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Vol. XCII. No. 84 University of Kentucky. Lexington. Kentucky Friday. December 9 ‘i 988 l

Shipman

 

 

ges after accident

Prosecutor
hopes verdict
sends signal

By JIM “'HITE
Assoc1ate Editor

During the trial of Bradley J. Ship-
man. the former UK student convicted
yesterday of two felonies in connection
with a fatal car crash. two L'K students
took the witness stand and openly ad-
mitted drinking with the defendant at a
bar shortly before the accident.

Both witnesses were underage Both
admitted having numerous beers at Mi—
chaels' Pizza Plus on South Limestone
Street that night. Both. like many L'K
students. didn't seem to think that what
they did was any big deal,

”And that bothers me.” said ASSIS-
tant Commonwealth Attorney Jeft Dar-
ling after the trial yesterday.

“I knew that there‘s underage drink-
ing and people have fake IDs I guess
what was startling was the total indif-
ference toward it they had." Darling
said.

Shipman admitted to drinking 1-! nine-
ounce beers the equivalent to 10*:
cans of beer before the accident that
killed UK student Lisa Whalen and crit~
ically injured Michael Thomas Swerc-
zek. another l'K student

Shipman was convicted yesterday of
seconddegree manslaughter. second-
degree assault and drunken driving. He
was sentenced to two five-year terms in
prison to be served concurrently

Shipman. 20. is being held at the
Fayette (‘ounty Detention (‘enter until a
Jan. 6 sentencing hearing.

The accident occurred Sept 7 when
Shipman crashed his convertible (‘amar
ro IR()('»Z into a telephone pole at the
corner of Euclid Avenue and Kentucky
(‘ourt

Shipman had been drinking with
friends at Michaels' Pizza Plus before
the accident

Wednesday. 19-year-old t'K students
Dan Veltkamp and Tammy Nguyendon
testified that they had been drinking

beer with Shipmaii at the restaurant he
tore the accident The legal 'll‘lllkll‘iLI
age in Kentucky is it

Darling said that there are no win
iii-rs or losers~ in a trial like this but llt'
hopes it will send a message to [K sill
dents about the consequences of under
age drinking and drunken driving

‘l think the best thing the Kentucky
Kernel can do is splash this all 't\'t'l' the
front page." [)arling said

- UK student sentenced to 2

RANDAL WlLLIAOASON heioei Sta"
Brad Shipman is taken into custody after sentencing yesterday Shipman was
convicted yesterday on second-degree manslaughter
and drunken drivmg

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in: tit .tlltl 30f ill‘lltlxll‘L‘
who li.id iio prohlciii with ll'lllklllL‘ s \,
or eight lii't'l‘s then :eti‘zriu mm c and.
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t' it' it! is

It in particular 'l.c people wit i an
pus could see what tan happen and how
it iati cttect, not iiist who is
«lead or Michael swerc/ck
almost comatose. ltai'liiig said.
how it cilected lh'ad \hipiiiaii
going' to be spending his i‘liristnias in
tail

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seconddeqree assault

By JIM WHITE
ASSllt'liilt‘ l-Iditiii‘

Bradley .J Shipiiiatt a l'i'lla‘.’
student. was coiiyictcii as t'llitl_“tl
second-degree iiiansiaughtci
degree assault and drunken iii ;\ '
terday in lt'ayi-ttct'irciifl i ‘oai"

Shipmaii. who was takei. ii.‘ wn‘t
immediately alter 'hi i .i. i:. am:
sentenced to two ll\t yt-ai ,'
tobesi-i'yedcoiiciiri‘i-ritiy

The .Etirycai‘olil .sii pit it
drew ll’itll’i classes it t it ~
fall. will be held .yzlliiia'

Fayette t ounty lic‘ciitioii i .:
.laii ii si-iitciit ing heai 4.,
Judge James Kelli-i

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with a si'pt i '12'.‘
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A woman was raped Nov. 19 about
five blocks from UK, and called police
from campus

But the woman initially refused to
press charges It wasn‘t until Dec. 2
last Friday . . she decided to prosecute.

Nikki P‘ulks. who works in the [K
Counseling and Testing Center. offered
a couple of reasons why the woman was
unwilling initially to prosecute or seek
medical treatment

"Every situation is different. but I
think some women are fearful of being
victimized by the courts," Fulks said.
“It‘s another victimization to go
through the courts, The medical exami
nation is also a very traumatic thing "

According to Lexington Pol:ce Sgt
James Latimer. the rape occurred
around 3 a m.. near the intersection of
Main and Upper streets.

The woman came to Blazer Hall. a
UK residence hall on North Campus. to
use the phone to call police

”No days after the rape. Latimer said

 

that the woman did ‘ not have any do
sire ti) prosecute" and had refused med-
ical treatment.

Carla Gordon. hall director for Blair.»
er. said that the hall was uninvolved.

“She just came in here to use the
phone and was escorted out by policct”
tlordon said. "We had absolutely noth-
ing to do with her ”

“She was somewhat irauiiiatized and
scared and illtllll know what to do at
first which is not uncommon.” La
timer said

"So often we have tlial they‘re initial
ly hesitant but particularly if they re
ccive reinforcement trom families and
lriends they‘ll come back

“They participate in counseling with
the rape crisis center and come back
with a different frame of mind '

Latimer said the police hay c a physi
cal description of the assailant. but no
suspect

Diane Lawless. director of the Les
ingtoii Rape (‘risis t'entcr. said it is not
uncommon for rape victims not to pros»
ecute because of trauma

“There is a feeling that they won't be

Woman raped near campus

By MEREDITH LITTLE
Senior Staff Writer

l)(’ll('\t‘tl. a tear that pcoplc will laid out
and blame them.” she said

Although the woman is not a t'K stu-
dent. the proxmiity ol the rape in cani—
pus shows that not even students are ale
ways safe. Lawless said.

There is a lot of rape that occurs all
over lit'Xlllgltill 'l'here arent any sale
iieighliorhimls.‘ shesaid

“Some people hayc .iii attitudi- that
nothing can happen to me they may
think that it they layc III a ici'taiii neigh
lioi‘hood or .lt‘l .i ci-ilaiii way then they
woii‘lbci‘aped, Lawless said

Lawless said belieniig that a certain
type of behayior will preyeiit i.ipe puts
the blame on the \ ictiiii

“Thinking that it they act a certain
way the). wont be raped implies tlial
rape \ ictims ask for it. she said

.\ woman s teeliiigs oi L‘tllll oyer her
own rape is another icasoii inaiiy iapc
cases are not reported. hulks said

Soinctitiies. sonic woiiicii don t pros
cculc because they think it s their tault

which is \ery sad because i don‘t be-
lieve anyone raped.
Fiilks said

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20 years after his death

By ALEXANDER S. (‘RUl't‘ll
and WALT PAGE
Senior Staff Writers

of World War ll. he elected to anchor his
hitherto rootlcss life in the Abbey of
Gethsemani in Trappist. Ky. south of

Bardstown.

“ln Louisville, at the corner of Fourth

But more remarkable is the fact that a

and Walnut, in the center of the shopping
district. I was suddenly overwhelmed with
the realization that I loved all those

people. “

Those remarkable words have an
equally remarkable source _. the Trappist
monk Thomas Merton

The bare outline of his life is remarkable
enough

He was born in Prades. France in 1915
and died in Bangkok. Thailand 0n the eve

Trappist. a Cistercian of the Strict
Observance. the Roman Catholic religious
order known in Merton‘s day for its silence
and austerity. could embrace all those
Louisvillians on no other grounds than a
common humanity.

And that he could describe his
experience further as "waking from a
dream of separateness. of spurious self -
isolation in a speCial world. the world of
renunCiation and supposed holiness.”

concurrent five-year terms

Two finalists for Rhodes
scholars announced at ills

By ('ATIII‘IRINE \lt)\l.l \t lti
Staff Writer

l'wo Rhodes .\\'lltllill‘_\llil) i':.i-is‘~
Kentucky have been selected tc i'w'piw‘.
'he final selection process lll i iiicauo

Elaine Allen. a senior .i: t t‘llilt' t
and Hand l"\‘ci'iiiaii. a
Forest l iiiyi-isity

t .H'L‘I
Lyi'l‘i‘ li‘ii' law-i i... -: ‘.
chosen

The lthodcs schoiarship i I'>t\l‘.'t'\
cducatioiial iosts Iiiatiiiiilalii-i
laboratory .iiid certain other i-es
two years at (Ntord liiiyersity .: t“ "
lo the Rhodes Scholarship lll'lk hiii c

It also includes taiids tor tiaic.
lt‘iilli i )xlord

'l'hesc the
dates wc’ye seen in years
\enport. .i l K l‘liigiish piotcssoi .i
secretary torthe scholarship

We can only thoosc two and i? s .i .i
a hai‘dilecisioii.' hesaid

-\llen Is an l‘lltL’llsil and
from Lesington Everinan is ..
mayor iroiii l.oiiis\ Illt‘. Ky

‘l aiii iiiost surprised.
being selected

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were most

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Merton still speaks with authority

His death came Itiyears ago toiiioi'row,
Dec to. 1968. at a conference of (‘hristian
and Asian religious orders in Bangkok

After delivering a talk titled “Mariusin
and Monastic l’ersyx-ctives.” which he
closed ironically with the offhand remark
"So I will disappear.” Merton was found
facedown in his motel room. an electric
laii still running. lying across his body

His friends and fellow monks gathered to
bury him in the tiethsemam churchyard iii
the raveledout end of a year which had
seemed the fiery apotheosis of a decade in
which savage indignation. the arrogance of
power and postponed self—gratification
mixed like the elements of gunpowder

\s sootten in sut h uplosioiis. iiieii oi
peace were the victims

That may year had seen the \ iolent
deaths of Robert Kennedy and Martin
Luther King Jr Both men Kennedy lll
his denunciation of the \ ietiiani “.il‘ .tlltl
American poverty. King in his campaigns
against racism inspired by tlaiidhi and the
Gospels had been like Merton in then
public spirit

Merton. of course. was primarily a inoiik
and not a public figure in the traditional
sense

But at the same time Merton consciously
transcended traditional definitions of his
role

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Thoma. J. Sullivan
Executive Editor

CA. Dunno loamy
Editorial Editor

Hichul Brennan
Editorial Cartoonist

Julio Euclmn

Juylanton
EI‘ inC‘

In White
Associate Editor

VIEWPOINT

The true meaning of Christmas is the celebration of life

Each year I find myself becom»
ing more and more selfish as my
“I wants" have grown from barbie
dolls to computers

Although a computer would be
nice for t‘hristmas this year. I
Il.l\t' found myself thinking twice
about the true meaning of the holi»
day

t‘liristnias is a celebration of life

Two days ago I sat in English 251
and listened to .lohn (‘awelti give a
iiteiiiorial lecture about his 1l2»year-
old son who cotniintled suicide last
Friday

I express my sympathy to (‘awel
ti and Ill\ family for suffering the
It).\_\ of their son at a time when life
should be celebrated I also praise
t'.i.telti for sharing his story and

provoking me to think about the
true meaning of Christmas

Not only Cawelti suffered a per-
sonal tragedy this year. ()thers did
as well. I express my sympathy for
those who have experienced pain
this Christmas season.

I think of Lisa Whalen's family
and friends. Lisa was killed in a
drunken driving accident

I think of Thomas Swerczek and
his family Thomas. who was in the
same wreck as Lisa. is still uncon-
cious I hope he fully recovers.

i would like to think both Lisa's
death and Thomas‘ injuries served
a purpose by making L'K students
more responsible about not drink-
ing and drivtng

I would like to think that
sure l do

I‘m not

Furthermore. I hope l'K football
player, David Scott. will fully re~
cover from his car accident last
summer.

I express sympathy to the fami-
lies and friends of former law stu!
dent Jim Jobson and former psy~
chology professor Jesse Harris

Their deaths and injuries make
me realize that my problems are
trivial.

Finally. I hope that Leah McCain
will get well. that Allan's mom will
live longer than the one year he
fears she has left. and that anyone
who is suffering will be relieved.

Christmas is a time of hope
Jesus died so we could live and I
think we should celebrate his day
as ours

('hi‘istnias is a time to celebrate

life. Although I have spoken of tra~
gedy and death. I have a story to
tell that celebrates life.

In Bourbon County two weeks
ago. a young woman, holding a life-
less body in her arms. came to the
door of Evelyn Harpe. an offset
printing press operator in the Col-
lege of Agriculture.

The woman was hysterical be-
cause 4‘yearold Scottie Brown had
choked on a jawbreaker and had
stopped breathing.

Evelyn took the boy. turned him
upside down and smacked him on
his back.

Nothing happened.

She turned him over with his
head down and his eyes rolled back
in his head, He was completely Me
less and Evelyn did not know what

 

Christmas is a time of hope. Jesus died so we
could live and I think we should celebrate his

day as ours.

to do so she pried his jaw open and
stuck her finger down his throat
She could feel something but it
would not come out.

"His little eyes rolled back in his
head and I knew I had to do some-
thing." she said. “I said. ‘Ilord tell
me what to do,‘ I pried his jaw
open again and I got it out."

As soon as the jawbreaker was
out Scottie gasped for air. When
the paramedics arrived. Evelyn

said they told her that pulling the
jawbreaker out saved his life

We can't all be lif'esavers. but we
all can celebrate the life we hate
been given and be thankful for it
And we can feel for those who have
suffered. and are suffering. tiiort
than we

I-'Ii:ubc1r
supl'iooimi

(‘ti'iin‘

Assignment Editor
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Letters

Help feed
the hungry

\ika Selztei‘ has a new conimeri-
cal out billing itself as a relief to
all the tingling bells that arise
tron; the teastuigs at Christmas

Far too many people in llexmg
tor. and elsewhere. both within and
without this country. their bells
wont be tingling at (‘hristmas as
hunger in their stomach is too often
their companion all year

That this should happen in this.
country is sndetensible By rights.
it ought to be unimaginable But lI
isn‘t It's among us every day in
the iieighlmrhoods adioining our
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