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Thursday, February 23, 2006

Fund gives UK fighting chance

Celebrating 35 years of independence

Administration sets money aside to retain professors and keep UK competitive

By Sean Rose
in: KENIUCKY KERNEL

In addition to proposed salary
increases through the Top20 busi-
ness plan; UK has used an account
in the budget called the “ﬁghting
fund” to retain faculty.

The fund was created to pro-
vide a way to retain faculty who

are offered positions at other
schools.

“It‘s a pool that we have set
aside to counter offers from other
universities that are essentially,
how should I put it? Stealing our
faculty," said Associate Provost
David Watt.

A dean of a department can re-
quest extra funding for a faculty

member’s salary if another uni-
versity is pursuing them. Interim
Provost Steve Smith decides
whether or not to approve the re-
quest.

This ﬁscal year $726,800 was
set aside for the fund, one-half
percent of the faculty salary base.
The year before there was also
one-half percent of the base in the

amount of $620,000 in a similar ac-
count under a different name, said
UK spokesman Jay Blanton.

Blanton said the fund has “cer-
tainly been a valuable tool” for UK
evident in the 31 faculty members
who were retained by it last ﬁscal
year.

Smith agreed with Blanton’s
feelings.

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Doris Wilkinson, UK's first female black full-time facult

gy professor, was hired in 1967.

BLACK HISTORY MONTH

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y member, teaches a health and illness class on Tuesday in White Hall Classroom Building. Wilkinson, a sociolo-

Teaching to new heights

Professor climbed to professional prominence, paving the way for others

By Dariush Shafa
THE KENTUCKY KENNEL

For Doris Wilkinson. learning comes as

naturally as breathing.
Perhaps even more naturally

Wilkinson, a UK professor of sociology
and UK’s ﬁrst full-time black female faculty
member, remembers turning to books when
asthma kept her indoors as a child.

“Reading was emphasized when I was a
child," said Wilkinson, adding that she
learned from what she read and also wrote on

her own. “At age 9, I wrote a whole composi

tion book of poetry"

than what it is today.

“When I grew up, everything was segre-
gated in Lexington," Wilkinson said. recall-
ing that segregation involved everything
from department stores to parks to whole
neighborhoods. “I grew up in an entirely seg-

regated city."

Wilkinson, a native of Lexington. remem~
bers that she grew up in a town far different

said.

“I had a normal. happy childhood." she

That happiness would continue on into
her college education.

In May of 1954. the US. Supreme Court

passed down a decision that would forever
change the nation. Brown v. Board of Educa-
tion ended the segregation. stating that “sep-
arate but equal“ was unconstitutional.

That year Wilkinson entered college.

“Desegregation began with the Supreme

But she also looks back fondly on her
memories of those days.

See Wilkinson on page 3

Cats set Rupp
ablaze with
performance

Not even the ﬁre marshal could

stop these Cats.

Midway through the second half.
in the midst of rip
ping the best 40
minute stretch of
ball played this
season, an alarm
sounded through
Rupp Arena dur-
ing an Ole Miss
timeout.

Though the bell
was silenced be-
fore play started
again, it was the
perfect metaphor
for the hottest dis-
on Cawood’s Court since Ashley

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Senior guard Preston LeMaster is congratulated by
teammates during the a timeout after he scored his
second three-pointer of the game last night against

Ole Miss.

By Josh Sullivan
rut KENTUCKY item

A Hollywood screen~
writer would have been
hard pressed to script last
night's game against Ole
Miss any better for the UK
men’s basketball team.

The shots were failing.
the defense was smother-
ing and the bench was
emptied.

How hot were the
shooters? Try 50 percent
from the field. How stingy
was the defense? The Cats
held the rebels to just 22.4-
percent shooting, the
worst mark for a UK oppo-
nent in the SEC since the
shot-clock era began. As

for the bench?

Enter Preston LeMasv
ter.

On Tuesday head
coach Tubby Smith hinted
that the seldom-used se-
nior guard would have a
chance to step in for more
than just mop-up duty be-
cause of Ramel Bradley‘s
broken hand. But no one
could have predicted that
he'd take over a starring
role.

LeMaster lit up the
Rebels with a bombard-
ment of three-pointers.
nailing four straight for a
career-high 12 points to
help the Cats run the

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SG body
urges
election
changes

By Sean Rose
in: KENTUCKY mm

Students running for Student
Government ofﬁce could need few-
er signatures to run if an act pass-
es the Senate next week.

The Operations and Evalua-
tions Committee passed the act by
unanimous consent last night that
would lower the amount of stu-
dent signatures needed to run for
SC president and vice-president
from 1,000 to 500 and from 400 to
200 for senator-at large candidates.

Sen. Ben Carter, chairman of
the committee. said obtaining the
signatures made candidates spend
too much time campaigning and
not enough time involved in the is-
sues.

“I don’t think it’s Student Gov
ernment's job to go and talk to stu-
dents." Carter said. “I think it‘s a
distraction.

“I picked 500 out of my hat: I‘d
love to go lower."

All candidates must obtain the
required number of signatures be-
fore they can ﬁle to run.

Carter also said the higher
number of signatures favors
Greek candidates. with large club

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Students
honor
former

teammate

Foosball player killed in
plane crash last Spring

By Jonathan Smith

THE ktuiucn—kmtt

For the 27 UK students who
competed in the Association of Col-
lege Unions International Tourna
ment last weekend. the 11-hour bus
ride to East (‘arolina University
was everything an 11-hour bus ride
should be.

Painfully long and spiritless.

That was before Jeremy Gill's
voice cascaded over the loud speak
er. He would be hardpressed to
shorten the trip. but he provided
the bus the shot of energy it need
ed.

“Me and my partner Kelly
O'Brien. who is playing in this
tournament with me this year. have
gotten together with Hayden's fam-
ily and have decided that we‘re go-
ing to dedicate this tournament for
him.” Gill recalled about his
speech. “Give it your all. just for
him. For this one time because we
know it would mean a lot to his
family. See what you can go out
there and do for him. 1 know it
would mean a lot to him."

The Hayden that he referred to
is Charles Hayden Lampe. Hayden
was tragically killed on March 13.
2005 in a plane crash with tvm oth-
er people the pilot and his girl
friend. Ginny Young. Young was
also a UK student.

Ginny‘s father. Michael, was the
pilot of the single engine plane that
crashed in Lawrence County. Kan.
The plane came in too fast. over-
shot the runway and crashed dur«
ing Young's attempt to turn it
around.

“We were best friends since 4th
grade he's probably the only
missing link out of our rat pack."
Gill said.

Three weeks before the plane
crash, Gill and Lampe played in the
2005 ACUI foosball regional tourna-
ment at Virginia Tech.

The pairing was accidental.

“Pretty much half of the people
that Went on the trip got sick.“ Cats
Den event coordinator Stacey Un-

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The number of ticket citations on cam-
pus is down, even though parking hassles are
up due to 313 parking spaces that have been
taken away to accommodate construction of
the areas in and around Memorial Coliseum
and in other areas of campus.

According to Parking and Transporta-
tion Marketing Specialist Christina Balding,
70 fewer citations were issued during the pe
riod from Jan. 1 to Feb. 15 of this year as
compared to last year.

Students were given plenty of warning
about the need to ﬁnd a new parking spot,
she said.

“They broke ground in July (with con-
struction), but we informed students of that
last year during the permit renewal process,”
Balding said.

Many of those students avoided parking
problems by relocating to the newly con-
structed Parking Structure No. 7, which
opened on Jan. 11. The 540$pace structure,
which is located at the corner of Sports Cen-
ter Drive and Complex Drive, accommodates
commuters, employees and paying visitors.

Combined with Parking Structure No. 6,
which has 700 spaces and is located on Press
Avenue, the university has been able to offer
some students short-term solutions to park-
ing issues.

Both of those projects were paid for
through an increase in parking permit fees
of $1.50 per month. According to Don Thorn-
ton, Director of Parking and Transportation
Services. there are a variety of other parking
issues on campus.

Road construction being done on roads
such as Huguelet Drive has caused tempo
rary parking issues. Other students have had
difﬁculty parking near Memorial Coliseum
and the Singletary Center for the Arts for
events because of the construction in the ar-
eas around Memorial Coliseum.

Thornton advises students and employ-
ees to help with this problem through not
parking in those areas unless they absolutely
have to and to look for other means of trans-
portation.

“If students or employees can ride Lex-

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UK’ s ongoin construction will
limit availab e parkmg spaces

Tran that would help. especially during the
day from 7 am. to 3 pm," Thornton said.

He also advises that people use bicycles
and motorcycles over cars if possible, as they
don‘t take up nearly as much space in park-
ing spots. Carpooling is another option, as is
not moving cars around campus unless ab
solutely necessary

This can create some hassles for certain
people, but that should be expected under the
circumstances.

“Anytime you eliminate parking, it’s go
ing to have a negative impact on one or more
user groups," Thornton said.

The ongoing construction is likely going
to cause a loss of approximately 2,800 addi-
tional spots over the next several years. The
university is continuing to work on solu-
tions, even though cost is always an issue,
Thornton said.

“Parking structures are very expensive,”
he said.

In terms of long-term solutions to these
problems, the school is going to have to wait
and see if enough funding is available for
building even more parking structures. That
funding could come from continued permit
fee increases.

Another option might be to make parking
less of an issue is through improving the
amount of bus service on campus.

Some students are frustrated over the
whole situation and the money spent on
parking.

“I feel that the money being spent on
some of these structures could be used some
where else, especially with tuition growing
so much next year,” said junior Joe Scan-
drani.

Communication senior Daniel Moses,
however, thinks the lack of parking needs to
be a priority to the university

“The parking situation is ridiculous . I
am at this moment parked in the very back of
K-Iot and am extremely upset about having
to walk that far every time I want to get to
my car,” said Moses. “Instead of worrying
about becoming a topzo university, why
don’t they start worrying about their stu-
dents’ needs?”

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“It’s been a very useful
tool in enhancing the quality
of the university," Smith said.

Watt said that although
the fund was successful it was
still difficult to counter extra-
ordinarily high offers.

Still some professors leave
despite the salary bonus of-
fered by the “ﬁghting fund."

Last week honors and phi-
losophy professor Brad Mon-
ton accepted an offer to the
University of Colorado at
Boulder. Monton said the de-
partment chair said UK could
most likely match the offer

from Colorado but Monton ac-
cepted the offer before hear-
ing a counteroffer Monton
said his decision had more to
do with the location than
money

"I’m not leaving because
I’m unhappy here,” Monton
said. “I would rather be paid
more in Boulder than be paid
more in Lexington.”

Smith said he was un-
aware of Monton’s choice to
leave or any role the “ﬁghting
fund" played in a possible
counter offer.

Smith said a typical bonus
for a faculty members’ salary
has ranged from several hun-
dred to several thousand dol-
lars and that the other
school’s offer is the biggest
factor on the amount of mon-
ey UK offers.

The provost’s ofﬁce, the
president's office and other
high level administration
must approve the money
placed in the “ﬁghting fund”
every year.

Even with the topZO plan
calling for increased faculty
salaries over the upcoming
years, Smith said the “fight-
ing fund” would likely contin-
ue in the future.

“I think there will always
be competition,” Smith said.
“The more distinguished UK
becomes the more a target our
faculty becomes.

“1 don’t think the issue
will go away; we’ll always
need to compete for the best
people."

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populations around them.

“Non-Greeks are taken out
of the process," Carter said
adding that he had seen peo-
ple walk away from running
after they heard the required
amount of signatures.

“All and all it’s just crap
and needs to be fixed,” he
said.

A resolution also passed
that would make SG a bigger
player in Lexington govern-
ment.

It encourages voter regis-
tration drives for the Lexing-
ton-Fayette Urban County
Council’s 3rd District, which
is made up by a majority of
students who traditionally
aren’t involved. 30 would also
encourage students to run for

the council seat and despite
who runs would pick a candi-
date to endorse to unify a stu-
dent voice in the Urban Coun-
ty Council.

The constitutional amend-
ment that passed the Senate
for the first of the required
two votes was discussed last
night as well. The amendment
restructures the handling of
campaign violations by re-
moving a committee that pre-
viously gave penalties and
having the SG Supreme Court
handle the penalties instead.

The committee was in fa-
vor of that change but dis-
agreed with the constitutional
committee’s recommendation
to have the senate form new
penalties, recommending a
system that would disqualify
a certain percentage of votes
depending on the severity of
the violation.

“I feel like you‘re taking
away people‘s voices and their
votes." said 80 Senator Sam

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Carter said the recom-
mended penalties left no room
for interpretation.

“1 think you have to have
grey here," Carter said. “I
think you have to have room
for interpretation.”

The committee also dis-
cussed having the constitu-
tional committee form the
new penalties instead of the
Senate to have a more objec-
tive third party making the
rules.

A resolution also passed to
develop a campus resource
center for out-of~state stu-
dents.

A resolution also passed to
next week’s Senate meeting
that would encourage future
86’s to form a new constitu-
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Court decision of 1954," she
said. “UK opened its doors in
the fall of ’54."

“I was in the pioneering
class," Wilkinson said. “There
had never been any black un-
dergraduate students."

The images of conﬂict
over segregation and racism
are not the images that
Wilkinson remembers of her
college experience, though.

“The late 1950s were cul-
turally and politically differ-
ent from the late 1960s,” she
said. “The whole atmosphere
was friendly. The whole place
was friendly”

And Wilkinson took part
in improving the university’s
atmosphere for black females
when she organized a group
called the “UKettes,” which
started in 1956.

“I created an organization
to meet the social needs since
we couldn’t join sororities,"
she said. “It was really very
effective, very necessary”

However, Wilkinson also
recalls that she was moving
quickly in her studies.

“I enjoyed UK because I
«lid well,” she said. “I was
moving fast. It was easy to get
the degree.”

Wilkinson was mostly ﬁn»
1shed with her bachelor‘s de-
gree by December 1957, only a
tow credit hours short, and
graduated with the class of
1958. Thus began Wilkinson’s
odyssey outside of the state.

“I’ve been gone most of
my life. I left right after I ﬁn-
Fshed my undergraduate de-
gree."

In 1960, Wilkinson ﬁn-
ﬁshed a master's degree in so
ciology at Case Western Re-
serve University in Cleveland.
Ohio. She would go on to ﬁn-
9811 her doctorate in medical
and family sociology in 1968.

A year before she ﬁnished
her doctorate, however,
Wilkinson shattered a race
and gender barrier at UK. She
became the ﬁrst female black
faculty member at UK.

Her previous experiences
as being the only black or one
of a few blacks in her already-
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Thursday. Feb. 23, 2006 | PAGE 5

Port deal subject to ire of the American public

By Gwyneth ll. Shaw
me Miriam sun

WASHINGTON - With
Congress out of town, the
Capitol is quiet this week. But
inside the House and Senate
ofﬁce buildings — and in
states and districts across the
US. —— staffers are straining
to answer a ﬂood of phone
calls about the prospect of a
Middle Eastern company buy-
ing into port operations in six
major US. cities.

Sen. Paul S. Sarbanes, D-
Md., has been “inundated”
with hundreds of calls since
the news broke last week that
state-owned Dubai Ports
World of the United Arab
Emirates had won U.S. gov-
ernment approval to buy a
British company that man-
ages major port operations in
Baltimore, New York,
Newark, Philadelphia, New
Orleans and Miami, said
Jesse Jacobs, a spokesman for
the senator. The state’s other
senator, Democrat Barbara A.
Mikulski, logged 250 calls
from constituents in the ﬁrst
two days of the work week.

Conservative Rep. Mark
Foley, R-Fla.. one of the ﬁrst

members of Congress to com-
plain about the deal, has re-
ceived a similar deluge — and
not just from constituents. Ja-
son Kello, a Foley spokesman,
said that an Englishman
called expressing dismay that
British-owned Peninsular &
Oriental Steam Navigation
Co. was being sold.

Few, if any, of these calls
and e-mails support the deal,
which was approved by the
Committee on Foreign Invest-
ments in the United States, a
secretive Bush administra-
tion panel. News of the sale
has prompted unusually ﬁery,
and bipartisan, opposition in
Congress —~ and an equally
staunch defense from the
White House.

Initial criticism of the
deal came from lawmakers in
the states with ports affected
by the sale, but over the last
few days it has spread to those
without a geographical inter-
est, such as Sen. Bill Frist of
Tennessee, the Republican
Senate Majority leader.

“Public outrage on this is
what’s driving this for many
of the politicians,” said Kello,
the congressional aide. “This
is a result of talk radio. This

is a result of cable news.”

Kello said the prevailing
sentiment from callers has
been “outrage, shock and
awe" that the Bush adminis-
tration would sign off on such
a deal. He said Foley had not
received a single call in favor
of allowing a Middle Eastern
government to own a compa-
ny that does work inside
American seaports.

When calls comes in about
the port deal, staffers let the
callers know what their mem-
ber of Congress thinks. ln
Sen. Rick Santorum’s ofﬁce,
callers are directed to the sen-
ator’s Web site, which in-
cludes an oped essay that the
Pennsylvanian Republican,
who faces a tough re-election
ﬁght, wrote opposing the
Dubai Ports World deal, as
well as a letter he sent to the
White House asking Presi-
dent Bush to reconsider his
administration’s approval.

Sara Paterni, a staff assis-
tant in the ofﬁce of Rep. C.A.
“Dutch" Ruppersberger, D-
Md., has been explaining that
her boss. whose district in-
cludes the Port of Baltimore,
opposes the sale and has
called for congressional hear-

ings on the way it was ap
proved by the administration
panel. Ruppersberger’s of-
ﬂees. in Washington and Tim-
onium, have handled about 40
calls this week. spokeswoman
Heather Molino said.

Molino and others said
the calls seemed to be the re-