Eastern Kentucky University Encompass Eastern Progress 1981-1982 Eastern Progress 2-25-1982 Eastern Progress - 25 Feb 1982 Eastern Kentucky University Follow this and additional works at: http://encompass.eku.edu/progress_1981-82 Recommended Citation Eastern Kentucky University, "Eastern Progress - 25 Feb 1982" (1982). Eastern Progress 1981-1982. Paper 22. http://encompass.eku.edu/progress_1981-82/22 This News Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Eastern Progress at Encompass. It has been accepted for inclusion in Eastern Progress 1981-1982 by an authorized administrator of Encompass. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Vol. 60/No. 22 Laboratory Publication of the Department of Mass Communications 12 pages Thursday, February 25, 1982 Richmond, Ky. 40475 r Model bill proposed By Mark Campbell In other legislative news, the Staff writer House Committee on Education has Rep. Harry Moberly said he concluded their hearings on higher thinks that he has come up with a education possible solution for Model "I think the meetings went Laboratory School's uncertain fine, "said Moberly. a member of the future. committee. "We had some good Moberly introduced House Bill lengthy, informative discussion 439 on Feb. 6, and it has now pro- witn Ihe people Irom tne council gressed through the House to the (Council on Higher Educationl and point that a vote will come soon. also the people from the Kentucky "It doesn't assure that Model Lab Higher Education Assistance School will stay open." said Mober- Authority. ly. "It gives the local (school) I don't agree with the Mission districts the authority to negotiate Model. I don i think it accomplishes ' with the universities to operate lear- its objectives. " said Moberly. "It ning-centers." is not a fair lunding formula. I think basically as far as recom Dressed to kill The two main problems that ex- mended budgets for the univer- ist to hamper Model Lab's future sities, there probably won't lie any Colonel fans turned out and dressed out for last Saturday's national- rell. (back row. left to right) Moria McGovern. I.ori Duncan and Kelly are the Council on Higher Educa- change from the governor's recom ly televised game against Morehead. The Colonels lost 92-73 but (front Irwin enjoyed the game just the same. tion's disapporval of university lab mendation." said Moberly, row. left to right! Tracey Johnson. Joan Messerknecht. Sandy Car- (Photo by Robbie Miracle) schools, the asbestos ceiling tiles He said that the governor's latest and a lightening of the budgel But budget proposal is much better than closed. Model would overcrowd tIn- the Council on Higher Education a public school system ih Madison Mission Model proposal. County. Harry Snyder. director of the Stiffer DUI laws proposed Moberly proposes thai ihe univer- Council on Higher Education, sity and the local school district By Shanda Pulliam testified before the House Educa- to Tietjen's side of the Pinto. be involved in an alcohol-related ac- ment for the second offense and a work together to resolve the pro- Organizations editor tion Committee last week in support Gail Tietjen was pronounced dead cident. She also said that every two seven day jail term for each subse- blem. "The money to run Model of the Mission Model funding pro- It was a classic case of being in 84 minutes after the wreck. The years, enough people are killed in quent offense. school would come,from the local the wrong place at the wrong posal. Moberly expressed his con- nurse's blood/alcohol content the United States in accidents in- The stipulations of HB 270 are time-again. school districts and would.be pass- cern over Snyder being the council a registered at .12 percent. volving drunk drivers to equal the much harsher. It demands 30-day For seven years. Gail Tietjen had ed on to the university to run the director. Just less than a year later, the number of fatalities of the Vietnam imprisonment for the first offense of been fighting to bounce back from school.'' said Moberly. "He (Snyder) came from the nurse was sentenced to eight mon- War. drunken driving, 60 days for the se- University of Kentucky's budget the brain damage she suffered after ths in the county jail and four year's cond offense and up to 90 days for The asbestos problem at Model her drunken boyfriend lost control NHTSA statistics say that one staff."said Moberly "Many of us probation. She had been arrested each subsequent offense. Lab concerns Moberly. "The health of his sports car and slammed into out of every ten drivers on our problems with the asbestos will think that because of that he has B and convicted of drunken driving in highways is drunk. One out of every Current law does not allow a certain bias or prejudice and we a tree as he was on his way to take 1977 and fined $190. police officer to arrest a driver who have to be taken care of and there her home in July of 1972. 2.000 is arrested. think this Mission Model formula This incident, which was reported appears to be under the influence is no question about that." he said. reflects that. Tietjen practically had to start all in the January 1981 Reader's When one is arrested, he or she is without a warrant unless the offense "It will have to be negotiated bet- over from the infant stage, but she I think that we will be looking, in Digest, was one of the 26,000 fatal rarely punished. As stales all over was committed in the officer's ween the local districts and the the interim, at a way to come up fought her way back. On Dec. 18. highway accidents involving a the country enact tougher penalties presence. university. 1979, a year and a half after she with a different funding for drunk driver that occurs every year. for drunken driving offenders, the If passed. Senate Bill 40 would Like many things lhal need earned a degree from Stanford, she mula, "said Moberly. "We can The statictics are astonishing. Ac- 1982 Kentucky Legislature has in- permit officers to arrest a person at repairing the problem is not how change it the next time around and was on her way home from a get- cording the the National Highway troduced several bills that demand the scene of an accident without a much needs to be done, but how together with friends at 9:30 p.m. of course we are not going to go Traffic Safety Administration stiffer punishment. warrant for driving under the in- much it will cost. There will be no completely with the formula thi-- As Tietjen drove her 1974 Pinto (NHTSA). one half of all fatal money appropriated by the, Senate Bill 93 and House Bills 371 fluence if the officer has "reasonable time...by 1984 "we could come up onto an off-ramp about 1M blocks highway accidents each year involve and proper grounds to believe that legislature to repair Model Lab. As from her apartment, a 59-year-old and 522 are all general bills which with something compleleh alcohol. Seventy persons a day. one the person was driving under such a result of this, the money must be nurse ignored "WRONG WAY/DO ask for mandatory jail sentences for different." ' every 23 minutes, are killed in a influence." found in the university's budget or Moberly also said that the reason NOT ENTER" signs and swung her drunken driving accident. those convicted of driving while else it must come from the local Pontiac the wrong way into the intoxicated. House BUI 356. the community col- Statistics supplied by I^ois Wind- All proposed bills to stiffen the school districts. lege separation bill, was withdrawn off-ramp. , burst, the leader of Mothers Against HB 270 and HB 278 are more penalties for those convicted of was that the sponsor. Rep. Jerry Tietjen tried to cut to the right to 'Drunk Drivers (MADD) in specific. HB 278 mandates a penal- drunken driving are currently in the He said. "I'm fairly optimistic it avoid the oncoming car. but it was Bronger. D-Louisville. thought that Louisville, one out of every two ty of 12 hour imprisonment for the Judiciary-Criminal committees of (House Bill 4391 will pass on the most of the problems that the bill, too late. The nurse's car smashed in- Americans is his or her lifetime will first offense, three-day imprison- the respective houses. House floor this week and go on to would have corrected had l>een solv the Senate." ed. r Chancellor Dugan and Sandra Mukes. players for the Lady Col- Grievance poll conducted onels for the last four years have worked together to bring the Lady Colonel basketball team to a victorious season. See Organizations Editor Shanda Pulliam story on Page 11. By Markka Shelburne "The Student Senate is working The turnout for the higher educa- Some specific suggestions includ- Editor to improve the university through tion rally and the volume of voters ed keeping recreational buildings •^3 The results from a grievance poll Student Association." commented at the Student Senate Spring open longer, planning more lectures, conducted by members of the Com- Metcalf. He explained that the pur- Vacancy elections are indicators as artistic events and concerts anil mittee on Students' Rights and pose of the poll was to point out to the concern of students, accor- holding dances Responsibilities of the Student areas of concern to students so that ding to Metcalf.