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Kentucky Kernel

Vol. XCV NO. 11

Established 1894

University of Kentucky, Lexington. Kentucky

Funding cuts curb enrollment growth

 

By Tla Silverthorne
Stait Writer

 

Last year at this time, UK proudly
was announcing record-breaking en-
rollment figures.

This year, the enrollment figures
are up again. but the growth is not
nearly as impressive —— partly be-
cause of recent budget cuts, admin—
istrators soy.

With only a slight increase in en-
rollment. the University claimed 43
more students than last year. for a
total of 24,175. First-time students

at UK actually dropped by roughly
10 percent from the fall of 1991.

The Graduate School managed
about the same gain as last year,
but the Community College Sys-
tem's growth was down considera-
bly.

1n the past decade. their enroll-
ment has gained as much as 15 per-
cent per year, posting an increase
of 13 percent in 1991.

This year UK‘s community col-
leges gained only a total of about
2,000 students w an increase of
roughly 4.5 percent.

New SGA Senate

approves budget
in first full meeting

 

By Joe Braun
Editorial Editor

 

At the semester’s first full senate
meeting. the Student Govemmeni
Association Senate had very little
legislation to begin the year.

The senate passed SGA President
Pete November's budget by accla-
mation. The budget consisted of
$152,201 itt revenue. Of that total,
$115,400 will come from student
fees.

The budget allocates $74,727 to
the senate to be spent throughout
the 1992—93 school year.

The senate also approved Senator
at Large Jeremy Bates‘ motion to
make it mandatory for all senators
to serve their office hours during
the week of freshman elections by
working at the polls.

November said having senators
work at the polls will save SGA
money because it won't have to pay
students to work.

Senator at Large Rob Warrington
suggested that greek organizations
could volunteer to work at the polls
as a way of fulfilling their commu-
nity service requirements. but some
senators disagreed, saying that the
senate should be involved in the
freshman elections.

Senator at large Misty Weaver
said having senators work at the
polls would be a good way for them
to interact with students.

“It‘s a good idea to have greeks

to get their
points. But it's
our elections.
and 1 think we
should be work-
ing them.“
Weaver said.

“It‘s also go-
. 9 ing to save SGA
- money. If we
NOVEMBER have [0 pay peo.

ple to work at the
polls then that‘s money that comes
out of our budget .,._ and (it's mon-
ey) we can't give to students (who
ask the senate for money)."

Only freshmen may vote in the
election. which will be held Oct. 7
and 8. Voters will chose four fresh-
men to fill the freshman senator po-
sitions.

After approval of the budget. the
senate allocated $1,600 to be spent
at a cross—cultural workshop
planned for Sept. 26 and 27 at Not—
ural Bridge State Resort Park. The
event is designed to help increase
student sensitivity to diversity on
campus.

Organizers of the workshop will
accept applications from interested
students later this month.

    

Novembe; also announced that
the SGA constitutional reform com-
mittee will be meeting with Judicial
Board Chief Justice Ken Walker
next week to begin rewriting the
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Ben Carr. chancellor for the
Community College System. said
the figure should have been much
higher.

According to recent figures,
UK‘s 14 community colleges are
the fastest growing segment of Ken-
tucky‘s higher education. but bud-
get cuts have burdened the system
to the point that it no longer can ac-
commodate the growing needs of
students.

“The community colleges just
could not add all the class sections
they needed because budget con-

straints prohibited hiring faculty.
and in some colleges there are facil-
ities and space limitations.“ Carr
said.

At UK's main campus, enroll-
ntcnt growth was less than .002 per-
cent this fall — a disappointing fol-
low up to last year's growth rate of
about 4.5 percent.

Louis Swift. director of under-
graduate studies. agreed that the
small gain in enrollment is a reflec-
tion of recent budget cuts, but he
said other factors were more signifi-

See ENROLL. Back Page

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By Tanya Pratt
Contributing Writer

 

From Ethiopia to the UK, she
came to expose herself to Ameri-
can educational opportunities.

Now, as a rcsrdcni odvrscr In
Donovan Hall, Ycruk Ager Mulu-
geta. who goes by Lily. wants not
only to take what she has learned
back to Africa, but to leave some
knowledge about her culture be
hind.

“Ethiopia is not just another
desert or jungle in Africa," Mulu-
geta said. “Ethiopia is a place

 

where people have life and soul.
We do have some of the facilities
you have here in America such as
houses, cars and we do not live
in trees."

In an effort to educate others.
she ix‘ttisionolly prepares litltiopi-
an food for the other RAs in Don-
ovan Hall and always is willing to
talk about her country with the
halls residents.

But some of the differences
have proved unsettling for the
pharmacy junior front Aodis Abe-
boa. Communicating with other
students and faculty members has

JEFF BURLEWiKemel $3

Donovan Hall resident adviser Lily Mulugeta, who Is from Ethiopia, plans to take what she
has learned at UK back to Africa.

RA bridges cultural divide,
shares customs of Ethiopia

been a problem at times. Because
she was so accustomed to treating
all adults with extreme respect,
she fears talking with them on an
infomtol level.

Being used to her country's pt»
litical arid social culture. which
differs from that of the United
States, called for adjustment. No-
ture and the well-being of the
community are the main focuses
in Ethiopia, while American soci-
ety places more emphasis on the
indivrdual, Mulugeta said.

See MULUGETA, Back Page

2 workers
become ill
after leak
of chemical

 

By Brian Bennett
Senior Statt Writer

 

 

 

UK’s economists considering
possibility of more budget cuts

 

By Tla Sliverthorne
Stait Writer

 

UK‘s economists say they feel
just as uneasy about the possibility
of any future budget cuts as many
students and faculty do.

Thanks to poor national and state
economics, the prospect of addition-
al funding for state universities
looks bleak. .

UK. which had planned for a new
parking structure and expansion of
the mechanical engineering build-
ing. will have only enough funding
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new central library.

Even the library, for which UK
has raised $17 million in private
contributions, is at the mercy of the
1994 General Assembly. Construc-
tion on the building cannot begin
until the legislative body approves
full funding.

Because of growing interest in
possible future budget cuts, fore»
casting the growth of the state
economy has become an increas-
ingly imponant function.

Carol Straus. a senior research
associate at UK's Center for Busi-
ness and Economic Research, said
that the state economy is not cur-
rently showing a strong positive or
negative trend.

“Employment is not growing,
and we don‘t see anything coming
that would change that either way."

See BUDGET. Back Page

First lady expected to visit Lexington

 

Associated Press

 

LOUISVILLE. Ky. — First Lady
Barbara Bush will make two stops
in Kentucky tomorrow during her
second visit to the state in a week.

Bush will dedicate the Carnegie
Center for Literacy and Learning, in
the old main library building in
lexington tomorrow morning. Lat-
er. she will visit state Bush-Quayle
headquaners in Louisville. Times of
the events will be announced later.

Her quick return shows Ken-
tucky's importance to President

  
 

Bush's national
campaign. the
president‘s state E
chairman, U.S. '" '“- v
Sen. Mitch *
McConnell. said
in a prepared
statement

The president and his wife were
in Louisville Saturday night and
Sunday for at Louisville Redbirds
game honoring the Kentucky Har-
vest food program. an officially
non-political event. They also at-
tended a private Republican Party
fund~raising event

The Lexington
event is officially
non-political. and
w 7777 m '1 the Louisville
event will not be
open to the public.
although joumal-
ists will be admit—

The literacy center. primarily
sponsored by the Lexington-
Faycttc Urban County Govcm-
ment, is in a building renovated at
a cost of $1.2 million to the city,

See ELECTION. Back Page

Two days after a gas leak forced
the closing of several UK buildings.
two men working tn the (‘ltenitstry-
Physics Building become ill and
were taken to the [3K Hospital.

The men were working on the
sprinkler system and other equip—
ment in a mechanical room of the
budding around 1 am. when they
become duly and nouscotcd, I‘K
spokesman Ralph Derickson said.

The two were taken to the 17K
Hospital where they were examined
otid released, Derickson said.

The incident follows an accident
in the Chemistry-Physics Building
Sunday, when an apparent equip-
ment malfunction during a graduate
student‘s experiment released hydro»
gen sulfide into the air.

in gaseous fonn, hydrogen suiiidc
causes irritation to the eyes and
throat. It is “me in large amounts.

After the leak. officials closed
several nearby campus buildings but
reopened them Monday after decid—
mg the gas posed no health threats.

Environmental safety inspectors
searched and titonitored the (.‘lteiiits-
try-Physics Budding for more than
art hour yesterday but found no L'H-
dence of unusual amounts of hydro
gen sulfide or any other ho/ardoiis
materials, Derickson said.

He said health officials will con-
tinue to monitor the Chemistry
Physics Building today. but ll will
remain open.

Dcrickson assured students that
they have nothing to worry about. “1
think it‘s perfectly safe."

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Trio of authors read
works at arts center

 

By Graham Shelby
Senior Staff Writer

 

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Gonzo
journalist Hunter S. Thompson
swaggercd onto the stage shining
a flashlight on the audience that
greeted him with a standing ova-
tion.

The political journalist and au-
thor held a discussion at the Ken-
tucky Center for the Arts last
night as part of The Kentucky
Foundation for Literacy's presen-
tation. “A Celebration of Read-
ing." Thompson. who has cov-
ered politics for Rolling Stone
magazine for 20 years, made his
own preference clear early in the
discussion. He called President
Bush “a lying swine" and re-
ferred to the presidencies of Bush
and Ronald Reagan as “the ding-
bat revolution."

He sat on the stage next to UK
football and basketball play-by-

play man Ralph Hacker.

Thompson produced a bottle of
burgundy whiskey from under the
table and poured himself a shot-
glass full. then Hacker poured
one for himself. His comments
were rambling. occasionally pro-
fane and frequently unintelligible.
His thoughts were punctuated by
a sip from the shot glass or a puff
from his cigarette.

“If Jimmy (Carter) had been
smarter." the writer said, “we
wouldn‘t have had l2 years of the
Reagan revolution that has re-
duced this country to a primitive
society where the rich do prey on
the poor."

Thompson has written several
books. including “Fear and Loath-
ing on the Campaign Trail ’72"
and “The Great Shark Hunt." Re-
cently, he interviewed Democrat-
ic presidential nominee Bill Clin-
ton for Rolling Stone. He said the
Arkansas governor wasn‘t panic-
ularly nice to him; nevertheless.

“I like Clinton," he said. “He has
to win."

Thompson. a native of Louis-
ville. was the final act of an
event sponsored by the Literacy
Commission. Earlier in the eve-
ning, the audience heard read-
ings from Kentucky author
James Still and New York writer
and frequent “Late Night with
David Letterman" guest Tama
Janowitz. who read from her
novel ”The Male Cross-Dresser
Support Group."

The Foundation for Literacy
sponsors reading programs in
every county in Kentucky. Ron
Horseman, an alumnus of one of
those programs also addressed
the audience. Horseman. who
said he learned to read at 43. told
the group it was like seeing after
“being blind for half your life."

Horseman added: “I no longer
have to be worried that I picked
the wrong card for my wife on
our anniversary."

Kentucky Kernel. Thursday. September 10. 1992 - 3

 

Woody Allen film about love,
marraige opens next weekend

 

By John Horn
Associated Press

 

LOS ANGELES —— us come-
back time in Hollywood.

Two of the film industry's bright-
est lights — Robert Redford and
Woody Allen — will try to reverse
their dimming fortunes as the fall
movie season unfolds.

Redford —— coming off 1990‘s
“Havana.“ probably the biggest dis—
aster of his 30-year career —— stars
in “Sneakers." a lighthearted thrill-
er about a ragiag group of ethical

burglars.

The film. directed by “Field of
Dreams" maker Phil Alden Robin—
son. already has generated positive
reviews and appears to have all the
elements in place for box-office
popularity. It opens Friday.

Redford also steps behind the
camera for the first time since
1988‘s ho-hum “The Milagro Bean—
field War" to direct “A River Runs
Through It." Starring Brad Pitt, the
movie makes its premiere Oct. 9.

And then there‘s Allen's “Hus-
bands and Wives." one of the most
anticipated titles.

Originally set to open in a hand—

ful of cities Sept. 23, the film about
an older man (Allen) and a younger
woman (Juliette Lewis of “Cape
Fear") will now make its debut na~
tionwidc Sept. l8.

TriStar Pictures made the switch
following intense media coverage
of the 56-year-old lilmmakcr‘s
messy split With actress Mia Far~
row during which Allen admitted
he was in love \th Miss l-‘arrovv‘s
2l~ycar-old adopted daughter

The question ts whether general
audiences will tolerate this art-
iniitates-life comedy. Arc Allen's
neuroses still funny now that they
could be true? We'll see.

‘Slaves’ author to sign at bookstore

 

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pear today in Lexington to auto—
graph her founh and latest novel,
“The Male Cross—Dresser Support
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