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Vol. XCli, No. 50

University of Kentucky. Lexington, Kentucky

Independent since 1971

Kernel

NOV 7 1989

Tuesday, Odober 17, 1989

 

 

Council approves proposed tuition hike

By MARK R. CHELLGREN
Associated Press

FRANKFORT, Ky. — Students at Ken-
tucky’s public colleges and universities will
be paying higher tuition each of the next two
years, but no more than expected, after a vote
by the Council on Higher Education yester-
day.

The council also voted to seek more than
$100 million in additional funding from the
General Assembly in each of the next two
years.

Tuition will increase by S20 per semester
for in-state students at UK community college
system and $60 per semester for in-state stu-
dents at the eight universities. Larger increases
were approved for students in graduate pro-
grams, professional schools and for all out-of-
state students.

The increases follow the council’s long-
standing policy of tying tuition to personal in-
come levels and, as a result, avoided what
would have been a protracted debate over what
financial burden students should bear for their
education.

Earlier this year some educators had raised

 

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the prospect of extraordinary tuition increases,
in part to make up for what they feared would
be continued inadequate funding from the state.

Council Chairman Michael Harreld, a Louis-
ville banker, said that debate likely will take
place in two years when a new formula for de—
termining tuition rates probably will be pro—
posed.

Harreld said he already has a position on
higher tuition rates. “I personally think they’re
too low,” he said.

Harreld said the current system makes too
much of a difference in tuition between com-
munity colleges and regional universities and
too little between the cost of graduate studies
and undergraduate work.

James Hill, the student member on the
council and a UK third-year law student, said
that the current tuition system is designed to
make it easier to attend college.

University presidents earlier this year put off

the tuition rate debate when they agreed to
continue current practice of tying the amount
to personal income.

University of Louisville President Donald
Swain ducked questions about whether ite
thought current rates were too low. Swain said
only that the issue should be studied.

Some lawmakers also have raised questions
about tuition rates, btit Harreld noted that the
legislature charged the council with setting the
figures, in part to avoid the public heat over
higher rates.

The council was tnore forthright in it». re
quest for funding in the 1990-92 budget.

By a unanimous vote, the council sought
$667 million from the General Fund in 1W]
and $792 million in 1992 for operating the
universities. The General Fund appropriation
for the universities this year is $574 million.

The request would place funding for higher
education at 100 percent of the so-called for-
mula in the second year.

The council’s recommendation is not even
guaranteed of making it into Gov. Wallace
Wilkinson’s budget recommendations to the
l990 legislature, which has the ultimate re-
sponsibility for passing a spending package.

UNDERGRADUATE

 

By EUZABETH WADE
Associate Editor

While presidents of Kentucky's
eight state universities agree with
the tuition increase proposed by
the Council on Higher Education
yesterday, some student leaders at
six of the state‘s schools say they
may fight the increase.

The Council voted yesterday to
increase tuition $20 per semester
for in~state students in UK‘s Coma
munity College System and $60
per semester for in-state students

 

at Kentucky‘s eight state universi-
ties.

The increase follows the Coun—
cil‘s formula funding policy of
weighing average per capita in-
come and the growing market.

UK Vice President for Adminis-
tration Ed (Tarter said the proposed
increase is lower than in past
years.

The average proposed increase,
which is part of the formula calcu—
lation and becomes part of the
overall funding package for higher
education requests from the Gener-

 

Proposed increase may cause
some to drop out of college

al Assembly, is 9 percent per year.
Carter said.

Tuition increases at universities
without doctoral programs, how—
ever, are rising at a faster rate than
those at UK and the University of
Louisville, Carter said. UK and L?

of L are the only \Litilitis with
doctoral programs.

Carter said that has happened
four of the 13 times tt.:tton has
been increased in the last it) years.

Eddie Allen. Murray State 't'nt-
versity student government prest-

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dent, said the tttttion increase may
cause a decrease in enrollment at
his school because many of Mitr-
ray"s students are from llitttots
Tennessee and lndiana.

Allen said he was surprised by
the amount of the increase, and he
said Murray students will fight it
when the General Assembly con-
venes in January.

“l testified on behalf oi the tor~
mula last year. but l itis‘t can‘t be-
lieve the increase would be that
great," Allen satd.

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Book award honors
former UK professor

By JULIE ESSELMAN
Special Projects Writer

When UK English professor
John Cutler retired in the mid-
l97()s after teaching for almost 50
years at the University, he did not
want to give up two of his greatest
sources of love and satisfaction —
books and teaching young people
about them.

So he turned his attention to
UK’s Gaines Center for the Hu-
manities. In addition to donating al-
most 100 volumes front his own
collection to the Gaines Center
Browsing Library, he began doing
volunteer work there, spending
about eight hours a week classify-
ing and evaluating books, making
suggestions for needed ones, and
helping with mailings and other
tasks at the Center.

“He just loved books, and he
loved being around young people
who wanted to learn,” said his wife,
Ann Cutler. “lt was a retirement
made in heaven for him."

In an effort to encourage the
study of the humanities among UK
undergraduates, Raymond Betts, a
UK history professor and director of
the Gaines Center, said he decided
to establish an award of reference
books for outstanding students in
humanities courses. He asked Cut-
ler to come up with a list of such
books.

What Betts did not tell him,
though, was that he intended to
name the award in Cutler‘s honor.

Before the award was officially
established, however, John Cutler
died suddenly last March. He never
knew that his name would be a pan
of the award.

Now to honor the memory of
Cutler, the Gaines Center is accept-
ing nominations for the first annual
John L. Cutler Book Award to re-

ward scholastic achievement and en—
courage study in the humanities.

A set of reference books will be
given to two undergraduate students
in University Studies humanities
courses based on their quality of
work, unusual improvement in or
commitment to the humanities.

The first set of books, compiled
from the suggestions Cutler made,
will be given to a first-semester
freshman enrolled in one of the re-
quired University humanities cours-
es. The set of eight books includes
The American Heritage Dictionary.
Benel's Reader's Encyclopedia, Ele-
ments of Style and Brewer's Dic-
tionary of Phrase and F able.

The second set, to be awarded to
an undergraduate enrolled in clus-
tered courses American Studies,
Western Traditions, or Classics -
consists of nine reference books and
includes Atlas of World History,
Oxford Companion to American
Literature, Penguin Dictionary of
Architecture and Dictionary of
Subjects and Symbols in Art.

Betts said the reference book
awards are for students “at the be-
ginning of their University career,
where these things are so impor-
tant."

He said Cutler inspired the award
“by the care and enthusiasm he had
in cataloguing the books" in the
Gaines Center browsing library.
Betts said he hopes that the awards
will generate in students “that same
deep sense and respect for books
that (Cutler's) life characterized."

Any instructor teaching a Univer-
sity Studies humanities course or
Clustered Course in the humanities
may nominate two students for the
Cutler Book Award. Nomination
forms are available at the Gaines
Center and must be returned there
by Dec. 1. The awards will be pre-
sented in January.

 

 

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Retailers concerned
about holiday sales

By PATRICIA GALLAGHER
USA TODAY/Apple College
information Network

it is that rust-alter-Halloween.
two months belore Christmas calm
before the shopping storm time ot
year.

But this year. the perennial dt-
lemma — buy the hot stuff now or
wait for sales h takes on greater
significance.

lf shopping peaks early. stores
could find themselves short of hot
items — and short of profits, too.

Consumers who watt may risk
the chance that shelves could be
empty long before Christmas Eve.
Worried retailers must keep a close
eye on shopping patterns this year
because survtyal could depend on
how well they react to dcntand.

Christmas always ts crucial for
most businesses; retailers pick up
about one-third of their yearly reve»
nues and at least one half of their
yearly profits iii the eight weeks

before Christmas

lhts‘ year the stakes are it :hcr
because a lousy holtdto \sit‘sttll
-.ould sink wme stiaks , 'a;
chains. and that could shape tn ll:
lure of the indUstry.

Prestigious ciiatns lose it to
mtngdale's‘. Saks Fifth r\~t'l‘='lc‘.
Marshall Fields and B. Atttiiart at.
for sale.

.»\ rash of expensive takeovers it,
the past two years, coupled with
sluggish sales. has some than.
owners struggling to come up is iii:
the cash to make interest payments
on their takeover loans and to pay
suppliers.

in addition supplies are tight as
many retailers are keeping which
and inventories low to hold dost.
e051). Manufacturers are kcc; ing
shipments to troubled stores tight
to make sure they get paid.

(‘antpeau Corp. had to bortost
82W million to make sure that t:

See RE'l‘.-\ll.F.RS. Back pagt

 

Staff reports

Students can purchase “prime”
tickets tonight for the Big Four
Classic to be held Dec. 2 at the
Hoosier Dome in lndianapolis.
Students will be able to par
chase the tickets, which include
one~third ot' UK's allotment for
the event, for $25 each during
the lottery at Memorial Coli-
seum.

The doors to the Coliseum
will open at 5:30 pm. When

 

Students have chance
to buy Big Four tickets

students enter the Coliseum.
they will be given a number.
and the drawing for tickets will
begin after the doors close at o
p.m.

Each student at the lottery
may purchase two tickets, which
include both games of the dod
bio-header » UK vs. Indiana and
Notre Dame vs. Louisville.

All students tickets not pur»
chased at the lottery must be
purchased through the UK tick-
ets office by mail—order only.

 

 

U.S. soccer team
aims for World Cup.

Story, Page 2.

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2 -- Kentucky Kernel, Tuesday, November 7, 1989

SPORTS

Alabama,
Michigan
moving up
college poll

Staff reports

Notre Dame stayed on top but
Colorado. Michigan and Alabama
are gaining momentum in the Ken-
tucky Kemel’s Baker‘s Dozen col~
Iege football poll.

The Fighting irish, who crushed
Navy 41-0, got all Six first-place
votes and totaled 78 points. Colora-
do, boosted by a 27-21 victory over
then-No. 3 Nebraska, received all
six second-place votes and received
72 poian.

Michigan and Alabama moved up
a notch to third and fourth place, re-
spectively, while Nebraska’s loss
dropped them to the. No. 5 spot.
Florida State gained some momen-
tum and moved up one spot to tie
Miami, a team they beat two weeks
ago, at the No. 6 spot. Illinois,
Southern Cal and Tennessee round
out the top 10.

Arkansas moved up one spot to
No. 11. while Auburn, who beat
Florida 10-7 in the last minute. and
Penn State. who beat then-No. 13
\\’est Virginia 1‘“), moved back
into the Baker‘s Dozen. Pittsburgh.
who did not play. and West Virgin-
ia both dropped out of the poll.

Notre Dame and Colorado both
are 9-0 and are destined to meet in
the Orange Bowl with the national
championship on the line if Noue
Dame can get past Penn State and
Miami. The Irish face SMU this
Saturday. and the game figures to
be such a mismatch that Notrc

 

 

 

 

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1 Notre Dame (6) 9-0 1
2 Colorado 9—0 2
3 Michigan 7-1 4
4 Alabama 8-0 5
5 Nebraska 8—1 3
6 Florida St. 7-2 7
(tie) Miami 7-1 6
8 Illinois 7—1 8
9 USC 7-2 9
10 Tennessee 6-1 10
11 Arkansas 7-1 12
12 Auburn 6—2 —
13 Penn St. 6-2 —

Others receiving votes were: Pittsburgh 3.

 

 

Souoe Keene-w Ke'nel sports stafl

Dame offered to call it off.

Colorado may have a little
tougher time this weekend than No—
tre Dame as they meet Big 8 foe
Oklahoma State.
Michigan. who beat Purdue 42-
27 Saturday,
straight games since its season
opening loss to Notrc Dame. The
Wolverines. who got 62 points in
yesterday's poll, play this weekend
at Illinois in a game which proba-
bly will decide who will be the Big
10’s representative in the Rose
Bowl.
Alabama. 8-() after beating Mis-
sissippi State 23-10, received 61
points in the poll but has to face
LSU this Saturdax
7- 2, defeated South Carolina 35 10
and is idle this week after receiving
46 points. Miami (7-1) beat East

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Carolina 40-10 and plays at Pitts-

FOOTBALL NOTES

- It was another weekend of back—
ward steps for most of the top
Heisman Trophy candidates. West
Virginia’s Major Harris fumbled
five times, and his team lost. India-
na’s Anthony Thompson rushed for
only 82 yards, and his team lost.
Florida's Emmitt Smith was held
to 86 yards, and his team lost.
Tony Rice and Notre Dame won,
but Rice was only 1 for 8 passing.

The one man who keeps putting
up big numbers is Houston's Andre
Ware, who passed for 477 yards and
six touchdowns in Saturday’s win
over TCU. Ware has thrown for 36
touchdowns this season. but his
team is still on probation.

   

Barry Reeves
Sports Editor

Ellis, Cushenberry lead
Blue team in scrimmage

Staff reports

Sophomore guard Kristi Cushen-
berry hit the first free throw of a
one-and-one to clinch a 76-73 win
for the Blue squad in a preseason
UK Lady Kat intrasquad scrimmage
Sunday afternoon at Memorial Col-
iseum.

Senior center Lisa Ellis fired in
24 points and grabbed 18 rebounds
to lead the winners. Cushenberry,
who was still recovering from soar
throat, added 16 points and five re-
bounds for the Blue team.

Junior guard Tracye Davis paced
the White team with 27 points, in-
cluding hitting 15 of 18 from the
free-throw line.

Davis’ career high performance
in a regular-season game is 19
points, which came against Vander—
bilt University two seasons ago.

Both teams hit more free throws
than field goals in a foul-plagued
game that lasted 2 1/2 hours.

The White squad led the entire
first half and held a 42-41 at half-
time, with Davis scoring 16 first-
half points.

The two teams were tied several
times during the second half, and
the Blue‘s victory was not secured
until Jennifer Johnson’s three-point
attempt at the buzzer bounced off
the front end of the rim.

Freshman forward Tammy Dow-
ell, who is suffering from a quad
strain, was the only player on the
Lady Kat roster that did not play.
Everyone who saw action scored.

Other players who scored in dou-

 

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ble figures were Jamie Hobgood,
who had 12 points for the Blue
team, Pattresa Leonard, who scored
12 for the White squad, and Mia
Daniel, who had 10 points for the
White.

Lady Kat coach Sharon Fanning
said she was not pleased with her
team‘s performance.

“We weren’t sharp today," Fan-
ning said. “Our intensity was be’
low-average. We would not have
beaten an average team if we were
in the season."

The Lady Kats play their final
preseason public intrasquad scrim-
mage Sunday at Oldham County
High School in Buckner, Ky. Tip-
off is at 3 pm.

Katfish win

UK's men‘s and women’s swim
teams won their third meet of the
season with a Friday night win
over Bowling Green State Universi-
ty at the Harry A. Lancaster Aquat-
ic Center. The women won 65-45,
and the men notched a 66-44 victo-

Both UK teams, who are 3-1
Overall, posted the wins against
Bowling Green State less than 24
hours after defeating Transylvania
University on Thursday night.

Senior Bartley Pratt won the

women’s LOGO-yard freestyle for
the Lady Katfish. Freshman Joce-
lyn Danko won the 500-yard frees-
tyle, and Wendy Hipskind was vic-
torious in the ZOO-yard individual
medley. Senior Jill Bumgamer won
the 1-meter diving competition for
UK.

Senior Ken Atkinson won the
200-yard backstroke for the men.
and Jim McCarthy placed first in
the 220-yard freestyle.

Cats host tourney

The UK volleyball team will
join Rax Restaurants this weekend
to host the Rax Wildcat Volleyball
Classic at Memorial Coliseum.

The Classic, now in its third
year, will showcase teams from all
over the nation. In addition to UK,
the Classic’s participants include
Syracuse University, Florida State
University and Bringham Young
University.

“It's a vote of confidence to have
business come through and be a
supporter of your program," UK
coach Kathy DeBoer said. “With
the number of tickets that we’ve
been able to distribute on behalf of
Rax we just hope we have a really
good crowd.

“I know this team is getting bet-
ter all the time since Laura (Lind-
er‘s) injury, and we think it’s going
to be a real good show.”

UK, 20—8 overall, will play Syra-
cuse following the Florida State-
BYU match, which begins the tour-
nament at 6 pm.

U.S. national soccer team hopes to qualify for World Cup

By PAUL OBERJUERGE
USA TODAY/Apple College
Information Network

FENTON, Mo. — Sometimes
the American national soccer team
plays in the United States. But
only rarely does it truly feel at
home.

For the 1.7.5. team, only one spot
on the continent is really warm and

opponenL"
Windischmann said.
it’s pro-American."

Not only is the crowd here pro—
American, it’s fairly enthusiastic.

welcoming, and a little high
school-size stadium in this suburb
of St. Louis is that place — St.
Louis; Soccer Park,

"Anytime we play anywhere else
in the LS. the crowd is for the
team captain Mike
“In St. Louis,

where the majority of the people
making noise are usually foreign
nationals rooting on their team

against the Americans.

Sunday’s 1 pm. EST World Cup
qualifying game with El Salvador
has been a sellout for a week at the
8,500-capacity stadium.

“It's so much better when you
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round for the 1990 World Cup in
Italy, but it will not determine
whether the Americans advance to
the toumament.

However, a victory could make
the United States’ path to Italy
much smoother. A win means
America would need only to tie
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Trinidad would join Costa Rica as
the North American representatives
to the 24-nation World Cup.

Besides finding friendly faces in
the stands, the U.S. team hopes it
can rediscover its lost offense. The
Americans have managed only five
goals in their first six second-round
qualifying matches. but they’ve
scored 13 in their past four games
here.

“St. Louis has been our stomp-
ing ground," said midfielder Brian
Bliss, referring to 30, 4-1 and 5-1
stompings of Canada, Trinidad and
Jamaica since 1987. “We haven’t
lost here and have had some good
victories. It’s a place where we can
score some goals.”

The U.S. will have to generate
offense without the aid of midfield-
er Hugo Perez, the National team‘s
most potent scoring threat. He re-
mains sidelined with a groin pull
sustained during a match with his
club team in France.

El Salvador is winless in five
second-round matches, but how
highly motivated its players are for

the match is one subplot to the
game.

Some U.S. players said that they
have heard rumors that Trinidad is
offering cash incentives to Salvado-
ran players, as much as $1,750 per
player.

Coach Bob Gansler said he has
also heard the rumors but won't let
them affect his team’s play.

“It makes for a good story," he
said. “Whether it goes on, who
knows? But it can’t affect us in any
way, shape or form. We've still go
to go out and take charge of our
own destiny."

The U.S. dominated El Salvador
in a game played Sept. 17 in Hon-
duras, getting 19 shots on goal to
five by El Salvador. Yet the Ameri-
cans won only 1-0 on a goal by
Perez.

The U.S. difficulty scoring fig-
ures to put added pressure on goal-
keeper Tony Meola, 20, a sopho-
more from the University of
Virginia who has taken away the
starting job from veteran David Va—
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DIVERSIONS

Kentucky Kernel,

Tuesday, November 7, 1989 —- 3

Kip Bowmar
Arts Editor

 

Parents upset by sex and violence on network television

By USA FAYE KAPLAN
USA TODAY/ Apple College
Information Network

Harry Stein, a New York writer
who has always believed in free
speech, said that he is is sickened
by the sex and violence he sees on
television — and he wants to do
something about it.

“You don't want to be accused of
being in conflict with the First
Amendment,” said Stein, a regis-
tered Democrat and former ethics
columnist for Esquire magazine.

But, “i think the harm being
done by some of the stuff that is
running amok through our popular
culture has to be stopped. It has to
be limited," he said.

Many people increasingly are be-
coming upset over the material
they find in television programs.

Even those who would never de-
scribe themselves as conservative
said they are offended by television.

“it isn’t just the crazies that are
concerned." said Peggy Charren,
president of Action for Children’s
Television, a group formed to
broaden the selection of children‘s
programming on television. “A lot
of people who look at television
are saying, ‘I don’t like it.’

“I think they don‘t really know
what to do about it," Charren said.
“People who are First Amendment-
sensitive don’t want to say, ‘Take
it off the air.‘ "

George Gerbner, former dean of
the Annenberg School of Commu-
nications at the University of Penn-
sylvania, has been researching sex
and violence on television, and his
conclusions indicate that prime-
time television viewers can expect

to see six to eight violent incidents
per hour, a figure that has remained
stable for about 20 years.

In addition, Gerbner said sexual
activity and talk about sexual activ-
ity occur approximately 11 times
every prime time hour, 30 percent
more often than ten years ago.

Recent mergers of communica-
tions companies with corporate
giants and mounting competition
from cable and video have forced
networks to nurse profits more than
ever, Gerbner said.

“The greatly increased bottom-
line pressure puts a set of con-
straints on creative people to be
ever more sensational, bizarre and
provocative, ” he said.

Lew Hunter, at UCLA professor
of screen writing who has worked
in the programming departments of
the three major networks, said sex

and violence have always been im-
ponant components of the enter-
tainment industry.

“Since the cave person started
telling stories around the campfire.
sex and violence has been the draw‘
ing factor in getting an audience,”
Hunter said. “It‘s done for com-
merce."

Some parents said the increase in
offensive television has prompted
them to monitor and control the
shows their children watch.

“I never let them watch network
TV," said Chris Finnegan, a San
Francisco homemaker who allows
her 4-year-old son and 2-year—old
daughter to watch only public tele-
vision.

“lt seems like on every (network)
show someone is getting either
beat up, shot, stabbed."

Stein said he allows his 8-year-

Specialty shops the demise of other retailers

By GWEN HALL
USA TODAY/Apple College
information Network

Ours is the country, where, in or-
der to sell your product, you don’t
so much point out its merits as
you first work like hell to rell
yourself."

—— Louis Kronenbcrger, Ameri-
can critic and novelist.

Today many merchants say a
businessperson must find a special-
ty and then stick with it to be suc-
cessful.

Apparel retailing in the United
States grossed $160 billion last
year, according to the US. Depart-
ment of Commerce. But between
1982 and 1985. sales at specialty
stores grew 60 percent faster than at
larger department stores.

And competition from specialty
retailers caused department stores to
streamline their operations or
merge. Ohrbach‘s and Gimbel’s de-
partment stores closed their doors.

Bloomingdale's, Saks Fifth Ave-
nue, B. Aitrnan, and Bonwit Teller,
along with other department stores,
are up for sale by their parent com—

to retain Bonwit Teller, according
to company employees.

But large companies aren’t the
only retailers exposed to risk. The
independent store owner has similar
chances for success or failure.

“Every retailer, big or small -~— it
makes no difference — to hope to
survive in the face of competition
must do something different,” Ban
nard said.

The management at Saks said
they think they can compete
against the smaller stores with
quality merchandise at fair prices.

“Our merchandise has very high
perceived value." said Cathleen
Stock, general manager of the Saks
in White Plains, N.Y. “We search
out the very best and then price it
fairly.”

Carrying items that other stores
do not carry can make or break a
store. said Victor Cardia, co-owner
with Susan Feist of His & Her
Looms, a children’s boutique in
Chappaqua, N .Y.

”With people getting married lat-
er and having kids later, they are
more fashion-conscious and for-
ward-thinking,“ Feist said. “We

thought there was a good market
for a wide variety of exciting in-
fants’ and children's clothing. It
just made good sense."

Cardia said the boutique provides
more than just expensive European
clothing.

“Nine out of 10 stores are stuffed
and an uncomfortable place to
shop," Cardia said. “People come
in and stay here. They don‘t rush
right out.”

Sal Martirano exercised at health
clubs for years and wanted to get
into a business to provide a uni-
form for the fitness-crazed. Martira-
no opened The Workout Room in
Eastchester, N.Y., last year.

“l'm special,” Martirano said. “I
only cater to workout clothes.
Women come in and treat them-
selves. First they want black, but
after they see themselves in all the
mirrors and lose a few pounds they
come back for flashier outfits.”

Martirano said he caters to a spe-
Cific market with a variety of fash-
ions. He said that department stores
with workout clothing sections are
typically small, “and no one there
knows what they're talking about."

 

panics while well—known specialty
chains, such as Toys ’R Us and
The Limited, continue to expand.

Not all department stores are
threatened by the increased competi-
tion, according to Kurt Barnard, a
Manhattan-based retail consultant
and publisher of Barnard’s Retail
Marketing Report.

“Only two —— Bonwit Teller and
B. Altman — but they have been
dying for years, and now is the bu-
rial.” Barnard said. “Saks and Bloo-
mingdale’s are excellent."

L.J. Hooker Corp., the parent
company of B. Altman and Bonwit
Teller, has been operating under
protection from creditors since Au-
gust. The company is looking for
buyers for B. Altman and expects

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