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October 6, 2004

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Celebrating 33 years of independence

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Columnist: IRAs are
as easy as ABC
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Editorial: if only 56

were like Congress

Boone Center’s capacity trails benchmarks

UK's faculty center average in size
when compared to similar schools

By Adam Sichlio
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Colleen Rohrbaugh often
wishes she could share the
view of Lake Washington
through the main dining
room‘s glass windows with
more than 200 people.

But. due to space con-
straints. Rohrbaugh the
general manager of the Uni-
versity of Washington Club

can't.

“We have a spectacular
view." Rohrbaugh said.
“That is its strongest appeal.

“But we‘re not even close
to having adequate space."
she said.

“We have many requests
for 300 people and up. for
wedding receptions and
fundraising events that we
just can't hold."

Those space issues are
similar to the ones UK Pres-
ident Lee Todd cited in

proposing a $4.38 million
overhaul for the Hilary .l.
Boone Center at last
month's Board of Trustees
meeting.

Faculty centers typically
host events like wedding re-
ceptions. fundraisers. ban-
quets. meetings and confer-
ences.

Under Todd‘s renovation
plan. the 19.561-square-foot
faculty club which he
said can comfortably hold
no more than 200 people
would measure more than
29.000 square feet in size and
would be better suited to
hosting larger fundraising
functions. he said.

The board opted to wait
until its next function. later
this month. to make a deci
sion on the proposed renova<
tions.

Compared with some
benchmark institutions. the
Boone Center tends to serve
many of the same purposes
as other faculty clubs while
holding fewer people in its
facility

The University of Wash-
ington Club which mea-
sures 11.000 square feet
has hosted successful uni-
versity fundraisers in the
past. Rohrbaugh said.

“it keeps the feeling of
collegiality on campus.“ she

said. "People like to go on
campus. and they like to
have exposure to students."

Rohrbaugh said renovav
tion talk began six years af-
ter the facility was built in
1958. The Boone (.‘enter
opened in 1987 and has not
received any major renova-
tions since then.

At Penn State University

another UK benchmark
school the faculty and
staff club is housed within
the Nittany Lion inn. a uni-
versity-owned hotel.

The club itself can con-
tain about 200 people. and
holds primarily evening so-
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Education junior, Lisa Finneran (right), makes a phone call after she and her friend, Jamie Swet (middle). an education junior, were involved in a three-car accident yesterday
on Euclid Avenue between Aylesford Place and Transylvania Park. Lexington Police officer David Hollingsworth said a Nissan Maxima rear-ended Swet's white Pontiac Sunfire
shortly after noon. That collision pushed the Sunfire into another Nixxan Maxima. Hollingsworth said the cause of the accident was "driver inattention." and he said the driver
who hit the Sunfire is at fault. Both Swet and Finneran reported minor soreness and stiffness, but no one was transported to the hospital.

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Student input sought on local debate

By Adam Sichlio
THE KENTUCKY KERNEL

tine week from today. UK students
will have the chance to hear candidates
for the titli (‘ongressional District seat
respond in person to their questions.

The debate at downtown Lexing-
ton's Radisson Plaza Hotel will feature
at least three of the four candidates.

The Kernel and WRFL-FM are co
sponsoring the event. which will be drie
ven largely by student questions and
studentri-latryi issues. said debate mode

erator Steve ivcy:

“ikcause two student groups are or-
ganizing this event. we plan to get the
candidates to give their plans on issues
that matter to the university." said lvey.
who is managing editor at the Kernel.

“That includes issues like higher
education and job creation
important matters to our student body.“

About a month ago. the Kernel apv
priviched WRFL with the possibility of
helping to host the debate. and right
away: news director Lauren (iawtlii‘op
knew it was “a wonderful idea." WRFL
will be linvidcasting the debate.

"You see a bunch of names on the
ballot. but you often don't know any-
Gawthrop said.
“We‘re putting the candidates out [ht'l‘t‘
so that they‘ll let students know their

thing about them."

stance on issues.”

November

Both parties involved hope the de-
bate encourages citizens to vote in early

“Hopefully; everyone will leave with

two very

an idea of which candidate riiost close-
ly reflects their views." iyey said.

(iawthrop said the voter registra-
tion drives around campus in recent
weeks don‘t necessarily mean that
those who register will vote

“Hopefully. by going to the forum.
they'll feel more informed and make a
better decision because they know
about these issues." she said.

Sen. Tom Buford. R-Nicholasville:
(‘onstitution Party candidate Stacy Ali

; The itentucky VKernel/WRFL-FM 6th District Congressional Debate

Oct. 13, 6:30 pm.
Radisson Plaza Hotel
369 W. Vine St, downtown Lexington
For more information, call 2574915
Send questions for the candidates to siveyeikyliernelcom.

ner. Berea: and Libertarian candidate
Mark Hailey: Berra. have all confirmed
their attendance at next Wednesday's
debate.

The incumbent Rep. Ben Chandler.
D-Ky. has not respondwi to a request to
attend the debate.

Students wishing to submit ques
tions for the candidates to answer in
the debate should email sivey a kyker
nelcom

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Rodney Dangerfield, comic who ‘didn't get no respect,’ dies

By Dennis McLeIlan
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Rodney Dangerfield. who
tapped an eiiduriiigly rich
vein of comedy gold when he
created his stage persona as a
middle-aged Everyman who
gets no respect. died yester~
day. He was 82.

Dangerfield died at the
[Iniversity of (‘aliforiiia. Los
Angeles Medical (‘enter of
complications following heart
valve replacement surgery on
Aug. '25. according to his wife.
.ioan.

Following the surgery. he
slipped into what his family
described as a “light coma."
from which he emerged
briefly before his death The
comedian had undergone ar-
terial brain surgery in April
200'; to improve his body‘s

blood flow
in prepara
tion for the
heart valve
replace-
ment.

liver the
joker. Dari-
gerfieid had
cracked: “if
things go
right. I'll be there about a
week. and if things don't go
right. l‘ll be there about an
hour and a half."

Dangerfield. whose suc
cessful comeback as a stand
up comic in the 1960s when
he was in his 40s made him a
familiar figure on television.
in movies. and on Vegas and
comedyclub stages for more
than three decades. had been
active in comedy until his re
cent surgery.

Dangerfield

Standing on stage in his
trademark black suit. the bug-
eyed Dangerfield was always
the picture of sweaty unease.
nervously tugging at his red
tie as he delivered his sharply
timed. seif-deprwating lines.

in an hour-long perfor-
mance. Dangerfield would do
about 325 jokes. his stream-of-
consciousness delivery and
lovable loser persona finding
fans in all generations.

An admiring Jack Benny
once came back stage after
watching Dangerfield per
form. Benny had his vain and
cheap image. he told Danger-
field. “but your ‘no respect.‘
everybody can identify with
that."

Like Benny. Dangerfield
would become a comedy insti-
tution. whose trademark
white dress shirt and red

necktie (sans the black suit)
are housed at the Smithson
ian institution.

Like many comedians.
Dangerfield drew on a life-
time of hurt and angst to
make people laugh. Despite
the fame. fortune and aduia»
tion that finally came his way.
he was not a happy man.

"i have never been happy."
he told a reporter in 1997
when he was 75. "My whole
life has been a downer"

He was born Jacob (‘ohen
in Babylon. on New York‘s
Long island. on Nov 22.1921.
His father. a vaudeville comic
whose stage name was Phil
Roy: abandoned the family
when Dangerfield was a child.
He and his sister were raised
by their mother. who moved
them to a neighborhood in
Queens that was. he once re-

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called. "too ricii for us. When
i was young. 1 had to deliver
groceries to the ironies of the
kids i went to school with. i
had to go to the back doors to
make the deliveries it was
embarrassing.

“So constantly i felt like
they were better than i am
and my seifesteem was very
low . . . things like that in life
i guess can stay with you.
where you never think you're
as good as anybody else."

At 15. he began writing
jokes “not out of happi—
ness. but to go to a different
place. because reality wasn‘t
good to me."

He was soon trying out
his jokes at amateur nights
under the stage name Jack
Roy.

See Comedian on page 2

Catherine Grigot. While it
hasn‘t held any university
fundraisers in the past. it
would be open to that idea.
she said.

“That would have merit.
and that might be some-
thing we’d look at as we look
to see how we'd like to ex-
pand." Grigot said.

“Anything that you can
do to bring potential donors
into the university to see it
and engage them in the uni-
versity is vital to fundrais-
ing. With escalating costs.
you need all the private
money you can get."

See Faculty on page 2

Draft bill
rushed
to a vote

By Faye Flore and Richard Simon

LOS ANGELES TIMES

WASHINGTON , Seek-
ing to dispel suggestions
that the war in iraq could
lead to reinstatement of the
draft. House Republicans on
Thursday hastily brought
the idea to a vote 7— with the
express intent of shooting it
down.

The vote. launched with
only hours of notice and no
public hearings. was de-
signed to put an end to talk
that President Bush's for-
eign policy could overtax
the all-volunteer Army that
has been national policy
he end of the Viet»
riani War

“it‘s putting a rumor to
rest." .lohn Feehery. a
spokesman for House Speak.
er .l Dennis Hastert. R-Ill..
said even before the 4022
vote to reject the bill that
would have mandated two
years of military or civilian
service for all men and
women 18 to 26 years old.

But congressional De-
mocrats and activists else-
where denounced the vote
as an empty exercise that
trivialized what many
Americans believe is a real
possibility.

“They have used games-
manship to give a false
sense that there is not going
to he a draft. Nobody wants
a draft But if you don't
have the manpower to con-
front the need. then there is
no option." said Bobby
Muller. founder of the Viet-
nam Veterans of America
Foundation. an internation-
al organization that ad
dresses the causes and con-
sequences of war

Speculation about a
draft has grown in intensity
as tours of duty in iraq have
grown longer. more Nation-
al (iuard forces have been
called up and recruitment
has sagged Some military
authorities have questioned
whether the l'nited States
has a large enough military
force to defeat the insur
gents in iraq and meet de-
fen se needs elsewhere.

Sen. John Kerry. the De-
mocratic presidential candi-
date. suggested during a
campaign stop in lowa yes~
terday that the Bush admin.
istration may reinstitute the
draft.

”i've never said they're
going to have a draft." Ker-
ry said. “We said I don't
know what they're going to
do. i know what I'm going to
do. I‘m going to pursue a
policy that guarantees that
we don‘t have to have a
draft."

Administration officials
have flatly ruled out the
prospect of a new draft. and
Bush said at a campaign
stop this week that “we will
not have a draft so long as
i'm the president of the
United States."

TIMES STAFF WRITER MATEA GOLD
IN TIPTON. lOWA. CONTRIBUTED
TO THIS REPORT.