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Speakers say people not heard

By TYRONE SEASON
Contributing Writer

If democracy is based on oppor-
tunity, then American democracy
has failed, Paul Du Bois said last
night at Memorial Hall.

Du Bois and his wife Frances
Moore Lappé spoke last night on
"Race, Power and Self-Interest: Is
There Hope for our Democracy?"
The couple co-founded the Institute
for the Ans of Democracy, a pro-

gram designed to encourage citizen
involvement in public affairs.

People have been led to believe
they have no reason to get involved,
Du Bois said. He stressed the par-
ticipation of all people in America’s
decision-making process.

American democracy has failed
in two ways, Lappé said. It has
failed to meet the problems of
Americans, and it has failed to pre-
vent the splitting of society along
social and economic lines.

However, people are trying to
correct these failures because they
have a natural desire to get in-
volved, she said.

“I think that citizens don’t want
to be passive," Lappé said. “What
citizen groups are discovering is
that they can change the nature of
public life."

One of the obstacles to increased
citizen involvement is people’s be-
lief that decision-making is in the
hands of politicians and corpora—

tions, Du Bois said. People think
“democracy is something that we
have, not something that we do," he
said.

Lappé and Du Bois said democ-
racy should be restructured to make
the public the decision-making
body.

“There is no greater challenge
than creating a system that puts the
citizen at center stage," Lappé said.

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Down with the old:
Quad section falls

PHOTOS 3V UND$AV CAMPBELUKernel Staff

Another section of the Anderson Hall Quadrangle was raised yesterday as part of an
ongoing construction process on Central Campus. The University demolished the Civil
Engineering Building, on the South side of the engineering quadrangle, in August. An
$11.6 million facility funded with state money, will replace the Civil Engineering Build-
ing. The new building will have four floors, and its basement will connect with the Cen-
ter for Robotics and Manufacturing Systems building and with the new technology
complex, Students are not allowed to cut through construction sites for the next two
years. and parking will no longer be permitted in the area.

Bush says
US. didn’t
need to see
hearings

By TERENCE HUNT
Associated Press

WASHINGTON —— President
Bush said yesterday the Senate Ju-
diciary Committee should have re-
viewed the sexual harassment
charges against Supreme Court
nominee Clarence Thomas in a
closed—door session rather than in
nationally televised hearings.

“I wish the country had been
spared some of the detail,“ the pres-
ident said in a brief question and
answer session with members of
The Associated Press Managing
Editors association.

The group was meeting at their
annual convention in Detroit. Bush
spoke via a televised hookup.

"l was troubled, thinking of my
little grandchildren, hearing some
of the graphic sex allegations,"
Bush said of the hearings.

The president, however. said the
“messy situation" had raised Amer-
icans‘ awareness about the problem
of sexual harassment.

He said he would offer some sug-
gestions next week to avoid a repeat
of what happened in Thomas' case.

“What he (Thomas) said about

THOMAS

healing and getting on with it, 1
think, makes a good deal of sense,“
Bush said.

The sexual harassment charges
against Thomas were aired in na-
tionally televised hearings that riv-
eted the nation. Anita Hill, a Uni-
versity of Oklahoma law professor,
accused Thomas of making un-
wanted advances and lewd remarks
a decade ago when she worked for
him at the Education Dcpanment
and Equal Employment Opportuni-
ty Commission.

The Senate Judiciary Committee
spent three days examining the
charges in public sessions.

“Maybe even though a lot of it
was deeply offensive to American
families across this country, with
its graphic detail, maybe something
good will come out of it, and by
that 1 mean a sensitizing of the pop-

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Independent since 1971

Friday. October 18, 1991

Associated Press

LOUISVILLE, Ky. ._ Faced
with a $31.6 million reduction in
state funds, Kentucky's public
universities and colleges are re-
viewing their cost~cutting op»
tions.

Most officials said these in-
cludc a freeze on new hiring, de-
laying building maintenance and
equipment purchases and per-
haps halting the purchase of new
library books.

Educators also said they did
not anticipate layoffs to meet the
5 percent cut in their state appro-
priation for the fiscal year. even
though they have only about
eight months left to do so.

Gov. Wallace Wilkinson an-
nounced the cutback in higher
education funds Tuesday in re-
sponse to a projected $155 mil-
lion revenue shortfall for this fis<
cal year.

The 5 percent reduction is the
largest made to higher education
since 1982, when a budget crisis
slashed $43.3 million, or 11.3
percent, from state higher educa-
tion spending. Universities cut
departments and programs, froze
new hires. cut some existing
jobs and took other drastic steps
to meet that reduction.

“This cut will hurt,” said Den-
nis Taulbee, vice president of
administration for Northern
Kentucky University.

Taulbee said he is trying to
develop plans for cuts that will
save about $1.3 million by June
30 —— about 5 percent of his
school’s state General Fund ap-
propriauon.

At the same time NKLJ cuts
expenses, it must deal with con—
tinuing and rapid enrollment in
creases, Taulbce said. It has
11,700 students, up more than
35 percent in the past five years.

This year's budget cuts
shouldn’t be as difficult, said
Kenneth Walker, the Council on
Higher Education's deputy exec-
utive director for finance.

Walker's agency coordinates
universitics‘ ﬁnances and poli-
cies. lt's deciding how much
each university will have to cut
to meet the overall $30 million

Ky. Universities
prepare for cuts

figure. The (‘HE will meet on
the issue Nov. 4.

It may use it formula to make
the cuts that it generally uses to
distribute money to the eight
state universities and the con1~
munity college system, Walker
said. He said the council staff
hopes to have specific recom-
mendations by the end of the
wt‘ck so universities can begin
working on them.

He hasn‘t calculated the fig
ures yet. Walker said but in
general the formula would rc-
ducc the budgets most for those
schools that received the hlg‘g'c‘xl
increases in state funding this
year.

For citatiiplc. the Us (‘oinrizti-
nity College System rcccucd
about a 17 percent lllthch'. 1
$68.6 million. .utttparcd with .t
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higher educator: El 3; ..
rollment also was up sharply at
many community~ colleges,
which could makc *1 difficult to
demand lttrgc cut». from thertt.
said CHE Exctumc Dirt‘ciir
Gary Cox.

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“1 think that all parts .1: our
budget will be looked tit.‘ 1'--
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lions and cutting expenses. sat-.1
UK President Charles \N'cthirts
ton. “We‘re not inexperienced it:
that we‘ve dealt with budgc‘.
cuts" in the past

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Tigers on upswing entering UK game

By JOHN KELLY
Staff Writer

While UK looks for answers,
Louisiana State University seems to
have found some.

When the two teams line up to-
morrow afternoon at Common-
wealth Stadium, thcy will be two
elevators passing in a shaft — one
slowly rising and the other drop-
ping steadily.

LSU (2-3, 0-2 Southeastern Con-
ference) is a team on the rise. Two
weeks ago it held Florida, one of
the SEC‘s best offenses, to 16
points at Gainesville. Last Satur-
day, the Tigers rocked Arkansas
State 70-14. Although the victory
came against a lesser opponent,
first-year LSU coach Curlcy Hall-
man said it was a huge boost for his

offense.

“Our offense took their first pos»
session and we got points out of it,"
Hallman said. “That‘s something
we haven‘t done all year. We
scored a lot of points, and we were
able to play a lot of players. That
released some frustration for our
offensive team."

Hallman is cautiously optimistic
about his team‘s mindset going into
tomonpw's game with UK (2-3, 0-
2).

“We've made some improve-
ments as a football team," he said.
“We've got a long way to go. in
last week‘s big victory there
were some positive things that
came out of that iii terms of posi-
tive confidence. Let's hope that no
false confidence comes out of it."

UK is in the other elevator car —~

winless in the SEC and ranking
dead last in total defense and next to
last in total offense. hoping that
someone can stop its free-fall, Bill
Curry said he is that someone.

“The leader has the responsibility
of making a decision for the organi-
zation," Curry said. “Are we going
to concentrate anti focus on how
difficult this is and moan about the
problems, or are we going to move
on and concenuate on what happens
next? That‘s not a hard decision if
you've been through this a few
times.

“My job is to keep our team mov-
ing forward. My job is to keep our
minds on our business and keep
forging ahead. We have a talented
team. We are physically fit enough
to win and i expect that to happen
now,"

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State legislator announces health-care legislation

Associated Press

FRANKFORT, Ky. - State leg-
islators are hearing from a host of
sources about how to get a handle
on the increasing costs of health
care and the equally troubling point
of providing care to those who can‘t
afford it.

Two General Assembly commit-
tees heard from health-care provid-
ers, insurers, academics and even
foreign govemments on yesterday.

The committees on Labor and in-

dustry and Health and Welfare held
a joint meeting on the subject that
drew interests such as the Kentucky
Medical Association, the Kentucky
Hospital Association, Blue Cross-
Bluc Shield and the University of
Kentucky Center for Rural Health.

Also testifying was Darren Praz-
nik, minister of labor for the prov-
ince of Manitoba, Canada.

Rep. Emesto Scorsone (D-
Lexington). says he has a proposal
to help many Kentucky workers ob
tain health care coverage by help-

ing their employers obtain insu-
rancc.

The bill would establish the Ken-
tucky Small Business Health Ac-
cess Corp, which would act on be-
half of small businesses with 2-1 or
fewer workers and negotiate with
insurance companies to find plans
for those firms' employees.

Scorsone said that 225.000 to
350,000 workers in Kentucky are
not covered by private insurance or
Medicaid.

He told members of the interim

joint (‘oiiitiiittct‘ on Health .llitl \\ xi
fare on Wednesday that lhc corpora
tion could defray the L\l\l oi prct'ii
ums because it could market and
administer the instinintc program

A Sl surcharge oti .ill ili‘\[‘ll.ll
and health‘clinic billings would ll
name the corporation, f.ll\lll_t.' \‘ "
million to 3‘ million a war. Stet
sonc‘ said.

The corporation‘s bottrd would

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Hopkins says he won't be hurt by
overdrafts

Associated Press

Republican Larry Hopkins,
stunned by his own admissions of
overdrafts at the US. House bank,
is trying to turn a spotlight on Dem-
ocrat Brereton J ones' ﬁnances.

Hopkins said the acknowledge-
ment that he wrote 32 checks that
couldn't immediately be covered by
his account wasn’t the political dy-
namite it first seemed.

“It didn’t help my campaign, but
it didn‘t hurt me to be honest," Hop-
kins said Wednesday in Benton dur-
ing a swing through Western Ken-
tucky.

“My life is an open book. I could
have stonewalled about my bank ac-

count until the campaign was over,
but that's not my style. That's my
opponent’s style. He's the one who
stonewalls.”

In an appearance on the other end
of Kentucky. Democratic gubema-
torial nominee Jones lambasted
Hopkins for writing bad checks.

“How many people do you know
in Harlan County who have
bounced 32 checks in one year that
didn't go to jail?" Jones asked more
than 125 supporters during a cam-
paign stop Wednesday in Cumber-
land.

Yesterday in Henderson, Hop-
kins took the subject a step further
and charged Jones with taking pan
in the state’s own financial prob-
lems.

Hopkins noted the $155 million
budget shortfall announced earlier

“What has he got to hide? He hasn't shown us
anything. This guy is a scandal waiting for a

place to happen.”

Larry Hopkins,

Republican gubertorial candidtate

this week and said it was an exam-
ple of what a mess Democrats have
made of state govemment.

“And along comes Brereton
Jones, one of the guys who helped
create that mess telling us he's go-
ing to clean it up.” Hopkins said.

Hopkins then noted that Jones has
said he will accept contributions to
retire a $1.6 million campaign debt
from 1987 while governor. The debt
is composed of principal and inter-

est on loans Jones made to his own
campaign.

“So the voters have a fundamen-
tal choice to make on Nov. 5,”
Hopkins said. “Do you want to bail
out Kentucky? Or do you want to
bail out Brereton Jones?"

Hopkins, who represents the 6th
Congressional District, revealed
Monday that he overdrcw his
House bank account 32 times for a
total of $4,035.

Kentucky Kernel, Friday, October 18, 1991 - 3

Hopkins says House account won’t hurt him

He has used his bank account
overdraft to funher challenge Jones
to be more forthcoming about his
personal finances.

“When I say I‘m willing to make
full disclosure, I mean it," he said.
“I've shown the people 10 years of
my taxes and finances — why
doesn't Brereton Jones show us his
taxes?

“What has he got to hide? He
hasn't shown us anything. This guy
is a scandal waiting for a place to
happen."

Jones has refused to release tax
returns or a detailed financial state-
ment showing his liabilities and as-
sets. Instead, he's released a lO-year
summary showing he paid $1 mil-
lion in taxes on income of 82.4 mil-
lion.

During his appearance in Cum-
berland, Jones said Hopkins has en-
gaged in an often-used political
ploy: “It's promise the people
whatever they want, and then prom-
ise you'll vote against all the taxes”
to pay for the programs.

Jones said he had been puzzled
about how Hopkins planned to pay
for his promises. “Now I‘ve found
out,” he said. “If you bounce
enough checks, you can buy any-
thing you want."

Jones said that if Hopkins had
spent half as much time worrying
about his own finances as he has
talking about Joncs’ finances, he
would have known about the
checks.

One day after 22 slaughtered, House kills gun-control bill

By MATT YANCEY
Associated Press

WASHINGTON — The House
yesterday rejected a ban on assault-
style semiautomatic weapons and
large-capacity ammunition clips,
despite last-ditch pleas that such a
law might have slowed the gunman
who massacred 22 people in Texas.

On a 247-177 vote. the House
stripped the ban from a massive
crime bill.

Rep. Chet Edwards (D-Texas) in
whose district the deadliest mass
shooting in the nation’s history oc-
curred Wednesday, said the tragedy
persuaded him to drop his long-
standing opposition to the weapons
ban.

“It takes away from being an is-
sue of statistics, numbers, charts
and legal issues," he said. “For me,
the old arguments ring hollow.”

“It's a human story now, a hu-
man tragedy,” Edwards said, “and I
just simply have to vote to put
some limit on assault weapons that
could be used by drug kingpins and
crazed killers to murder innocent
victims."

Rep. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.),
the chief supporter of the ban, had
said earlier that Wednesday’s trage-
dy put “momentum in our direc-
tion," but he conceded it wasn‘t
enough.

It was a victory for the National
Rifle Association.

Rep. Richard Schulze (R-Pa.)
summed up ban opponents‘ argu-
ment. “Let’s not blame the gun and
the gun manufacturer for the illegal
and inappropriate use of an inani-
mate object . Banning these
weapons will do nothing to reduce
violent crime."

Schumer’s provision would ban

the sale of 13 specific types of semi-
automatic weapons and gun maga-
zines that hold more than seven
rounds of ammunition. The Senate
voted in July to ban nine specific
models of assault weapons.

Schumer said his measure would
have put “a limit to how many bul-
lets that madman could have fired.“

“At least it would have slowed
him down so that his bullets
could not be sprayed and sprayed
and sprayed," Schumer said. “It’s
very clear he was not using a six-
shot revolver."

The Clock 9mm semiautomatic
pistol used by the gunman to kill 22
people and himself in a Killeen,
Texas, cafeteria is not among the
weapons that would be banned in
the bill.

However. the legislation would
not allow the sale of the ”round
magazine commonly used with the

Austrian-made Glock to anyone
other than the police or the mili-
tary.

House Speaker Thomas S. Foley
(D-Wash.), traditionally a strong
supporter of the NRA, indicated
Wednesday he disagrees with the
bill's definition of semiautomatic
weapons and bans on specific mtxi-
els.

“I would personally favor \ery
heavy penalties for possession or
use of automatic weapons in an ille-
gal circumstance," he said.

The House began work on its
51.2 billion version of the crime
bill Wednesday, seven months after
President Bush demanded congres-
sional action and three months after
the Senate passed version costing
three times as much.

In the early rounds, Republicans
succeeded in toughening the provi-
sions to meet the more stringent

Health

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determine how much the employer
and employee would pay for the in-
surance coverage.

The proposal is modeled after a
2-year-old Florida program with
about 10,000 participants.

Ree Sailors. president of Florida
Health Access Corp., told the com-
mittee that his state's program is
available to small businesses in 16
counties. The corporation negotiates

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with insurance companies and
seeks discounts, based in pan on
the administrative work it provides.

Under the Florida plan, the cost
of a policy for a single mother with
any number of children is $92 a
month for the worker and $46 a
month for the employer.

Employees also have co-
payments. such a 85 for a doctor‘s
office visit or $25 for an emergen-
cy-room visit. Florida pays about
$5 million to subsidize the pro-
gram.

In Kentucky, a small-business
health-insurance plan was approved

last year by the General Assembly.
However, it provided only 14 days
of hospitalization and coverage of
half of the doctors’ bills while in
the hospital. As of May, only 740
people had signed up.

Under Scorsone’s proposal, any
business wishing to participate
could not have offered health insu-
rance during the six months before
the law would take effect.

Jan Gould. assistant vice presi-
dent of the Kentucky Retail Federa-
tion, which represents 2,000 small
and medium-sized businesses, said
his group was “very cautious"

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about the proposal.

One of the concerns is that it
wouldn't be fair to small businesses
already providing health insurance,
he said.

A second part of Scorsone‘s bill
would establish an insurance plan
for people who cannot get coverage
because of poor health. All insu-
rance companies would be required
to take part in the plan, but they
would be eligible for tax credits.

5‘

version passed by the Senate and
preferred by Bush and rejecting
weakening measures.

On a 213-206 vote, the House ap-
proved an amendment that would
allow juries to order the death pen-
alty for any federal crime in which
someone is killed as a result of
“reckless disregard of human life."

Republicans said the measure is
needed to stop the “drive-by shoot-
ings” plaguing many urban areas,
particularly in neighborhoods where
drugs are traded heavily.

Because prosecutors can seldom
prove that defendants in such cases
“intentionally or knowingly” killed
bystanders in such shootings, the
death penalty is seldom imposed.
they said.

“The American people for a long
time have expressed their willing-
ness to accept the death penalty in
those serious, vicious and heinous

cases that we read about too often,"
said Rep. George W. Gekas (R-
Pa.), the measure’s chief sponsor.

Opponents, however, said the
amendment could lead to imposing
the death penalty on someone con-
victed of no more than reckless
driving in an traffic acCident in
which a federal agent was killed.

The bill would expand the death
penalty to cover nearly 50 federal
crimes. including several non—
homicide offenses such as espion—
age and treason, and engaging in
large drug transactions.

It also would make a capital of-
fense attempting to kill or kidnap
the president if it results in serious
bodily injury or comes dangerously
close to causing his death, such as
the shooting of President Reagan in
1981 and the critical wounding of
his press secretary, James Brady.

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