'The Lexington Voice' A Written
By ELAINE ROBERTS

Kernel Staff Writer
"The Lexington Voice" is the newest voice In town.
Today the third issue of this weekly paper will hit the
fan.
Editor Jim Sleet, 29, is a
but intense
crusader standing on the skin of things. He is committed to the struggle. And he'd like to commit you.
"This paper has been able to go because a few
people had enough faith to give us enough money to
get started," he says.
Visiting the headquarters of "The Voice" (they are
holed up on the second floor of a one-tim- e
Presbyterian
Church on Second Street) is an unforgettable experience.
You are met at the door by two huge Cerman
soft-spoke- n

Shepherds. What is so scary is that they don't bark.
You know they are both vicious, but Sleet's wife
says, "Only the smaller one is mean."
"We've had some threatening phone calls," Sleet
says, disposing of the subject of the dogs.
Upstairs the three of you enter the room they are
using as a darkroom and the dogs stay outside with the
typists and the borrowed IBM Selectrics.
The day before the paper goes to press the staff
works around the clock. But at 9 p.m. the hustle was
still fairly low key.
We sat in the dark while Michele (Sleet's wife)
processed negatives.
"This is also a 'Halfway House'," Sleet said. "We
call it "House of Hospitality." If people have no place
to stay they can come here."

'Sound-Of- f

"Maybe a family gets burned out. We take them in.
People kicked out of the 'Y' come here. Social workers
give them our address. Sometimes the Juvenile Court
refers to us."
Get Food Stamps
The Sleets do not receive money from the courts
or from welfare agencies. Michele said that "if people
have a job or can get one, we ask them to contri-

bute."
"We've been able to get food stamps to help out,"
Sleet said, "but we operate on a very tight budget."
Sleet hopes to make the Lexington Voice
and to "use any extra money to meet community needs."
"I want to publish a written version of 'Sound-Of- f ,"
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Tuesday, April 21, 1970

University of Kentucky, Lexington

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Vol. LXI, No. 130

NSA Head Suggests Channels
As First Step In Student Action
By RON HAWKINS
Kernel Staff Writer

Charles Palmer, president of
the National Student Association (NSA), told UK students
yesterday that they should work
through legitimate channels be-

fore protesting.
President of Student Government at the University of California in 1968-6Palmer said
students should realize they
have the right to power within
the University and that it should
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Palmer said that "you have to
build your ease and work
through legitimate channels before turning to protest."

"Unless people assert themselves this country is on the way
to an authoritarian government.
What I'm concerned about
is I've come to the realization
that many people have lost the
sense of their power," Palmer
asserted.
Palmer
"Decision making,"
said, "has to be challenged by
students it's your community."
He added that he thought students should be a dominant factor in all decisions that affect

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the student.
Will Help SC.
NSA, said Palmer, is involved in supplying student governments with resources which
will aid them in exercising power, lie added that NSA is "not
a national conspiracy," but rather that it is much more con-

cerned with strengthening student governments at a "grassroots level."
Palmer's day was occupied
an open
with a luncheon,
speech to all students, a press
and a workshop
conference
sponsored by Keys.
The speech was attended
100 people.
by approximately
Speaking of his speech, Palmer
said, "I'm rambling but I want
to get this out."
What Palmer "got out" was
a denial of the "quiet year" on
college campuses and a rebuff of
"the talk about Middle America."
'Quiet Year" Desirojed
The "quiet year," Palmer said,
"has been destroyed the last few
weeks. . . . Protest and dissent
have been broader than ever.
All across the country students have been asserting their

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power."

Speaking of "Middle Ameri'T
ca," Palmer
proclaimed:
think it's a phony hoax. If you
read what is being said, what
they keep saying is we're not in
control anymore."
Palmer did agree, however,
with vice president Spiro Ag-ne"We really are 'impudent
snobs.' I've heard more students talk about 'rednecks,'
workers and 'dumb people holding us back.' "
Palmer said, "The rhetoric of
four or five years ago is starting
to be lived." He illustrated by
telling the audience about a
Berkeley record store.
Record Store
"It (the record store) started
selling regularly priced $4.98
records for $2.98. . . . Eventually, the record freaks ran it
and it got so good it became
No. 1 in the city."
When an album by the
Beatles came out priced at
$7.98, the student record shop
refused to sell it and started a
national Bcatle boycott. "We
forced every store to drop their
price to $3.00," Palmer said.
A chain of student-ru- n
record
shops was started, and their success was significant.

Singletary
Resignation
Is Denied
The report that UK President
Otis A. Singletary might resign
and go to Texas has leen denied
by his wife and an assistant to
the president, Anne Wilson.
"There is no substance at all
to the rumor that President Singletary will not be here next
year. As far as I know, he will
be here always," said Miss Wilson.

It was rumored by local radio
stations and newspapers that
President Singletary might go to
Texas after it was learned that
Dr. Norman Hackerman, president of the University of Texas,
had resigned his post for a similar position at Rice University

beginning September 1.
At the present time, Dr. Singletary is out of town and cannot be reached for comment.

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"A computer said profits were
off by 75 percent. . . . Now Co-

lumbia sells records for less than
we can buy it for. We'd taken
on CBS and we didn't mean to."
'People's Park'
Palmer also spoke on last
year's "People's Park" protest at
Berkeley.
"Some people wanted to make
a point of controlling environment. So they turned a lot with
old autos into something beautifula real communal type of

thing."
"The governor (Ronald Reagan) and the politicians didn't
dig it because they thought it
was a place where radicals
could get together and rap."
Palmer said that 85 percent
of the students supported the
park as did a vast majority of
the faculty, yet the park was
done away with.

Artful Protest

UK student John Crump went to Louisville for his Army physical
y
yesterday. In preparation for the event, various
slogans
were painted over his body. Theonly reaction he got from the Army
officers was the question, "How long did it take to paint that?"
Crump reported that he passed his physical, but that he had been
Kernel Photo By Mike Walker
passed before he was examined.
anti-Arm-

University Senate Recommends Policy
For Student Action In Academic Affairs
JEANNIE LEEDOM
Assistant Managing Editor
The University Senate acted Monday on a
resolution recommending a policy for student
participation in academic affairs, and on a motion suggesting a faculty vote regarding "faculty
opinion relating to evaluation and salary increments."
The policy for student participation in academic
affairs was presented as a recommendation by the
Senate Advisory Committee on Student Affairs
and was referred to committee because a large
group of senators disapproved of the implementation one section implied.
The section stated: "Recommendations from
Student Advisory Councils shall be forwarded to
the educational unit they advise and also to the
Student Advisory Council that they are responsible to. In addition, the recommendations shall
also be delivered to the next higher administrative
echelon (e.g., course teacher and department chair-nudepartment chainnan and dean).
Further Recommendations
"After study, the primary recipient of the
recommendations shall return to the recommending Council his comments, evaluation of recommendations, and program of implementation if
such is to be undeitaken. A copy of this
be forwarded to the next higher administraBy

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tive echelon.
a college or school shall be
for providing Student Advisory Counresponsible
cils within his educational unit with pertinent
information about the authority for academic
decisions in order that students may understand
the proper procedures to effect change."
One unidentified senator who opposed the resolution said he felt that the section called for an
abundance of unnecessary paper work. Another

"Each dean of

senator mentioned that that section of the document was "far too specific" for student involvement.
Dr. Michael Adelstein, chairman of the committee, defending the resolution, said "We were
talking about how to give students a voice in
faculty matters. Unless some formal machinery
is set up, we will not hear thoughtful, responsible
ideas or recommendations from students."
Adelstein Comments
He continued, "Section 3 contains the very
heart of the report. It assures that a chairman or
faculty member will not receive a student report
and file it away."
According to the recommendation: "The students of UK will be expected to participate in
the fonnulation, development, implementation,
evaluation and revision of the academic programs
and policies of the University.
"All students will be encouraged to participate
to the degree that their academic experience,
personal maturity and social perspective will permit. To achieve these objectives, the following
Student Advisory Councils shall be established:
a graduate and undergraduate Student Advisory
Council and a department or division graduate
and undergraduate student advisory council.
The subjects which were proposed for the
student advisory council to study were: academic
programs, training programs, course evaluations,
evaluation of teaching, academic standards, ev aluation of facilities to support academic programs,
and faculty recruitment.
Motion Passed
The Senate passed the motion to refer the complete report to committee for revisions dealing
specifically with Section 3.
In other action, the Senate defeated a motion
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