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Phi Psi receives
social probation
for infractions

 

By Susanna Martinez-Fonts
Contributing Writer

 

The Interfratemity Council judi-
cial board has placed Phi
Kappa Psi social fraternity
on full social probation for
violating Rush alcohol poli-
cies.

The Feb. 7 ruling means
the fraternity may not hold
parties or social functions
for one year. Its members
also must perform 1,500
hours of community ser-
vice.

The punitive action stems from a
January 1993 IFC inspection of the
Phi Psi house. Three members of
the IFC executive board found two
beer kegs in a shed on fraternity
property.

IFC mles forbid centralized dis-
tribution of alcohol, and officers of
Phi Psi later pleaded guilty to the
offense.

If the fraternity completes most
of the community service hours and
attains a 2.8 cumulative grade point
average by the end of the semester,
it will be eligible in the fall to hold
parties off fraternity property.

IFC President Jon Bruser said he
hopes the possibility of being able
to have parties in the fall will moti-
vate the fraternity to make a bad sit-

 

uation better.

“The sanctions are severe but

necessary." Bruser said. “The goals
set for next semester are fair.“

Dean of Fraternity Affairs Jay
McCoy said the IFC judicial
board handled the situation
well.

“The fraternity violated
rules and the judicial board
had a good response," he
said. “This is a good sign of
govemanoe within the chap-
ters."

Phi Psi president Ted
Jones could not be reached
for comment yesterday.

To try to prevent similar situa-
tions from happening in the future,
IFC is expanding duties of its Risk
Management Committee, Bruser
said.

This committee consists of nine
fraternity members who are ap-
pointed by the IFC executive board.
This year, they will attend every
fraternity social function on cam-
pus.

“The Risk Management Commit-
tee makes sure that things don’t go
wrong," Bruser said. “We try to
prevent situations before they hap-
pen. We help the chapters help
themselves, so they can have good
social functions without violations."

Bruser said this is a very positive
step in fraternity and IFC relations.

 

 

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Diflerence in experiences a key factor

 

By Graham Shelby
Senior Staff Writer

economic strata

While experiential chasms may exist be-
tween women and men, Christians and Jews.

 

Diversity.
Political correctness.
Multiculturalism.

1y biased against them.

A 1993 national
poll found that 48
percent of white
men believed they,
as a group, were los-
ing influence in so-
ciety. and 56 per-
cent said they were
losing an advantage
in terms of jobs and
income.

Not surprisingly,
some white men are
critical of practices

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Call it what you want; it‘s all part of a na-
tional trend that some white men say is unfair-

in business and higher education designed to
enhance women’s and minorities‘ chances of

But agricultural biotech freshman Scott Gil-
lis argues that affirmative action has outlived

“It's become a monotonous, outmoded poli-
cy which no longer serves a far-reaching pur-
he said. Though it may not have been
the original intent, Gillis said, “it’s used to dis-

The current push for diversity in America
has its roots in long-tenn efforts by govem-
ment and civil rights groups to integrate blacks
into higher levels of the country‘s social and

heterosexuals and homosexuals as well as the
abled and disabled. the black-white relation-
ship seems to lie near the heart of the diversity

debate.

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ferently."

Some say understanding the need for affir- I" I
mative action means understanding that the ex-

bank loan or applying for a job." he said.

He said whites need to understand the exis-
tence and persistence of racism beyond obvi-
ous examples like slavery, cross burnings and
white supremacist groups.

“Racism is no longer overt," he said. “You
would have to be me for a day or a week or
more to understand how people treat you dif-

Sociology professor Laurie Hatch said, “It’s
easy to see overt acts of discrimination and un-
derstand those. It's harder to see when discrim-
ination is more indirect, and especially when
it‘s structured into our very society."

See DIVERSITY, Back Page

 

perience of whites.
particularly white
males, can be very
different from that
of others.

Law student Rod-
ney Vinegar. who is
black, says people
of color face situa-
tions that whites do
not.

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Speaker lauds family bonds

 

By Holly Celeste Terry
Staff Writer

 

As a child, Patricia Dardaine-
Ragguet learned the values of car-
ing, sharing and loving from sugar-
cake -—- not by watching Barney or
“Sesame Street."

“Sugarcake was not about eat-
ing." Dardaine-Ragguet, an assist-
ant professor in UK‘s College of
Education, said about her memo.
ties of the coconut and sugar
desert. “It was a product made by
the entire family, to be shared by
the entire family."

Dardaine-Ragguet said during a
speech yesterday at the Peal Gal-
iery that just as the sugamke was
shared by the entire family — nu-
clear, extended and community ——
so was the discipline.

“When 1 was a child, if 1 did
something wrong in front of my
neighbors, they disciplined me,“
Dardaine-Ragguet said. “and my

mother knew before 1 made it
home.”
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Just as Dardaine-_—
Ragguet learned about
sharing through the Sugar-
cake, she leamed about be-
ing a black woman.

Dardaine-Ragguet said
the sugarcake represents
the sweemess that only a
black woman understands.

“Black woman always
wants to make life sweet I".

means depriving them-
selves so that their husbanos and
children can have.“ she said.

Just as the black woman repre-
sents the sweetness that derives
from the sugarcake, Dardaine-
Ragguet said. she also portrays the
hard shield of the milk cans Dar-
daine-Ragguet‘s mother used to
store sugarcakes.

As Dardaine-Ragguet held the
can where the audience could view
it, she said the tin can protects the
food from being crushed in the
same way a black mother protects
her children and family.

“Black women are the shield and

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protector of the child and
will not hesitate to fight
for her children and peo-
ple,” she said.

Although we are living
in a more modernized
world, Dardaine‘Ragguet
said, black women are still
tough like the milk tin.

“We, as black women,

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for her family, even if that “firm..."

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maintain the toughness of
the tin.“ she said. “We can fight
the hype created by the media."

Dardaine-Ragguet said that, as
she sat around the kitchen watching
and helping her family make sugar-
cake. the oral tradition was passed
down. Site said that was the most
important part of a black woman's
education.

“Stories were told and retold
while hands were busy working,"
she said.

Dardaine-Ragguet's speech and
an accompanying exhibit are part

See CAKE, Back Page

Senate evolves as needs
of students, staff change

 

By Stephen D. Trlmble
Assistant News Editor

 

 

Nothing stays the same with the
University Senate.

As a student and. later, an admin-
istrative assistant to the senate
president, Celinda Todd has wit-
nessed two decades of the govem-
ing body‘s evolution.

Todd said she was a UK student
in 1970 when the University Sen-
ate held meetings to “defend the
freedoms of the students" after Na-
tional Guard troops responded to
the governor's order to break up
student protests of the Vietnam
War.

“Those were exciting times, not
only for the senate, but for the cam-
pus as a whole," she said.

Todd, who started her current job
in 1972, also recalled heated senate
debates in 1983 about changing
UK’s entrance standards.

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The state Council on Higher Edu-
cation had said UK must begin se-
lective admissions of students. Be-
fore, all in-state applicants with a
high school diploma could be ad-
mitted to UK.

She said the senate was charged
with fortning UK‘s new admissions
policy, which led to academicians
battling out the requirements for
new UK students.

“The position of the senate has
evolved drastically over the years,”
she said. “Part of that is because the
leadership changes every year.”

Daniel Fulks, a business and eco—
nomics professor, is the senate's
current president. He presides over
the 104—member body, which is
made up of students, faculty and
one retired teacher:

Fulks said the senate has “abso-
lute authority on all academic mat-
ters“ of the University. from college
mergers to requiring teachers to
post their students‘ mid-term

grades, as the senate decided earlier
this week.

A 12-member Senate Council,
along with standing and temporary
committees, discusses and decides
what items of debate are brought
before the main body.

Fulks said all of UK’s colleges
and the Albert B. Chandler Medical
Center elect student and faculty
senators.

“1 think the system works pretty
well, but you will have different
philosophies and lots of varied
backgrounds," he said.

For example. Fulks said that
when senators from diverse colleg-
es like Arts and Sciences and Archi-
tecture get together. it is sometimes
hard to reach a consensus of opin-
ion.

Stephen Dawahare. Student Gov-
cmment Association senator at
large and University Senate lobby-
ist, agreed.

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Asia changing,
ex-diplomat says

 

By Ayana Blalr
Contributing Writer

 

Asian countries are adjusting
well to the vacuum that is created
as superpowers leave them to fend
for themselves. a former diplomat
said yesterday.

John Stempel. director of the Pat-
terson School of Diplomacy and In-
tentational Commerce, reponcd
yesterday tint South Asian states
like Sri Lanka. India and Bangla-
desh are enjoying newfound eco-
nomic prosperity.

“Despite the wide (population)
variety in the three countries, the
economic outlook was good — bet-
ter than it has been." Stcmpel said
in a speech at the Student Center.

During the past two months, he

 

visited Sn” lanka. Bangladesh and
India and spoke with and studied
the citizens and political figures of
the countries.

One example of the recent eco-
nomic growth Stempel cited in-
volved Sn” Lanka.

Although the republic has suf-
fered substantially from recent
Tamil revolts — including two at-
tacks in 1993 that killed several
hundred troops and 705 Tamil fore-
es—Srllankashowedaneoonom-
ic growth of 6 to 7 percent last year.

Stempel said many Sri Lankans
believe the rebellion an be de~
stroyed if proper political approach-
es are made, but they do not believe
the conflict out be resolved solely

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International program
gives global perspective

 

By Chris Tipton
Staff Writer

 

If the same old routine of college classes has got
you down, the International Studies Concentration
Program offers a global alternative.

The program was created two years ago by the Of-
fice of International Affairs. It takes existing UK
courses and combines them into a curriculum focus-
ing on one of seven major geographic areas of the
world.

The program requires a minimum of 12 hours
from a selection of various disciplines. Classes focus
on three main areas, social science, humanities and
economics.

While the concentration program will not official-
ly appear on a student‘s transcript, certificates of
completion are presented to students after the pro-
gram‘s completion.

Angene Wilson, associate director of the Office of
Intemational Affairs, said the program was started in
response to questions posed by students regarding
the availability of inter—cultural classes at UK.

University budget cuts denied the office‘s plan of
creating a new major at UK, so the lntemational
Studies Concentration Program was formed instead.

“We wanted to make sure that interested students
had an opportunity to put an international perspec-

tive into their college program," Wilson said. “The
program encourages students to focus on internation-
al studies in general or in a world region or language
area"

According to the directors of the separate disci—
plines, the benefits of this program are knowledge of,
and experience with, cultures outside America. With
the number of foreign-bom residents living in Amer-
ica rising every year, an understanding of other cul-
tures is more imponant than ever, they say.

' “One of the biggest developments in recent years
is the passing of NAFTA," said Stephen Hart, direc-
tor of undergraduate studies for the Spanish depart-
ment. “Now, more students are going to be required
to have some international experience."

Monica Udvardy. director of undergraduate studies
in anthropology. said exposure to other cultures
helps students in all aspects of life.

“One big reason I support this program is that it
helps reduce ethnocentnsm in Americans,“ Udvardy
said. “The belief that our own society is the best is
something we have been socialized to believe."

Jim Wiseman, vice president for Public Affairs at
Toyota Motor Manufacturing U.S.A. Inc.'s George-
town, Ky., plant, reaffirmed the benefits and necessi-
ty of involvement in the program.

“Any business that wants to be successful on a glo-
bal scale desperately needs people with at least a ba-
sic knowledge of foreign culture," he said.

 

 

 

 

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fuel to gay-rights initiatives:

 

By Jill Lawrence
Associated Press

 

WASIIINGTON —— Gay-rights
groups said yesterday they have a
valuable new tool against anti-gay
ballot initiatives in nearly
a dozen states: a strong
letter of support from
President Clinton.

The Feb. 14 letter, re-
leased with the blessing of
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Clinton said he agreed with the
coalition fighting the initiatives that
“this is not an issue of ‘special
rights‘ for any one group. This is a
battle to protect the human rights of
every individual."

At issue are pending and poten-
tial ballot initiatives that
gay groups say would pro-
hibit recognition of gay
civil rights or legislate dis-
crimination against homo-
sexuals.

In their letter, the groups
had implored Clinton to
“help us keep human rights
from being decided at the
ballot box." Gay leaders
said yesterday they were

“All people in our society CLINTON grateful for his quick and

must enjoy the opportunity
to be judged on their merits. Sadly

. the simple principle of justice
has come under assault in several
states this year," Clinton said in his
letter.

“Those who would legalize dis-
crimination on the basis of sexual
orientation or any other grounds are
gravely mistaken about the values
that make our nation strong," the
president said.

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in Pyongyang contends its nuclear
program is devoted to peaceful uses
of atomic power.

But suspicions about North Ko-

Navy to give it another leader,” the
four-star admiral said.

Kelso’s announcement that his
retirement would be moved up to
April 30 came shortly after Defense
Secretary William Perry and Navy
Secretary John Dalton issued testi-
monials attesting to his personal in-
tegrity.

Because of the endorsements, he
said, “we can finally close this dif—
ficult chapter’ ' of Tailhook.

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“It brings attention to this issue.
It turns the light on. It helps people
understand that people are losing
their basic freedoms under these
measures," said William Way-
boum, executive director of the vic-
tory fund, a political action commit-
tee for state and local candidates.

Clinton's letter is expected to be
used as an organizing tool by acti-
vists in II states, which Wayboum

rea's refusal to allow inspections
have increased tensions with South
Korea and raised fears of a military
confrontation.

The inspection agreement was
announced by the Intemational
Atomic Energy Agency a week be-
fore its board of governors was ex-
pected to advise the UN. Security
Council to invoke sanctions on
Nonh Korea.

Hans Meyer, spokesman for the
Vienna-based U.N. agency, said
North Korea‘s agreement came “out
of the blue," after months of little

asked him to step down.

After the 199] convention of the
Tailhook Association, a booster or-
ganization of Navy and Marine
Corps aviators. female officers and
other women alleged they had been
molested during drunken debauch-
ery in a Las Vegas hotel hallway.

In a ruling last week, a Navy
judge accused Kelso of witnessing
sexual misconduct at the conven-
tion and with interfering in the sub-
sequent investigation.

But Perry said the Pentagon‘s in-
spector general “found no credible
evidence" that Kelso had specific
knowledge of the sexual miscon-
duct and found “no evidence“ that
Kelso sought to thwart investiga-
tions into the scandal.

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identified as Arizona California.
Florida, Idaho, Maine, Michigan:
Missouri, Nevada. Ohio, Oregon,
and Washington.

Clinton has had up-and-down re-
lations with the gay community, a.
stalwart base of support during the,
presidential campaign. He has ap;
pointed record numbers of gay peo-
ple to important jobs.

But there was bitter disappoint},
ment when Clinton, under intense
Pentagon and congressional pres-H
sure, backed off his pledge to end
the ban on gays in the military.

White House spokeswoman Gina
ny Tenano said Clinton‘ 5 letter fol:
lows through on strong civil- -rights
positions he took during his cam-
paign. “Discrimination on all levels
is uncalled for. It‘s just not some-,
thing you're going to set aside," she
said. 7

An example of the anti-gay initial:
tives, as described by the National;
Gay and Lesbian Task Force:

°An amendment to the Arizona
Constitution that would repeal and
block laws and policies that ban"
discrimination against “gays, bisex'J’
uals and pedophiles.”

North Korea agrees to inspections
of its nuclear testing programs

progress in talks over terms for the
inspections.

North Korea had argued only it
should determine when and how in-
spections be conducted at the seve'ri‘
sites it has identified as part of its
nuclear program. i

The UN. agency has always,
made those decisions for inspec-f
tions in other nations.

“This appears to be a step in the
right direction," White House Press
Secretary Dee Dee Myers said.

“We hope that North Korea fol-
lows through on it."

Navy chief steps up planned retirement.

Dalton’s statement said, “I have
never questioned the personal integ-
rity and honor of Frank Kelso."

He added that it was “important
that we put the bitterness of Tail-
hook behind us.”

Kelso could have demanded a
formal military court of inquiry to
try to clear his name, but the pro—
cess would have taken months.

Instead, the admiral said he
would bring his 37-year naval ca-
reer to a close slightly earlier than
he had announced earlier.

The former submariner survived
an attempt by Dalton to fire him
last fall when that decision was
overruled by then-Defense Secre-
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ALBANY, NY. — Some people
look at H. Carl McCall and George
Bundy Smith and see paragons -—
high-powered players in New
York‘s establishment, the state‘s
chief fiscal officer and one of its
top judges.

Some people see nothing more
than two black men.

The result: In the past year, these
polished lvy Leaguers have suf-
fered well-publicized racial indigni-
ties. McCall was called “a nigger
from Harlem" by a town council-
man. Smith was can'wtured with
racial stereotypes at a law clerks‘
dinner.

The overtly racist laws proclaim-
ing “No Blacks Allowed" are gone.
But McCall and Smith are living
proof that not only does racism sur-
vive —— it plagues African Ameri-
ca's best and brightest, burdening
them with the same racist stereo-
types that oppress less successful
blacks.

“It’s like (former New York City
Mayor) David Dinkins says ‘A
white man with a million dollars is
a millionaire. A black man with a
million dollars is a nigger with a
million dollars.‘ " says Ellis Cose,
author of “The Rage of a Privileged
Class."

Writer Ralph Wiley quotes Mal-
colm X along the same lines. Mal-
colm asked, “In America, what is a
black man with a PhD?” His an-
swer: “A trigger!"

Ask McCall.

A graduate of Dartmouth Univer-
sity and the University of Edin-
burgh in Scotland —— a former state
senator, president of the New York
City Board of Education, bank vice
president and representative to the
United Nations — McCall was cho-
sen last year as state comptroller.

He is the first black to hold state-
wide office in New York. But that
did not become an issue until a
budget meeting in the small town
of Deerpark — a meeting which
neither McCall nor other members
of the public attended.

Council member Joseph Kover,
who is white, reacted angrily when
officials discussed a computer ser-

vice fee the small town pays to the
state.

“This never happened under (for-
mer comptroller) Ned Regan," Ko-
ver said. “This is since this guy
called McCall was appointed from
the City of New York — the nigger
from Harlem."

When Kover was reminded he
was at a public meeting, he chal-
lenged his colleagues to “put it in
the minutes‘" and continued his ti-
rade.

His words resonated across the
state, drawing criticism from Gov.
Mario Cuomo on down. The black
community was stunned; most pub-
lic figures are careful not to express
their private droughts with such
abandon. '

Days after contending he had said
nothing wrong, Kover apologized.

“I think they (the remarks) were
racist. There’s no question about
that," said McCall, 55. “Most peo-
pie 1 think have attempted to over-
come those views if they have
them, and most people don’t ex-
press them publicly."

But social scientists say the bias-
es are ingrained, and they affect
every black, from the underclass to
the upper crust.

“Blackness in American culture
is seen as a taint, as a pollutant, as
something evil and bad," says Dr.
Alvin Poussaint, a psychiatrist at
Harvard Medical School. “Black
people are seen as suspect individu-
als because they have black ances-
try, because blackness is considered
inferior."

Poussaint and other black profes-
sionals say the message is unmis-
takable when the young associate at
a law firm never gets the big assign-
ments, or when white executives
cast doubt on the competence of
their black colleagues.

“At any professional level,
there's a burden of proof to show
they're just as good and just as
competent," says Poussaint. “At
every level, the stereotypes are op-
erating."

George Bundy Smith is a gradu-
ate of Phillips Academy, Yale Uni-
versity and Yale Law School; he
has been a judge since 1975.

In 1992, he was promoted to the
Court of Appeals, New York's
highest court. The next June, he

was roasted by the court's clerks —
and what is traditionally a forum for
fun suddenly dramatized the
breadth of the racial divide.

In a videotape played during the
dinner, a white clerk portrayed
Smith, donned with Afro wig,
wheeling a stack of legal briefs into
the bathroom. The actor was next
seen sitting on a toilet, rapping
about a case. The camera focuses
on a sports magazine tucked inside
a legal brief.

“This was a subconscious view of
the man that the skit was acting
out," said Poussaint.

The only black on the top court.
Smith spoke up for the first time in
an interview in December, long af-
ter the clerk apologized.

“The intent was to show that l
was a person who worked all the
time and that I even carried work
into the bathroom,” said Smith, 56.
“(But) what was done was an inap-
propriate and insensitive thing
which should not continue."

The travails of Smith and McCall
are not surprising to middle-and
upper-class blacks. They still have
trouble buying a home in some
neighborhoods. They still find that
they are eyed suspiciously in fine

‘stores.

Even with the attendant privileg—
es of success, Smith and McCall
find it an ordeal to hire a taxicab in
Manhattan. Some black politicians
have gone so far as to ask their
white aides to hail a cab for them.

McCall once got into a cab, only
to have the driver refuse to take him
to his office in Harlem from mid-
town Manhattan.

So embittered was he by the ex-
perience, McCall wrote a newspa-
per article encouraging others who
endured similar indignities to attend
the hearing of his complaint against
the driver. He was surprised when
300 people showed up.

“The taxi driver came in. he was
a little surprised, and he said if he
had known I was a state senator he
would have taken me to Harlem.
But as far as just another black
man, he refused to take me to Har-
lem,“ McCall said.

And that‘s the point — to many
whites, any black is just another
black, to be treated with derision or
fear. And that makes McCall angry.

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BATON ROUGE, La. — No. 11 Kentucky pulled
off the greatest comeback in college basketball histo-
ry last night with a 99-95 victory over LSU after
trailing by 31 points with 15:30 to play.

Walter McCarty‘s 3-pointer with 19 seconds left
gave the Wildcats a 96-95 lead, their first since I-O.

Duke held the record for the largest combeack
when it rallied from a 56-27 halftime deficit to beat
Tulane 74-72 on Dec. 30, I950.

McCarty had 23 points for Kentucky (19-5, 8-3
Southeastern Conference), which had lost two
straight. Freshman Ronnie Henderson scored 36
points and Clarence Ceasar added 32 for the Tigers
(11-10. 5-7).

LSU missed 11 free throws in the last 12 minutes
(I3-for-24) while Kentucky shot almost exclusively
3-

— hitting 12 of 23 in the second half to rally from
a 68-37 deficit.

LSU called a timeout after McCany's shot, but Ja-
mie Brandon missed a layup with less under five
seconds to play. Tony Dclk made one free throw and
Travis Ford added two more to give Kentucky its
first win in Baton Rouge in five tries since 1988.

LSU led 48-32 at halftime and used an 18-0 run to
take a 31-point lead before the second half was five

minutes old.

Kentucky scored 24 of the next 28 points and cut
the lead to 8