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By BOB NORMAN
Senior Staff Writer

On the walls and on the flip-
over pattern boards of Tattoo
Charlie’s, you don't see a lot of
anchors or armed forces symbols.

You will see phantasmagoric
scenes of mythical dragons and
wizards at the studio, which
opened on the comer of Maxwell
and Limestone streets about three
weelcs ago.

There are demons and skulls

Ron Buchanan, an artist at Tattoo Charlie's
Limestone streets, has been open about thre

Living canvas the ‘biggest rush,’ tattooists say

 

and lots of reptiles. especially
snakes.

Cartoon characters —— Heckyl
and Jeckyl, Woody Woodpecker
and the Tasmanian devil -— have
their own section.

Some of the tattoo templates are
shadowed to give a three-
dimensional effect. Others are
drawn in a way to make it appear
as if something “anything from
bloody demons to mad skeletons
to Pee-wee Herman — is breaking
out of the body through the skin.

near campus, shows oil his tattoo machine. The shop, which is located at Maxwell and
e weeks. Greek letters are one of the more popular tattoos.

A lot of people come into Char—
lie‘s to take a look. They casually
analyze and talk about the pat—
terns, wondering whether they
may want the pattern torever
etched into their skin.

”Have you seen any health
scenes." a woman, dressed in a
right, while mini~i1ress and knee-
high white leather boats. asked an
observer

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some .ihar/cr.”

"Just

I‘he woman walked up to take a

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look at the boards he warfltppmg
through.

'Are you getting .1 tattoo?"
asked the observer

“I already have one." the art-
\w'e'i’d,

"Where. If firm dt'rt't "and me
asking "

"Right here." the tan! placate
her hand (in her want .715! above
her right thigh.

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Staff reports

In light of recent controversy
surrounding the confirmation of
Clarence Thomas to the Supreme
Court, UK's Student Govem-
ment Association is sponsoring a
panel discussion on the nature of
sexual harassment.

The discussion, “What is Sex-
ual Harassment," will be held to-
day at noon in the Center Theatre
of the Student Center.

“We're not expecting to solve
the problem in one hour, we just
hope to raise awareness." said

 

Discussion to be held
on sexual harassment

Stephanie Stephens, chair of the
SGA Speak-
er's Bureau.
“We want to
create an in-
l‘ornial at-
niosphcrc
by leaving
the doors
open, be-
cause we re-
- alize that
BRATT not every-
one has a
complete hour to spare. We

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Plans to drill
in UK forest
put on hold

Associated Press

A leading environmental attiiist
hailed a company 's decision to drop
plans to drill lor natural gas in
UK‘s Robinson Forest, but contiir
tied to call for legislative action to
regulate oil anti gas drilling.

Toni Fit/Gerald ol’ the Keritut‘ity
Resources Council said Ftpiitablc
Resources lixplorauon‘s withdraw
a1 “is good news for the forest" l’iti:
he said the th‘L‘lsltHl
change the underlying problem iii 1
lack til state rules :mcrrtint' t‘l' .t: .‘.
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does not require the latitloutritr
consent before drilling can start and
provides only limited environmen
tal protection.

“This highlights the need for the
(General Assembly) to take serum»

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the surface impacts ol oil and ga
ilcxclopnicnt." lit/Gerald said
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UK leadership class
assists youth shelter

By JARED PECK
Contributing writer

The house at 536 West Third St
does not appear different from the
other houses on the block, except
for the large yellow and black sign
on the door stating, “Sale Place."

The house is the Metro Alterna-
tive Shelter House Drop-in (‘enter
a temporary home for troubled t‘llll'
dren ages ll to 17

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Leader Institute Ll;t\'\
gray two-story house \twtcrdax.
painted two bedrooms and min-
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way.

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Forums to address UK Self-Study findings

By GREGORY A. HALL
Associate Editor

UK's status as a suttcasc tollege,
the magnitude of faculty workloads
and the taintess of tenure criteria
are among the l.\'\UC.\ discussed this
week as the Lnivcrsity Sell—Study
presents ll.\ findings

‘lhc Scll‘Slllth . part ol the South-
em Association of Colleges and
Schools' reaccreditauon process for
UK, has attempted to find the
strengths and weaknesses of the
University and address them.

Committees evaluated the various
areas of the campus and will
present their findings. They Will
then open the floor for discussion,
said Loys Mather, director ot the

study.

The Self-Study, which began in
February 1990, “is really the tirst
time that .ill til the l'nivcrsity has
been involved in this kind (ll lillCi'
nal assessiiit‘rit.” \lathcr stiitl

Data lor the surxcy ttt'rc toniA
piled during the inl-WI \ClllNll
scar. l‘his year. the toniiiiittt'es will
gather ;lll’tl .intilv/c their data. write
their reports and make recommen-
dations.

Mather said the University report
to the Southern Association will
finish in spring W92. Alter the ad-
ministration tiiid Board of Trustees
approve the report, they will tor
ward it to the asstxiation.

Then in September, ti team will

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Aging population could strain health system, experts say

By KELLEY POPHAM
Staff Writer

Statistics project that by 2030, the
US. population will grow 25 to 30
percent.

If so. a 220-bed health-care facili-
ty would have to be built every day
for the next 40 years to accommo-
date the needs of the elderly, ac-
cording to a speaker at an allied
health conference that was held in
Lexington this weekend.

Dr. Paul Willging, American
Health Care Association executive
vice president. said allied health
professionals must prepare for the
growing elderly population in the

Football Wildcats fall

United States.

Health professionals from around
the nation gathered Nov. 6-9 to dis-
cuss the necessity of providing ade-
quate health care for an increasing
number of elderly at the 24th annu-
al Association of Schools of Allied
Health Professionals convention,

UK, the University of Louisville
and Eastern Kentucky University
sponsored the convention.

“This is a particularly critical
time," said Dr. tarrie Dean, asso-
ciate dean for the Virginia (‘om-
monwealth University School of
Allied Health and member of
ASAHP‘s Board of Directors.

“We have a period of colliding

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demographics because we have the
fastest growing segment of our pop-
ulation being the old, old the
people over 85; and the second fast-
est is that population which is over
65 and these people require a great-
cr intensity of care.“

In the average hospital. for every
llltl patients there are 97 registered
nurses, as opposed to orily 5.2 RNs
in the average elderly health-care
facility ., at a titnc when the elder-
ly reqmre nearly six times the care
of an average patient. Willging
said.

"The schools of allied health
have to be responsive to that and
train and educate people for the lit

lure," said Dr lllttlliti> Robinson,
dean of L‘K’s t'ollt'gt tit \llicd
Health and newly t‘lt‘tted president
of ASAHP.

“If we don't get with it. it‘s going
to bypass us. So l thinlt that‘s what
people are learning ht‘rc "

This year‘s theme, 'Riiting into
the Future Allied Health l\.\tlt‘,\
in the 2lst Century" was designed
to address not only health tare for
the elderly. btit also other l\\tlc‘\ \l'
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2 - Kentucky Kernel, Monday. November 11, 1991

 

 

ART & MOVIES

Monday 11/11

- SAB MOVie: 'Wolt at the Door'; tree;
Center Theater; 7:30pm; call 7—8867
- Exhibit Terrie. Hancock, 'Magnet.
Stitched The Ga‘breath Gailery. thru
Nov 23

Tuesday 11/12

- Film Fest . 'Boyz N the Hood‘, spon-
sored by Martin Luther King, Jr. Cultural
Center.$1.Worshai"1 Theater. 7:30pm:
call 7—4130

' Ensemble: Room 22 Jazz Ensemble:
‘ree. SCFA Recital Hals. 8pm; call 74929

Wednesday 11/13

- SAB Mowe: 'Robin Hood: Prince 01
Thieves'. $2.00; Worsham Theater: 730
and 10'OOpM .V‘Ved - Sat 1

Thursday 11/14

- SAB Mowe Robin Hood Prince 01
Thieves': 52 00 Wor sn :1 n T’ eater 7'30
and 1000971 :.Wed Sat ‘:

- Mowe. Miskatcnic S'. rte“: Union Mowe:
5: Center room 7‘3 ":7“:

- SAB Mowe: ‘Robin Hood: Prince of
Thieves": 82 00. Worsham Theater. 7:30
1nd ‘0. 00:“1 Wed - Sat.)

~Pe"ormance Lexington Phiiharmor‘ c
Orchestra. 524.91.518.35: SCFA Con—
cert Hail. 80m. caii 233-4226
- Performance: 'Eat s; 88 and a canned
toodlo Goc‘ s Pantry; ArtsPlace Perfor-
r"ance Ha“ 80m:calf252-6421tortickets

Saturday 11/16

- SAB Movve: 'Robin Hood: Prince of
Thieves': $2.00; Worsham Theater: 7:30
and 10:00pm (Wed.- Sat.)

- Beneitt: 'Touch of Red‘: Headley-
Whitney Museum; 8pm:cal1255-665310r
reservations

Sunday 11/17

- SAB Movie: 'Robin Hood: Prince of
Thieves'; $2.00; Worsham Theater; 4pm
. Exhibit: '01 Mountains and Musrc, Frank
W. Long': tree: UK Art Museum (thru 12/
22)

- Holiday Opening Reception: ‘Appala-
chian Traditions."Mountain Memories';
Headley-Whitney Museum: 350m: call
255-6653 for reservations

- Ensemble: The Spellman College Jazz
Ensemble: tree. Memorial Hall; 6pm

- Center Sunday Series: Central Kentucky
Youth Symphony Orchestra: tree: SCFA
President's Room: 3pm: call 7-4929

- Center Sunday Series: Bizet Trio;tree.
SCFA Rec3_D;\"/

. SAB Mowe: 'Robin Hood: Prince of
Thieves'

T‘rJUFJSJ S‘QAY

- SAB Mowe: 'Robin Hood: Prince 01
Thieves

- Mowe: Miskatonic Student Union Mowe.
- Indoor Rec: College Bowl;

SATURDAY

- SAB Mowe: 'Robin Hood: Prince 01
Thieves'
- Beneitt‘ ‘Touch of Red':

SUNDAY

- SAB Movie: ”Robin Hood: Prince of
Thieves'

- Ensemble: The Spellman College Jazz
Ensernble

- Holiday Opening Reception: 'Appalachian
Traditions,"Mountain Memories'

- Center Sunday Series: Central Kentucky
Youth Symphony Orchestra

- Center Sunday Series: Bizet Trio

 

 

 

 

MEETINGS 8: LECTURES

 

 

Monday 11.111
- Meeting; Miskatonic Student Union. tree,
St. Center room 113. 6;)“
- Meeting. Nat-ve American Heritage As
soc. anyone interested, please attendl.
tree. Old St. Center room 115. 4pm. call
276-2172

Tuesday 11 12

° Lec. ore. Nu': ng Homes Lorg Term
Care" tree , St Cent er Room 230 35001.
call 7—8314
- Meeting, Cyci‘ "g 0.0 Meetmg; tree. Sea
ton Center, room 2‘2 .Bp". . call 233- 7438
- Lecture al Wo nen Speak'
1ree.Jeweil H.1‘i_ 7pm
- Lecture: Student L‘e .1: UK- A Report
from Self-Study. tree. St Center Theater.
12pm call r- -4982
- Lecture UK L br1r e 1 Set! Study Report
Forum tree it Center Theater 3pm call

7-4982

Lecture Cor DC {‘14} 1: UK S-elt Study
tree St Cen’rr The ater 345pni call 7-
4982

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Wednesday 11/13
- Meeting: Planned Parenthood Program,
tree. Blaker Hall; 8pm
- Lecture: Food and Housmg Forum. tree.
Patterson Hall; 9pm
- Meeting: RHA, tree; Patterson Ha‘i, 9pm
- Lecture: UK'S Stutt. A Forum Reporting
form Seli-Study;1ree; St. Center Thrfi‘aiu'
12pm: call 7-4982
- Lecture. Student Life at UK- A Report
from Self-Study. tree. St Center Theater
4pm. call 7-4982
' Lecture: 'Role of 'TAT' Transactvator in
the Regulation of HlV~1 Gene Expression
tree; UK Medical Center. room MN563.
4pm

Thursday 11/14
- Lecture: 'Soviet Union- Which Way The
Empir97';1ree; St. Center room 230: 3-
5pm call 7— 8314
- Lecture: UK' 3 Stuff. A Forum Reporting
from Seli- S—tudy; tree, St Center Theater
12pm, call 7-4982
- Lecture: Graduate Education: A Selt-
Study Report Forum. tree; St. Center Thea-
ter. 2,30pm. call 7-4982
- Lecture. Undergraduate Education: Re-
port of Self Study Findings, tree. St Center
Theater: 3 15pm, Call 7-4982
- Lecture: Continumg Education at UK
Self-Study Forum. free, St Center Theater.
4pm_ call 7-4982
' Lecture Protesswnal Education Seli-
Study Report; tree, St Center Theater.
4:30 pm; call 7-4982

Friday 11/15
- Lecture 'MicroanalySis Usmg the Hollow
Cathode Discharge EmiSSions Source'.
Free, Chem-Phys Rm 137. 3 30pm (re
freshments) and 4pm (seminar)

  

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Monday 11/11

. Weekly meetings: Water Ski Team &
Club; Free; Rm 106 St. Center; 9pm; call
253-3723

- Weekly meetings: SAB Cinema Comm;
Free; Rm 228 St. Center; 5pm; call 7-
8867

- Weekly meetings: Aikido; Alumni Loft;
8:30pm; call 273-9877

Tuesday 11/12

- Weekly meetings: SAB Concert Commit-
tee; Free; Rm. 228 New St. Center; 3pm;
call 7—8867

- Weekly meetings: SAB Indoor Rec.
Comm; Free; Rm 115 St. Center;
6:15pm; call 7-8867

- Weekly meetings: U.K. Ultimate Frisbee;
Free; Stoll Field; 5:30pm; call 8-2686

- Weekly meetings: Chess Club; Free;
Rm 117 St. Center; 4:30-10pm; call 887-
2574

- Weekly meetings: Catholic Newman
Center Open Student Meeting; Free;
Newman Center, Apt. 8; 11am; call 255-
8566

- Weekly meetings: UK Ballroom Dance
Society; $5 per semester; Barker Hall.
dance studio; 7- -;9pm call 277- 0664

- Weekly meetings. Writer's Bloc Weekly
Meetings; tree; Old St. Center, room 309;
7pm; respond to box in 1215 POT

- Weekly meetings: Society for Creative
Anachronism; free; St. Center room 117;
7pm; call 223-5870

Wednesday 11/13

. Weekly meetings: Canterbury Fellow-
ship, Holy Communion; St. Augustine's
Chapel; 5:30pm; call 254-3726

- Weekly meetings: Encounter; Free; Rm
205, New St. Center; 7pm; call 276-2362
- Weekly meetings: S.A.V.E. meeting:
Free; Rm 309, Old St. Center; 7pm

- Weekly meetings: Aikido; Alumni Lott;
8:30pm; call 273-9877

Thursday 11/14

- Weekly meetings: SAB Spotlight Jazz
Comm; Free; Rm 204 Old St. Center;
5pm; call 78867

- Weekly meetings: SAB Periorming Arts
Collective Meeting; Free; St. Center
Room 202; 4pm; call 7-8867

- Weekly meetings: U_K. Ultimate Frisbee:
Free; Stoll Field; 5:30pm: call 8-2686

- Weekly meetings: Canterbury Club-
Episcopal Student Fellowship; St. Augus-
tine's Chapel; 6:30-7:30pm: call 254-3726
- Weekly meetings: Catholic Newman
Center Night; Newman Center; 7:30-
8:30pm; call 255-8566

. Weekly meetings: Thursday Night Live.
Free; 502 Columbia Av.; 7:30pm: call
233-0313

- Weekly meetings: UK Clogging Club;
tree; Seaton Center Rm 123; 7-9pm; call
231 -7207

   
 
  
   

   

   
 

Saturday 11/16

' Weekly meetings: Catholic Sunday
Mass; Free; Newman Center; 6pm; call
255-8566

Sunday 11/17

- Weekly meetings: U.K. Ultimate Frisbee.
Free; Stoll Field; 5:30pm; call 8-2686
-Weekly meetings: Canterbury Fellow—
ship, Holy Communion; Free; St. Augus
tine's Chapel: 10:30am and 5:30pm: call
254-3726

- Weekly meetings; Catholic Sunday
Mass; Free; Newman Center; 9 and
11:30am. 5 and 8:30pm; call 255-8566

- Weekly meetings: Spaghetti Dinner, All-
U-Can-Eat; $2: Newman Center; 6pm;
call 255-8566

0 Weekly meetings: University Praise Ser-
vice; Free; 502 Columbia Av.- UK; 113m;
call 233-0313

- Weekly meetings. Aikido. Alumni Loft-
1pm; r all 273-9877

Tuesday 11/5

- Indoor Rec: College Bowl; $1; St. Cen-
ter, room 245; 6:30-10pm: call 7-8867

Thursday 11/7

- Indoor Rec: College Bowl; $1: St. Cen-
ter. room 245; 6:30-10pm; call 7-8867
Friday 11/09

- UK Volleyball: Kentucky vs Florida; Me-
morial Coliseum; 7:30pm

Saturday 11/9

- Indoor Rec: College Bowl; $1. St. Cen-
ter, room 245 and 117; Noon to 4pm; call
7-8867

- UK Football: Kentucky vs Florida; at
Florida; 1:30pm

- Hockey: CoolCats vs Miami of Ohio:
Lexmgton Ice Center. ; 11'30pm

- UK Soccer: Kentucky vs Sout Carolina.
Columbia, SC; 2pm

Sunday 11/10

- UK Volleyball: Kentucky vs Auburn. Me-
morial Coliseum; 1pm

- UK Soccer: Kentucky vs Notre Dame.
Notre Dame. Indiana; 3pm

- Hockey CoolCats vs Miami of Ohio.
Lexmgton Ice Center; 5:45pm

 

 

 

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One of my favorite sitcoms, the
Fox Network's “Get A Life,” final-

ly is back on the air. I won'ied about
the show for two different reasons.

Since it was officially listed as
being on “hiatus" (networkese for
“dead as a doomail"), I worried it
never would return again. If it did
reappear from the great TV beyond,
I worried that it would be “im-
proved" to the point of an unwatch-
able shell of its former self.

Networks have that tendency.
Network bigwigs sit around and
dream up brilliant new ideas to save
shows headed down the ratings
dumper. They add or subtract char-
acters, change settings, develop new
story lines — name it, they'll try it.

The situation is especially infuri-
ating when the show was perfectly
worthy the way it was. Chris Elliott
and company are seasoned comedy
veterans who brought the show to
exactly where it needed to be. They
made it fresh, funny and inventive.

“Get A Life“ was doing plots no
one else was doing. (It was doing
plots no one else could do.) The
show had a sense of humor all its
own. But Fox pulled it, replaced the
series with “Herman's Head“
(which, truth be told, is a decent
show itself, though not up to the

“Get A Life” standard) and an-
nounced it was retooling before it
brought the show back.

Fox has to realize one thing: It is
the fourth television network. It is
not an established staple that view-
ers commonly tum to. In many cit-
ies, there isn't even a Fox affiliate.

“Get A Life," when it aired on
Sundays last season, got ratings as
high as could have been expected.
Those ratings were not great, but
what shows docs Fox have that get
decent ratings, aside from “The
Simpsons," “Married With Chil-
dren," and that teenage Beverly
Hills zip code thing?

But getting back to the point: 1
read that the fine folks at the Fox
network were going to retool “Get
A Life." Chris, I read, was going to
move out of his parents‘ garage and
get a roommate elsewhere. Chris'
best friend, Larry, would be
dropped from the show.

I cringed as I read these things. I
liked Chris when he lived with his
parents. His dad, Fred, is played by
Bob Elliott, Chris Elliott‘s real-life
father and half of the brilliant “Bob
and Ray" comedy team. Fred Peter-
son, who is retired, sits around in a
bathrobe making snide remarks at
Chris' expense.

His morn, Gladys, is played by
Elinor Donahue, who is best known
as the oldest daughter on “Father
Knows Best" and Ellie the druggist
on “The Andy Griffith Show." Giv-
en those wholesome, mainstream
roles in the past, it might be surpris-

ing that she would surface on this
oddball show.

That’s the beauty of it: She treats
her character as if it was on a regu-
lar show, making twisted remarks
through her customary friendly
grin. Usually. as she talks to Chris,
she can be seen cleaning firearms or
practicing taxidermy.

Larry, played by Sam Robards,
has apparently vanished from the
series. It is a shame. His straight-
laced family man character was the
perfect sidekick for Chris.

Luckily, “Get A Life,” judging
by last Saturday’s episode, is as
good as it ever was. That is, to a
person like me, who liked the show
from the beginning. If you hated it,
as many people I know did, you
will still hate it.

Chris Elliott is, as l have said in
columns past, that kind of comedi-
an. There is no middle ground. His
goofy style — a combination of ar-
rogance, stupidity and surrealism

,_ is not for everyone.

But that's understandable. Bland,
lifeless comedians who try to please
everyone wind up pleasing no one.
To placate every type of viewer, a
comedian would have to be all over
the map +7 in other words, so do
void of personality that he or she
comes across not as a person but as
a walkingjoke-machine.

“Get A Life" dares to be the odd-
est show on the air today. The peo~
ple behind the scenes surely realize
that some of their material escapes
large sections of the audience. But

they have the guts to do the show
the way they want to do it. The best
way to do a good comedy show is
to please yourself first — write and
produce material you feel strongly
about; that’s the only way to do a
comedy show — go with your
strengths.

The show avoids normal sitcom
conventions like the plague. There
are no cutesy kids, no wacky co-
workers, no nutty neighbors and no
talking animals or wisecmcking ali-
ens. l’m sure the networks wanted
some or all of those things, but
luckily Elliott & Co. rejected such
notions in favor of the loopiest
brand of humor on the air. To wit:

-On one episode, Chris meets,
dates, marries, cheats on and di-
vorces the model he has wor-
shipped from afar his whole life.
And it all supposedly happened in
just one day. On any other show, it
would all just be a dream. On “Get
A Life" it really happened — stip-
posedly'.

-A flashback sequence, in which
Chris remembers a recent romance,
features Chris and his lady love en—
joying a picnic, canoeing, riding bi-
cy‘cles, touring the Sphinx, anchor‘
ing a TV newscast, exploring the
surface of a faraway planet. etc.

-When Chris' parents were hav-
ing their kitchen expanded by six
inches. Chris joined in the construc-
tion crew's mystical “tool-belt
wars," which turned modemday
plumbers and carpenters into med-
ieval knights armed with socket-

wrerches and hammers.

And those are some of the more
normal incidents. I don‘t know if
that will give you a clue as to
whether you should watch. The
show’s bizarre plots and ludicrous
dialogue do not translatc well to the
printed page.

The entire program is sprinkled
with idiotic remarks and actions by
Chris Elliott, from dumb remarks
like “Who do you think you are, the
president of Europe?" or “If they
can put a horse on the moon..." to
his impromptu dances or songs
which would be hard to capture
here.

1 guess the best way to sum up
the Elliott appeal would be to say
this: If you liked The Fugitive Guy,
The Regulator Guy, The Guy Under
The Seats, The Panicky Guy, Mar~
lon Brando and all of the other run-
ning characters he played on “Late
Night With David Letterman," give
“Get A Life“ a try.

If you hated that Chris Elliott.
you'll hate this one. Stick with
“America's Silliest Surgical Slip-
Ups,"

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A sophomore from New York
possessing a “great body and a
great attitude" led the [K Wild-
cats to an 82-77 victory over
Athletes in Action yesterday at
Memorial Coliseum.

Jamal Mashburn is that sopho-
more. Some. however, know him
as someone else.

”Obviously, Mashbum is -—-
an adult," said Athletes in Action
guard Lorenzo Romar.

“The big guy inside was tery
effecuve offensively.” s‘Llltl .-\1A
Coach Dave Lower.

“Jamal has a great body and a
great attitude. He is going to be
one of the Top 10 players in the
world,” said l‘l-s' forward John
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ball-fake, put it on the floor and
he has a great post—up game. He
handles the ball on the break.

“He is .still very young and is
going to get much better," Pitino
said.

And the 6-foot-8 sophomore
was in command of all his abili-
ties last night Mashbum scored
29 points and grabbed eight re-
bounds. He was four for eight
from three-point range, 11 of 12
from two-point range and three
for four from the free-throw line.

No one of which was impres-
sive to Mashbum.

“Excited and disappointed," he
said of his play. “Andre im-
pressed me with that big block
he had, Deron impressed me
with his hustle, Pelphrey also.“

Mashburn was right about An-
dre Riddick. The (Moot-9 fresh-
man started. scored four points
and unleashed his first blocked
shot on AIA center Ray Tolbert.

With 2:50 remaining is the
second half and UK leading 7-1-
73. Tolbert drove toward the bas—
ket off the low post. Riddick
swept across the lane and thwart-
ed Tolbert’s shot. Pitino knew
why Mashburn was excned.

“Andre is a super freshman. a
super talent." Pttino said. "Once
he has learned the system. once
he is comfortable with it. you’ll
see a lot of blocked shots, you‘ll
see a lot (it moves inside ”

Mashburn also was right about
Pelphrey. The senior forward
scored 15 points iii 33 minutes of
play. He began liK‘s scoring by
hitting a pair of threes, one trotn
the right Wing and one from the
top of the key. He too. drew
praise from AIA's Romar

“l was very impressed with
h