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By MIKE WINES
Assistant Managing Editor
If you were turned down in your request for financial aid to attend the university this semester, James
E. Ingle has some advice for you: try again.
Ingle, director of student financial aid, said a student's chances of receiving extra cash for University
expenses could improve this winter, thanks to Congress' action in overriding President Nixon's veto of
an education bill that would provide $110 million
more for higher education than he had requested.
That means some of the 500 or so students who
were denied aid for this semester may have a second
chance to secure funds for the spring.
Pressure Increasing
After that, opportunity may knock no more. The
backbone of most college financial aid systems cash
from the federal government is beginning to crack

under the pressure of increased requests for aid and through with an NDSL
appropriation at that time,
University needs.
and hundreds of students seeking aid had to be turned
"Federal funds have not kept pace with institution away due to lack of funds.
needs and increased enrollment," said Ingle. He added
Thanks to the 1969 Congress' slowness, UK's aid
that UK received only about $650,000 of its $800,000-plu- s
a little brighter this year. Washington
for National Defense Student Loans situation was
request
finally came through last March with a "supplemental"
(NDSL) this year, and prospects for any dramatic inNDSL appropriation of $88,000 for UK. Because it was
creases are bleak.
school year, the funds were carried over
This summer, the University faced a tight money so late in the
for use this fall.
situation that forced aid requests totaling under $400
A similar supplement may brighten the aid
to be automatically denied. Some other requests for
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"substantial" aid $700 or more also were turned down this winter. Ingle said he expects UK to receive another
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because the University simply lacked the money to help
in NDSL funds soon, after the federal
Bureau of the Budget orders the vetoed
the students.
bill approved. That would be enough to put a
Hundreds Turned Away
dent in the 500 who were turned down
said Ingle, "at this point last year
Nevertheless,
we felt that we were in a worse position than tlus during the summer.
Continued on Page 7, Col. 1
year." That's because Congress had failed to come
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Vol. LXII, No.

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Hearings Continue
On "Final Week " Disorders

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Kernel Staff Writer
At the beginning of the summer, the UK student Judicial
Board planned to devote three
days to the hearings of students
charged with violating the Student Code during the May campus disorders.
As it turned out, the hearings
stretched out over three months,
and the job still remains unfinished.
In all, 104 charges were levied
against 31 students whom the Office of the Dean of Students accused of violating the Student
Code during April and early May.
Walter Maguire, assistant
dean of students, confirmed that '
this was the greatest number of
charges ever brought against a
group of University students in
such a short period of time.
The vast majority of the
charges stemmed from the campus disorders during Final Week
in May.
In many cases the hearings
yielded only mild results in even
more cases, no punishment at all.
A verdict of guilty was reached
by the board on only 17 of the
98 charges processed by the Board
during the summer hearings.
There were 38 verdicts of not
guilty.
The remaining charges were
dropped by the Dean of Students Office after a "hearing"
with the students, dismissed by
the Judicial Board after deliberation, or settled by a mutual
agreement between the student
and the Dean of Students and
his assistants.

Six charges of the original 104
are expected to be processed this
fall.
In some cases, no punishment
was imposed on students found
guilty of violations; two students
received undated suspensions.
The two, John Junot and Lucio
Leon Laudee, were found guilty
of violating Section
of the
student
code,
which condemned those actions
which "interfere, disrupt, or are
coercive to University operations
or interfere with the rights of
others, cause damage to property,
threaten violence against any person or take place on premises
where students are not authorized
to be."
In comparison with the 104
charges which were brought before the Board this summer, only
two charges had been processed
by the board in the entire school
year preceding the May demonstrations.
Maguire said "two or three"
written appeals including one
from John Junot, have already
been submitted by students disveragreeing with the
dict in their particular case.
Student Government President Steve Bright, who was
handed an undated suspension
without terms, also plans to file
an appeal to the University Appeals Board.
Despite his dissatisfaction
with the verdict reached in his
own case, Bright said Wednesday
that the Judicial Board did a
"tremendous job" in reviewing
the charges, and praised the
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of las time is spent with registration and
supervision of student organizations.
"I hope to develop this year a coordinated effort," he explained, "to assist student organization in their relationships with

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during the summer hearings.
Maguire, unlike Bright, said
that he disagreed with many decisions handed down by the
He added, however, the
Board had "good intentions" in
regard to giving each student a
fair trial.
In contrast to past hearings
Continued on Pace 3, Col. 1

Kernel Photo by Dave Herman

A Sticky Situation

Freshman Kathe Tancredi was a smiling volunteer . . .just the.
"type" Sherry Cord, nurse for the Central Kentucky Blood Center,
wanted. Kathe had her blood typed from a pinprick in her finger
at the blood center's Activities Fair booth Tuesday, so that she
can donate blood later.

Outlaiv "Coercion 99

Trustees Modify Student Code

By FRANK S. COOTS

III

any person such temporary sanctions as are considered necesThe Board of Trustees has
sary."
substantially altered the UK code
One vague addition to the
A ' Soapbox" by Student Govof student conduct. The code
code specifies a "student's rights
governs a student's actions on ernment President Steve Bright to freedom of
and an editorial concerning the
expression are subcampus and was revised in renew student code appear on the ject to the restriction that he
action to the demonstrations here
must obey the University's regueditorial page.
last May.
lations as to time, place and
The changes constitute the
manner." There are no such reguthird substantial alteration of the
Students charged under this lations at present, but Robert
code since its issuance in 1967.
section will no longer have their Zumwinkle, vice president for
The most significant change cases heard
student affairs, said the Dean of
by the
in the code is Article VI which Judicial
Students Office will establish
Board, but by the Apis a new section dealing with
peals Board which consists of these regulations soon.
interference, coercion and disrupsix faculty and three student
Zumwinkle also said, in the
tion. The code states this section members.
event a student violates one of
is violated when a student "imthese regulations, that it will be
Interim Suspension
pedes or impairs University misup to the administrator preferring
This section also gives Unior functions, or
sions, processes
charges to decide whether the
the right to susinterferes with the rights of versity officials
action constitutes interference,
others."
pend students without a hearing coercion and
disruption, giving
for up to seven days as well as
A number of actions are listed
the Appeals Board jurisdiction,
the right to declare a state of
as examples of what constitutes
or whether it is a violation of
violations of this section. They emergency. Under a stateof emerwould give the
the University may ban all Article I, which
from occupying buildings
gency,
range
jurisdiction. Either of
to failure to vacate premises when mass meetings and "impose upon
the boards may decide a case
is in the jurisdiction of the other
board.
Search and Seizure
Another addition to the code
deals with search and seizure.
Special services also serves as an
the various elements of the University."
public relations agency designed It specifies that the University
In addition, Brandenburgh serves as Unito improve communication among the various official conducting the search
versity adviser to the Graduate and Profesmust infonn the vice president
sional Students Association and will assist elements, Mrs. Palmer explained.
In this capacity, plans are in the works for student affairs of the time,
Dean of Students Jack Hall in coordinating
for a "fac t book" which would concentrate
staff relations.
place and reason for the search
essential information about' the University and the property to be seized
Vacated Position
into one volume.
except in cases of "imminent
In other administrative switches during danger."
Brandenburgh occupied the post left vacant by Mrs. Palmer, now director of special the summer
Other changes in the code
Susan Pillans, a UK graduate w ho just provide that people outside the
services.
Mrs. Palmer said she is "involved in completed four years of teaching at SouthUniversity community may not
trying to promote a better public relations ern Junior High School, Lexington, was have membership in University
appointed assistant to the dean of students.
organizations, do away with the
policy for the University."
Walter F. Maguire, former assistant to Dean of Students' role of proseShe supervises a University speakers buthe vice president for student affairs, was cutor in judicial hearings and
reau which helps interested groups throughout the state obtain speakers from the uni- named to replace Ken Brandenburgh as establish a University Counsel
to be rHainl its prosecutor.
assistant dean of frtuktit.
versity community.
Editor-in-Chi-

ordered to do so by a University
official.

Dean Of Students Staff Altered

By TOM BOW DEN
Assistant Managing Editor
Ken Brandenburgh was appointed associate dean of students and Mrs. Betty Jo
Palmer director of special services in a
series of personnel changes during the sum-

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Registration Smoother Than Ever

dents registered in the summer
Kernel Staff Writer
advising conference in July.
And 4,100 students with inEarnest enroll incut in UK's
has complete schedules registered
17,000 students
history
completed the smoothest regis- Sept. 1.
Dr. Ockerinan explained that
tration ever, said Dean of Admission and HeKi.ttrar Elbert W. registration was facilitated by
five changes which have been
Ockerinan.
Of the 10,300 students who implemented since Januarj
No high school transcript was
in the spring, 9,500
tonfirnuxl their registration for necessary for freshman admisthe fall.
sion; only the student profile
Students with complete schedreport from the American Coluler 7,200 of them paid their lege Testing Program was used.
This included test scores and
fees, sent in their student information forms, and had their I.D. student grade-poiaverage.
It w as mandator) for all concards validated by mail.
Approximately 5,100 new stu tinuing students to preregister.
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explained. They also enabled
the Registrar's Office to provide
the deans of the various colleges
with a timely estimate of actual
space needs.
"This is the best registration
w e've ever had," said Dr. Ockerinan. He added there are hopes
to extend advance registration to
virtually all students at the

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All new undergraduates w ere
required to attend the summer

advising conference.
All students who
had to confirm their registration by sending in a student
information form.
These changes enabled the
majority of students to handle

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Continued from rage One
before the Hoard, many of which
were closed by request of the
student being heard, a majority
of this summer's hearings were
open to the public.
"I just thought it would insure greater fairness regarding
the decision in my case," said
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most of the other students who
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hearings.
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had
did not believe the
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knowledge of the student code to
avoid confusion in the course of
the hearings.
She added that the 1969 Student Code allowed a student to

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Mrs. Griffith also objected to
several charges which she said
were brought against students
for offenses they had allegedly
committed in April.
"The April charges should
have been decided upon earlier,"
she said. "It was like once a student was brought before the board
an attempt was made to scrape
up everything he had done in the

past."

Despite her criticism, Mrs.
Griffith called her period on the
board "a learning experience."
"There was always a time
when a small group of us disagreed with the rest over some
point or another," she said. "I
feel, as I'm sure all of us did,
that my opinion counted."
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student
The recently-adopteentitled "Student
code, ironically
s
Rights and Responsibilities,"
and consistent in its denial
of students' rights, both individual
and collective. A total distrust of
UK students' competency to fulfill
the responsibilities they incur is apparent throughout the revised code.
The most direct denial of the
students' legitimacy as responsible
adults is the trustees' refusal to
allow students to be tried by their
peers in certain major instances.
The
University Judicial
in
Board is completely
cases involving interference, coercion and disruption. Rather than
experiencing trial by his peers,
which has evolved as the most
nearly just of the practical processes, the student is both charged
and tried by University personnel.
By granting the University Appeals Board, with its token student
participation, original jurisdiction
in the more important cases strikes
a harsh blow at the student judicial system by destroying much of
the impact of the student 'jury'.
The Judicial Board is now substantially relegated to the task of
trying cases brought to it by the
residence hall boards. "Let the
kids try each other if someone is
caught playing poker in the dorms,"
the administration seems to say,
"but we'll handle the important
matters." This insult comes to the
after it has served three
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by-pass-

years in a most efficient, impartial

and distinguished manner.
Many basic student rights were
tossed away by the new code as
casually as one flushes a toilet.
The code is so restrictive in the
area of student rights that it is
difficult to comprehend a group of
intelligent and progressive individuals taking such actions. The revised code allows any University
official to force any student to
vacate the premises of any part
of the University at any time for
any action the official feels inappropriate.
The "State of Emergency" section of the code allows any top
administration official to take nearly any action he deems appropriate to prevent any student from
doing anything which the official
feels might be harmful to the "orderly and efficient operation of the
University." This sanction can last
seven days, until the official feels
whatever might have happened
hasn't happened and the student
is no longer dangerous. Evidently
it is not necessary for a student
to commit any action to be guilty

of an offense. Neither is it necessary for the University official to
have proof that he expects the
student to commit any harmful
action.
The revised document is fraught
with such incredibly dangerous
statements as one requiring a student to "obey the University's regulations as to time, place and
manner."
On this campus the suspension
of mass meetings when the president decides on such action is so
commonplace that no one seems
concerned that it is still a violation of the constitutional rights
of free assemblage and speech.
Numerous other sections of the
code reek of total disregard for
students and their rights to demonstrate their attitudes on matters
of fundamental importance to them,
as well as their abilities to govern
themselves. Such actions include
the Hearing Officer which the president appoints to both judicial
boards, the increase from 48 hours
to seven days in allowing a hearing
for an accused student, the obvious
attempts to prevent the registration

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of certain student groups which
are unpopular to the administration, the president's power to make
temporary appointments to the Judicial boards, the ridiculous closed
"open" hearings and the overlapping of certain sections of the code.
These overlaps allow the administration to decide under what section the student should be tried.
Depending on the section chosen,
the student would be tried by other
students or by University personnel,
a decision which could mean either
undue conviction or acquittal.
One must search the code diligently to find any improvements
in the new code. Even when they
do appear they are of such insignificant value as to seem comical.
From their recent actions, we
must infer that the Board of Trustees has begun to take their hobby,
the University of Kentucky, serito the
ously. In
and
cries of their
psychoticly frightened neighbors
the Board has worsened the situation for everyone involved.
In its preoccupation with the
"orderly and efficient operation of
the University" the Board ofTrust-ee- s
has forgotten that there is a
goal behind that mechanical operation. At UK order and efficiency
has obviously displaced justice and
the morality of an intellectual community.
Is it worth the price?
over-respondi-

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Student Body President Responds To Revised Student Code
that

group of students who love and support this institution and who have dedicated a great amount of their time and
energy to work for positive, constructive
change within it. This group, gentlemen,
is not dedicated to destroying this university, but to strengthening it.
"Gentlemen, let me make it quite
Much of what is being adopted here
clear that if this document were to be today is an insult to all students.
used only in the extreme and bizarre
You are about to remove the
examples which have been cited so ofjudicial board from involvement
ten as justifications for many of the in what you seem to feel are the most
new provisions which are before you important disciplinary cases. How else
today, I would not ask you to vote can this be interpreted except as a clear
lack of faith in students? What else
against adoption. The reason is simple,
if these provisions were applied only could the adoption of this provision be
in such cases, they would never be used called except a denial of trial by one's
at the University of Kentucky.
peers?
But our own experience in light of
Another insult is the provision proI opthe recent situation dictates that
hibiting "outsiders" from membership
pose the adoption of the document now in university organizations. The myth
before you, and discuss fully my response that students are all very passive and
to the eventual adoption of it.
can be led around by persons from off
We are fooling ourselves and becoming the campus is absurd and an insult to
the victims of an unhealthy paranoia
the adults receiving an education here.
when we pretend that there are large Students do not act without reason.
numbers of people, within or outside
There is only one group of outsiders
the University community, determined
with the power and authority to consisto physically destroy the University or tently delve into the internal affairs of
to cause injury' to individuals on this this university and spark something which
students would not have put together
campus.
If there were large numbers of people themselves.
with such aims, I seriously doubt if this
Gentlemen, I regret to inform you that
document, or any document passed by you are that group. The adoption of this
this board, could effectively serve as a code will be that spark; and I assure you
deterrent to the threat. Indeed, an eight-fothat we can put it together.
In the adoption of these two provihigh barbed wire fence around the
y
use of sions you fail to recognize the student
entire campus and the
armed guards might be the only soluas a human being. I view this as the
tion.
most serious shortcoming of any.
I do not fear this threat, because
Of course, I must question the severe
even if it were to become a reality some limitations on the right to dissent. The
day in the distant future, those few fear to participate because of what might
partaking in lawlessness and destruchappen will help to silence the innocent.
tion would be quickly arrested, proseFor again, our experience is that the
cuted and more than adequately punished
innocent is often accused in such inby the civil authorities.
stances. Now the probability is increased
But as I said earlier. I do not feel that the innocent will also be found guilty.
I submit that this is unjust.
this threat exists at the University of
The adoption of these provisions will
Kentucky. At least it didn't before today.
The faculty and students have responded serve only to drive moderates to the wall,
in crisis situations here in the past to to turn tliose now working within the
ease tensions and to protect their univerpresent structure to more drastic means,
perhaps even to violent activism. I urge
sity.
Our experience last May indicates that you to carefully reconsider your
these new provisions will be used against
EDITOR'S NOTE: The following is a
statement made by Steve Bright, UK
Student Government President, at the
August 13, 1970 meeting of the Board
of Trustees at which time the revised
student code was adopted.

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body will applaud tins action. Many will
be indifferent. But is is difficult, indeed,
it is impossible, for me to believe that
offenses and punishments, there is sigthere are large numbers of students willnificantly less change in strengthening
the protections of basic individual rights. ing to give up their rights without protest.
Nothing has been included to protect
As Mr. Bell has pointed out, when we
the innocent against harrassment or misuse and abuse of this code by university
deny the rights of a few, we have denied
officials.
everyone their rights.
I find it impossible to believe that
The adoption of this document will
before us, the students, the question
large members of students will sacrifice
put
of how people respond when they are justice for order. I seriously doubt that
threatened; when they feel their rights many have so little confidence in their
fellow students that they are afraid to
are endangered or severely and unreasonbe tried by an
judicial agency.
ably restricted.
I seriously doubt that many have a lack
I realize clearly the unquestionable
legal right of this board to adopt tliis of confidence in themselves so overwhelmdocument. Nevertheless, I must question ing that it makes them feel unfit to sit
the legitimacy of this document and the on a judicial agency.
potential injustices contained within it.
Centlemen, I have the utmost conThe Board in recent years has shown fidence in our students.
a marked departure from the historical
This Board, a collection of businessrole of trustees, which was basically the
men and politicians, is about to hand
establishment of policy, supervision of down
regulations which will affect some
broad financial affairs, and the selection
17,000 adults.
of executive personnel. The involvement
1 admire your interest in and dedicaof tins committee in this matter raises
tion to this fnstitution, but I remind
serious questions.
you that not a single person voting for
Cenerally, or at least ideally, a society this document will be affected by its
establishes its standards of behavior and
amends them as is necessary. With the provisions.
Ask yourselves, would you find it
proper safeguards, the result should be desirable for your community or your
rules and regulations recognized by the state to be run
by a Board of 15 insociety as both legitimate and just.
dividuals who did not live witliin it and
The society can be expected to live were not affected
by the regulations they
in accordance with these accepted stanenacted?
dards; and, within the concept ofshared
Tyranny is not limited to taxation
authority" and "shared responsibility,"
without representation. Indeed, that is
are
it can be expected to tee that they
ordy part of the larger concept of govgenerally adhered to by all members of ernment without the consent of the govthe society.
erned.
But when faced with regulations w hich
It is not our power structure, but it
are neither legitimate or just, the society is our
university. Our restrictions are
has but one alternative. It must resist.
of this docuof many already. The adoption
One can hardly expect the concept
ment will give us little choice.
"shared responsibility" to work on this
My response to tliis document is a
campus without the concept of "shared
dictate of conscience. The moral responsiauthority.
I am talking about that group of stubility of an individual cannot be superdents which in the past has worked to seded by the laws of the state or the
ease tensions and protect their university. regulations of an institution.
We cannot . afford to wait and hope
Let us hope that they will continue in
their efforts, despite the adoption of this any longer. Eventually, we would have
document. But let us not be surprised nothing left.
We must resist.
if they do not.
Centlemen, we will resist.
I realize that some within the student
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