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UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY, LEXINGTON

10, 1970

LXI, No.

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Quest Questions
Ky JANE I). BROWN
Kernel Staff Writer

Publish Or Perish Investigated
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Quest, Questioning University
Education
by Students and
Teachers, an integral part of the
Free University organization,
met Thursday night to continue
their discussion on how students
and teachers can make the college classroom a "more meaningful experience."
Spud Thomas, coordinator of
Quest as well as Free U., opened the meeting by distributing
papers relevant to this question.
He began the discussion by
stating possible questions to consider in deciding what was to
be done and how it could be
done.
Keep Good Teacher
One possible course of action,
according to Thomas, would
have to do with how the stu

could keep good teachers
on campus.
The concept of "publish or
perish" was discussed and berated. One member, who said
he had come for the express purpose of discovering what could
be done, cited an example of
his former freshman English

"bumteacher. A
bling freshman," he credited
this instructor with straightening

him out.

He read a letter to the group
which had appeared in a recent
Kernel, explaining her version of
why she was being fired. The
members decided to see if her
case could not be made an example for what is happening in
many departments. Others in
the group cited their own examples of what happens when

Spud Thomas Urges
Classroom Changes

Spud Thomas, Free University coordinator, discussed with
about twenty residents of Bland-in- g
Tower his suggestions for
"making the classroom a more
experilearning
meaningful
ence," Thursday night.
The discussion, sponsored by
the Tower's Scholarship Committee, centered on what one
student could do in a particular
classroom situation.
The first step, and probably
the most important according to
Thomas, would be to talk to the
Thomas
professor
privately.
maintains that most professors
are not used to responsive students and will respond positively if approached by an aware
student.

As one girl agreed, "even
people with Ph.D.'s were idealistic at one time, and would
probably welcome a change
from the lectures they have
been repeating for thirty years."
Yet if the teacher is so steeped
in his ways, Thomas suggests

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that the student next make an
appeal to his classmates. Then,
with the added support, reassert
his demand for a more "meaningful classroom experience."
If the strategy still isn't working, Thomas said the depart-

ment head and then the dean
are the next steps; and in last

resort class resistance: "Sorry,
we're not going to take the test."
In explaining what he means
by a "more meaningful classroom experience" Spud Thomas
stated that "any learning that
takes place in this institution is
incidental.
purely
Learning
should be an experience. An
education will have to be gained
in spite of the system, not
through it."
The Free U. coordinator went
on to explain that to implement
a balancing off of power in the
classroom, the student among
many other possibilities must
first change his classroom behavior from passive to active.

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teachers do
respond "according to set patterns of behavior."
A member of the faculty explained ways that a department
can make things hard for nonconforming teachers. He said
they are subtly told that their
contract will not be renewed,
that their salary increase will be

"meager" or that their teaching
load will be increased, thus "using teaching as a punishment."
The same faculty member
outlined the criteria used to
"Teaching,
judge instructors.
research and service" are the
three main categories, he said,
and this would be fine if they
were "weighed equally."
When questioned as to how
teaching itself is rated, he asserted that students have a lot
to say in this matter by such
methods as evaluation sheets
and word of mouth. Several of
the students present voiced disagreement with this statement.
Classroom Behavior Changed
Getting the suggestions for
change to the students was another topic discussed. All those

present seemed to agree that
change was needed but there
was some dispute as to whether
students or teachers could most
profitably institute the change

in classroom behavior.
It was concluded, however,
that a teacher's behavior in the
classroom does not consist only
of "his personality, his background experience, or his knowledge of the subject matter," but
is largely determined by the behavior of the class members.
With this in mind the members of Quest decided to focus
their attention on the student.
They hope to furnish an information sheet of some form for
incoming freshmen, preferably
including names of whom to see
in "sticky situations," lists of
meaningful classes and some
hints on how to stimulate boring
professors-an- d
apathetic fellow

students.

Next week's meeting will be
held on Tuesday night at 6:30
p.m. in the Student Center.

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Elaborating on a point, Free U coordinator Spud Thomas remains the center of
attention at a Thursday night discussion
group in Blanding Tower. Thomas, who
earlier in the evening coordinated Quest's
weekly meeting, offered suggestions on
how students can better their educational experience. Kernel Photo By Keith Mosier

Nixon Charges Bias
In Car swell Rejection
WASHINGTON

(AP)-Presi--

dent

Nixon, accusing the Senate
of prejudice against Supreme
Court nominees from the South,
announced Thursday he will
submit "in the very near future"
a new nominee from some other
part of the country.
beAppearing dramatically
fore newsmen in the White
House press center, Nixon said:
"I have reluctantly concluded
that it is not possible to get confirmation for a judge on the Supreme Court of any man who
believes in the strict construction of the Constitution as I do,
if he happens to come from the
South."
Senate critics of Nixon's previous nominations of men to be
associate justice immediately as

sailed Nixon's comments. They
used such words as "incredible . . . mistaken and unfortunate . . . damning evidence of a
Southern strategy."
The chief executive said he
has asked Atty. Gen. John N.
Mitchell "to submit names to me
from outside the South, of
judges from state courts, appeals
courts as well as the federal
courts, who are qualified to be
on the Supreme Court and who
share my view . . . with regard
to strict construction of the
Constitution."
He said he believes such a
judge would win confirmation.
Just Wednesday, the Senate revote Nixon's
jected by a 51-4- 5
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Two UK students, Lacy Walker and Mike Belanger, decided to get "a little wet
around the feet" when the waters began to rise from the newest UK fountain,
located near the Classroom Building, Thursday. The two students became so

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with other students.

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10, 1070

'Willie Boy' Focuses On Social Injustices

By DOB VARRONE

Arts Editor
In 1900, a young Indian boy
in Californiakillcd his girlfriend's

father and ran into the desert
with her. That was the way
Indians got married in those days
and nobody seemed to care about
the dead father. But then a group
of white men came into the picture and changed the events for

It is to the director's credit
that he has not used the film as
a civil rights harangue but has
sou g!it to show something of the
human side of the lives of two
young people in love. The message is still obvious. Willie Boy
is a rebel who refuses to be ruled
by anyone or anything. As usual,
he doesn't come out on top in the
end.

everyone.

It is not a happy movie. Robert Blake, who plays Willie, is
These facts are condensed innew movie a deterministic character. His
to a
called "Tell Them Willie Boy Is other movie credits include one
Here." The film is a touching of the killers in Capote's "In
social document that focuses on Cold Blood." He is a hard, vithe truth of one of Willie's lines, cious individual who is soured
"I'm only an Indian and nobody on the white man's way of life.
His background of life on a resercares what Indians do." Obviously, the social implications do vation and a prison record make
not stop with injustices done to him a bitter ghetto prototype. He
struggles but the forces that have
the Indians.
hard-hittin-

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oppressed him and his people for
all generations bring him down.
The film portrays various persons as the villains of the day.
The press is particularly singled
out as inventing a fantastic story
to blow up the episode of Willie
just to sell a few papers. When
the papers hear the story, the
public is outraged. In order to
save face, a manhunt is begun
to track Willie down. Someone
is finally caring about an Indian
but for all the wrong reasons.
Willie and his wife have fled
as far into the desert as they can.
In his last gesture of defiance,
Willie confronts the sheriff with
an empty rifle in a suicidal gesture. He is so disgusted with the
state of the red man that he
has no further desire to live.
And true to the Indian way,
Willie cannot be taken alive.

The idea behind the characters is more important than the
way the roles are acted. (Catherine
Ross seems far too sophisticated
to play the Indian girl but her
devotion to Willie is quite believable and she makes a good
squaw from the point of obedience to her husband's wishes.
Robert Rctlford gets top billing
in the picture but heplays alusty
sheriff who happens in and out
of the main action of the story.
Aside from Willie, the actors don't
do a very outstanding job.
The most moving scene of
the film comes when Willie and
his bride decide the sheriff and
Ids men are too close to be given
the slip. As the sheriff investi-

The camera work and the
scenes of the desolate desert are
by far the most beautiful parts
of the film. The movie cuts from
a night scene to the brilliant
noonday desert sun that actually
makes the viewer want to shield
his eyes. Every scene seems to
develop the aloncness and individuality of Willie Boy.

body of the girl laid out in her
white wedding dress. She has
a bullet hole in her heart. The

"Willie Boy" is not a film
that will leave you laughing.
But if you know what racism is,
it may leave you thinking.

viewer finds it hard to believe
that Willie has killed the girl
he loved so much but that is the
impression given in this surprising scene. Willie is a cold and
cniel man but he deserves all
the admiration given anyone w ho
has to struggle against such insurmountable odds.

gates Willie's hideout hefinds the

Juvenile Prison Breeds Album
By JIM FUDGE
Kernel Staff Writer
"Borstal is the name the English give to their juvenile prisons.
They are tough and vicious

places."
That is what the album cover
says about Borstal. "Fresh Out
of Borstal" is about theseplaces,
and the people that populate
them. And Fresh, who sing and
play these songs know as much
about them as anyone.
The men of Fresh, Roger
Chantler, Kevin Francis, and
Robert Gorman, get it together
pretty well in their music, which
is greatly influenced by the Rolling Stones. The influence is especially notable in the song
"Long, Long While" which is
written by Mick J agger and Keith
Richard.

The album tells how a resident of a Borstal starts
reer," beginning by liftingthings
from Woolworths. That song,
"Shift the Blame," also says
how easy it is to lay the blame
somewhere, while asking if you
can really know where the blame
his-'ca-

is.

how they repent when they find reflects what must be Fresh's
out what their crimebringsthem: concept of the whole matter of
Borstal.
people in prison. "You get what
Fresh also tells us how a man you give it," is what they say
in prison wishes he had listened in the song, shifting the blame
to his girl when she says he is to people themselves for what
making a mistake, so he wouldn't they are.
have had to spend such a"Long,
"Fresh Out of Borstal," with
its Stones-likstyle and orchesLong While" in prison.
And the Stones-likstyle used tration in its songs is Fresh's
by Fresh makes their stories all way of warning people, showing
the more impressive, with the how easy it is to get in trouble,
blues beat that is the feeling of and how bad it is to be punished
the song.
for it. And it doesn't sound like
And to balance out his feel- preaching, it sounds like music.
e

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ings for his girl in an earlier
song on the album, Fresh sings
one blaming a woman for where
he is. This time, the song, "You
Made Me What I Am," is not
pure Stones style, but is mixed
in with some Beatles in a rather
good combination.
"Borstal",. about the prisons
"from a boy's point of. vifew shows
how bad the.inmates think it is.
There is no song here, just a monologue by a young boy, arrested,
and sentenced to a prison. Then
there is some really , good rock
guitar, mixed in with orchestra
music, an unusual but good com-

The album tells why these bination.
"Life Is What
people commit their crimes, and

You Make

It"

Aw

String Concert
Set For Sunday
The New York String Sextet
will be presented in Concert Sunday evening, April 12 in the Agricultural Science Auditorium at
8:15 by the , University . of Ken.

tucky and Transylvania University in association with the Chamber Music Society of Central Kentucky.

The members of the Sextet
represent a variety of national
backgrounds, from Taiwan to
Hungary. The sextet is composed
of two violinists, Renato Bona-ciand Jean Tai, two violists,
Paul Doktor and Emile Simonel,
and two celloists, Jamos Scholz
and Jonathan Miller.
The Sunday program will include music written by Schoen-berSchubert, and Boccherini.
Admittance will be by season
membership and UK student ID
cards only.

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Anna Moffo To Sing Here

Anna Moffo, international star acclaimed as "the most beautiof opera, concert, television and ful woman in music."
motion pictures, will sing with
Mr. Stewart, a young AmerJohn Stewart, young American ican tenor, who will sing with
at Metenor, in a
Miss Moffo in the place of Franmorial Coliseum at 8:15 p.m.
co Bonisolli, whose European
Monday, April 13. It will be the engagement has been extended,
final program of the
Cenhas sung with repeated successes
tral Kentucky Concert and Lecas a leading artist of the New
ture Series. The concert will be York City Opera, the Houston
open to all UK students with Opera, the Santa Fe Opera, the
Activities and ID cards and to San Antonio
Opera, the San Diseason members of the series.
ego Opera and, in concert presMiss Moffo' s career in televientations, with the Friends of
A UK student was arrested
sion and motion pictures began French
Opera in New York.
afternoon for breaking in 1965
Thursday
with her role in Dino di
and entering.
Leading tenor roles in which
Laurentis' film, "Menage Italian
The student, Gary Parsons,
and her annual television he has sung in oratorio include
Style,"
was arrested with another in"The Anna Moffo Mahler's "Das Lied von de
dividual after allegedly entering spectacular,now in its third
Erde," the requiems of Mozart
is
Show,"
year. and
a locked house in the 600 block
Verdi, Handel's "Messiah,"
Her career in opera was furof Columbia.
ther enhanced when invitations Haydn's "Creation," and BritThe two claimed they were from the
ten's
leading opera houses others. Spring Symphony, among
told the house was for rent and of
and North and South
Europe
wanted to look at it.
His recital
g,

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America were climaxed for Miss
Moffo in 1959 with her Metropolitan Opera bebut.
Since then, she has been
sought after on both sides of the
Atlantic, and has won the highest critical and audience acclaim
for her performances of Violetta
in "La Traviata," Cilda in
Marguerite in "Faust,"
Mauon in Massenet's masterpiece, and as Donizetti's Maria
in "The Daughter of the Regiment."
In addition, Miss Moffo is
the leading soprano of the Metropolitan Opera, La Scala,
and the Vienna Staatsoper,
and the star of the filmed version
of "La Traviata." She has been
,"

Mi-lan- o,

repertory in

Cer-ma-

u,

French, Italian and English includes three of the greatest song cycles "Winterreise"
(Schubert), "Dichterliebe" (Schumann) and the "Magelone-lied-er- "
(Brahms).

John Stewart
leading roles in

has mastered
26 operas which

cover opera history from early
times to the present from the
title role in Monteverdi's "Or-feo- "
to The Painter in Berg's
"Lulu" and Rakewell in Stravinsky's "The Rake's Progress,"
and is also scheduled during the
19G9-7- 0
season to make his debut
abroad with the highly respected
Ceneva Opera, performing as
Mario Cavaradossi in "Tosca."

* THE KENTUCKY KERNEL, Tt'uUy, April

10,

I970--

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'Scanlan's' Makes Debut
New 'Left Wing Magazine' Hits Newsstand Sales
SAN

FHANCISCO (CPS) --

been one publication in this counw ere absolutely
free and had the cash to do
what Journalists must do.
"That vision of a free, crusading, investigative,

"'Scanlan's MontlJy' is a left try whose editors

win magazine of subversion,"
according to one of its editors
Warren Ilinckle III.
In a recent press conference-luncheo- n
at a ikjsIi San Frantotally candid presshasbecn
cisco North Beach cafe, Ilinckle, largely consigned to the apologia
former President of "Hamparts", of the smug publishers who own
said his new venture will survive the working Journalists and to
witliout ads and "make or break the barroom daydreams of newsit on newstand sales." (The mag- men."
azine sells for $1).
100,000 Sold
He also quoted from the magBy March 9, "Scanlan's" had
azine's statement of principles already sold over 100,000 copies
appearing on the coverof the first and needed only about 20,000
issue.
more sold to break even, accord"Since the halcyon daysof the ing to Ilinckle.
great muckraking journals of half
The money for the publicaa century past, there has not tion was received
through a pub
hell-raisin-

lic issue of stock in which over
700 people bought stock at $3
a share, $675,000 was raised.
Nevertheless, Ilinckle and his
Sidney Zion, former
criminal and political writer for
the "New York Times" bought
enough stock, before the public
sale, at a nickel a share to give
them control of the magazine.
"Ramparts" Loses Support
The idea for" Scanlan's" grew
out of the aftermath of the six
War when much
day Arab-Israe- li
of "Ramparts" financial support
was lost due to Jews thinking
the magazine was too
When it began having financial trouble, Ilinckle said "Ramparts" had the choice of trying
pro-Ara-

Springtime Student Uprisings

By The Associated Press

A rash of
springtime student
uprisings continued on college
campuses Thursday, forcing the
closingof Hunter College in New
York, and provoking court action
at Cornell University.
Columbia University's newly
appointed next president, William J. McCill, was guest at a
reception, where he was heckled
by 300 student militants on such
subjects as community involvement and campus recruiting by
industries.

and a hunger strike was staged
at Springfield College in Massa-

chusetts.
Demonstrators disrupted a
meeting of a Harvard Board of

Overseers committee.
About 1,500 Hunter students
disrupted classes by putting
chains across doorways and
blocking elevators and stairways
leading to classrooms.
The group called itself the

"People's Coalition" and
manded greater student participation in college affairs.
Hunter's president, JacqueAn official reported he was line Wexler, a former nun, urged
able "to give as good as he a rally of about 1,000 students
gets."
opposed to the tactics of the
s
took place at student Coalition to "find ways to keep
union buildings at Tulane and mob rule from disrupting the rest
Lehigh universities, coaches and of us."
athletes scuffled with 100 demLater, however, classes were
onstrators at Stanford University, suspended and Mrs. Wexler
de-

Sit-in-

Astronauts Continue Flight
Despite German Measles
CAPE KENNEDY, Fla. (AP)
exposure of astronaut
Thomas K. Mattingly II to German measles was confirmed
Thursday, and the launch of the
Apollo 13 moon voyage now
hangs on the ability of a husky
blond rookie to do a whirlwind
job of plugging the gap.
John L. Swigert Jr., thrust
from a backup astronaut's role
into the prime crew with just
two days to catch up, began a
crash training program with
James A. Lovell Jr. and Fred
W. Haise Jr.
Swigert's opportunity to fly to
the moon Saturday came Thursday when medical experts recommended that Mattingly not
make the trip because of susceptibility to German measles.
After Swigert worked a full
day in spaceship simulators

The

with Lovell and liaise, astronaut
boss Donald K. Slayton reported: "We think we are still going. If we had run into any
stone walls we would have
stopped."
But Slaytion cautioned, "We
have a lot to look at to see if it
is realistic to consider flying on

Saturday. We're going to continue to work the problem and
look at the results."
He said the astronauts would
be back in the simulators Friday
and a decision would be made
Friday afternoon.
Mattingly's
hopes vanished
when the National Institutes of
Health in Bethesda, Md., tested
the blood samples of another
backup astronaut, Charles Duke,
and reaffirmed an early diagnosis that he has German measles.

agreed to keep the college closed
for at least two days while the
Coalition demands were negoti-

ated.
Hunter has about

to remain an effective muckraking, hell raising voice or present
a leftist analysis of the world
situation.
They chose the latter and
Hinckle left. Yet he calls "Ramparts" "a good magazine," but
says all that "Ramparts" ever
amounted to "was a journalistic
effort with left biases."
Another one of "Ramparts"
problems was that in order to
break even it had to have a minimum of advertising and sales of
at least $225,000 per month. And
this was based on a five year
plan of subscribers paying more
money at each renewal.
Few Ads
"Scanlan's," however, will
have few if any ads, except satirical ones like a spoof on Lufthansa by Dan Greenburg in the
next edition of the magazine.
In the next issue there will be
a recording of an admission by
an Army officer of a "Vietnam

atrocity."

dents.
Cornell President Dale R. Carson was granted a temporary
New York State Supreme Court
restraining order after a band
of 100 to 150 Negro students
ignited a bonfire near the campus bookstore Wednesday night.
Then they rampaged for a mile
to their dormitories, smashing
windows, overturning automobiles and vandalizing the lobby
of a women's dormitory.
Under the order, the court
assumed responsibility for keeping peace on the Ivy League
campus. A campus curfew from
11 p.m. to 7 a.m. was decreed,
under threat of suspension or
possible criminal action.

sits name, last year on a visit
to Dublin Hinckle visited several
old IRA bars (Irish Republican
Army). At one, the old men gathered at the bar were drinking
praises to a John Scant an who
had died 10 years earlier. Apparently, when the Irish Civil
War erupted at the beginning of
the century, Scan! an had disappeared only to reappear at its
conclusion.
Moreover, he had two or three
illegitimate kids whom he didn't
care about. One oldtimer called
Scanlan "an asshole." Another
said they drank to him because

in his lifetime they had treated
him so badly "even though he

deserved worse."
Hinckle said the aura around
Scanlan appealed to him and the
name sounded good. And, besides, he rhetorically asked" what
would you name a magazine?"

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The black uprising appeared
to be a reaction to the burning
last week of Cornell's African
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Fire officials theorized the
blaze was arson, and the FBI
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Cornell at Ithaca, N.Y., has
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* How Sweet It Is!
The voting students of this campus deserve a thundering ovation
for finally loosening the Greek grip
bn Student Government. We hope
that the overwhelming victory margin for Steve Bright is indicative
of a new era in student politics,
one featuring genuine concern and
interest for the real issues which
confront students at UK.
However, one can not help but
feel some disappointment at the

overall voter turnout for an elec- that organization so desperately
tion which has everything favorneeds.
enthusiastic participation. In
ing
There has been some talk that
light of the small number of votmarers, Bright's almost
plans are underway to protest the
gin is something of a mandate.
election, which operated under a
In an election deprived of real new system this year. This, we
issues, voters chose a student leadfeel, amounts to only a "sour
er who was willing to give aca- 'grapes" attitude on the part of
demics the attention it deserves defeated candidates. The huge marand one who is willing to give gin of victory would make any
Student Government the overhaul appeal lack validity and only em- 900-vo- te

Some Drawbacks
Although the number of persons
who are actually concerned about
Student Government on this campus seems to be growing, there are
a few aspects of the recent elections
which keep us from becomingover-l- y
optimistic.
It is a sad commentary that
4,482 votes constitute a " near record
turnout." It is sad that 160 people
voted for a
candidate.
It is sad that one of the newly
non-exista-

nt

Pensive Mood

at you), sticks, mice, wooden cubes, 3,527

elected representatives had to candidly admit that the representatives race is nothing more than a

"poster contest."

Perhaps in the future students
will refuse to be swayed by such
nonsense slogans, affiliations and
sweet young things urging a vote
so.
for d
so-an-

Or is that what the "near record" total of 4,482 votes indicates?

yards of tangled string, torn newspaper
of course this is only a beginning.

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sagacity in selecting representatives; they chose some of the top
candidates from an extremely talented field.
Altogether, today dawned bright
and clear in every respect, with a
new ray of hope for a rebirth of
Student Government.

Steve Bright, needless to say,

tive is impressive, so he should be
knowledgeable of what must be
He inherits a body some say is done to give SG the spark it so
irrelevant, has no purpose, lacks desperately has lacked in the past.
incentive and exists merely for the
The question will be whether
of a chosen few. or not Bright can work effectively
We wish Bright luck in his new with the Administration.
It is
position and truly hope he can get known that Bright complained earthe cobwebs out of Student Gov- ly in the year about the accessa-bilit- y
ernment and streamline it into a
of President Singletary.
functional body working for the best Whether this has hurt him to the
interests of the student.
extent that he will be shackled
remains to be seen.
Bright's record as a representa

has a tumultous job ahead of him.

HOWEVER,

you can never find these

could be 2,000 years old!
Back to mice. Now I've got notliin'
against a mouse cute furry little things
you can simply ignore 'em, or, if you're
feeling especially feminine that day, you
can spring lithely up on the Coke machine
and scream for help in your most dismayed
soprano (of course, you may scare the poor
little tiling). But that was no mouse I saw
glowering at me from under those stairs
last week, that was a RAT! Mice squeak
(most mice, that is) but no mouse thunders!
ROOAAARR!

Now I am an Arcliitecture Major
(I haven't figured out what the tilings
under the stairs in Pence Hall do. Why
do they carry binoculars?) I'm Safe!! No

1894

FRIDAY, APRIL

10, 1970

Editorials represent the opinions of the Editors, not of the University.
James W. Miller,

Managing Editor
Robert Duncan, Advertising Manager
Chip Hutcheson, Sports Editor
Gwen Ranney, Women's Page Editor

more nightmares about walking through

spiderwebs(thereal
one is only half that big), and making bare
footprints on the floor with green paint.
room-size- d

man-mad- e

things (when you need them) they are all
well hidden Ahh! Archeologists ParaGraffiti Haven, here
dise! the dirt they are buried under Pence Hall!

University of Kentucky

S. Coots,

The voters did not lose their

Rough Road Ahead

The Kentucky Kernel
Frank

a move.

Kernel Forum: the readers write

There's this building across campus
(and across Limestone, and across Upper,
and across Scott Street, and across . . . ).
Now, I'm not gonna mention any names,
cuz I wouldn't want to hurt its feelings,
it used to be a real nice old building
when' it was the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco
Company back in the twenties. It is now
the happy home of our well equipped
Art Department (I say "our" because
once you've been an Art major you develop a sense of possessiveness about
the place). Well equipped why, sure
of styrofoam in
with two boxcar-load- s
assorted colors (for assorted types of napalm), a dead snake in a jar, logs, skulls,
skeletons, pipes, bars, disassembled motorcycles, hubcaps, wooden boxes, rolls of
fiberglass cloth, dead roaches, Walt Disney's original "Shaggy Dog's" cousin's
nephew (no, Mike that was not aimed

ESTABLISHED

barrass those who attempt such

Editor-in-Chi-

Mike Herndon, Editorial Fage Editor
Dan Cossett, Associate Editor
Bob Varrone, Arts Editor
Don Rosa, Cartoonist

I come

good ole

:w?wM''ew!ew9ews

Oh, by the way, have you heard the
latest rumor? We need a bigger library.
I
They're tearing down Pence Hall
wonder where the College of Architecture

...

is going?????

Kernel Soapbox

SUZY BRONSTON

ByJOSHO'SHEA
tainly these people are as important, if not
more so, as the presidential candidates if
Sociology Sophomore
I find myself at the present time SG is ever to rise from its present quagmire
being in a somewhat unpleasant situation, and somewhat skeptical acceptance.
that of slapping the hand that feeds me.
NO COVERAGE!!! Why weren't the
I am writing tliis letter Tuesday night, views platforms (remember my slogan:
long before the results of the election will It's not my picture that's important . . .)
be made known. Therefore, it is safe to
of each candidate presented to the stu.assume that I shall not have been influ- dent body? Obviously it would have taken
a large amount of space, time and effort.
enced by those results.
But isn't it worth it? Even a special
I was enIn the Kernel of April 6,
supplement would certainly be justified.
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