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By Melissa Rosenthal
Staff Writer

 

UK handled last week’s emer-
gency weather conditions “with
total disregard to students‘ safe-
ty." UK Student Government As-
sociation President Lance Dowdy
says, and he plans to take that
message to the Board of Trustees
when it meets tomorrow.

Dowdy said he was outraged
with the decision to keep classes
open last week after the largest
winter storm in 16 years swept
across Kentucky, closing inter-

Add/Drop
extended
another day

Staff report

 

 

Although University officials
think most students were able to
go through Add/Drop last week,
they will extend the process an
extra day, University Registrar
Randall Dahl said.

“In essence, it is just an exten-
sion of it just the same way
Thursday and Friday was a ex-
tension,“ Dahl said.

Today is the last day to add or
drop a class and have classes re-
main in the 80-percent refund
range (for part-time students).

Terminal-based service will be
available from 8 am. to 4 pm. at
all registration sites, and students
may Add/Drop through UK-VIP
from 7 am. until 8 pm.

Add/Drop ran last Monday and
Tuesday while the University
was closed. Monday was Martin
Luther King .lr.‘s birthday. Tues-
day campus was closed because
of poor road conditions after a
heavy snow blanketed the state.

Dahl said use of Add/Drop ei-
ther by phone or by walk-in was
higher than the last session of
Add/Drop in the fall.

He said most students already
should have registered because of
the two-day extension but that
one more day would allow every-
one an opportunity.

 

Dowdy seeks voice
in school closings

 

states. most businesses and colleges
throughout the state.

“I thought that the University
would take into account that some
students might have left because of
the three day weekend," Dowdy
said. “I know that many students
were stranded places and were un-
able to return to school.“

Dowdy said he has received

many phone calls from students
who were angry about classes re-
maining in session Wednesday
through Friday.

“I am glad to have students
call me and tell me their prob-
lems," he said “I plan on going
in front of the Board of Trustees
to try and become part of the de-
cision-making process as far as
cancelling class is concerned.“

Currently, the decision is left
up to the Board of Trustees and,
ultimately, to UK President
Charles Wethington.

See DOWDY, Back Page

 

ROLL WITH IT

 

 

 

 

Lexington Community College student Richard Pfeffer-
man watches a UK worker brushes away sidewalk snow.

JAMES FORBUSWKemeI Stall

 

 

 

 

Chnton to address U. S

Crime to be priority issue
in state of the union speech

 

By Ron Foumier
Associated Press

 

WASHINGTON — President
Clinton plans to expand his anti-
crime package with the State of the
Union address, supporting a “three-
tirne loser“ proposal to put the most
violent felons in jail for life, admin-
istration officials said yesterday.

With polls showing crime as vot-
ers‘ No. l concem, White House
speech writers are making sure
Clinton's tough-on-thugs plans
don‘t get lost in tomorrow‘s sweep-
ing speech to Congress.

“Crime started out as a small
component and got larger. lt' 5 go-
ing to be a significant portion of the
speech." said a White House aide
helping to draft the speech.

In general, the State of the Union
address is expected to review Clin-
ton‘s first year in office, set goals
for 1994 and repeat his key messag-
es on a number of issues, including
health care, welfare, crime, econom-

ic reform. education and foreign
policy.

He will not unveil many new de-
tails of proposed programs in the
speech. which aides said had not
been completed yesterday.

“The president wants to talk to
the American people about what he
has accomplished, to tell them how
he is doing the objectives he laid
out — not only in the campaign but
in the start of his presidency," Press
Secretary Dee Dee Myers said.

Clinton, who campaigned as a
“new Democrat," has slowly
chipped away at the Republicans‘
traditional reputation as tougher on
crime.

He has supported a crime bill that
includes 100, 000 new police on city
streets, boot camps for young, non-
violent offenders and a ban on some
semiautomatic weapons.

Expanding his gun control stance,
the president recently asked the Jus-
tice Department to study whether
gun owners should undergo the

same type of licensing requirements
as drivers.

Attorney General Janet Reno said
yesterday her department has not
completed that study yet.

Aides said the president is not
likely to turn up his support for the
idea in tomorrow's speech.

But he is expected to endorse a
proposal that would require lifetime
jail sentences for people convicted
of three violent felonies, said two
administration officials. including
the White House aide. Both spoke
on condition of anonymity.

Appearing Sunday on NBC's
“Meet the Press," Reno declined to
say whether Clinton supported the
“three-time loser“ concept.

She did say the administration
wants to crack down on repeat of-
fenders.

“We've got to identify the truly
bad and put them away," she said.

In an attempt to focus on punish-
ment, Clinton also will urge states
to make prison stays conform more
closely with sentences, the White
House aide said.

Clinton is not expected to men-

See CLINTON, Back Page

Group helps rebuild lives
in hurricane relief effort

 

By Jorn Earl Otte
Contributing Writer

Willi the snowy weather, record-
cold temperatures and an earth-
quake in California last week, it
may be difficult to remember a
group of people in Florida who
were struck with a tragedy of their
own more than a year ago.

Those people are the victims of
Hurricane Andrew, which devastat-
ed businesses and residences the
Miami area in 1992.

But a group of UK students from
Maxwell Street Presbyterian
Church travelled to southern Flori-
da recently to assure survivors of
the hurricane that they have not
been forgotten.

Church pastor Elizabeth Ayscue
and business management senior
Mike Penecost organized a group
of nine students, seven of whom at-
tend UK, from the church to travel
to south Florida during Christmas
break to help rebuild some of the

Yearbook marks 100th year

 

By Anne Jackson
Contributing Writer

 

Time is the wimess to history,
and after a hundred years on cam
pus, the Kentuckian yearbook has
witnessed a lot of it.

Appropriately, this year's centen-
nial edition is titled “A Retrospec-
tive“ and will focus on the year-
book's history.

Over the course of the century,
the shape of the yearbook has un-
dergone changes.

“The very first one (in 1894) was
called ‘Memoria.' " said .Iosh Den-
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of the 1994 yearbook.

“it was really a collection of pho-
tographs and general information
— not a lot of articles, more like a
scrapbook titan a publication."

From the paucity of yearbooks in
University archives after the origi-
nal 1894 edition, it appears that the
yearbook wasn’t published again
for several years.

“Archives had the first one,"
Denton said, “but no more until the
early l900s.“

He described the second edition
as “an overview of the last 10

or

years.
The yearbook nearly ceased to

exist in the 1970s.

“It (went) to a quarterly maga-
zine," said Jeff Murphy, editor of
the Kentuckian in 1989-1990. “We
almost lost it then.”

Paula Anderson, Lexington Her-
ald-Leader editorial writer and Ken-
tuckian editor in 1981, remembers
well the first yearbook published in
1978 after this low point.

Because of budget constraints,
the staff had to generate all camera-
ready material for the publisher.

“We were doing all our own pro-
duction, which is really unusual,"
Anderson said.

Anderson recalled that the second

page of the 1980 Kentuckian was
controversial.

“That was the year the hostages
were being held in Iran," Anderson
said, “and somebody had unfurled a
banner on the anthropology build-
ing that had a very bad word in very
big letters.“

“We got into some trouble there.“
Anderson said. “It’s vividly
sketched in my mind sitting in Dr.
(Otis A.) Singletary‘s office. (The
former UK president) was very un-
happy with that.“

Development of the artistic di-
mension of the yearbook success-

See YEARBOOK, Back Page

Some in South Central L.A.
feel ignored by leaders, press

 

By Leslie Dreyfoue
Associated Press

LOS ANGELES — It‘s been a
one-two blow for the small busi-
nesses at Baldwin Hills Crenshaw
Shopping Mall. First, the riots
Now, the quake And the lingering
recession hasn' thelped either

But beyond the damage, the sales

slowdown and weeks some stores
will be closed, it hurts to feel ig-
nored.

“No one‘s paying much attention
to us here,“ said Tanya Edmonson-
Caner. a 29-year-old security guard
surveying the mall. “Look. It looks
to me like a lot ofdamage.“

While politicians and reporters
swarmed the San Femando Valley
last week, people in South Central

Los Angeles went quietly about ab-
sorbing aftershocks of their own.
The drama wasn't centered close
by. But for those whose homes
were lost and businesses trashed,
this was Ground Zero.

Early estimates indicate the
quake caused this area still scarred
from the riots millions of dollars in

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homes that were damaged by the
hurricane.

“After the hurricane struck. Sa-
maritan’s Purse, a relief organiza-
tion founded by Billy Graham‘s
son, was quickly on the scene to
help rebuild,“ Penecost said.

“But when the floods started
harming the Midwest region, the or-
ganization left Miami to help out
there.

“This left the residents of Miami
without much help, so an organiza-
tion called ICARE was formed to
continue to help rebuild the Hurri-
cane-ravaged area."

lCARE. Interfaith Coalition for
Andrew Recovery Effort, which
gets its funding and labor from pri-
vate groups, is based in south Mia-
mi and is a non-denominational
group that provides food and hous-
ing for volunteers who are helping
in the rebuilding process.

“We went down last spring break
to survey the damage and see what
we could do to help," Penecost said,
“and we weren’t impressed with

what was being done.

“But when ICARE took over, we
were invited back and saw a dra-c
matic improvement in the organiza-
tion and work that was taking place.
So we decided to get a group to-
gether to come down and help."

Progress in Florida was good
said Ayscue, who helped organize
the trip but did not go.

“The students who went really
felt that they made a difference and
that things were starting to get bet-
ter for the residents of the area."

The students who went over
Christmas break stayed for one
week, Jan. 1-8.

The first two days, they helped
rebuild an elderly woman's house,
which had had it‘s roof ripped off
by the hurricane; the home was
looted shortly thereafter.

The students helped rebuild the
roof and hung doors, cabinets and
dry wall.

They also spent two days paint-

See RELIEF, Back Page

 

 

Associated Press

 

State Transportation Secretary
Don Kelly acknowledged possi-
ble shortcomings in the response
to last week‘s record snowfall
that paralyzed travel, but said of-
ficials did the best they could.

In an interview with the Lex-
ington Herald-Leader, Kelly said
the state faced a daunting task in
clearing its vast network of
snow- and ice-covered interstates
and parkways, which were lit-
tered with stranded vehicles.

“We have over 700 miles of in-
terstates in Kentucky and more
than 700 miles of parkways to
wow about," Kelly told the
newspaper, which published the
interview yesterday.

"Think about how hard it was
to clean off your driveway. Then
think about having to clear more
than 1.400 miles of roads."

State officials shut down much
of Kentucky’s major road system
for four days, irritating tmck
drivers trying to meet deadlines
and forcing hundreds of stranded

 

Transportation chief
acknowledges fault
in handling of roads

motorists to find refuge in emer-
gency shelters.

"Believe me, I sympathize
with them, but in hindsight I be-
lieve we did as best as we could
under the circumstances," Kelly
said.

Kelly, a Lexington engineer,
said highway crews faced a
three-pronged challenge in clear-
ing the roadways — removing
the abandoned vehicles. clearing
the snow and then scraping away
the glaze of ice.

“Salt can't do much below 20
degrees. so we were limited
there," he said. “t was a night-
mare but our people worked as
fast and hard as they could.

“I don‘t think anyone ean
question our efforts after the
snow fell.“

Kelly acknowledged that the
state possibly could have done a
better job of distributing its re-
sources before the storm began
last yesterday.

“Maybe we could have done a
better job of pooling our resourc-
cs, deploying our equipment, be-
fore the storm began," he said.

 

 

  

 

  
  
   
  
  

 

  

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1988 UK graduate Tlm Conlin opened his own business recently. Conlin, 27, says his customers
just don't believe him when he tells them he owns the men's clothing store.

x-UK student wears
clothing business well

 

By Stephen D. Trimble
Contributing Writer

 

In October, Tim Conlin ended a
13-month quest to start his own
business by opening the Yarmouth
Trading Co., a men‘s clothing store
on Woodland Avenue.

Now if the 27-year-old 1988 UK
graduate can just get his customers
to think he‘s really the boss.

“I get people coming in all the
time who don’t think I own it," the
young proprietor said. “A few of
the girls thought I was younger
than they were, and I knew they
couldn‘t have been much more than
20 or 21 ."

But the owner of the only men‘s
apparel store located on or near the
UK campus is older than 21, and he
has taken complete control of the
operation by doing everything from
balancing the budget to designing
his very own, customized shopping
bags.

Business opened for the Yar-
mouth Trading Co. this fall, “sur-
prisingly well,“ Conlin said.

He can thank Christmas sales
that started his business off on the

right track.

But Conlin credits another fea-
ture of the store that seems to bring
customers back — Yarmouth Trad-
ing Co.‘s originality.

Snugged into a comer with a
homestyle family diner on his left
and a graphics clothing store on his
right, Conlin seeks to renew the tra-
dition of customer attention and ser-
vice.

Even the clothing on sale reflects
his original tastes. Instead of
American mall-style staples such as
Ralph Lauren, Duck Head and oth-
ers, Conlin says he stocks his
shelves with threads of the same
quality — only without the pricy
name brands.

Found hanging along the walls of
the store is a sports collectors‘
treasure chest that includes classic
portraits of baseball greats Babe
Ruth and Ty Cobb, old wooden
skis, antique ice skates and even an
aged United States flag.

Conlin, who also decorated the
store. likes the sports exhibits be-
cause “it creates an atmosphere" for
customers and himself.

One such Yarmouth shopper, Ju-
lia Carty, whom Conlin said is of

the sex that buys 70 percent of
men's clothing, appreciates Con-
lin‘s attention to style.

“It’s a little different than mn-of—
the-mill. I like the personal touch of
a smaller store," she said. “I was
impressed not only with what (Con-
lin) had in the store but also with

Conlin said his conception of a
men’s clothing store that caters to
campus males came in September
1992, while he was working as T-
shirt designer for a graphics fum.

Seeking to get some hands-on
sales experience, Conlin sold cloth-
ing door to door at UK’s fraternity
houses.

“I had 45 minutes to find a park-
ing spot on campus, get to a frater-
nity and unload three dufflebags
full of clothes," he recalled. “Some
days the fraternities would sell me
out, and others I‘d sell one or two
(items)."

For the future, Conlin said he en-
visions a regional chain of Yar-
mouth Trading Co. stores.

But for today, Conlin would find
a great deal of contentment in not
having to pull his ID every time a
customer asks for the manager.

Leadership program in 2nd year

 

By Todd Kllnglesmith
Contributing Writer

 

UK advance Leadership Develop-
ment Institute, a program which
emphasizes leadership. career de-
velopment and workplace skills for
minority and female University
staff members, begins its second
year this month.

'lhe program is coordinated by
UKadvance and is funded by the
President‘s Office.

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faculty members, are eligible to ap-
ply.

Although the program is geared
mainly toward minorities and wom-
en, non-minority males are not pre-
cluded from participating in the
two~week program March 1425.

Julie Bentley, one of 40 partici-
pants in last year's Leadership De-
velopment Institute, was able to use
what she learned to earn a promo-
tion to assistant administrator in
University Health Service.

“The information did help me im-
prove my self-confidence," Bentley
said.

Bentley also said that, by show-
ing interest in staff development,
the University has helped foster a
better working relationship with its
employees.

UKadvance follows the progress
of its graduates through career
clubs and professional partnerships.
Participants also stay in contact
with one another on an informal
level and attend social gatherings
after completing the seminar. which
boasts “Team Challenge," a course

that encourages trust among the
staff members.

Several of last year’s participants
have received promotions, while
many have simply used the skills
they learned to achieve growth in
their current positions.

Kathy DeBoer, UK associate ath-
letics director, who supervises
Mary Craig Haley, a Leadership
Development Institute graduate,
praised Haley for her ideas on man-
agement and communication.

“She cleans up our releases and
makes the rest of us sound literate,"
DeBoer said of Haley. She also said
Haley is more efficient now that she
has completed the seminar.

Eligible employees may nomi-
nate themselves or be nominated by
someone else. Nominees must fill
out an application and submit let-
ters of recommendation by Jan. 28.

For additional information about
UKadvancc or for an application,
contact Ann Porter at 323-5975 or
Sydne Smith, chairwoman of the
UK ance steering committee. at
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Improving Cats glad to be home

 

By Brian Bennett
Senior Staff Writer

 

Not many coaches would be overjoyed at the pros-
pect of losing their home openers. Leah Little was.

“I'm thrilled," the UK Gym Cats coach said after
her team fell to No. 8 Florida in Memorial Coliseum
on Friday.

The reason? UK posted a 184.95 score, 9.75
points higher than its score during last week's loss at
Utah State. In a sport where a team‘s average meet
score determines rankings and tournament bids,
that‘s good news for a coach.

The Cats’ score was again below last season's av-
erage of more than 190. but Little saw much im-
provement from last week.

“We had a disastrous meet in Utah," Little said.
"The kids were tired from Excite Night and the plane
ride.

“I told this team that we needed to be a mid-180s
team to compete. This is a big step for us. It's a big
morale booster."

UK started off strong with its best event, the vault.
Led by defending national champion Jenny Hansen’s
9.95, the Cats compiled a 47.975, while UF put up a
46.30 on uneven bars.

But the lead was merely a facade.

The Gators, who finished with a 188.15, were too
tough and deep in all events.

UF placed three of the top four all-arounders, in-
cluding individual champion Kristen Guise, who fin-
ished with a 38.425.

Like many times last season, the uneven bars
proved to be UK‘s undoing.

Three Cats fell, and the team scored just a 44.30
on the event. Junior Dee Ann McNeil was the lone
bright spot, scoring a 9.40.

“We‘re just not a great bars team,“ Little said. “It
seems to be a tradition for us.“

Hansen's slip on the bars cost her a chance for the
all-around title. Hansen. who won the other three in-
dividual events, finished second to Guise in all-
around with a 38.25.

The Cats also got a gutsy performance from fresh-
man Robin Ewing. Ewing broke her toe at Utah
State but still competed in every event this weekend,
posting an all-around score of 36.975. Even on the

 

 

 

   

 

extremely pedestrian event that is the balance beam. v,
Ewing was able to make a 9.40, second best on the
team.

How was she able to overcome her damaged dig-
it? “Just tape ‘em together and suck it up," she said.

“She‘s one of the hardest working people on this
team," Little said.

Little said her young team (four freshmen competed Friday) just needs
to practice more routines and work on being more consistent.

The Cats' performers said they were just glad to put the Utah State
memory out of their minds and return home, where 1,285 fans greeted
them Friday night.

“We‘re just happy to be home and show people what we can do,“ fresh-
man Sonia Merla said.

“We‘ll do better next time."

JAMES FORBUSHIKetnel Sill

LOOK OUT BELOW: UK's Suzanne Gutierrez performs the vault Friday night at Me-
morial Coliseum.

The Gym Cats lost to Florida.

Notes:

'Friday‘s meet. billed as the Kentucky Classic. originally was to include
four learns. However, Northern Illinois zmd Miami of Ohio cancelled their
trips to Lexington as last week‘s record snowfall made for treacherous
traveling.

~UK (0-2) returns to action Friday against Alabama at 8 pm. in Memori-
al Coliseum. The Crimson Tide, led by All-American Kim Kelly, finished
second last season in the NCAA Championships.

Hansen provides next level

 

Eric Mosolgo
Kernel Columnist

 

 

It is a rare occurrence, indeed. when an athlete has the ability to transfix
the masses with a performance, when friend and foe alike stop to marvel in
collective awe.

Friday night, the members of Florida‘s eighth-ranked gymnastics squad
looked like minor leaguers watching Babe Ruth or Willie Mays stepping to
the plate each time UK Gym Cat Jenny Hansen began a routine.

Surely, you know the legend by now. Last April, Hansen brought the
NCAA all-around title to Kentucky.

Over the course of the year, she touched perfection six times (perfect
10s) and set school records in every event (vault, bars. beam and floor).

She is to college gymnastics what Evander Holyfield is to boxing, what
Pete Sampras is to tennis: the reigning champ.

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Risk junkies and really anyone who has a fetish for anti-gravity delights
in their tumbling heroes, even to a non-ravenous, novice observer in this
gymnastics realm (myself included), it is obvious that Hansen is a cut
above the competition.

In this sport, though, one-person teams won’t get you far. However dom-
inant she may be, Hansen's score counts for only 20 percent of the total.

Really, this is true for all sports. The Chicago Bulls, for several years,
rode Michael Jordan‘s greatness straight to the pit of sub-mediocrity. Only
when stellar performers such as Scottie Pippen and Horace Grant were
added to the mix did the Bulls fit the mold of champion.

So the present task for Gym Cat coach Leah Little is the development of
a tumbling bourgeoisie at UK, a supporting cast to complement the champ.
And if the meet against the Gators is any indication, the process is well un-
der way.

Besides Hansen. freshman Robin Ewing is the team‘s other all-around
performer (competitor in all four events), a role that will surely enlighten
her to the perpetual second-fiddle status experienced by the likes of Art
Garfunkel, John Oates and Andrew Ridgely.

While the role of those musical performers to the success of their groups
was marginal at best, Ewing‘s continued improvement is essential for the
Gym Cats.

With Hansen and Ewing excelling in all the events, the other members of
the team strive for speciation. The focus on certain events could prove vital
as the season progresses. After all, this is not the Olympics, and occasional
disasters occur.

Take, for example, the uneven bars competition Friday night. Hansen, in
an uncharacteristic mid-flight hiccup, crashed to the canvas halfway
through her routine and mustered an un-Hansenlike score of 8.65.

An 8.65? Well, Travis Ford does miss free throws from time to time (es-
pecially in Georgia). Michaelangelo probably had to redo a ceiling painting
at some point in his career.

But a Hansen disaster is a Gym Cat disaster, right?

Enter Dee Ann NcNeil. The junior, an uneven bars specialist topped on a
consistent basis only by Hansen, placed third in the event with an elegant
routine that garnered a score of 9.4 and kept the Gators from opening an in-
surmountable lead.

Performances such as this need to become commonplace in UK‘s other
events if the Gym Cats are to topple the nation‘s best. (They narrowly lost
to the Gators 18815-18495.)

The freshman trio of Sonia Merla. who is a product of the Canadian
Olympic developmental program, Colleen Sheehy and Kristy Toups ex-
celled Friday night in the beam. floor and vault, respectively.

As their inaugural season in collegiate gymnastics progresses, their
scores surely will continue to improve.

While Sheehy‘s floor routine was good enough to place her fifth in the
event, the Gym Cats saved the best for last. Even if you are mystified by
this sport's appeal, even if you have only a vague idea who Nadia and
Mary Lou are, chances are you would marvel at Hansen's floor program.

Her routine, which embodies the essence of gymnastics, is a three-
minute burst of adrenaline. What separates the champ from the pack in this
event is the shear speed with which she flips on the springy surface and the
precision with which she nails the landings.

After the performance, her teammates went into a fit of sincere jubila-
tion, knowing they had witnessed near-perfection. A performance of that
level is what they strive for. Hansen garnered a 9.90 for her efforts.

And in the shadow of greatness, good things are sure to follow.

Staflr Writer Eric Mosolgo is a civil engineering graduate student and a
Kentucky Kernel columnist.

 

 

N o. 7 UK dominant
in important game

 

By Stephen Hawkins
Associated Press

 

STARKVILLE. Miss. ——
Coach Rick Pitino said his team
hadn‘t worked so hard to prepare
for a regular-season game since
he arrived at UK 4 1/2 years ago.

And it paid off Saturday after-
noon, as the No. 7 Wildcats used
a smothering pressure defense
and an 11-0 run to win 86-70 at
Mississippi State, the surprise
team in the Southeastern Confer-
ence.

“This was the most important
game for us, outside of the tour-
nament, that we've played." said
Pitino. whose team had lost two
straight SEC road games. “Our
team was a little bit rattled and
shaken from some recent losses
we‘ve had on the road.“

The Wildcats, coming off a
59-57 loss at Florida. forced 30
turnovers. Ten days before the
Florida loss. the UK had lost at
Georgia.

Travis Ford scored all 17 of
his points in the second half Sat-
urday. The Wildcats (14-3. 4-2
in the SEC) scored the first sev—
en points after the break, Ford
pushing UK in front 41-38 with
a three-pointer, a layup and an
assist to Gimel Martinez.

“On everybody‘s chalkboard.
it‘s get in Travis Ford's face and
stop him. What Travis has done
the last three or four games is try
to force the issue." Pitino said.

“I told him wear them down
and then the shots will come. He
did a great job."

Mississippi State (11-3, 5-1),
which had a difficult time
against a constant press, had 17
tumovers by halftime, but still
led 38-34.

 

KENTUCKY KERNEI.

 

Connecticut 97
Temple 96
Kentuck 93.
Louisv' 86' '
Michigan 69
Wisconsin 62 '
Syracuse-59'
Minnes'otaSO ..
Geor ‘ia Tech/15
Ma j .. d 33'
UA 27-
California 26
Marquette 23
23. Virginia 22

24. Cincinnati 20
25. West Virginia 8

Others receiving votes:
Illinois 7, Florida 6, Virginia
Tech 4, New Mexico State 3,
St. Louis 3

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.:-‘.°>°9°.\19‘91:‘>9’Nr‘9)°9°.\19‘912‘>9’!°r‘

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

KENTUCKY 86
Delk4-101-211,Harrison 1-1 1-2
3, Ford 4—7 7-1017, Riddick 4-71-4
9,Rhodes3-126—812,Brassow 1-2
3—3 5, pand 0-2000, E 2-3
0-0 5, Pric 4—90-18, M
2-81-25,Martinez4-93-311.
Totalsfi-‘Illmssé.

MISSISSIPPI STATE '70

D. Wilson 6-12 4422,eran
46 12, Waltas 0-2 2-2 2, Brooks 1-1
1-23,Prioel-81-13,Da ' 3—4
2-5 8, Grant 3-8 2-2 8, B. ilson 4-8
46 12.

Totals 22-52 2031 70.

Halftirne- Mississippi State 38,
Kentucky 34.

3 Pt. Goals- UK 5-23 (Ford 2-4,
Delk 2-6, E 1-1, Brassow 0-1,
Sheppard (EisMcCa 0-2,
Martinez 0-2, Rhodes ), MSU
6-17 (D. Wilson 6-11, Price 0-1,
Grant 0-2, Honore 0-3).
Rebounds- UK 38 (l’rickett 9),
MSU 45 {JPligce 9 .

Assists- 14 0rd 7), MSU 15
(D. Wilson, Honore 6).
Attendance- 9,538.

 

 

 

“We had too many turnovers.
too many missed shots and then
some poor decision-making by
some of our players," MSU
coach Richard Williams said.
“Kentucky's press affected us."

The Bulldogs, with six first-
year players, had won six
straight games and five in the
SEC, including a 72-71 victory
over No. 3 Arkansas last
Wednesday. They still have a
one-game lead in the SEC West,
ahead of Arkansas and Ala-
bama.

State regained a 44-43 lead on
one of Darryl Wilson‘s six
three-pointers with 1,4239 left,
but the Bulldogs didn‘t hit an-
other field goal for nearly eight
minutes.

During the MSU drought, the
Cats went on a decisive 11-point
run and led 60-48 after Jared
Prickett‘s driving layup with
8:03 left. Mississippi State nev-
er got closer than eight points
af