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" . Lexington. Kentucky

Wednesday, October 17, 1990

 

Arch sues state, wants UK officials questioned

By JAY BLANTON
Associated Press

Arch Mineral Corp. has filed a
suit against the state in a dispute
over whether subpoenas should be
issued to force UK forestry officials
to talk about their research in the
coal-rich Robinson Forest.

The lawsuit filed Monday in
Breathitt Circuit Court contends that
under provisions of the I977 federal
Surface Mining Act. Arch should be

UK Center
on Aging
reports on
Alzheimer’s

By APRIL PHILLIPS
Contributing Writer

UK's Sanders-Brown Center on
Aging is better equipped than most
other facilities in the US. for the
study of the fourth-leading cause of
death — Alzheimer's Disease.

The center has one of only two la-
ser-activated mass analyzers in the
country; the other is located at
Mount Sinai, NY.

This machine enables researchers
to determine if trace elements are a
potential cause of the progressive,
degenerative disease that attacks the
brain and results in impaired mem0<
ry'.

The center held an open house
yesterday to give an update on its
on-going research on the disease.
Unlike other facilities. UK‘s Center
on Aging is now focusing its re-
search on the possibility of mercury
as a causative agent in Alzheimer’s.

Other facilities have focused on
aluminum as the key factor.

Mercury. not aluminum. is the
major trace element found in the
brains of Alzheimer's victims in
Kentucky. according to Dr. William
Markesbery, director of the Center
on Aging and chair of the national
Alzheimer’s Association Medical
and Scientific Board. He said differ-
ences could be attributed to geo-
graphical reasons.

Alzheimer‘s. once considered a
rare disease. is now recognized as
the most common form of dementia.
The disease affects four million
Americans currently, including ap-
proximately 60,000 Kentuckians. Its
symptoms include a progressive de-
cline in intellectual functions. In lat-
er stages, it is often severe enough
to interfere with the ability to per-
form routine activities.

As life expectancy increases.
ntore people are at risk to develop
Alzheimer’s. Markesbery said the
emphasis should be on prevention
rather than treatment.

See ALZHEIMER'S. Back page

 

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Student tickets for the
Georgia football game
will be distributed from
9 to 4 pm. at Memori-
al Coliseum. Students
must show a validated
student ID to get their
free ticket.

 

 

 

UK football
coach Bill
Curry trying
to keep Cats
sharp after
big win.
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Viewpoint ........................... 4
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allowed to question opponents of its
application for a permit to strip-
mine 105 acres it leases on the edge
of the University-owned forest.

In the suit, the St. Louis-based
mining company contends the state
Natural Resources and Environmen-
tal Protection Cabinet has not fol~
lowed federal regulations that would
allow Arch to cross—examine people
who have filed petitions against the
permit application.

By not allowing the company to

question the petitioners. and espe-
cially University forestry officials,
the company has been denied its due
process rights under the US. Consti-
tution, the suit contends.

“If the petition is approved ..
Arch will effectively be deprived by
state action of the use and enjoy-
ment of its property interests." the
suit said.

At issue is the complicated. and
rarely used. "Lands Unsuitable for
Mining” petition process. which al-

lows the state to ban mining on cer-
tain tracts. But people who file the
objections must prove, among other
things, that mining would “affect
fragile or historic lands," according
to the suit.

UK and the state‘s leading envi-
ronmental groups have contended
that mining on the edge of the forest
would damage important University
research conducted within the for-
est’s Clemons Fork watershed.

UK has not filed the “interven-

ing" petition yet, but is expected to
do so before a mid-December hear-
ing in Jackson on the environmental
groups' petitions.

Blair Gardner, a lawyer for Arch.
said the company tried to question
University officials in August and
September when the state was hold-
ing hearings on tltc permit.

But Gardner said UK officials
protested arid the state sided with the
University. John Nichols. a deputy
secretary with Ill: state cabinet. said

he could not comment yesterday be-
cause the agency had not received a
copy of the sun.

And Ed Carter. UK's vice presi-
dent for administration. said there
was no need for him to comment
since the Universny was not named
as a defendant in the suit.

But 'I’om Fit/Gerald. director of
the Kentucky Resources Council.
said Arclt’s suit “has little merit"
because the state does not have to
allow cross-eyaiittitatttins

 

 

UK STUDENT HITS BOOKS, NOT OPPONENTS

UK student Darrin Van Horn, above. displays the fruits of his labor in his career as a professional
boxer — a title belt. Van Horn. 22. has put his boxing career on hold this semester to finish school.

Van Horn’s battles

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now fought in class

By DWAYNE HUFF
Staff Witter

The fit: of a boxer isn‘t for fur-
ritt Van Horn at least not tiout.

He has grown tired of the early
moming runs. the specnil .ltcts
needed to keep his weight down and
the days after school spent sparring
a few rounds

l-Ic prefers to be Darrin Van Horn
the student .\'ot Darrin Van Horn
the former world champion.

“I'ye been _tust going to school
arid doing nothing -- — which I like."
Van Horn said. “I can stay tip late
and still do my homework because I
know I don‘t have to get tip at \l‘(
o’clock in the morning to train."

Van Horn is taking time away to
reevaluate himself and his boxing
career and just to take a break.

The 22—y'car~old Van Horn. who
attended UK on and off for two and
a half years before leaving to pursue
the International Boxing Federation
lunior Middleweight title at the bc~
ginning of 1989. is back in the
classroom.

“I kind of feel like Just another
stiident.’~ he said. “I like being
known. btit it brings me down to
earth and makes me work harder."

\thn Van Horn was attending
[K and boxing at the same time. he
frequently fell behind iii his studies.
and had to struggle to make up
missed work But now he has plcttty
of time to study and it‘s ittaktttg
school caster.

School to me is rclattycly casy j
‘v'ait llortt \dltl. "Maybe bccausc i
like school and that makes it easier.
But as long .is I‘m here attd can go
to class. I don‘t hate a lot t‘l prob—
lems. When l play catcli~iip. that‘s
when it gets pretty tough."

Van Horn. a second-setticster ititi~
tor titatoritiy tit broadcad It‘tlfllill-
tstti. hopes to bc .i sports t t‘llllllt‘llltla
tor for boxing ittatcltcs. lie is also
active tti Sigma (‘ltt social lfillt‘fill-
ty. sporting 'hc .Ltcck letters t‘ll his
boxing trunks.

During his break lrottt boxing.
Van Horn is keeping a low profile
until he is ready to itttincrse himself

in his work again.

“I‘m trying to tin utit oi tltc
ltittclight and get to here I‘m not
looting my own horn.“ ‘yait ilortt
said.

"i want to be \yltcrc I '-‘._l\. bclt r.‘
i got into boxing. l tit styitt: its;
sclt something to prone and sortie-
Ilttnt' It‘ light for." it: said "l ltiic‘
ltctitg incotrrtt/cd. f"cit st‘fIlL’lllI‘t‘\
'-t)tl need to getaway "

‘y an ilorn's break from l‘tt\t'?«1
started last My 6. one day after he
challenged the IBF lttntor Middle—
weight title—holder (itanfninco R:‘-*I
and lost iii a unanimous tlc‘Cl‘dL‘tl
'lhc hotit was a rcma'ch of the ttrst
meeting between the at".
Van Horn lost ll:\ crow it to Rttst tr:
what one boxmg ittaga/tne called
"The L'pset of the Year "

It was what l callcd ;: I'lt\\.‘~_'fl
opportunity.

“I was supposed to kill the guy .'
Van llom said. “And when the
tight started. he knocked me (ft-tn
with his first punch. . thdn't men
see it. I didn't we anything the r:-.t
of the light I don’t remember arty
of the bells ringing."

With the loss. Van Horn ttiisscd
out on a chance at big bucks and .itt
.sycrlastiitg naittc- .tt lll.‘
.utrltl at least for tho iiwtttt‘ttt‘

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game plan. but the results net-c .tte
same. .‘snd ‘s'an Horn kllttyys o by

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had woikcd and we \xcrc itctf ':~itt i
forgot to light. he said. I d.dtt t
chase him around the r:ng Ihc
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Students face added cost of insurance

By MARY MADDEN
Staff Writer

UK students may be facing an in-
crease _- possibly a large one — in
the cost of attending college.

Beginning September 1991. all
students enrolled in any public or
private university itt Kentucky will
be required to carry health insu-
rance. according to a bill passed in
the Kentucky state legislature last
March.

“Wc're working with student
body presidents across the state to
find out how much it will cost stu-
dents." said Student Government
AssoCiation President Sean Loh-
man. “The best we can tell right
now. it will be very expensive for
UK and U of L (University of
Louisville) students especially.“

The bill, sponsored by Sen. Ben-
ny Ray Bailey. took effect in July.
Section 20 of SB 239 adds a new

t‘t 1‘

section to Kentucky Revised Stat-
utes requiring the student health in-
surance.

The new reqttirciitent applies to
all full- and part-time college stu‘
dents in the state.

The entire bill. said Karen Main.
legislative analyst with the Legisla-
tive Research Committee. “is a com-
prehensive health care reform act.“
She said only one part of the bill ap-
plies to students.

“We are still in the process of re-
viewing exactly how we WI“ rc-
spond to the statute." said Ed Carter.
UK vice president for administra-
tion. “Unless the law is changed.
there is not much question that stu-
dents yyill have to at least certify
that they have minimal insurance
coverage."

There is an optional health insU»
rancc program now offered to UK
students. in addition to the $65 stu-
dent health fce. This program “far

 

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exceeds minimal rcqunemcnts of
the statute." he said.

The new requirement may pose a
problciit for students enrolled iii
UK‘s community college system.
Carter said. as the community col-
leges do not offer the additional tn-
surance.

Jean Cox. administrator of Stu-
dent Health Services. said the op-
tional main-campus plan currently
covers about 1,500 students.

Students who receive the group
insurance plan pay a SIQI deducti-
blc for six months of coverage. Af-
ter the deductible ltas been paid. the
plan pays 80 percent of hospitali/a
ttoit. accident and surgery costs. The
student pays the additional 20 per-
cent until the company has paid
$5,000 on his behalf. After that
time. the company pays 100 percent
of the charges. up to a maximum of
$25,000 per year.

For an additional $68 deductible

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per six months. that 95.000 maxi--
mum goes tip to 5 lllfillfitl

The current plan covers students
any it here ttot ottly oit t .iitiptis.

“it doesn't do any good to hate
the coverage tust on campus. Stu-
dents need it when they‘re not on
campus. too." Cox said.

Students iii the LR (.Totnmuitity
College System are encouraged to
buy insurance. Cox said. although
they can not get the group rate avail-
able to main cattipus students.

She expressed concern that the
coverage required by the statute
would be insufficient tfa student be—
came seriously inturcd.

’lhcre is a lot that‘s uncovered tit
platt .. I think they‘re hoping that
the universities \\lll [lfOHth coycr~
age over and beyond that.” she said.

Cox emphasized that officials are
only In the first stages of cxaitttning
the legislation and how to comply
with it. A decision has not been

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made on yyhctltcr other insurance
plans will be offered by health \‘f'
vices next year. she said.

the hill states that lhc lllsliltllltui
may waive a student‘s participation
in the campus health insurance pro
gram if that student provides wntten
certification that he or she is c0v-
cred by a comparable insurance pio-
grant.

When the legislation is intple.
mented. every institution will be re-
qutred to stibittit tm annual report on
its COlllf‘lldlltt‘ to the Council on
Higher Education. The report must
include the number of students not
covered .utd a proposed method of
meeting the cost of adding those stu-
(lcnls to insurance prograttts.

In order to qualify. the benefits of
a student health insurance prograiti
must meet requirements stated in the
bill. The progiattt must provide for
basic inpatient hospital services and
ctnergency medical services.

 

 

 2 - Kentucky Kernel, Wednesday, October 17, 1990

._‘— SPORTS

 

By DWAYNE HUFF
Staff Writer

Sometimes when a team
comes off of an emotional vvin.
it tends to have a letdown.

And in this week‘s practice
sessions. UK football coach Iiill
Curry is looking to avoid any
decrease in mental alertness.

“Most people lose concentra-
uon when something good hap~
pens," Curry said. “And the
mark of an immature football
team is that they follow up a Win
with a Iackadaisical perfor—
mance. And we \vill light that
this week on the practice field
\\ ith a fervor that you can’t ima-
gine. We Will go to war \HIII
that natural human tendency.

"You go through four weeks
of nightmares and then you [i
naliy wm one and somehow the
human mind seems to tell as.
'Everything‘s okay‘ but every-

 

thing‘s not okay and everything
was not okay in our last perfor~
mance.“

However, there were a few
bright spots for a few UK players.
mainly first-time starting fullback
Terry Samuels, vv ho rushed for SI
yards on ll carries and led the
team in receivmg with seven
catches for 57 yards.

“Terry Samueis has been one of
those pleasing progressions,” Cur-
ry said. “Here is an extremely tal«
ented person, who is learning a
new position and trying to gro“
up the same time as a football
player."

Curry will assess his players lIl
certain situations this week.

“We’re evaluating our players
especially quarterbacks and leader
types, as to what they do after an
emotional event." Curry said.
"It‘s a very. very critical aspect of
getting what ‘we want from our
football team and to be sure that

Curry guards against letdown

we understand the sequences of
events as they occur and how im—
portant they are.

“I want to see what the quarter-
back does after he gets blind-sided
and he gets up off the ground and
is looking out the earhole of his
helmet \Hlll blood everywhere. I
want to see what he’s going to do
the next time he throws because
it‘s important. I likewise want to
sec what’s going to happen and
how a quarterback is going to
react when he throws a big touch-
down pass.”

Curry stressed the imponance
of ball control and its role in UK’S
success during the fourth quarter.

“In the last three games, we’ve
had the ball 31 minutes and the
opposition has had it 14,” Curry
said. “That’s a critical statistic.
Sooner or later, you’ll start to win
all of your games when you begin
to play the first three like the
tourth."

 

 

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Continued trom page 1

Two losses stained his record, but
can’t tarnish his 45 career wins or
his 26 knockouts. But the defeats
did prove costly is some areas of his
life.

“I learned who my real friends
were,” he said. “When you’re win-
ning, you have plenty of fair-
weather friends. But the people who
are still with me now are the ones
that will be beside me when i get
back into it."

Van Horn has said many times
losing was good for him. Losing the
fight “brought me back down to
earth." he said. It also, he said with
a laugh, lowered his bank account.

Currently Van Horn is the No. 3
contender behind Glenn Wolfe and
Troy Waters. And he said he feels
confident he will be ready when he
goes back into the ring.

“There’s no doubt in my mind
that I'll be back on top," Van Horn
said. “1 can get the title back when—
ever I start training for it."

It seems that the boxing world v
especially the national television
stations —— wants to see Van Horn

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return. During his career, he fought
four times on the USA network,
three times on NBC and both title
bouts with Rosi on ABC.

“1 was called to fight in Septem-
ber at the Taj Malta] on an under-
card for a George Foreman fight,"
he said. “And the USA network
called and wanted me to fight re-
cently."

But he turned them both down.

Just before Van Horn won the
championship, he was on the cover
of Ring magazine. He was only 18
years old, and had a 35-0 record.
The headlines read, “The One Mil-
lion Dollar Baby.” The picture
showed him punching a wall of
$100 bills.

“I soaked it up and it made my
head get big,” he said. “But it also
made me fight harder to stay where
I was. Now I‘ll be fighting really
hard to get back where I was.”

At the beginning of his career,
winning came easy for Van Horn.
But people weren’t convinced of his
abilities.

After all, Van Hom was only 16
years~old and still in school when he
first through punches in the profes-
sional ring. No wonder he soon be-
came known as “School Boy.’

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young and I wasn't supposed to
have a chance," Van Horn said.
“Everyone kept letting me slide on
and I keptbeating people. And they
looked at me and said, ‘He's just a
little white kid’ and they didn’t
think that I could do it.

“But when I won the title, I was
20, and the youngest champion in
the world at that time," he added. “I
was looking at million-dollar pay-
days. And then I started listening to
them tell me how great I was and I
forgot what got me there."

Van Horn reached his initial goal
of the IBF Junior Middleweight title
when, as a decided underdog, he
beat Robert Hines to take the crown
in his first title shot on Feb. 5, I989.

Critics said port of Van Hom‘s
demise was due to the fact his father
— G.L. Van Horn — played too big
a part in his training, running new
trainers in and out after every light.
But he credits his dad for his suc-
cess.

“People have said that he didn’t
want to let go, but he did let go
when he needed to," he said. “He
just doesn’t want to give control
over to someone that doesn’t know
me that well. He hasn‘t hurt my ca—
reer any.”

Van Horn now lives in his own
house . quite a step up from when
he first arrived in Lexington.

“When we first moved here, we
didn’t have a whole lot of money,"
he said. So his father cut a deal with
the manager at Continental Inn. He
fought several of his early fights
there.

But now his daily fights aren‘t in
g) ms or rings. They‘re in the Class—
room. And, for now, that‘s just
where the “School Boy" wants to

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‘Trouble’ displays reality of racism

By DENNIS DEVER
Contributing Writer

“Trouble Behind," a controver-
sial documentary film about racism
in the small Kentucky town of Cor-
bin, was viewed by a large audience
Friday at Whitehall Classroom
Building.

The film itself is essentially a
philosophical on-screen round—robin
illustrating conflict and racial tur-
moil, which traces its origin to a
race riot in 1919 that forever
scarred the town.

But many Corbinites and other
small-town Kentuckians alike ob-
ject to the film’s portrayal of Corbin
because they believe it has perpetu-
ated negative stereotypes of the av-
erage Kentuckian.

Robby Henson, the producer and
director of this film, attempts to
deal with an issue that is taboo in
Southem culture. He is to be ap-
plauded for this attempt and com-
mended for his gumption in discem-

ing the truth about the Southern
mind in regards to racism.

Because of his attempt to stab at
the reality of people’s views, many
people have become infuriated and
failed to learn the lessons this film
has to offer. The repugnant fumes
of ignorance waft into the audience
as the young minds of Corbin be-
come stagnant and they accept the
racist ideas of their ancestors.

That same ideology contributed
to the deportation of over 200 black
people who were placed on a train
to Knoxville one violent night in
1919.

Henson merely shows us the fac-
es of Corbin as he talks to them in
the comfortable setting of their own
hometown. They talk freely as if the
camera really isn’t there. This is
sad, in a way, because many —— out
of habit or ignorance —— refer can-
didly back to 1919 when the “nig-
gers were run out of town.”

Many Corbinites show they are
ashamed to live under the cloud of

hate lingering over the town. while
others try to refute its existence.
Henson's ponrayal of Corbin
makes you think of your own
hometown and the people who live
there, because Henson’s subjects
are real and remind you of people
you already know.

By watching “Trouble Behind,"
you not only learn about racism.
but also how people harbor stereo-
types and false beliefs about a great
number of things.

Calling Corbinites ignorant or
foolish would be wrong and inaccu-
rate. The film merely shows us that
people tend to hang on to old-world
beliefs no matter where they live.

Racism knows no boundaries.
All of us have developed thoughts,
ideas or stereotypes about a great
number of topics. Yet, we have to
let our minds evolve to a state
where we can overlook our stereo-
types and look more deeply to in-
vestigate what we are prejudging.

Robbie Henson already has been

awarded a number of prestigious ac-
knowledgements, including the
1989 Kentucky Arts Council Fel-
lowship. He is no longer an up-and-
coming filmmaker, but has broken
through that and achieved national
applause for his work. All of us
should see this film. not because it
is an award winner or because of
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Soviet leader
symbol of what
world saw in ’89

It will be several generations before the world will begin to
understand how remarkable 1989 was in relation to the devel—

opment of history.

From Moscow to East Berlin, totalitarian governments crum-
bled, seemingly overnight, as a yearning for freedom and de-
mocracy overcame Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union.

Remarkably, none of the revolutions shed nearly as much
blood as the world could have seen. Only six months earlier.
while political in Eastern Europe was rumbling, the world
watched in amazement as China ruthlessly mowed down its cit—

izens in cold blood.

.\s events in Eastern Europe came to a boil in November and
December, the world watched. expecting tanks to roll over pro—
testers at any minute. Some lives were lost in the revolutions.
but for the most part the tanks made little noise.

Much ofthat was the result of the efforts of Soviet President
Mikhail Gorbachev. When Gorbachev came to power in 1985.
he assumed leadership of a decaying empire that was teetering

on the brink of chaos.

The Soviet economy was bleeding the Warsaw Pact nations
dry in an effort to fuel its massive war machine. The standard
of living citizens in communist countries had to endure was
substantially inferior to their Western neighbors. The time was
ripe for another revolution of the magnitude of the Russian

Revolution.

It would be glossing over the issue to say that Gorbachev act-
ed quickly to implement his innovative refomis, glasnost and
perestroika, which are now part of the daily American lexicon.

If Gorbachev wanted to stay in power and see his country to
stay in one piece. bold reforms were needed. But it was not
easy to force an antiquated machine, known as the Soviet state.
to view the world in a different way. And for getting it to do
that with a minimal amount of bloodshed, Gorbachev deserved-
ly received the Nobel Peace Prize Monday.

In addition to his domestic reforms, Gorbachev warmed very
cool relations with the West. especially the United States. and
spurred the Revolution of ‘89 in Eastern Europe.

Gorbachev’s reforms are far from over — many problems.
both economic and social. still exist in his country. But with
the Nobel Peace Prize. perhaps he will be able to solidify his
political base and prevent the Soviet Union from regressing
into the dark days of the Cold War. in that sense, he was a

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