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University of Kentucky, Lexington. Kentucky

Independent since 1971

Friday. February 9. 1990

 

Wilkinson outlines details of tax plan

By MARK R. CHELLGREN
Associated Press

FRANKFORT, Ky. — The long-
awaited legislation that actually
spells out the specifics of G0v.
Wallace Wilkinson's tax proposals
was introduced yesterday.

The outlines of the tax package
have long been known, but the grit-
ty details on the more arcane por-
tions, such as the proposed levy on
14 selected services, have been the
subject of intense speculation
among the interest groups targeted
for taxation.

The other taxes in Wilkinson’s
package are fairly easy to grasp,
but the services tax provides a host
of questions about enforcement and
responsibility

“Taxing ser-
vices is not a
new thing in our
sales tax," said
Ray Kring, di-
rector of tax
policy for the
Revenue Cabi-
net. “The 14
that we’re ad-
ding might be
more difficult to WILK'NSON
administer than the ones we’ve
had.”

Kentucky now taxes intrastate
telephone services, for example.
But it proposes to tax a ltost of oth-
er services, from legal, engineering
and accounting help to bill collec-
tion, advertising and cable televi-
sion.

Virus bugs computers
at LCC, B & E College

By PATRICK CASHMAN
Contributing Writer

UK officials hope that a comput-
er virus that affected two computer
labs has finally been contained.

The virus was discovered last
Friday and affected computer labs
at Lexington Community College
and the College of Business & Eco-
nomics.

“Apparently what happened was
that the virus was passed from stu-
dents‘ disks to the computers, and
in turn the computer passed it on to
other student disks,” Derickson
said.The virus, which was designed
to destroy data on hard disks,
caused the personal computers not
to “boot," corrupted their file link-
age, and caused them to incorrectly
save or replace files.

It also caused some computer
programs to become dysfunctional.

UK spokesman Ralph Derickson
said 30 LCC computers and about
28 B & E computers were affected.

All students‘ disks will be
checked during the next couple
weeks, according to Debbie Holt,
an LCC instructional specialist.

Holt said it is unclear how the vi-
rus originated, but that it could
have been accidental.

Another possibility is that some-
one could have deliberately tried to
disrupt the system, she said.

“A lot of students download
games or other programs from the
bulletin boards and someone could
have been using a faulty disk," Holt
said.

LCC personnel contacted a com-
puter company to get a program
that scans infected computers' hard
drives and, in turn, cleans out the
virus.

All of the infected LCC comput-
ers are now back to normal status.
Diskettes used with an LCC com-

 

“Apparently what
happened was that the
virus was passed from
students’ disks to the
computers, and in tttm
the computer passed it on
to other student disks."

Ralph Derickson,
UK spokesman
_

puter, however, will have to be
checked for the next two to three
weeks, Holt said.

The B&E computers are being
cleaned by a program and should
be back to normal status shortly,
Derickson said.

All of the computers infected by
the virus were older computers that
used 5 l/4—inch disks. Holt said
none of the newer IBM Personal
System “’5 were infected.

LCC ordered new equipment
from a California software compa-
ny to prevent a similar virus from
infecting computers, Derickson
said.

Although the virus was confined
to LCC and B & E computer labs,
other campus personnel were con-
cerned that their systems might be-
come infected with the virus.

Marc Rhorcr, an employee in the
College of Communications stu‘
dent affairs, sent out a memoran-
dum to students in his college to
warn them about the virus.

“I wanted to let everyone know
there was something going on and
to be a little leery ofjust sticking a
disk in because it could turn out to
be very detrimental,” Rhorcr said.

Under the legislation, all services
in Kentucky would be subject to
taxation with some exceptions.

Defining all the exceptions is the
difficult part. If a lawyer, accoun-
tant or engineer. for example, is an
employee of a company, that ser-
vice is not taxed.

The cabinet has also decreed that
out-of—state customers are exempt
if the “economic benefit" of the
service is solely outside of Ken-
tucky. An example would be an In-
diana firm that hires a Louisville
law firm.

Generally, the seller is liable for
the tax and is not required to pass it
along to customers. But a Kentucky
company that buys a service from
an out-of-state firm must pay a use
tax on that purchase.

Such apparent contradictions
will not present a problem, Kring
said.

“Most of the services that are
being taxed here are to business,"
Kring said. “They‘re used to pay-
ing use taxes and sales taxes."

Potentially the most confusing
section applies to advertising.

Advertising agency services WI“
be taxed, but so will placement of
advertising services.

That latter category poses a mul-
titude of questions.

The tax will apply to the adver-
tising receipts of businesses located
in Kentucky that deliver the adver-
tising to the public.

National advertising that does
not originate in Kentucky will not
be taxed.

 

 

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KEITH JOHNSON/Kernel Contribute!

 

 

By BRIAN JENT
Managing Editor

Student tickets for the UK-
I.ouisiana State University
men’s basketball game should
be hard a item to come by and
guest tickets might not be avail-
able, according to Student Af-
fairs Officcr Rodney Stiles.

The biggest turnout in several
years is expected for ticket dis-
tribution, which begins Sunday
morning at Memorial Coliseum.

“We anticipate distribution to
be greater than usual," Stiles
said. “We are expecting the
greatest tumout since the first U
of LAL'K game played at Rupp
Arena."

Memorial Coliseum will open
ll\ doors from 9 am. to 9:!5
pm. for the lottery drawing.
“All students there at that time
will get better seats." Stiles
said.

If students miss the lottery
drawing, they Wlll have to wait
at Memorial (‘oliscum's outside
windows to pick up control
cards.

After getting control cards,
students WI“ be admitted to the
upper concourse of the coliseum
to wait Ill line for tickets.

lleCl distribution will be
trom l to 4 pm. Sunday. Stu-
dents must present a LTK student
ID and a spring semester activt-
tics card to receive their tickets.

Monday ticket distribution
WI“ depend on how many stu-
dents claitn seats on Sunday,
Stiles said.

Stiles said he will meet with
Deans ol Students Office olfi~
ctals alter he tallies Sunday‘s
numbers, and then post Mon«
day's times and ticket proce
dures.

“As soon as I know, I will
post a sign on the doors of Me-
morial (‘ohscuin so the students
will know what the procedure
is," Stiles said.

 

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any guest tickets." Sillt‘» said.

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only one guest ticket why than
the usual two.

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sale latcr Monday at??? ~ " l;
pending on how ma.:y :iimts
claim llc‘kt‘l‘ :arh‘r " .3. fat.
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dents. that is the way it ..
Lobe."

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made for students win
sit near one another. ‘-
Students who usl a
Sunday should lirtrtt'
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Monday. and the
w ill exchange them

“I! you re coining .‘vttt: :.i_. tw
get [ILKL‘I\. bring the t:. k.t you
got Sunday l‘iey‘ll t“ up it
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vcrt .s‘ltidt'nl lltht‘h lot it. ist.
game into gut-st titkcts. i31it‘\
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tickets,“ Stiles said. ‘\\e will
not convert tukcts lint i\ a
practice that Ilic dram and I
don‘t like."

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USA TODAY/Apple College
Information Network

WINDSOR, Ontario —-- No
one anticipated the peculiar lm»
pactofsafesex onthecityof
Wmdsor.

Condoms are clogging the new
sewage treatment system in this
Canadian city across the Detroit
River from Detroit.

As a precaution against sexual-
ly transmittal diseases, more
people are using -— and flushing
away -- more prophylactics.

The result: a condom crisis of

 

sorts at the Little River sewage
treatment plant that serves about
a third of Windsor and four adja-
cent communities.

Enough condoms to fill a 10-
gallon bucket each month are es-
caping past a series of filters dur-
ing the treatment process.

They get caught on horizontal
ultraviolet light tubes used to dis-
infect the water. The ultraviolet
system. installed in December, is
called m of all things m— the Tro-
jan 2000.

Safe sex a headache for sewage system

As the rubber stretches across
the bars, millions of gallons of
water are trapped, creating a
backup.

The treatment plant may have
to install a screening system at a
cost of $250,000 to solve the
problem.

Lou Romano, director of
Windsor’s pollution control, said
he doesn’t think he can change
residents' flushing habits. "It‘s
just something in a household
that’s almost impossible to pc-
lice."

 

 

Forum to address Chinese protests

By JONATHAN MILLER
Staff Writer

The one—year anniversary of the
Chinese Democracy Movement is
three tttonths away, and UK is
holding a symposium tomorrow to
discuss the movement and how it
was covered by the media.

Speakers at the symposium will
include a former US. State Depart-
ment official, professors and gradu-
ate students from UK and other
schools.

“A paticl will discuss the similar
itics and differences between East-
ern European protests and the Chi»
ncse students' protest."

Wasserstrotn said.

The organizer of the symposium,
UK history protessor Jeff Wasser-
strom, said the tncdta coverages
breadth of the ('hinesc student
tnovcmcnt was too small to fully
inform the American public.

“The news media concentrated
almost exclusively on what was
happening in Betting in Tiananmcn
Square." said Wassctstrom.

Many of the students traveled to
Beijing after protesting in Chinese
cities such as Shanghai, Nanjing
and Xian, said \Vasscrs‘trom, a spe~
cialist on student movements in
China.

“Shanghai had half a million std

dents attd workers protesting the
tremendous turnout tuitaiy thcsc
cities," Wasscrstrotti soul ‘lt's int
portant to know do: .‘ ‘~ I. .i na
tional movement.

After the military .t.t.k.loyyu last
June 4, Shanghai had .i .‘il.tlcil tor
the martyrs who were killed ll‘.
Beijing, Wasscrstroiu sud lhcrc
wasn‘t any media toyttagc t: lht'
event.

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Nation’s schools deal with racial tension

By MKE McOUEEN
USA TODAY/Apple College
lntormation Network

The words “racism." “bigotry.“
“intolerance" have an ugly ring.
And actions they often describe can
leave scars that are much uglier.

Incidents of bigotry have been re-
ported at 250 colleges since fall
1986, according to the National 1n~
stitute Against Prejudice and Vio-
lence in Baltimore.

Targets of intolerance include ho-
mosexuals, whites. Hispanics,
Jews, Asians and — in about 60
percent of the cases — blacks.

“Our college campuses are a mi-
crocosm of what‘s happening in
our society, and from what I see on
campuses we‘re in a lot of trouble.“
said Reginald Wilson, minority
concems director with the American
Council on Education in Washing-
ton.

Some authorities say more inci-
dents may be reported because the
victims have been raised in an age
that has little tolerance for bigotry.
Others say it may reflect a growing
resentment by whites, who perceive
that some minorities receive special
treatment.

Mark Wright, 23, an engineering
student at the University of Florida,
said it was resentment over affirma-
tive-action programs that prompted
him last month to found a white
student union at the L'niversity of
Florida in Gainesville.

“What about the poor white peo
ple struggling to sunivc on this
campus and in Illls‘ world "‘ asked

Wright. a junior. “No one speaks
up for us.”

Juan Vitali. a former president of
the Hispanic Student Union at
Florida. said he believes that His:
panics and other minorities feel iso-
lated.

“The overall sense of many mi-
nority students is that there is an
intolerance regarding race, regarding
different cultures and the issue of
gender," Vitali said.

Attitudes like Wright‘s are be-
coming more common, Wilson
said.

“White students tend to resent
what they perceive as preferential
treatment given to minorities,“
Wilson said. “They think civil
rights is ancient history and blacks
have had their chance to catch up."

Researchers say they began to
notice a rise in the number of eth-
nic-related incidents at colleges in
the mid- to late-1980s.

Since September. the Justice De-
partment’s Community Relations
Service has documented 38 inci-
dents of racial tension, about twice
the number during the same period
in 1988.

Some examples from the '80s:

-At Southern Connecticut State
University in New Haven last
March a brawl erupted between 25
white fraternity members and six
black students in what officials be-
lieve was a racially motivated inci-
dent

-In 1988 at the University of
Wisconsin. the mostly white Aca-
cia fratemity was suspended after a
group from the fratemity‘s chapter

 

“We sort of assumed that the generation behind us
wouldn’t have to be taught tolerance because they
started going to school together at an early age

because of desegregation."

Kathy Gosliner,
Temple spokeswoman

at the University of Illinois in
Champaign-Urbana disrupted an Af-
rican literature class on the Madi—
son campus.

-An American Indian student
serving as the Macalester College's
community council president in St.
Paul, Minn., received hate mail
during fall 1988, including a letter
that read in part, “Custer should
have finished off the entire degener-
ate race."

-In April 1989 someone scrawled
in large black letters “Niggers Go
Home" on a door at a women’s dor-
mitory at Brown University in
Providence, R.I.

After Wright announced his plans
for a white student union at Flori-
da, Art Sandeen, vice president for
student affairs, met with 40 black
and 40 white students to talk about
racial tensions.

Sandeen said that he was shocked
that some white students knew
little about the civil rights move-
ment of the l9608.

A white student union was
formed at Temple University in
Philadelphia in 1988. Kathy Gos-
liner, a spokeswoman for Temple,
said college students of the civil
rights era _ now campus adminis-

 

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trators and community leaders —
failed to pass along their values.

“We sort of assumed that the
generation behind us wouldn’t have
to be taught tolerance because they
started going to school together at
an early age because of desegrega-
tion," Gosliner said.

Daryl Borquist, spokesman for
the Justice Department's Commu—
nity Relations Service, said minor-
ities seem keenly aware of their
rights and have little fear about ex-
ercising them.

“There’s an increased awareness

that you don‘t have to be a victim
of racial discrimination and keep
quiet about it." Borquist said.

Indeed. minorities have forced
colleges to diversify their courses
and pledge to hire more minority
professors.

At exclusive Smith College in
Northampton. Mass, administra-
tors agreed to aggressively recruit
black professors and students after
racist letters were sent to four black
women in April 1988. The notes
appeared to be the work of someone
on campus.

Other campuses. such as the Uni-
versity of Michigan, adopted formal
policies that would make a student
subject to expulsion for harassing
someone of a different race.

The policy was challenged by the
American Civil Liberties Union,
which argued successfully that it re-
stricted free speech. The university
is revising the part of the harass~

ment code that deals with speech
and is continuing to take com-
plaints of bias.

Few are ready to predict this dec-
ade will end in racial harmony on
campuses.

But Howard Ehrlich, research di.
rector at National Institute Against
Prejudice and Violence. says he
sees signs of progress.

“1 think there could be a student
movement for change. We already
have a portent of that in the anti-
apartheid movement, where stu-
dents from all backgrounds protest-
ed," Ehrlich said.

William Simmons, an assistant
dean at Florida and director of its
Institute of Black Culture, is more
pessimistic.

“I think the '9()s will be rougher
than the '805," Simmons said. “As
our economy crumbles, whites will
see black progress as an even great-
er threat."

 

Education key to thwarting problem

USA TODAYIApplo College
lntormation Network

If colleges want to Overcome
the race problems erupting on
campuses across the country,
they should do what they do best
"teach.

Observers say many of the
problems stem from whites not
understanding minorities and
their cultures. The solution, ac~
cording to John Davis, director of
the Youth and College Division
of the National Association for
the Advancement of Colored Peo-
ple, is for colleges to do a better
job of educating students about
cultural diversity.

Administrators, faculty and
students are still “very reluctant
to entertain the notion that ra-
cism is alive on college campus-
es. They keep calling these
things ‘isolated incidents’.” Da-
vis said.

Davis advocates tackling the
problem with freshman orienta-
tion courses.

“Give a one-day course on
‘What is diversity'.” and under

 

standing the characteristics of a
college campus,” he said.

Then schools need to start
presenting a more complete and
balanced curriculum of black his-
tory, and offer courses on racism,
discrimination and cultural diver-
sity, he said.

These techniques would be a
step toward preventing racism.
Davis said. but when schools are
forced to react to racial incidents.
“they need to make these inci-
dents ground for academic disci-
pline, just like they would cheat-
ing on an exam or rape."

Students, though, aren't the
only university residents that
leaders need to concentrate on,
said Steve Klein, research asso«
ciate at the Martin Luther King
Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social
Change.

While Klein said fraternities,
soronties and other student
groups need to be better integrat-
ed, he added that minorities are
also an underrepresented quantity
on college faculties.

“The faculties have to pick up
the torch of interracial leader

ship," he said. Simply adding
more blacks to faculty rosters
would go a long way in combat-
ting racism. he said.

"If a white student has racist
values," Klein said, those values
“are going to be challenged if
he’s being taught by a black pro-
fessor.”

Many stereotypes and racist
values can be diffused when a
white student sees a black profes-
sor‘s knowledge and expertise,
Klein said.

Government agencies and
school administrators also must
actively entice minority students
to campuses through recruiting
and scholarships, Klein said.

“More minorities on campus
would decrease the racial inci-
dents,” he said.

Klein said that he would like
to see more efforts by schools to
combat racism, especially by
greek organizations.

“The greeks take pride in being
public spirited," he said. “Frater-
nities and sororities can help
make an effort to reach out across
racial lines."

 

 

 

 

 

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Play looks at ‘Meeting’ of civil rights leaders

By KIP BOWMAR
Senior Staff Writer

While most of white America
sees Martin Luther King Jr. as the
most important figure in the civil
rights movement, Malcom X has
almost faded into obscurity.

But his philosophy and personae
are given a new vigor and equal
ground with King’s in Jeff Stet-
son's award-winning play, The
Meeting. which will have two
shows tomorrow at the Otis A.
Singletary Center for the Arts.

The play, sponsored by the Mar—
tin Luther King Jr. Cultural Center
as part Black History Month, is
about a fictional meeting between
King and Malcom X.

The Meeting was originally
scheduled to be performed on cam-
pus in October, but it had to be res-
cheduled because the cast had other
commitments.

“i think this play is absolutely
essential,” said Chester Grundy, di-
rector of Minority Student Affairs.
“i think we need to constantly reas-
sess today’s state of affairs in terms
of issues relating to race and poli-
tics."

Grundy said he thinks that the
play has a particularly importance
because of its historical perspec-
tive.

“Someone can can come to this
play and be enlightened and see
what the movement was really
about," Grundy said. “They can see
how King and Malcom were very
different and very similar. The other
thing too is that history is a matter
of interpretation. The interpretation
of both these men is in some in-
stances superficial and in some in-
stances inaccurate, particularly in
the case of Malcom because of his
conflictual, assertive, outspoken
manner,"

Caped crusader from

By JOE DeCHiCK
USA TODAY/Apple College
information Network.

R-R-RING!

After being summoned to the
batphone, Adam West admits he’s
just watched — holy irony! — a
clip of “Batman." West played the
capcd crusader in the campy ABC.
TV series (1966-68).

“Batman was about to be ‘boiled
in royal oil’ by King Tut," said
West, still fond of the show’s com-
bali alliteration.

“i forget how funny it was. It
was a classic, timeless series, and it
can‘t be duplicated."

West isn’t even interested in try-
ing. After somewhat reluctantly
trading on his success as Batman
for the last 20 years, he finally has
come to terms with his past.

He doesn’t view his travels on
the personal-appearances circuit as a
desperate attempt to make a buck.

“I just somehow knew that if I
kept at it, it would all work out and
i would land other roles," he said.

There were other roles. But there
also “were times when I lost roles
because of" being typccast, he said.
“But Batman told me to keep

Stetson counterbalances King's
message of non—violence with the
revolutionary spirit of Malcom X,
while still respecting both men‘s
opinions.

Grundy said he admires the work
that Stetson has done with the pro-
duction.

“I think you have to credit Jeff
Stetson,” he said. “Not only to put
this together as a theatrical piece
because he has paid meticulous at-
tention to detail to pull it off with
credibility. He thoroughly re-
searched it so that the dialogue is
totally consistent with where each
man was coming from politically
and philosophically."

“The script was so well-written
that i think anyone familiar with
the lives of King or Malcom X or
the period would be very able to be-
lieve that this meeting would have
occurred like this," said Frank
Walker, director of the Martin Lu-
ther Jr. King Jr. Cultural Center.
“It’s historically correct — well, as
historically correct as fiction can
be.”

The challenge of making a credi-
ble play about the two men has
been a stumbling block for the
daughters of King and Malcom X,
Grundy said. They tried to produce
a play callcd Of One Man, which
was based on where the two might
be if they had lived. The play was
severely criticized, and the women
dropped the project.

“it’s an awesome task to bring to
life two people who are not only
legendary but also (are rcmcmbcrcd
by people today,i,” Grundy said.
“You have to very good to do
something like this because there
are people who are ready to critique
anything that is less than credible."

Grundy said that sometimes it is
better to deal with figures such as
King and Malcom X in documen-

punching."

POW!

Now pushing age ()0, West said
the demand for his appearances reaf—
firms the public‘s enduring love of
the show he calls a “timely and for-
tuitous marriage of talent."

Still, it hasn't always been easy
being Batman. West, who also
played Batman in the 1966 feature
film based on the TV series, admits
his pride was wounded when he was
passed over for the lead in the 1980
“Batman," one of the biggest mo-
vie events of the ~80s.

“l was disappointed and angry at
the same time ~ for about if) min-
utes," he said. “Then i realized,
hey, it‘s their candy store. They
want to do it their way. l've already
done it my way."

Would he have done it their way
if they had asked?

“To an extent," he said. ”i think i
would have somehow notched it a
little differently, played it a little
stronger and (more) lighthearted.

“(‘Batman‘) was brilliantly exe-
cuted as far as production design,
but i thought it was an unbalanced
movie and seriously unsatisfying."

ZAP!

West says he received lots of

Percy Littleton (Left) and Harry J. Lennix (right) star as CIVIl rights actiVists Martin Luther King Jr. and

 

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Malcom X in Jeff Stetson's The Meeting. it plays Saturday at 4 and 8 p m. at the Singletary Center

tary fortii rather than trying to do a
film or play about them.

The play, pro‘duccd by Legacy
Productions of Chicago, has be per-
fortncd in several cities, including
Chicago and Atlanta. Harry J. Len-
nix plays Malcom X and Percy
Littleton is King.

Grundy said he thinks that the
play can address something miscon-
ccptions.

”You would think, given the
way these things arc donc that
King made a speech once iii Wash-
ington and somehow he moved like
a messiah to set the people free.“
he said. “The further we gct from
an cm the more diluted and distortcd
their message seems to bccomc."

While King and Malcom .\' had
different philosophies. (irundy said
the two were closer than sonic pco—
pie realized.

“They had great rcspcct for cacti
other, even though they htid sharp
differences With one another me:
the tactical approach to lllc‘ strug
gic." he said

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mail from hatfans who preferred the
TV show‘s tongue-in-chcck ap-
proach to the film’s dark. brooding
tone.

“Maybe that’s why rc-rcicase of
the video of (the 1966) movie is
doing so well," West said.

Also, the TV show is again a
hot property in syndication, inciud~
ing twice-daily airings on The
Family Channel.

You‘d be batty, though, if you
thought West didn’t welcome the
chance to spread his wings.

Over the years he has appeared in
films ranging from "The Young
Philadelphians," with Patti New-
man, to the racy “Young Lady
Chatterley."

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ex-Beatles had to pull out of concert scheduled for
he show has been tentatively rescheduled for April
9. But never feart ere, are a slew of other things happening this weekend.

The real excitement to be enerated this weekend at Rupp Arena — The Hot
. inter Nationals comes to town this weekend. With
this kind of car crushing, mud-slinging fun it seems hard to believe anyone could

“What if...” —The Martin Luther King Jr. Cultural Center presents “The Meeting,"
a play about a fictional meeting between Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcom X
Saturday. Showtimes are at 4 & 8 pm. Tickets are $7 for students and $9 for the

In a mood for music that isn’t fortysomethingr— The Louisville-based Hopscotch
Arm Will play at the Bearded Seale tonight. he
butt on again they aren’t really famous either.

The barnyard variety of entertainment — A band called The Pigs will play at the
Wrocklage toni ht. You gotta like a band that sends a bottle 0
sauce out With l 5 press packet.

The chamelion’s new movie — Robert Deniro plays an illiterate man in his new
and Iris,” with Jane Fonda. The reason people don't realize how
nize him in his roles. For the uninitiated some of his
Comedy," "Fta ing Bull," “Taxi Driver," “The MiSSion,"
“The Untouchables,” “Midnight Hun." Fon a won an Oscar for ‘fKIute." She also
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He hopes another supcihcr \ will
revive his moyic carccr this spring
when “Maxim ‘(tii" is released.
Shot in Baltimore for an indcpcn~
dent studio, the thriller stars \Vc-st
as Marduk, a Johns Hopkins tini—
vcrsity professor who hunt s people
without souls.

“He’s just kind of an ordinary
guy, with extraordinary drives to
get rid of these people who have no
sense of right and wrong.“ \Vcst
said.

West said that if llit‘ film catches
on, he has an option to star in sc-
qucls.

if it doesn’t. the former cow boy.
broadcaster, writer, pilot and paint-
er will spend more time at his
Ketchum, idaho. ranch with his
wife and their two children.

There, he might work on his au-

tobiography. but sti} ”l'm not
convinced I want to go that room
So many people have donc it.

“i think there‘s something vcr;
funny and human in this story that
people will relate to: What happens
when one finds oneself ill the Mt]?
boots of a superhero?“

Superhero or not, West will con
tintic to fight those who try to cash
ill on his success as Batman. llc re
ccntly lost a suit in Los Angcics !lt
w inch he sought $900.00” from ;i
group of ad agencies hc \iys’ llst‘ll
his “likeness, personality. wicc
and mannerisms" m such a way (l\
to lead viewers to believe the per
son was him.

“i keep getting ripped off." he
said. “i have to get the message out
to people that (unlawful merchan-
disingi isn't fair or honest."

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Done By The Forces Of
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Pretty Hate Machine
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Dreaming In Detail
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