xt78pk070t5f https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt78pk070t5f/data/mets.xml The Kentucky Kernel Kentucky -- Lexington The Kentucky Kernel 1992-01-29 Earlier Titles: Idea of University of Kentucky, The State College Cadet newspapers English Contact the Special Collections Research Center for information regarding rights and use of this collection. The Kentucky Kernel The Kentucky Kernel, January 29, 1992 text The Kentucky Kernel, January 29, 1992 1992 1992-01-29 2020 true xt78pk070t5f section xt78pk070t5f A NIGHT AT THE OPERA

GREG EANS/ Kernel Sta‘l

The UK Opera Theatre's production of Gaetano Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor opens tonight at the Otis A. Singletary Center for
the Arts. Although sung in Italian, director Phillip Miller does not expect this to be a problem. For the preview, see Page 3.

Jones: 1/4 board members will remain

education boards to be abolished
and reconstituted. But the original
proposal caused fear among some

By GREGORY A. HALL
Associate Editor

FRANKFORT, Ky. — Gov.
Brereton Jones told state university
trustees and regents yesterday that
he would re-appoint at least one-
fourth of them under the proposed
process to select board members.

The meeting at the Governor's
Mansion was attended by board
members from the eight state uni-
versities, their presidents and the

state Council on Higher Education.

Jones proposed an amendment to
Rep. Ernesto Scorsone’s (D-
Lexington) bill, which has passed
the House but faces changes in the
Senate.

The bill would create a nine-
member nominating committee that
would present three candidates to
the governor for every board seat,
from which he would choose the
appointee.

It also calls for all higher-

Former UK student
gets rape indictment

By JOE BRAUN
Assistant Editorial Editor

UK sophomore Kevin Wayne
McPherson was indicted yesterday
by a Fayette County grand jury,
charging him with the first-degree
rape of a female UK sophomore.

The incident allegedly took place
around 1 am. Oct. 27,1991, under a
deck at the Phi Kappa Psi social fra-
ternity house, 447 Columbia Ave.

The indictment states that the de-
fendant is accused of committing
“ﬁrst-degree rape by engaging in
sexual intercourse with (the victim)
by forcible compulsion; against the
peace and dignity of the Common-
wealth of Kentucky.“

McPherson, of Shelbyville, Ky.,
will be arraigned before Judge Re-
becca Overstreet in Fayette County
Circuit Court Friday.

The grand jury's decision does
not decide innocence or guilt, but
determines whether probable cause
is present for a trial to take place.

Assistant Commonwealth Attor-
ney Tamra Gorrnley declined to
comment on the grand jury's deci-
sion until McPherson's arraign-
ment.

Lexington attorneys Ken Smith

and Larry Roberts will be represent-
ing McPherson in his trial, which
will be set at his arraignment.

Roberts said McPherson “will
plead not guilty" at his arraignment
Friday.

“The grand jury indictment
doesn't have any effect at all .
All it is is an ofﬁcial charge. You
can’t be tried in Kentucky unless
y0u’ve been indicted by a grand
jury to be tried on a felony." Rob-
erts said.

Roberts said while “it's not custo-
mary," McPherson did not speak at
the grand jury hearing, “by his own
choice."

The alleged victim, an undeclared
sophomore, said: “I thought the
case was very strong. My friends
and my sorority are very supportive
(of me)."

The Kentucky Kernel was told
that the alleged victim is a member
of Delta Gamma social sorority. So-
rority president Trisha Henry said
she would neither conﬁrm nor deny
that the victim was a member be-
cause of sorority policy.

McPherson’s membership in Phi
Kappa Psi has been suspended until

See lNDtCTMENT, Page 6

After two consecutlve losses, Wildcats hep-
lng to pull out of winter slump.

Story, Page 2.

higher-education officials about

lack of continuity.

Jones said he would support an
amendment to address those fears.
His proposal would require the
screening committee to nominate a
minimum of half the incumbent
board members. He then would be
required to re-appoint a minimum
of one-fourth of the incumbents.

But earlier in the day. Senate
President Pro Tempore John “Eek"
Rose (D-Winchester‘) said all in-
cumbents should be nominated. “I
think that all the incumbents ought
to be considered again."

UK President Charles Wething-
ton, who attended the meeting. said
the proposed amendment answered
his concerns about continuity.

“I think that I hear interest in con-

See TRUSTEES, Page 6

JASON RANSOELL/ Kernel St."

UK students Christy Whitaker (left) and Kim Shaler participat-
ed in last night's candlelight vigil outside Patterson Hall.

Gulf vigil organizers
unhappy with turnout

Staff reports

A candlelight vigil was held
last night in remembrance of the
one-year anniversary of the war
between the United States and
Iraq, but organizers of the event

were disappointed that only 30
people attended.

“I really hoped for a larger
turnout," said Kim Shafer, an
elementary education senior.

See VlGlL, Page 6

UK TODAY

Corbin Seavers, a black activist involved in

the anti-apartheid movement in South Atri-

ca, will speak at noon at UK’s Martin Luther

King Jr. Cultural Center.

Kentucky Kernel

State budget ax
may fall again
on Ky. colleges

By GREGORY A. HALL
Associate Editor

FRANKFORT, Ky. — The clock has struck 11 on the possibility of an-
other budget cut for the eight state universities.

A cut seemed inevitable after a meeting yesterday including the eight
state university presidents and Kevin Hable, Gov. Brereton Jones' cabinet

secretary.

Based on the meeting, UK President Charles Wethington said he will tell
his top administrative officials Thursday to prepare for another cut — in

the first year of the 1992-94 biennium.

Jones' biennial budget request will be released next week.
“There is a strong likelihood that there will be a further cut for higher ed

ucation," Wethington said.

No one in the Jones administration would say whether a cut is definite.
Hable said a final decision has not been made.

“We're trying desperately not to have [0 cut it." Jones \“tlld. “But I can't
make a definitive statement right now.‘~

After the meeting, Hable told reporters that the purpose of the meeting
was to discuss the likelihood of a budget cut,"

Wethington said he will not give his administrators an estimate of how

much to prepare to cut.

Hable would not specify the possible range of the cut ()thcr state agen-
cies were required a few weeks ago to suhtnit plans for l() and 15 percent

CUlS.

Wethington said he doesn’t believe a cut would be that dccp.
“I don't see anything on the horizon. still, to indtcatc that the cuts would

be that severe," he said.

The state universities were ordered in November to cut 5 percent of their

current year‘s budget.

“If there is any good news, ll is that there is not another LUl this year."

Wethington said.

However, at the time Wethington said the 5 percent cut left the l'nivcrst-

ty “close to the vest."

Wethington wouldn't say if another cut would mean layoffs.
“I don’t think that it serves any purpose to speculate on worst-case sce<

narios,” he said.

But if cuts were in the 10 to 15 percent range, he said ll would be “fair to

say" layoffs would occur.

Any further cut would mean a continuauon and a tightening of UK's hir-

See BUDGET, Page 6

University students observe
legislation at work in Capitol

By GREGORY A. HALL
Associate Editor

FRANKFORT. Ky. ~— While
hundreds of anti-abortion protes-
tors swamped the State Capitol
yesterday, a touch smaller group
of UK students managed to
make a presence of their own for
a different purpose.

About 30 UK students trav-

eled to the Capitol building to
learn about the legislative pro-
cess and meet state officials.

The event was coordinated by
the Student Government Assoc1<
ation and Collegians for Aca-
demic Excellence,

Students met Gov. Brereton
Jones and legislative leadership

See STUDENTS. Page 6

Bush speech an attempt
to begin ’92 campaign

By WALTER R. MEARS
Associated Press

WASHINGTON — With a dead-
line challenge to Congress and a
preemptive set of economic steps,
President Bush moved Tuesday
night to end his campaign slump
and seize the initiative in his quest
for a second term.

In the long-advertised State of the
Union address billed as his political
Super Bowl, Bush asked the Demo-
cratic Congress to pass his econom-
ic program by March 20 and said
the voters should demand it.

“From the day after that, if it
must be: The battle is joined.“ Bush
said. Actually. the battle already is
joined, and it will not abate until the
Nov. 3 presidential election.

Speaker of the House Thomas S.
Foley said the Democrats aren't go-
ing to yield their economic de-
mands, including a tax cut for the
middle class to be financed, for fair-
ness, by higher taxes on the rich.
Bush dismissed it as “soak the rich"
thinking. It has been a veto issue in
past tax disputes.

Battered by an economic slump
he has acknowledged he misread.
Bush has seen his standing plunge

from the record polling highs of the
Persian Gulf vtctory days to an ap-
proval rating down to .13 percent tn
the latest New York limes-CBS
News Poll.

The State ol the Union, that hour
of ceremony when a president tells
Congress arid the nation his plans
and proposals for the year ahead.
was his first, and best, chance of the
year to reverse the slide.

And Bush raised the stakes by
talking about ll for ll) weeks, adver-
tising the address as his answer to
the recession that has made htrn p0»
litically vulnerable.

As a campaigner. he has com-
plained that while he could act in
the Persian Gulf without waiting
out the slow pace of congressional
action, on economic measures, he
has to await the tortuous process of
House and Senate action.

But he said Tuesday night there
are things a president can do with-
out Congress. “and I am going to do
them."

He said he had just ordered a
change in tax—withholding tables so
that less money will be taken from
paychecks and people will have

See BUSH, Page 6

INSIDE

You won’t have
to learn Italian to
enjoy UK opera.
Story, Page 3.

Sports ............................ 2
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Viewpoint ....................... 4
Classifieds ..................... 5

2 - Kentucky Kernel, Wednesday, January 29, 1902

UK hoping to end latest ‘January slump’

Pitino’s Cats
regroup for
Mississippi

It was a dark week for the No. 14
Wildcats.

UK entered last week ranked No.
8 in the nation and riding an eight-
game winning streak. There was
talk about moving into the top ﬁve
in the next poll.

But then came a 107-85 loss at
Tennessee last

And in the past 10 seasons. the
Wildcats have registered 32 of their
85 losses the ﬁrst month of the
year.

But it was foul trouble that
plagued Kentucky in its most recent
setbacks.

Against Tennessee, the Wildcats
were called for 41 fouls. Five
players fouled out

In the Arkanm game. two
players fouled out as UK was called
for 30 personals. Jamal Mashbum,
the team's key player, was rendered
ineffective by early foul problems
and scored only four points in 21
minutes of playing time.

“Mash really didn’t play," Pitino
said of the

Tuesday. And
four days later
in what was
billed as a “Pig
Roast" in Rupp
Arena, Arkansas
skewered the
Wildcats 105-88

and snapped a

23-game home

winning streak MASHBURN
against Southeastem Conference
teams.

“We have got to turn it around."
understated UK coach Rick Pitino,
who had never experienced a loss to
an SEC team in Rupp Arena in his
three seasons as coach.

The losses left UK 14-4 overall
and 4-2 in the SEC East Division,
tied for first with Tennessee.

Talk around the state will invaria-
bly turn to the “January Slump" that
always has been an excuse by fans
for losing games.

sophomore for-

ward. “He

wasn’t a fac-
tor."

UK also suf-
fered a poor
three-point
shooting perfor-
mance against
Tennessee,
making only six

of 32 for a sea-
son~low 18.8 percent. In an 85-67
loss to Pittsburgh the second game
of the season, it made only seven of
36 for 19.4 percent.

But against Arkansas, the Wild-
cats made 12 of 29 from three-point
range for 41.3 percent.

In both losses, however, the final
score wasn’t a fair indicator of how
the Wildcats played as Tennessee
and Arkansas pulled away in the ﬁ-
nal minutes at the free-throw line.

Tennessee. leading 83-76 with
3:55 left, made 20 of 24 foul shots

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Lady Kats garner
4th-straight victory

Cushenberry’s
1 l-point spree
sealed the win

By ERNEST L. WRENTMORE
Staff Writer

They finally did it.

The Lady Kats found a way to
win a game with a lower degree
of difﬁculty than usual.

Last night at Memorial Coli-
seum, they defeated Butler Uni-
versity 97-75 and ran their win—
ning streak to four games.

Kristi Cushenberry led UK
with 23 points. Late in the sec-
ond half, she outscored Butler
11-0 in a little over two minutes.

UK coach Sharon Fanning
said she had been waiting for
Cushenberry to “step up and
take charge."

“We ﬁnally picked it up in the
second half,” Fanning said. “We
needed Cushenberry’s leader-
ship, and I think she showed
some tonight."

UK hasn’t played well against
lesser opponents all year. The
Kats have mentioned that they
“seem to play to the level of the
competition.”

The Lady Kats started off
sluggish and was losing by ﬁve
points several times in the ﬁrst
half, the last time at 15-10.

“We were up for it, but they
just started off so strong — they
were hitting all the buckets," Cu-
shenberry said. “We were proba-
bly looking ahead to Alabama
Saturday.”

Everybody got in the game
and scored. Seldom used Kayla

Campbell came off the bench to
score a career-high 10 points, all
in the second half.

The sophomore guard isn’t
bashful. Regardless of where she
is on the court when she re-
ceives the ball, she looks at the
basket as if she’s ready to let it
fly.

“I’ve been
working on
my threes in
practice a
lot, and I’m
ready to
shoot it
when l have
the opportu-
nity,”
Campbell
CUSHENBERRY said. “I'm
pretty excited. Hopefully, I'll
get the chance to have some
bigger nights."

UK led at the half 36-31. In
the ﬁrst 4:09 of the second half,
UK went on a 16-2 run when it
applied a vigorous press.

“They really got after us in the
second half with their press."
said Butler coach Paulette Stein.
“We broke their press pretty eas-
ily in the first half, but they ob-
viously made the right adjust-
ments during halftime."

Angela Cotton led the Bull-
dogs (6-10) with 19 points. The
sophomore forward used many
nice moves around the basket

“This was the second game
where she hasn’t set limits on
herself," Stein said. “She was
very strong-headed tonight. To-
night, she was a factor."

UK improved its record to 11-
8 overall. remaining 4-1 in the
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4 f Kentucky Kernel, Wadnaaday, January 29, 1992

Kentucky Kernel
Established in 1894
Independait since I971

Editorial Board
Victoria Martin, Editor in Grief
N. Alan Comett, Editorial Editor
Jerry Voigt, Editorial Cartoonist
Dale Greer. Managing Editor
Gregory A. Hall, Associate Editor
Brian lent. Design Editor
Kyle Foster, News Editor
Joe Braun, Assistant Editorial Editor
Mary Madden. Satior Staff Writer

Unhappy students
should voice their
opinions about seats

For the past three seasons, UK students have waited in anticipa-
tion for their men’s basketball team to return to the glory for which
it long has been known. This is that year. And the Wildcats take on
Southeastern Conference foe Ole Miss tonight at Rupp Arena.

But many fans still are unhappy.

Just when we thought Wildcat basketball would be back to nor-
mal, the omnipotent ofﬁcials in the UK Athletics Department have
decided that the very best seats in Rupp Arena should be taken away
from students. With not even so much as forewaming, Section 31 is

now the pep band’s new home.

At all UK games. the students in lower arena traditionally stand
and cheer —— as any well-respecting student body should. Likewise,
at all UK games, the alumni sit on their posteriors and clap approv-
ingly when the lads make a smashing play. It seems. however, that
those rowdy students were getting in the way of the show. “We’ll
see to that!“ they exclaimed, and proceeded to moved the band. a
group they could force to sit down, to Section 31.

As students. the members of the band are entitled to student seat-
ing like everyone else. Band members traditionally have been some
of the loudest and most organized of the student fans —— that was

when the band was in Section 33.

[it just {are {l at! \U W”

Now, they have been moved to the best student seats and have
been “asked“ to sit down. Ofﬁcials in the Athletics Department are
very pleased that the band has been cooperative and hasn‘t com-
plained. They're also pleased that the students “understand.”

Well, the band has complained, and the students don’t understand.
Any band complaints are quashed by the band instructors. Hundreds
of students signed a petition in protest of the move as well. You
don’t hear what you don’t listen for, and the Athletics Department
certainly is not listening to the students.

Students who are interested in voicing their complaints about the

seating move should call Associate Athletics Director Larry Ivy at

257-8000.

Our solution to the problem is that the band be moved back to
Section 33 and be entitled to cheer in an unencumbered and robust

manner.

The tickets in Section 31 should be returned to general distribu-
tion in the student ticket lottery. UK students get few enough good
seats in Rupp Arena as it is. This vulgar display by the Athletics De-
partment is an affront to all UK students.

Athletics Dept. guilty of a Rupp Arena rip-off

Put in a larger context, it simply
is a symptom of the disease. The
bureaucratic theft of the choicest
student basketball tickets consid-
ered alone is only a petty crime. But
this high-handed effrontery is not
an aberration, it is pan of a pattern.
The ticket fiasco is just another pa-
thetic example of how this Univer-
sity ignores its student body.

An article in the Dec. 13, 1991
Kentucky Kernel contained a com—
ment on the ticket dispute that
caught my attention for its stunning
amount of inanity, condescension
and irrelevancy. It came by way of
Rodney Stiles, director of adminis-
tration services. and was directed
toward students who questioned the
athletic administration’s seating

policy.

Stiles, whose comment was so far
aﬁeld from the problem that it basi-
cally was meaningless, scolded stu-
dents that we should be “focusing
on what the team‘s doing (and)
not the seating arrangement(s).”

Now I do not know where Stiles
attended school, nor do I really
care, but I would like to inform him
about a quaint. curious tradition we
nostalgically cling to here at UK.
Students. for some unknown rea-
son, actually stand and cheer during
games. Who knows why? Perhaps it
is their way of focusing on what the
team is doing, or maybe they are
hoping to show their support for the
team. Whatever the reason, I de-
cline to spend time explaining
something that obviously strikes

Don
' YATES

Stiles as so alien and unthinkable.

Being open-minded. however, I
realize that other schools may not
follow our outdated custom. One of
the more terrifying basketball teams
to face on their home ﬂoor, What-
smatta U., have for years rattled op-
ponents by having their students re-
main perfectly still while they
conceal themselves about the gym.

At Duke and Michigan students,
however, muster the courage to
stand throughout the contest cheer-
ing madly all the while. As a matter
of fact, these schools actually reck-
lessly permit students to occupy
most of the lower arena. (Brief
pause here for hyperventilating,
woozy UK administrators to grasp
the awesome ramiﬁcations of such
dangerous generosity.) But. of
course. these schools play basket-
ball to win and not just entertain
corpulent alumni.

Even with as much bitterness and
disgust I can generate, my powers
of cynicism fail me when I attempt
to discuss the alumni. I deplore the
way the alumni saunter into the are-
na ﬁve minutes into the game wear-
ing a surprised look on their faces
that the game was not delayed until
they could make their entrance.

Why can’t they show up before the
game has begun? What could they
be doing? Maybe they sit in the
parking lot hoping that an adminis-
trator will send out a complimen-
tary student to carry them to their
seats.

Even more bizarre is how many
alumni have a habit of rushing to
the exits the moment UK moves
ahead one point of their opponent
during the last 10 minutes of the
game. What is their rush? Did they
remember that they left home with-
out turning off their recliners? Per-
haps they live in dread fear that
every minute spent away from
home provides their cat with anoth-
er chance to learn how to operate
the elecuic carving knife and plot
its revenge for being neutered.

Personally. I don’t care if these
lethargic, whining dolts ever come
to a game. The only time they yell
is to order a student to sit down.
They move so little during the game
that ushers have to come down and
roll them over so that bedsores do
not begin to break out on their sen-
sitive hides.

And yet these living dead alumni
command constant attention from
our Athletics Department. The sim-
ple reason we have no more mid-
court seats is that UK officials are
hypersensitive to the demands of in-
fluential alumni.

And though I would like my seats
back, their mere return is not
enough. Over the past few years

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these administrative slaps in the
face have become the usual manner
in which UK ofﬁcialdom deals with
students. The Great Ticket Robbery
of 1992 is a minor offense with an
almost mischievous feel to it. The
overlooked importance of this up-
roar lies in the fact that is only a
small footnote to the larger story of
student neglect at UK.

Students no longer feel that they
can exercise any influence upon the
University.

The worst enemy this institution
has had in 20 years. former Gov.
Wallace Wilkinson, found a way to
slither his way onto our top admin-
istrative body. No student wants
him there. no student even respects

Move. it, freshmn‘. I‘M
gonna sti- iA the hunt
row of ﬁg ch55!

BEAU JANZEN/ Staff Artlsl

the guy. But no one listened and no
one cared, so now he parks his can
on our furniture every Board of
Trustees meeting. It is ironic that
the only people who listened, facul-
ty trustees Raymond Betts Carolyn
Bratt, are members of the very
same faculty that Wilkinson accus-
es of ignoring student needs.

Most of the same thing can be
said about Foster Ockerman, board
chairman. Few students have any
desire to see a political crony of
Wilkinson in charge of the board.
And yet there he was a couple of
weeks ago, grinning like a kid who
burped in class and got away with
it, welcoming him to our board.

No matter what the issue -— park-

ing. tuition, administrative policies.
personnel matters — we have little
voice in what the school does. If
any attempt is made by students to
voice our dissent or assert our inter-
ests, we are treated like misbehav-
ing children who have no business
meddling in the adult world. That is
what i