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Vol. XCIV, No. 129

Students mixed

By TIM WIESENHAHN
Senior Staff Writer

Despite UK's police chief saying
the arrest of an officer for drug pos-
session wouldn’t harm the force’s
credibility. students interviewed
yesterday {said the arrest was embar-
rassing.

Debbie Ricketts, 21. a merchan-
dising apparel and textiles senior
and member of the Delta Zeta social
sorority. said she was “really
shocked” when she learned of the
arrest of UK police officer Duane
Bernard Keys.

Established 1894

“I was very embarrassed for the

University, Ricketts said. “It was an
insult to the profession. I would of
thought he would had more integri-
ty."
UK Police Chief W.H. McComas
said Tuesday the arrest was indica-
tive of the societal problem of drug
abuse.

Keys, an officer with the UK Po-
lice for 3 1/2 years, was arrested Fri-
day morning after being pulled over
for speeding and suspicion of drunk-
en driving.

Although Ricketts said she would
be hesitant to call the the UKPD, she

University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky

Independent since 1971

Thursday, March 21, 1991

over impact of officer’s arrest

was still realistic about the scope of
the problem.

“I‘m more aware of what is going
on. I'm disappointed that it hap-
pened at UK."

Tina Eaves, 21. a special educa-
tion and elementary education jun-
ior, said the incident “definitely”
harmed her trust in the UKPD.

“These people are supposed to be
protecting our campus from people
like that and they get arrested,"
Eaves said. “I've lost a lot of re-
spect for the UK police force.“

Eaves. also a member of Delta
Zeta, said that although she has had

GETTING A LEG UP

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Keith Calloway (9) and Joseph Wethington (6)
ing a soccer scrimmage yesterday with Alpha Gamma Rho. Scott Wilson (4) looks on.

, both from Farmhouse social fraternity, collide dur-

WCHAEL CLEVENGER'Kernel S'a‘f

SGA proposes internal restructuring

By MARY MADDEN
Assistant News Editor

Next year may bring several
changes in the executive branch of
the UK Student Govemment Asso-
ciation.

Two constitutional amendments
and one resolution pertaining to re-
organization of the executive
branch passed through the SGA op-
erations and evaluations committee
last night.

The first amendment calls for a
change in the administrative struc-
ture of the executive branch. The
executive branch currently is divid-
ed into three departments: student
services, academic affairs and spe~
cial concerns.

The iUTlCIltIlllCIll calls for the re-
placement of the special concerns
department with a student relations
board. Representatives frorn several
different campus organizations and
special concern groups would com-

prise the board.

SGA President Sean Lohman.
who co—sponsored the bill. said
members of the board will act as ad»
viscrs to the executive branch and
the president on campus and student
govemment issues.

The second iirricndment calls tor
the establishment of a ways and
means committee “that erI be com.
prised of three members from the

See SGA. Back page

no experience with the UKPD said
she has lost a lot of respect for the
organization and would call the Lex-
ington-Fayette Urban County Police
Department first.

Keys was charged with possession
of cocaine, marijuana and drug para-
phemalia after Lexington metro po-
lice scarched his car.

The UK officer had bloodshot,
watery eyes. slurred speech and a
strong odor of alcohol on his breath,
court records show. He failed a field
sobriety test and registered a .225 on
an alcohol breath test.

Under Kentucky law. a person is

presumed legally intoxicated when
the blood—alcohol level is 0.10 per-
cent or higher. Keys refused a
blood—alcohol test, police said.

A preliminary hearing is sched-
uled for this morning at 9.

Chrissy Miller, an accounting
)UlllOT, said she was also disapv
pointed by the incident.

“Every time I drive because I‘ve
been in a car accident recently, I'm
scared somebody will hit me be-
cause thcy've been drinking. You
at least think there is someone out
there you can trust. You would im-
age you could trust a police officer

even when they are off duty."

But other students were more
sympathetic to the problems lacing
I-K police ott'icers.

“Police are like people to, they ~re
a reflection of society," said liraar—
torr Crenshaw. a marketing senior,
“I normally have a little tinge of
paranoia when the polite pull me
our anyway.

Crenshaw said his perception and
trust in the force has not changed.

“I‘m not really scared. I think
what lI should do is maybe make

See UKPD, Back page

Rutgers’ Jones second
dean candidate to Visit

By CAROLINE SHIVELY
Staff Writer

lihc second candidate tor the po»
sition of [K dean of students met
with members ot the President‘s
Board Rorrndliible last night.

George Jones. one of tour candr
dates for the position. will meet
with student leaders and campus tid-
mrrristrtitors today.

Jones was surprised by what he
learned about the Ifniverstt} .it last
night's meeting. “It‘s a little differ—
ent than what I thought." he said.
”It's not .is couserxzrtive as l
thought."

Jones said he chose I'lx' because
of “what I knew about irrt. It‘s the
kind of I'ntyersity that I\ appealin;
to me the atmosphere. the tradi-
trons and the history of the Linryerr
.\'ll\.

Jones now holds the position of
dean of students of livingstonc Col-
lege at Rtrtg.cr~ I irrversrty. “l h.i\c
the same title position, but I would
be more tlircctly responsible tor .i
larger nutriber ill People."

If lones '\ chosen for the I K po-
sition, he will begin working July I.
With him. he would bring “l5 years
of mperrence and student develop‘
rrrent. a diversity of e\pcrrcrrce from
.r number of llnl\Cf\'lllL‘\ indifferent
regions of the country and most im-
portantly .i .orruurtment to stu-
dents.”

This Is .lorte~.' first trip to the IR
campus. but he ;ilre;id\ has formsl
.i "xisiorr" tor tlic Dean or Students
( illit'i‘.

“It should be .in that r,
.orrimrtted to berm: arr .i».lyoc:ite of
the ~trrdents. to serving the students.
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of prank phone calls

By TOM SPALDING
Editor in Chief

A candid..tc for Student Govern»
ment Association president said
yesterday that he has received about
35 prank phone calls since January,
most asking that he wrthdraw from
the race

But Keith (‘l.rrk. a 38-year-old
Lexington Community College stu—
dent. said while the calls have been
disturbing, “under no circumstance”
would he dropout.

”Unfortunately. i don't know if
it‘s a sense or bigotry toward l.(‘t‘,
or racism towards me or rust the
fact that I‘m running," said t‘lark,
one of tour ..iirdidatcs tor the
March 27-38 elections. "I know one
thing, it's \cri irrrtnature."

('lark xiiil the gills occur whcn
ltc is at school. late .it night when he

Spring break not all beaches, bikinis

By ANITA MANNING
and PAT ORDOVENSKY
College Information Network

Ah, spring break. Beaches. Biki—
nis. Beer.

Not for Sharon St. Marie, 20, of
Barre, Vt. While many of her peers
frolicked in Florida recently, she
and Il other students from Trinity
College of Vermont fed homeless
people at SOME -—~ So Others
Might Eat w a Washington soup
kitchen.

“I‘ve learned they‘re not different
people," she said, dishing up a con-
coction of hamburger and vegeta-
bles. “They‘re you and I. just caught
in a different situation."

Tom Scales, 22, a senior at Van-
derbilt University in Nashville,
turned down invitations for serious
partying in the Florida Keys last
week. Instead, he spent the last
spring break of his college life
working with Mayan Indians in In-
diantown, Fla. And he paid his own
way.

Is this normal behavior for college

“I tried to get my friends to come...They said, ‘Heck
no, I'm going home. I‘m going to the mall.‘ "

Kristie Ashe,

college student in Vermont

students?

“The week before we left, I had
my doubts." he confessed. But later.
“I realized that not only was I doing
something that might be helpful, but
also that I was having a great time. It
was the best spring break I've ever
had." St. Marie and Scales are
among hundreds of students at doz-
ens of colleges and universities fore-
going hedonistic rituals to take part
in “altemative” spring breaks. They
pay all or part of their expenses for
food. transportation and shelter.

“Students are looking for ways to
move from conccm to action," said
Laina Warsavage of Campus Com-
pact. a coalition of public service-
minded college presidents. Problems
such as homelessness and pollution
“created a sense of urgency that we
have to take responsibility for our

cotnrnunrty and our world.“

The group. based at Brown I‘m-
versity. Providence. RI. began
with I: member schools in “>85:
now it has 250. During the 1989-90
school year, students on member
campuses provided about 8-19 mil-
lion worth of community service.

Conversely, one city in Florida
— Daytona Beach k spent more
than $276,500 to beef up the police
force and pick up the trash left be-
hind by spring break merrymakcrs
last year.

Judging from activities at a samv
pling of American campuses, the al-
temativc spring break is an attrac-
tive one:

~University of Pennsylvania at
Philadelphia. Nine students are in
Tijuana, Mexrco, this week building
houses in an impoverished area
devastated by rains. Another 22 are

in North l’hiladclphta. rebuilding
low-incorrie townhouses.

-Sarnt .\lrch.icl‘s College, (‘oi-
chestcr, \‘t. liorty‘three students
spent their belt. .73 March 1 break
working w itlt battercd and homeless
women in \‘v'ashrtrizton, building
homes near Selma. -\l;r.. working: .it
soup kitchens and wrth troubled
teens Ill (‘onncttrcut .rrrd New York.
and helping Salvadoran rclrrgces on
Long Island. \.Y.

-Vanderbr|t University. Just back
from break are 320 students who tri»
tored Guatemalan refugees and
Mayan lndrturs lll lndrantow'n, l"la..
worked on an Indian reservation in
South Dakota and cleaned up
streams lll Nashville

-Boston ('ollcgc. Nearly 300 stir
dents from \iarch 1 9 aided the rut
poverrshcd in Boston, Appalachia
and Kingston. Jamaica.

It‘s not everybody‘s idea of .i
post-finals blast

“I tried to get friends to
come,‘ said Trirrio ot Vermont‘s
Kristie Ashe, [8. during a break at
SOME. “They said. ‘lleck no. I‘m
going home. I‘m going D the mall.‘

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I» .it work and when ilt\ witc is out.
He said he there were four calls on
irresdiiy to his home brit when he
answered. all hung tip.

lle ‘iLlltI he has been unable to
record any of the calls

' \\'hene\'er we answer the phone.
we already know what it's going to
be because t‘rey hang tip on its.”
(‘lark said.

He said the triessages have includ-
ed tomrrrcnts such .is "We don‘t
need your kind." and profanity
words, The calls. he ‘~;llti. average
15‘ i“ \t‘t‘tllltis rrr lcrttlth

(‘lark said he‘s notified I l\' I‘it“
hcc but said thcx could not help hittr
bctarisi' he lrxes t‘ll ..irrrpus (lirk
\‘dltl he has not contacted l cxrngton
police about the incidents.

lle ~.rrd be (titled (ierreral fete;
phone rnit “il\t‘ them ‘rrrttrl‘crs.
-\illcil the phone tompany traced to

and beer

lltrt .\she. ot lasset hinctron. \t,
thought feeding the homeless was
about the best thing she could do
“\l\ parents wanted rrie to mine
home. but I wanted to go here '1 his
is w here. I wanted to be."
students. interacting
people whose backgrounds rlrtlcr
:rorri theirs t an be an Adopt-tier,

"I live .1 WW sheltcrcil lite. ‘ said
l)arci Harry, lts‘, oi l’laltsbur'g.
\.Y., .i freshman at l‘nnrty. "I took
.i lot of things Ior granted."

Serving L000 meals .i iliry .rt
SOME was her first e\pcriente of
poverty.

“I didn‘t know what to cxpctt I
thought I'd meet mean people or
that they‘d be angry, biit we sen ed
‘00 people this morning and .ill
i00 said thank you," she said.

The students‘ efforts don‘t go
unapprecrated. Donald Hood, ‘il.
of Washington, who says he’s .r re-
covering addict. applauded the
work of the Trinity students at
SOME, where he had rust had

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US. insisting on destruction of Iraqi facilities

By BARRY SCHWEID
Assocraled Press

WASHINGTON _, The United
States is insisting that Iraq‘s remain~
ing stockpiles of chemical and bio-
logical weapons be destroyed as
part of a new U N. resolution for a
permanent cease- -lire in the Persi in
Gulf War, US. officials said yester-
day.

The US. demand was contained
in a draft resolution crrculated by
the State Department among the
four other permanent members of
the Security Council. the officials
said.

Jacques Poos the Luxembourg
foreign minister and president of the
European Community said the dralt
would be distributed to the IO other
council members today.

“We hope it can be adopted with-
in the next few days,“ Poos said af-
ter meeting with Secretary of State
James A. Baker III. He declined to
divulge details.

While Iraq’s chemical and biolog-
ical weapons plants were virtually
wiped out by bombings during the
war, stockpiles of the lethal weap-
ons are believed to have survived.

The Bush administration, in nego-
tiating terms of the resolution,
wants to make sure Iraq‘s capability
to use such weapons is erased, as
well.

One way under consideration is
having the United Nations supervise
the destruction of the stock-
piles.

While lraq' 5 chemical and biological weapons
plants were virtually wiped out by bombings dur-
ing the war, stockpiles of the lethal weapons are

believed to have survived.

The negotiations were conducted
at the U nited Nations in New York as
well as among diplomats in Washing-
ton.

The State Department. through
spokesman Richard Boucher, called
on Iraq to provide a detailed report
on how it is complying with such
UN. requirements as the return of
seized property and the payment of
war damages.

Iraq told the council in a letter yes-
terday that the allied bombardment of
Iraq had destroyed seven ol the IS
Kuw ail Airways commercial airc ralt
that B ighdad s forces had sci/ed dur-
ing the occupation of the Clllll‘dlc.

Boucher said the resolution is ex-
pected to recognize the 1963 border
between Iraq and Kuwait and author-
ize stationing a UN. observer force
along it.

Iraq disputes the 1963 border and
seized some territory controlled by
Kuwait since then.

The resolution would not bar negd
tiations between Iraq and Kuwait to
draw new lines.

Alter Iraq invaded and then an-
nexed Kuwait last August, the Bush

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administration said it would support
tcm'torial negotiations —- provided
President Saddam Hussein reversed
the invasion and the talks were ap-
proved by a stored Kuwaiti govem—
ment.

The ousted Kuwaiti leaders said
they agreed.

However this proposal has been
quietly dropped since the victory
over Iraq and the restoration of the
emir Sheik Jabir a1 Ahmed al
Sabah.

The five permanent council mem-
bers are the United States, Britain,
China, France and the Soviet Un-
ion.

All are participating in the discus-
sion of a resolution.

The US. officials, who spoke on
condition of anonymity, said there
was no agreement yet to destroy
Iraqi chemical and biological weap-
ons stockpiles or on other major
provisions.

China, which had abstained on
the use of force against Iraq, was
said to be conccmed that demand-
ing elimination of Iraq‘s noncon-
vcntional weapons would be inter—
ference in Iraq’s internal affairs.

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KUWAIT CITY—— Kuwait 3' imam minisrcr said that could talt’
government has .quit after failing - *
to provide basic services arid rcw

'sertiis authoritymthe three

weeks sinccthc Pctiiari Gulf War ’

‘endcd. Ofﬁcials said yesterday

However that; haais ..

1? planstoaive 01’er .. ..

Crown Prince Saad Abdullah .
al- sabah who dissolved thc- 22-
member Cabiné : ' ' ,
last night, implied that some for-
that members of the Kuwaiti in
sistancc might be invited to join a
new government. but he‘ made no
promises _

He previously has promised to V
restore the Parliament, Suspended?
in 1986 but: has never suggested a

date datfor elections.

Iraqis invaded ’ '
The emir did not return to Ku-

wait until? 16 days after the tragic

left. and he received only a lake-

won applause from Kuwaitis who j j"
have bootinie increasingly critical
of its performance since the U S -
led forces drove Iraqi invaders
from the emiratc on Feb 27.

Sulayman al-Mutawa, the plan- _
ning minister, said the Cabinet re-
signed largely because of public
criticrmi.

The govcmment‘s resignation
“may ease the pressure that is
building up,” al—Mutawa said.
“Let us hope it speeds up the re.
turn to parliamentary elections.”

The Cabinet had been worn in
June 20, 1990, only weeks before
the Iraqi invasion of Aug. 2.

Kuwait’s emir, Sheik labor al-
Ahmed at-Sabah, was expected to

_. I. 30““ _
"”rulc'd Kuwait sincc 1759 The re-
formers are demanding greater
democratic freedoms,‘ including
.ﬁiﬁﬁQﬂS..$ﬂd"a resonant of the
Pauliament. ‘ '

A Cabinet reshufﬂe, even if it
includes new faces from outside
the aI~Sabah family, is unlikely to
satisfy ordinary citizens frustrated
with widespread shortages in the
emiratc that once ﬂoarished on oil
revenue.

The government has so far been
unable to restore electricity, water
and other services. In many pans
of Kuwait City. lines for food and
water have been growing each

:i'ster al-Mutawa said the massive

for any government to lead effecv

'In'his coinihctits.zPlanning Min- V

destruction inflicted by the Maps
had made it Virtually impossible .

lively

He cited the 550 oil wells set on
ﬁre by the Iraqis and the extensive
sabotage of electrical power sta-
tions, ports, government buildings
and businesses. ..

Members of the al- Sabah family
have returned from exile with
large supplies of food and water
for their private use, irritating
some Kuwaitis who suffered the
occupation. '

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Surveillance

By TOM WITOSKY
College Information Network

WASHINGTON — Years of be-
nign neglect of major college athlet—
ic departments soon may be re-
placed by active administrative
surveillance as a result of recom-
mendations made Tuesday by the
Knight Foundation‘s Commission
on Intercollegiate Athletics.

“If for no other reason, it will be
the result of a need for

self-protection,“ said Bryce Jor-
dan, president emeritus of Penn
State University.

“I don’t see how any college pres-
ident or chancellor can look at their
athletic department and not mandate
that it be a part of the academic mis-
sion."

Jordan, a commission member,
was among a number of chief exec-
utives who praised the commis-
sion‘s central recommendation to
put each college‘s chief executive in

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neglect in college athletics

command of the school’s athletic
department.

In its report, the commission rec—
ommended campus chief executives
be empowered with complete au-
thority over the operation of the
sports department.

Among its recommendations, the
commission suggested chief execu-
tivcs:

-Should receive explicit and com-
plete authority over all issues in-
volving the athletic department, in
cluding financial matters as well as
the power to hire and fire all coach-
es and administrators.

-Should exert stronger control
over the operations of the NCAA
and maintain their current interest in
the current reform movement within
the 85-year-old association.

-Should exercise effective voting
control over all conference issues
even if the day-to-day operations
are delegated to others.

‘Should exert greater control and
influence over the relationship be-
tween college sports and network
television.

-Should commit their institutions
to providing gender equity in all as-
pects of collegiate athletics.

UCLA Chancellor Charles Young
said the report‘s recommendations
should encourage many chief exec-
utives to take a more active role and
reverse the tradition of allowrng the
athletic department to CXISI without
being accountable to the president‘s
office,

“Many schools already have tak-
en most, if not all of these steps," he
said. “The question is whether all
want to follow it."

Young said he anticipated greater
reluctance among schools in confer-
ences such as the Big Eight, South
east and Southwest; he also suggest-
ed chief executivcs at those schools
will be willing to Join the move-
ment.

But SMU President Kenneth Pye
said he forsees the possibility of
some reluctance.

“If there is general momentum for
this, it ought to be successful. But
what happens if some schools begin
to drag their feet. Then you have the
same kind of wariness you find
when two cars meet at an intersec-
tion and wait for the other to
move."

Another chief executive said she
was very enthusiastic about the
prospect of taking several steps to
bring greater academic and fiscal in-
tegrity to the operation of college
sports.

“In many ways, this isn't athletic
reform, it is educational reform,“
said Donna Shalala, chancellor of
the University of Wisconsin-
Madison.

Soul Searching

Swift finds his home

at UK after

traveling

many different roads

By LINDSAY CAMPBELL
Staff Writer

ouis Swift can relate to students having. a hard time
choosmg a career path. He struggled With one him-

self.

“My early years were spent in preparation for be-

coming a

oman Catholic priest," said Swift, who

was a pointed dean of Undergraduate Studies last July. “

spent orig years, but was never ordained. I got up to the very

end and decided I didn’t want to do it, so I stepped down.”
Swift's 'oumey to UK be an at age 14, when Swift left his

family in

elaware to atten a Catholic boarding school and a

seminary at Saint Mary’s College in Baltimore, where he

earned a degree in philosophy.

In 1954 the church wanted Swift to receive more theological
training. He was sent to the Gregorian University, an interna—

tional institution run by the Jesuit
order in Rome. All studies were in
Latin, the common language for the
international students.

It was there. Swift said, he
learned an appreciation for active
vs. passive knowledge, because all
of his exams were oral and in Latin.

As he reached the last year of
training, Swift decided the priest-
hood was not for him. He eventual—
ly wanted to have a family.

At age 25. he returned to Balti—
more and taught Latin in the Catho-
lic school system.

What happened next. Swift said.
was “very providential. I'm con»
vineed.”

“I found out about an experimen—
tal program offered by Johns Hop.
kins University in Baltimore to
train ltigli school teachers," Swift
said. “It was for people who had a
liberal arts degree but no training in
education at all. It was tailor—made,
for me."

Swift said participants were
paired with other graduate students.
One went to graduate school to be
strengthened in an academic area.
while the other went to teach high
school and attend night classes in
education. At mid-year, the students
switched places.

Swift earned a masters of arts and
teaching degree through the pro—
gram, but he realized that teaching
high school was not what he wanted
to do.

“During the course of the pro-
gram I discovered I really wasn‘t
particularly interested in secondary
education," Swift said. “I was very
fond of the academic side. 1 really
enjoyed that. I decided I wanted to
teach in college, and to do that you

Swift tries

By LINDSAY CAMPBELL
Staff Writer

As dean of Undergraduate Stud-
ies. Louis Swift operates under a
simple philosophy.

“I try to do things that I think are
possible and don‘t try to fight bat-
tles that I know I can‘t win," he
said. “It's a waste of time."

SWift said the greatest possibility
he sees for the University is the
creation of an undergraduate pro-
gram that is rewarding to students
anti faculty.

Before assuming his role as dean,
Swift spent four years as director of
University Studies. During that time
he was involved in revising the Uni-
versity Studies requirements in or
der to improve undergraduate edu-
cation.

Although a good core curriculum
is essential, SWIft said it is not the
solution to all problems facing un~
dergraduale education.

“When a professor closes his or
her door. what transpires between
professor and student is the most
important thing that happens on this
campus in the instructional area,"
he said.

Swift said hisjob is to ensure that
instructors have all the support they
need to do a good job. but he also is
relying on the faculty to furnish him
with ideas.

“I don't need to generate a bunch
of great ideas in what needs to be
done." Swift said. “There are a lot
of intelligent people around here.
very inventive people who have a
lot of good ideas about what under-
graduate education ought lo be like.
My Job is to figure out which of
their good suggestions we can actu-

have to have your PhD."

Swift received a teaching assist-
antship at Johns Hopkins and stud-
ied English literature. He said litera-
ture gave him a different
perspective as compared to the ra-
tional approach of philosophy.

He gives particular credit for this
discovery to novelist William
Faulkner anti his stream»of-
consciousness technique.

“I became aware of the impor-
uince of literary form in reflecting
reality through words on a page. I
could feel (that reality) in addition
to knowing it. It was a way of expe-
riencing the character‘s feelings
through the words in a way I had

“They made me feel so
comfortable that I really
liked the idea. I found a
much more cooperative
spirit here. with people
encouraging you to do
things."
Louis Swift,

Undergraduate Studies
—
never experienced in studying phi—
losophy."

But Swift said he still was not
completely satisfied.

"By the end of my first year in
graduate school I decided I didn't
love literature or want to spend my
whole life teaching it. My area of
interest is in the early Christian
writers who wrote in Greek and
Latin."

Swift transferred to the classics
department and started his graduate

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LlNDSAV CAMPBELL “um-a 1'1"

Dean of Undergraduate Studies Louis Swift said he is glad he decided to come to UK to teach in the Cl iQQtCS Department The only thing I
regret IS that l didn‘t come to Kentucky sooner," he said

work over again. completing his
doctorate at age *2.

While attending graduate school.
Swift met Jo Daniel who later
became his wife ~ “:1 very talented
and brilliant" history graduate s‘ltl‘
dent.

After leaving Johns Hopkins.
Swift taught at the State University
of New York at Buffalo, and his
wife at a small Catholic women's
college iii Baltimore.

He drove ll hours every other
weekend to be with her. They were
married in NM.

llubert Martin, whom Swift knew
as a graduate student at Johns Hop-
kins, had a position at UK when
Sw itt ran into him at a national pro-
fessional meeting.

“He asked me ifI was happy. and
I said ‘no‘. so he said, ‘Why don't
you come to Lexington.“ I'd never
heard of Lexington. The only Lex—
ington l knew was in Massachu-
setts," Swift said.

Martin told Swift that he had
agreed to set up a ft‘-C\l;lbll.\hctl
classics department .it the t'niversi-
ty if a Latinist could be found to be
the chairman. He suggested Sw'ift

interview for the position.

“I wasn‘t sure I wanted to
come." Swift said. “I did want to
get otit of Buffalo. but I didn't
ktiow anything about Kentucky."

Swift said the UK faculty and
staff quickly helped him make tip
his mind.

‘They made me feel so comfort
able that I really liked the idea. l
found a much more cooperative
spirit here. with people encourag-

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tion as chairman of the L'K Classics
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was appointed dean last summer.

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