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Celebrating 32 years of independence

56 budget: less party, more giving

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Dialogue: SG
making effort
to represent
students, but
some items

 

The $278,801 budget was
passed 27-1 on Wednesday, Sept.
10.

SG spending came into ques-
tion last year, when more than
$100,000 went toward campus-
wide entertainment like last
year’s SG-sponsored Halloween
party, “Catatonic Halloween.”

And more controversy cen-

Recently adopted 56 budget gives organizations more money,
ups funds for public relations and reduces chances of deficit

By Neren Henderson
STAFF WRITER

events. Instead, the budget allo-
cates $11,500 more to student or-
ganizations. It gives $5,000 to its
own public relations department
to better students' knowledge of
SC. And it allows for three $500

Dance the night away at the
Student Government pep rally,
Gator Roast 2, this Thursday —

but don't expect any more events

like it this year.

The 2003-2004 SG budget is
nixing big spending on such

members.

scholarships for selected SG

Plus, it has ways to avoid a

repeat of last year's deficit. See BUDGET on 3

tered on the $12,881 deficit that
resulted when SG underestimat-

aren't
justified I
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Report

Before the smoke clears

Andrew Cook, who works at Tolly Ho, lights up durlng his break. “(Atterl September 29th. I won't be able to do this anymore," he said, not-

lng the upcomlng smoking ban.

By Elizabeth Troutman
CONTRIBUTING WRITER

The smoking ban set to
start next week in Lexington
won’t hamper business at 10-

cal bars and
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r e s t a u -
Dialogue:

rants, ac-

cording to a
Student
says

UK survey
r e l e a s e d
Monday.

I" a smoking ban
protects
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survey of
over 1,000
F a y e t t e
C o u n t y
adults, sev-
en out of 10
said that
they will go
out to bars more often or
about as often when the
smoke-free law goes into ef-
fect and 57 percent expressed
support for the law.

The UK Survey Research
Center collaborated with the
College of Nursing to con-
duct the survey, which was
included in the Lexington Is-

sues 2003 Survey, a survey
that included a host of vari-
ous questions ranging from
opinions on the water com.
pany issue to the smoking
ban.

The survey was done
with a random sample of
people, said Dr. Ellen Hahn,
associate professor of the
College of Nursing who con-
tributed to the idea of the
survey.

“The most interesting
thing is the overwhehning
majority will still go out af-
ter the ban,” Hahn said. “I
think this is encouraging for
businesses in Lexington.
Most people are accustomed
to smoke-free bans at work
so people are used to smoke
laws — that is the bottom
line."

According to the manag-
er of McCarthy's Irish Pub
on Upper Street, the survey
is fairly true of what the bar
expects come Sept. 29, when
the smoking ban formally be-
gins. McCarthy’s opened up

says smoking ban
won't hinder businesses

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a smokeless bar in June,
which has been successful
thus far, said manager Avena
Kaely.

“Business has been
steady," Kaely said. “Some
people like to have a bar that
is not smoky.“

But no matter what,
business will be affected at
the Nicholsan‘s Cigar Bar.
part of Desha‘s Restaurant.
The bar will have to close be-
cause of the ban. The staff at
Desha’s is currently looking
into replacing the bar.

“We need to finalize a
few things before making
any decisions on whatever
will be reopened." said Tony
Atwood, marketing director.
“There are a lot of smokers.
and it will affect the bar
more than the restaurant. A
smokeless cigar bar is like a
vegetarian steak house."

Students have their own
opinions about the effect the
smoking law will have on
businesses around Lexing-
ton.

“It is good for me be-
cause I am allergic to
smoke," said Megan George,
a freshman journalism stu-
dent. “It may hurt business-
es, but it will be very benefi—
cial to the citizens of Lexing-
ton."

But to 26-year-old John
Arbegust, who has smoked
for six years, said the ban is
“legal paternalism. The gov-
ernment is trying to tell you
what's good for you and
what’s not.” Though Arbe-
gust, a German graduate stu-
dent, will still go to bars, he
sees the ban as instigating
more loitering and littering.

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He works silently in his garden -— alone without a
sound.

This master gardener has an unseen plan for his cre-
ation.

The work in progress rarely is noticed by the occasional
observer

Clyde and Susan Burberry stood for over five hours ear-
lier this month in a receiving line, listening to stories from
hundreds of people whose lives were touched by their son.

Paul Kevin Burberry, 35, a UK student, lived a life
clothed with struggle due to cerebral palsy, which made him
non-vocal, unable to use his hands and confined to a wheel-
chair.

Yet his life’s focus was school and encouraging others ——
not his disability, friends and family said.

Burberry, who was from Lexington, died on Sept. 11 at
his parent‘s home in Lexington.

He chiseled away at his bachelor’s degree for 10 years
and needed four credit hours get his diploma. This May he
would have graduated with honors.

His disability impeded his progress, allowing him to
take only six hours a semester on campus, friends said. »

Burberry spent two years at Berea College, and the rest
at UK, where he majored in philosophy. L

Burberry communicated through a computer attach
to his wheelchair activated by an infrared light worn on his
glasses, and with a movement of his head, he controlled the
light beam, allowing him to type. i

His message would flash across the computer screen, or
he could trigger a key activating a voice module.

“He was so good with the technology that he could fig-
ure it out better than us so-called professionals,” said
Barnard Fleming at UK's Interdisciplinary Human Develop-
ment Institute, which aids disabled people at UK. I

Fleming said he would give Burberry a technology lec-
son and days later, Burberry would know more about it that
he did. '
“I would ask him how he did certain things — and
these devices aren't easy,“ Fleming said.

Fleming said people would talk to Burberry about their
problems and he would say, “Is there anything I can do to
help?“ or “I will pray for you."

“There is something about someone in a wheelchair
with extensive disabilities and wanting to help you that
makes them special.“ Fleming said.

Burberry once described in a video what it was like to
have his disability by comparing it to a puppet trying to get
a glass of water.

“You see the glass and reach for it but as soon as you
get it to your mouth some one pulls the string. and you don't
get your drink," he said.

Michelle Smith, Burberry's statistics professor, said the
effort it would take Burberry to participate in class was
huge, yet he did as well as anyone and sometimes more.

“He should be an inspiration to anyone,“ Smith said. “If
he accomplished what he did with his limitations, then any-
one should be able to accomplish their goals, especially in
philosophy. where you have to write so much in answering
indepth questions."

It could take Burberry over an hour to type one double-
spaced page.

His mind was accelerated, but his body hindered him.

Burberry's parents knew his potential was great in
spite of his cerebral palsy.

They began teaching him the alphabet by using a large
alphabet board when he was young.

Once Kevin could read, they discovered they could also
write for him by following which letters he focused his eyes
on while they held the alphabet board.

Letter by letter. they would spell out what he wanted to
say. They spent years writing out homework assignments
for him.

Teaching a disabled child is challenging. but Burberry
once recalled in the video how his mother taught him to

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