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Independent since 1971

Friday. April 2, 1993

 

 

Dowdy, Leigh take top

Without posters, Jones,
Shvedo finish second

 

By Kyle Foster
Senior Staff Writer

 

Hugs, tears. a few prayers and

plenty of congratulatory cheers 1
were the usual last night as Lance 1.

Dowdy and Amber Leigh were an-
nounced Student Government As-
sociation president and vice presi-
dent.

Both Dowdy and Leigh are
members of the greek system.
which traditionally plays a major
role in the outcome of SGA elec-
tions. The Dowdy-Leigh ticket
won the Greek Political Action
Committee endorsement Sunday.

In its five years of existence
GPAC always has endorsed the
winner. Also. there has not been a
non-greek president since Cindy
Weaver in

 

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were the only non-greek candi-
dates. came in second with 23 per-
cent of the vote.

Jones and Shveda whose plat-
form included moving the free
speech area to the Patterson Office
Tower Plaza, ran their campaign
without hanging any posters.

The frontrunners. SGA president
pro temp Jeremy Bates and run-
ning mate Ellen Hamilton finished
last. receiving 21 percent of the
vote.

Dowdy. who was purged as a
freshman senator in 1988 for hav-
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Lance Dowdy

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nounced.

Mason and vice presidential
running mate Michael Faves. who
said they were “A Voice for All."
came in third. receiving 21.3 per
cent of the vote. while Dowdy and
Leigh received 34.] percent.

“1 thank God. He makes it all
happen.“ a tearful Dowdy said.
Ilis running mate looked tearful
too as she thanked supporters.
such as SGA Supreme Court Jus-
tice Jill (‘mnston

(,‘urrent SGA Vice President
Leigh Ann Davenport cried openly
as she hugged Leigh. “The people
spoke." Davenport said.

Dowdy. a fifth-year business
management senior, said he was
pleased with more than just the
outcome of this year‘s election.

“The diversity we saw in this
election —— it shows that student
govemment is heading in the right
direction. To have T. A. (Jones) in
there and Mason. That‘s an inspi-
ration. It makes me feel good.“ he
said.

In a surprise finish. fifth-year ar-
chitecture students Jones and run-
ning mate Andrew Shveda, who

make him a good
SGA president.

“I think that attitude breeds en-
thusiasm and gets people more in.
volved. It's a God-given gift I
have. People come to me and
sound comfortable talking to me.“
Dowdy said.

In addition to the GPAC en-
dorsement, the Dowdy-Leigh tick-
et also received the Student Bar
Association endorsement.

Although Dowdy, 22 is two
years older than the average SGA
president. he said his age does not
keep him out of the mainstream of
the University.

Leigh said one of the first things
she and Dowdy will do is get with
the newly-elected senate and start
lobbying in Frankfort.

But first there was going to be a
lot of celebrating and sleeping in.

Dowdy said he would call his
parents in Blacksburg. Va.. imme-
diately and then he was going to
relax.

“I can‘t describe it. I'm going
to enjoy everybody who helped me
out. I‘ve got a lot of people to
thank." he said.

“Now the work begins.“

Cats-Wolverines:

Super game inside
the Superdome?

 

By John Kelly
Sports Editor

 

UK basketball coach Rick Pitino
doesn‘t want to over-hype the
Wildcats“ national semifinal match-
up against the Michigan Wolve-
rines.

“It could turn out to be like the
Super Bowl." Pitino said.

Yes. it could. But it still could be
fun to think about it.

Talent vs. talent. A game that
matches some of the best and most
explosive basketball players in the
United States on one court. the one
inside the Louisiana Supcrdome in
New Orleans.

“It's going to be a very exciting
game because there is going to be a
lot of exciting talent on the basket-
ball court." Pitino said.

UK and Michigan are two of
three No. l seeds who have ad-
vanced to the Final Four. The other

 

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5:42 pm. — North Carolina (32-
4) vs. Kansas (29-6)

About 8:12 p.m. - UK (30-3)
vs. Michigan (30-4)

MONDAY’S FINAL
9:22 pm — Semifinal Winners.

All games at the Super-dome In
New Orleans.

 

 

 

No. I seed still in the toumamcnt is
the Iiast Region‘s North Carolina.
which will play a second—seeded
Kansas Jayhawks learn that upset
the Midwest Region‘s No. l seed.
Indiana. to earn the trip to New (ir-

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Defeated presidential hopeful Scott Mason climbs across chairs to congratulate Student Government Association President-

elect Lance Dowdy last night in the Old Student Center Theater.

 

SGA Presidential Election Results

 

Winner: Lance Dowdy T.A. Jones

      

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New faces to fill senate;
only six incumbents win

 

By Nicole Heumphreus
Staff Writer

 

Twenty-seven new faces will
grace the Student (iovemment As-
sociation Senate next year. and
only six incumbents will return.
according to Student Govemment
Association poll results released
last night.

One of the six incumbents. Sen-
ator at large Misty Weaver. re-
ceived. for the third year in a row.
the most votes of any candidate —
including presidential contenders.

“I think it shows the studean
think I‘m representing them well
in the senate,“ Weaver said. “I am
a hard-working senator.“

Weaver plans to improve public
relations for SGA because “stu-
dents don't know about so many
of the services."

Another returning member is
Senator at Large Jennifer

Schwartz. She asked students to
come to the senators and tell them
what their concerns are

"The senate is here for the stu~
dents." Schwartz said, "Please
come to the senate because we are
your voice."

Newly electcd Senator at Large
Beverly (‘oleman said she has a
plzui that would give students more
accessibility to the senate: She
plans to hold a monthly meeting
for representatives from every stu-
dent organization

“Kay Kim. Troy (‘oulter. Leann
Norton and I promised to ask all
student organimuons to send one
representative to be a pan of the
this monthly forum." (‘oleman
said. "It will give everyone a
chance to have more of a voice on
the senate."

Newly elected Senator at Large
Stephen Dawahare said he wants

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From T—shirts to Cokes,
UK cashing in on games

 

By John Kelly
Sports Editor

 

Gene Del-‘ilippo is learning about
a different type of bandwagon than
the one most sports fans are accus-
tomed to talking about.

As UK has progressed through
the NCAA Tournament and now
approaches the Final Four. the re-
quests to use the UK name and logo
are increasing phenomenally.

“I can notice a big difference al-
ready." said Del-'ilippo. UK‘s asso-
ciate athletics director for external
affairs.

"’lherc are l0 tliti‘erent tents set
up around town selling UK official-
ly licensed products."

Last year the l'niversity grossed
about 5540.000 in royalties. DeFi-
lippo said. from the licensing of of-
ficial I'K products.

“This year. I would guess that be-

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Next week’s Pint Party ’93 one of largest local blood drives

 

By Erica Patterson
Staff Writer

UK will hold one of the biggest
blood drives in Cenual and Eastem
Kentucky next week. Central Ken-
tucky Blood Center spokeswoman
Trina Hembree said.

Pint Party '93 will be held from
2 to 10 pm. at the Kirwan-
Blanding Complex Commons on
April 6 and 7.

The blood drive has been held
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years. but the number of donors
has been declining recently. Hem-
brec said.

She cited the unfounded fear of
contracting AIDS by giving blood
3 “the number one reason" for the
decline. As a result. she said the
center constantly faces blood shon-
ages.

“Donations cannot keep up with
the amount of blood transfused."
Hembrce said. “We're having to
ltx>k to other communities for do-
nations."

Because of the rising number of
transfusions in the area. the blood
center is counting on the Universi-
ty to donate blood during this time,
she said.

The blood center has set a goal
of 275 pints of blood for the two
day drive.

The event will include a live
broadcast by WKQQ-FM (98.1)
and several student competitions.
The social fraternity and social so-
rority with the highest percentages
of participation will be awarded

Minority radio stations

 

By Erica Patterson
Staff Writer

The growing prominence of mi-
nority radio stations is giving di-
verse ethnic groups a forum to air
their voices. a communications ex-
pert said yesterday.

Donald Browne, chairman of the
University of Minnesota‘s Speech-
Communication Department. said
the radio stations often help pre-

 

serve traditional dialects that cur-
rently are facing extinction.

These stations, which are trying
to mirror their communities, also
contribute to the evolution of lan-
guage, Browne said.

“But not everyone is happy about
that." he told the crowd of about 60
who attended his speech, titled “Mi-
nority Voices in a Majority Media
Culture." in the Peal Gallery.

This evolution is caused when

plaques. and the residence hall with
the most people to donate blood
will win a pizza party.

All blood donors will receive a
car sunshade and a chance to win
door prizes — including a portable
compact disc player.

However, the competitions are
not the most irnponant issue. Scott
Cahill said.

“There are always people who
need blood — especially with the
snow and bad weather.“ said Ca-
hill, 3 member of Lambda Chi Al-

pha social fraternity. “The blood
centerisbehind."

Kris Sommer, assistant director
of residence life. said it is impor-
tant for students to know “there is
absoluwa no chance they can con-
tract AIDS from giving blood."

To donate blood. a person must
be between the ages of 17 and 64.
be in general good health and
weigh at least 100 pounds, said Ca-
thy Gluck, donor resources consul-
tant at the blood center.

Donors, who need to present pic-

ture identification. also should
have been symptom-free of colds
for at least seven days and have not
taken antibiotics for 17 days, Gluck
said.

Pint Party is open to all UK stu-
dents, faculty and staff. and the
general public. The Central Ken-
tucky Blood Center. located at 330
Waller Ave., also will be open for
donations.

For more information. contact
Hembree at (606) 276-2534.

help preserve culture, speaker says

some minority radio stations mod-
ernize traditional languages to de-
scribe news events. he said.

At the same time, however, they
can help preserve other cultural tra-
ditions, like ethnic music, giving
people who have not been exposed
to them some sense of their history.

“The definite effect on the culture
is an increase in a sense of (cultu-
ral) pride," Browne said.

Browne said the growth of minor-

ity radio stations worldwide will
continue.

Minority groups who started out
with no broadcast stations in New
Zealand. Austria and the United
States might have 50 stations in the
future. he said.

There are some dilemmas that
face minority stations, however.
Browne said these include deter-
mining what kind of music to play
and how to finance the stations.

Maureen McDonnan, a geogra-
phy graduate student. said the mi-
nority stations are vital because
they balance the mass media.

“I think it‘s imponant to give
everyone a voice," she said.

McDonnan also said that people
who believe they do not have a
voice in the mass media are now
“using radio to keep the uniqueness
of a certain place."

Ex-NFL player indicted for threatening Rex Chapman

 

By Mark R. Chellgren
Associated Press

 

Former professional football
player Lewis Billups was indicted
by a federal grand jury yesterday
for making threats against Washing-
ton Bullets basketball player Rex
Chapman.

The indictment alleged Billups
twice called Chapman's sister. Jen-
ny. on March 18 to threaten Rex
Chapman.

The mils apparently were
prompted by Billups' jealousy of
Jenny Chapman.

Billups has been jailed without
bond since he was arrested on a
complaint filed by FBI agents, who
recorded the telephone calls.

He is scheduled to be arraigned
this morning.

The charges of making threaten-
ing interstate calls carry a maxi-
mum penalty of five years in prison
and a fine of $250,000.

David Bratt, Billups' court-
appointed lawyer. said the 29-year-
old former Cincinnati Bengal would
plead innocent. Bratt said he also
would try to have bail set for Bill-
ups. though probably not during the

arraignment.

The brief indictment contains
portions of the telephone calls from
Billups in Orlando, Fla, to Jenny
Chapman in Lexington.

“Now, I‘m telling you right now
as God is my witness. I swear on
my mother's life. if you ever speak
to a guy. speak —just say ‘Hi' to a
guy from Kentucky. I promise you
(others will) go see your brother
and he‘ll never play basketball
again. That’s a promise on my
mother's life." Billups said. accord-
ing to the indictment.

Billups said his associates would

hurt Rex Chapman so badly he,
can probably never walk again, not
no less play any -- ball again.“

In the second call, Billups told
Jenny Chapman. “You got your
brothers knees in you hands."

Billups said the threat would be
carried out on April 20, when the
Bullets are scheduled to play the
Orlando Magic in Orlando.

Chapman, he said would. “get a
visit, boom, boom. boom. boom,
buom, boom. down.

“Next thing you read Rex Chap-
man through for the year maybe for
the rest of his career."

Jenny Chapman testified during
an earlier proceeding that Billups
had hit, slapped and choked her.

The Bengals drafted Billups in
1985 from the University of North
Alabama and he played for Cincm-
nati through the 1991 season.

Billups and another man face sex-
ual battery charges in Sanford, Fla.
where a woman alleges that she was
drugged and raped.

Billups was also one of 12 Ben-
gals accused of raping a woman at a
Tukwila, Wash. hotel in October
1990.

 

Licensing
Continued from Page 1

cause of the Final Four and the
great season that the basketball
team is having, that we will do
somewhere in the vicinity of
$850,000 in gross royalties, which
helps both the athletic association
and the student body at UK be-
cause there‘s more money in the
general scholarship fund." he said.

11an of the net profit from the
sale of UK’s official products goes
to the University’s general scholar-
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“The benefits are double -- posi-
tive exposure and additional reve-
nue." DeFilippo said. “When its a
50-50 split everybody benefits."

DeFilippo stresses the words “of-
ficially licensed" because with the
increase of requests to use the UK
name comes the increase in the
sales of items that are not officially
licensed.

This means UK has not approved
the items and the University is not
getting any money from the sale of
those items.

But UK has representatives of the
Atlanta-based Collegiate Licensing
Company in Lexington to help with
the enforcement of the law that
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products illegal.

“There’s always the possibility.
but we're on the lookout." DeFilip-
po said.

The T-shirts and hats people are
seeing at these stands aren't the
only way UK is making money
from the success of this basketball
team.

Several other promotional ven-
tures are in the make, and one al-
ready has hit Lexington.

Coca-Cola Classic cans com-
memorating UK’s Southeastern
Conference Tournament Champion-
ship are on sale at stores across
town.

“Coca-Cola is paying a certain
sum and also a royalty of the sale of
the Coke cans with UK-SEC Tour-

      
       
       
     

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them," DeFilippo said.

“They‘ve produced 50.000 cases
of Coca Cola Classic that had UK
on it. We're also getting a lot of oth-
er promotional licensing things put
together that will make money for
the University."

DeFilippo, who has been at UK
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UK reached the Final Four in 1984.
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for licensing and marketing the UK
name.

“Our licensing program didn’t get
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He also visited both NBA and
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DeFilippo wants to make sure to
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“We have to maximize our expo-
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Most of the situation right now is
to filter through the many offers UK
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ing the UK caravan.

“When someone calls. we have to
make sure that it's a good promo-
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and that it‘s financially beneficial,
as well as beneficial exposurewise,
for the University," he said.

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By Rob Theme
Stall Writer

Polling availability and methods
of manning for Student Government
Association elections set off a tense
debate mt night between losing
vice-presidential candidate Andrew
Shveda and Ken Walker. chairman
of presidential victor Lance Dow-
dy's campaign.

Shveda told Walker that he
planned to investigate reports that
some polling sites remained un~
manned Wednesday and yesterday,
adding: “I doubt if I'll get much
cooperation from SGA."

Shveda said SGA was guilty of
“severe incompetence" for leaving
polls unattended. He also said the
entire voting process was unfair.

“A lot of students came to the
Student Center to vote only to find
out that they had to vote in their re-
spective colleges," he said

Walker, standing outside the Old
Student Center Theater after elec-
tion result were announced, curtiy
replied: “We revised the election
mles last semester. Where were stu-
dents like you?"

Shveda said he was in Europe.

Problems with polling sites began
Wednesday, when at least one — in
the Agriculture Science North
Building — never opened. Yester-
day moming, at least one voting site
was left unattended for an hour:

 

When poll worker Shannen John-
son showed up at the Kirwan-
Blanding Complex Commons vot-
ing site at 11 a.m.. she was told
that the voting machine had been
left on and unattended since 10
am.

A worker on Dowdy‘s campaign.
economics senior Matt Buck, who
campaigned near the poll during
the hour it was left unmanned. said
he was “pretty sure" nobody had
tampered with the votes.

When Shveda was asked what he
thought of the unmanned polls. he
said: “I thought it sucked."

Elections board chairman Reno
Deaton said that he was sure no
one could have tampered with the
poll. and SGA executive director of
elections Mat Amoid echoed that
sentiment.

"There's no way someone could
have voted many times.“ he said. “
(The voting machine) is too com-
plicated — only poll workers know
how it works.“

Walker maintained that nothing
about the polling was unfair to any
particular candidate.

“If a poll is closed, it hurts us
just as much as it hurts you," Waik-
er told Shveda.

Many of the newly elected sena-
tors vowed that part of their ener-
gies over the next year would go
toward improving the voting pro-
cess.

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By Lance Williams
Staff Writer

Amy Sullivan defeated two-
time Student Government Asso-
ciation President Sean Lohman
by a 108-90 vote in what could
be called one of the biggest up-
sets in this year’s election.

However, Sullivan was not
there to enjoy the moment.

She was at a banquet held at
the College of Law and could not
attend the announcement of the
winners at 9:15 last night in the
Old Student Center Theater.

“1 did think it would be a close
election. Sean had such good
name recognition, but I actually
felt pretty good about it," Sulli-
van said.

In fact, it was the closest of all
the college races in this year‘s
election. Sullivan garnered 52.9
percent of the votes and Sullivan
won 47 percent.

It has been two years since law
student Sean Lohman sat in the
Student Government Association
office as student body president.
Lohman was a two-term presi-
dent. serving in 1989-90 and
1990-91.

“I’m disappointed in a sense,
but there are still things I can
work on." Lohman said.

Sullivan said that Lohman’s
entry into the race caused her to
be nervous at first because of his
name recognition.

“For a few minutes. I started to
panic. l was nervous about it."
she said.

She said, though, that after
consideration she decided she
wasn‘t going to change her plat-
form to accommodate someone
of Lehman‘s status. She said she
tried hard to keep her campaign
“within reasonable bounds” de-
spite his entry into the race.

Sullivan said she has no set
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loses law school race

the senate in the fall.

“I‘m going in with my eyes
and ears open. I want to repre-
sent (the College of Law) with
honesty and integrity. I want to
stay flexible and learn as I go,"
Sullivan said.

Sullivan. who has been in the
UK College of Law for two
years. did not attend UK as an
undergraduate and said that she
only became involved in student
government after she came to
the law school.

She said she got involved be-
cause she “started to love the
law school."

She came to UK after attend-
ing Vanderbilt University in
Nashville, Tenn, for a year and
a half, and Sewanee University
in Sewanee, Tenn, where she
graduated.

Sullivan said she was able to
win because of the atmosphere
surrounding the law school.

“It‘s the type of place where
people get to know you,“ Sulli-
van said.

Although she is bringing in
the College of Law‘s title as
senator, she hopes to be in-
volved in issues that include the
entire university.

“lhatetoactlikewearea
special interest group," Sullivan
said. “That is the whole prob-
lem in Washington because eve-
ryone wants their own pork pro-
ject"

She said one of the biggest
problems of the University and
SGA is the lack of good public
relations between student gov-
ernment and the student body.

She said she also knows what
kinds of problems an elected of-
ficial can face.

“For every good thing that
you do. there isn't a reciprocal
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learned a lot," said Steve Dawahare.
a newly elected senator at large.
“There are a lot of students out
there who need to have their voices
heard. I think the election process
needs to be accessible to all stu-
dents."

Despite the difficulty some stu-
dents found in voting —- and the
rainy weather, turnout for the elec-
tion was up over last year, when
2,642 students voted for president.
This year, 2,760 students voted for
president.

“I was really surprised by the
turnout," said Antimony Bishop, the
newly elected senator for the Col-

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lege of Communications. “I thought
the weather would deter people
from voting."

Lance Dowdy, SGA’s next presi-
dent, said he thought the turnout
was up because “the candidates
really reached out to students more
than ever before.

“I think they employed new and
innovative methods that really im-
proved turnout. If it wouldn‘t have
been for the rain, I think even more
people would have voted."

VP hopeful Shveda
argues with Dowdy

 

By Caroline Shively
Staff Writer

 

Not all Student Government As-
sociation presidential tickets accept-
ed their defeats gracefully at last
night’s announcement of election
results.

Shortly after fifth-year business
management senior Lance Dowdy
was declared the winner, vice presi-
dential candidate Andrew Shveda
stood on a chair and shouted to the
crowd of 150.

“I just want you to know you
have elected a man who‘s only ex-
perience in SGA was as a freshman
senator, and he was purged,“ Shve-
da shouted.

“Andrew, why don’t you be a
gracious loser? Lance is a gracious
winner," former presidential candi-
date Jay Ingle shouted back at
Shveda.

Onlookers then filled the room
with cheers for Dowdy.

Shveda also got in a shouting
match with Dowdy‘s campaign
manager Ken Walker about un-
manned voting booths.

Shveda and his running mate,
presidential candidate T.A. Jones,
were second in the race, with 638
votes.

Jones was not at the announce-
ment. However, in a telephone in-
terview. Jones said he was asleep
during the announcement but felt
"‘great' about the outcome.

“I feel like we won the election,
and we want to work with Lance
and Amber for the good of the Uni-
versity,“ Jones said.

He said that his strong showing
proves non-greek candidates are
making progress in student govem-
ment.

“We‘ve opened up the doors to
independent candidates who have
the character and spirit to be lead-
ers," he said.

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