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PRIDAYKENTUCKY

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November 7, 2003

Celebratin 32 ears of indelendence

Keg ordinance ready for formal vote

ﬁrst reading goes through with little voiced opposition,
DeCamp says tagging not targeted at college students

Ryan Garrett
STAFF WRITER

Students voiced little dis-
sent at the Lexington-Fayette
Urban County Council meet-
ing last night. As a result, an
ordinance requiring the ur-
ban county administrator to
tag all kegs containing six or
more gallons of malt bever-
age purchased or consumed
in Fayette County is on its

way to a formal vote.

After the ﬁrst reading of
the ordinance, Student Gov-
ernment President Rachel
Watts thanked the council
for their willingness to listen
to students, but also told
them that the students still
do not support the ordi-
nance.

Watts said students be-

lieve laws already in place to
prevent underage drinking

are sufﬁcient and the pro-
posed ordinance is just an
additional burden on people
who may not be breaking
any of those laws.

SG Senator Braphus
Kaalund also spoke before
the council.

“1 did find out that the
attorney general of the state
can render an advisory opin-
ion to the council," Kaalund
said. “I ask that the council
write to the attorney general
for an advisory opinion on
this to resolve matters of le-
gality."

The legal matters of the

ordinance are disputable,
Kaalund said. since Bowling
Green is the only other city
in the state to enact a similar
ordinance.

Some council members
said they hoped students’
concerns had been addressed
and resolved at the forum
hosted by 86 Monday night.

“I think there was a lot of
important discussion at Mon-
day’s forum,” said council-
man Dick DeCamp, who rep
resents the city's third dis-
trict. including UK‘s campus.

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Bernard juggles books
and ball in his busy day

By Jeff Patterson
ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR

Chris Bernard unfolds
his Office Space ﬁlm analy-
sis paper, then looks over
his shoulder to see what
grade his roommate, Ka-
maal Ahmad, received.

Ahmad laughs.

“Unbelievable, "
Bernard says. “Oh well."

Unfazed by Ahmad’s
higher score, Bernard jokes
around with Elly Wain-
scott, an integrated strate-
gic communications senior.

After returning papers
to her students, UK profes~
sor Melody Carswell contin-
ues teaching her 10 am.
business psychology class
Wednesday.

Bernard, an economics
senior and UK football wide
receiver, writes, “Elly
stinks," on her Kernel En-
tertainment Guide.

Then he waves it for his
classmates to see. Embar-
rassed. she knocks his
arms down.

They share a laugh and
go back to taking notes on
cognitive performance tests.

10:50 am

Class ends.

Bernard uses his um-
brella as a cane and goes
down two ﬂights of stairs
in the Whitehall Classroom
Building.

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Pharmacy staff member
teaches swing dancing

By Robin Pearce
CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Mike Richardson
promised his wife 20 years
ago that he would learn
how to dance.

He ﬁnally had the time
to make good on his
promise after retiring from
the military and going to
work for UK.

“We like to get together
and dance to good music."
said Richardson, a program
coordinator in the College
of Pharmacy

The Richardsons loved
the music of the ‘305 and
‘408. but Lexington didn‘t
have anywhere to take
lessons, so they taught
themselves.

They would watch old
movies. teaching videos 7—
anything to see the moves
and steps. he said. The cou-
ple would go to swing dance
workshops across the coun-
try, with classes during the

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day and dances at night.

It took about a year be-
fore the couple was com-
fortable dancing in public.
be said.

Richardson said he had
to learn to love to dance,
but his wife was a natural
dancer.

“Girls are naturally in-
clined to dance," said his
wife. Mary Richardson.
“They grow up dancing
around their bedrooms
with their hairbrush."

After mastering the ba-
sics, the couple transi-
tioned into teaching.

Now, four years after
the couple ﬁrst took up
swing dancing. they teach
it to UK students once a
week.

“He‘s worked really
hard — not only to become
a good dancer but being
able to teach it to someone
else." Mary Richardson

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published this week in The Lancet medical journal. found
that even though improvements could not be detected by doc-

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the Franklin County attorney' 3 office alleging that Bennett
struck him in the face. caused his nose to bleed and tore his
shirt. Bennett. a former star at the University of Kentucky,
was suspended the next day. Bennett expressed regret and re
morse for the incident in a statement release Thursday “If
there was ever a time when I wish the hands of time could be
turned back. it is right now," Bennett said. Top assistant Tom
Patterson was named interim coach. Ramsey would not com-
ment on whether Bennett would receive a severance package
from the university. citing possible litigation. Bennett, who
had a 44-43 record in three seasons, was a former Mr. Basket-
ball from Male High School in Louisville. He starred at Ken-
tucky from 1983-88. played professionally. then returned to
UK to work on its broadcast crew and as an assistant coach.
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the nickel is getting two new looks next year. One design will
feature clasped hands of friendship between the US. govern-
ment and American Indians and the second will show Lewis
and Clark on a keelboat. Thomas Jefferson will stay on the
“heads" side. The new nickels unveiled Thursday by the US.
Mint commemorate the bicentennial of the 1803 Louisiana
Purchase and the 1804-1806 Lewis and Clark expedition. The
commemorative themes will replace the image of Jefferson's
home. Monticello, now on the back of the coins. The current
design was introduced in 1938. The first of the new nickels
will roll out in the spring. The back of the coin will bear the
words “United States of America." “Louisiana Purchase"
and “1803." There is an image of hands clasped in friendship
—-— one with a military cuff to symbolize the US. govern-
ment. and the other with an ornate bracelet to represent
American Indians. Above the clasped hands is a tomahawk
crossed by a peace pipe. The images are similar to those on
Jefferson Peace Medals. which were presented ceremonially
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Trial for Somerset sheriff ’s murder under way

ASSOCIATED NBS

SOMERSET. Ky. —
The alleged mastermind
of a plot to murder Sher-
iff Sam Catron was a co-
caine dealer who wanted
to get one of the front-line
leaders in the war on
drugs out of the way, the
prosecutor in the case
said Thursday

Commonwealth's At-
torney Eddy Montgomery
said in his opening state-
ment that Kenneth White,
56, went so far as to show
the triggerman where to
hide to get the best shot.
White is charged with
complicity to murder in
the April 13. 2002, killing
of the Kentucky sheriff.

Montgomery said
White recruited Danny
Shelley, a drug-addicted
ex~Marine, to shoot
Catron with a 25.06-cal-
iber Remington riﬂe.

“Kenneth White is a
murderer just the same as

if he had pulled that trigger,"
Montgomery said.

Catron. 48, a soft-spoken
man who lived with his el-
derly mother, was a well-
known enemy of drug traf-
ﬁckers. He earned his pilot’s
license so he could ﬂy a heli-
copter to search for marijua-
na ﬁelds in the rolling farm-
lands and wooded hills of
Pulaski County.

Catron was shot minutes
after delivering a campaign
speech at a volunteer ﬁre de-
partment in Shopville. A sin-
gle bullet fired from about 80
yards away killed the sheriff.
said Kentucky State Police
Detective Todd Dalton.

Prosecutors contend the
killing was the culmination
of a plot masterminded by
White to get the heavily fa-
vored Catron out of the race.

Two others, including
Shelley, already entered
guilty pleas in the case and
are expected to testify
against White in the trial

that began Thursday morn-

Jeff Morris. a former
deputy of Catron's who was
also a candidate for sheriff.
and Shelley, who was helping
in Morris’ campaign. were
sentenced to life in prison
without the possibility of pa-
role for 25 years. They have
said that White came up with
the plan to kill Catron and
that they went along with it
because they were afraid of
him.

Defense attorney David
Hoskins said White‘s in-
volvement with Morris and
Shelley was to help in the
campaign. which he became
involved in because Morris
had once responded to a fam-
ily emergency when he was
working as a deputy.

“This is something that
Jeff Morris and Danny Shel-
ley cooked up,“ Hoskins said.

However. Montgomery
said it was White who
planned the shooting. going

so far as to show Shelley
where he should hide to wait
for an opportunity to shoot
Catron.

Hoskins. in his opening
statement, said Shelley was a
drug dealer and drug runner
who often bragged about his
marksmanship abilities

Detective Todd Dalton,
the ﬁrst witness called
Thursday morning, used
graphic photographs to de-
scribe the murder scene. One
showed Catron‘s body cov-
ered with a sheet.

Catron‘s mother. 87-year-
old Jennie Rachel Catron.
wiped tears as other family
members tried to shield her
eyes from the photographs.

Shelley‘s mother. Lillian
Shelley, testified that she did-
n‘t know her son was in-
volved in drugs.

“I knew he was taking
trips." she said. “but I didn't
know what for.“

The trial will resume
Friday morning.

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“We had good discus-
sions from Alcoholic Bever-
age Control and other sup
porters," DeCamp said.
“They explained their posi-
tion clearly and there was a
better understanding
reached."

Students have expressed

concern over potential loop-
holes in the ordinance. such
as an underage person ar-
riving at a party intoxicat—
ed. DeCamp said most of
those questions were an-
swered as well.

Watts, however, was not
so certain.

“I don‘t feel like there
was an answer posed to
every concern that students
had,” she said. “I hope if
they are going to pass (the
ordinance), it is passed with

the intent of enforcing it
fairly. as far as questions
that are not answered in the
ordinance."

DeCamp said it was the
residents he represents who
originally conceived the or-
dinance.

“Some constituents
were concerned and asked if
I would bring the idea be-
fore a committee," he said.
“And the committee voted
unanimously to bring the
idea before the council,

which agreed to put it on
the docket for a ﬁrst read-
ing.“

The council and ordi-
nance supporters said the
ordinance was not created
to target students.

“The purpose of this or-
dinance is to put on notice
those who are of age that
they are not to buy kegs for
use by people underage,”
DeCamp said.

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said.

At a local swing dance,
they met the Hepkats, UK’s
Swing Dance Club.

The club was just start-
ing out, so Mike and his
wife Mary began to teach
them what they had
learned.

“(Mike) took us from a
small but strong group to
an organization that does
more than just dance,” said
Ryan Grogan, vice presi-
dent of the Hepkats and a
mechanical engineering ju-
nior.

The club not only
works on their dance steps
but also works with com-
munity organizations — es-
pecially those dance clubs
that are just starting out.

“He‘s so generous with

his time and he is deﬁnitely
dedicated to the students.
Even outside the club, he
and his wife are willing to
do anything to help us."
said Kim Delaney. president
of the Hepkats and agricul-
tural biotechnology junior.

Richardson believes
anyone can learn to dance.

“It‘s not hard. it's just
different." he said.

The trick: learn the ba-
sics, he said.

“Dancing is nothing

more than walking put to
good music." Richardson
said.

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The upscale student-run
restaurant offers students.
faculty and staff a healthy
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fare.

With a staff comprised
of 10 students working in
this semester’s quantity
foods production class. the
restaurant is open from noon
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The restaurant is a com-
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then called the Lemon Tea
'lnom, and served light meals
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Room evolved into the stu-
dent-staffed Lemon Tree.

The Lemon Tree offers
complete meals with a vari-
ety of healthy options.

“The meal always in-
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eral different entrees," said
Maggie Cook-Newell, instruc-
tor of the quantity foods pro-
duction class. “We always
have vegetarian options, meat
entrees with two sides and
bread that is usually baked
here.“ Two choices of dessert
are also offered.

Since the students are all
working to be registered di—
eticians, nutrition re-
searchers, or going into the
hospitality or tourism ﬁelds,
Cook-Newell said nutrition is
an essential factor in plan-
ning meals.

“We look at the nutrition
value of our meals and try to
balance it so that if we serve
a heavy appetizer, we have a
light dessert,” Cook-Newell
said. “We modify things to
meet nutritional needs.“

Patty Otis, food service
manager for the Lemon Tree
and Block & Barrel, both lo-
cated in Erikson Hall, said
the restaurant provides
healthy, accurate servings.

“Portion sizes are true
lunch portions," she said. “It
is three ounces of meat, four
ounces of potatoes and four
ounces of vegetables. It is
not like going to a restaurant
and eating double or triple
the correct portion size.”

Hospitality management
senior Candice Bailey said
the Lemon Tree offers more
nutritional value than any
other place on campus.

“We offer a variety of
foods that are nutritious. and
with every meal you get a
salad or soup and vegeta-

Culinary expertise

UK dietetlcs major Chris Boyd prepares Kentucky hot browns at the Lemon Tree in Erikson Hall. The hot

browns were prepared for a special Kentucky Derby-themed lunch.

bles,” Bailey said.
Meals vary from their

popular Greek meal to “com-
fort foods.”

“(Our customers) want
us to do something different
and a little more exciting,"
Bailey said. “They come here
to get something different.
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New leaders should fund KEES

The Kentucky Education Excellence Scholar-
ship, known as KEES, provided more than $58
million to more than 56,000 college students for
the 2002-2003 ﬁscal year, according to a report re-
leased by lawmakers earlier this week. But many
of these students could have to look for other
means of ﬁnancing their education and new stu-
dents could just be out of luck completely Unless
some serious changes are made, funding for the
program is projected to fall short.

For the 20052006 year, KEES needs $69 million,
but the need is projected to exceed the funding
available by $3.3 million, or ﬁve percent. For stu-
dents who rely on that money, it’s a scary thought.

KEES makes a big impact on which students
come to UK from in-state high schools. First
granted in 1999. KEES gives ﬁnancial aid to Ken-
tucky students who choose to further their educa-
tion in-state. Awards are based on academic
achievement and ACT scores.

“I already knew I was going to college.“ said
one student in a recent Kernel article. “but it had
some leverage on making me stay in the state.”

state funding has become increasingly important
to students as the cost of higher education rises.
KEES is a unique program because it's funded en-
tirely by net proﬁts from the Kentucky Lottery.
The Kentucky Lottery Corporation is not allowed
to advertise this, however:

The president of the corporation, Arch Glea-
son, has testiﬁed before the Subcommittee on
Postsecondary Education that marketing surveys
show people would be more likely to participate
in the lottery if they knew where the money was
going. Advertising that the money helps college
students would seem to be one easy thing law-
makers could work on to help. We would also like
to see more research done into the possibility of
using taxes. like a cigarette tax. to help. It’s time
we all get serious about our futures and those fu-
tures start with education.

During the political races that ended with the
elections this week, almost every candidate in al-
most every race mentioned education as a priori-
ty. Now that they have been elected. it’s time they
get serious about making good on their promises.

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Bush bashing won't serve Democrats In the end

T h i s
year's elec~
tion cam-
paign gave
voters in
Kentucky
a preview
of some of
the issues
slated to
be debated
hotly in
next year's

presidential election.

The economy was ar-
guably the biggest issue.
Kentucky’s loss of 67000
jobs was a focal point of the
campaigns. Attorney Gen-
eral Ben Chandler blamed
Rep. Ernie Fletcher. who in
turn blamed Gov. Paul Pat-
ton for the state of the
ecodomy."

In next year‘s presiden-
1ial race. there is no doubt
that the economy will be

Hie key domestic issue. De-
aocratic presidential can-
ﬂlidates hav less than a
‘qeario comfice the Ameri-
canpublict at they can do
Qietter than Bush.

Though these candi-
dates don't realize it. they

have made a series of ama-
r campaign decisions
d policy stances.

Some Democrats are
telling constituents that
this is the ,worst etonomy
since the Great Depression.
However. they have conve-
niently left out several

facts. Unemployment num-
bers. while higher than in
previous years. were actual-
ly higher in the late 19705
under Jimmy Carter.
Currently. the economy
is expanding. with the
strongest gains for a quar-
ter since 1984. in a situation
similar to the current one.
Ronald Reagan cut taxes at
the beginning of his first
term. as did George W.
Bush. According to some
economists, jobs are the
lagging factor. If unemploy-
ment rates begin to recede
before next year's election.
then Democrats will lose
credibility on this issue.
With the war on terror
and the war in Iraq. it is ob-
vious that many question
the President’s decision
even though most of the
Democratic candidates are
senators that voted in favor
of last fall‘s resolution to
authorize military action.
Whether one agrees
with those accusations or
not. none of them are con-
structive criticisms. When
he visited UK. former
South African President
PW. de Klerk said that the
US. needed to stop bicker
ing about the decision to go
to war and decide what
needs to be done to secure
democracy in Iraq.
Democrats argue that
the United States should
not have acted unilaterally.

should relinquish control
to the UN. have found no
weapons of mass destruc-
tion and have done little to
help the Iraqis.

However. the United
States has rebuilt Iraq's in-
frastructure, including over
1.000 schools. back to pre-
war levels. or in some cas-
es. better. The United States
did try to enlist U.N help in
the war, but did not get it.
But we‘ve since put togeth-
er a coalition of 37 other
countries to help in Iraq.

President Bush has said
that we must hold to our
promise and not back out of
Iraq. Many political scien~
tists believe that Saddam
and many terrorists have
studied Vietnam as a US.
policy failure and seem to
believe the United States
will lack the willpower to
carry out its foreign policy.
as we did in Vietnam.

By securing a democra-
tic government in Iraq, we
could be making an invest-
ment in world peace. as no
two democracies have ever
gone to war with one anoth-
er. If we fail to do this. we
could very well be attempt-
ing to once again police an
uncooperative government
that ignores the plight of
its citizens.

Democrats need to seri-
ously consider the issues
and stop carelessly throw-
ing around negative

rhetoric. Its not going to
get us anywhere.

Campaign tactics tie
into this. Negative cam-
paigning turns off voters.
We‘ve known this for a
while. but for some reason
politicians are too worried
that if their opponents do
it. they must retaliate to
avoid losing the race. So far.
President Bush has re-
mained above this. even
shrugging off comments by
Sen. Ted Kennedy. who
called Bush a liar.

Part of the appeal of
challengers over incum-
bents is that they are fresh
and have new ideas. Never
before have presidential
candidates actively cam-
paigned so early. These can-
didates have debates on TV
every week. They should
start a TV series. This lack
of novelty may cause candi-
dates to peak too early and
cost them the race.

If Democrats want to
win in 2004. they need to
stop telling the public
what‘s wrong and give vot-
ers a vision of what they
believe is right for this
country. and they need to
consider whether they‘re
playing all their cards
too early.

Andrew Martin is a journalism
We. Ila can be reached

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MTOTHEEDITOR

Legal pain pill users
treated as criminals

I feel compelled to express myself regarding an issue
that continues to affect me. and thousands of others like
me. every day I am alive. That issue is chronic pain and
the stigma attached to those of us who have been pre-
scribed narcotic drugs such as Hydrocodone or Oxycontin
to help us deal with our pain.

1 have had two ruptured discs in my lower back and a
discectomy to relieve one of them. I was given epidural
shots of steroids which caused a rare disease. Osteonecro
sis. which is a rare side effect of large doses of steroids. I
then had to have both of my hips replaced in order to keep
from having to be in a wheelchair. I am 29 years old and
have been dealing with chronic pain for seven years.

I have been taking prescribed narcotics daily for two
and a half years. I have a physical dependence on them. I
have had numerous other pain management therapies that
help. but do not provide the relief of the pain meds. I have
found that a combination of all the therapies and the meds
works best. Yet when I go to get my prescription ﬁlled, or
move to a new area like I have done recently and change
doctors. I am treated as if I am a criminal. I did not ask for
the injuries and disease that I have had to endure. I actual-
ly need the medicine I take. and yet I am made to feel like I
am lying about my pain or am making up problems to get
the meds. It doesn‘t help that I have long hair, several ear
rings and a beard. which combine to ﬁt a stereotype of
what many think of as someone who abuses drugs.

In reality I am an unemployed professional Customer
Service Manager and a full time “house husband” and
graduate student. I am appalled at the unsympathetic atti-
tude of the medical community to those of us who have le-
gitimate problems. We are often put on trial and given the
third degree everywhere we go. I understand the problem,
but I also feel that “innocent until proven guilty" has some
merit.

If you are in the medical profession and you read this,
please remember that there are those of us who have to
live in severe pain every day and are not “addicts."

CHAD'ICK SEAGRAVES
chmcton

Big business gets off easy;
time for corporate tax hike

The Democratic Party has enjoyed
bashing the Bush administration for its
uncomfortably close ties to Halliburton,
Harkin and Enron. Article after article
has alleged that this regime has had the
closest ties to Corporate America since
Calvin Coolidge and William McKinley,
two presidents from America