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NEWS

Haggin to be renovated

By ALLEN D. GREER
Senior Statt Writer

UK housing officials hope that
Haggin Hall’s security will be im-
proved next semester by building
a new entrance lobby and restrict-
ing 31 of the residence hall’s 32
enhances.

The renovation is expected to
begin late this summer and is
scheduled to be completed by
Dec. 5, according to Warren Den-
ny. UK's director of design and
construction. About $200,000 has
been budgeted for the project.

Although Haggin Hall has a
second-floor lobby that serves as
a study area, students may enter
the all-male residence hall at any
of the 32 entrances.

The numerous entrances make
for a poorly designed facility that
is “very difficult in terms of se-
curity,” said Vice Chancellor for
Administration Jack Blanton.

Haggin Hall is the only UK res-
idence hall without an entrance
lobby and front desk clerk who

controls access 24 hours a day,
said Penny Cox, housing director.
Security and access to the build-
ing, which can house 575 stu-
dents. is now enforced by a staff
of about 21.

Because the renovation at Hag-
gin Hall will restrict access to just
one entrance, Denny and Cox
said that security will be im-
proved at the residence hall by
keeping out unauthorized people.

The project was announced last
November after a female UK stu-
dent alleged that she was raped
by two Haggin Hall residents in
their room. But Director of Resi-
dence Life Bob Clay said that the
renovation plans were not in reac-
tion to the incidenL

The renovation also is expected
to reduce vandalism, Cox said.
The mostly freshman residence
hall has been vandalized over the
years by non-residents, she said.

The new entrance lobby will be
built in the courtyard where the
game room currently is located.
The entrance will have a control

The entrance lobby of Haggin Hall will be built where the game
room is. The other 31 entrances will be converted to tire exits.

desk that is staffed 24 hours a day
to restrict access. Cox said. and
the 31 other entrances will be con-
verted into fire exits.

The fire doors will not be used
as entrances because they will be
fitted with fire alarms that sound
when the doors are opened.

The renovation project also in-
volves putting doors on the three
entrances to Haggin Hall's court-
yard. Cox said. Only one of the

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entrances will be open after the
project is completed. None of the
courtyard entrances are now con-
trolled for access.

Cox said that the renovation
project will not disrupt students in
Haggin Hall during the fall se-
mester because “there won’t be
any construction in the student ar-
eas. It will simply be in the game
room where we’re building the
office."

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AMPUS BRIEFS

College of Arts & Sciences names acting dean

Political science professor Bradley Canon will be the acting
dean of the College of Arts & Sciences for the 1990-91 school
year.

Canon. who joined UK’s faculty in 1966, replaces Michael
Baer, who left to be provost of Northeastern University in Bos—
ton.

Canon has served as associate dean of graduate students and
chairman of the University Senate.

Byars acting vice chancellor for minority affairs

Lauretta Byars, associate professor of social work, will be act-
ing vice chancellor for minority affairs for the 1990-91 school
year. Byars. who came to UK in 1982. served as assistant dean
for student affairs in the College of Social Work. She replaces
William Parker. who retired July 1.

Fowler named UK Art Museum director

Harriet W. Fowler will be appointed the new director of the
UK Art Museum at the Aug. 21 UK Board of Trustee’s meeting.
Fowler, who has served as curator and the acting director, will re-
place William Hennessey, who joined the University of Michigan
Art Museum last year.

Sanders-Brown Center to hold seminar

The UK Sanders-Brown Center on Aging and 15 other univer-
sity, state and regional gr0ups will sponsor the seventh annual
Summer Series on aging at Lexington's Hyatt Regency, July 17-
20.

The series brings together more than 30 state and national ex-
perts on aging.

David C. Thomasma, a professor of medical ethics and director
of the Medical Humanities Program at Loyola University Medi-
cal Center in Maywood, 111.. will be the featured speaker at the
conference.

Another highlight of the conference will be a session titled
“Untie the Elderly." The session will be led by Jill Blakeslee and
Beryl Goldman, who are director and associate director for health
services, respectively, of The Kendal Corporation.

UK professor receives $3,500 grant

The National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded
$3,500 to UK anthropology professor William Adams for a study
of artifacts found in Sudan.

The artifacts were recovered from an archaeological dig at Ku-
lubnarti, a site now under water because of Egypt‘s Aswan Dam
project. The site was inhabited by a Christian culture aaround
1200 AD.

SGA to send Nelson to national conference

The Student Government Association interim senate approved
funding for a sociology senior to present the paper he co-authored
to The Society for the Study of Social Problems convention.

SGA allotted $649 for Larry Nelson to present the paper that
he wrote with former UK sociology professor Diane Taub. The
paper is about contemporary satanism. The conference will take
place in Washington on August 8-11.

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CHE looking for ‘specifics’ in plan

By GREGORY A. HALL
Executive Editor

The Kentucky Council on
Higher Education asked the eight
state universities for more specif-
ic strategic planning at the institu-
tional level.

A lack of financing forced the
council to ask universities for
more details about how program
proposals fit into priorities.

“Given the limited funding that
is available to the commonwealth,
we have to make some hard
judgements," said Programs
Committee Chairman Peggy Ber-
telsman. “If we could see specific
plans from every university and
fit those into an overall strategic
plan by the council, we‘d be able
to better judge what the real
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available, then what is realistic to
pursue

On Monday, the CHE approved
the themes, assumptions and
goals that will be used in creating
the 1990 Strategic Plan for High-
er Education in Kentucky, which
is written every five years.

While the basic points were
broad, the Council asked the uni-
versities to tell how programs fit
into institutional and sectional
priorities.

In approving five new academ-
ic degree programs, including a
master’s degree in physical thera»
py at UK, the programs commit-
tee and the council requested that
institutions provide more specific
information about how program
goals fit into university priorities.

“They’re saying that they are
making those decisions back on
their campus and we need to see

them,” Bertelsman said.

Other degrees approved in—
clude: a master’s in occupational
therapy at Eastern Kentucky Uni-
versity; an associate degree in ac-
counting technology at Somerset
Community College; an associate
degree in industrial-electrical
technology at Hopkinsville Com-
munity College and a doctorate in
art history at the University of
Louisville.

The council’s executive direc-
tor, Gary Cox said that the call
for strategic planning is “more ev-
olutionary than revolutionary."

“(Strategic planning) is a plan-
ning process whereby each insti-
tution does their own planning,“
Cox said. “And the Council on
Higher Education sets state-wide
goals."

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Search committee hunting

Bruner acting as students’ voice

By TONJA WILT
Editor in Chief

When Teel Bnmer was first
named the student representative
on the UK Presidential Search
Committee last January, he was
unaware of what he was getting
into.

Many people were critical that
a medical student who spent his
undergraduate years at Centre
College in Danville, Ky., was
chosen to help pick UK’s 10th
president. And Bruner heard plen-
ty of that criticism.

After six months of familiariz-
ing himself with the committee
and adjusting to his role, Bruner.
a fourth-year medical student,
says that he is more confident
than ever that he can help choose
the right person to lead UK.

“If this guy is not the best for
the students, then l’m not going to
vote for him ," said Bruner, clad in
hospital scrubs. “That is just the
way I am.”

The London, Ky., native met
his first challenge when UK Stu-
dent Government Association
President Sean Lohman objected
to his appointment to the search
committee. Lohman felt that he,
as the elected leader of the student
body, should have been the one to
represent UK students.

“First of all, I guess I was naive
to the whole situation of what
would occur when l was appoint-

ed and Sean wasn’t,” Bruner said.
“I guess I was not aware that the
student government president was
kind of automatically placed on
these committees in the past."

However, even now Bruner ad-
mits that Lohman, since he is
SGA president, probably should
have been selected.

“But you know that’s water un—
der the bridge now. You can’t do
anything about it,” he said. “I was
appointed, and we just have to
make something positive out of
it.”

And a positive step has been
taken since the appoinunent, Loh-
man said, since UK now has two
student representatives looking
for the 10th University president.
As the student member of the UK
Board of Trustees, Lohman will
vote on the candidate proposed by
the search committee to the BOT.

Since his appointment. Bruner
has met with a group of student
advisers appointed by Lohman.
for advice on what qualities stu-
dents want in their next president.

The committee said that the
next president should be able to
mingle with students and “go to
bat for the students — someone
who will not power-play the stu-
dents,” Bruner said.

Although the student commit-
tee has met only once with Brun-
er, Susan Wood, one of the stu-
dent advisers, is confident in the
medical student's ability.

 

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“l was totally impressed with
Tee]. At first I guess I, like the
rest of the student body, had
some questions about why he
was appointed because it seems
logical that Sean Lohman would
have been the choice," said
Wood, who is president of the
Student Development Council.
“’l‘eel has tumed a pretty nega.
tive situation into a positive
one.”

Although that Bniner seems to
have overcome the biggest hur-
dle in his role as a campus lead-
er, he still faces smaller battles.

Since Bruner was appointed by
BOT Chairman Foster Ocker-
man, who was appointed to the
board by Gov. Wallace Wilkin-
son, critics charge that the medi-
cal student is a Wilkinson ally.

“I guess I was portrayed a little
bit to look like I had some con-
nections with whoever and had
gotten the appointment and that l
was going to be a puppet," Brun-

See BRUNER, Page 5

 
   

for 10th president

Two candidates withdraw;
another name reconsidered

By TONJA WILT
Editor in Chief

Two candidates withdrew their
names from the search for UK's
10th president, while another per-
son is being reconsidered, repen-
ed the Presidential Search Com-
mittee Tuesday.

Currently, 14 candidates are be-
ing considered, but the search is
still open to other submissions.

The former candidates removed
their names after accepting other
jobs, said Foster Ockerman, chair-
man of the search committee.

UK interim President Charles
Wethington said he is still being
considered by the committee for
the position.

The candidate who was added
to the search had originally been
eliminated at the June 12 meeting.

“The person came from the
original pool. The committee just
wanted to do that. They have the
freedom to add or subtract,” Ock-
erman said. “I don‘t know why
the committee wanted to add one
more name.”

Lamalie Associates Inc., the
consulting firm hired at the June
12 search committee meeting to
interview and investigate candi-
dates as well as to increase the list
did not add any names.

Even though Ockerman expect-
ed the firm to bring forth new
candidates, he no longer antici-
pates Lamalie adding any more
names.

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“After (the investigative
process) we will have a
list of finalists that we
will invite to the

campus.”
— Foster Ockerman,
chairman of the search
committee

 

made various phone calls and
they did not submit additional
names," he said.

The firm’s job now is perform-
ing the fust set of interviews and
to ensure the confidentiality of
each candidate .

“We have difficulty complying
with the open meetings law and
also keeping a full participation of
the committee.” Ockerman said.
“I think it’s best that we have the
consultants do most of the back-
ground work if you can’t main-
tain the confidentiality of the can-
didates, you don‘t have anyone to
consider."

Two of the 14 have yet to be in-
terviewed.

At the search committee's next
meeting on July 31. Ockerman
hopes to have no more than five
remaining candidates.

“When we come down to a
shorter list we will continue the
investigative process,” he said.
“After that we will have a list of
finalists that we will invite to the
campus.”

The 10-member search commit-
tee was established last January to
find a replacement for the vacan-
cy created by the resignation of
UK's ninth president David Ro-
selle.

 
   
   
   
     
   
   
   
   
   
    
   
   
 
   

 

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CHE

Continued from page 3

Cox said that UK and U of L
have already established “sophis-
ticated” institutional plans. but
other state universities have not
progressed as much.

He said that Morehead State
University and Western Kentucky
University are in the process of
developing strategic plans.

The other state universities are
Kentucky State University, Mur-
ray State University and Northern
Kentucky University.

U of L President Donald Swain
said the council's call tells univer-
sities without strategic plans “that
are(atthe)endoftheparadethere
to speed it up.”

SwainsaidtlmUothasbeen
formulating strategic plans for
about five years, but he worries
thattheCHEisgettingtooin-
volved at the irmitutional level.

“I think that the main role that
thecouncil oughttobeistoestab-
lish an overall sense of direction
and priority for the whole state
and then expect the institutions to
mvide the specific details.”
Swain said. “If they would put all
the specifics in their plan it would
beoutofdatewithinamonthor
two ’cause the world keeps
changing so rapidly.”

Both Swain and UK interim
President Charles Wethington
said their schools could comply
with the council's request.

However, Wethington asked
that the new program proposal
guidelines be decided upon quick-
ly so that they can be implement-
ed in the institutional strategic
plans for the next biennium,
which the CHE wants in July
1991.

"The council has felt it has not
had the kind of information that it
would like to have from all insti-
tutions that indicates how a given
program fits into a plan for that
institution." Wethington said.
But if the council would like to
have that in a different form, then
clearly, we need to work with
them to determine what that form
is. and we’ll be glad to provide
it.”

While changing the require-
ments for institutional program
propouls. the CHE is also expect-
edtoehangeitsfocusin the 1990
Strategic Plan.

Catphell said due 1985 Strate-

gic Plan focused on enrollment.
'Ihe Bowling Green lawyer ex-
pects that focus to shift towards
quality, with emphasis placed on
the fields of math, science and
technology.

The CHE staff was scheduled
to present the first draft of the
plan to the council at a workshop
consisting of the council and
higher education officials in
Louisville, Ky.. on Sept. 9 and 10.

However Council member W.
Terry McBrayer requested that
the CHE take a more hands-on ap-
proach to drafting the strategic
plan.

Campbell said that the council
will meet privately to formulate
the rough draft of the strategic
plan before the September meet-
mg.

The Council will consider the
rough draft at its Nov. 5 meeting.

Cox said there are seven seats
on the council that Gov. Wallace
Wilkinson will appoint, including
the student member of the coun-
cil.

Jim Hill, the current student
CHE representative, said the gov-
ernor will make the appointment
in the next few weeks.

In other action the council:

-called for a letter to be drafted
to the US. Department of Energy
to encourage the department to lo-
cate a uranium plant in Kentucky.

~approved the reporting guide-
lines for the Commonwealth
Scholars program.

-de|ayed approving funding
guidelines for the nursing and al-
lied health programs

ecalled for a letter to be drafted
praising GOV. Wilkinson and leg-
islative leaders for their treatment
of Higher Education in the 1990
General Assembly.

Former Gov. Bert T. Combs, a
CHE member. suggested drafting
the letter and called for the CHE
to take a leading role in imple-
menting education reform.

Combs also said that he did not
care much for the legislature and
the feeling is reciprocal, but credit
is due.

oapproved the nomination of
Wendell Thomas as vice chair-
man.

 

 

 

 

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Students to begin Washington lobby effort today

By GREGORY A. HALL
Executive Editor

Student leaders and some Ken-
tucky congressmen are scheduled
today and tomorrow to discuss
the Higher Education Act of 1965
in Washington.

John Elder, the board of stu-
dent body presidents' state coor-
dinator for governmental rela-
tions, said the meetings are to
find “any way that students can
be involved in the reorganiza-

tion.”

UK Student Government Asso-
ciation President Sean Lohman
and four others are scheduled to
meet with US. representatives
Harold “Hal” Rogers, Carroll
Hubbard and Larry Hopkins.

The students hope for the
chance to testify before the House
Education Committee, of which
Rep. Chris Perkins is a member.

Lohman hopes the lobby efforts
will persuade Congress to reduce
the expected cuts in student feder-

al aid programs.

“Right now we‘re looking at
some pretty big cuts," Lohman
said.

The Higher Education Act,
which Congress will take up in
1991, funds government aid pro-
grams, the largest of which are
Guaranteed Student Loans and
Pell Grants.

One of the reasons funding
cuts are expected to be made is
the high cost of student defaults.

 

Bruner

Continued from page 4

er said. “I knew in my heart that
wasn’t the case."

Although he wouldn‘t state his
feelings about the govemor’s role
in higher education, the medical
student said he has no connec-
tions with Wilkinson.

“He has no connections with
my family whatsoever I just
know who he is." aner said.
as far as our family giving to
when he ran for the govemorship.

none of that ever happened. It is
absolute zero."

Regardless of what others
might say, for now Bruner said
that he is concentrating on his cur-
rent responsibility. “My ultimate
goal is just to be the best student
representative that I can possible
be."

However. Bruner must rely on
the opinions of others more than
Lohman because he was not a UK
undergraduate.

“I can‘t deny the fact that I
don't know the undergraduate life
at UK frontward and backward
because I don’t It would be silly

to sit here and say that I did be-
cause a small school like Centre is
going to be different in some
ways titan a big university like the
University of Kentucky." he said.
“By the same token. I have been
an undergrad and I know some of
the concerns of undergrad stu-
dents."

Students interested in express-
ing what qualities are needed in
the next UK Prert'dent can write
to Teel Bruner in care of the A1-
bert B. Chandler Medical Center.
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 6 - Summer Kentucky Kernel, Thursday, July 12, 1990

‘Nasty’ rock music sells, but some officialsaren’t buying it

Miami rap group fuels
fire in showdown
over explicit lyrics

By PM. JEFFRIES
Contributing Writer

People may not have been able
to comprehend the words in The
Kingsmen's “Louie, Louie” during
rock’s heyday, but a federal judge
in Florida had no problem under-
standing what 2 Live Crew was
saying in June 1990.

And he did not like it one bit.

Last month, The Miami-based
rap group’s album As Nasty As
They Wanna He became the first
record ever to be ruled obscene in
federal court. That ruling may not
be the final word, but it did enable
law enforcement officials in Bro-
ward County to effectively prohib-
it sale of the Nasty album and any
performances of the lyrics.

2 Live 4 Who?

The controversy surrounding the
album has had good and bad con-
sequences for the group. In mid-
June. band members were arrested
after a show in Miami and charged
with misdemeanor obscenity
charges. Meanwhile, the Nasty al—
bum, produced by independent Mi-
ami label Skyywalker records, has
sold more than 1.7 million copies.

In addition to increased sales,
the issue has generated interest and
somewhat less availability in most
other areas of the country includ-
ing Lexington. Calls to area record
stores indicate that none of the
larger chain stores are carrying As
Nasty As They Wanna Be.

Disc Jockey Records, based in
Owensboro, Ky.. was one of the
first clutin stores to pull the record
frorn shelves. The company's ad-
vertising director Steve Armstrong
said that it probably will not re-
stock.

“Our position now is that we do
not carry 2 Live Crew but we are
carrying other stickered records
ltd selling diem to our 18 and
ever customers." Armstrong said
iii a telephone interview last week.

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compmy president Terry Wood-
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West Virginia drinks is obscene. I
may listen to something and say,
‘Well, that’s terrible’ and you may
listen to it and say, ‘I don’t see
anything wrong with it.‘ All of a
sudden the retailers are being put in
the position of being censors,”
Woodward said.

Stores that do carry the record
are finding it somewhat difficult to
keep in stock. Wes Miller of Cut
Center Records. 377 South Lime-
stone St., said that store will con-
tinue to stock “Nasty” as long as
there is a demand.

“We received a new shipment
last week which is almost gone.
The cassettes are selling especially
well,” Miller said. Cut Comer is
the only retail store in Lexington
that currently stocks 2 Live Crew,
according to inquiries.

High sales of controversial mate-
rial like 2 Live Crew is no surprise.
said retired UK psychology profes-
sor and author Robert Baker. Baker
sees controversy as a powerful psy-
chological tool for selling.

“There are two ways to get atten-
tion in this world.” Baker said. “Do
something really good or do some-
thing completely outrageous. Look
at the attention 2 Live Crew is get-
ting for being supposedly obscene.
You couldn’t buy that kind of at-
tention with $10 million.”

Baker doubts the effectiveness of
placing warning stickers on ques-
tionable records.

“People are attracted to the for-
bidden and will probably always
be,” Baker said, citing high cam-
ings of Salman Rushdie’s novel
The Satanic Verses and Martin
Scorsese’s film "The last Tempta-
tiort of ClIisL"

The Stickertng Movement

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PARENTAL

ADVISORY

EXPLICITHRHS

The new industry-approved
sticker (above) and New Jer-
sey's proposed version (below).

WARNING:

May contain explicit lyrics descrip-
tive of or advocationg one or more of
the following:

 

suicide

incest

bestiality

sadornasochism

sexual activity in a violent context
murder

morl'a'd violence

illegal use of drugs or alcohol

PARENTAL
ADVISORY

the picture.

The record-stickering movement
first came into the public eye in
1985 when the Parent’s Music Re-
sorn'ce Center called for congres-
sional hearings on explicit rock lyr-
ics and urged the recording
industry to provide printed lyrics or
label potentially offensive material.
PMRC head Tipper Gore, wife of
Tennessee Sen. Albert Gore Jr., has
urged that stickering be voluntary
and without government interven-
tion. “We don’t need to put a child-
proof cap on the world, but we do
need to remind the nation that chil-
dren live in it too and deserve re—
spect and sensitive treatment,” she
has said.

However. in the past year, 22
states have introduced legislation
that require wanting labels on re-
cordings deemed offensive. This
sort of proposed mandatory sticker-
ing concerns some recording indus-
try officials.

Dave Lombardi, national promo-
tions director of modern music and
college radio for Warner Brothers
Records. thinks that the proposed
wording may be more explicit than
the recads themselves.

“The (New Jersey) sticker says
the lyrics may contain descriptions
of vaious acts.” lornbardi said.
“But there's no indicator as to
which ones a record addressee. A
record may refer to getting dnatk,
God forbid. and the sticker on that
album aunmsically carries the
connotation of incest and bestiality.
which re much heavrer' things. I
believe.”

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Record Merchandisers may have
lifted the spectre of legislative in-
tervention by instituting an associa-
tionwide advisory label which will
appear on questionable records.
The new label. which reads “Paren-
tal Advisory — Explicit Lyrics," is
being used by the majority of
record labels.

The industry-approved label is
apparently helping efforts to table
or withdraw stickering legislation.

New Developments

One exception is Louisiana
where the state senate last week ap-
proved an amended version of a bill
requiring warning stickers for ex-
plicit records.

The bill must be appoved by the
Louisiam Hous