Campaign Profiles: A Summary Of Platforms

By JEAN RFJMAKER
Assistant Managing Editor
It's that time of year again.
The campus political machinery is in
high gear. It's time for the Student Government election campaigns.
This year's campaign boasts of about
the usual number of old and new faces.
One of the old faces is that of Jim
Williams, who is running for president
of Student Government. Williams also
t
ran last year on a
platform in
which he promised:
"To be lionest.
y "Not to get hung-up- .
"To be
"To build bridges, to blaze trails
and to forge bonds of mutual human
five-poin-

open-minde-

understanding.
"To keep students from getting the
shaft."
If his campaign appears to be a big
William

put-o-

says:

"I'm as serious

running for president) as I ever
was." He added, however, that "if you're
not Steve Bright and you're not Ched
Jennings, it's hard to be serious."
(about

Williams does not have a vice presi-

dential running mate.
SG representative Bill Dawson and
his running mate, Don Waggener, represent the newly formal Student Issues
Party,' SIP).
Among the proposals advanced by
Dawson and Waggener are.
The suggestion of a free
service in the Student Center.
An improved ticket distribution system for basketball games.
A centralized agency to aid students,
especially in the area of their minors,
in obtaining the courses necessary to
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graduate.
Both Dawson and Waggener are political science seniors and plan to attend
UK's School of Law next fall.
Presidential candidate Gary Smith and
vice presidential candidate Dan Crabtree
are stressing volunteerism in their SG
campaign. They feel that the emphasis
in the past has been on "radical" organizations and that "students have been
forced to be apathetic."

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In order to gain the needed student
reform, they feel that students must be
active first and they see their volunteer
plan as a means toward that goal.
Neither Smith nor Crabtree have been
affiliated with SG in the past. Smith is
a junior majoring in pre-mcand psychology and Crabtree is a sophomore majoring
in history.
John Stainback is running independently for the office of vice president
because he feels that other candidates for
vice president will not "disagree" with
their presidential running mates.
He has said that he wants "to provide
a fly in the ointment." He says he "will
not be a silent vice president."
Stainback was a candidate for SG
representative during last spring's campaign.
Among the old faces in this campaign
is Steve Bright, who is running for president. He and his running mate, Skip
Althoff, claim they wage an
campaign and plan to move away
d

issue-oriente-

from

the "present

prestige-oriente-

d

d

Stu-

dent Government."

Bright has been a SG representative
for three years. Last year, he was speaker
of the Assembly. Presently, lie is the chair-

man of the Student Services Committee.
Last year, he made an unsuccessful
bid for vice president as Bruce Carver's
running mate.
Althoff is presently a member of the
University Student Advisory Committee
(USAC) and was formerly clerk of the SG
Assembly.
Ched Jennings and Boger Valentine
round out the slate of presidential and
vice presidential candidates. They are
stressing a "continual need to improve
services for students" and the need for
Student Government to have a strong
elected leadership to unite the various
factions on campus.
Jennings and Valentine were both appointed to the SG Cabinet by president
Tim Futrell. Jennings is a junior political
science major and is the director of student services. Valentine is a sophomore
and is the director of student housing and
dining service for SG.

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THE KENTUCKY

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Vol. LXI, No. 116

Presidential Candidates
Speak, Answer Questions

SG

Kernel Photo by Kay Brookshire
candidates for SG president, voiced

Jim Williams, along with other
his platform Tuesday night before meetings of campus organizations. Williams managed to entertain the audiences by adding some
humorous comments about the election and Student Government.
The other candidates also took their turns in explaining their
platforms and making their campaign promises.

WLM Members Oppose

Census Discrimination
Women's

Liberation
Movement (WLM) of Lexington announced at a press conference Tuesday that it is "joining many groups across the nation in urging women to consider wording in the 1970 Census Form."
The members protest the use
of "head of the House, followed
by a space for "wife of the
head".
Liberation
Women's
urges
women "to fight such discrimination" by considering the following three types of action:
Boycott the Census-ref- use
to mail in a "discriminatory"
form.
Mark both wife and husband
as head of household.
Mark wife as head, and fill
in husband as husband of
head.
Leave "head" and "wife of
head" spaces blank and fill
in children first, then wife
and husband by marking
"other" and filling in exact
relationship.
In explaining why theWLM
thought the government was
practicing discrimination in the
Census Forms, it was stated that
the "Civil Bights Act of 196 i insures women equal opportunity
in employment. If women are
equal in our society, there should

The

be no such insidious assumptions of her inferior ability to
head the family on the home-froor in the financial front.
We must end sex discrimination
being practiced by our
nt

By PAT MATIIES
Assistant Managing Editor
And
RON HAWKINS
Kernel Staff Writer
Candidates for the offices of
Government
Student
(SG)
president and vice president addressed members of the
Inter-fraterni-

ty

and
Councils Tuesday night
in the Student Center. Later
Tuesday night, the same candidates addressed a forum spon
(IFC)

Pan-hellen- ic

sored by political organizations
on campus,
pus.
Ched Jennings and his running mate Roger Valentine
concern over how they
wanted to help develop a better "relationship"
among different factions on campus. They
included the Students for a
Democratic Society, Greeks and
non-Greek- s.

"We want to help the Greeks
to build a new fraternity row",

was a statement by Jennings.
Both candidates said that they
could work together to effect
their plans. Valentine is not a
member of a fraternity and
stated that he had no desire to
be.
Steve Bright, a long-tim- e
member of the Student Government and a candidate for president, said "we can't afford to
let the Student Government
presidential campaign turn into
a popularity contest."
In his first political attempt,
Don Waggener, a vice presidential candidate running on the
same ticket with Bill Dawson,
said "I know a tremendous
number of students who are
interested in uniting the campus."
inFollowing the
troductory speeches, members
of the audience asked questions.
Joe Maguire, who ran as a
vice presidential candidate last
spring with Thorn Pat Juul and
five-minu- te

was soundly defeated, asked
Jennings how he proposed to
join the diverse campus groups

together.

Jennings said that he and his
running mate, Valentine, hoped
"to get together with all students in trying to meet their
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schedule,

Free University Seeks Organization

JANE D. BROWN
Kernel Staff Writer
In an appeal issued to all students, faculty, and anyone "educationally aware,"
Paul Wertheimer, next year's Free University
coordinator, stated "what the Free U needs
now is organization. And this need must be
fulfilled by everyone whether black, white,
Greek or freak interested in furthering their
education and the education of future genBy

erations."
The Free

U at UK, now just about one
year old, was initiated by Spud Thomas, a
graduating senior. The movement is nationwide. Its motto, as stated in a bulletin
from the University of Chicago's Free U,
sa s that a Free University strives to stress

"creation rather than production, involvement rather than obligation, and spirit alxjve
investment."
Wertheimer elaborated on tliis statement,
saying that as he and members of the Free U
view it, "education is a radical concept,"
and as such "it must change with time."
The purpose of the Free U is to form a
'
laboratory for education experimentation

as well as to serve as a learning process.
' "Our purpose is not confrontation but

communication, not polarization of the acabut popularization,"
demic community
Wertheimer continued. "We are making an
appeal to the student body as a whole. It is
not political. It is apolitical in the sense
that we are not trying to change anything
but education. The Free U is the vanguard
of educational progress."

Added Participation
In order to implement this progress, next
year's coordinator sees a need for added
support and participation from all interested
persons. He means, he says, participation
in every aspect, from organizing to communication to actual experimentation.
In its short past, the Free U has remained almost wholly unstructured, but under the guidance of Spud Thomas, a "strong
foundation" was laid. lit organizing now,
Wertheimer thinks that "we will hold on
to the foundation and build on it, thus
making it more valuable and more viable."
Continuing, Wertheimer said, "I think

at-

torney for the "Chicago Seven,"
will be at the Holiday Inn North
Saturday night as part of the
"Law Days" program.
The Law College program is
dosed both to the public and
the press.
SDS previously had asked
Kunstler to speak at UK but he
reportedly could not fit it into his

in having more people in responsible

posi-

tions, more people will become involved,
and therefore their voice for change on campus will become louder and louder."
Stable Free U
In forming a mote stable structure within
the Free U, Wertheimer has worked out a
tentative plan for four new committees.
The Public Relations Committee wiil serve
an "internal" communications function. It
will disseminate facts and information in the
form of pamphlets and letters about the Free
U to members of the community, administration, faculty and student body.
The other committee dealing with communication will serve as "a sort of secretary." It will carry on an exchange of ideas
and progress reports withother schools across
the country that also have Free U systems.
As in other organizations, the Free U plans
to have a Treasury Committee devoted to
financial matters. Although expenditures are
minimal, Wertheimer sees a need for this
committee as a place to collect donations,
issue money for public relations materials,
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