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Vol. XOI. N0. 102.

Independent shoe 1971

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Robbie Fannin, with Wheeler General Contractors, works on a new roof on one of the Cooperstown apartments yesterday.

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Former candidate says

SGA job should be hers

By (‘.A. DUANE BONIFER
Editorial Editor

A hearing of the Student Govern-
ment Association Judicial Board has
been requested by a student who
says she should not have been ruled
ineligible to serve in the SGA Sen-
ate.

Ann Darlington, who made an un-
successful bid last spring for a sen-
ator at large position, claims that
she should have been chosen to re-
place Senator at Large David Moore
when he was graduated last semes-
ter.

But the Elections Board ruled last
April that Darlington failed to turn
in her campaign expenditure forms
and thus was ineligible to serve in
the Senate.

When Moore left SGA last fall,
Doug Smith, who finished 16th in the
race. was next in line for the posi-
tion. But after Smith turned the
offer down, Darlington said she ex-
pected to fill the vacancy.

However, she received a letter
from Senior Vice President Susan
Bridges informing her she had failed
to submit her campaign expenditure
forms and, consequently, was ineli-
gible to serve in the Senate.

Tim Hembree. who finished be-
hind Darlington, was then chosen to
fill Moore‘s spot.

Darlington maintains that she
turned in the necessary forms to the
SGA office the day following the
election.

Darlington ran on a ticket with
James Rose, Linda Bridwell and
Eddie Truax. According to Rose, he
and Bridwell handed in the cam-
paign expenditure forms for all four
of the candidates the morning fol-
lowing the spring election.

Later that morning, Darlington
said she went into the office to veri-
fy that the campaign expenditure
forms had been filed.

But Ken Walker, who was chair‘
man of last spring‘s Elections
Board. said that each candidate
must turn in their own expenditures
form, and records show that
Darlington did not turn hers in on
time.

The SGA bylaws state that candi-
dates must submit their campaign
expenditure forms in person before
thefilingdeadline.

However, Rose points out that the
SGA constitution provides that a
candidate can only be disqualified if
his or her actions would have
changed the outcome of the election.

Computer card catalog
doesn’t appeal to some

By STEPHEN PETERSON
Contributing Writer

The M.l. King Library’s new
LS-2000 on-line catalog rides the
crest of a new wave of library tech-
nology that is sweeping the nation‘s
colleges and universities. But not ev-
eryone who uses the UK system is
comfortable with the ride.

“lt stinks,“ said UK history pro
fessor Bruce Eastwood. He said the
system‘s information base, as a re-
search tool. favored some disci-
plines at the expense of others.

“1 think there's a real bias in this
system against the humanities." he
said.

The LS-2000 — introduced into the
library in the fall of 1935 -— is a com-
puterized version of the familiar
card catalog system that has tradi-
tionally been used in libraries.

Eastwood said it is difficult, if not
impossible, to find citations in LS-
maintaremmthanafewyears
old. This works agaimt disciplines
like history, “became humanities

generally use the long historical run
of information as far as publication
date goes. That system is for psy-
chologists. sociologists. political sci-
entists. chemists and physicists who
want the latest dope.“ he said.

History graduate student Steve
Wolfgang echoed Eastwood’s com.
plaints.

“Sometimes you can find (an au-
thor‘s) books for the last 30 years,
but you can‘t depend on it," he said.
“Sometimes it will have it, some-
times it won‘t. I go to the card cata-
log first. If I can‘t find it there, then
I'll go check the machine.“

Michael Lach, associate director
of UK Libraries, said Eastwood‘s
complaint could be valid, as only
three-quarters of the library‘s col-
lection of titles has been entered
thus far into the computer.

Lach said that the bulk of the sys-
tem's catalog of titles was added
lastspring.

However. a number of the com-
plaints like those brought up by
Eastwood and Wolfgang might come

ANN DARLING-TON

And if Darlington had not turned
in her forms that would not changed
the result of the election.

“If you go on that basis, you pret-
ty much have to let" Darlington in
the Senate. Rose said. “There‘s no
way around it."

The issue has been complicated by
the fact that last year's spring elec-
tions records are missing. Walker
said that SGA has looked for them,
but “they are missing from the of-
fice.“

“They (SGA) just don’t seem too
interested in me and that they can
walk all over me and I won’t do any-
thing,“ she said.

’

Wilkinson tells
school officials

to quit ‘

By MARK R. (‘HELLGREN
Associated Press
and Kernel Staff Reports

FRANKFURT —‘ Gov. Wallace
Wilkinson said yesterday that uni-
versity presidents should “stop cry-
ing so much" about his budget pro-
posal.

Wilkinson said there is more than
enough money in his recommenda—
tion for the universities to give sala<
ry increases to faculty and staff. do
spite the complaints made by the
presidents to a legislative commit-
tee on Wednesday.

“What they need to do is get busy
and buckle down and reorder their
priorities and use their money wise-
ly and stop crying so much.“
Wilkinson said.

Wilkinson said he has recommend-
ed that $543 million in General Fund
money be turned over to higher edu-
cation in fiscal 1989.

“in my opinion. there is sufficient
revenue in that $543 million, if those
university presidents want to do it.
to give faculty and staff salary lll'
creases," Wilkinson said.

UK President David Roselle was
unavailable for comment last night.

L'K Vice (‘hancellor for Adminis-
[ration Ed (‘artcr declined to com

crying’

“i think the presidents
are misleading the
people of this
commonwealth . . .
We're funding them at
a level better than their
performance right

iv

now.

 

Wallace Wilkinson,

governor

—
ment specifically on what Wilkinson
said. saying "l‘m not sure that we
need to debate that in the press.~~

However. Carter maintained the
t'niversity's need for more money.
Budget reordering to allow for sala—
ry increases could obviously be
done. he said. but not without signif-
icant damage to the l'niversity's in-
frastructure and programs.

“In any budget that I know of.
there‘s an opportunity to reorder
priorities I. but in terms of reorder—
ing. thcrc is damage to whatever
gets undone." ('artcr said

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Talk on Louis statue today

By LISA A. BROWN
Staff Writer

“Knockout" not only describes
the bronze sculpture of the late
boxer. Joe Louis. but it also de-
scribes the sculptor. Ed Hamilton.

Hamilton created the 12~foot sta-
tue of the “Brown Bomber" at De-
troit‘s Coho Hall Center Atrium.

Hamilton. a Louisville native. will
lecture on his sculpture today at the
Martin Luther King Jr. Cultural
Center. He will also show a slide
presentation.

“1 will be sharing many retro-
spects of my project." Hamilton
said.

“It's an honor and privilege to
present an artist of Hamilton‘s talv
ent on this campus." said Chester
Grundy. director of minority student
affairs.

Hamilton's sculpture celebrates
and immortalizes one of the most fa-
mous black Americans. Grundy
said.

In 1983. a Detroit sculptural com-
mittee approved by Detroit Mayor
Coleman Young commissioned art-
ists nationwide to create a statue in
Louis‘ memory.

“I got a letter in the mail asking
for slides of my work and a one-
page narrative on how I would por-
tray Louis in lifesize bronze." Ham~
ilton said.

Mack Tallan. an English graduate student, works on the
LS-2000 on~line card catalog in MI. King library.

from a lack of understanding of the
system. said Robert Aken, the ii-

“I think that right now, most data
bases are not as user-friendly as

brary‘s coordinator of bibliographic they need to be.“ she said. u] think

instruction.

Ramona Rush. a UK communica-
tions professor. said that the 18-2000
suffers a problem that is endemic to
all similar data bases currently used
in libraries.

they ought to be structured much
more adequately for the user."

But Rush said that the skills re-
quired to use systems like Lszooo
are important for students to carry

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“It’s an honor. . . to

present an artist of

Hamilton’s talent. "
Chester Grundy

minority student affairs
_

“it was six to eight months before
lheard l was a finalist." he said.

Hamilton was one of five finalists
(from 17 sculptors» that submitted
portfolios and abstracts.

As a finalist. Hamilton was given
$1.500 to sculpt a two-foot model of
the boxer.

Before beginning any work. Ham~
ilton did extensive research on
Louis.

“I researched Louis so that I
would know what approach to take
in making this sculpture. i wanted
to discover his persona.“ Hamilton
said.

His research included reading scy-
cral books on Louis and talking to
Louis‘ former friends in order to
gain a glimpse into Louis‘ aura.

At one point in his research. Hanr
ilton was able to hold the bronzed
right-hand glove Louis wore in his
fight with Max Schmeling in 1938. It
was Louis' first lOSs.

Touching that glove made an im-
pact on Hamilton and became a cor—
nerstone in his research. he said.

And that research paid off He
was sclccted to create the Louis
sculpture a year after he had been
named a finalist.

After his research. Hamilton
began work. First. be constructed
an aluminum frame of the boxer.
Next. he applied a layer of styro-
foam to give the frame dimension.
Then came a spreading of 3.000
pounds of a specially mixed clay,
which comes from Kentucky.

chr the next 10 months. he would
\hitpt‘ and reshape the clay until he
was satisfied.

llc thcii madc plaster casts that,
when put together. formed the entire
body

Hamilton took
Fine Arts Sculpture
(‘larkston. Mich

There. the Brown Bomber was re-
crcatcd. Beeswax was used to make
a wax duplicate of Hamilton’s sculp-
ture. which was then used to form a
plaster model Bronze was poured
over the model and allowed to cool.
Then. the plates were welded togeth-
er and painted. The result ~~ a 2.300
pound replica of l.ou1s.

thc casts to the
(‘entre in

The sculpture was unveiled in Sep-
tember last year in Detroit.

Hamilton's lecture will be in 125
Strident t‘entcr trom 3-3 pm. There
will be a questionand-answer ses~
sion following the presentation

House could beat veto
of tax law, whip says

Associated Press

FRANKFORT ..- A state legislator
says it is still possible for the House
to override a gubernatorial veto of a
move to make state tax law conform
to the new federal tax code. despite
an informal survey that found there
weren‘t enough votes.

House Democratic Whip Kenny
Rapier said Wednesday about 40
members of the House favor confor-
mity. However. 5] votes are needed
to override the veto Gov. Wallace
Wilkinson has promised for such leg-
islation.

“Forty votes is close to 51, and it
is still early," said Rep. Joe Clarke.
D-Danville. “A lot of us don‘t really
know yet how painful this budget is.
. . . I‘m not saying our chances are
good. but I am beginning to think
conformity is possibly in the cards."

A study done for the Wilkinson ad-
ministration concludes that confor-
mity would generate about $83 mil-
lion in 1988-89 and about $98 million
in 198990 in new revenue for the
General Fund.

But Wilkinson has said conformity
is a tax increase and that he would
veto any bill calling for it.

t‘larke strongly supports the idea
as the lcastpainful way of raising
needed revenue. He has said he
would like to combine conformity
with a bill to simplify state income-
tax forms

Clarke said while the number of
votes are lacking now. he was pleas-
antly surprised by the amount of
support for conformity

"The to figure is a projection. We
didn't get that many. but we haven‘t
contacted all 100 members yet,"
said Rapier. of Bardstown.

Rapier said that only six House
members definitely oppose confor-
mity. while most House members .
say it is too early to take a stand on
the issue. even for an informal head
count

Rapier conducted the survey Mon-
day and Tuesday at the request of
House Speaker Don Blandford, D-
Philpot.

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