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Thursday, January 12, 2006

 

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UK gives wish list to state legislature

School pushes for $18 million more in general funds
to keep Top-20 Business Plan on track early

By Sean Rose
mt KENTUCKY mm

With the state legislative session
just underway. UK has started to
lobby for its top priorities: the bio-
pharmaceutical complex. the hospi-
tal expansion project and greater
bonding flexibility.

Above all that. however. UK is

asking for about $18 million more
in operating funds this year to hire
more faculty and hold down tuition
as much as possible, said UK
spokesman Jay Blanton.

UK is also asking for $80 million
in state bonds to complete construc-
tion on the bio-pharmaceutical
complex. The state allotted $40 mil-
lion for the first phase of the pro-

ject last year.

UK’s pharmacy school is cur-
rently eighth in the nation, and
Blanton said UK needs the new fa-
cility to keep up with the competi-
tion.

“Other leading pharmacy
schools have much more space than
we have," Blanton said.

Blanton added that Kentucky
has a shortage of about 400 phar-
macists and that the new facility
will help address that problem by
doubling the college’s enrollment.

The other major project UK is
focusing on is its new patient care
facility. UK needs $150 million in
bond authorization before the con-
struction can start.

“We have a great facility and
staff, but it needs to be updated."
Blanton said. “That patient care fa-
cility is over 40 years old and needs
to be replaced.”

Blanton said one reason these
are UK’s first priorities is because
they meet the needs of the state.

“Each of these priorities ad-

dress needs that Kentucky has to
make it more educated. healthier
and wealthier.” Blanton said.

Dall Clark, UK‘s director of cap-
ital construction. said these pro-
jects contribute toward UK’s top«20
plan.

“Any expansion of the hospital
and pharmacy school are certainly
part of our quest to become a topZO
research institution," Clark said.

UK is also asking for more flexi-
bility to use its own money to pay

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Bush

defends
domestic

spying

B_y Michael A. Fletcher
m: kisnmcrou eosr

LOUISVILLE, Ky. A- President Bush
yesterday defended his decision to allow
government eavesdropping on the phone
calls and e-mails of suspected terrorist col-
laborators in the United States. saying the
program is legal and essential to averting
potential attacks.

“I understand people’s concerns about
government eavesdropping." Bush said in
response to a question about the program
during a citizens” forum here. “I share
their concerns as well." Even so. he added,
the program is important to his presiden-
tial duty to protect Americans.

Bush's comments on the eavesdropping
program came in response to a question
posed during a campaign-style event here
aimed at shoring up support for the war in
Iraq as well as the nation's broader anti-ter-
rorism effort.

The president‘s forum here was differ-
ent than most of the events he attends na-
tionwide. Usually he speaks to carefully
screened partisan audiences and takes no
questions. White House aides described
Wednesday's audience of business and
community leaders as bipartisan. and
Bush opened himself to unscripted audi-
ence questions during the town-hall-style
event.

The domestic spying program has
drawn fire from members of Congress,
both Democrats and Republicans, who
think it oversteps the president’s authority
and violates civil liberties that are part of
the nation‘s fiber. The National Security
Agency program began in the aftermath of
the Sept. 11. 2001. terrorist attacks as a way
to help the nation‘s intelligence agencies

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Abortion
dominates
hearing

By David G. Savage
Los ANGELES TIMES

WASHINGTON w Abortion remains the
divide in American politics and constitu-
tional law, a fact that was on display during
the third day of Senate hearings on the nom-
ination of Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr. to the
Supreme Court.
For much of Wednes-
day. Alito —— who likely
would cast the deciding
vote on several pending
abortion cases —— was a
silent witness as senators
told him why the Supreme
Court should preserve or
reverse its abortion rul-
ings.
The debate turned on

whether the right to abor-
tion was “settled law." Abortion has been 1e
gal since the court‘s Roe v. Wade decision of
1973. and has been upheld several times
since. Is that long enough to make it settled
law. or precedent? And when can precedents
be overturned? The correct answer was
clearly in the eyes of the beholder.

Sen. Sam Brownback. R-Kan., compared

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A demand for discipline

 

 

amt sum | surr

UK head coach Tubby Smith talks to his players in a timeout during the second half of UK's 57-52 loss to Vanderbilt on Tuesday night. Dropped from the rank-
ings for the first time in almost five years, the Cats are on a two-game losing skid and have fallen to 10-5 - one fewer loss than all of last season.

Cats too Wild for Tubby

By Ryan Wood
iHE KENTUCKY KERNEL

While there appeared to be
multiple problems with the
men’s UK basketball team
Tuesday night against Vander-
bilt. head coach Tubby Smith
believes one issue precedes all
others.

“It’s a matter of discipline,
or lack thereof." he said.

“Everybody thought they
were going to be the guy to sal-
vage the game or pull us out of
the rut. Everybody tried to do
too much and when you try to
do too much. others stand
around and don‘t get involved."

With Tuesday night‘s 57-52
loss to Vanderbilt. the Cats (10
5, (H Southeastern Conference)
dropped two games in a row for
the first time since January
2002. setting off alarms in Big
Blue Nation. The game before.
UK suffered the largest loss of
Smith‘s tenure in a 73-46
blowout at Kansas. prompting
Smith to say. “We're just not
very good."

After the Vanderbilt game.
Smith blamed his team‘s inabil-
ity to overcome poor execution
on a lack of maturity

“That's the concern I've had
with this team all year long. the
maturity level.” he said.

“(We‘ve) got to start forgetting

about the mistakes we’ve made

and start moving forward."
The players have also no-

. Tubby Smith
talks to junior
center Shaqari
Alleyne on the
sidelines dur-
ing the UK-

. Louisville
. game on Dec.

ticed a lack of discipline on the
floor,
"W *‘re

not executing."

See Cats on page 2

There is definitely a lack of discipline. We’re just not
clicking not playing as a team.”

- Randolph Morris, UK sophomore center, on the Cats' two-game losing streak

 

UK proposes more tsunami aid

UK wants federal funds to help three universities
in Indonesia reorganize in wake of ‘05 disaster

By Dariush Shale
nit mrucxv KERNEL

A little more than a year af-
ter the tsunami disaster killed
more than 200,000 people in In-
donesia. UK is trying to inject
some new life into the region.

The College of Agriculture is
putting forth a twoyear. 31 mil‘
lion proposal to the federal gov-
ernment to assist three universi-
ties in Indonesia to reorganize
after the damage sufl‘ered in the
wake of the tsunami. The Col-

lege of Business and Economics.
the College of Engineering and
the Martin School of Diplomacy
are working on the plan.

The three institutions that
would be helped would be the
University of Lampung, Brawi-
jaya University and the Univer-
sity of Syiah Kuala. In October.
the University of Syiah Kuala
received a donation of $32,000,
raised by the students, faculty
and staff of the College of Agri-
culture.

Michael Reed. director of in-
ternational programs for agri-
culture and a professor of agri-
cultural economics. helped work
on the proposal for three
months. and said the goal is
clear.

“It would be to improve the
teaching and services of those
public universities," Reed said.

To help accomplish this, UK
staff and faculty have already
traveled to the region to help the
schools reorganize its curricu-
lum and structure. Reed himself
visited about a month after the
tsunami hit.

“it would involve them, de-
velop their curriculum and help

them realize how a university
can be used in improving devel-
opment and governance.” Reed
said. “If we did a good job. it
could help them make their uni—
versities relevant to the region
they‘re in."

Reed also said the proposal
would include possibly bringing
lndonesian faculty to UK to earn
degrees they can use when they
return to their universities.

Reed pointed out the fact that
unlike universities in America.
institutions in lndonesia have
little interaction with the com-
munity and typically don‘t seek
involvement with local business-

See Aid on page 2

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