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Vol. LXV No. 38
Monday, October 1, 1973

‘l50' account

options under

discussion

By BILL PINKSTON

Kernel Staff Writer

an independent student newspaper

STUDENT GOVERNMENT leaders and
UK officials are discussing new options for
the administration of SG’s independent 150
account. These options, said 56 President
Jim Flegle, cripple SG’s financial
flexibility.

Some UK administrators, on the other
hand, maintain adoption of a new method
of running the independent account might
lead to greater accountability and
straighten out SG's 150 bookkeeping
procedures noted for their lack of clarity
for the last couple of years.

THE OPTIONS UNDER discussion by
members of SC, the Office of Student
Affairs and the Office of Business Affairs
are:

*Keeping the 150 account as it is now
(and as it is operated by all other student
organizations possessing such an ac-
count.)

—Placing one administration officer in
charge of both the SG’s 150 account and its
101 account.

—1ncorporating the 150 account into the
101, which would, in effect, do away with
the 150 altogether.

JIM FLEGLE

All student organizations registered with
the University are entitled to a 150 ac-
count. If it wants a 150 account, the
organization must raise money on its own,
and deposit that money with the Univer-
sity, which functions essentially as a bank.

Each organization with a 150 account
must have a faculty advisor, who signs
vouchers for organization expenditures,

University of Kentucky
Lexington, KY. 40506

and theoretically reviews those ex-
penditures. For the most part, however,
the money may be spent in any manner the
organization desires.

IN ADDITION to its 150 account, SG also
receives .$10,000 a year in state funds from
the University, called the 101 account. 56
must submit a budget to the University,
subject to approval by the Student Sentate,
explaining in detail how it will spend that
money. The only other UK student.
organization to receive 101 money is the
Graduate and Professional Student
Association.

One University officer, Frank Harris,
assistant dean of students, is responsible
for SG’s 101 account. His basic respon-
sibility, Harris said, is to make certain
that all SG expenditures from the 101
account are made according to its budget,
and that all expenditures are in ac-
cordance with official UK regulations and
procedures.

Harris said he doesn‘t actually decide
what SG may and may not spend its 101
money on, that decision is made when the
budget is drawn up. “As far as making a
value judgement, Idon‘t do that,“ he said.

(‘ontinued on Page 4

 

Vimont backs

Amato, decries

'secrecy

By RON MITCHELL

Kernel Staff Writer

The urban council campaign became heated

issue. He added

he was invited to the secret

Friday when City Commissioner Richard Vimont
announced he is supporting Municipal Judge James
Amato in the mayor's race and denounced the
current city commission for holding “secret"
meetings without inviting him.

Vimont, who ran on a slate with Mayor Foster
Pettit in the 1972 election, said he must actively
work for Amato as he “will represnt the interests of
the total community rather than those of a limited
few."

WHEN PRESSURED BY about six members of
the press present for the afternoon news conference
in his law office, Vimont refused to single out any
one area of the community where he felt Pettit is
biased in his decision-making.

He also claimed the current commission has been
holding “secret" meetings without his presence
since mid-January when he informed Pettit he
would not be a candidate for office under the new
urban council government.

”I CAN ONLY attribute that to my hon-
candidacy," Vimont said of the meetings, and
explained the situation existed from January until
mid—March when he confronted Pettit with the

meetings from mid-March until mid-June when the
practice resumed.

Shortly after Vimont’s conference, City Com-
missioner Dr. J. Farra Van Meter, issued a
statement on behalf of the rest of the commission in
which he denied charges of “secret" meetings and
said Vimont’s current position is inconsistent with
his earlier feelings about the judge.

VAN METER IS running on the Four Progress
slate along with Pettit, “Doc" Ferrel and current
commissioner William Hoskins.

“This amazed me, for 1 had heard Commissioner
Vimont comment very clearly concerning Mr.
Amato as Mayor of Lexington and he by no means
endorsed him," Van Meter said. He added that
Vimont previously criticized Amato because the
latter openly opposed the merger.

AS IF 1N anticipation of some feedback on
Amato’s position on the merger, Vimont said the
judge felt it would be a conflict of interest if he at-
tended the meetings or aided in chartering the
document since currect office was evaluated and
reorganized.

(‘ontinued on Page 4

 

News In 3!le

from The Associated Press

Aaron bid fails
Prospects 'zero'
Need public trust
Poll favors funding
Boyle improves

Today's weather...

LOS ANGELICS.
Spiro T. Agnew,

according

— Vice President

to close

ATLANTA — Henry Aaron failed to
equal Babe Ruth‘s home run record but
lifted his batting average over .300 with
three singles in a losing effort Sunday as
the Houston Astros beat the Atlanta
Braves 5-3 in the final game of the 1973
baseball season for both teams.

His chance for making baseball history
by tying a mark once thought unattainable
by others lured the largest crowd of the
season into Atlanta Stadium, 40,517 paid.

associates, believes that even without an
indictment the corruption investigation
involving him has reduced his future
political prospects to “just about zero.“

WASHINGTON — A federal com—
mission says the nation‘s police officers
must work harder to prevent crime but
can only succeed if they shore up wavering
public trust.

PRINCETON. N.J. —- An increasing
majority of Americans believe the
government should finance presidential
and congressional elections and prohibit
private contributions. a new Gallup Poll
shows. The poll. taken Sept. 7-10. reports 65
per cent of those surveyed favor the
federal government providing a fixed
amount for the elections.

WASHINGTON — Former United
Mine Workers President W.A. “Tony"
Boyle was in satisfactory condition at
George Washington Hospital Sunday and
was moved to a private room from the
intensive care unit. the hospital said.

Although the skies remain cloudy as
October makes its 1973 debut, tem-
peratures will remind us that it's not quite
fall yet. The high temperatures for
Monday and Tuesday will near 80. The
general forecast calls for cloudiness with a
chance at showers. The clouds should
begin to disappear on Tuesday.
Precipitation chances for Monday are 40
per cent, dropping to 30 per cent on
Tuesday.

 

  

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Severe educational loss

 

 

 

 

Elementary and secondary educators across the
state are facing a potential loss of $10 million in
federal aid for the Title I program if an amendment
cleared by the House last week is passed by the
Senate.

The program, the largest single federal school aid
program, is designed to provide an education for
disadvantaged children, which, according to
Democratic Sen. Walter Huddleston, is 17 per cent of
Kentucky‘s student population. He based his per-
centage on the 1970 census.

Until last week, the state was expecting nearly $38
million for the program, a figure matching last year‘s.
However, a drastic change in the allotment of money
for the program, a change proposed by Rep. Albert
Quie, R-Minn., would cut Kentucky‘s share to $28
million.

The shift would benefit northern states while
sharply reducing funds for southern and southeastern
states, the Associated Press reported Thursday.

The new allotment, while putting Kentucky further
behind in its efforts to meet the educational standards
of most of the nation, could also mean the loss of
nearly 1,000 teachers and the deprivation of a “good“
education for almost 80,000 Kentucky students.

Rep. Carl Perkins, R-Ky., tried to stop the amend-
ment in the House, but failed on a voice vote. When the
issue hits the Senate floor today, both Huddleston and
Republican Sen. Marlowe Cook are expected to oppose
the measure.

At this point, we citizens can do little more than hope
the Senate mixes the amendment. However, to insure
Kentucky isn‘t caught on the short end in future years,
we might suggest to our Congressmen that a better
alternative to tight government spending in the area
of education would be the restriction of funds to the
nation‘s number one cause of inflation—the defense

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‘Just leave money, thank you...’

Letters

 

Cartoon is boring

In my opinion the cartoon strip run
daily. The Pertwillaby Papers by Don
Rosa and Ray Foushee, is one of the most
uninteresting, boring and childish pieces
of literature for a college newspaper.
Independent or not.

In fact, it's almost like reading the
“Mary Worth" strip of the Sunday comics.
The only service the KERNEI. provides
by running the strip is for the
unimaginative students who can't get
home in the afternoon to watch their soaps.

The space could well be used, and no
doubt more informative, to run another
daily story or bulletins like last year‘s
“campus wrap-up."

Beth Ann Jewell
Journalism-freshman

A ‘frarority' at UK

UK now has the only coed fraternity—or
should we say “frarority“——in the whole
world; and what's more, it has over 1,000
active members right here on campus.

If you think you‘re confused, you should
be on their side of fence. LTI (Lexington
Technical Institute), the community

college on campus, has unknowingly
become a coed fraternity—Lambda Tau
Iota. We all owe our thanks tor regrets) to
the fact that our LTI team came in second
in the women's division of intramural Tug
\’.() War competition. No one knew who LTI
was, so they made it Greek.

lsay “regrets“ because some of the LTI
students who would like to pledge a
fraternity or sorority on campus, may not
do so because they are only in two (2) year
programs (correct me if I‘m wrong). [say
“thanks“ because now someone has given
us a “frarority” of our own; however.
would that someone please let us know
some information about our newly formed
chapter?

It seems almost impossible to me that a
division of UK, sitting right here on the
campus, with such a large enrollment, can
go unnoticed for so long by so many
people.

No—we‘re not angry. As a matter of
fact, we could hardly control the laughter
when we saw the article in the Sept. 18,
edition of the Kernel. But we did want to
respond and let you know where so many
of your friends actually go to school.

Susan Liscomb
Radiology Dept.

 

budget

 

Nlcholos Von Hoffman

King Features Syndicate

The American returning from Russia
and China most often comments on the
ceaseless booming of propaganda and
instruction. The loudspeakers jabbering
from the lamp posts, the pictures of Mao
on everything would drive most
Americans crazy, our visiting compatriots
tell us on their return.

All those pictures of Mao offend us,
though there are probably as many pic-
tures of Richard Nixon on public display
here. But that‘s only right. He‘s our
President, not a Commie dictator.

The same holds with the government‘s
instructions on how to think and behave.
Those Stalinist adjurations to work harder
and better are irritating to American
values.

0R ARE THEY?

The government in cooperation with big
business and big media is beginning an
old-fashioned, Stalinist, work-harder
campaign and it will be surprising if many

1e ob'ect.
peTile campaign is a child of the National
Commission on Productivity and has as its
slogan, “America. It only works as well as

1

we do.“ The ad copy suggests that by
working harder we can beat inflation and
give “America better ammunition to slug
it out with our foreign competitors. That
should help bring the lopsided balance of
payments back onto our side. and help
make your dollars worth more.“ The
campaign‘s radio spots will feature
Johnny Mann and Merle Haggard
because, Advertising Age reports, “Mr.
Mann is ‘associated with nationalistic
spirit,‘ while Mr. Haggard is ‘popular
among bluecollar workers.‘ "

THE STAKHANOVITE message will
feed into every medium of mass com-
munication through an outfit. called the
Advertising Council, an alliance of ad-
vertising agencies, their largest clients
and the owners of the nation’s major
media. Although the council thinks of itself
as resolutely independent, it is pretty
much a creature of the government. Its top
people meet with the highest people in the
government to learn what propaganda
messages are to be relayed to the
populace.

Last year it is estimated that the Ad-
vertising Council was able to get its
members to give $525 million worth of
space and time for these messages, which
may have been more insidiously effective
because they come in a non-partisan, non-
official, non-governmental form. It‘s only
the Soviet governmement that would be so
blind about human motivation to broad-
cast appeals to work harder; here we’re
smarter; the government sneaks it to the
Ad Council.

Aside from the fact that neither in Kiev
nor Pittsburgh do people respond to the
braying of slogans, some of these cam~
paigns are positively injurious. The work-
harder campaign is one. Cooked up in
cahoots with John Dunlop, the inept head
of the Cost of Living Council, this cam-
paign seeks to create the impression that if
the inflation isn‘t your fault, you can end it
by working harder, which is a proposition
not worth the words to refute. Meantime,
while you work harder, in the unlikely
event you‘re sucker enough to go for that
line, Mr. Dunlopis letting the steel com-

Med. Center

Let's call it propaganda
and be honest with ourselves

panies and the auto companies raise their
prices. They don‘t have to work harder.

SINCE RADIO AND television stations
that broadcast Ad Council propaganda get
FCC brownie points at license-renewal
time, their stuff blankets the country and
probably does affect people‘s thinking, if
not their behavior, which is really all the
authorities want. They don‘t really care if
you stop throwing trash in the streets, but
what they do want you to believe is that
:;People start pollution. People can stop
I ."

SINCE 1941 WHEN the Ad Council was
formed, it has been trying to get people to
join the payroll savings plan and buy U.S.
Savings Bonds, which is just about the
worst investment you can make. But then,
whatcan you expectfrom a bunch that has
the gall to run a campaign urging con-
sumers in need of information to call
the Better Business Bureau? Either the Ad
Council should give people the right of
rebuttal or label its stuff as propaganda
That’s what they do" in Russia, which

makes it more irritating but also more
truthful.

     

  

 

Vietnamese society
has not seen iustice

Editor's note: This is part of a series

dealing with various facets of life in Vietnam.

By M.E. BRANAMAN

The society in which the Vietnamese
people live has not known justice in its
history. A structure for promoting justice
is purported to exist, but truth remains
hidden. Social equality does not exist, and
justice, an institution of the state, appears
through fact to be deformed to serve a
certain tendency.

After the Quang Tri offensive of 1972,
President Thieu assumed powers of decree
rule. The legal limits of his powers were to
be national security and defense issues
and economic concerns. Promulgation of
decrees since Decmber of 1972 has per-
vaced all areas of life in the South. Thieu
has undertaken to write new law in the
areas of the criminal code and common
law.

BY OVERSTEPPING the constitutional
bonds, he has imposed drastic restraint on
political activities. He reduced the number
of active political parties from 27 to two,
by limiting their ability to register with the
government.

His Dan Chu, or Democracy party, has
virtually all control, with a labor party
arm representing the non-existent op-
position. The only effective voices against
Thieu’s control in South Vietnam are 29
members of the ‘People and Socialism'
group. Before the August election, in
which three slates of Thieu’s candidates
opposed each other, the Senate contained
25 voices speaking against the govern-
ment.

Nguyen van Thieu gives his ultimate
allegiance to an infrastate institution of
class. When it is his law and his class that

he serves, the United States can point to
his being a ‘good democrat’. The provinces
have chiefs and separate chiefs of police.

THIS RURAL STRUCTURE does not
mean a distance from the politics of
Saigon, for the positions are bought and
sold. Tran Tu Huyen, attorney and
member of the lower house in South
Vietnam, estimates that a provincial chief
must pay 40 to 50 million piasters for his
job, while a chief of police must pay 10 to 20
million. Thieu keeps a structural bondage
on the citizenry without a ‘free press’ to
function.

The 30 newspapers that once operated in
Saigon are reduced to 15, by a system of
deposit and credit that allows the Ministry
of Information to choose who may publish.
A stringent policy of censorship exists and
blank spaces and actual confiscation are
frequent.

The question of political prisoners is
passionately discussed in the streets in
South Vietnam, yet the American press, so

a page of opinion from inside and outside the University community

 

According to Ho Nhoc Nhuan, deputy in
the lower house, 200,000 is “not something
from imagination”. The Saigon regime
has too many organizations and too many
means to arrest persons to populate the
facilites.

The revision of the legal code engineered
by Thieu has eliminated the category of
political crimes in most cases. Rather than

 

”The question of political prisoners is passionately discussed
in the streets in South Vietnam, yet the American press. so
keenly interested in the events of the Thieu era, has yet to

investigate the question."

 

keenly interested in the events of the Thieu
era, has yet to investigate the question.
Current Senate hearings on the question of
US. aid to the police of South Vietnam has
brought the issue partially to the surface.

DEPENDING TO WHOM one speaks the
number of persom in the jails of South
Vietnam ranges from zero to 200,000.

being charged with “procommunist
neutrality”, a detainee is proscribed as a
“doer of evil” or “troublemaker”. The
government sent a directive to provincial
chiefs, giving these instructions to
eliminate the charge of “politics” in the
imprisonment of dissidents.

The directive also called for a fixed

 

 
  
   
    
  
  
  
   
   
  
    
   
    
   
  
      
   
  
    
  
  
   
 
  
  
   
  
  
  
     
    
    

number of arrests in each province.
Father Chan Tin of the Committee for the
Improvement of the Prison System in
South Vietnam counters the government
claim that facilities for 200,000 prisoners
do not exist in the country by developing
the framework of police institutions.

EACH DISTRICT, in addition to its
prison, has interrogation centers, prefect
police headquarters, and provincial
detention centers. The issue of political
prisoners is most urgent for the Viet-
namese, since arrests have increased
rapidly with the ceasefire.

 

M.E. Branaman is a.UK law
student who traveled through
Asia in 1972 and spent time with
people in all areas of war torn
Vietnam. She gathered material
and wrote several articles for
the Pacific News Service before

' returning home.

On the degeneracy of written wit

 

 

By WALTER REICHER

I should have known from the start that
something was wrong around this place. But until
now, I had only guessed at the degeneracy of the
written wit at UK. I know now.

That first registration pamphlet should have been
a portent of what was to come. I had read it that
first time with only amused indifference; I read it
now with the drinkers’ shakes.

ALL OF THOSE brow-beating platitudes, clarion
calls for courage, and, oh yes, those homey bits of
advice: somethilng like, “Lexington is a southern
city, hence it gets very warm in the summer. The
average temperatures are in the upper 80’s so be
sure and wear something light and comfortable.
blah blah". And, oh yes girls, if it‘s that time of the
month, don’t farget to...

Then the other day I had the misfortune to be
drawn to an article in the KERNEL ,“Abominable
telethon disturbs card game”. Now it's not that I
don‘t sympathize with someone who has to endure
Hubert Humphrey and Paul Anka all in the same
evening, but for the love of Wordsworth, was all that
inflated penmanship necessary?

I quote part of the first paragraph: ”...while
attending to a light-hearted (light-headed?) evening
of cards and refreshment at the home of an
esteemed (oh, God) colleague, I was seriously
hampered in the task by the manner of television

programming which my dear friends wife decided
to visit (visit?) upon the proceedings.”

NOW IF THE author had wanted to be vitriolic, he
failed. He could have more easily said, ”I couldn‘t
play cards for the ravings of a few Neanderthals
who were trying to line their pockets.” But then I
suppose that wouldn’t have filled the space.

If the writer was trying to be funny, I will concede
that he succeeded. Oh, how he did succeed.

Before I was given a chance to recuperate from
that, the KERNEL prints this ’ oooh, terse and
serious‘ response. Therein. l was treated to the
metaphysics of, “It is one thing to disagree with a
man’s opinions, quite another to attack a man of his
opinions." Now just what in the hell is that supposed
to mean? About as much as the rest of the article, I
assure you.

BUT THE ANTI-HUMORISTS around here
aren’t content to kick a man in the groin and walk
off. No. They get down and squeeze and twist out the
ultimate agony. Because if there is any conduit for
the ‘wisdom of the ages' that can top a good
bathroom wall. i haven‘t found it. Libraries and
lecturers have their place, I guess, but man will
ultimately turn to the craphouse for enlightenment.

But the walls of this University are blank and
forbidding. The few I have found with any writing

whatever contained only run-of-the-mill trash—
phone numbers, notes for the janitor, notes for the
guy next stall...but nothing to indicate one spark of
wit. humor. or erudition. That. brothers and sisters.
is the supreme failure. The ultimate insult. The
darkest darkness.

I long for the long epic poems. the closed heroic
couplets, and divine theses on the walls of the toilet
in Gardner Hall at the University of Louisville (that
place is in its fourth printing). Or the rhymed
satires in the latrine at JCC. “ ..... But here there is
not light."

Yl-IT. I CANNOT believe this starkness is in-
dicative of the state of humor at this University. I
know there are out there minds capable of witty and
learned verse. I know there are people here who
have the ability to turn a phrase with the right
words.

So why not write. fellow students. and replace this
bold triviality you and l have been subjected to.
Start with this publication if you like. but when you
have the touch. and it won‘t take very long, go
unashamedly to the big leagues. Postery needs
YOU.

Walter Riechert is a journalism major.

   
   
   
 
 
 
    
  
  
 
   
  
   
   
  
  
  
  
   
   
   
  
  
  
   
  
     

  

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56 leaders and administration
discuss 'l50' account options

Continued from Page I

PRESENTLY. SG HAS almost
complete freedom to spend 150
money any way it wants, without
even budget restraints. In the
past, the 150 money has existed
as a lump sum, and has been
spent as needs unforeseen in the
budget arise and for special
projects.

For instance, the Student
Services Store was established by
the Wendelsdorf administration
with the aid of 150 funds.

THE l50 ACCOUNT provides
SG with considerable financial
flexibility, according to Flegle,
and any change in the structure
of that account would cause SC to
“lose all that flexibility.” Some of
the new options now under
discussion would have exactly
that effect, Flegle maintains.

The University rules governing
the role of the UK officer
responsible for SC 101 funds are
sufficiently vague enough to
allow wide latitude in defining
precisely what that officer‘s
duties are.

RIGHT NOW, SG: has a large

degree of freedom in preparing
its 101 budget. because the of—
ficer, Frank Harris, chooses to
serve primarily in an advisory
role and doesn‘t seek to dictate
what that budget will include.
1 Nevertheless, Flegle fears that
if the 101 and 150 accounts are
combined, as has been discussed,
or if one officer were given
responsibility for both accounts,
as has also been discussed, that
officer could choose to exercise a
large degree of control over
spending from the 150, severely
limiting SG‘s flexibility.

WHILE FLEGLE REMAINS
opposed to changes in the ad—
ministration on those grounds,
UK higher-ups in the Office of
Student Affairs have their doubts
and point out advantages of
making one officer responsible
for the 150 as well as the 101.

Dr. Robert Zumwinkle, vice
president for student affairs,
observed that since SG’s ad-
ministrative advisor (Frank
Harris; SG has two a‘dvisors, one
from the faculty and one from the
UK administration) doesn‘t
approve or review SG’s 150 funds,
he really can‘t know what is
going on in that account.

A N 0 T H E R M A J 0 R
ARGUMENT for placing one
officer in charge of both SG ac-
counts, Zumwinkle said, is that
this would facilitate precise and
accurate bookkeeping for SC.
Flegle's administration has been
plagued by inaccurate and
missing records of Scott Wen-
dlesdorf’s financial transactions.

“I personally don't feel it would
take away SG flexibility,” said
Jack Hall, Dean of Students, of
the options discussed, though he
too agreed that the officer in
charge of the 150 account would
be a key determinate of SG’s
spending flexibility.

IRONICALLY. IT WAS AN
audit of the 150 account requested
by Flegle this summer that
touched off the debate. Flegle
requested the audit, he said,
because former SG president

Scott Wendlesdorf had left no
complete records of SG's
business transactions, leaving
Flegle‘s in-coming adminstration
with no idea of its financial
standing in the 150 account.

The audit revealed that SG had
accumulated $650 of unpaid bills
charged to its 150 account, with
no money to pay for them. The
University, as is customary when
a student organization fails to
pay its 150 bills, footed the bill,
while stipulating that 86 repay it.
So far, because at the present
time SG has no 150 funds, SG has
not repaid UK.

ACCORDING TO ZUM-
WINKLE. discussions of dif-
ferent ways of handling the 150
accounts arose primarily
because of the $650 deficit,
although also because SG has not
been able to fund the 150 yet.

In the past, SG has sold a list of
UK students‘ names to an in-
surance company and socked the
revenue away in its 150 account.
This year, however, when several
state insurance boards required a
60-day review of the policy of-
fered, the company buying
names from SC decided that the
whole deal was more trouble than
it was worth. Consequently, SG
was left without its primary
money maker.

ACCORDING TO George
Ruschell, assistant vice president
for business affairs, his office has
made a number of recom-
mendations on the basis of that
audit, including that one officer
in student affairs review or sign
the vouchers for all expenditures
made from SG’s 101 and 150
accounts.

Business Affairs also recom-
mended that any money made
from the sale of names to in-
surance companies in the future
go to the 101 account and that SG
follow all ordinary University
procedures for purchasing and
travel expenditures

Ruschell said his office had
received no response so far from
either the Office of Student Af-
fairs or SG.

FLEGLE TOLD A recent
Student Senate meeting that he
understood that several
“mistakes” were made in the
audit and that the audit had
“implications".

Harris, when contacted about
the mistakes alluded to by Flegle,
said, “I‘m not prepared to
discuss these,” adding that
“while we have nothing to hide,
we’re just trying to be fair.”
Harris did say that there were
mistakes in the audit, involving
“semantics" and "minor
errors", but that he couldn't
clarify anything at the present
time.

For the time being, anyway,
the audit will not be released to
the public. The audit is “just a
business tool” Ruschell said, and
that as a matter of practice UK
doesn't release internal audits To
the public.

A DECISION ON the future of
the 150 account is likely to be
made within a month, according
to the parties involved in the
discussions. “I’m fairly op-
timistic that a decision can be
made that allows freedom to
Student Government, but also
provides countability," Zum-
winkle said.

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Van Meter said there were
never any meetings in which
Vimont was omitted but added,
“Anyone of us might not have
been reached for any given called
meeting, but never in-
tentionally.“

“IT IS A FACT that during the
past ten months Mr. Vimont has
missed more meetings than other
members of the commission...but
we always assumed that urgent
business kept him away,” Van
Meter said. He concluded by
complimenting Vimont as a
“valuable member of the com-
mission and a very able and
respected attorney.”

Among other reasons Vimont
gave for his support of Amato
were the candidate’s positions on
taxes, traffic and the fact that he
is now opposed to slates running
for election.

VIMONT APPEARED a bit
shaken when members of the
press commented that his
feelings differ drastically than
when he ran on a slate with Pettit
and when he voted in favor of
raising taxes

“We had to raise the payroll
tax since the previous ad-
ministration had left the city with
a deficit, but that amount has
now been made up and the tax

should be lifted," he said in

defense of himself.

IIE ADDED THAT when he ran
on the slate in the previous
election