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By Alan Aja
Staff Writer

 

The selection of campus food
will become a little sweeter in the
1994-95 academic year, especially
for students who live on South
Campus.

UK Food Services and the Physi-
cal Plant Division have combined
for a new project to renovate Kir-
wan-Blanding Complex Commons
food services, Assistant Director of
Food Services Carol Ratz said.

Commons, which is currently un-
dergoing renovations in the first of
two phases at the basement sewing
facility, will offer a greater variety
of foods and additional serving
spaces.

to spice up food fare

Officials with the project have
contacted Baskin-Robbins, Ben and
Jerry's and Graeter‘s ice cream.
Also contacted were TCBY yogurt
and fast food chains such as Rally's
and Burger King. None have signed
or confu'med any deals with the
project, but officials say they are
working on it.

One fast-food chain which has
confirmed, Long John Silver's, will
open his fall along with phase one
of the project. It will offer a lighter
side menu than the one currently lo-
cated in the food court of the Stu-
dent Center.

Other UK food services also will
be available. The Grill, which is lo-
cated on the upper level of the
Commons, will be moved down-

stairs as part of phase one of the
renovation process.

Another reason for the renovation
process is that “it’s difficult to keep
28-year-old equipment functioning
properly,“ Ratz said. “We will fi-
nally have the equipment to match
the expanded menu with additional
hot-food serving spaces."

The cost of the renovation comes
from funds in an auxiliary services
account from housing and food ser-
vices ,which has been budgeted for
a few years, Ratz said. She did not
comment on the estimated cost of
the renovation.

One-half of the Commons food
area is closed for the renovation and
workers will be working into the
summer for it's opening in August.

Third finalist visits Friday

Medical center candidate says
health reform is top priority

 

By Jennifer Wleher
Staff Writer

 

The final candidate for chancellor
of UK’s Albert B. Chandler Medi-
cal Center met with UK officials on
Friday to discuss his plans for the
center.

James L. Holsinger Jr., the cur-
rent director of the Veterans Affairs
Medical Center in Lexington, said
the key issue facing the medical
center is health-care reform on both
state and national levels.

The practice of clinical health
care will change in the future, Hol-
singer said.

If selected, Holsinger said he will
prepare UK for the effects of
health-care reform.

An important issue will be how to
provide quality health care for all
people in Kentucky, he said.

“I want to prepare the medical
center for that change in the prac-
tice.”

UK President Charles Wething-
ton said about 150 people were
nominated or applied for the chan-
cellor’s position.

Holsinger is one of three finalists
being considered to replace Dr. Pe-
ter Bosomworth, the acting director
of the medical center.

Dr. Jordan Cohen, dean of the UK
College of Pharmacy, and Richard
Allan DeVauI, vice president for
health affairs and executive director
of the Health Science Center at
Texas A&M University, are the oth-

er two candi-
dates being con-
sidered for the
post.

They met
with UK offi-
cials last week.

“Clearly, the
~ quality of the
HOLSINGER candidates re-

quired careful de-
liberation before arriving at these
three outstanding finalists,“ Weth-
ington said.

Holsinger served as undersecre-
tary for health at the Veterans
Health Administration in Washing-
ton prior to coming to Lexington.

He holds a doctorate in anatomy
and physiology and an MD. from
Duke University.

Holsinger also has a master‘s de-
gree in hospital financial manage-
ment from the University of South
Carolina.

    

 

 

By Perry Brothers
Staff Writer

 

A melancholic irony pervaded
the message embodied in Friday
evening’s presentation of Tibetan
monastic music and dance.

In an effort to promote world

peace, 10 members of the Dre-
pung Loseling Monastery per-
formed “Sacred Music, Sacred
Dance" for a capacity crowd in
UK’s Memorial Hall.
Ironically, the performers are as
much if not more in critical need
of spiritual peace and healing as
anyone in their audiences.

Currently exiled from their na-
tive Tibet, members of the mo-
nastic order have suffered from

 

 

 

 

Two members of the Drepung Loseling Tibetan Monastery play the gyallng horns Thursday
at the Headley-Whltney Museum. They wlll perform at UK tonight at 8.

Monks me smerize UK
with music for the soul

political persecution since the
1959 Chinese occupation of their
homeland.

The Chinese government's
genocide against the people of Ti-
bet threatens to extinguish the tra-
ditional Tibetan monastic. Al-
ready more than 1.2 million
Tibetans have died, and thou-
sands more have been placed in
concentration camps.

Remarkably, no trace of sad-
ness existed in the performance
itself. An overwhelming positivi-
ty emanated from the smiling fac-
es of the monks as they offered
demonstrations of centuries-old
music, dancing and a sample of a
Tibetan debate.

Merging multi-phonic singing,

MKS Worn“ Staff

in which three notes of a chord
are simultaneously produced by
each vocalist, with primitive in-
struments, the colorfully cos-
tumed monks saturated the audi-
torium with exotic, unearthly
music using no mechanical am»
plification.

Prior to the performance,
Glenn Mullins, a Tibetologist
who coordinated the tour, ex-
plained the symbolism of the sa-
cred music and dance, and intro-
duced the monks.

The two-part program began
with Nyert-Sen, an invocation of
the forces of goodness which bal-
ances the heavens and the mind,
Mullins said. This section fea-

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accepted Into UK's College of Architecture. More than 280 people took the exam Saturday.

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Speaker defines role
of space in societies

 

By Byl Hensley
Design Editor

 

As UK and Lexington spar over
the possible closing of Rose Street,
each vying for the other's power
along the boundary separating the
two, the words of visiting professor
Doreen Massey seemed especially
pertinent.

“The things that have been wor‘
rying me in recent years have been
the kinds of boundaries that we
draw in space and how we draw
them, the kinds of identities we
give to place and the way in which
we construct them.”

To understand Massey‘s concern
with geographical boundaries, sim-
ply turn to a news broadcast — eth-
nic cleansing in Bosnia-
Hemegovina, rising nationalism
throughout Europe, suburban se-

NATO checks for possible Serb attack on town

 

By Robert H. Held
Associated Press

SARAJEVO — A NATO jet
swooped over a besieged northern
town yesterday after Bosnian state
radio claimed Serb warplanes de-
stroyed a bridge in an attack similar
to the one that provoked NATO rc-
taliation.

 

With Serb troops barring access
to Maglaj, there was no way for
NATO or UN. officials to visit the
site to check the claim that planes

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attacked the Muslim-held town
about 40 miles north of Sarajevo.
But NATO officers raised ques-
tions about the report.

Squadron Leader John Jeffery, a
NATO spokesman in Naples, Italy,
said early warning aircraft did not
detect any air attack on Maglaj. “If
we had, we would have taken ac-
tion," he said.

Such a raid would be a flagrant
violation of the no-fiy zone im-
posed by the UN. Security Council
over Bosnia. It also would be a
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been patrolling the
zone since April
and has begun
showing a new re-
solve to act forci-
bly against warring
parties in' the for-
mer Yugoslav
Insane-m state.

Last Monday,
two US. Air Force F-16 fighters
shot down four Bosnian Serb fight-
er-bombers in central Bosnia that
UN. officials said were attacking
Bosnian government targets.

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A NATO official, speaking on
condition of anomymity, said visi-
bility was too poor when the two
bombing runs reportedly took place
for accurate attacks on a bridge.
NATO reconnaissance aircraft also
flew over the area around the time
the second bombing run was report-
ed but saw nothing, he said.

Bosnian Serbs ridiculed the Mus-
lim-led government's claim, accus-
ing the Bosnian army of faking an
air strike.

"There have been no (air) born-
bardmcnts of Maglaj,” said a state-

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ment from the Bosnian Serb mili-
tary in Banja Luka. “The so-called
Army of Bosnia-Herzegovina. fol-
lowing its old recipe, sets fire to
heaps of old tires, wishing to create
an impression of bombardment of
the town.”

Bosnian radio and neighboring
Croatia's HINA news agency said
Serb planes targeted Maglaj‘s only
bridge. which spans the Bosna riv-
er, and destroyed it. HINA said its
story wm based on reports from
ham radio operators in Maglaj.

See BOSNIA, Badt Page

cessions from the blight of inner
cities, the construction of walls
around affluent neighborhoods.

Massey, a geography professor
from Open University in Great
Britain, shared her concerns with a
capacity crowd Friday ll Patterson
Office Tower.

Her lecture, “Unbound Spaces,"
was the third of a sen-rs of five lec~
tures sponsored by the Committee
on Social Theory this spring.

Viewing geographic space as
something formed out of social in-
teractions rather than defined by
static boundaries or borders, Mas-
sey explained her attempts to
“think out a more progressive way
of thinking about place."

The largest problem facing such
a project, she said, is the wide-
spread desire to locate one's identi-

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Monday, 03/07

-Catho|ic Newman Center Daily
Mass Services: 12:10 p.m., 320
Rose Lane, Call 255-8566

-UK Judo Club: 5:30-6:00 p.m.,
Alumni Gym Loft, CALL 255-
2625

-Aikido Classes: 8:00 p.m., Alum-
ni Gym Loft, CALL 269-4305
-Women's History Month Lec-
ture: 'Recapturing Working-
Class Feminism: Union Women
in the Postwar Era', 4:00 p.m..
181h floor Patterson Office Tow-
er, CALL 257-1388

Tuesday, 03/08

-Money for College: presented
by the Student Financial Aid 01-
fice, 12:00 -1 :00 p.m., Old Stu-
dent Center. Center Theatre,
CALL 257-3172

-Public Relations Student Socie-
ty of America (PRSSA) Meeting:
7:00 p.m.. Grehan Journalism
Building, Maggie Room. CALL
255-8975

-UK College Republican Spring
Speaker Series: Senator Tim
Philpot Reviews the Kernel, 8:00
p.m., Student Center, Rm. 245.
FREE

-Cosmopolita| Club‘s Members
Meeting: 7:30 p.m., Student Cen-
ter. Rm. 359, CALL 323-7658
Wednesday, 03/09

-Holy Communion: St. Augus-
tine‘s Chapel, 12:00 8: 5:30 pm.
CALL 254-3726

-Aikido Classes: 8:00 p.m., Alum-
ni Gym Loft, CALL 269-4305
-UK Judo Club: 5:30-6:00 p.m.,
Alumni Gym Loft, CALL 269-
4305

lNlRAMURAl
SPORTS

Monday, 03I07

Double Elimination Soccer Tour-
nament play begins: games are
scheduled Mon-Thurs from 4:00
p.m.-7:00 p.m., Varsity Soccer
Field (cage). CALL 257-6584
Tuesday, 03I00

tation Meeting: 4:00 p.m.. Seaton
Center. CALL 257-6584

WM, cam

4:30 p.m., Seaton Center. CALL
257-6504

 

-lntramural Softball Officials Orien-

-Intramural Softball Officials Clinic:

    
   

-Women's History Month Film Se-
ries: 4:00 p.m., New Student Cen—
ter, Rm. 227

Department of Biochemistry Semi-
nars: "Control of Inducible Nitric
Oxide Synthase-Cytotoxic and An-
tiviral Effects”, 4:00 p.m., MN 463
—College of Communication Honor
Society Meeting: 5:30 p.m., Gre-
han Journalism Building, Rm. 224
-Student Government Association
Meeting: CALL 257-3191
Thursday, 03/10

-Catholic Newman Center: Student
Night (CN2); 320 Rose Lane, 7:30
p.m., CALL 255-8567

-Christian Student Fellowship
"Thursday Night Live" Praise Pro-
gram: 7:30 p.m., on the corner of
Woodland and Columbia, CALL
233-0313

-Campus Crusade for Christ; 7:30
p.m., Student Center, Small Ball-
room, FREE

Department of Biochemistry Semi-
nars: NMR CANDIDATE, 9:30
am, MN 263

Saturday, 03/1 2

-Aikido Classes: 4:00 pm, Alumni
Gym Loft, CALL 269-4305
-Catho|ic Newman Center Week—
end Mass Service: 320 Rose Lane,

6:00 p.m., CALL 255-8566
Sunday, 03/13

-Catholic Newman Center Week-
end Mass Services: 320 Rose
Lane, 9:00 8. 11:30 am, 5:00 8.
8:30 p.m., CALL 255-8566

Holy Communion: St Augustine's
Chapel, 10:30 am. & 5:30 p.m.,
CALL 254-3726

-Aikido Classes: Alumni Gym Loft,
1 :00 p.m., CALL 269-4305

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Monday, 03/07

-Lady Kats Basketball: SEC Tour-
nament, Chattanooga, TN
Wednesday, 03/09

-UK Women's Tennis vs Duke:
2:30 p.m., Boone Tennis Center
Thursday, 03/10

-UK Men's Basketball: SEC Tour-
nament, Memphis, TN (thru 03/
13)

Friday, 03/11

-UK Gymnastics vs Auburn, Wil-
liam & Mary, 8:00 p.m., Memorial
Coliseum

-UK Diving Team: Zone Diving
Meet, Auburn, Ala, All day (thru
03/13)

-UK Baseball vs Eastern Michi-
gan: 3:00 p.m., Lexington
Saturday, 03/12

DK Baseball vs Eastern Michi-
gan (DH): 1:00 p.m.. Lexington

 

 

 

All MOVIES

Monday, 03/07

-110KETS ON SALE!!! Tickets
for Next Stage Series: Martha Gra-
ham Dance Ensemble are on sale
at TicketMaster; general public,
students, faculty, and administra-
tion; CALL 257-8427
-EXH|B|T:.Maina_Muslamiaane-
lections from the Ogunquit Mu-
seum of American Art; UK Art Mu-
seum, Singletary Center for the

- Arts, Tuesday- Sunday 12: 00- 5: 00

p m.. CALL 257- 5716 (thru 03/27)
-EXH|B|T W
W Tuesday-
Sunday 12: 00-5: 00 p. m.. UK Art
Museum, Singletary Center for the
Arts, CALL 257- 5716 (thru 4/10)
“EXHIBIT Wins;
1880-1950, King Cultural Center.
Mon-Fri 10:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m. (thru

.. W Mi. King

Library. Peal Gallery (thru 03/31)
EXHIBIT: The Oswald Research
& Creativity Program: Rasdall Art
Gallery, Student Center, CALL
257-2918 (thru 03/11)

-EXH|BIT: College of Fine Arts
presents: Center for Contempo-
rary Art, Fine Arts Building, (thru 3
16)

Tuesday, 03/08

-College of Fine Arts presents UK
Orchestra, Chorale, and Choris-
tors; Philip Miller and Jefferson
Johnson. conductors. 8:00 p.m.,
Singletary Center for the Arts.
Concert Hall, FREE

- Women's History Month Film Se-
ries: "Women of Trinidad“, 4:00
p.m., New Student Center, Rm.
205, CALL 257-6856

-College of Fine Arts presents UK
Wind Ensemble: Richard Clary. di-
rector, 8200 p.m., Singletary Cen-
ter for the Arts, Concert Hall,
FREE

Friday, 03/11

Mid-Atlantic American College
Festival: Finale Performance, 8:00
p.m., Singletary Center for the
Ans. Recital Hall, Tickets are $8,
$5, and $1. CALL 257-4929
Saturday, 03/12

-SAB Next Stage Series: Martha
Graham Dance Ensemble, 8:00
p.m., Singletary Center for the
Arts. Concert Hall, Tickets are
$12. $10, and $7, CALL 257-8427

 

 

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SPECIAL
EVENTS

ZETA PHI BETA SORORITY,
INC: Finer Womanhood Obser-
vance

Monday, 02/28

-Sorority Tea: 6:00-8:00 p.m.,
Martin L. King Jr. Cultural Center,
Sunday Attire

Tuesday, 03/01

-Seminar: Looking Good, Fash-
ion Tips Given on Skin, Hair. and
Nails: 7:00-9:00 p.m., Commons
Rm. 307. prizes and make-overs
given

Wednesday, 03/02

-Bake Sale: 11:00 a.m.-2:00
p.m., Student Center Arcade
Area

-Interest Meeting: 7:00 p.m.,
Comntons Rm. 307, Sunday At-
tire

Thursday, 03/03

-First Annual Professional Wom-
en's Career Fair: 11:00 a.m.-4:00
p.m., Student Center Grand Ball-
room

Friday 03/04

-Blue-N-White Mixer for ZETAS
AND SIGMAS ONLY, Time and
location to be announced
Saturday, 03/05

-Community Service: 10:30 am,
TBA

-Zeta Jam: TBA

Sunday, 03/06

-Third Annual Finer Womanhood
Reception: 3:00-5:00 p.m., 18th
Floor Patterson Office Tower
FOR MORE INFO: 323-2064

 

 

talofSéOforbothdays.

morrow in the Student Center Small Ballroom.

someone is faced with an emergency.
For further information. contact the UK police 01257-5189.

Dance festival coming to UK

Dance Festival at UK, March 9 -12.

in 11 states, as well as a dozen dance professionals.

tucky.

reach, a program she created to bring dance to under-served audiences.
Other festival highlights:

Cost is $10 per class, $30 per day and $80 for all three days.

Conference on children’s literature next week

The School of Library and Information Science will hold its 27th annual McConnell Literature Confer-
ence on March 11 and 12 at the Radisson Hotel downtown. This year’s conference will feature award win-
ning author Virginia Hamilton, selected for the 1993 Arbuthnot Lecturer. Anthologist and poet Arnold
Adoff also will be featured. along with some of Kentucky's own children's authors.

Registration costs are $30. Friday’s banquet will cost $20, and the Saturday brunch will be $10 for a to-

For more information and/or a brochure on the conference. call 257-8876.

UK police to demonstrate new protection device
The UK Police Department will hold a demonstration of the Security Escort Personal Safety System to-

Representatives will be present from 8 am. to 4 pm. to view the latest technology in campus safety.
The new device, which weighs a little more than an ounce, immediately alerts University Police if

The device has safeguards against false alarms and an easy-to-use self-testing feature.

Gotta dance? Love to watch other dance? Either way, go to the Mid-Atlantic Region American College
The four-day event is expected to attract 400 students and 50 faculty from 35 colleges and universities

Hosted by UK's dance program in the department of kinesiology and health promotion. the festival will
include dozens of classes. student adjudications, formal and informal concerts and discussions on topics
ranging from increasing the dancer‘s longevity to new national standards of dzutce and the arts.

Among those teaching classes during the festival is Mzu'y Bruce Blackbum, 21 Lexington native and UK
graduate who founded the American Dance Ensemble. which is based dually in New York (‘ity and Ken-

In 1991, Blackburn was awarded the Al Smith Fellowship for choreography from the Kentucky Arts
Council. Her ensemble has performed and taught classes throughout rural Kentucky through Project Out-

°Fifteen daily classes taught by faculty and professionals will be offered in ballet, jazz, flamenco, im-
provisation, modern, ethnic and other dance styles. Classes will be in Barker Hall and the Seaton Center.

 

 

 

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The Student Development Council (SDC) is now
accepting applications for two $1,000 scholar-
ships.

Applicants must be currently enrolled fulltime
UK or LCC students who will be enrolled full-
time during the 1994—95 academic year.

Scholarships will be awarded on the basis of rea-
sonable academic success (minimum GPA of 2.5)
and service to the University as demonstrated
through campus involvement and leadership.

Pick up applications at the Sturgill Development

Building on Rose Street (next to the Chi Omega
house). Applications are due on Friday, March 11

Can SDC at 257-6288 for more information.

 

 

 

 

 

Spring-breaking
students killed
in car accident

Associated Press

 

 

SANIBEL ISLAND, Fla. — A
speeding rental car went into a skid
on a slight curve and flipped, kill-
ing three fraternity brothers and in-
juring two others on their final day
of spring break.

The car went into a 400-foot
skid, uprooted a tree, flipped and
landed upright against another tree
early Friday. police said.

All five students from Johnson &
Wales University in Providence,
R.1., were thrown from the new
Lincoln Town Car traveling 70
mph in a 35 mph zone on this Gulf
Coast resort island.

The group from Tau Kappa Epsi-
lon was scheduled to fly out later
Friday and be back at school today.

Two air bags deployed, but none
of the occupants were wearing safe-
ty belts. No drugs or alcohol were
found in the car. A blood sample
was taken from the driver, Mark
Sterner, but the results were not im-
mediately available.

Sterner, 22, was in serious condi-
tion Saturday at Lee Memorial
Hospital in Fort Myers, and Darren
Moll, 22. of Farmington, N.Y., was
released, said hospital spokeswom-
an Chris Nesheim.

Killed were James J. Smith, 23,
of Lindenhurst, N.Y.; Peter D.
Scott, 22. of West Islip, N.Y.; and
Aaron B. Ebbert, 24, of Amherst,
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Morehead president a fighter

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Associated Press

MOREHEAD, Ky. — More-
head State University President
Ronald Eaan has gained the re-
spect of many faculty and admin-
istrators by showing a willingness
to take on tough issues and speak
his mind.

The 53-year-old Eaglin will
need all the goodwill he can mus-
ter as he tackles the eastem Ken-
tucky school’s many problems
while holding a job that has had
considerable turnover in the past
decade.

Gary Cox, director of Ken-
tucky’s Council on Higher Educa-
tion, said Eaglin’s approach to
Morehead State's football pro-
gram is characteristic of his ap-
proach to management.

“He’s pretty straightforward
and he doesn’t spend a lot of time
complaining and griping — he
takes the bull by the horns,” said
Cox, 3 Morehead alumnus.

Eaglin wants to phase out the
school’s 63 scholarships by 1998,
to the great displeasure of coach‘

alumni. The board of regents will
consider Eaglin’s plan yesterday.

Cox and others said Eaglin sof-
tens his blows with a willingness
to listen and a Southem-style di-
plomacy honed at his last stop. as
chancellor of Coastal Carolina
University near Myrtle Beach,
SC.

So far, Eaglin has scored points
with his approach.

“He has passed his toughest
test, and that was to come in here
and become as well thought of as
quickly as he did," board Chair-
man William Seaton said.

“He has a very open, easy man-
agement style, but he says exactly
what he thinks."

Eaglin's popularity is notable
given the fate of the school’s last
outspoken president, Herb Rein-
hard, who was ousted by the
board in 1986.

Eaglin, Morehead’s founh pres-
ident in the last 10 years, will
need the support as he takes on
the school‘s considerable prob-
lems.

Morehead, like Kentucky’s oth-

budget crunch.

Some also grumble that Eaglin
is too willing to go along with
Gov. Brereton Jones' proposal for
“performance-based funding” of
Kentucky's universities.

Jones‘ plan would peg future
funding to improvements in 27 ar-
eas, including student graduation
rates and alumni satisfaction, rath-
er than to enrollment growth.

But the issue stirring the most
debate among faculty is Eaglin’s
proposal to start a merit system
for raises.

Supporters of merit pay note
that Morehead is the only one of
Kentucky‘s universities not to
have some sort of merit system in
place.

Opponents argue that More-
head, as an eastern Kentucky insti-
tution, is more rife with politics
that its sister colleges.

A merit system will merely
hand raises to political favorites,
they contend.

Students say Eaglin lost points
after his first general speech,
when he chastised members of the
audience for wearing baseball
caps.

Eaglin has something of a pater-
nal approach. students say.

He imposed a smoking ban in-

He tells teachers to step in when
they see a student loafing.

And so far, Eaglin has managed
to please another important east-
em Kentucky constituent; the lo-
cals.

Eaglin has joined economic de-
velopment groups, talked to
school superintendents, visited
high schools and met with mayors
and judge-executives in the 22
counties of Morehead’s service
area.

“He seems to be trying to show
a personal interest in our problems
and our students," said Frank
Hamilton, Johnson County school
superintendent.

“We feel we have a person at
Morehead we can communicate
with.”

Longtime observers of More-
head say Eaglin's affection for the
mountains reminds them of Adron
Doran, Morehead‘s longest-
lasting president.

“He doesn’t appear to me to be
an empire builder, but he seems
sincerely interested in finding
Morehead’s niche," said Cox, the
Council on Higher Education di.
rector.

"1 see a sense of purpose now at
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By Allison Fraser
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Members of the Thomas D. Clark
Foundation Inc. are launching a
campaign to raise money to publish
books about Kentucky.

The foundation, which hopes to
raise $3 million over the next five
years, will support the University
Press of Kentucky at UK. The foun-
dation is named for the Kentucky
historian laureate, who is said to be
the “father” of the University Press,
founded in 1968.

Kenneth Cherry, director of the
University Press, said books written
by Kentuckians or about Kentucky
will be published as a pan of this
drive.

The funding will come from com-
panies as well as private citizens.
Cherry said citizens will be contact-
ed by mail and may send in their
donations. Companies will be con-
tacted in person.

This project stems from the 1992

publication of the ”Kentucky Ency-
clopedia," a volume that cortalns
information on aspect of K-.;tucky.
Thiny-four thousand copies of the
encyclopedia already have been
sold. About 200 to 300 copies are
sold each month, Cherry said.

University Press, which is the
largest publisher in the world of
books about Kentucky and Appala-
chia, will publish all of the books in
this project.

“(The project) will provide Ken-
tucky with a voice," he said.

The types of non-fiction books
that will be published during this
drive will range from tomes about
everything from nature to architec-
ture. Fiction books written by au-
thors from Kentucky also will be
published.

Those interested may send con-
tributions to The Thomas D. Clark
Foundation Inc., University Press
of Kentucky. 663 South Limestone
St, Lexington, Ky. 405084008.

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