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Wednesday. August 30, I978

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UK students on hold

By DEBBIE MCDANIEL
Copy Editor

The overwhelming demand for on-
campus housing this year has created a
waiting list for dormitory rooms of
nearly 600 students, according to
Housing Director Jean Lindley.

She added,‘ however, that most of
these students have found temporary
or permanent housing through the
Off-Campus Housing Office, which
lists information about apartments,
houses and rooms available for rent.

When the shortage of low cost off-
campus apartments and UK‘s
increasing student enrollment led to a
waiting list totaling almost 2,000
students this summer, Dean of
Students Joseph Burch appealed to
Lexington residents for help through
radio and television announcements,
and their response eased the situation

temporarily. Students waiting for on-
campus housing were notified by mail.

“Things are tight now, and it‘s hard
to find a place to live, but we haven‘t
had the crisis atmosphere of hundreds
of students coming up here (for help
locating housing)“ said Burch.
“People are still looking, but they have
housing alternatives.”

Last week the off-campus housing
office listed between 30 and 35 new
vacancies, and Burch said that
although he had heard rumors that
students were sleeping in lounges. he
didn‘t know of any students who are
completely stranded.

“If there are students who are in a
real panic, they should come up here,”
Burch said. “We certainly don‘t want
them to sleep in their cars."

The housing office plans to count
the “no shows‘ — students who failed

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to occupy their dorm before today's
deadline — and give their rooms to
students on the waiting list. Each year
an average of mo no shows create
vacancies, which frees off-campus
housing for other waiting students.

Although two-thirds of UK's
student population lives off-campus,
the large number of student requests
this year has filled the 4,733 beds in the
residential halls, and several
fraternities have also taken in
boarders.

The completion of UK's 200 two-
bedroom apartments is scheduled for

the fall semester of I979, and “next
year things will open up a bit. Our
intention is to put upper-division
undergraduate students there," said
Burch. The ISO apartments, each one
shared by four students, will create
space for 600 students.

until new housing -finished

By JACK WAINWRIGHT
Staff Writer

A new apartment—type housing
complex consisting of 200 units for
undergraduate and married students
will be completed in July, I979.

According to Jack Blanton, vice
president for business affairs, the
project is unique and will also ease the
housing crunch. “It is conceivable that
many rooms will open up in
upperclassmen dormitories.” he said.
“It is unlikely that enough openings
will be created to make Boyd Hall a
freshman dormitory.“

“We‘re looking for responsible
students to occupy these units,“ he
said. “Students with bad records
shouldn‘t waste the time applying," he
added.

According to Blanton, applications
for the units will be taken in October

' when other dormitory applications are

accepted for the I979 fall semester. “It
would be my assumption that they
would take place then for next year,"
he said.

The complex. which will consist of ‘

25 buildings, will cost $5.2 million and
will be paid for by a bond issue
approved'by the Board of Trustees
totaling $6.3 million. The board
approved the bond issue on July 20 to
cover the cost of the complex and the
purchase of three apartments off
campus.

“No dormitory has been funded by
the state for the last two decades,"
Blanton said. “If the governor had
offered the money we would have
accepted it,“ he added.

According toBlanton, $500,000 will
be used to' cover the cost of
furnishings. This would place the cost
of construction at $4.7 million, just
under the $4.8 million ceiling cost.

“Instead of accepting bids we used a

design-build concept where we told
contractors the money we were
spending, and they said whether they
could build it,“ Blanton said. “This
process was much faster because it
saved us the time of bids,” he added.

The ZOO-unit complex will be
carpeted, completely furnished and
will be air conditioned.

Fifty of the 200 units will be
available for married students only,
the rest will have two bedrooms to
accommodate four students. “At

present we only have If) units available

for married students," Blanton said.
According to Blanton, the complex
will also have a “trading post" where

students will be able to purchase food'

needs. “We’ll have everything for
students except for beer,“ he said. “We
plan on operating it for one year and
then we‘ll decide if we‘ll keep it or lease

it out." .
Continued on page 7

KSU students also wait

By GIL LAWSON
Staff Writer

A housing shortage at Kentucky

State University in Frankfort has'

resulted in three students being
assigned to many dormitory rooms
and others trying to find apartments in
the capital city.

The shortage, which has rendered
more than a third of the school‘s
dormitory space useless, occurred
because when renovation work on two
residence halls, Kentucky Hall and
Chandler Hall, was not finished by the
planned date.

Bernard Taylor, KSU dean of

————today

campus

development, said the renovation
would be finished in a few weeks. He
said the two halls are “90 percent
completed." Taylor said most of the
dormitories were in bad shape because
of neglect.

In the meantime, according to
Johnny D. Sheppard, KSU student
affairs vice-president, approximately
250 people are being temporarily
housed by placing three students in
some rooms.

Sheppard said the studen “have
been very cooperative. They
understood it wasn‘t our fault.” He

“added that the university is still able to

house students.

Sheppard said many of the students
were looking foward to the new halls.
“There was some letdown, but nothing
other than the usual grumbling."

Taylor said the two halls were not
finished because “the contractors got
behind due to the weather, but they‘ve
been working around the clock.”

A third hall has also been closed for
renovation. Work on this building,
Atwood Hall, has not started.

KSU can house approximately 1000
of its 2300 students.

The three halls that have been closed
house 370 students, according to
Odessa Green, KSU director of

Continued on page 7

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By DAVID O'NElL/Kernel Staff

Freshman Kerrie Preston, from Maysvllle, carries some clothes and a couple of green friends Into Klrwln III.

Record numbers foreseen

By STEVE MASSEY
Staff Writer

According to figures released by Dr.
Elbert W. Ockerman, registrar and
dean of admissions, UK enrollment
(not including community college
system/ for the l978-l979 academic
year should exceed 22,500.

Although the official tabulation will

not be available until late registration
is completed, this tentative figure
would be the largest number of on:
campus students in UK history.

A major reason for the increased
enrollment is the record number of
freshmen entering UK. There has been
a 9.5 percent increase over last year‘s
3,370 newcomers.

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A MAKE-UP EXAM for Dr. Pisacano s Biology Ill)
class will be held Thursday, Sept. 7 at 6 p. m. in l07
Biological Sciences Building.

For more information, call 258-86“.

world

EMIATTKED PRESIDENT ANASTASIO
SOMOZA vowed yesterday to remain in office despite a
growing nationwide protest strike against him,
nationwide uprisings and an alleged military plot to oust
him..

“To resign would be to betray the aspiration of
Nicaraguans who want to live in a free society,“ Somoaa
told a reporter in his presidential office.

In the continuing anti-Somoza violence. five
goverment soldiers were reported killed by a bomb
exposion in Managua and fighting was reported
elsewhere in this Central American nation. Journalists
returning from Matagalpa, Nicaragua's third-largest
city, said government troops were under virtual sdiege
there.

KENTUCKY‘S ENERGY RESEARCH BOARD
voted here yesterday against sharing' in a $54 milion cost
overrun to complete a pilot coal liquefication plant in
Catlettsburg, but authorized new funds for design of a
commerical coal liquefieation plant.

John Mitchell, director of demonstration projects for
the Kentucky Center for Energy Research, said federal
energy officials have encouragd the state to share In the
estimated cost overrun. Kentucky‘s share would be from
SL6 million to $3 milion, he said.

A LEXINGTON MAN WHO ALLEGEDLY
SOUGHT to have former Commerce Commissioner W.
Terry McBrayer‘s telephones tapped also wanted to tap
Gov. Julian Carroll‘s telephone lines, according to a
complaint filed by the FBI.

Stuart Swartz, 39, was arrated Friday and arraigned
before US. Magistrate David Irvin. He was released
after Wallace Robinson, his father—in-Iaw, posted sum
of a sworn cash bond.

A Sept. 7 preliminary hearing for Swartz has been
scheduled in US. District Court.

POPE JOHN PAUL I. intent on showing he will lead
the world‘s Roman Catholics as a pastor and not
monarch, will walk to the much-simplified Mass that will
consecrate his pontificate next Sunday and may forego
the traditional crowning.

The Vatican said the Pope‘s first public Mass will not
be termed the ‘Coronation Mass,“ as it has been in the
past, and he will not be carried in a portable throne on the
shoulders of up to l2 men.

'It is not known yet whether there will be the crowinig
or not,” said the Rev. James Roach, the Vaticanb
English-language press spokesman.

weather

CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE ofowasional rain and
thunderstorms today. Today‘s highs will be in the upper
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increases in enrollment were the
College of Business and Economics.
with a 6.8 percent increase, and the
College of Engineering, with an
increase of “.2 percent. These are
indications of national trends.

Although the national trend has
also shown a leveling offin the number
of graduate students, UK‘s graduate
school enrollment is up 8.3 percent.

In another reversal of recent trends.
the College of Education reported 3l6
new students, up over last year‘s 228
entering students. Ockerman hopes
this is an indication of better teacher
benefits as well as the development of
more specialized education. The
college has been reporting decreasing
enrollment in recent years.

Many newcomers, especially those
from small towns and high schools,
may find these numbers a little scary.
But Dean of Students Joe Burch
advises them “to not dwell on how
large they think we (UK) are" but

instead to look at UK as a large city
where one “learns to get along well in a
large environment within a small

community, such as hanging out at the
Wildcat Grille, fraternities or some
other place where friends can be

made.“
Burch also cautioned freshmen not
to try to cram everything in the first

two weeks, but instead to “be selective
~ balance class time with study time
and free time." By exercising this

advice, Burch thinks freshmen will
have a much easier time adjusting to
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"New year brings

Same old problems

Today marks the beginning of a new year for
students. faculty and others at UK. Although many
have a fresh start in academics. athletics and other
endeavors. the University still faces many of the
same problems that existed last semester. the
semester before. and many semesters before that.

UKjust wouldn’t be the same without some ofthe
difficulties. Housing. for instance, is a familiar
problem.

Once again. the dormitories are over-requested.
At one point this summer there were 2.000 extra
applicants for the residence halls. UK only has space
for 4.600.

The alternative. ofcourse. is to rent an apartment.
Anyone who‘s tried to find a decent place close to
campus can relate the horrors of that alternative.
Simply put. l.exington and it‘s high occupancy rate
is not a hospitable environment for student renters.
it‘s a seller‘s market for apartments. and landlords
can charge inflated rents without taking pains to
keep the property in shape.

The city‘s responsiveness to a University appeal
asking for people to rent to students has eased the
crowding somewhat. and the waiting list is much
smaller now. Soon-to-be-completed dormitories
will help in future years. unless the demand keeps
growing.

The University should give high priority to
determining the number of students it will be
necessary to have dormitory space for in the future.
and should see that the space is available. The
situation right now is intolerable. According to
officials. many students simply drop out of school
for a semester because the dorms are full. lrnagine

not being able to go to school because there‘s no
place to live.

One group oi students. though. has no worries
about where to stay at UK scholarship athletes.

' last year. basketball players moved into the private.
luxurious Wildcat lodge. Critics grouchcd about'
how unfair it was to have such preferential
treatment and how the players were isolated from
other students. but the lodge was built with private
money.

Gov. Julian Carroll was also worried about the
unfairness of it all.

Carroll thought it was unfair for the football team
not to have it‘s own dormitory. too. Especially since

- the state had funded such a facility at the University
of Louisville. So began the (ireat Football Dorm
War.

“Where would the money come from? it would
come. of course. out of our capital allocations."s‘aid
Carroll in June. The governor's plan was critici/ed
for several things. not to mention sheer gall.

Edward F. l’ritchard .lr.. the \ ice chairman ofthe

state Council on Higher Education. said the project
had to be reviewed by the council because of it‘s 3!
million price tag. By law. the council must review
and approve all campus construction projects
costing more than $l00.000.

The UK Athletics Association. although private.
was “so closely affiliated with the University that
(the proposed dorm) is probably a campus project“
subject to council approval. said Pritchard.

More criticism came from state Rep. .loe Clarke.
D-l)anville. chairman of the House Committee on
Appropriations and Revenue. The project. said
Clarke. could not be approved because it was not
included in the state's l978-80 budget.

Still more warnings came from officials who
worried that the football dorm would not be in
compliance with 'l'itie lX requirements of equal
treatment for each sex. How many athletic dorms
for women’s teams are there at UK‘.’

The war ended‘ when UK President Otis
Singletary and council chairman David (irissom
issued a statement declining Carroll‘s offer.

There were “many critical educational needs" at
UK and other state campuses that should have
priority. they said. Singletary and Grissom
expressed appreciation for Carroll’s “continuing
support for the needs of higher education and
intercollegiate ahtletics in the Commonwealth."
Carroll did not pursue the battle. as public outcry
over spending priorities had become intense.

The Great Football Dorm War wasn‘t quite over.
though. Singletary fired the last shot several days
later. blasting critics ofthe project for not opposing
similar construcion. Such "selective outrage" was
not incited when U of l.’s$l.5 million footballdorrn
was built. he said at a UK Board of 'l‘rustces
meeting.

“When the University of Kentucky gets lit tlte
pieture.~ everything is different.“ concluded
Singletary. It now looks as though a UK football
dorm will be built someday. but not with public
funds. The team may have to survive with less
sumptuous quarters than the basketball squad‘s.
though. because there are a lot more athletes to
house.

The University is moving in the right direction
with it‘s housing policies. but the motivation is
suspect. Campus officials and the governor backed
down from the state-funded football dorm because
of public outcry. not because of a desire to save
money for what‘s important.

Building a second dorm for a privileged group of
students would be only a second mistake. let ll of
l.‘s facility stand as a monument to misplaced
government priorities. and an inspiration to pay
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’Normal Lesbians’ work
for ’test—tu be electorate’

By JIMMY BRESLIN

NEW YORK -- Outside on 42nd
Street. people walked slowly through
the blazing August day. Inside the
glass-walled Ford Foundation
building. Maxine Kane sat in cool
splednor. surrounded by indoor
gardens. hearing the sound of
fountains throwing water onto the
gardens. But rather than spend the
afternoon in comfort and-reflection.
Ms. Kane was intense and appeared
overworked.

She had spent most of the day
upstairs in one of the glass offices that
overlook the gardens. but she had
noticed none of the beauty. She had
been in earnest. unyielding talks with
Ford Foundation people assigned,to
matters of population.

Ms. Kane was dressed injeans and a
black T-shirt with white lettering that
said. “I’m a Normal Lesbian."This isa
momento of the lesbian conference
held at Normal. "L. on the campus of
Illinois State University. at which

theorists , led by Ms. Kane.apolitical '

science professor decided that the
lesbian movement should seize the

test-tube babies method and produce
500,000 test tube births by lesbian
mothers over the next four years and
thus dramatically change. some time
in the future the political power of gay
women.

The Normal Lesbian Conference is
expected to have far greater impact on
the country than the I965 “Strawberry

‘ Statement“ conference ofthe Students

for a Democratic Society (SDS) at
Port Huron. Mich. That conference
started “The Movement." which
placed marijuana. rock ‘n‘ roll and
jeans into a majority of American
households.

The Normal Lesbian Conference
called fora slower. but more dramatic
change shaving test-tube babies for
political purposes. In many
congressional districts. a bloc of 3.000
votes can control nearly all of the
political makeup of the area. With a
sudden rise in the number of gay
children in certain areas.
discrimination against lesbians would
not only be ended. within l8 years. but
would be replaced by lesbians in actual
power for at least two decades.

Yesterday. Maxine Kane was
exhausted from the long hours of
behind-the-scenes political work that
she and her committee have been
putting in since the Normal Lesbian
Conference. ‘

“We need a $5 million foundation
grant and then a matching $5 million
from HEW.“ she was saying. “There is
no question in our minds about the
HEW grant. Our legal people tell us
we're clearly entitled to it. It is the
foundation money that is taking time.

“What does it look like to you."she
was asked.

"Oh. well get it eventually. Then.
you see. we can begin the actual
planning for our program. With the $5
million from a foundation and the $5
million from HEW. we can begin to
build the first gay sperm bank. and
gather the extensive legal services we‘ll
need to insure that each pregnant
woman will receive all federal. state
and city welfare benefits due them."

"Wnat did the foundation people
say today?“ she was asked.

“Well. the same as the Population
Council and. in a way. the Fund forthe
Republic. Eithics is no problem. We
are against women marrying their test
tubes. Everyone understands that.
Beyond this. the Ford ethicists feel
that informed consent is the
paramount issue in test-tube babies.
Of course. all our women will be able
to give perhaps the most informed
consent that test-tube motherhood
ever will see. We want the babies. we
know why we want to have them and
wwc know where we want to go with
them: to gain control politically in
areas where people refuse to treat us as

 

“What was the problem upstairs
then?" she was asked.

“Not really a problem. As I say. the
differences will diminish and we will
get our money. For now. the Ford
people are a bit uncomfortable. A big
foundation such as this works in
contraception research. And they have
been disappointed that in both
Western and Eastern Europe. people

keep saying."why aren't ourchildren
having children anymore?‘

“Now the Ford people find the same
thing happening in the United States.
Schoolrooms are unfilled; we
suddenly have an aging population.
The Ford people know it. The age
demos are bad. There is definite
concern over the ability of this sort of
population to sustain pension and
Social Security payments. And people
around the country are starting to
worry about their young people not
having children.

“I told the Ford people .just as I told
the Fund for the Republic people.that
is exactly where the Normal Lesbian
Conference is. We want children. This
places us in the mainstream of
American thinking. l told them in
political terms that the numbers are
there . the tide is changing. The
foundation reliance on contraception
research should be redirected to
population construction. We can work
with them on this. After all. if we
intend to have our greatest impact in
major cities. such as New York and
San Francisco. then it will be the
Normal Lesbain Conference that will.
in the end. be responsible for saving
the Fireman‘s Pension System."

“Did they listen?“ she was asked.

“Ch. of course. They are decent
people who want to do a job. I came
away today with the definite feeling
that our presentatin was quite
effective.”

“Where do you go now?” she was
asked.

“There are some HEW conferences
next week. One on ethics. I believe.
But we have cleared up the ethical
considerations of lesbians having
children. I think the one point we have
to get across down there is the value of
us having this enormous number of
children. HEW will be able to count
longitudinal studies of the question of
whether gay is genetic or
environmental. We will have test-tube
babies by a gay sperm bank out of a
lesbian mother. The children will be
studied. Even if the majority of
children born are heterosexual. this is
no loss to the gay political movement.
The child would never turn against the
mother.”

She got out and walked into the
heat. People on 42nd Street barely
noticed her “I‘m a Normal Lesbian'T-
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Last year’s ’bureaucratic dilemma,’
paraquat is n0w a moral issue

By CHARLES H PERCY.
U. S. Senator

WASHINGTON— A year
ago. the paraquat spraying
program was merely a
bureacratic dilemma. Now. in
the face of a proven health risk
to millions of Americans, the
United States‘ failure to urge
the Mexican government to
halt this program has becomea
moral issue: We are using a
weed killer to produce a killer
weed, presumably on the basis
of a distorted ligic that we are
out to protect young people.

Such a policy is wholly
inconsistent with the avowed
purrpose of our drug
eradication program. This
program is designed to protect
the health of American citizens,
not to damage it further. The
U.S.-assisted poppy eradica-
tion program in Mexico, to it‘s
credit, has met this goal by
significantly decreasing the
amount of heroin entering this
country. However, the
continued involvement of the
United States in the paraquat
spraying of marijuana can only
generate deep distrust on the

 

part of young persons for our
public health programs as well
as undermine the faith of all

our citizens in the ability of this
administration to govern
wisely.

Since Secretary Califano's
appropriate warning in March
of this year concerning the

legislature overwhelmingly
passed a resolution condemn~
ing the US. support of the
paraquat program.

One San Fransico doctor
reports that he has treated 40
cases of burning throats.
bloody sputum and various
lung problems among

million pounds of Mexican
marijuana smuggled daily into
this country is sold.

Samuel Alba-Levya,
Mexico's deputy attorney
general in charge of the drug
eradication program, has
charged that the reports of
paraquat-tainted marijuana

marijuana. While for years I
have urged the decriminalira-
tion of marijuana. I believe it
entirely appropriate for
authorities to impose up to a
S|00 fine for persons found
using marijuana in public
places.

Furthermore I am not an
advocate of marijuana

 

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paraquat contamination is a real
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serious health risk of smoking
paraquat-tainted marijuana,
laboratories that test for
contamination have sprung up
all over the country and are
inundated wwith marijuana
samples from concerned and
frightened users. Students are
protesting U.S. involvement in
the spraying operations.
Editorials urging a halt to the
program have appeared in
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these symptoms to paraquat
contamination. In Fresno,
doctors have referred 37
patients with blisters of the
mouth. throat ulcerations and
bloody sputum to the center for
disease control in Atlanta for
further tests. Forty-six percent
of the marijuana tested it
Fresno has been found to be
contaminated.

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where most of the estimated I5

  

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Mexico are merely propaganda

generated by groups who are

working for the legalization of
marijuana.

He is very much mistaken. l
have been involved in this
investigation since its
beginning. The facts indicate
that paraquat contamination is
a real and significant problem.

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However. my disapproval of

marijuana use does not blind
me to the vast number of young
Americans who regularly use
the drug and whose health is
therefore threatened by the
alarming risks of paraquat
poisoning.

Sen. Charles H. Percy Is a
Republican from IIIInols.

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