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Thursday, Jan. 29, 1970

UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY, LEXINGTON

UK Awaits Nunn's
Budget Decision

By BILL MATTHEWS
Assistant Managing Editor
While Kentucky legislators
probe Cov. Louie B. Nunn's executive budget in Frankfort, UK
administrators are waiting anxiously to see Just how much
money will be available to them
for the 1970-7- 2 biennium.
Although Cov. Nunn recommended a 20.6 percent increase
in state spending for higher education in the state budget he
submitted to the legislature in
January, UK did not get all the
funds it requested.
The $227.8 million budget that
UK proposed last November included the allocation of $144.3
million in state aid; however,
the governor recommended only
$119 million in his executive budget.
When President Otis A.
was questioned about the
cut in UK's request for funds
during a recent interview, his
response was, "We wish we had
gotten more, but we can live
with the governor's budget.
Not Improvement Budget
"It is not an expansion or improvement budget, nor even a
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continuation budget," the president commented in describing
the proposed allocation.
"I think the governor has done

his best by us (higher education)," Singletary added, "we'll
do our best with it."
Despite the budget cut in the
funds UK asked of the state,
(assuming the full. $119 million
the governor suggested is forthcoming), UK will have more
money than in the last biennium.
For example, the amount budgeted for the current year of the
present biennium is $51,907,100.
The original budget proposed by
UK broke down to $68,150,700
for the first year of the new
biennium and $76,179,200 for the
second.
And even though the governor
only recommended $119 million in
state funds, his proposed breakdown of the UK budget for the
biennium was $57,430,000 for the
first year and $61,590,000 for the
second.
Negligible Increases
But in terms of growth and
development, the increases are
negligible.
Singletary commented that
"any further cuts in the University budget would be a disaster
budget," because of the "tre--

mendous" fixed costs the school

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must pay.
Kernel Staff Writer
fixed costs, which
University
The Office of the Student
are increasing each year, include,
emment announced Wednesday
for example, debt service for camthat it has submitted to the
pus construction, increased social
University Senate Council "a prosecurity and general operating
posal to involve students in Unicosts.
versity Senate committee decision-Thus, what appears to be an
making."
in funds over past years
increase
Tim Futrell, Student Governis actually only enough to meet
ment president, said "If the Unithe basic necessities of the camversity Senate is to be a genuine
pus.
assembly, representative of all
President Singletary pointed
elements in the University comout that the governor's budget
does not allow for the creation of
munity, it must be reformed immediately to involve students in
or new positions.
new programs
Senate decision-making- ."
The University is also faced
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The proposal asks that a total
the dilemma of dividing
with
Kernel Photo by Miml Fuller of 41 students be named to the
scarce money between hiring new
ten University Senate commitinstructors to meet expected inReligious-Fol- k
tees. At present, only four stucreases in student population and
salaries to remain The Reverend Ian Mitchell and his wife, Caroline, presented a dents serve on the senate, all on
raising faculty
concert to a crowded audience last night at Memorial the Student Affairs committee.
on par with those comparable religious-fol- k
Student Government proposes
Hall. Father Mitchell wrote the first American folk mass in 1960,
to other schools.
that student senate members be
while in a Chicago mission, and has since become a "roving min-istShortage Of State Funds
of music" with the permission of the Episcopal Bishop of Utah. appointed in the following manThe president said that there
ner: "The Student Government
are some plans previously made
president, with approval of the
which cannot be implemented
Student Government Assembly,
due to the shortage of additione
shall submit a list of
are
al state funds, and there
students twice in number to the
some areas of the University
number of positions on each comwhich probably will have their
mittee to the University presifunds cut back.
Polk Smith O'Neill, one of the on Newtown Pike, but explained
Unithe president indi- four former UK students presently that they had no actual plan for dent. The president of the the
Although
versity shall then appoint
cated he was considering the on trial in the Fayette County its use.
committee members from the list
prospect of budget cuts within Circuit Court for attempted arEmbry further explained that of names submitted."
the University, he said he could son, was released from charges the four still had no plans for
A University Senate Council
not be more specific at this time. after Wednesday afternoon's pro- the gasoline even after they had
subcommittee composed of Dr.
firm de- ceedings.
"We can't make any
put it into the ten bottles which Stephen Diachun, Dr. Nicholas
cisions on the new biennium,"
At the close of the prosecuthey had acquired from a conJ. Pisacano and Dr. Paul G.
Singletary said, because there tion's case, Judge N. Mitchell tainer near Donovan Hall.
Sears is studying the proposal
are no concrete facts to work Meade instructed the jury to reHe continued, describing how and will soon submit its recomuntil the legislature con- turn a verdict of acquittal in
with
mendations to the full Senate
four sat under
firms the state budget.
O'Neill's case because of insuf- the the Commerce a ramp adjoinBuilding on the Council.
ing
ficient evidence to link him to
Other Schools Restricted
Futrell said he hopes the SenUK campus and how he and
Singletary added "other state the May 13th incident.
O'Neill had decided to return to ate Council will study the proSgt. David Lawrence of the his
universities are in the same boat"
posal and put it on its March
apartment.
and UK is not the only school Lexington Police Department
While leaving the campus, he agenda.
to feel the restrictions of the lack identified the latent fingerprints
Student Government has also
said, they heard a maintenance
of funds for higher education. of two of the remaining defenproposed an amendment to the
Gov. Nunn's budget include dants, Michael Alan Bernard and man yell at them and saw a UK
Please Turn To Pare 6
the first funds for Northern Ken- Bennie Joseph Bond Jr., on bot- police cruiser.
tles found at the campus on
"I laid the bottles down and
tucky State College.
The newly created school, May 13. The bottles were introproceeded to run," Embry said.
whose nucleus is the present UK duced by the prosecution as eviBernard and Bond testified
community college at Covington, dence during Tuesday's proceedFull-tim- e
during the night session of the
students can still
would receive $2.5 million if the ings.
court, and also contended that obtain accident and sickness in- (
executive budget is approved.
Embry described their moods there had been no plan to bum surance
the Student GovThe governor did not, how- as despondent over the recent any buildings on the UK cam- ernment. through
ever, recommend the funding of deaths of two of their friends. pus.
Rates will be adjusted for covn He
also said that they had
two community colleges in
Bond said, "I'm not being
erage for one semester, from JanClas-gostarted drinking at about 8 p.m. cynical, but if I had intended to
and his hometown,
to August, rather than a full
and that after drinking for some burn down UK, with four years uary
year.
Creation of both Northern time they became "highly ine- in the Marine Corps, I believe
Additional information is
Kentucky State and the two com- briated and wanted to do some- I could have done it adequate- - available in the Student Governmunity colleges was authorized thing."
ly"
ment office, on the second floor
but not funded by the 1968
He told of their purchase of
The trial was to reconvene of the Student Center.
gasoline from a service station today at 9 a.m.

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'Illogical Thinking9 An Effect Of Marijuana

EDITOR'S NOTE: This article, and perceptiveness, of relaxathe last in a series on drugs, tion, and stimulates appetite.
A UK psychiatrist, Dr. Abrasummarizes the information in
ham Wikler, says? however, that
articles.
the previous
By RAY HILL
Kernel Staff Writer
Surveys and interviews indicate marijuana is used more by
Kentucky college students than
any other drug. Detective Sergeant Frank Fryman of the Lexington Police Department estimates 12 percent of the UK student body smokes pot regularly.
e
(pot
marijuana
rich with the intoxicating substance THC) often produces a feelings of increased creativity
feeling of heightened sensitivity and intellectuality are illusions.
to music, of increased creativity "One of the dangerous things
High-grad-

about marijuana,"

he says, "is

that it makes illogical thinking

pleasurable."
Medical research
indicates
marijuana increases heart rate,
lowers body temperature, and
sometimes reddens the eyes. No
conclusive information exists to
indicate the effects of marijuana
on the body if used over a long
period of time.
Some researchers report severe psychotic reactions of users
after smoking marijuana. Others
report no response of any kind.
Some users say it relaxes them.
Others say it makes them happy.
Some say it is dangerous. Others
say it is harmless

Legal Penalties
Much
exists
disagreement
concerning marijuana. One thing
is certain, however. The penalty in Kentucky for using marijuana is from two to 10 years in
prison for the first offense, and
from five to 20 years for the second offease.
Drugs most often abused fall
into four categories: hallucinogens, stimulants,
depressants,
and narcotics.
Of the hallucinogenic drugs,
LSD is probably the most
A quantity of LSD as
small as a speck of dust can
send its user on a trip lasting
about 12 hours.
well-know-

The first LSD trip was taken

by Dr. Albert Hoffman in 1943
when he accidentally swallowed
a small amount of the drug.
Since Dr. Hoffman's trip, increasing numbers of people have
used LSD.
500 Times With LSD
One of the better known

ad-

vocates of LSD use is Dr. Timothy Leary, former Harvard professor, who claims he has tripped over 500 times with LSD.
Leary said the suicide rate for
those who use LSD is less than
the rate for those who do not
use the drug. He said "mari- -

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2

29, 1970

Isaacs Sidesteps Controversy

Commission Investigates Student Newspapers

LOS ANGELES (CrS)-U- ni
Hitch told the Regents he would
versity of California Regents have study the report and make recreceived a mildly worded report ommendations at some future
on student newspapers from a date.
The commission, chaired by
special commission the Regents
created to investigate the news- Norman Isaacs, executive editor
of the Louisville
papers.
University President Charles carefully sidestepped the contro
Courier-Journa-

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in-

vestigation.

Regent John Canaday had
charged last March that UC campus newspapers had "taken on
the character of media for the
propagation of radical political,
and social philosophies, the ad-- .

torial and pictorial content and
they evidence little or no dedication to truthful and objective
reporting, nor any attempt to
maintain editorial balance."
The report concludes the
newspapers on the nine UC campuses are "a small, but valid,
of the problems, uncertainties, range of guidance,
and degrees of faculty indifference or neglect characterizing
so much of college journalism
across the nation."
Canaday denounced the report, calling it "the silliest thing
I've ever read." He told the
Regents, "There is no indication that they have given any
consideration to the possibility
that the radical and militant
activists on our campuses may
be using our campus publications
as instrumentalities for promoting their objectives."
The commission, which also
included William Arthur, editor
of Look Magazine, Edward Barrett, former dean of Columbia
School of Journalism, and Thomas Winship, editor of the Boston
Globe, declined to specifically
criticize any newspaper or article, restricting itself to generalities. It recommended that:
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which are generally unacceptable and promoting the total
disrespect of all authority."
Canaday also charged the papers "abound in obscene edi-

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Editors were generally relieved the investigation had not
gone the route of the Canaday
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Concern with the report centered on what seemed to be the
"patronizing attitude," as UC
Irvine New University editor
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Stimulant Abuse May Cause Psychosis
Continued From Pace On
is tlic greatest gift Cod
ever Rave the human race."
Doctors say LSD increases
pulse and heart rate, causes a
rise in hlood pressure and temperature, and dilates the eyes,
among other things. No conclusive evidence has been found
between LSD and chromosomal
breaks. Hut if LSD docs break
chromosomes, the damage is
permanent, doctors report.
"All hallucinogenic druks taken in sufficient doses are dangerous," says Dr. Harris Isl)cll,
professor of medicine and pharmacology at the Medical Center.
"Reappearance of the hallucinated, disorganized state may
appear months after the original
effect has worn off, he says.
Psychotic Condition
Another danger is that "LSD
may trigger a permanent psychotic condition," says Dr. Abraham Wikler. "Accidents may occur in judgement. A person may
tliink he is invulnerable to injury and step out in the path of
traffic and be killed."
While under the influence of
the drug, he said, the user "may
think he can fly and jump out a
window to his death. He may
act out suicidal tendencies while
under the influence of the drug
and kill himself."
Stimulants are also abused.
Enough of these drugs were

juana

produced by the drug industry
last year to provide every American with 25 doses, report
spokesmen for the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH).
The dangers of abusing stimu-- .
lants, says the NIMH, are that
they can drive a person to do
things beyond his physical endurance and leave him exhausted. Heavy doses may cause
a temporary toxic psychosis
which

requires

The psychosis is usually accompanied by auditory and visual
hallucinations.
Abrupt withdrawal of the drug from the
heavy abuser can result in a
deep suicidal depression.

Barbiturates
are physically
addicting, doctors report. The
lody builds up tolerance and
needs increasingly higher doses
to feel their effects. Physical
dependence on barbiturates is
Effect Nervous System
more difficult to cure than physiDepressants are also abused. cal dependence on opiates, Dr.
These drugs depress the central Islcll says.
nervous system, resulting in
Narcotics are also abused by
Ixxly relaxation. Probably the
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known of the depressants
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29, 1970

Editor-in-Chi-

Goorce II. Jcpson. Manaeina Editnr

Bob Brown, Editorial rage Editor
Rotart Duncan, Advertising Manager
Frank Coots, Associate Editor
Chip Hutthcson, Sports Editor
Dan Gossett, Arts Editor
Gwen Ranney, Women a Tage Editor
Don Rosa, Cartoonist
Patrick Mathcs, Mike Hcrndon, Jeannie Lcedom, Bill
Matthews, Jean Renaker
Assistant Managing Editors

Perverted Priorities
President Nixon's veto of the
appropriations bill for the Departments of Labor and Health, Education and Welfare, is
but indicates a mistake
in priorities. Nixon vetoed the bill
because of its inflationary tendencies, but ignored the dire consequences the veto could have on
education in America.
well-intentione-

d,

The President's efforts to turn
back inflation are commendable,
but they should not necessarily
cancel programs with higher aims.
It should not be necessary to slow
down welfare measures and education appropriations, which are
badly needed, merely to dramatically halt inflation in an election
year. Surely a stoppage of inflation does not mean a stoppage of
progress.
One is reminded of a headlong
rush on a crowded highway, when
one realizes his excess speed and
dramatically brakes until he reaches the point he can suddenly accelerate again. Inflation cannot be
stopped overnight. It should be
curbed with deliberate speed in
order to prevent a damaging side
effect.
Congress has not completely ignored the efforts to halt inflation
by passing a measure spending
$1.3 million more than the Presi

dent wanted. The total appropriations passed by Congress are $5.6
billion below the President's budget, and the amount allowed for
health, education and welfare is
below the appropriation which is
in effect now.

Perhaps Congress did pass an
imperfect piece of legislation in
that it bowed to political
But such is always the
case. To eliminate the increased
allowance for disadvantaged children, loans to collegiates and funds
for expanding
library facilities
with the incidental fat is an
along
example of throwing the baby out
with the proverbial bath.
The President's veto message
raises another point of priorities.
If inflation has just been recognized, or if thedecision has suddenly been made to do something
about it, why not cut back such
extravagant programs as the ABM
and the Vietnam war, or curtail
NASA or pare through some of the
waste in the Office of Economic
Opportunity. Why is education the
first to get the ax?
pork-barrellin-

g.

Perhaps our Chief Executive
needs to be reminded of a statement he made just over one year
ago. "When we talk about cutting
the expense of government . . . the
e
one area we can't
is
short-chang-

education."

no matter how popular a spending program is, if
I determine that its enactment will have the effect of
raising your prices or raising your taxes I will not
approve that program."
Nixon's Veto Message
.

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Grill Cooperation
In response to the Kernel's recent
chastisement of Complex Grill counter
service, I am compelled to delegate the
majority of the inefficiency to the Grill's
patronage rather than to its countergirls.
Most students do not understand the system used at the Grill, which is not to
merely congregate as a mob at the counter,
but to form two lines, entering from each
side and departing at the center of the
counter.

Service can be improved if students
are thoughtful enough to write long orders
on paper, and avoid ordering toasted
sandwiches during rush periods. Also,
students desiring only to make change
should attempt to avoid such rushes, and
move through the lines like all other
customers who pay for theCrill's services.
In addition, if all students displayed
civility to the countergirls, a more efficient response might be elicited.
JERRY W. COERZ

Freshman Engineering

By David Holwerk

In our never-endin- g
battle to keep our
readers informed of the great issues confronting them, this column is proud to
present the first in a thirty-tw-o
part series
on drug usage and the youth rebellion
entitled "Marijuana: Killer Weed or Dope?
Or Just a Good High? Or What?"
Today's article is a transcript of a
recording made by this reporter during
a conversation with a young University
student who narrowly escaped being entrapped by the tentacles of the drug
octopus.
Call me Bruce. That's good- enough,
I guess. The story is what's important,
anyway. I hope you can use it, man.
Maybe it'll keep some other kids from
getting caught up in the vicious tentacles
of the drug octopus.
I first turned on after pressure from my
roommate in the dorm. "Bruce," he kept
telling me, "You got to try this stuff.
It beats hell out of Blue Ribbon."
I didn't really want to, of course.
Nobody really wants to try stuff they
know is bad beforehand. I already knew
that grass would mess me up, turn me
e
into an animal, a raving
looney.
But he just kept on.
bull-goos-

"It's really a heavy thing," he kept
telling me. He had this little hippie
chick hanging around him all the time,
and she was always talking about it too.
"Ooh, Bruce, it's just so grooovy. I

mean, it's really where it's at. I mean
oh wow
Under that kind of constant pressure,
it wasn't long until I gave in. We left
our room in Haggin about seven o'clock
one Friday night.

..."

That Friday seems so far away now. As
I look back, those times seem so carefree
and I seem to have aged so much. All of
the things that happened after could have
been avoided if I had Just gone to the
basketball game. But youth was ever a
foolish time and I proved no exception.
"We'll go over to Groovy Garvin's,"
my roommate told me as we left. "Groovy
Carvin is one of the coolest, heaviest cats
around."
Groovy Carvin's place proved to be in
one of the horrendous, rundown apartment buildings north of campus. Although
there were no curtains on the windows, you
couldn't see in because all the windows
were painted in bright colors with all kind
of weird designs and peace symbols.
VVe knocked and a girl came to the door.
My roommate introduced her as Scrambled
Janet. Although she and Groovy Carvin
weren't married they lived together. Their
apartment was an indescribably atrocious
collection of junk and filth. There were
weird, obscene and seditious posters all
over the walls; there were mattresses scat
tered all over the floor, cats were sleeping
all about; the air was heavy with incense.

And in the corner sat Croovy Garvin.
He had on headphones connected to a huge
stereo set and he was swaying back and
forth. He was chanting softly to himself
and occasionally I could catch parts of
standard hippie slogans such as "heavy,"
"om,""all power to the people," and "off
the pigs."

Suddenly I began to lose control. I
ripped the headphones from Croovy Carvin's ears and gave myself a good shot of
Iron Butterfly from the stereo. Then I ran
out into the street. In one mad forty-fiv- e
minute period I committed seven sex

crimes, corrupted seven youths by turning them onto model airplane glue, robbed
thirteen drug stores to get money for a fix,
Suddenly he opened his eyes and looked shot up with cocaine, codiene, belladonna,
up. "Peace and love, brothers," he said novacaine and heroin, smoked opium,
and stood up. He was about
dropped LSD, mescaline, Sal Hepatica,
and weighed no more than
seconol, aspirin, emprazil and nicotine,
and ten pounds. He motioned us to sit on stole three cars, and renounced my rethe floor, sat back down himself, and ligion.
pulled two funny, crimped cigarettes from
When I awoke, I was in the cold turkey
his shirt pocket.
ward of the Shelby County Hospital. I
He lit one and took a long drag. Then stayed there for three months before I
he passed it to my roommate who did the emerged, a shriveled, shrunken, babbling
same and then passed it to me. Oh, how shell of my former dynamic self.
I felt then. What shivers of fear and anNow, many months later, I am getting
ticipation ran through me then! What back to normal. I eat regularly. I have
agony I went through before I took the dates. I have even seen my old roommate
cigarette (reefer in hippie parlance) and several times and I bear him no ill will.
There are cruel people, of course, who
put it to my lips.
still taunt me. Many times, while walking
I took a deep drag and passed the
down the street, some churl or other will
reefer back to groovy Garvin. We passed
lean out of a passing car and scream,
it around until it was consumed and then
"Hey Bruce! Want a roofer?"
smoked the second one.
"Reefer, my man," I always reply with
By the time we were through with it, great calm. But as soon as he is out of
I had begun to feel very strange. My sight, I always head for the nearest bar.
head seemed to be detached from my body. And as I sit there, with three or four
I felt as if I were suspended in space, double bourbons under my belt, I reflect
floating and floating. I had no conception on how lucky I am to have kicked the
devil weed habit.
of time.
one-hundr-

* Students To Study In England
By MAIULU DAUER

Kernel Staff Writer
Tlie English-Speakin- g
Union
Scholarship Program is sponsor
ing students at UK who plan
summer study in England. In
turn, two Englishmen are study-in-g
at UK under the same program.
Richard S. Montgomery, a senior from Owensboro, will study
at Oxford University this summer. His study topic is "Political
and Social Changes in England
from 1870 to 1970."
The English "concentrate on
one subject at a time, instead
of pursuing several, Montgomery explained.
For about GO hours of class
work and 40 hours of individual,
or tutorial work, Montgomery
will earn about six graduate credits.
Tests during the term will be
equivalent to research papers.
His final will be similar to the
ones he takes here, Montgomery
said, but it will take five hours.
Leaving in the middleof June,
k
Montgomery will have a

Scotland and Wales, staying with
host families. His course will end

Aug. 14.

Timothy Feldhaus, UK's other
representative, is a junior from
Covington. He will study at the
University of Edinburgh this
summer and plans later to enter
medical school.

One of England's representatives at UK is Anthony Pearce
Batten of London.
Batten has been studying sociology at UK since last fall and
plans to continue studying in the
United States.

Prior to enrolling at UK, Batten spent three years in advertising.
Impressed With America
Education in England is less
diversified, Batten said. Specialization begins earlier and is more
intense, and admission to college
is more difficult. He says, "I'm
impressed very much with the
American way of life."
David R. Watson of Che