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Vol. XGN. No. 124

BMW 1804

University of KM, Lexington, Kentucky

Independent slnee 1971

Thursday, March 7, 1991

State approved stadium despite lack of seating

Official blames

‘oversight’ for

absence of handicapped seats

By TN WIESENHAHN
Senior Staff Writer

The state gave final approval to
renovations at Shively Baseball
Field although the facility had no
handicapped seating, a state official
said yesterday.

Judith Walden. general counsel
with the Kentucky Division of
Building Codes enforcement, said
UK submitted plans with two desig-
nated handicapped seating areas and
that their omission in construction

Hemp again
subject of
SGA senate

By MARY MADDEN
Assistant News Editor

Calling it a “real student issue,“
the Student Government Associa-
tion senate passed a resolution last
night calling for the senate to hold
public hearings on the subject of
hemp and marijuana legalization.

After a more than one-hour dis-
cussion, the senate decided through
a roll-call vote to hold meetings on
the proposition that hemp/marijuana
should be “relegalized for recrea-
tional, medicinal and industrial
“1 think this a real student issue.
I’m looking at this as a student ——
not just as a senator,” Freshman
Senator Rob Elhenicky said of the
resolution. “I would be very inter-
ested in coming to this, and I think
it's very good that my student gov-
ernment would be sponsoring some-
thing where I could get involved
and where people could see what is
going on (with the issue).”

In other business at last night’s
meeting, SGA President Sean Loh-
man told the senate that there will
be a restructuring of the SGA execu-
tive branch. The restructuring will
include “getting rid of our student
concems branch of student govern-
ment and replacing it with Student
Relations Board,” Lehman said.

Members of the board will be rep-
resentatives of “constituent groups”
from various pans of the University,
he said

He also told the senate that color-
coded voting cards will be given out
at SGA polling sites, so that stu-
dents who vote for a college senator
will vote in the correct college.

Updating the senators on the
progress of the student health insu—
rance law, Lohman told them that an
attorney, David Holton, has been se-
lected. Lohman said that he will

See SGA, Page 2

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awarently was an “oversight” upon
completion.

Several handicapped UK students
— including David Allgood and
Jeff Pribble — complained this
week that the 2,500-seat park
lacked handicapped seating.

On Monday, Walden said she
sent David Wheeler, 8 building in-
spector for the Kentucky Housing
and Building Commission, to Lex-
ington and he confirmed the lack of
designated handicapped seating.

Wheeler met Monday with Jake

Kames, director of Handicapped
Student Services at UK and Keith
Madison, head baseball coach. A
temporary seating arrangement was
negotiated in time for the UK Bat
Cats' home opener against Indiana
University yesterday, which was
rained out.

“Our understanding is that
Kames is satisfied,“ Walden said.
“It is our intention to communicate
to officials at UK that changes
should be made. They should con-
tinue to be concerned with the
needs of the handicapped. They al-
ways have been in the past.“

UK Associate Athletics Director
Larry Ivy said Monday that Univer-
sity officials unintentionally left

seating out.

Madison said yesterday he felt
“very badly" that the facility, the
Bat Cats’ home, was renovated
without provisions for handicapped
seating.

“In the original plans there was a
section for handicapped seating. If I
was a baseball fan and handicapped
— I'd feel the same way," Madison
said.

The absence of handicapped seat-
ing at Shively Field may have put
UK in violation of section 504 of
the Federal Rehabilitation Act

The act says no person shall, on
the basis of a handicap, be excluded
from participating in, be denied the
benefits of or otherwise be subjected

to discrimination under any pro-
gram or activity that receives or
benefits from federal financial as-
sistance.

Shively Field’s renovation, com-
pleted last year. included three lux-
ury boxes and an improved press
box. The project, which cost about
$520,000, was paid for with private
donations, Ivy said.

The renovation is the largest sin-
gle project of the field since the
opening of the Shively Sports Com-
plex in 1969. Past renovations to
Shively Field included the addition
of a grandstand behind home plate
and the installation of lights.

Madison said he became aware of
the problem at the end of last sea-

 

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son and that he and UK officials
have been trying for several months
to come up with a solution.

“Last spring we were playing
around the construction —- my mind
was on baseball," Madison said.
“I’m a baseball coach — not an en-
gineer or in construction. It was out
of my hands."

Two permanent handicapped sec-
tions will be completed by next fall,
Madison said. Concrete slabs will
be placed in front of UK‘s dugout
behind first base and in front of the
visitors dugout behind third base.
The sections will have screens in
front to ensure spectator safety.
They will accommodate about 14
wheelchairs and some guests.

Candidate’s
‘Vision’
questioned

By KYLE FOSTER
Senior Staff Writer

In a closed meeting tonight, the
Student Government Association
Elections Board plans to address
concerns about SGA presidential
candidate Byl Hensley‘s use of a
Student Activities Board logo for
his campaign.

The concern stems from flyers
posted across campus in January
with the logo “New Campus Vi-
sion." The first two flyers referred
to upcoming events that would
change the campus, but did not have
the SAB signature printed on them.

But shortly after that, fliers Wth
the “New Campus Vision” logo
were posted to promote an upcom-
ing SAB forum series that began
Feb. 6. Hensley is the chairman of
the Contemporary Affairs commit-
tee that sponsored the series.

According to 1991 SGA Election
Rules, candidates cannot post cam-
paign material until after 6 pm.
March 24.

Last week Hensley, an elementary
education senior, and his \rce—
presidential running mate Jen Saffcr
used the phrase “Share the Vision"
as they announced their candrdacres.

The “Share the Vision" logo
closely resembles the “New Campus
Vision“ logo Hensley used to pro-
mote SAB activities. Although he
does not think Hensley intended to
violate election rules, SGA Elec
tions Board Chairman Greg Watkins

See HENSLEY, Page 2

Compromise urged to end Arab-Israeli conflict

8y TERENCE HUNT
Associated Press

WASHINGTON — President
Bush marked a triumphant end to
the war in the Persian Gulf last
night, and said. “Our commitment
to peace in the Middle East does not
end with the liberation of Kuwait.”
He said “the time has come to put
an end to the Arab-Israeli conflict.”

“1 can report to the nation: ag—
gression is defeated. The war is
over," Bush said in a speech pre-
pared for a joint session of Con-
gress. Excerpts of his address were
released in advance.

Bush said the US. forces in the
gulf fought Iraq with honor and val-
or. He looked ahead to their retum
home, and to the domestic and dip-
lomatic challenges ahead.

He invoked the theme that the
Vietnam syndrome of self-doubt
had been dispelled by the victory in
the gulf.

“The brave men and women of
Desert Storm accomplished more
titan even they may realize," Bush
said. “They set out to confront an
enemy abroad — and in the process,
they transformed a nation into a
home."

The White House said the presi-
dent personally will greet some of
the retuming forces, either in com-
munities around the country or at
military bases.

With the 42-day-war over and
won, Bush said four challenges re-
main:

-Creation of “shared security ar-
rangements" for the Middle East He
said America and the allies who op-
posed Saddam Hussein would
“serve as a force for peace and se-
curity in the region."

-Control of the proliferation of
weapons of mass destruction and the
missiles used to deliver them.

The president planned to tell Con-
gress that new arrangements must be
forged to limit the further spread of
arms including missiles and chemi-
cal and nuclear weapons, spokesman
Marlin Fitzwater said in advance.
He said it would require some type
of UN. action or international trea-

-A diplomatic search for peace
and stability in the Middle East. He
specifically mentioned the thomiest
issue of all, saying. “The time has
come to put an end to the Arab-
Israeli conflict."

-Economic development that
could foster peace and progress in
the region.

Bush said his first priority at home
was to end the recession and "get
Our economy rolling again." He
called on Congress to enact a new
anti-crime bill, civil rights legisla-
tion and initiatives dealing with edu-
cation, energy and transportation.

“If we can selflessly confront evil
forthesakeofgoodinalandsofar
away, then surely we can, make this
land all that it should be

Bush, sure to be cheered even by
once-doubting lawmakers, was invit-
ed by Democratic leaders to address

 

The mass media, which claims
to objectively cover events, had a
conservative bias in its coverage
of the war in the Persian Gulf.
said a leading media critic last
night.

Jeff Cohen, founder and execu-
tive of the media watchdog organ—
ization, vehemently criticized the
mass media‘s coverage of the war
in the gulf. saying that news re-
ports out of the gulf were unfairly
slanted to pro-war views.

FAIR claims to be an organiza—

 

Media flunk expert’s bias test

By AMY PLAYER
Contributing Writer

tion on the side of the working
class, which promotes diversity of
views, Cohen said at a sparsely at-
tended speech sponsored by the
Student Activities Board.

“Fairness and Accuracy in Re-
porting (FAIR) is a media watch-
dog organization offering well
documcntcd criticism in an effort
to correct media bias," he said.

Cohen said a University of
Massachusetts poll in early Febru-
ary on gulf coverage indicated
that the less information people
had about the war, the more they
supported military action.

“On certain facts, the TV did an

all right job, however the poll
suggested the people knew only
good news about the weapons."
Cohen said.

Cohen, however, did not limit
his criticrsm to the media.

The information was so limited
because joumalists‘ access was
limited, Cohen said.

Journalists who were allowed
access to the military in the Pen
sian Gulf were members of a Pen-
tagon pool, Cohen said. The sc—
lected journalists were escorted
by the military and their stones

See MEDIA, Page 2

 

 

Congress regarding the war with
lraq.

In his speech, Bush was to dis-
cuss a “general timetable" for bring-
ing troops home, although “he‘s not
going to give a date — like tomor-
row," Fitzwater said.

The administration says it will
take months to bring all of the
537,000 Americans home but that
the first units could begin returning
in a matter of days. Scattered troops
already have been arriving home.

Fitzwater said Bush is contem-
plating a trip sometime to the Per-
sian Gulf, including Kuwait, “but I

think it Will be awhile."

The appearance offered a sweet
moment of personal triumph for
Bush. Democrats who control Con-
gress had second-guessed some of
his moves in the seven—month show-
down with Saddam. many urging
him not to go to war, and then not
to launch a ground offensive. Over-
whelmingly, Democrats voted
against a resolution authorizing
force in the gulf. but it passed any-
way.

When lraqi forces crumbled un-
expectedly quickly. even Bush's
critics rushed to praise him. House

INSIDE: BAT CATS ARE LEXINGTON’S NEWEST HEROES

Speaker Thomas S. Foley, D-
Wash., complimented him on “a
brillth military success."

Sen. Albcn Gore, D-Tenn., hailed
Bush for his “courage and wisdom"
but complained that Republicans
were “playing politics with Ameri-
can lives" by threatening that Dem-
ocrats would pay a price for voting
against the resolution authorizing
the war. Gore voted for the resolu-
tion.

Polls show Bush With a postwar
approval rating of 90 percent. a

See GULF. Page 2

 

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Students charged with crimes have new protection

College Information Network

Colleges have been told to stop
releasing names of students charged
with crimes or risk a loss in federal
aid.

The Education Department has
told 14 colleges that identifying stu-
dents in crime reports violates feder-
al privacy laws and “jeopardizes"
school funding. James Madison Uni-
versity in Harrisonburg, Va., has
stopped releasing names, even
though a state law requires they be
made public.

But at Georgia, “If we charge
someone with a crime, we say so,”
says police chief Asa Boynton. The
14 colleges were listed in a recent
Missouri court case as routinely
identifying students charged with
crimes.

Other colleges were not notified,
says the department's Etta Fielek,
because it doesn’t go looking for vi-
olatiorrs. But Mark Goodman of the
Student Press Law Center sees a
double standard: “One foot off-
campus. it's public information.
One foot on-campus, it’s protected
by federal law."

A new federal law requires col-
leges to disclose crime statistics —
but not names.

CAMPUSWIDE ALCOHOL
BAN PROPOSED

SEATTLE, Wash. —— Dormito-
ries, fraternity and sorority houses,
and even the university president’s
house would all be alcohol-free if a
Washington state bill passes.

Washington state Rep. Michael
Heavey. D-Seattle, introduced
House Bill 1515. which would ban
alcohol at all six Washington State
universities.

“Some of the university facilities
have become open taverns and beer
parlors where anyone, even those
under age, can drink as much as
they want for free," Heavey said.
Another intent of the bill is to help
curb the ever-increasing problem of
date rape, often linked to excessive
alcohol consumption.

“It’s just got out of hand,” he
said. “Let’s have a public hearing
and let’s talk about the issue.”

PROFESSORS ARRESTED IN
ANTI-WAR PROTESTS

BOULDER, Colo. — Four Uni-
versity of Colorado professors were
among 51 people arrested for

blocking access to an armed servic-
es recruiting office in Boulder.

Associate Professors Peter Mich-
elson. Marilyn Krysl and John Gra-
ham and Professor James Kimble
were arrested and charged with ob-
structing public access.

“If it is possible to separate sup-
pat for our troops from support for
the orders that send them forth to
unnecessary killing and dying, we
do so," Kimble said reading from a
collective statement to the crowd es-
timated at 3000. ‘But we unequivo-
cally protest those orders."

“We live in a society that wor-
ships money and violence,” Krysl
said. Kimble said his protest was
dedicated to a former student, now
serving in the Persian Gulf who
wrote him, saying how he feared
war.

“I think the war is immoral. un-
necessary and unwise.” Kimble
said. “This protest was a deliberate
act of civil disobedience."

STUDENTS WORK WI I H IN-
NER-CITY YOUTHS

SYRACUSE — Syracuse Univer-
sity students have teamed up with
inner-city youths to volunteer
throughout the community.

US. says spring break
and alcohol a bad mix

By JEFF KLEINHUIZEN
College Information Network

WASHINGTON — College stu-
dents get drunk more often than
non-students the same age, and with
an eye toward the upcoming spring
break, the US. Surgeon General has
launched a campaign against the
problem.

“Spring break has become synon-
ymous with excessive and binge
drinking," Surgeon General Antonia
Novello told a news conference
here.

She released a the results of a tel-
ephone survey of 1,200 US. stu-
dents by the National Institute on
Drug Abuse. showing 41 percent of

The Kentucky Kernel...

college students consumed five or
more drinks in a row in the last two
weeks, vs. 34 percent of non-college
students. About 8.2 million students
are enrolled in 2,100 four-year col-
leges.

The survey also showed:

-Nearly 4 percent of the nation’s
college students drink daily.

-They drink an average of 34 gal-
lons of alcohol a year, for a total bill
of $4.2 billion.

-Nearly 7 percent of freshmen
drop out because of drinking.

Binge drinking increases campus
fights, rapes and vandalism. Novello
said.

She called on brewers and retail-
ers to stop advertising aimed at

for students...

teen-agers and urged campus bars to
eliminate happy hour and other
price promotions.

Among those now in college,
240,000 to 360,000 eventually will
die because of drinking, often on
the basis of habits started in college,
said Elaine M. Johnson, director of
the US. Office for Substance Abuse
Prevention. That’s as many as will
receive master’s and doctoral de-
grees.

James Sanders, president of the
Beer Institute, denied that ads target
underage drinkers. He said the in-
dusu'y has spent “tens of millions of
dollars on anti-abuse messages.”

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The joint venture called “S.U.
Students and Compmy.” is put ofa
public policy class called “Commu-
nity Problem Solving.” combining
theory with practice. The collabtra-
tion focuses on working with clients
of community aganizuions.

“The program breaks down a ster-
eotype of the inner-city kids that
they are crime-ridden and drug-
ridden,” said Professor William Co-
plin. director of the Syracuse public
affairs program. “They see the
youths are just regular kids.”

Matt Fischer, a sophomore public
relations and policy study major,
works at a nursing home along with
five youths.

“1 went in not knowing wlnt to
expect,” Fischer said. “I’ve learned
how to interact better with kids that
age. We try and solve problems to-
gether.”

MINORITY TEST TAKERS
STUDIED

PRINCETON. NJ. — One hurdle
minorities entering the teaching
field must jump is passing the Na-
tional Teachers Examination
(NTE), required for admission to
teacher education programs and cer-
tification in 22 states, according to

the Educational Testing Service
(ETS).

According to ETS reaeachers. a
study found that minority students
who had a higher grade point aver-
age and more education before tak-
ing the test tended to perform better.

“Just because the test taker came
from a lower socio-economic back-
ground. doesn’t mean they don’t
pass the test,” said Margaret E.
Goertz, executive director of ETS's
Education Policy Research Divi-
sion. “Colleges and univasities can
make a difference for disadvantaged
students."

The study found that prospective
minority teachers are often the first
generation in their families to attend
college, have limited financial re-
sources, enter college with less aca-
demic [reparation than their non~
minority peers, and have taken var-
ied routes to a teaching career.

ETS recommends that universi-
ties look outside the traditional ca-
reer path to recnrit more minorities.
It also encourages universities to de-
velop support programs geared to
the minority students’ financial and
academic needs, and examine grad-
ing practices for possible problems.

PURDUE STUDENTS SEND

COMPUTER MESSAGES TO
GULF

WEST LAFAYETTE. Ind. ~—
Students at Purdue University are
experiencing the telecommunica‘
tiorts age first hard. With the help
of donated computers and volunteer
lockers, Purdue students have been
sending free messages to the men
and women serving in the Persian
Gulf war.

The respome to the program.
which started Feb. 7, has been so
overwhelming that it was temporari-
1y stopped until more volunteer typ-
ists could be recruited.

The 110ij coordinated by the
Student Concerns Committee of the
Purdue University Student Govern-
ment. uses computers donated by
IBM and transmits the messages by
modern.

Howard Joyce. a junior majoring
in public relations, has sent messag-
es to a cousin serving in the Middle
East.

“I think it's a great program," he
said. “Getting the message there is
half the battle."

Over 1,000 messages have been
sent to date and the program will
continue until the soldiers are home.
according to Joyce.

 

Hensley

Continued from page 1

said the board needs to address the
similarities between Hensley’s cam-
paign slogan and the SAB posters.

Hensley conceded that his cam.
paign comes from the SAB commit-
tee logo for the forum series. but he
sees no relationship between the
posters and his campaign.

“When it came time to announc-
ing my candidacy, it just seemed
very natural to keep the vision, sim-
ply because that was the leadership
perspective I was going from per-
sonally. Since I was chairing the
committee and I had made the logo
initially, I just decided to keep it for
my own campaign,” Hensley said.

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SAB FLYER

Hensley said he knew nothing
about the election board meeting
and did not know if he would be
asked to explain the similarities to
the board.

SAB president Page Estes said

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she sees no problem with Hensley's
use of the logo.

“He is well aware of SAB's non-
political status." she said. “and I
do ’t think there was any intent be-
hin it.”

 

Gulf

Continued from page 1

record.

Former Prime Minister Margaret
Thatcher of Britain, in town to re-
ceive the presidential Medal of Free-
dom from Bush today, credited the
president with leading a coalition in
“upholding international law, stop-
ping a tyrant.”

Administration officials said that
slowing the flow of weapons in the

_ Middle East is a “very high” agenda

Baker III’s trip to the Middle East
beginning today.
Yet, the administration already is

planning to sell Egypt $1.6 billion
in planes and bombs. Saudi Arabia
is expected to be allowed to keep
some of the weapons shipped for
the war, and Israel is to receive
$650 million to help pay for in-
creased military and civil defense
expenses during the war.

Talking with reporters before the
speech, spokesman Fitzwater said

Bush had not displayed any per-
sonal euphoria about the allies' vic-
tory.

“He doesn’t show it,” the press
secretary said. “Maybe it’s just be-
cause there’s still so much to do and
there‘s turmoil in the region, and so
much to do here at home.”

Fitzwater said he expected “the
celebratory attitude won’t set in un-

 

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til we have troops arriving here and
celebrations around the country.”
Ontheeveofthespeech,the
House voted 410-8 for a non-
binding measure acclaiming the
president's “unerring judgment and
sound decisions” as well as the
bravery and dedication of US. mili-

tary personnel.

Media

Continued from page 1

were screened before being allowed
to print.

“Why did they have such a pool?”
Cohen asked.

The Pentagon claimed security
precautions in limiting media ac-
cess. Cohen said. but “the reason for
the pool was to protect bad news.”

Cohen not only insulted the TV
footage but also the experts who
were chosen to talk on more promi-
nent news shows, predominantly
white conservative men, he said.

The media were biased against
Arabs, giving a rose-colored view of
US. intervention in the Middle

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East, he added.
“This is the worst network censor-
ship in history.”

SGA

Continued item page 1

meet with Holton in Louisville to-
day.

Also last night. the senate:

-Passed a resolution calling for
candidates in SGA elections and
other interested members of SGA to
remove and recycle campaign mate-
rials after the last poll closes on the
last day of elections.

-Passed a bill allocating $500 to
Unity, the Lexington Community
College Black Student Union, to
help pay for expenses of traveling to
the Black business and Educational
Expo in Atlanta

-Passed a bill allocating $366 to
help pay for sending a student to the
National Association of Black So-
cial Workers national convention in
Atlmta.

oPmsed a bill allocating $302.50
to purchase materials for Safe Sex
Education Day, which will be held
April 3.

oPassed a bill allocating $300 to
the College of Fine Arts Theater De-
partment to purchase materials for
sets for a student-written and ~
produced play, “A Late Date with
Kate.” which will be performed later
this semester.

-Pmed a bill allocating $159.86
to purchase a new elevision for the
College of Agriculture.

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The Courts, the Community,
and the Bill of Rights:

“An American classic. . .
A Bicentennial Forum

A film of supercharged
images—it bristles
with passion, wit

and style.”
-—i’t‘tt'r ’l‘ravcrs, ROLLING STONE

As part at an engcmg celebration of the Bicentennial or To United States
Consrxturion, the Office at Undergraduate Studies at :he Universty ct Kantucxy
and the Lexington Public L.brary will sponsor the mm m a series or ouonc forums
presented in 1990 and 1991 to explore issues mated to the federal judxczary and
the F-rst Amendment.

Forum III

Central Library
140 East Main Street, Lexington. Kentucky 40507

Fridav, March 8, 730 p.111.

Keynote Address The Central Meaning or the First Amendment
(meant Blast. Protease! at -aw. Joumoua College or on
New Your Sly

“One of the year’s best.
Incredibly powerful.”

—J<)cl Slt‘Rt'l.
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Saturday, March 9, 9:00 mm. to 10:30 a.m.

Panel I Should Commuty Symbols and Values Restrict Indivuduel
Free Expression?
Panelists:
Ken Kurtz. me Irehndt. LGIIWW. Kerwv
.‘onn Tm. Aide to the Mayor. tum. (muav

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Saturday, March 9, 10:45 am. to 12:15 pm.
Panel It What Current Tendencies In American Scenery Does the

ROBERT DENIRO
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 Different approach for ‘He Said’ falls short

By KIP BOWMAN
Senior Stall Critic

While directors Ken Kwapis and
Marisa Silver realize there is noth-
ingnewunderthesun,theydotry
in their film “He Said. She Said” to
offer a fresh look at something
ages old. The relationships be-
tween men and women.

Their tinkering has resulted in a
film starting off with a promising
satirical start before detailing and
finishing with a contrived ending.

The film opens with Dan (Kevin
Bacon) and Laura (Elizabeth Per-
kins) arguing on their segment of a
television talk show. As the seg-
ment draws to a close she throws a
coffee cup at him on the air. While
Dan is recovering after the show he
remembers how they met -- com—
peting for a columnist job that both
were promised on the Baltimore
Sun.

To solve the deadlock, the
paper’s editors had them write a
column and said they'd select a
winner. The management chose
both, and opposing views made
them a hit

 

MOVIE
REVIEW

In the beginning satire is rolling
and the one-liners are entertaining.
Dan' s fear of commitment and her
fearofwomenheusedtodateare
lampooned by the directors. It con-
tinues in his perspective until the
climatic event.

And in midstream the film chang-
es direction and the audience sees
things from Laura' s point of view.
Instead of going in a new direction
with this fresh perspective. the
viewpoint is used to tell events that
have already transpired in the mo-
vre.

It's a precarious balancing act the
directors try to manage. If they are
not skillful the audience will see the
material as redundant and lose in-
terest. Unfortunately, that‘s what
happens.

Don' t get me wrong, the using of
a different perspective to tell events
already transpired is not a complete
failure.

In one scene the handling of the

 

PERKINS: Plays an engaging
Laura in ‘He Said. She Said.’

initial newspaper assignment ap-
pears completely objective to Dan.
The same set of events is seen as
thoroughly biased by Laura. In an-
other instance, an emotional break
through by Dan is seemingly unno-
ticed Laura, when in fact she is
overwhelmed by it In those epi-

sodes the technique works like a jig
sawpuzzleasthoaudienceleamsa
key piece at a time and fits it to-
gether.

But the re-telling of material
should have been left to a few
scenes and then the movie should
have gone in a new direction. In-
stead the film spins its wheels be-
fore sputtering to the finish.

It also would have been a bonus
if the directors had spent more time
developing the supporting cast.
There was some rich material they
only scratched the surface of.

As for the main players they
have a credible chemistry in this
movie. Bacon has moments where
he is reprehensible. but later is
shown to have some depth of char-
acter.

Perkins is engaging as the slight-
ly vulnerable and occasionally neu-
rotic opposite to Bacon. She IS good
in playing off their drastic differ-
ences of opinion and making the
chemistry work.

“He Said, She Said," rated PG-
13. is showing at North Park and
South Park cinemas.

Drug Awareness, an investment in health

Like any investment, drug use has many costs and risks

et another awareness
week! Yes, it is Drug
Awareness Week on cam-

pus, so here we go with a
series of articles and activities to
clue the University community in
on the fact that drugs can be bad for
you and can cause a lot of prob-
lems.

Come to think of it, that is about
the only message that most people
glean from such an event This mes-
sage is not unimponant but. as they
say, "It' 5 been done."

Here is. perhaps, a new way to
look at an old issue. The Economic
Approach to Drinking and Drug
Use Choices. I must admit that this
will be a very simple economic con-
struct because that is my level of
understanding of things economic.

Let‘s consider the choice to use
alcohol or drugs as an investment

Like any investment, we want to
have the largest retum with the low-
est risk. What is our investment and
what are the risks?

We invest time into drinking and
drug use. Time for everyone is a
limited asset. We all come into this
world with only so much of it to do
what needs to be done and what we
want to do.

With drinking and drug use. the
investment is not just the time we
are under the influence of the chem-
ical. it is also the time required to
obtain the substance, the time spent
using the substance, and the time
spent recovering from the use of the
substance. (As we age, time spent
in recovering extends as our bodies
attempt to to eliminate the chemi-
cals from our system. Many of you
will discover this later.)

Another investment is monetary.
Using costs us money that could al-
ways be used elsewhere. Alcohol
prices increased in January as the
federal government taxed our
“sins.” alcohol and tobacco.

Drugs that are not as available as
alcohol have also increased in price
over the years. In my days as an un-
dergraduate at UK. it was rumored
thatabagofmarijuana.back then
called a lid, cost about $20.

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back about $150 or $200. The costs
of a DUI or a possession charge can
be enormous after you pay the attor-
ney, the court, and figure in the cost
of the confiscated drugs or alcohol.
An investment that is hard to
gauge but is equally important is
the cost in self-worth, pride and
self-concept Who you are. what
you do, and what you think about
who you are and what you do are
all figured into the equation.
Behavior exhibited while under
the in