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Letting the air out

Concern prompts SAB to cancel balloon launch

By JAMES TEISER
Staff Writer

UK spirits may be rising for next
month's homecoming game, but bal-
loons won't be.

The UK Student Activities Board
recently decided to cut the tradition-
al balloon launch from the game fes-
tivities because of environmental
concerns.

Nichole Segneri, chairman for the

Homecoming Committee, said the
decision — which came in a meet-
ing last week —- was made for the
benefit of the University.

“With the environment being such
a big issue, it was in the best interest
for the school and the community
not to have the balloons this year,”
Segneri said.

SAB president Page Estes said the
committee’s decision reﬂects the
SAB’s commitment to student con-

cems.

"Being the SAB, we represent
students and their concerns Any-
time there is student awareness and
student concern, we have to note it,"
Estes said.

The UK football team will enter-
tain visiting Mississippi State Uni-
versity on homecoming, Oct. 13.

An Aug. 31 letter to the Kernel
written by a member of Students
Against the Violation of the Envi-

ronment (SAVE) spoke of problems
with UK launching balloons.

The letter. written by Stephanie
Geddes, raised concerns about pol-
lution from the balloons after they
fall back to earth and the “ﬂagrant
disregard" the balloon launchers
have for the environment.

“UK fans were supposed to ‘ooh’
and ‘ah' and marvel at the magniﬁ-

See BALLOON, page 4

Learning The Ropes

Tony .Leonard, a UK ROTC member, took advantage of pleasant temperatures on campus Tuesday while scaling across a rope that
was tied between two trees. Cloudy skies prevailed yesterday, and today there will be little change in the weather pattern. Forecasters
are calling for mostly cloudy skies with a 30 percent chance of showers, with the high around 80 degrees and the low around 55 to 60.

By TYRONE JOHNSTON
Contributing Writer

Trying to find a parking space
at the UK Medical Center will
grow increasingly more difficult
In the coming semesters for fa-
culty, staff and patients.

The Medical Center will lose
250 to 500 A and B permit park—
Ing spaces over the next couple
of years because of construction
in the area, said Tom Samuel,
executive vice-chancellor at the
Medical Center.

He said the decrease in park—
Ing spaces Is under control at
this time but will affect the en-
tire lFK campus as people search
for replacement parking.

"We‘re out lront right now
but the problem is everywhere,"
Samuel said.

In addition to stall and faculty
spaces. 200 patient parking spac-
Cs will be lost because of a new
office building to he creClCd on
the \l[(‘ between the Porter and
the Sanders-Brown ("‘nter. The
second and third iloors of the
Medical Plaza parking structure
will help make tip for the lost
spaces.

Samuel said he expects patient
parking to increase once the
third floor of the \ledical Plaza
is completed

Eventually. the entire Medical
Plaza structure will have to be
used for patient parking. but
Samuel said semcc manage-
ment programs are in placc to
aid students anti employees.

In one of the programs. cm-
ployecs gather to make recom-
mendauons to employers: also.
employees were IIlVllCd to at-
tend a series of parking forums
held In August.

A committee called the
“Prime Time" committee has

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to feel pinch
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been appointed to deal with the
parking issue. The committee
had several ideas for coping
with the problem but wanted
employee input to improve the
situation.

A newsletter was sent out af-
ter the meetings to show the
suggestions that had been made
and the actions planned to deal
with them.

Future forums will be held to
show employees what progress
is being made on the parking sit-
uation.

One suggesred solution is to
build a new parking structure.
But In a recent Issue of (In Cen-
(er, the center's personnel news
paper. Samuel said this is not
icasiblc because a new structure
would cost between $1." and
$1 5 million.

According to Vice Chancellor
tor Administration Jack Blan-
zon. a new parking structure
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parking space. or $80 to Sim a
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at this ume would be through a
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SGA

Continued trorn page 1

A resolution stating that the stu-
dent body would like to invite candi—
dates in Kentucky's 1991 Gubema-
lon'al Race to campus also passed
the senate.

Education senator Christa Collins,
who heads the senate’s Prejudice
Reduction task force, updated the
senate on the progress of the force.
According to Collins. there has been

Olympic
Continued from page 1

at Georgia Tech. A track and field
stadium, to seat 85,000, has to be
built, along With a velodrome and a
nalatorium.

Balloons

Continued trom page 1

cence of these balloons as they
soared upward “ Geddes said of
last year’s balloon launch. But the
balloons “eventually fell back to
eanh, where they clogged creeks
and streams, choking fish and wild-
life.“

SAB had previously sponsored
the launch.

However, Segnen said the com-
mittee had infomtally decided not to
have the balloon launch before
Geddes’ letter appeared in the Ker-
nel. She added that “it was nor a
tough deCIsion for the committee.“

SAVE president Julie Blackburn,
a natural resource conservation jun-
ior, said people don’t realize they
are hurting the environment as they
watch the balloons fly away.

“a lot of response" from students to
the task force. The task force will
meet Tuesday to discuss action tak-
en to reduce campus prejudice.

Last night's senate meeting was
televised live on campus on Teleca-
ble channel six, said SGA vice pres-
ident Sarah Coursey. She said that
the meeting will be replayed Tues-
day at 5 pm. and next Saturday at 4
pm. on Channel 16. It also will be
replayed periodically on Channel 6.

The same time schedule will be
used for ﬁve other senate meetings
to be televised this year, Coursey
said.

These things are expected to cost
up to $500 million, according to the
AOC.

A $210 million domed stadium.
which will house basketball and
gymnastics in the Olympics, is al-
ready under construction to house
the NFL Falcons.

She said whales and other wildlife
have been found dead with balloon
material constricting the intestines
of those animals.

“It's strictly for entertainment
purposes and nothing else,” Black-
burn said.

She said she is happy with the
SAB decision, but fears the board is
less concerned for the environment
than with making popular decisions.

Estes said the SAB is concerned
for the environment and will limit
other traditional events if deemed

necessary.

She said the key to those decr-
sions will be to keep alert.

“We need to be observant, to
think things through, to anticipate
possible problems and to take neces
sary actions when appropriate.“
Estes said.

Parking

Continued trom page 1

cannot close the street because of its
key role in the ﬂow ofcity trafﬁc, he
said.

Beginning Sept. 24, hospital and
center employees with A and B
parking permits will park in the Blue
Lot on the southem side of Com-
monwealth Stadium. The bus stop
located at the stadium will be reno-
vated and shuttle services will be
provided to the hospital.

The original plan was to enlarge
the Stivers parking lot off Virginia
Avenue for hospital parking. How-
ever, there is more security and safe-
ty at the stadium.

Female employees who arrive or
leave during evening and early
morning hours will still be allowed
to park in the Medical Plaza lots for
security reasons.

Other suggestions made at the
parking meeting were for bike racks
to be provided; free reserved park-
ing for carpoolers; and for a bridge
to be built across South Limestone
Street. These suggestions will be
considered by the Prime Time Com-
mittee and parking personnel.

By KELLY NANCE
Contributing Writer

Saying that “people are peo-
ple,” two visiting Soviet students
urged Americans to change their
stereotypes of the Soviet Union at
a Haggin Hall open forum Tues-
day.

While occasionally searching

The AOC plans to spend Sl bil-
lion for the Games.

It expects to take in —— from li-
censing, television and other sources
— $1.16 billion, leaving a surplus

Stephens

Continued from page 1

ple are less willing now to settle dis-
putes among themselves and would
rather go to court.

“We are a litigious society — peo—
ple don’t settle their problems by
talking about them or seeking ad-
vice," Stephens said. “They jump
into court and file a suit.“

Another recent change is ongoing
education for attorneys in Ken-
tucky. He said this was voluntary in
the past, but is now mandatory be-
cause of low attendance.

“We make make lawyers go to
school l5 hours a year,” Stephens
said.

Stephens said he has several goals
for the future including giving every
Circuit judge a clerk; setting time
limits on how long a judge has to

for the right words, Kirill Seme-
nov and Katya Afanasjeva told
everyone at “Russia Comes to
Haggin,” that people in Russia are
not much different than people in
America.

“Before I came to the United
States, I thought it was a real par-
adise," he said. “And now it’s
so-so. People are people -— alike
in every country.”

Afanasjeva, a Leningrad citizen
who has been in the United States
with an exchange program since
June, has learned to talk in the
everyday speech patterns of
American students.

“I don’t speak (British) Eng-
lish," she said. “I speak American
slang," because that is what eve-
ryone understands.

Afanasjeva said that most
Americans seemed nice to her be-
cause they smile more than peo-
ple in the Soviet Union.

“Our people don’t seem very
smiley,” she said because of the
number of problems the Soviets
face like having to look for food
to eat and clothes to wear every
day.

However, Semenov said Rus-
sians are much more polite to one
another. He said that