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Friday. April 9. I976

KENTUCKY

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installs two “chill" water mains off VA Road. The water

mains go between the Tobacco and Health Research Institute and the new
Lexington Technical Institute on (‘ooper Drive.

Overturns five denials

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Lexin on, Kentuch y

Singletary grants student
resident tuition status

fly l)l(‘l\’ DOWNEY
Kernel t‘olumnist

UK law student Bill Davis has been
recla$ified as II resident student for fee
assessment purposes by President Otis
Singletary. he was notified yesterday.
Singleta ry‘s action overruled five previous
administrative decisions on Davis' status.

In II letter to Davis. Singletary said he
"had the University's Office of" Legal
t‘ounsel review your t Davis‘) casein order
to advise me completely as to both the law
and the facts pertaining to the same. Upon
completion of this review the Office of
Legal (‘ounsel advised me to reject the
recommendations of the bodies which had
previously considered your case.

Having considered these conflicting
recommendations and reviewed for
myself all information available to me.
concerning your case, I have decided that
ym should be classified as a resident
student for fee assessment purposes,’ ’the
letter stated.

 

See related article dealing with in-
state tuition eligibility on page 4.

 

Davis, who is black, had previously
announced his intention to sue U K over the
dispute on grounds that he was the victim
of racial discrimination. He further
'charged the University was ignoring
Supreme Court guidelines on residency
classification.

The second-year law student will pay
$1095 less tuition over the next three
semesters than he would have paid as an
out-of'state student.

Singletary's letter did not indicate
whetherthc reclassification is retroactive.
If so, Davis will receive $1095 refund from
the University.

Davis, an Alabama native, was jubilant
over the decision. “My first reaction when
I got the letter was that I was astounded
and gratified that the president took such
an action,“ he said.

"I have respect for the man for making a
wise decision. He has implied to me that
there are at least some. competent people
running this University."

After a moment of thought, Davis
laughed and said,‘ I am proud to say at
this moment that I am truly a UK
resident."

Harry Snyder, legal counsel for the
t‘l’lllfi. called Singletary’s decision “very
interesting," but made no further corn-
meal.

Singletary and John Darsie, University
legal counsel, were out of town and
unavailable for comment.

Davis' last administrative effort at
obtaining resident status was a petition to
the State Council on Public Higher
Education ICPHE), which was turned
down March 24 The University Non-
ltesident Fees Committee had denied
Davis‘ request for the third time Dec. 15,
1075.

Singletary‘s decision climaxes Davis’
battle which began when Assistant Dean of
Admissions Robert Larson ruled in
summer 1974 that Davis was not eligible
for in~state tuition rates.

The University committees had rejected
IIIIv'Is‘ arguments on grounds that he had
failed to present a ”clear demonstration“
of Kentudry residency. A CPHE rule
statts that an individual moving to Ken-
tucky must live in the state for 12 months
as a non-student before he can be granted

the lower tuition rate.
continued on page 4,

56 must spend — or forfeit -+ $2,600 by July I

Harralson said he thinks the Senate has
done a good job allocating the funds this
year.

Three months before the University
automatically reclaims any unspent
portion of Student Government‘s (SG)
annual $10 000 allotment in state funds,
about 26 per cent of the budget remains
umpent.

The $10,000 is the bulk of the annual 86
budget and approximately $2, 660 remains.
rxpenditure of the money must be ap
proved by University administrators and
the types of projects for which the funds
can be spent '5 limited by state law

In addition to the state account, 86 has a
small “private“ account, composed of
funds collected from private sources,
which is not subject to reversion to the
general fund and can be spent in any
mamer SG chooses.

56 President Jim Harralson said he will
attempt with Student Senate approval, to
spend the state funds before the July I
deadline—on office supplies, if necessary.

Past 56 presidents have often spent
leftover money on office supplies because

the money cannot be transferred to SG's
account for the next fiscal year and
because it can be spent only on state-
approved items.

However, Harralson’s contingency plan
may not be implemented. The Student
Sena te has approved an $800 budget for the
upcoming SG elections and an expenditure
of $620 to print “Making It,” a guide for
incoming freshmen.

Harralson and several senators have
also proposed a course evaluation
program that, if approved by the senate,
could easily use the money remaining in
the state account.

‘We ended up getting burned last year,”
hesaid. About$l, 200 was reclaimed by the
University in July 1975.

“It's not easy to spenda lump sum at the
end of the year," he added. “But I know
how to do it now and will probably spend
the money right when I leave office or
adv ’se the next president to do it when he
comes in."

"We were lucky this year," he said.
"We deliberated more about our ex-
penditurs than last year when I was a
senator."

That deliberation included several
Harralson vetoes of bills outlining
programs which needed money or from
student groups asking the Senate for
donations. If Harrabon had not vetoed the
programs or if the Senate had overridden
his veto, SG would have spent av-
proxinately $260 more than it has spent so
far.

Harrahon vetoed bills requesting funds
for the Kentucky Belles, the National
Laba‘ Management Foundation and the
Environmental Action Society.

”I don’t regret my vetoes,” Harralson
said. “I don’t think I vetoed anything
because Ididn’t think we had the money to
pay for it. 1 vetoed programs because of
the programs themselves."

SG's largest expenditures this year were
in the area of student services such as a
legal counseling program, a landlord—
tenant advice program and a recycling
program. Such services claimed ap-
proximately one-fourth of the total annual
budget

SG abo spent a relatively large
proportion of its budget on office supplies,
printing and duplicating. About 13 per
cent of the budget paid for the daily costs
of running an office—supplies, telephones,
repairs and computer time. Printing and
dupiwting, including a $584 expenditure
on “Wanen in the Ivory Tower," a booklet
published by the Council on Women’s
Concern (CWC), accounted for $1,300.

Individual student groups have been
grarled only about seven per cent of the
budget by SG. The CWC, which is an in-
dependent branch of SC, received $300, the
largest donation to a student, group.

Other major expenditures included $452
for lobbying in Frankfort, $320 for ad-
vertising and public relations and $140 for
a Distinguished Teaching Award.

 

  

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Editorials do not represent the opinions of the University.

Bruce Winges
Editor-in-Chief
Ginny Edwards

Managing Editor

Susan Jones
Editorial Page Editor

John Winn Miller
Associate Editor

 

 

 

Decision‘on Davis
was not very easy

President Otis A. Singletary
should be commended for
over ruling previous administrative
decisions and reclassifying second-
year law student Bill Davis as a
resident student for fee
assessment. Davis will pay $1,095
less in tuition over the next three
semesters than he would have paid
as an out-of-state student because
of the president’s decision.

Davis, who is black, previously
announced his intention to sue UK
over the dispute on the grounds
that he was the victim of racial
discrimination, had he not been
granted resident status.

His petition for resident status
was turned down by the state
Council on Public Higher
Education March 24. The council
was Davis’ last administrative
recourse within the University
system—he had persisted through

five administrative decisions, the
first of which was made at UK in
December.

Davis’ suit would have been
based on his contention that other
students had received resident
status on grounds which were less
convincing than his.

Singletary‘s action took courage.
By reversing decisions of the
committee and the council, he is
implying—in a sense—they were
wrong. Such an implication could
turn important allies into enemies.

Singletary has tried, since he
came - to UK, to better the
University’s image among the
black community. Although Davis
did have a good case—Singletary
would not have taken such an
action otherwise—it could not have
been easy for the president to make
such a decision.

 

 

Fairy tales

Editor:

After being in college for four years i
have been continually amazed at the
worthlessness of the Kernel. (l have
held that the Kernel has been too
radical in its views to be of a practical
purpose. Needless to say, I was
overwhelmingly surprised to find a
Kernel article that actually made
sense. This article was, of course, by
Assistant Managing Editor Peggy
Caldwell on March 29 on ”Josh, The
Doom Bringer.“ I agree totally with
Caldwell‘s contention. and I hope that
this will be a clueto the ”save the world
Jesus freaks" that not everyone at this

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University believes in fairy tales, nor
wants to.

T. Louis Sams
Arts and Sciences senior

Letters policy

The Kernel welcomes reader
viewpoints through letters to the editor
and Spectrum commentaries. All
letters and commentaries should be
typed. double-spaced and signed, in-
cluding classification, maior and phone
number. Letters should not exceed 250
words and commentaries should not
exceed 750 words.

 

 

The powerful also
have frustrations

 

By GeorgiPotratz

I think it is important for those of us
experiencing frustrations in fighting
the powerful over South Hill-Pleasant
Green to realize that those in power are
experiencing their own frustrations at
the present time.

We here atthe University have had to
swallow the bitter pill of UK’s contract
with the Lexington Center Corporation
(LCC)-——a pill we found by our break~
fast plate on the very day we had picked
to start aggressively pushing our
petition against it (we had about 1,000
signatures of people who had mostly
come to us; we were about to take it to
them). And we had toswallow as well
President Otis A. Singletary’s obscene
and thoroughly expected assurance
that South Hill is "not UK’s problem.”

We have also had to deal with a local
news media establishment that has
decided that the South Hill question is
finished and has acted to exclude it
from the public consciousness.

But the LCC and the city know that
the question is not settled until they
have South Hill, and they know that
that's not going to be easy. For one
thing, they haven't even cleared Spring
Streetyet. and they’ve been trying to do
that since way last fall! There are
peqsle still living on Spring Street in no
hurry to leave. And if they can‘t even
get Spring Street, how long will it take
them to clear the rest of South Hill,
where they haven’t even begun?

‘ For another thing, they are
discovering what they should have
known all along—that‘there 'isn't
anywhere for people to move to. The
city, of course, is perfectly willing to
push people out onto the street it there
isn’t any place else for them.

The example of Spring Street is a
lason to the people in the rest of the

 

area as well as to the city. The
residents of South Hill-Pleasant Green
know one crucial thing better than
anyone else: they are there and the
LCC-c ity is going to have to move them.
not vice versa. They are. moreover, far
ahead of the Spring Street residents in
organizing their resistance. When the
city moved to take Spring Street, there
was essentially no organization, but
Pleasant Green residents'have already
formed a neighborhood association that
has made clear its determination to
resist any efforts to move without
adequate relocation.

The people on South Hill cannot
believe the media when it statesihe
struggle for South Hill is over. because
for them the battle is iust beginning. It
is going to be a long haul, and as the
months drag on and the LCC still
doesn't have South Hill, the city will be
forced to provide for parking in other
ways—such as a mutti-Ievel parking
structure on Spring Street.

The rally on Saturday will serve
several purposes. It will be an im-
portant opportunity for the South Hill
residents themselves to strengthen
their organization and their solidarity.
It will also be an occasion where others
can learn of that solidarity first hand,
and can show the South Hill residents
that they have the support of others in
their fight. Finally, it is the time to
show the city and the LCC what they
are up against. It is time to stop
listening to them when they tell us
(fingers crossed) that the matter is
settled, and to make them listen when
we say it isn't.

Don’t go lose your money at
Keeneland-—come and rally! Patterson
Street park, 1 pm. Saturday.

 

George Potratz is an assistant English
professor.

 

 

 

 

Divorce: America's fastest growing sport

Perceptive 1970’s watchers have
probably already noticed several
burgeoning social trends during the
course of the decade. We have wit.
nessed the demise of pot and the return
of alcohol on campus, the resurrection
of the fraternities, the loss of the spirit
of sportsmanship in pro sports, John
Denver's co-opting with Frank Sinatra,
and the abandonment by the Kernel of
the radical slant of yesteryear.

 

 

All of these things are interesting
enough, but to me the most intriguing
vangueard idea of the day is the subiect
of divorce. Divorce is the fastest

L growing sport in America. lt’sall in the

 

statistics—there were over a million of
them last year and only about twice as
many marriages in the same time
period.

My fascination with the dogmas that
have arisen around this phenomenon in
the past few years is caused simply
because in August l am to enter the
divorce sweepstakes—I’m getting
married. I‘m not really worried.
though. I’ve already bought copies of
"Intimate Marriage” and ”Creative
Divorce." I figured I mightas well buy
the second book now. before the price
doubles in the face of increasing
demand.

It's tough getting married in a big
divorceyear. I sometimes actually feel
like I'm betraying all my divorced
friends, or not contributing to the cause
oelebre. or committing an act of a
foreigi nature. (it should be kept in
mind that most of the people I know
now are in law school. This place
seems to be sort of conducive to
divorce, and maybe that's why I know

so many who have experienced it.)
Like any other social trend, divorce

has its heroes to make me feel guilty.
Loretta Lynn was probably the first of
the contemporary divorce craze. If
memory serves, Loretta came out with
Dl-V-O-R-C-E right at the start of the
'70’s. Now, Buddy Rich can condemn
country music all he wants, but there it
is—living proof that Nashville can be
ahead of the times, too.

Zsa Zsa Gabor, of course, has long
been a. True Divorce Queen, although
not the recordholder. The record for
marriages is held by Mr. Glynn de Moss
Wolfe, who married for the 19th time in
1969, according to the Guinness Book of
World Records. The divorce trophy is
held by Beverly Nina Avery, a bar maid
from Los Angeles, with 16. Now. that's

creative divorce.
The latest, and I think best, example

of good-humored divorce is the case of
Smny and Cher, the people who show us
that Estrangement Can Be Fun.

(Hmmm, sounds like another snappy
book title.) l fail to see any lack of
significance in the .fact that big ol’
pregnant-by-Greg Cher can get up
there before the camera every week

with thatneat guy, Sonny, and that they
can both have such a GREAT time
together. There must be something
about divorce that brings a couple
together.

Seriously speaking, there’s nothing
inherently wrong with divorce (sorry
about that, all you Catholics). People
make mistakes, after all. The thing
that bothers me is that occasionally it
seems, in the effort to remove the
stigma from divorce, that a similar
stigma has moved over to marriage.
It’s certainly notan all-pervasive force,
of course, but it can't easily be ignored
either.

But i say—who cares? Not I or
anyone else who wants to marry,
really. The solution to the whole thing.
I think. would be to make it as hard to
get married as it is to get a divorce.
That won’t happen, of course, but it's
something to think about while Sonny
and Cher yuk it up on the tube.

Dick Downey is a second-year law
student. His column appears weekly in
the Kernel.

 

 

 

 

 

 

  
  

 

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