Wednesday October 6, 2004 www.kykernel.com newsroom: 257-1915 First issue free. Subsequent Issues 25 cents. K THE KENTUCKY er ne Celebrating 33 years of independence 1 ? Columnist: IRAs are as easy as ABC Page 3 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 THE «ruiucxr mm 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- cial events. said president 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. mount mm | snrr ‘ 'smce 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 Email (1.\'lt him it Aji'li‘ernel.toni Rodney Dangerfield, comic who ‘didn't get no respect,’ dies By Dennis McLeIlan ios merits nuts 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- 0 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.