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Monday, January 22, 2001 OnCampus/News   UK students question Lee Todd during forum   MELISSA PATTERSON | KERNEL STAFF   Todd answered questions from students at Worsham Theater during his visit to UK on Friday. Ben Adkins STAFF WRITER   Students were overwhelmingly responsive to Lee Todd, UK's final presidential candidate to be interviewed, at Friday afternoon's forum.   A wide array of questions were asked of Todd, a Hopkins County native, during the hour-long meeting.   Increased interaction between the president and the students, as well as UK branching out across the nation to make it a Top 20 public research university, dominated the discussion.   One student asked Todd how UK would be represented in other parts of the nation in order to catapult it to Top 20 status.   "We've got to get people around the country to know that we're on the move, that we're a player to the point that we get a national conversation going, and not about basketball," Todd responded.   Todd was also asked what the biggest challenges were in making UK a well-known university and how he would combat these challenges.   "We've got to market, we've got to get those people in here."   Todd also noted that one can count the technology companies in Lexington on two hands, and said he had discussed a plan with the governor to issue Kentucky Derby tickets to CEOs of large companies such as Intel in an attempt to draw attention to the state and University.   A member of SGA asked Todd if he would consider helping to change the dry campus alcohol policy at UK.   "I'd be willing to sit down and talk with you and I think that's the right way to do these things," he said.   He also cited a recent incident at MIT in which the school paid $6 million to the family of a student who died as a result of binge drinking as an example of why alcohol policies are such a big concern.   Others were concerned about support and funding for programs such as the arts.   "You don't have a great university by having a lop-sided university," Todd said.   After the forum some students were still concerned about his dedication to arts programs.   Amy Shelton, a Spanish and linguistics senior, is one such student.   "I think he has lots of excellent ideas and goals in terms of the state," she said. "But everything he said was about computers and business, and being a liberal arts major, I can't relate with him."   Katusha de Villiers, an English history sophomore, agrees.   "I thought he placed way too much emphasis on technology," she said. "And although he did answer the questions, he didn't really touch on liberal arts a great deal."   Current Headlines OnCampus/News

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