the costs, he said. q) p_~~-1...1-lcJ -d Jan, 307 t'/91 MSU ARCHIVES MSU Clip S1leet A sample of recent articles of interest to Morehead State University INSTITUTIONAL RELATIONS MOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY UPO BOX 1100 MOREHEAD, KY 40351-1689 606-783-2030 THE COURIER-JOURNAL • THURSDAY. JANUARY 30. 1997 That change was controversial but ·'needed to be made," he said. Shumaker's plan Swain said the funding reallocation that he began - and that Shumaker plans to continue - also got a sour reception in some quarters, in part for U of L resembles because of skimpy state funding. In stead of boosting successful pro grams' funding, he said, the best he his predecessor's could do was shield it from cuts, at the expense of less successful pro grams. By MICHAEL JENNINGS Swain's plan required deans and The Courier-Journal David Howarth. the acting dean of other administrators to reallocate arts and sciences, said that so far, money from low-prioriiy to high It may be ambitious, but University Shumaker's plan has gotten a warmer priority programs and services. It reception on campus than Swain's of Louisville President John Shu called for about 515.3 million to be maker's plan for propelling his school did. The two are similar in substance, channeled into the top programs over "but I guess what we didn't have to excellence in certain fields isn't en three years. tirely new. when Swain was here is a governor Shumaker's plan adopts the same who's apparently veiy serious about The "Challenge for Excellence" approach, calling for an annual shift plan Shumaker unveiled Monday higher education." Howarth said. "kind of logically grows out of roots of 2 percent of the universitY budget Gov. Paul Patton has told higher that were there awhile ago," Donald from less successful to more success- education leaders that he will try to Swain, who was U of L president : ful pursuits. Deans who a(e helping fund their workable plans for making from 1981 until Shumaker's arrival in shape the plan say cost ·esnmates are their schools more effective. He plans 1995, said yesterday. in the works. · to call a special legislative session de "That's good," Swain said. "That's Under Swain's strategy, the School voted to higher education this spring. of Education started requiring all Swain, who boosted U of L's en continuity of effort." dowment from $26 million to $160 Swain strongly endorsed Shu teacher candidates to earn a liberal arts bachelor's degree plus a master million. stressed the importance of maker's aim of turning U of L into a private money to cushion the univer nationally prominent research univer of education degree. Swain created some programs, axed some and sity against the vagaries of politics sity. "But it will take a united effort to and state budgeting. Ideally, he said, make sure the funds follow from the changed the administrative structure of others. both state and private funds will flow good ideas," he warned. Winners under Swain's plan includ · freely at the same time. In several respects, Shumaker's IO ed environmental studies, women's During his own administration, year improvement plan resembles the studies and the university women's "there were a lot of moments to be "Strategy for the 1990s" that Swain center. U of L's Government Law optimistic, but not so many moments pursued in the last years of his ad Center, several associate-degree pro when the money really came follow ministration. Both plans call for more grams, the geology department and ing that optimism," he said. emphasis on research, more outside major, and programs in dance and "It may be that the planets are funding, a shift of resources from less nutrition were eliminated. aligned so that it can happen this successful programs to more effective Swain also pushed through post time. I certainly hope so. Got my fin ones and a closer fit between the uni tenure review of faculty performance. gers crossed that it will." versity's strengths and the communi ty's needs. Shumaker's plan sets a IO-year time frame for reaching the top rank of research universities, adding 20 en dowed professorships and boosting 20 or more graduate · and research programs to national prominence. . .It calls for doubling the endowment and the number of doctorates award ed annually and more than doubling annual research grants. Most re search and academic offerings flagged for improvement in the plan are deemed highly relevant to the Louisville metropolitan area's eco nomic and social needs. Swain's plan, approved by the U of L trustees in 1991, centered on similar themes. Swain tried to build on the university's existing strengtt:,s, make it more relevant to commuruty needs, simplify its structure . and change its academic culture. LEXJNGTON HERALD-LEADER. LEXINGTON. KY. ■ THURSDAY. JANUARY 30. 1997 It's play time, retiring UK aide says BY MATT FELICE ment. which was far more restric HERALD-LEADER STAFF WRITER tive when he was a student. Frank·· Harris From an assembly line in Western Ken ··J remembered a dean of men tuckv to a classroom in East Africa. Frank who used to go around to bars to Age: 63 Harris had already been places when he make sure students weren't using Education: B.A., . found his niche as Student Center director m their student IDs to buy alcohol.'' University of Kentucky, 1962 the Universitv of Kentuckv. Women had to be in the dorms Experience: UKStudent But his adventures didn't end then. and by 10 p.m. mnveeknights and mid Center director, 1966-1997; , he doesn·t plan on letting them. end Frida,· night on weekends, and ·they Student Center administrative when 31 years of advising student leaders weren't allowed to wear slacks or assistant, 1965-1966; East comes to a close. Bermuda shorts. Some avoided that Africa boarding school teacher, '"I'm going to play for two years now."' he rule initially, he said, by wearing 1963-1965: Fayette County said, referring to plans to continue traveling. trenchcoats to dinner. until eventu schools teacher, 1962-1963; But that doesn't mean Harris. 63, will be ally. the dean of women looked the part-time student center niglit' away from students. His September vacation other way and the regulation was supervisor, 1960-1962; ' plan is to board a ship with 500 students for dropped. McCracken County Schools the University of Pittsburgh's '"Semester at As Student Center director, Har teacher, 1959; U.S. Army, 1957- Sea"' program. ris says he managed the technical 1959. As Student Center director, Harris does end but let student leaders make all Community involve more than supervise daily operation of the the decisions - and some of the ment: Lexington Council for building. He also helps the Student Activities mistakes. ··If you're not making the Arts, Arts Place, Bluegrass Board coordinate campus concerts and other mistakes. you·re not doing any State Games, Fourth of July events. and advises the Student Government thing."' Festival. Association. ·Harris recalls only having to .Family: Wife, Elsie; two ··we never had to take his advice," said step in twice when it came to acth· grown daughters. Alan Aja, current SGA president. ··But we al ities progTamming. ways did. and he was always right." Once was in the early '70s when Joe Burch. vice president for university students wanted to bring in the relations, agreed that Harris is a wise counsel New York Erotic Film Festival. to students. (The county attorney threatened to ··He doesn't get caught up with bureau put him in jail if the festival took cracy. He knows what he wants to do and . place; it didn't.) The second was how to do it," said Burch. who has been close when students proposed a Jerry friends with Harris since they were UK stu Garcia concert, which was a m~rei dents. logistical problem since the artist ··He is very perceptive about issues and had been known to carry on forever problems and cuts right through to the core with no designated end. of anything:· Beyond that, Harris let the ac Harris says the university has changed a tivities board and the student gov lot in three decades. but students in general ernment settle their own controver are the same. ··They"re mainly concerned with sies. ·• I got a chuckle out of a lot of getting through and getting out and paying it, but I would never admit that at the bills." he said. ··They have the same con the time." he said. cerns about their field and about success. Burch said Harris' ability to mo There have always been a large number of students who've worked through school." tivate students without dictating to He said fraternities still face some of the them was his main strength of same issues. as does student government. character. ··and of course there has always been a seg Burch pointed out -that several ment of ardent basketball fans:· he added. former student government presi \Vhafs different is the campus environ- dents and other students Harris had worked with came back from as far as Boulder, Colo .. to speak at a lun cheon in his honor last Friday. ·•J think that says a lot about, him." .NKifVOteS'tO" start football team. by '99 _;':{ft" ~~l:f". .:=:-. -~.-. - • -·,~''~,,:--'I, - :- ' ''tt·- BY ANGIE MUHS HEAALD-l.EADER EDUCATION WRITER No·,se football chronology_ ;;i. • . ·· · ::.: · ·•.\:{!#: •~7_>.j:_:}c1'i.fJ~;J',.. ~-!:_! ... / • .,::-_,, .:+.,..:',.:- §·"l - • • · • /. HIGHLAND HEIGHTS · ff Northern Kentucky University's plans for a football program go Northern Kentucky University foot according to schedule, it'll have gone from idea to kickoff in about ball supporters reached the goal three.years;· •" ; ::.i~i!ii}f)·';.;f.~i..:.,:l~~ -~a .::·.; .. =."::<·-•W,,,.::~~'!:T-"'ci~·.:..•, line yesterday, but the going was •. :Here•are the steps of the plan: · ,_,.;--,-: _ . tougher than they might have , ■ UK official suggests_ creating boar