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By Sean Rose
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Student Government Sena-
tor Andy Bates walked into the
Worsham Theater to a standing
ovation and the pep band blar-
ing the ﬁght song.

Shortly after taking the
podium, he formally announced
his candidacy for 86 President
with fellow 86 Sen. Will Fuller
as his running mate.

This is the ﬁrst ticket to for-
mally announce its candidacy
for the upcoming SG presiden-
tial elections in March.

Bates and Fuller addressed
the audience of about 50 for

”We’re students first."
Fuller said. “We’re from all
types of backgrounds and cir-
cumstances. For far too long,
Student Government has been
the voice of inactivity self-ab-
sorption.”

Bates called for a change in
the face of 86.

“We need a Student Govern-
ment that is open, helpful and
optimistic," Bates said. “Help
us to finally make SG the stu-
dents’ government once again."

Bates also criticized the cur
rent relationship between UK
and the state government, say-
ing he would work for more
state funding to keep tuition

Celebrating 35 years of independence

Bates announCesSG candidacy

Calls for Fine Arts renovations and promises
weekly visits with state legislators if elected

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last night at Worsham Theater. Bates said if he lS elected SG president, he will

close to 20 minutes criticizing
past student governments.

put forth effort to make women safer on campus and make the presidency a

See Bates on page 2

more preventative administration instead of a reactionary one.

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Accused Sept. 11 conspirator frequently
interrupts court’s sentencing process

By Richard A. Serrano
LOS ANGELES nuts

ALEXANDRIA, Va. Despite numer-
ous outbursts by Zacarias Moussaoui pro-
claiming “I am al-Qaidal." a federal judge
pushed forward yesterday with the
lengthy process of selecting a sentencing
jury to determine whether the only man
to be tried in the Sept. 11 conspiracy
should live or die.

US. District Judge Leonie M. Brinke-
ma started the process by bringing about
500 potential jurors into her courtroom
and asking them to fill out lengthy ques-
tionnaires on a number of issues, such as
attitudes toward Muslims and the 19 Sept.
11 hijackers « and even whether they be-
lieve it is safe to fly.

Repeatedly, northern Virginia resi-
dents entered the courtroom, and repeat-
edly the 37-year-old defendant in a green
jumpsuit with the word “prisoner" on his
back interrupted the proceedings. Each
time, the judge ordered Moussaoui re-
moved.

“This trial is a circus.” he proclaimed.

“I want to be heard!" he shouted.

“These people do not represent me."
he said. referring to defense lawyers sit-
ting nearby.

Erratic and difﬁcult to understand.
Moussaoui insisted that he will testify on
his own behalf when the trial gets under

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way with the seating of a jury on March 6.

“For four years I have waited. 1 will
tell them the truth I know. I will take the
stand." he said.

The trial is actually only a sentencing
phase. Moussaoui. a French citizen of Mo-
roccan descent. pleaded guilty last April
to six criminal charges that he had a role
in the Sept. 11 conspiracy led by Osama
bin Laden.

Moussaoui did not deny “This trial is
a circus. I
want to be
heard! These
people do not
represent

that he was an al-Qaida opera-
tive and a soldier to bin Laden.
But he said he was not sent to
the US. to board one of the four
hijacked airplanes. and instead
insisted he was being groomed
to fly a ﬁfth aircraft into the
White House.

He was arrested in August
2001, a month before the attacks ,,
on the World Trade Center and me.
the Pentagon. and jailed on im-
migration charges in Minneso-
ta after raising suspicions by
attending ﬂight schools there
and in Oklahoma.

Federal prosecutors plan to focus the
case for his execution on their contention
that if he had cooperated with FBI agents
after his arrest and told them about the
plot, the government might have been able
to prevent the loss of nearly 3,000 lives on
Sept. 11.

accused Sept. ll conspirator

But defense lawyers hope to persuade
the jury that the government missed nu-
merous chances to learn about the im-
pending attacks, citing their decision not
to open up Moussaoui's laptop computer
and an earlier FBl memo voicing concern
about Middle Eastern immigrants taking
ﬂight lessons in Phoenix.

Even with Moussaoui‘s many
outbursts yesterday, Brinkema
pressed on. Each time she ordered
him removed and each time he
complied.

“I am not resisting." he told
the marshals. sometimes raising
his hands in the air.

Then the judge turned her at-
tention to the potential jurors. “A
death penalty case is an awesome
responsibility.“ she told them.

if they do not send him to the
Zacarias federal execution chamber in

Moussaoui Terre Haute. Ind. then he will be

dispatched to prison with no pa-
role, most likely at the govern-
ment‘s highly secure “Supermax” lock-
down in Florence. Colo.

The questionnaires help prosecutors
and defense lawyers streamline the selec-
tion process when the jury candidates be-
gin returning to the courthouse on Feb. 15
for individual questioning by the judge.

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Todd never
told about
lawsuit

President didn't hear of discrimination
claims until after police chief hire

By Adam Sichko and Megan Boehnke
THE KENTUCKY mun _

UK President Lee Todd said yesterday he has
no reason to “second- “guess 'the hiring of Mc
Donald Vick as UK’ s new police chief.

But he and several members of UK’s search
committee are all questioning aspects of the
search process that left them in the dark about a
sexual discrimination lawsuit that names Vick
as a defendant. Todd said he in-
tends to change UK’s search
committee processes as a result.

UK ended a yearlong search

Wednesday by appointing Vick
to take over UK’s police force.
Vick, 50. currently runs the
force at North Carolina Central
University. Vick spent the 18
years as a police ofﬁcer in
Durham, N.C., before serving
the last 10 years at NCCU.

Walters-Oldani. the national
ﬁrm UK hired for its police chief search. includ-
ed one sentence in its executive summary of
Vick about a series of sexual harassment and
sexual discrimination allegations in 1998 at
NCCU Vick and the NCCU police department.
were cleared of any wrongdoing. The summary
also brieﬂy mentioned other concerns like ver~
bal communication but a current law suit alleg
ing sexual discrimination and illegal wiretap-
ping against a female former police ofﬁcer in
North Carolina wasn‘t in-

. (Vick)

eluded, Todd said. n
“It wasn‘t enough to ..
thought it‘was
something that

trigger me.“ Todd said.

“But I wish i would have
was behind
him."

been briefed on that issue
and that the interview
team would have been
briefed.

“That should have
been enough to warrant a
brieﬁng to myself and the
search committee." he
said. “So we‘ve got some
work to do in our
process."

Todd said he's not
sure that the disclosure of the current lawsuit
and past allegations would have changed the
minds of the search committee. nor would it
have altered the list of strongest candidates the
committee forwarded to him.

“i really don‘t think they would have changed
their list, but it would have caused them to ask
more. detailed questions. as they should have."
Todd said.

Todd said he spoke with Vick Monday night
and encouraged him to not let recent “negative
publicity" about this issue become disconcert»
ing. Deona Renna Hooper. the person bringing

Lee Todd

UK presrdent.
on a lawsun Involvmq
UK”; new name chief

See Chief on page 2

N.C. university
pitches Vick
new offer

By Adam Sichko

THE KENTUCKY KERNEL

McDonald Vick. UK s newly hired police
chief. has received a counter-offer from his cur-
rent employer. UK President Lee Todd said yes-
terday.

Vick has served as police chief at North (Tar
olina Central University for the past 10 years. Be
fore that, he spent 18 years in the Durham. N.C..
police force. Last week. UK named Vick its re-
placement for interim police chief Kevin
Franklin. Vick is scheduled to start in March.

“One thing that has taken place during this
time is his chancellor (James Ammons) has
made counter offers to try to get him to stay
there which I think is an indication that they‘ re
pleased with his performance on campus.” Todd
said

“I‘m hoping that he doesn‘t take those offers."

NCCU is expected to issue a press release to
day formally announcing its new offer to Vick.
said UK spokesman Jay Blanton Vick will be
traveling the next few days but is expected to re-
spond to NCCU‘ 5 latest offer Thursday he said

Currently Vick earns $68 466 a year at NCCU,
according to his NCCU personnel file. Under his
contact with UK. Vick would earn about $93,000

a year.
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Bates

Continued from page I

down.

“Frankfort gives us a top
20 mandate," Bates said. “But
they do not give us top-20
funding.”

Currently there is an 80
lobbyist core that was orga-
nized by SC President Becky
Ellingsworth to push student
issues in Frankfort, but
Bates said it did “not entirely
live up to expectation." He
added that he would be in
Frankfort weekly, meeting
with lawmakers on issues
such as tuition if he were
elected.

Bates also cited diversity

as a major issue for UK.
Bates said if elected he
would appoint an investigato
ry committee to help solve
UK’s diversity problem.

“It’s absolutely essential
for Student Government to
embrace diversity whole-
heartedly" Bates said.

Bates called for renova-
tion for much of UK’s fine
arts facilities, saying “UK
needs to do more to cultivate
the fine arts program.” He
also labeled the Reynolds
Building a “run-down ware-
house whose structural in-
tegrity is in question."

He said more renovation
should be added to several
North Campus dorms that
don‘t have air conditioning.

Bates and Fuller had a
resolution on campus safety
that was passed by the SG
Senate Wednesday Bates said

he would develop this resolu-
tion further the rest of the
year and next year if elected
to create a task force of stu-
dents and the UK Police De
partment. The students
would be trained and serve
as paid safety officers. Bates
said he was still “working
out all the kinks." '

Some of the 25 Senatorial
candidates on the Bates-
Fuller ticket were introduced
as well. None of these candi-
dates has 86 experience, and
Bates said that was impor-
tant to him.

“Since Will and I are try-
ing to bring in a new vision
of Student Government, how
can we bring in the new if
we still have the old attached
to it?” Bates said.

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Chief

Continued from page 1

the suit against Vick and oth-
ers, was an ofﬁcer under Vick
at the NCCU police depart-
ment for 11 months before she
was ﬁred in 2002 after allega-
tions of subordination and
leaving the scene after damag-
ing a police cruiser.

“(Vick) had not

heard anything “It was kind
about this (lawsuit) 0f Shocking

for quite some time,

so he thought it actuaﬂyJ

was something that

vices, was the liaison between
the outside search ﬁrm and
UK’s search committee and
high-ranking ofﬁcials ~ a
middleman of sorts.

“In this case. I think we
had Ken in between, and he
was spending a lot of time
with the search ﬁrm,” Todd
said. “(The search ﬁrm) just
recommended to Ken Clevi-
dence that (the lawsuit) was-
n‘t an issue the interview
team needed to be worried
about.

“I think in the
future what I will
do is to make it
clear that I want
the search ﬁrm to
be directly accessi-

was behind him," sti" don't ble," Todd said.

Todd said. “My con-

cern was that he have a" the

and his wife would

“That's the change
that I’ll make going
forward is that I

get cold feet with information." want the search

this negative pub»
licity, and I called to
encourage him to
hang in there.

Tony Blanton direct
associate dean of students, from any search
on the news that UK's new 90- ﬁrm that we hlI‘e."

committee to have
brieﬁngs

”l haven't seen lite chief 15 named Inalawsuit TOdd said he

anything since all

of this came up

that causes me to second-
guess that selection (of Vick
as police chief)," he said.

In the recent search for a
new provost, UK’s search
committee and the outside
search ﬁrm communicated di-
rectly, Todd said. With the po
lice chief search. Ken Clevi-
dence, UK’s associate vice
president for campus ser-

doesn‘t blame any
one for not telling
him about the lawsuit.
“Nothing was done inten-
tionally," he said. “You jut try
to get the information you
should have had to the right
people and try not to let it
happen again. The process
just needs to be clariﬁed."
Tony Blanton. UK‘s associ-
ate dean of students and a
member of the search com-

the president‘s commission
on diversity

university of kentucky

Call for Nominations
President's A wards for Diversity

The President's Award for Diversity are given in honor
and appreciation of those who have demonstrated
outstanding efforts toward advancing the University's
mission of embracing diversity while maintaining
academic excellence.

Award Categories

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awarded in the following five categories:

1. UK student

2. UK staff member

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4. UK unit or department
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Nomination instructions can be found at www.uky.edu/PCD.

Nominations must be received by Monday, March 6, 2006.
For more information, contact Pam Bischoff, 257-3493,

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mittee, said he ﬁrst learned of
the lawsuit after several local
media outlets, including The
Kernel, reported on it Friday

“It was kind of shocking,
actually,” he said, adding that
it was information that he
would have liked to have had
during the process.

“I can’t say whether this
would have an affect on the
process because we didn’t
have all the information,” he
said. “I still don’t have all the
information. The only thing I
have is what (The Kernel) and
The Herald-Leader has pub-
lished in the newspaper."

Jim Wims, UK’s vice pres-
ident of student affairs and a
member of the committee.
also did not learn about the
lawsuit until he read it in
area newspapers. He said al~
though he’s interested in
knowing more. he didn‘t jump
to conclusions.

“It was just a story pub-
lished in the paper and I was
interested in knowing more
about it." he said. He also said
that he was sure if the infor-
mation would have swayed
his thinking one way or the
other, but he added that he's
not concerned about that at
this point.

“We went through the
process, we interviewed the
candidates and I feel good
about the recommendations
that were made." he said.

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KABUL. Afghanistan 7—-
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two. as protests against the
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which appeared in a Danish
publication in September.
and were reprinted recently
in European newspapers.

Police outside the main
U.S. base at Bagram. north
of Kabul. opened ﬁre around
4 pm. Monday when around
2.000 protesters surged to-
ward the heavily guarded
gates. Kabir Ahmad. district
commissioner. said by
phone from Bagram.

Another five demonstra-
tors and eight police were
injured in the clash. which
did not involve any US.
troops. Ahmad said.

The demonstrators “got
close to the Americans and

they burned the vehicles of
a private company that was
supplying food for the US.
military in Bagram." Ah-
mad said.

Similar protests have
turned violent in Syria and
Lebanon this weekend. In
Damascus on Saturday,
demonstrators burned the
Danish and Norwegian em~
bassies, and in Beirut on
Sunday, protesters set the
Danish consulate ablaze be-
fore rampaging through a
Christian neighborhood.

The Bush administration
yesterday accused the Syri-
an government of playing a
role in the Damascus at-
tacks and urged leaders of
other Arab countries. espe-
cially Saudi Arabia. to help
ease tensions.

David Welch. an assis-
tant secretary of state. met
with the Syrian ambassador
over the weekend “to ex-
press our strong protest and
condemnation" at the dam-
age to the embassies in
Damascus. said State De-
partment spokesman Sean
McCormack.

“Syria is a country
where protests don‘t just oc~
cur spontaneously. certainly
not of this sort. and not
without the knowledge and
support of the government.“
McCormack said.

Syrian embassy officials
could not be reached for
comment yesterday

Scott McClellan. the
White House press secretary.
called on “all governments
to take steps to lower ten-
sions and prevent violence."

He said critics of the car-
toons should “forcefully
speak out against all forms
of hateful speech. including
cartoons and articles that

frequently have appeared in
the Arab world espousing
anti-Semitic and antivChrist-
ian views."

In Kabul, hundreds of
protesters, some beating
cars with sticks, hands and
rocks, marched on the Dan-
ish embassy, where they
burned Danish ﬂags. Afghan
riot police beat the demon-
strators, who dispersed
without causing any damage
to the embassy.

There were no serious
injuries reported in the Kab—

ul protests. Many Afghans ~

who stayed away from the
demonstrations, said they
supported them because the
cartoons were deeply offen-
sive to all Muslims.

“Those who have pub-
lished these cartoons must
be hanged to death." said
Aagha Zia. 35. a guard in a
Kabul shopping mall. “Is-
lamic governments must not
have any kind of connec-
tions to Denmark and
Afghanistan must throw
them out.

“Karzai has said we
should forget this.” Zia
added. “I think he is very
wrong. Why should we for-
get this'? It is something un-
forgettable. and if we forget
this today. then tomorrow
everybody will make fun of
our religion."

In a separate protest in
the town of Mihtarlam yes-
terday. around 60 miles east
of Kabul. Afghan police
killed at least three people
protesting the Danish news-
paper cartoons.

Local ofﬁcials said police
opened fire to defend them-
selves when demonstrators
shot at least one riﬂe and
threw knives.

. Why should we forget this? every-
body will make fun of our religion.”

- Aagha Zia, a shopping mall guard in Kabul, about a recent anti-Muslim cartoon.

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I think I speak for most
people when I say that the
lyrics of lounge music are
just too bland, safe and sub-
tle, generally intended to put
a little spring into the step of
medicated retirees blowing
their pensions in Las Vegas.
Sure, Frank Sinatra engaged
in plenty of dicey activities
off the stage, but
you wouldn‘t

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listening to
“Summer Wind."
For the rest of
us who like our
crooners patently
campy and
drunk, who pre-
fer more bling in
their swing, we
have lounge
lizard Richard
Cheese (his
friends call him
Dick). Cheese (vo-
cals, vodka) is
backed by a large
swing/jazz band
that includes
Bobby Ricotta
(piano). Gordon
Brie (bass) and
Buddy ' Gouda
(drums). Together. they play
soothing. Sinatra-esque ren-
ditions of the most inappro-
priate and widely varying
pop songs you can imagine.
First and foremost, the
songs will have you in stitch.
es from start to ﬁnish. guar-
anteed. As soon as you hear
that familiar swing sound.
the warm quality of the
standup bass working with
the cheerful piano, played be-
hind the lyrics of Slipknot's

“People Equals Sh ~ " you’ll
see just what I‘m talking
about.

And therein lies the ge-
nius of Richard Cheese's
gimmick: making the most
hilarious, offbeat combina-
tions of pop song lyrics and
soothing lounge melodies as
possible. The compilation of-
fers 18 selections from his
previous releases of cover al-
bums. including songs by

nun-urns.

Korn. Radiohead, The Clash,
Snoop Dogg and Van Halen.

Anyone can listen to the
jazzy. sultry melodies and
rhythms of the songs. which
follow a similar format but
differ slightly to accommo-
date the varying styles being
imitated. But it takes an es-
pecially sophomoric mind to
enjoy the lyrics of Nine Inch
Nails' “Closer“ behind a
bouncy. inviting big band
song.

Cheese has a wonderful

voice, and has perfect deliv-
ery for transmitting maxi-
mum sarcasm and humor
with songs that are tradition-
ally very solemn, or at least
very different from Dick’s in~
carnation. The band behind

him is equally talented and .

has a