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He said motorists are
By Don “Wk." generally staying off the . 1
Senior Staff Writer roads. preventing a crisis .
for UK police.
UK held classes Wednesday and has the The Lexington-

same plan for today, despite Gov. Brereton
Jones declaration of a statewide state of emer-
gency and warnings from local police to stay
off Lexington‘s icy roads.

“This is a university that virtually never
closes," UK President Charles Wethington
said. “We start with the premise that the Uni-
versity of Kentucky must stay open."

Wethington said the decision was made be-
cause 85 percent of residence hall residents
were on campus.

He said the administration had been afraid
many students had gone home for the long
weekend and had not been able to retum.

Jones' staff members said. however, they
were told the UK administration decided to Wethington said the administration was not
hold classes because 80 percent of UK’s stu- asking students to sacrifice safety to attend class-
dents live on campus, although less than 25 cs.
percent of UK Students actually live in resi- “The determination to attend class is an indi-
dence halls. vidual decision,“ Wethington said.

Kentucky‘s Executive Director of Disaster “When there is a concern that safety might be
and Emergency Services said state officials endangered. then it is that student‘s own deci-
were primarily concerned with keeping traffic sion."
ata minimum. Students who were unable to make it to cam~

“We understand the circumstances,“ said pus yesterday will not be penalized for missing
Kentucky‘s Executive Director of Disaster and classes, Chancellor for the Lexington Campus
Emergency Services James Everett. Robert Hemenway said.

“The only concern that we had was that the Hemenway met yesterday with the University
decision should not put anyone out on the Senate Board to discuss ways be certain students
roa ." are not penalized.

Professors and students commuting to cam- He said professors would not be guided by for-
pus from out of town were forced to travel on mal regulations to ensure that students are not
icy state highways or other secondary roads. penalized for absences yesterday.

All interstates in Kentucky were closed yes- “I feel confident that faculty will be under-
terday because of Jones‘ state of emergency standing for students who were unable to attend
declaration. class,“ Hemenway said.

Even main roads through campus, such as Besides preventing students and faculty from
Nicholasville Road, Rose Street and Euclid getting to campus, the winter weather also took
Avenue, remained covered with ice yesterday. its toll on University operations.

UK Police Chief W. H. McComas said UK There was water leakage in the Chemistry-

police were not responding to non-injury acci- Physics Building yesterday morning. Four rooms
dents on campus and that the number of injury in W.D. Funkhouser Building were closed yester-
accidents has not increased because of the day because of weather related damage.
Physical Plant Division officials said a full re-
port on structural dam-
, age will be available to-
day.

The cold weather
forced UK to use extra
fuel for heating purpos-
es, Vice Chancellor for
Administration Jack
Blanton said.

He said UK was us-
ing eight tons of coal
per hour, along with
natural gas and fuel oil,
to generate the largest
amount of steam ever
produced at UK.

In addition, all of
UK’s single plow trac-
tors were out of service
. yesterday because of
the amount of time they
had been used since
Friday.

Fayette Urban County
Police were advising
people to avoid driving
in Lexington if at all
possible.

Many students who -
made it to campus were
left wondering why they
had bothered.

Although the exact
number of classes can-

 

 

 

 

Members of Pi Beta Phi social sorority engage in a snowball

celled yesterday was not fight with fellow students on Columbia Avenue Monday.
available, signs on class /

doors indicated that an unusually high number of
professors did not make it to class.

Students divided
on UK decision

By Doug Saretsky
Staff Writer

 

 

Amidst a backdrop of pure shimmering
white UK students expressed mixed opinions
yesterday about their retum to campus after
Tuesday‘ 5 class cancellations

Their divided reactions seemed to be based
upon whether they had to commute to campus
and brave slick Central Kentucky roadways.

Major interstate highways remained closed
last night and city streets are covered with
thick ice following Monday‘s snow storm, one
of the worst of the decade.

Chris Thurston, a finance junior, was one of
many to face the rigors of snow-covered streets
yesterday. He lives in Greg Page Apartments,
located off Alumni Drive.

Thurston relies on campus busing for trans-
portation to school, and he noted that his bus
was 45 minutes late yesterday morning. There
also was no heat inside the bus, he said.

Thurston‘s complaints seemed trivial, how-
ever, compared to students who live off carn-
pus and must drive themselves to school and
find parking spaces.

Ruth Chaney, a psychology freshman from , 5.x,
Owingsville, Ky., never got that far. She was f
stranded at home, unable to reach campus. %

“It would appear that putting students in situ- . ',
ations (where they had to drive on icy roads ‘A
and brave cold temperatures) were either not
taken into consideration or were ignored." Cha-
ney said, blasting UK officials. “I have a real
problem with this type of irresponsibility."

Kimberly Smith, a social work sophomore,
was equally vexed over the fact that classes
were not cancelled yesterday.

“What about the handicapped students?"

Smith said. “I am in a wheelchair, and in this
ice and snow, it's scary.

“The decision (not to close UK) was stupid
and inconsiderate."

Even students who made it safely to campus

 

 

 

 

PHOTOS BY JAMES CRISP/Kernel Slaff

Snowed-in cars lined Clifton Avenue on Monday, the official
holiday commerating Martin Luther King Jr.'s birth. The follow-
ing day, UK cancelled classes for the first time since 1978. Of-
ficials decided to reopen the University yesterday, despite a
statewide state of emergency declared by the governor.

SHOW .

Students took advantage of
the snowy weather Monday
to go tubing on Clifton Circle,
courtesy of a four-wheel
drive truck.

  

 

 

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5 Central Kentucky is facing a
I blood shortage because of problems
, associated with the snow storms
that traveled through the state earli-
er this week.

A few campus blood drives have
already been held this week. and
another is scheduled for today.

The Central Kentucky Blood

 

By Steve Wileteln
Associated Press

 

PORTLAND, Ore. — Tonya
Harding's ex-husband was arrested
yesterday in the alleged plot to in-
jure Olympic rival Nancy Kerri-
gan, and authorities released an af-
fidavit with statements linking
Harding for the first time to the at-
tack.

Harding's bodyguard said her
ex-husband told him the skater
made phone calls to detemtine
Kerrigan‘s practice schedule. ac-
cording to the affidavit.

Harding has not been charged

 

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Center will be collecting blood in
205 Student Center from noon to 5
pm. The blood center's main of-
fice. located at 330 Waller Avenue,
also will be open from 9 am. to 11
pm. today and tomorrow.

Marsha Berry, spokeswoman for
the blood center, said current blood
supplies “are seriously below what
we need."

All elective surgeries were can-

and has denied involvement. Olym-
pic oficials have said Harding
would be removed from the team if
she is implicated in the attack.

Jeff Gillooly, who also has de-
nied involvement in the attack, sur-
rendered at the FBI office in Port-
land.

He was charged with conspiracy
in a warrant issued Tuesday. the
same day authorities questioned
Harding for 10 1/2 hours.

Harding divorwd Gillooly in Au-
gust, later resumed living with him,
but said on Tuesday that the two
were separating again.

Kerrigan was clubbed in the
knee Jan. 6 at the us. figure Skat-
ing Championships in Detroit and

celed earlier this week, but Berry
said the prohibition was lifted yes-
terday, which means demand will
increase.

Farmhouse social fraternity and
Alpha Omega Pi social sorority
joined together on Tuesday to hold
a blood drive on campus.

The two organizations were able
to raise 102 pints during the drive,
easily surpassing the 50 expected.

was unable to compete'in the event.
Harding went on to win the champi-
onship and a spot on the Olympic
team. Kerrigan was named to the
Olympic team anyway and has re-
sumed uaining.

Three other people have been
charged in the attack so far. Hard-
ing's bodyguard, Shawn Eckardt, is
charged with conspiracy and is free
on $20,000 bail.

The alleged “hit man," Shane Mi-
noaka Stant. arrived from Arizona
on Tuesday for arraignment yester-
day on conspiracy and assault
charges.

Derrick Smith, who has admitted
driving the getaway car. is charged

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. Figure skater’ s ex-husband arrested
f in alleged plot to hurt rival Kerrigan

with conspiracy.

Eckardt and Smith have both
confessed to their roles, the affida-
vit said.

The original plan was to assault
Kerrigan in the Boston area where
she lives, the affidavit said. When
that failed, the plot shifted to De-
troit, where the Olympic trials were
being held.

According to the affidavit from
Multnomah County Deputy James
McNelly:

°Eckardt said Gillooly told him
Harding made two telephone calls
in an attempt to determine Kerri-
gan's practice schedule in Boston.

See HARDING, Back Page

Associated Press

 

LOS ANGELES — Brick by
brick and block by block, Southern
Californians salvaged what they
could yesterday from the deadly
earthquake that could end up
matching Hurricane Andrew’s $30
billion cost.

As the death toll from Monday‘s
magnitude-6.6 quake rose to 44
yesterday, relief efforts slowly
gathered steam.

Throughout the city, residents
nrshed into and out of 'quake-
damaged apartments and homes,
tossing clothing and furniture into
pickups and rental vans before
building inspectors could condemn
their homes.

Near the quake‘s epicenter in
Northridge, work crews unroUed
chain-link fence around a con-
demned apartment building as a
procession of rental trucks pulled
away.

“You could say it‘s a madhouse
in here," said Norm Plotkin, a
worker at a U-Haul rental center. as
a crush of people lined up for
trucks. He rented 25 trucks in a
matter of hours.

President Clinton surveyed the
damage yesterday and ordered $45
million in initial quake relief. But
Gov. Pete Wilson said total dam-
age could reach $30 billion, malt-
ing it as costly as Hurricane An-
drew. the nation's most expensive
natural disaster.

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E 'MOSW Child}! and cold By John Antczak in Los Angeles, thousands of com-

muters, robbed of their freeways,
spent hours negotiating canyon
roads and city streets to get to
work.

To the north, cars jammed the
Sierra Highway to bypass the darn-
aged intersection of state Highway
14 and Interstate 5. A dawn after-
shock caused a mckslide that nar-
rowed the four-lane route through
Newhall Pass to two lanes. Last
week‘s 45-minute commute took as
long as four hours.

“When you have to get up at 3 to
get to work by 9, yes, it‘s a night-
mare," said Mario Beltran. 31, a
barber commuting from his Palm-
dale home 35 miles to the northeast
to work in San chando.

Drivers will have plenty of time
to get used to it: Repairs to the
area's freeways will take a year
and cost $100 million, the state
transportation department said.

“Right now most of them don‘t
know where they're going,“ Cali-
fomia Highway Patrol Officer Jim
Mair said as he directed traffic.
"But I imagine they'll be picking it
up pretty quick. They'll have a lot
of time to practice."

Motorists ran into roadblocks
and detours around street fissures
in the San Fernando Valley, worst
hit by the quake. Torrents of water
from burst water mains, still unre-
paired. flooded streets hubcqi-deep
and traffic lights retrained lifeless.

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The Membership Committee of Phi Beta Kappa is now
receiving nominations for membership. The preliminary
requirements which must be met in order for a student to be
eligible for consideration for election are:

r (l) GPA of 3.5 for students who graduated in May 1993, for
3 students in their final semester, 0 3.52 is necessary; for first
, semester seniors. a 3.60; and for election at the end of the
l junior year, a 3.70 is required:
(2) At least two 300 (or higher) level courses outside the
major or principal area of concentration;
(3) At least 90 hours of courses classified as ‘liberal'
(4) At least 45 hours of classwork completed on the
Lexington campus
(5) Satisfactory completion of the lower division (‘non-major')
requirements for either the BA or 88 degree in the College
of Arts and Sciences (Dec. graduates may be currently
enrolled in one required course).
Should you know of an individual who may meet these
' requirements, we would appreciate you urging that person to
come to Room 715 Patterson Office Tower in the College of
Arts and Sciences to pick up an application.
in order to be considered, nominations (for an application
to be mailed) must be received no later than January 28,
, 1994, with the application due back to the above named
l office by Thursday, February 10, 1994.
, PLEASE NOTE: it is entirely appropriate to nominate yourself
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UK students
debut on MTV

 

By Nina Davidson
Arts Editor

 

'Ihree UK students will lip-sync
their way to fame on national televi-
sion today.

UK sorority sisters Robin Bar-
nett, Tracy Doss and Abby Hord
will make their MTV debut at 4:30
pm.

The Sigma Kappa social sorority
members will appear on the MTV
lip-syncing show “Lip Service.“

The episode. taped Dec. 7. fea-
tures the trio perforating to “Boom
Shake the Room“ by DJ Jazzy Jeff
and the Fresh Prince.

Barnett, 20, a journalism sopho-
more, led the trio with the main
portion of lip-syncing, while Doss
and Hard danced back-up.

Doss. 22, and Hard, 21, are both
speech therapy seniors.

Doss said her major did not help
her with her lip syncing skills, how-
ever. Instead, she credited spontane-
ity for their success.

“The whole thing is just being
able to act silly and crazy," she
said. "You really go out to have
fun, not to compete."

“They told you to act as crazy as
possible," Barnett agreed.

Hord said they are excited about
their MTV debut. “This will be the
first time we’ll see it because we
had to catch our plane right after
the taping," she said. “We want to
have some people over to watch it."

The trio, named “The Wildcats,"

 

‘Inspector’
rescheduled

Staff report

 

 

Cold weather has kennelled
UK Theatre‘s production of
”The Real Inspector Hound."

The first all-freshman dra-
ma in 12 years was scheduled
for a second run starting yes-
terday. but the play was post-
poned because of the snow.

Andrew Gaukel. one of the
lead actors, is stranded in
Cincinnati because all the in-
terstates are closed.

Performances for the play
were scheduled to mn yester-
day through Saturday at 8
pm. at Briggs Theatre.

“The Real Inspector
Hound" will run next week
instead, starting Wednesday
and continuing every night
through I an. 29.

Tickets are $4 and are
available at the Otis A. Sirl-
gletary Center for the Arts
box office. Call 257-TICS.

 

 

 

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competed against a New Jersey
team and lost by two points. The fi-
nal score was 86-84.

“It was disappointing, but at least
it was a small margin." Hord said of
their loss.

Hord has had previous experi-
ence on TV.

She performed on WKYT-TV's
“Sno-Go Report" with the Lewis
County High School cheerleading
squad.

Hord was an avid watcher of
“Lip Servrce" even before she per-
formed on the show. “I watched
MTV a lot this summer." she said.

“T he Wildcats" auditioned in No-
vember for the show. Only 50 of
500 teams were called back by
MTV. The trio was the first team
from Kentucky that had ever com-
peted on “Lip Service.“

“A lot of people were from New
York and New Jersey," Doss said.

However, they did find some
common ground. “The majority of
them were all college students, ex-
cept for one high school team.“

Doss said there were no hard
feelings toward the victorious New
Jersey team. “We ended up being
friends with them because we were
together for eight hours," she said.

Although the Wildcats didn't win
the round against New Jersey. they
did win the “Up Yours" competi-
tion by lip-syncing unrehearsed to
Ozzy Osborne's “Crazy Train."

Each member of the trio won
$500 in prizes, Barnett said.

 

 

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By Mitchell L. H. Douglas
Staff Critic

 

 

Picture yourself in a popular
Harlem jazz club of the 1920s
and '30s

The setting is intimate. the
house is packed, and the crowd
is cutting a rug to the sounds of
legendary stride pianist Thomas
“Fats" Walleg.

Lexington Musical Theatre’s
production of the Broadway hit
“Ain’t Misbehavin' " takes you
back to that era, presenting a cel-
ebration and history lesson on
Waller that expands the boun-
daries of the musical.

Spanning 21 years of record-
ing and 30 Waller songs, cast
members Candi Fetzer. Carrie
Salter, Peggy Stamps. Phillip
Alcom and HR. Nelson Jr. keep
dialogue to a minimum and en-
ergy levels on high.

The love triangle between
Nelson, Salter and Stamps and
the pairing of Fetzer and the
younger, club-carousing Alcom
make for many humorous and
embarrassing moments for the
characters, but the minimally de-
veloped stories of the cast are

 

Musical romps
through jazz age

‘A in ’t M isbehavin ’ classic

secondary to the true star of
“Ain’t Misbehavin’," Waller‘s
music.

Long time audience favorites
like “ ‘Tain't Nobody's Biz-ness
If I Do," "The Joint is Jumpin’."
“Your Feets Too Big” and “Fat
and Greasy" are delivered with
show-stealing performances by
Nelson as the older, distin-
guished club cat and Salter as
his jealous girlfriend. deter-
mined to out-sing Stamps and
Fetzer. Crowd participation is
encouraged and appreciated
throughout the musical, and in
the end, the audience comes a
little closer to knowing a legend.

With general admission seat-
ing customary to performances
at Ans Place. 161 N. Mill St.,
and the less than 150 seats avail-
able per show, patrons who ar-
rive early enough can sit at stage
side tables that are part of the
set.

Tickets for Friday and Satur-
day's shows are sold out, but
tickets for tonight's performance
at 8 pm. and Sunday’s 2 pm.
matinee are still available at the
Otis A. Singletary Center for the
Arts ticket office.

Call Arts Place at (606) 233-
1469 or Lexington Musical
Theatre at (606) 255-9488 for
more information.

 

 

‘Philadelphia’ intense drama

    

 

. ..
“Philadelphia"
Starring Tom Hanks and Denzel
Washington

Paramount Pictures

 

By Liz Lobert
Staff Critic

 

AIDS is now a reality of life for
everyone, and the film “Philadel-
phia" never lets its audience escape
that fact —— or the deadly reach of
the disease.

The film packs such an emotional
wallop that viewers at a recent
screening were left in shock when
the movie ended.

Their faces were saying, “That
could be me," or “That could be my
son or daughter.“

“Philadelphia" focuses on An-
drew Beckett (Tom Hanks), an up-
town Philadelphia lawyer who also
has AIDS.

The partners of his law firm set
him up and fire him. and Beckett
sues the firm for discrimination be-
cause he believes his disease is the
true cause of his dismissal.

Beckett looks for ll
an attorney, but no
one will accept his
case, so he decides
handle the lawsuit
himself. Joe (Den-
zel Washington),
one of the lawyers
Beckett initially
sought to hire, sees I I
him working on the I FILM llalltfl
case and decides to
overcome his fear of AIDS and help
him.

Although the majority of the mo-
vie is dedicated to Beckett’s law-
suit, it also depicts other aspects of
life with AIDS.

It shows his dealing with his
medical treatments, doctors' visits
and occasional breakdowns that
lead to hospitalization.

“Philadelphia" also shows how
the disease affects family and
friends of AIDS patients.

There are several scenes where
Beckett's mother is pretending to
handle the situation, but the audi-
ence can see that she really isn't
handling it at all.

The movie also shows how sup-
portive Beckett's brothers and sis-
ters are of his lawsuit.

  

The whole family does every-
thing it can to help Andrew during
the trial.

“Philadelphia” also points out
that restricting AIDS patients from
certain activities, like perforating
their jobs, is a form of illegal dis-
crimination.

Hanks’ performance is the finest
of his career.

The powerful lawyer was easy
for him, and he did a great job por-
traying the anger and frustration

that Beckett felt throughout the mo- '

we

The movie also goes to great
pains to add as much realism as
possible. .

After Andrew Beckett starts to
get sick, for example, filming was
stopped so Tom Hanks could lose
weight.

“Philadelphia" is a movie that
everyone should see because it
brings the reality of AIDS to life.
This powerful movie makes you
think about how AIDS can hit you,
your family or a close friend — and
change your life forever.

"Philadelphia," rated PG-l3. is
showing at South Park and Man
O’War Movies 8.

‘Confused’ comically crass

 

“Dazed and Confused"
Gramercy Pictures

 

 

By John Abbott
Staff Critic

 

Richard Linklater‘s “Dazed and
Confused" is a razor-sharp portrait
of the high school experience in the
'70s, an epic battle between the
forces of good and evil, a sensitive
love story and a wrenching moral
dramaallwrappedupintotheprice
of one movie ticket

OK. so it's about a bunch of stu-
pid kids who smoke pot. drink a lot
and act like buttheads. It‘s still a
pretty good movie.

Meet Mitch Kramer (Wiley Wig-
gins), an incoming freshman who.
already nervous at the prospect of
entering the wide world of sadism
we all high school. finds himself
the target of a group of seniors‘ vi-
cious initiation rites.

He looks like your prototypical
wimp at the start. but he's got real
common sense. He doesn‘t give
into the seniors‘ demands immedi-
ately. which would've been as im-
pressive as Neville Chamberlain‘s
appeasement tactics before World
Wu II; the seniors would've sensed
they had at easy target on their
hendsmdwedoffonhimellyeu.

Fighting them would have been
senseless as well. Though no one
likes to give up, resisting would
have meant wasting a whole sum-
mer perpetually on guard against
them, which would've been much
worse than letting the seniors pad-
dle him on the rump a few times.

He does resist long enough to
make a good show of it, to keep
some sense of dignity intact, but
eventually lets the seniors have
their fun so they’ll cast him aside
and seek new victims.

Randy “Pink" Floyd (Jason Lon-
don) is the star quarterback. the
good-hearted punk who tutors
Mitch in the ways of cool.

Pink‘s problem is deciding
whether he should give in to the
coach‘s demand that all team mem-
bers sign a pledge not to use drugs
or alcohol.

It‘s clear he has enough sense to
see a bigger picture than high
school when, near the end of the
movie. he wearily remarks. “If
these are the best years of my life,
remind me to kill myself."

But that he considers refusing to
sign the pledge shows a lack of pri-
orities. It's all good and well to
stand for your principles. but what
good does such character do if
you've picked stupid principles to
stand for?

Tony (Anthony Rapp). Mike
(Adam Goldberg) and Cynthia (Ma-
rissa Ribisi) are the outsiders. hav-

ing walled themselves off from the
barbarism of high school. Tony and
Cynthia are particularly interesting
bemuse they‘re not reclusive, bitter
or so weird that they‘re completely
unable to get along with other peo-
ple — which is usually the role
most teen movies consign outsiders
to playing.

Instead, they're reasonably well-
adjusted, self-confident individuals
who have decided to sit out the high
school experience and see if college
is more to their liking.

Zany comic relief is aplenty in
the person of Slater (Rory Co-
chrane), the pothead whose solution
to every problem involves rolling
papers.

He's funny at the start. but as the
movie wears on, my reaction to him
degenerates from laughter to “Oh,
my, there's Slater the amusing pot-
head. What amusing pothead tricks
will he perform for us now?"

"Dazed and Confused" is des-
tined to be a classic high school
movie, right alongside the immortal
“Fast Times at Ridgemont High.“
The movie may take place in the
1970s. but it describes elements
common to any high school experi-
ence. whatever the time: first love.
fear of being unpopular, the grow-
ing sense of independence, the
yearning for all that the future
holds. That's why it works.

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Morgue revisited.

Anyone who attended the UK-
Tennessee basketball glue last
weekend knows exactly what I’m
talking about. Rupp. which during
thewa yearsof‘thePitinoerafos—
tered an atmosphere that could be
described as emotional quicksand
for opponents, now exudes an aura
that reeks of canplacency.

Not that this is unprecedented.
Complacency was the norm under
the regime of Joe B. Hall, when the
fans annually called for the UK
coach's ouster unless the Wildcats
went to the Final Four.

But after Rick Pitino took over
the program for the 1989-90 season.
Rupp patrons got squarely behind
the young coach and the massive re~
building project that laid ahead.

The magic of college basketball,
sustained excitement and overall za-
niness. invaded Rupp. With its team
possessing but eight scholarship
players. the crowd assumed the role
of the “sixth man" as the country
club atmosphere that pervaded past
home games vanished in the haze of
Pitino-induced delirium.

Remember UK-LSU in 1990?
The revenge game against Kansas at
the start of the 1990-91 season?
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Ford doesn‘t miss too many free
throws as his Southeastern Confer-
ence-record 50 in a row this season
will attest.

He missed one on purpose Tues-
day night, and it almost turned into
a miracle ending for No. 7 UK. In-
stead, Florida came away with a
59-57 victory, a six-game winning
streak and the school‘s best start
since 1940-41.

“It means a lot to us because a
team like Kentucky has a great tra—
dition and they‘re consistently one
of the top 10 teams in the country,"
said Craig Brown, whose two free
throws with 7.6 seconds to play
gave the Gators (14-2, 4-0) a 59-56
lead.

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bered not for certain, exciting plays
but rather for an entire, intense
two-hour thrill session.

When the Wildcats played poor-
ly,the24,m00nhandservedasa
collective paddle to the heart for
the team. Yes. for a glorious three-
year stretch. Rupp joined Duke's
Cameron and Kansas' Allen Field-
house as the most feared arenas in
the land.

Alas, the lunacy was fleeting.
The fans in the stands. the same
ones who helped produce Metalli-
calike. decibel levels only a few
years ago, now sit calmly as if they
were attending a Lawrence Welk or
perhaps a Yanni concert.

Think of a typical Duke fan, and
you think of an overzealous 20-
year-old with face painted and a
basket on his/her head. That Ed guy
from the Bartles and James com-
mercials personifies the typical fan
in Rupp Arena these days.

If you want to be part of an excit-
ing UK crowd, you had best hit the
road. Only there can you participate
in audible cheers of “Go Big Blue“

near the three-point line. He made
the first with 3.2 seconds to play
and bounced the second off the
backboard and rim. Walter McCar-
ty grabbed the loose ball in the lane
and his 10-footer at the buzzer to tie
was short.

“They played excellent basketball
all night and came away with a de-
served win,” UK coach Rick Pitino

  
 
  
  
  
 
   
  
  
   
  
  
  
  
 
  
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
   
   
  
 
 
 
   
   
   
   
 
 

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