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Thursday. December 7,1989

 

 

 

STEVE SANDERS/Kernel Sta“

Lexington firemen examine the area where the explosion took place in the Anderson Hall Quadran-
gle. The explosion knocked out about 200 windows in the structure. No one was

seriously injured ,

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A Physical Plant Div son worker removes c ,. from one of the

windows in the And" in Hall Quadrangle l.

2 students stiffer minor injuries:
about 200 windows blown out

By ALLEN D. GREER
Staff Writer
and Staff reports

A solution of sodium and mettr

anol accidentally caught fire and .

exploded yesterday in the tour:
yard of the Anderson Hall Quad-
rangle, blowing out about 3th)
windows and causing nllltt‘r :iittr
ries to two UK students.

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while LIK mechanical engine
professor Ottfricd J. Hahn was .~
ing methanol to clean out about
two pounds of sodium from :t -.-.
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point and caught fire. accords: to

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Chancellor Hemenway to propose
restructuring of academic affairs

Staff reports

Chancellor tor the Lexington
Campus Robert Hemenway will
propose a restructuring of the Uni-
versity‘s academic affairs at Tues-
day‘s Board of Trustees meeting.

The plan, which calls for the con-
solidation, addition and elimination
of some administrative positions in
academic affairs, will save the Uni-
versity some money. Hemenway
said

The proposal will eliminate the
vice chancellor for academic af—
fairs, combine the director of uni-
versity studies with a new dean of

undergraduate studies, and change
the title and role of the assistant
vice chancellor for resource man-
agement to assistant chancellor,
Hemenway said.

“We have basically streamlined
the organizational structure," l-le-
menway said. “We will save some
money, and through saving money
we will bring resources to focus
on improving undergraduate stud-
ies."

The dean of undergraduate stud-
ies will oversee and work with un-
dergraduate instruction and leam-
ing on the Lexington Campus.
Among the responsibilities of the

dean of under—
graduate studies
will be to create
a center for
teaching im—
provement that HEMENWAY
will offer new faculty and teaching
assistant orientation sessions and
provide teaching skills workshops,
Hemenway said.

The assistant vice chancellor for
resource management basically will
undergo only a title change, He—
menway said.

“We’re changing the title so that
those functions are closer to the
Chancellor's office," he said.

Lexington—area children to receive Santa Calls

By ROBYN WALTERS
Staff Writer

Every year thousands of children
faithfully write letters to Santa
Claus. carefully listing everything
they hope to find under the tree
Christmas moming. Unfortunately.
because he is so busy making his
list and checking it twice, jolly old
St. Nicholas does not have time to
write back many times.

This year, however, Santa will
taken a little time out of his sched-
ule to make personal phone calls to
children of UK students, faculty
and staff.

From 6:30 to 8:30 pm. Dec. 19-
Dec. 20, the UK Campus Recrea-
tion Department will conduct its
annual Santa Calls program.

The program, which is free, of-
fers children who are 3 to 8 years
old the chance to talk to Santa

Claus.

“It gets us in the holiday spirit
and it is a neat program for the
kids," said Kathy Cole, director of
club sports at the Seaton Center.

Patterned after a service per-
formed by the Fayette County
Parks and Recreation Department,
Santa Calls was started in 1982 and
has been well-received ever since,
Cole said.

Last year 130 children spoke. to
St. Nick, and Cole said that she al-
ready has 85 children signed up this
year.

To handle the large number of re-
quests, Cole said she has enlisted
the help of about 12 Santas.

“I try to get people I know on
campus with deep voices to make
the calls," she said.

In the past Cole said she has used
Bill Picratt of campus recreation,
David Stockham of UK financial

aid and Jake Karnes of handi-
capped student services as some of
the Santas.

Kames said he had a lot of fun
playing Santa.

”i got wonderful responses trotn
(the chtldrett i. but it varied with
their age," he said.

Karncs said some children were
skeptical at first, but he said that he
was usually able to convince them
that he was Santa Claus.

“At first, they reacted with disbe-
lief. As 1 would tell them tnore and
more about themselves, they would
start to believe. The small ones be—
lieved right away and would tell me
what they wanted for Christmas,"
he said.

Part of the applications asks spe-
cific questions about the children‘s
friends, likes and dislikes,

Sec LEXING’I’UN-AREA, Page 2

Kentucky author
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Story, Page 3.

 

By HOLLY HOUSTON
Contributing Writer

If you are unable to make i: it
class on time because you can l
wash the germs off your hands or
stop checking and rechecking the
lock on your door, you may b
suffering from obsessiw
compulsive disorder.

()CD, called the disease ol tl-t.
1990s by Dr. Nat Sandler, prest
dent of the Kentucky Psychiatrit
Association, is a non
discriminatory disease that at
lects about 5 million people Hi
the United States.

”Probably no one realized how
many people suffer troin OCT)
because it‘s not something peo
plc really talk about," Sandler
said.

0CD is characterized by con
stant, unpleasant thoughts such
as, "‘Did i lock the door." ‘Dtd i
hit somebody in my car‘." and
‘Are there some germs'.’,“‘ San
dlcr said.

Compulsions are repetitious.
ritualistic behaviors carried out to
make the thoughts disappear. The
most common forth of 0CD 1\
hand washing. Some people
“can‘t get where they‘re going
because they can’t get their
hands clean," Sandlcr said.

Nikki Fulks, associate director
of the UK Counseling and Test—
ing Center, said she has seen cli~
ents with the disorder who
couldn‘t get to class on time be
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Wildcats run and gun

their way to third win.
Story, Page 4.

 

 2 — Kentucky Kernel, Thursday, December 7, 1989

Anderson Hall explosion shakes campus, city

Continued frotn pagc l

Benvenuti. 23, and Steven Kemp,
also 23, were taken to the Albert B.
Chandler Medical Center and treat-
ed for minor exposure to noxious
fumes, a hospital spokesperson
said.

Students said that the explosion
shook buildings all over campus,
and one person said that she heard
the blast downtown.

UK Police roped off an area
around Anderson Hall and Miller
Hall shortly after the the explosion,
which occurred about 2:30 pm.
Lexington Metro Police served UK
Police as a standby, according to
UK Police Chief Wally McComas.

About 15 cadets from UK‘s
Army ROTC detachment also
formed a perimeter around the
scene for “crowd control," said
Capt. l.V. Reeves of the Army
ROTC.

Susan Straub of UK’s public re<
lations office said that the Quad-
rangle suffered no structural dam-
age. but about 200 windows were

blown out of the building, accord
ing to UK spokesperson Ralph I)e~
rickson.

Several windows also were shat-
tered in Miller Hall, which is adja-
cent to the Quadrangle.

Radioactive material was stored
in a building next to the explosion,
but Leonard Wilson of UK Human
Safety and Environmental Health
said that none of the containers
were contaminated.

There was no danger of the es-
plosion contaminaung the TdledC'
tive containers because they are
kept in water about 40 feet below
the ground, Wilson said.

“I‘m surprised someone didn't
get seriously hurt just because of
the glass." Wilson said. ”I think
we‘re really fonunate.“

"I didn’t know what was happen~
ing." said Charlotte Knoop. a
fourth—year architecture student
who was in Miller Hall at the time
of the explosion. “Glass blew III.
The window went up. slammed
down and then went up and stayed.
I looked out the window and saw

smoke coming out of the roof of
Anderson Hall.“

Inside the Quadrangle courtyard
following the explosion, the
ground was littered with broken
glass. Workers for the UK Physical
Plant Division used sticks and
boards to beat loose shards of glass
from around the edges of windOw
panes.

Trucks with cranes were then
maneuvered into the courtyard so
workers could begin boarding up
the windows with sheets of ply-
wood.

The explosion blew open a door
in the northwest corner of the
courtyard, and the wall around the
door was blackened by the flames
and explosion.

Straub said that the practice of
using methanol to clean out sodium
is routine. and she added that Hahn
“took great care to make sure that
there were no students around
when he was doing it."

“These things sometimes hap-
pen," said Andrew Seyben, chair-
man of the mechanical engineering

Martha Wilkinson to announce
gubernatorial intentions in spring

Associated Press

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Kentucky
first lady Martha Wilkinson vowed
Wednesday to stump the state to
help her husband get a succession
amendment out of the General As~
seinbly. and she said she might run
for governor it the effort fails.

Site will decide in the spring
whether to be a candidate in the
IWI Democratic primary, but “I
don‘t think that will be necessary."
she said

In a speech to Louisville's
Downtown Kiwanis Club Wilkin-
son said si will campaign in each
01 the sum congressional districts
urging voters to put pressure on
legislators to approye a succession
amendment for the November bal-
lot.

She said that her campaign will
begin in January. which would co-

incide with the beginning fo the
IW‘ General Assembly.

It will be Gov. Wilkinson’s last
regular legislative session and, con-
sequently, his last shot at escaping
the singchterm limit that Ken‘
tucky‘s 1891 constitution imposes
on governors. Constitutional
amendments cannot be proposed in
special legislative sessions.

As for running for govemor her-
self, Wilkinson said: “I‘m not rul-
ing it in and I’m not ruling it out.

. I would make a dec1sion in
April or May whether or not I
would consider being a candidate
for governor” if succession failed.

The House passed an amendment
bill in 1988, but it dies in the Sen-
ate Elections and Constitutional
Amendment Committee. The six-
member committee is viewed as a
formal roadblock for Gov. Wilkin-
son again in 1990.

‘Dead week’ gives students
chance to relax before storm

(‘oininued from putt.

betore finals

‘ It would be great ifclasses were
not heir: 111-: the week," said Sally
Krait, .1 nursing Junior. “1 know
you‘re not supposed to cram at the
end. but my studying would go
much easier if I didn’t have to
work around my classes."

“At Eastern (Kentucky Universi-
ty 1. there are no classes at all, but
they did away with it because of all

the partying going on, durtng the
week," Houlihan said. "I don’t
think it would (solve) any problems
by cancelling classes. but they
should cut homework zor this
week.“

If you have a final mammalian
this week or have 1;. 1,111 trions
pertaining to dead m i .1 notify Ac-
ademic Ombudsman [hm Fill/cs at
257-3737.

Its five Democratic members said
they opposed the kind of succes-
sion bill that the govemor wants —
one that would apply to him as the
incumbent, and which w0uld be de-
void of anything to enhance the
power of the legislator.

The committee’s lone Republi-
can. Sen. Walter Baker ofGlasgow,
said that he would support such a
bill if the administration bestowed
favors on his rural district.

Wilkinson contends that his polls
show overwhelming public support
for succession, including an
amendment that would cover his as
the incumbent. His wife made the
same assertion yesterday and re-
ferred to the committee as “a small
group of legislators, sitting in
Frankfort, deciding they know best
what Kentucky voters need and
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department. “It's never happened
before, not like that. We have very
strict controls on how we do
things.”

“This is not a common area to be
frequented by people and this place
was chosen with that in mind,"
Hahn said.

Tom Schrodt. a chemical engi-
neering professor, said that he was
in his Anderson Hall office when
the explosion “shook the whole
floor.”

Material science engineering stu-
dent Dong Kim said the explosion
“liked to have blown me out of my
seat.” Kim, who was on the second
floor of Anderson Hall at the time
of the explosion, said he heard a
loud noise and “I could see lots of
dust. All the windows were brok-

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Mary Heurrnan, an adminis-
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Arts & Sciences dean’s office,
said that her nieces have en—
joyed calls they have received
from Santa.

“They loved it. He asked
them what they wanted for
Christmas and told them to be
good and clean their room or eat
their vegetables,“ she said.
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it was really Santa. They were
very impressed."

Cole said the program works
best with children not older than
eight years old.

“After that age, they know
that it is not Santa calling,” she
said.

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 DIVERSIONS

Kentucky author McClanahan
seeks his place in literature

By KlP BOWMAR
Arts Editor

Ed McClanahan’s goal for his
novels are relatively simple.

“I think about this all the time,”
he said recently at the Peal gallery
of Margaret 1. King Library North
after a reading from his newest
short story, “A Congress of Won-
ders."

“I’m never gonna write Dick,
that’s not in the cards for me,”
McClanahan said. “I’m not going
to write the big American novel,
but I want a lasting place in litera-
ture, just a little cranny in the cor-
ner will suit me fine. I want my
work to stay alive and to be read
just a little bit a 100 years from
HOW.

“It seems my best shot at that is
to write language that is meticu-
lously crafted. The kind of thing I
like to do is strive for a mix of lit-
erary, rhetorical and somewhat
overblown language and earthy
(language). You know, the lan-
guage of the people."

Judging from an enthusiastic au-
dience of about 30 people and a
group of well-wishers after he fin-
ished his reading, it seems that
McClanahan may be well on his
way to accomplishing that goal.

He first came to the attention of
the public in 1983 with the publi-
cation of his first novel, The Natu-
ral Man , which detailed his experi-
ences growing up in the
northeastern of Kentucky.

The story centers on Monk
McHorning, who was recruited
from a nearby town to play high
school basketball, Harry Eastep (a
character modeled after McClana-
han) who gets to know Monk, and
the events that happen in the com-
munity.

That part of the book is extreme-
ly autobiographical for McClana-
han. “There was a guy who came to
play basketball in just like the
character in the book and he did
dominate the consciousness of the
town,” he said. “But after a while
he quit basketball and moved on."

McClanahan, a Kentucky native,
began writing this book in the ear-

ly 19603, but he said it was miss-
ing a crucial element. “The story
never quite worked because I never
understood that character (Monk
McHoming) until I happened to
teach at UK 10 years later,"
McClanahan said. “In the original
version it was sort of poor me and
how I had suffered at the hands of
these poor country louts up in my
hometown. It was the absolutely
wrong approach to take to the ma-
terial because it was hard to get
enough distance from that character
(Harry Eastep) to find him amus-
ing.”

But, as McClanahan stressed, it
is the language that makes the sto-
ry come alive because he has an ear
for detecting it.

McClanahan migrated from Ken—
tucky in the late 19505 to Oregon,
and he said that his time there
helped his writing.

“I got serious about teaching the
language out there (in Oregon),” he
said. “It taught me the power of the
language and how it works."

McClanahan earned a masters in
English from UK, but he said that
he didn’t know a great deal about
the language itself until he went
West. Another aspect that helped
his writing was becoming more
versed in the classics of the English
language.

“In my recent old age I have be
come a much more adventurous
reader,” McClanahan said. “I got
started when my wife gave me a
one~volume work of the novels of
Jane Austin which was 1,350 pag-
es. It was the dead of winter and I
thought, “Oh, god am I going to
have to read this?’ And I basically
looked up three weeks and 1,350
pages later. From that time on I
have been a serious reader. I read
Dickens over and over again and the
works of (Anthony) Trollop."

After spending time in Oregon,
McClanahan won a creative writing
fellowship that took him to Stan-
ford University and an entirely dif-
ferent world from where he spent
most of his life. McClanahan said
that the funher away he got from
Kentucky he noticed something.

“I spent all that time in the

Northwest and on the West Coast
and it was all wonderful and new
and fresh," McClanahan said. “Yet,
the longer I was out there, the
more I realized I was a Kentuckian
and found myself making a con-
scious effort to retain my Kentucky
and Southem accent because I came
to realize that’s who my identity
was. In order to understand how
strong your roots are, you have to
tug at them."

McClanahan’s roots and origins
have played a pan in both The Nat-
ural Man and his second book, F a-
mous People I have Known, which
was published by Farrar Strauss,
and Giroux in 1985.

By changing his perspective,
McClanahan changed the outlook
of The Natural Mari . The change
in perspective came not only from
distancing himself from the narra-
tor, but also by being more accept-
ing.

“The idea came to me to let the
character (Monk) be himself and
not sit back in constant judgement
of him and once I did, Monk be-
came in my mind a likeable charac-
ter,” he said. “Once I made that
change, it was a really completely
different book."

The different book was well-
received by several critics, includ-
ing The New York Times Book
Review.

McClanahan said he became
more accepting after meeting an El-
vis impersonator named Little Enis
who “by normal standards Enis
should have been an anathema to
me.”

“He represented everything I pur-
portedly despised but I found
myself ending up loving that guy,"
McClanahan said.

As Enis became older, he became
known as the All-American, left-
handed, upside—down guitar player
and he eventually became the cen-
terpiece for McClanahan’s Famous
People I Have Known. His piece
on Little Enis was published in
Playboy.

McClanahan’s “Congress of
Wonders” will be included with
two other stories in his third book.

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Quick math of society problem:
What's the result when you multi
ply an information society by the
human beings that created it“

In William Gibson’s third novel,
Mona Lisa (li‘t'niritc, the answer is
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rent era. drops out and you’re left
with a dense, purely information
variable and the raw constant of hu-
manity.

The result is a global society
where passports are medallions en~
casing a data chip worn around the
neck to be run through customs
like a DinerCard through a Food
Services cash register.

It’s a society where “Mitsubank”
is the ruling financial entity, and
England has replaced trees lost in
the war by cloning. The informa-
tion driving this society hangs illu—
minated in “the grid," a computer
screen representation of the whole
world.

But Gibson fans know this cold,
metallic. fast—paced and somewhat
evil society well. What’s truly rc-
markable about Mona Lisa (Item
drive is the way Gibson’s handling
of character, time and message has
advanced with this book.

It would be easy enough lor Gib-
son to pump out another .euro.
muncer or Count Zero, tilled w ith
high-flying computer cowboys
jacking in and out of other people’s
data lives in between sardonic com
ments and murders.

But in Mona Lisa Overdrive,
though the cowboys are there, they
are always there m m the back-
ground. in the framework, in the
grid we see them and other char-
acters portrayed with a much uuer
sense of humanity.

Oh sure, the gang is still fight-

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ing the evrl clone heiress Mane
from a space mansion high above
earth, and the awful Steely Dan ref—
erences are still there in the form of
a bar called the Gentleman Loser
and a motorcycle gang called the
Deacon Blues, but Gibson is get-
ting the hang of it.

As we follow the young daughter
of a futuristic Japanese gangster
through a plot to kidnap and replace
a major international “Sim-star,"
Gibson subtly shows us that time
has passed since Count Zero.

Observing the cut-throat female
cowboy from that book, a character
tn Mona Lisa Overdrive mentions
that her reflective eye “implants"
are somewhat passe.

Gibson also elaborates on the
lives of those who are openly noth-
ing more than human, disenfran—
chiscd by the matrix and informa-
tion. Mona of the rule's fame is a
squatter from Cleveland, her dismal
no-tech. illiterate life clearly de-
scribed. Much of the book's action
takes place in a warehouse/squat lo—
cated on a toxtc waste dump outside
New York ("in

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how electri.ity is stolen for the
squat and the history of how the
site betame toxic are at once “tar!
rmgly prescient an! subtle in their
unfolding.

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