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WEDNESDAYKENTUCKY

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Monkey Do...
Conservation-
ist Jane
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speak at

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KERNEL

September 4, 2002

Celebrating 30 years of indepndence

Preserving the I335t
for building's

Landmark: Plans for a rebuilt Administration Building
will take into consideration its historical significance

By Rebecca Neal

STAFF WRITER

Though it’s been a year
since the ﬁre that gutted the
Administration Building. the
burnt patches and destroyed
roof still remain as re-
minders of the day of the
fire ~— and the millions of
dollars in expenses that are
yet to come.

The ﬁre. on May 15. 2001.
left only the shell of the Ad-
ministration Building.
where UK presidents and top
administrators had worked
for decades. The inside was
reduced to ash and rubble.
So far. the building has only
been stabilized and a tempo-
rary roof has been added.
Plans are underway to re-

store the building while pre-
serving its historical
signiﬁcance.

UK administrators are
hoping for a final plan this
winter and a rebuilt Admin-
istration Building within
two years.

UK received about $7.8
million in insurance money.
but that sum will not cover
all of the reconstruction
costs. officials say.

New York architects
Robert Kliment 8; Frances
Halsband presented prelimi-
nary plans to the Board of
Trustees in June. The most
expensive plan proposed
also the most accepted of the
plans ~ would cost approxi~

See ADMIN on 3

Rebuilding
Temporary fences
and construction
equipment sur-
round the UK
Administration
Building. Prelimi-
nary plans for the
tire-damaged
building have been
presented to the
Board of Ttustees.
Officials hope that
the reconstruction
and restoration
will be complete
by April 2004.

HOLLY DAVIS | mm '
EDITOR I

What might have taken ten years on a PC,
takes only a few days on the supercomputer.”

- JOHN CONNOLLY, DIRECTOR OF THE CENTER OF COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCES

Supercomputer helps
UK get projects, grants

Superdome: Computer in McVey Hall one of nine
such machines owned by American universities

By Emily Hagedorn
STAFF WRITER

There‘s a monster of a
computer lurking in the
depths of McVey Hall.

The beast. the Hewlett-
Packard Superdome. can
outwit. outrun and output
more information than all
but eight other computers
in American universities.

It can simplify astro-
physics and can maximize
the theories of micro-
biology.

“It's about a thousand
times faster (than normal
computers)." said John
Connolly. the director of the
Center of Computational
Sciences. ”What might have
taken ten years on a normal
RC. takes only a few days
on the supercomputer."

And now this monster
is being used to revolution
ize car-paint production.
which saves millions of dol-
lars for the Toyota Motor
Manufacturing Co.

“We have a luxury,"
said Kozo Saito. a mechani-
cal engineering professor
and director of the Paint
Technology Consortium in
the Center for Robotics and
Manufacturing Systems.
“The equations may have
been there for ten years. but
now we are able to do them
on a computer."

Another of the comput-
er‘s uses is understanding
how cancer forms and
working to develop treat-
ments for the disease.

H. Peter Spielmann. an
associate professor of mole-
cular and cellular biology.

hopes that by using the
computer. he can under-
stand why cells become cans
cerous.

“We're targeting re-
search around what tells
the (cancerous) cells to
grow, and we‘re attempting
to block that signal.“ Spiel-
mann said.

It could be years before
his research and treatments
end up being used on hu—
man patients. but it's still a
step in the right direction.
he said.

“We‘re testing new
ideas." Spielmann said. “(If
we didn‘t have this super—
computer) we wouldn‘t do it."

UK has had a super—
computer since 1987. This
latest H-P supercomputer.
which was received last Oc-
tober. is on a three-year
lease and will get an up-
grade next spring.

Researchers at the Uni-
versity of Louisville, Tran-
sylvania University and
Eastern Kentucky Universi‘
ty are using the computer's
talents along with UK.

The $1.3 million UK in-
vested last year in the super-
computer has brought in
more than $5.5 million in re-
search grants. Connolly said.
Since 1997. UK has put $6.5
million in its supercomput-
ers and the researchers using
the computers have received
$14.5 million in grants.

Some of this grant
money is being used to de—
velop the better painting
methods for Toyota. Cur-
rently. half the paint
sprayed on the cars doesn‘t
stick. he said. and through

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McVey Hail houses the Superdome Computer: the computer ls
used to research everything from car painting to cancer.

simulations on the comput-
er, Saito hopes to change
this with better equipment.

If Saito is successful.
Toyota could save $50 to
$100 million a year. he said.

The supercomputer can
process 700 billion calcula-
tions per second. uses 224
processors. has 448 giga‘
bytes of random access

memory and five trillion
bytes of disk space.

Connolly said any stu‘
dent. faculty or staff mem-
ber can apply for a free
start-up account. which in-
cludes 500 to 600 hours at
the supercomputer. The
computer is available at all
hours and on every day of
the week.

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Spanish books
needed for Hope
Center Hispanics

Assistance: Donations of Spanish literature wanted
to build a library for Hispanic clients of Hope Center

By Jennifer Mueller
surrwnurn ‘ V -

The Latin American
Studies Program is build-
ing a Spanish library for
the homeless members of
the growing Hispanic com
munity in Lexington.

The program wants to
have a variety of books for
the homeless to read when
they come to the Hope Cen-
ter. a non-profit institution
that provides assistance to
the homeless of Lexington.

Members of Latin
American Studies say they
became interested in build-
ing the library after being
approached by the Hope
Center several months ago.

The Hope Center has a

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number of Hispanic clients.
said Chris Pool. an anthro-
pology professor. formerly
director of the Latin Amer-
ican Studies Program.

About ll percent of the
homeless in the US. are
Hispanic. according to the
1996 National Survey of
Homeless Assistance
Providers and Clients.

The library will go a
long way to help the Span-
ish—speaking homeless of
Lexington. Pool said.

“It is a very useful
thing for them to have ac-
cess to reading material in
their own language." he
said.

This is especially true

See LIBRARY on 3

HOLLY DAVIS | PHOTO EDITOR

Margaret Persley, with the Central Kentucky Blood Center.
assists Erika Puckett, a secondary English education fresh-
men, while she donates blood at the Back-to-School Blood
Drive on Tuesday afternoon. The blood drive is located at
the Complex Common's Ballroom and will be held from I to B
p.m. Wednesday (see briefs on page 2).

Smokers desire more
room to exercise habit

Fresh air?: Some campus smokers annoyed;
complain there are too few areas to smoke

By Crystal Little
Editiiitirmc’vhﬁi‘n'

Getting a breath of
fresh air on UK's campus
can be a difficult task for
some non—smokers.

The University of Ken-
tucky does not ban smoking
in outdoor areas. so many
smokers gather outside of
dorms. classroom buildings
and libraries to have a ciga~
rette during study breaks.

Josh Kempton. a sociol-
ogy sophomore and smoker.
pays attention to non-smok-
ing signs and areas. but be-
lieves he should be able to
smoke wherever he wants
at the university.

"If i was able to smoke

The Student Newspaper at the University of Kentucky,

Lexington .

wherever I wanted to on
campus. I‘d be a lot easier
to get along with." Kempton
said.

Kempton stated that
any nonsmoking building
should have a room or area
where smoking is allowed.
The Student (‘enter Food
(‘ourt smoker-friendly area.
which has a maximum ca-
pacity of 47 people. can get
stuffy. added Kempton.

“The smoking room is
like a third-world country.“
Kempton said. “It's a nasty
little room. The ventilation
system is horrible."

Most smokers will say
that having a cigarette
helps them calm down and

See SMOKE on 3

z | “pursuitscpimscn 4. 2002 l KENTUCKY itsiiiiec ,

JLLIHENEWS THAT HTS

The Low-down

Everybody's
upset about
the law itself.
But we’re
just charged
with enfoxc-
ing the law“

- Doug Thomas.
spokesman for
the Kentucky
Department of
Agriculture, on
complaints the
department
received after
video of dogs
being shot at a
Henry County
shelter was aired
on TV.

Donors needed for CKBC blood drive

The (‘entral Kentucky Blood (‘enter is
hating a blood drive Sept. 2-H at all (‘Klit‘
donor centers and mobile blood drives
Blood donations during the drive will give
donors the opportunity to i'eiiieiiiber the
events of Sept it The goal of the drive is to
emphasize the need for blood to be donated
and be available if a crisis occurs. :e: well as
supply blood for the Lahoi [lav holidav
week

Service provides ride to football game

Shuttle sex vice will he :itailahle to the
l'K football -,.'_fiiiie against Texas lil l’aso
Services to the home game. which is on
Sept. 7.1! l Jill p in.. will be available through
l.e:\'Ti':in buses to (‘ttiiiiiionwealtli Stadium
Shuttle service begins at ltl'Sili a in and
shuttle stops are :ilill West Vine Street. the
Vine Street entrance to the Transit ('eiitei'.
and the corner of Woodland and [Cast High
Streets Retiii n shuttle servict will begin
half-way through the fourth quarter. A
round trip shuttle costs $2 a person and can
be purchased three hours prior to kickoff at
the shuttle stops. For more information.
call LexTran at 23.”. lot-iii or the Downtown
l.ex1ngtoii corporation at 2:1er"..‘£3 or go to
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Studying the flora and the fauna

“'l’rees. ll'.‘llls k (‘re:itiii‘es.“ a guided
trail through the [K l.Fl'(‘(‘. .-\I‘litii‘ellllii.

. 3

BACK HOME BOY:
"It's over," said
Russian space
agency spokes-
man Sergei Gor-
bunov. That's his
assessment to
the Associated
Press about
Lance Bass' bid
to fly on the
space shuttle to
the international
space station on
Oct. 28. Citing
Bass' "crude vio-
lations" of his
contract - the
numerous dead-
lines for coughing
up the $20 mil-
lion ticket price
that Bass' bacli-
ers have missed
- Gorbunov said
on Tuesday that
Bass had been
asked to leave
the cosmonaut
training center in
Star City, Russia.
"After failing to
fulfill the condi-
tions of his con-
tract, Lance Bass
has been told
that his training
at the Cosmo-
naut Training
Center has ended
and that his
flight to the ISS
is impossible,"
Gorbunov told
Reuters.

BUSINESS CAREE
FAIR * 2002

will be held Friday. Sept. 27 at 9 am. and
Saturday. Sept. 28. from 5 pm. to 7 pm Chil»
dren will get the opportunity to learn about
animals and plants. plus there will be other
activities, such as making natural handi.
crafts and viewing live exotic insects. For
more information. call the Arboretum 0f»
fice at 22579339 or 257-6955.

Tobacco talk at research center

The Kentucky Tobacco Research Board
will meet Monday. Sept. 9 at 1 pin. in the
McQuiston Conference Room of the Ken-
tucky Tobacco Research Development (‘en-
ter building at (‘ooper and University dri-
ves.

Trustee ofﬁcer nominations discussed

The UK Board of Trustees Nominating
Committee will meet at 10:30 am. Saturday.
Sept. 7 at the Boone (‘enter on Rose Street.
The agenda will include a discussion of the
nominations for officers of the board and
members of the board's executive
committee.

Education college to honor alumni

The [K (‘ollege of Education will in‘
duct three alumni into its Hall of Fame on
Sept. 7 on the field of (‘oininoiiwcalth Stadi-

uiii. just before the UK vs. University of

Texas-El l’aso game. The game starts at 1:30
pm. Janis Bellack. (‘arolyn Reid Bond and
UK football great Vito “Babe" i’ai‘illi will
each be inducted at the ceremony

Louisville woman dies of West Nile

FRANKFURT A second death in
Kentucky has been attributed to infection
by the West Nile virus. and three other peo-
ple are believed stricken. state health offi-
cials said ’I‘uesday. The victim was de-
scribed as an tiZyearold woman in Jeffer-
son County. which includes Louisville. Nei-

LICK TRIS:

It was I962 when
some scruffy
English lads
formed a band
called the Rolling
Stones and
quickly began
driving out the
last vestiges of
polite rocli 'n'
roll in a torrent
of driving blues
riffs and dark,
angry lyrics. As
they launch their
40th anniversary
US. tour - be-
ginning Tuesday
in Boston - the
Stones are out to
prove that age is
no obstacle. So
what if newly-
knighted Mick
Jagger is 59, and
the two other
original Stones,
Keith Richards
and drummer
Charlie Watts,
are 58 and 61,
respectively? The
25-city, 40-show
"Liclis" tour is
the first major
one since 1975
not built around
the launch of a
new studio al-
bum. lt will stop
in large outdoor
stadiums, medi-
um-sized indoor
arenas, and
smaller, intimate
theaters.

ther her identity nor information about her
health history were released by the Cabinet
for Health Services. The woman‘s death and
the infections are listed by the cabinet as
“probable“ West Nile cases. That means 10
cal tests for the virus were positive but
must be confirmed by the federal Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention. cabinet
spokesman Gil Lawson said.

Animal control laws questioned

FRANKFURT _. Agriculture Commis-
sioner Billy Ray Smith said Tuesday the
shooting of strays in animal shelters
should be banned, and he will ask the Gen-
eral Assembly to do so. Smith said he want-
ed to “bring Kentucky law more in step
with the times" following the embarrass-
ment of a national telecast of video of dogs
being shot at the animal shelter in Henry
County. Videotape aired by NBC and several
Kentucky stations showed some dogs alive
and howling after being shot. Henry County
has since halted gunshot euthanasia. The
Department of Agriculture got many calls
from viewers, Doug Thomas. a department
spokesman. said. “Everybody‘s upset about
the law itself. But we‘re just charged with
enforcing the law." Thomas said Tuesday.
Smith said he will ask the 2003 General As-
sembly to “modernize and clarify" animal
control laws that were written 50 years ago.

Space camp forecloses on campus

TiTUSVILLE. Fla. ‘ Low attendance at
the US. Space Camp Florida and the US.
Astronaut Hall of Fame has caused the Al-
abama-based program's bank to put the
campus up for sale. The weak economy and
the public's fear of ﬂying after Sept. 11 have
hurt attendance at all the space camps and
related programs. ofﬁcials said.

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Kentucky company named
in reparations lawsuit

Compensation: Plaintiffs say companies should pay
for directly and indirectly profiting from slave labor

ASSOCIATED PRESS

NEW ORLEANS
About 200 Louisiana resi
dents identifying themselves
as descendants of slaves filed
a federal lawsuit seeking
reparations from companies
that allegedly profited from
slave labor

The lawsuit. filed in US.
District Court in New 01'»
leans, was one of several
that plaintiffs said were be-
ing filed around the country
Tuesday part of an effort
that began with a lawsuit
filed March 26 in New York
City.

The original New York
lawsuit seeks reparations
from Aetna Insurance. CSX
Railroad and FleetBoston fi
nancial services. Tuesday
was the deadline for similar
lawsuits against the defen-
dants named in March. attor-
ney Raymond Johnson said.

Tuesday‘s lawsuits.
which seek unspecified dam-
ages. added to the list of
plaintiffs seeking repara

LIBRARY

Continued from page 1

because the Hispanics at the
Hope Center are not in a posi-
tion to buy their own books.
and they often have difficul

tions from those companies
and added new companies to
the list of defendants.

New defendants in the
Louisiana lawsuit included
Lloyds of London; Brown
Brothers Harriman & Co;
Rd. Reynolds; Liggett Group;

spokesman Jack Burke in
Chicago. "Neither CN nor
Illinois Central, which was
acquired by CN in 1999, ever
employed slave labor. In fact.
Illinois Central was at the
forefront of the war against
slavery during the Civil War
and played a central role in
rebuilding the US South.“
In addition to Louisiana.
new lawsuits were to be ﬁled

The crime and poverty that African
Americans live in today is part of the
aftermath of slavery“

- ANTOINETTE HARRELL-MILLER, PLAINTIFF

Brown and Williamson; and
three railroads. Canadian
National. Norfolk Southern
and Union Paciﬁc.

Johnson filed the lawsuit
shortly before the close of
business. Only Canadian Na-
tional immediately respond-
ed to phone messages seek-
ing comment.

“Any reparations suit
against CN is wholly without
merit and CN will defend it-
self vigorously." said

ties using the public library
system because of language
barriers. Pool said.

The Lexington Public Li<
brary does have at least two
Spanish-speaking employees.
said Doug Tattershall. a
spokesman for the library.

They also stock over
1,000 titles in Spanish. have
Spanish library card applica-

in federal courts in Illinois.
Texas. New York and Califor-
nia. according to attorney
Roger Wareham. one of a
group of lawyers who pre-
pared the suits.

Those filing suit say
slave descendants deserve
monetary compensation.
even if only in the form of
trust funds to improve health
care. education and housing
opportunities. because slaves
were prevented from accu-

tions and have numerous
English as a Second Lan-
guage materials available, he
said.

So far the Latin Ameri-
can Studies Program has
only a few books, but mem-
bers of the program hope
they will receive donations
as the semester progresses.

“We would definitely

mulating wealth to bequeath
to future generations.

The money slaves should
have earned for their work
instead went to companies
that directly or indirectly
profited from slave labor.
they say. while slaves and
their descendants lagged be-
hind the rest of America in
terms of education and op-
portunity.

“The crime and poverty
that African Americans live
in today is part of the after-
math of slavery." said An-
toinette Harrell—Miller. a
plaintiff and genealogist.

The lawsuits allege, for
example, that certain insur-
ance companies are liable be
cause they sold insurance
coverage for plantation own-
ers' slaves and for slave can
go on ships.

Some lending compa-
nies. the lawsuits allege.
gave loans to white farmers
who stated in their loan ap-
plications they intended to
use the money to buy
slaves.

Johnson said more plain-
tiffs and defendants may be
added.

like to see a bigger re-
sponse," Pool said.

“This was originally an
idea for students in the
Spanish Literature class
es." he said. “This will be a
nice thing for them to do."

For more information.
or if interested in donating
books, contact Noemi Lugo
at 257-2865.

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mately $16 million.

"The rest of the money
will have to come from private
donors." Blanton said.

The $16 million plan in-
volves lowering the grade
around the building. which
would make what is now the
basement the new first floor.
Dall Clark. the director of the
Capital Project Management at
UK, said this change would be
historically accurate and make
the building more accessible.

“This would return the
look of the building back to
the 18005 when it was first
built and get rid of the need
for ramps, so it would be easi-
er for people with disabilities."
Clark said.

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meeting rooms. The Visitor's
Center will be moved from the
Student Center to the Admin
istration Building.

“We're programming it to
be more than just an office
building." Clark said.

James W. Potts. the prime
architectural contractor for
the project. said the design
documents were recently sub-
mitted to UK.

“We should have the bid
documents for UK by the end
of the year." Potts said.

Clark said he hopes to
start taking bids for construc-
tion this winter. with actual
construction beginning in the
spring. The tentative date for
completion is April 2004.

UK President Lee Todd
said he wants to make the
building a historical landmark
for the university and a focal
point of the campus.

“I want it to be full of life.
not just a holding place for ad-
ministrators or a place to
come when you're in trouble,"
Todd said.

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stuffy in those tiny spaces.
You're better off going
outside and running the
risk of pissing off some-
one who says you're ruin-
unwind. ing their ‘clean' air."

During long study ses-
sions. this relaxation is a
must, they say. The Young
Library is a prime place to
do some serious studying.
but do smokers really go
outside every time they
get the urge to have a ciga—
rette? According to Offi-
cer Irene Helton. one of
the library's security
guards. they do.

Jason Reneau. a chem—
istry sophomore. is a fre—
quent smoker living in
Holmes Hall. which allows

Dorms for smokers

Nine undergraduate
dorms on campus, listed be-
low, allow smoking, but there
are still rules to follow. You
can only smoke in your room
and only if you put on your
housing application that you
smoke. Smoking is not per-
mitted in the lounges, hall-
ways, stairwells and lobbies
of any residence hall.

Blazer Hall, female

Holmes Hall, male

for smoking in dorm Kirwan l, male
rooms as long as the Blandingl,co-ed
doors remain closed. Blending Ill. co-ed

“We're allowed to
smoke in our rooms only
if we have the doors
closed." Reneau said. “Not
everyone living in Holmes
is a smoker. But even with

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