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Uniting

or a wor hy cause

*United Wily brings campus

groups together for new fair

By Jill Erwin

Senior Surf] ll 'I‘Ircr

The L‘iiited \\'ay ofthe Bluegrass
held its first \Vinterfest yesterday in
the Student (Ienter Ballroom. The
L'nited \\'ay is the one charity with
which L'K participates.

L'sually the group holds only one
event per year. the l’all Festival, but
it decided to sponsor three fundrais—
ing events this academic year. It also
is trying to make more concerted
efforts to attract students to the
gathering.

“\Ve want awareness the whole
year through." said Angela Back.
chainvoman ofthe L'nited \\'ay Pes—
tival (Iommittee. “\Ve thought the
events would be good way to bring
people together. in different depart—
ments. to work toward this and it
would he a good morale booster."

Back and the L'nited \Vay sent
out mailings to registered campus
groups, offering them ample space to
set up a display and show off their

organi/ation to those in attendance.
Among those involved were the
the
College
Dental Association and the Biomed—

llall

(lommunity

Residence .-\ss'oci'ation,

Lexington

ical I‘lngineering Societv.

The BPS booth was manned by

 

first—year graduate students ICric
Hartman and Bankaj Kadaria. and
both were thankful for the opportu—
nity to get the word otit.

“\Ve wanted to represent the
society and let people know what
biomedical engineering is all about."

chili. popcorn. soft drinks, pie. cake
and cappuccino.

For each ticket purchased, that
person was entered in a drawing for
random gift cei'tilicates good at area
businesses. stich as Barry T‘s.

:\ Caribbean-style band per-

llartman said.

“There are many different spe-
cializations within biomedical engi-

neering." Kadaria added.

Before entering the ballroom,
guests were able to purchase tickets

for food.

()ne dollar was good for two tick—
ets, and food ranged in value from
one ticket to four tickets each. A full
dinner, including an entree, a dessert

and a drink was six tickets or $3.

The menu included hot dogs,

formed throughout the event.

()ther fund—raising options were
silent auctions for theme baskets and
decorated 'l'-shirt.s. 'liables were set up
for people to sell goods like glassblown
icicles, jewelry. wreaths and candles.

One thing getting rave reviews was
the chocolate dessert, at least from
one rroup of women including Kathy
Farah, director of ,-\nnual (living.

Farah said she is proud the l nit—
ed \Vay decided to branch otit and
hold three fund-raisers.

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“The L'nited “at is so impor—
tant to our community and anythingr
we can do to support it. we should.“
l’arah said.

The highlight ol the ltlllt'licott was
the crowning of the Ice Queen and
lsmg. who were the candidates raising
the itiost money for the L nited \Vay.

In the running were .\llied llealth
representatives Patricia _Ienmngs and
Peter Berres; Human Resource Sen
\ices' _Iudy Stimmell and Rit hard
\lundy; (larrie \Vilder from Human
l’nvironmental Scient es; lshrtstopher

.\lontgomery from the (.ollege of

Agriculture; and Molly Shabel and
;\ndy llolliman from the \merican
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INDEPENDENT SINCE 1971

By Michael Overman
Slit/fill 'rili'r

.\lany l‘lx students ha\e experienced the stress often
imposed by dead week.

\Vhile students are studying for finals. many professors
assign term papers and other projects to be due that week.
The burden of studying for finals and completing papers this
time in the semester can tax students.

Officials from the Student (iovernment .‘\ssociation
are now attempting to ease this workload by changing the

dead week policy in the Student

Rights and Responsibilities lland—
TNHTk.
If those papers
hadn’t been

“According to policy it says
that no exams can be given except
due so late in
the semester, I

for laboratory practical exams." said
Lindsay .\le.\'eal. Academic Rights
chairman. “Otherwise, finals are
limited to finals week; with specific
exceptions."

In light of this policy. .\lcl\'eal wouldbove
reviewed the handbooks from had more {fine
benchmark llanCI‘SIllcs,’ or schools desi ted to
that are comparable in size. student gm
demographics and curriculum to m‘ ymgfo:
Llls', such as Virginia Tech. \Vest 7”] exam-f-

Virginia University. Ohio State V
L'niversity and North (Iarolina Tom Mlllll’
5 I a I e - secondary

(hit of those universities. N.(L.
State and Virginia Tech have
implemented dead week policies
that prohibit term papers. exams
and other projects during dead
week. ,

()iin the dean of that college can say papers. projects or
exams can be due during that week.

"But it would seem that professors wouldn‘t want to have
big projects and papers to grade at the end of the semester."

.\lc\eal said.

Having this policy would relieve students of extra
stress.

“’I his past semester. I had two papers due during dead
week. and two papers diic during finals week." secondary
education senior Tom \liller said. “If those papers hadn‘t
been due so late in the semester. I would have had more time
designated to studying for my final exams."

\Vithout the pressure of completing assignments during
dead week, students can improve their academic perlor~
mance

“last semester. no one scheduled anything for me to do
during dead w eck." \lc.\'eal said. “I had a couple of papers
due the week before, but with nothing else to do but study
during dead week. I feel as ifl have never been more pre
pared for my final e\ams."

()ther students seem to agree with N.( l. State's pltll‘
ty.

“Personally I think that‘s a lantastit idea. because the
semester perpetually builds and builds until the culminm
tioii of final exams.“ said Peter llrabak. a geography
senior.

“It would be nice to have an e\tr.i week during that time.
to do nothing but simply reflect upon the material covered
during the previous weeks." /

l'iven students who have not been hindered by the current
dead week policy said they agree this sort of reformation is
posltlve.

“I've never had a problem with completing term papers.

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Phi PSI NEWEST fraternity to 90 dry this year

at LSU and MIT have made chap»
ters across the country take a clos—
er look at the way each chapter
rules its house.

“It’s a cultural shift to some

Policy goes into

ejfect when

chapterfinds itself new home

By Jill Erwin
Sen/or Sta/f H ’r/Ii'r

Phi Kappa Psi social fraternity
made a campus-changing decision
at its chapter meeting Monday.
The fraternity's new house will be
alcohol-free.

“\\'e believe you can have a
better chapter if its dry, and
many frats are following that pro—
gram." said linglish juniorjason
.Vl-abry, member of Phi Psi and
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semester. “Greek times are
changing, and you have to move
with them or you‘ll be left
behind. We want what's best
nationally and locally for our
cha ter."

' ‘he current house. at 460
Hilltop Avenue, will be the home
of Kappa Sigma social fraternity
when it returns to campus this
fall.

The Phi Psis are looking at up
to three houses. Mabry said. but
are trying to keep the locations

1

secret to keep them from being
snapped tip. Once they find a
new residence. the ban will take
effect.

“My thought is it is a forward
and progressive looking decision,”
said David Stockham, dean of stu—
dents. “It ptits them at the begin-
ning ofa trend we‘re likely to see
nationally."

Dean of Fraternities Tony
Blanton agrees.

“It creates a better learning
environment." he said. “There's
also a liability perspective. It’s def—
initely a liability to allow a frater-
nity to serve alcohol in their hous-
es. The multitude of lawsuits
clearly show that.”

Recent alcohol related deaths

C

extent,

escalat

“A higher number (of students)
in college do not drink. There is
also a declining number in frater-
nity membership. The cost of
those who have alcohol in their
houses. in terms of insurance. is '
in .” The idea is in response to the

T Board of Trustees resolution last
year regarding alcohol abuse on
the UK campus.

“It’s something that we're
thinking about very strongly, and
it‘s certainly a welcome move b going to be pounding beers in a
the University," Blanton saitli

“It's (efinitely waking people

n '
up, Blanton said.

“Alcohol abuse has been a
problem for years. Not just
among fraternities. but among
students as a whole." Blanton

added.

" Stockham said.

“These problems brought the
treal) problem to the forefront.
liniversities‘ are starting to see a
window- ()ftipptn‘lllnlty for mak
ing some big changes in the way
people view alcohol use and
abuse on campus."

Blanton said L'K administra—
tors are strongly contemplating
having the entire (ireek System
go dry, at least in terms of frater-
nity and sorority houses.

“Any move they make would be a
welcome addition to what we're
tryin to accomplish with the
(iree ' Community."

“\Ve strive so hard to get rid of
the stereotype of the drunk col—
lege student." .\labry said.

“Phi Psis are the gentlemen
and the goal of a fraternity is to
help a man, when he gets to this
campus, to make him a better per-
son.

“Alcohol has never been a
part of our creed. and it never
will be. You can't accomplish
your ritual and achieve your er-
sonal goals if you‘re an aco-
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lllt teams with firm, brings
new technolo

By Joe Dobnor
Staff Writer

Do you occasionally feel a pow-
erful urge to learn java? Ever had
a professor give you an assignment
that involved an application that
you had no idea how to use?

\Nithin the next few weeks,
your troubles will be over.

UK has joined in a partnership
with the Gartner Group, a leading
information technology consult-
ing firm, to provide technology
training and research materials to
all members of the UK communi-

Gartner's training materials
include more than 500 \Vorld
Wide Web and CD-R()M based
training courses in many of the
key applications, programming
languages and operating systems
currently on the market.

“We are talking about a really
serious list of neat courses that
you can take any time you want,"
said Robert Tannenbaum, Uni—
versity academic computing ser—
vices director.

The research material com—
prise the Cartner Group’s specific
recommendations and ideas on
how to accomplish particular tasks
in particular situations with infor-
mation technology.

UK has used (iartner's
research material for the past
decade, Tannenbaum said.

“((iartncr's) advice helped us
create our network," Tannen-

baum said.

Gartner approached UK about
the possibility of such a partner—
ship back in September .

“We wanted to identify for—
ward—thinking technologies," said
Carol \Vallace, the group’s public
relations director.

Gartner is also entering into
similar partnerships with the uni-
versities of Alaska, Cincinnati and
Florida, as well as Norwalk Com-
munity Technical College in Nor-
walk, Conn.

“The thing that sold informa-
tion technology to our president
was the ossible impact informa—
tion teclinology would have on
students," 'l‘annenbaum said.

The partnership involves the
(ianncr (iroup making all ofinfor—
mation products available to UK
students, faculty and staff. That
service costs about $4 million a
year cotiimcrcially, but (iartncr
will provide them to UK for less
than $400,000, 'l'annctibaum said.

UK’s contract with Gartner
will last for three years.

A pamphlet describing the
partnership will be mailed to fac-
ulty sortie time next week and will
also be made available to everyone
in the University microlabs.

Students will be able to access
the infoniiation through the \Vcb,
but the information will be pro—
tected to ensure only UK stu—
dents, faculty and staff get access.

Community colleges can also
use (iartner’s resources, said Mark

y to campus

Denomme, assistant to the vice
president for information Sys—
tems.

“This is very high-level
research that is extremely valuable
to our clients," \Vallace said.

Password protec-
tion will probably be
used to prevent unau-
thorized access, Tan-
nenbaum said.

The system will be

iii place in several
weeks.
“The server is

physically here, the
stuff is on information
technology; we’re just
wrestling with the

if

WE are talking
about a really
58710145 list of

neat courses

tlmtyou can
take any time
you want. ”

UK is not interested in churn-
ing out legions of information
technology professionals.

“W’e want to integrate informa-
tion technology into student’s cho-
sen disciplines," Tannenbaum said.

The Gartncr Group
is interested in increas—
ing the number of pro—
fessionals trained in
this type of technolo

“VVe’ve seen t at
there is a great need for
information technolo
professionals in t e
workplace today,” Wal-
lacc said.

“We want there to be
tnorc lT professionals.”

details," 'l‘annenbaum V More technology
said. professionals means

At present, there is “one" more business for
a shortage of itiforma- Tannenbaum Gartner, Wallace said,

tion technology spe-
cialists in the work
force. The (iartncr
(.roup estimatts only
70 percent of information tech—
nology jobs get filled. while Infor—
mation ll'ecl' magazine estimates a
ll) pcrcctit shortage.

Similarly, the number of coni-
puter science degrees conferred
by American colleges atid univcr—
sitics has been dropping steadily
since Who.

“(Zomputcr science is not if
(information tcclinology)," Tan—
ncnbauni said.

The (iartner (lroup‘s goals and
UK's differ slightly.

computing Str'Ult‘fi

btit the integration of
information technology
into other disciplines is
also consistent with
(Partner’s goals.

This partnership is not a
response to President Clinton’s
call for funding to train more
information technology profes-
sionals. Rather, information
technology is part of an initiative
by (iartner (EEO Manny Fernan—
dez.

“There is no reason why other
countries cannot grab the United
States' technological edge as
japan did with the auto industry
in the ’70s," Fernandez said.

 

 

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Associated Press

Sli’VlPSONVlLLlC, Ky. —— A
Shelby County tiian, iti whose
home the remains of three infants
have been found, told his lawyer
Wednesday that he remembers
two occasions when his ex-girl—
friend gained weight, then sud—
denly lost it.

David \Villianis, who is repre-
senting Michael Maness, said
Dawn McKiy explained her
weight gain and loss by sa ing she
was being treated for infections.
On one of the occasions, she said
she hid undergone a dilatation
and curettage — which can be an

  
   
  

 
  

 
 

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abortion method, but is essential—
ly removal of thc linin r of the
womb for any number ofhnedical
reasons, Williams said.

VVilliatiis said Mancss told him
the only thing that “piquedH his
interest was when McKay claimed
to have had the l)&(: on an out—
patient basis.

“Until now, of course, reflect-
ing back," he said.

“1 le went on one of his trips and
came back and she had lost all the
weight with no explanation (other)
than she had an infection and it had
cleared tip." \Villiams said.

No charges have been filed yet
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Policy 072 dead “wee/e
could gain approval
by next semester
From PAGE 1

while at the same time studying
for final cxattis," history sopho-
niorc Amber Lawless said. “th l
attend LCC, and its professors
don't tend to assign (lead wcck
due dates for tcrtii papers."

With this kind of student
response, “ .. there is a growing
concern among student contacts,
about homework and papers due
at that time, which takes away
front study time," Mchal said.

“This is not the case in every
class or department, but overall,

students would be less stressed if
they had less work due during
dead week.”

McNeal will attend an SGA
executive committee meeting this
week with President Melanie
(Iruz and lot: Schuler, executive
director of Academic Affairs to
further discuss the proposal.

“This is something that I would
like to look into," Schuler said.

SGA hasn't decided how it will
implement this policy, but they
will have to meet with faculty
tiicmbcrs to get their input,
McNeal said.

The University Senate first
must review any policy change in
the Student Rights and Respon-
sibilities handbook.

Provided the policy makes it
through proper channels quick-
ly. the reformed dead week oli-
cy could be enacted as early as
next fall.

 

 

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