Se.pf. i 2 19'19 MSU ARCHIVES~ Ul "'c:::;p~ Mt;U Clip Sheet A sample of recent articles of interest to Morehead State University UNIVERSITY COMMUNICATIONS MOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY UPO BOX 1100 MOREHEAD, KY 40361-1689 606-783-2030 The Morehead News, Tuesday, Sept, 1, 1998 MSU pulls classes. from. Prestonsburg campus "If they took classes at More Floyd said PCC's savings on $10 parking head, they would exp~ct to pa_y a electric and janitorial services, fee," she said. MSU s parkmg provided free to MSU, is a small fee in dispute fee is $35 a year. consolation. Moore said 200 students were By SEAN KELLY affected by the pullout, with "It does not send a message Staff Writer MSU now holding classes at a that we want to send, that we're Baptist church, Mayo Technical an open campus," she said. "We have been for years." A dispute over a $10 parking College and the Mountain Arts Center. Those spaces were Moore and Floyd both said fee has led Morehead State Uni the issue could be resolved, with versity to pull classes from the donated to MSU free of charge. MSU returning to PCC campus. Prestonsburg Community Col •students appreciated our "We're going to keep our lege campus. efforts to save them from anoth doors open," Floyd said. Dr. Michael Moore, MSU vice er fee," he added. president of academic affairs, THE COURIER-JOURNAL• TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1998 said MSU opposed the timing of the fee, more than the cost itself. "They were imposing this Georgetown, EKU set after classes already started," he said. "We had already collected fees from our students." PCC President Deborah fund-raising records Floyd said MSU was notified half of the school's budset, said Transylvania Uriiversity raised about the new fee before the By RICHARD WILSON Donald R. Feltner, EKU's vice presi slightly more than $6.1 million, classes started. The Courier-Journal dent for institutional advancement. compared with $5.2 million last •J told Michael Moore Aug. He said private money has en year. The school's record was $7.·1 LEXINGTON, Ky. -Two Central hanced EKU's academic programs million in 1994-95, said spokeswom 14," she said. "We've been very Kentucky colleges h~ve set fund clear we were going to this park and helped students pay for their an Sarah Emmons. The Transylva raising records dunng the past education. nia figures include only gifts or ing program." year, and two others came close to He said EKU has received $52.U contributions already in hand. Moore said at that meeting, breaking their records. million in ~ifts, pledges and "It had been mentioned they The schools setting records were planned gifts smce its formal devel were considering a parking fee, Georgetown College, in Scott Coun opment program began in 1984. but that was a hypothesis." He ty, and Eastern Kentucky Unive~i "This continued success of our ty, in Richmond. Centre. Coll~ge 1~ voluntary suppon program is a trib added that MSU wasn't formally Danville and Transylvania Umvers1- notified until Aug. 18, "when we ute to the university" and a compli ty in Lexington came close to ment to Eastern's alumni and received a flyer from their insti breaking their records. friends, said EKU President Bob tution announcing the parking At Georgetown, gifts from all Kustra. fee." sources exceeded $13.2 million, At Centre, gifts and grants for Floyd said MSU did not noti compared with $7.2 million for the 1997-98 totaled $9.2 million, the preceding fiscal year. That includ~d second-highest amount in the col fy her about needing the PCC gifts from the Kentucky Baptist classroom space until Aug. 17. lege·s history. The record was in Convention and P.iann~d gifts, 1994-95, when a substantial estate She added that during the sum which includes wills, insurance gifl pushed the total to more than mer, PCC ran stories in the local policies, annuities and trusts. $12 million. In 1996-97, the school newspaper about the parking "We had a number of large gifts raised nearly S!l.l million. fee. during the year. ... We also had The gifts and grants have enabled many smaller gifts from. alumni, Centre to offer a generous scholar Floyd said MSU students use friends, churches, foundauons and the classrooms and library free ship program and pursue construc corporations," said Georgetown tion and renovation projects. of charge, while PCC students President William H. Crouch Jr. The growing level of financial have to pay a technology fee to "This is encouraging because it in commitments reflects the willing use the library. The parking fee dicates there is widespread interest ness of alumni. friends. companies was inntituted to provide PCC in Georgetown College." and foundations to invest in the At Eastern, gifts from private kind of education that Centre of with security personnel, she sotirces reached sli~htly more th~n said. fers. President John Roush said. $5.3 million. Additional commit The school ranked second nation Floyd said she did not see ments of more than $2.5 million allv this year in the percentage of much of a difference between raised the total to $7 .9 million. Most a!Umni who made gifts - 63.7. Am the students paying a parking contributions were designated to hersl College in Massachuseus fee at PCC or the Morehead suppon academic programs and ranked first with 65 percent. student scholarships. State campus. Private support is essential be cause the state provides less than The D~ily lndepenifiint, ~s~~~n~.l~ll!UCk}i, · Monday, Augii!lL~+• .1~.!IB . Chapman · has. ·soimf"sliort term . concerns," too, such . as I guiding Shawnee State through ·the transition from -a , ·~ija \Vnet%?~res'id,en,. quarter to a semester system. That must be done by the fall puts emphasis on?P · of 2000.-.- : · Another big issue is that of c~pus gov~i:n~c( ~•Haw do we in!)o,potate everybody"s ¢limpus, ~g\ver.sity]~-.~ voice into what' happens at , . . . . . Long·career at UK· SSU on campus?" he asked. By SARAH PonE~ , A native of Indianapolis, The init_iation last, spring of FOR THE DAILY INDEPENDENT • Chapriiali as a young man the Student Government As studied for the priesthood at sociation · should lielp make PORTSMOUTH_- .(',. veteran St. Meinrad Qollege in South- that easier Jo aqcomplish. University of Kentucky ad ern Indiana. · · Brian Meier,0 elecfed that ministrator who will lead "I decided that it was just group's first president, likes Shawnee State University into ·not for me," he said. Instead, what he's seen so far from the next millennium has his he married. His wife, Ann, is a Chapman. eye on diversification of his full professor at Eastern Ken "He's willing to see people own campus and cooperation tucky University. They have I on the spot," Meier said. "He's with others. two sons, Dan, 27, and Andy, out a lot more. At orientation, Dr .. James Chapman, 54, took 23. comments I heard from several over the post July l, becoming Chapman received his bach of the students were about the fifth president in the elor's degree from St. Meinrad school's 12-year history. how many of them had met the and later earned two master's president." He wants the school to re degrees and his doctorate from cruit a variety of types of stu Chapman made himself a Indiana University. visible presence on• campus dents to help develop a well He joined the UK system in rounded campus. from the first day. He jogs "My interest is in educating 1972 as assistant director for around campus .every morn instruction at Madisonville ing, encountering many stu- Ohio Appalachian students - Community College. Chapman that's our mission - but by dents along the way. . bringing in people from other later moved to the main cam• Meier, who will meet with areas I feel we'll be able to di• pus in Lexington as assistant Chapman monthly, said he versify the student body and university budget director in saw the new president as a bring in new ideas," Chapman 1974 and served in several po change for the better. said. "I think that lends to the sitions there, most recently as "I think he's going to be a growth of the community." acting president of Lexington more visible presence," Meier Chapman said he has met Community College. said. "Hopefully he'll push us with Dr. Angeline Dvorak, Shawnee breakdown beyond where we're at right president of Ashland Com now." munity College, will meet soon Much of Shawnee State's en The search committee that · with Morehead State Univer rollment is made up of nontra screened candidates for the sity President Dr. Ron Eaglin ditional students, adults who presidency looked for someone and hopes to get together with are changing careers or pre who could provide a vision for other education leaders from paring to enter the work force the institution and help plan the area. The topic: "What we for the first time. for the future, said Suzanne all can do together to improve Too often, Chapman said, Shelpman, director of admis the educational level." such individuals go to school sion and retention at Shawnee "We really need to bring up for years with little to show for it. He wants to steer them State. the college-going rate and the "Beyond that, we were look educational base," he said. into associate degree pro grams, "so if they do take sev ing for somebody who wanted "Whether it's through the high to pull the campus community schools, technical schools, eral years, somewhere along community colleges or univer the line they've got a piece of together," she said. sities, we need to increase our paper that says more than just "When I looked at it from how many hours they've the perspective of my position, total educational base in this I was looking for a new presi area. By so doing, then we'll be taken," he said. more attractive to businesses "What really provoked me to dent who understood the criti and we'll be able to keep pea· do that is being over at the cal issue of enrollment, not pie here. University of Kentucky and just from a campus impact, but "I feel that if higher educa seeing so many people in cleri a fiscal impact as well. What tion can make a difference, cal positions who actually did we found with Dr .. Chapman is here's a perfect example of a take 10 years. and they basi that he went beyond that. place where y9u can see if it cally have nothing between "Not only can we see that he really does, both culturally those first three hours they has initiated plans to draw the and economically." take that first semester and campus community together, when they finish up 10 years he is seeking a very diverse later," he said. enrollment population, and he brings a myriad of other tal ents," she added. "I believe the hn..,f- nhn;,.a UHlC' l"r"l-:lilD " Lexington Herald-Leader Tuesday, September 1, 1998 . UK officials have said the main rea son for banning -alcohol in fraternity r~Neighbors blamhig UK: houses is to avoid liability issues. The de cision came after excessive dpnking led to student deaths at Louisiana State Uni- for rise in parties, no~e . versity and Massachusetts Institute of the Friday and Satur Technology last year. ,.;.:- f';, '· ; · By Brian Bennett day after classes start .. Neighbors fear that UK is trying• to HERAJ.DlEADER STAFF WRITER ed, with stepped-up force fraternities off-campus entirely ·so The University of Kentucky patrols, police issued they won't have to deal with them. But banned alcohol from its under another 79 citations in university officials say that's not true. that area. , graduate housing, but it hasn't "UK wants a strong Greek system," stopped students from drinking "It seems to be much worse this said David Stocli1lam;the school's dean and partying. year," said Police Chief Larry Walsh. of students. "don't want is a fra. . The students simply moved "And football hasn't even started yet." "What we Police have added a special patrol - ternity system that is a series of private the celebrations off-campus. And drinking clubs." _ that has created a whole new set including officers on bicycles - in the Stockham said the university plans to of problems. Aylesford area from 7 p.m. to 2 a.m., Walsh said. But he said officers are ham purchase land for a "Greek Park," to be As students have settled back located near sorority row off Columbia into the· college routine the past strung by the overcrowding at the Avenue. UK would help fraternities issue two weekends, neighbors and po Fayette County Detention Center, which bonds to build new houses in the park, lice have noticed more house par prevents them from arresting any but the most serious offenders. Most are cited and in return, the fraternities would agree ties than ever on the streets near to have a university staffer live in and su campus. And homeowners - who and released. Mike Johnson, who lives on Transyl pervise the houses. blame UK for the situation - say Unfortunately, Stockham said, some that's the last thing they need. vania Park, said he saw one party on "This was very irresponsible of Aylesford Place last weekend where at students have been bad neighbors for years, and there's little the university can the university," said Janet Cowen, least 100 people were standing outside : who lives on Columbia Avenue. drinking. , do to enforce good behavior when stu "It's like a parent saying to their "It was really a big mob," he said. dents live off-campus. If a registered stu dent organization continues to cause child, I don't care what you do as For years, residents like Johnson and long as it isn't in my house." Cowen have complained about rowdy problems off-campus, the school can re students who throw loud parties at all voke that group's campus affiliation, he Keeping the uneasy peace be said. tween students and residents are hours of the night. Homeowners some times wake up to find empty bottles and And if local residents are upset with Lexington police, who have had to rowdy students, Stockham suggested step up patrols near campus but even cars parked on their front lawns. Both Johnson and Cowen also say they they call the students' landlords. have no jail space in which to put "We don't want our students to be a offenders. have been unwitting witnesses to several nuisance," he said. "But owners of the UK, whose dormitories had episodes of public urination. been "dry" for years, decided in property should be held responsible. And Now they are worried that with even if a student messes up off-campus, he April to ban alcohol from fraterni more parties, their neighborhoods will be ty houses, a popular spot for large should have to face police and a judge nearly unlivable for families and other downtown." parties. The decision severely lim non-students. Nobody seems happy with the new ited social opportunities for stu "Slowly but surely, they're doing their dents, many say. alcohol policy or its consequences. But best to destroy this area," Johnson said. some, such as Transylvania Park resi "There are definitely going to be a lot Johnson's wife, more parties off-campus," said Travis dent Nelson French, are resigned to it. Lisa, invited Mayor "Kids will be kids, and there's no rea Petty, a junior and vice president of Pi Pam Miller to tour Kappa Alpha fraternity. "You go out at son they can't have fun and enjoy being their neighborhood students," French said. "It depends a lot night now and you see people walking Thursday night. Al around everywhere, drinking beer and upon police enforcement to make sure it though there weren't doesn't get out of hand." acting stupid." many parties going on And several fraternities have rented during her walk, Miller houses off-campus where they can hold said she saw a lot of parties, Petty added. beer cans and trash. Even before fall She said she asked classes started code enforcement to Wednesday, the par look into possible vio ties were raging, police lations. said. From Thursday "I think the resi through Sunday the dents are afraid, with week before classes some justification, that started, police issued that there is going to 160 alcohol-related ci be even more late-night tations in the area drinking and party bounded by Rose ing," Miller said. Street, East Maxwell "That's why we need to have the police Street and Oldham and out there now to let everyone know that Hilltop avenues. On won't be tolerated." :S qt. 2, l't'l 'ii MSU ARCHIVES~ 0-x: MtJU Clip Sheet A sample of recent articles of interest to Morehead State University UNIVERSITY COMMUNICATIONS MOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY UPO BOX 1100 MOREHEAD, KY 40351-1689 606-783-2030 The Daily Independent, Ashland, Kentucky, Tuesday, September 1, 1998 Eaglin·. said !'.fattingly's ·;; ri'-"· ""•-·s•.•·, ... · v• · •· strong stance on upgrading MSU~~.,,.,, faculty salaries and benefits was not a factor in his recom W{r1: - •• ,_, I•; mendation that Mattingly leave the board; "I'm ·personally .. very pleased I faculty ____ _ by the ,Pe!f.9~ruicf of Dr: Mat tingly over tile past five years," Eaglin saiit "It"is dif. regent,.. ~" ficulfto juggle the needs of the • •1· •• - ~-,e;,; r . . • -•. .,,,. ::":..::: faculty and the needs of the en: tire university, which are not resigns-.,: always necessarily in concert." Mattingly said he fully ex Coirltict with·,,. pected to resign as faculty re gent when he was appointed new position interim department chair. "However, I agreed to stay on By TOM LEw1s as faculty regent at the request OF THE DAILY INDEPENDENT of the Faculty Senate until they could determine the eligi bility of department chairs. MOREHEAD - There . Bruce Mattingly will be no faculty represen "I decided to resign when it tative on Morehead State became apparent that my con University's Board of Re "The administration saw it tinuing as faculty regent was gents when the panel meets differently than the faculty," creating a conflict among the Sept. 18. said Dr. Brian Reeder, profes faculty, administration and the Dr. Bruce Mattingly - .sor of biology and Faculty Sen board," Mattingly added. "I who had served as faculty ate chair. have a high regard for the regent since 1993 - was He said based on state and members of our board, and urged by MSU administra federal reporting requirements their ability to govern the in and the ,guidelines of the stitution was never in ques- tors, including President tion." · Ron Eaglin, to resign from Southern Association of Col that post last month after leges and ·schools, through Eaglin predicted Mattingly which MSU is accredited, de would do "an excellent job" as he was named interim chair a department chair. of the school's Department partment chairs at MSU are considered faculty members Now the Faculty Senate of Psychology. must have a special election to Mattingly obliged, despite because they still spend a cer tain percentage of time in the choose a faculty regent to a formal request from the classroom. serve the rest of Mattingly's university's Faculty Senate While on the board, Mat term, which will expire in to the Board of Regents to tingly frequently reminded re April. Reeder said that would allow Mattingly to remain gents of their 1989 commit take place within three to four on MSU's governing board, ment to bring MSU's faculty weeks, not in time for the at least until a special elec salaries up to benchmark lev Sept. 18 Regents meeting. tion could be held to pick a els. Eaglin said MSU faculty replacement. Mattingly had MSU's faculty pay was about members should not be con only three regularly sched 9 percent below benchmark in cern2d about a lack of repre uled board meetings re 1989, Reeder said. Since then, sentation at the next regents maining in his term. he said it has sunk to 12 per meeting. "I think there should The faculty regent posi cent below benchmark, the be enough trust in the faculty tion on the boards of Ken lowest among Kentucky's pub that the board is looking out tucky's public universities lic universities. for the best interests of the en was established by the Gen Lexington Herald-Leader tire university," he said. eral Assembly in 1968. Qual Wednesday, September 2, 1998 ified candidates are teach ing or researching members of the faculty with the rank State's SAT-takers ga.in of assistant professor or higher. Mattingly, now a full pro fessor, joined MSU's faculty on math, slip on verbal in 1980. While state law does not STAFF, WlRE REPORTS and universities require the clearly prohibit department Kentucky's top high school American College Testing Pro chairs from serving as fac students last year improved their gram assessment, whose scores ulty regents, "The Faculty math scores on the Scholastic As also increased last year. Senate has never defined a sessment Test, but lost ground on "The SAT is not representative department chair as a full the verbal section compared with of Kentucky students because onlv member of the faculty," said students in the rest of the nation. the students going to Eastern or Eaglin, adding that he-feltthe Kentucky students averaged Midwestern colleges take it," said intent of the legislation was 550 on the math portion, up four Robert Sexton, executive director for a full-time teacher to serve points, and 54 7 on the verbal of the Prichard Committee for Aca as faculty regent. section, one point below last demic Excellence. "Our brighter Board of regents chairman year. Both sections are well students tend to take the SAT." L.M. "Sonny" Jones said Mat above the national averages of The SAT report released yes tingly "chose to take a job in 512 on math and 505 on verbal. terday found that males averaged administration. That's just a The national averages were 511 five points better than females on plain and simple read, it seems and 505 in 1997. the verbal section of the test. and to me." About 13 percent of Kentucky 29 points higher on math. high school students - 5,740 - Whites averaged 553 on both • -• ,... & m •• • •• .. " -,., ,_. . The Daily lndepende'nt, Ashland, Kentucky, Tuesday, September 1, 1998 SAT: High-level math courses No annµal g~me. are given credit Big schools don't want to play Herd From Page t It seems that a proposal to matic bid to the first Motor sections of the test. ·Blacks, who force the Mountaineers of City Bowl in Pontiac, ·Mich. represented 4.5 percent of the the West Virginia University to The difficulty bowl officials SAT test-takers in Kentucky, av schedule an annual football had in finding an opponent eraged 47 4 on the verbal section game with the Thundering for the Herd again showed and 466 in math. the reluctance of big-name On average, the higher scores Herd of Marshall University belong to students who have tak may soon be considered by teams to play Marshall. en the most high-level classes. In legislators in the Mountain After Notre Dame, Michi Kentucky, fewer minorities take State. It's a move reminis gan State and several other college-track classes. cent of when an annual bas-. Officials from the College Big 10 schciols turned down Board, which administers the ketba11 game between the invitations, Ole Miss eventu SAT, say nationwide increases in University of Kentucky and ally accepted a bid and de math are the result of more high the University of Louisville feated Marshall in one of the schools making a push toward was a matter of debate in the most exciting bowl ganies. college classes. Kentucky General Assembly. One problem Marshall has However, nationwide verbal WVU football officials are scores have stayed steady. in scheduling big-name op "We can point to increased not enthusiastic about an an ponents is the size of its sta math and science study as the rea nual game with Marshall for dium. The Herd must travel son for the current high math the same reason UK bas to meet top opponents. Noth score, but the rock-steady verbal ketball officials for decades ing but a larger stadium is scores are more difficult to ex opposed meeting the Louis going to change that. plain," said Donald Stewart, Col Beyond the stadium prob lege Board president. ville Cardinals during the SAT math scores have regular season: The Moun lem, however, is the fact that increased steadily since 1994, the taineers have much to lose schools with national reputa first year calculators were allowed. and little to gain from an tions don't want to play Mar The SAT report also showed a yearly game with the Herd. shall for fear that they might steady increase in the number of Marshall's efforts to meet lose. students who take college-track its cross-state rival each year UK officials for decades op classes. posed an annual game with In this case, the number of also points to a challenge the students enrolled in advanced Herd faces in rising to prom the Louisville Cardinals for placement classes - which can inence in NCAA Division I fear that it would endanger be used as college credit - has football: Convincing top UK's undisputed position as doubled since 1988. ranked teams to play it. the state's most popular col Advanced-placement courses A year ago West Virginia lege basketball team. Of are considered the highest-level course, the game is now one classes that a high school student and Marshall met in Morgan of the biggest attraction's on can take outside of college. town in a season-opening both team's schedules, and New graduation requirements game that marked the Herd's both schools benefit from it. are moving Kentucky high school introduction to Division I. The sam(! thing could hap students toward more and higher After quickly falling behind level classes in math, English. sci pen with an annual game be ence and social studies. 28-0, the Herd came back to tween Marshall and West Ken Cox, director of high go ahead of the Mountain Virginia, but scheduling schools for Fayette County eers before losing in the final such a game should not be a schools, said advanced-placement quarter. matter for the state legisla classes are offered at all five high The Herd went on to win ture. Politicians have no schools. In the 1997-98 school the Mid-American Confer vear. more than 900 Favette stu business meddling in the ath dents enrolled in the classes. ence title and earn an auto- letic affairs of universities. "Students are counseled to Lexington Herald-Leader make sure they understand all the Wednesday, September 2, 1998 expectations of the class before thev enroll." Cox said. University will offer The core courses are ·By 2002, all Kentucky students classes for managers set up as three daylong will have to take at least four Years workshops. Most participants are of English. and three years each of EKU's Employee Training studying for a program certificate, math, social studies and science. Corps will begin offering a series but several others are taking of business supervision courses courses of specific interest. The this fall. The program con- classes are taught by EKU faculty. sists of two core courses professional trainers and busines.s THE COURIER-JOURNAL • WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1998 covering general issues in professionals. Murray State enrollment hits 8,900 management and supervi For more information on the sion and a series of elec program, call Cheryl Juhasz at MURRAY, Ky. - Murray State University is closing in on another (606) 622-1224. record-breaking year as enrollment both on and off campus contin tive courses. ues to grow. The program is geared Phil llryan, dean of admissions, said 8,900 students had enrolled by toward supervisors in Friday afternoon, which was the last day to enroll on campus, ex ceeding the high mark of 8,811 students from last fall: He said enroll manufacturing. retail and ment could reach the 9,000 mark, which has been approached for service industries. several years but never met. Bryan also attributed the record enrollment to an increase in stu dents at its major regional outreach centers in Paducah, Hopkinsville, Madisonville and Fort Campbell. Lexington Herald-Leader ~ednesday, September 2, 1998 "We would've been among the a chance. I wanted to prove these lofty expectations. Eight best in the OVC," Combs said. teams wrong, and I believe I wins would be the most "But this is stiJI college football, have." in school history. Three we're still playing I-AA teams Brady, the junior from Camp consecutive winning sea and we're winning. I don't regret bell County, said, "Morehead was MoreheadI > • • seniors will sons would be a first that." the only school that showed an in since 1969-71. terest in me. I don't know why. "It's exciting to have Morehead hopes to continue We weren't good when I was a se a chance to be part of its winning ways behind sopho nior. But I Jove to play football, '.try;fto:go out as winners history," said Greg more quarterback David Dinkins, and I didn't care where I went. I'm Brady, a junior line who succeeds the departed Doug happy Morehead was interested." backer. "Three winning Turner. Dinkins, the sophomore from Pittsburgh, said Division I-A ,r:~ ·' ; Class could set school record : seasons would be a great "We want to make sure the se accomplishment. We think we can niors leave as the winningest schools backed off because his do it." class," Dinkins said. "We're tak early ACT and SAT scores were By Rick Balley Ridge Park. "I was surprised." Brady was a freshman when ing that seriously. It would be low. Then a tutor helped him im HERAU>I.EAOER STAFF IW
Mt)l<.fHtiA!) ,J(i;v.)s, fr-;d&..,, .5ep+, 4- t THE COURIER-JOURNAL• SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1998 THE COURIER-JOURNAL •SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 5, 1998 Centre College enrollment rises 51 to 1,053 Enrollment, ACT scores rise at WKU DANVILLE, Ky. - Centre College had 1,053 students registered Enrollment at Western Kentucky University has topped 15,000 fo, after the first full day of classes on Thursday, up 51 from last year, the fall semester, according to preliminary figures. the school announced yesterday. The number of students is up by 248 from last fall, totaling 15,087. The figure represents the largest one-year increase during the past said registrar Freida Eggleton. decade at the school. In addition to higher enrollment. the average ACT score for new The enrollment increase is due to a solid retention rate among students is 21A, up from 21.l last year. The average score in Ken returning students and a large first-year class, the school said. Centre tucky is 20.l. and the national average is 21. had 295 freshmen for the fall semester. Nearly 78 percent of the freshmen ranked in the top 20 percent of their high. school class. The freshman class includes 48 Kentucky Governor's Scholars and six National Merit Scholar final(sts, the school.said. Lexington Herald-Leader. . · ~~_ryday, Septembe.L6, 1998 l no longer Bubba's South ;(:ai;.•,South ~~' i .. \ ..,~-4:.t., .. · -~·~~?rv:c}·;----,;>;;-1.J:1: · , , ! .,.. ~-1;:-:..,~~'"'""~•-"'·'··..,. ~;- 1 :i,·• ~, 0 6ff; ~I-.,,f:~ , '. 'dJ j '. J/'\t'tb•h~J::' I'.· ;i;ft':i~{b·i :: t~:.Sa :.. ":~d work.' Bubba stiU~~ :;~;e ~ ~~j · t ... · Ii~,,->- .~rneld,e/m. ·e:mg e . e1wn,1.,:." i':· pitblack'ilffeniai_e_·couea.f_'.•:~~;~S- .. .. . n•b. --:~- "• - "' advanrar~~: ,, ;;_~,h,j, ; ••. ■ @l\ttn,j;i, ~:'>!'":'· =~• ~1:ir~=~~u~~~~~:;\1:1:i:1~:?o~~ .,, Qn.'.1W~;ii~.J$.~~~~~~~~- - • ••. -. •.• • - • .: ,;_.!,· 'i'.I'\' ,t;;:, four Southern states to have .mQ~:°~,31:l.ei:rr_.w/Jman.. Wlu!e.µiim·aj:~ sµ.ic:k in ,.,t.~~~~MNl5l_,,. -· •:: ,:•bi,!,:• , pie living in rural areas thaii:cl~,-.Wt;t .. ,-jobs \\1th"!~' efiiture(facf~,work and n ~-'i, \~f.,1,<'•~·~ ~ ,J,;.l· : ,"'.J. ,\. •,J°":j. --- ,. ~•:-••;• "'I) • •, (Th th th --~ ... ~.-.1:,v~•-=F5fh 'l'':1\::t."";'!',' -;::...·.:..1i:11i:lfi' .1r•;.·Ft:..::11.. rr··~iq_-r,,•.-...... : .. , · ..''·c<•·•r'j/otall.·· ,. ._.:.:· e o ers are e common.wea .. s.1:,-,,.,_:,,,,.,,.,,.,._""-'· .OVaVOme are.weart!lg ,·f.:;;learnin' m"!?J/~;''~'· poor cousins Arkansas, Missilll!ippi and white collars. Therearemore women and a churnin', ;kk!n' "(est V~!finia; the less?n here is that !ban men in professional/technical jobs · i:olton; raisin, hell and.... bigger □hes p~~uce higher wages.) m the South. Tiu!! wasn't, true 2~ years .bailin' hay " _ coun-'-'·. And even m Kentucky and · , _, , . ago. And the number of women II\ exec- try singer ·Bill Joe. · Arkansas, the majority of jobs are in utive or administrative jobs, while still Shaver , ,::.'· . metro ar~s. Bubba may park his S-10 ·lagging Bubha, is up over five times · · . , .. , ,. 1, for the mght on the fann, but he earns since 1976. . , . ,., ,.-:c· ~ Poor, old Bubba He'-s in a heap of the gravy for his biscuits in the city.,_ ,· ,,,., •:: ,. ,-. ._. .. : ...... ,;,· . hurt. . . . , n · ., (If cities· are the source of growth for There's a reaso_n for Ms. Bubba's Toe 1'V1xiys'canceled Duke/of the new South, SOS has a disturbing success. She's been working and she's Hazzard, and now there's nothing to statistic for Kentucky. The Louisville been learning. The State of the South watch except shows about a scrawny metropolitan area was the slowest-grow- reports that by "fall 1997, university female lawyer and city kids who don't ing of the South's major cities, slower systems in every Southern state en- have jobs aria, for fun, drink coffee.' even than foundering New Orleans.) rolled more women than men - roughly Sure, there's wrestling on cable, but the Once Bubba gets to work, his trou- 55 percent to 45 percent." (That gap has plot is no better than Baywatch - all hies really begin. Southern men excel at been widening for at least the past 10 meat and no potatoes. , jobs that are disappearing, according to years.) The.numbers in community col- Now Bubba-land, the South, is no State of the South. Unskilled labor, lege are even more tilted in favor of longer the South - at least not in the farmers, factory operatives and produc- Bubba's better half. Kentucky's commu- ways that count to Bubba. You can see tion crafts are all jobs that are less im- nity colleges, in fact, have the highest that in the latest edition of the State of portant in the South. They are also jobs percentage of women students (65 per- the South, an every-once-in-a-while re- that Bubba dominates. "Son, you are in cent) in the South. port on the region from a research a world of trouble," says State of the group in North Carolina. According to South. Those are words Bubba had bet- While men as a percentage of the State of the South, the days when Bub- ter understand. work force are declining, women are in ba·ruled a region built on rototillers Meanwhile, Bubba - black or creasingly seeking employment. The and fresh tomatoes, feed "store caps and white - is not working. A smaller per. only place Bubba seems to lead is in shirt-sleeve tans, hard work and a centage of men of working age (24 to swelling the South's prison population. meat-and-three are darn near over. 65) are on the job today than in 1996. This is the second State of the The level of education doesn't matter. The Economist magazine noted re South produced by MDC, Inc. (A con- In every category, Bubba is off the pay- cently that, "Apart from being more vi sumer warning: I worked on the first roll. "It is striking - and disturbing - olent, more prone to disease and more SOS in 1996.) And what this review that so many Southern men, and partic- likely to succumb to drugs, bad diet or says is that the South is becoming more ularly black men, are not working," re suicide - more socially undesirable urban, more diverse, more dependent on ports State of the South. from almost every point of view, men, brain than brawn.. And Bubba's paycheck is shrinking. it seems are also slightly more stupid And it says that Bubba, the region's From 1976 to 1996, a white man with a than women." .undereducated male,· is the South's most college degree saw his real earnings Poor old Bubba - all he did to de endanger~_.species'.' drop by 7.7 percent Education still ·. serve this fate was to remain utterly the ;:_ · :1J1e new,,~uth 'is extraordinarily makes a huge difference in earnings ··. same. ~ d .... ~ "(1) "-r"' Cl) (1) ~x ~ U) 5· (1) '!!I "0 '":,3::C C" (1) ; (1) ~ ~ !!!. .co'?- ,... ~ ... (1) "'Cl)"'C. '§ co~ 0 Q.. ~ -~ ~ ~ , TfW,Daily !n than last se!tson;};. the '.F;llgle coach . Nov. 14 Kentucky Wesleyan 1:30 p.m. Did not play . Morehead leads 2-0 -~:~~- .~~~0~f~;~~~~~te~~g~~rngh:~ i, . ·, ~Nevi~~y!Jfilt~t:'§2Ut9j@sirl~~:@~ij1wii,'ff,;QQ;p)ro;,l;;;,§Qµtfi.);l~Hi:!~1vt9nl~-1t7;,t:S2\Jf6!fi!9rI!laJ!l~a$i'¢-:O.i1';/ii; put up .tht!S;µne'Jype of rill)llbers,. ·';,!:.":a;,;:. .,.:--_.,.,..,.;_'-,,.,;.;;; ... ,::_.,;~, ______. "We ' re. ' ...gQ 'in . g;;_,!-!'.. ,.,_.' b-e .a. . diflierel) . t·.. ,>• ,,, ... :S ,. •'· \. ' "·•.,' ,._,,,,. ,.. type of foiitbalF.\ f~anF -We're not "\;_di>n·t-:;'_kno~,;. who they . were. But marking the first time MSU had The top two candidates are the going tq;_hav1i' qtje guy; do it all at gabou§:}998,;,y;e m~de a s1mfle state back-to-back winning seasons since athletic but unproven David Din fullback,\,you !.JlaY sfill tjtree or four : {. ment:!¥,!f ;W,ey thmk the~ ~e seen 1971, when they finished a third kins, who rushed for 53 yards on 16 guys. We're gql.pg to see _maybe t'!VO·•~:-S!lmething·tnow, they amt seen straight winning season under carries and hit two of three passes or three guys at'quarterback." . :,nqtlµng_yet~!' · . coach Jake Hallum. as a backup to Turner, or Univer Regardless of how frenetic MSU ·: · :That niay be easier said than If the prosperity is to continue, it ·sity of Evansville· transfer Drew may be· in seijling on the three •. don'l. ,· ·. ;" will be due to a better defense. Purcell. major offensive starters it lost from · -: The ,•Eagles ranked second na "Defensively, we 're stronger and Adam Stegeman returns with last se;i.son, Ballard plans on keep-,· tiorially·_ ~•;-:total. offense'. missing more aggressive," Ballard said. some experience at fullback while ing his policy of education and fun ..first by JUst',lO pomts. "We've also not been great at forc Jay Bradley and Nicholas Wool first.:, .: ,;':: · . "IJold•oiie of my assistants that ing turnovers. We couldn't catch dridge will also fight for that po "I think rm·ithe luckiest guy in . -we were not-going to _knee the ball up to anybody or hit anybody hard sition. tlie world to be ·here with this· at- • down_ 11t the end of halves any enough to make them turn the ball Joevon Stennett will start at half mosphere," he. said. "We've . more," Ballard said. "We missed by over. back. The other halfback spot will stressed since Day One that foot- 10 points -and we had minus-38 "This year, we can get physical be contended between Matthew -bal(is just' part ,)9f th.e education ;;;,Yardage frO!Jl just kneeing the ball against some folks. We've got -to Shugart, Camron Dinkel and Chris ·here. at Mor{lhe11!f State. If .you're r~d<>\VJI.''.{~ ,iff . . . create opportunities for our of Gatewood. blesse~ by _the good Lord to make a~l· Berry;:J~..,'the nation m punt re fense. We've got to have help defen Bubba Combs, a Division I-AA comm1tment-to get better.and stick:,bJurn~·-while·;_Morehead State set or sively and do a great job in the All-Independent team me1nber, re with it, great things are going .to ..'.tied 19 school offensive records. kicking game." turns at offensive guard, though he happen. . . _ , ' They.also led NCAA Division I-AA The Eagles return nine starters may be moved to center. "As I reflec(on 1997, we had the: in scoring offense and team punt on defense, including former Rus Todd Dinkel . returns as kicker- most excited, most explosive foot- returns. sell High School star Jeff Frasure. punter. · · ball team in the United States. If . · Those numbers also translated On offense, Ballard must choose "I think this will be an exciting anybody had more: excitement,'_ I ·; into success. The Eagles went 7-3, a replacement for Turner. football team," Ballard said. The Daily lnd~p1:_n~Emt, Ashland, Kentucky, Friday, September 4, 1998 African Americans· share of payroll on the stadium project. But she said she found African-American contrac JII-.U' . d - ' ·_.. tors' share of that work disappoint IYI ·. '-'-' ;/5, - n ~ .. nt rs n ing. . ~ .=~~.:.- ,~ '.;:·. .... a strong special teams player and ter. Blacks' participation in the project, ·.·' . _;,;,;,_,:,. , ·: .• could lie 96 to. whatever. whether as workers or as business Br TONY CURNUTTE '0', c".:!~,, .• : . "We could allow some points is the backup punter to Todd Din Former Red Devil Jon Totty owners, would have been almost nil 'OF THE DAILY INDEPEND~~-. ·' last' year." kel. Frasure enters the fall as the and former Johnson Central play "if Rev. Louis Coleman hadn't gotten · . ,. · :.,·: , ·Frasure hopes to headline a de- likely starter at weak-side line er Brian Blair are wide receivers out and raised the issue early," she ! 0"t.~h~ad_;JHate line-/ fense that should improve around backer. forMSU. said. I M blii:ker. Jeff Frasure: . Eagles Coach Matt Ballard has Controversy over minority hiring i diah't mind that last: mne returnees.• "I got a lot more experience than in my sophomore year," he also added three area freshmen - on the stadium led local unions to : .. year's team got recog-, "It's my senior year and I want former Ashland player Eric adopt another measure promoted by Inized for its offensive potency. i to go out·wlth·:1! bang," he said. said. Coleman: pre-apprenticeship training Frasure has thrived on More Broomall, former East Carter , After all, _the Eagles were sec-: "When my junior year started, I Raider Brandon Webb and former aimed at increasing the number of , ond in the riaUon in fotal offense; had a· different mentality. Now, head State's continuing progress. skilled minority and female construc- Rowan County Viking Kenley tion workers. '. · [ and set nunie'rou~ ,~:chooi' passing,! I've'· got all the experience and "We were just 2-8 my freshman Kappes, who turned down a full year and we went 6-4 and then, That training has started to pay . rushing and scoring· records on' I've got to step it up for my team scholarship .from an Ohio Valley off. · · : its way to a .7,3 season. · · mates and be a leader on and off last season, 7-3," he said. "Now, Conference school to attend More Modeled on a 28-year-old program .' -·'But this ,:year, Frasure ·wants• the field." : we've got this year and we've got head State. of pre-employment training in Indian ;ui'e defense't:6 get tll~'Kl!dos. ; Frasure started eight games a chance to be the second team in "I thought about it but I de apolis, the local program, known ·as [.,.·"'We've really got-'fo·'prove our-;. last, season, ·missing three to an school history to have three win cided that this is the place I want the Kentuckiana Plan, provides 80 )selves," Frasure, a former Russell· ankle injury. He had 33 main hits, ning seasons in a row and have ed to be," Kappes, a wide re hours of instruction in work readi one of the best records or any ness (such as showing up on time), · High School star, said. "We ·put two fumbles caused, one fumble ceiver, said. "It played the style of safety, mathematics and resume ~up a lot of points on the board recovered, one pass broken up, class. football that I wanMd to play in preparation. It also teaches the basics last year. We have to step it up.__ two tackles for. a loss and an in- "That would be real sweet." and that I liked. . of apprenticeships and the construc :we'll have to win some games 14- terception. Frasure is just one of several "It's a good, winning program tion industry. 13 when last year, lh!l finl!l score He's also established himself as local players on the Eagles' ros- with a wide-open offense." The training, which began in May, "We were just beginning, so it gave has produced 19 graduates - 15 Afri can-American men, three African ,THE CO[JRIERcJOl.iR~&l:;!NDAi."SEPTEMBER 6, 1998 The minority employment exceed $7 .6 million value of work on the us the opportunity to work and then ed U of L's self-imposed goal of 11.2 athletic building. U of L had hoped employ others." American women and one white percent, a figure reflecting local mi companies owned by minorities and Owsley said work on the stadium man. The training started too late to u L, Goleman differ nority membership in the construc women would get at least 15 percent has produced long-term benefits in affect hiring at the stadium, where all of workers had to be certified appren- tion trades, and it came close· to of the projects' value. the form of close working relation• matching minority presence in the lo The record has been better on oth ships between companies owned by tices or journeymen. . , cal population. In the 1990 census, er U of L projects pursued while sta whites and those owned by minor Bill Landrigan, director of the Ken on minorities' job share minorities accounted for 14.1 percent dium construction was in progress. ities. The African-American president tuckiana Plan, said two graduates, a Larry Owsley, U of L's vice presi (and African Americans for 13.3 per Businesses owned by minorities or of a trucking company said that was black man and a black woman, were By MICHAEL JENNINGS cent) of the population of metropoli women received 16.5 percent of the true in his case. recently accepted as carpentry ap The Courier-Journal dent for finance and administration said an audit of weekly employmeni tan Louisville. $19.5 million spent on a biomedical Dery! Sweeney said his company, prentices, and other graduates are reports shows 17.4 percent of those Owsley said he felt "very positive" research building, 19.5 percent of the Kentucky Transfer Line, did only working in pre-apprentice capacities The University of Louisville 'claims about U of L's efforts to involve mi $ I. 7 million spent on campuswide $26,000 worth of work on the stadi with millwrights, electricians, carp_en if did reasonably well at involving· who worked·on Papa John's Cardinal Stadium and an athletic-facility build norities and women on the stadium building adaptations for the disabled um. But he said the project led to "a ters and bricklayers. minorities in the construction of its work. They have paid off in greater and 19.9 percent of the $1.1 million great relationship" with RAM Engi Landrigan said the candidates'.job football stadium and did even better ing associated with it were either members of ethnic minorities or non minority involvement in the construc spent on an environ.mental-protection neering & Construction Inc., which supervisors rate them on att~nqance, at paving the way for future minority tion trades on projects at the univer center. held the basic-structure contract on productivity, work skills, mechanical participation in local construction minority women. Minorities - most of them African sity and elsewhere in Louisville, he Owsley cited Derbytown Electric the studium. ability c:rnd interpersonal relations. projects. said. Co. as an example of the minority RAM has since employed Kentucky Trainees can use these ratings as ref But U of L's leading critic on mi Americans - averaged 13.! percent of the weekly work force, and wom Coleman contended that workers owned beneficiaries of the stadium Transfer on a Jefferson County court erences when they apply for appren- nority hiring disputes that view. · at the stadium who were both minor' project. complex, the biomedical research "They are only padding their· fig en averaged 4.3 percent, he said. ticeships, he said. · From the start of construction in ities and women were counted twiCe, The company, owned by James building and an expansion of the To qualify for the training, which ures to send a message to this com producing a "misleading and decep and Joyce White, did $946,000 worth October 1996 through July 21, a Speed Art Museum, and "quite frank gets federal money under. the Job munity that they have done a ~ood tive" total figure. Owsley denied that of work on the stadium, and it has ly they've been fun to work with," job in recruiting and hiring mmor- weekly average of 186 workers - in Training Partnership Act, applicants cluding 25 minority workers and there was any such double counting. since worked on the campus adapta Sweeney said. "They're very profes 1ties," said the Rev. 1=,ouis Coleman, According to U of L figures, busi tions ·for the handicapped aild ren much be at least 18 years· old and head of the Justice Resource Center. eight non-minority women - were sional." employed ·on the project, Owsley nesses owned by minorities and ovation of the home of U of L Presi Anne Braden, a civil-rights activist lack education, be a welfare recipient said. women earned 12.7 percent of the dent John Shumaker. who works closely with Coleman, or have some other impediment to $41.6 million value of work on the The stadium project "was excellent said that in the past she had been employment. Anyone interested· may stadium and 12.4 percent of the for our company," Joyce White said. "pleasantly surprised" at the size of ??!~in an application by calling 583- . The Sunday Independent, Ashland, i --independent; Ashland, Kentucky, Friday, September 4, 1998 lll-lf-iMlllll1MIII ·-····"··· At long las~_:,::··::,.'. Non-traditional teachers have much to offer schools •·-. t• -•' Stacy Evans is, a pioneer rep, · hav~ been allowed.to teiich sub- resenting a long overdue devel- . jects in which they have little opment in education in. Ken- expertise. tucky, :·''./f:'··"~•·-.c , '."',:,,_; /''°··'.:t,f;: Our"hope'is'.tliat.Monday's There are many in the ed11- .... action I.Jy the pri>fessionai stim cation •• field.c:i.,.·'a-•,.~ who,.~puld l·, ,,. · . ar~;:~ ,._.. .,.;.·.,-·_.. , dards ,,.,_ .,,.,. board , .,, .. ,.: marks.,. ,-,,,...._,..,.. the. ~~·-•, be- that Evans is not qualified to · ginriing of the ·end of this ab- teach. After all, she has not surd pr~ctice. Those with ad taken the college education vanced degrees in a subject courses that traditionally have should be seen as an asset to been required to teach elemen- any school. Instead, they often tary and secondary education have been viewed as a threat in Kentucky. by teaching colleges and by But Evans, 35, has other at- · teachers. · tributes. She has a Ph.D. in While they may lack the chemistry and has taught sci- teaching courses, it is not as ence on the college level. She though people like Evans know also owns her own consulting nothing about the qualities of firm. good teaching. After all, in or- As a result, Evans has be- der to earn a doctorate, one come one of the firSt five appli- must spend 20 or more years in cants with "exceptional· work experience" and a 2.5 or higher school. During. that time, one college grade point average to encounters a lot of teachers, in be certified to teach high school eluding a few great ones, a by the Kentucky Education turkey here and there, and a Professional Standards Board. . majority who are somewhere in Putting people with. exper- between those extremes. That's tise in a subject area in the a lot of experience in observing classroom should not even be teachers at work. controversial, but it is. Teachei: Of course, being an expert in colleges, teacher organizations a subject area does not auto and many individual teachers matically make one a great have vigorously opposed trust teacher. But then neither does ing those who have not taken completing a lot of college edu education courses to teach our cation courses. The five non children. traditional teachers certified Indeed, teacher education in Monday should be supervised Kentucky traditionally has put just as closely as any other new far more emphasis on -teacher teachers. education courses than on ex ·We suspect the biggest win pertise in a field. While those ners of Monday's decision are with extensive knowledge in a the students of the five non-tra- field have been barred from the ditional teachers. They now classroom, those who have the have regular access to a wealth required teaching certificates of expertise and experience. ·- ~ptevnl'JeA.. '-l, L-t-1 ~ MSU ARCHIVES Ms-u t,/1p Sheet . f . t t t Morehead State University Asampleofrecentart,c/eso meres o 1100 MOREHEAD KY 40351-1689 UNIVERSITY COMMUNICATIONS MOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY UPC BOX • 606-783-2030 Lexington Herald-Leader Wednesday, September 9, 1998 Public universities. overflowing Daniel Saracino, assistant with students provost for enrollment at the Uni versity of Notre Dame and a past By Jo Thomas president of the National Associa NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE tion for College Admissions At the University of Maryland at Counseling, agreed that top state College Park last month, s~ !Uany universities "are good buys." Ciose~Up "Private schools that have al more freshmen than had ongmally been expected showed up that dozens ways counted on financial aid to were sent to spend the semester at the Today's '1 Higher. level the playing field may not be local Quality Inn. topic: education able to continue to pour the mon "I think we have it better than the ey in," Saracino added, pointing other freshmen," said Carri~ ~mith, 17. Huge freshman classes, with 200 to what he says is the growing "They don't have air cond1t1onmg or to 500 more than an_ticipated, hav.e gap between college costs and also arrived at the Umvers1ty of Cal)· what students and their families cable." . actually pay. At the University of Delaware m fomia at Berkeley, Rutgers Uni · Newark, some ~f the overflow was versity the University of Ari Some private colleges and happily camped m luxury ap~me1_1ts zona, Oregon State Univ,ersity, universities, however, also report normally reserved for umvers1ty and Pennsylvania State UmversL- significant increases in the per centage of freshmen who accept guests. At the University of Illinois at ty. ·11 Jt is too soon to tell who WL ed offers of admission this year. Urbana-Champaign, Antony Zo~te Alfred University in Alfred, N.Y., man, 18, spent his first two weeks m a be the enrollment losers - if any one_ as large public schools get had an overflow of 50 freshman, dormitory study lounge with three part of the largest freshman class other students, bunk beds and sofas. more crowded. This fall, the University of in 25 years, and had to rent a dor Large state universities across the mitory, United States are seeing freshman en Delaware enrolled 270 more freshmen than it had anticipat~d. Harvard University also re rollments surge this fall, forci!1g offi ported the highest percentage of cials to scramble to find beds, mstruc Larry Griffith, direct~r of _adnns sions said that the uruvers1ty had freshmen accepting offers of ad tors, chairs and classrooms. . . "for ~ Jong time been a quietly ex mission in 20 years: 80 percent. Colleges usually offer adm1ss1on to Alex Huppe, director of the Office more applicants than they expect to cellent place academi;fillY," but recently had been ra1smg more of Public Affairs at Harvard, said attend, to ensure that classroom sea(s money for new buildings and had Harvard was able to hold its in are full. But this year, several p_ubhc begun marketing itself more ag coming freshman class to 1,650, institutions were caught by surpnse at gressively. "right on target," because it keeps the number who said yes. . "I believe the next group of a waiting list. "We are often able Officials say students are optJ~g 'Public Ivies' is emerging ,and to eliminate 50 to 100 people from for public institutions bee:iuse the big that our experience at the Un1Ver the waiting list," he said. state universities are domg a b~tter Public and private institutions job of marketing their strong pomts, sity of Delaware i~, ~e o! the best public universities, Griffith alike may be seeing the first because parents are worried about the said "which show well under the signs of a surge in the number of economy and want good value for incr~sed scrutiny by parents, high school graduates, which money,_~!:l where tlie·:·ii.cli;lne•eifW.not! ·a -:·-1 i ,;( . , ·.:1 ,i_ ·,: , .... '. ,,,1;:, Tuesday by a neighbor, said -College student Rowan County Coroner John from Lexington, Northcutt. He refused to de scribe what Ms. Manning was 19, charged, jailed wearing or the condition of the apartment. HERALD-LEADER STAFF REPORT Morehead police investiga MOREHEAD - A More tors could , not be reached for head State University student comment yesterday. from Lexington has been jailed An autopsy performed yes on charges he beat a woman to terday at the State Medical Ex death. aminer's Office in Frankfort con Lamar Donaldson, 19, whose cluded that Ms. Manning died of campus address is 103 Butler blunt force impact injuries to the Hall, is charged with the murder head, Northcutt said. of Glenda Manning, 49, of Di Ms. Manning was an em vide Hill Apartments, near ployee of the Dairy Queen in downtown Morehead, according Morehead. She is survived by a to a news· release from the More son, Christopher Lee Manning, head Police Department. who is serving with the U.S. Donaldson remained lodged Army, and her parents, Glenn in the Rowan County Detention and Rose Prince Manning, both Center last night with bond set of Morehead. at $100,000, full cash, a jail em Funeral arrangements are in- ployee said. complete and are being handled Lexington Herald-Leader Ms. Manning was found in by Hutton Funeral Home in Friday, September 11, 1998 her bedroom about 1:30 p.m. Hillsboro. Morehead student ent.ers not guilty plei A Morehead State University student has plead, not guilty to beating a woman to death with a metal pot from her kitchen. Lamar Donaldson, I of Lexmgton, entered the plea in Rowan District Court Wednesday, one day after the slaying. Police allege that Donaldson bludgeoned Glenda Manning, 49, to death at her home. Donaldson then allegedly put the murder weapon into a backpack and took it to another woman's apart ment. The woman, Natasha Jones, turned the blood-stained pot over to police. Police have said that Manning and Donaldson apparently knew each other, but they aren't sure what Donaldson was 'doing at her apartment. They also say the . motive for the killing remains under investiga- tion. Dnn~kh::.nn ic:. in thP Rr,m-:,n r,,.,,...,,,-H The Daily Independent, Ashla~d, Kentucky, Thursday, Septem_ber 10, 1998 MSU stu(Jellt: Not guilty Northcutt wouldn't commen ,Woman beaten·t(J-_deatb with kitchen pot · on what Manning was wearin1 ' ...... wheri she was found· or de Wednesday. Apartments ori Ky. 32 early killing. in his statements to po- scribe the condition of he By KENNETH HART Lamar Donaldson, 19, whose Tuesday morning. lice, according·to the criminal I apartment. - OF THE DAILY INDEPENDENT campus address is· 103 . Butler Donaldson then allegedly put complaint filed against him. Police have said that Man Hall, entered the plea .at his ar-. the murder weapon into a He was arrested about 8:30 ning and Donaldson a~ MOREHEAD - A Morehead raignment iri Rowan District . backpack and' took it to an p.m. at the police station, parently-knew each other, bu 1 State University student from · Court. . ._- :.: · other woman's·apartment. The where he was being ques- they aren't ·sure what Donalc: Lexington accused-of'. beating· a-'--Morehead police· allege that woman, Natasha Jones, turne·d tioned. · son was doing at her aparl woman to death with a metal Donaldson bludgeoned 49-year the blood-stained kitchen im Manning's body was dis- ment.. They also say that th pot from her kitchen Tuesday old Glenda· Manning to death plement over to police. covered. in a bedroom of her motive for the killing remain pleaded not guilty to. the crime at her home in fl\e Divide Hills Donaldson confessed to the apartment by a neighbor at under investigation. ab-out 1:20 p.!il; Tuesday. . "We're still trying to. fine The body was taken· to the out a lot of things," said Detec· Lexington Herald-Leader • Friday, Sept By Diana Kunde semester advanced certificate, is charged with recruiting people to THE DAUAS MORNING NEWS an early contender. The school staff Internet-related positions. Jodie Gayton is a typical 19- started with a digital-imaging cur "We have to go through 50 in year-old student at El Centro riculum in 1997, then tweaked it terviews to find a couple of decent Community College with one dif this year to focus more sharply on people," said John Pozadzides, ference. Gayton already has the emerging commerce on the business sales manager for GTE's snagged a job in her career field, Web. Internet products and services. less than halfway through a two "We teach people to be func Consider: In 1989, fewer than year curriculum in Internet pub tioning members of Webmaster 90,000 people were online. Today lishing, training and commerce teams," said Ed Grundy, program that number has grown to 51 mil technology. director for the Internet curricu lion in the United States alone, She works for Universal Inter lum. "It's an exciting area. You with 100 million expected by net Solutions in Deep Ellum, cre see the fire in the students' eyes." 2003, according to Forrester Re ating Web siteq. for corporate Firms such as Novell and Mi search in Cambridge, Mass. Busi clients such as Premier Wood crosoft have added Internet com ness-to-business commerce via the Floors and Traffic Zone. ponents to their training. Four Internet will reach $327 billion by "It's always changing. It's nev year colleges such as Penn State 2002, Forrester projects. er boring," Gayton said of her University are getting into the act. Salaries are rising along with work. Even a few graduate schools demand, although it's difficult to With Internet use exploding, of business are adding concentra make comparisons in a field so there's a shortage of folks who tions in electronic commerce, new that job titles are in flux. The can create, maintain and use Web preparing MBA grads for man term Webmaster, for instance, can sites to the best business advan agerial posts in marketing, for in refer to anyone from a technical tage_ Now colleges and training stance. Vanderbilt University's designer to a vice president firms are rushing to fill the skills Owen School of Management, a A recent survey by Internet gap. pioneer, will graduate 48 MBAs World of Fortune 500 companies El Centro, which offers a with the specialty in 1999. found 50 percent of Webmasters three-semester basic certificate in Graduates will enter a promis earning between $45,000 and Internet technologies and a four- ing job market, say the folks $65,000 a year. aders' views of the subject taught, teachers will nec amazin' grace that we have done good essarily continue to learn about educa thar too. They even have got adminis tion. trators down thar with degrees from orehead offers Morehead should be lauded for pro Morehead State . _ , and they are I wish to respond to the Aug. many applications for certifica 13 letter writer who wrote to tion do not arrive until July to complain about the "clerks in be processed. Frankfort .who process teacher The Office of Teacher Edu certifications." She is very cation and Certification has · wrong to blame the personnel also had some personnel in the Office of Teacher Educa changes, so new staff has had tion and Certification. Those to be trained during this hectic employees are doing their very time of new teacher applica best to process certificates in a tions and experienced teachers timely manner. seeking certification to update Teachin~ is a profession that their qualifications. requires hcensure. Kentucky I have had the privilege of citizens deserve to know that their teachers have met all the serving on the Education Pro require·ments of college course fessional Standards Board for work and national tests. New over live years, and I know that teachers are also required to the Office of Teacher Education submit to fingerprint tests and and Certification personnel a felony check. Assessing all of work very hard to assure quality these requirements takes a teachers in Kentucky's class long time to process. rooms. I am sorry that the Aug. 13 writer had a bad experience Timing is an issue. There are obtaining her certificate, and we only a few weeks between col will look into her situation. lege graduation when seniors However, I think she was wrong fulfill their education require to place the blame on the staff ments until·school starts in mid of the Office of Teacher Educa August. Universities have to make sure that each student has tion and Certification. the required transcripts and test ROSA WEAVER, Principal scores before sending the appli R. C. Hinsdale School cations to Frankfort. Therefore, Edgewood, Ky. 41017 THE COURIER-JOURNAL!• SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1998 --- ' ~ Murray's arena is dedicated after 20 years of work Associated ·Press that today is a golden one." The $20 million center, MURRAY, Ky. - It was 20 which seats about 8,600 people, years in the making, but Mur is behind Roy Stewart Stadium ray State University's Regional on Ky. 121. Butts and others at Special Events Center is finally the ceremony noted that a reality. $18 million came from a state The center was dedicated economic-development bond, yesterday at an event attended but $2 million was given by pri by about 100 people. vate citizens, much of that in Regents Chairman Sid Easley small amounts. said: U.S. Rep. Ed Whitfield said "It took 24 years to build the the center is a monument to coliseum in Rome in 100 A.D. what the people of Western This was built faster, but not by Kentucky can do when working much. It was worth the wait. together. "This was born out of "This is a tremendous asset dreams. Those dreamers said for the entire area," he said. we deserve a place like this for "There are a multitude of uses MSU." that will draw people from all James Butts was chairman of over and should help in recruit the board of regents when the ing industry. The list of possi project got rolling in 1978, The ble uses is long; it's not just a Paducah Sun reported in a sto basketball arena. Concerts, ry for today's newspaper. plays and musicals are just a ·"It mar have taken 20 years, few potential uses. The folks but here 1t is," he said. "The lo here can feel very fortunate to cal people have been great in have this center." their understanding and work Murray State President Kern ing with us. It was a cold, over Alexander called the center's cast day when we were here 20 dedication a momentous time years ago. Maybe it's fitting in the university's history. THE COURIER-JOURNAL.~ONDAr_, SEPTEMBER 14. 1998 Vuror flares again over Paducah college expa~_si~n Deal with UK AH TOTAL COMPENSATION FOR ... . could allow school . -a. ..-·~ • ·-...... i . PADUCAH. COMMUNITY COLLEGE J. .. f-·-.:.,...... to add classes·. '.: -~-~~.~~ .. :~ PRESIDENT. LEONARD O'HARA · · By JAMES MALONE The Courier-Journal PADUCAH, Ky. - Little more than a year after the uproar subsided over a new four-year engineering program at Paducah Community College, the issue of expanding programs through the University of Kentucky is back. A local tax-supported foundation . ,• that owns Paducah Community Col lege has signed a contract with UK that could allow it to add classes - even though nearby Murray State ·::co~ll1¥.~i~\~"iiii~~~,'.~'.~ University bas broad offerings at its ■ Total enrollment-about2,900' extension center in Paducah. .full- and part-time students: The Paducah president said he ■ Annual budget from state - hasn't ruled out additional four-year $8.8 million, programs at his two-year college. ■ Money provided by its private The UK-Paducah contract comes foundation from a local property despite a statewide reorganization of tax - about S530,000 a year. higher education to improve planning of programs and to avoid duplication BY STEVE DURBIN, THE C-J among schools. But Kentucky's new higher education overseer, Gordon coming growth will dwarf engineer: Davies, didn't know about the con ing's. impact," a foundation memo tract until a reporter told him. memosa1d. ;~~~~~~~~!!~ili~~~-~::; :;_t~5:~~~i-~.::tf~:::~-~~,~ ;;;,2;~: .. ;,:f;~d?ill.. The legislature changed the law The UK agreement has revived Eastern Kentucky University $150,000 13,437 last year, partly because of Paducah's questions about whether Paducah is decision to launch the engineering complying with a state policy calling " MilreheaSI StateJ,J.Q,i~e\sily '."• .$150,000 ;~. J: , .,, ,6;6~"~ program. Critics said Kentucky didn't for closer oversight and coordination Western Kentucky University $153,000 12,338 need a third engineering school. of higher-education programs. Murray State·Ui)i~rslty':~=:::: ·:.'$1:i3;cioo'~~ '.} '':" 7'.:210·"· UK says it won't duplicate pro "I regret that I have not been privy Kentucky State University $120,000 2,203 grams now offered at Murray, but to any discussions between UK and state Sen. Bob Jackson, D-Murray, Paducah Community College," said a North~rn !(entuc~y,UniversLtl:',; :, {~toot}:'"· .. ::, .,_ 10,625_, said of the agreement: "I don't take it statement released by Davies, presi University of Louisville $191,000 20,800 to be in the spirit of (reform) legisla dent of the state's new Council on Unlversiiy of Kentticl -,~~ ·'_·., • . ; .... ::,•j'.;r ·:._ ..•.. • __ ,.•,'l'lr~·- ··.:. BY BYRON CRAWFORD. THE CO\JRIEA-JOUANAL Jerry Gore, executive director of the National Underground Railroad Museum in Maysville, looked at a cast-iron hitching post dating to about 1831. Gore said the "slave boy" posts were an important part of the Underground Railroad because pieces of cloth were tied to them to signal safety or danger to fleeing slaves. Slave relics honor freedom minority-student af MAYSVILLE Museum's director fairs at Morehead State University to believes in history's become executive di rector of the fledg ling one-room muse sustaining power um. As he has gotten older, his passion has grown for shar MAYSVILLE, Ky.- In his large ing with others the hands, Jerry Gore cradled a worn BYRON stories of courageous chain collar with a lock and an en CRAWFORD Africans in America her, and her mother got it from her graved brass name tag that dates to who fled bondage in mother, Hattie Payne Lang, who had 1825. "This collar," he said, "was the South and followed secret Under been a slave. My mother (Hattie Eliza worn by a slave." Gore squinted to ground Railroad trails to freedom in beth), is the wisest person that I've make out the faded name of the slave the North. ever known because she realized that owner, "H.M. Hains," on the brass tag. "This journey for me started at the history could help sustain us." The chain collar and several sets of age of 7, when I lived at 307 E. Fourth Ancestral stones of the suffering en• slave leg irons are among the first ex St., in a condemned house here in dured by their elders strengthened the hibits that confront visitors to the Maysville," Gore said. "My mother resolve of many African Americans small brick building - which doubles took me and some of my nine brothers through the bitter civil-rights struggles as the Welcome Center in downtown and sisters to the Rankin House," in of later years, Gore said. And he is Maysville - whfre Gore helped found nearby Ripley, Ohio, a surviving land convinced that a greater understanding the National Underground Railroad mark of the Underground Railroad. of their history, will help future gen- Museum three years ago. "She sat us on the floor and told us Now Gore, a 52-year-old Maysville the story of slavery. The story had native, is stepping down as director of been passed down from her mother to Lt:AII l~lUII nef i:lltrt.t:<11Jer Sunday, September 13, 1998 only goals that matter are spar Spike Lee and looking tough. •Among young, black kids, you speak correct English or JI" criticizes sue scholastic excellence, you' ridiculed," he said. "But if you' on the comer, drinking_.a 40 college ounce malt liquor), holding yo' privates and smoking (drug you're down. You're for real.• athletics On a different topic, Lee sa By John Cheves he's working on a new mov HERALD-lEADER STAFF WRITER Summer of Sam, about the loD DANVILLE - Celebrated hot months of 1m in New Y01 filmmaker Spike Lee loves basket when the serial killer known ball as much as the next guy, but Son of Sam stalked his victin he hates the way it warps the the New York Yankees won t lives of young men who ignore World Series, and disco and pua academics to pursue their dreams rock music emerged. of being the Lee, sporting an Afro for I next Michael own role in the fibn, said it's I Jordan. first movie that won't focus , "Michael black characters. But black mm Jordan is one in roles were needed when he ma a million," said his first film in 1985, he said. Lee, 41, whose The only black actors featur films include Do before the mid-1980s, he sa the Right Thing, were "Sidney Poitier early on, a then Eddie Murphy and Richa Malcolm X and Pryor. The richness of the war!, He Got Game. Lee "These saw outside my window was r young men put their entire lives reflected on the screen." into the chance of making it into 1 the NBA. When they don't make it, their.lives are over, and they're 22," he said. . Lee spoke yesterday to several hundred people at Centre Col lege's Norton Center for the Arts to raise money for Coming Home, a Boyle County organization that encourages men to play a role in their children's lives. In a freewheeliDg speech and in a brief interview before the speech, Lee touched on movies, racial identity and family. But since he was in Wildcat country, Lee also talked at some length about college basketball. He praised Tubby Smith, the first black man to coach University of Kentucky men's basketball. "I was happy I got a ball signed by the Wildcats' champi onship team from last year," he said. "I was very happy for Tub by. It wasn't the easiest spot for him to be in, an African-Ameri can coach in a program like Ken tucky. I know things have changed to some extent, but I don't think (fonner Wildcats coach) Adolph Rupp would have smiled." Lee was less kind toward the luaative business of college ath letics, which he said ignores the best interests of student-athletes and squeezes from them all the cash value it can. How can any one expeet an athlete to study and learn at college while they're so frequently practicing, travel ling and playing games? he asked. "The whole NCAA needs to be , burned to the ground and rebuilt,• Lee said. "The students are pimped out The programs are making millions and millions off the studeats, and all the students are getting is room and board and tuition." Lee, who grew up in Brooklyn during the 1960s and 1970s, said his neighborhood held equal re spect for children who were fast with a basketball and those who earned straight A's in school That's changed, he said, and too many black teen-agers think the .St;ft rs, 199g _ MSU ARCHIVES MSU Clip Sheet A sample of recent articles of interest to Morehead State University UNIVERSITY COMMUNICATIONS MOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY UPO BOX 1100 MOREHEAD, KY 40361-1689 606-783-2030 THE COURIER-JOURNAL• TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1998 Half of state'_s high school grads the state's universities and The council must report an climbed to 8 percent from 6 nually on the performance of forgo college percent at community colleges .. the post-secondary system. ■ Classroom and laboratory From 1993 through 1996, a sep space is often used inefficient arate report was issued for ly. Classrooms are used an ·each of the state's eight univer Many who do go sities and \4 community col- average of 29 hours. a week; leges.: .:. ·· - ·. . · the recommended standard is on to university· . 38 hours. . Starting last year, the coun cil has instead issued a single have rough time report that covers the entire post-secondary system, which By MICHAEL JENNINGS Lexington Herald-Leader now includes technical col The Courier-Journal Tuesday, September 15, 1998 leges. FRANKFORT, Ky. - Ken tucky continues to lag behind most of the nation in the per Work rule won't work centage of its residents who go to college and in the success of those who get there. Fewer than half of Ken McConnell should heed Rogers on value of education tucky's high school graduates immediately enter college, mong Kentuckians who are ment for some would come at the compared with a national aver age of 67 rercent, according to trying to make welfare re expense of those who aren't ready an ·annua report by the state A form work, there is consen for post-secondary education. Council on Postsecondary Edu sus that one aspect of the federal In reality, employment cation. law is self-defeating and should be prospects for the least educated will The study, released yester day, found that Kentuckians changed: That's the rule that cuts improve if they don't have to com who enter college are often off benefits to people after just one pete for jobs with high school grad underprepared and are less· year of college or post-secondary uates or those who have a year of likely to graduate than stu dents elsewhere. vocational training. post-secondary training. Kentucky ranks 48th among Sen. Mitch McConnell is in a Likewise, welfare recipients who ststP,::; hi . the. ii,t: ;,r.r,:~ntage of positio~• to help fix this ffaw ~nd Complet"... 1-..;,.,:.v-....,.,1-CU ,ro-; "'____ "~ "'"""...... "f..., po~•~ .. . adults with at least a bache lor's degree, the study said. give an estimated 3,500 Kentuck secondary schooling will be able to Almost 40 percent of the ians a chance to lift themselves enter the world of work a few freshmen at Kentucky's state from poverty through education. rungs up the occupational and run universities require reme McConnell is part of a confer salary ladder. They'll have a better dial help, as do two-thirds of those at its community col ence committee that yesterday shot at achieving true independence leges. started reconciling House and Sen and a decent standard of living. Only 36 percent of those ate versions of a higher education If McConnell were truly interest who started work toward a bill. The Senate version includes a ed in the least educated among the bachelor's degree in 1991 earned it within six years, the provision, sponsored by Sen. Paul poor, he would look for ways to di report says. Wellstone of Minnesota with help rectly help them, rather than cut off By contrast, 44 percent of a from Sen. Wendell Ford of Ken those who are in college or voca national sample of students at tucky, that increases the duration of tional school. public four-year colleges graduated withm five years. welfare benefits to two years for In Kentucky, support for the Gordon Davies, the council's those pursuing post-secondary edu Wellstone provision is widespread president, said in the report cation. The Senate version also pro and bipartisan. McConnell could do that the changes made last year in the state's post-secon vides added flexibility so more his home state, one of the nation's dary education system have so adults could pursue higher educa poorest and least educated, a favor far "only scratched the sur tion without losing welfare benefits. by heeding a fellow Republican, face" of what needs to be McConnell opposes the Well U.S. Rep. Hal Rogers of Somerset. done. In addition to :mproving its stone amendment. We urge him to Rogers is urging the House to colleges and universities, Da reconsider and become a strong de go along with the Wellstone provi vies said, the state must con fender of the Senate bill - or at sion. In a letter last month to Bill vince its citizens that advanced education is virtually essential least offer a better explanation for Goodling, chairman of the House for economic and personal suc his opposition. Committee on Education and the cess. McConnell has argued the extra Workforce, Rogers wrote: The report also said: year of benefits for those in post "Post-secondary education is es ■ After a sharp rise in the late 1980s and early 1990s, col secondary programs would be un sential in allowing welfare recipi lege enrollment in the state has fair to welfare recipients who lack a ents to pursue careers beyond the dwindled in recent years - a high school diploma or need basic low-wage, short-term jobs usually trend that could reflect the ex panding job market. In the last education or literacy training. available to them. Access to quality five years; enrollment has de Those enrolled in adult basic educa higher education is the means by creased by 13 percent at the tion or literacy classes must work which we may break the cycle of community colleges and by 3 at least 20 hours a week to keep poverty that exists for so many percent at the universities. ■ Between 1988 and 1997, their benefits, in contrast to the no people on welfare. In my area, voca black Kentuckians' percentage work requirement for those in their tional education has proven itself to of the total student body rose first year of college. be one of the most important tools tn 7 n1>rr1>nt frnm !1 nPrt"Pnt af 'II. ,r rs ,, ,. THE COURIER-JOURNAL• TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1998 On the make~ .... • ••in ... ,<. __Paducah • F THE histoiy of higher programs at his school. education in Kentucky is The head of the new Council any guide, we'll probably on Postsecondaiy Education, I have a real state univer- Gordon Davies, didn't even sity in Paducah one of these know about the UK-PCC con days. . . tract, wasn't privy to any of That's what the nice little · the discussions. Neither was city at mile marker 934.5 on Murray President Kern Alex the Ohio River has been ma- ander, 50 miles down the road. neuvering for all these years. . What arrogaru:e. What open If it happens, they ought to defiance of the. spirit in which call it Hubris U. . ,.. Kentucky's General Assembly Here's just one example of is trying 'to reform, reorganize the determination of· this fine and enhance higher. education. community to get ahead of a · Isn't there anybody, any civic competito;. With the help where who. can make UK and of a tax-supporteq foundation PCC be' team players? Padu and the extra money he gets cah's determination to over for being a liaison with the come what it fears is second University of Kentucky, the class status may be under president of Paducah Commu- standable, but it some day nity College makes more than must reconcile itself to the fact any of Kentucky's regional that Murray. was chosen as the university presidents. Indeed, location for the region's major he makes more than the presi- university. dents of the University of Ten- The UK-PCC scheming sub nessee and the University of verts Murray State, which is Missouri. And he gets a house. supposed to be the primacy re- Nobody should begrudge an gional provider, It subverts the academic a good deal, but in effort to focus UK on higher this case the deal may have as quality and away from empire much to do with civic ego as building. It subverts the broad with. job performance. Padu- er goals of Gov. Paul Patton cah is determined to have its and the General Assembly. own university, no matter It renews our state's histoiy what it costs the rest of us. of uncoordinated growth, If we needed more proof which has led inevitably to than the fact that it launched a waste and inefficiency. four-year engineering program It substitutes civic oneup (in clear defiance of state ef- manship for rational policy forts to . limit and rationalize makinjl, the offerings at state-financed But 1t does improve the odds campuses), we now have it. that Paducah eventually . will UK has signed a contract iiet what it wants - a full-serv with PCC to adrt classes there,. ice, i.r.stitution, for which the even though Murray State Uni- rest of us will pay most of the versity already is prepared and bill. · authorized to offer college-lev- On second thought, if that el work in Paducah. And PCC happens, they should call it President Leonard O'Hara Paducah University, so the won't rule out new four-year sweatshirt would read P.U. Lexington Herald-Leader Saturday, September 12, 1998 All-female Midway College will inaugurate its first female president on Oct. 23. Allyson Hughes Handley, 51, who previously served as vice president at National University in San Diego, began July 1. The ceremony will be at 10:30 a.m. at the school's gymnasium. Actually, that "all-female" dis tinction requires an asterisk. For several years, Midway has had an evening coeducatioT\ al program leading to both a bachelor's and a master's degree. Lexington Herald-Leader Tuesday, September 15, 1998 The master's program is offered on the Midway campus by The last name of Frank Button, Xavier (Ohio) University. the first male to attend what is More than 200 men are now Midway College, was mis enrolled this fall. spelled in Dick Burdette's column Historical footnote: The first Saturday. male student at what is now Midway was Frank C. Butten. His mother said she would teach at Midway, but only if he were allowed to enroll. Midway, then a high school for orphans, agreed. He was denied a diploma, however, because he was of the wrong gender. That was in the 1880s. . 1HE COURIER-JOURNAL • TUESDAY, SEPTEMBEirti;°,'1998 ' ------lmpact of mountain-leveling mines studied BY MICHAEL CLEVENGER, THE COURIER-JOURNAi lartlkl Coal Corp. has been flattening mountains in Martin County for 23 years as It extracts coal through strip mining. Hilltop mining :raises ecological concern 1 The EPA also has decided to fe: " -=-==--==-=--=-----==--=--= y GARDINER llARRJS vi~w the cumulatiye effects of the K&i:'7~~i~0j~::%J/t,H/:t:t}%!ffstti1t~i.::>~~~f;f\¥~\f1.~f,~:(q.t,~~~~j~~1~~1:[t-:fff/ he Courier-Journal mmes on the region's ecology. In · · .. ;• · - . Kentucky alone, 151 square miles of !NEZ, Ky.-. From a. n~ar~y mountain-tops have been leveled in dge, the ma~s,ve Mart1k1 stnp the past 20 years, according to a . · _ •· . .me l?oks hke a moonsc~pe. computer analysis at state strip-mine ,,;_;,.,: -j~ "" he htll_s - already ancient records by The Couner-Journal. ~1 .- hen dinosaurs bellowed - The analysis shows that there are ,,,-,.. ·. we been f!attene~. Beyond, 15 mountaintop rem~_val mines aper- :-- • :o~~e!o... unta.ms await theu: ~~ch ~ting in Kentucky :~t;;:::-<.~r,":t.-'z-· ~-..,·~~.,,~~ ~ ... on1,a snovel so huge it could . ·· . . . · vallow a house. _The ll}lnmg _11\dustry -says moun Martiki Coal Corp. lias been tamtop removal 1s legal and creates ,zing mountains for 23 years desperately needed flat tru:id, its mountaintop removal coal "They talk about creating a waste ine in Martin County. But la,:,d y,ith moun_taintop. removal," ,w an environmental lawsuit said Bill Caylor, Vice president of the iallenging the legalil:¥ of such Ken1:1;1cky Coal Association. "I argue ines m West Virgmia has that 11 was a wasteland before. All ·ompted federal regulators to you could use it for before was forest ,gin a thorough review of land. · hether Martiki and many oth- "If I owned a mountain in East · Kentucky mountaintop Kentucky, I would insist that they use .ines comply with federal enVI- that minirig method to leave me land •nmental laws. that I could use." These_law~ generally require State water and ·strip-mine regula- 1at stnp:mmed l~n.d be re- tors are scrambling to justify to their .rne\l to tis pre-_mmmg shape federal counterparts why they grant ice t~e coal. ts gone. But ed permits to these mines. But one ountamtop mmes change the state environmental official said the 1ntour of the land forever; federal concerns about streams could Federal regulators are studying whether mountaintop removal mines like th, Mountaintop removal, a type shut down all strip mines. Martlkl mine In Martin County are complying with environmental laws. · strip mine, involves blasting While declining to predict the out- id d1ggmg_ through hundreds come of their studies, federal officials cif animprovement and doesn't merit 1 !fas buried. Before mining, pipes car fee\ of dirt and rock at t_he have promised 10 sc_ rutinize_ futu_ re a mountaintop exemption, according rying raw 'sewage from houses on the 1mm1t to po d I I to the Charleston r,v.va.) Gazette, ex se un er ymg mountaintop permit app 1cat10ns which got a copy of the unpublished I mountains emptied directly into the yers of _coal. The valleys be- more closely. , • · , waters, he said. Those residents have w are filled with the excess E U S S W d F d f report. The fin~l report 1s expec,,ed to been forced to move, and the water rt creating a plateau . K venk · · h e\" bb"ed ~ 11 ~ be released m the next several 0 0 197 r° that runs off the strip mine has no The law allows such dramat- hentufcdy, wl •• te tthn t or weeks, after a review by the U.S. De- human fecal matter, Robinson said. b 'f t e e era prov1s1on a a 11 ows partment of the Interior c ange on 1y I operators mountaintop removal, said the issue · . . . . Since 1978, Kentucky has granted ove that the flattened land should be revisited. The 18,000-a~re l'.!~!'hk1 mme_ ts 367 mountaintop removal permits, .II serve a better purpose - ,, . among those With a fish and Wild- and at least 57 have or had "fish and .ch as an airport, a factory or Mou~tamtop remo~~l se~ms 10 be life" post-mining land use. rd :"ildlife" as their promised post-min -. More trnuhling for the ir.•.tvstr-v• may be the EPA's promise to investf i:ate the cumulative environmental impact of mountaintop removal min ing on the region and its streams. EPA officials originally became con cerned about stream effects after West Virginia's legislature in March adopted a law that allows surface miners to cover up to a mile of any stream without penalty: Saying this law may violate the federal Clean War.,r Act, the EPA has put on hold. the permits for at least two large West Virginia mountaintop mines. After industry officials pointed out that Kentucky has allowed one mile stream fills without penalty since 1994, on Aug. 31 the EPA sent Kentucky water officials a letter de manding information about any mines that have taken advantage of 2 UPPER COAL REMOVED Kentucky's law. Valley is filled with excess Jack Wilson, director of the Ken rock and soil - •• tucky Division of Water an? the r~ , cipient of the EPA letter, said that 1f , - the EPA decides streams should not be buried, the state's strip-mining in dustry could be shut down. Wilson said he feels caught between a state law that allows stream dumping and federal regulators who frown upon it. "We have to follow state law, and if that is not adequate in EPA's over sight, then one of two things has to happen: Either state law has to change or they (EPA) have to d~dde whether" to overrule the state s m tention to issue permits to the mines, Wilson said. The EPA's belated concern has the industry fuming. "I'm. m~st con cerned about EPA commg m years 4 GRADING AND RESTORATION later and trying to say, 'Wait a min The area is smoothed and planted gras~ ute you can't do that," Caylor said. wm, Undaunted, EPA officials say they , , - -- ' intend to get tough on mountaintop mining. Joe Piotrowski, associate di rector of the water division in the EPA's Philadelphia office, put ii this ______1n11- ---..1 ..... ,..,.. .. t-n thoc,o hafnro:> Se.pt. l'1, l'l'IZ MSU ARCHIVES MSU C/iµ Sheet A sample of recent articles of interest ta Morehead State University UNIVERSITY COMMUNICATIONS MOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY UPC BOX 1100 MOREHEAD, KY 40361-1 689 606-783-2030 THE:COURIER-'JOURNAL.. WEDNESPAY·~SEDTEMB,E;R,16 199B Lexington Her~Idll'.~ii'~~;, ;::.. ---· · • ,. ---~. _ ..: ... ~~-!,Jc. .,,'-"'·"'' , ... -· Wednesday, Se!>!i!..ill.berJ.6, 1998 . EKUjilan1oJ!~!~?,~ses.,~~j£!~~~$.;;<;)~il Fo~r unlve~-~l~,:t[fe1.~nn grants:_;< · ~ORJ'i~Y, .r:·_Eastern Kentucky l!nivei'sity courses will be Agnculture ~ss1~ner-iBilly Ray Smith _Wlll taught mthree:111ore'cities-;-- London, C~rbm and Somerset- under present grant;, gf W,,qgQ,_\i>· each of four region- an agreement with commumty and techmcal colleges. · · al Kentucky umvers1ties To upgrade school farms The u~iversity, bas.e,d in Richmond, is joining with th~ Kentucky and buy equipment. This·is the third time this Con_imuruty and Technical College System to create a re!!lonalcenter money has been appr\>iiiiated by tlie legislature 1 th . ~t~ ~:~e~~:~~ ~~~f;i'.!:r.t:~~-~~~v'.!~;~Y_ e throug)l !l)eDf!p~~~o!,t\gricultt!re,.for . Lower- and up~r:<1ms1on baccalaureate and graduate courses are Mo!ehei_id State.Umversity, M~f•.S~~tl, to· be offere_d, Th..~.t~hn!cal colleg~- system y,ould introduce, as need- Umvers1ty, ~~~ Jf~~~ky (!my!!l'Sl1r, ,, .. ed, lo--:er-divisiQ!lJechnical f~!:1.rs~-~~ ~r.o.~ n_~t.offered by~. and We,ste~ Ke~tu41§\J1mvers1ty: ,"Wli~'t · according to the_agreement.,, ..., ... ,•.,:;0.il:,,,,.:,;,. _, · ,. +- • we started this proJect, most.of the farms were . · Als,fMonday, Mur_ray State Universicy President Kern Alexander pretty run:ilown;~Santk;:,,i;;,1s:,-r;,10;,·, -- • saj~ his i_itstitutiog~ on the vergl! },!Ll!..similar _agreement with · · ,.¢ 'i'"!l-,,..,, ·• -·· ,., •. · HopTiinsville .CollUlluruty CoUege;-'.,•~x;-•' ,•~a•·-· . ' · •--'-~-•✓ •~-.~••--.~n • -•-• • • ·"· Lextngt_on Herald-Leader Thursday, September 17, 1998 MBAs become~more specialized THE COURIER-JOURNAL• WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1998 HERAIDillllER WJRE REPORT narrower subjects, such as agribusi- olleges and universities are ness or international business. Co~mllnity developing a new master The director of professional cplan. masters programs at Purdue's That's because saying you Krannert School of Management have a business-school degree these said more companies are looking days is like saying you're a jack of for graduates with a deeper college degree all trades and ·a master of none. knowledge in a particular disi:i- So business schools increasing- pline as wen as a good foundation ly are offering MBAs that focus on in management. The Daily Independent, Ashland, Kentucky, deadline set Wednesday, September 16, 1998 quently questioned by the agen Education. key to Students must cy that accredits the community colleges. To avoid a loss of ac escaping welfare enroll by June 30 creditation for the colleges, UK agreed to hand over degree Recent articles in statewide for UK diploma grant!ug a~!thority to th~ state Qapers have acknowledged that comJJmnity coU~ge system, with the provision that current stu there are :welfare recipients who By TIM WHITMIRE · are trying to change their lives dents be allowec. to get their Associated Press degrees from UK. through education. Also yesterday, trustees ap I am a recipient, a single LEXINGTON, Ky. - June 30 proved a plan under which the mother and a senior at the Uni is the deadline for students to area around the new William T. versity of Louisville. I have sac enroll in the state's community Young Library will be land rificed so much to get through . college system and still earn a scaped and maintained as a University of !(entucky degree, .park until 2050. In exchange school because I know tha~J. with under an agreement approved· out my college degree, I will not for that promise, Young, a Lex yesterday by the university's ington businessman, agreed to be able to provide the life for my board of trustees. lead a campaign to· raise a son I have always dreamed of. The deadline is part of the $5 million endowment for the · Without child support, I am phasing out of UK control over library by the end of 2002. now forced·to work 25 hours a the community college system. Young and his foundation had Under the agreement, which proposed the endowment as a week in addition to 16 hours in the board approved unanimous class to preserve the check and way of supplementing universi• ly at its monthly meeting, stu ty financing for the library. health care for my son. dents who enroll by June . 30 According to the Kentucky UK President Charles Weth and complete work on an asso ington said four fraternities Workforce Development Cabinet, ciate degree on or before June housed on the library site will by 2005 nearly half the jobs cre 30, 2004, will have their de be relocated in the next decade ated in Kentucky will require at grees conferred by the UK 6oard of trustees. and their buildings torn down least a bachelor's degree or ex Future students will have to clear the area for green tensive training after high school. their degrees awarded· by the space. When· I finish my degree in sec board of regents of the Ken Also yesterday, the board: ondary education, I can give back tucky Comm1Jnity and .Techni ■ Accepted three gifts wtal to our community and support cal College System. ing $8.4 million. The largest is ,my son until he is able to gradu The June 30 deadline will from the estate of horse enthu serve to "continue our commit siasts Jes and Clementine ate from college. ment to students already en Schlaikjer, whose wills set Can we say the same about rolled and give them five years aside $7 million to pay for the other welfare parents who are be to finish their degrees,,, said study and research of equine ing forced into low-payin~ jobs trustee Paul Chellgren. "We mfectious diseases at the Max that do not produce a livmg wage certainly believe this satisfies well E. Gluck Equine Research for their family? the students' expectations." Center. Please support the Wellstone Under legislation enacted last The Schlaikjers, who lived in year by the Kentucky General Prescott, Ariz., never visited UK Amendment to the Higher Edu Assembly, UK was stripped of but decided to leave their estate cation Act. This legislation would its control of 13 of the state's •to the Gluck Center after learn increase the amount of time a re community colleges - all ex .ing of its work. cipient is allowed to stay in cept Lexington Community Col ■ Voted · unanimously to school. Please call U.S. Sen. lege. Legislators left the award change the name of the univer Mitch McConnell at (202) 224- ing of community college de sity's Home Economics Educa and let know your grees in UK trustees' hands. lion program to Family and 2541 him That decision was subse- views. Consumer Sciences Education. Jennifer Jewell Lexmg1on Heraio-Leaaer Wednesday, September 16, 1998 UK board OKs library greenspace plan WlRE, STAFF REPORTS a $5 million endowment for the library In other actions yesterday, the The University of Kentucky Board by the end of 2002. board accepted three gifts totaling of _Trustees yesterday approved a plan Young and his foundation proposed $8.4 million. The largest is from the to keep the area around the new the endowment as a way to supplement estate of horse enthusiasts Jes and William T. Young -Library pristine and university funding for the library. Clementine Schlaikjer, whose wills set parklike for at least the next 52 years. "I think in every case it's a win for aside $7 million to study and research Under the plan, the library's all of us," UK President Charles equine infectious diseases at the grounds will be landscaped and main Wethington said of the agreement Maxwell E. Gluck Equine Research tained as a park until 2050. In ex Four fraternity chapters will be relo Center. The Schlaikjers, who lived in change for that promise, Young, a Lex cated over the next decade, their houses Prescott, Ariz., never visited UK, but ington businessman and horse breeder, on the library grounds tom down to clear decided to leave their estate to the has agreed to head a campaign /o raise the area for greenspace, Wethington said Gluck Center after learning of its work. Lexington Herald-Leader • Thursday, September 17, 1998 Food Lion sends tape 1D journalism schools By Estes Thompson berg, former editor of The Des response to Food Lion's presenta ASSOCIATED PRESS Moines Register. tion to send to journalism schools. RALEIGH, N.C. - Food Lion The ABC PrimeTime Live re "Our first thought was we is giving journalism students its port, alleging spoiled food and un could not imagine a journalism version of an ethics lesson, send sanitary conditions at Food Lion professor using this," said ABC ing 200 schools its own case study stores, included a videotape made spokeswoman Eileen Murphy. of ABC's 1992 undercover report secretly by ABC reporters who "But we've since learned that on the supermarket chain's food got jobs at Food Lion. Food Lion some of them are. The idea that handling practices. sued ABC over the tactic, and the somebody would be relying on "We wanted to raise questions court battle is continuing. this as a case study when it was for students to discuss." said Food Lion paid Jean Folkerts, paid for by one side is surprising Chris Ahearn, spokeswoman for a George Washington University and disappointing." · -· •· -, · the Salisbury, N.C.-based compa journalism ethics professor, to Marketing professor Paul ny. prepare the case study and sent it Bloom at the University of North Some journalism professors to journalism schools with a com Carolina-Chapel Hill said the en are using the material. Others sus pany analysis and a videotape. deavor was unusual but that other pect it might be spin-doctored. The package, dated July 15, companies have been equally ag "You treat anything skeptical contained a letter from Ahearn gressive. Mobil Oil, for example, ly that came from one side in liti that said Food Lion's aim was writes editorial columns and buys g3.tion," said University of Iowa "reasoned and informed debate." space for them in newspape..-.:, journalism professo~. Gi1•· Crar:- ABC said it was' preraring a Bloom' said. 1E COURIER-JOURNAL• WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1998 laesler disputes erase. "Jim Bunning believes that local bill is "an 11th-hour smoke screen." school officials know their local td offering Bunning It said Bunning voted in a committee needs better than some Washington in May against a Democratic plan to bureaucrat with three Ph.D.s and no help reduce class sizes in primary classroom . experience," Simmons lS grades. . said. education's ally \ Baesler opposes block grants and Baesler's campaign said "Bun- favors the current program-by-pro- ning's record on eaucation flies in ·AL CROSS Bunnings' five children, who gram method because block grants the face of his newfound enthusiasm J Political Writer are University of Kentucky would be easier to cut in future for the issue" and cited Bunning's graduates. Their appearance in budgets, said Baesler's campaign votes for 1995 bills that "cut $10 oil Republican U.S. Senate can- Wildcat shirts is Bunning's sec chairman, Bob Wiseman, . lion in direct student loans" and date Jim Bunning _started ond TV attempt to subtly re "It would ultimately result iii less "math and . reading assistance for oadcasting a television com- nounce his 1996 election-eve dollars being made available to over 19,000 disadvantaged Kentucky ercial yesterday that casts declaration to then-UK basket schools across Kentucky," Wiseman children, Head Start and vocational m as a friend of education, · ball coach Rick Pitino that Bun said. "It's another 30-second ad de- and adult education." · . · ti Democrat Scotty Baesler's ning was no longer a Wildcat signed to repackage Jim Bunning as . The first vote was for the overall ,mpaign said Bunning's rec- fan because "Pitino was intro Ithe kinder, gentler Jim Bunning." .. , , :-budget-reconciliation: bill. Simmons ·d contradicts that. · · ·--•-;;>'-ducing President Clinton at a Bunning campail!n · coora!mitor ·~s'al •1ncludlng UK Community Colleges **Percentage is greater than 100 because of the number of siudents who registered and applied for aid but wtthdrew before a final enrollment count. ·Source: U.S. Department of Education THE COURIER-JOURNAL• THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1998 Group in Hazard protests.mountaintop removal., fix their houses and wells and hors," he said. talist from Huntinbon, W. Va., monitored only by coal compa Morgan of Leslie County. "All Some say mine stop the constant caravan of The protest was coordinated said ·she has 'i,een fighting nies themselves. And it is often they do is stall 'for. time while coal trucks that they say by Kentuckians For The Com mountaintop removal in West impossible for people to prove our mountains are being· re- dirties water, spreads dust over their homes monwealth, a citizen group. Virginia and wanted to help its that damage to their homes re moved and our timber de and endangers motorists. At the event, protester Betty opponents in Kentucky. She sulted from the explosions. stroyed." shakes homes Mountaintop removal, a type Woods held up a jar of dark noted that another coal com Damage to pictures and dishes Many of the protesters said of strip-mining, involves bull liquid as she spoke. pany has recently applied for a - considered non-structural - they have been complaining for permit to strip-mine Black is not counted by regulators. years to mine officials and By GARDINER HARRIS dozing or blasting off the tops "This is my well water" - of mountains to expose under which Addington's o~erations Mountain in Harlan County - Those with ruined wells also state and federal strif•mine Jhe Courier-Journal lying layers of coal. The valleys which, at 4,139 ·. foet, is Ken are often frustrated by regula regulators, but to no avai . have ruined, Wood said. Blasts "I don't know what to do,'' and streams below are filled from the mine routinely shake tucky's highest point. tors. Although mining is often HAZARD, Ky. - About 35 with the dirt that's removed, "They'd do mountaintop re the cause of brackish well wa said Shirley l'/aylor, 62, of Ary. people marched outside Ad her trailer and shatter the glass "Just stand out here in the hot and the land becomes a flat or in her picture frames, she said. moval in the Garden of Eden if ter, it's sometimes difficult to dington Resources' Hazard of rolling plain. they could make a profit," Fout tell which mine is at fault. Peo sun, I reckon." fices yesterday to protest the Walt Reed, vice president Other marchers came to pro said. ple are usually sure that the After the reporters and tele company's giant mountaintop and general manager of Leslie test Addington's use of moun Many of the protesters also mine that is rattling their vision cameras left, a Star Fite removal operation straddling Resources, an Addington sub taintop removal to flatten an spoke against federal and state dishes with its blasting is also official invited several of the Perry and Knott counties. sidiary, said in a telephone in cient Appalachian hills. strip-mine regulators, who they the one that ruined their wells. protesters into the compan,)"s Some of the protesters live terview after the protest that As the technique has become tlaim never help the public and But state hydrologists some office, according to Paulme near Addington's Star Fire he will respond quickly to the more common, a growing num simply act as a shield for coal times argue that previous min Stacy, one of the protesters. Mine, and they were decrying complaints. ber of environmental and Ap companies. ' ing could have been the cul She said the official declined to the mine's impact on their "With regard to the protest palachian activists have pro Blasts ·on strip mines - pnt. address any of the protesters' lives. Holding signs saying held today, we are going to tested, claiming that such min which can legally be many "The problem is that our concerns. Stacy promised that things like "We want to drink make every effort to resolve ing is destroying Appalachia's times as powerful as the one state and federal regulatory more demonstrations - per our water again," the protest- the issues and complaints be greatest heritage. that leveled the Oldahoma City agencies - they side with the haps in other parts of the state ers demanded that Addington cause these are our neigh- Janet Fout, an environmen- federal building - are largely coal companies," said Daymon -will follow. · · The Dai,ly Independent, Ashland, Kentucky, Tuesday, September 15, 1998 Charles Wethington. · . said spokeswoman Debbie But O'Hara said, "We're not McGuffey. Community college contract ignites controversy ruling out anything" when if UK officials acknowledged PADUCAH (AP) - Paducah But Kentucky's new higher It assesses a property tax on,: His total pay is-$155,090 to comes to new four-year pro- the agreement ls the only one Community College has si.gned education overseer, Gordon • McCracken County ·residents lead 2,900 full- and part-time Davies, didn't know about the . - one enacted years ago, b~- · d k" h" 1 grams. of its kind in the state because a con tract under which the I stu ents, ma mg 1s sa ary The agreement has revived no other campus is owned by a University of Kentucky could development until a reporter fore the school joined the state more than that of any other questions about whether third party. create new programs at the told him. · commtµtity-c~llege system· in·., community-college president Paducah is complying .with: a D · · th I · , The legislature changed the the late,1960s,•The money pays: and more than that of all· but two-year school, reigniting de state policy callin i fcO t r' iO ifu , · u~.mg e eg1sla ture s law last year partly because of for campus upkeep, technolqgy .; g · c r ' changes m· the higher edu bate about uncoordinated oversight and coordination of · ca- the uproar that followed and expansion of programs. two state university pres- lion system, lawmakers growth in higher education h programs. Paducah's ,decision to launch a City residents paid 3.2 cents: idents. igher-education programs. stripped UK of most control of . The agreement between UK four-year engineering pro- per $100 and county residents UK doesn't plan to duplicate "I regret that I have not gram, Critics said the state 2.2 cents. The foundation tried programs offered at Murray, been privy to any discussions the community colleges. and the independent tax between iJK and ·Paducah . Paducah's decision to offer a supported foundation that didn't need a third engineering to raise the tax this year but according to a UK official. owns the community college school. it found last week th~t it• "At this point we have no Community College," said at fo~r-Y~!ll" engineering program comes despite a statewide reor- ·. UK says it won't duplicate does.n't have the authority to plans to bring any, other pro statement released by Davies,j ;.with,'.~ started a three-year ganization of higher edU:cation programs now offered at Mur- do so. ;, grams to Paducah, unless president of ~e state's !n!!W! :: controyersy .that ended in a to improve planning of pro· ray State University's exten- As part of the contract witi1 there is a need for it and it's Council on Postsecondary'Edu: ·• compromise among UK, grams and to avoid duplication sion center in Paducah. UK, foundation officials and· something the university cation. ., Paducah and Murray State. amqng schools. The Paducah Junior College UK awarded a pay supplemlmt · ought to be doing ... and some That council, the successor The program began last fall. Inc. foundation, which owns to community college Pres- thing Murray State couldn't to the Council on Higher Edu- Murray State fought the en the campus and almost all the !dent Leonard O'Hara for serv- do," said Ben Carr, an as cation, could review any UK gineering school until it ended buildings, is unique among the ing as a liaison. sistant to UK President proposal to offer more aca- up a significant partner in the ~t!ltn'~ 1,1 .-.nn,rnn...,;h· ,..,..n,...r- .... ,· .•• · .... ,..,.,.,..,.,... •. ,...... ,. ·•• n ...... 1.. ------ie Daily lndepem1ent, Ashland, ~ent~~ky, Wednesdil}', September 16, 1998 Same old game UK agreement with Paducah school runs counter to Patton's reforms An agreement between the officials claimed UK was invad University of Kentucky and the ing its territory by beginning a tax-supported foundation that degree program at the commu owns Paducah Community Col nity college, and others claimed lege flies in the face o{ the high a third engineering school was er education reform bill enact not needed in Kentucky. The ed during a special May 1997 inability of the old council to session of the Kentucky Gener play a significant role in this al Assembly. turf battle revealed just how Instead of creating the type toothless it was. of seamless education that co The ink had barely dried on ordinates academic programs the new UK-PCC agreement at state universities, communi before Murray officials com ty colleges and technical plained UK was again attempt schools, the UK-PCC agree ing to start four-year academic ment has the potential of creat programs at the community ing the same sort of competi college that could be better of tion and duplication that has fered at Murray. hampered higher education in "At this point we have no Kentucky for years. plans to bring any other pro The Paducah Junior College grams to Paducah, unless there Inc. Foundation, which owns is a need for it and it's some the PCC campus and almost all thing the university ought to be the buildings, has signed an · doing ... and something Murray agreement with . UK under State couldn't do," said Ben which the university coulil ·cre C:irr, former head of .the . old ate new, four-year degree pro UK Community College Sys grams at a two-year school. tem and now an assistant to Gordon Davies, who as presi UK President Charles dent of the Council on Postsec Wethington. ondary Education is supposed But PCC President Leonard to be the most powerful person O'Hara said, ''We're not ruling in higher education in Ken out anything" when it comes to tucky, learned of the agree new four-year programs. ment from a reporter. Under the reform law, UK It was a prolonged power lost its direct control of the struggle between UK, Murray community colleges and the State University and the old Council on Postsecondary Edu Council on Higher Education cation was given increased au over UK's attempts to establish thority to approve or reject new a four-year engineering pro academic proposals. The UK gram at Paducah Community PCC agreement strikes us as College that provided much of an attempt to circumvent those the fodder that led to the pas provisions. Davies and the sage of the reform bill. Murray council must not let it happen. ~e.-.;"~;:..... w -. - - ·~ . \. . 1 -!lS!ip tn·\\es p[miM I ptre - UIOOl' 'Pres Uawy u 'a$' Apoq -ss-ep iiiin UJ ltlljl =i:i SJ! 'ASJ.IA ·A.taAa ptre 'epaJ,a:_ JOJ A'ep. poo8 -~uoo SJlll l!UJptm:tSl{ll"\lON,, -e lf Sil>(l?UI H. •paaJ8-e 'SJOO.I: W: .. 'UJillSAS JOO!j:>S atp UJ ASJaAOJI JOJ J'e(lpuµd S,A.llllUilUia{3 all!"SJa -uoo J'e:>P!Iod uaaq Stllj _aJaq1 'saµ ·A{l!S uaaq _Stllj OljM 'uawv -111100 .Ial{lo .tu-em II! s-e •uwos-ew ·pres A()OJ "'JjJOM ll! l'el{I pal!pa1&o!Dj:>'e .l:pOJ lu.ll!a:>x. l!UJOP am SJ.llj:l'eal · · 'Pres uawv •'tnooJSSl!P - .tluno:> S!l{I_ lnoql!noJlj'.I 1sm_OOJ I al{l'..!l)JJ,im!J1tre'/!1?U J!u!!llamos . ·- -·• Lexington ne, i:11u•Lccuca Thursday, September 17, 1998 ADian reclaims- the dream of his you~ -to "I never thought Pd have this i ('": .IJfyf,,,-· \f~Wl'>·•,.;,.❖ / ...)$_ q,;t-,.:,;i(!, ~ chance," he saidl "To get to come ~ ~·:r{- play college football back and have a1chance to be on a Eligibility rules t.'.'_ ;,,'r:.tN~~: team again - and to find out you !:r ■ NCAAfAO~;lrtti'rite~1i·~U8wed:~}~~: can still compete - I can't believe ~ t1veyears•1ri'wh1cn to'&imiirete\,'i:~ this happened I just want to enjoy ;',.. Jciur,seasons: · ,.• ". "of ,, :e··1·• !511 blf'"''The',.. •~,:-~ #,--,~./t '""\s-:'1,1 George_towri every second of i~" ; live'' 4 ats'.be'gin"wttti'the.athlet~'.s"i · nrst~u,-~e~st~r;. ::::__:1~~tA~-·~:~:~ The comeback• story began ■ NAJA:An athfete'ls.a~ 10 ::;: student takes to with Anthony Epps. t-semesteis:1n·vthlctrtt1'.~P!llt~:\:.':J On March 11 of this year Turn '. i(ouj .~asoiis ~! el)glf:tUlty.''7!).e.r~tiJ .Jsfno,time limit on whAA tli9~c,.1'0fl er picked up a cdpy of the Herald :semesters·must'be,compf~ted, ;,, field at age 34 Leader Sports ~on. An article ~ ■ Tumer'iicase1ffhfs,yi)ar·marks,~ said that Epps, the former Univer lts1ivestei:Tiihier'.s·jurilbf;Wai:;of,;l\\ sity_pf Kentucky basketball player, \,i.n•i6;ritf.,fie,1s:1n;rirsit1n · Sy Mark Story was going to play football at tr&e~estet/ThSfni:e'arlS:Tlt ,. ~ ,ERALOUADER STAFF WRITER Georgetown. ; could'sklp ttie._snring:iJ!i~ir_,. GEORGETOWN --:- When word got out that _ii •And I figured, if he could do it, !':refumtli'schooJ~~faU•!ind\RioY,1 '.,eorgetown College was going to have a 34-year-old 1'0'.luld do it," Turner said ' :·one-more' season:~p:,;:7?;~~~4.(J,~ m its football team, the other players barely gave it .r- After working at the Gulf ..z:~~QJ;J;~i;JiJ:b~~~:~ .t second thought. States paper factory in his home "The smile," Cronin said "Silvi They figured the old guy was enjoying a midlife town of Nicholasville for almost 12 'ark. It never occurred to them he might play. was always smilirig when he was years, Turner quit in 1995 to go here before. And that hadn't Then Silvester Turner reported for practice. And bac:kio college. iaws dropped. changed." .. He had decided that he was go Turner told the coach he want This guy is 34? ing to take his oassion for athletics With the broad shoulders, narrow waist and ef ed to come back aitd play football and a desire to Work with young- And because Georgetown competes fortless running style ofa physical fitness devotee, sters and get a physical education furner didn't look anywhere close to his age. in the NAIA - which has more degree. He was going to be a liberal eligibility rules than the It was Aug. 14, the night when Georgetown gave teacher and a coach. NCAA - he still had two seasons its football players tests tci measure their athletic To help pay'his way through ;' of footiiafi eligibi!iti-.- -· skills. One of those drills was that perennial football UK, Turner took a job at . the ravorite, the 40-yard dash. · ., · I Once admitted to schooi Tum- Seaton Center, a gymnasium and .er still had some convincing to do. After Turner ran, members of the Georgetown recreational sports center ?n cam- :caching staff looked at their timing' device in disbe- He had to convince his long- pus. ' ' tjme girlfriend, Susan Etling, that ,ief. It couldn't be - 4.4Z? . ·· And while renting out athletic That is four·and 42 one-hundredths of a second. the idea of going back to college equipment and supervising the and playing football wasn't, well, \/ational Football League speed.. · gym, Turner occasionally had time Twic::, _t!:q,: RSked him to do it aif.._i,,. a:azy. . . to coµipete against current and for Th~ c6upie have two children, The result; were the same both t'.,'r.e::, - 4.42. mer UK athletes in pickup basket This is no ordinary 34-year-old. Devin, 6, and Dominique, 3. Etling, ball or flag football contests. He a nurse who often has to report to could more than hold his own. work in the wee hours of the morn Like a lot of people, Silvester• TUitler made a deci- Turner had always been a guy ;ion as a teen-ager that he lived to regret ing, was afraid Turner's commit to stay in shape. Even when he ment to playing football would - -- - . After spending the 1~ season was working long hours in the pa make chaos of their child-care ·· !, as a freshman llefensive l\ack for per factory, he made a point of vis 'schedules. , Georgetown College, 'Turner 1 iting Nicholasville health clubs to Eventually, he talked her into dropped out of college and went to lift weights, run or do aerobics. , work in a factory. He had stayed in such good letting him try. It helped that he was able to set up his class sched & his life unfolded, h~ had shape that in 1995, on the encour-· twin regrets: That he didn't earn a agement of a friend, he entered the, uk (13 hours of education courses with no class before 11 a.m.) in college degree and that he gi\-1\e up Bluegrass State ;Games and won· such a manner that he could see his football before he was ready. \ . the ?00-meter dash in his age son off to school in· the morning "I gave up on my dream.'\ group, I and take his daughter to day care. At an age when some1men In life, of course, 34 is not old. have settled into their lifelong ri:m In athletics, it is. Michael Jordan, ·:when practice started, Epps tine, he has gone back to college to who turned 35 during the last NBA was a no-show. But when George better himself.'' At an age when season, is contemplating retire town officially began in a thick fog at 81 a.m. on Aug. 15 by doing some men begin to fight the battle ment Mark McGwire, 34, is consid jumping jacks while spelling out T against love handles and sagging ered to be in the .early twilight of I-G-E:R-S, Silvester Turner was pees, he is competing with teen., his career. In copege athletics, it's there." agers and twenty-somethings \in 1 ancient the physically demanding world of Yet when Turner saw .the Epps . 11 < tL-HU • ,, <'F<• / ;~,a guy wh~ had not lived ?n co ege 100 Ud1L _!,'i:i;'j i·~- •<'I article'in the papef;a light went off. a for 16 years, dorm life Not long after, he showed up unan- camrois More rem3!'kl!bly,. ,Turner s was an eye-opener. - thriv_ing. J\t. -~ffba~ gen. · ~~~ Cr9t's ~f;tce , ~~ It was the noise that got to him. considered,:~. ,most athleticall 1 Because he really wanted to challenging position in football, h Iil 1982, Turner's only year at is a regular in'Gem'getown's defen Georgetown, Cronin had been a 26- feel like\part of the team during year-old assisiant ,coach in his first training /;amp, Tumer'inoved into sive backfield ; \ the. dormitory, Anderson Hall, In the Tige,s' season-opening\ year on Kevin Donley's first coach- ing staff. I , where Georgetown's football play 56-34 victory over Iowa Wesleyan,• ers were staying. (Once school Turner intercepted a pass in the Donley, whq ! would lead started, he moved back home to first quarter that set up,a to)lch, Georgetown to ih~U991 NAIA Di down. He saved a touchdown in the vision II national title, went 2-9 that Lexington): He found himself )!? a time · fourth period by running down an I fiist seasoifTiimEJ"~once'a·star op warp. -· ·. : ·: • iri I 1 Iowa Wesleyan receiver the open lion quarterback jat the old Jes- He had forgotten how loud a field from some 25 yards behind samine Councy: ' Schoo~ start- •,mllege donµ \20 _be,;_ hap. ~otten, ' Georgetown 'Coach Bill Cronin ~ in the defen8r¥ baclaield' as ·a ' liow lumpy, a college ilorm, mat- thinks Turner MU.prove to be "the freshman. ,: I , . tress can seem. ' best ~efeiisiye ~ we'll have this• Cronin had npt •seen Turner year tn our conf~ce." · · · since the player left Georgetown af Through it :ill. Turner is hav ter spring practice in 1983. But ing the time of hJs life. when the former player walked ll!to !Jis offi~ the ~ recognized him immediately,_,..,1 . . ' While he lay in bed and wor gosh he looks good," Cronin said a ied about what his children were week before the season opener. laing and how he would pay his ''He's gonna play." Then and now >ills. his teen-aged teammates were 1p late into the night arguing about The last time• he had participat- nusic groups and who had the best ed in a college football game, :ummer vacation. Ronald Reagan was in the second At least there were some famil year of his first term. Lionel Jr faces on the team, some guys he Richie's StiO was the nation's No. 1 ,ad played with before. Of course, song, Sylvester Stallone's first hey were now coaches. Rambo movie, First Blood, the No. Defensive line coach and re 1 movie. The Dow Jones Industrial ruiting coordinator Bruce Owens Average stood at 1,039.92. :ad been a teammate in 1982. De It was Nov. 13, 1982, and Turn onsive coordinator Dave Campbell er was in the defensive backfield as ransferred to Georgetown in the host Evansville pummeled George pring of '83 and went through town 59-14. "All I remember about pring practice with Turner. -it was it was cold, on the ::oad and "I've been coaching college foot we got killed," Turner says. •all since 1986 - 1986," Owens His return to football was more aid. ''Here he is, the same age I am memorable. - a guy I played with - and he's Some 20 family members and •laying. It's unbelievable."' friends were in the stands Sept 3 to From the time he first blazed see his comeback. Jrough the 40-yard dash during Turner started the game on the ,re-practice testing day, Turner bench, but noticed right away that ad been all the buzz in the Iowa Wesleyan receivers weren't ;rorgetown football camp. fast and weren't pushing hard First off, no one could believe down the field, .e was really 34. "I can play with these guys," he "I heard we had an old guy thought oming in," said quarterback Tom With 1:01 left in the first period .1y Owen. "But when they told me of the first game, he intercepted a ,ilvi was the guy, I was like 'No pass. Stepping in front of a Wyatt ray.' I mean, he looked like one of Miller toss, Turner made a nifty :1e (high school) recruits." move down the sideline and re Yet, even with his speed, there turned the ball 28 yards to the Iowa ,as skepticism whether Turner Wesleyan 21. It set up a touch- ould hold up to the physical rigors down. · f football once the hitting started. At halftime, Georgetown had a reception for alumni football play- .. ~A lot of guys look like T"1Z2n. . •· ers. Of the 75 who •gathered; at ut play football like Jane," said least 50 were younger than the guy illback Corey Taylor with a wink, who made the Tigers' first inter 50 we'll see." · ception of the season. Turner was aware of the' talk. In the second half, Turner end le had been hearing it all along at ed the lingering doubt many had 1ome. When he first told his girl about him by making a pair of ag riend what he wanted to do, she gressive tackles. He also saved a ,ad one reaction: You'll get hurt. touchdown when he ran down Vhen he told his mom, she had one from 25 yards behind an Iowa eaction: You'll get hurt. Wesleyan receiver who had broken After the first practice of the into the clear. "Not bad for an old man," all, he laughed about every one After Georgetown won, Turner Turner said to no one in particular, hinking he would get hurt, but it stood on the field with his ever-pre "Not too bad for an old man." JOthered him. He said he was using sent smile in place. Basking in the We should all feel so old. t as motivation, that he couldn't congratulations of well-wishers, he ,ait for that night's practice be lifted his son, Devin, in his arms. Herald-Leader• news researcher ause the Tigers would put on the Let Devin wear his dad's football Linda Niemi contributed to this ar ,ads and hit for the first time. helmet ticle. "I'm gonna show some people," ,e said. But he missed that first contact ,ractice of the fall. He got hurt. Between practi<,es, Turner felt a . ,ain in his midsection. Sheepishly, . :e informed the Georgetown athlet .:s trainers. He was taken to the loctor. It was diagnosed as a possi- : 0 ,le ft~ an ~ury h~ ~d j ,rought to camp. The intense activ :Y in practice aggravated it But it =Quired surgery. And though he eturned to practice within a week ,f the operation, the Georgetown oaches decided not to let him hit They did let him go 'through . ,on-contact drills, "He looks good, Se.p+, ZI, /~'ti MSU Clip A sample of recent articles of interest to Morehead State University UNIVERSITY COMMUNICATIONS MOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY UPO BOX 1100 MOREHEAD, KY 40351-1689 606-783-2030 Lexington Herald-Leader Monday, September 21, 1998 Time- ·to question how we prepare teachers By Ronald G_ Eaglln lion and certification. No minimum credit n the last six months, Herald-Leader hours were prescribed for professional educa columnist Bill Bishop has written at least ho'n courses or the courses in a teaching spe Ifour commentaries on what he sees as the cialty, Institutions developed their programs sorry state· of public schools, those who teach of study and submitted them to the profes in them and those who trained the teachers, sional standards board for approval. especially in the easternmost counties of Ken In effect, the removal of state-mandated tucky, minimums represented a deregulation of As president of the institution which has teacher certification and a good opportunity prepared-many, if not most, of that area's for colleges of education to make bold teachers over the last 100 years, my first re changes and fashion a performance-based ap sponse was to point out that the teacher edu proach to teacher preparation. Some of our cation program at Morehead State University programs were enhanced under the new has the highest a=editation possible from guidelines, but it appears that certain others the National Council of Accreditation of the still look too much like those of the past Teacher Education, Moreover, our program whose effectiveness can be questioned in has maintained a strong reputation for quali light of today's student outcomes. ty over the years with an im- We have made several pos pressive list of successful itive changes in teacher educa alumni in public education, Does it really make tion in recent years, including including the new president sense to require a new, the hiring of public school of the KEA. teachers a~ full-time visiting teacher to s-pend mme. professors, the organizing of However, after looking how into the matter in consider time learning to professional development able detail, it is clear to me teach rather than schools and the raising of re that the serious questions he actually what to quirements for admission to has raised are larger than on teach? ShouW our teacher education. But it is not institution and one region of enough! professors in teacher I am challenging the .acade the state. I share many of his education s-pend mar~ concerns about public educa mic leadership and faculty of tion and how teacher educa ti:me in elementary our institution to broadly re tion institutions are respond and sec 'a-ily Independent. Ashland, Kentucky, 'riday, September 18, 1998 Editorials Program 'mcreases 'E' for effort oiring Teacher training still needs an overhaul 1ppeal o_ amount of enthusiasm or sharpen knowledge of their acade technique can make up for mic disciplines. This sounds like a \.CC systems Nthe shallow grasp many thoughtful, if modest, first step. nanagement Kentucky teachers have of the We urge Cody, Davies, their subjects they teach. task force and the Education Pro legrees coming This knowledge gap is most se fessional Standards Board to think vere in science and math. But many bigger and broader than just "in y KENNETH HART teachers need - and would enjoy service" training, though. 'THE DAILY INDEPENDENT - a chance to deepen and update Teacher preparation- is the ASHLAND - Ashland Com their academic underpinnings. great unturned stone in Ken unity College is preparing to Education Commissioner tucky's school reform efforts. Sev fer a new course of study in Wihner Cody has zeroed in on this eral areas need examination - , m p u t e r s y st e m s a d weakness and is planning what he from undergraduate curriculum to inistration that a school of calls a "major initiative" to im whether the master's degrees re :ial says will make graduates ghly sought-after in the mar prove teachers' on-the-job training. quired of all Kentucky teachers · itplace. In another encouraging devel are yielding much more than a Dr. Jim Miller, interim dean opment, Cody and his counterpart captive market for the universities' academic affairs, told the in higher education, Gordon schools of education. hool's board of directors. Davies, have created a task force Gov. Paul Patton's higher edu mrsday that the Kentucky on teacher professional develop cation reformers are illuminating >mmunity and Technical Col ~e · System had approved as ment. It starts work next month. issues of efficiency and scientific cia te degree programs in Cody seems most immediately research. We urge them to realize ,twork information systems interested in re-targeting the $15 too that Kentucky's universities - ~hnology for ACC and four million a year spent for "in-ser have na higher or more practical her community colleges - vice" training. He thinks part of mission than improving the teach tducah, Jefferson, Somerset that money could help teachers ,d Maysville. ing force in public schools. He said he was more excited •out the program that any her he had been involved One of the other three, law :th in his 30 years in higher KCTCS approved the pro enforcement technology, began ucation. grams at its meeting Wednes this fall. The others, physical ·'It's what business and in- day at Laurel Technical Col therapist assistant and respira 1 s try across the Com lege's Cumberland Valley Cam tory care therapist, will begin mwealth need and we've got pus in Pineville-. next fall, but students can al good leg up on it," he told If the Kentucky Council on ready begin course work re ~ board. "The marketplace is Postsecondary Education ap quired for admission to those ready to receive these stu proves it. ACC will begin offer programs. nts that if we had graduates ing the course in January, The respiratory care thera w, we could place every one Miller said. pist program is a joint effort them." Network informat)on sys involving ACC, Maysville 'ltudents enrolled in the pro tems technology would become Community College and am will learn how to admin the fourth new degree program Rowan Technical College. Stu er networking computer sys at ACC since the state's com dents will take their general ns, Miller said. Training munity colleges and technical education courses at Ashland II be offered on three differ schools were reorganized into or Maysville and their techni t types of platforms - No the same system last year. cal courses in Morehead. ll, Microsoft and Unix. 'What we're going to do is ve the students the op rtunity to select the plat ·m they want training on," lier said. ,lost of the computer train ; programs currently avail e. including those at ACC, 11 primarily with program ng rather than systems ad nistration. Miller said. There is a big void," he d. "But we have so much hnology available here at ~ r:n Uee:e r11 ~ r .. n ,~an do the ,gram. We are ready to step dlld do the Job." , THE COURIER-JOURNAL• MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1998 Murray students retrieve belongings from burned dorm Associated Press MURRAY, Ky. -As students collected personal items yester On-campus day from a Murray State Uni versity residence hall, investiga housing has tors continued to search for clues in the ashes of a fire been found ior there that left one student dead. 200 of the For the first time since Fri day's fire, university officials students escorted students back to their C':> rooms to retrieve whatever displaced by 0 clothing, textbooks and person al items they could carry. But the fire, a a nobody was allowed onto the spokeswoman fourth floor of Hester Hall, -· where officials think someone said. s started the blaze. Ct) Ava Watkins. spokeswoman 00 for the Murrav State News Bu reau. said the- university found ter in Madisonville show on-campus housing for 200 stu Minger died of smoke and soot dents. and others moved in inhalation. with friends or family mem Another student, ~!ichael W. bers. Priddv, 21. of Paducah. suffered A campus police dispatcher severe smoke inhalation and said yesterday that arson inves third-degree burns on an arm tigators had been working and his back. He was in critical around ·the clock since Friday, condition yesterday at Vander but authorities hadn't released bilt University Medical Center any information. in Nashville. Tenn. The early-morning fire killed Larry Anderson. who directs 19-year-old Michael Minger of fire safety for the university's Niceville, Fla. Calloway-County facilities, said it might take Coroner Dwaine Jones said more than two months to get preliminary autopsy results the dormitory ready for occu from the Regional Medical Cen- pancy. THE COURIER-JOURNAL• MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1998 U of L enrolls 20,821; first rise Q.. in student body there since 1990 By MICHAEL JENNINGS The Courier-Journal - Enrollment at the University of LouisvH!e has in creased for the first time since 1990, thanks m part to an innovative program for part-time workers and expanded Crawford, Floyd, Harrison and Scott counties in Indiana study privileges for Indiana residents. to attend U of L at in-state tuition rates, has been broad · U of L reports a projected fall enrollment of 20,821 ened to cover most courses of study, except those in the students, including 2,I42 first-time freshmen, the largest schools of law, medicine and dentistry. number since 2,I50 freshmen enrolled m 1991. Overall The number of Southern Indiana residents taking ad estimated enrollment has risen slightly from 20,789 last vantage of the agreement to attend U of L has grown fall, reversing a steady decline since 1990, when enroll from 160 last year to 483 this fall. ment reached 23,6!0. Among U of L's undergraduates, 92 percent are from About 300 students have registered for classes at Ke~tucky (the same as last year) and 12.8 percent are U of L through Metropolitan College, a new program Afncan_ Am~ncans, down from 13.5 percent last year. that schedules classes at U of L and two other schools The university attracted 16 National Merit Scholars this around the job demands of students who work part time year, up from 13 last year. as package handlers for United Parcel Service. Among U of L's graduate programs, enrollment is up U of L spokeswoman Denise Fitzpatrick said about at the College of Business and Public Administration 350 Metropolitan College students are taking classes at Spee_d Scientific School and the schools of dentistry and Jefferson Community College and about 50 are enrolled nursing. Women make up half of the entering class at at Jefferson Technical College. About 200 applicants are U of L's medical school. on a waiting list for admission to the program, she said. By design, enrollment is down at U of L's Brandeis She said that about half the students in Metropolitan School of Law. From 1992 through 1996 the law school College are 18 or 19 years old and that 56 percent are admitted an average of 173 students, but about 50 fewer men. Ethnic minorities account for 21 percent of ~etro have enrolled in each of the past two years .. politan College students, includi~g African Americans, At the University of Kentucky, the preliminary fresh who account for 18 percent, she said. . man enrollment count this fall ts 2,860; up nearly 9 per Another contributor to U of L's enrollment growth 1s a cent over last year's enrollment of 2,626 freshmen. recently expanded agreement that allows residents of Total enrollment at UK. including Lexington Commu _.,;;everal Kentucky and Indiana counties to cross the Ohio nity College, is up about 2 percent, to 30,300, compared River for college classes without paying out-of-state tu with 29,729 a year ago. ition. The agreement, which allows residents of Clark, Tnere·was -a-sense or uneasmess yesterday ·among some fourth-floor ;HE COURIER-JOURNAL• SAllJRDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1998 residents, who said··the two fires in the same place within a week seemed like more than a coincidence. Rupert, who had to be rescued from a win dow, said he wanted to move to an other dorm. Joe Green, MSU's public safety di One dead rector, said that in last Sunday's fire, a section of hallway carpet had been doused with a flammable liquid and was discovered burning at 5:07 a.m. Dorm monitors extinguished that blaze. with fire extinguishers. Dam in Murray age was confined to about a square yard. SUNDAY'S FIRE was Murray State's third arson case since 1995, campus records show, but no details were available on the earlier fires. dorm fire Six trucks and 37 firefighters from the Murray and Calloway County fire departments responded to the fire, bringing it under control within 20 minutes. Second student While some firefighters fought the blaze, others with airpacks searched badly burned; the dorm door to door, making sure no one was left inside. In one sixth arson suspected floor room, they found one woman still asleep and got her out of the By JAMES MALONE building. The Courier-Journal Murray firefighter Ricky Walls said it took more than an hour to get all MURRAY, Ky. - A Murray students out of the dorm. State University student died Walls said it was pitch dark inside and a second was critically the building, and overhead lights had· burned yesterday in an early fallen. morning dormitory fire that a "If you can imagine midnight, state fire official believes was Michael Minger that's what it was," he said. caused by arson. TO REACH THE upper floors, The fire in a fourth-floor uated from the tan-brick and white firefighters used a 105-foot platform, hallway of Hester Hall started stone building yesterday told grip or cherry picker, and a truck with an in about the same place as a ping accounts of feeling their way to 85-foot ladder. small arson fire five days earli safety through dense black smoke The university, which has about er, university officials said. and bearing screams of terror from 8,900 students, paid almost $700,000 "In my mind, this is arson. friends they could not see. Firefight to buy the platform truck for the ... There is nothing at all to in ers used a cherry picker to rescue Murray department about five years dicate that this was (an acci four to six stud~nts hanging out of ago. This is· the first time it's been dental) fire," Jack Flowers, an windows or on ledges of the building, used for a rescue at Murray State, assistant state fire marshal, which has no sprinklers. Walls sa;d, said last night. THE FIRE KILLED Michael H. The dorm's fourth floor had exten An earlier state police news sive damage, and there was smoke release was more cautious, say-· Minger, 19, of Niceville. Fla .. a soph omore voice major. He was pro and soot damage from the third to ing only that "the fire appears the eighth floor, firefighters said. to be of a suspicious origin. No nounced dead shortly after arriving In daylight, black soot covered the cause has yet been deter at Murray-Calloway County Hospital walls and w.indows of rooms on the mined." at3:22a.m. About an hour before yester Michael Priddy, 21, of Paducah building's north side. day's fire was discovered, was flown to Vanderbilt University Sleepless students slood. quietly someone called a dorm room · Medical Center in Nashville. The around the hulking building, some on the fourth floor and asked sophomore was unconscious with crying and embracing. They could whether there was a fire on bunis over 10 percent to 20 percent not get to their rooms to retrieve per that floor, according to a cam of his body, according to stale police. sonal belongings, money. keys and pus police log. He was in critical but stable condi books. Though some parents arrived Students reported the call to tion in the hospital's burn unit, ac- to comfort their children, others from campus police about 1:30 a.m. . cording to a hospital spokesman. distant homes sought comfort at local CDT, who went to the eight Four other students were treated at churches or student organizations. · story dorm and interviewed two the Murray hospital. Keisa Bennett, University officials rushed to help students in Room 406 who had 21, of Murray, was treated for smoke with meals, clothes and extra books, received the call, according to inhalation and dismissed last night. and professors and local residents the log. But the police found no The other three were treated and dis took students into their homes. fire and left at 2:13 a.m. CDT. missed - Charles Rupert, 18, of Rush Trowel IV of Louisville, a Twenty-five minutes later, at Hickman; David Grisham, 20, of Lou dorm adviser on the third floor, said 2:38, the fire was reported to isville; and Jerry Walker, 22, of May Minger was a friend who sang with the campus police and Murray field. him in the concert choir. "I feel sorry Fire Department by someone at One firefighter, Dickie Walls of the for him and my prayers go out to his the dorm's front desk. It started Murray Fire Department, was treated family .... We are pulling together. near Room 406, students said. at the hospital for smoke inhalation The only way we are going to get Many of the 290 students evac- but was back at work last night and through this is with each other." said he was feeling better. "There were many heroes last Arson investigators pored over the night," Murray State President Kern fire scene all day yesterday. and de Alexander said in an interview, add tectives were examining campus tele ing that police told him the dorm phone records and questioning all ''was a crime scene." fourth-floor residents, according to He said he was "gravely dis police, students and university offi tressed" and vowed to protect stµ• cials. dents. He said the university would Flowers, of the fire marshals' of increase security, which already had fice, said that while investigators are been heightened after Sunday's fire. checking things such as the electrical system, he doesn't think they will SECURITY AROUND buildings find anything. had been increased, and some stu• William Bryant, a Colorado junior dents noted that identification cards who lives on the fourth floor, said \Vere being checked more frequently. police had questioned him about anv A series of campus meetings fol bad blood that existed among the lowed Sunday's fire. Students were floor's residents. Bryant, who plays reminded of the importance of fire football for the Racers, said he did safety and of evacuation procedures, not know people on the floor well and were told to watch for strangers. and did not spend much time there. A $2 000 reward was posted for in formation leading to the arsonist's ar• rest. THE COURIER-JOURNAL• SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1998 Students battled chaos, terror and a wall of smoke of the coed dorm, got out safely. After locating her friends in the dark with black smoke," he said. "You ness and chaos outside, she watched By CHRIS POYNTER couldn't see your hand in front of my as students trapped on the fourth -The Courier-Journal face." Caudill found his way to the floor stood on the ledges of their stairwell and fled down the steps. windows and screamed for help. One MURRAY, Ky. - The fire Several male students, trapped on yelled, "Get me the hell outta here." alarm blared at 2:38 a.m. yes the fourth floor, stood on the small Miller's roommate, Keisa Bennett, terday at Murray State Univer ledges of their windows pleading for was trapped in the smoke when she sity's Hester Hall, and student help. Arriving firefighters lifted fhem left her sixth-floor room to head for Edward Morefield slowly awak from the ledges with their equipment. the stairwell, Bennett, who has asth- ened from a deep sleep. He had Rush Trowel IV, 20, of Louisville, a ma, was taken to the Murray ~rown so used to students pull resident dorm adviser on the third Calloway County Hospital, where she mg the alarm as a prank that floor, said he was awakened by the was treated for smoke inhalation, he ignored it at first. fire alarm and frantically began She was dismissed last night. But screams outside his room knocking on doors to rouse the sleep- Bennett, 21, recalled the events on the fourth floor of the eight ing students. from her hospital room, decorated story dormitory where the fire "The smoke was horrible," he said. with flowers from friends and bal started told Morefield 20 of "My one thought was to get my (stu- loons from the chemistry department Radcliff, this was the real thi~g. dents) out of the building. I saw one where she works between classes. "When I opened my door guy standing out on the ledge and he Bennett, a chemistry major, said the smoke just rushed in ,: was solid black." she and others on the floor went to Morefield said. "I looked do..:n Morefield said a student who lives the stairwell. She opened the heavy the hall and I saw smoke com · on the fourth floor beat on doors, sixth-floor door but a wall of smoke ing from both sides. . . . I screaming at people to leave. hit her in the face and the door shut peeked around the corner and · "Get out, get out, get out,"' the behind her and wouldn't budge, saw flames." young man yelled. She began banging on the door. Morefield and others who es William Bryant, who lives in a pri- "I couldn't see a thing. , . I kept caped the fire that killed one . vale room a few doors down from wondering why nobody was hearing student and critically injured Morefield, said he also woke up to me," Bennett said. "I thought maybe another recalled a scene of cha screams. He opened his door and a I could get out on that stairwell if I os and terror as students fled to wall of smoke poured into his room. just sat down." safety. Smoke was so thick and "I thought there's no way I am go- So she began scooting down to the so black, students said, that it ing to get out of here .... I couldn't fifth floor. That door opened, she blanketed hallways and blocked even see across the hall,'' he said as said, and the floor was fairly clear of any light, forcing them to crawl he pulled his T-shirt over his lace, smoke, She cauiiht her breath and on their stomachs and feel their showing how he blocked the smoke went to the stairwell on the other way along walls. from his nose and mouth. "So, I am side of the building. It was mostly Kelly Caudill, 20, an Ashland crawling down the hallway on my clear of smoke, she said,. and she ran freshman who lives on the hands and knees opening all these down and out of the residence hall. fourth floor, said he was awak doors trying to find the stairwell." About five minutes later, she said, ened by yelling and noise from After opening several wrong doors, the ambulance arrived and began the next room. When he he found the stairs. giving her oxygen. opened his door, Caudill said, Charles Rupert, 18. woke up his "I was coughing up a bunch of he saw a wall of smoke in the fourth-floor roommate, Michael stuff," she said. "But I could tell that 5-foot-wide hallway reaching Priddy, a sophomore from Paducah. I wasn't going to die." from the ceiling to his knees. Rupert went to get Priddy a shirt. But In the meantime, students were "My room was just caked Priddy went out the door and into the frantically searching for their friends hallway, Rupert said. and roommates. Resident assistants Rupert never saw him again, he rounded up students and took roll. said. Last night, Priddy, 21, was in As students assembled outside many critical but stable condition after be- wept and searched for their friends. ing airlifted to Vanderbilt University Students - who fled only with Medical Center in Nashville. whatever they were wearing - were Priddy, an accounting major, is a not allowed back into their dorm, Regents Scholar, an the academic which houses 290 students. scholarship that requires weekly Murray State's Baptist Student service projects. He works as a math Union set up an emergency assis tutor at the campus Learning Center. lance center, Volunteers handed out Jennifer Wetzel, 19, a junior from personal items such as toothbrushes Harrisburg, Ill., said Priddy is a car- and toothpaste, and Murray's First ing young man who attends a Bible Baptist Church donated $1,000 to study group. give students $20 each for food. His roommate, Rupert, a Hickman Members of Murray churches freshman, said he left his room after opened their homes to temporarily Priddy but got lost in the smoke. house students. Many students, how- "The smoke was so thick you ever, went home for the weekend. couldn't breathe,'' Rupert said. "I University officials are trying to find went out in the hall and there was rooms for them in other dormitories. crying and yelling and people were Bennett· was1iil-gocid· spirits, joking running around in circles. That's with her family and taking phone when I went to my window. I was calls from friends. She said she could crying hard." taste the smoke in her lungs, but ex- Rupert hung out of the window un- peels that to pass. til the fire department arrived and And she may be back to normal rescued him by sending up a pole 1:sooner than she wanted. with a bucket on the end. Rupert was Yesterday morning, when some treated and dismissed at Murray- students from her physical chemistry Calloway County Hospital for minor class stopped by to bring balloons, injuries to his toe and head. they also bought a gift from her pro- Teresa Miller. a sixth-floor resident lessor- the class textbook. The Daily Independent, Ashland, Kentucky, Friday, September 18, 1998 Fire in Murray State dorm kills 1 student, injures others- MURRAY (AP) - One stu Murray-Calloway County Hos condition at the hospital. dent was killed and another pital. The other two were treated critically injured when a fire Michael H. Minger, a 19· and released - Charles Ru broke out early today in a dor year-old sophomore· from pert, 18, of Hickman and David mitory at Murray State Uni Niceville, Fla., was pro Grisham, 20 of Louisville. Ru versity. nounced dead shortly after ar pert had minor injuries to his The fire started about 2:30 rival at the hospital, authori toes and head and Grisham a.m. CDT on the fourth floor of ties said. suffered from smoke inhala Hester Hall in the same area Another student, Michael W. tion. where another blaze occurred Priddy, 21, of Paducah, was Ten students were treated at on Sunday, fire officials said. airlifted to Vanderbilt Medical the scene by emergency work The weekend fire remains Center in Nashville, Tenn. ers. under investigation, officials Priddy was in critical condi At least four students were said. tion, suffering from smoke in carried to safety on the backs Firefighters climbed long halation and burns to the arms of firefighters who climbed ladders, snatched students and back. long ladders to reach them. from windows and pulled them Three other students were Fire officials said an in to safety this morning. The treated at the local hospital. vestigation was under way fire was put -out within an Keisa Bennett, 21, of Murray, into today's fire. hour. suffered from smoke inhala The eight-story residence Five students were taken to tion and was listed in good hall housed about 300 students. Lexington Herald-Leader Saturday, September 19, 1998 treaterl at the scene or at area hospi tals. They were released by last night Murray dorm fire kills The fire broke out about 2:30 am. in Hester Hall, a 31-year-old dormitory on the 9,000-stildent cam student; arson blamed pus in far Wes tern Kentucky. The building houses men on floors one through four and women on floors By John Stamper five through eight HERA!..D-LEADER CONTRIBUTING WRITER The fire started near where a MURRAY - An early-morning dormitory fire smaller fire had caused minimal yesterday at Murray State University that killed one damage Sunday. student and badly burned another was arson, offi Police are also investigating cials say. the Sunday fire, but haven't deter Kentucky State Police are searching for suspects mined whether it was arson. The dents probably won't be able to 1 in the blaze, in which firefighters used aerial equip fires had "some similarities," said enter their rooms until Monday. ment to pluck several students from the windows of Chuck Robertson, a Kentucky "I've got no shoes, no no~ the eight-story building. State Police said Edward Morefield, a juni, The donn fire Michael H. Minger, 19, of Niceville. Fla., died in spokesman. from Radcliff. "I'm trying to find killed Michael the fire. Michael W. Priddy, 21, of Paducah, was Students locksmith so r- can get into my c Minger, 19. flown to Vanderbilt Medical Center in Nashville with who escaped ear and go home. I had two tests tad, The sopho third-degree bums on 10 percent to 20 percent of his ly yesterday de and I couldn't take them; I couldr more music body. He was listed in critical condiiion yesterday. scribed a night do anything." major was Several other students and one firefighter were marish scene of Morefield was wearing a pair , from Florida. scrambling to women's tennis shoes with no lao find breathing that a friend gave him. space amid black, acrid smoke. Paula Hulick, Murray State's c Charles Rupert, 18, awoke to rector of housing, said the univm the fire alarm and with his room ty increased security the day aft, mate, Priddy, decided to make a the Sunday fire. The dorm is no run for a nearby stairwell. mally protected· by one person at "l tried to get him a shirt to · front desk and one roaming secw put over his mouth but he was al ty person. ready gone when I turned The cafeteria gave the di: around," he said. · placed students free food, tt Rupert discovered that a blaz bookstore gave them toiletr ing desk in the hallway was block items, the Wal-Mart provide ing his path to the stairwell some free medicine and the Bai "l just lost all my senses so I tist Student· Union was givin went to a window," said Rupert, a money to those who needed it freshman from Hickman.· He had to · Students were being housed i lean halfway out the fourth-floor other dorms or with university ii window to get fresh air, he said. structors or other employees wh "There· was a lot of crying and had room, said Don Robertsm group praying going on and a lot of vice president for student affairs. people yelling to us in the windows Freshman Fred Sarile set up to stay calm," Rupert said. "People booth in front of the student unio inside were just screaming." seeking donations for the horn, He was plucked from the win less students. He collected $523. dow, treated and released from "The empathy was jm :Vlurray/Calloway County-Hospital. tremendous and. everyone is wit: The dormitory, which officials ing to do whatever they can t, said had no sprinklers or external help," Sarile said. fire escapes, was roped off yester "There is just a lot of sadnes day and considered a crime scene. right now." That left nearly 300 students, many of whom escaped in pajamas, ■ without access to their doilies or The Associated Press c011 beds. University officials said stu- tributed to this report. The Daily Independent, Ashland, Kentucky, THE COURIER-JOURNAL• SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1998 Saturday, September 19, 1998. Clues sought Students try in dorm fire to cope with fire fatality that killed 1 wells but r exterior fi1 flammable liquid was splashed on the Blaze work carpet in the fourth-floor hallway and escapes o ignited.Green said none of the stu sprinkler sy Residents are dents had been tested before Friday's of arsonist tern, ·sai fire. . MURRAY (AP) - Murray Larry Ande questioned about ■ Green also said he had looked at State University students and son, assistai but discounted the possibility that ei faculty mourned the death of a director c possible motives ther fire was intended as retaliation sophomore music major as in safety and f against amember of a student securi ty force whose room was near the lo vestigators were still trying to cilities mm By JAMES MALONE figure out who set the resi ~ cation of both fires. Called the Racer Minger agement and CHRIS POYNTER Patrol, it escorts students at night, dence hall fire that killed him Murray Stat, The Courier-Journal checks buildings to see that they are and injured several others. "The safety system in tht MURRAY, Ky. - State police locked and does surveillance in park There was also no word on building is completely ina, searched for clues yesterday to ing lots, Green said. whether the fire Friday was equate," Elrod said. "I didn the cause of Friday's suspicious .Green declined to comment on the related to another suspicious hear the fire alarm. Micha, dormitory fire that killed one students' statements that they had been asked about tensions among fire five days earlier on the didn't hear the fire alarm e Murray State University student same floor of the same resi ther, and that's why he died." and cntically injured another. stildents. over homosexuality. Investigators said they expect ·Matt McBride, Kelly Caudill, Kyle dence hali. Susan Klimchak, a spoke, to interview as many as 400 Lacefield and Tim Clements said in Michael H. Minger, 19, of woman for the state Publi people. But they refused to dis separate interviews with The Courier Niceville, Fla., died in the Protection and Regulation Cal cuss the progress of their probe Journal that they told authorities that blaze. At student counseling inet, said state fire marshal ii of the fire on the fourth floor of they knew of no such problems. Caudill, of Ashland, said no one sessions and a prayer service, vestigators determined th~ eight-story Hester Hall, which fellow classmates remembered Friday's fire was set. But sh the state fire marshal's office openly· talked about gay issues, al has said appears to have been though he speculated that there may Minger as a hard worker who wouldn't confirm whether ai set. The· previous Sunday, an have been some tensions under the didn't let his attention deficit other fire in the same area c arson fire occurred in nearly surface. disorder prevent him from the building Sunday also wa the same spot, school officials ·"It jrlst really wasn't discussed at learning all he could. the work of an arsonist. have said. all," Caudill said yesterday. "Despite ADD, he could do The college found temporar Friday's early-morning fire Lacefield, a sophomore from Can anything," said Melody Elrod, housing for the displaced stl killed 19-year-old sophomore eyville who was the floor's resident Michael Minger, a voice major adviser, said he knew nothing about a fellow music major who dents and offered counselin1 from Niceville, Fla. Michael W. problems with homosexuals. lived two floors above Minger School officials said the Priddy, 21, of Paducah, who "l thought everyone on our floor in Hester Hall. "He was a hard weren't sure how long the stt suffered third-degree burns on got along pretty good," Caudill said. worker and not a quitter." dents would be displaced. his arm and back and severe William Bryant, a junior, said that Elrod said ADD had nothing Local residents also bega: smoke inhalation, remained in once ar·twice this semester he had to do with Minger's failure to critical condition at the bum donating clothing for the stt seen an'ii-gay graffiti on the wall of a wake up during the fire. center at Vanderbilt University dents, and pharmacists worke bathroom stall. The graffiti was even She said the building was Medical Center in Nashville, tually removed, he said. No other stu with school officials to provid Tenn. dents interviewed said they had seen not properly equipped to warn medicines for students unabl Four students, all of whom sucl> writing. residents of a blaze. Hester to get their own medicatio1 lived on the fourth floor, said McBride, of Granite City, Ill., also Hall has two interior stair- from their rooms. yesterday that state police de said that to escape the fire, he had to tectives had questioned them jump over an overturned desk on fire about possible tensions among in the hallway outside his room. He dorm residents over homosex said it was similar to the desks that Robenson said the dorm's middle About midway through the hour uality. One of the students said students have in their rooms, and it he had seen anti-gay graffiti on of-the-night evacuation went "amaz long service, Minger's parents. hi! the wall of a bathroom stall this was upside down with the legs gone. ingly well. ... The alarm went off twin sister. an aunt and uncle and hi! semester, but all four said they Another student, Charles Rupert, and people did at they were sup priest from Niceville, Fla., arrived told investigators that they 18. of Hickman, also said he saw a posed to do." :rhe parents sobbed and their bodie, knew of no problems involving desk or table in the hall against a Though saddened that a student shook with grief and they huggec homosexuality. room door as he tried to make his died and another was critically in people. John Minger, at times strug• Meanwhile, students and way through the dense black smoke jured, Robertson said, "We look at gling to talk through his tears, callee community groups washed cars before returning to his room to be what it could have been." his son "a remarkable young man." and the student government rescued from his window. Robertson said the fire "obviously Gail Minger walked around th< placed coin jars around campus But authorities said they have not raises the issue' 1 about installing church after the service, a black and found evidence of a desk, even and in stores to help Hester sprinklers in all of MSU's dormi white picture of her son cradled in Hall's 290 students get spend though they searched the rubble for the palm of her hand. It was taken ing money for necessities. metal hinges or -knobs. Authorities tories, none of which has the equip ment. Anderson, the fire safety direc when Michael Minger was about ll The students will be allowed told McBride that what.he saw in the years old, she said. to retrieve one load of belong thick smoke was perhaps a lamp that tor, estimated the cost at up to $2 ings at 2 p.m. today, but founh million. After learning of her son's death. had fallen from the ceiling. she said, she pulled out a home videc floor residents won't be allowed University officials have not been Friday night, about 200 students, in because that floor has been faculty and friends gathered for a in which he sang "O, Holy Night." allowed into the dorm to inspect the "I'm so glad I have that, so I can sealed off by investigators. damage, but Larry Anderson, who di memorial service at St. John's Epis In other developments yester copal Church in Murray, where hear his voice again," she said. rects fire safety for MSU facilities, Minger had been attending for about Michael Minger enjoyed singing day: said the damage easily could be in ■ MSU public safety director a year. and was a member of the university Joe Green said in an interview the tens of thousands of dollars. He ·'We must approach this with the choir. that several students had been estimated it might take a minimum of conviction that God did not cause West said that although his death asked to take lie-detector tests two months to get the building ready this death. God did not cause this is a tragedy, Minger's family and for occupancy. He wasn ·r sure ., bour after Sunday's fire, in which a 1_.a111." the church's vicar. :urniyn ·,iends must let him go to God. insurance coverage. West. told those gathered. "We must "So we say to Michael now, ·Make Don Robenson, MSU's vice presi ·hank God for the 19 years he had." your new song, Michael,' "\Vest said. dent for student affairs, said in an in terview that "it's probably true" that there will be some reluctance among students to move back into the dorm unless the case is solved. The Sunday Independent, Asnland, Kentucky, September 20, 1998 University dor1n fire investigation widens A.. uthorities searching for clues at ~urray State MURRAY (AP) - Authori guishers to put out the blaze. 1:30 a.m. CDT. Authorities ties continued Saturday to Investigators were studying found no fire and left at about search for clues in a dormitory Hestor Hall's electrical system, 2:13 a.m.· .lire at Murray State Univer but Jack Flowers, an assistant Less than 30 minutes later, sity that killed one and injured state fire marshal, said he someone at the front desk . several others. doubts anything will be found . called campus police and the · The fire in a fourth-floor "In my mind, this is arson," fire department to report an hallway of Hester Hall early he said. actual blaze. Students said the , Friday started in the same Authorities also were inves fire began near Room 406. : place as a small blaze on Sept. tigating a suspicious phone Michael H. Minger, 19, of · 20. but officials have not said if call to a dormitory room on Niceville, Fla., was pro . the two fires are connected. the fourth floor shortly before noun_ced dead shortly after ar · In the Sept. 20 fire, a section Friday's fire. Someone called riving at the hospital. · of hallway carpet was doused Room 406 and asked if there Michael Priddy, 21, of with a flammable liquid, ac was a fire on the floor, ac Paducah, was flown to Vander cording to Joe Green, Murray cording to a campus police log. bilt University Medical Center State's public safety director. Students reported the phone in Nashville, Tenn. He was in Dorm monitors used fire extin- call to campus police about critical but stable condition. Lexington Herald-Leader Sunday, Sefl!!l!flber 20, 1998 it's likely Minger would still Investigation of dorm fire be alive if the fire started in the hallway and there had been a sprinkler system in at Murray State continues place. ASSOCIATED PRESS Sanders, who successfully Authorities continued yester- used fire extinguishers to put out pushed for an ordinance re day to search for clues in a dormi- the blaze. quiring all Louisville high tory fire at Murray State Universi- Investigators were studying rises to have sprinklers in ty that killed one and injured sev- Hester Hall's ele~trical system, 1993, said it is particularly im era! others Friday. The Hester but Jack Flowers, an assistant portant to put sprinklers in Hall fire started in the same place state fire marshal, said he doubt,; dormitories where there are a as a small blaze on Sept. 13, but anything will be found. "In my lot of youl)g people. When his officials have not said whether the mind, this is arson .... There is son went to the University of two fires are connected. nothing at all to indicate that this Kentucky four years ago, Sand In the Sept. 13 fire, a section of was (an accidental) fire," Flowers ers refused to let the school hallway carpet was doused with a said Friday. Authorities also were put him in a building that flammable liquid, according to Joe investigating a suspicious phone didn't have sprinklers. Green, Murray State's public safe- call ,asking about a fire befor~ Fri "The problem is you have ty director. Dormitory monitors days blaze bad started. kids who aren't that respon The Sunday Independent, Ashland, Kentucky, September 20, 1998 sible to begin with," Sanders said. "They're going to be drinking. They're going to be Many dormitories burning candles." He's not sure whether the at state universities legislature or the schools should pay for the systems, but he says it should be done. "It's have no sprinklers a critical life-safety- issue, and it should be a top priority," Lack of money cited as problem Sanders said. The lack of sprinkler sys MURRAY (AP) - There Michael H. Minger, 19,' of tems in dorms on Kentucky were no sprinklers in the dor Niceville. Fla .. died in the fire campuses has bothered the mitory where a Murray State Friday morning at Hester Hall. state Fire Marshal's Office for University student died in a Information about whether several years, said Susan t1re, prompting some officials other Murray dorms have to as_k whether the state needs Klimchak, a spokeswoman for sprinklers was not available. the state Public Protection and 'O make sure students are bet Keith Kappes, a vice presi ter protected. Regulation Cabinet. dent and legislative liaison at The University of Kentucky, · Fire officials say sprinklers Morehead State University, buy people time to get out of University of Louisville and said his school would welcome Kentucky State University ap imrning buildings, but many a change in the funding sys of the dormitories at Ken pear to be in good shape with tem that would allow More all or most of their dorms out tucky's public universities - head to improve fire pro some as tall as 20 stories - fitted with sprinkler systems. tection. But at other state schools, don't have sprinklers. Some And Rep. Freed Curd, D don't even have smoke sprinkler systems are lacking. Murray, chairman of the At Eastern Kentucky Uni detection systems that auto Bouse Education Committee, mancally notify firefighters versity, 10 of 16 dormitories said that the legislature should and apartment buildings aren't when the alarms go off. find a way to send additional The problem is money. The money-to colleges that want to outfitted with sprinklers, in state doesn't normally ap cluding the 20-story Com improve fire safety in the monwealth Hall. propriate money for improve dorms. ments to dorms - requiring Former Louisville Fire Chief James Street, the school's di each school instead to upgrade Russell Sanders, who now rector of facilities services, them with money from resi works for the National Fire said it would cost nearly dence hall fees. Protection Association. said THE COURIER-JOURNAL• SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 19. 1998 Dorm safety DORM FIRES Many Kentucky dorms IN KENTUCKY lack sprinkler systems Bv JOSEPH GERTH to put sprinklers in dormitories The Courier-Journal where there are a lot of young peo ple. When his son went to the Uni ~1anv of the dormitories at Ken versity of Kentucky four years ago. A Centre College student dies in an April 19 fire at a fraternity tucky's' public universities - some as Sanders refused to let the school put 1986 house. The state fire marshal later ruled that violations of fire mil as 20 stories - don't have sprin him in a building 1ha1 didn'I have codes contributed to the student's death. kler svstems. and some don't even sprinklers. 1988 ·Authorities evacuate 29i women from ·a dorm~ory at have Smoke-detection svsrems that "The problem is you have kids · Morehead State.University when a sofa is discovered automa1ically noufy firefighters when who aren't that responsible to begin 1he alarms go off. with," Sanders said. "They're going ,. Af'12!9~_rj~9~<1! ~~~•~.:-9'!,_t!OJ_.~3-~ .t•. ,_.;., , •• , .i~l!~Zdi,;t~?.£;_~~ . ·,,!:.:. On lhe day a 19-year-old Murray to be drinking, They're going rn be 1991 Several hundred students are evacuated from a dorm~ory State University student died in a burning candles." at Western Kentucky University when a fire erupts in a gartJage dormitory fire, some officials were He's not sure whether the legisla chute. questioning whether the state needs ture or the schools should pay for lhe --,.-,-~,.-,_.TA;mtspiacedci'-arette•,siarts'·rnre~atttt~nWtnen-sicfoimftory: to do something to make sure stu systems, but he says it should be J,!~J,;:~fl~~i~&.:f.9Jf~g1!J:.~Ql),ly-~y~ ~\U,c/~!@:.~!~g;., _, . dents are better protected from fire. done. "It's a critical life-safetv issue, Hester Hall. 1he Murray dormitory and it should be a top plioritv," 1996 The state orders Western Kentucky University to remove where Michael H. Minger died yes Sanders said. · over 400 glass covers from fire alarms in its dom,itories. A lerday morning, has no sprinklers. The lack of sprinkler syslems in few weeks before the action was taken. a small fire broke out in a ).turrav officials who know whether dorms on Kentucky campuses has dorm and studenls could not break the glass to pull the al_arm. 1here are sprinklers m other dorms bo1hered 1he state Fire Marshal's Of A dormitory fire al Murray"State University kills one were not available vesterdav. fice for several years, said Susan Sept 18, 1998 ~tud~nt an_,t (njures 14 others .. ,. .. .' ...... , Fire officials saY sprinkl'ers are im Klimchak, a spokeswoman for 1he ponant because they buy people time state Public Protection and Regula BY STEVE DURBIN, THE COURIER-JOURNAi 10 get out of burning buildings. lion Cabinet. The problem is money, The state The University of Kentucky, Uni buildings to have sprinkler systems Frankfort campus up to code, sai _doesn't normally appropnate money versity of Louisville and Kentucky until 1972, after many of the dorms Bruce Edwards, KSU's director , for improvements to dorms - requir State University appear to be in good were built. Murray State's Hester public relations. ing each school instead to upgrade shape with all or most of !heir dorms Hall, for instance, was built in the But not all state schools got sue them with money from residence hall outfitted with sprinkler systems. But mid 1960s. money. fees. at other state schools. sprinkler svs- For two years. the state Fire Mar Kappes said the money Morehea Keith Kappes, a vice president and tems are lacking. · shal's Office has warned Murrav has used to retrofit its dorms come !cgislati\·e liaison at Morehead State At Eastern Kentucky University, 10 about lhe lack of sprinklers. Klini out of the same fund that is used t Universitv. said his school would wel of 16 dormitories and apanment chak said. repair roofs, furnaces and air cond come a change in the funding system buildings aren't outfitted with sprin But the office. which requires tioning. that would allow Morehead to im klers, including the 20-story Com sprinklers in any new building 75 Brian Kuster, the executive dire< prove fire protection. monweallh Hall. feet or taller (roughly six or seven tor of housing at Western. said hi And Rep. Freed Curd. D-Murray, James Street, the school's director stories), is powerless to force the col school spenc nearly SI 74,000 thi chairman of the House Education of facilities services, said it would leges to upgrade. she said. summer to upgrade fire-protectio Committee. said yesterday that the cost nearly $500,000 for the school 10 The University of Kentucky has systems in three of its dorms. legislature should find a way to send install a sprinkler system. been upgrading for a number of Last year the state fire marsh, additional money to colleges that And at Morehead Slate University, years. said Barry Beach. UK's fire recommended that the school also ir want to improve fire safety in the only three of 14 residence halls have marshal. In fact, Beach said there is stall sprinklers, which Western wane dorms. sprinklers in rooms. The rest of only one building on campus taller to do. Former Louisville Fire Chief Rus them, including one 16-story dormi than four stories that doesn't have "The money we spend, we look a sell Sanders, who now works for the tory tower. have sprinklers only in sprinklers. any life-safety issues we have to de.: National Fire Protection Association, laundry rooms and trash rooms "I've got two kids. They could live with before we spend money o said last night il's likely Minger where fires are more likely. in our residence halls and I would something else. . . . We still hav would still be alive if the fire started At Western Kentucky Universitv in feel comfortable," Beach said yester some halls that aren't air-condition in the hallway and there had been a Bowling Green, only four of 18 resi day. ed." Kuster said. sprinkler system in place. dence halls have sprinklers through All of Kenmcky State's six dorms Morehead's Kappes hopes yes1e1 Sanders, who successfully pushed out the buildings. The rest have were upgraded and sprinklers in day's fire brings changes in the wa for an ordinance requiring all Louis sprinklers in trash chutes and other stalled in the early 1990s, after the universities get monev, ''particular!· ville high-rises to have sprinklers in places were fires are more likely. legislature made a special appropri at time when the siate does hav, 1993. said it is particularly important The state didn't require high-rise ation to help bring buildings on the some money to do this sort of th inf!." THE COURIER-JOURNAL • SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1998 Lexington Herald-Leader English Sunday, September 20. 1998 HS -4 credits. Getting PCC - 4 credit. Math HS - 3 credits. One Dorms at state schools in college each for Algebra I, geometry and an elective. PCC - 3 credits. Algebra I and II plus are lacking sprinklers may get geometry or integrated math. Social studies Morehead, EKU need He's not sure whether the legis HS - 3 credits, to lature or the schools should pay for tougher incorporate U.S. history, systems but don't have the systems, btit he says systems economics, government, should be installed. "It's a critical world geography and money to pay for them life-safety issue, and it should be a world civilization. Requirements PCC - 2 credits. World top priority," Sanders said. civilization and U.S. history ASSOCIATED PRESS The lack of sprinkler systems expected to rise or advanced-placement MURRAY - There were no in dorms on Kentucky campuses American history. sprinklers in the dormitory where a has bothered the state Fire Mar by end of year Natural sciences Murray State University student shal's Office for several years, said HS - 3 credits. To died in a tire, prompting some offi Susan Klimchak, a spokeswoman By CHARLES WOLFE include life science, for the state Public Protection and physical science and earth cials to ask whether the state needs Associated Press and space science. to make sure students are better Regulation Cabinet PCC - 2 credits. protected. The University of Kentucky, FRANKFORT, Ky. - It's as if Biology and one of the Fire officials say sprinklers University of Louisville and Ken a high school freshman didn't following: chemistry, tucky State University appear to be have enough to contend with. physics or principles of buy people time to get out of burn-· Minimum admission require technology. ing buildings, but many of the dor in good shape v,,;th all or most of ments for Kentucky's public Health mitories at Kentucky's public uni their dorms outfitted with sprinkler universities are likely to be versities ,...:. some as tall as 20 sto systems. But at other state schools, raised by the state Council on HS - One-half credrt. sprinkler systems are lacking. Postsecondary Education be PCC-None. ries - don't have sprinklers. Some Physical education don't even have smoke-detection At Eastern Kentucky Universi fore the end of the year. A new ty, 10 of 16 dormitories and apart standard would take effect in HS - One-half credit. systems that automatically notify 2002, when this. year's fresh PCC-None. firefighters when the alarins go off. ment buildings aren't outfitted -nen will be seniors. History and The problem is money. The with sprinklers, including the 20- The council is not being arbi appreciation of visual state doesn't normally appropriate story Commonwealth Hall trary. In fact, it is playing and performing arts money for improvements to dorms James Stree~ the school's direc catch-up. HS - 1 credit. - requiring each school instead to tor of facilities services, said it The current freshman class PCC-None. would cost nearly $500,000 for the entered high school under new Electives upgrade them with money from -ninimum graduation require residence hall fees. school to install a sprinkler system. ments. HS - 7 credits. Michael H. Minger, 19, of And at Morehead State Univer With a single exception - al PCC-None. Niceville, Fla., died in the fire Fri sity, only three of 14 residence lowing one year of algebra in day morning at Hester Hall. Infor r.ll!ls have ·sprinklers in rooms. The stead of two - the require leg~ ,admission, one of the cours, mation about whether other Mur rest of them, including one 16-story ments are more demanding mUSt',.be Algebra II. For high schoc ray dorms have sprinklers was not dormitory tower, have sprinklers than the pre-college curriculum Alg~~O>), geometry and an electh only in laundry rooms and trash students must take to be un suffice'.. available. conditionally admitted to a pub i'(ejilr~r set of requirements cu Keith Kappes, a vice president rooms where tires are more likely. lic university in Kentucky. rently:includes a foreign languag and legislative liaison at Morehead At Western Kentucky Universi Less is required in science Kentuc~y is the only Southern sta· State University, said his school ty in Bowling Green, only four of and social studies for college that: cfoes not require, or at lea would welcome a change in the 18 residence halls have sprinklers admission, and 20 overall cred strargly recommend, a foreign Ia, funding system that would allow throughout the buildings. The rest its is the minimum. But for this guag~- ,f.,_, ~ x.e.--., ,j.,.,J,,1-J ¥· .,;,.q 111!. Eaglin reacts to PCC .and critical columns state, is.proceeding. . ·· ·• ·· By SEAN KELLY "It's a shame• the parking Staff Writer issue wasn:t resolved befor.e it was "!lited in the press," he added. "There is .no conflict." A recent tussle with Pre Eaglin also commented on 'sionsburg Community College recent articles by Lexington Her ·over a $10 parking fee, and a ald-Leader columnist Bill Bish ·columnist's criticism of More- op, who blamed MSU's teaching 1,iead State's teaching program, program for promoting "medioc :were two issues addressed by rity• among eastern Kentucky MSU President Ronald Eaglin students. at Friday's regents meeting. A dispute over a $10 parking In a recent column, Bishop fee has led Morehead State Uni said MSU's extended campus v.ersity to pull classes from the classes offered courses on ,Prestonsburg Community Col improving teaching techniques, lege campus. instead of providing courses that Dr. Michael Moore, MSU vice would improve a teacher's .grasp president of academic affairs, of a given subject. said MSU opposed the timing of Eaglin said that after re ·the fee, more than the cost reading the columns, he saw itself, But PCC Presi,dent Debo that Bishop "was making some rah Floyd said MSU was noti good points." fied about the new fee before the · He said MSU has provided classes started. the current courses in compli Moore said 200 students were ance with the Education Profes affected by the pullout, with sional Standards Board (EPSB). MSU now holding· classes at a But Eaglin said he recently Baptist church, Mayo Technical found that the EPSB is now (::ollege and the Mountain Arts allowing more latitude to Ken -:Center. Those spaces were tucky's teacher-training institu-·· ;:donated to MSU free of charge, tions. •:O:S was the PCC space. "They've really loosened •up," :;:: "We have excellent relation he said. Eaglin said that vice ·:ships between Prestonsburg presidents Keith Kappes and ;Community College and More Michael Moore, and MSU's ;head State University," Eaglin deans, will be asked to review :told the regents Friday. "what we are doing," with the : · "There have been some goal of MSU balancing teacher ;bumps in the road," he said in education and content education •reference to the controversy. courses. :"Be:fore it was resolved, every After commending MSU's ithing hit the newspapers." "wonderful" teaching program,. l Eaglin added that after a Eaglin added, "We can get bet 'recent three-hour meeting with ter." Floyd, the two schools will be Regent Buckner Hinkle later • "moving forward,• He added commended Eaglin, because he that a joint MSU-PCC-Mayo was "willing to go beyond the venture to construct a $6.6 mil- initial reaction" to the articles, 1:-- L .. !1..l!-- ~---..l • .l L •• .i.L ... _ --- : .. _ ---", .. A sample of recent articles of interest to Morehead State University UNIVERSITY COMMUNICATIONS MOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY UPO BOX 1100 MOREHEAD, KY 40351-1 689 606-783-2030 Lexington Herald-Leader KETtii:ms 30: Staffers say it's beell an education By Heather Svokos HERAI.OlEADER P0P CULlURE WRIT By ASHLEY McGEACHY · that is a part of'what we look at in year that will not have an opportuni The Courier-Journal terms of what's imposed with the re- ty to play in the postseason." · peat violator penalties." . Crum met with the players yester University of Louisville officials say Slatton said that the head coach day around noon to deliver the bad they are keeping close watch on Denny should've had a '.'heightened aware Crum's basketball program in the wake ness" of what the assistant coaches news. For Eric Johnson, Sanders and of severe NCAA sanctions levied were doing on a day-to-day basis. Murray,. their collegiate careers will against the school yesterdav. For Crum the ramifications of a end on Feb. 27 at Southern Mississip But athletics director Toin Jurich said second probation l,lO beyond those pi. There will be no Conference USA there's little doubt that Crum will re the NCAA levied. His new contract is tournament in Birmingham, Ala., and main in charge of the program that has based on incentives, several having no NCAA Tournament excitement. won two national championships in his to do with postseason performance. "A couple of people wanted 10 27-year tenure at U of L. For example, if the Cardinals rar cry," Eric Johnson said. "Everyone "He's the head coach," Jurich said. ticipated in the NCAA or Nationa In kind of put their head down, but "I'd say that's secure." vitation Tournament, Crum, his assis coach talked to us and our heads Jurich said that Crum, who signed a tants, the head trainer and the were back up." four-year contract extension last March, strength coaches. would be paid bo Sanders said Crum "told the team is required to have frequent contact - nuses. equal to 1/12 of their annual salaries. to keep working hard and that the often daily - with U of L's compliance (non-seniors) owed ii to the seniors director, Neil Brooks, in an effort to en Crum would be paid $45,000 for a sure rules compliance. Sweet Sixteen appearance, $80,000 to win this season. He was calm, but "I've seen Coach Crum with renewed for a regional final, $110,000 for the you could tell Iha! he was upset." enthusiasm," Jurich said. " ... l think Final Four and $150,000 if the team When asked about Crum's accept we've put him in a structure of compli won the national championship. ance of the severity of the sanctions ance where he had someone to deal Also, if U of L won the Conference J~ric~ said "I'm not sure he agree~ with like Neil Brooks .... He meets USA tournament, Crum would get a with 11, but he understands it much very regularly with him, daily when $15,000 bonus. more. He's made a lot of progress. he's in town," Crum still could win C-USA Coach He understands." Despite a second probation levied on of the Year honors; his conference In his statement, Crum referred to men's basketball during his four-year coaching peers vote on that award, the violations as 11 errors," and point• tenure at U of L, President John Shu which would yield a $15,000 bonus. ed out that they occurred "nearly two maker said he didn't regret retaining But his players won't get a post years ago." • Crum in March. "He was not accused season bonus of going to a tourna He added: "We have been taking a of anything," Shumaker said, "and the ment. In his statement, Crum men proactive and aggressive stance in · report does not accuse him of commit tioned the three seniors - Alex compliance among our staff and ting any violations." Sanders, Eric Johnson and Cameron withm the athletic department to help However, Bonnie Slatton, the chair Murray - who will miss the NCAA assure that we do not allow this to person of the NCAA Committee on In Tournament for the second consecu happen again. Neil Brooks has been fractions, said accountability ultimately tive year. very active in an educational and re falls to the head coach. "I feel especially bad for our team sponsive sense for our staff. We have "One of the reasons we really hold - including three fifth-year seniors been waiting a long time for this re the head coach responsible is they are - and our fans," Crum said. "l think port, and we have to look at this as a in effect the CEO of their snort," Slat we're going to have a good teem this step forward in the healing process." ton said. "Even though they 'may not be directly involved in violations, they are ultimately the· ones responsible for ensuring that all of the assistant coaches know what the rules are and for really monitoring what they're do ing so that they are not violating THE COURIER-JOURNAL• WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1998 rules." At Jurich's recommendation Crum was not present at the news confer ence yesterday afternoon. He ad Murray dormitory fire dressed the players yesterday morn ing, then left on a previously sched uled recruiting trip to Chicago. was arson, police say. "l said you need to stay on. the re cruiting trail," Jurich said. "I thought that was important." By CHRIS POYNTER ords show Dewey Yeatts, Crum said in a statement he was and JAMES MALONE MSU's director of facilities "deeply disappointed" and "sad The Courier-Journal management, wrote the fire dened" by the NCAA's ruling, and he marshal and said "We intend to acknowledged he is "ultimately re MURRAY, Ky. - Friday's fa. make the correction of the not sponsible" for the basketball pro• ta! dorm fire at Murray State ed deficiencies a top priori!)'," gram. University was set by an arson In the records, MSU officials It's been a tumultuous three years ist and fueled by a flammable also said the school would in and three months for Crum. His pro liquid, and authorities are treat stall sprinklers if there was gram drew NCAA investigators' at ing th.e death of student. Mi money. The records noted that tention in June 1995 when former chael Minger as a homicide, MSU had requested money for volunteer strength coach. Jimmy state police said yesterday. the sprinklers. Thompson was Tinked to improper · But police won't say whether Yeatts said that in 1996, the recruiting of then-prospect Mark they have suspects in the fire at university had requested money Blount, and star center Samaki Walk Hester Hall. to install sprinkler systems in er was linked to a Ford Explorer Michael Priddy, a student the five high-rise dorms on• _owned by Walker's summer employ- who was injured, remained in campus. He said the project er. · critical condition late yesterday · would have cost $1.3 million, U of L received a sanctionless two•. at Vanderbilt Uni~ers1ty's burn but the state never approved year probation in November 1996 as center in Nashville, Tenn. the money. a result, but yesterday the penalties Also yesterday, state records He said the sprinklers were for subse~uent rules violations· requested by The Courier-Jour No. 13 on a long list of capital weren't so light. After a two-year in nal and released under the improvement projects that the vestigation into improper benefits to Open Records Law show that umversity had requested be• Fred Johnson, father of U of L player twice within the last two years, tween 1996 and 2002. He was Nate Johnson, the Committee on In deputy state fire marshals had reached at home last night and fractions levi~d a three,year proba• warned Murray State officials didn't have access to the list to tion, a one-year ban from-preseason that they should install a sprin and postseason competition and the· kler system in Hester Hall. See MURRAY loss of one scholarship each of the After both warnings, the rec- next two y~~ .~- .• .. : i .:,• "'· • . > .'!'he penalt1e~. v.:ere·severe·because the program was determined to be a repeat violator and, the 61-year-old, Hall of Fame coach still presides over the program, Slatton said. "We look to see if the same head coach is there from the former case," Slatton said. "In this case he was, so ,•v1 ~I< q A'i . ( c_,..,j;' J. ) "We didn't know what he was talk in~ about." Leftwich said. say what projecrs were ahead of it. . News that the . fire was arson Rep. Freed Curd, D-Murray, said evoked strong sentiments in the com he had not remembered· working munity. Murray Fire Chief Pat Clark with Murray officials to get sprin· called the death "needless" and said klers. He also said if it was listed as "I want to see this person; I want to No. 13 in priority, "it's not likely to see this person caught, prosecuted be funded." Generally schools get and ... put in some place where I money for their top six priorities, de· don't see them for a long•, long time." pending on the money available, he said. . This would be an ideal time to in· stall sprinklers because there's a state budget surplus, he said. · Even though the dorms don't have ~(t)VlVlQ)-• ,<-•::,:--i:i, '?"'10~C/') 3..:.•:::-~c .;J.>< ll)'O _::, ~ C: --0 -(t) C:..,,.... 0;.) et> -l • "' sprinklers. Yeatts said. the school has r.)- "'< ~ 2 ~-o c.:o g_crq cc~~;:;= ~3: ~::...... ('De<§ g« ~ 2.:: C.c.... • (t) • ::S -· C: ::, C. "Tl - C -, (t) - Cl n, r, '< - Cl -· C tried to improve safety. Over the last -n vi::sc:i,.... c. --,c:i..,w:i;_::l"'- v, -:::-.(Tj< nn;i,, 0 0 0 :r:,:: two years. it put smoke detectors in :.l i;';ii;".f-laq S°-=-- ,_Q) o C,."'<.., '<_,ell~ C,..... c:i ~-rt>~ ,:i t'll :t ::S -, ;::., :::; ::S ::S Ill -· to) -. ::, -, 3 ::, (ti @ .., C. VI -• ~ C :0 "1 every dorm room. he said. ::S "O :;T- :S::-.3 C/'l (D·O C?I'< ::J'< ::;•aq t'tl ":;;t:'.! r.:i o -« ;;t> ;:J. E;; Ul ~ m o or.:,::rc::;· c - ·-cnC?1 "OVI ... ;,?c.-,::r ~ It's not unusual for fire inspectors - :: (ti --, r.) VI • C. :r' VI en O - • ::;.• 0 C ~ - C?1 3 Pol -·...... ~ ""l:;l~ 3 n n .., ...., en -· C?I C n Pol o en :;i ::i en :::S:: ~ "'O __ - en to cite older high-rises for lack of" ":< ;::;.·~ wcrq·s·c 3 :-, c.c.e:.,;; :::i...... =-::;.•(":) • :.i oc.o ::s:: L.or=: sprinklers. said Susan Klimchak, a ~ '< Pol'< ::r' VI 3 r.) C' .... VI• rro tc-rn•a :..;:i_-, 0 ::J g :io 2 (°J Pol c r.) ....,::1-. -· -·2..c n VI c :.i 3'< Cb":< =- :i;-.,,- .., -lZ ~ spokeswoman for the state Public - ::, Cb:;·~§"~ 9:::r.-§_;:;;-0 2:..;=;·,...,. :i:i ~ n .., r.:, ....,;5 o gt"r:ltr:I 0 ::r C. 0 n> VI .., ~ (ti ~ - :=! 2.. VI'< :,:: 3 - ,... ;3 ::,· ::;· - ..... I Q ::rJ Protection and Regulation Cabinet. r.:, C ....,(')n 3"0 i;° ....,::J OOQ °n" VI ct1"0 ~'< ~ - ct1 -·- -:o Buildings constructed before 1972 3 ::i-:::ro _,o _::;·c..:2 :::r'< 1:::.5·::, c ~ I 3 ::r,,. n <·g'--cO~':<:ron ibc.c. cVlc.::, 2:..3@;::a, (l.l-- isC -were not required to have sprinklers. :::r ~ ..... ~E:::1.'< C.:?.~~ O:~Ja-n'g o c. c-~ t'D C?I g ::rJ Hester was built in the mid-'60s. Fire § ~-:;·'"Oc.rn o .g ;:;.;:;1 ..,~= ~:::r~~g ::s:: ~ 3 E-:~cl (JQ .,;~~(!) -. Polp,i• (t)O l'tl-,,,(1),..Cl) p,iVl!:!.W"< protection experts have said that (ti ....._ -C"3~00 ~ ffi S2 million. a3 ('ti;;;·; t"tl-o ~ ;~ Fa "8 s-g ~ _g.e.a.iil-o c.' , ne Ua11y 1nueper1ue11t, ,-,.::,111ar10, ntnlULt-v. ·· ,-eanesaay, ~eptemoer 23, .1.9~8 Wednesday, September 23. 1998 MSU Unprotected student All dorms should meet today's fire codes indicted It should not have taken the Only Kentucky State Univer death of a Murray State Uni sity, which received a rare state versity student to draw atten appropriation to upgrade its for rape tion to just how poorly protect dorms, the University of ed from fires dormitory resi Louisville and the University of Met alleged dents throughout Kentucky Kentucky have put a priority are. on installing sprinklers in older• victim at party But now that the death has residence halls. BY TOM LEWIS occurred, university officials That needs to change. The OF THE DAILY INDEPENDENT should solicit - and receive - General Assembly should re MOREHEAD - A the help of the Kentucky Gen quire that all residence halls Morehead State Univer eral Assembly is putting priori meet today's fire codes, and it sity student accused of ty on having all residence halls should provide universities raping a 19-year-old co with funds to help them meet ed after a May 1 frater meet current fire codes. nity party was arrested There was no sprinkler sys that requirement. Tuesday, following his tem in the Murray State dorm While we agree with the indictment by a _Rowan where Michael H. Minger, 19, state policy that residence halls County grand jury last of Niceville., Fla., died as a re should be paid for through fees Friday. sult of what should have been a from the students who live in Jamie R. Brown, 19, relatively minor blaze. Unfor them, an exception should be of Olive Hill, was tunately, having no sprinklers made to protect the lives of charged with first-de gree rape and lodged in is the norm, rather than the ex dorm residents. the Rowan County De ception, in dormitories on cam Prior to the Murray death, tention Center on a puses throughout the state. most parents probably as $20,000 cash bond. Dormitories, apartment com sumed that their children were Brown, a member of plexes ap(!,_other !!lulti-resident ho115et.l. in dormitories that met MSU's Sigma Alpha Ep structures built since 1972 fire· ·codes. Now that that as silon fraternity, niet the have been required by law to sumption has been proven alleged victim at a party at the Delta Tau Delta have sprinkler systems. The false, parents and others fraternity house, accord problem is that most residence should pressure university offi ing to Assistant Com halls in Kentucky were built cials and legislators to find the monwealth's Attorney prior to 1972 and only a hand funds to bring them up to code. Gary Adkins. The two ful of the older structures have The General Assembly used the apparently went to been retrofitted to include state surplus to fund a host of Brown's college resi sprinklers and other fire safety projects that do not seem to be dence, where he forced her to have sexual inter measures, such as additional nearly as important as protect course, Adkins said. exits. ing the lives of students. Alcohol was involved As a result, only three of 14 James Street, EKU's director in the alleged incident, residence halls at Morehead of facilities services, estimates he added. State· University have sprin that sprinklers could be in If convicted, Brown klers in rooms. The rest have stalled in older dorms for less faces 10 to 20 years in sprinklers only in trash rooms than $500,000. That's a small prison. The Daily Indepen and laundry areas where fires price to pay for saving lives. dent does not identify al are more likely to occur. At If university officials and leg leged sexual assault vic Eastern Kentucky University, islators do nothing in response tims without their per 10 of 16 dorms and married to the Murray fire, they are mission. student apartments have no inviting a repeat of this need sprinklers. less tragedy'. • iHE C8~rilER-JOURNAL • fHURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24. 1998 'VOLLEYBALL U of L expected to maintain position as team on upswing By DAVE KOERNER 11 this season, which means it will that upswing will hit a downward The Courier-Journal be permitted 10 next season. And turn but noted: "I look forward to with only two seniors departing, the the day where I see them in the Final From all indications, the Universi Cardinals can offer just one grant-in Four. I know that's their goal." ty of Louisville's nationally ranked aid for the 1999-2000 season. Kordes, whose daughter Anne is a volleyball pro~ra:m shouldn't slide "You don't want to waste that senior setter for the Cards, doesn't much, if any, m the wake of NCAA one," said Dennisor1, noting that anticipate recruiting being affected penalties. U of L would have had three schol and complimented U of L for its "I don't think it will be that seri arships to offer if it hadn't been for good-faith efforts. ous of a thing," said Ron Kordes, the penalties. "The fact the sanctions have been coach at No. !-ranked Assumption Fortunately for the Cards, they announced and eve,ything has some High School and president .of the have five freshmen and three sopho finality to it, I think it will be fine," Ohio Valley Volleyball Center. "I mores, which means they should be he said. "As far as young high think any time you lose a couple of well-stocked for a while. school players in town, it won't leave scholarships, it'll affect you in the Coach Leonid Yelin acknowledged any long-term effect on them at all. short term. But in the long term I that the investigation and threat of The sophomores probably won't think eve,ything will be fine." penalties probably scared off some even remember what happened. U of L will lose a total of three recruits. "I think, too, it looks like U of L scholarships over this season and "But we're fortunate to have a lot has put some people in place compli next and will be allowed only six of of good young prospects," he said. ance-wise to make sure this doesn't ficial visits by recruits both this sea "I don't think it will have a big im happen again." son and next. The limit in Division 1 pact on recruiting," said Sherry There were ei~ht violations - in is 13 a year. Newton, a junior middle blocker who cluding lack of mstitutional control "Actually, it hurt us more leading played at· Butler Hifih School. "We - with seven involving recruiting up to this - the wait for the final got some great recruits last year with and rules forbidding extra benefits. verdict," U of L assistant coach Pat this stuff going on." "Whoever they're recruiting now ty Dennison said. "Home visits start Among the newcomers are out know what the penalties are, how in July, with most of the top teams side hitter-setter Emily Roberson, a long they are and what the volleyball making offers in late July, August Manual graduate, and setter Jing program has to do," Sacred Heart and early September, And they're ex Ding, who is from China. Academy coach Kelly Grimes said. pecting commitments in September U of L's program has been on an "It's not a guessing game anymore." and October, Well, we haven't been upswing in recent years. The Cards Said Garvey: "Louisville is a hot able to make any offers because we reached the NCAA final 16 in 1996 bed for volleyball, for both grade didn't know what we would have to and will visit Marquette tomorrow school and high school. and 1J of L offer." ranked No. 22 with a 7-2 record. has drawn a lot of attenti'>n. I think Division I schools are allowed 12 Mercy Academy coach Ken Garvey a lot of kids will still have a dream to scholarships a year. U of L has only said "only time will tell" whether play for U of L." U of L's violations not unmatched By MARC J. SPEARS gram was hit with three years' pro school to furnish written reports on The Courier-Journal bation for lack of institutional con how it is correcting problems, may trol, improper benefits and out-of. make in-person visits and may re After completing two years of season practice, and the NCAA quire audits of programs. NCAA probation, the University of eventually added another year. UTPA, a former Sun Belt Confer Louisville learned Tuesday that it And in 1996 the men's basketball ence school, is now a Division I inde must endure three more years of it. program was hit with four more pendent institution. But that is nothing compared to the years of probation for violations in "Despite our difficulties, we want University of Texas-Pan American, recruiting, lack of institutional con to be a model for other schools," which will spend the majority of this trol and ethical misconduct. said Weidner, a former Murray State decade in the NCAA's doghouse. McKone said 16 of the current 24 football assistant coach. "We want employees in the UTPA athletic de Texas-Pan American will have partment have been hired in the past them to say, 'They had some prob been on probation every year from three years. The school also hired lems, but they turned it around.' " 1990 through 2000 except one. Bill Weidner as its new athletic di There are also other schools that During the probationary period, rector on May I. He helped Ashland have rivaled Louisville's five-year schools must deal with whatever (Ohio) University overcome NCAA stretch of probation. In 1996 Texas punishment the NCAA has given. probation and worked in the athletic Southern's men's and women's track And a negative light. department at Southern Methodist and field, cross country, football, "It's .embarrassing to the school," after its football program was given baseball and men's tennis programs said UTPA sports information direc the "death penalty" for the 1987 sea were hit with five years' probation. tor Jim 'McKone, who has been at son. In 1994 Texas A&M's football pro the school for 30 years, "but the uni During a probationary period, an gram received a five-year probation. versity is making every effort to institution is in danger of being And in 1990 the men's basketball change." treated as a repeat violator if another program at Division III Upsala Col In 1990 Texas-Pan American's incident arises in any sport. lege of New Jersey was slapped with women's basketball program was on Also, the NCAA may require the five years' probation. probation for one year for recruiting violations and lack of institutional control. In 1992 the men's basketball pro- MSU ARCHIVES $ep +, 2.51 I 998 MSU Clip Sheet A sample of recent articles of interest to Morehead State University UNIVERSITY COMMUNICATIONS MOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY UPO BOX 1 100 MOREHEAD, KY 40361-1689 606-783-2030 Lexington Herald-Leader Friday. September 25, 1998 Lex, ngton Herald-Leader •©MIi Friday. September 25. 1998 Teaching teachers Readers' views hnprove math Morehead president strikes an encouraging chord teachers' orehead State University schools and children. President Ronald Eaglin's But many people, inside and training, Minterest in strengthening outside the region, worry about the teacher training is encouraging. same realities that Bishop decries compensation In a commentary published by and Eaglin acknowledges. Bill Bishop's Aug. 12 column on the Herald-Leader Monday, Eaglin "teacher education" and "mediocrity'' Carol Stumbo, the state Educa points at an obvious problem but fails wrote: "I am challenging the acade tion Department's Region 8 Service to provide any real solutions to put bet· mic leadership and faculty of our Center supervisor, is among those ter math teachers in Kentucky class institution to broadly re-examine sounding the alarm. So is fonner rooms. There are three sreps Kentucky everything we do in teacher prepa state school board member Tom could take to improve the quality of ration." Gish of Whitesburg. math instruction. Eaglin raised some provocative In a memo to her superiors in ■ In the short tem1. Kentucky que.;tioa::: atoet i1ow teachers are could expand the;,;::~ of "distar~" learn Frankfort, StLllTlbo, a Morehead ing'' for advanced teacher training. No educated. He called for a statewide graduate and acclaimed Floyd college needs to teach math in "15 East initiative to improve the quality of County teacher, wrote of the self-re ern Kentucky cities" to teachers. They the teaching force and for stronger inforcing problems at all education simply need to make greater use of partnerships between universities al levels. classrooms with two-way interactive and public schools. Good ideas. "A majority of the teachers video links to offer math classes for We urge Eaglin to follow working in the region were born teachers in rural areas. through. We urge his counterparts and grew up here," Stumbo wrote ■ Kentucky could require individu als who wish to teach math to ha,·e a to undertake the sort of in late last year. college degree in math. Instead of offer stitutional soul searching We urge "They attended area ing a four-year bachelor's degree in ed he proposes. We urge a schools, leaving the region ucation. as thev do now. teacher train state task force that starts teachers only briefly to complete ing programs could mandate five-year work on teacher training to mew thi.s teaching certification. The joint degree programs requiring stu next month to be bold. rising interest quality of their education, dents to complete both a bachelor's de in their gree in a field. such as math, and a But most of all, we both within the area and master's degree in education to be certi urge teachers to view this professum at regional universities, asan fied as a teacher. rising interest in their pro has been questioned by ■ Kentucky could pay its math fession as an opportunity, opportunity, many within the region. teachers more money. Teacher salaries not a threat. not a threat. Many believe that the edu- are the bugaboo of virtually any educa Unfortunately, anyone cation of teachers and ad tion debate. The fact is, math majors who points out shortcom- can earn more money as stock pickers. ministrators needs to be actuaries. engineers or computer pro ings in teacher training risks of improved at both the undergradu grammers than they can as teachers. fending teachers and their many ate and graduate levels at these The best and brightest go where they supporters. universities. The Regional Service can earn the most. While this defensiveness may be Center has worked extensively with Even if Kentucky were to take full understandable, it's regrettable. It Morehead State University on this advantage of the first two suggestions. blinds people to reality and erects a problem and progress has been the reality is math education will re roadblock to progress. Morehead made, " Stumbo said, "but more main ''mediocre" so long as we are un willing to pay math teachers a competi has a huge constituency of teachers work is needed." tive wage. among its alumni, which is one rea The work she's talking about is David Grassmlck son Eaglin's open-minded attitude, some of the most important work Chair. Speech and Rhetorical Studies Centre College his willingness to admit there are facing Kentucky today. Stumbo's Danv,lle wealrnesses and to search for ways concern is regional, but concerns to shore them up are all the more about teacher preparation stretch significant. statewide. The Prichard Committee Eaglin said his piece in the Her for Academic Excellence has put ald-Leader was in part a response the issue at the top of its to-do list. to criticism by our columnist Bill If Eaglin and the educators at Bishop. Bishop has taken Morehead Morehead lead the way in opening to task for falling short in its duty their minds and rolling up their to produce teachers capable of over sleeves to pound out solutions, they coming the historic disadvantages will do their region and state a faced by Eastern Kentucky's huge service. The Daily Independent, Ashland, Kentucky, Thursday, September 24, 1 J 98 Murray State warned to install spr~nklers MURRAY (AP) - The management, wrote the fire for their t9p six priorities, state warned Murray State marshal and said, "We in depending I on the money University twice within the tend to make the correction available, lie said. last two years to install a of the noted deficiencies a This would be an ideal sprinkler system in Hester top priority." time to install sprinklers be Hall, where one student was Yeatts said that in 1996, cause ther~·•s a state budget killed and another injured the university had request surplus, he said. in a weekend fire. ed money to install sprin Even th ugh the dorms Murray State did request kler systems in the five don't haYe sprinklers, money for sprinkler systems high-rise dorms at a cost of Yeatts said, the school has but the project was not ap $1.3 million, but the request tried to improve safety. proved by the state, accord was not approved. Over the last two years, it ing to records obtained by He said the sprinklers put smoke detectors in The Courier-Journal under were ranked 13th on a long every dorm I room, he said. the Open Records Law. list of capital-improvement It's not hnusual for fire State police ruled the projects that the university inspectors to cite older high blaze was set by an arsonist had requested between 1996 rises for labk of sprinklers, and the death of Michael and 2002. He was reached said Susah Klimchak, a Minger was being investi at home Tuesday evening spokeswoinhn for the· state gated as a homicide. and clidn't have access to the Public Protection and Regu Michael Priddy, who was list to say what projects lation Cabihet. injured Friday, was upgrad were ahead of it. Buildings constructed be ed to critical but stable con Rep. Freed Curd, D-Mur fore 1972 "(ere not required dition Wednesday afternoon ray, said he had not remem to have sprinklers. at Vanderbilt University's bered working with Murray Hester was built in the burn center in Nashville, officials to get sprinklers. mid-1960s.J Fire-protection Tenn. He also said if it was list experts ha~e said sprinklers After both warnings, the ed as No. 13 in priority, "it's would have decreased the records show Dewey Yeatts, not likely to be funded." chance of fatalities in the MSU's clirector of facilities Generally schools get money fire. The Daily Independent. Ashland, Kentucky, Thursday, September 24, 1998 supposed to do, to be a first round (NBA) pick," Tyndall Ex-Eagle said. I More help should1 come from Collis Temple, I a 6-5 assists shooting guard who a~eraged 31.5 points per game last year in high school, and 6-~ Mar rebuilding cus LaDeoux. Jamal jWolfe, another JUCO transfer, may atLSU play point guard. I Tyndall, 28, came to LSU By MARK MAYNARD after a highly successful stint OF THE DAILY INDEPENDENT at St. Catherine College in A former Morehead Springfield, Ky. He was also a State University basketball two-year assistant co~ch at player is having a hand in Iowa Central. , rebuilding LSU's program.. Tyndall was the head coach Donnie Tyndall, who at St. Catherine in the 1996- played under Tommy 97 season, leading the team to Gaither and Dick Fick at Donnie Tyndall a school-best record 6f 30-5 MSU, is an assistant coach Still, the Tigers came and making it to the national for the Tigers. within a missed 3-pointer tournament. I Tyndall is one of second- of upsetting Kentucky in Then, at the age of 25, he year coach John Brady's Baton Rouge. However, was the youngest head coach three assistants. LSU finished only 2-14 in on the junior college level. LSU went through a 9- the SEC. He was recruited td coach 18 season but had a re- With a recruiting class at LSU by Kermit Davis, a cruiting class that ranked that includes 6-foot-10 friend who is Brady's top as third in the country behind Stromile Swift and 6-11 . sistant. Tyndall had met UCLA and DePaul. J abari Smith, expectations Brady previously through · ·"We feel like we're mov- have grown on the LSU Tim Floyd, the former Iowa --- I State coach who is tl)e new ~!fi¥!J'a11,g!t~,tl~~i~- caitw:ieel like w:'ve go~ a" coach of the Chicago Billls. his second year. "People chance to go the postsea don't understand how down son, whether it's the NCAA Tyndall, who grew J up in the program was when we or the NIT, for the first Michigan, still has ties to came here." --, ·.:\•· i',.. time in six years," Tyndall Kentucky. He graduat➔ d from _LSU suffered through said. ''We're excited about Morehead State University in four consecutive losing sea- things with our recruiting 1993 and his wife is from sons before Dale Brown re- class." Whitesburg. I signed after' the 1996-97: wift L season. The Tigers were de'.: S · , of Shreveport£ h., "Myself and Kermitl Davis, pleted for Brady's first sea- was regarded as_one o t. e we split the scouting responsi son with the tallest player top fi_ve prep big men Ill - bilities," Tyndall said.I "I did ' din 1 - 6 6 1, · , Amenca. He was a first- 1 stan g on [ - . ,;._ ;c· · team All-American in USA --' the Kentucky scouting and we "You cant Will m this --•-.. --- · · almost beat them; we Had a 3- league with player,s that I Toda}'.. point shot at the buzzer. size," Tyndall said. Smith l.'layed for -Atlanta "Coach Davis and Coach , Metro J uruor College last sea I son. Brady kind of messed with me "He's got a chance in two aftei:vards. They said~ proba 'years, if he does what he's bly clidn't ~ant that shrt to go manyway. · Lexington Herald-leader Friday, September 25, 1998 Mountaintop removal to be studied 1:: Kimberly Hefllng ~------~ Mining 7 I David Gooch, president of ASSOCIATED PRESS e<;.alpment was Coal Operators and Associates Kentucky's mountaintop re- excavating dirt Inc. in Pikeville, said he thinks the moval operations will be thor- · •;- . at a mountain- study is not necessary. oughly studied in a joint effort of top removal "Considering the decline in government agencies, a federal "-,~~~ • "'- operation at mining over the years, DSM has Office of Surface Mining official Addington been ha,;ng to look kind of hard has said. ~!\ __::.:_,.• .. ·_-.'~~ Enterprises' in order to find something to justi- The plan is now in draft form, Star Fire Mine fy its existence, and I think this is and an agreement has not yet in August. just another way for them to do been signed between DSM and RHONDA SIMPSON,, that" Gooch said. the Kentucky Department for Sur- ASSOCIATED PRESS "If there were any problems face Mining Reclamation and En- ··._, --- I for DSM to recognize, then I be- forcement, William J. Kovacic, lieve DSM would have found OSM's Lexington field director, them by now. If there are prob- said in a statement gesture on the part of DSM, but been enforcing (the act) all along; !ems out there that are major During mountaintop removal, it's a little too late because it's specifically put in problematic problems that DSM the tops of hills are removed and "I lhlnk they'll find what there that unless it's a s~c use has not identified in the past nu the earth is dumped in nearby we've been finding. Loss of water. for the mountaintop removal land; merous years in oversight it kind valleys and streams. The streams Damage to homes," Brock said. then mountaintop removal is not of makes you wonder why they 1 are sometimes buried in the "My question is why haven't they to take place." have them do oversight anyway." process, leaving a flat or gently rolling landscape The controversy surrounding mountaintop-removal stems from the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1'517. A provi sion in the iaw givc:S ~ompanies the opportunity ,0 use this method of mining if the newly flattened land can be used for eco nomic development, such as building an industrial park on the land. But many companies have beeri granted "fish and wildlife" pennits, which environmentalists argue is not an appropriate post mine use. The proposed study would re view whether mines in Kentucky have been allowed to use the mountaintop removal method without showing proof that the land will be used for economic de velopment The study would be conducted from Oct 1 to Dec. 31 with results released next year, Kovacic said: More than 150 miles of Ken• tucky's mountaintops have been leveled in the past 20 years, ac cording to state strip-mining records. There are 45 mountain top removal mines operating in Kentucky. Since 1978, Kentucky has granted 367 mountaintop removal permits, and al least 57 have had ''fish and wildlife" as their promised, post-mining land use The DSM proposal includes a revi.ew of all pennits associated with two large dragline opera tions in Eastern Kentucky: Perry County's Star Fire Mine, owned by Addington Enterprises; and Martin County's Martiki Coal Corp., owned by Mapco Coal Inc. Officials from both Addington and Mapco have said they will work with the agencies on the study. Linda Brock, a member of Kentuckians For The Common wealth, a grassroots environmen tal organization, said it's a nice -J~ l L 6>:r) Se..pt. 2 '1, l'l'lg MSU ARCHIVES - MSU Clip Sheet A sample of recent articles of interest to Morehead State University UNIVERSITY COMMUNICATIONS MOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY UPO BOX 1 100 MOREHEAD. KY 40351-1689 606-783-2030 Lexington Herald-leader Monday, September 28. 19~8 New York. Burton is a graduate of Murray State University. ■ Cawood Ledford, president of Cawood Ledford Productions and the first sportscaster to be inducted into the Kentucky Journalism Hall of Governor Fame. Ledford is a graduate of Centre College. ' ■ Clyde F.E. Roper, zoologist, National Muse um of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. Roper is a graduate of Transylvania University. stumps for ■ Betty Lentz Siegel, president of Kennesaw State University in Kennesaw,·Ga. She is a grad uate of Cumberland College. ■ William Sturgill, president of Golden Oak higher ed Mining Co. Sturgill is a graduate of UK. Patton lauds improvements THE COURIER-JOURNAL •· TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1998 but says more are needed Find arsonist, win By Holly E. Stepp HERALDt.EAOER EDUCATION WRITER Gov. Paul Patton last night praised the state's Murray scholarship colleges and universities for their efforts to im Brian Roy, vice president of prove education, but warned that they still have a Alumni to give the Murray State Alumni Asso long way to go. ciation, said, "The consensus "We have onl y scratched the surface of the four-year grant was that the person who may changes we must make to improve the social condi after conviction have the knowledge probably is tion of all Kentuckians," said Patton, the keynote a student, and what better way speaker at an annual conference for members of to reward them than to give By JOSEPH GERTH them a free education." college governing boards. The Courier-Journal "No broad social change can The reward is for any stu occur in this state without the dent at Murray State. Room, Murray State University board and tuition total $9,840 support and leadership of ad alumni have offered a full per year. vanced education." schola;-ship - room, board and Patton also praised the new tuition, for up to four years - The idea for a schola1silip to any student who offers infor arose after the association re Kentucky Community and Tech mation that leads to the arrest ceived calls from alumni asking nical College System, which was and conviction of the person what was going on with the in created as part of higher educa who set a fata l fi re in a dormi vestigation. tion reform, for prevailing in tory there a week and a half "I think that everyone felt challenging times. ago. that we ought to do something Patton "You are well on your way to Someone intentionally set the as alumni to show support to being the community-based sys fire in a corridor of Hester Hall the fa milies that were injured early on Sept. 18, Kentucky as_well as the community," Roy tem that meets the unique needs of your regions," said. he said. State Police have said. They In an interview after his speech, Patton de have not publicly identified any The fatal fire was the second suspects. arson at Hester Hall in a clined to comment on the community colleges' The fire killed Michael H. week's time. most recent challenge. Minger, 19, and severely in School and fi re officials have Rep. Greg Stumbo, D-Prestonsburg, has ques jured Michael Priddy, 21. also offered a $2,000 reward tioned the legality of an agreement that phases out Priddy was in critical but stable for anyone with information the University of Kentucky's limited control of condition yesterday at Vander that leads to an arrest and con community colleges. After 2004, community college bilt University Medical Center viction in the first fire, which degrees will no longer be awarded by UK. Stumbo in Nashville, Tenn .. caused no injuries and no sig has asked Attorney General Ben Chandler for a rul Minger was fo und in his nificant damage. ing. room. Priddy apparently got Anyone -with information lost in the smoke and crawled .. bout the fire is asked to call In his remarks, the governor also discussed into a restroom by mistake. what he said he views as the next big challenge for (800) 27ARSON. the state - addressing the 1~~eds of children from Lexington Herald-Lead"r birth to 4 years old. He ci;...i not offer a specific Tuesday September 29, 1998 plan. "Our figures on child well-being are among the KSU teacher program gets probation: lowest: 26 percent of our children live in poverty," Kentucky State University has two years of pro Patton said. bation to improve its teacher education program. "And many of the problems we see in our chil the stare·s standards board ,·med vesterda,·. But dren during the teen years have their roots in the in NO\·ember. the Education Professional . early childhood years." tandards Board wants to meet with universitY Later, the Kentucky Advocates for Higher Edu officials to hear their plans to make that happen. cation honored five alumni of Kenrucky universi "This is a serious issue, and we want to see how ties and a UK professor with its Acorn and Out they plan to address these problems.r said board standing Alumni of Kentucky awards. member Tim Dedman. The state accredits all Dr. Everett D. McCorvey. a professor of applied teacher education programs to make sure they voice and director of the Opera Theatre at UK, re meet certain standards. The standards board will ~eived the Acom award for excellent college teach review KSU's program in 2000. The state board ing. found that KSU had insufficient faculty for its Graduates from three private colleges and two teacher preparation program and didn't adequatt'· public universities received the OAK awards. IY evaluate students· progress. In July. th! ■ Robert G. Burton, chairman and CEO of National Council for Accreditation C1f Teacher World Color. a publishing and printing company in Education also placed KSU on probanon and wi i' I . , Lexington Herald-Le.;,lt.!r Saturday, September 26, 1998 Fire chief had cited Murray According to the 1996-98 executiv•: der released a written statement on State r~peatedly warned university budget for the state, Murray· State Thursday regarding the lack of sprin asked the General Assembly for per kler systems in Hester Hall and the about dorms that lacked sprinklers mission to spend $591,000 of its re other high-rise dormitories. stricted funds to install sprinklers and "State policy requires that all fund l smoke detectors "in numerous housing ing for student residence halls be ob ASSOCIATED PRESS"l which were built before state law re and dining system buildings." tained from the students themselves MURRAY ., The state fire mar quired such systems. The item was listed 22nd on the through housing and dining fees," shal's office has cited Murray State After both citations, the university school's proposed capital construction Alexander said. "The state does not University each Year since 1994 for de responded that installing a sprinkler projects, behind such requests as in appropriate funtls for student housing ficiencies in its fire-prevention mea system was subject to receiving state stalling fiber-optic cables to link all and dining projects. Other state facili sures in various campus buildings, in funding that had been requested. academic and administrative buildings ties (on campus) can be financed by cluding the dormitory where a student Michael Minger, 19, of Niceville, at a cost of $4.5 million and renovating state legislative appropriation." recently died in a fire. Fla., died in a fire that swept through the Expo Center for $374,000. He said Kentucky lawmakers au In 1996 and 1997, then-Deputy the west wing of Hester Hall's fourth The first nine projects on the list thorized the university to spend State Fire Marshal Steve Kyle, who is floor on Sept. 18. Authorities have were federally mandated, to comply $602,000 in student-fee funds to install now Paducah's, fire marshal, cited the ruled the fire an arson and Minger's with the Americans With Disabilities sprinkler systems in the dorms some university for 'iiot having a sprinkler death a homicide. Act and to remove asbestos in some time during the 1998-2000 fiscal years. system· in the dormitory, according to Another student, Michael Priddy of campus buildings. Items 11-13 wei•e Assistant State Fire Marshal Carven ~ The Paducah Sun. Paducah, remained in critical condition at also projects involving compliance Hudson said his office had started citing ~ There areµ'! sprinklers in any of the Vanderbilt University Medical Center with federal standards. all state schools with high-rise dormito- oi the school's · Jije high-rise dorms, burn unit in Nashville, Tenn, yesterday. University President Kern Alexan- ries that don't have sprinkler systems. ~ w co ~ ~ ~8 >-<{ -~...... ~I·>8 u ;;;! Q) ~-,.d 6 ...... ;.a~ OJ) ~~ I-f-~ Lexington Herald-Leader Monday, September 28, 1998 Counter to college reform I l.., ,i1~gton HcralcJ Leader Sunclay, SeptemlJer 27. 1098 n agreement between the tory by beginning a degree pro Ill BOWLING University of Kentucky and gram at the community college, and A the tax-supported foundation others claimed a third engineering that owns Paducah Community Col school was not needed in Kentucky. Morehead team to hold lege flies in the face of the higher The inability of the old council to education reform bill enacted dur play a significant role in this turf ing a special May 1997 session of battle revealed just how toothless it fund-raiser at Eastland the Kentucky General Assembly. was. Instead of creating the type of The ink had barely dried on the By Doug Bradley in 1997 and 1998; Elizabeth Johnson, who seamless education that coordinates new UK-PCC agreement before HERALD-LEADER BOWLING WRITER won in 1993; and Kari Murph, who won the academic programs at state univer Murray officials complained UK Competing in college athletics is an ex honor in 1991 and 1992. The squad has had sities, community colleges and tech was again attempting to start four pensive proposition, and funding is a prob five bowlers selected as most valuable play nical schools, the UK-PCC agree lem for most programs. The Morehead er of the national tournament: Kulick in year academic programs at the State women's bowling team captured the 1998, Melinda Johnson in 1994, Elizabeth ment has the potential of creating community college that could be 1998 national championship, but the nation Johnson in 1993, Sharon Todd in 1989 and the same sort of competition and better offered at Murray. al tournament doesn't have a big check to Lisa McGinnis in 1988. duplication that has hampered "At this point we have no plans hand out like the NCAA did for Kentucky's Elizabeth Johnson is currently a stand higher education in Kentucky for to bring any other programs to Pa national champion basketball team. out on the Professional Women's Bowlers years. ducah, unless there is a need for it Being a minor sport at a small school, Association tour and was a member of The Paducah Junior College Inc. the Morehead squad always is looking for Team USA in 1994, 1995 and 1996. Todd and it's something the university ways to suppmt its top-flight program. The also has had success with the PWBA. Foundation, which owns the PCC ought to be doing ... and something Morehead team makes many fund-raising Additionally, Morehead has had a host campus and almost all the build Murray State couldn't do," said Ben appearances during the year. of All-Americans, including three first ings, has signed an agreement with Carr, former head of the old UK The squad will be in Lexington on teamers last season. UK under which the university Community College System and Oct. 4 at Collins Bowling Centers-Eastland. The men's program has been strong, could create new, four-year degree now an assistant to UK President The players will be available for auto too, remaining ranked in the top 20 each programs at a two-year school. Gor• graphs and will participate in a "fun bowl" year, but it has not enjoyed the level of suc Charles Wethington. with all who are interested. cess of the women's squad. don Davies, who as president of the But PCC President Leonard The team will be at Eastland at noon, Eastland is hosting the October event Council on Postsecondary Educa O'Hara said, 'We're not ruling out and the bowling will begin at 12:30. The en to try to help promote college bowling tion is supposed to be the most anything" when it comes to new try fee to bowl with the Eagles is $6, and and the Morehead team. Eastland manag powerful person in higher education four-year programs. all proceeds will go toward the team's ef er Joe Wilson said he knows that the in Kentucky, learned of the agree Under the reform law, UK lost forts to repeat as national champion. many tournaments to which the team The Morehead program has been one of ment from a reporter. its direct control of the community must travel are a big expense, and he said the top programs in the nation since the he hopes this event will help defray some It was a prolonged power strug colleges and the Council on Post early 1980s. The women have captured two of those costs. gle between UK, Murray State Uni secondary Education was given in national championships - 1989 and 1998 The women's team is already the pre· versity and the old Council on creased authority to approve or re - and were the runners-up in 1993. The season No. 1 choice of most experts. The Higher Education over UK's at ject new academic proposals. The women's team has been ranked in the top first official poll will not be out until tempts to establish a four-year engi UK'.PCC agreement strikes us as an five of every poll since 1990. December, after the teams have competed neering program at Paducah Com The team has produced three collegiate for two months. But the Eagles certainly attempt to circumvent those provi bowlers of the year: Kelly Kulick, who won will be in the top five, if not No. 1. · munity College that provided much sions. Davies and the council must of the fodder that led to the passage not let it happen. of the reform bill. Murray officials - The Daily Independent, claimed UK was invading its terri- Ashland t .. ,. . Se.p+. so, l'i'lf Mt:JU t,/1,i A sample of recent articles of interest to Morehead State University UNIVERSITY COMMUNICATIONS MOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY UPO BOX 1100 MOREHEAD, KY 40361-1689 606-783-2030 · Lexington Heralo-Leader Wednesday,, Septe_!!lber 30, 1998 Scholarship,· reward offered for information on dorm fire ASSOCIATED PRE~ Kentucky State Police have said the In a separate action, Murray State MURRAY - Alumni of Murray . fire \\'as deliberately set,-. but authori- officials announced yesterday that they State University hav~ offered a foll· ties have not publicly identified any will.offer a $30,000 reward for inforrna scholarship to any student who pro- suspects. · . . tion leading to an arrest and conviction vides information.leading to the arrest The scholarship offer, which would in the fire. The university will raise the and conviction of the person who set a be available to the student for up to · money through private funding and is fatal fire in a dormitory. four years, includes tuition, room and soliciting pledges, Murray State Presi- The fire, which.occurred Sept. 18 at . board for a total of $9,840 per·year. dent Kern Alexander said .. Hester Hall, killed student.Michael·H. "The consensus was that the. per- A fire Sept. 13 in the same area of Minger, 19, of Niceville, Fla., and in- son. who may have the knowledge Hester Hall caused minor damage, 'but jured several other. students. Michael probably is a student, and what better authorities have not said whether the W. Priddy, 19, of Paducah, remained.in way to reward them than to give them two blazes are· linked. University- and critical but 'stable condition yesterday a free education," said Brian Roy; vice fire officials have offered ·a $2,000 re at'Vanderbilt Univer-;ity Meqii:al ~n- president of the Murray State Alumni ward for information leading to an ar ter in Nashville. .:.,.''..••.. ~ . , . : :;_. .' ·_·.. , Association. r,.,e.~. ,f ·•.~•;'• . .·' rest and conviction in that fire. · · Sta~·#aii;.tJ_insttlI° sl)rfuklera fu d6itns . ,,'--:1:-,•:;": ·:.•·_i,) ...{·~--~-~~~---<. .. ~•:"\:.·:_:·, :·\ J-~~~-- . . . · . . ·. ,.: ~. · . . ·; . ~ · -.:~ · - HERALDWDER FRA.N~l_?I' su~EAu _ '.: ;;:'.'.°'/:'\·,-- ,e_ 'Patton's press aide; Mark :Pfeiffer; :· ..fighters·when the ~!arms go off_ 'FRANKFORT·.,_,_, Gov ... Paul ·Pat- said the governor is "very concerned. ·, The problem ts money .. The state ton's :administration is working with We are trying to .find out the extent of doesn't normally appropri_ate money state universitiei, to try to get sprinklers the problem and how much it would for improvements to dorms'- rcqutr· installed in every dorm in the wake of a cost io solve." . , ing each school instead to up!!l'ade · fire this month that killed a student at a There were no sprinklers in the th.em with money from residence-hall Murray State University dorm. · dormitory where Michael H. Minger, fees. · · Patton's chief of staff, Crit Luallen, 19, of Niceville, Fla .• died in a fire at · . The University of Kentucky, Uni met yesterday . with Gordon Davies, Murray State's Hester Hall. versity of Louisville and Kentucky president of the Council on Postsec· . , . Many of the dorms at. Keniucky's . $late, University appear to be in good · ondary Education; and officials in.the public universities - some as tall as shape with all or most of their .dorms · _state fire marshal's office to discitss·ef-. 20 stories - don't have ·sprinklers. outfitted with sprinkler systems. But at forts to install life;savin&cequipment in Some don't even have smoke-detection ,other state schools, sprinkler systeins . every dorm. " '·.. • · . . systems that automatically notify fire- are lacking. · · .· • .• · • . . '' .. . THE COURIER-JOURNAL• WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1998 Murray State fire · \learning will not make a con- THE COURIER-JOURNAL,• \'iEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1998 · tribution to our future ampli- I am writing to compliment fies the magnitude of this inci- $30,000 reward offered in Murray State arson you on the recent coverage of dent. Our commonwealth the fire at Murray State Uni should focus attention on this Murray State University yesterday announced a $30,000 reward for versity. I was impressed with circumstance at the level we anyone who iii-o.vides information leading to the airest and conviction the degree of information that did after the Beverly Hills.Sup- of the person responsible for the fire at Hester-Hall dormitory Sept. was provided to assess not only • .. •·i 18. The blaze, which was ruled arson by the 'Kentucky State Police the facilities at Murray State per Cl ub fir e. · · ·. ··· ..... · · killed one student and seriously injured another. ~ ·;,·.'. ·.-'· •:, ·,,,... ,~ ·. '· but also the various universi ~~~cky :;,,=dinge Dr. Kern·AJexander; Murray's president, said.the·reward will be ties around the commonwealth. ti ~= . ~e~iirlt mfire. We created a· raised through private donations. It is in addtti6n to the full scholar- I am a parent of three col · th stat t ship being offered by the university's alumni association for infonna- . lege students.~,..My. eldest mod eI for O er es O copy. tion-nn the arsontS' t · .. ,. ·····•.,,• ·••· .: · · ·"'"'"'"" .. · ' · · · ·, , daughter and youngest· son at !~:W ~a:: f~3°=~~: ·. 1C:6ntribtititins can b~ ;;;;?tttij~~ si~f~~~\ty:if~ri'iiaJ~~1. tend the University of .. Ken- ti6i:tin setting~~ of safe- .Emergency Fund, P.Q .. Box 9, Umvers1ty Station;·MUrray, Ky. 42071.. :!ti_c! 'THE COURIER.JOURNAt-•. w~NE'sE>AY;·sEPTEMBER,. 30, 11198 Senat~?~PP(OVe,sibill, lowering_ inter~%liJtt~s,fop.i-Stu4:~p~,:loans The Washington Po_ ~~¼!,;-.;~;i~~;:i~s__'.ents ,a victory for ali Ame~::;::·. The siu~eitt rate, for ne:,v • · I , ; t,fr';J;,\i/;'.!l.-' a~' as- It shows' that Demo- -Noens, ·.base~ on Treasury bill . .WASHINGTON·__!', Ratesfon· rats and Republicans can work trates an~ adjusted· annually, ;-l_9ai)s·t11lfeii·outJ)1':. . ,li.01!~1>9,J Lexington Herald-Leader · Wednesday, September 30, 1998 Plaii.'-for. . ' training recipients of Welfare pulled from bill 0 Committee wants study on proposal ~~~';°J:1~; ~ ati:! · vote in July. . By Gall Gibson fice study on the issue. McConnell was not available HERALDt£AOER WASHINGTON BUREAU U.S. Sen. Wendell Ford, an to comment yesterday, but he has WASHINGTON - A plan Owensboro Democrat who had previously argued that the switch to let welfare. 'recipients get backed adding the extra year would be unfair to welfare recipi more postsecciiidary education along with Minnesota Democrat- ts h Jack high sch 1 without giviiif~1> 'Benefits has ic Sen. Paul Wellstone, aitiruecl. :plo::i ~ ther~ore woul~t been scratclied . from federal the reversal. .., . . , be eligible for the exemption. -. n _lµgher. ajuca\i~t Jegi~latjon :;/Iristead of d~ing the right., ,Welfare refonns enacted by-. Headed for tHe ptes1dent's·desk.: · thmg for those smgle mothers Congress'ii:! 1996 put a 1:Z:irionth •'· In a 55-43 vote earlier' this trying to better themselves, our limit on postsecondary education year/the'Seriatii' approved 'in- colleagues ~t ~o 'study' the is- as part of the effort to steer we!-., creasing from one year to two sue," Ford said m a statement. fare recipients into jobs as quick years the time welfare recipients "What they ought to do is try ty as possible. Advocates of ex could spend in college or voca- living in these single mothers' tending the education period said tional training without· losing shoes for a day and see what it's it would help poor families move benefits. like trying to raise a family toward self-sufficiency. _ , .,, But ia H~use-~te confer- a_lone -and ~ttend ~hool full- Ford yesterday said the ; ence,:conumttee:-stripped the time,,all_while holding down a, change was not an attempt to , "~~1m>m,\~0,ed~• _ pait-time,job! .