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Vol. LXVI No. 5
Friday. June 28, 1974

an independent student newspaper

University of Kentucky
Lexington, Ky. 40506

 

Workmen at (‘ommonwealth Stadium are hoping that this

second setting of bermuda sprigs take

5. The first setting

failed. These sprigs from Stoll Field replace the blue grass

sod taken up earlier this spring.

‘1 Student Senate votes to join

Red River Dam court tight

Hy NANCY DALY
Managing Editor
The executive committee of the Student Senate
voted Wednesday to join in possible litigation
against the Army t‘orps of Engineers to prevent
construction of the Red River liam
The committee. which handles senate affairs
while regular semesters are not in session. also
voted to lend Student Government 's "wholehearted
active support to the Red River Defense Fund's
opposition to the dam "

'l‘lll-I RESULI'TIUN adopted by the committee

stated that

Red River Gorge is of recreational and
educational benefit to students;

many students have expressed strong op-
position to the damming of any part of the North
Fork of Red River.

and that students at the l'niversity of Kentucky

often use Red River Gorge for hiking. canoeing and
camping.

MIKE “IISOV: 8G vice president. said the
probable litigation would be a stalling tactic to
turther postpone or completely halt construction of
the dam, He added Student Government would not
be obliged to testify or help pay expenses of the
court tight

The committee voted unanimously to oppose a
Ionmg change w hich would permit construction of a
.\lcl)onald‘s restaurant at Woodland and Euclid
a venues .

They also voted to lend opposition to a zoning
proposal at Kentucky and ('entral avenues which
would change a residential area to professional
office butlding space SG President David Mucci
claimed the change would aggravate student
housing problems and "open the door to more Of the
same

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Planning Commission turns down
McDonald's zoning change request

It) ('lll't‘K ('UMBI‘IS
Kernel Staff Writer
The llrbanvt‘ounty Planning t‘ommissmn Wed-
nesday denied a zoning change request which Would
have allowed construction of a McDonald's
restaurant on the corner of Woodland and l-Iuclid.
in a unanimous decision. the commission reaf~
lirmed the position taken previously by the zoning
committee of the commission
ALTIIUl'Gll Till-2 request will now go to the l'rban—
(‘ounty (‘ouncil. a planning commissmn staff
member said there would be little chance for gran-
ting the request due to the unanimous decision.

IN A similar case involving student housing. the
commission postponed action on a proposed change
at the intersection of Kentucky and Central avenues.
it would have allowed construction of a professional
office building where four houses occupied by
students now stand.

About 30 residents of the area were present. most
voicing opposition to the change. They expressed fear
of the encroachment of business into the area,
claiming it would increase noise and congestion
caused by businesses already in the area. David

VanHorn, attomey for the Aylesford Neighborhood
Association. presented a petition with over 60
signatures opposing the change.

Student Government President David Mucci also
opposed the change, telling the commission the
proposed restaurant would aggravate the students’
housing problem, and the added traffic would make it
more difficult for commuting students to get to and
from the University.

WELDON SHOL’SE. owner of both the property and
McDonald‘s Land and Development Company, told
the commission the restaurant would improve a
"decaying"area,and that UK students would be “far
better off" occupying “some apartment complex"
than the housing in the area.

Commission Vicechairwoman Hazel Bush. in her
motion for denial. said residences were preferable to
business in the area, and called on tenants and
owners to upgrade the area by making needed
repairs.

Fourth District Councilwoman Pam Miller said she
was “overjoyed“ by the commission's action. and
added she would definitely oppose the change when
presented before the council.

Female grad students complain about Haggin Hall

By DON DUKE
Kernel Staff Writer

Sixteen women graduate students
teamed that they were part of a
coeducational living experiment at a
meeting concerning the living conditions
at Haggin Hall.

The women represented other women
students who complained of this ex-
periment and their unawareness of being a
part of it.

BOB PLAY, Haggin Hall head resident.
and Dave Schroder. Area Coordinator of
Complex Housing were also present at the
meeting.

“These ladies have not been aware of the
proper channels to go through when they
have had complaints to register." (‘lay
commented,

“They knew before they came here for
the summer session that they were
assigned to Haggin Hall. Many of these
people have not lived in University
housing before this or they would have
known the proper channels to follow." he
explained.

ONE WOMAN said most of those here
for this summer session have been at UK
before for other sessions.

They were informed at the last minute
where they were living and there was no
time to make any changes or to even get a
refund. she said.

The women were told the only other
alternative would he to transfer to the
Towers. They declined because in the
summer the Towers are usually full of
young visitors at the University.

They were also told the complex was not
available this summer because of repairs
in the buildings.

The women replied that some people are
living in the low-rise complex buildings
now and “we don‘t see the logic to this
statement."

The chief complaints presented by the
women were:

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mind For example, one must be six feet
tall in order to see himself iii any ot the
dot m's mirrors

'l‘liere is no privacy in the showers or
the toilets (‘iirtains have been installed to
separate the stalls. but the women said the
curtains tall down.

Some students are t ailing out of the top
bunks since they have no experience at
sleeping in bunk beds

—-SIN(‘I~I THE lounge is located across
the court-yard from the women's section
of the dorm, they must get dressed in
order to use the lounge facilities.

The women are not adjusted to male
visitors coming unannounced -4 or
uninvited during night hours.

Lighting is so poor that many had to
buy their own reading lamps

'I'lll-I \\ ti,\lt2\ also stated that since they
have complained. they were told to go to
an empty room if they need lounge
lacilitics

“If you've seen the size of one of those
rooms,” one girl commented. “you'd
wonder what kind of a lounge can that
possibly be "

 

 Editorials/Letters

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Bursting forth from a room that
emits intense. pure light. an
immaculately groomed soldier
advances into an abyssal
darkness. Down crimson steps
labelled “court martial" and
“family disgrace" he must go
when the decision to go absent-
without-leave is made.

The cover to one military for-
ces' pamphlet, “AWOL and the
Consequences." is indicative of
material inside. Here in typical
armed zealousness, the tempted
soldier can read and decide on a
course of action.

Immediately confronting him is
the grammatical headline “What
Price AWOL". The eye then
wanders through “Soldier
Outlaw," ”Harm to Others."
“Birds of a Feather,“ and so on.
Subsequent copy complements
the phrases.

“Birds of a Feather“ describes
what happens when caught after
going AWOL. It reads:

“As a prisoner, you will be
locked up, guarded and watched.
You will have placed yourself in
and will be thought of as part of a
group that includes:

Persons of low intelligence and
poorly educated.

Mentally-emotionally un-
balanced persons.

Criminals, alcoholics, deviates.

Un-American and unpatriotic
soldiers.

Ignorant ‘know it alls’ who say
‘I have nothing to lose.‘ "

Such ingenuous wording is
frightening when you stop to
realize the publishers of this
pamphlet make national security
decisions.

No one has ever said the
military is a hotbed for rational
discourse, but the line should be
drawn on such discriminatory
composition. The new image
desired by the armed forces finds
little substantiation in this AWOL
publication.

 

More than closing a toy factory

WASHINGTON -— You might
say that. politically, what they
did was like mugging Marcus
Welby or evicting The Waltons.
Can you imagine an agency of
government that would put a toy
factory out of business when it
was owned by a widow and
located near Beaver Dam, Wise,
the mythical small town we all
left for the sins and disap-
pointments of the big city?

Ideally, Marlin Toy Products,
Inc., of Horicon, Wisc., should
also have elves weriting for it,
instead of the 85 humans com-
pany vice-president Ed Sohmers
says it had before the Consumer
Product Safety Commission went
into action. Marlin‘s troubles
date from November 1972, when
the government informed it that
its “Butterfly Flutter Ball" and
its “Birdie Ball," both products it
had been selling with success and
safety for a number of years,
were hazardous to children
because they contained little
plastic pellets infants might
choke on, if the transparent balls
were broken apart.

Marlin took both off the
market, swallowed the losses.
redesigned the toys without
pellets. submitteo the modified
balls to the Commission. which
found them acceptable, and then
proceeded to market them. The
Commission, however, failed to
remove the products from its new
list of banned toys. so the 1973
season was a jolly wipeout for
Marlin.

ALI. LAST FALL. Sohmers
wrote letters beseeching the

Commission to rectify the
mistake so that stores would
stock the toys, but the most he
could get was a letter saying the
mislisting “resulted from an
editorial error and will be
corrected on the next issue of the
list."

Subsequently, Commission
Chairman Richard Simpson said
he thought that should have been
enough, but hundreds of
thousands of bannedotoy lists had
gone out. Some stale consumer
agencies had put the toys on their
lists. Birdie Ball and Butterfly
Ball even got dishonorable
mentions on the radio.

Yet the government, which
demands that companies send
out letters and telegrams
notifying their customers of
errors and defects, won‘t do the
same thing when it booboos. Had
the Commission done so, Ed Soh-
mers might not now be saying,
“This is going to cost us $600,000,
and for our sized business that's
death . . I can't tell you the effect
of laying off 85 people in a small
town... Damn it, I hate to close
the doors on these people. Me? I
can always get by robbing liquor
stores, but not some of the others

“WE WANTED justice so we
went to the Justice Department.
But they said, ‘We only prosecute
people.‘ " says Sohmers, who
now understands that you may
not sue the government for
damages unless Congress passes
a law allowing you to. No one
would introduce such a hill until
the Beaver Dam Citizen broke
the story. and Sen. Jesse Helms,
the North (‘arolina right-winger.

interested himself in the case.
Recently, bills have been in-

troduced in both Houses, but for

all this loss and aggravation

Marlin isn’t your ordinary tale
of bureaucractic in-
difference. This Commission has
a far better reputation than most
commissions around here.
Simpson admits the mistake and
says his forces are at least
willing to consider recom-
mending passage of the law that
will allow Marlin to sue. Ask any
other office in this town and they
would have said, ”Tough luck,
Birdie Ball, we're infallible.“

Marlin shows that it‘s not so
easy to protect the public, even if
you are one of those rare ones
who wants to. Simpson, for in-
stance, says it‘s possible that the
toys shouldn't have been put on
the list in the first place. The
regulations themselves are
ambiguously unsusceptible to
precise understanding. What
does it mean that a toy shouldn‘t
have “sharp" edges? What’s
sharp? Beyond that, no
regulation can protect a small
child left alone by parents who
don't love the child wisely enough
to watch over him.

THIS (‘ASE shouldn't be used
as an argument to abolish the
Commission. In an era when even
children‘s toys are made of
exotic materials and by the most-
advanced technologies, no lay
person can be an informed buyer
without help. Now the questions
is: how can public administration
learn to protect the buyer and the
seller. too?

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Ohio: Another hotbed ofstudenf protest

By TOM PRICE

ATHENS. Ohio — Educators who
believe that today‘s college students are
carbon copies of the now~legendary drones
of the nineteen-fifties are living in a dream
world.

When a student-worker‘s strike, two
nights of rioting. a “coalition" of campus
organizations, and the resignation of the
university president shattered the myth of
somnolence at Ohio University this spring,
the most-asked question in Athens was
“why?" -«— why, when campus peace had
been the rule for several years. was Ohio
I'. again a hotbed of student protest?

Claude R. Sowle, who has resigned as
president. speculated that students had
“forgotten the lessons of mm.“ He said
that only a tiny percentage of the student
body had been on campus during the
turmoil four years earlier and didn‘t
realize the high price of “irresponsible"
action. He was half right, The lessons have
been forgotten. But administrators and
teachers are the people with poor
memories.

After the invasion of Cambodia and the
deaths at Kent State four years ago. Mr.
Sowle guided ()hio U. through eight days of
antiwar turmoil before rioting finally
forcedanearly end to the school year. The
following summer, be convened a
workshop to consider what went wrong.
Out of the workshop came a multitude of
reforms that reduced regulations, en-
couraged academic innovation and in-
creased the student and faculty role in
unversity decision-making.

The reforms, he said. were aimed at
alleviating the grievances of “deeply
concerned students" [about half the
student body) so the “hardcore radicals"
tnumbered at 150 to 20m couldn't use
legitimate gripes to tear the institution
apart.

The day the fish died in Rockcastle Creek

In 1970, Ohio U. could have served as a
model of how a perceptive administration
could deal successfully with student
unrest. Today, it is a model of a sleeping
student movement stirring on a premature
deathbed.

Since 1960, the student movement has
gone through three stages and now may be
entering a fourth. The first was that
altruistic phase, when crew—cut white kids
from the North boarded freedom buses to
campaign for black civil rights in the
South. Berekeley‘s Free Speech
Movement ushered in the second phase, a
campus-oriented “student-power“
campaign for oncampus reform. The
antiwar movement didn‘t develop a large
base of student support until students
themselves faced the prospect of their own
lives being sacrificed in Indochina. The
end of the draft and the withdrawal of
American troops brought peace to
colleges, and the myth of the resurrected
fifties began to take form

But it‘s a long, illogical step from 0b-
servmg that today‘s campuses are quiet to
concluding that “American Graffiti" is
more than nostalgia.

The fear of imminent world destruction
doesn‘t hang over the heads of today‘s
career-oriented students the way it hung
over the heads of their recent
predecessors. Instead, there's a fear of
economic recession that warns: “Get
your bread together, brother; get that
degree."

It‘s easy to forget that today’s campuses
are much freer places than ten years ago.
If the universities' financial crunch
eliminates funding for academic in-
novation and encourages conservative
retrenchment in noneconomic areas as
well, student selfvinterest will be touched.
Today's students‘ attitudes toward
authority make casual acceptance of such
retrenchment unlikely.

At Ohio U., the lessons of 1970 were so
totally forgotten this spring that top ad-
ministrators lost the ability to distinguish
among different manifestations of protes
— among legitimate protest activities
seeking redress of deeply-felt grievances.
violent apolitical hell-raising. and the
irrelevancies of a super-fragmented
student left.

An attempt by cafeteria employes to
gain management recognition of the
Student Workers Union was defeated by
nineteenthcentury management tactics
that included strikebreaking with scabs,
company police, threats of dismissals, a
court order and agitation of another union
to cross student picket lines. The strike
was followed by two nights of apolitical
rioting. Then black students staged a
demonstration to protest diminished
funding for the Center for Afro-American
Studies and to seek a “more cosmopolitan
cultural outlook" on campus. Finally. the

 

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“coalition" — which initially claimed to
represent twelve organizations but within
two weeks was down to five — issued its
demands.

President Sowle issued a three-sentence
resignation statement that cited “the
mindless destructive events of the past
week.“ He left it up to the public to decide
whether all the protest was mindless and
destructive or whether there were distinc-
tions. The man who had steered the
university through a period of extreme
chaos followed by a period of exciting
reform had thrown in the towel. It didn‘t
have to be so. Less academic
traditionalism in solving budget problems
and more concern for student opinion
couldhave avoided. or mitigated. what
protest did occur this year.

 

Tom Price. a writer. has observed ()hio
l'niversity since 1964.

  

  
    
  
  
 
  
  
  
  
  
 
 
   
  
  
 
  
 
 
 
  
 
  
 
  
  
 
  
   
 
  
 
 
 
  
 
  
  
 
  
 
  
   
   
 
    

 

 

 

 

FRANKFURT. Ky. (Special)
— In the early morning of March
25 black water began its deadly
way down Honey Branch into
Middle Fork. down into Rock-
castle Creek. As the inky water
advanced fish began to surface.
At first, they gulped for air.
Later. they floated belly up into
eddies and backwaters.
Wherever the current slowed. it
deposited its cargo of dead and
dying fish.

The worst fish kill in Martin
County is now history. The dead
fish are gone from the stream
now _. collected by county
residents or washed out into the
Big Sandy. What remains is the
story of the fish kill and the facts
which make this particular
pollution incident one of the more
significant and unusual of recen
years.

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Zchronic pollution a re nothing new

()ne of the most important
things about this fish kill was
that. despite Martin County‘s
long association with the coal
industry. this was the very first
major kill on Rockcastle Creek.
As such, it brought swift reaction
from the public —-- concern,
dismay and anger. Within a short
period after the pollution began.
county Conservation Officer
Hayse McCoy received more
than 70 phonecalls. County Judge
Ray Fields said the complaints to

    

black water and
to the eastern coal region. In the
minds of many sportsmen in
other parts of the Commonwealth
the eastern section has little or
nothing to offer the angler, The
image is one ofdegraded streams

and poor fishing. Yet Rockcastle
Creek was a high quality fishing
stream. Notonly was it one of the
best in eastern Kentucky. it may
have been one of the better
streams in the entire state.
When Department of Fish and
Wildlife biologists arrived at the
scene. the fish kill was already
”total." But there were no fish to
be seen. only thick black
sediment coating the stream
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ED'etermining the exact source
of pollution and the number of
fish killed are two important
tasks in fish kill cases. In the
ltockcastle Creek incident the
first task was rather easily ac-
complished. Local officials and
countless witnesses described
how the black water was first
noticed in Honey Branch. on land
owned by the Island Creek Coal
Company. Further investigation
revealed that this discharge.
according to McCoy. originated
at a holding pond at the Island
(‘reek tipple on the headwaters of
Honey Branch

Island Creek Coal Company
was cited by Hayse McCoy on
March 25 for the blackwater

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citation less than a week before
on March 21 and Island (‘reek
was fined $200 for pollution then.
The March 25 case was taken to
Martin (‘ounty court where
County .ludge Fields charged the
coal company with water
pollution and imposed the
maximum fine under his
jurisdiction. $500. (‘ounty At-
torney .lohn Kirk issued an order
that the company pay for the fish
killed. He further requested an
explanation on the nature of the
release. As of late May. Island
(‘reek had not responded to this
latter request
\ fish kill is always a com

plicated problem Restocking
fish offers only a partial solution
to the situation Many people

  
 
   
  
 
 
  
  
 
 
 
   
  
  
   

safeguards against further
pollution and stream
degradation. County Judge
Fields summed up the feelings of
many of his constituents
regarding coal-related pollution
andthelegal consequences: ”I'm
limited to a $500 fine in my court.
But it ta pollution charge) could
go to circuit court. and the fine
could be much greater."

In the meantime. Conservation
Officer McCoy continues to write
('lffllittllS for water pollution and
continues to answer questions
from county residents about the
recovery of Rockcastle Creek.
Judge Fields and (‘ounty At»
lorney Kirk continue to prosecute
polluters.

And many continue to wonder if
coal and a relatively clean ene
\ ironincnt can co-eXist Hi Martin
t‘ounty especially in these days
of tllt rgy c rises

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I‘loyd ('ounty Times. Preston—
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