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Student charged with assault

Crime: Police reports say suspect identified himself
as a fraternity brother in order to lure victim into woods

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on Tates Creek Road, according to police reports.

“He acted like he was with the fraternity and this was
how you join the fraternity." said Cmdr. Travis Manley with
UK Police‘s Communications and Information Services.

Moore is not a member of the fraternity the victim is
pledging.

Manley said Moore tied the victim to a tree, took pic-
tures of him and fondled him.

Moore then untied him and told him to run around the
baseball field while he drove away. Manley said.

Manley said the victim was not seriously harmed.

Moore was arrested on April 3 and released the next day
on $5.000 bail.

By Emily Nagedorn
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A student has been charged with sex
ual abuse after coercing another student
into his car and claiming to be in his fra-
ternity. UK police said.

On April 2. Jared Keith Moore. 21. of
High Point. NC. called the victim on the
phone and took him to a wooded area

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Iraqis in Michigan paraded through the streets wav-
ing American and Iraqi flags. while others around the
nation greeted signs that Saddam Hussein's regime is
crumbling with tears of joy

Worries about relatives in their homeland per-
sisted, but a wave of relief washed over many in the
Iraqi-American community Wednesday as they saw
news reports of collapsing opposition to US. troops
in Baghdad.

“This is a day we‘ve been waiting for 35 years,” said
Feisal Amin Al-Istrabadi, a Chicago lawyer who went in
late to work after watching events unfold on television.
“It's a tremendous relief that it seems that this is the be-
ginning of the end. I‘m very. very proud to be an Ameri-
can today. as well as an Iraqi."

Spontaneous celebrations broke out in cities with
large Iraqi-American populations. In Dearborn, Mich.,
about 1,200 people gathered in Hemlock Park, chanting
and waving British, American and Iraqi flags. In El Ca-
jon, Calif, home to about 6,000 Iraqi Kurds, about 150
people rejoiced in the streets. And in Everett, Wash.,
hundreds of jubilant Iraqi immigrants danced and
chanted on Colby Avenue. horns blaring.

Earlier in Dearborn, a largely Arab Detroit sub-
urb. people stood on car roofs while others chanted
slogans in Arabic, including “Hey, Saddam, hey Sad-
dam. where are you going to escape to?” and “Sad-
dam is dead, long live Iraq." At one point, the crowd
used candy to pelt a large cardboard drawing of Sad-

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New and improved
David Near. a research assistant at the College of Health Sciences, uses a marker to make sections on a petrl dish where he's been culturing

UK fellowships sponsor

bacteria to clone genes from rat DNA. The new Health Sciences building houses 50 research

Technology: Students in other parts of Ky. can now
take courses once only offered at Lexington campus

By Sally Oates
CONTRIBUTING WRITER

A television camera
zooms in on Janice Kuper-
stein. a physical therapy pro-
fessor. as she teaches her af-
ternoon class.

No. she‘s not starring on
a TV show: it's part of a new
way of teaching.

Kuperstein teaches class-
es in both Lexington and
Hazard at the same time.

Television monitors
mounted from the ceiling
make it possible for UK Col-
lege of Health Science stu-
dents to have class discus-
sions with other UK students
in another part of the state.

“The technology in this
classroom and in the Center
for Rural Health (in Hazard)
allows us to offer our physi-
cal therapy program to stu-
dents in Lexington and Haz.

ard in an interactive for-
mat,” Kuperstein said. “Fac‘
ulty and students at both 10-
cations can interact and ben-
efit from the enriched per-
spective gained from the
added diversity.

“Without the technology,
none of this would be possi-
ble."

This modern way of
teaching is just one of the
advantages brought by the
new College of Health Sci-
ences building, located at the
corner of Rose and Lime-
stone streets. The $33.5 mil-

lion dollar facility opened to
students in January, and
since then. students have
been enjoying everything
from the unique classrooms
right down to the locker
rooms.

The distance learning
classrooms in the 210,000-
square-foot building help stu-
dents studying at UK branch-
es in areas of the state where

- the particular class or major

is not available.
“We are able to bring

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Nature writing program open for applications

By Katie Foley
CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Aspiring writers can take
their work into an outdoor
classroom this summer.

The Summer Environ-
mental Writing Program is a
fbur-week pastoral retreat
into Eastern Kentucky‘s
Robinson Forest. Applications
for the new nature writing
program are due Friday

The program encourages
any undergraduate who is in-
terested in writing ~ whether
they are a poet or a science
writer — to spend time im-
mersed in nature while par-
ticipating in both intense
group activities and solitary
writing time. not to mention

rubbing elbows with promi-
nent writers and naturalists.

The program is designed
to bring students into a set-
ting that evokes thought and
reconnects them to the strong
ties that bind writing and
ecology. said Randall Roorda.
an English professor and pro
gram director

Roorda said it is his "con-
viction that reading. writing.
and living shouldn‘t be sepa-
rate.“ that inspired him to
start this program. along with
the success of a similar pro-
gram he was involved with in
New England. He wants this
program to become a tradi~
tion at UK.

The program is also one
way students can show their

support for Robinson Forest.
located an hour and a half
southeast of Lexington in
Breathitt County. The land
was donated to UK by ED.
Robinson. a Cincinnati tim-
ber baron. UK has recently
considered mining and log-
ging the forest, a move that
has been haunting the minds
of nature lovers and environ-
mentalists alike.

Roorda said he hopes stu-
dents will take away a deeper
understanding of the forest
and of themselves ~ and
what direction they want to
take their writing abilities.

“An experience like this
can prove to be transforma-
tional for someone‘s life.“
Roorda said.

Roorda said he hopes this
experience will expose stu-
dents to the many uses of a
wildlife space. especially one
that is in danger of being
logged.

He wants students to see
the forest in an environmen-
tal and social context and rec-
ognize the value that the for-
est holds for all disciplines.

The program costs $500.
which includes room, board.
and all other trip expenses.

“It‘s a domestic study
abroad." Roorda said.

The deadline for all appli-
cations is Friday. but late ap»
plications will be accepted if
a quota is not reached. Dr. Rn
orda hopes for 12 to 15 student

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activists who research
Appalachian obstacles

Researchers have collaborated with UK professors.
departments and will present their projects soon

By Marti Lee
STAFF WRITER

Angelyn DeBord wants to bring the
Appalachian voice alive through story-
telling.

Sanjoy Hazarika. who comes from an
Indian community that. like Appalachia.
has long been stereotyped. wants to help
fight media bias.

And Lynne Faltraco wants to link 10.
cal forestry activists with experts who
support their causes.

These three activists are getting the
time and money to reach these goals
through a new fellowship program creat-
ed by the UK Appalachian (‘enter and
Committee on Social Theory.

DeBord. from Nicklesville. Va. is a
performing artist who has taught story-
telling workshops for more than 25 years.
She has been working on a story-sharing
project during her fellowship and has been
holding workshops at UK. Her work stress-
es the importance of citizens and commu-
nities developing a voice of their own.

“The voice of Appalachia has been
ridiculed historically. and telling your
own story is the first step in communi-
ty’global awareness." DeBord said. 'Go-
ing unheard has huge political and eco-
nomic ramifications."

Hazarika. from Shilong. India. is an
international activist. journalist. nr-
searcher and documentary filmmaker who
has been examining the stereotypes of Ap
palachia and their effects

Hazarika has spent the past three
months intermewing journalists in An

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