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Associated Press

Eight months after most of a UK-
owned forest in Eastern Kentucky
was protected from strip mining, a
Tennessee company has unveiled
plans to test the area for natural gas.

Equitable Resources Exploration
of a Kingsport, Tenn., has an agree
ment to develop mineral rights in
Robinson Forest held by Columbia
Natural Resources of Charleston,
W.Va.. officials said.

Kentucky Kernel

Robinson Forest to be tested for natural gas

The company plans to drill test
holes and a production well by the
end of the year in lS,()()()-acre for-
est, which covers parts of Breathitt,
Perry and Knott counties.

UK. which owns the forest and
conducts research there, is power-
less to stop the drilling. State law
gives precedence to the owners of
mineral rights over the land owner.

The test holes will be drilled in
the 10,500-acre central portion of
the forest that the state Natural Re-

Poll shows Jones
with lead in race

Associated Press

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — A poll
shows Democratic Lt. Gov. Brere-
ton Jortes with a commanding state-
wide lead and Republican US. Rep.
Larry Hopkins in serious trouble,
even in his own district, with a
week left in the governor's race.

The Courier-Joumal’s latest
Bluegrass State Poll gives Jones 52
percent and Hopkins 27 percent.
with 22 percent undecided. among
people who said they would defi-
nitely or probably vote in Tues-
day's election. Among those most
likely to vote, Jones did even better.

The telephone survey was con‘
ducted Oct. 2-1-28 when 529 likely
voters were quizzed. It had a mar-
gin of error of plus or minus 4.3
percentage points.

Jones‘ lead in the new poll was
25 points. compared with 14 points
in a Bluegrass poll taken Sept. 23-
25.

The percentages of support for
the candidates included voters who
said they were undecided but lean—
ing toward one. Among those who
said they had decided. Jones led by
47 percent to 25 percent in the new
poll. Jones‘ lack of a majority in
this measurement was one of the
few items in the results that might
provide some solace to Hopkins,
who has suffered serious setbacks
since the earlier poll and actually is
worse off titan the figures above in-
dicate.

Only IS percent of likely voters
said they had a favorable opinion of
Hopkins. while 32 percent said they
viewed him unfavorably. The rest
had no opinion.

The 2-to-1 negative ratio repre~
sented a dramatic shift from the ear—
lier poll In that one. Hopkins was
rated positively by about 5 to 4.
Jones maintained a favorable-

See ELECTION. Page 6

lst black

student to
be honored

By MONICA BRYAN
Contributing Writer

In 1949 a black student had to
light a federal court battle to be al-
lowed enrollment at UK.

Now, more than 40 years later. an
alumni group is being named after
him. Lyman T, Johnson. L'K's first
black student who once fought the

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system, will be honored during this
weekend‘s Homecoming festivities.

The Lyman T. Johnson Alumni
Group was fornted to remedy the
extremely low rate of black alumni
participation iii the i'ational Aluiti-
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11 percent
ahead, says
LCC poll

Stall reports

Students were surprised by
a recent poll indicating that
Democratic candidate Brere-
ton Jones is leading Republi-
can hopeful Larry Hopkins
by 11 percent

“l didn't think Jones would
have as big a lead as lte
does." said Mike Burton. a
student who conducted the
poll.

Political science students
from Lexington Community
College conducted the survey
between Oct. 23-39, polling
1926 registered Kentucky
voters by telephone,

Joanna Fligg. a \Cnlflf. said
she thinks Hopkins‘ recent
stance on abortion “swayed Ll
lot of people's opinions" and
possible votes from Hopkins
to Jones.

Tim Cantrell. a political
science teacher at LCC, re-
leased results ol the survey
yesterday. Fifty-live percent
polled were female, while ~15
percent were male. The poll
covered topics front President
Bush’s performance to the
Kentucky Education Relorm
Act and a mandatory state
WldC seat-belt law. The re
sulting statistics had a ittargin
of error of 2.3 percent.

“Hopkins has gone too far
to the negative side." Cantrell
said. “This should be a lesson
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sources and Environmental Protec.
tion Cabinet declared in February to
be unsuitable for coal mining. The
production well will be outside the
protected area.

Environmentalists who fougltt for
years to keep coal mines out of the
forest find the prospect of havmg
gas wells and pipelines there “in
credibly ironic," said Tom FitzGe-
rald of the Kentucky Resources
Council. one of three environmental
groups that fought to protect the for-

est from coal mining.

If the test holes indicate the pres-
ence of a commercially valuable
quantity of gas. the central part of
the forest could be developed as a
gas field, with wells and pipelines,
said George Mason, vice president
ol Equitable Resources.

But he said Wednesday that Equi-
table Resources is committed to
conducting the exploratory drilling
and any subsequent development in
an environmentally sound manner.

The test borings will be placed in
the middle of existing roads and
Will be tilled tn when the work is
done, Mason said.

UK WI“ be consulted on the locus
non of wells or pipelines, he said.
Any waste water or brine produced
from any drilling. whether lor ex‘
ploration or production, will be
trucked out of the forest for dispo-
sal rather than pumped back into
the ground or into an open pit. Ma-
son said.

NOV 1 1991

Robert Muller, Lilitll’lTldll of l K \-
lorestry departirieiit. said he by
lieves the exploratory drilling can
be done wthoul affecting current
research. which locuws on wtllvt-
sheds and i’c‘lill't‘sldllUll iii lact.
monitoring wells drilled by Emilia
hle Resources .will prosiile the tirsl
look at gri ‘l'il -~.:t .: the t»-
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By JOHN KELLY
Assstarit Sports Editor

Every college lootball team lac—
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tumble or a costly interception.
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ruin an entire season.

So ltow does a group ot \lUr
.lean who make up a collegiate
tootball team deal with being
blown out in the first game of the
season} It wasn‘t like they didn't
expect a tough opponent.

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Lyman T. Johnson (right) and the president ol Kentucky State

College, RB. Atwood. left court in Lexington after victory in John-
son's suit to gain admission to UK's graduate school in 1949.

Jerry Stevens, director ol opera
tions for the Office of Minority My
fairs. said the group chose to name
itself after Johnson because his con
rage and detennination iit challeng

Sports columnist Al Hill previews the
1991-92 NBA season. Story, page 3.

mg the segregation ol higher edtitn
lion opened the .idiiiisston ol blacks

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UK students value SGA escort service
after recent assault on main catttptis

By PATRICIA GARCIA
Contributing Writer

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‘Barton Fink’

By JOHN DYER FORT
Assistast Arts Edtor

Here is the \‘lflllglll‘lll‘ dope on
"Barton link” the film is a breath
Liking. dramatic black comedy
ll‘ elegant. often .iarrttig hypnoo.
tourney into a writer‘s nightiiiarzsh
awakening.

The film must be included with
.‘rlllt‘t personal favorites released iii
the last l‘ years “Apocalypse
\ow.‘ “Diner." "Pink Floyd" The
“all. ~‘lllc‘ Deer Htllllt‘f,“ ”llfd'
xii." “Sey. Lies and Videotape ' and
‘ .\ ("lockwork Orange "

John Turturro as Barton Fink is a
young playwright with a mission
living iii .\cw York City in I‘l-il
He wants to be the ‘ \oice of the
Common Man 7 the blue~tollar
worker _lU\l. making ends meet. llis
characters are the faceless. other
people bravely lacing lite on simple
terms. Fink wants to elevate them
to the level of great art.

But Fink would not recogni/c a
common man if he walked up and
cold-cocked Fink in the head.

In spite of himself. Fink's sappy
\is‘ion becomes a Broadway smash.
lie is lured to Hollywood W despite
his obiecuons on artistic principles
~ to write for the millions ofcom-
mon men who sit in dark theaters
all across America.

The Hollywood film moguls are.
eager to capture “that Barton Fink
feeling“ on film. They set him to
work on a Walter Beery wrestling
picture immediately. Fink then re—
turns to his room at the Hotel Earl-e,

l' Is

a grand old Los Angeles relic that
has seen better days.

The Earle is a now an ominous.
seedy world unto itself. sparsely in»
imbued with a strange mix of char-
acters. The Earle is literally drip-
ping with atmosphere.

link is beset with writer's block.
-\ man weeping loudly in the next

room disturbs Fink to the point of

distraction. He calls the front desk
t . .otiiplain. One thing leads to an-
other and the neighbor knocks on
‘riiik s door to apologi/e. He is a
striding, tat. sweaty salesman
named t‘harlie \leadow s. played by
John thiodman.

l-ink is about to get a wake~up
call ~ and not from the front desk.
He is thrown into an off baltutced
desc iit into territory so unfamiliar
that link cannot use his writer s"
brain to understand it. He is losing
his bearings at the Hotel Earle.
where most of the real action of the
moyie takes place.

One sunny. hot LA. moming at
the Hotel Earle. Fink wakes up and
the world is not the same. Against
his will. he is lree~falling through a
landscape of madness. VlOlCTlCC and
pain. little does he know. he is be-
ing saved.
love.

Firik's “life of the mind" leads
him into a chaotic, flaming night-
mare. The turning point comes
when a sweat-soaked maniac with a
shotgun runs down the burning cor-
ridor of the Hotel Earle. screaming.
“Look upon me. I'll show you the
life of the mind."

It is all one big act of

"Barton Fink" is a visual feast.
The camera direction and I940s-em
sets are spectacular. The rooms are
lush. colorful and Vibrant. The fur-
niture. the wallpaper, the fixtures
all of it looks as carefully ar-
ranged as a painting.

The ctunera greedily eats it up.
“Barton Fink" is one of those mo-
vies that has to be seen on the big
screen to be truly savored.

Joel and Ethan Coen. who
learned tip on “Raising Arizona"
and “Miller's Crossing." have creat—
ed a movie that is reminiscent of
David Lynch films. especially “Era—
serhcad."

The drawn out close-ups. agoniz-
iiigly slow rooms and frozen still-
lite images are shared techniques.
In “Barton Fink." the camera disap-
pcars into sink drains as in “Eraser-
head.”

The effect is hypnotizing, narcot-
ic. We slowly become controlled by
the camera as it leads us around like
a dream.

Fink is a Jewish eraserhead. His
dark. coarse hair is cut square and
flat like an eraser. Fink is terrified
of life. but not in the same word-
less. wide~eyed way Lynch‘s char-
acter lS.

Fink uses words to mask his fear
and his high—powered intellect
makes him an overly serious bore.
lntrovcrted and self-absorbed. Fink
has lost the ability to distinguish re—
ality from fantasy. His reality is the
make~belicve values of the “com-
mon man" that he asserts in his
writing.

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PHOTO OF COURTESY 20TH CENTURY FOX

John Turturro (left) and John Goodman (right) star in "Barton Fink," the new film from Joel and Ethan
Coen. Turturro plays Barton Fink. a writer who suffers from a strange case of writer's block.

But since there is no fleshsand—
blood antecedent to his “art," Fink
is alone and unable to recognize life
around him. This is the real reason
for his writer’s block.

The film starts out slowly, espe-
Cially since Fink is such a boring
main character when we first meet
him, but the ending justifies every-
thing. The gradual coming-to-life of

Blackgirls defies comparisons with others

By HUNTER HAYES
Ans Editor

North Carolina‘s blackgirls. who
played in Lexington last week at
Lynagh’s Music Emporium. are not
what many critics make them out to
be.

Listeners have compared the.
blackgirls to nearly every female
group in history, with the possible
exceptions of the Dme Cups and
the Supremes

Dana Kletter. the group‘s pianist,
cogunanst and co-vocalist says
these comparisons are not fair to the
band

“We don‘t sound like a lot of
people." Kletier said. ”We don‘t
sound like the lndigo Girls. no mat-
ter what people say. We don‘t
sound like Kate Bush. We don‘t
sound like anybody. Somehow. by
accident. we made up whatever it is
we sound like over the course of
playing in my living room four
times a week "

lti that living room songs are
hammered out on a musical anvil
until the band is ready to record or
perform them
(Eugenia lee. the group's
other gurtarist and vocalisti and I
both come into practice with com
plete songs." chtter said.

“The lyrics aren't always corn-
plcte. We‘ve collaborated on proba-
bly two songs that are recorded."
the said. ”Other than that. we come
:nto practice with complete songs
We present it to the group and eye-
rybody says, i can work with Ulls ‘
or ‘1 hate that. Everybody contrib
int \ til .1 ckllajili A.“ dlltl milieu.

\nd the blackgirls are their own
harshest critics

“Sometimes things are sort of
mutated or chipped away at." Klei-
ler added. “It takes a pretty long
time for us to finish a song where
everybody's got their parts and
we're comfortable with fitting the
pieces together

“We definitely like to think of
ourselves as a sellcontained unit
We don‘t need people coming in
from the outside to fill in.” she said.
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Brown. Dana Klefter and Eugenia Lee) most recent album is Happy,

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haye a whole lot of time became
we don't have any money."

Fleshing out a hands sound with
guests or studio titusicians, she said
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One person. howcycr, who came
in from the outside to work with the
group renowned British pro
duccr Joe Boyd

“Boyd has neycr really stepped in
and asked us to change a whole lot
of things." Kletter said. “In a lot of
ways he was a really good producer
for Us. because we all really resent
authority And somebody who I\
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strengths and let them shine
through their newest release, [lup-
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ing Wllh Boyd was a humorous one
and cenainly not what they would
have expected.

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There‘s no way we would have ever
written to him ~ he's Joe Boyd; he
produced REM." chttcr said. “He
wanted to come to the states and
hear us play, So he came to my
house and we had lunch. We played
in my living room. And then he was
like. ‘()K. let's go find a studio'
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The band formed in 1986. largely
in order to help out a friend. Some
of the members have changed since
then. including violinist Hollis
Brown who left this year to have a
baby. Tanya Kalmanovitch replaced
her as the other third of the trio.

“The band was formed four days
before our first show." Kletter said
“We had a friend who had an un’
derground magazine... He was do-
ing a benefit for his magazine and
some of the bands cancelled. We
said we‘d get something together.

"We showed up and we had no
name. We were ‘girls‘ because we
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like ‘Why don't we be blackgirls ‘
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because of the meial overtones. but
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lot of flack for that." chtter said. "I
think in the beginning we were so
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to change the name the more we re
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meant. We don‘t want to be lnSCT‘ISI-
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seems kind of crazy now. And we
did consider changing the name,
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times we sat around. playing ‘What
about September Girls...’ There's a
number of stupid things we came
up With like ‘Knight's lnn.‘ "

The group just finished an Ameri-
can tour and plan to take .sorne time
off before heading to Europe in Jan—
uary. But they are already thinking
about their next album.

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the next record because we want to
do something different." Kletter
said. “Once we get off the road
we‘re going to do some experiment
ing. 1 know there‘s more than one
way to do things and l want to see
what It's like working outside of
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nous drama of the screen. All
around, it is a magical. statoof-the-
art piece of filmcraft.

“Barton Fink" long will be re-
membered as a memorable contri‘
bution to the art of filmmaking.

"Barton Fink." rated 'R. is
showing exclusively at Lexington
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By GREG LABER
Contributing Critic

Ron Howard's
epic. “Backdraft.”
most beautifully filmed and
masterfully performed movies of
the year.

Unfortunately. it suffers al-
most terminally from a confused
and melodramatic script written
by a fire fighter who knows as
much about plot and character
development as Sen, Ted Kenne-
dy knows about tact and good
taste.

The story centers on two fire-
fighting brothers. played by Kurt
Russell and William Baldwm.
who never have gotten along be-
cause ot their father's death.
Their soap-opera quarrels are of
minimal interest and waste the
talents of a fabulous supporting
cast.

The cast includes two of Hol—
lywood‘s most beautiful and tal-
ented actresses. Jennifer Jason
Leigh and Rebecca DeMomay.

Fortunately, a sub-plot involv-
ing Robert DeNiro evolves. He
plays an investigator who sees a
pattern of set tires with the help
of imprisoned arsonisl. Donald
Sutherland.

fire-fighter

‘Backdraft’ explodes
despite flaws in script

. . ‘
is one of the

This saves the film from fall—
ing into a syrupy oblivion. Both
actors are engaged in a “Silence
of the Lambs"-.style mystery.
which should have been the
bean of the film.

Also noteworthy is Howard‘s
brilliant cinematography. Ho-
ward creates a horrific yet stunr
ning vision of pyrotechnics, the
likes of which never have before
graced the silver screen. Flames
spring to life with character and
menace before his camera.

Despite numeroUs flaws Willi
the incompletely crafted script.
“Backdraft” is not a failure.

A cast like this could read
from a b0x of cereal and win
awards.

Even though the dialogue is
silly. these engaging actors draw
us into their world and make us
care about them.

Still, one cannot help but won»
der what might have been if only
the script had undergone a few
more rewrites.

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in the Student Center at 7:30
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The NBA could not have written
a better script than the one that un»
folded last year.

It ended with the Los Angeles
Lakers, the dynasty of the ‘80s,
against the Chicago Bulls, the team
of the future, in what the press la-
beled as the ”Dream Series."

In the starring roles were perhaps
the two greatest players ever play to
the game: Classic Lakers floor gen
oral and three- time Most Valuable
Player Earvm ”Magic Johnson
against the most dynamic athlete of
our time W Michael “Air” Jordan.

After losing the first game of the
series, the Bulls went on to win
their first Championship. More than
likely, it will not be their last.

While it won‘t be easy to top this
story, it will be ftiti to watch this
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healthy, confident and good. The
starting five remains intact with
Jordan and John Paxson at guard;
forwards Horace Grant and Scottie
Pippen; and center Bill Cartwright.

With most of the Eastern Confer-
ence still in a rebuilding mode, the
only teams that will challenge the
world champs are the Detroit Pis~
tons and the Philadelphia 76ers.
The Boston Celtics was one of
them until losing super guard and
franchise savior Dee Brown.

The Pistons will look to get back
some of the spark they had when
the team won back‘to-back Cham-
pionships two years ago.

The backcourt core of Isiah
Thomas and Joe Dumars returns, as
do forwards Mark Aguirre and
Dennis Rodman. John Salley now
will start at center because of the

    
  
  
   
    
    
 
 
  
 

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"Air" and company should have
no problem repeating last year‘s
performance iii the Easteni Confer-
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But they lack punch because of
the loss of Vinnie “The Microwave"
Johnson. The lackluster, and some-
times controversial, punch of back-
up center Bill Laimbeer will keep
the Pistons from the title.

Forward Charles Barkley, if
healthy, could singlehandedly get
the 76ers deep into the playoffs. in
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are guards Hersey Hawkins and
Johnny Dawkins; forward Armon
Gilliam; and center Charles Shack-
leford.

With the additions of Mitchell
Wiggens and Tharon Mayes added
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solid threat.

Former Wildcat and New York
Knicks coach Pat Riley appears to
be building another champion. Ri~
ley, no stranger to Winning, already
has made the necessary moves to
make the Knicks a better team (the
best being acquisition of the '.\
Man" - Xavier McDaniel).

McDaniel along with forward
Charles Oakley and center Patrick
Ewing gives the Knicks the best re»

bounding front line in the East.

The Indiana Pacers, Washington
Bullets and Milwaukee Bucks con-
tinue to improve, but still lack win-
ning elements.

The Orlando Magic. Charlotte
Homets, Atlanta Hawks, Miami
Heat. Cleveland Cavaliers and New
Jersey Nets WIII spend the year
lighting to stay out of the cellar.

Western Conference

Although the Lakers advance to
the Championship Series last sea-
st)“, the Portland Trailblazers are
the team to beat this year.

Led by Clyde “The Glide" Drex-
ler, the only thing keeping the Blaz-
ers frotti wtnning ts themselves.
they're so good that they tend to
relax too much, thus having a prob-
lem starting tip again.

Starting for the Blazers are
euards Dretder and Terry Porter;
torwards Jerome Kersey and Buck
Wilhams; and center Kevin Duck-
worth.

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