~ Kentucky Kernel

Crosbie pushing to elect student trustee soon

By GREGORY A. HALL
Senior Staff Writer

Although no date has been set for
the election of the student member
of the UK Board of Trustees, the ad-
ministration and the student body
president-elect want the election this
spring.

Student Government Association
president-elect Scott Crosbie has al-
ready endorsed first-year law stu-
dent Scott Damron in the trustee
election. He wants the election to be
held next week.

 

CROSBIE: “I don’t understand the
premise" behind a state law that
prohibits him from serving as stu-
dent trustee.

“We’d like to have it not this
week, but the following week,"
Crosbie said.

The election of Crosbie, of Hunt-
ington, W.Va., as next year’s SGA
president creates the need for the
election of a student trustee.

President meets
with 2 finalists
for research spot

By GREGORY A. HALL
Senior Staff Writer

Two “very different” finalists for the position of vice president for Re-
search and Graduate Studies visited campus last week.

UK President Charles Wethington and faculty representatives, including
the University Senate Council and its research committee, met with each

candidate.

Linda Magid, executive assistant to the chancellor at the University of
Tennessee, was interviewed Tuesday, and Thomas Sweeney, acting vice
president for research at The Ohio State University, was interviewed

Wednesday.

Wethington said he hopes to name the vice president by the April 30

Board of Trustees meeting.

Magid’s research area is physical chemistry and Sweeney‘s is chemical

engineering.

University Senate Chair Carolyn Bratt, who called the candidates “very
different," said the Senate Council was most impressed by Magid being
“an intense listener," who asks “probing questions."

She said Sweeney has a “long track record of administrative work," and
Magid displayed the “enthusiasm and energy that would make her an excit-

ing vice president.”

Bratt said she would pick Magid because she has the capability of being
a “rising star," and “I think we ought to try to catch a rising star."
Bratt said there is some danger in hiring Magid, while there is “no risk in

hiring him (Sweeney)."

Magid, 44, said her research has afforded her with the knowledge of how

to get grants.

She said she has a “very good sense of the various pieces of the puzzle."
Magid said she enjoys to “make connections,” pushing interdisciplinary

research.

The ”faculty is better than some of the resources," Magid said.

Since it's “very easy for administrators to forget who there clientele are,”
she said she would make it a point to meet with research faculty.

But she doubted how much research and teaching could do initially.

Sweeney, 54, said it was important for him to work among the faculty, in

teaching and research.

“If you don’t participate in the rhythm of the place, you don’t know the
problems,“ Sweeney said. ”If I can’t be seen as a person who was a bona
fide faculty member, then I can’t be a success as vice president,“

Sweeney said his interest in chemical engineering resulted from having a

good high school chemistry teacher.

His interest in university life results from the possibility to “affect the fu-

ture.”

He said he enjoys “young people bringing in their ideas that aren‘t beat-

en down."

He said his greatest attribute is his willingness to listen to anyone.

For some classes, UK
offers foreign setting

By NICK COMER
Staff Writer

UK students will have an oppor-
tunity to study beside central and
Eastern European students this
summer as part of the College of
Business & Economics’ fifth annual
1991 summer study program in
Vienna. Austria. In addition, the
program is being expanded to in-
clude two separate three-week ses-
sions and a visit to Prague, Czecho-
Slovakia.

As part of the program, UK stu-
dents can take classes in marketing.
management, finance, history and
culture at the Economics University
in Vienna.

“Nothing like this exists where
American students are taught busi-
ness classes by American instruc-
tors in Europe," said Cun Harvey.
creator of the program and director
of the lntemational Business Cen-
ter.

Harvey said students are taught
some of the same classes that are
offered at UK.

But he said the classes offer stu-
dents a unique opportunity to see
practical applications for the con-
cepts they are learning.

“For example, you can take a
field trip to McDonald’s and find
out how it operates in Austria," Har-
vey said.

While the program is a valuable
learning experience for UK stu-
dents, it also presents a valuable op-
portunity for Austria to help out
some of its struggling neighbors.

“Austria wants to help its Eastern
European neighbors,” he said, “so
they asked UK to accept Eastern
European students in the program.
Austria is paying for them com—
pletely."

Harvey said 40 students from
Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Yugosla-
via, Rumania and Bulgaria also will
be participating in the program.

The reason for Austria‘s benevo-
lence, he said, is a mixture of histo-
ry and self-interest.

“Many of those nations were part
of the Austrian Empire. Austria
wants to see them become demo-
cratic, capitalist societies rather than
socialist dictatorships."

Since its inception five years ago,
the summer program has gained
prominence as a unique educational
and cultural program.

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Kentucky law calls for the student
body president to be the student trus~
tee, provided he or she is a full-time
student and a Kentucky resident.

The state statute doesn’t set a date
for the election, but UK’s legal
counsel said, under the normal legal

assumption of a “reasonable" date,
the election should be this spring.

Current SGA President Sean
Lohman said appeals of the presi-
dential election could force the
election to be held in the fall.

If the election were held in the
fall, the student trustee position
would be vacant in meetings after
July 1, UK Chief General C0unsel
John Darsie said Friday.

Unlike governor-appointed and
faculty members of the board. the
student trustee's term ends after the
fiscal year, not when a replacement

is named.

“The wording of the statute relat-
ing to student trustees is strikingly
different than the wording" for ap-
pointed and faculty members, Dar-
sie said. “The term of the student
trustee terminates at its end, and the
student trustee cannot serve a holdo-
ver term.

“ln order to not risk a situation
where the students were not repre-
sented by a trustee (student gov-
ernment should) go ahead with the
election this spring,“ Darsie said. “I
would think that we would much

 

 

 

By KYLE FOSTER
Senior Staff Writer

Nathan Sullivan chose to attend
UK at a time when racial preju-
dice was blatant and UK was
known to be inhospitable to
blacks.

Sullivan, who came to UK in
I966 and is now an associate pro-
fessor in the College of Social
Work, can remember walking by
campus dormitories where white
students would shout racial slurs
at him. And he remembers when
UK‘s first black faculty member,
Joseph W. Scott, left the school
soon after a bunting cross was
placed on the lawn in front of his
house.

Sullivan knew attending UK
would be difficult, but he said he
wanted to come here anyway be-
cause UK offered the best educa-
tion in Kentucky.

“I didn't come looking to have

 

 

 

a good time and neither did the
other black students on campus,"
Sullivan said.

Throughout the 1960s there
were only about 50 black students
enrolled at UK. “You were lucky
to see another black student in
class,“ he said.

But Sullivan persevered, com-
pleting his undergraduate and
graduate work at UK in I972
when he earned a master‘s degree
in social work. He joined the UK
College of Social Work in I977,
where he is new director of educa-
tional practicum for the college
and is working on a dissertation in
educational policy studies.

Through the years, Sullivan has
had the opportunity to witness
UK’s shifting political and social
climate: “I‘ve observed a lot of
changes in the campus since the
mid-l960s going beyond just
bricks and mortar."

For example, Sullivan said there

MCHAEL CLEVENGER/Kernel Sui"

Nathan Sullivan, above, chose to attend UK at a time when racial prejudice was blatant. In the
19605, only 50 black students were at UK. “You were lucky to see another black student," he said.

Professor has seen growth,
changes for blacks at UK

is less student activism on cam-
pus today, while college faculty
are taking a more progressive
stance.

He sarcastically porntcd to last
month’s protest by UK student
Chris Bush as the most controvcr
sial issue on campus. Hush
claimed he was the vrctim of a
double standard and censorship
because UK administrators al~
lowed a ping-pong ball drop in
front of the Patterson Office Tow-
er but told him he could not hold
impromptu war protests there.

As a result of this and earlier
protests by Bush, UK‘s acting
dean of students, David Stock~
ham, decided that the annual
ping-pong drop could no longer
be held at the office tower.

“Students don‘t seem to get too
upset about anything," Sullivan
said.

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prefer that the student government
proceed with it’s election."

Three students have announced
their candidacies.

Damion, formerly a two-term
president of the Student Develop-
ment Council, supported Crosbie in
the election.

Crosbie will talk to other candi—
dates, he said, but his tnind is made
up.
Other candidates include the cur-
rent student body president and a

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Students
kick off

fund-raiser
for library

By NICK COMER
Staf‘ Writer

The Student library Endowment
(‘ornniittcc is kicking off its “Pack
the Stacks" campaign to raise funds
for books for the UK library system
by dedicating the campaign to the
IQX‘) student protest for democracy
(ll ’l‘iananmen Square in Beriing.
China.

Plans for the campaign include a
'\'1\'ll b} (didl I trig, Ll student leader
of the 'lianunincn Square protest,
and Bette Bao lord. prominent Chi
ticsc writer and mic of Winston
lord, former LS, ambassador to
China.

The campaign, which the com~
mittec tlzins to make an annual
event. will solicit each graduating
senior to contribute $35,1hc cost of
an average library text.

A phoneathon and :i Svkilomctcr
run are Ltlso planned for the week.

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strtirnentiil in getting the campaign
started.

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UK launches new
tradition With
“Pack The Stacks
week to help
raise funds for
the new library.
Call 257-3911
for more information

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