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Today's News for November 4, 2005System NewsState News National News Effort to bring college courses to Lancaster continues Writer: BOBBIE CURD 11/4/2005 Danville Advocate Messenger LANCASTER - Rep. Lonnie Napier, R-Lancaster, said a meeting Tuesday with Eastern Kentucky University and Bluegrass Community and Technical College District representatives is another step toward a merger between the two entities to bring college courses to Lancaster. Close to 1,200 surveys were returned from Garrard and surrounding counties and although the data has yet to be compiled by EKU, Napier said the response from high school seniors alone was enough to show that residents support the idea. Napier said the community has offered to pay the rent on a facility for the first two years, supplied by private donations. The rent would be paid to an EKU foundation, for tax purposes, and private donations would be tax-deductible. The advisory group is considering the Comprehensive Care Building on the Public Square, an empty 3,000 square foot facility, Napier said. "We're hoping that we'll be ready to start classes by fall of 2006," Napier said. Byron Bond, dean of continuing education and outreach for EKU, said all "signs" point toward a college facility in Lancaster, but "there are still many details that need to be discussed and many factors that merit attention, such as funding, student and community demand, contracts with landlords, meeting with interest groups ..." Bond said so far there is tremendous support for the project and a strong desire on the part of both educational institutions to provide educational opportunities to citizens of the area. "Certainly if the details work out and there is adequate funding and student demand, we will be delighted to serve Lancaster," Bond said. Interim Dean for Extended Campuses at BCTC, Tri Davis, said the facility will start out with a campus director and a support staff member. "The classes would be primarily taught in the beginning by part-time, adjunct professors, either during the day or night," Davis said, adding that time frames for classes or course offerings will not be definitive until the compiled data is returned from the needs assessment questionnaires. "We want to listen to the community and offer what they're interested in," Davis said. Different level courses would be offered BCTC District will offer 100 and 200 level courses, Davis said, while EKU will offer the 300, 400 and graduate level courses. Davis said the Comprehensive Care Building is a workable site with a lot of potential. "With a small amount of renovation, we should have three to four classrooms in the beginning," Davis said. However, the two entities would like to continue thinking long-term. "We want to think about acquiring additional sites and be prepared for the growth of the facility," Davis said. There are several on the advisory committee, Davis said, who have worked long hours to get the ball rolling. "But bringing the facility to Lancaster - that was Napier's brainchild," Davis said. Napier said starting a college in Lancaster is one of the best ways to start the revitalization process. "Between the support of the mayor and judge-executive, and all the different community members who have offered their services to make sure this is a success, I think it's fair to say that we all believe in the future of Lancaster," Napier said. HCTC welcomes Craig Herald to faculty 11/2/2005 Hazard Herald The new welding teacher for Hazard Community & Technical College is convinced his students will quickly be placed in jobs. HCTC's Craig Herald comes to the post from the Lee County Area Technology Center, where he had a 100 percent placement for all seven years; he expects he can place all of the students he has taking his classes now at the Technical Campus of HCTC because many with coal companies in the area offering high salaries. College President/CEO Dr. Jay K. Box said he is pleased to have such an experienced welder and experienced welding teacher as Craig Herald to join the faculty of HCTC. "Craig Herald first came to the college while he was a student in high school and that's when he learned the welding craft; that education proved him well and now we're directly benefiting from what he learned at our school," Dr. Box said. After graduating from Hazard High School in 1984, Herald took classes at the college and worked for RJF Coal Company. He then worked for four years as a welder for the coal company. Then he worked four years for Hall and Hylton Mining Company as a welder and kept up the maintenance on the parts for the business. His career shifted then to reclamation work, where he worked on jobs that lasted from three to six months. His next employer was Trus Joist as a knife grinding and fluid specialist. In September 1998, he was employed at the Lee Area Technology Center. Herald enjoys teaching and is especially pleased when he sees students like Jamie Thomas of Lee County who was a first place regional winner in the Skills USA competition in welding. Thomas has since been employed at Lee County as Herald's successor. Students enrolled in his classes are mostly between the ages of 18 and 21, although current enrollees include a 27-year-old and a female student. He looks forward to seeing more students enroll in his program. "The welding shop is excellent in size. The equipment is in good shape and some of it is new," Herald said. "Some students enroll to obtain a certificate, others want a diploma, and some are after the associate degree in General Occupation/Technical Studies." Anyone interested in welding as a career should have a good work ethic, as well as good hand and eye coordination. "I teach a skill and you have to do it over and over to get really good," Herald noted, who was recently named "Welding Instructor of the Year" by the American Welding Society. Herald bachelor's degree will soon be completed from Eastern Kentucky University through the University Center of the Mountains. He also attended the Hobart Institute of Welding Technology in Troy, Ohio, and was trained by the Lincoln Electric Welding School in Cleveland; he is a certified welding inspector/certified welding educator by the American Welding Society. Herald has a son, Trevor, age 8. His parents, Jenny and Cecil Herald, also live in Hazard. His recreational interests include deer and turkey hunting but his true passion is teaching. Regional Entrepreneur Center Graduates its Second FastTrac New Venture Class 11/2/2005 Floyd County Times (Prestonsburg) In a collaborative effort the Kentucky Highlands Entrepreneur Center (KHEC), the Mountain Association for Community Economic Development (MACED), Big Sandy Community & Technical College, Pikeville Area Innovation Center, and the East Kentucky Small Business Development Center (SBDC) graduated the second FastTrac New Venture class on October 20, 2005. The Fall Class of 2005 consisted of nine entrepreneurial students, who had young businesses, a business idea or interest in becoming an entrepreneur. The FastTrac New Venture Program is a feasibility class that takes students through the complete process of determining whether they want to be an entrepreneur and if the idea is feasible by testing the market, pricing, costs and funding options available to small businesses in the region. FastTrac is an entrepreneurial program supported by the Ewing Koffman Foundation, which located in Kansas City focuses their efforts on improving entrepreneurial education. The students commit to one-night a week for nine weeks for three hours of facilitated instruction, guest speakers and work study. Business counselors are on hand at each class to assist in answering questions and keeping the class running smoothly. The program includes a meal that allows students an opportunity to learn in a relaxing atmosphere, as well as, to network and learn from one another. Catering for the program was provided by Wilma's Catering in Paintsville. The program was administrated by KHEC, facilitated by MACED and supported by the SBDC and PAIC as business counselor, which represents the centers partnership at work. Any small business owner can visit the center and find these resources. KHEC houses some 100 business services including MACED, a 32 year old, non-profit community development financial institution finances business start-ups and expansions to create jobs and support local entrepreneurs. The SBDC provides free personal business counseling and assists with the generation of a business plan and business projections. Special thanks go to the Auxier Lifetime Learning Center, who donated each graduate a refurbished computer to begin their business endeavors. The Auxier Lifetime Learning Center works with adult education in Auxier, KY. The Fall FastTrac Class 2005 included: Willie Crase (E-scape), Nicolle Howard, Deanna Justice, Tiffany Keaton (The Readers Nook), Carole Logsdon (The Bluehand Studio), Jessica Mullins (Martin Laundry Mat), Regina Nichols (Martin Laundry Mat & Precious Steps Bronzing), Stephanie Osborne, and Jennifer Payne (Elite Grooming & Pets). Each student brought their own interests and needs but left the class making friends, gaining valuable insight and much more. Congratulations graduates! If you are interested in learning more about FastTrac and attending the next class, contact the KHEC at 606-788-6007. Students Celebrate, Support, and Sing: HCTC students and faculty Eating Poetry, and rock out 11/2/2005 Hazard Herald Adam Brewer, student and performance artist, kicked off the "Eating Poetry" event for Kudzu, Hazard Community & Technical College's literary magazine on Thursday, Oct. 20, in the student lounge on the Hazard Campus. Brewer performed an original song. He was followed by students and faculty who read original poems and work by poets they love. "We love to have Adam start things up," believes Jenny Williams, event co-organizer and professor of English. "His spirit is unrivaled and it makes for a unique celebration that can only happen here in Hazard." Randy Moon, professor, poet, writer, activist, and actor organized the reading at the Leslie County Center. Moon enthusiastically proclaimed, "Students, staff, and faculty provided a smorgasbord of tantalizing baked goods to for our chili-cheese-Fritos entrée at Leslie County. Following the stuffing of our tummies, we enjoyed the delightful poetry of our students This reading and celebration happened on nearly all of HCTC's campuses. Each campus sold chili, listened to poetry, and enjoyed each other's company during a beautiful autumn afternoon in the mountains. Through their efforts, they raised awareness for the magazine, which comes out in April. "This is one of the most important literary events here in the mountains," says Donna Sparkman, faculty advisor for Kudzu and event coordinator for the Knott County Branch, "And it's an edifying experience to see these students get up and read their work and share in the true communal spirit of poetry. And it's fun for all of us." A second "Eating Poetry" reading takes places near Valentine's Day. Kudzu 2006 will be unveiled on April 20. Information regarding the magazine and literary events at HCTC can be found at http://www.hazcc.kctcs.edu/New_site/Students/Kudzu/fsIndex.htm or by contacting Professor Sparkman, 606-487-3411 or 800-246-7521, ext. 73411. Summit Engineering presents check for scholarships to Big Sandy Community and Technical College 11/2/2005 Floyd County Times (Prestonsburg) Dr. George D. Edwards accepted a donation to Big Sandy Community and Technical College from Jack Sykes, representing Summit Engineering of Pikeville, Kentucky. Summit Engineering sponsors a golf tournament each fall with the proceeds going to fund a Summit Engineering, Inc. Scholarship at the College. Summit Engineering is a Pikeville, Kentucky based civil and environmental engineering, mining engineering and architectural firm. Established in 1977 we have expanded rapidly to meet the growing civil, architectural and mining engineering needs of the Southeast. Summit opened an office in Grundy, Virginia in 1980, which houses Virginia Engineering Division and Summit Laboratory Services. In 1981, Summit's Civil Engineering Design Headquarters opened in Lexington. 1985 saw a fourth branch opened in Logan, West Virginia. Summit Architectural Services was created in April 1995 and operates out of the Lexington office, and our second West Virginia office was opened in Charleston, shortly thereafter in 1996. Summit's sixth office was opened in 1998 in Hazard, Kentucky. UCM working toward job market growth 11/2/2005 Hazard Herald The University Center of the Mountains (UCM) is conducting a major needs assessment to determine the bachelor and master degrees needed to satisfy and grow the job market in the Kentucky River Area Development District. As part of the study, more than 100 persons from the region gathered in Hazard on Oct. 25, to provide input to the preliminary findings by the Chmura Economics consulting group. The report, which will be completed in mid-November, was commissioned by the Hazard Independent College Foundation, on behalf of the UCM partners. The present UCM partnership includes Eastern Kentucky University, Morehead State University, Lindsey Wilson College, Hazard Community & Technical College and the Kentucky Community and Technical College System. "While the UCM already has 350 students enrolled in 10 bachelor and five master degree programs, we need more degrees if we are going to attract new businesses, help others expand, grow the regional economy and improve the quality of life here," explains Ron Daley, Director of the UCM. "We will be taking this data and information to the state decision makers as they consider our request for recurring funding in the next state budget." The purpose of the study at the "Building our Workforce by Degrees" summit is to determine the educational and training needs of the present and future job market in the next three to seven years. Additionally, the assessment is intended to spur planning on the type of high quality jobs the people in the region desire and need. The public is invited to share their comments on the preliminary report by reviewing it on the UCM website www.ucmky.org and emailing or calling the director at Ron.Daley@kctcs.edu (606) 487-3158. The UCM is interested in hearing thoughts on the future job market as well as degrees the partnership should consider. Zimpher hints at regional college initiative Writer: PAUL MCKIBBEN 11/3/2005 Community Press (Crescent Springs) FLORENCE -- No one -- at least publicly -- uttered his name Monday at a Florence Rotary Club meeting. Instead, University of Cincinnati President Nancy Zimpher discussed the university's major strategic academic initiative called UC 21 and avoided talking about the controversial termination of former men's basketball coach Bob Huggins. "Well, it's been a rollicking two years, I might say," Zimpher said toward the start of her remarks, referring to her time so far as UC's president and drawing some laughter from the crowd. Zimpher touted how UC's rankings in various surveys have climbed. She said UC has seen a 3 percent enrollment increase while the majority of Ohio universities have experienced enrollment drops. She said UC has its largest freshman class in 16 years and research dollars have increased by more than 4 percent from last year to this year. "We're an importer of money that invests in saving lives and creating jobs," she said. She also said the university is very concerned about its academic standards and there will be new admissions criteria for fall 2006. "We want to set a baseline where we ensure that all students that come to the University of Cincinnati are ready to be successful," she said. She said the university prides itself "on being an institution of access" and UC has a Center for Access and Transition that helps students enter one of the university's baccalaureate programs. Zimpher also hinted at an initiative among the region's colleges (including Northern Kentucky University, Thomas More College and Gateway Community & Technical College), some of the region's public and parochial schools and other agencies to get more students into college and to later get them to graduate. The program has yet to be officially announced. Among those at the lunchtime gathering was Boone County Schools Superintendent Bryan Blavatt. "I was pleased to hear that she focused on doing what's best for the students and the community," he said. "I think it's real easy in our business whether it's on a college level or at our level to get off on tangents and not focus on doing what's best for the students." Ali to receive Medal of Freedom, highest civilian honor Writer: James R. Carroll 11/4/2005 Louisville Courier-Journal WASHINGTON -- Louisville native Muhammad Ali is to be awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian award, the White House announced yesterday. Ali, 63, the first three-time heavyweight boxing champion of the world, will be honored along with 13 other recipients by President Bush at a White House ceremony on Wednesday. "Muhammad Ali was one of the greatest athletes of all time and an inspirational figure to millions of people around the world," said White House spokeswoman Christie Parell. Neither Ali nor representatives of the boxing great could be reached last night for comment. President Truman established the Medal of Freedom in 1945 to recognize civilians for their efforts during World War II, and President Kennedy reinstated it in 1963 to honor distinguished peacetime service. "I am so pleased Muhammad Ali is being recognized," Rep. Anne Northup, R-3rd District, said in a statement. "What a great honor it is to be given the Presidential Medal of Freedom. I am looking forward to celebrating this achievement with him at next week's ceremony." Ali will attend the grand opening of the Muhammad Ali Center in Louisville on Nov. 19, following recent treatment and therapy for a back and neck condition, according to a statement issued yesterday by Ali spokesman Craig Bankey before the White House honor was announced. Ali was born in Louisville as Cassius Marcellus Clay, and won the gold medal in the light-heavyweight boxing division at the 1960 Olympics in Rome. He joined the Nation of Islam in 1963 and changed his name to Muhammad Ali. By then, he already was electrifying the sporting world -- and the news pages -- with his feats in the ring and his irrepressible personality and penchant for controversy outside the ropes. "I am the greatest!" he declared, often with a sly grin, and few disputed him. He defended his title 19 times. Ali did not escape the social and political turbulence of the 1960s. In 1967 he refused to serve in the Army during the Vietnam War. He was stripped of his title and given a five-year sentence for refusing military service. The sentence was overturned on appeal. He boxed again, demolishing opponents and reciting his own humor-tinged poetry. A year after winning the heavyweight championship for the third time in 1978, he retired from boxing. Ali continued to make public appearances after developing Parkinson's disease, despite noticeable shaking and increasing difficulty with speech. Even with the disability, a "Hello, Champ" would be greeted with a smile and a grip from one of his huge hands. Ali was recently treated at Emory University in Atlanta for a back and neck condition and is undergoing follow-up physical therapy, but will return to making public appearances when therapy is completed, Bankey's statement said. The other Medal of Freedom recipients announced yesterday by the White House include: Actress and comedian Carol Burnett. Vinton Cerf and Robert Kahn, designers of the software code used to transmit data over the Internet. Historian Robert Conquest, known for his work on the Soviet Union. Singer Aretha Franklin. Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan. Actor and comedian Andy Griffith. Radio commentator Paul Harvey. Sonny Montgomery, a 30-year member of the House of Representatives. Gen. Richard Myers, retired chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Golfer Jack Nicklaus. Major League Baseball player and manager Frank Robinson. Paul Rusesabagina, whose life was the subject of the movie "Hotel Rwanda" about the 1994 Rwandan genocide. Some past Medal of Freedom winners include civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks, Pope John Paul II, former Secretary of State Colin Powell and Fred Rogers of the children's TV show "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood." Fewer felons' voting rights restored 11/4/2005 Louisville Courier-Journal FRANKFORT, Ky. -- One-fourth of felons who applied this year to have their voting rights restored have been granted the request by Gov. Ernie Fletcher's office, down from 52 percent last year and 86 percent in 2003, Gov. Paul Patton's final year. The Corrections Department provided the information to a legislative panel on Wednesday. The department provides applications to felons at the end of their sentences and begins the paperwork, but the governor's office decides each case, Corrections Commissioner John Rees told the budget subcommittee for justice and the judiciary. Fletcher, a Republican, imposed stricter rules for restoring voting rights last year. He requires felons who apply to write an essay and provide three character references. He also gives local prosecutors a chance to veto the restoration. Patton, a Democrat, generally approved the applications after felons served their sentences and paid restitution. "It is an affront to democracy when you see these numbers," said Rep. Robin Webb, D-Grayson. Rep. Jesse Crenshaw, D-Lexington, who sponsored a 2001 law that simplified the application process, said it's healthier for felons who have served their time to be fully involved in society, "not ostracized forever like outcasts." Jim Deckard, Fletcher's general counsel, said the governor's process is an improvement because it gives prosecutors "a real and substantial role in communicating their advice as to individual requests." Fire safety training - Trailer a tool to teach dangers Writer: RACHEL ADAMS 11/4/2005 Bowling Green Daily News One by one, the Western Kentucky University students entered the smoke-filled trailer, ducking to avoid hitting their heads on the ceiling of the miniaturized house built inside. From somewhere in the swirling white smoke came a crash, and then laughter, as one of them stumbled into a wall in the hallway. Once everyone blindly groped their way to a seat in the tiny living room, Sgt. Bill Hare of the Bowling Green Fire Department told the students the minimum-visibility conditions in this "house" were very similar to what BGFD firefighters see when they enter burning buildings, except the smoke then is pitch black and searing hot. Seated in the smoky room, Hare encouraged the students to take fire alarms seriously - even if they blare in the dorms at 2 a.m. when there's an early class the next day - and to develop a plan should they ever find themselves in a smoke-filled hallway or room. A good idea, he said, is to count the doors between the dorm room and the nearest exit, so even if the smoke is blinding, students have a way to tell how far away they are from the nearest stairwell. The fire safety trailer - borrowed from the Richardsville Fire Department, said BGFD Public Information Officer Marlee Boenig - was part of Fire Prevention Awareness Day 2005, held on the lawn Wednesday in front of Guthrie Bell Tower. WKU's Department of Environmental Health and Safety has sponsored the event for the past eight years, said Bob Austin, fire safety officer. WKU sophomores Robyn Baker, 32, and Allysson Vallieu, 18, went through the fire safety trailer and learned how to use a fire extinguisher during the event. WKU Fire Safety Technician Roy Long showed students how to operate extinguishers using the word "PASS" - Pull the pin, Aim, Squeeze the handle and Sweep side to side. "I thought it was going to be harder to squeeze," Baker said. Vallieu was surprised at how difficult it was to see in the fire safety trailer, she said. She agreed with Hare - "It's kind of important to know your way out," she said. The BGFD, which also had a fire truck parked in front of the tower, participates in the event to make sure students, especially freshmen, have an idea of what to expect in a fire, Boenig said. "A lot of these students, it's their first time away from home, and we want them to be prepared," she said. While Long watched students spatter the sidewalk with water from the fire extinguishers he had on hand, Austin stood in front of a wall of smoke detectors and fire alarms and told students about the reason for 90 percent of WKU's fire alarms - negligent cooks. "Kitchen fire safety, guys," he said to the students. " ... You're not just jeopardizing the food you're cooking; you're jeopardizing the lives of the other people in the building." All too often students will put something on the stove in a dormitory common area, then walk back to their room and forget the pan on the burner, he said. All the dorm kitchens are equipped with sprinklers and heat detectors, he said, so a pan left on too long will likely trigger a fire alarm for the whole building. Students should watch what they're cooking and remember that not everything has to be cooked on "high," he told them. Fire safety equipment in the dorms' common areas is inspected every month, Austin said, and resident assistants in the dorms inspect each student's room periodically throughout the semester. Each dorm room at WKU has a stand-alone smoke alarm and heat detector, which students are required to test once a month, he said. The hallways also have fire alarms, and he, like Hare, reminded students to leave the dorm when one goes off. "Anytime you hear the fire alarm, get out," he said. "Do not worry about your personal items. ... What's replaceable? Everything you own. What's not? Your life." Four manufacturers win statewide awards 11/4/2005 Business First Louisville Blue Moon Artworks Inc., Lectrodryer LLC, Blendex Co. and Alltech Inc. have been named the 2005 winners of the Kentucky Manufacturer of the Year Awards, presented by Associated Industries of Kentucky. "This award is intended to showcase entrepreneurial spirit, community leadership and policy contributions made by Kentucky manufacturers to the economic success of the commonwealth," Andrew Meko, president and CEO of Associated Industries of Kentucky, said in a news release. Normally, one award is given in each of three categories: small (1 to 50 Kentucky-based employees), mid-size (51 to 250 Kentucky-based employees) and large (251 or more Kentucky-based employees). But this year, there was a tie in the small category between Louisville-based Blue Moon Artworks Inc., a corporate award and gift company, and Richmond-based Lectrodryer LLC, which designs, engineers and manufacturers industrial drying and purifications systems. The mid-size category winner is Louisville-based Blendex Co., which produces batters, breadings, seasonings and marinades. The large category winner is Nicholasville-based Alltech Inc., which produces animal feed health additives. Iraq to see UK blue Writer: C.J. GREGORY 11/4/2005 Elizabethtown News-Enterprise ELIZABETHTOWN -- For troops stationed halfway across the world, the old saying that there's no place like home rings true. Retired Master Sgt. Gary Newton has taken on the task of making troops feel a little closer to home. Partnering with the University of Kentucky, the University of Louisville and Indiana University, Newton began collecting university paraphernalia to send overseas. Newton received an e-mail about a month ago from a friend stationed at Camp Hope, south of Baghdad, asking for a favor. "He said a company had come in a built the soldiers stationed there a training facility," Newton said. "And a lot of soldiers from around the country had gotten folks back home to send banners from their home universities." "He said UK, U of L and IU weren't represented," Newton said. His friend described that as "unacceptable." Even though the e-mail specifically requested that "nothing new be bought" -- that old items could be collected from community members who weren't using them anymore -- Newton couldn't bring himself to send secondhand items. "I can't send a used banner back over there," he said. So he got busy. He went around to area businesses, describing his project and asking for support. Hibbett Sports and Duke's Sporting Goods donated UK and U of L banners and UK flags. Staff at both stores signed the sports paraphernalia and wished the troops good luck. Then Newton went one step further. Realizing that Dawahares is the official outfitter of UK sports, Newton tried and get them involved. Saying they were "excited to get involved," the company's president secured a specially made banner created by the UK athletics department and signed by two of the college's most recognized names -- men's basketball coach Tubby Smith and head football coach Rich Brooks. "He had contacts at those universities," Newton said. "He contacted the athletic department and had the banner specially made for this." Though no such gift has come through yet from U of L or IU, Newton said it's only a matter of time. "U of L is working on matching the efforts of UK," he said. Newton began the project to show the men and women fighting overseas that they're not forgotten, and to show families, friends, and loved ones that anything they can do would help troops' morale n no matter how small they think it might be. "Around the holidays, your mind drifts closer to home," Newton said. "It just seemed a little way to bring home a little closer for them." James Harrod Trust honors retired journalist Writer: ANN R. HARNEY 11/3/2005 Danville Advocate Messenger HARRODSBURG - Bettye Lee Mastin, of Lexington, was presented the Clay Lancaster Award by the James Harrod Trust for Historic Preservation Tuesday evening at a banquet at Beaumont Inn. Mastin is a retired journalist from the Lexington newspapers. She wrote about Kentucky houses of note for their architectural and historical value. It was the longest running series in any Kentucky newspaper; it continued for 50 years until the beginning of 2001, Helen Dedman, chairman of the trust, told the gathering. Dedman said she came to know Mastin when she worked on the Harrodsburg Historical Society's Historic Homes Tour. The veteran journalist wrote about several of the homes on the tour, with information supplied by Dedman. The Clay Lancaster Award is given to a person who has "demonstrated exceptional scholarship in historic preservation and devotion to the furtherance of cultural development of Harrodsburg and Mercer County." A member of the trust, Dedman said, "(Mastin) is our good friend who can be found tromping through Mercer County fields with many of our board members to get a better look at a house or property that just might be important to our history." "Bettye Lee knows more about central Kentucky architecture than anyone, with the exception of Clay Lancaster when he was living," said local historian and fellow Lancaster Award recipient Frances Moseley. Both women are board members of the Warwick Foundation, named for Lancaster's Mercer County compound. Lobbyist: State money's tight Writer: James Mayse 11/4/2005 Owensboro Messenger-Inquirer Lobbyist J. Ronald Pryor, who will be representing the Greater Owensboro Chamber of Commerce during the 2006 state legislative session, said there will be little money to spread around for projects when lawmakers reconvene in Frankfort. "It's going to be a tough session, moneywise," Pryor said. "There won't be any new taxes raised. ... You don't do that in an election year." Pryor, of Capitol Solutions LLC, spoke Thursday morning at the chamber's "Rooster Booster" breakfast. The much publicized budget shortfall in Medicaid will keep the level of projects funded by the state lower than previous years, Pryor told the group. "If you're expecting projects in every district, it's not going to happen because the money isn't there," he said. The lack of state funds could be bad news for the advanced technology centers the state partially funded for construction during the 2005 session. Legislators allocated money to the tech centers -- which are being built in Owensboro, Madisonville and other places across the state -- but only contributed enough to get the projects under way. The Owensboro tech center received $13 million, while the estimated project cost is $26 million. Todd Inman, incoming chairman of the chamber board, said securing funding for completing the tech center "will be our No. 1 capital priority." Rep. Joe Bowen, an Owensboro Republican, said later finding money for projects will be "much more challenging." "I think it will be a much more austere budget," Bowen said. "... There is going to be a lot of competition for a few dollars." Sen. David Boswell, a Sorgho Democrat, echoed Bowen's assessment. "I would say projects, period ... are going to be extremely difficult to deal with. We have somewhat impeded our bonding capacity," Boswell said. But Boswell said he would "do whatever I can to see that there is funding available to finish that project up." Pryor told the audience at the Executive Inn Rivermont that legislators will have to find ways to make up for dramatic shortfalls in Medicaid funding. In Kentucky, there are more people on Medicaid than there are students in public schools, Pryor said. "If we don't do something to get Medicaid under control, there will be no money for capital projects" or much else, he said. The chamber used the meeting to formally announce its eight legislative priorities for the 2006 session. The priorities include tax changes that favor business, caps on malpractice claims, more affordable workers compensation for business and legislation that would allow voters in an area to decide if they favor casino gambling. Pryor said his firm will be in Frankfort daily to advocate for the chamber's positions. "Everybody in the world has a lobbyist in Frankfort" Pryor said. "People in Pikeville (and other cities) don't care what the Owensboro chamber wants. ... That's why you do need a lobbyist in Frankfort." Scaled model of riverfront plan unveiled Writer: CARRIE KIRSCHNER 11/4/2005 Ashland Daily Independent ASHLAND A legacy is what officials hope a newly unveiled riverfront development plan will become for Ashland. They envision a riverfront that, like Central Park, is unique and pays tribute to Ashland's past while at the same time honors the possibilities of tomorrow. A scaled model of the riverfront master plan was unveiled Thursday night during the Ashland Board of City Commissioners regular meeting. Officials from KZF Design were on hand to present a detailed description of the planning process and the park they envision stretching along the Ohio River from 16th street to 10th Street inside the floodwall. Thomas M. West, community planner for KZF Design, said one of the key elements in the design was "developing this park as a gateway into Ashland." Most of the plan came from the leaders and residents of Ashland, West said. "It's a great plan. It really came from Ashland, we're just glad to be there to facilitate it." Central Park is referred to as Ashland's backyard, KZF Designer Chad Edwards said. "The riverfront should be the front door," he said. At the heart of the park design is the incorporation of four historic brick roadways into pedestrian pathways. The pathways move pedestrians through the park, creating "ribbons" that respond to man-made structures in their paths - railroad tracks, bridges, the floodwall and new views of the river, city and park. Fountains are proposed at the terminus of each path, each different and corresponding to the characteristics of space around it. Water could also be used as a mechanism to pull people outside the floodwall into the park. Waterwalls and other sculptural and artistic works are among proposed ideas. The landscape of the park is dominated by four mounds that slope gently toward the river and curve westward, to follow the flow of the river. They were designed to mimic the natural terrain of Kentucky as well as the Native American mound legacy. Three boat docks and a boat ramp are also proposed as well as a restaurant at the eastern end, which would be in position to offer sweeping views of the river and park. A small "chapel like" amphitheater is proposed for the space between the bridges. The historic C & O Freight Depot, the city's transportation hub is also a central element of the design. It would be rehabilitated into a year-round marketplace. One of the most dazzling proposals, however, was for lighting of the 13th Street bridge. Edwards proposed a signature design, one that uses colored light pipes to depict a skyline effect. "You could light up the bridge and it would be nice and pleasant but no one would remember it," Edwards said before unveiling his design which he said was inspired by a mathematical theory referred to as the Crumple theory. "This will be a bridge people will talk about," he said, showing his design to the audience. "This is going to be a place where people want to come." City officials were excited by the design and eager to move forward. "I think they have given us a unique riverfront, one that fits Ashland," Ashland Mayor Steve Gilmore said. "It's awesome," said City Commissioner Kevin Gunderson, referring to the lighting proposal. "It's Vegas-style lighting in Ashland. It's a unique project unlike anything in America." Residents who showed up for the presentation were equally excited and dazzled. "The design concept is not ordinary. It's ambitious, it's doable and it will be something that's talked about for years," said Ashland resident Tom Cantrell, "I'm glad they waited to get this." "I think it's fantastic," said Ashland native and retired library director James Powers. "It's really gonna work. It's gonna put us on the map." The project, however, still has a long way to go. Although some phase one items are already in progress, more funding needs to be secured for the project and final approval of plans. "This is a concept," Gilmore stressed, "We have not cut off public comment." The model, according to officials will begin to migrate to businesses and public buildings throughout Ashland so the public will get a chance to see it. Already, $10.2 million has been earmarked for the project in the recently approved federal Highway Reauthorization Bill. Information provided by KZF Design estimates the cost of the proposed project at more than $27 million. Snub of Louisville grant challenged Writer: Joseph Gerth 11/4/2005 Louisville Courier-Journal A Democratic legislator wants to know why Louisville metro government was overlooked when the state handed out homeland security grants last summer. A Democratic legislator wants to know why Louisville metro government was overlooked when the state handed out homeland security grants last summer. Rep. Steve Riggs, D-Jeffersontown, said yesterday that he will ask a General Assembly committee to examine why Louisville didn't get any of the $22 million in federal money awarded to Kentucky. Louisville sought $6.25 million to help pay for its planned $71 million MetroSafe system, a new emergency communications system to link police, firefighters and other responders. "Jefferson County has the largest concentration of people, of jobs, of terrorism targets in the state by far," Riggs said in a statement. "It's astonishing that not one penny has been directed to Louisville Metro, and I'm worried about any process that allows that to happen." He said the state didn't follow its homeland security plans in handing out the grants, and he wonders if partisan politics played a role. "I just know we got zero, and that's not the way its supposed to work," Riggs said in an interview. The state divided the $22 million among dozens of smaller Kentucky communities for such needs as upgrading ambulance services, fire departments and communications. It's unclear whether the Program Review & Investigations Committee will take up the issue. "I'm going to give you a definite maybe," said Sen. Ernie Harris, a Crestwood Republican and co-chairman of the committee. Alecia Webb-Edgington, director of homeland security, said her department would welcome any legislative inquiry but suggested that the General Assembly wait until after the state auditor's office completes its audit of the agency. "Anything they would do now would be duplicative," she said. The state Department of Homeland Security has said there were several concerns about Louisville's request -- including doubt that the city's system would be compatible with a state communications system. Homeland security says the questions have been cleared up, and Joel Schrader, who oversees the grant process for the state office, has said Louisville should do well in next year's funding. Although the state gave Louisville no money, the city received $5 million this year from the federal Department of Homeland Security. So far, Louisville has accumulated $35 million in federal, state and local funds to pay for the communications project, which is expected to be completed by 2007. The existing communications arrangement makes it difficult for police, fire and emergency medical workers to talk to one another because some of the departments use different systems. Harris said he and Rep. Tommy Thompson, an Owensboro Democrat who is co-chairman of the committee, would recommend later this month what issues on a list of about 50 should be investigated. Harris said the interim joint Committee on Local Government, of which Riggs is co-chairman, might be the place to take up such an issue. "The Program Review Committee looks at programs to see if they are operating correctly," Harris said. "I don't know if we get into policy issues, and that sounds like it might be a policy issue." Riggs said his committee's staff doesn't have as much investigation expertise as the review committee, but he said he would conduct hearings if the other panel doesn't. Harris' district is largely in Oldham County but he represents a small section of Jefferson. The only other member of the Program Review Committee who serves Jefferson County is Sen. Dan Seum, R-Louisville. Seum said yesterday that he believes that an investigation into all homeland security funding would be appropriate and that it should also look at Louisville's application in determining if the department acted appropriately. Chad Carlton, a spokesman for Metro Mayor Jerry Abramson, said, "I think we would be supportive of a more thorough look at the process that led to the decision to grant no funding." Three receive economic leadership awards 11/4/2005 Business First Louisville Warren County's Judge-Executive and two Kentucky business leaders received the Governor's Economic Development Leadership Awards Thursday during the annual meeting of the Kentucky Association for Economic Development. Judge-Executive Michael Buchanon of Bowling Green, William P. Butler of Covington, and Stephen Poe of Louisville were honored by Gov. Ernie Fletcher for their efforts in spurring economic development in their communities. Butler is chairman and CEO of Corporex Companies, Inc., and chairman of Eagle Hospitality Properties Trust, a real-estate investment trust sponsored by Corporex. Covington-based Corporex is a financial investment company specializing in country club, hospitality and real estate development and management. Poe is the owner of Poe Companies, a Louisville-based real estate development firm, and is the managing partner of the Kentucky Convention Hotel Partners which owns the Louisville Marriott Downtown. Colleges Should Seek Innovative Ways to Raise Revenue, Speakers at a Conference Assert Writer: KARIN FISCHER 11/4/2005 The Chronicle of Higher Education A tough budget environment may lead colleges to develop new and innovative approaches to raising revenue, according to college leaders and higher-education policy makers who gathered here for a conference on Thursday. "A crisis is a terrible thing to waste," said William E. Kirwan, chancellor of the University System of Maryland. The invitation-only conference was sponsored by the TIAA-CREF Institute, the research arm of the pension-fund giant. Several speakers said that institutions could seek unconventional sources of financial support, including private-sector partnerships and online-course offerings, but that institutions must also work to reinvigorate a deteriorating relationship between higher education and the public in order to gain greater public-sector support. Creative business strategies and more-aggressive private fund raising are not enough to make up for losses in state financing in recent years, said F. King Alexander, president of Murray State University, in Kentucky. Stanley O. Ikenberry, a former president of the American Council on Education, used his keynote speech to call for a renewed "social compact" for higher education. Mr. Ikenberry, who is leading a national campaign to increase financial support for colleges from state, federal, and private sources, said colleges and their supporters must convince public officials of the broad contributions higher education makes to society (The Chronicle, April 12). But other speakers were more pessimistic about the prospects of markedly increasing higher education's financial support from the state and federal governments. State lawmakers, who often look to trim higher education to close budget gaps, will face increasingly challenging budget situations, with every state predicted to face a structural budget deficit by 2015, said David A. Longanecker, executive director of the Western Interstate Commission on Higher Education, an organization that provides policy analysis to decision makers in 15 Western states. On the federal level, there is little consensus on priorities for higher education, and scant interest in allocating resources to colleges, Mr. Longanecker said. He suggested that colleges look for new sources of revenue, such as local governments. Mr. Kirwan, the Maryland system's chancellor, said colleges could make the case for greater public financing by proving they can be good stewards of public money. The state-college system saved $40-million over a two-year period by increasing faculty teaching loads, negotiating lower energy prices, and consolidating administrative functions, he said. In response, the state legislature raised the system's appropriation by 6 percent this year, and has promised a similar increase next year. Also at the conference, which concludes today, David L. Kirp, a professor of public policy at the University of California at Berkeley, discussed how colleges brand themselves in a competitive marketplace. Colleges should identify their individual strengths, rather than spend money trying to compete "across the board," said Mr. Kirp, who is the author of Shakespeare, Einstein, and the Bottom Line: The Marketing of Higher Education (Harvard University Press, 2003). "Every school can't have a Sweet 16 basketball team," he said. "There are only 16 of them." As an example of a college that has found its niche, Mr. Kirp pointed to DeVry Inc., a for-profit education company that provides business and technical training, primarily to first-generation college students, at sites around the country. DeVry graduates more black electrical engineers than any other institution in the United States. Harvard University could do that, Mr. Kirp said, "but it's not on their radar screen, it's not in their business model." Faculty Revolt in Indiana Writer: Rob Capriccioso 11/4/2005 Inside Higher Education Faculty members at Indiana University's flagship campus say they need a chancellor. Adam Herbert is finding out how little patience they have left as he approaches a third straight year without selecting a permanent Bloomington campus chancellor -- a powerful position that carries with it the responsibilities of senior vice president of academic affairs for all Indiana University campuses. "Incompetent," "overwhelmed" and "indecisive" were all words used by various professors and students to describe Herbert in interviews Thursday. After dozens of faculty members signed various critical letters addressed to Herbert, expressing concern with his decision this week not to select one of three possible candidates nominated by a 23-member search committee, several influential professors organized a meeting Thursday night to discuss Herbert's leadership. Out of 125 faculty members who participated in a straw poll at the meeting, 103 expressed "no confidence" in Herbert's leadership, while 22 abstained. Some professors argued that the reputation of the institution has dramatically fallen under the watch of Herbert. "There is a growing and undeniable realization among the faculty on the Bloomington campus that the university is floundering under the leadership of President Herbert," according to a letter sent Wednesday to the university's trustees, signed by many of the attendees. "Indiana University can no longer afford to be patient with President Herbert and his continued missteps and inaction in the academic arena." "The question of how he's doing his job ought to be investigated by the board," said Fred Cate, a law professor who moderated the Thursday gathering. "Up until this point, trustees have responded to Herbert critics with 'no, he's great.'" Several faculty members said Thursday night that they would press the board for a review of Herbert's performance as soon as possible. Currently in his third year with the university, Herbert isn't scheduled for review until he reaches his fifth year in office. The Board of Trustees convened Thursday in Richmond, Ind. with President Herbert for a previously scheduled meeting. None of the members responded to requests for interviews. Spokesman Larry MacIntyre said that Herbert would not speak about the hiring process, indicating the president was confident that taking extra time to make a decision would lead to better outcomes for the institution. With Herbert's dismissal of the search committee's selected candidates for chancellor, it's expected to be another six months before someone permanently fills the position. It will take still more months for that person to become familiarized with the university, if he or she is an outside candidate. Ken Gros Louis remains the campus's interim chancellor. A faculty member who wished to remain anonymous said that that Gros Louis is "much loved as chancellor," but one who remains "fairly low-key." "I think the widely shared perception is that we need an aggressive, enthusiastic, innovative chancellor," said Cate. One known candidate selected by the search committee was Kumble (Swamy) Subbaswamy, dean of Indiana's College of Arts and Sciences. Two other candidates from outside the university were also passed over by Herbert, said faculty members. Having developed a strong relationship with the dean during his tenure, many professors were incredulous that Herbert could not support Subbaswamy as a final choice. "The president's decision to re-open the search process is both troubling and difficult to fathom," according to the letter sent to trustees. "There [was] a superb internal candidate with a proven track record of excellence. A large portion of the Bloomington faculty cannot understand how such a candidate could have been overlooked." Sources close to Subbaswamy said that they expect him to resign, leaving the university with yet another crucial post unfilled. Subbaswamy did not respond to requests for comment. According to MacIntyre, Herbert has not been surprised by the backlash from some faculty members. "He was very aware that there was a campaign for a certain candidate and that some people would be disappointed if he didn't pick that candidate," said the spokesman. "Still, he wants to do what he thinks is best for the university." But concerns about Herbert appear to stem beyond affection for Subbaswamy. "Since taking office the only times I have seen President Adam Herbert, it has been at sporting events," wrote W. Harvey Hegarty, a professor of business administration in a July letter to a local newspaper. "When President Herbert does not show up, cancels appointments, or sends one of several other university officers to represent him, he is sending this clear message, 'You are not important to me.' This is not a minor problem." "I am concerned with the president's leadership of the university," added Cate. "Indiana is facing lots of challenges -- financial issues, competition with other universities -- and many faculty feel that he just hasn't shown much initiative in terms of identifying and attacking such issues." MacIntyre said he couldn't characterize the president's feelings regarding faculty members who have asked for his resignation. Faculty members interviewed for this article said it pained them to speak out against Herbert, since they realize this could make their institution look bad. Students, too, have expressed concern with Herbert's leadership, although not in nearly an organized fashion as have faculty members. One source affiliated with The Indiana Daily Student said that many students feel that Herbert isn't doing enough to compete with Purdue University, both in terms of academics and athletics. Even students who have worked closely with the president, like Alexander Shortle, the student body president and a member of the selection committee, note some leadership issues relating to Herbert. "He should have been more innovative -- I was very critical of his first years in office," said Shortle. "But I think he's turning things around now." When asked what he meant, Shortle said: "Clearly, President Herbert didn't think the finalists we selected for the position were a perfect fit, and he's looking for a perfect fit. I respect that he has a strong feeling of what is right for the school." Sharon Tanabe, a presidential search consultant at Spencer Stuart -- which is playing no role in the Indiana search -- said Thursday that striving for perfection can be a downfall to a successful search process. "Sometimes the optimum is not embodied in one person," she said. "And you've got to realize that an indecision could be worse for your institution than going with someone who's been extensively vetted." The 'Crisis' in Higher Ed Financing Writer: Doug Lederman 11/4/2005 Inside Higher Education Anyone in search of a metaphor for the difficult financial and political situation facing American higher education had a slew to choose from at a conference on the business of higher education on Thursday. College officials are standing on a tightrope, said Stanley O. Ikenberry, trying to balance concurrent pressures to increase student access, control tuition and costs, and deal with declining financial support from governments and other traditional sources. Or they are are heading down a river with Class 5 rapids on an inner tube, "holding on for dear life" as they grapple with those new technologies, etc., as David Kirp described. Or, to use James Hearn's analogy, perhaps colleges and universities are like frogs in a pot of water that is slowly heating up as the institutions incrementally create new (and market-driven) streams of revenue, barely noticing -- until it's too late -- how commercial they've become. Do colleges risk becoming too driven by business forces, asked Hearn. (In other words, has the frog boiled?) The TIAA-CREF Institute, the pension giant's research arm, brought a high-powered group of college administrators, scholars of higher education and other policy makers together for a two-day conference, entitled "The New Balancing Act in the Business of Higher Education," at which they grappled with a dizzying array of big picture questions about the current state and future prospects of the American college system. This is getting to be a trend: The TIAA-CREF conference followed by a day a Lumina Foundation session on college costs and came as an Education Department commission on higher education is getting into gear. That these various conversations are all taking place is no coincidence: College leaders, politicians and others are increasingly coming to the view that a crisis is brewing for American higher education, driven by a set of concerns that include the country's ebbing economic and technological competitiveness internationally; continuing socioeconomic inequity in terms of access to college, at a time of significant population growth driven largely by lower-income and educationally underprepared young people; and a steady buzz of political noise about colleges' rising prices and the factors that drive them up. "The nation is in the early stages of a national crisis on higher education," said William E. (Brit) Kirwan, chancellor of the University System of Maryland, one of several panelists at the TIAA-CREF session who had participated the day before at the Lumina conference. "Our hope and expectation is that through all this discussion, some ideas will emerge for some innovative solutions that can begin to address the problems that are at the root of this crisis. This situation is either a wake-up call for our nation or the harbinger of our worst nightmare -- that depends on how our nation responds." Although not all participants agreed on the exact elements of the crisis -- there was extended debate, for instance, about whether state governments have really reduced their support for public colleges, and if so, by how much -- the general thrust of the daylong discussion was that most colleges face a dicey financial future (if not present). That's because colleges are confronted by a decline (or at least leveling off) of state and federal government support, and a sense that they can go only so far in replacing those funds by raising tuition before completely alienating politicians and the public. And while they are increasingly turning to alternative sources of revenues, such as licensing, technology transfer and online programs, or experimenting with tactics such as charging different tuitions for different programs, those options are fraught with their own potential problems, various panelists argued. In a paper prepared for the conference, Hearn, a professor of public policy and higher education at Vanderbilt University, said that college officials needed to explore such options, but to do so carefully. "Increasing marketization is probably inevitable in U.S. higher education, but that inevitability does not warrant abandoning vigilance over core values that may be imperiled, such as those favoring faculty and institutional autonomy," he wrote. David Kirp, professor of public policy at the University of California at Berkeley, spoke about his 2003 book, Shakespeare, Einstein, and the Bottom Line ( Harvard University Press), and a set of institutions that he described as "problematic successes" -- colleges that had transformed themselves in some meaningful way, either through technology or a change in business practices, and thrived, but sometimes at a real cost. He spoke most positively about the 15 Southern college classics departments, individually facing declining enrollments if not extinction, that collaborated to jointly offer classes through use of technology and sharing of resources; the effort's big problem was scheduling. He also heralded -- at the risk of "being taken by the collar and thrown out of the room" of representatives of traditional higher education -- thework done by the for-profit colleges of DeVry, Inc., which he said "graduates more African-American engineers than any other institution in the United States" and "pays their teachers a whole lot more than you pay your adjuncts." The limits to DeVry's model, Kirp said,is that it offers degrees only in those disciplines for which there's "an immediate bottom line profit." Kirp was far more critical of the move to independence from state regulation and financing by the University of Virginia's graduate business school, which was made possible in large part by dependence on an executive education program that leaned heavily on proprietary information from the companies of its students -- information that UVa instructors could never share with the undergraduate and graduate students they teach. Nothing could be "more antithetical" to the principles of higher education than that compromise, Kirp said. So what are American college leaders to do, besides move cautiously in exploring new sources of revenue? Amid the flurry of ideas, some rough consensus emerged. First, institutions must spend their financial aid more wisely, in ways that will allow them to better accommodate the huge numbers of low-income and academically underprepared students that will be increasingly showing up at their gates and doors in the next decade. Several panelists cited the statistic that more than 75 percent of students in the country's top economic quartile now get a higher education, compared to well under 10 percent of those in the lowest quartile. Kirwan of Maryland noted that the proportion of institutional financial aid that is awarded based on students' financial need had declined from 90 percent in 1990 to about 60 percent now, and he and others argued that colleges must shift back in the other direction, toward aid based on need rather than academic merit, or "we are truly at risk as a nation of destroying the American dream of upward mobility." He and others, including F. King Alexander, president of Murray State University, argued that colleges must take meaningful steps to cut costs, to show lawmakers and the public that academic leaders can be good stewards of their funds. And they must do so, they said, not just by "cutting budgets" in the haphazard way that colleges often do. Ikenberry, former president of the American Council on Education, noted with irony that upon returning to the faculty at the University of Illinois after a long career as an administrator, he had "become a radical" who can only shake his head at how the "nonsensical administration" responds to financial restrictions. "We wait until we get cut in state budget, and then we eliminate every faculty position that happens to be open at that particular point in time," with a "randomness" that strikes everyone as "fair and equitable" but is thoroughly unstrategic. If college and university leaders bolster aid for low-income students and cut costs in a meaningful way, Ikenberry and others said, they should be able to more effectively make the case to state and federal policy makers and politicians, and the public, for "reestablishing higher education as a national priority for public investment." Several panelists discussed a previously announced plan by the American Council on Education to do just that, through a coordinated lobbying effort aimed at restoring public trust in the college system. Several of the speakers questioned whether a campaign to seek more public funds had any chance of success, given the tough competition for both federal and state funds from elementary and secondary education, health care costs, and other (more pressing?) needs. David Longanecker, executive director of the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education, noted that every state projects structural budget deficits by 2013. Added David Breneman, dean of the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia: "I just don't see state government coming back." He and Kirp said there was one creative way that the government (or at least the legal system) might be able to help. In the "amenities arms race" in which colleges feel pressure to keep up with other institutions by offering ever fancier dorm rooms, student centers and other facilities, Kirp and Breneman said, no individual institution believes that it can afford to act on its own. But colleges have been leery of talking about steps they might take together ever since a group of elite Eastern colleges faced federal antitrust scrutiny for jointly setting financial aid policies in the 1980s. Perhaps, Kirp told those in the audience, they should assemble the best antitrust law experts on their faculties to figure out what kinds of common stances the institutions might take that would allow them to act cooperatively to jointly cut their costs (or their tuitions) without crossing the line into anticompetitive behavior. "That would be a cheap investment for this organization: to bring them together to figure out what the 'Yes' answer is on a whole array of issues. Then you'd just have to figure out whether you have the fortitude to do it." |