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University oi Kentucky. Lexington. Kentucky

Independent since 1971

Tuesday, March 6, 1990

21 chosen as prospective jurors for Poindexter trial

By PETE YOST
Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON -— Twenty—one people,
including a lawyer who worked for the
Bush presidential campaign, were chosen
prospective jurors yesterday as the selec-
tion process began for the lran-Contra trial
of former National Security Adviser John
Poindexter.

Pointlexter is charged with five felony
counts — one of conspiracy, two of ob-
structing Congress and two of making false
statements to congressional committees —

in connection with accusations that he cov-
ered up Oliver North‘s secret Contra resup-
ply network and lied about a 1985 ship-
ment of Hawk missiles to Iran.

He is the highest-ranking Reagan admin-
istration official to go on trial in the lran-
Contra affair.

US District Judge Harold Greene dis-
qualified one woman who expressed uncer-
tainty when asked whether she could be
fair and impartial. The judge also disquali-
fied an equipment operator who said that
“when the whole thing was going down”
following public disclosure of the Iran-

Contra affair “all you heard was North and
Poindexter." Seventeen of the first 21 in
the pool were women.

Two hundred six people have filled out
questionnaires to be possible jurors for the
trial, and 76 of them have said they had
heard, watched or read portions of congres-
sional testimony Poindexter gave in 1987
under a grant of immunity from prosecu—
tion based on what he said.

The judge approved for the jury pool a
real estate lawyer who worked in President
Bush‘s campaign as pan of a group doing
background reviews of potential vice presi—

dential candidates. Bush was President
Reagan‘s vice president at the time.

The woman also said one of Pomdexter’s
defense lawyers, Joseph Small, had babysat
for her when she was a child.

Iran-Contra prosecutor Dan Webb ques-
tioned whether she should be iii the jury
pool since she knew one of the defense
lawyers.

“Just because counsel babysat for her
doesn't cast any doubt on her." said
(irt‘cnt‘.

The woman also said a brother-in-law
has worked for former Virginia (.itiys

Charles Robb and Gerald Bitilit‘s both
Democrats. Robb is now a if S senator

Also accepted for the jury pool: a t lerita‘i
worker who said antler questioning that \iiL'
knew former Pomdexter aide North “was
on trial" in the past and that he had been
fined and was pt‘l’liirllllllt' ctiiiiniuiixt \gr
vice.

“It was a big to-do iii iit‘ " \ulit. :
woman.

A jury of [2 people and -.it tilitllldif‘
will be selected from a pool 1? r.'--i1 :1

Sc‘c‘.“ RURN had I 1.

UK students
stay longer
than 4 years,
study shows

By KYM VOORHEES
Contributing Writer

UK students are following the na-
tional trend of college students by
receiving their degrees in more than
the traditional four years.

A recent survey indicated that
students are taking between four
and six years to complete four—year
degrees. Reasons for this included:
changing majors; working full or
part-time; and taking lighter course
loads to earn better grades for grad—
uate school.

Sarah Huddle, a fifth-year senior
in theater, expects to graduate in
another year. She had difﬁculty
choosing a major which put her be-
hind.

“1 was hesitant about what I
wanted to be doing," Huddle said.
“I am going ahead and getting my
degree and then coming back for a
degree in physical therapy."

Wendi Martin. a business man-
agenteiitjunioi, expects to graduate
in another two years. Martin
changed her major several times
and worked while attending school.

“I knew I wouldn't graduate in
four years because I only took 12-
hour and nine-hour semesters and I
was working,"Manjn said.

According to Louis Swift, UK di-
rector of undergraduate studies, full
or part-time work is the major cause
for later graduation rates.

“A lot of students out of need or
desire are working while going to
school and for that reason not tak-
ing a full load,“ Swift said.

Randy Dahl, university registrar,
has noticed a five-to six-year gradu-
ation trend at UK over the past 10
years

“Several things are going on to
cause this. We have an expanded
student population drawing in a
wider array of students with differ»
ent interests, backgrounds, and cir«
cuttisuinces."l)alil said.

According to Dahl, five-year
graduation rates are most common
with six-year rates increasing.

“It is increasingly rare for people
to look at four-year graduation
rates,“ said Dahl.

He bciieves this trend is especial-
ly apparent in public institutions
where more students must work to
pay for their education. A greater
number of students are working
longer hours. causing them to re-
duce their course load.

Several students periodically en-
roll, taking classes one semester
and working the next. This system
almost doubles the time it takes to
obtain a degree, Dahl said.

In addition to work, Dahl sites
changing majors, transferring
schools, and double-majoring as
reasons UK students are taking
longer to graduate.

“There seems to be increased in-
terest in double majors," Dahl said.
“More students are looking at that
possibility."

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Fred Yates pamphlets about Alcohol Awareness week. ‘

Late flurry by Irish
sends spirited Cats
home with 80-67 loss

By C.A. DUANE BONIFER
Editor in Chief

SOUTH BEND, 1nd. a Follow-
ing Sunday night's practice, Uni-
versity of Notre Dame seniors Joe
Fredrick and J amere Jackson walked
out onto the center court of a dark
and mostly deserted Joyce Athletic
and Convocation Center and sang
their school's “Victory March,"

“l'm jogging around and I look at
them and I‘m just smiling," said
Notre Dame coach Digger Phelps.

And following last night’s $0767
win over L'K, Phelps was smiling
again as hl\ Irish improved its
record to loll and also bolstered
its hopes for an NCAA Tourna-
ment bid with one game remaining,
at Del’aul l'nnersity Saturday at?
ternoon.

l‘K could smilt as well Banned
from post—season play, the spirited
(‘ats and first-year coat h Rick Pitt»
he ended their campaign with a
surprising 1-1-14 record.

-\nd UK made the Irish earn its
victory. Down J‘s-3,1 with l7 if!
left in the game, Fredrick‘s three-
pointer sparked a 1-11 run to put
Notre Dame ahead 5"??? with 8:11“
on the clock.

'i K countered with a Derric'i.
\liller three-pointer and Reggie
Hanson free throw to take a ‘X-V
lcatl. ltut Notre Dame responded
w ith a 13-3 run to go on top Tirol)
aiid put the game away with 3:1 7
1C“.

“1 said at halftime that with some
adjustments in our defense we could
shut down the three," Phelps said.
“()nce we got the lead, we started
pulling away and played smart tiiitii
the end."

Notre Dame came tutti last
night’s game averaging less titan 2
1’3 three-point field goals a game
But last night the Irish canned se\~
eii threes. tytng a school record.

i‘itino said his team played in-
telligent” basketball 111 the llfsl
half, but once Notre Dame started

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trinated in you " he a ‘
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when I was little wcr -11
against Kentucky. i\_~: ; its. .1 .
beat them the refs .
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Democracy, church play role in European changes

By TONJA WILT
Campus Editor

Infiltration of democracy and the increas-
ing role of the church have been big factors
in historic changes taking place in Eastern
Europe, say some who have monitored the
events.

At a symposium last week, local leaders r
including a visiting professor from Prague,
Czechoslovakia, a UK graduate student from
Poland and a representative from the UK
German department linked a more free-
thinking society to the changes.

They discussed the future of three coun-
tries — Poland, Germany as a whole, and
Czechoslovakia — and the past that led to
the current status of the countries.

Jan Ligus, a visiting professor at Lexmgton
Theological Seminary from Prague, said peo-
ple aren't wrong when they call the historic
developments “miracles“ and “fairy tales."

“Czechoslovakia has been given without
bloodshed a new government,“ Ligus said.
”The government was able to advocate with-

out using military power, otftcrwtse it would
have been another Romtmia."

The developments iii C/echoslovakia are
due to the economic changes caused by So
viet President Mikhail Gorbachev and glas—
nost, he said.

“The changes cart continue if glasnost and
percstroika do not fail,“ he said. “1f pcrestroi-
ka fails, the words of Mikhail Gorbachev
may come true, ‘We must die together.”

The United States should take advantage of
the Eastern Europe developments to cooper»
ate with other nations and put an end to the
Cold War, Ligus said.

The Roman Catholic Church has a more
active role in Poland, according to another
speaker at the seminar Bogdan Szklarski. a
UK graduate student front Poland.

“Eastern Europe would not be the place it
is now with out the role of the Polish (Roman
Catholic) Church, Szklarski said. “Church
and culture is so close that people in Poland
no longer think of them as church holidays.
but cultural rituals."

The past, as well as the present, show the

influence of the Roman (litholtt Church on
Polish culture, Szklarski said.

"in the l‘lth century Poland it \: indepen-
dence. The state ceased to exist and the
(lunch became the carrier of l’olisliness or of
national culture," he said. ‘ The role of the
(‘hurch during and after Solidarity period
was tremendous. It provided shelter to the
people, provided support, moral support."

(lite of the most important aspects of the
Roman Catholic (‘hurch in Poland 1_\ being
between society and authority, however there
I\ a danger of this changing, Szklarski said.

”So many people who are in govemment
were supported by the (‘hurch for so long.
there is a danger the Church might try to tlll~
me these circumstances to get more power.
to become the state church," he said. “It will
be a bad development if the church decides
to cross this line, The Church has a great role
as a humanitarian institution anti has to find a
balance between a political institution and an
institution of hope."

Although the crumbling of the Berlin Wall
has been commended worldwide. West Ger-

many I\ 111M idling: 1:1; economic cit ..:
democracy. m ,i 1‘12-1hp \chnight, at x _.
sociatc ticrmaii pro‘t; :

”\Vt‘sl (it'lllldll) ii,:- It‘dcilt‘ti ll\
What you are getting i\ finiuelessitcss, its.
ploy ment, crime and res. l.iiflillt‘\\ front \\ v
Germans.“ \icKlllg‘Hi \.«...‘ '~\ll of iil|\ is
obviously creating tht‘ ,ofapse of 1 asl (1c
many.

“The Church i\l‘t1'ic.;tt 'i\ iii favor o: 1'
people not human: the countn but s1.i\ :n.: it
change it." McKnight said “Their attituitt
was that the shepherd ‘

\i.l\\ with
sheep."

The future of l J\i'_‘l'l i iiropc dcpetidx oi
the actions of othcr c t‘lll‘illlt‘\

”l‘m not afraid of the unification of tier
many," Ligus said. ““ hat could happen it
glasnost arid pcrestroika fails. 1 think 1'.
would affect not only furorie and .‘\il|t a but
the whole world.”

New band addresses
real tSSttes
SW11, 1’38? 3.

Sports

UK tennis Cats face
UT in exhibition
Story, Page 4.

Tammy: Cloudy
war was

2 — Kentucky Kernel, Tuesday. Ihrch 6, 1990

Smokers’ bill of rights passed
despite legislators’ warnings

By MARK R. CHELLGREN
Associated Press

FRANKFORT, Ky. -— The
House yesterday passed a smokers'
bill of rights despite warnings that
it ignored the medical realities of
smoking.

Rep. Donnie Gedling, D-
Hardinsburg. said the bill was im-
portant in a state so dependent on
tobacco. “It sends a message the
legislature is out to protect the free-
doms of all citizens. whether
they're smokers or not," he said.

The bill, which passed 81-11 but
must still gain approval in the Sen-
ate and from Gov. Wallace Wilkin-
son. would prohibit employers
from basing employment decisions
based on the use of tobacco and bar
an employer from restricting the
use of tobacco by a worker off the
job. The bill would still allow em-
ployers to restrict smoking on the
job.

Rep. Anne Northup, R-
Louisville. tried to gut the bill by
removing any reference to discrimi-
nation, complaining that it elevated
smoking to the same status as pro-
tection for minorities and religious
beliefs. Two amendments she pro-
posed failed.

Gedling said the bill. which
would also make it illegal to sell
tobacco products to children under
the age of 16. struck a good com-
promise.

“This is a good. balanced bill,"

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“It sends a message the legislature is out to protect
the freedoms of all citizens, whether they’re

smokers or not.”

Rep. Donnie Gedling,
D-Hardinsburg

Gedling said. “It's something that
will help both sides of this issue."

But Northup said none of the
groups that are opposed to smoking
agreed to anything in the bill. “No
one that is in support of better
health is in support of this bill."
she said.

The House also passed a bill to
prohibit discrimination against peo-
ple with acquired immune deﬁcien-
cy syndrome, but also opens the
door to mandatory testing for the
disease in some instances.

The bill, sponsored by Rep. Paul
Mason, D-Whitesburg, requires ed-
ucation programs on AIDS and the
virus that causes it for a wide varie-
ty of professions from barbers to
law enforcement ofﬁcers and doc-
tors.

It also provides many protections
not now available, such as prohib-
iting insurance companies from
treating AIDS differently than any
other disease.

The exception granted to employ-
ment discrimination is for food
handlers.

The bill would ailow hospitals to
require patients to sign a release
form to allow testing for AIDS and
also require people convicted of
prostitution or solicitating be tested
for the disease as a condition of re-
lease.

Mason. whose daughter Belinda
contracted AIDS from a blood
transfusion and has become a na-
tional activist. has made the topic a
personal agenda in the General As-
sembly.

“Two years ago. I was the only
one in this General Assembly af-
fected,” Mason said.

Now, Mason said other legisla-
tors tell him of family members or
friends who have contracted the dis-
ease or know someone who has.

Rep. Tom Riner, D-Louisville.
had attached an amendment in com-
mittee that would have allowed dis-
crimination against AIDS victims,
but did not try to take the same ac-
tion in the full House.

Riner said later he may try to
have changes made to the bill in
the Senate.

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