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Wednesday, Feb. 11, 1970

UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY, LEXINGTON

Tavern Troubles
PromptDiscipline
For Six Wildcats
By

CHIP HUTCHISON
Sorta Editor

The dismissal of two UK
basketball
and the
players
chance of further disciplinary
measures against two other
players has clouded the UK
basketball picture.
Randy Pool and Dob
were dismissed from the
team Sunday night when they
were found with four teammates
in a tavern outside of Starkville,
.
Miss.
Clint Wheeler, Art Laib, Kent
Hollenbeck and Randy Noll
were with the two when they
were seen by UK assistant
coach Joe Hall and trainer
Dr. Claude Vaughan.
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The incident occurred Sunday night after the
group called a Mississippi State
fraternity house of which Pool,
McCowan, Laib and Wheeler
are members at UK and asked
if anyone were going drinking.
A car driven by an MSU fraternity member picked them up
and took them to the house.
Later they were driven to the
closest tavern, nine miles away.
About 9 p.m. that night, the
six could not be found. They
were not in any of the team
rooms, so, realizing that four of
the missing players were in the
same fraternity, the fraternity

house was called.
A fraternity member said the
players had been there, but
they did not know where they
had gone.
Hall and Vaughan asked directions to the closest place to
buy beer. They found the group
there, wearing their traveling
uniforms.
"In Pool and McCowan's
case it was automatic," said
coach Adolph Rupp. "They were
on probation and when they
came to see me, I asked them
if they knew what getting
caught meant. They'll never
uniform
wear a Kentucky
again."
McCowan, a junior, started
several games at guard this year.
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able player in the UK Invitational Tournament Pool, sixth
man on the team last year, has
seen little action this season.
However, he had a good game
Saturday against Ole Miss when
he hit three of four field goal
attempts and finished with
eight points.
Laib, a senior, and Wheeler,
a Junior, haven't met with Rupp
yet and no announcement on
disciplinary action against them
has been made.
Sophomores Hollenbeck and
Noll met with Rupp Tuesday
afternoon and will continue
practicing with the team.
"They'll dress and will play
Saturday if needed," said Rupp.
He also noted that the
coaches thought the two sophomores were "talked into" going out with the others, and
since it was the first time they
had been caught, they should
just be put on probation.
The incident apparently
brought to light certain griev-

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Getting To
Know 'Her

Corridor Advisors chat briefly with Mrs. Otis A Singletary Tuesday
night at a reception given in her honor on the twenty third floor
of Blanding Tower. The Tower function provided an opportunity
for the residents to "get to know" UK's First Lady.

Dr. Buff Discusses 'Black Lung'

ting to play enough that the
coaches should "let them in
more," especially when UK has
By RAY HILL
a "big lead."
Kernel Staff Writer
They would not disagree they
During the last two years,
were wrong in going drinking Dr. Isadore Buff has
spent a lot
the night before a game, but of time travelling through the
said they did not think what
Appalachian coal fields helping
they were "having to put up miners organize to fight for imwith" was worth it.
proved mine safety and compenSeemingly, the seeds of dissation laws.
sension are present but the
At 8 p.m. Wednesday Dr. Buff
coaches and other team mem-- . will speak about black lung dibers do not agree.
sease in the Medical School Au"There's no dissension," said ditorium on the sixth floor of the
one starter. "Anybody will tell Medical Center.
you that we all get along fine.
A graduate of the University
They got caught, and they all of Louisville medical school, Dr.
knew what would happen if Buff said he first became interthey did get caught."
ested in black lung when coal
AVe aren't after any certain
company doctors sent him miners
player," Hall said. "We check on that were "choking to death"
all of them."
and called the problem coronary
Pool and McCowan did not disease.
dress for Monday night's game.
Black lung disease develops
They both said they were plancoal dust,
ning to drop out of school as as a result of inhaling
doctors say. More than 100,000
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bituminous coal miners in America are estimated by the Public
Health Service to be affected by
the disease. The disease is sometimes called "Miner's Asthma."

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Julius Berry discussed the dilemma of the black the need for black administrators. lie said, "Our
in the public school system with the Free Uni- main project now is to set a black man on the
a young one."
versity class on "The Urban Crisis." Berry spoke school board
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of the need in schools for IJack counselors and

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"If we can prevent a disease,"
he continued, "then that is exactly what we should do. That is
why I am in the fight" against
black lung.

Dr. Buff also believes strip

mining should be outlawed. "It
is no good except for the free
enterprise boys who are more
interested in money than in the
health and welfare of the common man," he said.
He claims 70 percent of America's strip mine workers suffer
from defective hearing and dizziness caused by excess noise and
vibration from machinery.
Having travelled to England
and Czechoslovakia to determine
the best methods for preventing
black lung disease, Dr. Buff said,
"There is no cure for the disease,
only prevention. And as a doctor
I feel personally that we have an
obligation to the public and to
the people of this country."

'Arty'
Articles
Needed
The deadline for creative material submitted to the Kernel
Arts Supplement has been extended from Feb. 10 to Feb. 13.
We are still accepting poetry,
prose, essays, relevant feature
stories,

graphics,

and line drawings.

photography,

Submissions should be mailed
or delivered to Dan Cosset t co
The Kentucky Kernel, 114 Journalism Building.

Free U Discusses
Black Students9 Fate
RON HAWKINS
Kernel Staff Writer
In a predominandy black section in Lexington, the Free University course on "The Urban
Crisis met Tuesday to discuss
the plight of the black in public
school systems.
"The Bamboo Hut," a black
teenage nightclub, was the site
of the class. The sidewalk outside was cluttered with broken
glass, candy wrappers and other
pieces of garbage. Across the
street a garbage dump was in
full operation under the light
of a street lamp.
Having taken itself to the
black community, the class listened to black students and black
people involved with changes in
the community.
P. J. Peeples of the Urban
League said blacks in some
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schools had been extremely disenchanted. He spoke of an instance where 100 students had
to ride a crowded bus five miles
to go to school.
Peeples also criticized high
school counselors: "They like to
work with success stories."
Robert. Creen, a black teacher
at Lexington Junior High
School, commented there was
no one to "back" blacks in most
schools. He said one local
school had a minority of whites,
yet all the scltool's counselors
were white.Green continued that many
educators were not concerned
whether the black learned anything, but that they were overly
concerned with trivialities such
as dress.
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-- THE KENTUCKY KERNEL, Wednesday, Feb. 11, 1970

Contraceptives? Cancer? Children?
By JANE DROWN
Kernel Staff Writer

To continue taking the Pill,
or not continue taking the Pill.
That is the question women
are asking themselves now.
According to a recent Gallup
poll conducted for Newsweek
Magazine, 18 percent' of the
women who used oral contraceptives within the past three
months have given them up and
23 percent are seriously considering it, largely because of side
effects.

to use and less effective. Anyway, I won't be taking them long
enough to develop any serious
complications."
Much of the recent controversy about the safety of the pill
has stemmed from Senator
Nelson's subcommittee investigations on the hazards of the
Cay-lor- d

However, the majority of
coeds and married women interviewed at UK go along with
the majority of American women
who have not quit. Most of their
explanations echo one girl's comment:
"Other methods are harder

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linked to scores of disorders from
headaches to. strokes. In nearly
all instances, however, there was
as yet "no definite evidence to
prove a cause and effect rela
birth-contr-

"MUSIC FROM BIO PINK,"

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own ti(ne.

Critics have acclaimed
the second album.
"THE BAND" as the
"ALBUM OF THE YEAR."

tionship between the pill and disease." (Newsweek, Feb. 2)
Yet, most of the physicians
who testified in Washington were
either critics of the pill or re-

and headaches, etc., at first and
that later there was a possibility
of cancer or blood clotting disorders. The doctor told me about the

searchers on studies of possible
dangers. Therefore, most of the
evidence presented was pessimistic. Consequently, the headlines throughout the country were
for the most part, frightening.
An example, The New York Post,
declared, "Senate Panel Told
The Pill Can Kill," and so it
went.
As a result, physicians report
an increasing number of patients
going off the pill. Many of the
women complain that their doctors never warned them of the
dangers or side effects.
But coeds interviewed at UK
say that just the opposite is true.
One girl who just started using
the pill reported that the Student
Health Service doctor interviewed her twice before he okayed
the use of the pill. Tests were run
checking her blood pressure,
urine, and general physical and
mental condition. Doctors at the
Med Center say this is standard
procedure.
"I was also warned as to possible dangers and side effects,"
continued the starting pill user.
"I knew that the pill could cause
weight gain, depression, nausea,
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symptoms and told me to notify
him if I ever had any unusual
pain or swelling in my legs,
change in vision, or severe head-

aches."
Other girls on the pill were
given the same information. They
had heard of the Senate investigations and had thought about
the dangers involved. Most decided to continue their use of the
pill.

"It's kind of like cigarette
smoking: if you take it for a year
and then quit, you're all right."
"I will continue taking them
because they will keep me safe
from pregnancy and anyway, I
won't live longenough to get cancer, so why not enjoy it while
you can?" a married student remarked.
Another wife commented that
by the time she got complications,
"they'd probably have a cure
for it, anyway."
"There's no other way for me
now. I can't have children before
I finish school. Probably then I'll
stop," replied a recently married junior.
An unmarried coed stated that
she wasn't worried about

"I knew about the possibilities and I go back to my doctor
for a checkup every six months
and he should know if anything
is going wrong."
According to doctors at the
Med Center, checkups are standard, and if a woman is showing
signs of complications, she is
taken off the pill immediately.
However, 18 percent of the
8.5 million American women now
using the pill have decided not
to wait for the symptoms to develop. They have thought over
the three C's: Cancer, Contraceptives, or Children and have
decided on the last possibility.
And, speculates Dr. Irvin M.
Cushner of Johns Hopkins University, "there will be 100,000
unwanted jxegnancies within the
next two or three months among
women scared off by recent Senate subcommittee testimony."
But, according to Dr. Thomas
B. Eckman of Chicago's Passa-van- t
Memorial Hospital, population increase probably won't be
experienced on college campuses.
A lot of his
patients aredropping
out of the pill user class. "Except for one category the unmarried girl."
As one coed put it, "I'd rather
have headaches than one big
stomach-ache.- "

playing THE MUSIC.

Valentines
This Saturday, Valentine's
Day, girls all over the nation

will hopefully receive Valentines
from "that special someone."
Here's a collection ofValentine's
that could have been received
by famous women in history:
"Delilah, You can't imagine
how knowing you has made me
so weak. Be my Valentine, or
I'll pull my hair out." Love
Sammy.
"Liz, Something tells me we
could make beautiful poetry together. Who's your guru? Valentine, be mine."
Robby
Browning.
"Pocohontas, Since you saved
my life yesterday, the least I can
do is ask you to be my Valentine. By jove, you certainly know
how to handle that father of
yours. Hmmmm, what's your
Smith.
"Martha, I cannot tell a lie.
My Valentine lies over the Delaware." Ceorgey Porgey.
"Lady Marian, I fly through
the air with the greatest of ease
. . . ho, ho, ho! Be my Valentine.
Mary Baby. You can't go wrong
with an honest crook. Since I
started robbing from the rich,
and giving to the poor, I have
plenty. Let's paint the town green
some night.
Yours till the
Sheriff of Nottingham cuts my
grapevine." R. Hood.
"Jane, Me Tarzan. You, Valentine P. S.No monkey business

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But in the beginning . . .
"Eve, Something tells me I'm
going to get in & lot of trouble,
but will you be my Valentine???"
Adam.

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A change in the night bus service on the campus has been announced by Ched Jennings, director of the Student Services
Committee of Student Government and a member of the SC

sembly will not be able to fund
the service beyond this semester.
"The decision to continue the
night service rests not with the Assembly or the University, but
with the students," he said.
vice enough and prove the need
for it, the University will probably fund it next year," he con-

tinued.
In such a case the funding
would be through the Department of Safety and Security.

a figure eight route.
The route will have 14 allocated stops as shown in the map
and as listed below.
Margaret King Library

By JERRY

W.LEWIS

Kernel Staff Writer
Recent national surveys on
college campuses throughout the
United States have shown a tremendous increase in student interest in careers with a service
component. Students have been
making demands on college administrations for programs wluch
will effect social change, while
there has been a decrease in such
programs as business and engineering.
The University of Kentucky
has been no exception in this
new student awareness and is
now preparing to open a new two-yeGraduate School of Social
ar

Strip Mining
Outlawed
In Henderson
HENDERSON
that strip mining is a "pub(AP)-Declar- -ing

Work in the Fall semester, with
a program which perhaps is
unique in several aspects.
"Today the social worker must
be a catalytic agent," Dr. Ernest
F. Witte, the Dean of the School
of Social Professions said recently. "The major emphasis for the
social worker is to see what the
causes are that keep people from
or
being
and then work to do some-

Jennings blamed a lack of
publicity for the failure of the
s
students to utilize the
night service enough to sustain

lic nuisance," Fiscal Court unanimously adopted a resolution
Monday outlawing any such practices in Henderson County. The
resolution said the ban becomes
effective immediately,
adding,
however, that it is not intended
to prevent the removal of coal
by other means.
A spokesman in the attorney
general's office in Frankfort said
the "action may have set a precedent for Kentuckycountiesonthe
strip mining issue." He declined
further comment pending a request for a formal opinion.
There has been no strip min- government questionnaires.
"We are trying to build a
ing in the county for the past five
years.
joint educational system with an
The Department of Mines and interdepartmental program using
Minerals said the county pos- such schools as Law and Besesses considerable coal reserves havioral Sciences," noted the
and a number of firms have been dean. "Often the social worker
purchasing mineral and surface must try to change the system
and this means taking the probrights.
Among those holding exten- lem to the courts."
sive acreage, the department conMisconceptions
Several misconceptions seem
tinued, are the Reynolds Metals
Co. and the Pittsburgh & Midto hide what the new social
worker's life really means. This is
way Mining Co.
The resolution stated that the especially true in the idea of low
salaries and thus the job being
"physical harm, environmental
damage and pollution resulting primarily a female occupation.
from strip mining far outweigh
"There has been a steady ine
ratio
any benefits that might be re- crease in the
alized therefrom."
to where the male makes up a
Action was taken, the resolu- little more than 40 percent of the
tion continual, "because Hen- social workers in many places,"
derson County Fiscal Court is said Dr. Witte. "Also a national
the conservator of the peace, association of social workers set
property, health and welfare of the minimum years salary for a
Masters degree in social work at
all the citizens of Henderson
$9,500 and the field is rapidly
County."
A lengthy preamble to the growing."
The new school will focus
resolution charged that strip mining was responsible for such on "prevention" of social probthings as soil erosion, stream lems rather than on simply solvpollution and destroyed land for ing todays problem and waiting
for new ones to occur.
agricultural purposes.
male-femal-

With regard to the problems
of overcrowded buses during the
day, and particularly Just prior
to the start of classes, Jennings
said that since the buses had to
be rented by the hour it would
be impossible to put on extra
buses to compensate for the pre-clacrowds.

two-bu-

its operation.
He explained that the two
buses averaged a total of 34 trips
a night but only had an average
of one passenger per trip. Yet,
he also stated that the number

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The bus then retraces part of
this route in covering the lower
half of its figure eight pattern.
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thing about it."
The Dean of the School of
Social Work went on to describe
what steps are being taken to
make the new graduate program
meaningful to the students in
dealing with the social problems
of today.
Student Committee
"There really needs to be a
closer relation between the students and the faculty members,"
said Dr. Witte, "so we are using
a small committee of social work
seniors to interview faculty candidates for the new program. The
students want change, so they
want faculty interested in the
same."
The new graduate school will
put a great deal of stress on actual
field learning. This will include
several "learning centers" working through several different
agencies but under faculty direction. These agencies will include
health care, different types of
community service, and local and
state governments.
Dr. Witte described how the
social worker must be able to deal
with a variety of problems, not
simply the old picture of going
from door to door and filling out

purJennings cited a two-fol- d
pose behind the night service:
the safety factor and the need
for late night transportation.
He pointed to the extended
women's hours as one factor
which might increase the use
of the bus service this semester,
and to the continued cold weather
as a second.

"If the students utilize the ser-

cabinet.
The 10:30 p.m. to midnight
bus schedule will have only one
bus, rather than the two which
have been in use, in operation.
It will travel continuously along

Service Interests Prompt
Social Work Program

of passengers on the night buses
increased during the semester,
indicating that as more students
learned of the service and Its
schedule more used It.

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Commerce Building

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Fine Arts Building
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Jennings says that it requires
approximately 15 minutes for one
complete circuit to becompleted.
The Student Government Assembly has allocated $600 for this
night bus service, but Jennings
emphasized the fact that the As

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* The Time To Speak Up Is Now
It is sad to hear that students
and faculty may be denied an
actual voting voice in the very
university they represent.
As it now stands, a bill which
would grant x such privileges, is
deadlocked in the State Senate's
Education Committee. Prospects
of the bill's
grow dimmer with passing time.

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It seems to us that there will
never be a more appropriate time
for students to fill legislative mailboxes with letters, documents and
petitions supporting the measure.
Students who are forever clamoring because their pleas fall on
deaf ears can now give vent to
their frustrations. Speak now or
forever hold your peace.

The main holdup seems to be stagnant stance of not voting can
that some committee members are develop. Sliced anyway it will,
hesitant about granting students the only true voice in any adsuch broad leeway in determining ministration is a voting one.
their own destiny. Word has it that
The time to act is now, before
they want to wait and see how
the
membership pro- the issue dies a meaningless death.
gram, granted just two years ago, Is the very move which would go
so far in erasing student apathy
develops.'
We wonder to what extent a to die an apathetic death?
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DATELINE BELGIUM
tube of toothpaste bought last TuesTandpasta
day had printed "on
and on the other Pate Dentifrice, one
Flemish and one French. And therein lies
a story going back to the times of a guy
named Julius, last name Caesar.
Julius was up in these parts with his
phalanxes adding some territory to the
Roman holdings which were already substantial. It seems that in" those times
the best way to teach people civilization
or most anything was to knock something
in or knock something out. Although he
put down the Batavi and the Belgae, he
had to admit in one of his memos that
these people were tough customers and
they didn't seem to know when they
had been knocked down.
Then, things began to get rough at
his home town. People began yelling in
the streets for such things as food because
they found out that the games down at
the arena didn't do much for an empty
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stomach. There was much grumbling
about heavy expenditures in far away
places, Friscia for example, and not
enough to eat at home. The leaders heard
these grumblings and they knew the "system" was in for trouble. They also knew
it would take something dramatic to pull
the situation out. So, they gathered to
discuss what might be done. Surprisingly
though, instead of talking over the real
problems and what to do about those,
they decided that if they could find a
respected and popular guy
and could talk him into taking on the job
of straightening things out, they would
have done something good for the people,
not to mention themselves.
Well, they looked around and of course
it is obvious now that they should have
sought Julius. They went to talk with
well-know-

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the only one who
him and said
could save his country and if he were
patriotic at all, he'd come down there
and "hill up" the republic even if it
meant setting it aside for a little while.
The bunch who had been running affairs
before, they said, had fouled up the
machinery so bad that it might be necessary to use a different kind of government
until the condition could be improved to
a point when a republic could work again.
Apparently in those days, principles
weren't so static; and a republic then
would work only under certain conditions. That is the reason th?y could tell
Julius "like it was" in different ways.
You might guess that all of this confused Julius. He didn't understand and he
was in a dilemma. He had said earlier
he wouldn't turn his phalanxes around
and walk down to the city with them.
He would look like he was taking over
and nobody, especially Julius, would want
to give that impression. It would be bad
for his image. No wonder he became so
confused. He must have started gambling,
just like a lot of guys in a bad situation,
for he was bter quoted as saying, "The
die is cast." Of course, nobody really
knows for sure that he said it or whether
an historian by the name of Tacitus
just juiced up the event. But that expression really was destined for centuries
into confusion
to throw the
because they all knew you shoot craps
with two dice. If Julius had taken trig
as any good
should, he would
have known quickly what his odds were.
But trig then wasn't offered on the high
school level. And why would Julius throw
just one? It is strange w hat a man w ill do
when he's confused. Anyway, he went to
his home tow n and took over. That was
his biggest boo-bohe-wa-

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FEBRUARY

11. 1970

Editorials represent the opinions of the Editors, not of the University.
James W. Miller, Editor-in-ChiMike Hemdon, Editorial Page Editor
Ceorge II. Jepson, Managing Editor
Robert Duncan, Advertising Manager
Frank Coots, Associate Editor
Chip Huttheaon, Sports Editor
Dan Cottt, Arts Editor
Cwen Ranney, Women's Page Editor
Dou Rosa, CartoonLt
Patrick Mathes,
Jeannie St. Charles, Jeannie Leedom,
Bill Matthews,
Jean Renaker
Assistant Managing Editors

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The leaders weren't interested in

bright

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it seems, in spite of the
soap they gave him. The republic was
discarded. The country went downhill
anyway. A bunch caused Julius to bleed
to death quickly one day by making in
him several vents. And he left his other
work undone, he hadn't finished the job
up in this part of the country. And much
of the difficulty, exemplified by the two
labels on the toothpaste tube, are due to
Julius' dereliction of duty around here.
Something turned his head, he gambled
and he lost.
Leaving an unfinished task in these
parts eventually came to mean that roughly half of Belgium geographically was
latinized and the other half stayed predominantly germanic. The southern half
became French-speakinthe northern half
Flemish-speakin- g
and the median, now
established by a law of 19C2, is called
the "linguistic line." There are two official languages and, by law, both must be
used in all official announcements, highway signs, timetables of the railway and
bus system (and the system is excellent
in any language), and other public messages.
For a long time the Flemish-speakin- g
inwoners, even though now a S5 to 45 percent majority, felt they had the treatment
of a minority. The judicial process was
exercised in French up to the time the
War between the States started and it is
said that a Fleming might go through a
trial and come to the point of losing his
head without having known what went
on in court. The Flemish more recently
have claimed that top Jobs in government, the military, and the diplomatic
Walloons.
service went to French-speakin- g
The Flamingants, as they are called (sometimes) by the French speaking people,
have complained that the laborers have
foremen and supervisors they can't understand and have them in disproportionate numbers, military officers the same,
and that flagrant discrimination is practiced in many aspects of living.
As so often happens when one segment of a population is aggrieved and
feels in spite of pleas and supplications
that nothing Is being done to relieve the
deplored condition, the Flemish in thousands made a little excursion to the capitol
city of Brussels one fall day In 1962 to
highlight their complaints. The placards
helped graphically with the "Language
us personally,

wall is a money wall," "Flemish doctors
for Flemish sick," and other messages.
Many carried the flag of Flanders. Noone
displayed the Belgian national flag. Of
course some violence erupted. This was
the year of the language division officially.
There were four universities at that
and one
ti me, t hree
French-speakin- g

g.

Now Belgium has six equally divided linguistically, a kind of'sep-arate and equal" policy. The oldest and
most famous, the University of Louvain
founded in 1425, is being divided and the
French part is being moved over a ten-yeperiod from Louvain or Leuven to a
smalltown across the linguistic line about
25 miles away. The university remaining
in Leuven will be the Flemish-speakin- g
Universiteit te Leuven. The designing of
the new campus is now underway and of
necessity the planning of a "new" town
in which to place the relocated university
is going forward. What a real challenge
and opportunityto build a new town and
a new university with a lead time of 10
years to do some planning!
The situation in Belgium Is too complex for an Intelligent generalization, any
one drawn would be at best partially
wrong. But underneath the ferment there
is of course more than a language problem. Perhaps it is the old drive for personal and group identity of some kind,
some reference group that will accord
some dignity and recognition and that
can gain for members what they can't
gain as individuals in the way of
justice, fairness and equal treatment. Of little comfort to anyone is the
fact that other countries seem to be having
these "identity" problems. Canada and
its French-speakin- g
minority, for example,
and there are many others.
ar

But maybe if Julius had remained up
in this part of the woods and done his
"thing", the solution of Droblems bv
erecting a linguistic line wouldn't have
been necessary. Other problems there
would be, but perhaps a different reason
would have to be found for them. Anyway,
on a personal basis, had Julius remained,
It might have removed the condition that
now finds this author here taking one
language and his wife the other In order
that as long as they appear together
publicly, they can be bilingual. But privately so far, it makes little difference
whether Tandpasta is squeezed or Pate

Dentifrice.

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* THE KENTUCKY KERNEL, Wednesday, Feb. II,

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