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Volume LXlX. Number 96'
Friday. February 10, 1978

Older and wiser

Paul Maxwell finds life enjoyable
as 65-year-old Donovan Scholar

 

Attending school is a
'stimulation that keeps

the mind active'

By JACK WAINWRIGHT
Kernel Staff Writer

At age 65, most people are content
to retire and relax. Paul Maxwell
said, however, “My philosophy is to
continue to be active so I won’t
stagnate—mentally as well as
physically.”

Maxwell, 65, is a UK Donovan
scholar.

The Donovan p'ogram, open to
people 65 and older, offers to
students free tuition and free
selection of classes in the College of
Arts & Sciences. The program,
which started in 1963, now has an
enrollment of more than 200.

According to Maxwell, attending
school is an exercise in developing
the intellect; “It’s stimulation to
keep the mind active.“ he said.

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University of Kentucky
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Concert committee
works small money.
musical miracles

Donovan Scholar Paul Maxwell, still spry at 65 years young, says
the younger students in his classes treat him like one of the guys.

Maxwell first entered college in
1933 at New York University, but left
before graduation. He came to UK in
1976.

Classes today are more liberal
than when he was in school, he said.
“Classes today are more informal
and the student is encouraged to
participate. Discussion sessions are
better because teachers and
students are able to communicate on
a onetoone basis." he said.

“In going to school, I don’t have
the pressure of making top grades or
worrying about what type of job I
can get with my education. I still feel
anxiety, though, about grades—as
I’m sure every student does,” he
added.

To Maxwell, school is not a chore.
“I enjoy it, in fact, I look forward to
it," he said."lt‘s always nice to

learn and I learn something new
everyday.

“If I was sitting at home, I might
see a new television show, but
nothing of intellectual importance.
That is why if someone has the
opportunity to go back to school, it
would be a mistake if they didn’t,”
he said.

Maxwell said the most suprising
discovay he made upon returning
was that he wasn’t given special
priviledges became of his age.
“They (the students) don’t call me
'sir’ or any of that.

"They accept me as a student;
they laugh and joke with me and age
has nothing to do with it,” he said.
“One of the reasons I’m able to have
a one-to-one association with the
students is because I can com-
municate with them on their leve ."

Maxwell said one of his main
reasons for returning was to enrich
his knowledge. ”Once you’ve been in
the private sector, you see things
you would like to learn more about
and places you would like to see.

“I can select what I want to take
andI’m not under any pressure to do
well or even to finish,” Maxwell
said. “Here you can select what’s of
interest; in business you’re doing
certain things you have to do.”

Maxwell is trying to earn a
Bachelor of General Studies degree.
“I might be a loyear student if I feel
the incentive is still here,” he said.

“I realize that I can't compete
with students on an equal level as a
freshman out of high school,” he

said. “I accept it, howeve', as a.

challenge to myself."

Davenport a ’classical’ scholar

By LYN NE FUNK
Kernel Staff Writer

Guy Daveiport sat in front of a
crackling fireplace in his Sayre
Aveiue home one night this week.
Each of the walls surrounding him
was covered with framed
illustrations, drawings, collages,
paintings. He was considering
himself a sort of dinosaur in the
today’s educational system.

Davenport, a UK English
professor for 16 years, majored in
English as an undergraduate, with
minors in Greek and Latin.
Educated at Duke, Harvard and
then Oxford as a Rhodes scholar, he
denied that he has had a classical
education. It is only in contrast with
current standards that it seems that
he has, he claimed.

“The present American university
is a thing that is reinventing itself.
I’m a kind of dinosaur in the process
and I think we need lots of
dinosaurs."

A fascination with Greek and
Roman heroes, gods and myths
surfaces in his writing. Six of his
nine books are translations of or
guides to classical works. His essays
are likely to involve such personages
as Alpheios and Artemis and places
such as Pylos and Olympia.

today

knowledge t..at studerts acquire in
college so that few will recognize
these names, Davenport said.

“The elective system came in at
Harvard about 1910)," he said.
"Then all the other universities
slowly picked it up so that what they
called an education when the 20th
century began bears no resem-
blance to what we are doing now.”

Despite the influence Greek and
Roman ideas have had on him,
Davenport did not insist that
students should be studying
classical works.

“If you give me a class. it’s not
Zeus and Fallas Athene and Hermes
who are really obscure to the class,
but Martin Van Buren, Thomas
Jefffeison and Alexander Hamilton,
those are the pe0ple the students
really don't know."

Rather, Davenport pointed out the
importance of a practical education
as well as one including classics.

“The most strenuous teachers of
the Greek and Roman culture—the
British—have given it up in one way
or another. The World War I
generation began to question very
strongly whether a knowledge of
Greek (literature) had anything to

DB. GUY DAVENPORT

do with fighting the Germans in
trendies.

“There was a lot of flak then about
a useless education," he said. “And
people spoke strongly about turning
a man loose to be Prime Minister of
a country who has straight A’s
in...Latin literature...when he
should have been educated. as the
Germans were, in administration."

Nor does Davenport judge too
harshly youth who are involved in
the “absolutely contemporary
popular culture" which exists in
every generation.

“Look at Roman schoolchildren
late in the history of the Empire and
I think what we would find is that
they would be weak on many of the
myths we would think they would
know. What they would really be

keen on would be the champion
chariot racers in the Colisseum, the
most pepular gladiators, actors,
singa‘s; that is, just as we are.”

If the kind of education offered
today '5 much different than that
stressed a century ago, so are
students, Davenport said.

“The student is somebody who
turns up in your class and says ‘OK,
teach me something.’ This should
last only through high school. The
university traditionally has been the
place where the student has said ‘I
am interested in X, Y and Z and
(therefore) I have come here to the
university really to learn.’

“There isn‘t evai a tradition of the
scholar. We simply call them rare
students now, whereas at one time
the university was the place for
these people, who were rare in
relation to society at large. Now they
are rare in relation to the large
army of people who come to the
university.”

Davenport has confronted that
army during 25 years of college
teaching. At UK he has taight fresh-
man English, uppericlass courses,
and graduate seminars on James
Joyce and Ezra Pound. He received
the Distiguished Professor Award
for 1977-78, which includes one

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inside

VINCENT PRICE COMES TO THE OPERA
HOL‘SEin a preview performance of a broadway
production this week. He'll be doing a onem an play
as Oscar Wilde. and you can see it in today‘s A & E
Guide.

local

INVESTIGATORS BEGAN YESTERDAY to
piece together facts surrounding a four-alarm fire
that gutted the Ivanhoe Apartment complex
Wednesday night,

Seven persons were injured in the blaze. none
seriously. and residents of a nearby building were
evacuated.

The li-unit complex was completely destroyed by
the blaze. "This is what we call a peculiar fire.“
said Fire Chief Earl McDaniel. "A fire that spreads
so rapidly in a building like the. There‘s really not
anything like this that would came it to spread as
fast as it did.“

state

(it ESTS TOLD 0F BREAKING out windows and
crawling dow n halls to escape a fatal fire blamed on
yesterday at Louisville's Executive Inn.

Robert E. Pawson. 50. Medinah, 111.. an employee
of Kar Products. Inc. died in a fire, apparently of
smoke inhalation. said Jefferson County Deputy
Coroner Buddy Egner.

I‘olicc said they were questioning several per~
sons They Said a 24-year-old Louisville woman was
sought for questioning Wllh arson and murder.

\\ ATTORNEY GENERMJS OPINION questions
the constitutionality of a bill to require parental
consent for an abortion for a woman under iii.

The measure. Senate Bill 83. is sponsored chiefly
by Sen Joe Wright. D-Harned. It is sitting in the
Scnatc Health and Welfare Committee, of which
Wright is the chairman.

The bill would require written parental or
guardian consent for an abortion dining the first
three months of pregnancy for an unmarried
woman under the age of 18.

The law presently requires parental consent for
an abortion for a minor in the second trimester of
pregnancy. his the 6th US Circuit Court of Appeals
struck down that statute in 1976.

nation

.\ SENATE (‘OMMITTEE issued a blueprint for
U.S intelligence gathering yesterday in
Washington which would legally bar the use of
assassination and terrorism and prohibit (‘iA ef-
forts to overthrow "democratic" governments.

The draft proposal, certain to be subjected to
months of hearings and debate. was issued by the
Senate lntellignece Committee in an attempt to
place the FBI and CIA under new charters with
specific guidelines and restraints and criminal and
civil penalties for violations.

THE PROPOSED AGREEMENT to settle the
record 66-day strike by 160000 United Mine Workers
members met growing opposuion yesterday as the
presidents of all the union locals in District 6, which
includes Ohio and Virginia. voted unanimously to
reject it

weather

MOSTLY Sl'NNY DAYSandfair tonghtstoday and
tomorrow The high today will be in thelow 30:. low
tonight from to to 15. Slightly warmer tomorrow.
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By JENNIFER GREEK
Kernel Staff Writer

Phones are ringiig in Room 203 at
the Studait Center, where the
Student Center Board Concert
Committee is preparing for the
upcoming Dave Mason concert
(March 7) featuring Bob Welch.

On a wing and a prayer.

“Everyone’s calling and coming
by to find out when and where
tickets go on sale," said co
chairman Jeff Bojanowski. “It looks
real good—getting this kind of
response even before ticket sales
have begun—they're scheduled to
(begin) Monday.”

Bojanowski admitted that the
concert would cost the SCB around
$30,000——twice the amount that is
currently in its bank account.

This isn‘t as risky as it sounds. The
concert committee, which has 25
student members, has been
operating “out of the hole” since
early last summer.

At that time, the committee,
plagued by unexpected expenses
and cancelled performances, along
with a big loss on the Little Feat
concert, had less than $7,000 to work
with.

“We were at a dangerous low and
were worried about losing concerts
altogether,” Bojanowski said.

He explained that several years
ago the committee received a lump
sum from UK to begin conceit
programming. Since then, it’s
recieval no additional money and
operates strictly from profits.

New competition from Rupp

Easy, big fella

This was the scene a month ago when Kentucky and LSU last met on
the basketball floor. Lavon Williams had to physically restrain
James Lee from punching out the Tigers' Dewayne Scales. Will the
same thing happen Saturday? See page 4 for a preview.

Arena compounded the committee‘s
already serious problems.

“We‘ve had to tone down some,"
said co-chairman Dave Klein, “and
consider groups in the middle-and-
smaller price ranges. We also took a
closer look at the students in an
attempt to bring them more of what
they want to hear. That means sell—
out concerts."

Careful consideration, ambitious
negotiating and heavy promotion,
combined with long hours of anxious
sweat and a determined com~
mittment, all resulted in two major
successes last semseter: Jimmey
Buffett and Kris Kristofferson; and
more recently, a sell-out mini-
concert by J .J . Cale.

All of this made it possible for the
committee to take a reasonable risk
and bring musicians of Dave
Mason‘s and Bob Welch’s caliber to
UK, in one of only six appearances
they‘ll make together this year.

In addition, Klein said, the
committee is planning one or two
more major concerts, a mini-
concert and perhaps, a summer
concert.

Bojanowski said 6,000 tickets must
be sold to break even on a concert in
Memorial Coliseum, adding that the
committee had begin a new block
seating policy it hoped would help
increase overall ticket sales.

Klein explained how the com-
mittee selects the featured groups.
“Most of the time, promoters call
and let us know they’re planning a
tour. Many groups prefer to play
college campuses and Lexington is

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Sine Srhuler

SG makes appeal
for victims of fire

Student Government has made an
appeal for donations of clothing,
textbooks, toiletries and other items.
The donations will be given to
residents of the Ivanhoe apartments
who were left homeless by the fire
there Wednesday night.

Donations may be delivered at the
SG office in Room 120 of the Student
Center today from 8 am. to 5 pm.

“It's my understanding that the
residents, many of whom are
students. lost all their possessions in

For MSU, ’Bama

the fire," said SG President Jim
Newberry last night.

Donations of cooking utensils,
clothing of all kinds and textbooks
would be especially helpful. said
Newberry, adding that almost any
item would be useful. Many
residents are also in need of lodging,
Newberry said.

There will be .i meeting this
morning of the donation drivc's
organizers to deride how collection
will be continued during next week.

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Tickets for the Mississipp‘ State
and Alabama games will be
distributed in Memorial Coliseum
Sunday from 2 to 6 pm. and on
Monday at the coliseum west con-
course from 9 a.m.to 4 pm.

On Sunday, students with a

validated ID and activities card may
pick up one ticket only. On Monday,
a student with two [0's and cards
may pick up no more than two
tickets.

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Smut control: It's just the beginning

In a manna of speakin , pornography is now
va‘y much on the min s of local and state

leg'slators.

Lexington police cited three bookstores for
displaying obscene books in December. That
action effectively removed the dangerous Joy of
Sex from the reach of small children. Charges,

though, were not pressed.

But the Joy of Sex escapade didn’t top the Oh!
Calcutta misadventure for sheer hilarity. In that
adventure last October, Metro Police arrested
the cast of the nationally performed play. The
Keystone cops never had it so good.

Now the Kentucky legislature is getting into
the act. Last week a bill was introduced in the
House which would prohibit the sale of illicit and
immoral sexual materials to minors (under age

I8).

Sponsored by Rep. Claudia Riner, D-
Louisville, and 42 other legislators, the bill has

broad standards that could

nineteenth-century nude paintings as easily as

Penthouse magazine. There are interesting
particulars, however, such as breasts being

forbidden “below a point immediately above the

top of the areola.”

Legislators who are concerned about the
inherent absurdities of censorship. or worry
about the very real danga's to free speech and

expression, must find it very difficult to oppose

such measures. After all, who wants to look like
they’re in favor of “sales of illicit and immoral
materials to minors."

But government has only begun to flex its
bureaucratic muscles in regulating por-
nography. There is still much room for deciding
who can see how much of what.

Take nipples, for example. Is it fair to apply
the same standards to ones with large and small

areolas? A breast with a small nipple would be

ban famous _ .
age restrictions.

much more visible under the proposed bill, a
situation unfair to the ones with large areolas.
Another area of inequity seems to be that of

It seems unfair to ban all

UK has vector energy
that’s never been tapped

By HUGH J. FINDLAY

If “E” really does equal ”Mc
square " then the UK campus has
enough energy to detonate forty
atomic bombs. The untapped force
lies within a population of 20,000 on-
campus “vectors"-students who
neither waiver or delay in their daily
affairs to appreciate or com-
municate with each other.

Vectors have exploited the quote
“May the force be with you” to the
utmost. They hinder us all and are a
major cause for class distinctions.
Yet it is an unconscious rising. Who
knows, maybe you are a vector.

There are several kinds, and
several ways to spot them. But, be
careful, no one is immune and a
vector has the force to knock con-
fidence to pieces.

One such vector actually spoke to
me the other day. I was standing on
a sidewalk with a few friends when it
passed by and quipped “You guys
wanna stand somewhere else!“
Horrors, I had camed her to reroute
her trajectory. Another one walked
by me and dropped a pencil. I bent
own and picked it up for him. When
confronted with it, he produced an
indignant scowl, snatched it from
my hand and whipped up to catch up
for lost time.

Vectors are even in classrooms.
They sit staring straight ahead,
giving their all and undying at-
tention to the instructor. Try to
speak to them and they are shocked,
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The Kentucky Kernel welcomes letters and
commentaries submitted for publication. Articles
must include the signature, address. phone num-
ber, year and major if the writer is a student.
Commentary authors should have expertise or
expe‘ience in the area their article pertains to.

The Kernel editors have final decision on which
articles are published and when they are published.
The editors reserve the right to edit submissions

many wires in a vector by “Got a
light?"). They proceed often times
through an entire semester in this
fashion. Only in courses where the
teacher is talking gibberish do they
break out, from force. to discuss
topics so they don’t flunk.

Even some instructors are classic
vectors. Some can't teach any other
way. Then, they, as well as their
students, help to keep the silent
majority going strong.

At certain times of the year,
vectors are more common. the mid-
term weeks are especially
noteworthy. They show bored,
apathetic “grade-grovelers“ in
prime form. And the finals weeks
are very bad too. The only comment
from a vector then is when an am-
phetamine-eyed, zombielike vector
walks up to you with a cup of coffee
in one hand, a calculator in the other
and asks for a light for the pencil
hanging out of his mouth. Poetry in
motion.

Only at the very start and end of
the semesters do vectors disappear.
The pressures at those times are
nonexistent, free time is abundant
and outgoing personalities thrive.

Walk down halls and along
sidewalks. They‘re everywhere, and
the disease is spreading. I‘ve seen
people slip on the e and bust their
butts~and vectors zoomed by. In
the Student center cafeteria a vector
wil sit at your table. scarf down its
food. and depart without one glance

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at you. Really, people, it’s pathetic.

I‘ve been to concerts and
basketball games with vectors. The
get excited right along with you until
there’s a lull in the action, then they
cower down with themselves like
Star 'l‘rek’s Ieiutenant Spock.

Then there’s those beautifully-
built-big-bosomed-blond vectors.
You catch her eye, smile and say
“Hi"...she coldly walks by. “What a
waste” I always say, “What a
shame." They sit snug in their shell,
living a world of their own. Not that
it's bad. but a wide and varied world
is passing them quickly by. Life
wasn’t meant to be that way. For
vectors, liffe goes on...something
like this:

The paths we take

so inadvertsntly collide

in random parallels.

We criss-cross unceasingly
but never meet.

All seeking secretly
the perfect love,
the perfect friend,
ultimate security
in one another.

But never finding.

never knowing,

thanks to our glancing eyes,
frozen—folded arms.

and cold alternating strides.

llugh Findlay. English junior, is
an occaissional contributor to the
Kernel.

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be mailed . the Editorial Editor, Room I14.
Journalism . ilding. University of Ky. 40506, or
may be deliv ed personally. i

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pornography until the hour someone turns 18. A
sliding scale, designed by government experts to

lessen the shock of exposure

material, would be a needed addition to por-
nography control. Here's a rough outline:

FORBIDDEN

l7-year-olds: pubic region, uncovered genitals.
16-year—olds: pubic region, uncovered genitals,

breasts below areola.

lS-year-olds: pubic region, uncovered genitals,

breasts below areola, buttocks.

H-year-olds: pubic region, uncovered genitals,
breasts below areola, buttocks, all nude or

partially denuded figures.
l3-year-olds: all

of the above,
questionable odalisques by Old Masters.

12-year—olds and below: all of the above, plus
Walt Disney movies featuring Karen Valentine.

A definition of terms will also be necessary to
enforce the gov ernments’ regulations. There will
be lots of chicanery to bypass the regulations.
Film stars, for example, might cover their

vantage.
to salacious

the restrictions.

nipples with flesh tones to steal an unfair ad-

By using unusual appeals, unscrupulous smut
merchants may still be able to offer filth within

The rules must show the dif-

ferenoe between perversity and playing around.

At what point does the use of whips and chains
become immoral? When does a corpse become

coy? Can the dog sleep under the covers on

An important

and distinctions
plus all

television comedies?

area of definition will be in

measuring emotional intensity. Many restric~
tions depend on the arousal of lust and passion,

need to be made. When does

health become lust? What is the difference
between passion and puppy love?

There are many such questions that need to be
answered before we can safely be under the
protective umbrella of government smut
regulation. But the answers are there, and must
be found. Otherwise, people will have to make
their own dec’sions on what they want to see.

 

 

Letters to the Editor

 

 

Gold Gonzo

I wish to thank Mr. Medulla for
contributing what must be a
“highly" valuable Payton
manuscript. The Golden Age of
Gonzo Journalism! All of us here at
the law school engyed his insightful
comments.

It is of course unfortunate that Mr.
Payton was unsuccessful in
changing his name. And it was
clearly unethical for the Mexican
attorney to keep the $1,000. In fact, I
was so moved that I would like to
publicly offer some free legal ad-
vice: “Chinga tu madre. calron!"
Just say thae words to any Mexican
official and he'll take care of you.

But I must take serious issue with
his description of all lawyers as
“hopeless shitbags." Many of my
friends are quite h0peful' we hope to
pass the bar; we hope to make a lot
of money; etc.

In defense of my chosen
profession. I can only quote Chief
Justice Learned Foot: “A lawyer is
like a plumber-when you need one,
you’ve got no other choice."

Wm. Scott Shulten
College of Law

Bad example

I don't know what you consider
good journalism. But from what I
read on Payton returns in today‘s
paper is the shoddiest piece of
journalism I’ve ever seen. If this is
the type of material you like to print
or have printed, then perhaps a nice
sleazy or pornographic magazine
would suit your needs. I may be the
only student on this campis to feel
this way. But I have the God giver
right and responsibility to myself to
say and do what I feel and think.

What kind of example of good
journalism do you set when you put
four letter words. etc. in a
newspaper like the Kernel? Do you
think our [Q‘s are so low and our
morals so bent that we need to read
trash like that?

I hold my religious beliefs and
morals very high and I find that
since I am a human being and full-
time student that is majoring in
journalism I shwldn‘t have to read
this kind of filth in the Kernel. I take
a few papers bane everyday to my
wife and friends, but I can see I
won‘t be now and what about kids
who misunderstand the paper and
read this kind of words?

It wouldn‘t of been one bit of
trouble to rewrite thme words. Your
responsibility is to your readers and
I am a reader and an offended one at
that. If there is someone that un-
derstood this Scott Payton, I wish
they would explain to me, because it
don‘t make a bit of sense to me. And
my opinion is this: If he's been gone
a few years. then keep him gone
another few years until he learns
how to write and you learn how to be
an editor in chief. Your respon-
sibility is to as readers and not to
obscene columns.

Printing obscene language is not a
paper's duty to its readers. I‘m a
newspaper correspondent and a
writer of my own column. Once in a

at»
~m‘”'**‘ while I still write for our local paper

at home. So I feel I have experience

enough to know what I am talking

about and if I wasn't upset so much I
could of done it better.

Ell Simpson

Cynthiana, Ky.

Women's sports

This is an opened letter to Otis
Singletary, Cliff Hagan, the
university administration and the
athletic department.

Why aren’t the women’s
basketball games and the wrestling
team matches listed in the Kernel
Campus Calendar?

Why is the phone number of
Women’s Athletics not listed under
Athletic Association in the
university phmebook?

Why must the women accept such
a horribly sexist label as Lady Kats?

Why is the women's basketball
team forced to play with such ab-
solutely pathetic refereeing? I have
seen nine “Lady Kats” games. In
nearly all the officiating has been
absolutely terrible. I have seen
many high school, community
college and college games and have
not seen one referee call a men’s
game nearly so poorly as every
women's basketball official I have
seen. ’

Richard Franklin
Graduate Student

Tenure ills

Tay Fizdale may not feel he's
been screwed by the University’s
tenure policy, but it seems clear that
students suffer because of that
policy. Fixdale is without doubt one
of the most competent, dedicated
and enthusiastic teachers I have

ever known. For the University to_'
embrace a tenure policy which leads

to the loss of teachers of his caliber
reflects a pavase and misguided
emphasis on publication.
Publication may indeed have a valid
role, but obsession with it such as
exists here can serve only to detract
from the quality of education
available at UK. This university
would benefit society far more by
striving to produce truly well-
educated graduates than it ever will
by squeezing scholarly articles out
of those whtse talents direct them
toward educating students.
Adele Burt
Law Student

UFO study

As did quite a number of UK
students, I attended the Jan. 2
lecture by Astonomer Dr. Allen
Hynek. Dr. Hynek was a consultant
for the Air Force's project “Blue
Book" of the last decade. At that
time he shared with most respec-
table scientists, the view that the
UFO enigma was to the most part
fantasy. He can be remembered best
by the phrase. “marsh gas" which
orginated in a press release made by
him. However as time progressed,
the overwhelming evidence on
UFO‘s led to he own scientific in-
vestigation of a real, yet unknown

phenomena.

Out of curiosity, I checked into any
programs here at UK that might be
available to a student in search of
the scientific aspect of the
phenomena. [found nothing. Not one
course, lecture, program or
organization deals with the UFO
enigma. In an intellectual en-
vironment, the student still must
rely on the garbage found on any
news stand for enlightment.

March 6, 1978 at the Student
Center, room 206 at 7:00 pm. a
meeting will be held to discuss the
problem and to set up an
organization to deal with it. Also. a
clearing house for UFO sightings
and the investigation of Kentucky
UFO phenomena will be attempted.
To my knowledge, it will be the first
and only organization of its kind at
UK, and in Kentucky. Details will be
released to the Kernel nearer to that.
date.

John S. Farmer
Physics Freshman

Food gripe

Bitching about cafeteria food is an
annual affair at UK. But this year
Blazer cafeteria has lent credence to
all the bitches, past and present.

A university cafeteria like Blazer
is supposed to serve hot. well-
balanced and nurishing meals to
students, instead, we are served
repetitious meals relying heavily on
starch. Lukewarm (sometimes
cold) entrees feature breaded meat
(veal. chicken, pork, and fish).
potatoes (fried, mashed. baked, and
re-fried). and assorted vegetables
that reflect poor planning though are
aesthetically pleasing in color. Poor
entrees would usually turn students
to salads or desserts to fill their
stomaches, but there is no relief
here.

Salads are a joke. Tossed salad
usually features warm, limp lettuce
that isn’t even cleaned of brown
lettuce leaves or chopped very well.
Jello as a salad is no better. Rarely
fresh (it‘s re-served till the supply
runs out i, the rubbery jello is mixed
with nuts. fruits, carrots, cole slaw.
celery, marshmellows, cream
cheese, pudding, and other jello
flavors that leave the concoction a
less than appealing item. Mold has
occasionally been found, but this
unlikely a planned addition.

Desserts at least offer some
variety. though not always good
flavor. Assorted pies, cakes, pud-
dings. cookies, brownies, and ice-
cream are okay. but re-serving of
leftovers for days on end grows
tiresome.

Obviously if I'm this dissatisfied, I
shodd go elsewhere to eat, right?
But this does not solve the problem.
the food problem is still there.
Eating at the Studmt Center is Out
because prices there are too limiting
and going across campis to eat isn't
practical. Besides, the board fees
paid to the university are substantial
enough that good food shoild be
available at all food services on
campus, not just a few select
cafeterias on the other side of
campus.

Michael Steele
BusinessliEconomlce
Senior

    

 

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