The Courier-Journal from Louisville, Kentucky • Page 8

Church will mark anniversary with year of events The Rev. Robert Kitten-dorf is looking forward to Lynnhurst United Church of Christ's 150th-anniversa-ry celebration. Page B2 She touriier-Smmal Saturday, January 6, 2001 Religion news B2 Kentucky and the Region B4 Weather B4 Briefs B4 Deaths B5 9 iro Editor: Jean Porter jporter Phone: 582-4691 Fax: 582-4200 www.courier-journal.com wit) Sw Sswim gus mmm Police say he impersonated law officer terday evening and was expected to be booked into the Jefferson County Jail. The incidents occurred Dec. 10 and 15, Thompson said.

Because Harvell worked as a security officer, investigators believe it "afforded him the opportunity to mislead women into thinking that he was a police officer," Thompson said. A 24-year-old woman said that on Dec. 10, a man pulled her over at Seventh and St. The man then drove the woman to another location and forced her out of the SUV, Thompson said. The victim contacted police several days later, Thompson said.

Detectives had been questioning people who knew Harvell before he turned himself in, Thompson said. Thompson commended the "victims who stood up to be counted and had the courage to come forward." Anthony Harvell, 43, was charged with rape, sodomy, kidnapping and impersonating a public servant. He turned himself in yesterday afternoon. police officer, stopped two women and then raped them in separate incidents last month. Anthony Harvell, 43, was charged with two counts each of first-degree rape, kidnapping and impersonating a public servant and one count of sodomy.

Harvell turned himself in to police yesterday afternoon, said Capt. Steve Thompson, commander of the Louisville police Criminal Investigation Section. Harvell was in custody yes- Catherine streets, displayed a gun and told her to get into his vehicle, according to a police report. She was taken to the 800 block of Magazine Street, where she was raped and forced out of the vehicle, according to the report. On Dec.

15, a 23-year-old woman was picked up at Floyd and Oak streets by a man in a sport utility vehicle, a police report said. The man produced a badge and a pistol and told her he would arrest her if she didn't cooperate, the report said. The woman was driven to the rear of the EMW Women's Surgical Center on East Market Street, where the man entered a fenced area by punching in a code on the keypad, an arrest report said. The man then took the woman to a room, placed a gun on a table in front of her and sodomized and raped her, according to the report. By SHANNON TANGONAN The Courier-Journal Louisville police yesterday charged a security guard who they say passed himself off as a 2001 Kentucky General Assembly College officials ease wait to register School doubles workers, tackles computer glitches Democrats take hits in Senate GOP reshuffles assignments after deal fails wwas jtBiMfA.

-St 1 PHOTOS BY MICHAEL CLEVENGER, THE COURIER-JOURNAL The design for the second phase of Waterfront Park's development envisions a cafe in this area along Louisville's riverfront. A campaign to raise private money will get its official start soon. Drive to expand park gearing up By AL CROSS C-J Political Writer FRANKFORT, Ky. The General Assembly wrapped up its time to organize yesterday with an outburst of party discord that gave Eastern Kentucky two Senate budget committee seats at the expense of Western Kentucky. On the House budget panel, meantime, Jefferson County lost a seat and an Eastern Kentucky legislator, Rep.

Rocky Adkins of Sandy Hook, was named to head the powerful budget subcommittee on transportation. Women were appointed to the two seats that women had held on the House budget panel, and two women were named to the previously all-male House Rules Committee. A woman also was added to the previously all-male Senate budget committee. In a day of committee assignments, Senate Democrats got the short end of the stick be- $13.75 million sought from private sources ASSOCIATED PRESS Reps. Robin Webb, left, and Ruth Ann Palumbo looked over committee assignments on the House floor yesterday.

cause of a disagreement with Republicans who took control of the Senate a year ago. When the legislative session began Tuesday, Republicans abolished a rule allowing each party to pick its members for Senate committee slots but agreed to continue the practice See SENATE Back page, col. 1, this section RENDERINGS COURTESY OF HARGREAVES ASSOCIATES A terraced seating area would go to the water's edge. terfront Park, dubbed Louisville's new front door. The park's "extraordinary acceptance has surpassed all our expectations," Karem sajd.

Although costs won't be final until spring, the estimated cost of the next phase will be $30 million to $35 million. Work could begin late this year, Karem said, with development over four or five years. This phase will include construction of a large playground, cafe, amphitheater, rowing center, parking and walking paths, along with extensive open space, the retention of Towhead Island just offshore as a preserve and, as the centerpiece, the Big Four Bridge's conversion into a walkway to Indiana. The waterfront agency's board has approved a budget of $40 million for this phase. If all the necessary funding isn't arranged, the plan would be scaled back, officials said.

Any money See CAMPAIGN Page 3, col. 1, this section Bill would end tests of auto emissions By SHELDON S.SHAFER The Courier-Journal With much of the land in hand, a design in place and significant public-sector money secured, officials are gearing up to raise $13.75 million from private sources for a 34-acre upriver expansion of Waterfront Park. The capital campaign won't officially start for another month or so, but about $2 million already has been pledged toward the private fund drive for Waterfront Park's second phase, said David Karem, president of the Waterfront Development Corp. The first phase, completed in 1999, cost $58 million about $18 million from private sources, with the rest largely in government funds. Last year, more than 1 million people visited Wa By HOLLY CORYELL The Courier-Journal Lines weren't quite as long yesterday as they were Thursday for students trying to register for classes at Jefferson Community and Technical Colleges.

But the situation was still far from acceptable, a state official said. The registrar's office borrowed employees from other offices and hired temporary workers to more than double staff in an effort to ease congestion at the two registration centers. On Thursday, students had to wait as long as seven hours because of computer and staffing problems. The downtown center, at Second Street and Broadway, houses a one-stop process for student services such as registration and financial aid. It was touted as a time- and frustration-saver for students when it opened in October.

Previously, such services were scattered among various buildings. Still, students said Thursday that the process took less time under that system. To help with the new process, the Kentucky Community and Technical College System provided four computer specialists yesterday, said Tony Newberry, chancellor of the system. "I'm satisfied that we made a strong and good-faith effort to improve things today but the lines were still very long today, much longer than is acceptable to us," Newberry said. Part of the problem has been a new computer system that all community and technical colleges in Kentucky started using last year, Newberry said.

None of the other colleges in the system have had the registration problems that Jefferson has had, he said. In fact, Jefferson didn't have such problems during registration for summer ana fall courses last year, when the computer system was first used, Newberry said. But Newberry said he expects this will be the last time Jefferson students will experience such delays. Next month, the community and technical college system hopes to have an online registration process in place, he said. Both Newberry and JCTC President Richard Green said an increase in students also contributed to the long lines.

Enrollment has grown about 12 percent, to more than 11,000 students, since fall 1999, the largest increase in the state system, Newberry said. "It speaks to the thousands of students who are interested in registering at the college, and I'm very pleased about that," Green said. "One person's problem is another person's opportunity." But Newberry said the college should have planned for that growth. A line of students, many of whom said they had been waiting for four hours early yesterday afternoon, snaked its way around the registration room on the first floor of the Jefferson Education Center. But lines were not backed up to the door of the building, as they were at 6 p.m.

Thursday. "I've never stood in line this long, and I know that I have a long time to go," said Deidre rj Hill, 20, of Louisville, who had been waiting for two hours. "It's frustrating." "We're hungry, we're thirsty, and we're tired," said Cathy See LINES 1 Page 3, col. 1, this section ill I 'i, i 'A 1 The Big Four Bridge would be a walkway to Indiana. early 1980s after the EPA mandated it in areas with high levels of air pollution.

Senate Bill 48 would do away with emissions testings during 2003. Seum said he believes the amount of pollution generated by automobiles is small because the vast majority of cars pass the tests. He said the EPA rarely enforces sanctions, such as the loss of road-building money, in states that opt out of such tests. Rep. Jim Wayne, D-Louis-ville, called the bill "a stupid idea," since testing is required by the federal government.

He also said that the government could limit industrial expansion if testing is eliminated and that increasing pollution could harm the quality of life. House Speaker Pro Tem Larry Clark, D-Okolona, said he, too, worries that such a bill could harm industry. "We'll have to shut down some of the factories," he said. Staff writer Al Cross contributed to this story. By JOSEPH GERTH The Courier-Journal FRANKFORT, Ky.

A Jefferson County legislator proposed a bill yesterday to do away with vehicle emissions testing throughout the state. Sen. Dan Seum, R-Louisville, said such testing doesn't reduce air pollution and is a waste of money for people who must pay to have their cars tested. Seum called the program "a horror story" and "a monster." Seum said he thinks the bill will pass the Senate but acknowledged it may have more difficulty in the House, where Democratic leaders have blocked bills that they believe are bad for the environment. The only vehicle testing programs are in Jefferson County and Northern Kentucky.

But new U.S. Environmental Protection Agency rules could mean that some of Kentucky's other metropolitan areas would be forced to begin testing. The state called on counties with pollution problems to institute vehicle testing in the A sign indicates plans for one part of the riverfront. In the background at left is the Big Four Bridge. A children's play area is part of the plan.

of grad expected to interview for UK presidency Gregory Geoffroy is University of Maryland provost Wickliffe said. Tim McDonough, a spokesman for the American Council on Education, said provosts and other high-ranking university officials want to keep their candidacies private during such searches because publicity might affect their work at their home institution. "You work to build relationships with donors, with foundations, with faculty, with senior provost at the University of Maryland and a 1968 UofL graduate, is expected to meet with a 13-member UK search committee in Cincinnati. Kentucky high-tech entrepreneur Lee T. Todd is also expected to interview for the job, in addition to at least one other candidate.

Meanwhile, Karen Holbrook, the provost at the University of Georgia, who was also invited to meet with the committee, is no longer pursuing the JoEtta Wickliffe, a UK trustee who is chairwoman of the search committee, declined to comment on Holbrook. In the past, however, and in a statement issued Thursday evening, Wickliffe expressed concern that candidates would withdraw their names if they were made public before the committee forwards its choice or choices to the board of trustees for the final decision. "At this point I don't know who's going to show up (for interviews) and who's not." "I'm very happy with being at the University of Georgia," she said. Holbrook acknowledged that she had spoken with members of the search committee last fall, but she would not say when she stopped being a candidate. "I'll let the search committee reveal what it wants to reveal about the process," she said.

The Courier-Journal reported Thursday that Holbrook and Todd were among those invited to interview for the job By MARK PITSCH The Courier-Journal A University of Louisville graduate has been asked to interview today for the presidency of the University of Kentucky. Gregory L. Geoffroy, the Gregory Geoffroy, left, the University of Maryland provost, and entrepreneur Lee T. Todd are expected to interview w'th UK trustees. See of this section Buck pni'P rol.