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Vol. LXVII No. 68
Thursday November 6.1975

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University of Kentucky
Lexington, Kentucky

Harralson may sponsor
Gay Students' Coalition

By DAVID BROWN
Assistant Managing Editor

Student Government (SG) president Jim
lla rralson is seriously considering
becoming co-sponsor of the Gay Student
Coalition (GSC).

The Student Code of Rights and
Responsibilities states a sponsor is “a
responsible adult interested in the pur-
poses of the organization who shall give
guidance and counsel to the officers“ of
the organization.

The GSC submitted an official ap
plication for University recognition to the
Dean of Students‘ office yesterday.

llarralson said accepting the role of
sporsa‘ would not be out of line, con-
sidering his past position on the Gay
question.

llarralson gained University-wide
recognition last year when he opposed SG
sponsorship of a Gay dance.

“I have no trouble accepting gays as
human beings.“ Harralson said.

He said he would not decide whether he
would be a GSC sponsor until the end of
this week. or the beginning of next week.

“l have to consider what bearing my
decision will have on my relationship with
other factions on campus. and what
hearing it would have on the faction in-
volved." llarralson said.

“I have to take time in considering these
things. it‘s just my nature,“ he said.

As evidence of his previous support of
the Gay movement. llarralson cited a
Kernel (‘omment published Dec. 9. 1974.

That comment, co-authored by Glenn
Stith. current SG vice president. stated.
“...we support the efforts of the Gay
(‘oalition for recognition. with both the
l'niversity and the community. and we
affirm the right of each individua.l to the
sexual behavior of his choice."

The application for University
recognition listed Linda Welch, former
president of the Red River Defense Fund,
as sponsor. said Carey Junkin, GSC
president.

If Ha rralson decides to sponsor the GSC.
he would be listed as co—sponsor. Junkin
said.

Wayne Davis. Biological Sciences
Professor. is the GSC advisor. Junkin said.

It will take at least a week to 10 days for
the Dean of Students’ office to decide
whether the GSC should be recognized,
said Prank Harris. associate dean of
students.

Harris said he had not yet looked at the
application. He would not say if a previous
University decision against the Gay
Liberation P‘ront‘s (GLF) application for
recognition. would be considered when
evaluating the GSC application.

When the University denied the GLF
organizational status. the group took the
issue to court. Three years ago the 6th
District (‘ourt of Appeals ruled the
University had the power to withhold
recognition from any organization.

Harris said it was too soon to ask how he
would make a decision. “Wait and see
what I do. and then I‘ll tell you why I did
it. ‘ he said.

Joe Burch. acting dean of students. also
refused to say if previous decisions
regarding gay students‘ groups would
affect the decision made by his office.

(‘arey Junkin. GSC president. said he
would fight any decision not to grant the
GSC organizational status.

The first step would be to take the
decision to the University Appeals Board.
and if that failed. to court. he said.

If court action was necessary. Junkin
and he thought he would have American
('ivrl Liberties Union support.

Tobacco farmers dissatisfied with University

By JAMIE LUCKE
Kernel Staff Writer

Farmers who last year participated in a
tobacco production experiment with UK
are unhappy about being eliminated from
the program this year. according to Bud
Rankin. a spokesman for the farmers.

Last year‘s experiment involved a new
technique in tobacco production that could
save farmers time and money. The
technique. developed by University re-
searchers involved baling tobacco leaves
for sale. Tobacco is now sold in loosely tied
bunches called “hands".

The new baling technique “mechanizes
the stripping room phase of the farmer's
operation and reduces production costs."
said G. W. Stokes. College of Agriculture
associate dean. About 15 farmers partici-
pated in the baling experiment last year.
Their tobacco was baled and sold to the
Philip Morris Tobacco Company under an
arrangement worked out by the Universi-
tv.

But now. Stokes said. the University
researchers “have all the information they
need at the farm level and the program is

moving so rapidly that it is difficult to fully
understand the problems involved in
baling tobacco.“

He also said the University‘s involve-
ment in marketing the baled tobacco may
have been inappropriate.

“We had allowed ourselves to get over
into the management of the flow of
tobacco. The movement of tobacco is not a
part of our testing program."

New techniques must be tested at all
levels of the tobacco production and
processing system. Stokes said.

Researchers are still studying baling to
see how well it can be integrated into the
system.

Rankin and several other farmers who
were involved in the experiment met with
tobacco company officials in Richmond.
Va. after UK announced that the farmers
would no longer be involved in the baling
experiments.

Rankin said the tobacco companies are
interested in baling. but the new technique
must be perfected at the farm level before
the companies can determine its feasibili~
t '.

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Editorials do not represent the opinions of the University.

editorials

Bruce Winges Susan Jones
Editor-in-Chief EditOrial Page Editor H
Lettas and Spectrum articles should be addressed to the Editu'ial Pap Editu', Jack Koeneman

Ginny Edwards
Managing Editor

Room "4 Journalism Building. They Should be typed, dwblespamd all Sim.

Lelta's should not exceed 250 was and Spectrum articles 71) was. Associate Editor

Gay
students
reapply
for group
status

Low Blow

Editor

My (1005 | find it totally on
believeable that the Kernel c Ould stoop
no rev. I i'miIi/C that the Kernel has

..c\.L‘f Dec“ Overly” supportive of the

UK football program in the first place.

but what has taken place With its so -

tailed reporting is disgusting!

l‘d like to know whether the Kernel
iiiakcs a practice of setting up all its
targets. HOW did the Kernel
photOg rapher know exactly where to go
and who to photo at Keeneland. But
hell, even the NCAA has stated that no
apparent violation has taken place by
the taking of a prospect to Keeneland.

lguess then that it is no small wonder
thatjcurnalism at UK is unaccredited if
unethical practices are allowed.
Perhaps we sh0uld rename iournalism
and call it the Richard M. Nixon School
of Dirty Tricks. Perhaps if we checked
into the ”real " identities of Monty
Foley and Walter Hixson we’d find Out
that their ”real" names are Charles
Colson and John Mitchell.

What amazes me even more is that
the Kernel is the UK newspaper. Is the
editor so apathetic to his own school
spirit and state pride that itconducts a
witchhunt that not only reflects upon
the football program but the school and
staka itself. Maybe the Kernel has
gotten a little too independent and
needs a little classroom instruction in
respcnsible iournalism.

Dick Barbella
UK alumnus

Trash

Editor:

I truly eniOyed Ron Mitchell’s article
on the Ginkgo Festival which appeared
in the Nov. 3 Kernel (”Amazing facts
revealed attifth Ginkgo Festival”). It
was one of the more amusing articles
which have graced the pages of y0ur
wonderful little newspaper. However,

There are those who say history
repeats itself... UK gay students
attempted to obtain recognized UK
student organizational status about
three years ago. The attempt
ended with the gay students taking
the University to court and losing.

Now UK gay students are again
attempting to obtain student or-
ganizational status. Their petition
was filed Wednesday with Asso
ciate Dean of Students Frank

Harris.

In between the two attempts at
recognition much has been written
and said about gay students and
their relationship to the University.
Commentary after commentary
has been published in the Kernel by
students reacting purely emotion-
ally, as pure libertarians—in short,
every variation of the theme.

Student Government (56) has

been no less confused when dealing
with gays. SG pledged to support
gay students in their recognition
attempts last year and this year. it
approved then rescinded sponsor-
ship of a gay dance last year and
the Student Senate recently ap-
proved sponsorship of a second gay
dance which in all probability may
be vetoed by SG President Jim
Harralson.

Amidst all the confusion and
bruhaha, it’s difficult to tell whe-
ther those circumstances which
prevented the University from
granting gays student organiza-
tional status have changed suf-
ficiently to grant them recognition
now.

Unfortunately it seems things
have regressed rather than pro~
gressed. Student support—more
importantly SG support—is not as

strong as it once was. Obtaining 86
support of attempts toward recog-
nition was a big fight in the Student
Senate this year—last year it was
almost assumed. It senators who
are deemed representative of the
entire student body do not unitedly

support gays, the odds the Univer-
sity will change its mind are slight.

The University has two weeks to
make its decision according to the
Student Code. Hopefully, gay stu-
dents will be recognized and all this
discussion over what should be a
simple right can end. But Harris,
asked whether previous decisions
would effect his decision on recog-
nition for gays, said: ”Wait and see
what I do and then I’ll tell you why
I did it.“

Well, there are those who say
history repeats itself....

letters—me

whodecided thatagr0up of ill moronic
misfits singing praises to a leaf c0vered
canines is front page
material? I can understand how
homec ahing weekend at this school
ll‘lgtl the considered ”slow news days,”
iiiit this is not the first time page one
has been reserved for something less
than newsworthy, l iust can't imagine
someone running into the Office woth
that story screaming ”Stop the
presses.” Need I remind y0ur IOyal fans
of the totally useless article that ap
peared not too long ago concerning a
drunken bird that damn near killed-
itself by mistaking a parking lot for
Lake Superior. Interesting article, but
hardly front-page news. Y0u people just
aren’t consistent. You folks did a great
job in covering the Luron Taylor kid~
napping and murder, but then you turn
around and serve us trash like this.
Anyway, I thought you should know
that I am saving my Kernels and using
them to line my bird cage.

urinal for

Jack Renaud
A&S freshman

Protest

Editor:

There have been letters in the past
protesting bikes on the sidewalks. This
letter is to protest an even more
dangerous practice: that of riding
motorcycles on the sidewalks around
campus. Even when the sidewalks are
packed with students between classes,
the motorcyclists insiston driving their
machines through the crowd.

Unlike bikes, motorcycles are motor
vehicles. l shudder to think what w0u|d
happen if a cycle hita pedestrian, even
going only 5-10 mph.

I think the motorcycles should be
allowed to park only in parking lots like
cars.

Ruth Ann Evans
Library science graduate

By David Brown

To a casual observer at Robert
Gable’s unvictory party, the reason for
a reswnding Republican defeat was
(bvious: campaign workers had to buy
their own drinks.

It is traditional for political can.
dida ES to hold “victory parties," to
thank their supporters for the effort
they have exerted on behalf of the
campaign.

Liquor flows, jokes about opposing
candidates fly and peOple laugh as they
eat food spread before them on large
banquet tables.

Mr. Gable’s "party” was dead.
People had to buy their own drinks, all
the food thatwas pr0vided could have
fit on a card table and the people were
not loking.

Republicans, particularly those who
knew they had lost, complained that
little effort was made to bring out the
Republican vote. They blamed
Republicans for not working hard
encugh to get peOple to the polls.

”Why should they?"

It IS impractical to expect campaign
workers to support candidates on an
idealistic, this is the best candidate
basis.

The members of the grass roots must
see some personal benefit for all the
Win k they put into the campaign.

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"I THOUGHT THOSE THINGS WERE suppose» TO BE EXEMCT.”

Gable's” 'pa rty' idie'd

For some, a candidate‘s handshake
will be encugh, more often than not the
prospect of a Wild party suffices and for
a priviledged few the prospect of if
successful post campaign empl0yment

is necessary.
As the waves of campaign workers

flooded the L0uisville restaurant
hosting the Gable party, they found no
food, and a cash bar. The maiority of
them didn‘t even find the smiling
candidate ever willing to shake their
Hand.

Gable was not at the party for ab0ut
two hours because he was with an ill
son, his wife said.

Ms. Gable said ”we had everything
against us" in the campaign. But no
effort was made to reward the IOyal
party people who taught against
"everything " to get Gable elected.

When those Republicans went home
and faced Democratic friends, who
could tell tales of a wild Carroll victory
party, what c0uld they say?

"Well, it was a l0usey party. No, l
didn’tshake his hand, Yea, we lost real
bad. What do you mean ”wasted my
time?"

Perhaps the first leSSOn
Republicans sh0uld learn from their
defeat IS how to treat those who do the
work of a campaign

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andidates need bugaboo

Normally I‘m not too interested in
politics. I have a long diatribe full of
years of accumulated bile against
politics and the truly dangerous crack
pots who run for elective office. And
when i look down the list of potential
Democratic candidates for president
this year I don’t find many whose
throats I wouldn’t cheerfully slit on a
dark night in some evil back alley in
Washington.

Still, I’m an easy-going guy, and l
prefer to accentuate the Positive. 30,
for good or ill, here are some modest
proposals, strictly for the use of
presidential aspirants, strictly free to
be used in Whatever vengeful and
twisted manner they find useful.

First, a little sop to the Bicentennial.
We all know that this country was
famed and built by gamblers,
drunkards and misfits just read any

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history of the old West. But as we’ve
settled into our comfortable middle age
as a People, we’ve tended to forget this.
And so, to correct the rampant injustice
that finds these heroes wasting away in
vaerty and in iail, I’d suggest that a
prospective president issue a statement
to the effect that all gamblers,
drunkards and misfits be subsidized by
the state, their life styles supported by
federal funds. The rationale for this is
that they are living embodiments of all
thatis True and Right in the National
Spirit.

Second, a little (.ontr0versy to liven
things up. Birth control in all forms
should be made illegal, abortion on
demand, however, should be supplied,
free of charge. The reasoning behind
this is thatbirth control is a small and
distant murder much like bombing a
village from 20,000feet while abortion
is a direct and enormously personal
murder. The root idea is that we’ll
impr0ve as a People and perhaps
avoid tragic grotesqueries like Viet

nam» if we learn to live A‘right. up'

against the consequences of our actions
instead of two steps rem0ved. The
mentality that prefers birth control to
abortion is the same mentality that
perpetrated Vietnam if you can't see
the gods you’re murdering you’re not
really killing them. Murder it you must,
the president should say, but look your
victim in the eye. To do any less is to

circumvent conscience, and conscience
is the well spring of our humanity.
En0ugh of controversy. How about
that old bugaboo, The Quality of Life?
The pres identshould issuean executive
order banning all private use of
automobiles. Everyone of the goddamn
things will be burned, smashed,
compacted and buried in Death Valley.
No longer will those noisy,
polluting, traffic iamming devils
torment us and drive us to cancer and
madness! (Except in Lexington,
which Will be preserved as a National
Historical Park of sorts. Lexingtonians
Will be allowed to keep and drive their
autos as always. Future generations
willbeabletocometothecityandstare
in wonderment as the natives drive
around in their accursed machines,
totally amok in a psychotic din of
honking, cursing, motorracing,
ulcers...a living monument to the m.
credible stupidity of the Automobile
Age). 4., ' '
Theonvironment? lmmediately upm
aswming office, the president must
inform all industialpoﬂubrs thattﬁey
have 60 days to clean up their act“
totally—or they will be arrested andshot
with0ut benefit of trial. Strip miners
will simply be shot d0wn in the streets
without warning, by roving bands of
displaced landowners and others tired
of putting up with the strip miner’s
bullshit. I’m serious. lt would be per

fectly iustifiable capital punishment.
These bastards are crazed murderers
of the worst sortr they’re killinq
entire planet and if the very survival
of the Earth depends upon eliminating
these treacher0us sons otrbitches, well,
so be it. Let the blood run ankle-deep in
the streets. It can‘t be any touler than
the stinking sulfur pits that pass for
(reeks in Eastern Kentucky, c0urtesy
of yOJt‘ local strip mine. Or Lake Erie
or any of a hundred dead rivers sold
down the cancer tubes of money and
technology...

But this is all gibberish, bad
craziness. The American people w0uld
never vote for anyone who advocated
programs this drastic. But I’m
driven: the Sickness is upon me——my
gizzard is swollen to twice its normal
size, my eyes are glazed, and there’s no
more Chivas in the cupboard.

So listen up, y0u candidates. Ignore
me aty0ur peril. You’re likely to end up
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Tobacco farmers dissatisfied with UK

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Baling cuts labor time at the
farm level by about 40 per cent.
Rankin said. Farmers would
save about six cents on every 100
pounds of tobacco they prepare
for market. Also the cost of
transporting the tobacco to mar-
ket would be reduced since the
bales are much easier to handle.
Rankin said.

But. tobacco companies need
more than the 25,000 bales pro-
duced by the University to deter-
mine if the technique will work
for them. Rankin said.

Company officials realize far-
mers must reduce their produc-
tion costs. Rankin said. The
companies are willing to partici-
pate in baling research but want
the University to supervise the
project.

"Two companies—Philip Morr—
is and R. J. Reynolds said they
would go along with baling
experiments if the University
would supervise it."Rankin said.

“Some of these companies

500th Meeting
American Chemical Society
Lexington Section

Dr. Michael M. Martin
Professor of Ge mis try and

Biology
University of Michigan

Ants, Plantsand Biochemistry.
The Biochemical Ecology of
the Fungus Growing Ants

T hursday, November 6,1975
8:00p.m.
Room 148,
Chemistrerhysics Building

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