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KENTUCKY
Kern

Report urges
Honors shift

By DEBBIE MCDANIEL
and
JIM MCNAIR
Kernel Staff Writers

In an unreleased, confidential
report, a University committee has
made recommendations that could
significantly alter the makeup of the
UK Honors Program and remove its
present director from his position.

The report, submitted by the
Hon (rs Program Review Committee
to Dean of Undergraduate Studies
John Stephenson, contains 21
recommendations that pertain to the
structure, Operation, and leadership
of the Honors Program.

As a result of the report, Honors
Director Robert Evans has sub-
mitted his immediate resignation
saying, “l‘ve worked too hard and
put too much into this program to be
embarrassed and fired." His
resignation is now in the hands of
Academic Affairs Vice President
Lewis C0chran, Evans said.

(‘0chran refused to comment on
the resignation.

The ceimnittee was formed in
November by Stephenson to satisfy
the University requirement that
academic units be periodically
evaluated. The committee was
composed of three Honors faculty
members, a student, and two college
deans. one of whom, Dr. Donald E.
Sands served as chairman.

The committee‘s major recom-
mendation affecting the program
urges that Honors professors be
appointed to both a position in the
program and the department of
their academic discipline.
Currently, Honors professors serve
only in the program.

The report also suggests that
llontrs professors devote only 20-25
percent of their work load to courses
in the Honors Program with the
remainder to be spent teaching in
their respective departments.

()ne of the committee report's
criticisms of the existing structure is
that Honors professors are ever
worked by the peculiar attentive
needs of the program and have little
time to better their academic
competence through research and
teaching in upper‘division courses in
their fields.

Evans though. sees the proposal
as one which will dissipate the
Honors Program and warns that it
could devalue the program.

“Generally speaking, inost
professionals would say that we
have one of the top four or five
Honors Programs in the country.
It's been a hard struggle to get to
this point.“ Evans said. “The whole
report regards the Honors Program
as if it didn't exist."

lYK's program is highly regarded
by universities and Honors
associations across the United
States. Evans. too, is held in high
esteem by his peers, former and
present students, and colleagues
iiationwidefor the program he made
academically strong and financially
stable.

Prior to the prog mm's designation
as an academic unit in 1973. it
depended on irregular funding or
“soft money“ to stay afloat. Ac-
cording to the report, Evans had
been program director for six years
when regular funding was approved
for the program.

Continued on page 6

UK housing is cheap
and in great demand

Editor‘s note: This is the first of a
two-part series about rental housing
in Lexington. Tomorrow‘s article
will concern student housing that is
privately owned.

By PATTY ROMERO
Kernel Reporter

UKowned housing and privately-
owned student dwellings can be
compared to Heineken and Billy
Beer; both have the same purpose
but are in different leagues.

University housing is usually
cheaper. and in most cases, in better
physical condition than the
privately-owned residences.

“We never have to beg people to
rent from us." said Lynn Anderson.
t'K real property assistant housing
director. “Since the (privately-
owned) houses are old and not well-
insulated. students are glad to rent
from us." she said.

l'K owns approximately 97 rental
units on the perimeter of the cam-
pus. Students. faculty and staff are
eligible to apply for CK housing
ilt‘llltllld for the housing. howeva. is
great.

It is ii0t uncommon. Anderson
said. for two or three years to elapse
between application and occupation
of a house or apartment.

When it is available, though, l‘K
housing is a relative bargain. The
rent for a one-bedroom apartment is
$10031") per month. For small
houses. the cost ranges from Slto-
$1M. l K pays for utilities.

(in the other hand, the tent for
privatelyowned houses and apart-
meats in Lexington are significantly
higher. The price for a one-bedroom
apartment ranges from $903160.
plus utilities. A house with more
than four rooms can cost as much as
Slim per month.

Continued on page it

University of Kentucky
Lexington. Kentucky

9eve Hirsch

Monsters in the sunshine

Allan tiibson (left) and Art Rcrgcl. Theater Arts freshmen,
act like monsters for an amused audience in the Botanical
tiai‘dcns. (iiilStm. Hergel and the audience are members of

Fine Arts Building.

inside

LOS .-\.\'(.’EI.ES MAY LOSE the 1984 Olympics.
Money is much of the problem. See the report from
the Associated Press on page 5.

state

FEDERAL OFFICALS HAVE ORDERED
Louisville's Metropolitan Sewer District to explain
ilier closure of part of the cities main sewage
treatment plant and the dumping of insuf-
f'icciently treated sewage into the Ohio River.

An Atalnta region headquarters of the US.
Environmental Protection Agency announced
yesterday it has scheduled a hearing for 1 p.nm
Monday in Frankfort at which MSD officals will
present theuir case.

Hagan Thompson, an EPA spokesman in
Atlanta. said M SD advised the federal agency
last 'l'hursday that $90 million gallons of sewage
was being dumped in the river daily without
complete treatment because of mechanical
failures.

MSD also said if was suspending secondary
treatment at lift. plant. which has been plagued
with mechanical breakdowns and other problems
since it opened in 1976 Thompson said.

nation

INI'I‘ED \IINE WORKERS PRESIDENT
ARNOLD MILLER was hospitalized in Miami
yesterday with a slight stroke. a spokesman for
Mt. Sinai Hospital said.

Doctors at Mt. Sinai said Miller‘s condition has
stabilized, but that he remains in intensive care.

Miller has gone to Florida on vacation
following the ratification last week of a UMW
contract, which he helped to negotiate.
Ratification ended a Ill-day strike.

UMw officals say he was taking sick leave on
ordu's of his doctor. Last week, Miller said he was
feeling poorly and suffering from the flu.

world

ISRAEL WILL SEND DEFENSE MINISTER
Ezer Weizman to Egypt today to reopen the direct
Middle East peace talks that were suspended two
months ago. Israeli radio and Egyptian sources
said yesterday.

The reports in Jerusalem and in Cairo indicated
Israel was undertaking a new diplomatic initativc
f'ollowiing Prime Minister Menachem Begin‘s
tense talks with President Carter last week in
Washington. where the US. desire for new Israeli
acccomodation with the Arabs was made
manifest.

Kathy Meade‘s Beginning Acting class. Yesterday was the
first time this semester the class was able to get out of the

Still, Begin vowed in parliment Wednesday to
continue resisting American pressure.

He then saw his supporters beat back opposition
attempts to soften lsraels stand on the issue of
Arab occupied lands A one of the mayr points of
conflict between Israel and its American ally, and
between the Jewish state and its Arab neighbors.

PRESIDENT CARTER ARRIVED
YESTERDAY IN BRAZIL and told the four-star
general who heads its govemmenrt that all
nations must recognize their shortcomings in
human rights and can use atomic power without
adding to the world‘s nuclear arsenal.

Both are touchysubjects in this largest nation in
South America, the second Carter has visited on
his first trip to South America as president. Brazil
has canceled military agreements with the United
States because of Carter's human rights crusade.

in addition, the Brazilian military government
has said it will go ahead with the purchase of a
nuclear processing plant from West Germany
despite American expressions of concern that it
could be used to make atomic weapons.

weather

l'.\R'I'l.Y Sl'N’NY AND MILD TODAY with
highs in the mid titls Fair tonight with lows in the
upper :ltis to low 40s. partly sunny and warmer
tomorrow wiith highs in the upper 60s. Winds
becoming easterly today.

Cadet finds leaving ROTC can be a difficult process

By RUTH MATTINGLY
Kernel Reporter

it was easy for the Vietnam War
draft evadeis to get out of the ser-
vice after President Carter gave
them a blanket pardon. Cadet
Marian Tye is finding it is not as
easy to get out her ROTC contract.

Tye signed a ROTC contract last
semester as a junior. She had
completed the first two years of
Military Science with exceptional
grades a a 4.0 GPA in her major —
and decided that the ROTC,
program would help her find a
career in military service after
graduation.

Later that same semester.
howeva. she decided she wanted to
leave ROTC. The ROTC com-
manders said this would be a breach
of her 3100 per month contract.

As a result. Tye appeared before a
military board Monday which

examined her case and the question
of whether she is guilty of “willful
evasion" of her contract.

The board was composed of four
officers, one of whom served as the
investigating officer and presented
the case against Tye. Dean of
Students .loe Burch was present at
the hearing as a non-voting
l'iiiversity observer.

During the hearing. Tye and her
lawyer explained that she wanted
out of the contract for several
reasons Tye claimed she lost her
motivation near the middle of the
fall semester after a personality
clash with an officer.

She also testified that a number of
oncoming dental bills were forcing
her to work some 25 hours a week.
leaving her too little time to fulfill
her military obligations

As a result of her personal
problems. Tye failed to meet some

military masts She stepped out of
"chain of command" and took

professor of

difficulties to the
military science,

personal

“willful evasion"

Capt Keith Skidinore, who served
as the investigating officer during

of her contract

The options are defined in army
regulations as follows
should be retained in the ROTC
the cadet should he

"The cadet

 

second in command in this ROTC
region. said from his office in Fort
Knox that he was not familiar with

bypassing her advisor.

The regulations require a cadet go
to his or her imincrfiate superior
with problems, rather than to the
commanding officer.

'l‘yc's ultimate deviation from
military procedure came when she
dropped her military science class.
She said she had been treated une
fairly by the instructor in the past.
"I felt that I wasn't getting fair
treatment. I was very upset; I
w .isn't able to come to class." Tye
said

Without getting the instructor's
signature. 'l‘ye got her dropsadd slip
stamped at the Arts & Sciences
office and never showed tip for class.
ROTC contends she was still
enrolled and her absence was

the hearing. said one or two cadets
every year attempt to get out of their
ltt i’l‘t ' contracts for various reasons.
“The only way to be released from
contract is to bring the case before
the board of officers." Skidmore
said

In accordance with military
prOccdure. the board will make a
recommendation to the professor of
military science. who will in turn
decide if the hearing was fair and
the record accurate. He will then
send the case record to Fort Knox
w here a final decision will be made

Lt Col. Bobbie l’cdigo. professor
of military science at I'K. said army
regulations allow the board three
options in resolving cases in which
cadets want out of their ROTC
contracts

program.
disenmllcd from the ROTC program
for reasons other than willfully
evading the terms of the ROTC
contract; or the cadet should be
disciimlled from the ROTC program
for reasons which indicate that he
willfully evaded the terms of this
Ht i'l‘t ' contract and that he should or
should not be ordered to active duty
llf his Resort e enlisted grade for two
or four years as appropriate "

Skidiiiorc \tllti this was the first
case in several years in which the
cadet was represented by t'ivilian
counsel He added that it is difficult
to predict the outcome of the hearing
since the final decision is made in
I-‘ort Knox "in the last four boards
in sat on. we've never had the
same outcome." he said

t‘ol William Schiller. who is

’l‘ye‘s case since it has rim yet
reached him. Pcdigo said that the
record of the hearing must leave his
office for Fort Knox by Friday.

Dean of Students Joe Burch said
lttf’l‘t' is just another academic
program in the eyes of the univer-
sity "It is beyond our capability to
control it as anything else. If a
student decides to sign a contract
with the military in order to be in
school. then that contract is between
the student and the military." he
said

Having read Marian Tye's con-
tract. Hurch said that dispite the
legal terms. the contract was very
explicit in its obligations Burch said
he thought most students un
derstand the contracts when they
sign them “The problem is that they
i hange their minds,”hc said

 

  

 

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Support of the mob l

While welcoming back a classy team,

some UK fans were malicious boors

There is a very real difference between fan
appreciation and vandalism. Unfortunately,
many supporters of the UK basketball team
were either unwilling or too inebriated to make
that distinction during homecoming-celebra ti ons
Tuesday.

Jubilant drunkards left a trash-strewn path
across Lexington from the moment James Lee’s
game-ending dunk went through the hoop. The
damage was most seva'e at Blue Grass Field,
where several thousand fans elbowed their way
into the terminal early in the morning.

The team plane didn’t arrive for a while, and
some members of the restive crowd occupied
themselves by tearing the place apart. When the
smoke had cleared, there were holes in the
ceiling, scattered paperwork, missing signs,
broken sculpture and telephones, and rugs
stained with varieties of liquor, blood and urine.
Officials, who blamed the mob’s behavior on
alcohol, estimated the damage would cost in the
thousands of dollars.

In the streets near campus, there were fewer
things that could be broken or torn away. The
celebration resulted in frequent damage to
automobiles, both from strolling revelers and
drivers of other cars. Safety wasn’t important at
the time, but a lot of people probably now wish
they hadn’t been so excited.

Almost all of the destruction was undoubtedly
caused bya minority; most people just wanted to
party some and welcome the team back. That’s
fine, but the right to enjoy yourself should end
when it requires putting others in danger, or

calls for the destruction of property.

It’s hard to say how much of the destruction
could have been avoided, but some action by
authorities could have helped. For example, a
roadblock on Versailles Road would have
prevented the carnage at Blue Grass Field.

There is little activity at the airport at night, and
besides, those who had business there had
enough of a problem getting to the airport
anyway.

If the airport had to be kept open, a good step
would have been to keep the terminal closed and
let the reception take place in a nearby field or a
spare runway. At any rate, local police should be
better prepared for similar events, if there ever
are any.

UK fans have always been widely known as
exuberant, fiercely loyal suporters. Lem hope
that they don’t become famous, instead, for
being boorish and irresponsible.

This week was UK's first major experience
with the nationwide phenomena of unruly fans.
' While the damage in Lexington was inexcusable,
another incident in St. Louis before the game is
much worse.

Before the championship game, police
received word of a threat to kill Duke player
Gene Banks. The decision was made not to in-
form Banks, and to put maximum security
around the Duke bench. Officials apparently
reasoned that the threat was almost certainly
insincere. To tell Banks could only upset him,
which would be what the person who made the
threat would be hoping for. Still, it’s unsettling
that Banks was not given the opportunity to
make decisions about his own safety.

It’s even more unsettling to realize that the
person who made the threat may well be a UK
fan, perhaps a UK student. Threatening to kill a
performer is a sick act, and severe punishment
or hospitalization is needed if the guilty
person is found.

 

 

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But will there be classes?

Another damaging aftermath of the Wildcats’
national championship came not at Bluegrass
Field or at any bar, but at Memorial Coliseum
Tuesday night.

Almost 15,000 fans, including a sizable per-
centage of the student body, left the celebration
under the impression that yesterday‘s classes
had been canceled.

The delusion began when Athletic Director
Cliff Ilagan followed President Otis Singletary‘s
brief speech by asking if Singletary had
forgotten to mention that classes were called off.

When Singletary gave a nebulous reply, Hagan
turned to Gov. Julian Carroll for support. Carroll
replied that he wasn't attending class yesterday.
llagan was heard by only a few to say. “I guess
they both copped out.“

And when basketball player Freddie Cowan
alluded to the bogus holiday, most people were
convinced it was for real, even though no
University administrator announced an official
cancellation.

Singletary referred to Hagan's remark as an
“attempt to be funny." We prefer to think of it as
a gallant attempt that should be appreciated.
But by the same token, the situation should have
been rectified immediately.

Surely Hagan and Singletary realized that the
crowd was under the wrong impression. Some
type of statement should have been issued before
the throngcould dissipate. Students were left in a
state of confusion for the rest of the night.

We appreciate the thought, Cliff, but somebody
should‘ve set the record straight.

 

Letters to the Editor

 

 

fickot gyp

As a graduate student, having
bccn enrolled at the University for
five years, I feel I have had suf-
ficient time and experience to ob-
serve a perplexing and progressive
problem. The overall problem is the
mismanagement of football and
basketball tickets known to the
students as ticket non-distribution.

First, it is obvious from the total
number and location of regular
season football and basketball
tickets at this university that the
students’ (who pay for these tickets
by activity fees) interests are of
little concern. Students must stand
in line for hours for tickets that the
Athletic Department decides will not
be sold to alumni or those “clnsen
few" wealthy enough to afford a
significant donation to the athletic
fund.

In fact. when ltupp Arena was
completed, if hadn't been for in
tcrvention by Student Government
the seating would be much worse
than it is now. That was probably the
only time the student body has st00d
up and voiced Objection to this sort
of treatment by the athletic
department.

This brings me to my second
observation, which is the banding of
special event tickets such as the
I'cach Bowl - the first groups of
people in line were allowed to
purchase as many tickets for
Atlanta as they wished By the way,
this was the line for tickets
rcmaining after Cliff Hagan had
subtracted quite a few for special
reasons known only to him. When
thc Athletic Office made the
“brilliant observation" that the first
l’cw purchases were for 50100 tickets
carh, and that there might not be
cnough for the long line of students
forming, it was too late.

Some students stood in line for

hours and still didn‘t get a ticket.
ltut why should they suspect that a
person would not need that many
tickets for their friends when so
many tickets get skimmed off the
top for special friends of the AD?
Now the students get another slap in
the f ace. Can you believe that Hagan
would try this and expect the
students not to notice? 44 tickets to
the first round it Knoxville to be
Iottcried to the general student
body? My friends, this is out of a
Nt‘AA tickct allotment from the
Stokcly Athletic Center of at least
2‘30 tickets! It stinks, Cliff, it really
stinks. .

What can the students do? Writing
letters to the Kernel is a futile at-
tempt that only vents the anger.
What the students deserve at least is
an itemized list of where thtse 206
tickets went. Why should the
students not be allowed enough
tickcts so political and business
interests would be satisfied? I‘m
sure the students wouldn‘t mind if
Julian received a ticket, or Otis, but
these should be donated from the
people at StOkcly Athletic Center
and “the great state of Tennessee,“
as they like to put it.

Everybody loves the Cats, but in
this state. not everyone gets the
same opportunity to show their
appreciation by going to the games.
Asa matter of fact, the ones who are
responsible for the existence of this
‘univrrsity, through fees, etc, are
the very ones being discriminated
against.

It‘s time for a change, but even an
itemized list for those Knoxville
tickets will not be given to the public
because the students are not taken
seriously. There are things that can
he done »- now is the time to step
this progressive deterioration of
student morale from continuing. The
lack of intervention by the ad-
minis'trfiion in this matter is
astonishag. And, may I‘a'dd tha '

sLii .;;

just because one can shoot a hook
shot docs not mean that one can run
an athletic department.

Richard (‘. Vari
Graduate student

Wrong on Niles

Ncll Fields, author of “The King of
Folk (‘omcs to UK," is guilty of poor
research andor believing press
releases about or by John Jacob
Niles.

Niles is a fine entertainer. Make
no mistake about it. But his “pure
classic folk music" does not
necessarily come direct and pure
"right from the mountains." Any
student of folk music, even casually.
knows that Niles composed or
adapted liberally much of his
material, a fact cvm he had to admit
when his work received careful
scrutiny by cthnomusicologists and
I'olklorists. If you seek “pure classic
folk music,“ (your term) find
somcone who doesn‘t do it for
money.

As to his mice and its use. Niles
cmploys a l‘alsetto, pure and simple.
Any yodeler does the same thing. A
countcrtenor is a legitimate. but
rare. male voice category that does
not use falsetto. Listen to per-
formances by Alfred Heller and
ltussell ()bcrlin to hear classic
countertcnor work. Occasionally
I rcllcr. an Englishman. does sing the
alto part in madrigals during per-
formances by his own goup. the
Itcller Consort. In a classical music
sense. a male alto is a castrati (look
itup , it's what you think). and this
Mr. Niles definitely is not.

I close making a strong plea for a
studcnt-run newspaper, not a
student newspaper.

John M. Forbes

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