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ALL-AMERICAN BOY

Jake Ireland, 17, an undeclared freshman from Reston, Va., took advantage of yesterday's warm weather to wash his M68. The
weather is expected to remain unseasonably mild until Friday, when snow flurries may be in the forecast.

GREG EANS/ Ke'nei Staff

Committee ‘juices’ up library campaign

By NIKKI BERRONG
Contributing Writer

By simply buying juice, students
czm help bring the new UK library
one step closer to reality.

Through a new promotional pro-
gram with Bird's Eye Juice. pros
ceeds from juice sales at UK Food
Services locations beneﬁt the “ ’ack
the Stacks" campaign. The pro-
gram, which began Saturday. will
end Feb. 28.

Reusable squeeze bottles filled
with juice cart be purchased for
$2.49 at Blazer Courtyard, Blazer
X-press, Student Center litxxl Ser-
vices. K—l.air and Kirwaii-Blanding
Complex Commons.

()ne dollar from every bottle sold

“We want everyone to support the (library)
project, whether it be by giving dollars out of
their own pockets or by buying juice.”

Erica McDonald,

chairwoman, student library commitee

is donated to the library fund. said
Robert Braun. director of UK Food
Services. In addition, 50 cents goes
to the fund each time one of these
bottles is refilled with juice.

“Bird‘s Eye came to us wanting
to do some kind of fund-raising
promotion." Braun szud. “'l‘liey sug-
gested United Way, but since that
campaign was already over. we sug-
gested the library fund."

Donations go toward the library ‘s
student campaign, which is headed
up by the Student library lindow-
mcnt Committee.

“Because tUK) President
((‘harlesi Weihington declared the
librzu‘y (UK'sI No.1 goal. when we
were approached by I‘ood Services
with the idea. we thought it would
be good for the students to be able
to participate." said Sean Syrripsori.

UK approves broadcast bid
by Sports Communications

By JOHN KELLY
Assistant Sports Editor

UK football and basketball broad-
cast rights will remain in the same
hands for at least four more years.

The UK Athletics Board of Direc-
tors yesterday unanimously ap-
proved a bid from Sports Communi—
cations that secured a contract for
the television and radio broadcast
rights for football and basketball
games through the 1995-96 school
year.

Sports Communications is a joint
venture that includes llost (‘reative
Communications. \\'V'|.K-radio and
WKYT-TV.

The total bid was more thzut $6.1
million over the four-year period
and was I3 percent higher than the
group‘s previous contract to the
great satisfaction of UK Athletics
Director (‘..M. Newton.

Newton called the
lent."

“It‘s a tough market out there
right now.“ he said.

bid “excel-

'l'lic board opened brddirig on
Jan. 22 and received the bid troni
Sports (‘ommimications.

'l'o Kentuckians. the money that
UK would gel was not as important
as who would replace longtime an»
nouncer (‘awood Ledford, who will
retire at the end of this basketball
season.

With the contract executed. it is
almost a sure bet that l.edt‘ord's
sidekick, Ralph Hacker. will take

See NEWTON, Page 2

PSAs suggest alternatives to drugs

By TYRONE BEASON
Staff Writer

Illegal drug use is not the only al-
temative for young adults who
crave excitement, according to UK-
backed public service announce-
ments.

The announcements. designed by
a UK research team. are aimed at
“high sensation seekers,“ who are at
greater risk of trying illegal drugs.
said Philip Palmgreen, co-
iiivestigator on the team.

“What we are hoping to do is to
reach young adults who need more
sensation in their lives and get them
to look at other alternatives," said

Palmgreen. also a communicatior'is
professor.

Suggesting rock climbing. thea-
tre, white-water rafting and music
as ways to pass time. the ads offer
sensation seekers enticing altema-
lives to drugs, Palmgreen said.

The public service announce-
ments, which will air in June. are
the result of research done by UK
communications professor Lewis
Donohew.

In a l985-87 study of Lexington
high school students. Donohew
found that high sensation-seekers
are as much as seven times more
likely to use drugs than low sensa-
tion-seekers and that they would be

more responsive to fast-paced drug
abuse announcements.

The National (‘enter on Drug
Abuse in I990 gave the researchers
a $1.5 million grant to exzutiine
how effectively television ads deter
drug use.

After the ads have been taken of f
the air, the research team will con-
duct a survey of 18- to 21-year—olds
to determine how the ads affected
their attitudes toward dnigs.

The research team includes Don-
ohew, Palmgreeii, associate psy-
chology professor lilizabeth l.orcli
and associate sociology professor
William Skinner.

public relations chairman for the
student committee.

Bird's Eye plans to donate juice
to compensate for the profit I‘K
liood Services will lose by contrib-
uting money to the library fund. As
a result. juice prices will not ms
crease.

"We want everyone to support
the tIibraryi protect. whether it he
by giving dollars otit of their own
pockets or by buying iuice." said
lirica .\lcl)onald. student chair-
woman of the committee's “Pack
thc Stacks" campaign.

Brairn said students
rurce will be helping ITK.

who buy

"You can buy juice and know
you‘re contributing something
to help .i \cry good cruise."

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M. Kannada WWWH

Tuesday, February 4, 1992

LCC students:
Parking policy
needs revision

By KYLE FOSTER
News Editor

Although UK’s football season
ended three months ago, some l.CX<
ington (‘ommunity (Tollege students
continue to talk about it.

But these students are more con-
ceriied with problems surrounding
the grunes than the (‘ats‘ 3-K season.

Their gripe involves a [K policy
that asks all students #- I'K and
I.(‘(‘ 47— parked in the K Lois
around (‘ommonwcalth Stadium to
relocate their vehicles by 9 am. on
days of home football games.

I.eshe Riggins. a ctimrriunicatioris
sophomore. began circulating a peti~
tiou at I.(‘(‘ yesterday calling for a
policy change. saying education is
being overlooked. She also setit let-
ters to Gov. Brereton Jones and
LCC President Allen Edwards last
week demanding that something be
done about the situation,

“I'm just fed tip with Iiow sports
takes preference over education.
If you go to class on Saturdays. you
have to park on ('ooper Drive or by
the tennis courts and then yotr hate
to walk to class." Riggins said.

l.(‘(‘ students are asked to move
their vehicles from the stadium
parking lots, but are given other op-
tions, said Donald Ihornton. direc-
tor of Parking and Irririsportatiori
Services,

I'hornton \letl faculty lots ”A“
and "B" and Parking Structure I. on
the corner of l’riiversrty and (‘ooper
drives. ar'e not controlled on game
tlélys.

The parking policy has been III et-
t'ect since l'K played its first game
in Commonwealth Stadium III 197 1
With the help ot then-new coach
I’ran (‘urci. the Wildcats beat \'u
ginia Polytechnic Institute 317% Ill
ti'ont of 48,lltltl lilll\.

'I lie .loliri \\'. l)s\\1lltl linrlduig
was completed on top of the eytslr
rug (‘oirimouwealth Stadium purl.-
mg Iot in 1979

"l.('(‘ came after the \ldilllllll. so
it came after the fact." lhornion
and

“LCC came after the
stadium, so it came

after the fact.”
Donald Thornton,
director of Parking and

Transportation Services.
—

lzdwat'ds said: "It‘s inst an im—
possible situation to lllitlllllllll :i
routine when you brimt (rtIJItiIi
people to the area It‘s one oi
those things that when you liaye .‘l
Iiutidt'cd or so students who "-\;llll
to use the facility and (Motto who
until it ltllitik illic latiw inst li;i\;
a greater need at that nine "

Riggrn~ has not rn.t illll Itlr
wards or Jones yet. l‘til said she
disagrees with the pllllll\k beliriid
the policy.

“I feel like both oi
not put education as a top priority
[don't think sports are that .rnporv
tant. You can't piit all that power
into sports without education sut-
teriug.“ she said

them hate

l'horiiton \illil the \illc‘l} tssn. of
the policy should be considered
t‘onsideratrons are made tor dis-
abled students. I'horutnti said. l‘l.l
to combine game parkui; and I (’t
parking would pro\ e dangerous
"During the home football gain.
you haye one-way tiattic It you're
at l.(‘(‘ attending class. you \.tlr i
get out because you‘re .3. tlll‘.‘ aw .i\
trout traflrc. It's .i safety issue Ill:
tirrie you hate people illlk'klk'll .5
the oppositt direction cl llillllt
flow tlieti ll e.lll\‘\'\ sattt. Ii.i/.ir».l~ ”
he said "It's ll -i hit their; are till
.i ltt‘t‘ttdtttts. but lln Vin. prolt itit‘.
not as couycriient as I tlitnl. i‘lii
ile‘lllw ‘~‘\ttt.‘ltl ‘.‘..it|t illi.‘li '. l‘t‘ H
Riggiiis ~.:!.I 'tt‘
should not hoe i. and
Nutrition and Idwaids no trait
are not .in} pcrtctt and
students do not hay; I It "..!il\
during the lt'lilll\c‘lr~ to.» n. ‘n.

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JEFFREY BURLEWI Kernel Sta"

Students also took advantage of the weather yesterday by play-
ing pick-up basketball games at the Blue Courts on campus

Mild temps
only indicate
normal shift
in weather

By JEN BRYANT
Staff Writer

lhc weather has been unusual-
Iy‘ warm lll (‘cntral Kentucky llll\
season. reaching a high ot on de»
grecs yesterday. birt .i [K geogtas
phcr doesn‘t see the herd .is the
ominous prelude to L'lt‘l‘ill warrnr
mg.

'lempciatnrcs Ii.i\c
lottr degrees .ibovc noimil it
cording lo the National “satire?
Service office in l e\ington

But geographer Iohn I \\.it
kins said the warm l.|llll.tl‘~ tern
peratui'es are caused by notl.rnj;
more than normal
weather patterns

(‘ctili'al Kentucky‘s gco 't.ipli't
location battle
ground lot air masses that tollrdt
often producing tllil\llt t\.‘.itltct
changes and storms

Watkins said llll\ plit‘ttotttt‘ttitti
has produced the Hindu temper-
ature swrugs the region has c\pe
ricticcd lately llc discounted lllL
Idea that global warming is .i am
ior lttt‘lor

"People are seeing eytrtrntu in

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INSIDE

Mike Tyson accuser may deal knockout
punch. Column, Page 6.

Rare German avant-garde films of the 19203
will be shown in two installments beginning
at 6 pm. in 110 White Hall Classroom Build-
ing.

Critic defends di-
I rection of ‘JFK.’
Column,

Page 3.

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2 — Kentucky Kernel, Tueedey, February 4, 1m

Newton

Continued from page 1

over the bulk of the radio duties.
"the group has said it will be a team
effort, but speculation has pointed
to Hacker as the lead man.

Another concern Newton ad-
dressed was the recent controversy
of UK‘s use of Pay-Per-View cable
to televise three football games and
a basketball game in the past two
years.

Critics have rumored that UK
may go to a complete Pay-Per-View
package in the coming years. but
Newton said nothing could be far-
ther from the truth.

“We will not, as long as I‘m ath-
letics director, unless somebody di-
rects me to and that would have to
be the president and this board. get
into extensive Pay-Per-View.“
Newton said.

“We will not. Our aim is to have
Kentucky athletics on television in
this state on commercial. free televi-
sion as often as possible."

Louisiana State recently has opt-
ed for such a situation with many
of their football and basketball
games shown via Pay-Per-View.
That option. Newton said, may
make them some money one way.
but they‘ll lose it another.

“Frankly. i think some of what
they‘ve done is a mistake." he said.
“They're not selling out their bas-
ketball on a season-ticket basis.
'l‘heir football attendance has fallen
off and I can see why. in a tight
economy. it may be a heck of a lot
cheaper."

UK will only use l’ay—Per-View
as a last resort, Newton said. He
said that making the games availa-
ble was the most important issue.

“I’d be willing to say today that
we won‘t ever do it again, except
that I thought the South Carolina
thing was totally legit." he said.

“We may want to do it again to
serve those people. i recognize that
there‘s some people that can‘t af-
ford Sl9.95."

A fourth contributor in Sports
(‘ommunications‘ bid was 50,000-

The

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to meet with
Dean David A. Nash
and members of the
College Council and Admissions Committee

Tuesday, February 4, 1992

2:00 pm. to 4:00 pm.

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watt. clear-channel WHAS-AM,
l340, out of Louisville. Ky., which
will broadcast games except when
they conﬂict with University of
Louisville games. In those instanc-
es, WHAS will broadcast the Louis-
ville contests.

WHAS reportedly is also pursu-
ing a similar-sized FM station that
would allow for them to broadcast
both U of L and UK sports on a
clear channel — regardless of con-
tlicts.

BUB n’ mEEvE

LCC

Continued from page 1

“UK students walk much farther
to class titan LCC students. The
best that any UK student gets is not
as good as LCC gets if they park in
the parking structure for the week-
end.“

Edwards wants to make some
changes this fall, which he thinks
would alleviate the controversy all
together.

He said Saturday classes will be
held at LCC- East on Winchester
Road. No classes would be offered
on Saturdays at the main campus on
Cooper Drive, but the library still
would be open on Saturdays — un-
til 2 p.m. regularly and until noon
on game days.

“The (Margaret 1.) King Library
is always open, and LCC students
have access to that so the (LCC) li-
brary hours will be reduced during
home football games." he said.

Riggins, 31. said she is opposed
to the plan and upset that the library

by John Morrow and Jerry Volgt

is not open regular hours every Sat-
urday.

“We go to LCC. Why do we need
to go to M.l. King? We shouldn't
have to get kicked out of (LCC's li-
brary). They should keep it open
just like any other Saturday."

Riggins said she will continue
circulating the petition because she
does not believe Edwards has
solved the problem effectively.

“Whatever I have to do to get my
point across, l will do. I will have
that policy changed. I will do‘SOme-
thing about it."

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Food Services to give ‘comic relief’

Staff reports

If your dorm room walls are all
too familiar and hanging out in the
library is your most exciting pas-
time, there may be some relief.

Comic relief.

Stand-up comedian Bill Kelly

and the Comedy on Broadway im-
prov group Merry Muckers of Mirth
will appear at “Food Service Fun,"
a comedy show complete with
smorgasbord, will be held tonight at
the Donovan Hall Cafeteria 5 to
7:30 pm.

The dinner and show cost $4.95,

Cinema Committee
Meeting

Wednesday, February 5
5:30 p.m. Rm 245
Student Center
All Students Welcome!

and students can pay with their dirt-
er cards.

Doug Louderback. manager of
the Oak Room, Donovan‘s cafete-
ria, said he expects the wide variety
of food and the student-geared en-
tertainment at such an inexpensive
price will draw a large crowd.

Weather

Continued from page 1

the weather, which happen regular-
ly, and they immediately associate
that with something that is more
long term," Watkins said.

Research has indicated an overall
temperature increase of “fractions
of a degree." Watkins said.

He added that researchers are
even unsure about the dominance of
the warming trend. citing other fac-
tors that could counter the warming.

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Scott Crosbie is one or many UK students who
have won Army ROTC scholarships. You can, too
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Shooting back: in defense of Oliver Stone and ‘J IZ‘K’

Since the film “JFK" opened in
theaters nationwide in December.
the national media have viciously
and continually attacked the ﬁlm
and its director. Oliver Stone. Clear-
ly attacking without fully under-
standing — or caring to ﬁnd out —
what the ﬁlm is really about.

Instead. they have been relating
their information to a public that
has been basically uninformed con-
cerning the actual facts surrounding
the assassination of President Ken-
nedy and how and why it happened.

It is a cruel irony that because the
majority of American joumalists
and other media never have chosen
to pursue the truth about the assassi-
nation for the last 28 years. the pub-
lic has been kept largely in the dark.

Now that a well-known and con-
troversial filmmaker has succeeded
in shedding some light on an event
of extreme historical significance,
the media are attempting a crucifix-
ion. The media do not possess the
courage or determination to pursue
the truth themselves.

One of the most glaring exzunples
of the uninformed criticisms direct-
ed at Stone is evident when media
refer to the JFK conspiracy theories
portrayed as “Stone‘s theory." when
in fact Stone is the director and
screenplay co-author of a ﬁhn based
on many years of well-researched
analysis. Research that was con-
ducted by several dedicated investi-
gative theorists in general. including
Jim Garrison and Jim Marrs.

Stone has added virtually nothing
new to conspiracy theories. But as a
film director. he has focused his ar-
tistic vision on them and brought
them to the screen with skill of his
craft.

What Stone's “JFK." attempts to
reveal to its audience is the reverse
of what the Warren Commission
ended up concealing from the pub-
lic. Both are perspectives seen
through opposite sides of a long
tunnel full of shadows and smoke.
But “JFK" seeks to explore what
the Warren Commission chose to
ignore.

'IIie commission was ﬂawed and
misdirected from the start: Having
been told in closed session by the
(‘IA that Lee Harvey Oswald had

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acted alone, and that the Russian
KGB was behind the plot. only
leads relating to the implication of
Oswald were considered for investi-
gation.

This is exact-
ly what the FBI.
who was in
charge of gath~
ering infonna-
tion for the com-
mission. did. .

Years ago
while research- ’
ing the Kennedy S ﬁr L,
assassination, I
traveled to Chi- KENNEDY
cage and met a man who was work.
ing for the CIA in November 1963.
He veriﬁed this information, telling
me that “the word had come down
that the Russians were behind 05-
wald and a war with the Soviet lln-
ion could break out at any time."
Recently declassiﬁed KGB ﬁles
prove that the accusation that Os-
wald was a Russian agent was false.

Nevertheless, the FBI consistent-
ly ignored vital evidence and even
altered statements from eyewitness-
es that did not implicate ()swald in
the assassination. Once you realize
that no one, let alone a poor marks-
man like Oswald. could have the
ﬁred the shots that killed Kennedy

and wounded then-Texas Gov. John
Connally in the satne time frame
veriﬁable by the film Abraham Za-
pruder took of the assassination,
then there is nothing left but con-
spiracy and cover-up.

Stone's “JFK,“ while exposing
the impossibility of Oswald being
the lone assassin. deals with the
probability of the involvement of
elements within the CIA and the
FBI, by which Oswald continually
was surrounded. and most certainly
by which he was manipulated. The
film reveals what eyewitnesses have
said from the beginning that either
was ignored or distorted by the
Warren Coimnission. Stone uses
dramatic license zmd a composite of
various individuals and situations to
tie the threads of various conspiracy
theories together.

Many people iii the media have
accused Stone of implicating almost
everyone iii the federal govemment
— the CIA, the FBI and the Warren
Commission — in the Kennedy as-
sassination. lle repeatedly has de-
nied this accusation. and rightly so.
as the film never makes that claim

Almost everyone lll\tll\'t.‘tl in the
Warren investigation had been lied
to and misled from the start and
simply were doing the hcsl they
could considering the inisinfoi'iiia»

tion they were given to begin with.

While I do not totally agree with
the premise of “JFK.“ that Kennedy
was killed because he was going to
pull out of Vietnam. this rationale
is based on Kennedy's evolving
Vietnam policy. Kennedy was am-
bivalent about American involve-
ment iti Viemwn and privately said
so to a number of confidants.

While Kennedy’s Joint Chiefs. of
Staff kept pressuring him to send
more combat troops, he declined.
wishing to put in more combat m!-
visers instead. While maintaining a
strong public anti-Communist pos-
ture, Kennedy was moving toward
a complete withdrawal from Viet-
tiarn by 1965. Four days after Ken-
nedy's death, President Lyndon
Johnson distorted the spirit and iii-
tent of Kennedy's directives and
authorized large numbers of coin-
bat troops to be sent into Vietniun.

The media also have accused
Stone of creating a totally fictitious
“Mr. X“ for the sake of designing a
possible high-level goventinental
conspiracy to validate the existence
of "JFK." The character of “Mr. X
is a composite representation taken
from llllct’\lc\\s \\llll cci‘lain mili—
tary iUltl gmcrnincnt officials that

supported firsthand experiences of

“JFK" consultant l‘iL‘lL‘llt’I l..

Prouty. a liaison between the Penta-
gon turd the CIA iii the Kennedy
Administration.

Stone has been criticized for his
portrayal of New Orleans District
Attoniey Jim Garrison, the only per-
son who tried to prosecute anyone
for Kennedy‘s murder. He tried to
convict prominent New Orleans
businessman Clay Shaw of conspir-
acy. but the case fell apart after the
death of Garrison’s witness to the
conspiracy, David Ferric.

'I‘wo typewritten suicide notes
were found iii Ferrie‘s apartment -—
both were unsigned. Without Fer-
rie's testimony, Shaw was acquit‘
ted.

Shaw had denied ever knowing
Ferric, although alter Shaw's iiiys—
terious death in l‘)7-l. a photograph
of the two of them together at a par.
ty in the early ‘60s was discovered.

In the late ~70s. former (TIA direc-
tor Richard Helms admittcd under
oath that Shaw indeed had worked
for the (‘[A. despite Shaw‘s denial
of this at his trial. (iari‘ison was lia-
rasscd by the (‘IA during the tiial in
New ( Mean» and he constantly was
ridiculed by tlic press. but pci'sc-
vercd nonetheless.

Now the media attack Stone per»
sonally for “UK." as ll by discredit-
ing him the} cart tlisci'ctlit his film

and refute all that the ﬁlm hopes to
convey as well.

With “JFK" at least Stone has
succeeded in resurrecting public
awareness about the Kennedy asv
sassiiiation, and this may lead to
the release of important classiﬁed
documents that may support the ev—
idence of a conspiracy: mid for that
alone. “JFK" is a triumph.

Mauiy people fail to realize that
Oswald was shot and killed before
he was able to receive the benefit
of a trial _ he was never convicted
in a court of law of killing Kenne-
dy. zutd no one has ever been able
to prove conclusively. without rea—
sonable doubt. that ()swald fired
iniy shots at Kennedy.

But don‘t simply take my word
for it w or the Warren (‘oinmis-
sion's, or “.ll‘K“ ‘s for that matter.
Read some books and articles about
the assassination. see the Zaprudcr
film. do yout own research Enid
reach your own conclusions.

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once and hit all what really hap-
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about the new referenda. which has $00“ might be in future years. it is fair to regulations unenforceable. For election would be too high. They vote accordingly. Finally, for those am 0.
been proposed by Student Govem- say that student-goventmertt elec- those who follow the election rules, also insist reforms will not solve the who have already initiated their Townl
ment Association Vice President CROSBIE tion reform is the issue that is most their chances of winning are signiﬁ- problem because wealthy candi- campaign strategy, the new reforms 22:;
Keith Sparks. Many senators have GUEST important for us to address at this cantly lessened by those who have dates will resort to skywn'ting and will not have an adverse impact on 606-3:
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against the proposals, but we feel concept of reforming SGA that has which Keith and I ran last spring. It forced to spend less money and will sees that they cart be dismissed. are challenging the status quo and
that those opposed to taking the provoked such heated debate, but was a platform that p