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World Series may have helped keep
death toll down, rescue workers say

By 500'" WITNEY
Associated Press

SAN FRANCISCO —— The
strong aftershocks rattled a jittery
Nothem California yesterday, and
rescuers who found fewer cars than
feared under a collapsed freeway said
the World Series may have reduced
the rush-hour trafﬁc.

“Maybe we got lucky because of
the game," Oakland Police Sgt.
Bob Crawford said. “Normally at 5
o'clock in the afternoon this area
would be bumper-to-bumper.
Maybe the World Series saved our
lives."

Power and commuters returned to
much of downtown San Francisco
as a tentative city tried to recover
and regroup following Tuesday’s
earthquake, which claimed an esti-
mated 270 lives and $2 billion in
damage.

At the 1 1/4-mile stretch of the
collapsed double-deck Interstate
880, the Nimitz Freeway in Oak-
land, workers cut holes in concrete
and used cranes to pull out pancake-
flat cars. Rescuers reported ﬁnding
the cars as far apart as 60 feet, rath-
er than bumpcr—to-bumper as had
been feared, Assistant Fire Chief Al
Sigwart said.

That could lower the death toll in

the highway rubble, which was es-
timated earlier at 250, Crawford
said.

Many people left work early to
watch the third game of the World
Series, scheduled to start at 5:30

I Quakes likely in
many areas, Page 5.

pm, and 60,000 people already
were across the bay in San Francis-
co at Candlestick Park when the
quake struck at 5:04 pm.

The World Series will resume
Tuesday at Candlestick Park in San
Francisco.

Oakland Mayor Lionel Wilson
said yesterday that only 85 people
were officially reported missing.

Yesterday morning three after-
shocks struck south of San Francis-
co. lhe first. measunng 5.0 on the
Richter scale of ground motion, hit
at 3:15 am. and was centered near
Watsonville, about eight miles
from the epicenter of Tuesday's 6.9
quake, according to the state Office
of Emergency Service. Two other
aftershocks measured 4.5.

“No one is sleeping around here,”
Watsonville resident John Murphy
said.

Seminar to discuss
mineral law issues

By REBECCA MULUNS
Contributing Writer

Law experts and major federal
mining officials will meet in Lex-
ington this weekend for a seminar
on mineral law issues.

The 14th Annual Mineral Law
Seminar sponsored by UK’s Miner-
al Law Center will be held today
and tomorrow at the Hyatt Regen-
cy.

The seminar will feature speakers
on current issues facing the mineral
industry. The list of speakers in-
cludes law professors, attorneys,
mining professionals and represen-
tatives from the National Coal As-
sociation in Washington, DC.

The featured speaker of the semi-
nar is Harry M. Snyder, who is the
director of the Office of Surface
Mining Reclamation and Enforce-
ment for the US Department of
the Interior. Snyder will give his
speech this afternoon.

Issues to be addressed include the
Bush administration’s Clean Air
Act proposal, the unmined minerals
tax and Kentucky's recently enacted
broad form deed amendment.

UK law professor Carolyn S.
Bratt will speak to the seminar to-
morrow on the “Broad Form Deed
Amendment-Constitutional Consid-
erations."

The broad form deed amendment
changes previous mining policy by
implying that mineral estate own-
ers can extract commercial coal
“only through methods used at the
time the deed was required. "

The amendment is intended to
protect the lands and homes of sur-
face estate owners by prohibiting
the use of modern mining methods.

However, some law experts as-
sert the amendment conflicts with
the 5th Amendment of the US.
Constitution. The federal amend-
ment applies to the broad form deed
issue in Kentucky through the due
process clause of the US. Consti-
tution.

Under the US Constitution,
Kentucky mineral owners are trying
to protect private property interests

they believe are injured by the state
amendment and other state laws
that protect natural resources.

“The broad form deed amendment
recently enacted in Kentucky con-
flicts with the US. Constitution,”
said Blair Bremburg, associate di-
rector of the UK Mineral Law Cen-
ter. “It raises a number of issues
under the federal Constitution for
which there are no clear-cut an-
swers."

Other issues on the agenda in-
clude President Bush’s latest propo-
sals on reducing the threat of acid
rain, urban air pollution and toxic
emissions by altering the Clean
Air Act.

Those proposals will be dis—
cussed by David C. Branand, an en-
vironmental affairs official for the
National Coal Association in
Washington, DC.

Nine Midwestern and Southeast-
ern states, including Kentucky, are
responsible for 51 percent of all
US. emissions.

All nine states would be affected
economically by the Bush propo-
sals, which will try to reduce all
US. nitrogen and sulfur dioxide
emissions 50 percent by 2001.

According to the UMW, “
(about) 30,000 high-sulfur coal
mining jobs would be lost" with-
out aid from the federal government
to share the cost of reducing emis—
sions.

“(The proposals) will affect the
development of high sulfur coal in
Kentucky, especially western Ken-
tucky," Bremburg said.

Other lecture topics include pro-
posed dormant minerals legislation,
and the unmined minerals tax.

The registration fee for the Min-
eral Law Seminar is $175 for
members of the Kentucky Bar As-
sociation Natural Resources Law
Section. Registration is $200 for
the general public.

“Substantial mineral law experi-
ence" is suggested for those who
plan to attend the seminar.

San Francisco quake

The center ot the earthquake was reported to be in Santa Cruz, 90 miles south
of San Francisco Santa Cruz ls located west of San Andreas Fault, which

ruptured during the 1906 San FranCIsco quake

Tuesday's quake, which hit at 8:04 pm. EDT, reportedly measured 6 9 on the

Richter scale. The 1906 quake hit 63 on the scale.

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Fifty—six people were treated at a
Watsonville community clinic,
mostly for bruises and frazzled
nerves, city spokeswoman Lorraine
Washington said. About 150 peo-
ple were evacuated from a National
Guard Armory shelter after a natural
gas leak.

Watsonville issued a plea for ad-
ditional doctors and nurses.

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As of early yesterday, more than
1,400 aftershocks had been record-
ed. The strongest, 5.2 on the
Richter scale, struck within 40
minutes of the initial jolt, accord-
ing to the US. Geological Survey.

Across the Bay area, the nation‘s

See RESIDENTS, Back page

Kentucky Kernel

Bay area feels quake

Nation quick to come to the help
of San Francisco—area residents

By LARRY RYCKMAN
Associated Press

Americans touched by scenes of
devastation, of people left homeless
by disaster, sent what they could to
earthquake victims in Northern Cal-
ifornia yesterday just one month af-
ter shipping aid to those in Hurri—
cane Hugo’s wake.

Even Charleston. SC, still reel-
ing from last month‘s pounding by
Hugo. sent a plane load of bottled
water.

Private groups and officials sent
search dogs and special equipment
to hunt for survivors, donated blood
and money and offered their exper-
tise. A Southern California man
donated a $15,000 sports car he
won in a radio contest.

Wyoming remembered the help it
received from Califomia firefighters
in the 1988 fires at Yellowstone
National Park. Gov. Mike Sulliyan
asked emergency officials to help
with structural inspections and
search and rescue.

“While we are few in number and
they are many, their needs are many
and we stand ready to help in any
way," Sullivan said.

The Wyoming Red Cross sent a
mass feeding van to California
from Casper to join other Red

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effort.

Missouri Red Cross otticials said
about a dozen stall members and
volunteers were still on the East
coast helping Victims or Hugo. but
one person is preparing to head to
San Francisco,

“It’s been the double whammy,“
spokeswoman Colleen McQuillan
said. “We’re still trying to raw:
money to pay for Hugo and now
we need money for this."

The international headquarters of
the Church of the Nazerene, located
in Kansas City, told its churches to
pass the plate for earthquake yic-
tims at Wednesday night sen ices.

“We‘re getting calls from all
over, ‘What are we going to do to
help." We tell them to get money
said Steve Weber. coordinator tor
the church's charity sen l;L\

The Japanese Red (from Society
sent $35,000 to its Aineritdn coun-
terpart for earthquake \‘i'c'llmS. In
New York City, a group oi Man-
hattan co-workcrs donated the $50
in a World Scricx hating txrol to
the Red Cross

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Gaines
Center
to offer
new cias

By JOHN COONEV
Staff Writer

The Gaines (‘cntt-r ioi th.‘ H.
manities Wiii ollcr J :t‘cciul \‘t‘llll'
nar next semester iiKihil‘lL‘ on 1h.-
relationship between hiﬂtuios .a: i
their space.

The program wﬂl ":z'v.’ ripper
Classmen an exceptional opportuni-
ty to concentrate on the study .md
research of a subiect tints «‘1 par.
ticular concern ii‘ a t K fatultx
member," said Raymond it RUIN.
director of UK‘s Honors Program.

“The program is an ciiort to look
at how space and place come to—
gether to determine our altitudes
and feelings,“ Betts said. “it will
also show how our culture and \Lli-
ues are imposed on space.

Ten students Wlii be admitted to
the course, “Space and Place: ‘lhe
Creation of Landscape." Students
accepted will receive a 8500 Hu—
manities Scholarship to be used
partially for out-of—class research
purposes.

“The scholarship WI“ enable the
student to move away from the 10-
cal environment and do either field
or archival research," Betts said.

The program also will feature .1
visit from Barry H. Lopez, a prize-
winning author and contributing ed—
itor of Harper's magazine. Lopez
will be at UK April ill-15 as the
distinguished visiting humanist.

Betts said the advisory committee
selected Lopez because members
“thought it would be an excellent
opportunity for the students to deal
with a person who has an extreme
ly lively mind, an engaging person
aiity and who writes extraordinarily
well.“

“One of the underlying themes oi
Lopez's works is ‘thrc am i""
Betts said. “It‘s not just a matter oi
geography, but where we arc in a
sense of belonging to that gco~
graphical configurauon."

See NEW, Back page

‘Midnight Mayhem”
breaks loose tonight.
Story, Page 5.

Trumpeters imbue

different styles.
Story, Page 3.

2 - Kentucky Kernel, Friday, October 20, 1989

Senate rejects ﬂag-buming amendment

Aeeoclated Press

WASHINGTON —— The Senate
defeated a proposed constitutional
amendment yesterday to ban bum-
ing and desecration of the American
ﬂag. dealing a sharp rebuff to Presi-
dent Bush on an issue he had put in
tire spotlight.

Senate Majority Leader George
Mitchell, D-Maine, said as the Sen-
ate defeated the amendment, “We do
not serve our national tradition by
forcing Americans to make a false
and unnecessary choice between the
ﬂag and the Constitution.”

However, Republican leader Bob
Dole said, “I think the flag should
be flown at half-staff after this
vote."

The White House said Bush was
“disappointed" at the Senate’s ac-
tion.

The proposal won a slight major-
ity, 51-48, but that was 15 votes
short of the two-thirds of senators
present and voting that was needed

Colleges report increase in adult

USA TODAY/Apple College
hformatlon Network

The number of adults attending
college is growing fast, according
to The College Board.

Between 1970 and 1985, enroll-
ment of students over age 25 grew
by 114 percent, compared to a
growth of 15 percent for those un-
der 25. By 2000, adults are expected
to outnumber the more traditional-
agc college students.

Fueling the move back to college
are employers requiring more train-
ing for workers. Another factor is
that women, many with families,
who continue to re-enter the work
force.

Colleges are meeting the demand
with programs designed for adults
coping with job and family respon-
sibilities.

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for approval.

Democrats led the opposition,
but the vote was hardly along strict
party lines. Thirty-three Republi-
cans and 18 Democrats voted for
the measure, while 11 Republicans
and 37 Democrats opposed it.

The argument that the issue
could be a potent election weapon
against senators who opposed the
amendment appeared to lose steam
this week.

Mitchell told reponers yesterday
morning before the vote that the
outcome, by then sure, was due to
the “sound judgement of the Ameri-
can people.” Other lawmakers said
most Americans apparently are not
overly interested in the proposed
amendment

Congress gave final passage last
week to a bill to ban flag burning
by simple statute. Bush said he
would allow it to become law with-
out his signature, but added that he
still thought a constitutional
amendment was needed because a

James Hall, president of Empire
State College in Saratoga Springs,
N.Y., whose student body of 6,400
is made up mainly of working peo-
ple ages 25-55, says adult students
need:

-Flexibility of schedule and place
of study. Many colleges make it
possible to take courses at home, at
local schools or community cen-
ters, by audiotape or videotape, or
through public TV.

-A program that meets the stu—
dent’s goals and needs. In many
cases, that means getting credit for
what you know and bypassing in-
troductory courses. “Putting adults
through the same hoops and hurdles
as an 18-year-old just doesn’t make
sense," Hall said.

Marcie K. Thorson of Tulsa was
32 years old and the mother of four
young children when she decided to
pursue an undergraduate degree.

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mere law wouldn’t withstand an ex-
pected new legal challenge.

Bush had called for the constitu-
tional amendment in June after the
Supreme Court threw out the con-
viction of Texas ﬂag burner Grego-
ry Lee Johnson on grounds that a
Texas ﬂag-buming law violated his
constitutional right of freedom of
speech.

Arguing broke out between the
parties even after the vote as Demo-
crats charged that Bush and GOP
National Chairman Lee Atwater had
pushed the amendment to put pres-
sure on them. “He has used his
high office for a low purpose,”
Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass.,
said of Bush.

But Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa.,
noted that 18 Democrats had sup-
ported the measure. I do not think
this is a partisan matter that is be—
ing engineered for crass political
purposes.”

The measure would have author-
ized state and federal governments

Now, at 55, she holds a master’s
degree in education and is heading
for a doctorate. She did it all
through “external degree programs”
—— individualized study programs
she worked on at home, on her own
time.

“Everything depends on how
much you want it, whether you’re
going to stay the course,” she said.
“It's not the option for everybody.
It‘s not for people who aren’t com-
mitted, for people who aren’t set in
their mind career‘wise. It is the op-
tion for people who want the de-
gree, and badly."

Except for the most exclusive
colleges and universities, few
schools require SATs or Graduate
Record Examinations from adults,
Hall said. Often an unremarkable
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to ban flag burning. Critics said
the danger to the ﬂag was not as
great as the Bill of Rights.

“For 200 years, they have pro-
tected the liberties of Americans
through economic turmoil, civil
war, political strife, social uphea-
val and international tension,”
Mitchell said.

“Despite the worst that fate has
hurled at us. we have never found it
necessary to abandon the fundamen-
tal principles on which our govem-
ment was founded and by which
our liberties are secured," he said.

In a ﬁnal appeal on behalf of the
measure, Dole took the Senate
floor to invoke the history of the
flag.
“To say that the act of ﬂag bum-
ing is somehow deeply enshrined
in the First Amendment is prepos-
terous,” Dole said. He said it was
wrong in view of laws that “make
it illegal to rip the warning label
off your own mattress in some
states."

students

“Something a person did five,
10, 20 years ago has very little pre-
dictive value as to how they’ll per-
form in grad school,” he said.

“Asking an adult to take SATs
doesn’t show much. Most schools
give people the opportunity, put-
ting the emphasis on how they per--
form.”

Financial aid, grants and loans
are available to adults, although at
many universities, scholarships are
harder for adult students to get.
Some employers offer a tuition-
reirnbursement program.

“Adults have so many pressures
on them, beginning with a lack of
confidence,” Hall said. “Many
adults don’t believe they learn well
anymore, but that’s never been
true. We find once a student is mo-
tivated, it’s amazing what they can
do.”

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Kentucky Kernel, Friday, October 20, 1989 - 3

Kb Bowma'
Ans Editor

Ferguson, Severinsen march to beat of different drummers

'Ferguson
mixes jazz,
Indian music

By KIP BOWMAN
Ans Editor

The line between jazz and Indian
music would seem to be difﬁcult to
cross, but trumpeter Maynard Fer-
guson has sought to cross and
merge all fortns of music through a
musical career spanning almost 50
years.

Ferguson’s constant itinerary of
tour dates brought him to Memori-
al Hall Wednesday night for the
first performance in UK's Spot-
light Jazz Series, and he was enthu-
siastically received by about 350
people.

“There are two kinds of artists,”
Ferguson said after the show.
“There is the one who stays in the
same kind of music and does the
same thing, and the other enjoys
trying new and different things. But
both kinds of musicians are neces—

Ferguson began his formal train-
ing at the age of 9 in the French
Conservatory in Montreal. After
debuting in the United States in the
early 19503, Ferguson played with
two of the more famous big bands
of the era — the Charlie Barnett
Band (where he worked with Doc
Severinsen) and the Stan Kenton
Band.

It was with Stan Kenton that
Ferguson’s trumpet blasts drew the
attention of the jazz world.

Ferguson said he always has had

Ferguson

By JOE FIGUULO
and JOHN TURNER
Contributing Critics

UK’s Spotlight Jazz series
opened Wednesday night as a small
but appreciative crowd of about
350 people turned out at Memorial
Hall to hear Maynard Ferguson and
his eight-piece band, Big Bop Nou-
veau.

The program promised Ferguson
would return to his big band roots,
and in the first half he did just that.

After a short blues intro, the
band kicked the evening off with a
tribute to Dizzy Gillespie and per-
formed a slick arrangement of his

Maynard Ferguson kicked off the 12th annual Spotlight Jazz Series Wednesday Night in Memorial Hall

a great deal of respect for the band
leaders of the past.

“There’s a certain genius great
band leaders have,” Ferguson said.
“In sports the mark of a great man-
ager is someone who puts together
great talent on the field. Now if
you take that and transfer it to mu-
sic that’s what a band leader does.
Great band leaders can put talent to-
gether and make it work.

“While Benny Goodman was a
great clarinetist, he was truly a
great band leader. If you dispose of
their individual talent, the Stan
Kenton’s stand out because of their
ability as band leaders."

During the big band era Fergu-

son started his own band, Birdland
Dreamband, which enjoyed a fair
amount of success. During that
time Ferguson also was experi-
menting with fusing jazz and clas
sical music.

“That’s an absolutely forbidden
question," Maynard said when asked
his favorite kind of music. “1 cer-
tainly have no preference in my
music. And it is because you can’t
always perform as a soloist, maybe
a pianist can. But a trumpet player
has eventually got to play with a
band and you have to play other
kinds of music.”

Playing different music during

son‘s trademark. His music expan-
sion carried him to India in 1968
where he began to fuse jazz and
Eastern music.

“My reasons for going to India
were twofold," Ferguson said. “It
was a spiritual and musical recog-
nition with something this country
isn‘t very familiar with or doesn‘t
know very much about. But I en-
joy both the musical and spiritual
aspects."

When Ferguson goes to India he
lives on the Ashram of Sai Baba in
South India, where he pursues a
feeling of what he calls “inner ful—
fillment."

the last 20 years has become Fergu-

gives electric performance

“Night in Tunisia.”

The band followed with Duke
Ellington's “In A Mellow Tone"
and “The Fox Hunt,” a Maynard
classic.

In the first three arrangements,
Ferguson avoided his famous high
notes, playing burning jazz pas-
sages that recalled his style of the
early ‘505.

It was refreshing to hear Fergu-
son swing again after decades of
funk covers of tunes like “Star
Trek" and other beloved Hollywood
themes.

Ferguson ended the first set with
a tribute to a Mexican town, a pop
arrangement which signaled the end

of his return to big band jazz.

The second halfof the show con-
sisted of more well-known tunes,
including arrangements of “Ma-
cArthur Park," “Maria," and the
theme from “Rocky."

The high notes for which he’s so
famous, and which are the main at-
tractions of these arrangements,
didn’t seem to be speaking for
Maynard Wednesday night.

In the ’305 and ‘40s the road
band was a way of life, and May-
nard reminded the audience that he
was a bandmate of Doc Severinson
in the Charlie Barnett band of
1949.

It’s a tribute to Ferguson that he

is one of the few bandleaders left
who provides this kind of night af-
ter night experience to young mu-
sicians.

The members of the band were
excellent, especially standouts
Walter White, trumpet. and Antho-
ny Cherabino. drums.

For jazz fans it was a refreshing
evening, one which proved that
Maynard hasn’t lost the talent and
vitality of his early years.

At moments in the first half, as
he soared above the hand during
standards like “Night in Tunisia”
and “In a Mellow Tone," one
would have thought it was 1949
on again.

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Severinsen masters both
commercial, classical jazz

By KlP BOWMAR
Arts Editor

While most may associate Doc
Severinsen with loud jackets,
screaming ties, and the Tonight
Show Band, his own fame goes far
beyond that.

Although it is with the “To-
night Show" that Severinsen has
become a household name, his
musical career outside the show is
expansive and impressive.

”Doc Severinsen is a perfect ex—
ample of what someone can ac-
complish who has talent and pur-
sues it to the nth degree,” said
Vince DiMartino, the former direc—
tor of the UK Jazz Ensemble. “He
embodies what a university should
be all about because he is always
learning and always trying to im-
prove."

b‘orn Carl Severinsen on July 7,
1927, in Oregon, Severinsen said
he always knew he was going to a
musician,

“I never really thought about be»
ing anything else,” Severinsen said
in an interview before the College
of Fine Arts Benefit on Tuesday.
“Well, I guess when I was real
little kid I wanted to be a jockey,
but outside of that I knew I wanted
to be a musician.”

Severinsen's father was a dentist
and wanted him to become one -
hence the nickname Little Doc,
which was shortened to Doc. But
his father, a violinist, wanted him
to take musical lessons.

His rise in the jazz and big band
world was a quick one. “1 got les»
sons from my father." Severinsin
said. “One thing led to another. I
never thought of becoming a pro-
fessional. I guess ljust was.

“I began to play with Tommy
Dorsey band in the late 1940s and
also worked with Benny Goodman
and Charlie Barnett. Then I was
hired as a sideman in the NBC Or-
chestra”

From there Severinsen went on
to join the Tonight Show Band in
1962 and became band leader in
1967.

Explaining how got the position
Severinsen said, “Well I had a few
Polaroids of Johnny (Carson‘i out—
side a motel in Tijuana, then he
offered me the job."

Constant improvement is some-
thing Severinsen said he seeks in
his work.

“Heck, I don‘t even like what I
did yesterday," he said. “I always
try to improve my work. I'm not
interested in looking back and say-
ing, ‘Wow I played really well the
other night.’ That kind of thinking
is a death trap"

But Severinsen has never rested
on his musical laurels.

Since 1983 he has been the guest
conductor-in-residence to the Phoe-
n ix Pops Orchestra and has recorded
a classical album with the Cincin-
nati Pops Orchestra, where he
worked with DiMartino.

Severinsen also has worked heav-
ily in the jazz fusion field.

His current band, Facets, former-
ly Xebron, took its name from the
album of the same title. “It's usual—
ly the other way around,” Severin—
sen said.

Severinsen said his band has had
an inﬂuence on his style.

“I've been influenced by every-
body," he said. “My first music
teacher, my father, both influenced
me, and I’m influenced by the guys
in the band."

Severinsen has built much of his
reputation on being as much a
showman as a musician. For his
lirst appearance on stage Tuesday
he appeared in a relatively tame
tuxedo, the only difference in style
being the sequined tuxedo jacket.

But when