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luesday, February 14, 2006

Celebrating 35 years of independence

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Brown tosses hat in ring for March 86 presidential race

 

Political science senior Jonah Brown announces his candidacy for Student Government presi-

dent last night in the Student Center's Small Ballroom.

Pledges focus on safety,
student resource center

By Sean Rose
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Music echoed in the nearby
stairwell and the crowd of about
150 people spilled outside the Stu-
dent Center's Small Ballroom last
night, talking and laughing.

The supporters were eagerly
waiting for political science se-
nior Jonah Brown to announce
his candidacy for Student Gov
ernment president.

Along with his running mate,
communications and integrated
strategic communication junior
Mallory Jenkins, the pair became
the second ticket to declare their
candidacy for SO president in the
upcoming late-March election.

Jenkins, an SG senator, said
in her speech that in her time at
UK, the school “had become more

man I smr

than just a part of my life — it’s
become part of who I am.” She
said she was looking for a way to
give back to UK when Brown
asked her to be his running mate.

“This is my chance to give
back to the students and the uni-
versity," Jenkins said, “and I
couldn’t pick a better person to
do it with."

After the applause died down
and a spectator stopped waving a
hand-made sign, Brown criticized
past SG administrations for lack
of action and pledged to bring
students together on issues de-
spite individual differences.

“We were consumed by our
differences," Brown said about
the student body. “There is still
more that unites us than divides
us.

“We have the ability to work
toward positive change.”

Brown, a former SG senator
and Resident Student Association
president, called for improve-

ment in women's safety on cam-
pus, advocating more lighting,
more emergency call boxes and
giving out Mace keychains to stu-
dents.

Brown, who is a current UK
ambassador, said he would use
his relationship with Dining Ser-
vices Director Jeff DeMoss to
find a meal plan students are hap
py with and expand the Plus Ac-
count to more off-campus loca-
tions.

Brown also said he and Jenk~
ins want to create a non-resident
resource center for out-of—state
students that would help with the
move to a new city as well as
helping them find jobs around
their region after they graduate.

He also advocated improving
the relationship between UK stu—
dents and the Lexington police
department, as well as other Lex-
ington institutions.

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Faux charity dupes
UK's Greek system

Organizations discovered fraud in time
to stop payment on checks

By Megan Boehnke
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A man recently tricked two UK fraternities and four
UK sororities into signing more than $1,500 in checks to
a charity that doesn’t exist.

The man went around to the Greek houses on cam-
pus on Jan. 31, soliciting money for a step program that
he said he was putting on in Memphis. He told several of
the organizations that they had donated in the past and

. he asked for the treasurers and presidents by name.

“I have no doubt he’s done this around on other cam-
puses. He'd done his research," said UK interim police
chief Kevin Franklin. “I can’t prove it, but that’s my gut
feeling. He‘d done his research and he knew the inner
workings of the fraternities."

Franklin said one woman in one UK sorority asked
one of her sorority sisters — whom the man had refer-
enced in his solicitation — if in fact she'd spoken with

him before.

When she said she hadn’t
promised the man money for his
organization, she became suspi-
cious and tried to look up the
charity the man referenced. After
finding out it didn’t exist. she
called other sororities before call-
ing UK police.

The fraternities and sororities
cancelled the checks they had
written before they were cashed.

“He came by and asked to
speak with Adam (Johnson, edu-
cation junior), the treasurer. and
said we had given money in the
past," said Lee Johnson, president
of the Farmhouse Fraternity.

The man had come by with a
flyer about a month before return-
ing to collect the money a little
over two weeks ago, Johnson said.
The campus police came by later
that evening asking about the
man and informed the fraternity
that they had reason to believe
that the charity was a scam.

“He came by the house and I talked to him for a
while. He asked for $250 for a step thing,” said Sarah
Burns, president of Delta Delta Delta sorority, who said
she was suspicious from the beginning. In part because
he had an envelope with checks from other fraternities
and sororities, she decided to write him a check, but
continued to look into it after he left.

“We were going through old files and couldn't find
anything we wrote for more than $200," she said. “I got
weirded out and called a couple other presidents from
other sororities."

Since the man told her that he worked with Alpha
Phi Alpha, who sponsors a step show on campus every
year, she called the vice president of UK's chapter. When
he said that they didn’t know the man, she called the po
lice.

“I’ve never heard of this happening before."
Franklin said.

Officers spoke with every fraternity and sorority
about the man as well as contacting other schools in-
cluding Eastern Kentucky University and Transylvania
University, neither of which had any encounters with
him

“i have no
doubt he’s
done this
around on
other campus-
es. He'd done
his research
and he knew
theinner
workings of
the fraterni-
ties.”

Kevin Franklin
captain, UK police

The police have descriptions of the man and a cell
phone number that the man had given to the organiza-
tions, Franklin said. Q

“We've not had much luck so far,” Franklin said
about tracking the cell phone number. “You can buy
those things in the grocery store now with 90 minutes
on it."

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By Adam Sichko
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Editor’s note: This is the first article
in a five-part series highlighting several
key people and institutions in UK '3 black
community 7— and showing how their
pasts will impact UK ’s future.

Several times since he’s taken the
reins at UK‘s Martin Luther King Jr.
Cultural Center, Ricardo Nazario-Colon

has been caught offvguard by the same
question. Even today. it still puzzles
him.

“I‘ve had individuals come here and
ask, ‘Can I come in here and sit down'." "
Nazario-Colon said. “Never crossed my
mind in a university, when l was a stu-
dent. that I couldn‘t go inside of a place
and have a seat.

“Often. we look at things and we say,
‘Well. that‘s for AfricansAmericans' or
‘That‘s for white students‘ or ‘That‘s for
Latino students,‘ and we don't under-

stand that everything is for students.“
he said. “It's a perspective thing."

That includes the cultural center. es-
tablished in 1987 to positively affect re-
cruitment and retention of black stu-
dents. according to its Web site. One
year after that. Nazario-Colon enrolled
at UK.

Now, as its director. Nazario-Colon
believes the center is more important
than ever before in changing the mind-
sets and cultural landscape at UK .. just
as he believes now. more than ever,
black history should be honored.

'Poverty knows no race'

A young Nazario-Colon was riding
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Virginia Senate backs smoking ban for restaurants

By Rosalind S. Helderman
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RICHMOND, Va. — The Virginia Sen-
ate voted yesterday to ban smoking in
restaurants and virtually all other public
places, an extraordinary sign of cultural
change in a state that is ome to the world-
wide headquarters of Philip Morris and
whose agricultural economy has been root-
ed intobacoofarmingforahnostmyears

The bill is unlikely to survive review
in the House of Delegates. Yet its passage
on the floor of the Senate ~~ where smok-

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ing has never been formally banned and
lawmakers lit up openly even until the late
1990s —— signaled mounting popular sup
port for smoking restrictions.

The chamber narrowly approved the
measure after a short but intense debate.

Senate Bill 648, sponsored by a Republi-
can flom Roanoke, would make smoking
illegal in all public workplaces with the ex-
ception of certain tobacco stores and of-
fices. The prohibition would extend to
bars, restaurants and bowling alleys.

"This is not about whether I prefer or
do not prefer the smell of smoke," said

Sen. J. Brandon Bell [1. the sponsor. “This
is about public health. The research has
come forward over the years, and it's
shown us that secondhand cigarette
smoke is a very insidious health problem.”

The American Cancer Society said the
Senate vote is a dramatic victory in efforts
to educate the public about the dangers of
secondhand smoke.

“This shows that Virginia is ready to
move its way to where the mainstream is
on health issues," said Keenan Caldwell,
director of government relations for the
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blind.

. He had boarded a Greyhound
bus in New York City. The year:

1988. Destination: Lexington, Ky.

Nazario-Colon was going to UK
iv to a college he’d never even seen
before.

He had been “watching a Satur-
day basketball game. thinking
about where I could go to college,"
he said, when he noticed that UK
basketball star Ed Davender was
from Brooklyn, NY. Nazario-Colon
is a Bronx native.

“ ‘I can go down there. if he
. went down there,’ " Nazario—Colon
remembered thinking. “I got on
the Greyhound and headed to Ken-
tucky, no idea what it was like. No
campus visit couldn’t afford to
come for a campus visit."

In New York City Nazario-
Colon‘s family r~ descendants
from former African slaves on the
island of Puerto Rico ~ was
“needy," as he described i‘ :ut
then again, so was everyone a in
his neighborhood.

“It was natural to try to help
out at least the people that you
lived with," Nazario—Colon said,
noting that late-19705 New York
City “didn't lend itself to commu-
nity."

“If you had a piece of bread.
you gave half (away)," he said.
“For me. at that time, race was not
a big issue. We were all in the
same boat. There could have been
people out there who felt they were
superior because of their race, but
in reality. they were stuck just like
we were.“

But years later, there Nazario-
Colon was, “stuck" in Lexington
all by himself. From that lens, he
noticed that very few Latinos and
Puerto Ricans were visible on
campus.

Then he gravitated toward the
cultural center.

“When I found the cultural cen-
ter, it was like, ‘Hey, I’m familiar
with African-American culture,’ ”
Nazario-Colon said. “We share the
same interests, and this was a nat-
ural fit for me."

At the center, Nazario-Colon
found a support network that
helped him become the only one of
five children to graduate from col-
lege.

“College was difficult for me,
being the only one who stuck it out
in my family,” he said. “That (edu-
cational success) had a lot to do
with the cultural center.”

Two decades, 200 extra square
feet - and a bright future

Since he left his New York City
banking career in 2002 to return to
UK, Nazario-Colon has had a lot to
do with the cultural center ~ in-
cluding a move from next to the
Cats Den to a larger, window-filled
space across from the UK Book-
store.

And as he ponders the future,
he can‘t help but become enam-
ored with that patch of muddied.
dead grass between the Student
Center, on one end, and Patterson
Office Tower and White Hall Class-
room Building on the other.

“I would love to have a stand-
alone building that connects
through the underground tunnel
with the Classroom Building and
the office tower," Nazario-Colon
said. “A large~enough building
where you can accommodate

greater amounts of programming,
where you can house a depart-
ment, where you can centralize the
services that you offer sorta like
a humongous house with a big 01’
living room.”

The center gained its current
location after the UK Visitor Cen-
ter moved to the Main Building in
October 2004, but the new territory
comes with concerns such as redi-
recting traffic flow to the cultural
center's new home. But the growth
is a needed, and definitely positive.
change, Nazario-Colon said.

“It took close to 20 years to get
an extra 200 square feet," he said.
“It shows a commitment from the
university to what
we’re doing here and
how we can enhance
that.“

Returning to the
roots of the cultural
center’s namesake is
key to that enhance-
ment, Nazario~Colon
said.

“If you go back in
history and read about
what Dr. Martin Luther
King was talking
about, those are the
most ideal principles that you can
find." Nazario—Colon said. “I think
that having a place that exempli-
fies the ideals of diversity, having
it named after Martin Luther
King, exemplifies not only the
ideals of diversity but of humanic
tY-

“It‘s funny that we’re still deal-
ing with that right now, that were
still trying to carve a place or find
a place for students of color and
for all students,” he said. “Our
mission since day one is to support
and create a climate that African-
American students can feel com-

“For me, at that
time, race was
not a big issue.
We were all in
the same boat."
Ricardo Nazario-Colon

Martin Luther King Jr. Cultural Center

fortable in and find a place that
will ensure that they stay at the
University of Kentucky. In addi-
tion to that — and this is impor-
tant — is that we also have extend-
ed over the years, and more so now
than ever before. our cultural cen-
ter and what we do to other
groups.”

Keeping the long-term vision
in mind, Nazario-Colon wants to
fortify the cultural center's inter-
university relations with UK’s col‘
leges in the short-term.

“If we can be an intersecting
point for all those groups where
we can collaborate in program-
ming and create a natural relation-
ship where when peo-
ple are doing pro-
grams, it’s an automat-
ic given that a cultural
center and that depart.
ment are going to be
engaged and develop

By reaching back to
his small-town Puerto
Rican roots and mixing
in some of King’s ideals,
NazarioColon aims to
transform the cultural
center into a pivotal UK
establishment — and, by doing so,
prevent those puzzling questions.

“Even being here, I'm sure
there's at least 10,000 people on
campus that don’t know this place
is here, just because of the nature
of individuals in general,”
NazarioColon said.

“What’s more important is that
individuals see the cultural center
and its possibilities and utilize it
in terms of what we can do," he
said. “It’s a two-way street.”

director,

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African-Americans for equality.

 

Ricardo Malaria-Colon, on what Black History Month means to him: “I know there's a need to celebrate things; I just wish that things weren't
pegged to a week here, a week there. I wish we could celebrate this year-round.
Latinos know that African-Americans paved the way for us. They struggled. A lot of the legislations out there are because of the struggles of

People like to just shy away, but we are all, in a sense, benefiting from the civil rights struggle. And we need to
pay homage to that and never, never forget it."

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UK will show off its new edu-
cation and research facility to
the public from Feb. 14 to 17. The
new Center of Minimally Inva-
sive Surgery will have on-hands
demonstrations for health pro-
fessionals and the public
through the week. The opportu-
nity will allow the public to see t
he new education and research
facility The center is located on
the first floor of the College of
Nursing Building on Rose Street.
Registration for the sessions is
required.

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The Kentucky Institute of
Medicine received a grant for
$214, 500 to help develop a com-
prehensive report on the status
of rural health in Kentucky. The
Foundation for a Healthy Ken-
tucky, Inc. gave the grant to the
institute to help investigate is-
sues like demographics, preven-
tion and public health, chronic
disease, health insurance and
economics and social services.

Art Musem hlwalser set
for next week

The UK Art Museum’s “Art
in Bloom 2006” fundraiser“, high-
lighting about 40 floral designers
from the community, is set for its

sixth annual showing from Feb.
23 to 26.

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“We want Student Govern-
ment to play an integral role in
improving the relationship be-
tween students and the city of
Lexington,” Brown said.

Along with 24 senatorial
candidates, Brown and Jenkins
encouraged everyone to vote in
the upcoming election ne‘kt
month.

Brown ended the rally with
an emphasis on the students.

“(The students) deserve to
have someone that will fight
for them,” Brown said.

“Our focus is on the student
body, and everything we do
needs to be about you." he said.

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