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Thursday, April 21, l977

ByGINNY EDWARDS
, Editor-in-Chief

FRANKFORT—The Council on
Public Higher Education yesterday
reaffirmed the traditional definition
of UK by establishing it as the only
statewide institution.

The council defined UK as the
“principal" university for graduate
education, statewide research and
ptrblic service programs, “without
getgraphic limitations.”

UK’s mision statement was in—
cluded in a repo‘t by the council
staff on the role and scope of the
eight state-supported institutions of
higher education. All eight mission
statements were adopted “in
principle" by the council yesterday.

Philosophically based arguments
between the University of Louisville
and UK have repeatedly surfaced in

the council’s attempt to define the,

roles and missions of the suite in-
stitutions UK President Otis A.
Singletary has voiced concern that U
of L was vying for equal status in the
state higher education system.

U of L defhed as metropolitan

But instead, the council adopted a
definition for U of L that establishes
it as a major university for
educational, research and service
needs of its metropolitan area. At
the statewide level, U of L will
continue to offer education in
medicine, dentistry, law and urban
affairs.

U of L President James Miller,
along with several other council
members, expressed concern that U
of L was being considered a regional
university.

McLaughlin tries
policy rescission

By MIKE MEUSER
Assistant Managing Editor

Student Government (SG)
President Mike McLauglin is at-
tempting to organize forces for a
rescision of the controversial with-
drawal policy passed at the April
meeting of the University Senate.

Contacted at his office yesterday,
McLaughlin said he and Arts &
Sciences Dean Bert Black will make
arguments against the policy at
Monday's Senate Council meeting.
McLaughlin said that regardless of
whether the Council approves the
proposal, the chief aim of its efforts
will be to get the proposal on the
agenda for the full Senate meeting
May 4.

Under Senate rules, a proposal on
the official agenda requires only a
majority vote for passage while
prtptsals from the floor require a
two-thirds vote.

The new withdrawal policy has
received widespread criticism from
students and student senators on the
basis that it is too restrictive. Under
the old procedures, a student could
withdraw from a class without a
grade until five weeks before the
semester. After that time, a student
could receive a W with the per—
mision of the instructor and the
approval of the dean of his or her
college.

17 days to drop class

The new procedure approved by
the Senate allows students only 17
class days (one quarter of the
semester) to drop a class without a
grade. Any student attempting to
withdraw after this point will be
required to prove extreme cir-
cumstances of illness or similar
“distress" and receive the approval
of the dean, instructor and adviser.

McLaughlin said he has enlisted
Black‘s help because he thought
faculty support would be valuable.

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(iov. Julian (‘arroll said yesterday that the cost to
the state of leasing space has doubled in the past
three years and “i am totally dissatisfied with our
leashg practices." Carroll said that in the next few
days he will sign an executive order consolidating
the leasing program and the management of such
facilities. And he said that Jim Bird of Lexington
will be appointed shortly as director of a new

like a battered fighter trying to summon the
strength for one more round, Pineville is plamim
to stage the Kentucky Mountain Laurel Festival on

“We hope Dean Black’s help will
reinforce our case at the May 2
meeting. He (Black) has reser-
vations abort the change because he
is afraid that these decisions about
who can drop will fall chiefly on the
dean’s shoulders,” McLaughlin
said.

Although a referendum on the new
withdrawal procedure was con-
ducted during the recent SG elec-
tions, McLauglin said he would not
use the results.

“I thirlt they may be invalid. We
had trouble at the polls with people
who said they didn’t really know
what the new proposal meant," he
said

Referendum copy lost

Marion Wade, election board
chairman, said several polling
place also lost the copy of the
refaendum so that many students
didn’t vote at all.

The results of the referendum
showed that 1,166 students (44.2 per
cent of those voting) did not vote on
the referendum; 1,192 (452 per cent)
voted their disapproval of the new
policy while 278 students (10.5 per
cent) voted in favor of the change.

McLaughlin said part of the
problem with the referendum
stemmed from the fact that SG
officials had to rush in order to get
the proptsal on the ballot.

“This was the first time we’d had
a referendrm on the ballot in
years," he said. “We also had to
rush over and get the proposal on the
ballot at the last minute and the
wording of the referendum may not
have been as clear as it needed to
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If the rescission is proposed at
Monday‘s Senate Council meeting,
the full Senate will vote on the new
proptsal at 3 pm, May 4, in the
Moot Courtroom in the Law
Building.

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Council reaffirms UK's status in State

Singletary said, “I don’t believe
there was ever an intention to define
the University of Louisville as a
regional institution; U of L is dif-
ferent from regional institutions in
that it has different programs . . .
Also, it is different from the
University of Kentucky."

He also said the definitions of U of
L and UK reflect the necessary
relationship that must exist between
the two institutions if the state is to
adequately fund one institution.

5 types

The council mission statement set
up a system for higher education
with five types. UK is designated as
type 5, with U of L as type 4. The
regional institutions—Eastem,
Morehead, Murray, Northern and
Western—ate type three univer-
sities, while Kentucky State is type‘ 2
and the community colleges type 1.

Singletary said U of L’s
designation as a type 4 institution
does not indicate that the
educational quality at U of L will be
less than UK, only that the breadth
and scope of the institution will be
less.

He said the definitions serve a
vahable function by clarifying the
missions of the two universities. “In
the future, the council will be
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of the state institutions and it needs

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to make rational decisions” based
on a set criteria.

UK's top administrator abo said
the mision statements will aid in
determining future funding levels
for the eight state universities.
Following yesterday’s meeting,
Singletary said that because of UK’s
designation as the only statewide
university, higher funding for
certain UK programs will be
necessary.

In press conference

AUthorities downplay resignations

By DICK GABRIEL
Assistant Managing Editor

In a press conference yesterday,
Medical Center authorities down-
played the resignation of 17 doctors.

Dr. Peter Bosomworth, Medical
Center vice president, and Dr. D.
Kay Clawson, dean of the College of
Medicine, presented the press with
copies of a letter Bosomworth has
sent to President Otis A. Singletary.

The letter explains the
rsig nations and provides assurance
that the turnover rate “is not higher
at this time in our College of
Medicine than it has been.”

According to the letter, the
number of resignations represents 6
per cent of the college’s total
faculty; Bosomworth said the
turnover rate was 7 per cent last
year and 13 per cent two years ago.
The national average during the last

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Funding commensurate

Accra-ding to Singletary, U of L’s
inclusion in the state system was at
the expense of UK. He said the
definitions should help make funding
cotnmensurate with the mission’s of
the two universities.

Although the mission statements
of the regional institutions were
approved “in principle,” the council
voted to schedule future meetings to
discuss a variety of editorial

five-year period was between 7 and
10 per cent.

Financial support increasing

Bosomworth directed a third of
the letter to the subject of financial
supptrt for the medical college. He
pointed out that support is in-
creasing, although less rapidly than
the inflationary trends.

He also said the economic crunch

Jessamine County. The two are playing in Woodland
Park. Both admit the Cincinnati Reds are their
favorite players.

changes. Morehead President
Morris Norfleet said he was con-
cerned that wording differences in
the regional mission statements
should cause some inequities.

The council staff was directed to
meet with the five regional
university presidents to make the
necessary editorial changes. Any
substantive changes will require a
council vote.

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makes it difficult to maintain the
quality of med center health
programs, and to lure and retain
top-notch faculty members.

Some resigning employes cited
confusion on priorities between the
academic and practicing factions of
the med center.

In the letter, Bosomworth said he
recognized the issues of the balance
of emphasis among teaching,
research and patient services;
development of new programs
versus expansion of old ones;
adequacy of research facilities; and
the use and control over income
from “private practice” in the
clinical teaching program.

Policies. practices reviewed

“We have periodically examined
the practice plan and changed it,"
the letter states. “The faculty...and
officials of the college, med center
and University are engaged in
reviewing and evaluating a number
of other policies and practices to
determine if improvements can be
made consistent with proper
balance of activities and their
financing.”

In a brief question-and-answer
period, Bosomworth confimred that
the faculty '3 preparing a document
reputedly concerning changes in
the practice plan income program.

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time. Pineville has staged the festival for 40 years.
and the civic boosters don‘t want the recent record
floods that inundated the community of 3,500 to end

that string.

“We've got businesses that are in
jeopardy of not reopening. We've got people
think'ng of moving away. We think after the
tragedy we‘ve been through, if we can parade down
our streets and crown our Mountain Laurel queen,
we can incite our people I) carry on,” said
newspaper arecutive Robert Madon.

nafion

A study released yesterday concluded that
American parents want to teach their childtut
traditioral values on marriage, hard work. religion

and material success. even though many of the
grownups don‘t always believe what they’re ad-

vocating for the youngsters. The survey was con-
ducted by the polling firm if Yankelovich, Skelly
and White, inc. for General Mills. Inc.

Most of the recent htdlcators show the nation‘s
economy is moving ahead with enough strength to
virtualy imore the crippling effects brought on by

the severest writer in decades. The latest figures

showed the Gross National Product-the total value
of the natiar‘s goods and services-was up to an
anrsral rah of 5.2 per cent, “a sir-oner- per-
formance than generaly was anticipated a month
ago." said Courtenay M. Slater. chief economist for

the Department of Commerce.

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Letters

The continuing growth of violent crime in
America has been a source of heated debate in
recent years. Criminologists and social workers
have explored the various causes and potential
deterrents to the crime wave.

Some have argued that the key to crime
control lies in government regulation of ham
dguns. Handgun ownership per person in the

US. is well above that in any other country and,
the easy availability of so-called Saturday Night
Specials has been linked to the crime wave.

The effects of televised violence have also been
hotly debated among child psychologists,
communications specialists and Hollywood
producers. Numerous studies have been com-
pleted but there is still no universally accepted

cmclusim.

NBC television was so captivated by the
problem of violence in America that it aired a
three-hour special on the subject, complete with
the most violent reels of film available. Whether
NBC drew a large viewing audience because of
its study or because of the wonderfully grotesque
film clips is a subject for audience surveyors.

No discussion of violence gets off the ground

ghetto?

before some wise guy-gal bundles up the whole
problem arri blames it on that proverbial shit-
catcher—the ghetto. Before discussing this
prevalent theory, one should ask: what is the

Amwers to thatquestion would undoubtedly be
as diverse as the US. population (pretty diverse
considering the number of illegal immigrants
sneakirg over the borders these days). Again,

these questions am only be answered by the
hustling Lou Harrises of the world.

On evangelists, lack of ideas

Springtime. Many things return to
UK. . . thousands of bicycles, dan-
delions, and Jed Smock. Jed Smock,
the former fornicator and dopehead
has a lot in common with dandelions.
Both of them always return, you
can't get rid of them, and neither of
them can answer your questions
intelligently.

Jed Smock returned to UK with
another preacher (whose name i
can’t recall), and with a man who
was sort of a religious cheerleader
that acted like a programmed
zombie yelling “AMEN” everytime
Smock would open his mouth.

Smock’s preaching friend was
first to take the stage. He reminded
me of that southern sheriff that is
famous for “Boy, you’re in a heap of
trouble now.” A large crowd gather-
ed around, not necessarily to hear
him, but to hopefully catch a
glimpse of Gerald Ford as he left the
Office Tower. The game began.

The preacher began telling every-
one what horrible sinners we were
and how we would all burn in a lake
of fire. Whenever anyone would ask
him a question, he would futilely
attempt to answer it by twisting the
words of the Bible to suit his own
needs. One student repeatedly asked
him why millions of babies and
children go hungry if God is so kind
and merciful.

He couldn't answer the question.
All he could do was talk about how
Israel will conquer Russia and the
Arabs. Finally he stepped down. The
first quarter was over. Score:
Christians 0, Student Body 0.

Jed Smock took the stage. The
second quarter had begun. The
Great Martyr began feeding his ego
by describing how he was stoned at
the University of Colorado. He
pointed to a student’s Sociology book
and said that sociologists don’t have
the solutions to the world’s prob
lems. Score: Christians 1, Student
Body 0.

Suddenly everyone left Smock and
rushed toward the Office Tower.
Gerald Ford was about to leave.
Smock continued preaching to a
captivated audience of trees, dogs
and bicycles. Gerald Ford walked
outside and was greeted by large
applause. He walked down the Office
Tower steps and began saying his
farewells. Everyone was listening
closely to hear what he had to say.

Suddenly, Smock began scream-
ing at the top of his lungs repeatedly,
“Mr. Ford, God wants you to make
this nation repent!" Despite every-
one’s kind pleas of, “Will you shut
the fuck up,” Smock continued
yelling until Mr. Ford had left.

Moments later a student drenched
Smock with a glass of water. The
student ran off, being pursued by a
volley of cheers and Kernel photo-
graphers. The score at halftime was
tied.

Smock told a small group of us
why he had yelled at Ford and
wevented many of us from hearing
him. He said, “God told me to
deliver my message to Mr. Ford.”
mirthermore, he said, “God told me
that Mr. Ford wouldn’t have any-
thing important to say anyway.” I
turned once agin to the other
preacher. He was giving students
directions on how to get to heaven
and hell.

Jed Smock said that UK was a
perverted school full of perverts
(that included both students and
teachrs.) i didn’t stick around long
enough to see how the game ended.
This pervert had to go to Calculus
class.

John Herman
Engineering sophomore

Just grand

Tuesday was grand! A president
and a preacher, a carnival and a
song—the campus moved. For the
first time in years, a sense of
common bond of people learning and
living together filled the air.

Reminiscence of the excitement
and drama that characterize a
Berkeley or a Madison prevailed.
Perhaps it’s the arrival of spring,
but for one brief moment the UK
(ampus was a throbbing heart!

Michael Koch
Architecture junior

Bad teachers

As pre-registration time rolls
around again, students are faced
with the problem of scheduling
classes taught by competent profes-
sors while avoiding those taught by
incompetents. This time the task
seems even more formidable, and
the reason is clear: the number of
competent professors at UK is
dwindling.

What’s more, a system has been
adopted which virtually guarantees
that qualified instructors will be
dismissed while myopic academici-
ans receive tenure. In the College of
Arts and Sciences, and particularly
in the English department, tenure is
granted on the basis of one’s
contributions to literary journals.

It's simple. Those who publish,
stay. Those who don't. go. The

 

professor’s classroom skills are
secondary. It is of primary impor-
tance that he do independent scho-
larly research.

The results are obvious. Profes-
sors must devote their time to study
of very narrow subjects, rathr than
broadening the knowledge they dis-
pense in the classroom. Time which
could be devoted to class prepara-
tion is allotted to analysis of areas
which may never be encountered by

undergraduates. Saddest of all, seri- _

ous and devoted professors who put

We think the problem is much simpler than all
the studies and urban theorists make it seem.
The root of the problem of violence in America is
imbedded in our schools.

We ask you: where is it that most persons have
their first fight, that spark of violence that
breeds dissidence and urban revolt in later life?
The schoolyard, that’s where. Obviously, then,
the problem must be attacked on this front. The
only alternative to rampant violence on school
playgrounds and the subsequent turbulence it
imbeds in the minds of our youth, is to take swift
and decisive action.

We must act now. President Richard Nixon
was in the final stages of developing a positive

anti-crime campaign when bleeding-heart,

Eastern-Establishment liberals forced him out
of office in 1974. We can only be thankful that his
policies live on in the Supreme Court, four of
whose members were appointed by the San

Clemente recluse.

The high court, recognizing that no-nonsense
action is needed to make our streets safe,
decided Monday to fight the problem at it roots—
in the schools. In a 5-4 decision (made close only
by the leftist influence) the court ruled that
public school teachers have the right to paddle
unruly students.

The courts decision is a breath of fresh air in
our dirty, violent world. Despite the liberal in-
fluence (if they’d left Joe McCarthy alone these
radicals would command less attention), the
court ruled that schoolyard lickings, left to the
teacher’s d'scretion, do not consitute “cruel and

out that one sparking incident resulted in one
student suffering a blood clot and other injuries
that caused him to m'ss school for 11 days. This
is obviously an exceptional case; that student
was probably a sissy.

The liberal minorities’ allegation that the
beatings were so harsh that “if they were in-
flicted on a hardened criminal for commission of
a serious crime, they might not pass con-
stitutional muster” is only so much sniveling
poppycock. Indeed, correction officials would be
well-advised to implement physical punishment
practices in the prisons rather than pampering

law-breakers and drug-users.

History will show that this court decision was
the turning point in the fight against crime. And,
as Nixon-appointee Justice Lewis Powell (a
former school board member) noted, the
decision serves “important educational in-
terests.” Certainly it’s important that our young

people learn the importance and satisfaction

which (an be gained only through the sweet
ecstacy of pain.

The court has taken an important first step. As
the whippings pick up, crime figures should be
carefully scrutinized. If violence isn’t
significantly decreased, stricter measures
should be implemented. Harsher floggings and
imprisonment in public stocks should not be
hastily ruled out.

It’s high time the people recognize that we
must fight fire with fire; hit at the root of the
problem; walk softly butcarry a big stick. These
principles are as old as America itself, and we’re

unusual punishment.”

The liberals tried to fight the ruling, pointing

students ahead of publication lose

theirjobs.
Of course, it is gratifying to

administrative egos to think about 1;
all that research going on within the f'
halls of the University of Kentucky. }
But wouldn’t it be nice if someone .7

cared about the teaching of ideas?
Terry Carter
English senior

College doesn’t provide
all the answers but. . .

Learning to question is the reward

Back during my freshman days at
Davirbm College, the end of the

Learning Trail seemed as far away‘

as the rim of the Universe itself—
and just as unknowable. Many
questions about the future plagued

 

my feeble frshman mind. Would I
someday own a suburban home and
a Chrysler station wagon? Could I be
a star? Would l wind up workhg for
a bark? Could I avoid the draft? And
the ultimate question: Is there Life
after College?

After a vwage of seven years—
three at Davidson, one at the
University of Tennessee, one at
Emory University and two at UK—
my ship reached that rim at last.
Just today, the bhnt realizations
came that my place in collegiate
history has been set forever, and of
course, that there are a few things I
wish I'd done differently along the
way.

With all the classes, books, par
ties, romances, road trips, all-
nighters and columns almost over, it
seems only fitting to write a piece
abwt “What I learned in college."

There’s just one problem; after

spending all that time plugging

away at the game of higher
education, I'm not sure about just
what I did learn. But here's a try at
it.

At Davitkon I took a two-year,
fivedaya-week Humanities course
called, aptly enough, The Tradition
of Westem Man We started by

. reading the Epic of Gilgamesh, the

first rectrded narrative of human
desire, cmquest, defeat, courage
and redemption.

It was unbelievably dull and
difficult—like much of what we
read—and most of us complained
about the heavy workload. But now
l‘m glad I read aboutol‘ Gilgamesh.
It was a blueprint work for many of
the later classics, not to mention a
model of human behavior.

A lot of educational experiences,
in and out it school, are that way—
dull and difficult. And the funny
thing is, the duler and harder they
are, the more we seem to appreciate

- them in later years. That's one thing
I lmrned in college. You cant get
somethim for nothing. and if you do

happy to see the court reaffirm the basic tenets
that made this country great.

  

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‘ manage to break that rule, you don't

appreciate what you get. Not for
long anyway.

In the same course, we usually
had the typically hard final exams—
the kind where they ask you to
summarize 150 years of history,
arts, philosophy and politics in about
12 pages However, after our final
term we were given an unusual test;
we were asked, “What are the
quetims we must face to make a
better world?“

That should be the purpose of a
good education. I dm‘t care fl it’s
liberalarts, business or agriculture;
higher education should teach us not
)nly how to answer questions but
also how to ask them.

The worst thing that could happen
to this or any other university would
be if faculty lost the desire to
challenge their stutbnts' vanes, and
if sudents lost the desire to
challenge the conventional wisdom.
I see this happening all too often
these days.

Challenging accepted facts of life
doesn’t necesan'ly mean rejecting
them. But only after questioning
whatweareconditionedtoaocept by
society can we truly appreciate
those larger values that we’ve
inherited from our culure's history.
If those values cannot stand up to

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reasmed criticism. they deserve to
fall.

More dten I have found, however,
that the system benefits from
challenge. This state, this country
were not founded from a placid
acceptance of the status quo.
Rather, dynamic forces forged the
thing that is America, that is the
University of Kentucky.

Just like friendsh'p, love or even a
successfully-run business, an
ongoing and imaginative attitude
toward our relationship with
education is needed if we are to
benefit personally and collectively
from the experience. You must give
in order to receive. That is, of
course, a lsson teamed more often
out (i class than in it.

The last thing that formal
education has taught me is has
much there is in this 'world of which I
am ignorant. Only the uneducated
can claim to know an the arswers.
Only theeduated can claim to km
any (1 the questions.

And that's what l learned in

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By JENNIFER GREER
Kernel Staff Writer

Sayim it was good to get
away from politicians for
awhile, state Attorney
General Rabat F. Stephens

took the afternoon off from,

his duties in Frarirfort to

- speak yesterday at the UK

Law School Court Room.

In an informal 45-minute
session, UK graduate
Stephars outlined the main
points of the new Unified
Prosecutorial System, a
portion of Kentucky’s 1W6
Judicial Reform Amend-
ment, to about 40 law
students.

Calling it the most “im-
portant legislation in the last
50 years to deal with criminal
justice," the former Fayette
County judge emphasized the
necessity for uniform and
efficient enforcement of
penal codes, and qualified
prosecutors to handle
crimiml cases.

“This bill is significant in
that it is a change from the
current prosecutoriai
system,” Stephens said.
“Right now county attorneys
and commonwealth attorneys
are paid with money received
from com costs and fines.

Average salary 89,000

“Their salaries depend
upon the volume of business.

Last year the average salary
d a county attorney was
$9,000. Many prosecutors are
undcpaid and some, for what
they do, are probably over-
paid."

Stephens’ office and a
special staff are currently
preparing a budget that will
allocate money for paying the
prosecutors on the basis of a
uniform asessment of their
official and private duties.

“We will be considering
their individual caseloads,
the number of guilty pleas,
amount of plea bargaining,
and number of cases that go
to juries," he said, “plus the
amount of hours spent on
criminal as (pposed to civil
and private cases and the
prosecutor’s own imput.”

Stephens pointed out that
the state will have to start
paying trial lawyers
“adequate" salaries if it is to
get good ones.

Burlgets completed by
September

Proposed budgets, financed
by the General Fund, for the
state’s county attorneys and
commonwealth attorneys are
to be completed by Sept. 15
this year.

Theywill then be submitted
to a newly created
Prosecutorial Advisory
Council (PAC) and the
governor for approval. If

  

Stephens add reeses
law school students

approved, the two-year
budget is to go into effect
July, 197a

Stephens is chairman of the
PAC that also seats three
county attorneys and three
commonwealth attorn ys,
who must represent an urban
area, a third-class city and a
county.

Stephens said the new bill
will have a direct impact on
the power of the attorney
general. “He will have the
power to initiate, assist, in-
tervene and supercede local
prosecution if necessary. But
only with the permission of
the PAC and that judge
hearing the case.

Conflict of interest

“The bill will also contain
very strict conflict of interest
regulations, something which
we‘ve needed in the judiciary
for a long time."

Stephens maintained that
the changes, although not
radical, were providing a
sense of direction for ad-
ditional judicial reforms.

“I‘m trying hard to bring
the attorney general’s office
back to what it was before
you were born,” he told
students, “(That is) I mean
the pubiic‘s law firm.

“I’m not politicking when I
say that either,” he ended
laughing. “There’s no reason
to; I can‘t succeed myself.”

 

 

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