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entucky

an independent student newspaper
University of Kentucky

Vol. LXIV No. 94
Friday, February 16, 1973

Kernel

Pass-no credit may replace ABC‘s;

By LINDA (‘ARNES
Kernel Staff Writer

The University Senate has been studying
an alternative to the present grading
system used at UK for several months and
has come up with a proposal.

The finished proposal suggesting a pass-
no credit system will be submitted to the
Senate for approval in about four weeks.
Dr. Stanford L. Smith. acting chairman of
the committee. said.

The original proposal presented in
Spring 1972 was sent back to committee for
further research and more detail. (irading
systems at other schools have been
evaluated and specific problems were
studied,

In the present proposal it would be
possible for a student to sign up for more
classes than he intends to take. Then he
could drop the class without notifying the

Twelve pages

school. and without it appearing on his
record. This could cause a registration
problem. Smith said, Alternatives to these
problems will be submitted with the
proposals, The Senate would then have to
vote on the best alternative.

The proposal will be a change from the
present grading system to a pass~n0 credit
system. Smith said “If it is accepted the
change would probably be done in stages."
he said

The original proposal was in two tracks,
Howell llopson. a student Senate member
said ()llt‘ option was the grading system of
A.B.('. and l). The other was a passho
credit In this proposal the student could
choose to take up to so hours of credit he
said The new proposal is no longer in two
tracks “ll the present proposal passes”
“I would want amniendments made." he
said.

Woman in blue

UK gets first uniformed gun totin' female

By BILL PINKSTON
Kernel Staff Writer
The UK police officers who work the
home basketball games usually attract
little attention from the fans; they're
always there on the concourse. the most of
the time you don‘t really notice them. One
cop at Monday ‘5 game caught a lot of eyes.
though. and caused more than one spec-
tator to take a second look.

Her name is Jean Daniels. Wait a
minute. . .a her'.’ A lady cop? If your
suprise meter just registered 10 you're
certainly not alone: Daniels is the first
woman police officer ever hired by the UK
Public Safety Division and after all, how
many lady policemen, er. policewomen, do
you see?

OFFICER DANIELS graduated last
Friday from the Kentucky Law En-
forcement Council's 10 week training
program at Eastern Kentucky University,
the only woman in her recruit class, and
joined the UK police force Monday night.

Daniels, 21, will not serve as a meter
maid, either. She will have all the duties
and responsibilities that male officers
have. She will even wear the same uniform
as male officers. “The uniform was my
idea." she said.

Inside:
Cats
replenish

ranks

A woman police officer is somewhat of a
rarity. Daniels admits, and consequently
people are astonished when she tells them
she‘s a cop. “If we pull up to a stop sign (in
the police car) people are really interested
in what I‘m doing." she said. “There's
always a double take. They say ‘You'? A
cop'.’ What do you do'."

Why does a young lady become a cop? “I
guess I‘ve watched a lot of ‘Adam l2,"‘
Daniels laughed, but explained more

JEAN DANIELS '
“watched Adam-12‘

Mike Flynn and Larry Stamper have
been reinstated to the Wildcat cage squad
as the team prepares to takeoff for a
rough road trip tomorrow and Monday.
See page 6. The US. signed an agreement
with Cuba Thursday aimed at curbing the
hijacking of planes and ships. See World
Wrapup page ll.

()ther anticipated problems, Smith said,
are: classification of full and part-time
students. determination of prooationary
status. and application to graduate
schools.

Most graduate schools evaluate on a
grade-point basis, Without this in-
formation, Smith said, they would have to
rely more on examination scores and
personal interviews. “Since graduate
schools still rely on grades for the most
part. it would be harmful to students to
graduate on the pass-no credit system." he
said

"However. only 20 percent of the
students go on to graduate school, so we
can't cater to these students only," Smith
said

Similar grading systems are in effect at
other schools across the country ()berlin.

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seriously that law enforcement is a ”very
interesting field.“ She said there is a sense
of fulfillment, a sense of doing something
for the community in being a police of-
ficer. “You feel like you're doing
something for living here."

“I think there's a real need for women in
law enforcement.“ Daniels said. Law
enforcement has traditionally been a
man‘s job, but UK's first woman cop feels
that “women can get to places that a man
can‘t. Women can do jobs that men haven‘t
been able to do."

HOW DO THE MALE officers feel about
her? "I get along with all the men real
well,“ Daniels said. “They treated me
really great."

Daniels graduated from Lafayette High
School in Lexington and worked as a
secretary at UK for three years before
deciding to train for police work. “This is
more exciting,“ she said, “I really enjoy
it. I love it." Daniels plans to enroll in the
four year degree program in law en—
forcement at EKU this fall, sandwiching
classes between her job at UK.

If you look for officer Daniels and can‘t
find her cruising around in the patrol car
it‘s probably because you‘re home in bed.
She works the 11 p’.m. to 7 am. shift. “I
don‘t get any special faVOrs," she said.

Outside:
Frostbite

Lexington, Kentucky 40506

Last seen wearing. . .

Water basketball? Not exactly. but
all that rain Wednesday didn‘t seem to
dampen Jim Metry's enthusiam for a
game. (Kernel photo by (‘huck
Breidert)

UK rehab
expands as

funds diminish

By FLOYD R. GIVENS
Kernel Staff Writer

You can live in the love of the
common people by being a
student funded by the state‘s
vocational rehabilitation agency
but “it‘s hard eating on $15.50 a
month,“ a girl on Rehab said as
she picked up her “maintenance"
check. last fall.

“The (Rehab) program ex-
panded so much during the past
few years.“ said Jake Karnes,
UK Director of Handicap Student
Services. Less funds were
available because of other state
priorities, he added.

Karnes. Med Center counselor,
Jean Christensen. and Pam
White. a part-time worker who
takes care of UK‘s Rehab finance
management. all spoke of a
“cutback“ in the funds.

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We finally got the snow, probably the
snow of the year. so cherish it. The
forecast calls for clear skies and cold
noses. The high temperatures will be in the
upper 30's with a low in the low 20‘s
tonight.

 

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Editorials

Edltoriels reoresent the oplnloh at me Ealtonel Board, not the University.

The
Kentucky
Kernel

pan Rhee. Day News Editor |
John Hicks, Photography Edltor
Mike Tierney, Manning honor CMflte Dickinson, Sports Editor
Larry" Kielkopt, Associate Editor Joel Zlkem, Arts Editor

Katie McCarthy. Ron Mitchell. Steve Switt, Night News Editors

Established Is"
Mike Wines. Editor ln-Chiet

A&S course:
Hypocrisy 72

x.- “g 3. .--- By HOWELL "()PSON
‘ ‘ ” The General Studies program of the

Senate should study
new grade proposals

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“No matter where our private

 

conversations would start, they would
inevitably conclude with grades...f
asked him once what they were
learning in chemistry...He answered.
“The formula for staying in college.”

—-Change Magazine, Nov., 1972

Grades are funny things. On one
hand, students boast they can bum
their way through school on a “B"
average, that grades don't mean
anything; while the same un-
dergraduates struggle through
midterms and finals with the look of
impending doom on their faces.

Teaching assistants still fuzzy-
faced from their B.A.'s condemn the
grade system as arbitrary and unfair,
but raise barely a whimper against
the same procedure they attack.
Students...students, like the one
quoted above, learn the right formula
and stick with it.

We find it heartening, then, that the
University Senate’s committee on
grading procedures should decide to
recommend changes in Kentucky‘s
present grading policy. We have
lambasted it in the past as archaic
and based on punishment rather than
reward, and we shall continue to do so
until it is changed.

Our purpose is not to applaud or gj"
condemn the commmittee’s work. lts .

first report, sent to the Senate Council
last year, was rushed back to com-
mittee with a directive to tone it
down, and we expect nothing earth-
shaking in the upcoming proposals.

That is as it should be. Any change
in the grading system should be

gradual and well-prepared for.
But those who are already firmly

entrenched against changes in the
five-grade system now used should
lower their guards long enough to give
thought to finding a fairer, less ar-.
bitrary system.

The present system is less than
perfect, but few better models have
come to light so far. One respected
academician said recently that few, if
any of the new grade systems now in
use stray far from the basic pass-or-
fail concept of A-B-C-D-E‘s, and he‘s
right. UK‘s own pass-fail concept,
based on that premise, has been
miserably underused.

Part of that is due to the stigma of a
“different grade“ as being the
chicken‘s way out of a class as long as
something else is available. We‘ve
reached a sorry state when students
become that indoctrinated into the
search for A’s whether they learn
anything or not.

 

 

 

 

Gamfilan

Unfortunately, our grades are a bit
like an old-fashioned corset—
uncomfortable as the devil, but the
only thing available to keep those bell
curves in the_proper place. It will be
difficult to find a better and fairer
replacement.

But that shouldn't stop us from
trying to find that better way—not an
easier ride for students, who have it
easy enough already; but a way to
eliminate the meaningless
pigeonholing of people now going on.

It is our hope the Senate committee
will find that way, and that if it does,
the Senate at large will give it serious
consideration.

A correction

The Kernel‘s Wednesday editorial,
“Draft Resisters Guilty of
‘Premature Morality‘“ contained an
inacurate statement concerning
President Truman‘s amnesty policy.

The Kernel stated, “After the
battles of World War II had drawn to a
close, President Truman granted
amnesty for all those who chose not to
serve." This statement is not true. In
actuality, Truman granted amnesty
to about one-tenth of the 15,000
resisters who were in federal custody.

However, according to the Feb. 17,
1973 issue of “The New Republic,"
five other Presidents—~George
Washington, John Adams, Thomas
Jefferson, James Madison and
Abraham Lincoln did not prosecute
and did grant amnesty to rebels and
deserters.

 

Leiiersj

 

Ford doesn't have
a better idea

This letter concerns your Feb. 8
editorial, ”Will suit make board equal?" It
seems to me that The Kernel has missed
the whole point of the lawsuit.

The students involved in the suit want to
prove to Gov. Ford that he, like any other
citizen in the state, must obey the law.

The University is our institution. and if a
law is being violated that directly affects
the students of that institutionthen it is the
job of the students to see that something is
done.

And if The Kernel thinks that the statute
is discriminatory, then it should direct its
complaint to Gov. Ford, because he was
the originator of the bill.

But the students involved in the lawsuit
are doing the rest of us a favor, in proving
to Gov. Ford that he must abide by the law
like the rest of us.

' Donna Maloney
Junior--History

Absurd demands

reflect on movement

I note that while Barbara J. Sutherland
(Letters, Feb. 9), takes umbrage at Bruce
Singleton's tongue in cheek comment visv
a-vis the brain and brawn of Sally
Struther's situation in the film
“Getaway", she fails to mention the un-
derlying portent of Susan Blankenship's
acceptance of her role as the hear of “little
brain“ in “Winnie the Pooh" (reviewed by
Betty Wilson—The Arts—Feb. 8).

Butseriously folks. . .The argument that
women, in pushing their demands to ab—
surd lengths, reflects upon the worth of
their movement as a whole, making it
appear ridiculous and concerned only with
very trite issues, cannot be denied when
such letters are published under the
banner of “Women's Rights“.

Pamela Keogh
Sophomore——A&S

Letters to the editor should not exceed
250 words. Send views to LETTERS.

The Kentucky Kernel, 114 Journalism
Bldg, Campus. Letters should be
typewritten and double-spaced and
should include name, classification,
major. and telephone number.

  

University of Kentucky is evidence of the
University‘s commitment to liberal arts
education. UK is committed to higher
education as something more than just
learning a trade.

History students are required to take
science courses, and engineering students
are required to study literature; thus we
have the General Studies program.

Educators disagree as to the exact
definition of a liberal arts education. But,
the importance of three components is
seldom disputed: the development of the
intellect, the development of an “inquiring
attitude," and the destruction of provin-
cialisms.

The proposal which brought the General

Howell
Hopson

Studies program into being shows these
were implicit goals of the program.

The General Studies program is a failure
because it assumes that merely requiring
a student to take a certain number of
courses with certain prefixes will
automatically provide him with an op-
portunitiy to gain a meaningful education.
The difficult job of education is replaced
with the relatively easy task of requiring
students to take certain large classes.

The idea is that exposure to a body of
knowledge will automatically result in the
student's becoming liberally educated.
That is false because it emphasizes the
acquisition of knowledge more than the
manner in which the material is mastered.

The memorization of logical principles
will not develop clarity of thought, unless
the student also receives frequent
criticisms of his or her oral arguments
from professors. The memorization of
historical facts will do little to reduce a
student‘s temporal provincialism unless
the professor encourages the student to
relate personally to the people who existed
in the historical situation. The mere
memorization of any body of knowledge
will do little to encourage the student to
become a self learner.

The College of Arts and Sciences
professes to have a commitment to liberal
arts education as evidenced by the
rhetoric supporting the panicky degree
proposals of last spring. The resulting
degree requirements represent the lowest
sort of hypocrisy. While protecting its
concept of liberal arts education by avidly
dreaming up new requirements for
students. the college faculty failed to give
more than superficial consideration to the
quality of courses that it was requiring
students to take. The college faculty might
be compared to liberals who voice support
for bussing, but send their own children to
private schools. The college gives lip
service to the concept of liberal arts
education, but fails to work to see the
concept manifested in the classroom.
Rather than face its neglect, the College of
Arts and Sciences has chosen hypocrisy as
the easiest course.

 

 

   

Howell Hopson will write a weekly
column on academic affairs for The
Kernel.

 

 

  

‘Poetry ain't going to feed me

the New York Times News Servnce

Black Scholar—What are some of
the things you and the Black Panther
party have been doing recently?

Seale—We’ve been trying to do some
concrete organizing. To get the people
organized in the community, they have
to have something concrete to unify
around. So, we are trying to make an
example out of Oakland. We want to
unite black people around my mayor-
alty campaign simultaneously with
our survival programs.

Q—You are referring to your candi-
dacy for the mayor of Oakland?

Seale—Yes, and Elaine Brown is go-
ing to run along with me as a candi-
date for councilwoman. The city of
Oakland has four seats open—the
mayoral seat and three other city
council seats. We will probably slate
up with one Chicano and another black
brother or sister from some other
black community organization that
generally relates and understands what
we are doing.

Q—How does this campaign relate
to the movement?

Seale—One thing in the past that’s
happened is that people saw the issues
in many cases but they were never
really organized to take control of the
existing institutions that affected their
lives. This is the party’s analysis.

To use Oakland's institutions as a
means to run the survival program is
to organize and unify the people, and
make those institutions serve the peo-
ple. But the main thing to do, of
course, is get the racist flunkies and
lackeys of the capitalist ruling class
out of the system.

Oakland is 50 per cent black. There’s
also a 12 per cent Chicano population
in Oakland. The greater population of
the city of Oakland is over 60 per cent
Chicano and black. But there's another
aspect to winning an election besides
population—that’s effective organiza:
tion.

For out of all those confrontations
—out of all the organizing efforts
since 1954 how many real institutions
do we control? Very few. Yet, there’s
potential all over the country, espe~
cially in counties, whole counties
throughout the South. County seats
are white racially controlled because
they are gerrymandered.

Q—That period in which Eldridge
Cleaver was a major influence in the
Black Panther party has been de-
scribed by Huey P. Newton as a pe~

riod of party alienation from the black
community. Could you clarify that
for us?

Seale—It’s all related to the original
vision of the party and how at one
point Eldridge Cleaver—we call him
the hidden traitor—was the key to
influencing large numbers of the party.
You can’t blame it all on Eldridge
Cleaver’s hangups. You have to blame
it on a large body of the party. Huey
had disagreed with the method they
were using of telling the preacher to
either throw the Bible away or pick
up the gun; or if you gonna keep the

 

 

Gmment

 

By CHRISTOPHER HAHIN

You‘re an employee in a plant
about to be unionized. Dues will
be exacted for union mem-
bership, and. of course. payment
is made in advance prior to entry.
ln return. you receive all sorts of
unspecified generalized benefits
procured for you by your elected
representatives. KYSPIRG
conjures up a similar image. The
$80.000 per year carte blanche
that KYSPIRG asks for is an
ominous sign.

The areas KYSPIRG will be
investigating are so broad that
one is hesitant to fork over his $4
for glittering generalities.
Nowhere are referendums
mentioned where the con-
tributors to the fund can deter-
mine the direction and emphasis
KYSPIRG will take. Since this is
essentially an $80,000 grant,
several concrete proposals

should be made public. and then

voted upon. For example, if 10
proposals. each described in
terms of intended actions. ex-
pected costs. and probability of
success. were listed on a ballot.
two or three of those of greatest
plurality could then become
KYSPIRG projects.

AS LONG AS no steering
mechanism is in effect, this lack
of contributor control remains
unpalatable. This feature makes
KYSPIRG reminiscent of other
organizations which draw upon
our tax money but serve us in
very nebulous ways. Also, no
contingency plans seem to be in
evidence in case of complete
contributor dissatisfaction with
intended investigations.

Even if such contributor
control mechanisms are
engineered. what other in-

formation or benefits can one
derive from KYSPIRG. if he is
already a contributor to the

THE KENTl'CKY KERNEL Friday. February l6. 1973—3

Bible, get out of my way because I'm
going to shoot you. He was confront-
ing too many people with these either-
or propositions. You alienate the com-
munity right away like that.

But in fact, probably 40 per cent
of the whole black population in this
country is sitting in church every
Sunday morning. It’s absurd to ignore
all of the black people sitting there.
If you think they are getting brain-
washed, then why don't you go in
there? If you can relate some aspect
of your philosophy to theirs, then check
it out. If we believe in collective C01

Phlllppe Wellbecker

always'

operatives and cooperativism at this
point to try to help build this frame-
work, it really points philosophically
to the point of view of share and
share alike, right? They also teach that
in the church, right? We believe that
the racist police shouldn’t shoot, kill
and murder us, you know, and that
we shouldn't fight each other.

Why alienate yourselves from that
opportunity, that interconnected rela-
tionship? You can establisha broader
relationship with the church memhegs,
The church members, a lot of them,
try to relate in terms of the breakfast
for children program. They can dig
on that, you know. They might not
be able to articulate it like we would
analyze it or show a broad analysis,
etc., but that’s keen.

These are the things that either-or-
ism didn’t allow comrades and the
party members necessarily to do. Even
though they might have had a few
breakfast for children programs in the
church, they alienated a lot of com-
munity people who thought it was a
beautiful program.

A lot of things we drew in the
party newspaper tended to make the
people believe the establishment. So
that was part and parcel of the alien-
ation; because we didn‘t have a lot
of constructive programs. I think the
first constructive program—patroling
police—was really initially a construc-
tive program because it was an educa-
tional point we wanted to get over. We
wanted to get the idea over of self-
defense and then educate the peo-
ple, not only for self-defense against
racist police attacks and bullets, but
to defend themselves against hunger,
famine, rats and roaches, dilapidated
housing, unemployment, etc.

Poetry ain't going to feed me al-
ways. An old black man told me one
time, “Poetry might be all right. You
all talking about raising my conscious-
ness, but you can't raise no hungry
man’s consciousness. His conscious-
ness is on some food.” Get him fed
somewhat and relieve the agony and
then he might be able to read the
poetry and know what you're talking
about, although the poetry is neces-
sary, too, to develop his consciousness
but how can you get him to read it
when he’s in agony?

This excerpted interview with Bobby
Scale appeared in The Black Scholar,
a journal of black studies and research.

 

Contributor control mechanisms
would fill KYSPlRG loopholes

(‘onsumers l'nion. the Sierra
(‘lub, the National Urban League.
the NAACP. or (‘ommon (‘auseT’
(‘an we expect 400 to 600 page
reports reading like courtroom
testimony about the Army
wasting money at various depots
throughout Kentucky"? (‘an we
justify giving money to another
organization which will
proliferate more information or
litigate for new and tougher laws
which may never be effectively
enforced when we already have a
myriad number of problems to
solve right now',’

ANOTHER l'NSAVURY
aspect of this proposed
organization is that it smacks of
being a launching platform for
young activist lawyers. who
would then be given the op-
portunity to establish themselves
as seedling Naders at our ex-
pense It is by no coincidence that
Ralph Nader has established

himself as a consumer
representative without election.
As a consumer activist who can
pick and choose areas he thinks
are of interest to himself, Nader
can do so without sanction of his
supporters, Nader in-
stitutionalized himself when he
sought contributions via solicited
campaign. In the case of
KYSl’lRG. contributions are not
even voluntary. but are almost
like a withholding tax,

For these reasons. I cannot
support this mandatory
assessment until better controls
and more concrete proposals are
made public. and such
procedures become the written
by laws of this group as endorsed
by voteof l'mversity of Kentucky

students,“ ., .. . , -

Christopher Hahin is a
graduate student majoring in
Metallurgy.

     

 

 

  

4-—'I‘HE KENTUCKY KERNEL. Friday. February IS. 1973

Saint Augustine’s Chapel is the Episcopal Church
serving the campus community
SPRING SERVICE

The Sacrament of Penance is available

  
  
 
  
 

SCHEDULE by appointment with the Chaplain
Counselling by appointment with the
SundaYs Chaplain
10:30 am. Holy Eucharist and CANTERBURY HOUSE
Sermon is the Episcopal Student Center on

 

Campus.
CANTERBURY PILGRIM
PLAYHOUSE
is a drama group housed at the Center. it
is presenting tour productions annually.
and is open to anyone interested in the
theatre,
The Rev. William K. Hubbell, Chaplain
Office: 254-3726 Home: 266-2046

5:00 p.m. Holy Eucharist

  

6:00 p.m. Supper

  
 

Tuesdays
12:05 p.m. Holy Eucharist

   
 

Wednesdays

5:30 p.m. Holy Eucharist and
Healing Service

  
 

 

        

Saint Augustine’s Chapel and Canterbury House
472 Rose Street Lexington, Kentucky

 
 

 

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Handicapped seek
access to campus

By MARGARET HUGE

Kernel Staff Writer
Major problems of han—
dicapped students and how they
might be solved were discussed
at a meeting of the Handicapped
Students Union Wednesday af-
ternoon, in the Student Center.
“I would like to ask for two
more parking spaces in the
Commerce parking area," said
Bill Nichol, president of the
Handicapped Student Union. The
handicapped students com~
plained that students without
disabilities were parking in the
spaces designated for han-

dicapped students

The handicapped students had
been advised by the Public Safety
Division to call them if they saw
unauthorized cars in their
parking zones, Although the lots
are watched as closely as
possible. there is still a lot of
trouble with unauthorized cars.

THE PROBLEM of busing
these students has been quite a
problem in the past. Now with the
five new buses coming soon, they
expect at least one of them to be
equipped with hydraulic lifts for
students in wheelchairs.

“()ne of the general problems
for the wheelchair student or the
students with limited walking
ability is the accessability of the

campus, that is. the access to
steps or curbings, using the
telephone, water foutains, or
heavy doors." said Jacob Kar-
nes. director of Handicapped
Students Services.

OVER THE last three years
many improvements have been
made to make the campus more
accessable to the handicapped
students. Some of the curbs have
been leveled, sidewalks are
designed so people in wheelchairs
can get to their classes, and
restrooms in some of the
buildings are equipped for them,
Karns said.

The problem for the blind
student of finding out where he is
in the building has been partially
solved. There are Braille labels
on most of the doors and in the
elevators. said Karnes.

“Restrooms in the (‘lassroom
Building. (‘ommerce Building,
and the (‘hemistry Physics
building have been modified for
wheelchairs. Not all of them but
at least one on each floor.“
Karnes continued. "Plans are to
continue to modify bathrooms in
the Student (‘enter and Dickey
Hall."

“We are improving on the
accessability part and it looks
like we‘ve got a pretty good thing
going. We Just need more of what
is being done." Karnes said.

UK grade system

up for change

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a liberal arts school in Ohio and the
University of (‘alifornia at Santa (‘ruz
have made drastic changes in their

grading structure.

successfully.

which are working

“We can‘t really compare [K to schools
such as these because they are special
schools,“ Smith said

If the proposal passes it would probably
go into effect on an experimental basis, he
added. It would be one or two years before
it could be enacted. An allocation in the
budget would have to be made before the
changes could take place. The earliest that
could be would be one year from July,

Smith said.

  

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Cutting salons

Modern solution to frizzies
and other hair problems

By GARY RAwuNGs
Kernel Staff Writer

With today‘s emphasis on hair,
it‘s no wonder that some en-
terprising young hairstylists
have adapted to the trends and
started boutiques, cutting salons
and modernistic barbershops.
()ur own Lexington. in fact.
boasts some of the finest hair
design shops in the country.

This trend began a few years
ago with the longer styles giving
the first wearers hell, because
there were no barbershops that
knew how to maintain, or much
less cut, these new styles.

“My mother was a hairdresser.
so l was always interested in the
field,“ said Jerry Spry a local
hair stylist. “So when I started in
the business, I wanted to be able
to do the newest styles around.
This means that you have to seek
out the best in the world and learn
from them. In order to do this, a
hair cutter must go to Europe,
where the trends come from. and
bring the new styles back with
him.“

Hair, itself, is made up of very
intricate molecules formed
when proteins combine with
enzymes to form amino acids.
These amino acids join with
peptide bonds to form polypep-
tide chains that make up
carotene which, in turn, forms
hair. As the hair pierces through
the pores on the scalp, an oil is
secreted, too. This oil is the
sebum and this is where most of
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When this sebum accumulates,
it dries and leaves what we call
dandruff. Actually, there are two
types of dandruff, the other being
simply dry, dead scalp tissue
which we all have to some ex-
tent. Anyone can rid him~or
her-mself of this problem by
washing the hair regularly with a
good, mild shampoo and a
scrubber to remove this flackey
skin.

The consensus of the hair
stylists 1 spoke with tell me the
important thing to remember
about shapoos is, for best results
use a shampoo that is as close to
neutral as possible on the PH
scale. This is true because,
although hair has no PH, The
sebum surrounding it has a PH of
4.2, making it an acid.

S0 WHEN a highly alkaline
shampoo comes in contact with
your hair, the hairshaft swells.
Upon close examination a hair
shaft looks like little shingles
overlapping each other. When
they swell. the shingles open up
like a pine cone and release
moisture, causing the chaft to dry
out and become brittle.

Other side-effects of this
reaction are split ends and
tangles. ['1] bet you didn‘t think
all that stuff on top of your head
was so complicated, did ya?

By using a creame rinse you
can help alleviate this problem
because, being acidic, rinses will
shrink the hair shafts and close
the pores to some extent.

However, a knowledgeable cutter.

  

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will advise you to avoid the fancy
rinses that contain balsam,
proteins, etc., because most of
these additives are fillers. That
is, they don’t close the pores, they
just fill them up, making for an
accumulation of a gummy
substance that is hard to remove
even with shampooing.

PROTEIN IS probably the
biggest hoax because, although it
is beneficial to the basic chemical
building process, it has no value
when it is poured on the hair. To
say that protein in a shampoo or
rinse can help your hair is like
saying thatyou can heal a broken
hand by imersing it in a tub of
milk! The pros agree that regular
use of a moisturizing conditioner
gives best results.

Basically, the three things that
determine how your, hair looks
are first, the chemicals that yo