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Nance named head coach at Iowa State University

Coach J oe Hall watches a UK game with former assistant coach Lynn Nance. center.
who was named head basketball coach at Iowa State University Saturday. Hall and
Nance are pictured with assistant coach Leonard Hamilton.

Payton

Popular Kernel columnist finds satire difficult, but satisfying

By STEVE BALLlNGER
Kernel Staff Writer

Probably the most interesting thing about Scott
Payton’s column, “Ten Years On," is that Payton is not
the author. Well, not really.

“The character of Scott Payton in the column is a
persona," as Payton describes him. “It’s not totally me,
but it’s a part of me. If I was nothing but the guy who
writes that column, I wouldn’t want to be around me very
much."

Payton’s protagonist has become familiar, if not
popular, through his weekly unique commentary in
Wednesday’s Kernel. Payton, though, was a good deal
more serious about writing and other subjects in an in-
terview at a noisy bar last week. Of average height and
slightly heavy build, Payton looks just like the photograph
with his column: moderately long brown hair, full beard
and moustache, and wire-rim glasses.

Payton says he tries to use the column to provoke
reaction or at lea st thought in the minds of his readers. “I
don’t want any middle ground. I would rather everybody
hate my column than have everybody accept, tolerate and
yawn about it.”

He describes the persona ‘who “writes" the column as a
first-person figment of imagination; “a guy with
heightened sensitivity who walks around drunk and
stoned a lot."

An “undisciplined" novelist, Payton, 23, took the job of
unpaid columnist to force himself to write on deadline.
“It‘s like writing a short story every week,” Payton says,
“I don’t just go through the newspaper and pick out a few
things and comment on them. . . lcreate a new column
every week out of my experience."

The conversation is interrupted when a friend of
Payton’s named Rex drops by. Rex has had a few drinks
and is eager to discuss the advantages of circumcision.
Unaccountably, he draws a pistol from his vest pocket and
waves it above his head, grinning.

Hy Jor: KEMP
Kernel Staff Writer

Lynn Nance. the UK assistant basketball
coach who was named Iowa State
University (ISU) head coach Saturday.
apparently likes challenges.

An FBl agmt for three years. and later
serving as an NCAA investigator. Nance
came to UK at the beginning of the 1974-75
season. He helped turn a 1974 13-13
ballclub into the 1975 national runner-up.

ranks and also bring in some Iowa fresh-
men.

“But I owe a great deal to Joe Hall. He
gave me the opportunity to get back into
coaching. UK is fortunate to have one of
the great coaches in the country. I’ll miss
him and the Kentucky fans."

Nance coached for two years at the
University of Washington in the mid—60’s.

Meanwhile, 800 miles away in Oxford,
Miss, Joe Hall returned Nance‘s com-
pliments.

But Nance‘s new job offers him a real
challenge—a team with a 1975 2-23 record.
And currently the school‘s wrestling squad
outdraws the basketball team.,

“They tlSUl have all the ingredients to
have a winning program," Nance said by
phone from Ames, Iowa Saturday night.

' “It‘s a very good school academically and
the facility for sports (the Minidome) is

just beautiful."

“Ly nn wa s a great addition to our team.
He's a very capable man,“ he said. “He
did a good job as assistant and I know he‘ll
do a good job at Iowa State."

’l‘wo Wildcats also had nothing but
compliments for Nance. Junior guard
Larry Johnson said, "I'm happy that he
got the job. He was certainly well
qualified. I know he has helped me in my
game since I've been here.“

The 32—year-old Nance said he wouldn't

lure any UK recruits to Iowa State.

“I think it would be unethical for me to
sign people that I helped recruit for
“I feel a strong
loyalty toward UK. I feel they are maybe
two players away from a national

Kentucky," he said.

championship.

Payton irnplores him to put it away. Rex leaves after
getting permission to trade the pistol, which belongs to
Payton, for a .45 automatic if he gets the chance.

“I don’t think he could kill somebody now,” Payton
says, unworried, “But ldon’t know what he’d do if he was
sober."

Why have a gun?

“People are trying to kill me,” he says facetiously.
“Well , my apartment's been robbeda couple of times, and

SCOTT PAYTON

“I‘ll have to go to the junior college

Also senior guard Reggie Warford said,
“He's a great coach. 1 wouldn’t call him
super ambitious, though. He's strict. He
settled me down—definitely.

“His specialty was working with the big
men," Warford added. “See how Mike
Phillips has developed. 1 wish Coach
Nance the best."

there are peqile who might be muggers."

Returning to safer talk about “Ten Years On," Payton
confirms that the character of frequently-quoted Simian
Medulla is a real person.

“He might be my best friend right now,” Payton says.
“With Simian, it’s hard to tell because he might be gone
for a month on some incredible drunk; but he’s a sharp
guy and writes good poetry.”

Payton says his titles of ”speculator” and “former
boxing promoter” identify his two favorite pursuits. For a
while, much of his income came from gambling, and his
occupation read “speculator” on tax forms. Gamblers
also have to report income to avoid tax evasion raps, he
explained.

Payton’s boxing interests were aimed mostly at
establishing a boxing club in either Frankfort or
Louisville, which would have regularly scheduled bouts.
Aformer amateur fighter, himself, Payton abandoned his
efforts for lack of financial backing.

Payton says his heroes include Norman Mailer, Ernest
Hemingway and Ken Kesey, whom he met and discussed
literature with last year.

“He’s what you’d expect from a novelist who’s made
it,” Payton says of Kesey. “He's hassled, he doesn’t want
to talk to people much. . .like the stoned-out hippies who
want to see the Father of Acid."

Payton was born in Frankfort and attended Frankfort
High School. He graduated from UK in 1973. While still in
high school. Payton mailed a manuscript to Rolling
Stone, then still in its early days, and and was asked to
provide freelance coverage of events in Kentucky and
Ohio.

“Before the Rolling Stone got so slick and commercial,
you could do creative writing under the guise of jour-
nalism," he said. His association with Rolling Stone
ended when he needed more time at college.

Despite his active pursuits in writing, Payton says he is
disappointed with journalism today.

Continued on page 3

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Associate Editor

ERA needs
four more
states

The Equal Rights Amendment
(E RA) will almost certainly not be
rescinded in Kentucky this bien-
nium.

As predicted, the bill to rescind
got th rough the house, but has been
more or less stopped by the senate.

The Senate Elections and Con-
stitutional Amendments Com-
mittee does plan more ERA
hearings this week, but the
likelihood is that the rescission bill
will remain in the committee.

However, the ERA is still four
states away from ratification. And
although rescission has been
stopped in Kentud Plus Xll worked

especially to develop this power, con-
demning the Nazis in over 40 public
speeches. .

Smiihémaﬂiiuriher reports that the
"great Am heartlarfwled'r by 05¢
Catholic Church" are not crying for

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starving children. I suggest he look into
any one of several Catholic relief funds.
The church sponsors organizations to feed
American Indian children and other
starving people in many corners of the
globe. Check outthe Campaign for Human
Development, for instance.

Sm itherman a lso mentions the "stiff and
bloodied corpses in Beirut and lreland."
The church has publicly condemned the
fighting in both areas.

Hellfire and damnation for sex for
pleasure? That alnmtle gamma either.
Smitherman. Check it out with someone
who knows a little more about Catholicism

than you obviously do. Catholic "scut-
tlefish" don’t want to reduce women to
second-class citizens with no control over
their lives. The unborn deserve some
protection as citizens too. Someone has to
protect their lives. Mass of un-
differentiated cells? Check a biology text!

That we cannot adequately feed half the
world now is hardly to blame on the
church. Consider the tiny percehtage ot
the world‘s population that is Catholic. In
starving middle- and far-eastern lands
there are virtually no Catholics. Certainly
these people have little or no regard for
church ruling! Smitherman’s logic on this

point fallsfrom the realm of ridiculous into
downright silly.

I would have thought this severe form of
ignorant preiudice was restricted to the
ignorant—not to one who has allegedly
received three years of college-level
education.

Smitherman, as all of us, has every right
to express his opinion. However, he would
have been better off to research his
premises a little more thoroughly.

Jo Lux is a sophomore maioring in history
and iournalsm.

EEO

Payton finds satire

difficult, satisfying

Continued from page 1

American journalism had
nothing to be proud of until 1968.
when Mailer wrote “The Armies
of the Night.“ American jour-
nalism is so superﬁcial. There
are so many things to say about
what‘s going on. The total ob-
jectivity that journalism has
insisted upon really cuts up the
meat of what the story‘s about,"
he says.

Currently, Payton says he
spends much of his time thinking
about changing consciousness in
the 60‘s and student protest, the
subjects of his novel in progress.
The title ofhiscolumn also comes
from events of a decade ago,
when he feels protests and
rebellion reached their zenith.
“After that,” Payton feels, “It
was just a great big party."

Payton says activists like
himself who tried to keep their
thinking in the same political
perspective fared little better.
“We took everything so damn
seriously, it got to be where we

were just parodies of our former
selves.“

Payton believes today‘s college
students are lazy and make poor
activists. “I hate the idea that
they’re just sitting out there
getting their degrees in ac-
counting.“ Still. Payton thinks
the people he criticizes most in
the column are “thepeople I have
most in common with. I’m
merciless on hippies and political
activists."

Wielding a satirical needle is
fun and satisfying. according to
Payton, but is also difficult to do
every week. “It‘s getting to be
quite a grind. I put in a couple of
nights (a week) on it," he said.
“It takes so much out of me that
I‘ve neglected my novel."

Payton says that the column
will probably not be continued
next semester. partly because of
the time and work it requires, but
also because his enthusiasm has
diminished. “l ‘m disgusted with
it about half the time."

‘Women in Perspective'
focused on concerns

The purpose of the Women in
Perspective Workshop held this
weekend. was to educate women
about women‘s concerns and to
give them a sense of a women‘s
community.

“The workshop gave women a
chance to get together and
discuss topics concerning
women.“ said Sherry Allen,
chairperson of the Council on
Women‘s (‘oncerns (CWC).

The CVVt‘sponsored workshop
offered women a chance to

realize they have something to
offer other people, Allen said.
Council members hope the

workshop will become an annual
event.

Workshop speakers Feb. 27
included poets Jane Vance. Ann
Maxwell a nd Jean Feraca. Small
workshops were held Feb. 28 to
discu$ women‘s concerns. UK
faculty members and various
community members spoke at
the workshops.

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