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By Tyrone Beacon
News Editor

 

Relieving UK‘s parking crunch
will be about as easy as finding an
empty space on campus at midday
— at least those are the feelings
some people who attended parking
fontms yesterday expressed.

“This is just not very encouraging
at all," said psychology department
staffer Susan Campell.

She was one of about 40 faculty,
staff. administrators and students
present at the second of two forums
on parking held at the Nursing
Building and Worsham Theater.

“It looks like all we're going to
do is put band-aids — little bitty

Some may
to flee fire,

band-aids— on the parking situa-
tion for who knows how many
years."

Hers was one of many voices air-
ing discontent over the apparent
shortage of on-campus parking and
unfairness in parking tag distribu-
tion.

However, those frustrated voices
fell on covered ears as UK officials
repeatedly told the crowd that very
little can be done soon to expand
parking availability near central
campus.

Campell suggested building an-
other parking structure within two
or three blocks of Central Campus,
provided that the University could
acquire the resources to do so.

But Vice President for University

have tried
FBI says

 

By Kelley Shannon
Associated Press

 

WACO. Texas — Some dooms-
day cultists may have been shot try-
ing to flee “Ranch Apocalypse" be-
fore others started the inferno that
left scores dead. investigators
searching the still-smoldering ruins
said yesterday.

Whatever happened in the final
hours at the Branch Davidian com-
pound Monday. federal agents ——
under intense scrutiny for starting a
tank-and-tear-gas assault that appar-
ently precipitated the fire — said re-
sponsibility for the carnage rests
solely with the group‘s leader, Da—
vid Koresh.

President Clinton echoed that
sentiment. “He killed those he con-
trolled.“ Clinton said at the White
House.

Koresh and 85 others. including
17 children under age 10, were be-
lieved to have died in the fire that
ended the cult‘s 51-day standoff
with federal agents; there were nine
survivors. four of whom remained
hOSpitalized yesterday.

Investigators began pulling bod-
ies out of the rubble but were
slowed because “ammunition was
still cooking and exploding" in the
wreckage. said FBI agent Jeff Ja-
mar. Officials said it could take two
weeks to gather all the evidence.

Among developments yesterday:

0The Clinton adminstration‘s
handling of the case was sharply
questioned by victims’ relatives and
attorneys. politicians and observers
worldwide.

Clinton defended Attorney Gen-
eral Janet Reno, who approved the
FBI effort to use a tank to krtock
holes in the compound walls and
tear-gas the cult members out, but
said. “I signed off on this."

Clinton ordered federal agencies
to investigate events that led to the
fiery end of the standoff. Two con-
gressional investigations also were
announced.

-Five cult members who survived
the blaze appeared in federal court.
wearing orange jail suits and shack-
led by the ankles. One of them. Re-
mos Avrram, told reporters that an
FBI tank spraying tear gas into the
compound had knocked over a lan-
tern and started the fire. and that the
cult had “no plan for suicide.“

The FBI said its snipers saw cult-

See WACO, Back Page

Clinton orders
investigation
on cult siege

 

By Ron Fournier
Associated Press

 

WASHINGTON —- Presi-
dent Clinton yesterday ordered
an investigation of the assault
on David Koresh‘s compound
but said there was no need for
his attorney general or anyone
else to resign “because some
religious fanatics murdered
themselves."

Clinton said that he had ap-
proved plans to pump tear gas
into the Texas compound and
would accept full responsibili-
ty. But he also said that Ko-
resh “killed those he con-
trolled, and he bears ultimate
responsibility for the carnage
that ensued."

He called the cult leader
“dangerous, irrational and
probably insane."

At a news conference in the
Rose Garden 24 hours after
the hellish end to the 51-day
siege. Clinton ordered the Jus-
tice Department and the Treas-
ury Department to investigate
“whether anything could have
been done differently“ to
avoid the fiery end of the
siege.

The House Judiciary Com-
mittee already plans to begin
hearings on the matter next
week. and other investigations
are likely. Rep. Jim Traficant,
D-Ohio, said there is plenty
for Congress to look at.

“When you have 100 TV
crews but not one fire truck.
that‘s not a well thought out
plan, that's box office." he
said. Fire trucks arrived at the
scene well after fire ripped
through the compound.

Clinton firmly backed the
actions of federal agencies in
Waco. Texas, saying the FBI
“made every reasonable effort
to bring the perilous situation
to an end without bloodshed
and further loss of life."

 

 

Relations Joe Burch said the funds
are not. and will not be, available
from the state level.

“The state has been unwilling to
fund any parking structure at any
university in the state forever."
he said.

“We would have to build it
through the funds collected through
the University system.”

That is not likely either, he said.
The University has a long list of
needs. such as new buildings, reno-
vations and hiring more faculty, and
“parking is just not high on that
list."

Burch said in order to fund major
parking projects, the University
would have to tighten the budget
belt some place else.

“It it about priorities." he said.

One of those in attendance jok-
ingly said if parking were to be des-
ignated as a sport, like hunting. it
might become a higher priority.

Barbara Chance. the Philadelphia
consultant hired to analyze the
parking problem, said the Universi-
ty must decentralize parking “to
avoid a gridlock around campus."

She said adding more parking
near central campus would worsen
an already troublesome traffic prob-
lem on the main thoroughfares sur-
rounding UK.

With this prospect in mind, she
explained that a better alternative
would be to create parking space
away from campus and expand
UK’s shuttle services.

Parking woes difficult to fix, forum part1c1pants say

The idea of parking away from
central campus was not greeted
kindly, particularly by electrical
engineering instructor Clayton Paul
who complained that such an ar-
rangement is inconvenient.

“What is parking if it‘s not con-
venient." he told Chance. “1 don‘t
consider parking. like by the stadi-
um, convenient. You might as well
take the bus or a motor scooter."

Clayton later said be doubted
that the forums would make a dif-
ference or that administrators
would confront the parking situa-
tion head-on . “This is a silly exer-
cise." he said. “Nothing's going to
change."

Sam Graper. a landscape archi-
tecture junior and one of about four

 

 

tor assistance office.

 

By Billie S. Pennington
Contributing Writer

 

When you dial zero on a cam-
pus telephone, you might get any
one of a team of 21 telephone op-
erators, including 10 college stu—
dents who provide a variety of
communications services to the
more than 1.5 million callers
each year.

From off-campus, the number
is 257-9000 or 233-5000. but the
operators are the same. A11
14,000 UK telephone lines con-
verge at the Rose Street parking
structure. Operators are available
24 hours a day.

Lillias Bursey. a pie-nursing
student at Lexington Community
College, whose been a pan-time
operator for more than two years.

“My job has helped me in
communicating with people,"
Bursey said. “It takes patience to
conununicate with many differ-
ent callers."

When a call comes in on the
UK or Albert B. Chandler Medi-
cal Center switchboard. a low-
pitched bell sounds, a tiny red
light flashes and the operator

 

pushes a button to answer.

“The most frequent calls we get
are for student phone numbers or
patient information. but we do get
some very unusual calls." Bursey
said.

A call recently came in to the
medical center from Germany.
The caller could speak no Eng-
lish. The operator could speak no
German. Bursey, who is fluent in
English. Spanish and German,
was called at home to act as trans-
lator. A three-way conference call
was established.

Bursey was able to have the call
connected to the caller's relative
who was in UK Hospital.

Bursey has used her skills as a
translator on numerous occasions
—- all on a volunteer basis — in-
cluding medical center emergen-
cies.

Sheri Darnell, 20, said being a
student has helped her in her job
as an operator. She said she un-
derstands from a student's per-
spective how UK is structured
and how the administration works
because she also works part-time
in the office of Chancellor for the
Lexington Campus Robert He-
menway, she said.

asked are
though.
that a man called from Louisville.
Ky., one night and asked how
many rattlers a rattlesnake had.
He said her answer would decide
a wager with friends.

 

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Lexington Community College student Lillias Bursey answers a call to the University opera-

Telephone operators help connect
campus to Lexington, rest of world

Darnell said she wanted the job

as telephone operator because it
was somewhat related to her ma-
jor in telecommunications.

Her most unusual call was from

a caller who claimed to have a
multiple personality. “We all had
an interesting conversation." Dar-
nell said.

The kinds of questions they get
more far-ranging
said Darnell. She said

Darnell did not knOw the an-

swer, but she did try to help him
out.
of biological science and the biol-
ogy library were closed. so she
connected him to the reference
desk at Margaret 1. King Library.
He called later to thank her be-
cause he got the answer.

At 11 pm. the department

Questions might be something

as simple as when classes start in
the fall to something as compli-
cated as how to get rid of head
lice.

“Our main mission is to help
See PHONE. Back Page

 

 

 

Trial of former House Speaker Blandford begins

 

By Charles Wolfe
Associated Press

 

FRANKFORT, Ky. — A prose-
cutor described “a public official in-
volved in corruption" as the trial of
former House Speaker Don Bland-
ford began yesterday.

The government will attempt to
prove that Blandford. who once
wielded enormous power in the
Capitol. “used his office to conduct
a pattern of criminal activity.” As-
sistant US. Attorney Stephen Pence
told a jury.

Blandford is charged with racke-
teering. extortion, conspiracy to
commit extortion and lying to FBI
agents. He allegedly took three pey-
offs from a racing-industry lobbyist
— one captured on FBI videotape

—— and misused money from his
campaign treasury.

Blandford was the most promi-
nent of 11 defendants thus far in a
federal corruption investigation
code-named Boptrot Nine pleaded
guilty, at least four of whom were
identified yesterday as trial witness-
es.

Blandford declined to seek a fifth
term as speaker following his in-
dictrnertt in November, but he re-
mine a state repreeentative from
Daviess County.

Jury selection and Penee‘s over-
view of the prosecution case cort-
sumed the first day of trial. Testi-
mony was scheduled to begin
today. Blatdford s attorneys said
their opening statement would
come later.

"This case involves a public offi~

 

cial involved in corruption. and that
public official is Don Blandford."
Pence told the jury.

Jurors would “learn a little bit
about how laws are passed. Un-
fortunately. you are going to see a
bad side about how a law can be ef-
fected and how corruption can
move in,” Pence said.

With the FBI videotape, secretly
recorded in an inforrnant‘s hotel
suite. “you are going to see a legis-
lator taking a payoff." Pence said.

It was the third of three 3500 pay-
ments passed by racing lobbyist
William McBee. a former legislator
and Blendford‘s longtime friend.
Pence said When McBee told
Blutdfcrd the money was from har-
ness-racing interests. Blmdford re-
plied. “Bless your heat," Pence
said.

One of Blandford‘s attorneys.
Morton Holbrook of Owensboro.
conceded during jury selection that
Blandford received money from
McBee. He indicated Blandford
would contend he promised nothing
in return.

But Pence said the alleged pay-
ment was part of a scheme by
McBee and fellow lobbyist Jay
Spurrier to prevent legislation that
would bar harness tracks from con-
ducting wagering on televised thor-
oughbred races.

Pence said Spurrier told federal
officials that three key legislators
had agreed to tire matey — Bland-
ford. who was the most powerful
member of the House; state Rep.
Jerry Bronger. Who was chairman
of a House commune that tnndled

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students who attended the second
forum, said those who spoke out
yesterday had good intention but
were not considering the interests
of the entire University.

“A lot of these people were say-
ing. ‘1 want this for me‘ Every-
one needs to back up and look at
the whole — where are people com-
ing from. where are they going and
what are their needs?

“Something like this will get
much more done than ‘I want
this.”

Graper said he will discuss carn—
pus parking with administrators and
with Student Government Associa-
tion in an effort to raise their aware-

See PARKING, Back Page

Secretary
says debt
of state not
out of hand

By Mark C. Chellgren
Associated Press

 

 

FRANKFORT. Ky. — In the last
three years. Kentucky has been like
a Shopaholic run amok. tripling its
debt and seemingly wearing out the
numbers on its credit cards.

Or has it?

Finance Secretary Pat Mulloy
says that the state has made pru-
dent. responsible use of its debt to
finance worthy projects that would
otherwise have been impossible be-
cause of lagging state revenues.

Somewhere in between is the an-
swer to the persistent question of
how much debt is too much for the
state. and legislators are taking an
ever more critical eye toward bor-
rowing more money. This comes
just a few years after the General
Assembly itself was responsible for
the biggest orgy of mortgaging in
the state's history.

One New York bond rating firm
has moved to place Kentucky on a
watch list of sorts. warning that if
the state's financial picture did not
improve. the ratings for its bonds
could fall. In practice. that would
mean it would be more difficult and
more expensive for Kentucky to
sell bonds iii the future.

Mulloy told the legislature‘s (‘ap-
ital Projects and Bond Oversight
Committee Monday that the ratings
agencies are not really worried
about Kentucky.

“They were unanimous in their
determination that we were not out
of line overall." Mulloy said.

But by almost any measure. Ken-
tucky has substantial debt.

Moody‘s Investor’s Services esti-
mates that the state's debt works
out to $796 for every person in the
state. the 10th highest in the nation.
The median per capita debt for oth-
er states is $391.

Moody‘s also estimates that Ken-
tucky‘s state debt makes up 5.1 per-
cent of state personal income.
eighth highest in the nation. The
median is 2.2 percent.

Finally. the Legislative Research
Commission compiled estimates of
perhaps the most telling statistics.
annual debt service payments as a
percentage of state revenue.

 

 

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Claypool, lineup changes
keep Primus’ Pork Soda fresh

Primus
Pork Soda

Interscope Records

 

By Will Burchard
Contributing Critic

 

Rush. U2. Public linemy. An-
thrax. What do these bands all have
in common? Almost nothing Ex-
cept they have all toured with Pri-
mus. So what is l’rirnus" Well. Pri-
mus is a three-piece band from San
Francisco that ltas a new album out
on lnterscope records called Pork
Soda. And while Pork Soda may
not be as good as the group‘s three
previous albums. it is still a strong
release with music from metal to
bluegrass to blatant noise.

Started almost 10 years ago by
Les Claypool and guitarist Todd
Huth as Primate, l’rirnus has under-
gone five drummer changes. one
guitarist change, one name change
and four album releases The cur-
rent line-up consists of vocalist!
bassist Claypool. guitarist Larry La-

 

 

Ionde. and drummer 'l’irn Alexan-
der. Its first effort was l‘i‘Il‘s Suck
On This. a live show recorded days
after guitarist Lalonde joined the
band. “Tommy the Cat“ received
much airplay on college stations.
and Primus was on its way In 1090
the band released its first studio al‘
bum. F rt'zzle Fry. which was named
one of Spin ‘5 albums of the year.
And the first video, “John the l-‘ish~
erman," snagged a respectable bit
of MTV airplay. By the end of the
year, the band had a rigorous tour-
ing agenda that won it fans nation-
wide.

In 1991 Primus signed to Inter—
scope and released the break-
through Sailing the Seas of Cheese .
The song “Jeny Was a Racecar
Driver” received maximum radio
airplay. Its video, along with the
video for the studio version of

"Tommy the (‘at" were played on
MTV. It soon became Primus‘ first
gold record. At the beginning of the
year the band headlined its own
tour and then hooked up with An-
thrax and Public Enemy for the rest
of the year.

Primus kicked off 1992 touring
with Rush. which was a dream
come true. All three members of
Primus had grown up listening to
Rush and to tour with that band was
ecstasy. An El) of covers was re-
leased entitled Miscellaneous De-
bris . and later in the year. Primus
toured with U2 on its Zoo TV tour.
It was at this point in the year that
Claypool was named “best bass
player of the year" by Bass Player
magazine.

So now it‘s 1003 and Primus has
released Pork Soda. The album was
recorded live in the warehouse that
Primus practices in. The firsbsingle,
”My Name is Mud,“ has already
been airing on MTV. While the
songwriting quality on Pork Soda
may not be a strong as on Primus’
earlier efforts. the actual playing is
stronger than ever. Claypool's six-

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Tim Alexander, Larry Lalonde and Led Claypool make up the trio Primus, which has just re-
leased a new recording, Pork Soda.

string bass work sound more confi-
dent titan ever, but he feels like
Pork Soda takes the emphasis off
of his playing.

Of the 15 tracks on the album.
four songs in particular shined
above the rest. “Mr. Krinkle" is a
good example of Claypool's versa-
tile playing, and on this song he

kicks out a bold fuzzy bass sound.
“DMV” reminds me of the live
energy captured on Suck ()n This.
“The Air is Getting Slippery"
again showcases Claypool's
sweet playing, this time accompa-
nied by Lalonde on six-string ban-
jo. But the track that stands out
the most is “The Ol‘ Diamond

Back Sturgeon." In words alone I
cannot attempt to describe this
song.

All things said and done, I don't
feel that Pork Soda is as strong as
some of Primus' other releases but
is still a good representation of its
music.

Silent, white gravestones of family cemetery speak of lost history

In the name of God. Amen. on the
Second day of March. anno Domino
1698. 1. Joseph Todd of Eling in the
County of Southton, being in perfect
memory; thanks be unto God for the
some: and considering the frailty
and uncertainty of this life do make
this my last will and testament in
the formfollowirtg (that is to say).

Firsr of all, I resign my soul into
the hands and protection of Al~
mighty God my maker and everlast-
ing preserver. and my body I cont-
mit to the earth from whence it was
taken: and for my worldly goods
which God in mercy hath lent and
bestowed unto me I do give and be-
queath as followth

— The Will of Joseph Todd Sr.

Philadelphia

March 2. 1698

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As with many other families.
mine is one in which we enjoy ge-
nealogy and discovering where we
came from and how we got here.

This includes researching things
like the will of my great-great-
great-great-great-great—great-
grandfather Joseph Todd (ca. 1645-
1699) quoted above. as well as vis-
iting old homesteads. graveyards
and courthouses in search of more
information — or just to get a feel
for a certain place and time which
had meaning to our ancestors.

Far from claiming any lineage
from saints now dead and gone. or
the seeming thousands who suppos-
edly rode the Mayflower. we just
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through and who they were and
what they thought and did.

(Has it ever struck you as silly
that one segment of our society will
do anything to prove that its ances-
tors rode the Mayflower, while an-
other will do anything to prove that
it isn‘t “just off the boat?")

I think a little knowledge of your
own family‘s history and roots goes
a long way in helping you develop a
good sense of self-esteem and self-
worth — as well as a sense of the
worth of others and of their roots.

Obviously, many Americans —-
including most African Americans
— have been denied this aspect of
discovering who they are. just be—
cause large numbers of idiots in
years gone by didn’t respect them

as human beings and thus did not
even bother to record their births,
marriages and deaths.

Many of these “lesser citizens“
weren‘t even given last names.

It is hard enough to do research
on one’s family anyway. Among
my branch of the Todd clan, no one
seemed to care to document very
much until recently. when my
grandfather and my uncle began to
record information from courthous-
es, newspapers and tombstones.

It seems that several of the grand-
sons of Joseph Todd came to Ken-
tucky in the days of Squire Boone.
and settled in Madison County.

I guess it was fated. then. that I
would come to Kentucky in 1981,
and that my father would follow in
1988. These days, my father is es-
pecially diligent in the upkeep of
several old family cemeteries in
Madison County which were over-
grown and almost lost for years.

One Sunday afternoon last fall, I
joined him in mowing a small fami-
ly cemetery on a hill near the Madi-

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son-Garrard county line. From this
site, we can see the house built by
my great-great-grandfather after the
Civil War, and the foundation of the
house built by my great—
grandfather, where my grandfather
was born and raised.

This tiny burial ground is all that
remains of what was once a whole
neighborhood of T odds. All have ei-
ther died or moved away. and the
last property owned by the family
here was sold in 1984.

The only 'I‘odd buried here is my
grandfather‘s baby brother, stillbom
in 1891. The other graves are those
of members of my great-
grandfather‘s in-laws. the Boat-
wright family.

Several of the graves are still uni-
dentified, due to the weathering of
the stones and the incomplete
records left behind in churches and
in the county courthouse.

Before mowing, my father took
out a weed—eater to clear around
four small, white stones set along
the back of the plot.

“I always clear these out like
this.“ he said, “because these stones
are so small you could run right
over them with the mower.“

“Who is buried here?" I asked,
noting that the stones carry no
markings of any kind.

“Well, nobody is sure," my father
replied. “but our best guess is that
they were either slaves owned by
the Boatwrights or free slaves who
stayed around and worked for the
family after the Civil War."

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nice to these poor people. by bury-
ing them in the family cemetery
with little stones and no names, no
nothing?“ I asked.

“They probably didn‘t even have
their own names," my father said,
“just a first name or a nickname or
whatever they went by."

l was horrified. I guess I had al-
ways wondered if anyone in my
own family's past had been in-
volved in that shameful practice,
but had assumed naively that they
had not.

“Well, what‘s the difference?"
my father said. “Maybe they didn‘t,
but they did have ‘hired hands‘ —
attd whether they were fonner
slaves or ‘white trash.‘ they were
paid next to nothing and kept in
poverty and ignorance so they
would stay around and work the
farm."

I was silent for a long time as we
worked, wondering about what
kind of people would bury some-
one — obviously close to the fami-
ly and not even write down their
names anywhere.

As most Americans, I had always
believed that my ancestors had
built a powerful nation out of the
wilderness. I had also known (in an
abstract way) that much of this was
done at the expense of the native
Americans who were murdered and
driven away and the Africans who
were enslaved and forced to do
much of the hard work — but that
afternoon, as I looked at those four
silent white stones, it all became
real.

“Just think,“ my father said when
we finished clearing the weeds and
grass. “Here we are, with a little bit
of our history. We know who we
are and where we came from. But
somewhere, there probably are
some black Americans whose an-
cestors and history is also right here
— and they'll never know it.“

“I guess it is a sign that things
must have changed. that I just can‘t
imagine that kind of thinking,“ I
said as we left for home.

“Yes," my father said. shaking
his head. “We look back — and
there are some things that we just
can‘t accept."

Staff Writer Phil Todd is a grad-
uate student in the UK School of
Music and is a Kentucky Kernel
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By Dave Lavender
Arts Editor

 

With his hand on the proverbial
record needle, UK men‘s basketball
head coach Rick Pitino announced
that when the music stopped after
the departure of associate coach
Herb Sendek. several people had
taken new chairs.

In somewhat of a graceful wild-
cat waltz, Pitino in a press confer-
ence yesterday morning at Joe B.
Hall Wildcat Lodge gave his bless-
ing to former-UK associate coach
Sendek. who announced Monday
he was taking the head coaching po-
sition at Miami of Ohio.

“He‘s the most organized coach
I’ve ever worked with," Pitino said.
“No one is as organized as Herb
Sendek. No one is as thorough."

The UK head coach then an-

nounced the replacement for the
void caused by the departure of
Sendek, who had beett with Pitino
since I985. longer than any other
Pitino assistant.

“We will move Delray Brooks
itito Billy Donovan‘s position," Piti-
no said. “We will move Billy Dono-
van up to Herb Sendck‘s position."

Donovan, 27. who is on the road
during this last week of recruiting.
will take over Sendek's duties as re—
cruiting coordinator, among the oth-
er responsibilities of associate
coach.

“Billy is much different than
llerb. He also is extremely hard
working." Pitino said. “Both young
men I was fortunate enough that
when they broke into the coaching
career they did it with me. So I had
the luxury of growing with them,
teaching them the system, the pro-
gram attd molding them into what
we wanted in a coaching staff. Billy

 

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even takes it a further — he played
the system."

Knowing the system was one of
the main factors Pitino looked at
when searching for a replacement.
In fact, he did not look outside the
system.

Pan-time UK assistant coach Ber-
nadette Locke-Mattox turned down
the position.

“The tnain reason (that she turned
it down) was that her ultimate goal
is not to be a head coach. Her ulti-
mate goal is to be an athletic direc-
tor." Pitino said. “Being a part-time
coach she does quite a bit of admin-
istrative work. She hopes in the
very near future. not this year but
next year. she will become assistant
athletic director here at Kentucky or
somewhere else.”

After hearing Locke-Mattox's
reasons, Pitino was not surprised.
“She‘s very level-headed. She

knows what she wants. Although
it‘s a significant increase in pay,
that's not important to her. Her
agenda is about becoming an athlet-
ic director. She‘s very focused
about that.“

To take Billy “No more the Kid"
Donovan's place. Pitino moved up
strength and conditioning coach
Delray Brooks, who took over for
Rock Oliver last July. Brooks. 27, a
former Indiana Mr. Basketball.
played with Donovan under Pitino
on the 1987 Providence team that
went to the l’inal I’our.

“Delray has an outgoing personal-
ity. I think he has a great reputation
as a player,“ l’itino said. “He is ex-
tremely articulate. He was very hard
working as a basketball player, ded-
icated. He‘s an extremely bright
young man. It’s going to take some
time. but it took some time with Bil-
ly."

Although in his various programs

Simpson, Wells bring total departed to four

 

By Ty Halpin
Sports Editor

 

The situation surrounding the UK
football team is beginning to look
more like the events that engulfed
cult leader David Koresh in Waco,
Texas. during the weeks prior to
Monday’s fire.

Yesterday. just as cult members
had done earlier. two more football
Wildcats left the IiJ. Nutter 'I'rain-
ing Facility. UK head coach Bill
Curry said.

The departure of defensive ends
Emerson Wells and James Simpson
bring the spring total to four team
members.

Damon Betz left the team citing a

Four Gym Cats
on All-SEC list

Staff reports

 

 

Four UK gymnasts have been
named to the 1993 All-Southeastem
Conference Academic Honor Roll.
A total of 25 student-athletes from
the six schools that field women‘s
teams received the honor.

Juniors Suzanne Gutierrez (art
studio major). (iina Hatterick (ele-
mentary education), Franci Niles
(French) and Michelle Ogden
(physical therapy) were named to
the list.

Ogden and Hatterick were named
to the honor roll for the second
straight year.

Lady Kats sign two

heart condition, and Jeff Cipp left
for personal reasons. Both Wells
and Simpson left the team for the
same reason. C