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Food tor thought

Who knew?

Interesting facts for a
Monday. Who knew
that by reading this
you actually are
getting an aerobic
workout, at least
once a semester or
so?

Laughing is aerobic. It
provides a workout
for the diaphragm
and increases the
body's ability to use
oxygen.

It takes the human eyes
an hour to adapt
completely to seeing
in the dark. Once
adapted. however.
the eyes are about
l00.000 times more
sensitive to light
than they are in
bright sunlight.

A bird's eye takes up
about 50 percent of
its head; our eyes
take up about 5
percent of our head.
To be comparable to
a bird's eyes, our
eyes would have to
be the size of
baseballs.

A four-month-old fetus
will startle and turn
away if a bright light
is flashed on its
mother's belly.
Babies in the womb
will also react to
sudden loud noises.
even if their mother's
ears are muffled.

A healthy man who is
good physical shape
has about 12 to 15
percent body fat. A
woman in good shape
has between 15 to 18
percent. The models
used in most of the
advertising for
abdominal machines,
on the other hand,
have less than l0
percent body fat.

You will get fewer
cavities if you eat a
bag of candy in one
sitting and then
brush your teeth
than if you slowly eat
the candy a piece at
a time all day.

A person's nose and ears
continue to grow
throughout life.

A recent U.S. study
purports that there
are fewer births 9
months after a heat
wave. The study
found that an
increase of 12
degrees Celsius
(approximately 21.6
degrees Fahrenheit)
in summer
temperatures
reduces births the
following spring by
up to 6 percent.
Researchers
concluded that high
temperatures could
reduce people's
sense of well being.
which could result in
a reduction in sexual
interest. Another
study found lower
sperm counts and
higher rates of
miscarriage during
hot weather.

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Council to add new fraternity

By Shannon Morehead
CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Next fall. guys on IIK's catnpus may
have one more reason for going Greek.

Beginning in Spring 2001. the Univer-
sity of Kentucky‘s lnterfraterity (‘ouncil
will add a new fraternity to campus. but is
unsure which one.

Tony Blanton. assistant dean of stu—
dents and fraternity adviser. there has
been an overwhelming number of people
who want to join fraternities. In the fall.
around 700 men signed up to rush and
about 415 of them pledged. and in the
spring somewhere around 300 men signed
up and 150 actually pledged.

He added that the new fraternity is
beneficial to those who are having trouble
discovering which one they want to join.

“There are a lot of people who are in
terested. and they just haven‘t found the
right one." Blanton said.

John t‘ollias. the [PCs president. is in
favor of the expansion. He feels it will iii-
crease the interest in the Greek system as
a whole. and offer many worthwhile op
portunities.

“I think it strengthens the entire
Greek community." Collias said.

The most recent addition the IFC vot-
ed on was the Pi Kappa Phi fraternity in
199:3.

The year before that. the Delta Sigma

Phi fraternity was added. which was I'K‘s
first addition to the (Ireek (‘ominunitx
since 1987.

It takes a vote of 7:") percent from the
entire lnteifraterity t‘ouncil to pass a pro
posal that would broaden the Greek sys
tetn. For the past few years. the vote has
not risen high enough to allow for such an
addition.

Derrick Hughes. an undecided fresh
man agrees with (‘ollias

“I think that it‘s good It makes the
campus more diverse." he said.

Not everyone feels the same way about
having a new fraternity on campus.
though.

Tiffany \'amlerpool. an elementary ed

ucation freshman. said that it would just
he a waste of time.

“I'K already has so many fraterni
ties." she said “There are enough as it is.
We aren't going to benefit in any way from
it. so we don't need any more guys doing
the same thing that a hunch are doing
now.”

Letters were sent out to every national
fraternity that doesn't have a chapter here
at I'K. .-\ total of lo fraternities responded
to the request.

After the first cut. Beta I’Iieta Pi and
Delta (‘hi are the remaining two. 'l‘hese
chapters will have to make a presentation
for the lnterfraternity (‘ounciL and a vote
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reform, - DMI COOPER. CLEAN MONEY KENTUCKY MEMBER

By Greg Burgett

STAFF WRITER

Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell is not very popular
with liberal reformers. and he only added fuel to the fire last
Friday.

McConnell was supposed to be at UK Friday evening to host
a speech and discussion on how freedom of speech means free-
dom to contribute money freely to political candidates.

However. at the last minute. the senator was forced to can-
cel. Duties with the Senate prevented him from being able to at-
tend.

“This last-minute cancellation really shows McConnell's
true colors. He’s scared to death of meeting with the public
about campaign finance reform." said Dan Cooper. a Clean
Money Kentucky member.

Clean Money Kentucky is a state-wide group dedicated to
campaign reform and banning unlimited “soft money” dona-
tions to political parties.

"I have to give him benefit of the doubt for the reason of his
non appearance, but he doesn't make himself available for pub-
lic comment and criticism and has not been a consistent mem-
ber of Kentucky's political body." said Don Pratt, 3 Lexington
community activist.

Members of Clean Money Kentucky were attending the
event to protest McConnell’s stance of opposition against cam-
paign reform

With McConnell absent. one of his staff members, Tamra
Somerville, spoke in his place.

Among other things. Somerville said that money was nec-
essary for one‘s voice to be heard.

‘f in this nation it costs money to communicate a message,"
Somerville explained, "If you don't own a media outlet, you can
spend money to buy an advertisement."

How much money McConnell gets to finance his campaign
wasn‘t the only concern of some individuals. Cooper, who took
out a full-page ad in the Kernel on Thursday. spoke against Mc-
Connell and is also concerned about where the money is com-
ing from.

"My purpose in taking out the ads is to draw attention to
McConnell‘s dismal environmental record." Cooper said. “It is
not surprising that someone who relies so heavily on donations
from polluting corporations is such a strong supporter of keep-
ing our current corrupt system."

Pratt felt that more than just campaign reform is needed.

"We need different methods, different time tables. different
candidates. greater accountability. and more honest and open
participation from the voters. I blame the voters as much as the
candidates. but I realize they don‘t have the means to do miich."
Pratt said.

 

 

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Microsoft's future debated

UK instructors and students ponder
what may be ahead for the company

By Pat Clem
SENIOR STAFF WRlIER

By Whitney Lance
C_0NTRIBUTING WRITER

parts whether it would produce products that are as
valuable to consumers as Windows has been." Scott
said.

Scott felt that splitting the corporation might elic
it a negative reaction by investors. as tech-heavy
NASDAQ dropped a record 350 points the day after
the verdict was released and continued to fall the next day,

Scott said that a rise in state attorney generals filr
ing class action civil suits on behalf of the citizens is
one area that might send other tech stocks down. He

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The verdict is in on the Microsoft monopoly case.
and the question now lies in what the effects will be
on the corporation within the next year.

On April 3, Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson
found Microsoft to be in violation of two sections of
the Sherman Antitrust Act by using bully tactics to
obtain a monopoly on the Internet browser market.
and employing “exclusionary. anticompetitive and
predatory means" to maintain it.

As the situation stands now. it is too early to de»
termine whether it would be necessary to implement
a structural change. such as breaking the corporation
into smaller sectors. or if a new set of ground rules
would be a more effective means of regulation.

Prank Scott. professor of economics and director
of graduate students at UK. said that most observers
believe Jackson is going to impose a behavioral remedy.

“It's not clear if it (Microsoft) is broken up into

believed that Microsoft's stock would obviously be
damaged if these sorts of lawsuits start cropping up.

Scott explained Microsoft was only part of the
NASDAQ decline. “A whole lot of it (the drop) is tech
stocks in general." he said. "Investors are worried
that the antitrust division is going to regulate the in-
dustry a lot more."

Some students were in favor of a split.

“It's a good idea to break up the corporation to
give other businesses opportunity." said Nick Eng-
land. a philosophy sophomore.

In reference to what the future ultimately holds
for Microsoft in lieu of the suit. Scott said Microsoft‘s
empire may have already been crumbling before it
was handed a judge's verdict.

"The Internet is obviously playing a bigger role
in computers and people‘s everyday lives." Scott said.
"There are a lot of people who think that Microsoft is
going to play less and less ofa role."

 

 

 

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investigation in Marine air crash

MARANA, Ariz. Investigators are review-
ing the crash site yesterday where a Marine
Corps aircraft attempting to land during a night-
time training mission crashed and burst into
flames. killing all 19 aboard. The MVQ2 tiltrotor
()sprey. which looks like a turboprop. is part ofa
new generation of aircraft scheduled to eventual-
ly replace all of the Marines‘ primary troop-
transport helicopters. The military began flying
the aircraft six months ago. A Pentagon
spokesman said the names of the Marines killed
in last night's crash - 15 passengers and four
crew members - would not be released until their
families were notified, which could take until to-
morrow.

Illness may imperll Elian handover

MIAMI , - The cousin who has stepped in as
Elian Gonzalez's surrogate mother battled illness
again yesterday. creating a possible obstacle to
the meeting between psychiatrists and the 6-
year-old‘s Miami relatives to arrange a custody
handover. Psychiatrists and a psychologist are
scheduled to meet this week with the Miami rela-
tives at Attorney General Janet Reno’s request.
Lazaro Gonzalez, Elian‘s great-uncle and tempo-
rary guardian. said he was ”willing to honor“ a
meeting at 2:30 pm. tomorrow.

Iran reformists stage sit-in

TEHRAN. Iran , , Thousands of people in
northern Iran staged a sit-in yesterday against
the disqualification of a reformist candidate who
won in recent parliamentary elections. witnesses
said. Iran's Guardian‘s Council, which oversees
elections, provoked a riot Friday in the town of
Khalkhal, 300 miles northwest of Tehran, when it
canceled the election of reformist Keikavous
Khaknejad and awarded the seat to Mottahar
Kazemi, a hard-liner who came in second. Resi-
dents poured into the streets and hurled stones at
government buildings and public buses.

Hezbollah tires on northern Israel

MARGALIOT, Israel W Shells fired by
Hezbollah guerrillas in Lebanon hit targets
across the border in northern Israel yesterday,
causing damage but no casualties in one wave of
a daylong spiral of tit-for-tat violence that left
nine people injured in Lebanon. During the ex-
change between Israel and the guerrillas. rockets
the guerrillas fired at Israeli border outposts in-
side Lebanon hit a village, injuring a 6-year-old

BEHIND Tilt
SCENES:
President
Clinton hosted
a special Ibite
llouse screen-
ing on Friday ol
a new public
television
series, “The
American
President."
Clinton said the
series “can give
people the feel
lor the charac-
ter" of the
presidency. It
attempts to
document the
administrations
of all 41 0.5.
presidents.

SCHOLARly:
The University
of Southern
California
School of
Cinema-
‘I’elevislon will
honor Bill
Cosby with the
Steven J.
Ross/Time
Warner Award
for his contri-
butions in
advancing the
modern media
industry and
culture on
iuesday.

girl and two others. the Israeli army said. A wave
of shelling by Israeli troops and militias lefi four
more people hurt. Lebanese security ofl'icials
said. and two pro-Israel militiamen also were
wounded.

till. envoy meets rebels in Algeria

ALGIERS, Algeria — U.N. special envoy
James Baker III yesterday met with rebel leaders
seeking independence for the Western Sahara
during a visit aimed at bringing resolution to
long-delayed peace plans for the North African
territory. In the western Algerian border town of
Tindouf, Baker held talks with the Polisario
Front, the guerrilla movement that fought a
more than 15year war with Morocco for the
Western Sahara‘s independence.

Bosnia opposition makes gains

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — Partial
results in Bosnia's second postwar municipal
election indicated yesterday that only Muslim-
dominated cities responded to international calls
to reject nationalist parties. Preliminary results
showed that Bosnia's Serbs and Croats were not
ready to give up their support for the national-
ists, while most Muslimdominated cities appear
to have been won by opposition Social Democ-
rats. International ofiicials said overall turnout
yesterday in Bosnia’s second postwar municipal
election was around 70 percent.

‘American Beauty' wins awards

LONDON —- “American Beauty," the darling
of last month’s Oscars, was the big winner again
yesterday at the Orange British Academy
Awards, taking six prizes including best picture.
"'American Beauty" stars Kevin Spacey and An-
nette Bening were named best actor and actress.
but the film’s Oscar-winning director Sam
Mendes was beaten for the best director award
by Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodovar for “All
About My Mother.“

Vijay Singh keeps lead at Masters

AUGUSTA, Ga. —— Vijay Singh matched
David Duval birdie for birdie, clinging to a one-
shot lead after nine holes yesterday in the final
round of the Masters. Singh, seeking his first
green jacket, made the turn at Augusta National
with a 2-under-par 34, pushing his score to 9 un-
der. Duval, one of the top players on the PGA
Tour but still without a major title, matched the
lowest score of the week on the front nine with a
32, pushing him to 8 under. Still lurking within
striking distance of his second Masters title was
Tiger Woods, who made birdies at Nos. 7 and 8
and was 4 under at the midway point of the
round.

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Louisville frat
pays 51 million
in hazing case

ASSOCIATED PRESS

A fraternity has agreed to
drop an appeal and pay $1 mil-
lion to a former University of
Louisville student who was se
verely beaten during a hazing
incident in 1997.

Last July, a jury in Jeffer-
son County Circuit court or-
dered the Omega Psi Phi fra-
ternity to pay $931,428 to
Shawn A. Blackston.

Blackston, now 26, was
beaten with a wooden paddle,
suffered renal failure and was
hospitalized as a result of the
April 2-3. 1997, hazing. The
school banished the chapter
from its campus for at least 10
years as a result of the incident.

Blackston called the set-
tlement. filed this week, a
“blessing.“

“I‘m glad that everything
is over and done with," he
said Thursday. “I can move
forward with the rest of my life."

Blackston is fully recov~
ered and now works at an
auto shop in Louisville.

Neither the National Pan
Hellenic Council nor the Na-
tional Interfratemity Council,
which govern fraternities and
sororities, keep statistics on
the amounts of such settle-
ments across the country. But
Blackston's attorney, Glenn
Cohen, said he‘s not aware of
a bigger settlement or a larger
verdict in a fraternity hazing
case.

Omega Psi Phi. a tradi-
tionally African-American fra-
ternity, has had problems
with hazing elsewhere. Its
chapters have been banned at
times at Indiana University
and Eastern Kentucky Uni-
versity.

In 1997. a jury awarded a

former Indiana University
student $774,500 for a hazing
incident, involving two weeks
of beatings, at that school's
chapter. Also in 1997, a jury
awarded $375,000 to a former
University of Maryland stu-
dent who was hospitalized for
a week after being severely
beaten by members of the
same fraternity.

Sheryl Snyder, the attor-
ney who handled Omega Psi
Phi's appeal in Blackston's
case, would not say why the
fraternity decided to settle or
where the fraternity is getting
the money.

According to the settle-
ment agreement, Blackston
was paid $600,000 when the
settlement was reached, and
will be paid the rest over the
next four years.

After a four-day trial last
year, a jury found that Omega
Psi Phi‘s national organiza-
tion knew. or should have
known, that its University of
Louisville chapter was hazing
initiates and that it didn’t take
appropriate actions to prevent
the hazing.

It ordered the fraternity to
pay $750,000 in punitive dam‘
ages and to reimburse Black-
ston $181,428 for his medical
expenses, lost wages and pain
and suffering.

According to testimony,
Blackston and other initiates
were struck repeatedly with
paddles, and made to eat dog
food. stay up all night and run
around a track carrying
bricks.

Fraternity members also
hung a wooden lamp around
pledges' necks with a leather
strap, then yanked on the
lamp and tried to break the
strap.

 

 

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