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Kentucky Kernel

Vol. XCIV, No.161

Established 1894

University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky

 

 

Independent since 1971

July 3, 1991

UK’s homosexuals
fear discrimination

By VICTORIA MARTIN

 

Senior Staff Writer

John is a communications senior who
comes from a “good" family. He works
part time and leads the social life oi an
average college student. And he‘s gay.

Like many other gay L'K students.
John said he is reluctant to talk about his
sexuality with anyone other than his close
inends. mainly because the predominant
attitude toward gays among the I} K com-
munity is negative. he said.

“I have friends on campus that don‘t
know that I'm gay. and I don't know how
they would react or if they would still be
my friends if they found out," said John.
who‘s real name has been has been with—
held at his request to protect his idenuty.

John said he used to have many friends
in fraternities, but he never quite fit in
with the greek crowd. He became reclu-
sive until he began working on campus
about two years ago.

Soon after he got his University Job. he
began socializing with people from work.
He discovered that a good friend of his
from work was gay. and John later started
dating him.

"I used to go out with girls. but it newr
ielt right." he said, ”At lirs't. i thought it
was because I wasn‘t adequate. but I real-
i/ed I didn’t enioy going out with girls
romantically. I reali/ed that I shouldn’t
have to be a certain way.

"At first. I thought I couldn't be friends
with straight people anymore. but I was
wrong. My rixinimates I have right now
are heterosexual. and they know I'm gay.
and ll doesn‘t bother them. It‘s .iust a fact
oi my lite. and I‘m the same person I was
before."

But John said although he believes he
isn't different jllSl because one iacet oi
his personality has changed. many people
refuse to accept his homosexuality.

He said he doesn't like the tact that
somt people Judge him solely by his sc’\
ual preference. but he doesn't let it bother
him.

“My basic philosophy is that I’m going
to be as nice as I can be." he said. “If I
act nLley to people who don't understand
me, it'll just cement their feelings. When
people encounter something they don‘t
understand. they're going to be scared.
I‘m not going to go around hating them

See FEAR. Page 6

 

 

Students required to act on health mandate

By DALE GREER
Editor in Chief

 

In addition to tuition bills. class
schedules and financial aid
forms, UK students will have one
more piece of paper to contend
with this fall.

Because of a new law requiring
college students to carry health
insurance. the UK Registar's Of-
fice will be mailing Insurance
Compliance Cards to all students
who have pre-registered for fall
classes.

Students are obligated to lill
out the orange card and indicate
how they will meet the state re-
quirement, said Randall Dahl,
UK registrar.

The card. which Wlll be includ-
ed with this fall‘s tuition bills.
must be returned to UK no later
the last day to pay tuition, Sept.
ll.

Students who fail to return a
completed card will be blocked
from registering for spring class-
es until the oversight is con‘cct
ed. Dahl said. UK will not. how-
ever, withhold diplomas or
academic records.

In I990. the Kentucky General
Assembly passed a law requiring
all full-time college students to
carry health insurance that pays
for 14 days in the hospital and 50
percent of related doctor‘s fees.

The law also covers students
who are taking 75 percent of a
full-time course load. For I'K‘s
fall and spring semesters. that is
nine or more credit hours

Dahl said there are two ways
students can comply with the in
surance mandate: If they are my-
ercd by an existing policy such
as a parent‘s; or if they purchase
sunable insurance through ITK or
a private carrier

Dahl stressed, however, that all
students must return the insu-
rance compliance card even if
they have adequate coverage or
don't intend to take a full course
load.

“The biggest concern is that
students may say. ‘Oh yeah.
my dad‘s got insurance.' and
they‘re not recognizing that there
is a a second step in there ... that
they have to fill out and send in
the orange card." Dahl said.

“We're trying to alert people to
look for the orange card and do
something about it. If they don’t,
shortly after the deadline to pay
fees. we will send them a tirst
and final warning "

The card requires students to
indicate how they plan to comply
with the insurance mandate Stu
dents who are tovcrcd by an es
isting policy must provide the
name of the company issuing the

policy. the policy number and
the policy holder‘s name and re-
lationship to the student.

Dahl said most undergraduates
probably are already covered by
a parent's policy. but he said it is
important for them to check with
their parents to be sure

“Part 01 the message for under»
graduates is that it's important
for them to discuss this with their
parents because a substantial ma
iority of them in the traditional
age group will be able to be in
compliance on the strength of
health instiraiit c owned by their
parents." Dahl \t'lltl,

-\s a sctond thoitc. students
may indicate on the tard that
they plan to purthase insurance
through [K The Illdntldlt‘l’) stu
dent health ice. however. may
not be used to meet the require
nicnts of the health insiirante
mandate

lIK‘s Student Health Senicc
will. however. offer two insii
rance plans that do meet them
The first, which covers only the
minimum reqmreinents oi the
state law. will cost S5: for \I\

See INSURANCE. page 3
I

Inside:—

Lexington's July 4th
Festival packed with
activities.

Story, page 9.

 

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SPORTS ................... 4
DIVERSIONS .......... 8
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CLASSIFIEDS .......... 11

 

 

 

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UK aims to build premier
organ transplant program

By KYLE FOSTER
Arts Editor

 

After at least two failed at—
tempts to start a heart/lung trans-
plant program. the University of
Kentucky Hospital is now rapidly
developing one of the best trans-
plant programs in the nation.

Since Dr. Michael Sekela was
appornted to develop and oversee
the program in February, he has
performed tour transplants, in-
cluding Lexrngton's first heart
transplant March 3X

Sekela. diret tor ol ['K's heart.
lung. heart ,t'lung transplant pro-
gram, also performed Lexmg
ton's tirst lung transplant June
to

Within a week. he pertormed
two more heart transplants. ll‘lr
eluding Kentucky's first hetero,
topic transplant , a. procedure
which involxes piggybatking the
donor heart onto the recipient
heart

"llie whole hospital is riding
on tloud nine." said (‘onnie Tay-
lor, l 'K Hospital heart/lung trans—
plant coordinator. “We‘ve done

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three different types of trans-
plants in the past week and a
halt.“

Sekela said he came to UK
partly because of the challenge of
building a first-rate transplant
program from scratch.

Until March. Louisville was the
only city in Kentucky with a
heart/lung transplant program

“It was a challenge because a
lot of people here said it couldn‘t
be done," Sekela said,

“Before 1 arrived. a couple ot
surgeons tried to get the program
going but could not access the do
nor sy stem,"

A nationwide organization con.
trols distribution of these organs.
In Kentucky and Virginia. the
Kentucky Organ Donors Associa-
tion (KODA) govems their use

KOIlA matches organs with
patients according to blood and
si/e compatibility

The organ is then ol'lcred to pa-
tients as they are prioritized on
waiting lists at hospitals with
transplant programs.

Although the donor system

,m‘t

may prevent UK's transplant pro-
gram from continuing at its cur—
rent pace, Sekela still believes the
system is fair and best as it is.

“The system pays attention to
how sick the patient is, and that’s
the way it should be

“I‘m glad surgeons aren‘t in
charge of the system. Heart
surgeons are maniacs with the
biggest egos. If we were in
charge, we would be cutting each
others‘ throats. You‘ve got to
wait your tum — that‘s the only
way,"

Despite having to wait its turn
for organ donors, the UK Hospi~
tal has been lucky over the past
few months »— It did not have too
long for organs because other
hospitals had doubts about their
quality,

“We thought they were OK so
we accepted them," Sekela said.
And so did the patients.

There have been no signs of
major rejection in any of the pa-
tients.

Linda Bamhill, 19. of Wil~

See SEKELA, Page 6

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WATT NAMED VICE CHANCELLOR
FOR RESEARCH AND GRADUATE STUDIES

The UK Road of Trustees has approved David ‘5. Watt as vice
chmcellor for research and graduate studies for the Lexington
Campus.

The appointment bocmne effective June 18.

Watt, chasm through an internal search which began in the
spring. has been chairman of the Clmnistry Department since
1987 and is a professor of both chemistry and plmnnacy. He has
received research funding from several sources and is cadavelop.
erot’adrugtestnig procedure faracchorses.

GROVES NAMED ACADEMlC OMBUDSMAN

John Russell Groves In, associate professor in UK’s College of
Architecture, has been named UK academic ombudsman for
1991-92. As such, he will be responsible for helping to mediate
academically~related problems or disputes that may arise between
students and faculty.

Groves is an authority on building codes. liability. contracts
and edit! issues involving legal aspects of dreamhitocture profes~
Sion.

‘RARE EARTH' SCIENTISTS
WILL GATflEH AT UK CONFERENCE

Scicmists from a variety of fields but with a common research
interest in the “rare earth elements” will meet in Lexington for the
19th Rare Earth Research Conference. cosponsored by UK. July
14-19.

Lance Dc Lung. conference chairman, said about 175 scientists
from around‘thc world are echch to attend the conference.
which will be held at the Radisson Plaza in Lexington.

Also sponsoring the event is Rare Earth Research Conferences,
Inc.

 

 

 

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 Community college gets a home

Assoclated Press

 

MlDDLESBORO, Ky. ~— Af»
ter 15 years in leased spacer
Southeast Community College
announced last Wednesday that
the school is finally getting a per—
manent home in Bell County.

College President Bruce Ayers
said the city had acquued a 3.“

acre site near downtown Mtddles-
boro for the three~building cam-
pus.

Ayers said the college, pan ol
l'K's Community College Sysv
tem. would share the campus and
its nearly 55,000 square teet oi
space with Kentucky Tech.

That Wlll allow the school to
add an assoctate degree in ~rp-
pltcd science to the current offer

ings of degrees tn ans and scienc-

' es. he said.

The $10 million for the new
campus was approved by the
WW) General Assembly,

Construction
early as December and ttttght be
totttpleted by 19‘”. he said

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Summer Kentucky Kernel, Wednesday, July 3, 1991 - 3

 

 

Actor Michael Landon dies at 54

MALIBU, Calif. -— Michael
Landon, the boyishly hand-
some actor who battled cancer
with the same affability he
brought to roles in “Bonanza”
and “Little House on the. Prai-
rte.“ died Monday. He was 54'.

Landon. who also starred in
the TV series “Highway to
Heaven“ and w hose career was
jammed with writing. produc-

ing and directing credits, died
nearly three months after he
announced his illness, said
Ronne Schmidt, a receptionist
for Landori‘s attorney: .lay' Ell-
t‘l'i

Landon was set to start art
on the new CBS series "l‘t
when he was diagmvsed “:13:
ll\ er and pattcrezut; cancer :3;
April 5

 

 

Insurance

Continued from page 1

months of coverage. The cost is
the same for students of all ages,

The second plan pays for a
broad range of outpatient servic—
es such as X.ray's and lab work
These services are the kinds of
things that college students need
most, said Jean Cox, health ser—
vice administrator.

Six months of coverage under
the second plan ts $191 for stu—
dents under age 35. Older stu-
dents must pay 5526. Coverage
for spouses and children also is
available under this plan at an ad
ditional cost.

If students indicate on the card
that they intend to buy a UK
plan, the Registrar's Office will
check with student health to veri-
fy that the student did. in fact,
purchase one.

Students who indicate that they
plan to purchase a UK policy but
then do not must tell UK how
they will comply with the man-
date. Those students will be pre-
vented from pre-registering for
the next semester until they do
so.

While the Registar‘s Office
Will be verifying whether stu—
dents buy a UK plan. it will not
attempt to detennine if a student
has lied about having suitable in-
surance from another carrier,

[1 ts possible. Dahl said, for a
student to avoid the insurance re-
quirement altogether by falsely
claiming he has coverage through
a private or employer polte y

“It is the student’s responstbtlr
ty' to fill out the card. and they are
responsible for what they put on
the card," Dahl said. "We have
set down for them the require-
ments of the law as we under»
stand it and we want to encour-
age and facilitate compliance.

“In a place this big with as
complex a structure and as di-
verse 3 student population .. im-
plementing something this big
becomes complicated. lhere are
a lot cracks for people to fall be
tween "

To help students understand
the complexity of their options,

 

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the Student Health Service has
set up an automated telephone tn-
forrnation line explaining the law
and UK‘s health plans.

The phone number for students
with touch-tone phones is (606)
233-8982.

Students who have rotary
phones or need individual assis»
tance may dial (606) 233-6356 or
257-5390.

Also. tn late July. Student
Health Service will mail students
a package explaining differences
tn the level of coverage offered
by the two UK polictes.

Differing levels of benefits
have been a point of debate since
the health insurance mandate was
enacted in 1990.

The State mandate was limited
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By BOBBY KING

 

Sports Edit0r

Cawixxl Ledtord leaned back
in the chair in his office with a
cloud of smoke hovering around
l’ll\ head He took a puff from hl\
cigarette and then sat down to yet
another interyiew.

’lhese days. lollowing last
week's announcement of his rtu
tirenient alter the completion u:
upcoming basketball \Ca\t\lt
that‘s about all he's been dome
’l wo more \lI-(liWH‘ls in the alter
noon and then a stack of phone
messages to return

But with _iust a hint of modem
he blows off all the attention.

“When you announce you‘re
hanging it up it‘s not a time you
expect people to go on the at
tack.” Ledtord said. "It‘s all been
more pleasant and more reward

ing than I ever thought it would
ix

Like they would any good
friend, long-time listeners to hls
17K basketball and football broad
casts just call him ‘Cawood.’

After 38 years behind the big
blue mike (‘aw'ood decided to call
it quits last week, Like a judge
laying down the law‘. he gave
himself one more year.

Generations of Wildcat tans

have come to depend on Cawood
to bring them the action o\er the
years. During that time a relation
ship has developed between the
tans and the broadcaster

”l like to feel I‘m honest with
the listener. I feel like the listener
is the most important person . ll
you are on radio 77 that there l.\
So I've tried to make him or her
the number one priority." he said.

He has done that by giving his
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accurate. unbiased account of the
action.

“I think they want honesty. i
think they want to know how the
team is playing and if it’s not
playing up to par or not playing
well. If it‘s playing great. I think
they want to know that too."

‘awood‘s introduction to
broadcasting was more acCidental
than anything. While teaching
school and helping with the has-
ketball team at Harlan High
School in 1%). the local radio
station hired then-basketball
coach Charlie Ward to do sports
commentary.

But at the end ol the school
"ear Ward decided to return to
coaching, leaving a vacancy at
the radio station. Ward called (a
wood and told him he wanted to
recommend him for the job.

“He thought I‘d like It so he
did and I got the Job and that‘s
how i got started." Cawood re»
membered.

And the rest is history.

Two years later, on September
19, 1953 he called his first UK
l‘txnball game. a 7—6 loss to Texas
A & M during Paul “Bear"
Bryant's final season.

That December he introduced
himself to the UK basketball au»
dience before the Cats 86-59 vic»
tory over Temple.

He has seen and announced
nearly every UK game, save a
few‘, ever since. During that span
there have been seven football
coaches, four in basketball. and
three athletic directors.

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wondering how they will get
along without him.

“Whenever I hear of 3 Ken-
tucky basketball game, I think of
his voice being behind the Wild-
cats." said Billy Cox, a sopht»
more majoring in biology who
has listened to Cawood since he
was a small child.

“He‘s a good commentator. He
knows everything there is to
know about the Cats. It'll be dill
ferent when he gets replaced. As
long as I can remember with UK
basketball, he's always been the
voice on the radio," Cox said.

Anncn Minas, a senior in busi~
ness administration. could safely
be called a Cawood Ledford fan.

“I think he should run for gov»

emor." said Minas. “People have
gotten to know him like a next-
door neighbor. I don't even know
if he is an original Kentuckian.
but he is about as Kentucky as
can be.“

Although Minas said he could
tell Cawood was a UK fan, he
said Cawood does not let his teel~
ing get in the way of calling the
game accurately.

“He was like a ref when he
came to making the calls. He
wasn't biased. When it came time
he‘d point out if the Cats were
getting their butts whipped."

Cawood doesn‘t mind telling
you that he is indeed a fan of the
UK teams he follows.

See CAWOOD. Page 9

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UK recruits show promise, despite loss

By BOBBY KING
Sports Editor

it was supposed to be a coming
out pany for L’K‘s newly harvest
ed crop of top notch football tal-
ent. Instead. it turned out to be a
lesson in humility.

Kentucky's 27-7 loss to Ten-
nessee in the Kentucky-
Tennessee Football All-Star Clas-
sic was not an auspicious intro-
ducuon for the 11 UK signees
who played in the game.

They rode into town like the
cavalry coming to the rescue.
wanting to make a show of force.

They were going to show the
long-suffering UK ttxnball faith-
ful that things were going to be
different now that they are aboard
the goodship Curry.

But. alas. even this. the noblest
of goals, was shot down like a
gunfighter in the street in the
span of only a couple of hours.

So it looks like things aren‘t
going to change alter all and

 

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UK recrUIt Corey Reeves. bottom. has his Sigths set high tor UK

Lhose bullies from below the bor—
der are still going to beat up on
the Cats.

Not so.

Although things didn‘t go their
way on this occasion. you can be
sure the story will end a bit dit»
ferently a year or two down the
mad.

Coach Bill Ctirry's second re;
criiiung class l\ blessed with
speed. strength and. most impor-
tant of all. an an of confidence
that Kentucky players llayc
lacked for far too lortg.

Just listen to Leon Smith. a
rookie wide receiyei troiti tout»
Ville lrinity. who will leaye more

Youth program stresses fitness

By DAVID KAPLAN
Contributing Writer

 

it's 8:30 am. outside the Sea-
ton Center. and there is a huge
gathering of children. At first
glance.°UK studean might think
they took a couple of wrong turns
wound up by an elementary
school.

But upon closer examination.
they would find it is the Seaton
Center. So why the mass of chil-
dren?

The 12nd annual University of
Kentucky National Collegiate
Athletic Association National
Youth Sports Program (NYSP) is
under way. and these children are
in the right place. The program
tries to improve the physical lit-
ness of disadvantaged youths be-
tween the ages of 10 and 16 by
offering sports skills instruction.

UK‘s NYSP is one of 150 na-
tionWide programs which will
take place this summer. The pro-
gram is funded by the Federal
Government and sponsored by
the NCAA.

The Community Action Agen-
cy. a federally funded agency
which does things for the com-
munity based on need. provides
buses which bring the children to
the program each day. The US
Food and Drug Administration
provides food for the children.

Steven Parker has been asso-
mated with the program at UK
for the past 15 years. two as a

counselor and 13 as the director.
“Everybody works together."
Parker said. “the liniversity' and
the Program. We are very lucky
to have state of the art facilities
provided by the l'niycrsity
There are no requirements for
the children that take pan in the

program except that they pass .i
physical examination. There is .i
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because I‘m gay and they don‘t
understand. It‘s kind of a chal—
lenge to try and change their
minds."

According to researchers at the
Kinsey Institute at Indiana Uni-
versity, about 10 percent of the
world population is homosexual.
and about one of every four fami-
lies has a gay member.

Mike Nichols. director and
staff psychologist at UK's Coun-
seling and Testing Center, said
some students come to the center

 

"i don't think (being
gay) should be that
important of an is-
sue, but it is... We
are not bad, not
good.Justequai”
Ray Stump,
Founder of GLUE

 

to discuss homosexuality, and
within the psychologists‘ offices.
students usually are very open
about being gay.

“In telling us what it feels to be
gay, many people say that it is a
basic part of them and they have
to be circumspect about it," Nich—
ols said

He also said that many students
come to the center questioning
their sexual identity, wondering
why they are gay.

And people are reluctant to ad
niit they are gay, especially be-
cause there is a misconception
that acqutrcd immune deficiency
syndrome is a “gay" disease.
Nichols said.

A group of Statistics 200 .stu~
dents completed a study two
years ago that measured levels of
intolerance among students to»
ward “unpopular" groups, includ-
ing homosexuals. Jon Storck, a
business administration graduate
student, who spent the 1990-91
school year in Gemiany. led the
study.

Storck said 13-1 students who

were listed in the UK student di-
rectory participated in the study,
and they responded with a fair
amount of tolerance to most un—
popular groups.

But when respondents were
asked to select their least-liked
group of people, 6 percent identi-
fied homosexuals as the group
they disliked the most, he said.

According to the study, 38 per-
cent of the 134 respondents
agreed that their least-liked
groups should be outlawed. and
about 30 percent believed that ho-
mosexuals should not be allowed
to give speeches in their commu-
nity.

The student researchers con-
cluded that levels of tolerance at
UK toward gays was low

“In closing, we as a group
would like to express our concern
over the alarmingly low levels of
tolerance among the respondents
to our survey and hope that our
responses are not indicative ot
the general University." the study
stated. “However, we fear that
our results reflect the overall atti—
tudes among L'K students and
college students among the
South.“

Ray Stump. a recent UK gradu-
ate, founded a LI K group called
Gays and Lesbians United for Ed;
ucation (GLUE) in 1989, hoping
to educate the University about
homosexuality. GLUE became an
official registered student organi-
Iation during fall 1989,

Stump said when he arrived at
UK in August 1989, he realized
that UK had no groups that repre»
sented the gay community.

“After reading an article in
L'ntveritty Christian, I realized
that we needed a campus group
that would combat homophobia."
Stump said.

Stump placed a personal ad in
the Kentucky Kernel that fall.
asking people to respond to him
by phone if they were interested
in starting such a group. He said
he received posnive and negative
responses.

“Some calls I got were threat-
ening, but those people never left
their numbers," he said. “But l
got a few people who were inter»
ested."

GLUE began by holding week-
ly meetings and by inviting

speakers to lecture on AIDS
awareness and other topics.
Stump said he hopes that the
group will enable more gay peo-
ple to come out of the closet, be-
cause he thinks that will decrease
discrimination against gays.

“I don‘t think it (being gay)
should be that imponant of an is-
sue, but it is,” Stump said. “We
are not bad, not good. Just
equal"

But GLUE is not the first stu-
dent group of its kind. Frank Har-
ris, director of the Student Center
in charge of registered student or—
ganizations, said about seven
years ago. a gay student group re-
mained an active organization for
two or three years. However,
Harris said the group may not
have lasted because many UK
students refuse to admit they are
gay.

“There is a reluctance on the
part of some. individuals in the
gay community to step forward
and be recognized as part of a
group," Harris said. “They fear

he said. “But when the issue
becomes a catalyst for confronta-
tion, nothing positive can come
of it."

A UK student who asked that
his name be withheld said he
wished all homosexuals would
“come out of the closet because it
makes me nervous when I don't
know who they are. At least if I
know who’s gay, I can steer clear
of them.“

Stump said the issues of homo-
phobia and discrimination are rel-
evant throughout Kentucky and
that issues need to be resolved.

He said he was accepted at an-
other institute of higher learning
in Kentucky about seven years
ago, but just before school start
ed, Stump said officials from that
school contacted him and asked
him if he was gay. When he ad-
mitted to them that he was a ho-
mosexual. of