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Thursday, December I, 2005

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Field narrows today in police chief search

Number of candidates will shrink to four or fewer;
President Lee Todd will select new chief in January

By Megan Boehnke
m: KENTUCKY mun

University officials will meet to
day to continue to narrow the list of
police chief candidates from nine to
no more than four.

Ken Clevidence, UK’s director of

public safety. is overseeing the
search and will meet with Lance
Broeking. UK's director of finance
for campus services. as well as an
advisory board made up of about 15
representatives from around cam-
pus. A consultant from Waters-
Oldani Executive Recruitment, the

TODAY

firm helping UK advertise the posi-
tion. will also be present.

UK contracted Waters-Oldani to
help recruit candidates. The compa-
ny posted the job on its Web site and
marketed the job to candidates with
direct mailing and by visiting indus-
try-specific seminars.

UK had 75 applicants at the end
of the Oct. 21 deadline. Clevidence
said.

The search firm helped narrow

MID-DECEMBER

the group to about 20 people and
then conducted interviews and back-
ground checks on those candidates.
Broeking said. UK then used the
firm's recommendations based on
those interviews to narrow the field
to nine candidates.

Broeking said he and Clevidence
will meet Monday with UK Presi-
dent Lee Todd to give him their list
of the remaining candidates. Todd
will then interview each candidate

MID-JANUARY

on campus in the middle of this
month.

Todd is looking for a person
“with experience and someone with
passion for police work on a univer-
sity campus." said UK spokesman
Jay Blanton.

Clevidence said he hopes to have
a new police chief named by the be
ginning of next semester. However.
it may take longer if the selected

See Chief on page 3

FEB. I

TIME LINE

The final checkpoints in the
search for UK's new police chief

Advisory committee
narrows field from nine candidates
down to no more than four finalists.

—~~r— Finalists tour campus and meet —————— — Todd names new police chief —--— Goal to have new police chief—«~—
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Miss Black and Gold Pageant

eauty

Senate
nixes SG
election

clause

Graduate test preparation
service gets $5,000 in funding

By Sean Rose
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Brains

Eight black UK students in
the Miss Black and Gold
Pageant showed elegance.
sophistication and poise last
night at Memorial H all.

This ‘masquerade atfair’
was hosted by the Alpha Phi
Alpha fratemity and showcased
talents including singing. music
performance and salsa dancing.

Ashley Hayden. a senior
with a double major in English
literature and business manage-
ment. won the competition. She
will receive a scholarship for next
semester’s textbooks and work
with Alpha Phi Alpha in com-
munity service projects.

The Student Government Senate
unanimously voted to pass an amend-
ment in favor of online voting proce-
dures in future elections at last night’s
meeting.

If approved, online voting will be im-
plemented next fall for the freshman
Senate elections. The amendment also
strikes the section of voting procedures
that forbids campaigning in and around
voting areas.

Amendments must be passed with a
three-fourths majority at two meetings
before they go into effect. This amend-
ment will be voted on again at the next
meeting in January.

86 President Becky Ellingsworth
said striking the section did not come up
in conversation when writing the
amendment, which she sponsored. She
said online voting would open up every
computer as a possible voting booth and
that candidates should still be able to

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Kentucky
author’s
play debuts

By Ellie Fairbanks
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After reading a copy of Harper lee‘s “'Ib
Kill a Mockingbird" from his seventh grade
English teacher. Kentucky native Silas
House knew he wanted to be a writer.

“I read the book
and never looked
back." House said.
“It just opened my
eyes to a whole new
world. I knew then

 

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Women’s group fights violence with ribbons

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They ran out of ribbons after
two hours. and one group of
three shared a single pair of
gloves to keep their hands warm
so they could pass out fliers.

It wasn’t for a concert or a po
litical event. It was to remember.

Fifteen volunteer members of
The Eardrum, a campus
women’s group. handed out
green ribbons yesterday and will
be handing out more today from
9:30 am. to 2:30 pm. in front of
the Funkhouser Building. on
Rose Street across from the

Chemistry-Physics Building and
at White Hall Classroom Build-
ing. The green ribbons and pink
fliers are for Remembrance
Week , a time to remember vic-
tims of and those who have been
affected by violence against
women.

“We made thousands of rib-
bons.” said Ellen Sawyer.
Eardrum‘s president and a com-
munication junior. “We ran out
after two hours."

Sawyer and two other
Eardrum members. political sci-
ence and women's studies senior
Susan Matsubara and English
and women‘s studies junior

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days at 8 pm. in Room 205 of the Stu-
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Kathryn Hogg. stopped handing
out flyers only to trade the single
pair of gloves they had between
the three of them.

the group members began hand-
ing out fliers.

When the ribbons ran out.

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that I wanted to be
a writer."

House has come
a long way since
that fateful day in
English class. He
has since written
numerous novels.
journals and. now.
a play that pre
mieres tonight at UK.

“The Hurting Part." House‘s first play.
will be performed at 7:30 pm. in the Guignol
Theatre. House is thrilled to finally see his
play come to life and is grateful that UK
wanted to produce it.

Hurting Part"
When: 7:30 tonight

Tickets: 55 for students. $10
for faculty and staff

Visit www.uky.edu/FineArt$/
theatre for more info

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SG pursues avenue for online voting

By Sean Rose
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Student Government's ef-
forts to revise its constitu—
tion continued last night as
the Senate voted to pass an
amendment to raise limits on
campaign spending.

The Constitutional Revi-
sions Committee recom-
mended in its last meeting
that maximum expenditures
for presidential candidates
be raised from $600 to $800.
Senatorial candidates maxi-
mum expenditures were rec-
ommended to rise from $150
to $200 and senatorial funds
when running together from
$200 to $250. All limits will
grow with yearly inflation.

Committee chairman Will
Nash. a presidential candi-
date in the March election.
said the increase was de»
signed to counter inflation.

“By today's standard. the
purchasing power was half
what it was then." said Nash,
an economics and political
science senior.

Amendments to the SG
constitution must receive a
three-fourths majority vote
at two meetings before they
go into effect. The Senate
will vote on these sugges-
tions again at the next Sen-
ate meeting in January

SG President Becky
Ellingsworth said she’s hap-
py with moves made by the
committee.

“1 think we're making a
lot of progress," said
Ellingsworth. a communica-
tion senior. “I'm very
pleased.“

The constitutional com-
mittee also met before the
Senate meeting yesterday in
the Student Center. The agen-
da for the meeting was to dis-

cuss four sections of the con-
stitution not examined at the
last meeting. but the domi-
nating issue turned out to be
online elections.

The committee discussed
the issue for nearly an hour
over a conference call with a
company called Votenet. a
Washington, l).C..-based
business. The company per-
forms online elections with
other colleges, as well as the
Emmy Awards and Country
Music Awards.

Nash said even though
online voting was the only
order of business covered. he
thought the meeting was
valuable.

“I think it was very infor-
mative," Nash said. “We've
learned it’s obviously not an
easy process putting elec-
tions online. so we want to be
thorough."

Last meeting. the commit-

tee heard from UK's Informa-
tion Technology department
on its capability to handle
online elections. Nash said
the committee is trying to de-
cide who would be best suit-
ed at running the elections.

"My gut tells me that a
partnership between an out
side company and UK would
be best." Nash said.

He added that he hoped
that the committee would
have enough information to
make that decision at next
week’s meeting. The commit~
tee is still trying to decide if
it’s realistic to try online
elections for the upcoming
spring elections or wait later.
with next fall's freshman
elections.

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put up posters and campaign in public.

“You should still be able to do that
with online elections.“ said
Ellingsworth. a communications se-
nior. “There‘s not really a designated
area where students vote."

Ellingsworth added that if the
amendment is passed the second time.
it won‘t go into effect until next fall.

“That‘s something to be determined
about with the bylaws in the future."
Eliingsworth said.

She said the issue depended on what
type of online voting was used.

A second amendment passed and
will be seen again by the Senate in Jan-
uary. It came from the Constitutional
Revisions Committee in efforts to re-
vise and improve SG's constitution.

The amendment states that the max-
imum expenditures for presidential
candidates will be raised from $600 to
$800. Senatorial candidates maximum
expenditures were recommended to
rise from $150 to $200 and senatorial
funds when running with a partner
were recommended to rise from $200 to
$250.

Each limit will also grow according
to the rate of inflation each year. it also

states that the Senate has authority
over what the maximum limit should
be.

“By today's standard, the purchas-
ing power was half what it was (in
1985. when the last limit was set)." said
Will Nash. constitution committee
chair and an economics and political
science senior.

Some senators said that because of
this fact. the limit should be increased
to $1,000.

Senator Ben Carter said it is in 80‘s
“best interest to go ahead and adjust to
inflation."

"I believe we need to try to match
the spending power when this was de-
vised." Carter. a finance and economics
senior. said.

Senator Lauren Henson argued that
the lower option was best for students
and that the limit in 1985 could still
have been too much.

“Eight hundred dollars is the lower
number." said Henson a communica-
tions sophomore. “It‘s more accessible
to the average student."

The Senate also passed an act allot-
ting $5,000 from the budget surplus to
the Kaplan Scholarship Program. Ka-
plan prepares students for graduate
tests. including as the LSAT or MCAT.

“it‘s one of those things where peo-
ple say. ‘What does Student Govern-
ment do for me"' " said Senate Presi—
dent Nick Phelps an economics sopho-

more who sponsored the act. “It‘s small
but it‘s a start."

The original act allotted $15,000, but
some senators said it was too much
money helping too few students. Each
$1,000 pays for a class that takes on one
student.

The senate also allotted $1.000 to
fund “Warm-Up Wednesdays." The pro-
gram is a continuation from last year.
80 will provide hot chocolate outside
the Student Center next Wednesday
and six times during the spring semes-
ter.

Michael Brewster, a social work jut
nior. was appointed as the senator for
the College of Social Work. No one had
run for the college‘s Senate seat and
Phelps appointed Brewster after he
showed interest in the position.

The Senate also passed two resolu-
tions last night. The first was a resolu-
tion on the dining plan. The resolution
wants Chick-fil-A to accept meal plans
and for UK to make renovations of din-
ing facilities a priority. as well as exam-
ine the overall quality of the new meal
plan. The second resolution was on
campus diversity and states diversity
should be a priority to the university’s
quest for top-20 status.

Resolutions carry no actual authori-
ty but are official views issued by 80
toward UK or other institutions.

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Nov. 23 mourn Nov. 29

Nov. 23: Hit and run at 705 Sports Center Drive report-
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Nov. 23: Theft of a wallet at the Kentucky Clinic report-
ed at 12:23 pm.
Nov. 23: Theft of items from the Patterson Office
Tower reported at 1:07 pm.
Nov. 23: Burglary and attempted theft of 60" screen
television at 620 S. Limestone St. reported at 2:40
pm.
Nov. 23: Marijuana smell reported and citation issued
at 101 Avenue of Champions reported at 3:05 pm.
Nov. 24: Nonsexual assault reported at UK Chandler
Medical Center at 5:41 am.
Nov. 24: Out trying to catch a white Norwegian
elkhound. Later taken to Humane Society at 1 pm.
Nov. 25: Assisting other agency to look for missing
juvenile in the Arboretum area reported at 7:06 pm.
Nov. 25: Possible trash can fire next to UK Chandler
Medical Center Emergency Room reported at 7:48 pm.
Nov. 27: Person wearing a light pink shirt reported
lying down on ground at 208 Adam Drive
Nov. 28: Male and female reported having seats laid
back in suspicious car in K-lot at 2:15 am
Nov. 28: Male subject causing disorder in K-Lair Grill at
2:33 pm.
Nov. 28: Sexual assault reported by nurse at UK
Chandler Medical Center at 7:55 pm.
Nov. 29: Theft from front desk lock-box at 217 Elm Tree
Lane at 10:45 am.
Nov. 29: Vandalism to immobile device reported at 404
S. Limestone St. at 1:14 pm.
Nov. 29: Theft from building reported at 171
Funkhouser Drive at 1:25 pm.
Nov. 29: Vandalism reported to immobile device in the
Student Center parking lot at 7:12 pm.

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Shiite Laborel Slain Amid
latest Wave of Violence

BAGHDAD, Iraq —-- Gun-
men shot to death nine Shi-
ite Muslim laborers yester-
day near the city of
Baqubah. the latest in an
ongoing campaign of vio-
lence against Shiites by
Sunni insurgents rebelling
against the U.S.-backed gov-
ernment.

In the capital. snipers
fired on the home of Salima
Kifaji, a prominent Shiite
politician, wounding two of
her guards. Armed men
also killed Sheik Hamza
Abbas Issawi. a Sunni cler~
ic who called for participa-
tion in upcoming parlia-
mentary elections, Tuesday
after evening prayers in

Fallujah.

The day laborers were
gunned down as they head-
ed to farm jobs in a mini-
van yesterday morning
amid a mixed patchwork of
Sunni and Shiite villages in
an agricultural area seven
miles north of Baqubah.
Two others were injured in
the attack.

Minority and Women's
Business Fair

The University of Ken-
tucky will host a Minority-
and Women-owned Busi-
ness Enterprises
(MBE/WBE) recruitment
fair in the Lexmark room of
the UK Main Building from
4:30 to 6:30 pm. on Monday,
Dec. 12.

Minority- and women-

owned vendors will get the
opportunity to get to know

the bid process. phases of

the construction on the UK
Chandler Medical (‘enter‘s
new patient care facility

and the overall extent of

the work taking place.

Other projects will be
outlined including student
health care and pharmacy
facilities.

UK President Lee T.
Todd .11: will be at the re-
cruitment fair and will
speak as part of the Presi-
dent's Initiatives on [liver-
sity. 'I‘he fair is also hosted
by the (lilbane Building
Company. UK’s (‘apital l‘ro-
ject Management Division
and UK's Purchasing Divi-
sion.

 

 

Continued from page I

“UK’s Theatre Department came to me
and asked if they could perform the play. I
thought it was a great idea, and the director
has since done a phenomenal job with it.“
House said.

“Everyone seems to really understand my
message. UK has really taken it the extra
mile.”

“The Hurting Part“ focuses on the home-
sickness of a Kentucky family around the
1962 holiday season. After moving to Dayton.
Ohio, to find work, the entire family begins to
miss their Kentucky roots.

Family, along with forgiveness and the
stresses of relocating, are recurring themes
in House’s works. and this play is no differ-
ent. Growing up in the small southeastern
Kentucky town of Lily. House learned the im~
portance of family and community and has
since incorporated it into his craft.

“1 was always surrounded by people who
encouraged me." he said. “I always knew that
I could write, and I was born to write."

House doesn‘t only turn to his family and
friends for inspiration u everything he sees
influences him.

“Everyone that I meet influences me in
some way." he said. “Also. I read just about
everything. so I can see other people’s points
of view"

House was voted Kentucky’s Best Author
this year and in 2003 and has received the
award for Appalachian Book of the Year and
two Kentucky Novel of the Year prizes.
House’s first three novels. “Clay‘s Quilt.“ “A
Parchment of Leaves" and “The Coal Tattoo”
are all set in Eastern Kentucky, a region with

 

PHOTO COURTESY OF SILAS HOUSE

which House is familiar.

“I grew up and still reside in Laurel Cotut-
ty," he said. “I‘ve lived my whole life there
and know the area pretty well."

House hopes to see his holiday-themed
play at UK for years to come. Since UK owns
the rights to the play for the next three years.
House hopes the university's theater depart-
ment will be able to perform this show each
holiday season.

“It‘d be great if they could do it every
year." said House. “We don’t really know yet
if that's possible. but I hope that everything
works out.”

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“It‘s a good thing we‘re
running out of them."
Sawyer said.

According to a safety sur-
vey conducted at UK two
years ago. 36.5 percent of
women at UK have been
physically assaulted, sexual-
ly assaulted or stalked. Earli-
er this semester, UK Presi-
dent Lee Todd allotted $1.25
to for campus safety initia-
tives. including the (‘A'I‘S
Path. 21 well-lit. police-pa-
trolled main thoroughfare
that runs through the heart
of campus.

“People are so silent
about it." Sawyer said. "This
is a way of speaking up
about it and saying. ‘I‘m not
going to be silent anymore.‘ "

Hogg said a lack of infor-
mation isn‘t the problem
but the prevalence of apathy
is.

"People are pleading ig-
norance." Hogg said. “They
need to see this."

Matsubara said Remem-
brance Week creates a
chance to uniting the campus
in the fight against violence
against women.

“This is an opportunity

Chief

Continued from page I

 

candidate is not from the area
and has to relocate. Clevi-
(lence said. adding that he
wants the chief on the job no
later than Feb. 1.

The position has been va~
cant for more than a year af-

ter former UK Police (‘hief

Fred ()tto III resigned in No-
vember 2004. one month after
he was reprimanded for hay»
ing a UK police employee ille-
gally help him with course-
work for his doctoral degree
at Eastern Kentucky Univer-
sity.

 

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Members of the campus organization Eardrum pass out fliers and ribbons
yesterday in remembrance of women who have been victims of violence
on campus. The group will continue handing out commemorative green

ribbons and informational fliers today at three points around campus.

for the student group to come
out and talk about it." said
Matsubara.

Matsubara said the group
wants to take an active role

and make people aware of

the issue.
“I think what we‘re doing

is important for the idea of

visibility." Matsubara said.
“Hopefully. it will bring at—
tention to the issue. We need

Clevidence managed the
position himself for nine
months before naming (Tapt.
Kevin Franklin as the interim
police chief in July.

UK originally narrowed
its search to seven people last

spring. but when three of

those candidates accepted
other positions during the se—
lection process. [1K decided to
continue the search this fall.
(Tlevidence said.

The current pool includes
candidates with doctorates
and master‘s degrees. and the
candidates have all had expe-
rience on either a university
police force, a municipal force
in a university town or out-
side experience such as FBI
training, Broeking said.

“We have a pretty diverse

attention."

Ilogg said she's volun~
teering to lend a hand.

“I care about people." she
said, "and a lot of my friends
have dealt with this. I've also
seen the ignorance surround
ing the issue.

“We feel like we‘re help-
ing out."

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candidate group as far as we
can tell. without having met
with them yet." Hroeking
said. "I know we have a good
complement of African-
Americans. females. males. I
think we have a pool that rep-
resents a good cross-section of
folks in the law enforcement
community"

With the university re-
cently investing $1.25 million
more into women's safety, the
university has a lot of mo-
mentum in regard to campus
safety, Blanton said.

"It is a critically impor-
tant position being filled at a
critically important time for
this campus and this univer-
sity." he said.

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Bush outline plan for

withdrawal fiom Iraq

By Craig Gordon
7’ unsou—

WASHINGTON For a
man trying to convince Amer~
icans that he has a way out of
Iraq. President Bush had an
unusual way of going about it
yesterday.

He offered no timetables
for withdrawal. no new bench-
marks for when that could
start. and not a word about a
possible drawdown next year.
as others in his administra-
tion have hinted at in recent
days.

In fact. Bush even ap~
peared to raise the bar on
what it would take to bring
American troops out of Iraq

~ saying he would settle for
nothing less than “complete
victory." something he admit-
ted would be hard to detect
and harder to achieve.

It has been one of the vex-
ing questions of this war
what will victory look like
against a seemingly implaca-
ble insurgency no less deadly
today than a year ago?

Bush offered his own defi-
nition yesterday an Iraq
that is "peaceful. united. sta-
ble and secure.“ according to
his 35-page White House strat
egy document.

Right now. most American
generals probably would set-
tle for just one of those. let
alone all four.

Some experts yesterday
questioned whether Bush had
set his sights too high in a
land as violent and fractious
as Iraq by talking of ”com—
plete victory."

That complicates efforts to
start bringing troops home
next year. as nervous congres-
sional Republicans want
ahead of the 2006 midterm
elections.

“It just seems to be an un~
attainable goal." said John
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sity. an expert on public opin-
ion in wartime. "If he does
start to reduce (troop levels).
he won‘t be able to say this is
complete victory It would just
be preposterous.

“It's a good applause line."
Mueller said. "He would hope
people would forget it."

Added defense analyst
Loren Thompson of the con
servative Lexington Institute:
"We want this country to be
something that it has never
been."

Bush‘s speech ultimately
had the challenge of putting
forth two seemingly conflict-
ing themes ~ digging in his
heels against a withdrawal
from Iraq while laying the
groundwork for it.

Not today. not tomorrow.
Bush made clear. but seeming-
ly sometime in the not-too—dis-
tant future. talking up the
fighting prowess of Iraqi secu-
rity forces.

Bush even hinted that he
thought victory was in sight.

"Our strategy in Iraq is
clear. our tactics are flexible
and dynamic: we have
changed them as conditions
required and they are bring-
ing us victory against a brutal
enemy.“ he said.

In that way. Bush‘s new
and improved Iraqi exit strat:
egy is the same as the old
Iraqi exit strategy » build up
homegrown forces. gradually
hand over security duties to
them and then have US.
troops slowly fade into the
background and eventually
come home.

But Bush‘s strategy docu-
ment also highlighted the un—
certain nature of his plan.
noting that the White House
expects "but cannot guar-
antee" an unspecified re-
duction in US troops next
year.

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lieve Bush‘s plan can work.
But they criticize Bush for be-
ing slow to take the training
of Iraqi forces seriously and
to adopt the "clear and hold"
~ staying in towns after the
insurgents are cleared out
strategy that the administra-
tion has been pursuing for
several months now. Bush
himself admitted shortfalls
there as Well.

“It took us way too long to
figure that out, but we've been
doing it increasingly and it
seems over the last four
months to have finally taken
hold.“ said Thomas Donnelly.
a military analyst at the
American Enterprise Insti-
tute think tank. “But it‘s not
the quick approach. It's going
to take a long time."

Time is the one thing Bush
probably doesn‘t have. despite
his tough talk about staying
the course.

One thing helping him is
that the Democrats‘ message
on Iraq has not been clear.
with House Democratic leader
Nancy Pelosi yesterday en-
dorsing calls for an immediate
withdrawal that even some in
her party have rejected.

Two-thirds of the public
want Bush to start bringing
home troops in the next 12
months. and a similar number
disapproves of Bush's han-
dling of the war.

But Republicans seize on a
different finding ,. less than
one in five support immediate
withdrawal, a sign that the
public still wants Bush to sue-
ceed in Iraq.

So some independent ana-
lysts believe Bush probably
bought himself a little breath-
ing room with yesterday‘s
speech. but only if the situa-
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Do you work for a Wannabe. Sup-
pressor. Pretender, Confounder.
Dumbfounder. Propagator. Player. Bul-
ly. Manipulator. Cult Maker. Pilferer.
Saboteur. or a Combination Type?

Bad bosses are a fact of working
life. No matter what career you
choose. chances are you're going to
have to deal with people who steal
your ideas. criticize your work con-
stantly. and flake out just when you
need them most.

It‘s not illegal to be a jerk. But that
doesn‘t mean you have to silently ac-
cept this bad behavior and the dam-
age it can do to your career.

"Who‘s Afraid of the Big. Bad
Boss?" by Marilyn Haight identifies 13
common bad boss types. and offers ad-
vice on how to cope with them. She
also saves you some wasted effort by
explaining what definitely doesn't
work with each of those personality
types. While the book would be useful
to workers of all ages. it is especially
helpful for those new to the work-
place. who haven‘t mastered the ba-
sics of office politics.

For Haight. a “bad boss" is a boss
who intentionally harms her or his
employees and employer. not someone
who is merely inexperienced. These
people can‘t be reasoned with. or edu-
cated into being better bosses. They
don‘t want to be better bosses.

There are plenty of decent books
out there about incompetent bosses.
but Haight said it was time for a book
about bosses who were intentionally
bad. "We needed a book about what to
do if you find out your boss is incorri—
gible.“ she said in an interview.

Haight. an organizational develop-
ment consultant. said she came up
with the idea for the book after years
of working as a management consul-
tant for employers. Oftentimes. she
said. she would be hired by managers
who wanted her to help them lay the
blame on their workers. when it was
really their own fault that there were
so many problems. Later. when she
moved on to other work. “the voices of
those employees kept echoing in my
mind." she said.

For young workers in particular.
she recommends the section in each
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it, she mentions phrases that workers
can listen for to find out what kind of
boss someone is likely to be. For in-
stance. a Suppgessor. whom she de-
scribes as a boss who regards employ-
ees chiefly as nuisances, will often say
things like "I run a pretty tight ship,”
or “I like to stay involved in the pro-
jects my people are working on."

If you hear those phrases. which
sound innocent enough on the sur-
face. probe a bit more deeply, Haight
advises. Follow up with questions of
your own. such as “How do you recog-
nize people for doing a good job?”

That can help keep you from get-
ting into a bad situation, but what if
you are long past the interview stage?
Then what? In that case, Haight out-
lines strategies for surviving each bad
boss type. For example, if your boss is
a Pretender —- someone who talks a
good game. but is actually incompe-
tent — she suggests the following ac-
tions (at least until you can switch em-
ployers or get a transfer):

I Subtly teach your Pretender
boss the technicalities of the work,
without letting slip that you know the
boss is faking it.

I Defer to your boss for big deci-
sions.

I Allow your boss to claim your
work as his or her own.

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