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Kappa Alpha PSl members evicted
TI‘OIII house by "IllVOI‘STIV utlicials

By Ellen Lord
Staff” 'i'l'tcl‘

UK Fire Marshal (Parry Beach
found combustible materials and
traces of asbestos in the basement
(if-H3 Pennsylvania Avenue Mon-
day.

This L‘niversity-owned prop-
erty, which housed three mem—
bers of the Kappa Alpha Psi social
fraternity. is now under renova~
tion.

“The University’s first respon-
sibility is the safety of the stu—
dents," said Ken (Ilevidence,
senior director of the Procure-
ment and Construction Division

at UK.

“I authorized the closing of the
house."

The eviction surprised resi—
dent Solomon Johnson, a senior
and member of the fraternity.
johnson, Damon Porter, a mar-
ketin and management senior
and raternity president; and
finance senior Michael
Chenault were told Tuesday to
leave the property by 3 p.m.

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yesterday because of health
risks.

The members have the rest of
the week to remove their belong-
ings, Clevidence said.

“\Vc’ve been loyal
tenants for 15 years!“
johnson said. “1 just
don‘t think they (lid it

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ous conditions and ordered
“everythinr in the basement to
be removed immediately," (iathy
said.

Cathy and Beach went to veri-
fv the removal Tues-
day and “found that
the basement hadn’t
been evacuated," he

right." said.

The confusion ”€72,359!!! The fire marshal
began Monday when mtb‘njm then “ ave them
residents complained lift- until 3 ( Vednesday)
to housing authorities . - a a l afternoon to evacu-
that the furnace was 7m , ate, which they
broken. ﬁ'q’”"m have," Gathy said.

“Maintenance peo-~ m.Anym “it's crazy," john-

ple saw a number of
things in the basement
that had been dis- ‘
turbed," said Brian ”
(iathy, business officer

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really hasn't sunk in
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more than just life-

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Later that day, a” for quite some time,"

environmental health "Km Clevidence said.

and safety inspectors Previous viola-

found dislodged air tions include storing

ducts and traces of furniture outside.

asbestos in the basement. They
called the ﬁre marshal, who dis—
covered the materials in danger-

parking vehicles on the lawn,
installing unauthorized locks
and denying housing authority

access to the property twice,
(iathy said.

“Any one of these could have
resulted in tennination ofthe lease."
he said.

Despite the short notice. (Ilevi—
dence expected the students to
find housing through the L'K easi-
ly.

“Alternative housin was iden-
tified immediately antfoffered to
the students," he said.

But the alternatives — (ireg
Page Apartments and campus res—
idence halls —- will costjohnson
and his roommates more, accord-
ing to figures provided by
Michelle Traynor, an account
clerk at undergraduate housing.

And the house won't be avail-
able again until renovations are
com lete.

“ t may be a week, may be a
month. As soon as we can get it
up to code, we will open it up to
students,” Clevidence said.

But because of the members’
previoUS violations, he said he
“would not be interested in them
moving back in.”

Beach declined to comment.

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By Justin Willis
Staff“ in. /

Dressed in the same olive green
garb of other imitates at the
Fayette County Detention Cen—
ter. Paul Barnett stood in Court—
room 5 of the Felony Division of
the Fayette County District Court
yesterday morning.

Barnett, of 3 H South Hanover
Avenue, is in custody on a $30,000
cash bond for two alleged attempts
to withdraw money from the (Len—

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tral Bank ;\T.\l machine at 866
liast High Street behind the Chevy
Chase Plaza at M8 l'iuclid Avenue,

Lexington l’olice l.t. \Villiam
liockcle confirmed yesterday the
credit card used in the attempted
transactions belonged to Pete Pity
ney, a L'K architecture professor
who was murdered last week

Pinney lived at Hits l5uclid
Avenue. the same building where
Barnett worked as a custodian.

;\sked if there's any indication
the two knew each other, l5ockele
said, “Sure, one lived there. and
one worked there.“

Police are charging Barnett with
attempting up to ll withdrawals at
5:13 pm. on Nov. 2 and returning
seven hours later to the same ATM
to attempt another withdrawal
with Pinney's card.

Pinney was last seen alive in the

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Students being
warned about
campus safety

By Mat Herron

Campus Editor

lt could be anyone, at anytime,
in any place.

Resident advisers are now wam-
ing students to play it safe in light
of rumored sexual assaults that may
have occurred on South Campus.

The subject of sexual assaults
on campus was touched on at a
tneetin this past Sunday and RAs
are tel ing residents to not view
the alleged sexual assaults as the
fault of one person.

“They don‘t want anybody to
think it's just one person, because
it's too easy to think that," said
Shonda Canada, a resident adviser
in Kirwan Tower.

Canada said she was told there
have been two confirmed sexual
assaults, one in which the victim
has pressed charges.

But UK officials and both city
and campus police departments
said they do not have any reports
of any sexual assaults on campus.

Joe Schulcr, executive director
of Academic Affairs for the Stu-
dent Government Association,
said he has taken numerous phone
calls from and met with RAs who
think the assaults are happening.

“VVe‘ve had three or four (RAs)
in the office, and I’ve talked to at
least a dozen on the phone," Schulcr
said. “The information we‘re getting
is varied but there is a consistent
message that there is a problem.”

For the most part, Schulcr said,
the administration’s silence on the

issue is unnerving.

“\Ve would like to work with
administration and Residence
Life, but they're being so tight—
lipped about it. it‘s hard to work
with anybody that's not telling
you anything," he said. “\Ve
talked to couple of RAs who are
interested in doing some pro-
gramming to try to improve
awareness, to do what we can and
make sure campus is safe in spite
of the administration."

“Something has happened."
Schulcr said. “The RAs are telling
students there have been attacks
on campus and to be careful, but
then you have Res Life saying that
nothing ha pened, and that just
doesn't hol water."

UK officials said if they had proof
that sexual assaults were occurring
they would act on them swiftly.

“The administration has no
reason to hide a rape or any act of
violence on campus. “'e are just
as worried about student safety as
the students are," Dean of Stu»
dents David Stockham said.

“lfthis institution ever believed
there was any reason to send a
warning out to students then we
would, Stockham said. “\Ve
would sound the alarm and circle
the wagons. We would want to
protect our own. we would con-
tact (the media) and anyone else
that could help in the effort.”

Students with information
involving a possible sexual assault

on campus are encouraged to call
the UK Police at 257—1616.

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Year 2000. ri

By James Ritchie 0

New Fall'mr

Come the millennium, most of
us will have a little trouble adjust-
ing to writin “00" on our checks
in the blank or the year.

But the problems that arise with
computer systems on New Year‘s
Day 2000 may be much more seri—
ous than a few voided checks.

The year 2000 software prob-
lem results from the use of a two-
digit field to identify years in com—
puter programs (for example,
[997 = 97), and the assumption of
a single millennium, the 1900s.
Software using this concept will
read “00" as the year 1900.

Programs that use dates,
including programs within
machinery such as building securi~
ty systems or climate-control sys—
tems, will fail or malfunction if
these errors are not corrected.

L’K and other computer—
dcpcndent organizations around
the world are working to address
the problem by altering programs.

“In some sense the University
wasn’t napping on this one," said
Rick Chlopan, director of’l‘cchni-
cal Services. “If we had waited to
start on it now, the process would
be spiralin I out ofcontrol. It's pret—
ty much al we're going to be work—
ing on for the next six months."

Planning for the problem began
at the Lexington Campus in 198‘).
About three-frairths of the work is
done, Chlopan said, and the rest
should be completed by the end of
1998. Information Systems will
spend about $750,000 preparing
for the year 2000, he said.

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can save costs in solving millenni-
um-related problems.

But even if all L'K‘s computer
systems are changed so that they
function properly in the year 2000,
the University still must interact

with the computer systems of other
organizations, such as the federal
and state governments. And if
those systems aren't prepared for
the millennium, UK could feel the
effects, Chlopan said.

Those effects cannot compare

to those the Chandler Medical
Center would experience if its
computer systems were left
untouched. Patients' lives could
be in danger if certain pieces of
biomedical equipment that con—
tain date—sensitive computer chips
fail to function properly.

The Medical Center’s patient
registration and patient account-
ing systems are also susceptible to
the problem, said Zed Day, vice
chancellor for Information Tech-
nology at the Medical Center.

So injune, the Medical Center
hired Louisville firm Keane Inc.
to evaluate its problems and make
recommendations.

One recommendation was to
set up a Year 2000 Project Office,
where efforts will be coordinated.

Medical Center Year 2000 Pro-
ject Leader Sheila Alvey said part
of the purpose of the office is to
make computer users more aware
of the problem.

“They can call and say, ‘Havc
you thought about this?” she said.

Since appointments are some-
times scheduled a year in advance,
she said, problems could arise early.

“\Ve have earlier failure dates
than just that moming," Alvey said,

A rough estimate of the cost of
the project, Day said, is $10 to
$12.5 million, including hardware,
software and labor. It does not
include biomedical equipment,
such as IV pumps and Intensive
Care Unit monitors.

“\Ve need to keep in mind that
it's two years from now," Day said.
“(liven the nature of biomedical
equipment, much of that will be
replaced anyway by the year 2000."

Day said all “mission critical"
systems will be fixed or replaced
before the millennium.

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Pinney

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early evening of Nov. 2. Ilis
body was discovered on Cleve-
land Road by a passing motorist
Monday morning.

“From my perspective, he was
alive at 7 pm. on Sunday,"
liockclc said in a news confer-
ence last week.

Barnett was arrested for the
fraudulent use of a credit dcvicc
Nov. 5 and pleaded not guilty
during an arraignment shortly
thereafter.

After the court hearing yes-
terday, Barnett appeared with
his lawyer and waived his rights
to a preliminary hearing.

“()ur next step will be to
appear before the grand jury,”
Fockclc said in a phone conversa—
tion yesterday. “Then, after that,
a jury of 12 individuals will decide
ifhc is guil ' of fraudulent use of
a credit caril, which is the charge
he is under at this time."

Barnett lived for about nine
years at 314 South Hanover
Avenue, a few blocks from Pin-
ncy's residence.

Neighbor Allison \Vebster
said she had never seen him
with a car.

Sonny Pcrrv, a bartender at
the nearby Chevy Chase Inn,
who lived close to Barnett for
several years, said: “He was
always pleasant when he came
in. He would usually drink one
Coors Light with a glass of ice
and then leave. Sometimes he
might come back later."

Perry said Barnett probably
visited Charlie Brown's more
often than Chevy Chase Inn.

\vi Neurohr. the assistant
manager at Shoppers Village
Liquor on East High Street,
said Barnett was never known
to buy alcohol at the store but
always bou ht lottery tickets
and a pacE of UPC Light
cigarettes.

Barnett is scheduled to
appear with his court-appoint-
cd attorney, Gene Lcwter, of
the Fayette County Legal Aid
Society before a grand jury
sometime in the next 36 to 90
days.

Police still believe more than
one person was involved in the
l’inney homicide but have not
yet charged anyone with the
crime.

Any information about the
case should be directed to the
Lexington Police at 258-3700.

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By Carlos Dawson
Contributing ll 'rircr

Models use their bodies to dis-
play what they’ve worked on for
countless days and hours.

In the world of science, many
people “model" their minds. And
UK's life sciences put on a show
\Vcdncsday for the entire campus
during the inaugural Life Sciences
Day.

Many undergraduates, radu-
ate students, faculty and sta ffrom
all of UK‘s life sciences programs
as well as hi h school students
from Louisville magnet schools
attended the event in the Single—
tary Center for the Arts.

The event started at 8:30 a.m.
with a continental breakfast. Then
john Collier, a professor of
Microbiology and Molecular
Genetics from Harvard Medical
School, presented “Turning Bio-
lo ical Weapons Into Vaccines:
T e Case of Anthrax Toxin," to
more than 200 people in the Con-
cert Hall.

Collicr said it was to be at UK
and participate in Life Sciences
Day and talked about why he was
drawn to research.

“The thrill of discovery keeps
me going," be said.

Collier used slides to talk about
his research in bacterial toxins that
would be used to create new vac-
cines against certain diseases and
cancers.

After the speech, people walked
throu h the lobbies to see more
than 00 osters made by gradu-
ate stu ents showing their
research. The posters were filled

with summaries of research
accompanied by graphs and charts
to give a clearer understanding to
those intrigued.

“I came to Life Sciences Day to
get a better understanding of what
we've worked on in nutrition,"
nursing sophomore Kacy Allen
nid. Nutrition research was just
one of the various types of
research presented during Life
Sciences Day.

Undergraduates were not the
only ones to gain something from
the event.

jcnnifcr Ralston. an agronomy
graduate student, rcscarchcd hcr—
)icidc contamination in ground—
water for two years for her mas-
ter's project and finished the pro—
ject a year ago.

She said Life Sciences Day was
great because it gave faculty and
students a chance to see other
forms of research.

“People across campus don‘t
necessarily know what's going
on," Ralston said.

She said departments could
share information they‘ve learned
and then form “possible collabora-
tions."

Representatives frotn UK‘s 20
different graduate programs were
on hand for undergraduate stu-
dents to find out more about grad—
uatc school, said Brian Rymond
associate professor of biological
scrences.

The department is starting a
new graduate program focused on
cell and molecular biology. ’

“It exposes them (undergradu-
ates) to an academic learning
experience that vou can't find in
the classroom," Bymond said.

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Art helps patients lind
sunshine in darkness

By Joules Coy
Smﬁr Wn'm

At age 16, Annick Hollister was
described as being “a postcard
southern California girl.”

But mental illness soon shat-
tered Hollister’s postcard world.

In an attempt to channel feel-
ings of loneliness and despair,
Hollister turned to art. Her paint-
ing “Stairwa from Darkness”
inspired Hoflister’s mother to
found NARSAD Artworks in
1989.

NARSAD Artworks is a branch
of the National Alliance for
Research on Schizophrenia and
Depression, and it is completely
operated by volunteers.

NARSAD Artworks is the
nation’s distributor for art created
by people with mental illness. The
organization publishes stationery
adorned with art created by peo-
ple with severe mental illnesses
such as schizophrenia and manic

depression.

Proﬁts go to fund research of
mental illnesses. In the past 10
years, NARSAD Artworks has
given $50 million to universities
and medical research' institu—
tions.

The art show presents the
works of artists, all of whom show
an abundance of creative skill
despite their mental illness.

“The art show was not
designed to capitalize on mental
illness,” said Ma Isaacs, a board
member for the B uegrass Alliance
for the Mentally Ill.

“These ieces are extensions of
the artist. he show functions to
educate the public about mental
illness, as well as create self—
esteem and provide income for
the artists,” Isaacs said.

The show includes more than
40 pieces, amon them oil and

pastel paintings, c alk, pencil, and_

pen and ink drawings. All of the
artwork is for sale, with proCeeds

goin to the artist.

T e theme expressed by
NARSAD Artworks is creating
something positive out of some-
thing negative.

According to the exhibit state-
ment, “the organization‘s theme,
‘Sunshine from Darkness’ shows
how, despite the fact that they
have mental illnesses, these
artists still have the artistic abili-
ty and performance to create
expressive and meaningful works
of art.”

“The artwork reflects the
lives, ex eriences, and talents of
less we l-known artists whose
mental illness, vision, and ability
have informed their work in
meaningful'ways," said Kay Red-
ﬁeldjamison, sychiatry professor
at The John Flopkins School of
Medicine in Baltimore.

“Far from being the stereotypi-
cal ‘work of the mad,’ the draw-
ings and paintings demonstrate
the essential combination of disci-

pline, emotion and imagination
that comprises the basis of cre-
ative work,”]amison said.

“I feel honored to have this
show here at UK,” said Lara Baker,
an intern in the President‘s Rootn
who helped organize the event.

Student loan delault rates down again

By Jail Vinson
Senior Staff Writer

WASHINGTON, DC. —
The student loan default rate
dropped for the ﬁfth consecutive
year to 10.4 percent for ﬁscal year
1995 from 10.7 in 1994, U5. Sec-
retary of Education Richard Riley
said today.

The 1995 default rate — the
most current data available — rep-
resents borrowers whose ﬁrst loan
repayments came due in 1995 and
who defaulted on those loans
before Oct. 1 1996. Default rates
hit an all-time high of22.4 percent
in 1990.

During that same period, how-
ever, UK’s default rate rose to 7.8
percent from 6 percent. The Uni—
versity of Louisville’s default rate
rose to 10.3 percent from 9.8 per-
cent.

For their art, benchmark
schools like the niversity of North
Carolina saw its rate drop to 1.2 per-
cent from 1.4 percent, while Indiana
University default rates jumped to
4.8 percent from 3.2 percent.

“This ﬁve- ear trend is truly
astounding w en considered in
the context of where we were not
so long ago,” Riley said.

“College is a serious commit-
ment and students need to make
informed education decisions and
honor their financial obliga-
tions.”

Although the declining default
rate is encouraging, more students
are borrowing money to pay for
higher education.

Student loan volume has more

than doubled in this decade. In ﬁs-
cal year 1997, 5.4 million students
borrowed $34 billion in federal
loans, and that’s cause for con—
cern, Riley said.
“Sgtdents are borrowing at
recor levels to pay for college,”
Riley said. “That raises an impor-
tant question —— is increasing debt
directly related to the increase in
default rates for public and pri—
vate two-year and four-year
schools?”

The default rate for graduates
of private four-year institutions
increased to 6.9 percent in 1995 to

6.3 percent in 1994. Yet at trade
schools, which have the highest
default rates among higher educa—
tion institutions, the rate dropped
to 19.9 percent from 21.1 percent.

Loan defaults from 1995 throu h
the end of ﬁscal year 1997 cost tﬁe
federal government $7.9 billion.

The national rates reﬂect
default rates for more than 7,000
schools that participated in the
Federal Family Education Loan
Program and the William D. Ford
Federal Direct Loan Program at
that time. About 1,500 schools no
longer participate in federal

loan programs. Their default
rates weren’t released.

Schools with excessive default
rates —— 25 percent or more for
three consecutive years —— may be
dro ped from one or tnore federal
stu ent aid programs.

The agency's more aggressive
actions to recover loans have con—
tributed to the downward trend,
Rile said. Students who default
on f;deral loans can have their
federal income tax refunds with-
held and wages garnished. The

department recovered $500 mil—
lion b ' offsetting federal income
tax ref'unds and collected $19 mil—
lion with a program which
deducts payments from fortner
students' bank accounts.

“\Ve’re aggressive but compas—
sionate,” said David Longanecker.
assistant secretary for Post—Sec-
ondary Education. "\Ve don't
break knees, but we try to collect
every dollar we can."

New education initiatives
should limit the amount of debt
students have after raduation,
Riley said. Those incl'ude Presi-
dent Bill Clinton’s $1,500 IIOPF.
tax credit for the first two years of
college. Also, the maximum Pell
Grant award for the nation’s need—
iest students rose to $3,000 thanks
to a $1.4 billion boost in the grant
program. A new tax break allowing
students to deduct interest on stu-
dent loans will go into effect in
1998 and also reduce indebted-
ness.

At ﬁrst students will be able to
deduct u to $1,000, a cap that will
grow to 2,500 in 2001.

Seminar looks at conﬁdentiality

By Susan Croce
Contributing Writer

“Campus Conﬁdentiality on
Trial: An Open or Closed Case” is
a live national teleconference
sponsored by UK’s Division of
Student Affairs.

The teleconference will take
place tomorrow at the Student
Center Theatre from 12:30 p.m.
to 2:30 p.m. Colleges from around
the state will discuss both sides of
the issue of whether or not stu-
dents’ ﬁles should be opened.

The conference is to discuss
the conflicting issues of privacy
and protection vs. publicity and
punishment as higher education.

It does not intend to solve the
problem, but it does intend to
raise conﬂicting views to the pub-
lic.

Bowling Green State Universi-

is working in cooperation with
Elie Association for StudentJudi-
cial Affairs, the National Associa-
tion of Student Personnel Admin-

istrators and WBGU-TV.

The Family Educational Rights
and Privacy Act has caused a lot of
controversy around the country,
said Randy Gonzalez, assistant to

the vice chancellor for Student
Affairs.

“This teleconference presents an
excellent opportunity for University
and colle e personnel to hear the
national ebate about the conﬂict
between protecting the rights of
students and the responsibility insti-
tutions have to release certain kinds
of information,” Gonzalez said.

The presenters who will speak
are William Bracewell, assistant to
the vice president and Director of
judicial Programs at the Universi—
ty of Geor ia; Gary Pavela, direc-
tor of Jutﬁcial Programs at the
University of Maryland in College
Park; Le oy Rooker, director of
Family Policy Compliance Ofﬁce
in the US. De artrnent of Educa-
tion; and Bi een Wagner, an
attorney who represents plaintiffs
in disputes with colleges and uni-

versities.

Five questions will be
addressed during the conference:

tDoes the Family Educational
Rights and Privacy Act prohibit
opening campus hearings and dis-
ciplinary records?

tWiII opening campus records
and judicial proceedings to public
scrutiny discourage victims from
reporting campus crime?

tWill the Accuracy in Campus
Crime Reporting Act of 1997 pro-
visions opening individual student
disciplinary cases to the press
reduce campus crime?

tDoes the current system of
closed records and hearings shield
juvenile offenders from punish-
ment?

tDo current standards of jour-
nalistic ethics pose a threat to fair
and effective judicial systems on
campus?

Those who wish to attend can
register at the Vice Chancellor of
Student Affairs ofﬁce in 529 POT
or call 257-1911.

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LOS ANGELES — School of
Cinema-Television instructor
Duane Byrge has been indeﬁnitely
removed from his teaching posi-
tion as a result of displaying inap-

ropriate conduct in class last
Thursday, school ofﬁcials said.
Students said 13 rge appeared
intoxicated in his eatrical Film
Symposium class , as he conducted
a question-and-answer session with
Basil Poledouris, who composed
the score to “Smrship Troopers.”

. The class which screens new
ﬁlms, usually draws more than 400
students to Norris Cinema The-
atre. Byrge, however, said jet lag
was responsible for his conduct.

‘ “He made a fool of himself,”
said Cynthia Hakopian, a junior

majoring in business. “His speech
was slurred, and he was slouched
down in his seat.”

“He usuall
beginning of class for about a half
hour and asks the guests uestions
(at the end of class),” akopian
said. “(Thursday) he only asked
one or two questions and turned it
over to the students. Everyone
was laughin , and I think the
guest got rea y mad.”

Students said they were sur-
prised at Byrge's conduct durin
class, but man associated it wit

the effects of a cohol.

“His behavior was completely
out of character for him,” said
Alex Fox, a senior majoring in
theater. “He was almost the
stereotypical drunk. He was slur-
ring his speech, and he asked no
coherent questions. He couldn't

lectures in the

even ﬁnish his sentences.”

“He is usually very knowled e—
able, certain] about the guests,” ox
said. “But ursday he just gave a
lame introduction and sat down. He
must have been just trashed.”

Some students said that Byrge
usually conducts a casual class, but
his behavior that night was unlike
it had been in previous classes.

“He doesn't normally com-
mand much respect from the
class,” said Ingrid Crowe, a junior
majoring in ﬁlm production.
“However, he normally is not
what he was (Thursday). Every-
one was laughing at him.”

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