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10, 1970

UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY, LEXINGTON

Students Picket
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"Playing with the
Do the recruiters ever talk legislators who tend to political
be unabout strip mining as such to organized and lacking real desire
the students?
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"Our job is to recruit, not to
talk about strip mining."
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Jerry Thornton, president of the Environmental
Awareness Society, presented a petition to Michael
Hubbard, Bethlehem Steel College Relations representative, asking that the corporation stop strip
mining in Eastern Kentucky. As a Bethlehem
Steel recruiter at UK, Hubbard interviewed nearly 25 students Monday. Almost 100 marchers

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By GEORGE JEPSON
Managing Editor
UK President Otis A. Singletary made a surprise appearance
before the University Senate during Monday's regularly scheduled
meeting to issue a "progress re- -,
port" on the proposed budget
and its path through the state

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watched the presentation in front of the Old
Agriculture Building that afternoon. Hubbard
promised that the petition composed of over 700
names would be taken to the "proper authorities."
Thornton demanded that it be taken to the Bethlehem Steel executive board, but Hubbard would not
Kernel Photo by Dick Ware
promise this.

"They've just about cut us
as deep as we can go," he said
in reference to the executive budget proposal. "It's a remarkable
cutback from what we had asked.
We're cut right down to the
marrow, not just the bone."
He emphasized that the proposed budget was "not even a

years.
No Budget Cuts

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Plans March

He concluded that the University could survive on the budget
as it now appeared, but that
"any further cuts and we will
have to move from a budget which
cannot be considered an expansion budget to a budget that
can be described as a disaster
budget."
The UK president mentioned
two facets of the entrance of the

University of Louisville into the
state system which he said particularly bothered him the aspects of finances and authoriza-

tion.
First, he said the inclusion
of U of L in the budget, without an increase in the overall
budget for the state system, necessitated the taking of funds
from existing institutions.
Concerning the authorization
of a
state university at Louisville, he took exception to a bill currently on the
Senate floor in Frankfort which
states that the U of L will continue to be the primary agent
for urban research.
"I don't see how it can continue to be what it is not already," Dr. Singletary said. "I
"full-blow-

would not like to see this University cut off or severely limited in research."
Questions
He said that if positive answers could not be given to two
key questions, he would have no
alternative but to oppose the concept of the U of L as a state
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Student Petition Circulated
Against Futrell's Veto

By DON EC ER JR.

Kernel Staff Writer
A proposed

chairman.
The application for a parade
permit will be submitted to the
entire SMC where the group will
decide exactly w hat route they intend to walk. Two routes have
been proposed the first would
begin at the Frankln County
gymnasium, and the alternate
plan would start from the old
Capitol building.
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continuation budget" and did
legislature.
Dr. Singletary, who had just not approach the financial needs
returned from a meeting of the of expansion.
Council on Public Higher EduHe said he was concerned
cation in Frankfort, spoke regret- that the budget would not provide for the expanded faculty
fully of the shape that the University's budget appeared to be and staff which he said would
be necessary to meet the needs
taking.
of expanded student enrollment
expected during the next two

Support

Committee (SMC) Monday evening in the Student Center.
Approximately 25 students attended the session with Charles
Brannen, law student, as acting

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Singletary Reports Budget Cut

Outside the building, group

protest march at
Frankfort headed the agenda discussed by the recreation committee of the Student Mobilization

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By JEANNIE ST. CHARLES
representatives from Eastern
Assistant Managing Editor
Kentucky were protesting with
the students. Some Appalachian
stuNearly 100 poster-carryin- g
dents marched in front of the Volunteers, a group that works
Old Agriculture Building yesterwith the poor people of Appa-lachimarched along.
day protesting Bethlehem Steel
Members of the Knot County's
Corp.'s strip mining in Eastern
Kentucky. Wearing green arm- Appalachian Volunteers to Save
bands, they carried slogans rang- the Land and the People, and
ing from "Bethlehem Steel members of the Pike County CitStrips" to "Stripping is Ob- izens Association (PCCA), were
also represented.
scene."
A city detective was also on
The protest was sponsored
by the Environmental Awareness the scene.
Are you protesting against
Society, now consisting of 40
members.
strip mining, too, he was asked?
The march centered around
"Although I am in favor of
the presentation of a petition the ideas expressed here, I do not
with over 730 signatures to re- think it would be appropriate."
cruiters from Bethlehem Steel
Did the police department anasking them to stop strip mining ticipate violence today?
in Eastern Kentucky.
"We just want to be preMichael Hubbard, Bethlehem pared," he said, clutching his
college relations representative, walky-talkaccepted the petition, promising
Shotgun Defense
to hand it over to the "proper
An elderly man from Pike
authorities." Who the "authorities" were would not be speci- County was anxious to relate
his experiences with strip minfied despite repeated inquiry by
ing. He said he and a widow
Jerry Thornton, president of the neighbor had stood
up against
Environmental Awareness
strip miners trying to take over
their land. With his shotgun he
Thornton expressed strongde- persuaded the people to leave
that the .petition be turned his
sire
land, he added.
over to the Bethlehem Steel ex
Bethlehem usually avoids
ecutive board, but the representa- the
but most of the
tive would not promise this. His
people are scared to stand up for
was that it would be their
only reply
Tom
of
turned over to the "proper au- PCCA land," out atRamsey fola talk
pointed
thorities."
lowing the march.
Never Picketed
"Bethlehem Steel is not going
The two Bethlehem Steel re- to have anything to do with
cruiters at UK yesterday go to groups not sympathetic to their
over 100 colleges a year. They mining," Ramsey added. "It is
said they have never been necessary that we 'escalate the
picketed before. They spoke to proper climate' encouraging
nearly 25 UK students concern- Bethlehem Steel to sit down and
ing jobs with the company yes- talk."

"We don't have any idea."
Do they have any personal
feeling about strip mining?
"No comment."
What is their company doing
in Eastern Kentucky now?
"We don't know."

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RIA MERC ADO
Kernel Staff Writers
A petition is being circulated
which condemns Student Government president Tim Futrell for vetoing a bill to extend SG elections over a two-wee-k
period.
The petition was written by
senior Cuy Mendes, editor of the
Blue-Ta- il
Fly, and Susan Crims-lea junior. They say they hope
for 7,000 or 8,000 signatures.
Steve Bright, the representative who sponsored the voting
bill designed to secure wider
student participation in SG elections, said he supports the pey,

Kernel Photo by Dick Ware

UK Zoology professor Wayne Davis, left, participated in the Environmental Awareness Society protest Monday against Bethlehem
Steel's strip mining in Eastern Kentucky. Marching with him was
Mr. Dan Cibson, a member of the Knot County Appalachian
Croup to Save the Land and the People. Davis is one of the faculty advisers to the Environmental Awareness Society.

tition.

Speaking of him it If nd Miss

Crimsley, Mendes said; "We're
just students, not assemlby members. But we feel it our responsibility to inform other students
of what's going on."
The petition states: "The real
reason behind Futrell's irrational
veto is that he knew that under
the new conditions, a much larger
percentage of students could take
part in the election and that a
small portion of the campus could
no longer control the elections."
Unrepresentative Act
The petition continues by saying: "Futrell's unrrpre:entative
action is not only an awkward
stab at fleetingpower, but is also hypocrital concerning other actions on his part."
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KENTUCKY KERNEL, Tuesday, Feb. 10, 1970

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Adulation Ruins Ginsberg Bio
By RICK

in return.

FITCH

College Press Service

202 pages.

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Three things are wrong witli
Jane Kramer's biography "Allen
Ginsberg in America."
The first is the author's addiction to melodrama, her tendency to read too much meaning
into phenomena via the use of
flowery prose. A kid stoned on
speed isn't simply stoned on
speed; he's described as being under the influence of a "ravishing amphetamine high." Hippies

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or
"
Ginsberg is Curu for
a generation of
children."
The second thing wrong is
the author's addiction to trivia.
In one anecdote, Mrs. Kramer
writes, "Ginsberg . . . was
perched on top of an old wooden
desk near the publisher's mattress, chewing spearmint
and talking to Timothy
Leary." How vital is it that we
know the gumdrops were spearmint? Describing Ginsberg's
physical appearance, she writes
that he once sat on the floor
without shoes, wearing unmatched socks,
glasses, a worn white button-dow- n
shirt, an old striped Shetland sweater, two necklaces
"a string of blue Hopi stones
and some Yoruba beads, from
Cuba, in the seven colors of the
seven Yoruba gods" a metal
Mexican Indian's god's eye on
a piece of rope, and a Tibetan
oracle's ring on the forefinger
of his right hand
The third thing wrong is the
author's addiction to Cinsberg.
She seems to be so much in awe
of him, so enamoured by his
charisma, that she is blind to
qualities in him other than the
"nice guy" aspects of his perare

Butter-field- 's

"Get Out Of My Life"
were some of the sounds that
kicked off UK's second' hard-- ,
rock concert. From Cincinnati,
the East Orange Express, from
California, the featured group,
the Lemon Pipers, and from all
over Lexington teenies and music
freaks came together at Alumni

gum-dro-

But before
gone,
got a ways to go yet, these are
some sight and sound impressions of hard rock.

mirror,

men

making their way through Mt.
Amplified and other ungodly
amounts of electronic equipment,
a surreal emotional channel; all
jacked in, tuned in, plugged in.
SWITCH ON LOUD.

on the
Sitting
The concert, was performed floor, beads, leather, fringe, headin a festival air: "come on in you bands . . . all sorts of
s
hip groovy grubbies, sit on the
with wierd
spefloor, (do hippies do this all the cials.
time ?), and listen to the music,
People, music and a certain
baby." Hard rock, incidentally,
A certain music style;
is on its freakin way out out to
the Mouldie Ouldie Graveyard affected, natural, imitated, spon(that inner sanctum of forgotten taneous, that is what you find
concert.
at a
unforgettables).

Gym.

cross-legge-

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pseudo-gypsie-

junk-sho- p

sonality.

life-styl- e.

Ginsberg is characterized as
the friendly Bohemian who loves
all humanity and is loved back

hard-roc- k

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GRAPHIC ART, BLACK AND WHITE
PHOTOGRAPHY
CRITICAL ESSAYS AND APPROPRIATE
FEATURE ARTICLES
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chic stereotyping

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"He made a comfortable
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have broken in saying, "McNamara isn't the same as Donald
Duck in the comic strips. Mo
Namara's power is real. That's
why people get killed in Vietnam." Comments such as those
might have elicited a rcsxnse
revealing far more alxmt Cinsberg than a report of his remarks
ever could.

man with a nice
toothy face, big brown owl eyes
. . . and a weary, rather affecting slouch." At the end of a
chapter, she gives this account
of Ginsberg: he "jumped up and
"Allen Cinsberg in America"
started laughing. 'Who wants to does
give us new material on
Shemakes
hit thedonut shop?'"
Cinsberg. It traces in depth how
Cinsberg sound as if he were he was influenced by William
the boy next door rather than a
Carlos Williams, Blake, Kerouac
serious poet who is recognized,
William Burroughs, how he
with Robert Lowell and Ezra and
made the transition from beat
AmeriPound, as being among
to hip, low his homosexual ro
ca's best.
with Peter Orlovsky
This is not to say that part lationship
how he has been influof Cinsberg's personality isn't began,
enced by drugs and eastern ro
Apple Pie & Mom; it is to say
ligion. In his late 20's Cinsberg
that a man wIkj writes poems worked for a market
researcliing
like "Howl," "Kaddish" and
firm. When he got tired of it,
"Wichita Vortex Sutra" is comhe composed a report on the
plex, that reliance on the friendly economic
advantages of installgood guy angle to understanding
small IBM machine to ro
his psychology is bound to be too ing a
place him andliis two secretaries.
narrow a focus.
that
were so
Instead of accepting Ginsberg His bossescould savepleased
them $700
his plan
passively, observing his
fired him.
from the sideline, Mrs. Kramer per month that they
Soon after he wrote "Howl"
should have been a provocateur,
which was the beginning of his
.poking and prodding the poet's
how once literary career.
psyche. She writes
Cinsberg told a questioner.
But the big failing of the bio"Don't you know that power's graphy is that it doesn't take us
a hallucination? The civil rights deeper into a person who has
movement, Sheriff Rainey, Time become a legend while still alive.
Magazine, McNamara, Mao it's Cinsberg has set the style for
all a hallucination. No one can what is called the cultural revoluget away with saying that's real. tion. He has been an involved
All public reality's a script, and intellectual. In
Chicago, he sat
anybody can write the script the among demonstrators outside the
way he wants. The warfare's Democratic
Convention and
psychic now. Wlioever controls chanted mantra's. At the Chicago
the language, the images, con- Conspiracy trial, he chanted
trols the race. Power all boils "Hare Krishna" and read his
down to whether McNamara gets
poem "Howl" while pointing a
up on the right side of the bed. finger at Judge Hoffman. His
And who's McNamara anyway?
poetry manifests all the strains
He's a lot of TV dots. That's of the
hippie movo
public reality
ment, the music and the images.
Instead of merely reporting Unfortunately, "Allen Cinsberg
Ginsberg's words dutifully as a hi America" does little to extrireporter, Mrs. Kramer should cate the man from the mystery.
ing

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The Stones 'Let It Bleed9:
Disc Signals Groups Death
By JOHN HELLMAN

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Colored lights, changing and
putting shadow patterns on the
wall that picture reality like a
distortion-affecte- d

"flip-outs-

"love-happ-

Second UK Rock Concert:
A Study Under Strobes
and it's
it's
"Eli's Coming," and

"

"drop-outs- ."

Two members of the East Orange Express perform at UK's second
hard rock concert Friday night at Alumni Gymnasium. With the
Lemon Pipers, a California band, the Express provided the music
for what was not quite a concert and not quite a dance. People
were invited to attend wearing their grubby clothes because the only
seating was cushions on the floor. The session was sponsored by
Kernl photo B Alex S00"
Student Board.

By BOBBI BARRETT
And
BOB VARRONE
Kernel Staff Writers
"Suite: Judy Blue Eyes,"

"freak-outs,-

of his

description

face betrays Mrs. Kramer's psy-

"Allen Ginsberg in America" by
Jane Kramer, Random House,

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College Press Service
The Rolling Stones' new album, "Let It Bleed," has arrived.
It comes in the guise of a wedding
cake on the front of the album
sleeve. The layers of the cake
consist of a roll of recording
tape, a clock, a pizza, and a tricycle tire. On top stand five
frightened-lookin- g
figures of the
Stones. The entire cake is impaled
on the shaft of a record player,
while below it the record plays.
The label bears five smiling, confident faces of the Stones in
their earlier days.
The reverse side of the album
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cover depicts disaster. The cake
has been completely mangled,
the record is shattered, the Stone
figures toppled, the Stone faces
covered by a ripped portion of
the pizza, and on the broken arm
of the record player is inscribed
the words "Cruel Ideal."
Meaning? It seems painfully
obvious. The layers of the cake
represent time, recorded sound
(an attempt at preservation of
time), food, and motion. In other
words, the cake represents the elements of life that necessarily end
in death. The Stones are apparently preparing their followers
for the apocalypse that will be
their exit from the rock scene.
With bassist Bill VVyman already
overtliirty, their end may be near
at hand.
There is certainly a strangely

disconcerting quality about the
album for one who has long
studied their work. It is either
a transition or the beginning of
the end. Only six really new
songs appear on the album, and
though they are all skillfully done
inf vital, few of them have the
kind of originality one associates
with a new Stone album.
"Cimmie Shelter" is the best
track on the album. A powerful
blues arrangement, consisting cf
Keith Richard's fine guitar and a
drum beat that won't let go, it
provides an irresistable collage
of sound that shelters one of
Mick Jagger's most impassioned
vocal performances ever. The
barely suppressed tension that is
the essence of the Stones sizzles
through tills track.

* THE KENTUCKY KERNEL, Tuesday, Feb. 10,

1970- -3

Study Of Communist Life Style Presented
By JERRY LEWIS
Kernel Staff Writer
A view of what life is like in
a Communist country was presented Sunday night at the
Koinonia House by Dr. Alan
Prreiah, a UK associate professor
of philosophy.
He led a discussion with students and others on what he titled
"Humanism versus Commun-

ism."
"Many people automatically

Talk

get the pictureof everybody wearing identical denim outfits when
they hear the word Communism," said Dr. Perreiah.
"They tend to think of everyIron
one behind the
Curtain as oppressed and deprived of any type of freedom of
expression in the arts."
Dr. Perreiah was able to study
under a Fulbright Fellowship in
Poland in 10G5 for almost a year
and at the same time travel to

several other Communist nations,
including Russia.

"There is a big difference between the rigid Soviet life in
Russia and the life in Poland,"
stressed Dr. Perreiah. He claimed
that intellectual and cultural interests in Poland surpass any discontent about the government.
Poland is only about three
times the size of Kentucky in land
area, although its population is

B ccomes Action

Transaction Seeks Involvement
By HAZEL COLOSIMO
Kernel Staff Writer
"It's time we take social revolution out of the Student Center
Crille and start doing something.
A lot of people give a damn
and talk a lot about helping.
But that's what they are all
talk and no action."

a person can't work with projects, at least they can help with
this transportation or with clerical work."
A

e

own."
"Large bookstores in the cities

are crowded like a VVoolworth's
may be in an American city,"
said Dr. Perreiah.
The philosophy professor indicated that although the Com

munist party in Poland had succeeded in focusing the people's
attention upon intellectual pursuits and the arts, the result has
been a "humanistic" attitude
in the people which he said
might conflict with the bureaucracy of the government.
Dr. Perreiah also claimed that
the general American image of
Poland often comes from the
Polish immigrant and the lower
economic class which is not representative of other Poles more
satisfied with life now than before
the war and under a capitalistic
system.

Since the Transaction program is not "a placement service," Miss Westerfield spoke
about the volunteer procedure:
"We interview applicants, feel
the person out for their motivation and try to discover how
communicative they are since
that shows if they will work well

thing"
at Kentucky
Village, the coeducational institution for juvenile offenders.
"Little tutoring is done," ex- with
people."
Ironically enough, the above plained Miss Westerfield, "ma y
Individual Interests
comment was made by Rebecca.
art classes, and nursing aids
Following the interviews, the
are in the infirmary anything to
Westerfield, chairman of TransTransaction student coordinators
in the Student Center let the young people at the Vilaction,
Crille. The irony ends there, how- lage know that someone is in- fit the individuals into the project which suits them best. Again,
ever, for Miss Westerfield is doing terested."
not a "placement service," as
something which she describes
Occupational and recreational much as matching the individual
as "a volunteer project, in- that
is yet another service with a
which fits his inwe recruit volunteers. It is not a therapy
individuals can offer if they wish terests. project
service
by
any to volunteer for work in Eastern
placement
After the individuals have
means."
State Hospital.
worked in an area, the TransNow in its second year, the
action group does what it calls
Transaction program, previously
Creativity
"followups" which are discusrun by professionals, has just beThe Lexington Neighborhood
sions between students over mue
Centers are
come a student organization.
volunteer tual problems from their particiservices. Miss Westerfield
Negating the misconception of this area as a "real spoke pation in the programs. Miss
opporWesterfield said, "We feel these
by many that the Transaction
tunity because really creative are important."
program is only spending Saturcan be done other than
the Transaction
Summing-udays with some poor people ia things
babysitting."
Miss Westerfield
philosophy,
Appalachia," Miss Westerfield
Miss Westerfield told of one stated "We're not going to imremarked, "There is something
for everybody to do."
teacher who volunteered her time prove the world over night. It's
free teaching, her a starting point."
and
The project area concerned own by "doing
thing, brought a withdrawn
with the Appalachian region
child out, and displayed his talthe Christian Appalachian Pro- ent he had hidden for so
long
jectoffers individuals the chance because he was afraid to show it."
someto go into the area to "do
Other project areas include
thing constructive on weekends."
helping the swimming programs
Dr. I. E. Buff, a West Virat the Young Men's Christian
Transportation Problem
ginia cardiologist, will speak
The big problem faced by Association (YMCA), tutoring
at
Transaction in regard to the Ap- drug addicts in arts and crafts about the black lung problem on
8 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 11
palachian Project is "trying to get classes and helping with the the sixth floor of the Medical
people with cars," Miss WesterCamp Fire Girls in the inner city Center in the
Hospital
field admitted, but added "if area.
"recreational-typ-

is offered volunteers

approximately 10 times as large,
according to Dr. Perreiah.
He noted that there are over
4,000 movie theaters in the country and that many of the films
exhibited are American.
"There are also around 8,000
public libraries in Poland," said
Dr. Perreiah, "and almost every
home has a basic library of its

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Women on the Lexington campus of the University of Kentucky
are making better grades than
their male classmates.
Dean of Admissions and Registrar Elbert Ockerman reports
that 69,556 separate grades for
the 1969 fall semester were reported to his office, showing a
2.51 grade point average for all
students (on a 4.0 scale). He said
females received fa 2.66 average,
and males a 2.39 average.
Dr. Charles Elton, UK professor of education who has done
extensive research on the academic successes and failures of college students, said that in general, national research demonstrates that women consistently
male better grades than men.
"We would have to research
each particular campus to determine the specific reasons why
females make better grades than
males," he continued. He listed
four general reasons, lowever,
why this is so:
"Men tend to take more difficult coursework, such as
e-oriented
classes in math,
physics, engineering ortheh-altprofessions. These classes are
usually larger and graded on the
normal curve.
"Men tend to work their way
through college more than women
do.
scienc-

"Women are more dependable than men. They do what
they are instructed to do.
"Women tend to score higher
in verbal problems while men
score higher in math."
Dean Ockerman pointed out
that the average number of hours
carried by males at UK last semester was five hours for part-tim- e
students and 15 hours for
e
students.
"These same average loads also were carried by females," he
continued, noting that "the semester data do not vary more
than .04 points from the average
cumulative grade point average
for the two groups." Students at
UK earned an undergraduate
total of 159, 195 Itours during
the fall semester.

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* THE KENTUCKY IERNEL

Let's Wait
The Student Government president's veto of the campus election
reform bill smells of faction politics,
but let us not be overly hasty in
our condemnation of it.
The bill, which would spread
the voting in Student Government
elections over the two weeks of
was rebuked by Tim
Futrell the day before it became
effective.
Reasons for the veto, though presented in Futrell's typically confusing rhetoric, seemed, if taken at
face value, to have some reasonable
merit.
For one thing, the student executive stated that the bill made no
provision for fall elections, a point
well taken. For another, he attacked
its high cost and the fact that a
rematch, in case of a contested
election, was not considered in the
package.
Thirdly, he conceded that election reform was sorely needed and
promised to turn the matter over to
the Board of Educations, where a
counter proposal would be studied.
In short, Futrell is not, by his
Veto, telling the Assembly that election reform is unneeded, but that he
thinks his office can come up with
a better program.
Some students, on the other
hand, say that the president's motives go a little deeper than those
stated in his Sunday press conference. They contend that Futrell is
seeking to perpetuate the power of
the Greek vote in student elections.
Still others see it as a mere confeud be- tinuation of the year-lon- g
tween Futrell and the bill's architect, Steve Bright.
One or both of these assertions
could be proven true in the weeks
to come. If the Elections Board is
lax in presenting the promised revision, we can then begin to assume
ulterior motives.
Too often, we are prepared to
conjure up myriads of imagined
meanings from such acts as Futrell's
and, too often, without justifiable
cause.
We might do well in this instance to withhold judgment on the
veto until events reveal themselves
with a little more clarity. If legislation is not immediately forthcoming, we can then cease to pull
punches.
Meantime, the president could
best utilize this probationary period
putting his money where his mouth
is.

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To know is nothing at all; to imagine
everything.
Anatole France
Cod comes down in the rain,
And the crop grows tall
This is the country faith,
And the best of all!
Norman Gale

Justice is a machine that, when someone has once given it a push,. rolls on
of its own accord.

John Cahworthy
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Cniulill Comment

James VV. Miller, Editor-in-ChiMike Herntlon, Editorial rage Editor
George H. Jepson, Managing Editor
Robert Duncan, Advertising Manager
Frank Coots, Associate Editor
Dan Gossett, Arfj Editor
Chip Hutcheson, Sports Editor
Don Rosa, Cartoonist
Gwen Ranney, Women's Fage Editor
Fatrick Mathes,
Jeannie St. Charles,
Jeannie Leedom, Bill Matthews, Jean Renaker
Assistant Managing Editors

To the Editor of the Kernel:
"Amen Brother," to Harry CauduTs
talk on strip mining in eastern Kentucky,
with one exception. According to the
Kernel Caudill made the statement,
"Eastern Kentucky is devastated and
depopulated, and the people who abandoned their homes here are now living
in the ghettos of Cleveland and Chicago."
No doubt, there are several eastern
Kentuckians residing in the more destitute sections of Geveland and Chicago.
However, the way Caudill termed it gives
me the impression that he meant everybody who leaves eastern Kentucky, especially those displaced by stripping operations, wind up in ghettos. Such an inference is a gross misrepresentation of the
facts. Maybe his words aren't in line with
liis thoughts, but he did say what he said.
Nevertheless, remarks similar to the
one he made only reinforce the stereotype
against the people of eastern Kentucky.
I'm sure that if the truth were known,
a lot of people still perceive eastern Kentuckians as being carbon copies of some
of the characters we see on Hee Haw.
I'm not offended by such terms as

"hillbilly," "ridge runner," "briar hopper," or what have you, although I am
one. I am offended when people are led
on, when fiction subplants fact, especially
when I find myself and my people submerged in the middle of such a discrepancy.
I realize that my remarks have veered
away from CauduTs subject matter. In
conclusion I'll say that the land isn't
the only thing that is being stripped in
eastern Kentucky.
W. Robert Meade
A & S Senior

What Fur
Regarding the January 30, 1970 issue
of your paper I was shocked to find
that along with articles about environmental ecology and pollution you included
e
a
story (complete with pictures) on the slaughter of helpless animals. These animals are slaughtered to
make fur coats for rich old ladies who
could care less about how many animals
have to be murdered, so that they can
"be in sty le." Including this article (Castor Zibet hi cus Wouldn't You Really Rather Have A Muskrat?) in you