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Friday. October 20, I978

Spiders
for sale

They're becoming
some of the most
papular pets

By sarisv PEARCE
Copy Editor

FOR SALE: Small. May «at... needing warm,
comfortable surroundings. No mess. no noise. little
trouble. Make wonderful companions at home or work.

Sounds like an ad for man's best friend. right?
Wrong.

Tarantulas are growing in popularity among
Lexington pet lovers. particularly among college
students. And though they may never rival dogs
and cats as household favorites. two local pet stores
report the gangly-legged. eight-eyed arachnids are
selling well.

“We've sold several hundred of them during the
three years our store has been open.” said Howard
Stovall, manager of Fish Bowl Pet Shop on
Alexandria Drive.

College students account for approximately
three-fourths of these sales, he added.

“Tarantulas are something students can keep in
the dorms without getting in trouble," Stovall said.
“And the fact that they‘re unusual appeals to
college students."

The price is also appealing. Stovall sells them
from $6.95 to $16.95.

Stovall keeps at least a dozen in stock and said his
tarantula sales reached a peak last year when he was
selling 20 or 30 a week.

“It‘s a fad,” he said. “Two years ago. it was hermit
tree crabs. Last year and this year it‘s the tarantula

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By DIANE MILAM/Kernel Staff

Tony Flory displays an item from his fall line.

—— it (the fad) runs in cycles.”

tarantulas. Today he keeps about 20 in stock.

Tony Flory. owner of Fins and Feathers Pet f priced from $8.99 to $2l.99, depending on size and

Shoppe in the Southpark Shopping Center.
disagreed with Stovall‘s belief that tarantulas are
just a fad.

Tarantulas will sell as long as man fears the furry
fellows. he said. “It‘s just like monster movies.
people love to be scared.“ Flory said. contending
that this could be why tarantulas are his store's
biggest sellers.

Like Stovall. Flory sells mainly to persons
between the ages of l8 and 30. When his shop
opened several months ago. he had only three

 

~today

allowed to return to homes in Princeton. Ky.

Railroad.

following two explosions at the site.

AERIAL SURVEYS INDICATED fumes from two burning derailed
chemical tank cars were dispersing yesterday. and about 80 families were

More than 40 homes within two miles were evacuated immediately
after the derailment occurred Tuesday night on the Ilinois Central Gulf

The evacuation was expanded to a three-mile radius yesterday

The first explosion occurred about 2 a.m.. followed by another shortly.

type.

Tarantulas from Honduras are solid black.
whereas the species from Mexico have orange
bands around the legs. Flory said the Mexican
species is more unusual. as well as less aggressive,
than the Honduran natives. It is also slightly more
expensive.

“I‘d like to get what‘s known as a bird tarantula.”
he said. “They‘re big enough to cover a dinner plate.
and eat birds. mice and hamsters.“ »

Continued on page 8

Suffers memory loss

Injured rider moved from Med Center
to Cardinal Hill HoSpital for therapy

By NELL FIELDS
Images Editor

treatment. She said the treatment will
concentrate on rehabilitation.

 

before dawn. The two tankers. containing vinyl chloride. a chemical used
in the manufacture of plastics. have been buring since the derailment
Tuesday night.

nation

ISRAELI FOREIGN MINISTER Moshe Dayan told President
Caner yesterday negotiations on an Egyptian-Israeli peace agreement
have encountered problems and chances of the two delegations settling
them are “very doubtful."

Dayan spoke to the president as reporters and photograpers were
ushered into the dining room at Blair House. where the delegations were
beginning lunch.

Carter. returning to the White House after the luncheon with the two

delegations. told reporters the talks were not stalled, and “We don‘t have
any particular problem.

THE CARTER ADMINISTRATION has quietly lifted a moratorium
.on most high level visits to the Soviet Union. imposed to protest actions
by Moscow against dissidents and US. businessmen and reporters.
administration officials said yesterday.

The officials. who asked not to be identified. said the new policy
reflects a changed Soviet attitude. which has helped improve the
atmosphere between the two countries since last summer when Moscow
charged two American newsmen with slandering the government and
accused a US. businessman of currency violations.

world

POPE JOHN PAUL ll yesterday deferred picking his top aides.
indicating a possible shake-up in the Vatican‘s central administration. the
Curia.

A Vatican spokesman said there probably would be no word on the
appointments this week. It was the first time in recent papal transitions
that the chief department heads have not been continued or promptly
renamed to office.

The new pope obviously “is going to put his own strong stamp” on his
administration. rather than 'just giving automatic. blanket approval" to

the previous office-holders. said the Rev. Vincent O‘Keefe. second-in-
command of the Jesuit Order.

. MOSTLY CLEAR NIGHTS and sunny days through Saturday. with
highs near 70 tomorrow and lows in the mid 40‘s Friday night. Highs
Saturday will be in the lower 70‘s.

Carol Treviranus. a US. equestrian
rider seriously injured at the 3-Day
Event. was transferred to Cardinal
Hill Hospital yesterday after a month-
long stay at the UK Medical Center.

Treviranus will undergo further
rehabilitation for the injuries that she
received in a fall at the Equestrian
Championships.

In a press conference at the UK
Medical Center. Mrs. Alexander
Mackay-Smith. her mother. said
Carol no longer needs medical

In transit

Wheelchair-horns Carol
Treviranus was pushed by her
mother. Mrs. Alexander Mackay-
Smith. as she was transferred
from the University Medical
Center to Cardinal Hill Hospital
yesterday. Treviranus has fully
regained consciousness, but must
still undergo physical therapy for
an injured arm. Mrs. Mackayo
Smith said. “If she keeps going the
waysheis.we‘ilhavcherhomc
completely recovered In a few
months.” she said. Treviranus.
clutching a stuffed toy duck
named Puddle Ducks.de
at the World Championship 3-
Day Equestrian Event hr a riding
accident. Her horse. Comic
Relief. doubled and Is! at a
barrier bring stadiu- jumping
on the that by. Trcvh'anusstruck
her head on a heavy wooden
railing. resulting In a severe brain
bruise. She was meonacious for.
nearly two weeks.

 

 

orientation and physical therapy.

Mackay-Smith said Carol has only
limited use of one arm but the arm is
not paralyzed. The bruise on
Treviranus‘ brain is not healed. but
Mackay-Smith said. “It is a layman‘s
guess that her memory will return.“

Treviranus has trouble remember-
ing things that happened even within
several minutes. said her mother. and
does not recall the fall in which she was
injured.

She can now walk by herself and

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University of Kentucky
Lexington. Kentucky

Cox urges lawyers
to seek excellence

By STEVE MASSEY
Staff Writer

Archibald Cox. famous for his
hardnosed approach as special
Watergate prosecutor. spoke last night
to a packed house of lawyers.
dignitaries. and administrative
officials.

“I‘m proud of our profession. and
convinced that each of us can aspire to
live within the law. In my view, the role
of the lawyer is that of a conscious
expert.“ Cox said.

Mr. B.M. Westberry. president of
the Kentucky Bar Association. which
is jointly sponsoring the series with the
UK Law School. opened the
Memorial Hall program by explaining
the series as “a living memorial (to
Judge Swinford) which would
somehow inspire all of us to do bigger
and greater things.“ Westberry later
added that the lectures “are more
fitting in his honor than any tangible
memorial."

Cox, now a Harvard law professor.
gained national fame with his struggle
to obtain all the White House tapes
needed for evidence in the Watergate
case.

Crowded courts, court delays. and
other legal problems have done much
to disillusion the general public with
the legal system, commented Cox.
“Better organization and management
will do something — but it will take
more than that to find better, cheaper
solutions.” Cox said.

But the legal system is as good as its
lawyers, he said. And it is in the system
where lawyers must live up to their
professional responsibility.

“A great lawyer comes to know his
clients better than himself . . .a great

recognizes family and close friends.
Her mother said, "Carol still thinks
that she rode yesterday. We‘ve drilled
to her that she‘s in Lexington, but she
is very fuzzy about where she is.“

Alexander Mackay-Smith.
Treviranus‘ stepfather. said the family
is very optimistic but will not make
any firm predictions. He said they
took Treviranus to the Horse Park and
showed her two-thirds of the course.
Treviranus recognized most of the
jumps and remembered how well that
she did on them, he said.

While at the hospital. she spoke

ARCHIBALD COX
lawyer is also a dreamer.“ said Cox. A
good lawyer “acts in moderation,
prefers fact to theory. and sees
everything as relative and not
absolute.”

Lawyers should help people “i
ways that predict and often substitute
reason for power.“ continued Cox.
“The best lawyers specialize in close
imaginative analysis.“

Asked about his position on the
celebrated Farber case —— where a New
York Times reporter was jailed for
withholding sources in a murder case
— Cox said, “If I had to decide the
case, I would enforce the order to show
his notes to the judge (as the judge
requested in the case). The point I
would stress in the interest of a fair
trial is that the case involves a charge
of first degree murder.“

often about her horses and her dog.
said her mother. Mrs. Mackay-Smith
said she told Carol that she should
consider giving up jumping. The reply
was. “I couldn‘t give up cross
country.“ said Mrs. Mackay-Smith.
As Treviranus was wheeled out of
the hospital in a wheelchair. she waved
and said. “Goodbye. and thank you
for everything that you‘ve done for
us."
The Mackay-Smiths have rented a
house near the UK Medical Center
and plan to stay in Lexington until
Treviranus‘ treatment is completed.

 

  

 

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Area committee needed for non-bias tenure

The University seems to be on a collision course
with the Law School accrediting agencies on the
subject of how tenure is granted.

The problem is that U K uses an “area committee"
system to grant tenure, where a panel of faculty
members from the social sciences has authority over
the granting of tenure to law school professors.
That‘s in direct opposition to Standard 205 of the
American Bar Association and thesAssociation of
American Law Schools.

The ABA and AALS believe that tenured law
professors should be chosen only by the law faculty.
The discipline is vastly different from other
academic departments. they argue, and only law
professors themselves are qualified to pass
judgment on their school‘s faculty.

The University, on the other hand, uses the area
committee concept to guarantee that the law

faculty. as well as faculties on other schools. is not
isolated from other schools. The committees also
inject impartiality into the tenure process, and
guard against a faculty becoming too inbred. (There
are five area committees at UK which make tenure
decisions for about two dozen academic
departments).

The Law School seems secure right now from any
sudden loss of accreditation. They have been
reported as not in compliance with the tenure
standards. but it‘s uncertain when, or if, that will
result in loss of accreditation.

Law Dean Thomas Lewis said it was premature to
worry about the conflict, an opinion seconded by
other University officials. Nevertheless. this is the
first time that the accreditors have served notice that
UK is in violation of the standards, an indication
that they are interested in enforcing their rules.

It‘s not the first time UK has had trouble with the
law school accreditors. Two years ago, a
“crackdown" on the number of hours that law
students could work prompted protests from the
students. .

The University Senate Council recommended to
President Otis Singletary that the area committee
system be upheld if possible. The council saw the
visiting commitee‘s report as an “attack” on the
tenure system that could lead to widespread
restructuring of the process at UK. That prediction
seems valid: if the Law School tenure process is
changed, other schools would undoubtedly push for
similar changes to get more authority over their
faculties.

The present system does seem preferable to an in-
house review of faculty members. The advantages
are that it connects the schools together and

provides for a more unbiased evaluation of faculty
members.

In addition to those reasons. there are.
requirements and qualities of good professors that
are true of all departments. such as teaching ability
and extent of publication. It‘s possible that
understanding a tenure candidate‘s knowledge of
law and judging his talent and experience could bea
problem for professors from other departments. But
all academic departments are specialized to some
degree, and the advantages of secular decisions on
tenure outweigh the negative factors.

It may be possible to ride out the present conflict,
depending on how serious the accreditors view the
tenure process; or perhaps a compromise can be
reached. In any event, the University should try and
retain the area committee system of granting tenure.
if at all possible.

 

College ’can be a great place’
but patterns prevent potential

Hello again . . . here‘s my best to
you/ are all your skies grey/ I hope
they're bluuuuue . . . thank you Don
Pardo. and welcome to the "College
Bowl."

It‘s sort of like a soup bowl. but
when you swallow it. it makes you
shrink.

It‘s Tuesday night. and my editor is
threatening to replace me with a
Library Lounge ad unless I have this in
by tomorrow. But hey. come on in ——
I'll turn the heat up a little. Sit a bit.
we'll sip some tea and watch the leaves
outside in their graceful ballet of
changes.

There's another tool froom my chest
I‘d like to lend you — a book called
The Phantom Tollbooth bv Norman

Oh. no . . . there he goes again. . . I
guess I‘m talking about the more
magical. maybe spiritual or ritual
aspects of our lives. The native
American cultures viewed the world
about them as deeply imbued with a
mystical quality —~ they saw
themselves as a small part of a larger
unity. Each aspect. each daily function
of life had meaning beyond the
physical act itself.

We‘ve lost a great deal of that — our
philosophy and various religious
creeds, be they Keynesian economics
or Christianity. place us apart from the
word. and from each other. (0h. am I
ever going to catch hell for that last
remark.) We are raised as a generation
of half-assed bookkeepers. bartering

(‘OpyrighQ l97l.the :entucky Kernel

Juster. It‘s a grown-up kids' book
about a kid named Milo who never
really enjoys anything because he‘s
always living in the future, being
trapped by expectations and fears.
One of Milo‘s travels takes him to the
city of Reality. Reality is nothing more
than people hurrying to and from piles
of rubble. The once-beautiful city fell
into decay when people realized they
could get from A to Z more quickly by
looking at their feet and going
endlessly forward. and in the process
lost sight of any purpose except
moving; chronically moving.

McDeaths is opening up a new store
on Limestone. Somehow. I‘ve always
held them in contempt (You deserve a
brick today). I guess it‘s partly because
they represent one of the ways in which
our lives have been robbed of their
lyrical. magical quality. Eating. and
sharing the price of food. has a real
symbolic importance to me ~ a
tangible and basic expression of
nourishing another; an expression of
community. Hell. it wouldn‘t have
quite cut it if Da Vinci had painted
Christ and the apostles eating
ratburgers at McDeath‘s . . . it's just
not quite right.

for this and that. tearing into each
other‘s lives like ravenous dogs into
garbage bags in back alleys. It is all we
know.

A university could be a great place.
A place for learning. for challenging
those things within and outside us that
thwart our growth. a place of refuge
which could cut us enough slack and
provide tools to help us learn how to
take control of our own lives. to
become self-actualizing individuals.

Too often. the University becomes a
place rampant with a stench of decay . .

of the stifling of energies into
narrowly defined patterns that are ill-
fitted for our potential, and which
invalidate the best in us. We learn how
to be well-dressed pickpockets in
professional schools, feeding on the
political. legal. medical and
psychological problems of others. No
real attempt is made to integrate or
connect our “education” and “skills”
with the larger community; the entire
functioning of the system is a
Skinnerian rat maze in which we learn
to drool at the sound of a falling dollar
and look with disdain on those non-

productive. non-utilitarian aspects of
life.

 

Letters

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contributions frm the UK com unity for
publication on the editanai and opinion
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the writer‘s signature. address and phone
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Contributions should be delivered to the
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Should be 30 lines or less. 60 characters
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Concern particular issues. concerns or
‘events relevant to the UK community.

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Give and explain a position pertaining to
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Well. so be it. A university. like any
other institution. has a schizophrenic
existence. being buffeted by pressures
to maintian the order (however
tenuous) of things. and by pressures
which strike at its very core.
challenging its validity as any sort of
learning experience.

The real learning goes on around us.
The people you pass on the streets
don‘t hand out grades, they don‘t
charge tuition. We get sucked into
believing that they aren‘t real — or
useful. Our thoughts lack validity
unless the Dean‘s name is stamped
under them; our desires are idiotic
unless they have a dollar sign before
them.

As long as we continue to defer our
present lives and experiences to some
amorphous future, hoping for some
gold ring at the end of the pointless
merry-go-round. we‘ll make ourselves
prisoners of a bankrupt cultural
system.

Think about the way that you sat
around with some people in a room.
and how the discordant harmony of
your voices singing made you warm
and giddy. It didn‘t cost anything, and
it was real. even if no one tested you on
It.

Think how you feel when you do
something totally unexpected for
someone, someting special and so
intangibly fulfilling. Think about
quality. integrity. all those dumb and
obscenely non-economic traits we
have been schooled to forget.

Flakey Foont asked Mr. Natural
where it all ends. Nr. Natural said “in
death, Flakey. in death.” Don‘t wait
for a second coming of some deity, or
some dream of an intangible corporate
orgasm to fulfill your spirit and
redeem yuour life. Like the poet said,
“Practice Resurrection."

Tom Fitzgerald is a second-year law

student. His column appears every
Friday.

 

 

Letters to the Editor

 

 

torn together

As an American citizen l feel a
deep concern for the actions and
motives of the US. government.
Weare supposed to be a
democratic country that is based
on freedom and human rights.
However. I see human rights and
freedom being only forthe chosen
few who uphold everything our
government does. even if it means
shedding the blood of thousands
of innocent people.

As an observer ofthe trial ofthe
“Lexington ll.“l saw true injustice
in action. I saw these people being
severely persecuted by the court
becausethese studentsare against
the inhuman acts of our
government in Iran, and other
countries. These students were
condemned because they are for
freedom and human rights. They
were jailed because they are
against the murderous. corrupt
actions ofthe CIA. These students
are not the guilty ones. The guilty
ones are those who supprt the
murder. crime. and injustice ofthe
CIA and organizations like it.

It is because I am an American
that I am aganst any government
that kills for the sake offascist rule
and for the sake of huge
corporations that suckthe blood of
the people. As Americans we must
assume the responsibility of what
our country‘s government does.
Political repression must not be
tolerated. and it is up to us to see
that our government stops such
actions. Because if we don‘t. no
one will be allowed to speak out
against injustice and there will no
longer be people who are free
anywhere.

The blood shed by thousands of
Iranian people is the same blood

that flows through American veins.

Their grief is as painful as ours
when ourloved ones die. Iran is our
concern because its people are our
brothers and sisters.

1 ask all true Americans who

desire freedom in the world for all
people to join together in the
support of the Iranians‘ struggle.
for it is our struggle. too. Let‘s stop
Iran from turning into another
Vietnam.

Robyne L. Clayton
Microbiology junior

boo hugh

Hugh Findlay‘s commentary~
‘Cruisin‘: a genuine Kentucky flatland
high‘ should have never been printed. I
have heard in the past that Hugh has
written some nice stories. however.
what I read in Wednesday‘s issue of the
Kernel was pure ‘horseshit.’ How dare
Findlay suggest that one should ‘sit
back. smoke a number..drink a little
brew. run your little car. and enjoy a
little red fun. It‘s all free and more than
readily available.‘

Well. Mr. Findlay. the Kentucky
emergency rooms are not free for a
drunken hot-rodder. or. fora victim of
a ‘little red fun.’ Niether are the
morgues which are full of idiots who
seem to take a flippant attitude toward
drunken driving and speeding.
Alcohol is estimated to be responsible
for half of all traffic deaths. Last year
my dearest relative was killed by a
drunken driver on a Mississippi road
very similar to the roads that Findlay
wrote about.

I myself have been known to imbibe
in libacious pleasures of alcohol and
whatever. but. I try to refrain mixing
either intoxicant with an automobile.
Whenever anyone does this they risk
the possibilities of killing themselves
as well as other innocent parties.

Findlay‘s style isn‘t bad; it‘s just the
material that I hate. This is another
example of a newspaper printing
material simply to fill space. I believe
that intelligent people should not be

subjected to such drivel. If you don‘t
have anything important to say, then.
roll a joint and go sleep in a haunted
house. Don‘t just use an important
publication tolsee your name in large
print.

Besides, there are some pledge
classes on campus that just might be
inspired to get in their cars, get
intoxicated and speed recklessly to
“Suzie‘s Corner” screaming about her
‘loose love life.‘ Just think. Hugh. you
may have perpetuated one of those
ghost stories into a real-life
experience. ~

Michael Odom
Theater Arts junior

give ’em a hand

There is a question that weighs very
heavily on the minds of many people
connected with UK‘s ‘Wildcat‘
marching band. Through the efforts of
Mr. Clarke (Director of Bands).
Gordon Henderson (Assistant
Director) and the many band members
themselves, we are continuing to
produce a quality of half-time
entertainment that both in drill and
music is among the very finest seen
anywhere.

The question that we find so
puzzling is, in simplest form. where is
the student response? After all. it is
they whom we‘re representing when
we go to Maryland. LSU. Georgia, etc.
and recieve a standing response All“
includes comments like ‘best band
we‘ve ever seen here“ or, as in the
words of one director. “I assure you we
are having trouble living with the
excitement that your band created
here last Saturday."

The members of this band work
their butts of to be as good as they are
and l can no longer see sitting still
while we‘re taken for granted by our
own.

This week‘s show will be played
toward the student side, and I only ask
that you really watch and listen. If you
like what you see and hear, be vocal.
These people are proud of what they
have accomplished and deserve to.
know that fellow students are too.

.Ioe Flanlgan
President
UK Marching Band

’/ can ’1‘ turn my back on others’ grief’

l a m not a political scientist — l

Like most-people. I get a bit

don‘t pretend to understand the annoyed when my passages to and

complexities of the relationships

fro on campus are interrupted by

Charles main

 

between nations. or of this nation‘s
foreign entangle ments.

I a m not even a very good student
— I haven‘t the self-discipline it takes
to master difficult scientific and
technical courses — I still have
trouble. in fact. getting to class
consistently.

In these respects. I think. I am
probably not that much different
from any other avenge student on
this campus. As many of us do.l
have a tendency to be less than
serious at ti mes about my studies. I
have a tendency to be rather self~
consu med. and I get annoyed easily
when people violate my personal
space.

people shoving leaflets in my face or
shouting slogans at me — it‘s hu man
nature. I suppose. After all. I‘ve got
my own life to live. my own unique
set of proble ms to cope with.

But I a m not insensitive — I cant
overlook the hard ships of others, or
their grief. I cant see a wrong
perpetrated upon another hu man
being and then turn my back to it.

In this respect. too. I cannot feel
that l a m much different fro m any
one else. I can't believe that any one of
you would knowingly allow others to
be har med unjustly. would say “I‘m
sick of hea ring about it" when
another hu man being reaches out to
you for help.

Yet I have seen it happening all
around us for so me ti me now. I have
received long. indignant letters fro in
people who are "sick of hearing
about” what is perhaps the worst
miscarriage of justice I have ever
witnessed firsthand.

The new Fayette County Detention
Center on Walnut Street is not a
pretty building. lts stark grey color
and imposing architecture speak
well for its purpose. It isn‘t
supposed to be a pretty building — it
is a place where criminals are
housed and. as such. a structure built
with utility as its only consideration.
It is not a place fit for celebration.

But a celebration of sorts took
place thereMonday evening. Al most
a hundred people assembled at the
tear gate of the facility in the wintry
dusk to greet the nine convicted
protesto rs who had been so suddenlv

and unexpectedly released by John
S miley‘s act of kindness.

l was there. too. One of my good
friends — I‘ve written of hi m before
— was a mong the defendants. He
spent ten days in jail — all while on
hunger strike in protest of his
conviction — for holding up a sign in

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death.

Whether or not my friend is
guilty of "disrupting“
Stansfield Turner‘s speech no
longer seems important. It is
important to him, and
understandibly so. but what
must concern any American to
whom justice is more than just
one of the words in the “pledge
of allegiance.” is this: could any
form of peaceful protest be so
horrible as to be justly
punishable by 45 days'
imprisonment and a fine of
3250?

Furthermore. did not the
University officials who had
him arrested and then insisted
on his prosecution — despite
the fact that 80 members of the
University faculty signed a
petition asking that the charges
be dropped —— ‘have a
responsibility to take into
account the far-reaching effects
of that prosecution?

In the past week. Dean of
Students Joe Burch has said the
University would not take the
two convicted Iranian students
before the Judicial Board for
their alleged violations of the
Student Code. this on the
advice of the University's legal
counsel.

The University‘s reasoning.
it seems, is that the punishment
the two have already received
from the courts is enough.

But it is too late for such
charity. If the University
indeed is concerned for the
welfare of its two students, why
did they insist on this
prosecution in the first place?
And what of the other six
Iranians who were also
prosecuted? Must not the
University also assume
responsibility for the fate of
each. even though their fate is
now in someone else’s hands?

My friend wants to be taken
before the Judicial Board. He
still feels that he was right in
what he did, that he had the
right to hold his sign at the
speech.

“i feel bad that President
Singletary doesn‘t seem to
understand freedom of
speech," my friend has said.
“He said we had freedom of
speech in one area by the
Student Center, and that we
should have gone there. This is
stupid. You can have freedom
of speech anywhere, as long as
you don‘t deny anyone else
their rights. If there is only one

place on the campus where we
have free speech, then Turner
should have gone down there to
give his speech.

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our signs — there is nothing in

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couldn‘t do that. We believe
Joe Burch abused his authority
when he had us arrested. We
made no noise; we just
embamssed him and Vincent
Davis and the other University
officials in front of their friend
Turner by disagreeing with
him.

“We want to go before the
judicial board and state our
case. We did not break any
rule. and we wan