/11/t;;l.1 Clip A sample of recent articles of interest to Morehead State University Nov. 2-3, 1999 UNIVERSITY COMMUNICATIONS MOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY UPO BOX 1100 MOREHEAD. KY 40351-1689 (606) 783-2030
THE. CCV_RIER-JOURNA;L • TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 19W ·virtual Iibrilfy' foi- state_goes _9nline By LONNIE HARP- · --·- 1n its Kentucky section, tranacripts of The Courier.Journal the University of Kentucky's John Sher man Coo~er Oral H~~ Project are aJ. FRANKFORT, Ky. -An Internet site ready available on the fte. They include · that will allow Kentuckians to gather in- a 1981 interviewwith the late Jacqueline formation from libraries across the state Kennedy Onassis describing the - and eve·!}tually throughout the world friendshiJ;> that she and John F. Ken ,/ -went onlineyesterday. . •. ---'-· · ... nedy cultivated with Coopel\ a Som State and local library officials have erset. lawyer .who represented Ken been working on the Kentucky Common tucky in the U.S. Senate. '.""r .-. . Iwealth Vutua.l Library for more than four Officials said they will digitally rec years, and yesterday the Council on Post otd many; manuscripts and other secondary Education unveiled the site b)' Kentucky records of .note to.store on playing the late Gov. Albert "Happy'' tbesite. .. ,,,. •" ifft ,i (• J,!lr,-'"c '•~ f"!'; ;,:lf"l ·f Chandler's rendition of' _ .- · · - · · . For general interest reference or· "My Old Ken research materials, the virtual library tµc;ky Home" over the will allow users to search the cata Internet. ·. ~ __,,_,._ logs of, various state libraries and po The ·site;· teQtially tiave the materials delivered www.kcvl.org, will gjve te>! -their local public:library.· Miko users access to card Pattie,,the- library'.s director, said that catalogs and databases · . at this:stage, storing ~ op ~ In., at various libraries, ... teJ1let litoo ~f• ; qu,, WOfl .. l! links to sites with gov ·ttI.n.the.t,eginmng, we re jest Ii>~ ernment data ana a to let people ~ow who. bas wbat, collection of Kentucky she said. ,,..~ ·;" · -T" . documents, photo- Gordon ~' ~ Juµ Nelso.~, t\le. §tate lib~~~ ~id graphs and recordings, , ~• - . ·t1L.,. - - , 11te ~~li_date, JfN including• ~dler'1 !'agency -·'J.kL :i serenade. n;.,Jl.tlie first unveiled ,~ -~~hirl-qs~ ~~.1~M.1~ ~ -- i mobaf'' www.kcvt.org. ·• available to 11b est imo0¥. tile step rk f1ib' .,. '·•"• ~~ . ·•( J institutions to make the SW1tch fro netwo o ranes ac,;_. ;.-t'f'l;l; ,. ·'il'.:.i! paper records to electronic files!". cessible- '!~@Jtini~/ ~ · he added that the vfrtuaUlbtary•WI . Kentucky site.~ . ~ -' ~'!~'fl~ make searching simpler and more ~ . •1'.'nls puts the· reso , '..some ·of the great ltbraries of the world irito the ces!ffl>le!>lfl •:J .)'1_'.'b1il•JT~ . -- .. ' I.I,~ ' bands of eighth-graders fn Eastern Ken :For·some semces,- users·will'n . tucky': ~!f,~~~-~n Da'!j~;,_tbe ~uncil's ti'. ·get'an· Identification number an · president. . l't•f.~~ . ..,1~W---i"f:Y-,\ . ~~1hroiigti a local librarv:'' •;;-_, . The.centralized service.should als The onllne library is connected to the 1 Kentucky Commonwealth Vlrtual Utliver, lietP.· ttiij'sfa~ij m1>ni:l' its moriev mo· ' sity, which started ~th 250 sfuderits tak- ·• effectfvelfwfie-;f~ . • . a:ccesrto t' : ing classes onllne this f.U,,, The,rary, , awaY. qa~~~ase,s,. ~thm.; .'Ii . hewever, .ii t,e;.ng· ~ tor~ tbatll bn,fY~,ftf>')J~e~~9f,,-~:.- .. . qg~tl., I just Internet itudenta. :--<'~', j,.,,; n to SUCy eJ.~~p.lC reco,wi JUmQ Yesterday., the catalog section~ ~le,. frq% qQQ.Q.Qf1;,to .sr.~ ,million ... Jb5 to search the j.nvent~ o~ sevea:KenJ ; eii~;.~J'UY Jlroject J~as -~ ~5.1111 tuck)' colleges as well as Vanderbilt Uni liont!ver.lhe past two years. ,, ., .1 ; versity ancf the Universitf of Tennessee . "Tne real Benefit is that search· at Knoxville. Officials 5a1d· the site will f9~; J~9m41tjpn is,. g9ing . tQ · 9!-' ~ expand substantially in .t'1e • months . 1 whole lot easier," Nelson said. "Right ahead. ····,::!/- .,•;~-~ ; ,ii ... ~ .. '. ··1 now, you can spend half a day on tho A section devoted to government infor Intemet lookinf , for what mation provides links to Internet infor ~u•rf \ mation from organizations ranging from ~~jj~ ..~ ,f ! t ~ ~11.a the Kentucky Historical Society to ·the U.~. J?.eP.!rtmen~ of Transportanon. Lexington Herald-leader T~~s.9ay, N~mber 2, 1999 • N~~;~m.. .9P~~ ~$W~ libi:anes t,o all on__htt.emet -, ... Kentucky Commonweajt~ V~~--~ibrary offers fn~oaa array:_gf ~~rvices By Holly E. Stepp ."li 1 "11iis"'. allows ua to bring' a new /-· At that time, the IThr.W.was seen HERAJ..D.lEAOER EDUCATION WRITER • Iworld of 6ooks ·and information to the as a way to get books and research FRANKFORT - The state's - eighth-grader in.nira1 Eastern Ken material to students taking courses newest public library made its debut h.icky," said Gordon Davies, president through the Kentucky C.Ommonwealth yesterday, with former Gov. A.B. of the state's Council on Postsec Virtual University, the state's Inter "Happy" Chandler singing My Old ondary Education, which oversees the net-based college oourse demngnouse. Kentucky Home in the background. virtual library. 'I, . &t the state's "virtual hlrarian," Mike The digital serenade by the late - '"Literally, everyone with access to Pattie, said the library has grown well be, governor is just a sample of the type a computer will have the resources of yood that ' . ~-,~ . . of materl.al available on ilie state's every Kentucky co~ and universi• "While this helps our' distance-learning new Kentucky C-Ommonwealth V:~ tJ, bb~• •~ public litnry, every students, it alao puts an ·o1 Ke:ntl)cky'a li_. :l...,_; ....,_.. :~. - ---< · , --.,,. .. ~•" · ~te"co' · li:i-:_:,:,.Da ·· A:·•.d · LllUlcu,. • ~ .- . ...., ..., .. - ,.. .. w e,..... ,, VIes•sai braries and their patroOI on·• te+el play- The virtual library is an Internet- ....,The virtual h'brary was aeated in ma field.· Pattie said. -✓~ ~ • • based information source that con- 1997 as part of legislation that re• nects nearly all the state's libraries structured the public higher education (MORE) and their resources. system. ·t,, - ·.- t:t _. ~ ... ·• UDl'UII'( I :
.- Through the KCVL Web site, anyone '{irtual librarY users also caii access with access to a oomputer and the Internet special Kentucky collections, such as oral each publi~ hbrary had tried to pun:hase.the. can b~ the catalogs of almost every li · hJStory tapes. photographs, manuscri -ts resources itself. · ·· • brary m the state. ~-~,!U!IO provides .-.aa we11 as:" ll:i8itaI vmion of 0ia00Yer :"Students now expect to have:~-to~ 31 different databases, wtiicn uicludetne _singinfMjVuTKentucky Home. . the Ia test databases and. Internet tools.· full text of articles and reports from close ; The KCVL will also offer gov~ent !!!lid ~e R~gers, dirmor bf Paris-Bour to 5,000 journals, magazines, newspapers information, tutorials to help people with ~ Public Library. "This allows us to pro and reference books. · their research and a virtual reference desk. VJde the ]lest service no matter. our size.• If someone needs a book m: other mate Local public librarians who attended yes rials at another library, it can be delivered taday's ceremony said the virtual library to.them by courier service to their closest boosts the services they can offer. The virtu, library or through a new Internet faxing al lilxary cost $.5 million;.ofticials estimate it: system. . __ · __· W®ld have cost at least 10 times as mucli if
I By KIM HAMILTON j Staff Writer · ''Leaders at· Morehead State said. "There are University's agricultural 1 a~out eati111 goat meat, but complex .hope to get goats approximately 20 million. once people try it, they love it,• · going as· an • alternative immigrants 'of Muslim, Jewish he said. "It has less fat and and· other populations who more protein "than chicken or product to. beef cattle and bee£-•·:-,.,. ••la!}:-· .••, •: tobacco. r.:J'.•;•• -~. _._,.,,.,.i ,_, . like goat meat _and want thfD ,;.,, •... ,;r-.-1~.,,.., .. ~ .... -· ·.. The Boer meat-goat' project ; Anotlier quality of the goats was started .last October with fre:;,-;1~;~~ said he w~i~\, is·their:abiJity to"clean trees a $10,000 grant. This fall, two ' be able tci grade and weigh tlie 1hru.J?~- and_ leaves off steep Boer goats were bom from a · goats at .the MSU farm, then· md rugged land: , transfer them to New Holland, · Spanish goat with the help: of 1:. :'We: 9an. contract loc~lly embryo transfer, according to ! Penn.,. the best goat ma:i::ke.~onl ! :~ em·coast. .• ;. • . ' Dr. Don.. Applegate, MSU '. • • I • .. I.:· ~(lll·'!;fNP.aats, ....., ~~~ir an .an toa: · ....~o a producer, that means•: lioDOWs' · · te~----- · usociate ,. p;rofessor .of "f· .••. •:~ • veterinary technology. · they could get 20 cents a .. G"oat;_._iion't' eat the same .\nnle,rnte and associate pound mo~e than they could thiirg~;~;·catile do, so they here," .he said. "Our goats can veterinary profeesor ur;. could. use the same pasture or · · bring up _to twice as much as be rotated. Phillip Prater are-researching New Zealand goats, up to $3.a the feasibility of·bringing For more information on the meat. goat program ·or to goats to the·rarili"'tb:at_ ·ate_ \ poi;;:~~ ~o:~:~~~ 'are f~~~ ready for market."•: :+i•: •"!-" contract for cleaning goats, The-baby goats· were on in west Texas, which is a 10111 call Applegate at 783-2671 or way from the east coast Prater at 783-2326. display last Thursday: during market. Marketing them Business After Hours, a local locally ,provides a good chamber of commeice·event window for development, he held at the university farm added. : · "· •·. · 0 ~The :V,~ profes■ o~ hope .bl . In the future, Applegate write a recommendation for said he would like to supply breedera across·the.state.. :;:; local stores with goat meat if a "There is a.big market tor market develops, -.;, ~ , •· meat goats, eapecially. along "We miirht have a stiima the eas~ coast,? ..Applegate
By Holly E. Stepp ··;-:,~-~ hel'bafbeatlneids:: · · ~ ,, cry,.. r ·lat month, , pine! of experts HERAL.DlEADER.EOUCATIONWRrrER '-~',Ii ... .:,·~;::--.; "Wearestill lhe clinic that !Rats Ifnm the Cattmi firDiaeese Cmtrol Ask college graduates about their campus infir the sprains and Ille colds, but that is i and Prevention recommended that mary and many will tell you it was the place they only a small portion of what we do," · colleges wain students of the risks went when they had a nasty cold or needed con- ' said Dr. Spencer Turner, director of , of the disease and make meningitis doms. . 1 Ille UK's Student Health Service. ' vaa:ines readily available. .. Today's student health centers still address those ' Af. UK and many other collegl!S The CDC stopped short of rec concerns. Some things never change. aaoss the state and nation, educa Olllillellding that students be vaa:i But nowadays, the requests for help are just as tion and prevention have become a nated. likely to be about eating disorders and allergies. , oentral part of the mission. · CDC researchers found that· Students are turning to univeraity health centers "We have always seen ourselves freshmen in dorms are at a modest more often. At the Univelsity of Kentucky alone, stu · as the public health department for ly: inaeased risk of,lllellingoaxxal. dents made more than 61,IXX) yigts. \as.I year. ., · the university community, and that disease compared.with others their Students are coming·unnanage aWm1a. treat a mama addressing the health issues age. Overall, b:nwver, the study,. ! ri_thatammnmity,"Tumeraaid. . ' sports injury, or be 'v,,a:inall'.d befure trii~ f!:r.in- ._ I ,., pond DJMd CDllf8e ""~"' have Iowa-, temational study or =lions. They're COlllllll fur · . " Lately that has meant itS • rates of disease k the gmerar counseling on how to quit ·smoking or to get pre-· mg to calls from wmtied parents population of 18- to 2'-ys-olda. . scription drugs for attention deficit disorder. They and students about meningitis, an · A recent newsmagazine report ' imlammation of the .lining of the · 00 exlnme Ca81!ll of bamrial mmio; may be seeking a~~~~~-- tnin and spinal cord I -, . gitis, Turner says, bu ne,,l1,,aaly '(MORE) ~cu lUClHY ~CUI-' a.uu .;,r,.I.Aol.li,.ULo.,, wtrK. i ne rees. nan 11>1w ro ~ a Despite the recent: fears over· He doesn't recommend the vaccine year, cover most of the services. At meningitis, Turner said, the biggest 3at!!3Stheboard UK, students pay about $175 a year. health risks to students are the same "For such a rare disease, it is Both Turner and Joshi say an as ever. · ..:~ . , hard to justify the oost of this vac• increasing part of,their staffs' jobs is cine," said Turner. . · ' Among them. he ~d, are auto devotfd to preventing students from ' mobile accidents, smoking. ~ol The vaccine costs from $65 to having to visit them. . At UK, fewer than 100 students and aloohol-relafi:d injuries, semally . sa>. 'Students seem to think they are transmitted diseases •'Id depressiOIL have received the vaccine; at East invincible, and they can survive on Turner and.Joshi bo1h adioowl ern Kentucky University in Rich little or no sleep and fast food,• said moncl, the number is less than 50. edged that student. health ~ces Joshi. "They are' constantly doing still have to overcome some linger- things that compromise their im A busy time of year ing negative images. ,. mune syslml." ; A common joke at many col For most student health ser• nial's where the nm-doctms; or leges is that there are only three ~ vices, the full months bring the typi health edooltors. cmie in. agnoses at student health: a spram, cal cold-weatllf!' requests. ]ill Kindy is Ol_lll of UK's _health mononuclemis or pregnancy. "We find ourselves pretty busy Ieducators and ts a registered Turner says that's all that is - this time of year, treating oolds and ' dietitian. She said healthful diet is-_ a joke. · · doing flu shots,• said Dr. Shobihna I sues are maeasmg• • ly important to !'One of the questions students Joshi, director of Eastern ~tucky :students. . ask at freshmen orientation is 'Do Univer.rity's student health sinice. . I Last week, KiJ:idy !!let with you have real doctors?' • Jumer_ · Most university student health freshman Morgan Stogsdill, 18, of says. "Well, of oourse we do; · •··.: centers are funded by student fees Oiicago. It was ~togsdill's fust visit Student health centers, Turner and vary from small operations toUK'shealth'sinice. ,: .,.:, , said, are in the same business as the with a handful of nurses and doc "It's good that the university has rest of the university: relEntim. this sem:e," she'said. "It's close and tOll! to larger units that offEr full amveoient." ..~- . "Our job is to keep_ ~ts range of clinic service! and lab healthy, so they can go to ~ and _..,_.... -·· --. ~ ,.. pau~ ·-· ,:.s.4 ••~~ .... ._. The Daily Independent, Ashland, Ke~tucky, Monday, N9vember l, 1999 Moreheila and. ·co:owner of ' BCh. arMleos!~'!.,e~·~oMf ooRreus~o!tl~,Jiio·r•e·t: ' Wllllam Moore Gateway Travel Agency. · ,...,., .111, 1928-1999 ., . , He served ae Lawrence head; end two grandchildren ..~ ColDlty Judge. ·Pro T.em, at- . · The funeral win;::tie c:6n-. William Jli.y:Moore1·n, <,>( te ded -wasrgton, & ·Lee· ducted at 11 a.m .. Tuesday,at ·· Morehead, died Sunday: at,his· U~veniify."an .WBB a gradii-. Northcutt & Son Home ,for. home. · · • ';o·,c; · · · · · ·- ate of Morehead State Univer- Funerals in Morehead ~y the Mr. Moore was born Feb. . sfty. , · ..·. . ·· ,-·,i,·• . ·Rev. H.G. Pratt. Burial yijU be. 12, 1928, jn Louisa; aGeoson ~f . ··,•Be w~: past;~r~sid~~t •of in Rose Hill Burial Park.... : . the late Jay B:. ai!d · rgia 1.ouisa . ~tary . ~lilb,,. ~d .11. >; ·li'riends may call after 7 ·· MaeKounsMoore.-·.,.. ... ,::a,,,,i:, 1 · b fB ta Th taPifra •ionfghtatthefuneral}lome;·."'! .. He was owner .of.Moore's I :~t;~·,gMo;ehea'd Rota~ ·,, IIi lieti oftlowers;'conmbii:_; Jewelry ~ Louisa,.!!: faculty Club, .. ,\\{oiehead , Uriited.. tionil may be'made ·ic,;Ani'eri;··_;; member m the ·business .!id•, I Methodist Chw:ch, Morehead can Lung Association;.}}:'(·.,.~::,_ ministration .. department at I Men's Ciiib' and Morehead- · .·,: · Morehead State University, Ro · · c t ·ch b 0 f · whe~e he se.rved as faculty ad- . . wan . 911n~ ,~.I-~ :~ • visor of the MSU Judo Club, Ct=~tifre'hi~- wiFe, Dix-. founder of the Ridgeland True •~ Ma ,.. tw so Ja Value Hardware ·;Sta.~ in~. ..,: y ...oore:· ct ns, :r
· · •-.. 'and Kimtu...;.; ·· Tuesday Novem r" · 9 9 • -~ Da I lnde NMu , • - '-~1-~ . .. , .. ',. ... ~ •.• - · •t .... nt.. ;·~·1·1-· ;~_ ¼\IIH High:.ra :ing·-~_: rHu~s:~}ui.iiv~rsftj.esj d t·· ~:1-R tfti:~aiicitio11··;~i~'':steni:::,.:: · ·. no e e ... .e. "~ ...: . _~i: .. ~.u:, "-"-'•'"'Ll>f. ..!Y ... :=;. . . ·- ,.~ !,mencan_s w_on ~o meny? ;n:us Even more revealing, there educated in• American schoi: ~ not a vmdication but ~ m- is a systematic . relationship and colleges. cannot hold thE nong the many cievt:,· dictment of our educa~onal between the difficulty of the own with . foreign studen misleading defenses of !ln,tem. • · •···-d --.Aiii -:._ ..... •subject end the percentage of who go there•.... ,, .. , .. , ,. 'ailing educational SY'3~1!1 . , 'µle .. ~p-rate · . encan American doctorates which go . The period during whi, ,e assertion that our 1;1111- umversi~ies (?We much to_ the •to Americans. American ~ublic schools ha· 0 1 itiee 8!!l ~0~11. the. W$f1 . ~ener J!1. tY of·. · •Amencan 1.: ll\9-1i;iiushy and undemand- had decl~·. test scores h rated m ·the·. ,world ..,. . . onol'!I end the l~gess o,fhi~he '.ij)g: -,,1~.}ike education; more· ·.coincided with t~e period dll •ricans consisleiltly wm.a·: Amencan government,\'\' C then four out of five of.the ·ing,whichAm~ncan,ewerei ·roportionii,te~jiilmbe(. 0!4\ enable them to, attract .top doctorates.go to Americans. It creasinglY.,,displaced. by_ fc el Prizes:-'''Both the~e· scholars from. ~~und• the ia.whenyouatartgetting.into.,eigners in the graduate pr ;ns are accurate - end .ir- worl4. It ~ resear~h, rather I the physical sciences. that the gr~ of 119111,e of our ·top ur vant. · · : .,J th!111 teaching, w~ch deter-; proportion ·.drops . to·' barely versities. hi every field Sil /bile Americans won _the mmes world . rankings, and h!l1f ~d w~e-~ ypu g:e~ j~to ep~ veyed by the Council of G~ •s share of Nobel Prizes our , well-~nan~~d Ph.D.- giileenng an'd matli fliat uate Schools,. the proporti, in this year, not one of grent!ng universities are un- , Americans be~ome a 11:1inor!ty of graduate· delµ'ees in ti ;e winners ,was actually questionably among the best · among Amen~8:11 · ;umversity. United Sta~ gomg to Ame1 n in the Umted States. If at research. · ,Ph.D.s. ·.. , • ...... cans has declined over a pe1 le born and raised else- However, when y~u look at i Foreign graduate students ·od of twci,,decadee, with ti Jre choose to come here wh~ gets ~egree~ m wh'!-t, 'predominate so heavily in dif. worst decline!t being in ti i use their tali:nts, fin!': I ag~ the picture 18 very dts- ficult s?bjects .that a common more _rle~!\!},~,ing s_u~Je.cts. t d,o, not· ·claim ,theiti/: turbmg as regards the track complaint across the country A· closer look al;· tho1 ievements as some· viridr- 1. record of the schools and col- !is. that undergraduate math ho, ion of the American educa• : leges that prepare studen~ to courses are being taught by &xl"-~Jmli~t,~~lds'' •tlieir:-·· " nal BY.Stem,. ..,_._...... ,.,.,ffl"'..;J,1.;e~ter thHe top-rated ins~tu~ '~pie whose Eitgli~ ill hl!-ffl. :aJao :· ·•· ~,?qi,!if}it~pe on·' tlie conb'ary, tne ; .tions ..... , ..,cuo1 · ""'~' .. r, to,. imders~and, quite- as!de cent O .e_.ui•epl!!!l!!IJ inful question ... must. •.be_··. • Lees. thllll;.half the Ph.D.s Ifrom th~ ~culty oflearnmg ·ed:Wliywere aquarte~afa ·, m. ~ngmeenng .and ma~he-. the eubJect itself, . :.· ,;_.- ... lion native-born :Amencans · m~tlcs !l~arded by ~encen Yes, our ·top umversities ·able to win a single Nobel umveraities llrll. rllCeived bJ are the ~am -of the crop. (MORE) \ze this year, when a rela- Ameri~s. ·::'· ·· · · .... ,.i. They are so goad_ that people ·e handful of. naturalized i I ing received by Americans are lege degree r~cipients or in people led the world in such received by Asian Americans. various professions, remain things in the recent past. Here is the group that is strangely .silent wlien the Clearly something has· gone most out of step with the pre whole American population ie very wrong in our educational vailing easy-going education, under-represented amon~ system. · · with its emphasis on "self-es those receiving postgraduate Our current world leader teem" and other mushy fads. degrees in science; math and ship in science and technolo Again, this is not a vindica, engineering in their own gy, like our leadership in No tion but an indictment of country. : : . b el Prizes, owes much to peo what is being done in our pub · _Such under-representation ple who never \\'.ent through lic schools. might be -understandable if the dumbed-down education Ironically, · people who go the United States were some in American schools and col ballistic when minorities are Third World country just en leges. Many come from coun "under-represented," relative tering the world of modern tries which spend far less per to their percentage of the pop · science and technology. It is pupil than we do but get far ulation, whether among col- staggering in a country whose better results for their money.
_exin91on Herald-Leeder ,Tuesday, NovetT)l>el' :Z. 1999
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1 By Dena Tackett · ., · schools as Duke Univer- • HWIDWDER srm IW!IIER sity, Ball State Universi- For the first time in 14 years, the Uni- · ty, the University of Vu-- ' ver.sity of Kentucky's student newspaper, · ginia, Iodiana Universi- The Kentucky Kernel, has won a national · ty_ an? the University of Pacemaker Award, at the 1999 Associated Il!ino1S. ·· · '"'·"·· ·,,, .·•·--- Collegiate Press convention in Atlanta. last . "It is not the easiest weekend ·.. : _. . · . , ;-· ·:·:. awiinf to liecome a final. The Kernel was one of three Kentucky , , ,r ' ist for, yet alone win it," college newspapers-:- along with West- . ., · he said , -.,;,:"; .': ...... ·: em Kentucky University's College Heights . ""'"'""-"'""""i>" "' '·•·1:n the non-daily di Herald and Murray State University's Mat ~BIJOII . vision, 25 finalists were i ¥urray_ State N~ ~ awarded_the na- .,~\I/.IIS editor of-:_ ch~_arii:112 receiv~ tion's highest collegiate newspaper honor. · the award-wlrt- the national award, m- j ;: M;:,t~co;~~J?:-f.°4~ ~~:~~u~. ~:: ~d~ll{t "We had so many winners in this one 1998-99 . -., "Murray: State News. state," said Mat Herron, 21, who was edi- school ~ar. This was the second tor of the paper for the 1998-99 school .•·· ,__ ,., ·" -.' year in a row that both year. '1'0 have that really speaks well of Murray and Western received Pacemaker college journalism here. I did a 4-foot ver- Awards. . __ .;:_, .:~~-- .· ·,-. . tical leap out of ·my chair when it was an- "It's nice to be among the finalists, and nounced that we WOIL" ! · it's an added bonus to win," said Bob Herron now is an administrative beat Adams, adviser of the College Heights reporter for The Kentucky Kernel. He Herald . · completed an internship at \he Lexington Adams said the recognition helps mo- . Herald-Leader in the summer of 1998. i tiva~e the students and Pll:'.hes _~ .~o The Kentucky Keniel, the only Ken- continue. · ··· ·-- · ---• ·• · tucky newspaper that competes in the dai- "Most importantly, it reflects the hard ly division, was one of the 12 finalists cho- work the students put in and the devotion sen from across the nation. From those, and commitment and the work they do to six national winners of the Pacemaker produce the newspaper." , · , . ; · Award were named , .• + Some other awards: .. :. · ·.. "·· ·, . This was the second consecutive year ·. ■ ~ individual Associated Colle- The Kentucky Kernel was a finalist Now, giate Press. winners, Brian Simms received the group must work to remain award first place for Page One Design of the Year winners. : at Eastern Kentucky University. Simms in- . "We want to repeat," said Michael terned at the Herald-Leader early this year. Agin, student media adviser at UK. "It will ■ Among College Media Advisors take a lot of effort, a lot of work and some- award winners, The Kentucky Kernel re times a lot of screaming and hollering." ceived second place for information graph- Agin said the daily competition is ic and second place for front-page design. very fierce, with 150 college newspapers The Eastern Progress won first place for entering. . . editorial opinion page, and The College The Kernel shares the national award Heights Herald won fast place for photo with student newsoaoers from sucli page...... ,,. ___ ._ ...... -- .. •·- .. " ' I I I Lexington Herald-Leader Wednesday, November 3, 1999
I . statioiiii'lnlexington, including . •' Host Communications IAci WLAP-AM: (630), WMXL-FM • which is being sold to Atlanta: (IJ4.5)iind WBUL-FM (98.1). bas been the flag 'basoo 'i1wf Rwi Corp.,' a -longtime ,·· WVLK-AM investor, bought the rights in WVLK. . ship station of UK sports for all . 1996 to broadcast UK sports for of its .52 · years, said · Cumulus' . I · • .. · .. " Rick Shaw It · $9.22 million for four years. That Lexington manager . • price was up 54 percent from the was part of1Wph Hacker's HMH ; 1992 contract of $6.1 IJilllion. : doollled Broadcastin. g, whic~ w~ ~Id to : .... '.·- : UK--- -·•· ·-· --~--~ --· · ·· For those deals, pJt fo. '. - . Cumulus Media earlier this year. H6st, I gether a four-way venture with ,t.,Sbaw ~d the move. :,viii Gray Communications' · WKYT, as break · up a successful partn~r- Clear Channel's WHAS-AM in · ship. "It's just a shame," h~ said. Louisville and HMlL ·. ·: · ,.:r·: ; ·· • srulw and Hacker have !mown . Host said last night that the of Host's decision for a week, they decision was very illificult ' : i station? said. : . . . In September 1998, Host' said ·' ...... Hacker'· who announces UK ~. 4t would be. unlikely .that he ! men's basketball games, said he 'would change partners ·· •:: ·;'i 1 Host picks Clear Channel didn't !mow if he would continue "I have a tendency }i, 1 for game-tight.a bidding to do'play-.by;p'!,ay.•. bu.. t. he saw no bi -~ery difference'froin oast bids as far as loyal in business," he sai_d,;./ ! ilJ · ,"Mj~.'~•j,;~,;,~½,'!l • "J_ ., ... t;.--,:.,.1,,.,-; _ _.. ~:~:;.::· ._~/f..r·,·=,,- his fu ture rou:. ,.)'•;~"'--''"•'' .. ,, ■ ·'?-~'di-t::i':, ,•··i J.: By Jamie Butters ..•. ,.. ~ ,.;:--' f :__ I /~\ -.!~!.'"\'i..:t.:t-;.: "Th~;~~-~-vttes:'Hosrs Herald-Leader st/Jff Jffllers HERALOIEA0£R BIJSINf,SS WRITER and the university's," he: said. For the first time iii decades, Mark Story and Janet Patton am "And Host is the managing part-. . tributed to this arlide. ~~"li~U WVLK-AM might not broadcast ner:· his vote probably counts the; ·...... -• .. Univeraity of Kentucky athletics m~c--::'rbat '\Vliu)dn'f ·: 'be . ·~:. beginning with next year's foot- ball season. · ...... , ... ,., •· .. · ~•.;:·;t{Jt\~if'~~:t~·.:; . . fun Host, founder of Host Com But~ the games on.a dif. munications Inc., told WKYT, TV ferent frequency, would be some (Channel 27) last night that he what awkward for Hacker. • would enter the next round of bid- •pa ~ disappointed, simply . ding for UK's ra from the : fact they've bad the dio .broadcast games for!SO years," he said. "lt's1 rights with_ Clear a tra,tiitiori that. I ~ould bate .~o, Channel; nbfCii -~-,.,...end• ··.:..,,:, .. ••"""" . ·":l(! --ct.,~--,.• mulus ..I'!fedia. .:~ One tiilng that would stay, the· whicli .,,;;;p~ 1/aiiie is WKYT as the local televi• WVLK-AM sion affiJiate, Host said. .-.,_-, _:. (590)... ..,,~, . ··. 'I;· Not that Host's bid will auto- :-Host sud he tically win. .. , cliose. 'tq. !=hange rt · · . . ----· '"this ll31't:nership· •• Ci1111uius and others may en , ~Im Host. ,,,..,. because . Clear er bids for the contract, which . ~aid Cle?r Channel, the na- will run for four years, beginning ~hannel s tion's largest ra- with the 2000 football season. ~omlnance Is dio oompany, had ··,·Shaw, said that Cumulus, a factor. ... more listeners to which claims the second-most Sia· · . offer. tions in the nation, will bid on the : "We made the decision to affil contract 'And two other syndica 'tate with Clear·Channel because of torii are "very interested," he said. . the dominance that Clear Channel ··;ffiut the biggest cba_llenger_ bas in Louisville !ind in Cincinnati~ ~'~ed to be Covmgton: with two 50,000-watt·AM stations · based Jacor Communications, • . micli "o . . ted seven ~oil and the fact ~t ~~Y' .off~ ~ 4 excellent affiliation m_~'-1 :dio s~ns until' it -was• ac- Host to14 .WKYT, . · ·· :,,; by Clear Channel earlier .Clear Channel: owns seven; . ~- • ' . ·.•• .. .·,.. ,_ . ,...,,. •. t;,., .:.r . +1(Q~L\ MSUARCHIV~ MSUC/ip Sheet A samo/e of recent articles.of interest to Morehead State University Nov. 4-5. 1999 UNIVERSITY COMMUNICATIONS MOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY UPO BOX 1100 MOREHEAD, KY 40351-1689 16061 783-2030 ' THE COURIER-JOURNAL rlllDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1999 Task fOrce, says teachers need mQre training • •On COSt crat who c~-chaired the task · testing of current teachers. Those $15 milli force of lawrnake,:s and mterest who couldn't pass tests would. be giv- • b t } • group_ repre~entatives. Moberly, en time to improve. IS O S ac e Ill who IS also chatnnan of the • House budget committee, said ■ A ~ew_.system wou_ld be created making changes the teachin~ reforms ~ove into for assessm~ the quahty of coll~ge the poltt1ca1: arena wtth strong bi- teacher tram1qg and the on-the-Job partisan support. !raining the state requires of teach- By LONNIE HARP "These are very strong recommen- crs. The Courier-Journal dations - very bold," Moberly said. Several educators said they agreed "Even if we don't have the moner to with the direction the task force . FRANKFORT, Ky. - A re pay for all o_f them, ~hat we wil be chose. "This is absolutely necessary," port on improving the quality able to do will be a big change and a said Leon Mooneyhan superinten- of public school teachers re major step forward for the common- dent of Shelby County ~chools. "It's ceived praise from legislators wealt_h." . j . . been the missing link of our whole and educators yesterday; but a Aside fro~ fmancmg, the pros- reform efforts. It is definitely a step big hurdle remains before the peels of passmg the plan look good. in the rit:ht direction to increase the 43 recommendations can be Republican and Democratic sponsors probabiltty that new teachers will be come law: finding enough mon have already line_d up to !nt~uce trained to. !1nderstand when they ey. the recommendations as bdls m the come into a JOb what it is that needs Paying for the changes - in House and Senate. And the delibera- to be done." cluding a costly recommenda- t1h·onsf. of the tartsk force, which passed GLEN WISE, principal of Ludlow tion to extend the state"s new t e ma 1repo unammous 1Y yester- High School, said that he has no teacher internship program to day, never showed any friction, - two years or more from the Task force:leaders said lawmakers complaints about the academic current one year - would re-. now realize that reaching the lofty knowledge of students he's hired quire $15 million from a two academic goals that Kentucky's from colleges like Northern Kentucky year budget that already looks school reforms set for students will University but that he is pleased to · b · · ed h see state leaders looking at giving tight. said Ed Ford, Gov; Paul reqmre etter tram teac ers. ·. students more time to see how class- Patton's education aide. "There. is ,'more support now for rooms operate, "We're certainly not opposed ad d ressmg teacher quality than th ere In addition to the internship exten- to any of this, but the reality is has ever been in the past, and it's sion, which may have to wait for we may have to prioritize," that way across the nation," said friendlier budget times, the task force Ford said. "I don't think we Ford, a member of the task force. have the money to do it all." "People reciiiinize that teaching is also called for colleges to create ear- The report; released yester the most criltcal link to enhancing lier practicums where students would day, says teachers ~eed more student learning.'_' visit schools. training in the subJects they "I'm impressed with how well-in- teach, and colleges should give THE TASK FORCE calls for fonned new teachers are, but the teacher-education students a adding substantial muscle to the complaint here is that sometimes longer look at what schools are state's teacher certification board, new teachers are surprised by the rea0y like. putting the group in charge of setting real-world situation in the classroom More academic knowledge is higher standards for colleges and on- and getting a· handle on classroom a theme that runs throughout the-job training programs and then management and discipline issues,'' monitoring their quality, Leaders of Wise said. "That seems to be the the report of the state task the Educatton'Professional Standards stickler." force on teacher quality, ap Board said tlie concerns about new Moberly said the task force recom- pointed by Patton. The panel money don't jappear to imperil the mendations aimed at moving training finished its work yesterday by newvtsion for:that agency. away from generic education courses urging next year's legislature "They've given us maior responsi- toward more subject-area knowledge to: bility that will be impossible to do are among the most important ones ■ Gear college teacher prep without more. staff and resources," and, in many cases, won't rely on aration programs to the cur said Susan Leib, director of the stan- more state money. riculum required in Kentucky dards board.I "I haven't heard from George Chaney, a seventh-grade. schools. anybody who doesn't understand world civilization .teacher at Lee ■ Require deeper teacher that." County Middle School, said that re- knowledge in the subjects they ' quiring history teachers to specialize UNDER THE task force's plan, · h' · II · d 'd teach. the new standards board would be- m ,story m co ege ,s a goo ' ea. ■ Mandate more subject-area He holds such a specialized degree sessions in teachers' on-the-job come an autonomous agency sepa- and said it helps in his teaching. training. rate from the Education Depanment. "If it comes down to an interpreta- ■ Order new job evaluation 11 would be charged with overseeing lion of an historical event, that gives rules that would force princi a new slate of teacher-quality issues. me a better grasp; and instead of pals to rate teachers on how Among the changes: looking at it as a subject that has 10 well they know the material ■ The curriculum of college teach- be taught, I try to look at the big pie- they teach. er preparation programs would be ture," Chaney said. '.'.Requiring more overhaule TASK•FORCE PROPOSALS AT A GLANCE expanded standards board, but she satd the KEA will fight those battles Te ■ cherecluc■Uon in the legislature. ■ Require colleges to connect teacher preparation to the state's Teacher training reforms are ex core curriculum, increase subject-area courses, extend the amount of pected to be the major public school lime teaching students spend in schools and build more university issue before lawmakers, although it support as teachers start work in classrooms. is not the only education initiative ■ Establish new consequences for college programs not meeting Patton has primed for the 2000 ses the state's new standards. sion. ■ Study the connection between high school requirements, college An adult education task force pro expectations and the curriculum of teacher training programs. duced a series of recommendations ■ Provide incentive money to colleges that revamp their teacher aimed at improving Kentucky's liter training 10 build in more involvement from faculty wrth expertise in acy rate earlier this year. And Pat academic subjects and build stronger ties wrth local schools. ton's daughter is heading a task force ■ Create rewards for college faculty who work in schools. on early childhood education that ■ Review how racial diversity is addressed in college teacher will release its final rep on on Nov. I7 education programs. and produce legislation the governor New teachers has identified as one of his top priori ties. ■ Encourage more alternative certification options for people wrth Lawmakers will also consider an career experienc~ _who are interested in becoming teachers and extension of the program known as create a non-trad1t1onal tra1n1ng program for those candidates. "bucks for brains," a state incentive ■ Establish programs to lure more people into teacher education. fund designed to help Kentucky col ■ Require teachers to demonstrate their classroom effectiveness leges land top national scholars as before they are fully licensed. pan of the state's higher education ■ Expand the teacher internship program to two years or more. reforms passe Lexington Herald-Leader _Friday, November 5, 1999 Educarors'· proposaJs..,CQpld cost $15 millio1 Group approves report Board, which would oversee all forward, but we will have to see teacher quality issues. what the budget allows." on teacher training The standards board was cre- The monev would be needed ated in 1990 by the Kentucky Ed-_ to hire more staff, keep better By Holly E. Stepp ucation Reform Act and falls un data and offer grants to colleges HERALDlEADER EDUCATION WRITER der the jurisdiction of the Educa to improve their teacher educa FRANKFORT - Education tion Department. tion programs. leaders yesterday were ready to The standards board would State budget director James congratulate themselves on a job be in charge of toughening the Ramsey said last month that . well-done when they approved standards for college-level revenues are expected to come their final recommendations on teacher prep programs and hold up $60 million to $80 million how to improve the quality of ing the colleges accountable for short this year alone, and all teaching in the state. the performance of their gradu state agencies, except public But the happy mood was tern• ates. The board would also more schools and colleges, have been pered when they heard the price carefully evaluate veteran teach asked to plan for 1 10 3 percent tag for their effons - an estimat ers during the license renewal budget reductions. ed $15 million. process. Other task force members re "Ladies and gentlemen, when The task force also recom mained cautiously optimistic we get to writing le!'(islation, we mends that the General Assembly about the recommendations' fate will have included everything pos consider increasing teachers' in the General Assembly. sible, except for the $13 to $20 salaries and providing bonuses for Rep. Harry Moberly, D-Rich million in the budisel to make it teachers who take hard-to-fill jobs. mond, the task force chairman. happen," said Ed Ford, Gov. Paul The recommendations will be said he was sure the recommen Patton's education liaison. presented to the General Assem dations would be successful even Ford's cautionary words came bly in January as proposed legis if the money did not come during the last meeting of the lation. through. Governor's Task Force on Ford, who has worked closely "Some of these things can be Teacher Quality, which has been with the existing standards implemented without funding, meeting since January to formu board and Patton on a potential such as aligning teacher prepara late a plan to improve teacher budget, said that ii could take at tion with what is expected in the preparation. least $15 million lo make sure classroom," he said. The task force approved its fi. the standards board can accom Kentuckv Education Associa nal report yesterday. At the con· plish its proposed mission. tion president and task force of its recommendauons is an inde· "I don't mean that we are op member Judith Gambill was pendent and more powerful Edu posed to the recommendations." more cautious in her praise for cation Professionai Standard:-· said Ford. "We are ready to J.!O the final recommendations. 1 M Gambill said the states In 1993, Gov. Brereton Jones largest teachers union still had appointed a similar task force to some reservations about many put the state's teacher-prepara aspects of the repot1, such as the .tion and licensing programs in line with the demands of KERA. composition of the standards Its effort died in the state board and the licensing process. House. Under the recommendations, Ford was chairman of that a majority of the standards original group. He said yesterday board would be teachers or that the timing wasn't right then school administrators. Currently, but expected the outcome to be teachers hold the majority. different this time. Gambill also said she was "The support for quality concerned about the tougher teaching has grown and there is standards for teachers seeking li n't a state in the nation that isn't cense renewal. looking at the issue," he said. "But this is just the begin "People have realized that ning of this process," she said. teachers are the critical link to "We will continue to lobby on the higher student performance." behalf of teachers." The recommendations are the state's second try at overhauling teacher training. THE COURIER-JOURNAL• THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1999 665 special-ed teachers have ~ ( only temporary certification pay more money. . . . Every Kentucky Board of Educa Those trained 0th er enterprise I know meets tion member Carol Gabbard; the market or goes out of busi an education professor at East ness." ern Kentucky University, said in other areas About 86,000 Kentucky chil she gets complaints from new dren are in some type of spe teacfiers who have been side being diverted cial education, according to tracked into special education. Department of Education fig They were trained to teach By CHARLES WOLFE ures. in one discipline - social stud Associated Press The 665 probationary and ies, for exam~le - but had emergency certificates tssued their internship reriod con FRANKFORT, Ky. - State to teachers in special educa sumed by specia education, records show 665 special-edu tion represent more than hall Gabbard said. cation teachers in Kentucky of all stopgap certificates in Teacher certification is are not certified in that field. Kentucky, •~cording to the among several special-educa- They have been pressed into Education Professional Stan tion issues the state school service with emergency or pro dards Board, the state's teach board will wrestle with in com bationary certification because er certification agen_cy. ing months. It must issue regu of shortages, the state school This fall alone, the standards lations some time in 2000 to board was told yesterday. board issued 265 emergency meet demands of a new federal Teaching children with certificates for special educa law on students with disabil learning disabilities and be tion. Also, 123 teachers were ities. havior ilisorders is a demand• given probationary certificates, The state school board's ing job, and school districts do meaning they had at least nine chairwoman, Helen Mountjoy not pay enough to make it at hours of special-education of Utica, said the board has no tractive, Education Commis training. authority over the certification sioner Wdmer Cody said. Both types of certificates process. 11 But we can let our "It's a supply and demand have to be renewed annually, voices be heard that we're con issue," Cody said. 11To attract and the teachers must obtain cerned about this," she said. people to do it, you've got to additional training. Lexington Herald•Leader Thursday, November 4, 1999 665 special enough to make it attractive, Edu The Board of Education lis cation Commissioner Wilmer tened to an overview of the rules. education Cody said. but did not take any action on "It's a supply-and-demand is proposed regulations, which won't sue," Cody said. "To attract peo go into effect until next summer. teachers ple to do it, you've got to pay Other issues will include class more money ... Every other enter size, special education classifica not certified prise I know ineets the market or tion and discipline. goes out of business." For more information on thr Higher pay needed to deal Eighty-six thousand Kentucky proposed regulations, co11/acl Bar with shortage, Cody says children are in some type of spe bara Kibler at (502) 564-4970 or cial education, according to De email: [email protected]. STAFF, WIRE REPORT partment of Education figures. FRANKFORT State Teacher certification wa: records show 665 special-ed uca among several special-education tion teachers in Kentucky are not issues the state school board will certified in that field. About 265 of be wrestling with in coming them were issued emergency or months. It must issue regulations probationary certificates this year in 2000 to meet demands of a alone. new federal law concerning stu The teachers have been dents with disabilities. pressed into service because of "We're dealing with an educa shortages, the state school board tional issue, but more so, we're was told yesterday. dealing with an emotional issue.'· Teaching children with learn Gene Wilhoit, deputy commission in!( disabilities and behavior dis er at the Kentucky Depa11mem oi orders is a demanding job. and Education said yesterday. school districts do not pay Lexington Herald-Leader Thursday,_ November 4, 1999 Search firm to be used for. Cody post Head-hunters will provide education chief candidates By Unda B. Blackford A search committee was also HERALD-LEADER EDUCATION WRITER appoin!ed yesterday to interview "Because the criteria for a FRANKFORT - A national the first round of candidates. The candidate should include experi head-hunting firm will start the committee will ask for bids from ence as a district superintendent, search for the state's next educa search- firms within the coming narrowing the selection to Ken tion commissioner, even if he or weeks, said the committee's chair tuckians discriminates against she comes from Kentucky, state woman, Jane Adams Venters of minorities in that Kentucky has school board members decided Somerset. never had a minority superinten yesterday. The otper committee members dent," chairman Maynard The decision came a few min Thomas wrote in a Nov. 1 letter utes after the board accepied the are 'Samuel' Robinson of Louisville, to the board. Keith Travis of Benton, and Bill The board will name an inter resignation of Commissioner Weinberg of Hindman. Wilmer Cody, and gave him a im commissioner at its meeting in State board chairwoman He December. standing ovation. len Mountjoy said the national Cody, who resigned last week search would include internal • citing family matters, will leave candidates.• Reach Linda Blackford at as of Dec. 31. "If we do a national search, (606) 231-1359 or When the state board re and a Kentuckian is selected, it lb/[email protected]. placed Commissioner Thomas strengthens the hand of that per• Boysen with Cody in 1995, they son." she said. also used a search firm. In.-recent days, some state "I re,,uy believe that a search eaucafiirs have called fo;;;-new firm is the way i6 go/' ,.;id state commissioner who comes from board member Jeffrey Manda. Kentucky and is familiar with the · "They bring resources, and talent system. that we don't possess. The money But the chairman of the state's you expend you reap in the long run." Education ,Equity Task Force warns that the focus on an inter A search firm would find nal candidate could hamper ef prospective candidates, make forts to improve diversity. sure they fit the criteria and per form all necessary background The Daily Independent, Ashland,'Kentucky, Thursday, November 4, 1999 cqecks. Webb takes new ' =-~~T=-,~--o!=~YR~=N==-EN □-ENT-role for Morehead It seems like just yesterday due to an eye mJury. up the tenm. He's done a bet that Jeremy Webb was a Webb playe_d all five posi• . ter job doing that." freshman basketball player tions at one time or another Already, Webb has taken for Morehead State Universi• last season and ranked-eighth one challenge to heart: ove, • ty, thrust in a down-spiral(ng in the Ohio Valley Conference coming predictions for this situation with coach Dick in assists-to-turnover ratio. year's MSU team, which Fick. He had 70 assists and only 50 opens its schedule with a 3 But now Webb is a senior turnovers. p.m. exhibition game Sund3:y and is one of the Eagles' criti He doesn't mind the so against Sports Reach at Ellis cal parts in coach Kyle Macy's called "garbage," role but T. Johnson Arena. third season. wouldn't mind getting to set· The preseason poll had the ''When you look back on it, I tie in at the No: 3 forward po Eagles in seventh place. think our kind of coaching sition. "Hey, that's fine," said staff was exactly what Jeremy ''I'm not goi!]g to be a big Webb, almost belligerent at needed," Macy said Wednes• scorer," Webb, who averaged the thought. ''We don't care day at the team's Media Day. 18 points a g11me in high about that. "He really needed the struc• school, said. "My role is pretty "We know we can play. ture and discipline. much going to be the same. Last year, they picked us last "Now, he's excited. I think "Hopefully, I will kind of and we ended up tied for third it's a much better fit for him. get back to that 3 spot." ·place. Those preseason poll, And he always gives 100 per· Macy expects that Webb don't amount to anything." will get the majority of his cent on the floor." The Eagles lost star fresh time there and count's on the man Erik Brown in a contro Webb, an All-Area high likable senior as a team school player at West Carter. li,ader. versial transfer. That's no is certainly happy, having ful "His off-the-court leader• sweat, says Webb. filled something of a utility ship has gotten better and "It doesn't bother us," he role with Morehead State last that's part of the maturity said. "It was his decision. He season. process," Macy said. "He helps thought he would have a bet The 6-foot-6 swingman av· younge; players know what's ter situation somewhere else. eraged 6.3 points and 3.7 re• expected of them. "As Coach Macy says. bounds per game while start· "We trv to convey that to that's 20 shots a game taken ing 11 out of his 27 appear• our uppe~classmen. that they awav from us that's now got le ances. He missed· one game need to talk amongst them· be dished out." selves and be closer and build Nov. 6-9.1999 A sample of recent articles ofinterest to Morehead State University 40351-1689 (606) 783-2030 uN1vERs1TY-coMMUNICATIONS MOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY UPO BOX 1100 MOREHEAD. KY THE COURIER-JOU~NAL' ~ ~9NDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1999 HigJ)J;."31 tlif;W3Ptle ~nt,mQ system ' . By ANTiiON\tJEWEU., •. -~io: wro...-m#iis '>n-,; agree. Larisa V■nov of the Aca Associated Pn!111:c, .• •-f .'• _ the Mailtson campus. Among demic Alliance for Freedom, a groups they objected to ~ conservative group that enc011r MADISON, Wis. -A lawsuit International Socialist Otgiibi ages debate on campuses, said b}'. a student who objected to zation; campus Lesbian, Gay; there is no problem with using theuse~ PieelPf1M.~llill1Ml-AIDS.. student fees if they benefit groups open to allstudents. ~~i:re'tk~ers1~~ons n ;~ ·-·l;i~~:~y· . "StiillenHee! are a·lll>iOJ;.]#d could cha~. the _way;1ees are ~s1if>uld~IO,Pl!Y fees if•stUdents wantlo 51lirtfae&ilr· spent en ~ C8llllfflSl9,l!a.·· ., 1fiat<111eai to °'-ffiif' th · Trek society or a constlvalive tiol\WJ$. . . . -O:t ,. objecteclto on a · · · iial, id:'. one or a · liberal one, they The, U.S. Supreme •: logical or religious basis," said should be able to," saidiVadoY,'' whic;b is to hear the · ·.A SOuthWortb;•now a·111wyer and whose group receives . S,:U~}!t morrow, will decide · ·· · an aide to a state senator. fees . on campuses: wliere' rt· public. universities !!It's inconsequential whether wodls.. ~Tbete :shouht.tie 'flies they're libelal or conRr¥ative," that students can,use-~ way ;';;'~'1i'1 . he said. 1'We'd support liberal they want to use them.".: .. ·· that PllfSUe • . students ,who object to their The Supf!!me Court .l'Uleil Iii "the dei ion fees go\ng to conservative 1995· tliat 'public' unl~il!H .. i,j •I .- - and colleges c8nnot1te°a~ --~ ~~... cfy ~s 'affects ~~·'on "public forum" for students Wdllainson;· wllo teaclie!-con campus,',' said Adam Klaus, and then refuse to subsidize stitutional law at the University chairman of the Associated Stu some student groups because of Wisconsln-Madlson. dents ofi Madison, the group of their viewpoint. That deci that distributes the fees to cam si_o~ said the University of Vir ~1-E&·· pus groups. g1ma wrongly refused to subsi ~'Nlll'.-t~7Fa~ Conservative students have the 7th U;S. c~ Court of long been frustrated with the dize a student-run Christian ADDeall,ruled=~that fees, said Daniel Kelly, an at magazine. . tlie"liu'll!ilillet;: "force torney for Southworth and the Based on that ruling, the 7th some students - to'- ''SU •dize other plaintiffs. Circuit said in the Southworth views they find objectionable. "The funding has generally case that it is imperative-that If the ·Supreme -Court up- gone to liberal organizations, students not be forced·to·pay and they• have been frustraied for political and ideological or with their money ~oing to ideas ~~,:.U=~~~pay for politfwly active with which they disagree," Kel ganizations ·•if the university, groupc,· or it cou14 .-a less ly said. I cannot discriminate in the dis sweepi.,g rec -:, lie ·· birc.tu- But not all conservatives bursement of funds." ··.aents to. o;&i®t-~f ;i;~ to I I groups they find object;onable. The Daily: Independent, Ashland, Kentucky Friday, November 5, 1999 University spokeswoman Sharyn Wisniewski said the school appealed the rulings be- cause.ri·.i&ew&h•5Y!l!l!.m ~- . o•. a A virutal library rum to iscus1i'lin ' a wJ ~s sues that miglit not exist with The state's newest institu The website - www.kcvl.org out fee-sup[lllt!ed groups. - officially opened Monday. The fee in ttttestion is $ 15 per tion of higher education - the semester for.~ch of the 38,000 Kentucky Commonwealth Vir When fully developed, the site students. The,inoney is distrib will give any user the ability to uted througlt--student commit- tual University - now has tees. . about 250 students,' not bad for view card catalogs and databas Southworth•and several other a school in 'its first year. es at various libraries, links to law studentli:'ltith conservative The new school now has its sites with government data and political vie,n· had challenged a collection of Kentucky docu 1he funneling-of the fee pro- own library, but just like the virtual university has no cam ments and photographs .. pus, the Kentucky Common Much has been written about wealth Virtual Library has no the negative sites one can visit building. Instead, it exists only on the Internet, and there cer iln the Internet. tainly is no sl-:ortage of sites of And just as the Kentucky fering pornography, crackpot Commonwealth Virtual Univer conspiracy theories, propagan sity has put the dream of earn da and just plain bad informa ing college :credit at the finger tion. tips of all Kentuckians, the vir However, with nearly every tual library, has the potential of community in Kentucky now becoming a valuable source of having access to the Internet, information, not only for stu the virtual university and its dents but for all Kentuckians. new library represent the Web's All they ,need is a computer tremendous educational poten with Internet acce98. tial. 'I,' I I . BRINGING ART TO LIFE I MSU artists mold statue for KDn . :-::::.,~/' .;hh... ::::.: ··'=a· ·pe r:f~'.v' •·•"·r311c~ .. : ,\rne ~ _ : ... .-:,w-.:r;-; '.!ea:c.:1 CC"mer. \lSL ,;.,-- ·,I~•I...... -toeen. -· :_.·,or:qr,,, __ ,.,, .. - •-• •.-,,•rn1nro. :· .·, .·,~,~.-" r--,,·.: ..... · ; •/J ,,1ing. sc1r.:'.):v1 1_~----._ -;.-:r·: •~ ~nave~--. . ,r," .:.,· ·•· : ···0:d nv -;r-.:ue::!~. '·r",H .. · 1-.···· '.l.-1z~• •r1·• .',·· -- .,., :.;:-,_:· .-· -,. -i.!: ::.;1~C :.,.-. h 1 ,.,; · :-: _- - --...1 ~:GHT: '.lf.l\lPt'E\ • ·i•-1:1 ·:1'.CI \,· •!it~f'. : - ..,n!;'!nn ·1ri<3t • ·; ··• _ I "ifH18,5 ,VIII t'•.! I I ~jl''~~1~--- The search ,foi~Ke~tncky's next--·" education. - comnnss1onerI I State needs torchlrearer who will fight complacency · · - . · We wish Cody well and thank him for tucky joined an el?ic battle !i . We neea a comnus- the work he did in Kentucky. cade ago against its own history of sioner who will be a stu- The state school board seems to be on ucation neglect. To waver now dent of reform. There is the right track, taking steps to hire a con- 1uld be unthinkable. much to be learned from suiting firm to launch a national search f01 That conviction, above all else, must successful schools, espe- Cody's successor. · ive whoever is chosen to su~ depart- cially those that are sue- \Ve urge the board to throw a wide net , education commissioner Wilmer Cody. ceeding with students who even beyond education circles, but to also , i\s the Kentucky Education Reform Act lack economic advantages. give consideration to Kentucky_candidates ,~s 10 early next year, there i~ muc~ t~ The new conuri1ss1oner who show the necessary commitment. lebrate. Student achievement lS begmnn:ig must have the vision and As the state begins this search, it's reas- show measurable improvement. No poht- skills to mobilize the De- suring to remember that KERA's power is no ti threats to reform are looming on the partrnent of Education to derived from any individual or bureaucracy. rizon. understand and advertise KERA's power comes from the high But Kentucky remains a long, 1ong way ,m where we need to be. Shortsighted the successes. standards it established for every single .\itics starved the public schools for gen- Most important, the school and from the expectation that every department must become student will learn and learn a lot. 1tions. That legacy can't better at helping schools The next education commissioner's overcome in a decade that are falling short.. biggest enemy should !)(' mmp)arency. two. . (That will require more crea1:Jv1ty tnan We need a commis· mer who will inspire ed· policing how many minutes young children spend on ,the playground.) •ators, lawmakers and Upon his hiring in Cody's impres xpayers to keep the 1995, sive resume, broad experience, Southern ,mmitrnent of '90 -. _and, a pinch, a comm1~1oner manner and accent were expected to bring ho will shame us u_ito a steadying hand to a system that had been moring that comm1t- roiled by change. And he did that. But Cody was criticized two years ago :ent. . we need a comm1s for dozing, unaware of gathering political oner who can identify currents that nearly wiped out the heart of ·hat students and teach reform, the testing and accountability sys- :·s need to succeed and tem. in the 1998 legislature. · ien lobby for the re It's probabh· no enincidP~!"" th2t Cody ,iurces to meet those is leaving just in time to nuss the next ses sion of the General Assemblv. eeds. THE C'.:URIER-JOURNAL • MONDAY NOVEMBER 8 1999 THE SEARCH FOR A NEW EDUCATI~N-~OMMISSION~ ,1g1) ·- ,\\.l!liT !'t':t· t· · 1-. ·1·hill· J .t!:?.n.~ .. :i !\cn1uc:,, .. ,; ·Gains in productivity" "'.thi.1ll1\ .!\JOUflt!!::i!::i ,or .\.IJ::iSl!'i'.-i:p~ sould han• .in 1n1t1al :10,;an• ROBERT LUMSDEN ••~• 1~astle. K-.- '. Jn Nov. 1. The Courier-Jour- J)i.·· ' .. , .1u:-.•~ usuallv Miss1ss1pp1 1.1(l'e J •"ll"l' !Tllll"'.' .1i:1•tii ,_., .. , ,v ...1i;oso ,;i", lead 1~ 19 ~,~~1~:~:E·:~:~:~:·' ~.. 0nly: 1 college bu1·1d1·, \ssociated Press · ··Ir's our tilt towara !w•nJ? -·oncerned about the r·":•~:1ue FRANKFORT. Kv. - The 1 l_1udget proposal pending be 1m:rnre ... council bud~et direc :ore the Council on Posts€con• .or Ken Walker said Thursuav. ,iary Educallon- is espec1allv The council staff recor.imen note\1mnhv for what If doe·s iations ham a long wav IO ao :101 contain - anv requests fnr 'i1rough the budl,!er mill. The i,[t~.~~get plar new buildings for Kentui:kv ·:ouncil is ro meet on Mondav would !'If' pan ur a $28-1 mill:o~ ·m1vcrsi1ies. · ·o consider the proposal. which 1 The only significant new ,hen goes to Gov. Paul Patton·s ~g~~c.,La ~~(~~i;o~h~ ?v '.1e '!-lr ~1!:!hest p:iority was to turr. 1 0 1 ·1mstrm:tion contained in the plact old campulbuildirig~oa~d ~-- K .~••>ha ioph research_ umver- office. The General Assemblv 5 :·••riuest is :1 $11) million new •.viii ul_timatelv decide who g:etS eq111pmem. ,ny, aug nessy said. "We ,immunit\'•lechnical ·n!lctr~ ·.,·hat 1rom Kcmuckv·s General . r\11• c-r1r.:;irnrtit1n is~ul! > lia- ~-~E:~ -:pace for research or · 1r Nonhern Kentucky ilnd a -:·und at its .sP:,;suin bc'!mnmg ,~e io mger. t:niver'-mes n;wP . , · never _attract top re- ~1s11inca!lv been ,me ,o -.Kin ,earchers w_nh "the monev · !.i. I m11lion :1eadquan~rs in Januury. ''·" ·ve ~-e ~et aside in our bucks ..:dJinµ; I.Jr 1hc ti•mmui:n·:- \nd m111wv •pn<>:tr:- !n!ht '" ,,ncti md !!'~! :,rn:,-c·1s ·,r hrmns pro.gram.·· .l't.'hmcal coilej!:e svstem. ·:.:111 nll •he h,IL ;·;w 1ir~1 1i11i· ' rn--::,., : :•·!!1~ .. 1iun• •,·.;J,lk,•r -.aid a romprnmisr- 1 rhat 1s nor rci sav higher : tt revenue estimate inclm·,:s 1 · l:~ I 1mc ! JC LllUOl:;J iJrCSI· •ducation is not seeking more niv modest l!row1 h in 1 he rir:-r :enr. 0"r~on Davies. has :,;aid nav rie reached where rheum- :noney m the two-vrar hudecr "'.Ir •• ind Patton has .•.ml .i 1w '-l'n11ois ;,w:rnl1 ha\'f• mnrP .. "'rsnies would raise their own ·:etc 1hac •.qi\ hemn .lu!v I. rhL' 'l:11·" ,,, 1r •·~,,,. :iecu ,nlll i•m· .,,,nf!\• 111 ,·onrribute rnward ,_ouni:il ,1.-·1II consider asking tllr ,:nar\' ::;rnwm :n ..:.,ivi>:·'ln:c:'.1 ,,1.b1s !wcus w be piaccd iin ~--rr1cnnn nr debt -;,, 1.-1cr. :SB~5 billion m the :W00-01 fis ··hJ? second vear ,~ when I he :·enova1mg existing facilities : :!!her than laying 'it all un 1he .·al vear and SI.I billion in fis :lu1 the ['nh·ersnv ,ij Ken• ',eneral Fund . . 11 .!llll:!. :n;.- .;Jl: . ~e ; l:Jt'f'f'-11\' , rlh.> last rime !-.Q few new i'he 11rst•\·ear apprnpna11or. :·--, ;· h;.tl:.!••• ,,111:-·ntlc 11,,in n.;ni ;heir .. ~·,,-. •:hrrnemn nems were mdud- ,d~:ues 1;;._, ,a1c ,,, "">l~O m ;. about The :-,1me 1.... •:11:• 1 '1_ .,, ... v ··~i!arrh ·1midm~:-:. •l il • ,)Udl!ct proposal wa'- ,. ·: ''Ol1(1S ld iH1:111t t! ! ,,., .. , ar ~- i>ut ,nmc ex1raorc1m.1n ~ttn:! ,,i;") mnllon ::l{l r ··,,_'. .."\.J. '.\·hen ti•:e Hl~m~ :·i: .,unu di ·•t;ucks ,r rems .ire mclut.lcd 111 ;n1:-, 'II m1i!iiin. re:-.pecuvelv. \'Pre ,n 1he w1sh list, 1'1'11kc·r •rams· rn 1inance endow,•u · 1:ar"s budget - six trust IUntl::; ·"'e~: _,:-im ShauJ!hnessv. D- · ·..i. ,1r t!\'t'r,:rhinJ! irnm re:-earrh ri, rni,• ... :-or:--hins nnd O1her mm;1• ,\('.-, ·n propel KenrucK\' um "\H:-,\ llu•. · REVENUE GROWTH IS FALLING 8ELOW EXPECTATIONS Experts who forecast revenue underestimated revenue in 1997-98 and slightly overestimated it tor this year. Here's a closer look at six sources of revenue that are main reasons revenue growth is falling below expectations this year - and is unlikely to rebound through the next two-year budget. f_c_~.P __ c_ij Tail Actual 98-99 , ioaU99-00Joreca~•:· Revised 99-00 forecast .J,«"M14 _,n,, ...,. $154.5 million · 170.·6 mllllorf'' S152.6 million Administratiof) ,blames sagging coal prices and weak demand for high-sulfur Western Kentucky coal. ·rr'•~~:~ine.Tax ;cOnglnat 99iQO forecast- Revised 99-00_ !~recast --~r\:.IM!&~3L.,.;. . i;c;•~, . ·:mmloni .i~ $318.6 m1ll1on Corporate income tax _revenue has historically been erratic and administration officials have only theories. no firm explanation, why this tax fell below budgeted expectat,ons last year and is expected to do likewise this year. 3;j~~~a'.Tax, :, Original 99'00 forecast. RevisSe6d099-9101.torecast "·"·d,,.;..r..,., .. __ ._ :. · ·ss1.·mllllon m1 ,on Effect of a significant inheritance tax cut in 1995 was delayed and masked by booming economy and the deaths of a few extremely rich people in the 1996-98 period. 4Zfflfl!ijijt;~t? ,""}"'?'""·;-gj"',n_a_l99,~00-. '"':i,..o-re-ca""· -st--R-e-vi-se_d_9_9--0-o-. ,-'!-re-c-as_t_ ...... ,...... ,.2.., L:..,~...... , "$154.S mlllfon $151.2 million A decade after ~ began, the lottery _has reachedia saturation point with players and revenue has leveled off.. Also, damage from competition with casinos ,n ne,ghbonng states ,s taking slightly bigger Me than ant1c1pated. (An{l,Sfllrllng tiext Y!!ar;·th,s revenue will gradually be taken from General Fund to a new college scholarship p_rciararro)·,,., . . , , . - •. ·-·,o; •.~,-,.. -· • • ' ',i . , O~i~:· Rev:~'i,~g~~il~~cast _The state:Js'g4tliig nbimal return on the in_vesiment_of its funds. but much of that interest is no longer going to the G8!19ral Fund. New laws and pol1c1es require that some small agency funds and education trust '.! funds keep the m\er~st they ~arn rather than allowing the General Fund to get it. Revenue forecasters did not account for this m the spnng of 1998 when making the original forecast. &J,~f(_~Wi~','.· -O-r-ig-in_a_l_9_9_·0-0_f_o_re-ca-st--R-e-v-is_e_d_9_9_·0-0_f_o-,e-c_a_s_t - · ·,,,,,;;.,"',c·~:t:::· ··•" $388.9 million . S380.1 million The loss of revenue from a cut in the property tax on motor vehicles was underest1ma1ed.rRevenue growth for property taxes has been modest since 1979 when new law limited growth ,n annual revenue from tax on real property to no more than 4 percent per year.. Also. r.roperty taxes were cut earlier this decade when courts struck down tax on certain "intancjlble" property like stocks.I -he Sunday lndepenGew . ,unday, i ✓ovember 7. 1999 The right emphasis Budget stresses education, not buildings the new reforms are to be There is something notice That's far fewer construction If ably missing from the proposed requests than in past years effective in reducing waste and duplication in higher education budget pending before the when state university and com in Kentucky, then the council Council on Postsecondary Edu munity college officials aggres must be given authority, and cation: Bricks and mortar. sively lobbied legislators for That's good. During a budget money for everything from dor the days when university offi cials wheeled and dealed di cycle in which new money for mitories to libraries to class rectly with legislators must higher education is expected to room buildings. be. tight, it is wise to put less The next budget · cvcle end. The proposed higher educa emphasis on building new cam promises to be different. One pus :;tructures and more em reason is lwc,lUse the Council tion budget is not seeking more money in the two-year budget phasis on the quality of educa on Postsecondar,· Education c,·cle that will be!2'1n ,Julv l. tion that take:; place in those now h:1.s cnntroi r1( the purse The council ,~iii con~ider :JU1ldings. strings. und <_;""· Paul Patton ·iooo. [t's not that construction has c1,..,1rJv said he ,nil not rnl ,1sking for :5985 billion in the ~llUIJ-il 1 fiscal y<'ar ,ind S 1.1 bil nroiPet...-:: nre completeh· mist=intr ··rntf'-' 'Hii\·iduai ~chooi.s •ro1r11r " ~ 1'rom the proposed budget. but over the head or'the council and lion in fiscal 2002. they number only two: :HO mil- directly lobbvinir the General The first-vear appropriation - \bout ~he .... au1l· 1~ is being 1!nn !{v· ·~ ·· 1•\t.· ..:nm:-':".un1ty-t•"·! .. • :1 1,)l)l'nnn:i spent on higher education this nical college for Northern Ken l!ons. whe, h,·r ·r ;,e 1i1r b11ild- 'nck•, ·ind :'; l:'i.-+ million ;',,,. ··:~·ir. ~ut ,nrne ··xtranrdinarv .., :.ern-::; Lue ini:1uaea in this new headq11:.1rt.::rs uuiidin!! 1i1r the 1.·1>mmnn1n·-1(lc!1n1c~i ·)1- ::ear·s budget - ,;ix trust funds for everything from research to lege system. technology. · The-~ ~posed~ ~DlUlli,i! No new money is requested LdlW"'dilllrS8~',.,.....,,... has a }ODlf,my to ge beibte' ~ti1'. l!-P~:~ ~i!t.;'': ·-<"'t' .• .,, for those initiatives in the first becomes·-a reality. The council ------ElEpe(!t,a-num"her of' choiipa year of the coming budget, but must approve it, and Gov. Paul 9!-ong the way, but the empha a $106.8 million chunk of new Patton must include the re- s1s on programs instead of money for research and devel quest in the two-year budget he buildings is the right one. opment is requested in the sec ond year. will submit to the General As- Lexington Herald-Leader Let mrai~~is design own health care systems he ongoing discussions over the se This means· that the 345,000 older in rural America as it has been. in the lection oi a managed-care company Kentuckians, who live in Kentucky's 99 rest of the country. Competition will like Tto provide health care for Medicaid rural counties, do not have a Medicare ly keep managed care viable in urban ar recipients in Eastern Kentucky indicate HMO option. This does not mean they do eas for the next few years, but it now that moving private sector-based health not receive Medicare benefits. It only ~s to be a system that cannot easily plans into the public sector may not be I means that the doctors they visit are not be picked up and moved to areas with as simple as some health providers , part of a managed-care program and are less population densitv. driim. And there is.growing concern paid directly by the government. It can Look for rural communities to have a that trying to implement a city-originat- also mean that some parts of Kentucky ~din creating local systems that are ed Medicaid system into a rural setting are underserved. !adored to meet their needs. It is proba may actually make matters worse for all It should be no surprise that the first bly the best chance for Eastern Kentucky residents of Appalachian counties. two regions in the state to have Medicaid residents to develop a health care deliv Created in 1965 as companion legisla managed care systems in place are Lex ery system that is both responsive and tion to Medicare, Medicaid provides ington and Louisville. Urban areas have efficient. matching funds from the federal govern traditionally had better access simply be ment to the states for indigent care. In cause of the heavier concentration of creasingly, the program has taken a physicians and other health care profes !,'Teater role in providing health insur sionals. The number of providers in larg• ance coverage to low-income children er cities also creates a competition for and their parents. The program also sup• health care dollars not present in rural plements Medicare for 6 million low-in• settings. come elderly and pays for about half of Kentucky has faced several delays in the nation's nursing home spending. instituting a managed care program for · Kentucky, like other states, must the 65,000 Medicaid recipients in the make its own policy decisions concerning eastern part of the state. Some areas lack :'v!edicaid and decide who they want to doctors and clinics. There is also some cover, what kind of services they want to evidence that rural residents experience supply and how to efficiently deliver more chronic health problems than city rnre. The latest reform trend among 1 dwellers, due to gaps in the rural health states is to move Medicaid health care re care infrastructure. Policy-makers are ci9ients into managed-care programs. In I slowly beginning to acknowledge that the managed care model that works well Kentucky, Jimmy D. Helton, the recently · in urban areas may not be a good fit in appointed secretary of the state Cabinet for Health Services, will try to use his ex rural ones. pertise in health care administration to One solution for rural health care complete the state's efforts to bring Med may be community-based, rather than re icaid recipients under the managed-care gional-based. managed care. The Robert umbrella. Wood Johnson Foundation has financed From the standpoint of cost control, 39 grants for rural hospitals to work managed care has proven to be beneficial : with local physicians to develop a cost to the states. Prior fee-for-service Medic- , effective way to serve residents. The pro aid programs were (for all practical pur jects give control to local health poses) open-ended, making it nearly im providers who understand the needs of possible to project future costs or patch their community. High on the lists of the together a working budget. In addition, rural hospitals'is dealing with uncom the old system was inherently inefficient, pensated c-are: treating patients who · resulting in millions of dollars being don't have public or private health insur spent on administration of the program ance. rather than health care fundamentals. This is a problem troublesome for ur And while it is true that managed care in ban and rnral hospitals alike as the num ber of Americans without health insur- the private and public sector has not stopped the rise in health care costs, it ance grows. The latest figures available has slowed the yearly incTeases. indicate that more than 44 million people But manag-ed care does have some did not have heaith insurance coverage problems. lvledicare !which is controlled in 1998. This incTease of I million over h,· the federal government) has had an 1997 figures comes at a time of low un I!MO option ior its cnnsntuents ior some employment and a robust economy. rime now but has been unable to make it To many for-profit HJ\,!Os, even a available to a substantial number of se modest increase in the number of uncom nior Americans. Rural counties in Ken pensated care patients could mean finan mcky and other st:1tes have not attracted cial ruin. a single H;1.IO and have ,·et to enjov the It is too soon to tell whether man benefits oi competitiqn. · aged care will become as widelv adopted Morehead State to pay penalty MOREHEAD, Ky. (AP) - ~forehead State Univrnity has agreed to pay a $500 penalty to settle a state agency's allegations of 10 violations of laws covering natural gas pipelines. The Kentncky Public Service Commission made the allegations after an inspection in January, and agreed to settle the case in a meeting last week. Toe university runs a master gas system using gas it receives from the Morehead Municipal Gas System. It uses the gas for heating dormitories. classrooms and other campus buildings. According to PSC records, !he alleged violations included gas leak age !11 Mignon Hall and Nunn I;Iall dormitories. THE COURIER-JOUANA{ • S(JNOAy', NOVEMBER 7, 1999 Focusing on teachers ., HE STRUGGLE to irn- Professional Standards Board prove the perform- an independent group, and ance of Kent~ky,'s... funding it·properly, given its T elementary and sec-. importance in realizing the Lexington Herald-Leader ondary schools has focused, expectations of the Kentucky Thursday, November 4, 1999 for the moment, ori the teach- Education Reform Act. , ers themselves. A task force The newly independent has recommended several ap- board would oversee every More Ph.D.s for women, minorities: proaches. thi~ from education-degree More women and minorities are earning Ph.D.s The point is not to develop a :curw.culum to competency than ever before, according to a survey of 382 bunch of pedagogical prima as'il~sment; both of which donnas. That · ·· •.· · would , ·be universities nationwid.e. The survey conducted way lies the stten~hened. by the University of Chicago and reieased Tues tyranny of a Special em- d~~· found that about 41 percent of all Ph.D. re Madame Sou- phasis would ~p1ents were women in the academic year ending satzka ("I be given, to m 1997, a total of 17,322 women. Ten years earli- · teach not only tightening in- er, women accounted for one-third of Ph.D.s, and how to play, structors' grip m 1967, about 12 percent. Among minorities the but how to. on the acade- numbers nearly doubled between 1987 and 1997 live") and the mic mate.rial incaution of they teacn. - from 2,046 to 3,840. to about 9 percent of all Jean Brodie As its ,de- doctorates granted. Some sav the rise has to do ("Give me a tractors pre- with a trickle-up effect: More women and minori girl at an "'-""""'"' dieted, the ties getting undergraduate degrees makes for impression- Kentucky Ed- more eventual!y getting graduate degrees, and so able age and ucation Assa- '>n. Some credit affirmative action and other at• she is mine for life''). qation is ready to protect ,cur- tempts to diversify. The point is to fill the class- rent.members from the new rooms with those who' have"'ri!iluirements for middle realistic preparation for the job school subject-matter compe and solid knowledge of their 11!{19', and desirous of control subjects - to evaluate them\ lirig'.:the new standards board. effectively, upgrade them reg-'. But at least the KEA is willing ularly and reward them appro- ' to defer the struggle over those priately. · issues until the General That's a lot. And it will cost Assembly convenes. a lot. However, since the same . Based in part on approaches fellow heads both the state pioneered in Jefferson County task force on teacher educa- by the University of Louis tion and the House budget ville's teacher training pro committee, financing most of gram, the task force agenda is the group's 43 recommenda- extensive. if not yet sharply tions shouldn't be impossible. focused. Budget demands' will Still. with the next biennial help do that job. · spending plan likely to fall "Modern methods, poppy hundreds of millions short, cock!" Mr. Chips complained. choices will be necessary. Such skepticism is useful tiere, The original goal is still near but it shouldn't prevent us the top of the priority list: from making the next genera making the state Education tion of teachers even better. ·,~ "Lli'i:rtll't~"?_-c ..ii rt•.:.-,,_,-,:,,.:::.··:::•.,_:· W.Me~Grads Brealling~;,.ltass- Ceili·ng s companies have an in- more than 54 percent o( the ates will continue to lead their the data related to the creasingly difficult time bachelor's degrees, accoriling male counterparts in the fu- younger generation of wo Afinding qualified individ- to the Census Bureau. ! · ture. In 1997, of the record men, among them recent uals to fill the growing num- By comparison, of those 2.7 million high school gradu- graduates, there is much ~er of highly skilled, posi<»· ,·.1n· their 40s, women held 50 ates, 1.4 million or 51 percent more parity with men's eam t1ons, _college-ed~cated wo- __peri;ent pf the bachelor's. de- were female. Seventy percent ings. Women aged 25 to 34 men will be the biggest bene- •. ".giees;'ahd •of those in their of these female graduates en- with bachelor's degrees factors. ultimately leading to;/,]J(ls·\voriien held just 42 per- ro~.in college. earned a median,.~ of th~ _disappearance of thegwis'l~t1.or.'the. degrees; : .. ,.Wlieit it comes to filling $31,935, nearly 82 "percent of ceilmg. ·• skilled "ti . th fu the $39,119 median salary The im'por- poSJ ons m e ture, earned b y men 25 to 34. Women now' tance of a four- employers · will look toward outnumber men · year degree :has- the biggest and best-educated The occupations where when it co111es to not been Jost' on pool of workers, which, as the women will likely ~ence having a four-year the· younger gen- data suggest, will be women. the most gains are tholie that college degree. eration of women. As this occurs, women will are expected to see the most This is significant More and · nlore gain stronger bargaining pow- ~wth. High,tech,. profes because a growing are attending :col- er. We will see salaries rise s1?n_s, such .u damliase ad- number of .. jobs, 1.eges and universi- and the.inevitable end to the llll!l!~!!>!!!,.. ~~!!J>- even- thoi;e ill lradi " ties; considerably . glass ceiling. . I ~ ~~ tionaily blue-clillai wbi_.A .. ~;.c._._··.:..11' .. _._:,,_·_a;a_ ..·c_t._ ..·· outpacing their There is' already evidence I lo industries, require·· ~ engmeeni,--,~ ~ .!'-'!'.:~, .,.. male counte~ that this might be. happening. grow mo~. ~-!0,!)-~ent advanced technical suggest.. will be This will ,un- Census Bureau data on in- by 2006. Currently, ltiese are training or a col women. doubtedly expand come by educational attain- the occupations that"- are in lege degree. opportunities ; for ment shows that the median th~ most desperate need for Just over half women as . tpey income for males 18 years , skilled workei:5. The ~emand (50.6 percent) of those hold make up a growing percent- and older with a bachelor's, for workers will only increase ing bachelor's degrees in age of the skilled labor force. degree was $47,399 in 1998. i as the number of jobs in 1998 were women. More im It is also likely to lead to more For women 18 and older with· these fields expands. portant. however, is that parity between men's and degrees, the median salary The outlook for men, on among individuals aged 20 to women's pay. Figures on col- was $34.668 or 73 percent of the other hand - especially ~9 - the future leaders in the lege enrollment indicate that the men's salary. for those without a college de workplace - women held the number of female gr~du- However, by examining, gree - is not very promising. Many of the occupations and industries traditionally domi Mo Lexington Herald-L~ader .. nday, November 8. 1999 nated by men continue to shrink in number. ■ 'Dead Fred' a force forI frat DANVILLE - On Saturdav Fred I M. Vinson was present at the· ~nd of Vinson, a Louisa native and 1911 rent Phi Deir president JD. Herald. another season of Centre College foot graduate of Centre Law School. was (Vinson. after all. was an a1hlete •-• ball. at least his 44th. chief justice of i_he U.S. Supreme Court captain of the Centre baseball team ior That's not especially uncommon from 1946 to 1953. appointed by Presi two \·ears.) for a loyal alumnus of the Danville lib dent Harry S. Truman. "°We"ve been taking him to games eral-arts college. According to fraternity legend, the ever since. rain or :-hine." But in Vinson's case. it's a li1tle · practice of taking Vinson to the games In fact. at a recent home "« me odd. He's been dead since 1953. be&an shortly after his death: His por Vinson appeared wrapped in plasti~ trait has held a1 place of honor in the For practically every football Sat sheeting, while his fraternitv brothers urday since his death. fraternity broth main hall oi t~e Phi Deir house for huddled under umbrellas. · ers of Centre's Phi Delta Theta chapter rears. Herald said Dead Fred is a part of h_ave taken a portrait of Vinson. affec- ''The way 1: understand it. some most Phi Delt activities. guys were sirring around talking about 11onarely known as Dead Fred: to the He presides u1·er parties at the frat home games at Centre's Farris Stadi the game and they thought that old house, which has a room named in his um. Fred might enjoy the game," said cur- honor. The privilege oi living in it goes I /{Hl .' •·· : to. the Phi Delt who ~ ~:· . the respect befitting ua~·~s Iv. He also goes to home basketball most distinguished me!/- .-iames. although his attendance isn't· Born in 1890 in th~ Louisa jail (his quite as faithful. father was the.jailer), V:inson would go According to legend, Dead Fred on to serve in the U.S. Congress, as cTies real tears when a Centre team los· U.S. Treasury secretary, and finally as es. He also reigns over the fratemiry's chief justice. charity efforts. sitting right next to the· "He was a really impressive man," ouckets. where members collect spare said Herald. "We encourage our change for cerebral palsy research. pledges to learn about him. He was a Last year. the chapter raised more model Phi Dell." than Sl6.000 for charity. Despite the seeming irreverence ' that Centre Phi Delts display to Dead Fred. Fred Vinson the man receives H- I, , ~,L CL;b:_ tfCZ,i., t Y1£LL 1 . Cc:r. ,-;z 1cicrq I 1 I Alleg.ed shooting in,~.,Ks·u.. ddrni; .has .. ·:- , ·:· ... -"•'.'.••:- .. stud·ents·._.: ...... "'",· ·- ~,,.. _, •• ,'.,·, • 'concerned·,. ~ :. • •. • : J' • 0 "' '"1#r<, ~,....__, _ Bingliiii said s!Je believed the alleged The newspaper has asked for a By JEFFBtlRLE)11f" . '--'"--'- ~ ' donnitn.u review of city 911 logs, but infor ,'..X•. .:Stm.foimui('_s«aff,.. • •~-·•·•'·. ,· _ J.U\,NQU OCCWitU at 8 WOOl8II S ~•,, · But she added, "I'm milly not at bberty to mation from the emergency reports ~.~£eci " ·.,.. ,give you 1bc nam~ Qf:the donnitory where- was not imm~ly available . •~ ~~t lllt''iill"':;; ... . __ ... aliout•the alfegecl'&icidmt may have hap- -~_,;.,..;;< "if ~ .,., 'i1.f~;, · peoed. Ob~, if I can't give you the . ·,. ,; R~~di6"" ~ coul° l,o •'t'.-. . police; repoit, and it's an ongoing investiga- . fiiniecl°"?fdi•;;awpai;polici clii~~ lion, I can't go any further than thal That's Turner, nor a univ~ity . spokeswoman, my st.iJry and rin sticking to it." Jacqueline JlingbamW~f>; e,," .,.. ·".. A group of KSU football players gathered J'um,:r, , when contacted by The Stale this morning at the campus student center Joumal, ~d be was. not 81 b'berty to.answer said they were convinced a shooting had questions from the press. He referred ~ occurred on Tuesdav afternoon at Chandler ' to B,.,,..._, =~ · · Hall. j . ttons . _.. 9 011~·-•" ,-. : ,,,-..,,,,. Jacke Robinson, a sophomore, said he Ringham oaichbo ~kltelealle few ifany , details . tliii anegect:inaidr:ot.: whidi SIU-: heard" sl!ootiog oa:um:d as he was going to · 00 ___ __,. und 30 fOOlball practi~Tuesday afternoon. . dents said• U\Nu=u aro '•3: p.m. Robinson said he heard there had been Tuesday.at Oiandler ~ a girls dmmitoay. •. r "l really can't confum or. 1deny,'it;" ''people shooting. I don't know Bingbam said. "I haven't seen 'ihe poll~ what happened:" reports myael£ There was some talk of some He said he was glad the alleged things." _ incident was not a repeat of a shoot- Ringham ,;aid there is a police report on ing earlier this year at Columbine the incident but that it was "unavailable at Higb\School in Colorado. Two stu- this time. We're dealing with an ongoing dents, killed 12 students and a investigation, and I'm told that warrants an teach7" on April 20 before killing recordsexempti011.~: _,.,_...... themselves. ~e spokeswommi'said a report would iie Adrian Myles, another sopho- released when the investigation is complete. morej football player for KSU, said Ringham said KSU President •Geoige talk of a shooting was no mere Reid had asked univeisity police to investi- rumor.' gate reports ofa poss1ble incident in a dormi- . "It happened," Myles said. "So tory. . many people said it, even the (foot- "Details are as yet unconfirmed," ball) coacbr.s '=le and talked to us Bingham said. ''There are all kinds of rumors aboui it And they heard it fiom flying arotmd, but nothing has been con- some! security people." fiDgcd as y~." ;:_, _ , Myles said the coaches told Bmghmri '.said uic nnnois involved talk football players to be sure to always ~ sonie'males were fighting and they hap- keep their dorm rooms locked. _pened to spill over into the lobby of a· dormi- "You should always be worried tory. I doni know how many people tliere about Safety," Myles added. were (involved), These were young college Otner students contacted students who I guess don't.want to tell much declin~d to be interviewed on the if anyone saw anything. It makes it kind of record, But they said there are a difficult to get any kind of information." number of rumors on campus. One . Turner said there was no evidence of a caller to The State Journal said she gunshot, according to Bingham She said that was worried about the incident and as fur as she knows, there have been no wondered why KSU officials reports of any injuries. weren '1 releasing information about ll I Lextngtan~l!M:Mlm' Sunday, Novemlle1, 7, 1989 The program also provides hands-on Students learn training. A non-denominational sports-cen tered ministry called Sports Reach is based on the campus, enabling students to do intern to spread gospel ships by playing one of a variety of team sports. The teams compete against profession als and amateurs across the globe, also travel on the field ing to prisons, children's homes and colleges and universities. Senior Tina Propes; 21, who played tennis on scholarship for three years, is a sports min Campbellsville college offers istry major who plans to start a sports camp degree in sports ministry for children after she graduates. •you can use sports to open doors," she said. "There are people you can't just go up to By Tiffany Meredith and talk about God. But you can play baseball ASSOCIATED PRESS and talk about the World Series." CAMPBELLSVILLE - At a small Bible There's no doubt athletes are in a unique Belt college, in a state where basketball is position should they choose to spread the king, aspiring ministers are learning a ne:V gospel, Taylor said. wav to reach the masses: Get out of the pulpit Taylor points to Cameron Mills, who and into the gym. played on the University of Kentucky's 1996 Or onto the gridiron. Or the baseball field. and 1998 NCAA championship basketball Or the tennis court . teams and became an evangelist after he grad .-\.t Campbellsville University, a Baptist-af uated. Mills regularly speaks to packed hous- iiliated liberal arts school of 1,660 students, es. tucked away amid the fannland of Taylor "If I didn't play basketball for UK, I hon County, students can now get a degree in estly don't believe I'd be as busy as I am sports ministry. now," Mills said. With churches looking for new ways to Although the sports ministry degree pro draw an ever-changing society through their gram focuses on evangelism, Taylor said ide doors, in Campbellsville sports is the common ally the program would target students who ground of choice. have a desire to coach. "It's a sports-saturated society," explains Modem high school athletes don't have Dr. Ted Taylor, a former college athlete and the time to spend in church activities after former chaplain for Mississippi State Univer games, practices, classes and 'homework, he sity's football team, who heads the sports min said. Their coach is often the most influential istry degree program. person in their lives. · Mixing sports and religion is not new - College players are often isolated from organizations such as Athletes in Action and their family, church and friends, Taylor said, Fellowship of Christian Athletes have been and can get overwhelmed by the pressures of around for years. The degree program was a big-time athletics and celebrity status. natural extension. Taylor said. Taylor thinks a caring, well-equipped "It's got to happen," he said. "The church coach can help head off problems before they isn't penetrating the culture." start. The degree program, which started this Marion Flomenhaft. assistant director of fall, is one of a handful in the country. the Center for Career Education and Life Plan Students take classes in coaching theory, ning at New York University, said she could psychology and sociology of sport, and princi only see the training as a positive, but the de• ples of Christian coaching, in addition to the mand for the degree may be only a small ology and more traditional college courses. niche in the job market. In the classroom, students learn to apply biblical principles to coaching and tackle such issues as conflict resolution and counseling. THE COURIER-JOURNAL• KENTUCKY• MONDAY, NOVEMBER 8. 1999 Students spread gospel through athletics CAMPBELLSVILLE. Kv, - ''It's a sports-saturated soci At a small college in a State .,tarted 1his fall, is one of onlv wh_ere bas_ketbalf is king, as ety," explained Dr, Ted Tay lor, a former college athlete a handful like it in the coun· non-denominational sports pmng m1msters are learning a ! rv. and_ former chaplain of Mis centered ministry called new way to reach the masses: · Students take classes in Spons Reach is based on the Get out of the pulpir and into s1ss1pp1 State Universitv's football team, who heads the ~~aching the_ory, the psycholo campus. enabling students to the gym. tiJ and. s~ctology of sports. do mternsh,ps by playing one . Or cato _the gridiron. Or the sports-ministry program. ~h_e m_elding of sports and and pnnctples of Christian of a variety of team sports. ·1aseba1I field. Or the tennis coachmg, in addition to theol The_ te~ms compete against ··ourt. reh_g10n _1s not new - organi zations hke Athletes in Action ogy and more traditional col protess1onals and amateurs . \t Campbellsville l'niversi lege courses . across the globe, also travel \' a Raptist liberal arts school and fellowship of Christian Athletes have been around for In the classroom. students mg to prisons. children's 1r l.tiliO students 1n Central learn to apply biblical princi hom_e_s. and colleges and uni Kentucky, students can now years. The degree program versities. was a natural extension Tay- ples to coaching and tackle is K"et a degree in sports minis sues like conflict resolution Senior Tina Propes, 21, who 'JV. lor said. ' :·it•~ got to happen." he and counseling. played tennis on scholarship With churches looking for satd. The church isn't pene fhe program also gives stu lo_r _lhree years. is a sports ?ew ways to artrncr neople trating the culture:· dents hands-on training. _\ m1mstry major who plans to -rom .::1 ever-than{J"rng soci ~he liegrc~ pni~ram. which "-fart a sports camp for chi!- •?ty . .::iports is !he e common ,,?roun.d of choice in Camp bellsville, dren after she graduates. "You can use sports to Today's high school ath "Anyone with a religious back open doors," she said. "There letes don't have the time to ground, at least in theory, is going to are. people you can't just go spend· In church .activities be more caring and have a more up to and talk about God. But after games, practices, classes highly developed concern for other you can play baseball and talk and homework, he said, and people than those who don't have about the World Series." so their coach often becomes that spiritual perspective," he said. There's no doubt athletes the most influential person in However, he said "the question be are in a unique position their lives. comes: Does having a Christian per should they choose to spread "I know the imponance of spective make one a better coach the gospel, Taylor said. a coach in a player's life," than being, say, a (Jewish) or Muslim Taylor points to Camero? said Taylor, who played base coach?" · Mills, who played ~n the Uni ball at Hiwassee College in Marion flomenhaft, assistant direc versity of KentuckY s 1996 ~d Tennessee. "It can maKe or tor of the Center for Career Educa- 1998 NCM champ1onsh1p break a person's faith. It's a tion and Life Planning at New York basketball teams and who be very pivotal thing.'' University, said she could only see came an evangelist after he College players _are often the training as a positive, but the de isolated from their family, mand for the degree may be only a graduated. Mills regularly church and friends, Taylor small niche in the job market. speaks in packed houses. said and can be overwhelmed Some schools, especially public or If he hadn't played basket by ihe pressures of big-time federally funded institutions, might ball for UK, Mills said, "I athletics and celebrity status. shy away from a coach with a reli honestly don't believe I'd be Taylor believes a caring, gious background, she said: as busy as I am now. well-equipped coach can hefp But giving athletes a new perspec People might not associate players deal with problems, tive on their spon or the rules as pan athletics with God, but Mills and head off some difficulties of the big~er scheme of things would thinks they should. Athletes before they stan. · Richard I.apchick, director be beneficral, she said. · · have a special platform, he And Cameron Mills, who said he'd said. of the Center for Span in So proba_bly be coaching if he wasn't in "Very few people have the ciety;in Boston, saiil that hav- the mm1stry, said the broader picture opportunity to talk about ing a coach with such a background is what 1s imponant. Christ," he said. "A lot of could be helpful, especially in areas "Basketball is not life," he said. people don't want to hear it." such as violence prevention and race "'God is what life is all about." Although the spans-minis relations. try program focuses on evan gelism, Taylor said that ideal ly it would target students who have a desire to coach. Lexington Herald-leader Sunday, November 7. 1999 "I think the recommendations UK and U of L said OllWi,/'l!c .f send the wrong mess.age about smrch buildings were thei?\~q what our top priorities are," s.aid orities. · .. ,, .. : ;- Research a Sen. Tim Shaughnessy, D- Both university ~ISBliid : Louisville. the buildings, which would. cost "The higher education reform $6.'i million and $41 million, ~ act was about making UK, our lively, are critical if the universities low priority in flagship university, a top 20 re are going to gain national.prpini- search, university, not about com nenoe. . munity colleges," he said. Without top-notch lab°il~ But before the General As the universities s.ay, the ~re,Z education plan sembly gets its chance with the searchers will pass them over.. ;.·' ,'- budget, Davies will have to sell Davies s.aid the staff's reconi• the rec0mmendations to the mendations didn't incliide the re Council proposal offers no money council. Its version then goes to , search buildings because._he.want for new UK, U of L lab facilities Patton, who compiles a statewide , ed more time to work witli,~µni• budget to present ro the General I versities to find a way to'sliillftlle Assembly. cost, perhaps a 50-50 split ,, · . By Holly E. Stepp Ken Walker, the council's bud "The truly great universities, HERAl..OWDER EDUCATION WRITER get director. said the majority of Virginia, UNC. Duke? have all FRANKFORT - The proposed budget for Ken the new money in the budget rec made investments in their research tucky's system of higher education includes plenty of ommendations comes in the last efforts," Davies said. · money for a variety of academic programs and cam year of the two-year budget cycle. Both schools .,ay they_ il!ready pus renovations. That's because some state have. ·•,',, What it doesn't include is a lot of money for new economists have raised concerns buildings - panicularly for new research buildings about how much money the state ··Our newest building, the Bax at the universities of Kentucky and Louisville. will have in the budget's first year. ter building, was funded with $14 And that exclusion may prove to be the first true "It's our tilt toward being con million from pri,-ace donors," said test of the Council on Postsecondary Education and cerned about the revenue picture," Mike Curtin, U oi L"s planning and Gov. Paul Patton's 2-year-old higher education reform. Walker said. "It allows us to ad budget director. The council will vote Mondav on staff recom dress the big issues the council has Louisville-area health care mendations on the budget for the state's colleges and identified." companies contributed S9 million universities. Legislators said determining alone. Council President Gordon Davies has. recom the budget will involve weighing ··It's feasible, but it won't be mended more than $2 billion in state appropriations all the state's needs. easy t? garner that kind of major to the eight public universities and 29 community "The budget is tight," said commitment again." Curtin said. and technical colleges. Rep. Harry Moberly, D-Rich UK's Ed Carter agreed. ··[t is a verv ambitious budget." Davies said. mond. and chairman of the ··Even if we could raise the ... \nd I am optimistic that the General Assembly will monev. it would still push the pro House budget committee. "We 1 ject ;:,1·k :·:·:1• .r :x ,·.\r-.::· ~aici fund it.'' will have to decide what is best Cant:r. ·.-1n: ;m'~1rii::nt 1,1r manal[t· But the exclusion oi research for the state overall." ',uildings for UK and U of L mav menr :ind hudget. Not enough for research? Je a sncking point for some leg Unce l;K had :he .noney . .i islators who will make the final Some university officials s.ay would take at least three years to decision on the higher ed budget. the budget recommendations don't build the iacilitv. he said. Davies and his staff have rec go far enough to fulfill the pledges , Lancr said he \,-,,~1ici like to :-.ee ommend_ed construction of only made in the higher education re at the v~rv least the ::uue approvP one proJect: :i. new communitv ionn act. technical college in '.liorthern Kentucky. rhe project. so p.anning can begin. that he thinks other legislators feel "We won't see a debt payment the same way. until at least two years; he said. "This recommendation doesn't follow the spirit of the (refonn) Lobbying the leg1slature which makes research the top pri The uni,,ersities' arguments orirv." he said. have gained favor with some state ·The council. however, has legislators. and that could be a har adopted an ~action agenda" that binger of a real battle durmi ,Janu takes a brooder view of higher edu ary's General . \ssembly 9f!ISim. catioo.. It says that the system of high Planning consaucnon at the er education should increase the state's universnies and oolleges education levels of Kentucky c1ti has always been a nux of council zens and increase their standard of recommendations. university pleas living. :md legislators' wishes. Davies said the budget recom- [n the past. universities have made their cases directly to the leg mendations move the council's vi islators. bypassing the council. 'The sion forward. higher educanon refonn was tout ··J think we have a strong set of ed as a way to end that practice. recommendations," he said. But some legislators say the Gov. Patton has said the coun law expected more. cil should_be the authority on high "We justiiit:d removing the er education. Last month he reiter community colleges from UK by ated to legislators that the council giving it a new mission - top 20 should be trusted. status." said Shaughnessy, adding "If we aren't going to listen to them, then we shouldn't have a counci L- he said. .- ------~Acws.,a~m=ole of recent articles' of interest to Morehead State University Nov. 11 • 1999 UNIVERSITY COMMUNICATIONS MOREHEAD STATE UNIVER~ITY UPO BOX 1100 MOREHEAD, KY 40351-1689 16061 783-2030 I THE COURIER-JOURNAL~ THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1999 \tate's educatio11 goa) still far off, report says Kentucky rises can raise achievem!nt. ~ut he Among the proble~ cited in ·the . said that to make good on its report is the gap in test scores be- to middle range goal of widespread student tween blacks and whites. Test results proficiency, much i work re- also show that boys are not scoring in the nation . mains. , _as well. as girls and that while "This .10th anniversary is schools m all parts of the state have By LONNIE HARP just one point in a ,20- or 30- improved, in many cases schools in The Courier-Journal year p~oject," he s~jd. "We set EaSlern Kentucky and Jefferson very high expectations for our- Cou!lty now lag further behind top FRANKFORT, Ky. - Ken- ~•Ives in 1990, and if we're go- sconni schools. tucky's public schools have mg to meet them, the public th:ri~o'::°~•sc~::}~~~~dwille!'5 hoeaped moved out of the nation's aca- and parents have ~ot to re- 1 demic cellar in the JO years commit to this in a big way." people across the state to take sl0C!>; since lawmakers passed major The group's report said the of where schools are headed. reforms, but the goal of a state can start to spread "Clearly there's enough progress quality education for every school success by focusing on to say that KERA was an investment child is still far off, according three areas: teaching far more worth making," Sexton said. "Now to a report from the Prichard children to read at proficient we're trying to take what we've Committee for Academic Ex- levels; taking steps 'to improve learned and see what it tells us about cellence. . the knowledge and training of what we have to do next." The statewide citizens teachers and fin not in quite the way the money themselves. ments. Council puts schools wanted. President Charles Wething "I don't feel we have to be A $65 million building at UK ton said the condition caused apologetic for what we're do strings on UK, and a $41.3 million building at him to question the council's ing," Greenberg said. Louisville were high up on the commitment to making UK a Davies said that adding the U of L projects wish lists of lhe schools. But leading re.search umversity. research buildings demonstrat• the council staff first ~•com• Wethington said the university ed the state's commitment to mended almost no new con would have to divert money research. And Davies said re By MARK R. CHELLGREN struction in the proposed' budg from other worthy projects or search can generate money Associated Press et for the next two fiscal ;years. research to underwnte the con Council President Gordon Da struction, that could be used to help fi. FRANKFORT, Ky. - Propos vies said plenty of space was "It's a zero-sum game," nance construction. als for new research buildmiis· available on campuses. , Wethington said. "For me, this is npt a matter at the University of Kentucky But both proJects were put Council member Ron Green of money. This is a matter of and the University of Louisville into the staff presentation to berg, a former chairman of the building great universities, not made it into the budget request the council meeting yesterday, finance committee and a Louis just building space," Davies of the Council on Postsecon on condition that the schools ville health-care executive, ob said. dary Education yesterday, but come up with 40 percent, of the jected to Wethington's com- University of Louisville (MORE) Pr~~i~nt John Shumaker said that begin July I. hu~mess and government The council budget proposal .,gencies that might finance re contains the fewest construc search are not inclined to pro tion projects on record, even vide monev for construction. with the addition of the two Nevertheless, Shumaker said, projects. It does request a lot the university would try to find of money for repairs and ren the money. ovations to existing facilities. The council's action was And it would continue more than symbolic, but far pumping money into endowed short of writing a check. The professorships and research - council's budget recommenda $120 million. The money, tion goes to Gov. Paul Patton, though, would come from the who may or may not include it sale of bonds, unlike the cur in his request to the General rent budget's research funds, Assembly, which must enact a which came from surplus rev budget for the two fiscal years enue. Lexington Herald-leader Tuesday, November 9, 1999 Higher ed budget plan expanded Partial funding for buildings at UK, Uof Lpart of tally e:xceeding $2 billion "If this is the decision that has By Holly E. Stepp which Davies and his staff recom to be made, we will take the chal HERALDlEADER EDUCATION Yt'RITER mended that the state approve lenge to raise the rest of the·mon FRANKFORT - The Council on only one new construction project ey," said Shumaker. Postsecondary Education yesterday - a new community and techni "But I will tell you that our agreed to ask for more than $2 billion cal college in Northern Kentucky. private-sector donors have little for the state's public colleges and uni-• That project remains in the bud enthusiasm for purchasing mor versities .over the next two yeara, includ get proposal. tar," he said .. ing new money for research buildings at The money for the community Shumaker said U of L also Kentucky's two largest institutions. and technical college - $1 million would have to redirect some re That's a departure from a recom which would be allocated during search money from other projects. mendation from council ~ent_~ the 2001-02 budget year - would Both Shumaker and Wething don Davies just last week, which would · go· to the first year of debt service ton said they would continue to have left the entire cost of the buitdings for $10 million in bonds. lobby legislators in hopes of get to the universities of Kentucky :\fld The new facility would allow ting the state to fund the full price Louisville. . . the Kentucky Community and of the buildings. The new proposal may avert an Technical College System to con Both schools have strong solidate two of the three campuses ugly debate in the General Assembly records in fund raising. It took U next year, Still, UK President Charles of Northern Kentucky Technical College and allow for future ex of L and UK less than a year to Wethington criticized the council for'· match $100 million in state money not providing full funding, prompting a pansion of programs. The new proposal for the re allocated for endowments. And sharp response. from at. least seme UK plans to launch a $400 million council members. ·'., · · · search buildings was negotiated over the weekend. Some legisla capital campaign earlier next year At issue is a funding request that tors had questioned what kind of that would focus on endowments will be turned over to Gov. Pauf Pattoi:t message the earlier recommenda and scholarships. for inclusion in the 2000-2002 General tion - which included no re Some council members took Fund budget. The General Assembly search building funding - would offense at Wethington's character will consider the budget during its reg send. ization of the council's efforts. ular session, which starts in January. Davies said he didn't offer the "This council has pushed the The proposed budget includes more. new proposal on the research General Assembly for many dol than $1 billion in operating budgets; buildings earlier because he was lars for the universities and col $32.6 million in special trust funds to still trying get the support of UK leges," said council member Ron increase university endowments and U of L. Greenburg of Louisville. and enroll more students; and That support came yesterday, "And I don't think we need to more than $20 million for renova but not before Wethington criti be at all apologetic for this recom tions, maintenance and replacing cized the board for not asking the mendation," he said. "This budget research equipment. state to foot the bill for the entire recommendation is a series of com But it was the addition of $6.4 cost. promises. Would we like to do more? million for the research buildings "If you ask us to fund 40 per Yes, but thLs is the be,;t we can do." that drew the most debate and cent of this ·project, we will have criticism. The moriey, which to divert funds from other re (MORE) would be allocated during the search projects," Wethington told 2001-02 budget year, would cover the council's finance committee. the first year of debt service for "And that will push back our $65 million in bonds. efforts to become a top 20 public That amount represents 60 research university," he said. percent of the costs. of_ research The 1997 higher education re buildings. The UK bmldmg would form act mandated that UK be cost $65 million. and U of L's $41 come a top 20 public research uni million: the universities would be versitv bv the vear 2020. Weth responsible for covering the other ington said: that not asking the 40 percent of the costs. state for full funding for the build For UK, the state would issue ing would leave some·io question $39 million in bonds, leaving the whether the state.,_iii~ com university to come up with $26 mitted to the reform. million. At U o fL, state bonds "In 1997, the state recognized would pay for $25 million, and the that UK was not a top 20 research university would cover $16.4 mil university and committed to do lion. more to help us. become that," he The 60 percent proposal is a said. change from the original recom U of L President John Shu mendations released last week. m . maker took a more conciliatory tone. CRAIO JOHNSON/STAFF Lexington Heral~eader Tuesday, November 9, 1999 Jentre OK as president debate By Jack Brammer gotten a royal welcome." s~1 •te HERAI.DliADER FRANKR>RT BUREAU She said the college has ample fa- .I. DANVILLE - Centre College's fa- cilities to accommodate the 2,500 peo cilities are more than adequate to host 1~le that would accompany a presiden Centre is open to host a debate at a presidential debate next year, the Itial debate. They '!'elude 2,000 mem any time. The school would prefer to head of the national debate commis- bers of the media, 350 campaign host a presidential debate but would sion said yesterday. staffers and a produc- not rule out a vice presidential debate, But Janet Brown, executive direc- !Ion crew of 150. said Roush. tor of the Commission on Presidential Centre wo_uld hold Debates, said she won't know the the debate m 1ts 1,500- chances of the private, four-year liber- seat Norton Center for al-arts college until she has reviewed the Arts.d~he armd Y°f all 12 sites vying for what would be a P:e.ss, ra 10 an le1 e- history-making event. v1s1on cov~rage would . . . be set up m a nearby C. entre s only drawback Is· that 1s athletic complex. The not m .~n urba? cent~,'·. but the school college has offered to put up $550,000 has a secret weapon . m IIS president. in private donations to help underwrite John Roush, Brown said. a debate. Roush, who was named president Brown said she is aware of the of the 1,050-student school in January widespread community support in 1998, helped the University of Rich Danville and was told by an aide to mond arrange a presidential debate in Gov. Paul Patton that the state would 1992 when he was a vice president back Centre's efforts in such areas as there. "lt was a smashing success," security and transportation. , I Brown said. Danville. with about 18,000 peopit,, Kentucky last hosted a debate in is the smallest city that applied to host I%!. when Republican Ronald Reagan a debate. The onlv one that's close is sparred with Democrat Walter Mon Winchester, Va., ,vith a population of dale in Louisville. about 23,000. Other cities on the list in Brown. who leads the nonpartisan, clude Los Angeles, Boston, St. Peters nonprofit commission based in Wash burg, Fla., and Winston-Salem, N.C. ington, D.C., toured Centre yesterday. A decision should be made by ear The college, founded in 1819, was re ly January, Brown said. The commis splendent in the glory of autumn. sion expects to choose four sites - "It's a beautiful campus," Brown three for debates between the preside~ said of her first visit to Centre. "I've tial nominees, and one for a debate be- tween vice presidential candidates. . "h MSUARj!fJ_Vc~ MSU Clip "eet~ A sample of recent articles ofinterest to Morehead State University Nov.12-16. 1999. UNIVERSITY COMMUNICATIONS MOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY UPO BOX 1100 MOREHEAD, KY 40351-1689 (6061 783-2030 THE COURIER-JOURNAL MONDAY. NOVEMBER 15. 1999 Schools now able to set their prices nessee counties, up from six, a' By LONNIE HARP change that noticeably boosted inter "We•~ al'78dy wondering ·where th~ rest 1s gomg to come from " she The Courier-Journal est at a .recent student-recruitment said. ' open house in Nashville, WKU Presi FRANKFORT. Ky. ....: A dent Gary Ransdell said. Still, student leaders said they are supportive of the qj~ction their cqj policy change that gives Ken The college also ~II charge in leges are taking. · · tucky public colleges flexibil state rates m more Ind1&na counties. ity to set their own fees has Currently, five Ev..nsville-area coun . '_'Anytime Wition goes up it is sig done little to slow the pace of ties are included. Starting next fall, ntf1cant, especially for a student body tuition increases. however, students from Clark Craw hke U of_ L's, where a lot of people As the national annual in ford, Floyd, Gibson, Harris~n and ~re .wo~kmg t;:,ro or three jobs or rais-· flation rate hovers at about 2 Scot! counties in Indiana could also mg. chtldr~~- said Jason· French, a percent, next year's tuition attend Western at the same rates as semor poht1cal science major who is for Kentucky undergraduates Kentucky students. president of the student government. will rise at varying rates - College leaders are eager to see "But it is also important to rean,c from a low of 3 percent at how much influence they can have that we are very much on the dis Morehead State to a high of on enrollments by adjusting tuition. counted end of what universities are 7.5 percent at Eastern Ken "The state has given our board the charging nationwide." tucky and Murray State uni opportunity to be strategic with tu In 1996-97, the last year for which versities. And colleges have comparable national data is available, already set similar increases ition and put together a budget that to follow in the 2001-02 helps us a~hieve our objectives," a year of tuition and fees at U of L school year. · Ransdell said. "II puts us more in cost $2,570 while the national aver But certain groups of stu control of our own destiny." age. for. public four-year universities dents will benefit from the Al Morehead Slate, officials said was $2,986. The av@l'!lgti'Jt'jjj'lvtit! · policy change over the next that affordability across the board colleges, meanwhile, was ~;!/2~-, . :;, two years. was a top concern in ·selling tuition AS A MEMBER-of rates. Their increases, the state's low tlito'ofL· Universities including bollll! .of lruijteep,.l'mll:h, of Jlpllltt: Western Kentucky and More est for the next two years, reflect an County, was part of a stildy group. head State have already be effort to !urn around declining under graduate enrollments and appeal to that examined the tuition rate when gun to set their prices with that authority was transferred to an eye toward attracting stu students from relatively poor Eastern Kentucky counties. · . each university. · dents from Tennessee or In He predicted that colleges would diana, or from Eastern Ken- "We believe Iha! low tuition is the become more creative in selling tu• best form of financial aid " said ition in years to come, perhaps tu~her education· o#«ci~s Mo~head_ budget director 'Angela charging freshmen at a different rate said that overall, tuition ls Mar_ttn. W11h, state revenues projected likely to continue to rise at a lo nse by 3 percent, she said univer than sophomores or having one price faster rate than inflation. sity officials found ii hard to ask stu for a biology degree and another for Universitr officials defend dents to pay more than that. engineering. the tuition mcreases, saying "We believe in a shared responsi "The process was too short· this that higher education in Ken bility between the stale and stu time to re~lly absorb all the 01ttions," tucky remains a bargain, and dents," Martin said. French said. · · ' that costs al colleges - from Jimmy Glenn, a junior civil ·engi recruiting new faculty lo wir STILL, IT IS unlikely that tuition neering major at UK who is president ing buildings for computers at all. college~ will come in line with of his student body, said he support - are higher than in many mflalion anytime soon, said Kentuc~ ed the college's recent 5.1 percent tu other parts of the economy. a!ld national higher-education offt ition hike because officials need the "The comment you hear c1als. money to raise the university's na from college presidents and Coll~e costs have been rising fast tional standing. financial aid officers is that er thari mflat,ion for ~t least the past "It's one of those things you hear much of the current spiral •is two decades, national experts.said, In people complain about all the time, related to consumer demand par_t, the money has paid for big-tick but people seemed to understand for services that are, exp en: et items. But at the same time, the once I explained how it was going to sive," said Jeffrey Penn, a money from students has also re benefit them," said Glenn, of Owens spokesman for the College plat!(I a slow erosion i!I Jh~ amount boro. As student representative on Board in New York City. ~f s•a.te a~~ federal support for pub the UK board of trustees, he voted This year, tuition and fees he universt11es. for the increases. range from a high of $3,406 In 1985, government aid made up a year for an undergraduate 53 percent of college budgets nation IN A LETTER published in !he at the University of Louisville ally. By 1995, that figure was down to campus newspaper, he told fellow to $2,300 at Kentucky State 42 percent, according to the National students that he believes the tuition University. Housing, meals Center tor Education Statistics. . increases are the cost of Improving and books add significantly Walker said that in Kentucky the higher education. to the tab. A year at a Ken share of college budgets tliat came • Glenn,wrotethatratcs,w~aoar,· tucky community college from state revenue declined through ing even higher In other states this costs $1,180 for tuition and out most of the 1990s. But an infu summer. At the University of Wiscon fees. sion of about $100 million in new sin, officials raised tuition by more In some circumstances, money since the 1997 reforms has re than 9-perceot. ~d Iii Iowa, i1tt,sald,, however, college tuition is cently reversed that trend. a 7 percent increase was on the table. · getting more affordable in Kentucky Over the past decade, tuition "In short, if the University of Ken as universities try to make their pro jumped about 85 percent at nearly tucky is truly 'America's Next Great grams more appealing to certain every Kentucky public college. University,' (as is claimed in a pro Some students and parents con• motional campaign) I genuinely be markets. lieve that a tuition increase at this At Western Kentucky, for instance, lemplating the price of a college de gree said the increasing tuition rates time is in the best interest of UK and the university board raised tuition for the students,'' Glenn wrote. Kentucky undergraduates - a seg hit home. ment of the student body that has "You hear it all !he time from kids ~rown quickly - by 6.4 percent and - they'll get to the end of (high) (MORE) 6.5 percent the next two years, re school and say, 'I can't go to college· spectively. However, tuition for out I don't have the money,' "said Mar'. of-state graduate students, an area cia Hannon, a guidance counselor at where Western want& to Increase en Nelson County High School. rollment, will not change: HARMON CAN · sympathize. THE NEW AUTHORITY - giv She's been saving since her daughter en to the colleges this year as part of was born. When she enrolled as a broader higher education reforms -· freshman al the University ot Ken also allowed the colleges to extend tucky, the family realized it would be in-state tuition privileges to 16 Ten- lucky if the money lasts through her daughter's junior year, Hannon said. o-· .....-~i,-'mTucu·coLteoes l(!U ' .\:,,)'~J.••¥f' .,. , .. ...,,.. •J' +.: • ii,e pe;.;~astilr cost, including tuition -~di~, 1o·; ln-ll1ale students has risen taster than inflation, as shown in the consumer price index. .. ' ·; .... -:~i~t. -~~··, r,·,. ;~ ' . ; ,.:, .., ou.£ iS .-· coll · ·.. _ . . . . . ~-,-•-;.: · .··,. • 'h 14' - •• ' • llegas"iiils yeai-"sei\1,i,j; C,,\;n tuition rates i0Hiie'n~'il/n'l;"!Clr"ii11i 2000-0i'fuiii 2001~s'clm01 yeais: ., Here are those rates, which do not Include any required lees; (rates of Increase are In parentheses). 7 ~,,,..., - ., ,w-~two,,i,. -~tl>CI\~• l:'; ·,.;;;·,,,-r, "'"'•••.-.:"t'\i-MU.:.5~ ,!lliirefi"'a:138 . hJnuuru="'■ r'.iS •r·,..,,-;:,;i_i...inMlli,w ,,,.,._,.,,;,,;~-,!<:n""-~~- ;111U'""'""~ ... ,uR.:...."?J i;.,,:,,...,,,.ll,,,;;,r-~-.. l>'va.,:;.. -~ ssso Is1010 s1010. s1010 . s1010 s1010· s1010 s1400 s1490 JIO:bT: ~•(.f.5)1"s~iias't'7..'4l ~1!l50 (4.0 $1040.(3,0) $1Q8l{I S1~a5,5) s101~:,s:~1 $1565!5Jj 1,~9;(Ml 01-02 $605 (5.2) IS1167 (7.5) $1098 (4.6) $1070 (2.9) $1187 (7.5) $1124 (5.4) $1145 (6.5) $1835 (5.1) $1669 (6.0)" '*K1atucky Community and Technical College System Solft:e: eo...,,eis on Postsecondllfy Education 8n<1 NatJonal ~ for EclJcalon Stat11t1c1 BY WES KENDALL THE COURIER-JOURNAL --~------Le Xi ngt oIi Herald-Leader College in~"rew iiffordable than Kentuckians think By Charles T. Wethington Jr. portunities:-unfonunately, these ceive aid for their college stu• rising expectations of our high ifty years ago, the United families also are most likely to dents. UK has joined with 26 oth school graduates seeking the ven· States was entering what see the initial investment as an er state institutions and more best education and an enlightened some would call its Golden insunnountable obstacle. than 1,000 institutions nationwide future. F That should not be the case. Age, with its population and its to promote this College Is Possi By making it possible for economy booming. At the time, While the cost of a college educa ble campaign. tion might seem daunting, the these students to meet their ex 6.2 percent of Americans had a In Kentucky, our goal is par pectations here in Kentuckv. we fact is most college students do ticularly challenging, but our college degree. help them maintain their ties to Today, we are entering what not pay the full cost. Seven out of prospectS are particularly hopeful. 10 full-time students receive par their families and their homes. could be a new golden age, but Recent statistics indicate that We also present a challenge to the dynamics tial or complete financial aid in about 19 percent of Kentuckians I the form of scholarships, grants Kentucky communities: to offer are much differ 25 or older have a bachelor's de these college alumni the opportu or student loans. gree, and 51 percent of Kentucky ent. Population mty to remain in their home state growth is fueled The federal government is the high school graduates in 1997 en largest provider of financial aid, and use their skills and ambition by immigration, tered college the next fall. Those to create a new economy, one the booming underwriting 72 percent of the numbers must increase if Ken $60 billion in available aid. In based on cutting-edge technology economy is tech tucky is to compete in the next and a global view. · Kentucky, we are fonunate also century, because an advanced ed nology-driven The educational challenge and a college to have the new Kentucky Educa ucation is associated not onlv degree(is virtu- tional Excellence Scholarship, with improved income but aiso presented by KERA and the pos1- which allows high school stu' with a better quality of life. secondary education reform are Wethlngton ally synony- challenges for the entire state. mous with a dents with at least a C-plus aver Knowledge is the key to progress. age to earn money for scholar- · To that end, colleges and While this requires a covenant good job. Almost 28 percent of between state government. local Americans have a college degree, ships to Kentucky institutions of universities - through discovery, higher education. Last year, the scholarship and application - communities and Kentuckv"$ vari and 16.7 million are plll'Suing one. ous schools, colleges rmd Univer The national average cost of a University of Kentuckv alone are the standard-bearers for vi awarded $15.4 million in federal sion and change. sities, it also requires individual college education at first seems family comminnent and planning imposing: $3,243 a year in-state and state financial aid and Largely because of two pieces processed $56.5 million in federal of legislation, the 1990s might that can begin as soon as a child for public universities and is born. $1.\.508 a year for private schools. student loans. someday be known as the time according to the latest numbers This week, which is National when Kentucky got serious about College really is possible. No from the U.S. Department of Edu College Week. the U.S. Deparl providing its children with a body should feel that going to a cation. However, college gradu mem of Education. the American world-class education. The Ken university is om of ti.nancial ates with bachelor's degrees earn Council on Education and a num tucky Education Reform Act of reach. on average 50 percent more in ber of other associations are pro 1990 and the Postsecondan· Edu ■ come than those with a high moting higher education as an at cation Reform Act of 199i ·are Charles T. Wclhing/011 school diploma. revealing college tainable goal. College is not just pivotal points in the common Jr. is president ni thr Unh,rrsitr tuition for what it really is: an in for the very rich - 20 percent of wealth's history. KERA gives us of Kentucky. · · vestment in the future. traditional-age students come the opportunity to produce high Perhaps low-income families from homes with incomes under school graduates prepared like know this better than most. First $20,000 a vear. Nor is financial never before to meet the chal generation college students often aid just for the very poor - lenges of college and of life. The are among the most driven and about 20 percent of families earn Postsecondary Reform Act gives the most appreciative of their op- ing $50,000 or more a vear re- us the opponunity to meet the ■ Coach: Laura Litter (12-40 in two Litter now has the cast seasons) ■ Last season: 5-21 (3-15 in Ohio Valley Conference) ■ Whet to watch: 5-foot-5 sharp shooter Heidi Daulton was tabbed as to contend at Morehead. a pre-season AII-OVC pick by the media, and Litter says the Georgetown. Ohio, native has By Chip Cosby there working hard, and I think expanded her game heading into her HERALD-LEADER STAFF WRITER she'll be fine." sophomore year. Senior forwards Despite finishing 3-15 in the The best of the newcomers Vette Robinson and Cisha Brazley Ohio Valley Conference last year. could be 6-2 sophomore center should thrive in their third year in Morehead State Coach Laura Lit Latasha Gales, who sat out last Litter's get-it-and-go transition ter was miffed when she learned year while concentrating on acad · offense. The biggest reason for that her Lady Eagles were picked emics. Litter said 5-8 junior col Litter's optimism is a class of 10 10 finish last in the OVC in the newcomers. including 1999 Kentucky lege transfer Naomi Bronson will Miss Basketball Jody Sizemore. pre-season poll. be hard to keep out of the lineup ■ Question marks: Litter turned "[ was surµrised to say the at point guard. Sullivan Junior College into a nation least." the second-year coach said. Australia native Julie Kirk al power with a scheme that relied "Now [ know what Rodney Dan land, a 5-10 freshman forward, heavily on pressure defense, but gerfield was talking about all rounds out the recruits that the with so many young players in the those years. We were a young Morehead spo_rts information staff rotation the Lady Eagles figure to be team, and we were in a lot of has labeled "The Fab Four." a little erratic on the defensive end early in the season. close ball games that could have "We've go\ some kids who we ■ Outlook: Litter is a proven pro gone either wav. think will be an integral part of this vear we feel like we're gram-builder, so the Lady Eagles "So this program's turnaround," Litter have high hopes despite losing 30 of fighting to gain a little respect." said. 36 conference games the past two For Litter. a Morehead gradu The top returnee is 5-5 sopho seasons. If the young players are as ate who came back to her alma good as advertised. Morehead mater two years ago after turning more Heidi Daulton, who received pre-season All-OVC honors after should be able to leap a few spots in Sullivan Junior College into a na the conference standings. · earning a spot on the All-Fresh tional power, it has been a rough ■ What's at stake: Litter is still return. man team las.t year. waiting on that one big win that will But Litter thinks she now has "Heidi has great range with a give her young program a shot in the the parts in place to make a major quick release," Litttr said. "She arm. It is vital that the Lady Eagles move upward in the OVC stand was a one-dimensional player last get off to a good start to gain some year, but she's worked hard on momentum heading into the 0VC ings, starting with a recruiting portion of its schedule. class of 10 newcomers that rartks her moves off the dribble." as one of the best in school history. The Lady Eagles should be in CHIP COSBY Leading that class is 6-foot good shape at the forward spots Roster Jody Sizemore, who won Ken with seniors Vette Robinson and No. N- P 1tt. Yr. Honwton 3 Margaret Klee ••. G 5-7 So. M~ick tucky's Miss Basketball award Cisha Brazley, who have both 5 Mic:tlelle Clemons • G ~ Fr. Hat'llbur1y spent two years in Litter's sys 14 Julie K!rldand,,., F 5-10 Fr, Sydney, Australla at Leslie County last year. Size 21 Heidi Daulton .. •'• G S-5 So. Georgetown. Ohio more averaged ·36 points as a tem. 22 Tiffany McCoy •• , G 5-8 Fr. Columbus, Ohio 23 Jocry Sizemore . , , F 6-0 Fr, H)11en senior playing primarily under With the veterans acclimated 30 Naomi Bronson .• G 5-3 Jr. ClnclMl!tl the basket, but Litter says her to Litter's frenetic style of play 33 Veae Robinson •• F 5-10 Sr. Loul:mllll 34 Jodi Dempse,o ••• C 6-3 So. Galena. Ohio prize freshman is handling the and with yoµng talent on hand, 35 Cl$ha Bralley., •. F 5-8 Sr, Mernl)NS. TeM. 40 Shelley Schabert, F 5-10 SO. Paducah transition to the college game Litter is optimistic about where 42 Laune Vincent , , . F 5-11 So. GreeJMlle nicely. her program' is in her third year 44 TasM Gales ••.• C 6-2 So. Columcus, Ohio 54 N:bf Adams •••• F 6-1 Fr. Morehead "[ think Jody is going to sur at the helm. Cortney Balter. , . F 6-0 Fr. Aemtngs,bUII Lindsey Hamel •.. G 5-9 Fr. May!Yllle prise some people," Litter said. "We've got the pieces in place, Tiffany Hornsby •• G 5-9 Fr. R. Thom!:!· "The· knock on her coming out of and the players are starting to Unchey 'bhalen •• F 5-8 Fr. len1a. Otlo high school was that she might be have a good understanding of the Schedule a little slow, but she's just decep system," Litter said. "The main No,. 19 - OAVIS-€LKINS, 7; 20 - X-'IS. Co{lele of Charleston, 5:30; 21 - -.vs Woffonl, 2: 29 - 'J"YS, tive and a little laid-back. For a thing we need right now is to Montana St., 10:30: 27 - Gran Tree Classic, TBA. Doc. 4 - EASTERN tc.ENTUCKY, 5:45; 7 - at young lady who's had the kind of have a little .success. Nothing de-. Wright State, 7:05: 19 - NORTH CAROLIN~ exposure she's had, she hasn't ASHEVILLE, 2; 21- MARSHALL, 7, velops confidence more than win Jan. 3 - OAKLAND, 7; 8 - TENNESSEE TECH, come in with a big head. She's out ning games." 5:45; 8 - MIDDLE TENNESSEE ST., 4:30: 13 - at Tennessee St., 6:45; 15-at Austin Peay, 6:45: 19 - at Eastern Kentucky, 6:30: 20 - TENNESSEE· MARTIN, 5:45: 22- MURRAY ST., 5:45; 27- at SE ~l!ssoun St.. 6:30: 29 - at Eastern 1!!1no1s, 5:45; Lexington Herald-Leader Feb. 3 - at Tennessee Tech. 6:45: 15 - at Middle Monday, November 15, 1999 Terinessee SI •• 6:45: 10 - TENNESSEE ST •• 5:45; U - AUSTIN PEAY. 1: 17 - at Tennessee-Manin, 6:45: 19- at Murray St .. 3; 24-SE MISSOURI ST .. 5:45: 28 - EASTERN 1LLINOIS, 5:45: 29 - Oftlo Va!!ey Conference Tcumament. TBA. Mar. 3-4 - Ohio Valley Ccnterenc:e TOW'T\8fflaa In Nesl'Mlle. TeM., TBA. •·et Days Inn/Super 8 Tip-Of'I' Classic In Rldwnond: Headline missed the point Y•at GranTree Classic in Bol1tman, Mont. (Other teams: Miss1ss1pp1, Bowling Green. Montana St.). ,, . By Gordon K. Davies At Issue erald-Leader education writer Hol Nov. 7 headline "Research a low priori(y in ly E. Stepp's article was on the education plan· Hmark. Unfortu nately, the headline was not. new space for research. On Nov. 8, the Research, especially council endorsed that position and recom research that leads to mended that the General Assembly ap the cTeation of busi prove more than $100 million for new re nesses and jobs that search facilities at UK and U of L, with strengthen Kentucky's more than half of the cost to be paid by economy, is very impor the state. tant to the Council on Building a great university in the Postsecondary Educa- 21st century will require partnerships be tion. Davin tween public and private supporters. It As the article made also will require that tough choices be dear, the council staff has been encourag made among good things to do. ing Kentucky's two doctorate-granting in ■ stitutions - the University of Kentucky Gordon K. Davies is president of and the University of Louisville - to the Kentucky Council on Postsecondary share with the state the cost of building Education. Lexington Herald-leader Sunday, November 14, 1999 Cleaver, Eagles eager to get another taste of success Scouting the Eagles By Rick Balley Going the junior-college route finals site) was an experience for ■ Coach: Kyle Macy (16-38 in two HERALD-LEADER STAFF WRITER was best for him, Cleaver says. us. Once you get a taste of that seasons) MOREHEAD Shelia "I wasn't prepared for Division you want more. You want to ■ Location: Morehead Crouse remembers when her son, I. I needed to mature physically knock off the top guys." ■ Last season: 13-15 overall and Brad Cleaver, wasn't much more and mentally," he said. "I needed Cleaver will be joined by fel 9-9 (third-place tie) in OVC. Defeated than a toddler, running around the experience of junior-college low seniors Scott Charity, Brett Austin Peay 82-77 and lost to Murray State 92-69 in OVC and saying, "l, Kyle Macy." ball. But Division I was my dream Bohanan and Jeremy Webb in try "l don't remember that," and my goal. I was told on numer ing to keep up Morehead's resur- • Tournament. Cleaver said, "but I iake her word' ous ocrasions I wouldn't be able to gence in the OVC. ■ What to watch: Macy has been for it That's what she told him." pleased with the Eagles' effort since play Division I basketball. I was "I look for Brad to have a good practice be~an. Morehead will contin Cleaver is 22 and has too little, too slow, too year," Macy said. "He's made ue its uptempa ways. The Eagles another way of address this or that great progress not just on the can rely on the three-point shooting ing the former University "In junior college I court but academically, too. He re of Brad Cleaver and Brett Bohanan. of Kentucky All-Ameri grew (he's 6-foot-3) and alizes the importance of going to Returning starters Kyle Umberger can: Coach Macv. Cleaver put on some pounds. I class and getting the best grade and Scott Charity give Morehead a is one of four seniors could shoot the ball and possible. He understands the seri post presence. Jeremy Webb "will forming the nucleus of started getting some ousness of getting a degree. surprise you with the things he's the Morehead State Ea looks. But I'm for the "He'll be more of a two guard able to accomplish,· Macy says. gles; Macy is their coach. team first. I bring a lot of and will be more effective in the Junior-college players Greg Hendricks "He's the most famous spirit to the floor and get at point guard and Quentin Smith on offense. He's pic!ied up IO-fold de the wing will have an impact. Kentucky basketball Cleaver my teammates involved. fensively. He used to think 'de player ever, arguably to ■ Question marlll: How will the I'm not a one-dimension fense' was between two houses, Eagles deal with Erik BrOwn's trans most people, and I've always been al player." but he's gotten after it now. We fer to Louisville? After all, he was a fan of his," Cleaver said. "Now Cleaver averaged 15.4 points felt he fit in with what we were OVC Freshman of the Year. Can I'm playing for somebody whose . and led the Eagles in assists (4.8 a looking fo~. and it's worked out Morehead make the necessary style of ball I want to play." game) and steals (1.9). He shot well. He's made a lot of improve improvements on defense and on Cleaver, from Murray, played 41.5 percent from three-point ment" the boards? Can the Eagles over for Coach Ron Greene at Calloway range and 86.2 percent from the More will be required of come a lack of height? The team County High School, then broke free-throw line. By playing the Cleaver and his teammates be has some talent, but Is there Nick Van Exel's record for three point and shooting guard, he was cause Freshman of the Year Erik enough depth to handle a rigorous point field goals at Trinity Valley a key contributor as Morehead Brown transferred to Louisville OVC schedule? Community College in Texas. He went from three wins in 1998 to after leading the nation's fresh ■ Outlook: The Eagles made the spent his · sophomore year at 13 last season. The Eagles flew biggest improvement in the OVC last men in scoring with a 19.3-point year, moving from 10th to third place Kansas City (Kan.) Community from last to a third-place tie in the average. College, where he was recruited and going from three wins to 13. But Ohio Valley Conference and won "That's just another trial you Brown chOse to leave, and several by MSU assistant coach Wayne a first-round game at Austin Peay have to overcome," Cleaver said. players musr account for his 19 Breeden. in the OVC Tournament, then lost "We've got guys who want to be paints and five.plus rebounds. ·we "I signed early with Morehead to Murray State in the semifinals. here, and that's what's important may not be the most talented team, State," Cleaver said. "They "That was a huge step for us There are no superstars on this .but we'll try to play to our Potential,· showed the most interest, and last year," Cleaver said. "Austin team. Practice is a lot more in Macy says. ·we may not be ready to Coach Breeden believed in me. I Peay was maybe the biggest win tense, from Coach Macy to the challenge for the championship, but couldn't have made a better for Coach Macy since he'd been walk-ans. We have high expecta as long as we're headed In that choice." here. Nashville (the semifinals and tions for ourselves." direction, that's good.• ■ What'• at ltake: Must win the OVC Tournament to reach the NCAA Tournament. RICK BAILEY Jan. 20 UT-MARTIN 8:00 111®1 Jan. 22 MURRAY ST, .8:00 ■ mfih• · Jan. 27 • at Southeast Missouri 8:30 Date Opponent Tlmo No. Player Pot. Ht. wt. Cl. Hometown Ne,;. 7 x-5PORTS REACH . : ,:;.3.'oo' Jan, 29 .... at Eastefr1 llllnolo ... _ .8:05 '' 4'.''.':.Grti:~ :- ;fs:G·c·.;J,1';;e-2 ;,';;;les.~llieilr~~ Nov. 11 x-SPORTS TOURS 7:30 Feb. 3 at Tennessee Tech 9:00 • 11 Marquis Sykes G 5-11 160 Fr. Mansfield. Ohio Nov. 19 at St. Francis (Pa.) Feb.5 at Mldd,t Tennessee 8:45 14 Jifstin Comelt~~ · .. :.. G 6-5 _,. ~190!J5~!j/t~~'fi..t~ Nov. 23 VIRGINIA-WISE 20 Bfad Cleaver G 6-3 195 Sr. Murray Feb. 10 TENNESSEE ST. 8:00 Nov.27 at Minnesota 4:00 21 MOU)lamodou Wllane Cf e-10 ~ ;215.. ~~z~~J~'R;~iSeneaatE Feb. 12 AUSTIN PfAY Nov. 30 ST. FRANCIS (Ind.) 7:30 3:15 22 Brett Bohanan G 6-4 200 Sr. Canton. Ill. 23 Dec.4 EASTERN KENTUCKY :a,oo Feb. 17 at UT-Martin 8:45 'ieromy ivebb': ' ·, ji·'·.: ·se • ·•. 21i!Vi7ai.r.":::--or1ve1rdl,;,,-,.--,,, 30 Quentin Smith F Dec. 7 WAIGHT ST. 7:30 Feb. 19 at Mu!f'Y St. 5:30 6-5 210 Jr. Cincinnati 40 Travis Wllllams F Dec. 11 ASBURY 1:00 64 175 Fr,,:·. Aliiium Feb. 24 SOUTHEAST MISSOURI 8:00 44 Scott Charity F Dec. 18 at Georgia Tech 7:00 6-7 225 Sr. San Diego Feb. 26 EASTERN IWNOIS 8:00 46i(''.8in\anl EYllns F 1>5 Dec •.20 at Jacksonvtlle St. 8:00 205 -~:;t:C:MuCPit ...;,~~, 55 Kyle Umberger F 6-7 Dec.30 at East Tennessee 7:30 Feb. 29- y-OVC Tournament TBA 225 So. Ashland Jan. 6 TENNESSEE TECH 8:00 March 4 z-OVC Toumement ,1BA, ' Jan. 8 MIDDLE TENNESSEE 1:00 March 5 z-OVC Tournament TBA Jan. 13 et Tennessee St.. __ :-.]:~ 8:4&'. 1,<1lhlbltlon: ,OYC TOt.lmllfTIOnt ftrs1 ~ at CM> °-: Jan. 15 at Austin Peay 8:45 pus sit11s: l-OVC Toumament ~11 and rcna11 , Jert.18 at Eastem_Kel]luCky 8:45. held 1n NUl'lvlllll fHE COURIER·JOURNAL • SUNDAY. NOVEMBER 14. 1999 Erik who? Macy goes team facts Head coach1 Kyle Macy (third sea- seven of nine conference games. 1 son. 6-30). Weaknesse ■: The toss of Brow1 Assistants: Wayne Breeden, Bnan Iha na11an·s tao freshman scorer last sec to plans B~ C and D Lane, Diego McCoy. 1999.991 13•15, 9.9 OVC. son. who transferred ta University of LoUJ! By MARC J. SPEARS Homa court: Ellis T. Johnson Are- ville this summer after becommg unhapp The Courier•J ournal na (6,500). with llvmg m Morehead. The Eaqles· Ion Key lo ■■ es: F Erik Brown (l 9.3 true center - 6-10 newcomer Mouhamc It's not easy to replace a guy who · ppg, 5.4 rpg), C Dewayne Krom (5.3 ppg, dou Wilane of Senegal - has no exper led not only the nation's freshmen in 2.3 rpg), G Ted Docks (2.9 ppg, 2.8 rpg) ence and is still new to hoops. scoring Jast season but also the entire·. Strengths: Five lettermen return. m- Keys to season: Forget abOL Ohio Valley Conference. c!udmg three starters. Guard Brad Cleaver. Brown and find a group of players ta mak But Morehead Stale coach Morehead's returning leader scorer (15.4 up far his scoring. With seven newcomer Kyle. ppg.) and leader in assists (4.8 apg.). The and a search for a new go•fa•guy, the Ea Macy has a plan for replacing Erik Eagles are tough home team who went 10- gles need to Jell as soon as possible lo Brown: the committee approach. 3 at Johnson Arena last season and won lhe best results. Brown averaged. 19.3 points and also led the Eagles in rebounds and Roster steals and was tied for tops in blocks · Probable starters during their surprising run to the No.-Name Pas. HI. Wt. Cl. PPG RPG OVC Tournament semifinals. But life 20-Brad Cleaver ...... G 6·3 195 Sr. 15.4 APG FG% FT~ 4•Greg Hendricks•a ...... G 6·2 185 Jr. 19.0 3.2 ,.a 44.8 86; in Morehead was too dull for the ~a 4.5 n,a 44-Scott Chari~ ...... F 6-7 122 Sr. 9.8 4.8 small forward from Lexin~ton Bryan 23·Jeremy Webb ...... F 6-6 205 Sr. 63 1.0 47.5 59.<"' Station. Over Macy's· objection, he . 55-Kyle Umberger ...... C 5.7 225 So. 9.7 37 26 45.7 60.( 5.3 13 52.1 transferred to the University of Lou• •·Al College of ~e Desert 1Calil.J 72 E isville, where he is redshirting this season. Probable reserves "It has been interesting that the 22-BrettBohanan ...... G 6-4 200 Sr. 11.4 2.3 2.1 47.5 45-Bernard Evans•b ...... F 6·5 205 Jr 01a n'a n~a 62.! subject (of Brown) has never come 40•TravisWil!iams•c ...... F 6·4 175. Fr. 15.0 9.0 n,'a nla up this year (with the team)," said n,a ~medical radshirt ~SI season; c-redshirt (1997-98 stats al Legan Coun~ H.S.J. Macy, whose team was picked to fin- .,. . _!·~ ish seventh in the ave by the , MOREHEAOsrAre UNJVEAS1TY PHOTO Freshmen/transfers coaches and sports information direc• Brad Cleaver averaged 15.4 No.-FlaYer, hometown Pas. 1ft. Wt. Cl Slats tors .. ·"! haven't heard complaints P!)lnta a game last season, and 11•Marqu1s Sykes, Mansfield, Ohio-d ...... G 5·11 160 F • 18.6pf 4.0r about any guys getting any extra the junior guard probably will be 14•Just1n Cornell, Louisvi!!e-e ·-:-:c--"G 6·5 100 F~: 25.Sp/ 8.Sr shots. I think we have •to do ii as a: 1,µ_nchlng more jumpers now, 21•Mouhamadou Wrlane. Senegal•l ...... f,C 6-10 215 Jr. 20.Sp/12.0r ~ • I. 30-0uenbn SmOII. Cinonnatr-g ---.F 6-5 210 Jr. 17.4p/ a.or team to pick it up. ,:..,,,.,.,..,,,;.s6bis'thtit 'ca~ be replaced I know Stats from last seas~n:. d•at_Mansfield H.S.; erat Fern Creek H.S.; f-at Institute Sainte Jeanne d·Arc in "We're not ready to find ~ nev,_ . . · Oalrar. Senegal: g-at Cinonnab State. player to fill his shoes. we have more·. w,_.bave ~ood enough ~.hooters that Schedule of a team atmosphere as'far u what; .. ~j:ome, m and do that.. Dalo we have to do on 'the floor. l l!now .)!rown s absence wont be the only Opponent Time . Date Opponont Time 1 Nov. 19 at SI. Frarlcis, Pa. :00 Jan. 18 •m Eastern Kentucky :45 11ie will ~e bett~r defensively. I tbin.k .. J~ing M~rehe.ad fans will .have to get Nov.23 VIRGINIA•WISE ----•• 7:30 Jan. 2D 'TENNESSEE•MARTIN •-... 8:DO it:is a void we wt!! be able to fill." ·used to. The Eagles have seven new• Nov. 27 Nov.30 at Minnesota -:::::----.4:00 Jan. 22 'MURRAY STATE "---,.8:00 , Much of the scoring void could be "comers, including rail·thin 6·10 junior ST. FRANCIS, IND ..._._.7:30 Jan. ll •at Southeast MISSOuri ...... 8:30 filled by junior guard Brad Cleaver, Moubamadou Wilane, a close friend Dec. 4 'EASTERN KENTUCKY .... - ...... 8:00 . Jan. 29 . 'at£astsm Winois ____.:05 who averaged 15.4 points last season. of University of Kentucky big man Dec. 7 WRIGHTSTATE--··-·· .. -·1:30 Feb. 3 'at Tennessee Tech -~-~:oo Senior forward Scott Charity and ·Jules Camara, a fellow Senegalese. Dec.11 ASBURY ...... _ ...._ ...... 1:00 Feb. 5 'al Middle Tennessee ...... 8:05 Dec.18 sophomore forward .Kyle Umberger . But• 6-10 freshman center Billy at Georg~ Tech · 7:00 · Feb. ID· 'TENNESsEE STATE .. ·-·--.. 8:00 averaged nea~IY. 10 pomts. , . ·Howell of Lewis County High left Dec. 20 at Jackson•lle Slate ---.8:00 Feb. 12 'AUSTIN PEAY ··•--.J:15 As far as f1lhng Brown s old post• f · k Dec. 30 at East Tennessee State ...... 7:30 Feb. 17 'al Tennessee-Martin --~:45 Jan. 6 lion goes, the Eagles have three op- school _b~ca~se a homes1c ness, 'TENNESSEETECH ·-·--····-.. a:oo feb.19 'alMurraySlale -----:~0 tions. J ~~.cy said.· . Jan. 8 Jan. 13 'MIDDLE TENNESSEE -·-···--1:00 Feb. 24 'SOUTHEAST MISSOURI •-·-.. 8:DO One is returning the job to 6•foot·6 O~~ weakness 1s a. lot of n_ew "al Tennessee Stale ----< :45 Feb. 25 'EASTERN IUINOIS ...... _" ...... 8:00 senior Jeremy \Vebb,. w_ho lost the f~ces,. said Mac~: who 1s b~gmnmg Jan. 15 ·•at Austin Peay ·------.8:45 ••Ohio Vs~ Cclnferenca game small•f Sam McKmney stood b~. an:uously :1waitml! the ham~ bronze to lleat uµ to exacu:. -.!.151 de2ree!' 1t nall t,, Dt• tna;,. n.,1 11erC1r ll couid br oouretl into tn{· mold he created. With ~everal more pounngs, 1t w1\I become an entire scuiptun• ni' :: fanniy. which will be olaceri at the new entrance of King :: Daughters .\1.edical Center in Ashland following its $32 1mllinn exn:1ns101: tin Thursdn\' ,•venrn~. :\lcK.innl'_\ .. t ~lon•n,-.11! :Stat• L~mversH_\ :1d1unct nrofessor. w:Hcn~ci l· f •• 11 .. ,, :1rt :IISU !Zirn ilar111lr,1n pnnro • art professors Stevr. Tirone•, lt•ft and Sam McKinnev check the te~peraturC' on thl' hrun,:1• 1 h1•y pr,•uare t-(; n1• :-: u.iv1H.· nacKeo •. \J.ir: , pour for McKinney's sculpture. rfl,. •cuint.Ur•• w1L11 :-aue tn~ lrl!-UJallLIIL :me:. a11 llllUT ;,nll •· .\re:1 .!..shiauu Art Gallen·. '1·• l.·1 · 'lll'i\lr- ! ':1,· half later. uourpJ :.!Oll 110unn: \·ho rei"erre Any discus~ion of the history of Howan ! millennium County anrl MorPheaLI · Morehead State University police arrested ,a suspect Tuesday that had been wanted ' since August for attemptini to steal university property;- t." • • • Joseph Lee Foster, 21, w1111 arrested at the West Mlenon • residence hall on -MSU'a' '• campus after the Office of Public Safety received a tip, that he wail at the haIDfi:1~ . Foater!__ !)f Tam_pit,:ffa:r~ w_an~ed,>.,,foi-. ,,,, · ~~Jeclcll~ .. attempt1flJ tct. takf appr!J~?!: imatelj-:.•·ssoo-:. wortli:-,·otf: equipment from the Speech · Department ctn the second. floor of Waterfield Hall,,. THE COURIER-JOURNAL • SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1999 RETAINING STUDENT AC11VfflES FEES campus at all. When a college Christian law students have belongea. The An edltorlal yesterday In The administrat_ion rec_ogni~~d a argued that they should not have always been - ar New York 77mtt•: new group, 1t gave 1t leg1ttma have to pay to support 18 orga always will be - parents ai One of the roles of higher cy, space to meet in, the ability nizations that espouse gay students who think they have education is to provide a place to advertise Itself on college rights, women's rights and right to be protected fro where ideas and beliefs can bulletin boards and newspa other causes with which they ideas they do not like. But collide, where students can pers, and access to potential disagree. A federal court of should not be up to students , learn to tolerate even points of new members in the student appeals has upheld their objec parents to choose which cour view they find obnoxious. For body. But the marketplace of tions. es or campus organizatior decades, radical movements ideas costs money to support, But the fee money also sup deserve support and which c and countermovements in and for generations studen.ts at ports more than 100 other not. That should be the unive America have used the campus American colleges and univer groups, including conservative sity's mandate, and th as a place to form and grow, to sities have been required to Christian organiza Supreme Court should say so, articulate ideas pay activities fees that now tions like the Pro •N1WYW11.TlmaN9Wllervlc:e and promote support a long roster of orga Life Action League goals. That has nizations. been true of the and Campus The democratic appeal of Crusade for Christ, black civil rights the activities fees was that movement in the as well as the 1950s and '60s, everyone was required to Catholic Student the Vietnam War invest in an environment that Union, Buddhists, opposition and promoted everyone else's right Muslims and a law the feminist of free speech and assembly. group called The movement of the But now the Supreme Court Federalist Society, 1960s and '70s, will rule on a case that threat to which the lead the gay rights ens to undermine the support pla_intiff iz.,. th~. case movement of the system at public institutions. 1970s and the At the University of Wisconsin, conservative Christian move where mandatory fee money ment of the 1980s and '90s. Most of those groups had to goes to support any nonparti fight, on campus and in court, san student gro_up that applies either for the right to organize for a share, three conservative in grours on campus or, in the case o blacks, to enter the Lexington Herald-Leader Monday, Norember 15, 1999 Admissions tests grad school terror By Mikki Olmsted If prospective students do not course, and I started using a CD CONTRIBUTING WRITER endure hoL'.'S of prep tests and re ROM test only three weeks before Q'pro A year ago, I wasn't sure I'd view sessions before they wrestle an the GRE. I thought the hoopla was spective be in graduate school. In fact, I exam, they may leave the testing exaggerated; the tests couldn't be students@ wasn't sure I'd ever be able to think centers waving a white flag. that bad. net endure clearly again after taking the law Brenda Fitzpatrick. the director I was wrong. hours of school admissions exam. But I knew of Kaplan Testing Services for Ken "One thing I recommend for un I wanted to continue my education , tucky and south West Virginia said dergraduates is that they don't wait prep tests in a graduate or professional school the more students find out about the until their senior year to start think andreuiew and that I had to charge through the exams before they enter the testing ing about this.• Fitzpatrick said. sessions admissions exams. rooms, the better their scores will be. Adults who have been out of the before they Now, I'm a proud graduate stu For students who move directly academic setting are faced with the wresUean dent at Western Kentucky Universi from undergraduate programs into uncertainty of going back to school ty - an LSA T and GRE veteran graduate or professional programs, and the anxiety of taking the exams. mum, they with battle scars. the testing may remind them of "They need lots of prep tests may/eave Doing well on admissions ex their pre-college SATs or ACTs. and prep courses for two reasons: the testing ams may be the most stressful part Even so, I made the mistakes ex One, to get their confidence back centers of preparing for graduate school, perts warn test-takers against and two, to get used to going back wa:uing a second only to the infamous medical My unopened preparation books to school again,• Fitzpatrick said. whil,eflag. school interviews aspiring doctors sat buried under college catalogues "They have it, it's just rusty." sweat through in the latter S1ages of and senior term papers. I didn't Basically, beating the exams re aa:eptance. think I needed an LSA T prep quires preparation and time. The only other income UK's Green Thumb to Join SGA receives from the event is activist groups• boycott the411 15 percent of all merchandise sold during the day. Members of Green Thumb, NEWS FROM THE Student Activities Coordina a UK student organization, plan STUDENT PRESS tor Jeanie Morgan said it cost a to join other activist groups in a ------flat sum of $45,000 to bring . nationwide movement to boy- MTV to campus. However, Mor cott working for Coca-Cola, Success at Murray state: gan said several other expenses, BP/Amoco or Ford, unless these losing money on MTV such as promoters, stagehands, ·companies make some major The invasion has come and catering and advertising, added environmental policy changes. gone, but the question remains: up to raise the overall cost "The goal is to have How successful was MTV's Morgan said MTV person 500,000 signatures by April 22, Campus Invasion Tour at Mur nel told her every campus on 2000," said Ben Gramig, a nat ray State? the tour has lost at least ural resources and conserva From a financial stand $20,000 thus far. , tion management senior. point, the Oct. '2:1 event left SGA Vice President Kevin Gramig is spearheading a much to be desired. Lowe said the loss will not petition to gather suppon for Numbers are not final, but hamper SGA from putting on the boycott, which will increase the Student Government Asso more programs throughout the to 12 corporations by April. ciation estimates the event lost rest of the academic year. The corporations are being more than $20,000. The publicity and connec targeted for policies that some However, SGA President tions MTV brought 'to Murray feel are .not environmentally or Brandon Kirkham said he has are two aspects of the tour socially responsible. no regrets about bringing Kirkham thinks should not be - NICK SMITH, THE KENTUCKY KERNEL MTV to Murray. over_looked. MSU had a spot in "We had a lot of student Rolling Stone, Pd/Islar, on participation during the event" MTV promotional spots and in Kirkham said. "Most people do several local newspapers. not see losing money as a suc Kirkham said, "Not every cess, but in this case, we do." thing should be measured by ·SGA sold 2,756 tickets for money." the Garbage and Lit concert - JASON YATES, which concluded the day's fes'. THE MURRAY STATE NEWS tivities. The combined revenue from ticket sales totaled $36,040. Lexington Herald~Leader Monday, November 15, 1999 Guardian· of spaces EKU parking-lot guard master of miniatures off duty By Jason Jones shows them. CONTRIBUTING WRITTR But he takes his job very seriously. A shiny white convertible creeps "There are always 140 cars trying to into the parking lot like a lion on a get into 95 or so spots," Hisle said. "I'm midday hunt. From the driver's seat. a the guy who has to tell them to move on, young woman yells, "Don, what am I and they aren't very happy when I do." going to do?" She is late for an impor But most students and faculty tant meeting. only see Hisle as a parking guard, and In a flash, the man springs from they don't know about the talent he re his position and begins the search that serves for his private life. he has performed thousands of times Carving miniatures is his special in the past. ty, but he also makes yo-yos and oven His search uncovers the truth: Don Hisle, left, talked with Dan rack removers. There isn't one spot left in the 95- Jones a biology graduate student His latest project is an exact repli space parking lot behind Eastern Ken at Eastern Kentucky University. ca of his workshop, complete with a tucky University's administration wood-burning stove, workbenches and building. ing and the Coates Administration all the small details. But Don Hisle, 52, is on the Building. If it involves business at East "Each rocking chair takes about woman's side. In a flash he directs her ern, it most likely takes place there. eight hours to finish," he said. "It to a spot in the back of the lot, and all Brenda Brockman, the secretary to gives me something to do in the win is well. EKU President Robert Kustra, says tertime besides watching TV." Hisle is quite possibly the most she can always count on Hisle to find Whether it is finding a parking well recognized, but the least known a spot for important visitors. spot for an important alumnus or figure on Eastern's campus. Many "We tell Don all the time that he is carving a six-inch high log cabin, who have been enrolled there in the the best public relations person we Hisle does his job with gusto. past 12 years have met the man in have here," she said. "I just do what I got to do and charge of the busiest parking lot at Hisle has a love-hate relationship that keeps me busy," he said. "These Eastern: the Jones Lot with the students and farulty. people gave me a chance when they Everything from the registrar to the He has aa:umulated a pile of friends didn't have to. So I'm always going to president's office is in the Jones Build- over the years through the kindnesses he do the best I can for them." Lexington Herald-Leader Stay witliiil.fOUl" means when,~clioosing college "I tell them to look at the whole picture · · If student loans are not enough, the Jane Bryant Quinn over the next four years: and think about government offers PLUS loans foc parents. SYNDICATED COLUMNIST how those loans would unpact the rest of . Parents can borrow the difference between the family," Ennis says. "The school may the amount of money they have on hand How far should par ents go today to pay for simply be unaffordabl~." . . and the college's total cost Repayments on Choosmg a college IS like buymg a car, PLUS loans start right away. their children's college she says. You pick the model you can Many parents are balking, Cooper says. education? Some will afford. There are fine schools at all levels Maybe they're close to retirement and don't bear any burden. sign any loan. Others won't of cost. want more loans. Maybe they can't handle Increasingly, children . ■ Don't take llll!'ecessary loans. Low- more monthly payments. Maybe rather than parents are mcome ~tl!dents rrught get through_ loan- they think that college should be borrowing the money. free by hvmg at home and commuting to a the child's responsibility. There's no easy way of threading your state or commuruo/ college. Theu- own Instead of PLUS loans, many way through this financial and emotional earrungs, ~ong with state an~ government families are turning to alternative swamp. But here are some things that col grants, might cover the ~t m full. or private college loans, made by lege-aid counselors want you to think Students who want to hve away from banks or state agencies. home should apply to state and private col- Private loans normally go to the about leges and compare the offers. See which student, often with the parent as ■ Don't let your child go to a school one reqwres you to borrow the least The co-signer. Repayments don't have you can't afford. On paper, this sounds s11.e of the loan should weigh heavily when to start until the student leaves obvious. But it's not so obvious when the you choose the school. school. The variable interest rate child's eyes light on a school whose five Expensive schools sometimes give you currently ranges from roughly 8 figure cost starts with a "3" or even a "2." a better deal than midplice schools do, percent to 10 percent. with no ceil- and your income is in the middle range. because they can proVJde more student aid. ing on how high rates can climb. You might have worked hard to accu· ■ Don't stand by while your child over- By contrast, PLUS loans cur- mu!ate a college fund and thought that borrows. "I'm surprised at the number of rently cost 7.72 percent, with the your money, plus college grants and tradi parents who don't have a problem with rate capped at 9 percent tional student loans, would get you their son or daughter taking out as many "I recommend the PLUS loans through. Then you discover that, even with I~ as they ~" says Kerrie Cooper, for parents, first," Ennis says. "'I aid, you'll be, say, $10,CXXl short- and the of financial aid State don't like to see students take on so college might not cover that gap. director fer the Faced with this, some parents want to University of _New Yark, College of much debt" load up with loans or dissolve their Technology, m C:3?ton, N.Y. Cooper thinks that students individual retirement accounts. "Don't," Students traditionally take a federal don't understand the effect that big loan (~.625 to $5:500 for undergraduates, loans will have on their lives. says Patricia Ennis. assistant director of dependmg on whtch_Year of school _they're "When they leave, they're often . student aid at Syracuse Uruvers1ty m New m). Repayments begin when the child surprised at the total they've bor- (MORE) York (total sticker price this year: $30,280). leaves school. rnwed." she savs. ' ■ If your children are still To see whether your own state voung, don't overlook the terrific has a plan, ask the financial-aid new college investment plans - office of a nearby college or check called 529 plans - being created http://www.collegesavlngs. by many states. You put your org. Or join the excellent plans · money into a plan; it grows tax offered by Nev.: York - (fm) ff.r7. deferred; when withdrawn for high '2Irrl, managed by the teachers' er-education expenses, the gains pension fund, TIAA-CREF - or are taxed in the child's bracket, you one of the three plans mana~ed by can use the money at any school, in Fidelity (800) 544-1914. any state. WASHINGTON POST WRITERS GROUF Lexington Herald•leaaer unday, Novemoer 1A. 1999 Schools face foreign language quandary Finding enough qualified teachers is main obstacle By Holly E. Stepp would begin with the graduating Buckingham said he hasn't and Linda B. Blackford high school class of 2004. gone as far as soliciting support HERALD-LEADER EDUCATION WRITERS But detractors of the proposal to rescind the new rules, but said The controversy over the say the council didn't allow he hopes the issue could be ad states new foreign language re enough time for schools' input dressed in the forthcoming legisla quirement for Kentucky's college and worry that it will only cause tive session in January. The de bound students boils down to more hiring-headaches in already bate is sure to continue until local lofty ideals versus tough reality. hard-to-fill jobs. district officials think they can While few deny the value of "I am not opposed to raising find teachers for the classrooms. learning a second language, the bar, but I am worried that At Powell County High many Kentucky school districts this will force schools to elimi School, the Spanish teacher posi say they can"! find enough quali nate some important courses in tion has remained empty this fall fied teachers for the students al favor of language courses," said because no one applied ready in language classes. state Rep. Robert "Buddy" Buck ·u you don't start making This summer, the Education· ingham, D-Murray. He said he some long-tenn time planning, Professional Standards Board re could see schools opting not to you're going to be in trouble,• said ported a shortage of 58 foreign staff technical education courses Principal Evelyn Neely. language teachers across the - classes important for students But Taylor Collins, superin state. who don't plan to go to four-year tendent of Jackson Independent "Of course, it's good for stu universities ~ in favor of foreign schools, said the teacher shortage dents to study a foreign lan language. is being overstated. New technolo guage," Sam Watkins, principal "And there is the issue of find gies such as satellite classes and of Lee County High School in ing enough qualified teachers for the new.Virtual High School can Beattyville. "The problem is, you the classroom,• he said help,he~d. ·.. ,. · can't find certified teachers to fill Many school leaders agree. :, :~rt'Stii° is a. w~y IQ do this if the vacant positions we have "If this does come to a man 'we '(,'a!it to do it and our children now." date, we're going to have to hire . d~ it," he said Those issues will be among another teacher, and that could ·( ! ■ the ones addressed at a forum mean we have to impact some Reach Holly E. Stepp at (606) Tuesdav at the University of th_ing else," said Berea Community Kentucky. The forum, set for i 231-3484 or hstepp@herald High School Principal Will Bon- leader.com. Reach Linda B. Black p.m. in the William T. Young Li durant. • brary auditorium, will include ford at (606) 231-1359 or lb/ack But the Kentucky School . [email protected] representatives from UK, the Boards Association thinks that council. legislators and state more and more school districts are school leaders. already moving toward including David Lee Miller, associate for~ign language classes among dean of the UK College of Arts their college-track requirements. and Sciences, said he hopes the · "The majority of districts will forum will be an opportunity to be supportive," said association address some of the misconcep spokesman Brad Hughes. "Their tions and the opposition to the only concern is, will they be able requirement. to give all the college-track stu "There is no question that in dents two years of a foreign lan the long run this is the best thing guage by 2004?" for students," Miller said. "And we will have to figure out a way Oppon~nts, meanwhile, say they hope something can be done to make it work." to change the regulation In March, the Council on f>ostsecondary Education ap prn\'ed the requirement that all l·nlll•gc-bound studt!nts c.:omplt!lt! at least two years of foreign lan .l,'llage study to enter a Kentucky public university. The new rule The Daily Independent. \snland, Kentucky, Monday, f:Jovember 15. 19gg Lexington Herald-leader Sunday, November 14, 1999 State's-top 1.0 challenges for the next 100 years "Where there is no vision, the · ForgJne a new Coitatltutlon people perish.• suitable for a new century: ,tors the only alternatives? Or do - Proverbs 29:18 The Kentucky Constitution is a ,~nomic programs centered on creature of the last decade of the -Ideas of sustainable development By Ernest J. Yanarella · )9th century - one deeply and natural capitalism provide a oday, 44 young people from influenced by the populist bold new vision for achieving across Kentucky will gather spirit of the times. If the real local and regional economic Tat Pleasant Hill for the 22nd 1987 state Supreme development that honors nature's annual Shakertown Roundtable. Court decision on services and limits? Can and For the next three days, they will the state incentive ~ho1,1ld _Kentucky take the lead in ponder the most pressing issues package to Toy 1nsntuting processes of sustain facing the state in the new centu ---ota brought the able economic development to ry. ..,..r.-l'li Kentucky Consti- leapfrog over the many states it Here some personal observa . tution into the 20th centu- trails and position itself on the tions and professional reflections ry, how will that constitutional :utting edge of economic paths to on the kind of issues that should framework be restructured to 1ffluence and plenty in the 21st fuel an.open and vigorous debate usher it into the third millenni, :entury? among emergent leaders about a ~m? How will this new Constitu Nurturing a system or hlgh vision for the state in the new tion reflect the changing relations ·r education targeted on ex millennium. of business and labor, govern ellence and quality: The long This exercise is animated by ·ment and commerce, academia anding framework of higher ed- the beiief that sculpting a post and society? u_canon has fostered inter-univer. millennial vision for Kentucky Negotiating the promise s1_ty competition, regional con wil)' provide the opportunity for and perll• of state and flicts _and turf battles. These will "back-casting": working back localjreglonal economic de only mtens1- ·i'~ . from a vision of the future to the velopment: Controversy contin fy with ·,1 Lexington Herald•Leader But UK basketball player J.P. Blevins was suspended for a Alcohol game and referred to alcohol counseling after a public intoxi cation charge last December. policy for Under the rules, athletes con victed of DUI are suspended in definitely and ·Iose their schol athletes arships. Public intoxication or underage drinking result in probation and at least one alco attacked hol-counseling session. Athletes also attend manda- tory ~lcohol-awareness wo_rk UK approach shops once a setnester and must sub• mit to random drug and alcohol tests. isn't preventive, Those components are intended to work together to prevent alcohol professor says abuse, Newton said. Newton said that athletes who en Associated Press gage in "irresponsible behavior" linked to drinking are subject to dis LEXINGTON, Ky. - A cipline and counseling. much-publicized alcohol policy Some players agree. targeting University of Ken tucky athletes, prompted by a "There's a lot more caution now," fatal car wreck a year ago, is said Josh Paxton., 21, a junior on the misguided and ineffective, a UK basketball squad. professor says. But Jim Haney, a former Lexington Richard Clayton, head of the bar owner, disagrees. . university's Center for Preven tion Research, said the new "I don't think C.M. Newton has ac rules don't really get at the complished anything, except for problem of athletes and drink maybe with the press," Haney said. ing. "But if he got in the car with me I "Prevention? No, absolutely could take him to find all kinds of not:" Clayton said. "They're athletes drinking hard." waiting for athletes to get in trouble." Haney's Tavern was closed after the Nov. 6, 1998, death of an under- Clayton said UK Athletic Di rector C.M. Newton never con age UK student struck by a train. sulted experts to devise an ef Haney was convicted of two misde fective plan to curb alcohol meanor counts of providing alcohol abuse by athletes. to minors and one count of operating Newton unveiled the plan I just nine days after a Nov. 15, after hours. 1998, crash that killed UK foot Watts and other football players ball player Artie Steinmetz and had been drinking at Haney's the Eastern Kentucky University ni~ht before their 1998 crash. student Christopher Brock. Jason Watts, a UK lineman who was driving the car, plead-. cd guilty to two counts of reck less homicide but was released on shock probation after serv ing four months of a IO-year sentence. Newton said four athletes have received sanctions under the rules, aimed at punishing athletes charged with alcohol related crimes. He would not identify them. Lexington Herara-Leader '-11ndav. November 14. 1qqq UK athletesf.:alcohol rules under. scrutiny A year aiter a fatal car wreck After surveying more than Today, Haney's tavern is whether to continue counseling. involving two football players 151,000 students at 125 colleges closed. He was convicted on two said Marv Bolin-Reece, the cen· prompted a much publicized alco- land universities, researchers misdemeanor counts of providing ter's director. There is no such hol policy targeting athletes, a found that on average, college alcohol to minors and one count oi thing as mandatory counseling k: University of Kentucky professor athletes drink 52 percent more operating after hours. He-was also alcohol-related issues at the cen says the measure is far from what 'alcohol a week than non-ath- found not guilty on five other mis- ter, she said. it should be. letes. demeanor counts. A student's decision is confi- Richard Clayton, head of the I In his 10 years as the com- The charges stemmed from dent1al . nd will not be released to universitv's Center for Prevention 'missioner of the Southeastern the Nov. 6 death of an underage any outside agency, including the Research: said the new rules don't Conference, Roy Cramer said, the UK student who had been at the athletic department. Bolin-Reece really get at the problem of ath- only difference he's noticed in al- bar before getting hit by a train. said. letes and drinking. cohol consumption between ath- Several football players were Freshman athletes also attend "Prevention? No, absolutely letes and other students is pub- drinking at Haney's that same an orientation class, UK!0l. just not," Clayton said. "They':e licity. . night, according to police. like the rest of the student body, waiting for athletes to get m "I'm quite sure you can have "Before the (Watts) crash we Newton said. That class has one trouble." three students get pulled over would go out to nightclubs," said -10-minute session on alcohol But C.M. Newton, UK's athlet-1 ics director, said from what he has for DUI in Lexington tonight Carlos Drada, 24, a senior on the awareness, said David Stockham. seen. the policy is working. and then have three athletes university's tennis team. "But UK dean of students. Newton implemented the newi picked up for the same thing now we try to keep it behind Other. than those two mea and I guarantee you the athletes closed doors so we don't get in sures. athletes attend mandatory rules nine days after the Novem• will make the headlines," trouble." alcohol awareness workshops ber 15. 1998. crash that killed lIB Kramer said. Drada's comments came be- about once a semester, submit to football player Artie Steinmet2 That's just the point, said fore Newton barred all UK ath and Eastern Kentucky Universit} Philip Meilman, one of the Cornell letes and coaches from speaking random drug and alcohol testini student Christopher Brock. study's authors: The publicity and publicly about the crash and the and are monitored by coachin, pressure of playing before thou- alcohol policy last week. staffs, Newton said. Jason Watts, the driver of !he\ sands of fans in the stadium, and Those components are intend vehicle, was a center for the Wild sometimes millions watching on Expert opinion , ed to work together to prevent al cats' football team. Legally intoxi TV, add up _for athletes, and often ' Clayton, the UK professor who: coho! abuse, he said. cated at the time, Watts later "In the past we had guys wh, so do the drinks. ' has done numerous studies on al-1 pleaded guilty to two counts of Newton said he doesn't think coho! prevention, said it's hard to would go out and get ripped al reckless homicide. He was re the Cornell study means much at compare UK's rules to those of the time," said Marvin Major, , leased on shock probation after , defensive tackle who graduated i1 UK. , other universities. Too little re serving four months of a 10-year : "Are our student-athletes more search has been done on the mat-I May. "Since that crash, I gues, sentence. t at. risk? I' don't _know," Newton ter, he said. what you think about is, you hav, · In the year since the crash, I said. "~ut I q~esllon whether that One thing is clear: In institut to be responsible for everythini Newton said, about four athletes stud,r 1s applicable to• our cam- ing UK's policy, Newton didn't you do because you're not to, have "tested" the rules, which are young to die." aimed largely at punishing ath pus. consult experts or research. Clay- letes charged with alcohol-related 'Behlnd closed doors' ton said that othe: than a "dog crimes. and pony show with the sports Newton would not specify the Jim Haney, owner of Haney:• writers" shortly after the Watts athletes' identities, the nature of Tavern on Leestown Road, satd wreck, he has never spoken with he has learned the hard way that Newton. their infractions or how they were· UK athletes need a :elease valve Another campus expert, Carl punished. The only case that has been and they often find 11 ·m the form Leukefeld, director of the universi made public involved UK basket of alcohol. Watts and other foot- ty's Center on Drug and -Alcohol ball players had_ been drinking at Research, has yet to meet Newton, ball player J.P. Blevins, who was Haney's the mght before last who said he avoided "expert suspended for a game and re ferred to alcohol counseling after year's crash. types" in .;eating and enforcing his arrest and subsequent convic "I don't think C.M. Newton . the alcohol rules tion last December on a public in has accomplished anything, ex- I That lack ·of consultation toxication charge. cept for maybe with the press," ' Clayton said led to a faulty sys: Before the new rules, it was Haney said. "But if he got in the tern. UK's ~thletes need more pretty much left up to coach~ to car with me I could take him to monitoring and assessment for discipline players, Newton said. , find ~II kinds of athletes drinking: alcohol-related problems, he Now, a DUI conviction results hard. said. in indefinite suspension and revo As he spoke, Haney spread It is disturbing, Clayton said, cation of an athlete's scholarshipJ out a handful of photographs that the UK athletic department Public intoxication or underag~ from the fall of 1998. invests in academic counselors drinking result in probation and In one snapshot, a red-faced who work with athletes - and enrollment in an alcohol-counsel Watts and a teammate are singing keep them eligible to play - but ing program. , karaoke with beers in hand. Jim doesn't expend nearly as much ef In the year since, some U~ my Haley, a defensive lineman, is fort trying to detect drug or alco athletes say their attitudes have sitting on a sofa in another, hold hol problems. changed. ing a beer and surrounded by four The professor suggested that "It made people more aware of women. teams develop "lifestyle advisers" who would counsel athletes about where they are and who they're Matt Mumme, UK Coach Hal with," said Josh Paxton, 21. a ju drinking and their emotional wen: Mumme's son and backup quar being. nior on the UK baseball team. terback last year, is pictured rais "There's a lot more caution now."I ing a beer in the air along with Newton said that athletes who fellow football player Kris Com- are not charged with crimes. but Sobering statistics engage in "irresponsible behav- A series of studies done at stock. ior" linked to drinking, are not Cornell University last year "I don't regret spending time just subject to a range of discipli showed that university athletes at Haney's with my teammates," 'nary actions, but can also be re are more at risk than other stu said Comstock, who played on !erred to the school's counseling dents for binge drinking. last year's team. "But I regret that center. we weren't as responsible as we However, after an initial eval• should have been." uation at the counseling center, it is up to the student to decide I , I Lexm~ton Herahl-leader Sunday, November 14. 1999 Board gtjt chai,rtnan governor, wanted, not one UK needed John Ed Pearce HERALD-LEAD~ COLUMNIST None of this is intended to Secure in of- At this spring's election of a denigrate Miles' accomplishments fice for another chairman to succeed former Gov. in private business. · four years, Gov.· Edward T. "Ned" Breathitt, there Yet the failure to select Chell Paul Patton has I were two candidates: Billy Joe gren ~e at an inopportWle time. a unique oppor- , Miles, an Owensboro business UK is instituting a search for a tunity to shape man, and Paul Chellgren, 9ead of successor to Wethington, and the legacy, and , Ashland Inc. Chellgren was the• Chellgren's academic and business the image, of . . h 1 himself as a man and as chief ex- obvious_chmce; butt _e gov~mor backgroW1d made him ideally ecutive. threw his weight behmd: Mt!es. suited ·10 meet, study and influ To leave the best possible im- Unfortunately, Chellgren 1s ence the prominent educators and pression on history, he will do . known to have supported UK administrators from which the well to avoid mistakes of the kmd President Charles Wethington in board hopes to select. he has made recently. his opposition to Patt~n} move to Patton indisputably scored a The first incident - a trivial strip UK of its superv1s10n of the political victory in this case, but at matter except as to its effect on state's commWlity colleges - a the expense of l.J!<· his image_ concerns his han- political maneuver designed to dling of Derby tickets. . , please the regional universities It appears that he was given that had long wanted to see the 553 tickets to the Kentucky Derbyl commW1ity colleges removed from by the management of Churchill UK oversight. · I Downs for the apparent purpose_ : A number of trustees, owed of currying political favor for the , · their appointments to the gover 13women track and its premier attraction. . nor. Others were invol~ in busi- lt is surely proper to admit the! nesses dependent to Vlll10US de- governor and his immediate party grees on state approvall or sup- to the Derby without charge. But port. These provided enough it is crass lobbying to award him votes to elect Miles. I ·.·~basketball . . -~,:~·,:,~· such a number of free passes. It is only proper to examine And it seems highly W1ethical the qualifications of the two men. to dispense these tickets to politi: Miles graduated from Western cal favorites or for political advan- Kentucky University and entered tage. his family's substantial agribusi- players lt is simply W1becoming for ness. Before his appointment to "'·. ·• . the governor of the state to func- the board, he had- shown no mate- lion as a Ticketron. Neither rial amcerit for the naiure or aper- should he put himself into the po- ation of the university.i His only sition aiding scalpers. This seems public contribution w, of $1,500. to have been the result in at least Chellgren, on the other hand, .suspended one case where the recipient of has had a brilliant career, includ- tickets sold at least one at scalper ...... ing service and • prices to a perscn who allegedly contribution to tried to scalp it again and was ar- the university. KSU reacts to alleged rested for his efforts. . He received his The governor must ask him- bachelor's de- theft of sporting goods self whether he wants to be in- gree from UK, valved in such shenanigans. Simi- earned an MBA By Jack Brammer and Mark Story larly, the management of Churchill at Harvard and HERALDlEADER STAff WRITERS Downs must decide whether it received a doc- FRANKFORi - Thirteen members of Ken wants to make such an open show torate from Ox- tucky State University's women's basketball team of lobbying the govetl!or. The_ Chellgren ford University. have been suspended indefinitely amid an investi Downs is, of course, hip-deep m He is a di- gation into the alleged theft of thousands of dollars politics, but it need not flaWlt the rector or trustee of PNC Bank of merchandise from a Frankfort sporting goods fact. , Corp., Medtronic Inc., the Ameri- store. The second incident, involving can Petroleum Institute, and is a No charges had been filed against any of the the selection of the chairman of member of the Business RoWld- players, but a corporate official for Hibbett Sports the University of Kentucky Board table. He is also a trustee of Cen- . said yesterday they probably will be. of Trustees, provides a more seri- tre College, the UK Fellows, the "This is a serious situation that occurred over ous questioning of the governor's Marshall University Foundation, 90 days," said Scott Myers, director of l?S5 preven judgment. the Cincinnati Museum of Art and tion at Hibben's corporate headquarters m Bmmng Although Patton is no longer the Taft Museum. ham, Ala. "We feel at this time that we owe it to an ex-officio member of the board, As chairman and CEO of Ash- our employees and customers to take whatever ac it is inevitable - and proper '- land, he follows a long tradition of tion is necessary to stop' this from happening that the governor should be con- Ashland officials' service tci UK, again." cemed with its operation. But his beginning with Ashland foW1der KSU Athletics Director Derrick Ramsey said the perscnal political intervention Paul Blazer. UK has been a sub- store, which is in the Franklin Square Shopping (whether direct or indirect) in the stantial beneficiary of Chellgren's choice of a board chairman ex- generosity. He has served on the C1'l?f i YI/le :, ceeds his rightful interest in the UK Alumni Association and De- school and has posed the possibili- velopment CoW1cil. Last summer, ty of substantial injury to the uni- Ashland made a gift of $2.5 mil- versity. -lion to be divided among state supported universities, with $1 million going to UK. ' .\Ivers said some merchandise Lent er in west Frankiort, reported has been recovered. to KSU the theft oi about $12.000 Meanwhile, the universitv will \Vorth nt merchandise. trv to fulfill its women's basket Ramsev said he learned of the ball schedule. Ramsey said. allegations on Monday and SUS· µended the 13 on Tuesday. "We will have a team for our D players "It appears to be really bad opener," he said. judgment on their part." he said. ·The team. which had 16 mem Jacqueline Bingham, KSU's as bers, is scheduled to play Friday :-ociare vice president for public in the West Florida Tournament suspended relalions. :-:aid store officials sav in Pensacola. Fla. nine ui the piayers are accused Of "We are in the process oi re t heit and four others are accused cruiting players," Ramsey said. fromKSU 1 •i receiving stolen items. · "Any KSU person with basketball The im·estigation is focusing skills should come out for the nn an unidentified female student team. We will have enough to at KSU who. while working at Hi start play. l don't know about basketball bbert Sports. allowed members of ~ubstitutions.'' the basketball team to allegedly Thorobrettes coach Carol take items from the store, Ramsey Washington-Clark said, "We will · Women accused said. - play. We will have a team. We do The store employee is not a have a team. We will be on the of taking $12,000 member oi the basketball team, he court on Nov. 19 representing this :--aid. university." in sporting goods Ramsev. a former University She referred all other ques oi Kentuckv and National Fooi- Associated Press ilall Lea.gue tions to Ramsey. player who David Schnase, a director of FRANKFORT, Ky. - Ken took the KSU membership services for the tucky State University has sus post in July, NCAA, said neither the players pended 13 members of the "We are women's basketball team amid said he hopes committed nor the university would face any sanction from the NCAA as a re allegations that about $12,000 10 keep the 13 t-Ohauing in merchandise was taken from --tudt•nts in sult of the incident. a sporting goods store. :-.chool. But a clean "There are no NCAA rules Athletics director Derrick the,· will lose program that govern that," Schnase said. Ramsey said he ordered the any basketball here. I "Our membership has decided suspensions after learning of scholarships if the allegations Monday even have met that local authorities of a state are in~. the allegations •wi~haU better situated to deal with in 'If any players are involved, prove true, he theyoong stances of law-breaking." they will lose their scholar said. He de \ Schnase said NCAA rules do ships," he said Thursday. Ram clined to identi ladies. The allow schools to revoke athletic sey said yesterday he would fy any of them. team's · like to keep the students en scholarships from students who rolled, but said he understood "We are GPAis3.0 are found guilty of violation of a if some transfer. committed to (oot ofa school's student code by discipli No charges have been filed having a clean nary committees. against the 13, and Ramsey said program here," poswle he hoped to avoid criminal alle he said. "l have 4.0). This The Thorobrettes were 18-9 gations. met with all the inciden~ last season and had all five "It was a bad judgment on young ladies. starters returning. 'Last year's these kids' part, and I think the I'm qfraid, team won the West Region of penalty is harsh enough," Ram The team's · Ii;' embar sey said yesterday. GPA is 3.0 (out the Southern Intercollegiate Ath rassing for letic Conference and was a run But Scott Myers, director of of a possible loss prevention for Hibbert .\.0). This inci a lot of ner-up for the conference cham Sports, said charges will prob dent, I'm pionship. ably be filed once the case is J'f.1~;-~ . sorted out. Some merchandise afraid. is em Derilck Reaction concerning the sus barrassing for pensions was mixed yesterday on has been recovered, he said. ·11emsay KSU's campus. Myers said the loss amount a lot of people." ~·xsu ·· · ed to slightly more than $12,000 The school · 'athletics "! think it's unfair for them and was discovered during rou and the store : director not to be able to play. They tine investigations. The losses are handling could have done community ser· occured over a three-month pe the investiga- vice instead," said student Nicole riod and Myers said an employ ee was involved. tion. Ramsev Gillespie. a sophomore from De Nine of the players were ac said. Frankfort police said they troit. cused of theft, and the others have no role in the case at this Lakysha Jones, a sophomore were suspended for receiving time and that no criminal cHarges from St. Louis, said the suspen stolen items. Kentucky State have been filed. Universicy spokeswoman Jac sion was "the fair thing to do if queline Bmgham said. they did it. There should be a ---- punishment for ste~ling." Bingham said a student working at Hibbett Sports allowed players "to pilfer items from the store over an eight-week period." The student, whose name was not released, was a friend of the team members. Store personnel contacted women ·s basketball coach Carol Washington Clark about the alleged crime. and she informed Ramsev. The ThorobrctteS returned five starters from an 18-9 team that won the West Region of the Southern In tercollegiate Athletic Conference and was a runner-up for the conference championship. Ramsey said the university will field a team and will recruit from among the students on campus. "We've got to go on with the sea son,'' he said. "This can't drag on.'' The team is scheduled to begin its season Nov. 19 at the West Florida Tournament in Pens.icola. . . .. ' L~xington Herald-Leader Tuesday: November 16. 1999 Standard~ -upheld , I KSU officials handling theft allegations properly ! llegations that 13 members - allowed nine players to get of the Kentucky State Uni about $12,000 worth of free goods. A versity women's basketoail Four other players allegedly re team stole from a Frankfort sport ceived some of the stolen goods. ing goods store are an embarrass If true, these actions appear ment for a school that has shown rooted in the recklessness and sense some determination to progress. of entitlement that often get college And it's an unfortunate stain on athletes in trouble. the Thorobrettes, a championship Just as troubling has been some team with strong acade- , , reaction to the incident. mic achievement In news reports, several But university offi Athletic directvr KSU students said the Derrick Raweg cials should be applauded ;;., __.,.,,i ••• players should not have for their handling of the . i=.~-:::.~~.':c) been suspended because situation so far. Athletic . Pw.a J"'·'~!.; . ~~ the alleged -theft occurred director Derrick Ramsey 16-rnemJJer:team '·, off-campus. When did - after discussing the al t· despite iin · -·· : ; honesty and integrity be- legations with the players upcoming game · · come·something that - suspended them from .I in Florida. turns off and on, depend the 16-member team even I ing on what street you're though it is scheduled to standing on? play a game in Florida later this Whatever happens with this in week. It was a strong statement of cident, we hope the players will get university standards. 1 a chance to remain in school. They No criminal charges have been should not forfeit their education. filed against the players, although · But KSU also could not forfeit officials at Hibbert Sporting Goods its responsibility to set standards say that's likely. Based on news re- for student-athletes, who are often ports, store officials suspect that an the most visible representatives of employee - over a 90-day peri¢ the school and the state. M~U Clip A sample of recent articles of interest to Morehead State University Nov .19. 1 999 UNIVERSITY COMMUNICATIONS MOREHEAD STATE UNIV ERSITY UPO BOX 1100 MOREHEAD. KY 40351-1689 (6061 783-2030 Lexington Herald-Leader Monday, November 15. 1999 LexingtonSingers'prograin captures American experienc~ By Carmen Geraci the landscape. CONTR1BUTING WRITtR Conductor Jefferson Johnson joined Yesterday; in concert at Immanuel the chorus as a singer, while Lori Hetzel, Baptist Church, The Lexington Singers assistant director, led the group in an set themselves a formidable goal: delin a cappella arrangement of Shenandoah. eating the seemingly contradictory Amer filled with pure unison singing, moving ican character in song. hannonies. and haunting echo effects. The debt to England was acknowl If words have the power to conjure, edged in Lloyd Pfautsch's setting of An then Joseph Baber's An American Re JOSEPH REY AU drew Marvell's Musicks Empire. Indeed, quiem surely brought forth spirits of the composer Joseph Baber, right, and Marvell's description of music as "the past. The intertwining texts from Civil conductor Jefferson Johnson a_t Nov. Mosaic of the Air" could be the credo of War documents created a kaleidoscope of 1 rehearsal of American Reqwem the concert. _ triumph and anguish. As a composer, Daniel Pinkham's Sinfonia Saca, a ' Baber proved he is at the height of his quence and halting sorro~. and a section setting of Latin texts to brass accompani powers. assured of his effects. recalling a Handel oratorio gave Fr~er ment, offered a surprising look at the The opening notes reflected the fusion ick Douglass's words biblical auth_o:JtY similarities between the sound of plain: of opposites in the piece. The recurring before moving into a masterful _sp~rual- chant and the open hannonies and synco two-note motif from the timpani recaJled With Baber. Flippen and Snll m atten pation in American music. both a heartbeat and cannon fire - the dance, yesterday's concen of prei:nieres Musical treatment of the Wolfpen po sounds and silences of life and death_ both made and commemorated history. ems by fonner Kentucky poet laureate . The section titled Battle Lines ironi James Still might seem unnecessary, but cally blurred these lines, as words from Lexington Hef'l60-l.eader not when set by as sympathetic a com- · North and South combined until it'mat Thursday, NoYember 18, 1999 poser as Jay Flippen, who captured the tered little which side was speaking. spirit of these odes to Appalachia. Her The Voices movement included chant Correction itage is a hymn to the area that Still (and ed accounts bv nurses and soldiers, con Flippen) Mshall not leave" because they secrating the~ words in this requiem. Jay Flippin's name was mis "cannot leave," having become one with The beautiful Raven Days combined elo- spelled in a review of a Lexington Singers concert on Page A2 of Lexington Herald-leader Monday's Herald-Leader. · Thur.sd,ay .. ~qyember 18, 1999 PQ]itical sQ_uabble scraps educational • Clint computers networked tor distance learning and a youth center where ~~~perative center m Olliadult students could drop off their effort to build an education cent.er get a call-saying they had unspecified spot on Ky. ~ . a thor- children. touted as the keystone of Clinton done some studies and oughfare that runs east to west In addition to condemning tht County's anti-poverty effort has they're going to move it." through the county and on land and acquiring a $644,000 fed fallen apart amid a clash of politi- Discussions about the through the heart of Williams' era! grant for the prqject, Clintor cal personalities. joint project have been Senate district, which hugs the County sent a $1.3 million ched Contrary to the wish- going on for more than Tennessee line. The highway from its Empowennent Zone func es of just about every two years, and as much crosses Cumberland County to the to KCTCS in April. King. who ii elected official in the as $8 million in state and counry west - Williams· home county. chairwoman of the EZ board. saic county, the Kentucky funds have been set aside to build Crit Luallen, cabinet secretary the counry can't afford to builc Community and Techni- the KCTCS portion of the project for Gov. Paul Patton. confinned , the library without that money cal College System is Two years ago, the county felt that the deal is off. She couldn't say whether th1 backing out of a joint confident enough about the joint McCall said in a_ statement 1I county would ask KCTCS for a re venture that was to com- venture to spend $233,000 on that KCTCS wants a site on a ma- fund. The decision is up to the E:i bine stat~financed cl~- property for it. The county jor traffic artery, so the faci lity board, she said. rooms with a county It- bought 53 acres on U.S. 127 at the brary and youth center. The move could train and educate employees was encouraged by state Sen. northern edge of Albany. for companies throughout the re- Unity and conflict David L. Williams, who will be- The KCTCS decision to look gion. In a rare show of solidaritv. l' come senate president next year. for another site comes amid a The plan for a combined cam- officials who represent ClintOl Although the county already long-simmering feud between pus has been touted as a key piece County urged Patton and McCal purchased land for the project, King, a Democrat, and Williams. a of the Empowerment Zone. a fed - to stay the course with the join KCTCS will most likely relocate Republican from Burkesville. In eral program unveiled in 1994 project. Judges. magistrates. coun its facility to an unselected site an interview. Williams. who has that 1s spending millions of do! - house clerks. the sheriff and stat elsewhere in the county. The Ii- ~ad . significa;tt influence over lars 10 combat poverty in Clinton Rep. Jeff Hoover signed a petitio1 brary and youth center will prob- t~_ndmg !or. ~CTCS, :eferred to and two other South-central Ken- circulated by King that supportf1 ably remain at the original site. if ~mg as. evil and said she was rucky counties. Poor education keeping the project at the alread} enough money remains to build filled with hate and venom." has long made it difficult to at- purchased site, which is about them. King attended a meeting earl\' tract better-paying jobs to Clinton Ifi . ve-minute dn·ve south of Ky. 90 MWe've got a bunch of upset this month with Michael B. Mc County, whe~e abou_t half the peo- "Everybody I've talked t people in this county," said Clin- Call. the president of KCTCS, and pie never firushed high school. thought it was a pretty good looi ton County Judge-Executive Char- learned that KCTCS would "defi The idea was to combine vo- tion." said Clinton County Magi~ lene King. "We're moving along nitely'' move its portion of the pro- cational and technical classrooms trate Allen Glidt-1\'t:ll. "I think u 1 just like we thought ject off the county's site. she said. run bv the state with a county just as szood a spot as vou coul1 everything was hunk y KCTCS officials told her the,· "Leaming Center." The center was find in Chn10n 1...ount\' ... · dory," she said. Then "I wanted to move the rncilit~• to an to contain a library ~t~k~d with (MO RE) ' ., Circuit Judge Eddie Lovelace I Among the 25 names were I noted that the county is often po- · those of Patton and several of his appointees. The sign even thanks litically fragmented and that it's s1mp· 1y wantI ed 1t· to serve a re- the United States and the people rare for everyone to agree on gional, multi-county population of Kentucky, ,and it doesn't forget something. "This happens to be and that Ky. 90 was a more visi King. one of the times that they're more ble location. united than I've ever seen them," "There's a big sign out there; he said. Willia/us also said that he was she thanks everybody for their bothered iby King. He repeated help," Williams said. "Do you Williams refused to sign the several times during an interview think David Williams' name is on petition, because, he said, the orig that King persisted in calling the it anywhere?" inal location is too far off the beat entire project the "Learning Cen en path. He described an en . ter," which was the name 'adopted It is not. counter with the magistrate and early on by the county, before King said she wasn't responsi the sheriff from Clinton County KCTCS got involved. KCTCS calls ble for the sign and declined to who approached him last month its portion of the project the say who was. She admitted that f~r his signature. "South Central Regional Postsec the petition had been "a last-ditch .' "They asked me if I'd sign this ondary Education Center." effort" to change Williams' mind petition ... and I said, 'Not only Williams said King had been run about the joint venture, and she 1.lll I not sign that, l l!ffi support ning out ahead of KCTCS, making said it was too bad they couldn't rire of the move.' And they said, decisions ' that weren't hers to cooperate to build a better project. (Are you responsible?' And I said, make andl trying to dominate the Williams said there was nci 'I hope I had some responsibility planning ~rocess. way they could work together. for it' n ''She refused to include any "To make it what it's sup r Williams said he didn't see a body from any of the surrounding posed to be and what it can be," problem with splitting the county counties," he said. he said, "it has to be pulled away /building from the college struc Willilims also said King had from her. ture. He said the joint-venture idea been taking all the credit for the "It has to be freed away from had been "an obscure concept project. He referred to a red, white politics." from the very beginning" and that and blue sign that stands at the the county had nothing to worry edge of the property. It offers ■ about since he was committed to thanks to' those who put in the Reach Ty Tagami at (606) keeping the KCTCS facility in time and effort to make the learn- 678-4655 or at ttagami@herald Clinton County. He said ~t he ing center·a reality. ,, leader,£()ffl . THE MOREHEAD NEWS ! NOV. 16, 1999 cooperative agreement •And we are an educational between Rowan County, th·e institute, we want to show tbe city of Morehead and MSU. community that we are for it,•· The agreement states that Eaglin added. the city, county and MSU will The committee voted to contribute an equal amount enter into' the agreement with up to $23,000 to the Caudill voting no. Morehead-Rowan Couilty MSU :community.Recycling During the regular board meeting immediately following Board! 1 the committee meeting,. board . The board° will oversee the :new .community recycling members, including Caudill, center' that is going to be build voted unanimously to enter on Triplett Street across from into the agreemenL the city park.· . . . Th~ city and the county have already approved the agreemenL Caudill also inquired whether the $23,000 annual payment is fixed or whether it can be raised. "I can't say it's going, to be fixed," said Daily. He also pointed out that the wii;ersity , doesn't have a legal obligation to support this, but that they were asked to help build the recycling center, · "We are the largest institution in this community, We should show society that this is important," said MSU President Ronald Eaglin, . ,. THE MOREHEAD:NEWS :\'OV. 16. 1999 I H~-us1ng.-1un1 ■ I •t s. ill be razed: at 'MSU:. c mplex I month. A total of 10 halls, and Porter Dailey, vice By CHRIS TURNER five duplexes are located in president for Administrative Staff Writer the Lakewood Terrace and Fiscal Services, told the complex.; •·· board that privatizing the Three vacent family housing units in The ctirrent low rental rate project was considered, but the Lakewood Terrace Family Housinf is largely due to their most companies didn't express .. Complex will be razed. 'condition. interest because of the low . The decision to demolition the units, · It was reported to the board number of units to be . which are located just below Eagle that the current occupied constructed. . Lake on Morehead State University's units are safe, as various It was also determined that campus, was made at the quarterly safety fmprovements and constructing new buildings in · m':91.inc of.J,ISU's Board of Regents on repairs have been provided phases was more cost effective Friday. ·~ ,: . over the-'years to address life that renovating the existing The vacant units .scheduled for safety and compliance issues. ones. razinir.inclbde Shader Hall, Vansant ::;•, However-;. it was also Currently, 71 families and Hall and ltoyalty Hall. Demolition is :·reported· that the majority of six· single, non-traditional· or scheduled ~ begin early next year. · . the .units, are .not of quality graduate students live in the The· bol!ld is considering replacing :yental'.,.stinidards; as the Lakewood Terrace. Complex. the.ra~edJf!its with a new $4 million '.-general· condition of the units . reflects.39 years of use and After construction of the housin~ ~I!.!!~}~ that would :·service.,,.:, :J1-;-"I;· new housing complex is prcivil!ii°'l"pPtdifmately 60 one ··•: Construction on the new complete, the remaining units . and two-bedroom u,nits: ' '·- .. · in the compleic will be complex could start as earl)· evaluated,' as will demand· for -~----:··~ · · •,;'•11nm··~-l~tl r-r .... -~· ' : as October of 2000. " ...... housing, to determine if that ren . ates WQII.Mi need The project will be funded additional units need to be to averBCft. approximately ·by an agency_bond through a constructed. $500 per month. l · · · biennial · capital budget Current rental mtee ·ai me. request ' to the state other fUDctionini · housini legislature. units in the complex are between $215 and $35~•,, · THE '\IIOREHEAD NEWS NOV. 16, 1999 ' I a1e. ·,She would play scho~I extent of adult illiteracy in Cora Wilson Stewart:· constantly with her friends· Row..~ounty._ and '\"BB always the teacher. Slii'" • 'faunched an ~:.q.rusader for.literacy She required· her imapnary experimental adult.educetion ·. . .,, students to address her as program to combat illiteracy. :,By STEPHANIE DAVIS·... · -•· ,. · '·. Miss Cora. 'i, The name Moonlight Schools JJ;ianaging Ed Hor •· ,· '· ·· ' : She trained for· a career· in was given to· that movement education at the Morehead because classes were ·, ''c'ora Wilson Stewart · ·· · ,.. , Normal School and beiran a scheduled · at· night. The teaching· career at the age of was a tru~ p_icineer in_ majority of illiterates were the education of Rowan· · m1·uenm·•·. . \:'· : 16 at Little Brushy. After employed.during the day. graduation from the National County .children and · Alao, it permitted better adults · in the early 1c.o·N ·. Normal University \, in night vision and security in 1900il.' · .• Lebanon, Ohio, she retunied traveling over hills and She·. was the: first to Rowan County and taught hollows· to those isolated at Seas Branch, Elliottvlne woman elected Super- Cora Wit.on St.wan and Carey. . -, 1ii schools. · intendant of Schools in 18'15-18118 The first year, with Kentucky and was the Her great abilities aiid L------" tremendous dedicatilln teachers expecting 150 first woman elected pruident of the Kentucky . brought rapid professional students, 1,200 arrived. The Educational Asaociation. :i advancement. . second year was even more Cora Wilson, later Cora In 1901 she was elected successful with over 1,500 Wilson Stewart, was born Jan. county school superintendent. enrolled. 17, 1875 on a farm in rural She was re-elected in 1909 The Moonlight· School Rowan County, located about and two years later became became a model for adult five miles up the Licking the first woman president of education throughout the River from Crossroad (later the Kentucky Educational world and Stewart achieved called Farmers). Association. national and international She woa the oldest of seven She was also Chairman of prominence. children born to Jeremiah and state, national, and In-1923, she was elected to Anne Halley Wilson .. Both her international Commissions on the executive committee of the parents were teachers. Her Education. She frequently National Education father also practiced medi~e. Association and six years later testified on education President Herbert Hoover She began her education at committees at Frankfort and Farmers in a one-room school · chose her to chair the Washington. She also advised Executive Committee of the that was in session only three other: nations, including months a year, accordiq ,to National Advisory Committee Russia, England and France, on Illiteracy. Dr. Jack Ellis, a )fwfl:I_ according to Ellis. ' historian who. -~l~.. Stewart retired to North frequently .on the •histo.~,r · National awards included Carolina in 1936 and spent Rowan County. • --'.]!,.,,,, the Pictorial Review Award, her remaining years in Her school was a one•room Ella Flagg Young Medal, and relative obscurity. She died Jog cebin with dirt floors and· the Clara Barton Medal. All Dec. 1, 1958 at Tyron, N.C. cut-out' windows without were presented to her for her pioneering work in education. glass. ·· .. · :<-/-:· Stewart decided she wanted Early in her second term as to be a teacher at a very early · superintendent, Stewart was made acutely aware of the Mw~s /1/JSU Clip Sheet A sample of recent articles 'of interest to Morehead State University Nov .23. 1999 UNIVERSITY COMMUNICATIONS MOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY UPO BOX 1100 MOREHEAD, KY 40351-1689 16061 783-2030 Lexington He'rald-Leader Monday, November 22. 1999 ' ,-,.,· -.~'.!•,..., r···'\ ~=!L. r \Y'••:::»tl:fZWf/4':\S:.~ ·. ;.. t•.:.~.f'.M'tcl.::c: / ib F:f9i'-.,\ ' ffl,fil...ll~ • Prospective students ask about dorms, life ·on UK campus By Jennifer Caldwell notebook of stuff to ask," said Estes. hour and 15 minutes, take the CONTRIBUTING WHITER Estes is one of the 13 students groups past the administrative and Campus tour guides are used to employed by UK to lead visitors classroom buildings, but not being asked lots of questions. around the campus and answer all through the dorms. · l/niversity ·of Keniucky tour' of their many questions. · "We walk past almost every ma- guide Melissa Estes can almost pre- Campus tours, which are given jar academic building on campus with diet some of them. Monday thru Friday at 10 a.m and 2 the exception of agriculture and all · , "l')!e · parents of boys are con- p.m and Saturdays at 11 a.m., give the health sciences." said Jamie Kemp, cerne Telephone problems at Murray Kelly Clem, junior from Goshen, is End of EKU's yearbook frustrated with problems dialing off Eastern Kentucky University officials · cussed this option with supervisors, Murray State University's campus and have decided that 1999 will be the last advisers and students on campus. receiving off-campus calls. year of the student yearbook, the President Robert Kustra made the "I think it is ridiculous to have to hit Milestone. · , decision to cut the yearbook. Harrell redial six tin)es to get an outside line, "It's something we've been looking said student interest has decreased. local or long distance," she said. into for some time now," said Ron "The numbers have steadily declined Telecommunications manager Jim Harrell director of public relations and over the last decade," he said. "3,000 DeBoer has received complaints from . marketing and adviser to the publica books were ordered for the '98 year and students who experienced similar situa tion for 10 years. we had well over 1,000 left." tions. He said students have trouble Last year, Harrell recommended elim - JAMIE VINSON, ,THE EASTERN PROGRESS dialing off campus because of more inating the yearbook. He said he dis- technology in residential colleges. . - WKU revises class schedule 'EK~ voting goes onllne Ot\ e_~M. p(J ~ ~ The debate' over next year's class In the 1999 elections, Eastern Kentuc- scheduling ai Western Kentucky Uni . ~Y. Unjv~jty ~ti±dent Association Pre- versity endeq last week when the Class c_~) Schedule Review Committee came to a sident Chris Pace was elected with a final decision! smaller percentage of the student body · -"This is happening, in large part, be The new schedule, beginning in fall vote than this year's homecoming cause of a significant increase in the 2000, will have 50-minute classes begin queen. Elections chairman Thomas Hall number of personal computers brought ning at 8 a.ml on Monday-Wednesday said the Student Association is taking to campus by students Jiving in the resi Friday, with 41asses ending at 2:15 p.m. steps to remedy that problem. dential colleges," DeBoer said. "This has Classes on Tuesday and Thursday will Beginning next semester, Eastern resulted in an increase in demand for be 75 minutes', beginning at 8 a.m. and students will be able to vote for Student access to the Internet." ending at 4:45 p.m Association offices online. The telecommunications staff is The schedule leaves Fridays after "We're going to e-mail everyone two investigating several solutions. The 2:15 p,m. open. The committee said this or three weeks ahead of time and the . staff is considering a direct connection , free time could be used for special con· student would send it back to us. Their to an Internet service provider used by a I vocations, field trips and special meet- e-mail address would vouch for their majority of the on-campus users. The ings, , identity," Hall said. staff also discussed the possibility of The discussion began last year after The elections would run in two phas- using a telecommunications service new mainframe software was inst~lled . es. The online ballots act as absentee provider to gain the ability to direct all in December 1998 which wasn't capable ballots. Once mailed, there would be a ·I-800 traffic over a special circuit. of scheduling flip-Fridays. · deadline for students to vote. The dead - KRISTIN HILL. MURRAY STATE NEWS Several faculty members say that's line would be a few days before the backward. voting booths would be wheeled out. "All we are doing is changing our Students who reply to the e-mail bal schedule and messing up students' and lots would have their names taken from faculty's lives to fit a software pro- a master list of eligible students and . gram," said geography and geology wouldn't be able to vote at the booths . associate professor David Keeling. - DANIEL BRUCE, EASTERN PROGRESS The free Friday afternoon that will be created is appealing to some stu- dents. . "I like being out early on Fridays so we can go home," said Jason Busby, a sophom?f~ from Apopka, Fla ' · - ABBEY BROWN/ THE COLLEGE HEIGHTS-HERALD :I I •• ' II ...- '-.. · By Holiy E. Stepp · , also will help develop interna chores and that the college was HERA!.DIEAD£R EDUCATION WRITER , tional outreach programs. ' "ineffective" in dealing with the . Foriner Prestonsburg Com "We feel (Floyd) can a make a problems of the 2,500-student munity College President De.bo strong contribution:to all of those. -campus. ' ~--- rah L. ,Floyd has begun a new job efforts " Zinser said. , . : ' Floyd had been on sabbatical ' ' ' . ' .. ' at the.University_of Kentucky. . Zinser; said that Floyd will , since July 1. Her retirement took Floyd, who left \he top-spot , earn the same salary she had as effect on Nov. 15. KCTCS paid at the Floyd County school in president of Prestonsburg Com Floyd $150,000 to give up her June, will oversee a variety of • munity College and the position tenure rights and an additional special projects for UK Lexing would continue for at least a $35,000 in "severance pay." ton campus Chancellor Elisabeth year. Since her retirement an Zinser According to 0records ,from nouncement, Floyd said she has "I ~ very excited to return , _the Kentucky Co!IIIIlunity · and participated in a higher education ~ement seminar at Harvard my roots in higher educati~n l Technical College System, which t~ runs PCC, Floyd earned $93,517 a University and did some political - the university level,• said . consulting work. Floyd. i year. I Floyd reports_ to Zinser and , The money for the staff posi- : ■ holds the position of the chancel- , lion, Zinser said, came from the i Reach Holly E. Stepp at (606) lor's, special assistant for special budget of UK President Charles , 231-3484 or hstepp@,Mra/d- projects. She began work on Nov. Wethington. , i 16. , . I Floyd had been PCC's presi Zinser said Floyd would , dent for eight years, and her work on organizing the universi tenure had been marked' by con ty's Commonwealth Bus Tour, an troversy. Just before her retire annual road trip around the state men.t announcement, a state audi for new faculty members. She tor's report claimed Floyd had asked employees to do personal THE COURIER-JOURNAL• TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1999 Computer age ·creeping into ;the mountains of Kentucky HAZARD, ·Ky. - In down-, ···' ■ '!What's the best bed·and , Internettliroughout the region, school graduates, steeped in town Hazard, a group of most- breakfast in the mountains?" there are still concerns that ly guys hang out on a bench in Alonglistof answers followed.: technology provided by a front of the courthouse, a tra- . Cliffview Resort at Natural rural Kentucky cannot use this decade of education reform, are dition for disseminating infor- I Bridge; Inn the Woods ,and new tool as easily and cheaply still more likely to leave the mation in rural communities. To. rrent Falls, both in Campton as urban areas. region to work in the high tech Anything anybody wants to i in Wolfe County; La Casa "I've got a lot more to say industries. know about politics, business Amarilla in the Daniel Boone about how technology is not "KERA graduates are not or romance can be learned by Forest, and The Old School chani:ing mountain communi finding local opportunity to ties,' said Will Herrick, a profit lrom their education," sitting down, relaxing and !is- House in Lee County. Herrick said. tening. ■ "Is Martin Sheen's wife Campton computer expert who Andifthingsgetslowinfront from Eastern Kentucky?" has challenged state agencies Communication in the of the courthouse, across the · to place rural Kentucky on a mountains has improved, but street is Joyce's Hazard Diner, Answer: Janet Martin, actor level playing field with urban not relative to the rest of the wherethecoffeeandtalkflows . Martin Sheen's wife, is from centers. · · · . nation, he said. freely. . Salyersville, Ky. She is the Herrick's analysis of how l'We are. hurting. Pockets of But the computer age 1s mother ofactors Charlie Sheen telecommunications are devel success can be found: expanding communications at and Emilio Estevez. oping in the"State raises ques Appalshop radio is on the Web. the courthouse squareas more Computers also have tions of whether Kentucky is People who have afforded people rely on Web sites and changed the way some people traveling the· same, dead-end Internet connections can now chat rooms. work. · . , . road that led to an underde dialogue with anyone any veloped highway system, slug- where, buy products more Many have Jeff Morgan, a Hazard cheaply and engage in distance movedawar lawyer, said the legal practice . gish rural electrification, poor access to water and solid waste le11rning," Herricl< said. "Are from their has been transformed by the disposal. · tliey keeping up with urban cen small towns mountains' Internet access to ters in this state, or with other .and · rural databases. . ''State telecommunication rates are much higher than our states? Not that I can see." communi- "I think computers have tev surrounding states, especially Rep._ Harold Rogers, R ties but still olutionized the amount of Somerset, has promoted high hunfer "for information you can get in a Tennessee and Ohio," Herrick 11 said,,.:· .. , -i'·;,,t~·111•; ,,, ·.•~-:.·•f', technology as a great equalizer loca news. smalltown, Morgansaid. "I've E-commerce thrives by mak for the mountains: People can JUDY . . · FrJ:SGSthe ff g~~~:s~~ :~s[ ~! the l~rge ing access to the Internet cheap. live 'in Eastern Kentucky more JONES :., I00,000-. th t.' ha searc on ,The cheaper the seryice, the easily as electronics breaks Watt thun- e ne 1s so muc more conve- .more people who are connect down the barriers created by Slall Writer der that rolls nient." · . ed, and the more valuable 'the .. poor .roads.and limited access .. out of the The.•·- impact: Whether ~on is to people who make a to other utilities.• . mountains;now has a Web site research or shopping, Morgan livmg_through technology:·,··. And people like Morgan and that teams tradition with the said, the" information highway I • ·. Computer engineers, techni is·making the concrete·park Mee are anxious to embrace the technoage,creatinganewkind way less important..-Routine cal support. centers, Web-ser · new technology. .. of Appalachian community. vice providers and program . How accessible this technol- ,, ·wsGS's\" message board trip~ · . to. · ~ingt9n:' and ·mers are less likely to locate' h1 ·ogy is to others in the moun offers the following bon mots: Lou1SVJlle are mcrel!Smgly less · ihe · mountains of Kentucky tains, and how well, is an 11 • necessary to do busmess.•:· because telecommunications I ■ D~es ~~ybody still make , .. Lisa Mee .likes the: Hazard costs make it less competitive .. unfolding, but vital, issue. moonsh\ne ... The ~nswer: Y~s, Web page.nol'so much for the than our sister states. moonshine· !.S · still l)lade m message boards and chat Tlie implication, Herrick Eastern KentuckY,. It is made, rooms, but for its detail of the ~_a.matteroffact, mafewspots · ,region's history and culture . ~aid, is _that_ Kentucky .!tig!t .\~ Ce~tral !C~!!\UC.ky, too., · , · -:., '': Wh/le .. school~, . public .. -~. 'What,s.J~e, deal -witli_,. .libraries community colleges p~t1 treea,,~?; .~~:,? .. r-:' 'iiiill agericies suclfas thii"Center · , s.~~-11/,un.eta!. 'n..'"thln""e~ .. 't-~"'.1, ~,. for Rural Development in -~ii...llJ,.q. -... ·.•.. , - g,:_-i' .. •~-~-~L~,;,1SOlneci:et~- ·- orovide·access===- to the _"The Daily Independent, Ashland,_ Ke_~t-~cky'.. ~onday, November 22, 19 "}'" i:Jh•,...._7.r,~- ~.... ,,.,,,. - . - - ':,~ - . 99 ~:;4-a'iea--players. ampng t~e:st~t~'de~( · - . • •. . .• - - -..,/J.•j .. - ,,.•y,,,. -·=:;!.. ...1.1'.i.,---"'- ,_• ..,··-·-:-- -- . , . -Brown the daughter of West . receiver for the powerful Even before t~e first shots of Cartei,;'C~ach Hop Brown., ·!jas• I Lawrence . County football the 1999-2000 high school bas.- .,, started for the' •Lady Comets teani. On the basketball court, ketball. se11son:we!e taken, four since the eightli grade_. She has · he was a co-All-Area Player of area players have_ been named signed to pl.ay .Jor -Morehea~ : 'the'Y&ir'"as· a junior, when he · among the best m the state. State University. · . · ''< .. ·1ed the°"regioh ,E1 scoring.. . That speaks w~ll of_'th~ re- Boyd 'County'!! Tyler Zomes_. The four players are among newed respect this region 1s re- . , --- . · the · reasons both girls' and · · fuifl both. ,,;,.ls' and boys' ·is another offspnng of a coach d ce1vm ;,-_~ .,- . t boys' basketball is expecte ~o basket' all. ;' ··· who ha~ i;e~~n rmpac ii1 ~yer_ . be' _particularly strong this The four 16th Region players· since his . es - an_ year.· e ex,,,·; _yfai:. Vf¢ congratulate them on - three boys and one girl -:- pected to pass Frank Lee as their selections and look for- have been named ·to the Ken- Boyd County's all•time scorer ward to seeing them lead their tucky Association of Basketball this year and is .c~nsidered b;y:. teams iri battle this year. Coaches Preseason All-S".ate some to be a legitimate candi- I teams. date for Mr. Basketball. West Carter senior Kandi Like Brown and, Zornes, Brown - a two-time ·All-Area West c·arter's Casey Lowe is a Player of the Year and an All- , coach's son who is solid on both State selection as a junior - is · offense . and defense. He has the leader of a group of talent- ! · signed a letter of intent to play ed players who are expected to I for Morehead State. As .a ju form the best high school girls'· ! nior he was an All-Conference, team this region has ever pro- All-District, All-Region, All- duced. Almost all the players Area and honorable ·mention on a team that went 29-4 last All-State selection. year have returned for another . · . Lawrence· County's Gerald season, arid. they have· been Parker not only is one of the re- joined by transfer Mandy Ster- gion's best basketball players, ling,______,_ the.4._1_1 best. __ ..J TT!.&..1.--- player -on last but he also is a record-setting Tr.IE COURIER.JOURNAL ·MONDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1999 Vg!~:lluying_: It's ~ot~. a crime ~~1fn~~1'!~ · · and a tradition college students "This is not a mountain proble~ 1-...... :. . ' -- or_an urban problem, It's _statewide/' I is accused of paying students Gary , • cases - bu! such cases can be By JUDY JONES said C!'!'lpbell, wh~ 1s writmg,apook. Robert Fannin and Micah Samuel I brouj!ht_only m years when a fed_eral The Courier.Journal ' ?n poht1cal co~~tion. ,--· · 1 Stallard to vote in the May primary. election 1s on the ballot, Cowan said. THE FEDERAL_ case cente_rs on He has been suspended with pay ,, .T~• high number of absentee bal HINDMAN, Ky. - Required allegations that Ali!:_• Ll?yd ~tu~erits pending t~e _outcome of the case. His 't lo(s m the ~9~8 Knott County primary by a college course to observe a , . were persuaded to,reg1Ster. t~ ·,vote lawyer, Wilham E. Johnson of_Frank-1 ra1Sed susp1c1ons. class at Caney Creek Elemen and then o[f~~•-d $. ?5. to $30 ~!lc_.b,_,\lru,9 · fort, woul~ sa~ only ·_that he mtends ..,___ ._ .!)f_the ,9, 775 votes, 1,0~0-wer_e ca_ st tary School, Amy Renee Robin- I vote for ce,;!am ca_n~dates 7 ,,1ther: to defend his client ''vigorously." - ,,by,:al\sentee. tial!ot_ :-:- a htt\~,over,10 1 1 son and Stephanie Dawn Ed- at the pol!$ Qtl;ly.ati~~nt~ ba,IM~W-' • The students'. college is· a small, , percent, which IS an .unusually high wards got_ more of an education : None;:of,;the stu_~ents .~o_q,jl _b_e. four-year-institution nestled in a ho!-, proport10n. By contrast, Fayette than they expected. ·. · · · · r~ache_d:for,,'!:9ro'!1e!1fJ(l'he)I: ~r~.J~Jlt-., low at Pippa:.Passes,,several-.;miles \,,C::9u_~\Y.E'!.~ 9nly ~19Jlbsent~e hallo.ts A federal indictment alleges . 1tf1ed mJ_.~~,!!!~'F}\n.ent but_•!f.}_l_ot I eas. to_ f Hmdman, the Knott <;:punty· .(1.5 p.erc~nt) out of 41,51_8 votes; m that the teacher they observed, charged. -~- -·· · . . seat. The school was founded m 1916 Jefferson County, 1,835,of 111,143 Phillip Darrell Sparkman, per . Five of_ the SQ< pe9ple,·charg~I! by journalist and social reformer.AI- .:vote_s (1.7 percent) were by absentee suaded them to sell their votes were seekmg: votes for a slate t~at-m- ice-Lloyd, who stressed· education as ..ballot. . . .. clud~d. !},9,1)!1!~.~~'Y~9!!!!:i;Y''-1.o.,!S.no~ a means to developing e_thical leader- Absent•~ votmg 1s legal for a per- for $30 each in a hotly contest- . K!'ott :Co11n!y'• J!1ilge'el Several other southern states shared values that bind us togeth• Critics fear policy remain under court orders to de· er," segregate their public university The Bush plan wins approval has momentum systems, so Florida's overhaul is from attorney Terry Pell, a mem unlikely to fuel immediate ber of the conservative Center for By Marlon Manuel changes throughout the region, Individual Rights, cox NEWS SERVICE Nonetheless, several states In 1996, Pell helped persuade AtLANT A - Florida has have contacted Bush's office for the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Ap• painted the latest stroke in a com- details on his effort to remove peals to declareas unconstitution plex mosaic: attempting to end race ·from the list of criteria in al a race-conscious admission pol racial segregation in university college admissions, icy used by the University of admissions while also abolishing "This is certainly going tQ, Texas.Schoo!'of Law. the controversial quotas designed give momentum to the anti-affil.' While the jurisdiction of 5th to achieve that goal. mative action foes," said Charles Circuit js limited to Texas, The Florida Board of Regents E. Jones, chairman of the African• Jouisiana and Mississippi, the on Friday adopted Gov. Jeb American Studies program at : case has caused universities to Bush's proposal to eliminate race · Georgia State University. "It \·.inov.e. cautiously in using race as a factor in admissions. But the could serve as a lightning rod, a ·:'·.sensitive admissions in their de new rules, which may be in effect model to be emulated. It's a bad •.'.segregation formulas. by next fall, also would broaden policy to not ,include race wh/ln;.;~;i,:, ,In Texas, where Jeb Bush's admissions criteria. we know it colors everythirii\t'.i ~ other, Republican presidential 0 Even as Bush promoted unity our society." ;ii'.-:':,~,"' 't"' ' -~ : . p.n_ er, Geo,rge W. Bush, is under his "One Florida" initiative, _Bush's :~.~tiVeior£! . ii<;,!he:legisla_tu:e in 1997 affirmative action proponents which also ·e11m1nafe's·raci :aJormula similar to the said the plan is a backward step asides in bidding for sti"t :. . •~; ·:h,.:Florida. It re- on the path to·higher education tracts-guarantees admission .. ·, (~,universities to ad- for minorities, especially in the state universities for studeli.ts °ill,· f '.l(i percent of seniors South. · the top 20 percent of every Flori:·••~ 9· ...· /~'.exas high school, . "We've lost the moral impera- da high school senior class - o -~Qor for, students at tive in this country to level the- ·richorpoor-regardlessofSAT predc\' ·- 'J(y,'b]ack and Hispan playing field," said Ansley Abra- or ACT score. ic high scil6lilsi'who might have ham of the Southern Regional Ed- "The old solutions have be• been unable to'compete on the ba- ucation Board, an Atlanta-based coine increasingly controversial sis of test scores. : · .•f,,:, policy research group. "It sends and divisive," Bush said. "What is "The law is moving very the wrong kind of message at a viewed as an opportunity by one mpidly in a direction that makes , time when the nation should be Floridian is too often correctly it clear race preferences are illegal concerned with making sure stu- viewed as an unfair advantage by when they're used,''. Pell said. dents are going on to college and another Floridian. And in the heat Bush has "moved forward in a the climate fcir minority students of the controversy, too many of sensible way rather than wait and is inviting." · '· our .citizens are forgetting the be forced to do something." Lexington Herald-Leader .... -~ay, Novem!1_'1_1'_2_Q,__lJl99 \finn. academic_ fraud re~Qrt .. blames •Haskins • t h d ' University before moving to Min- · academic counseling unit, said IIlVeS tIga OfS say COaC COVere nesota in 1986. He led the Hilltop- she had written more than 400 up cheatmg' bv basketball team pers to two NCAA Tournament papers for as many as 20 basket- ·" appearances. After moving to ball players between 1993 and • Minnesota, Haskins led the Go- 1998. . By Jason Wolf phers to ·the 1997 Final Four The report confirmed most of ASSOCIA~ PRESS where they lost to Kentucky. ' Gangelhoff's allegations, which MINNEAPOLIS University of Minnesota The report was prepared for surfaced the day before the team staffers wrote term papers, took exams and did other the school by an outside law firm opened play at the NCAA tour- classroom assignments for members of the basketball that investigated for eight nament. As a_ result of Gangel- team, and the coach months. It said that papers, take- hoff's allegal!~ns, four players at the time knew home exams and other assign- were benched m the first round about it and lied to ments were done routinely for at of the tournament and the team cover it up, accord least 18 basketball players from lost~ ing to a blockbuster 1993 to 1998. It was clear that for several report issued yester The university said none of student-athletes, Gangelhoffs in- day. th~ players involved remains on volvement was so substantive Hours before the the team. and extensive that it suggested report came out, The 1 000-page report with that the student-athletes would men's athletics di another 1:500 pages of support- not have comple_ted the!r _course rector Mark Dien ling exhibits, portrayed Haskins _!!_Ork and remamed ehg1ble_ to hart resigned and a university vice as a "power coach" whose pro- compete but for Gangelhoffs president, McKinley ,gram was so successful that it' work," investigators concluded. lloston, said he, too, ASSOCIATED PRESS 1became "untouchable" in the In October, university Presi- will leave when his Clem Haskins, shown eyes of some administrators and dent Mark Yudof announced he contract expires in with UK's Anthony Epps faculty. ' was banning the team from post- lune. The coach, in 1997, resigned over Haskins issued a statement season play this season. l,entucky native the Minnesota scandal. through his attorney denying he "While nothing in the report Clem Haskins, left. had knowledge of the academic demonstrates either Dr. Boston ~ve months ago with a $1.5 million contract buyout. fraud. or Dr. Dienhart knew of the The NCAA is investigating the cheating but has The scandal erupted in cheating, the facts showed they \ vet to take action, March when Jan Gangelhoff, a had strong reason to be suspi- ( tJ,.D ~E J Haskins was head coach at Western Kentucky former tutor in the university's emus," Yudof told reporters yes- terday after the report was re leased. "Plenty of warning signs Boston, who oversaw athletic were sent." programs, said he wasn't resign As for Haskins, Yudof said: ing because of; "any personal "I am angry. I feel I was lied to complicity." to my face, and that the problem "It,is because;it happened un was much deeper and that this der my watch," he said. "That is program was corrupt in almost just the way it is, and, unfortu any way one can think about it." nately, life isn't always fair." The report cites numerous in Gangelhoff blamed Haskins stances in which . Haskins and for creating a win-at-all-costs culture in the program. other staff and faculty helped "He should step. up and take athletes in violation of school responsibility for his role like the rules. rest of us are trying to do," she Among the examples is one said. from 1995, when academic coun selor Alonzo Newby pressed a professor to allow one athlete to submit a term p)lper to make up the points he needed to pass a course. The paper .was written by Gangelhoff, investigators said. In 1997, Newby helped arranged for an athlete to · be graded on a satisfactory or non satisfactory basis instead of a letter-grade basis after the deadline for such a change had passed, the report said. •. Haskins and Newby mter fered with the university's ef forts to discover the truth about these matters" when they lied to university investigators, the report said. Haskins also instructed at least two athletes to lie when · questioned before last season's NCAA tournament, the report said. . In addition to the academic violations, the report said Haskins gave cash payments of , up. to. $200 to three athletes in . violation of NCAA rules and arranged a standing hotel dis . count for parents of athletes. Haskins was "the only rea- . sonable" source of a $3,000 payment to Gangelhoff in 1998 for tutoring a student-athlete outside the approved program, the report said. . In his statement, Haskms called the accusations · "com pletely outrageous." "I did not know that Jan Gangelhoff was writing papers for players. I ~ave not tol? a~y one to lie or mterfere with m vestigators; I have not made improper payments to players or Jan Gangelhoff," Haskins said. . Dienhart said yesterday the scandal surfaced as a result of his initiating a "thorough review." • _ "' MSU ~IVES /1/J:JU Clip :.;heet &fr A sample of recent articles of interest to Morehead State University Nov .29. 1999 UNIVERSITY COMMUNICATIONS MOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY UPO BOX 1100 MOREHEAD. KV 4n% 1-1689 16061 783-2030 The Sunday Independent, Ashland, Kentucky; Sunday, November 28,_ 1999 ..,. ,,~ ------·---- . ' ' ' ,: . ' ' .... . ·A decade ·of leade:rshJp lchard Committee report.evaluates state's educatioii'reform By TOM i.Ew1s . In 1980, the state Council Mor-ehead resident' 'Doug on Higher Education appoint Jones got involved with the OF THE DAILY INDEPENDENT . ed a 30-member citizen panel push for ·educatii:m' reform' in' FRANKFORT ... '~ ., The· to plan for the future of high the late '80s by attending pub Prichard Committee foi- Acad er educatiou in Kentucky. lic hearings and became · ac, emic Excellence this month ' Three years later, frustrated quainted with the ·Prichara:' released a progress report with state bureaucracy and Committee, He was named to evaluating the ·state's educa-J other obstacles, members of the committee six years ago tional system a decade:afteri the group reorganized into a and_ credited the group with the Kentucky Education. Re:1 new, independent organiza havmg a positive impact in form Act was p_assed. ·:'\,,"'-:, tion that dedicated itself to pushi~g for ~qua! opportunity The ~oup Wll§J"..~ in_it~1, lobbying for improved educa fa~ children m areas like:early conclus10n that positive re--~ tion for Kentuckians of all c_htldhood education, family suits are apparent; _but much'r ages, anff the non-partisan literacy and., P,arental involve- remains to be done if the'state'<'i : t - "-- -.. , men . $- ;,. /t . .•~ •.., - ---·--- - ' • < ... ' ! _Prichard Co=ittee for Acad 1 is to reach the·• goals it s;t emic Excellence was.born. ·, "7"We're~~~~Y!£~gl~f~e · when reforms·wei'e eniic'ten inl The groµp's first chainmin, a ._more pro-;_llctive,:app)."o~ch· ~--: 1990; ._. ..~ --·,:. ~ _.....,,.:~~;.;:._t::, .• t:!'..:t.';!".,:, -~ J Edward F. Prichard· Jr:;··said: Jones said. · · · ,\.'":· ·:.e,'-'''f4,:,t4i' ,. . -But .uiilike many·cjitics of "The job of the Prichard Com r.;-:-i· ~-:<: .. -::·r·'.:~1\•'-'···,,,.--,... ~-,;~i(--.;;•t· - lriVo_ lv'i y~g··~"'_a ,,1,,- ... ir... ·-~!:ifi.J~,.:,\:.-t~.,u-,.<.)' ,KERA, the Prichard,Coinmit mittee-is to comfort the afi1ict ),:,,, _·-· ft ,p&r.81 ■ H11~t(hHs1~··-r1-ti ·te I didn't' -, •1·h ... , . , e ·" ::,stop)t .. 11r~t,Its re- -ect"and1alilfct-':£nij?;bbfiifo1t'4s1. \~ !0Q'j1; ii.,of · ,the .J go.als :: '.the able.~_-•._· ·~~!:J,·.·t,:.,1~ ~-~-~'.~~J!~:~t~i:/.~,·;f ;; __ . 8 ~ricµto_~r_;ltt.f,P EW OBSERVERS sponding amount from -private post-tenure instances when a account for ll percent of the would contest that Ken sources. Simultaneously,-the re colleague for reasons of physi state's total. higher education tucky has made major sponsibilities of the-Keniucky cal or ment.al health, unWillmg enrollmel)i; they pi-t\di:ice about' strides in extending its Council on Postseconda_ry Edu, ness to carry responsibility or 25 percent of the graduates in Fcitizens' access to higher cation for ..coordfoation=an"d incompetence comes into. ques mathemalics,i science 'and tech tion. Remedy in those cases education in recent decades. ;ave .. rsi.g lit were substantially nolo~ eacli·year:Recognitfon The state has created eight pub strengthened. And the Kentucky shciul~ be reassignment, e~rly, ?f t~1s s~IV/.~~.t~ifl)e;~!~te D)lght lic universities that now reach Comniqnity and _TechnicaI:Col'. retirement or !eave. This policy. mclude, ~\\f,~ll'!IJllll~i-~l'l~ni!,ing into ·every corner of the com- ' iege System wasfo"rined and the cii'n'be foiniulated"under guide-·. the state .P.utchasmg.coiltract• :- •·,: monwealth Kentucky Virtual.Uriiv'ersiiy and lines ·, ·of , 'the Ainerican' for these Jns(ilutions;aiid,'ini and offer serv !lie Kentucky Virtual Library Association of University creasing.:pub)[a'.fiiii'dirig 'of stil. ices to anyone were also established. Professors!' and there is prece• dent scnolarshlps. ' , ' - .,,for ,, thei,:'siu,,....,.., ' interested. Clearly the intent of the Gov dent in otner universities for d ents .. , 'lrrr::.. ;o/ "f' ~ ..;:f ..:1 ?-.~p'"" But the sys-• ernor's 1mproyemept program such steps. Additionally, a facul . PoliticsJs often the priina'ry tern, now en and the· enactments of the Gen ty senate might propose a policy determinanfin .~_ecisions affect rolling nearly eral l).ssembly are to effect covering post-tenure professors ing higher. edµcation. The CPE 150,000' stu hei~htened quality and efficien when programs are reduced or could develop a·set of policies dents, •faces cy m the dellveiy of higher edu reof!lanization is in order. This, and procedures for the universi . another im cation by the eight public uni too, 1s not unprecedented. · ties, to be affirmed by the portant•thrust, versities. Of course, intent is not The offerings of a university Governor and adopted by the and that is en enough. are not, cannot, be coterminous General-Assembly., Then :each A. D. Albright hancing \lie, .. An early step toward with culture. Each year, accord university ~9~14)~ expected to ·-- . , quality of .the strengthening quality education ing to the National Academy of propose how '1t would carry out institutions' ~eadily-availabl~, embodies three,points: ,' : . Science, 40 percent more is those: policies,untU .assessment . Each of the eight public uni added· to our cultural inventory. of objectives'hijs been.achieved . prW:T~petu~\cir th;;t.;~ ef~'. versities should establish and Continuous revision• of pro Appolhimeilts' to boards· of fort stems from the. post-secon-: , publish,,standards for admis, grams ofinstruction and 'plan- · trustees and· regents' can better dary· educatiiiiflmproye'inerit, sion. Then, Within two. to three ning are demanded, some. addi-_ be made ·on;tbe oasis. of interest programs proposed by•Gov. years, the practice of providing tions, some downsizing, s·Ome and knowle,d_ge of higher educa Pauf Patton and enacted by the_ rem.edial courses for., higli . d[oppe_d,_J.t. S!)_~po]!!!,~ed- tion. To·be given a seat on these General Assembly in 1997. The school'students deficienlln 'l sion will be· critical to provide boards in· return· for'contribu legislation· sets :forth certain_ oli those admission standards support'or diminish the scope of tions of .money or 11oods en• jectives for each of the eight should ,be discontinued. This re programs and services. · hances practicing pohtical influ public universities: sponsibility, or effort, should re A different challenge is posed ence. for Kentucky - raising the rate Eyebrows have been raised ■ The University of Kentucky vert to the community and tech nical colleg~s. They are better of high school graduates going over the placement of individual is to become a top 20 public re to college to the national medi legislators on the payroll of search university by 2020. suited to the task by geographi cal proximity to students and an. This means about 60,000 public universities. This may• ·. ■ The University of Louisville are devoted to teaching.· more enrollees .during the·next 15ain something for a .university is expected to become a top · This problem also calls upon .decade. To.meet, this infl.ux, m the short run, but, in the long fli~ht metropolitan research the public universities to build ' more ~p~ce; _fac!!)ty an.~,other run, it diminishes the universi-, umvers1ty. stro!lger, t~acher 0preparation perso9nel .will_ \j]! .re_quired on ties'. credibility.-.Moreover; in the c. a11rnuses,.,~r.q1.1ality .y;ill. many.circles, this .arrangement, .■ Each of the.regional uni-. programsJor.the.state's eieinen versities.is expected to .develop, t · and second ·· :schcio1s: -··· · dro ,.Toe'co' in/iili ,iliid :tech: is ~thicaliy guestionable., ;·c-· , •••,, (dy~11dng rue!\ C Millersburg post office. '·:, ·i11~ dper.itions 0 will reIJresenltlieKen' for faculty research· and a since then,"'White said:·,--·.... ;- · ••. ,,., '-· . 'ki'-'' 'Di'. • • th".. ,.,, ·~;,:;;,;; "'1Etnerson ·' requested'". ' the tuc ana strict at e unv=,,;- chance for students to gain in- Whife_''.~lt h(;E:nc!Juia~es MCAP cancellation stamp: to People .wanting· .to< get the t~~hi!!,ex~~ence.. .. : , Cendtre sdtuq?§,l;! ~~,dch.o.,mternh ships commemorate' K.'warizaa'arid' to. .c'aiicellation'.ran, foair'tarcis rii, · . 'A 12-ye'ar partnership be• an con uct resear at t e zoo. honor the program tha( ·fias '··questing the cancellation to 'the tween ·the Danville college and "It's useful because we can helped his two · daughters' ·attention of the postmaster at a achieve academic success. ; ';_; . ·Lexington' post office: ... · .;, the zoo has been so successful help provide'tlie ,zoo \vith infor that the two recently formalized mation aooUt"iherr afiiri\als," he .. ,l-- their relationship through a said. · · ~ -· ~ ·' ·- · '•"·' • Murray mascot reined In Louisvllie student board· letter of understanding. The program also gives stu- It is a love affair like no · gets rrioney for rap,group "lt started as a collaboration dents a charice to see .what it's between students and facuity like to work' with exotic animals, other. Only Mr. Ed could evoke . Student Activities Board· ·.1 as much community support as member David Needham asked and the wo to conduct non-inva- White said. .. · Racer I received since the possi the student senate Tuesday to. , sjve. research on one .of our Last· y~, Cenfrii' ·student bility of benching the mascot spend $50,000 to help bring the species, the woolly monkeys," Chalyn Fayard spent two weeks has surfaced. . ., , . Goodie Mob, a rap group from said Dr. Bill Foster, director of working in each of the major ·ex Because the horse's jaunts Atlanta, to.the University of • the zoo. "It has grown into an ef- hibition areas, Fayard now fort to help the .zoo make sense · works at a zoo.in Baton Rouge, have caused almost $11,000 in Louisville in the spring. · ... ·: of what animals are doing in La. •·· ,:. ·..,,:u~.,:,,~.,., · · damage, Racer I may run past '· Th~ allocation was approved .. the grandstands only when Needham said the $50,000 is· · captivity." ;. ·' · . ~. Centre gra~uate}::isa·Houser Murray State scores. The horse's needed to cover artist, and . :· ·· Brent White;Centre's Matton also spent two su\nmm'work: shoes are blamed for the dam production costs:· . '. Professor of Psychology, first be- ing at the zoo. She' is working age. I · Needham said the:concert is came involved with the zoo with an animal . program in Athletic Director E.W. , an effort to bring a differerit when he took an animal behav- Texas, White said. Dennison said department offi · kind of concert to Louisville and cials are working as hard as meet concerns about program they can to find a solution in ming that African-American stu the off-season. Possibilities dents have talked about at the (MORE) include curbing the run around university forums and congress- the track or experimenting with es. different shoes. The student board must sub Dennison said, "We are try, mit a bid to the band and wait ing to work it out. We just have for it to accept. If it does, the to have a little time." concert would be planned for . ·,/ l;i::,., I - JENNIFER SACHARNOSKJ Feb. 80:9 or 10: . ·•.. · :,,,. :. • ANO LOREE STARK, ~ -:; : -l '.--- ...::.. MICHAEL A: TYNAN, THE MURRAY STATE NEWS .,.,_ ' LOUISVILLE CARDINAL ·E'Iffi.:profe~~Qr.: ·_,r· a··te"· ··s:;• ,-·.-a:~·--;,;, ',B--·'r:'.··-6: ~: . . "• . . ': : . . .· ::·a,y1'.:;~:,.,~--,,~.. y •. .::r:~ ' • . - ~ •-:- --, .s..::-•.~~' •-.· ,-. - • f !,,-~ --- - • • ,'--. ~)· - ' 1 t· .. . .. _;.~-:- - By Rita Mackin .Fox no, himself the son of a mail carrier. "That's CONTRIBUTING WRITER grecit " - ~ 1- · Joe Pellegrino expresses a passion for P~llegri~o,. whose specialty is 20th-cen- almost everything he does. tury poetry, believes literature and writing· "I loved tending bar," said Pellegrino, let students experience and express the hu an assistant·professor of English at Eastern man condition - love, deatb and God. Kentucky University. That's just one of Americari culture doesn't let men talk several dozen declarations of loye made in about what makes. them sad, or women a one-hour span. . : . . about what makes them angry, he said. · , The 38-year-old Pittsburgh native ten~- "And our culture doesn't :let anybody ed bar while earning his Ph.D: at the Um- talk about.things !~t.makeys feel"noble," versityofNorthCarolina-Chapel_l:lilI.:After- he added ,.,,•-· --:-,-;_-.,,.,;, ·· --·.:., . · .·,,. ward, while looking for a teaching Job, he Pellegri~o rem~n~ o'p~imiitic aqoiifhis worked on computers. · · ., :·· effect on students. ~I-want to reach that In August 1997, he brought tliat1 diverse guy in the b~ck, wiio• sit~_ there'-surly star background to EKU w~ere he teache_s.. ing at me 'from undern~th the ball cap, world literature and writing, and coora1- saying 'God, all _this crap. Wl)y do I have to, nates online course offerings. ~\ · · do this?' " he said. ,. · · · · · For the second time Pellegrino opened He said he demands mar~ from &tu-_ his home earlier this m~nth to members of dent~ than some other EKU prof~ssors do Sigma Tau _Delta, .the English hon?rat1'. sq- :, an_d.1s sure .some students complain. ciety, as. well a~ to faculty and friends - ,':· ~at.everyone, though: , ,, ·.. about 20 in all ~for an Italian f~st._ · .... · .:·:- He:s the best teache_r I_ ve, had, _sa1d,l ·· ,~e's an approacliable'hwruin being-;-;-,·'. Gordon Crouc_h, an EKU. semor from Three i kini:l· }>( laid, back," said· Jam_es_ Leary,_· a Hills, Alberta, Canada. "He expects a_ lot _o£ member_ of Sigma Tau Delta;,,,,;;/_ '.-'j,i, '.-. _.,,,me.and that_ tells me that I;ie_ ~espects ,:ri:;)1 ·· ---Pellegrino'is mutually enamored of his "enough to;think I have the ab1hty to do 1t, students. At EKU, students want to see Crouch sa1~. . that you love what you teach, h~ said. . fellegrino said he has the sicond-best He also says he likes teaching at _EKU Job !,n t~e world. Secon~ to wh~t. " because the school will never be an ivory Being a rock star, he said, only be- tower. "I don't think this will ever be 'that cause y_ou get to affect _more ~pie. :, way because _these ki~ ai-elf Dick Burdette Lexington Herald-Leader. . Wednesday, November,24, 1999 By Linda B. Blackford "insofar as the process makes "I really think it can make you HERALOlEADER EDUCATION WRITER them think about what they're do- a better teacher," she said. "It Twenty-two Kentucky teachers have joined an ' i~g arid rna)c~ them grow profes- makes you analyze and reflect at elite national corps of "master teachers." I s10nally, this is a ~ery valid way I all points." That's nearly double the number who have re- . to assK ess akteacher. d th rt I Wanda Meaux, who teaches ceived certification from the National )3oard for Pro- entuc Y rewar_ s ese e_i e 1 second- and third-graders at' Ar fessional Teaching Standards in the last three years, teachers by automatically sendmg lington, said her successful certifi bringing the total to 37. t, ~- :, _· . - them to th~ top (>f· the ~I~ I .qitiqn lJadn't sunk i!l, Jilt "' 11 The National Board. 'certification process is schedule: whic)i Yal'!.es by di.strict. I • -· "It's even worse tliim they;saY, aimed at setting a national and ·challenging s\iindard But ~h1!~ . the numb~r _of Ken- - but it's· a nice sense of accomplish- for teachers and holding·them·accountable, in ·the tucky s natio~lly certified teach- 1 ment," she said. 'I . same way that architects. or doc t' ors· mus t pass· ' an ers has .grown mb recenth' d years,tat l'kthe , The National Board certifica . th · trad : : - ,.. , state s1 I 11 1ags e m s es I e exam to prac tice e1r e. · h earor h' h h I , tion will·probably get more.atten The certification is an intensive, Y":31"•long Nort 'd thlna$2, ~/i t a; a : tion during the General Assemoly, process that requires teachers to analyze their teach- ~ays pai e , ee O ~er · which.will focus on teiich~. quali ing styles in both writing and video, as well as tak- tified, and ha_s about 1,200 Nation- ty. In fact, Rep. Jon Draud: R ing a six-hour exam in the subjects they teach. al Board-certified teachers. Crestview Hills, has pre-filed a bill "lt's'the hardest thing'l've ever done," said Lana In Kentucky, _teachers can requiring one National Board cer Sowders ,a socia· I stud' 1es ,, teac her at. Knox Cen tral , earndard a board$1\000 ...grant d- -- from theh · Id'stan- tified teacher in-every school dis ' 'd h" · · h'"t 10h ,. s an somesc oo IS· High_Sch~l, who_sa1 _,§"'e.spent e1g_ ~ _o , ours a. trict ·n' 'ck· u the other tiict·in the state, and some state week for a year,workmg;on the certificate. · , -r \ s WI P1 . : _P.: . assistance to get' there. . , ; i, , ·Four teacliers were"certified in Fayette County:- I $l,OOOTha. t' h·- ''Kn ·eo·' ty ffi ■ . ' -Cr k El w d3 I s ow ox un o 1- B~~da_l_a_fkson of. T~~;';' ~- ,, 8!11entru,:Y, . an __ cials convi!J~-.• ~:wders _to under- The Associated Press · ~on tributed to this arlicle. Meaux of Arlington EJementw-, go th~ gruehng,~r~.. Forpier Judith Marie -Painter,'of Tates Supen~tenden_t M1k~ DaV1s asked Creek High School and'.Capdace her to be a gumea pig so that pth- Shepard of' ~eadoY{:fufi'nie\~le- er teach8f!!•w9uld be enco~ed taryn·- ... , ·, "'"~'"'(J,,·m to get certified as well, ,., . menThe -t~ch~ wer~'fiJfifieJi)f . ~'\'Vders,had t(>_filn,i:her cla~ . th' ·.. ..'..1.1::.t!l;.,:::• as she worked :,'{Ith students 1_n thell' success IS we=.., . ,. . 11 ,, ,,, . ·<•<>d filin'••· 'ded So far, 4,799 teachers out of -~.:'.~¥P8,-~~ ;;i,·~ m ~I roughly 3 million nationwide have P~P,~':'8 !W$ .!m 21!.i;~•o\!t t ~. ast earned the certification. ~cliool yam,- as a _test of sh!-dent "It's the best type of,perfor- 1m~r_ove~ent and of the quality of· mance assessment available to her co~ents on them. The actu- us," said Mary Ellen Wiederwohl, al exam tested both the_ depth ~d legislative liaison for the Educa· , J>r!!a~tlt'!!:her knowledge of ~I tion Professional Standards stuc!ies. · Board, which oversees tea'cliJ;: cer- tification in Kentucky. " -· r cHECOl;JRIER.JOURNAL •-:SUNDAY(· NOVEMBER 28,,.1999 • - - ,•,:...,, ~,. ....~ .. , ~.::(<' ; ._, . Fewer n~w teachers make the grade -. . ' . ·• teacher education programs., - · one of the. distri~ts with barely thriving economy has created Higher standards Between·the end of the 1995 more elementary applicants other, more lucrative jobs. and 1998 school years, the than openin~s, . . .1 The average teacher salary in reduce number of number· of new teachers pre- .,,The states most recent data Kentucky for 1997-98 ·was ualified educators pared for licensure dropped by indicate that Kentucky colleges $34,453, which ranked it 29th q .,.- ,. ,:;:,., 22 percent at the 19 colleges for are · producing only ,sliglitl)' ·.among states. The national .. \, ·. , .. ·. which the state has complete· _more teachers each year tlian 1t average that year was $39,347, By LONNIE HARP : _.,. " , records over that span. · , -·' would take·· to -replace the . according to the American Fed· The Courier-Journal · :, And teacher certification rec- state's retirees, · which have eration of Teachers. · , · ..., •( 1ords show that the state has al'. · peaked at aboud,ooo per year. _,: Kentucky's teacher-quaiity FRANKFORT,Ky.-Aslaw- ready granted 655·emergency In areas With shortages; some effort, which will be taken up makers attempt to improve teaching credentials this school _school administrators say they by the General As·sembly in the teacher quality in -Kentucky, · year, more than.all of last ye~r. · have to take just about anybody session 'that starts in January, they are faced with a,key issue The state grants one-year certi: with a certificate who applies. comes as test scores show-that - how to raise standards with- ficates to people with degrees In addition to the admissions many schools have_ still not out further shrinking the sup- in an area other than education changes, which raised the mini- moved· large numbers of stu ply of instructors. when a certified teacher cannot mum ACT college-entrance dents into the "proficient" cate- Education officials said the be found for a class. exam. score from 19 to 21, offi- gory that is the goal of the 1990 number of college graduates · "I've been·in the school busi- cials said other-factors are re- Kentucky Education Reform ready to earn teacning licenses ness a long time, but this is the ducing the pool of prospective .Act. Many education officials, has dropped substantially in re- tightest it's ever been for us," teachers. Many students now · ... · cent years, partly because of said Lois Gray, superintendent see teaching as hard work with higher admission standards for of the Hardin Co\lnty schools, only modest reward, and a including Commissioner Wilmer ships and tried to increase its pres Cody, have said that it will take bet- ence in local schools; ter trained teachers to get there. "Helping professions are 1not as at• But the state's top teacher certifi• tractive as they once were," she said. cation official said that strong meas- · "The notion of teaching as;a profes· ures to boost quality probably will I sion that people entered with a good take a toll on enrollments. heart and givmg what they could has "You can't have it both ways until I, changed. Teaching is now:a profes• we get people sion with systems of accountability more interested I and a business without much room 11 in teaching," for error. ' said Marilyn She added, however, that the cur- Troupe, director rent crop of new teachers is more of the state certi- committed to teaching. "They are the fication office's ones you want out there," she said. teacher educa• · The teacher quality task force's re lion division. port calls for more future teacher "Raising stan- clubs in high schools, financial incen• dards to get a lives for students willing to teach in ·more qualified , difficult assignments or shortage student 1s a di• I ar~as ~nd expanded efforts to recruit lemma when you mmonty students. Troupe have a recruit• But teachers and school officials ment concern." agree that the state will probably not · Gov. Paul Patton's teacher quality be able to produce the surest bet for· task force earlier this month recom- enhancing the job and boosting inter mended major changes at the state's est: higher salaries. ; · colleges, including requiring prospec- With a tight budget ahead, the gov tive teachers to take more courses in ernor's education aide has already the academic areas they will teach. warned that the state may not be. But not everyone thinks such pro- able to afford the current recommen-. grams should eliminate some stu· dations of the teacher quality panel, dents. "You don't have to sacrifice which did not include higher pay. quantity for quality," said Lynn Cor• Christy Hogan, a Fayette County nett, a senior vice president at the middle schoo1 science teacher and Southern Regional Education Board counselor who retired twojyears ago, in Atlanta who worked with the Ken- said that other options also will cost tucky task force. "Kentucky is going money- such as paying for required in the right direction by looking at a continuing· educatiof!. or, recfucing ------class sizes - but they:could also variety of initiatives like getting make teaching more.attractive. .. teachers more involved in schools ~-· -·--- - - · ' · earlier and working with teachers in 'New, younger retirees like Hogan, those firstthree years.''. 52,' who now works as an education Siate records show that enroll- consultant, are another reason many ments in teacher education programs School district officials have concerns were down at many colleges even be- , alJ.'ou~ the teacher, ~upply. Since the 1 fore the new higher ACT admissions s~a\e began ~llowmg teachers to r~- requirements took effect. : · ' ce/ve full retirement alter 27:years m At the University of Louisville, the !hf .classroom, the average retirement state's most visible program to boost · age has steadilrdropped from 60 to the quality of teachers, enrollment in ' 54: said Pat Miller, director of the the education program has noticeably state teacher retirement system. dropped. because of more stringent Retirement system officials expect requirements and the addition of a the current high tide of retirees - fifth academic year. ·· ,, '' · . , about 2,000 a year - to keep up for Officials at Kentucky colleges ·said the foreseeable future. · • · they are working to recruit more peo- · Stephen Clements, an assistant pie into teaching programs. . _:... . education professor at the University Eastern Kentucky University's edu-. of Kentucky who'is working with or cation school wil1 hold · a :"future fici~ls on a new'system for.collecting teacher day" this Thursday t\)at will .. infoi'mation about teacheri(-said'the bring as many as 100 high schootstu- , state needs to find out why people 1 dents to campus. · ,:. · • quitfteaching alter a few,years, what MarkWastcsko, dean-oftheeduca- . inceiiti_ves would make the!ob more tion school at Eastern Kentucky Uni- · attractive, and • what -enticements versity, said the college is working to would work to relieve shortages. improve its programs and to find Bei:ky Gateskill, a first-year special more students to go into teaching. education teacher at Toliver Elemen• "The biggest problem is the profes- tary School in Danville, agreed that sional standing of teachers," he said. par, is easily the bi!lllest drawback. "It's hard to get top high school stu• •'I don't really thmk universities or dents interested in the field, and the colleges can make it more attractive worst enemy is often teachers who because the bottom line is money - say to students who bring up teach• I it's difficult to make what a startin~ ing, 'Be an engineer or s~mething, I teacher makes and suP.port a family, ' just get out of here."' . . she-said. But.Gatesk1ll likes her Job ,Sister Sharon Sullivan,-chaiiwom- '.'even though it's a lot of work. an of the education studies program .. ',But I'm doing It because I really · at Brescia University in Owensboro, love and enjoy children and I believe said the college has added·scholar• all-children are capable of learning. I like that my job is to help all these children reach their potential." (MORE) ~"Brown, a 5:11 guard; has. alreally signed with Morthead State University, which is where last year's Miss Bas Friday, November 26, 1999 ketball is playing: The Daily lndepende~t, Ashland; Kentucky, --· --• __ _ ------·-, "I've always thought about it, but didn't think I'd ever have a chance to win it," Kan .. A~,:·$6·•:billion., ... deal di said. "There are so many other players so much better than me." Big time,co~lege bas~etball gets bigger Kandi says the expecta tions being put on West Big time college basketball son and more games) and Carter's team are difficult - of .which the University •of ahead- of NASCAR, baseball enough. Kentucky is one of the kingpins- 'and hockey. "A lot of people say we're - has gotten even bigger. · The deal, which runs from going to win it and that kind of scares me," she said. "I . The NCM has signed a $6, .. 2002 to·201a, is unprecedented don't want to let them down." billion deal with CBS to broad- in that CBS also locked up all Kandi said she first started cast March Madness, its 64- · · the rights· to. cable· radio li hearing her name linked with !~ain, single eli~~'ri?tf9~ tour~ ' ,· ~ensing; corporat~ s~onsorship, Miss Basketball last season. n~ent , tha:t decides_ 'Jhe na- , merchandising, Web sites and "I get really embarrassed tional college basketball cham- . e-commerce. · · talking about awards," she said. "Don't get me wrong, I'd pionship. - : ' ··: : · . . _Having just lost the rights to be honored to get it. It would .. A deal _this large, this_ lucra- _.. NASCAR, CBS felt· the colie~e be great." ~i~e has .to change what fS_ sup- .. tournament was important - Kandi said she would. be p,osed to afte; all, an am:i- enough to muscle aside Fox and pulling for Tyler to win Mr. pe, teur sport. Certainly, there will . ·Disney's ABC and ESPN fu the Basketball. be added ·pressure for the top . . · . ·· "He'd be very deserving of ··t· · •t th ... t· , . . bidding. The .explosive growth getting Mr. Basketball," she scoos·orecrui·h l enaions ·., . -· · · .·.· b es th1g. ·,h, ..sc h oo 1· payers.,-l ·' .,,·, and .' in.- ·..what . the . networks are will~;· ·. said. •··· ·,• · ·. . ··•· · ·· ingtopay·-theper-yearavers·, Hop Brown said having keep-them from Jumping to tlfe, .... ,, -. -r· ·th • • .. ., , •t' · · t • · -· •.. , 1·, · . · · · . - . : 'age o e new con rac ·is more high-profile players like·Kan N atioal Basketball Association , , th·:· .·. t' , .. d.. ,.-half. 'tun, · t.h, -•·· di and Tyler Zornes around is l ong•· b'fi·e ore th·err.'.co ... 11 ege· eli gi 'b - , ·-. · an· woan,. . • a . . ... • es.•. ·. :e good for the region. Bfy''eipffes._ :jj:xpe~t che~ting ·: value_ of the __existing one __--: "It brings recognition1 and ·"" d~' t •· · •" '·" ·,. ,. ti,·r.b --~'"''demonstrates -the '-value they identity to our region," . he scan ws o increase in num er.. " ,.,. . · ...... -- . ,-, - •· -.,-,. .::-,.···- ·_ · ·- --•-··~--,., --:.c-,- ·, ..,,.' 1 p_iice'iin sports programming:· said. "And by all means;.our u,;And tl).ere,._are,boun~:to bed ; ,,.,1 .. :-,:.,., ,. . .-· ...... • .. _ .J region needs good identifica repercussioris",elsewhere;' Col- . It IS, ),iv~. tl,ere if!_ a lot.,9f~t ~4 tion. We need to win iiome lege'football, for 'exa'iiipik, ~viil'";;_( 'it delivers_ an audi_ence cifiy.,e!l.-,.; games at the State Tourna .b --·'·d··· ,.,.,,.,,, '"'•••ti.. lil."'' · "!\'ii·_ heeled)·ofuig•'males.· ·•;.- ;·;"1 ·'"': ment. This is good PR for our e. -~ ~r near rrresis e_ pres- . " , . ..-- ...... region. sure to hold playoffs,p(its_oWl!, _; ~,wtime basketball.is mdeed,. "If either or both are in the for the national championship.... bigg~i:-...Wh~ther better, iss,~a . running, it draws good recog ' The pei-y~ai-11\Vllriige··of' the ;\. judil'!hent_ f?r ;mother. timl ,,:,~ ' nition to the 1_6th Region." 1-i:"• •··'""ti 't'-'$563 niilli ''"°tt.•: Here's.anidea:·Perhaps'a'bit .-- .. 1,,re~)'~q;t_ .._~~~., • .. ,., ), ,,, ,, on,,~·..i-:'t·I;,{'_':- ·-r .... ~,- '•'7' 1 - · ,, ., . '' )tt•:~ launches .the .Natioria].:·colle-· • of ·thoseJarge.)ums of money •, ..~;,,., ,;.,;. (MORE) Lexington Herald-Leader Last fall; ·UK and UofL within. a week of each Saturday, November 27, ~999 . other announced that each would create a school of public health. The · 'COuncil, which oversees the state's universities and colleges,· questimied whether the state needed two public health schools and told the colleges to .come up with a plan to work togeth- We pay her to leave, and -J-! • • ..., er. ~ :.: ,:.<~. she's back on the.payroll -i·That plan calls for ti!~ creation of the Kentucky sn't it curious that the Universi- School of Public H~lth,,1which both schools. will plan and govern ..,UofL alsp will develop a research ty of Kentucky would hire · . institute for public health. Isomeone taxpayers just paid • The director pf·Uo~s research' institute will $185,000 to get rid of? serve as associate: director of the Kentucky School. Deborah Floyd, ex-president of The school would be located at UK's Chandler Med ical Center; UofL's research.institute would be at the Prestonsburg Community College, university's health science campus in downtown has become special assistant for spe Louisville. ·. · ·• •· ,_. -:- cial projects in the office of Elisa The. new agi:eement-... .. allows -the colleges to focus beth Zinser, chancellor of the Lex on the areas they originally envi- /· Some council members and ington campus. Floyd's $90,000-plus sioned: . · , Davies. have said the yearlong salary is coming from UK President UK will offer degrees that fo. 'process· of paring down the num Charles Wethington's budget. cus on training people for public / her of public health schools high Floyd was·a magnet for contro health careers, such as working in lights a bigger issue. Even though versy during her eight years as I're public health departments. · . I an agreement has beel).• /nked, the stonsburg president. She also was UofL will focus on training Icouncil doesn't have the power to people for research jobs in public prevent either -university from strident in her loyalty to UK even health, such as positions with the starting a public health school. after Gov. Paul Patton's higher edu federal Cent~ for Disease Control ' Each university has the right cation refonns untetherecl the com and Prevention. to create schools centers or insti- munity colleges from the mother l!!< will be. responsible for ' tutes within its 'campus without ship. This no.doubt endeared her ·to · ma~mg sure the new sch~l J?eets . council approval. ThatJoophole, national standards; Uofi: Wl!l do some ~Y, prevents the council Wethington, who is still stinging the same for the r~h mstitute. frqm dealing with duplication. from UK's loss of the two-yi:ar col-· UK Chandler Medical Center • · . lege system where he spent mos(9f Chancellor James Holsinger· said _The best we can do 1s say the schooL which is expected to be yo\~" create a school,.but you his career. . . .. ; .. up and running by next fall, will can . a':'e. any (degree)_programs 'i · Floyd decided to retire from :"": '. ''; 1 make it easier-for students to pur- 1•to i::o m it, Davies told a group.of PCC after an audit cast her leaders:·- sue public health degrees. · ,0. legisla'.~rs r~tly. ·,' : . _ ship in an unfavorable light.earlier.:. "There are five core courses Davies said he has _not decided tliis year. The Kentucky Coriiriitini-' all public health·-students have to whethei'lie will i>usli the Gi!neral ty and Technicai:College system·;,, • take, regardless of whether they Assem~ly,_ to ~ve ~e co~cil tl,Jat agreed to pay $150,000 for her --·-i:r; • are focusing' o'rl'· practice or· re- a~th?nty dunng its. :,V!!1ter ~es- search," said' Holsinger: -- · , ;_ s10n m Janllffi1:, .. ,. '· , · :'.: '.'. ;- . ;''. tenure rights and another $35,000:: :: ' "Those. students will be able in ·severance pay. · .. · ... ~-:. :·; ·.. to take classes at ·either school , Now, in addition to her tidy re-~· · and apply them toward degrees at tirement and severance package, ... . either one," he said. • •·;: • •iJ. ·--:~ we're 'told UK will pay: her what:.·: "'; · While the agreement -isn't ·earth-sha(!ering," Davies said it she was making at PCC. That's #:;/,~ is a significant step towatd'·pre $,93,517 a year 'I-:- well above aver,:~,:.-=:: venting universities' tendericies to age faculty·pay at.the Lexington.,.;~:.-; ·•creep." · r Yi I r··. 1, ·-~1_.f'i.• · .. . campus. Floyd's hiring, at a time,""'" "Even though hoth -schools when UK faculty.raises-will run { ': · said \IJey only wanted to focus on ~cent, must be.harder than.an,oldl,; iifferent areas of public health, 1aving two schools could have drum.stick for UK profs to swallov-:. '.. ·. neant expansions into the·other's ;,, ·And who would have expected trea," said Davies. the Next Great University to prac• "With schools in place, they tice such .Plain 01' Cronyisrn? -·. : . :ould have very easily said, 'Well, ve can't have a strong school A welcome, quiet end I . . • vithout a research component or to · b nhah show a Jury; at least they couldn't 1 practitioner component," he a a . . · fi~e-out h~w to do it-legally. ·' ,aid., m~,e. ,. ~o; I PEi1;e the, Lorci and pass the !herr tw~. tries were overruled by The agreement, Davies ~;id, popco~. N:o one will have to. Judges, and they"didn't gqicir;~trike :ives the _state one comprehen~ire mblic health program. He )lopes .I . ·organ!ZJl any "Free Fred"· ral 0 three, - . . : i . _ , __ .• o see the same level of collabora ;' Ii~. . . ., _: •:·· ·: - · ":"· :.. Plus,. ~nnen~ohn had to see · ion among the state's. regional ! Fayette County Attorney Mar- that contimung this prosecution miversities and community. and ,. ~et Kannensohn has _dropped the 'Yould have b~ a losing'proposi- ~hnical colleges. . . )!. nus~emeanor obscenity charge tion for her p~htically. Most The agreem~nt is seen ·as a agamst_Kentucky Tliep.tre manage i;:ayette _Coun!ians do~•t want their :mited success for the·new coun il, which was given more powers Fred Mills. cmematic options subiect to control , control university growth than Mills was.charged after the . by the county attorney. s predecessor, the Council on Kentucky showed an X-rated mid ligher Education, as part of the night movie on a recent weekend. 997 higher education-refonn a:ct. But Kannensohn and her staff But the council says it will couldn't figure out how to obtain a ,atch carefully ,how tlie plan$to copy of Disco Dolls in Hot Skin to· eeds'. , _:. .. - . ~- .. ·.:·,\:... -·.·... t\•{, .. . ·.. "I am delighted that 'we nave ome to· aii' agreemeni,. but I'ain till anxious to see how thisyiill ,lay out," said. council• member (MORE) 'hilip Huddleston . of Bow'iing' ,reen.' . .... ,.. , ...... d;;.. . Character does count, and so does teaching it The Daily Independent, AshlanJ Kentucky Wed ' · • nesday N chools have always been a . . , - . - ' ovember 24, 1999 place where values were Staught and reinforced. In daily . UK,, U of L should lessons and in routine social inter accept chall~~g;, actions, students are introduced to · I reairwith great interest the the concepts of fair play, teamwork, concerns-of University of Kentucky courtesy, honesty and hard work. President Charles Wethington and But in recent years, .with the in· University of Louisville President crease of teen .violence and school John Shumaker regarding raising private funds toward needed re shootings, parents and educators search buildings (Other Views, The have pushed for a curriculum of State. Journal, Nov. 22). character education to help instill I would hope this challenge values some students miss at home would be readily accepted. It or in their communities. seems both schools have found funding for new or expanded foot It is a reasonable strategy that ball stadiums. Why should acade is spreading _in Lexington, across mic priorities that.could create the state and the country. The new high paying jobs in Kentucky Fayette County school board recent be any different?. · · · • ly passed a resolution encouraging I submit it is time' for these two · universities and Kentuckians to schools to add some character-edu determine whether athletics or cation programs. It makes sense to academics should be our focus. keep that decision voluntary and · For .ex!llllple, two state universi- open to the design of school-based 1 ties to our east, Virginia Tech: and councils. 1 the University o(Virginia, both . However, school administrators with less ambitious stadium ex- ·:.· pansion plans, chose first to· be . must remain vigilant to ensure that highly selective,· highly-regarded such programs do not become ways academic and research institu to teach specific religious faiths in · tions. This, in turn, has afforded the classrooms. . · . _, .., . the Coll!lllonwealth of Virginia· one Effective character education · of the most robust economies and , ·highly-res·pected university .sysa .·. __ programs reinforce the values that terns in the nation. :.· ·m,; ,,,-.,'< underscore most religious faiths,. ·-s::Yir,iµnia '.l'e.ch•is on .track :to soon· anyway. Whatever_ helps make chil have a $1 billion endowment •. UK· , dren good citizens·i\Jso llelps' make sh'.i'iui.il strive to meet this goal;;;-,,·.. them good people, ·' ; .,, ''.• :·~" Ui\tiFtnese two Kentucky universi ties iake the lead and put as much pride.into academics as _they do _, . ' 0 ath_letics, Kentucky will conµnue::, tostlffer~-- ! · · '.'·'---- ,.1 Farew~ll: ~~bli~-s~fy~t~-, ,'.i ~- --,Recently, with_ajl private funcl,;J i#gilJY~ Virgmi~'-'.l'ec~_and Caril . founding ex~tive.dh:~to~.' ~ . lion Health SysteDls· .created a ,,_ _., i f the Carnegie'<;eti~er foi:.~it- · ( lnofeclmology center in: Roanoke Af acy and Learnmg, Laune S. _, · that is projected to li.ttract:¢any . Bottoms served this city well. We new high-paying companies and know many were saddened-to leani 1thousands of jobs. Granted;· Vir ginia Tech is already among a of her death last week in California. handful of universities, public and Bottoms 'encouraged people to private, leading the biotechnology pour their life stories onto paper: field not only in the U.S. but The personal and family histories around the world. Such partner her students will pass along to their ships also. must be established be tween UK and U of L. loved ones are a lasting tribute to It will not happen oyernight. It her. can happen if attitudes.change and we take pride iii Kentucky's uni versities because of their academic prowess rather than .their athletic success.··-,_, --· · THE CO.URU;R·JOURNAl:.. •·}Jl'!URSDAY.lliOYEMBER25,,1999 · · - -- _.., -·- - . ·--~ . -~- Te~~ Pl~!! P~~~!l~§:'. · ra~i-al'.: fu~/~t~·~olleges .. ,•~ . ~ .. ,..... ~;,l,'•• -;_._,., ,. !:~ •. ·•,/•~.\,•f'•·.'t. :~••:1:,,~ • ',.,J.,, ·•• •• :,:_ • · ···i~t~~h; ;;artli~gl~ simple.top fomia - though' not any p_ar• Affirm at lVe 10 percent program, the racial ticular campus - to each high • h , . mix- on this campus has been school's top 4 percent. aCtlOn asn t. .,.1:c restored. to ;w~ap~,,\Yas unde_r_ ·, ;,.-,Sl!)Ce_ top }Q .11.ercenl£[S .are • . . . :·/ affirmative achon, and the um• aam1tted without· regard .to been tn1ssed versity has also been able to at- their.. sc~res .. on_ stan!la~di~ed tract students like.. Gana., from . t~~ts ."-.;wli1ch~;ill.- _apphc;ints · impoverished rural and mner• must take :- the Texas system By JODI WILGOREN city .. ~chpo!~- t~at. raretr. sent_ .. '!lay he.Ip Jn~we!i\n~ long:de,: The New York Times graduates'liere before.· · · ' · ·· ,fjated ·question · of"'_ whether Ironically, the program's sue• grades or tests are· .better pre-· AUSTIN, Texas - The de- cess in attracting tho~•- minor- dictors of colleg~ performance°'··., mise of affirmative action i:ot ity students depends m part on "They may not have tile aca• · Daniel Garza, the son of an 1m• "the cont\nui!lg segregati~n of demic preparation, .they mar, migrant construction worker, the state s high schools; 11 has not have four years of math, 1 into one of the best publl~ unk · lllso helped ~ral white students acknowledged Arthur Allert,aS• '. versities in the natiim. ,;; ~,::. ·:••',who,· liistoncally, had been sistant dean for undel'gf\\duates. Garza's good grad~( in ,ii ·hardtofyach ..,t · -:·· ~,e,·• )l tlill. colleg~ ofb1;1sfoess:j'But, small Hispanic'fown at-,the h,P . "It dpes allow.us to _do a bet· when· they ~ome 11_1 .they have, of Texas, combined with, his ter job a m'!ch,bet)er Job, Belt/· .,that _go-ge!!~r., att1tud~.,-J?ur low standardized test scC!_res, ally,-of s~i:vm~ ~11 of;t~e stati:_s .yea~ otJ>,erfo"rJ11ance __1_11, high, probably would-.not h_av~ inet commuruties, ,, .. srud_ ·-.I.any scho'ol over four,·hours of.per•, the threshold for adm1ss1on-to • Faulkner, the umve~ity presi- formance.on a test, you get; the; in9"ea~fagly ,,c9m~titive,/ij__ ent •.";,'cl{,we,c_ '!n ach,evJ'rW8Y!,, something~ d__ iffe!",t!,n~;'-Y~-:U ··get, Umvers1ty-of Texas;·.After,.an .of bm\dmg rep~esenta_t,~~ stu } someone ·iv.ho tliml,s .at.them• appeals, court . tht~ .out "!11.t 11~nfbo!l/e.s .wlpj~u(!h~ u~e ~&{~elves as\&eing '(Hth.~.\!P,P.. of, umy_¢,rsi/y'.S/!d1T_1i)lll!~I! .-_systel!l,'~!\lce ~xphcitly,~~le-~~~lth1er. t•~heir class/}~ , ,~·~1•·, .. ':;..<'; : : favonlig mfnonlles m 1~~6, r,,,Even the stro!li;es!.~~ponents,,1 To addre,s i);ca Lexington Heraickead~r Wednesd~y, November 24, 1999 KSU food service- faces review The State Journal of Frankfort wrong, point it out If they're not, Chandler asked to look reported the contract provisions. ... point that out, too," Long said. into school's contract The contractor, Sodexho Mar Carson Smith, the university's riott Management Inc., runs the vice president for finance and ad -cafeteria in the university's stu ministration, said four companies By Charles Wolfe dent center. It also caters universi- bid for the contract, which took ef ASSOCIATED PRESS ty events. · fect Aug. 1, 1998, and runs FRANKFORT - The state The newspaper reported the through July 31. All were given a attorney general yesterday was company said in a statement that · chance to sweeten their bids with asked to review Kentucky State the special provisions were rou "special provisions," Smith said. University's contract for food ser •tirtely written into its'college con ·A contribution to the "presi vices. tracts. The coml) The Danfr:fdfp'endent, Ashland, Kentucky, Wednesday, November 24, 1999 1 t~i1l?Wy~:~: ;l0u?:~d?;! i~!i\I~~f~~ N~~r _, __ ,.; ,~:.:;-~:--· haseducat;dmanyAshland · _HUNTINGTON =Repre;,,,employees, said Martha C,-· sentatives of Ashland Inc,, ·j1Johnson; the compiiny's'dic, ,,, . gave two $10,0,000 -~~e_c}9i;w/1 _rector of_contrib'!tions .9:11d'•. ·:u Marshall Umversity,:Preili"-' · -~ commumty relations.·· -,_, ' d~11t Mike_ Perry on Tuesd~y. ,, 51/i'?r.t!ie, Yeager Sch~l~s0 ·,:; ~!i~gi;am and the other for,,J~. lear of-the Book program:· , ,_:___The checks represent the'· · -l. --,:_• -.--~ " -~ .---c:,,"~ > fourth payments in five-year $500,000 commitments to ' each program. · "We are extremely grateful ~hat Ashland Inc. is support;, mg Marshall University and ~hese e:"cepti?,nal progra'ms m particular, Perry said. -Ninety professionals at--:..• Ashland Inc; h"old degre~i:([>; from Marshall, said·Joseph;g ~. Bi-~ce, the °£ Murray dean is ; THE'COURIER.JOURNAL • WEDNESDAY, ['!9\JEMBER 24, 1999 interested-. in. I Alice· Lloyd school-chief job·: . . ------· - --- By CHARLES WOLFE board's committee, said she Associated Press had "some vague recollection" College of hearing Rose suggested as a . FRANKFORT, Ky. - A for- potential ·commiss1oner. Any - --- mer school superintendent now names will be turned over to at Murray State University ap- the search firm, she said. parently is among those who · The list presumably would would like to succeed Educa- include Lois .Adams-Rogers, ,a lion Commissioner Wilmer former deruty. commissioner Cody. · · and chief o staff of the Depart- punishes 9 in Jack D. Rose, dean of, the ,ment of Education. She said on college of education at Murray Monday that she intended to , . . . State, said he has made inquir- pursue the appointinent. · . I t f d ies. "I've had some people talk Adams-Rogers is director of·, VO to·me about it, and ID turn I've the newly created Center for e■ ra u· talked to other people," Rose School Safety, based at Eastern I • said in a telephone interview. Kentucky University. She is a · --·-. - case Rose,is a member of the Edu- former supei'intelident of Jessa- . . cation Professional ·standards mine. County schools. , Nine Alice Lloyd College stu-1 Board, which certifies and dis- A· current superintendent, dents who were, named in an•· charged, but six. local people ciplines teachers. Before joining· Leon Mooneyhan of Shelby indictment illlegirig vote-buying were indicte,d Oct. 20 by a fed- Murray State, he was superin- County, is being privately tout- but weren't charged are getting era! grand Jury. They are· ac- tendent of Calloway County ed by some. ~qoneyhan· ~aid : , some reqµired_ reading... ·-,; cusecf of inducing students to schools and had a reputation. he had been encoura~ed · to The students have been as- vote for local candidates and for political astuteness. apply but was noncollllll!ttal. signed to read •"Short of the paying them $25 to $30. Rose said be was "interested Adams-~ojlers , apph_ed for . Gfol).'," a book written by Uni- Those charged are Phillip in seeing what criteria are ere- the comnussioner s Job ID 1~95, , vers1ty of Kentucky historian Darren Sparkman, a teacher; ated for the job" of education when· the sta!e board. hired Tracy Campbell that details the Ph_i!lip _D.ion ;llo!'.El;.'!l~riager of commis-sioner. "I would think it Cody. ,She swd. she ~Id ·not., ·downfall of Edward-Prichard Buckhorn Lake/State Resort would be a little too early for campl!!gn for th~ ~ppo111tment Jr. -viewed as one of the most anhe~~?dd.y to get too interest~d,'_•· !he~, a~d Id~~ t 1Dtend to do . politically talented Kentuckians Park;. Charl!_\!)~f~ggard;_,;J:<>ia _ 11 ':':'th this one. . · _ . of his generation·~ in a 1948 Jean Slone; Milburn Losses Ja Cody, Kentuc~•s second ap- . _,If you try to tweak the P~ ballot stuffing case ..-.:-r:·,.:-· "' cobs;· and Dayi~ .. RandalliGay pointed commissioner, has re- htical_structure, I t,~nk lh!l,IS . , Thestudentswillberequired heart;' :;,;)(~;;,;t•1trit , signed, effective Dec. 31. The thewrong~pproach, she said. to write a paper on_how.Pri- -~es·IX. ·' · ,."i"'.a.tl-'_'~·:-,;;:.. ... Kentucky Board of Education The cliatrwoman o_f the stat.e chard's expenence reflects on I ~ott Coµntians have will hire his successor. A four- board, Helen M_ountJoy of Uti- their own involvement in al- · pleaded !ll'!~.e_nJ _ 'and • are IJlember search comm_ittee vol- !!3, said all can~dates would ,b,e f leged vote fraud. · · .scheduled 10· go· to trlali\pril 3 · ed last week to use an execu- · JUd~e~ by expenenc_e an,d abi11: ..., ____ . . 'in U.S. District'_Court· in Pike- tive-search firm to screen appli- ty._ Id 9e elrt!8ord1Danly sur .,, , ...• .·.i ville. · ... , .. cants. pnsed if this board .. ~ere. Six people have . been· · c- ·-----;--- ~- Jane Adams Venters, a Som- swayed ?ne,,way or. anothe_r by charged with vote fraud in an Accord1Dg to fed:!111 1Dd1ct- erset attorney who beads the a cam~, she ~d.... ···" · alleged s?'eme to buy the votes ments, studentsf~ifie~ !bse1_1.-, - · · -- of ·r2 A11ce Lloyd students i? tee ballots by !e.~ll!ll \h~ ~ounty, the May 1998 Knott County pn- court clerk they were going to mary. In a~dition 10,the nine be out of town on election day, students bemg gumshed, three then. accepting m_oh.ey'in ex- ott~~tb~Ttgrawh~i~·research- chan~e for votin_g for aslate of i!'g a boo_k on political corrup- can_d~_!tes that_ l!J9l° 3 indicted •in. :.~i I · . ;murder···=· 1~,-;•• ~ -~ ·.. case . Morehead man faces ·death 1 penalty charge ly TOM LEwls ing of Nov. 12 at Morehead Es- )F THE DAILY INDEPENDENT . tat.es, an apartment building on MOREHEAD - Prosecu Morehead's south side,- police·, ors will seek the death penal said. '. ·• ·· , y against a 20-year-old More- Kl3P Sgt. Bobby Motley said a ' person who lives in, Clarksville 1ead man charged with the apparently loaned the car to Ap nurder of a Tennessee man pleton. He-said he believed the vhose body was found in.a car victim and Donehue met in runk Nov. 12. Clarksville through the owner of A Rowan County grand ju the car. ··· y indicted Kevin Ryan Done · Donehue was charged with me of Rock Fork· Road on a evidence tamp~ring for allegedly . hiding Appleton's body. Howard murde~ ch~e. fyday. The I and Minth are accused of con grand Jury also mdicted Done- cealing the gwi clothing and hue and two alleged accom- . --·· ·' . · plices - Morehead State Uni- 1 other evidence involved in Ap- versity students Aaron pleton's death. · Howard and Abbey Minth-- The revolver the police think on charges of tampering with. was used to kilf Appleton was physical evidence. . fctll/? n~.~?reh~g-~t,at.e Uni- Kentucky State Police al- vers1ty.. -·· -.. -. , · · Jege Donehue shot 23-year-old ,Donehue .. pleaded not guilty Daniel Boyd Appleton of. Friday,·. ~d Ro~an Circuit Clarksville Tenn in the face Judge William Mams scheduled with a .3klib~r revolver , his trial for Aug. 14. Because the · . ·.. · charge Donehue faces is a capi near Cave Run Lake between I fal;offense;-Mafos ordered he be Nov. 6· and Nov. 12, . I held without bond in the Rowan · On . Friday, Common- · C~)lllty. Det.ention Cent.er. . · .' wealth's Attorney George ~:•Maim.issued arrest warrants Moore filed a notice of intent . for:Howaid and.Minth. ··· ·· · · · to seek t~e ·death penalty ,:fl'ampering\vith pliysfoal evf against Donehue in Rowan dence is- a felony with a maxi Circuit Court. In the notice, mum sent.ence oflive years .in Moore claimed Donehue mur- prison. · · '~:/l'.'-1 :l ' :: ' , ._:[,,' dered Appleton "for himself, ·- · · · or another, for the purpose of ·receiving money or other prof- it." . '. . • . .. · When asked Monday, Moore declined to elaborate. "That information would hamper the investigation as far as other individuals are concerned," he said. · When asked if more arrests were possible, Moore said: "It's an ongoing investiga- tion." · • Clarksville police reported Appleton missing Nov. 11. His body was found in the trunk of a 1998 Saturn on the morn-