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UNIVERSIIY Oi KENIUCKY. LEXINGTON. KENTUCKY

~-~--~—-; CHE moves to increase influence

By Tiliany Gilmartin
Stafl Writer
“N...
a The Council on Higher Education decided to

provide a stronger direction for higher education at
yesterday’s meeting in Frankfort.

However, the move towards a more cohesive and
powerful CHE is not an attempt to restrict the
autonomy of university boards, CHE Executive
Director Gary Cox said.

“‘Who is in charge?’ and ‘What (higher education
councils are) accomplishing?’ That discussion is
going on all over the country,” Cox said.

Instead, he said the council plans to step back and
see how it can provide the kind of leadership in high—
er education that can deal with changing issues, get-
ting away from the referee mentality of the past.

“Kentucky has a very good system of campus
autonomy, (a) very flexible system,” Cox said.

“I don't think anybody is suggesting the council
(get) involved in management issues, student issues
are by statutes the responsibility of the campus.”

We are trying to be “pro—active versus reactive,”

 

Pornography
IIOI a III‘DIIICIII
at campus labs

By Christy Felty
Contributing writer
and Gary Wuli
Stafl Writer

 

The issue of pornography has been questioned
and debated for years. It is not only found in maga-
zines, books, and other material, but now it is acces~
sible over the Internet, thus creating a problem for
campus computing officials.

UK has rules and regulations regarding the use of
its computer facilities. However, there are currently
no specific guidelines regarding pornography.

According to the Policy Governing Access To and

Use of UK Computing Resources, pornography falls
into the category of “objectionable material."
‘ “It means that as long as no one objects, then a
student can use the computer for this purpose,” said
Peggy Akridge, manager of Margaret I. King Library
Microlabs.

“If, for some reason, someone objects, then the
user will be asked to move to a more remote location
in the lab,” Stewart said. The university currently
does not have a problem with people viewing
pornography in the labs.

“They (guidelines) are purposefully flexible so that
as technology evolves we don’t want to have to
amend this policy every time because it is an adminis—
trative regulation,” said Jack Stewart, Public Services
Coordinator for Library Micro labs. “Each time the
policy has to be amended then it has to go through
approval by the board.”

This means that every time new technology
arrives the board does not have to go back to the
guidelines, to add or change anything. The current
guidelines for the use of campus facilities were
approved by the board and campus lawyers.

 

 

‘- Microlabs
need more
computers

By Gary Wuli
Stafl'Writer

Professors from the Chemistry
and Physics Microcomputer advi-
sory committee have sent a memo
to the Library Microlabs, noting
concern about the high demand
for availability of computers and
software.

John Christopher, director of
the Chemistry and Physics Micro-
computer advisory committee,
said he believed better software

was needed in order to develop

Cox said.

The Council has been criticized in recent months
by the legislature for not taking a more active deci-
sion-making role on several decisions, including the
UK—Murray State University debate over engineer-
ing education in Kentucky.

Some legislators said they wanted a more defined
role for the Council, and the powers more clearly
defined.

The council also discussed UK’s land swap pro-
gram and the acquisition and funding of Lees Col-
lege in Hazard.

The council unanimously approved UK’s land
swap with University Heights Church at 328 Clifton
Ave, based on the recommendation by finance com-
mittee chair David Porter.

Porter and the finance committee decided to
approve the transactions after hearing testimony
from Deputy Secretary of Finance Rex Hunt and UK
Assistant to the President George DeBin.

“It looks like a very good transaction,” Hunt said.

DeBin fielded the council’s questions about the
university’s plans for the church and rebuked

inquiries about the building ofa new church.

“We are done upon transfer of the check," DeBin
said.

The University stands to gain 31 acres in Clifton
Circle from the land swap that is being targeted to
expand the Rose Street parking lot.

UK President Charles \Vethington said the uni—
versity has asked the 96-98 General Assembly to
budget in the construction if the University has the
resources to do so.

The planned funding of Lees College drew heavy
questions from the council, specifically about how
UK plans to pay for the maintenance and institution
al cost of Lees College.

Currently, funding is expected to come from
Robinson and Mountain trust funds.

The council wants to continue the talks with UK
to prevent the funding from running out, and forcing
UK to revert to state funds.

Porter said that the plan was passed because the
council believed that all funding will initially come
from the trust funds and not from the state treasury
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KEYBUNBB CAICIIIINC The University mrrently dorm 't have a policy regarding the downloading ofpornogmphy in

the computer labs.

Is porn a problem in the labs?

“Occasionally, there is at least one person looking
at something weird, but, really, there’s no problem,”
said Chris Johns, an undeclared freshman and com-
puter consultant.

Some students said they didn’t have a problem
with viewing the pornography specifically, but felt
that computers on campus should not be used for
purposes extraneous to school—related issues.

“I’ve never seen anyone doing it,” said Mindy
Schuman, an animal sciences junior. “It's whatever
they want to do but they shouldn’t be using campus
computers for entertainment purposes.”

One student did not believe in allowing pornogra—
phy on the Internet unless people pay for it, which

 

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undergraduate skills.

“I’m concerned that under-
graduate students develop their
computer skills because it’s very
important to future,” he said.

Christopher added that he was
happy the chemistry and physics
department had a com uter lab,
but that it is being use to much
that “it’s time to think about
adding more computers.”

Thomas Troland, a professor
of physics and astronomy, com-
pared computers to libraries.

“Access to computers is a lot
like access to libraries,” he said.

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“It’s necessary and universities
need to provide students with ade-
quate availability to these
resources.”

Two weeks before, a similar
petition was placed in the Chem-
istry-Physics computer lab by a
student.

Ken Randles, secretary of the
Student Affiliates of the American
Chemical Society and author of
the student tition said, “No one
is goin to able to help us but
the stu ends.”

He added that other schools
such as Massachusetts Institute of

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Technology require that their stu—

dents own computers. Some

schools even lease students com-

puters over the course of a school
at.

“If we don’t learn this, we won’t
have any experience in the field,”
said Randles, a chemistry senior.
“It’s more of a future thin . I real-
ize the funds are tight, ut they
have to find funds.

“Otherwise, students will go to
school elsewhere.”

Each semester a student at UK
pays a $40 technology fee, and the

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they don’t at UK computer labs.

“It could be allowed if somebody could pay for it,
but it should not be on the net for free," said Kris
Hockensmith, an agricultural economics senior.

Kerry Ryan, an English senior, said he thinks it is
a very complex issue.

“I think there are two separate issues involved.
\Vhat you should do in the privacy of your own home
and what UK’s computers were intended for," Ryan
said. “It shouldn’t be used for pornographic purposes

. they were put in at the expense of taxpayer‘s
money. They should be used for learning and
pornography is not a learning experience after
puberty. Besides who is to judge what is pornography
and what is not?”

till removed
irom new plan

By Chris Padgett
Staff Writer

Kentucky Gov. Paul Patton has exempted UK
from a piece of health care legislation that would
have required the school to pay $7.5 million more
in coverage for its employees, UK President
Charles Wethington said.

Wethington said he had recently expressed
concerned about Patton’s proposals, which would
alter the 1994 health care reform package.

Patton’s original in) osal to the existing law
would have mandated to assume the res ionsi-
bility of additional funding to insure a 1 UK
employees were covered by the bill, which is
being considered in the General Assembly.

Wethin on spoke to the Lexington Rotary
Club last hursday about the effects the new law
could have on the University. Later that day,
Governor Patton announced that UK would he
exem t from his original plans.

“I lieve it is important for the public to be
aware of the fact that the proposals that are being
considered will have a dramatic effect on future
health care legislation,” Wethin on said.

Accordin to Wethington, t e passage of the
previous bilF that was being debated would have
cost the university millions.

“It would have been difficult for UK to absorb
that kind of expense,” Wethin on said. On Fri-
day, a bi-partisan group of legis ators introduced a
less complex bill, which some view as more sup—

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\VASIIING'I‘UN .. In Republican presiden»
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Dole had a mere ‘ll delegates heading into today"~.
voting. By the numbers, he was correct in casting
the race as “far from over."

Yet Dole is poised for giant gains when lb‘
states divvy up more then 7’00 delegates in the next
week ~— lll states today, New York on Thursday
and seven more on next week's “Super Tuesday."

In the Dole camp, there was
even talk of a “Junior 'l'uesday"
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appeals to social conservatives.
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prizes next week.

As Dole begins to look like a
winner, many in the party are beginning to look
ahead, to assess the obstacles if Dole does indeed
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Jury selection began in Whitewater trial

l ITTI.F, ROCK, .v\rk. rillury selection began
yesterday in the fraud and conspiracy trial of Presi-
dent Clinton’s \I'hitcwater partners and the man
who succeeded him as governor. with Clinton
himselfsubpoenaed to testify.

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prove a liability to Clinton, though his name is not
even mentioned in the indictment against James
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m Bomber kills 13 at celebration

TEL AVIV, Israel -—- In a scene growing hori‘l"
lily familiar, a suicide bomber turned a day of
lightrhearted Jewish celebration into a nightmare
ofblood and smoke, killing at least I 3 more people
in an accelerating terror campaign that struck yes-
terday in the heart of Tel Aviv.

The victims included children in costume and
makeup for the holiday of Purim. At least 10‘) peo—
ple were wounded in the attack, which left a jum-
ble ofshattered bodies and wrecked cars and para-
lyzed the peace effort.

A mounting toll of dead and wounded, the
repeated scenes of carnage and the heart—wrench-
ing despair of victims’ families fueled a deep
upwelling of anger among Israelis. It was the
fourth such attack in the country in nine days.

A furious, wildly militant mood swept over Tel
Aviv, a city known for its generally moderate pop—
ulace that supports peacemaking with Palestinians
and Arabs.

The death toll might have been much higher if
the bomber, who was on foot when he carried out
the attack, had managed to enter a crowded shop—
ping center, authorities said. Israel radio said at
least 13 people were killed.

M80 says beating was isolated

MOREIIEAD, Ky. — Morehead State Univer—
sity officials disagreed with an instructor’s claim
that an attack on a female student was part of a
campus gay—bashing pattern. The university called
it an isolated incident. Three masked men jumped
out of hiding to verbally and physically assault the
woman on Feb. 5 on a walkway.

The 20-year-old student was punched in the
face and stomach, but was not seriously injured,
said Roger Holbrook. coordinator of investiga»
tions for MSU police.

Holbrook said the student felt the attack was
related to “the friends or acquaintances she keeps."

MSU English instructor Patti Swartz said she
was outraged at the university administration’s
lack of response following the incident, which she
is labeling gay bashing.

Swartz wrote letters expressing her concern to
MSU President Ronald Eaglin and the vice presi-
dents of student affairs and academic affairs.

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LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. — William Shatner
is sounding more like a country veterinarian than
Capt. James T. Kirk of the starship Enterprise.

Shatner appeared at a weekend “Star Trek”
convention but took his remarks far afield from his
days at the helm of a faster-than—light spaceship
bristling with future technology.

“I have a farm in Kentucky with a lot of horses,”
the actor told more than 1,200 fans Sunday at
Trek 0 Rama. “And I love to birth the babies.”

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Actors' Guild latest parody a triumph

By Julie Anderson

Arrival”! Arts Editor

Shakespeare would roll over in
his grave if he saw the sum of his
works condensed into one play.
\Vell, let him roll.

The Actors‘ Guild latest pro—
duction, "The Complete \Vorks
of William Shakespeare
(abridged),” accomplished a major
theatrical feat, performing the
sum of Shakespeare’s plays in two
hours.

Before the show, I had visions
of actors skimming cliff notes and
summarizing each play. Wrong.
Instead, the play resembled a good
“Saturday Night Live” show with
a myriad of skits combining cur-
rent trends and men in tights.
Thus, even the Shakespeare illit—
erate could grasp each skit.

For instance, Shakespeare’s
“Titus Andronicus" was trans-
formed into a scene with a bloody
Julia Child cooking up fresh cut
hands and lukewarm blood of her
enemy.

Although the

scene seems

gruesome, the exaggerated deaths,
facial expressions and witty dia-
logue sent the audience into a
roar. The scene resembled a the—

  
 
   
  
 

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BMW M”... JllllHIE? Billy Breed (Iefi) and Robert Par/esjolmron (rig/J!) act out one of the named love rcener
in “The Complete Work: of William Shakespeare (abridged). ”

atrical “Pulp Fiction.”

As in “Romeo and Juliet,"
when Juliet (Billy Breed) briefly
humps the balcony in her
abridged balcony speech to
Romeo. It‘s a nice touch.

Effectively, a multitude of plays
were shortened to one. The king
plays, “Richard II,” “Richard III,”
“Henry VI,” “Henry V," et cetera,
were blended into one skit. Play-
ing football, the kings tossed the
crown down the field as king
killed king.

It made the Super Bowl seem
modest.

Additionally, the abridged cast
used three male actors, Robert
Parks Johnson, Henry Kevin
Haggard, Billy Breed. Thus, each
actor carried many roles from
neurotic female to performance
artist.

Impressively, the three actors
changed roles as nimbly as they
switched from male to female and
from play to play.

Being fond of slapstick humor.

I laughed through the many
deaths especially Romeo’s (John-
son), Juliet’s (Breed) and Ophe-
lia’s (Breed). Throughout the
play, the rule remained that,
the greater the tragedy, the
greater the comedy.
More of the
in-your—face
humor came from
fake vomit scenes.
My companion, a

  
    
   
  

The audience’s involvement
was highlighted with an Ophelia
borrowed from the audience. In
response to all these psychological

voices, the anonymous Ophelia
had to scream from stage
fright.

The approach to
each play surprised, and
the outcome always
pleased. Unlike “Sat-
urday Night Live,”

 

merry Irish-looking
boy, beamed after
one exaggerated
scene sent a fake
vomit toward
him. It made us happy.

Following the intermission, the
audience was brought into the
production of “Hamlet.” Fac—
tioned into ()phelia’s Ego, Super
Ego and Id, the audience was
asked to scream one of three
phrases: “Hurry up, my biological
clock is running out,” “Maybe,
maybe not,” “Take thee to a nun—
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each skit was consis-
tently good.

Definitely a
well done produc-
tion, and if] knew
Shakespeare better, I would offer
you a pun or two. Nonetheless,
“The Complete \Vorks of
\Nilliam Shakespeare” is a late
winter’s night dream.

“The Complete \Vorks of
William Shakespeare (abridged)”
runs each weekend through the
end of March. For tickets and
more information call (606) 233-
0663.

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\Vith a thin, nasal voice and as
much passion for raw, unadulter—
ated power as he had for bare-
bones beauty, Lou Reed became
one of the godfathers of contem—
porary rock.

It’s been 29 years since that
first Velvet Underground record
took a baseball bat to the collec—
tive heads of pop rock. Set the
'I‘n‘iliglvt Reeling still burns with
the raw aesthetics that singed,
chafed, and seduced those years
long ago.

The first thing to keep in mind
when putting in :1 Lou Reed
record is that he was a poet long
before he ever picked up a guitar.
This holds oh-so—true for this lat—
est album.

\Vhat sets Reed apart from

other pocts-turned-rocker are two
things.

He writes songs as messages to
people he knew and he wasn't
afraid to delve into the darker side
of the human soul.

Set the Tu‘ili bt Reeling is a per—
fect example ofgthe these qualities.
As proof of the first, at least three
songs go out to or mention indi—
rectly his new paramour Laurie
Anderson, one to late Velvet
Underground member Sterling
Morrison. It also contains an ode
to Bob Dole, and two songs
which reflect his own introspec—
tion.

As proofofthe latter, one only
needs to read the lyrics. In
“Hookywooky,” a bit of poetic
jealousy, be sarcastically sings in
reference to Ms. Anderson, “And
each lover I meet up on your roof
/ I wouldn't want to throw him off
/ Into the chemical sky / Under

the wheels ofa car to die on Canal
Street.”

Another fine example is in the
Republican anthem “Sex With
Your Parents (Motherfucker) Part
II." There he rants, “I was getting
so sick of this right wing Republi-
can shit/These ugly old men

most gorgeous poetry in the
world, but it might come across
like a rockslide playing the piano
once it’s set to music. Reed has
nearly always stuck to a base rock
‘n’ roll, using a couple of chords
and simple rhythms to propel the
poems.

 

scared of young tit
and dick/So I tried to
think of something
that made me
sick/And there it was
— sex with your par-
ents.”

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This simplicity gives
each song a power that
makes it pulsate with
sap from a primal tap-
root to which humanity
can only allude.

Finally, there’s
Lou’s voice. Although
it’s thin and “reedy,” he
pumps it out with bel-
lows borrowed from

messages and sa‘ndpa—Y ‘Set The 7 l , f H

per rants — actually Twilight \u can 5 orge. 6
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pers his darkness with .
many extremely beautiful poetic
images. creating a cycle of day and
night in the listener's mind, caus-
ing a body to appreciate one
aspect more because the other
exists.

Nevertheless, the lyrics aren't
everything. You can write the

formed a self—appendectomy while
someone else removed his heart.
Ultimately the album speaks
for itself, proclaiming there’s
damn fine Lou Reed in the ’905
and hopefully more to come.
Enjoy.
I sure as hell will.

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closed FBI lennon tiles continues

Battle OVBI‘

By Larry Gertie

Armoured Pratt

LOS ANGELES — After
fighting since 198] to make the
FBI tell why its agents shadowed
John Lennon, a biographer of the
late Beatle hopes that now the
answers finally will come together.

“I would love to do something
else for the next 10 years,” said
Jon Wiener, a histo professor at
the University 0 California,
Irvine, who documented Lennon‘s
attempts to change .politics
through rock music and the gov-
ernment's attempts to sto him.

“We are almost at t e end,”
said Dan Marmalefsky, an attor-
ney with the American Civil Lib—
erties Union. Court battles have
freed about 85 percent of the
FBI’s Lennon file, he said.

“I was a single man when I filed
this case, and now my older son is
going on into the seventh grade.”

Wiener first asked or the
Lennon FBI files a few months

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after the talented composer and
musician was shot to death in
1980 by a deranged fan in New
York. The professor and the
ACLU sued in 1983.

The case has been thrown out
and reinstated on appeal. The
U.S. Supreme Court sided with
\Viener in 1992, rejecting an FBI
appeal to kill the suit. In Decem—
her, US. District Judge Robert
Takasugi ordered the FBI to
answer questions about why it
kept a file on Lennon. Res onses
were due in February, but t e FBI
asked for an extension because of
the federal government shutdown
inJanuary.

Wiener has collected 26
pounds of paper, filling tWo card-

oard boxes in the study of his
West Los Angeles home. Some of
the documents tell more about
bureaucracy than the Beatles.

W'iener eventually got the
withheld portion, classified “con-
fidential" by the FBI. It begins
with lyrics to the Lennon song

3

“John Sinclair,” which were print—
ed on the back of an album cover
in 1972.

The song, about an activist
busted for marijuana, “ robably
will become a million seller,” the
FBI informant wrongly predicted
“... but it is lacking Lennon's usual
standards.”

The report also noted ~— confi-
dentially ~ that Lennon’s wife,
Yoko Ono, “can’t even remain on
key.”

Lennon at the time was dis—
cussing plans, later discarded, for
opposing the war and Nixon on a
rock tour ending with a “ olitical
\Voodstock” outside the epubli-
can National Convention in San
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John Lennon. I don‘t think we’re

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Eennon,” said VViener.

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files is that they document gov-
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dent, and that’s a violation of the
Bill of Rights, an attack on free-
dom of speech.

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estimated $500,000 in attorney
time and other expenses, Mar-
malefsky estimated.

Four different lawyers have
headed the case for the govern-
ment.

It wasn’t known what the tax—
payer expenses amounted to.
Spokesmen for the FBI and the
Justice Department either
declined to return calls or to dis-
cuss the case on the phone.

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Edgar Hoover is dead and gone.
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nam,” said Wiener.

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tion has apparently decided that
they’ll continue to keep these doc-
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them, and I wonder why,” he said.
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HUNTINGTON, \V.Va. -— Billy Donovan —
much like his mentor, UK coach Rick Pitino — is a
man ossessed.

T e second—year Marshall University coach won’t
be featured on the cover of Sports Illustrated anytime
soon. Donovan’s family (wife Christine, son William
and daughter Hasbrouck) is what truly drives him.

“You really see what’s important, after you come
home from work," Donovan said last month. “Some-
times we’ve had a bad practice and I think it’s the end
ofthe world. You come home and see those faces and
hear those voices, you see what’s really important.”

That’s not to say basketball isn’t important to
Donovan — “every waking moment outside of family
time” is devoted to it, he said. Donovan — along with
MU assistant and former UK star John Pelphrey —
took Pitino's fast-breaking, full-
court pressing style to Huntington
and has made it work.

The Thundering Herd was 18-9
in Donovan‘s first season. This year,
the Herd rebuilt, starting three
freshman and implying numerous
transfers into the mix.

“\Ve’re a real young team right
now, but we’ve got great talent, it’s just inexperienced
talent,” Donovan said. “Once we get a year of playing
together, I think we really could have something spe—
cial here.”

Donovan and Pelphrey resemble Pitino’s special
coaching style. During a recent practice, the two
berated la ers for foul-ups, praised them for successes
and ma e em run in between.

As Pelphre screamed at Marshall player John
Brannen, spit ew from his mouth, much as the saliva
flows freely during a Pitino outburst. When Donovan
coaches, his feet stomp the floor, akin to the horse
clop Pitino uses to get his team’s attention.

“We certainly aren’t trying to copy (Pitino),"
Donovan said. “Sure, we’ve learned quite a bit from
him, and I hope, we’re putting some things in place.

“But, in terms of style, he’s in a class by himself. I
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can’t compete with that.”

In a rarity for a second-year coach, Donovan was
coaching players he recruited himself this season. Last
year’s team lost eight players, including six seniors.
There were eight newcomers to this year’s team ~—
four freshman and four transfers.

“It’s a great feeling to have kidsyou signed,” Dono—
van said, “because they want to play for you.”

Donovan and Pelphrey are certainly looking to the
future. After showing some resolve through a schedule
rated around the nation’s 50th-toughest, Marshall’s
young players received some much-needed seasoning.

“I sort of threw these guys into the fire right awav
to see how they’d react,” Donovan said of his tough
scheduling, which included UK. “They’ve taken their
lumps this year, that’s for sure. \Ve’re green right now.
I think next year you should see some major improve—
ments and then, hopefully, something really special."

John Pelphrey was something special at UK. Durv
ing his time as a Wildcat, he wit~
nessed the full gamut of events: scan—
dal, probation, rebuilding and tour—
nament success. And (of course) that
last item included the classic 10-1—
103 overtime loss to Duke in his
final game at UK.

Pelphrey was guarding Duke‘s
Christian Laettner with 2.1 seconds
left in Philadelphia when Laettner hit The Shot. Duke
went on to win the national title, but the game served
as an announcement for UK’s resurgence as a national
power.

“(The Duke game is) something I’ve learned to deal
with,” Pel hrey said. “Obviously, (my career) means a
lot more t an just that last game. I hope we were able
to provide a solid foundation.”

Building is what Pelphrey and Donovan are trving
to do at Marshall. The talent seems to be in place;
ripening is needed.

For Donovan, he hopes he’s around while his chil—
dren grow into teens and into adulthood. Work takes a
back seat when his main trio ~— Christine, William and
Hasbrouck — come calling.

“(Leaving home) is the most difficult thing I do
every day,” Donovan said. “The only thing that’s
going to be there for you at all times is your family.”

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