xt77pv6b5k9m https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt77pv6b5k9m/data/mets.xml The Kentucky Kernel Kentucky -- Lexington The Kentucky Kernel 1976-02-23 Earlier Titles: Idea of University of Kentucky, The State College Cadet newspapers English Contact the Special Collections Research Center for information regarding rights and use of this collection. The Kentucky Kernel The Kentucky Kernel, February 23, 1976 text The Kentucky Kernel, February 23, 1976 1976 1976-02-23 2020 true xt77pv6b5k9m section xt77pv6b5k9m VOL LXVH. No. 118
Monday February 23,1976

KENTUCKY

an independent student newspaper

Basketball blues
(and whites)

Florida head coach John Lotz (left) looks despondent

during his team‘s 96-8!) loss to Kentucky Saturday

But Wildcat James Lee (above) looks
See game story on page 9.

night.
mined .

deter-

Cohabitation

Male and female students
but segregation of sexes in dormitor'

this kind of thing all the time in my day-to-

lty JO ANN WHITE
Kernel Staff Writer

(Editor‘s note: This is the first in a two-
part series on student cohabitation.
Tomorrow's story will deal with ex-
periences of CK students.)

Although evidence indicates unmarried
l‘K male and female students live together
off campus. coed living in UK dorms is still
segregated bv ﬂoors.

Apartment managers who rent to
students agree cohabitation is definitely a
phenomenon that occurs among UK
students.

Larry lvy. UK housing director. said he
anticipates “a move toward coed living in
dorms with separation by rooms
somewhere in the future. We are taking it
step by step."

Ivy said UK is still considered a con-
servative school and cohabitation is a
situation which is “more apt to arise at one
of the Big Ten schools.“

\ccording to 3 Cornell l 11iversity study
10-33 per cent of unmarried college
students nationwide cohabitate. or sleep
together four or more nights a week for at
least three months at a time. This
estimate would indicate at least 2.200
unmarried L'K men and women
cohabitate.

"The was per cent estimate sounds
about right for L'K." said Assistant Dean
of Students Lynn \Silliamson. “I run into

day dealings with students.“ Part of
Williamson‘s job as assistant dean in-
cludes hearing complaints from students
living off campus.

Robert W. Blakeman. director of UK
auxilliary services. said he has no idea
what percentage of cohabitation occurs at
L‘K. although he is “sure it exists."
Blakeman who oversees the rental of
University-owned. off-campus apartments
and houses. said hes never been ap-
proached by an unmarried man and
woman seeking off- -campus University
housing. but he wouldn t be surprised if the
situation arose. He said there is no written
policy governing such rental because it
hasn't come up. but that it is “understood”
the University wouldn’t rent to an un-
married male and female.

A spot telephone survey of rental
agencies and complexes around campus
(lid not reveal a single manager who
refused to rent to unmarried students who
want to live together.

A representative of Town and Country
Rental lnc.. 1% South Upper St. said “We
rent to unmarried students it doesn‘t
bother us at all." She added about 5-10
apartments are rented to unmarried UK
students every semester. but “there are a
lot more. of course. whomight not tell us.“

“The best approach is to be perfectly
honest." said Jim Stone. UK engineering
student and Landmark Apartments
manager. “Every person who lives here is

simply regarded as a tenant; we feel no
animosity towards those unmarried
students who live together.“

Stone explained he limits the number of
students living in the apartments by
requiring a one-year lease and evidence of
a sufficient income level to pay the rent.
“If the student can meet these two
requirements. we have no restrictions at
all.“ Stone said. He added he has rented to
unmarried UK students in “a couple of
incidents. "

Rental manager of W. B. Rental Com-

21 University of Kentucky

Lexington. Kentucky

Proponents

convene at
ERA rally

Ry MONTY N. FOLEY
Kernel Staff Writer

Kentucky Equal Rights Amendment
( ERA) supporters convened at the Student
Center Sunday to launch what was termed
a “counter-attack" against other Ken-
tudrians who oppose the amendment.

"This is our first step to insure that it.
rescission of the ERA. goes no further.“
said Linda Ritter. Sixth District Pro-ERA
Alliance chairperson.

According to Ritter. the Kentucky
alliance. which sponsored the forum. was
organized last September as part of a
nationwide move to bring together the
necessar? resources and individuals for
ERA rat 1catjon.

We have organizational units that
coincide with Kentucky 5 seven
mngressionaldistricts. and our Lexington.
or Sixth District organization. is an ERA
stronghold.“

Ritter. forum co—ordinator. said last
week's Kentucky House of Represen-
tatives vote to rescind the ERA (57-40) was
not a mandate and she and 70.000
statewide ERA supporters were prepared
0 “‘dig in“ to prevent a pro-rescission

Senate vote. (‘ontinued on page 5

live together off campus,

Ies persists

pany Patty Reed said. “We have no
written policy (about cohabitation) and
have never refused to rent under those
circumstances." However. Reed said the
situation doesn‘t arise often and she
probably deals with only one case of
cohabitation each semester.

“I ﬁgure that if I refuse to rent to un-
married students they will cohabitate
anyway.“ Reed continued. “One of them
will take the apartment and the other will
also move in. I guess it 5 just inevitable."

UK- U of L relationship

By (.INNY EDWARDS
Managing Editor
and
PEGGY CALDWELL
Assistant Managing Editor

FRANKl-‘ORT—The relationship bet-
ween UK and the University of Lou'sville
was questioned once again Friday. This
time it occurred at hearings conducted by
the 'pint Appropriations and Revenue
Committee of the state legislature.

A representative of the Council of Public
Higher Education, which makes
budgetary recommendations to the
governor. said he doubted the state could
continue to support two major universities
without a serious decline in the quality of

questioned by Albrig ht

education. “It would be extremely dif-
ficult for the state to have two com-
prehensive universities and expect the
quality of education not to go down." said
Dr. A D. Albright. council executive
director.

The controversy which has grown since
U of L‘s inclusion into the state higher
education system in 1900 has basically
come down to the amount of state support
for the two institutions. According to UK
President Dr. Otis A. Singletary. U of Us
entry into the system has resulted in a
proportionate decrease in the amount of
state support for UK and will eventually
cause a lowering of educational quality at

UK.
(‘ontinued on page 5

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Susan Jones
Editorial Page Editor

Ginny Edwards
Managing Editor

There is no excuse for a
University ”understood“ policy
that does not allow UK students
who are ”cohabitating”—a man
and a woman living together—to
rent University-owned, off-campus
housing.

Robert Blakeman, the man in
charge of renting such housing,
said since there has never been a
documented case of the
cohabitating syndrome br0ught to
his attention there is no official UK
policy on the subject. But, ac-
cording to Blakeman, it is un-
derstood the University will not
rent to people who do such things.

With the extreme off«campus
housing shortage what might seem
an amusing, if archaic, UK un-

There’s no excuse for
UK’s ’understood’ policy

derstanding loses a lot of its
humor. Since the University owns
a lot of housing close to campus
what is already an impossible
situation is made more difficult.

Dormitory policy is bad enough.
There the girls are on one floor and
the boys are on another. However,
UK Housing Director Larry Ivy
said we can look forward to boy-
girl, boy-girl by room. ”We’re
taking it step by step,” he said.

Ideally, the University should
become a rental agency like the
rest of the rental agencies around
campus, which do not discriminate
against cohabitators, when for-
mulating policies for its housing—
both dorm and off-campus.

j SOCIAL “031w

Spectator
quesﬁons
columnist’s

ethics
By Walter L Hixson

Some people just insist on biting the
hand that feeds them.

For those who haven’t read columnist
Terrence Tu cker’s dabblings on this page,
there’s no need to read further. For those
who have, stay tuned to find the true story
of the ”Anselmo Pederasty" case.

A word of explanation. Tucker, a
communications graduate student, talked
to Kernel editor Bruce Winges earlier this
semester, claimed he could write and was
granted a weekly column. Tucker’s
writing abilities are for you to judge—I
question his ethics.

As a graduate student, Tucker should
have grasped some basic concepts of
modem journalism. Some of you may
think he has because he used an uniden-
tified source in his column Thursday.
What you undoubtedly don’t realize is that
in doing so, Tucker violated a sacred law
of American journalism.

You see, I am Tucker’s unidentified
source, or, ”Anonymous Spectator” if you
want to be flowery about things. I'm the
one who told Tucker about the fire that
fateful Friday in the Kernel office.

I told the story to Tucker over an early
morning cup of coffee in his dingy, shoe-
box office. Terry looked tired and haggard
and l was trying to cheer him up with the
humorous anecdotes. Little did I know he
would react so sneakily.

It's time to discuss specifics. Anyone
who is even slightly knowledgeable of

journalism knows it is highly unethical to
repo't someone’s words unless the source
understands his words will be used.
Tucker sinned by using my ott-the-record
account.

”0* only did Tucker compromise his

ethics, but his report was inaccurate. His

column represents a clever attempt to
mislead the public and discredit our fine
publication. His report leads readers to
believe that Kernel staffers deliberately
set fire to editor Winges’ desk.

This is simply not the case. Though the
editor’s desk was adorned with toilet paper
and a bottle of alcohol was spilled, the
chicanery was intended as a prank not as
fuel for a fire.

Here is the true, eyewitness account of
the events as they actually occurred
Friday, Jan. 23: A match was struck, a
ciga rette was lit, the match was tossed, its
dying flame miraculously ignited the
alcohol, toilet pa per, Tucker’s column, etc.
and to our instant dismay, the editor’s
desk was burning.

Rather than present us as mere vandals,
Tud