L,l I J\c;)c)_-LJ - .;lo-~o M?j 1, 19'1(, MSU ARCHIVES MSU Clip Sheet A sample of recent articles of interest to Morehead State University INSTITUTIONAL RELATIONS MOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY UPO BOX 1100 MOREHEAD, KY 40351-1689 606-783-2030 THE COURIER-JOURNAL • WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 1996 'UK_ trustees approve increases in· tuition, housing fees in fall By RICHARD WII.SON called "benchmark" school - the istration fees were also increased. Staff Writer · University of Tennessee at Knoxville The overall increase in tuition and - .. has a lower housing and dining fees means that full-time undergrad LEXINGTON, Ky.,-The cost of at rate than UK. (Benchmark schools uates from Kentucky will pay $1,338 tending the University of Kentucky is are comparable universities in nearby per semester, an increase of 3.5 per going up again after action yesterday states that UK uses to make compari cent. A $1 fee increase will support ay UK's board of trustees. sons on such things as tuition and the student health services program. The board ratified tuition increases fees.) Undergraduate tuition for out-of already approved by the state Council Several students said that they un state stutlents will rise from $3,390 to on Higher Education for the 1996-97 derstood the need for the increases, $3,510 per semester. schoor year, and it raised fees and but that the fee hikes would pinch "Obviously, as an out-of-state stu room and board rates as well. their budgets. den~ this (tuition . increase) hits me In recent years - as the rise in "I ~ess the increases are neces harder,'' said Alison Ki!1ht, a sopho state support.has slowed- tuition in sary,' said ·Jason Dattilo, a Louisville more from San FrancISco. "But I creases at state universities have be juruor. Even with them, he added, it's know tuition increases are just a part come routine. still cheaper to live on campus than in of college life." Jack Blanton, vice chancellor of ad an off-campus apartment. The board also approved room and ministration for the Lexington cam The room and board rate for stu board rates for the Lees College cam pus, told the trustees' finance com dents living in most UK dormitories pus of Hazard Community College, mittee that the latest increases were will go up 3.9 percent - from $3,078 where the rate will be $2,900 per year necessary to cover UK's 'increased this year to $3,198 beginning in the for double occupancy. costs of supplying housing and food. fall. Tuition ·for undergraduate Ken Lees, a .former private college in He said that no state money sup tucky residents on the Lexington Jackson that ran into financial diffi ports .UK's housing and dining pro campus will go up $40 a semester - culties, becomes a part of the UK gram. He also said that only one so- from $1,130 to $1,170. Mandatory reg- community college system July I.
LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER, LEXINGTON, KY. ■ WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 1996 LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER, LEXINGTON, KY. ■ WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 1996
UK faculty to benefit. ,. A boost from retirel1lent plan for the .Bard approved· by board Students say. yes to Shakespeare AsSOCIATED PRESS
BY BRIAN BENNETT pressed interest in phased retire WASHINGTON - It might be the unkindest cut of HERALD-LEADER STAFF WRITER ment for some time. Officials adopt all. English majors at Georgetown University no longer Tenured faculty members at the ed the plan after studying similar have to take courses on two of 'three literary masters - University of Kentucky now can programs at universities across the Shakespeare, Chaucer and Milton. And Georgetown is not alone. ease into retirement instead of giv country, Lawson said. . ing up teaching all at once, thanks to In other action by the trustees . "The problem is national. Shakespeare and other a measure approved by the universi yesterday: : classics are being replaced at many colleges by courses ty's board of trustees yesterday. ■ The board approved increas on sex and politics," says Jerry L. Martin, president of Under the new phased retire es in tuition, fees and room and the National Alumni Forum. ment program, tenured professors board rates for the 1996-97 school The group, which says it has members on more who have worked full-time at UK year. than 200 campuses, led a "Saving Shakespeare" rally for at least 15 years and are 65 or In-state tuition and fees for full just off the Georgetown campus yesterday. older are eligible. They can choose. time undergraduates will be $1,338 Univei:sity officials say that Shakespeare hasn't to reduce their workload by half a semester, an increase of 3.5 per been reqmr_ed at Georgetown for at least 20 years but and receive half their pay for up to cent. Non-resident undergraduates that the un1vers1ty teaches nine Shakespeare courses a three years. will pay $3,678 for tuition and fees. year, m?i:e than.the average 2.6 courses offered at other Faculty members must choo_se Tuition and fees at.Lexington umvers1t1es of comparable size. the option within one year of gain Community College wili be $978 a . Under t~~ old requirements, viewed as too· restric ing eligibility, and their requests semester, a $1 increase. At the re, t1v~ and failing t? emphasize writing skills, English must be approved by UK President maining 13 community colleges, tu maiors were required to take courses on two of three Charles Wethington. ition will be raised 2 percent to $500. inaior authors. Wethington said yesterday that Room and board rates at the _Now they are required to take four courses from because the university no longer Lexington campus will be $3,198 their :hosen c~· centration: literature and literary histo has a mandatory retirement age, for two semesters, a 3.8 percent in rr, r And the wall ••• Governor pledges that region will no longer be ignored by Frankfort What was that crashing greatest potential for long sound heard in Hazard Fri- range ·economic development, day night? Could it have but mpre important, the gov been the crumbling of the ernor apparently shares that last vestiges of the proverbial view. Winchester Wall? For years, county and mu- Paul Patton, the first gov- nicipal officials from Ash ernor from eastern Kentucky land to Pineville have com since Bert Combs, returned plained that the economic to the mountains Friday to needs of eastern • Kentucky pledge that the region no were ignored - that the pow longer will be ignored by the ers-that-be in Frankfort rare cabinet secretaries and the ly looked east of Winchester. power brokers in Frankfort. The Winchester Wall could Speaking at the annual never be found on any map, East Kentucky Leadership but in the minds of many. in Conference, the governor eastern Kentucky, it was just pledged to personally chair as real as if it had been built the Kentucky Appalachian with bricks arid mortar. Commission, a group formed . In pledging that his admin last October. Commission istration will give special at members - which also will tention to the mountains, include cabinet secretaries, a Patton also said that the re county judge-executive,: a · gion must help itself.· He's mayor and a school superin- right. tendent - will work closely The Winchester Wall was with the Kentucky Ap- not built completely by those palachian Advisory Council, in Frankfort; long-standing a grassroots citizens' group. regional problems added . As part of his interest in bricks to it. To be able to developing his native region, successfully compete for the Patton said he wants to make jobs of tomorrow, the people a . multicounty industrial of eastern Kentucky must park -,i>.Ianned for Greenup continue to improve their County - a ,model for others public schools, raise the level like it across eastern Ken- of education among adults, tucky. He· has promised the eliminate the political fief support of the state in devel- doms that continue to thwart oping a parkway from U.S. 23 progress in some counties, near Wurtland to I-64, to con- and clean up: our hillsides struct infrastructure needed and creekbanks. Elected for a multipurpose park, and county and city officials also to. develop a plan for the must exhibit more of a will park. ingness to work together for Such enthusiastic support the common good. from the state's top executive For the first time in three , will be a major boost for the decades, Kentucky has a gov- I proposed 2,000-acre park, ernor committed to helping. I which is being developed ·· this region. It now is up to i through the cooperative ef- ·tlie people of eastern Ken- forts of Boyd, Greenup, Law- tucky to come up with new rence, Carter and Elliott ideas and creative programs counties. We're convinced to help Paul Patton fulfill his the park offers this region's promise. · • lEXJNGTON HERALD-LEADER, LEXINGTON, KY. ■ WE □ NESYDAY, MAY 1, 1996 But the bottom line, Cooper Proposed said, "was that it's a for-profit-type But Hardin expressed concerns. of investment, and it's ve11: hard "To the best of my understand- for a lot of people to embrace that." ing of medical institutions and Dr. Charles Hardin, the chief of schools, (osteopathic medical medical staff at Paul B. Hall Regional Med- s~~oo!~) are _a money-losing prop □.- ical Center in Paintsville, conceded sit1on, Hardm said. he had declined to use his close ties Before he would commit money school to former Gov. Brereton Jones to to such a project, Hardin said, "] obtain a half-million dollar grant would have to see the type of facul- for the project. ty, the curriculum, the applicants advances As a politician, Hardin - who how it's going to be run - all thos~ also is judge-executive of Magoffin things. BY LEE MUELLER County - said he only had a limit- "If you're to train people to be EASTERN KENTUCKY BUREAU ed number of favors to ask of Jones. professionals, particularly in health PIKEVILLE - Eastern Ken His first obligation is to his con- care, you need to make sure they're tucky took its longest step during stituents, he said. trained to the utmost degree be- the weekend on the uphill climb to As a physician, Hardin ex- cause our people deserve the same land a medical school. pressed reservations abouf osteo- · ~igh-quality care as people receive pathic medical schools. m other places." After listening to a presentation by Gov. Paul Patton in Chicago, a The state's only medical schools But state Sen. Benny Ray Bai- 10:member American Osteopathic now are run by the University of ley, D-Hindman, who described Association panel agreed Sunday to Kentucky and the University of hi~self as a c~eerleader for Perry's give provisional accreditation to a Louisville. proJect, has said he thinks the pro- new osteopathic medical school at Osteopathy is literally the medi- posed osteopathic school could be Pikeville College, Patton spokes cine of bones. Osteopaths undergo an answer to the failure of UK and woman Melissa Forsythe said yes , the same four-year medical training U of L medical schools to place doc- terday. as physicians and share the same tors in the mountains. "That recommendation now i residency requirements. "I think it's really the only way goes to the full board," Forsythe Perry came up with the college you're going to fill the need up said. idea to fill the gap in primary care here," he said. The school's founder, I in Eastern Kentucky. He said os- Much work - and much fund Paintsville lawyer Chad Perry III, teopaths tend to stay in under- raising - remain before a Pikeville attended the hearing and praised served areas in larger numbers and College medical school accepts its the governor's delivery. often stay in family practice. first class, Perry said yesterday. Patton is smart, energetic and a . LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER, LEXINGTON, KY. ■ WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, _19~6 fast learner, Perry said. "If you were teaching him in school, you'd say, 'I got something here.' " An-ox-is gored The association's executive di ' rector, Douglas Ward, could not be ' reached, but Perry suggested final approval was "a matter of formali TV station shows little respect for differing opinion ty." The news touched off a wave ''Don't ~hoot the me~en- tions onto the newspaper's front. of enthusiasm in Pikeville, where , ger'' 1s an old saymg She challenged local media to re the for-profit proposal has drawn : with a liter&¥ history. flect on their role, which she said is broad-based support totaling In the Greek drama Antigone, one "to break important stories." $800,000, including $250,000 from 6f Sophocles' players observes: "No Apparently stinging, WKYT is Pikeville Methodist Hospital and oody likes the man who brings bad the city of Pikeville and $200,000 getting back at Hosbein-Tang. Be each from Pike Fiscal Court and news." In Shakespeare's Antony cause'she,is news director of UK's Pikeville National Bank. (Jnd Qeopatra, a character says: public radio station, Channel 27 has The school has received $3 mil ~Though it be honest, it is never lion in pledges. Advocates predict stopped sharing its newscasts with good to bring bad news." WUKY-FM. Jim Ogle, WKYT's the·medical school will produce at ; Now Kentucky's roundball dra least 40 new jobs at an average an news director, said his station nual salary of $67,000, including ina has produced a variation on this would reconsider its decision if Hos doctors' salaries. old theme: A messenger who shoots bein-Tang would "acknowledge her "It would be the greatest thing another messenger. inaccuracies." to happen since the coal ~01!1 ~-r : We're speaking of WKYT-TV,_ the cut-through," Pikeville Mayor which is taking pot shots at a Um What inaccuracies? She ex Steve Combs said. "It would have versity of Kentucky journalism pressed an opinion that she was the impact of two or three small well qualified to express. People factories here." teacher who criticized the gush-o tama that often passed for local TV who watched TV and read the pa But in Paintsville, where Perry per in Lexington that week know chipped in the first $1 million for news the week leading up to the the project in September 1994, there OK men's national basketball cham she had reasonable grounds for her was both disappointment and lin pionship. opinion. They're free to disagree gering reservations. : Associate professor Cindy Hos with her opinion. The college was to have been bein-Tang's commentary was pub By reminding the Lexington me built in Paintsville as an indepen dia of their professional obligations, dent institution. But the school's ex lished April 5 in the opinion section ecutive committee voted last year to 0£ the Herald-Leader. Hosbein-Tang Hosbein-Tang performed a public affiliate with Pikeville College, ~aid local TV news departments got service and one that is well within which has the administrators and so wrapped up in Big Blue mania the bo~nds of a journalism profes facilities in place. that they lost journalistic perspec sor's pu:;view. She deserves con- Perry and his executive commit grc' tull!tions, not criticism. And she tee were unable to attract adequate tive. She said viewers were bom investment from local governments barded with "fluff stories" about certainly deserves support from UK and the medical community. &ow to hail a cab in Manhattan and colleagues and administrators. Paintsville Mayor Robin Cooper dress a hot dog in Central Park, As for Ogle and others at Chan said he was disappointed that while real news back home got nel 27, they also have every right to Paintsville and Johnson County short shrift. disagree with Hosbein-Tang'~ con . "weren't able to be the home of the : The Herald-Leader's Final Four osteopathic college" but expects all clusions. But why not do so m a of Eastern Kentucky to benefit coverage also came in for criti_ci_sm. commentary piece of their own? from it. She wondered whether any CT1s1s Certainly, the public would be bet-. l:ould have elbowed its way · t\'r served by that than by Channel fh:ou!!h ti_.tC b::t·,kf!h;11i r.n("y;;:;J ~,~~M · 27's· nul1inq its feed to nub lie radio. A sample of recent articles of interest to Morehead State University 606-783-2030 ASSOCIATED PRESS About 15 Western Kentucky University students protested on campus yesterday during the WKU Board of Regents meeting. The regents narrowly approved a $30 Increase in student fees per semester, $25 of which will go toward the women's athletic program. Protesting students said they were given little prior knowledge of the Increase. But university President ·Thomas Meredith said students were consulted. The money will help establish women's soccer, softball and swim teams, giving an equal number of men's and women's sports, as required under NCAA Title IX regulatlons for gender equity_ THE COURIER-JOURNAL • THU13$D/W, MAY 2, 1996 Many students 'trading up' despite rising college tuition For all the talk about munity colleges. ships. higher, by law). Colleges offer tuition discounts, the high cost of higher . Wealthy kids are trad Some 1,300 colleges - public in What makes you "needyu? You especially to students they particu education, middle-class ing up, too. They used stitutions as well as private ones - qualify if the cost of your college larly want. Applicants for early ad families are gritting to choose a mix of big now give "merit" scholarships, comes to more than you and your mission may get less-favorable aid their teeth and shelling name national institu without regard for financial need, family are expected to pay. Your packages, because the school out. When shopping for tions and well-regarded said student-aid expert Joseph Re. "expected contribution" derives knows it has you. You might do (For an excellent guide to college from a federal formula that consid better by applying to several ordinary goods, they'll regional ones. Now ers such things as income, assets, walk the entire length of they're leaving the re aid, get his company's book "Don't schools. Your first-choice college Miss Out," $9.50 from Octameron age, family size and each earner's might increase your tuition dis, a mall for a dollar off. gionals behind. need for a retirement fund. But at colleges, they're Rich kids are cluster Associates, P.O. Box 2748, Alexan count, if you can show it a better dria, Va. 22301.) Since 1992, the formula for fed flocking to the higher ing in two types of insti eral aid has excluded the value of offer from a competitor. JANE BRYANT Schapiro estimates that, on aver And what has happened to low cost schools. Instead of QUINM tutions. First are the fa your home. So middle-class kids trading down as tuitions mous universities: Stan age, it takes $10,000 a year to lure income students? Their grants and a bright kid away from a top col look poorer on paper than they escalate, families have COLUMNIST ford, Duke, the Ivies and really are. This typically gets them loans haven't kept up with college been trading up. the "public Ivies," such lege to a school in the second tier. more aid at public institutions but costs and their parents can't pick As Exhibit A, I give as the University of If they don't get merit scholar not at private ones. Private col up the slack. Since 1980, they're you young freshmen from families Michigan (Ann Arbor) and Univer- ships (which the top schools gener leges usually count part or all of the only group to have traded earnmg $30,000 to $100,000. sity of Virginia (Charlottesville). ally don't offer), how does the mid your home equity when awarding down educationally, Schapiro says. They're attending private colleges And second are the first-rank pri dle class pay? Chiefly with a lot of their own scholarship funds. Fewer of the poor now attend and universities in slightly higher vate colleges with national reputa loans. After student loans come feder private colleges. More enter two proportions than they aid 15 years tions. Students can borrow up to ally insured loans for creditworthy year cpmmunity courses. Commu ago, even though those schools 11 1t's the Mercedes. syndrome," $2,625 from the federal govern parents. They can borrow up to the nity colleges are excellent institu cliarge considerably more than Schapiro said. The most competi ment for their freshman year, and college's full cost, minus other aid tions, but four-year schools lead to public institutions do. (That's ac tive kids want degrees from well higher amounts thereafter. If received. You pay a variable inter better jobs. The gap between rich cording to an analysis of enroll known schools with networks of you're classed as financially needy, est rate, currently 8.98 percent and poor starts here. ment data by economists Morton graduates working everywhere in Uncle Sam pays the interest while (capped at 9 percent). To qualify Schapiro of the University of the world. you're in school. Otherwise you for the maximum loan, pay off Jane Bryant Quinn's column ap Southern California and Michael That leaves the second-rank pri pay, although no repayments are your consumer debts, srud Jean pears Tuesdays and Thursdays. McPherson of Williams College.) vate colleges struggling for a high due until your studies are behind Eddy, a vice provost at Northeast Write her at the Washington Post Students at public institutions er-quality student body. They're you. Current variable interest rate ern University in Boston. You want Writer's Group, 1150 15th St. N.W., are increasingly choosing four targeting brainy middle-class kids on student loans: 8.25 percent to show the cleanest possible cred Washington, D.C. 20071. year schools over two-year com- and offering them big scholar- (that's the cap; the rate can't go it renort. " The Washinl!lon Post LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER, LEXINGTON, KY. ■ THURSDAY, MAY 2, 1996 House built by Georgetown staff, •students, faculty nearly ready BY CHERYL POWELL and staff members together. CENTRAL KENTUCKY BUREAU But the task force's chairman, GEORGETOWN - When peo Peter LaRue, who has volunteered ple at Georgetown College said they with the local Habitat for Humanity wanted to build up the community, chapter, thought building a home they meant it literally. ·. for a needy family would be a good Throughout the school year, the way to bring the entire school com college's students and faculty and munity together. staff members have joined to build "It has been one of the most in a house for Trish Cook and her two spirational things I've been in sons through Scott County's Habi volved with," LaRue said. "To see tat for Humanity program. so many people come together for. Although a few finishing touch a common good, it's been just es are still needed, the school had a amazing." dedication ceremony yesterday af Construction kicked off Labor ternoon so students who worked on Day weekend with a "Bµilding the house could see Cook receive a Blitz" during which almost 300 peo gold key to her new home before ple from the school helped complete . they begin final exams next week. the foundation and frame of the About 30 people marched - ac house. . companied by Georgetqwn and "Of all the things I've been in campus police - a mile from the volved in, this is the thing that in campus to the house. 10 or 20 years I'll think the most "I'd just like to say congratula about," Stickle said. tions and welcome. home," said se Work continued on the house nior Charlotte Stickle, 2L as she for several weeks - until the pro handed the oversized key to Cook ject ran out of money, said Edward and hugged her. . Welch, building director for the The project was organized by Scott County affiliate of Habitat for the college's Team Building Task Humanity. force, which was formed two years It got back on track abont a ago by college President William H. month ago when the college agreed Crouch as a way to bring faculty to give the organization an $8,0b0 Patricia Cook looked out of interest-free loan in addition to its her new house. She will live previous $5,000 donation, Welch there with her two sons. tT9~!~~r~)t!l~ct said. gram and ability to repay the Joan. ·/•r.Wlille:manyKentuckfans · "The partjcipation from the For many people like Cook, .."focus onilie Kentucky lmby · school has been great," he said . Habitat for Humanity offers one of -this weekena,:volunteefs · · "They have a lot of ownership in their only opportunities to own a :Morehead will be•ra~lput . this house." house. . ' ·h•' -, ; ·. ,i• S~/jkh• '";, ' . up a ouse. : r ,,m:i,i,,:trp:, ' The home, in the center of Cook, 34, a single mother of .- J: On Saturday, members of the · Georgetown, is the seventh built boys ages 9 and 12, works two jobs ' Morehead Area Habitat.foe· on Habitat Street, named for the to support her family. She now , Hliinanity 'and Frontiei':Hciusing local Habitat for Humanity, a non rents'a two-bedroom apartment in ~Inc:,wiiI kick off theii'O:tirat ' profit Christian housing ministry downtown Georgetown. :~bi!3litzhomeRwJ~·pro- that sells homes to needy families Within a month, her family will :J~i'. ,. ':,. 1· '..:. ~~;::~:",;\;?- · . at cost with no-interest mort be moving into their new one-story, ·, •sOiice completed;'the home· gages. three-bedroom home. The boys are ''will be·sold,througha"nO:inter The average cost of a habitat so excited that they have already e'st mortgage to aneedyooily house is $30,000, Scott County select;ed their rooms, she said. ii1 the area. Tlie groµp plans to Habitat President Ed Boden said. Mom's pretty excited, too. rcoinplefe theliquse,by·May 11. Families are selected by a "I didn't think I ever would own committee based on their level of a home," she said. "It just blew my :' ~;;-;:~• . :..• ··> -~ 1 '-; -tt~~H:ti~Powru_ need, willingness to join in the pro- mind, totally." 1v,:;u Cliµ ~11eet . . MSU ARCHIVES A H!J1PIB of rec6f1t articles of mt8fest to MorBhNd State Univ8fsitv INSTITUTIONAL RELATIONS MOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY UPO BOX 1100 MOREHEAD, KY 40361 -1689 606-783-2030 LEXINGTON HERALD-l.EAOER. LEx1NGTON. Kv. ■ FRIDAY, MAY 3, 1996 ' ~ollege graduations b ~ ~ STAFF REPORT llstln.,.• Several colleges and community colleg _.. will begin the graduation season with cere A complete list of monies tonight and Saturday. upcoming college will be :graduation cer&- Graduation held tonight at W ' ington, Elizabethtown, MaysviJle and 1 monies in our cir So •culation area will set community colleges. · ,apfJar in Satur U.S. District Judge Jennifer Cofbnan dff editions. speak at LCC's graduation, which will Ii • held at 6:30 p.m. at the University of Kef tucky's Memorial Coliseum. The Daily Independent, Ashland, Kentucky, Thursday, May 2, 1996 · o~at · · cH materiuize, and Pikeville Col lege bad the administrative and support staff already in ge ·nitial place. ' upporters predict the Paintsville Mayor Robin PIKSVILLE (AP) - A na project will produce at least 40 Cooper said the bottom line tionaf uaoctation bas men ne,v jobs a an average salary was that "it's a for-profit-type pnmatonal accreditation,fd'an of W,;000. of investment, and it's very osteopathic medical scbool for "It would be the greatest hard for a lot of people to em Eastern Kentucky. 'tbing to happen since the coal brace that." A 10-member panel of the boom or the (Pikeville moun- One person who didn't em American Osteopathic As tain) cut-through," Pikeville brace the project was Magoffin sociation in Chicago gave the Mayor Steve Combs said. County Judge-Executive initial approval to the pro "It would have the impact of Charles "Doc" Hardin, who is posed schoot on Sunday. Gov. two or three small factories chief of staff at, Paul B. Hall Paul Patton traveled to Chi cago and gave a presentation here." Medical Center in Paintsville. to the panel in support of the Osteopathy is literally the· Hardin told the Lexington school, which would be affili medicine of bones. Osteopaths Herald-Leader that he declined ated with Pikeville College. take a more holistic approach to use his close ties with "That recommendation now to treatment than MDs, but former Gov. Brereton J ones to goes to the full board," said they go.through the same four- 6btain an ARC grant for the Patton's spokeswoman, Mel year course of medical train- project. issa Forsythe. ing and residency. He said he was loathe to use Paintsville attorney Chad Perry said he chose to sup- up his political favors on Perry m, who came up with port an osteopaths' school be- something that had no direct the idea, said Patton's involve cause DOs, as they are called, impact on his constituents. ment played a big role in the tend to stay in rural areas and And Hardin, an MD, said he a pproval. Perry said- ftMI ap in family practice. has some rese_rvations about proval was now a "matter of State Sen. Benny Ray Bailey, osteopathic schools. formality." D-Hindman, said this might be "To the best of my under The prospect of a medical the answer to a lack of place- standing of medical institu school has sparked great en ments in the mountains by the tions and schools, (osteopathic thusiasm in Pikeville and Pike medical schools at the Uni- schools) are a money-losing County. It has received $3 mil versity of Louisville and Uni- proposition," he said. lion in pledges, including $1 versity of Kentucky. "If you're going to train peo- million put up by Perry. "I think it's really the only ple to be professionals, particu Pikeville Methodist. Hospital way you're going to fill the larly in health care, you need has pledged $800,000 over the need up here," he said. to make sure they're trained to next four years, and the city of Paintsville officials were dis- the utmost degree because our Pikeville and the Pike County appointed that th e school people deserve the same high Fiscal Court have promised didn't locate there. quality care as people receive $250,000 each. Pikeville Na But financial support did not in other places." tional Bank has also pledged $200,000, and Patton is working The Daily Independent, Ashland, Kentucky, Thursday, May 2, 1996 with the Appalachian Regional WKU regents bolste~ the women's Commission . on a '600,000 &-. • athletic program. grant. OK 1.ee hike About 15 students BOWLING GREEN - protested, saying they Western Kentucky were given little prior University regents knowledge about the fee narrowly approved a $25 increase. increase in student fees Pres,ident Thomas Wednesday to help Meredith said students were consulted. ~I Plc}..J. -Lj-~o-,17 Mo/:1 ~~ I q But, officials say, the college is COMMENCEMENT SCHEDULES more proud that Gov. Paul Patton Hazard Community College: will give the commencement speech Today 7 p.m .. Memorial Gym: 162 gradu than it is nostalgic about Lees' last ates: Speaker: Elisabeth Zinser. year as an independent institution. Campbellsville University: Rather, Lees officials hope to lO a.m., Powell Athletic Center: 170 chancellor of the University of Ken tucky's Lexington campus. celebrate that this is the second graduates; Speaker: William W. consecutive year 40 nursing stu Marshall, executive-secretarv :trea Kentucky State University: 9 a.m .. Farnham Dudgeon Civic dents graduate, a big step for the surer of the Kentucky Baptist Con Appalachian college. In addition. vention. Center: 246 graduates: Speaker: U.S. Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton, D-Dis enrollment has inched higher each Union College: 10 a.m .. Rob of the last three years. showing sion Arena: 328 graduates: Speaker: trict of Columbia: Honorary degrees: Juanita K. signs of progress. William Chace, president of Emory "This is not going -to be. ·Jet's University; Honorary degrees: Burks, Louisville businesswoman: and Gertrude Ridgel, retired educa pull out our crying towels and Chace: the Rev. K. Richard Holla everybody wail time,' " said Robert day, a Louisville minister: and tor at KSU. Lees College: 1:30 p.m., Van Lowdermilk, a spokesman for Lees. Corella Bonner, founder of the "We'll acknowledge (Lees· last com Corella and Bertram Bonner Foun Meter Gymnasium; 101 graduates: Speaker: Gov. Paul Patton. mencement) but that will not be the dation and a native of Southeastern focus of the graduation.'' Kentucky. Lindsey Wilson College: 10 a.m., Biggers Sports Cent~r: 170 Sunday, May 5 graduates; Speaker: astronaut Story Sunday, May 12 Musgrave: Honorary degrees: Mus Asbury College: 3 p.m., University of Louisville: Hughes Auditorium; 154 graduates; grave: Robert Holloway, Board of Trustees member; Asa Shelton, for 1:15 p.m., Freedom Hall Coliseum; Speaker: Dr. Tony Campolo. 2,000 graduates; Speaker: Elaine University of Kentucky: mer dean of faculty; and the Rev. Rachel James, pastor of Columbia Chao, president and chief executive noon, Memorial Coliseum: 5,241 officer of United Way America: graduates: Speaker: John R. Hall, United Methodist Church and dis trict superintendent of United Honorary degrees: Chao: chainnan of the board and chief ex Bernard Dahlem, shopping center ecutive officer of Ashland Inc.; Hon Methodist Church. . Midway College: 11:30 a.m., developer; Sharon Porter Robinson, orary degrees: Hall; John Henry, a assistant secretary of U.S. Depart sculptor and Lexington native: and Fannie H. Graves Amphitheater: 179 graduates; Speaker: Karen ment of Education; and Frank Wal Jean Weiss Calvert, former chair of bank, a retired Liverpool University advisory board at Maysville Com Bearden, president of The Bearden Group and member of the Midway professor and expert on ancient his munity College. tory and classical archaeology. Western Kentucky Univer College Board of Trustees. sity: 2 p.m., E. A. Diddle Arena; Morehead State University: Thursday, May 16 1,179 graduates; No speaker. 10:30 a.m., Academic-Athletic Cen ter; 800 graduates; Speaker: Prestonsburg Community Monday, May 6 Stephanie Dye, student: Honorary College: 7 p.m .. Jenny Wiley State Park Amphitheater; 111 graduates; Jefferson Com1,11unity Col degree: former Gov. Brereton C. Speaker: Barbara E. Williams, grad lege: 6:30 p.m., Louisville Gardens; Jones. 395 graduates; Speakers: UK Presi Murray State University: 9 uating student. dent Charles T. Wethington Jr. and a.m., Quadrangle; 1,200 graduates; Friday, May 17 Community College System Chan Speaker: Tricia Richardson, out cellor Ben Carr. standing senior woman; and Mark Lexington Theological Sem Walker, outstanding ~enior man; inary: 10 a.m., University of Ken Friday, May 10 Ho~orary degrees: Harry L. Crisp II, tucky's Memorial Hall; 38 gradu Kentucky Christian Col chairman and chief executive offi ates; Speaker: the Rev. Cynthia K. lege: 10 a.m., Lusby Center audito cer of Marion (Ill.) Pepsi-Cola Bot Stratton, pastor of Bon Air Christ rium; 86 graduates; tling Co.; H. Glenn Doran, chief ex ian Church in Richmond, Va Speaker: Emily Timchenko, ecutive officer of People's Bank of president of the Crimean-American Murray: Arnold Frazier Guess, re Saturday, May 18 College, Simferopol, Ukraine: Hon tired deputy superintendent of ad Cumberland College: 10 a.m., orary degrees: Timchenko: the Rev. ministration for Kentucky Depart 0. Wayne Rollings Center: 206 Wayne B. Smith, Lusby Award, for ment of Education: and Jae Wook graduates: No speaker: Honorary mer senior paster at Southland Park, president of Kyungbuk degrees: James T. Cook, Joan Cook, Christian Church. Women's Foreign Language College and Harry G. English, an attorney Southeast Community Col in South Korea. in New York City. lege: 6 p.m., courtyard of South Northern Kentucky Univer east; 296 graduates: Speaker: Marco sity: All ceremonies in Regents Saturday, May 25 M. Rajkovich, a UK graduate in law Hall. College of Professional Studies Transylvania University: and engineering and native of I, 9 a.m., 407 graduates; College of 10:30 a.m .. McAlister Auditorium: Lynch. Professional Studies II, 11 a.m., 397 200 graduates: Speaker: William T. graduates; College of Business, 2 Buice JII, trustee of the Steele-Reese Saturday, May 11 p.m., 301 graduates;. College of Arts Foundation; Honorary degrees: Alice Lloyd College: I p.m., and Sciences, 4 p.m., 527 gradu Buice and Norwood "Buddy" Campbell Arts Center; 56 gradu ates; Chase College of Law, 6 p.m., Cowgill Jr., founder and CEO of Stu ates: Speaker: Denver Klaassen. 121 graduates. dio Plus Hotels and Board of Ashland Community Col Pikeville College: 2 p.m., col Trustees member. lege: 9:30 a.m., Paramount Arts lege gymnasium: 160 graduates; Center; 167 graduates; Speakers: Speaker: Dr. James W. Holsinger Jr .. Sunday, May 26 Honor students and alumni. chancellor of University of Ken Berea College: 2 to 4 p.m .. Eastern Kentucky Universi mcky Chandler Medical Center: new Seabury Center: 220 graduates: ty: 1:30 p.m., Roy Kidd Stadium Honorary degrees: Holsinger: and Speaker: John Egerton, a Kentucky (weather permitting): 2.100 gradu John "Jack" B. DuPuy Jr., Board of native and award-winning author: ates: Speaker: C. \"ernon Cooper. re Trustees member. Honorary .degrees: Egerton and Bri tired businessman from Hazard: St. Catharine College: 10:30 an Lamb. television executive and Honorary degree: Cooper. a.m., St. Catharine Hall: 110 gradu founder of C-SPAN. Georgetown College: 10 a.m., ates: Speakers: Patty and Shanna 1 Sunday, June 2 Gidding~ L:1'. .•::: 2G8 g:2du:1tes: Tarvin. Speaker: Nikky Finney, University Thomas More College: l:30 Centre College: 3 p.m., Newl of Kentucky assistant professor of p.m .. Connor Convocation Center: in Hall in the Norton Center for the creative \\Titing: Honorary degrees: 240 graduates: Speaker: The Rev. .-\.rts: 223 graduates: Speaker: Creed Wayne Johnson. professor of music Germaine Marc'hadour. of Angers. C. Black, president of the John S. for 39 years: and Terry Otten, a France. a scholar of Thomas ~fore. and James L. Knight Foundation 1959 Georgetown College alumnus and former chairman and publisher and English professor at Witten of the Herald-Leader: berg University. THE CCURIER-JOURNAL • SUNDAY, MAY 5. 1996 LEXINGTON H ERALD·LEAOEA, LEXINGTON, KY. ■ Saturday, May 4, 1996 Union College names _Indiana Ohio administrator t colleges replace retiring leadJr ra1s1ng• • I BY BRIAN BENNETT I HER '., .~~.. construction gels, ~i't~ff;pf1i~Will - . ' . ., '.L.i-,-,... . !-.-·. -~· .. ..,; - • •'"·-·•·'- -·-·- ..• ~\'- . • Assoc1ATED PRESS on maintenance. But liKe many of its recommendations FRANKFORT.,-- Although the coming siate b1,1d- for the coming t996-98. budget, the-·priorities_ viere get contains relatively few construction, items, new pro- changed one~ legislators got a hold:of them:The board jects once again took priority over ina.intaining the met yesterday to review the session ,and .what hap, buildings the state already owns. · .. . · pen¢ to its ideas. __.;· · · .,,-;; ;,, ..c; • , >'. -~ ~. ._;. Maintenance money was chopped from the recom- · Abiilit-three'fotirths-oftne'board's 971specific rec' . mendations made by Gov. Paul Patton, and many oniniendations for construction,.,renovations or mainte- ' agencies were told to come up with their own money nance were. app~oved,iir some fonifby theJegjslature, for repairs instead of direct use of tax dollars. . . Some of the more noteworthy exclusions were planning For example, the initial budget recommend:ition for a new state office building in Frankfort, a vocation from Patton asked for $12 million for a deferred '.main- al school at Danville .and.a new Kentucky State Police tenance pool for use by most executive branch agen- post at La Grange.,. cies. The General Assembly earmarked $3.5'million. On the other hand, there are several'construction Maintenance pools for various agencies were to get items in the budget that the board did not recommend. $38 million in Patton's original budget. The legislature Those include a classroom building at Prestonsburg cut.that to $29 million. Community College and a classroom building at East But the budget will add as much as $103 million to em Kentucky University. Prestonsburg is the home of the current $3.4 billion value of state buildings. · House Majority Flood.eader Greg Stumbo. Richmond The Capital Planning Advisory Board; which was is the home and EKU the employer of House Appropri created in 1990 to provide a neutral overview of the ations and Revenue Committee . Chairman Harry state's capital needs, had recommended more emphasis . Moberly. lExJNGTON HERALD-LEADER. LEXINGTON, KY. ■ -TUESDAY, MAY 7 • 1996 Preacher treated. far worse than LEXIN~TON HERALD-LEADER, LEXINGTON KY. ■ TuESDAY, MAY 7, i996 rowdy UK fans : UK Education College·reaccredlted:·TheUni recently read in the• Kentucky Kernel . I . :versity of Kentucky College of Education has been and Lexington Herald-Leader that a local reaccredited for the next four years by the National pastor was arrested on the University of . Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education the Kentucky campus while he was preaching . university announced yesterday. The accreditation at the Student Center's Free Speech Area. t~ repo~e_d that UK's education college merited spe As a UK alumni and a UK employee, I cial recogmt10n for faculty diversity. must say I was outraged at and ashamed of the actions of the UK Police. · - COMPILED FROM STAFF, WIRE REPORTS. If you will remember a few weelj:s ago, thousands of UK students took to the streets of Lexingtorr when UK won the na tional championship. Many of these stu dents were drunk, nude, loud and disorder ly, yet only a few were arrested. However, •; one lone man- in the Free Speech 'Area is arrested because he is preaching the THE COURIER-JOURNAL , TUES · . Gospel of Jesus Christ too loudly:·· ·• _ _ :_ ~~MAY?, 1996 . I don't know why this shocks me so 1 · much though, because it seems like Chris ~!1:rsing program ?aTIS are not allowed to voi~e their,opin° 10ns anymore. But hopefully as long as · 1s~accelerated . there are preachers like David McCracken, . ::)ellarmine · College has an _-: the Gospel of Jesus Christ will be '. · :· , nouhced an accelerated program · .. preached, and for your sake, (or should I-,· :,: that will enable students to earn a say your soul's) you better be listening. · -·'.'. ~ach~lor of science in nursing de DAWN.-MALLORY; ·"· gree m.12 months. The program is LfXINGTON° ·-.;1 aesigned for students who already . · bola3'! undergraduate degree . For information, call (502) 452- 8155. Mo/:> 3, 1'1'1(o MSU Clip A sample of recent articles of interest to Morehead State University INSTITUTIONAL RELATIONS MOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY UPO BOX 1100 MOREHEAD, KY 40361-1689 606-783-2030 LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER, LEXINGTON, KY. ■ WEDNESDAY, MAY 8, 1996 Consultants called in for LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER, LEXINGTON, KY. ■ WEDNESDAY, MAY 8, 1996 dispute at Mefilcal experiment Prestonsburg Osteopath school would help region, raises concerns HERALD-LEADER STAFF REPOm: f luring doctors to rural areas which will be affiliated with Three consultants will visit Pre · were easy, we probably wouldn't Pikeville College, are not without ~tonsburg Community College next Ihave had the long-runriing', TV concerns. And the school certainly week to try to settle a dispute be show "Northern Exposure." shouldn't be looked atas the magic tween the faculty and the college's president, Deborah Floyd. In reality, a host of experiments pill that will suddenly persuade an The fact-finding team will con have been tried with limited success adequate number of doctors to hang sist of: R. Claire Guthrie, a consul over the. years to entice doctors to out shingles in Owsley and Magof- tant from Richmond, Va.; B. Diane practice in underserved areas. fin counties. . · . Davis, chairwoman of the behav . Among them is the National'Health One concern is the size of the ioral and social studies division and , Service Corps, the type of program class, Some health educators ques- professor of psychology at Oakton Community. College, [n- Des. Plaines, , that forced the fictional Dr. Fleisch- tion the school's ability to find ade Ill.; and Nicholas Trott Long, a man from New York to-do a tour of qtiate clinical training for 60 stu- Rhode Island lawyer and part-time duty in remote-Alaska·. · dents a year after their first two · counsel to the state's commissioner . The National Health Service. years of classwork. Before. the of higher education. , Corps underwrites the medical edµ- . school opens its doors. to its first The team will talk with faculty, · cation of students who promise to"·· -class, we hope it has firm commit- staff, students and administrators, as well as members of the college's work for two years in underserved ments for clinical training positions advisory and foundation boards. areas. States like Kentucky have ·: . within the state - and that they -"Their mission is to bring peo- , , benefited from such health profes, ··.'don't jeopardi~e the training of the ple together," said Bernie Vonder , sionals for years, although few re- state's other medical students at the heide, a spokesman for th~.!Jn!ver : main much beyond their obliga- University of Kentucky and the sity of Kentucky, which runs the tions. And 49 Kentucky counties - · University of Louisville. · · ,· ' community colleges. :• : most in Eastern Kentucky -. are · A second worry is whether the Vonderheide said the: team doeR not have a deadline for ·submitting : still classified a:s medically·urider- ·. school will have any assurance that its report · served. · ' : ·. · . ' · ·-,\its students will remain in East.em Each of the three consultants · Which brings us to the latest Kentucky to practice. Contractual will be paid a maximum of $5,000, . proposal to boost the number of agreements are not unheard of in Vonderheide said, depending on : family practice doctors in rural higher education, especially if a stu- how long they stay in Prestons burg. They also will receive travel Kentucky: opening a private osteo- dent receives stipends or other expenses. pathic medicine school in Pikeville. types of financial aid. We hope the The Prestonsburg faC\!!ty in The proposal passed its first college founders will explore what March issued a no-confidence vote hurdle last week with provisional has worked elsewhere - including in Floyd, who has been at the col accreditation from the American private scholarships linked to rural lege for five years. UK and the col Osteopathic Association. The full practice commitments. lege's local advisory board, though, have defended her leadership. board will consid~r the request next Finally, we are concerned that Floyd, who asked UK to hire month. what starts as a private school will consultants to try to mediate· the The school, spearheaded by gradually seek state subsidy, as disagreement, said she welcomes Paintsville lawyer Chad Perry III; happened in West Virginia. For a · the process, hopes to admit 60 students a year. state that already has two state- "I actually consider dialogue Osteopaths receive training similar supported medical schools, admit- healthyt she said. "I encourage dia logue." to medical doctors but are consid- ting 219 students a year, this would ered more likely to remain family be a poor use of scarce higher edu- practitioners. cation resources. If any of the Is this a good idea? On balance, school's backers have eventual state we think it is. It is a private solu- support in mind, we hope they will tion that springs from Eastern Ken- show their cards before they pro tucky, rather than a public solution ceed further. imposed from outside the region. Osteopathic doctors are legiti- And it represents a multimillion- mate medical professionals who can dollar private investment in educa- help bridge the gap that has per- tion in Eastern Kentucky, the value sisted in rural Kentucky for genera- of which should not be underesti- tions. They alone will probably not mated. solve the problem, but they will But plans for the Southern probably do no harm. And they just School of Osteopathic Medicine, might help. WEDNESDAY,• , MAY 8, 1996 ■ LExlNGTON HERALD:.LlcADER, L EXINGTO N, KY • ■ COMMUNITY 3 UK students ---- . combat racism Duo learned skills at Anytown BY LEON STAFFORD It also helps that the Anytown del stration of how ?ate works egates are talren out of their natur HERALD-lEADER STAFF WRITER • through skits and a video. ude McPherson wanted noth The group has a core member ------al environments ing more than to leave Ken ship of eight people. but ~as seen Sign up and spend the week at Rough Jtucky when he · graduate_d turnout at its meetmgs Jump (0 The National from high school in 1993. His more than 100 in recent months m Conference's River Lake in dream was. to escape the pain he response to what are believed to Anytown, Ken Grayson County. thought his blackness had brought be racially motivated attacks on tucky program There they feel him in Woodford County. · students at UK. will be June 9- free to let go of -His grades, however, ~ade.it AwARE's meetings are frank, 15. To sign up, the prejudice impossible for him to get-mto one Meget said. Ta/king . abo~t race call the National that might be a of the black colleges he wanted to Conference, part of home and means challenging peoples p_er 277-4434. attend. He enrolled at the Universi- ceptions about one another, which community. ty of Kentucky. -. · : can be uncomfortable. But Meget, Meget and Kelly Meget had few con~s whci will graduate thi~ sprin~ with McPherson are examples of what . about race when she was growmg a bachelor's degree m soc10logy can happen when people change up. Of the 10,444 peop\e in Inde and plans to · attend · grad~iat_e environments. pendence, her hometown, 116 are school at the University of Michi "When I first came here, I minorities, according to· the 1990 gan, said the discussion is needed. think I did retreat," Meget said. •[ U.S. Census Bureau count When "Racism is a very ugly prob was the typical white student. Meget who is white, enrolled at lem with a very checkered history• This (racism) doesn't concern me. UK i~ 1992, she did not think It won't be solved by just hold~g This is not my problem." about the different races that · hands and dialogue," Mege~_sai~;. McPherson's choice · was to would be at the school. She W/IS "It's going to g~t ~gly_ sometunes. pretend racism didn't exist or to focused on getting an education. · . Racism is mstitutional and ~ be angry, He decided to do neither. N"either Meget, 22; nor McPher much a· part ofthe American ~bric Instead, he became involved in son, 21, ilnagined that _in 1996_!!!_1:y_ • that it'is hard to address without changing attitudes. would. be at' the forefront in'·the teariµg everything · we hold dear "I wonder if going to a black fight against racism at UK. Nei apart, Meget and McPherson agreed. college would have limited my ther did they imagine they would "We've stayed away from the contact' with a diverse communi be doing it as a team. ..· : _- _.. _- 'we are good, you are bad' ta~c," ty," McPherson said. "Here I've The common thread· in_ their said McPherscn, a junior in En~lis~ learned the skills to interact." lives is Anytowil, Ken~cky, a_ . who will transfer to Eastern Michi weeklong leadership camp for gan University this fall. "W~ don't high school students sponsored by point fingers at peopl1;, We porn~ fin. the National Conference. Meg et. gers at the structures m ~ty. has been a counselor, and McP,her The reaction to therr ~~rk son has been a counselor and dele with AwARE isn't all positive. gate, which is what the- ieen-age. they have been called bleeding participants are called. .. I heart liberals and accused of fos · Anytown has done a great tering division among students. deal for both in helping to develop Mildred Bailey, director of the the skills to fight racism. minority college awarenes~ p~o gram in the UK Office of Mmonty · "I am not the same person I Affairs, said Meget and McPher was when I first· went to Any. son are very committed. town," said Meget, who has been a "Even when nobody was at an counselor the last three years, "My issue meeting, they were there," first time there, I think I went -Bailey said. "We will suffer a set through the process with the dele :, back when they leave, but I hope gates because I was learning to do my job." it's not a devastating one. I want to be positive and think that people Delegates -address prejudice,. will not let this die because they are learn to interact with people who i•:gone." . are different, discuss personaC '" The beauty of Anytown is that strengths and weaknesses, and are delegates are young enough to trained to lead. , have open minds, Meget and "In a nutshell, it's fun to see the ;,McPherson said. · growth that the kids go through ,u "The kids seem mo~e open to during that week," McPherson said. , talking about these thmgs than "The students understand the area the college students," Meget said. that they have to work on to better themselves." ____ _ Meget and McPherson also LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER, LEXINGTON, KY. ■ WEDNESDAY, MAY 8, 1996 have grown because of the experi ence. They head the Alliance ■ CAMPBELLSVILLE Working to Achieve Racial Equali University establishes nature preserve: ty, known as AW ARE, a student Campbellsville University announced.yesterday it has group addressing racism at UK. established a 135-acre nature preserve and manage The organization has put on 22 ment woodland 7 miles northeast of Campbellsville. programs_ sirice fall, including The Clay Hill Memorial Forest "will be used for multi Tunnel of Oppression, a demon- ple purposes including preservation of a core forest, establishment of demonstration forests ... environ mental education on all levels, public outreach and .. research,• said Gordon K. Weddle, professor of biology at the school. Plans call for a visitors center, hiking trails and an astronomi~l observatory. C\ l f.\°d d- - Lj -,?o -J"J /vto..,... i. ! '/9 l. MSU ARCHIVES MSU Clip Sheet A sample of recent articles of interest ta Morehead State University INSTITUTIONAL RELATIONS MOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY UPO BOX 1 100 MOREHEAD, KY 40351-1689 606-783-2030 The Daily Independent. Ashland. Kentucky, Wednesday, May 8. 1996 One last chance It is up to UK and Murray to reach agreement on engineering school A long-standing dispute be promise that gives both uni tween the University of Ken versities something they tucky and Murray State Uni want. UK would get its engi versity over the establish neering program, and Mur ment of an engineering pro ray would get the space to gram in Paducah may be offer more four-year degree nearing a conclusion. All programs in Paducah. More that is required is for the important, Paducah resi two schools to exhibit a level dents would get an engineer of cooperation that they have ing program and increased not shown in the past. opportunities to earn four The importance of what year degrees without leaving happens on this issue in the the city. coming weeks extends far be The legislature set a Sept. yond the Paducah area. UK 1 deadline for UK and Mur and Murray have the op ray to reach agreement on portunity to exhibit a level of the Crisp building, but Gov. cooperation that has been all Paul Patton and the Ken too rare in higher education tucky Council on Higher Ed in Kentucky. However, if ucation are pushing for a they fail to reach an agree much earlier agreement. ment, it will be yet another "The sooner the parties dismal example of two state are able to show the results universities allowing petty of a positive cooperative jealousies and turf battles to working relationship, the hurt themselves and the peo better off the citizens of west ple they are supposed to ern Kentucky will be," the serve. governor wrote in a letter to Jim Miller, chairman of the In an effort to solve the Council on Higher Educa battle over the engineering tion. school, the 1996 General As Council Executive Director sembly approved a bill aimed Gary Cox said if agreement at appeasing both UK and isn't reached before the Murray State. UK can con Council on Higher Educa struct an $8 million building tion's May 20 meeting, the to offer a four-year engineer council "will take appropri ing degree program on the ate action to assure the com Paducah Community College pletion of the project as if the two schools agreed or{ quickly as possible." allowing Murray State long The battle between state term use of UK's Crisp Edu institutions of higher learn cation Center .in Paducah. In ing over the engineering addition, Murray State fac school has been long, bitter ulty would teach some of the and embarrassing. UK and courses in the UK engineer Murray officials have one ing program last chance to bring it to an That's a reasonable com- end. Do it. THE COURIER-JOURNAL • THURSDAY. MAY 9. 1996 Ground broken for Midway library MIDWAY. Ky. - A ground-breaking ceremony for a new librarv LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER. LEXINGTON, KY. II THURSDA'r, MAY 9. 1996 was. held_ vest_erdav at _Midway College, which met a Sl.5 million ,una-ra1smg cnallenge trom Lucille Caudill Little . ~ MIDWAY . The S2.5 million Little Memorial Library, named in the honor of College breaks ground for library: :.lidway C:ui Little and her late husband, W. Paul Little. is expected to_be complet ea m 1997. :,.,ue broke ground \'esrerday Tor irs new 52.;) million Midway College President Rohen Botkin said, "Our academic com Li7tle Memorial Librarv. The college raisod $1.5 million munity is indeed grateful to hundreds of people, all of whom gave l1 > ineet a 1993 challenge from one of its trustees. gener?usly. and some even sacrificially." Lucille Caudill Little. who donated Sl million. The Lucille Little challenged the college in 1993 to raise the additional 1;brary, is expected to be comoleted in·l997. :unds .~eeded for the library by the end of 1995 to go with her$! mil- 110n gut. THE COURIER-JOURNAL • THURSDAY. _MAY 9. 1996 S·tatic revenue~-----: PROJECTS IN PERIL? List shows construction projects,· adopted by the General Assembly, and their priority. The projects are to be paid for with surplus funds. The jeopardizes number of projects completed depends on the size of the surplus. :;#{-! some projects i{\~~2~:J~- ""-ft'f''. By TOM LOITUS --~-·,}1. May 13, 1996 Dear Kentucky high school students and parents: Students and their parents often ask us about the best way to prepare for life after high school-for study in college or vocational school, for entry into the workforce. We evaluate the academic records ofthousands ofcollege-bound students each year, and that gives us a special perspective on what works well for students. Elementary and secondary schools are expecting more from Kentucky students. And so are we. Look at your high school years as the beginning ofyour education. Expect to become educated citizens who are life-long learners. Plan to keep on learning, whetheron the job, in classes, or on your own time. Ifyou do, you' II be able to succeed today, tomorrow, and into the 21st century. And how do you prepare for the future? 0 Take challenging courses beyond the pre-college curriculum, especially science, math, and foreign languages. Why not take an advanced placement or honors course? : 0 Don't coast in your senior year. Take strong electives that make you think 0 Learn to use your time well; develop self-discipline. 0 Participate-in school activities, organi7ations, and volunteer work. Learn to bea goodteammember. · 0 ~ccept leadership opportunities as they arise. Leadership roles management skills. .. teach 0 Read and read some more-including books that are not class assignments. 0 Write, write, write. Practice the process ofwriting, revising, and rewriting to develop this key skill. ' In the competition for admission to colleges,just as with the competition for ggod jobs and other desirable things in life, the successful person will be the well-educated, self-disci plined individual who has made good use ofthe opportunities available. We encourage you to make the choices that can lead to success. Study hard. We . wishyouweU'.'· . - . . --- . . .. · ,:• ... :. :., Sincerely, . •. James L. Grigsby Phil Bryan Jenny S1111'.)1er Eastern Kentucky University Murray State University . University of Louisville Lyman Dale Margaret H Winchell Cheryl Chambless Kentucky State University Northern Kentucky University Western Kentucky University Dan Comett Joseph Fink Fred Mullinax Morehead State University University of Kentucky Association oflndependent Colleges and.Universities The P~rtnership for Kentucky Sch_ool Reform 606/233-9849 The Daily Independent, Ashland, Kentucky, Saturday, May 11, 1996 Rowan native The winners were chosen receives honor from a pool of 52 regional winners. "Kentucky MOREHEAD - Rowan Straight," Offutt's book of County native Chris Offutt short stories, was a winner has been chosen as one of in the Midwest region. the 20 best young novelists Offutt has also written a in ·America by a national memoir, "The Same River literary magazine. Twice." His first novel will The June issue of Granta be published by Simon & magazine will be dedicated Schuster next year. .. to the work of Offutt and Offutt currently lives in the other winners. rural Iowa with his wife and sons. LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER, LEXINGTON, KY. ■ MONDAY. MAY 13. 1\/\io The Sunday Independent, Ashland, Kentucky May 12, 1996 ·V1rginia Rice, 89, dies; ~ollege breaks ground for library J\,lli)WAY-A ex-Morehead profes~or groundbreaking ceremony for a new library took place HERALD-LEADER STAFF REPORT . Scouts of America Bluegrass Coun- Wednesday at Midway MOREHEAD - Virginia Heiz- cil. College, which met a $1.5 er Rice, retired Morehead State Uni- On July 9, 1995, the city of million fund-raising versiry professor, died yesterday at Morehead honored her by naming challenge from Lucille the St. Claire Medical Center in that date as Virginia Heizer Rice Caudill Little, Morehead. She was 89. Day. The $2,5 million Little Mrs. Rice, of 117 West Second Mrs. Rice received her bache- Memorial Library, named Street, was the head teacher of edu- !or's and master's degrees in Home in the honor of Little and cation at Morehead State from Economics from the University of her late husband, W. Paul 1945-1965. She also was profess(if. Kentucky.· ., .. · °'';. · Little, is expected to be emeritus at the school and had.bee11-. . . She was the widow- of William, completed in 1997. a supervising teacher of home-ec9;·, :: ~Honie" Rice arid is survived by Lucille Little issued a $1 nomics at Morehead "High·School-7 'her two sons, William H. RiceJr•. of· million gift in 1993, and the University of Breckinridge; ·· · Columbia, S.C., and Lucien ·H. Rice challenging the college to which was at.one time aiiextensioti-: of Pfafftown, N.C. Slie also is ·sur ·raise the additional funds of Morehea~ State. .. ·.,: .,;;-; f*:)tyjved by four granddaughters, one needed for the construction .. Mrs .. Rice·was the past'secre:. grandson and one great-grand- of the facility by the end of tary and president of the Moreheacif: da,ughter. · . . . . 1995, The college raised the Row!ll County United Way, '.P,~1:';, ·.,;; Services. will be 2 pm. Tuesday money and met the president .. of · the Morehead,. ·afNorthcutt and Son Home for Fu deadline with the help of Woman's Club, past presideriti:cif,:;:·.nerals. Visitation.will be 5 p.11). to more than 150 alumni, the Kentuckx !:fo_me Ecpng#ii,g}?i\;i.Y at the funeral home._ Co'n~b? trustees, fowulations and Teachers Association, past ~·-/;tjons·are suggested to the \T'rrgmta corporate friends, dent of- the Kentucky· VocationaC' Rice Scholarship Furici, ·c/o More Associatjon ,and. :v:as ~n.e 9~~f.;;,b!!3,CI State· UJ?iversity;_Jli~:Jloy· founders of_!lieUruv~1ty Pf:~!1':S:,~!!ts of ~enca Bl1;1egrass_C ~~· STAFF, WIRE REPORTS "Many ~i your lif~;s most re ing your own heart for what is right · Fonner Gov. Brereton Jones warding experiences will come in the world," she told the 210 grad stressed personal responsibility and from your enthusiastic. service to uates at the school's 154th com family values in a speech to More mankind ... in your church, civil or mencement ceremony. nead State University graduates ganizations and through day-to-day At Midway College, the ap $sterday. contact with family, friends, neigh proximately 180 degrees awarded :=: Morehead State was among sev bors and others who need your represented the largest graduating ~I schools awarding degrees to help," said C. Vernon Cooper, re class in the college's 149-year his ;WJd~nts in commencement cere tir~d president of People~ Bank and tory. -fflOmes across Kentucky. Trust Co. in Hazard. Keynote ·speaker· Karen Bear =.: Speaking to more than 7,000 Eastern recognized more than den, a Midway trustee and presi .;iople, Jones said that drug abuse, 2,000 graduate's and degree candi dent of The Bearden Group, urged ::mimestic abuse and other societal dates during its 89th spring com the graduates to consider "time, or :Woblems "won't be solved in th~ mencement,. which was moved to der and the future." · ~tehouse, but in your house, my Paul S. McBrayer Arena because of "Success requires, a· healthy :jJUuse and God's house." inclement weather. spirit and soul," Bearden said. - "We must return to old-fash At Murray State University, de "Take time for reflection and reju :.ened family values," Jones grees were ·awarded to 1;912 stu- venation/' ;id:• . dents. '· ·' · Meanwhile, Lindsey Wilson Col ::: More than 800, undergraduate "May you always be women lege conferred 176 degrees, includ and graduate students were candi and men of initiative, commitment ing its first master's ctass, at its _1lates for degrees. Jones received an and integrity," said Murray State 71st annual commencement. :minorary doctorate of public service President Kem Alexander . Astronaut· Story Musgrave told •"from the school. Educator and poet Nikky the graduates that "there's going to =: Meanwhile, a businessman and Finney told Georgetown College be incredible· opportunities for you ·civic leader told Eastern Kentucky · graduates that their diplomas were all that you've never dreamed - :i;J'iiiversity graduates they should new birth certificates. . you can't possibly_know what .they ·i'iiich out to he)11_t_!l,eir communities. "You have a choice for search- are." LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER, LEXINGTON, KY. ■ SUNDAY, MAY 12, 1996 '.'!-' The deep roots iri Eastern Ken tucky were evident in the words Lees graduates its 'la~t these la'sfgraduates heard.yester day. Charles Derrickson,· president oi Lees, introduced the · keynote speaker as "the Honorable Paul E. class bef9re UK merger Patton, governor of Ke{\tucky from !,astern Kentucky." ·. . · ' BY JACALYN CARFAGNO Robert Garbesi, chairman of the . ; Patton himself praiseif the role HERAU>l.EAoER STAFF WRITER board. of trustees, told the audience of the school. "Lees is.a.part of the JACKSON - Perhaps· all you that without the .merger the two fabric- and the history of this re really need to know about the role year college "would not survive." ,i:pn,"· he said. . :,~:.:::~·.:·:, . · Lees College has.played in-Eastern Jana -Lynn Ricker, .\he ·salutato - Patton, who spoke only about Kentucky became clear when rian of the class, said she and other ~rn- minutes, said he would "see if Kathy Smoot asked a question of -members of the class had returned 'we cari't add additional :furiding" the last graduating class yesterday. io Lees to finish their degrees •:so foc community colleges and tiniver About two-thirds of the gradu- !hat we could graduate from Lees .'lihies in the next state budget. ates rose to their feet .when Smoot, College." . .:;: Lees, which has been affiliated Lees executive :::. "So that I could say 'after me, ·with the.Presbyterian·Cfiimili,":""Jiacf vice p~esident tj\e deluge,' " Ricker laughed. struggled with a deficit tliat at one and:chief operat • Like many others, Ricker is the time threatened the school's acade ing officer, asked first graduate in her family, al mic accreditation. Its/board. of those who were tfiough her father attended Lees trustees approached UK;·Iast May the first person in without getting a degree. Ricker, about a merger. UK's .board ap their families to who lives in Booneville, maintained proved the deal last August. ' get a college de- her 4.0 average while working at gree to stand. : . the United States Postal Service Edgar Raleigh, a 1958 graduate and keeping up with her family. who is now president of tlie alumni • The valedictorian, John Lyle association, said that is typical of Combs of Quicksand, also had a the classes that have come io Lees 4.0 grade average, but had taken since it was founded in 1883. "They more classes at Lees. came from the surrounding coun One of Ricker's classmates in ties, some after work," to have a the "commuter club," as they call it chance at higher education, he said. was Diana Nightingale of Beat The Lees tradition .will ·change tyville. As the two· posed for pic a little this summer when it ends tures with family members after its days as a private college and be the graduation they laughed as comes part of· the University of they recalled the early days of their Kentucky system as a branch cam friendship at Lees. pus of Hazard Community College. "We knew each other three "We just see it as an opportuni months and then realized we were ty," said Raleigh, who lives in Jack kin," said Nightingale, who is Rick son and served a year as dean of cr·s third cousin. students at Lees after retiring as a school administrator. · ·· · .. . . flood business climate 1fuels· college's gains KCC is currently renovating of buildings on campus to 16. By DONNA ENGIAND its oldest dormitory and re- The expansions have been FOR THE DAILY INDEPENDENT cently finished renovations to primarily paid for by contribu Lusby Hall and the administra- tions from individuals, GRAYSON - Kentucky tion building. churches and foundations, Christian College has been a Dundon said the 77-year-old Dundon said. major partner in Grayson's ex- institution set a new record He attributes the school's pansion. this year for full-time student growth to its unique mission Record enrollments in the enrollment with more than of preparing students for ser past five years have put the 500. That's up from around 450 vice in the church as well as school In a perpetual building five years ago. · · for a : variety of profes~ions mode. One of the new buildings is worldwide. · ·' · • · · Presently ,under con- a 54-unit student housing The gains have also_been f'u- struction is a $1.7 million stu- apartment complex for non- eled by ongoing business de dent recreation complex. The traditional students. velopment in Grayson and the McKenzie Student Life Center, "It provides housing for our cooperation of city officials. expected to open in late fall, older or married_ students," "Our local officials are very will have racquetball courts, a Dundon said. supportive and· open to fitness center and spa, and a The construction of' a com- growth," Dundon said. "I snack bar and grill, said KCC munity center and the pur- think that is what attracts Executive Vice President John chase of a new administrative business to this city. Grayson Dundon. ;•-' ..,, _ .office boosted the total number is just a good business .t.o~: ... : 0 . -n,; Sunday lnd~~;ndent, Ashland, ,Kentuc~y,, May :1.2, 1996 Firiµ- The Daily Independent, Ashland, Kentucky, Saturday, May 11, 1996 f~C preside~{. ~·~•·T"-1,·~.r···----•·-..~- __f~Ja" ·----...... facµlty~ .. - --~. ~ .. ·---"'· about Texas ·1eave·· m199i .... ,- ,:~:)"'~· .o;.: .., ..',, .... .,.. .. Texas. .. -. . · ' ers ·ctllllll she is autocratic By GEORGE WOLFFORD .' Dr. Deborah ··Floyd also and stifles academic free- OFTHE DAILY INDEPENDENT said a court suit she filed dam. .. . :. -~-:.' .,:_.;~ against Collin County ·com- A-deader of that group, . -PRESTONSBURG - The munity College -near Dallas math teacher John D. Sam president of/Prestonsburg was dismissed by a federal mans, claimed earlier this Community College and the district court only because week that University of Ken man who headed the search she and the school agreed to tucky Community College committee that brought her a settlement. . Chancellor Ben Carr never to . the school said she told told- PCC teachers about the entire ·-Pee· faculty in Floyd and a faction of the Floyd's situation at the 1991 that she was on ad PCC faculty have been open- Texas school. ministrative leave at the ly: at odds ·for. severaL --~-'------time from a similar school in months. The dissident teach- ·-; SEE PCC -. ·-- __ .,. .~...... violate the Americans with Disabilities Act, and her sepa ration from her husband son of a Collin County trustee: She remained on leave, with But Floyd and Bob McAn pay, from September 1990 until inch, faculty representative ori she took the job in Presto the search committee that nsburg in July 1991. helped bring her to Presto . She sued the Texas college nsburg, said Floyd herself told m September 1991 in federal the Prestonsburg faculty. court. claiming school officials In a meeting with faculty ~onspired to fire her and sub during her interview visit to Jected her to emotional dis Prestonsburg in the spring of tress during a 9-month investi 1991, Floyd said she told the gation. The suit charged that faculty that she was on paid Collin President John An administrative leave "and that thony tried to prove that she I would answer any questions. used college resources on her They just didn't ask, and the consulting business and used point was never argued " she college staff for her April 1990 said·Friday. ' , , wedding. McAninch agreed with that Court records showed Floyd account. He said Floyd talked and the college reached an out to him later in the interview of-court settlement in Novem process more in detail about b~r ~993, when the suit was her problems at Collin County d1sm1ssed. The college paid including the reason for th~ her $20,000 and she agreed not leave. , to pursue further litigation "You've got to remember against the school. what 'administrative leave Carr has appointed a three with pay' meant on this cam consultant panel to mediate pus at the time," McAnirtch the dispute between Floyd and said. "Our own president, Dr. the dissident faculty members Henry Campbell, was on -ad after Floyd asked for a consult ministrative leave because •he ant to break the. impasse be was ill. I remember that when tween herself and her critics Dr. Floyd told the faculty she The trio is expected to ~ was on leave, one of the-teach rive in Lexington to meet with ers asked if that meant she Carr on Sunday, then come to was favorable to sabbaticals, Pl?C on Monday to meet first and everybody kind of laughed with Floyd, then with a five and that was it." · . -: ,; . l., . member task force selected by UK spokesman· Bernie the faculty. . Vonderheide said ·Floyd "told Faculty and staff who want the folks in Prestonsburg she to meet individually. with the was on administrative leave, c~nsultants can schedule ses although I don't think she told sions on Tuesday and Wednes: them the whole story. She·was. day. ,, very open but they didn't ask.· She had nothing to hlde ...-')~(l Floyd said she exJ!lairted .her leave in detail to Carr. ~,h' '.. , ·- "He checked with all my em ployers and found I have a good performance record " she said. ' Floyd said she went on leave at Collin County following two events: her testimony against dismissing a student because of her concerns that it would ...._,,....,M.AV"'-"•"'-" a,!i,,4&•A.J ...... -..... -...... ,,, .. .., ...... ~ Chart shows the career directions of the Class of 1995 in grads' 'success' Jefferson County public high schools. Figures are percentages. Continued percent of each school's total KERA score. . . But the state's evaluation of the performance of graduates measures D El quantity, not quality. And it's rather , · Kentucky Other School VocaUonal simplistic. School Coll. Coll. and Work Technical Mllltary Work Grads who are working or continu ing their education are deemed 0 suc cessful." Graduates who aren't work ing or can't be located are "unsuc cessful." For the state, barber school counts the same as Har vard. Sweeping . floors at the Uni-· versity of Ken• tucky would count the same as studying there, for the state's de . STAFF PHOTO BY JAMES H. WAUACE termination of U of i. student Bob Ausmus, !art, got Ii briefing from Kentucky ,1,1 •• \ "success." Kingdom safety director Tom Douglas on Ausmus' first day on the Job. Nilaja Meeks, who graduated head to colleges in Kentucky. from Central ABOUT THIS SERIES Valley sends 50 percent of its graduates straight off to work. That's , ~~iITtTI.~!fttJ!ftg¼EfJIZ(¾JJ&lJ¾~flJl:1@:i:~f;Xae?:fRJBlJ.AQt?H Nllala Meeks High School last The Kentucky Education the highest percentage in the county. Shawnee 38.0 1.5 5.1 8.8 6.6 29.2 10.9 la "successful" year, and Bob Reform Act set new stan By contrast, only 2 percent of the because she Ausmus, who :sey~Jmmv1r@:A:1;p2,~mr?J?,~trnr;y4;4nyr¥11ey;t1;;;tW1J.tQ111w:1rn11~rwq; dards for what students, par grads from duPont Manual go Valley 27.3 2.0 8.3 3.4 7 .8 50.2 1.0 went on to graduated from · straight to a job. college. Fairdale, are ents and teachers should ex deemed success pect from the public schools. Butler Trailitional in Shively man- , M@1f~JfflVJ"/l,~\§jf*~;;:irEi!.1:ii'.mili'.#Jmr1EJW!lffl!ilkl'frlY\Z~i?@ Yesterday and today The aged to send a higher share of its stu ful because both went on to college. Source: 1995-96 School Profile Data Book So is Keisha Ramsey, a Western Courier-Journal examined dents to college (63 percent) than High School grad who went to techni two key obj~ctives of KERA. Atherton (60 percent), which is in the more affluent Highlands. And only 1 STAFF CHART BY MARC NORTON cal school for a couple of months and TODAY: KERA calls for is now a nursing assistant. preparing students for adult percent of Butler's grads were focus of the school. Ballard principal Sandy Allen said deemed unsuccessful, compared with And Bob Rodosky who is in ch rg The definitions of who's working hood. Statistics on how well 15 percent of Atherton's. , f th . . , • . a e her school does a good job of prepar also involve some Interesting value graduates are doing can be Toe school with the highest share · o . e district s demographi~s and re ing students for college placement judgments. Recent grads who are ful •. valuable, but the evaluation of unsuccessful graduates was . Jro- 1 ~ departmen(, also advi~es keep tests, but she concedes that its gradu~ filling religious obligations - such as · Is simplistic and may not re- · quois, which has many students from r mg the numbers ID perspective. . ates' college-attendance rate (82 per a year of mission work - are ~ounted fleet the schools' quality. poor families and which doesn't have ; Students from wealt~y homes, for cent last year) is due more to the fact as "working" but former students . special programs to attract the most ' instance, may be more likely to try _at that their parents went to college. who use graduation gifts or savings to YESTERDAY:KERAre 0 quires that ambitious expec academically minded students. Princi• ! least one s~mester of college, he ~aid. There is never a question in these spend a semester touring Europe are pal Beverly Johnson Jasmin said she Schoo!s with. ol_d and well-orgaruzed kids' minds but they're going to col counted as "unsuccessful." tations be set for all stu expects her school's showing to im- , alum"! assOCta~ons may have better lege," she said. Also, ideally, an evaluation of the dents. But how high should prove as counselors continue efforts· luck m tracking down graduates. Still, Robert Sexton, executive di performance of students after high the bar be? to get students the financial aid they Conversely, schools with highly mo rector of the Prichard Committee for school would track them far longer need to go to college. . bile student populations - such as Academic Excellence, said it's impor than six months, educators say. But authorities such as University Iroquois - may have more trouble tant for parents to expect and demand Still, the figures provide an inter sends nearly 36 percent of its grads to of Louisville education professor , finding students, dooming them to be that schools provide a good transition esting glimpse of the differences in college outside Kentucky, the highest George Bayne cautioned that ihe per- listed as unsuccessful. into adulthood for all students. career paths chosen by graduates of percentage in the district. formance of each school and career Principals at some schools that "The whole idea of keeping score different Jefferson County high Western sends fewer than I percent paths chosen by its graduates prob- have many graduates in college are like this is to challenge the excuses schools. of its students to college out of state, ably reflect the demographics of Its quick to acknowledge that parents that demographics determine out Ballard High School, for instance, the smallest share. But 51 percent student body more than the quality or play a big role In that decision. comes," he said. • "El? ltJtltfGTOlll li(R~lD-LU.O[R. LUl'ftilO•~. x,. ■ su~u. M•T 12, 1996 COMMENTARY An agenda for the South in an age of anxiety ~111rrtas111,:Ii-, t//r auac11/ a111l l'rnrrahlr IJ.1, ll'if/10111 l·h11n'1:e a culture that cnL'l!ural(~ too the higlJ.qu.,litr prngrani,; it nrt' IERALD-LEADER, lExlNGTON, KY. ■ TUESDAY, MAY 14, 1996 y Elliot Newman, vice president The national organization last of UK's Sigma Chi chapter, satd looked at the UNC house two years UK reviews fire that even though the fraternj/y ago, he said. owns the house, it still works w\!h Even though' Altwies thinks the the university and tries to act 9p North Carolina fire was an isolatea the inspector's suggestions. incident, he said he hopes the fire ~revention plan will help other schools focus on fire McCoy said many national fra ternity chapters do their own in safety. ,. spections, but that many rely most- "I hope other schools can learp ror frat houses ly on local codes. · from this." Nick Altwies, assistant execll BY LANCE WILLIAMS tive director for the International ,., HERALD-LEADER STAFF WRITER Fraternity of Phi Gamma Delta, A fatal fire that killed five people in a University of which is located in Lexington, said orth Carolina fraternity house over the weekend has it usually relies on local codes, but iised concerns about this type of student housing. does have occasional inspections :of "The first thing I thought about when I heard local chapters. bout (the fire) was, 'Wha,t do we have in place?' and Vhat precautions do we have?' " said Jay McCoy, as slant dean of students at the University of Kentucky, ho o.versees fraternities. LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER, LEXINGTON, KY. ■ TUESDAY, MAY 14, 1996 The North Carolina fire, which started early Sun- 1y morning, gutted the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity mse just hours after a pre-commencement party. Offi als are still searching for a cause on the Chapel Hill Higher education :e, but the tragedy has left other schools looking for ays to keep Greek houses safe. New task force should be guided by facts, not turf "Most (fraternity houses) do not have adequate 1fety measures," said David Cox, coordinator for stu he people of Kentucky have the Kentucky Education Reform !nt organizations and Greek affairs at Morehead State every reason to hope that an Act, it set aside $100,000 a year for niversity. Tupcoming study of post-sec-. two years so that task force could Cox said he had earlier served as an assistant di ondary education will help point the hire outside services such as con ctor with a national fraternity and had the opportuni . to visit houses across the country. way to prosperity for a state where sulting. Patton should find some He said most of the homes were built during the poverty has long lived in tandem money to aid the secondary-educa 140s or earlier, which makes it more difficult for with lack of education. tion task force's fact-finding. schools-and local officials to bring- The people of Kentucky also So who should be tapped for th1 the homes up to code without a have every reason to fear that the task force? People who possess large expense. study, called for by the 1996 legisla sharp analytical skills, who have a Nationally, many fraternity houses don;t have sprinkler sys ture at Gov. Paul Patton's behest, broad knowledge of the state but m tems like those in dormitories, he will produce just another task force compelling loyalties to any particu said. tome and perhaps some cosmetic lar institution of higher learning. "I think there's a high risk there changes. Executives or retired executives (for problems),"" Cox said. The choice - hope for the fu from Kentucky corporations, for ex McCoy, however, thinks UK is ture or another vote by default for ample, could bring useful perspec taking positive steps to ensure the safety of students living in these the status quo - rests initially with tives. They have a vested interest a: types of structures. the leaders of the legislature and · the ultimate consumers of post-sec He said UK's fire marshal re Patton. They soon will choose 18 ondary education's product, namely quires university-owned houses to people to chart a course into the graduates (or, all too often, meet higher standards than state codes~ - - -- - 21st century for Kentucky's univer dropouts). Faculty members, if they sities, community colleges and voca aren't blinkered by institutional loy UK owns 25 fraternity and sorority houses. There are six more tional-technical schools. alties, could bring a useful inside houses off-campus, which are It's crucial that Senate President out perspective. owned by the local organizations. John "Eck" Rose and House Speaker What we hope task force mem · Both UK and state officials in Jody Richards reach beyond their bers lack are the regional and politi spect· each house in the fall and fellow lawmakers as they each pick cal biases that invariably blind· make recommendations for im six task force members. Likewise, many lawmakers to the bigger pic provement If a chapter has several violations, a follow-up inspection is the governor should not send only ture in post-secondary education. required for the spring semester. hi~ li_eutenants on this important That's not to say legislative · In addition, Greek organizations m1ss1on. leaders, rank-and-file lawmakers must have two fire drills in the first It's also crucial that the task and members of the administration month and name a student fire mar force be given enough money to de do not have a useful place on the shal to make sure the houses' safe velop the best information possible task force. History suggests their ty features remain in good working condition. from inside and outside Kentucky, 'presence at the conception of ideas With the older houses, staying to help fashion its recommendations. gives those ideas a greater chance ahead of the codes hasn't been easy The critical importance of bas of becoming reality. They just for the school. • ing reorganizations on "a solid foun should not dominate the' task force. "It's been difficult to do, but we dation of timely information" is one Since there's no way every inter have done it on a gradual basis," McCoy said. He said he thought of the points stressed in a new pub est in post-secondary education can that more than half of the houses lication by the Kentucky Long-Term be included on an 18-member task had sprinklers. Policy Research Center. force, doesn't it make sense to enlist But not a penny is budgeted for independent people with fresh ideas hiring outside consultants. By con no turf to protect and the state's trast, when the '96 legislature autho best interests at heart for this most rized a study of possible changes in important task? ~ I r • LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER, LElGNGTON, KY. ■ WEDNESDAY. MAY 15, 1996 14 . COMMUNITY. ■..LEXINGTON. l:fERALD-LEAQER, L~l~GTQN; K~.' ... W~DNESDAY, tyl,\Y 15,, l,~~6 MOREHEAD UK apologizes to pastor "The third time is the chann." That's how Jill Fraley, daugh ter of Bryan and Pam Fraley of arrested for preaching Paintsville, describes her recent win in the 1996 Miss Morehead BY BRIAN BENNETT called the "ugly" incident. In his let State University . Scholarship HERALC,LEADER STAFF WRITER ter dated May 2, McCracken wrote Pageant. University of Kentucky·campus that campus police officers "body "It's a dream come true," said police have fonnally apologized to a slammed me face down onto the Fraley, a senior who is majoring in minister who was arrested last concrete patio and cuffed my hands communications with an emphasis month for preaching the Bible in the so tightly that marks remained for in electronic media. "I don't re school's Free Speech Area. · · four hours ... If anybody was out of member them saying my n;une or In a letter dat order it was the two officers." anything after the announcement ed May 7 to the McComas responded in his letter of the first runner-up." Rev. David L. Mc that "the UK Police Department ... Fraley said it was her third Cracken, UK Po will take all appropriate action with pageant this year and her third lice Chief WH. respect to the officers involved." year competing in the MSU con McComas said the University spokesman Ralph test. _ university "ex Derickson said the school would not Fraley sang "Where the Boys presses its deep comment on any possible discipli Are" in the talent portion of the est regrets for the nary actions, but he did echo the program. She plans to sing the incident" chiefs apology. same song when she competes for McCracken, McCracken "There was insensitivity in the state 'title in the Miss Ken pastor of , .v . volved in all of this," Derickson tucky Pageant at Transylvania Lafayette Church of the Nazarene said. "It was a very unfortunate sit University June 27-29. The Miss on Lafayette Parkway, was arrested uation, and the university does re Kentucky winner goes on to com April 25 in a designated Free gret it." pete in the Miss America pageant. Speech Area outside the UK Student Derickson said school officials Along with the Miss MSU title, Center. McCracken was preaching will work to make sure all employ she received a $1,200 scholarship Bible scriptures to a lunchtime ees understand the function of the and an official Miss America crowd of students when two UK po Free Speech Area. crown. lice officers told him to quiet down. · "That is a place where free Senior Heather Fore of Lexing When McCracken continued preach speech is not only pennitted, it's en ton, a social work major, was first ing, the officers arrested him and couraged," Derickson said. runner-up; second went to senior charged him with disorderly con McCracken, 55, of Versailles Holly Thompson, a theater major duct. . said he is "satisfied to date with the from Grayson; and third runner-up That charge was subsequently university's response" and that he was junior Scarlett Johnson of dismissed in Fayette District Court would continue preaching on cam Ashland, a radio-television major. on UK's recommendation. pus as he has done every week McCracken then wrote a letter to since August 1994. · UK President Charles T. Wething "I'm going to continue doing it," ton Jr. relating his side of what he he said. "Nobody can scare me off." THE COURIER-JOURNAL• WEDNESDAY, MAY 15, 1996 contributions the schcol has made Transylvania gets to any success we may enjoy," said Norwood Cowgill, who is chairman $1 million gift of the board and president of Stu . LEXINGTON - A Lexington dioPLUS Hotels Inc . couple who graduated from Tran Transylvania President Charles sylyania University have. donated Shearer called the Cowgill gift one $1 million to it to help construct a of the largest in the school's histo- building to house the departments ry. . of economics, business and educa • It will help finance construction tion: of a $2.5 million, two-story building The donors are Judy Cowgill and that will also house a state-of-the Norwood Cowgill Jr. art multimedia teaching center, five classrooms and 14 offices. "It gives Judy and me a great Construction is scheduled to be deal of satisfaction to be able to gin during the 1997-98 academic give something back to Transylva- n;a TTn;.,.. ..._.;n, ,.f:f,,,.., +I,,,,. .,.:;,.._:,= __._ vear. /VI o..~ II• /7 ·1 r,, M:;U Clip A sample of recent articles of interest to Morehead State University INSTITUTIONAL RELATIONS MOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY UPO BOX 1100 MOREHEAD, KY 40351-1689 606-783-2030 THE COURIER-JOURNAL • FRIDAY. MAY 17 1996 Papa John's founder fills deluxe order: $5 million By SHELDON S. SHAFER A graduate of Ball State Universi and one of about 20 planned corpo Staff Writer ty - but a big U of L fan - Schnat rate suites. ter said he wanted to give some · U of L also granted Schnatter a Papa John's Cardinal Stadium thing back to a region that has been personal concession: The stadium will be built from concrete, but a lot good to him and his company. · media room will be named for of pepperoni, sausage, anchovies uThis is home," he said. Charles Schnatter, his brother and and olives will make it possible. Schnatter will kick in $3 million partner in building Papa John's into John Schnatter, the young and upfront from his own pocket. He one of the countrys·fastest-growing wealthy founder of the home-grown and his company, which is now companies. pizza-restaurant chain usually shies based in Jeffersontown, Ky., will The deal has been in the works away from publicity. But yesterday give an additional $1 million each - for about three months. he put the stadium fund drive over in $100,000 annual installments Schnatter said one reason the the top by delivering $5 million in over the next 10 years. deal took so long is because he first dough. It is the largest gift ever to In exchange, Papa John's will get wanted to work out contributions to the University of Louisville· Athletic to put its name on the stadium for the fund-raising drive for the new Department. 15 years. At that point, the name Southeast Christian Church, of The contribution gives U of L the may be renegotiated, but Schnat which he's a member. He said it money it needs to begin building a ter's company would be given a a also took time for his tax lawyers to $49.8 million football stadium. chance to extend the deal, said review the stadium gift, which he The stadium will be ready for the Chancey, chairman and chief exec said will offer him some personal first game of the 1998 season utive officer of Bank One Kentucky. !SJ< advantages. against Kentucky, although about Papa John's also will get exclu Chancey, who has worked on the $5 million is still needed for an end sive rights for 15 years to sell its stadium project for eight years, de zone football complex, said banker · pizza at the stadium. The company scribes U of L's fans as the most pa Malcolm Chancey, who's leading will get 30 to 50 tickets per game tient in the country. the fund drive. . It's. been three years since Cardi LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER. LEXINGTON, KY. ■ FRIDAY. MAY 17, 1996 nal fans provided the first building block by pledging $15 million in . e from Individual gifts and from a local lifetime seat purchases. • bond issue. If U of L trustees approve the On tim project Monday, ground will be John Schnatter, the founder and CEO broken for the stadium in early of Papa Johrrs and a native of Jefferson June. delivery ville, Ind., said discussion of the contribu THE COURIER-JOURNAL• THURSDAY, MAY_16, 1% tion began with a meeting he had with Chancey three months ago. UK apologizes to Pizza chain gives "We were actually going to come in arrested minister with an unpretentious role," said Schnat LEXINGTON - University of $5 million, name ter, whose company topped $450 million H;entucky campus police have in sales last year. "But Malcolm asked apologized to a minister who was us, in the last 10 days, if we wanted to arrested last month for preaching to U of L stadium step up to the plate." in the school's Free Speech Area. AsSOCJATED PRESS In a letter to the Rev. David L Louisville football coach Ron Cooper LOUISVILLE - A $5 million McCracken, Chief W.H. McComas wore the biggest smile at yesterday's said the university "expresses its contribution from the Louisville news conference and said he wou lrl deepest regrets for the incident.'' based Papa John's pizza chain has personally deliver five Papa John's pizzas McCracken, pastor of Lafayette giveo University of Louisville offi tonight around the Louisville area. Church of the Nazarene, was ar cials the money they need to begin rested April 25 in a Free Speech construction of a $56 million foot "We will no longer have to worry Area outside the UK Student Cen ball stadium. about somebody coming in and saying, ter. He was preaching to a lunch 'We will not come to the University of time crowd of students when two Ccnstruction on the 45,000-seat Louisville to play in that facility,' " UK officers told him to quiet down. Papa John's Cardinal Stadium will Ccoper said. When he continued, the officers ar officially begin at a groundbreak rested him and charged him with ing ceremony in early June, said The stadium will have a grass field disorderly conduct. Malcolm Chancey, who headed the that will also accommodate a full-size The charge was dismissed in stadium financing committee. soccer field and an a:ea for concerts, Fayette District Court on UK's rec Papa John's contribution is the~larg- Kentuc~y Derby Festival events. ~nd ommendation. · • • . graduation commencement ceremomes. McCracken then wrote a letter to est_ sm~le financial gift_ ever given to the I In addition to the 45,000 seats, which will UK President Charles T. Wething umvers1ty, Chancey said yesterday. f have chairbacks. the stadium will have ton Jr., alleging the officers used The stadium will be ready for the 32 luxurv suites. excessive force in arresting him. Mccomas responded in his letter first game of the 1998 season against · that "the UK Police Department ... Kentucky although about $4 million is THE COURIER-JOURNAL • FRIDAY, MAY 17, 1996 will take all appropriate action with still needed for an end-zone training NKU studies adding football, band respect to the officers involved.'' facility, Chancey said. HIGHLAND HEIGHTS, Ky. - Northern Kentuc~ University's in The announcement ends more than terim president, Jack Moreland, is forming a comnuttee to study the three years of debate and delays ·sur possibility of adding a football team and marching band. rounding the stadium project. The pro "This area up here is a hotbed {or both football and marching ject still needs final approval from the bands," Moreland said. "I believe students will come out to NKU if that were avaiiable .to them." school's board of trustees and will be NKU enrollment has declined the past two years. presented there on Monday. "This is not a major portion of what I want to do," Moreland said. Almost half of the money for the "This is just one of those things under recruiting, and retaining stu stadium - $21.5 million - came from dents that I feel like is important." corporate donations. Fans have pledged Funding is the biggest obstacle. Just this month, the board of re gents postponed faculty raises until fall enrollment is known. more than $14 million for lifetime seating Moreland said private or corporate funding would be needed for rights. The rest of the money was raised football. A 1991 study figured starting football would cost $1 million. The idea was scrapped because of the cost. " A sample of recent articles of interest to Morehead State University INSTITUTIONAL RELATIONS MOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY UPO BOX 1100 MOREHEAD, KY 40361-1689 606-783-2030 THE COURIER-JOURNAL • MONDAY, MAY 20, 1996 THE COURIER-JOURNAL, Saturday, May 18, 1996 ~~l/ Collegiate flux likened :•.BOWLING GREEN. :.. A .task f~ at Western Kentucky Univer.,. Sil.Y voted yesterday to recommend . ·. that the university implement a $25. . to that fu health care a.,semester student ·fee to ·fund . By RICHARD Wll.SON consumer-dominated system." three new women'.s •. sports .. Tlie. Staff Writer Richard Novak, director of state re school's. Boan! · of · ~ents .ap, lations for the national Association of proved a plan May Ho add thn,e, · , LEXINGTON, Ky. - The growing Governing Boards, said a number of women's sports to comply with Ti--- I public reaction to how higher educa other states are also reviewing the tie. IX, the federal mandate that ad- · , tion does its business resembles the way th~r oversee their colleges and dresses-gender equity.-· . . •. rumblings confronting the nation's uruvers1t1es. ··. Women's swimming, .soccer .and::: health-care industry, an education The Kentucky council's legal au softball will be added-overthenext consultant said yesterday. thority over state universities, which !h'e years, The f~ increase,- which· · "The frustration you as a statewide includes long-range planning, budget 1S expected to i'.aise> iiiilre '.llfaii· : coordinating board are feeling is no review and approval of new pro, $630,000 a year, is needed to fund · different than what is being fert in the grams, is fairly consistent with that of scholarships, staff and facilities for· corporate sector or the health-care similar bodies in ,other states, Novak the sports. The -recommendation sector," said Jim Mingle, executive di added. Any mcire authority would goes before the board.in Jul :- · · · · rector of the State Higher Education make the council a governing board, .. . .• . '· y Executive . Officers. Mingle's com not a coordinating agency, he said. ments came during a retreat for mem Yesterday's retreat was held bers of the Kentucky Colincil on against a backdrop of growinl! ques THE COURIER-JOURNAL , SUNDAY, MAY 19, 1996 Higher Education. • tions over the council's role m ·pre "The good news is, • like health venting or resolving turf battles. · (care), people want what we have. among Kentucky's universities. Last And the bad news is they're not at all year a study group of legislators and ~Uextends l sure that it's worth tlie · increasing university presidents called for the amount of money, and that they can council "to exercise its existing au I Af;xander's term afford it." Mingle added. · thority in a more aggressive and time ·MURRAY - Murray State Uni He attributed part of the tension ly manner/' · versity's regents extended universi between officials in higher education To a large extent, Novak concurred· ty President Kem Alexander's con and those outside it to campus protec with that. tract for four years Friday. tionism. Many education administra Although Gov. Paul Patton said ·he In a one-hour executive session, tors want to protect their institutions does not support a "superboard," he the regents evaluated Alexander's and themselves while others question has also called for higher education to performance during bis first two that conduct, Mingle said. become more efficient, innovative and "The lay community is saying: 'Wait productive. This year the General· As years at Murray, then unanimously a minute. I can't operate that way in sembly ordered a study of all facets of approved extending his contract my world. I have to constaIJtly be ad education beyond hi!lh school by ap through July I, 2000. justing and rethinking,' " he said. pointees of legislative leaders and "But for the statute (limiting Higher education, like health care, Patton. contract extensions. to four years), he added, is in transition as both areas The retreat will continue this morn we would have made it 40," said move from "a producer-dominated, ing, before the council's regular meet regent Wells Lovett of Owensboro. producer-driven system to a customer, ing begins later today. . · LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER, LEXINGTON, KY. ■ MONDAY, MAY 20, 1996 LOCAL NEWS Higher education panel to refocus talk with one another and two consul and how it could pursue them. "We mirror the bureaucracy of the Group under attack, tants about the council's identity crisis Council member Joe Bill Campbell people at the universities," he said. "We and how to resclve it. said he was concerned that the council lo~e sight sometimes of what we're going faces identity crisis Defining the council's role is especial seemed to near from college students lo do with what we've generated." ly critical now because Gov. Paul Patton only once a year, when it set tuition. Rich Novak. one of the consultants is poised to appoint a task force that, "What we're all about is students, BY ANGIE MUHS working with the council. told council among other things, will study whether and I think they need to be heard," said members that the structure of higher edu HERAL(}LEAOER EDUCATION WRITER the council should be changed in some Campbell, of Lexington. "They deserve If the Council on Higher .Education cation in Kentucky - which gives uni way. more attention from the council than we versity boards great autonomy over most wants to be more effective, first it has to "We've got to decide who we are; have given them." figure out what it most wants to accom campus decisions -- also means that it"s said council Chairman Jim Miller of The council's executive director, Gary natural that the council will sometimes plLsli its members said yesterday. Owensboro. Cox, also suggested that council members The council, which serves as a coordi- The group will continue its discus might need to meet with the state school • clash with individual campuses. 1 nating agency for the state's public uni sions today and meet with university board if its members want to help univer "The lines between coordination and versities and community colleges, has presidents and the chairmen of university sities improve their cooperation with ele governance are very fluid," said Nm·ak, come under fire in the last year for not boards. mentary ani:I secondary education. the director of public sector programs for being forceful enough. But yesterday, its members filled sev Another member, Larry Hayes, said the Association of Governing Boards. a That's why its members decided to eral easels with ideas about issues the he also thought the council needed to re national group. "They're not alwars hold a retreat in Lexington yesterday, to council should consider as top priorities evaluate some of its studies. clearly drawn." -' <( CD z O> a: O> :::> 0 oi 7 a: w ~ a: :a: :::> 0 ~ (.) 0 • w z :::> ;; en c1;pfYIV..1.t-1) 17111 ::,,eetVES l--1/~d.-Lj-,;/0-7, A sample of recent articles of interest to Morehead State University INSTITUTIONAL RELATIONS "MOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY UPO BOX 1100 MOREHEAD, KY 40351-1689 606-783-2030 THE COURIER-JOURNAL• KENTUCKY/ REGION • TUESDAY, MAY 21, 1996 Higher education council gets advice By RICHARD WILSON sometimes does not use its "quasi-ju Staff Wnter- dicial" authority in a timely !Danner. University leaders praise efforts, Alexander also urged council mem LEXINGTON. Ky. - The Council bers to recognize and preserve the on Higher Education received some but concerned about its demands universities' legal autonomy. accolades and advice yesterdav as it Council member Larry Hayes of wound up a retreat with the he"ads of The council, which coordinates the cy, minutiae." said Eastern Kentucky Louisville agreed there should be campus governing boards and univer state's public universities, has been University President Hanly Funder more communication between the sity presidents. urged by Gov. Paul Patton and other burk. council and campuses. But he also "This council is doing more than elected officials to be more aggressive Morehead State President Ron Eag urged the presidents to "look at the l've ever seen it do," said former Gov. in resolving campus turf battles and lin suggested the agency's regulatory big picture," not just the interests of Edward T. "Ned" Breathitt. chairman overseeing university activities. But a policies sometimes undercut innova their own schools. of the University of Kentucky's board panel of legislators and university tive ideas on the campuses. James Miller of Owensboro, th.e of trustees. presidents last year suggested that the Other presidents urged the council council ch.airman. said the agency Sid Easley, chainnan of Murray to hold more meetings on the cam will be more aggressive and innova State Universitv's board of regents. council needs no new authority. While some Of the presidents also puses. where members could meet tive in the future. "We intend to full\' also gave the cciuncil good marks and authority we said its effectiveness is onlv limited complimented it for impro\·ed com with faculty and students and become use the statutory have.:. by the time of its members· and the munication, some suggested council more familiar with what the universi Miller said. agency's resources. Several other staffers make too many time-consum ties are doing. But he also told the presidents and board chairmen also commended the ing demands on the schools. , While Murray State President Kern board chainnen that it would suppon agency for improved communication "During the last three years, I feel Alexander gave the agency good and reward the schools· efforts to im· with their boards. like I've been majoring in bureaucra- marks for effectiveness, he also said it prove. Off-campus. course report is considered BY ANGIE MUHS HERALD-LEADER EDUCATION WRITER Other action Universities and community colleges that offer off-campus In other business yesterday, courses would have to report to the the Council on Higher Educa Council on Higher Education every tion: II) year about the success of such pro ■ Took another step toward 0 grams, under a new proposal. finalizing a-system that would link a small part of universities' ill The colleges also would have to C) disclose plans for off-campus ex budgets - about 0.5 percent - pansion to any independent col to how well they performed in leges in their area, and the council certain areas. would encourage them to work The universities' perfor with the independent schools. mances would be measured in The proposal provides the first four required categories and up look at the council's new policy on to eight other optional indica extended-campus offerings, which tors. will be voted on in July. University presidents said Council members were briefed they support the idea of lihking ' at yesterday's meeting, but did not funding to performance, but take action. have criticized the process that The council in November the council's staff has used to banned more off-campus classes draw up guidelines for the way while it studied whether it had the system would work. enough authority over off-campus The council is expected to classes, which have proliferated take final action at its July meet during the last decade. ing. Of Kentucky's 120 counties, 90 ■ Approved a waiver tha_t i have at least one class offered by a will allow the University of Ken university or community college. tucky to offer five new academic Gary Cox, council executive di programs even though it failed rector, toltl members that annual re to meet its state-required affir ports would give them the informa mative-action goals. tion they needed to decide whether Some council members, to allow such activity. though, questioned whether the "The criticism or concern the university should get so many council has received about extended new programs. The two previ campus (courses) is that you have ous schools that got waivers, not been sufficiently in charge of the Western Kentucky University process," Cox said. "This organiza and Eastern Kentucky Universi tion's taken a good deal of what I'd ty, sought three and one new consider less than positive publicity programs, respectively. about extended campuses." HERALD-LEADER STAFF REPORT But Western Kentucky Univer sity Thomas Meredith questioned wild type situation where we're the need for annual reports to the running over each other," he said. "I council about past and planned off don't think there's a problem in this campus offerings. area that we're about to go into and "This is not iust some running- spend a lot of time on." : COURIER-JOURNAL • WEATHER/. KENTUCKY • TUESDAY. MAY 21. 1996 U of L ·trustees approve stadium construction By MICHAEL JENNINGS Papa John's Cardinal Stadium - will lion cost He said the trustees will be moniker adds U of L to the list of um Staff Writer be up for sale in 15 years. asked to approve the rest of the proj versities that have stroked corporal• Other corporate sponsorships asso• ect after pledges to pay for it are in sponsors by naming spot1s facilitie· The Universitv of Louisville trust ciated with the stadium will be resold hand. for them. ees approved yfsterday construction at 10-year intervals, Chancey said. Owsley said CSX will require about Others include Syracuse Universit\ r of a football stadium that its chief cor Mike Pollio, U of L's associate ath six weeks to cleanse the site of diesel site of the 49,900-seat Carr.er Domt porate booster. Malcolm Chancey, letic director, said the 45.000-sea.t sta fuel. Construction can start as soon as named for the Carrier Corp.; Georg: I called potentially "a huge money dium will be the onlv football stadium title to the land is transferred to the Tech. which renamed its basketba · maker" for the U of L athletics de• in the counny conipletely equipped university on Aug. 1, he said. arena the Alexander Memorial Colisc Panment. with chair-back seating. ·•u is not ex Chancey said about $12 million in um at McDonald's Center after U: The action paves the way for an travagant. but it is state-of-the art," commitments are still being consid McDonald's Corp. chipped in S5.5 ! early June groundbreaking for the he said. ered by potential corporate sponsors. up~de it: and Ohio State Universir stadium on property near the campus' The three-year-long fund drive has although the fund drive is only S6.6 which plans to open the Value Ci southeast comer that formerly housed so far netted $50.1 million of the pro million shy of its goal. If more than Arena at the Schonenstein Center CSX rail yards. The stadium is to be jected S56. i million cost of the stadi the required amount of sponsorships 1998. a basketball arena named for ready for the first game in 1998 um and an associated training facility. comes through. the excess will be chain of discount department star· against the University of Kentucky. Larry Owsley, U of L's vice presi used to reduce the bond debt for the and the family that owns it. Chancey. the chairman and chief dent for administration. said he got stadium. he said. Others include the University executive officer of Bank One Ken clearance from the Kentucky Finance John Schnatter, founder of Papa Colorado's basketball arena. n tucky who led the stadium fund drive. and Administration Cabinet to seek John's Pizza. put fund raising for the Coors Center; Brigham Young Ur said corporate sponsorships will be trustee approval for the stadium work stadium over the top last week with a versity's basketball arena, the Mar. sold and resold as long as tile stadium alone, because the money raised to $5 million gift. The university's deci on Center: and Iowa State Univer is used. Even the stadium's name - date more than covers its S48.3 mil- sion tci give the stadium a Papa John's ty's Hilton Coliseum. LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER, LEXINGTON, KY. ■ TUESDAY, MAY 21, 1996 JK, -Murray say ~act on Paducah ~oming, in a while BY ANGIE MUHS ter at $11.25 a square' foot, Alexan HERALD-LEADER EDUCATION WRITER der said. Gov. Paul Patton has said that "We're not in agreement with .vants the matter solved - soon. that" Alexander said "We thought Members of the Council on we were going to come to an agree ;her Education have· been saying ment and have everything taken months that they want the mat care of last Wednesday." solved - soon. Alexander also said that Mur But there's still no agreement ray was more interested in a lease ' nn the details that will finalize a that would eventually let them buy ,t l ni, ers1ty ui Kentucky-Mur the building. ' Siate University project in Pad- But Cox, Alexander and Ben ah that was meant to put an end Carr, the chancellor of UK's com a wrenching turf battle over en munity colleges, all said they still neering education that raged for think an agreement is reachable. ore than a year. "I think it's doable," Carr said. "The parties just need to get on "We're ready to start construction and get it done," said council whenever we get the agreement iairman Jim Miller. done." Gary Cox, the council's execu Miller acknowledged that the ve director, told the group at its mere word "Paducah" had almost ,eeting yesterday that he has been become a synonym for the kind of orking with UK President Charles public turf fights· that the council . Wethington Jr. and Murray Pres wants to avoid in the future . lent Kern Alexander to iron out "The reason you hear about Pa 1e issue of allowing Murray access ducah so much is that the council , the Crisp Center, which Paducah wants to learn from its mistakes," '- I .ommunity College now controls. he said. "! don't think the council That has to be settled before bears sole responsibility about 0 'CC can start construction on a what happened in Paducah, but we ,ew $8 million building. could have done things better." Technically, the state's budget Some council members, during :i ves the two sides until September an earlier discussion about o work things out. But Patton, in strengthening the council's role, m April 26 letter to Miller. strongly also said they probably would have ;uggested he expected a resolution handled the Paducah dispute differ sooner than that. ently. "l see no reason to wait," Patton "If that issue were coming here wrote. "I expect this and other co today, it would be killed right operative agreements to move now," said council member Joe Bill ahead without delay." Campbell. "There wouldn't be an Murray State officials balked at engineering school at Murray, and a UK proposal that called for Mur there wouldn't be an engineering ray to lease space in the Crisp Cen- school at.Paducah." A samole of recent articles of interest to Morehead State University INSTITUTIONAL RELATIONS MOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY UPO BOX 1100 MOREHEAD, KY 40351-1689 606-783-2030 10 COMMUNITY ■ LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER, LEXINGTON, KY. ■ WEDNESDAY, MAY 22, 1S LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER. LEXINGTON, KY. !J WEDI.SSC·,,. MAY 22, 1996 COMMUNITY k~tronasks RA-like Teachers'excellence reforms for honored by colleges colleges HERAt.O-lEADER STAF.F REPORT Georgetown College: Asso everal Kentucky colleges and ciate professor of music Daniel Governor restates plan universities recently honored Tilford, the 1996 Cawthorne Excel to call special session Steachers for excellence in lence in Teaching Award; Stephen their fields. Bisese, dean of student develop- University of Kentucky: BY ANGIE MUHS ment, Employee The UK Alumni Association hon HERALD-LEADER EDUCATION WRITER of the Year. FRANKFORT - Higher educa ored five professors with the 1996 Graves awards tion needs a reform that would be Great Teachers award. The teach were given to as sweeping as the Kentucky Edu ers are Dibakar Bhattacharyya, David Forman, cation Reform Act was for elemen chemical engineering: Laurie associate profes tary and secondary schools, Gov. Lawrence, agriculture: Martin sor of graduate Paul Patton said yesterday. McMahon, law; William J. Loftus, education; "I envision changes on the mag psychology; and Mehale Sharon Smith, nitude of the Kentucky Education Zalampas, history. director of de- Reform Act," Pat Lovely velopment tech------ton said. "The nology; and "Money is problem is, we Peggy Kiggins, director of donar one of the had the drive and The larger task force will con research. solutions, stimulus of a sist of 12 legislators and six other Morehead State Universi but I can't Supreme Court members who will come from Pat ty: Travis P. Lockhart, associate professor of theater, was named believe mon decision to drive ton's administration, he said. They us, and we don't should be chosen soon, and the task 1995-96 Distinguished teacher. R. ey Is the have that in this Jay Flippin Jr., associate professor only solu force probably will begin meeting in case. We're going June, Patton said. of music, has been given the 1995- tion." to do this more 96 Creative Productions award. Patton said he wanted the task GoV.PATION on the force of Sylvia Lovely of Lexington, execu personality." force to be neutral. But he also said tive director of the Kentucky Patton he hoped that its members would League of Cities, was inducted into -----• who has said re have a good sense of what changes Morehead's Alumni Hall of Faine. peatedly since taking office that he the General Assembly might ap· Lovely, a · 1973 graduate of wants to see the state's colleges prove. Morehead, was one of three gradu change the way they do business In addition to the commission ates honored. Joining her as 1996 - made his comments yesterday at that met yesterday, other groups inductees were entrepreneur James the first meeting of a commission such as faculty members, students Booth of Inez and Gary Riley of that will ultimately report to a and board members probably also Fort Wayne, Ind., a corporate broader task force studying post will be invited to share their obser management specialist. secondary education. ,·ations with the task force, Patton Patton yesterday also reiterated -aid. his plans to call for a special ses sion next spring to tackle higher ed The commission is supposed to ucation reform and possibly give it ctudv the use of technology in high '!' education and how universities Gary Cox, the executive director more monev. of the Ccuncil on Higher Education, But he· was quick to tell the .an cooperate better and become :nore efficient. agreed that some of the debate commission members - who large could become contentious. · ly consist of university presidents I3ut at least one of its members - that that won't be his only focus. cautioned that plenty of institution "You don't make the kind of. al barriers remain. "Money is one of the solutions, changes we're talking about wit!,:: but I can't believe money is the only .. , don't think I hear state legis out some candid discussions," Cox;. solution," Patton said. "We need to i ·nors. the Council (on Higher Edu said. ; have institutionalized cooperation." c"Jtion) and the presidents singing ,.mm a common song book." said Patton acknowledged that the He also reiterated another theme \offiet Williams, a retired Universi- kinds of changes he has in mind he has sounded since taking office. 1 : of Kentucky associate dean. could be wrenching, comparing. saying that the Kentucky Tech them at one point to battles over post-secondary technical school, consolidating small elementary and must be included and considered secondary schools. part of higher education. "Everybody's got to be able to "The technical schools must be give up something," he said. "Hope come a full partner," Patton said. fully, they'll get more than they "They must be accorded the same give up.'' - amount of respect." ~-i CJ J 111: COURIER-JOl 1HNAl. • WEAlHF.R / KEHTUCltY • WEDNESDAY, MAY 22, 1996 0 lll '"> +-' .'!! ro ,, :::i >ro 'O 'd C cd Patto11 wants major cl1anges at colleges 0 ::e He repeated his call for higher edu SI, Access and quality cation institutions to minimize turf battles while looking for ways lo iu u an1ong his concerns make systemwide improvements in ::, u volving community colleges, technical -C --1: llv MARK SCllAVER schools, universities and "possiblv" ~ siaff Writer private colleges. · 'O C p He cautioned higher education nol ro q FRANKFORT, Ky. - Gov. Pmil Pal to come up with a "pie-in-the-sk_v :c Ion told university presidents yester + wish list that is so unreasonable that <('" day that he w'ants changes in higher ii becomes meaningless." ...: ~J education "on the order of mngnitudc C 0) "I know that mone.v is one of the (l) of the l{entut'ky Education HPfonn C ,v,.·· solutions, but I can't believe 11ml C money is the only solution," he said. a, s But the governor also arknowl C. cd Patton offered few specific sugges (l) ,, cdged at lhc first meeting o[ the Com Cl ~· mission on Higher Education Institu ~ ,- tions of what the commission should E tional Efficiency and Coopernti,,n, "I study, but he said access lo higher 2· a, !mow how hard that's going to he." education, quality, academic offer iii 0 ;..., lie said "lhc problem is that our " " " Tl If: cn1 !f'il[fl I')! JI 'I!, ' • !~F.HTl!CKY / DEATHS • WEDNESDAY, MAY 22, 1996 llarry Sparks dies; once led Murray State dent. The school's administration that he had and cajoling and not ~et He went back to Murray State as something he did before teachers· 'Father figure' building carries his name. ting mad ... we didn't have any kind president, a job he held until 1973 groups, businessmen and just about "He was an outstanding Kentucky of uprisings or burnings on campus. when he retired. He and his wife re anyone else who asked. educator," Murray President Kem Al "I think at a critical period of Mur mained in Calloway County where he "He was a very humorous and ter to university was exander said yesterday. "Dr. Sparks ray State history and the history of occupied his time hunting, fishing rific speaker," Easley said. "He didn't was an outstanding person. the nation, he was able to and doing speaking engagements. just get you laughing; he was the type known for tales lie has the highest moral thwart and calm the situa "He loved Murray," said Matar who could prolong laughter in a sto and ethical standards. , .. tion so that we didn't have azzo. "I read all 33 of his date hooks ry. By JOSEPH GERTI! I le just had a wonderful ca any major crisis," Matar and he always made it a point to Matarazzo said that Sparks once Stal[ Writer reer as a human being and azzo said. come back home to Murray. spoke at 22 high school graduations as an educator." Sparks was born and Sid Easley, chairman of Murray's in one year. Dr. Harry M. Sparks, a former slate Dr. Sal Matarazzo, who reared in Rockcastle Coun Board of Re~ents. called Sparks "a "A fella says he had been to gradu supr.rintendent of public instruction taught education classes at ty. He graduated from man of the highest integrity." ation speeches three weeks in a row and president of Murray State Univer Murray State, said Sparks Transylvania University in "He was a great teacher hecause he and every one was different. Harry sity, died Monday in Murray. He was knew how to deal with peo 1930 and received his mas was a great communicator and had a looks at him and says, 'Well. if you 88 and had suffered from Alzheimer's ple. ter's and doctorate degrees genuine affection for his students." come for a fourth one. you'll hear a disease for a number of years. When other campuses from the University of Ken said Easley, who first met Sparks in repeat.'" Sparks, who was president of Mur• across the country were tucky. the early 1960s when he was a student Sparks is survived by his wife, the ray Stale from 1968 lo 1973, led the dealing with student upris 1967 PHOTO Sparks went to Murray at Murray. former Lois Ogdon Stiles, of Murray: school through part of a period of tre ing against the Vietnam Sparks State in 1948 to serve as an "I just remember him being warm two sons, Harry Sparks Jr. of Ft. mendous growth in the years alter the War, Sparks held an assem education professor and lat and treating everyone the same, no Thomas, and Phillip Sparks, of Nash General Assembly authorized the bly to allow the students to express er as chairman of the department of matter what their station in life .... ville: two brothers, William Sparks transformation of the state's small re their anger. education. He was a real father-figure to the uni and Robert Sparks of Lexington: and gional teacher's colleges into univer "They nil got up there and insulted Sparks, a Democrat, was elecled versity and the community," Easley four grandchildren. sities. him and insulted the government but Superintendent of Public Instruction said. J.11. Churchill Funeral Home in Hr.• huilt dormitories. classrooms he was still in control," Matarazzo in 1!163 and served in that capacity The thing folks recall most about Murray is in charge of arrangemenl'i. :1ml 'l rnnthall stadium whilP prr'si- 'iaid. "By having the temperament until 1968. Sparks was his ability to spin yarns - which are pending. .. '-1 l J-\od -q- ;Jo - 5 - MSU ARCHIVES M~U l,/1,i ~neet A sample of recent articles of interest to Morehead State University INSTITUTIONAL RELATIONS MOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY UPO BOX 1100 MOREHEAD, KY 40351-1689 606-783-2030 LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER, LEXINGTON, KY. ■ THURSDAY, MAY 23, 1996 ~urfing Net edging out LEXINGTON HERALD- LEADER. LEXINGTON, KY. ■ THURSDAY, MAY 23, 1996 ~tudying at U.S. colleges fEKU, Morehead players on All-Academic t.eam HERALD-LEADER STAFF REPORT season. He has a 3.34 grade-poir THE WASHINGT.ON POST Josh Williams, a junior desig average and is majoring in physic WASHINGTON - A new campus support group nated hitter for Eastern Kentucky, Allison has a 3.78 GPA and is called "Caught in the Web" is being formed at the and Brad Allison, a senior catcher radio-TV major. University of Maryland to counsel students spending for Morehead State, were selected The District TV team is selectec too much time on computers. to the GTE District TV All-Academ by college sports information direc At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, ic baseball team. tors in Kentucky, Alabama. Michi gan. Ohio and Tennessee. Plaver students unable to break their addiction to playing Williams led the Ohio Valley must have at least a 3.2 GPA to bi. computer games on campus terminals have new help. Conference in stolen bases last nominated for the team. At their request, the university will deny them access whenever they try to sign on. Faculty members studying the freshman dropout rate at Alfred University in New York have just found that nearly half the students who quit last semester had THE COURIER-JOURNAL • THURSDAY, MAY 23. 1996 been logging marathon, late-night time on the Internet. Nationwide, as colleges charge into the digital age Campbellsville with high-tech libraries, wired dormitories and comput wins grant erized course work, faculty and campus counselors are CAMPBEll..SVILLE - Camp discovering a troubling side effect: A growing number bellsville University announced of students are letting computers overwhelm their lives. yesterday that it had received $100,000 from the Arthur Vining It is hardly a crisis on any campus - yet. Some Davis Foundations, of Jacksonville. college officials say it is merely a fad, and not nearly as Fla., to assist in the renovation of harmful as other bad habits students often fall prey to the school's Carter Hall. on campuses - such as binge drinking of alcohol. But The $2.5 million renovation will concern over the issue is spreading. create a building that will house math, physics and computer sci Some universities are now imposing limits on the ence classes, as weU as some time students spend each day, or each week, on campus classes from the school's division computers. of humanities and education. THE COURIER-JOURNAL • THURSDAY, MAY 23, 1996 ., Georgetown planning media-ethics session GEORGETOWN, Ky. - Bob Edwards, host of National Public Ra dio's Morning Edition, will moderate a discussion of ethics and val ues in the media at Georgetown College on June 7. Panel members include Courier-Journal Editor David Hawpe; Sam Dick. anchor of WKYf-1V in Lexington: and columnist John Ed Pearce. The forum, sponsored by Georgetown College, will include a luncheon at 11 :30 a.m., followed by the panel discussion from 12:15 to 1:30. Tickets. $15 each. can be ordered by calling (502) 863-8527. '1 l~dol-- ~-o1O-.._f, M°::':1 :?if, /'1'1(,, MSU ARCHIVES MSU Clip Sheet A sample of recent articles of interest to Morehead State University INSTITUTIONAL RELATIONS MOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY UPO BOX 1100 MOREHEAD, KY 40351-1689 606-783-2030 LEXINGTON HERALO-LEAOER, LEXINGTON, KY. !ll FRIDAY, MAY 24, 1996 Patton names 7 for mrlversity boards HERALD-LEADER STAFF REPORT resentative to the board, replacing replace Joyce Ann Johnson. whose Gov. Paul Patton yesterday re Marian Moore Sims of Lexington. term expired. Short will serve through appointed five universitv board Guthrie. an advertising executive, had June 30. 1998. members and chose two new ones campaigned widely for the trustee Western Kentucky University: Peggy - including one who had lobbied seat in an alumni election. Sims won Ware Loafman of Bowling Green was extensively to join the University of that election. reappointed for a term ending June Kentucky board. Morehead State University: 30, 2002. Loafman, a WKU graduate. Patton reappointed Helen Charles is executive vice president at Trans The appointments, which were Pennington of West Liberty to the Financial Inc. announced yesterday, will take ef board through June 30, 2002. Pen Northern Kentucky University: fect July 1. nington is a middle school principal in Robert William Zapp, president of The Here are the appointments, list Morgan County, Bank of Kentucky, was reappointed to ed by university: Kentucky State University: the board. Zapp, of Union, will serve University of Kentucky: Elizabeth Raynor Short. a Beat through June 30, 2002. Frank Shoop, an automobile dealer, tyville lawyer, was appointed to and Billy Wilcoxson, a financial adviser for Pro Sports Management Inc., were THE COURIER-JOURNAL • KENTUCKY/ REGION • FRIDAY, MAY 24, 1996 both reappointed to the UK board. ,,. .,, Shoop and Wilcoxson, both of Lex Wilcoxson chairs the board's in ington, will serve terms that end June ~ renameo, vestment committee. He said last 30, 2002. night he has known Patton for many Patton also appointed John R. years but did not actively support any Guthrie of Louisville as the alumni rep- candidate for governor last year. 2 appointed Jack Guthrie, a Louisville public re lations executive, was appointed to an alumni spot on the UK board for a to university six-year term, replacing Marion Moore Sims of Lexington. Elizabeth Short, a Beattyville law boards yer, was appointed to the Kentucky State University board of regents to replace Joyce Ann Johnson of Shoop, Wilcoxson Flatwoods, whose term had expired. keep UK seats· Patton made these reappointments: .,, Robert Zapp of Union, president From Staff and AP Dispatches of the Bank of Kentucky, a new six year term on the Northern Kentucky FRANKFORT, Ky. - Gov. Paul Pat University bo4rd of regents. ton reappointed five members of uni .,, Peggy Loafman, Bowling Green. versity governing boards yesterday a financial institution executive. a and made two new appointments. new six-year term on the Western Patton re-appointed two veteran Kentucky University board of regents. members of the University of Ken .,, Helen Pennington, West Liberty, tucky Board of Trustees - Frank a middle school principal, a new six Shoop and Billy Wilcoxson. Each was year term on the Morehead State Uni appointed to new six-year terms. versity board of regents. Shoop, who owns car dealerships in Georgetown and Richmond, has been a longtime fund-raiser in Demo cratic politics. He could not be reached last night. Wilcoxson is chairman of Pro Sports Management, a financial ad viser to professional athletes and en tertainers. He is retired as a longtime official of Tennessee Gas Pipeline Co. He has served on the UK board since his appointment by Gov. Martha Layne Collins about II years ago. • THE COURIER-JOURNAL • FRIDAY, MAY 24, 1996 -Willis Weatherford dies; led Berea College from 1967 until 1984 By RICHARD WILSON the region." Staff Writer Weatherford, Berea's sixth presi- dent, succeeded Dr. Francis Hutchins, Dr. Willis Duke Weatherford Jr., a who headed the school for 28 years. former president of Berea College Alumnus J. Gregg Clendenin, a who led the school·through some of Lexington lawyer and student-body its most difficult years, died Wednes- presicfent in 1968-69, said Weather day at his home in Black Mountain, ford brought a "breath of fresh air'' to N.C., apparently of a heart attack. the campus. "He was open to change Weatherford, · 79, headed Berea and to listening to student concerns from 1967 to 1984, when he retired. and acting on them." He was a man of quiet, reflective dig- Weatherford, whose father had nity and a forceful advocate for the been a Berea trustee for 47 years, also school's commitment to Appalachia, oversaw drafting of Berea's Great to poor but deserving students and to Commitments, which basically reaf liberal education. firmed the school's mission, and he During his presidency, Weatherford forcefully argued that Berea's mission charted a steady course for was to uphold its liberal- Berea as the school dealt arts ideals and educate stu- with student unrest, the end dents for their entire lives, of the baby-boom era and not just the short-term mar, the rise of competing alter- ketplace. natives in higher education. A tall, gracious man who · Berea President Larry retained a professorial air, .Shinn said everyone at Be- he was an able fund-raiser, · rea who knew Weatherford a no-nonsense administra- felt a. deep sense of loss. tor and plain-spoken moral- .. "Willis was a .teacher and ist. During his presidency ·mentor to student and col- he added $85 million to the · leagues· alike. He was a college's endowment, ·.man of great personal in- 1984 PHOTO strengthened the faculty . tegrity who lived the values Weatherford and expanded Berea's nine- he taught. Willis Weather- state service area to take in ford was also a man of humility and all of Kentucky. service who embodied the best quali- Weatherford earned an undergrad- ties of ·servant-leader. Berea College t d t v d rbilt d' · ·ty ·has lost a leader and a friend," Shinn ua e egree a an e • a Mru 'd degree at Yale, and· master's and ·s~ 'h F h · ed h d f th Ph. D. degrees at Harvard. He spent . 0 !1 .razer, t e retir ea O e several years abroad after World War Assoc1alion of lnde~end~(!t Kentucky · II as a relief worker. Colleges and Uruvemlies, called Weatherford a visionary. · Weatherford was a professor at . "He had a vision for that institution Swarthmore College and dean at Car ·which never varied," Frazer said. leton College before going to Berea. ''Whether you disagreed with him or The funeral is at 2 p.m. today at St. :agreed with him, you could not help James Episcopal Church in Black -but admire the integrity of the vision Mountain. A memorial service will be and his dedication and persistence in held at 11 a.m. tomorrow at Union realizing it." · Church in Berea. Burial will be in Be : Loyal Jones, a former Berea profes- rea Cemetery. Le~pert Funeral Home sor and retired head of the school's in Berea is handling arrangements . .Appalachian Center, said Weather- ford. was interested in many causes, Weatherford is survived by his .including pacifism and civil rights. wife, Anne Cobbs Smith Weatherford; "He saw Berea College as a way to daughters Edith Hunt, Alice Downs · help others, even beyond our 1,500 and Julia and Susan Weatherford; a students," Jones said. "He was al- son, Willis D. Weatherford ill; and 15 ways getting people together for pur- grandchildren. poses of education and other issues to Memorial gifts may be made to Be- try and make a positive difference in rea College, Berea, Ky, 40404 .'v'";';) c,( ~, rr,~- M:JU l,/1p A sample of recent articles of interest to Morehead State University INSTITUTIONAL RELATIONS MOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY UPO BOX 1100 MOREHEAD, KY 40351-1689 606-783-2030 LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER. LEXINGTON. KY. ■ SUNDAY, MAY 26, 1996 "They can even carry their Williams_, the retired UK dean, classroom with them when they said he knows that some people \Patton eyes travel on business," said Tom Bish have some reservations about uni op, a spokesman for the on-line versities' branching out onto the In- campus. "They can work at 3 a.m. ternet. · Internet coll~ge if that's a good time for them." But he argues that such courses represent an opportunity, not a Growth - but some limits threat. That's because a student Bishop said the Phoenix on-line who lives near a traditional college for Ky. model program started with eight stu-. or university isn't as apt to be inter dents and has grown to about 1,500 ested in an on-line class, he said. BY ANGIE MUHS in the last seven years. "I don't think for a moment that HERALD-LEADER EDUCATION WRITER That n.umber has also grown we're talking about the demise al The University of Phoenix wouldn't seem to have even faster as more people become higher education," he said. "What any link to the state of Kentucky. aware of the Internet and get on we're talking about is the expan But earlier this week, Gov. Paul Patton cited it as line, he said. sion of options for public colleges." an example of the kinds of ideas that several groups "I would say it's going to in Patton, during his remarks ear seeking to change Kentucky's higher education ought crease by at least 50 to 60 percent a lier in the week, had acknowledged to look at. year for the foreseeable future," that there are still several key ques That's because the University of Phoenix has an Bishop said. tions that need to be resolved. For on-line campus with 1,500 students. They're spread out ... People from Kentucky have tak instance, someone would need to all over the country, and they're working on their de en courses on line through the Uni keep track of who offered what on grees entirely by taking courses offered through the In versity of Phoenix, Bishop said, but line if Kentucky universities ge~ in ternet. . he did not have exact figures imme volved in that field, he said. Some_ Kt;n- On the Net diately available, And no one is saying that every· tucky umvers1t1es ------~----- The typical Phoenix student is academic area is a candidate for cy- have started ex- The University of Phoenix has informa- someone who's about 38 years old berspace. . perimenting in tion about its programs, including the an.d has some college experience, he "There are just some things that realm Online Campus, on the World Wide said. About 65 percent of the stu that aren't applicable to this," said Morehead State Web. . University for in- The address for the page 1s: dents are men. Bishop. "I know I wouldn't want to In many cases, the participants go to a doctor who was trained in stance, has of- http://www.uophx.edu travel a lot on business, Bishop an on-line class." fered courses said. taught on the Internet. "We hear it from people over But Patton and some others think that there may and over again that they've started be more demand for such distance learning in the fu a program and then been unable to. ture. finish it, because they have to relo "We must be willing to consider those things," Pat cate," he said. ton said on Tuesday, speaking at a commission -that's studying distance learning in higher education, among other topics. Nofflet Williams, a retired associate dean of dis tance learning at the Universjty of Kentucky, said he LEXINGTON HERALD·LEAOEA, LEXINGTON, KY, ■ Saturday, May 25, 1996 also thinks that Kentucky schools will have to use the II.FRANKFORT Internet as a teaching tool - or be passed by. "If higher education doesn't adjust and change _and Patton names education task force: A tasl1 provide people in Eastern Kentucky with the opportu 'force to examine all facets of education beyond high nity to do this through the Internet, they'll find some school was appointed yesterday by Gov. Paul Patton one else who will do it," said Williams, who has stud ~nd the General Assembly's ranking leaders. It ied distance learning issues for 22 years. mcludes Patton, top members of his administration and a do~en legislators of both parties. Legislators were Going to college on line appomted by Senate President John "Eck" Rose and The University of Phoenix, which also has campus House Speaker Jody Richards, who included them es in eight states, started its on-line campus in 1989. selves. The gr~up's first meeting is June 17, a statement The university, which is accredited, now offers from Patton said. The task force was created by the 1996 General Assembly at Patton's urging. It is to issue three on-line bachelor's degrees and a report and legislative proposals by Sept 1, 1997. three master's degrees, all in busi Other members are: ness-related fields. Executive branch: Cabinet secretary Margaret Greene Other universities nationally Cabinet; R9dney "Biz" _Cain, Workforce Development; Viola offer some courses or degree pro Miller, Fam1hes and Children; Roy Peterson, Education, Arts and _Humanities; Budget Director James Ramsey. Senate: grams wholly on the Internet, but President Pro Tern Charlie Berger, D-Harlan; Majority Caucus Phoenix is often cited as an exam Chairman Nie~ Kafoglis,_ D-Bowling Green; Joey Pendleton, ple because of its focus on the area. D-Hopkmsv1lle, Davrd Wrlhams, R-Burkesville; CharJie Bor Phoenix's on-line programs de_rs, R-Russe_ll,. House: Speaker Pro Tern Larry Clark, D Lou1sv1lle; MaJonty Leader Greg Stumbo, D-Prestonsburg; work like this: the university mails vlmonty Leader Danny Ford, R-Mount Vernon; Minority Whip textbooks and other course infor ,harhe Walton, R-Florence; Freed Curd, D-Murray. mation to students after they enroll. Then, on the first day of the week, instructors usually send in formation via electronic mail about what the class will cover that week. Instructors also use the Internet to post lectures and other material; students use discussion groups and electronic mail to talk about the course material. But nor eYPrvnne has to be llH 'i11p ;n rile -:.;mw rirnP - ,omethinu that would be almost impos~ibl~ with students spread across time zones. Gt -. ~ 0 n ~ a· JB.1ter-net "'C. =J classes .,, ~ ~ "'~ called opportunity ~ s ...; .... I = rn to expand colleges 0 0 C Associated Press class will cover that week. ::J Instructors also use the Internet m ::J LEXINGTON. Kv. - The Inter to post lectures and other material: c.. net offers KeniUcky schools a new students use discussion groups Q way to reach students - especially and eiectronic mail to talk about :5 in Eastern Kenrucky. And if they the course material. z But not everyone has to be on don't offer Internet classes, other r> schools will. a retired University of line at the same time - that would KeniUcky educator warns. be almost impossible with students • "If higher education doesn't ad spread across time zones. 1 just and change ... (srudents) will ' They can even carry their find someone else who will do it," classroom with them when thev said Nofflet Williams, who has travel on business, II said To Ill. studied what is called "distance Bishop, a spokesman for the on learning" for 22 years. line campus. ;'They can work at 3 The University of Phoenix is one a.m. if that's a good time for of those schools. It has an "online them." camous" with 1.500 students Bishoo said the Phoenix online around the country. They are program started with eight stu working on their degrees entirely dents and has grown to about 18 by taking courses offered through 1,500 in the last seven years. Cl ;he internet, a loosely organized · It is expected to grow even fast worldwide network of computers. er as more people get on line, he Gov. Paul Patton held up the said. program as a model last week in "! would say it's going to in speaking to a commission that's crease by at least 50 to 60 percent studying off-campus learning. a year" for the next several years, Some Kentucky universities Bishop said: have started experimenting in that People from Kentucky have tak realm - Morehead State Universi en courses on line through the ty, for instance, has offered University of Phoenix. Bishop said, courses on the Internet. but he did not have exact figures. Patton and others think that Williams, the retired UK dean, there may be more demand for said he knows that some people distance learning in the future. have reservations about universi The University of Phoenix start ties' going onto the Internet. ed its online camous in 1989. But he argues that such courses The university ·offers three on are an opportunity, not a threat. line bachelor's degrees and three That's because a student who lives master's degrees, all in business near a traditional college or uni related fields. versity isn't as apt to be interested Its online programs work like in an online class, he said. this: The university mails text "! don't think for a moment that books and other course informa we're talking about the demise of tion to students who enroll. Then, higher education," he said. "What on the first dav of the week, in we're talking about is the expan structors usually send information sion of options for public coi ,ia electronic mail about what the leges." THE COURIER-JOURNAL • MONDAY, M.A.Y 27. 1996 "JlT.,..:¾-o.,.. 4--aJl"" 1 QQ TO"" ..... ~~ .--4~ ..:i ~ . , .:.. "",._.,._,.._ ,..11.,..,.111...1 .:.!.VU .lLJl~.i!. ~"'1 6.i r.:J!Uii.'.) to embrace spirit of serving Associated Press future generations," The commencement was the first to BEREA. Kv. - Southern writer be held in the college's new Seaburv John Egerton· urged graduates of Be Center. · rea College yesterday to follow the school's tradition of "giving and serv ing.'1 The school awarded 188 degrees at :he commencement. Egerton spoke of the achievements of former Berea students who worked for the betterment of others. Edwin Embree, grandson of Berea :ounder John G. Fee. was a philan ihropist who was instrumental in pava : :i LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER. LEXINGTON. KY. 01 SATURDAY. MAY 25, 1996 1Transy leader to hand last son hls diploma chuckle. "There's always been the balance be tween being courteous, like you would to any though, were full price. BY ANGIE MUHS (The board voted in February to allow student, and being intrusive." So the family set up certain ground rules. HERALQ.LEAOER EDUCATION WRITER employees' children to attend Transy tuition All three sons lived on campus throughout When Transylvania University free.) their time at Transy. They did their laundry President Charles Shearer hands Scott Shearer said his decision to attend Transy was easier because he had seen that on campus. instead of bringing it home. Once out diplomas today at graduation, a week. Shearer's wife. Susan, would write a the family relationship didn't interfere with he admits that one in particular will letter to her sons, and Shearer would drop it his older brothers having good experiences be even more special. into campus mail. He hopes you'll excuse- that there. The other rule: the parents would only go "I think sometimes people would act a lit twinge of favoritism, but Scott visit their sons' dorm rooms when invited. tle differently when they knew," said Scott Shearer, class of '96, isn't just any Most times. like other parents. they didn't Shearer. 21. "But most people didn't treat me student. He's Shearer's son - the even see the room until Parents' Weekend. third and final one to graduate different, and I liked that." "My parents have been really good about Shearer said he also wrestled with how to from Transy. letting me come to them," Scott Shearer said. treat his sons when he encountered them on "It's always a special treat to "I really wanted to feel like I had gone away campus. ha_nd your own son his diploma," Sometimes, he said. the balance wasn't to college." It felt that way to his parents, too, said Shearer, who has been Tran easy to strike. Once, he saw Todd Shearer sy's president for 13 years. "So rm playing football on the lawn of Old Morrison Charles Shearer said. ··If they came by the house, it usually was really looking forward to that." as he walked to his nearby car. for five or 10 minutes," he said. "But I think But both father and son say He debated whether to wave. He didn't. that life can be a little trickier when "He gave me a little bit of a hard time it's really turned out well and we've had the the college president also is Dad. about that later," Shearer recalled with a best of both worlds." It's a balancing act with which the family has had plenty of experi ence. It started with eldest son Todd, who graduated in 1992 with a de gree in business. Mark Shearer fol lowed. graduating in 1994 as a his ,ury maJor. .:icon :,nearer wrn re ceive a business degree today. Shearer. like all other Transy employees. did get a big break on his children's tuition - a 75 per cent discount. Room and board, THE COURIER-JOURNAL • TUESDAY, MAY 28, 1996 More applicants try gimmicks to get into Indiana colleges Associated Press Milhous, of Moorpark, Calif. "It showed he's creative and he INDIANAPOLIS - Colleges and didn't take himself too seriously. I universities across Indiana are seeing "There was a vitality think it was a positive thing," said more gimmicks from student appli and spirit in this little Charles Howard, dean of admissions. cants who want to stand out from the The gimmicks don't mean a thing crowd. line drawing that unless students back them up with Aspiring engineer Kenneth Milhous necessary preparation and grades, sent Rose-Hulman Institute of Tech captured her Howard said. But they do help the nology a bridge made of Legos. Brad personality." students stand out. Pigott videotaped his collection of 300 Prospective medical students rarely ties and gave a guided tour of his bed Robert Magee, direclor of admissions resort to those attention-getters, said room. for Indiana University, about a Robert Stump, director of admissions Other students send in applications Chicago student who sent in a pencil for the JU School of Medicine in Indi accompanied by computer graphics, sketch of herself. anapolis. More than 2,600 applicants computer disks filled with writings ?'"e competing this year for 280 open and poetry, or cassette tapes of their mgs. own music. Stump said one student sent in a 1 Does it work? Not really, admis and she s coming," he said. videotape this year, but he did not sions directors say. But it could grab At Rose-Hulman, a few engineering watch 11 because he wanted to keep their attention. students have gotten creative to snag all applicants on a level playing field. "You're seeing more of these kinds one of 375 freshman openings. The Apart from gimmicks, the biggest of things," said Robert Magee, direc college gets 3,500 applications yearly. trend in college admissions is the on tor of admissions for Indiana Univer Pigott, 19, of Fainnont, W.Va., de line submission of computerized ap _sity. cided a videotape of himself would plications. "Some of them are very good, and best show his personality and give In Indiana, the University of Indian some of them are very bad. They real- - him a chance to explain his strong apolis and Purdue University are ly do not affect the way we read the suits, experience and desire to come among the first with online applica application." to Rose-Hulman. .tion procedures. Prospective students can apply to Indianapolis on an on Magee said he was impressed last "Then I gave them a tour of some screen form and e-mail it to the uni fall by a Chicago student who sent in stranger things in my room that make versity or print it out and mail it. a pencil sketch of herself. me an individual," said Pigott, who For Purdue, students can call up "There was a vitality and spirit in entered Rose-Hulman last fall. application forms on the Internet and this little line drawing that captured This spring, Rose-Hulman got the mail them back. Later this year, they her personality.... We admitted her, Lego bridge, in a 3-foot-long box from will be able to submit them online. The Daily Independent, Ashland, Kentucky, Saturday, May 25, 1996 Yahne Jackson-Nchami an un disclosed sum as a result of an Ex-MSU professor's agreement about her involun tary suspension. The university had sought lawsuit dismissed dismissal of the suit, saying state law prohibits anyone tract was not renewed. from pursuing the same claim By MADELYNN COLDIRON The N chamis also alleged in two different venues. At the 0FTHE DAILY INDEPENDENT their rights were violated be time the suit was filed, Ncha cause of their race and their mi also was taking his com MOREHEAD -- A former opposition to "racially moti plaint to the Kentucky Com Morehead State University vated practices and proce mission on Human Rights and professor has lost his racial dures" at MSU. They sought discrimination lawsuit against the Equal Employment Op an unspecified amount of mon portunity Commission. The the university. etary damages. Rowan Circuit Judge Wil iatter agency's approval is nec Nchami was a professor of essary before a discrimination liam Mains on May 9 dis education and his wife was an missed the suit filed in March lawsuit can be filed in federal instructor in the provisional court. 1995 by Mbibong Nchami and studies depai;tment. his wife, Yahne Jackson• The Nchamis are repre Two months after the suit sented by former Morehead at Nchami. Mains also rejected was filed, the couple and the their motion to add 14 new de torney Anthea Boarman, who university signed an agreed now works for the Metropoli fendants to their original law order. In the order, Nchami suit. tan Human Relations Com and the student who filed the mission in Nashville, Tenn. The suit claimed Mbibong complaint against him agreed Nchami's constitutional rights She could not be reached for to avoid contact with each comment Friday. were violated by the way MSU other. MSU agreed to pay officials disciplined and then MSU's attorney, John Irvin Nchami the money owed to Jr., did not know the status of fired him. He was disciplined him for reimbursement of fu after a student filed a sexual the EEOC complaint. But in a neral and sick leave. The uni follow-up motion to Mains' dis harassment complaint against versity also agreed to pay him. A university investiga missal ruling, Boarman indi tion ruled in the student's cated the couple may request favor. Mbilong Nchami's con- withdrawal of the human rights commission complaint to further pursue the original lawsuit. The motion seeks a reword ing of the dismissal so the suit can be reinstated, and for re voka tion of the dismissal order. It also asks Mains to de tail the reasons for his ruling for an appeals court review. Irvin has filed an objection to the motion. · A6 . LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER, LEXINGTON, KY. ■ SUNDAY, MAY 26, 1996 'i NATION ,Many college students turning down membership in Phi Beta Kappa society BY EMILY M, BERNSTEIN not Nobel Prizes, but it really is an the major honor societies, the issue NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE honor." of declining acceptance became Time was: that men hung the At many, state universities, the public last year when newspaper golden key of Phi Beta Kappa from acceptance numbers hover around reports in Tucson focused on the watch chains, and membership in 60 percent, so low that the society students at the University of Arizo the society was• noted at every did its first national survey last na turning down membership. milestone of life: in marriage ·an- year. : nouncements, promotion notices, Phi Beta Kappa's newsletter obituaries. But today's top college calls the phenomenon "membership students are resistance." National and local offi- turning down cers attribute it to first-generation "I don't think Phi Beta Kappa college students, students who do anybody is in record num- not consult their parents on such going to hire bers. matters, and students who have or fire me Some of the gone to public schools, all of whom ·because I chosen don't ; are less likely to have heard of the belong to Phi join because ·-society.The officers are looking for they've never ways to combat that Beta ' heard of the or- • Phi Beta Kappa was founded at wtiatever." ganization; oth- the College of William and Mary in BRIAN D. Bo~CH ers are confused Williamsburg, Va., in 1776, as a by a profusion society to preserve academic free · of honor societ- dom and liberal arts education. The ies, or see them as anachronisms Greek initials stand for the motto that are not worth the $30 to $50 Philosophia Biou Kybemetes: membership fees. The upshot is "Love-of wisdom (is) the guide of that Phi Beta· Kappa, the nation's · life." . most prestigious honor society, has The society quickly spread to an image problem. other colleges, and it has spawned •:r don't think anybody is going dozens of imitators· that cater to to hire or fire·me'becailse I belong students in specific departments or to Phi Beta .whatever," said Brian to any high achiever on campus. D. Bosch, wlio graduated last week The popularity of these diverse from the Uriiversity of Connecticut. groups has made Phi Beta Kappa Bosch received an invitation in less special to many students. early April to join Phi Beta Kappa, . "There are so many different but he turned it down. The UConn societies out there now, and they chapter elected 143 juniors and all cost money," said Karen L. seniors this spring, but 65 of them Heley, a senior who turned down - 45 percent - did not join. Phi Beta· Kappa after joining three · Phi Beta Kappa is hoth the other societies. oldest and the most exclusive hon- Erika Linkkila D'Atria was a or society in the country. Only 10 junior in the communications sci percent of colleges have chapters, ences department at the University and just more than 1 percent of of Connecticut, with a grade-point college seniors are elected each average of 3.94 and membership in year. three honor societies when she got To be elected, a student must the invitation from Phi Beta Kappa. have more than a high grade-point "I hadn't heard of it before," average. Chapter members review said D' Atria, 21. "I guess I should the academic records of the top 10 have, but there isn't much advertis percent of the class, to ensure that ing or publicity." most credits are earned in the Meanwhile, the chapter had liberal arts and sciences, in a broad chosen D' Atria as one of three array of subjects, and at an ad- juniors to whom it wished to offer vanced level. a scholarship. When she did not Nationwide, 85 percent of stu- respond to the. invitation, an officer dents who are elected choose to of the society called her adviser, join Phi Beta Kappa. At small Susan Fridy. Fridy urged D'Atria liberal ans colleges and at private to join. universities, it is still virtually un- Although Phi Beta Kappa has heard of for a student to tum down the highest acceptance rate among the society. ''.l:\19!1°f .W.@\ :t9 sound too big for _purJlOOts, :but if I heard that 85 percent·uf-peop!e ·awarded Nobel Prizes· had ·accepted, I'd be star tled," said Charles Blitzer, the pres ident of Phi Beta Kappa. "We're LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER, LEXINGTON, KY. IJ TUESDAY, MAY 28, 1996 'Trouble with college today· is the calendar is too short BY MILTON GREENBERG meetings prior to the now-visible igher education has a day end of the semester and year. If in, day-out problem that anything is to be completed, April Htook me years to recognize. is the time or else it will probably Why do professors never seem to have to be put off until October. have enough time for their work or Faculty are rushing to complete their students? Why do students so their courses, grade term papers often seem harried and tired these and attend meetings. Students are days? beginning to study in earnest, It's the calendar, stupid. though welcome spring days inter When I was a fledgling faculty fere. member more than 40 years ago, May is exclusively occupied by most colleges and universities op final exams, end-of-year cere erated on a so-called "traditional" monies and, by midmonth, com calendar, consisting of two 17- or mencement. Except for those teach 18-week semesters. The fall semes I ing or attending summer school, ter began in mid-September and BARRIE MAGUIRE the academic year is over. overlapped the Christmas holidays, What this all adds up to is that with final exams occurring in mid Christopher Columbus and the cel only October, February and April January. The second semester end ebration of Halloween distract are available for seriously uninter ed in mid-to-late June. some people. rupted time. Since the early 1970s, most col The first 10 days of November A lot is packed into 28 weeks: leges have been on the "early se are useful for campus chores and Classes are taught, papers graded, mester" calendar. · meetings, but then the Thanksgiv students counseled; books and arti Classes begin around the first ing Day syndrome sets in. Mid cles are written and read; games of September and end before term exams are followed by esca are attended; professional meetings Christmas - a 14-week semester. lating departures of students. By are held; consulting contracts This schedule, viewed as a poten the weekend before the week of filled. The pace is hard, the days tial fuel saver, extends the Christ Thanksgiving, the campus is are long. It is impressive when you mas recess until mid-January. The bereft of serious activity; this lull consider what is accomplished dur second 14-week semester ends in extends until December. ing this time. early May. December requires little com But how much is not accom Simple math tells us that the ment. Final exams and the surge plished? Faculty are not on duty academic "year" now lasts about toward the Christmas and New for nearly half the year. Many are seven months, occupying a mere Year holidays consume everyone's active with study and publication 28 weeks. This point was dramati attention. Faculty accomplish few or consulting, but that is still a lot cally illustrated by the recent pieces of traditional university of days when you don't have to get Newsweek magazine cover story business. Students disappear when out of bed. headlined "$1,000 a Week: The their last exam is done. A return io the old calendar of Scary Cost of College," referring to January, too, requires little 34 to 36 weeks would add a huge the $28,000 annual cost of attend comment. The semester starts number of days for teaching and ing a prestigious private college for around the Martin Luther King Jr. learning and for all other universi two 14-week semesters. (For the re holiday, leaving time only for the ty chores. Just 30 years ago, stu maining 24 weeks of the year, of drills of drop-add and books, and dents and faculty averaged about course, campus life is either at a the usual re-entry/post-vacation 190 days of class time; now it is halt or dramatically slowed.) syndrome. about 155. Why the decrease? Is By no means. however, do we there less to learn or to do? Februar: is H ,mod month. It is ...:xp~ricnce 28 \·;eeks of Uiiii1tcr rupted learning. Behold a typical shorter than the rest and includes courages prolonged and expensive academic year: Presidents' Day, but a lot of meet educational efforts bv students. Around Labor Day, when class ings are held, deadlines are set for The theoretical four i•ears for grad es begin, everyone is engaged in March and early April and every uation (which for most students the opening shakedown. Students one is waiting for spring. now drags out to five and six) drop and add in startling numbers. March could be a good month, could easily be narrowed. And sim Books may not be available for all but it begins with mid-term exams, ple administrative tasks like filling courses. Dorms may be overloaded. is rudely interrupted by a week appointments or changing an acad Various opening ceremonies take long Spring Break (which begins in emic program could be done on a place. Little of any academic sub the middle of the previous week, more reasonable and effective stance, or serious meetings involv similar·to the pre-Thanksgiving timetable. But first. we must fix ing faculty or students. takes place and Christmas practice). Return the dysfunctional calendar. until late September. from Spring Break is harried, with October is a good month for everyone preparing to meet the II Milton Greenberg is a professor getting things done. E\·errone is deadlines set in February. of government at American Univer settled down, and only the annual April looms large. All kinds of sity, where he formerly served as debate over the sainthood of groups have scheduled numerous provost and interim president. A sample of recent articles of interest to Morehead State University INSTITUTIONAL RELATIONS MOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY UPO BOX 1100 MOREHEAD, KY 40351-1689 606-783-2030 LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER, LEXINGTON, KY. !!I WEDNESDAY, MAY 29. 1996 designee. and the chairman of the In March. 22 faculty members college's foundation board or his s.ent a letter to UK. asking oificials designee. Prestonsburg there to request Floyd's resignation. Several facultv members said Later that month, the facultv they were disappointed that the re college should rnted no-confidence in Floyd by a port did not offer more concrete so .r,-27 margin. with one abstention. lutions . Floyd's critics have said she is "I am mystified," said Deborah look to future, an autocratic leader who doesn't lis Jacobs. an English associate profes ten to faculty and intimidates some sor at the Pikeville campus. "The report says employees. They say she has pur idea of a committee is a joke." sued her own plan for the college, Phyllis Honshell, the facultv li BY ANGIE MUHS without consulting others. aison to the consultants, said· she HERALD-LEADER EDUCATION WRITER Her defenders - which include was not surprised by the report's A team of consultants hired by the UK administration, the PCC ad contents. the University of Kentucky to get visory board and the Student Gov But she said she was concerned' to the bottom of a messy controver ernment Association - paint a about the timing. Because most fac sy at Prestonsburg Community Col vastly different picture. ulty are on 10-month contracts, that' lege says the campus needs to form They say Floyd is a tireless means many of them won't even be. another committee to settle the mat worker and dynamic leader whose on campus until August, she said. ter. desire for change has upset some. "I just don't know how quickly . The team's other major conclu• They point to the college's health a committee can do a lot of work," sion: the atmosphere on campus programs and other developments said Honshell, a 30-year faculty has become poisoned, with some as evidence of Floyd's progress. member. "I think expediency is a employees refusing to speak to each The report suggested that the necessary consideration." ,. other and people on both sides of campuswide committee should con Other faculty said they thought': the dispute becoming targets of ha sist of the college's two deans, five the report had painted an accurate; rassing letters and phone calls. faculty members, a non-teaching picture of the campus situation. . The report, released yesterday faculty from the library, at least "I thought they were fair and. by UK, offers relatively few three students, three staff members, accurate," said Bob McAninch, a. specifics but says the divisions can one staff member from the college's political science professor. "I saw· be repaired, starting with a cam Pikeville campus, the chairman of everything in their document that puswide committee to discuss the the college's advisory board or his I'd seen going on on campus." issues. "It is time to stop looking back LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER, LEXINGTON, KY. ■ WEDNESDAY, MAY 29, 1996 and to start focusing on the future," the four-page report said. "Without ■ HIGHLAND HEIGHTS FIim 101 at NKU: Students can get credit - along an immediate change i°if ciimate, it with the filmmakers - for Jimmy Crack Corn, a movie is unlikely that a reasoned discus that will begin filming in June at Northern Kentucky sion can take place about any issue University. Officials of the university and two New of substance on which opinions are Yark filmmakers agreed to grant the film status as an divided." artist-in-residence project that provides academic credit The report said the campus to student interns for jobs ranging from casting to wide committee should address sound editing. Producer David Hannah said he hopes most of the issues it cited. the project will be a model for other school-filmmaker The three consultants had not partnerships. "We want this program to be copied all yet submitted a bill, said UK over the country," he said. The arrangement includes spokesman Bernie Vonderheide. association with the NKU Foundation, a conduit for But he said UK, which oversees the donations of goods and services. The filmmakers said state's 14 community colleges, ex the Greater Cincinnati Film Commission helped to pected to pay slightly less than recruit aid that has come in the form of housing, hospi $15,000 for the report. tality and equipment. Hannah's partner, director James The consultants visited the Rosenow, has auditioned actors in Cincinnati, Chicago, campus for two days earlier this New Yark and Los Angeles. Local casting for smaller month and spoke with faculty, parts and extras will be later. About two dozen interns staff. students and community are working on pre-production. Among the students' members. jobs has been hunting through nearby Northern Ken College President Deborah tucky counties for a farm to appear in the movie, a Floyd and UK officials hailed the story about small-town life. Hannah said university report, saying it represented a way officials were determined to bring the film company to for the college to put past battles campus. David Thomson of the NKU radio-television behind it. film program said the university supported the movie "It seems very reasonable," project because it was well-planned and promised rare Floyd said. "I'm pleased by their fo. learning opportunities. cus on the future." But several of the college's fac ulty were critical, saying its recom LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER, LEXINGTON. KY. ■ WED~ESDAY. MAY 29, 1996 mendations were useless. ;■ inN'i'ILLE "We knew we had a division here. They didn't really give us any Ex-publisher to give Centre address: Creed C. Black. head of the Knight Foundation and former pub way to resolve it." said Thomas lisher of the Herald-Leader, will give the commence Orf. president-elect of the Faculty ment address at Centre College on Sunday. Black also Assembly. "I thought it was pretty will receive an honorary doctorate degree, along with bad that all this money was spent University of Kentucky Athletics Director C.M. New basically on stuff that we already ton, Georgia Tech Athletics Director Homer C. Rice and knew." baccalaureate speaker Richard L. Harrison, president of UK hired the consultants earlier Lexington Theological Seminary. "The college identi this month. after a controversy that fied Black, Newton and Rice as three people who by had plagued the college for months. personal example and persuasive leadership represent integrity in college athletics," Centre President Michael F. Adams said. !..S~INGTOi'< HERALD-LEADER. LEXINGTON KY WEDNESDAY, MAY 29. 1996 . LEXINGiON HERALD-LLJ\DER. LEXINGTON. f,Y. II WEDNESDAY. MAY 29, 1996 ■ Dean's bow to ;Model of integrity basketball stars Weatherford surmounted challenges at Berea College was out of line I am writing to express my conce enrucky's Berea College has faced called on all that he had to of- about the University of Kenruckv's Colle forged a noble hiRrory since fer. of Communication graduation May 5. De. t opened in 1855, and surely Berea had confronted challenges Douglas Boyd, in his opening spee< KJ made reference to the fact that in the ea1 one of its most honored places be- before. but Mr. Weatherford served 1920s the University of Kenruckv was 1 longs to Berea's sixth president. during a stormy era for all colleges. tablished to support the basketball tea1 Willis D. Weatherford Jr. He was especially pained after which was already in existence. I kne Mr. Weatherford, who died last protests in the early '70s for more this town was basketball crazy - b week at 79 in Black Mountain, N.C., black students and faculty. Like his even God rested on the Sabbath. As most of Lexington knew, Tor guided Berea from 1967 to 1983. He father, Mr. Weatherford had long Delk and Walter McCarty were in th was one of Berea's most able and supported integration and civil group of graduates. As usual. each grad important presidents - and one of rights, but upon his retirement, he ate's name was called honors were d the finest any Kentucky campus lamented Berea's up-and-down tailed. and they walked 'across the stage has ever seen. record in increasing the black pres- shake the hand of the dean and receh He was kind and ence on campus. their "pseudo" diploma. When McCan walked up to the podium, his name w;; courtly yet sure- Ironically, he aroused some op- called and the audience went wild wit handed and tough, position when he moved to remedy cheers and Boyd dropped to the floor as and strong in his de- this. Some alumni and trustees did- to humble himself before McCarty. Stt meanor. He was firm n't like his proposal to expand the dents were blinded by all the camera flast in his conviction to college's service area to include all ~ that went off at that moment. It was a if the Hollywood paparazzi had invade strengthen Berea's of Kentucky and part of southern the Singletary Center. When Delk walke historic mission of Ohio. Nevertheless, Berea ultimately across the stage, he got the same cheer serving Southern did this to gain access to a more and blinding camera flashes. Now her Appalachian stu- fertile recruiting ground. comes th~ kicker - Boyd dropped to th dents and promoting interracial and But Mr. Weatherford was deter- floor agam, handed the diploma to Dell international education. mined to preserve Berea's essence and kissed his hand. My point is that these gentlemen wen All the while, he raised the big while adapting it to modem reali- singled out \n front of hundreds of gradu money essential for a tuition-free ties. Campus rules for students be- at~ and therr parents as being superior tc education for students who worked came less stringent; Berea began the1r classmates. It is understandable tha· campus jobs but could not attend hiring the best and brightest faculty the audience would respond a little differ without full financial aid. wherever it found them (even some ently to these members of the 1996 NCAA Championship team. But the fact that tht Mr. Weatherford carried a !us- of non-Christian faiths); and it un- dean of the College of Communications trous pedigree. His father, Willis D. derwent two curricular reforms. had the audacity to make them out to be Weatherford, a renowned Ap- To have achieved this, while better than their peers is, in my mind, im palachian leader and civil rights pi- many colleges went through gyra- proper and shameful. This was supposed oneer, was an influential Berea tions in the face of changing cir- to be one of the greatest days in the lives trustee for 47 years. cumstances, testifies to Mr. Weath- of those students who worked very dili ~entl~ to receive their degrees only to have Furthering this legacy, Willis D. erford's faithfulness to his predeces- 1t belittled by the actions of a basketball Weatherford Jr. earned degrees sors and those who would come af- fa?atic dean. Boyd goofed, even if nobody from Vanderbilt, Yale Divinity ter him. There is a word for this. will tell him. School and Harvard, before serving It's "integrity." Mr. Weatherford al ERICA MCDONALD at two of the nation's top colleges ways spoke and acted with integri WINGTON -- 17 years as an economics profes- ty. This is why history will smile sor at Swarthmore and two years appreciatively on his good works. as the dean at Carleton. This is why his many colleagues, It was fortunate that he had friends and admirers will miss him this background, because what he dearly. THE COURIER-JOURNAL • SPORTS• WEDNESDAY, MAY 29, 1996 and has asked the school "for help in His eligibility was restored after the S providing additi<;>nal infonnatio~:" NCM's eligibility committee re NCAA wan t Nystrand declined to be specific on viewed only an insurance-related is what infonnation the NCM has re- sue concerning the Honda. '- However. the purchase of the car U 0 f L S he Jp qu~s;e:~id u of L has not received a remains among the issues being in • fonnal letter of inquiry, which would vestigated by the NCAA. •ng denote specific charges. Walker. who would have been a In gathen "I hope it's resolved pretty soon, junior. has signed with an agent and but ri~ht now I can't tell you any declared himself eligible for next • ~ t • more,' he said. month's National Basketball Associ 100 NCM enforcement officials de- ation draft. ID1orma clined comment and referred all ques tions to U of L. By DAVE KOERNER The investigation stems from a se Staff Writer ries of stories in The Courier-Journal that named several secondary viola The NCAA still is looking into the tions. They focused on fonner U of L University of Louisville basketball center Samaki Walker and his use of program, but there's no timetable on two vehicles and assistant coach when the situation will be resolved, a Larry Gay, who has resigned. school official said yesterday. Walker was suspended for two ear Ray Nystrand, special assistant to ly-season games fo llowing findings the president and the person in about his use of a Ford Explorer. He charge of the school's probe. con later missed 10 more games while firmed that the NCM has sent U of L U of L officials examined his obtain officials a preliminary lener 01 mau1ry ment of a 1991 Honda Accord. LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER. LEXINGTON, KY. ■ WEDNESDAY, MAY 29, i996 C3 SPORTS OVC expected to let Middle exit league in football: Ohio Valley Conference presi Ballard will have the I-AA can beat in the first game. You dents are expected to allow Middle State notebook maximum 90 players report for fall 1996 football schedules don't care how you play as long as Tennessee to leave the league in camp with additional players arriv you win." fooiball when the Blue Raiders go ' Rick Bailey covers ing when classes start. More than EASTERN KENTUCKY MOREHEAD STATE OVCvs. SEC . llivision 1-A in 1998. state schools and 50 players have signed letters of At Thursday's meeting in Mur Marshall for the Sept. 7 TROY STATE, 7 Sept. 7 at Dayton, 7 The OVC fared well against commitment he designed affirming 'Sept.14 ra}', the presidents will let Middle Herald-Leader. they will attend Morehead, play at Western Kentucky, 8 Sept. 21 at Valparaiso, 1 Southeastern Conference baseball do what they permitted Morehead This article football and abide by university Sept. :21 APPALACHIAN STATE, 7 Sept. 28 KENTUCKY WESLEYAN. 7 rivals this spring, despite the asser- ' Slate to do last year - compete in includes his rules. The letters are non-binding Sept. 28 TENNESSEE TECH, 7 Oct. 5 at Charleston Southern, 1:30 lion of Kentucky Athletics Director all other OVC sports except foot opinions and and have no legal authority. Oct. 5 SOUTHEAST MISSOURI, 2 Oct. 12 at Wofford. TBA C.M. Newton I-hat OVC schools observations. (and Western Kentucky) used their, ba!J..The Eagles, however, will be a "The national letter of interit Oct.19 at Middle Tennessee, 4 Oct. 26 ST. JOSEPH'S (Ind.), 1:30 ace pitchers to deal the Wildcats I-AA independent this fall as they and scholarship papers are more Oct. 26 at Tennessee-Martin, 2 Nov. 2 QUINCY, 1:30 some critical losses. mov" to non-scholarship football. binding," said Steve Hamilton, Nov. 2 TENNESSEE STATE, 1:30 Nov. 9 WESTERN KENTUCKY, 1:30 1997 After the fast-closing Cats likely will end after the sea MSU athletic director. "When you Nov, 9 · Tenns of Middle's departure in son "unless they give us a $100,000 MURRAY STATE, 1:30 Nov. 16 at Evansville, 1:30 failed to receive an NCAA Tourna football could be different than don't give scholarships, you don't Nov. 16 at Austin Peay, 2:30 guarantee," Kidd said with a laugh. know who will be here until school ment bid last week, Newton said, · ~forehead's, according to Commis "Boots (Donnelly, the Middle Nov. 23 at Eastern Illinois, 2:30 All Umes Eastern "You save your (best) pitchers ... sioner Dan Beebe. The Eagles starts. That's why you recruit a lot coach) says he's seen all he wants of players." for your conference play. But the next year will have their share of Eastern." other teams come in with their ace. from the NCAA basketball tourna The Eagles will have about 'l:l athletic scholarships this fall as past seven years where he had a This is the biggest game on their ment divided among the other OVC kensbip, the Colonels' longtime schedule." ,·,·hools. Independent Morehead downsizing continues. offensive coordinator who will be a 37-37 record. Morehead Coach Matt Ballard Ballard was pleased with the full-time professor this fall. The Colonels will be challenged But Randy Stacy, Morehead's "Middle's payment could be in reports his Eagles are anxious for MSU defense during spring prac Blankenship was on Kidd's early this fall by two of their first sports information director, pointed a form," different Beebe said. their "new and different experi tice. "We've got depth on the line staff at Eastern for 19 years, seven three opponents. Troy State will out that four UK starters in the "That might change for Morehead, ence" this fall as an independent. and in the secondary and the flexi as coordinator. He decided to re visit Richmond for the opener SEC Tournament pitched in the too." Morehead has six I-AA foes and bility to rotate players to more turn to the classroom full time Sept 7; two weeks later Appala Cats' two losses to the Eagles. F.astern Coach Roy Kidd sup three NCAA Division II foes on its than one position," he said. Nine because of chronic knee problems. chian State travels to Eastern. Both The OVC was 11-22 against the: ·' ports the archrival Raiders in their schedule; a 10th game is being starters return this fall. foes were unbeaten during the 1995 SEC, a deceptive record because Two assistants will share the the Valley was 0-8 against Tennes-,, .. move to I-A. The schools either sought. The offense isn't as deep espe- . coordinator's job. Offensive line Division I-AA regular season. In see. Alabama, No. 1 seed in the won or shared 14 consecutive OVC "There was a sense of loss dally on the line. Quarterback coach Doug Carter will be in between, Eastern will visit tradi titles until Murray State prevailed Chris Berry played baseball and charge of the running game. Leon tional rival Western Kentucky. College World Series, was 2-3 from the OVC, but- we're far re against the OVC, losing to Eastern,.• last year. moved from that now," Ballard missed spring practice. Hart returns to Eastern as the "We've got a tougher schedule "I'm excited for them," Kidd Murray and Middle. UK was 1-4 said. "We've got a challenging quarterbacks and receivers coach; than we need," Kidd said. "Dr. against the OVC. said. "Their administration is ag he will be responsible for the pass schedule that allows us to be more EKU staff changes (Bob) Baugh (EKU athletic direc Morehead just missed. winning gressive and wants a good pro competitive. How that translates "I told Joe he wouldn't know ing game. tor) scheduled the two games to gram." the OVC Tournament and qualify-_., into wins and losses depends on what to do with all those free Hart was the head coach at help se;ison ticket sales. You al ing for a play-in series to reach the' ' But the Eastern-Middle rivalry how we execute." hours," Kidd said about Joe Blan- Division II Elon College for the ways want to play somebody you NCAA. . Ma..., 301 I '1 lExJNGTON HERALD-LEACER, LEXINGTON. KY. ■ THURSDAY, MAY 30, 1996 Herald-Leader reporter Angie Muhs gets award HERALD-LEADER STAFF REPORT ty colleges as well as some of the 30 Herald-Leader reporter Angie year-old system's many successes. Muhs has won a national award for "The series was inforrnativ, her reporting on education in Ken and comprehensive and employed , tucky. skillful blend of hard data with per The American Association of sonal stories," the judges for th, 'University Professors awarded contest said in a press release yes Muhs its 1996 Award for Excel terday. "Ms. Muhs is to be congrat lences· in Coverage of Higher Edu ulated for combining a reporter', cation. skepticism with compassion and , Muhs, 'l:l, won for her four-part talent for asking the right ques series, "Midlife Crisis: Kenrucky's tions." Community Colleges at the Cross The AAUP is made up o roads." 44.000 faculty members at college, The series dealt with the prob and universities around the coun lems facing the state's 14 communi- try. ilil'S ~ndes.. 1lll'Se tn,1d.,:, llt'l'l.i hi be The South should focus ■ C.E. Bishop was research project manage, rcvefSl,J in ;m L'l.111um1v llu1t dl1n.,nds !lfcater acu'SS Stale ol the South." the ,eport from which u, IIn rcunumic terms. a hii:h sd1t ■ 1l dipk1111a lh~ H1 t11ll1:l,!1:S and uni\·t,;i1i~ lli11:her t'lllll~dliun. in tum. on job quality as well as cerpted. Bishop is an alumnus of Berea Collt d.iys does as much good a.,; rabbi! ears on a tumputt1'. musl !'ln.'11J.1lht11 i1s nunmiuncnt to ~tudents and the job qua11h·ty. Unive1S1ty ol Kentucky and the UnivelSl\y of C A worker armt'd only with a high ~lmul dipluma lo· ~late.. EducJtiu11 s}·stesns as wdl as indi\·idual insli I He is the fo1mer P1"es11:lent of the University c day h.1s fewer pros~ls than a ?r~puul a ltl~lffiUi1111 tu1i11n,- will ha\·e '" bu.1,mr more rnllaburati\·e. bulh Tht:' rtii:ion st~ ei,,,numi: cL::\·elupmrnl hr l111mt• Arkansas and oresidenl erne111us or the U11"-t :1~ The South's business and C1V1t' leader.1h1p t'an 1\ithin ,:lat~ ,ind reginnallr, if 1hr South is In afford in$i? C'lll!lp;mi~ m.ruited. jubs pl'llmi:'t'l'.I. ribb,ns ll1t. Houston. r•un '7) '' ,...,, MSU Clip A sample of recent articles of interest ta Morehead State University INSTITUTIONAL RELATIONS MOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY UPO BOX 1100 MOREHEAD, KY 40351-1689 606-783-2030