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UNIVERSITY OF KENIUCKY, LEXINGION KENIUCKY

SPORTS UK’s volleyball team held a fin:—
ever alumni match Friday at Memorial Coli-
seum. See story, page 6.

   

 

 

New library plan involves city,

Sufi; win repom

Unable to muster legislative
:pproval for a $58 million library,
has put to ether a new plan
that involves ocal government
and the alumni association.

The complex plan involves ask-
ing the Lexington-Fayette Urban
County Council to sell some $42
million in revenue bonds for the

propect.
he local government would

then contract with the UK Alumni
Association, which would receive
money from the bond sale and pa

confirmed that a new libra
financin plan has been develope .

Joe urch, vice president for
University Relations said UK may
have more information about the
new finances toda or before the
Urban County ouncil meets
tomorrow ni hr.

The new nancial Ian’s struc-
ture would essential y make the
UK Alumni Association, not city-
county government, the libra ’5
owner and liable for paying offrrhe
bonds.

Though the UK Athletic Asso-
ciation would provide money to

University, and as a tax-exem t

corporation it an financtally ob i-

gjite itself for ventures serving
K

Former Gov. Edward T. “Ned”
Breathitt, chairman of UK’s board
of trustees, said he was unaware of
any “finalized details of a revised
library-financin plan.”

“Anything t at has been dis-
cussed with me, I think, would be
premature for me to have any
comment about,” he said.

Wethington apparently con-
sulted some influential lawmakers
to acquaint them with the latest

Sen. Mike Moloney, a Lexing-
ton Democrat, declined to com-
ment.

Moloney is chairman of the
Senate’s budget committee and a
library su porter.

Rep. arshall Long, Molon ’s
counterpart in the House, said e
was unaware of any specific new
plan.

But he said Wethington dis—
cussed the library with him
recently.

“He said he was working on
something to try to go ahead with
the library, but we were interru t-

number of other capital rojects.

Breathitt noted that ething-
ton has made no secret of his
intention to move ahead on the
libra after the legislature
rebu ed the proposal.

UK has raised more than $21
million from private sources since
1991 for the library and a book
endowment.

Talks have been under way for
years at UK over the need to
replace the crowded Margaret 1.
King Library, built in the 19205.
Current plans for the five-Story,
361,350-square-foot library pro-

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INDEPENDENI SINCE 19/1

Wethington and Miller may out-
line the new roposal to the
Urban County ouncil as early as
this week.

People familiar with the plan
said it would have no effect on the
local govemment’s existin bond-
ing obligations, or those 0 UK.

The plan calls for the Athletic
Association to help pay off the
bonds with money it now pays to
UK’s general fund to support
other campus activities. How that
money wi I be replaced is uncer-
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Although the plan will be

 

 

 

 

off the bonds with about $3 mi - pay off the bonds, state law pro-
i its it from contracting with the
city-county government to do Lexington Mayor Pam Miller, said

lion a year contributed by UK’s
Athletic Association.

UK President Charles that.
Wethington could not reached for
comment last night. But Universi-
ty spokesman Bernie Vonderheide

However, the Alumni Associa-
tion faces no Similar
smce it IS independent om the

financmg lan.
Dottie ean, spokeswoman for

Miller 5 only comment on the
recent report was that it is “ re-
mature to comment on anything
until plans are finalized.”

roblem,

ed and there never was any furt er
discussion of it,” added Long, a
Shelbyville Democrat.
The General Assembly this
ear re’ected UK’s proposal for a
£46 mi lien bond authorization to
build the library, along with a

Kin library.

ject will nearly double the space
for books in the million-volume

he new libra

by Wethington
became resident in l_9 .
Von erheide said that

ortl after he

unveiled as a long-term transac-
tion, it reportedl contains refi-
nancing options that would allow
the state to later finance the pro-
ject and relieve the alumni and
athletic associations of their roles.

was proposed

"K employee's car window shot Ollt

l/Vorleer questions
University safety

By L. Fredrlk Luntlhetg

Contributing Writer

Brenda Fletcher left work before sunrise Friday
morning and walked to her car on Washington
Avenue to find a frightening sight.

Between the hours of 6 pm. Thursday and 3 a.m.
Friday, the back windshield of Fletcher’s 1985
Dodge Charger was shattered by a gunshot, police
reports say.

Fletcher, an Omicron

 

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tant in radley Hall, was
working late and had parked
_ her car at the corner of
There Is a Washington and Rose
h sieal sa e Streets-
fishforfiligy The incident caused
Fletcher to re-evaluate cam-
and students. pus safety
Next tlme It “There is a physical safety
"tight not he a risk for facul and students,
ear —1't may Fletcher sai . “Next time it
he a person. » might not be a car — it may
be a rson.”

V F etcher said the police
373"“ Flannel officers on the scene were
UK 0min?" Dd“ uncertain whether the dam-

IQ‘PP‘F’I‘M" age was caused by a .22 cal-
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un.
8 UK Police Chief W.H.
McComas said the lack of evidence makes such a
determination impossible.

The lice re ort lists the incident as a criminal
rnischie offense y a pellet/BB un.

As the police ulled away, F etcher discovered an
additional bullet ole in the driver’s side door.

Police said the shot, which glanced off the driver’s
seat door, was fired from a position in front of the
car. The blast that shattered the rear window
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GREG EARS Kernellufl'

CHARGE-“P 8m" UK worker Brenda Fletcher found her I 985 Dodge Charger’s hath window blown out by a

gunshot Friday morning.

Apparently, this is not' an isolated incident. Two
other car owners have reported smashed windows to
Albert B. Chandler Medical Center security. During
the week of Aug. 1, the windows of two cars were
shattered in a 24-hour period in the yellow parking
lot at Commonwealth Stadium.

McComas said at least one of these incidents was
caused b heat. But Dou Bruce, director of support
services or the Medical enter, disagreed.

“These damages could have been caused by the
heat, but that is not probable,” Bruce said. “It is con-
ceivable that they were caused by gunshots.”

After the murder of UK football player Trent
DiGiuro a block away from campus six weeks ago
and recent burglaries in the Woodland Park area,

some students are concerned about campus-area
safe .

“ eople need to know that they’re not safe,”
Fletcher said. “UK campus may be safer than other
places, but I don’t have a back window and I don’t
feel safe.”

McComas, however, asserted that the campus is
“absolutely” safe.

“This is a safe campus,” he said. But, he said, there
are ways students can maximize their safety.

“Students should use the services provided to
them and not ut themselves in areas where there is
no visibility. I you feel that the area is unsafe, don’t
go in to it.

Campus eons lighting crime on hikes

Police officers
closer to public
when on heats

By L. Fredrlk Lvndbetu

Contributing Writer

It’s midday on campus, and traffic is
at a near standstill. A call to the UK
police could mean big trouble for an
officer trying to get across campus in a
car.
That’s where the UK bicycle cops
come to the rescue.

Five years ago, several officers su -
gested the idea of a cam us bi c e
final to UK Police C ief .H.

cComas. Today, nine of UK’s 34
police officers are riding bikes at work.

“The biggest part about the bike
patrols is t at it makes the officers
come closer to the people and to
befiome more personal,” McComas
sai .

“But bikes are quicker, th respond
faster and it makes the o cers stay

health .”

U police officer John Kibler said violence in

cers wear a un because the level of

he had to 0 through training before able.”

joining the ike atrol.

He was the ourth UK
officer to graduate from
the International Police
Mountain Bike Association
in Knoxville, Tenn., where
participants are taught
about bike pursuits .and
high speed bike safety.

“I can go from one end
of the campus to another
in less than two minutes,”
said Kibler, who added
that there is nowhere on
campus that he cannot
ride, including stairs.

The bike officer's stan-
dard gear includes a hel-
met, ni ht stick and a gun.

Kib er admitted that his carrying a
gun intimidates some students.

“I've had people come it to me,
point at my holster and say, ‘ on have
a gun!‘ " he said. “But it is required by

state law.”

McComas said that “all police offi-

 

 

 

 

is country is unbeliev-

He added that the police
de artment must “show the
public that (it is) fully pre-
pared to deal with any situa-

But he em hasized the
officers rarey use the

“ ou won’t see a police
officer with his gun out,”
Anytime

an officer takes his weapon
out, he has to fill out a
report, which will be evalu-
ated”by his superior offi—

The biggest "°"'
part about the
bike patrols is we: ns.
that it makes
the 0 rs .
come fit, to McComas said.
the people.”
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W. H. McComas
UK Police Chief , cc"-

 

 

While police officers on
bikes are supposed to pro-
mote safety, students riding

bikes through campus sometimes cause
traffic hazards for themselves and
pedestrians.

“Nine
are good ike ri

-five cent of the students
a,” Kibler said. “but

5 percent just run hell bent for leather

and give bikers a bad name.”

Because of reports of dangerous
bikers, a bike safety committee has
been formed and includes members
from the Student Government Associ-
ation.

The committee’s first meeting will
be held soon, and possible “no-bike
areas” in con ested areas around Mar-

aret I. Kin ibrary, Patterson Office
Tower an White Hall Classroom
Building will be discussed.

Kibler said unsafe bikers will be
cited.

“The ideal would be no bikes on the
sidewalk,” he said. “But that is kind of
like jaywalking, it’s not enforceable.
However, if I see a biker cause any
danger to himself or to any other, he
will et a ticket.”

so, McComas said new bike racks
are on their way. Ha gin Hall and
Anderson Hall will be e first areas to
receive additional bike racks. Now that
students have arrived on campus, the
safety committee can better estimate
the bike rack need, he said.

“It is hard to tell from one ear to
another how many students wi I bring
bikes,” McComas said.

 

NEWShytes
m Bosnian Serbs

V018 IIII Wlll'lll peace plan

BELGRADE, Yugoslavia — Hundreds of
Bosnian Serbs voted yesterday in the Yugoslav cap-
ital on an international eace plan their leaders
have already condemne , defying opposition by
Bel rade authorities.

osnian Serbs were determined to give an over—
whelmin ‘No’ vote to the plan crafted by the
United tates, Russia, Britain, France and Ger-
many.

Serb-led Yugoslavia su ported the plan and cut
off sup lies to Bosnia’s erbs when their leaders
rejected1 it earlier this month.

The lan would reduce Serb holdings to 49 per-
cent of snia’s territory, from the 70 percent they
seized during the war. A federation of Bosnian
Muslims and Croats, who have accepted the plan,
would have 51 percent.

Japan claims American practices lllllflll’

TOKYO —— Japan plans to turn the tables on
American negotiators by arguing that US govern-
ment procurement practices in telecommunica-
tions and medical equipment are even less open to
outsiders thanja an 5, news reports said yesterday.

The United tates, frustrated with the lack of
progress in talks on improving access to Japan’s

ucrative government rocurement market, has
imposed a Sept. 30 dea line for agreement before
it moves toward sanctions.

Castro blocking sultan exile
HAVANA — Fidel Castro

barred children and teen-a ers es—
terday from leaving aboard ric ety
rafts and boats fleeing the commu-
nist island.

The report of the ban in a gov-
ernment newspaper was the first
sign the Cuban leader could be
cooperating with American efforts Castro
to stem the hu 6 outflow of
Cubans bound for .S. shores.

o.J.teaIn to change locus

LOS ANGELES —— Defense attorneys in the
0.]. Sim son case are shiftin their attack from
the credi ility of DNA bloo tests to the credibili-
ty of a police officer who discovered a bloody glove
on Simpson’s estate.

Defense attorneys are expected to argue at a
hearin today that the Los Angeles Police Depart-
ment 5 ould turn over Detective Mark Fuhrman’s
personnel records to see if he has any past instances
of racially motivated wron doing.

Simpson’s attorneys have claimed in court
papers that Fuhrman hates blacks and other
minorities and once tried to frame a black suspect.

NAMEdropping

Mary Ann or sex Itlttan?

BURBANK, Calif. — The professor and ——
Mary Ann?

Fans of “Gilligan’s Island" might be surprised to
see Dawn Wells, who played a rl-next-door
in the sitcom, as a foul~mouthetflex fiend in a p ay.

Wearing a tight outfit and red wig, the 55-year-
old actress is starting in mSurprise, uprise” at the
Victory Theatre.

“The role is a stretch for me in the minds of the
Hollywood peo le. It’s an image-breaker,” Wells
said. “The onl indrance from ‘Gilligan's Island'
is the industry ere tending nor to take (my) acting
ability seriously.

But Wells doesn’t want to cast “Gilli n’s
Island” to the sharks. She's 'ng to put tog er a
deal to write and a program commun-
orating the show a 30th anniversary.

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one hour,” Bastin said. “And on the
other side of it, you don’t have to take a
long martial arts in order to learn the

By Thomas McIntosh
Contributing Writer

UK Food Services had tables, chairs, music and food , b35iCS-”
606/266-3123 ready for Thursday’s opening of The Patio. The only Kelly Sears finally got into the class RAD teaches women they do have
she wanted — a year and and a half after options.

thing missin : employees. Despite this setback, The
Patio should e fully staffed and open today.
Beginning this week, lunch at the Student Center

“Lots of irls don’t even lmow how to

her first attempt.
make a fist, Bastin said.

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will come with more than a com limenta tra and "“0 RAD'” said Sears, 3“" Kathy SW33“. an undectded
napkin — does live music amid outgoor tablg appzizal to accounting senior. I freshman, ‘5 walls the class m
you? ' walk around campus a lot Because of great addition to martial arts classes
The Patio, the brainchild of Richard Clark, assistant alone, so I (want to take demand. UK W300 sheuhad taken preViously.
director of operations for UK Food Services, will be a the class) f0? 3}, better haveadded five I want to get refreshed on
European-style café. sense ofsecurity. , new RAD class how '°”“53 my bOdY ‘0 protect
To promote this new outdoor Rape ASSTCSS‘On slots during lhe myself, she 531d-

Thfl Palm. a café, Officials plan to hire musi- Defense systems, a UK weeks olSepl. 12. Not only does RAD teach
seasonal restau- cians to entertain lunch crowds. Police Department- Sept. 26, Oct. 24. Physwal moves I0 ward Off
“ rant, will remain “we are attempting to get sponsored program that Dec. Sand 09¢. attackers, it also involves class-
open as long as either a string quartet of some teaches women .self- 12_ work that teaches“students not
weather permits. jazz musicians to draw atten- defense for rape Slma' Formore inlomta- ‘0 beflcqms. Typical!Y)' a
tion,” said said Dewitt King, tions, is a popular class. tion abouth ralpist is gomg to select a Victim
Hours: assistant manager of Student SO popular, !“ fact, UK gram. contact W 0 ‘5 vulnerable. ANYONE who
11 em. to 1:30 Center Food Services. Police Chief _ W.H. Stephanie Bastin has gone through this'class is not

p.m. Monday “We are trying to offer a bet- McComas said his staff at 257-5189. vulnerable, Bastin said. _
I through Friday m variety to anybody on cam- has added five new sec- The class also IS- physically
; Closed week- pus, not just students, but also tions to the schedule ‘0 challenging_to the instructors.
5 ends. faculty and staff.” meet the demand. ‘ “We started out With two instructors,
The Patio is located just Stephanie Bastin, crime prevention and it was really hard on them,” Basin
‘3 behind the Old Student Center coordinator, said RAD class focus on said. All instructors are UK lice offi-

5 ’ prevention, awareness and physical cers who are certified throug RAD.

in the free speech area, facin Patterson Office Tower.
Red and white checkered tabFeclOths will give the area a
festive atmosphere. An overhang will provide shade for
patrons and keep the area dry when it rains.

“The overhang is a nice area to have a patio because
you are not subject to the weather,” King said. “It was a

Many women who take the class are
victims of rape, child abuse or sexual
fidence to protect themselves,” she said. abuse. The instructors must be able to

The RAD program began more than handle any disclosures that may come
two years ago in response to faculty and up
student requests for an on-campus self-

defense.
“The class gives the women the con-

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