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Bring May
frozen
flowers

I'm sure that on Tuesday
morning, the entire
student and faculty
body rose or fell out
of their beds and
looked out their
windows with a
unanimous “WHAT
THE HELL?" Just
when you thought
winter was down for
the count, its
manager hits you on
the back with a chair
and the match is now
a free-for-aII. It's just
not supposed to
snow in April.
especially not after a
heat wave. Just think
about what would
happen if everything
were as moody as
Kentucky's weather.
I'm not really sure
what would happen
but for humors sake,
I’II pretend that it's
bad, very bad. Here
are a couple of
scenarios of what
would happen if
common day things
were as moody as
the weather.

The streets and
highways

First, everyone would
need off road
vehicles, which would
cause a major
inconvenience to
those who don't like
the feel of a plane
flying through
turbulence.

The stock market

Sure, the market isn't
exactly a flat line but
it doesn't fluctuate
like a seismograph in
California. However,
if the market did rise
and fall like our
temperature,
stockholders would
be jumping out
windows and
changing their minds
before they hit the
ground.

The calendar

If days of the year came
and went as they
pleased, there'd be
no way to predict
when a holiday would
occur. However, this
is a good excuse for
guys when they
forget anniversaries
and birthdays.

Bowel movements

I realize that this is a
somewhat
inappropriate topic,
but where would we
be without the
foresight of a
"movement"? Then.
the only way we could
prevent "skid marks"
would be mass
quantities of Fibercon.

-Jonathan Ray
rail_editor@hotmail.com

Please, for the love of all
that is holy, e-mail us.
We get lonely locked
in the basement of the
journalism building.
Jared has begun
talking to his hand.
and both of them are
driving me crazy.

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It might be storming,
but at least Mother Na-
ture decided to let it be
warm

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Raising the recycled bar

Don't waste opportunity: City to implement program to help
Lexington bars recycle bottles; Cheapside sets good example

By Ashley York
ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR

Local bar owners say re-
cycling at bars just isn't fea-
sible. but at least one local
bar is proving them wrong
and a new local governtnent
program may help them
change their tninds.

Ken l)onworth consid-
ers himself an environmen-
talist. which is why he
would love to recycle the
3.000 bottles Kitty ()‘Sheas
throws away every week.

Because of the circum»
stances though. l)onworth.
co—owner of Kitty ()‘Sheas.
says recycling is nearly im~
possible.

"We are all for recy-

cling." he said. "But the eco-
nomic costs for us to do it
wouldn't be viable."

l)onworth says the
dumpster at Kitty's. provid-
ed by the city. doesn't give
thetn the capability of recy-
cling. Likewise. sorting the
recyclable items would sitti-
ply be too ditlicult.

And according to Don
worth. the city doesn‘t offer
any incentives to encourage
recycling.

“If we had an incentive.
we definitely would recy-
cle." he said. "We would
love to."

Tom Thomas. manager
at Varsity Blue. said his bar
would like to recycle and

added that in 14 years of

working in bars and restau-
rants Ill Lexington. the city
has never encouraged bars
to recycle.

The realities of recy
cling are simply too time
consuming for any bar or
rt-‘staurant. Thomas said.

"If it could be a situa
tion where you didn't have
space and time concerns.
then I would love to." he
said.

While l)onworth and
Thomas said recycling is at
most impossible. Robin
Campbell.
Cheapside Bar 8; Grill. said
it‘s really not that difficult.
Cheapside recycles all re-
turnable long neck glass bot-

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Recycling bins can be found on campus, but not everywhere,
thanks to students who use the bins as common trash cans.

Act locally: Campus, city officials work
to make recycling easy for students

By Ashley York
t'é'sTsi’t‘ir ‘htws who

Vomit. urine and cigar
rettes items found in the
recycle bins on campus.

Paper. plastic and alu
minum items that should
be found in recycle bins on
campus.

Although the recycling
bins on campus have man
aged to be contaminated by
nearly anything imagin
able. bodily fluids and all.
(‘heryl Edge. a natural re
source and conservation st‘

 

 

nior. said she sees a gradual
improvement in the recy-
cling habits of students. de-
spite the moving. abusing
and contamination of the
bins. Edge works for the re-
cycling function of Resi-
dence Life. the office that re-
cycles aluminum. paper and
plastic in the dorms at l’K.
Edge said every dorm
currently has a recycling
bin on each floor with the
exception of Haggin Hall.
which only has a bin in the
lobby and the towers. which
has recycling bins on every

thud floot \ext year Edge
hopes to see bins in these lo-
cations.

Even though Edge said
she sees an improvement in
recycling at l'K. Tom Gre-
gory. recycling coordinator
at I'K. said the I'niversity

only recycles 13 percent of

the waste produced on catn-
pus. which he said was UK.

“It‘s better than it was.
but not as good as it should
be." Gregory said of all re~
cycled waste on campus
that comes from more than
900 recycling bins.

Like Edge. Gregory said
the Physical Plant Division
also sees ”materials that
should have been flushed"
in the bins. but he intends
to work next semester. just
as Edge does. to educate stu-
dents. faculty and staff on
the importance and appro»
priate ways of recycling re
cyclable materials.

”I want to make a flier
to put in the schedule book
(or in an obvious place) to
give to new students and
faculty to educate them on
recycling." Gregory said.

This past year Gregory
said the PM) has made it
possible for [K to recycle
plastic bottles in addition to
aluminum cans.

Edge and Gregory both
agreed education fuels pro
ductivity and their plans to
continue the struggle for a
green I'niversity continue
to thrive.

Just as UK continually
progresses toward a healthi-
er and cleaner environ-
tnent. the l.exington‘l’ayette

manager of

These bottles, which
could be recycled. go
straight into the
dumpster when the
night's over at the
average Lexington
bar. The Lexington-
Fayette Urban Coun-
ty Government will
extend large-scale
recycling to bars and
restaurants to
change that.

ANTTI PELTONEN |
KERNEL STAFF

colored glass bottles. which
can‘t be recycled.

(‘ampbell said (‘heapr
side pays a deposit for re
turnable bottles and once
the bottles have been used
they are put back in a case.
The delivering company
then picks the bottles up
and gives the $1.le deposit
back.

"It's not hard to recycle
beer bottles." (‘ampbell said.

(‘ampbell said (‘heap-
side may recycle bottles but
she is still concerned with
all of the cardboard Cheap»
side throws away.

"The city is supposed
to pick up the cardboard
and I‘ve never seen them do
it." (‘ampbell said.

Ilennis Flanagan. man»
ager of Kentucky Eagle
Beer. a distributor of An-

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l rban ( ounty Government
has big plans. too.

Steve Feese. recycling
program manager. said
Ll-‘IFCG is getting ready to
invest 8:3 million on a new
system. One that Feese
hopes will make recycling
tnore aggressive. Eeese said
Lexington recycles about 15

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Bet you didn't
know...

Americans use 2.5 million
plastic bottles every hour.

In the United States alone,
l,500 aluminum cans are
recycled every second.

If the pilgrims had six-packs,
the plastic rings would
still be with us today.

It takes 100 years for tin to
biodegrade. It takes 500
years for aluminum and l
million years for glass.

Five two-liter plastic bottles
make one square foot of
carpet or one extra-large
T-shirt or filling for one
ski jacket. Thirty-five two
liter plastic bottles make
one sleeping bag.

The energy saved from
recycling one aluminum
can will power your
television for three hours
or light a loo-watt light
bulb for 20 hours.

Recycling aluminum requires
90 to 95 percent less
energy than mining and
processing bauxite ore
(the source of aluminum).

Source: ran-not

SIUDENLGQYERNMENI

Deliberations
last into
early morning

By Tracy Rershaw
NfWS EDITOR

Members of the Student Government
Supreme (‘ourt deliberated early into this
morning over a charge against the SGA elec~
tion investigator. The court's verdict was not
available at press time.

Brian Hopper. a second year law student
and election investigator. is charged with
not fully investigating a claim of campaign
overspending filed against new SGA Presi-
dent Tim Robinson and Vice President (‘ato
line llarralson.

Matthew Johnson. the election chair
man. filed the overswnding claim and anoth-
er claim with Hopper three days after the
election. Hopper then had two days to inves-
tigate the claims before deciding whether to
forward them to the Election Board of Claims.

.Iohnson thinks the overspending claim
should have also been filed with the board.

The only way Robinson and Harralson
can be removed from office is if the board de~
cities the oversiwnding affected the integrity
of the election. Robinson and Harralson re
ported that they spent $599.89 on campaign
materials. which was It cents under the $600
spending limit.

The board priced the items on Robin-
son‘s expenditure report by comparing them
to the prices charged by local businesses
such as Kinko‘s and Lynn (‘opies and
reached a total of $1277.19.

The bulk of Robinson's campaign pur-
chases came frotn Grand Old Printing. a
company in Louisville. The materials. which
included Tvshitts. banners and posters. were
discounted because they came from seconds
left over from the past state and national
election. Robinson said.

Two weeks ago. Robinson and Harralson
were found guilty of underreporting the
price of their campaign web site. They must
perform 25 hours of community service each.

Tuesday night. Alysha ()chse. who came
in second in the SGA election. withdrew her
appeal ruling against a claim she filed
against Robinson and Harralsons scampaign.
The claim charged that senatorial candi
dates working for Robinson and Harralson
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Professor's ideas
anger, inspire students

‘lt's tough': Jim Krupa takes
criticism, praise in stride

By James Reid
STAFF WRITER

Good class Dr. Krupa, but read Genesis
I did not evolve from fish. I evolved from
God.

“Which is very interesting." Jim Krupa.
44. says. leaning back in his chair and rest-
ing his hands behind his heart. “That sug-
gests that God is evidently a lesser life form.
I get a lot of those."

He is reading some of last semester's
more impressionable student evaluations.

"The most common comment ['11 get is
that my tests are too tricky... I never have
people say that questions are challenging
and demanding it's always that they are
tricky."

Krupa reaches under his glasses to rub
his eyes and continues sifting through the
evaluations,

Ferreting out another one he reads:
Blanket statements. blanket attempts to per
suade students beyond the necessary informa-
tion. What religion are you trjving to teach? I
am encironmentallv active and most of what
was taught is nonsense and you i'ictimized me
with your nasty propaganda. You blatantly
misuse your authority.

“When you have someone saying you
are an offensive. horrible human being. its
tough."

Kmpa‘s cramped office is in the bowels
of lTK's Multidiscipline Research Laboratory
building ‘The Bunker‘ as he refers to it.
Hanging from the ceiling is the reconstruct-
ed skeleton of a great homed owl. Skulls of
twaveis. a sea otter and an assortment of oth-
er mammals look down from a shelf on the
back wall, A shelf near the ceiling is lined
with a collection of taxidermied birds. The
wall beneath the shelves displays the pelts of
a ball python and a hoary marmot. In be-
tween them is a photograph of an African
eggeating snake one of Kntpa's favorites.

Sitting on a file cabinet is a box of Ham-
burger Helper. altered by a student to read

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Z I THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 2001 I museum

The LOW-down ii

For a lot
of
people,
she
winds
up being
about
the cost-
ume.”

-Phil Jiminez.
current illustra-
tor of DC
Comics' Wonder
Woman (who is
turning 60), to
the Washington
Post.

China, U. S. begin tallts on spy plane

BEIJING IVS. and thinese diplomats
started talks \‘Vednesday over a collision involv-
ing a US. spy plane after Beijing and Washing-
ton staked out opposing positions on American
surveillance tlights and who's to blame for the in»
cident. US. officials say China privately
protnised a "straightt‘orward approach." but
state tnedia on Wednesday accused Washington
of turnittg hostile. China says it will press for an
end to American surveillance flights near its
coast. The Bush administration Itas rejected that
demand. saying the United States has the right to
fly iti international air space. Atop the American
agenda is winning the return of the IRS. Navy
PIP-3F. spy plane. held by (‘hina since it collided
:\})l‘ll 1 with a Chinese tighter jet over the South
(‘hina Sea. The I'S. plane ttiade an emergency
landing on a Chinese island 111 the sea. where its
crew were held for 11 days

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Confederate banner will remain on flag

JACKSON. Miss. The banner that led
Confederate troops in the Civil War will remain
on Mississippi‘s tlag. as voters rejected warnings
the symbol is racist attd an obstacle to economic
development. Hy nearly :1'_‘»1 margin. Mississippi
residents voted 'I‘uestlay to keep their current
state tlag. defeating a proposed alternative that
would have replaced the confederate embletn in
the upper left cortter with a cluster of 20 stars.
With all precincts reporting. 488.630 voters. or 65
percent. favored keeping the 1891 flag. while
267.812 voters. or 3;") percent. wanted to replace it.
Last year. South Carolina lawmakers removed a
(‘ont‘ederate tlag from atop the Statehouse dome.
In January. Georgia legislators shrank the (‘on-
federate symbol that had (ll'llllliiir‘d that state's
tlag since 1956.

O O O I O

MisSISstppt spills over

The surging Mississipp; R
dreds ol~ shoreline residents it ‘11 Ines.
halted barge and rail trattic and Ier .. y sand
baggers 111 four states hoping for one thing
Wednesday no more rain Hundreds \\‘1s-
cousin and Iowa residents were chased away
from low-lying riverside areas 'I‘uesday. unsure
when they would return home. Sixteen counties
in Minnesota declared a state ot~ emergency as
did nine in western \\'isconsin. .-\ disaster procla
tnation was in place for 10 Iowa counties as the
tloodwaters began seeping southeast. toward
homes in Hampton. Ill.

1 hurt

Hawaii professors reach agreement
H()N()I.I'I.l' I'niyersity of Hawaii profes-
sors have reached an agreement with the state.
ending a Illsdayold strike that kept tnore than
40.000 college students out of classes. the gover-
nor said. Public school teachers. howeyer. re

FIGHT Ill-E
POWER:

Chuclt D says
rap may get a
bad rap. ‘ ‘Peo-
pie try to put
the drug cul-
ture, the gun
culture, the jail
culture, and the
just-plaln-dumb
culture with rap
music," he said
in a speech
Tuesday night
at the Universi-
ty of Ten-
nessee. ‘ 'It
could be the
intelligent cul-
ture instead."
“I give the
same speech to
the college
crowd as I do
the prison,
because college
people are
intelligent and
can handle
intellectual sub-
ject matter," he
said.

HELPING OUT:
R.E.M., Carlos
Santana, Sarah
McLachlan, and
members of
Rage Against
The Machine are
among the
music heavy-
weights who
have signed an
Internet peti-
tion to support
South African
AIDS research
activists.

mained on the picket line. Classes on the state
university's 10 campuses were expected to re-
sume Thursday. Students have been out of school
since April 5. The deal would increase college
teachers‘ salaries up to 12 percent over two years
— about 4 percent in the first year plus a possible
2 percent merit increase. and 6 percent in the sec-
ond year.

Israel pulls troops out of Gaza pocket

GAZA CI'I‘Y. Gaza Strip — Israel on Wednes-
day completed a pullout from a Palestinian-con-
trolled slice of the Gaza Strip it had seized just a
day earlier. but denied the about-face was a re-
sult of heavy US. pressure. Shortly after the Is-
raelis left, Palestinians fired six mortar shells at
a Jewish settlement antl an army post in Gaza.
causing no injuries. Israel's brief takeover of a
square mile of land in Gaza had been triggered
by mortar fire on an Israeli town. Since the vio-
lence erupted on Sept. 28. 475 people have been
killed. including 392 Palestinians. 64 Israeli Jews
and 19 others.

Court rules against extraditing Gusinslty

MADRID. Spain A Spanish court ruled
Wednesday against extraditing media magnate
Vladimir Gusinsky to Russia to face fraud
charges. his lawyer said. Domingo Plazas said he
had received a copy of the decision from a court
panel that vote 2-1 against Russia's extradition
request. Plazas declined to give details. saying
the court would release the ruling later Wednes-
day. Russia has charged Gusinsky with misrep-
resenting the assets of his Media-Most empire to
obtain $300 million in loan guarantees in 1996
from state-connected natural gas monopoly
Gazprom. Gusinsky. 48. has repeatedly claimed
he is a victim of political prosecution because of
Media Mosts steadfast criticism of Russian Pres-
ident Vladimir Putin and its hard- nosed report-
ing of the war in Chechnya. among other issues.

Asian boom predicted

LOS ANGELES ~--~ If last year‘s scensus res
tlected a decade of Hispanic growth. expect the
2010 head count to show an Asian boom. One of
the fastest growth rates in the 19905 belonged to
those with Asian ancestry. With the population
growing 74 percent to 11.5 million last year. de-
mographers expect them to help give America a
much different look a decade from now. In the
19905. the growth rate of Asians surpassed even
that of Hispanics. The number of Hispanics
jumped 58 percent to 35 million. putting them al-
most evcn with non-Hispanic blacks as the
largest minority group in the country.

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Cheapside entered a program whereby deposits they pay on bottles will
be returned when the empties, lilte these above, are recycled.

heuser-Busch products. said
returnable bottles do cost more
than non-returnable bottles
but the company hopes to move
in a direction to encourage bar
anti restaurant owners to pur—
chase returnable bottles.
“Ninety percent of waste at
bars is thrown away.“ Flana-
gan said. “And there is money
involved [in recycling]. espe-
cially for bar owners."
Kentucky Eagle Beer hopes
to progress with recycling and
so does the Lexington-Fayette
Urban County Government.
Steve Feese. recycling pro-
gram manager. said the city is
getting ready to invest $5 mil-
lion in a new recycling system
that will encourage apartment

complexes. restaurants and
bars to recycle. The city cur-
rently has no system to provide
theses locations with recy-
clables pickup.

The new system will pro
vide a weekly collection of glass
and cardboard. Feese said. in
addition to a weekly collection
of other recyclable items.

“I think they could handle
this because the only way they
can recycle now is to bring it
’n " Feese said.

By the city collecting the
waste. Feese is optimistic
more people will be encour-
aged to recycle.

“We believe many more
will participate." I‘eese said.
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thousand tons of waste every
year.

The new program will in-
volve changing Rosie's appear-
ance just a little.

Instead of separate com—
parttnents for paper. plastic

anti aluminum. all recyclables
with the exception of glass.
will be deposited in Rosie.

He suspects the new sys-
tetn will encourage more resi-
dents attd businesses to
recycle.

“People won't have to sep-
arate anything but glass."
Feese said. "It will make
things tnuch easier for them to
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‘Roadkill Helper.‘

The side walls of the office
are lined. floor to ceiling. with
science books. ()n the wall be-
hind his left shoulder is a
bumper sticker that reads. I DO
MY PART ’I‘O PISS OFF THE
RELIGIOUS RIGHT.

Krupa, who has taught at
UK since 1989. is of medium
height and build. His dark
brown hair is beginning to gray.
A slightly nasal voice and gen-
erally assertive tone disguises
his neutral. midwestem accent.
leaving the impression that he
is native to New York. Outfitted.
as always, in a T-shirt and jeans
along with thick glasses and a
‘barbershop special' haircut.
Krupa is no slave to fashion. It‘s
not so much that he’s out of
style more like completely
separated from it.

‘He's a weirdo but I
liked him'

Krupa faces the challenge of
teaching as many as 300 stu~
dents mostly non-science ma-
jors fulfilling University re
quirements in each of two or
three classes every semester.

He attracts interest in class
by taking his examples frotn
what has traditionally held stu-
dents‘ attention best: alcohol
and sex. He opened the study of
the human endocrine system by
explaining why. when a student
drinks. it takes his or her blad-
der a couple of hours to respond
and then can‘t be turned off.

Early in the semester Krupa
was lecturing about micro and
macroevolution. Noticing that
many students were either sleep
ing or talking. he switched gears.
He shifted toward reproductive
isolating mechanisms tnore
specifically. prezygotic isolation

that is. the ways in which na-
ture isolates different species
making it impossible for them to
reproduce. At first it appeared
that he had taken a wrong turn.
Then, while covering reason
three mechanical isolation
he placed a transparency on the
overhead which displayed pro-
files of the penises of various
species: a chimpanzee. a praying
mantis. a boa constrictor among
others. The shapes and sizes (ob-
long. mushroomed. spiked etc.)
confirmed his point ~ the physi—
cal incapability of breeding be-
tween species. In 30 seconds the
class was awake and attentive.
Some may consider his methods
base. but no one can deny their
effectiveness.

Most students enjoy his
class. Danielle Malluche. a psy-
chology junior. took human
ecology under Krupa.

"He‘s a weirdo but I liked
him." she said. “He would tell
us these strange stories. ()ne of

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them was about a type of fly in
(‘entral or South America that
lays eggs under people‘s skin.
He said that sotne scientist
friends of his who spent time
down there would get really we
cited when they found a little
wortn sticking out of their arm.
Sometimes they would even
name them. It sounded really
gross”

Krupa vs. creationism

(‘loser to home. the tactic
that sometimes gets under stu—
dents‘ skin is Kt‘upa‘s response
to continuing attacks by seg
tnents of the Christian commu-
nity against science. Krupa is
alarmed by efforts to teach cre-

ationism as science. As one of

his handouts asserts. "Evolu
tion would never have beet a

problem [with (.‘hristiansl if

humans did not have so many
similarities to other primates.
especially chimps... People
worry that this means that they
are no longer special. being
part of nature."

He reminds students that
sciencth deflation of religion has
been largely incidental that
science is interested in the natur-
al universe only. not the super-
natural which is left to religion.

 

(‘huck Staben. acting direc-
tor of biological science. agrees.
"Evolution is an important as-
pect of biology it has to be
taught."

His own opinion about God
is. "Which one‘.’ There are ten
thousand gods that are wot=
shipped. Who‘s to say which
one is right? Are there intelli-
gent beings out there that con
trol‘.’ Maybe. but I don't see it
yet. I‘m fairly pessimistic: I see
too tnuch human meanness
that is rationalized by reli-
gion.”

Hut could he tnarry a cre—
ationist‘?

"Nope."

Wild boy in the woods

When he isn't teaching.
Krupa is trudging into the deep
woods. chasing animals. His
parents. who regularly took
the young Krupa and his sib-
lings on camping. hunting and
fishing excursions. fostered
this loye.

“l was kind of the wild.
outdoorstnan kid that couldn‘t
be bothered with structural ed-

ucation and that‘s still kind of

the way I like it. I'd rather go
out and learn on my own than
have somebody tell me things."

NICK toumttl were {once
Look" at: t
Jim Krupa, a professor in the
school of biological sciences.
holds a snapping turtle. An
avid outdoorsman, Krupa has

had numerous run-ins with
wildlife.

That kind of work can be a
dangerous business.

"I've been bitten by poiso
nous spiders. been stuck by
poisonous plants. been cut up.
torn up. bitten up. but never
anything big... I‘ve had many
close encounters with snakes
because I‘m out looking for
them." He sits up in his chair
and begins gesticulating.

“I‘ve had runins with wa»
ter moccasins where. because
I'm waist deep in a swamp.
they strike at tny torso.“

‘I think we're screwed'

Species are disappearing
across the world and Krupa is
convinced that humans will be
no exception.

“I think we‘re screwed."
he begins. pulling off his glass
es and wiping the lenses. "be-
cause we‘re not even thin/ting
about giving up fossil fuels in
this country even though the
prices are going up.

“Now they want to drill in
the Arctic Wildlife Refuge
again and people aren't giving
tip their big vehicles. llutnan
nature is decadent and short-
sighted and I just don't see
how we're going to come
through that."

 

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Students twists
Ky. legislature
for bottle bill

Still working: Despite the death of the bill,
UK students vows to keep working for it

By Ashley York
ASSISTANT NEWS EDlIOR

Brandon Campbell. a civil engineering junior. supports the
bottle bill. In fact. he began the effort to pass the bill in 1997
when he was a senior at Estill County High School.

He was the spokesperson for the bill before Rep. Greg Stum-
bo got involved.

"I went before the legislature in 1998 and they laughed,"
Campbell said. Not long after Campbell's
visit to Frankfort. Greg Stumbo called
him to say he would introduce the bottle
bill at the 2000 General Assembly. Camp
bell went back to Frankfott. Stumbo in-
troduced the bill anti it died.

Stumbo‘s House Bill 1 would have
required mandatory garbage collection
for every county. a refundable deposit
on beverage containers anti a tax on
fast food wrappers. cups and bags.

Campbell said bottlers. grocers and
retailers opposing the bottle bill spent
thousands of dollars lobbying against
the bill, saying it would cost businesses
and consumers money.

Before the bill died. (‘ampbell said
he was once again given the opportuni-
ty to make a presentation in front of the
Kentucky General Assembly.

He showed them litter he had
found in ditches alongside Kentucky
highways.

"I found aluminum cans from the
‘605." he said.

Despite Campbell‘s findings. the
bill didn‘t get approved. Although un-
successful. Campbell said the fight for
the bottle bill will continue.

Barbara Rhoades. legislative assis~
tant to Stumbo. said the request for the
same revisions of the bottle bill has al~
ready been made for the 2002 session.

Despite the small cost of the bill to
consumers. Rhoades is confident the
bottle bill is making progress.

"People are willing to pay a little to get the garbage away
from environmental resources." she said.

And if people fight for the bottle bill. Maureen (‘raine direc-
tor of marketing for t‘ePl.ANET. said that‘s a major step to
bringing rePI.ANF/I‘. a recycling center that pays. to Kentucky.

(‘raine said rePliANET is a self—contained recycling system
where consumers take their aluminum cans. glass and plastic
bottles. put the items in a designated slot and wait for their re
ceipt. The receipt is redeemable for cash at participating gro
cery stores.

Craine said centers are starting in Georgia and Florida and
she estimates California to have approximately 380 centers by
the end of this year.

"If people lobby local and state senates for bottle bill legisla-
tion. it would make recycling of our brand more immediate."
she said. "Without it. we are going to have to prove rePLANET
to thetn and it may be a number of years before we get to
Lexington."

I went
before
the
legisla-
ture in
1998 and
they
laughed.”

_ Brandon
Campbell,

a civil engineering
junior and
proponent of the
bottle bill

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