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Vol. XCIII, No. 29

Established 1894.

University of Kentucky, Lexington. Kentucky

Independent srnce 1971

Tuesday, September 19, 1989

“Fordsays universities should be included in reforms

Associated Press

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — US. Sen.
Wendell Ford has called for a
sweeping reform plan for education
that includes state uniVersities as
well as elementary and secondary
schools.

In a speech to public university
leaders, Ford said Sunday they
should be a part of the reform
movement, even though a state Su-
preme Court decision ordering re-
structuring dealt only with elemen-

tary and wcondary education.

Ford called for a long-range plan
to meet the state’s educational
needs at all levels into the next cen-
tury. Such a plan, he said, should
be developed promptly, although
one aspects such as ways to pay for
it might follow as needed.

As far as higher education is con-
cerned, he said, “We cannot allow
the fact that higher education is not
mentioned in our (state) constitu-
tion to limit the scope of our edu—
cational vision.

“We now have a long-awaited op-
portunity to look at the need for in-
creased resources and increased ac~
countability at all levels. We
almost certainly will be making a
historic mistake if we fail to in-
clude higher education in the pro-
cess of reform, because we might
not have this opponunity again for
a long, long time."

The Kentucky Democrat spoke to
delegates at “Decision Makers ’89,"
the first gathering of presidents,
trustees and overseers of the state‘s

Teen-ager gives up
after taking students
hostage in school

By MARK R. CHELLGREN
Associated Press

McKEE, Ky. — An armed teen-
ager troubled by family problems
ended a 10-hour standoff with po-
lice yesterday by surrendering
peacefully after assurances he would
not be banned.

Dustin Pierce. 17, did not harm
any of the 11 hostages he held at
Jackson County High School,
where he was a senior.

Police said they were unsure
what charges would be filed against
Pierce. He was taken to a juvenile
holding center in the Clay County
Jail in nearby Manchester.

“He was unbalanced," said state
police Det. Bob Stephens, who ne-
gotiated with Pierce throughout the
day at Jackson County High
School.

“He was a confused young man.
He was a young man looking for
somebody to help him."

Throughout the daylong negotia-
tions, Stephens said he feared
Pierce would try to kill himself,
carrying out the scenario of a paper-
back thriller he had been reading.

Police also found papers Pierce
had written that make references to
dying at 9 o’clock.

At one point during the day, “he
said it’ll all end at nine,” Stephens
said. Pierce’s sole demand through-
out the day was to talk to his fa-
ther, Stephens said.

“He hasn’t seen his father. my
understanding, since he’s 4 years
old," Stephens said.

Pierce’s father, who was not
identified, was on his way to
McKee from Delray Beach, Fla.,
when the senior student released his
last two hostages and surrendered.

“He never would commit to why
he wanted to talk to his father,"
Stephens said.

During a search of Pierce's room
at home. police found a copy of the
paperback book “Rage,” a Stephen
King thriller in which the lead char-

acter is shot by the police.

The book details a scenario be-
forehand, in which a youth holds a
classroom of students hostage.

Psychologists and FBI experts
who assisted Stephens pored over
the book during the day and relayed
its details to the negotiators. After
reading the book and Pierce’s notes,
“We thought suicide was what we’d
have to deal with at the end,” Ste-
phens said.

Stephens said he pressed to end
the standoff before the 9 o‘clock
time mentioned in the notes.

Stephens said Pierce never threa-
tened to harm anyone else.

The drama actually began Sunday
night when Pierce took his first
hostage Brian Bond, the son of
school principal Betty Bond.

Police were uncenain of the cir-
cumstances that led to Bond's ab-
duction, but the two arrived at the
high school shortly after 9 am.
yesterday, Capt. John Lile said.

Stephens said Bond may actually
have gone with Pierce willingly.

Craig Eversole, a junior at the
school, was in the classroom when
Pierce arrived.

“He never said nothing," Ever-
sole said. “He shot the ceiling and
told the teacher to leave and let two
rows of students leave.”

Pierce said little during the nearly
four hours he held hostages, accord-
ing to Eversole.

“He said he wasn’t going to hurt
nobody,” Eversole said. “He said he
wasn't going to shoot nobody."

The only other shot ﬁred during
the day was when Pierce blew out a
classroom window to allow Bond,
the original hostage, to get an AM-
FM radio and telephone. said state
police Lile.

Eversole said Pierce was armed
with a .357 magnum revolver, a
.44 magnum revolver and a .12
gauge shotgun. Eversole said the
shotgun had been altered. “It looked
like one you’d see in a movie," he
said.

universities and community colleg-
es.

“An historic moment has arrived
with the Kentucky Supreme
Court’s mandate to reform our sys-
tem of education,” Ford said. But
“our obligation is really much
broader than that. Our obligation is
to reform and improve the entire
structure of Kentucky education.”

Ford suggested that the state's re-
gional universities move toward
greater specialization, as Eastern
Kentucky University has done with

its law-enforcement education pro-
grams.

Ford also called for “a fresh
look" at the financial needs and fu-
ture role of the state's community
college system.

“it is time for higher education
and its team to move off the side-
lines and get into the game," he
said. “We're in the fourth quarter
and the clock is running.

“We should have no need for so
called experts from out of state,
who are flocking to Frankfort with

ideas of retorm. I‘m a little tired of
California and New York telling
Kentucky what to do when we have
experts wrth Kentucky's best inter-
est at heart, right here, now, in this
room.“

University of toutsvillc Presi-
dent Donald Swain said he agrees
with Ford‘s general princrple of
viewrng public education as “a con-
trnuum front kindergarten through
graduate school."

In his speech. ford said that any

See FORD. Page 5

UK has
safety
measures

By VICTORIA MARTIN
Contributing Writer

Although no university
can guarantee a completely
safe campus, UK safety offi-
cials say several steps have
been taken to prevent an in-
cident like the LouiSville,
Ky., shooting from occur-
ring here.

One of UK's safety meas-
ures is to have UK police of-
ficers patrol the campus 24
hours a day, according to
Walter Skiba, director of hu~
man services for the UK Po-
lice Depanrnent.

Skiba said the campus is
divided into sections and pa-
trolled by officers on foot
and in cars.

There are at least three UK
police officers on campus at
all times. according to UK
Chief of Police Wilson H.
McComas Jr., and after the
department finishes training
seven more officers, there
will be four more.

Thanks to Cogebec. a new
computer—operated security
system, police dispatchers
can pinpoint problem sec-
tions on campus, and officers
can spend more time in those
areas.

“If we have a real high
crime area, we try to Overlap
or put somebody extra on
foot patrol,” Skiba said.

Another University crime-

Sce UK, Back page

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LECTURE ON THE LAWN: UK political science professor Chung-In Moon lectures to his World
Politics class at the Memorial Hall Amphitheater yesterday morning

KAREN BALLA mm“ Contributor

Miners appeal to UK professor

By ALLEN D. GREER
Contributing Writer

Representatives from the United
Mine Workers of America have
been on campus since last week
passing out leaﬂets and talking to
students in an effort to end the
UMW’s ﬁve-month strike against
Pittston Coal Group.

The miners, from UMW drstnct
23 in Western Kentucky, want UK
finance professor Charles Haywood
to help settle the contract dispute
that touched off the strike. Hay-
wood is on the board of directors of
the Coal Group’s parent company.

The leaflet calls for Haywood to
help end the strike by “convincrng

Pittston management to settle a fair
and just contract (with the union)."
The strike includes about 1,700
Pittston miners in Virginia, West
Virginia and Kentucky, Pittston of-
ficials said.

The leaﬂet also says that if Hay-
wood does not help settle the dis-
pute, he should resign from the
Pittston board of directors.

“lf (Haywood) doesn’t make an
effon to help, we want someone on
(the board of directors) who cares
about us,“ said Davrd Jones. one of
two men the union sent to 1K last
week.

Jones, a 38-year-old miner trom
(‘cntertowm Ky., said that efforts
to meet with Haywood have failed

because the prott'sxor‘s attorney .id»
used him against talking about the
strike in public

Haywood. \t ho l\ chief econo-
mist of l'K‘s Center for Business
and Economic Research. had no.
comment on the union’s at'trvrttes.
He said, however. that he suppom
Pittston’s stance on the contract
dispute.

“l've given a lot ot study to the
issues, and I support management
in the way they‘ve been handling
(the stnke)," Haywood said.

Jones said he rs disappointed that
Haywood refuses to talk to the un-
ion.

See MINERS, Page 5

Gorbachev is on shaky grounds, University experts say

By KAKIE URCH
Senior Staff Writer

Campus Soviet-watchers say that
while the future of Soviet leader
Mikhail Gorbachev is uncertain, a
coup in Red Square probably is not
imminent.

The Wall Street Journal and The
Washington Post reported last week
that Gorbachev’s position inside
the Kremlin is becoming increas-
ingly unstable. The reports appar-
ently are so widespread in the So-
viet Union that Gorbachev has
made televised announcements re-
futing them.

Gorbachev is facing criticism
from both reformists and hard-line
party members as he pushes ahead

SP QRTS

with domestic reforms.

John Stempel. associate director
of the Patterson School of Diplo-
macy and professor of international
affairs, said “there is substantial un-
rest (in the Soviet Union), but I
don’t believe it’s gotten to the
point where change is more than 50
percent likely you have to look
at these things in terms of proba-
bilities.”

“Nationalities' questions are
creating a situation in which it can
go one of two ways," he said. He
said he thinks the ongoing strug-
gles between ethnic groups in sev-
eral Soviet republics will either
“expand freedom" or “provoke a re-
action.”

“Ovenhrowing Gorbachev or

moving him aside is quite possi-
ble," said political science professor
Dan Nelson.

“It‘s also possible that any suc-
cessor may want to reimpose cen-
tral authority.“ Nelson said, adding
that he doesn‘t foresee a civil war
within the next year.

Gorbachev faces multiple domes-
tic problems, including food shon-
ages, ethnic disputes and hard cur-
rency shortages. These problems
have escalated in recent months,
and some experts predict conditions
may worsen.

Roger Anderson, chairman of the
Russian and Eastern Studies depart-
ment, said his contacts in Moscow
have been discussing the predic-
tions of an increasing severity of

Volleyball faces

Miami of Ohio tonight.
Story, page 3.

food shortages this winter and are
“talking privately about a blood-
bath."

Anderson said he thinks “it
there‘s going to any bloodshed, it
will be in the Baltics or the
Ukraine" where most of the civrl
unrest has been.

The lack of rapid, concrete re-
sults from his reforms continues to
be a problem for Gorbachev, An-
derson said.

“He's produced virtually nothing
that the man on the street can un-
derstand," he said.

The average Soviet worker feels
squeezed and that a catch-22 is
created by perestroika, Anderson
said, because he cannot provide
higher-quality products until consu-

V new Pm“

mer demand is met.

“The man on the street tcels tior-
bachev is making all kinds ol de-
mands. and he (the worker,» isn't
getting anything for it," Anderson
said.

He said the United States should
provide assistance to help (iorba~
chev weather difficult times.

“We would be wise to cooperate
to get them over this crisis," he
said.

Nelson also said that ending con-
sumer unrest is the key to Gorba-
chev‘s future.

“If l were whispering in Gorba-
chev‘s ear, my advice would be to
take the advice of some of his
tnore radical economic advisers," he
said.

“He has to have a dramatic suc-
cess in either the production of
goods or in agriculture.” Anderson
stud.

But Stempcl disagreed. saying
the “worst possible outcome would
be for us to try to get involved be—
cause it's not our party."

Nelson satd if Gorbachev cannot
find a way to settle the domestic
unrest, barring an ouuight coup, rc-
movrng him from office would be
at least a two-step process.

Gorbachev “finagled this new ol-
l‘rce." and “it's no longer the case
that a srmple vote when Gorbachev
is out of town is enough to remove
hint (as was done wrth former So-
viet leader Nikita Kruschevl." Nel-
son said.

Reflections on

Louisville shooting.

Column, page 4.

2 — Kentucky Kernel. Tuesday, September 19. 1989

SPORTS

Barry Reeves
Sports Editor

record on the line

Senior outside hitter Sarah Dick-

Wildcats’ undefeated

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Nebraska
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Clemson
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By BRIAN JENT
Executive Editor

When Miami of Ohio University
invades Memorial Coliseum at
7:30 tonight, UK volleyball coach
Kathy DeBoer is expecting a good
crowd. Not necessarily from the
Wildcat supporters. but fans from
Miami of Ohio.

“They always bring a crowd from
Northem Kentucky down," DeBoer
said.

DeBoer, however, said she is

“They'll be really inspired." the
UK coach said of her opponent.
“I’m looking for a really tough
match."

The Redskins enter the contest
with a 3-3 record. but they have
won their last two matches. defeat-
ing Rutgers University and Indiana
State University. The Redskins
have three players who are six feet
or taller.

“They‘ll be a smaller team than
what we faced tonight," DeBoer
said after the North Carolina game.
“They have a senior that can really

man has 58 kills for the Redskins
but sophomore Angel Miller leads
the squad with 81 kills and 85

UK is going after its 10th con-
secutive win without a loss.

The Cats are off to their best
start since 1983 after Saturday's
victories over Eastern Michigan

University and the University of
North Carolina.

The Nth-ranked Wildcats say
they are expecting a good match
from the Redskins tonight.

“it will be a good match,” said
UK senior Mary Jones.

“Miami of Ohio has a good vol-
leyball program. I don‘t know if
they’re at our level or not."

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VIEWPOINT

Lehman should
reconsider stand
on tuition issue

UK Student Government Association President Sean
Lehman came to ofﬁce this year with a a lot of potential and
promise to be one of the campus’ strongest student leaders.

But the way the political science junior has been acting
lately, one wendersif his ambition has gone to his head.

What seems to have confused our young president and
thrown him into a tizzy was a rumor started last month that
university presidents were on the verge of raising tuition about
36 percent over the next biennium.

At the beginning of the school year, Lehman had some harsh
words for the state’s university presidents when they asked the
Kentucky Council on Higher Education to re-evaluate the
state’s tuition—setting femiula.

The presidents described the idea as “not even
pre-embryonic," but Lehman was one of the state's university
student body presidents who was leading the charge against the
phantom problem.

Lehman had not spoken with UK President David Roselle at
the time he made the comment but said, “If that is what the
presidents are trying to do, then they are doing the wrong
thing."

And at last week’s SGA Senate meeting, Lehman once again
criticized university presidents for thinking about raising
tuition, calling it the “easy way out.”

Also during his diatribe, Lehman said that students will not
pay for an educational system that is ranked near the bottom in
the nation. Apparently Lehman confused the state’s higher
education system with the elementary and secondary education
system.

While the quality of the state’s elementary and secondary
education system leaves something to be desired, many of the
state’s colleges and universities consistently have received high
marks. In fact, a recent publication rated a UK education one
of the best buys in the country.

Before Lehman denounces any moves to improve the quality
of higher education at the pain of some students, he needs to
realize the dire ﬁnancial situation of this University and state.

UK currently is funded at about 79 percent of what it needs.
Since it appears likely that the state will not be able to spare
much money to higher education in the next session of the
General Assembly, university presidents will be forced to look
elsewhere for money.

Lehman’s position to ﬁght the university presidents also
puts higher education in a dangerous situau'on during the
upcoming legislative session. But if student leaders are not
open to all alternatives and choose to argue with administrators
rather than work with them, higher education will be divided
and have little chance of getting the funding it deserves.

By taking a hard-line stand against any attempts to raise
tuition more than what the current formula calls for, Lehman
essentially is burning his bridges before he gets to them.
Relax, Sean, you’ll have plenty of time for heated political
debates before you leave campus.

Wrong way to set
campaign limits

In placing spending limits on the freshman senator elections,
the UK Student Government Association Senate has once
again displayed that it knows how to smash a ﬂy by using a
sledge hammer.

The debate over whether to set caps on how much a
candidate can spend for office has been going on since April
1988 when the Judicial Board set limits on campaign
expenditure. But after it realized the foolishness ofits judicial
activism the Judicial Board reversed its decision.

That put things back into the hands of the Senate, which is
not unlike placing Fat Albert in charge of a Hostess factory.
Earlier this month the Senate once again placed caps on
campaign expenditure.

Under its current provisions, individual candidates may
spend no more than $75 and a ticket may spend no more than
$100. Caps were placed on campaigns to ensure that all
candidates compete on an imaginary playing ﬁeld.

But the expenditure limits violate an individual’s right to
expression. Students should have the right to tell the campus
about their campaigns, especially when they do not have the
luxury of belonging to an organization that can spread the word
for them.

While the Senate may have intended to make election
conditions fair for all candidates by establishing campaign
spending limits, in reality it gives an unfair advantage to
candidates who are members of greek organizations. Most
greek chapters have several dozen members, and if each
member contacts several friends, a candidate can save literally
hundreds of campaign dollars. In fact, a quick check of the
Freshman senators since fall 1986 would show that all of them
were members of greek organizations.

And since SGA has talked so much about reaching out to all
walks of campus life, a system that favors the greek system
surely must run counter to their goals.

As this paper has recommended in the past, if SGA wants to
establish expenditure limits in a way that is fair to all students,
then it should devise a system similar to the one used on the
national level in which candidates are given matching funds.

Some senators have complained in the past that a
matching-funds system would be too costly and too
complicated. But if that is the case, then SGA will need to
choose between democratic ideals and reality.

C.A. Duane Bonller
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