,.._. o l . . . r . r o I . .~ . , . v 1‘ 4 . ~ . , . ‘ «a... . .- . . ". ' . . . . ,. .7 .. _. . . _ .. p - _ .w r o .- a — o- - ¢ .- 9 —. - .‘r a. u .- or a.» m - .. ,, _ ,_ _ ~ _ ,, ,, _ .. . _ , ~ . . . . .. . . J ' ' ISIABLIShED 1894 tonight, 1021‘ around 9)”,- cloudy WEATHER Purl/y yunny today, big!) near 50; .vliou‘erx tomorroz. big/i near 55. PRECIOUS JEWEL During her In]; to I exington lust tree/c, ‘7t'Ii‘t'1 Kilt/MW took time out to talk to the Kernel. Qii’d, page 5. RSIIV OF KENTUCKY, LEXINGTON. KENTUCKY MATT BARTON 1m nrl out} Playin . By Gary Wull Stuff ll 'I'Ilt’r \\'hen asked what students do on a Sunday morning most would say, “Sleepl \\'hat else is there to do?" If you’re a dedicated ['K basketball fan who doesn‘t like being stuck in the ‘nose- bleed‘ seats, you get up early, say about 6:30 a.ni., 5nd get in line for the 8 3.1". ticket lot» tery. Yesterday morning, comv munication freshman Amy Wagner, business freshman Jentry ()sswald and undee clared freshman .lenna Fergu— son set out for their first tick et lottery. “'hen asked what sacri~ fices were made, the common . “i . .5 PENNY PINBHEB Spams/.7 senior Daniel Lucit belt! u “one-mun proleyr‘ ofibc )It’L" 35 Nude!!! fizptoininators “ in full And li: ticket price. He and about 32 .rrudemy paid for their tit/cm in pcnnicx. ul d on't think right mm. ; - (the cold and lack ofsleep) is a 3 big deal. I'd rather be sleep» ll u an s pro es '0 8 ing." \Vagner said “l'K is .i ll big basketball sebool and we . i I I bavetft been (to a giiiiicl." l t w :\t the front of the line were two people who had been in there since _ a.iii: By Jenniler Fleming Ticket Board. inurnalism l‘rcslmmn »\m,\' .—nm~;--m .... .. _ ww- .. _...a ._....... Srnfl'u-rnrr Penny for your thoughts? Several UK students shared many thoughts when they paid for their basket— ball tickets with pennies in protest ofthe new student ticket fee. Daniel Lavit, a Spanish senior, began what he called a ”small one—man protest" when he went to his bank and withdrew $250 worth of pennies. \Vitb the help of his roommate, Lavit transported the beaiy load of money to Memorial Coliseum where he asked the students standing in line to swap their bills for pennies. “Some guy just asked me ifI liked pay- ing $5 for my ticket,” said Scott Smith, marketing sophomore, who paid with pen— nies. “Of course I said no, so he It wasn't the way the protest went or who received the message that upset Lavit. It was that many students who he asked to participate declined. Lavit said “the majority of the people on the UK campus are sheep." The whole reason for the protest, Lavit said, was because he was upset that students have to pay an activity fee, then pay an additional fee for basketball tickets. Accounting junior Shaun Quinlan said: “I don't like the idea of paying 55, but I‘ll pay it to see the best team in the nation play. Ifthe price was $10 or $15, I'd still go to games, but not as much." Education freshman Rose—Linda Faulkner agrees that it is wrong to pay the ticket fee. “When I came to UK I was excited that I got to see such a great basketball team play for free -— then I found out gave me 500 pennies. I figured the pennies would show a sign of resentment for the new prices." ready to finally meet “Penny Boy." send me to the back ofthe line ~~ how juvenile is that?" Lavit fifi resentmentfbr the new there was going to be one more thing I had to pay for," she said. “Ticket fees should be includ- ed in our student activity fee I..tvit said his friend and Stuv dent Government Association that if SGA thought it was going to meet with resistance trying to said. Director for Administrative Services Rodney Stiles, said the people taking the money definitely weren’t too happy about the pennies. He said they weighed the bundle at 110 pounds. The salesmen had to get a two- wheeler to carry out the pennies. “\Ve acce ted his (pennies) and we will if he brings tliem back a ain,” Stiles said. However, Stiles saitf he thinks Lavit’s protest was misdirected. “I think he should have protested in a different way," he said. “The people who had to deal with it were not decision—making people. If that student wanted to make a protest, he should protest to policy-makers, not ticket the Dean of Students Office or to C._]. Har- low, the student representative on the UK raise the Student Athletics por— tion of the Student Activities Fee it would have gotten involved in the protest. In an SGA—sponsored student referen~ dum students voted to raise the athletics fee instead of paying for basketball tickets. SGA President Shea Chaney said after SGA figures out how much the fee would have to be raised to equal the revenue that the $5 fee generated. Then, e will then ask the Senate to endorse the plan and be will present the idea to the Board of Trustees at the May meeting. Lavit thinks students aren't as upset as they should be. But as for another protest —— not by Lavit. He will be graduating soon, so problems.” At least not from him. Fadool and landscape archi— tecture freshman Megan \iiln Arsdale. “Last time we arrived at 7:15 and there were already people here," Fadool said. Though yesterday morn— ing was fairly pleasant, there have been times when weath« er has affected the lottery. “\Vhen I came here in the snow we decided to come here at 8 a.m and it was our celed till 10," Fadool said. “\Ve came back at H) and they let us inside." “'6 were the first people in line and were really psyched, when they told us we had to go around because they didn't want us walking on the gym floor, and we ended up with not as good of seats," Fadool said. However, not all students said. “It doesn‘t involve get- ting tip much earlier than lor with getting up early. Kelly .\loynahan, an archi» tecture sophomore, disagrees with the way it is run. PHOTOS BY SANJEEWA WICKRAMARACHI Kiosi/ .1 7w r-uw [0110 [0"!an Hunt/rem~ of. .‘flll/t’fll‘." (u/wcc) trim III the cold. cur/y Umnnngfor (r'lv f‘i’lVK'i‘I/lil/l rickety. Computer .vrienccjunior Rum Burnt (lie/or)prcpnrci for My nun/l'cr to lic till/ml. "It's eight o” clock in the morning and it's freezing. I don‘t see what the prob eni would be with having the lot— tery on Monday afternoon," .\loyiiab.in said. Here‘s how the lottery works" Lavit was able to persuade 50 be gave because even though $5 isn't a have problems ”‘ l’””ll3*m¥ V,“ rm); mm“ the ,1,,(,r.,- about}.7 students to purchase file 500 lot of money, if you want to go UCkCtS- . "PC“ and students run up the 1 their tickets in pennies. , to all the home games it really Mark Parshall, :1 graduate “ml" ”mm. “f Memorial Lavit said the ticket sales~ P977771“ 1 begins to add up?" student. buys a ticket at least (~ I . ,,. . - -k- . ‘ . .o iscuni to get a tit ct. men were not extremely happy figured the A possible reason many stu- UHEC'JVWIW: . l l . ll (,‘mup, A“. encouraged I” with the protest. By the time penmey would dents did not take part in the. l“ "Us" l.“ -‘ Pl“ ’ U" trade for higher ”mum.” in IfJYII’ reached tne front of the Show a sign of small protest was that not a lot of (buying tltlxt‘KSh iii” Wills" order U, sit together. line the ticket salesmen were people knew about it. tlmt’S '8 long “‘8". leflhfill ticket ()nct- seated the holders sit watching the UK junior \ai‘sitv team practice. 1‘81“ "Ill ”W" and I think it pn‘f'l'“ ‘ Vice President ”Nth” Helm“ an X ”kiwi!" CIJT' II“ "M a and hope that the number was some administration guy V would have gotten SGA involved hill (lC‘Jl- . . ”w, ”New “in be called. yelled at me," he find “They Scott Smith 'l she ,‘Y‘ml‘l‘h‘l‘ic PCP” previous~ 1‘ getting up on Sunday An initial number is called ,‘ said if it happens again they'll much-ling ly notified of the protest. morning worth it, though.- and intervals of lllll are Ch”, either not accept my money or xophommr Henncl said she told Lavit »\“Y 6‘ ”Wm“ '5 WNW“ 5,.” From there, students have to choose in which section they wish to sit and pay $5 per ticket. .0C..0...IOOOOQOUIOOOOOOOIOOOOOOOOC.0.0......OOOCOOOOUOCOOIOIOOII.DOIOOCOOOOOIIOOCCOCIOIOII By Kathy Reding Stuff ll 'I‘irn' an eastern Kentucky [Hill]. hour surgical procedure. The UK Hospital performed its first kidney/pancreas transplant Thursday on Clayton Sizeniore, 46, of()neida, Ky. received the organs during an eight— had been~on a waiting list with United Network for Organ Sharing for a kidney and pancreas since September 1095. Dr. Dinesb Ranjan, director of LiK‘s liver and kidney/pancreas transplant program, led the transplant team. The organs, recovered from an out-pf—statc donor Thursday, immediately began to function in Sizemore on the operating table on completion ofthe surgery. Sizeniore is in critical condition iii cessful organ transplant. Sizeiiiore's transplant team, in .Mltllr Illl pcriorms its first kidney/pancreas transplant tion to Dr. Ranjan, consisted of Dr. \Villiaiii Strodel. L'K chief of general surgery. LVK eiidocrinologists l)r. Den— nis Karounos. Dr. David Fscalante and Dr, 'l'hoiiias \\'.iid, .i kidncy/paiicrcas physician. Ranjaii became director of L'K‘s liver transplant program in l‘N-l. The kid ney/pancreas program, which is under a .. . . . . , . . . . , .. . . . _ , ,‘_ _ . ‘. . .. .\\.. .. .\‘. , sellers.” accordin to him, “the administration Sizemore has insulin dependent dii the hospital s intensive cirt unit, it ht rt his direction , is innoiintcd in lirch He suggested Lavit take his protest to doesn’t ave to worry about any more betes and suffered a kidney failure. He all patients go directly following a sucv ol I Hi, Ranjan was recruited to L K from the University of Alabama»Birm— ingham. O....-0.0..C.0...O...........I..................OOCOOOOOOOOOOO0.0...OOOOOOOOIO.....COCOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO0....I...O....0O....0000....00....CCOOOOOOIOOOOIIDOIOOI NEWSbytes Army says GDP wants some concessions \VASHIN(II‘ON —~ Contradicting other Repub- lican leaders, House Majority Leader Dick Armey said Congress will refuse to raise the federal debt ceiling next month unless President Clinton agrees to GOP budget-cutting measures. Anney‘s statements on NBC's “Meet the Press" yesterday put Republicans on a collision course with the \Vhite House that could bring the fiscal integrity of the country into question. House Republicans in articular have been reluc- tant to pass stopgap fun ing measures for the 1996 u ' I budget and raise the debt ceiling until the White House moves closer to the Republicans' seven~year balanced budget plan. Talks on the balanced budget broke down last week, and it's unlikely there will be an ' progress in settling the differences before Presi ent Clinton delivers his State of the Union address tomorrow. Congress returns from a two—week recess today. Abortion groups convoru on "common \VASHING’H )N — As Congress moves closer to banning some rare late-term abortions, abortion opponents gathered in the nation's capital for their annual march to the Sn remc Court to protest its decision 23 years ago. The abortion debate appears to have taken a back seat to budget and tax matters in this presidential election year, but it remains one of the most emo— tional and divisive public and political issues facing landmark Roe vs. Wade y- '1 .-M~.W» - . ‘»A«....W~—-- - Americans. Thousands of abortion opponents from across the country were to rally near the \Vbitc House at lunchtime today before marching to the Supreme Court, as they have done every year since 1974. ‘ m Aralat wins Palestinian election GAZA CITY. (iaza Strip M \Vinning 88 percent of the vote, Yasser Arafat emerged yesterday from the first Palestinian election with a resounding "MH- date to complete peace with Israel and lead his peo ple to independence. Final results ofthe race for presidency released by the Central Election Commission late Sunday gave Arafat 88.l percent of the total vote and his oppo- nent Samiha Khalil 9.5 percent. Arafat loyalists will also control the newly elected Bil-member Palestinian parliament, though they may have to share some poWer with uprising activists. ' . . . ..-—...M-.-40....... -~ . - NAMEdroppz’n g Stars sneak out on lack oi beauty NI‘AV Y( )RK Big hands? Droopy ears? Yes, even Hollywood stars admit they're iiiipcrlect. “l have these big piano playing hands," Sandra Bullock said. “I feel like I should be picking potatoes." Bullock and others critique their looks for the February issue ofCos- niopolitan iiiagaline. "All I ever wanted to be was blond, blue-eyed, short and bi - All" breasted," Kirstie Alley said. “.\ v prayers were obviously not answered." (implied fimfi U'H‘! rrpm'rr. 'V ‘ ’ ’ "V --¢_‘ ~_—_~“~._,..