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‘ Judge upholds smoking ban

 

Opponents of the ban denied chance to delay and stop
new regulation from going into effect next week

By Emily Hagedorn
NEWS EDITOR

Ellen Hahn walked out
of the courtroom, smiling
as tears fell down her
cheeks.

Her lungs filled with
clean air — the same air
bar and restaurant patrons
will be breathing five days

from now.

Fayette Circuit Judge
Laurance VanMeter ruled
yesterday afternoon to up-
hold Lexington‘s smoking
ban, denying the Lexing-
ton-Fayette County Food
and Beverage Association's
request for a temporary in-
junction.

The ban is set to start

Monday.

“It’s a win for public
health," said a jubilant
Hahn, an associate profes-
sor in the College of Nurs-
ing and long-time advocate
for the ban. “1 think it sig-
nals a lot of hope.”

For John Walters. the
food and beverage associa-
tion’s attorney, the ruling
may signal further court
action.

“More than likely, our
next step will be to the

Court of Appeals," he said.
“It hasn't taken the wind
out of our sails."

Walters said he has un-
til the ban starts to file for
an emergency injunction.

In court, Walters cited
his clients' affidavits for
anecdotal evidence of the
loss in patrons the ban
might cause.

One of those affidavits,
signed by Greg McFarland,
owner and manager of Two
Keys Tavern on Limestone

Street, said, “I anticipate
that I will suffer an imme-
diate loss of approximately
25 percent to 40 percent of
my regular business as a
result of any enforcement
of this smoking ban.”

David French, the
council’s attorney, said
Walters claims were un—
founded.

Anecdotal evidence is-
n't a reliable indicator of
the ban’s effect, he said.

“It is not the province

of this court to second-
guess the Urban County
Council.” VanMeter ruled.

“My only job is if (the
Urban County Council has)
the authority under the
statutes to do what they
want to do. I see that they
can do it."

Under the ban, smok-
ing will be prohibited in
most public buildings.

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local celebrities participate as students listen

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word for word, beginning to end, and that is what we are
doing here.”

The book was divided into 90 sections. There were six
sections each hour with a difi‘erent person for each section.
There was a fifteen-minute break each hour. During the
break, Greek music was played for anyone walking by to
hear.

“It isn't something that we get to do every day,” said
biobech freshman Elizabeth Scoville before her part of the

reading.

'Theevent appealedtoeventhosewho wereunt‘amiliar
with the story “I've never read the book," said telecommu-
nications senioi'hgyron adagedanz “But it is pretty fascr-
nating hearing m rea it.”

Some of the readers included Mayor Teresa Isaac,
President Lee Todd. Tubby Smith’s wife Donna, Honors
and classics students and faculty from Honors and classic

To draw attention to the program and make it more
Athenian, some of the readers vlpre purple robes. Wlth gold-
en-haf downs. Their tactics worked, said parhcrpants.

“There was a pretty good crowd throughout the day
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on,” Babel said. “Some people came and asked to read,
some were scheduled and some never showed up. There

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ASSOCIATED PRESS

FRANKFORT — The
race for Kentucky attorney
general pits a state law-
maker being sued for child
support against a one-time
judge twice disciplined on
the bench and an indepen-
dent who says he is “anti-
drug" yet regularly smokes
marijuana.

Some prosecutors con-
sider it a less-than-ideal
field.

“I have the same con-
cerns that other citizens
would have,” said Allen
Trimble, commonwealth’s
attorney for Whitley and
McCreary counties. “We
expect our attorneys gener-
alto kind of take the moral
high plain. If they fall from
that, it kind of hurts
them."

The Democrat in the
race is Rep. Greg Stumbo,
majority leader of the Ken-
tucky House who likes to
talk about how he would
fight drug crimes if elected.

His Republican oppo-
nent, Jack Wood, insists on
talking about something
else - a lawsuit filed
against Stumbo by a
woman with whom he fa-
thered a child during an af-
fair. The lawsuit seeks
$43.000 in back child sup-
port.
Wood pours it on when
he gets Stumbo in front of
an audience.

Last month, at a stump
speaking picnic in western
Kentucky. some in the audi-
ence taunted Stumbo with

placards bearing slogans
such as “Greg, will you
take a DNA test?” and
“Greg are you my dad?"

When Wood got his
turn at the microphone, he
recounted his experience
pursuing child-support cas-
es as an assistant prosecu-
tor in Louisville. Turning
to Stumbo, Wood said:
“Does that give you night-
mares at night, Greg?"

The lawsuit against
Stumbo was filed in Lexing-
ton by Travis Fritsch. who
worked in the attorney gen-
eral’s office when she and
Stumbo had a relationship
in 1987.

Their son was born in
1988.

Stumbo said he has
made support payments
since 2002, when a DNA
test confirmed he was the
father. Fritsch wants
$43,000 in back support.

The suit has been
sealed by a judge. Fritsch
could not be located for
comment. Lawyers for both
sides did not return calls.

Stumbo was divorced
after the Fritsch affair and
has since remarried. He
says the lawsuit should not
be an issue, though the at
torney general is chairman
of a state commission that
oversees collection of child
support statewide.

While opponents raised
the issue in the Democratic
primary, Stumbo won a
three-way race with 36 per

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DURHAM, NC. — Protesters at Duke
University rallied against a fraternity that
promoted a party with fliers that looked like
expired green cards and a mock border pa-
trol checkpoint at the door. The chapter's
Web site also posted an image of a drunken
Mexican, but the fraternity president said
Tuesday that the notice wasn‘t authorized
by the chapter‘s leaders. “Everything that I
am — my family, customs, culture and lan-
guage ~ was violated," said Sandra
Sanchez, who helped organize the demon-
stration Monday at Duke Chapel. “The
stereotypes of drunk Mexicans and border
crossing was hurtful." Several speakers told
about 75 students, professors and adminis—
trators that the Sept. 13 Sigma Chi party in-
flamed their long-held belief that Duke has
ignored its Latino students, who make up
about 7 percent of the school’s enrollment.
Sigma Chi president Marc Mattioli, who
said he is Latino, apologized and said the
fraternity was not racist. He said the frater-
nity was talking with leaders of the Latino
community to develop an education pro-
gram for fraternity members and the Duke
community. The party “was designed to be a
lighthearted celebration of the Mexican
tourism scene." Mattioli wrote in a letter
published in Duke‘s student newspaper. The
Chronicle. “In no way was it intended to im-
ply a political or social statement about
Mexico, Mexican-Americans, immigrants or
immigration policy," he wrote. “Obviously,
it did not come off as such.“

Ole Miss' Rebel mascot stays - for now

JACKSON, Miss. — University of Mis-
sissippi officials have indefinitely delayed
an election to pick a new look for the
Colonel Rebel mascot. saying there was lit-
tle enthusiasm for alternatives that includ-
ed a James Dean-like motorcycle rider. Oth-
er finalists that fell flat with a vetting com-
mittee of athletes, faculty and alumni in-
cluded a character bearing a resemblance to
advertising icon Mr. Clean and a bearded.
athletic-looking man. “They felt like if they
couldn’t enthusiastically support the three.
it was better not to put them out there for
people to vote on." Assistant Vice Chancel-
lor Jeff Alford said Tuesday. The online
vote by students. alumni and other school
supporters was to have started later this
week. University officials said earlier this
year that Colonel Rebel — a white-haired.
bearded old Southern gentleman — needed
a more athletic. up-to-date look. Chancellor
Robert Khayat said the name Rebels would
still be used, but a bigheaded cartoon mas-
cot was sidelined before this football season

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and asked students, alumni. fans and others
to propose a new look for the mascot. Alford
said 323 drawings were submitted and the
committee met last Friday to choose three
finalists. The University of Mississippi in
the past two decades has distanced itself
from Old South imagery, including the Con-
federate flags that once filled the stands at
football games. Athletics Director Pete
Boone has said other universities use
Colonel Rebel against Ole Miss in trying to
recruit black athletes. The decision to delay
the online vote came a day after Khayat sent
an e-mail to alumni saying the university's
handling of Colonel Rebel had become a
public relations mess. Khayat wrote that
plans are still in place to make over the mas-
cot, but talk about doing so has “dominated
the conversation within the Ole Miss fami-
ly.” “Admittedly, we should have handled the
matter better," Khayat wrote. “In hindsight,
the timing and manner of the announce-
ment added to the frustration. Although we
tried to make it clear that the only change
was to update the mascot, some people were
fearful of a larger plan. These fears were
and continue to be unfounded.”

Ttoubledteenwantedtoconunit‘suicidebycop'

WASHINGTON — A troubled teenager
who was critically wounded by officers after
he fired a gun at school was trying to com-
mit suicide. police said Tuesday. Sean Fitz-
patrick, 16, left a page-and-a-half suicide
note at home before Monday‘s shooting. po-
lice Chief Roger Bragdon said. He also
made suicidal statements during the 20 min-
utes he talked with a police negotiator.
Bragdon said. “There is no doubt in my
mind that the young man intended to com-
mit suicide by having us do it," Bragdon
said. Fitzpatrick was shot three times by
SWAT team officers who fired almost simul-
taneously when the student raised a 9mm
semiautomatic handgun toward them. Brag-
don said. Fitzpatrick was shot in the jaw,
stomach and arm and was in critical condi-
tion Tuesday at Sacred Heart Medical Cen-
ter. Bragdon said the suicide note was clear
Fitzpatrick did not intend to harm others.

Ex-college president tried on visa fraud charges

MIAMI — A jury watched and listened
to video and audio tapes Tuesday in which a
former president of the University of South
Carolina discusses payment by an under-
cover officer for an illegal visa and passport.
James Holderman‘s lawyer accused the un-
dercover officer of “setting up someone who
is ethical and honest" to commit a crime.
“You were not detecting crime," attorney
Neil Nameroff said to Miami Beach police
Detective Sgt. Peter Smolyanski during
cross examination. “You were creating it.“
Holderman is being tried on charges of visa
fraud conspiracy, money-laundering con-
spiracy and visa fraud. Smolyanski will be
on the witness stand again Wednesday.
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Selected reports made to UK Police

frornSept.16,2003toSept.20,2003.
Sept. 16: Arrest made for alcohol intoxication at Gillls Building at
1:29 am.
Sept. 16: Theft from a vehicle reported at College View Drive at 4:17
am
Sept. 16: Projector/video stolen from White Hall Classroom Building
at 8:35 am.
Sept 16: Forgery report made to police department at 10:26 am.
Sept. 16: Gateway desktop computer stolen from Plant Sciences
Building at 10:56 am.
Sept. 16: Bike stolen from apartment at 279 Rose St. at 11:57 am.
Sept 16: Theft from marketing office at 201 Avenue of Champions at
12:57 pm
Sept 16: Wallet stolen from medical center at 1:57 pm.
Sept. 16: Theft from UK Pharmacy at 7:59 pm.
Sept. 17: Bike stolen from Center for Manufacturing at 9:10 am.
Sept. 17: Theft from a vehicle at 411 South Limestone Street at 9:39
am.
Sept. 17: Wallet and key reported stolen on LexTran bus from
University Commons at 11:56 am.
Sept. 17: Camera case and camera stolen from 800 Rose Street at
12:15 pm.
Sept. 17: Theft from 1992 Toyota Camry at College View Drive at 5:37
pm
Sept. 19: Disorder at Mad Mushroom Pizza investigated at 12:36 am.
Sept. 19: Vending machine broken into on second floor of 730 Rose
Street at 7:29 am.
Sept. 19: Follow-up investigation completed at Fine Arts Building at
8:57 am
Sept. 19: Backpack stolen from 404 South Limestone Street at 12:50
pm. Claim unfounded when police arrived.
Sept. 19: Digital camera stolen from 460 Cooper Drive at 3:51 pm.
Sept. 19: Arrest made for alcohol intoxication on Pine Street at 5:38
pm. A male between 40 and 50 years old stopping vehicles and
asking for money.
Sept. 19: Arrest made for alcohol intoxication at Rose Street and
South Limestone Street at 11:40 pm.
Sept. 20: Disorder investigated at Rose Lane and Transylvania
Avenue at 2:42 am.

Source: UK Police log at www.uky.edu/Police and police reports

Compiled by Staff Writer Ben Fain.
E-mail bfain@kykernel.com

 

Corrections

A story about Student Government's 2003-2004 budget
in Tuesday‘s Kernel incorrectly stated the amount of mon-
ey appropriated for student organizations. The amount
budgeted is $35,500.

Also. Charles Roland's name was misspelled in Mon-
day‘s Kernel.

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While administrators
are petitioning for more
space. doctors and pa-
tients at University Health
Services are working with
what little room they
have.

“Most of our physi-
cians are limited to one
exam room and it makes it
difficult to serve more pa-
tients." said Julie Bentley.
the interim associate di-
rector of University
Health Services.

“We’re crunched
about as tight as we can
crunch." she said.

More space would also
help them serve more stu-
dents, she said.

“As enrollment has in-
creased we have found
that our critical schedules
fill up regularly on a daily
basis." Bentley said.

“We hear students say
that they have to wait
longer and sometimes
they feel they need to be
seen today but can’t be.
cause it’s booked,” she
said.

Students have also
complained about the lack
of privacy. she said.

The waiting room in
the University Health Ser-
vice is located right next
to the area where students
are weighed and their vi-
tal signs are taken.

Partitions have been
erected as temporary cubi-
cles.

The University Health
Service has about 14.000
square feet, said Pat Ter-
rell. vice president of stu-
dent affairs.

The service has
enough space to handle
14,000 students. she said.

“We should have at
least 34.000 square feet.

but we should actually
have more than that be-
cause we provide more
than student health care
-— we provide faculty care.
too." said Terrell.

An expansion or addi-
tion to facilities would re-
quire at least an addition-
al 20.000 square feet.
which would be costly.

“Any expansion of fa—
cilities or construction of
new facilities [means we]
have to come up with a
plan to pay for those facili-
ties.“ Terrell said.

Terrell said nothing
has been done so far about
the tight quarters.

However, she said both
President Lee Todd and
Provost Mike Nietzel have
toured the facilities and
expressed interest in ex-
panding.

Bentley said they are
working with Terrell's of-
fice to have their project
considered as one of UK's
capital construction prior-
ities.

Students said they
find the space at Universi-
ty Health Services inade-
quate.

“There’s plenty of
room for patients to sit
down and wait for their
appointments. but the doc—
tor‘s room seemed to be
just tucked away in the
corner of the hospital,"
said Bradley Reid. a mar-
keting freshman.

Stephanie Baker. an in-
tegrated strategic commu-
nications junior. said she
has experienced problems
getting an appointment.

“When it’s flu season.
it's a rush of people, and if
they expanded the facili-
ties they could get you in
on the same day like they
do during the rest of the
year." Baker said.

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to private dwellings or ar-
eas used for private social
functions. retail tobacco
stores and tobacco ware-
houses. indoor smoking ar-
eas in government build-
ings and facilities operated
by private organizations.

Many local bars and
restaurants were anxious
about the outcome.

DeSha’s Restaurant and
Bar on North Broadway
had a representative at the
hearing.

After receiving the
news. Assistant Manager
Curtis Smith said he
doubts the food and bever-
age association will get an
emergency injunction be-
cause it didn’t win Tuesday.

And while many estab-

lishments were primarily
concerned with a loss in
profits, the ban means an
entire overhaul for part of
deSha's.

DeSha's cigar bar,
Nicholson's, will have to
close due to the ban. As
soon as next week. Smith
said they are opening a
British pub in its place.

“It goes against the
owner's rights." he said of
the ban.

Sandra Milling, the
manager of Tolly Ho on
Limestone Street, doesn‘t
think there will be a
change in patrons, though.

“If you’re hungry.
you’re going to want some-
thing to eat,” she said. “If
everyone has to do it, it
won't affect one area more
than others." ‘

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cent of the vote. No indepen-
dent polls have been conduct-
ed for the general election, to
be held Nov. 4.

A one-time district court
judge in rural southern Ken-
tucky, Wood twice was disci-
plined for allegedly deceptive
election advertising in the
early 19805.

He also feuded publicly
with his court clerk and a
former law partner.

“If I had a record like
Jack Wood, I’d be ashamed,"
Stumbo said.

Wood said Stumbo’s
flaws are worse: “If you take
his dirt and throw it on the
wall, and you throw mine.
and you take a pressure
washer. his stays up there
and mine goes to the floor."

Women’s advocates have
said little about the case. If
he loses, Stumbo still will be
House majority leader
through at least January
2005.

“Our main concern is
that women review all of the

candidates and their records
and make intelligent and in-
formed decisions and go to
the polls." said Betsy Now-
land-Curry, executive direc-
tor of the Kentucky Commis-
sion on Women.

Gatewood Galbraith. the
independent. has run three
times for governor and twice
for Congress as a Democrat.
Reform Party member or in-
dependent.

He first gained political
attention by advocating le-
galization of marijuana.

He now advocates mari-
juana only for medical use
and claims to have a mari-
juana prescription from a
California doctor to ease
asthma and emphysema.

The fact that Wood is the
Republican nominee was a
shock to the state GOP lead-
ership. which was tacitly
backing a former federal
prosecutor.

Wood spent little money
—- $1,700 — and did virtually
no campaigning in the public
eye.

But only 13 percent of
Republicans voted in the at-
torney general primary. and
Wood won the three-way race
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Database could track terrorists, cons

Privacy advocates, crime experts argue over safety
of plans to create an easier way to track criminals

ASSOCIATED PRESS

NEW YORK — While pri-
vacy worries are frustrating
the Pentagon's plans for a far-
reaching database to combat
terrorism, a similar project is
quietly taking shape with the
participation of more than a
dozen states — and $12 mil-
lion in federal funds.

The database project, cre
ated so states and local au-
thorities can track would-be
terrorists as well as criminal
fugitives. is being built and
housed in the offices of a pri-
vate company but will be
open to some federal law en-
forcers and perhaps even US.
intelligence agencies.

Dubbed Matrix. the data-
base has been in use for a
year and a half in Florida.
where police praise the crime-
fighting tool as nimble and ex-
haustive.

g It cross-references the
state's driving records and re-
stricted police files with bil—
lions of public and private
data, including credit and
property records.

But privacy advocates. of-
ficials in two states and a
competing data vendor have

randed Matrix as playing
fast and loose with Ameri-

cans' private details.

They complain that Ma-
trix houses restricted police
and government files on
colossal databases that sit in
the offices of Seisint Inc.. a
Boca Raton, Fla, company
founded by a millionaire
whom police say flew plane-
loads of drugs into the coun-
try in the early 1980s.

“It‘s federally funded, it’s
guarded by state police but it‘s
on private property? That's
very interesting." said
Christopher Slobogin, a Uni-
versity of Florida law profes-
sor and expert in privacy is-
sues. “If it’s federally funded.
the federal government obvi-
ously has a huge interest in
it."

Matrix was initially in-
tended to track terrorists. as
was the Pentagon's Terrorism
Information Awareness pro-
ject. which sparked a congres-
sional uproar and got watered
down.

As a dozen more states
pool their criminal and gov-
ernment files with Florida's.
Matrix databases are expand-
ing in size and power.

Organizers hope to coax
more states to join. touting its
usefulness in everyday polic~

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But California and Texas
dropped out. citing, among
other things. worries over
housing sensitive files at
Seisint. And a competing data
vendor. ChoicePoint Inc., de-
cided not to bid on the project,
saying it lacked adequate pri-
vacy safeguards.

Aspects of the project ap
pear designed to steer around
federal laws that bar the US.
government from collecting
routine data on Americans.

For instance. the project
is billed as a tool for state and
local police. but organizers
are considering giving access
to the Central Intelligence
Agency, said Phil Ramer. spe-
cial agent in charge of the
Florida Department of Law
Enforcement's intelligence of-
fice.

In the 19705. Congress
barred the CIA from scanning
files on average Americans.
after the agency was cited for
spying on US. civil rights
leaders.

“The CIA doesn't have
this now," Ramer said. “That's
a major political issue we'll
have to cross."

Florida officials have ac-
knowledged that users of Ma-
trix. which stands for Multi-
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weeks.

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U.N. leaders criticize ‘pre-emptive' actions

Colective eltorts:
Leaders demand that
future conflicts be
settled by U.N. nations

ASSOCIATED PRESS

UNITED NATIONS —
Meeting for the first time
since the United States went
to war against Iraq without
U.N. authorization. world
leaders on Tuesday criti-
cized President Bush's poli-
cy of “preemptive" military
strikes and demanded that
conflicts and global threats
be resolved collectively by
all nations.

The fallout from the di-
visive Security Council bat-
tle over the war, which side-
lined the United Nations af-
ter more than a decade of
trying to disarm Saddam
Hussein. was a focal point of
every speech on the opening
day of the U.N. General As-
sembly‘s annual ministerial
debate.

Despite lingering differ-
ences over the war, nations
rallied behind Secretary-
General Kofi Annan's call to
join forces to build a peace-
ful democracy in Iraq. but
sharp differences remained
over the timetable and the
U.N. role.

French President
Jacques Chirac. who led the
opposition to the war. criti-
cized the United States for
launching a war without
U.N. approval and undermin—
ing the international system
of collective security. That
system. he said. must now be
modernized and restored.

The problems facing the
world today —- including

Iraq - can be addressed
only in a multilateral forum
like the United Nations,
which guarantees “legitima-
cy and democracy, especially
in matters regarding the use
of force," he said.

South African President
Thabo Mbeki said Iraq
raised questions about “the
very future of the United
Nations.” He said it was a
test of whether the world
body enjoyed the confidence
of the world and was capable
of being “the principal guar-
antor of international peace
and security"

“The poor of the world
expect an end to violence
and war everywhere.” Mbeki
said. “For us. collectively, to
meet these expectations, will
require that each and every
one of us, both rich and poor
commit ourselves practi—
cally to act. This includes
the most powerful.“

Annan set the stage for
the two-week session, chal-
lenging the 191 U.N. member
states before they arrived to
re-examine the way the in-
ternational community is
dealing with wars. terror-
ism, poverty and other
threats to international se-
curity. He urged world lead—
ers not to shy away from rec-
ommending “radical"
changes — including to the
United Nations.

His call brought 86 presi-
dents and prime ministers,
three vice presidents, 99 for-
eign ministers. and three
heads of delegation to U.N.
headquarters, a very large
turnout for the annual ses-
sion. Chirac said it “definite-
ly shows that the U.N. is not
discredited as some have

President Bush addresses the 58th U.N. General Assembly at the
United Nations headquarters Tuesday

tried to say or have us be-
lieve."

In his keynote address at
Tuesday's opening. the sec-
retary-general criticized
Bush‘s “pre-emptive" attack
on Iraq. warning that unilat-
eral action could result in a
proliferation of