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By James Ritchie
Senior Stafl' Writer

UK President Charles
Wethington yesterday criticized
the governor's comments at last
week’s Board of Trustees meeting
as a “public, personal attack” on
the president and the board.

He also reaffirmed his com-
mitment to combat Paul Patton’s
efforts to remove the state’s com-
munity colleges from UK’s con—
trol.

“Political interference in the
operation of the University of
Kentucky cannot be tolerated,"
Wethington said at a special
meeting of the University Senate,
referring to Patton’s statements
that he had lost confidence in
Wethington.

Patton also said his change of
opinion may also affect the gover-
nor’s future board appointments.

Patton's plan, Wethington
said, would transfer governance of
the community colleges from aca-
demic administrators to business
and industry leaders.

The community colleges and
Kentucky Tech would be directed
together under a newly created
board, the Kentucky Community
and Technical College System.

Though he said he understands
the need for job trainin ,
Wethington said this type of lea —
ership would send the community
colleges on a “downward spiral.”

“There is a huge difference
between workforce development
and education,” Wethington said.

Part of UK’s responsibility is to
offer a college education to any
high school graduate in the state,

Wethington said, and that’s why
he isn’t surprised at the lack of
support for Patton‘s plan that the
community college students have
shown.

And, he said, he disagrees with
his detractors’ assumption that
retaining the community colleges
hurts UK’s research mission.
Wethington said he and Patton
agree that the University’s goal
should be to become a top-20
research institution.

Philosophy professor Joan
Callahan asked Wethington how
retaining the community colleges
would help UK achieve its goal.

“It seems to me to be just the
opposite,” she said.

Wethington responded, saying
that while a successful research
university doesn’t have to have
community colleges, neither is a
school that does have community
colleges hindered from reaching
high research objectives.

Other respected research
schools have comparable arms
throughout their states, he said,
though they may not call them
community colleges.

Former Gov. Edward T.
Breathitt, chairman of the Board
of Trustees, said the board agrees
with Wethington on the commu-
nity college issue, a fact it made
apparent at last week’s meeting by
giving the president a standing
ovation.

“Right now we think he’s doing
an outstanding job and we’re
behind him unanimously,” he
said.

Breathitt’s remarks met with
applause from the crowd of 200
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By Kathy Betting
News Editor

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Mike Meuser, neigh

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the character of the nei hborhood."
He said about two-
historic district status.

and High Street.

preservation office, said when
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They have not filed the formal request
et, but members of the Aylesford Place
eighborhood Association plan to ask the
Lexington-Fayette Urban County Govem-
ment to ap rove their 1,200-home area as

borhood association
vice president, said his group wants the his-
toric zone overlay to stop demolition of old
homes and to assure that new construction

about seven demolitions in
the last year,” Meuser said. “It’s changing

'rds of the associa-
tion members who attended last week’s
meeting voted in favor of applying for the

The area in question is bordered by Ash-
land Avenue, Columbia Avenue, Rose
Street, Maxwell Street, Lexington Avenue ‘

Betty Kerr, director of the ci ’3 historic
e associa-
tion makes the request, it will take about six
to nine months before final passage or

Once an area is granted historic status,

Km said exterior property changes must

 

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“3103"” Residents in Aylesford Neighborhood Association may as the Lexington-Fayette
Urban County Government to classijy the district as historic.

Association wants to he
named lllStOl‘lC lliStl‘iCt

be submitted to the Historic Preservation
Office. Proposals are either submitted for
approval by Architectural Review Board
staff or for hearings before the full five-
member board, depending on the whether
the change is as simple as adding a fence or
as large as construction of a new building.

“It’s exterior only,” Kerr said. “It has
nothing to do with the interior.”

Kerr said the H-1 zone overlay does not

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Study explores
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By Molly Mize
Staijn'ter

Central Kentucky Research
is current] taking part in a
nation wide study that may
allow more women to use one of
the most effective contracep-
tives on the market: the birth
control pill.

When used properly, the pill
is 99 percent effective in pre-
venting pregnancy.

However, current ills are
not perfect because t ey may
cause side effects.

Many women do not cur-
rently use this dru due to the
side effects. Accor ing to G.D.
Searle 8: Co. some include:
“raised blood ressure, nausea,
nervousness, epression, dizzi-
ness, rash, and weight gain.”

These problems do not
occur if a woman takes a ill
that her body agrees with, ut
finding the proper pill can be
tedious.

Most women gain about five
pounds every time they start a
new type of birth control pill.
For this reason many women
do not use this type of contra—
cepnve.

Central Kentucky Research
is taking part in a study on birth
control pills that contain low
amounts of estrogen, one of the
hormones that causes the unde-
sirable side effects.

According to Jackie Smith,

owner of Central Kentucky
Research, researchers there are
“tl 'ng to design the perfect
pi ”.
Jud Edwards, a nurse and
researcli coordinator at Central
Kentucky Research, said the
new low estrogen ills have
advantages over the irth con-
trol pills currently on the mar-
ket.

“Women must be on these
pills only 14 days before th
prevent pre ancy, vs. the pil s
on the mar et now, where she
must be on them 28 days,”
Edwards said.

Other advantages include

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decreased nausea, little if any

weight gain.
“We are hoping that with
decreased estrogen, mood

swings will decrease," Smith
said.

The study will involve the
comparison of three different
birth control pills.

Participants will be required
to keep a diary recording infor—
mation such as whether or not
they took their pill on time and
whether nausea, vomiting or
other side effects occur.

Participants must be females
between ages 18 and 45. If the
participant is over 35 she many
not smoke.

They are expected to be in
over all good health, meaning
average weight and average
height. They also must be sexu-
ally active.

The study will last 13
months.

“Women who participate in
this study are compensated, and
receive free ecological exams
and free la work, as well as
provided with free pills,” Smith
said.

She went on to say that Cen-
tral Kentucky Research has
always been pleased with the
UK students who have partici-
pated in their studies.

Smith encouraged all females
takin oral contraceptives to
take t eir pills at the same time
every day.

This is the only way that the
pills are 99 percent effective.

Eric Atwell, a doctoral phar-
ma student said antibiotics
suc as Tetracycline, Penicillin,
and Ammoxacillin change the
amounts of estrogen in a

woman's body, and thus
decrease the effectiveness of
birth control pills.

If a sexually active woman is
on one of these medications, she
should use an additional form of
birth control.

Applicants are still being
accepted for this study. For
more information call 275-1966
or 1-800-898-1966.

 

 

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MllYllC “IE Tlllllil': President Charles T. Wethington dismissed his views on Gov. Paul Pat-
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Business leaders line up

to endorse Patton ’5 plan
By Mark R. Chellgren

Associated Press

FRANKFURT — (iov. Paul l’atton picked up
key support Monday that should allow him to
wage an even more aggressive public relations
campaign in the debate over the future of higher
education in Kentucky.

Several important business leaders, including a
political opponent, lined up behind Patton‘s plan
to overhaul the state's post-secondary educational
system.

The group, which has adopted the name
Jonuest, plans a public relations and advertising
campaign to promote Patton's package. About
two dozen business leaders were gathered on the
front portico of the Governor's Mansion for the
announcement.

Bill Stone, the chairman of tthefferson (Soun—
ty Republican Party and president of Louisville
Plate Glass, made perhaps the most ringing
endorsement of all, comparing Patton‘s leadership
on the issue to that of President Ronald Reagan.

“You’re doing somethin that is special,” Stone
said. “It’s beyond partisanship. It is beyond politi-
cal advanta e.”

Stone pledged he would dedicate his “heart,
mind and body” to the cause.

Earl Fischer, the president of W'estern Ken-
tucky Gas in Owensboro, said the public relations
campaign will “allow the people of Kentucky to
hear the facts" about the current higher education
system and the plan for change.

The comment apparently was directed at UK,
which l’atton has accused of spreading misinfor—
mation in an effort to retain control of its commu—
nity college system. One piece of Patton's plan
would remove the community colleges from UK
and place them in a new, closer arrangement with
the state's vocational schools, Kentucky TIACI l.

Fischer said the effort would include speeches

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Council wins awards

The UK l’anhcllenic Council won four first—
place awards and several honorable mentions dur-
in the weekend at its national convention in
At anta.

UK won the Gamma Phi Beta Award for excel»
lence in programming for its alcohol awareness
week sponsored last semester, said llolly llarris,
president-elect of UK Panhellenic.

UK was also honored for leadership in alcohol
risk management, internal operations, scholarship
and educational programs, and overall excellence.

“We really swept the conference," Harris said.
“(Panhellenic) includes every sorority so this is
something everyone has all done together."

Cheerleaders win stunt competition

Two UK cheerleaders earned personal national
championships this weekend at the National
Cheerleading Association‘s championships in Day-
tona, Fla.

Cheerleaders Brian Elza and Brooke Davis won
the partner stunt competition, in which couples
performed stunts for about 45 seconds.

UK‘s Wildcat Danzers placed fourth in the
Dance Division IA of the NCA competition. The
Danzcrs’ and Elza and Davis’ performance will air
with excerpts from other NCA championship rou-
tines at 3 pm. on April 20 on CBS.

Clinton wants to renew talks

WASHINGTON -— With Israeli Prime Minis-
ter Benjamin Netanyahu at his side, President
Clinton declared yesterday that he would explore
“any reasonable opportunity” to get Mideast peace
talks back on track.

But he refused to endorse Netanyahu's call for a
Camp David-style summit. At the outset of a two—
hour White House meeting, Clinton said he
agreed with Netanyahu that Israel should not have
to make concessions to the Palestinians to end ter-
rorist attacks on Israeli civilians.

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By Dan O’Iolll
Art: Editor

Good mysteries have been hard
to come in Hollywood since
Alfred Hi cock kicked it over 30
years ago. In the truly intemation-
al mystery, sus nse thriller Smil-
la’r Sense of now, however, his
spirit was revived only with a
more poetic flavor.

The film tells the story of Smil-
la Jaspersen Oulia Ormond), half-
Greenlandic Inuit and half-Ameri-
can, brought to Copenhagen at
the young age of six. Now all
grown up, she lives alone in a sort
of cocoon, not letting anyone into
her life. One day she comes home
to find the one rson close to her
(a young boy, saiah) lying dead
with his face in snow.

Pe lexed by a series of foot-
prints eft in the snow which sug-
gest suicide, Smilla becomes
obsessively involved with figuring
out the true story behind his
death. Later, when asked why she
risks her life to find out the truth,
Smilla, with a noble gaze, replies,
“When you kill someone you
offend their soul. I’m doing this to
bring peace to his.”

Durin her quest, Smilla meets
up with e stuttering, oddball guy
downstairs known only as “the
mechanic” (Gabriel

  

 

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‘Smilla ’5 Sense of Snow. ’ Thefilni plays at Sony Fayette Mall.

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lfy turns down his
avors and in one
instance says to him, “I
don’t know what it is
about you that makes
me want to keep insult-
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remains diligent and
focused toward her
quest, never compro-
mising her feelings.

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the two meet a number Fox Searchlight to stay out of the way.

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this cold, hard-nosed part of her
com lex character with great
depth. Her performance required
a palette of emotions ran ' g from
stand-offish to warm andgic’a‘rin to
coarse. She accomplishes al of
these with a certain charm that
makes you root for her in the end.
From a filmmaking perspective,
Danish director Bille August does
a stand-up job creating the
intensely mysterious atmosphere.
Aesthetically, he fills his picture
with picturesque, lush, white land-
scapes and blends everything with
a host of cool editing techniques.
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B ne’s eni atic, alwa s-
cliliraked-in—blacgl:n boyfriend rdle.

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be mysterious, he comes off so
mysterious that his character is
never really developed enough.
When things finally work them-
selves out, you’re left wondering
more about his history.

But that can be overlooked with
a story as rapturous and involving
as the one presented.

Smilla explains the film’s title in
an exchange with Vanessa Red-
grave’s ultra-holy character: “just
as you have a sense of God, I have
a sense of snow.”

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snow, I’d like to think I have a
sense of good filmmaking. Here
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Gave offers quality
version at the blues

By Tom Owens
Senior Stafl Critic

Nick Cave has finally done up
and can ht a case of the blues.
The g oulish Aussie’s latest
recording is loaded with songs
concerning heartbreak, empty
redemption, and deep—rooted cyn-
icism -— subjects that aren’t
included in most people’s idea of

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fun.

Regardless, The Boatman’s Call
stands as the best Bad Seeds album
since the creepy, violent Henry’s
Dream. The punk nihilism devel-
oped with the Birthday Party has
gone from the pounding howl of
songs like “From Her to Eternity”
to a much quieter, even defeated
sound.

No song rises to extreme vol-

'5'“.

NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS

ume. A decided absence of the
demonic scream worries me.
Acoustic instruments, gentle
pianos, and obsidian lyrics domi-
nate most tunes, making the atmo-
sphere as black-and-white as the
cover photo.

It’s as if Cave’s soul has been
washed to slate. The

The true high point of the
record is Cave’s return to good
lyric writing, a waning quality on
the last two albums, Let Love In
and Murder Ballads. The first
track, “Into My Arms,” is one of
the more sincere love songs I’ve
heard in some time, saying Cave
doesn’t believe in an

 

album reeks ofa fatalis-
tic hope, a sound trying
to climb out of the
grave by grabbing onto
the tombstone. Listen
to the dark depression
on “Idiot Prayer”: “My
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interventionist God,
but if he did he mi ht
ask him to direct t is
forlorn love toward
his embrace.

A more dark, visual
instance is in “Where
Do We Go Now but
NowherCP,” with

me to that house **** these lyrics: “Across
above.” clinical beaches with

The album’s title, a ‘ (out affive) , nothing to talk /
reference to Charon, new 3 Breathing tea and bis-
mythological ferry man Cd” cuits and the Serenity
to the land of the dead, Nick Caveand Prayer / While the
makes it seem as though the Bad Seeds bones of our child
this is just a farewell not We) crumble like chalk/ O

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but to the world in gen-
eral. He has song titles like “Peo-
ple Ain’t No Good,” which only
serves to point out that “It ain’t
that in their hearts they’re bad /
They’d stick by you if they could /
But that’s just bullshit / People
just ain’t no good.”

There are bright points to the
album, musically speaking.
“Brompton Oratory” expresses a
profound quasi-religious belief in
ove, while “There Is a Kingdom”
adds a gospel air underscored by
the same feeling of irony found in
Lou Reed’s “Perfect Day.” Some
sonic ex erimentation at the end
also ad 5 intrigue, where each
verse is both sung and spoken at
different tempos.

but nowhere?”
Sometimes the record falls
down. The phrasing on the vocals
tend to turn into a prolonged gasp
as the lyrics get stretched over a
bar by Cave’s raspy voice, but
that’s forgivable in light of the

dark, generally excellent execu- ‘

non.

The Boat'man’s Call isn’t likely to
make a fan out of someone who’s.
never heard Cave before, but it is
an excellent realization of a theme
and is full of emotion. It might
work well for a cathartic post-
break-up session or even a general
validation of the bad blues. The
album's mental state makes me
fret, but I’m also glad Cave’s artis
back to high quality.

Bnn's come DIOSBI‘ to a smattering

By 0. Jason Stapleton
Ann-tam Spam Editor

It’s been drilled into my head
on more than one occasion that
less is more, and that if you just
slow the hell down you might
enjoy life a little more.

he Boo Radleys could proba-
bly take this to heart and it would
greatly improve their music.

Their latest CD, C’naon Kidr, is
a mishmash of varying styles of
songs from high—strung, guitar-
distorting jams to melodic ballads.

In my opinion, the Radleys are
much better suited to more low-

key performances.
he new album starts off with

two very chunky songs and
attempts to set a precedent for the
album. Fortunately they don’t go
through the whole CD like that.

The title track, “C’mon Kids,”
is a very heavily distorted kind of
song, which I liked when I first

two songs when I first heard them,
but when I heard the Radleys’
mastery on the more tranquil

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heard it.

I thought the same
thing about “Melton’s
Worm,” the second
song on the CD. The
song was a little goofier
than the first, being
about a tapeworm’s
escapades inside a
young boy’s digestive
tract.

itaris songwriter,

artin Carr, takes a
lesson in angst from
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“Ride the Tiger,
was absolutely blown

awa .
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his time writin loud,

ear-jarring stu when
he is so masterful on
fuzzy stuff is beyond
me. “Ride the Tiger”
is one of the most
moving songs I have
heard in a long damn
time.

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track was a direct descendant of sappy, a la Wilson Phillips or Boy:
en.

Rollins’ book Get in the Van.
As I said, I really likedvthese

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at with “Ride the Tiger,” but
acks a bit of the intensity. These
two songs are so far ahead of any-
thing else on C’mon Kids- that they
make the rest of the album seem
almost trivial.

Overall,'though, the album is a
winner.

I can’t really find anything
wrong with any of the songs per
se, but the Radleys showed ‘ust
how trul powerful they could be
with “Ri e the Ti r” and the rest
of the album real y pales by com-

parison.
Their last album, Wake (7!;
entered the British charts at l,
but didn’t have quite the same
impact here in the States. I su
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adleys will finally get noticed by
the American audience, but I’m
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Backs still needed
in passing ollense

I! Cill'l. Mill”
Spam Editor

When Hal Mumme brought
hismew offense to UK, many of
hisdetractors said that it would be
the'end of the running back as an
offensive threat.

But as the Wildcats move into
the second week of spring work-
outs, Mumme is showing that it’s
not an end for the ninning back as
much as it is a new beginning.

‘. “If (the running back) has any
propotential, it’s a good offense to
train for because they learn to do
all the thin you have to do in the
NFL," sai Mumme of the run-
ning back’s role in his offense.
“You have to be able to run, obvi—
ously, or you wouldn’t be a run-
nin back.

But you also have to learn to
pick up blitzes, pass protect and
you have to learn a lot of (pass)
routes. We run a lot of intricate
routes for with them.”

Mumme denies that his offense
will follow the Steve Spurrier phi’
losophy of all pass and no run.

“In the conference champi—
onship last ear (at Valdosta
State). our back carried it about 2 5
times for 230 yards,” he said.
“We’ve almost always had a 1,000-
yard rusher there and when we
didn’t, we usually had two backs
playing in the same spot and they
combined for 1,000 yards.”

In Mumme’s offense, it will be
the fullback who gets a majority of
the carries, while the halfback is
almost like another receiver.

Mumme said that, as of today,
Anthony White is the starting
halfback. White impressed the

coaches with an outstandin per-
formance both catching an run-
ning the ball in Saturda ’s scrim-
mage.,He ran for 34 yar s on nine
carries.

Last year White carried the ball
17 times for 36 yards in four
games, including a start at Alaba-
ma, before being dismissed from
the team in October. He was one
of four different players to start at
tailback last car before Derick
Logan — w om Mumme dis-
missed for a violation of team rules
— earned the starting job for
good.

“The situation that hap ened
seemed to escalate from the gin-
ning of the season,” White said of
last year’s problems. “I was just
happy to be able to start off with a
clean slate.

“I believe I got more confi-
dence during the offseason; the
new coach came in and ave me
more confidence than I ad last
year.”

Michael Daies is another
returnee from last year who ot a
start, as he started against In iana
and Florida, the only two games
he was able to play.

He was sidelined due to what
was determined to be a hamstring
injury, and the injury is still nag-
ging him to this day. Doctors have
since discovered that it is a tendon
that is connected to his hamstring
that is the source of his problems.

With Daies still nursing the
injury, Wendell Childs has
stepped into the foreground as the
likely candidate to start at fullback.
Childs was redshirted last year,
but gained 24 yards on nine carries
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Richardson's time
highlights weekend

Fluitt gives
llK tennitio
tennis tl‘ill

By Dave Gorman
Staff Writer

Junior Marcus F luitt has been
one of the key players among a
very talented group of players
who have catapulted the UK
men's tennis team from the No.
17 to the No. 5 spot in the nation.

To make things even better for
tennis coach Dennis Eme and
the Cats, more than a few p a ers
have been stepping up t eir
games on the team’s quest for a
Southeastern Conference Cham-
pionship and an NCAA Champi-
onship.

Fluitt is currently 13-3 and is
ranked No. 95 in the country.

Fluitt‘s improvement has
helped take some of the pressure
off the Cats’ top two players.
Cedric Kauffrnann and Ludde
Sundin, both ranked in the top fif-
teen in the country, no longer
have to pull the entire load.

“Marcus has improved a lot,”
Em said. “He is laying witha
lot 0 poise and a at of compo-
sure, and I think that is really
important for him.

‘‘He’s been playing a lot better
and has gotten plenty more expe-
ncnce.”

Tomorrow UK lays at Van-
derbilt, but possibly the two
bi gest matches of the season are
w en they take on No. 2 Geor 'a
away on Friday and No. 6 (gle
Miss at home Sunday.

“If we win these, they’ll be big
ones because we’ll have a chance

 
  
 
 
 
 
 
    

 

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of winning the SEC title,” Fluitt
said. “It would give us a big boost
because Georgia is the No. 1 team
in the SEC.

“We set goals at the be 'nning
of the season, and then w en we
beat Stanford and Peppcrdine we
really got some momentum and
our rankings went up,” he said.

UK has no defeated Georgia in
the past three years. This season
the scenario is different as UK is
not as much as an underdog ——
especially with Fluitt taking some
0 the pressure off Kauffmann’s
and Sundin’s shoulders.

Fluitt credits his improved suc-
cess to the mental part of his
game.

“I just try to go out there and
play hard every match and et a
point in both singles and doufifles,
you know, whatever it takes.

“A lot of it is mental basically,
like preparin ,” he said. “When I
prepare well play much better.”

Emery said gets excited about
how Fluitt was there when the
team really needed him in big
matches down the stretch.

“It always helps when we are
playing well that Marcus plays
well at his position,” Emery said.
“He won the clinching point
against Stanford and at the time
they were ranked No. 1 in the
country.

“So when he’s winning he real-
ly gives us a threat to go with
Kauffmann, Sundin and (Carlos)
Drada,” he said. “And you know,
we think that the strength of our
team is in the top four.”

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The UK women’s tennis team
lost to No. 2 7 South Carolina 5—1
wterday in Columbia. The

ildcats’ (1 1-9 overall, 3-6 in the
SEC) lone singles win came from
Caroline Kirk. The doubles play
was suspended.

 

 

  

By Prlce Atkinson
Stafl Writer

When Passion Richardson’s
classmates and friends asked how
her weekend was, she didn't have
to give them a generic answer.

On Saturday at the Texas
Relays in Austin, Richardson ran a
time of 11.31 seconds in the finals
of the 100-meter dash to finish
third overall.

The time is
Richardson’s
fastest ever in the
outdoor 100
meters, but more
importantly, the
time automatical-
ly qualifies her
for the NCAA
Outdoor Championship in
Bloomington, Ind., June 4-7.

Mizuno Track Club’s Melinda
Sargent won the event in a time of
11.17 seconds.

With the UK outdoor season
still young and the NCAA Cham—

ionshi two months awa ,

ichar son did not necessarily
have high expectations going into
the meet.

“It’s only the second meet so I
wasn’t really expecting to run that
well this soon,” the senior said.

Assistant coach Edrick F loreal,
who trains the UK sprinters, said
Richardson’s training regimen
and mindset contributed to her
success.

“Her training has been basical-
ly gearing for outdoors, and I
think she was a little disappointed

 

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Professor of Communication
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