Kentucky Kernel

University Senate discusses size of new library

By GREGORY A. HALL
Senior Staff Writer

Many questions persist about a

proposed new
library

for the Univer-
sity. Questions
like “How
big?” and
“Where?" are
common.

As the scope
of plans begins
falling into ‘
place, one UK
physics professor WILLIS
gave the University Senate yester-
day his impression of the size for

the new library.

It is the “academic equivalent of
building Rupp Arena.” K.R. Subbas-
warny said.

Subbaswamy, the Senate library
committee chairman, and other UK
library officials addressed the facul-
ty body yesterday about plans for
the new library.

UK Libraries Director Paul Willis
said the current plan involves a new
central library of about 300,000
square feet

The most seriously considered
spot for the new library is on Clifton
Circle, by the Rose Street parking
garage.

An additional 100,000 square feet
of space could be put into the pro-

 

The new library is the “academic equivalent of

building Rupp Arena."

K.R. Subbaswamy,

Senate library committee chairman

 

ject for a life sciences wing, Willis
said.

While administrators said they
have not put a cost on the project,
Eugene Williams, vice president for
Information Systems, said the total
would be between $40 and $45 mil-
lion.

He said the University hopes to
obtain between $10 and $20 million
in private funding for the project.

The proposal will be presented to
the Kentucky Council on Higher
Education before going to the 1992
session of the General Assembly for
funding.

Construction could begin in 1993,
and the new library could open in
fall 1995, Willis said.

The Margaret 1. King Library
would not be torn down, but re-
stored to the way it originally

 

By TOM SPALDING
Editor in Chief

Like most UK students, Kerry
Cauthen and his friends plan to
use spring break to hang out

Literally.

Cauthen, a 22-yearold senior
from Walton, Ky., is a self-
described hang-gliding enthusiast
His idea of fun is searching the
sky for thermal pockets, running
off mountains and excelling in a
sport he admits some people think
iscrazy.

“When you actually lift off, the
feeling is undescribablc," Cauthen
said. It’s just you and this
hang glider. It's an unparalleled

 

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Members of the new UK Hang Cats stand in front of a hang glider. Doug Cauthen (
kut are hoping their new club will fly. Their group meets tonight for the first time.

UK hang gliders hope club takes off

feeling.”

It's a feeling he shares with
three friends — Mike Effinger,
Denis Yalmut and Doug Cauthen,
his brother — and one he hopes to
share with many more people.
Last month, the group organized a
new club through the University
— the UK Hang Cats.

The new organization will hold
its first meeting tonight for any
student, faculty or staff member
interested in joining the club or
just curious about what a hang
glider looks like. Meeting time is
7 pm. in 228 Student Center.

Cauthen, the club’s vice presi-
dent, said he isn’t sure how turn—
out will be because it’s almost im-

possible to tell how many hang
gliding enthusiasts the are at UK.

He said he hopes the club will
attract experts, amateurs —— and
especially those who are interested
despite only catching a glimpse of
the sport on late-night ESPN.

“I think probably people said,
‘Wouldn‘t that be fun to do,‘ but
never took the second step” to find
out more about it, Cauthen said.

”It doesn't take much to get
hooked," said Effinger, the club
president and a sophomore from
Lexington. After his first hang
gliding experience, he said, “I was
sold.“

Cautlten said the group‘s main
goal this year is to make a trip

left), Kerry Cauthen, Mike Ettinger and Denis Yal-

SAI CARLETOWKomef Staff

down to the Tennessee mountains
to hang glide during spring break.
But the focus will be on educating
people so they can decide whether
it‘s for them.

“The more people we get the
better," said Denis Yalkut, a 22-
year-old UK student from Lexing-
ton. “The big thing is to expose
people to hang gliding to let
them know what hang gliding is.
Hang gliding is a sport, it’s safe
and it’s a lot of fun."

And just because you’re a hang
glider doesn‘t necessarily mean
you like to take risks, they said.

“I wouldn’t say I‘m a daredevil

See CATS, Page 5

 

 

looked in 1931 when it was opened,
Willis said.

After the renovations, which
c0uld be done in 1997, King South
would house special collections.

Willis said a new library had
been on the agenda for some years
but was not brought to the forefront
until UK President Charles Weth-
ington announced the project during
a speech to the Senate last year.

The call for a new, relocated cen-
tral library “really represents a ma-
jor departure” from past plans, Wil-
lis said.

Library officials are consulting
faculty and college groups to gather
opinion about consolidating UK’s
branch libraries.

Williams said there will be some
consolidation, but no branch librar-
ies will be closed.

There are “no plans to convert the
medical center library into a video
parlor,” Subbaswarny said.

Although faculty opinions are
mixed about consolidation, some de-
panments may put up less of a fight
than others.

Willis said the geology branch li—
brary on the first floor of Bowman
Hall has more bathtubs (4) than any
other library in the United States.

The Senate also approved a reso-
lution rcaffirrning faculty commit-
ment to “free and open exchange of
ideas and opinions" concerning the
Persian Gulf War.

Court orders
student to pay
back sorority

By LAURA CARNES
Contributing Writer

After a legal wrangle lasting al-
most one ycar, a UK student was or»
dered last month by Fayette Districr
Court to pay the housing corpora-
tion of her social sorority one se-
mester’s rent, lawyer‘s fees and
court costs.

Alpha Omicron Pi's Corporation
Board, a body of the sorority"s
alumni responsible for “keeping the
house floating financially,“ sucd
Tina Henson for breaching her con-
tract by moving out early and fail-
ing to pay her final installment of
rent. said Thomas Prewitt, attorney
for the Corporation Board.

Before moving into the Alpha
Omicron Pi house, Henson, a sec-
ond-year pharmacy student, signed
a contract on Feb. 26, 1989 binding
her to pay $3,000 of yearly rent, ac—
cording to Lexington court docu-
ments.

Henson said she moved out of the
sorority house because the lack of a
designated study room and high
noise level in the house hurt her
grades during the 1989 fall semcs
ter.

To help her study, Henson said
she “spent a couple of nights in the
dorms in the study rooms."

Kristi Farmer. Corporation Board
president, and LCSIIC Evcritt, the so-
rority’s chapter president. declined
tocomment.

Henson said she approached
Farmer in Novembcr about tcrnti-
nating her housing contract at the
end of the semester.

Henson said that on the same day.
she also met Wllh Dwaiiic Urccii,
assistant to the Dean of Student Af-
fairs tn thc College of Pharirtacy.
concerning hcr low grades during
the first semester of pharmacy
coursework.

For the WW Iall scmcstcr, ch»

U.S. steps up air war; Bush considers ground attack

By FRED BAYLES
Associated Press

DHAHRAN, Saudi Arabia — Fa-
vored by the desert sun, U.S. and al-
lied jets stepped up the air war yes-
terday with hundreds more bombing
runs against Iraqi targets. The city
of Basra, strategic heart of Iraq’s de-
fense, was believed all but cut off.

Iraq fired a missile that hit Israel
early today.

“We hated to come back, but we
ran out of bombs," an exuberant
U.S. Air Force pilot told reporters
on his return from a bombing run.

As U.S. air commanders pressed
this “battlefield preparation phase,"
President Bush met with his war ad-
visers to consider ordering Ameri-
can troops onto that battlet'ield —- in
a decisive ground war for Kuwait

Emerging from a White House
meeting with Defense Secretary
Dick Cheney and joint chiefs chair-

man Gen. Cols
in Powell, both
just back from
Saudi Arabia.
the president
said the air war
“will continue
for a while."

As for a
ground offen-
sive, Bush
said, “we’re not
talking about
dates."

In Baghdad, the government an-
nounced it was reaching still deeper
into the Iraqi population -—- into the
schools —— for teen-age soldiers to
help “destroy the enemies of God
and humanity."

Also yesterday, Iraq's religious
affairs minister, Abdullah Fadel,
said "thousmds" of civilians have
been killed or wounded in allied
bombings. It was the first time a

BUSH

INSIDE:

senior Iraqi official had spoken of
such high civilian losses. The gov-
ernment previously listed 650 civil—
ian dead.

Peace activist and former U.S. at-
torney general Ramsey Clark, new-
ly returned to New York from a
week in Iraq. said the chief of the
country's Red Cross affiliate esti-
mated civilian deaths at 6,(X)0 to
7,000.

In the Middle East and elsewhere,
the quest for peace continued.

A Soviet envoy, Yevgeny Prima-
kov, ventured into bomb-battered
Baghdad to meet with Iraqi Presi-

dent Saddam
Hussein early
today about a
Kremlin initia-
tive to end the
war. In Yugosla-
via, representa-
tives of IS non-
aligned nations
began consider-
ing an Iranian
bid to mediate
an end to the

SADDAM

conflict

The Soviets and Iranians say Iraq
must agree to end its 6-month—old
occupation of Kuwait, a condition
Sadt‘hm has rejected. Before head-
ing to Baghdad, Primakov stopped
in Tehran to coordinate his activi-
ties with the Iranians.

Since last week, in a buildup to
ground war, Operation Desert
Storm's air arm has intensified its
attacks on Iraqi positions and sup-

ply Iines, particularly bridges, in the
Kuwait Theater of Operations ~
Kuwait and southern Iraq.

Brightening skies yesterday ena—
bled air commanders to mount
2,9(X) sorties over 24 hours. hun-
dreds more than on any recent day.
The US command said 750 mis-
sions were directed against Iraqi po.
sitions in the Kuwait theater, includ-
ing 200 against the dugin
Republican Guard, the Iraqi army's
elite units.

Basra again was hit hard. The
southern Iraqi port is both headquar-
ters for the Iraqi defense and a
transshipment point for supplies go-
ing to troops in southern Iraq and in
Kuwait, 30 miles to the south.

A U.S. command spokesman,
Marine Brig. Gen. Richard Neal.
said bombers have destroyed many
of the key links into and out of Bas-

See GULF, Page 5

“IN LIVING COLOR" REFRESHING CHANGE

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1

son said she received a 2.1] grade
point average and a total of six cred-
it hours of “D" grades.

The College of Pharmacy bulletin
contains a rule that students receiv-
ing more than cight credit hours of
“D" grades can be forced to repeat
those courses before they can take
other courses.

Green said he met wrth Henson to
“caution her on the circumstance"
that she could exceed the eight-hour
limit if she received one more I).

“So, basically, I could have lost a
whole entire year if I had gotten an-
other D,“ Henson said.

After moving out of the house.
Henson said she rcccrvcd a 2.67 av-
erage and no “D" grades.

According to court documents.
Farmer sent Henson a memo on
Nov. 17. 1989, informing Henson
that she could tcrrninate her contract
by having another sorority member
take Henson‘s place in the house.

Although another \OI’OI'IIy mem-
ber decided later not to fill Hen-
son‘s spot, Henson said she still
moved out of the house the follow-
ing January and asked to be sus-
pended from the sorority.

At the end of the spring semester,
Henson \‘dld she began receiving
letters from the Corporation
Board's rittomcy.

“I made cfforts to attempt to set-
tlc thc mattci \thUUI filing suit,"
I’rcwrtt said. .

He stud surng Henson was “the
absolute last thing the Corporation
Board wanted to do."

Henson stressed that she has no
hard feelings against the sorority.

"I was sucd by the Corporation
Boar‘d,‘ shc \LlItI. “Nobody III thc
house kncw. They tthc Corporation
Board) kept it really quiet."

See AOPI, Page 5

The UK men's tennis
team hosts the fourth-
ranked University of Ten-
nessee Volunteers, at 7
pm. at the Boone Indoor
Tennis Center.

UK blitzes
U of L in re-
cruiting
battle.

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