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Patton tells CHE to take chances

Std/f B'Ire report

FRANKFURT, Kv —— The comparisons Gov.
Paul Patton used to demonstrate where he wanted
Kentucky's higher education system to go were not
the usual lofty ideals of an ivory tower oflearning for
its own sake.

Patton said universities should be like interstate
highways — useful tools to get to a specific destina-
tion. Classrooms were like the bulldozers he used
when he was mining coal in Pike County —- when
idle, they weren’t much good.

Patton told the Council on Higher Education
Monday that higher education — universities, com-
tnunity colleges and vocational schools —— needed to
get with it.

“\Ve need to be willing to upset sotne people,"
Patton said.

Some examples he used would certainly do that.
Patton wondered aloud why the same eology
course would have to be offered by four ifferent
teachers at four separate campuses. He speculated
about taking lectures so students across the state

could take advantage.

“I hope people will give us the freedom to thitik
unthinkable thoughts," Patton said.

UK President Charles \\'ethington also attended
the meeting and reacted positively to Patton.

“This session was a discussion with CHE,"
\Vethington said. “I’ve been very impressed with the
governor."

He complimented Patton for his attention to
higher education and willingness to work with the
university presidents to ensure that hi rher education
is going in the right direction. Patton has met several
times with the presidents to get their ideas about the
direction of higher education in the state.

“In each case, (Patton) has talked to us about a
willingness to work together," “'ethington said.

Beginning with his inaugural address, Patton
emphasized that he would be taking a critical look at
all of higher education in his term. Historically, most
in higher education wanted more money from state
government and not tiiuch else, especially meddling.

Patton said he would look favorably on a bigger
piece of the budget for higher education, but with

sottie strings: “I am unwilling to just put tiiorc
money itito the system as it is," he said.

He asked for specific suggestions for change frotn
the council members. He received little.

David Porter, a Lexington lawyer who is chair
man of the council's finance committee, said there
should be one agency to coordinate .ill construction
projects in higher education.

In theory, the council has that authority now, but
the individual clout of institutions often can bypass
the council and ret projects approved iii the (leiieral
Assembly or unclertake them without clear authority,
such as UK‘s new library.

Council meniberjoe Bill Campbell of Bowling
(ircen said higher education needs a central authori—
ty, but offered no specifics.

Patton has endorsed a revision iii the way higher
education is governed, bttt has ruled otit a single
governing board for the ctitire system.

Dennis ’l‘aulhee, CHF. director of staff services,
said Patton expressed the need to explore some
changes that would tnake higher cdtication run more
efficiently and effectively.

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Students can exercise more than mind

 

By Jessica Bean
Sniff II Tim-

\Valking to and froin class isn’t
the only free exercise available to
students on campus. There are a
variety of programs and exercise
options that can be personally tai-
lored or suitable for people with
similar interests.

A fitness center located on the
ground floor of Alumni Gym is
especially convenient to students
living on North Campus. Mary
Ferlan, director pf the Wellness
Program, said theifitness center is
well—kept and has everything a fit-
ness huff could want.

The fitness center has cross-
country skiers, exercise bikes, stair
climbers, rowing machines, tread—
mills, weight training equipment,
weight machines and free weights.

Students can join for a fee of
$25, which covers the entire year.
About 100 students, evenly .split
between male and female, cur-
rently use the gym.

“It's really a good deal,” Ferlan
said.

The fitness center is open late
evening hours during the week
and morning hours on the week-
ends. Students can sign up at the
Campus Recreation Office.

The Seaton Center may be
more conducive to students who

 

 

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math sophomore, does pull-ups at the
Kincan II exercisefirility.

 

live on South Campus. The center
also has a weight room, with stair
climbers, bikes, weight machines
and free weights. For students
who like competitive exercising,
the Seaton Center offers
squash/racquetball and basketball
courts.

The Harry C. Lancaster
Aquatic Center, which is connect-
ed to the Seaton Center, has an
Olympic-sized pool and a small
weight machine room.

The Seaton weight room is
usually tied up with classes
throughout the day, but is open to
students between the classes and
(lilting the evenings and week-
ends.

“The weight room tends to be
very busy, but people seem to be
quick and it's not really a prob-
lem," said Campus Recreation
Administrative Assistant Diane
Freeman.

Those students who shy away
from the weight room scene or
who prefer a certain sport can join
a club sport team at the Seaton
Center.

Club Sport Director Kathy
Cole, said about 600 students are
involved in the 23 club sports
being offered. Among them are a
variety of martial arts clubs,
equestrian activities, rugby, ice
hockey, volleyball, basketball and
more.

“Students involved in club
sports usually get together
because they share a certain inter-
est in a sport, or for instructional
purposes (like karate) or because
they want to compete against
other college students,” Cole said.

Club sports include single—sex
and coed teams.

There seem to be more males
involved in the club sports, Cole
said.

Health-conscious students may
want to chose the 24-hour option
of living in the Wellness Dorm.
Students pay an extra fee and are
able to use the fitness center iii the
basement and participate in
health-related activities and pro-
grams, Ferlan said.

Whatever a student's personal
preference, information and spe—
cific details can be obtained
through the Wellness Program,
Seaton Center, Campus Recre—
ation or Residence Life.

 

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orl's out yesterday. ‘7ohnson is a

Nutter to closefor a month

By Kathy Reding
Staff ll 'i'ltt'r

Bauman said the athletics department
arranged lot the contractors to work from

early morning until 3 p.m., the track‘s for—

The Nutter Field House indoor track
closed to the public yesterday and will
remain closed until the end of Febniary.
jason Bauman ofthe University athletics

department said the track's open hours

mer open hours.

The field house is open after three to
University athletic teams. such as baseball,
golf, track and soccer.

“For safety purposes w e ticedcd to

 

were discontinued temporarily

due to replacement oftlie field
house's overhead netting sys~
teni.

Bauman said the University . . ~ .
hired new contractors to pro— ['07 “7]th
vide service for the netting. purposes 21‘?
Since a new firm was hired, the needed to cut

netting system had to be 0”, the apt,”
replaced. hours a
“The previous system was '-

not performing as we hoped,"
Bauman said. “We need to
function in the building daily,
so (the work) has to be done.
Unfortunately, it’s hit us at the

Jason Bauman
University athletics
spokemmn

 

cut out the open hours," llatr
man said. "I )byiously w t"\c
affected people. but safety is
our number one concern."

Toeupu l.iu, a music fresh—
man, was a regular runner at
the field house's track.

He thought the Liniversity
could have replaced the system
over a break or at a time when
fewer people would have been
affected by the closing.

“I think they could have
waited until it got warmer so
people could run outside," Liu
said.

 

 

busiest time of year."

Runners use Nutter's indoor track
extensively during the winter months. In
1995, 900 people used the track in January,
and 2,300 ran indoors during February.
Last year, 7,700 people used the field
house.

Undeclared junior Lynette

Pounds said she was not happy with the
decision either.

“It's so cold outside it's hard to get exer»
cise," Pounds said. “I hate it.“

Bauman apologized for the disruption
the closure may cause to the public.

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class ovaluatlons llnally updated (III the Internet

By Allson Klohl

Emwive Editor

Any student considering dropping a class who
needs a push in a particular direction can check out
student evaluations of professors on-line.

The UK Planning and Assessment Office has
made evaluations for the fall 1995 semester available
on UKCC and on the World Wide \Veb.

The evaluations have been posted on schedule,
according to james Chapman, assistant chancellor
for the Lexington Campus.

Roseann Hogan, president ofplanning and assess-
ment, said she thought it was important to get the
fall I995 results on-line as soon as possible.

“Since there was concern on the part of the stu-
dents about (evaluation results) not being up, we
made this a priority," Hogan said. “We’ve been
working really hard, and we decided to help the

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computing center out and get everything on—Iine.”

Because participation in teacher evaluations is an
option and not a requirement, there are some
departments that choose not to participate in the
program.

The English, statistics and physics departments
do not participate in the evaluations program.
Courses taught by teaching assistants also are not
available.

The only part of the evaluations that aren't
included on—Iine are the written comments, which
might be considered the most important part to
some students.

“(\Nritten evaluations) are returned to the depart-
ments, which are then returned to the individual
professors,” Hogan said. “Research shows that writ-
ten evaluations indicate that they are not generaliz-
able to the entire class. They need to be taken with a
grain of salt.”

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not always be accurate because usually only about
one-halfof students in their particular classes return
their evaluations.

“There needs to be about a ()0 to 70 percent
return rate before (the evaluations) are valid," she
said.

If less than five students in a particular class
return their evaluations, then evaluation results will
not be on-line. '

Students with access to Netscape or another
World Wide W'eb browser can access results to stu-
dent evaluations by connecting to the URL at
http://www.uky.edu/~lexcam /dsi/tce.html. There
already are links to results rom fall 1994, spring
1995 and fall I995.

Students with access to UKCC can also access
these results by typing www
http://wwwuky.edu/~lexcamp/dsi/tce.html to yet to
a text version of the evaluations. A menu should
appear at the bottom of the screen indicating what
each function key will allow the user to do.

 

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INDEPENDENT SINCE 1971

86A polling
on plus-minus

By Alison Kighl

livttiitiut lit/Itor

 

The Student (io\ ernment .\ssoci;ttioti wants
your opinion on plus/litmus grading.

SCA will place an ad in the Kentucky Kernel
next Monday, ’l‘uesday and \Vednesday asking stu»
dents and faculty to give their opinions about .1 plus
.itid minus grading system being implemented L'ni—
\ei‘sityiwide.

The .td, which S(i.-\ urgcs students .itid facility
to tear otit of the paper, till oitt and place iti drop
boxes that will be located throughout campus, asks
three questions.

One question is whether the indn idual is a UK
student or faculty member.

“\Ve opened it to the faculty because we don't
think they get consulted on this," Executive Direc—
tor of Acat emic Affairs Brandon \'oelker said. “I
think a lot ofpeople iii academia like (plus/iiiinus
grading) because it gives them a better way to more
accurately show what a student‘s work value is.“

The ad also asks whether or not the student or
faculty member is in favor of plus/minus grading.

“lfthe iiiajoritv ofstudents say they are in favor
of the plus/tiiintts system. then S(i.\ has to take
that itito cotisidcratnin." \ssociatc Director
\lclatiie (:l‘lll. said.

l‘llt‘ .td points out that If the system is unple—
tncntcxl. the biggest question will be whether or
not an \+ w ill be trcatcd .ts .i l (I oti Ibc grade scale
Ht‘ .1 ii. i

\ 4.; scale would make it easier for the students
with higher grades to gcl closer to a 4.” overall
gt‘adc‘point average.

Students .ind faculty are asked ifthey would pre-
fer :\+ grades to receive a 4.0 oti the grade scale or
a 4d.

The proposal for plus/minus grading for the
College of Arts and Sciences was sent back to com»
tnittee by the University Senate in ( )ctober.

After deliberations, the committee recommend»
ed that changes be instituted on a liniversitvaidc
basis rather than in just the College ofArts and Sci
ences.

\'oelker said he thought there were sound argii
nicnts on either side ofopinion about plus/minus
grading.

utwsbym

Clinton to testily
holore Washington jury

\VASl llNGTUN ._ First lady Hillary Rodhatn
Clinton will testify under subpoena Friday before a
\\':is‘htngton grand jury investigating the mysteri—
ous discovery of her law firm billing records in the
\\'hite House residence.

Her testimony was requested by \Vhitew'ater
prosecutor Kenneth Start, the \Vhite House said
The appearance will be her first before the \Vhitc
w atcr grand jury, though it will be the fourth time
she has answered questions under oath for the
prosecutors.

leaders trying to avert shutdown

\\'.\Sl ll.\'(i'li( ).\' Republn .tti leaders
searched yesterday for a way to avoid .l federal
sliittdown'at week‘s end. but showed little desire to
heed President Clinton's pleas for .i qttick extcn~
sion ofthe government's borrowing authority.

Eager to avoid election—year blame fora third
partial closure of federal agencies since .\'oveiiiber,
top Republicans hoped for congressional passage as
early as tomorrow of legislation keeping programs
functioning for perhaps another month. \\'ithout
such .i hill, dozens of agencies would once again
have to iut some operations in mothballs .iftcr the
close of insiness Friday.

SUITE School prayer hill passes House
FR:\.\7KF0RT, Ky. «w A bill to allow students

to offer public prayers at school—sponsored events
whizzed through the Kentucky House yesterday.

The vote was 87—4, and there was no debate *
only a brief explanation by Rep. Bob Damron, the
primary sponsor.

Damron, D-Nicholasville, said the bill, if enact-
ed, would forbid school officials to prohibit “volun-
tary, student-initiated” prayer at events such as
graduation ceremonies and ball games.

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Powell lolns Brown llllvmlty board

\VASHINGT( )N —»— Not running for president
gives retired Gen. Colin Powell
time for other things. Like joining
the board of trustees at Howard
University.

Since deciding last year not to
run for the \Vhite House, the for-
mer National Security Advisor and
chairman of the joint Chiefs of
Staff has been flooded with offers
to sit on the boards of corporations Pom"
and philanthropies.

The announcement was made Saturday.

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By Adam Wilhelm

(,iii/rI'I/w/lug ll rim

It may sound like a club where
college students read (.‘m'mopo/imn
magazine and sit and chat about
the current issue, but that's not
what the Cosmo Club is about.

L'K‘s Cosmopolitan Club, or
"Cosmo," is a cultural and social
club for international and Ameri—
can students on campus. Hege
Johannson, a graduate assistant
from Norway, serves as the Cos-
mopolitan Club’s adviser. Johann-
son said Cosmo membership is
about 50 to (ill students.

"I'd say we have one-fourth
American students (in Cosmo),
but we are approaching the one-
third mark,"Johannson said. “\Ve
have increased the American stu-
dent membership and I'm very
proud of that. The more diversity,
the happier the club is."

The club offers a variety of
social activities such as camping,
hiking and snow skiing.

“February is our big month.
“'e are planning a Valentine's
Dance for the 10th. “'e are also
running the European Pastry Cafe
in conjunction with UK's Cultural
Diversity “'eek," Johannson said.

Cultural Diversity Week will
take place the week of Feb. 24.
The European Pastry Cafe will be
located at the Student Center
Patio. In addition, Cosmo is plan—
ning a ski trip to Snowshoe, \Vest
Va. in February.

The Cosmopolitan Cltib was
introduced to UK in the late
1940s.

Meetings are held twice a
month on Tuesday evenings at 7
p.m. in the student lounge base—
ment of Bradley Hall, the Office
of International Affairs.

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mopolitan Club is next Tuesday.
Membership dues are $10 a year
or $6 for the spring semester.
Applications may be picked up in
3 1* Bradley Hall.

Johannson encourages all
members and anyone interested in
joining the Cosmo Club to attend.

Chih Ian Lee is a Malaysian
engineering sophomore involved
with Cosmo.

"It's a club where I can meet
international students," Lee said.
“\‘l'e get to know each other bet-
ter."

Lee also encourages'students to
join the club.

“If a student is interested in
getting to know about other cul—
tures and would like to understand
things about other people, then
Cosmo Club is a good club to
join," Lee said.

Although the majority of the
members are international stu-
dents, the Cosmo Club is not just
open to students.

“\A’e just don't have students,
we have University staff and facul—
ty as well,”Johannson said.

For more information about
Cosmo. call Johannson at 257—
4067, extension 235.

 

By Patrick Wailers

Umvnirlry ”71':

A freshman at Virginia Mili-
tary Institute has died, and 150
other students and staff members
at VMI are on reventive antibi-
otics as a resuli of a dangerous
bacterial infection.

VMI freshman Scott \V.
Hickey of Staunton, Va., died
Friday, at 2 p.m., after having
contracted meningcoccemia at an
unknown time and location.

Hickey initially reported to
the VMI infirmary late Thursday
night, running a fever of 100
degrees and com laining of flu-
like symptoms. Afier being given
a Tylenol he elected to return to
the barracks for the night. The
following morning Hickey
returned to the infirmary and a
school doctor sent him to the
emergency room at Stonewall
Jackson Hospital in Lexington,
Va.

Hickey died after going into
cardiac arrest while a helicopter

 

was attempting to airlift him to
the University’s Medical Center.

Meningcocccmia results from
an invasion of the bacteria
meningcocci into the blood-
stream. The disease develops
within one to 10 days of the ini-
tial infection and can be spread
through oral and nasal secretion.

VMI officials postponed Sat-
urday’s scheduled basketball
game with Davidson College as a
precautionary measure against
spreading the illness. There has
been no make—up date set for the
game.

“Half of the cadet corps goes
to basketball games, so it made
sense to cancel the game,” VMI
spokesman Mike Strickler said.
“Everything else is going on nor-
mally.

“Everybody who has conceiv-
ably come in contact with Cadet
Hickey has been tracked," Strick-
ler said.

He said 25 individuals came 5

into contact with Hickey. These
students are confined to the bar-

Bacteria makes lllllll cautious

racks at VMI and are being mom
itored carefully. No one else.
however, is known to have con-
tracted the disease.

This incident at VMI is simi-
lar to a meningitis incident that
occurred with a University stu-
dent last fall and an incident with
a \Vashington & Lee University
student with meningitis last year.
In both cases, the students recov-
ered and no additional cases were
reported.

The disease Hickey contract-
ed and VMI’s precautionary
measures are similar to last fall's
meningitis scare at the Universi-
ty, Student Health Director Jim
Turner said.

Last fall, a student living in
Tuttle House contracted menin~
gitis and fell into a coma, Turner
said.

Neither Strickler nor Turner
saw the latest incident as an indi-
cation of any sort of outbreak.

This .trmy originally appeared m
The Cavalier Daily at the
Univnwiry of Virginia.

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By Kevin Galvin

xli‘i‘ai'wrrd Pl't’iii

\VASHINGTON — The stu-
dent loan default rate has dropped
sharply and government collec—
tion efforts have cut net default
costs by more than two-thirds
since 1992, Education Secretary
Richard Riley said yesterday.

“These numbers reflect real
and substantial progress," Riley
said. “They are the product of
several aggressive management
decisions that were intended to
get the default problem under
control."

The rate of borrowers default-

ing on student loans dropped to
11.6 percent in fiscal 1993, the lat—
est year for which figures are
available.

That was the lowest rate since
official default rate reporting
began in 1988. It has declined
steadily since 1990, when it
peaked at 22.4 percent. “The pro-
gram was hemorrhaging" Riley
said.

Yesterday's news conference
was aimed at countering criticism
by showing the department was
improving its management of stu-
dent loan funds. Republican bud—
get—cutters have suggested closing
the department.

College president under pressure
for extravagant spending habits

By Pat Milton

xii‘tm lrlfl’d Pratt

GARDE. I CITY, N.Y. — Ten
years ago, when Peter Diaman—
dopoulos took over as president of
Adelphi University, he set out to
transform the humdruin school
into an Ivy League-style institu—
tion educating tomorrow's movers
and shakers.

He recast the required curricu-
lum to emphasize the classics,
brought renowned intellectuals in

to lecture and fired or reassigned
scores of professors. He launched
an advertising blitz declaring:
“Harvard: the Adelphi of AIas-
sachusetts."

Facing a deficit of several mil—
lion dollars, he cut staff, eliminat-
ed athletic programs, shuttered
the college radio station and even
rationed copier paper. The deficit
has turned into a fat reserve fund.

That thrift didn't extend to
himself, however.

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Education Department officials
acknowledged that an improving
economy contributed to the
improved rate and that Bush
administration programs deserved
some credit. But they said they
accelerated those programs.

“When the Clinton adminis—
tration came into office, I declared
that reducing the number of loan
defaults was our No. 1 priority in
the area of federal assistance for
college loans,” Riley said. “We
have done just that."

Increased collections, com-
bined with the lowering default
rate, reduced the net cost of
defaults to $400 million in fiscal

1995, down from $1.7 billion in
fiscal 1992.

“Our colleaions on past
defaulted loans are recouping
more taxpayer dollars than ever
before," Riley said.

The department reported $2
billion collected in fiscal 1995
from borrowers who had been in
default, through garnished wages,
tapping federal income tax
refunds and litigation.

“Preliminary numbers for this
year show this positive trend in
collections continuing,” Riley
said.

Litigation against defaulters
increased from 200 accounts in
fiscal 1995 to 708 in the first quar-
ter of the fiscal year that began in
October.

after an increase of28 percent last
year, the second—hi best of any
college president in tEe country.
Diamandopoulos (pronounced
Dee-man—DOP—o—lus) also enjoys
lavish perks such as the use of a
$1.2 million apartment on Man—
hattan's Upper East Side, along
with both a stately house and a
$400,000 condominium.
Meanwhile, full-time enroll-
ment is down to about 5,000, a 30
percent drop since Diamandopou-
os became president. Tuition has
jumped 60 percent in the last five
years, to about $13,500 a year.
Now the New York state attor-

mando ulos.”

Stu ents, meanwhile, have
joined with alumni and faculty in
forming a group called Save Adel—
phi, which is challenging the radio
station closing in court and hel d
get the expenditure issue befffre
the attorney general’s office.

Faculty members argue that the
school’s reputation was built on its
strong nursing and social work
courses. Now those areas have
been gutted with sharp course
reductions, they say.

“This man has got to go,"
Cleaver said. “He doesn’t care

about Adelphi. He only cares
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gating Diamandopou- Diamandopoulos,
os's nances. ‘ . 67, refused repeated
b IIn a nontbinding requests for inter—
a 0t in Octo er, the - views. He has defend~
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voted 131-15 to oust g“ to go- He good investments and
Diamandopoulos. (106571 ’t care said the one in Man-
“I find it incredible about Ade/phi, hattan is needed for
and outrageous that He only an.“ fund-raising. '
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spenda million dollars ' support of the 23-
on a Manhaitan apart— V member Board of
ment while we’ve had Cathy CIOIVOI Trustees.
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Thornburg,apsychol- be deterred from its
0 ' pro essor and mission of completing

c airman ofthe faculty senate.

In addition, the district attor-
ney is investigatin claims that on
Nov. 29, Diaman opoulos’s wife,
Maria, left eight crank messages
on the faculty union’s answering
machine.

A voice expert hired by the
union concluded the messages
were left by Mrs. Diamandopou-
los, said Cathy Cleaver, executive
director of the union.

One call said: “I thou ht on
were some liberal radica , i azi,
sort of Karl Marx crap organiza-
tion that’s hanging around
destroying universities. I want on
out 0 here, not President ia-

the transformation of Adelphi into
one of the finest academic institu—
tions in America,” it said in a
statement.

“He has pulled the university
out of the debt,” said board mem-
ber Joseph Carlino. “The univer-
sity now has a $40 million cash
reserve. We all think he is doing a
great job.”

But William Borten, a board
member from 1981 to 1990, said
Diamandopoulos all but chased

ople who opposed him off the

ard.

“I felt Peter was trying to
intimidate the board,” Borten
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