Wednesday. April l6. 1975

KENTUCKY

Vol. wa No. 146 ' er

(in independent student newspaper

No longer serve intended purposes

21 University of Kentucky

Lexington. Ky. 40506

Mogruder says U.S. institutions in trouble

By BILL STRAl'B
Kernel Staff Writer

Jeb Stuart Magruderlooked across a sea
of cynical faces in Memorial (‘oliseum
Tuesday night to talk about the lack of
feeling on the part of public officials for the
people they serve.

Speaking before about 11.000 people. the
former Nixon White House aide who found
himself caught in the swirl of the
Watergate scandal said :\lllt't‘l(‘all in—
stitutions are in trouble

“tll'lt lNS'l'l'l‘l'TlthS are failing
rather rapidly and rather quickly."
Mgaruder said. “particularly concerning
the purposes they were initially meant to
perform."

lfsing the White House and the prison
system as examples . two systems he

contended he was “uniquely qualified to
talk about" Magruder exposed the in—
stitutions' failings and possible remedies.

Explaining Watergate was one of the
"easiest things I ever got involved in."
Magruder said the scandal was caused by
three things: what he termed the “lm.

JEB STUART MAGRl'DER

Lexington Center Board
unveils $20,000 model

lly RUN MITCHELL
Managing Editor

The 30 or so architects. contractors and
members of the news media on hand for
the unveiling of a scale model of the
Lexington (‘ivic (‘enter Tuesday
disregarded David Bakk.

llakk. a 25-} ear-old architecture student
in Minneapolis. and his coworker. Dennis
Bryant of Ellerbe Architects. spent two
months asembling the 320.000 plex1glass
model in preparation for Tuesday‘s
showing.

BAKK STtml) near his model while the
rest of the crowd well‘attired men
connected to some aspect of the (‘ivic
(‘enter project roamed around the
(‘ampbell House's ('olonial llall shaking
hands and smiling a lot.

But for the most part. the moustached
Bakk. with his longish blonde hair. brown
turleneck shirt and tan corduroy slacks.
was overlooked.

He explained he had brought the model
to Lexington from Minneapolis about one
month ago and then returned this week for
the opening. Bakk said the model is
divided into eight individual sections so it
can be easily transported.

BAKK HAS been building similar
models for three years now. and the
Lexington (,‘ivic (Tenter model is the
largest he has ever constructed.

“1 have to be a jack of all trades. People
really don‘t understand all that has to go
into it." Bakk said. “It was a challenge.“

Although the model was expertly and
professionally detailed. Bakk said the
finished product would have been better if
there weren‘t “time limits restricting as to
what could be done.“

'l‘lll'l MUDEL was a true work of per
fection. There were detailed trees. people.
cars. patio tables and umbrellas liach
entrance to the arena. shopping area and

convention center were shown. complete
with the numbers for each ramp entrance
in Rupp Arena,

Each section of the arena is colorcoded
on the model exactly as it will be in the
completed structure There were also
about one dozen model airplanes in the
model to illustrate the flexibility of the
exhibition area

Each piece on the model was custom-
made. Bakk said. although the cars and
people were not specifically ordered

'l‘lll'l ("NVEILING of the model for the
$46 million Lexington (‘enter was the
climax of a 40-minute press conference in
which officials of all of the private and
municipal entities involved in the project
were introduced

The Lexuigton
construction at the corner of Main and
Vine Streets. will be a multi-purpose civic
center with an arena capable of seating
over 22,000. The center is expectec to be
completed in the fall of 1976.

Included in the complex will be a con-
ventionaexhibition hall. retail mall and an
on site hotel

Tlllttll'fillfll'T MOST of the con—
ference. the officials introduced each other
and briefly thanked the other groups that
”made all this possible.“

The recent controversy surrounding use
of the arena was mentioned only twice
during the conference,

Bruce Glenn. vice president of the
Lexington (‘enter Board. read a statement
explaining the board's position on the uses
of the facility.

"WE IIA Vlfiendeavored to work with the
[Tniversity of Kentucky officials on an
above board extended hand basis," the
statement read.

The controversy concerned the
publication of an “interim agreement
between l.(‘(‘ and the l'niversity last July
stipulating there (ould be no more than

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thgl‘uuuuua

perial Presidency." the type of men
surrounding the president. and President
Richard Nixon himself.

"WE Nu LONGER treat the President
as an elective official." Magruder said.
“We treat him as a monarch. in the old
days they would drape ltoman emperors
with a purple robe. Today the president is
draped in planes. helicopters and
lunosines

“When the president walks down the
stairs the band plays ‘llail to the (‘hief‘ and
everyone grovels before him." Magruder
said. “This makes him feel like a king but
he‘s not He‘s an elected official."

Magruder told about a time following a
speech on Southeast Asia by Nixon in
November 1969 when members of his staff
tried to get thousands of telegrams sent to

the White House to show support for
Nixm‘s program. Upon learning Western
Union no longer hand delivers telegrams.
the staff members contacted the president
of Western Union. The following day the
telegrams were on the president‘s desk.

"Wt-1 Ml'ST bring this power back down
in line." Magruder said,

President Nixon “walled himself off"
from the thinkers in the decision making
process. Ma gruder said. and put decisions
solely in the hands of himself and
"managers and doers" like HR.
flaldeman and John Ehrlichman.

“The concept of getting something done
at any cost became the paramount ob-
jective instead of solving the problems of
America." Magruder said.

Continued on page 6

This scale model of the 846 million Lexington Center shows hotel (left). retail

mall (center. foreground). Rupp Arena

(center. background). and the

convention-exhibition hall (right). The scale model. made almost entirely of

plexiglass. cost nearly 820.000 to build.

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(‘i-nter. now under Kernel names Wlnges

1975-76 editor-in-chiet

A junior journalism major from Louis-
ville. Bruce Winges. 20. was selected
Kernel editor-inchief for the 197576 school
year Tuesday night by the Kernel Press
Inc. Board of Directors. The other
applicant for the position was Virginia

“RITE WINGES

Fdwards. a journalism sophomore from
louisville.

Selected for summer editor~inchief was
Nancy Daly. 20. a journalism junior from
Lexington. The other applicant for the
Simmer position was Donna Rains. also a
journalism junior from Lexington.

WINGES SAID the Kernel‘s format and
a‘ganization will remain about the same
and he is unsure of any changes he might
make.

The Kernel‘s major function is “to cover
the University community." Winges said.
“The secondary function is to cover any
Lexington or state-wide events which
involve UK students or are of interest to
the University community."

Winges is currently an Assistant Man-
aging Editor for the Kernel and has served
as a copy editor for the newspaper. He was
a copy editor for the Louisville Cardinal.
the weekly student newspaper at the
University of Louisville. during the 197273
school year.