Vol. XCIV, No. 129

Students mixed

By TIM WIESENHAHN
Senior Staff Writer

Despite UK's police chief saying
the arrest of an officer for drug pos-
session wouldn’t harm the force’s
credibility. students interviewed
yesterday {said the arrest was embar-
rassing.

Debbie Ricketts, 21. a merchan-
dising apparel and textiles senior
and member of the Delta Zeta social
sorority. said she was “really
shocked” when she learned of the
arrest of UK police officer Duane
Bernard Keys.

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“I was very embarrassed for the

University, Ricketts said. “It was an
insult to the profession. I would of
thought he would had more integri-
ty."
UK Police Chief W.H. McComas
said Tuesday the arrest was indica-
tive of the societal problem of drug
abuse.

Keys, an officer with the UK Po-
lice for 3 1/2 years, was arrested Fri-
day morning after being pulled over
for speeding and suspicion of drunk-
en driving.

Although Ricketts said she would
be hesitant to call the the UKPD, she

University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky

Independent since 1971

Thursday, March 21, 1991

over impact of officer’s arrest

was still realistic about the scope of
the problem.

“I‘m more aware of what is going
on. I'm disappointed that it hap-
pened at UK."

Tina Eaves, 21. a special educa-
tion and elementary education jun-
ior, said the incident “definitely”
harmed her trust in the UKPD.

“These people are supposed to be
protecting our campus from people
like that and they get arrested,"
Eaves said. “I've lost a lot of re-
spect for the UK police force.“

Eaves. also a member of Delta
Zeta, said that although she has had

 

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SGA proposes internal restructuring

By MARY MADDEN
Assistant News Editor

Next year may bring several
changes in the executive branch of
the UK Student Govemment Asso-
ciation.

Two constitutional amendments
and one resolution pertaining to re-
organization of the executive
branch passed through the SGA op-
erations and evaluations committee
last night.

The first amendment calls for a
change in the administrative struc-
ture of the executive branch. The
executive branch currently is divid-
ed into three departments: student
services, academic affairs and spe~
cial concerns.

The iUTlCIltIlllCIll calls for the re-
placement of the special concerns
department with a student relations
board. Representatives frorn several
different campus organizations and
special concern groups would com-

prise the board.

SGA President Sean Lohman.
who co—sponsored the bill. said
members of the board will act as ad»
viscrs to the executive branch and
the president on campus and student
govemment issues.

The second iirricndment calls tor
the establishment of a ways and
means committee “that erI be com.
prised of three members from the

See SGA. Back page

no experience with the UKPD said
she has lost a lot of respect for the
organization and would call the Lex-
ington-Fayette Urban County Police
Department first.

Keys was charged with possession
of cocaine, marijuana and drug para-
phemalia after Lexington metro po-
lice scarched his car.

The UK officer had bloodshot,
watery eyes. slurred speech and a
strong odor of alcohol on his breath,
court records show. He failed a field
sobriety test and registered a .225 on
an alcohol breath test.

Under Kentucky law. a person is

presumed legally intoxicated when
the blood—alcohol level is 0.10 per-
cent or higher. Keys refused a
blood—alcohol test, police said.

A preliminary hearing is sched-
uled for this morning at 9.

Chrissy Miller, an accounting
)UlllOT, said she was also disapv
pointed by the incident.

“Every time I drive because I‘ve
been in a car accident recently, I'm
scared somebody will hit me be-
cause thcy've been drinking. You
at least think there is someone out
there you can trust. You would im-
age you could trust a police officer

even when they are off duty."

But other students were more
sympathetic to the problems lacing
I-K police ott'icers.

“Police are like people to, they ~re
a reflection of society," said liraar—
torr Crenshaw. a marketing senior,
“I normally have a little tinge of
paranoia when the polite pull me
our anyway.

Crenshaw said his perception and
trust in the force has not changed.

“I‘m not really scared. I think
what lI should do is maybe make

See UKPD, Back page

Rutgers’ Jones second
dean candidate to Visit

By CAROLINE SHIVELY
Staff Writer

lihc second candidate tor the po»
sition of [K dean of students met
with members ot the President‘s
Board Rorrndliible last night.

George Jones. one of tour candr
dates for the position. will meet
with student leaders and campus tid-
mrrristrtitors today.

Jones was surprised by what he
learned about the Ifniverstt} .it last
night's meeting. “It‘s a little differ—
ent than what I thought." he said.
”It's not .is couserxzrtive as l
thought."

Jones said he chose I'lx' because
of “what I knew about irrt. It‘s the
kind of I'ntyersity that I\ appealin;
to me the atmosphere. the tradi-
trons and the history of the Linryerr
.\'ll\.

Jones now holds the position of
dean of students of livingstonc Col-
lege at Rtrtg.cr~ I irrversrty. “l h.i\c
the same title position, but I would
be more tlircctly responsible tor .i
larger nutriber ill People."

If lones '\ chosen for the I K po-
sition, he will begin working July I.
With him. he would bring “l5 years
of mperrence and student develop‘
rrrent. a diversity of e\pcrrcrrce from
.r number of llnl\Cf\'lllL‘\ indifferent
regions of the country and most im-
portantly .i .orruurtment to stu-
dents.”

This Is .lorte~.' first trip to the IR
campus. but he ;ilre;id\ has formsl
.i "xisiorr" tor tlic Dean or Students
( illit'i‘.

“It should be .in that r,
.orrimrtted to berm: arr .i».lyoc:ite of
the ~trrdents. to serving the students.
t i workrni.v with the students and Il'

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Clark says he’s victim

of prank phone calls

By TOM SPALDING
Editor in Chief

A candid..tc for Student Govern»
ment Association president said
yesterday that he has received about
35 prank phone calls since January,
most asking that he wrthdraw from
the race

But Keith (‘l.rrk. a 38-year-old
Lexington Community College stu—
dent. said while the calls have been
disturbing, “under no circumstance”
would he dropout.

”Unfortunately. i don't know if
it‘s a sense or bigotry toward l.(‘t‘,
or racism towards me or rust the
fact that I‘m running," said t‘lark,
one of tour ..iirdidatcs tor the
March 27-38 elections. "I know one
thing, it's \cri irrrtnature."

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ltc is at school. late .it night when he

Spring break not all beaches, bikinis

By ANITA MANNING
and PAT ORDOVENSKY
College Information Network

Ah, spring break. Beaches. Biki—
nis. Beer.

Not for Sharon St. Marie, 20, of
Barre, Vt. While many of her peers
frolicked in Florida recently, she
and Il other students from Trinity
College of Vermont fed homeless
people at SOME -—~ So Others
Might Eat w a Washington soup
kitchen.

“I‘ve learned they‘re not different
people," she said, dishing up a con-
coction of hamburger and vegeta-
bles. “They‘re you and I. just caught
in a different situation."

Tom Scales, 22, a senior at Van-
derbilt University in Nashville,
turned down invitations for serious
partying in the Florida Keys last
week. Instead, he spent the last
spring break of his college life
working with Mayan Indians in In-
diantown, Fla. And he paid his own
way.

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“I tried to get my friends to come...They said, ‘Heck
no, I'm going home. I‘m going to the mall.‘ "

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students?

“The week before we left, I had
my doubts." he confessed. But later.
“I realized that not only was I doing
something that might be helpful, but
also that I was having a great time. It
was the best spring break I've ever
had." St. Marie and Scales are
among hundreds of students at doz-
ens of colleges and universities fore-
going hedonistic rituals to take part
in “altemative” spring breaks. They
pay all or part of their expenses for
food. transportation and shelter.

“Students are looking for ways to
move from conccm to action," said
Laina Warsavage of Campus Com-
pact. a coalition of public service-
minded college presidents. Problems
such as homelessness and pollution
“created a sense of urgency that we
have to take responsibility for our

cotnrnunrty and our world.“

The group. based at Brown I‘m-
versity. Providence. RI. began
with I: member schools in “>85:
now it has 250. During the 1989-90
school year, students on member
campuses provided about 8-19 mil-
lion worth of community service.

Conversely, one city in Florida
— Daytona Beach k spent more
than $276,500 to beef up the police
force and pick up the trash left be-
hind by spring break merrymakcrs
last year.

Judging from activities at a samv
pling of American campuses, the al-
temativc spring break is an attrac-
tive one:

~University of Pennsylvania at
Philadelphia. Nine students are in
Tijuana, Mexrco, this week building
houses in an impoverished area
devastated by rains. Another 22 are

in North l’hiladclphta. rebuilding
low-incorrie townhouses.

-Sarnt .\lrch.icl‘s College, (‘oi-
chestcr, \‘t. liorty‘three students
spent their belt. .73 March 1 break
working w itlt battercd and homeless
women in \‘v'ashrtrizton, building
homes near Selma. -\l;r.. working: .it
soup kitchens and wrth troubled
teens Ill (‘onncttrcut .rrrd New York.
and helping Salvadoran rclrrgces on
Long Island. \.Y.

-Vanderbr|t University. Just back
from break are 320 students who tri»
tored Guatemalan refugees and
Mayan lndrturs lll lndrantow'n, l"la..
worked on an Indian reservation in
South Dakota and cleaned up
streams lll Nashville

-Boston ('ollcgc. Nearly 300 stir
dents from \iarch 1 9 aided the rut
poverrshcd in Boston, Appalachia
and Kingston. Jamaica.

It‘s not everybody‘s idea of .i
post-finals blast

“I tried to get friends to
come,‘ said Trirrio ot Vermont‘s
Kristie Ashe, [8. during a break at
SOME. “They said. ‘lleck no. I‘m
going home. I‘m going D the mall.‘

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I» .it work and when ilt\ witc is out.
He said he there were four calls on
irresdiiy to his home brit when he
answered. all hung tip.

lle ‘iLlltI he has been unable to
record any of the calls

' \\'hene\'er we answer the phone.
we already know what it's going to
be because t‘rey hang tip on its.”
(‘lark said.

He said the triessages have includ-
ed tomrrrcnts such .is "We don‘t
need your kind." and profanity
words, The calls. he ‘~;llti. average
15‘ i“ \t‘t‘tllltis rrr lcrttlth

(‘lark said he‘s notified I l\' I‘it“
hcc but said thcx could not help hittr
bctarisi' he lrxes t‘ll ..irrrpus (lirk
\‘dltl he has not contacted l cxrngton
police about the incidents.

lle ~.rrd be (titled (ierreral fete;
phone rnit “il\t‘ them ‘rrrttrl‘crs.
-\illcil the phone tompany traced to

and beer

lltrt .\she. ot lasset hinctron. \t,
thought feeding the homeless was
about the best thing she could do
“\l\ parents wanted rrie to mine
home. but I wanted to go here '1 his
is w here. I wanted to be."
students. interacting
people whose backgrounds rlrtlcr
:rorri theirs t an be an Adopt-tier,

"I live .1 WW sheltcrcil lite. ‘ said
l)arci Harry, lts‘, oi l’laltsbur'g.
\.Y., .i freshman at l‘nnrty. "I took
.i lot of things Ior granted."

Serving L000 meals .i iliry .rt
SOME was her first e\pcriente of
poverty.

“I didn‘t know what to cxpctt I
thought I'd meet mean people or
that they‘d be angry, biit we sen ed
‘00 people this morning and .ill
i00 said thank you," she said.

The students‘ efforts don‘t go
unapprecrated. Donald Hood, ‘il.
of Washington, who says he’s .r re-
covering addict. applauded the
work of the Trinity students at
SOME, where he had rust had

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