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Down the tubes
Hidden labyrinth keeps UK running

By LEONARD KELSAY
K ernel Staff Writer

There is an underground at UK.

Four tunnels slice through the ground and more
than 140 subterranean rooms dot the campus.

The 1,300-foot utility tunnel which runs from the
flagpole in front of the administration building to
Margaret 1. King Library is the largest un-
derground structure here, according to Physical
Plant Director James Wessels.

Darrell Walters of the physical plant department
(PPD) took a reporter on_a tour of the mammoth
buthidden labyrinth. 0f the several entrances to the
tunnel, Walters chose a flight of concrete steps
leading from the basement of the clasroom
building. A metal door opened into 92-degree heat.

“It usually gets hotter than this," Walters said.
“It usually is well over 100 degrees.

"On your left are the steam and chilled water
pipes.” he said. “The blue pipes on the bottom are
for water, the red one on the top is for steam.” The
pipes are 24 inches and 18 inches in diameter,
respectively.

Walters examined the pipes for leaks. “We in-
spect them every day," he said, “But if they sprang
a leak, we probably couldn't get out. There are'
emergency exits. but 375-degree steam at ' 170
pounds of pressure acts pretty quick.“

The heart of the tunnel is the pumping station
under the Office Tower. Twenty-two orange pumps
are arspended in ranks between ceiling and floor.

“The whole Office Tower-Classroom Building
complex depends on us,” Walters said. “The whole
tower is full of heating pipes, with at least 10,000
gallons of water circulating in a closed system.” A
similar station serves the Blanding-Kirwan com-
plex, he said.

Underground rooms are more common —though
slightly less imposing —-than the tunnels. The
PPD’s Frank Smith said “most of the rooms are so
big you could move a bed, dresser and chairs into
them and live comfortably.”

Of the two types of underground rooms, steam-
pits, the “pillbox” structures rising two or three
feet above ground, are more familiar. Each is at
least 15 feet square and 10 to 15 feet deep. According
to Stanley Eades, a PPD employe, a steampit is
built wherever a steam pipe branches off from the
main trunk.

Manholes are much smaller and less obtrusive
than steampits, but since most house electrical
wiring,they are even more dangerous. Smith said
access to electrical manholes is carefully con-
trolled.

“I dm’t like 15,000 volts ofelectricity, and neither

does anyone else," he said. “The manhole covers
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KENTUCKY

Vol. LXVII No. 110 er 2] University of Kentucky
wspaper

Tuesday, February 10,1976 an independent student ne Lexington Kentucky

Basic inadequacies cause

lag in consumer education

By MIKE MEUSER
Assistant M anaging Editor
and
MONTY N. FOLEY
Kernel Staff Writer

(Editor’s note: This article is the first in a
two-part series dealing with consumer
education in Kentucky public schools. The
second part. which will deal with con-
sumer education in state universities and
colleges. will appear in Wednesday's
Kernel.)

A plan to provide Kentucky elementary
and secondary school students with basic
consumer education courses apparently is
being hampered by inadequate. teacher
preparation in the subject area and the
inability of administrators to implement
the program at the local level.

The program was authorized by
legislation pased by the 1974 Kentucky
General Assembly, stating, “instruction in
consumer education shall be conducted in
the elementary and secondary schools."

“We are trying to inform local district
educators through in-service consultation
and the publication of the Consumer
Education Guidelines,” said Conley
Manning, director of the Division of
Program Development at the Kentucky
Dept. of Education‘s Bureau of In-
struction.

“We are conducting a survey to deter-
mine how the program is working, but it is
as of yet incomplete," Manning said. “We
presently have six pilot schools."

UK Associate Dean for Teacher
Education Dr. Dan Arnold said Monday he
sees the law asa recommendation, notas a
specific requirement.

The consumer education program “is a
trade-off between the legislature and the

state board of education," Arnold said. “in
effect, what the board was saying was, ‘We
will implement consumer education if you
(the legislature) don’t put it (the program)
into specific law.“‘

In the past, the legislature and the board
of education have adopted a policy of
establishing guidelines rather than
restrictive laws, and that policy has given
considerable freedom to Kentucky
edumtors.

in support of his favorable view of the
guideline negotiation policy, Arnold said
consumer education in other states has
been hampered by the imposition of
specific education programs.

Although Arnold and others see general
guidelines as beneficial to the general
educational process, it appears that the
lack of a specific curriculum in consumer
educa tion is causing confusion not only for
school administrators, but also for Ken-
tucky u niversities and colleges which must
train instructors to teach the courses.

At least four state-supported univer-
sities which offer teacher preparatory
work offer no consumer education courses.

Officials at Murray State University and
Western Kentucky University said con-
sumer education workshops are held each
summer at their schools. But no new
consumer courses are being added to
teacher programs at these schools or at
Kentucky State University, where con-
sumer education courses were described
by one official as being “geared for state
government workers, although not ex-
clusively.“

Arnold said consumer education as a
part of the UK College of Education
curriculum is “still in the planning stage,"
but that he ”expects recommendations in
that area in the near future."

Free ride

Graduate student Martin llrle seems to find the burden of parenthood light. as
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Sportsmanship

Editor:

First of all, I want to say thanks for
the Wildcats (and to coaches Joe Hall,
Lynn Nance, and Dale Brown) for the
exciting game Feb. 2. But I also want to
express my concern about the treat-
ment Kenny Higgs receives from the
Kentucky fans. For the past two
seasons, Higgs has been greeted with
nothing butchoruses of boos and almost
constant streams of verbal abuse from
many of the partisans in Memorial
Coliseum. This unfortunate situation is
the result of some over-publicized
remarks Higgs made asa senior in high
schoolaboutnot being recruited by UK.

The treatment he receives is

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distressing because Higgs is a very fine
athlete. And, like Jack Givens, James
Lee, Larry Johnson, Reggie Warford,
Merion Haskins and so many others in
UK’s basketball history, he is an
example of the high quality of high-
school basketball in the state of Ken-
tucky. Higgs, is, therefore, due all the
respect we grant the others.

More important though, is the
question of sportsmanship. It is simply
poor sportrnanship to continually abuse
a man for a comment he made two
years ago. Cheering in support of your
team is one thing; harassing an op-
posing player is another thing entirely.

Richard McDonald
ABS freshman

 

 

 

 

Right to life only
insures right to die .

 

BY Robert Smitherman

Hello, you ought to be frightened.
You ought to be scared witless. You
think you’re safe all snuggled down in
front of your picture tube, don‘t you?
They’ve got you believing all you're
seeing is shadow play, phosphordot
Iunacies sprinkled out of a clever
scenarisl‘s imagination. Clever of
them. They lulled you. Tighten your
belts. pull together, and we’ll pull
thought. Prosperity is iust around the
corner. Bullshit! Unless our modern
day alchemists can transmutate dirt to
oil, or coniure nitrogen into natural gas,
the free ride is over. We are running
out of everything, fuel, food and even
living space.

And what are the drooling witless in
the great America heartland doing?
Crying for the ragged. starving
children of our American Indians? Or
maybe the stiff and bloodied corpses in
Beirut or Ireland? No, they are all
crying for a collection of un-
differentiabd cells. That’s right—
powér to the ovum.

And they’re organized, these scut-
tlefish, led by the Catholic Church. You
know the ones who say give me your
children for the first to years, and they
are mine forever. Pope Pius, allowing
l-litler to gas the Jews and the

 

Catholics, and turning his head. The
same folks who brought us hell and
damnation for sex for pleasure.

Now not only do they want to control
our minds butour bodies as well. These
myopics (actually tunnel vision would
be more appropriate) cannot see
beymd their noses to tomorrow.
Constitutional amendment outlawing
all aboritons indeed. Consider the fact
that we cannot feed half the world
adequately now. Righttolife! The only
right this would insure is a right to die.
Mothers, want to watch your children
starve? Well it’s not far away. Wake
up, children! These scuttlefishk are_
about to make women second-class
citizens, who will have no control over
their lives. I’ll iust mention the ladies
in pink trying to rescind Equal Rights
Amendment down in Frankfort.
Traitors!

This smacks of melodrama, for which
i have an unnatural love, and yet I feel
the stirrings of apathy for this madness
we face. And so having positioned
myself I await with composure a bolt of
lightening from God to strike my
atheistic spleen, though i feel he doesn’t
mind if I pull the covers off those who
serve a more crimson master.

 

Robert Smitherman is an Arts ano
Sciences iunior.

 

 

 

 

Media tear apart
a deep relationship

(Editor’s note: Abbie Hoffman, the
former Yippie, is a fugitive charged
with selling cocaine to an underground
police officer in New York City.)

By Jerry Rubin

New York fines News Service
Dear Abbie:

It feels so strange writing. I want to
pick up the phone and hear your
laughing voice at the other end, that
voice that communicates total ex-
citement. Wherever you are forced to
live cn the lam in your own country, to
leave ywr wife and child to avoid
almost certain life imprisonment—l
know you are laughing. I feel like
wallowing in self-pity, but i see you
laughing at the existential comedy of
your situation, turning every negative
into a positive adventure.

I love you, Abbie. You helped free
me. You taught me that life can be fun.
When we were doing Yippie together, I
feared you too much to love you. I
feared you because of my own security
and paranoia. Because I did not feel I
was as funny or as captivating, l
competed with you in order to prove to
you, to other people—and to myself——
that l was as good. l-admired you too
much to love you.

Remember laughing together,
knowing we believed enough in our-
selves to take on the United States
Govemment—and win! We liked to
think big, globally.

I know, Abbie, that you didn’t let
many people see your deep, serious
nature. Everything you did had a
political purpose. You are truly a Zen
master. Those were beautiful days and
crazy times. We quarreled in public
and private on political and personal
levels, forcing people tochoose between
us. We advocated socialism and
cooperation and we competed in our
daily process. We didn’t trust each
other. We avoided appearing before the
media together because our com-
petition, iealousy and pure energy was
too powerful. ltwas like having a twin.
People called me ”Abbie“ and you
"Jerry.”

Yes, we were media casualties! We
let the media tear apart our relation-
ship. We competed for attention like
media junkies after a fix. As the
movement died, I felt my competition
dying down, and my self-respectrising,
and we began to develop a close
friendship independent of politics.

One part of you wanted to take the
struggle toeven deeper levels. Another
part mellowed out. as you moved to the
county, spent time alone with your son
America. and developed a growing
beautiful relationship with Anita. You
were happy. Really happy. You dug
playing with your boy and dog, and
cooking, and gardening.

During this period we were both
attacked in print. Your name became a
symbol of freedom—which is
threatening to people who prefer to
remain untree. They said, "see, even
Abbie Hoffman is rich and bourgeois,"
in order to eliminate you as a potential
mirror for them to see their lives.
Movement people attacked us on.

 

 

mercifully in the press, but when they
saw us on the streets they acted
friendly, as if nothing had been written.
They didn’t know that we hurt, too.

I saw us move out of youth.oriented
yippie consciousness to think of our-
selves as parents, adults, mature men.
I had always feared aging, as I know
you did. I associated getting older with
getting sick. But I actually enioy
getting older. I have become happier.
At 37 I feel better than i have at any
other time in my life.

I was to be politically active again—
but not at the expense of my happiness
and health. I donowantto be in a crazy
movement that psychologically drains
its people. I know that many ex-
political petple feel this way. We want
to be active again, but in a new way.
We remember how the movement used

‘ and destroyed personal relationships.

We hate imperialism as much as
before, but we are not into martyrdom.

l have been in heavy self-analysis.
lt’s self-survival. Before psychic
therapy and EST, I didn’t know where
my parents ended and I began.
Remember how sensitive i used to be to
criticism? These days I feel like a
growing person. I no longer have to
prove anything to anyone, not even to
myself. »

As I grow older, i get closer and
closer to the little boy in me. I treatmy
little child with the same kind of love
that I wanted as a child. Of course. I
still have my hang-ups and problems.
Butnow I allow myself to feel my hang-
ups and problems, and I take them as
oppcrtunities for growth.

We always have to fight the self-
destructive urge within ourselves.
Abbie, who knows what incredible
internal psychic factors have driven
you underground? I believe thatwe get
whatwe want out of life. Perhaps you
are where you wantto be. When will we
see each other again? Is this what is
meant by growing old? People go
differentways. Butwe will always be
together, because our spirits are
always together.

I know that whatwe were part of in
the 1960’s will return in some other
form. Wouldn't it be far-out if we could
build a movement based on positive
self-love and love for everyone without
destructive infighting. A movement
that always tells the truth, that com.
munica tes love and positive vibes, that
fights injustice with humanity and love.

And you. Abbie? One wrong move
and you could be behind bars the rest of
your life. Oh, how thatwould crush us,
your friends. as much as you. Lay low
and enioy ywr life. You'll be able to
come back someday. We will see to
that. Wherever you are, take care of
yourself. Eatwell. Getplenty ofsleep.
Stay high. You have so many people
who love you. I love you.

 

Jerry Rubin, who was leader of the
Youth International Party, or Yippies.
was with Abbie Hoffman one of the
principals in the 1969-70 conspiracy
trial of the Chicago Seven. This article
was excerpted from the forthcoming
book “Growing (Up) at 37."

 

 

 

 

 

  

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Health Service to resume
birth control sessions

In an attempt to reach more off-campus students, the Student
Health Service is now conducting monthly birth control sessions in
the lobby of the service, said Health Service Administrator, Jean
Cox.

Previously, the birth control sessions were held in the individual
dorms, as often as once or twice a week. “We were spreading
ourselves thin and reaching a small number of people going dorm-

to—dorm,“ Cox said.
Several off-campus students expressed concern. however, that

they would not be able to come to the dorm sessions, Cox said.
“Also, we had so many requests and spent so much time giving the
birth control sessions during the fall that we ran short of ap-
pointment time at the Health Service. I

“By having sessions in the lobby we hope to reach the maximum
number of people and still have the maximum number of ap-
pointments during the day," she said. “Now we can reach a dif-
ferent mix of students."

The first session is Feb. 18 and is for women only. “We had
thought we might open the session to both males and females this
time,” Cox said. “Buut some of the younger women students feel
too uncomfortable.”

Cox said later sessions will be offered for couples and men.
“We’re concerned that this information be available to students
who want it,” she said.

Library services improve
accessibility of data

Margaret 1. King Library has started three new services aimed
at giving students and faculty better access to information.

Resource Utilization and Data Services will make library use
easier for students, said Ruth Brown, UK associate director of
libraries. Librarians will act as liaisons between students, faculty
and the library under the Resource Utilization program, she said.

The librarians try to meet the changing needs of the students and
faculty, Brown said. Students can reach the Resource Utilization
librarians by dialing 258-5580.

Data Services, a new bibliographic searching service, will help
librarians find journal articles, books and government publications
for students and faculty quickly and easily, said Trudy Bellardo,
head of the department.

A new service which indirectly aids students by helping

librarians catalog faster is the Southeastern Library Network
(Solinet), said Director Gail Kennedy. Solinet provides over 1.5
million catalog records to its 100 member libraries through
cathode-ray tube terminals connected to a central computer.

The data base, located in Columbus, Ohio, produces catalog
cards for its members. Solinet is a member of the Ohio College
Library Center, with over 500 participating libraries. These
libraries form a network of cataloging information to make the
librarians’ jobs easier, Kennedy said.

CDC sponsors faculty research
on problems of social change

More than 500 UK faculty members have indicated an interest in
research opportunities available through the UK Center for
Developmental Change (CDC), according to CDC Director Dr.
Thomas R. Ford. A November questionnaire sent from the CDC to
all UK faculty members netted this “gratifying response,” he said.

Faculty membersinterested in theoretical or applied problems
of social change are aided by the CDC staff in preparing research
problems, designs and proposals. “Part of our job is to help the
faculty in getting financial support for their research,” Ford said.

The majority of the CDC’s funding is appropriated from the
budget of the dean of the graduate school and coordinator of
research. Additional funds for specific projects can sometimes be
obtained through grants and contracts administered by the CDC.

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Movie version of ‘Cuckao‘s Nest‘
draws mixed emotional responses

By SUZANNE DURHAM
Arts Editor

Those who have read Ken
Kesey’s “One Flew Over the
Cuckoo’s Nest” probably don’t
need much persuading to get out
and see the movie. But for those
who tried the book and couldn’t
get through it or for those who
missed the book when it made the
popular reading rounds, the
movie is a must.

The cuckoo’s nest refers to a
mental institution where Randle
Patrick McMurphy (Jack
Nicholson) comes to stay in lieu
of a stint on a prison farm,
thinking he can serve his time
much more comfortably in a
nuthouse.

Unfortunately, officials at the
hospital consider mental illness a

serious business and the fact that .

he has been referred to them
nearly precludes any chance of
declaring him sane.

In the meantime, he is a
superhero to the boys in Ward 38,
bringing some humanity to the
institution‘s psychological rigors
which are perpetrated by Head
Nurse Ratched (Louise Flet-
cher).

She walks softly through the
halls ofinsanity but carries a big
stick in the form of her
emasculating treatment of the
“boys." One supposes she em-
bodies all aspects of the bitchy
woman, Eve in her most
deceiving disguise, giving the
strongest of male egos reason to
suffer a castration complex.

McMurphy is on to her and
struggles mightily for the mind
control of his fellow crazies but is
no match for electro-shock
therapy and lobotomies (to which
Ratched resorts when she’s
losing ground in the brain battle).

The film asks the familiar
question, “who are the real in-

Music

 

 

McMurphy (Jack Nicholson) gets a boost from one of the mental
patients to demonstrate basketball technique to Chief Bromden
(William Redfield) in “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.”

sane?" Is it Billy Bibbit who
stutters unmercifully and has
been living under his mother’s
thumb all his life? Or Charles
Cheswick who is scared of the
challenge of living and so com-
mits himself for protection? Or
perhaps Ratched deserves some
scrutiny as she tells Billy how
ashamed his mother would be if
she knew how he behaved or
reminds Cheswick that he is
unable to handle the outside
world.

Directed by Milos Forman, the
film is an accurate performance
of the novel which is heartening
news, for the purists who hate to
see a good work ruined when it
croses media.

The on point of departure from
the book concerns Chief Brom-

Kernel music poll results
Patti Smith and Jefferson Starship

Did you ever stop to consider
why you prefer a particular type
of music? Or a particular record
or group? After all, public
opinion has been known to make
or break people in the music

 

About 30 years ago, a man
named Virgil Thomson sat down
and tried to put into words what
he considered a set of universal
guidelines for “The Art of

Judging Music" —the title of his
book on musical criticism.

He felt that the first part of the
judging process involved having
both one’s attention held by a
piece of music, and an after-
taste, a mental image that
remains after the entire number
has been heard.

The second stage involves
reflection on what was heard.
Was the piece expressive beyond
its mode of presentation? Was
what you listened to a pretty tune
or just some pretty playing? Was
there a particular style or sub-
tlety that caught your 'ear?

Finally, after all the facts are
in and your emotional level has
returned to normal, you must
listen again to see if your
judgments fit the music. If the

den, an enormous Indian through
whom the story is told in Kesey‘s
novel. Everyone supposes he is
deaf and dumb and in this way
serves as omnicient, omnipresent
recorder of events. The film
doesn‘t duplicate this effect,
because it would probably
detract from McMurphy’s
character impact. even though
the Chief is a sub-hero in his own
right.

Depending on your persuasion,
“Cuckoo’s Nest" can make you
laugh or cry as you watch grown
men whine, plead, shuffle and
outfox the authorities like so
many &year-olds.

Perhaps the effect is pur-
poseful but whether you snicker
or sniffle, the film is powerfully
entertaining, no matter how you
define the word.

emphasize

two don't agree then maybe the
music in question is not what
others have sized it up to be.

Oftentimes, two peoples'
conceptions of a particular piece
of music will differ with insight
and vantage point. But, if the
music is truly worth its acclaim,
certain undisputable values will
always be present. Too many
music critics fall into the trap of
forcing a particular piece of
music to fit their judgment.

Over the last few weeks, Kernel
readers have been invited to
voice their opinions on the names
and sounds that have been in the
forefront of Pop and Hock music
this past year. The results
stacked up like this:

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1976 Kernel Music Poll Results

When we started out to
conduct our Kernel Music
Poll we were hoping to find
specifically what rock
group, what album, what
male vocalist, what female
vocalist, and what c0untry
and western performer
were UK student’s
favorites.

But instead, 165 of you
told us that everybody has
their own favorites, and
threw us a few surprises!
Here’s the results:

BEST ROCK GROUP
OF I975

THE EAGLES placed first
in this catagory, followed
by THE JEFFERSON
STARSHIP in a close
second. Third and fourth
places went to LED
ZEPPLIN and FLEET-
WOOD MAC. Quite a few
votes went to THE
ALLMAN BROTHERS and
of course, THE ROLLING
STONES.

BEST ALBUM OF I975

You picked Patti Smith's
HORSES release number
one, with Dylan’s BLOOD
ON THE TRACKS hot on
her heels for. second. A
close third was Starship’s
RED OCTOPUS with the
Eagles’ ONE OF THESE
NIGHTS showing fourth.
Zepplin’s PHYSICAL
GRAFFITTI and Denver’s
W I N D S O N G g a v e
respectable showings.

BEST MALE VOCALIST
OF I975

An overwhelming favorite,
ELTON JOHN took the
prize on this one. BOB
DYLAN ‘ placed second,
STEVIE WONDER and
JOHN DENVER tied for
third, and BRUCE
SPRINGSTEIN, BARRY
MANILOW, and DAN
FOLGLEBERG tied for
fourth.

BEST FEMALE
VOCALIST OF I975

LINDA RONSTADT was
the number one favorite by
a long run, with JONI
MITCHELL placing
second. OLIVIA
NEWTON-JOHN took
third, with PATTI SMITH
showing fourth. GRACIE
SLICK, CARLY SIMON.
and JANIS IAN also
received quite a few votes.

BEST COUNTRY
WESTERN
PERFORMER I975

A tough one for some of
you to answer, LINDA
RONSTADT alandslide
first again, followed by
JOHN DENVER in the
number two spot, OLIVIA
NEWTON-JOHN in third.
and CHARLIE RICH
fourth. Honorable mention
to CHARLIE PRIDE.
WAYLON JENNINGS.
and GLEN CAMPBELL.
who took quite a few votes.

 

Stereo hints...

Whether you’re on the
hunt for a new stereo
system or you’re trying to

improve your old one, here
are a few hints before you

Where you place your
speakers around your
listening room is im-
portant. For best results
try placing them in front
and to either side of where
you usually sit to listen.

In some console sets the
speakers are too close
together and lose some of
their stereo effect. if you
place them too far apart, a
gap in the sound could
result.

Experiment with your
speaker arrangements.

move them around until
you discover the sound you
want.

Corners are good places
for speakers, since they
have twowalls to deflector
reinforce the sound.

Be careful about placing
speakers on shelves.
Vibration can ruin a good
sound, so a speaker’s
platform should be sturdy.
You best bet is the floor.

Try to make your room
more acoustically sound
by adding draperies, wall
hangings or some sort of

textured wall covering on
at least one of every two
opposing walls. Careful
here too, too much will
absorb your sound!

Check your speaker
wires frequently. If you're
buying wire, buy a good
quality. cheap thin wire
cuts down on the power of
your amp and speakers.

Try to set your controls
by your favorite chair or a
spot onthe floor. That way.
when you want to listen.
you don’t have to run all
over the room to get
everything set up.

 

   

   

 

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Setting up a darkroom

Overcoming your

fear of the .dark

By Bob Nims
Impact Photography

Darkrooms seem to be
somehow more fascinating
to amateur photographers
than perhaps anything
else. Theyre the place
where all your creative
efforts materialize before
your eyes as if by magic.
The place where you try
out so and 50’s secret,
never fail, fantastic film
developer combination
(being absolutely
grainless) or perhaps
seeing the results of the
new lens recently pur-
chased (needle sharp-
ness). The place where you
do everything but the
family pictures you
promised to shoot, which
was of course your original
excuse for starting all this
messin the first place.

The purpose of this
article is not to discourage

these yearnings, but to
advise and urge
moderation.

A fortune can be spent on
the darkroom without
reaping the quality you
seek. Somewhere along the
way a photographer
becomes insecure about
his or her equipment. It’s
always the equipment and
never the photographer it
see m 5. Equipment
manufacturers prey on
this vulnerability
ruthlessly - inventing and
selling gadget after gadget
which allows the
photographer to escape
personable responsibility

for failure. This kind of‘

thinking by the serious
amateur photographer is
foolish and wasteful. A
little common sense and
some shopping around