Vol. XCllI, No. 146

University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky

Independent Since 1971

Wednesday. April 11,1990

Kentucky Kernel

Established 1 894

 

Wilkinson’s veto of Senate bill may have broader implications

By MARK R. CHELLGREN
Associated Press

FRANKFORT, Ky. — The veto of Sen-
ate Bill 319 might seem like just another
skirmish in the squabble between Gov.
Wallace Wilkinson and the General As-
sembly over legislative authority, but it

may have larger implications.

One immediate question may be the fate
of salary increases for some 20,000 state

Top author,
journalist
to lecture

Staff reports

Barry Lopez, a distinguished
writer on subjects including land-
scape and humans’ relationship to
the environment, will give two pub-
lic lectures tonight and tomorrow
on “The Rediscovery of North
America."

Also, sports writer David Kin-
dred, a national columnist for the
The National Sports Daily in New
York, will give the 13th annual Joe
Creason Lecture in the Recital Hall
of the Singletary Center for the
Arts tonight at 8 pm.

It’s free and open to the public.

Kindred made a name for himself
as national sports writer at the
Louisville Courier-Journal, The
Washington Post and The Atlanta
Journal and Constitution before
moving on to the National. The Na-
tional. started by former Sports 11-
lustrated writer Frank Deford, is the
nation’s only daily sports newspa»
per.

Lopez, who wrote the awards
Winning books, 0f Wolves and Men
and Arctic Dreams, will speak at 8
pm. both tonight and tomorrow at
the College of Nursing auditorium
on Rose Street. A public reception
follows each lecture.

Lopez is at UK this week as the
Thomas D. Clark Lecturer in Resi-
dence for a special seminar called
“Space and Place: The Creation of
Landscape,” offered by the Gaines
Center for the Humanities.

0f Wolves and Men received the
John Burroughs Society Medal,
Christophers of New York Medal
and the Pacific Northwest Book-
sellers award in nonfiction

Arctic Dreams received the
American book award in nonfic—
tion, Christopher medal, Pacific
Nonhwest Booksellers award, and
the Frances Fuller Arts award in
nonfiction by the Oregon Institute
of Literary Arts.

Lopez has written several other
books, including a collection of
short stories.

employees.

Legislators have long maintained that the
memorandum that accompanies the budget
actually passed by the General Assembly
has the force of law. That view has not
been shared by governors past and present.

The 1990 session passed 38319, which
specified that the budget memorandum is
the law of the land for two years. Wilkin-
son vetoed it. saying it tried to make the
memorandum into something it wasn’t — a

legal document.

There is also disagreement over how the
memorandum comes into being.

Rep. Joe Clarke, D-Danville, the veteran
chairman of the House Appropriations and
Revenue Committee, said the memoran-
dum is voted on by the legislature, if only
by reference in the budget bill.

Wilkinson, not surprisingly, rebuts that
contention. He also said the budget memo-
randum is never subject to a formal vote

and is not subject to veto. That means ll
cannot be binding on the execuuve branch,
Wilkinson said in his veto message.

While the memorandum usually provides
no more than commentary on how the bud-
get was changed from the one submitted by

the governor,

directions on how to spend money or con
duct state business.

For example, the budget bill appropriates
$21.5 million in the coming two years for a

it can also include specific

 

 

 

 

A LITTLE BLOOD, A LOT OF HEART

 

 

PHOTOS BY STEVE SANDERS/Kernel Stall

Jessica Weiss (top), a mem‘
ber of Alpha Delta Pi sorority
and a native of Park Hills, Ky,
donates blood for the first time
during yesterday's WKQO‘FM
Pint Party 1990 at the Com—
mons Cafeteria.

At right. the WKQQ staff holds
down the station's mascot, the
Q-Bird, Organizers hope to top
last year's total of 528 pints
donated.

Donors received free T—shirts,
cookies and a squeezable
mug for their efforts. The
blood donated will go to the
Central Kentucky Blood Cen-
ter. located at 330 Waller Ave.

 

 

 

UK Jazz Ensemble gets award

By SHARLA HENSLEY
Staff Writer

Director Miles Osland learned
about the UK Jazz ensemble win-
ning one of only three awards
handed out at the prestigious Uni-
versity of Notre Dame 1990 jazz
festival Saturday in an unusual
way.

His answering machine.

The UK ensemble left in the af-
ternoon for an evening gig at the
“Bop Shop“ in Chicago and didn’t
know it had won until Osland
called his machine Saturday.

Since the jazz ensemble missed
the award ceremony at Notre
Dame, a formal presentation of the
plaque and awards will take place
at its upcoming concert at UK Sin-
gletary Center for the Arts Recital
Hall Tuesday. April 10 at 8 pm.

“It was an honor just to be invit-
ed," said Osland, director of jazz
studies at UK. ”Annually they get

close to 200 applications from the
whole nation."

The festival then sifts through
those 200 applications and invites
16 ensembles to the competition.
Osland said the ensemble received
an invitation after he submitted the
ensemble‘s tape “UK Jazz Ensem—
ble Live Into the 90s“ to the festi-
val.

()f the three award-winning jazz
ensembles, UK‘s had the highest
scores. Osland said. Its accomplish-
ment is even larger because UK
doesn't offer jazz study degree pro-
grams like most of the other com
pcting schools and the other squads
were comprised of mostly graduate
students.

“We did it with one grad student
and a bunch of freshmen and soph-
omores and just a smattering of
seniors and juniors," Osland said.

Two members of UK jazz en-
semble also won individual awards.
Lamar Boulet received the Out-

standing Musician on Trumpet
award and Larry Nelson won the
Outstanding Musician on Bass
award.

“I think we put on an exciting
performance and 1 think that was
infectious," said Larry Nelson. He
believes the comradery oI the band
helped them wm the award.

“I think just the Iact that every-
body was really in it together made
a difference," Nelson said.

Although it is not an official
competition, the festival has judges
and gives awards and scores. ()ne
of the judges at this festival was
Steve Turre. trombone playci of
NBC's “Saturday Night Live"
band

The ensemble also is st hcduled
to play for the Spring Arts Festival
in front of Margaret l. King Library
tomorrow at noon and again at the
pre-game program for the Blue and
White game on April 21.

general salary increase for \‘t‘lcttcd perma-
nent full-time state Clllplt))CCS. The job cat-
egories — several hundred of them —~ to
receive a $1,500 pay increase in the com-
ing years are specified in the budget mem«
orandum.

The overall question of thc Icgal status of
the budget memorandum presents a classic
conundrum. Clarke maintains the memo-

Scc \ E'l‘f). Back page
Expo deals

with decline
in nursing

By JENNIFER RUSSELL
Staff Wrne'

While nursing has been .1 popular
subject 111 llollywotnl with \l‘it‘ks
such as ‘ (fliiiia lé‘c'Jle and the ill-
Itttcd "\t\.'liti.'...'.ilg~-. ‘ In.“
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(litol lrssoti ix l.c "
the nursing ~litir:.i-_'.* 1'.
and belicxcs L'K's nursing expo ti»
morrow at the All. (‘liLitztllcr \Ictli-
cal ('cntcr can do \tliltc‘llllllg to
shore up an sun-depicting supply
of nurses.

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onstratc what opportiiiiztic~
ay ailahlc for II c fitting in itiii u 2.."
said lfc‘\t‘ll,tl1\1\till.tl .l.r:.t
nursing at I K Hospital " Itncr~
national shortagr.‘ '1
point when it :~ .i cfix’,‘ \.l'.1.:'v".1
We hope that bx hayin.‘ tt:i~ ‘_ .
more people will c'ltttt‘x' .i Hires
nursing."

The ll‘Llhlllil expo will 't\c hcltl t»
morrow from R liliili it' 3 p Ill. Ht
Memorial (‘oliscuiti Lthil‘its that
illUstrali‘ the 1""? «.1 I' ;'\;‘~ will ly-
Icaturcd ticsilth can
and academic f.‘}‘f\‘\t‘ltl.Ill\t‘~ '5
proyitlc further i'i'ort'tatiwri about
the lltlhilti ..tr.‘." \Iw the l K
helicopter .ii:.! tltc 1‘. ~‘ZlLll.ll trap»
port tittit tor cr‘ttitailt ll. l‘.ll"‘\‘\ will
be on tll\l‘l;1\

lrcson \iitl there abrc \sxcral
reasons for the llllf\li'l:.‘ shortat'c

l'ntil rcccntly il‘1f\l"l.' ll.1\ hccn a
prominently won m \ tisltl \ww
women haye itior. career \llt‘ltt“~.
so the nursing career has to come
pole for qualified workers Ircson
said.

Other reasons iii, little that pcoplc
don't rcaIi/c tlic tli\t‘f\ll\ iii thc
field. men not litklllt' attyantaec of
available opportunities and poor
salaries. lrcson said.

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that a lot ot salaries l1.:\t‘ ..\it:.' up a
lot in the l.I\l Icw \ '.lr\
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Church worker who was jailed
tells of ‘suffering’ in El Salvador

By REGINA SWIFT
Staff Writer

After spending four and a half
years as a church worker and vol-
unteer and eight days in an prison
in El Salvador, Jennifer Casolo
spoke at the Student Center yes—
terday about her experiences.

The speech was sponsored by
UK‘s Latin American Studies
Program.

On November 25, I989, Caso-
lo and two friends were held and
arrested in her home after the Na-
tional Police claimed to have
found weapons and ammunition
in her back yard.

But Casolo, who worked for
Christian Educational Seminars,
said she buried only personal
items, not weapons or ammuni-

tion.

Casolo said she didn‘t know
where the weapons and ammuni-
tion came from. Because she was
blindfolded. Casolo \Llltl she
couldn't tell whether or not the
police planted the weapons on
her property.

Casolo \uld she and two
friends were then taken to the
National Police.

“You are blindloldcd so that
you don‘t know w here the next
blow is coming from,“ she \lltl
The blindfold “takes .iwa\
knowledge.“

Casolo, a Phi Beta Kappa
graduate of Brandeis l'nivcrsity.
said she felt no contempt tor po-
lice who imprisoncd and interro-
gated her.

“They‘re National Police be-

cause it‘s a way to feed their
children.”

Clhc interrogators .I\l\\'tl her
why she wouldn‘t \.I\ who put
the ammunition llil1_‘f \itd

“Sulteritig. I \tllil. l\ i‘ot the
worst thing you .wiitl do she
said.

.r‘\nd during the :jtlthlilillllg.
Casolo \.lltl \llt‘ rcaii/cd ’ \I\ litc
wasn't my own My litc wth
given up to \oiiicthiitg creatct.”

(‘asolo said during hcr third
interrogation, ’I heard strcaiiis
arid cries and moans, tlcsh llllllllij
llt‘\l1,llt‘\llhllllllll liiiiiitutc.”

Mtcr the lieutenant questioned
her, he \.lltl tlicrc wastit cncugh
t'Htlt‘llL’t‘ It) ctlllHtl llt‘f. Nht‘
then was taken to the women's
prison w here she \[X‘l‘il eight day s
with 23 other {Xllllltitl prisoners
and many ”common prisoners."

 

 

 

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