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endure the betrayal
of false friends; to
appreciate beauty, to
find the best in
others: to leave the
world a bit better.
whether by a healthy
child. a garden patch
or a redeemed social
condition; to know
even one life has
breathed easier
because you have
lived. This is to have
succeeded."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Quotes

What
friends are
for

"True friendship is like
sound health; the
value of it is seldom
known until it be
lost."

- Charles Caleb Colton

"Each friend represents
a world in us, a world
possibly not born
until they arrive, and
it is only by this
meeting that a new
world is born."

- Anais Nln

“A new friendship is like
an unripened fruit -
it may become either
an orange or a
lemon."

-EmmaStacey

"A real friend is one who
walks in when the
rest of the world
walks out."

-Unknovm

“A friend is someone
who is there for you
when he'd rather be
anywhere else."

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“A friend is one who
believes in you when
you have ceased to
believe in yourself."

- Unknown

“Don’t walk in front of
me, I may not follow.
Don't walk behind
me, I may not lead.
Walk beside me and
be my friend."

-AlbertCamus

“Everyone is a friend,
until they prove
otherwise."

-Unluiown

“Every person is a new
door to a different
world."

- from SIX Degrees of
Separation

-RONNORTON

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Lyman M. Johnson unveiled the new historical marker in memory of his father yesterday afternoon in front of Frazee Hall.

Leader’s mark

Students, administrators come together to show
campus Lyman T. Johnson historical marker

By Chyrica L. Banks
STAFF WRITER

It was a day of reflection as
observers waited for the showing
of a historical marker honoring
Lyman T. Johnson, who in 1949
became the first black student ad-
mitted to UK.

The marker was placed in
front of Frazee Hall. Johnson is re-
membered on one side of the
marker. while the other side docu-
ments the history of desegregation
at UK.

Mildred Bailey, who served as
the mistress of ceremony at the
dedication, said it was fitting for
the marker to be placed on a hill.

“Lyman use to say, ‘Don't let
the wagon role back down the hill.
If you see it roll go pull it back on
high grounds.“' Bailey said.

The marker was sponsored by
the Student Development Council
through the Senior Challenge fund
raising program.

The ceremony was called to or-
der by a drummer, who led the
speakers and guest to the area of
dedication. Gerald Smith. Associ-
ate Professor of History and direc-
tor of the African-American Stud-
ies and Research Program. talked
about the segregation in the li-
brary and in the Student Center.

where the tables where labeled
“colored only.“ Smith also dis-
cussed the 50 years since Johnson
won his case for integration.

“This marker brought us here
today and will not erase.“ Smith
said.

Smith gave three reasons for
the celebration. First. he said. it
honors black men and women who.
before 1949. emptied trash cans.
cooked and cleaned at UK. only to
have their children denied admit-
tance.

Next. it honors blacks affiliated
since 1949 who spoke out for the
right to be included at UK in word
and deed. Lastly. it honors those
with the courage, commitment and
tenacity who refused to accept the
status quo.

After Smith. Jerry Stevens
performed a ceremony to consecra-
tion of the area of the marker.

Stevens poured water on the
ground to honor the legacy of in-
spiration from the past. present
and future. Some of the legacy of
inspiration include Johnson. Ted
Presley and Greg Page.

Before the showing. UK Presi-
dent Charles Wethington told of
the significance of desegregation.
Lyman M. Johnson preceded him
with a response from the Johnson
family. Johnson reiterated his fa-

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The marker commemorates Lyman T.
Johnson, the first black student at UK.

ther's words and referred to the
marker as a blockade.

“This marker is a blockade for
whatever rolls down the hill. the
marker can turn it around and
send it back." Johnson said.

The marker was unveiled by
Johnson and Wethington as Black
Voices led the crowd with the Ne-
gro National Anthem. "Lift Every
Voice and Sing."

The audience held hands and
joined the choir while sortie cried
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CAMELS

Cleanup coming soon

Event will involve campus, neighboring
communities in nationwide beautification project

By Lexie Cheathfl
CONTRIBUTING WRITER

The cleanup is coming soon to
a neighborhood near you.

This Saturday. neighborhoods
in the UK area and throughout Lex-
ington are participating in the 11th
annual Great American Cleanup.

The Great American Cleanup
program is a part of Keep America
Beautiful. a national organization
that recruits people. government
agencies and businesses for beau~

 

tification projects. Cleanup has
been a monthlong campaign
across the United States.

“Nationwide cleanup started
on March 24." said Calvin Powell.
a code enforcement officer for the
Lexington-Fayette Urban County
Government. "It will culminate on
April 24."

Powell is involved in the local
neighborhood association and has
been involved with the Great Amer-
ican Cleanup in previous years.

"l‘ve been involved in this for

the last five years." Powell said.
"I‘ve tried very hard to get neigh-
borhoods involved.“

Cleanup will be in two neigh-
borhoods close to UK this week
end. There will be cleanup in the
Maxwell Street, Transylvania
Park and Woodland Avenue
neighborhoods and the Au-
dobon/ Forrest Park area. These
areas are home to many students,

“We like it when UK students
help." Powell said. “Students
should learn to be responsible and
be good neighbors. They live in
this area and should pitch in.“

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Campaign still

brewing

atUK

‘People-driven' effort is much the same at
other public universities throughout US.

By Manish Bhatia
Sim wants '7

Raising money for an or-
ganization is never an easy
task. especially when it's for
thriving institutions of sever-
al thousand students.

“Capital campaign can be
regarded as a major gifts cam-
paign." said Terry Mobley.
the chief development officer
for UK.

“It is very people-driven.
raising money for student
scholarships and faculty en
hancement." he said.

The main focus of the
University is to raise money
for faculty and students by
concentrating on individu-
als, alumni and non-alumni.
corporations and founda
tions. That mission would
also involve capital projects
like building new buildings.
Mobley said.

“We are in the early
stages of the campaign. It is
over a five-year period. and
this is the first." he said.

Some state universities
like Indiana lTnivcrsitv
Bloomington use a bifurcated
method of capital campaigns.
said Kent Dove. vice president
for Development at tho lndi»
ana University Foundation.

“We have gone to a multi-
ple campaign system. where
each of the various academic
units have their own case
statements." he said,

The lU system focuses pi'i»
marily on endowments in
which the principal is invest-
ed and only a portion ofthc in-
vestment earnings is spcnt.
Dove said. This method allows
the endowment to become a
perpetual source of funding
for the target set by the donor.

Some other sources of

capital for [U include annual

RESIDENCEHALLS

gifts. securities. corporate
gifts. property and tax incen—
tives.

Much like UK. the Univer-
sity of North Carolina-Chapel
Hill is in the “quiet phase" of
its capital campaign. said
Speed Hallman. director of De
velopment Communications
at UNt‘.

In the quiet phase of a
standard campaign. the first
few years is spent in securing
major gifts to kick off the
“public phase.“ The total
amount raised during this
phase is used as inspirations
for donor to give funds to the
university. Hallman said.

“Universities are always
raising money. and cam-
paigns come every now and
then.“ he said. "It‘s an oppor-
tunity for the campus to come
together and look at its priori-
ties and define a vision of
where it wants to go.”

liNt‘ is in the two-year
quiet phase of campaigning.
the goal of the university be-
ing about $1 billion over seven
years. The campaign is bro—
kcn down into several cate-
gories such as faculty support.
student support and capital.

Faculty support is con
corned with faculty develop
ment through prolessorships
and research funds. Student
support involves scholarships
and graduate research fund
ing. while capital includes
construction and renovations
of buildings.

The dollar amounts from
UK‘s capital campaign will be
available at the end of thc tis-
cal year. Moblcy said. Some
other universities that UK
uses for comparing its perfor-
mance include the l'niversity
of Gcoigia, l'nivci'sity of Al-
abama and the University of
South ("ai'olina

It’s not exactly
‘Porky’s Revenge’

Holmes Hall RAs hosting second annual
event; prizes, games and food offered

By Jennifer Caldwell
Sl—Aff' WRITER

 

Where can you benefit a
worthy cause and have fun all
at the same time?

At the Pork Fest. of course.

The second annual Hoimes
Hall Pork Fest is this Saturday
from noon to 4 pm. in the
North Campus courtyard.

“It's basically just a fund
raiser we have for Big Broth
ers. Big Sisters." said Brock
Triplett. a chemical engineer-
ing sophomore and RA at
Holmes Hall.

While usually put on for
North (‘ampus Triplett said it
was open to all students.

Games. food and prizes
will be provided. but at a price.
The games will cost 50 cents to
play and you can munch on
barbecue pork sandwiches.
chips and pop for only $2.

“We charge money to play
the games and that money
will be given to the Big Broth-
ers. Big Sisters . . the same
with the food." said Kurt
Welsh. hall director for
Holmes. and a German and
economics senior.

There will also bc eating

ington

contests involving watcriiicl-
ons. pickles and pics and holi-
bing for apples.

"The food will be provided
by Slone‘s Market." said Doris
Ncider. the staff assistant at
Holmes Hall. “’I'hcv worked
with us last year and they‘re
working with us again this
year.”

Among the many games
and contests will be .‘I dunking
booth. a bullucc run. a bouncy
boxing ring and pop a shot
basketball.

"We're getting pi‘ixcs do-
nated by various local busi»
ncsses." Welsh said

(lift certificates frotn Mci‘
jcr‘s grocery store and Papa
John's Pizza will be just a few
of the prizes given out at the
games.

'l‘riplctt said two people
will take turns in the dunking
booth: llr. Gail Hoyt. an eco-
nomics professor. and Nate
Brown. the SGA president.
both voluntccrcd to he the sit-
ting ducks this year.

The bouncy boxing ring
will require a little muscle
and ovcrsizcd boxing gloves.

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I suppose
that rep-

resents
some step
forward.”

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on his response
to Slobodan
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willingness to
accept some
United Nations
presence In
Kosovo.

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13 students earn cash off market

The stock market made 13 UK finance stu-
dents $15,000 richer last week.

The UK Portfolio Management Team learned
they had beaten 18 other schools in a contest in
which the Tennessee Valley Authority allotted
them $100,000 to invest in the stock market over a
four-month period in 1998.

The team earned a 45 percent return on its
investment. 16 percentage points better than the
Standard & Poor’s 500 Index over the same peri-
od of time.

The students will split the $15,000 prize
among themselves, and TVA will place the pro-
ceeds from their investment into its $450milli0n
Nuclear Decommissioning Trust Fund.

"I bought some of what we actually bought in
the group." said Stuart Roach, a finance senior
and team member. “I've done OK."

"The opportunity to have real money at our
disposal was an opportunity I couldn‘t say no to,"
said Bradford Jordan, a financial management
professor and adviser for the team. He empha-
sized that all the stock picks were made solely by
the team, comprised entirely of seniors.

Some of the UK portfolio’s top performers
were Carnival Cruise Lines, Compaq Computer,
MCI Woridcom, Qualcomm and Staples.

Bombs found in school kitchen

LITTLETON, Colo. A The two outcasts who
massacred their classmates before killing them-
selves intended to blow up Columbine High
School, authorities said yesterday after discover-
ing two large propane bombs hidden in the
school‘s kitchen. The discovery also could provide
more evidence of a wider conspiracy. Sheriff John
Stone said yesterday. Eric Harris, 18, and Dylan
Klebold, 17, armed with sawed~0ff shotguns, a
semiautomatic rifle. pistol and homemade bombs,
killed 12 students and one teacher Tuesday. Au-
thorities had already been looking into the possi-
bility of additional suspects because of the amount
of ammunition and explosives left behind.

Clinton backs NATO on troops

WASHINGTON , On the eve of a 42~nation
summit. President Clinton met with NATO Sec-
retary-General Javier Solana yesterday and
backed plans to update the military assessment
made last fall that the Yugoslavia campaign
should be limited to the air. “I think it is a wise
and prudent course." Clinton said of the re-
assessment on ground troops. Asked about a re-
port that Milosevic had told Russia he was will-
ing to accept some United Nations presence in
Kosovo. Clinton said he had not studied the offer
but added. “I suppose that represents some step
forward.“

 

BACK AGAIN: in
spite of low
ratings, "The
Roseanne
Show" will be
back for a
second season
In the fall,
syndicator King
World Prods.
said Wednesday
- to the dismay
of some
stations airing
the talk show.
The tension
between fling
World and some
“Roseanne"
affiliates is
running high
because King
World already
is making
money on the
show.

 

SHE'S A DOLL:
Model Tyra
Banks has
signed to star
as a doll who
comes to life in
the TV movie
"Life Size" for
ABC's
"Wonderful
World of
Disney" family
movie
showcase.

Milosevic Oils Kosovo ‘presence'

BELGRADE, Yugoslavia — President Slobo
dan Milosevic has accepted the idea of a U.N.con-
trolled “international presence" in Kosovo if the
NATO bombing stops and the alliance withdraws
troops from Yugoslavia’s borders, a Russian spe
cial envoy said yesterday. Former Russian Pre
mier Viktor Chemomyrdin held a daylong meet-
ing with Milosevic. It was unclear, though,
whether such a force would be armed and under
what guidelines it would operate. NATO has in-
sisted on an armed presence in Kosovo.

Army helicopter crash kills 7

FORT CAMPBELL —— An Army Black Hawk
helicopter crashed during a training mission yes-
terday, killing seven people. The UH-60 heli-
copter went down at Fort Campbell about 7 a.m.,
the Army said. An Army photo showed the chop
per scattered in several large pieces in a wooded
area next to a road. The Black Hawk is the pri-
mary helicopter for air assault, air cavalry and
medical evacuation units. It can carry an ll-per-
son squad. Fort Campbell is the headquarters for
the 1013t Airborne Division.

Clinton talks to Va. students

ALEXANDRIA, Va. ,, President Clinton
urged students. parents and teachers across the
country yesterday to consider whether graphic
violence on television and the Internet plays a
role in tragedies such as the killings at a school
in Littleton, Colo. The president's discussion
with students and teachers at T.C. Williams High
School was broadcast via cable to millions of stu-
dents nationwide. Clinton also said he had been
struck by reports that the two killers in Colorado
felt ostracized by their peers and embraced racist
views. Clinton urged the students to look beyond
their differences and emphasize what they all
had in common.

l-'la. issues smoke health advisory

MIAMI — Fires that scorched 170,000 acres of
the Everglades may finally be burning out, but
the smoke left behind could be hazardous and
state officials have issued a health advisory. The
warning by the state Department of Health and
Department of Environmental Protection warns
older people, small children and those with respi-
ratory problems to avoid strenuous activity out-
side if there is still smoke in the area.

National TV turnoff week begins

NEW YORK _, Surgeon General David
Satcher has thrown his support to National TV
'I‘urnoff Week, which began yesterday, a usually
little-noticed yearly effort to wean people of ex-
cessive tube watching. Satcher is worried about
an epidemic of obesity. Through some schools,
Satcher is distributing a “prescription for less
TV" that urges activities including bicycling,
soccer. walking and even washing the dog.

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Continued from page 1

sororities contributed to the
Great American Cleanup on
April 10 as a part of Greek Ser-
vice Day. The students did
their cleanup in the Aylesford
Place Neighborhood.

“1 was very impressed and
very excited about the
cleanup," said Erin Walker,
philanthropy chair for Panhel-
lenic Council.

“It gave students a chance
to help the community," said
Jeff Buhr, vice president of
chapter services for the Inter-
fratemity Council. “It gave the
community a chance to see
that students weren’t just
about making a mess."

Jonathan Johnson, admin-
istrative specialist principal at
the Division of Property Man-
agement, commended the stu-

dents on the cleanup of Ayles
ford neighborhood.

“They did great," said
Johnson. “The neighborhood
looks wonderful.“

Buhr also thanked the
Wesley Foundation for all its
help and donations during the
cleanup.

Students will have the op-
portunity to help again by par-
ticipating in the cleanup this
weekend.

“Get involved by cleaning
your own neighborhood,"
Powell said. Or show up and
help."

Cleanup for the Maxwell.
Transylvania Park, and Wood-
land Avenue area will begin at
8 am, Saturday at Maxwell E1-
ementary. Cleanup for Audbon
and Forrest Park area will also
begin at 8 am.

The cleanup downtown
will begin at 9 am. Informa-
tion can be obtained from the
Division of Property Manage
ment at 2503930.

 

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the second of which will be
provided. A huge inflatable
ring will be set up where oppo
nents try to knock each other
down.

The bungee run won‘t re-
quire its contestants to jump

from a cliff or a bridge. In-
stead, they will try to outrun
each other while resisting the
force of the bungee cord trying
to snap them back.

Live music will also be
provided as a backdrop to the
festivities.

“We’re going to have two
live bands, the Jimmy Roberts
Blues Band and Blueprint for
Progress," Triplett said.

 

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Saturday at 2:00

Sunday at 2:00

Friday Night at 7:00 is Student Appreciation Night

'$250 Dash for Cash
first 50 students get a Nike UK Baseball hat
~next 100 students get a free t-shirt

°all students get free Nestea on their way into the game
Register to win the Z- 103 1999 All-Star Game Trip

00ther giveaways to students throughout the game: dorm-sized
refrigerator sponsored by Coca-Cola, a year’s supply of Coca-Cola,
dinner for 2 at several local restaurants, $300 Nike gift bag

UK Baseball games are played at Cliff Hagan Baseball Stadium located
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4 arrested in wake of Colo. deaths

Teens who wore trench coats, Ohio youth
who wanted to kill his classmates, in custody

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Four teens who wore black
trench coats to a Colorado
Springs, Colo., high school
were arrested and an Ohio
youth was taken into custody
for threatening to kill his
classmates in two incidents
since a school shooting in Lit-
tleton, Colo, that left 15 dead.

A day before Tuesday‘s
shooting, Georgia officials ar-

rested two teen-agers for al-
legedly threatening to shoot
their classmates.

The teens, who sometimes
were black trench coats like the
ones worn by the gunmen in
the Colorado shooting, had
some sort of Internet link to the
Colorado group. police said.

The four teens in Colorado
Springs. described as “Gothics”
by police, showed up at a neigh-
boring high school wearing

coats and black masks.

“The suspects were mock-
ing yesterday‘s events," police
in Colorado Springs, about 65
miles south of Littleton, said in
a statement Wednesday.

All four — three boys age
16. 17 and 18, and a 16-year-old
girl — face trespassing
charges. One faces third-de-
gree assault charges after al-
legedly hitting his father, who
apparently then had a heart
attack and was hospitalized.

In Ohio, a 13-year-old boy
was taken into custody Wednes-
day after he said he was going
“to come into the school with a

gun and kill all of the people that
he didn't like," said Police Chief
Scott Ballentine in Tuscarawas.
90 miles east of Columbus.

In Georgia, a 15-year~old
boy and a 16-year-old boy were
suspended from school and ar-
rested Monday after a handgun
was found in one of their bed-
rooms after they allegedly
threatened last week to bring
the gun to school to shoot
someone.

“Some of the students are
quite shaken," State School Su-
perintendent Linda Schrenko
said. “They don't want these
kids let back in school."

Some of the students are quite shaken. They
don’t want these kids let back in school.”

- Linda Schrenko, Colorado schools superintendent

 

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States ask
about ads

Flood of tobacco suit money not
stanching flow of criticisms

ASSOCIATED PRESS

In their pursuit of billion-dollar settlements
with the tobacco industry, states repeatedly used
one of their most powerful weapons: children.

Attorneys general and legislators accused
Big Tobacco of marketing to teens. Scientists tes-
tified that the younger a person begins smoking,
the harder it is to quit. Anti-tobacco forces used
images of children lighting up in commercials.

Now that the states have won the settle-
ments and money is beginning to pour in, some
legislators are asking a controversial question:
Are anti-smoking programs aimed at youth such
a wise investment?

Key lawmakers in Florida, Massachusetts,
Minnesota, Texas and Washington state want to
either reduce spending on youth-related tobacco
programs or keep tight purse strings on any new
ones. They’re unconvinced, they say, that educa-
tion programs and advertising have any effect on
young smokers.

“We‘ve never looked behind the numbers.
We don‘t know for sure that kids can be con-
vinced," said Texas Sen. Bill Ratliff, head of the
Senate Finance Committee.

The Texas Legislature is debating two plans
—— one that would have $10 million to $20 million
of the $1.8 billion Texas will get over the next two
years go toward anti-smoking programs, and an
other that would allot $40 million to $50 million.
Ratliff said the settlement money should go to-
ward health matters, not into the general rev-
enue pot. but he is skeptical of the effectiveness
of smoking prevention programs.

The debate is intense in Massachusetts and
Florida, whose youth programs that are regularly
held up as national models for reducing smoking.

The Florida House wants to cut the $70 mil-
lion budget of the year-old “Truth" advertising
campaign, which has been credited with drasti-
cally reducing teen smoking. While Gov. Jeb
Bush and the Senate proposed about $61 million
for the program, the House wants to reduce it to
$30 million —— after initially balking at giving
anything at all.

State Rep. Debby Sanderson said that the
program shouldn‘t be eliminated but that she is-
n't sure how effective it is. And, she said, the ads
are in questionable taste: One features a flabby
man in a bikini, smoking. Another shows a to-
bacco executive in hell.

She said other health-related programs need
money. too.

Massachusetts Gov. Paul Cellucci came un—
der fire earlier this year when he proposed
adding no settlement money to the state‘s tobac-
co control program budget except for $500,000 to
study whether it works. He also proposed divert-
ing $4 million in cigarette tax revenue from
smoking prevention to a program that has fire-
fighters give safety lessons in schools.

 

State to spend $19M

Most of welfare surplus to go toward
beefing up agency that helps children

ASSOCIATED PRESS

FRANKFORT —- Fac-
ing the imperative of use
it or lose it, Gov. Paul
Patton on Wednesday an-
nounced a plan to spend
more than $19 million in
surplus welfare money.

The top item, at $10
million, is to beef up an
agency that deals with
children in state cus-
tody. That would include
hiring 100 case workers.

Also on the list:
housing and transporta-
tion to and from work for
people leaving welfare;
family literacy; possible
subsidies to employers
who will hire welfare re—
cipients in eastern Ken-
tucky, and special sum-
mer services to children
deemed “at risk" of drop
ping out of school.

Patton, in a news
conference with Viola

Miller, secretary of the
Cabinet for Families and
Children. also an-
nounced two significant
program changes:

0 Up to two years of
college or other postsec-
ondary education before
a welfare recipient has
to fulfill work require
ments. The limit now is
one year.

0 More exemptions
from a five—year time
limit on government as-
sistance. Parents, or non-
parental relatives caring
for children, could quali-
fy if they played by the
rules but failed to find
sufficient work because
of a local job shortage.

Patton said $19 mil-
lion was freed up be-
cause Kentucky‘s wel-
fare rolls have shrunk.
He and Miller said they
wanted to bankroll the

surplus as a “rainy day"
fund. but federal authori-
ties indicated they would
not permit it.

If funds were not
spent by Oct. 1, when the
federal fiscal year begins
and new federal rules on
welfare take effect.
“there's that real danger
they‘ll be scooped up."
Miller said.

The federal rules in-
clude an updated defini-
tion of “assistance." It
permits states to offer a
range of services without
triggering the five-year
limit on assistance.
Those include child care.
transportation. education
and training. counseling,
job search and work sub-
sidies to employers. ac-
cording to the US. De:
partment of Health and
Human Services. The
idea was to make it easier
for states to use welfare
funds to help exrecipi—
ents stay off the rolls and
to prevent families from
going on welfare.

 

Baptists declining

Congregation experiencing its first
decline in 72 years, officials say

ASSOCIATED PRESS

NASHVILLE —
Southern Baptist church-
es may be packed each
Sunday. But membership
rolls are thinning, and
one reason may be half-
hearted churchgoers who
hop from one congrega-
tion to the next without
making a commitment,
some officials say.

The Southern Bap-
tist Convention, the na-
tion‘s largest Protestant
faith, suffered a drop in
membership for the first
time in 72 years in 1998,
according to records re-
leased last week. Mem-
bership declined 1 per-

cent to 15.7 million.

But Sunday morning
worship attendance and
Sunday school enroll-
ment were up. The num-
ber of churchgoers
jumped by 174,052 to 5.3
million, and Sunday
school enrollment grew
by 7,832 to 8.1 million.

Offerings and other
gifts came to more than
$6.9 billion, up 4 percent.

“There are a lot of
people who attend
church and do not join,”
said Nancy Ammerman,
Professor of Sociology
and Religion at Hartford
Seminary in Connecticut
and author of the book

Baptist Battles. ”It cer-
tainly is something that
is present in other de-
nominations.“

Bill Merrell.
spokesman for the
Nashville-based conven-
tion, said some Chris-
tians attend church
each week but never
join. while others
“make the rounds." Still
others have joined inde-
pendent churches.
which operate without
ties to a denomination.

“There does seem to
be a diminished empha‘
sis on personal commit-
ment among some Chris-
tians who identify them-
selves as Christians but
who do not identify
themselves with any par-
ticular church," Merrell
said Wednesday.

 

CRIME

Louisville police arrest suspect

 

 

Man, 24, wanted for questioning in
connection with a triple slaying in Lexington

ASSOCIATED PRESS

A man wanted for question-
ing in a string of killings that
left his stepfather dead was ar-
rested Wednesday in Louisville.

Richard “Ricky" Sherroan.
24, of Lexington, was taken into
custody Wednesday afternoon
by Louisville police at a motel
on Preston Highway, Capt.
Wayne Kessinger said.

Lexington police said that.
in addition to being the stepson
of victim Frank Reschke, 58.
Sheman is an acquaintance of

two young men who were also
shot to death Tuesday, Richard
Mills, 22, and Isaac Davis, 18.

Sherroan was being held in
Louisville on charges of violat-
ing parole, being a felon in pos—
session of a firearm and pos-
sessing cocaine and marijuana.
Kessinger said police found the
drugs, along with some scales.
in the room with Sherroan.

In Lexington, police Sgt.
Mark Barnard said investiga-
tors want to speak with Sher-
roan. but he stopped short of
naming Sherroan a suspect in

 

 

the deaths. Barnard declined to
discuss a possible motive for
the killings.

Reschke's body was found
when the fire department was
called to his home in the south-
western part of the city shortly
after 5 pm. Tuesday with a re-
port of a possible heart attack.

Officers then went to the
nearby apartment of Mills, a
friend of Sherroan‘s, and found
Mills and Davis shot to death
inside, Barnard said.

Barnard declined to say
what led investigators to Mills”
apartment, saying only that they
wanted to talk to Sherman's
friends about Reschke‘s death.

The killings came three
days before the anniversary of

..... -...--.

the notorious April 23, 1986
killing spree in which Lexing-
ton residents LaFonda Fay Fos-
ter and Tina Marie Hickey Pow-
ell stabbed, shot, ran over and
set on fire five victims within
three hours. Barnard said Tues
day‘s slayings were the worst
such string since that case.

Barnard said a blue 1989
Chevrolet Beretta that Sher
roan was believed to have
stolen from Reschke was spot-
ted in the Shively section of
southwest Louisville.

He said police staked out
the car and a nearby hotel
where Sherroan was believed to
be staying, but Sherroan did
not return to that hotel.

 

 

 

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