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Vol. [XIV No 8
Monday. September 8.1975

Senate views divided
in landlord investigation

By [MN (‘Itl l‘(‘lll£lt
Kernel Staff Writer

A Student Senate ad hoc committee
formed to investigate a Lexington landlord
has produced two widely divergent
reports.

The committee‘s majority report states
that nental practices of the Graves
Brothers (‘0. are “legitimate and fair."
while the minority report calls the coms
pany‘s practices “unfiar to UK students."

The committee. comprised of Senators
llal llaering. Judd Shaw and Mike
(‘lawson. was formed at a July 24 Senate
meeting in response to allegations about
the Graves Bros. by Senator-at-Large
Shelley Griffith.

Griffith claimed a house owned by
Graves Bros. burned down and some
tenants‘ rent was raised after they moved
in. The purpose of the committee was to
recommend whether Student Government
ISG) should try to have Graves Bros.
removed from the University‘s off-campus
housing list.

The committee‘s majority reports.
signed by Haering and Shaw. found:

The Graves Bros. operations to be
legitimate and fair;
Rental policies equal to any in the
and
No just foundations for allegations
brought against Graves Bros.

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The report included a memorandum in
which David Graves. Graves Bros. at-
torney. answered allegations. The
memorandum states that, although there
have been two fires in the Graves Bros.
building at 385 S. I'pper St.. the building
did not burn down. ()ne fire was blamed on
a tenant who removed a gas connection
and then [it a cigarette. causing an ex-
plosion. The other fire was traced to
General Telephone Co. which allegedly
pulled a telephone entrance cable through
a junction box.

The memorandum claimed that “in no
instance has rent ever been raised one cent
after someone moved in.“ It also disputed
allegations of false advertising (made by
Sherry Allen. former head of SG's tenant-
landlord program. in a July 29 Kernel
article). stating that prospective tenants
are given a list of all charges and eposits.

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Change in academic calendar under discussion

By NANCY DALY
Assistant Managing Editor

A proposal to begin and end semesters a
week earlier than usual goes before the
Senate today when it considers the 1978-79
academic calendar.

Dr. Elbert W. tickerman. dean of ad-
missions and registrar. said such a change
would help solve problems associated with
the Christmas holiday. The fall semester
presently ends a week before Christmas
with grades due to the registrar a few days
before Dec. 25.

The University is virtually shut down the
entire week of Christmas. Ockerman said.
which creates problems in finishing up
academic matters for the fall semester.

In a memorandum circulated to Senate
members. Ockerman stated four problems
that justify the proposed change:

—— The opportunity for students to
complete the semester‘s work and to earn
at least some money during the holiday
has been almost completely eliminated.

The faculty vacation time is in-
terrupted and-or delayed by the
examination period and submission of
grade deadlines running to or beyond
Christmas Day.

Because grades are submitted so late.
deans are delayed beyond a reasonable
time in notifying students placed on
probation or dropped.

— Jamming up the end of the term
against the Christmas holidays produces
too large a number of late grades. thus
producing incomplete grade reports to
students. calls by students to faculty
members, and incomplete transcripts for
students requesting copies of their
records.

Calendars. which are subject to Senate
appmval. are prepared three years in
advance to facilitate planning. Ockerman
said.

Beginning the fall semester a week
earlier would not have a severe effect on
students with summer jobs. Ockerman
said.

“We considered this problem when the
early calendar was first adopted. After a
year or two the problem disappeared." he
said. “It would mean a few days less
employment but not a serious problem.“

The “early calendar" refers to the
present calendar system used since 1963,
Ockerman said. Prior to that time, the fall
semester continued several weeks past the
Christmas holiday.

Ockerman predicts a mixed reaction
from the Senate on the proposed calendar

change. “Anytime you ask people to come
to work a week earlier they complain since
they think it cuts into their vacation time."
he said.

“But public schools are beginning
earlier so the faculty would be back
anyway," he added. Fayette county
schools opened Aug. 25 this year.

Cindy Todd. administrative assistant to
the Sena te Council. said the council took no
action on the proposed calendar change.

“Usually the Senate Council has the
authority to approve calendars ard
transmit them to the Senate." Todd s...d.
“But in this case they couldn‘t make up
their minds."

Under Ockerman's proposed calendar.
the 1979 spring semester would also begin
and end about a week earlier than usual.

 

GPSA appears
to be dead,

Harris says

By DAVID BROWN
Kernel Staff Writer

(‘an a studentorganization with over $2,000 in two accounts
Professional
said Frank Harris.

be dead'.’ The Graduate and
Association rGPSA) seems to be.

Students' Harris said.

name until students again show interest in the organization,

“This happens all the time; organizations come and go.

Associate Dean of Students. also University advisor to the
group.
GPSA has not been registered in the dean of students office

as an official organization and Harris said he has had no
communication with the association's former officers.

However. the group was appropriated $2,000 by the
l'niversity for an operating budget this year. The award was
made on the basis of the group‘s official recognition last
year.

ln addition to the $2.000. the group has “a couple hundred
dollars" in a separate account. Harris said.

"The responsibility for registering is with the officers of
the organization and they haven‘t contacted me." Harris
said.

if the t'niversity appropriation is not spent by the group —~
and it can‘t be until the group is registered by the Dean of
Students‘ Office _ the $2,000 will revert to the University
general fund. Harris said.

The separate account. however, will be kept in the GPSA‘s

After a few years interest is renewed and the organization is
re-registered.“ Harris said.

Lynne Thoet is listed on the GPSA application for
recognition for the 1974-75 school year as vice-president of the
group. Harris said.

“I’ve had no contact with GPSA since two years ago,"
Thoet said. “I was in Columbia last year. I doubt I could do
very much on my own" to revitalize the group. Thoet said.
“It‘s a shame.“

“GPSA started as an issue-oriented group working on the
parking sticker problem for graduate students." she said.
“We brought out and solved several issues; people just don‘t
think about GPSA until they need it.“

The only other student listed on the 1974-75 application who
is currently attending classes at the University is Christina
Sperka. Sperka. however. was not available to comment on
the chances of a GPSA revival.

If the group does reorganize. it can register
Harris said. But the $2. 000. or any portion
unspent. will revert to the University general funu t ad
of June 1976.

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Editor’s note: Armed National
Guardsmen called in by the governor
with "riot-control training,” bans
imposed by the mayor on "all
demonstrations or parades until further
notice," a court order handed down by
a federal iudge denying citizens the
right to peaceably assemble — it could
be Kent State or Berkeley or even UK
during its fleeting 1970 ”radical"
moment.

Instead it’s Louisville and _over an
issue that shoots the political spectrum

all to hell — busing.

Perhaps you had your head smashed
at the 1968 National Democratic Con-
vention in Chicago. Now, only seven
years later, you catch yourself rooting

for the police instead of the demon-

strators.
Or in 1968 you may have voted for
Alabama Gov. George Wallace

because, sick and tired of demon-
strators and violence, he advocated law
and order. Now in 1975 you feel you’re
the object of that often-heard cry,

”Police brutality."

Busing proves once and for all that
the political spectrum is truly an all-
too-relevant merry-go-round.

Everyone, despite their persuasion,
is torn and trying to remain faithful to
one civil right or another, incapable of
remaining true to all 10.

High school civics teachers told us it's
okay to exercise our civil iiberties as
long as we didn’t step on the next
person’s toes. But how do you handle a

situation where exercising one civil

right forbids the exercise of another?

Even when you get together with
friends whom you’ve known politically
for years, it seems you can never be
sure how they’re going to react to
busing. The Kernel staff is as confused
and split as any other group of people.
Therefore, although it is not our usual
policy, we have decided to run two
opposing editorials concerning busing.

All of your opinions or comments are
equally welcome in form of letters or
spectrum articles.

 

Pro:

Parents’ actions
by-product of a
racist society

Since 1954 the American
educational System has been in a
total ouandry concerning what to
do with black school-age children.

Twenty one years ago the U.S.
Supreme Cour‘ decided the
”separate but equal" doctrine of
sending black kids to one school
and whites to another was
inherently unfair. This caused
violent dissention among the
populace Little Rock im
mediately comes to mind —-— but
eventually as happens throughout
American history calm prevailed
and integration was "successful.”

But what price success? In the
last 20 years we have witnessed a
mass exodus of the white middle
class away from the city —— where
their tax dollars are needed —— to
the suburbs. Blacks, unwanted in
the white suburbs and too poor to
afford $40,000 Shangri-Las anyway,
moved to the decaying inner city.

What this country has then is
segregation just as clear and just
as vicious as Brown found in 1954
Topeka. Brand new schools with
aggressive young teachers and
pimplyfaced white kids, dropped
off in the family station wagon
every morning because the five
blocks wastoo farto walk, rose like
a great Phoenix in the suburbs.
Meanwhile, black kids walked, or
didn’t bother to go, to crumbling
buildings reminiscent of the fall or
Rome, the cities being too tax-poor
to afford upkeep.

Busing, then, would seem to be
the logical extension. Many people
in this country become quite-teary-
eyed and self~important when
reading the colonial words ”all
men are created equal.” Yet when
people try to assert this equality
rightfully saying my kid should
receive the same quality education
as yours riots break out, rocks
are thrown and police are spit on
for doing their duty.

The actions of ”concerned
parents” in places like Louisville
and Boston are the by-product of a
racist society.

Evacuating cities, not for the
sake of their children’s education,
but because they didn’t want
"niggers" living on the same
block, the white middle class is
now organizing behind the facade
of smiling, freckle-faced five-year-
olds, hiding their own fears and
hatreds. The trouble with these
adults is theynever grew up. They
are using their children like
footballs on a great racist field to
protect themselves from things
and people theynever learned to
cope with.

In a nation that considers itself
”civilized” and feigns shock at
events like the My-Lai massacre, it
is the height of hyporriSy on the
part of the Louisville (it zens to
react like the hordes of Ghengis
Khan at the mention of busing.
They brought it upon themselves,
now they must live with it. There is
no one else to blame.

 

 

Con:

Don't take

shots

in the dark

with busing

With the recent anti-busing
demonstrations in Louisville, and
the prospect of another year of
trouble in Boston, the good to be
gained from forced busing is in
serious doubt.

Busing is supposed to accomplish
two major goals: equalization of
education and raciat integration.

It will apparently accomplish
neither in Louisville.

Thousands of children are
staying home from schools, and
many will probably not return to
school this year. These students
will not beexposed to either quality
education or to racial integration.

As long as these students stay out
of school federal money is being
lost; money badly needed to
maintain the school system, thus
ieopardizing quality education for
those who do attend classes.

It forced busing will not ac-
complish either of these goals, then

what will it accomplish? In
Louisville, demonstrations,
violence. vandalism and maybe
deaths.

Last Friday night Louisville was
the scene of mass demonstrations
that saw bonfires in major streets,
fighting with police and the
destruction of buses and
businesses.

All indication isthat Friday night
was just a warmup.

To help prevent any further
violence, new court orders have
restricted the assemblage of
persons around schools and along
school bus routes. In addition, the

use of two