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ependence

From the
president’s

mouth

President Lee Tedd
and Terry Mobley.
interim athletics
director, field ques-
tions concerning the
search for a full-
time athletics direc-
tor at the Board of
Trustees meeting
Tuesday. "We want
someone who is
fresh. someone who
is new." Todd said.
"Someone who has a
vision that is
different."

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Report poisons Ivy

Theflneprillt

Changes announced Tuesday for
the Athletics Department:

- Reorganize the Athletics Board,
giving it stricter oversight and
adding a budget committee. The
new board will approve all con-
tracts within the department.

- Form a ticket committee
because the present committee is
"non-functional." Todd said unfair
distribution of basketball and
football tickets is “the root cause
of many of our problems."

- Permanently terminate the
tickets for cars program. Todd
said such programs are "weighing
down this university and weighing
down a lot of my time."

0 Cut athletics director's tickets
from more than 165 to eight.

- Give tickets to UK academic
fundraisers. Todd said only one
dean has lower arena tickets.

0 Formulate a university-wide
standard of ethics to avoid
conflicts of interest.

0 Consider having the CATS tutori-
al director answer to the academ-
ic provost.

0 Review the Blue 8 White Fund
and require cooperation between
it and the fundraising body.

- Require a "strict oversight" of
all the department's boosters and
an annual comprehensive report
for all booster expenditures.

- Make changes in the leadership
of the Athletks Department.

Findings: Committee recommends Newton, lvy sever ties with UK

By Rebecca Neal and Curtis Tate
EW-mh'

UK President Lee Todd
announced major changes in
the UK Athletics Department
Tuesday and the beginning of a
national search for a new
athletics director.

Todd outlined the recom-
mendations of a five-member
committee he appointed to
address questionable UK Ath-
letics' practices spotlighted in a
recent NCAA investigation.

The committee established
new policies regarding ticket
distribution. Athletics Depart-
ment management and booster
club activities.

The committee also decided
Larry Ivy should no longer
serve as UK's athletics director
and that former Director CM.
Newton should be dismissed
from his position as special
assistant to Ivy.

After consulting with Todd
and learning of the committee‘s
findings. Ivy chose to take early
retirement. resigning his posi-
tion immediately.

“Larry felt it was in his
best interest to step down,"
Todd said.

Todd appointed Terry Mob-
ley. UK’s chief development

officer for fundraising. as the
interim athletics director.
Mobley will fill the position
until UK finds a permanent
replacement for Ivy.

“I want to wish him noth-
ing but the best with his
future." Mobley said.

Mobley. a former UK bas-
ketball player. said he did not
wish to be a candidate for the
permanent position.

Calling the search for a
new athletics director “a top
priority." Todd said the
changes are intended to
strengthen the ties between ath-
letics and academics. He also
stressed the importance of 3th
letics to the university.

“It is not my intention to do
anything to harm the competi-
tiveness of the Athletics pro-
gram." he said. “But I will do
everything in my power to as-
sure that this university will
not go before the NCAA again.“

Todd also outlined other
proposed changes in athletic
policy.

A new committee has been
created to ensure that football
and basketball tickets are fairly
distributed among all employ-
ees. The existing ticket commit.
tee was deemed ineffective.
Todd said.

Booster programs will also
be more strictly monitored.

The UK football booster
program was the subject of a re-
cent NCAA investigation. Todd
said he hopes closer scrutiny of
these programs will bolster the
integrity of the department.

“I want a clean and compet-
itive program," he said.

The tickets for cars pro-
gram will also end.

F or more than 20 years. the
Athletics Department has given
more than 40 employees free
season tickets. The employees
took the tickets to local car
dealerships and traded them for
leases on cars. The new recom-
mendations forbid this practice.

Todd stated that many deal-
erships participated in this
practice because they felt it was
beneficial to UK.

Overall. these new recom-
mendations focus on what is
best for the university as a
whole and seek to strengthen
UK‘s commitment to education
and integrity. Todd said.

Todd presented the changes
to the Board of Trustees. Board
member Jack Guthrie said he
and the other trustees are en-
couraged.

“This is a new day for the
UK Athletics program.“ he said.

I want a clean and competitive program.”

DRAMATIS PERSON AB

All the ADS

President Lee Todd announced at a
news conference Tuesday the changes
he would make Within the Athletics
Department based on the recommen‘
dations the revrew committee cave in
him Among the array of changes
within the department was the term
nation of some athletics employees as
well as the announcement that a
searrh has begun for the new
athletics atiiertui Here s who, s stat
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CM. Newton

UK will sever UV"
ties with CM.

Newtonlormer A
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athletics direc- l '
tor. Todd said ' " V's
, - at

Newton s tour i
year contract
as an advrser
represented
him as “a fun-
time employ
ee," but that
Newton was
not servmq any such role

Newton

Larry lvy
He resigned
from the
athletics direc~
tor pOSition
Tuesday He
Will work as a
specral assrs-
tant to Terry
Mobley. interim
athletics direo
tor, until he
fully retires
June 30.

-LEETODD.UKPRE$DENT

Terry Mobley

UK appomted
him as the
interim athlet-
ics director
untIlJu'y He s
UK‘s chief
development
officer and a
former basket
ball player Hg
Will not be a
candidate for
the athletu‘s
d:rector position

Mobley

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Welcome to the machine

Todd crashes
trading cars

for

tickets

Swapping: Tickets allocated to athletics
directors will go to academic fundraisers

By Lucas Thomas

STAFF WRITER

President Lee Todd ended a 25-year tradition Tuesday. elim
inating the tickets for cars program.

The program allowed selected athletics officials to exchange
their department-allocated season sports tickets for the free use
of automobiles from local dealerships.

The change comes along with Larry Ivy's resignation as

UK's athletics director.

Ivy's resignation followed an internal

investigation of the department.
Todd made the change after he

I think it’s

received a series of recommendations

from a review panel established after UK
was slapped with NCAA probation six

weeks ago.

The elimination of tickets for cars
panel's

was one of the
recommendations.

Todd also reduced the amount of
season basketball tickets placed under the
athletics director's control to less than 2

percent of the previous total.

The number of tickets exceeded 165.
and had reached more than 220 in

the past.

The reduction takes that number to

just eight.

During Tuesday‘s news conference.
Todd said he wants to direct the freed tick-
ets to academics. Currently. only one dean

just
President
’Ilodd’s
way of
getting
closure on
the whole
probation
deal.”

-Jacob Correil.
undeclared
sophomore

primary

has tickets to sit in the lower arena.

he said.

In light of that fact. Tim Woods, an associate professor in
the Department of Agricultural Economics. said he thinks the
ticket redistribution won't favor faculty.

“If deans can't get tickets, I don't think professors have

much ofa chance,“ he said.

Woods said Todd's elimination of the program was the right

thing to do.

“I agree with the president ~ those tickets are the property

See TICKETS on 2

Ceremony will honor
deceased UK employee

Touched: Seaver remembered as strong
UK advocate; friend to coworkers, students

By Jimmy Nesbitt

STAFF VRITER

The name Dan Seaver
brings kind words and smiles
to the people he touched.

The life of Seaver. one of
UK‘s strongest advocates. will
be celebrated on campus
March 15.

Seaver
died Feb. 1 af-
ter a battle
with cancer.

For more than

28 years, he

held positions

in admissions

and student

affairs with

the Lexington

Technical Institute. UK Ad-
missions. the College of Allied
Health Professions and the
College of Dentistry.

Donna Haney. the admin-
istrative coordinator and reg
istrar for the College of Den-
tistry. worked with Seaver for
25 years. Seaver‘s dedication
to UK never faded. she said.

“He truly believed in our
college‘s mission.“ she said.
“Every single night he was
here until at least 8 pm.
and sometimes 11."

Haney said she'll never
forget the birthday surprise
she got from Seaver. a big

Elv15 fan. “One year. he came
into work dressed up as Elvis
for my birthday."

The passion and humor
Seaver shared for UK and the
students was genuine. Haney
said. “In order to do what he
did. you had to love people."

Terry Dennis. a staff sup-
port associate in the College of
Dentistry, said Seaver con-
nected with everyone. “He
was an excellent boss and a
wonderful person."

“He really took an inter-
est in the students. He knew
many of them by name."

Seaver served on numer-
ous committees at the UK
Chandler Medical Center. the
university and national orga-
nizations. He was a strong
advocate for UK‘s Hispanic.
women and student dental
association chapters.

“He was just fun to be
around." said Robert Kovarik.
chairman of the Department
of Oral Health Practice.

“Dan was the kind of per-
son people like to talk to."

Kovarik said Seaver al-
ways made Christmas special.
”The dean would dress up as
Santa. Dan would dress up as
an elf and go around wishing
everyone merry Christmas."

Kovarik chuckled. “That's
what I remember."

 

  

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Athletics recovery
begins with report

Recommendations a good start to identifying problems,
getting rid of the scandal culture that plagues UK

We are unlikely to see Larry Ivy Memorial Coliseum any time soon.

While Ivy's retirement may indeed be a good first step toward exorcising the
demons from UK Athletics, it is at most just that, a first step.

One or two people cannot single-handedly corrupt one of the top athletics pro-
grams in the country (although one or two people can certainly take the brunt of
public criticism). Most scandals run deeper than the fall guy # usually someone who
only had indirect responsibility for the violations.

UK President Lee Todd didn‘t list specific accusations when presenting the com—
mittee's recommendations to the Board of Trustees. Instead, he talked about “solu-
tions, not problems."

To find a solution. though, there must first be a problem. In this case, the problem
is long-standing and apparently runs deep within the top levels of the Athletics De-
partment. A general lack of departmental oversight tarnished the current depart-
ment, and programs such as tickets-for-cars have led to questions concerning the eth-
ical practices of the department’s employees.

But while Ivy is taking the lion’s share of criticism, all of the NCAA violations oc-
curred under the not-so-watchful eye of OM. Newton, the former athletics director.

The role Newton played in this ordeal has not fully revealed itself yet, but one can
reasonably assume that his stature among the legion of UK fans will be some-
what diminished.

If anything further should come to light detailing Newton’s involvement in the
football scandal, UK should consider rescinding its decision to name the field at Com-
monwealth Stadium after the former athletics director.

Despite the events of the past two years, the program appears to be headed in the
right direction. The committee‘s recommendations, along with the blessings of Todd
and the board. set forth an ambitious agenda, which should lead to higher standards
within the Athletics Department, as well as a better-respected program nationally.

The next step will be finding a new athletics director, since it has been made clear
that Terry Mobley, the interim athletics director, will not be on the list of candidates
for the permanent job.

The interest should be strong. since the athletics director at UK is a peachy job
that many qualified (and honest) people would gladly consider. Perhaps the biggest
problem Todd should have in his search is choosing, not finding.

But he must choose wisely, or he might find himself employed as a university
fundraiser while the next president cleans up the mess he left behind.

 

Nick Garlarg

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