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Legislators otter "K, HOVEI‘IIOI‘ BOIIIIII‘OIIIISB

By Kathy Railing
.N’rzrr Editor
and Mark R. Chellgren

Associated Press

FRANKFOR'I‘, Ky. -— Two state legislators yes—
terday offered a compromise for Gov. Paul Patton’s
higher education plan that would keep UK's name
on the Community College System but put budget
control in the hands of a new board.

Sen. Joey Pendleton, I)-Ilopkinsville, and Rep.
Mike Bowling, l)—i\liddlesboro, said they offered a
middle ground to trV to get legislators off the hook
from having to decide between Patton on one side
and U and its president, Charles \\ ethington, on
the other.

The two also want Patton to delay a special ses-
sion until at least May 13 to give time to consider
alternatives.

Patton's plan would create the Kentucky Commu-
nity and 'l‘echnical College System, which would
oversee community colleges and what are now the
Kentucky TECH vocational schools. A gubernatori—

ally appointed board would hire .i president for the
entire system and chancellors for its two parts.

The proposal offered yesterday would leave liiid~
get authority with the KCTCS board but give L'K
what would amount to veto power over Virtually
everything.

UK would have four of the eight -.ippointiiients to
the board. The board would have .iuthoi'itV to

approve every academic offering it any college or
technical school and U K s name would be on all cer
tiﬁcates and diplomas.

The new arrangement still would give the techni—
cal schools the latitude to react quickly to changing
needs and free UK to concentrate on becoming a
leading university, Pendleton said.

“I would like to ask the University of Kentucky
and the people who have been opposed to the goier—
nor's plan to take a look at this," Pendleton said.

\Vethington said he thought the compromise plan
would create community colleges that are part of L' K
in name only.

“It appears to me to be an effort to keep the L’ni-
versity of Kentucky name on the community colleges

but turn their operation over to someone else."
\Vctliington said.

He said UK does not want to just have board rel»
resentatives and its name on diplomas.

“ The L'niversity of Kentucky simply couldn't lend
its support to something like that," \Vethington said

Representatives .it Patton's office said the goverr
nor was out of town .ind had not had an opportunity
to look at the legislators‘ proposal.

L’K his beaten the drum among its alumni .iiid
supporters. especially in the li ire is \iith communi
ty colleges to iii'ht Patton s plan. lliat has plat e d
great political heat on legislators.

The other seven universities have endorsed l’db
ton's plan. as have numerous business and education
groups. ()pposition is coming almost exeliisiiely
from organi'tations related to UK.

\Yethington, iii a weekend letter to Patton. said
UK supports Patton's proposed changes in state-
le\‘el coordination of postsceoiidary education. lle
said L7K also i‘eali/es the need for institutional
changes.

“\\'e welcome the challenge to present to you our

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oust lllUIlltI lloiise pt IlsLl if he iloe n t .t his \\ iy.
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create an issue where mine exists .iiid iisiii'p legisla-
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Driver explores
culture on bus

By Tommi Ohlendori mind
Contributing IVt‘tter

he said,“

All students hope their major

will land them a job ofeverlasting

‘I grew up in the Bronx, N. Y., "
so things don t scare me
too much down here."

Because his father served in the

happiness.

\Vhile Bill Mucha is working
toward a Computer Information
Services degree at Lexington
Community College, he also
enjoys his job as a UK bus driver
after 50 years in the transit indus—
try.

“I know it sounds funny, but I
can‘t think ofanything l don't like
about (the job), " \Iucha said.

\lucha said he enjOVs learning
about different countries from
foreign students who ride the bus.
Ile now hopes to visit 'I‘hailand
after listening to students tell him
about the culture and people
there.

Before retiring, Mucha spent
30 years in New York City as a
line supervisor. After moving to
Kentucky three years ago, he got
involved again and accepted the
position of night driver for UK’s
bus system.

“It's given us another asset to
look to to help solve problems,”
said Patrick Kass, Mucha's boss
and assistant director of Trans-
portation and Management Sys—
tems. Mucha’s experience offers a
unique perspective to help make
routes more efﬁcient, Kass said.

Though Mucha’s job requires
working alone at night, he doesn’t

military, Mucha spent a lot of
time with his mother, who Mucha
said taught him about respecting
others.

“If you show a little respect to
someone, they will in turn show it
back to you," he said. “It’s no skin
off your nose to be nice to some-
one."

Because he works Monday
through Thursday, Mucha said he
enjoys spending weekends with
his wife

“She 5 my best friend," he said.
“\Vc have a good time together."

“\Ve joke around an awful lot,"
said Maryann Schneider, Mucha's
wife.

She said she has learned two
things from her husband's laid—
back attitude.

The first,
important as
moment."

Getting too excited about the
good and too upset about the bad
is useless, Schneider said.

The second lesson: don’t over
plan.

“If you plan too much, you ve
just wasted your energy, Schnei-
der said.‘ You can control just so
much in life and after that, life is
going to happen.”

When the opportunity presents

“nothing is ever as
it seems at the

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itself, Mucha rides his Ilarley,
thinking nothing of long road
trips.
“A SIIO—mile trip would be
nothing for the weekend," he said.
Playing keyboard by ear is
another of Mucha's hobbies; he

spent ll) years with a band. This
love of music translates into good
times for his passengers.
u t L

W hen people come home
from Richmond on 'l‘hursdays‘, we
turn the radio up and have a

party, he said.

Speech pathology sophomore
Marjorie Ilyams said she rides the
bus and talks nightly with .\liielia.
She describes him as “easy going
and easy to talk to."

To Mucha. the

serve as his surrogate family.

ILISSCHEICFS'

“I don’t know all of their
names. but I know most of their
stops," he said.

“Personally l feel all the people
tliit ride my bus ire no little chil—
dren .iiid l have to watch out Ior
them.

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continue to occur forever.

Shapere said.

He said Guth‘s theory also accounts for
the origin of all matter and energy.

In addition, Guth has concluded how
particle physics caused the hang, a concept
he will explain in the lecture.

“It’s reall become absolutely standard

Sysics in cosmology," Shaperc

in particle p
said.

He said when people ﬁrst began to refer
to the big bang theory, it was just the basic

theory.

Alan Guth thinks the forma~
tion of the universe is the result
of more than just a big bang.

The Massachusetts Institute
of Technology physicist will
lecture on the modiﬁcations of
the big bang theory he devel-
oped in the early l9805 tomor—
row at 4 pm.

Al Shapcre, a UK physics and
astronomy professor, said
Guth’s work has modified the
theory regarding the origin of
the universe to include what he
calls “inflationary universe the-

Ory'V,
“What he had done is sort of

inﬂation,”

this at UK.”

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refine the big bang theory,"
Shapere said.

According to Guth's theory, the early
universe expanded at an enormous rate.

It also suggests that big bangs have

and open to all.

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occurred many times in the past and will

The inﬂationary effect of the big bang
caused the universe to grow quickly at ﬁrst,

“Now when we say big bang,
we are thinking big hang with
Shapere said. “It s
not often we get someone like

Guth will lead into his theo-
ry by summarizing key devel-
opments in cosmology, begin-
ning with Albert Finstein‘ s
work up to the first general
acceptance ofthe big hang the—

I'yGuth Iappears at UK as part

physics and mathe-
matical sciences colloquium
also sponsored by a grant from
the College of Arts and Sci-
ences. Shapere said the series is
geared to the general public

“(Guth) has been told that he will have a
general audience for this talk, " Sha aptrc
said. “Anyone can get something out 0

Staff Writer

History III'OIBSSOI‘S
awarded IBIIOWSIIIIIS

By Brandy Carter

Two of UK's history department professors have been awarded
Guggenheim Fellowships for their outstanding merit in past scholar-
ly achievements and continued outstanding accomplishments.

UK is fortunate to have two professors from the same department
receive Guggenheim Fellowships due to the stiff competition from
prestigious universities such as Yale, Cornell, Michigan, Columbia
and Tufts University.

Professor Ihomas Cogsw ell will use his grant money and year off
from teachin to travel to C ambridge, F ngland, to study the effects
of popular cu ture on the civil warm England. Cogswell will contin-
ue a series of articles, some ofwhich already have been published.

Iollowing his articles, Cogswell plans to write a book drawing
from information he will gather from common )lace books from the
l7th century, which were written by students from the period. I he
book will be C ogswell’ s fourth.

C ogswell applied for the grant because the history department
only offered a yearlong sabbatical with half pay or a half-year sabbat-
ical with full pay, while the Guggenheim Iellowship offered a year-
Ion sabbatical with full pay

Cogswell will defer his grant for another year because ofa prior
teaching engagement at another university. Cogswell was completely
surprised by winning the Fellowship because Winning a Fellowship
in the humanities is almost like wmnin the Lifetime Achievement
Award at the Academ Awards, Cogswelf

“I am very devote to my students and I love teaching and plan to
return to teaching after my sabbatical, ” Co well said.

Professor George IIcrrin ton will use
volume 10 ofa series publisﬁ
History of the United States.

said.

is fellowship to Work on
ed Oxford University Press about the

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selected yesterday to hear the Oklahoma City
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system of numbers to shield the iif
alreadyanonymous jurors.

.‘\l[llt)llgl1 their names, backgrounds,
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.lrtr l'ftlitni'
and Josh Herr
Stilt] (.i'ltli

\Vith warm weather approa
ing and school nearingan end”
film industry is warming
popcorn oil in preparation
year's batch ofbraindead i
epics. »\fter last year’s
crop of obligatory
tnongo-budgct a *-
wittcd sci-ii ripmffs

aster flicks, Holl
to stick in the I
crowd with “101! ,-' I

.\fter the ' ‘ ‘

Independence % ~
executives see

of maldn
producti, ‘ 4 ' m1 ..
it\‘ in '( "C'Mab
year‘s biggﬁtiwiw
.Illll dumb rule is the A) (i
ltnt' ofhlocl Schumaclie -.
sequels. lint/nun lllli/ Rnhin.
trailer protnising plenty ofch
bondage gear and hammy overacté
ing. the star~studdcd comic book
fiasco promises to rake in plenty of
money while throwing away IQ
points and insulting the original
'l'itn Burton film.

;\Iso on the list are Jan De
Bont's Keanu-less follow up to his
summer hit of three years ago,
Speed 2: [flt‘t‘tl‘ir Birgit/or).

Not all the summer’s sequels
look quite so bleak though. Steven
Spielberg's The Lott ll 'oi'ld, which
throws away the plot of Michael
(Irichton's novel. looks as if it
could provide some legitimate
entertainment for the summer.
Also. the fourth . Ilien film entitled
The Ri'i‘lnrcrtiun. a late summer
player, brings new meaning to
“Ripley: Believe It or Not" by
somehow bringing back the

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BWWONDEII .‘Ihot'e George Clooncv and Chris O'Doncll to ‘It’ntnmn 11ml Rollin. ' top. Ton/”iv Lccjonrr and Hill

Sniith in ‘Mcn In Black. ' and top left.

female version of Mark Hammil
and her acid drooling friend.

The season’s action movies
might be the most promising field
for quality entertainment with
some of the biggest stars and most
noted directors takin their shots
at the genre. Ilong Rong sensa-
tion john “'00 tries to master the
linglish language in his cops and
robbers piece starring john Tra—
volta and Nicholas Cage. Face Off:

(Iage hits the screen in action
mode again with Con Air. This tale
of a hiiacked plane full of prisoners
could have the most intelligent
action script in a while, penned by
hotshot writer Scott Rosenberg
(Things to Do in Denver l/Vhen You're

Dead) and directed by the guy who
gave us the Budweiser frogs.
Speaking ofhiiacked planes. the
I5.000—feet—in-thc—air genre spills
over into the political thriller
spectrum. with l larrison I-‘ord fol—
lowing in the illustrious steps of
Bill Pullman as a heroic president
held hostage in .‘lll' Force One.

\Volfgang Peterson (In the Line of

Fire) returns to his comfortable
position attempting to assassinate
presidents.

Another political thriller that
could make the grade is the .\Iel
(iibson vehicle (jriiiypiiwcy 'l'hcoij'.
In this tale. a paranoid cabby
stumbles onto a real governmental
plot and finds himself in a world of
trouble. Richard Donner of Let/ml
ll'mpon fame directs the film.
which also features overrated.
undertalented plulia Roberts as the
proverbial love interest and
Patrick Stewart as the film‘s villain.

In a year in which both ”)4
and the re-released .S'tnr II III’A‘
broke box office records. it just
wouldn‘t be summer without a lit—
tle Sci-hi. The most questionable
ofthe pack comes from exception—
al French director l,uc Besson in
the form of the bizarre—looking
The Fifth Element. Bruce \Villis.
(iary ()ldman and an impressive
international cast attempt to add
life to the fairly Blade Runner—driw
en, status quo that has plagued the

.Ili’l (ii/tron mtd]nlm Ruhcirx mn- in “Conipirtitj' Thwny.‘

genre of late.

The biggest non—sequel hype
monster of the summer is almost
certainly the “ill Smith-Tommy
Lee _lones action comedy Men In
Ill/(rt. Directed by Barry Sonnen—
feld. who brought (ii’t Shorty to
the screen. .IIIB could be the first
successful blending of dark cortic-
dy and Sci—Id. bringing back all
the smarts that its obvious prede—
cessor ID-l lacked.

Other potential hits include the
third installment of the mundane—
ly—titled disaster pics. The Flood,
the Robert I)e.\'iro. Sly Stal—
lone-(.3) mob movie Copland, the
yearly mega—power Disney anima—
tion film Hercules. Meg Ryan's
annual romantic comedy Addicted
to Low and _lulia Robert's latest
attempt to rejuvenate her Pretty
Il‘onmn success with .\l)' Ber!
Friend ‘.\' I l hiding.

Before we know it the summer
of “)7 will be gone. 'I‘hc question
remains whether we will look back
at it as the year when intelligence
came back to the blockbuster or
another year down the toilet. It's
obviously not a question of asking
which of the aforementioned
strikes an originality chord. but
rather which plays the established
chord with more style. Either way.
the movies still offer the best pre—
vention of skin cancer and the best
source of free air conditioning.

MAI m Above. Ian Holm ﬁnds bimrelfmffed among a group of
aliens in ‘The Fifth Element,‘ top right. jodie Foster star: in another alien-
drlrcaz'ny pirturr ‘Contart, ‘ and right, Gary ()ldman taker a gun to President
Harrison Ford ‘5 head in ‘Air Force One. ‘ Theﬁlms lead a long list of unorigi—
nal Hollywood rtmmm' productions.

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By Josh Herr

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\s grunge finally gives up its
ghost. the world of rock music is
left indering what will fill its
shoL i the latter h alf'ol the “)()s.
l yen grunge‘s quintessential
l 2,iiid Sourirlgmirden called it qUIIS
last week.

The obvrous successor to the
throne seems to be power pop. As
the millennium approaches. the
dread and fear of. the future that
fueled grunge have been replaced
with .i sort of. devil may" care ﬁfth
“MTV. .

\Yith the rise in popularity of
bands such as \'eruca Salt. 3| 1.
l he (ioo (loo l)olls and ()as‘is‘. tr)
name a few. it seems as if we will
be disco-mg through the apoca-
h psc. In this vein is the new (Iali~
foriiia band Third liye Blind.

Power Pop is relatively easy for
1 band to create. It is the perfect
middle ground between punk and
The Beatles. Take a catchy pop
song. add in vocal harmonies. then
distort the hell out of the guitars
It is this technique that Third I ye
liliiid has leained and applied to
its self titled first album.

The band also combines its
knack for almost irritablv catchy
songs wrth fairly intelligent lyrics
running the risiial gamut of emo»
tional songs about life love and
the things we can never have. And
that is the strength of'the band -—
the ability to blend the sense of
the ioy of life with the angst and
pain that love can bring. l‘hc tens
s;on created between the pop seri-
s:bilities .irid the angry guitars per~
fectly echoes the bittersweetness

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BAY AREA BUN” Sim Frimi'ii'i'o power pop hand Third Eye Blind relented ir livtenuHe .i‘r’lfltitled tic/wt ill/W”! to

arrompirlry' the irritant rifiitxﬁryt ting/e ‘Swni—Charmed Life. '

ofniodern life.

This quality is typified by the
first single,‘ Semi— ( harmed l ife"
()ne of the stranger songs on the
album. it relates a story of love and
addiction between two iunkies in
thes same giddy style a ll—year- old
girl would say that spring has
arriyLd lts bouncy harmonies and
staLc ito guitar work are infec-
tiously poppy. disguising the bit—
tciiiess of thL tale You find your—

self humming it iti your head
never realizing the truly disturb
ing things you are thinking.

I he album s one flaw W and it
is an important one —— is that .ill of
its songs tend to sound the same.
(iranted it's 21 good sound. .iiid
with the occasional intrusion of
low nbL at song. it s i ftiii ilbuiii to
listen to. But after a while you
start to Wonder if you haven't
heard this song already.

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By Suzanne Rafield

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