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UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY, LEXINGTON

Vol. LXI, No. 95

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Anne Fowler, seated in the center, waits calmly with the other
finalists shortly before she was named Miss UK 1970. Judith Ann
Ford, Miss America 1969, acted as mistress of ceremonies in the
pageant held m Memorial I Loll Saturday night See story and picKernel Photo By Mike Walker
tures on page three.

land Avenue on the east and
lly JEAN RENAKER
Assistant Managing Editor
Broadway on the West the area
The law of supply and de- considered the prime rental area
for UK students.
mand is making apartment-rentin- g
students wallets thinner and
Looking Elsewhere
These buildings offer between
thinner.
Of 16,000 students enrolled
1,500 and 1,700 apartments.
at UK's Lexington campus, only With two persons in each apartment, there remains 4,500 stu4,122 are living in residence
dents who must look elsewhere
halls. Of the remaining students,
for living quarters for rooms in
approximately 1,400 live in fraternity or sorority houses and private residences, for apartabout 1,500 live in Shawnee-tow- n ments in formerly private dwellor Cooperstown, leaving ings, for University-owne- d
apartclose to 9,000 in the market for ments, even for apartments at
apartments, excluding those, of the Lexington Theological Semicourse, who are Lexington resinary.
dents.
Apartments farther from camThe Chamber of Commerce pus take up the overflow, and
lists 217 apartment buildings in students pick up the tab.
the city, 25 percent of which
Apartment owners agree that
are within the area bounded by the demand for apartments is
concentrated in the areas near
High Street on the north, Southland Drive on the south, Ash- - campus. They deny that rental
rates increase as the number of

Registrar Eases UK Admission Requirements
J. PATRICK MATIIES
Assistant Managing Editor
Associate Registrar, Ray
said Friday that "we
(the registrar's office) have elimBy

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inated the requirement that entering freshmen must provide
the University with a high school
transcript."
The American College Testing
Program (ACT), which is required of all entering students
at the University, "provides all
the information we need."
The registrar's office also explained that advance registration
is a must. "The only way a stu-

dent can be in classes next fall
is if he participates in advance

registration," commented Keller
Dunn, associate dean of admissions.

"If he is here this spring he
must advance register."
Dr. Elbert Ockerman, Registrar and Dean of Admissions, explained that a major problem
with the present advance registration system is that it does not
provide for students telling us
they will not return in the fall.
He also said that there should
be some way for the students
to confirm their fall scheduling
during the summer.
"Anybody that fails a class,
who has advance registered,"
Cumberledge said "will be permitted to go back to the coliseum to adjust their schedules."
He said that the administration is trying to provide better
service for students.

The only other option, according to Cumberledge, would be
for all 16,000 students to try and
register in the fall, two days
before classes, which "would be
complete chaos."
Ockerman also said that there
is

an "inordinate amount of

necessary

drop-ad- d

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changes."

Ockerman said that he thought
"one third of the changes were
totally unnecessary."
There should not be more

than 40 percent of a student
body dropping or adding."
Cumberledge also stated that
the registrar's office was concerned over the number of "X"
grades given at
"That the "X" grade says the
student is enrolled but not attending, we had over a thousand
of these last semester."
mid-ter-

fee, but
assessing a drop-ad- d
if it continues at this rate something must be done."
He added that "more than
half of all our students drop or
add every semester."
Too Many "X" Grades
"There are a variety of reasons," Ockerman continued,
some students may not like the
instructor or the time and some
get jobs or change their majors.

mid-tergrades
Although
have been eliminated this seclass roll will
mester a mid-terbe sent out to professors.
The elimination of mid-tergrades was passed by the University Senate in January.
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students wanting apartments

in-

creases.
All claim that they rent their
apartments at the smallest
amount possible to continue to
earn a profit.
This explanation does not account for the fact that some
efficiency apartments rent for
$110 per month, including utilities, with other, comparable
efficiencies renting for $120 per
month, including utilities. Likewise,
apartments
rent for anything from $125 per
month to $165 per month.
Summer Slack Period
Owners report having no
trouble renting apartments for
the fall semester, but add that
they sometimes have vacancies
for the spring semester due to
students quitting school or not
making their grades.
Summer is the slack period
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First Of A Series

UK Greek Life Offers Many Advantages

EDITOR'S NOTE? In this, the first of
three-par- t
series on the Creek system
at UK, members and independents explore the decision to "go Creek." The
series attempts to give an overview of
life in UK's fraternities and sororities
and an idea of how Creeks view themselves and their system,
a

By TOM BO WD EN

Kernel Staff Writer

If you were to corner a Creek and ask
him, why should I join a fraternity, he
would likely get around to describing
the enormous advantages of knowing people.

"Fraternities are still basically social
units," explains Bob Elder, UK Dean of
Fraternities. They help to give "a sense
of identity" through the provision of a
small group living unit on a large campus
such as UK's, he maintains.
Creek Assets

In a fraternity, one is forced to learn
to live with many different people from
various backgrounds, he adds. "Within

a fraternity environment, one also gets
more encouragement to get involved" in
campus activities.
The value of living in close quarters
with the "brothers" (the members of a
particular fraternity) is reiterated by Bart
Caunt, president of Sigma Chi:
"We have people of different talents,
temperaments and convictions here all
working together for one certain thing."
Socially, a fraternity means always

being around people you know,

Bart
explains.
Creek sororities have much the same
aim. Susan Camenisch, president of Alpha Gamma Delta, says "sororities give
a girl an opportunity to get involved."
"Socially, it's hard to meet people
on this campus," she notes. "Through
the sorority, the ordinary freshman gets
a base to work from." She can find very
lasting friendships, and she can do what
she wants while always having a friend
nearby, Susan explains.

"The movement of the 60's has had
its effect" on the fraternity, says Damon
Talley, president of the
Council and a member of Farm House

Mickey Smith began pledging Farm-Houfraternity, and then decided not to
join he "depledged." Mickey objected
to the facet of the Creek philosophy
which says that "whether you like them
fraternity.
Fraternity members, he believes, are or not, you have to treat them as your
concerned with the Vietnam war, hy- brothers."
pocrisy and the other problems facing
He says that it was not the Farm-Houthe world today.
situation especially that made him
Camenisch thinks things are
Susan
couldn't cut the system."
changing, too. "It's not enough to be change "I just
she says. "We are trying
social anymore,"
Besides noting his desire "to pick his
to be more relevant. We don't want to go own brothers," Mickey says: "I'm no civil
on doing the same thing year after year." rights worker, but it bothers me that
Scholarship Emphasis
The Creek system helps its members there are no colored people in fraterniRon Conway, president of Alpha Tau in three major areas, Susan believes: ties."
scholarship, social life and service.
Omega fraternity, maintains that fraterniObjections
The latter area is often mentioned
ties are no longer capable of operating
He admits also that he didn't like the
by Creeks as a way in which they become
only as a social organ. He notes an indemands made on his time by the frainvolved in social problems.
crease in the emphasis on scholarship.
As Damon Talley says;"A fraternity ternity.
Altliough the individual fraternities have
sometimes lagged behind the rest of the man has a conscience, too."
His main objection, though, is that
Individuals All
he "doesn't want to have to like people
campus, he sees a definite shift in emSusan stresses that joining a Creek
because they are his fraternity brothers."
phasis toward the educational side.
Cary Swaini, a second semester fresh- organization does not mean that one
Damon Talley thinks that changes
man "active" of Phi Kappa Tau, views must lose his individuality; most other must be made. "We must modernize," he
a bit differently.
Creeks concur in this belief.
things
"We're still sitting back and waitThe gist of the Creek philosophy is urges.
Primarily, he considers fraternity life
for people to come to us."
ing
a counseling service which consists of that fraternities engender close frienAt any rate, Damon thinks that the
"people wlo have been through the same dshipsbrotherhoodthrough small living
fraternities have a good cross-sectiof
and similar creeds.
units
thing you're going through."
Some people are disillusioned with the students.
Secondly, Cary likes the social aspect
"it's a place to take a gid on a date." system and its philosophy after experi"Fraternity men are basically no difCary adds that it enables the members encing pledgeship, a period of time during ferent than the average guy on campus,"
to become friends with a lot of people which the prospective intiate is introhe explains. "We all want a degree with
nkore people than if you're on the duced to life in the group wluch he Itopes the least amount of work and the most
"outside."
to join.
amount of fun."
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KENTUCKY KERNEL, Monday, Feb. 23, 1970

Grand Funk 'Releases Tension9 In Concert
BETH IIEDGER
Kernel Staff Writer

By

Amazement,

stupefication
and sheer awe. These are only
a few of the many adjectives that
can describe the performance
pven by Crand Funk Railroad
Friday and Saturday nights at
the Ludlow Garage, in Cincinnati.
The second show, which didn't

get under way until nearly midnight, started off with a really
nice blues set given 'by the
Lemon Pipers. Completely abanimage,
doning the bubble-guof their
which is a
earlier records, the Pipers have
progressed into one of the finest
blues groups that has ever come
out of the Cincinnati area. Doing almost all original material,
they really got their act together
musically, although on vooal
harmony they had a few problems. Bob Knave, their organ
player, possesses a very rich
blues voice which makes some
atonement for the inadequacy
of the harmony.
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obscenities into the microphone,

which sent the audience into an
cheer in
of the
drummer's solo seemed to release some sort of tension.
They continued playing many
of their more popular songs until
they began "In Need." This is
also a popular cut from their
second album. Up until this
time Mark Farner, lead guitarist,
had been secretly hinting with
his powerful playing that he was
the man who had caused the
group's success. With Farner
ripping away, and Mel Schacher
and Don Brewer following, each
reached the invisible height
where it seemed that the perfect
finish would be to throw their
instruments against the floor and
destroy them.
Farner's playing outshone the
rest and at the end when he
took off his shirt and attacked
his instrument it seemed to bring
to the surface a sort of screaming
frenzy that ached to be released.
Still, during the whole thing,
the drummer and the bassist
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After warming up the crowd,
some of whom had been standing in line for hours, they gave
way to Crand Funk. During
the intermission, there appeared
a Laurel and Hardy movie and
a Road Runner cartoon, whiJi
completely freaked the crowd.
Jim Tarbcll, who owns and
operates the Garage, also promised that in the future such
people as the Youngbloods, Bo
Diddley and the Incredible
String Band would perform.
Grand Funk rushed on stage
and began with "Are You
Ready," one of the more popular
songs from their first album.
The crowd was quite familiar
with the driving sound, for
Grand Funk has performed in
the Cincinnati area several tines,
one of their better known performances being at the Mini-Po- p
Festival given last fall at
the Cincinnati Zoo.
Grand Funk seemed to act as
a release for the frustrations
trapped inside people. Their
constant jumping, screaming,
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pete with. Farncr's aggressiveness with his guitar and his personality overwhelmed the audience, who appeared shocked, yet
seemed to enjoy the egotistical
openness with which he played.
Before the last song, Famcr
said the group's job was to turn
on the audience, which they evidently had been doing, although
some people left complaining of
the group's loudness. Granted
both the guitar players had four
amplifiers each, it still didn't
seem tojbe that
mind-blowin-

g.

Doing 'Inside Looking Out"
as their last song, they brought
the crowd to a standing ovation,
which wasn't the first of the
evening. Brought back by
cheers, they did T.N.U.C." as
the final song which contained
a seven minute drum solo.
Those who missed Crand
Funk should try to catch Neil
Young Wednesday at 8 p.m. in
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'Swope9 Improbable
But Very Amusing
By DAN COSSETT
Kernel Staff Writer
"Putney Swope" is outrageous, outrageously
funny. The
viewer figures that out early in
the picture when a helicopter
lands on the roof of an ad agency
and this dude dressed like a
'Hell's Angel' gets out carrying
a brief case and slaps the hand
of the animated cadaver who is
there to greet him. The guy with
the brief case is a motivational
psychologist who says that men
drink beer because it is a sexual
.

sublimination.
The amazing thing about that
sequence is that it is probably
one of the more rational takes
in the movie. With a flick like
this, however, rationality would
detract from the impact of the
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effort.

The plot, if you can call it
that, concerns a black guy who
is the token on the board of
directors of an ad agency. In
the middle of a meeting, the
chairman of the board dies and
keels over onto the table. After
the other directors strip him of
his wallet and watch, and the
old codger is still lying there
dead, the remaining members
start the process of choosing a
new board chaiman. Since no
member can vote for himself,
nine of the twelve men cast their
votes for the one member that no
one else is likely to vote for, namely Putney Swope, the token black
man. That makes Putney the
chairman.
To paraphrase the punch line
from an old bad Joke, that's
when the feces hit the fan. Within 24 hours, all of the board
members have been fired and replaced with an all black board,
with a token honkey.
All of the board members and

precisely what is going on. You're
never quite sure whether "Truth
and Soul" is an advertising agencadre.
cy or a revolutionary
Swope doesn't help much by al-

ternately wearingCastroesque fatigues and Brooks Brothers suits.
The perpetrator of "Putney
Swope" is Robert Downey, who
is identified in the credits as "a
prince." On the publicity posters,
there is a clinched black fist
shooting you a black female bird.
This is the attitude that Downey
adopted toward the whole'thing.
For example, half of the cast are
not actors. They are people picked
up off the street. The guy who
played Sonny Williamson, the
exhibitionist, was a wino and
they payed him $10 and a bottle
of cheap wine.

Academy Snubs
Youth Market
By BOBBI BARRETT

Kernel Staff Writer

Take a moment and pick out
five movies that you would consider to be the best pictures of
1960. Perhaps your list will include some of the following: "Medium Cool," "Last Summer,"
"Easy Rider," "Midnight Cowboy," or "Alice's Restaurant."
Now take a moment to consider
that of these movies, only three
received the barest mention in
the Academy Award nominations.

"Easy Rider," one of the season's biggest
draws,
was nominated for best screenplay and for the best supporting
actor. Jack Nicholson. "Midnight
Cowboy" tied for third among
the five best picture nominees,
and "Alice's Restaurant" was
among the best direction nominabox-offi-

tions.

The Academy chose to come
out strongly in favor of its old
foimulas for success; extravagant
costumes, veteran stars, elaborate production and setting. Witness the ten nominations that
went to "Anne of the Thousand
Days."
The biggest story to come
out of the nominations is what
wasn't nominated. CregoryPeck,
as last year's Academy President,
said a move was being made to
find ways of lowering the age of
the Academy electorate. Apparwhitey.
In the middle parts of the ently, there is no such process,
movie, it is hard to determine or it isn't being tried.
agency employees are really weird
dudes. One such man, a tall
d
named Ayrab,
skinny
turns out to be Swopes' voice of
black conscience.
The ad agency, with Putney
Swope as chairman, adopts two
basic tenets. First, they refuse
to do any advertisements for war
toys, weapons, alchohol or tobacco. Second, they have to do
everything they can to squeeze
every penny they can out of
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1970- -3

Suggests Changes In Judging Criteria

Anne Fowler Crowned Miss UK 1970
JANE BROWN
Kernel Stall Writer
"Hcauty pageants tend to emphasize superficiality, I feel that
what's inside is far more important than just what can be
seen on the surface," stated Anne
Carter Fowler, the
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Miss UK.
She continued,
explaining,
'That isn't meant to attack the
system, it's just that they should
reverse their priorities. Femininity isn't necessarily inherent
in beauty and shape."
Despite her critical attitude
toward the judging system,
Anne, representing
Dlanding
Tower and Kappa Kappa Cama
sorority, must have pleased the
judges who crowned her Miss
University of Kentucky Saturday
night before a capacity crowd
at Memorial Hall.
According to Mistress of Ceremonies Judith Ann Ford, Miss
America 1969, a winner of a
pageant represents the image of
femininity in all its many facets.
Almost Quit
Miss Fowler, a chocolate-brown-eye- d
blonde, says she
isn't quite sure that she knows
exactly what femininity is. A
week before the pageant she
had almost decided to quit.
"I felt that I should go into
the thing to win and I didn't

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think I had a chance. Then I
just decided to go on and have
fun," she said.
English Major
Anne also felt that her talent
sketch wouldn't appeal to the
judges. She appeared as a barehill
foot,
with pigtails and
girl, complete
a guitar. Entering with a "Hi,
y'all" she flopped down in the
middle of the stage to sing a
folk song narrative of the
preacher and the bear.
Although she has taken years
of musical lessons on piano and
cello she says that she "doesn't
know much about musical technicalities." She plays the guitar
by ear and says that "music has
never been a thing I want to
revolve my life around."
The English education major,
however, does hope to obtain a
Ph.D. in English literature. After
three semesters at Duke University and two at UK, Miss Fowler
has maintained a 3.8 overall and
is very active in Student Government.
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70 enjoys skiing,

reading (her favorite authors are
Shakespeare and Dunne), and
cooking. She writes poetry and
loves owls, any kind of owl.
She maintains that "owls have a
lot of personality."

Miss America '69, however,
has confidence in Anne's possibilities. Miss Ford stated that
the new Miss UK has as much
chance of winning the Miss
America Pageant to be held in
the fall, as any other contestant
she would be running against.
Suggests Change
Before continuing in beauty
competitions, however, Miss
Fowler would like to see some
changes in the judging system.
She suggests that the "interview with the judges should be
conducted in such a manner that
the judges can discover values,
ideals, opinions, etc. in opposition to the trivia that's already
on the applications."
Despite the fact that Anne
isn't quite in agreement with
judging priorities, she is glad
that she continued with the competition. 'The girls in the pageant were tremendous. It was
worth it all just to get to know
twenty-on- e
really fine people."
Not all the other girls were
losers: Mary Donna Preston was
Linda Marie
first runner-up- ,
Ward was second runner-up- ,
Roberta Kaye Winn was third
runner-u- p
and Gayla Sue Long
was fourth.
Phyllis Jean Williams was
chosen Miss Congeniality by her
fellow contestants.

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Anne Fowler Miss UK 1970
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Last Tuesday a group meeting
on campus excluded a Kernel reporter from its meeting. No reason
was given other than the group
wanted to talk over "family affairs' and saw little need for the
press. The reporter left, a bit disturbed, and rightly so.
The meeting was not announced
as a closed session and should not
have been closed when a reporter's
presence was discovered. We know
of no official authority that gives
any group using University facilities the right to exclude any student wishing to attend, including
the press.

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ther they be open or closed to the
public.
Such a statement should concern itself with several critical
areas. First, we feel it would be
advantageous for a group to announce beforehand whether or not
the meeting will be closed. We
concede that executive sessions to,
discuss policy, etc., are an essential
part of the democratic process as
is press coverage. But we contend

that when a session has not been

earmarked "closed" it should not
be decided so later.
Secondly, when a group has a
speaker come in to lecture, there
should be no restrictions on atIn light of this, we urge the Of- tendance by any member of the acfice of Student Affairs to study the ademic community, including The
feasability of establishment of such Kernel. Much can be gained by
a policy statement, setting ground all when a variety of viewpoints
rules for meetings on campus, whe- - are presented by speakers spon

sored by various campus organizations. These speakers should be
able to present their views to interested students, faculty, staff and
the student press.
Thirdly, in the past, organizations have singled out Kernel reporters and asked them to leave,
while other students were allowed
to stay. This is a direct violation
of the First Amendment and is a
personal embarrassment to the reporter who took the time to cover
the meeting.
We propose that any organization wishing to close its meeting
after it has started must take a
vote of its members and it must
pass by a simple majority. If the
group votes to close the meeting,
must leave and
all
not just a certain few.
It would be desirable'for the Of--

non-membe- rs

flee of Student Affairs to study
such a proposal, but it would also
be enlightening to see Student Government take up such dialogue.
To see SC take the vanguard in such
meaningful legislation would, indeed, be a plus for the student
assembly.
Such a proposal is not meant
as a petty gripe from one segment
of academe to another. The situation is an unfavorable one to the
majority of the student body who
depends on the college press tokeep
it informed. When one segment of
the campus hinders the efforts of
another, especially in this case,
it can only result in the majorityl
of the student body being shortchanged.
We would hope some action
will be forthcoming to alleviate
this situation.

NOTHING IN PARTICULAR'
By BOB BAILEY

Let's play a game. Let's suppose that
it's now about the middle of February
and the Spring is approaching. It is a
time when young Student Government
members' thoughts turn to elections. Now,
the idea of the game is to guess what
some of the individual stars of the great
Student Covemment organization will
do, keeping in mind that they are either
trying to feather their own nest for reelection or Just causing trouble.
First, Steve Bright will try to build
up some issue on which he can run. An
interesting idea would be a new election procedure bill. Of course, he will
do this in the name of and for the good
of students. This bill will pass the
and be vetoed by Tim Futrell on
Constitutional grounds.
Actually, Tim might agree with the
spirit of the bill, but he can't let Bright
get the upper hand as Tim has yet to
name his
While all this is going on, other representatives will suddenly wake up and realize that if they are going to move up
in Student Covemment, they'd better do
something. Since this is just a guessing
game, let's guess that Mark Bryant suddenly realizes that he has neglected to
put many of his brilliant and original
ideas into legislation. So he submits many
bills urging much needed action.
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The bills range from putting an ice
machine in Kastle Hall to allowing the
faculty to vote in the Fall elections.
Three of the fingers of the Student Covemment secretary fall off due to over-

But the rub is that they all merely
urge action which has already been approved by a special presidential commission or the assembly. They pass and
are acted upon by the president. This
is because Bryant has so many opportunities to see the President during the
course of a week. Everytime he is in
the President's office to empty the waste
paper basket he drops copies of his bills
on the desk.

work.

While we're really going wild on this,

let's say the
Council
presentative and one of his brothers in the
fold, decide that they should do something, anything! So they submit a passel
of legislation. Only they don't quite understand if any of it is feasible; so they
Just set up investigatory commissions.
Inter-Fraternit-

y

re-

Next the Election Board submits their
report on a modified election plan and
all the Creeks say it is good. In fact,
it is just exactly what they were going
to propose themselves. The veto is upheld
and Steve Bright is stuck with 1500 empty
petitions.

In response to the great Influx of legislation, Representatives Bill Dawson and
Detlef Moore submit 97 bills in one week
to point out the absurdity of the

.

The Assembly stays in continuous session for 18 days considering the 97 bills
and finally adjourns for Spring break.
When school starts back Steve Bright
announces his candidacy for President of
Student Covemment. One week later Mark
Bryant, Ben Fletcher and Kenny Kapp
announce their intentions to run as a team,
as three heads are almost better than none.
Tim Futrell announces that he will remain neutral in this year's election. Campus celebrates April Fool's Day.
'
On the vice presidential side, Lynn
Montgomery enters the race as an independent. He promises not to wear his
fraternity pin until he is sworn in. Bucky
Pennington also enters the VP race and
offers to wear Montgomery's pin during
the campaign.
Election Day comes and due to the
complexity of the new plan and confusion
over polling' places, 46 people vote. All
ballots are marked in crayon and must
be counted by hand. Fifteen hours later,
Bill Dexter and Ched Jennings are announced as winners on a great write-icampaign. Each had twelve votes and the
n

rest divided between Stuart Forth and the
Chief of the Lexington Police Force and

other candidates.
Who wins the game? Students?
The above may seem silly but the first
three paragraphs are true. The rest maybe
irrelevant, but think about it for awhile.
There will be a great influx of legislation from suddenly awakened junior politicians. And through it all no candidate
with wide appeal will surface. The campaign will again center on who can have
cast for him.
the most
The students are no longer individuals,
but rather, Creeks, Independents, dorm
residents, leftists, rightists or some other
category. Actually there is only one category, University Students. That's all. But
until University Students wake up and
take interest (at least by voting) they
will continue to be placed in neat, compact, maneuver able categories. A sad commentary, but true.
One can see the lethargy when he
considers that the editorial page of The
Kernel has no trouble printing every letter
to the editor they receive. And they do
not appear every day!
Think about your investment, or lack
of it. Are you getting your money's worth
from the $10,000 Student Covemment is
budgeted for a year?
Who wins the game? Students?
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es

* THE KENTUCKY KERNEL, Monday, Teh. 23,

1970- -5

Adventures In Selective Service Land

Ordeal Viewed By 'Victim'

Draft-Physic- al

cannot be flunked. I am no meBy FRANK COOTS
Associate Editor
chanic, but even I can match
a drawing of a battery with that
Besides all the arguments
about the illegality and immor- of a generator.
The strange thing about the
ality of the draft, one of its
chief purposes is to harass pro- test was that everybody took it
spective males. With this in mind, seriously. There were people
Local Board 42 in Louisville,
cheating and corporals stationed
not wanting to neglect me, sent about the room to make sure no
mean "Order toReport for Armed one cheated.
At about 9:30 the test is over
Services Physical" on Feb. 20
at the uncommonly early hour of and in walked Lt. Alphonso.
Lt. Alphonso was there to help
7a.m.
I arrived at the new Federal
us fill out our security questionBuilding in Louisville right at naires. He was big, mean and
7 only to find I had already
nasty. The security questionnaire is absurd and Lt. Alphonso
missed about five minutes of instructions from the sergeant as- has to witness each one.
signed to "orient" the group of
Integrity?
200 eligibles.
The statement at the top of
Big Joke
the questionnaire says the Army
This sergeant had a real sense only wants men of "integrity
of humor. He viewed the whole and unswerving loyalty to the
situation as a grand joke on us. United States of America. The
I say "us" because there following is a list of organizaseemed to be a cert