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Monday, February 7, 1977

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After crushing Vandy,
surging UK is gaining

Momentum

By MIKE STRANGE
Assistant Sports Editor

If there was any doubt after last
weekend’s road sweep, it should be
perished after Saturday night. The
Kentucky Wildcats’ drive to
Knoxville is under a full head of
steam.

Yes, after an early January bout
with the blahs, the Cats are alive and
feeling a little ornery—and patiently
stalking Tennssee for a March 5
rematch in Knoxville thatwill, in all
likelihood, decide the SEC race.

Saturday night at Rupp Arena, the
Cats did a little double-time toward
their date with the Vols by ripping
apart the young Vanderbilt Com-
modores 113-73, in what was often an
awesome display of basketball.

Vandy isn’t often 40 points on the
short end of a basketball score and
this WAS the same bunch of kids—
three freshmen starters— who took
UK into the final eight seconds at
Nashville before losing by a basket.

But it wasn’t the same bunch of
Wildcats and the comparison is
revealing.

Different Cats

Those Nashville Cats did a lot of
standing around on offense.
Saturday's Wildcats did a lot of
scoring~113 points on 54.9 per cent
shooting—a lot of rebounding-58 to
Vandy’s 37—and had 26 assists.

' Those Nashville Cats seemed to be
wearing ankle weights on defense.
This bunch played a swarming 1-3-1

zone that held Vandy to 38.3 per cent
shooting and made 13 steals.

Kentudry played superny and
unselfishly as a team, but individual
plaudits tell the story.

Playmaker Larry Johnson had a
dream game—seven of 10 field goals
and five for five at the line for 19
points. And he had seven rebounds,
six assists and five steals.

His backcourt partner added 16
points, but it wasn’t Jay Shidler.

Reserve Truman Claytor played
wlat Johnson and coach Joe Hall
agreed was Claytor’s best game at
UK, filling in for Shidler. who was
off his form after a bout with food
poisoning.

Claytor got several baskets on
driving shots off the fast break. The
61 sophomore also grabbed six
rebounds, handed out five assists
and wrestled away a pair of steals.

While UK‘s guards were out-
quicking Vandy‘s guards, its muscle
boys wasted no time intimidating
the Commodores’ small front line.

Rick Robey’s first four baskets

were stuffs and Mike Phillips, who

led with 24 points, didn’t just grab
his 12 rebounds, he ripped them off
the boards like he meant business.

Vandy’s freshmen forwards
Charles Davis and Greg Fuller and
junior center John Sneed were
visibly impressed early on and the
boards belonged to UK.

That brings us to Jack Givens.

Givers isn’t your Dr. J-type. No
slam dunks with a one-and-a-half
twist from the tuck position.

Transy students
resist semesters

By SUSAN JONES
Copy Editor

Declaring their fears of becoming
a “mini-UK," Transylvania
University students Friday
protested a recent administration
proposal to divide the private
college’s school year semesterly
rather than quarterly.

About 100 students shouted, “We
want quarters, keep the change,” at
the Transylvania administration
during the 45-minute, afternoon
demonstration at Old Morrison Hall.

The students‘ main gripe seemed
to be that they were not consulted in
the decision-making process.

Trarsy Dean of Students David A.
Palmer, watching the protest out-
side in freea'ng temperatures, said,
“Students have no voice in such a
decia'on. We‘re (the administration)
concerned with the future. Today’s
students are concerned only with
today."

Although the decision to make the
change is not final. the ad-
ministration is committed to the
semester system, Palmer said.

“We will not change, however, if
51 of 53 professors are opposed to it. "
Fadilty opinions have not yet been
polled.

Palmer admits most Transy
students are opposed to the change,
but gave four basic reasons for it. He
said the change would:

—slow present annual rises in
tuition costs;

—help the school attract more
studen ts, further reducing tuition by
spreading out the school's operating
costs;

—ellow the school to accomodate
more students by better use of
available clasroom space, and;

—allow the school to institute new
educational programs.

Transy students now attend each
class four days a week and have
Wednesdays free. Each quarter
lasts 10 weeks and the proposed
semesters would last 13 weeks,

Emily Aspley, a Transy senior
education major who was protesting
the proposed change, said, “Most of
us chose Transy because of the
quarter system. If we had wanted
semesters we could have gone to a
cheaper school."

Transy tuition costs now range
between $2,200 and $2,500 annually
for in-state students.

Agreeing with Aspley, freshman
Eric Heylrnann said he would have
attended another school if he had
known about the change.

“The admissions offices pushed
the quarter system when 1
enrolled,“ Heylmann said. “Now I
feel like we're being turned into a
UK community college.

“lf Transy is supposed to be
growing with this new ad-
ministration, this is the wrong kind
of growing," he said.

Four of Transy’s top ad-
ministrators. including Palmer, are
new this year. Most protestors said
they felt the administrators had not
been at the school long enough to
make such a basic change in the
college‘s procedures.

Several protestors also com-.

plained that because the semester
system would row! in less time
spent in the classroom, the change
would, in effect, raise tuition.

in addition, students were con-
cemed the change would delay or
cause problems with their scheduled
graduation dates.

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