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UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY. LEXINGION. KENTUCKY

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WEATHER ledy and cool
today, high 55- 60; clear tonight,
low in upper 20s; partly sunny
tomorrow, high near 40.

WELCOME HllIINB UK’s woefiil season

ended not so mercifully Saturday with a 52-0

loss to finnessee. Story, column page 3.

 
 

llll takes title in Big Blue Crush

Trophy stays home
third straight year

By Jett Vinson
Staff lVriter

For the third consecutive year, the
“Battle for Blood” traveling trophy will
remain in the Bluegrass after a week-
long competition saw UK defeat Ten-
nessee.

The victory also assured the Central
Kentucky Blood Center of an adequate
blood supply for the holiday season.

UK collected 2,463 pints to UT’s
2,430 pints to win the close battle. The
lead changed hands several times
throughout the week, a far cry from
last year’s competition when UK ran
away with the event winning 2,738 to
2,263.

Blood center spokesman Marsha
Berry said excitement about this year’s
competition remained high all week.

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WATERS

“I think that everybody knew that no
matter who won, it just made it reward-
ing to know that there would be
enough blood through the Thanksgiv-
ing holiday,” Berry said Saturday night
at the blood center’s victory party at a
local restaurant.

“A lot of areas in the country are
experiencing shortages, and it’s just
something we don’t have to worry
about ri ht now and that makes it really
a good eeling,” Berry said.

The blood center was 200 pints
lower than normal before the Crush
week. The blood supply from last
week’s collection should last through
Christmas.

Berry said that to calculate how
many people the Crush actually helps,
add the UK and UT totals and multi ly
by three, since each pint can be divi ed
to help three people.

Brian Celsor, Farmhouse social fra—
ternity president, said he was happy
with the victory and the thou ht of
knowing that people who need help
during the holiday season will receive

 

it. Farmhouse held the blood drive at
its house on Tuesday.

NIartha Osbourne, the blood cen-
ter’s donor resources manager, said
Farmhouse alwa s has been active dur—
ing times of need].

She recalled last winter during the
blizzard that all non-emergency sur -
eries had to be cancelled because 0 a
blood shortage.

Blood center officials asked Farm-
house for help, and Farmhouse mem—
bers responded by having a mobile
blood drive that collected 100 pints of
blood a day. Osbourne said she hopes
that the Crush, the blood center’s most
important annual blood drive, will raise
awareness about the importance of giv—
ing blood.

“If everyone who was healthy came
in and donated on a regular basis, we
wouldn’t ever have to do anything real-
ly special, we wouldn’t have appeals for
blood and we wouldn’t have shortages,”
Osbourne said.

Steve Nethery, blood collections
trainer, echoed Osbourne’s thoughts.

 

ALEX DEGMND Kernel staff

“(Crush) gives us a lot of much

needed exposure, even though it may

be in sort of a com etition type thing,”

Nethery said. “And)it brings in a whole
lot of new donors.”

 

PHOTOS BY GREG EANS Kernelmff

WAIEBBMCE UK senior Robert Boa/e checks the dissolved oxygen level in a water sample from

Townhranch Creek on Manchester Road yesterday (above).Boa

and Moria Mineweaser examine

the water in a storm drain near the Student Center(lefi).

 

 

New student group examines campus storm sewers

By Eric Mosolgo
Senior Stafl Writer

It’s the ty e of work that would make Mr. Wizard
proud —— and)perhaps a bit nauseous.

Bluegrass Water Watch, a newly formed student
organization, spent yesterday afternoon patrolling
the less-than—pristine storm sewers surrounding the
UK campus.

The mission: To look for red fla s, or irregulari-
ties, in the quality of the surrounding surface and
channelized sub-surface water.

The group is one of 250 local branches of the
Kentucky Water Watch sponsored by the Kentucky
Department of Water and the state Environmental
Protection Agency. They test various water quality

Burrys kick oil gilt drive

By Nick Bhoton
Stafl Writer

Bill and Carol n Curry will join the UK mascot

toda in an annua Circle ofLove.

he pro'ect, which rovides needy children with
holiday gi ts, kicks 0 f at 12:15 .m. outside the
Grand Ballroom in the Great Ha I of the Student
Center. Live entertainment and refreshments will be
offered.

“It gives students and employees a chance to buy
gifts for needy children,” UK spokesman John Schar-

enberger said.

The Circle of Love originated at the Albert B.
Chandler Medical Center several years ago, Schar-
fenberger said, and it has been an annual event on the
Lexington Campus for six or seven ears.

Vikki Franklin, chairwoman of t e publicity com—
mittee for the Lexington Campus campaign, said the
program receives about 1,200 names total from guid-
ance counselors at area schools.

“The kids’ three most wanted gifts are written on
cards, and they are identified by numbers,” Franklin
said.

Faculty, staff and students are then given the cards
when they take part in the project.

parameters at three sampling stations within the
watershed (the region or area drained into a river,
stream, etc.) that encompasses much of the UK cam—
pus.

Yesterday’s exercise was a small step toward gain-
ing an accurate representation of the potential haz-
ards in the area.

“Kentucky Water Watch is obligated to a two-
year commitment per watershed,” said natural
resource conservation senior Robert Boak, the
group’s director for research.

Boak, who previously served as a naturalist at
Otter Creek Park in Louisville, joined fellow group
member Moria Mineweaser and volunteer team
member Doc Wilson in accepting the “UK water-
shed” as their own.

 

“They go out and buy one
of them, or all three, or
whatever,” Franklin said.

After wrapping, the gifts looKING

are given back to the Circle ahead

of Love representatives, who

give them to guidance coun- V

selors, who then distribute Bill and Carolyn

the gifts to the families, Curry willleieh

Scharfenberger said. Both Elie Circle of

the Lexington Campus and eempaign

the Medical Center have today at 12:15

goals of 600 gifts each, p.01. in the
charfenberger said, adding Student Center.

 

 

that both groups usually
meet their goals.

Scharfenberger also said Curry and his wife are
always eager to contribute to worthy causes.

“It's great to have them there to draw attention to
the roject,” he said.

hildren’s wish lists can be picked up at today’s

kickoff in the Student Center, or from 9 am. to 2
pm. tomorrow at tables located in Anderson Hall,
the Student Center, Patterson Office Tower, A '-
culture Science Center North and the Petersen £1-
vice Building.

 

 

Actually, the UK campus makes up only a part of
the group’s watershed.

Storm runoff from the area flows from Fontaine
Road and drains via under round channels beneath
UK’s campus to a neigh orhood west of South
Broadway. The runoff then empties into Town
Branch Creek in an industrial stretch of Old Frank—
fort Pike.

At two ofthe three sampling stations, the channel—
ized streamflow emits a putrid odor. One such station
was directly across from Kennedy’s Book Store,
alon ide South Limestone.

T ere, the environmentalists descended into the
storm sewers and conducted their experiments on the

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"K, Tennessee
llflllll With hooks

By Stephen Trlmllle

Executive Editor

UK and the University of Tennessee officially
bonded this weekend —— with books, not pigskin.

Before the Wildcats appled unsuccessfully with
the Vols on the footbalFfield Saturday, officials for
the two schools announced on Friday afternoon that
they had formed an alliance between their library
systems.

Paul Willis, director of UK libraries, said the
alliance is the result of a slow evolution between the
two schools, which had been pooling resources for

cars.
y The official brotherhood means now that the UK
and UT libraries can jointly apply for research
grants and make service more convenient between
the staffs.

“ t 'ust seemed to make some sense to formalize
it,” “Allis said. “When you know those people,
you get better service when they know you, and

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Aralat releases
jailed Islamic militants

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — In a bid to ease ten-
sions, PLO leader Yasser Arafat yesterday released
31 Islamic militants from jail, and Muslim funda-
mentalists vowed to redirect their anger at Israeli
soldiers and settlers.

Taking the threats seriously, Prime Minister
Yitzhak Rabin sent extra troops to the Gaza Stri
to protect Jewish settlements and to the West Bank
to prevent riots.

There were angry statements by leaders of both
the PLO and Islamic fundamentalists of the Hamas
and Islamic Jihad groups. But only isolated out-
breaks ofviolence occurred as a shaky truce held on
the ground.

Cyclone kills 30 in Somalia

MOGADISHU, Somalia — At least 30 people
were killed and hundreds injured when a cyclone
whirled through northern Somalia.

Yusuf Omar Azihari, information secretary of
the Somali Salvation Democratic Front, said the
known victims of Saturday’s storm were in Bosasso,
a Gulf ofAden coastal town with 300,000 residents.

With winds of u to 65 miles per hour, the
storm hit the coast tom the gulf and moved into
the sparsely populated interior, where heavy rains
continued yesterday, he said.

Azihari appealed to foreign donors for tents,
blankets, medicine and food.

llole: Clinton capable cliiet

WASHINGTON ~ Republican leader Bob
Dole joined the nation’s top military officer yester-
day in disputing Sen. Jesse Helms’ claim that Presi-
dent Clinton is not capable of leading the US.
armed forces. w

“I had some reservations earl '
on, but I think he’s up to the job
now,” Dole, the next Senate major-
ity leader, said on ABC’s “This
Week With David Brinkley.”

Clinton’s ability as commander
in chief, long an issue because of his
Vietnam era anti—war activities, was
questioned again Friday by Helms,
a North Carolina Republican, who
alleged during a CNN interview that military lead-
ers share his view that the president is not “up to
the job.”

That drew a quick response Saturday from Joint
Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. John Shalikashvili,
who called The Washington Post and The New
York Times to defend Clinton.

lawyer: PISSEIIIEI'S lleal'll noises

CHICAGO — At least three passengers on an
earlier leg of USAir Flight 427 complained of
stran e noises before the jet took off on its final,
fatal ight, according to a lawyer representing vic-
tims’ families.

Philip H. Corboy, a lawyer suing USAir on
behalf of some of the families, said reports of com-
plaints were filed Thursday in depositions in feder-
al court.

The three passengers said they had heard an odd
noise during the Sept. 8 flight from Charlotte,
N.C., to Chicago, he said. The jet left Chicago for
Pittsburgh later that day and crashed a few miles
from the Pittsburgh airport, killing all 132 peo )le
aboard. Investigators have not determined w at
caused the crash.

GOP governors voice concerns
WILLIAMSBURG, Va. -—- Key Republican

overnors voiced reservations yeste “day about the
eading House GOP welfare reform plan, arguing
that decisions about work requirements and benefit
cutoffs are best left to states.
Tthe governors pledged to back wholeheartedly
a balanced budget amendment — but only if it
includes language guaranteeing that states would
not have to pick up the tab when the federal gov~
ernment cuts spending. Republican governors and
governors-elect were gathering in Virginia for a
three-day meeting to share ideas and discuss how
the GOP takeover of Congress would affect feder-
al—state relations.

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tllomnaon not so atltty on movie set

NEW YORK — Emma Thom son‘s image as a
right-thinking Englishwoman wit a stiff upper lip
_, .- ‘1 and a classy accent gets a tweak in

    
 

her latest film.

“Junior,” a comedy about a male
scientist who gets pregnant, finds
Thompson writhing in passionate
love scenes with Arnold
Schwarzeneg r.

And how (Ed the epitome of Brit
gentility hit it off with the megas-
tar Austrian body-builder?

Suffice it to say that when they
met, she said, “I'm sorry. I have to touch you. Can
you lie down on the floor?”

“And she was rolling around with me on the
floor,” Schwarzene get says in yesterday's New
York Times. “I was laughing my cad off over the
whole approach. She broke the ice very quickly, so
we could get down to work.”

Contpiledfim wire reports.

Thompson

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Sewer

Students s end day
sampling K water
From PAGE 1

swiftly moving stream. They test-
ed for a wide range of water quali—
ty standards, including dissolved
oxy en content, pH (measure of
aci ity), iron and chlorides.

The group currently lacks the
funding necessary to run tests for
fecal colifomis (which cause bacte—
rial infections), heavy metals, lead
and cadmium.

()nce out of the sewers, the set—
ting shifted from “Beauty and the
Beast” to “Weird Science,” with
Boak, the resident chemist of the
group, perfomiing a series of tests
to determine the overall concen-
trations of the samples.

Once the levels of certain con-
taminants exceeds the state or fed~
erally mandated standard, the
group sends the findings to an
enforcement agency, which
searches for the source and pun-
ishes the violators, Boak said.

In addition to the campus sam-
pling site, the group also gathered
data at a playground at the corner
of McKinley and Deroode streets
as well as the watershed outlet on
Old Frankfort Pike.

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GREG ms Kemelmff

WIIEBWIICHEBS Moria Mineu'easer and Robert Boa/e look at water samples the)l tooleyesterday. There are more
than 250 water-u'an‘hing teams across the state, each it responsible for monitoring its own watershed.

Few have the inspiration to
spend a weekend afternoon taking
water samples and crawling
through storm sewers, but each
member of the Bluegrass Water

Watch, however, claims to have a
common goal of saving the envi—
ronment.

“Your body is 80 percent
water,” said Mineweaser, a

forestry junior.

“All the water that runs off the
land goes to the ocean. So all we
dump into the water eventually
comes back to us.”

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library

UK, finnessee join
forces of}r the field

From PAGE 1

know that you’d do the same for
them.”

Willis said UK and UT will
begin a “joint collection develop—
ment,” meaning the two libraries
will help each other build and
share new resources.

For example, UK was given a
National Endowment for the
Humanities grant two years ago to
put all of the state’s newspapers on
microfilm.

UT currently is planning to
apply for grant money for a similar
project, and \Villis said UK’s staff
will step in to train and help UT’s
staff during the application and
start-up process.

In addition, by tapping into the
collections of the equally-sized
UT library UK will nearly double
the size of its own 7million— vol-
ume collection, Willis said.

The new alliance was made
possible with new innovations in
electronics that allow library offi—
cials to easily communicate across
state boundaries, \Villis said.
Computer electronic mail net—
works allow him to send messages
to Knoxville, Tenn, as easily as
sending a message to the Agricul—
tural Library on campus.

UK 5 Margaret l. King Library
recently installed the Ariel soft—
ware system, which links the
resources of every library in the
state and across the world with

'UK’s inter-library loan system.

Such new explorations in coop-
erative efforts have been forced
largely because the budget’s of
libraries are constantly being cut,
Willis said.

With the $58 million Central
and Life Sciences Library funded
and currently under construction,
the regional alliance will add
greatly to UK’s resources without
costing either school a dollar.
Willis described the alliance as a
“win—win” situation, adding that
UK’S libraries will look into more
regional cooperation as operating
budgets are squeezed tighter.

 

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Wrong number

Campus phone
book contains

several errors

By Eric Booth
Contributing Writer

This year’s campus phonebook
is riddled with wrong numbers —
and it maybe the student body’s
fault, University officials say.

Judy Kisil, a Computing Cen-
ter employee, estimates there are
1,600 wrong phone numbers and
addresses in the white— colored
student section of the book.

Telephone numbers beginning
with a 258 prefix were incorrectly
given to some on- campus resi-
dence halls and fraternity and
sorority house rooms.

Since these were replaced by
323- numbers for on-campus use
last semester, they no longer exist.
Students who want to find anyone
with such a listing must contact
UK information.

The false information originat-
ed from the Student Information
System, which 5 plied the stu-
dent numbers for u(lie directory.

Marilyn Szczygielski, the
Communications and Network
Systems editor of the directory,
said information systems is the
official student database for UK.

UK officials pulled the student
information that was printed in
the phonebook from the SIS
database.

Student Government Associa—
tion officials, who are responsible
for printing the phonebook each
year, advertised that students
needed to update their phone
numbers and addresses in the sys—
tem earlier this year.

But few students responded to

the advertising, which led to
errors in the phone book, said
Amy Abernathy, executive direc-
tor for SGA student services.

“Regardless, if you don’t
update your own information,
then I suppose Communications
Marketing can’t be responsible for
hunting you down and making
sure that you live at the same
address,” she said.

Ironically, Abernathy added,
the initial purpose of establishing
the SIS records-keeping system
was to improve accuracy in keep-
ing student records.

“That why they offered the
service this year through SIS, so
that more correct addresses and
phone numbers could be printed,”
Abernathy said.

Avi Weitzman, SGA’s execu~
tive director of academic affairs,
and Randall Dahl, University reg—
istrar, both ex ressed surprise at
the extent of t e problem How-
ever, both agreed that lack of stu-
dent 1nput was a major contribut-
ing factor.

g“(With) SIS, you can constant-
ly go in and update our address,”
Weitzmann said. “I they have not
done it, then they’re goin to have
the same address as geshman
year.

Another factor that contribut—
ed to the wrong listings may have
been a conflict in the computer
systems used. Last year the tele-
phone numbers were kept in sepa-
rate databases when the 258— and
323— numbers were listed togeth-
er.

Dahl had expected that the
four digits following the phone
number’s prefix to remain the
same. However, many of the
numbers were changed, which
may have led to some of the
wrong numbers in the phone—

book, Dahl said.

 

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