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Powers
speaks on
women in
politics

By GREGORY A. HALL
Staff Writer

Former State Sen. Georgia M.
Powers addressed UK’s symposium
on Black Women on American pol-
itics last night. About 75 people
were on hand for the keynote ad-
dress, including
representatives
from Kentucky
State Universi-
ty.

Powers, a
Louisville
Democrat, read
excerpts from
her memoirs,
which she
hopes to ﬁnish
within a year, POWERS
and discussed the low number of
elected female state officials.

Powers was the ﬁrst female and
the ﬁrst black representative in the
state General Assembly, serving
ﬁve terms in the Senate from 1967-
89. She also helped organize the
1964 “March on Frankfort," which
resulted in the 1966 Public Accom-
modations and Fair Employment
law.

Before the speech Powers spoke
with members of the media about
recent developments in women’s
politics. “They have been the back-
bone for many years. Black women
were out in the front when black
men couldn't be," she said.

The recent appointment of a
black woman to the task force on
state school reformation was good,
but rather late in coming, she said.

“No I‘m not satisfied, but I’m
happy that one was placed on
there,” said Powers. “1 think there
should have been black people on
the task force before last week."

Powers said she is against the re-
cent proposal by the leaders of the
National Organization for Women
to form a third party, saying, “I
think we can work within the par-
ties.”

Powers began her speech talking
about the discrimination she experi-
enced during her youth. She was

See POWERS, Page 8

Forum

By ALLEN D. GREER
Staff Writer

The Kentucky Association of
Broadcasters is sponsoring a forum
on education Wednesday night to be
broadcast statewide from UK's Otis
A. Singletary Center for the Ans.

The program, which will be
broadcast live at 9 pm. by Ken-
tucky Educational Television and
WUKY-FM, will focus on issues
facing all levels of Kentucky educa-
tion, said KBA President Ed Hen-

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Fla-burning law

passed by House

By MICHAEL ROBINSON
Associated Press

WASHINGTON, DC. — The
House voted ﬁnal, overwhelming
approval yesterday for a federal ban
on flag burning, just four months
after a Supreme Court decision al-
lowing destruction of an American
flag as political protest.

“This is the least we can do to
protect the sanctity of the flag,”
Rep. Butler Derrick. D-S.C., said
before the House voted, 371—43, to
approve the bill,

However, President Bush and
many Republicans say Congress
must do more than pass a mere
statute, and the have been pressing
for a constitutional amendment to
outlaw ﬂag destruction or desecra-
tion. The Senate will take up that
issue next week.

Still, 154 Republicans joined
217 Democrats in supporting the
statutory ban yesterday, while only
18 Republicans and 25 Democrats
opposed it. The bill passed the Sen—

ate 91-9.

House Speaker Thomas S. Fo-
ley, D-Wash.. said he assumed
Bush would sign the measure into
law, despite his clear preference for
a constitutional amendment.

Bush said last week that a new
statute would not be adequate to get
around the Supreme Court decision,
which threw out the conviction of a
Texas flag burner.

The bill on its way to Bush
would revise existing federal law
and provide up to a year in jail and
a $1,000 fine for anyone who
“knowingly mutilates, defaces,
physically defiles, burns, maintains
on the ﬂoor or ground or tramples
upon any ﬂag of the United
States."

The one-sided votes in Congress
reﬂected the power of the flag as a
political symbol, as demonstrated
by a public outcry following the
Supreme Court decision in June.

Derrick told the House that the
court’s decision, throwing out the

See FLAG, page 8

SAB rejects appeal
of former candidate

By PAMELA MTCHELL
Staff Writer

Former homecoming candidate
Ashley Judd was denied an appeal
by the Student Activities Board
yesterday morning.

Judd, who was declared ineligible
by SAB Wednesday, said she ap-
pealed the decision to set the record
straight about the personal that ap-
peared in the Kernel Monday con-
gratulating her, the basis for her
disqualiﬁcation.

“The intention was to prove to
SAB the personal was neither com
petitive nor vindictive.“ Judd said.

SAB President Michael Bowling
said the board denied the appeal be-
cause it felt that was the bt‘s‘l way
to avoid setting a conflicting prece-
dent for the board.

“The rule was broken and it
would have really taken away a lot
of credibility from the whole thing
(homecoming committee‘s ef-
forts)," Bowling said

Bowling said he heard the appeal
to give Judd a chance to make her
statement, but his hands were tied
when it came to making the ﬁnal
decision.

“1 just wanted to clear everything
up." he said.

Bowling wrote Judd a letter in—
fonning her of the board's decrsion
and apologized for any inconven-
ience it may have caused her or
Kappa Kappa Gamma soronty. the
organization who sponsored her.

Bowling also encouraged Judd to
participate in the homecoming ac-
tivities.

But Judd is unsure if she wrll go
to the game tomorrow.

“I'll go to Yell Like Hell, that‘s
fun," Judd said. “I always feel like
a pan of something greater (when
attending campus activities)."

Amy Butz, SAB royalty chairper—
son, said she thought the appeal
was turned down because the board
probably didn't want to set the
precedent of making exceptions to
the. rule.

to focus on state’s education system

About 150 students, teachers,
school administrators and people in
the audience will share their views
on education with a panel of gov-
emment, education and business
leaders

The panel members are former
Kentucky Gov. Bert T. Combs;
state Senate President Pro Tem
John A. “Eck” Rose; state Rep.
Kenny Rapier; UK President David
Roselle; 1985 National Teacher of
the Year Shirleen Sisney; and Capi-
tal Holding Corp. executive Jim
Bonner.

Program to stress education as a continuum

Henson said the program is
meant to raise Kentuckians’ con-
sciousness about the condition of
the state's education system and of-
fer some solutions.

“Even though you‘ve heard a lot
about education, and the papers
have covered it fairly well, if you
went out and asked the average per-
son what our problems are and

what some possible solutions are.
I'm not sure if they‘d really know,"
Henson said. “We hope that this
show will provide information to
people and help focus in on posi-
tive solutions.”

Issues to be addressed during the
hour-long broadcast include educa—
tion’s role in economic develop-
ment, funding in higher education,

and budgetary concerns for primary
and secondary education in the
state.

Combs said Tuesday that he is
deeply concerned about the condi-
tion of the state’s education sys-
tem.

“The state of education in Ken-
tucky makes you ashamed to be a
Kentuckian," Combs said. “We are
absolutely last in most of the cate—
gories considered in rating (school
systems).“

Combs has been at the forefront
of primary and secondary education

reform since he filed a lawsuit
against the state in 1985 on behalf
of 66 poor school districts.

The lawsuit alleged that Ken-
tucky’s system of financing pri-
mary and secondary education was
unconstitutional because it discrim-
inated against students in “property-
poor districts.“

Last J unc the Kentucky Supreme
Court agreed with Combs, declar-
ing the state's entire public school
system unconstitutional.

See EDUCATION, Page 8

By ELIZABETH WADE
Associate Editor

Following police cars like a fu-
neral procession. the Kappa Alpha
social fraternity loaded up the
boys in an old hearse and led the
rest of the sororities, fraternities
and queen candidates from Memo-
rial Coliseum to last night's
Wildcat Roar at Commonwealth
Stadium where UK fans cried for
the Cats to "bury the Knights"
(of Rutgers University).

“Last year we did really well in
homecoming and we just decided
to go for it this yea." said Todd
Vincent, KA‘s homecoming chair-
man.

“We didn‘t think it'd be any-

thing like this.“ he said, referring
to the more than 30 bodies
crammed onto the streamer
decked hearse, which was bor-
rowed from fraternity brother Todd
Vincent's father‘s funeral line.

About 2,000 students, parents
and UK supporters attended the
annual event along with the UK
Marching Band, the football team,
cheerleaders and comedian David
Naster to gear the 2-2 football
team up for tomorrow night.

“This was a hoot," said Naster,
who announced the winners of the
banner contest and the Yell Like
Hell contest. “This was most im-
pressive. I‘ve never seen a school
so academically inclined.

“1 think it's neat everyone came

together for spirit and fun," he
said. “The only other school I've
seen like this is Texas A &M."

Naster said he was upset with
fratemities that cheered about get-
ting drunk. The fraternities who
yelled those cheers included Pi
Kappa Alpha.

“It was just fun except for the
fraternity guys when it's supposed
to be a cheer and all they do is
joke about being drunk," he said.

Despite the negative cheers of
some groups, Student Activities
Board President Michael Bowling
said he was satisﬁed with the turn
out. but he said he wished more
students and fans from the com-

See FANS, Page 3

More than 2,000 show spirit at Wildcat Roar

The Wildcat mascot rides on a firetruck during last night's home-

coming parade.

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Nation still feeling
impact of Volcker

By ADAM SCHOFl
USA TODAY/Apple College
lnlormation Network

Last week marked 10 years since
a 51-year-old, 6-foot-7-inch, cigar-
smoking banker altered the course
of the nation and laid the founda-
tion for today‘s continuing eco-
nomic boom.

Paul Volcker, who had become
chairman of the Federal Reserve
Board just four months earlier.
changed the way the govemment
fights inﬂation.

The dramatic shift in policy ~
the Fed gave up trying to control
interest rates and switched to con-
trolling the supply of money —
was announced to an unsuspecting
world on Saturday, Oct. 6, 1979.

The effects were awesome. Inter-
est rates and unemployment
soared. The country plunged into a
severe recession.

But the day marked the first ma-
jor attack against an inﬂationary
spiral that threatened to get out of
control.

Most economists applauded the
move, while the public paid little
attention. News reports gave more
play to the one percentage point
increase in the Federal Reserve’s
lending rate to banks than to the
major policy switch.

In 1979 the country’s economic
picture was bleak. The central
bank prior to the change believed a
certain level of interest rates would
control demand and bring the econ-
omy back to an even keel.

But that policy wasn’t working.
The reason: Business believed
more inﬂation was inevitable. The
attitude was borrow now before
more inflation pushed rates higher.
But the borrowing binge only
sucked more money into the sys-
tem.

More money meant more inﬂa-
tion, and that meant higher inter-

est rates. It was a difficult spiral to
stop. Meanwhile, ﬁnancial markets
and foreign nations were losing
faith that the Federal Reserve had
any control over the U.S. econo«
my. The dollar was plunging.

“The idea was to do something
that would convince the market-
place and the people that we could
control inﬂation." said Stephen H.
Axilrod, then staff director of mon-
etary policy at the Fed. “It de-
stroyed inﬂation and the inﬂation
psychology. lt restored the credibil-
ity of the Federal Reserve."

When Volcker took over in Au-
gust. he told Axilrod he wanted to
focus on money supply and expect-
ed to make some changes by the
end of the year. according to Joseph
R. Coyne. staff assistant to the
board. “Things were getting
worse,” Coyne said.

Interest rates, especially on bor-
rowing for less than a year, seemed
to be out of control. A three-month
Treasury Bill that yielded 9.5 per-
cent in September 1979 soared to
15.2 percent by the end of March
1980. The prime rate — the rate at
which banks would lend to their
most creditworthy customers —
leapt from 13.5 percent on Oct. 6
to 20 percent at the end of April.

Rates became much more vola-
tile. The Fed expected interest rates
to climb. Focusing on the money
supply and letting the marketplace
determine rates effectively allowed
it to raise rates and avoid the politi-
cal heat, said John H. Hagens, vice
president of U.S. services for the
WEFA Group, a prominent center
for economic study.

Axilrod said avoiding the respon-
sibility was not the Fed‘s goal.
“But that‘s in effect what hap-
pened," he said.

The economy proved as cumber-
some and as slow to change direc-
tion as an oil tanker. For the first
two years at least, it continued to

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Coast Guard most selective
college, according to study

USA TODAY/Apple College
lnlormatlon Network

The U.S. Coast Guard Academy
is the nation's choosiest college.

The 921-student academy in New
London, Conn., accepted only 9
percent of its applicants this year to
rise to the top of Gannett News
Service’s annual list of most selec-
tive schools.

it‘s an honor that rotated for the
past three years between the U.S.
Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md.,
and the Military Academy in West
Point, NY.

The 1989 Choosiest College list
grows to 52 schools, up one from
lmt year.

To make the list a college must
accept fewer than half its applicants
and have a freshman average of at
least 1200 on the Scholastic Apti-
tude Test. The Coast Guard histori-

cally has accepted a small percent-
age of applicants, but its SAT aver-
age has been below 1200.

The average climbed gradually,
however. from 1 189 four years ago
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Norm Whitehurst said.

The Coast Guard is becoming
more popular. because “it's a hu-
manitarian service, not a combat
service," Whitehurst said.

Selectivity does not measure aca—
demic quality, but the odds against
an applicant being accepted. It’s a
rating that ﬂuctuates with a
school’s popularity among high
school seniors.

Connecticut College, also in
New London, Conn.. also joins the
choosiest list for the first time. So
do Colby College and Bates Col-
lege in Maine and Occidental Col—
lege in Los Angeles.

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of the late 1970s.

By 1982, Volcker’s tight money
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But inﬂation dropped to 6 percent
in 1982 and to 3 percent the next
year. The cost of cutting inﬂation
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he never expected the cost would be
so high. But the ﬂip side was that
the severe recession allowed inﬂa-
tion to be cut sooner.

Others at the Fed were surprised
by the severity of the recession.

The legacy of the Fed’s move is
the longest peace-time expansion
of the U.S. economy, Harris said.
Hagen says without the move the
recession wouldn’t have been as
bad. but inﬂation would be much
higher now, around 7 percent.

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