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Wednesday, April 18,1990

 

 

EX-trustee Forgy
given Zumwinkle
Award by SGA

By TOM SPALDING
Executive Editor

Lexington attorney Larry Forgy.
whose criticism of Gov. Wallace
Wilkinson cost him his seat on the
UK Board of Trustees, was hon-
ored last night for his defense of
student rights.

In a break with tradition, Forgy
became the first non- student, staff
or faculty member to be awarded
the Robert Zumwinkle Honorary
Award —— one of the Student GOV-
emment Association’s highest hon-
ors — which was presented at the
Hyatt Regency Hotel last night.

SGA Vice President Paige Fos-
ter, who chaired the selection com-
mittee, said the rules were suspend-
ed to allow Forgy to be nominated.

Forgy, who openly criticized
Wilkinson last semester for not
supporting former UK President
David Roselle and who was one of
five trustees who voted against
Charles Wethiiigton being named
interim president, was not re-
appointed after his term expired
Dec. 31.

Wilkinson appointed Robert P.
Meriwether to fill the vacancy.

“Anything having to do with UK
is important to me. Very impor-
tant," said Forgy, who is a UK
graduate. It‘s especially sweet
coming from the students. By and
large, students are l don't want
to say cynical, but they take a pret-
ty hard look at people and I know
that”

Forgy donated the S300 he gets
for being a recipient to SGA's child
care fund, according to SGA Presi-
dent Sean Lohman.

Lohman, who nominated Forgy,
said the award was “made for him."

“Most (trustees) that come up for
re-appointment wouldn’t have
stepped out on a limb," Lohman
said. “But Larry Forgy never com-
promised himself."

Lohman said Forgy told him that
“to be favored by students is more
important than being favored by a
clique on the board."

Forgy said that he was pleased
“to have the good opinion of the
students at UK" for his service as a
trustee. “After all," he said, “the
University only exists because of
the students."

Also receiving a Zumwinkle

Brereton J ones

Staff reports

Lt. Gov. Brereton Jones will be
the featured speaker at the UK Stu—
dent Bar Association's “Noon F0-

is

rum.

The speech begins at 12:15 pm.
in the College of Law's Court
Room.

David Hale, a member of the
Noon Forum committee, said Jones
will speak for about 15 minutes and
then answer questions from the au-
dience. J ones‘ speech is open to the
public.

“He hasn’t indicated anything to

 

Mike Bowling,
Paulette Sides
outstanding
UK seniors

Staff reports

Paulette Sides and Michael
Bowling were named the Otis
A. Singletary seniors at the
Honors and Recognition ban-
quet at the Hyatt Regency
Hotel last night.

The two each receive a
$1,000 scholarship with the
honor.

Sides is a nursing senior
from London. Ky., and Bowl-
ing is an electrical engineer-
ing senior from Madisonville.
Ky.
About 400 students were
recognized at the ceremony
for their outstanding academ-
ic and leadership achieve-
merits.

Sides helped develop a pro-
gram is Jessamine County,
Ky., for Hospice patients and
health-care workers. She also
was active in the UK Student
Government Association in
establishing a day—care center
for UK employees.

She also fornted the first
UK chapter of the Kentucky
Association of Nursing Stu—
dents.

Bowling has worked as a
member of the UK student re—
cruitment team in the Visitor
Center and on the Summer
Advising Conference staff.

See AWARDS, Back page

 

 

 

award was Vishwesh Bhatt, a polit—
ical science senior who chairs
SGA‘s Ethnic Concerns Commit-
[06.
Foster praised Bhatt for his work,
especially on behalf of international
and graduate students. Bhatt also
received a $300 prize.

Also on the selection committee
that chose Forgy and Bhatt were
Cara Waites, Frank Harris, Barry
Stumbo and Paulette Sides.

to speak today

us in particular" that he is going to
talk about, Hale said. “He's sensi-
tive to the fact that there are a few
issues special to (UK) students."

The “Noon Forum" is a regular
event sponsored by UK’s Student
Bar Association.

Jones is considered to be one of
the early front-runners for the 1991
Democratic gubernatorial race.
Jones, a former West Virginia Re-
publican, was elected lieutenant
governor in 1987 in what was his
first political campaign in Ken-
lucky.

 

 

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Is this love or just confusion? Denise Pyles is embarassed by a question last night at the Dating Game an event in UK's Little
Kentucky Derby. This was the first year of the game as part of the LKD.

LKD Dating Game
provides humor, prizes

By MICHAEL L. JONES
Editorial Editor

So here is your plot: three eligi.
blc bachelors competiting for the
heart of one lovely Vice-
President clcct. In the hands of
Sidney Sheldon or Danielle
Steele the story would probably
involve poltical intrigue and be-
trayal. The prospective suitors
could be from any walk of life —
one could be a spy, another a fel-
low polittcan and the last the
King of a third world country
whose name only Dan Rather
could pronounce.
But the scene at
Memorial Hall
last night was less
complicated, if
only a little less.
No it wasn‘t Rage
In Eden or Wash-
ington Wives, but
it was the Dating
Game done UK
style as part of
this year‘s Little
Kentucky Derby.

Student Government Associa‘
tton Vice President elect Sarah
Coursey was one of to bachelors
and bachelorettes who competed
in the contest. One questioner
asked questions to three would be
promours for sometimes hilarious
results.

Coursey asked her three suitors
what instrument they would like
to be and why.

How the bachelors answer?

Bachelor number one, John
Tranter: “A Tuba, because I want
to be blown on."

Bachelor number two, Charles
Saylor: “Bagpipes. you can
squeeze and blow them at the

“I’m just glad I was
the questioner and
not the questionee.
I’ve always wanted
to go to France.”

Sarah Coursey,
SGA vice president
_

same time."

However both of them lost as a
blush Coursey choose Sean Smith
who answered, “A Trumpet...You
can use your hands and month on
that"

Ah ti budding rotitttnt'c‘.’ l’robzi-
bly not. said Coursey. but she did
have fun.

“I’m JUSI glad I was the ques-
tioner and not the questionee."
she said. However Coursey did
say that the answer that won ll for
Smith was when he said his
dream date would include taking
her to France.

“I've always
wanted to go to
France," ('oursey
said.

Jennifer Brett/cl
the LKD chairper-
son tor the Dating
(lame \‘Ltltl that
even if the ro-
mances aren’t per-
manent she’d like
to see the game
continue.

"They've had
the Dating Game before. but not
as a part of the little Kentucky
Derby." Brcnzcl \‘tlltl. "I‘d like to
see it become an annual event."

Bren/cl said that the to pall’llch
pants were picked from over 30
applicants who submitted ques-
tions to the LKD Committee and
were interviewed.

“We picked the contestants
based on their personality and
their questions," Bren/cl said.

Donavan Tavar, who got to
question three bachelorettes, said
“it was everything I could have
wanted."

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John T'ranter as he IS asked a question by SGA Vice president
elect Sarah Coursey as the LKD Dating Game.

One female contestant told
Donavan that ll he was a quilt at
the end of the night he would
“end up :ust t'rtiitiplcd up beside
me.” Another told hint that Plas-
tic th Atls her tttttiritc cartoon
her because you can mold him
irtto .tmthtng you want."

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UK \ ironomy professor l‘ro-
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and intskt-thalls autographed by
UK mi. in \ Rick l’itiito and Hill
(‘tiiiy \‘\lili.' the tittcsttoncrs made
their drutxtwtts and acted as all
.ttouttd iiisttgn‘tot.

When one toiitcstant was asked
to coiitpare her ideal titan with a
sandwich she said it would be a
Big Mac. ’l'roltmd smiled and
asked “is it the \[X‘L‘lal sauce?"

Trolaiid intonncd the audience
early in the game that he was
“one of the world‘s experts on
dating." He said that he knew all
about “getting to first hase...;tnd

 

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At the end of the show lrolatid
reminded all the contestants to be
careful because he didn't want to
see them on the l Kl) ‘ Hate to
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Home for mentally ill homeless struggles to keep doors open

By TONJA WlLT
Campus Editor

The Canaan House. a non profit organr
lation which houses tip to sewn residents
at a time, has helped more thttn 3H people
since it began as a pilot protect Ill July.

Up to one-third of Lexmgtoii's lltilllt‘lk‘.\\
population is estimated to lld\C a chronic
mental illness. according to (‘aitaaii House
statistics.

monthly rent and various other costs :1 ben-
efit will be held at Breeding‘s, 509 W.
Matti St.. at 8 pm. today. The benefit. “A
Celebration of Hope," Wlll feature music
by Velvet Elvis, Shophar, and Edison‘s Re
vengc. All proceeds from ticket sales will
go to the Canaan House.

“I believe there are ti lot of people who
are willing and wanting to help homeless,
but don’t know how." Schrocring said.

those of six other Canaan House residents,
is unccnain because a lack of funds.

We are “$6,000 in the deficit basically
because we have people staying who can't
pay (the rent), and we‘re not going to kick
them out," said John Schroering, a Canaan
House staff member. “We‘ve got four staff
members who need to be paid. The money
is not the issue. The house is the issue."

In order to raise money for the $230

naan House, 379 South Broadway Park, a
place that provides safe and affordable
housing for persons with chronic mental
illnesses.

”Everybody here knows what you‘re go-
ing through. Our goal here is to get our
own job and our own house," Herndon
said. “We can come and go as we please.
We are very much individuals."

However, Herndon’s future, as well as

Last March Marsha Herndon did not ap-
pear to have a very promising future —— she
was homeless and did not have much hope.
But since she moved to Lexington, Hem-
don's hope has been renewed and she has
been given a chance for a new beginning.

Herndon found her new hope in the Ca- Sec (,‘ANAAN. Bud, D824?

 

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