Vol. XClll. No. 107

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University of Kentucky, Lexington. Kentucky

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Cancer Center loses NCI designation

By DAVID A. HALL
Staff Writer

UK’s Lucille Parker Markey Cancer Center
will lose its designation as a National Cancer in-
stitute clinical care center in September, but of-
ficials say the center’s quality will not be affect-
.tl

Losing the designation cost the center a $3.8
million core grant it had planned to use for a
live-year research program.

UK was one of only 11 state universities des-
ignated by the NCI.

(‘ollegc of Medicine Dean Emery Wilson said
at a press conference yesterday that the center
lost the funding because the NCI does not have
enough money to fund all programs that were
approved.

“Only a certain number of programs were
funded," he said. “Even though we were ap-
proved, we did not receive funding because of
the limited amount of funds. There are other
centers that haven’t been funded. Much of the
funding has been redirected to other areas, like

UK’s attempt to incorporate

(acquired immune deficiency syndrome)."

The loss of recognition will not affect Mar-
key's quality, Wilson said.

“I don‘t think it will make any difference with
the quality of care," he said. “It is only impor-
tant to people from other cancer centers. it tells
them we have administrative support.”

One weakness in UK's application for redes-
ignation was the center‘s lack of research, Wil-
son said.

“They felt we should be doing more re-
search,” he said. “There are a number of centers
that are really focused and if we wanted to focus
on one type of cancer or one type of treatment.
we could. But our goal is to be a multi~focused
center."

The center already has started to recruit new
researchers to meet the NCl‘s recommendations,
Wilson said.

“A better way would be to recruit those who
already are doing research instead of getting
those who aren‘t researching to start," he said.

Wilson said UK will reapply to the NCI by the
October deadline, and will be notified by May

1991 if it meets the standards.

“We are going to turn right around and reap-
ply," he said. “When we reapply, we wrll be
aligned with things (NCI) wrll want to fund."

The center will try to replace the $3.8 million
from other sources. including money from the
College of Medicine and philanthropic dona-
tions.

Lewis Kelley, a spokesman for the center,
said losing the designation will not mean a liiss
of NC] funding in other areas.

“This loss doesn't mean we are an outcast
group and that they are taking their money
back," he said. “The N(‘1 has awarded UK with
other grants. We just competed successfully in
grant money for a cancer information st‘l’Hti.‘
We remain in touch with the .\'(‘1 on a regular
basis.“

Markey did receive an annual core grant of
$400,000 from the NCl tor the next three years,
The center has received about $1.3 million in
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Sue Bennett raises concerns

By CHARLES WOLFE
Assomated Press

FRANKFORT —-- Sue Bennett
College. private school in difficult
circumstances, seeks public suitor.
Object: comm unity college.

UK is interested. and the General
Assembly is poised with a resolu-
tion to let talks begin, but some leg-
islators want assurances that small-
er schools won‘t be precluded from
the courting.

The resolution would authorize
UK, the state's largest university.
to negotiate with Sue Bennett‘s
trustees and owner — the General
Board of Global Ministries of the
United Methodist Church — for
purchase of the two-year school’s
land and buildings at London.

The Senate Education Committee
on Tuesday approved the Senate
joint resolution, which would have
the force of law ifenacted.

But a senator whose district con
tains Eastern Kentucky University
questioned the need for a UK CUIlT
niunity college just 32 miles from
Somerset. where it already has one.

“Do we want a community col-
lege in every city in Kentucky?"
said Sen. Bill Clouse, D-Richmond.
“We're going to take education
dollars from elementary anti secon-
dary schools, I assume, to butld
community colleges."

(.‘louse, who is not a member of
the Education Committee. said
EKU was preparing to open an ex-
tension campus in Corbin, 10 miles
south of London, and that it was
projected to attract 2.000 students.

There was a similar projection
for a London community college,
Clouse said.

“My question, then, is: Can they
both bring in 2,000 students?
Someone's going to have to lose
some students," he said.

“it's a question of dollars and
cents," not a competition between
EKlI and UK, Clouse said.

Sen. Landon Sexton, R~Pine
Knot, said Union College at Bar-

 

“Do we want a
community college in
every city in Kentucky?
We‘re going to take
education dollars from
elementary and
secondary schools. I
assume. to build
community colleges."

Sen. Bill Clouse,
D-Richmond
—

bourville also was interested in ac-
quiring Sue Bennett for use as an
extension campus and did not want
to be precluded.

Sen. Gene Huff, a London Re-
publican who co-sponsored the res-
olution, said it “doesn't restrict any-
one from talking."

UK “started early on" to explore
a buyout and “felt they needed the
legal directive" from the General
Assembly, Huff said.

Sue Bennett had 544 students en-
rolled last fall, a decline of seven
from a year earlier, according to
figures released Dec. 8 by the
Council on Higher Education.

Sue Bennett President loan Sti-
vers said in December that the pos-
sibility of becoming a community
college was among options the
board of trustees wanted to study.

She said the change was being
considered because of tight linancr
es, competition from public lllallltl‘
tions with lower tuition and the lik-
elihood that UK eventually would
establish a community college in
the London-Corbin area.

“1 don't think we can beat them. 1
think we better join them." she
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ODK to dance the night away for Counseling

By JULIE ESSELMAN
SpeCial Projects Writer

The UK chapter of Omicron Del-
ta Kappa leadership honor society
is sponsoring a dancea-thon to-
night in the Complex—Commons
Cafeteria to raise money for UK‘s
Counseling and Testing Center.

A deejay from WTKT-FM, 103,
will provide music for the dance.
which will be held from 8 to 11:30
pm. and will feature performances
by the UK Dance Ensemble, Dance
Cats and Ballroom Dance Society.

Scott Damron, ODK president.
said that in the past the UK chapter
of ODK “has done some great
things for the campus," and that he
hopes the dance-a-thon will benefit
the campus by raising at least
$1,000 for the Counseling Center.

The dance is open to anyone who
makes a $2 donation. ODK mem-
bers have been asked to raise at
least $20 in pledges.

Damron said the radio station
will be giving away T-shirts and
compact discs, and other prizes, in-
cluding gift certificates for dinners,

also W1“ be awarded. The biggest
prize will go to the winner of the
“Funky Coach Pitino" dance con-
test, Damron said.

“Hopefully everyone who comes
will walk away with something."
Damron said. “As long as we get
the people out there, it should be a
success and we should raise some
money for the Counseling and
Testing Center."

The Counseling Center will use
the funds to replace old computers
and purchase new computer equip-
mcnt that will be used to help stu-

dents miprove vocabulan and read
mg comprehension skills and pre»
pare for graduate program entrance
exams, according to Mike Nichols,
director of the Center.

“Students really use that. and
they‘d probably use it more it we
had more to offer," Nichols said.

The organization‘s officers tit"
cided to sponsor a fund-raiser to
benefit the campus because ODK
“is not just any honorary where son

just join and pay your dues." said

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Staff reports

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