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October 8, 2003

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LCC poll shows Fletcher winning governor' 5 race

By Amanda L_ucliworth
STAFF WRITER

A new poll conducted
by Lexington Community
College students shows
Rep. Ernie Fletcher nar.
rowly defeating Attorney
General Ben Chandler in
the governor‘s race.

The survey has Fletch-
er beating Chandler 45 per-

cent to 40 percent with 15
percent of voters remain-
ing undecided The poll‘s
margin of error is 2.9
points.

The semi-annual poll.
now in its 15th year, was
conducted Sept. 17-25 by
students in LCC political
science classes taught by
Tim Cantrell and Don Fer-
ris. The poll surveyed 1,142

registered voters
Fayette County and sur-
rounding counties on is
sues ranging from the fu-
ture of Kentucky-Ameri-
can Water Co. to President
George W. Bush’s approval
rating.

Predictions made from
this poll have been very
successful in predicting
winners in major political

races. It has predicted the
Fayette County winner in
every major race since
1988.

“It is not a scientific
poll, but it has been accu-
rate over the years."
Cantrell said.

Cantrell started having
his students do polls in
1972 at Western Kentucky
University. and in 1988 he

moved to LCC and resumed
doing the polls. Students in
American government.
state government and polit-
ical behavior classes are
involved with the polling.
In other races, the poll
predicted State Rep. Greg
Stumbo will win the attor-
ney general race 36 percent
over independent Gate-
wood Gailbraith's 26 per

cent and Republican Jark
Wood' 5 12 percent. Nearly
one-fourth of voters re-
main undecided in that
race.

Former UK basketball
player Richie Farmer is
predicted to win the secre-
tary of agriculture race
with 47 percent over Alice

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THE RECRUITING FUTURE

 

 

iLLUSTRATiON PROVIDED BY UK ATHLETICS

UK Athletics plans to build a $3. 94 million facility to house banquets and host recruits and their families when they visit UK’s campus. Once
enough funds are raised, the construction must meet state legislature approval. Officials said the process should take about IO months.

The facility will be modeled after those at Ohio State
and Tennessee and will host recruits for all 22 sports

By Derek Poore
SCENE EDITOR

Surrounded by larger-
than-life murals of UK
sports stars, a UK football re-
cruit dines with his family
and gazes over to the big
screen television. The live
video feed captures the Wild-
cats as they jet into the end
zone and the room erupts
into cheers and applause.

This is the scene UK
Athletics hopes will be a cen-

terpiece for recruiting visits
in the future.

Last year, UK Athletics
performed a feasibility study
and realized they had no
place to host recruits. With a
new “multipurpose room”
UK will be able to do just
that.

For now. UK Athletics
hosts visiting recruits in the
corner of Nutter Field
House, a training facility lo-
cated on South Campus next
to Commonwealth Stadium.

Executive Associate Ath-
letics Director Rob Mullens
said the current atmosphere
isn’t all that appealing.

“It‘s not really a very
inviting family environ-
ment," he said.

The new facility, which
will cost an estimated $3.94
million, will feature a
kitchen facility UK currently
has food prepared off-site
and then trucked to Com-
monwealth Stadium on game
days or to Nutter for recruit-
ing visits.

Sodexho has been cater-
ing for UK football games
since July 1, and UK received

$1.2 million from a food ser-
vice contract with the com-
pany that will fund the
kitchen portion of the facili-
ty, Mullens said. He said this
gives UK the advantage of
preparing meals on site.

The site will also hold
daily team training table
meals and be used for all re-
cruiting functions, team ban-
quets, and any type of spe-
cial meal, Mullens said.

The project received an
anonymous donation in re-
cent weeks of $1.2 million.
Mullens said the project has

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By Cara Blevins
STAFF WRITER

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eiaz'er basketball courts
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Electrical engineering junior Chad Clearland (right)
reverses his layup against friend, Steve Terry (left).

Courts move to location along Lexington Avenue;
students fear they will lose parking spaces

For 01/ R1 parking permit holders, the reloca-
‘ tion of the North Campus basketball courts may
add to the list of parking woes.

The basketball courts that are south of Blazer
Hall and facing Euclid Avenue are being relocated
to a western portion of the Cl/Rl lot along Lexing-
ton Avenue. A total of 85 parking spots are affected
by the project, according to a UK Parking and
Transportation Services e-newsletter.

“Prior to construction there were a total of 524
student spots for R1/ C1 permit holders," said Don
Thorton, Director of Parking and Transportation
Services. “These spots include the student parking
between College View and Maxwell Street."

Students who may be upset about the construc-
tion can receive a refund for their pass but Thor-
ton said they have another alternative.

“We knew this was going to happen so we re-
duced the number of passes sold," Thorton said.
“If any student has a problem, probably com-
muters more so than residents, they should come
to parking services to see if there are any other op
tions to move them somewhere close to the acade—

Thorton also said students should ask parking
attendants for help finding available parking

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New travel agency caters to students

STA Travel targets students to provide affordable trips;
students can now visit the agency in the Student Center

By Jason Futch
CONTRIBUTING VIRlTER

Without leaving campus,
students can now plan trips
to anywhere from Daytona,
Fla. to China. said employ-
ees of a travel agency that re-
cently opened in the Student
Center.

STA Travel was chosen
from among several poten-
tial travel agencies that were

bidding for a spot in the Stu-
dent Center.

”STA seemed to have the
best service for the stu-
dents," said John Herbst, the
director of the Student Cen-
ter.

Two Australian stu-
dents, dissatisfied with the
lack of affordable travel op-
tions, started the company in
the 19708.

“We try to be the travel

agency for students." said
Lee Ellis, UK branch manag-
er. “We're here for them."

Since then STA, former.
1y known as Student Travel
Australia, has grown out of
its Australian boundaries.
moving its headquarters to
London. They now operate
in more than 75 countries
and have about 400 branches
worldwide.

STA is one of the only
travel agencies with the aim
of drawing a customer base
of students, Ellis said.

“Students who have
adopted the popular method
of shopping the Internet for
travel packages may want to
consider using the travel
agency this year.“ she said.
“Because of the size of STA
Travel we can go to the air‘
lines and say. ‘Hey, this is
what we want,‘ and we get
contracts directly from the
airlines for discounted stu-
dent tickets."

Sarah Thue, an integrat-
ed strategic communications

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Ttavel agents
Gretchen
Sonnenberg
(far left) and
STA Branch
manager Lee
Ellis (left)
search for
fares to
France for
Nlti Gupta
(right) at the
newly-
opened STA
TTavel in the
Student Cen-

ter
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