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Study finds whites less open to race mixing

 

Associated Press

ANN ARBOR, Mich. —— Minori-
ty college students are more likely
to eat. study and go out with peo-
ple outside their race than white
students are. a study says.

The researchers who conducted
the study say it debunks the idea
that minorities socialize only
among themselves. In fact, the re-
searchers say, the study shows that
white students are most likely to
stick together.

“The current concern about

whether minority students are pro-
moting and practicing self-
segregation is misplaced.” said
Sylvia Hunado, an assistant profes-
sor of education at the University
of Michigan. “In fact. students of
color are crossing ethnic-racial
lines the most, while white stu-
dents seem to be segregating them-
selves.”

Hunado and her fellow research—
ers —- Eric L. Dey of the Universi-
ty of Michigan and Jesus Trevino
of Arizona State University -—
were to present their findings today
at an educational research confer-

Intems glimpse
state government

 

By Doug Saretsky
Staff Writer

 

The UK Department of Political
Science is giving undergraduates
an opportunity to see government
in action.

With the Kentucky Legislative
lniemship Program, UK students
work firsthand with Kentucky law-
makers during sessions of the
state’s General Assembly. The stu—
dents then meet weekly to share
their experiences with each other
and further study the political pro—
cess.

A total of 50 students applied for
internships during this year's Gen-
eral Assembly. Twenty-seven stu-
dents received internships and have
worked with legislators for the du-
ration of the General Assembly‘s
session, which continues through
April 14.

“This is a competitive program,
but it is a good opportunity for stu-
dents to participate in the General
Assembly,” UK political science
professor Penny Miller said.

Miller is in charge of the pro-

Board pm

Two chosen
as co-editors
of K entuckian

 

By Jackie Flegle
Staff Writer

 

UK's Board of Student Media
selected four students last night to
fill top positions at the University’s
student-run radio station and year-
book.

Charles Powell, a political sci-
encc graduate student, was named
to serve as WRFL-FM’s 1994-95
general manager; and telecommu-
nications junior Brain Manley will
be the alternative radio station's
program director.

gram and also leads the class in its
weekly discussions of current state
politics.

Each intern is assigned to a state
legislator for whom he or she
works during the entire session.
Many of the students answer phone
calls and research specific legisla-
tion.

Interns also attend committee
meetings and sit in on business ses-
sions of both the Senate and House
of Representatives. Occasionally,
students are invited to attend lunch-
eons and receptions held for the
legislators.

The interns have been traveling
back and forth from Lexington to
Frankfon every Tuesday, Wednes-
day and Thursday. The group
meets each Monday for class dis-
cussion.

“Being pan of this program has
been one of my best experiences at
UK," said Jason Fleming, a politi-
cal science and history senior.
“I’ve always been interested in
Kentucky politics, and this was a
good way for me to learn more

See INTERNS, Back Page
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At the Kentuckian yearbook,
Kathryn Abney and Joshua R. Den-
ton will share responsibilities as
1994-95 co-editors.

Ernest Yanarella, the media
board’s chairman and a political
science pro-
fessor, said
the panel of
faculty and
professionals
chose the
right people
for the posi—
tions.

Yanarella
said Powell
impressed J
the board bC- POWELL
cause “he
seems to know the ropes quite well
and is very much aware of the key
role he needs to play."

“The Board was also impressed
with his creative ideas that would

ence in New Orleans.

The researchers said they wanted
to find out if ethnic and racial or-
ganizations, minority-theme dorms
and minority cultural centers were
contributing to segregation on col-
lege campuses.

In 1987, they surveyed 209,0(X)
college freshmen from 390 schools
across the country.

Four years later, they sent a fol-
low-up survey to 28,000 of those
students; 6,107 responded.

The students were asked if they
crossed racial lines when studying,
dating and dining.

The study found:

~About three-quarters of the
Mexican Americans surveyed fre-
quently studied or dined with
someone from another race.

That was followed by Asian
Americans (69 percent reported
crossing racial lines to dine. and 60
percent to study) and blacks (55
percent to dine, 49 percent to
study).

-Fewer than i in 4 white stu-
dents frequently dined with some-
one from a different ethnic group,
and fewer titan 1 in 5 frequently
studied with someone from a dif-

ferent ethnic group.

-Asian Americans were most
likely to date someone from an-
other race (42 percent), followed
by Mexican Americans (24 per-
cent). blacks (13 percent) and
whites (4 percent).

Some of the low numbers for the
white students could be attributed
to the fact that whites are such a
sizable majority on most campus-
es, Dey said.

But the unwillingness of white
students to interact with other
groups didn’t change on campuses
with more minority students, he

 

 

 

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Minerals Building.

 

Mark Falk, 18, of Lexington, skateboards yesterday afternoon in front of the Mining and

JAMES FORBUSWKemel Staff

 

 

, yearbook leaders

lead WRFL along its continuing
role of development.”

As program director, Manley
said he intends to return WRFL to
its roots.

“1 plan to take the station basical-

ly in the

 

   

 

same direc—
tion as it
started out.
and that is to
expose stu-
dents and ex-
pose listen-
ers to new
ideas and
music that
you wouldn't

MANLEY he” i". "'e

commercral

format of radio." he said.

Next year‘s yearbook leaders,
Abney and Denton, said their main
objective will be to promote aware-
ness of the Kentuckian.

 

UK professor receives

 

 

WWII“

Communications professor James Applegate credits his cue-

0080 to UK “060m. and faculty.

 

By Gloria Yates
Contributing Writer

UK communications professor
James Applegate recently was se-
lected as a fellow at the American
Council on Education.

Applegate is one of only 12 peo-
ple ever nominated for this fellow-
ship by the University.

He said the selection process
was stressful because he “didn't
want to be the only (UK nominee)
not to get it.”

But Applegate doesn‘t take full
credit for the honor.

“You don't receive this kind of
recognition for wlnt you do
alone.” he said.

“i love a very talented and hard-
working group of colleagues and
students working with me. A lot of

 

 

   

“We hope we can get more peo-
ple interested and aware of the
yearbook so that they will purchase
one.” said Abney. a journalism jun-
tor.

Denton, a journalism sophomore,
agreed. add-
ing: “It is not
only impor-
tant to get ac-
tively in-
volved in
your campus,
but it is very
important to
record that
for yourself _
and for your ~
future gener- ABNEY
ations."

The two plan to have a contest at
the beginning of next semester,
asking people to create a theme for
the yearbook. A free Kentuckian
will serve as the prize for the most

 

original idea.

Yanarella explained the selection
of the two as co-editors by saying
they “demonstrated time and again
their ability to work together.”

Abney said she is excited about
the co-
editorship
and has “a
lot of good
.. plans for
next year."

Those
plans cur-
rently in-
clude pub—
lishing
composite
pictures of
greek organi-
zations because they will list frater-
nity and sorority officers. Abney
and Denton also said they will in-
crease advertising for the Kentucki-

an.

DENTON

CE fellowship

the things that have happened with
me getting this fellowship is due to
the help I have had from my col-
leagues and students.”

While a fellow in the yearlong
program. Applegate will receive
his regular salary from UK, along
with a travel budget allotted by the
ACE fellowship committee.

Fellowships are programs that al-
low recipients to conduct intensive
study in their academic or profes-
sional fields.

Applegate, who plans to go on
sabbatical soon. said he is not sure
where he will travel to conduct the
research.

“The ACE fellowship is among
the most prestigious administrative
fellowships in the country.” said
Chancellor for the Lexington Cam-
pus Robert Hernenway of Apple-
gatc's award.

“The roster reads like a who’s
who of higher education."

Applegate graduated from
Georgetown University in 1973
with a bachelor’s degree in speech
communication.

He attended the University of ll-
linois from 1974 through 1978.
There he obtained his master‘s and
doctorate degrees in communica-
tions.

in 1978, his dissertation received
the Golden Anniversary Award
from the National Speech Commu-
nication Association.

Since coming to the UK as an
assistant professor in 1977, Apple-
gate has written seva articles,
books and book chapters studying
individual differences in communi-
cation abilitiec in children and
adults.

said.

Larry Davis, author of the 1989
book “Race. Gender and Class,"
said he generally agreed with the
study's findings.

Asians and Hispanics have been
more successful at integrating so-
cially than blacks because they’re
more easily accepted by whites,
said Davis, an associate professor
at Washington University in St.
Louis,.

“Blacks are probably doing
some of it." he said, “but white
America is less accepting of them
in social situations."

Heroin use
may become
epidemic,
report says

By George Gedda
Associated Press

 

 

WASHINGTON -» A govern-
ment report wamed yesterday of a
possible U.S. heroin epidemic in
the 1990s and said traffickers from
Colombia anti elsewhere in Latin
America are poised to cash in.

“In the past five years, there has
been a steady increase in the flow
and purity of heroin to the US,
suggesting that the taste for the
drug is growing.” the State Depart-
ment report said

It said this was a logical conse—
quence of more than a decade of
cocaine abuse since it is normal for
a depressant drug such as heroin to
succeed a stimulant such as co~
caine.

The implications are serious, the
report said, because heroin can
hold its prey for decades while the
staying power of cocaine is usually
limited to five years.

Economics also are contributing
to the revival of heroin.

“While at US. street prices, c0-
caine and heroin are competitive, at
the wholesale level heroin has a
strong advantage," the report said.

“With the likelihood that heroin
will be to the 19903 what cocaine
was to the 19803, Latin American
trafficking organizations are poised
to cash in on a heroin epidemic,”
the report said.

Colombia was cited as a country
where cocaine traffickers are diver-
sifying into opium and heroin. ln-
cipicnt poppy cultivation also is
under way in Peru and Ecuador.

it added that heroin brokers in
Southeast and Southwest Asia col-
laborate with Nigerian drug enter-
prises to emulate the marketing
success of the Medellin and Cali
cocaine cartels.

On Friday, President Clinton
added Nigeria to the list of coun-
tries he says are not cooperating in
US anti-drug efforts. The other
countries, held over from last year,
are Burma, Iran and Syria.

Countries on the list are prohibit-
ed from receiving U.S. backing in
their requests for assistance from
international lending institutions.
There are other economic penalties
as well.

Elaborating on the Nigerian role
at a briefing yesterday. Assistant
Secretary of State Robert Gelbard
said Nigeria has become a major
source of trafficking around the
world.

       
 
   
  
 
 

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..-~ ~w3g§u Notes: Cardinals
manager Joe Torre was ejected in
the sixth for arguing a third-strike
call by home plate umpire Eric
Gregg. Reds manager Davey John-
son was ejected Sunday night.

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Cormier had never given up a
homer to either Sanders tr Oliver.
Reds third baseman Tony Fer-
nandez was hit for the second
straight game. He took a pitch from
Cormier off his left arm below the
elbow in the third. He took a few
steps towards the mound and said
something to Cormier before Gregg
intervened. After taking a called
third strike in the seventh, he
dropped his bat and helmet on the
field and overturned a drink con-
tainer on the bench.

 

 

Staff report

 

The UK athletic community
has several upcoming events.
Here‘s a quick roundup:

Cats to face So. Illinois

The UK baseball team, spon-
ing a 14—12 record, will play host
to Southem Illinois today at 2
pm. The Cats hope to bounce
back from a rough weekend out-
ing in which Mississippi State
swept three games from UK.

“Southem Illinois has a long
baseball tradition," UK head
coach Keith Madison
said. “I‘m sure they‘ll be
ready to take on an South-
eastern Conference
school."

ting well of late, Madison
said, but their pitching
has been less than desira—
blc.

“The guys are really
stroking the ball well," be

tougher out on the
mound. We‘ve got to start chal-
lenging hitter. and right now
we're not doing that."

Claiborne earns award

Jerry Claibome, former head
football coach at Virginia Tech,
Maryland and UK, is the 1994
winner of the Robert R. Neyland
Memorial Trophy, given annual-
ly by the Knoxville (Tenn)
Quarterback Club.

“Jerry Claibome‘s coaching
career at three different schools
was a distinguished one,“ club
president Jeff ilagood said. “He
was a coach who put solid teams
on the field and who worked to
see his players succeeded in the
classroom as well.“

 

Southern Illinois
will test Wildcats

The Cats have been hit- " '

  

said. “We need to be IIIMEIMI

Claiborne was a collegiate
head coach for 28 years, retiring