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of 1991

It was the year television made world events on the other side
of the planet seem like they were occurring in our backyards. It
was the year when television attempted “live" coverage of a cen-
sored war.

It was the year when eras ended. December saw the once—
menacing Soviet Union go the way of the dodo bird. We watched
Russian President Boris Yeltsin and the Commonwealth of Inde-
pendent States force the end to Mikhail Gorbachev's reign of
glasnost and perestroikia.

A constitutional prohibition against gubernatorial succession
forced the end to Wallace Wilkinson's reign over the Common—
wealth of Kentucky. But not before he tried to circumvent it by un-
successfully running his wife. Martha. for governor. Undaunted.
he went out with aﬂnal salvo for UK — a six-year appointment
for himself to its Board of Trustees.

It was the end of good economic times as the recession hit home
—— at UK in the form of a $ 15 million budget cut.

It was the year fans of the Kentucky Wildcats were forced to
think of the inevitable — Cawood Leiford announced his retire-
ment. But on the ﬂip side. the year saw the end to sanctions im-
posed on the basketball team preventing it from taking part in
postseason play.

Notably. it too was the end for two former Kentucky governors
—-A.B. "Happy" Chandler and Bert T. Combs.

It was I991.

A stunned student body sat transﬁxed in front of televi-
sion sets Jan. 16, and watched the United States go to war
against Iraq.

“The liberation of Kuwait has begun,” President Bush
declared in Washington.

Operation Desert Shield. which began in August 1990. became
Operation Desert Storm as US. British and Saudi Arabian air-
craft corroborated to punish Iraq for its occupation of Kuwait in
defiance of most of the world.

The commencement of the air assault was the climax of a crisis
which began when Iraq President Saddam Hussein‘s forces
stormed Kuwait on Aug. 2. 1990. Saddam rejected world condem-
nation and dismissed United Nations economic sanctions and a
Jan. 15 deadline designed to end the occupation.

At home, Americans both protested and praised Bush's actions.
Peace vigils supporting an end to the Persian Gulf War were held
across the country. Downtown Lexington was the site of both
peace vigils and rallies supporting the troops.

UK students got involved not only by ﬁghting in the Persian
Gulf. but also by rallying. Some UK students gathered in Wash-
ington, along with thousands of other Americans. to protest the
gulf war.

Many carried gasoline pumps as a symbol of the oil that Iraq
would control if it remained in Kuwait and of what many who
protested claimed was America’s reason for involvement.

Other students showed support for the war by organizing a new
campus group. Students Mobilized Against Saddam Hussein.

”We’re trying to mobilize the American public to show that

JAN 15 l992

Jones proposes
restructuring
college boards

By GREGORY A. HALL
Associate Editor

FRANKFORT, Ky. —— Attempt~
ing to lessen the political inﬂuence
on university boards, Rep. Ernesto
Scorsone (D-Lexington) and Gov.
Brcreton Jones are proposing to re-
form the process by which trustees
and regents are selected.

Both want goveniing boards at
the eight
state univer-
sities and
the state
Council on
Higher Edu-
cation to be
abolished
and then re-
constituted.

Reaction
to the pro-
posal was
mixed both
in Frankfort
and at UK.

A number of leading legislators
openly support creating a screening
committee to nominate potential
board members for the governor to
choose from. However, some are
squeamish when overtuming all the

JONES

boards. including the state Council
on Higher Education is included.

John “Eck” Rose (D-
Winchester), Senate president pro
temporc. said he hasn’t heard any
reservations on the part of senators
on the screening committee.

“The reservations I'm hearing are
with regard to undoing oil the
boards now and re-appointing all of
them," he said.

_ “Those
people were
7'». appointed
to cenain
terms by
M the govem«
or," Rose
said. “And l
just don‘t
. know that
.. ‘ you change
y, all those
' things in
sconsoue one swoop.
lt’s cenainly
not to save (former) Gov. (Wallace)
Wilkinson or anybody else. I just
don’t believe much in changing the
rules in the middle of the game."
Wilkinson appointed himself to

See JONES, Page 7

President hopeful library will be funded

By GREGORY A. HALL
Associate Editor

FRANKFORT, Ky. — UK has
big plans for the Kentucky General
Assembly to approve this spring.
But the state has little money to
support it

“This national recession is taking
a very human toll in the day-to-day
struggle it is imposing on our peo-
ple," said Gov. Brcreton Jones in
his State of the Commonwealth ad-
dress Monday.

Humana
helps UK
with million
for library

By DALE GREER
Managing Editor

State balance sheets are awash
with red ink. but UK officials are
banking on private contributions to
provide financial leverage for an
ambitious project — a new $58 mil-
lion ccntral library.

On Friday, Humana Inc. gave the
school a little more leverage when
it announced a $1 million gift to
UK‘s Commonwealth Library cani-
paign.

Humana’s sininr vice president
of public affairs. George L. Atkins
Jr.. described the company's gift as
an “investment in the future of this
Commonwealth.

“The future of the Common-
wealth is only as good as its educa-
tional and its university system."
Atkins said. “And truly. the library
component is vital to this Universi-
ty."

The gift brings the total raised by
the campaign to $13.3 million ——
enough to cover UK‘s $12 million
share of construction costs for the

“it is also tak-
ing its toll on our
state ﬁnances.”

The recession‘s
toll on state rese-
nues, the costs of
Medicaid and the
Kentucky Educa-
tion Reform Act
leave little, if any, additional funds
for legislators to offer other state
agencies — including the eight
state supported universities.

In the face of those bleak projec-

General
A ssembly
I 992

tions, UK is ask-
ing the state for
$46 million to
build a state-of-
the—art. $58 mil-
lion central li-
brary.
Despite the
possibility that
few capital projects will be award-
ed, UK President Charles Wcthing-
ton said he believes the library pro-
ject, given the need. can win its
funding battle.

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“The competition for funding in
the '92 session will be rather in-
tense," Wethington said. “Always,
there are certain good projects that
get funded."

The library. he believes, is one of
them.

The library is just one of the
items that could affect UK during
this session of the General Assem—
bly, which convened Jan. 7.

The competition f0.r state dollars
could be a proving ground for

See ASSEMBLY, Page 7

Student waits
for grand jury
hearing on
rape charge

By JOE BRAUN
Staff Writer

Kevin Wayne McPherson, a UK
sophomore. is waiting for a grand
jury to hear accusations by a female
UK sophomore that McPherson
raped her Oct. 27 last semester.

Assistant Commonwealth Attor-
ney Tamra Gormlcy said a grand
jury will hear the case sometime
this month.

At the grand jury hearing. Gorm—
ley will present evidence on behalf
of both the state and the defense.

She said the case was delayed be-
cause students are still returning
from the holiday break. Since many
students will be subpoenaed, attor-
neys needed to wait until students
would be back on campus.

“No subpoenas have been issued
yet." Gormlcy said.

Gormlcy said she plans on issu-
ing subpoenas during the next two
weeks.

Fayette County District Court
Judge Kevin Home conducted a
preliminary hearing Dec. 13. 199].
McPherson pleaded not guilty to
the first-degree rape charges at his

hearing.
“After hearing testimony at the

See HEARING, Page 7

A portrait of former UK President David Roselle recently was
placed in Old Boardroom of the Administration Building.

library but still $6.7 million short of
the campaign's goal.

See LIBRARY, Page 9

Was-n mﬁ—skmamle 4—.- ; ~.

See TOP TEN, Page 4

The WIldcats take on Southeastern Confer-
ence rival-Vanderbilt tonight on the road.
Preview, Page 18.

Regular coursework begins for the 1992

CD compilation
spring semester. Welcome back!

features Lexing-
ton talent. Story,
Page 58.

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Diversions. ....48
Sports .......................... 68
Classifieds ................... 88

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January 1!, 1m

Counselors study the effects of rape

By JOE WW
Stail Writer

In the United States, a rape in-
volving a woman occurs every six
minutes. And one in four women
will be sexually assaulted during
her four years at a university or col-
lege.

These statistics stare in the faces
of women seeking help as a result
of a rape or sexual assault.

Most people involved in the
counseling of victims or prevention
education agree the increase of inci-
dents in the United States corre-
sponds with the effects rape has on
everyone, even non-victims.

Sally Brandel said she believes
rape affects a person — both physi-
cally and psychologically — as a
result of pressure, harassment and
even holding the incident inside
themselves.

Brandel has a Ph.D. in counseling
psychology and is a psychologist at
the college counseling center at the
University of Akron in Ohio.

She counsels students who have
been victims of rape and leads edu-
cational programs to help prevent
and educate students about the
harmful effects of rape.

“The effects (of a rape) tend to be
very long lasting and very often
will effect her ability to concen-
trate, do well in school. her ability
to trust and feel like she can judge
situations clearly," she said.

Last semester UK was confronted
with allegations that sophomore
Kevin Wayne McPherson, raped a
l9-year-old sophomore woman at
the Phi Kappa Psi social fraternity
house.

McPherson will face a grand jury
later this week in Lexington Fayette
County District Court where it will
be determined if a trial is warrant-
ed.

In 1990-91, two tapes were re-
ported on UK's campus; in 1989,
one.

In date or acquaintance rape, the

breaking of trust is often the most
difficult thing for a woman to deal
with.

“She obviously trusted this per-
son at some level if she knew him,
and what happens as a result of that
is her judgment in herself is shak-
en."

Date rape is the most common
type of rape that occurs in our coun-
try.

In a study conducted five years
ago, Dr. Mary Koss at the Universi-
ty of Arizona in Tucson. Ariz., in-
volved 6,159 college students from
32 universities across the country.

The study, funded by the Nation-
al Institute of Mental Health, found
57 percent of women who had been
raped knew the prepatrator.

Deanna Welsh, who counsels vic-
tims of rape at the Northern Ken-
tucky rape and crisis center, said
she agrees knowing the aggressor
difﬁcult for the victim to trust peo-

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pie in the future.

“Because their trust is affected,
dating again is often real traumat-
ic,” Welsh said.

More than 50 percent of rape vic-
tims know their aggressors, accord-
ing to the Women Helping Women
in Cincinnati, and the Nonhem
Kentucky Rape Crisis Center.

Other factors, such as alcohol or
peer pressure can also be major
contributors surrounding a rape in-
cident.

“Very often in the situation of a
date or acquaintance rape, where
the two people know each other,
particularly in a social situation
such as a fraternity party or dorm
party, very frequently alcohol is in-
volved,” Brandel said.

Alcohol alters a person's ability
to see situations clearly and to think
through situations, she said.

“They may believe that if a wom-
an comes to their fraternity house

and she is drinking, then somehow
that invites sexual activity."

Brandel said men often hold this
belief about women, which often is
associated with acquaintance rape.

Menwilloftentakeacertainset
of behaviors and convince them-
selves that sex was desired by the
woman, Brande! said.

“ ‘She came on to me, or she said
that I looked attractive or she had
onashortskirtorcame uptomy
room’ — are examples of what
some men believe suggest ‘have
sexual intercourse with me'
when in actuality they don’t mean
that at all," she said.

Most counselors say that, based
on their experiences with counsel~
ing and research, women often
don't report rape incidents, or wait
awhile before reporting it.

According to national Uniform
Crime Reports, 102,555 rapes were
reported in our country in 1990.

Koss said the ﬁgure is based on
information gathered by the FBI
and “does not include oral or anal
sex, men who have been raped or
women raped by their husbands."

In her 1987 study, Koss found
only 5 percent of the women, who
said they had been raped, reported
the incident.

It's “not uncommon" for women
to delay reporting a rape, Koss said.
“The trauma women go through af-
ter a rape is unbelievable.”

After the initial trauma, victims
often deny that an incident oc-
curred, which is where the delay
originates, she said.

“Many times the psychological
reaction and emotional reaction to
that kind of trauma causes the
victim to want to forget about it. not

deal with it — hope by not con-
fronting it that it will go away,”
Bmidel said

“It takes time for victims to men—
tally accept that it (rape) hap-
pened," and often the victims don’t
think anyone will believe their ac-
cusations, Koss said.

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Prolassor’s book garners national attention

A UK professor's reseuch on sibling abuse has put him in the na-
tional spotlight.

Social work professor Vernon Wiehe's book based on his research
about a once-taboo topic — sibling abuse — has yined national at-
tenuon.

Wiehe appeared on Friday's broadcast of “Donahue" with some
victims of sibling abuse who were part of his research.

Perilous Rivalry: When Siblings Become Abusive is a rewrite of
Wiehe's research that is geared toward parents. He said he became
interested in the topic after a number of victims approached him af-
ter lectures.

Since his book has reached a wide audience, Wiehe said the re-
sponse has been incredible.

“I receive very touching letters from people who have been vic-
tims of sibling abuse who say the book validates for them that they
are victims of abuse, and that's really why I wrote the book,” he
said.

In the past few decades, child abuse and spouse abuse have gained
attention and credibility, but only in recent years has sibling abuse
been brought to light, Wiehe said.

Sibling abuse doesn’t refer to occasional lights or rivalry. he said.
Rather, it is hurtful emotional, physical or sexual abuse between
brothers or sisters in which one sibling repeatedly is a victim.

“Sibling rivalry, if left unchecked, can become abuse," Wiehe
said. “All children ﬁght, but it can become abuse. Families tend to
ignore it and say all kids do this."

When Wiehe began delving into the subject, he was amazed at
how common sibling abuse is. One study found that violent acts be-
tween siblings occur more frequently than those between spouses
and between parents and children.

He and another UK professor, David Royse, are preparing to do a
national study on the prevalence of sibling abuse. To determine the
line between what's normal sibling rivalry and what’s abuse, consid-
er these factors:

~Is the behavior appropriate to the child’s age?

-How long and how often do the incidents occur?

'15 one child being victimized or bullied?

-What is the purpose of the behavior — is it to hurt, ridicule or
control a sibling?

Most sibling abuse cases occur when a male abuses his sisters.
But the number of male victims perhaps is underestimated because
males are reluctant to admit the abuse, Wiehe said.

Low self-esteem among survivors is common, and there is a high
rate of substance abuse, depression and suicide attempts among
them.

Lexington to honor King

UK and the city of Lexington are joining together to honor the
memory of Marting Luther King Jr. by co—sponsoring a march and
holiday program Monday.

“Our goal is to help people recognize the need for continued heal-
ing and reconciliation among diverse religious, racial and ethnic
groups," said Jerry Stevens, coordinator of the committee that is
planning the holiday events. “It’s important to increase awareness of
a national — and now a state and local —— holiday that is centered
around bridging diverseness."

The special events begin at 9: 15 am, when the community is in-
vited to assemble for a Freedom March on the Main Street side of
the Lexington Center’s Heritage Hall.

The 1.5-mile march begins at 10 am. Marchers will walk east on
Vine Street, turn at Rose Street and head west on Main Street, back
to Lexington Center.

At 11 am, an hour-long commemorative program will begin in
Heritage Hall. The program includes a performance by the UK
Black Voices choir, speeches by Lexington Mayor Scotty Baesler,
UK President Charles Wethington and William Parker, retired UK
vice chancellor of minority affairs and a candle-lighting ceremony.

Free parking is available for the march and the program in the Pat-
terson Street lot, west of Lexington Center.

This is the second year UK and the Lexington-Fayette Urban
County Government have co—sponsored events honoring King.

A schedule of other events planned in Lexington for the King holi-
day is attached.

Jones picks secretary for Human Resources

FRANKFORT, Ky. — Gov. Brereton Jones appointed Dr. Leo-
nard E. Heller secretary of the Cabinet for Human Resources in De-
cernber.

Jones also named Fontaine Banks as deputy secretary.

Heller, 46, is a former vice chancellor for academic affairs at
UK’s Albert B. Chandler Medical Center. He was an associate pro-
fessor in the Department of Behavioral Science at UK from 1977 to
1984 and a full professor from 1984 to 1986.

From 1977 to 1983 Heller was assistant dean of educational devel-
opment at UK’s College of Medicine. He currently a senior lecturer
at the University of Illinois School of Public Health and a clinical
professor at the School of Allied Health at Gavemor’s State Univer-
srty.

Heller is president and chief executive officer of WTl‘ Inc., a Lex-
ington company that produces a substance used in testing horses for
drugs. The company also is involved in the development of an $8
million pharmaceutical-research and manufacturing project at Cold-
stream Research Campus at UK.

Banks. 62, was deputy secretary of the Human Resources Cabinet
from 1983 to 1988 and currently is a special assistant to the presi-
dent of Res-Care. he, in Louisville, Ky., where he has worked
since 1989. He was an administrative assistant and legislative assist-
ant to Govs. Edward T. “Ned" Breathitt and Bert T. Combs.

Heller received bachelor and master of science degrees from the
University of Kansas as well as his doctorate in educational adminis-
tration. instruction and research methodology.

A graduate of Berea College, Banks did graduate work in public
administration at the Universities of Alabama, Tennessee and Ken-
tucky and attended the Health Administration Development Program
at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.

A Kansas native, Heller, his wife, Elizabeth, and son and daughter
currently reside in Bourbonnais, lll.

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we're behind President Bush and
Congress." SMASH member John
Middleton said.

The Student Government Associv
ation paid for yellow ribbons,
which were tied around trees on
campus to show support for Ameri-
can soldiers.

Fearing that chemical warfare
might strike cIose to home Central
Kentuckians bought gas masks al-
most as fast as they were stocked.
Military surplus store owner Wolf-
gang Bom said he thought custom-
ers bought the masks to prepare for
a possible terrorist bombing of the
Lexington Blue Grass Army Depot
in Richmond, Ky., which stores
nerve and mustard gas agents.

The terrorist attacks never came
and a cease-fire command was is-
sued Feb. 27, just six weeks after
ﬁghting began.

“The Kuwait flag once again
ﬂies above the capital of a free and
sovereign nation," Bush said.

Although the ﬁghting ﬁnished
nearly a year ago, some American
troops remain in Saudi Arabia help-
ing to rebuild and protect in case a
still-powerful Saddam seeks re-
venge.

“No doubt the (UK
_ Board of Trustees) appoint-
~ ees will be (former Gov.
Wallace Wilkinson's) cro-
nies, possibly the GED
General Martha Wilkinson . Or
he may even appoint himself to the
board and have himself elected
chairman." —— Nov. 6 Kentucky
Kernel editorial.

Former Gov. Wallace Wilkin-
son's self-appointment to the UK
Board of Trustees shocked the carn-
pus in December, even though it
had been rumored for some time.

Wilkinson. who appointed him-
self to a six-year term, said he
wants to reform higher education
like he did when he supported the
1990 reform of elementary and sec-
ondary education in Kentucky.

The govemor‘s ideas toward re-
forming higher education received
mixed reactions. But the messen-
ger, not the message, aroused nu-
merous protests.

The Student Government Associ-

KERNEL FILE PNOTO

UK Student Kimberly Hudson cried as she watched the United

States go to war against Iraq.

ation Senate, urged by President
Scott Crosbie, called for Wilkinson
to step down from the board.

The University Senate also
passed a resolution condemning
Wilkinson‘s actions, stating that his
self-appointment t0 the board
would jeopardize the “academic in-
tegrity" of the University.

Other students organized a peti-
tion to remove Wilkinson from the
board.

Former Attomey General Fred
Cowan ﬁled a suit in Franklin Cir-
cuit Court to prevent Wilkinson
from serving on the board. He also
ﬁled a restraining order to prevent
him from being sworn in as a trus-
tee.

Cowan lost the injunction, allow-
ing Wilkinson to serve as a trustee.
The case is still pending.

Instead of attending the Dec. 10
trustees meeting. Wilkinson chose

to attend
Brereton
Jones‘ inau-
gural activi-
ties in
Frankfort,
Ky. About
100 faculty
and students
protested
Wilkinson’s
self-
apporntment
m m mew WILKINSON
ing on UK’s campus.

Faculty trustee Raymond Betts
said Wilkinson's appointment “may
be legal," but he added that it goes
against what is expected of public
officials.

Wilkinson was given the oath
during a private ceremony Dec. 20
in UK President Charles Wething-
ton’s office.

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END OF
AN ERA

Two years after the fall
of the Berlin Wall and the
subsequent reuniting of
Germany, the father of the
Eastern Bloc disintegrated. Follow-
ing an aborted coup attempt by a
group of Soviet hard-line ofﬁcials
in August, the Soviet Union fell
apart and its President Mikhail S.
Gorbachev resigned in December.

The disintegration of the
U.S.S.R. marked the end of the
Cold War, which has dominated
world politics and US. foreign poli-
cy since World War II.

Many times in the ensuing 45
years the Cold War heated up: the
Berlin Airlift, the Cuban Missile
Crisis and the Korean and Vietnam
wars.

Most of the countries that came
into existence when the Soviet
death knell sounded quickly formed
a Commonwealth of Independent
States with its capital in Minsk, By—
elorus.

Vestiges of Soviet power remain,
speciﬁcally its nuclear arsenal,
which world leaders fear could fall
into the wrong hands.

KENNEL FILE PHOTO

Mildred ‘Mama' Chandler mourned the death of her husband, former
Gov. A.B. ‘Happy' Chandlegat his funeral in June at Memorial Hall.

, Albert Benjamin “Hap~
py” Chandler, a dominat-
" ing ﬁgure at UK and in
Kentucky politics for more
than half a century, died
June 16 at his home in Versailles,
Ky. He was 92.

The two-term Kentucky govern-
or, who served as a state and US
senator and baseball commissioner,
was a member of the UK Board of
Trustees at the time of his death.
The UK medical center bears his
name.

As a sportsman, Chandler is best
remembered for being the commis-
sioner who oversaw the bringing of
the first black baseball player into
the major leagues.

In 1947 Chandler challenged 15
of 16 baseball team owners when
he allowed Jackie Robinson to play
for the Brooklyn Dodgers.

Chandler‘s influence was pep-
pered with numerous controversial
incidents.

As chairman of the UK board
while governor, Chandler admitted
to choosing a president to agree
with his political alliances.

In 1970, he was praised by 1. Ed-
gar Hoover, director of the FBI, for
punching a UK student at a trustees
meeting. Chandler claimed the stu-
dent grabbed his tie.

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“nigger" during a committee meet-
ing of the Board of Trustees.

Chandler later explained: “My
statement was not said in anger. It
was not said in jest. It was just said. :
And not said to be offensive to any-
one living or dead."

Some called for Chandler’s re-
moval from the board. but Chandler
weathered the storm with the sup-
pon of ally Gov. Wallace Wilkin-
son, who had appointed Chandler to ‘
the board. But Chandler repeated
the racial remark the next year dur-
ing an Kentucky Kernel interview
concerning his newly-released auto-

biography.

Protests were renewed, but again, _

no action was taken against him,
and he remained on the board until
his death.

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voice of the Wildcats.

Generations of fans have depend-
ed on Ledde to be their eya and
ears at UK basketball games. which
for the many Kentuckians was the
only way to see Wildcats game with
almost every game a sellout.

“1 like to feel I’m honest with the
listener. I feel like the listener is the
mostimportantperson—ifyouare
onradio—thatthereissol’ve
triedtomakehimorhertheNo.1
priority.” he said.

His style was to make the sport
identifiable to the listener. UK
didn't defend the North goal. “The
Wildcats are moving to the right of
your radio dial.” Ledford would
say.

On Sept. 19. 1953. Ledford
called his ﬁrst UK football game, a
7-6 loss to Texas A&M during
coach Paul “Bear" Bryant‘s ﬁnal
season.

He introduced himself to the UK
basketball audience that December
before the Cats' 86-59 victory over
Temple University.

Arid Ledford has seen and an-
nounced almost every game since.

In October, citing the
state’s $155 million reve-
nue shortfall. then-Gov.
Wallace Wilkinson an-
nounced that he would au-

thorize budget cuts to account for
the lack of revenue.

Spared from the cuts were pri-
mary and secondary education,
Medicaid and Aid to Families with
Dependent Children (AFDC) pro-
grams.

Bearing the brunt of the cut were
the eight state universities. Wilkin-
son told them to cut $30 million
from their current operating bud-
gets.

Kentucky's public universities
and colleges began reviewing their
cost-cutting options while awaiting
the Nov. 4 state Council on Higher
Education, where it would be deter-
mined how much of the brunt each
university would bear.

The CHE announced that UK
would make up $15.1 million of the
$36.1 million.

UK President Charles Wething-
ton placed a hiring freeze on staff
positions and instructed Chancellors
and vice presidents to ﬁnd 5 percent
to cut from their budgets.

Departments began limiting trav-
el expenses. long-distance phone

calls and use of copier materials.

Wethington said priorities in
cutting the budget would be to pro-
tect people ﬁrst, salaries second and
academic programs third.

Wethington gave the board the
budget reduction plan Dec. 10,
which left UK “close to the vest” If
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