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Volume LXIX. Number 90
Thursday. February 2. I978

KENTUCKY

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an independent student newspaper

 

 

Grin and bear it

Floyd Vinson manages a smile (or is it a grimace) when caught
doing bench presses at the Seaton Center yesterday. Vinson is an
accounting sophomore.

 

Steve IIIrsch

 

 

Growing pains?

Bowled stadium unlikely soon
as officials explore expansion

By DEBBIE McDANlEL'
Kernel Staff Writer

UK football fans may someday
cheer the Wildcats to victory from
within a bowl-shaped Com-
monwealth Stadium, but cautious
officials, lack of ownership and
several costly construction
problems within the stadium have
brought expansion discussions to a
standstill.

Athletic Association officials now
predict a waiting period of between
two and four years before making a
decision on expanding end zone
seating. During th'm time, officals
will study the financial feasibility of
the project, which would add 12,000
seats to the 58,000 seat structure.

Expansion talk began after the
sixth-ranked Wildcats 10-1 season
sold out the stadium for the second

corsecutive season. The Athletic
Association hopes to determine the
probability of future sell-outs that
would justify spending ova $3
million for the relatively small
number of seats.

UK Architect and Director of
Design and Construction Clifton
Marshall said the stadium’s original
architectural firm, Finch-Heery of
Atlanta—which specializes in
stadium construction—would
probably be consulted.

The $9 million stadium, completed
in Sept. 1973, was “masterplanned to
add 20,000 permanent seats," said
Marshall, to replace the present
bleachers. He estimated con-
struction costs for the additional
seats at “$3,323,975" through Sep
tember, with an annual ten percent
price increase after this year.

Assistant Athletics Director Larry
lvy said, ”We would bid the job
completion date between the end of
the last football game and the
opening of the next season,”
allowing a construction period of
less than one year to prevent in-
terruption of the football season.

The actual construction would
involve tearing down the 8,000
bleacher seats, connecting the two
grandstands in a bowl shape and the
construction of 20,000 metal end zone
seats.

UK Athletics Director Cliff Hagan
said the expansion, “becomes very
expens've if you’re duplicating seats
you already have." He added that a
decision involving such large sums
of money “isn’t anything you jimp
into.”

Continued on back page

Bakke case to be discussed

By LYNNE FUNK
Kernel Staff Writer

A controversial court case that
may have far-reaching implications
for minority admissions to graduate
programs will be discussed at UK
Friday.

“The Bakke Case: Reverse
Discrimination or Equal 0p-
portunity” will be the topic for a
colloqu‘um to be held Friday from 2
pm. to 5 pm. in the College of Law
Courtroom.

The colloquium, sponsored by the
political science department, the
office of the Vice President for
Minority Affairs and the College of
Law is open to the public. Admission
will be free.

Participants will be Herbert Hill,
former national labor director of the
National Assoociation for the Ad-
vancement of Colored People
(NAACP) and professor of Afro-
American studies at the Univa'sity
of Wisconsin; Terrance Sandalow,
University of Michigan law
professor and specialist in human
relations and urban government and
Allan Sindier, dean d the grdmte
school of piblic policy at Univa'sity
of California at Berkeley.

Dr. Sidney Ulmer, UK political
science professor, will introdme the
case and moderate the discussion.
Each participant will have about 20
minutes to present his case, followed

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by a chance to respond to the other
panelists‘ comments.

The floor will then be opened for
audience participation.

“We anticipate much audience
interaction, because (the case)
raises the kind of questions that get
people heated,” said George Gad-
bois, a political science associate
professor who organized the
colloqium.

Allan Bakke, who is white, applied
to the Medical School of the
University of California at Davis in
1973 and 1974.

Admission was denied, with Bakke
alleging that he was rejected
because of his race. He also charged
the university with applying
preferential standards of admission
to minority students and the
separate standads resulted in the
acceptance of minority applicants
less qualified than himself.

The University said the minority
status of applicants is only one
factor in selection of students and
that the purpose of the program isto
promote diva-sity. Without special
admissions, the school contended,
few minority applicants would be
admitted.

The Supreme Court of California
ruled in favor of Bakke, holding that
the special admissions program
violates constitutional rights of non-
minority applicants since '1 gives
preference on the basis of race to

persons who, by the University's
own standards, were not as qualified
as those denied admission.

The Board of Regents of the
university appealed the decision to
the US. Supreme Court last year.
The case is now pending.

“The issue has divided liberals in
this country," Gadbois said. “Every
black group supports UC—Davis,
but it‘s not the usual split among
other organizations.”

The case is probably the most
important civil rights case since
Brown vs. The Board of Education in
1954, Ulmer said.

But it is not a good test case, said
Gadbois and Ulmer, became of the
structure of the University of
California's special admissions
program. That program reserves 16
places for minority students, ef-
fectively establishing a quota for
nori-mina'ity students, Ulmer said.

If the Supreme Court hands down
a decision, the presence of quotas
would limit the effect of the case,
Ulmer said.

it is possible that the Supreme
Court will attempt to avoid deciding
the case on comtitutional grounds
and try to have the case settled by
the Congress, Gadbois said.

“if statutes are used to decide the
case. it will be less of a landmark
case," Gadbois said.

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University of Kentucky
Lexington, Kentucky

Carroll budget requests
new neonatal funding

By RICHARD McDONALD
Kernel Staff Writer

The University Hospital will
receive more than $3 million to
expand and pay operating costs of
its neonatal care unit if Gov. Julian
Carroll’s biennial budga is ap-
proval by the General Assembly.

Carroll also asked the legislators
for more than $1.5 million for
staffing and equipping similar units
in 14 Kentucky communities.

The budget proposal follows more
than two years of often intense
public attention focused on the UK
neonatal unit. In 1975, some Central
Kentucky public officals began to
call for expansion of the unit, which
is responsible for providing care for
critically ill babies in the eastern
half of the state.

University Hospital is one of three
hosp “tals in the state which provide
the highest level of care—tertiary—
for the infants. The other two
hospitals are in Louisville.

In 1976, the UK unit was expanded
from 17 to 23 beds Last year, eight
more beds were added. However,
the 31 beds were often filled and sick
newborns had to be taken by am-
bulance to hospitals in Cincinnati,
Knoxville and Huntington.

This was the situation on Nov. 23
last year when premature twin boys
died in an ambulance north of
Lexington. The babies were born in
Whitesburg, a small town near the
Kentucky-Virginia border about 100
miles southeast of Lexington. The
infants were being taken to Cin-
cinnati since all facilities in the
eastern two-thirds of Kentucky were
filled.

The twins’ deaths caused renewed
public interest in the care available
to critically ill infants in the state.
There were calls for expansion of the
UK facilities and for the establish-

ment of intermediate care units
throughout the state. Intermediate
units provide care for sick infants
who don't need the level of attention
provided in the state’s three tertiary
units.

Carroll’s proposal provides $1.5
million for an additional 20 beds at
UK and the same amount for in-
termediate care units in Ashland,
Bowling Green, Covington,
Elizabethtown, Frankfort, Harlan,
Hazard, Henderson, Madiosonville,
Morehead, Paducah, Richmond and
Somerset.

Judge T. Calton, University

Hospital director, says that while no '

definite plans have been made for
the new beds at UK, most of them
will be in operation “by the end of
the fiscal year.”

The hospital now has 12 tertiary
care units, 11 intermediate units and
eight beds for newborns requiring
less intensive care, called con-
valescent units. Calton said that in
the first phase of the expansion,
eight tertiary and two intermediate
care beds would be added.

Calton said the additional beds
may cause the hospital to eliminate
other patient care facilities.
Presently, the neonatal care
facilities are in three separate
locations in the hospital building.

“Ultimately,” said Calton, “we
will consolidate all the beds into one
central location when we are able to
build an addition to the hospital."

Calton said there has been
preliminary talk about such an
addition.

Consolidating the units would
allow more efficient use of per-
sonnel. Presently, 52 nurses are
assigned to the neonatal unit. Ac-
cording to Calton, the new beds
would require approximately the
same level of staffing. This means

 

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that about 33 more nurses would be
assigned to the unit.

Also included in the Carroll budget
is almost $2 million for staffing the
unit over two years. According to
Dr. Peter Bosomworth, vice
president for the medical center, the
high cost of operation of such beds is
one reason for the reluctance of
hospitals to install the infant care
units.

Bosomworth said UK recovers
only 45 pacent of the cost of
operation from the neonatal
patients’ families. Bosomworth said
Medicaid and private insurance
plans will not pay for the entire
treatment period many critically in
babies need. Medicaid pays only for
the first 21 days of treatment.

Although some people have
criticized the governor‘s ap-
propriation as being too small,
Bosomworth said the amount
budgeted is “more than adequate to
accomplish the objectives set forth
for UK. We are very happy with the
govemor’s budget.”

Ironically, some people have said
the UK appropriation is too large.
These critics have said that 51 beds
aren't needed at UK since many of
the children near the state‘s borders
are closer to hospitals in other states
than they are to Lexington.

Much of this criticism is based on
a 1975 report by a study group of the
Blue Grass Health Planning Council
which' said 45 neonatal beds are
necessary to serve the eastern half
of Kentucky.

Bosomworth, however, dismissed
this criticism. He said the study has
been amended and now states that
more than 45 beds are needed.

“Anyone,” Bosomworth said,
“familiar with the issue will know
that these 51 beds (at UK) will be
fully utilized."

 

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LIKE THE SWAI.LOWS with Capistrano and
Douglas MacArthur with the Phillipines, George Allen
will return to the Los Angeles Rams. See the story on
page 5.

state

THREE STRIKING COAL MINERS were arrested
yesterday after a "slight confrontation” with Ken-
tucky state police at a non-union mine in Harlan
County, said Capt. Edgar moss, commander of the
state police post at Harlan.

About 70 United Mine Workers pickets, wearing
helmets and armed with clubs, gathered near the non-
union Karst Robbins Mine on Kentucky 38 near
Braden's Creek, Moss said.

Rocks were thrown at cars in which the non-union
miners were going to work, he said.

A 20-YEAR~0LD Ohio man was in critical condition
at University Hospital yesterday, 19 days after a snow
storm left him stranded without food in a barn in rural
Mercer County, officals said.

Tim Caine was thought to have been hitchhiking to a
relative‘s home when he sought refuge from the storm
Jan. 13, Mercer Co. sheriff‘s deputies said.

He was rushed here from Haggin Memorial Hospital
in Harrodsburg. A UK Medical Center spokesman said
Caine was suffering from frostbite.

A Mercer (‘0. sheriff's deputy said Caine was "froze
stiff as a board“ when he was found.

nation

PRESIDENT CARTER SAID last night he would not
hesitate to send US. troops to defend the Panama
Canal —"and l have no doubt that even in sustained
combat we would be successful."

in a nationally broadcast and televised “fireside
chat." (‘arter said approval of the Panama Canal
treaty is “in the highest national interest of the United
States and W1“ strengthen our position in the world."

But Carter said the treaty to yield control of the
waterway to Panama in the year 2000 would diminish
the risk of any need for armed intervention to defend it.

THE STRIKE R" 160.00. United Mine Workers goes
into its 59th day today. tying a record for the union's
longest nationwide walkout as it drains the nation's
cnagy reserves and evokes memories of the longest
strike of the past

ARNOLD MILLER

Even if a settlement is reached immediately, the
walkout will set a record, because the UMW
ratification process requires 10 days.

The strike has halted nationwide coal production.
and power companies serving Maryland, Ohio, Ken-
tucky. Virginia and West Virginia have asked
customers to cut back electricity use.

world

EGYPTIAN PRESIDENT ANWAIt SAINT huddled
wrth American mediator Alfred Atherton in (Tairo
yesterday to lay (bwn the groundwork for summit
talks in Washington which Egyptian sources said
would he "Vital" to keeping the peace process alive.

The meeting in Sadat‘s Nile-Side villa in Giza
“provided the opportunity for a broad review of a full
range of issues" that the Egyptian leader will be
discussing wrth President Carter this weekend. an
American spokesman said.

Atherton. the assistant U S. secretary of state who
picked upthe threads ofnegotiations after the Israeli
Egyptian political talks in Jerusalem unraveled Jan
111. brought what he called “new ideas" from Israel for
Egyptian inspection

weather

SNOW ENDING TODAY. Mostly cloudy tonight
Partly sunny tomorrow Highs today in the mid to
upper 20's Lows tonght in the mid to upper teens
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Higher education panel
needs student member

It’s time to add a student member to the state

Council on Higher Education.

That proposal has been advocated recently by
student gova'nment leaders at the several state
universities, including UK’s Jim Newberry. But ,
support for changing the council’s makeup has
received little support in the state legislature or
from council members. Council executive
director Harry Snyder has recommended that
student input be accomplished through a corn-
mittee, and mi from a council seat.

First-hand student opinion, though, would be
an important addition to the council. Although
they comprise the majority of people who live or
work on campuses, students have no direct vorce
in the decisions that affect higher education.

A student council member selected by student
gov a'nments from all Kentucky campuses would
be able to serve as that voice. He would be able to
report on student concerns and opinions on many
key issues: construction priorities, effects of low

faculty salaries, inadeqmte programs and

budget recommendations.

, member.

One last diagnosis
,What’s wrong with the 70’s?

Another one has started to crank
up. The is 1978, if I’m not mistaken.
You can never be sure, these last
few years have been running
together like the afternoon soaps,
with no line of demarcation. In fact,
a friend of mine has been signing
everything with “1972” since 1973.
the jest had passed unnoticed until
he grew too bold and reversed the
last two numbers. His banks insisted
that they did not owe him back in-
terest from 1927.

 

cooke

 

 

In this first column of the year, I
would like to talk about one of the
most pressing issues of the seven-
ties... the sixties.

The absence of (or perhaps
aversion to) a pervasive esprit de
corps these days is at least confusing
for the survivors of the 60’s. I
wonder at times if the vitality of ten
years ago was ever there at all.
True, it was too often a brutal and
bloody time, but there seemed to be
some sort of guiding fiction. Wan~
dering through this desiccated
decade of disco, ’ludes, post—
Watergate disillusionment, and
polyester ennui, incidents like the
Chicago convention seem exercises
in hysteria.

There have been many compelling
theories put forth attempting to

explain the 60’s (or 70’s, depending
on your perspective). 1 would like to
talk about a few of the more con-
vincing ones.

The parallel between the 70’s and
the 50’s as paiods of reactionary
restoration following a war is the
most obvious and most tedious
explanation. True, the 40’s and 60’s
were times of war, but so were the
10’s and who can call the 20's staid?
Also, the 70’s followed the 50’s.
Hopefully weieam a bit from our
mistakes. Just look at a few episodes
of “Ozzie and Harriet” or “Father
Knows Best” and you are bound to
sense something sinister.

The next theory attributes the
attitudes of the 60’s to a
demographic imbalance due to the
Baby Boom after WWII. During the
60’s, thelarger part of the population
was in their twenties. The nation
was infused with their buoyant and
naive optimism. Conversely, the
bulge in the graph is now firmly
entrenched in their thirties and
beyond, grappling with the concerns
of family and career. The idealism
has been superceded with the
pragamatic escapism of the
suburban purgatory.

One often hears the smug
declaration that the media created
and sustained the Hip Myth. This is
an interesting one, as it seems that
the media has Created and sustained
just about every other modern myth.
However, since I heard this on the
tube, it presents a bit of a problem,
not un lke the chicken and the egg.

There is ample precedent for having student
members belong to administrative boards. The
UK Board of Trustees, for example, now in-
cludes the Student Government President as a

The council on higher education is now com-
posed of 11 voting “lay members” and ten non-
voting members: the eight college presidents
and two state education officials. Some argue
that if a student were added to the council, seats
would also have to be given to representatives of
employees and faculty.

Opponents of a student representative to the
council say students do not remain on campus
long enough to warrant representation. But this
transitory status is precisely the reason that
students need to be represented. They need a
voice to protect their interests, to speak against
officials who would ignite them because they’re
only around for four years.

The most allegorical supposition is
that the 60’s was a great session of
lovemaking and the 70’s is the
inevitable period of post—coital
recovery. Now, we must come to
terms with what seems to be
national impotence

The last possible explanation I
would like to pass on is the most
creative—and the most depressing.
It must have surfaced out of the
solipsist hell of some drug-gobbling
nihilist (I guess we all need to cut
down a bit). According to this
theory, the world was destroyed in a
nuclear hdocast in the early 70’s.

My own explanation is as muddled
as the corporate tax laws and just as
full of loopholes. It seems to me,
though, that the strength of the 60’s
was also its greatest weakness; that
was its obsessiveness. The inability
to lodr to the future left us with no
future.

I suggest we write off the 70’s to
experience. It a shame that we had
to spend some of our life in a
wasteland There have, however,
been some positive things, like
calculators and . .

I have no great love for the 60’s;
nor do I regard them as inviolable.
The only reason to indulge nostalgia
is to escape from a vacuous present.
There is no need to exhume the
Summer of Love. The 80’s are
almost upon us. Hopefully, this is not
the leap into oblivion.

John Cooke’s column will appear
each Thursday. ’

 

 

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commentaries submitted for publication. Articles
must include the signature, address, phone num-
ber, year and major if the writer is a student.
Commentary authors should have expertise or
expa'ience in the area their article pertains to.

The Kernel editors have final decision on which
articles are published and when they are published.
The editors reserve the right to edit submissions

Letters Policy

because of unsuitability in length, grammatical
errors, or libelous statements. All letters and
commentaries become the property of the Kernel.

The best-read letters are brief and concern
campus events, though commentaries should be
shat-essay length. Letters and commentaries can
be mailed to the Editorial Editor. Room 114.
Journalism Building. University of Ky. 40500, or
may be delivered personally.

 

 

Deserves congratulation
SG President praises Senate action, achievements

By JIM NEWBERRY

Oneof the most maligned campus
organizations in recent times has
been the student senate. Charges
such as apathy, vabosity and
neglect have on more than one oc-
casion been levied against the
Senate. But this year, the Senate
needs a word or two of
congratulation for the outstanding
job they have done in serving UK
students.

This is not to say that this year‘s
Senate is withwt fault. Certainly
some of the problems which have
afflicted Senates in the past linger
this year. No one can argue that the

Senate has quickly resolved
procedural problems. nor can it be
said that all Senators refrain from
redundant debate during meetings.
Probably some students’ needs have
been accidently overlooked. Un-
fortunately, some senators have
failed to take their responsibilities
seriouly; conseqmntly, this Senate
has had its share of purgations.

But there are a number of items to
which the Senate can point with
great pride.

Senate committees have reviewed
among other things the status of
student advisory committees and
the problems of campus lighting and
hming.

The Senate has offered students a
sound life insurance program, the
Student Buying Power Card, the
campus directory, campus voter
registration, a lobbying effort at the
General Assembly, the campus
blood program, and other services.

Two other examples of Semte
action, howeve, best indcate the
Senate’s dedication to serving UK
students.

At its Dec. 6 meeting, the Semte
was confronted with the pmsibility
that the popular boa exchmge
would not be held became of in-
creased costs soda lack of volunteer
labor. The Senate not only voted to

 

 

 

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AssessingCartier

In the wake of the criticism and
decreasing popularity of President
Carter after a year in office, it is
important that our early assessment
of his presidency be balanced and
cast in a reasonable. perspective.

Although there is ample criticism
of all aspects of Carter’s ad-
ministration, I am concerned about
the criticism in four areas. It is said
that he has moved too quickly in
proposing new legislation. It has
been noted that he has a poorly
balanced and even dangerous
foreign policy, particularly in
regard to the Panama Canal. It is
also said that after a year his energy
package is as yet unadopted and
significantly modified. Lastly there
is a great deal of concern about his
stand on human rights. These four
areas of criticism ovalap a great
dml and are related on several
levels.

In regard to the criticism of Carter
for proposing too much legislation
for Congess to handle, it is apparent
that beneath the surface this is
really a criticism of Congress for its
inability to act quickly and ef-
ficiently on substantial amounts of
important legislation without either
becoming bogged down or at an
impasse. Althought Carter has made
mina' errors in dealing with the
Washington establishment he cannot
be held responsible for
congessional sluggishness.

Carter’s foreign policy is well
balanced and hardly dangerous. We
are closer than ever to a SALT
agreement despite superficial
disagreements with the Soviet Union
on other issues. Because US.
foreign policy has the underlying
human rights agmda, our relations
with the free world are improving

approve the necessary funds for the
Book Exchange but also volunteered
sshoursoftheir time on Dec. 7, a and
9 in order to prevent the failure of
the exchange.

Not in recent memory has a
Senate been willing to take such
direct action in order to provide a
service requested by some students.
Unfortunately, the senators
recieved few thanks for their work.

Anahc excellent example of the
Studers Senate’s dedication is the
recent change in the University’s
withdrawal policy. You may
remember that last spring the
University approved a new with-
drawal policy which provoked the

and a number of countries such as
South Korea, Paraguay, Brazil, and
the Phillipines are toning down their
military dictatorships. Over the long
term we should expect improvement
in other tyrannies such as Iran and
South Africa as a result of this
policy. It is certainly not Carter’s
fault that there 'is a deep con;

servatism in the US. about the ‘
Panama Canal. Negotiations for a

new treaty have been going on under
the last three presidencies. Carter
has had the courage the other
presidents did not have to openly
negotiate a suitable alternative to
our current colonial control of the
Canal.

Lastly there is a ratehr
schizophrenic criticism of Carter for
his energy policy. It became clear
during the Arab boycott that
Americans could not continue to use
petro-energy at ever growing levels.
After a brief panic the country has
settled back into complacent con-
sumption. When at last we get a
president who recognizes both short
and long term enagy objectives, we
criticize him became we realize that
any energy policy will result in a
mint! change in lifestyle. Again our
blame is misplaced became in fact
the general population is responsible
for our current energy dilemma. In
our addition to automobiles and the
good life we have failed to realize the
limits of energy resources and the
complex international issues in-
volved in energy acquisition. As
Carter has pointed out, we can either
begin energy planning now and
forestall another international
boycott or we can just wait until the
crisis stage and deal with it then.

Have we forgotten that only six
years ago this country had a
megalomaniac in power who had no
regard for human rights, few friends
in Congress if any, no energy policy,
and such a low regard for the third

ire of many studmts. As a result, the
withdrawal policy became a major
issue in Student Government
elections with candidates pledging
their best efforts to revise the newly
established policy.

During the fall semester, college
senators made a concerted effort to
revise the withdrawal policy in a
manner which would prore more
satisfactory to students. After weeks
of diligent work, the student
members of the Unviersity Senate
found themselves to be successful.

In light of strong opposition by
various faculty members, the
succes of the student senators was
a rare. but deserved acc-

world that he singlehandedly
destroyed all the progress made
under the previous two ad-
ministrations. Any criticism of the
Carter administration should be
made in the context of the past two
Republican administrations. Even,
after a year Carter’s administration

is still like a breath of fresh air.
' ' " ' ' MarkWZLuslr
Graduate Student

No room to run

Every year the scene repeats
itself. Each day hundreds of athletes
converge on the Seaton Center in
order to compete with each other.
Regrettably, most of the struggle
involves getting to play. Of course,
crowded conditions there are hardly
news.

However, the severe weather is
compelling more people, especially
runners, to train indoors. Picture the
chaos of a dozen or more people
trying to run laps through a maze of
an additional hundred people
waiting to play basketball. Also,
rarely does everyone run in the
same direction, causing even
greater risk of personal injury. It is
clearly a senseless situation which
neither group should have to endure.

i thought that perhaps,
somewhere in this great univa'sity,
there is another indoor track that
could be made available to students.
if there already is one, where is it?

I suppose it is pointless to sugth
that UK make maximum use of all
its facilities, such as Memorial
Coliseum, since this would cost more
money, and the problem will go
away in a couple of months anyhow.
Just because Western and Murray
allow students in their main gyms,
why should UK?

Dale Nason
Arts and Sciences Senior

complishment. As a result of the
senators efforts, students will have
eight weeks to decide whether or not
they wish to remain in a class — a
period twice as long as would
otherwise have been possible.

These accomplishments take a
great effort on the part of those
students who serve as student
senators, yet I sometimes wonder
whether or not anyone cares.
Perhaps not, but I just want to say
thanks to the Student Senate for a
job well done.

Jim Newberry to Student Govern-
ment Presldent and Is a former
student senator.

    
    
    
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
   
     
    
    
   
     
   
    
  
    
   
     
   
   
  
  
    
    
   
    
   
      
    
      
    
   
     
    
   
    
  
  
   
      
    
     
  
   
    
   
   
  
 
   
   
    
  
   
   
      
    
  
    
   
    
     
       
 
  
  
    
  
    
   

   

   

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Staff survey almost done

By GREGG FIELDS
Copy Editor

The deadline for returning
the Health Information
Survey Subcommittee's
questionnaire on employee
health insurance has been
extended to Feb. 10.

The survey, which has been
given to some 8,400 UK
employees, is designed to find
out what alterations em-
ployees think would improve

their health
programs.

The University presently
pays $12.55 per month per
employee for health coverage
from Blue Cross-Blue Shield.
This provides “Option Three”
coverage, the second most
comprehensive type of
coverage available for a
single person.

For a family, Option Three
coverage costs $32.99 per
month.

insurance

One of the more innovative
possibilities discussed in the
questionnaire is the for-
mation of a Health Main-
tenance Organization (HMO)
for UK employees.

An HMO is a health service
organization where coverage
is available on a prepaid
basis, similar to the UK
Student Health Service. The
Hunter Foundation on N.
Upper Street is now the city’s
only HMO.

Transsexal puzzles court

CHARLOTTE. N.C. (AP)—
When is a masseuse not a
woman? Apparently when
she used to be a man.

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persons of one sex massaging
those of the opposite. But a
masseuse who had a male-to-

female operation escaped
charges twice in recent weeks
because court officals
couldn‘t figure out whether
the defendant was a man or a
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SG revises contract

’ By JACK WAINWRIGHT
Kernel Staff Writer

The passage of a bill calling
for a new campus telephone
directory was the main order
of business in the Tuesday
night meeting of the Student
Senate.

The number of pages for
departmental listings and