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By DAN HASSERT
Editor in Chief

UK freshmen were welcomed
like long~lost brethren this week-
end as the University community
threw its first «Freshmeni Fall
Orientation.

The orientation lasted 2‘: days
and featured a variety of wel-
coming. informational and more
ational events to help introduce
beginning students to the me-
chanics of going to college.

About 1.500 freshmen — two-
thirds of the freshman class ~at-
tended the event.

While overall reviews of the
weekend were good. a lot of kinks
still have to be worked out. said

 

Becky Jordan. assistant dean of
students.

“The way l look at it. this was
the first round. We're going to
learn a lot of things from the
evaluations and make some
changes." she said.

One of these changes will be to
get rid of Playfair. the 11-; hour
series of icebreakers on the band
practice field designed to help the
freshmen get acquainted. While
many students indicated on eval-
uations that they liked the chance
to meet people. they said the fair
was too big and lasted too long in
the hot weather. Jordan said.

Several freshmen echoed Jor-
dan‘s feelings.

“I think the Playfair was too

big.“ said Sharon Loy. a psychol-
ogy and French major. “It was a
good way to meet people. but the
group might have been too big.
Because the groups were so
large. nobody got to know anyone
realwell.”

”I didn‘t think it needed to he
that long and I didn‘t like the
Playfair; I felt ridiculous." said
Ellen Goodaker. an accounting
major. “I really didn't need that.
It moved too fast and you never
got to talk to anybody anyway

Jordan said she expected the
constructive criticism about the
Playfair and the mixed com-
ments about the academic ses-
sions. which explained the differ-
ences between academics in high

Freshmen students sit on each others' laps white participating in Playtair. a series of get-acquainted events Saturday during last weekend's freshmen orientation

Weekend draws mixed response from freshmen

school and college and familiar-
ized students with academic pro-
cedures such as Adddrop. ad-
vance registration and
registration procedures.

Such comments will help the
orientations planners before next
yea r‘s ei ent.

By the same token. the iresh-
men were adamant about what
they liked about the orientation.
she said.

"it was good they showed me
around. that was the only thing I
really wanted to do." Goodaker
said

Almost everybody said they
liked their orientation leader.
Jordan said. About 90 student
leaders were recruited by the

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dean of students office to lead
section groups

Laura Scales. a French and art
history junior. was one oi the
leaders. She said the idea oi
orientation leaders brought llilll't
one-on-one interaction lieiyieeii
new and experienced students

The orientation will help
erase some of the nervousness
felt by freshmen. and hopetully
lead to them getting more itlr
volved sooner. Scales said.

The convocation also erased
some of the nervousness felt by
some parents at leaving their
children at school for the first
time,

"When you consider I have a

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Program lets workers
take free classes at UK

By DAN HASSEKT
Editor in Chief

A new employee educational pro-
gram will allow regular full-time
faculty and staff to take up to six
hours of classes each semester free
of charge.

The program. adopted under Pres-
ident David P. Roselle's office. will
enable employees to take University
credit courses during the fall. spring
and summer semesters at the main
campus and community colleges.

A maximum of 18 hours of credit
can be earned each year. A credit
hour costs $56.

One course each semester may be
taken during normal working hours,
as long as lost working time is made
up during the week.

Only University credit courses can
be taken. said T. Lynn Williamson.
administrator for personnel policy
and procedure. Continuing educa~
tion, community education and audit
courses can‘t be taken under the
program.

Williamson said he expects a lot of
employees to take advantage of the
opportunity and even more to do so
as the idea catches on.

He said primarily two types of
employees will take classes under
the program - those workim on de-
grees and those leamirg for the fun
of it.

“First. there an: a large number
of employees who are praently
workirg on degrees or want to pur-
sueadegree;andsecond.alotof
people who are intaeated simply in

self enrichment. They will take a va‘
riety of classes that interest them, "

The program has been in the
works for several years. Williamson
said. Several employee groups. in-
cluding the Employee Benefits Com-
mittee and the Personnel Council.
have been pushing for it.

He said the program should prove
to be a valuable recruitment tool.

“We find that probably the most
common question asked by appli-
cants . . . especially by faculty. the
most common question asked is does
the University offer tuition-free
classes.“ Williamson said.

UK often has a problem recruiting
and retaining employees because of
high job availability in Lexington.
Roselle said.

The program will not only benefit
individuals on a personal basis. but
also improve the University in the

process.hesaid.

“We hope it‘ll benefit most indi-
viduals and get some people on
good. strong career paths. Second,
we think it‘s beneficial to the institu-
tion in that it‘ll result in more qual~
ified employees." he said.

He said a similar program at his
former school, Virginia Polytechnic
Institute and State University. was
med by a lot of employees and be-
came very important in terms of re-
cruitment for some people.

He said employees who worked in
technical field: and laboratories es-
pecially used the program.

The program has been extremely

DAVID ROSELLE

well-received by UK campus eme
ployees. said Marsha Collins. man-
ager of Human Resource Devel»

opment.

Collins. whose office verifies the
employment status of Lexington
campus and central administration
employees. said employees are so
excited about the program that they
have hung up a big sheet with
“Thank you Dr. Roselle" printed on
it. As employees come in and have
their papers signed. they write their
names tothesheet.

“The numbers get bigger every
day."Collinssaid.

She said a variety of employees —
faculty. administrative and profos~
sional staff. maintenance. clerical
and technical workers — are signing
up for classes.

Computer classes are particularly

sought after. as are independent
study classes. she said.

Wednesday. August 26. 1987

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Med Center to dedicate helicopter

By ANTHONY (‘lAltK
Staff Writer

Beginning Friday. the UK Med
Center's new aeromedical service
will offer critically ill patients emer-
gency transport by helicopter.

The service will provide rapid
transport for patients who require
sophisticated care within a 150-mile
radius of UK. reducing the time
spent on travel time by as much as
three hours for patients coming
from outlying hospitals.

The serVice will be dedicated at 10
am. Thursday at the helipad beside
Commonwealth Stadium.

The service will likely fly “every
single day." said Chris Mclain. an
information specialist at Albert 8.

Chandler Medical (Tcnter It will
carry patients lrom more than Tilt
hospitals in Kentucky.

The aircraft. a Siskorsky S76 heli
copter. is considered one oi the sale
st in the industry and is capable oi
speeds up to 165 miles per hour

More than 2.000 patients needing
specialized temergencyt care were
transported across the state to lure
er hospitals last year. Mclain said

“The risk involved iii moving
them." she said. "has to be less
than it is for them to remain where
they are."

Mclain said patients likely to re-
quire the services high-speed trans
port include trauma victims. burn
patients. victims of car accidents.

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Task force to form alcohol policy

By JAY BLANTON
Executive Editor

A task force has been (stablished
to form an alcohol policy for UK by
the end of this semester.

The formation of the task force is
the result of recommendations made
by a committee investigating alco
hol on campus last year.

A memorandum circulated by Art
Gallaher, chancellor for the Lexing-
ton campus. earlier this month said
that the newly-created task force
has two major tasks.

The first task “is to prepare an al-
cohol policy for students. faculty
and staff and visitors to our cam-
pus” the memorandum states.

Secondly. the group must deter.

 

”Alcohol policies at
other Universities vary
greatly. See Page 22 for
a story detailing how.

mine how UK‘s greek chapters lll
into the enforcement of the alcohol
policy at the University.

Last year. alcohol became a con
traversial issue on campus after
David Botkins. Student Government
Association Senator at Large. said
that 2i-yearold students should
have the fight to drink in their dor-
mitory room.

Botkins argued that the dormitory
room was a private residence. like
an apartment. and alcohol should be
allowed,

After the task force has dcveloperl
a policy. it will he submitted to (Lil
laher and then to the Student i‘ode
(‘ommittee ot the l'K Hoard oi
”l‘rustees

Members of the Hiiieiiiher task
force include six students. and me
ulty members from departments
such as Psychiatry. Sociology and
the Counseling and Testing Center
There are also representatives from
l'niversity housing and the Rt tT

The alcohol committee. which met
throughout last spring. has had sex
eral of its recommendations ap
proved already

An alcohol drug education pro»
gram Will begin this fall and will be

Sec ALCOHOL. Page IZ

 

 2 - KENTUCKY Km, Wodnfldly, August 20. 10.7

ODorm problems

Continued from Page I

Fischer, a 17-year-old business ad-
ministration freshman from Boyle
County.

“‘lt's all right." Fischer said. “It
feels like a little farm‘ly.”

Although finding dormitory rooms
of their own late this week will
mean breaking up the family. Fisch—
er said he looks forward to getting
his own room.

The setup in the tower has forced
its temporary residents to bring only
the essentials.

Fischer said he‘s just brought
some clothes to get by until he
moves.

“Unfortunately (overcrowding) is
normal." said James Kuder, vice
chancellor for student affairs. Gen-
~rally, there‘s always been a wait-
mg list.

Kuder said a number of reasons
outside of increasing enrollment
may have caused the housing short-
ages.

Lexington is an expensive city to
live in. Kuder said. and coupled with
limited housing close to campus,
dormitories are attractive to stu-
dents.

”The students are no dummies,"
Kuder said. Choosing University
housing is less expensive than trying
to find a place off—campus.

In addition. more students across
the nation are living on campus
longer. Kuder said. Students are
generally more conservative and
want the controlled living environ-
ment that campus housing offers.

To combat overcrowdiru in the fu-
ture. Kuder said he would like to ex-
plore building additional housiru
similar toG Page Apartments.

Apart t 'ving is more attrac-
tive to students than living in large
group or alternative suite type of
balls, Kuder said. Not too many stu-
dents like gang or community show-
ers,hesaid.

Apartments are al50 more flexible
because they can be rented to both

students and non-students, Clay .

said.

However. ming new buildings as a
solution is probably two to three
years down the line, Kuder said.

Other more immediate alterna-
tives might be the creation of more
coed dormitories, Clay said.

University homing simply needs

more female space, he said. There .

needs to be more equal numbers of
males and females, which there
hasn‘t been for the past few years.

But problems even exist with that
alternative, Clay said.

There are only three remaining
men‘s dormitories — Haggin,
Holmes and Kirwan, he said. To
make those dormitories coed might

disrupt the community spirit found .

there.

In sum, it means that the prob-
lems with housing at UK are here
for some time to come.

“The problems are not going to go
away." Kuder said. “I don‘t have
any more solutions to the problem."

Nine students had their beds placed on the top floor of Kirwan
Tower due to a housing overcrowding. The students will be there

 

By JAY BLANTON
Executive Editor

Visitation hours have been ex-
tended following a recommenda-
tion by a committee of dormitory
presidents last spring.

Visitation is usually reviewed
annually. said Bob Clay, acting
director of residence life. In re-
cent years changes were made in
visitation rules because of action
taken by a Student Government
Association committee, he said.

This time, however, the Resi-
dents Hall Council of Presidents
made the visitation recommenda-
tions. Clay said.

The recommendations were ex-
amined by the housing depart-
ment and then reviewed by the
dean of students’ and chan-
cellor's office before being made
University policy.

 

The new visitation hours are as
follows:

wMonday-Thursday — 3 p.m.—
11:15

wFriday — 3 p.m.-2 a.m.

wSaturday —— 12 p.m.-2a.m.

wSunday — 12 p.m.-11: 15

Students will be gaining two
hours and 15 minutes a day Mon-
day through Thursday, three
hours on Friday, one hour on Sat-
urday and 15 minutes on Sunday
over last year‘s rules.

The 15 minutes acts as a sort of
grace period for visiting students
to leave the dormitory, Clay said.

James Kuder, vice chancellor
for student affairs, said the UK
administration will continue to
listen to recommendations that
students make concerning issues
that affect them.

However. the extension in visi-
tation should not be interpreted
to mean that visitation will even-

Visitation in dormitories extended

tually be 24 hours a day, Kuder
said.

Although some students want
it. others don't want it, Kuder
said.

In fact, any extension of visita-
tion at all is difficult in the dor-
mitories.

Clay said that UK‘s residence
halls were built at a time when
there wasn’t any visitation allow-
ed.

Visitation is difficult when the
dormitory consists of community
showers, Clay said.

Any increase in visitation must
also take into account alienation
of roommates, Clay said. Stu-
dents may not feel comfortable
going into their room when their
roommate has a visitor all the
time, he said.

Paul Broderick, assistant hall
director at Kirwan Tower, said
he didn’t foresee any problems.

 

 

ment will find them regular dorm rooms.

Sean Lyons, a marketing freshman, lays on his
bed in the makeshift room on the 23rd floor of
Kirwan Tower. Lyons and about eight other stu-

rooms are vacant.

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until the end of the first week of school. when the housing depart-

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dents are living there until permanent dormitory

 

ACADEMICS

August 26 to September 1 — Late registration
for returning students who did not advance register and

for new applicants cleared late for admission. A $20 late

fee is assessed

August 26 — Class work begins

 

MOVIES

August 26 to August 29 — Stripes —$1 .95

— 8 PM — Worsham Theatre

August 26 to August 29 — F/X —$1.95

— 10 PM — Worsham Theatre

August 30 — Stripes — $1.95 — 7 PM —

Worsham Theatre (Student Center)

 

OTHER

August 26 to August 28 — Come Play for
Free at the Gameroom — Free — 1 28
Student Center — 10 AM to 6 PM

August 26 — Wildcat Welcome &
Activities Fair — Student Center Patio —
1 1 AM to 4 PM

August 26 — Ice Cream Bash, sponsored
by Great Commission Students — Free —

Student Center — 7 PM
— Call 254-3997 (ask for Michael or

Darryl)

August 28 — Cookout, sponsored by
Great Commission Students — Free —

Jacobson Park — 6:30 PM

— Call 254-3997 (ask for Michael or

Darryl)

August 30 — Celebration of Worship —
CSF Center — 7 PM — Call 233-0313

(ask for Warren Jones)

August 30 to September 1 1 — A Tribute
to Richard B. Freeman — Free UK Art

Museum

 

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NATALIE CAUDILL Kernel Staff

Kristen Toben. an education freshman. feeds Ted Fist. a physics
freshman. a piece of watermelon

MARK ZEROF’Kornef Staft
Jerry Ewen. the emcee at the Playfair show. leads the freshmen
during all their get-acquainted activities throughout the day.

A group of freshmen cheer during one of the events held Saturday. One of the the event's p

About 1.500 freshmen show up
program held at the band practice field next to the Starlet" Center

during the treshmor c'eiitatiori

0Weekend response

('ontinued from Page I

15-year-old I‘m leaving here
today. I‘m very confident. This
was impressive." said Missy
Metzger. of (‘ovington Metzger‘s
son. Jay. attended (‘ovington
Latin. a school that graduates
students two years early, He
plans on majoring in civil engi-
neering.

The orientation began 1:00 Sat-
urday with the opening convoca-
tion at Memorial Coliseum. at
which Student Government Presi»
dent Cyndi Weaver. Lexington
Mayor Scotty Baesler. L'K Presi
dent David P. Roselle. Chancellor
for the Lexington ('ampus Art
Gallaher and Honors Program
Director Raymond Belts ad—
dressed freshmen students and
their parents

The high ceilings of the col-
iseum. the stage setup of a five-
piece band. flowers and flags and
the uniform blue sports shirts of
the 90 or so student leaders.
countless administrators and five
speakers projected an air of im-
pressiveness, But the message
was of down-home smallness

"Parents." said Roselle. "we

promote the idea at the l'iiivei'sir
t} of a [K lLtnlll} ‘iou are now
inducted into the [K itintily "

Uallalit-i‘ also tuned
('K‘s si/e

"it is ll'llt‘ that lllis .s it large
and complex institii'mii, lilll it is
not nearly as large as the \\Itl‘l(i
that you will go after you grad.
uate from here." he \il id

Many s‘ix'ial at'li'tities
planned illt‘ltltiilii’. .1 W.".t
dance. religious _st'l‘\i(‘t'> and :i
Student Center \‘ighi. \iliieh lli
eluded a casino part} lllii\}t‘>.
live mUSit'. food and i'tii‘li'alnt't‘
drawings

(living freshmen iiioi‘t- ol a
chance to meet other ti'eshiiieii
was just one of the l‘t’thliis for
the orientation

An ad hoc committee on sit:-
dent orientation i'i-eoniineriderl
early this year the creation of the
weekend to replace l“l‘r’\
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Unaware that Keeneland has no
air-conditioning. he had forgotten
a fan. All his room had was a
small oscillating fan brought by
his roommate. Mark Anders. a
general studies junior.

After several trips. all of Jeff‘s
belongings were finally in his
room. Now all he had to do was
organize everything.

“It‘s all in the room." Jeff
said. “I don't know if it will fit.“

“I guess we'll find out tomor-
row," Don said.

Jeff's experience was a com—
mon one for UK students as they
began checking into UK's dormi-
tories Sunday.

They began showing up as
early as 9:00 am. One of the
early birds was Teri Cardwell.
The first-year pharmacy student
had to wait along with her paren-
ts for about an hour before the
doors of Blanding Tower were
opened.

One key to moving in is being
wellorganized, students said.

Doug Stringer. an undecided
sophomore. said he “thought (he)
had remembered everything. but
you never know. You always
have that feeling. ‘Did I forget
something?‘ “

Moving into the dorms Sunday
was a little less crowded than it
has been in the past. This year.
freshmen checked in on the pre-
vious Friday. making it less hec-
tic on Sunday.

Terry Cambron. an undecided
freshman. said he and his paren-

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