Volume LXIX. Number 127
Monday. April 3, I978

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Lending credience to the slogan
“Give Blood, Play Rugby." UK
rugby player Chris Black is
mauled by a member of the
Louisville Rugby Club as both
teams grapple for the ball in a
Saturday afternoon contest
played near Commonwealth
Stadium. Black may have come
out alive, but the UK “A” squad
lost the contest 22-6. But the
losers were able to drown their
sorrows following the game in
true sportsmen fashion.

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University of Kentucky
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Honors controversy rages;
., resignation awaits action

By DEBBIE MCDANIEL
Kernel Staff Writer
and
JIM MCNAIR
Copy Editor

Honors Program Director Dr.
Robert Evans’s March 23
resignation will remain
unacknowledged for a second week
until Undergraduate Studies Dean
John Stephenson’s return from
Alaska on Thursday, according to
Vice President of Academic Affairs
Lewis Cochran.

Evans submitted his resignation
to Cochran and distributed an
emotional farewell letter to all
Honors students after learning the
content of the Honors Program
Evaluation Committee report. “Dr.
Cochran has been 100 percent
reticen ," he said in an interview,
adding he will continue to carry out
his duties until he receives
acknowledgment of his resignation.

The confidential report, as yet
unreleased, contained 21 recom-
mendatiom for the improvement of
the Honors Program. The con-
troversy surrounds two recom-
mendatiors which urge joint ap-
pointment, faculty working in more
than one department, of Honors
faculty and the selection of a new
Honors Program director.

According to the report, the
recommendations imply drastic
changes in the Honors Program, and
the Committee asked for a new
director because, “Dr. Evans can
not be asked to overturn what he has
constructed and what he believes in.

Honors pre-law sophomore Debbie
Berry said, “They didn’t even ask
him. People we’ve talked to don't
know what’s going on and why in the
world they want to get rid of him.
Basically it‘s a power struggle.“

Dr. John Greenway, associate
professor and evaluation committee
member, said, “There’s no intent on
the Committee’s part to break-up
the program and scatter it to the
four winds.” Greenway has a joint
appointment in the Honors Program
and the English department.

Evans disagreed strongly with
Greenway and said joint ap-
pointment of all Honors faculty
would destroy the program. The
report calls for faculty members to
spend20 to 25 percent of their course
load in Honors.

“The report is wrong on that,”
said History department professor
Dr. John Scarborough. “What we
meant was a 5050 appointment with
the person half-time in department
A and in department B.”

Cochran said he has received 20 to
30 letters from students asking that
the committee reconsider its
recommendations and Evan’s
resignation. “He is still the Director

Coca-Cola chairman nay
add trusteeship to his life

By JEANNE WEHNES
Copy Editor

A bill passed by this year‘s state
legislature will allow Gov. Julian
Carroll‘s appointee to the UK Board
of Trustees to be sworn into office.

William B. Terry Sr., chairman of
the board of the Blue Grass Coca-
Cola Co., was appointed to UK‘s
Board of Trustees in January.
Because of his position at CocaCola
and .UK‘s contracts with that
company, issues of possible conflict
of interest were raised.

The new law, which takes effect
June 19, states, in part, “no trustee
or regent having interest in any
contract with a state university
may serve on the univasity‘s
Board of Trustees) unless such
(interest) has been subject to
competative bidding.“

UK has an $3,000 per year contract

with the Blue Grass Coca-Cola Co.
Became the Coca-Cola contract is
based on competative biddng and
must be rebid eva‘y five years,
Terry will be able to retain his
position at Coca-Cola while serving
on UK‘s Board.

The recent legislation replaced a
law stating no board member could
have a direct or indirect interest in
any contract with that university.

Timothy Cone, Terry's attorney,
said it is his understanding the new
legislation has cleared any possible

conflict of interest.

“It is almost impossible to find a
Board of Trustee member that
doesn‘t have some kind of conflict,”
said Cone. “The Board was
operating under a higher standard
than state government."

Under literal interpretation, the
old law required members who
owned stock in a company doing
business with the University to sell
their shares, no matter how few, or
resign from their university
position.

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of the Honors Program as far as I’rn
concerned,” said Cochran.

“There is pressure on the ad-
ministration not to accept the
resignation," said one committee
member who asked not to be iden-
tified.

Commenting on the letters to the
administration, Greenway said, “I
think it is a tribute to Dr. Evans that
people are reacting so strongly.
Normally these reports tend to be
ignored."

The reactions to the resignation
aren’t limited to the campus. Dr.
Dan Crabb, a former visiting
professor who greatly admired the
Honors Program, made a bequest on
June 26, 1974 that the net proceeds
from the sale of his 417 acres in
Illinds be placed in a fund for the
program.

When he learned of the present
situation, Crabb said, “If Bob is
removed from the program, I intend
to change the will and leave nothing
to UK.” Crabb estimated the land’s
value to be in excess of one-half
million dollars.

Honors Program faculty member
Dr. Joseph Hayse said joint ap-
pointment would fragment the
faculty and be the worst thing
possible for the program. “I do think
we’ve had a consistently strong
program in the past. We've got one
of the most complete honors
programs in the country,” he said.

To competently teach the six-core
colloquia, instructors must have a
thorough grasp of the curriculum,
said Evans. The colloquia focus on
the historical philosophies and
contributions of individuals during
different eras.

Evans said instructors must have
a thorough grasp of the entire
curriculum to teach the sections
competently, which would make it

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difficult for someone to walk into the
course without former experience.
“The philosophy is destroyed if the
faculty members are taken away.
Our Honors Program has a
discipline attached to it," he said.

Evans fears that the fragmen-
tation and separation of faculty
members resulting from joint ap-
pointments would disintegrate the
program. He said the appointments
would have to be drawn from the
present staffs, and departments are
already overstaffed and couldn‘t
give up teaching slots to Honors
faculty.

Rationale for the joint ap-
pointment recommendation in
cluded eliminating the Honors

faculty’s isolation and giving them ‘

contact with their departments and
the University in general.

Greenway favors joint ap-
pointment. “The Cormnittee’s intent
was that the appointment be
designed sirniliar to my own,” he
said. “Basically, I belong twothirds
in the Honors Program and one-
third in English.”

Scarborough said “Members don’t
serve very often on University
committees.” Greenway agreed,
saying that it is important to serve
on committees becauSe faculty meet
members from other disciplines and
“become known.”

“That is the biggest piece of
malarky I‘ve ever heard,” Evans
said about the cormnittee argument.
He said his faculty, 11 people in-
cluding himself, occasionally serve
on cormnittees. Considering the
small size of his unit, Evans said,
“we‘ve had more representatives on
the University Senate then we
should have.”

Two of the programs professors
are among the Senate’s faculty
membership.

Lawson said Evans has been
pushing proposals identical to 15 of
the 2| recommendations for several
years, but his efforts failed from
lack of funds, or an impasse with
Stephenson's office.

“Sometimes it was lack of funds,
sometimes lack of energy,” Evans
said.

“The rumor mill is hot and heavy;
one can presume there is animosity
between Evans and Stephenson, but
I would not honor those rumors,”
Scarborough said. “The people who
are spreading them are doing a
great disservice to the Honors
Program and Stephenson.”

'l‘he cormnittee also claimed in the
report that Evans “should serve
more as a chairman and less as a
head.”

Honors faculty member Dr. Jane
Vance said, “I feel that he has
always consulted about hiring
somebody and making policies. He
solicited our opinions before hand
and listened to them. I have never
felt that I was overlooked.”

Vance and students said it is a
misconception that the program is
designed basically to benefit English
students, a claim made by the
report. They said only 12 percent of
the program’s students are English
majors, compared to 30 percent
science majors.

“It isn’t irrelevant to the science
ma jor,” said Vance. “Scientific and
industrial revolutions are the major
topics of Honors 201.”

If the recommendations are ap
proved and Evans‘ resignation
accepted, Greenway said
Stephenson will probably appoint a
search committee selected from the
University at large to select
nominations for the new director.

 

THE WEEKEND CONCERTS of Jackson Browne
and Blue Oyster Cult are reviewed by Arts and
Entertainment Editor Walter Tunis on pages 3 and

KEENELAND'S SPRING MEETING — 15 days

EGYPTIAN
PRESIDENT
ANWAR
SADAT said
yesterday that
Israeli Defense
Minister Ezer
Weizman could
r e t u r n t o
E g y pt f o r

 

which include a series of 3-yearold races leading to
the Kentucky Derby — begins Saturday.

The last of the Derby preps is the $100,000-added
Blue Grass Stakes on April 27, and the Nil-mile race
has drawn a record 200 nominees, including Harbor
View r‘arm's Affirmed and Calumet Farm's
Alydar, according to a track spokesman.

nation

WITII TIIE HELP OF A COMPUTER.scientists
have designed and produced what they call the most
potent anti-cancer drug ever made — an agent so
lethal it kills hundreds of millions of cancer cells in
laboratory mice with a single dose.

Researchers from the University of California at
San Francisco say the drug azetomicin is one of a
new class designed to stick to cancer cells longer
than other drugs in order to intensify its effects.

Dr. Martin A. Apple, head of the team that
developed the new drug, cautioned that there is no
assurance azetomicin would have the same effect
on human cancer as it did in mice. No human tests
have been made.

However. Apple said, it is probably better than
many drugs used clinically now. “at least according
to our computer projections." And the computer-
model he uses "almost never misses.“ in judging
whether a new drug will work in people. he added.

AMERICANS LOST ABOUT 8| BILLION through
mail-order schemes last year, the Postal Service
says. That was nearly double the $514 million loss
the previous year.

In many of the cases. the advertised products
were neva furnished. In the rest, the products were
worthless. postal authorities says.

The Postal Service says most of the $60-billion-a-
year mailorder business is reputable. but that
consumers should watch out for promises that seem
too good to be true.

 

further ex-
ploratory
talks. but the
Egyptian
leader
out a
resumption of
full-scale
negotiations
unless there is
. ~ a clear change
in the Israeli
ANWAR SADAT position.

Syria, meanwhile, accused Israel of sending
terrorist infiltrators to mine a key highway linking
Syria and Jordan and said 12 Syrians, including nine
soldiers. were killed in an attempt to defuse the
mines.

An Israeli military command spokesman in Tel
Aviv denied knowledge of the incident.

ruled

A RAND til“ ISRAELI WAR VETERANS rallying
under the slogan “Peace Now is Not a Dream“ has
mounted a striking challenge to Prime Minster
Mcnachem lleg‘n's Mideast policies.

The veterans, joined by a group of citizens calling
themselves “Peace Now," drew a weekend crowd
estimated at 30.000 by police to a Tel Aviv city
square to protest the slow pace of Mideast
negotiations. They put most of the blame on Begin.

weather

(‘ONSIDERABIJ'Z (‘LDUDINESS TODAY with a
chance of showers. High today in the mid 705. Low
tonight in the mid 50s. There is a 30 percent chance
of showers tonight.

Compiled from Associated Press dispatches

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