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Education rctonm discussed across nation

Ford addresses questions

 

raised by curious students .

By Gary Wuli

Associate News Editor

you," he said.

Ensuring American students states.
are prepared for the changes in
the 2 lst century will be a focus of
the 105th Congress.
Twenty—seven students and
administrators from UK’s Lexing-
ton Campus questioned Sen.
Wendell Ford (I)-Ky.) yesterday
on congressional plans for
improving education. Six other
community colleges from around
the state participated in the dis-
cussion via satellite.Before the
floor opened for questions, Ford
addressed President Clinton’s

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Ford said later that Kentucky is . - ~ , .. , .
drawing the attention of ot er
He said the Common-
wealth has surpassed Indiana in
many education categories.

“Kentucky has
grabbed itself by the bootstraps
and made some changes.” Ford

Finance senior Chris Miculis
shared his college experience at
UK and changes he would like to

“I would like to see more inter—
action between the work force and
the classroom, especiall in higher
education,” Miculis said:

absolutely

 

Education secretary
plans improvement

8y Mal Herron

flaunts faillor'

\'o evcus'es. 'l'ougher standards,

These are the non-negotiable guidelines of
l’resident (Ilinton’s new education reform plan for
the next century.

llelving into the plan during his address at the
( arter (Zenter in Atlanta Tuesday afternoon, lildu-
cation Secretary Richard Riley discussed the fine
i“ lllltS of a plan that pulls no punches in seeking to
iinproie the quality of US. elementary, secondary
and higher education.

“11 there \\ as e\ er a time to push higher educa-
tion to the next level, that time is now," said Riley,
as students from UK and community colleges
from around the state watched the speech on tele-
vision,

plans for education.

“In the next 50 months, on a
national level, we will be prepar—
ing for the next 50 years,” he said.

A healthy economy sparked
Americans to concentrate on edu-
cation as the number one priority,
Ford said.

He emphasized that Congress
will be setting goals, not stan—
dards.

“It is the desire by this adminis-
tration and Congress to do what
they can to prepare students for
the global competition to come, “
Ford said.

The Kentucky Education
Reform Act brought back bitter
memories for a couple of the stu-
dents who shook their heads at the
idea of portfolios. Ford defended
the portfolios by comparing them
to chicken livers that didn’t taste
good, but were healthy.

“You tnay not like portfolios.
You may not like some of these
standards, but what these people

Miculis suggested elementary
and high school educators — not
UK 101, a class which prepares
students for colle e life -— should
prepare students gr college.

Graduate students voiced con—
cerns about cuts in teaching assis-
tant programs. Ford said while
working to pass a balanced of bud—
get, Congress has to choose which
programs to fund.

“How do we get more for less?
I’d never seen a project work
where government was the sole
source,” Ford said. “It has to be a
partnership, where there is local,
county and state where every—
body is a part of it.”

While discussing education
fundin , Ford supported the idea
of a baianced budget. In order to
achieve it, Congress must “pick
and choose” what to fund, and
education is what senators and
representatives choose.

“You’re struggling to get your
education and I’m struggling to

 

 

his and Lexington (loitiinunity (Iollege .s‘tu/
dents gathered in 2;] (iatton College of Business
and liconomics‘ along with Kentucky Sen. \Ven
dell l‘ord, Student (iovcrnment Association l’resr
dent Alan Aja and former Kentucky Gov. Martha
Layne Collins.

Challenging curriculums are in, dumbing down
class material is out if the US. educational institu~
tions want better performance.

Riley did not make light of the progress
increased college attendance in southern universe
ties and hiring of teachers - but said the accom—
plishments leave no room for rest.

The percentage of high school seniors who
drop out or do not attend college at all is unaccept-
ably high. he said, and tuition plays havoc \vith
families’ linances.

Reevaluation of drug and alcohol policies, tun»
ing in to the information superhighway, better
teacher preparation and mastering basic subjects
such as reading and math were key areas in need of
attention.

 

 

PHOIOS BY JOHNNY FARMS Mme! minim/or

UNlllIG Enllcnflllll Senator H’endell Ford (D—Ky.), lefi, discusses the firmre ofeduration in the

United States with UK students across the Commonwealth.

are going to do for you is good for

make sure you do,” Ford said.

Senator supports HOPE scholarships, Clinton ’s plan

By Chris Campbell

Assistant Editorial Editor

Who’s to say that education is the nation’s No. 1
priority?
Only the senior senator from the Bluegrass and a

43-page booklet from the office of the president of

the United States.
“Kentucky is really beginning to move and prepar—
ing for the 2 lst century,” Sen. Wendell Ford said.
Hoping to prove the state’s improvement over the
past several years, Ford was quick to speak of the
advancements the Kentucky Education Reform Act
has put on high school and elementary students. He

 

    

 

 

 

said KERA has done a good job
- preparing these students for higher
education.

“We are setting goals, not stan—
dards,” he said. “The KERA stan-
dards are higher than the Goals 2000
standards put out by the federal gov—
ernment.”

HOPE scholarships look to be the
future of financial aid for students
looking for a college education. Take
for instance the University of Geor-
gia, where 97 percent of the students
are on HOPE scholarships.

The scholarship provides a maxi-
mum $1,500 tax credit to pay for
tuition and required fees in a stu-
dent’s first year.

If the person maintains a B aver—
age and proves to work hard and stay

 

offdrugs, he or she will receive another $1,500.

Ford said $98 billion has been set aside for tax
breaks, and “we need to see that it becomes available."
According to the booklet put out by the Clinton
administration, the tax credit will pay the full cost of
tuition of most community colleges and by 1998, 4.2
million middle-income students will use 1 TON".
scholarships as a resource to pay for college.

The senator gave vocal support to UK‘s communr
ty colleges. an issue in hot debate lately. He compared
the UK community college systctn to a hen looking
over its chicks, in that UK has to constantly feed the
community colleges in terms of technology and sup-
port.

“1 am for the community college system," Ford
said, joining local politicians including lirnesto Scor-
sone and Kathy Stein in support of the system. “1 am
in favor of the cotntnunity college system as it stands
right now.”

When it got down to the bone, Ford sounded opti-
mistic about the prospects for Kentucky education
and the role UK will play in it for the future.

“There is a real desire to make it work for you and
those who come after you,” he said. “Ifyou want me
to give your vision, well that's me choosing what you
want to do. That’s not how it should be. Instead, if
you have a vision, I want to help you get there."

And not by the federal government.

“Politics stops at the schoolhouse door," Riley
Mllil.

“l",ducation is now the fault line ofwho is part
of the American dream. \\'e have to do what's best
for our children."

In preparing teachers for the trials of the class-
room. Riley said liberal arts departments and edu
cation colleges need to fuse their efforts to gradu~
ate high-quality instructors.

Critics argue the plan costs too much and that
some citizens are not meant to go to college.

(filinton and Riley vehemently disagree.

“((Ilinton) is not about to put a ceiling on the
dreams of every American to work hard and go to
college,“ Riley said.

SGA Vice President Chrissy Cuyer said UK
professors often feel more pressure to conduct
research than actually teach students.

“They're not promoted as much if they don’t
produce research," said Guyer, whose mother
teaches fourth—graders at Tamarack Elementary
School in ()wensboro. Ky.

“I don't think she feels society values teaching
as much as it should."

' The National Board of Professional Teaching
will certify 100,000 teachers in the next 10 years,
Riley said.

l’ell grants are at an all-time high. and a new
incentive allowing parents to deduct $10,000 a
year on their taxes is on the horizon, Riley said.

All this is not being done just to acquire a diplo—
ma.

“(Food citizenship has its roots in education,"
he said.

Council wants
GPA increase

By Leona Hacker
Staff Writer

“We’ll see your .1 and raise it .1.”

This is essentially what UK's Panhel—
lenic Council has told its international gov-
erning board.

New standards set by the International
Panhelltnic Conference will ask sororities
to raise their grade point averages by .1
each term, but UK's Panhellenic Council
has decided to shoot for a .2 increase. At
the same time NPC and UK Panhcllenic
have placed emphasis on recognizin aca-
demic achievement and ranking aca emics
as a riori .

he C has made this its official “Year
of the Scholar.” The NPC works with its
member sororities to improve Greek life,
keep hi h standards and promote good
scholars ips. All these previous endeavors
promote development of character and
dc: friendshi among its members.

e UK anhellenic Council is excited
about the NPC oals for this year,” said
Amy Dunn, Pan ellenic publicity chair.
“We agree that academics are of the utmost

 

importance and we are striving to surpass
the NPC goals.”

The council plans to focus on new mem-
ber education and supply help in the fall
and spring semesters in order to improve
overall GPAs.

It is also going to offer tutors during
dead week to help members with difficult
subjects.

During finals older members who know
the subjects will answer questions over the
phone and in person on certain nights to
offer help to the sorority members.

“We are planning an outreach program
to train older members to teach time man-
agement, stress and offer test-taking tips,”
said Amy Waggoner, Panhellenic Council’s
vice president of scholarship.

Each chapter will hold a scholarship
meeting once a month to focus on the plan
and continual] try to improve it.

The overalTPanhellenic GPA is 3.0687
and the non-Greek UK women’s GPA is
3.006.

Assistant Dean of Students Susan West
said the council is also trying to increase its
recruitment and retention rates.

“We also want to promote Greek pride
and improve the image of the sororities,”
West said. “They are trying to promote
relations between Nubian Council, Inter-
fntcmity Council and the Panhellenic
Council and have them do more activities

together.”

 

 

Wethingtcn redefines
llll's role in community

By James Ritchie
Senior Stafl Writer

As a land grant institution,
UK’s mission is to serve the entire
state, President Charles Wething-
ton told the Donovan Forum yes-
terday.

The forum is made up of mem-
bers of the Donovan Scholars
Program, which 5 onsors educa-
tion programs, inc uding a fellow-
ship, for older adults.

“We are not the University of
Lexington, we are the University
of Kentucky,” Wethington said.

And though the University is
an integral part of the Lexington
community, he said, its mission
must be comprehensive.

He told the forum that many of
UK’s problems would be solved if
policy makers would see it that
way.
Gov. Paul Patton is one official
who understands what must be

done to improve higher educa-
tion, the president said. Because
Kentucky is not a rich state, a
“greater—than-average” effort is
required to be competitive,
Wethington said.

If Kentucky puts the same
amount of effort toward educa-
tion as other, richer states, it will
not be able to keep up, he said.

UK is steadily improving,
Wethin on said, and that is how
it shoul be.

“You’ll see us moving the Uni—
versity forward very deliberately,”
he said.

The president reviewed several
of the University’s accomplish-
menmz

VEnrollment on the Lexingo
ton campus has remained con-
stant over the last five years by
choice, while the quality of
incoming freshmen has increased.
This year UK set a new school
record of 3.4 for the avenge high

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NEWShyte

Judge decides
cocktigliting still illegal

FRANKFURT—- A jud e ruled yesterday that
cockfi hting is still illegal ingKentucky, an issue sup-
posed y decided in 1994 by the Kentucky Court of
Appeals.

ranklin Circuit Judge Roger Crittenden threw
out a lawsuit filed in March 1995 by Montgomery
County cockfi ht romoter Marvin Watkins. He
argue that t e lgentucky State Police had no
authority to raid his arena because the General
Assembly had legalized cockfighting.

Cockfighting supporters have long argued that a
1980 amendment to the state‘s legal definition of
“animal" cxem ted birds. Then-Gov. John Y.
Brown Jr. vetoe the bill a day after the deadline for
doing so, but the law was never changed to reflect
the amendment.

Crittenden ruled that the veto was late, and that
there was reason to believe the veto document was
invalid. But he said the Senate accepted it and has
not resubmitted the bill legalizing the practice.

“This case really centers on e actions taken by
the legislamre in accepting the veto from Gov.
Brown," he wrote. “After the veto was returned to
the proper officer, the legislature acted as if the veto
was effective and constitutional.”

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‘Breaking the WEVES' parts the 8833

By Dan O'Neill

Arts Fxliror

In art few works have the ability
to convey their intended message,
conjure vivid emotion, provoke
thought and still entertain
through material actually worth
discussing. In film this occurs even
less. When it does, however, it
tastes as good as a plump steak to
an Ethiopian. Denmark’s bold
new film Breaking the Waves is
film's choicest cut in some time.

The story begins with the mar-
riage of Bess, a sweet, innocent
Scottish girl andjan, an eccentric
“outsider." Some of the older,
stern villagers and clergy, includ-
in Bess' family, disapprove of the
re ationship, thus initiating the
paradoxical parallels to religion.

Bess spends time awa from the
central characters on t e church
floor praying aloud in a conversa-
tion manner. speaking God’s
response in a deeper, altered voice.
In one instance she cries out for
God to return Jan so they can be
together. Iler wish comes true in
the most twisted of manners when
jan has a work accident, paralyz-
ing him and threatening his life.
Rele ated to a hospital bed, in a
state ofglonging, Jan asks his wife
to “experience" other men and
then report back with the intimate
details. From there, Bess goes
through a series of desperate,
seemingly mad measures to do
what she believes will keep her
husband alive.

\Vhat results is a brutal, prob-

 

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BREAKING "ill“ Will. Academy Award nominated actress Emily Watson stars with Stellan Slearsgard (above) and
Karrin (,‘artldge (below, lefi) in the extraordinary film ‘Breaking the Waves, ’ playing at the Kentucky Theatre.

ing examination of sex, religion
and the dangers ofbelief.
Academy Award nominated
actress ICmily Watson ca tures her
shy. naive character )rilliantly

through a repertoire of cute yet
confused facial expressions. Her
male counterpart. Stellan Skars-
gard. gives a near-equal perfor-

 

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Campus brings noted
author to sign hook

By Julie Anderson
Senior Sniff ” 'mer

Publishing a novel may make
writing one look easy. So was the
case for jim Grimsley. For 10
years his first novel sat dormant
before its 1992 publication.

Like every good American
writer rejected by society, he sent
his Work to Europe, where a (ier-
man publisher relished its dark
plot: a young mother with five
kids, an abusive father scrapping
together the meager essentials. the
flip reality to the proverbial Amer—
ican dream.

(lrimsley admitted to the stark
mood of lVinter Birds in an inter—
view several years ago. “ll’mrcr
Birds was so intense, and even
though I believed in it, I‘d sort of
bought into people‘s talk about it.

about how dark it was."

Soon the book found its way to
France and at last back to the
United States where it was run‘
ner—up for the PICN/llemming-
way Award and it was first in the
1995 Sue Kaufman Prize for First
Iiiction from the American Acade-
my of Arts and Letters.

Although at heart .1 confessed
fiction writer. (irlmslcy has found
sustained employment as an in-
housc playwright at TStagc The-
atre in Atlanta. In a press release,
(irimsley noted the financial limi-
tations of the book industry.

“I liccamc a play“ right in resi—
dencc in Who Thu plays worked
financially more quickly than any
ofthc fiction I was uriting."

By 1988 (irimslcy won News—
day's (icorgc Oppenheimer
Auard as the licst New Play-

mance as Jan, beautifully raising
questions of his character’s true
motivations.

Acclaimed Danish director Lars
Von Trier (Zentropa)

profundity.

Breakin the lVaves challenges
delicate sufiject matter and does so
relentlessly, allowing no sympathy

for its characters. The

 

wrote and directed his
finest and by far most
accessible work to
date. “is use of a
hand—held camera gave
the film a raw, almost
documentary look as it
often shifted in and out
of focus.

 

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film tells a poignant,

character—focused

story while managing
point out the

to
hypocrisics of the

church in a subtle and

tactful manner.
Breaking the lliit'er

draws emotions rarely

Von Triers’ trade— V felt in any film experi—
mark bizarre style only ***** once; its script and per—
became present in the (0“! office) formances transcend
way he broke the film all others from recent
into different seg- “Breaking the years. Looking at it
ments. \\'ith seven Waves” from a broad perspec-
chapters and an epi— October Films tive, this is not “a film

logue, each was sepa-
rated by minute-long

 

for everyone," yet
everyone should see it.

 

 

postcard shots of
scenic landscapes with different
rock songs as background. At first,
the interjections came across as
campy and comical, but ultimately
they added to the film‘s biblical

wright.

Since his first bout with getting
published, Grimsley has found a
publisher to produce his next two
books, Dream Boy and My Drown-

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Dream Boy follows the sexual
and religious struggle between
two boys in the country.

“... The majority of gay novels
are about urban settings." Crims—
lev said. “And they're not about
adolescents. W’hat’s out there now
is the Northeastern prep school
point of view. It was never about
my life."

i'lly Drowning, released thislan-
uary, focuses on the poorest peo—
do

“A lot of people have written
about poor people, but I don’t
think the very poorest people have
been written about the way you
really see them. The attitude in
literature toward that class of peo—
ple until now has been that poor
people were just like everybody
else, only with fewer things.
Nobody dealt with just how ani—
rnalistic your life can become
when you don't have anything,”
(irimsley said.

As I left the theater
a feeling came over me compara-
ble to that left by The Godfather ”—
one of draining epic proportions.
one of intense authority, one of
greatness.

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Pbotofurnishrd
”BEAM 30' Authorjim Grimsley
will read and sign books at the lVor—
sham Theater tomorrow at 7: 3’0.

WHAT'Syour Sign?

By Suzanne Hatteld

Aries (March 21-April 19):
Coffee is magnetically attracted to
your body because you constantly
spill it all over yourself. Some-
times the coffee is very hot, so you
end up with some nice second-
dcgrec burns. You start looking
like a refugee from a burn ward
with a spill roblem. But because
of your ca feine addiction, you
refuse to stop drinking coffee and
just have to get used to your new
look.

Taurus (April ZO-Ma 20): You
begin to pick up small children by
their ankles and shake them up
and down, and collect any change
that falls out of their pockets. This
act not only garners you some
extra money but also helps you
release your aggression on those
who are halfyour size.

Gemini (May 21-June 20): You
become afflicted with tempora
insanity on Thursday, which wi I
last approximately tw0 weeks.

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During that time you embark on a
luxurious crime spree, robbing
stores and maiming various people
at your leisure. This is fun for a
while. but after you are restored to
your normal mental state you start
feeling bad. But don‘t worry: the
followin week you will become a
sociopat , so your feelings of guilt
will be abated.

Cancer (lune 21-July 22): You
die. Then you come back to life,
but you’re sort of ross lookin .
Your brief stay in t c after woer
did not treat you well and now you
have the scars to prove it.

Leo Ouly 23-Aug. 22): For
some unknown reason, your body
will shrink to three inches on Sat—
urday morning). You scream for
help, and in a rief, irreplaceable
moment in time, your roommate
steps on you, crushing all your
internal organs. Ouch.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22):
You’ve swallowed one too many
pieces of gum when you were a
small one, and now your stomach

has metamorphosed into a big,
gummy mess. You can no longer
eat, but your stomach is a neat
topic of conversation to bring up
at parties.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): A
barking little dog bites small
chunks of flesh out of your right
leg. Your karma with small ani-
mals has never been swell; this
incident means its not going to get
any better.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21):
While cooking you manage to set
your self afiame. But because your
roommate doesn’t like you, he/she
doesn’t help you and sits back to
watch you burn.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):
Sunshine beams down on your
every step and you win a couple
hundred dollars from a contest
you entered. Not ve exciting but
not real traumatic ei er.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19):
You become so happy that with
the slightest provocation, you
break into song and dance. Soon,

people begin to recognize you as
the “dancing moron." You‘re now
our own circus sideshow, but
)ecausc you lack any talent you
are unable to make a career out of
being a moron. You're not cute or
funny, and you can't carry a tune.
Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18):
You will have a prophetic dream
in which a mystic being decides
whether to treat you kindly or to
torture you with various pin .
bugs. Unfortunately it decides to
go the torture route and you
ecome agitated and shaky forfa
couple of days, but hey, you'll be
fine in a couple ofweeks. ; L.‘
Pisces (Feb. 19—March 20);
You accidentally kill your neigh-
bor’s puppy. But because your
neighbor inks you are an abscess
on the face of humanity, she
doesn’t believe ou and murdesis
your goldfish. ' his starts a sm‘All
scale war between the two of you
— first by eliminating each others
pets and then moving to plants. In
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. Tonight, 8
Coleman Coliseum,

Tuscaloosa

: Kentucky (24-3, 10-2)

National nail-o: No. 3
Probable suitors: Pix: Rob:

slaveMasiello. 1. 0.
Alabama (14-11, 4-8)
National niitlng: None

Probable Starters: Pls: Rob:
F Demetrius Alexander 12.5 5. 9
F Thalamus McGee 5.1 4.1
6 Damon Bacore 4.0 2. 7
6 Brian Williams 12.8 3 0
6 Eric Washington 16.1 6. 0
Reserves: 0 Je Royal 6

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Poole 32; F M C. azloue,
mm, 15681ake1hrasher,12 CScotl
Hamfltoii, 0. 9; G Deiuan Shambley. 0 O.

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for UK

ames away from Rupp Arena,
Eeginning with a game against
Alabama In Tuscaloosa.

“This team is ready to get back
on the road,” sophomore ard
Allen Edwards said. “We ad a
nice little run here at Rupp, but I
think as a team, we play better on
the road because there is so much
adversity to overcome

“I think (the road) brin s us
together and makes us work hard-
er."

After Alabama, UK (243 over-
all, 10-2 in the Southeastern Con-
ference) will travel to a couple of
the more difficult venues in the
SEC — at least for the Cats ——
Vanderbilt’s Memorial Gymnasi-
um and Tennessee’s Thompson~
Boling Arena

The Cats are coming offa four-
game stretch at home where they
dominated their opposition. UK
defeated its visitors — including
nationally-ranked Villanova —— by
an average of 33.3 points a game.

The Crimson Tide team the
Cats will face tonight has been one
of the SEC’S most up—and-down
teams.

After starting out lO<0, Alaba—
ma has lost 11 ofits last 15 to fall
into fifth place in the conference's
Western Division.

Alabama (l4-l 1, 4-8) owns one
impressive victory, a 70-67 home
win over the nation’s current sec—
ond-ranked team, Minnesota.

The Golden Gophers have lost

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JAMES CRISP Kenm’ to);

l CM'I 8H Nazr Hob/unmet! 11111 Item II tone for the Cats in the middle,

despite not starting the lanjimr games

only once since that
night in 'l’uscaloosa.

“Alabama, typical of what we've
seen in the last few years, is very
UK Coach Rick l’itino

athletic,"
said.

I hursday

“lfyou ct them on a hot night
they can
country.

‘\\ e have to go down there and
obviouslI play intelli ent basket—
ball but be great at t e defensive

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Kentucky Kernel, H’edmsdav. February I 9, I 997 3

Men's volleyball team
having success in '97

By Noreen Tiongson
Contributing ll’riter

Thcv bump, they set, thcl
kill. llieI are one of UK" s hid-
den surprises. The men’ s IolleI -
ball team is one of many club
teams at UK.

The men’s squad has been
around since the early '80s.
(Ioached by Rob llolley and led
by captain Brad chilva, the team
is one of UK's more successful
club teams.

So far the season has been
successful for the club. Although
it has yet to crack the Top 25,
they have defeated nationallI
ranked teams.

UK won a preseason tourna-
ment at Vanderbilt and took a
game from No. 4 Florida. III
addition, the Cats have beaten
Notrc Dame and Kansas.

The men's volleyball team
travels all over the country to
different volleyball tournaments,
visiting schools such as Michi—
gan, Indiana, 'l‘cnncssee and
Florida.

This year the team will be
competing in the National
Tournament in Arizona.

llolley is confident his team
will do well in Nationals this
year.

“\\'e have a lot of talent and
good players this year. “'e have
a lot ofeitccllcnt hitters and set—
tcrs," Holley said. “It's just up to
getting to our potential. This
year's team is more well-rounded
(than last year's). \Vc’re better

defensively and we’re also quick—
cr.

Thc loss of an outsider hitter
is the only si 'iIificant loss from
last year, llo lcy said, but Trey
Crawford, a sophomore outside
hitter, has stepped into the posi—
tion nicclI.

l rc lll\ line to pin liir this
tc im. llcel we hIIc good chem—
istry Ind I lot of talent A lot of
young talent and veteran experi-
once, so it's .1 real good deep
team," Crawford said. “\Vc'rc
also lucky to have Rob .Is our
Ctizlcll. llc’s I'cry thtllk'de‘ll and
has a lot of goals for our pro—
grain."

The volleyball team hopes to
make it in thc lop Ill by the
time nationals roll around.

“lf Ivc Work hard. we can get
to our goal, but IIc have to work
IcrI hard bcc Iiise \Ic lrt going
Igamst IciI good Ind experi—
ciiccd tc .llll\ llolltI s..IId

l llL [cam is hosting the
North South Volleyball tourna-
mciit this Saturday at the Scaton
(IciitI-r UK will compete with
top teams lroin the North and
ll‘it‘ South

"\\'e rcally need school \llii'
port. \Vc would love peoplc to
come out. watch iis play .ind \t‘c
what we're all about." llolch
said.

“Men's volleyball Is very
exciting _, a lot of big hittingr
and big blocking. Men's vollcyr
ball is all about poIIer and III Illl‘»
game, power equals winning."

 

 

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Brian Williams the Crimson Tide point guard. has averaged 40 noodles in the last
two games. Wlliams has scored 122 points during the second half of Alabama 5

SEC games. while only tallying 52 during the first ,_
Washington is Alabama' 5 career leader In thr
just coming back lrom a sprained left ankle.

   

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