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Friday, Feb.

EClEMTUCECY EClEHOTIL

13, 1970

UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY, LEXINGTON

Vol. LXI, No. 89

Advisory Committee Interviews
Possible Successors To Forth
cated that the
"trips
By BILL MATTHEWS
had resulted in the committee's
Assistant Managing Editor
President Otis A. Singletary's finding someone whom they think
advisory committee for the selec- deserves to be brought to the prestion of a new vice president for ident's attention."
student affiars made two trips
Describing what happens
last week to interview
when a potential candidate visits
potential successors to Dr. Stuart UK, Dr. Morris commented that
Forth.
the pattern followed so far is
Dr. Alvin Morris, the com- for the person to spend two days
mittee chairman and only adon campus.
ministrative representative, said
Each time a candidate has
Wedne?iday that "another candbeen at UK he has had the opidate vould probably be here
portunity to talk with a "rep(on campus) next week." Several
resentative group of students and
persons have visited the camfaculty members," said Chairpus since the committee began
man Morris, with a different
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its work.
The committee, appointed last
October by the president, has
been "Just as active as can be,"
according to Dr. Morris, although
the Christmas holidays kept the
group from doing much since
the end of last semester.
High Priority
The vice presidential selection
"remains a high priority," Chairman Morris added, and the committee is "under continued
charge of the president in making every effort to achieve the
goal of securing someone to fill

that position."
Of the three individuals
visited last week by the committee, one has asked not to be
considered further for the Job of
vice president, according to Dr.
Morris.

Hinting that a selection might
be made before the semester ends,
the committee chairman indi

group used each time.
Each vice presidential candidate also has time to talk
to President Singletary and the
people in the student affairs office as well as the presidential
advisory committee.
Dr. Morris mentioned that
the procedures were designed to
give the potential vice president
a broad picture of what UK is
really like.
The committee chairman indicated that he could not be more
specific about the selection committee's work because specula-

dential post currently held by Dr.
Stuart Forth.
The group is charged with
submitting names to the president for his consideration and

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final decision.

Dr. Forth, former director of
libraries, who agreed to become
vice president for student affairs
temporarily under interim President A.D. Kirwan, asked to return to his former library post

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last fall.

'In White America'
To Be Previewed
"In White America" directed
by Sara Howard will have an advance public dress production
February 13 at 8:30 p.m. in the
Fine Arts Building theatre.
The play will also be a part
of the Black Arts Festival which
runs from March
The play
will be presented March 2 in
the Fine Arts Building Theatre.
Also to be presented at that time
is Leroi Jones' "The Dutchman."
"In White America," written
by Martin Duberman, has been
in rehearsal since

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tion about individuals being considered might affect their careers

The cast of "In White America" consists of three black men,
three white men, two black
adversely.
The advisory committee, con- women, and two white women.
sisting of four students, three Additionally, there is one feafaculty members and presidential tured singer.
The cast of "The Dutchman?
assistant Dr. Alvin Morris, was
appointed last semester by Pres- consists of one black man, one
ident Singletary to consider in- white man, and four white exdividuals to fill the vice presi tras.

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Kernel Photo By Keith Mosier

The Eyes Have It

This unusual piece of art is one of the many on display at the
Student Center Art Gallery. The exhibit displays art created by the
students and faculty of Georgetown College.

Claim Hospital Is 'Political Plum9

SIPS Criticizes Med
By MICHAEL WINES
Kernel Staff Writer
Leaders of a newly formed
steering committee of the Students for a Democratic Society
(SDS) called for a general reform
of the UK Medical Center at a

sparsely attended meeting Thursday night.
The 20 students present heard
attack on the
a
Medical Center administration
from senior steering committee
members Lew Colt en and G.S.
Pope. Colt en accused the center
of taking a "deplorable" approach to students and the community despite generally excellent medical facilities.
"It's fine to get sick between
nine and five Monday through
Friday, but Just get HI any other
time and try to get anything more
than a splinter taken out of your
finger," Colten said.
Colten also argued that the
Medical Center had direct ties
with the Lexington Police Department, the Lexington city attorney, Dean of Students Jack
Hall and President Otis A. Sinsharply-worde-

it's not getting any better," he
said. Colten added that some
people with infectious diseases
were denied treatment at the
hospital. "At whims they treat
who they want, when they want
. .'. not in all cases, but a lot of
them," he said.

Center Management

Pope said other students had
been denied inoculations against
viral hepatitis at the center. He
also attacked what he termed
"long waits" in the emergency
room of the facility.
Students' personal histories
were a sore point with Colten.

He claimed that they were
"available to anyone" and that
"close to 50 undercover police
operate at the Medical Center
for a number of reasons."
Mismanagement Claimed

He also accused the hospital
and University administrations

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gletary.

He declined to elaborate on
the connections except to say
that they were "administrative"
and not financial.
'Shoddy' Treatment Criticized
"Our object is to show what's
happening to the Med Center
as it's connected with city government and the University," he
said.
Pope claimed that the center
was guilty of "shoddy" treatment
of patients.
"It's a mediocre hospital and

of improper management of the
facility.
"This school uses the Medical
Center as a political plum
a
supportive department for federal
grants," Colten said.
Another student attending the
meeting claimed the center could
cover only about 20 percent of its
debts, as compared to a national
average of 80 percent.
Steering committee members
agreed to gather reports of hospital inefficiencies which would
be documented and "presented
to the right authorities."
"Things that are occurring
over there are really monstrous
really enormous," said Colten.
He claimed that the points outlined during the meeting were
"minimal" complaints.
A new steering committee was
announced at the meeting to recomplace the old
mittee which was disbanded last
semester. One member of the old
committee reportedly was faced
with loss of a bank loan unless
he resigned from the organization.
leadDick Pozzuto, long-tim- e
er of the UK chapter of SDS,
dropped out "for reasons unknown" to Colten.
New Committeemen Named
Joseph Maguire, Kevin Hill
and Steve Bruegge occupy posts
on the new steering committee,
in addition to Colten and Pope.
Hill emphasized that the group
would take a more "militant-activist- "
approach this year, especially with regard to the military.
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photographer Mike Walker caught this
unique shot of the SDS meeting Thursday night
by using a "fish eye" lens. The meeting concerned

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Friday, Feb. 15, 1970

Coffeehouse Series Cancelled, Merger Of Boards Planned

Overhaul Slated For Student Center Board
By BOBBI BARRETT

Kernel Staff Writer
The last of the Coffeehouse
Series will be seen this Saturday

night.
Starting at 10 p.m. in Room
206 of the Student Center, the
program features professional
musicians now in rehabilitation

therapy at the National Institute
of Mental Health and Research
Center.
Two groups, the "Goldsmith

Trio" and "Soul Partner Review," will perform the Coffee-

house finale.
Lack of funds is given as the
major reason for the end of the
series. The four Coffeehouses
given this year totalled close to
a $4,000 tab, a goodly chunk
of money to take from the Student Center Board's shoe-strin- g
budget.
But money, of rather the lack '
of it, is not the only problem.
Where on this campus do you
put a coffeehouse? The grill is

MISSION

less than adequate becauseofthe
noise and other competitions that
the performers must overcome.
Room 2 15 doesn't quite make
it either. Mr. McNullty, the advisor to the Student Center Board,
commented, "Room 245 is a pretty sterile place, and using the
and blacklists just
posters
makes it look artificial."
The acting Chairman of the
Coffeehouse
Rita
Committee,
Hinton, said the lack of participation was the real reason

behind Saturday night's

begin-

ning of the end.
"All the Coffeehouses this
year have been real good. True,
the groups are relatively unknown, but they are up and coming. The last ones, the "Mara

Loves," have taped a
special with NBC that is now
being shown around in Chicago
and Montreal.''
"I don't know how we can get
kids to participate. The only way
seems to be to charge $1.50. If

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Catholic Newman Center
Given by' Rcy. Alan Phillip

Entitled "Crisis of Faith"
at 7:30 from Feb.

Each evening

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house

money, space, participation, organization point up the
fact that these problems plague
almost all the programming and
entertainment efforts of the University.
Currently, only one such committee manages to stay within
its monetary allowance, and th.it
is the Cinema Series.
Two organizations exist to
provide the concerts and ether
activities for the entertainment
of the student body. Technically,
there is a difference between
them. The Student Center Board

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All students are invited.
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Free Breakfast on Bus!
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all the happenings
within the Student Center propprograms
er.

This board operates with
money allotted from the University. The Student Activities
Board, on the other hand, is
and organizes activities that are campuswide.
With two boards operating in
the same area with the same intentions, there has been a great
deal of overlap and consequently,
a waste of people, money and
time. Not only has the situation
been inefficient, but it has caused
competition where none might
otherwise exist.
Sara O'Briant, president of

the activities board, and Gene
Warren, president of the center
lioard, have recently initiated
procedures to consolidate the two
Imards.

There seems to be general
that this is a move
that "makes sense at this time."
Mary Jo Merttns, adviser to the
activities !oard, called it an effort to get "time, personnel and
economics put together."
Sara O'Briant summed up the
reasons for the proposed merger
and its hoped for results with
this: "In the long run, this is the
best thing to do to improve
agreement

'Zy Draws

Frightening Parallels,
Fails To Offer Alternatives
By BILL SIEVERT
College Press Service
The slogan may have become
trite from overuse by the skin
flick people, but it once more
becomes appropriate when comparing' "Z" to previous attempts
at movies on revolution. "Z"
makes "If
(the best previous contemporary look at revolution) look like a fairy tale.
While "If . . . " was very well
executed and left its audiences
ready to fight the good fight
against injustice, it was just a
story. A parable, perhaps, but
still fiction.
"Z" moves at the fast pace
of fiction, but does not allow
the viewer to forget the military
takeover of Greece is more than
a mere story. "Z" leaves a real
revolution in the lap of the viewer. JThe two-hoscreen play
races by, as Greece's anti-wa- r
b
and
movement moves
through stages of hopefulness,
oppression from the corrupt police force and government in
power, more hopefulness, and
eventually destruction by the mil- -

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Sunday, Feb. 15 - The Noisy Minority
Monday, Feb. 16 "True SEXualiry"
; Tuesday,
Feb.'
Minorities"
Wednesday, Feb. 1 8 "Acceptance and ACTceptance"

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it's not free, then maybe they'd
think it was worth going to."
The problems of the Coffee-

anti-bom-

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itary which takes control when it
appears a democratic election

will shake its power base.
The film should do more to
make people understand the destruction of freedom in Greece
today than could a thousand
speeches by visiting Creek political and artisan refugees seeking

support.

And the similarities to foreshadowing events in this country makes the drama all the more
frightening. In "Z" there are the
government efforts to eradicate
the Black Panthers, the murders
of the Kennedys and King, and
the political assassination of
United Mine Workers presidential contender Yablonski. In "Z"
there is the tremendous power of
the military and the intolerance
of the left that resembles Joe
McCarthy eras in the past and,
possibly, to come. The police
and government keep close tabs
on the left, so they can squelch
it.
"Z" demonstrates how working through the system taking
legal action against corruption
may appear to work, but also
how the legal system can be
insidiously undermined and ultimately crushed by the corrupt
power structure.

Unfortunately, "Z" doesn't

offer any alternatives that might
be successful because in Creece
today none are succeeding. Per- -

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Folksong Weekend at Natural
Bridge State Park begins at 8
p.m. Friday with a concert featuring Dan and Louise Brock,
who have been performing both
in state parks and in numerous
Kentucky folic festivals for several years. The Brocks also have

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a world in which ideas, particularly ideas in support of peace,
are not repressed.
"Z" has been called melodrama; that may be because this
is a melodramatic world. But
"Z" also has been called one
of the best pictures not just of
this year, but of any year. And
that is undoubtedly true.
Despite subtitles, there is no
communication problem whatsoever. The viewer totally forgets
the movie is played in French,
rather than in his native tongue.
Few Americans will ever realize
that in one scene English is
spoken, for the French and subtitles have become so natural.
The action builds up quickly and lasts through the closing
credits, which include an incredible list of ideas, authors, music, and other forms of a expression no longer tolerated in
Creece.
As the film ends, the viewer
feels there must be more. A sequel, a followup. One can't just
walk out of the theater and leave
Creece as she is.

State Park Plans
Folk Festival

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haps none can. But the producers
do not seem to want the audience to give up hope; rather
they want . people to become
acutely aware of what has happened in Creece and what is
happening and can happen elsewhere. They want people to keep
trying to find ways to create

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Other participants in the concert, which will be repeated at
8 p.m. Saturday, include Bill and
Marynell Parker, winners of several folksinging concerts and parin festivals held
ticipants
throughout the Southern part of
the country.
Fiddle tunes, ' mountain ballads and love songs will be played
by two former associates of the
American Folk Festival, J.P. and
Ann ad cane Fraley of Rush, Ky.
dulcimers and
Mountain
songs of the Ritchie Family, sung
by Edna Ritchie Baker and Floyd
Baker of Winchester, will be followed by recorder and mountain string band music of the
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Folk Instrumental Techniques
Workslaops will last from 10 a.m.
to 5 p.m. Instruction in instru-

mental techniques of the dulcimer, banjo, fiddle, guitar, and
autoharp will be available.

* THE KENTUCKY KERNEL, Friday, Tcb. 13,

1970- -3

Baptists, Catholics Debate Cost
Of Funding Parochial Schools

By WILLIAM BRADFORD
Associated Frcss Writer
FRANKFORT
Constitutionality and alternative costs
concerning state aid to parochial
schools were debated at length
Thursday, with some words extolling competition in education.
Sharply opposing viewpoints,
largely pitting Baptists against
Roman Catholics, were set forth
on an equal time basis at a public hearing on House Bill 198
and Senate Bill 128. Those bills
would have the state pay up to
70 percent of the salaries of certain lay teachers in parochial
schools in Kentucky.
The House chamber where
the hearing was held was
Jammed, as were the gallery,
aisles and doorways, as more

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tucky constitutions in helping
further one religion Roman Catholicism.
The Catholics called upon former state Atty. Cen. Robert
Matthews, now a Louisville lawyer who has the Louisville Catholic School Board as a client,

to dispute the constitutional

ar-

gument.

Matthews, who helped draft
the bills in question, said it was
up to the courts to determine
the constitutionality of legislation, and that the legislature
should concern itself only with
the wisdom of a law.
He said the bills in question
were "a logical extension" of
busing for parochial students and that a federal
court had upheld the constituthan 1,000 spectators strained to tionality of a Pennsylvania law
hear the proceedings.
like those in question. He mainBaptists and other opponents tained "teaching services," even
of the bills argued that they if in a parochial school, could be
would violate the U.S. and Ken subsidized by the state. Robert
court-approve-

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State Superintendent Lists
'Available Alternatives9
Should Teachers Strike
By SY RAMSEY
Associated Press Writer
FRANKFOR- T- Supt. of Public Instruction Wendell Butler
told local school superintendants
Thursday that in any teacher
strike "no board of education to
our knowledge" has punished a
teacher for taking part.
He sent a memorandum which
he said was to provide the superintendents "with information
available alternaconcerning
tives" in the event of a walkout
sponsored by the Kentucky Education Association.
The KEA, incensed at what it
considers an inadequate $300 per
biennium teacher pay increase
approved by the legislature, is
holding a Delegate Assembly
meeting at Louisville Saturday
to decide on a possible work
stoppage.
Butler's memorandum seemed
to make no particular point and
he concluded with this statement:
"Due to the many possible
varying situations existing in
Kentucky's 193 school districts,
it is practically impossible for
me to suggest or recommend any
definite course of action which

would be applicable statewide."
Strikes Nothing New

The state official said a teacher strike is nothing new in the
commonwealth.
"We have experienced several
of these in recent years, one of
the most recent and longest having occurred in Pike County district," he said.
"When this event transpired,
the attorney general . . . advised
that public employes do not have
a right to strike." The attorney
general also said the refusal of a
teacher to continue classes on a
duly designated teaching day
could be considered by a local
school board as ground for terminating the teacher's contract.
"Aly, a board of education
may setk an injunction from the

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UK STUDENT RECEIVES SCHOLARSHIP Thomas E. Alcorn,
of Valley Station (Louisville), a UK junior, has been awarded a
tuition scholarship by Sears, Roebuck 6r Company. Raymond E.
Roe, manager of the Lexington Sears store, talks with the recipient, who is majoring in business administration with an interest in marketing. The scholarship will pay a year's tuition for
Alcom and will afford him an opportunity to work for the combasis in a training program involving adminpany on a part-tim- e
istrative work.
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court requiring the teacher to
return to work or else be subjected to a fine andor jail sentence," Butler said.
He informed superintendents
that the law blocks teachers from
any pay when they are participating in a work stoppage and
added:

"If a sufficient number of
teachers walk off the job, it will
be necessary for schools to be
discontinued in the district on
that day or days and the day or
days will have to be made up
before next June 30." Butler said
a serious problem has risen in
some districts because of many
school days missed due to bad
weather.
May Teach Saturdays
for them
to teach on Saturdays to make up
the days lost," he said. "If additional days are lost due to a
work stoppage, many districts
may be facing a critical situation because of the requirement
that they must have a minimum
school termof 185daysthisyear."
A number of districts belong
to the Southern Association of
Colleges and Secondary Schools
and they must have at least 175
days of actual classroom instruc-

"It may be necessary

tion or jeopardize their standing.

Some relief might be forthcoming from a joint legislative
resolution passed by the House
this week and sent to the Senate.
as a period
It designates Jan.
of unusual weather and says that
days lost during that time need
not be made up. , , . 1
KEA President Dr.' Kenneth
Estes has said ideally .teachers
should receive raises of $1,200
in the biennium but that figure
has been scaled down to a minimum of $000.
Local associations have been
conducting inforinal polls around
the state and most results show
teacher's favoring a walkout of
unspecified duration. ; 6

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ENTER

Ruberg, school board chairman
in the Covington Catholic Diocese, said full funding of the bills
would cost the state $14 million
the next two fiscal years. It would
cost $100 million to educate the
same children in the public
schools, he added. But Harold
secretary-treasurexecutive
Sanders,
of the Kentucky Baptist Convention, took issue with
the description of aid to parochial schools as a "bargain."
"Every case in history" involving aid to parochial schools,
he maintained, was followed by
increases in taxes and more parochial schools opened to take
advantage of the situation.
The Rev. Paul Shepherd, a
Methodist minister from Louisville, noted that 75 percent of
the students in Holland were in
public schools until that country gave aid to parochial schools.
Then the percentage in public
schools dropped to 30, he said.
And passage of HB 198 or SB
128, he said, "would be a signal
for the Roman church to expand
and enlarge its programs and
facilities at public cost." .

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Once upon a time Cov. Louie
Nunn was attributed with saying
that Kentucky's youth were her
most valuable natural resource.
A statement of that magnitude
is enough to fill any student's
heart to the bursting point since
it hints strongly of added emphasis
on education in the state's future.
After all, wouldn't anyone take
every measure necessary to preserve
and expand his most valuable natural resource?
Apparently not, if we are to
judge from the budget alloted education for the 1970-7- 1 biennium.
Our peerless protector of youth
in Frankfort has shaved UK's appropriation to the bleeding point.
Another turn of the legislative
tourniquet, according to UK President Otis Singletary, would be di
astrous to the once promising future of the institution.
As it is, he says the University
can do little more than remain
stagnant during the next two years
if we are saddled with this
financial girth.
One legislator thinks the answer is a doubling of state tuition
rates, which he has presented in
the form of a bill to the General

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Editorial represent the opinion

13, 1970

of the Editors, not of the University.

James W. Miller, Editor-in-ChiMike Hcrndon, Editorial rage Editor
George II. Jepson, Managing Editor
Robert Duncan, Advertising Manager
Frank Coots, Associate Editor
Dan Gossett, Arts Editor
Chip Hutcheson, Sports Editor
Gwen Ranney, Women's Tage Editor
Don Rosa, Cartoonist
Patrick Mathes,
Jeannie St Charles, Jeannie Leedoin, Bill Matthews, Jean Renaker
Assistant Managing Editors

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overly-tight-

ened

Assembly,.
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thinking such as
this is one reason why Kentucky-traine- d
teachers leave the state in
Level-heade-

overwhelming
proportions each
year; why some sections of our
state remained locked in grinding
poverty; and why we have such a
tight budget in the first place.
It is also one reason why Kentucky's youth are fast becoming
its most scarce natural resource.

Yes, of course you'll be able to get compensation for
"Black Lung" . . . only you must prove you got it
from a coal mine!

m Kernel
Petition Support
Considering the notorious action taken
by Student Government President Tim
Futrell in vetoing the recent S. G. election reform bill, and the absurd editorial
in the Tuesday, February 10th issue of
the Kernel backing that action, one could
write volumes of protest.
Due to length limit on letters in the
Kernel, I will say simply that in spite
of his published statements, there is absolutely no way that his action can be
justified as being in the interests of the
majority of students on this campus!
The whole point of the vetoed bill is
that the election, by coinciding with
Spring Registration (in both time and
place), is thus likely to involve more
students and thus be more representative-ostudent opinion. The necessity of the
election taking two weeks rests with the
fact that registration itself takes two
weeks.
students are concerned
Hopefully,
enough to sign petitions being circulated
in the Student Center calling for the
assembly to repeal Futrell's veto, and that
these same students will stand up for
their rights by attending the next S.C.
meeting.

LARRY KIELKOPF
A&S Sophomore

Some Corrections
I would like to correct a few errors in

the article on the Student Government
meeting in the Feb. 10 issue. First, Rill
Marshall is not a Student Government
representativ e, but an executive assistant.
Secondly, he did not say, "Rut the real
problem is the communication between the
corridor advisors and the residents," but
rather, "The major problem is communication between corridor advisors and the
residents and people in Student Government, such as trying to find out what all
the problems the people in the resident
halls have and, alas, to tell them what

A nation, like an individual,
need never accept dire predictions
of disaster. Dancful forecasts do not
have to be
They can
be nullified through wisdom and inspiration. Acknowledgement of this
fact can provide the courage and
the resolution to do what needs
to be done.
self-fulfillin- g.

It is crucial that the American
people bear this in mind in view
of dreadful predictions now being
made about drug addiction. To cite
one such, the president of the New
York State Council on Drugs forecasts that "within a couple of years
every high school and every college in the country will be inundated by heroin." Another authority predicts that 40 to 60 percent
of elementary students will be frequent users of either marijuana or
heroin in a year or so.

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Help Youth

Despite a growing use of narcotics, the conditions forecast above
have not yet come about. Nor do
they need to. But they will not
be prevented merely by optimistic
statements or wishful thinking. The
challenge must be faced squarely
on the basis of the deep moral and
spiritual commitment which still
animates America, a commitment
which can provide the wisdom and
the means of combating this attack
upon the nation's dearest possession, its youth. There must come,
and without a moment's delay,
a nationwide resolution to root out
the
drug-traffi-

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solutions have been worked out with the
administration on problems we know
about."
If at any time, you have a gripe on
how something is done or not done on
campus, please write, telephone or come
in to see us at the Student Government
office and tell us about it.
RILL MARSHALL
Engineering Junior

Supports Fraternities
In response to Education Sophomore
Rosemary Morgan's retort on frat men's
dual interest in "boobs and booze" (Feb.
10), it might be wise to take a little time
out to study the internal structure of a
fraternity before making rash judgments
from the exterior observations. Granted,

there are a few in every Greek system
who take little heed in their actions, even
if they do become detrimental to a fraternity's reputation. Rut it is within the
MAJORITY of each group that one finds
certain perpetual bonds that unify each
member to a very noble and convincing
goal.
Unless you have or do belong to a
Creek fraternity, Miss Morgan, I find it
impossible to find much justification, if
any, in your complaints. Some fraternities
may romp and rage on weekends, but are
you there to scrutinize their actions during the week? It's too bad that you and
the people who share your viewpoints
do not follow up your statements with
a genuine interest in learning more about
the Creek system. Think about it
it
might not be a bad idea.
JO ROCERS

...

Junior

Ya'U Come
Widespread opposition has been ex- -,
pressed to the veto of the Student Government bill "That All Might Participate," an election reform measure which
would guarantee all students the opportunity to participate in SG elections.
I would urge any students who have
been denied their right to vote by long
lines and insufficient time in the past
to circulate one of the petitions asking
the Assembly to override the eto, and
to call any member of the Stud mt Government Assembly they may know and express their feelings on this matter.
Any students are welcome at the meeting, which will be in Room 220 of the
Commerce Ruilding, at 6:30 Thursday
evening.
STEVE RRICHT
SC Representative

Kernel Soapbox
By JIMMY L. FLECLE
There are times in the course of student government activities when a person (any person) stops and, of necessity,
reflects upon the flavor of campus politics. It is in times like those that the
true personalities of certain student gov-

ernment celebrities come to light.
In one such instance last Sunday night
our reverred President of the Student
Interests vetoed a bill that would have
given more voting opportunities to the
UK student body. Instead of woiking for
the student, our top executive proved
that he is interested solely in the advancement of his own personal political

inteiests.
Looking at the incidents leading up
to Mr. Futrell's veto, a person may somewhat casually surmise that, somewhere,
somebody is falling down on his job.

Here is the history of SG Rill 1969-5SC Rill 1969-5"That All May Participate," was put on the Student Government agenda in December.
After a favorable committee report
and o