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Vol. XCI. No.63

ntucky Kernel

W 1894

SGA confused
over identity

Senate finds out it allocated
$7,500 for wrong speaker

By THOMAS J. SULLlVAN
News Editor

The majority of Student Govern-
ment Association senators aren‘t
sure who Vladimir Sakharov is. but
on Nov. 4 they voted to pay him
$7.500 to come and speak at UK.

When the bill was presented to the
senate floor. the senators were “con-
fusing him with Andrei Sakharov.“
said Senator at Large Kim Fowler.

Andrei Sakharov “was a Soviet
scientist who was outspoken against
soviet policies. nuclear weapons and
the invasion of Afghanistan.“ said
Lance Brunner. a UK professor who
has traveled to the Soviet Union
three times this year while studying
U.S.—Soviet relations.

Vladimir is a CIA/KGB double
agent working for the United States.
said Christy Bradford. speakers bu-
reau chairman. He “has been ex-
tremely successful in forecasting So-
viet global and domestic strageties
for the U.S..“she said.

Andrei, not Vladimir. was exiled
to Gorky Park in 1980 where he
stayed until last December when So-
viet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. re-
leased him. Brunner said.

But yesterday more than a dozen

SGA senators showed they had voted
for the wrong Sakharov.

"When we voted on it we asked
('yndi tWeaver. SGA President) who
he was and she seemed to think he
was the Russian dissident . . . I kind
ol feel bad voting on it and not
knowing who he was." Fowler said.

Weaver. however. said she had not
confused the two.

Fowler is not alone. Several sen-
ators and one executive branch
member showed that they don't
know who Vladimir Sakharov is ei-
ther.

Sandra Barnett. co-chairman of
community affairs. said “he's 3 So-
viet dissident. that's all I know. I
think he was exiled out of the coun-
try a long time ago.“

Senator at Large David Botkins
said Vladimir is “a Jewish exile.
He‘s a Itussian Jew actually. He is a
banished political professor from
Russia and he is actually a physi-
cist.”

Allied Health Senator David Bing-
ham said that ”Cyndi (Weaver) said
it was the same Sakharov who was a
dissident in Russia."

Social Work Senator Susan Bean

See SGA. Page 5

Grundy displeased

' th SAB
By EVA J. WINKLE
Staff Writer

When Chester Grundy asked for
new office space in the Student Cen-
ter. he said the storage space in the
ML. King Cultural Center was
wrong for several reasons.

Last night the Student Activities
Board unanimously gave him that
space anyway.

Grundy. who is both director of
minority student affairs and super«
visor of the Martin Luther King Cul-
tural Center. asked the board Nov. 3
to give him space to consolidate his
offices in the Student Center.

He said he had been performing a
"juggling act“ between the cultural
center and his Minority Affairs of-
fice on the fifth floor of Patterson
Office Tower.

But Grundy said he did not want
the storage space in the King center
because it was not big enough to fit
his needs.

In addition. having his office in
the cultural center would merge
those duties with his duties as mi-
nority student counselor and activity
programmer. These roles needed to
be kept separate. he said.

Grundy called the decision “pre-
mature" and said his proposal had
not been “sufficiently considered."

“That’s just simply not ad-
equate." he said. “There's a lot of
reorganizing of the Student Center.
and if people sat down and looked at
alternatives they could come up
with something better than that."

But SAB Vice President Jennifer

decision

Ballard said although Grundy bad a
“valid point" concerning the diffi-
culties of the distances between his
offices. the storage space was the
only space available.

Ballard. who was acting in Presi-
dent Lynne Hunt‘s absence. said the
committee felt all available space in
the Student Center was being uti-
lized adequately. She said this was
the reason no other space could be
found for Grundy.

“I think that‘s probably the best
we could do." she said. “It just isn't
feasible right now. because there’s
such a demand for meeting rooms."

She also said the committee felt
that putting Grundy‘s office in the
center would be inconsistent with
the committee‘s report on the stu-
dent center. The report. approved
by SAB on Jan. 27 of this year. said
administrative offices would better
serve students if located outside of
the Student Center.

”The committee to study the utili-
zation of space in the Student Center
felt that we wanted to get away
from having administrative offices
in the Student Center." she said.

“It is true that many offices pro-
vide services to meet students‘
needs.“ the report said. “However.
this is not just another administra-
tive office building. "

The report went on to say that if
administration offices are left in the
student center. “the real purpose
and goals of the center are put in
secondary importance or possibly
lost totally."

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Former North courier defends contras

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Editorial Editor

Robert ()wen proposed to his wife
inside Jefferson Memorial in Wash-
ington D.(‘. Inside the mounument,
there is an old quote on the wall by
Thomas Jelt'erson that vows to fight
against tyranny for all eternity.

Last night. ()wen explained to stu-
dents that he became involved in co-
vert operations to supply the Nicara-
guan rebels. known as contras.
because he felt he was fighting
against tyranny.

"To me. it doesn't matter if it’s
the tyranny of the left . . . or the tyr-
anny of the right." he said.

David Ryan. a marketing junior
who turned out in the small Student
Center Ballroom to hear Lt. Col. Oli-
ver North's former private courier
speak. said he was “curiom” about
the situation in Central America.

“I thought it was very intersting."
he said. "I'm still not straight on
what was going on down there."

()wen first became involved with
the contras while working a US.
senator.

In the summer of 1983. he met
with four people who wanted to talk
to him about changing the current
situation in Central America. includ-

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ROBERT OWEN
ing one man who had helped the
Sandinistas overthrow the Samoza
family of Nicaragua.

Owen tried to help the people by
arranging several meetings with
Congressional and Department of
Defense off icials,

“They all kept saying the guy you
got to talk to is ()Ilie North.“ Owen
said.

He then slowly became involved in

Women in humanities tepic of noon lunch series

By ANNALI ESE BRATCHER
Contributing Writer

Ramona Lumpkin. director of the
Kentucky Humanities Council. will
speak today on women‘s place in hu-
manities.

Lumpkin‘s talk is part of the Food
for Thought noontime presentations
sponsored by Continuing Education
for Women. Titled “Women and
Women's Studies: Laying Claim to
Their Place in the Humanities." it
willbeheld in m StudentCenter.

The Food for Thought program
was started in I”) by DeeEIlen
Davis. Designed to brirg adult stu-
dents and interested professionals
together in a relaxed. infra-mat set-
tiig. it fimctions both as a support
group and academic outreach.

“Food for Mt has grown
from an informal gathertrg of adult
studsntswhometinourofficeat

noontoafullprogramwhichrqu-

larly attracts women working on
campus. as well as students and per
spective students.“ said Betty Gabe-
hart. coordinator of Continuing Edu-
cation for Women.

“We attempt to provide a balance
of programs that will provide sug-
gestions and encouragement to adult
students and campus women.“

The talks. at noon each Wednes-
day tlu'oughout the academic year.
are free and open to the general
public. People are encouraged to
briig their lunch and join in the dis-
cussions.

Today‘s speech is intended to en-
courage an appreciation for the con-
tributions of women to the humani-
ties. Lumpkin said.

“It‘s empowerirg for women to re-
alize that history is full of women as
well as men. The humanities are full
of contributions from womai that
we are only now begimtng to uncov-
er." Lumpkin said. “I think it is im-

portant for women to see themselves
in the humanities curriculum and to
see the possibilities in their own
lives by witnessing professional
women around them.“

Lumpkin. who earned her doctor-
ate in English here at UK. said she
didn‘t have a single female imtruc-
tor in English durirg her college ca-

reer. Progress since then has been
tenuous. she said.

Before being named executive di-
rector of the Kentucky Humanities
Council. Lumpkin was a member of
the English department faculty at
Kentucky State University. She also
taught English briefly at UK.

Two other Food for Thought

Sec SEMINAR. Page 3

 

Staff reports

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and lasts until next Wednesday.
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a secret network to help supply the
contra forces.

One reason ()wen said the network
was set up was because he said
there was a moral obligation to keep
the Nicaraguan resistence alive.

"How would you like to be a 30 to
35 da) walk from a safe place and
you litid ottt that the tpeople sup-
porting _vottI are going to cut off
your and." he said.

While working for North. ()wen
said ht made several trips to Nica<
ragua and worked closely with the
contras and has seen “great dedica-
tion and spiritual faith in what
they‘re doing is right." '

When North appeared before the
joint (‘oiigressional committee this
summer. the nation experienced a
brief period of what became known
as “t lllieinania."

()ncn said it was easy to under-
stand why the American people be-
came so attracted to his former
boss

A number of Americans probably
didn‘t believe in what North did.
tlwcii said. but they admired him
for believing iii what he did.

Although tiwen said the Irancon-
tra hearings were “very politicized"
by members of the committee. he
said it was good the incident hap-

pened because the Atticrican pt-olc
"got a chance to see how govern
ment works or how it sometimes
doesn‘t,"

Owen said the l'nited States
should be concerned about the pre-
sent situation in Nicaragua because
ot its close location to the southwest
border of the United States.

“It may not affect us today. but it
Nicaragua is allowed to be MarXist—
Leninist and if Nicaragua is allowed
to spread its revolution" it will even
tually affect the l'iittt-d States, he
said.

The numbers of refugees entering
the l'nited States Iroiri (‘enti‘al
America would make the boat pcov
pie from Vietnam “look like a
trinlde."hesaid.

Owen also predicted that within
the next few years. if ignored. Nica~
ragua will spread its troops out all
over the world. like (‘uba has. and
be used as “proxy forces” by the So-
vietUniori.

In response to accusations that the
contras have been guilty of commit
ting human rights atrosities. ()wen
said the “contras are no angels."
but the crimes by the Sandinistas
have been much more widespread
and severe.

Sec OWEN. Page 3

 

AP and staff reports

Family members say Marfan's
syndrome has been ruled out as
the cause of death of Rodriq Mc-
Cravy. the 19-year-old UK track
athlete who died in his Kirwan
Tower dormitory room on Oct.
28.

McCravy's sister. Natonia Mc-
Cravy. said Monday that doctors
had told the family the cause of
death wasn‘t Marfan‘s. nor was it
drug- or alcohol-related.

She declined to comment fur-
ther. saying the family preferred
that the state’s chief medical ex-
aminer. George Nichols. explain
the cause of death.

Nichols has scheduled a news

 

conference in Louisville today.

Track athlete’s death
wasn’t from Marfan’s

McCravy. of Louisville. was a
sophomore majoring in social
work. As a member of the track
team he competed in hurdles and
long sprints setting a UK record
in the 400-meter intermediate
hurdles last year.

Kentucky bead trainer Al
Green said Charles Howell. a
deputy Fayette County coroner.
had told him late last week that
McCravy's death was not caused
by the syndrome. a multisystem
disorder that often strikes tall.
thin athletes and has caused the
deaths of several. including Flo
Hyman. a (Hoot-5 Olympic vol-
Ieyball star.

Howell would not confirm or
deny that McCravy‘s death was
unrelated to Mai-fan‘s syndrome.

 

 

 

 2 — Kentucky Kernel. Wednesday. November 11. 1087

Sports

Season’s script looks same,
but UK hopes to alter ending

8} “HI SP.\I.I)I.\'U
Staff Wri ter

Forgive the Kentucky football
team if it leaves the theater early. It
has seen this picture before.

After Saturday‘s crushing 38-29
upset loss to Vanderbilt. the Wild-
cats stand 34 and are on the brink
of disaster

Quick l-‘lash back to 1985. UK was
3-3 with three games left. A win over
the next foe Vandy — and UK
would have three straight winning
seasons and another possible bowl
trip.

UK never went to a bowl. Instead.
the Wildcats lost 31-24 to the Com-
modores and went downhill from
there They finished 56.

Last year was almost the same
story. UK was 34H at one point. but
faded as the season progressed and
finished up losers of five of its last
seven games

Now it‘s 1987. Four weeks ago the
t’ats were 4-1. They've won one time
in the past month. Deja vu.

“The situation last year is similar
to right now,“ sophomore fullback
Darren Bilberry said. “We just have
to forget the past nine games It‘s a
one game season. ‘ '

 

“It’s the low point as far as I'm concerned. We
got talent and we’re not doing what we should
with it. Something is happening that we can’t

get it together. ”

Jerry Reese,
UK defensive tackle

—

Well. two games Florida and Ten-
nessee await. But taking them one
week at a time may be the Cats‘
best option.

“I know everybody has got us
down and out.“ senior linebacker
Jeff Kremer said. “But we can still
have a winning year. If we take
these teams one at a time. we can
beat both of them. The season is by
no means a disaster."

No. at least not yet. But the fall
has been nothing like the Wildcats
dreamed about in August.

"It‘s the low point as far as I‘m
concerned." senior defensive tackle
Jerry Reese said. "We got talent
and we're not doing what we should
with it. Something is happening that
we can't get it together."

Nobody in the UK camp can seem

to pinpoint what that something is.
That is what makes this season so
frustrating.

“I don't understand it." Kremer
said. “These teams are no better
than us. We have just as much tal—
ent.

“It has to be something that is
happening between Thursday and
Saturday. We have good practices
during the week. I don‘t know if it‘s
getting our minds right and getting
ready to play.“

Whatever it is. the Cats have to
find a remedy soon. If not. it could
be their third consecutive fall with-
out a winning season.

“No one is ready to throw in the
towel," Billbery said. “We‘ve been
kind of down about it. though.“

Whether the Cats can get back up

(7.41;! h ,‘g M?!

JERRY REESE
remains to be seen. Reese has been
at UK for five years now. He’s been

through this before. He knows talk is
cheap.

“We have the capability to bounce
back." Reese said. “I'm hoping we
have the will to bounce back. That
will is more important than capabili-
ty.“

The Wildcats have seen this movie
before. But they didn't see the Van-
derbilt game film. UK coach Jerry
Claiborne didn't want to waste his
players‘ time. He may have even
burnedit.

“I don‘t know, he might have,"
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Wildcats to meet Duke
in ’88 Tip-Off Classic

Staff reports

Kentucky will meet Duke in the
Basketball Hall of Fame Tip-Off
Classic next November in Spring-
field. Mass, UK coach Eddie Sutton
said.

The game will be a rematch of the
first Tip-Off Classic played in 1979,
when Duke edged the Wildcats 82-76
in overtime.

Syracuse and North Carolina will
play this year’s game on Nov. 21.
UK was originally offered the oppor~
tunity to play the Tar Heels but de-
clined.

Sutton said the reason for not
playing North Carolina was because
of revenue loss.

UK misunderstood that playing in
the Classic meant a team could not
schedule a preseason home game.
The Wildcats face the Soviet Union
in a scrimmage game at Rupp
Arena. Nov. 24.

“We wanted to do it this year but

it wasn't very feasible,“ Sutton said.
“The decision was made to put it off
for a year. You take the home game
off your schedule and you lose a lot
of bucks."

Sutton said UK learned it could
play in the Tip-Off Classic and also
the Soviet Union after already de-
clining the offer to meet the Tar
Heels.

"I would like to play North Caroli-
na." Sutton said. "I've always had
great admirationlfor their program
and I‘m a good friend of Coach Dean
Smith.

“But Duke also has a great pro-
gram. Besides, (North Carolina) has
a worthy opponent in Syracuse. "

UK will begin its regular season
against Hawaii on Nov. 28.

"We‘re looking forward to going
up there.“ Sutton said of the Tip-Off
Classic. “But we‘re more concerned
with this year. “

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C ontinued from Page I

On Aug. 7 the maidens at five
Central American countries signed a
peace accord designed by Costa
Rican President Oscar Arias.

()wen said although he is con-
vinced the peace plan will work he
believes the United States should
support it and try to let the nations
work out their own problems.

"I think one of the things we
learned out of Vietnam is that we
can't light other nations” wars for
them." he stud.

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OSeminar

Continued from Page I

speakers are scheduled for this
semester. On Nov. 18 in 119 Stu-
dent Center. Lucinda Zoe will
present "Writing to Change the
World: Social and Political Issues
in Creative Writing."

A writer/ researcher for the
Center for Business and Econom.
ics Research. Zoe is also a crea-
tive writer whose poetry and po
litical writings have been
published. She has performed her
original works at the Women

Writers Conference and other
events.

Toni Reiss. director of Express-
ive Therapr at Charter Ridge
Hospital, will speak on Dec. 9 in
231 New Student Center. In her
talk. “Sell Discovery: The Inner
Dance." Reiss will explain how
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Ignorance in voting
diminishes respect P
of students for SGA ’—

No one ever accused Student Government Association
Senators of being in touch with all the issues, but this time
they’ve really displayed their distance from reality.

At last Wednesday‘s meeting, the senate voted to allo-
cate $7,500 to bring Vladimir N. Sakharov to speak at UK.

Although it was explained at least twice during the
meeting that Vladimir Sakharov is a Soviet-American FBI
agent, more than a dozen senators available for comment
yesterday said they had voted to bring Soviet dissident
physicist Andrei Sakharov to campus.

This leaves the student
body with two conclusions:
1) The majority of the senate
rubberstamps bills without
regard for specifics, or 2)
senators have better things to
do during meetings than lis-
ten to explanations of bills.
Either way, students have
been ripped off by more than
just $7,500. They’ve been den-
ied confidence in their sen-
ate’s ability to handle stu-
dents‘ money wisely.
Christy Bradford, who is
in charge of SGA's speakers
bureau, has not yet signed
the contract to bring Vladi- O O O
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think she should rip it up and W u
give the Senate an opportunity to use intelligence when
voting to pay outstudents‘money. For a good price last night, the
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However, the two examples point to the

Who‘s Who list of famous and not-so-famous people. But if
they‘re going to spend $7,500 of students‘ money to bring
someone to campus. they better know who they’re getting.

Two years ago, SGA voted to increase students‘ fees in
order to improve the services it offered to students. Now
we‘re forced to wonder if that increase was worth it.

 

Letters

Program
worthwhile

As a college senior. I realize that
time not spent studying is usually
spent partying. watching television
or anything that doesn't involve in-
tense critical thinking. It you feel
like you are wasting what little free
time you have, perhaps you should
consider becoming a Big Brother or
Big Sister.

I became a bit bored with the non‘
productive activities that comprised
my free time and thought about vol—
unteering to do something worth-
while for a few hours a week. I de-
cided that I would like to get
involved with a program that did not
involve soliciting donations and had
flexible hours.

The Big Brothers/Big Sister pro-
gram is an excellent learning expe-
rience for both the child and the vol-
unteering adult. When I decided to
become a big sister, I thought that I
would immediately change a young
girl's life; I was a bit idealistic. The
youths who are in need of big broth-
ers and big sisters are usually from
single parent households and do not
receive much attention at home.

The little sister I was matched
with has an extremely apathetic
family and does not receive much
attention or encouragement. I
wanted this young girl to trust me
and to confide in me right away.
Needless to say I was not accepted.
I was treated as an outsider not to
betrusted.

I am still treated as an outsider.
but I am making progress with my
little sister in very subtle ways. She
has called me on the telephone to
share notes that her boyfriend has
written to her.

The Big Brothers/Big Sisters pro-
gram is not an instant gratification
project in a volunteer capacity, it is
an ongoing process of gaining the
trust of a lonely child. The psycho-
logical aspects of learning why a
child behaves the way he or she
does is an intricately delicate leam-
ing experience, especially when it is
a real life that is being analyzed.

Reading about academic ap-
proaches to child psychology is

somewhat sedentary compared to
the actual interaction a Big Brother
or Big Sister maintains with a young
person.

Shannon Parks is an education se-
nior.

Wake up
America!

When will the president wake up
to reality? He continues to purchase
another unneeded nuclear weapon
system of mass destruction. the B-1
bomber. at a final cost of more than
$210 million per plane. Meanwhile,
across the nation and the world, peo-
ple are dying in a ravaging AIDS ep-
idemic. Surely by canceling the B-1.
SDI and other unneeded nuclear
weapon systems, enough money
would be freed to find cures for
AIDS, most cancers and probably
feed and shelter the homeless and
still go a long way toward balancing
the budget.

The FDA must wake up to reality
also.

While people die of AIDS here in
America, other AIDS sufferers are
being saved with AIDS drugs, which
the FDA stubbornly delays testing
and approval of. not to mention
making it illegal to manufacture and
prescribe and possess them.

The FDA must wake up and cease
its anti-human AIDS policy immedi-
ately. The Supreme Court must
wake up to reality also and recog-
nize that the true marriage bond is
the strong love and mutual sharing
relationship bond and not a piece of
paper. It must recognize this and
the need to grant nothing less than
full human. civil and economic
rights and privileges regardless of
sexual preferences in such
relationships.

I urge everyone to wake up the
president, Supreme Court. FDA and
Congress by sending them copies of
this letter as part of a chain letter to
everyone's friends and relatives so
that they may do the same. Let‘s all
do our part also and make a dona-
tion to an AIDS charity.

Leonard De Fasio Jr. lives in 8a
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Robert Owen to the UK campus for
alecture.

Owen has not saved any lives or
contributed much to bettering hu-
manity.

His contribution?

Owen was a courier for Lt. Col.
Oliver North of contradeception
fame. Something akin to a delivery
person for UPS

'IVvo years ago the Student Gov—
ernment Association paid about
$5,000 to bring G. Gordon Liddy to
the UK campus for a lecture.

Liddy‘s contribution to society?

He engineered the Watergate bur-
glary and subsequently served time
in prison.

Oh, he was also willing to take a
bullet for Richard Nixon — sound
moral judgement I’m sure. A great
American, most definitely.

These episodes are not meant to
belittle the SAB and SGA. On the
contrary, the lectures, especially
Liddy's, were interesting and gave
insight to how the system can go so
wrong.

However, the two examples point
to the obsession that society has
with smut and criminal actions. It‘s
a fascination with something that
most of us can‘t be. but want to be.

well come out in droves, paying

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good money, to see nothing more
than criminals impersonating lead-
ers. We stare and listen in awe as
someone tells about what they did to
subvert the law or buck the system.

And we almost admire the person
for it.

But we’d rather be spoon-fed as-
paragus than go see a lecture about
the supernova or attend a seminar
about the vicissitudes of the U.S.
Constitution.

Something undoubtedly better and
more educational for us.

North became a hero after the
Iran/contra hearings this summer.
His ratings were higher than the
soap operas. We cheered as the gap-
toothed, boyish, military man
laughed at the old codgers in the
Senate questioning him.

But the man was nothing more
than a liar in military jacket.

We see this fascination with seedi-t

ness in our newspapers — played
out endlessly for us, day-after-day
like a long—running movie that you
go to see over and over.

obsession that