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Vol. LXV No. 100

Wednesday, January 30, 1974

an independent student newspaper

University of Kentucky
Lexington, KY. 40506

 

Trustees approve increase in meal costs

By STEVE awn-"r
Editor-in-Chief

ONE DOESN‘T have to look far
for proof of today's high cost of
living.

For the second time in less than
a year the Board of Trustees has
approved an increase of dor-
mitory food costs, the latest
action, taken at Tuesday‘s
meeting, will raise the price of
meals by 9.2 per cent.

Dr. Otis Singletary, UK
president, explained the
University‘s role as a land
developer during the meeting.
His discourse on this subject was
prompted by recent stories in the
press charging UK as a slumlord
and “blockbuster".

BOARD MEMBER Eugene
Goss said a house owned by the
University in the Pralltown
community should be “converted
to cash and the money used for

the public interest. Entirely too
much property is held by public
institutions."

 

A detailed account of
Singletary‘s discussion is
given in the story below.

A recommendation of the
Board's Finance Committee,
unanimously approved by the
body, sets the following new
prices:

—THE THREE MEAL plan
jumps to $623, an increase of $132
in the last two years.

~Students using the two meal
plan (breakfast and dinner) will
pay $540 next fall. This is a two
year climb of $112.

—A fee of $560 will be required
of those wishing a choice of any
two meals. This marks a $96
increase over the same period.

FINANCE Committee Report
No. 4 said, “The recommended
rates provide for a 5.5 per cent
increase for personal services, an
increase for food, and elimination
of the equivalent of seven
positions."

The positions to be eliminated
will be “mostly in the janitorial
force,” said Larry Forgy, vice
president for business affairs and
UK tressurer.

However, Forgy continued,
“these are positions that will
become vacant between now and
then and we just won‘t replace
them."

TL‘ESDAY'S INCREASES
were passed with little comment,
quite a contrast to proceedings
one year ago when the Board

tabled a proposal to increase
prices while the Finance Com—
mittee evaluated alternative
suggestions by Board member

Garvice Kincaid. The research
proved futile and the increases
were passed at the Feb. 20
meeting.

While yesterday‘s motion was
up for discussion William
Sturgill, chairman of the Finance
Committee, indicated an alter-
native coupon plan, a con-
troversial issue on campus the
past month, “has never been a
proposal or recommendation to
this committee." Sturgill also
said room cost, $587 per year,
would remain constant for the
1974~75 school year.

Two changes in Governing
Regulations were also approved.
One formally designates the
Honors Program as an
educational unit equivalent to a
department and responsible to
the Dean of Undergraduate
Studies. The second change gives

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cost of food
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The University now owns 44 or 45 out of 140 parcels of land
in the Pralltown are and most are parking lots, said Larry
Forgy. vice president for business affairs.

PROMPTEI) BY several
charges made against UK
concerning a vacant house
in Pralltown. President
()tis Singletary outlined to
the Board of Trustees
’l‘iiesday the University‘s
role as a property owner.

Singletary

About five years ago the University was requested not to
sell the property piecemeal, Singletary said, because if a
public housing project was started it would be easier to
purchase from UK. “As we see our role. we thought by
holding the property we were being cooperative."

HE ADDED he did not think it was the responsibility of a
university to develop a housing project and thought UK
should stay out of that business. “I'm perfectly willing to
dispose of that property and I want us extricated from the
project if it is going to cause such a public disturbance.“
Singletary said.

William Btngham, a repreeaitadve o! the Prelim
Neighborhood Annotation, dented Tuesday he had charged
UK as beluga "elinnlord and bW’. Btngham m
with the state House of Representatives‘ Cities Committee
Friday.

outlines UK

The house in question is
scheduled for demolition
soon. Singletary said. and
is the only structure other
thana church owned by the
University in Pralltown.
UK was critictzed for its
role as a landlord after a
group of state legislators
visited the area Friday.

ownership role

DR. OTIS SINGLETARY

The small Pralltown community is on the fringes of

By ”NDACARNES campus. off South Limestone Street.

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K9r"°'5‘all“'ri‘er smormmv EXPLAINED to the Board property was

bought in Pralltown many years ago. “During the ‘505 and
‘605 about one—fourth of the lots in Pralltown were purchased

to be used as a naturalarea ofexpansion.“ ('ontinued on page 7

 

News In Brlef

0 Movie cancelled

0 Ray appeal okayed
0 Oil pact signed

0 lsraeli seige ends
0 Another no-no

e Nixon subpoenaed

0 Today's weather...

0 THE MOVIE, “I.F. Stone's Weekly"
will not be shown today as scheduled. The
movie was a part of Student Govern-
ment‘s Focus Forum program and was
originally scheduled for 2 pm.

0 CINCINNATI .Ohio —James Earl Ray
was given a chance to contest his guilty
plea in the murder of Dr. Martin Luther
King Jr. because of allegations his at-
torneys compromised his interests to
fatten their pocketbooks. The 6th US.
Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Ray,
41, who received a 99-year sentence for the
1968 murder of the civil rights leader, is
entitled to a hearing to contest his 1969
guilty plea.

o KUWAIT—An oil participation
agreement was signed Tuesday giving this
Persian Gulf sheikdom a 60 per cent
controlling interest in the Kuwait
operations of Gulf Oil Co. and British
Petroleum, semioffical sources reported.

Government officials declined to
comment on the report, but industry
sources said details of the agreement
would be announced Thursday.

0 SUEZ. Egypt Egyptiantroops fired off

joyful shots into the air Tuesday to
celebrate the end of a 97-day Israeli siege
that encircled about 20,000 Egyptian
troops.

About 20,000 men of Egypt‘s 3rd Army.
encircled by Israeli forces since the
October war, were in excellent spirits and
“have everything they need," their
commander told newsmen.

I WASHINGTON—There is no apparent
authority for the Secret Service protection
provided Spiro T. Agnew since his
resignation as vice president, the General
Accounting Office reported Tuesday.

0 LOS ANGELES—John D. Ehrlich-
man asked to have President Nixon
subpoenaed as a material witness in
Ehrlichman‘s burglary and conspiracy
trial. The judge agreed to issue the un-
precedented order. Superior Court Judge
Gordon Ringer ruled that President
Nixon is a material witness in the
California case against Ehrlichman and
two other former White House aides,
Watergate burglar G. Gordon Liddy and
David Young.

Ringer said he would authorize a sub-
poena commanding Nixon to appear at a
Feb. 25 pretrial hearing and at the April
15 trial. There was no indication when the
subpoena would be prepared and signed.

...sun and rain

The weather should be sunny and
warmer today with temperatures in the
505. Tonight will be fair and not so cool
with the low in low 405. There is achance of
showers Thursday. but temperatures will
reach the 505.

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Door is finally apen

Dean of Students Jack Hall has finally opened the
doors of the Committee to Evaluate Coeducational
Living and Visitations to Student Government
suggestions. His decision, only three days before a
Feb. 1 deadline for changes, all but delays any major
amending of rules governing dorm life until 1975.

Last semester SG asked Hall if it could discuss
implementation of lifestyle dorms before the com-
mittee. He refused and even student members on the
committee refused to discuss SG suggestions on their
free time. The lifestyle dorm concept offers many
choices of living to students and we think a good look
atan SG survey of dorm residents would be benificial

for the committee.

Over 2,000 students have signed a petition favoring
lifestyle dorms, a large percentage to be overlooked
by the committee responsible for charging dorm
rules. We know the University can postpone its ap-
proaching deadline without significantly upsetting
schedules. It did this last year when the Board of
Trustees tabled food cost increases for one mon-

th

'11 Hall is sincere in h'm effort to solicit so
suggestions he could postpone the printing deadline
until me committee has an opportunity to review

lifestyle dorm living.

A rare occasion

While we hate to see students burdened with a rise
in the price of meals next fall, we commend the ad-
ministration for withdraawing its suggestion that the
University replace the current meal plan policy with

a coupon payment system.

Though we feel the coupon system would have been
beneficial to students and the University alike, this
marks a rare occasion when the administration backs
off a proposal and allows the studentry the final word.

Nicholas Von Hoffman

Gold fever: affliction restricted to the rich

NEW ORLEANS—The speaker
was a Canadian so he could
legally own the two gold pieces he
passed around among the room
full of Americans. They were
South African coins, 1971
Krugerands on which were
stamped in English and
African as“1 Oz Fine Gold,” and
when you held one in your hand
and stared at the rich metal, it
glowed back and set the
imagination to thinking what this
most noble of elements can do to
the lining of men’s brains.

The people in the room didn’t
need to fondle the Krugerands,
each worth $140 in our cheap
paper money, to contract gold
fever. Seven hundred or more of
them had come from all over
America and paid $300 at the door
to spend a weekend talking about
the only obsession that rivals sex
in its antiquity.

The meetings were sponsored
by the National Committee to
Legalize Gold. Except certain
co‘ns, it is as much a crime for
Americans to own gold as to own

heroin. The committee is working
to repeal this bit of governmental
interventionalist idiocy, but since
the metal is far more addictive
than any frug, those in at-
tendance know all the way, licit
and otherwise, that Americans
can get possession of it by bag or
bar.

Walking around among the
goldbugs—as they call them-
selves—~is like walking among the
members of a Repent-Now-sect
three days after the Second
Coming. For years, when the
hard-core leaders wer
preaching gold as a defense
against inflation, the price of the
metal sat limp at the bottom of
the bar graphs. But then, first
silver and next gold prices took
off.

Four years ago, gold was
selling for $35 an ounce or less.
Last week it was going for $140
and isn‘t expected to level off
until it is somewhere over $200.
This fact has made the people at
the meeting very happy but very
schizophrenic. A part of each of

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Letters to the Kernel

A statement on consciousness

I would like to make a sub-
jective statement to the people of
this University who claim to have
attained a satisfactory level of
consciousness. Specifically,
those of you who proclaim that

people are the total product of '

their society and-or culture.
Those of you who would have me
believe that if we eliminate all
present social injustice and
cultural taboos we can have a
world of free people, free ideas
and free choice.

My statement to you is, you are
blind in one eye and can‘t see out
of the other.

You stare into obvious con-
tradictions and don’t see them.
You speak of freeing people from
supressive ideals but wish to
enslave them with your own
ideals. You are vehemently
opposed to the values of the

them wants to boast like the
woman who was telling anyone
who’d listen that she’d made
$75,000 in one week on a gold-
mine stock. Another part of them
is so concerned about the IRS and
the Treasaury Department that
they won’t give you their names
unless you promise not to print

them.
The success stories floating

around the place would give
anybody gold fever. There was
the young math major who had
once been active in the Berkeley
Free Speech Movement back in
’65 when he also put his small
patrimony in South African
mining stocks. He is rich today
and too busy trading foreign
currencies to have time for
politics.

There was also the expansively
contented lawyer who closed
down his Eastern real estate
business a couple of years ago
and went west buying up options
on old, closed-down gold mines
whose ore is too low grade to
makea profit at $35 an ounce, but

present society and culture; but
yet you insist an imposing yours
on us in place of the old. You are
critical of the objectives of the
society and the behavior they call
for; but you can’t see, or don’t
want to see, the restrictions your
objectives place on us.

Why can't you see that freedom
can’t exist as long as there is a
moral code to follow? You make
value judgements based upon
your idea of morality and call it
freedom. Bull!

Then there are the anarchist
who would have us reject all
forms of authority and be free.
Again, bull! How can we be free if
we must all follow one moral
trail?

In short, you all need to raise
your level of consciousness.
Raise it to the level where you
realize you are nothing, I am

which will do swimmingly at
$140. He says those options were
so cheap one bankrupt mine
owner offered to tie in a night in a
hotel room with his niece as part
of the sale. Today he has an offer
from one of the biggest mining
companies in America.

The people at the meetings
called their gathering the Gold
Bugs’ Woodstock, but really the
atmosphere suggested a boar-
droom Klondike or a Harvard
Business School gusher.
Everybody here recorded what
the speakers said on their Sony
cassettes while suppressing the
need to emit wide-mouthed,
victorious yahoos.

Mining stocks are getting so hot
that people are bidding up the
prices on companies that don’t
have an ounce of proven ore. In
fact, companies without so much
as a shovel do better than those
actually engaged in extracting
ore. People, more prone to invest
in future hopes than present
realities, bid up the price of over-

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nothing, we all are nothing, in
terms of value or worth. Our very
lives, which we cling to so
strongly and find so much
meaning in, are nothing more
a series of restricted decisions.

The world we so passionately
believe in is only an illusion of our
own personal “phantasy”.

Raise your level of con-
sciousness to the point of
realizing we are our worst
enemy. What we fear the most of
becoming is what we are. We are
prisoners of our own weaknesses.
Realize this and then attempt to
change what is. In doing that I’m
sure you will find that there truly
is no exit.

Ronald R. Taylor
Journalism-senior

the-counter, penny (i.e., under a
dollar), silver stocks an average
159 per cent in one recent eight-
year period.

A warning: This is a tricky
game that should not be played
by people who don't know it and
who can’t afford to lose their
entire investment. The rest of us
should fasten on to the fact that
the gold market is a testimony to
inflation.

The people buying gold are
pulling their money out of
savings accounts, stocks, bonds,
mortgages and every other kind
of security because the inflation
is destroying their profits and
their capital too. A woman in-
vestor put it in a nice epigram:
“My grandfather took the first
dollar he ever made and put it in
a frame he bought with a dime.
Now the frame is worth a dollar
and the dollar is worth a dime.”

Nicholas von Hoffman is a

columnist for Kings features
Syndicate.

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

Opinion from inside and outside the university community

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‘We're goin' to get you dape smokers'

By BOYD KIDWELL

At the Pure Prairee League concert
Saturday night, three police officers ap-
proached my date, two people sitting
beside us and myself and asked us to leave
the Student Center Ballroom with them.
Two of the officers were UK police in
uniform and one was a plain clothes
Lexington policeman, Lt. M Murphy,
badge 57.

As we were watching the first set of
Warm, I noticed the policemen crossing
through the crowd from the other side of
the Student Center Grand Ballroom.
”Wow, I thought," Someone is going to get
busted. lam glad we aren’t smoking.” The
cops kept coming closer and closer,
passing by water pipes, reefers and
roaches. The next thing I knew, Lt.
Murphy tapped the two guys next to me on
the shoulder and said, ”Come with us.”
That's odd I thought, those two guys
weren’t even smoking.”

Whatwas also odd was that my date and
I were also tapped to accompany Lt.,
Murphy out of the concert.

I THOUGHT as we made our way to the
door, “This is a mistake, they don’t want
us, what did we do?” As we moved through
the crowd, Lt. Murphy made a point of
shining his flashlight in the eyes of kids
who looked too relaxed, personally
bringing them back to reality.

When we reached the hallway, the police
led us towards a back corner because as
one of the campus police said, “You don’t
want to talk about this in public.” At this
point, I asked, ”Talk about what in public,
what are you charging us with?”

When we reached a back corner, Lt.
Murphy dramatically announced that he
had a man watching us for over an hour

Your Health
You needn't

By JEAN cox

A week ago I spent two days at the
Health Service Blue Cross-Blue Shield
information table in the Student Center. I
obok forward to this contact with students
each semester because in answering
questions about the health program I find
out where confusion exists and then I can
attempt to clarify these points in the in-
formation bulletins that I write.

A question that came up several times
troubles me and I feel that it is important
to answer it for the general student
community. Two or three students pointed

out to me that they had received services

that they thought were covered by the
health fee or the insurance plan and they
had been upset when they got bills that
they hadn‘t expected, either from the
Health Service or from University
Hospital.

To my surprise I found that they had
paid the bills without making any inquiry,
but still feeling, and saying, that they
thought the program was a rip-off. When I
asked them why they hadn‘t brought the
bill to us for explanation, the answer I got
was, “You can‘t fight the system."

IT‘S NOT a matter of fighting; no
student (or anyone else) should pay a bill
until he‘s convinced that it‘s legitimate. I
certainly wouldn't. There are several
reasons why a student could receive a bill
for a service that should have been
covered by the health fee or insurance.

The most common problem related to
health fee coverage at the beginning of
each semester is that services must be
ordered from the hospital before we have
proof that the health fee has been paid.

and that this man had seen us smoking.

We all replied that he had better check
his man because we had not smoked that
evening. All of us were pointing out that
there were many people smoking, but how
could they pick us out of the crowd when
we difinitly had not smoked.

THIS IS when Lt. Murphy really came
into his own. “We’re not going to let this
dope smoking go on this campus. You
might smoke in your dorm rooms, in your
cars, or in your apartments, but we aren’t
goin’ to allow it here. We’re goin’ to git you
dope smokers, we’re goin’ to git you all.
You tell all them drug users, we’re going to
git them all."

At this point, I began to get the idea that
these cops weren’t really out to arrest
anybody, this was only a harassment. All
of the other prisoners were realizing this
also and smiles and laughter were
beginning to take the place of looks of fear.
We than asked to be able to return to the
concert and at least try to enjoy what was
left. One of the campus police even said
that they had not made us leave the con-
cert, that we had left ofour own will.

Iwish thatI could say that this ended the
harassment, but it was not the case. While
Lt. Murphy was lecturing, he shook his
finger in each of our faces, at one point my
date asked that he not point his finger in
her face any more. To this Murphy replied
that this was his right. My date men
pushed his finger away. “You know
youung lady that you have just assaulted
an officer,” said one of the officers.

AT THIS point Lt. Murphy turned on the
two guys brought out with us. One was
from Eastern and the other from Centre.
The police looked through their pockets,
including their cigarette packages, in

fight The System

What usually happens is that the student
doesn’t have his health fee ID card and his
name doesn’t appear on the early health
fee print-outs that we receive from the
Billings and Collections Office. During this
period the Health Service holds all fees for
professional services rendered in the
student clinic until the final fee listings are
available and then we destroy the bills if
the health fee has been paid.

University Hospital, however, is not set
up to hold charges and so a student may
receive a bill for laboratory or x-ray
services, emergency room services, or
specialty clinic charges that are, in fact,
covered by the health fee. We have to rely
on students to bring these bills to us so that
we can credit their accounts and charge
the Health Servicee account when there is
proof that the fee has been paid.

THE HEALTH FEE and student in-
surance plans are set up on a voluntary
basis so that students can make their
own decisions about the health care
program that meets their particular
needs. We think students are perfectly
qualified to do this and we try to make the
information describing the health
program as clear as possible so that they
can make an informed decision.

Students from other universities have
praised UK’s voluntary health care
program because they say that we treat
students like adults. I‘d like to point out
that part of that adult responsibility is to
bring incorrect charges to someone’s
attention before damning the entire
system. Questionable bills should be
brought or mailed to the Health Service
cashier or to Mrs. Vivian Smith, Assistant

 

search of dope. After finding none, one of
the campus police, an officer Lony, said
“You say you’re from Eastern, huh? Well
my advice to you is to hightail it back to
Richmond.” He seemed so pleased with
his choice of words that he then turned to
the other and said, ”If you are from Centre
then you better hightail it back to Dan-
ville.” After this advice, he turned the
floor back to Lt. Murphy, badge 57.

Murphy then went back to his standard
raving, “We’re going to git the dope
smokers all of ‘em, you tell em’ we’re
gonna git em’ everyone.”

  
      

  
  
  
 
  

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Administrator, or to me. If the service
should have been covered by the health fee
or insurance, it will be. If an error has
been made it can be rectified, but only if
we know about it.

A new Blue Cross representative joined
us while we were in the Student Center and
he commented that he was really im-
pressed at how knowledgeable UK
students are about insurance. 1 agree with
him. We are convinced that since students
here do make decisions about the health
fee and about insurance, they will be
better informed consumers of health
services and health care financing
systems when they leave the university.

EVERY HEALTH FEE that is paid is a
vote for continuing the voluntary syststem
as it is. Without strong student support we
would have no alternative but to cut ser-

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By now that speech had become so
stagnant that everyone was yawning
except for my date who was crying
because she had assaulted an officer. We
just looked at each other turned and
walked back to the concert feeling like
shit.

I wish that I could say that it was just a
mistake, but it wasn’t. Those police picked
us out of a crowd. took us aside, harassed
us, embarassed us and totally ruined our
evening.

WHILE DISCUSSING the situation, we
realized that this isn’t just an instance, this
is an everyday occurrence for a large
segment of our society. But because we as
white, middle class, students had never
before been exposed too this sort of
treatment it came as a shock.

I am disappointed in the law en-
forcement officials, in the University
officials who give such men as Lt. Murphy
free reign to go among the students
harrassing them in this manner, but most
of all, I am disappointed in the apathy
exhibited by the students.

As we were lead out only a few heads
turned. No one cared that police can
charge into a crowd, grab a few students
and use them as examples of their power.

This wasn’t a ghetto, or a city street or a
small town, this was the UK campus. This
is ours, if the students don't care enough,
but to let this situation exist, then many
of them better “Hightail it out of here,”
cause Lt. Murphy is going to “Git
everyone of them dope smokers” and that
man is sick enough to get them in some
strange ways.

sou...
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Boyd Kidwell is a Senior journalism
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vices and we don't think this is what
students want.

I worry about students who put off
paying the health fee or buying the student
insurance until it is too late. I' ve seen how
badly a student can be hurt by heavy
medical expenses So a reminder: the 37
health fee can be paid until Feb. 15 at the
Billing and Collection Office in the Service
Building and the Blue Cross-Blue Shield
payment can be made at the Health Ser-
vice lnsurance Office until Feb. 26.

Help us to help you; let us know what you
want and need. Please talk to the Health
Service staff directly or contact a member
of the Student Health Advisory Com-

mittee.
.iean Cox is the Administrator of
the Student Health Service.

 

   

 
 

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The Ollie’s Trolley completed
the transformation on the
corner of Limestone and
Euclid from being a gas
station, then a vacant lot and
now the home of “The world‘s
greatest hamburger."
(Kernel staff photo by Phil
Groshong).

Pros and cons of collective
bargaining issue debated

By RON MITCHELL
Kernel Staff Writer

FRANKFORT—Pros and cons
of the controversial collective
bargaining proposal were
debated Tuesday by represen-
tatives of public employees and
various local governments.

Both sides of the issue were
presented at an open public
hearing on House Bill 50, which
would give public employees the
right to enter into collective
bargaining.

Supporters of the bill—labor
unions and public employees—
contended they currently have no
method to air grievances without
repercusions from their em-
ployer.

MOST OF the witnesses offered
reiteration of previous testimony
offered to the committee at
earlier hearings on the subject.

Lexington Mayor Foster Pettit,
testified that public employees
already have sufficient outlet to
bargain for higher pay and
benefits and passage of HB 50
would mean higher taxes.

“I think HB 50 is dangerous to
the state in that the arbitration
board established would be given
rights bestowed upon elected
officials," he said.

“THESE UNION represen-
tatives never have to answer to
the taxpayers but they will have
the power to decide how the local
government’s money is going to
be spent,” Pettit said.

He went on to enumerate two
recent pay hikes and other
benefits for public employees
employed by the urban council

government.
A representative of the Jef-
ferson County Teachers

Association said the bill is nec-
cesary because “we can’t deny
the rights to sit at the
bargaining table to those who are
teaching our childrem.”

WHEN OPPONENTS of the bill
contended that even with passage
of HB 50, public employees would
still be able to strike, a legislator
asked for proof of this in states
where collective bargaining is a
reality. No examples could be

cited.

Leonard Smith, executive
secretary of the state AFL-CIO,
said other employees, aside from
those publicly employed, are now
able to bargain collectively. This
makes public employees second-
class citizens," he said.

The organization, which
represents some 160,000 em—
ployees in the state,_over-
whelmingly favored passage of
the bill.

OTHER ORGANIZATIONS
openly supporting HB 50 were the
Kentucky Chapter of the
American Association for

University Professors,
Association of Professional
Firefighters, Louisville School
Board (where collective
bargaining has been a reality for
two years) and the Jefferson
County Teachers Association.

Most of the opposition came
from the state Municipal League,
which represents some 140 city
governments throughout the
state.

Following several other
hearings on HB 50, the labor and
industry committee will consider
the bill and pass it on to both
houses for action.

Conduct of sports fans
is source of concern

By MARGARET HOGE
Kernel Staff Writer

“Drunkeness and throwing
bottles seems to be one of the
worst problems at the football
games at the new stadium,” said
Joe Burch, director of the public
safety division.

Some have been seriously
injured due to bottles being
thrown from the upper leyel to
the bottom. The penalty for such
sactions will result in the arrest
of the person throwing the an
ticle. One case from last fall is
still pending.

BASKETBALL DRAWS a
whole different crowd. There is
not as bad a problem with
drinking as with football fans.
The main reason for this, ac-
cording to Burch, is the fact that
not as many people come and are
able to be checked more
thoroughly.

Burch said the biggest problem
at the basketball games occur
when the fans start to throw
things down on the court. If the
security police can determine
who threw the article, they can
take action—depending on what
was being thrown.

If the fan threw a bottle or
something along that line, they
could be arrested or kicked out,
Burch added. This abo depenth

on circumstances

    

“SAY A fan is drunk and
throws a bottle ora glass down on
the floor and the guard saw who
did it and what was thrown, the
guard then goes up to the person
and confronts him with what he
had done. If this person is
belligerent, he could then be
arrested," said Burch.

If a person throws a piece of ice
onto the court and the guard
again saw who had thrown it an