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Kentucky Kernel

Vol. XCll. No. 62

 

Established 1894

University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky

Independent since 1971

Friday, November 3, 1989

 

Shortage of college aid forcing students to make hard choices

By PAT ORDOVENSKY
USA TODAY/Apple College
Information Network

Allene Whitney of Helena,
Mont, a member of the 1989 All-
USA Academic First Team, was ac-
cepted by Stanford University this
year. But she didn’t enroll.

“The biggest reason was the
cost,” said Whitney, a freshman at
Montana

State. “Our estimated need was
very different than their estimated
nwd”

Stanford offered $5,000 in grants
toward a $19,164 bill for her fresh-

man year. That meant finding
$l4,000 from her own funds, her
parents or from a bank. Montana
State, with room and board, costs
$4,213.

Whitney is an example of a
growing group of students who
have all the qualifications to get
into the most selective colleges ex-
cept for one: money.

“More and more students are fall-
ing between the cracks," said Shar-
on Gaskin, guidance counselor at
Wewahitchka (Fla) High School.
“The average student with an aver-
age income can’t qualify for any-
thing."

First emergency box
is installed by UK

By ROBYN WALTERS
Staff Writer

In an effort to improve campus
safety, the UK police department
unveiled the first campus emergen—
cy call box on campus Wednesday.

The phone, at the comer of Hill-
top and Pennsylvania avenues near
the Haggiti Hall basketball courts,
is one of 10 that will be installed
on campus by Thanksgiving, ac-
cording to UK Police Chief Wilson
McComas.

A red button inside the yellow
call boxes dials directly into the
UK police department.

 

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school attacked, Page 4.

McComas said the call boxes are
to be used for several emergencies.

“You can use it if your car broke
down, or if you are being assault-
ed," he said.

When the button is pushed, UK
police is notified of where the call
came from and a police officer is
dispatched to the site.

The 10 boxes are placed in heavi-
1y traveled areas. McComas said
when the University was looking
into the project, it studied areas
where students walk the most.

L'K Student Government Associ—
ation President Sean Lohman said
he was glad to see their arrival on
campus, but he said that some of
the boxes need to be placed in less—
traveled areas.

But Sn phanie Bastin of the UK
police department said that just be-
cause an area is heavily traveled
does not mean that call boxes are
not needed.

See UK Page 4

 

Syracuse reacts
to rapes with
stiffer security

By BRUCE FRANKEL
USA TODAY/Apple College
Information Network

SYRACUSE, N.Y.
Getting “carded” has a new
meaning at Syracuse Univer-
sity, where tighter campus se-
curity measures were imposed
Wednesday after a series of
rap-"s.

New rules require visitors
arriving after 3 pm. to leave
their identification cards with
dormitory security guards.

“it’s a good fust step. It’ll
help a little with security, but
we need more,” said Marnie
Lyons, 20. co-director of the
Syracuse Women‘s Center.

Five SyraCuse students
have reported being raped
since August by men they
met in bars or at fraternity
parties.

In one attack, a man pulled
a female student into bushes
in front of the chancellor's
house.

“I would never walk alone
on campus at night,” said
Lynda Ilerman, 21. a psy-
chology major from Green-
wich. Conn.

Tanya Hazlehurst, 20, said
she isn‘t writing home about
the events.

“1 haven’t told my mom
yet about the rapes. She’d

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Middle-income families are “get-
ting caught in the squeeze play,"
said Peter Bryant, vice president for
enrollment at lowa‘s Cornell (‘of
lege.

Students may be wondering if
there is a solution waiting Ill the
wings.

“I don't know," said Caskiii, lift—
ing her arms in a gesture of desper-
ation. “You tell me.”

The cracks are widening despite
the fact that the amount of financial
aid — from government, private
sources and colleges is up to
$26.6 billion, a 54 percent increase
since 1980.

But the cost of attending a pri-
vate four-year college I\ tip 106
percent since 1980; the cost 01 a
Iour-ycar public school is up 77
percent.

“The person who really wants to
go to school can find the money to
go to school," said Thomas Scar-
lett, financial aid director at Michi-
gan State. “But it often means
working and borrowing.

“Some students and their parents
are getting into really significant
indebtedness," Scarlett said. “it‘s
not unusual to see a student gradu-
ate from our school owing $12,000
to 515.000. That’s very un—

healthy.”

Another problem is that many
students aren’t aware of available fi-
nancial aid, said David lirdman,
dean of admissions and lintuicial aid
at Florida's Rollins College. who
conducted a survey of high school
guidance counseling for the \ain u
al Association of College a,"-
sions Counselors.

“Information about scholarships
should be available in cit-r; l‘ill'li
school guidance oilitt- “ l‘.I(ll11;Ill
said. “We found it isn't."

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by calling the financial aid office at
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Parents’ Weekend is rated ‘XXX’
by UK Student Activities Board

By DEVIN JOHNSON
Contributing Writer

Parents‘ Weekend, sponsored by
the Students Activities Board, pro-
vides an opportunity for the parents
of UK students to visit the campus
and become more familiar with
what their children do while they
are away at school.

The theme for this year’s Par-
ents’ Weekend is “XXX: e-X-pect a
great time, e-X—citement awaits and
e—X-traordinary entertainment“

“We’ve put together a variety of
opportunities for parents to partici-
pate in campus activities while vi-
siting their kids,” said Donetta
Noffsingcr, chairman for Parents’
Weekend and a UK English and ed-
ucation senior.

One of the highlights of Parents’
weekend this year is the Activities
Fair, held tomorrow at 11 am. in

the Great Hall of the Student Cen-
ter.

The purpose of the fair is to en-
courage parents to talk directly
with representatives of each depart-
ment to understand what their chil-
dren are experiencing at UK.

“They can ask questions about
the classes, majors, and kinds of ca-
reers that may come from them,
kind of like a centralized open
house,” Noffsingcr said.

Parents' Weekend began four
years ago with a brunch and a foot-
ball game, but has since expanded
to include movies and plays.

“1964: As The Beatles" will be
held 8 pm. tomorrow in the Stu—
dent Center Ballroom. This concert,
which was added to Parents’ Week-
end last year, re-creates the look and
sound of the Beatles. Last year’s
concert was among the nominees
for the Campus Entertainment

Award

“The Beatles concert contributed
to much of last year's success,"
Noffsingcr said ol last year's sold-
out performance. “It was so big last
year we decided to bring it back.“

The weekend also includes a per-
formance of “Ain‘t Misbahavin’," a
presentation of singing, dancing,
and comedy Sunday at 2 p.m. in
Memorial Hall.

This year's weekend also is for
commuter students who usually
don't have the opportunity to take
advantage of campus activities. To-
morrow at 11 em. there will be a
brunch held in the Student Center.

“Many of the fraternities and so-
rorities are having brunches of their
own," Noffsingcr said. “So the
brunch in the Student Center is
geared more for the commuter stu-
dents and non-grceks, but all the
events are for everyone."

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Story, Page 3.

BY JOHN YAUKEY
USA TODAY/Apple College
Information Network

Two Cornell University gradu-
ates are petitioning their class-
mates to withold donations to the
university until it divests all
stock in companies doing busi-
ness in South Africa.

Proponents of divestment at
Cornell say that selling stock in
companies with holdings in
South Africa will help strengthen
economic sanctions against its
government and speed the end of
apartheid.

Dennis Williams and M. Rob-
ert Bussel, both 1973 graduates,
are launching a mass mailing to
other members of their class.
asking that they apply financial

 

Cornell graduates want alma mater
to divest interests in South Africa

pressure to Cornell.

Cornell students and faculty
members have urged the adminis—
tration to divest from South Afrr~
ca for more than 20 years. but
this is the first time Williams
can remember anyone has tried to
apply financial pressure on the
university.

"Moral arguments haven‘t done
the job." said Williams, who
now teaches in Comell‘s writing
workshop."So you have to use
what leverage you have."

Officials at Cornell's develop-
ment office, which handles most
gifts to the university, declined
to comment on the mailing cam-
paign.

About $65 million of Cor-
nell’s 81.1 billion financial port-
folio is investcd in companies

hie money and hil‘.\ to .iprvlj» for it.
he said.

"College people rcaii“. .Hllll to be
helpful," he said.

(‘oilcgcs are pouring 85,6 billion
of lllt‘lf own money into student
aid. up from $2 billion in 1980. In
Iliml Ltl\L". they aren‘t spending
the iii-tine} hut ollcring discounts
on thc ilslt’tl tuition price.

\ermont's Middlebury College
has budgeted S30 million in aid
this year and Wisconsin‘s Ripon
(‘oilcge offers 532 million in aid.

A USA TODAY survey of 7%:
lounyear colleges revealed X7 per

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Singletary
Center
turns 10
with party

By JENNIFER RUSSELL
Contributng VJfllef

The Otis A. Singlclary Currier
for the Arts is throwing a party
Sunday to celebrate its lllth anni—
versary. and excryone is ”H tics!

Since opening in .Novt‘i'
W79. the center has hosted T
events, ranging from public it we
mgs to mll\lCl.ll concerts

The purpose or the hll'lhllIH mm
1\ to “showcase cxerything that u»:
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Lexrngton community. Ripley said
the ccntcr'is available for art groups

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with holdings in South Africa.
About 11 million of that is in
companies that have pledged to
pull their operations out of the
nation.

According to its policy of se-
lective divestment, Cornell holds
stocks only

in companies it believes to be
working to end apartheid.

lt has refused to divest, claims
ing that the companies it has
stock in are helping blacks to
gain political and that divest~
ment could have adverse effects
on the university’s earning pow-
cr.

Williams and Busscl were
scheduled to announce their
mailing campaign late this

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Congress approves defense budget that cuts SDI funding

Associated Prose

WASHINGTON —— Congres-
sional negotiators appmved a $305
billion defense bill yesterday that
slashes $1.1 billion from President
Bush’s Strategic Defense Initiative
and eliminates one B-2 Stealth
bomber.

The plan. the product of nearly
eight weeks of wrangling between
House and Senate conferees, pro-
vides much of Bush's request for
land-based nuclear missiles and re-
stores some funds for two conven-
tional-arms programs the president

sought to kill.

Defense Secretary Dick Cheney
said he was “generally pleased"
with the bill because it “authorizes
funds for effective modernization of
our strategic forces.”

He expressed some disappoint-
ment, however, over the cut in the
SDI request.

“I would have preferred a higher
level of funding for SDI," the de-
fense secretary, in Australia for bi-
lateral talks, said in a statement re-
leased by the Pentagon.

Sen. John Warner of Virginia,
the ranking Republican on the

Armed Services Committee, said
that he expects the president to sign

the bill once it passes the House
and Senate.

“Apart from SDI, on the whole
it’s one which we find acceptable,"
Warner said of the bill.

The legislation provides $3.57
billion for SDI, popularly known
as “Star Wars," in the fiscal year
that began Oct. 1 — about $200
million less than the amount spent
in fiscal 1989 and the first decrease

in funds since former President

Reagan proposed the anti-missile
shield six years ago.

Family members help alcoholics
sober up with counseling services

By GREGORY SKVWRA
USA TODAY/Apple College
Information Network

Tom Callan is a salesman, with
dancing Irish eyes and a manner as
bubbly as the beer that had become
his painkiller. So he figured he’d
talk his way out of this new batch
of trouble, the same way he’d wrig-
gled out of so many tight spots in
the past.

Then his daughter lowered the
boom.

“We don’t have you anymore,
Dad,” 11-year-old Julie told him,
with a cool matter-of—factness that
seemed mature beyond her years.
"You’re still here, but you’re gone.
You’re sick, and you have to go
into the hospital.”

“That was pivotal, right there,"
Callan said.

An hour later, he was at the hos-
pital, beginning treatment for alco-
holism. Seven years later, he tells
the story with the gratitude of
someone whose life has turned
around because people loved him
enough to confront him with the
painful truth.

The truth came out at an alcohol-
ism intervention, where family
members and friends. coached by a
counselor, forced Callan to face the
damage his drinking had caused.

While they can tell many success
stories like the Callans’, profes—
sionals still point to a disturbing
fact: Although interventions have
been around two decades, they re-
main largely a secret to the fami-
lies that need them most.

“Professionals in the field know
about it, but the public remains
uninformed,” said David Wilmes,
director of training at the Johnson
Institute in Minneapolis, which de—
veloped the intervention process in
the mid-19605.

One reason is the shroud of se-
crecy surrounding alcohol addic—
tion.

That shroud is slowly lifting, as
celebrities like Bill Bonds, Betty
Ford, Kitty Dukakis and Melanie
Griffith make their alcoholism

public. But the denial continues
with many people.

Wilmes also blames the miscon-
ception that there’s nothing a fami-
ly can do until an alcoholic hits
bottom and asks for help.

“I don’t know why this myth
persists,” he said. “In fact, very few
of the people who wind up in treat-
ment really ask for help until
they‘re halfway through the treat-
ment process

Don Pipes, who oversees inter-
ventions for Oakland Family Ser-
vices, a non-profit counseling agen-
cy near Detroit, said he too has
tried to tear down that myth.

“There are a lot of people who
still believe that you wait and wait
for an irrational person with irra-
tional behavior to make a rational
decision — which is irrational,” he
said.

One reason interventions aren‘t
marketed vigorously may be that
most insurance plans don’t pick up
the tab —— typically $500 or more.
Agencies like Pipes’, however, get
grants and government funds that
allow subsidies for low-income
families.

Nobody knows how many inter—
ventions are done each year.

Dr. Douglas Macdonald, head of
the Oxford Institute treatment cen—
ter in Oxford, England, said that
there are about 100 trained interven-
tion counselors in Minnesota, but
some say that figures is far too
high.

All agree, however, that ignor-
ance about interventions is pro—
longing many families’ suffering.

Professionals say that about one
drinker in 10 is an alcoholic; add to
that the people whose lives are
tainted by another’s alcoholism,
and you’ve got a lot of misery,
they say.

To Pipes, no intervention is a
failure.

Even if the alcoholic keeps drink-
ing the intervention process allows
family members to begin their own
recovery, he said.

They learn they can‘t stop or
control the drinking, but they can

tell the alcoholic what they’ll do to
protect themselves, including mov-
ing out, if things don’t change, he
said.

They begin to realize that their
feelings of despair, disorientation
and denial are common in alcoholic
families, and they learn about coun-
selors and support groups that can
help them untie the knots in their
stomaches, he said.

There’s a rehearsal, and family
members arrange for immediate ad-
mission to a treatment program, so
the alcoholic who agrees to go
won’t have time to talk himself out
of it.

A time is set, and someone
brings the alcoholic, who has been
told another family member is get-
ting the counseling. Alcoholics al-
ways show up, Pipes said with
some amazement — even if they
suspect what’s going on.

“Down deep, they desperately
want help,” he said.

Pipes then tells the alcoholic that
family members are there because
of their love, and asks the alcoholic
not to respond until all have spok—
en.

He said that he’s had only two
people walk out on him.

The usual reaction is stunned or
sullen silence. Sometimes subjects
stare at the floor; sometimes there
are signs of anger.

One by one, participants tell their
stories, while Pipes watches the
drinker’s reaction, looking for
“give-up signs” in words and body
language.

When a subject says he can’t go
to treatment because of work, Pipes
knows the family has triumphed.

“They’re saying, ‘OK, I'm ready
— just show me how I can do
this,” he said.

About half the subjects enter in-
patient treatment immediately; 45
percent promise to stop drinking
and attend outpatient counseling and
Alcoholics Anonymous meetings.
Five percent say they’ll quit or cut
down on their own.

 

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Adding $220 million for related
Energy Department programs, the
final total for SDI is $3.79 billion,
which falls between the $2.8 bil-
lion approved by the House and the
$4.3 billion adopted by the Senate.

Sen. Sam Nunn, D-Ga., chair-
man of the Armed Services Com-
mittee, said the cut in SDI spend-
ing reflected diminishing
congressional support for a pro-
gram whose mission the Bush ad-
ministration has not defined.

“They've changed the program so
many times and the architecture has
never been really a fixed architec-

ture, by that I mean the plan and
how they’re going to use it," Nunn
told reponers.

"We’re buying too many big-
ticket items with no hard choices,”
said Rep. John Kasich, R-Ohio, a
member of the House Armed Ser-
vices Committee who complained
about the restoration of funds for
the V-22 Osprey and F-14D jet
fighter.

The negotiators’ agreement,
which still must be approved by
the full House and Senate. includes
about $1.1 billion for the rail-based
MX multiple-warhead missile and

   

  

the truck-based Midgetrnan single-
warhead missile, about $150 mil-
lion less than Bush had requested
for the two nuclear weapons.

Cheney had favored financing
only the MX, but Bush opted for
the two land-based missiles.

The bill also includes House lan-
guage imposing a 50-missile cap
on the MX.

The budget for the MX and Mid-
getrnan drew complaints Wednesday
from four House members, includ-
ing three chairmen of Armed Ser-
vices subcommittees.

 

 

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More than 1,300 East Germans
flee through Prague to the West

By NADIA RYBAROVA
Associated Press

PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia ~—
More than 1,300 young East Ger-
mans jammed the West German
Embassy yesterday to seek new
lives in the West, and many
scoffed at promised reforms in the
communist homeland they left be—
hind.

In East Berlin, Communist lead-
er Egon Drenz urged closer eco-
nomic ties to the West and said a
new law permitting freedom of
travel to the West would be an-
nounced Monday. Several top
Communist officials resigned, in-
cluding the wife of ousted leader
Erich Honecker.

At least 8,000 East Germans
swarmed into Czechoslovakia after
East Germany lifted a month-old
travel ban on Wednesday, the offi-
cial East German news agency
ADN said. It is the only country
East Germans can visit freely.

Most of those flooding into the
embassy in Prague were in their
early 203. At least 200 to 300 chil-

dren could be seen behind a fence
playing peacefully in the embassy
grounds.

“We want reforms without bor-
ders,” said one of the new arrivals,
a 24-year-old trucker from Leipzig.

“I don’t believe that anything
will change there,” said another
young man who declined to give
his name. “The reforms are only for
the outside world.”

As darkness shrouded the embas—
sy, East Germans continued to ar-
rive, with at least 20 people gain-
ing entry in just one 15-minute
spell.

The refugees simply walked in
through the giant wooden doors of
the Palais Lobkowicz, the elegant
Baroque palace that houses the
West German Embassy in Prague’s
ancient Mala Strana district.

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embassy said he and his colleagues
had orders not to interfere with any
East German seeking entrance be-
cause this was a matter for the two
Gennanys alone.

Several refugees chatted with re-
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and listening to music. Others
waved from upper-floor windows in
the embassy.

Shipments of tents were ordered
from West Germany to cope with
what embassy sources expected
would be a renewed influx over the
weekend. West German Red Cross
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dispatched from Bonn.

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DIVERSIONS

Arts center director continues to bring the best to I; is...

Greater
diversity
her Wish

By CHARLES MoCUE
Assistant Arts Editor

When Holly Salisbury was asked
about what she does in her spare
time, she answers: “What spare
time? There is no such animal in
an administration. When you are
out playing on the weekends, we
are still here."

Spare time, is indeed, a rare oc-
currence for Salisbury, director of
the Otis A. Singletary Center for
the Arts.

As director of the Singletary
Center, Salisbury is in charge of
scheduling all of the performances
and events in the center, including
the technical aspects and all the re-
hearsals.

Salisbury also is in charge of
contacting the agencies representing
the artists and of preparing lease
agreements for all off-campus arts
organizations who use the facility.
Providing clean lobbies and arrang-
ing a ticket service are also Salis-
bury‘s responsibility.

To most people, the job may
seem more like a burden than a
pleasure, but Salisbury said that
she enjoys what she does.

“I would not trade it in for any-
thing,” Salisbury said. “I love it. I

was here when it (the center)
opened and I’m still going.

“I’m usually the last one to leave
the building, with the garbage to
take to the dumpster.”

The center. which will celebrate
its 10th anniversary this week, has
had some of the biggest names in
performing arts, including the
Cleveland Symphony Orchestra,
Leontyne Price and Orchestre de la
Suisse Romande.

“All of the big names we have
brought are my dreams come true,”
Salisbury said. “I was so pleased to
bring Itzhak Perlman to campus.
We always want to bring the high-
est and the best in classical music
and all the performing arts. If it
takes three years to get Murray Per-
ahia (pianist), I’ll wait.

“I’m a visionary type of person.
I’m mission-oriented, and you’ll
continue to work hard and not burn
out if you have a clear mission.”

The center, although a showcase
for world-class performances, also
caters to students, elementary
through college.

“I love the diversity of this job,"
she said. “I love working with the
students. For instance, right now a
junior high choral group is practic~
ing, and tomorrow an elementary
school group, and next week the
Lexington Philharmonic. We’re
meeting all of those needs of the
different groups. My goal has al‘
ways been to really continue the
center’s strong role at the Universi-
ty and the commitment to the com—
munity."

Salisbury said she thinks that it
is important to expose children to
the arts, because arts education has
been taken out of many elementary
schools.

“I absolutely love to watch chil-
dren,” she said. “You ought to see a
whole group of 1,500 first- through
third-graders at a performance. They
sit and watch attentively, probably
having experiences that their par-
ents never had because they were
raised without the opportunity to
make music or paint. If these val-
ues are instilled in the children at
an early age, then maybe they’ll
feel comfortable with the ans."

The Singletary Center, which
cost $6 million to build, presently
is at maximum capacity, but fund-
ing plays a big role in whether the
center will be expanded in the near
future.

“I believe there can be an expan-
sion, with the building and the
staff,” Salisbury said. “We want to
make everything we do right. The
next step is expansion of the facili-
ty and to expand the program.”

Salisbury studied painting at the
Academy of Fine Arts in Florence,
Italy, and earned a degree in visual
arts from George Washington Uni-
versity before resettling in central
Kentucky. She said that living in
Washington, DC. made her realize
that there was a need for more arts
in Kentucky.

“1 saw the cultural world out
there and decided I wanted to make
this University culturally literate.”
Salisbury said. “My greatest

HeadHunters refine their sound

By KIP BOWMAR
Arts Editor

The marriage between country
and rock ‘n’ roll is tenuous and is
usually unsuccessful, as most
bands get caught on one side of the
music.

“The problem with most bands
that want to be country and rock is
that they try and put country lyrics
on rock music,” said Richard
Young, rhythm guitarist for the
Kentucky HeadHunters. “It’s not a
good way to mix the music."

The Kentucky HeadHunters are
not a typical band. Although they
are based in Nashville, Tenn., they
played The College Media Journal
Convention in New York City last
week.

Young was enthusiastic about
the band’s presence in the Big Ap-
ple.

“CMA (the Country Music As—
sociation) sent us to the CMJ as
ambassadors for the groups in
Nashville," he said. “We learned to
respect a different style of playing
other than our own."

And the styles were dramatically
different from their own. While
some groups like Blue Rodeo and
Soundgarden came from across the
country, others such as the Iceland-
based Sugarcubes came from across
the globe.

All this for a group that has
played together in some shape or
another since 1967. The original
band, Itchy Brother, was founded by
Young; his brother, Fred, the drum-
mer; and their cousin, Greg Martin.

all of whom were about l4 at the
time the band started.

They played on Young’s grand;
mother’s farm, which they now
own and call “The Practice House.“
The band‘s lineup stayed intact un-
til the early 19803.

Young said that the band mem-
bers grew up, but they continued to
work in country music for other
musicians in Nashville. During
that time they held infomtal jam
sessions in the “Practice House."
Bassist Doug Phelps, whom
Young met in Nashville. joined the
sessions. “It was like there still
was something missing," Young
said.

Doug’s brother. Ricky Lee,
played with the hand one weekend.

“It was like we had played to-
gether for 30 seconds and we knew
we had something special,“ Young
said.

The band members then moved
to Nashville again to try and make
their mark in the music industry.
As Young succinctly put it: “There
ain't too many major record labels
in rural Kentucky."

While they were in Nashville.
Young noticed something about the
changing nature of the music busi‘
ness.

“It was going more L.A.,“ he
said. “Most record companies were
opening offices in Nashville and
watching for bands.”

“We weren’t bitter toward the in
dustry because no one had plunged
in and signed us," Young said. “But
then we said we’ll make our
own tape. After we made it, we

started giving it out to friends of
ours who were song writers in
Nashville. We weren’t really think—
ing about trying to get a record
deal, we just wanted people to hear
what we were doing.”

Polygram Records heard th