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Worley makes it three’ 5 company in 86 presidential race

By Sean Rose
THE KENTUCKY KERNEL

The campaign slogan “new vision,
real results” projected on the back wall
of the small ballroom in the Student
Center last night as history junior Pre-
ston Worley announced his candidacy
for Student Government president

Worley, vice president of public re
lations for the Interfraternity Council,
along with running mate and account-
ing sophomore Scott McIntosh, spoke
about the importance of women’s safe-
ty in the announcement in front of
about 100 people.

“The most important thing has to
be women’ s safety,” Worley said last

night adding that he only fully under-
stood the importance of the issue after
his little sister came to campus.

Worley said most people’s recom-
mendations for improving women’s
safety included better lighting and few-
er bushes, but that only affects the 5
percent of women who are victimized
by strangers. Worley said 95 percent of
victimized women were assaulted by
acquaintances and that forming teams
to educate and engage people on
women’s campus safety issues were
more valuable in the long run.

“The more people involved (in the
issue) on campus, the safer women are
going to be,” Worley said.

Women’s safety fell into Worley and

McIntosh’s “ABC plan" to improve UK.
That three- -part plan calls for standing
for awareness, back to basics for SC
and campus life.

Worley also advocated a change in
punishment for UK students from local
police in regards to alcohol violations.
He said it isn’t fair for student he stuck
with “a criminal record just because
they had a drink.”

Worley instead proposed having
any UK student caught breaking an al-
cohol- related law to be referred to
“Choices," UK’ 5 alcohol abuse class, in-
stead of being arrested by police.

“I think it’s terrible that we are
criminalizing students,” Worley said.

See Worley on page 2

One of the biggest criticisms of Student Government is

how students say, ‘I don’t know what it does' for me.’ ”
— Preston Worley, Student Government presidential candidate

Student Govern-
ment presidential
candidate Preston
Worley speaks at
his candidacy

. announcement last
; night in the Stu-
dent Center.

Worley, a history
junior, and his run-
ning mate,
accounting sopho-
more Scott McIn-
tosh, represents
the third ticket to
announce its can-
didacy for the top
56 office.

The election will
be held at the end
of March.

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New cheating
rule changes
ﬁnd ‘balance’

University Senate efforts to tweak
punishments take effect this fall

By Dariush Shafa
THE xmucxv KERNEL

A new policy regarding cheating and pla-
giarism will reduce the minimum penalty for
those offenses and give faculty and administra-
tors more leeway when it comes to deciding
student’s punishment.

Currently, UK 5 minimum punishment for
an offense such as cheating or plagiarism is a
failing grade for the course. The new policy,
which goes into effect next semester gives fac-
ulty more room to decide a student 5 punish
ment and to factor in mitigating circum-
stances, such as a student’s past record and the
seriousness of the offense.

“The feeling was, the present academic of-
fenses policy in official use was far too puni-
tive." said Ernie Yanarella, chairman of the
University Senate, the faculty governmental
body that spearheaded the effort to change the
policies.

As a result. many faculty members pre-
ferred to handle matters in secret and outside
UK regulations, he said.

“I think that many fac-
ulty in the past, under the
old rules, felt the action w
an automatic E v (was too
serious) and were reluc-
tant to drop the hammer
on a student when they
could appreciate other fac-
tors." said Yanarella, a po-
litical science professor.

The new policy allows
be treated for faculty to be more judi-
. . ,, cious with their punish-
fairly llqhtly. ment and to take other de-

_ tails into consideration,

Ernie Yanarella he said

chairman. “There's more of a
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Yanarella said. “The first

offense can be treated fairly lightly"

Under the new system, there is no default
penalty, and students who commit academic of-
fenses out of ignorance or by mistake will not
face as severe a penalty as if the cheating or
plagiarism had occurred purposefully.

“The faculty member, in concert with the
(department) chair, will have the option of a
variety of penalties rather than the student
failing the course," Yanarella said. “The stu-
dent will receive a penalty commensurate with
the seriousness of their offense."

But students who believe that they can take
advantage of the new system’s lighter outlook
should think again, he said.

“My response to that is, if a student has a
willful intent to breach academic standards
and does so continuously, they will find the
penalties will rise considerably and quickly
and they will ﬁnd themselves in hot water." he
said.

Record keeping of prior academic offenses
will also be improved, Yanarella said, a change
he believes will also “serve as an effective de-
terrent.” If a student with an offense has no
other run-ins, the record of their offense can
be expunged upon graduation as well.

Yanarella also said he sees both faculty and
students beneﬁting under the new arrange-

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“There's
more of a
sliding scale
on offenses.
The first
offense can

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Rosalind Welch president of UK's Black Student Union, takes a break from her production work on her play “For Colored Girls Who Considered Suicide When the

Rainbow Is Enuf" last night at the Fine Arts Building.

Fulfilling an ‘obligation’
to future leaders

Black Student Union president sees education as force for change

By Wes Blevins
THE xtmucxv KERNEl

Rosalind Welch just took the GRE.

Unlike most students who take the
exam, Welch didn‘t spend much time
studying. In fact. she didn’t study at all.

“My dad has a philosophy on tests,“
she said. “If it's a standardized test.
somebody should have taught the materi-
al somewhere along the way."

Education has always been stressed in
the Welch household. Both of Welch‘s
parents earned college degrees ~ her fa-
ther. a bachelor‘s in political science; her
mother. a master's in social work.

"My parents have shown me what an
education can do," she said. “They made
sure I stayed focused."

At Louisville Central High School,
Welch always enrolled in advanced cours-
es, and she earned scholarships to help ﬁ-

nance her academic career.

High school also provided Welch with
her first experience in predominately
black classrooms. Before high school. she
said her classes maybe had an average of
three black students.

Welch admits that she came to UK be»
cause her parents “made her." Still. she
doesn‘t seem disappointed with her
choice.

“This is the best educational institu-
tion in the state." she said. “My parents
told me. ‘Your degree from UK will all
ways stand strong.‘ "

But lately. the school's strength in di~
versity has been called into question by a
40 percent drop in black freshman enroll-
ment this year as opposed to last year.
That decrease. Welch said. can be attrib-
uted to UK not “playing on the same ﬁeld
with other universities with scores for
scholarships."

See Welch on page 2

Association gives UK student clinic bill of good health

By Shannon Mason
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About a year ago at this time, Univer-
sity Health Services faced such concerns
as inadequate patient privacy, limited
space and too few reception areas —- all
adding up to the possibility that the clinic
could lose its accreditation.

But yesterday, UK announced that

UHS , the primary health care facility
for UK students ~ has been fully accred-
ited by the Accreditation Association for
Ambulatory Health Care.

Accreditation means that UHS passed
an extensive survey of its facilities that
proves it is running in accordance with
national standards. said Dr. Gregory
Moore, the clinic’s director.

Moore said accreditation is significant

because many outpatient health clinics
like UHS do not bother to go through the
accreditation process.

“Most (outpatient health clinics) don‘t
go through the hassle of being accredit-
ed." Moore said. “We're the only one in
Kentucky that has gone through the has-
sle."

Moore said the process is a hassle be-

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pus TV station that UK administrators
hope will eventually act as a communi-
cations network for UK organizations

Worley

Continued from page 1

Worley said a better SG must in-
clude better. more effective communi.
cation between the organization and
its constituency of UK students.

“One of the biggest criticisms of
Student Government is how students

say, ‘I don’t know what it does

” Worley said. “Well, students should

know what it does for them.”
To help with this. Worley

and students.

Worley and McIntosh also shared
hopes to restructure dead week by

for me,‘

said he

would utilize Channel 50, a new cam-

breaking it up with a weekend to give
students more time to study for exams.

Both Worley and McIntosh thanked
everyone who helped them and said
they are encouraged by the start of
their campaign.

“I’m conﬁdent their hard work is
going to pay off,” Worley said.

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srose@kykernel. com .

Clinic

small," Moore said. “But we already
knew that.”
A new facility for the UHS is in-

Continued from page 1

cause the facility has to pay to be sur-

veyed for accreditation and it’s

essary to be accredited to stay open for

business.

Moore said UHS chose to
have the survey done to make
sure it‘s running properly.

“Sometimes, when you
work with something, you get
too close to see its faults,”
Moore said. “I wanted to be
sure we‘re not missing some-
thing."

Four possible outcomes of
the accreditation survey ex-
ist: the facility could fail, be
accredited for six months, be
accredited for one year or get
the maximum accreditation
of three years.

UHS achieved the maxi-

cluded as a part of the UK HealthCare

expansion project. The current facility
has less space than any of UK’s 19

not nec-

“Sometimes,

when you
work with
something,
you get too
close to its
faults."

Gregory Moore
director.
University Health Services

mum three-year accreditation, mean-

benchmarks at 0.5 square feet of clinic
space per student. The University of
Georgia, for example. has a similar stu-

dent population to UK but
has about ﬁve times as much
space in its clinic.

“They were reassured be-
cause we had the blueprints
and know that we will start
building (the new facility) in
the fall,” Moore said.

The new facility will ex—
pand UHS from 16,233 square
feet to 38,180 square feet —
more than twice its current
size. UK obtained $24 million
in state bonds last year to
construct the new clinic.

“They’ll come back again
at the end of 2008,” Moore
said. “The good news is, is by
that time, we'll have our new

ing that it won’t have to go through the facility.”
process again until the end of 2008. .
“One of the only complaints they . E—mail
had was that our facility was too smason@kyker ”91-007"
accused.”

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The real test will come once the
policy goes into effect at the start of

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ment.

“I think it serves the faculty be-
cause it overcomes the circumstances
in the old system that encouraged peo-
ple to strike outside deals,” he said. “1

next semester.

“It still may have ﬂaws which we
don't know about, but it is certainly
better, we think, than the old system,”

think it’s in the interest of students be-
cause it continues the protection of

the students

who can still appeal

when they feel they have been wrongly

Yanarella said. “I think that this policy
is the fruit of the labor of all those
who worked for a year and a half.

“It strikes a useful balance.”

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Welch

Continued from page 1

As an example, Welch cited
minimum required ACT scores.
UK requires at least a 19 on the
ACT for minority scholarships,
while the University of
Louisville requires a 17. In ad-
dition, she said Louisville noti-
ﬁes scholarship
candidates of their
status earlier than
UK.

“You’re just not
going to compete

with that," she

mi from, whose
Even worse,

Welch believes

black students are
expected to make
lower scores on
standardized tests
such as the ACT —
but that only serves
as extra motiva-
tion.

“(It) makes you want to ex-
cel more to disband stereo-
types,” she said.

UK must establish some
connection to the black com-
munity, Welch said, such as fa-
cilitating “programs with chil-
dren before they even start to
think about college.” The atti—
tude that UK is a racist institu-
tion still permeates among
blacks, she said.

As president of UK’s Black
Student Union, Welch said her
goals include educating stu-
dents, exposing students to a
variety of cultures and helping
them understand their purpose
at the university. As a student
leader, it is also her job to culti-
vate the next crop of leaders.

Early in her education at
UK. Welch witnessed mostly in-
effective leadership among stu-
dents. She observed a lot of ap-
athy and people who were “just
trying to get by." This per-
ceived apathy inspired Welch to
pursue leadership positions for
herself.

“When there’s a lack of
leadership, it’s your obligation
to stand up," she said. “You
have to make people care.”

Her leadership position and
everyday tasks of college life
keep Welch busy — and this

“You have to
understand
where you come

shoulders you're
standing on."
Rosalind Welch

time of year is no exception.
On Friday, she will produce a
play for her sorority Delta Sig-
ma Theta. The production, en-
titled “For Colored Girls Who
Considered Suicide When the
Rainbow is Enuf," captures the
struggles of black women and
how they come together to ﬁnd
strength.

And in less than three
weeks, Welch will lead a Black
Student Union trip to New Or-
leans and the Gulf Coast area
to help rebuild in the aftermath
of Hurricane Katri-
na.

Welch’s experi-
ence as a black stu-
dent at UK has gen-
erally been posi-
tive. Though she
said she has never
faced discrimina‘
tion while at UK,
she has heard other
students’ experi-
ences with racial
discrimination.

“If others have
(discrimination ex-
periences), then I
have them. The only way to bat-
tle ignorance is with educa-
tion,” she said. “I’m from the
city, so I need to be educated
about rural areas.”

Welch also credits her par-
ents for instilling a sense of
pride for her heritage.

“My parents taught me,
don’t allow anybody to remove
your race from you,” she said,
adding that blacks have a cul-
ture and a history that is un-
matched.

“Our motivation is to con-
tinue against all odds,” she
said.

Raised in church, Welch
said her faith keeps her
grounded. For her family, going
to church was something that
just happened every Sunday,
much like going to school hap-
pens Monday through Friday

Welch still attends church
in Lexington as a member of
the Consolidated Baptist
Church. As a college student,
she says church and school are
connected.

“Your purpose of being in
school is one thing," she said.
“Your actual purpose is the big-
ger question."

After graduation, Welch
plans on becoming a high
school social studies teacher.
Eventually, she would like to go

president.
Black Student Union

into politics to work on educa-
tion policy. Her UK experience
has made her “stronger” in her
resolve to change education
policies, she said.

“Kentucky education is
near the bottom,” she said.
“(Administrators should ask
themselves), why are we trying
to get 1,000 minimum wage jobs
instead of 1,000 $100,000 jobs?”

She also wants students to
heed the advice and wisdom of
parents and older role models.

“There’s so much we can
learn if we could just stop and
listen,” she said.

When she stops and pen-
ders her purpose on campus,
Welch said she realizes what
she is doing now as a college
student and as a student leader
is not about her. Instead, what
she’s doing is for the people
who will follow in her foot-
steps.

“I have to make the burden
a little lighter, but make it still
meaningf she said. “Be-
cause you can remove the bur-
den, and then you don’t under-
stand what the struggle is.

“You have to understand
where you come from, whose
shoulders you’re standing on,”
she said. “And then realize
you'll be the shoulders for
someone else.”

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Rosalind Welch, on what
Black History Month means
to her:

"it doesn't mean anything
to me. The month of February
doesn’t adequately depict any
form of black history. lt's al-
most a slap in the face, makes
it a mockery.

"To understand where you
come from, whose shoulders
you’re standing on, and then
realize you'll be the shoulders
for someone else that's
black history, and it's not just
in February."

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Hispanics are sought as
mining’ s next generation

By Jenny Jarvie
THE ios moms TIMES

SIDNEY, Ky. —— At age 15, Ricky
Mullins followed his father and his
grandfather into the mines. For years,
they scraped and shoveled coal to put
food on the table, but Mullins, now 48,
fears that the family tradition will end
with his son.

Despite the inherent hazards of be-
ing a miner, Mullins and others in the
area consider it the best job opportunity
available to them —— and are proud of
the work they do

“All we have 18 coalmining,” Mullins
said. “But the companies don’t want to
hire local — not when they can get the
Hispanics to work cheaper.” The local
mine company here, Sidney Coal Co., is
seeking to change Kentucky mining leg~
islation so it can hire non- English
speaking Hispanic workers

Kentucky law requires that miners
be ﬂuent in English for safety reasons,
but Sidney Coal, a subsidiary of Massey
Energy Inc. has claimed that it cannot
ﬁnd enough local workers.

“It is common knowledge that the
work ethic of the eastern Kentucky
worker has declined from where it once
was,” the president of Sidney Coal,
Charlie Bearse, wrote to the Kentucky
Mining Board. “Attitudes have changed
among the existing workforce, which af-
fects attendance, drug use and, ulti-
mately, productivity.”

Bearse’s comments have unsettled
many in this region of steep mountains
and thin hollows, where the descen-
dants of English, German and Scotch-
Irish settlers have struggled as the coal
industry has declined in recent years.

“It’s insulting to the men and
women who want to work here and stay
here,” said Kentucky state Rep. Robin
Webb, a former miner. “Mining is their
way of life.”

Although migrant workers are al-
ready a presence in Kentucky’s tobacco
ﬁelds and thoroughbred horse farms,
they scarcely penetrated the Appalachi-
an coal ﬁelds.

Many Eastern Kentucky miners
worry that bringing non- English speak-
ing Hispanics underground would force
them to accept lower wages and lead to
a decline in mine safety.

Already, there have been 19 deaths in
Appalachian mines this year. In Janu-
ary, an explosion that killed 12 miners
at the Sago Mine in West Virginia
sparked a national debate about mine
safety reform.

“I wouldn’t want my son working

with a bunch of Hispanics who couldn’t
understand him,” said Mullins, who
was huddled next to a gas heater in the
local Citgo gas station, smoking Marl
boro cigarettes “It’ s dangerous enough
down there.”

Mullins worked underground for
more than 18 years, until he suffered an
electrical shock picking a cable out of
the water. When he tried to go back into
the mines, he had a minor stroke and
his doctor advised him not to return. He
has drawn Social Security and disabili-
ty payments for the last 14 years.

Mullins is far from unusual in Sid-
ney. According to the 2000 census, 38
percent of Sidney’s residents have dis-
ability status and more than 33 percent
live below the poverty level — more
than double the national average.

A week ago, Bearse ~ who declined
to comment for this article — apolo—
gized to local workers in an open letter
to the Lexington Herald- Leader for his
remarks to the mining board. “Having
lived in eastern Kentucky for much of
my life, " the coal company executive
said, “I know there are many people in-
side and outside the coal industry who
work hard.”

The Sidney Coal processing plant
looms over a thin row of grocery stores,
gas stations, restaurants and a church.
In the tiny, close-knit town that sits on a
creek in a hollow of scrawny poplars,
coal mining is the main source of in-
come. “Used to be you were grandfa-
thered in,” said Haskell Francis, 34, a
mine foreman at Sidney Coal. “Your
Daddy showed you how to do it.”

Coal production in Eastern Ken-
tucky declined by nearly a third be-
tween 1990 and 2003, according to the
Kentucky Department of Mines and
Minerals. During this time, hundreds of
miners were laid off and few younger,
inexperienced miners were hired, said
William Chapman, a representative of
the Kentucky United Mine Workers of
America who is on the Kentucky Min-
ing Board.

“The companies say they lost a gen-
eration of workers to drugs,“ Chapman
said. “What really happened is that the
coal companies stopped hiring and the
generation that didn’t get hired went on
to do other things.”

Nathan Coleman, 20, a college stu-
dent who works as a trainee miner at
Sidney Coal, said mines provided young
people with a chance to make good mon-
ey, but most tried to go to college and
pursue other careers.

“Most people go to the mines when
they don’t have other options," said

Coleman, who plans to teach and coach
football at the local high school, Belfry.
“When I have my teaching degree, I’ll
be sitting behind a desk. I won't be get-
ting dirty.”

Coal prices in Appalachia have dou-
bled in the last three years, but many
companies say they are struggling to
produce more coal. Coal production in
eastern Kentucky dropped by 1.6 per-
cent from 2004 to 2005, according to the
National Mining Association.

“We’re losing production even
though the price of coal 1s up,” said Bill
K. Caylor, President of the Kentucky
Coal Association “There is not a large
enough pool of workers. " Not everyone
agrees there is a shortage of workers in
Kentucky.

Edgar “Butch” Oldham, a miners
union representative in Madisonville,
said companies were exaggerating the
labor shortage to further their agenda
of hiring lower- paid Hispanic workers

In the last two years, he said, 12, 000
people in Kentucky have taken the new
40-hour mining training course.

“Are they really suggesting all these
people are on drugs?" he asked.

Many companies say drug abuse has
become widespread in the coal labor
force, with miners who are ﬁred by one
company being hired by other compa-
nies Last week, legislation was intro-
duced to Kentucky‘ 5 General Assembly
to require mandatory drug testing for
all coal miners.

Many who live in Sidney say pre-
scription drug abuse has become partic-
ularly acute in the last three years.

At Williamson’s Family Foods, John
Williamson 11 scanned the aisles of his
family’s grocery store. “I can look at
everyone in this room and tell you
someone in their family that is dealing
with drugs," he said.

After years of backbreaking work in
cramped underground tunnels —— the
average miner works in a space 20 feet
wide and four feet high —» many older
miners became dependent on
painkillers such as OxyContin. Some
passed their addictions on to their chil-
dren, who could no longer count on
mining work.

Although many responded to the
downturn in the economy by self med-
icating, others encouraged their chil-
dren to excel at high school and go on to
college. (In 2003, the Belfry High School
football team won its first ever Ken-
tucky state championship.) Yet as more
local students go to college, many worry
that more will leave Appalachia.

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More bodies found at buried school

By Richard C. Paddock and Alex Santos
THE LOS ANGELES TIMES

GUINSAUGON, Philippines
Buoyed by the sound of tapping from
deep beneath the mud, rescue crews
continued to dig through more than 20
feet of mud to a buried school in hope
of finding survivors three days after a
massive landslide crushed this remote
village.

But rescuers working into the
evening, including US. Marines, found
only more bodies, dashing hope yester-
day of finding the ﬁrst survivors since
20 people were pulled from the mud on
Friday.

The village of Guinsaugon on Leyte
Island, home to more than 1,800 people,
was obliterated by millions of tons of
mud that poured down Friday from a
mountainside soaked by more than 24
inches of rain since Feb. 1.

Authorities are uncertain how
many people were crushed by the mud,
but estimates range from 900 to 1,400.
More than 1,000 rescuers, including
U. S. Marines and teams from Malaysia,
Taiwan and Spain, have been battling
the odds in the hope of finding sur-
vivors in pockets within the rubble.

Yesterday, teams using sensitive

sound equipment reported hearing
scratching noises and rhythmic tap-
ping near the site of a school where 250
students and teachers had been in
class at the time of the mudslide.

Members of the international res-
cue effort interpreted the sounds as
signs of life and redoubled their ef-
forts.

Some of the US. Marines thought
they may have heard voices from un-
derground.

“We know there‘s something down
there,” said US. Marine Lt. Richard
Neikirk. “The farther down we went.
the signals grew stronger.”

South Leyte Gov. Rosette Lerias,
who has been overseeing the rescue ef-
fort, was elated by the first good news
in days.

“First we heard scratches,” she
said. “Now it’s rhythmic tapping. It
cannot be just a rat making those
sounds. It’s enough that we heard a
sound of life. Hallelujah! Praise God!"

At one point yesterday evening. a
top government official announced on
national television that 50 survivors
had been found at the school. But the
report quickly proved to be untrue.

Efforts have focused at the school

site because residents reported receiv-
ing cell phone messages from victims
trapped in the school. But nothing has
been heard from them since before
dawn Saturday.

The mud initially was too soft to al-
low the use of heavy equipment, but by
yesterday crews could use earth-mov-
ing equipment in some areas. Still.
hundreds of rescuers resorted to picks
and shovels and used crowbars and
ropes to move boulders. They bailed
water from the holes they dug using
plastic bottles.

International rescue teams used
search dogs, seismic detectors and heat
sensors as well as the audio equipment
to locate survivors.

By yesterday evening, the day's la-
bor had yielded 13 bodies, bringing the
total of bodies recovered to at least 84.

Lerias said she had no plans to
abandon the rescue effort.

“It is our job to find these people,"
the governor said. “And if God wills it.
we will ﬁnd them."

At about 11 pm. rescue operations
were suspended because of renewed
rains and a mudﬂow that ofﬁcials wor-
ried could endanger rescuers.

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