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Guard digs out as cold, snow dig in

 

By Jennifer Wieher
Staff Writer

 

One of the worst snowfalls in
nearly 16 years covered Kentucky
on Monday, closing most business-
es, airports, schools, interstates and
parkways.

Gov. Brereton Jones declared a
state of emergency at noon Mon
day, closing interstate highways
and parkways across Kentucky.
The only exception was for emer-
gency vehicles and trucks hauling
heating fuel and equally urgent sup-
plies.

Jones asked residents of the state
to remain off the roads unless trav
-el was absolutely necessary. He
gave no indication as to when
the highways would officially
be re-opened but promised the
state would work as quickly as
possible to clear the roads with

the little equipment it has.
The 10.2 inches of snow that
fell in Lexington also caused
the closing of UK for the first
time since the late 1970s, when

a reported 15.7 inches fell in 2
days.

UK canceled classes and closed
most offices Tuesday after the city
asked the school to shut down. said
Joe Burch, vice president for Uni-
versity Relations.

“They were having enough prob-
lems," Burch said. “They didn‘t
want (UK employees and students)
out on the road because we are a
great contributor to the traffic."

UK also had to cancel classes be-
cause there was no place for stu-
dents, faculty and staff to park once
they arrived to campus. Parking lots
were filled with snow, and there
was not enough time to plow the
streets and the lots before Tuesday
morning, Burch said.

Many UK parking lots were
cleared yesterday, but area road-
ways remain slick and dzurgerous.
Still. UK decided to re-opcn for
classes today so that the University
can get back on a normal schedule,
Burch said.

Night classes will also be in ses-
sion tonight.

He encouraged students, faculty
and employees to use good judge-
ment when attempting to drive to
campus and acknowledged that
"there will be problems."

Burch also said the University un-
derstands that not everyone will be
able to make it to classes today. He
said those who are unable to make it
to campus should not feel penalized
for missing class.

LexTran will be providing bus
service to campus today. but a snow
plan will be in effect.

Eula Gaston of LexTran said bus-
es will travel only on main roads.
For campus, buses will be moving
from Central Campus and Com-
monwealth Stadium, Burch said.

There is a possibility that the
classes that were canceled yesterday
will be made up sometime during
the semester, Burch said.

“The president intends to make it
up," he said. However, no official
statement or decision has been
made.

The slonn also has extended the
deadline for Add/Drop.

“Due to inclement weather, ‘1,
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tended through’Friday at 4:30
pm.” said Lisa Collins, as-
sistant registrar for registra-
tion.

“UK-VIP Add/Drop has

registration 4:415...»
' and Add/Drop have been ex-

been extended through 8 pm. (on
Press. Friday).“

The stonn front that moved
through Kentucky on Monday is
one of the worst in a decade. The
National Weather Service reported
a low temperature in Lexington of
minus 7 degrees Monday, with
windchills at 20-35 degrees below
zero across the state.

A stage two snow emergency was
declared Monday by city officials.
prohibiting parking on main arteries
throughout town. Tow trucks con-
tinued to tow cars parked on the
snow emergency routes well into
Monday night, making way for
plow trucks and emergency vehi-
cles.

Many motorists still battled the
bad weather and dangerous roads.
See SNOW, Page 2

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Single-digit temps invade Deep South;
thousands stranded without electricity

 

By Roger Patterson
Associated Press

 

National Guardsmen pitched in yester-
day to help dig out the Ohio Valley from
30 inches of snow. and single-digit tem-
peratures reached into the Deep South.
Bad weather kept schools closed from the
Dakotas to New Hampshire to Georgia.

Temperatures in Mississippi and Ala-
bama plunged to 7 degrees, and to 10 be-
low zero in Louisville, Ky.

“I don’t mind the cold, but God, this is

Reagan implicated
in Iran-Contra deal

unbelievable," said David O‘Cull in Madi-
son, Wis., where the wind made a record
low of 27 below feel like minus 70.

The weather has been blamed for 39
deaths since last week.

Thousands of people were without elec-
tricity after heavy snow and ice from Mon-
day‘s storm weighed down power lines.

States of emergency continued in Ohio,
Kentucky and West Virginia because of
the snow.

Interstate highways remained closed
throughout Kentucky.

Yesterday's record low temperatures for

the date ranged from 34 below zero at
Devils Lake, ND, and 27 below at Madi-
son to 3 below at Jackson, Ky. Chicago‘s
21 below erased the record of minus 16
that had been on the books since 1930.

The frigid air was pushing southward
and Tupelo, Miss, had a low Tuesday of
just 7 degrees. Today‘s forecast low was
about 4, the National Weather Service
said.

Plumbers in parts of northern Alabama,
where Huntsville-Decatur had a low of 7.
were inundated with calls from homeown-
ers with frozen pipes.

“We told some of them to call other
plumbers.

“There were so many we just couldn‘t

get to all of them,“ said James Moss of
Fort Payne.

Minnesota Gov. Ame Carlson ordered
schools closed statewide to make sure no
youngsters had to wait at bus stops with
wind chills as low as 75 t low zero.

“When it gets this cold, it's just too dan-
gerous," said Robert Hanson, school su-
perintendent in the northern Wisconsin
town of Rhinelander.

“If in this weather one of the buses goes
down you don't have much time to get
those 60 to 70 kids somewhere with heat."

Ohio sent more than 100 National
Guardsmen and 50 emergency vehicles to
help dig out counties in southern Ohio,
where up to 30 inches of snow fell Mon-
day.

West Virginia National Guardsmen
cleared roads and helped in medical emer-
gencies in seven counties.

 

 

 

 

DARREN BURCH/Kernel Staff
Theatre arts freshman Kevin Troxall
and chemistry junior Agatha Feltus
slide across campus Monday.

 

Quake shatters Calif. life

 

 

By Pete Yost
Associated Press

 

WASHINGTON — President
Reagan “knowingly participated or
at least acquiesced" in a coverup of
the Iran-Contra scandal “spearhead-
ed" by Attorney General
Edwin Meese, the prosecu-
tor concluded in his final
report released yesterday.

A host of Iran-Contra
figures from Meese to for-
mer President Bush, imme-
diately denounced the re-
port‘s conclusions as
unfair and unsupported by
the fact.

It is “little more than an
expensive vehicle for
baseless accusations," Reagan said.

In the 566—page report that con-
cluded his seven-year probe, inde-
pendent counsel Lawrenoe E.
Walsh said there was “no credible
evidence that President Reagan vio-
lated any criminal statute.

 

REAGAN

“Nevertheless, he set the stage
for the illegal activities of others by
encouraging and in general terms
ordering" military assistance to the
Contra rebels in Nicaragua at a time
when Congress banned such aid.
the report said.

At a news conference,
Walsh said impeachment
of Reagan “certainly
should have been consid-
ered" by the congressional
committees that investigat-
ed the Iran-Contra affair,
but he declined to say
whether he would have fa-
vored such an action.

Walsh‘s report said the
president’s disregard for
laws “created a climate in
which some of the government offi-
cers assigned to implement his poli-
cies felt emboldened to circumvent
such laws."

In fact, White House aide Oliver
North specifically took Reagan's
order to aid the Contras “as an invi-
tation to break the law.” Walsh re-
ported.

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Associated Press

 

LOS ANGELES —- Under
skies as bright and blue as ever,
Southern Californians confronted
a changed world yesterday.

The defining features of this
region’s life -— water. power and
freeways —— were suddenly un-
certain. In their place: long lines.
hellish commutes and constant
earthquake aftershocks.

A 16th body was found inside
a flattened apartment building in
Northridge, near the epicenter of
Monday's powerful earthquake,
bringing the death toll from the
quaketo34,asofyeeterdayaf—
ternom.

But that was only the worst
toll paid by people in this bet-
tered city.

Once again. the rhythms of life
in Southern California were
snapped by disaster, much as
they were after last fall's wild-
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public. students. faculty, and ad-
ministration; CALL 257-8427
-EXH|B|T: Mammalian
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Saturday, 1122
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presents: University Artist
Series; | Musici, chamber en-
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Arts, Concert Hall, 8:00 p.m.,
pre-concert lecture by Jo-

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Tuesday, 1118

-UK Sierra Club: Meeting: Stu-
dent Center, Rm. 228, 7:00
p.m., CALL 278-4126
Cosmopolitan Club Meeting:
Student Center, Rm. 231-A,
7:30 p.m., CALL 323-7531
-Lexington Rape Crisis Center
Needs Volunteerslllll Apply for
a training session today, CALL
253-2615 or 255-5786. Train-
ing sessions begin 1121.
Wednesday, 1119

-Holy Communion: St Augus-
tine's Chapel, 12:00 & 5:30
p.m., CALL 254-3726

-Aikido Classes: Alumni Gym
Loft, 8:00 p.m., CALL 269-4305
-UK Judo Club: Alumni Gym
Loft, 5:30-6:30 p.m., CALL 255-
2625

Thursday, 1120

-Catholic Newman Center: Stu-
dent Night (CN2); 320 Rose

Tuesday, 1118

-Mandatory Meeting for all
those interested in being has-
ketball officials: Seaton Cen-
ter. 5:00 p.m., No experience
is necessary, training and uni-
form is provided, advancement
opportunities, flexible schedul-
ing, and EARN $4. 25 per
game”!!! For more informa-
tion CALL 257-6584 or stop by
Rm. 145 Seaton Center.
-Basketball Managers Meet-
ing: Worsham Theatre, 5:00
p.m., rosters and the $25 entry
fee per team must be turned
in.

Wednesday, 1119

Mandatory Meeting for inter-
ested basketball officials:
Seaton Center, 5:00 p.m.,
CALL 257-6584 or stop by

. Rm. 145 Seaton Center.

l -Basketball Officials Clinic:
Rm. 145 Seaton Center, 4:00
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Saturday, 1122 Saturday, 1122

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“Thursday Night Live“ Praise
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Woodland and Columbia.
7:30pm., CALL 233-0313
Friday, 1121
-Ga|lery Series Lectures:
Words and Music of Renewal
with George Ella Lyon, writer,
and Steve Lyon, musician;
King Library North, 12:00 noon,
Free and open to the public
Saturday, 1/22
-Aikido Classes: Alumni Gym
Loft, 4:00 p.m., CALL 269-
4305
-Catholic Newman Center
Weekend Mass Service: 320
Rose Lane, 6:00 p.m., CALL
255-8566
Sunday, 1123
-Catholic Newman Center
Weekend Mass Services: 320
Rose Lane, 9:00 & 11:30 a.m.,
5:00 & 8:30 p.m., CALL 255-
8566
-Holy Communion: St Augus-
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5:30 p.m., CALL 254-3726
-Christian Student Fellowship
Sunday Service: on the corner
of Woodland and Columbia.
11:00 a.m., CALL 233-0313
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Loft, 1:00 p.m., CALL 289-

Many fear aftershocks ‘

 

By Sharon Cohen
Associated Press

 

LOS ANGELES — Iva Erwin
spent her 80th birthday sitting on a
curb without her medicine, her
shoes or a roof over her head. Yes-
terday, she was tired, confused ——
and scared to go home.

A few feet away, Jacqueline lac-
quez, age 6, was clutching her fa-
ther, her head burrowed in his shirt.
still shaking from the predawn jolt
that tore her from the warmth of her
bed a day before.

For the young and old. the initial
terror of Monday’s earthquake is
over. but the aftershocks and fear
that next time it could be the Big
One have left them stunned and
sleepless.

“i won't go back. No-ooo." said
Erwin, who moved to a Red Cross
shelter after her apartment building
was damaged in the quake. “It just
isn’t safe."

“Scared is not the word," said
Marion Sweet, a 44-year secretary
staying in the shelter with her two
teen-age sons. “You don‘t want to

go to sleep. You're afraid if you do.
you'll go through the same night—
Sweet and nearly 400 others
spent Monday night on cots or in
the parking lot of the Granada Hills
High School, about five miles from
the quake‘s epicenter.

Many, including Sweet, didn't
lose their homes, but were afraid to
return immediately because win-
dows were blown out. furniture was
overtumed and walls were cracked.

Yesterday, the victims clustered
in the dank gym or in breakfast
lines outside.

They were anxious, sad and wor-
ried about the future — feelings
psychologists say are common and
unlikely to fade quickly.

“The next few weeks are the
hardest," said Chaytor Mason, asso-
ciate professor of human factors-
psychology at the University of
Southern California “If people hear
a door slam, they jump up expect-
ing an earthquake. They’re feeling
aftershocks when they don’t occur.
Even shouting might be interpreted
as a wanting.“

“They remain etemaliy antsy,"

Mason said. “They remain eternally
on guard. Just like the military man
fearing grenades. it will go on for
years."

As they did after wildfires rav-
aged Southern California less than
three months ago, local agencies
have crisis counseling and emergen-
cy teams to help the earthquake vic-
tims.

But some, such as Erwin. have
practical worries. She needs her
blood pressure medication and has
little but the clothes on her back ——
including a sweater and oversized
shoes borrowed front a male neigh-
bor.

Manuel Jacquez, a city worker
who slept with his family in a car
Monday night, is trying to cope,
too

He said he helped firefighters
working on gas mains Monday be-
cause he wouldn't panic if he kept
busy. But he couldn’t escape the
look of terror on his daughter‘s
face.

“She was crying. She kept say-
ing. ‘Don't let me go,‘ " he said,
holding Jacqueline in his lap as they
waited for water outside the shelter.

 

Quake

Continued from Page 1

fallen bridges yesterday morning,
traffic crawled on Fairfax Avenue
at a rate of about four blocks per
hour.

Late in the moming, in another of
the unthinkable images that have
marked the past couple of days,
huge construction cranes began
tearing down sections of the free-
way, biting cracks into the concrete
slabs and lifting them away.

The quake also collapsed sections
of Interstates 5 and 14 and state

Route 118, all vital links in the re-
gion‘s freeway network. The clo-
sure of Interstate 5, the major north-
south highway on the West Coast.
left truckers stranded in the San Joa-
quin Valley north of Los Angeles
and gave a hint of the economic re-
verberations of the quake.

In the San Fernando Valley, the
60-square-mile suburban expanse
most badly damaged by the quake,
many people stayed home to clean
up and take stock. That kept corn-
muting problems to a minimum.

But those who ventured out in
their cars had to negotiate a crazy
tangle of detours around cracked
residential streets and flooded areas.

Snow

Continued from Page 1

causing numerous accidents and
problems for the city.

At least 52 counties across Ken-
tucky declared emergencies or were
preparing to last night, and 350 Na-
tional Guard troops were activated
across the state. Forty-nine National
Guard armories also opened for
shelters to those who were without
electricity or water.

Information for this article also
was gathered by The Associated
Press.

 

 

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itional . the activities of people I graduated the new program gave any informa- stuff, got one of those for me?" says cy tests. ' .
d for g with (although I can usually find [ion about safer sex or birth control [he bikini-clad girl to the skanky They will help clean up a mess, Fr'day, January 21st at 4.30 PM
'ithOlll them in the court section). for the students who will likely ig- hunter with a six-pack.) but they won’t prevent it from be-
Iread it because, as farasquality gore, I: PIC: {GIT abstinence. 51:16 And that is where the solution ing made.
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Times.

This particular issue contained
was an interesting (and mostly
grammatically incorrect) article on
a new organization at my old high
school, the members of which go to
the junior high school to discuss sex
with the younger students.

Considering that a third of the
checrleading squad was pregnant
between my junior and senior years,
and maternity wear was haute cou-
ture at the prom, this is a good
thing.

Apparently these kids go to speak
to the classes with the teachers out
of the room so that the students can
feel free to ask any question with-
out adult reprimand. The goal, ac-
cording to the article (which I
should take with a grain of salt,
considering the newspaper‘s past
“reporting"), is to encourage the
students to abstain from sex until
marriage.

This is not such a bad idea. After
all, abstinence is the only sure way
to prevent sexually transmitted dis-
ease and pregnancy. (Well. there‘s
no way I‘ll be having any babies,
but that’s another issue.)

But as we all know, abstinence is
not a reality for most people.

Since my sister just entered the
junior high, I asked my mother if

 

having trouble with this issue,
Grayson hasn’t advanced much fur-
ther.

Maybe school officials and par-
ents across the country really be-
lieve that if they

 

 

First of all. parents could stop let-
ting the television baby-sit their
children, and do something produc-
tive. I realize this is not always pos-
sible for single working parents, but

 

tell their chii- My mother was married

dren to be absti-

nem, my an by the time she was my
will. age. She could have all
"6"“ Rica" the sex she wanted to,

do Montalban,

I‘d like to pur- but by the standards of

then again, one
of the best par-
ents I know was
a single teacher
with two chil-
dren who al-
ways made sure
her kids were in-

chase aone-way my community, I can’t _ volved in some

ticket to Fantasy
Island.

of the argument

and I would be denied
The premise information to protect

sort of school
activity or
something to
keep them ac-

against prom myself ifldefied them. tive.

 

ing teens with
birth control — and more impor-
tantly, the knowledge to go along
with it — is that if a teen sees a
condom, he or she will immediately
want to get down.

(As if teen sex needs so much en-
couragement. You practically have
to make them do it.)

Perhaps our culture is part of the
problem. When I see 13-year-old
girls tarted up like they were 21. it
sends me into fits because they are
only imitating what they see. We
obviously are a society in which sex
plays a prevalent role visually.

It is difficult,
but it can be done.

Second of all, we need a frank
discussion of sex and relationships
in our country, touching on areas of
our culture like why a junior high
girl shouldn't look like Madonna
since Madonna is 35, and why a
boy should know that most women
don't like to dress up in Spandex
and be treated like Motley Criie
nymphettes.

Finally, we all need a big nasty
dose of reality.

The junior and senior high
schools my brother and sister attend

 

Most parents in that conservative
religious community like to think
that if they preach abstinence (when
they mention S-E-X at all). every-
one will listen. These concerned
parents also would put pressure on
the school if its programs counsel
otherwise.

But they are living in a dream
world, and perhaps all of the un-
wanted children around them will
wake them up. The realities of their
day aren‘t the realities of today.

Teen sex always has existed and
always will. It existed with our par-
ents and those before them, only it
was kept much quieter.

Then there is the fact that mar-
riage happens much later in life
now. My mother was married with
a child by the time she was my age.
She could have all the sex she want-
ed to, but by the standards of my
community, I can‘t — and I would
be denied information to protect
myself if I defied them.

There is no logic behind denying
knowledge to teens to punish them
for not accepting your morals. You
may be punishing them with a life-
time of poverty. unhappiness or
even death.

Editorial Editor Chris McDavid
is a journalism and political sci-
ence junior and a Kentucky Kernel
columnist.

Kernel columnist
is irresponsible
in his accusations

To the editor:

In response to Chris McDavid’s
column of Nov. 16, I wish to cor-
rect the record regarding the overall
objective of our research project on
heterosexual transmission of AIDS.

On Nov. 15, 1991, the National
Institute of Child Health and Hu-
man Development branch of the
National Institutes of Health pub-
lished a request for research propo-
sals dealing with the design of a
substance and its delivery system
which, a) would be an effective
spermicide with strong anti-HIV
properties; b) would. after a single
application, establish rapidly effica-
cious spermicidal and anti-HIV
vaginal levels (within 1-2 minutes),
and maintain these levels for at
least six hours; c) be non-irritating
to the vaginal membrane linings;
and d) be cosmetically acceptable
to young women.

These objectives were formulated
by NIH on the basis of careful con-
sideration of data collected from ba-
sic science and behavioral studies.

In response to the above request
by NIH, we worked hard to stage a
successful scientific proposal,
which was funded in April of 1993
on the basis of its scientific merit
and the previous publications and
experience of the investigators.

McDavid's column seemed to

imply that our mission lacked in
moral values because our research
would benefit women and not gay
men. As stated earlier, the decision
to work on products that would pre-
vent the heterosexual transmission
of AIDS was dictated by the availa-
bility of funding in this particular
area of research.

Our previous research experience
and our expertise was more appro-
priately applied to a vaginal, rather
than a rectal, product. It is obvious
that the rectal and vaginal environ-
ments differ in physiological and
chemical properties.

Furthermore. had McDavid taken
the time to contact one of us regard-
ing our research, we would gladly
have provided him with the alarm-
ing statistics in connection with the
worldwide heterosexual transmis-
sion of AIDS, particularly among
young people in this country.

I think young women deserve to
be protected against AIDS and
working toward this goal does not
mean that we have forgotten the
gay community.

To write that I, as a scientist
passed judgment by ignoring my re-
sponsibility to help others affected
by this deadly disease. is not only
libelous, but irresponsible.

This is particularly disappointing
when one considers that McDavid,
as editorial page editor, made no at-
tempt to contact me before writing
his column. I believe that good
journalism, like high-caliber sci-
ence, should be based on facts and
not on one‘s personal preference or
bias.

George A. Digenis, Ph.D.
Professor of medicinal chemistry
and pharmaceutics

UK will retain
quality program
in psychology

To the editor:

I am writing to clarify one as-
pect of your Jan. 12 story on pro-
gram elirninations at UK.

The graduate program in psy-
chology is not being eliminated.
We are merely consolidating the
master‘s and doctorate degrees
awarded in the department.

Graduates of either the clinical
psychology program or the experi-
mental psychology program will

be awarded the doctorate; degree
productivity of the two programs
will not be separated. Both clinical
and experimental psychology cur~
ricula are continuing at full
strength.

Students interested in obtaining
high-quality graduate education in
either experimental or clinical psy-
chology will continue to find it at
the University of Kentucky.

Michael T. Nietzel. Ph.D.
Chairman, Psychology Depart-
ment

Editor's Note: The Kentucky Ker-
nel's Jan. 12 story did not report
that UK 's psychology graduate pro-
gram would be eliminated. A
graphic that ran with the story list-
ed UK programs that the Kentucky
Higher Education Review Commis-
sion has suggested for elimination.

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