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i other important changes have taken   __;·V_ . -     V » _ M ·
’ place. Women’s basketball and       ‘‘‘`‘"~·’·`·       Z        V   _i .` M
volleyball took over the ‘$House that   ` if ``Vr  ‘  __,\ g AI____      
Rupp Built," while men’s basketball     g »"'     .
‘ left the campus for games downtown in   G          
Rupp Arena. With the abandonment of   ‘   L   _·~ _     ifi  
Stoll Field after the 1972 football i' g   UA; y ‘ "iéif  ‘.‘· 77; ‘ ``VR
season, space became available for the  _ V *f ·  L · '   "» .
Singletary Center for the Arts at the V l     T _ K   2/-* T
I corner of Rose and Euclid, a building , •‘   V  ‘
{_ with a program that is hailed as a ·_ dg xg ·
bridge between town and campus. The A é=' ·c
Student Center underwent a second   ig,
major expansion to include a bigger ° j'  .
and better bookstore, Campus Visitor’s _ j'  ii
Center and meeting rooms.   ._ I
Behind the Coliseum on Maxwell   J i   .
Street, certain University property was   ·
renovated for the Gaines Humanities     __ `
Center, an innovative development for        
A the Honors Program. The new North in A   ___ · _`‘’’ E  Q
Library in front ofthe original King   x % {Q  .
gjggggyt;g.d,;,0a;j;,$1g,;j;i;_g;;g gg, D. $..91....,, righ1,wiTh Ut'. as president D. 101.. amid.
{O yield Y0 an eastward €XP&n$iOn Of up the growing conviction that you four presidential administrations at UK
King LlbY€n`Y- don’t try to fix something that ainlt the teams had more winning than
Tncsc Snncnims tell of new ventures broke. losing seasons; in each of the last four,
to improve the education of UK When the time comes, for whatever the [Cams had more losing than
students. The programs they house reason, to replace a football or winning S€aSOnS_ ']`hi—Oug]] ]93(3_
CIITIEIYICC the I`€pUtHtlOI'] ofthe bdSl(€fb21ll CO3Cl`1, H L1I'llVCl`Slly pI`€Sl(l€Ut Sing]C[a]·y,S tcanjs had Only 5 yyinljing
University as does the development suffers incalculable tortures. The public and Oiic bi—cak-C\»€n SCHSOHX Ami that
program which made many of them attaches enormous importance to this Caymm bc bcuiusq Of any hosiiiiiy Oy
possible. The success of the program responsibility and the president`s own iiidiiigeyciicc iii ilic Aqiiiiiiiisiiqiiiiiii
T attests to the attention paid to President well-being could be at stake. The Building tgwgrd {bOtb;i]]_
Singletary’s message that a public president at UK works with the board Singletary has an offsetting
university is an appropriate object for of trustees in governing the University advantage perhaps unique among
private benefactions. That people are and, with the directors ofthe separately university presidents. The basketball
i still listening is evident in the Hilary incorporated Athletic Association, of program has been an invariable winner
` Boone Faculty Club on Rose Street and which he is chairman, in administering beginning with the 1927-1928 season.
the F.rvin_]. Nutter Training Facility at the athletic program. By the 194(ls the basketball \*\lildcats
the Shively Center. ln Singletaryls time two new football were so dear to the hearts of "most"
‘ One of the most striking successes of coaches and two new basketball coaches Kentuckians that their uninterrupted
the Singletary administration is the were appointed. In one instance in each successes have compensated to a
maturing ofthe community college sport some unpleasantness surrounded surprisingly large extent for losing
system. A farsighted statute of 1962 the change. The latest football and football seasons. Still, Singletary had
- established the community college basketball appointments seem to satisfy one glory year reminiscent of
system and placed it under the even the IUOSI rabid fans. Singletary 1950-1951. That was the year
administration ofthe president and went through the ordeal ofthe four 1977-1978 with a 10-1 record in
· board ofthe University of Kentucky. appointments very well. football and an NCAA championship in
An unusual arrangement, its success Perhaps more than any of his seven basketball.
has inspired both admiration and envy. predecessors, Singletary takes genuine Singletary understands as clearly as
From time to time out-of-state pleasure in sports quite apart from the any other university president that
consultants and in-state interests have practical reasons for liking to see UK intercollegiate athletics can place a
l failed to break it up by taking it away win. ln that respect, football has not president in a box. ln American higher
S from the university. A folk saying sums been kind to him. ln each ofthe lirst education, athletic programs came into
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