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Kentucky Kernel

Plan to swap student seats
dropped by UK officials

By BOBBY KING
Staff Writer

A plan to switch some lower arena student basket-
ball seats in Rupp Arena was dropped yesterday after a
committee made up of students told UK Athletics Di—
rector C.M. Newton that students are opposed to the
move.

The plan, proposed last week by the UK Athletics
Department, would have moved student seats along
the sidelines to the arena‘s northwest end zone near
Patterson Street. But that is now a “dead issue," ac-
cording to Student Government Association President
Sean Lohman.

Lohman, a member of the committee, said the stu-
dents made their opinions on the issue clearly known.
“I received many phone calls from students who sit in
those sections saying ‘we don’t like the move,’ " he
said.

Lohman praised Newton for listening to the student
body on the issue.

“C.M. Newton said that if students didn't agree to
the move, then he would not move the seats,” he said.
“We didn’t like it and he didn’t move them.”

Newton and Rodney Stiles, who oversees student
ticket distribution, were unavailable for comment.

Sean Coleman, lnterfratemity Council president and
also a member of the committee, said he too was thank-
ful that the students weren‘t left out of the decision-
making process.

“I‘m glad the Athletics Department gave the students
the opportunity to make the decision instead of them
making it for us," he said.

Coleman said that Newton was up front with the six-
member student committee organized to gauge student
reaction. Newton mentioned the financial advantages
the move offered the Athletic Department, according to
Coleman, but he knew the students” needs were of pri—
mary importance.

“It was a tough call for him and I really respect him
for it. He was completely honest with us," Coleman
said.

“CM. is fantastic in that sense," said Lohman. “All
of the student leaders really appreciate him for that.”

The switch would have taken seven lower arena seats
from students. The students would have been compen-
sated with seven upper arena seats.

Coleman said he believed it was the only choice.

“l was for keeping the tickets where they are all
along. As students we have such an incredible opportu

See TICKETS, Page 4

UT student’s death led to new bill

By KYM VOORHEES
Staff Writer

In August 1988, a Kentucky fam-
ily met with tragedy when their
son, a University of Tennessee stu~
dent, was murdered on the Knox~
ville, Tenn, campus.

The young man's family wrote
an emotional letter describing the
crime to Kentucky Congressman
Jim Bunning.

This letter, along with his person~
al belief that parents and students
have a right to know what security
measures are being taken on cam—
puses, led him to support the Crime

legislative director for Bunning.

The bill, an amendment to the
Higher Education Act of 1065, is
two-fold requiring colleges and
universities to “have an established
campus security policy" and to
“submit an annual uniform crime
report to the FBI.”

Only 41 states reported crime
statistics to the FBI for publication
in Crime in the US. 1988. an annu»
al report released in August 1989.

The bill also requires institutions
to distribute iterim crime reports to
all current students. faculty, and
staff and to any potential student or
employee within a rcsonable period

gress during the fall of 198‘) by
Pennsylvania Representative Bill
Goodling, and is based on a Pennv
sylvania state law.

According to (’ioodling’s office,
schools have little motivation to re—
port statistics, and many do not
consider it a part of their job.

UK and the other public colleges
and universities in Kentucky are re—
quired to compile and report crime
statistics to the Kentucky State Po-
lice (KSP) who report to the FBI
under Chapter 17 of the state law.
according to Don Detinger, super—
visor of the records section at KSP.

“l'K has been reporting crime

 

Awareness and Campus Security of time

Act, according to Rick Robinson.

The bill was introduced in Coir

Sec SAFETY, Page 41

APR 25 1990

 

 

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STEVE SANDERS Ke're Sta“

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PEOPLE BEHIND THE SCENES

 

 

money."

By BOBBY KING
Staff Writer

During the spring, when base-
ball season swings into full gear.
Craig Massey is easy to locate.

When he arrives at Shively
Field at 8 am, the dew is still
thick on the outfield grass. Mas-
sey is the first sign of the life at
the ballpark and 10 hours later he
will be the last person to leave the
field.

Massey, the head equipment
manager for the Bat Cats. takes
care of all the details involved
with running a college baseball
team. Throughout the day you
can find him readying the field
for a game orjust making sure the
players look sharp when they
walk across the lines. In other
words, Massey makes UK base—
ball happen.

With a youthful love for the
game. Massey is at home among
the buckets of baseballs and uni—
form-lined shelves that decorate
his office. The long hours are for-
gotten when the subject of the
conversation turns to the art of
hitting or the idiosyncrasies of
baseball strategy. A kid in a toy
store never had it so good.

In the fall of 1987 Massey, a
physical education major. saw a
sign in the Seaton Center that

bad days.

your nerves."

 

Love of sport reason
for Massey’s success

Editor’s note: This is the third pan
of a four part series about unsung
people.

said: “If you love baseball would
you be interested in making some

A devoted fan of the game
since childhood, Massey decided
to check it out. And after an inter-
view with head baseball coach
Keith Madison, the job was his.

Madison said he couldn‘t be
happier with his choice.

“Craig is an extremely hard
worker. He is also very dependa-
ble but the great thing he has is a
very good knowledge of base-
ball," Madison said.

Now, three years later, Massey
is nearly a fixture with the UK
baseball program. Like any job.
however, there are good days and

“You can come in here some
days and you just love it. You
love being around the players and
you love the game. Then there are
some days when it just gets on

The toughest thing about his
job. Massey said, is the time. But
when the team hits a losing streak
players and coaches can some-
times try his patience and make
things especially difficult for him.

“When we lose, everybody gets
edgy a little bit. But you have to
take that with a grain of salt," he
said. “You realize it's just the
frustration of losing and wanting
to do better coming out. It‘s not
their true personality.“

Sometimes Massey also finds
himself in the difficuit role of ad-

vocate to both players and coach-
es. He hears the everyday gripes
players have Wllh coaches as well
as the discussions of private
coaches meetings.

“Both the players and coaches
have a lot of confidence in Craig,“
Madison said. “We (the coaches)
know that when we‘re in a meet-
ing that he won‘t share and di-

STEVE SANDERS/Kernel Sta“

Craig Massev‘s friendly disposition and love of baseball makes
his job as UK baseball manager a t0ugh but enjoyable one.

vulge things to the players that
we don't want him to."

Darin Rieman, third baseman
for the Bat Cats, reali/ed this role
Massey plays as well. “I sortaot
call him a middle man. You can
tell him some things that are
bothering you that you can’t tell a

See MASSEY. Page 2

 

 

Hubble will open eyes,
new doors to universe

Associated Press

later this week. a corittitand Tiltll'
oed from farth will open the ll.ll\
cap on. the Hubble Space lulcscope
and allow the first light from space
to strike |l\ mirror.

It telescopes have .1
important moment, that u t be it It
will mean that Hubble. ‘ in! tree
180 miles above the \ :rld. his
opened its exes to the he wens and
is readv to make discOveries not \.‘I
imagined

\-\S;\ l\ so concemed about that
lens cap opening. it is kCCPlllL‘ the
shuttle Discovery in the neighbor
hood just in case. Astronauts Hrucc
McCandless and Kathryn Sullivan
will be suited tip. ready to walk lll
space to open the cap . formally
called an aperture door by hand.

Opening that door ls step oi in a
sequence ,\'.»\S.-\ laid out to activate
and check out the \l " billion tclc~
scope and l!\ live instruments be.
fore the shuttle putts away and
leaves the Hubble to its own dcvlb
es.

The iiistrtititents lllt‘llt\c‘l\t‘s.
mounted behind the telescopes
94.5 inch mirror, were warmed up
yesterday, soon after the shuttle
lifted into a sunny l-‘lorida sky.
Their ability to comiiitinicate vs ith
the ground was thecked (tllt‘vhy-
one.

One of the instrutiicnts. the
Wide-Field antl Planetary Camera.
operates in two modes as its name
implies. In the wide~field mode. the
camera can photograph a giant gal-
axy ot) million light \cars trom
Earth. How tar is that.’ l ight trav-
els 5,‘>(X),(K)t),()<)(t,(\ttt) miles in one

twist-

See lll‘lllill), Page J

 

 

Telescope
hailed by
UK faculty

By ALLEN D. GREER
Senior Staff Writer

Yesterday ‘s deployment of
the Hubble Space Telescope
may not have an immediate
impact on UK‘s astronomy
program, but several L'niver-
sity professors said that they
are excited about the telev
scope‘s ability to see the uni-
verse witli improved clarity.

“in a sense. for the first
time tn the history of the hu-
man race. the universe will
be brought into sharp locus."
said Tom Troland. a [K as»
tronomy professor. “We are
all extremely excited about
this because we realize that
this will represent a major
advance in many fields of as-
tmnomy."

Troland said, however,
that the telescope‘s impact
on LEK's astronomy program
is unclear.

“Any one of (the instruc-
tors) here is entitled to apply
for time on the telescope."
Troland said. “Some of us,
no doubt. will do that, but no
one who is here right now
has plans to do so."

The telescope represents a

See UK. Page 2

 

 

Moving back home

requires ad‘ustment.
Column. gt: 8.

Bat Cats lose again,
this time to Austin Peay.

Story, Page 5.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 2 - Kentucky Kernel, Wednesday, April 25, 1990

Faculty happy over salary increase

Associated Press

UK is proposing a 10 percent av«
crage pay raise ft the faculty this
year and anothef“ _ ‘ nificant step"
in 1991 to make salaries tnuch
more competitive.

Interim President Charles Weth-
ington outlined the salary plan
Monday to the University Senate
and received an enthusiastic recep-
uon.

Wethington told the Senate that
“Given the budget we have, we‘ve
got an opportunity to have two ex-
cellent years, rather than one.
We‘ve not had that opportunity as
long as I can remember.”

Don Leigh, an engineering pro-
fessor who is the Senate president,
said the raises would strengthen
morale and UK’s ability to compete
for faculty.

Leigh said that the 10 percent
raises came as no surprise and that
Kentucky’s other public universi-

ties were expected to approve simi-
lar increases.

Kentucky’s elected leaders sent
higher education some long»
awaited encouragement by enacting
a large tax increase and sweeping
reforms for the public schools,
Leigh said.

“It will help us in recruiting (fa-
culty members) to be able to say:
We’ve got 10 percent (raises) this
year. We’re likely to get close to
that next year. And the mood in the
state is that there’s a lot of support
for education in general,‘ ” Leigh
said.

Although Wethington has not
said he would be a candidate, he is
considered the front-runner in the
search for a successor to David Ro-
selle as UK president.

The UK Senate, which applauded
Wethington Monday, passed reso-
lutions in December that, if fol-
lowed, effectively would have pre-
vented him from being considered

as interim president.

Wethington said Monday he
could not commit to specific salary
figures for 1991-92, the final year
of the biennium.

But, for the 1990-91 budget year
beginning July 1, he said he would
recommend a 10 percent increase
in the salary fund for faculty and
staff members to cover merit raises,
salary adjustments and promotions.

The Board of Trustees will be
asked to approve the budget in
June.

Wethington said he had talked
with top UK administrators about a
plan that would allow the universi-
ty to make significant salary gains
on UK’s competitors during the
next two years.

The university lost ground to
competing universities on salaries
for seven years in a row until this
year, when UK showed a gain of
less than 1 percent.

UK‘s average faculty salary of
$42,008 was 10.5 percentage
points, or $4,949, below the
benchmark median of $46,957 at
11 competing schools in 1989-90.

“We don't know what our com-
petition is going to do," Wething-
ton said. “But we can assume we
can do better than our competition
in this biennium."

Wethington credited Gov. Wal-
lace Wilkinson and the legislature
for supporting increased state
funding for higher education. But
he said UK would be forced to re-
allocate money internally to come
up with a 10 percent average raise.

JoAnn Rogers, president of the
UK chapter of the American Asso-
ciation of University Professors,
said the proposed raise was gener-
ous. “But given our abysmal rat-
ing, it’s going to take a lot of dou-
ble-digit increases to get us out of
the basement.”

She said a recent study had
found that UK professors’ benefits
also lagged behind their counter-
parts nationally.

UK astronomy professors hail telescope

Continued from page 1

revolutionary advance in star gal-
ing because it orbits the Earth. ef-
fectively eliminating distortions
caused by looking through the at-
mosphere.

“When you look at a star through
a ground-based telescope. the wave
tront is distorted by turbulence in
the atmosphere," said astronomy
professor Michael Torbett. “With
the Hubble Space Telescope, that
atmospheric distortion isn‘t there
and it will have much better resolu-
“OH.

The effects of atmospheric dis-
tortion can be seen with the naked
eye. Troland said. For instance.
stars in the night sky don’t really
twinkle, but actually remain con-
stant

The same atmospheric turbu-
lence that makes stars appear to
twinkle also degrades the image
quality of ground-based telescopes,
Troland said.

The Hubble Space Telescope
will be able to provide images 10
times sharper than the best ground--
based telescopes.

This means that astronomers
can, at any time, see images of Ju—

piter and Saturn that have the same
clarity as those provided by the
Voyager spacecraft, Torbett said.

The telescope will also allow as-
tronomers to read infrared and ul-
traviolet rays, Torbett said.

These rays cannot be observed
with ground-based telescopes be-
cause the Earth’s atmosphere filters
them out.

Torbett said that a common mis-
conception about the Hubble Space
Telescope is that it will allow as-
tronomers to see objects further
out.

“That’s really not true because
we can see quasars at virtually the

edge of the universe anyway,” he
said. “We’re not going to go any
further than that, we’re just going
to be able to see fainter objects that
far out.”

Troland said that the impact of
the Hubble Space Telescope will
probably start showing up in col-
lege astronomy textbooks “a year
or two down the line.”

"There will definitely be new im—
ages that come from the Hubble
Space Telescope," Troland said.
“Sharper, more beautiful, more de-
tailed images.“

 

 

REPRESENTATIVE ERNESTO SCORSONE
D-LEXINGTON
Will be speaking about the Education Reform
Package at the April 2Sth meeting of Epsilon Delta
Education Honorary at 6 p.m. in the Taylor
Education Building Auditorium.
Mr. Scorsone will open the floor for
questions and comments.

Find your summer wardrobe —
or a pizza —
in the Kernel

 

 

Massey

Continued from page 1

coach," Rieman said.

First baseman Mike Harris said
Massey is an important member of
the Bat Cats. “I don’t know if you
can call him a mediator, but he’s a
nice guy to talk to and he knows a
lot about the team. He‘s a real asset
to the team."

Massey, 29, is a little older than
the average college student or
equipment manager. Seven years
ago while he was attending Shawn-
ee State Community College in
Ohio, Massey‘s father died from a
heart attack at age 40.

He said his family convinced him
to come back and work in the fami-
ly’s grocery store, where he had
worked by his father’s side for
eight years. Massey admitted those
four years he spent as an assistant
manager at the store were very try-
ing,

“There was always a few people
who would come in and hadn’t
heard (his father was dead) and
they would ask me where he was.
That was a real hard thing to do, to
have to tell people he had passed
away," he said. “It was probably
the most difficult time of my life
because we were extremely close.
Even though you’re 22 years old I
still feel that if you’re close to your
parents you still need them to talk
to and be there to suppon you.”

Not afraid to dream, now Massey
smiles with the thought of possibly
coaching his own high school or
college team someday.

“I enjoy the idea of taking
players and making them better and
working as a team and winning,"
he said. “It’s the tinkering with it
and figuring out all of those things
that make it a challenging job.”

To Massey, baseball is a unique
combination of traditions un-
matched by any other sport. Mas-
sey said one thing that makes base-
ball different is that thcre's no

clock.

“You play until the game is over
with. The thing about basketball
and football is that when the buzzer
sounds the game is over. If your
team is coming back and starting to
play well, sometimes the clock can
beat you instead of the other team."

What appeals most to Massey is
the field itself. Baseball, unlike oth-
er sports, does not specify the di-
mensions or the surface of the play-
ing field.

“No matter where you play the
field is going to be different. Every
field has a different look and a dif-
ferent characteristic to it. It’s an ex-
citing part about baseball that I
don’t think any other sport cap-
tures."

The only regret Massey has
about his job is the lack of time he
has for his family. Besides his du-
ties with the baseball team, Massey
is a also a full-time student.

His wife Jill, whom Massey said
he can‘t remember the last time
he’s taken to a movie, and their 18-
month-old son Matthew deserve
more of his time than he is able to
give, he said.

But Massey said he is lucky that
his wife has been very understand-
ing of his very busy schedule.

“She voices her opinion every
now and then. She wishes I could
be around more but she under-
stands that this is part of the job,”
he said. “She knows that to do this
job that’s what it takes, so there is
no sense in complaining about it so
you just try to accept it and go on."

Despite the drawbacks of being
the Bat Cats equipment manager ~—
the long hours, the losing streaks,
the road trips and the time away
from his family — Massey is
around baseball and that makes it
all worth it for him.

So the next time you see the
lights go out at Shively Field,
you‘ll know that the game has been
played, the equipment has been put
away and another long day has
come to an end for Craig Massey.

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DIVERSIONS

Cowboy Junkies find success quietly

By HILLEL ITALlE
Associated Press

NEW YORK —— Margo Tim-
mins was thinking about the house
near Montreal where she lived with
her parents and five siblings. “A
huge playground” is how the singer
for Cowboy Junkies described it —
big rooms, high ceilings and a
winding staircase in back.

It was there that Timmins and
her brother, Michael, argued about
Elton John records, never dreaming
that one day they'd form a band of
their own.

And it was there that she taught
herself to sing, dropping embarrass-
ing attempts to belt it out like Pat
Benatar, lowering her voice from a
scream to a whisper.

“I decided when I sang quietly, at
home, when I was singing around
the house, that’s when I had control
of my voice,” Timmins said in
gentle tones at the Manhattan offic—
es of RCA Records.

“Right from the beginning, I was
aware that being a good singer was
phrasing. I realized when I sang
around the house, I could phrase a
lot better, I could twist words. I
could go up and down."

Fans heard her loud and clear,
purchasing nearly a million copies
of the Junkies‘ The Trinity Scr—
sion, and critics were also im-
pressed, frequently placing the al-
bum among their 10 best of 1988.

Only the sound men had trouble
adjusting.

“In the early days, I had more
sound men cursing at me, saying,
You have to sing louder." I said,
‘No, You figure out how to get me
out there.‘ When I started to sing

lower and quieter, everyone became
quiet so they could hear me.”

The Trinity Session, the Junkies‘
second album, was recorded in 14
hours at the Trinity Church in To-
ronto, costing a tidy sum of $250.

The sound was as lean as the
budget, blues and country chilled
by the arctic air of that November
day. On covers of “Blue Moon" and
“I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry,"
Timmins’ phrasing is as dry as
powdered snow, the words in danger
of snapping like frozen twigs.

“The Trinity Session‘ was some-
thing we worked really hard on,"
Timmins recalled. "We had day
jobs as well at that point, and every
night we would come together for
five months prior to recording it.
We were so focused. These songs,
we knew they were good. We knew
they filled us with something."

It was a hard act to follow. Im-
possible, the Junkies learned.

Last spring, they went to a
wooden temple nearby, built by
Quakers in 1830, and recorded their
follow up record, to be released in
September. After returning from a
European tour, they gave the album
another listen and changed their
minds.

“It sounded old," Timmins said.
“ButI think that‘s when we reali/ed
that no one was pressuring us to
put an album out, that we could
take our time.

“When we realized this isn‘t w hat
we want on this album, we
thought, ‘Let's do it again,’ and did
it in November. We sort of got rid
of that time pressure we imposed
and relaxed about it and did it our
way."

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Horses, the album has eight origi-
nals, ~ seven by Michael Tim—
mins and one (“Witches”) by both
siblings —- plus covers of songs by
fellow Canadians Neil Young
(“Powderfinger”) and Mary Marga-
ret O’Hara (“You Will Be Loved
Again”).

The atmosphere is filtered
through the utterly modem 48-track
digital equipment of Toronto‘s
Eastern Sound studio. This time,
the Junkies are less interested in a
single mood than in a series of
moods, 10 different takes on mod-
ern love. The music, warmed to
room temperature, is looser, fuller,
with more of a country feel.

“We were aware that some peo-
ple wouldn‘t want us to break away
from that purist way of recording,"
Timmins said. “If we went into a
studio we knew that people would
be mad and if we did more low-key
songs, we knew they‘d say it's just
the same.”

Timmins can turn lyrics into
snapshots. “It‘s the kind of night
where it’s so cold and you spit,“
she sings in “Cheap Is How I
Feel," pausing midway, “it freezes
before it hits the ground.”

Beds, bars, cars and mirrors also
appear.

Thank the Canadian weather and
abundance of space for the Junkies‘
Visual approach to music.

“I think that we really have a pic—
turesque kind of way of dealing
with things. Every/thing's gray for
six months out of the year, so you
better have a big imagination.

You‘re locked inside and you read a
lot.”

“To me the songs on the new al-
bum are stories that have to be
made believable," she said.
“There's a time and a place and a
message and a mood, like short
stories. That‘s the way I ap-
proached them, basically, because
that’s the way I read them when
Mike handed them to me."

The quintessential Junkie, Tim~
mins says, is shy, aloof, like has-
sist Alan Anton. Timmins insists
that she‘s not shy, but quiet — a
big difference.

Approach her at a party and
she’ll talk to you all night. Ap-
proach her for an interview, and she
just might find a little extra time
in her schedule.

“I think there must be a part of
me inside that wants the attention,
otherwise I wouldn‘t allow it to
happen. I do enjoy buying a maga-
zine and seeing my picture.

“But there are limits to that. If
it‘s a choice between visiting my
mom in Florida and getting my
picture taken, then I‘ll see my
mom. Although, if I can take the
photographer along I‘ll do both."

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Hunter Hayes
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Quayle subject of
new yearly journal

USA TODAY/Apple College
hlorrnatlon Network

Vice President Dan Quayle is
building a following, although
it may not be the kind that will
help to further his political am-
bitions.

The Quayle Quarterly, pub-
lished by a couple in Bridgeport,
Conn., is a lé-page journal of
not-so-flattering articles, letters,
quips and cartoons about the
vice president and his wife.

The first edition came out in
January, blithely billing itself
as “the only publication in the
world devoted solely to our vice
president”

Publisher and Editor in Chief
Jeffrey Yoder, a computer soft—
ware executive. explains in the
first edition that the publication
is necessary because Quayle
doesn't have the strong leader-
ship qualities needed to be vice
president

“He has left an ugly American
trail of silly words and empty
beer glasses around the globe,”
wrote Yoder. “My advice to

George Bush:
Use Quayle
for the home
games where
he can lead
the cheers for
our rocket
ships. But
don’t let him
embarrass us
in front of
QUAYLE the rest of the
world until he grows up and
starts domg his homework."
About 500 people have bought
$12 yearly subscriptions With
about 50 more su