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Groups plan AIDS Day activities

By Scott Drake
Staff Writer

With World AIDS Day ap roaching this Thurs-
day, UK residence halls are pliinning several activi—
ties throughout the week to raise student awareness
ofHIV and AIDS.

Among the activities planned are a showing and
discussion ofthe movie “Philadelphia.”

There also will be discussions about HIV and
AIDS with Peer Health Advocates, a group of stu—
dents trained by UK Medical Center experts to teach
other students about health concerns.

“Thursday is our big day,” said elementary educa—
tion junior Noah Newcomer, a Peer Health Advo-
cate.

The advocates will set up tables in Blazer Hall,
Kirwan-Blanding Complex Commons, K-Lair and
the Student Center on Thursday from 11 a.m. to 5
p.m. to distribute red ribbons (signifying AIDS

awareness), condoms and AIDS literature,
Newcomer said.

At 5 p.m. Thursday, the Student Health
Advisory Committee will begin to gather
people to walk downtown to Triangle Park
to participate in a candlelight vigil spon—
sored bv various Lexington organizations.

“College students are at the age of

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closed environment, (raising awareness
ofAIDS) can make (students) feel more
comfortable with living arran rements if
they may have to share facilities with
people with HIV," said John Sugg, Kir-
wan II hall director. “The issue
becomes more and more relevant each
year as do the potentials of having AIDS

when most people are diagnosed with l} d here."

HIV," said Assistant Residence Life Direc- 4 ed The issue became relevant for

tor Melanie Tyner-VVilson. “We hope this V Tyner—VVilson after she met a man with

is a step in the right direction." A vi 110,111” AIDS from Eastern Kentucky Universi-
Erica McDonald, hall director at Pat- held hunday at

terson Hall, said the programs are
designed to help student understand the

5 p.m. Students
will meet at the

“He is heterosexual, married and has
a Child, and he contracted HIV from

dangers with AIDS and to help them learn Student Center hitting the bar scene in Richmond," she
more about the world around them. and walk to said. “He was just doing things college
“We want to keep generating awareness Tﬁangle Park. students do, and now here he is dealing

of phobias relating to AIDS,” she said.
“\Vhen you have this many people in a

with this illness. It really hit home to see
someone like this."

Student hopes
voice carries
him to the Met

By Carrie Morrison
Campus Editor

Two UK students recently slipped into the sump-
tuous arias of Puccini and Donizetti for judges from
the Metropolitan Opera and wore them well.

Greg Turay and Annette Silver—Betts placed ﬁrst
and second in the Metropolitan Opera National
Council district auditions.

At the regional audition in Indianapolis last
weekend, Turay, a vocal performance senior, was
among 17 singers chosen to advance to the ﬁnal
audition in New York in April.

Everett McCorvey, a UK vocal music professor
and coach for the two students, is excited about his
students’ progress.

“They‘re both very unique in that they were
blessed with talent and have developed a very strong

work ethic,” he said.
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“They were able to put
it all together and make it
happen. I think they both
have wonderful chances at

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formance senior, finalist The Metropolitan
in the Metropolitan Opera Opera conducts auditions
National Council audi- each year to discover

ﬁons' will play Taming in exceptionally talented
UK’s upcoming opera opera singers.

'The Magic Flute," plays This year, about 3,000
a major role in a Florida singers across the nation
PTOdUCllon ol“Carmen' competed for the chance
”ﬁlmaowm Greendale, to sing on the Metropoli-
W'S- tan’s famous New York
Age: 21 stage, get a $10,000 cash

award and make valuable
contacts in the world ofprofessional opera.

In the district audition, held in Louisville earlier
this month, 19 individuals representing schools from
Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio and West Virginia vied for
a chance at the regionals.

Turay and Silver-Betts each had to prepare ﬁve
separate arias, all in different languages.

Silver~Betts, a vocal performance graduate stu-
dent, had been rehearsing for the audition since
July.

“It‘s so competitive,” she said. “I stayed to myself
and focused . I feel like it was one of the most
important days in my life as an artist.”

McCorvey was pleased that Turay was selected to
go to the ﬁnal competition because he was up
against students from well-known music schools like
the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music.

“If he sings as well as he did in district and
regionals, he should be in the winner’s circle,”
McCorvey said.

Of the 17 ﬁnalists, 10 winners will be chosen to
sing in a televised concert. There also will be one
grand winner, who will be featured in a radio and
television broadcast.

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[mm Ofﬁcials unable
to cease Serb advances

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — Rebel
Serbs pounded the outskirts of Bihac in northwest-
ern Bosnia yesterday as US. and NATO ofﬁcials
admitted they were powerless to stop the advance.

US. Defense Secretary \Villiam Perry even sug-
gested that the Bosnian government had now lost
the 31-month war. And the commander of U.N.
forces in Bosnia, Gen. Sir Michael Rose, said the
24,000 peacekeepers may withdraw if the military
situation continues to deteriorate.

The Bosnian government said it would accept a
U.N. roposal for a Bihac cease-ﬁre, demilitariza—
tion 0 the “safe area" and withdrawal of forces, said
Michael \A'illiams, spokesman for Yasushi Akashi,
the chief U.N. envoy in former Yugoslavia.

Shootinn endangers Ileana talks
BEIT HAGAI, West Bank — A rabbi was shot to

death and an Israeli policeman wounded in a hail of
bullets ﬁred at their car yesterday as they drove
toward a Jewish settlement. Islamic militants
claimed responsibility. The shooting, on the eve of
the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah, occurred three
miles from Hebron, where tensions have been high
since the massacre of 3‘) Muslim worshipers by a
Jewish settler at a mosque Feb. 35.

It came a day before Israeli Foreign Minister Shi—
mon Peres was to meet with PLO leader Yasser
Arafat in Brussels, Belgium, and as the cycle of vio—
lence in the \Vest Bank and Gaza Strip is pushing
negotiators to speed up the peace process.

NMION Kevorliian involved in suicide
DETROIT —— The expiration of Michigan‘s

temporary ban on assisted suicide had no effect on
the timing ofthe death ofan ailing
woman who inhaled a fatal dose of
carbon monoxide, Dr. Jack
Kevorkian's lawyer said yesterday.

Kevorkian was present Saturday
at the death of Margaret Garrish,
72, who suffered from rheumatoid
arthritis, colonic diverticulitis,
osteo )orosis and other ailments.
Both egs had been amputated and
she had lost an eye. It was the 21st
death at which Kevorkian was present since W90
but the ﬁrst since Nov. 22, 1993.

White House cool to Aristidc's plea

WASHINGTON - In a sign of discord
between Haiti’s new government and \Vashington,
the Clinton administration reacted coolly yesterday
to PresidentJean-Bertrand Aristide's plea to disarm
civilian thugs and some army units.

Aristide, growing more distressed as the United
States draws closer to withdrawing its troops, said
Saturday that Haiti's return to democracy could be
hindered ifthe United States fails to disarm civilian
troublemakers and army units with questionable
loyalty to the new rule.

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Snipes not so hot on skydiving

NEW YORK —~ There’s no doubt Wesley
Snipes is tough. He zooms his
motorcycle to 145 mph, practices
martial arts and once beat up a guy
who broke into his car.

Jumping out of a single—propeller
plane is another matter entirely.

“Everything changes in tha‘
instant," the actor said. “The trainer
says, ‘OK, on the count of three we .
go.‘ And I put my hands down, like I Snipes
was going to break my fall, only you’re two miles up
in the air. I screamed for a good stretch ofthe way
down."

Snipes made the jump repeatedly while ﬁlming
his latest crime thriller, “Drop Zone," in the Florida
Keys.

He )lays a federal marshal who penetrates a ring
of skydiving dnig trafﬁckers.

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Debate team arguing lﬂl‘ a national championship

By Stephen Trlmhle

Iiremtive Editor

As UK fans renew their visions of colle e basket-
K team is

ball glory this year, another top-ranked
hoping to argue its way to a national trophy.

UK debate coach J.W. Patterson
says this year Wildcat debaters a ain
have a shot at a national championship.

“It's not something you plan on,”
Patterson said.

“There’s too much luck involved.
However, it’s an aspiration within
reach this year."

The UK debate team always has
been considered one of the most com-
petitive teams in the country.

Patterson said he expects his team to be in the Top
10 when the national rankings are released this week.
Amon individual teams, he believes his top team,
seniors Igaul Skiermont and Jay Finch, should be
among the top ﬁve in the nation.

“Just on paper, there’s no way they couldn’t be at

Patterson

least in the top ﬁve,” Patterson said.

chances for a successful spring cam )aign is poten-

Patterson lost three of his six to
debaters last year, including Jason Patil:
who transferred to Stanford.

This year, with his team's depth deci—
mated, Patterson is riding on Skiermont,
whom he calls the best debater in the
country, to lead UK to a championship.

Already Skiermont, an Omaha, Neb.,
native, has tallied three top speaker

just on paper,
there ’s no am

they eouldn ’t e
at least in the

tiall having Skiermont’s ormer partner
Patifback at UK.

Patterson said the political science
senior is planning to return to next
semester. However, Patterson added that
Patil will probably not be paired with
Skiennont.

Instead, Patil may ﬁnish his debating
career with junior Jason Renzelmann as his

awards in four tournaments this semester. )9 partner.

Ironically, his worst rformance came topﬁve' Last year, each of UK's top three two-
at home, when UK he d its annual tour- V man teams received an invitation to the
nament in October. national tournament, which placed UK

UK placed fourth then among eight of J_w_ Patton” among some of the greatest all—time debate
the nation’s top teams. UK dd," roach teams.

Skiermont ﬁnished in a relatively dis-

UK‘s top-seeded duo, Paul Skiermont

appointing position as runner—up for best
speaker.

Next semester, UK’s team will travel to at least ﬁve
tournaments, including competitions at debating
giants Baylor and Wake Forest universities.

One Christmas gift that may improve UK‘s

3 3

and Patil, sailed through preliminaries with
seven wins and one loss but were upset by 2 Wake
Forest team in the quarterﬁnals.

UK's second team was eliminated in the prelimi-
nary rounds, and the the third reached the ﬁrst of four
ﬁnal rounds before losing to Harvard‘s top team.

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By Eli Humble
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\Vhen I was on my way to see
“The Professional,” I had a feeling
that I was going to see a good
movte.

Boy, was I wrong.

By the looks of the previews, it
seems pretty cool. Stylish action,
impressive directing and capable
acting. If the whole movie was like
the previews, I robably would
have liked it. What they fail to
show you in the previews is the
slow, dull and often laughably bad
inidsection. The beginnin and
end are great, but it's sti I not
nearly enough to bring it over the
to ).

1The story focuses on a hitman,
Leon (lean Reno), and a little girl

who comes from a terrible home
life situation, Matilda. Gary ()ld-
man's role is never really made
clear. Is he a DEA a ent or just a

bad guy? I never real y found out. out

The openin sequence is great:
lots of spell- inding, non—stop

action. Director Luc Besson does like
some reason, he
begins to teach

a good job creating a confined feel
in the building where it takes

place. This is where Leon her the tricks of 1/2*

mechanically knocks off gan sters his trade.

one by one in search of their oss. Wait a second: “The Proﬁm'onal”
Matilda lives across the hall We’ve a Starringjean Reno and Gary

from Leon. Leon sees how poorly grown man in his Oldman

she is treated da after day, and is 40s teaching a 12- RATINGS

eventually forcetllto help her when year—old girl how **** Earl/mt ‘1"; Good

()ldman and his gang blow the to kill people. To it Fair t Poor

place to pieces. Her dad was a
drug dealer. Now here’s where the
trouble begins.

For the next 45 minutes or so,

Leon and Matilda
grow together in
an unusual wa
She a

p
y cooking f
and cleaning, but

she wants to be
For

me, that’s not too
appealing.

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Worse,
hardly any value is placed on

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ateur lilmmaking

human lives.
Matilda claims
that even
though her fam-
ily is gone, she
would ve done
it sooner or
later herself.
Please don’t
take the kids if
you osee this.
e two
keep growing
closer. One of
the more disap-
pointing scenes
involved Leon
and Matilda
partaking in
goofy—ass game
of charades.

Leon mugs his way

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By John Abbott

Smiur SmﬂCritir

Hiisker Du roared out ofMin-
neapolis in the early '80s with a
combination of punk rock fury
and oppy tunefulness that pre-
tlatetl)grunge by a decade. Balanc-
ing guitarist Bob Mould's bad—
day—every—day songwriting with
drummer Grant Hart’s occasion-
ally dippy romanticism, the
Hiiskers cranked out a clutch of
noisy, wonderful albums before
succutnbin to internal pressures
and disbanging in early 1988.

After putting out a just-0K
solo album, Hart abandoned his
drum kit for a six-string and put
together Nova Mob with bass
player Torn Merkl and drummer
Michael Crego. The Mob’s first
offering, The Last Du x ofPompeii,
was an intriguing (whyen’s the last
time you heard a punk rock song
about the Roman orator Pliny,
hmm?), but hopelessly cluttered
affair.

The singin and songwriting
were fine, but Iart isn‘t a particu—
larly adventurous guitar player,
and Crego has to be the most
incompetent drummer in the uni—
Much as I
Hiiskers, I couldn't defend such an

adore the

inferior album. I was secretly hop-
ing that Hart, who is one of my
all-time favorite drummers, would
find a decent guitarist (I would
suggest Mould, but last I heard,
Mould and Hart can’t stand to be
in the same room) and resume his

throu h a few characters, and to
ut t e icing on the calt , they
have a cute little water fight. I
couldn’t believe that this was the
same movie I saw in the previews.

Is this Besson gu t ing to be
John Woo or John I-Iu rhes? What
is this, “Curly Sue”? T 's deﬁnite—
ly serves as a pair of cement shoes.

In the beginning, Leon was a
indomitable, cold-blooded killing
machine. An emotionless warrior,
Leon exuded an aura of mystery
that gave me the chills. Now, he’s
playing house.

Shades of some sort of sexual
involvement between the two are
none too tasty, either. Matilida
claims that she’s in love with him
and even tells a hotel clerk that
they are lovers.

The action doesn’t return until

Nova lets ex—Hiisker till it

land’s sharp, jer drums. Merkl
handles the voca s on that song,
and his voice is a pleasant surprise.
“See and Feel and Know,” “Little
Miss Information" and the horn—
laced “Shoot Your Way To Free-
dom” are ebullient guitar rave-ups

that show off Hart’s knack for

enius
behind the
kit.

I didn’t
get every—
thing on my
wish list, but
Hart did do
some exten-
sive remod-

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eling before V
recording ***
another “Nova Moll”
album. Nova Mob
Crego has (Restless Retordr)
been jetti- RATINGS
soned m ”(at Ercellmt
favor of the tit Good
much more ** Fair
capable * Poor
Steve

Sutherland,

melody. The only real junkheap
on the album is “Beyond A Rea-
sonable Doubt,” which drones
pn and on without getting very
ar.

“Puzzles” is a kind of obvious
what—a-cruel-world-it-is ballad,
but Hesler rescues it with a nag—
gin lick that makes the song
0d ly fascinating.

Nova Mob would be a four-star
effort if not for the muddy pro—
duction. (I would sug est Mould
to produce, but I tﬁink we’ve
alread covered why that’d be a
bad i ea). Hart’s voice is often
swallowed up, and the drums
tend to tap lightly when they
ought to thunder.

But if subpar production is the

Hart has wisely handed over lead
guitar duties to Chris Hesler, a
real find, and the music’s quality
has increased exponentially.

The opener, “Old Empire,”
crackles, punctuated by Suther-

worst thing one can say about
the album, that’s a promising
diagnosis. After some missteps,
the ex-Hiisker ﬁnally has assem-
bled a group good enough to allow
him to execute his musical vision
with style.

the end. And I must say that it is
pretty impressive. Some of the
filmmaking techniques are incred-
ible. It loses points, however, for
ripping off “Silence of the
Lambs.” ()ldman basically disap—
pears until this ﬁnale.

()verall, “The Professional”
was a waste of my time. As I said
earlier, the action is good, but
there’s not nearl' enough of it.
Reno is ()K in t e lead, but I’ll
take (Ihow Yuri-Iiat over this guy
any day. ()ldman is known for his
over—the-to style, but this time
he falls olft ie edge. Sometimes, I
just got tired of looking at him.

The lit-st thing about this
movie is I got to open my cynital,
literary ha of tricks to grill the
thing. Unfintunately, even that
won't get back my $3.50.

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