Kentucky ' Kernel

Crosbie 0n Complaints: ‘There’s nothing there’

By KYLE FOSTER
Senior Staff Writer

Student Government Association
President-Elect Scott Crosbie yes-
terday fired back at allegations that
he and running mate Keith Sparks
ran a dirty campaign. saying com-
plaints filed against him are irrele-
vant.

“There’s nothing there," Crosbie
told members of the SGA Elections
Board, “and it's hindering Keith

UK debater
earns honor
at national

tournament

By JULIE ESSELMAN
Senior Staff Writer

Resolved: UK student T.A.
McKinney is the best college debat-
er in the country.

There’s no argument on that point.

McKinney. a political science sen-
ior from Nashville. Tenn.. captured
the Top Speaker honor last weekend
at the National Debate Tournament
at Trinity College in San Antonio,
Texas.

And in the process, he continued
UK‘s debating powerhouse tradi-
tion, helping the team set a national
college record for the most individu-

al top speaker awards.

UK had been tied at three individ-
ual honors with Dartmouth College,
with top recognition in 1976, 1981
and 1982. McKinney put UK on top
in that race with its fourth award.

In his fourth appearance at the na-
tional tournament. which lasted
from Friday to Monday. McKinney
out-argued debaters from 72 teams
across the country.

He and debate partner David
Walsha political science senior
from Irving. Texas, finished in the
top eight of the competing teams.

McKinney and Walsh made it to
the quarterfinal elimination round
before falling to the University of
Michigan. Only 25 teams qualified
for the elimination rounds.

Also in that final group was UK‘s
other debate team, comprised of Cal-
vin Rockefeller, a communication
senior from Birmingham, Ala.. and
Jonathan Reeve, a political science
freshman from Nashville, Tenn.
However, they lost in the first elimi-
nation round to Wake Forest Univer-
Sity.

and 1 from really getting things
done."

A complaint contesting the
March 28-29 SGA elections and
three formal complaints against the
Crosbie-Sparks campaign were re-
viewed by Elections Board chair
Greg Watkins and board member
Antimony Bishop.

They were the only members on
the seven-member board present
lastnight.

The complaints and protest

claimed that Crosbie/Sparks and
their constituents solicited votes il-
legally, removed campaign posters
of other candidates and overspent
the regulated expenditure amount of
$500.

In his protest of the election.
SGA presidential candidate Keith
Clark wrote that the Crosbie/Sparks
campaign — along with the proce-
dures initiated — was unfair and
biased.

“Many of my constituents includ-

ing myself, witnessed Crosbie]
Sparks campaign workers ap-
proaching election tables and
boothes both on LCC as well as at
M.l. King Library," Clark wrote.
He also complained that polls

operated on LCC's campus were in-
adequately mn and mispositioned.

There was no discussion concem-
ing the LCC polls.

Presidential candidate Christa
Collins and vice-presidential candi-
dates Amy Cooper and Jenn Saffer

 

 

yesterday afternoon.

 

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By NICK COMEFI
Staff Writer

Memorial Coliseum will
come alive today with displays
of medical technology and the
latest nursing techniques as the
UK Albert B. Chandler Medical
Center‘s nursing department
sponsors "Nursing Expo '91."

Through the expo. hospital
officials hope to raise awareness
of the career opportunities avail-
able in the nursing field.

Beth Tucker. divisional direc-
tor of nursing. said the event is
especially being directed at high
school and junior high school
students so that they will realize
the many roles of nursing plays.

“A lot of times people think
of nursing as providing bedside
care at the hospital,” Tucker
said.

She said the nursing field en-
compasses many roles besides
bedside care.

The event will stress nursing

 

Nursing expo features
displays, techniques

in education. administration and
business. she said.

The expo, to be held from
8:30 am. to 3 pm. will also be
helpful to college students who
are considering changing their
majors to nursing and people
who are considering a career
change to nursing. Tucker said.

Nursing programs from col-
leges around the state. including
Eastern Kentucky University
and Midway College, and Lex-
ington hospitals like Good Sa-
maritan and Central Baptist will
have exhibits at the event.

Tucker said there will be
many interactive displays and
informational exhibits at the
expo —— including a dialysis ma-
chine and a model of an operat-
ing room.

In addition, the UK aeromedi—
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filed separate complaints concern-
ing Crosbie/Sparks. Cooper was the
only person present who had filed a
complaint

Collins’ complaint stated that she
had been informed that Crosbie and
Sparks passed out copies of their
platform March 6 to 10. more than
a week before SGA election regula-
tions allowed.

Crosbie disputed this. saying plat-
forms were stolen from a steering
committee meeting that week and

all but one were retrieved. He said
his steering committee saw the plat-
form, but did not receive any copies
of it because there were not enough
at the time.

“That was not distribution I
can get a signed affadavit or what-
ever is needed from Insty-Prints
saying that they did not have this
material ready until the Saturday we
got back from spring break," Cros-

See ELECTION, Page 7

Bill to ban posters
killed by senator

By KYLE FOSTER
Senior Staff Writer

Byl Hensley, co-sponsor of a bill
that would restrict the use of cam-
paign posters in
SGA elections, 5
said he would ,
have preferred if '
the Political Af-
fairs Committee
of the Student
Government As-
sociation had ta-
bled the bill last ~
week in SGA ‘
committee mect- HENSLEY
ings instead of refusing to look at it.

E]. Bunzendahl, SGA executive
director of Student Services, spon-
sored the bill along with Hensley,

chair of the Student Activities
Board Contemporary Affairs Com-
mittee.

SGA Vice President Sarah Cour-
scy said the bill was submitted too
late to the Committee on Commit-
tees, which reviews all legislature
and passes it to the appropriate
committee, to be heard during
Thursday‘s meeting.

However, Bunzendahl said she
submitted the bill to Senator at
Large Chris Payne last Wednesday
morning, and they discussed it over
the phone beforehand.

She said Payne told her if he
thought the bill would not pass
through Political Affairs, he would
name the committee as the main

See HENSLEY. Page 7

10 students named
new Gaines fellows

By KERI CARTINHOUR
Contributing Writer

and TAMMY GAY

Staff Writer

The Gaines Center for the Hu-
manities has announced the names
of 10 UK undergraduates chosen
this year for the John R. and Joan B.
Gaines Fellowships in the Humani‘
ties.

The Gaines Fellowship Program
offers the students the opportunity
for two years of mtensrvc study in
the humanities, culminating in an
undergraduate thesrs.

The fellowship also includes a
$5,000 stipend, awarded over the
course of the two years.

This year's fellowship recrpicnts
and their majors are Arvind Bhatt,
electrical engineering; Emily Ann
Carrico, pre-physrcal therapy; Joe
Compton, philosophy, English and
German: Nora Cummane, English
and Spanish: Gina Hams. horticul-
ture; Thomas Jones, architecture;

New campus group battles
racism on ‘individual level’

By GRAHAM SHELBY
Staff Writer

Racists Anonymous?

Members of a new group meeting
on campus Tuesday nights plan to
treat racism on campus and in socie-
ty as a wound or disease in need of
treatment

“What we're trying to do here is
deal with (racism) on an individual
level," said Francis Hayden. a medi-
cal school student. who helped or-
ganize the meeting.

Hayden belongs to the Baha‘i
club, which sponsors the discus-
sions in conjunction with the Insti-
tute for the Healing of Racism.

The purpose of the weekly meet-

ings is to open channels of commit--

nication between students of differ-
ent races in an effort to break down
racial barriers.

Christine Weaver. a founh-year
Architecture student, said the group
wants to “promote unity and diver-
sity” among the student body and

 

“This school is a re-
flection of the society.
Racism is inherent in
our culture."

Chrlstlne Weaver,
Architecure student

 

“recognize racism in themselves
and in the country."

The group, which meets every
Tuesday at 6:30 pm. in the Old Stu-
dent Center is one of 50 similar
groups have been fortned in univer-
sities around the country including
Princeton University, Vanderbilt
University and the University of
Louisville.

Hayden said the main priority is
attracting students — black and
white —— to the sessions. but once a
"core group” has been established
the organization can really get to
work.

“When we lave a bunch of peo-

ple who are convinced that racism
is a big problem and its something
they want to work on then we can
get started with (larger) projects,"
like guest speakers and campus pro-
grams.

“I hope that more and more peo
ple will realize their own racism
and what racism is." said Sue Ziva-
r1. another of the meetings organiz-
ers. “I hope it brings people togeth-
er."
Currently, said Hayden, “we‘ve
got a divided campus — a few
friendships, one on one. but you
don't have a group that's really inte-

Weaver said she believed the is-
sue was pertinent to UK students.
adding that sometimes she observed
“a separation You have your
black paties and your white parties.
your white events and your black
events.

“This school is a reflection of the
society. Racism is inherent in our
culture." she said.

David Pace, agricultural economiCs:
Alan Purcell. political science: I :ui-
ra Sauer. English: and Keith Wil-
liams, German and physics.

The Games program began in
l984, when the Gaiiicscs donated
about $500,000 for the scholarships
and tor renovation of what is now
the Gaines Center on Fast Maxwell
Street.

Student seminars and other
Gaines Program events are held in
the Gaines Center.

About 50 students applied tor the
program, and 20 students were m-
terviewed before the final selec-
tions.

The fellowships are based on aca-
demic excellence and are awarded
to “outstanding students." \‘ald Ray
Belts. dircctor of the Games pro-
gram. He said partiCipants usually
have a GPA of 3.5 or better.

To apply, students had to submit
their transcripts, a list 01 their acou-

See GAINES, Page 7

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