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2- Summer Kentuckv Kernel. Thursdav. June 28. 1990

Room and board rates going up for 1990- ’91

By MYRNA MARCA
Staff Writer

Students will pay more for carn-
pus housing and dining next se-
mester, and they will receive less
for ”1le food dollar.

The UK Board of Tmstees ap-
pr0ved an increase in housing and
.lintng rates for the next academic
year at its June 19 meeting.

Undergraduates will pay a 8116
increase for housing in residence
halls —— a 4.7 percent raise over
last year’s rates.

Increases are needed for higher
operating costs and financial de-
mands. said Vice Chancellor for
Administration Jack Blanton.

“The housing and dining sys-
tem ‘41 the University of Kentucky
is about a $22 million annual op-
eration. That money all comes
from students, visitors and guests
who buy food (and) use vendor
machines," Blanton said. “But it
is principally a system that is paid
for 100 percent by the University
students. There are no tax dollars
that come in to support the UK
housmg and dining system."

Most of the fee is used to pay
maintenance people, cooks and
janitors.

The fees could have been more
expenswe.

At a l00 percent labor-intensive
insutuuon, a 10 percent wage in-
crease would be expected. This
would generally be reflected in
student fees.

Since UK is not at 100 percent

labor intensive only a 8. 3 percent
wage increase is provided for
next school year.

Blanton said not giving many
part-time workers a 10 percent
pay-increase, which was awarded
to full-time staff. helped keep the
increase down.

Students living in the less “la-
bor-intensive” residence facilities
will face a smaller fee increase.

The Greg Page Family, Coop—
erstown, Shawneetown and Com—
monwealth Village apartments
complexes required only a 510-15
rate increase.

“There are two and three per-
cent increases, because they‘re
not as labor-intensive. You don‘t
have residence hall advisers, you
don’t have 24-hour day desk cov-
erage," Blanton said.

Although the food service bud—
get is going to stay the same, sev-
eral food prices will be raised.

“Your dollar won’t buy quite as
much as it did last time,” he said.

The DinerCard will be the only
meal plan offered by Food Servic-
es.

Blanton said participation in
meal plans had declined to the
point where the cost was imprac-
tical.

UK Housing will be at about 96
percent of capacity next semester,
Blanton said.

The housing program is de-
signed to break even, Blanton
said. “We try to make the system
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yearly housing increases.

“As long as you've got a sys-
tem that has a high labor cost as a
part of it, and you raise the sala-
ries every year, which you have
to do to be fair to your workers,
then the system is going to cost
you more every year,” Blanton
said. “And as long as you're a
student at UK, there will proba-
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less money in aid and loans from
the government, and are forced to
pay higher housing costs.

Student Government Associa-
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Summer Kentucky Kernel, Thursday, June 28, 1990 - 3

 

Handbook changed to provide obscenity definition

By JO LYNN MATTINGLY
Contributing Writer

The UK Board of Trustees ap
proved a revision that includes a
detailed definition of obscenity in
the UK Student Rights and Re-
sponsibilities handbook.

The revision was recommended
by the board’s Student Code
Committee, which includes stu-
dents, faculty and administrators.
The recommendation was ap-
proved by trustees at their June
19 meeting.

The decision to review the code
was prompted by Federal District
Judge Eugene Siler Jr.’s ruling in
Barbara Kilbourn v. Bruce Ayers
and other: that the Southeast
Community College’s obscenity
code was vaguely written and un-
enforceable, according John Dar-
sie, a member of UK's Office of
Legal Counsel.

Since Part One of UK’s and
Southeast’s codes are identical,
UK’s legal counsel suggested that
the Student Code Committee clar-
ify the obscenity code.

“The committee explored vari-
ous wordings, and after some de-
bate decided to pattern the defini-
tion from Kentucky Revised
Statutes," said Dean of Students
Doug Wilson, a member of the
committee.

According to the revised stu-
dent code, which becomes effec-
tive Aug. 16, obscenity is “to the
average person, applying contem-
porary University - community
standards, the predominant appeal
of the matter, taken as a whole, is
to prurient interest in sexual con-
duct; and the matter depicts or de-
scribes the sexual conduct in a
patently offensive way; and the
matter taken as a whole, lacks se-
rious literary, artistic, political or

Due to our error,

scientific value."

“Obscene behavior,” “sexual
conduct" and “indecent behavior"
also are defined in the revised
code.

The Student Code, which was
drafted in 1967, is reviewed peri-
odically, Wilson said.

“A standing committee meets
every year to solicit, through the
Kernel, suggestions from students
about changes to the student
code," Wilson said.

Student Government Associa-
tion President Sean Lohman said
that the vague obscenity clause
created problems for SGA.

“Student government gave a
student group money to print a
newsletter, and they printed what
I believed to be obscene, illicit
sexual matter," Lohman said. “I
was worried because we had giv-
en them the money to print the
newsletter. I went to the code to

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look up obscenity, and it was not
defined."

The new obscenity definition
would have allowed formal action
to have been taken to stop publi-
cation of the newsletter, Lohman
said.

Vice Chancellor for Student
Affairs James Kuder, who also
was a member of the committee,
said he believes that defining ob—
scenity in the student code is nec-
essary. But Kuder added that the

definition probably Will not have
:1 Significant impact on most stu-
dents.

“The definition will help stu—
dents understand wx hat obscenity
means. However, we don't deal
with many cases directly involxu
ing obscenity," Kuder said: “Our
students are not prone, I do not
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 4 - Summer Kentucky Kernel, Thursday, June 28, 1990

Robotics lures new engineering dean

By REBECCA MULLINS
Contributing Writer

Adjusting to being the new
College of Engineering dean will
not be a tough task for Thomas
Lester.

Lester needed only to hear the
words “robotics center" to con-
firm that UK is the school where
he wanted to work.

“Robotics is a tremendous as-
set to the University of Kentucky
as well as a substantial invest-
ment in engineering," he said.

Currently the department chair
in the College of Engineering at
Louisiana State University, Lest-
er begins his position at UK on
J uly 2.

“I believe he will provide the
leadership we need to develop
under working as chief adminis-
trator at the college," said Fred
Trutt, the College of Engineering
associate dean for administration.

A native of
Richmond,
Ind., Lest-
er sees his po-
sition as “a
real opportu-
nity to do
some exciting
things in engi-
neering, espe-
cially with
stiffening ad-
LESTER mission require-
ments” in the college.

Lester replaces Ray Bowen
who began a two-year leave from
UK as the Deputy Assistant Di-
rector for Engineering of the Na-
tional Science Foundation.

One of the first items on Lest-
er’s agenda is to meet with staff
and faculty members to “do fact-
finding and get engaged to decide
where to focus attention" in the
college.

Until Lester’s appointment,

Vincent Dmevich was acting
dean of the college. Dmevich
will continue to work in the De-
partment of Civil Engineering
and in geotechnical research.

The southward movement of
the U.S. auto industry from De-
troit as well as improved methods
in mining engineering, make en—
gineering a “cross-disciplinary ef-
fort," Lester said.

Lester, a mechanical engineer,
has been involved in combustion
research with hazardous wastes
for six years. He worked with
Dow Chemicals in Louisiana for
the destruction of chlorinated hy-
drocarbons by a rotary kiln incin-
erator.

Incineration is important to
Louisiana, which has about 132
chemical plants surrounding Ba—
ton Rouge that “produce tons of
by-products," Lester said. “I am
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Havice is succeeding Betts
as Honors Program director

By MYRNA MARCA
Staff Writer

Christine Havice has a tough act
to follow as director of UK’s Hon-
ors Program. The associate profes-
sor of art history will officially
succeed Raymond Betts Sept. 1.

During Betts’ tenure, the Hon-
ors Program was expanded and
enjoyed a good deal of success.

“It’s exciting to be in a position
where you can help shape things,”
Havice said. Betts “is just a won-
derful person to have ahead of you
because he’s so creative, he has so
many ideas and such enthusiasm
that it is identified with the pro-
gram now. The hard problem will
be keeping up that same level of
excitement.”

Havice said that she wants the
Honors Program to continue to
reach out to the campus communi-
ty.
“1 think it is important for eve-
ryone to know that the Honors
Program belongs to the whole
University,” she said. “We are in-
terested in bringing in students
and faculty from a whole range of
disciplines to add to the diversity
and the excitement of what’s al-
ready an exciting program.”

Although Havice officially
takes over in September, James
Chapman, assistant chancellor for
the Lexington Campus. will be the
Honors Program’s acting director
during the 1990-91 academic
year.

Havice is one of 31 national ed~
ucators who will participate in the
1990-91 American Council on Ed-
ucation fellowships and will fulfill
her one-year fellowship at a host
campus.

Havice said that the Honors

 

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Program is considering several
ideas.

“Several people have men-
tioned the possibility of an Hon-
ors dorm where there would be an
atmosphere very conducive to
study. to doing certain types of
Honors programming over there,"
Havice said. “Maybe (there would
be) some tutoring from that dor-
mitory for other students on cam-
pus.”

There also is an interest in
broadening the participation of
non-humanities faculty for cours-
es during the third and fourth
years.

Havice said that she would like
to recruit students whose talents
and abilities cannot be easily
measured by standardized tests,
which would make the program
more diverse.

"We are trying to reach people
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strongly in pans of the state
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said.

After earning her doctorate
from Pennsylvania State Univer-
sity, Havice joined the UK facul-
ty. Since then, she has contribut-
ed to UK’s University Studies
and Honors Program in several
ways.

As a co-coordinator for the
Cross-Disciplinary Humanities
Seminar, Havice helped decide
what common area introductory
courses would be covered in six
disciplines.

“A student can see how differ-
ent disciplines look at the same
general time period or the same
set of issues with different kinds
of questions, different methodol-
ogies and come up with interest—
ing and complimentary, not al—
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exciting part of University Stud-
res."

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humanities and logic or basic
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“There are basic skills, disci-
plinary requirements and then the
cross-disciplinary requirements
which require you to take two
courses. each of which looks at
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UK agriculture center to help state

By ALLEN D. GREER
Senior Staff Writer

A stronger economy. more food
and cleaner water are just a few of
the issues researchers have on
their agenda at UK‘s new $12 mil-
lion agricultural engineering cen-
ter.

Dedicated last Friday, the
96,000 square foot building con-
tains 40 state-of—the-art research
labs in such areas as computer-
aided design, solar energy. water
quality, food engineering and bio-
mechanics.

About 25 agricultural engineers
will work in the building. which
also houses the Agriculture Data
Center and the Agricultural Eco-
nomics Department

At Friday's ribbon-cutting cere-
mony. farmers. UK officials and
state senators hailed the center as
one of the finest research facilities
in the country.

“We’re very proud of what this
building represents," said Chancel—
lor for the Lexington Campus
Robert Hemenway. “I can assure
you that we pledge to the people
of the commonwealth that this fa-
cility will be dedicated to the ef-
fort of making a better life for all
Kentuckians.

“I feel good about this dedica-
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minds. the dedication to learning,
the commitment to serving the
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“This facility represents a move into the future
for us. What we have (is) the best facility
in the country, and perhaps (in) the world."

— Joe Ross, chairman of the agricultural

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facility to be effective in those
roles, and now they’ve got it."

The building, located at Cooper
Drive and Nicholasville Road, rc-
places a building constructed in
1931. According to College of Ag-
riculture Dean C. Oran Little, the
former building had been obsolete
for several years.

The new building places UK at
the edge of agricultural research,
and it also will help UK research-
ers find solutions to future agricul-
tural needs. said Joe Ross. chair-
man of the agricultural
engineering department.

Ross said that he expects more
emphasis to be placed on comput-
ers and large-scale farming, as
well as a heightened awareness of
soil and water conservation. He
also said that more processed
foods will be used worldwide. and
he anticipates that industries will
begin to look for renewable re—
sources from agriculture.

“Our ability to respond. and
take part in. these perceived
changes will determine how well
we accomplish our mission." Ross
told more that 200 people who at-

tended the ribbon cutting.

“This facility represents a move
into the future for us. What we
have. I believe, (is) the best fa-
cility for agricultural engineering,
teaching, research and extension
activities in the country, and per-
haps (in) the world.”

Past effons in agricultural engi-
neering have focused primarily on
processes on the farm, said Larry
Turner, a UK researcher and asso-
ciate extension professor. But re-
cently. agricultural engineers have
been looking at food processing
that takes place off the farm.

For example, the food engineer-
ing process lab at UK is develop-
ing a fiber optics system that tells
dairy operators when cheese has
hardened enough to cut. Cheese
must be cut at precisely the right
time to ensure quality. Turner said.

The lab also is working on a
“puffing" project that uses carbon
dioxide to dehydrate vegetables
and fruits. such as those used in
breakfast cereals. The new process
provides dehydrated foods that re-
hydrate with better taste and tex-
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Resembling a silo on a farm, the entrance to the new research
center opens hopes for new farm and food technology.

Research conducted at UK is
imponant to Kentucky. Tuner
said, because it has a direct impact
on the state's economy.

Researchers in the biomechanics
lab are developing a milker that
provides better milk flow, and the
environmental facilities lab is de-
veloping a dairy cooling system to
reduce heat stress in cows, which
improves milk production. Ken-
tucky's dairy industry is ISth in
the nation.

Another UK project with poten-
tial economic benefits for the state
involves the use of solar collectors
to dry alfalfa. Turner said that the
process produces a better quality
of hay that will boost Kentucky’s
alfalfa sales.

The research center also has a
3,000 square foot solar rooftop lab
that UK interim President Charles
Wethington said is unique in the
United States. UK researchers al-
ready have developed and patent»
ed two solar collectors for heating
air used in food processing.

A hydrology and water quality
lab also are included in the new fa-
cility. The lab allows researchers
to study erosion. runoff control
and sediment ponds for strip-

mined land.

“That’s a tremendously impor-
tant area right now," Turner said.
“The Environmental Protection
Agency has heavily funded many
of the projects that are going on
in this lab because (water quality)
is critical to Kentucky."

The state legislature also gave
UK $209,000 to study how chem-
ical fertilization effects ground-
water supplies.

“'lTiis lab." Tumer said, “helps
us understand what's going on in
the field so that we can better en-
sure a safe and abundant supply
of water."

Turner said that the facility,
taken as a whole, will have a tre-
mendous impact on agriculture
on the state and national level.

“It gives us the facilities that
allow us to make the studies
that will improve the quality of
life and the food supply and, ulti-
mately, bring dollars into the
state." he said. “It helps to draw
faculty and top students to the
state.

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students around the country that
we‘ve got something going on
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Drive ott South Limestone Street, where a new guard office is being completed.

By ALLEN D. GREER
Senior Staff Writer

The mess of mud and gravel in
front of UK‘s Limestone Street
entrance doesn‘t make for a very
scenic stroll up what used to be
tranquil Administration Drive.

But the expansion of the Busi-
ness & Economics Building here
is a sign of what Chancellor for
the Lexington Campus Robert
Hemenway describes as “a uni-
versity on the move."

While dedicating the new $12
million Agriculture Engineering
Building last Friday. Hemenway
noted that the research center was
the third building to be dedicated
on the Lexington campus in as
many months.

The $10 million Center for R0—
botics and Manufacturing Sys-
tems and the $3.5 million Col-
lege of Agriculture Regulatory
Services Building were dedicated
in April.

“I think this indicates a univer-
sity on the move. a university that
is dedicated to providing struc-
tures that are necessary to have a
major land-grant university,” He-
menway said.

UK, however. won‘t be pack-
ing up the construction equipment
any time soon. During its last ses-
sion. the General Assembly gave
UK more than $108 million to fi-
nance construction bonds over the
next biennium. said Vice Chan-
cellor for Administration Jack
Blanton. The federal government
also will fund construction for a
technology transfer center that de-
velops commercial applications
of scientific discoveries.

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jects also are underway or are be-

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The most obvious construction
at UK is the addition to the Busi-
ness & Economics Building and a
new main entrance on Limestone
Street. The $7.5 million Business
& Economics expansion will
have 17 new classrooms and one
seminar room. according to War-
ren Denny. UK's director of de-
sign and construction.

The first floor of the three-story
building will house an informa-
tion services center with personal
computers that can tap into infor-
mation such as the Dow Jones in-
dustrial averages. Blanton said.
The building is projected to be

completed in April 1991.

The Business & Economics ex-
pansion forced UK to move its
main entrance on Limestone
Street. The University is now
building a $400,000 limestone
gate and information center on
Administration Drive.

“It will make the University‘s
front gate a little something you
can be proud of — not just a
guard shack down th