MGU 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 Daily Independent, Ashlan_d,-kentucky, Monday, January 2, 1991;" LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER, LEXINGTON, KY. ■ .ttfilltNm:t~Htff¥@Rf.~1!-fff1P~RJNfQUlhV1£W{t3/$%Y~n~@%ifj@ff~~4%. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1994 NKU wants to raise student fees: Northern· -Words,-;,.of--!pr~ise: Kentucky University is proposing an increase in student fees. The university is looking for ways to· make up a shrinking supply of state money. 1n, ·MSU ~xpandhlg ·cla~s~s in Ashland addition to the fee increase, the university's- board of regents probably will consider a plan to double Opportunities to earn un- ,'.. the amount faculty, staff and students pay to • · dergraduate and advanced de- · park on campus ·every year, Students now pay . . grees in Asp.land keep in- .'· It may tak~ a litt{e '$110 a semester in general fees, along with other , creasing as . Morehead State -' .fees based on specific uses - such. as lab fees or longer than four years·., room and board for those·who live in dorms .. . University expands offerings to earn-a bachelor's . ·Under the. plan, two new fees would be added: A · · at its Ashland earn.pus in the , degree without leaving $20 technology fee would be used to improve G.B. Johnson Center at 14th ·computers, networks and other similar programs, 'Street ap.d Winchester Av .. Ashland, but thanks to, and a $10 fee would be used to buy and replace enue.· · Morehead's growing items used in classes. Morehead will offer 47 un presence, it's becoming dergrad and graduate courses . a practicaloption for a here during its spring senies- growing number of area . ter, which begins Jan .. 17. residents. And Roland Burns, the cen ter's director, says the uni The Sunctay·lndependent, Ashland, Kentucky, versity is exploring local in -December 25, 1994 terest. in new -coirrses in 'the : Ray Pace of Lexington, di future. rector of tax compliance for LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER, LEXINGTON, KY. ■ By taking classes at Ash Ashland Oil Inc., has been MONDAY, JANUARY 2, 1995 elected president of the newly land Community ,College and established board of directors Morehead's center, it's pos cif the Kentucky Folk Art Cen Ecials missed sible to earn bachelor's and ter at Morehead State Univer the. central. issue. master's degrees in business sity. administration. without leav ::Michael R. Walters, MSU iissistant vice president for fis in Lees College case . ing Ashland. In addition, cal services, was elected trea Reading the recent article about the most of the classes needed for surer. Serving on the execu an elementary education students expelled from Lees College, it tive committee · as at-large appeared the state police investigator and major are offered locallY: members are Bonnie Eaglin the administrators at Lees College missed Burns says Morehead may and Dr. Cathy Shely, both of the importance of the incident in which soon offer a major in hotel, Morehead. two male students had sexual relations restaurant and institutional Also on the board are Alpha with an intoxicated female student in their M. Hutchinson, chairman and dorm ·room. I hope this experience will management. Under a pro chief executive officer of Citi prompt dialogue at every col,lege campus, gram started last year, More zens Bank, and Keith Kappes, law enfotcement agency and prosecutor's head first identifies students MSU .vice president for univer office. · · interested in pursuing par sity advancement, both of In an effort to cipen suc.h an exchange, Morehead; J. Dan Lacy of · I would pomt out the· central issue. It is ticular majors in Ashland, Huntington, · vice president of then offers· classes geared wrong to have sexual contact with any corporate communications for person who is under the influence of a specifically to them. Ashland Oil; and Nina !'!ind-altering substance, rendering them It may· take a little 'longer; Preston, _Ashla_nd, graphi£__ de incapable of providing informed consent. than four . years to earn a: signer. · For example, alcohol is· a central ner- bachelor;s degree without The board was created to vous ·system depressant affecting motor leaving Ashland, but thanks support the development of the control (making physical resistance poten Kentucky Folk Art Center cur tially difficult) and affecting· judgment to Morehead's growing pres rently located on MSU campus. (making consent questionable). It is not· ence, it's becoming a practi Slated to move to a 10,000- justifiable to engage in sex with someone cal option for a growing num square-foot facility on First so impaired just because they did not say ber of area residents. Street in 1996, the center is no: I would_ call that exploitation at the moving toward becoming a least' and will leave it to the prosecutor's fully accredited museum, de office to determine if it was rape. I hope to veloping private and regional read in future issues of the paper how this support and ·implementing an issue is being addressed. expanded educational pro'. SCOTT M. BANFORD gram. LEXINGTON Ually Independent, Ashland, KentucKy, ::saturaay, Ut::VCII IUOI ..... , ...... ' Inc: \JUUnlL1 l"'VVVI 11,ni.. - I V"'-VIJn 1 1 u, 11 ~....-, ., ,. 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'< ~:rs~ o''t:3 ra.~ ·::r-=--a.a.~~ & n, ...... , a :, n, 0 5· ~ ::r- -· !i~ :,:§gi ~ ~~@i ~~ !i[i;i"g&~ ::;J"' lEXINGTON HERALD-I.EADER, LEXINGTON, KY. ■ TUESDAY, JANUARY 3, 1995 5'< -.s;i:nog-.::J"'Er-og-~~ =-- ~~ ::so 1 g" ::J"'~ ~ ut~~_g -e:=--~ ~rA ~~ 9 m --·: e e e I ~ ciJ 't:3 n, ,0 gj" z t'll oq :f'< 8 ,..,. ::S o-17.9. !z -< ~ [Jmvers1ties viewed ~ ~ ~~ [~ Jil!·g_i ~i:!11~ I; :.,... : . · -gtJ sS§~ ~o-['Ei. 0 ·n,a~g,-::?:nzo;c:, ~ as place. that thrQws .off·_ ~! ii~t· : !~;-l·t&~ i ~~~I~ . . . .. s-liil· ::, "'-·· "'a ::, g~ ~., o.s iir::r z., a student's moral compass .j ! ~~ ii [i!j 1i.t~i~ 1ri ! , ;- ' , ' .r'; -· ::, ·O
1istory of radical university profes- · ''higher learning," the learning is •1 S- g 1J "'" :.~ l'.J .,. _ · § §' 5 F g ~ [@ .Pl i> ;ors? more about lower than higher ~ cr: S- S- ~ rn .,,.., fB ~ ~ S.. o-O'l:I .., ~ ca ~ § Some bright spots fyom the sur-. things. Increasingly, Pf:OPle will !)l. 8-0<> :, [ § Si J· fl> 11 !ll :i.'Sl S- ~ o' [ !ll. ,ey included these findmgs: 94 per- hunt for schools that give them a· ~ [.!ll B. :1 .,. § g ~i !( S- ~ _ ~ fi ._'C a: :ent of the students sa!d !~at family rea) education and avoid _those ~ S' s- Pl '< o. 'El i; i;i ::, s-::, s- ~-El;~ 3, S the most important mslltution for which seek to propagandize accord- • "' "' e!."' "' rn 9 '< - ., "' !l "' -"" "' ~ society's well-being (they were not ing to the principles and fads of a gi:,;;,§i; '5li3c.Slcl' 88:1;'-';'i °"[S"tr!!!. 1sked to define "family," however, failed decade. -· RI o O O ,..,. S:: n, • C: f'-~-s- :i; , 'l:'l a., s:,;;,., s:nl .~ s-..,, s-~« =~ 11 a [Ji"~ ~ § [ "'§. it ,E"~~ it,,,~ g- ~- g- § . e, ~; ~ !3 < rn· A-'t:3 rn ::s p. -·~. c-"' ., or._."' >:,:: Qgj."' b'8°~ ~ ma ..... g'rf[a :=:~ to) g-~o :, ;.J_[D) s"" g g:g8-'C gs: g-., ~ ~" ~ ~a::,~- .a ...... ~to) ::s::sa,a~g-O'l:lra.-
because I have proved people He had given no inllication to the I The Central Kentucky delega- Larry Clark said "everyone re BY JAMIE LUCKE , wrong so often and I'm ·going to I rank-and-file that he had reserva- 1 tion was largely loyal to Clarke. spects Joe Clarke for the legislator AND CHAD CARLTON prove them wrong again." lions about the spending plan be- I Rep. Ernesto Scorsone of Lexing- he is. He just wasn't the leader the HERALD-LEADER FRANKFoar·BUREAU" _, Stumbo denied that he was fore casting his vote. "That was ton, who supported Clarke, said the House needs." FRANKFORT - House Denio- trying to install a speaker he could ' pretty dumb," Clarke said yester- I· message yesterday was that House· crats soundly rejected their white control. "That's not my goal· my · day. Democrats think the leadership - House .J I knight of yore, choosing Rep. Jody · goal is to unite the caucus." ' . I. Two years ago, Stumbo helped team had not worked together un- •speaker Jody Richards ' Richards. as speaker over incum- engineer Clarke's election; he and der Clarke. "People still have a Speaker Pro-Tern Larry .Clark,. , bent Joe Clarke .yesterday "by a In search of unity , others thought Clarke's impeccable ,I tremendous amount of respect for D-Louisville margin that clearly took Clarke by Richards, a Bowling Green reputation would improve the scan- j his knowledge and· capability. I Majority Floor Leader Greg surprise.-..· . .-.. :,. .•, ... _. ,.;; .-';; businessman, said House Demo- dal-tainted image of the House. I think it was a reaction to his Stumbo, D-Prestonsburg I1 The speaker's · · .... ' crats wanted more unified leader- 1 ; Yesterday, Stumbo said Clarke approach to leadership," Scorsone Democratic Whip Kenny race that -many I ship in the wake of last year's could not heal the rift that had : said. Rapier, D-Bardstown predicted would , chaotic regular session, which developed among House Demo- I · Rep. Harry Moberly of Rich- "Democratic Caucus Chairman be close fumed brought a split in House leadership ' crats. . mend and Rep. Joe Barrows were Jim Callahan, D-Southgate : into a · ·runaway over the . budget! health care and I _ Richards' support came from , among the Central Kentucky law- "Minority Floor Leader Danny 1• for Richards, who construction proJects. his native Western Kentucky, the · makers who voted against Clarke. Ford, A-Mount Vernon polled 39 votes to ·l:::::!~===1 : "They elected me, I think, ·Eastern Kentucky delegation head- ·Moberly has frequently been 1 "Republican Whip Charlie , Clarke's 24 in a I largely because I'm a consensus ed by Stumbo and Jefferson County mentioned as a possible replace- Walton, A-Florence secret ballot I builder and largely because, I delegation, headed by Speaker Pro ment for Rep. Marshall Long of "Republican Caucus Chairman . among _·House I think, they feel we will work to- Tern Larry Clark. Shelbyville as chairman of the Stan Cave, A-Lexington · Democrats be- gether better. I think_ that wa~ th~1 If the alliance of Richards, , most powerful committee, Appro- 1. hind . ,.- closed w~ole mess~ge of this campaign, Stumbo and Larry Clark holds priations and Revenue. Long sµp- r~ ,::;•~.~ nd doors. ~'< 1· Ric1J::rts ~ · . h. they would be able to dominate th~ ported Clarke. President John "Eck" Rose, Richards' . 1~ ar s WI 11 meet t is morn- five-member leadership. ·1-·· Yestercfay; Richards -would ·not D-Winchester full H · hi , mg with Gov. Brereton Jones and · f So th · h. I f I 0 election by the ouse t s Senate President John "Eck" Rose. _ :Rep. Jnn Calla:han o _ . u gate comment on 1s p ans or personne President Pro Tem Charlie morning· is ~cteg_ to be<} formal- Clarke, House budget cb.ief for wa~ elected ~m~tic .caucus ' assignments except to say there Berger, D-Pineville· : 20 ity with Ilemocrafs, who outnum-1 years before being drafted in 1993 chairman, replacmg Richards. He would be no wholesale changes in Majority Floor Leader David ~ebl~p:ublicans' 63_to 37, voting as . to take over as speaker for the defeated Rep. Joe Barrows of Ver- committee chairmen. Karem, D-Louisville ' . . I indicted Don Blandford, appeared saw~lles_ and Charles Gevedon of tionT:~: e:o~e:nla~~k::ch~d Democratic Wliip Fred Bradley, The most immediate result of stunned and hurt by the clear 1ckhffe. . .. D-Frankfort" ·.:· . i the leadership change will hi! evi- rejection. Clarke had said earlier Re-elected without opposition been promised chairmanships by Democratic Caucus _Chairman dent later this week when Richards I that 33 to 34 Democratic laWJnak- were La1:Y C(ark, Stumbo. and , Richards supporters. "I don't have Nick Kafoglis, D0 Bowling Green I and the 9ther fo~ Hou"\! leaders , ers had promised to vote for him Democratic Whip Kenny Rapier. ; any comment about any committee "Minority Floor Leader. Dan elected yesterday hand out commit- which would have assured him of. , chairmanships at this time," Rich- Kelly, A-Springfield ·, tee assignments and chairman- ' , ards said. ·- · ships. . , . _, more than the 32 votes needed for Far in the hole Richards predicted that what- "Republican WhiP. ))ic~ .• 1 Reeding, R-Fort Mitchell . ,1. _ Among the clear winners in the • vict~ry. · ,- . , . ' Rapier,. · who had supported , ever tax cuts Jones puts on the 1 1 Republican Caucus Chairman tru I Ma'10 'ty Lead • gu~ some p~ple did~ t h~e Clarke, said he was surprised by · agenda for a special session will be I ~G~esg s~;;,a~ho 2plit with up to their commitinents, said , the margin. "I had no idea we were enacted. Therefore, it is imperative Tom Buford, A-Nicholasville · Clarke, a Danville lawyer. that far in the hole." Clarke_ ~uring the regular HERALD-LEADER I 1994 •
LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER, LEXINGTON, KY. ■ WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 4, 1995 No, KERA. is not· co,nservative ' ·,, . • ,'. . • ,,r• ., • . ' Don't llelieve the m~dia; .. state ·really'.controls. ~e schools: ' / . : ' ; . ' ; ':_ . . ',, ~ .. BY SHIRLEY DANIEL . · ': life math, and now uses check- · t has become increasingly. fash: This Is not local control. , . . books and catalogs instead. · ionable for the media to classi• Rather, It Is an attempt by a · . , · · This' is not local control. Rath- I fy public policies as conserva- · · local school to teach In a way _er, it is an attempt by a local school . tive. The editor of one of the state's : i that wlll satisfy the state ·, to teach in a way that.will satisfy :' major newspapers says, without_ ·. edl(catlon offlclals. ·. · ' the state education.officials in ' ' objection from any other major :, i Frankfort. • ·. newspaper's editors who were also · The key that urilocks the secret' present, that the Kentucky Educa- The liberals likewise stayed • code t? the game remains hidden in , tion Reform Act (KERA) is conser- ' true to their beliefs. Their testimo- , the minds of the bureaucrats. Aca- . vative, partly because it provides ny showed a never-ending faith · · , -' · demic expectations such as having for local control. and trust in a "Big Brother''system. students ''m_ake sense of' and "in- Conservatives had better be on·. They like the media and the Dem- teract effectively and work cooper- . guard when the media - lacking · ocrat'legislative leadership, atively with" _over clear, measur-. intimate knowledge themselves -'-- claimed that KERA provides for able expectat10ns such as students define what is, and what isn't, local control. They ignored the . "should be ta1;1ght _a knowl~ge of' conservative. One conservative glaring contradiction between local a comprehensive hst of sub1ects . . truth misapplied to a liberal policy control and unlimited state cont,ol, The state's ever-changing ex- can cover tip its true nature, thus perhaps because of their innate . pectations leave teachers constant- protecting it from the conservative affection the latter. ly striving to hit a moving target. ax. The media's defense of KERA One thing is certain: Even by brib- as local should should be eyed with Conservatives expressed ing the students, many· schools will suspicion. Their reports on others doubts for local schools' contiqued fall under state· sanctions and will KERA happenings should be ques- existence if the expectations are face eventual takeover by the state tioned likewise. · not set in concrete because of the Department of Education. As al- A case in point is the analysis "high stakes" nature of the KERA ways, the teachers 'will take the by the Herald-Leader's Bill Bishop tests. Conservatives argued _that Qlame. of a recent legislative hearing to fixed, understandable standards Then again, the political tide is determine whether the acadeniic would give schools security but turning. It is still possible that expectations that schools are re- flexibility to select curriculum. KERA, with the power and little of quired to meet under KERA are The liberal position eventually the responsibility for failure resting . clear enough to be measured. won approval from the legislative in the bureaucracy, can be recog- Bishop's definitions of conser- committee. Teachers must cohtin- · nized as just another "no-fault" vatism and liberalism were, correct ue, as many of them reported after liberal social experiment Perhaps - conservatives generally call for the scores from the recent testing- it, too, may bite the dust when less government intervention and were released, "learning to play the more.conservatives are elected to liberal generally call for more state game." The games vary considera- the legislature. control. It is also true that censer- bly. tfne school,. which showed vatives called for clear, well-de- great improvement, reported that it ■ Shirley Danie! of Lexington is fined academic expectations while had gone "whole hog." It had . president of the Eagle Forum of liberals requested approval for thro\YII out its textbooks for real- Kentucky. vague expectations; however, Bish- • op missed the essence of the testi- mony at the hearing by a country mile. Bishop said incorrectly that there was a complete role reversal between liberals and conservatives at the hearing. He called it "idea- · logical cross-dressing." Actually, conservatives stayed true to their beliefs as their testi mony showed a general distrust of government. They testified against allowing bureaucrats, Baf .all-- .-L,freshmen -- ., '.,,::~;•/ ~ Student~athiel,es -~:-~~ Young athl~t~s shoul¢ln't be .t"9:shed ···! ' • ,_ /- j "• " ' • _' I' · ~ \ -••~-~ •• d~serve, bigger:~c11t A proposal to .rais~,. the aca: c;ially and academically to demic standards coµ~ge· ·a.th: .,,g9llege life. How foolish we of sports booty -~·/~:,; letes must meet to oe· able to, .were. to crrop tlie old rule and " .. .'. i "·.,. ,. -·· .,· f": 1 . Recently, CBS and·ihe NGAA.·a,.;.,,;,;, compete ,~_,freshnien."is, ex: Jet fres1unan·p1a.y~:.:. 1 . , • ., . to an eight-'year;$1.725cb}llioii,agree'ikfu'f pected· to be. the most hotly · J We. now have ·a situation in for_ tlie rights to the NCAA men's· basket'.· debated issue af ·llie .NCAA which immature 18 year olds ball tournament. The NCAA will receive a. convention·begiruiilig·Swiifa.y ·,·are exposed"'to"'all the pres record $215.6 million a', year' from1CSS. · i~ s~ l;>i_~go, ,_.,;),UtD: '. h·- ' :SUr~s of;- b,ftifu.~-~~ort~ .--;;"j The. question I have is, ''Who ·profits 'from" However, a better P.rOP.osal . the · endless practices ana this incredible revenue?"'.Defuiffely ndt the'. - one that would 'i:iriihibit alf hours· '6( travef;; the. touriia :student-athlete who isni,allowed to' work' 'and.does_ rieed a litt1t911ttt9r_ljyjng' freshmen~froi:h playing at tlie ;•ments .. arid bowl games, the' expenses. But the rules ·are• such tliat. lie' 300 big-time sports schools'.:' '·qritcicisms_· 'and' secci'rid:. qm'.t _ea,rn 1!11Y.thinii.fro!lli>r wlii)~ p;niitj_:'' is expecte f1\~,~tiptA~~ar:e iSC1 e ;. eSiJl.~:~:'., '' ,-•~ ;;~:\;'~! -~2-\ '.';t;;~,/;;,;: }~i~te~ta:·,~tuf!~~(;~•;'~~m-: ~-. ~~ ~~s ·;· , , . ,° ";;;; plant.to)nov~. 'ilft{ tJi,,r~um: ,, 1 Harris • and·~his;i ~ar,tners,."1pleted,:rrrne·;,~ompany will' 'payi 1 y 1 mer . . · . · Austin Owen and George. '•rent· to'tl!e'"liiduswlal Alithor;1 <:iF TH(Di.1Lv INii'EPENDENT ., '' A .plari submitted to th~' ~tate Simpkins:'· are· -for,mer, 'vice i ity 'under a• lea:se-tci-buy !plari. · · Economic Development Cabi- ,presidents. of ,,Cowden,iManu, · The lndustrlall,author.fty', will , ' MOREHEAD _'.__ A blue jean net says the Austin plant will -facturlng•Co.•, '··- , " pay back the county, which 1inanufacturer with three eventually employ 95 people. 'They• opened,.a,.factory in · will then put the money.Into a plants already in operation The plant inay put back to Louisa about· 3½ ,,years ago, -revolving· loan fund :to-,attract · (jW,111 open_ a new one in Row,:in work some of the people who .. then; expandedvto Springfield·. other Industry. t . ' 1County this month. lost their jobs when Big Yank I and Lancaster.• rrhe )company , ·" •The Kentucky ,•Rural ,E~o- r-' Au~t!n Apparel Co. Inc. · of Inc. closed about a year, ago, , is In the process ofl,nroving Its , nomlc Development. ,Au!}lo~1ty isiiri/?gfield Is expected to open Judge-Executive' Clyde Thomas . headquarters to I Lexington, 'has approv_ed' an 'appl!cahon I ,; aroun\l Jan. 23 in the old Cow- said. , where the three .partners.live. ,,from ,;Austm . to recover: its: den Manufacturing-Bjg Ya11k "If I recall right, there were · MoreheadrStatel·Uhlverslty, ·•\:Osts• for, t.he: bulld.l~g.:,andj ~6ii1iiHfi1( 011 Main _Street in over 100 people there,''·, Tho- whiqh 'tiwns·the;Cowden-Build- · equipment, n said. /!'r!lc! .Tr.<:>ut Morehead, said Tom Calvert, , mas said. "Some of those have ,. Ing, is-leasing ·it'to;the,county, 1_man, a _spok~smap. for tqe,sµite. ~executive director of the More- gotten other jobs but rm' sure which is then· sub-leasing ,it :to . EctonAom1~. De"'.elopment ,_Ctaal)ti- : 1.head-Rowan County Ecoiloni!c ' h' till ·A t· M uf: turlng·•·· -, •It , ,ne. l\ll,m w1 11, pay .no,.s e, PtievelopmentCouncll. . there are some"! 0 ares "us m an a~ .. · ·· ' ·. ,;taxes'for15yearsoriiritll,ltre-: !i' The 'plant will begin op- unemployed who would like to . The 'county, l!l•·~e~king a, \oups'$i:i fuill!on of its''odgl-\ i·erations with 25 workers, said go bac~ to work." . ., Communlty.,.Development :·nal .Investment.. I~ had _asked; 'j;.DougJiarris, one of three own- Austmmakes Lev1,505Jeans, Blo.?k ~rant• from. the_ state, ',for $t:2 ·mllllonln,lts,o\-ig!naV ·,ersofthecompany. Ga? Jeans and J.C."Penney's wh1c~ 1t w?uld then'l?~,,,to ''ai;,pi!catiim. · · • ,.:':' 1, "We feel pretty comfortable Arizona Jeans under contract. the mdustn~l. f?undahon to Harris' said base wages. Will• °'. we can get started and employ It also is planning a label of its build a new buildmg. ·· '": .'· . 'be moj:-e' than niiniitfom wage,, I"that many by a couple of own called Austin Jeans, Har- The Industrial Authority_ al- ~,but would not glve·-,specifics'. !:,weeks ,,after _the end of the ris said. .. , rea~y own_s.~e l~d. wher~ ~e~·) because of,~ '<;Oll}P,lic~t(lfs'ys:,l r• month, Harns said. "We've been manufacturing building \\'.Ill, be · 'f!ullt, -but It _,, tern of piece wor-k> incentives: •· Th t b 111 · se for,the Arizona-Jean Co. ever has another tenant,al)d details arid bohuses. , ,, ,· 'I r• oncea .u~:mMci~e~ead~f{i!~n since we've. b~en In business,'-' . of how, tllat wil,l, b~, han\fle~- ,t. ·, Troµtilum sald-,the 'coi:llpany · lcounty Industrial Devel-; he said. "We've been manufac- have notbe~riJ\icit'l\'.e1lout:~caI.: ;.histed lts.average•wage,a:t $6.50' opmen.t Authority builds a tur!ng Levi ancl'Cap for-ibout vert said. . ;,an hour; but that-'apparently "'new' $675,000. building for the two years." , · · · ' · ••" I The sitll• t,sr_op-.,U,S, J0.,near ,J,ncludes the,lnce!!t!;ves: ~J•··,·: \ LEx!NGTON H~ER. l.EJaNGTON .. KY. ■ THURSDAY, JANUARY 5;1995° challenge ahead·ofus; butTthiiik We can meet .it." - •s Lees Ciifi~~~ nµt' ,. . : Under the association's gµii:le• liiies, Lees could remaiii"on prolia tion for two years, Rogers said. If on prol,l~tion -~_for : tne school ilasn't strengthened its financial positibn-at'tlie end of that time, the association ''would have milliQn no other choice" but to revoke Lees' $1.6 deficit a=editation, Rogers said: BY ANGIE MUHS : Loss ofa=editation also prob HERALD-LEADER EouCATl□ N WRITER ably would hurt Lees' ability to A regional accreditation board !ms put on· prob~, _ attract-private donations and affect tion Lees College in Jackson because the school 1s its- students' ability to· ,transfer struggling with a $1.6 million deficit . courses, p.e said.. · , - The action means that if Lees doesn't reduce its .;:,: Rogers· said sev~n colleges are deficit within two years, it might lose its. accied\taticin ' on-probation. The association over .:..:. aoevelopment that would _eliminate fedeaj grants sees. about 800 institutions in 11 and.students'. federaUiriancial :aid, iric!udingjlQy~,. "Soutliem.states.. -~ -~--~- C::.:~--::...'... ment Ioahs. ~•' .. ,.. ~~,, _:~~;;;_~·:·~-: .;~·~:~~-~:~~-: ... \ ~~~~\:;;~ -:1?\&hig. pl.icecr. on_; probation. is· - , The Southe~ Association of Colleges and•Si:hools ·not tlie· only'. problem Lees . has voted at its annual meeting last inonib to impose the . :raced· in recent 'years. The previous llrobation, said James f-ogers, ~ecijtive prectof of t!)e. '·president,·_ William Braashaw, left group's commission 01! q,lleges.~JA~ _I!IOVe came #er , .hyo ,:y~" ~go' "after:ir -stormy- ten tI-ie group had put 1,ee;,· on' ;~g ·sta~s for_ twp_ ' ure in which \ie.Jired__ fiyl!__ pr:of~: ye'ars in a. row~. '·. ;\~:::~·~:_~~r~i}? t h}:~J-t1··:,:{--~ ·sor's''after. a\fe_u9-'w.itlf. fa-!'11/ty :' .; .':. · Lees College President Char!~ Dem~11 ~d .f:-J.· The schooL'efentiially" settled 'a'. yesterday that he WllS not ~\!l"PriseQ _by the: .~a i:omplaint: ~!iii! ~gainst it,by. ihe'. tion's action. He· said: the schfioihad not yet r~1ved a , National Eabor(ReJations·· Boii.i-d in. w'iiruiI written iiotification ab_put _the probaµciit:_: . ' -:: · ·:rohiiectioii"\vith'c iliat 'ca~ 'which' .,, "We expected it," Derrickson _iiaid. ''We've: got a hlsci was iit"vestigaied Iii tlie'"asso,' ~ ...... ~_._;;. __ ~------'-~· ----·~ ~ii\:/~~~ .,,: ~ ..05:'- ~----: ·: /#po~; .~.;;;~lt:fi;.,.;};j\t-;~t;::'.. :~ _,;;>·But..Demcksori: 0 saii:l'.'yesteroat \1thJl.fhe•· relniims:." ' ,~- · •-7 " " • -.,_•~ • • c" New House Speaker JO THE couFiiER-JOURNAL.-;-THE FORUM--•-SUNDAY, JANUARY 8, 1994 Challenges at U of L . • • HE NEJ,IT president of tlie The overriding question for U of University of Louisville Lis wheiher it will have the vision, won't lack for · tough leadership and political skill to work. A faculty, -bitter help shape the process and emerge Tover reduced-power. A-board-·de- as strong as the community and manding greater accountability. the state need it to be - or wheth- Continuing budget constraints. er it will· be diminished. But far and away the hardest, Success will require continuing most crucial work will be securing President Swain's internal efforts U of L's rightful place in a state to lead the university to a new un higher education system ·ripe for derstanding of itself. restructuring. . . But it will also require creaµng a Kentucky faces a terrible dilem- new relationship with Kentucky's ma in higher educatiim._"Its leailers· people and, most immediately, must find - and .., .-·-,.- ,; · : · with its legisla- soon - the will :~"'' q · .: t • .... A ture and resourc~~ to. ;;imuttfar artd .away . ,· _Artd it'~'.re- create the 10tel- .. i:., "ll' ,. ~;i- -- , , • • quire forging new· lectual, ·scientific· - i'tue;.uatuCSf~, , , ,# _ " ~ ·•ffiOSt : ..,_,,.., · • partners hip s ·WJ'th - and technical 'crucial work;will bet the -~ community, powerhouses on '{•;' ,•G~---1 u·•·'· ,. with .Jefferson which ec_onomic -1~~CU~8, J.J:Qf; ~:~:_. ..,-:_' . Co~unity .Col-, succ~ss 10 the :;:ngntful,.p)ace··m.·:a· '."' -. _l~e;_-c~d:,_ ,eve~ commg . kn.o~l- ·: •.;... ·.·.·•:·····.".- ..t· .. •.··.·.·~t.'' .. "'.•.·.. · ...i.. ..•. •:.•"' .. Ji.·.·tc.... · t.·.:·:•t·•··•·· .·~.. '·.· .·.. '. ;···."... -with.the Umvers1-. edge SOClety ~ -- }.§ ~ i;w6-',~er;e,u¥C!J::'.'_'- _· ty~·of~entucky. ' depend. -- · 0 >r··••;("'~"t 1 · L •' w :f◄ · 1 . · 0 ~Yes - UK Ken- B~t _they ~ust ~- ~,l~!h~$. e,':11,:~e~; -~t1:: ~ :~g 'iunpiy ~~Ir d? 1t 10 a tight--::;- ,]@S~~l;U~Qg;.~ ,u;:;l,.;_;' :Cno~;~u~ edii-. f!sted,. shoi:t- ,._,:'~,';;;, ;:::: : )'•·, · , ~~l!,.nally_°'"witJl'_• sighted time,~~.-, ; .. ;;_"t•· ;_:,#i: ·: , , . ,._, · _out, a sq-anger' no chance ot us~,\l::n'(f~ 9Ln~~ ~~gship )l~~rs1~_;, .~trorig~r in money to raise all:·boats.--; •:,,:-:•II J its research; stronger· m its teach• The only coursfJ_()~:pa/fort ing, arid•strong'er ih'·its reach.~-- quality by increasing the .«1!'f!c:iency · Bu~ neither will Kentucky sue of the state's sprawling, balkan- ceed •If Louisville -.-its economic ized system, and that means~baro. heart 1... lacks a"vibifuit uni.versify. choices and hard politics;•-~~, ' ; capable of 'significanf research,' Gov. Jones' !1111bitious_ refo~ ~f-: broa~ community seivice and high fort end~ w:!th _~ ~ru.ml!~r! -~ut_ g_uality .l!~fes;;ion1!1 ~~C!ltiO!}, ... , that doesn t ~ean_.~~tJli!l,.~~- :Con~cmg_Louisvlll~ _of the for mental questions -:-7 uJ'.li_ve~lty:nus- mer and Kentucky of the latter is sions, region!_! rel_ati,q~'!i!!~• b~d-- the daunting but ine~capable chal getair ~de-offs .f'"'..:'Y~l"!l._~e.ttl!l(I. j~ge_ confronting U,otL'.s !eaders. The~ re simP,lyJymg 10,,W!!!t, .• ~d; _Arid it's,,the challenge that)hould they II be ~w:ered, by default if: weigh heaviest in the choice of the not by design ..; ·::::,',\ i::--8::2' t'i:!: · -~ next pr~ident: - c~>;jYn,'l: x¢:i!C• ·:,:-, -··_ · .~ .J~.;J\{j~;~~1,~r~~1~ -~ :\,~: ~-u!-:(~~:~- -:~~i/ _;)~~~:-~.;r~:~:~ ~' THE•COURIEff."JOlJRNAt:..-·sUNDA?tJfNUARY1!;-199E The Sunday Independent, Ashland, Kentucky, January 8, 1995 WKU lifts fee ftir lafe signups . BOWLING GREEN -Western LaW111akers. - - . . . Kentucky University has changed its registration policy because of Friday's winter storm. Students who couldn't register from region Fiida:y for spring-semester classes can do so tomorrow without paying the $50 late fee. However, students will be required to ob tiik~,l'!ha,rge tain instructors' signatures to en- ter the classes. · Spring-semester classes begin Gain leadership roles tomorrow. in .,House. corririiittees total of seven committee arid . ~ : . ~ ~ . subcommittee chairmariships .- ,., ~ ..-:,,·· By SUSAN WARREN ~ more. even thari the west INDEPENgENT FRANKFORT BUREAU Kentucky folks who put one cif : and thought he had a pledge of their own, Richards, in the · FRANKFORT .:..:: Eastern support for the chairmariship. speaker's chair. _;.~- .. Kentucky einerged' as. the And, as a social conservative It probabJy w,ould be dif big winner· tast week as a and staunch abortion-rights' ficult to overstate· the degree result of leadership clfanges opponent, he · seemed to hold to which the· delegatlon draws in the House. ' '· "'-..,. ' - views similar to those of Rich- its strength from Stumbo, who "This is· the sfro,ngest ards arid outgoing Chairmari rose to power a decade ago on hold that· eastern Kentucky Louis Johnson. the coattails of former Speaker has ever had on the· House Abortion tiills· no~illy· ·.·go. Donald BJ:indf\:)rd .. ~: :+ :_=, 'ia \: of Representatives,"· safe! to the Judiciary Committee or . Stumbo, ·w~o has served as Rep. Michael" Bowling, D the Health and· Welfare Com- flo,or. leader smc!l 19~4, ha_s ror . Middlesboro:· :1,;, :to:·.,::.., mittee which .also is. chaire'd the ll!ost P~. handled. the JOb .. Bowling will head ..one· 6f by a p~o-clfoice.adv_ocate .. · effectiv_el~, !!_P.Pare11,tly _!!1~1!1g : the two-,corimuttees., whose .~;X_,; _ Tb get" th'ef·appoinfniifiil, . few:_enemres.iGr~w_ing _up _ma. 1 chafrmimships __ w_eh_t for the. Bowling-said had.. to.prom: ··:family_ o_f ~O!µJ~_p9lt!_I~Iims, ., first time to eastern ·Ken lie' ..ise to .. abide·:of__Ho~se.:fule$ .:.:'i~b_g · P! • < ·--·~- !"~ ~..., •. :, A sample of recent articles of interest to Morehead "State University By SHELDON SHAFE~ · capital projects on the original call erations" worth · ·more than Staff Writer · have been dealt with. · · $400,000. · Jones announced the Jarid-swap Sen. David Karem, D-Louisville, The attorney generai has advised agreement last month. 'It provides the Senate majority leader, said yes Gov. Brereton Jones that the Gener- for CSX Transportation to deed the terday that he thinks the land swap al Assembly inust approve the pro- . 92-acre stadium site off 'Floyd Street · has a better chance of legislative ap ' posed land swap that would ·make to the state on U of L's behalf. In proval if presented as a case of an 92 acres available for a 50,000-seat return, the state would deed to CSX urban university needing land to University of Louisville stadiul)i. . 118 acres it owns along Hurstbourne grow. He·suggested that its use for Jones' chief' aide, Franklin · Parkway; · · a stadium, which has questionable , Jelsma, said the land··swap will be The south Louisville land is worth support among many legislators out considered during a special legisla- $6.5 million; the Hurstbourne land, in the state, be played down. live session. But he said it won't be about $3 million. A key third party Karem .and Rep. Leonard Gray, on the initial agenda of the session is Kentucky ,Kingdom· Thrill Park, · D-Louisville, chairman of the Jeffer convening next Tuesday because it which would · pay U of L the son County delegation, said they already contains three capital proj- $3.5 million difference : over 20 woµld prefer that the swap not be eels for which funding isn't assured . years; U of L would tum that money considered· next Tuesday because - the expansion. of the Common- over .to. C_SX. Kentucky Kingd9m the convention-center expansion is wealth Convention Center in Louis- would get to use about ~alf. the new already on the agenda. Approval of ville, a new Northern Kentucky con- stadium site for parking. the requested $25 million for its ex- vention center and a state histoiy Jones said he had thought the leg- pansion - half the cost - is far museum in Frankfort. . · islature would have: to ·approve the from certain. Jefferson County legislative lead- agreement. Karem said considering the proj- ers fear that asking the legislature : . Assistant Attorney General Ross eels side by side could hurt both. to consider the stadium land deal Carter said his office told state fi' "We are building some good feel and the convention center's expan-' .nance officials last week that the ings (in the Senate) about the three sion simultaneously might hurt both deal requires House· and Senate projects," Karem said, referring to projects' chances. · passage. He _said the deal falls un- the two convention-center projects Jelsma said the land swap may be der a law mandating General As- and the histoiy museum. "Any 0th added as an amended call for the sembly review of capital projects er issues in there could cloud them session - -but only after the three that involve "cash or other consid- up." I Ht: CUURIER-JOURNAL • SPORTS • TUESDAY, JANUARY 10, 1995 u, ~11g10111cy oecause they're afraid that academic standards will be ''We have reaffirmed the higher compromised," said Hughes an Af standards that are reflected in Pro- rican-American student at the Uni NCAA position 16." · , versity of Arizona. It is expected that the higher In all, there were eight proposals measures will send scores of pro concerning eligibility standards ·reaffirms spective four-year athletes to junior with many minorities supporting college. making freshmen ineligible. "And that may be a· good thing However, · the proposal was de for many students," Albino said, feated 311-17. Prop16 "because the student who isn't pre In other business, the NCAA: pared will have a difficult situation II Defeated a· proposal that would By DAVE KOERNER · in our institutions, We do not offer have allowed Division I athletes to Staff Writer remedial instruction." _ holcl_jobs ~uril\g the school year The higher standards drew criti- and earn up to $1,500 a year. The SAN DIEGO - In a series of de cism from some minorities. · vote was 199-118. cisions that could send a flood of "I don't oppose the use of (a col lege board exam), but I oppose its ■ Withdrew proposals that would prospective four-year college ath have established equivalency schol letes to junior colleges, the NCAA misuse,'' said Delaware State presi dent Bill DeLauder, an African arship limits in Division I men's and yesterday tightened academic stan women's basketball. The measure American. DeLauder argued that dards in Division I, with most of :· would have allowed a maximum of studies show that such tests are cul the regulations scheduled to go 13 grants to be divvied up among 15 into effect August 1996. turally biased. athletes. In essence, the action imple Concerning restoring a fourth ments Proposition 16 standards, year of eligibility; Tanya Yvette ■ Defeated a proposal that would which were approved in 1992 but Hughes, a member of the student . have allowed Division I-A football delayed to give high schools time athlete advisory committee, said: sch_ools to employ an extra graduate to adjust to the policies. "The issue is one of fear. There . assistant coach providing at least At the same time, however, Divi are administrators who are afraid to one of the three is a minority. The sion I delegates narrowly defeated grant student-athletes a fourth year measure was defeated 67-42. a proposal to reinstate a fourth year of eligibility for partial quali fiers. LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER, LEXINGTON, KY. ■ TUESDAY, JANUARY 10, 1995 "We've raised the bar with the new academic standards, but to complete the process there should 'Partial .. qua.lltiers' denieff be a reward, an incentive, for those who perform well academi cally. They should receive that fourth year. of eligibility; fourth year," University of Louis ville athletic . director Bill Olsen said after the session. academic minimums stand ','It's hypocritical to do anything else." . AsSOCIA.TED PRESS Presidents Commission. "Prop Hi The vote was 1°64-152 against re SAN DIEGO - Athletes will still need minimum will set a new standard for a storing a fourth year. Twenty dele scores on college aptitude tests to be eligible as number of years to come." · gates declined to vote. freshmen, but in a significant corcession, NCAA Earlier yesterday, delegates There was a proposal last night to schools also voted yesterday to let certain athletes · turned down a proposal to let reconsider the proposal, but that practice with their teams and get financial aid. athletes earn up to $1,500 a year in '!\'.as voted down 174-150. In the narrowest vote at the beginning of the 89th jobs. Highlights of the legislation on annual NCAA convention, schools decided not to let Delegates debated throughout academic standards: "partial qualifiers" have a fourth year of eligibility. the morning on a complex set of ■ To be fully qualified, all incom · . A partial qualifier is a student who compensates for competing academic measures, of ing freshmen must have at least a ten arguing over the results of the 2.5 grade-point average in 13 core the lowest acceptable level of aptitude test scores with same research data. Black educa courses with a test score of 700 on 3: higher grad~-point average. Previously, partial quali tors were almost unanimously op the Scholastic Aptitude Test or 17 fiers could neither play, practice nor receive financial aid. posed to retaining the entrance on the American College Test. (The Since the original freshmen academic standards exams because they believe they current number of core courses is are discriininatory. 11.) . were approved in 1983, athletes who did not meet the Recruits could still qualify with a initial standards have had only three years to compete. One reason for not granting the 2.0 GPA, but only with a 900 SAT Known as Proposition 16, the new freshmen fourth year of eligibility was the score or a 21 on the ACT. academic rules are th_e latest in the NCAA's stormy 12- · fear that coaches would use it as a ■ To be a partial qualifier, a high year effort to set equitable freshmen standards for way of skirting academic stan school student who scores between athletes at Division I schools from across the entire dards altogether. 600-690 (SA1) or 15-17 (AC1) must social and economic spectrum. "If there's one concern that I do also have a GPA between 2.5 and They go into effect Aug. 1, 1996 unless modified at have it's that I do not yet see across 2.7. Currently, a partial qualifier has the January 1996 convention. all our institutions the implicit level a 2.0 GPA, with no college-entrance "We've taken a big step, an important step in of trust in one another that I would exam scores factored in. academics," said Judith Albino, head of the NCAA hope we can all achieve at some Also, a partial qualifier will be al point," Albino said. "This organiza lowed .to receive athletic-related fi. tion is very large, very diverse. We nancial aid as well as being allowed will continue to set standards that to practice the first season with the apply to all but also meet the. needs team. However, a partial qualifier equally of all." remains ineligible to compete the The new standards have two first year. key components. One is a a 2.500 The vote to approve the academic grade point in 13 "cote" or college standards was 255-72. preparatory courses - increased ''What we've done is truly impor- . fyom 11 under the original Proposi- tant," said Judith Albino, president hon 48 rule. . of the University of Colorado and The other demands minimum chairperson of the. Presidents Com scores of 17 on the ACT or 700 on mission. the SAT college aptitude tests, "I think many things have hap which is unchanged from previous pened with this legislation: (1) rules. · We're encouraging prospective stu A proposal to make all fresh dent-athletes to achieve higher stan men ineligible lost by a 280-48 vote dards of academics; (2) we're allow of Division I schools. ing an extra year of aid; and (3) we have a new partial-qualifier defini tion. · MSU ARCHIVES J"a.n. 1l-1.:l JCfC/5" °!J/'l'/)J- THE COURIER-JOURNAL -~~_REGfON. • THURSDAY, JANlJARY-12, f995 Artifact theft was~selective .... · .'. , ·:',. LEXINGTON, Ky. _: riie thefi: of about 300 Indian artifacts from' a University of Kentucky museum Dec. 10 may have been a commissioned job, police said. . · . . . · . , . ~'They·knew exactly.what they wanted, because they left all kinds of things behind,'-' said,UK''police Chief W.H. Mi:Comas: ., ,. ~.;,. ;; The William s. Webb Muse uni of-Anthropology in -J.afferty Hall • houses more than a million artifacts.'-The _only sign of forced entiy. was ~ .I?ro~el!,window..Qn-the museum door, police said.. A partial'••-- , fingerprint was lifted fro.I!'-.~- cabinet door. , ,_., . , _ · i\1SU ARCHIVES l""'1 Cf I M J- 4- ~ di -:jo M3U Clip ~beet , A sample of rea!Dt articles of interest to Morehead State University INSTITUTIONAL RELATIONS 'MOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY UPO BOX 1100 MOREHEAD, KY 40351-1689 606-783-2030 LEXINGTON HERA~ER, LEXINGTON, KY, ■ SUNDAY, JANUARY 15, 1995 THE COURIER-JOURNAL • TUESDAY, JANUARY 17, 1995 0 Educators leav~ ::his j;~oa~~un:~1~ State legislature the legisl~tur~ is in s~ion - ~id COnVeneS today • ti.• C he doesn t think theres a conflict FRANKFORT, Ky. -The Ken- "lt was probably more of a lucky General Assembly will con- Optimis. concern when I was doing just the v.erie at noon today for the special .t-.,, ·.n·'.e· · education budget," said Moberly, session called by Gov. Brereton . ·w·. who had served since 1985 as Jones to consider cutting taxes abou chainnan of the education budget and funding three construction .. · '°",-. :,·,":-{,'··-~,p+c subcommittee. "Now, I'm.no longer projects. . •ce·,-,h .. ,. , .•. .gts•· 'tori-et:. just ah advocate for higher educa- · The bills·proposing phased-in 1a· . tion's .budget I have, to lialance cuts in. the inheritance tax arid le them ali." . · , , .. '.. ,_ · .· : the:income tax on privatii'pen: • ' ·- .. R' h. . ,1;, ·u· 'd' I 'Pr(liii~enis from other.,qilleges ~~:it:di:e:~t~~~to ' M0 b er l Y, l_C arl.ilj e insist i':_i:haL)liey're •:J,J<)t , , , ,· 0 \,• "~•-''•'-' ·u·. I f ql"!il>lf :J;,c_l'/,.;,,, J',,, !J). ;"£,Bh0i: ,,;,,' ~:.-;.;_1~·151~·,v,;\JltJ. ll,'{Oli _/bfl({D!lWa. ',,,,, -"~; .: ~i norJ~1110(1~ iiili-,•~'.'''"'c ,., .. , ·~·-··· . · ·1··'' 'Ii " '·'1· s,i,·. •.·i v1tr···, \!1, (1Jl; zy: r'tn '"'9, ·· " ',er·· -·,,0c~0'•.-''""·lli-~·,.. :-,.-.,n,~~ .-a·11,>?.timie lO ·•,.,,,,., .. !·• ' ) c,r, ,r; dtr, t.'l,i \ill $'. -~-- .Jr ~ 1~ ~it ;'1j ;~_ ;;,_ i~'qrlf~' ' ·-•l .,'. 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' ' ·(-, By KENNETH HART because it's only a small·:part -l\ble_ to KET and:the,other siir- $500,000, i'!!r.120;\pefoe~t\ '-l and Barney could fmd them- ingredient In the: mix·, said '_1~-1-~e ;-~,T_•~:I_Private contrili_u-l many of the same problems if ,inJhe, past,·voted to, cut• fuhd1 · lie broadcas~lng.at least oncel3J sel v~s ?n the endangered- Virginia, Fox, the net~brit's 1tlons, ,.-elimination of federal federal funds were eliminated;, , Ing; for; the,, Qorporation Jori week," she said.. · l speci~s _list. _ presldent.:and chief executive (funding', coiii:d ultimately re- "I don't see us going dark, Public -Broadc;isting,.,altholillh: B1;1il~;n~s could be boar_ded officer. _;-; :; ' •·; ~ i ,s~t/h). anfannual loss. of more but we won'f:be thmsame;•~ he , h(1,said _Friday. tha.t he,has µot: up m Mister Rogers' Neigh- .The$1.7millionthatKETre- _th'aii:_;¥:$3;;,!°#illion a year for• said. :1- · ... · 'Y!l.t,d~pid~d,.where 1he,,stari-1s: borhood." ceives from -the Corporation KET, Fox,said,: · t i West Vlrguila rece~vE)s-aliout on.the current Initiative., :_ • · And Public Radio's "All for Public Broadcasting funds'· .. Morehead--Sfate University's, $1.8 million al year. in ,federal· -~u,nwng, sw~, ,hf :ivaµted' to Thing~ Cons!dered" c~uld b~- 27 staff positions, Fox sal:d., 'WM!i:Y-FMl,c'ould face a slml- funds for'publlc bro'a:&astlng see 1Vo(h/lt,.fue.-b1,1dget,l)-umbefs come No Thmgs Considered. • Most of those employees are' lar predicament. The · stat1on said Rita Ray/;executive dlrec'. were for the Appalachian Ra- In_ sholrt, the public broad- directly Involved in prodiic.ll $clu_2r0~.oeonotlanny._,uu~~~~2!tenotffr6lmtsl, tortlofaltheB West Virgi!lla,Ed;µ- gional Commission and other castmg andscape could look tion of local programs mean.. "' uu ca on roadcastini:''Authi:rr- programs. that. are .lmpornmt as barren as the pictures of an- Ing that about '75 per'cent i!ofl thee' '<::orporaficfn(for · Public·1• lty. The money. helps support . tq _K~ntucky before making( II other planet that one might ~ET's locally_ produced pi:o-: Broadcasting;,to, purcliase,pro- , three television stations- and· 1 decision.-.• ,: •, ' see on ,"Nova." grams c_ould 'dlsa_p_pear_ if fed.l graifuirlnif!rom' Natii>fi"i;.Pu'b: West .Virginia Public Radio ·- -"Clearly/ the time has com~ 1 1 11 1 Th t th i li · · °"' she s3.id. ·' ' • • -'nf/!' • '' • ', • t t ~ b d - · _ at~ e ctonsenbsus among . eral funds are .eliminated, te, c 1Rad~o .. _said ,Larry ,Nether;•, , . _. .. ,,,. , ., , ,;.,, " ,... , '"odp11..,,o~ _-~ .. getary house j.b. execu ives a pu 11c broad- said • ' · .:. · , ton,,the statipn's,general,man•,i Ohio, University's ,Telecom- ,,,or ~.r, "!~.--~~i;jThere's goli)g casting outlets that serve the 1 'The federal .monef KET ~e-/ _ager .. ,, •[(I •.,, :,-, ;•1·,·,J 'l' mun_lcati9hs' Ceiiter:"whlch op: ,.to be.some hard"decisions iliat Tri-State. ( ceives also_, helps co;ver the ex-\ . 1l:(federal,f)l!lding, ~s,-cut; off,~ erates' 'two '_pub!fc' 'television I fax·Er golilg1to'hav~ to be made:'! , Those broadcasters are wor- penses of, pJ:'.oduclng< local pto-1 l:9,~,-~µtl9:n,,~q'4d·. be fori:e9 to . stations ·aiid 'five radio stations , '/ ;'Freshman ,Ohio Sen. Mike ned about a vow by House ~~- and" to buy progran;i,s;l _see,k,!!lt~t;:!11!,te,,,~oµrce~ g~••PrD·:i lnisouthern Ohfo;,fai:esca pos•" .:,pe'/llme~~S:'-)lepubllcan WhQSji Speaker~ New! Gingrich and said ·-•-1-t· ~ 1'. b.~_•::- .: '•~1~'!!'1-f "-4·•-= i· :. ' ·-·.. ;,, -' BY ANGIE MUHS Tisha Callis, a Lexington Com KENT.UC~01:(EIVIEDIAL',EQUCA1'ION HERA!..D-LEADER EDUCATION WRITER munity College freshman, ended up One in three freshmen who in remedial algebra class her first colleges_ate.~hHldMa. ny, fre~l)men ~t.. K.ent4cky's;p."u.hlic···.•·~~1;.,.· In e.ntry,level.\C · · · · ·;-'· wants to take a math class at one semester. She thinks her high mat~ anq naveto_take re.irJ~CW;~:::: • school, Western Hills High in classes,tq catch_,up,, ... , .c ,,,, _ • • , ., • of Kentucky's public four-year col .. .. --..,_ ___ ...... ,,,~--- • _..,. ... ~,..~-...... 1:;., -· '"""~ +..· leges isn't ready for entry-level Frankfort, could have done a better · Rercentage of · • · courses there and needs remedial job. Kentucky . At 4-yeaf ' .. At independent ': courses to catch up. "Some of my teachers just .. students taking: state_coUeges· 4-~ear colleges In community colleges that weren't that good," said Callis, 20. 'IBel6J1'.difil~~og[i§fi'?~cj,_-:;:~~;;~~:s t;;JtJ'i%,-,C,/;'. ,number balloons to two out of "It frustrates me. If it wasn't for : Advanced English ,::r:e%··•>ii. 13'¾ - - this, I'd already have my math over li9;!-iecifaf·•""'·'r.''"',,.,..,,.,'""=""'""'' ~. 0 •• ;jv,ery three students. . ,',J- eme 1a ,m<11r!;;idJ:0.,~i:;.~1;§.§.o/~?;l' What doesn't add up The reasons students end up in remedial courses are varied and often hard to pin down. LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER, LEXINGTON, KY. ■ FRIDAY, JANUARY 13, 1995 High schools say students often to blame for ignorance BY LUCY MAY ing remedial classes were even HERAlD-lEADER EDUCATION WRITER "We tell our kids we'd rather higher for students from Jefferson Just because large numbers of see them take a tougher County, according to the study, freshmen are not ready for college class and make a C. You still which divided the state into eight level math and English courses have a few that don't take regions. In the Louisville region, 22 doesn't necessarily mean Ken your advice." percent needed remedial English, tucky's high schools aren't doing and 41 percent needed remedilil WILIJAM BoYLE math. · · ··'J · their jobs; school officials said yes principal of Walton-Verona High School terday. in Boone County Laken Cosby, a state school The Council on Higher Educa board member, said he was very tion found that 14 percent of fresh concerned with the number of high men at four-year colleges and uni No matter whaL a,dvice high school. graduates ~ho coul PRE.STONSBURG - _Charles T. Wethington Jr., nounced two years ago, Floyd, , and one thing is to try to on all full-time students. links to UK and other medi Prestonsburg Community Community. College System , said. · ·· ' . make a difference in preven · The total cost of the project cal centers. College will open its Student Chancellor Ben W. Carr, Col Earlier, an outdoor walk- ' :_ tion-related programs. The is about $750,000. Statr members will be: phy Health Clinic on Thursday, lege of Medicine Dean Emery ing trail and a wellness cen ,, clinic will give medicine a The clinic consists of three sician assistant Brent Davis follqwing an 11:30 a,m. rib Wilson and· Health ~ervices ter with exercise equipment . presence on campus." examining rooms, a medical of Fisty; · registered nurse bon-cutting ceremony. Director Spence Turner. and trained personnel were ·. The clinic is funded in part records room, reception area, Elizabeth Griffith of Presto Attending the ceremony The clinic, located in the opened. ,' by a $355,420 grant from the physicians' assistant's office, nsburg; and medical as hosted· by PCC President De Johnson Administration "When I came here in ,; Appalachian Regional , Com nurse preparation room, stor sistant Betty Hunt of Inez. borah Floyd will be Univer Building; creates the third 1991,'' Floyd said; ,·.. r ·realized ·:, mission and student health age area and bathroom. Doctors from the community sity· of Kentucky President stage in a health agenda an- there was a lot we cimld do, · fees which will be assessed It will have ·telemedicine will rotate being on call. lExlNGTON HERALD-LEADER, LE~INGTON, KY. ■ SUNDAY, JANUARY 15, 1995 A cha.llengm.g .choice for chancellor _ , • . , : , , , , T-~/ .. : 1:1 • ,•: · Wethington:·must' weigh many factors in this key appointment ith Robert Hem~nway's .departure to become effective advocate for UK's entire academic enterprise. the top executive at the University of Kansas, Hemenway's successes frame the choice now con Wone drama at University of Kentucky ends fronting UK President Charles Wethington. Wething and another begins. ton, of course, was made president in the face of As chancellor of UICs Lexington campus since opposition from many UK faculty members who 1989, Hemenway has been a,n accomplished ad!Ilinis questioned his academic background and his experi trator and academic leader. In a time of shrinl;:mg ence as head of UK's community colleges. Fairly or budge~, ,pe has fought !iarcl to protect UK's acadeq1.ic unfairly, he simply wasn't viewed as an academic prograini;;. At the ·saihe·tiµ1e/ he'.giused faculty and leader. staff to•re-examiqe old ·ways· of doing things to i;;ave_ The search for Hemenway's replacement, then, is money and improve public confidence. In the process, likely to reignite the campus debate over Wethington. he maintained broad support thn:mghout the campus. The faculty clearly expects the next chancellor to bring solid academic credentials to the job. As a white who became a respected scholar in In addition, Wethington is already hearing from African-American literature, Hemenway is sensitive the underrepresented women on UK's faculty and to issues of diversity and minority recruitment There staff. They say it is time to appoint the highest is no mistaking his achievement in this area: The ranking woman in UK's history, and their voices upiyer~i,ty a_dde~ 4{1_ new )?!!/-c~ Jt!111.J!~track fas;µlty should not be ignored. whtle-1:ie was cha11a;llor,, . ,1. • • The new chancellor is going to have to be a brave M~re,than -anything.els~! though(Hemenway,ibas and creative optimist, the kind who looks at a pile of , beeil a yi~ible1an,-ii/iirtic;;ulate ,~yl,nbQ\fo~ th~ acii;d;mic·. -r sour lemons and envisions a chain of lemonade J 'heart of'th~\iniv'Jsicy;'.This'.rcile falls'.naturally ·to the · stands. This'will have to be a chancellor who can pul leader of UK's main campus; Henienwa:f pressed for . together a strategy for success, in writing - with higher standards for entering students and was an appropriate footnotes, of course. lYli,I.J ARCHIVES . qt A-2~- t./-3t :'q MSU Clip Sheet A sample of rettnt articles of interest to Morehead State University INSTlTUTIONAL RELATIONS MOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY UPO BOX 1100 MOREHEAD, KY 40351-1689 606-783-2030 LEXlNGTON HERALD-LEADER, lExlNGTON, KY. ■ WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18, _1995 Invest in Recommendations for Appalachia Some recommendations of the Appalachian Task Force: ■ Establish a think tank called Kentucky Appalachian Develop people, says ment Institute. It would be a consortium of universities, area development districts and others that would provide technical assistance on development strategies. Appalachian ■ Develop a pilot 911 ,type program for information about social programs. Such an idea is being discussed in the Big Sandy Area · Development District . task force ■ Finance a summer program silnilar to one that teaches math and science to girls at Tennessee Tech in Cookeville, Tenn. BY ANDY MEAD ■ Design schools for spaces for adult education so people working HERALD-LEADER STAFF WRITER ori General Educational Development certificates don't have to sit in FRANKFORT - The first part chairs meant for fourth .graders: The GED program at Hindman of the report canies the usual Settlement School is recommended as a model. statistics about poverty and igno ■ Direct ARC health money into preventive areas such as prenatal rance in Eastern Kentucky, but care; educate children about . tobacco and drug use, teen-age that part was skipped.yesterday. pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases, . . Instead, the chairman of the ■ Model more social programs on some that already are working, Kentucky Appalachian Task Force such as Appalachian Communities for Children in Jackson and Clay concentrated on counties and' Whitley Colinty ·eommunities for Children. Both scores of recom- provide a wide range of family: services using public and private mendations de- money. . . ~- - -~ .-~- . , , signed to bring· ■ Develop voluntary logging:regulations wjth.environmental con-· the state's 49 - cems·in mind. ·!.: ·';.p,F · ·~ -. :!; •:rr· .:; · ,;:_. -.--; . .-~ ,_; easternmost counties into the 21st ■ Construct Interstate 66 from:Interstate 81 in: Vi.rginia-tcdnterstate . century. · · , ,.. ,. . 75 in-Kentucky. ,·,. -,:i'/./';j\ :•i.,;::f.~<~/:"' •,., -,., .. . • :,, .. - ·: .. -.--;- ' . •. - HERALQ-lEADER STAFF REPORT. The key to 'doing that, Ron ..,. .,. Eller said, is to invest in the· people who live in the_ mountains th,-ough t*t·s'.·,•t-"'t\~ ~,,h·~,;; .i1 "·"---~1~1ai_';-: ~, .,,1-:_,? continuing education and by get -+,K, ep ensonx,:-: ,~.-~;~~ ting more of them involved in ~~tft;n\i@b9til1H~·;:~i~·:f! deciding the fate of their communi "'i\_.:,;r,~ .. ,•>· ,'?J\··~>:\:,,J_,,.,~ 11<-· -~"1,..1;;, ties. State and federal government fW ·o--The';"Keritiii:l(yi";:appa]a! .., help is important, he said, but i:.c1iiaii:TasR1ifon;e}fep01f·is'J· "East Kentucky's greatest long ,J' aeoicated,'io'}ilhri;B:1St' hen'-',if range resource is i!S people." :rtoon;: ·who:c1t··-- ,. ~t,fuci~h''aili': Eller, who also is director of the FROM PAGE ONE 3:(:57' ~;t.,.,_:\·x~,. ·--'i:~.:3¼:'¢,t . K tucky" ,. t 80 J.c~,;ts't<~/,','J ';~L~L:"¾~ Appalachian Center at the Univer A ala hi pp c an en , 1s s · _ ,~f~';;,..'.:':~.c--· ':c_ ·.1\.i~:'~i:,;: sity of Kentucky, presented a 96- recommendations in · categories •<\CU'1lluliU1 ,.. e,,..,,,,v.,orce ,, page task force report • to Gov. ranging ·from education to natural 'ic~ancf;pr1'sidenn·ofi'Bereil' <1,1,&: Brereton Jones, who appointed• the resources to housing. Jl1iiglr;I·Iisi\vidriw;,li.Jime";Ste/~ group in December 1993. Some of. the recommendations --~zP.herlso~~on·hand'yester-:';l' : "We are here today to mark are fresh;· some have been talked '':Jdayi/'v)!ienl'thlJfreifort';w'as•";; what we hope will be. a new about for years. . '·:.iiresenteii d'd':Gchi::'Brere'ton ,, beginning for Appalachian commu .::.•JOOes.: 1)J\_J~y;~p_;~1r~·-'f: •~, ,·_i·' ._ ;··~ The report also includes-a list '.: , . ·The _dedica_ tion" 'written__ ·_ nities," Eller said .. of suggested actions the governor :, · b : by' !{entucky;' ailtl)i:>r . Loyal• · He said task force members s hou ld ta ke, sue h as he I pmg esta · ; Jon§; ··,said@'i'inc:·Pllf.t'. "John · had held meetings throughout the lish a national park in the Red ;"lieliev~',ui':eaitcatiolii:·and in'. region and involved more than 500 River Gorge, getting more .people ,, strii~c'.pl~g'foi,h\imani"/ people. . 1 involved.in area development d!S· >,·oettemient';.llutf,rriosbof all(, The report, "Communities of tricts and fighting for the Appala- • ,be ,believed.'iri· thelinherent ,. Hope: Preparing for the· Future in chian Regional Commission. :-,,abilities 'ofip?(lple·iu'.commu, ' Jones said he would study the .,7ru·'ti'es'-··.:,~; · '· ·f ,.. -;,, •wn•·-·t 10 0 recommen dati.ons an d ge t bac kto· Ir""t::.-•.• 'J:ilefu"Aw ,'I;::-:' ' ,,,,·!" the task force by Feb. 15, . . ,,/;~.. ,.. , .~ .'• ,., .. ,·:: : ,, ,1 )"'::"",~,- • . ov; MEAD. ,!'-y"-;{~t: ,~ ~, .. 1;:;1:-,:._, '·,·.; But that job could be more difficult if the new Republican majority in Congress takes aim at ARC. But the ,task involves more the ARC, which has brought mil than spending .government money. lions of dollars to Kentucky for Many of the report's recommen roads, health clinics, water systems dations require relatively simple and vocational schools. and inexpensive actions, he said, Eller said helping Eastern Ken such as changing regulations and tucky would be "inuch, much, getting agencies to work together much more difficult'' without the better. lExJNGTON HERALD-LEADER. lExJNGTON. KY. ■ WEDNESDAY.JANUARY 18. 1995 Resources lessen effect of disabilities BY ANGIE MUHS In some severe cases, students HERALD-LEADER EoucATJON WRITER might be allowed to have a note· When Jenny Hansen reads a test taker help them in class. A profes question, she needs to return and re-read sor might be asked not to lower a it a few more times before she under student's grade because of spelling stands. If she tries to hurry, it takes even errors in an essay, if the disability longer. causes poor spelling. The same thing happens when she Many universities also can loan tackles her college textbooks - one equipment such as word processors reason she gets some of them on audio with electronic spelling checkers to tape. students who need them, or ar Hansen, a junior at the University of range to get their textbooks on Kentucky, has a mild form of dyslexia and audio tapes, like the ones Hansen a learning disability in reading compre uses. hension, a condition that was diagnosed in Because students with learning high school. disabilities look just like anyone The first time she had to ask a else, advocates say part of their professor to allow her more time to take a battle involves educating faculty test was nerve-racking, she said - espe and administrators about what cially since,· as one of UK's star gymnasts learning disabilities are and how and two-time winner of the NCAA all they affect students. round gymnastic championship, she also "Attitudes are a continual edu had to tell him she'd be missing some cation process," said Diane Per classes for competitions. reira, a board member of the But Hansen, a 21-year-old animal sci national Association on Higher ence major, says she's had nothing but Education and Disability. "Stu acceptance from her teachers and fellow dents witli learning disabilities are students. often misunderstood. They're often "I didn't know what it was going to be believed to be less capable than like," she said. "I was a little bit hesitant they are." At Western Kentucky Universi And at Eastern Kentucky-Uni- . to say I have a learning disability, but on versity, the administratior(' )1,rui"' the other hand, what can I do about it? I'm ty, where about 75 students have okay with it" · reported learning , disabilities, the made more of an effort to seek'.Out, campus ADA coordinator spon students and publicize the services Hansen is· ilot alone. Colleges across available to them, said Melissa· Kentucky. and nationwide coming · to sored a semiriar to explain. to are faculty how learning disabilities Anne Zenon, .whose office helps 46 grips with a· iirowirig ph~omenon on affect a student's ·work. UK· also students who have learning disabil- . campus,. the increasing .numbers of stu ities or attention deficit disorder. dents )Vhb have been diagnosed with a plans to conduct a similar- setninill", I . d" . bili"i-.; .- ... ·.. '·.· . ·· "At the beginning,- ·it' was "I thu,k people know we're not eammg- 1sa. :~·•?·•f•·•/4 -:,.- ·: ,~: • , ,. ,. toiighY said "'"Ifiicla'"Melky, West- going to back dow.n until .we get A 1991 surv¢i:0f 16 l)llllion college what a ·student needs," Zenoii"said'.'' freshn:en · conducted· by ·the :American em's ADA coordinator. "Faculty Council on Education · found .that 22 were saying 'What's a learning .The final factor is simply that percent. of them 'repofted having a learn disability? Are these people dumb students ,with learning disabilities ing disability,, compared with 12 percent or something?' and I had to say now realize - they .can, succeed"at' of a similar number surveyed three years 'No, no, no, that's not it at all.' " college,:saicl Dan Connell,"director earlier. . . . Disability coordinators say that of Morehead State University's aca At some Kentucky universities, the most faculty members are eager to demic ~Cl!S center. .'.!:here- aj-e' number of students who identify them help studerts, especially after their about 50 students with learning disabilities at-Morehead; he sai_~:,:·:/ faculty members when the student ability. asks for services. Melky, at Western, said that One of the most ,commonly passage of the ADA also made a '.equested a_ccoirunodations is'"giv difference. mg a student who has trouble with . "People are more- confident reading comprehension tnore time about reporting this because'they to take a test Or; the sttident:rnig!i.t knJJW the law is behind theml she ask to have someone read the exam said. , :· -· aloud to him or her. · · ' · · LF.XINGTON HERAU>lEADCR, lEXINGTON, KY. II WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18, 1995 State warning issued after 'MacGyver' bombs left at EKU ASSOCIATED PRESS are just playing," Henderson said yesterday. RICHMOND - Two homemade "Mac "But they don't know what they're doing as Gyver bombs" were detonated outside men's far as potential and hazard." dormitories at Eastern Kentucky University, The bombs are made of chemicals and and Kentucky State Police issued a warning a!tm1inum foil, which cause a reaction. yesterday. An explosion usually occurs 30 seconds to The bombs - caustic chemicals bubbling a few minutes after the bottle is sealed, but under pressure in plastic bottles - are the bombs are unpredictable, Williams said. "extremely dangerous," said Capt. David "These bombs are extremely dangerous, Williams, commander of state police special especially when they don't go off immediate operations. · ly. Then someone comes along, picks them The name given by police to the, apparent up, and they explode," Williams said. ly prankish bombs comes from the "Mac The bombs have been "like a fad," Gyver" television series, whose lead character cropping up periodically across the nation, makes weapons, including bombs, from com Williams said. mon items. "It will start up in one area, then die out," The bombs contain caustic chemicals. he said. "Then some kids tell others about it Pressure builds until the bottle explodes, soon elsewhere, and you'll see the bombs start after the bottle is sealed. popping up there." The bombs, in two-liter soda bottles, were discovered Monday. One was left between Palmer and Commonwealth halls and the other was on the lawn in front of Palmer Hall, EKU spokesman Ron Harrell said yesterday. A student saw one of the bottles expand ing and the contents bubbling and notified a residence ·hall official, who called campus police at 3:25 p.m., Harrell said. "Thank goodness he was smart enough not to reach down and pick it up," Harrell said. Larry Henderson, head of the state police bomb squad, said the bombs were similar to one that exploded in a Manchester Wal-Mart Jan. 10, injuring three people. Henderson said there has been no arrest in either case. . Campus police officers shot into the bottles, causing them to detonate, Henderson said. They had the force of a quarter-stick to a half-stick of dynamite, he said. "We've had· several of these throughout the state. Most of them involve juveniles that THE COURIER✓OURNAL • WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18, 1995 Police detonate prank bombs at EKU Associated Press bling and notified a residence hall far as potential and hazard." official, who called campus police The bombs are made of chemicals RICHMOND, Ky. - Campus po about 3:25 p.m., Harrell said.· . and aluminum foil, which cause a lice detonated two homemade "Thank goodness he was smart reaction. Pressure builds until the "MacGyver bombs" outside men's enough not to reach down and pick bottle explodes. · dormitories at Easterq Kentucky it up," he said. . . An explosion usually occurs 30 University, and Kentucky i;tate Po I.any Henderson, head of the. seconds to a few minutes after the lice warned yesterday , that the state police bomb squad, said the bottle is sealed; but the bombs are bombs are '.'extremely. dangerous." bombs were similar to one that ex unpredictable, said Capt. David Wtl-' The name police have given to the ploded in a Manchester Wal-Mart Iiams, commander of state police bombs comes from the "MacGyver'' Jan. 10 injuring three people. special operations. . television series, whose lead charac Henderson said there has been no "These bombs are extremely dan ter · made weapons, including arrest in either case. gerous, especially when they don't bombs, from common items. Campus officers shot into the bot go off immediately. Then someone The bombs, in two-liter soda bot tles, detonating them, Henderson comes along, picks them up, and· tles, were discovered Monday. One said. They had the force of a quar they explode," Willia.ms said. was left between Palmer and Com ter-stick to a half-stick_of dynamite, The bombs have been "like a monwealth halls and the other was he said. fad," cropping up periodically on the lawn in front of Palmer Hall, "We've had several of these across the nati9n, Williams said. EKU spokesman Ron Harrell said throughout the state. Most of them "It will start up in one area, then yesterday. involve juveniles that are just die out. Then some kids tell others A student saw one of the bottles playing," Henderson said. "But they about it elsewhere, and you'll see expanding and the contents bub- don't know what they're doing as the bombs start popping up there." THE COURIER-JOURNAL • WEDN_E®AY, JANUARY 18, 1995 of combining administrations. . Students already are, working to ·Presentatioi,j~;,;i$palijif:jii::::·jiiglljpg~\;merger· gether on a play to be produced this , , •• , . .. · ,; _ , 1 , . . _. • , 1 r ,~_ .• ,. •~;·, .• • ,,. j,,;_, 1,' spring at Spaldirig. The s~hools also' By BENZ. HERSHBERG , . . . : , .. , ,. • · • • , ··tion and·Mercy academies and Holy will lo_ol_c at 'we,ys to. work. togeiher . Staff Writer Schools would: keep 1dent1t1es C;ross Hi!lh School shou_ld be re- on community-service projects. Pre i .. . • , ' VIewed with an eye to closmg one·or sentation students may be given ac- 1 In a move that could maintain h • d 1 all of them so that declining re- " cess' to Spalding's c6inpuler .center, Louisville's oldest continually oper- S are resourees ·Ufl er p an sources could.be focused on fewer 0 : _and Spalding ~. prov,iding several ating school, the 164-year-old ,Pre- I , ( • ' • • schools ·10 maintain quality and ac- 1 ·· s~hcilarships to · Presentation stu sentation Academy is considering . . . _. cess to scholarships for students. dents. merging with neighboring Spalding ~chool ~tude_nts by 1mmersmg them. comment. r,· r., ·. " · ' ,, "' , · Alumnae opposed the idea of University.. , . , ,., )11. a µ~vers1o/ ~tmosphere. : I ,_Ip, a p~~p~!id statement, however, closing Presentation, citing the · If· the merger goes through, If the Sisters of Charity of Naze- . Spalding President Th~m~ Oates Oat!!S•swd the !merger.- if approved, school's unique position in down- Spalding will ask the Sisters of Charity to provide $750,000 to cover reth, which tounded and ,own .Pre- circulated a memo to uruvers1ty facl, W6uldibenefit,.. ,,.,. both,, institutions.•• ~\.town Louisvil' le -mcumg1s· I d' ·t sentation; approve the merger, the · ulty membel';i yes(erday notifying 1,:Thjj.:111~ve apparenllr IS designed proximity to Spalding, -which. for Presentation's debt and its likely op school would keep· its ••name and·;, them of the,discuss1ons betwe_en th~ to: , rescue . Presentation, 86! . S.. many. years has had informal con erating losses for the next few years maintain its identity as a Catholic · two schools: The memo. srud the Fou~ St., from years of declining nections with the school. Those in until enrollment increases substan girls' school. university had expect_ed a decisitj~ e11T,o'-1ill)!nt and,'ji!'!!,eati!ius finances. elude study sessions between its tially, Auerbach -said,· Presentation However, Spalding would man-· by Sunday from the SISters of Chari Preseq(ap9,1),'S:enrollment has de- teachers and Spalding education also will be lililted to ,provide money age the school, and Presentation ity. ; clined from a .peak of more than 800 professors. to complete some.physical iinprove students would be able to to com- It couldn't be determined why the in the late 1950s to 240 student;i last If the merger isn't approved by ments. · ,, · · · · :• plete up to a year's worth of college decision has been delayed. Sisteii year. ~e forces l~ading th~ Sisters the Sisters of Charity, Oates said, , Several parents and alumnae said classes during their last two years Elizabeth Wendeln, president of \hli of Ch'!flty :to conside_r merging Pre- Spalding will work on other ways to .' yesteiday that they,are enthusiastic in high school, said Spalding board Congregation of Sisters 'of Charity sentation mto Spalding are no se- collaborate with Presentation short about' the possible merger. member Sy Auerbach. of Nazareth, did not return several cret. Helen D~ines, an assistant profes Spalding officials also s;ud the phone calls, and Presentation Prin! In September 1993, a-Catholic sor of social work at Spalding merger could stimulate bright high cipal Sf ?phanie Warren declined to Education committee said Presenta- whose daughter attended Presenta tion, said .the affiliation would help recruiting at Presentation. Kitty Henry, a Louisville physi cian and 1972 graduate of Presenta , lion, said merger would help Pre , sentalion's finances and help the school retain its traditional iinage as a high quality girls' high school. ,_ 3·, MSU ARCHIVES MGU Clip dheetCf1 A~-4 -3&·, -t A sample of recent articles of interest to Morehead State University 606-783-2030 reform, health .care and other services. Others· iii the eastern Ken tucky delegation grumbled 1led tlfe House tlelegation'"that about the peilsic'in-tax pro- 'Do·esn·. · · ' · ·'t··.' _,,:1;;,., '. .. ,, fought unsuccessfully for a).!st posal;!·but:•did1 not say they · - - .._ ... ' -- ::,:~_.;' ,G,:,!, :ofother-'construction'projeds;···wouldoppose-it.•'- 1''·,!l: ,,. ! ·k ·•·. ·. ·· · ,;d' including the three on'the cur-·: : R~p,'Don Farley,'.R-Ashland,. 00 ·: goo. ·, -:IJ, rent agenda.. . '1. :,;,1)--,.l ,.;;' -· "'.as'·filsapp_ointed that the pe!1:i, I,'. . '.'.; ;L~i- .:.:: '· .1.::... :::-~ _'11}_e__ 9pp.9.~it~.o,.n w:as.J~g._J?r,__ S!O~,_~'._"~-~Qul~. ~\! P~Jl~ •• , " .•• , 0 , •. · .,,,.,; ~enate_l:'.residep.t_John .,.Eck,, !fat_.21j]!l.e,q:entp_er. ye!_ll'~->4!' B_y Su~ W~RE!'f .: _: .. ,;:;:J: ':. . '. ,Rcisiia~•\Vll).~he.s~~r; 'Y~\l pp~t-,. -.' He:·was' joined-by- i:etire~. INo~P~i;>_ENffJiAl'!!IF.91¥.iSY!l~.,,,1 -~uppo~, the,:gor_e.iipr's lge!1J ~ .. st.~l~qrker Rome Long, :~hq; .,•. · ,, · ,; ,,: , · h, .,.. ,,,·.-u- , , .. , - ·J .da,- __ ,_, ...... ,,,,,,,:. ·~ ._ ._ -- . -~delivered 32,500 pennies to the, ;F.~.A:r-J'!f,F,,01!,T:~ ,.:;~"f!.9.p'e'.§ "House mem~ei:s recognqe Capitp\.,Long in p~t years h~}; cl,imin_~d liut w~~e:~,9t,fw.J.Y;~; the irony in theSenate's posi-. protested _the pe!1510n tax by , tmgu,_1sh\\9 ,,,'l;J:1e~_9aY,_ ;pµ J]ie tion,': Stumbo said. , ., · pay!Jl!l}! iµ_pen;ues. But Tues,:_ p~o.sp~c~1of .f1Y1,!Jll/-lr.Joi;; a ,ll.!l,VV,' _Still, there w~ ~!ttle indica- day 'Jje,- pre~~nt~g th~ p_ennies 1?.1;11J~~p.g1,at_. '{\;~lgana .'..Com: tjon that S~bo c_ould mu,s_ter. t~ ~~ley foi SY,JPbolize UI¥OD.,'1 ~umty _College:;~-." ·, / '"' '.'.,: ··a:countei:-cliarge··on 'the?tax·'or Tmembers' !.cop.cern about the, J;A'nd'''r,.,~ . ._,..,.1•F, • t-'•~•,i.y, 1· •-.-. ,.; ,., I J i •'l r/ ~ .&.;;;~ .. 'J ,}'1 \r/ • .. '..: ,, .. R''. ... ~Pp:r,eH~-eWltefI\.Ken,; proiect•¥lSU!!S, / ··\ ',ii~,- · ·! ...,., ,.,: 1 , •. _ :,. · · L, h!~\?'... /a')Y1P.ajt,~i:~,i_ss_\leq~,a:'iiall • .J-',They,all.,sai I'm right/but \i •. !::What (Jones) has•9fferedu~; for cautlon·aj;·tlie General')\'s!-, they don't say_ they'.re.going.to is a:crumb," Long said.. "We,• ef,~m§Ii:~bnviµ'ef 19'~\!tji1fprl>i: yot~. that.way,'.~Stpmbo,Joked .. ,__;_/don;~~ant a.crllJilb.''. ·:· · ~ ti po~~~-Ul!~~µ,~'.,~c!}fup THE COURIER-JOURNAL • KENTUCKY • FRIDAY, JANUARY 20, 1995 Abramson reverses course, will seek U of L presidency By SHELDON SHAFER ing the legisla- 35, and will reduce the number to and RICK McDONOUGH ture. Maloney 10 or 12 ~fter meeting Monday, Staff Writers said Abramson Fischer said. It is to recommend a could hire a new president to the U of L trustees Louisville Mayor Jerry Abramson strong provost by the end of March. threw his name back in the hat yes to oversee aca- Fischer said the search firm: was terday for the University of Louis demic affairs. told to seek some non-traditional ville presidency. But Richard candidates and that the remaining He also announced that he is no Stremel, faculty candidates include quite a few longer considering running for the senate president women, some African Americans, U.S. Senate next year or any other and a member of and some college presidents and political office. . ABRAMSON: the search com- vice presidents. Abramson last month withdrew Thinks door is mittee, said he Price Foster, a justice administra- his candidacy to replace retiring open for non- wasn't aware of lion professor who helped circulate U of L President Donald Swain, cit ::i~\1;~,:. · any change in the faculty petition supporting Ab ing a faculty survey that showed faculty senti- ramson, said many more signatures overwhelming support for a presi men! since the survey. could have been obtained, but that dent with an academic background. Nancy Theriot, a history profes- the Abramson backers mainly want But Abramson told reporters yester sor and a member of the faculty ed a good sampling of senior faculty. day that he had talked recently to fac senate executive committee, reiter- The letter, which was forwarded ulty members and trustees and thinks ated the faculty's support for a to both Abramson and the search the door is open for a president with president who has headed an aca- committee, cited the mayor's'leader out a strong academic resume. demic department or served as dean ship and managerial skills, his ex Abramson also cited a letter signed of a college. Being a university perience with the state legislature, by 20 senior faculty members urging president without having an aca- and his -longtime commitment· to him to get back in the hunt. demic background, she said, is like U of L. Abramson, who informed the running a software company with- Abramson, who spoke at an im ·u of L search firm yesterday of his out knowing anything about com- promptu news conference after·de renewed interest, said, "I hope they puters. livering his state of the city address, select an outstanding individual, Businessman George Fischer, said his nine years as mayor give whether . it's me or whomever it who heads the search committee, him the background needed to lielp might be." said Abramson will get the "utmost U of L. . Tom Maloney, a philosophy pro consideration," but he declined to Abramson has an undergraduate fessor who signed the letter, said in say whether Abramson would be degree from Indiana University and an interview that Abramson would considered among the favorites. a law degree from Georgetown Uni- be better than a political novice at The committee has narrowed the versity. He has taught classes -at raising money for U of L and lobby- more than 100 applicants to around Bellarmine College. UK foresees quick accreditation for Paducah engineering classes Associated Press talion since 1936. in late 1996. Lester said it is inexpensive for O'Hara said the undergraduate PADUCAH, Ky. - The University UK's extended-campus program to engineering program will have of Kentucky expects the engineer be accredited at Paducah. By con about 200 students, but as mqny as ing program at Paducah Communi trast, he said, starting from scratch 1,000 engineers could attend gradu ty College to earn accreditation al at a school with no engineering pro ate programs and continuing-ecjuca most immediately after classes start, gram would be an expensive five- or tion classes at Paducah, he said. the school's top engineering official six-year process. Scime industry sources praised says. Officials are meeting this week in the idea. · . Tom Lester, dean of the universi Paducah to start planning a struc Gary Holland, an engineer at ty's College of Engineering in Lex ture on the Paducah campus that Martin Marietta, said his company ington, said an expert on engineer will be financed with more than and others in Western Kentucky ing accreditation told him that plans $8 million in private donations. "lose a Jot of good candidates" _who for the Paducah program probably The planning group includes decline to work there because of a meet industry standards. Paducah faculty members who lack of continuing educational' _op- Accreditation means meeting spe would use the facility, local engi portunities. . cific standards· recognized by na neers, industry officials, UK offi But Murray State University and tional professional engineering cials and telecommunications ex Paducah Community College are· in groups. Most companies hire only perts. volved in a running controversy engineers who graduate from accre Paducah President Len O'Hara about where a four-year engineer dited schools. . has promised ·a state-of-the-art fa. ing school ought to be located . Lester said the Paducah program cility with technology linking his Last month, Murray announc·ed it would exceed requirements for li school to UK in Lexington and to will offer master's degrees through brary holdings and laboratories. other colleges. the University of Louisville under UK has held engineering accredi- The building is expected to open an agreement between the schools. LEXINGTON HERALO-LEAOER, LEXINGTON, KY. ■ FRIDAY, JANUARY 20, 1995 . . . ' UK unveils Prestonsburg come a teaching laboratory for the medical school. campus cllirlc Dr. Emery Wilson, dean of the College of Medicine, acknowledged Facility is first at a community college that the clinic made some officials at nearby Highlands Regional Med B_Y LEE MUELLER Medical Center - write prescrip ical Center nervous. He also said EAsTERN KENTUCKY BUREAU tions. In Prestonsburg's facility - state Sen. Benny Ray Bailey, a PRESTONSBURG - Universi operated by a physician's assistant, Hindman Demo.era! who owns a ty of Kentucky officials cut the registered nurse and medical as medical clinic, did not think the ribbon yesterday on a clinic at sistant - prescriptions will be clinic would work. Prestonsburg Community College countersigned by da-ctors at anoth · "I can assure you it will," said. that offers its Eastern Kentucky er clinic about 100 yards away. Wilson; who identified · several students access to the same health UK President Charles Wething Floyd County doctors who support care available on the Lexington ton hailed the new clinic yesterday the clinic. "They're not afraid of the camp~. as historic in the life of UK and the university," he said. "I hope they community college. see us as friends." . For $82.50 a semester, Preston burg students can get care for The community college won a illnesses or injuries, physical ex Wethington told a standing $355,420 grant from the embattled room crowd that the clinic - a ams, preventive care and advice on Appalachian Regional Commission healthier lifestyles. cooperative effort by the communi last year to help launch the clinic. ty college, Prestonsburg-area doc Until the clinic opened, none of More than $378,000 in matching tors and the UK College of Medi money from the community college UK's 14 community colleges pro cine - brought together various vided health .services for students. and UK, plus student fees and elements "in ·a way that's not been other funds, will cover the total "It's exactly the same coverage done before." cost of about $750,000. that the students at the university "I hope to be standing in other in Lexington have," said Deborah community colleges, opening simi Floyd, president of Prestonsburg lar doors," he said. Community College. · Wethington said doctors at UK There will be some some differ Hospital would be able to commu ences. In Lexington, phvsicians at nicate electronically with the Pres the UK clinic - in the Chandler tonsburg clinic, which could be- ' MGU 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 LEXINGTON HERALD-lEAoER, LEXINGTON, KY. ■ MONDAY. JANUARY 23, 1995· Open records law can slow flow of information,. journalists say AsSOCIATED PRESS infonnation not. only is untimely Carter said his office gets an BOWLING GREEN - Most but also usually worthless after an average of eight requests for rul governmental records are available appeal to the attorney general and ings each week. But Attorney Gen for public inspection under Ken possible court action. eral Chris Gorman said his inter tucky's Open Records Act But the Mark Neikirk, city editor of pretations usually are that if the. meaning of openness varies widely The Kentucky Post in Covington, law doesn't specifically say some from one local government to an said.he thinks the law means that. thing is closed, it's open. other. if a record is open, access should be At the .Warren County Court immediate. Although Covington Under the law, records can be house, infonnality and simplicity agencies generally provide quick withheld. if they involve police prevail: A person merely needs to access to records, Neikirk said, investigations before action has ask for a record and in most cases some Northern Kentucky cities de been taken, personal records that an employee will point out where lay requests, especially if they in would invade someone's privacy it's found. volve a controversial topic. and reviews of business licenses. But Frankfort's city govern It often takes 30 days to get an Agencies also can refuse requests if ment usually waits the full .72-hour attorney general's ruling, which there is evidence that the requests period the law allows to hand over carries the force of law in open are intended to disrupt operations. public records. And casually ask records and open meetings cases, Carter said computerized .. re-.• ing for · records--doesn't 'cut ·it at " said Ross , Carter, director of the cords.are the most rapidly growing. Bowling Green's city hall, where . attorney general's Civil Division. category of appeals he receives. . each request for documents must 0 be in writing. LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER, LEXINGTON, KY. Those are reasons journalists ■ SATURDAY, JANUARY 21, 1995 THE COURIER-JOURNAL across the state say the Open Records Law sometimes impedes, • MONDAY, J,6,~UARY 23, 1995 rather than speeds,• the flow of Higher education governmental infonnation, The Curris chosen ..... _, . Daily News of Bowling Green re needs more money . ..; ,•;.,_1:h-:il-: ported earlier this month. to lead Clemson, . . . . ". . ~-. , . . Clemson University trustees"· Tom Caudill, assistant manag to help. faculty. , ing editor for local news at the chpse Constantine·w:·cunis,'for Herald-Leader, told the Bowling A recent editorial that alluded to the mer president of M~y State;·· Green newspaper that several possibility of a high-ranking official add University, as the South Carolina agencies his paper covers take the. ing a couple _of building projects to the. school's 13th president Friday;:·· full three days-to hand over records governor's construction package reminded -Cunis, a native•oM,i'!int Coiin as routine as coroner's reports. me· of_ the confusion of the '94 legislature iy,i Ky., who is currentlypresident and how little time we, as citizens, have to of the University of Northern- · ''.Just a phone call from an prepare for the ·'96 :legislature.- I recom Iowa, will start the job.by July.I, a attorney will shake loose the infor Clemson spokeswoman said. His mation," said Caudill, who noted mend. that legislators throughout Ken tucky. look very closely at all construction salary hasn't been set. that many members of the public The board chose Cunis be don't have that option. projects for higher education and finance only those that· are absolutely necessary. cause be could "focus on internal Frankfort City Manager Ken In most cases, more buildings are not issues for the immediate future as neth Thompson said he withholds necessarily the solution, and these projects we implement our reorganization all records that city leaders think tend to produce additional administrative without neglecting the vital exter are protected under exceptions in waste in the long run. Ask yourselves, nal role that a president plays," the Open Records Law until the what really produces high quality educa said Bill Amick, trustees chair state attorney general's office or- tion, buildings or people? man. The university, which has ders their release. - 16,296 students, plans to consoli• _I encourage this legislature to be pro Thompson said he thinks 72 date nine colleges into four and active and place people needs above build replace 53 department heads with hours is a fair amount of time to ing projects. Higher education is in dire process uncontested documents to 20 school directors. · need of: adequate across-the-board raises .. Cunis, 54, has been president of make sure all records have been for faculty; appropriate catch-up pools for Northern Iowa for 11 years and is included. faculty salaries to bring us closer to clm!ctor of the American Associ Carl West, editor of The State benchmarks; more money for professional ation of State Colleges and Univer Journal of Frankfort, said waiting development; appropriate travel money sities. He was president of Murray three days for infonnation often (the travel budget for faculty at communi State from 1973 to 1983; and bis makes it less newsworthy. He said ty colleges is an insult) and more money contract was not renewed. for additional positions in order to reduce faculty work loads. I encourage my colleagues in higher education to tell· legislators and/or mem bers of the Council on Higher Education about our needs and concerns. I do not know about the internal politics of the regional universities, but to try to promote faculty equity concerns through "nonnal channels" in the community college sys tem is a joke. It's time for faculty to stand up and be heard. JOHN D. SAMMONS PROFESSOR, PRESTONSBURG COMMUNrTY COLL.EGE · Doc.,.,.,.,~,,....,,,,,,. -,cE C-JURfER-JCL'RNAL , NATION • fvlO''nwv 1.·••'"U"~Y -s -ua- LO§§ of college r~;· ~o~~cts upsets \'\T,ocates $200 million. As many as 52,000 in- of those programs have been scaled ad. V ' mates a year may benefit. back, however, and prisoners com- The new law W .·;,c: COURIER-JOURNAL•- MONDAY, _JANUARY 23, 1995 If Congress pulls plug, will shows go? It could be goodbye to "Nova" and so long to the "MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour." Those are just a couple of the programs Public broadcasters say funds that uroadcasters say could be missing from your television screen if Congress wipes out federal funding for public televi- are lifeblood of productions sion. · Speaker of the House Newt Gingn· ch thinks public broadcasting should be fi. "Sesame Street," for in She also doesn't think that network tele nanced by a private organization and sup- stance, receives $7 million - vision is an option. The people who pro ported by viewers and listeners, and he has about one-third of its pro duce children's shows for public broadcast offered to contribute $2,000 a year to such duction costs - from PBS ing "care about non-commercial children's a group. A House subcommittee began affiliates. While losing that 1V, and public broadcasting is the only hearings last week on whether to. continue amount "might not be place they can do it." the federal subsidy for the Corporation for enough to kill the show, it None of this means that broadcasters Public Broadcasting, which distributes fed- would certainly cripple it don't have to do their part to meet the re era! funds to public broadcasting outlets. badly," Fox said. alities of governmental budget cutting. Fox, Some PBS shows are Republicans reportedly have elimination for one, is miffed at the Corporation for already carrying a mes- of such funds on a fast track. Such action Public Broadcasting and · PBS. KET and sage in the closing could provide proof that they're serious Channel 15, as well as most other PBS out credits saying the pro- about cutting the federal budget. lets across the country, sliced their budgets gram could disappear The irony is that the federal grants - I last year because of the prospect of federal if federal funds are which total $285 million - amount to oilly : cuts, she said, but their national organiza eliminated. The an- about $1.07 per year for each American to tions did not: nouncement asks view- support the 945 public radio and .1V sta Area congressional representatives told ers to write to their. !ions across the country. As Curtin said, Fox and Curtin they support public broad congressional represen- that's less than the cost of renting one casting but are also angry at those national tatives. home video a year. - - --- .... ' bureaucracies because, they contend, the TOM "More than 75 per- Public broadcasters wonder why Gin- national organizations spend too much on DORSEY cent of KET's focal pro- grich is: spending so much time cutting adnlinistrative costs, gramming and nearly $285. million out' of a $1.5 trillion budget. Fox thinks CPB and PBS should be reor TV•RAOIO CRITIC t f "t PBS -o1 percen o 1 s They tltlnk his agenda is not economic, but ganized as brokers who buy the programs schedule would cease political. Critics point to many conseiva that local stations want. "All programming to exist" if Gingrich has his way, according tives' long-held belief . that public broad and funding decisions should_ be. locally to Virginia Fox, executive director of the casting is a liberal bastion. That .makes it driven" because local broadcasters best KET network, which receives $1.6 · million an easy target, the demise of which might know their communities' needs, she said. in federal funds. win quick approval points for Gingrich. S_l).e also hints that regi_onal public broad- W!{PC-15 ge11:eral m,anager John-Robert If the $285 million· in federal funds . casters are working on major plans to res Curtin agrees with Fox s doomsday scenar- un· ts· t th ~t-~f- - - t . . , - . , amo o Iess an 25 percen o mos tructure in ways that will save more money 100 I "Zeroing out federal funds wottld whack station. budgets, how can public broadcast_ while better serving their viewers. "I am a taxpayer, too, and I· see the writing on the $530,000 off our .($3.5 million) budget im- ers. claim that ~e cuts wo_uld_ b_e a_ m,atte! wall for the 1990s," Fox said. mediately," Curtin said. "While those pro- 1c 0f,!ffe and death, , . , grams might not disappear right away, : Because. th~ programs we II have to · Meanwhile, Fox said that.the only people they would vanish sooner or later." . -- • take off bnng .in.most of. th~, rest of. 1!1e - who can preseive public broadcasting are Curtin and Fox joined other" public., money we' n~ to operate, Fox. sa.Jd. the listeners and viewers. - . - .. -- - broadcasters for strategy sessions in Wash- i Viewers contribute money !o sur.port the They "have to let their congressional ington, D.C., two weeks ago. They came programs they see. and, like. If !hos; representatives know· right away if they back fighting mad. · · s~o';;I aren t_ on, they won t want to save children's and non-violent "The biggest blow would be the loss of give, she,s,ud. family programming as well as news and national series such as 'Sesame· Street • She estimates KET would public affairs," she said. · 'Nova ' 'The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour' :, lose $3 million in viewer Fox s>rid. ' contributions in· the first Public radio broadcasters might face the year, crippling KET's aper- prospect of losing such newscasts as Na- ation. Fox said the network tional Public Radio's "Morning .Edition" would essentially revert to and "All Things Considered,". which are an · in-school instructional expensive to buy. Louisville's WFPL-WFPK channel, principally funded would lose $220,000 yearly, wliicii. repre- by the legislature. sents about one-fourth of their $924,0_00 ."The people who ·are go- budget. ing. to lose the most 'if this WFPL-WFPK general manager · Gerry system goes down are the Weston said, if federal funding is cut off rural and ·the ·poor" Fox immediately ins'tead of being phased out; it said. ' .,; would mean staff layoffs. He said' he would She disagrees with Gin- try to find a way to keep NPR newscasts grich's suggestion that peo- because_ th;Y _are such an important.part of' pie who want the type of prograniming 1he -statto,n s image, but that ' seen on PBS .shouldn't expect taxpayers to 11 wouldn t be easy. pay for it and that such shows should be KET, WKP~ and WFPL- provided by cable stations. WFPK all receive funds from "More than a million Kentuckians don't the Corporation for Public have access to cable,". Fox said. " 'Sesame Broadcasting. The local sta- Street' was specifically designed to reach lions use some of the money children in inner cities· and areas such as to buy programs from na- Appalachia."· tional networks such as PBS and NPR. THE COURIER-JOURNAL• FORUM• SUNDAY, JANUARY 22, 1995 Pulling the PBS plug HE wrongheaded Republi, tion,• arts and public affairs pro- . can assault on._ public· grams that the private sector can't, broadcasting is grounded or won't, Pf!>vide: . in the baseless belief that · Wliat's more, the system effi- evenT partial public sponsorship ciently uses the federal tax dollars that make up a inere 14 percent of .taints whatever it touches; its income. Federal . money ac- When government supports an counts for just 7 percent of the activity, even in the small way that budget for Kentucky's KET net it helps public (there's that word work Most of the operating mon again) television and radio, the tax- ey comes from matching corporate payer can expect only waste, medi- and individual donations, such as ocrity, shiftlessness and so on. the checks many of us write each So it follows that whatever can't year to.-Channel_ 15 or to WFPL. make a profit and survive on its But without the federal compo own has no inherent value. That at nent - which serves as. seed mon least is the think- · ..i' · · ey; is essential to ~~i:i::r:~~~~ '."~!~t1Ili!Wriie:'~06!;tif))%!Ji ~:=~ an~e: ~;rs:::::: 11,1tii~1i . .;~~~=~:~~ :;tlymsuft~~1;~ :t;Q}trtj;g§lj9ljt/":;;; :~tes 0 ~uhti~ ~~~~e1~ -:~fiilllk;\itt iftig~t : cellence. • ,, I . · ,er and die. One of their early targets is the Let cable pi~k up successful pro- . $285 million that would go. next grams am! ·sell. ads· to support : year to the Corporation for Public them, sa~ the Speaker. Even if · Broadcasting. (Much of the-money that were•lfeasible, access to Big. : is redistributed to hundreds of lo- Bird, .Barmly, MacNeil-Lehrer, state . cal public television and radio sta- legislative ~erage and adult edu . lions that are affiliated with the cation woald . be denied many : Public Broadcasting System and Americans, 1.' including 1 million reach virtually !!Vflry American.) Kentuckians; who live beyond the House Speaker Newt Gingrich reach of cable or can't afford it. wants to "zero out" public broad- To be sure, public broadcasting casting, that is, deny it any federal has some soul,searching to do. It money. He has a fistful of pretexts, needs to address the perception of including the claim that public 1V · a liberal tilt ~ jts programming. It serves only the _elite. (Like the mil- needs_ to end.\ duplication in some lions of children from all income cities and be ·I~ss"stuffy about seiz levels who watch Sesam·e Street'l) ing profit~mak!,ng,opportu;uties. Even if he and his followers sue- But the bott()m '~e is that in a ceed in whole or in part, there's field dominated by~-mmeri:ial en irony in their choice of public tertairunent, there's room for. one. broadcastirig for their first skir- broadcaster that up · ciids the· pµb• mish with the federal monster. lic's interest .in la :different set of What the CPB has demonstrat- values. The. public investment has ed, after all, is that some jobs are more than paid for i~. in cieativ best done,. and will only be done, ity and Innovation. PBS. and its af. by publicly supported institutions. • filiates deserve t ., No Sweet 16 showcase this year; ideas sought Officials cite costs, demands for time and money Baesler. and speech. By GEORGE WoLFFORD The congressman helped ini OF THE DAILY INDEPENDENT tiate and propagate the compe Winners took home scholar tition when he was mayor of ships of $2,000, with $1,200 and LEXINGTON - A major ele Lexington and continued it $850 scholarships going to run ment in Kentucky academic through last year. The pro ners-up. competition - the Sweet 16 gram ran into money troubles Academic Showcase - won't last year after the city of Lex be around during 1995. ington withdrew financial sup "When we come back, it Costs and demands for time port, although $75,000 was may not even be similar to and money in other school and raised in the community to what it has been in the past," community activities have support it. Felty said. "It may be smaller, caused the committee which Previous-year competition new or different. We're taking puts on the show io lay out for included regionals at George input from interested people at least a year. town College, Morehead State, now." "There are so many things Eastern Kentucky and Ken out there that we thought we'd tucky Wesleyan universities. She asked that interested drop it and take a year o!I," Students were matched in art, parties send their suggestions said Cassie Felty, who works chess, computers, creative to Baesler at Box 1778, Lex in the office of U.S. Rep. Scotty writing, feature writing, music ington, Ky. 40593. THE COURIER-JOURNAL • THE FORUM • SUNDAY, JANUARY 22, 1995 TUNING OUT PBS? ••• WASHINGTON - The Pub- news and public affairs. PBS ey machine that doesn't need federal lie Broadcasting System is bat- spends $63 million. Other pri- dollars to survive." tling to remain on taxpayer life vate cable channels - such as More than 70 major public television support. It has flooded its own the Discovery Channel, The stations now sell national commercial airwaves with self-promoting Leaming Channel, Nickelode- spot advertising, which earns the sta montages of its best program- on, Bravo, American Movie tions more than $2 million annually. The ming that conclude with the Classics and Arts & Eniertain- president- of Public Broadcast Market rhetorical question: "If PBS ment - offer children's pro- ing, Inc., which sells the advertising, doesn't do it, who will?" gramming, documentaries, told the show business trade newspaper None of the spots shows ex- '--~DJl.'---_.:.J classical music, even opera. Variety that PBS stations could sell $50 cerpts from any of PBS' most CAL There would be no cultural million-$60 million of advertising annu controversial programs, includ- THOMAS wasteland if PBS went off the ally within five years. , ing some that have promoted air tomorrow. While PBS has always denied it al left-wing and one-sided views COLUMNIST · PBS programs make a bun- lows advertising on the network, there is on domestic and foreign policy die of money for those selling little difference between a 15-second issues. PBS wants us to think that pull- licensed merchandise, only a small per "underwriting credit" and a 15-second ing the tax-revenue plug will cause the centage of which flows back to PBS. commercial. immediate death of Barney and Big Bird Shouldn't the people cleaning up on the - and 'that's the tragic image they are sale of Big Bird and Barney toys, T J arvik recommends replacing the fed trying to sell. shirts and sheets be required to share eral subsidy for PBS (which is estimated When PBS' parent, the Corporation more of that money with PBS before the to grow to $1 oillion by next year if Con for Public Broadcasting, was established taxpayer has to pony up? gress fails to act), with a publicly held in 1967, television was a "vast waste- A new PBS policy requires that the stock corporation that would allow com land" with little programming that could network receive a "share" of profits mercial advertising. That way, if pr<) be said to benefit culture or intellect. made from selling merchandise related grammers wanted to produce material One could argue that it has gotten worse to a program, though this does not apply trashing traditional values and promot in the ensuing 28 years. to the Children's Television Workshop, ing the supposed joys of a Socialist soci But the point about PBS and its feder- which produces "Sesame Street," be-. ety, they would be subject to the same al funding is not its content (one-sidedly cause c:rw predates PBS. · c:rw has market forces required of all other coni liberal and offensive as it sometimes is). gross revenues of more than $100 mil mercial programming. ·· The point is whether one television net- lion per year. If government funds cannot promote work should receive federal subsidies, PBS also generates millions of dollars religion, why should they be tised to especially with the proliferation of com- of income through privately sponsored promote a mostly one-dimensional point mercial cable networks that offer cultur- progrsms and commercial sales. Bill of view on PBS? · al and children's programming at least Moyers' production company has raised Whether those ideas are good or bad as good or better than PBS'. more than $15 million, some of which is not the point. PBS can easily survive, Cable channels now outspend PBS on comes from sales of his videos through even prosper, following a cutoff of fed programming that PBS says is essential PBS Video, which pays a 30 percent roy eral furn.ling. The network has served its to its mission, The Disney Channel alty to Moyers and his partners. purpose - and Congress should ac spends $120 million a year on children's The Heritage Foundation's Laurence knowledge that, give it an award and programming, compared with $36 mil- Jarvik, who has studied PBS funding close the purse strings. lion at PBS. CNN spends $164 million on and programming, says: "PBS is a mon- o Los Angeles Times SY11dl"t• ll ■ [I SAVIORS ON THE RIGHT NEW YORK ,- If Charlton organizations, not the Heston could part the Red Sea, wealthy, will suffer if the can he also save the NEA? NEA dies. He just might. Though Newt "Elite is a very flexible Gingrich has blasted the Na word," said Heston, dismiss tional Endowment for the Arts ing talk of an "elite" NEA. "It as "patronage for an elite primarily means someone group" and Dick Armey has you disapprove of." said it "offends the Constitution Even David Christopher, a of the United States," they have FRANK board member of the Pitts not heard yet from Heston and burgh Symphony so conser many other conservative Re RICH vative he was one of 10 dele publicans who beg to differ, COLUMNIST gates to vote for Reagan over While NEA demonizers like President Gerald R. Ford at William Bennett and G~orge the 1976 Republican national Will would have you believe that the convention, says flatly that the federal agency's defenders are mainly liberal government inust encourage the arts as esthetes, the hidden story ·is the rescue part of "the quality of life." posse forming on the right. Patsy Collins, a King Broadcasting "I know all this stuff - I played Mi• heir whose contributions to the Seattle chelangelo," said Heston with a laugh Opera more than triple those of the fed Heston as 'Moses': He saved the from his home, Having been "an art eral government, shrugs off past NEA Israelites; can he save the NEA? maker, if you will" and the head of two controversies; while she found Robert cultural institu Mapplethorpe's him in person why the destruction of the photos "disgust• NEA would be "a great tragedy for the tions supported by _,if// '\\l:,,:,•-;:,t\:c:::-?"':·-•::,:, __•'•i ,,::-,:"Cl,-/-' . ::: \/ ;- :':: . -_.:·': ·C·'.:\'f': '.\'f /l the NEA, he be• ing," she loved the country." gay epic "Angels Wieland, who has been .a Gingrich lieves he's "the supporter and contributor for a dozen only conservative in America." Another Repub• · years, says that the Speaker is "one of with extensive ex• the best thinkers of ·our time" and is perience on this lican stalwart, "willing to say 'I made a mistake.' " Thomas Barrow, a issue." While no one expects any agency io And he cites Texas oil man emerge uncut in the new Congre5;5, historical preced who is president some conservative Republicans believe ents to argue pas lffJt~il of the Houston that the endowment should take a mod sionately that arts Grand Opera est hit, at most. · ·f patronage is "a le J,t11ati-wiisCwt<1eN:r.t board, says: Many firid the whole controversy 'a · gitimate function" "There are NEA counterproductive distraction from the Jia•~1ii11:1I1ei¥tab<>m,._, ;~.-c-:.,:,•,:""::::«:,::,,,,,,,- -~-~~ of government. ·,-=:c::~:::;::,:,s'c':-.<"::.:,-; grants I don't like, real federal downsizing promised by the If called, Heston but I don't like "Contract With America," and wonder will testify in Washington for the NEA. where every military base in the U. S. is why time is being wasted arguing about It's a role the actor has played before; in located, either." the NEA's tiny $167 million when there'.s 1981, he ended up championing the Arts Barrow will make his case strenuously $16 billion in farm programs on the ta and Humanities Endowments after Ron to his longtime acquaintance, Tom Delay, ble. ald Reagan appointed him co-chairman the powerful new House GOP whip and The answer, of course, is politics: The a p_residential task force that was NEA opponent. Lyn Grinstein of Fort NEA, as caricatured by its opponents, is of Worth, who is on the executive committee red meat for the religious right. ~ widely thought to seal their doom. -of the Van Cliburn Competition, intends Heston is hardly alone. In recent con• to do the same with- Armey, whom she But as the arts' powerful Republican versations, Republican arts patrons with knows and regards as "very smart" and friends loudly join the other bipartisan political clout defended the NEA by "open-minded" but in need of more infer• forces mobilizing to save the NEA, they making the same arguments Democrats mation about the endowment. may yet force the new House leadership do - that the imprimatur of a federal And what about the new speaker? to choose between getting down to busi• grant is essential to attract cautious pri John Wieland, the biggest home builder ness or getting mired in a symbolic cul vate money to the arts and that the in Atlanta and the board chairman of ture war that no one cap .win. : poorest audiences and smallest cultural tt ,t city's High Museum, plans to le i o New York Times "',IW1 Service MGU Clip A sample of recent articles cf 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. ■ TUESDAY, JANUARY 24, 1995 State panel wants supervision of what colleges build with gifts BY ANGIE MUHS HERALD-LEADER EDUCATION WRITER UNREVIEWED PROJECTS LOUISVILLE - The state Several colleges and universities have gone ahead with · board that oversees higher educa construction projects without getting approval from the Council tion in. Kentucky wants to look on Higher Education. future gift horses in the mouth - Organization especially if it is going to have to Completion Annual granting pay the upkeep. Project date costs• approval The Council on Higher Educa Morehead State tion unanimously approved form Finance ·and Admini• • ing a task force to study who Lappin Hall annex 1993 $123,755 stration Cabinet should oversee construction pro Murray State Economic Develop jects that universities paid for with Murray Special Events Center 1995 $1,075,000 ment Cabinet private donations or gifts of land or buildings offered to schools. University of Kentucky In the last year, several high William T:Young Library · 19_97 $2,049,900 profile construction projects - UK Community Colleges such as the University of Ken Paducah engineering facility 1996 $1,0Q0,000 None tucky's William T. Young Library and a proposed engineering school •Annual operating and maintenance costs at Paducah Community College - have been paid for through private Here are some other proposals cited by the Council on Higher Education. donations or other arrangements as projects thay would like to review: such as UK's bond sale through University of Louisville-$6.5 million football stadium land swap · '\''~ ' Lexington's city: government. Mora he.ad State - extension campus at Prestonsburg: .• ' . Those projects and · others Hazard. Community College.- extension campus facility at Hazel Gieen Academy.-. weren't necessarily reviewed by the Council on Higher Education. For · Somerset Community College~ extension campus at Russell Springs/Jamestown instance, the state Economic Devel Madisonville Community College~ extension campus at Greenville/Central City . opment Cabinet approved a special ' • _. ' 1• • " ,_. ' .• '' ' • ·' ' events center at Murray State Uni SOURCE: Council on Higher Education HERALD-LEADER versity. Such projects "have raised usually means the state has to pay composed of representatives from questions about the effectiveness of for running them. That's why the the council, state universities, state our system for reviewing and hav council should have some say over government offices and legislators, ing some cohesive oversight,'' said the projects, he said. should report on how to change the J David Porter, the council's vice "Everyone is very concerned project review system by Septem chairmarL "We all want to delegate that with the state funding situa ber. as much responsibility as possible tion as it is, that we avoid some Its findings won't apply to pro to the institutions to manage their type of crisis where we don't have jects that have already been start own projects, but we need some adequate funds to maintain capital ed. type of cohesive program." projects that have been started," he As council member Shirley Me Porter said the problem is that said, nendez put it: "The horse is already accepting gifts of land or buildings The task force, which will be out of the barn on those." LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER, LEXINGTON, KY. ■ TUESDAY, JANUARY 24. 1995 Soft touch: Two of the ar- ea's public radio stations, l;i' Survev about morals look at ideas is not confined to biology or WUKY-91.3 FM and WEKU- · ~ 'J the sciences,. but is a fundamental aspect 88.9 FM , are playing it low- z of college stud ts of scholarship across the university. key when it comes to lobbying iii' en Indeed; it is a trait that Thomas should. listeners about their potential ~ turned upstde don:m acquire. If he had thought for more than a funding crisis. Unlike KET, r .a: •n .Ll moment abou~ the survey's results (in- neither station is using its air- ~ stead of v1ewmg them as a convenient waves to alert listeners to the Ji I normally find Cal Thomas' columns way to blast universities), he might have incoherent, but recently he took blithering Republican proposal to elimi- r wondered whether the same result would nate federal money to the Car- ~ to a new high. On Jan. 3 Thomas reported have been obtained from high school results of a survey showing that 56 poration for Public Broadcast- ~ students. If so, then universities have ing. ~ percent of university students view right nothing to do with the survey's results. or wrong as a matter of personal opinion. But both stations are get- ~ In fact, students are not amoral. Proba ting the message out through • Thomas blamed higher education. stating bly 100 percent believe that murder, rape that " ... learning is more about lower the printed word. rn2 than higher things." and slavery (among other things) are absolutely wrong. So why their answers WEKU general manager ~ I strongly disagree. The University of on the survey? Some conservative Chris- Tim Singleton sent a letter to ~ Kentucky, like all universities, does not about 3,000 station members J; 1ians, like Thomas, have articulated moral 'a teach students to be amoral. In my depart ity as "I'm Christian and so am right you last week, outlining the issue. ::1 ment (biology), we teach students two are different and so must be wr~ng." WUKY is including a note ~ things: biological facts and the process of Perhaps most students have rejected that about the controversy in the ,. being skeptical about ideas. The latter is type of absolutism. brochure for its .February wine- w key to training biologists who will uncov tasting fund-raiser, "Heard It 01 er the knowledge necessary to confront DAVID WESTNEAT "' AsslSTANT PROFESSOR OF BIOLOGY Through the Grapevine!' The 111 problems. This process of taking a second UNNERSITY OF KENTUCKY station might also send out a g mailing to its ·members. llc _S,':{JNGTON HERALD-LEADER. LEXINGTON. KY. mTUESDAY. JANUARY 24. 1995 Controversial law "Will mean crime no longer pays for higher education ASSOCIATED PRESS "These guys coming out with virtually all with the help of Pell LOUISVILLE - Kentucky De out an education are lost," Seum Grants, said Sheila Gilreath, who partment of Corrections officials said. "You've got to have an educa oversees the programs for the Cor say one byproduct of the crime bill tion out here." rections Department. The average that Congress passed last year will Supporters of the new law, daily population of all prisons was be the end of college programs at however, argue that the public is 8,655. the 10 state prisons that offer them. outraged by the idea of providing The new law would put an end murderers, rapists, drug dealers to college programs in prisons in Part of the crime bill bars state and other felons with college de most states, said Steve Steurer. and federal inmates from receiving grees at taxpayer expense while executive director of the Correction financial aid through the Pell Grant law-abiding citizens struggle to al Education Association, a profes program, the principal source of find money to put their children sional organization for educators scholarships for low-income stu through school. who teach in prisons. dents Steurer said studies show that "Do you think it's fair that college programs reduce by 10 Without the grants, Corrections when · a police officer arrests a percent to 40 percent the likelihood officials say, the college programs criminal, that criminal has a better that prisoners will commit new will have to end this spring for lack chance of getting a Pell Grant to go crimes after being released. of money. ' to college than the police officer's · Reformatory Warden Walter B. That upsets Dan Seum Jr., the child?" asked Corinne Russell, Chapleau said few of the inmates son of state Sen. Dan Seum and a press secretary for Rep. Bart Gor who graduate from the college recent graduate of Jefferson Ccm don, D-Tenn., who sponsored the program return. munity Ccllege. The school will ban. Spending the $1,300 a year the award him an associate's degree in average prisoner receives in Pell business for courses he took while "The Pell Grant program was Grants to lessen the chance he will serving six years at the Kentucky intended to help poor and middle return to prison is cheaper than it State Reformatory at La Grange for income students attend college," is to· spend the $27,000 a year it cocaine trafficking. Russell said. "It wasn't intended to costs to house an inmate who be the prison-education program." returns, Chapleau said. Seum and others argue that In the 1993-94 school year, 799 Inmates still will be able to giving inmates a chance to earn prisoners were enrolled in college study for high school equivalei:tcy college credits is one of the best programs in Kentucky, and 24 of . diplomas and take vocational class ways to rehabilitate them. them earned associate's degrees, es, officials said. The Daily Independent, Ashland, Kentucky, THE COURIER-JOURNAL • TUESDAY, JANUARY 24, 1995 Monday, January 23, .1995 Prison college Spalding University programs to_ end LOUISVILLE'. Kentucky Department of reopens merger talks Corrections officials say one byproduct of the crime bill that Congress with Presentation passed last.year will.be: the end· of college By MICHAEL QUINLAN But "the generous financial out programs at the 10 state Staff Writer pouring of the Louisville community prisons that offer· them. has opened up· new options. for The preservation of Presentation looking at the original proposal," Part ofthe.crime bill Academy is back. on track. said-Sister Susan Gatz, communica bars state and federal The Sisters of Charity of Naza tions director for the Sisters of inmates from receiving reth and Spalding University have Charity. financial aid through the reopened negotiations aimed at "Progress is definitely being Pell Grant program, mergiog the higb school with the made," said Emily Whalin, Spald which is the principal university. . ing's public relations director. source of scholarships The plan was derailed last week Representatives from the college for low-income students. when the Sisters of Charity, owners and the religious order will · prob of the Catholic girls school in down ably meet today and tomorrow to town Louisville, announced discuss the merger, Whalin said. Wednesday that it had. rejected a Gatz and Whalen refused to put a non-negotiable offer from Spalding deadline on a decision, but it is like and that the 164-year-old school ly to be made before Saturday, would close. in June. when about 120 girls are expected But a remarkable fund-raising ef to register for the next school year. fort - more than $760,000 in cash Susan Griffin, a consultant for and pledges - rekindled the possi Presentation, said that contributions bility of a deal. continued to trickle in yesterday The money would more than cover and that the final total would ex the $751,000 apparently needed for ceed $760,000. She stressed, howev the merger. ,Spalding had asked the er, that much of that was in pledges. Sisters of Charity to pay $470,000 for "Those people who pledged need repairs and other costs and to forgive to come in and follow through with a $281,000 debt that. Presentation gifts," Griffin said. "The more we owed the order. The Sisters of Chari have in cash and checks, the better ty called that offer ''unacceptable." off we'll be" during negotiations. p- m,us~::· ~::A;~eL:;c:=::esident's post ::~~~r~~~sb~ch~ior~h:;~·ir: , UK o_-ised"'v" ~, during the search. Coiurnbia University and his mas- • Bramwell who has been dean ter's and doctorate degrees irom 0 appomt at CUNY si~ce 1989, joined the the University of Michigan. t THE COURIER-JOURNAL • KENTUCKY_J_REGION • TUESDAY, J~t:JUARY 24, 1995 ·1st black to UK vice president likely top-leveljob to be an African American BY ANGIE MUHS l The Bluegrass Bureau tor for various National Science HERALD-LEADER EDUCATION WRITER Foundation, National Institutes of LEXINGTON, Ky. -A New York Health and New York state initia The University of Kentucky City educator is expected to be tives that have attracted more than Board of Trustees today will be named the University of Kentucky's $4 million in funding in the past two asked to hire a New Yark City highest-ranking African American years. educator who would be the first by the board of trustees .today. The previous top-ranked black of black to hold a top-level adminis UK President Charles Wethington ficial at UK was Dr. John T. Smith, tration job at UK that did not entail will recommend that Dr. Fitzgerald . who was named the school's first overseeing affirmative action. B. Bramwell be appointed vice vice president for minority affairs in If the board approves, Fitzger president for research and graduate 1975. Smith held that po~ until ald B. Bramwell would become studies. Bramwell would succeed 1982, when he became vice chancel UK's vice president for research Lee Magid, who resigned to return lor for minority affairs until his re and graduate studies. He is current to the University of Tennessee to tirement in 1984. He died last.year. ly the dean of head a research unit at Oak Ridge. Bramwell earned his bachelor's graduate studies Bramwell is now dean of graduate degree in 1966 at Columbia Univer and research at studies and research at Brooklyn sity and master's degree and doctor Brooklyn College College of the City University of ate in physical chemistry at the Uni- of the City Uni New York. He has also been a pro versity of Michigan. · versity of New fessor of chemistry there since 1980 He has been a research scientist York. and is on the faculty at the Universi with ESSO Research and Engineer ty Center of the City ·University of ing, a consultant at AT&T Bell Lab The appoint New York. oratories and a consultant .to Ameri ment is a key one He has been a principal investiga- can Cyanalllid Corp. Bramwell for UK in· two ways. First, it bolsters UK's efforts LEXINGTON HERAU),lEADER, LEXINGTON, KY. ■ TUESDAY, JANUARY 24, 199!j to hire more minorities and women for top jobs. · A Council on Higher Education An efficient KenW~~ report last summer found that UK has been lagging in hiring black administrators and faculty ..If uni preseives school goals versities don't make enough ·prog _____,._....., .... I ress toward minority representa BY BRERETON C. JONES Education funding represented ap tion, they cannot apply to offer new n the last three years, we have proximately half of the state budget · programs. downsized state government by in both budget cycles. The appointment also is an I eliminating more than 1,600 The Family Resource and important one because UK, like jobs through attrition for a savings Youth Services Centers. are wi/hin other state universities, has been of more than· $40 million a year. one grant cycle of full unplementa relying more on grants and re Initiatives undertaken by our ad tion. For the first time in the history ~ch contracts as state appropria ministration have reduced the wel of Kentucky, schools will be re tions decrease. Bramwell's tasks fare rolls by 10 percent for a sav warded for showing progress to; would include ·handling UK grant ings of approximately $25 million. ward world class education. stand applications and research con There are 153,000 more people ards because we have established tracts, which previously fell under working today in Kentucky than_ and maintained the reward fund as a position that has been vacant. the day I took office. We will pass legislation directed. Bramwell, .. who will attend to on to the next administration a In.addition, last week-miautho day's board meeting, said yester $100 million budget reserve fund, rized the transfer of $152 million"in day that he was attracted to the the largest "rainy day" account in base SEEK funds to fully fund the UK job because of the chance to history, and more than $130 million pupil transportation program for _ oversee diverse research at the in new, unobligated funds, which is the first time since fiscal year 1991- Chandler Medical Center and the two to three times more than past 92. We have also authorized the Lexington campus and community administrators have left. utilization of $13 million in base colleges. .. ··,· · ' We have cut our expenses and SEEK funds to fully fund the Facili "I could be o~ the phone for an increased our revenue. That is why ties Support Program of Kentucky · hour telling you all the things that we can cut taxes and still give for the first time since its creation· · excite me about the job," Bramwell strong support to education. Our in 1990. This program assists said. "I'm excited about the tremen record of support for education is school districts in meeting their dous diversity of sciences there." clear. building and renovation needs.· · He also said he was interested Throughout both budget·cycles ofour administration, we have kept Our education reforms require · in war.king to strengthen research students to use many books;-rather· partnerships between academia our commitment to maintain the integrity of the Kentucky Education than one text. Because of this, our and private industry. administration realized the critical : ''When you do, the product Reform Act during tight budgetary times. Our recommended program need to fully fund public libraries. becomes more than the sum of its For the first time in Kentucky's parts,"'-Bramwell said. --· · for this special session will in no way harm Kentucky's capacity to history; we brought funding Jar The vice president for research continue the progress of education local public libraries to full funding and graduate studies is :a member reform. at 52 cents per capita. ., of UK President Charles Wething ton ~r.'.s cabinet, a group of ,12 top In the 1992-94 biennium, our The record stands for itself. I · ll:dmm1strators who hold key posi first budget, the General Fund ap repeat, "We have the commitment t10ns. propriation for education was $4.22 to make certain that every .child in Kentucky has the opportunity to The job had been vacant since billion, including $3.128 billion for get a quality education and'that we' SEEK and Tier 1 funding, This Linda "Lee". Magid, UK's. firs t will never ever tum our backs "on woman Vice president, resigned. in represents a 7.1 percent growth the Kentucky Education Reforni · · • over the first biennial funding of February 1993 to take a position at Act." You have heard it before .. : the Oak Ridge National Laborato- KERA. The 1994-96 enacted budg et, our seco:id budget, appropriates and you will hear it again. It is a ry. ~-= ' ..... hallmark of our administraiiorc Del Collins, UK's vice-;chan-c---c-e~l $4.623 billion in General Fund, in, lor for research.and graduate stud eluding $3.324 billion in SEEK ·and ies in the Chandler Medical Center Tier 1 funding for a growth of 9.6 ■ Brereton c. Jones is governor of ' ..,.,._.....,..,.f- nTPL>.. +,l-,,, ...... a,~n1tC" h9ann1,,m Kentuckv. - · Lt.Alhlu1v,,, ,._,,,,._.., ._._, ,.,._,,, _.._,,.,,__., ..,,,,, ••• - • --~"'•"• ~• •••w•"'' - , , ~- ..,.., 'Engineering col!Sultant- sou~~-:-::, But most of the .debate. over. The council would be_ a~ked io· · [. The panel ·By ANGIE MUHS hiring a . consultant .revolved select a ci:lnsultaht at its_,Marcll · wants to HERALD-LEADER EDUCATION WRITER 'around· whether the Paducah pro- meeting; said executive Jlirector know the LOUISVILLE - All of the Igrain, a joint effort with the Uni- Gary Cox. But officials in Padticall state's parties involved in the controversy versity of Keritticky, its parent plah to break ground for the new engineering over engineering education in Ken- institution, was a good idea.· engineering building this spring or needs tucky agreed on one thing yester- In the end, most council mem- summer. before it day: They don't have enough infor- bers said there were loo many "I think there has to be an Campbell also suggested that decides mation. questions to tell. understanding that none of the the consultant research how ina!)y whether As a result, the state should "We have to look at how it will campuses would take action iit the engineering graduates at UK and hire a consultant to find out how affect our existing (engineering) meantime,". Prather ~id. · , the University of Louisville leave there are many engineers the state needs and schools," said council member Joe · The PCC-)JK plan,. wdi!l.d ,in- Estimates of how much it enough Kentucky after graduating. whether its two engineering Bill Campbell. "We need to have a valve students erirollmg -at, the would cost to run that .program "I was told thai half..the engi programs. schools can meet that demand. lot of information about what it comniimity college for two years. have ranged from $1.5 million to $5 neering graduates leave Kentticky The Council on Higher Educa- wo;,ld cost the taxpayers iri this They would then transfer.in name million. The Paducah community I , " because there are no jobs for uon did not hear testimony from state." to UK, but remain in Paducah, raised $8.4 niillion in private dona- them," he said. representatives of the hotly contest- But council member Hilma wher~ they would take many of tions for an engineering building. ed engineering proposals at Padu- Prather questioned the study's tim- their courses by interactive teievi- Council'member Shirley Meneii- After the meeting, UK Presi cah Community College and Mur- ing. sion. dez, who is from Paducah, told the dent Charles Wethington Jr. and ray State University. group that an erigirteering school in Murray State President Kern Alex .. .e,"CS .... » ...... bD • • fl) re fl) ·J:: 0 o ~ ='0 Q,) Q,) a , ander both said they welcome.cl the . .!" lii l!l •.ll t -g e; .;, t r:: t t i:>"' ~ 'o] t i:> § ·c: ii 'o -~ ll ·Gb ~ .g ">, ·i;;"fil ~ 1l g . ~ iii ~ ;§ ;a .S %:.::: lj ~ .d ;,.2l tl, § -~] ..... Paducah is heeded to attract the council's decision to seek a study. t iii t -fil, "" ·- ·a -fil, .I Z -fil, ~ ~ '6 § - -fili ~ J:: ~ "' § ,s " ~ u .S 8 t O E- "° "':E 6b ::s ~ -:.S .c El • "CJ a... ; 8 .El"" "CJ 8 t: . AVLIS plant, a federal atomic fuel 8 I r~ 1·~ ~ ii £ ~ ! ~ _g,! ·as § ]:: ~ ~ "' 1~ 2f ~ ~ i ~ i ~ ®i ~ i i Jl t] : ti t~ l i .s "' i!!i ~ i 1: l j ~~~dsspi~~ta$i tgmia~cf;~ ~~ But Miller caµtioned that the c,j::Si!!t5,.u.8 ~-cEoc: :ga,_rn~clj clS .Sj~~ ~~oca:-~~J::::s f~ ~ ~i-:la,a,; S·;.50-8cu rngj~g;;;,,.!itl C:rn_a study had its limits. "I'm under no illusions about eco~;~k is an opportunity for us ~ ! -=-:::,~ £1f l! ]]J i ~ it f tsr i=~~l! ~iiJ :!J ~i ~~~ !·.,i:1 §~Wt ~j~"o-; ;: )]};!) !~ ;.,j ~ our ability to accomplish.an;'thing m 0i;;. .: u rn :::: • E- cu.: f:i> cu "'C "'C ...... E ">< - ..... a, ti: -- .: rn rn - ~ ~ c: -c "'C a, Q,) rn .: ·c::' clj .w ·c - o .: to develop an engineering presence 0 .a .;::. .a u - ! o· :H »-~ .d "6h Q,) t ·c::' bJJ f:l B ..c ~ i... c: co:s ~ c a, -6 "c::' a½- • ..... I!::~ u:i - s ~ rn &i Q) •-·a~ >. -E ·-~ ...... ;;, ~ o u:i ii O ~ 13 19 ~ that W1°ll be bn'ng1·ng bus1·ness to in closing down lh¢ artiniosity be . ~~ ~ bJJ CJ .c: ~ ..... ~ C: c,;S g +:I Q) 1a Q) ~ tn· = c,;S ::,; "'Cu.: "C ;::. Q) ::s =Q) ca QJ ..c::: ... ti.I ~ "'C i::. ,.::r;; ..... :::id 8 m ..... c::::: ti.I "'C tween Murray and Paducah," he 11 ·cu u .!a 1n l:l UJ 11-= c,;S -g -d :::id~ UJ =en-~ 8 .g f3 § the commonwealth," said Menen- ;t .: ~ a E : .8 5.6i3~ g- :B ~~ ! e e,~ = ~ ·g ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ 8 ·m _g t ·Si B= ·s ! ~ s ~--5 =E' said. 5 1:! ~~ .Ii i_g; ! !J_; liiil i1~!i:i]l .. l]~]fj I ]Ji 111 ;i.~ !.i!JJ :11:i 11· fi i~l~;~J-~ :ttj~I[1£i~~:r"~r !eifr.r: In other business, the council · heard a report from George Fi ~ Jf"~ j ~ £ : ~]]~~~'ho~ 'g ~-g-~~~1 ~ii]] ~-~1 :i §;i: i ~ i ~ -~ ~] ~j~ ~] g-~;'l t}-5] \ Ii[·~~ 5 t.~J ~ I Menendez also questioned a , scher, vice chainnan of U of L's >-=" 8 ·o ~ t, -~ 'g 8 [~ aJ .5 ~ ~ ca e B e -:S a:i :a ~ a, i3 e ~ ca -a :.... u:i ~ ~ ti.I ..... bJJ bJJ co:s co:s - ..... rn ..... 1990 study by Cabinet. for Human board of trustees, about the search c§ · · • Resources' deparhneht for employ- to replace President Donald Swain, [3 0 ~ ~ ai § al ti!-~ -a:. 1 ~ 1a .r .s £ :61,-1;-_g =-~ ~ ef"o t ti-:. "" ~ a ll ,s 11 ii .s a e_§-a ~-~ merit services ~at j:iredictl:'1 ~ need I who will retire in June. ::::i 1-t R "CJ ~ :g -a 61, :!! al u § :i3 _ ., iii m~ ~ .3 ,S 1l t :fil> g' _gi :,.. &i, .s "CJ ii; _ ~ o. u ~ :3 for an average of 19_ new ~ngmeers ! 8 B of L's search commjttee has 1 U • 1 (I:) re. 0J ~.O?- 51)@ ~ '8 THE COURIER-JOURNAL • WEP~_E_§DAY, JANUARY 25, 1995 U of L land ·swap's fairness questioned Ex-professor guilty ofcomputer porn FRANKFORT, Ky. - A former Kentucky State University BY BILL ESTEP face of it, if the taxpayers are wants more information on why likely approve the swap if mem getting a good deal," said Morris, assistant professor pleaded guilty Monday to four counts of HERALD-LEADER STAFF WRITER the 1992 and 1994 values are so far bers are convinced it's a good deal. intersta)e distribu\ion of child pornography by computer. D-Hopkinsville. apart. FRANKFORT - A land swap Sen. Tim Shaughnessy, D-Lou Marvin E. Moms, 46, of Frankfort, pleaded guilty before his between the University of Louis Morris postponed a meeting of Mark Guilfoyle, the governor's scheduled U.S. District Court trial. Judge Joseph M. Hood ville and CSX Transportation to his committee until today to gather cabinet secretary, said he has de isville and chairman of the Senate scheduled sentencing for April 18. give U of L a site for a new football more information. tected no organized opposition to State Government Committee, sup Morris was indicted on 21 counts of interstate distribution of stadium ran into some questions Under Gov. Brereton Jones' the land' swap but he has heard ports the swap. The university chi!~ J?O!"fiography in Novem~er. He allegedly sent sexually yesterday. plan, CSX would give U of L a 92- from some lawmakers who have needs the land to expand, he said, exphc1t images of boys and girls ages 7 to 15 via the private acre site near campus. CSX would questions about the deal. and the committee is likely to · network America On Line to an investigator with the Florida Some legislators wonder wheth approve the deal today. C er the land U of L would get - a get 118 acres in a fast-developing Lawmakers are likely to sup !)epa_rtment of La~ Enforcement. The investigator was site for a new 50,000-seat football part of east Jefferson County. port the bill once they understand ■■■ identified to Moms as a boy named Will, the indictment said. stadium -'-- is worth as much as the That 118-acre site was valued all the intricacies of the complicat Max Smith, Morris' attorney, said Morris has agreed to heip at . $11.6 million when the state ed issue, Guilfoyle said. Herald-Leader staff w,ifer Chad federal authorities in a continuing probe. land the state would give up, said Carl(an contributed to this article. '· Rep. Ramsey Morris, chairman of accepted it in 1992 as payment for "It's not going to take any Morris was suspended by KSU following his arrest. He thP Hrn1~f' St.ite Government Com- a debt owed by Louisville and money from the General Fund," he resigned at the end of the fall semester. MSU ARCHIVES · C//A})&--l./-.3t -3 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 UXINGTON HERALO.LEADER, lExlNGTON,° KV. ■ THURSOAV, JANUARY 26, 1995 -- House leader tries · The amendment listed the pro jects - $10 million for a student ·to ·add 4 projects and performing arts· center at Haz ard, $4.5 million for a classroom building at Ashland, $8 million for _·to session agenda a vocational-technical center at Hopkinsville and $3 million for an :engineering building· at Paducah_ ' -•~,.;~_:· . Stumbo pushes funds ~ . .,. ,; ... , · House State Government Com .,.·, ;mittee Chairman Ramsey Morris, for community colleges :D-Hopkinsville, said it was a mis BY BILL ESTEP '· :take that the projects were included AND CHAD CARLTON ·in the stadium amendment. HERALD-LEADER STAFF WRITERS ' · Stumbo . said· an amendment FRANKFORT - One- of the :adding · the projects to the U of L legislature's most powerful mem 'bill had been drafted, but he and bers worked yesterday to get fund :House Speaker Jody· Richards, D ing for four community college ·Bowling Gree!], had asked Morris buildings added to- the agenda of I lC,h).\Jl,Jll not to allow it to be considered. - . - . the special legislative session. But . House Democratic Whip But it appears unlikely the ' _Kenny Rapier, another member of projects pushed by House Majority . Senate Majority Leader David •the committee, later questioned Leader Greg Stumbo will be con- Karem, D-Louisville, said members \vhetl;er the projec_ts' insertion in sidered. Lawmakers are eager to would be concerned about adding :the ·stadium· -amendment was a wrap up work by Friday, and there even more to the state's debt. It '.mistake. seems to be little suppon in the- also could open the door to re- "I don't think it was a clerical Senate for adding the projects. quests for other projects, he said. error," said Rapier, of BardstowrL Stumbo said he asked Gov. "I think the concern would be, "We have some of the most experi Brereton Jones yesterday to amend where do you stop that?" Karem enced staffers on that committee, the session agenda to add new said. and I would think they had direc buildings at community colleg,'s in The community college projects tion from someone" to put them in Hazard, Ashland, Hopkinsville and got an unexpected airing yesterday the bill. . Paducah. when legislative staff members Richards said he did not rhink Many legislators from Eastern passed out a proposed amendment the projects were floated in the i\nd Western Kentucky are upset to a bill _on the land ~wap for a new stadium bill as a way to force them about the lack of state projects in Um".erslty of Lou1sv1lle football pnto the agenda. their areas, and the community stadium. college projects would help ease THE COURIER-JOURNAL • THURSD~Y, JANUARY 26, 1995 those concerns, Stumbo said. 33-year-old prank Jones has long su_pported the The Daily Independent, .Ashland, Kentucky, projects and said he would add comes to an end Wednesday, January 25, 1995 them to the agenda if House and Senate· leaders asked him. Neither CAMPBEllSVILLE -A pair of errant bookends have been re WHAT'S HAPPENING side has made a formal request, turned to Campbellsville College Cabinet Secretary Mark Guilfoyle after an absence of 33 years. said. BJ. Senior of Crestwood, a College plans Stumbo tried to lay the fate of 1968 graduate of the college, was the projects at the feet of Senate among three pranksters who took sleepover President John "Eck" Rose. the two marble bookends from MIDWAY - Midway College The two clashed last year when atop a grand piano in the lobby of will host an open house sleep Stumbo and other House members Stapp Hall, a women's dormitory, over Feb. IO and 11 for high wanted to borrow millions of dol 33 years ago. • Jars for state building projects. But "I was clearing out some things school juniors and seniors in Rose and others . in the Senate and came across them," said Sen terested in attending school '.successfully opposed that plan. ior, who presented the bookends there. For more information or reservations, call 1-800-755- · "I think it's all up to the Senate to college President_ Kenneth W. . 0031. ~ leadership," Stumbo said. "If I were Winters on Tuesday night. "Time 'running for governor or even think was marching on and they needed ing about it, I don't believe I would to be returned home." want the reputation of killing four community college projects." THE COURIER.JOURNAL • WORLD • THURSDAY, JANUARY 26, 1995 Rose, D-Winchester, is consid Students protest school cutbacks ering a run for governor. Stumbo, D-Prestonsburg, is allied with Lt. CHJCDUTIMI, Quebec - Canadians may soon experience Gov. Paul Patton, a Democrat al what U.S. students have faced for decades - sticker shock at ready in the race. the cost of college. But if Jones is waiting on Students at universities and professional schools across Senate support to add the projects, Canada demonstrated and boycotted classes yesterday to protest it doesn't appear likely they'll be government proposals to cut funding. added. As many as 100,000 students from 80 universities and colleges were expected to participate in rallies from Rose said it would be difficult Newfoundland to British Columbia. to add the projects to the agenda The federal government wants to overhaul Canada's $28.4 because it is so late in the session. billion social program with deep cuts in what it sends provinces for health, education, welfare and unemployment insurance. u1u11l!i~ was mstnouceo and op• nlty-college projects. The addition, proved. 4 Co The four projects at issue were . mmun1·ty colleg·e·.. p.· ro•ie· c'· ts get late push t'Se:;:; ~~~~crt1~tm~:~~"! .:.~ among several that Jones wanted ~ cerns about "equity" - the projects funded during last year's regular Ch, , ,, , , . The community-college Issue cause nei'ther Stum.ho nor the gov- with CSX Transportation to pro- on the agenda so far are in Louis- session. They were blocked by Sen aDceS are remote, surfaced several times and in sever- ·ernor's office ·had raised the Issue vide a site for a new University or If Jones would not add the proj- ate concerns that the state didn't . ·~-~ have the money to afford so much . . I d · · al ways. S";Jmbo, I?-Pres~onsbu~,th with Senate leaders. · Louisville football stadium. ects to the call, Stumbo said, they ffiOSt ea ers Say pitched the _idea in mtemews Wi "I spoke to (House Speaker) While Stumbo told reporters yes- could be added as an amendment to construction. The four are: $10 mil By'TOM WFTUS' reporters throughout the day, say- Jody Richards today I spoke to terday "there's plenty or time" to the.biµ approving the land swap for lion for a performing arts-student and FRAN ELLERS ing that only Senate lea~ers - par- G this afternoon They didn't consider additional projects, other the stildlun1. center at Hazard; $4.5 million for a Staff Writers ticularly Senate ~si~ent John regti n It .. Karem said. "All that I leaders downplayed the possibility. That possililli(y seemed to gain classroom building at Ashland; "Eck" R?se - st~ m its way: men~ ed was how we could House Speaker Pro Tern Larry · momentum minutes later, when the $8 million for a vocatiohal-technical Refernng to Rose s-consideralion was •let b~ess as expeditiously Clark, D-Okolona, and Democratic State Government Committee re- center at Hopkinsville; and $3 mil FRANKFORT, Ky. - Advocates or a bid for governor this year, comp ~ d b this Caucus Chairman Jim Callahan, D- convened. It was supposed to re- lion for an engineering building at for construction projects at four Stumbo told reporters, · "If I were as ~ssibl~, an may e wrap Southgate, both said the additional view a new version or the land-swap Paducah. community colleges in Eastern and running for governor, or even session_ up by tm1_1orrow. . projects are all worthy and should bill that had only minor changes. Mark Guilfoyle, Jones' Cabinet Western Kentucky launched a long- thinking about it, I don't believe I T)le idea_ of add~ co~cti.on be considered - but ·not now. But the bill that members took up secretary, said the governor has shot effort late yesterday to get would want the reputation of kill-• projects stirred regional nvalnes "It's in our best interests to com- included community-college . proj long advocated the projects. Repre funding for them added to the Ing four community-college proj- somewhat .and caused some con- plete the existing agenda," Clark eels in Ashland, Hazard, Hopkins- sentatives from the community col agenda ·of the special session. . ects." cern am?ng lawmakers who cham- said. · ville and Paducah. leges lobbied Jones yesterday to But other than House Majority . Rose D-Wmchester could not be pion projects already on the call - The matter surfaced yesterday Committee Chairman Ramsey add the projects to 1hr agenda, but Leader Greg Stumbq, Democratic reached for a respons~ later yester.' convention-cente_r projects in Lou- morning during a recess of a House Morris, D-Hopkinsville,- then said Jones will do. so only if Senate and leaders in both the House and Sen- day But Senate Majority Floor isville and Covington and a state State Government Committee meet- the committee staff had distributed House leaders ask him to, Guilfoyle aie suggested the likelihood of add- Leader David Karem, D-Louisville, history museum. in Fmnkf~rt. Gov. Ing when Stumbo told reporters he the wrong version of the bill by mis said. Ing the projects was remote and said he was surprised to be asked Brereton Jones IS also asking law- had asked Jones to add the commu- take. The version with only minor Also yesterday, some House seemed eag~r to complete the ex- about the ·matter by ~oit~rs be . makers ,!~ve a land swap _ . , ., . • ~ _ _ ., members circulated a resolution islin8 agenda by tomorrow. -5 £ .2P~ B 1l ,. ., 1; .S Jl-5-0] "'] -~ "'IE~ .5 asking Jones to add the four proj 6 ~ 6 ~ ~ ~ .fl.;~ ~:= £1; ~ ~ ~ [ ~ ! ects. · " ,..._ 1-E ;, 5 g -g ~ 'ti ~ ;:g ~ .,. i ii: 1l s i.1 c1:: ] ; iS. . ~ tt ~ e ,. 'o 'o . ai ~ . :. IC :E s 1l ~ But Richards repeatedly down ..-. ...::§s~s ..,,e.8s gEE-~-~ litl~8&-o a§•il~ .?,~; tiil'!~~g~§,/~ ~ ]~g played the possibility throughout m: ~ Cll lll ~ ~ 1= e 1; "'-o ~ ,. o ~ o u ~ -.·5 o ~ ::c ~ -~ .,, >, a-s -.. o. ::s o .cs IC '" t ·s;;;; g, lil 8 ~ _ the day. "The hour's getting late. S~i~-·- . ~-. •;... "\ 52 CD 8 c - .5 ,.8t: c I;; ., !;_ E 'o ·.:;m - .!!l ., :< c - o o g; .E ;,, _2! We're trying to finish up this ses 8.- ~g Jl "' 'g ~ -0 t,ot .g ., ~ ~ ~ - eo. ~ ff=~ . o'"E ~ i: _g .c s ·- ;=..:,: - .c t "' o !! .5 iS. _g E -o :=r·s: :g ·s: ·"' - - G ·- -~ 1! ~,: E sion," he said. ,-fll~- a.~£ != l"~:3c,y, !il.'l~i:J"'t<"'ci! .01'.!llli!Je -.,, E:.S i;~Eec·8o,"'E- -:!!-£ . !!l '- :{J - - ll ~ ·- ll iS.Jl u .c ·- ll >. I: - - - '- !)l .c l'.I . . ~ The fact that other House leaders didn't seem wild about the idea and ti l !s ~.g ; .5 E .§ E .; ~"' ., ., ;. § r4 .§ {l :~ -5 ~] 8 '0 g ; · businessman, criticized the ARC_uniqu.e-;--. agency for too little "bang for the buck." "How long and how far do we· ·keep up before we have a mod~l, its .c\ aroused voters. who are going• to force cuts?" he said. Dr. Bruce Ergood, an associ ate professor of sociology at allies contend· Ohio University at Athens, worked with. the. ARC in 1970. By 5AM ADAMS . development projects. Its larg He said he· was embarrassed OFTHE DAILY INDEPENDsNT est program is the Ap that.people in Appalachia have palachian Corridor highways. . to ask-what the ARC is doing'_ IRONTQN - The Ap-, Figures distributed by the whim it has spent $6 billion in palachian Regional Commis agency show that in the 30 the region. sion should be used as a model years since its inception, the "The old-boy network. works for reinventing the federal 399 Appalachian counties grew very well amorig government government, not sacrificed in 48 percent faster than their officials and development of .the budget-cutting frenzy, the counterparts outside the. area . flclals and those we · call the federal co-chairman of the and that the poverty rate in development leaders;, but it agency said Tuesday. Appalachia had dropped from . , forgets about the people in the In the first of the three town more than twice the national ' garden clubs," he said. meetings in the agency's· 13- average in 1965 to only three Michael Harford, executive state area, federal co-chairman pain ts higher than the na director of the Center for Com- Jesse White said the ARC is a tional average in 1990, , munity . and Economic · Devel ''unique· critter" in Washing- But White said after the opment at Morehead-S_tate Uni- , ton. · · meeting that to find the need,. · versity, said the ·commission "I'm trying to make the ar officials must look past the ag ' should shift Its emphasis away gument that not only should . gregate figures. from. highways to more im- the ARC not be put on the "If you look at huge parts. of , mediate needs such as prena chopping block, but more of Appalachia, particularly cen tal care and ed ucatlonal pro- federal government should be tral Appalachia, there is still a grams. .. organized along the ARC great need," White said. "Highways run both ways," model," White said. The agency is in the middle he said, "The highways that The commission is run by of a strategic planning study run into the eastern Kentucky White and the governors of the to determine how best to ad allow people to leave, too." 13 Appalachian states, ranging dress those needs. The town He compared the university from New York to Alabama. meetings have been set up to to the extractive Industries White holds half the votes on collect input for that study. like coal mining and logging the commission and the gover The second is tentatively set that have long shipped· Ap nors.hold the other half. for March at Corinth, Miss. palachian resources out of the White said it Is the only true The third has not been sched area. state and federal partnership. uled, but will likely be in the He. said 80 percent of More President Ronald Reagan northern part of the region, head State's students come tried to cut the agency out of · probably in Pennsylvania, said from Appalachian Kentucky, the federal budget eight times, ARC spokeswoman Ann but only 46 percent of its alum but it was yanked back from Anderson. ni Ii ve in the region. precipice each time by Con gress. Change recommended White said the agency is al Tuesday's town meeting ready. in President Clinton's drew mostly development or · budget, but declined to say government officials who work · p.ow much money the presi with ARC. on a dally basis. dent has recommended be '11i.ey had high praise for the_ ·cause the budget hasn't been commission. Others were released yet. there to promote specific The future of the ARC is in projects for which they have doubt, however, because the applied to the ARC for fund Republican-controlled Con ing. gress has made it clear that Only a few offered criticisms nearly every federal expendi of the agency and the way its ture, particularly those for business is handled. A handful "social programs,". are poten voiced despair over their ina tial candidates for the chop bility to get ARC help. ping block. Bill Jackson, county at Whfle he acknowledged that torney in Lawrence County, it will be harder for an agency Ky., said some areas can afford to survive the attacks of a hos full-time planners to help get tile Congress than those of a · ARC money. He questioned hostile president, White said how smaller, more poverty many of the Republicans in stricken counties can compete. the House of Representatives "I live in a county where are friendly toward the ARC. children have to ride the school bus an hour and a half. Determining need I live in a county where the White said he has already poverty rate is about 15 per told Congress that he would be cent, only because people willing to allow areas that won't sign up on unemploy have "made it" to graduate out ment. I live In a county where of the ARC, leaving a smaller the houses look like those be agency to deal with areas that fore the ARC," Jackson said. are still in trouble. Marty Weill, an Ironton The ARC, created by Presi dent Lyndon B. Johnson in 1965 as part of the War on Pov erty, provides money for projects ranging from health care and education to water and sewer lines and economic Oa.n, ,;/ 7, /&/'IS" MOU Clip A sample of recent articles f int t to M INSTITUT~o~~!:_RELAno~-~ MOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY~:o orehead State University 606-783-2030, • Feedback Report helps tell high schools how well they"re preparing students This is ~ot a report to be ignored. The quality of a schooi can best be judged· by the abilities of its graduates. ~-- '"" u .IU<.Cttl VES q/ft--';}.~- t./-3~;..;_,. MSU Clip Sheet A sample of ret:ent 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 • MONDAY, JANUARY 30, 1995 FUNDING FOR PBS IN JEOPARDY? dio programs include "Morning Edition," 'Keep your hands off' ... "All Things Considered," and "Car Talk." Newt Gingrich's recent statements re The National Endowment for the Arts is garding an elimination in funding for pub No. 2 on the cultural hit list. NEA funds have lic broadcasting should sound a wake-up been crucial to the stability and dissemina call to the vast majority of Americans who tion of all art forms and the survival of their watch public television. Has anyone in your producing institutions and ensembles. NEA family watched PBS over the last year? funds make a diversity of arts possible, but, ''Sesame Street"? "Barney & Friends"? more important, they help make them avail "Wall Street Week"? "Austin City Limits"?· able and accessible to everyone. Then it's time to pay your debt! Call your Let's not, lose federal agencies that are senator and congressman. Tell them as among those that actually have been serving plainly as you can: "Keep your hands off the public interest. NEA funds have generat public television!" Gingrich and his allies are ed additional private dollars at a ratio of ll betting you won't make the effort. Invest two to-1. The Corporation for Public Broadcast minutes to protect PBS, which has served ing is rated at a 9-to-l ratio. The NEA has you and your family so well. Make the call. taken its fair share of budget cuts over the ALEXIS UNDERWOOD past years and now operates, efficiently, on Jeffersonville, Ind. 47130 the same budget it had a decade ago. Jesse Helms was quoted in a North Caroli na newspaper recently as saying "we should •• ■ 'Cut out' subsidies give the NEA a chance." Is this good news or I am a regular listener of a listener-sup does he mean a 100-foot running start before ported radio station in Louisville, WJIE. he and others start shooting? This station does not receive subsidies of ILLUSTRATION BY TIM BRlf'!TON RICHARD VAN KLEECK any kind; it is supported solely by its listen Goshen, Ky. 40026 ers and business underwriters. And this euphemism, "privatize" equals "eliminate." station has not only survived in an aggres The Corporation for Public Broadcasting Richard Van Kleeck is director of the Lonesome Pine Special Series: - Editor. sive radio market, it has flourished. is No. I on the list for elimination. This is the If PBS is truly a "public" broadcast sta agency that has brought. us PBS television tion, then let its viewers and underwriters series such as "Sesame Street," "Mr. Rog • • • 'Gutting PBS' support the programs, not the government. If ers," "Reading Rainbow," "Square One," the programs are as good as PBS claims they "The MacNeilJLehrer NewsHour," "Nova," Mer you finish gutting PBS, you can . all are, then PBS's viewing public will surely . . • and many performance programs (not save even more taxpayer money. Simply support them. But since PBS is so afraid that the least of which has been over 100 hours of convert the empty studio space of several its programs will "die" without government programming seen statewide, nationally and hundred former stations into orphanages support, maybe PBS should take a second internationally originating from the Ken for the disadvantaged. Instead of PBS, call look at its programming. tucky Center for the Arts, including The it NON, Newt's Orphan Network. Let's cut out unnecessary government Lonesome Pine Specials)! The Corporation MICHAEL ATLAS pork - including subsidies to PBS. Put the for Public Broadcasting-supported public ra- Louisville 40299 tax money back into the hands of the peo ple. Then, if the people want to spend it on PBS, they can. . LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER, LEXINGTON, KY. ■ SATURDAY, JANUARY 28, 1995 RENA M. BELL grave moral injustice for the qualified Henryville, Ind. 47126 white men who wish to serve as UK's UK's search for chancellor. Worse, it is creating a grave injustice for the faculty and students of • ■ ■ 'Enriched our lives' new chancellor UK who may be deprived of a superior . . . Open season has been declared on candidate for this tremendously important federal cultural agencies in the new Con must be wide open position. gress, and it is a critical time to speak out I have a (sadly) radical suggestion for in favor of programs that have enriched The Jan. 15 editorial about the chancel the search committee: Let's conduct a truly our lives for years. While no one doubts the lor's search at the University of Kentucky unbiased, color-blind, gender-blind search. federal budget can and should be tailored stated that the "underrepresented women" , Let us penalize no applicant for his or her to better serve the American people, the at UK were calling for a female candidate race, religion, gender, sexual orientation unspoken and additional agenda facing cul to be appointed to the chancellor's posi : and so on. Rather, let us throw the search tural agencies such as the Corporation for tion. I want to state. for the record that not Public Broadcasting and National Endow open to everybody on equal terms and all female faculty at UK think that it is evaluate the candidates solely on the ment for the Arts is that many on the right necessary for a woman to be hired in that have long equated cultural· programs with question of whether they would make a position. I strongly believe that the search good chancellor. And then let's hire the so-called "liberal bias." committee should bring in and hire the This time around in Congress the subject best candidate we can get. UK deserves no best candidate for the job, regardless of less. is elimination• of these agencies, not the gender or race. budget cutbacks ... that have been advocat If, instead, we continue our folly of ed in the past. We will hear a lot about "pri To say that "no white males apply" for letting political criteria override academic vatizing" ..• but make no mistake about the the chancellor's position (which is _what is criteria, we deserve what we get. meant by comments such as "a search that does not result in a female or minority MONICA HARRIS KERN UK AsSOCIATE PROFESSOR appointment is a failure") is creating a LExlNGTON THE COURIER-JOUR~AL_ • SATURD!',j, JANUARY 28, 1995 iQ"!iyelQdr1~1t~p.~ful~ (~!1get.!t3Jes;i::educatiort By AL CROSS ~. ·:i::" : : ;;,; ,lay the stale -~~ni~iif~s :taxes ~n·,; Ali the ·cillididates -~~d they fav~r- li6ard of trusiees or similar body. Political Writer · sales of automobiles. · · , ratification of the proposed consti- Patton said he wants a board that Babbage, who has ruled out. any tutional amendment that would re- would not "control the details of ev Taxes, welfare and higher educa tax increases, said the state should quire the federal budget to be bal- ery institution, but with some effec tion were major topics yesterday as "carefully cut spending and taxes." anced by 2002. live control over what we produce candidates for governor faced off in Republican Larry Forgy, who saw On welfare, Patton said using and how we produce it." He said their first wide-ranging forum. some of his tax-cut proposals en- some recipients to work at day-care that would generate support for Lt. Gov. Paul Patton said he fa. acted into law yesterday, said centers would make day care cheap- greater funding. vors raising the state income tax "there are others that need to be er and thus encourage other recipi- Forgy said more money "would rate on wealthy people such as him dealt with" but was not specific. ents to get jobs. be a priolity of mine" but also said self and suggested requiring able Patton and. Babbage repeated He acknowledged that there isn't the state must consider how much bodied welfare recipients to work in their view that Gov. Brereton Jones enough demand for day care to oc- higher education it can afford and day-,care centers and similar jobs. should not have called the General cupy all welfare recipients but said where it will be. :Also, all the major candidates at a Assembly into special session to cut they could staff centers at schools Asked if they favored making ju forum at the Kentucky Press Assocl pension and inheritance taxes. for latchkey children and provide venile-court proceedings public, all ation convention in Jeffersontown Forgy defended the cuts and not- care for the elderly in their homes. the candidates favored change. Bab suggested tighter state control of ed that he proposed them. He :said Babbage addressed welfare by bage sim(>lY answered "yes." Patton universities. they will cost no more than 1.5 per- saying the state should redouble its said "Yes, with some reservations In response to a question about cent of the state budget, which he efforts to reduce unwanted preg- for special circumstances." • Gal tax reform, Patton said the tax of said is "easily manageable." nancies and teach the risks of sex- braith said confidentiality should 6 percent on all income over $8,000 Democrat Gatewood Galbraith said ual activity and the value of absti- end at age 16. Forgy indicated that "is basically a flat tax and should be that the state should wait to see how nence starting in the seventh grade. he favors different rules beginning made more progressive" - mean Congress changes the federal budget Asked about financing for higher at age 14. ing that those with higher incomes before ·rearranging state .revenues education, all raised the question of All the candidates also said they should pay more. and that when cuts "come home to how state universities are governed. would make the official schedule of Patton also criticized taxes on in roost," wage earners shouldn't have Babbage said he was "awfully the governor public, which Jones ventories and heavy trucks, and the to make up the difference. close" to endorsing a statewide has refused to do. THE COURIER-JOURNAL • SUNDAY, JANUARY 29, 1995 THE COURIER-JOURNAL • SATURDAY. JANUARY 28. 1995 BY ANGIE MUHS HERALD-LEADER EDUCATION WRITiR U.S. colleges are out of touch with what's happening in elementary and secondary schools, and must radically revamp their education programs to improve the way that teachers are prepared, a national education group d mrgecl yesterday. The Holmes Group, the report's au llmr, inclt•.des officials from the colleges of education at the University of Ken tucky and the University of Lo~i~vil!e. It is a group of research umvers1lles that ,;t11dy teacher education issues. The report, "Tomorrow's Schools of Education," compared colleges' educa tion programs to the American automo bile industry. It said colleges of educa tion must view themselves as professional schools - much like medi But Kentucky colleges' educa t,11 dental or law schools - and make tion programs are better off than se~ing schools their top priority. those in other states becaus~ they "Much like the nation's automobile have started to carry out some of industry, university-based education the recommended programs as P!'rt schools long took their rnark~t for grant of the ] 990 Kentucky Education ed - turning out products (m this ~se, Reform Act, he said. At U of L, faculty members al Nystrand said lJ of L is in the !'ducators) in large numbers but g1vmg ready work intensively with teach midst of switching lo a fiw-y,-ar i11sufficierit attention to quality, costs "What we're doing in the ers at 12 local schools, Nystrand teacher preparation program. The :ind innovation/' the reporl said. Holmes Group goes hand in glove said. They develop joint research with all the reform that's so current school also has more plans .to "Like the auto industry before them, projects and U of L students take in Kentucky,'' HmTis said. "l firmly revamp its cmTiculum and try to 1111iversitir.s will have to retool and make some of their professional cla8~es believe we·re setting an agenda for cm.·