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Wednesday. March 8, 2006

Trustees
approve
tuition
increase

Also give final oversight
of $6 elections to UK

By Sean Rose
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Next year’s UK seniors will
have gone the last four years with
yearly tuition increases of 12 per-
cent or more.

The Board of Trustees made
the 12 percent tuition increase of-
ficial yesterday, passing it with
overwhelming majority thus mak-
ing it the fourth consecutive year

“ with a double-

Several digit increase.
This, though,

years of

double-digit

was lowest in-

crease of the

four, barely

' ' The only dis-

mcreases senter in all the

votes was Stu-

have taken dent Govern-

a to“ on the ment President

and student

student trustee. Becky

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b0dy. Ellingsworth

said despite next

Beck year’s increase

Ellingswort being half a per-

so president cent less than

the one that took

effect this year, it was still too
much.

“I know this is lower than last
year’s," Ellingsworth said. “Sever-
a1 years of double-digit increases
have taken quite a toll on the stu-
dent body”

Other trustees said the in-
crease was needed. Trustee Ann
Haney said as a parent of a UK
student the double-digit jump was
“a necessary evil,” and others
sympathized with students but
still supported the increase.

“Most of us have been in their
(students’) position and know the
toll each additional hundred dol-
lars takes," said trustee Pamela
May

President Lee Todd said there
was some compromise in the 12
percent rise and a higher increase
would have been needed if the
Top-20 Business Plan were strictly
followed based on the funds com-
ing from Frankfort.

“According to the business
plan, to do all the things we want
to do we would require a 17 per-
cent increase," Todd said.

The funding that comes from
state government is a key factor
for tuition costs. The House of
Representatives in Frankfort
unanimously approved a budget
that gives $9 million more to UK
for the 2007-08 school year. but that
was far less than what the $18 mil-
lion UK requested under the busi-
ness plan. The tuition increase
will likely not be affected unless
the Senate adds funds for next
year.

 

See Trustees on page 2

 

Celebrating 35 years of independence

Kentucky Kernel

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UK police cope in cramped quarters

By Megan Boehnke
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When UK police officers need
gloves, uniforms, tape or first-aid
kits, they look in the bathroom.

The two restrooms in the cam-
pus police department have be-
come catch-all storage areas. To
make even more use of the space,
acting UK Police Chief Kevin
Franklin boxed in the bathtubs
and inserted shelving.

A department

in transition
PART 2 OF 3

FRIDAY: New police
chief presents his plan

“I can take you into the bath-
room and show you where I had to
make storage cabinets just to move
stuff out of my office,” Franklin

said. “You can tell it’s not an effi-
ciently designed or operating
building —- it was never designed
to be this way"

The department, which shares
just less than 8,000 square feet with
Parking and Transportation Ser-
vices, sits on the corner of Euclid
Avenue and Rose Street. The police
department moved into the build-
ing in the early 19705 when it was a
house divided into several apart-
ments.

This summer, the parking and
transportation offices will move
into to the parking structure cur-
rently under construction on Vir-
ginia Avenue, giving the police de-
partment an estimated 40 percent
more space, Franklin said.

While they will be able to use
that space to create a roll-call
room, more storage and individual
offices for all the shift comman-

See Police on page 4

 

Read 1’ ng
between the

Ridvan Peshkopia. a bookish dissident, refused to blindly believe govemment-sanetioned propaganda.
'lhe UK political science instructor helped free his native Albania from a stifling communist regime in 1990.

By Andrew Martin
THE xtnrucxv KERNEL

On long winter nights
in Albania, a young Ridvan
Peshkopia would lie in his
darkened bedroom and
stare at the ceiling, dream-
ing and listening. To pass
the time. his father had il-
legally rigged a transistor
radio to pick up signals
broadcast from foreign
lands e signals banned by
the communist govern-
ment, which sought to con-
trol every facet of its citi-
zens‘ lives.

Throughout the night.
as Peshkopia and his fa-
ther listened to the crackle
of BBC and American ra-
dio stations, and programs
such as “Voice of Ameri—
ca," the future UK student
and instructor would
dream of some day jour-
neying to the United
States.

Peshkopia never imag-
ined immigrating in order
to live the classic Ameri—
can dream. Instead. he
wanted to travel to the
United States for intellectu-
al opportunities not avail-
able in his corner of the
world.

Such a day would come

 

 

m but not before Peshkopia
and his family spent many
years caught in the
crosshairs of communist

tyranny.
An education in dissent

The Peshkopia family‘s
modern political odyssey
began in World War II.

[museum I surr

Ridvan Peshkopia poses in front of part of his extensive home library on East Maxwell Street. A lifelong lover of books, the UK political
science instructor and Albanian hopes to purchase the 500 most influential books in political science this year. Packages of books arrive
on his doorstep on an almost daily basis.

nationalists lost a civil war
to the Albanian commu-
nists.

Having backed the los-
ing side, Peshkopia's
grandfather faced dire con-
sequences: He was exiled.

tenced to death."
Peshkopia said. “After a
few years in Europe. he
came here to the United
States and spent the rest of
his life here without hav-
ing the chance to contact

when Ridvan‘s grandfather.
Nexhat, and the Albanian

At ft

Italy invades Albania
and declares the
country a protectorate

“He was actually sen-

Enver Hoxha takes
power, Nexhat
Peshkopia leaves

his family there ,

m w l Communism in Albania

Albania along with 150
other exiles

Rally protests unequal raises

8y Megan Boehnlie
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More than 200 people gathered out-
side the Patterson Offlce Tower yester-
day to protest the difference in the pro
posed salary increases between staff
and faculty.

Under President Lee Todd's propos-
al, faculty members will receive a 5.5
percent increase over the next five
years while staff members will receive
a 3 percent increase.

“Introducing this twotier class sys-
tem to the university is damaging to
the fabric that holds the university

\

community together," Russ Williams.
the staff representative on the Board of
Trustees. told the crowd.

The rally was intentionally sched-
uled at 11:30 am. —- an hour and a half
before the Board of Trustees met in the
top floor of the office tower.

“Hopefully the administration will
take us seriously“ said Samantha
Gange, a staff associate at the College
of Law, who helped organize the rally
“This is a visual to show them that
we‘re not just going to stand by. We are
a voice here."

After the Board of Trustees meet-
ing, Todd said that he does not see staff

members as second-class citizens and
hopes they do not feel that way

“I knew that there would be con-
cern. i realized that this was a difficult
decision and I realized there would be
people who would react negatively," he
said. “There's times when you‘ve got to
make decisions not everyone agrees
with."

In his mind, Todd said he sees
it as a 3 percent raise for everyone and
a 2.5 percent “catch-up" for the faculty
to be more competitive with bench-
marks. He also said he earmarked $5
million in the general budget that will

See Rally on page 2

his wife

Ridvan Peshkopia is
born in Tirana, Albania

 

and his son and daughter."
And in November 1944.
Nexhat Peshkopia was ex-
iled from his country. nev-
er to see his country or
family again. But he did
manage to contact them.
“Some distant relatives

Hoxha dies. Two months
later, Peshkopia is
expelled from
Polytechnic University
for political reasons

who lived in the l'.S.. but
who were in good terms
with the communist
regime visited Albania and
handed some of my grand-
father's stuff to my grand»

See Albania on page 4

The Albanian student
revolution ends the
communist regime and
institutes a parliamen-
tary government

Ky. House allots
more funds for UK

By Wes Blevins

THE KENTUCKY KERNEL

FRANKFORT The
Kentucky House of Repre-
sentatives yesterday passed
its version of the 200608 bi-
ennium state budget, which
fully funds UK's new bio-
pharmacy research com-
plex, the UK Chandler Med-
ical Center’s bed tower and
allots increased funding to

UK’s Top-20 Business Plan.
The budget. which
passed on a unanimous 97-0
vote. increases UK's gener-
al funds by $4.6 million in
2006-07 to help boost the
Top-20 Business Plan and
an extra 39 million for the
plan overall. UK will also
get $14 million more for the
general fund in 200708.

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Trustees

Continued from page i

 

UK could have raised tu-
ition by as much as 15.1 per-
cent, a limit set by the Coun-
cil on Post-Secondary Educa-
tion. Todd said he didn’t
want to raise tuition to the
maximum and that setting it
at 12 percent was a difficult
decision.

“The easiest thing for me
to do is to not raise tuition,”
Todd said after the meeting.
‘This is not the time for easy
solutions.”

Todd also argued that
even with the increase UK is
still an affordable school, cit-
ing a Kiplinger study of best
values in public education
where UK finished second
amongst its benchmarks.

“I still feel we’re afford-
able,” Todd said, but added
that he would prefer things
otherwise. “I look forward to
the days we don’t have to
have double-digit increases.”

Todd said the need for the
tuition increase is tied to the
Topzo Business Plan’s goal
to increase faculty in the fu-
ture

“We have to have 27 more
faculty for this year to help
get our student-faculty ratio
where it needs to be,” Todd
said. “That’s the main dri-
ver.”

The board also passed a
housing increase, raising ba-
sic housing to $3,612 per year
—— $249 more than this year.
The increase is $29 less than
this year's increase. Dining
costs will go up making the
cheapest meal plan of eight
meals a week $1,898 for the
year, $132 more than this
year.

Charges made to llll-SG
relationship

The board also passed
governing regulation
changes that give UK over-
sight on certain 86 proce-
dures, with Ellingsworth as
the only opposing vote.

The biggest change in the
regulations is that the UK

Appeals Board would have
the power to confirm or deny
the result of an 86 election if
the outcome was disputed.

The appeals board was in-
volved in last year’s election
controversy, declaring candi-
date Will Nash the winner.
The board’s decision prompt-
ed Ellingsworth to sue UK in
Fayette Circuit Court. She
won the case, and UK eventu-
ally dropped its appeal.

The regulation changes,
drafted last semester, are at-
tempts to help clarify the re-
lationship between UK and
SG and help prevent the situ~
ation that developed last year
from happening again.

Ellingsworth has said it’s
a conflict of interest and al-
lows the UK administration
to indirectly pick the student
representative on the Board
of Trustees.

“I’m strongly opposed to
this,” Ellingsworth said. “It
still has the ability to give
the university a black eye.”

Email
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Rally

Continued from page i

 

go to some sort of staff bene
fits.

“I wish everybody could
be happy with what we’re do
ing, but I’ve come to realize
that that’s not always the

ase,” he said.

Drusilla Bakert, the asso
ciate dean of admissions at
the College of Law, received
the greatest response from
the crowd today, telling it
that she wanted to send a
message to UK that it will
not be able to achieve top-20
status without its staff mem-
bers.

“At every level, UK is
woefully understaffed. Other
schools laugh when I tell
them what the staffing is at
our law school,” she said.
“Every year, UK asks us to do
more with less and every
year we meet that challenge.
And yet, our university is
telling us that our work and
dedication are not valued.”

Williams said that he did
not want the issue to divide
faculty and staff.

“It’s not a person we’re

objecting to or people, it’s a
concept. We need to not look
at this as any kind of effort
to put a wedge between us
and our faculty colleagues,”
Williams said. “There are
faculty members here with
us now who are as outraged
about this as we are and we
appreciate that outrage.”

One of those faculty
members, biology professor
Judith Lesnaw, also spoke to
the crowd, offering her sup-
port.

“No one person, no ad-
ministration, no faculty
members, no students and no
staff can achieve this alone. I
want to preserve the commu-
nity,” she said. “I want you to
know that this faculty mem-
ber wants to preserve this
and wants to help you. So,
please tell us, the faculty,
how we can help.”

Allison Connelly, a facul-
ty member at the College of
Law, also supported the
protest of the unequal pay
raises

“To be a great university,
there has to be fairness
across the board,” she said.
“And this is just plain un-
equal and unfair.”

The faculty and staff rais-
es are not finalized and will

still depend upon the funding
that the university receives
from the state.

“All this uproar may be
for nothing if we don’t get
the support of the General
Assembly. It could be at the
end of the year when we do
our budget, that we‘ll all be
lucky, faculty and staff, to get
a 3 percent raise,” Williams
said. “It’s all dependent upon
the General Assembly and
they have a lot of different
demands on a little pot of
money.”

He also said that, if at the
June meeting of the Board of
Trustees they propose a bud-
get with a higher salary in-
crease for faculty, he would
vote against it.

Williams added that he
still supports the Top-20
Business Plan, calling it “one
of the most revolutionary
ideas in higher education.”

“I voted for it and I’d do it
again,” he said.

E-mail
mboehnke@kykernel.com

To be a great university, there has to be
fairness across the board. And this is just

plain unequal and unfair.”
- Allison Connelly, faculty member of the College of Law,
on the gap in pay raises between UK staff and faculty

 

Budget

Continued from page i

 

Rep. Joe Barrows, D-Ver-
sailles, said the budget
makes a connection between
Todd’s “proselytizing” over
the Top-20 Business Plan
and meeting the goals of be-
coming a top 20 research
university. “(The budget)
makes it easier to reach that
goal." he said.

Two Lexington-area rep-
resentatives were optimistic
that the Senate version of
the budget would include
further increases for UK.
Rep. Stan Lee, R-Lexington,
said he is working with
members of the Senate to
gain additional funds for the
university.

“We‘re on step two of
about a six-step process,” he
said, “We have a long way to
go.”

Rep. Bob Damron, D-
Nicholasville, added he is
“hopeful" the Senate will
“keep and improve" upon
the House budget. He said
Gov. Ernie Fletcher has
been critical of the level of
expenditures, but he said,
“UK is necessary govern-
ment spending.“

The budget includes
funds for construction of
new buildings on campus, as
well as for renovations of
some residence halls. Chair-
man of the House Budget
Committee Harry Moberly,

D Richmond, said the bud-
get is a positive step for the
people of Kentucky.

“Ask (university presi-
dents) how much better
their budgets are and how
much more they’ll be able to
do," he said.

The bio-pharmacy com-
plex is slated to get full fund-
ing with $76 million and the
bed tower will receive $130
million from the state to go
along with $25 million in al-
lotted UK funds. which are
restricted solely to that pro-
ject.

Todd said the $9 million
allocated for UK’s top-20
plan is a sign of the “legisla-
ture’s support of the plan
and their interest in seeing
results." He said the addi-
tional funds will be used to
provide raises for faculty
and staff through a 3 per-
cent salary pool.

An additional 2.5 percent
increase will go into UK‘s
faculty catch-up fund. Todd
said the university's goal is
to attain the benchmark me-
dian in faculty salaries by
2012.

“That's critical because
faculty drive the research
dollars that will help propel
us up the rankings,“ he said.

In the wake of Monday’s
announcement of a 12 per-
cent tuition increase for the
200007 academic year. Bar-
rows said every higher edu-
cation institution is looking
at significant tuition in-
creases.

“Even given our best in-
tentions," he said, “We still

lack resources to fund high-
er education at an adequate
level.”

The $18 million request-
ed for the Top-20 Business
Plan would have kept tuition
increases under 10 percent,
according to Todd.

Rep. Lee said he is con-
cerned that there is a per-
ception among the student
body that the General As-
sembly has cut funding to
higher education, so UK has
no choice but to raise tu-
ition.

Todd said the shortcom-
ings in the top-20 fund for
200607 will force the univer-
sity to make some tough de-
cisions in the coming
months. However, he said
that won’t affect UK’s drive.

“We can’t — and we
won’t A back off the ambi-
tious goals we have set for
UK," Todd said, adding that
the state can’t afford for the
university to back off its
plan to become a top-20 in-
stitution.

Still, Todd is optimistic
for the direction the budget
takes in its second year.

”The firm commitment
legislators have made in the
second year of the budget,”
he said, “will help ensure
that UK continues moving
forward with its Top 20
Business Plan. while being
sensitive to tuition costs.”

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NIGHT WATCH

In present-day Moscow a war of Biblical
proportions begins to stir. The forces of
Darkness begin a series of skirmishes
against the Night Watch, the forces of
good. Yeah, agreed, it sounds kinda
lame when you say it aloud without the
booming bass of that movie trailer guy‘s
voice. Nevertheless, this opens a trilogy
from Russian director Timur
Bekmambetov that looks to be, at the
very least, a journey into the weird. Now
playing at The Kentucky Theater.

THE HILLS HAVE EYES

What‘s with 2005 — 2006? Has
Hollywood officially run out of original
creative ideas'for horror flicks? The
basic premise here is that the United
States‘ nuclear tests in the Nevada
desert during the i9i.os spawned some
interesting human progeny who've been
living in wait and hiding ever since.
Also, they like to kill people. Opens
Friday at Regal, Woodhill and Lexington
Green.

THE LIBERTINE

Iohn Wilmot, the second Earl of

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Rochester, played by the ubiquitous
Johnny Depp, starts to hang out with
King Charles it played by John
Malkovich. Unfortunately, he also falls
tragically in love with an aspiring
actress, played by Samantha Morton
("Minority Report"). This film was
released earlier this year into large
cities, but the rest of the country has
been anxiously waiting. Something tells
me any anticipation that people once
had has dissipated by now. This mOVie
has been done so many times one loses
count, and just because it has lohnny
Depp and Iohn Malkovich in it, don't
think it's going to be much different.
Opens Friday at Regal. Lexington Green
and Woodhill.

ON DVD

HARRY POTTER AND THE

‘GOBLET OF FIRE

Harry Potter is thrown into the Tri-
Wizard Tournament much to his chagrin
and has a long-awaited encounter with
the dastardly Voldemort. This was one of
the more entertaining films in the series.
and boy,.the DVD release does not dis-
appoint. Interactive games that actually
work and are fun to play? Weird.
Commentaries that actually shed light
on the production and conceptualiza-
tion of the film? Astounding!

 

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monium prevails
in the Russian
thriller "Night
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Bekmambetov.
The film begins
a trilogy follow-
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mate, tangible
conflict
between good
and evil.

“Night Watch"
is now showing
at The Kentucky
Theater.

JARHEAD

It's unfortunate that this film tried to be
the "Apocalypse Now" and "Full Metal
lacket" of our generation and fell so flat
on its face. Nevertheless. it does func-
tion as one of the most pretentious war
films of all time. Ever. Oh well, C'est la
vie. Oops! There’s that pretentious
pseudo intellectualism again.

JUST FRIENDS

Just don't. Again With the fat suit
shtick? Written and directed by Roger
Kumble ("Cruel Intentions"). "lust
Friends" stars Ryan Reynolds ("Van
Wilder," "The AmityVille Horror") in the
aforementioned fat suit while trying to
score With a long lost high school sweet-
heart who destroyed him by usmg that
simultaneously disappointing and hurt-
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ONTAP I For the week of MARCH 8 - MARCH 14

TONIGHT

Augustana and the Damnwells

7 pm. Bogarts, Cincinnati. Tickets cost
$10.

Tommy Castro
8:30 pm. Southgate House, Newport.
Tickets cost $15 to $18.

Long Beach Shortbus
9 pm. The Dame. Tickets cost $10.

TOMORROW
Will Hoge w/ Limbeck
8 pm. The Dame. Tickets cost $10.

FRIDAY

Man Man w/ Scourge of the Sea,
Margot and the Nuclear So & S05 and
Jeremy Fresh

9 pm. The Dame. Tickets cost $5.

Hellmarys w/ Nightmare Music, The
Deehawks, Rubberband and The
Tallboys

10 pm. High Life Lounge. Tickets cost
$5.

SATURDAY
The 69 Eyes w/ Damone and Program
of the Dead

8 pm. Bogarts, Cincinnati. Tickets cost
$12.50.

Ricky Skagqs
8 pm. LouisvillePalace. Tickets cost
$25 to $55.

Hayseed Dixie
9 pm. The Dame. Tickets cost $10.

SUNDAY

Rhys Chatham w/ Tony Conrad and
Jonathan Kane

7 pm. The Dame. Tickets cost $10.

The Tallboys
8:30 pm. High Life Lounge. Tickets
cost $4.

MONDAY

Lucinda Williams
7 pm. Kentucky Theater. Sold out.

The Mendoza Line w/ Great Lake
Swimmers and Elliott Brood
9 pm. The Dame. Tickets cost $5.

TUESDAY

Tula
8 pm. The Dame. Tickets cost $5.

COMING SOON

Bela Fleck and the Flecktones

7 pm. March 15 and March 16. Kentucky
Theater. Tickets cost $46.50 per show.

George Clinton and Parliament
8 pm. March 19. Bogarts, Cincinnati.
Tickets cost $25 to $28.

The Academy Is w/ Acceptance, Panic
at the Disco and hellogoodbye

8 pm. March 23. Bogarts, Cincinnati.
Tickets cost $13 to $15.

MasterClassics Concert with the
Lexington Singers

8 pm. March 24. Singletary Center for
the Arts. Tickets cost $23 to 541; UK
students receive a $5 discount with
proper 10.

Kenny Chesney
7:30 pm. March 25. Rupp Arena.
Tickets cost $53 to $63.

Nickelback
7:30 pm. March 25. Freedom Hall,
Louisville. Tickets cost $38.50.

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ders. the building is still in-
adequate for a police station.
Franklin said.

Officers operate out of
the windowless basement
that features exposed plumb-
ing and wiring.

Brown stains mar the
floor in the basement where
sewage used to creep out of
the drain. The department
was finally able to fix the
problem last year.

“It's very embarrassing
for us to bring someone
down here with any sort of
report. It’s not a comfortable
place,“ Officer Mike Bandy
said. “Sometimes we have
victims of violent crimes
and this is the only place we
have to bring them."

Of the six benchmark
universities closest to UK‘s
enrollment size, all but two
have built new facilities or
have renovated existing facil-
ities since 2000. including the
University of Georgia. which
moved into its new facility in
2005.

The biggest difference for
UGA’s department is the lay-
out, Deputy Commander Jeff
Whitfield said.

"We were able to design
the interior of the building."
Whitfield said. referring to
an old building with no inte—
rior work before the univer-
sity leased the space. “We
were able to put walls where
we wanted them and have ba-
sically been able to design a
police department."

In that design. UGA‘s de»
partment has built larger dis-
patch and records rooms. ad-
equate locker rooms and a
separate room to keep
firearms. It also installed an
evidence lab with a vented
hood and equipment to do
forensics.

UK uses a closet to store
its evidence and has one
locker room for both its male
and female officers.

“You have to holler. ‘15
there a girl or a guy in here?‘

Franklin said. "In this

building. if we have a biohaz-

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ma," Peshkopia said. “Yet. al-
though the regime was se-
verely oppressive. my grand—
ma never yielded to its de-
mands to divorce her hits-
band. and they continued for
the rest of their lives to write
each other"

Because communist ide~
ology holds that behavior is
collectively motivated.
Peshkopia‘s grandfather‘s ex~
ile had stiff repercussions
for the rest of the family:

"My father was a very
studious person." Peshkopia
said. but “he didn‘t get a
right to have university stud
ies his because his father
was a political exile."

Instead. Peshkopia‘s fa-
ther found work building
power lines. For the last ll)
years of his career. he built
power lines in coal mines.

And in 1985. Peshkopia
himself would be dismissed
from Polytechnic University
(located in the Albanian capi-
tal of Tirana) because of his
family history He was origi-
nally able to conceal his iden-
tity because a large student
body enabled him to slip
through the cracks of the ad-
missions process. Also. some
of the admissions people
Were also sympathetic to the
Peshkopia family.

But the trick was re‘
vealed. and after a year.
Peshkopia‘s family history
came back to haunt him. The
widow of communist dicta-
tor l‘lnver Hoxha hated
Peshkopia's grandmother
and had him expelled.

"At that time. (Hoxha's
wife) was still influential."
he said. “I was evicted in
June 19%."

A separate act of defiance
also subjected his mother.
Drita Bahia-Peshkopia. to
government scrutiny.

“My mother came from a
hardcore communist family
and she just decided to mar-
ry my father without any re»
gard for the rules and the
norms," Peshkopia said.

But familial punishments
wouldn't be the only burden
Peshkopia and his family
would have to bear.

Aclosed society

Albanians didn‘t have baa
sic freedoms enjoyed by de-
mocratic societies. The gov-

 

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Officer Mike Bandy sits in the basement of the UK Police Department on Feb. 28 in the office that all of the

shift commanders and officers share.

ard or something. we have no
showers here where (officers)
can clean up."

Instead. a lone sink is
available in the basement
bathroom.

Ken Clevidence. vice
president of campus ser-
vices. which oversees the po-
lice department. has been di-
rectly involved with the de-
partment for more than three
years. in that time. (,Tlevi-
dence has advocated for both
more officers and a new facil-
ity.

While the department has
received new paint. cubicles
for shift commanders and
new carpet in the last few
years. he said it is still not
enough.

“They work hard and
they deserve a place to relax
and do their paperwork."
(Tlevidence said. “There's no
question that the facility is
not the most desirable."

At this point. he said
there has been some discus-
sion about a new facility but
the first step is to get the
building on the capital plan.
the university's list of build-
ing priorities. ()nce part of
the plan. it would still most

ernment suppressed political
and cultural expression con-
tradicting its ideology.

The paranoid communist
government in Albania was
vehemently anti—American.
as evidenced by its propagan-
da. Peshkopia said.

During their reign, com-
munists suppressed pro-
American speech or speech
critical of the regime. When
Peshkopia voiced his opin-
ions at the university some
of his classmates. particular-
ly the sons or daughters of
anti-American communist
elites. socially ostracized and
threatened him. In some in»
stances. they threatened that
if he continued expressing
his views. his father would
be imprisoned.

His own mother rebuked
him for speaking sympatheti-
cally toward America in pub-
lic. But his father did not.
and that was a sign of brav
ery. Peshkopia said.

But be was never pun‘
isbed by the government
an outcome Peshkopia ads
mits was “just luck."

A ban on subversive liter-
ature complemented the gov-
ernment's ban on speech.
That ban especially troubled
Peshkopia because of his
lifelong love of reading.

“1 always loved books." he
said. By the age of 10.hislir
brary consisted of 150 titles.
He eagerly read classic
American authors such as
Mark Twain and Jack Lon»
don.

As he got older.
Peshkopia learned other lan-
guages in order to plumb na-
tional archives for banned tir
ties.

“Sometimes we were
able to penetrate the national
library and find even books
that were not allowed by the
government in English. or in
French or in ltalian." he
said. ”This is why we tried to
learn foreign languages. in
order to get more clues about
what was happening beyond
that big prison that was Al
bania,

“And that damn custom of
loving books and paying to
buy them continues to haunt
me nowadays." he said. ”And
that‘s what I've continued to
do: always buy books and
pushing my students now to
buy and read books."

In addition to book