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Vol. LXV No. 89
Thursday, December 13, 197.?

an independent student newspaper

University of Kentucky
Lexington, KY. 40506

 

Paper shortage
to cause

cost increase

By GAIL PITCH
Kernel Staff Writer

Freshman

Engflsh

program
revised

By RON MITCHELL
Kernel Staff Writer

PAPER, ONE product college students
cannot do without, has been in short supply
nation-wide for several months.

As a result, the price of most paper
products has been rising dramatically,
and an end to the upward spiral is not
expected for the next two or three years.

The supply managers of the three local
bookstores—Kennedy’s, Wallace’s and the
University Bookstore—say that students
should feel the effect of higher costs next
fall. and the jump in paper products prices
could be as high aslsto 25 per cent.

“THE PRICES OI" anything made of
paper will skyrocket in the near future.
There are some products, like legal pads,
that are very scarce. We couldn't locate
them anywhere," said Don Evans, supply
manager for Kennedy's Bookstore.

“There isn’t much I can do about it
either. We don’t even look at the price
anymore, we just try to get the product.
We have to hope that students will pay the
higher cost," he added.

The paper shortage is affecting products
made from the poorer quality paper, such
as notebooks and paper pads, rather than
testbooks, which are made from high
quality paper and do not use as much wood
pulp.

“NEWSPRINT probably won‘t go up in
price, because we just won't be able to get
any. The major newspapers have that
market under wraps. If we could get it
though, there would probably be a price

AN ATTEMPT to improve the freshman
composition program in the English
departmentwill be implemented in the fall
1974 semester when many of the courses
will be taught by regular faculty rather
than teaching assistants.

“All members of the regular teaching
faculty will share in the responsibility of
teaching freshman English courses at one
point in the year," Jean Pival, freshman
composition director said.

The major difference in the teaching
responsibility Will be that about one-third
of the course will no longer be taught by
TA‘s and part-time faculty.

AFFECTED BY the change will be
English 101. 102 and 105, all freshman
composition courses; and English 203,
business writing, which may now be
substituted for the second semester of
freshman composition. The proposal was
recently passed by the departmental
faculty.

Major benefits of the new plan will be the
department can now be more selective in
choosing TA's, the quality of the teacher

 

increase of 40 to 50 per cent," said Dan
Chapman, University Bookstore supply
manager.

The short supply of poor quality paper
has caused the suppliers to look elsewhere
for their merchandise. ”We have been
shopping around, because so many sup-
pliers haven't been able to supply us with
what we need," said Chapman.

Not only has the price and supply of
paper products been affected by the
shortage. but so has the delivery of the
products.

CHAPMAN placed an order with the
American Pad and Paper Co. of Illinois
Sept. 18, but the order was not even
processed by the company until Dec. 3. He
does not expect the merchandise to be
'delivered until February.

The only reason the shortage will not be
affecting UK prices until next fall is that
the bookstores in this area have been
stockpiling their supply from as early as
last April.

Chapman, who usually orders supplies
on a quarterly basis, ordered enough mer-
chanise in August for a full year.

”IIOPEFL'LLY, WE‘VE got everything
we need for this year, at least until fall ‘74.
But I still haven’t received some of the
things I ordered,“ he said.

The causes of the shortage are very
complex, and there are many differing
opinions on the most important con-
tributing factors and the possible solution.

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will be improved and and the morale
problem connected with having so many
TA‘s teach the classes will be solved. Pival
said.

“The full-time staff are very much in-
terested in the freshman composition
English program and they feel this is one
of their professional obligations," she
added.

THE BREAKDOWN of the courses in-
volved for the current semester are:

—78 regular freshman composition
courses (101 and 102)

——25 composition courses, with one-half -

of the class period consisting of a televised
lecture and the other one-half utilizing a
teaching assistant in the classroom (101
and 102)

—34 advanced freshman composition
courses (105)

——16 writing for business and industry
courses (203)

DR. MICHAEL ADELSTEIN, former
director of freshman English who now
teaches most of the televised classes, said
the new system is good in “that it puts

more experienced teachers in the
classroom."

“It will also mean that assistant
professors~who are an outstanding
group—will become more actively in-
volved in teaching," he said.

Teaching assistants are capable of
handling the classes for the most part,
Adelstein said, but overall the experienced

teacher works out better.

THE CONCEPT of the new procedure
“is pretty good" if it will strengthen the
teaching program, Dennis Russ, English
teaching assistant noted.

“It is one of the hardest courses to teach
and one would think it will be better
because of the experience of the regular
faculty member,” he added.

Russ. said the new format will “take
away much of the hard animosity some
students have for the television used in
many of the freshman composition
courses.”

Exact procedures for implementing the
new plan have not yet been decided.

 

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and n. Kernel sun

Olast Kernel

0 Crash program

0 Bus strike ends

oTtmetabte proposed
o'l'apes turned over

oSaxbe vows support

OToday's weather...

0 TEMPUS FUGIT. Today‘s edition of
the Kernel will be the last one published
this semester. It has been Kernel policy to
publish only during the regular school
year, excluding holidays and exam weeks.
The next edition of the paper will greet the
University community the first day of
classes next semester, Jan. 16.

0 LONDON — Secretary of State Henry
A. Kissinger proposed Wednesday night
that the European alliesand Japan join the
United States in a crash program to sur-
mount the oil shortage by developing new
energy sources and conserving supplies.

. CINCINNATI. Ohio— City bus drivers
voted 320-111 Wednesday to ratify a new
two-year contract and end an unauthorized
strike that was in its fifth day.

Officials of Queen City Metro, notified of
the ratification. said buses would be ready

to go into service Wednesday evening. as
soon as drivers and mechanics of
Amalgamated Transit Union Local 627
showed up for work.

0 WASHINGTON — President Nixon
wants to speed the timetable for research
to make the United States self-sufficient in
its energy needs. Republican
congressional leaders said Wednesday.
Emerging from a 70-minute meeting
with the President, House GOP Leader
John J. Rhodes and Senate Republican
Leader Hugh Scott said Nixon agreed that
accelerated spending on research is
necessary even if it means budget deficits.

0 WASHINGTON — Special Watergate
Prosecutor Leon Jaworski disclosed
today that the White House has turned
over voluntarily nine presidential tapes
and that he is seeking six more.

0 WASHINGTON — Atty. Gen.-
designate William B. Saxbe vowed
Wednesday to support word for word the
charter of authority granted to special
Watergate prosecutor Leon, Jaworski.

He also pledged to alert the Senate
Judiciary Committee if the White House
raises future questions about the scope of
Jaworski‘s probe.

...flurries

The last classes of the semester will go
on today while outside the low tem-
perature will be in the 205, the weather
bureau informs us. Sometime today the
temperature will hita highin the 40$with a
50 per cent chance of showers which may
change to snow flurries. Tomorrow the
high should be in the 305 with snow flurries
ending sometime late tomorrow night.

 

     
  
  
   
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
   

 
    
  
 
  
   
   
  
   
    
  
  
  
  
   
   
  
   
   

   

   
 
 
    
 
  
  
   
   
  
  
  
 

 

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Economy, not Watergate

is Nixon's big problem

Hard as it is to believe, Watergate isn’t Richard Nixon’s
biggest obstacle to “Four More Years.”

The present oil shortage (either real or manufactured) is
affecting all facets of a weary American economy. The
common denominator, though, is crystal clear: when
Nixon is accused of Constitutional high crimes and
misdemeanors, Democratic partisanship is charged. When
troubles hit the national pocketbook, everyone is in a rage.
Hence the nature of Nixon’s problem.

People tired of lower wages, higher prices and dwindling
supplies may adopt the Watergate crimes as an excuse to
rid themselves of a man who can’t handle economic
problems.

The Nixon Administration Wednesday announced that a
million gallons of oil a re being shipped daily to Vietnam and.
Cambodia. Americans sick of Vietnam won’t be too pleased
when they can’t get fuel for their homes or cars.

People in America have gotten into the habit of eating
three meals a day; without fuel to drive the trucks which
carry produce to market, food will be a bit hard to find.
More flack for Nixon.

Taxpayers begin to think of the annual governmental
wallet assault when W-2 forms arrive after New Year’s.
This year, W-2’s will arrive as the Senate investigates why
Nixon paid so little income tax after ascending to the
Presidency. Again, more problems for Nixon.

New pressures on Senate

We can see it now. . .the Senate in special session to
consider the dismissal of Richard Nixon.

The Senators may have missed breakfast that morning
(no food), and may have to sit in chambers wearing
overcoats (no heating oil).

They will have just seen Uncle Sam take a healthy bite of
their personal income pie. They will be looking to the
elections just ahead, conscious that Republican affiliation
isn’t conducive to remaining in office.

Senators may have just left their offices, and have seen
the flood of mail from angry constituents. All the letters
seem to begin, “If you don’t do something, I’ll vote for the
other guy in November.” Some complain about food,
others about fuel, still others about unemployment.

Faced with such things, how will most Senators vote?

That‘s why Richard Nixon is in trouble now, even more
trouble than when the Watergate flood began.

Paper shortage forces
students to look ahead

UK students will return to school in January, the first
month of a new year. But many old problems will still be
hanging around.

One of the most critical is the paper shortage. Paper, as
we all know, is used extensively here. Local bookstore
managers foresee dramatic price hikes for books and
supplies next semester. Some items, though, won’t be
available at any price.

The causes of the shortage are not that important; what
matters is the immediate need for supplies.

During the holidays, students should procure as many
paper products (legal pads, ring notebooks etc.) as
possible. For once, don‘t depend on the local bookstores to
have everything. Managers have said that some orders
made in September still have not been filled. Therefore,
students should buy what they need before returning to
school, if at all possible. The prices will probably be high,
but at least they will have the needed classroom materials.

  
  

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Letters

 

Good music?

I imagine Duane Allman must be tur-
ning over in his grave after your review of
the Goosecreek-Mayan Show. To begin
with he never played a wah-wah pedal on
the stage in his entire career.

Secondly, 1 question Neill Morgan‘s
qualifications to be able to tell us what is
good music. Sure, he really knows what he
likes but that is no sign of a real taste in
music. Goosecreek played hard, UK is
hardly a rock festival for opening acts.The
noise and lack of attention the crowd gives
to opening acts was perhaps at its worst
during a memorable Taj Mahal per-
formance.

Finally, after having the opportunity to
hear the Dead perform tracks of their new
album, I can not concur with Zakem’s

atrocious review on Wake of the Flood
Maybe he ain‘t so hip? And I can’t believe
that he has a concept of progression if he‘s
still drooling over Anthem Of the Sun.

In the interest of leaving record
reviewing to the individual I remain:

Tony Watson
Liberal Arts (1’) - junior

letters policy

Letters to the Editor may concern any
topics as long as they are not libelous.
However. so everyone has an equal op-
portunity to respond, we ask that you limit
letters to 250 words. We also ask that they
be typewritten and triple-spaced for the
convience of the typesetters. All letters
must be signed, including campus ad-
dress. telephone . .auinber and
classification. Each letter 'will be
restricted to two authors; those with more

than two alurees will he signed “and
others."

UK discriminates regarding
treatment of panty- raids

By KAREN HOSKINS

Panty-raids seem to be an unavoidable
part of college life. Most campuses have
them. So how a college deals with them is
significant.

UK has chosen to ignore the involvement
of boys in panty-raids, while opting to
punish any involvement by girls.

LAST MONDAY night a mob of boys
descended on Donovan Hall chanting, “We
want silk!” The UK police soon made the
scene, but they never left their cars. They
turned their energies towards spotlighting
the windows above the crowd.

The head resident was upset. From the
office she watched to see which windows
participated in, or watched the raid. She
hounded the corridor advisers. But she
couldn’t do anything about the “raiders.”

Mixed in with the participants of the
panty-raid were CAs from Haggin Hall.
Evidently they get a perverted thrill from
handing in lists of windows that con-
tributed articles to the raid. But they made
no effort to restrain their charges.

All the while, the mature college men in
the courtyard swarmed from window to
window like ducks after bread crumbs.
Admittedly, the bread crumbs were
plentiful. l‘m not defending the bird-brains
who threw articles out the windows.

I DON'T strenuously object to the panty-
raid. Apparently a raid is the only way

these poor guys know of proving their
manhood. It would be psychologically
unsafe for them to suppress all those
strong emotions.

Besides, our free tour of the Lexington
Zoo broke the monotony of a boring
evening. A panty-raid is a good guide to
find which guys not to go out with.

What bothers me is the prison-camp
attitude directed towards the girls. i was
distinctly reminded of Hogan’s Heroes.

WE DID NOT call up and invite those
jerks over. They were the ones who were
disturbing the peace.

Apparently we girls are expected to turn
out the lights, sit in the hall and say
prayers for the souls of those poor
misguided fellows. This is a rancid left-
over attitude from 1880, when boys sowed
their wild oats and women looked the other
way.

We already know the University
discriminates againstwomen students. We
still remember the hours we had before
Thanksgiving. Monday night’s incident
was just so much more salt in the wound.

 

Karen Hoshins, a fresh physical
therapy major, is a Kernel staff
write r.

  

  

 

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U.S. and Great Britain dominate oil interests

By MICHAEL TANZER

For generations the people of the
Middle East have watched Western oil
companies invest little and relentlessly
pump out enormous quantities of irre-
placeable wealth while the region stag-
nated. For example, while the consor-
tium of Western companies in Iraq
put in no more than $50 million in
the early 1900’s, by the early 1960’s
they had taken out over $2 billion.

Moreover, the companies and their
home governments, particularly the
United States and Great Britain, have
dominated the life of the region, inter-
vening at will to make and break local
governments on the basis of their
stance toward Western oil interests.
The most famous of these interven-
tions was a two-year Western oil boy-
cott of Iran followed by a C.I.A.-
spearheaded overthrow of the Mossa-
degh regime which had dared to na-
tionalize Iran's oil industry in 1951.
It was this sequence of events which
President Nixon alluded to recently
in warning the Arab countries that
their oil boycott might boomerang on
them.

Major changes, however, in the in-
ternational oil industry have begun to
take effect. Mr. Nixon’s suggestion of
a Western oil boycott of the kind car-
ried out twenty years earlier, when oil
was in great surplus and the Middle
East was totally dominated by the
West, shows how poorly informed
he is.

The most dramatic change has been
the coordinated reduction of Arab oil
supplies to the West. Perhaps even more
important in the long run, however, is
that the Organization of Petroleum
Exporting Countries has taken advan-
tage of the accompanying sellers’ mar-
ket for oil to take more control of
the pricing mechanism. Instead of
negotiating with the oil companies
over the division of profits from their
own oil, the governments plan to
determlne this division themselves,
initially, at least, still leaving the com-
panies a handsome return.

It is this and other changes, such
as the demand of the oil-exporting
governments for an ever larger own-
ership share of their countries’ oil,
which gives rise to the possibility of
an aggressive reaction by Western oil
companies and governments to two
new factors precipitated by the dra-
matic exercise of Arab sovereignty.

The first factor is that the era of
cheap oil—cheap for the companies
but not for the consumers —- has ended,
for now. And second, Western oil
company control over Arab oil has
been greatly weakened.

For the international oil companies,
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have been accompanied by sharp in-
creases in their profits (including
profits from their other energy re-
sources, particularly natural gas, coal
and uranium in the U.S.). The pros-
pect of loss of their vast holdings in
the Middle East, either through out-
right nationalization or through con-
tinued government erosion of their
control and profitability, is, however,
something which not only shakes the
oil companies but also makes the stock
market tremble.

For the Western consumer, and par-
ticularly an American, the picture is
quite different. Because oil products
are highly taxed in developed coun-
tries, the effect of higher crude oil
prices can be offset by reductions in
these taxes. It is true that this would

mean a reduction in government rev-
enues in the developed countries, but

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such reductions, if they lead to reduc-
tions in military expenditure. would
be a blessing for every one. If the
struggle to retain Western interests
in the Middle East is going to cost
anywhere near another 50,000 lives
and $100 billion as in Vietnam, then
paying a few dollars more for a barrel
of crude oil is a cheap price indeed
for preserving the peace.

Consequently, preservation of neo-
colonial empires and economic privi-
leges in today’s revolutionary world is
almost bound to be a bad economic
investment for the people of the devel-
oped countries. Hopefully the Ameri-
can people will turn a deaf ear to
those in the Middle East who urge
United States military intervention to
solve the oil problem.

What is really needed is to termi-
nate the long exploitative era of colo-

4

Murray Tinkelman

nialism and neocolonialism in the un-
derdeveloped countries. it is time to
start a new era of fair-trade relations
between the developed and under-
developed countries in which, at a
minimum, the real value of the latter's
commodities to Western consumers
will be recognized. And, is it too much
to hope that even some more generous
payments might be made to help com-
pensate the underdeveloped countries
for the ravages of the past which have
contributed so much to their present
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Michael Tanzer, an oil
economist. is author of “The
Political Economy of In-
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derdeveloped Countries.”

U.S. apposition to genocide marked by irony

By WILLIAM KOREY

The Genocide Convention Was
adopted unanimously by the General
Assembly on Dec. 9, 1948. Opposition
to ratification in the United States has
since been marked by remarkable
irony. Extremist critics of ratification
have endowed the convention with
enormous powers that would somehow
be wielded by the international com-
munity at the expense of sovereign
states.

The international community and
contracting parties to the convention
have, in fact, been reluctant to use
the UN. machinery at all, even under
the most pressing and tragic of cir-
cumstances.

It is not surprising that the Inter-
national Court of Justice has never
grappled with the issue of genocide

even though, under Article IX, “dis-
putes” between contracting parties “re-
lating to the interpretation, application
or fulfillment" of the treaty could be
submitted to the court by a party to
the dispute. At least a dozen contract-
ing parties have inserted reservations

stating that they would not be bound
by Article IX.

No United Nations organ has even
taken upon itself the task of investi-
gating a possible case of genocide, de-
spite the fact that Article VIII provides
that ”any Contracting Party may call
upon the competent organs'” of the
UN. “to take such actions under the
charter . . as they consider appro-
priate for the prevention and suppres-
sion of acts of genocide."

Perhaps the classic case of UN. in-
difference was offered in the spring
of 1971. Tens of thousands of Bengalis
in East Pakistan, particularly the edu-
cated elite, were summarily shot by
Pakistani Government troops. But even
as the carnage was a subject of pas-
sionate discussion in the mass media
everywhere, not a word about the
Bengali plight was sounded in the
UN. Commission on Human Rights.

To cope with the threat of geno-
cidal acts, an Indian expert on the
U.N. Subcommission on Prevention
of Discrimination and Protection of
Minorities, Arcot Krishnaswami, pro-
oosed a few years ago the creation of
an international body “which would

endeavor to prevent the crime of geno-
cide before it actually occurred on a
massive scale.

The fact that at least a beginning
has been made to consider interna-
tional methods for dealing with geno-
cidal threats makes it all the more
essential that the U.S. Senate—on the
occasion of the 25th anniversary of
the convention—provide its consent
to treaty ratification. .

 

William Korey is director of
B'nai B'rith’s United Nations

office.

  

 
  
 
 
    
     
    
   
  
   
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
    
   
  
   
  
  
  
  
  
   
  
  
  
  
   
   
   
  
    
  
    
  
    
  
  
   
   
  
   
   
 
     
   
    
   

   

   
  
 
     
   
   
    
  
  
  
 
   
  
    
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
   
     
        
  
   
   
  
  
  
   
   
   
     
  
  
   
   

      
     
  
   
  
  

 

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Rights advocates

By ALANE JULIJ‘LS

 
 

UYA helps poor families

Kernel Staff Writer

Improving the physical en-
vironment of low income families
is a major responsibility of
University Year for Action
(UYA) volunteers. Volunteers
counsel families concerning their
housing needs and serve as ad-
vocates for their rights. They also
do community planning.

With funds from the federal
agency ACTION, the volunteers
earn $225 a month while helping
the indigent who otherwise might
be neglected. The students also
earn college credit.

THREE architecture students
presently are working with
Lexington's Housing Aid Corp.
Their supervisor, Larry Black, is
administrative assistant for
Housing Aid and a former UYA
student. “Without UYA volun-
teers at Housing Aid, there‘d be
less community planning, less of
everything," Black said.

Housin'g Aid is a private. non-
profit housing development
corporation funded by Com-
munity Action for Lexington
Fayette County (CALF). The
students are working on a project
for the federal Department of
Housing and Urban Development
(HUD) under the Better Com-
munity Development Act.

It is entitled, “New Town, In
Town" and the students will be
viewing another “New Town, In
Town" in Minneapolis, Minn, to
get some ideas.

THE STUDENTS explained
they research Lexington‘s 13
substandard neighborhoods,
which at one time were the heart
of the city. They study traffic
generators and traffic flow,
shopping centers, bus service,
property ownership, special
historic interest sites and the
condition of housing. Their maps
include industries, parks,
community centers and potential
areas of development.

“We come across the
same landlords over
and over.”

 

“Tnese maps allow us to see
where redevelopment can take
place,” said Duane Behne, fifth-
year architecture student. “It’s
easier t for Urban Renewal) to
get the rental areas,” he added,
“because we are not moving out
the owners. They live outside the
substandard areas.”

Chuck Swanson, a UYA student
with Lexington‘s Tenant Services
added that another reason it's
easy to get this property is the
landlords are happy to get the
money Urban Renewal will offer
for it.

Swanson explained landlords
often buy up a number of sub-
standard homes to make money
then sell to Urban Renewal when
they‘re ready. “They would get
back what‘s invested and more,"
Swanson said.

“WE COME across the same
landlords over and over,” he
continued. “The substandard
streets are divided up among all
the big property owners.“

 

The students with Tenant
Services also do research on the
amount of overcrowding. housing
shortages and the needs of the
clients who see them about
housing problems. Susie Moffitt,
a f ifth-year architecture student,
does building inspections.
Swanson acts as an advocate for

clients, making sure landlords
meet regulations.

“You always hear them saying
the tenants tear up the property,"
Swanson said. He contends most
landlords usually allow property
to deteriorate. “The building
inspector is supposed to be able to
force them to fix up the
property," Swanson explained,
“but he says if he condemns
housing, then there will be
shortages. So he uses the threat
of condemnation.”

"BUT I THINK the inspectors
have improved since we’ve been
there,” Swanson added. “They’re
a lot stricter.”

Swanson keeps a notebook of
“humorous" quotes from the
hearings. One landlord told the
inspector, “If I put the door back
on people would suffocate
because of the unvented gas
heaters.”

Another said, “If I put plum-
bing in the house, then I’d have to
put heat in. too.”

TO THE uninformed, there
would be little indication the
same landlords own property all
over town. Swanson explained
they use different names for the

many companies or corporations
which they own.

“There‘s a legal reason for it,“
he said. “If a company got sued
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then they couldn’t get sued for
much." Because many of the
houses are assessed from $300 to
$1,000, Swanson said the land-
lords also pay little tax.

HE SAID when a house was
condemned on DeRoode Street 10
years ago, the woman transfered
the deed to her son so the city
would have to go through the
condemnation procedure all over
again with him.

Another technique landlords
are noted for is exemplified by
the story of “the big rent lady,”
as told by Mike Dunagan, another
architecture student.

This same woman paid two
Irishtown men 314 to dig a privy,
according to Dunagan.
“Irishtown” is a substandard
area which was settled years ago
by the Irish working on railroads.

 

"If I put plumbing in
the house, then I ’d have
to put heat in, too.”

“Without UYA volunteers
Tenant Services would be
overworked and less effective,”
said Dunagan. He explained that
at one time IO UYA students were
working for the agency, but six
left for one reason or another.

ONE GRADUATED. another's
term ended, some had to return
to school to meet graduation
requirements. The remaining
four will finish their terms in
December, though some say they
will stay at least long enough to
orientate the new volunteers.

“If we all walked out at the
same time, there would be no
continuity," Dunagan explained.

  

 Despite problems
UYA plan successful

By ALANE JOLLES
Kernel Staff Writer

University Year for Action
(UYA) is completing its second
year. Despite some problems and
misgivings, the UYA volunteers
seem pleased with the
educational opportunities it has
provided.

UYA is funded by ACTION, a
federal agency, which includes
the Peace Corps and Vista. UYA,
administered by univerisites
throughout the country, utilizes
the talents and energy of
university students for poverty
problems. Students gain one
year‘s field experience while
earning college credit and $225 a
month.

VYRIJC OWENS. UK'S UYA
field director since January, 1972,
said before lea