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Volume LXIX. Number 10
Wednesday. August SI, 1977

Waiting list tops 500 , ,3, ; IF“. , .

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By MARIE MITCHELL 'Ihis off-campus shortage is 3 Louisville or community colleges."
Associate Editor significant factor in the student Last year students lived in the
and SUZANNE DURHAM move back to campus housing, said Phoenix hotel and University Inn
News Editor Jean Lindley, housing director. downtown because of a similar

About 500 to 600 students have
arrived at UK with no place to live.
For their $100 deposit, they’ve been
put on a waiting list for dorm space.

The student housing situation is
crowded, and according to Jack
Blanton, business affairs vice presi-
dent, this is because housing that
students can afford is scarce in
Lexington.

Kennedy's
purchases

By DICK GABRIEL
Managing Editor

Sudents looking for the best
possible deal on textbooks have one
less place to go. Kennedy’s Book
sure and Wallace’s Book Store are
nowone.

Poor business, said Joe Kennedy,
prompted Wallace Wilkinson, owner
of Wallace’s, to ask Kennedy about
the possibility of a transaction.
Kemedy said the two reached an
agreement and he bought out Wilkin-
son

Wilkinson said he would have “no
comment until the transaction is
comumated.” Kennedy said this
means that full payment has not yet
been made.

Only the building and property
have been paid for. Inventory has
just recently been completed and
books will be paid for by Sept. 15,
Kmnedysaid.

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Yet campus housing has failed to
meet this new demand. “Student
population has been so unsettled
because it’s hard to project the
number of students who will be
attending UK,” Blanton said.

“This is because it’s hard to
determine the number of high school
students going on to college, and the
distribution of students going to UK,

Owner
Wallace’s

Not enough business

“There’s not enough business in
this school for three stores," Kenne~
dy said. “I told them that when they
started (in 1964).” Kennedy’s open-
edin the fall 1950.

The move leaves the University
Book Store as Kennedy’s only com-
petition. Neither Kennedy nor Uni-
versity store manager William Eb-
len foresee a merger of the two.

“The University has an obligation
to operate a store,” Kennedy said.
“I just don’t think that’s a viable
question. I think that would create a
bad situation, with no competition at
all.”

Will the transaction generate mis-
trust among students’? ‘

Attracts 50 per cent of students
“Students feel that way already,
even though it’s a highly competitive
Continued on page 4

housing shortage involving about 400
to 500 students, Lindley said.

This year the Phoenix is closed for
renovation. The University Inn still
rents to students.

According to Judy Smith, the Inn’s
office manager, 50 rooms have been
reserved for students and 31 have
already been rented. A single room
rents for $200 a month and doubles
cost $300.

As Blanton said, “If students
really want to come to UK, they’ll be
able to find a place to live (although)
it may not be as good or economical
as they had hoped."

As Blanton sees it, UK’s responsi-
bility is to provide housing as long as
there are funds to do so. “Dorms and
University housing are an integral
part of the educational experience,"
he said, but added that students
shouldn’t expect the University to
find them a place to live.

It hasn’t been necessary to require
freshmen to live in dorms to ensure
maximum occupancy since 1973.

Now students are being turned
away although freshmen still seem
to rank high on the priority list, with
out-of-state transfer students much
farther down, Blanton said.

The situation may not be as bleak
as it seems. A spot survey by the
housing office of 10 per cent of these
waiting list students showed that at
least half had made alternate plans,
Lindley said.

These plans included staying with
relatives or renting a house with
friends.

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Weary sentry

Jon Eyssen, 12, is a bored luggage guard while his
sister Janelle moved into one of the Kirwan residence
halls. With dorms more crowded than ever, about 600

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have been consigned to a waiting list this week until
more housing is found.

 

By FRANKLIN RENFRO
Kernel Reporter

  
 
  
  
  
  
 
 
  
  
 
  
 
 
   

_ A wide, fenced-in chasm has
1,. ; replaced a long section of sidewalk
in central campus, causing students
to walk hundreds of feet out of their
way to move the equivalent of a few
, steps.
' It was supposed to be covered by
now, but red tape has held up
construction so it is six weeks behind
completion date.
The ditch, which runs from Funk-
“ houser Drive to Patterson Drive, is
really a walkway-utility trench.
The work order for the trench was
“held up in the Frankfort bureau-
' ,; cracy for six weeks,” said Fred
Walker of the engineering consul-
tant firm White, Walker and McRey-
nolds.
Walker said the trench would have
been covered down to the M. 1. King
Library if it hadn’t rained in August.
“It’s unfortunate that the construc-
. ' tion is at this point at the start of
4'" ”I” school,”he said.
ggs and Jack Blanton, vice president for
business affairs, said “We wanted to
start the project right after the

Workers hold a conference yesterday to decide how to engineers Arvis Stephens and H. V. ill

string wires along the walkway being built over the

sub-contractor Billy Barnhill.
tl'ench that divides the central campus. From left are

Great Divide

Utility trench has students scrambling

students left last spring, but it was
inadvertently held up in Frankfort.
We kept pushing and raising hell,
but we still ended up starting 30 days
behind schedule.”

“We were madded than hell, but
there wasn’t anything we could do
about it,” said Clifton Marshall,
UK’s director of design and con-
struction.

The trench construction cost
$436,690. It will house steam pipes,
water lines for air conditioning,
electrical and telephone lines, and a
campus monitoring circuit for con-
trol of computer equipment in
different buildings, according to
Dennis Treadway, project superin-
tendent for the Rogers Construction
company.

Treadway said construction began
July 5 and is scheduled to end Nov.
15. The trench will be 1,550 feet long
and will stop at the Avenue of
Champions in front of Memorial
Coliseum.

“We’re working desperately to get
the part finished down to the library.
By the next two weeks, we should be
through with all that,” Marshall
said.

Last Saturday, Rogers Construc-
tion began putting down 8,500 pound,
pre-cast slabs to cover the trench.
Treadway said the slabs would
reach the library by the end of next
week if the weather holds.

Until then, students will have to
walk around the fence or across the
ramps spanning the trench to reach
their classes. “The problem with the
ramps,” said Treadway, “is that
when we’re putting down the slabs,
the ramps will have to come up.”

Marshall said the trench was dug
because “we needed a main artery
of distribution for campus utilities
Distribution of utility lines will feed
into Kastle and'McVey Halls, journ-
alism and into the new section of the
fine arts building."

Blanton said access to utility lines
is made easier by the trench. “Lines
deteriorate easily and they can lift
the slabs and replace them, instead
of digging up every time,” he said.

Marshall said the trench will bring
air conditioning to McVey Hall and
the journalism building. “We also
hope the steam will melt snow and
ice off the sidewalk," he said.

 

 

nation

A psychiatric report called David Berkowitz "an
lncapacitates person” yesterday and increased the
likelihood that he will never stand trial for the six “Son of
Sam"murders.

Two court-appointed psychiatrists said that "as a
result of mental disease or detect.” the 24-yearold Bronx
postal employe "lacks capacity to understand the
wcceedings against him or to assist in his own defense.”

Those are the criteria for competence to stand trial in
NewYerk state.

If the findings stand, Berkowits would be ordered
hearcerated in a state institution for the criminally
inane.

The govern-est said yesterday its comic baro-
meter declined for the third consecutive month in July,

pointing to slower growth for the rest of the year.
Commerce Department economists said the decline—
adropof two-tenthsofipercent in each ofthe three
months—is not considered large. They continued to
forecast an annual growth rate of 5 per cent for the rest of
the year, following a robust 7 per cent rate in the first half.

Franklin County's woman health officer has stood this
capital city on its cars by closing three restaurants within
a week for numerous health violations.

Dr. Amanda Lang confirmed yesterday that she took

'me action against Marshall's Restaurant downtown, the

lidlday Inn Restaurant and Cliff Hagan's Steak Home, in
thatordsr.
“Ireallyfeelthattldsproblemisverynmchom-
taut," she said. “It's obviat- inaction has not been
adequateor theseconditlonswouldnotexist.”
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The state has said officially what it has been saying
artificially for the past decade: Berry Hill is not the best
riace to build a new statelibrary.

Finance Secretary Russell McClure gave the latest
urndown in a letter to Vernon Cooper Jr. of Hazard,
chairman of the governor's Advisory Council on
libraries.

The council met recently and rejected the site owned
by BTJ Inc. of Frankfort, which pulled out of a
controversial lease plan for a new state library building.

It voted to ask Gov. Julian Carroll to find room on the
picturesque hill west of Frankfort.

Kentackiass who had trouble paying their utility bills
last winter have been given until Sept. 15 to apply for
relief under a special crisis intervention program. state
Hanan Resources Secretary Peter conn said yesterday.

’I‘heoriginal cutoff date was today.

world

Shortages of drugs and insecticides and early
moon rains are aggravating an already serious
resurgence of malaria on the Asian subcontinent.

“There is no question that malaria has made
intensive inroads in India and in the raglan." said an
official of the World Health Organization.

“Given the resources of the local governments, we
are no longer talking about eradicating malaria. only
cmtrolling malaria.”

weather

Slight chance of thundershowers today, high In the
upper all. Clear and mild tonight, low in the low 7th.
any, warm and humid with high near ”Thwsday.

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Housing shortage:
What else is new?

The University. like many in America, has
been from its beginnings a place where students
come to live as well as to study. We have
undertaken to provide very considerable housing
accommodations for thousands of students.
Because they are single and married, we provide
a variety of housing opportunities.

From UK's Five Year Plan

More than 500 people would probably find it
difficult to accept that statement because there
isno room for them at the campus dormitories.

The housing shortage is no stranger to the
University; it is only more acute this fall. The
problem is so critical that Dean of Students Joe
Burch is asking local residents to rent rooms to
one or more students.

So far about 150 people have responded to
Burch‘s plea. It‘s a good idea with a catch:
Residents can discriminate when renting to
students because they are opening up THEIR
homes.

Even if students find off-campus housing,
they can expect to pay $200 for one- and
two-bedroom apartments and up to $100 for
condemned rooms.

As a result, some students have chosen to
live at the University Inn, which charges each
person a hefty $200 per month.

Others have had to spend their nights in their
cars or at a friend’s house.

Lexington ’s 0.5 per cent vacancy rate is 6 per
cent below what the Federal Housing Adminis-
tration considers healthy.

The city’s problem may not be solved in our
lifetime.

Likewise, UK put itself in a bind by 'not
properly planning for the student influx, which
began in the late 19605. Five thousand vacancies
may have been adequate 10 years ago but they
are insufficient now.

To its credit, UK has not turned its back
completely on the housing issue. Last year the
University spent about $1.3 million for the 123
Hollytree Apartments. Recently the University
purchased a 34-room dwelling on Euclid Avenue
which will house 70 international students.

The school also plans to build a ZOO-unit
apartment complex near Shawneetown, but that
won ’t be ready for occupancy until the fall 1979,
if the Council on Higher Education approves it.

Despite these moves University officials
insist they are not obligated to provide
accommodations for students. They refer to
their policy as “nonpaternalistic. ”

It seems unfair that UK would shun
responsibility, but there is a reason—money.

Additional on-campus housing requires
cash; the University would have to borrow it,

and the Council on Higher Education would have .

to approve such a move. While the state’s
colleges and universities are getting a smaller
share of the education dollar, the council would
probably be reluctant to okay funds for a new
homing facility.

All this is hypothetical, anyway, because a
new student dorm is not mentioned in UK’s
five-year projection. In short, the University has
taken small steps to alleviate an old problem;
but it has not knocked itself out to eliminate it.

Here’s your chance to.» w.
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Iliveouthe North side oftowa and
must drive my car to school every
day. yet I can’t get a parking
sticker. Can you tell no where I can
lid some reasonably convenient
places to part b the mornhgs?

—It.D.

Since almost everyone on campus
seems to have a car, there is
preciom little parking space avail-
ablsrigbtnssttocampus. ltyouget
to school before, say, 8 am, you

might be able to grab a spot on
Linden Walk, Aylesford Place or
Transylvania Park. Any later than
that, most of the parking places are
gone. Another likely hunting ground
is the Clifton Park area between
Woodland and Rose, but here again,
you must search early.

Theeasiest place to park your car,
without any doubt, is in the Com
monwealth Stadium parking lot.
There is plenty of room, the parking
is free, and there are regular buses
that take you to and from the
campus. Of course, you'll have to get
out of bed a few minutes earlier, but
few things in life are free.

I got some pamphlets in the mail
this summer about the Student
Health Service and something called
"Student Blue Cross" which have
me pretty confused. Are they the
same thing? If not. which one should
lbuy?—K.M.

I talked to Jean Cox, Health

Service administrator, about the two
plans. The Student Health Service,
to which a student may subscribe by
paying the $12 “Orange Elephant"
fee (God have mercy on the termi-
nally cute), covers most normal
physician services for a year.

Visits to the student health service
clinic include treatment for mala-
dies such as . . flu, strep throat,
VD, pregnancy, sprains and strains,
heartbreak and even colds." Blue
Cross. on the other hand, is a health
insurance plan which covers injur-
ies, accidents and hospitalization.
Thecost for it is tsofor six months of
coverage. it does not overlap with
the Health Service coverage, but is
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Are the unions taking
everyone for a ride?

By HARRY B. MILLER Ill

Unions.

They come in all shapes and sizes
They serve various functions. Some
are formed to facilitate low interest
loans. Some are formed to provide
group health care. Some are formed
in bed. But the unions to be
discussed here are labor unions.

AFL-CIO, Teamsters, UMW, UAW
—what images do these labels
conjure in your mind? How about
the FCEA or the AFSCME? Do they
have any significance in your mind?
Let’s hope so. All the above designa-
tions have atrernendous impact on

ary

American culture. They are labor
unions or organizations. They histor-
ically have meant change. They
represent changes in the future.

The FCEA is the Fayette County
Education Association, a group that
has worked to become the one voice
of Fayette County public school
teachers. They have basically won
that standing from the teachers
themselves and from the local
school board. They are now talking
contracts terms with the school
board.

The AFSCME (American Federa-
tion of State, County and Municipal
Employes) is a group of UK non-
academic employes struggling to
become the UK workers‘ voice. They
have not won that standing.

Mentioning union labels presents
images to my mind. They strike an
emotional response—intense anger,
which will probably develop into
foaming rage shortly. That’s be-
cause the image evoked in my mind
by the AFL-ClO, UMW, and other
large labor unions is one as bad as
the most self-serving corporations,
whrse excesses these unions sup-
posedly were trying to prevent.

But don’t get me wrong. I tend to
think of myself as a political liberal.
Pass the ERA. To Hell with the B-1.
Support the ACLU. Labor unions,
though, strike me differently from
wlmt the traditional liberal attitude
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Support for labor unions has
traditionally come from liberals.
What person of that political stripe
curld argue against such worthy
objectives that unions originally
forght for, such as fair play, a
healthy working environment, pen-
sion plans, etc. ?

But I have become disappointed
with what labor unions have come to
represent. Perhaps many others will
too

what have the big labor organiza-
tions done for their members?

Cox recommends that students ~Undeniably, they’ve done much in
pin-chase both plans, if they wish to impoving the workers’ health,

be fully covered. If you want to pick
mabrochureononeorbothofthe
plans, stop by the Student Health
Service clinic, which is located on
the third floor of Annex 1 on Rose
Street.

wealth and happiness. But in recent
years, people are starting to discov-
er and realize what other things the
users have done and are doing. Not
ordy have they forgotten the general
ptflic,buttheyareus‘ingthepeople

they represent in the worst sense of
the word. They have become elitist
structures, greedy for money and
political power. They have come to
exist only for the benefit of the
entrenched leadership.

Look at the current union struc-
ture and leadership.

Union leaders have stolen from or
ineptly managed pension funds set
up for the workers (Teamsters).
They have tried bribing jurors to
keep out of jail (Jimmy Hoffa). They
have assassinated rivals within their
own organizations (Jack Yablon-
ski). They have screwed up worker

health caretpians, so that certain
' workers will'now' be paying ttvice for
- the same health services (United

Mine Workers: the membership
became so pissed that they went on
strike against their own union).

These are just a few examples of
what kind of people are leading the
workers. There is no telling what the
general public hasn't yet found
about the union leadership.

How about some of the structures
theunions have set up?

A friend working for a substantial
local company once explained how it
is now almost impossible to fire
incompetents in that particular com-
pany. He said the union has a
prescribed procedure to fire an
employe. It was set up to prevent
unreasonable, capricious and arbi-
trary firing policies that companies
have often used in ridding them-
selves of “unwanteds,” such as
union organizers. But the current
procedure is such that it takes close
to three years to get rid of workers
whocan’t or won't do their jobs.

Another example of union “pro-
gress" recently became known from
Rome, Italy. This example does not
concern any US. union, but it’s
indicative of where this madness
could be leading.

Afriend of mine is employed at an
Italian newspaper. After working
there for a short time, the workers
who produced and printed the paper
went out on strike. It all started
when the management complained
that the paper was not getting out on
time; the workers were taking too
much time in production.

The news staff is not unionized and
is not on strike, but they can’t work
if there isn’t anyone to print the
paper.

The owner, fed up with fighting the
union, has now decided to fold the
operation. But, Italian law says
Hm'i!

To quit publication, the owner
would be required to buy out each
employe’s work contract. The 20 or
so production people would have to
be paid about $40,000 apiece to do
tth. And thecontracts for the news
staff would need to be bought out.
Essentially, the owner cannot get
tirepaper published. but cannot keep
it from existing.

“renewapaper exists,butdoesnot

publish newspapers.
Meanwhile, my friend doesn't

know what the hell to do. He is being
prevented from working by both
sides. His evaluation: both sides are
crazy. It makes him mad. It makes
me mad.

Now, I'm not a closet brownshirt,
but it infuriates me how positive
ideas are twisted to the point where
they hurt the people they were
originally supposed to help. The idea
of a workers’ union is great. A union
is one of the few ways workers can
achieve a healthy working atmos-
phere, a good standard of living and
a future once retirement is reached.
But who is really benefiting from the
union structure as it has developed?
It’s not the public in general, and it's
notreally thework force. 1

I think it's the union leadership
that is taking everyone for a ride.
The men at the top are the ones who
collect tremendous salaries. They
are the ones who are stealing or
throwing away the monies they are
entrusted to handle. And they are
the ones who encourage and formu-
late idiotic working conditions that
make improvement for employers
and employes nigh impossible.

Some basic changes are needed.
Power in certain segments of the
US. economy is becoming too
centralized. The public is controlled
and affected by the self~serving
whims of both the corporate and
unionpowers.

General Motors can blackmail
Corgress into delaying implementa-
tion of certain auto emission stan-
dards which GM didn’t like. The
auto giant promised to quit produc-
ing all cars if Congress implemented
the standards. Such action by GM
could seriously affect the US. and
world economies.

In effect, General Motors was
saying, “If you don't let us turn the
air into brown goop, we’ll see what
wecan do about bring back the good
ol’ days of the Great Depression.”

American unions are developing
be same power, to act in any way
they please. A major strike by, say,
the steel workers, could paralyze an
entire industry and completely
change the lifestyle of Americans.
And the direction the unions are
following, in many instances, comes
from crooks and incompetents.

lwouldn't mind if the local school
teachers and the UK employes had
organizations that worked in their
beainterests.

But the union organizers, the
workers and the public should
recognize the problems involved and
act to prevent representation from
becoming irresponsible and insen-
sitive control. Unions should work
ftl' their members, while keeping in
mini what is for the benefit of all.

Unions can be to everyone’s
buiefit. But they can also act to
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Former president discusses
the productive side of SG

By MIKE McLAUGHLlN

The 1976 summer Senate,
characterized by seven pro-
ductive meetings, concluded
committee work initiated in
the areas of the constitution,
the blood donor program and
academics.

The constitution committee
reviewed and refined three
constitutional amendments
for presentation to the fall
Senate. These three amend-
ments along with four others
were ultimately approved by
a two-thirds vote at two
consecutive Senate meetings
during the year and were
incorporated into the Student
Govermnent (SG) Constitu-
tion.

The Constitution previously
had never been amended in
its four year existence, but
last year it was amended
seven times.

One of these amendments
established a Student Govern-
ment Judicial Court, another
provided a purgation clause
for inactive senators and still
another amendment revised
thecontroversial General Stu—
dent Assembly, which had
always been ineffective and
poorly attended.

The academic committee,
which met several times with
Dr. John Stephenson, dean of
Undergraduate Studies,
strongly endorsed the imple-
mentation of the IDEA (in-
structors-course evaluation)
system in the College of
Home Economies for the fall
of 1976.

The summer Senate also
voted to place a representa-
tive on the Lexington Rape
Crisis Center's Advisory
Board and to allocate $300 to
the Student Health Service to
insure publication of the pop-
ular “How To Take Care of
Yourself " manual.

Before the fall semester
began, this body also re-
searched and offered by mail
for student consideration a
life insurance policy for $32
from Kentucky Central Life.
This $10,000 “lifeline” policy
was offered as a student
service again in the spring.

In September, the fall Se-
nate began where the sum-
mer Senate left off.

Services initiated were: an
SG newsletter published for
the first time; a free legal aid
adviser (licensed attorney)
maintained for two hours
weekly in the 86 office along
with a tenant-landlord advi-
ser for five hours, and the suc
ser for five hours, and the

 

successful book exchange
where 1,700 textbooks were
sold with about 000 students
participating.

SG was also responsible for
the installation of four new
bus shelters.

In conjuncu'on with Tom
Padgett, director of Division
of Public Safety, all campus
buses were rerouted with the
creation of a North Route and
aSouth Route.

Statistics showed these
routes were popular with
more students riding the tran-
sit system.

The Student Senate also
committed $100 to the Lexing-
ton Rape Crisis Center, $100
toward a Presidential Candi-
date Forum 1976; $50 to the
United Way of the Bluegrass;
$150 for an Equal Rights
Amendment Tesch~ln; an-
other $50 for the advertising
of a Common Cause informa-
tional meeting; $50 for a voter
registration campaign and
$40 for publicity of the cam-
pus ERA Alliance rally to
Indianapolis.

During the first half of
November, SG distributed
14,000 copies of its completely
revised student phone direc-
tory.

Later, the executive branch
negotiated an $800 contract
for a combined student-staff
directory for 1977-78. SG had
received $140 toward its di-
rectory during 1976-77.

In the same month, SG was
successful in negotiating
block seating for organiza-
tions and guest seating for
students at basketball games
in Rupp Arena.

This victory was unprece—
dented, along with the deci-
sion to begin a shuttle bus
service to transport students
to and from Rupp Arena.

Vice President Hal Haering
was also later able to per-
suade the Athletic Board’s
Ticket Committee to sell 4,000
NCAA Mideast Regional tick-
ets exclusively to students
last February.

Last fall SG, in conjunction
with the Division of Student

Affairs, created an Advisory
Committee on Residential
Living.

86 sought a liberalization
of the residence hall policy
concerning visitation hours
and came forth with several
recommendations that will be
implemented this fall.

Proposals that were accept-
able included the formation of
another coed residence hall
(Blanding II), freshmen re-
ceiving 30 hours of visitation

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weeklyand upperclassmentz
hours, the latter amended
from the proposed 46 hours.
This represents the moat
substantial increase in hours
infouryears.

As the fall semester came
to an end, SG’s Blood Donor
Committee wrapped up its
four successful campus mo-
bile blood drawings with a
record304pints.

At the same time, letters
concerning class syllabi'and
courses-instructors evalua-
tions were forwarded to all
faculty members from the
Academic Committee.

After Christmas recess, the
blood donor program was
continued along with the note-
taking project.

In January, the Student
Senate reappropriated money
to continue the legal aid and
tenant-landlord services.
Funds were also committed
for a mayoral candidates
forum, a legislative candi-
dates forum and a voter
registration drive. A revised
1977-78 edition of “Making
It,” the freshman informa-

tion booklet, was also funded
ata coat of $600.

At the same time, debates
were sponsored offering bi-
partisan viewpoints concern-
ing the death penalty and
abortion.

Then, in an effort to get the
Board of Student Publications
to reinstate the Kentuckiaii as
a yearbook, the Senate grant-
ed$200asashow of support.

Finally, $140 was ear-

marked for the Fourth An-
nual Student Government
Distinguished Teaching
Award for assistant profes-
sors.
One achievement that has
not been previously cited is
the Senate’s 74 per cent
attendance figure.

This figure is noteworthy in
that only 51 per cent atten-
dance constitutes a quorum
at a meeting and there were
20 meetings over the course of
theyear.

 

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