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Vol. XClll, No. 149

Established 1894

University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky

Independent since 1971

Kentucky Kernel

Monday. April 16, 1990

 

2 student organizations name leaders

Estes picked
to run SAB
for 1990-91

By TONJA WILT
Campus Editor

When 1990 Student Activities
Board President, Page Estes was
congratulated by her sorority sister
on her new position, Estes wasn‘t
sure what she
was talking
about.

“I think I was
definitely sur—
prised," said
Estes, a human
studiesjunior. “I
didn’t know
what position on
the board that I
got when she
congratulated
me."

Estes along with 19 other people
were selected early Friday morning
by the SAB Selections Committee
to bring SAB into the ’90s.

Experience was a key factor in
selecting the president said Lucy
Ogbum, chairman of the selections
committee.

We were looking for “someone
who is good in dealing with stu-
dents as well as administration,"
Ogbum said. Estes “comes across
as very confident and has a vision
of where she wants to see SAB in
five years."

Estes‘ two years of experience
with SAB was one of the reasons
why she was selected, said John
Herbst, SAB adviser.

“Obviously she has exceptional
qualities. She has a good experience
base," Herbst said. “I think general-

U.S. leaders
warn USSR
of blockade

Associated Press

ESTES

WASHINGTON a Senate lead-
ers in both parties wanted Soviet
President Mikhail S. Gorbachev on
Sunday that carrying out his threa-
tened economic blockade against
Lithuania could derail opening
trade relations between the United
States anti Moscow.

Senate Majority Leader George
Mitchell, D-Maine, and Minority
Leader Bob Dole, R-Kan., said re-
taliation by Moscow to Lithuania‘s
March 11 declaration of indepen—
dence would jeopardize a trade
agreement President Bush and Gor—
bachev hoped to sign at a summit
in June.

The Bush administration, mean-
while, was taking what Secretary of
State James A. Baker Ill described
as a “wait and see” attitude as the
Kremlin-imposed deadline for Lith-
uania to rescind its declaration of
independence passed last night.

Mitchell, who on Saturday con-
demned Gorbachev’s ultimatum as
“precisely the wrong approach,"
said Sunday he was waiting for
Bush to do the same. But, in an in-
terview on CBS-TV'S “Face the
Nation,” he also supported the ad-
ministration‘s reluctance to issue
specific counter threats.

“We ought not to be announcing
in advance what we‘re going to do
when we don‘t know for sure that
they are going to do," he said. “He
has made a threat. He has not yet
carried it out We don’t know what
they're going to do."

However, Mitchell said “a wide
range” of possible reactions could
include canceling the summit.

 

1990 Academic Year S.A.B. Board

 

Pre'Sidefit. .
Vice President
Secth‘easerer

LisaBramble
.. . .. . , Michelle Blevins
. Public Relations Loci Gutermuth

 

Cinema

LKD
Performing Arts
Spotlight Jazz
Concert

Indoor Recreation
S.A.T.V.

Special Activities
Travel

Visuat Arts

 

Contemporary Affairs

Greg Laber

Byl Hensley
John Fischer
Carmen Wetzel
Patrick Harper
Lynn Garrett
Jim Shambu
Jonathan Brown
Matt Bowling
Ann Rickert
Brent Cooper
Jennifer Allen

 

 

ly she was an outstanding candidate
for the position in temis of both her
interview and experience. I think
she is a very fine young lady and an
excellent leader."

If the students fee increase is ap-
proved, then bringing an alcohol—
free campus pub to the Student
Center in the next academic year is
one of the goals Estes hopes to
meet.

KARVN GATZ’Ksrnel S’afl

I hope to “get the entire campus
to work together and to have events
that can get the campus unified,"
she said.

Overall the quality of all the
1990 SAB members is high, Herbst
said

“I'm very confident in next
year’s board. I think they selected
an excellent caliber of people," he
said.

Delegates

elect James
SOA head

Staff reports

Kennedy James was elected
president of the 1990 Student Or~
ganization Assembly by about 50
delegates iti SOA late last week.

James, an agriculture economics

senior, will join
Michelle Chan--
dler. the W90
vice president
in leading SOA
in the nc.\l aca-
demic year.

“I think
you're in good
hands for next
year,“ said Pat
Hart, \\ ho llll\
served as SOA

president for the past two and a
half years. “I felt very good. i think
they elected a very good slate of
officers."

Monica Noe, who was elected a
member at large said that she wants
to help increase student lll\'0l\‘L“
ment in SOA in the next academic
year.

“I’d like to see more member»
ship to SOA. It has a lot of oppor-
tunity, but l‘vc noticed that a lot of
people don‘t want to come to meet--
ings," said Noe, a history sopho—
more. “l want to get the delegates
to work better together."

As a member at large Noe said
she will mainly VOICC the conccms
of the other delegates to the board.

Other members elected iriclutlc'
Joe Barnes, treasurer: Rob inh—
iiian. secretary: Ervy Wliit;ik~r.
SOA member at large.

 

 

2 DEAD, 2 WOUNDED: Fayette County coroners wheeled out the victims of Friday's murder-
suicide in a Lexington house. Michael E. Purcell, 38. killed himself and his wife, Mary Jean Pur-
cell, 33. in a 17—hour standoff with police

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MCHAEL MUIKe'r‘el S'. 1"

 

 

Tax deadline nearing for late filers

Associated Press

WASHINGTON —— You won't be
through with taxes for the year
even if you beat the midnight to-
night deadline for filing your feder«
al retum. The average American
will have to work through May 5 to
satisfy the tax collectors.

if that prediction by the Tax
Foundation proves accurate, it will
be the latest “Tax Freedom Day"
on record and two days later than
1989. Tax Freedom Day is the
foundation's estimate of how long

it would take an average person to
pay his or her state, federal and lo-
cal taxes if all income went for
taxes until they were all paid for
the year 1990.

For the millions of couples and
individuals still struggling with
I989 returns, the IRS announced
that its toll-free telephone serVice
would remain open late tonight to
answer questions.

The Postal Service said most
post offices in cities With at least
30,000 population planned to sta-
tion clerks at curbs1de to receive

returns.

Neither the IRS nor the Postal
Service estimated how many re-
turns were likely to be filed tonight.
However, the [RS said it expects to
receive about 23 million this week
-—— or one of every five that will be
filed this year.

When all the returns are counted
later this year, they are expected to
total 111 million, an increase of
about 1 million from I989.

About four of every five returns
are qualifying for refunds, slightly
above last year's figure.

 

 

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Brice Bay, a graduate student from Lexingter‘ ,
skills at the game Nintendo. a popular pastime .fi /

Nintendo’s hold on
UK students powerful

By BOB NORMAN
Senior Staff Writer

There it is" The huge beating
heart of thc island of death in
the island’s rocky. cavernous
tszli'c'r.

the MAN. equipped with a
spraying, fireball shooting gun,
tircs rapidly, upon it The puls-
ing of the heart quickens, as
huge. crawling spiders burst out
of their cocoons in kamikaze ef-
torts to save the island from the
intruder. The MAN (ics‘pcraicl)
tires his gun on the spiders and
the heart.

High and low he fires. leap—
ing and ducking and killing
giant spiders. So close now
Oh! a spider pounces him from
above. sending him into the
throes of death. He is dead. and
the diabolical heart beats on.

Hey. big deal. the fellow sit«
ting in front of the TV, with the
controller has three men left.
it‘s not the end of the world.
But one can believe the video
game junkie felt his heart give a
lllllt‘ \\ hen that spider trounced
on him.

Yes. you have just been trans-
ported to the world of Nintendo.
A world where you can fight
contra missions to save the
world. command tank battles,
outbox Mike Tyson and win six
gold medals in the World
Olympics.

Not bad, considering that a
moment earlier you were wor-
ried about those upcoming fi-
nals or a nagging cold.

It isn't surprising, then, that
Nintendo and other video games
are sweeping UK and campus‘s
everywhere like video bombs
destroying a video countryside.
or video guns, equipped with
bleeping ,firing sounds, annihi-
lating thousands of humanoid
invaders.

“A lot of it (the pull of video
games) is doing things you
can‘t normally do -—- like realis-
tically," junior Aaron Hersko-
wit]. said. “i really like simula-
tions, like flying a plane or
reliving historical battles."

it may be just that w an es-
cape from the ordinary, the

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said. “You . .lll tuxl !‘ c in to the
Universe or ixtsi .l l- iii waste
time."

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of the controversx iiiotinding
video games it is .i .oiitroxcrsy
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Zorn’s ‘Naked City’
strips away stereotypes

Story, Page 5.

9"“

Sports Monday

Bat Cats take series

with Ole Miss.
Story. Page 3.

 

Today: Sunny, warmer.

High mid-60$.

(tomorrow: Breezy, rain.
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