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Monday, Nov. 23, 1970

UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY, LEXINGTON

Mining Workshop
Continues Feud
By LINC LEWIS
Kernel Staff Writer
A conference on strip mining
provided the stage for intensified verbal continuation in the
feud between conservationists
and the coal industry Saturday
in the Grand Ballroom of the
Student Center.

The

conference,

entitled

"New Approaches to Strip
Planning Concept," was
sponsored by the Ohio Basin
Region Branch of the Student
Council on Pollution and Environment (OBR SCOPE), an organization partially sponsored by
the Federal Water Quality Administration, and the UK Environmental Awareness Society.
The goals of the conference,
to find a better approach to
strip mining through planned
land-us- e
management, were not
realized partially as a result of
the heated disagreement on basic
issues between industry representative Fred Luigart Jr., president of the Kentucky Coal Association, and Tom Ramsay, director of the Pike County Citizens
Association (PCCA).
The rift between the coal industry and the conservationists
was widened after Luigart reiterated his proposal to form a
Joint steering committee composed of representatives from the '
industry and conservationists
who realize that change is a
slow process. He said the committee would identify issues and
meet problems together. It could
operate as a medium of exchange
for information between conservationists and coal operators,
though it would have no real
power, he indicated.
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Ramsay then charged
proposal "constitutes a vicious attack on conservation
groups in Kentucky. It would
split these groups who are Just
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getting together." Ramsay and
student supporters demanded an
immediate halt of all strip mining as a show of sincerity by the
coal operators to discuss the issues. "What good is it for a
person being raped to try and
carry on a rational disscusion
with the rapist?" Ramsay asked
the audience.
The PCCA director also charged government in Eastern Kentucky with completely breaking
down and not carrying out its
responsibility for law enforcement, public health and safety,
education or transportation and
communication. He invited the
audience to "come and see Cod
collecting our garbage."
The Campus Friends of PCCA
complained that the SCOPE conference did not deal with the
real and relevant issues of strip
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Miners Use Public Hearings to Appeal for Benefits
By GAIL GREEN
Kernel Staff Writer
Pneumoconiosis is a long,
complicated word which means
nothing to most college students,
but to a coal miner in the hills
of Eastern Kentucky and West
Virginia it means a lost job, little
hope of getting Social Security
benefits, hungry children, a life
of shameful inactivity, a working
wife (if she is lucky), years of

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breathing, and eventually death.
Pneumoconiosis is the medical
term for Black Lung.
Miners are tired of working in
coal dust which is up to 67 times
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safe by federal law. They are
tired of going to doctors who tell
them that they should not work
in the mines because of their
health. They are tired of hearing
the same doctor refuse to give
them statements of disability for
the Department of Social Secur--

Association, was conducted like a
trial to present the miners' case
against the federal government.
In 1969 Congress passed the
Coal Mine Health and Safety Act
which gave miners and their
widows hope that for the first
time in their lives the government would recognize them. In
theory the legislation was to give
relief to miners who could no
longer work and to the dependents of those who had died from
Black Lung, and to prevent others
from dying of the incurable
disease through new safety
measures. But in practice the
new laws have done little for the
miner.
One witness at the Black Lung
"trial," Francie'Granny' Hager,
a widow of a miner who died
of Black Lung, summed up the
miners' plight. "When they
passed that bill up in Washington, I thought for the first time
that something was going to be
done for the poor mountain people, but I guess I was wrong.
Those rich boss-me- n
sit up in
their big houses on the lull and

News Commentary
ity. They are tired of waiting for
months, sometimes years, for the
results of their applications for
Black Lung benefits to go through
the red tape in the Social Security
offices. They are tired of getting
their Social Security checks, if
they get them at all, only after
they are close to death from lung
or heart disease. They are beginning to fight these conditions
through their legislators and by
appealing to the people through
public hearings.
One such public hearing was
held Saturday at the Horse Creek
Community Center in Clay
County. The hearing, presented
by the Clay County Poor People's

'Orientation Camp9
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Blues-roc- k
guitarist Johnny Winter performed with his backup group
(formerly the McCoys) Saturday night at Memorial Coliseum. Also
on the bill for the concert was Blues Image, A review and an additional picture are on page 8.
Kernel Photo "By Phil Gardner

COLL EG E PRESS S ERVICE
WASHINGTON The Selective Service System has quietly
dropped a plan to set up "orientation camps" for men granted
conscientious objector status who do not fit into any of the standard
alternative work assignments.
In a recent interview, National Director Curtis W. Tarr, the
former president of Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin,
informally discussed his feelings about the Conscientious Objector
Alternative Service situation, currently pending Supreme Court
decisions, and the new image of the Selective Service System.
On the
"orientation camps," Tarr explained that a
study group headed by the Deputy Public Information Officer
for the system had come up with the idea of bringing together men
who would not accept the kind of alternative service job which
their local boards wanted to give them.
The purpose of these "orientation camps" would be to help
"adjust" the recalcitrants to existing job openings, or to provide
special work for them.
Draft officials are hesitant about considering participation in these
programs to be equivalent and acceptable because they feel that this
would not be fair to other men in the programs who volunteer to
serve in one of these programs and then get drafted when they get
out. The fear also is that an awareness of this situation will create
volunteers.
tensions between the CO and non-CO

they don't care about the miners
who died so that they would
have money for that big house.
I think the big man has got to
be pulled by the hair so that he
remembers us and gets straightened out."
"I have kept my school girl
figure by walking back and forth
from office to office, trying to
get my Black Lung benefits. But
they don't care. They swept me
under the rug, and now I mean
to fight," she declared loudly.

Her

friends and neighbors

cheered as she stepped from the
stand.
Howard Jones, another miner
dying of Black Lung, was fired
when his employer discovered he
had the disease. "They said I
couldn't work, because their
workmen's compensation insurance wouldn't allow it," he said.
Jones, the father of 14 children,
was denied his appeal for Black
Lung benefits. "I don't know
what to do now. I just want
to be treated like a human being,"
he pleaded.
Representatives of the Balti-mor- e
Social Security office, which
handles all applications for Black
Lung benefits, were asked to be
present at the hearing to answer questions by the lawyers
which represented the miners.
Neither of them was present.
Dr. Irving F. Kanner, medical
director of Outpatient Services,
UK Medical Center, was questioned concerning "the severe
lack of medical facilities serving
the miners in Eastern Kentucky."
The Medical Center was criticized for reducing its number of
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Weather
Forecast! Considerably

cloudy, windy and cold with a
chance of snow today. Clear and
much colder tonight, fair and cold
Tuesday. Uigh today, upper 20's;
low tonight, near 15; high tomorrow, 25. Precipitation probabilities: 10 percent today, S per
cent tonight and tomorrow.

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THE

Wage- Settlements Target of Inflation Alert

New
WASHINGTON (AP)
sett lenient s which
helped keep the wane-pric- e
spiral spinning upward will be a
target of the next inflation alert
from the White House.
The alert due this week, the
second to be issued by the President's Council of Economic Advisers, is expected to be harder-hittin- g
and more specific in dealing with current wage and price
developments than the first
report issued Aug. 7.
However, official sources said
the council's wage warnings will
fall well short of an "incomes
policy." The adoption of such a
policy the use of government
persuasion or pressure, or the
setting of voluntary wage-pric- e
is again being de
guidelines
wane-boosti-

anti-inflati-

The Council of Economic Advisers opjxjses any "incomes
policy," considers the concept
unworkable, and does not wish
to administer it if one is adopted.
Nevertheless it has delayed Its
new inflation alert for some days
in order to deal with two significant wage developments.
These are:
The three-yea- r
wage package offered by Ceneral Motors
to end the United Auto Workers
strike, with an estimated ultimate annual cost of $2 billion to
inthe company. The first-yea- r
crease is about 50 cents an hour.
However, much of the rise represents a deferred
increase resulting from an in for- -

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Letter by Cross
Possibly Found
MONTREAL (AP) -- A letter
apparently from kidnaped British Diplomat James R. Cross
saying he is alive and well has
been found with a note from the
terrorist Quebec Liberation Front
asking United Nations Secretary-CenerU Thant to intercede
in behalf of "political prisal

oners."

Police said Sunday they were
checking the authenticity of the
documents. If the letter really is
from Cross it would be the first
communication from him in more
than a month.
Cross was kidnaped Oct. 5.
Quebec Labor Minister Pierre
Laporte was abducted Oct. 10
and murdered a week later. Separate cells of the front, known-b- y
its French initials FLQ,
claimed responsibility for the kid-

arrangement

free-trad- e

among the Atlantic nations, Japan and other countries willing
to join would provide the benefits of economic growth and efficiency while minimizing costs,
Ceiger says.

naping.

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evaluations for miners, and for
reducing the funds made available for the few facilities in East-eKentucky.
"We have no funds for the
TB hospital, which serves the.
miners in this area. The money
for the hospital is furnished by
grants and is not included in
our budget."
"We can no longer accept

disability

evaluations and still treat the
sick people," Kanner stated.
Dr. Donald L. Rasmussen,
from the Beckley (West Virginia)
Appalachian Regional Hospital,
campaigned for the Black Lung
legislation, but he testified that
he was dissatisfied by the rigid
administration of the law, particularly regarding the medical
criteria and testing used to determine eligibility for benefits.
which is theprac-tice- d
"The
basis for eligibility, isn't
always valid in diagnosing the
disease. In the first place a very,
exact
is needed, and even
if you have an excellent
it is very hard to see the very
small shadows on the lungs. Secondly,- there are sometimes vast
.differences in two
diagnoses. Finally, the miners whose
showed no signs of Black
Lung were severely disabled. The
only valid diagnosis which can be
made must be from a piece of
the patient's lung," said Rasmus-sey,

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THANKSGIVING

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Administrative economists
have been making appeals for
moderation in wage contract
settlements, and this pattern is
expected to be repeated in the
coming alert.

were just butting our heads
against a stone wall, but we had
nothing to lose. Finally, we got
the Black Lung bill signed, but
it hasn't done much good. We
have most of the battle ahead of
us to get the government to enforce the law. We aregoingto take
it to the Supreme Court if we have
to," Miller said.
Various miners then took the
witness stand to voice their complaints which they had kept to
themselves for years. One miner
said, "The laws don't need to
be changed. They need to be
put into effect. The poor people
don't have a chance. We can't
afford to hire one of those big
lawyers to fight for us."
Another miner declared, "If
the poor people want anything
done, they will have toopen their
eyes and their mouths, or we
will stay like this forever."
"It's about time we do something. The. doctor told me that
I wouldn't live to get Social Security. They don't care if we live
or die. We have one foot in the
grave and the other one sliding
in, and they just don't care,"
said another miner, who claimed
he was in the final stage of the
Black Lung disease.
A petition, written by the Clay
County Poor People's Association, was circulated during the
last moments of the conference,
asking that the UK Medical Center and the TB Hospital in London, Ky. serve the miners in
Eastern Kentucky, where there is
a lack of medical facilities.

TODAY and
TOMORROW
7:0 a.m. tw
pablteatla

amenta la
days a rUr U the flrat
Items li tale
lama.

TODAY
f ree Soil Party (F.S.P.) will show
the film "Closely Watched Trains" at
the Student Center Theatre on Monday, Nov. 23. at 5, 7, and 9 p.m. Tickets at the door only, $1.00.

COMING UP
major In Comparative Literature ia now being offered for students interested In studybasis.
ing literature on a
For further information, contact either Dr. Virginia A. La Charite in the
department of French, or Dr. John
Greenway In the Department of EngAn andercradaate

al

lish.

nabw,
will offer a recorded message
highlighting the week's events on
campus. Anyone with announcements
for Inclusion on the program should
contact Public Relations, 105 Old Agriculture Building.
Tw rms In the Classroom Building arc open for use aa study halls.
Kooms 304 and 346 ar open from
p.m. on week nights and
A

special

telephone

6,

p.m. on weekends.
Kays,, sophomore

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"We have to stop trying to
make a diagnosis. Don't talk
about the disease, talk about lung
impairment and breathing difficulties. We don't know enough
about the disease, but we do
know that the primary effects of
coal'dust retention is enough to
impair the miner's lung function.
I don't think a miner should
have to stay in the mines any
longer than when an impairment
begins to show," he said.
Arnold Miller, the treasurer
of the Black Lung Association,
then testified, giving a history of
the miners' attempts to be compensated for their lives underground. "We always knew something was wrong, but when we
went to the doctors they only
told us to give up smoking. Then
three doctors began to crusade in
West Virginia, and for the first
time miners found out they had a
real disease, called Black Lung.
"Miners began to organize so
that the legislature would listen
to use. We were told that we

CENTRAL KENTUCKY
CONCERTS & LECTURES

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time they have found that increased economic integration and
restrict their
interdependence
freedom of action.
The results, the study says,
have been rising protectionist
pressures in the United States
and discriminatory trade and
agricultural practices in the European community.
"North Americans a re already
tending to regard the European
community as a growing preferential trade bloc which threatens not only their trade bui
also that of development countries in Latin American and
Asia," Ceiger says.
The United States could feel
compelled to form its own trading bloc with Canada, Japan
and other countries or to impose
traffic and restrictions on imports, he says.

plies the strong stimulants many
say are needed to revive the
sluggish economy, it risks a strong
revival of inflation.

Miners Tired of Waiting
For Black Lung Benefits

public

cost-of-livi-

Report Encourages
Better Trade Relations
-WASIUNCTON
(AP)
North American and Western Europe must move rapidly toward
free trade and better coordination of economic policies, according to a privately sponsored report released Sunday.
The alternatives, says the reAmerican
port of British-Nort- h
Committee, are major trade war
and a worsening of transatlantic
economic and political conflicts.
The recently established committee is composed of 82 Americans, Britons and Canadians representing large corporations,
trade unions and farm organizations, and professionals.
The study, written by Theodore Ceigerofthe National Planning Association, blames two major conflicting developments during the last decade for threatening a split in the Atlantic community.
Governments have been faced
with a "new nationalism" impelling them to spend more to
solve domestic welfare problems,
Geiger says, while at the same

are unexpectedly strong increases
in productivity output per man-hothe rising cost.
to off-sThe new alert will show an
encouraging recent rise in productivity, officials disclosed. Hut
the persistent inflationary pressures present a stubborn dilemma for President Nixon's economic team; if the government ap

mal agreement made in 19G7.
t The recommendation of a
presidential emergency board for
pay increases averaging 11 percent a year for three years, to
ward off a strike of about 500.000
railroad workers.
These increases have been
criticized widely as setting a
probable pattern for other union
negotiations, reinforcing the precedents set by the 13 percent
yearly gains won by the Teamsters last spring and the approximate 15 percent annual increases
provided in the new settlement
of the construction workers.
At a time when price increases seem to be moderating,
industry spokesmen complain
that the new round of wage settlements assures built-i- n cost increases that will be forcingprices
up for years to come, unless there

bated within the administration.

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men's scholastic
and leadership fraternity, la now ac1
cepting applicaUona for the
academic year. If .you have a 3.0
average overaU and ar Involved In
acUviUea, you may
pick up an application at the Student
Government ofice or contact Buck
Pennington, Keys president, at 422
Hose Lane.
19.
1970-7-

by Nov.
St. Aag astlna'a Chapel, 472 Rose St.,
now using Ian Mitchell's
Folk
Mass at It Sunday services, at 10:30
a.m. Evensong at 5:30 p.m. Sundays
and is followed by a supper, 75 cenU
per person. Sign up for the supper Is
necessary by Sunday noon.
Tha faarth annual Biblical Lectureship of the UK Baptist Student
Union will be held Sunday through
The lecturer will
Friday. Nov.
be Dr. M. Thomaa Stark es of the
Southern Baptist ConvenUon. Information on his lectures can be obtained at the Baptist Student Center.
371 S. Limestone.
The LaUa America Ceancll invites
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University students with an Interest in Latin America to parUcipaU
in it activities. Interested persons
should send their name and campus
addret
to Prof Gerardo
mailing
Saenx. 1129 Oiflc Tower.
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By LARRY KIELKOPF
Clarinet player Paul Newman hits New Orleans with his last
fifty bucks in his pocket. Cut away to Joanne Woodward, another
hard luck story with a scar on her right check.
Focus next on Anthony Perkins nervously stumbling around
the ghetto taking photographs in a coat and tie.
Eventually all three get together Newman and Woodward in
a cheap bar, Perkins bumping into them later at Newman's apartmentbut not until considerable time has elapsed ami still well
before the viewer knows what's going on.
What's going on is "W.U.S.A.," a film now playing at Kentucky about the nature of the "new patriotism," black lash, if you
will, and the effects it has on those whose cthnocentrism is expressed in a considerably different manner.
Newman is Reinhardt, a liberal with a serious drinking problem who takes a job with a local conservative radio station.
His cynical attitude and the need for a job allows him to rationalize away his ideological prostitution. He quickly becomes the
No. 1
and the favorite son of the station executives.
Anthony Perkins (Rainey) is Newman's neighbor and a surveyor
for the local welfare office. Perkins is duped by city hall and exploited by the black ghetto ruler. "The Man" in the ghetto, it
seems, is working hand in hand with the politicians downtown.
Receiving a payoff from the ghetto king, Perkins "surveys" what
he is told. As a result, the politicians can put whoever they wish
on welfare or take whoever they wish off.
Perkins is an idealistic, bleeding-hear- t
liberal who knows nothing
of the graft. Yes, it is rather hard to believe isn't it?
Geraldine (Joanne Woodward) is a young widow who latches
on to Newman early in the film. A prostitute who is thoroughly
humane, she sets up residence with the type of human who is
thoroughly a prostitute. Woodward's role is to supply this juxtaposition and she does it fairly well.
Perkins turns in his usual fine acting job, while the effect of
Newman's performance depends on whether or not you're one of
his fans.
As the plot limps along, Perkins timidly confronts Newman
concemingthe conflict between his radio job and social morality.
Newman counter-attack- s
viciously. Perkins, however, has learned
of the political dealings of which he has unwittingly been a pawn.
He becomes a crusader, and decides to take matters into his
own hands.
The ensuing ehaos is a beautiful commentary on our nation
today, but the high point comes when Newman calmly addresses
the crowd, "My fellow Americans. When our boys drop a napalm
bomb on . . . slants, it is a bomb with a heart! And in that heart
is a fat little old lady on her way to the World's Fair."
Unfortunately, five minutes of good social commentary is not
enough to save the film from' being. merely fair. Fait, that is, not
in the sense of objectivity, but mediocrity.
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January's issue of Popular Photography features

this picture by Kernel student photographer Bob
Brewer. His photograph, and another by UK stu- dent Mike Walker, were selected for publication
after being exhibited at a college photography

show at American University in Washington, D.C.
Hie article stated that the pictures featured for that
issue conveyed a "feeling of intimacy, honesty,
and quiet (!) protest against certain overpowering
elements of modern society."

Feud Continues at Conference

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mining. And Eldon Davidson of
the Appalachian Croup to Save
the Land and People in his address stated that further discussion and study of the strip mining problem would produce
no effective results. "We need
active participation. We need
people to stand up and fight,"
declared Davidson. He also asked
for:

Reduction of permissible de
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putting a strain on the field
inspectors. He said that between

gree of slope for strip mining to
not more than 19 degrees.
Severance tax on coal.
Enforcement of weight regulations on coal trucks.
Prohibition on strip mining
in areas already deep mined.
Dr. John Roberts, assistant
director of the Division of Reclamation, in an address following Davidson's, admitted that
the increased . number of strip
mining permits being issued is

April and September, 100 new
operators had been issued permits to stripmine. The division
now has 24 field men.
Some of the legal and political aspect of strip mining were
discussed by Attorney General
Breckinridge, who declared that
Kentucky Jias adequate laws to
regulate strip mining, on the
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TO ALL UK SENIORS:
Your 1971 KENTUCKIAN is being planned right nowtliese plans include a separate Senior supplement to come out in May, in addition to the regular September issue.
TJus supplement will include senior interviews concerning campus issues, pictures and other features during the past four years, the purple mushroom, and of course your
senior pictures (approximately
in size).
We're looking forward to putting this paperback supplement together we don't mind taking the extra time to make two yearbooks.
Won't you take tlxe time to make an appointment for your pictures by colling
it won t be much of a yearbook without your. picture.
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Combs' NEA Clarification:
Medicine for Sick Schools

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The Kentucky
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University of Kentucky
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MONDAY, NOV. 23, 1970

Gubernatorial candidate Bert Combs has slipped a refreshingly difEditorials represent the opinions of the Editors, not of the University.
ferent aspect into Kentucky's political scene: rationality. Former GovFrank S. Coots III,
ernor Combs has finally bucked the wave of washed up politicians
Bob Brown, Editorial Page Editor
Jean Renakcr, Managing Editor
who find it vogue to damn the National Education Association and its Mike Tierney, Sports Editor
Dahlia Hays, Copy Editor
David King, Business Manager
Don Rosa, Cartoonist
Kentucky affiliate for their investigation of the state's schools.
Jane Brown, Ron Hawkins, Bradley Jeffries, Jerry Lewis, Mike Wines.
Former Governor Combs simply pointed out the fallacy of blaming
Assistant Managing Editors
the condition of the state's education system on those agencies which
are merely inspecting it. While Combs' opposition, Lieutenant Governor
Wendell Ford, and most other Frankfort politicians are attempting to
shift the responsibility of their work to NEA and KEA, Combs' statement should serve to clarify the issue.
the duty of the Elections Board to
Elections Board Statement
Kentucky has grown accustomed to its runt's role in the national
interpret its own rules and act ac- cording to them.
educational family. The old cliche of "Thank God for Alabama" which To the Editor
5. No further notification of plaintiff or
The following is a statement from the
is uttered morbidly when a new education survey is released is no longer Student Government Elections Board.
defendant shall be required.
valid, for at Kentucky's regressive rate, even Alabama is not so far be- 1. The deadline for any contestation by 6. The proceedings will be tape recorded.
defeated candidates is 5 p.m. Tues7. The Elections Board will investigate
hind.
day, November 21, 1970. No petitions
its records as to the validity of a
Most of the state's leaders are cognizant of this situation, and the
will be accepted after this time. The
specific voter only upon the written
more candid ones frankly admit to the inadequacies which in recent
request of a defeated candidate.
petitions must be written or typed on
GARY CORBETT
8 12 x 11 inch paper. All charges,
have had a telling effect on the downward spiral of education
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However, rather than face the shortcomings of our educational struchave chosen to play a fatal
ture, our Governor and his
of statistical doubletalk. By showing that secondary school teachers
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now receive larger salaries than they did when Nunn was elected, the
administration effectively glosses over the basic problems which persist.
The outlook of these administrators has been unbelievably superficial,
yet their perverted statistics are taken as Truth by much of the state's
voting population.
Despite continuing attempts to place blame on the opposing party
and despite the nasty game of deceptive
the ugly fact remains that Kentucky's youth is not receiving an adequate education.
Combs' statement must be regarded as an honest attempt to evaluate
the sorry state of our schools rather than exploit that wasteland of talent
for political gain.
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plaintiffs and defendents must
stated on the petitions.
2. Petitions shall be filed to the Elections Board co Mrs. Tat McLean,
secretary of the Student Government.
The Elections Board will not be responsible for any petition not handed
personally to Mrs. McLean.
3. A list of plaintiffs and defendants will
be posted at the Student Covemment
Office on Wednesday morning November 25. All candidates must check with
the Student Government Office (either
in person or by telephone) by noon
Wednesday.
4. The Elections Board shall hear cases
beginning at 7 p.m. Tuesday, December 1, 1970 in the Law Court Boom,
Law Building. The burden of proof
shall lie with the candidates. It is

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Repudiation of SG Ads

the Editor:
While the voluninous complaints and
denunciations will have already attested

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to this fact, I wish to personally denounce
the unrequested, unauthorized "paid political advertisement" of Nov. 19 in the
Kentucky Wildcat which contained my
name as a candidate for Student Covemment. I did not pay nor did 1 request
that this ad appear, and can only assume
it is simply another of Student Coalition's
"Brown Shirt" tactics.
It should be obvious from the simplistic, tasteless layout of the ads, as well
as from the fact that one advertisement
Jar every candidate benefits no one candidate in particular, that the ad could not
have been placed as an attempt to win
votes.
In the realization that they would be
disqualified for exceeding their campaign
expenditure limit, SCP decided to retaliate
by printing ineffective advertisements for
all other candidates, whether these candidates requested and paid for them or
not (which none of them did). SCI' thus
hoped to disqualify all other candidates
as well. It is highly ironic that an organization which was established to combat
tactics" should now
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To the Editor.
Concerning your headline about the
Marshall tragedy in Monday's Kernel and
Don llosa's "cartoon" about both tragedies in Tuesday's Kernel, I can only use
a phrase 'used to describe the phone
book cover,

"bad taste"!

MICKEY SMITH
Engineering Senior
All letters to the editor should be
typed, doublespaced and not exceed 250
words. Writers are asked to include name,
classification, major, telephone number
and address.

* THE KENTUCKY KERNEL, Monday, Nor. 23,

1970- -5

Kernel Interview: SG's President Bright

Student Government president Steve
Bright was a controversial figure on campus during the three years he served on
the SG Assembly. Since being elected
SG president last April, Bright has continued to be a center of controversy.
Involved in last May's demonstrations
against the Cambwlia invasion and the
Kent State killings. Bright was arrested
and convicted on charges oj disorderly
conduct. Since that time, Bright has
been involved in squabbles with Gov.
Louie B. Nunn, Student Coalition and
officials in the administration. The interview was conducted by Assistant Managing Editor Ron Hawkins.
Kernel: Student Coalition has