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Billy Joe Miles appointed to chair at yesterday's

loves me and calls
me his beautiful
princess," she
replied.

“How nice. And your

outfit?”

"My father gave that to

me. He loves me and
does anything I ask
him to," she
answered. "What
does your dad do for
you?"

meeting, Steve Reed becomes vice chairman

By Mat Herron

SENIOR sit—flats?

Students will pay about .3
percent more tuition in 2000
through 2002, thanks to a propos»
al approved by the Board
Trustees at its meeting yester-
day.

UK’s tuition will increase by
less than half the rate it did in

through this year.

lid (‘arteiz head of the Uni
versity‘s budgeting office. do
scribed the increase as reason-
able. L'K President (‘harles
Wethington noted that more
money for scholarships would be
available to offset the cost to stu-
dents.

Student Government Associ
ation President Jimmy Glenn
said students can stomach the in

"He sent me to prep
school where I
learned how to say
‘how nice’ instead of
‘go to hell'."

A truck driver amused
himself by running
over Louisville fans
walking down the
side of the road. He
would swerve to hit
them, and there
would be a loud
"thump." Then he
would swerve back
on the road.

One day, as the truck
driver was driving
along, he saw a
priest hitchhiking. He
asked the priest,
“Where are you
going, Father?"

"I'm going to the church
five miles down the
road.” replied the
priest.

“No problem, Father! I'll
give you a lift. Climb
in the truck." The
happy priest climbed
into the passenger
seat and the truck
driver continued

crease.

(llenn. who met with (‘arter
privately before yesterday‘s
meeting. said that students can

the last two years. in 1997. the
Council on Postsecondary Educa
tion voted to increase llK's tuv
ition by 23 percent from 1907

stomach the increase and that it
is necessary for the l'niversity to

reach the goal of becoming one of

the nation‘s best. "They are
jumps students will understand."
he said. "and they are lumps stu-
dents will back."

That would be in contrast
sharply with student feelings in
fall W97. 'l‘hen. several students
protested the council's 23 percent
increase in a demonstration in
front of Patterson ()fiice 'l‘ower.

Setting tuition is a new re—
sponsibility for the PK Until re
cently. the Council on Postsec-
ondary Education determined tu-
ition rates. This was an anomaly
in the tiiitioirsetting process. as
only Kentucky and a few other
states had a council that set tu-

Left, junior Frank

ition.

The majority

iii'

Slillf‘s
leave it up to the universities to

dedicated to iiiipi'oving UK.
“What l'ni running for is

decide how much their students
pay.

Faculty trustee l.o_\~s .\lather
said the board should not take
seitiiig tuition lightly

"There are many questions
we can raise." Mather said. "We
need to start addressing the issue
of tuition as a board."

in other business. the board
voted 1179 to appoint member Bil-
ly .loe Miles as its new chairman;
Steven Reed. assistant [7.S. attor
nev in Louisville. as vice chair
man: and faculty trustee l)an

something We learned in kinder»
garten." Miles said. “and that's to
share."

Miles beat out fellow board
member Paul t‘hellgren. who
was nominated by the board‘s
nominating committee. Miles
succeeded former Gov. Edward

'I‘. "Ned” llreatliitt as board
chairman.
As the board's chairman.

Miles will appoint six of" the
members of the committee that
will be appointed to find llK's
next president. The search will

Reedy as its secretary.

Before ilt' was named. Miles
espoused his ambition to make
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down the road.

Suddenly the truck

driver saw 3
Louisville fan walking
down the road and
swerved to hit him.
But then he
remembered the
priest in the truck, so
at the last minute he
swerved back to the
road, narrowly
missing him.
However, he still
heard a loud "thud."
Not understanding
where the noise
came from, he turned
to the priest and
said, “I'm sorry.
Father. i almost hit
that fan."

“That's okay," replied

the priest. "I got him
with the door!"

Twehves and sophomore Carissa Williams,
both civil engineering majors, work on their
class project on the lawn in front of the
Administration Building.

Above. civil engineering sophomore Erin Hall
makes fine adjustments for her assignment.

Civil engineering students learn to calibrate
their equipment, comparing their results
against an already known distance.

The course, an elementary surveying class,
is required for graduation for both civil and
mining engineers, said professor David
Reynolds, of the civil engineering depart-
ment.

The class meets every Tuesday from 2-5
p.rn. The students are divided into groups
where they perform various field exercises.
While three hours may seem like a long time,
Reynolds said that even with the time allot-
ed, the class doesn't come close to covering
all the information there is to know about
surveying.

Kurt Zehnder, a civil engineering sophomore
taking Reynoid's class, said that surveying is
just one of the many fields offered in civil
engineering and that the survey class
allowed students to have a better grasp of

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Rescuers in Taiwan scrambled through the dark last night.
pressing to unearth thousands of‘ people trapped under the de-
bris of an earthquake that killed more than 1.700 people Hun-
dreds more were reported missing.

More than 100.000 Taiwanese were homeless after the 7.6-
magnitude quake toppled houses and high-rise apartment com-
plexes across central Taiwan early Tuesday. Roads buckled iii
waves. chunks ofland rose up to create new hills. cracked build»
ings tilted at crazy angles and a bridge was left dangling in the
air.

By today. 1,712 people were dead. more than 4.000 were in»
jured and almost 3.000 were believed trapped in the rubble. ac-
cording to the interior Ministry's disaster management center.
About 4 million households were still without power.

Taiwan is hit by dozens of quakes each year. but most are
centered in the Pacific Ocean east of the island and cause no
damage. The earthquake Tuesday was the island‘s second dead
liest quake after a 7.4 magnitude one killed 3.276 people in
1935.

“We‘re pulling the dead out one by one. but it‘s hard to get
an overall picture of the number of fatalities," said (Then Wen-
hsien. a rescue official in the central city of Fengyuan. 30 miles
from the epicenter. He had to plug his nose with tissue after
part of a building began shifting from an aftershock. releasing
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Emergency rescue
workers carry a
woman from a col-
lapsed lZ-story
hotel after an early
morning earthquake
yesterday in Taipei.
The ".5. Geological
Survey National
Earthquake infor-
mation Center said
the guake had a
preliminary magni-
tude of 7.6 and was
centered 145 kilo-
meters (90 miles)
south-southwest of

Taipei.

begin early next year. President
(‘harles ‘A’ethington will step
down in 2001. but will stay on as
a fundraiser for the University.

Union still
considered
possible

By Whitney Smith

CONTRlBUTlNG WRiiER

A place at the table is what many
graduate students have been striving
for at UK.

Many UK graduate students feel
the organization of a union for teaching
assistants. research assistants. and fel-
lows will help make sure they have a
strong position on campus.

“A iitiion gives collective represen-
tation and organization to help you
have more leverage in graduate student
benefits." said Susan Mains. a teaching
assistant and Phi). student in geogra»
phy and women‘s studies.

Last spring several graduate stu
dents. such as Mains. attempted to start
a union at UK. Due to the lack of sup-
port. the creation ofa union was not ac-
complished.

“An attempt to begin a union this
year hasn’t taken place, but people are
still thinking and talking about it."
Mains said.

Unions have been organized on
campuses across the country. At the
University of Louisville. the Graduate
Student (‘ouncil has developed a itnion.
()ther such unions exist at schools such
as lndiana. Purdue. Michigan and illi-
nois.

Many other unions have been cre-
ated to aid in getting wages and health
care. “The University will meet with
you. but will not directly address con-
cerns. With a union they are more like-
ly to take action." states Mains.

Without a union. many graduate
students turn to the support of The Na
tional Association of t}raduate/‘Profes-
sional Students. said l‘K graduate stu-
dent Holly Payne.

According to its web site. the. asso»
ciation believes that academic student
employees have the right to form
unions and bargain collectively with
their employers.

“l have received information from
The National Association of Gradu-
ate Professional Students and i know
they hold several conferences through-
out the year for people interested in it."
Payne said.

Graduate students took action last
spring and pushed for health care bene»
fits. An altered version of their propos-
al for health care benefits passed
through the University Senate Council
and the Board of Trustees. The cover-
age began iii this semester.

UK will cover the cost of a health
insurance plan for full-time research
assistants. teaching assistants. and fel~
lows. The final agreement also allows
departments to cover the cost of non-
teaching graduate students but does not
cover the health fee. as in the original
proposal.

“Graduate school administrators
made it our number one priority in
terms of funding." said Dr. Michael T.
Nietzel. dean of graduate students.
Mains said that UK is one of very few
schools to offer health care benefits to
graduate students that are not in a
union.

“While we continue efforts to begin
a union. 1 recognize that UK is willing
to work with us and attempt to make
progress." Mains said.

 

 

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dawn of
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millenni-
um to
bring an
era in
which our
desire to
create will
overwhelm
our
capacity to
destroy,”

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addressing the
United Nations

General Assembly

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