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Thursday. April 29 1.993;

Witnesses tossed gun into trash can, po 'ce say

 

By Dale Greer
Executive Editor

 

Two witnesses to the shooting of
UK comerback Ted Presley tossed
a .22-caliber pistol into a garbage
can before calling police, a school
official said yesterday.

UK students Jason Smith and Jef-
frey Mitchell left Presley‘s Bland-
ing 11 dorm room Thursday mom-
ing and placed the weapon in an
outdoor garbage can near Haggin
Hall after they allegedly saw
Presley point the gun at his head
and fire a single bullet into the right
side of his brain. UK spokesman
Ralph Derickson said.

The weapon, which belongs to

Smith, was recovered after Smith
led police to the garbage bin. De-
rickson said. Police also found five
.22-caliber bullets in the garbage
can and a single spent round in the
six-shot revolver.

Smith. Presley's roommate and
lifelong friend. and Mitchell, a 21-
year-old student from Louisville,
Ky., told police that Presley shot
himself with the pistol while play-
ing a game of Russian roulette with
Smith.

Police also recovered a second
handgun Thursday after Smith told
them where to find it, but Derick-
son declined to be reveal the loca-
tion “because of the investigation at
this point.”

The second pistol, a .25-caliber

semi-automatic. also belonged to
Smith and was not loaded when po-
lice recovered it, he said.

The Kentucky Kernel reported on
Tuesday that Mitchell and Smith
left the scene of the shooting, 113
Blanding II, and called police from
Haggin Hall about 15 minutes after
Presley was shot.

Police went back to the room
Monday to gather more evidence
and found two empty long-neck
beer bottles and a pint of gin.

An initial coroner's test showed
no alcohol or drugs in Presley's
system, but Mitchell and Smith vol-
untarily told police they had “done
some heavy drinking" the night of
the shooting, Derickson said.

It is a violation of University pol-

icy to possess firearms or alcohol
in residence halls, but the Dean of
Students‘ Office has yet to take any
action against either of the two.

Assistant Dean of Students Vic-
tor Hazard said yesterday that he
“will be meeting with (Mitchell
and Smith) and will work concur-
rently with University Police."

He declined to elaborate.

UK police still are treating the
case as an accidental shooting and
no charges have been filed. The re-
sults of a forensic gunpowder test,
which can determine if Presley was
holding the pistol when it dis-
charged, are expected back by the
end of the week.

The hands of Mitchell and Smith
also were tested, Derickson said.

 

 

 

Fieldhouse opening *-
rescheduled again

 

By Brian Bennett
Senior Staff Writer

 

internal affairs.

date again.

Blue-White game had been held.

 

UK's plan to open its new fieldhouse by the end of the spring semes-
ter has been tangled up again —— this time by an electronic net system.

Originally scheduled to open in December — and rescheduled several
times since — the state-of-the an indoor practice facility now will open
on or before May 24. said Larry Ivy, associate director of athletics for

Bad weather and construction errors moved the original date back to
March. Then a problem with the production of the track postponed the

The dedication was then reset for last Saturday. before the annual
Blue-White football scrimmage. But the Blue-White festivities were
canceled after walk-on comerback Ted Presley‘s death Friday.

“We originally talked about the Blue-White day for the dedication.
but in light of other events, the ceremony was scrapped,“ said Ken Clev-
idence, director of procurement and construction.

Ivy said the fieldhouse would not have been dedicated even if the

See FIELDHOUSE, Page 2

 

 

Construction work continues on UK‘s new fieldhouse. The
facility, which originally was scheduled to open in Decem-
ber, now is slated for opening on or before May 24. The $8.5
million, 132,000 square-foot building will contain a regula-
tion size football field; a six-lane, 290-meter track; baseball
batting cages; and 9,000 square-foot gymnastics training

  

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W Officials: Sports equality more

SPORTS:

Former North Carolina State
basketball coach Jim Valvano
dies of cancer at age 47.
Story, Page 6.

Susan Kiingenberg inducted
into tennis hall of fame: Lady
Kats fall to LSU. Story.

Page 6.

DlVERSlONS:

Students' videos to be shown
at the Kentucky Theatre this
weekend. Story, Page 4.

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By John Kelly
Senior Staff Writer

 

Equality is a fairly simple con-
cept, but UK athletic officials insist
it‘s harder than it looks.

lf UK had to devote an equal
amount of resources to its men‘s
and women's sports programs. as a
strict interpretation of Title IX re-
quires. it could simply divide its
revenue in half, giving 50 percent
to men‘s sports and the other 50
percent to women's teams.

Simple stuff, right? Just do it.

“In the real world that' s not the
way things are done, " UK athletics

. director CM. Newton said

In the real world, college sports
works under a system of Athletic
Darwinism, meaning only the
strong survive. Football and men's
basketball are strong. UK's other 19
sports. including 10 women's sports
and one coed sport. rifle, rue weak.

Thus, for the UK Athletics Asso-
ciation to fully comply with Title

 

 

 

 

IX of the Education Amendments
of 1972 —- which mandates equal
opportunities for male and female
athletes at federally-funded educa-
tional institutions — the association
would have to resort to drastic
measures.

Currently. UK fields 10 men's
sports. 10 women’s sports and the
coed rifle team. But only 122 fe-
males participated in 1991-92 com-
pared to 331 males. The most avid
of Title IX proponents not only
want equal numbers of female and
male participants. but also equally
divided resources for those athletes.

Simply put, that isn't possible.

“You cannot operate," Newton
said. “You can‘t function. We
would have to drop, with football in
the mix. two or three men’s sports
and add two or three women‘s
sports."

Another possible answer would
be to limit the number of men on
UK's football team. Newton said.

"if you‘re going to get it to 50-50

equal, then you gotta start capping
football. That‘s the one that gets
everything else out of kilter. Every
other men‘s sport but football fits
the gender model because there is
an equal (women’s) sport.“

The reason is football‘s numbers.
UK fielded a fmtball squad of 125
for the 1992 season, with 92 of
those on a full-ride scholarship.
(The NCAA will reduce the num-
ber of allowed football scholarships
to 85 for the 1993 season.) The
NFL limits its teams‘ rosters to 45
players.

That's a sour point with activists
who say college rosters are exces-
sive, but assistant athletic director
and women's head volleyball coach
Kathy DeBocr isn‘t sure UK foot-
ball coach Bill Cuny doesn‘t need
125 players.

“I've never coached football. so
I'm uncomfortable saying how
many football players it takes to be
competitive in the Southeastern

See TITLE IX, Page 7

 

 

Staff reports

 

Telecommunications junior
Jason Bradley Smith has asked
the Kentucky Kernel to state that
he is not the same Jason Smith
who was in UK comerback Ted
Presley‘s room the night the ath-
lete was fatally shot.

Jason Bradley Smith lives in
121 Blanding II and is a native
of Nashville, Tenn, while the
other Jason Smith is from Hop-
kinsville, Ky.. and lived in 113

 

Student asks for clarification

Blanding II prior to the shoot-
ing.

Jason Bradley Smith, who is
one of four Jason Smiths listed
in the UK phone book, said he
has received numerous tele-
phone calls since Presley was
shot.

Some have been from mem-
bers of the media, while others
came from friends in Tennessee
who read about the incident in

newspapers.

 

 

Three women talk
about race, creativity

 

By Tyrone Beason
News Editor

 

Three distinguished and very dis-
tinct women were brought together
last night in a revealing, often hu-
morous exploration of the creative
and spiritual power of black wom-
en.

The presentations. sponsored by
the UK Women's Studies Program.
focused on the work of noted au-
thor Anne Allen Shockley, East
Carolina University professor Gay
Wilenz and former all-female jazz
band leader Anna Mae Pilgrim.
who was featured in a video docu—
mentary about her band, The Inter-
national Sweethearts of Rhythm.

The group crisscrossed the US.
and Europe during the 19405 and
'505, playing to sell-out crowds in
most of the cities they visited.

This multi-racial ensemble faced
both sexist and racist bigotry, much
from within the male-dominated
jazz community. Some critics went
so far as to deem the Sweethearts a
novelty act because of the prevail-
ing notion that females were inca-
pable of prospering outside the
home.

The black band members also
had to confront blatant hatred on

stage and on the road, particularly
in the South.

“We went through quite a bit in
the South," Pilgrim said. “It was
very devastating to travel in those
days when prejudice was so preva-
lent."

White members of the band often
made themselves over to look black
so that police would not be suspi-
cious of interracial co-mingling,
which was taboo at the time.

Shockley, in her speech to the
crowd of about 35, explained that
the creative genius of many black
women writers was “muted" for
generations and that for these wom-
en. the written word had great re—
demptive value in times of emotion-
al hardship. Thus. they wrote more
out of necessity than for leisure.

“I, too, write because I must.“ she

d “For me. there is no other an-
swer." Shockley is the author of the
early 19705 novel “Loving Her.“
about a black-white lesbian relation-
ship.

Wilenz said black women writers
heal and empower their readers by
incorporating African-based meth-
ods of spiritual healing into their
work, giving it redemptive value.

Knowing one‘s heritage, she said.
is “integrally connected" to achiev-
ing spiritual wellness.

Board selects next leaders

of yearbook,

Staff reports

 

 

Next year's leaders for WRFL-
FM and the Kentuckian yearbook
were selected yesterday by the UK
Board of Student Media.

Brian Jent. a 23-year-old English
education major from Louisville.
Ky., was selected editor of the year-
book.

He currently is sports editor for
the yearbook and has served in a
number of editor's positions for the
Kentucky Kernel.

radio station

“It‘s real honor to be named the
editor of the Kentuckian." said
Jent. who was the only applicant.
“I‘ve worked real hard for both
publications, and this is a nice way
to be rewarded."

The direction of the book won‘t
be determined until section editors
are selected. he said. “However. I
can guarantee a solid book from
cover to cover."

The board also selected Wayne
Karczewski to serve a second year

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Fieldhouse

Continued from Page 1

“It just wasn't ready," Ivy said.
“We were not ready to take occu-
pants into the building."

The snare this time, Ivy said. is
the installation of an electronic net-
ting system that will be used to
separate the field so different teams
can practice simultaneously.

“There are a few little odds and
ends we need to take care of,“ he
said. “But the basic holdup is the
netting system."

Clevidence said the building
needs some “tine-tuning" but is
“very close“ to being ready.

“It is substantially complete. As
with any project of this size, we‘ve
still got some clean- -up to do “
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doing some landscaping."

Athletes will begin using the fa-
tility when it's finished in May, Ivy
sud. Students will be able to use
tie building in the fall. though
hairs haven‘t yet been determined.

“We're in the process now of de-
temining what type of time de-
manls the various sports will
have," lvy said.

Ivy said UK will hold “some kind
of dedcation or open house" in the
fall, probably before the first foot-
ball hone game, Sept. 4.

At that ceremony. University of-
ficials will announce the name that
they have already chosen for the
building. Ivy wouldn't disclose the
name but said the fieldhouse will be
named after someone who donated
money to the project.

The $8.5 million, 132,000
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a regulation size football field. a
six-.lane 290-meter track, baseball
batting cages and a 9,000 square-
foot gymnastics training area.

Clevidence said the track prob-
lems have been corrected. but that
the gymnastics area will be com-
pleted later.

One person who can‘t wait for
that pan of the building to be fin-
ished is gymnastics coach Leah Lit-
tle, whose team has spent its entire
history in the cramped space of the
Seaton Center.

“It‘ll have the most impact on
our program that anything could
be." Little said.

Ivy also was excited about the
impact the fieldhouse will have on
UK athletics.

“It‘s going to be one heck of a fa-
cility," he said. “It’s obviously go—
ing to be a great asset.“

Media

Continued from Page 1

as general manager of WRFL, UK's
student-operated alternative radio
station. Karczewski said he was
pleased with his selection, and that
he plans to seek an increase in pow-
er from the FCC next year.

“My first and foremost goal this
coming semester is to increase the
power of WRFL, to make the sta-
tion bigger," he said. “We're only
250 watts, and that's small. We‘ve
definitely outgrown that. So my
major goal is to power up and to
achieve more of a listening audi-
ence."

Karczewski is a political science
and accounting senior and lives in
Nicholasville.

Karczewski defeated WRFL Pro-
motions Director Mark Tarter to
gain the position.

The board also chose telecommu-
nications senior Rick Jamie to be
program manager.

“I'm very optimistic about next
year, and I look forward to getting a
lot of things rolling," he said. “My
goal is to open up RFL to the cam-
pus. to bring them out of the shad-
ows through some more promotion
and other things. I want to let the
entire student body know about
WRFL and know it's accessible.
It's their station."

But Jamie said that won‘t mean
changing the format.

“We'll realign block shows so
people know what they're going to
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New student government senate
approves Dowdy’s appointments

 

By Nicole chmphrous
Staff Writer

 

The newly elected Student Gov-
ernment Association Senate ap
proved all of SGA President Elect
Lance Dowdy‘s executive commit-
tee appointments during its first
meeting last night.

Dowdy named former Freshman
Senator Evan Reynolds as Execu-
tive Director of Academic Affairs
and Senator at Large Rob Warring-
ton as Executive Director of Stu-
dent Services.

Reynolds said he had not planned
to participate in SGA in the upcom-
ing year until Dowdy spoke to him.

“I was frustrated with senate last
year and was not planning to be in-
volved," he said. “But then I spoke
in depth with Lance and saw he
was committed to change."

Dowdy described Warrington as

a “nuts-and-bolts kind of guy.
When he says he'll get something
done, he does it."

Warrington said he plans to at-
tend all senate meeting next year so
the legislative and executive
branches will better work together.

Since Warrington will not be able
to serve as a senator and an execu-
tive director, Trent Knuckles was
named as his senate replacement.

Dowdy also appointed Ellen
Hamilton and T.A. Jones to repre-
sent UK more completely during
the upcoming legislative session of
the General Assembly.

“Ellen and T.A. have two jobs
next year: to keep us informed and
to be our voice in Frankfort," Dow-
dy said.

Hamilton ran unsuccessfully for
SGA vice president, and Jones ran
unsuccessfully for SGA president.

In other SGA business, the senate

elected Senators at Large Misty
Weaver and Heather Hennel and
College of Arts and Sciences Sena-
tor Shea Chaney to the Committee
on Committees.

The senate elected them to be the
Chairman Pro Tempore, the Senate
Coordinator and the Member at
Large of the Committee on Com-
mittees, respectively.

The senate also elected six sena-
tors to the the Student Organization
Assistance Committee. They are
Senators at Large Stephen Dawa-
hare, Beverly Coleman, Jennifer
Schwartz, Quinton Dickerson; Col-
lege of Business and Economics
Senator Greg Watkins and College
of Fine Arts Senator Rick Boland.

College of Communications Sen-
ator Antimony Bishop and Gradu-
ate School Senator Steve Olshew-
sky were elected to represent SGA
on the University Senate.

UK’s first meniscus transplant complete

 

Staff reports

 

Kentucky’s first meniscus trans-
plant was performed on a 39-year-
old Berea man yesterday at UK
Hospital.

The arthroscopic surgery was
performed by Dr. David Cabcrn, as-
sistant professor of orthopedic sur-
gery and director of UK‘s sports
medicine program.

Meniscus transplantation is a new
and technically difficult procedure
that only has been performed at six
other sites in the United States.

The patient, Charles Pingleton,
was injured in the early 1980s while

playing volleyball. His knee injury
led to a subsequent tear of the ante-
rior cruciate ligament and menis-
cus.

Although Pingleton attempted
participation in recreational sports
over the years, his knee continued
to go out. After each episode, his
meniscus would tear more until he
eventually was forced to stop par-
ticipating in sports.

Pingleton's meniscal tear is a
common sports injury. The menis-
cus is a crescent-shaped pad of car-
tilage that helps to cushion and sta-
bilize the bones of the knee joint,
acting as a shock absorber.

When the cartilage is damaged,
orthopedic surgeons often must re-
sort to cartilage removal that often
makes the knee more vulnerable to
further tears. In some cases, patients
who have lost protective knee cartil-
age develop crippling arthritis.

In severe cases, total knee re-
placement is recommended.

“Even with the most advanced
techniques, only 30 percent of all
cartilage tears respond to surgical
repair," Caborn said. “This is why
we are excited about the potential
for this new type of treatment op-
tion. We believe it will eliminate or
delay a total knee replacement for
many patients if performed daily."

Western employees to be disciplined

 

Associated Press

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. ——
Seventeen current and former
Western Kentucky University em-
ployees will be reprimanded in con-
nection with alleged abuse of uni-

 

versity accounts. university
President Thomas Meredith said
yesterday.

Meredith said he would imple-
ment the recommendations con-
tained in a report released Wednes-
day by a task force, according to a
university statement. Also, head
football coach Jack Harbaugh was
officially reprimanded in connec-
tion with a football scholarship, the
statement said.

The panel looked into an unusual
scholarship and questionable de-
posits made to the accounts of four
former assistant football coaches
and others.

The report looked into the case of
a student not associated with the
football program who received a
football scholarship for three years,

worth $12,240, and other benefits.
In exchange, the student’s father
provided free or discounted motel
rooms for coaches.

“I broke no rules. I respect the
task force and everyone that was on
it." Harbaugh told WBKO-TV in
Bowling Green. “I‘m loyal to West-
ern Kentucky University, I work for
Western Kentucky University and,
as far as we are concerned, tomor-
row is a new day, and we are going
to put this behind us."

The report also dealt with alleged
abuses of so-called Supercard ac-
counts, which Western students and
personnel use to buy food and other
services based on amounts they
have deposited.

The task force documented abus-
es of the Supercard system totaling
$11,713 involving nine current and
eight former employees, according
to the report. The 17 people in-
volved must make restitution within
60 days, and each will get a letter of
reprimand in their personnel files, it
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“'Ihese university employees
should have reasonably known that
they were not entitled to these Su-
percard benefits,“ the report said.

The report blamed Louis Cook.
the university’s retired food servic-
es director, for making numerous
unauthorized loans to students
through their Supercards, with
about $20,000 still outstanding.
The university said Cook could not
be associated with the school
again.

“The university is currently mak—
ing every effort to recover out-
standing debts incurred as a result
of unauthorized promissory notes,"
the report said.

A Warren County grand jury in-
dicted former assistant food servic-
es director Howard P. Lindsey Jan.
27 on 10 counts of theft by unlaw-
ful taking. His trial is scheduled for
July.

Westem‘s food services are now
being handled by Marriott Corp.

Blandford
says he is

‘not guilty’

Associated Press

FRANKFORT, Ky. — Former
House Speaker Don Blandford yes-
terday declared “I just know I’m
not guilty" as his extortion and
racketeering trial neared an end.

Closing arguments were sched-
uled today, after which a US. Dis-
trict Court jury would get the case.

In a day of relentless cross-
examination, Blandford acknowl-
edged accepting money, meals and
expenses-paid vacations from lob-
byists, particularly longtime friend
William McBee.

But “there was nothing illegal
about it" because he neither gave
nor promised anything in return.
Blandford said.

And McBee took pride in being a
big spender, frequently giving him
money — $100 or $200 at a time —
with which to take people to dinner.
Blandford said.

“I never considered anything
from McBee to be a payment,"
Blandford said. McBee and other
lobbyists gave gifts or paid his ex-
penses “because they're my
friends," he said.

Blandford, 55. is charged with
extation. racketeering. conspiracy
and lying to FBI agents. At one
point. he read through his indict-
ment from the witness stand and de-
nied each charge.

“I just know I’m not guilty of ex-
tortion," Blandford said. "I‘m not
involved in rackewen’ng activity.“

Blmdford. a 25-yeil legislator,
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UK Experimental Lab takes wild films

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to Kentucky Theatre for first festival

 

By John Dyer Fort
Senior Staff Writer

 

Several sleepless, overworked art
students are holed up in UK's Ex-
perimental Video Lab. They are
readying themselves for the first ex-
perimental video show ever held at
the Kentucky Theatre.

In a mad marathon of video cut-
and-paste, students put the final
touches on video works they have
spent 50 to 100 hours shooting and
editing. The result is a wondrous
trip through video reality. Students
are especially primed for the Ken-
tucky‘s inaugural Experimental
Video festival.

The 90-minute video show has
been divided into two parts: “Chi-
mera Obscura" and “Eat the Box."
Both segments will be shown back
to back tonight at 7:30 and Friday
at midnight. Admission is $3.50.

“These students have just worked
their guts out. They're ready to pass
out," said UK professor Shawn
Brixey, the visionary video guru
and technological wizard who
heads the Video Lab.

Now in its third straight year, the
video showcase is one of the most
dynamic, intensely interactive ve-
nues to emerge from UK’s School
of Fine Arts. Previous video shows
drew several sold—out audiences to
the Student Center Theater.

“We‘ve just outgrown the Stu-
dent Center." Brixey said. “We‘d
like to ultimately develop into an
international and national competi-
tion."

A graduate of hybrid art technol-
ogies of the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology. Brixey specializes
in blending new age inspiration
with space age hardware. The
breathtaking result transforms crea-
tive vision into electronic reality.

For their Kentucky debut. a spe-
cial half-million dollar projector —
using the same “light valve" tech—
nology as giant stadium lightboards
—— has been obtained to project the
videos onto the theater's huge 42-

 

foot screen.

The Kentucky‘s bank of 14 Dol-
by stereo speakers also will be
used, pumping out a mixture of mu.
sical scores and intricate sound ef-
fects.

'lhe show‘s “Chimera ()bscura“
segment features hybrid cinema in
the spirit of film noir, including nar«
rative fictional works, animation, an
original music video and a 3-D vid-
eo requiring special glasses provid-
ed to the audience.

“Eat the Box" features technolog-
ically aggressive works with a “dy-
namic. semantic difference." Works
will explore the multi-dimensional
nature of video reality and the ab-
stract possibilities of video-made
flesh.

“A lot of people go home, sit in a
fetal position and are getting fed in-
formation,“ Brixey said. “That feed-
ing process is not very kind. lt‘s
forceful and aggressive.“

Among the works featured:

~“Inexhaustible Life“ by Kris La-
Follette. A meditation on the sancti-
ty of life and the thorn in the flesh,
LaFollette's work is a video-
performance piece intimately or—
chestrated around a hand. Influ-
enced by the mass poisoning of
blackbirds at UK this year, the vid-
eo is a poetic chant against materi-
alism and the assault on nature.

-“The Adventures in the Day of
the Life of My Little Piece of
Poop" by Bruce Humphries. An in-
tricate claymation work featuring a
new “hero" of rather unholy breed-
ing, Humphries‘ virtuosi video
springs straight from the pages of
alternative comix.

“A Moment Above Water" by
Rod Lindauer. A black—and-white
flashback across the stream of time,
penetrating layers of memory,
meaning and regret, Lindauer's vid-
eo unfolds in the still moment of a
man catching himself in everyday
ritual.

-“Portrait of Self in Many Fla—
vors“ by Joe Conkwright. Reflect-
ing the crystalline images of experi-

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PHOTO COURTESY OF UK VIDEO LAB

UK Experimental Video is presenting a two-part video showing
at the Kentucky Theatre tonight and Friday night.

ence, Conkwright turns a cross-
country car trip into a metaphor for
life and the flow of haiku-style rev-
elations: “The patience of a spoon,
the potential of an ocean, the care
of one footdancing

-“Brandon‘s Way" by Steve Dan-
iels. One of several “triplyches,” or
three—part videos spread out over
the show. Daniels‘ video of love
and betrayal is a “sappy love story
with a cheesey film noir ending."

Dubbbing themselves “cultural
spies,” students use complex video
technologies. including digital mix-

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