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Tuesday, March 20, 1990

By JULIE ESSELMAN
Special Projects Writer

Student Government Associa-
tion presidential candidate Dale
Baldwin challenged the current
SGA administration’s use of stu—
dent fees, and incumbent Sean
Lohman emphasized his political
experience in the SGA presiden-
tial and vice presidential candi-
dates' debate last night.

The candidates discussed issues
including a possible increase in
student fees, minority recruitment
and 24-hour visitation in the resi-
dence halls in the debate before
about 150 people in Memorial
Hall.

The debate was sponsored by
the Greek Political Action Com-
mittee.

Baldwin, a first-year law stu-
dent, made general references to
his campaign theme of University
cooperation and teamwork and an
emphasis on students’ rights.

Baldwin also attacked the Loh-
man administration for what he
called a “misuse“ of student fees
spent on trips to conventions and
SGA cups sold in the Student
Center.

“We’ve seen cups that say ‘stu-
dents first,’ which is questiona-
ble," Baldwin said. “Wc've seen
expenses for trips which I'm not
sure are needed."

But Lohman responded that the
allocation of SGA funds for stu-
dent government trips was ap-
proved by the Senate and “all of
these are important."

Lohman, who was one of the
youngest SGA presidents when he
was elected as a sophomore last
year, said his experience in stu-
dent government and working
with the UK administration and
his lobbying efforts in Frankfort
makes him qualiﬁed for a second
term.

Sec DEBATE, Back page

SGA presidential candidates Sean Lohman and Dale Baldwin address questions in last night's student government debate held at

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Memorial Hall before ab0ut 150 people

Lohman-Coursey receive GPAC endorsement

By GREGORY A. HALL
Staff Writer

Saying that Sean Lohman and
Sarah Coursey best represent
greek and campus interests, the
Greek Political Action Committee
endorsed the Lobman«Coursey
ticket in a meeting after last
night‘s SGA debate.

Lohman is seeking re-election
as the Student Government Asso-
ciation president and Coursey is
running as his vice president.
They are opposed by Dale Bald-
win and Chris Woolums.

About 30 members of the com-
mittee attended last night’s de-
bate. The vote was confidential,

but a committee member said that
the Lohman-Coursey ticket won
by a substantial amount of votes.

Representatives of the commit-
tee said that the endorsement does
not bind individual greek mem-
bers to vote lor Lohman and
Coursey.

“The endorsement means that
we are trying to represent a view
of the greek system." said GPAC
Co-Chairperson Todd Hamill.
“ We do stress that we do want
everyone Just to go out and vote."

Hatttill and Co»(‘liairpcrson
Missy Freel said that the endorse-
ment carries no financial support
to the l,.ohman-Coursey ticket.

“Every greek president present

had an opportunity present their
side," Hamill said.

“I'm glad that GPAC liked
what we had to say," said Loh-
man. a member of Phi Kappa Si
social fraternity. “I think that it’s
not just a showing of greek sup-
port. I think that having any en-
dorsement really helps and espe-
crally a constituency as large as
the greek community is a big plus
for your campaign."

Baldwin questioned GPAC‘s
sincerity Since last night’s debate
was held in Memorial Hall, which
has a stage that is not handicap-
accessible.

"I don‘t know how seriously
GPAC took my candidacy. they

ination last year. In the last two
years, the executive branch candi-
dates GPAC has endorsed have
won the election.

endorsed by GPAC.

STEVE SANDERSKeroel Sta“

held the debate in a non-
handicapped accessible building,“
said Baldwin who is confined to a
wheelchair. “I don't think it has
changed my campaign any. We
expected Scan to get the endorse-
ment“

Baldwin added that be his cam-
paign has received endorsements
lrom individual fraternities. but he
declined to name which ones.
Lohman received GPAC’s nom-

Coursey is the first non-greek

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dandelions for a class experiment after a late Winter snowfall in Lexington yesterday.

Variety of
pastries

add ﬂavor
to event

By JENNIFER SIKES
Contributing Writer

Tasty, delectable delights are
being featured at the annual
spring European Pastry Cafe this
week from 10am. to 1 pm. in
room 245 of the Student Center.

The pastries, made in Cincin-
nati, represent German, lirench,
Australian and Hungarian cul-
turcs.

”A real good mixture of people
come in and cat,” said Charlene
leach, a supervrsor for the Euro»
pean Pastry (Talc and staff mems
ber of the international Affairs
()tlice. "Sonic classes come in
and eat, usually French. They‘ll
speak French while they're here
illlsi we‘ll pill on French must.
tor them."

Proceeds from the Cate will go
back to the Cosmopolitan Club
and the international Hospitality
Program to help pay for social
activities during the year for in»
temational students,

”It‘s been pretty busy." said
Karen Riggins a member of the
lntcmational Host Program. “l'll
expect we‘ll be even busier on
Thursday because of the lnterna—
[tonal Day that \Hii be held in the
Student Center Ballroom "

l‘he pastries sold lllcilltlt' (Eer-
rnan Apple Strudel and Black
Forest Cake. both Sl ,1“? FrctLh
Eclairs and Mocha Torte~ along
with Austrian Vienna Tol’lt‘s and
Hungarian Dobosh Torres are
tilsr‘ ht'lnﬂ solil for the «.le

pnce.

i.l\'t‘ music is pcrtorrtted lttr
diners between 13 l ;‘ lit a: :he
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With 32-day baseball strike over,
players get back to camps, season

By BEN WALKER
Assocrated Press

NEW YORK —» Orel Hershiser,
Darryl Strawberry and Dave Ste~
wart led a stream of stars into
spring training yesterday while
baseball, set to open the season
with 27-man rosters. scrambled to
save its 162-game schedule.

Camps began opening in Florida
and Arizona just hours after owners
and players signed a foursyear con
tract at 5:54 am, ending a 32-day
lockout, Workouts were to today
and exhibition games are to begin
next Monday.

“Now we can finally get down to
what we do best w play baseball,"
Cleveland pitcher John Farrell said
at the Indians’ camp in Tucson.

And there will be more players
when the season opens April 9.
Teams will be permitted to expand
rosters to 27, up from 24, for the
first three weeks to make up for
lost training time.

There already were more fans
yesterday. A crowd gathered in the
rain at the New York Mets‘ camp
in Port St. Lucie, Fla, where
Strawberry was the first arrival
shortly after 8 am, and the ticket
lines were so long at the Oakland
Athletics‘ site in Phoenix that an
office worker hurriedly said,
“We‘re so busy we don‘t have time
to talk on the phone."

Commissroner Fay Vincent and
his staff were busy, too. Because it
took so long to reach a compromise
on salary arbitration and reach a
settlement, opening day is delayed

thlvghts of the agreement reached Sun
day by mayorrreague players and owners

-Salary a'DiifaltClFl elrgrbrmy for 17 percent
of the players wrth between two and three
years 0‘ se'vrce Those piayers rnust have
spent at teas! 86 days on the roster in the ore-
vous season

-A S‘OO 000 'n n "‘1“ Se ary for map ea
goers, so "a“ $68 000. and a $25 000 ’n n
mum for other reaguers. up from $22,700

-A" annsa $55 "‘ﬂ‘ron contr button. by own
are to :"e' o tiyers season “and, up from $39
"at on '1 the as: yew of the 0rd agreement

{ﬁner s rte rnay reopen the contract on
mayor lSS.lOS after three years

~ltosters w . stay a: 24 prayers th-s season
They WI-l expand to 25 in t99t and stay that
way at least through expah Sion

-Baseba.‘: w ti announce plans within 90
days to expand to two National League cities

-Unron w . get t'tple damages if owners are
round guilty or COlluSlOn again

oThe deadline moves from January to 00
tober for crops to decide whether to arbitrate
wrth former free agents covered by repeater
r-ghts restriction

-errman study co'r‘rnvsscn on the base
Dali :ndust.v

a week and all teams are set for
only 158 games, rather than the
standard 162.

“We are hopeful these games can
be made up," Vincent said early
yesterday morning. “And we ex-
pect there will be considerable ef-
fort made to avoid having the aste-
risk next to the season.“

There are several ways the miss-

See STRIKE, Back page

Angry fans
glad to see
lockout end

By BOBBY KING
Staff Writer

Baseball fans across the
land can rest easier tonight.
After 32 days of watching
and reading about the bitter
dispute that developed be-
tween players and manage-
ment, now they know there
will be Major League Base-
ball in 1990.

But the scars left on base
ball diehards may take a
while to heel. At UK, fans of
America's pastime are left
wondering why.

Why were the two sides
bickering over dollars and
cents when player salaries
have gone through the roof
and nearly every team in the
league set revenue records in
1989’? And why did it take so
long for them to come to an
agreement?

“It sh0uld've never hap-
pened in the first place." said
Jon Hughes, a Resident Ad-
visor at Haggin Hall.
“They‘re already making
enough money to where it

See BASEBALL, Back page

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2 - Kentucky Kernel, Tuoodoy, Ihrch 20,1990

SPORTS

Curry to get first look at Cats
as spring practice starts today

Staff reports

Coach Bill Curry will get his
first look at his UK football team
today as the Wildcats begin spring
practice.

Curry, who I
became UK's
32nd head foot-
hall coach on
Jan. 8, will
welcome 13
starters and 32
lettermen back
from the Cats'
6-5 squad of a
year ago. In all,
seven starters CURRY
return on offense and six on de-
fense.

But Curry is quick to point out
what people see during the spring
may not be the same as on Sept. 1
when UK opens the season against
Central Michigan.

“We‘re going to do a lot of ex-
perimentation during the spring,"
said Curry, who is beginning his
llth season as a collegiate head
coach. “Anything can happen. We
may have people lined up all over
the place.

‘(tur main objective is to find
our 22 best players and try every-
thing in the world to make sure our
players are in the best position pos-
sibl: to contribute to this team.

"It really does not matter where
everyone is lining up during the

Wildcat
WRAPUP

wring,” Curry added. “What matl
ters is where our players line up on
Sept. 1."

As to date only three major posi-
tion changes have been made during
the winter workouts. Senior tail-
back Al Baker, who finished third
on the squad in rushing last season.
will be switched to fullback.

Redshirt freshman Terry Samuels
will also move to fullback from his
tight end position. Defensively,
sophomore Dean Wells moves
from an outside linebacker position
to “strike." which is basically a de-
fensive tackle alignment.

Offensively, the Cats will oper-
ate from a “Pro-multiple" set. The
UK staff will scratch the “wide-
tackle six" scheme for a “multiple”
alignment. The other major change
on defense will be in terminology.
Familiar defensive terms such as
tackle, end and outside linebackers
have been lifted for position names
Such as “strike," “bandit," “hit,"
“mike," “will" and “rover."

“What we want to do in the
spring is find out who our winners
and champions are,” Curry said.
“Secondly. we want to teach sound
fundamentals to our team. And
thirdly, we want to progress toward

all of our goals that have to do
with being champions in every-
thing we do.”

NCAA regulations allow each
Division 1 member 20 practice
dates in 36 consecutive calender
days. All practices with the excep-
tion of the Blue-White Game will
be closed. The Blue-White Game.
scheduled for 6:30 pm. on April
21 at Commonwealth Stadium,
will mark the end of spring prac-
tice.

Swimming

Many athletes only dream of
reaching All-America status in their
particular sport, but junior freesty-
list Kellie Moran made her dream
an instance of reality when she be-
came the UK's first All-America
swimmer at the NCAA Women's
Swimming Championships in
Austin. Tex.

Moran made a place for herself in
UK history and the record book
with her 10th-place record breaking
time of 23.32 seconds in the 50-
yard freestyle.

Senior Bartley Pratt ended her
collegiate career with 3 32nd place
finish in the 1650 freestyle. Pratt
was the first UK swimmer to ever
qualify for the NCAA meet in an
individual event last season.

Texas won the women's team
title, dethroning 1989 champion
Stanford by nine and a half points.

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Hunter Hayes
Arts Editor

DIVERSIONS

‘Blue Steel’ is a disappointing and flawed film

By KIP BOWMAR
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At one point near the end of the
movie. a stressed Hunt grabs his
head and agonizingly says, “it’s
over."

“Blue Steel" may not be the
worst ﬁlm released in the last
couple of years.

But it has to be close.

I say that because I haven’t seen
every ﬁlm in that time period, sol
can't speak with authority.

Kathryn Bigelow’s cop/psycho
pseudo-thriller wastes the talents of
Jamie Lee Curtis, excellent in “A
Fish Call Wanda" and the televi-
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After she kills an armed robber in
her first 12 minutes on the force in
a grocery store shootout, Hunt, an
innocuous enough shopper, picks
up the criminal’s weapon.

He then carves Meagan‘s name
on the bullets and begins killing
people with the gun. Hunt and Tur-
ner get involved briefly, but she ﬁ-
nally realizes he‘s the bad guy.

It's difﬁcult to pinpoint just one
Achilles Heel in the ﬁlm, but you
have to start somewhere.

Director Kathryn Bigelow’s

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Ron Silver plays a killer and Jamie Lee Curtis plays a cop who falls in love with him in “Blue Steel."

script keeps the movie from rising
above the formulaic plot. While au-
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the characters to do relatively logi-
cal things in times of crisis.

The characters do so many stupid
things that the audience feels that
anyone that stupid deserves to die
and almost roots for the psycho.

Faster Pussycat
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The songs on the record range
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more oral sex.

The lyrics are largely overpow-
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Their playing is based largely
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Even though the police have no
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They finally catch on and get a
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4—Kontueky Kernel, Tuesday, March 20,1990

VIEWPOINT

State lawmakers
should not burden
education bill

When the Kentucky Supreme Court declared June 4 that the
state’s school system was unconstitutional, lawmakers were
faced with drafting a tremendous piece of legislation that
ensured equal education for all of Kentucky’s students.

The 900-page bill currently before the House of
Representatives represents thousands of hours of work by
scores of committees, education groups and lawmakers. As
House Speaker Don Blandford told the House Education
Committee last week, virtually anyone who has wanted to give
their two cents about education reform has had the opportunity.

While lawmakers did not have much time to restructure the
state’s school system, the ﬁnal package worked out by the

reform committee is promising.

The most encouraging aspect of the plan is that it does not
give the state’s school systems mandates from Frankfort.
Rather, local schools are allowed to decide the best way to
educate students and be judged by the outcome. The idea of
letting Boyd Countians decide the best way to educate their
Boyd County students is long overdue in Kentucky. In
addition to eliminating troublesome mandates from Frankfort,
the idea gets local communities more involved with their school

system.

The education reform bill was passed through the House
Education Committee last week relatively unscathed by
amendments that would have watered it down. As Blandford
told the committee last week, lawmakers should not try to
make the bill look like a “Christmas tree” — the name for a bill

with amendments.

Hopefully the ﬁnal version of the bill passed by the General
Assembly will not have anything but a few “mini-lights” on it.
The future of Kentucky’s schools are too important for
lawmakers to decorate it with their special interests.

Lawmakers have a chance to prove to the citizens of this
Commonwealth that they can look past their petty political
differences and do what’s best for the state. Remember,
despite political alignments or disagreements about procedure,
we all want the same thing — an educated Kentucky.

Lets hope good intentions are enough to save our schools.

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There, no one

will notice that!

Census not helping homeless

So, the US. Census Bureau is
making a seemingly valiant effort
to count the homeless. Bravo,
United States, for taking such an
interest in a small fraction of the
underprivileged. If the US were
sincerely interested in helping the
homeless they could put money for
the census towards helping the un-
derprivileged. They could put some
towards ﬁnancial aid, vocational ed-
ucation, food, shelter, etc. Howev-
er, when our government does get
the census results (which will be
so inaccurate as to be useless), it
will claim to not have enough
funds to help the homeless. It will
say we need to raise taxes in order
to help those we just counted, but
the figures will be so low that the
raising of taxes for this purpose
will not seem justified.

There is no possible way the
Census Bureau can even begin to
ﬁnd the homeless because more are
well hidden. Most do not want to
be found, while many do not even
realize they are homeless.

You are probably wondering,
“How could anyone not be aware of
the fact that they are homeless?" l

Guest
OPINION

shall tell you, from experience.
why people don't reali7e it.

I did not consider mysell to be a
homeless person at the time I had
no home. Why? Because I had a car
and homeless people don‘t have
cars, right? Wrong.

My mother lived with her best
friend, and I was welcome to store
my stuff in her house. So, I had a
car and a place tor my Sill”. But
where to lay my head? Fix a meal?
Take a shower? I could stay with
my mother at her friend's house it
I had to, as I did several nights, but
I did not want to impose by over-
staying my welcome. I could have
stayed with my father. but I was
not invited, and my stepmother
makes me feel unwelcome even
when I call him on the phone.
Luckily, I had several friends and
acquaintances who needed house»
sitters and doggie-sitiers, and I
spent most of my summer jump-

You can get help for low self-esteem

Self-esteem is a term most peo-
ple have heard before. We know
we‘re supposed to have high self-
cstcem if we want to succeed. We
know low self-esteem can intcrfcrc
with our ability to get what we

want from ourselves and our lives,

but do we really know what self-
esteem is? Is our self-esteem high
or low? Can we change our self-
cstr‘em? Do we know how?

Self-esteem is our personal eval-
uation of ourselves. It is our opin-
ion or judgement about personal
characteristics that we have identi‘
fied in ourselves. This evaluation
can make a tremendous impact on
our lives and our relationships with
others. In making this evaluation
we may ask ourselves many ques'
tions. Am I a “good" person? Do I
like how I look? Do I have a
“good" personality? Do I have a
“bad“ temper? An. I too critical?
Sometimes we answer these ques~
tions ourselves. Sometimes we get
feedback from our peers, our job
performance or school performance.

Our parents are usually the first
people to give us feedback about
ourselves. The messages we receive
as children help us to decide which
of our characteristics are acceptable
or worthy of love and which ones
aren't. We carry these messages
With us as we continue our evalua-
tion process throughout our lives
People who get a lot of messages
indicating that who they are is un-
acceptable will tend to have lower
self-esteem than those who get
more positive messages.

People with high self-esteem are
able to perceive themselves realisu-
cally. They have a strong sense of
their identity. They recognize that
no one is “all good" or “all had“
and acknowledge both “good“ and
“bad" points in themselves. They
can accept those parts of them-
selves that cannot be changed and

For the
HEALTH OF IT

work toward changing and growing
emotionally wherever possible.
People with high self-esteem value
themselves and associate with peo-
ple who value them as well. They
will not tolerate people or situa-
tions that are unhealthy. A positive
self-esteem enables people to feel
confident, be productive and have a
good outlook on life.

In contrast, people with lower
self-esteem do not think highly of
themselves. They may get involved
with people who treat them unkind-
ly. They may remain in abusive re-
lationships because consciously or
unconsciously, they don’t believe
that they are worthy of better treat-
ment. They may become involved
in alcohol abuse. drug abuse or oth-
er self defeating behaviors. They do
not have a strong sense of them—
selves and are overly sensitive to
the opinions of others. People with
lower self—esteem tend to be self-
critical. They may have trouble see-
ing themselves realistically with a
tendency to focus on negative traits
while Overlooking or minimizing
positive traits. These patterns can
lead to a lack of self confidence, a
fear of failure and ultimately poor
performance which further enhances
feelings of low self-esteem. An in-
terruption of this cycle is necessary
to begin raising self-esteem.

Although low self-esteem may
begin developing during childhood
or adolescence, it can be perpetuated
by internalizing faculty messages.
engaging in negative self-talk or ac-
cepting a pessimistic attitude. In
order to change sclfestcem. you
must take an honest look at your-

self, acknowledge your positive
skills and put them to good use.
You must give yourself credit for
the good things you do and the pos-
itive traits that you have. Look for
ways to use these skills and traits
often. This can help provide some
successes which can help you feel
better about yourself. It is also im-
portant to admit the things you
don't like about yourself. You may
be able to change some things by
se