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GPAC backs Rogers for SGA president

By Lance Williams
News Editor

Student Government Association
vice presidential candidate Mark
Engstrom walked out of Memorial
Hall last night thrusting his arms
into the air and yelling “Yes, Yes!"

That reaction summed up the
boost the Tracy Rogers-Mark Eng-
strom campaign received after the
Greek Political Action Committee
endorsed the pair by majority vote
and moved them one step closer to
SGA‘s top two positions.

The endorsement came as a result

of a run-off vote.
3, The fust vote end-
edwithoutanycan-
didate receiving a
majority of the
votes.

“Rogers deﬁnite-
Iy received the en-

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dorsement, but

there was a need

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tween (Misty) Weaver and Rogers."
said John Lynch. vice president for
Chapter Services for the Interfrater-
nity Council, one of the co-sponsors
of the event.

Rogers, a former president of
Kappa Alpha Theta social sorority.
said the endorsement was
a “huge boost" for her
campaign.

“I think it shows the rest
of campus tint there are a
strong leaders in the greek
community, but there is
more to the person that
just lcadership." Rogers
said. “I want to serve."

Since GPAC‘s inception
six years ago, every candi-
date who has received the
group‘s endorsement has won the

ROGERS

SGA election. GPAC never has en-
dorsed a non-greek candidate.
Roger‘s campaign plat-
form was clearly outlined
last night during the annu-
' ‘ al GPAC debate.
' i The platform stressed
three goals. First, Rogers
said they want tuition rates
to be set more than one
year in advance, so incom-
ing freshmen can know
how much they can expect
to pay during their four
years in college.
Next, the ticket wants advising to

be improved throughout the Uni-
versity system. Rogers and Eng-
strom also want to see a three-day
fall break added to the Thanksgiv-
ing holiday.

Weaver, who doesn't belong to a
greek organization but has member
of the SGA Senate for the past four
years. stressed to the audience the
importance of her experience in
student government.

“The past four years, I've been
preparing for this," she said.

“I've been through four presi-
dents and four budgets. I know
what works and what doesn't."

The importance that greek organ-
izations play on campus was a fac—
tor in the debate during the audi-
ence participation segment.

One of the GPAC delegates
asked what the candidates could do
for campus greeks instead of focus-
ing on the “little people."

Rogers responded by stressing
the importance of her being a greek
candidate for SGA president

“You need a greek in ofﬁce, if
you‘re concerns are going to be
heard," she said.

Weaver said she was offended by

See GPAC, Back Page

BABY TALK

Adam Clark, a family development senior, hugs John Wil-
liam Duiehe, 1, near Memorial Hall yesterday. Clark was
working In the Early Childhood Lab program.

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Warrington’s
promise resides
in his passion

By Stephen B. Trimble
Assistant News Editor

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By Perry Brothers
Staff Writer

The cost of a UK education
may be on the rise again.

Tonight, the Student Govem-
ment Association Senate will
vote on whether to support a pro-
posed health fee increase of
$6.75 per student.

The pending resolution will ac-
company SGA president Lance
Dowdy to the next Board of
Trustees meeting May 3 for the
ﬁnal vote on the health fee.

Since the last increase in 1992.
full-time UK students have paid
$159 in “activity fees" each se-
mester. The threat of another
jump in the dollar amount of this
mandatory fee has many on carn-
pus wondering exactly where
their money is going.

According to information ob-
tained through the Student Bill-
ing Service, student fee money is
appropriated to eight separate ac-
counts. Three of those accounts
comprise the highest percentage
of student fees.

The Student Health Service
currently receives the largest por-
tion of the fee collective. $76.25
per full-time student. UK Infor-
mation Services receives $40 per
student for a “technology" fee,
and the Student Center account
receives $22 for each student.

The remainder each student’s
fee goes into accounts for
WRFL-FM ($1.75), SGA
($3.25), the Student Activities
Board (33), athletic events
($12.25) and the Student Organi-
zations Assembly (50 cents).

SGA president Dowdy said
categorizing all of these emolu-
ments under the heading “activity
fees" is a fallacious action.

“For principle's sake. let‘s call
a spade a spade,“ he said.

“Health care and technologies are
noat activities; they are services.“

Dowdy, who initially opposed the
health fee increase, but now thinks
“it would be a huge loss to stu-
dents" if it were voted down, said
he has spent the past year scrutiniz-
ing the allocation of student fees.

As a result of his research, he
said he plans to recommended elim-
inating the 50 cent Student Organi-
zation fee.

Dowdy said he suppons the tech-
nology fee “as of right now" be-
cause its beneﬁts are apparent on
campus. The money has primarily
been used to expand computing fa-
cilities for students.

Gene Williams, director of Infor-
mation Services, agreed with Dow-
dy, saying: “l would hate to think
that we were graduating students
without exposure to technology.“

Williams oversees the account
that receives $40 in technology fees
from each student. Although he
suggested that a portion of the ac-
tivities fee be used for instructional
technology. he “didn’t know we
were speciﬁmlly billing (the $40)
as a technical fee."

"This goes back about three
years." he said. “to the ﬁrst budget
cuts. We just started building the in-
structional facility in (Margaret 1.)
King Library. 1. as an advocate of
technology, asked the president,
‘Let's put a student fee in for tech-
nology.‘ "

Williams said he made presenta-
tions across campus to drum up stu-
dent support, and he “really got
strong support from the students.”

The current fee, he said. should
not increase in “the foreseeable fu-
ture."

If the proposed fee hike is imple-
mented. the total amount of student
activity fees will climb to $165.75 a
semester. Budget cuts and lack of
public funding necessitates higher
student fees. Williams said.

Senate to grapple with hike
in student health fee tonight

The Increasingly
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By Alan Ala
Staff Writer

UK‘s student-um radio station,
WRFL-FM, will hold its ﬁrst-ever
live remote from 11:30 am. to 1
pm. today in the Student Center
Food Court

The remote, which is sponsored
in conjunction with Polygram

Records, Disc Jockey Super Store.
Substantial Sound and AIDS Vol-
unteers of Lexington, is being held
to raise awareness of the AIDS epi-
demic.

“It’s an appropriate way to pro-
mote the station," said Rick Jamie.
program director at WRFL (88.1).
“We play music tint people know,
and we‘re not as underground as

show on location

people think we are. We're just stu-
dents like everyone else and enjoy
music."

The station will be playing clas-
sic, popular and alternative college
rock during the live remote. It also
will giving away cassettes of “No
Alternative," a compilation album
that includes songs by Soul Asy-
lum. The Breeders, Smashing

AIDS survivors living longer

By Brenda c. Coleman

Associated Frau

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Soundgarden.

In addition to helping raise
awareness, the remote could start a
new tradition, Jamie said.

"We’ve talked to some ofﬁcials
and hope to start a live remote reg-
ularly in the Student Center." he
said. “If all things go well. maybe
WRFL will be more visible in the
students‘ future."

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C raycraft will
steer the ship

By Chris Tlpton
Staff Writer

Political science junior David
Craycraft has been selected to
serve as president of the Student
Activities Board for the 1994-95
school year.

Craycraft served this year as
SAB public relations director
and currently is acting Contem-
porary Affairs director for the
student organization.

In other selections, Jason
Martin was named vice presi-

'current

dent and Vinit Kutty was chosen
for secretary/treasurer.

The choices were made by a se-
lection committee appointed by
SAB President

New leaders picked for SAB

crease student involvement in
campus activities, many of which

SAB plansandsponsors.
“I hope to see participation
from students rise to a

Wes Butler.

In searching for a new
president, Butler said he
wanted the selection com-
mittee to look for someone
with a strong work ethic
who possessed a sincere
interest in the well-being
of students.

“David has proved him-

level ithasnever been be-
fore,“ Craycraft said.

“As board members,
it's our job to create a
pleasant atmosphere and
environment on campus
for the students. The Stu-
dent Activities Board is
funded by the students,
and all of our members

self to be one of the hard- CRAYCRAFI' are students. So all of our

est workers while serving
as our public relations director,‘
Butler said. “He has shown great
ability in creating new campus
ideas for the students."

Craycraft said he hopes to in-

programs are geared to—
wards them."

One of Craycraft‘s projects for
the upcoming year is to initiate the
construction of a new coffee
house in the Student Center. Per-

formances, including poetry
readings. music and comedy,
will be scheduled regularly.

Craycraft also wants to see
continued improvements in the
quality of existing programs.
SAB is in charge of campus
events like Homecoming, the
Spotlight Jazz Series and movies
shown in Worsham Theater.

Craycraft takes over a pro-
gram that already is well estab-
lished. Major SAB events this
year included a campus speech
by the Rev. Jesse Jackson and a
nationally recognized perfor-
mance artist series.

The SAB selection process oc-
curs every April, and the new of-
ﬁcers will assume their positions
May 1.

Forum turns into shouting match

By Jackie Flegle
Staff Writer

A UK symposium on “The Fu-
ture of the City“ turned into a
shouting match last night less than
half way through the program.

The disruption began when a
member of the Pence Hall audi-
ence proposed allowing audience
involvement, but then quickly
erupted into a protest over the re-
cent razing of Lexington‘s Ben
Snyder block.

One audience member spoke up.

saying he thought the historic
block was the downtown area‘s
last hope for revival. He said Lex—
ingtonians' lack of love for their
city is the main reason for the de-
terioration of this block and the
rest of downtown.

Symposium panel member and
Lexington architect Sarah Tate re-
sponded by saying it would have
been prohibitively expensive to
renovate the dilapidated structures.

“The realities are money,“ she
said, noting that it would have cost
$2 million to rehabilitate the

block.

The conversation then turned
into a tense debate between audi-
ence members, some of whom he-
gan shouting, and panelists about
downtown revival. At one point,
UK geography professor Rick
Schein offered to give up his seat
on the panel.

Several unsuccessful efforts
were made to redirect the sympo-
sium to its original course. The
panel, which consisted of eight
members. had taken about an hour
to answer only two of the planned

six questions from the student
moderators when the initial inter-
ruption occurred.

The initial intent of the sympo-
sium was to promote dialogue
about the city now and in the fu-
ture.

Other panel members were Lex-
ington Vice Mayor Theresa Isaac,
city councilman Robert Jefferson.
UK architecture professors Dick
Levine and Pieter Versteegh, writ-
er Chetan Talwalkar and UK po-
litical science professor Ernest
Yanarella

Critics remember different Alamo

By Kelley Shannon
Associated Press

SAN ANTONIO —— They’re
ﬁghting at the Alamo again. This
time, it‘s the legend that's under
siege.

On one side are the traditional-
ists who see the Alamo as an unde-
niable symbol of Texas pride and
independence. On the other are the
revisionists who see it as just a big
lie perpetuated by a “redneck cul-
ture.“

Reputations of longtime heroes
like Davy Crockett and Jim Bow-
ie, killed more than a century ago
defending the fort. are now under
attack.

Some of the allegations seem

downright blasphemous: Bowie
took part in an
elaborate slave-running scam.

Crockett was a washed-up politi-
cian who didn‘t even wear a coon-
skin cap.What in Sam Houston is
going on here?

“I think there's just kind of a

general re-evaluation of the Alamo
that is occurring, not just among
Mexican-Americans but among
other people." said Avelardo Val-
dez, a sociologist at the University
of Texas at San Antonio.

For more than a century, the tale
of the Alamo was the same: In
1836, fewer than 200 Texans ﬁght-
ing for independence defended a
fortress against more than 4,000
Mexicans.

The Mexicans won; all the Tex-
ans were killed.

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Fun Run/Walk for McConnell Springs

a natural spring 8 wetlands with rare species where Lexington was founded
Saturday, April 23 at Administration Building

pril 19: $7 students $10 adults
Later re 'strahon: $10 students $15 adults
Fun Run/ Walk fol owed by Earth Day Celebration at Stoll Field
Bands, Education Booths, Film-Fest, Activities, Performances

Sunday, April 24, 1:30 p.m. at McConnell Springs

A UK
Earth Day Event