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Vol. LXVIII, Number 85
Thursday, January 13, I977

University of Kentucky
Lexington, Kentucky

 

Vols make it
four straight

' n ove rt i m e
By MIKE STRANGE
Assistant Sports Editor

game—put Kentucky’s conference
hopes in serious jeopardy as it
dropped to 2-1. Tennessee, which has
now beaten the Cats four con-
secutive times, is 40.

Kentucky awoke from sluggish
play and roared from behind to take
a seven point lead when James Lee
stuffed in a fast-break layup with
7:32 to go. Following a Tennessee
timeout and a Bernard King stuff,
coach Joe Hall elected to hold the
ball and run down the clock.

At 3:29, Kentucky still held a 57-52
lead and had the ball. But they
couldn‘t hold on to it. Grunfeld stole
the ball from Givens and Vol guard
Mike Jackson drove for a layup to
cut the lead to three. But Jackson

Kentucky‘s second-ranked
Wildcats, who had been flirting with
SEC disaster, finally found it last
night in the person of Bernard King
and the Tennessee Volunteers.

For the second year in a row,
Kentucky frittered away a home-
court, second-half lead to lose to the
Vols in overtime, this time 71-67.

A packed house of 23,271 that was
announced as a “new NCAA at-
tendance record for a basketball
game” saw the most exciting game
yet played in young Hupp Arena.
Wonder why the more than 50,000
that saw UCLA play Houston in the

 

 

 

——Stewart Bowman
Doug Wachs, 12, a student at Leestown Junior High in Lexington, found the speed
bump on this Jacobson Park road an added thrill. The city’s recreation depart-
ment is sponsoring a sledding program while county schools are closed.

Flaps down, runners up

 

Astrodome in 1968 doesn’t count?
Cdd shooting—33 per cent for the

was allied for charging Robey.

Continued on page 5

} Up a creek

Salt on stranded barge wouldn't work anyway

4m." Bowman

Tennessee’s Bernard King snatched I9 rebounds in the Vol’s stunning

71-67 victory over the Cats.

 

By DICK GABRIEL
Assistant Managing Editor

For five days, Lexingtonians have
been bombarded with stories of the
salt that’s sitting on a barge in
Paduoah. That salt would ordinarily
be lining the streets of Fayette
County, enabling citizens to zip
along despite the five inches of snow
and ice.

But a barge crashed into the locks
on the stretch of the Ohio River near
Paducah, halting river traffic and
stranding the salt barge destined for
Lexington. And that, motorists
grumble, is why cars look like Peggy
Fleming on the icy city streets.

Not true. The salt would’ve made
no difference, says Gerald Johnson
of the state highway department.
“It’s too cold for the salt to do any
good," Johnson said. Salt is effective
downto a temperature of 20 degrees.
When the temperature stays in the
lower teens, as it has this week, the
salt is useless.

Johnson said the highway
department has relied mainly on
cinders, sand and rock. But the
results have been less than spec-
tacular. “It's so cold, none of the
abrasives do any good," Johnson
said “We‘re just beating our heads
against the wall trying to melt the
snow. Nothing works.”

Traffic was free of major snarls
until yesterday when, according to
patrolman Tom Gilikson, accidents
began multiplying. “People are
getting out now,” he said. “People
are starting to bang each other up.”

Gilikson said most of the accidents
have been minor, with no fatalities
attributed to the snow: “They’ve
been mrstly fender-benders,” he
said. “The weather seems to have
scared them (drivers) a bit. They
still have the seme to keep their
speed down”

New Circle Road was the site of
the worst pile-up to date—six cars
involved. Giikson said the worst
roads are in subdivisions, as
secondary roads are termed “slick
to hazardous.” Interstate 64 is clear
in one lane but the passing lane is
still slick.

It was ice on the interstates that
caused ptstponement of classes
until today. Dr. Lewis Cochran, vice
president for academic affairs, said
he cmferred by phone with ad!
missions personnel, housing people,
theclairperson of the senate council
and the UK safety director last
Sunday afternoon. The joint decision
was postponed for a day and then
they resolved to play it by ear after
that.

Cochran, acting for vacationing
Dr. Otis Singletary, University
president, said the chief concern
was for students who lived outside
the state and would've had to brave
treacherous highways to get to UK
in time for drop-add and late
registration.

Should itsnow again this weekend,
Cochran said it is "very likely" that
University officials will assume out-
of-state students safely made it to
UK and classes will not be postponed

again.

More snow is imminent, according
to a spdresman for the National
Weather Service. The storm that hit
Sunday was a result of a low
pressure system that blew in off the
Gulf d Mexico and moved north.
The spokesman said another system
is currently over Louisiana and is
due fiiday.

The holiday was a boon to the
Physical Plant Division, according
to PPD director Jim Wessels. “It

was a real help,” he said. “It gave us
a little more time for sidewalks and
parking lots.”

Wessels said parking lots are high
on the priority list, especially lots
surrounding places open all night.
Drifts can accumulate quickly there
and also on the emergency ramp at
the Medical Center. “We try to keep
that clear at all times,” Wessels
said.

Continued on page 5

Weather drains energy
Cutback requested
as mercury plunges

BY KEITH SHANNON
Kernel Sta ff Writer

After being buried under four
inches of snow and experiencing
sub-zero termperatures this week,
the one thing this city didn’t need
was an energy crisis.

But the cold weather, freakish
conditions at electrical power plants
and recent gas curtailments all
combined to give the appearance,
for one day at least, of a bona fide
energy shortage.

The energy situation appeared to
be at its worst on Tuesday morning,
when the Kentucky Utilities Co.
(KU) released a statement
requesting that its customers
“immediately reduce energy con-
sumption” by voluntarily lowering

thermostat settings, turning off all
unnecessary lights and reducing the
use of electrically powered
household appliances.

By Wednesday afternoon,
however, KU withdrew the request,
reporting that Lexington had cut its
power corsumptjon by 10 per cent in
the 24-hour period. Lynwood
Shrader, KU vice president, said the
power cutback was prompted
mainly by “icing conditions” at one
of KU's power plants. Ice which had
formed or conveyor belts at the
Brown Power Plant near Shaker-
town was causing coal to slip off the
belt before it was able to be burned.
Also, another generating unit was
shut down for regularly scheduled
maintenance.

Continued on page 5

 

state

Although the worst threat of
electric and gas shortages in
Kentucky is over, Energy
Commissioner Damon Harri-
sonsaid energy conservation is
still necessary. No mandatory
utility cutbacks have been
planned. Harrison said yester-
day, but “a lot is going to
(bpend on what happens to the
weather over the next couple of
weeks.”

Jmeph B. Keene of Bards-
town was named commission-
er d the Kentucky Department
of Alcoholic Beverage Control
(Am) yesterday by Gov. Juli-
an Camll. Keene will serve a

four-year term as chairman of
the ABC Board. He replaces
James Amato, who resigned as
commissioner and board chair-
man to run for Lexington
mayor.

State Police Capt. John Rob-
ey, cleared of charges that he
quashed a politically sensitive
investigation three years ago,
was reinstated yesterday as
Elizabethtown post command-
er.

Erfopeans will soon be wear-
ing Kentucky blue jeans, Gov.
Julian Carroll announced yes-
terday. The Cowden Co., which

prodmes clothing in to Ken-
tucky plants. has signed a

supply contract with Italy‘s
Frattini Manufacturing Co.
The owners of the Italian
company, Fiorenzo and Mar-
cello Frattini, and their repres-
entative, Mark Blye, were
commissioned Kentucky Colo-
nels by Carroll after the an-
nouncement.

nation

Greg Schneiders, who bowed
outof President-Elect Carter’s
inner circle to answer FBI
questions, denied yesterday
that he accepted unemploy-
mert checks during 1975 while
receiving income from a com-
pany he operated. Schneiders,
29, asked Carter to appoint

someone else as appointments
secretary, the job he was in
line for, after the FBI discov-
ered evidence of corporate
debts and bounced checks.

The national unemployment
rate. dipped to 7.9 per cent in
December, the first drop in
three months, the government
reported yesterday. The drop
was tempered, though. by a
signal of high grocery prices to
come. Soaring costs for coffee,
pork and poultry triggered the
biggest jump in wholesale
farm and food prices in eight
months.

Intrusions Into private pro-
perty by Internal Revenue
Service agents in search of

assets to satisfy tax assess-
merss are “unreasonable"
without warrants, the Supreme
Gout unanimously decided
yesterday. The Justice Depart-
mett had argued that warrant-
less break-ins were justified in
tax assessment cases.

world

Israelis. angered by France’s
release of a suspected Pales-
tinian terrorist, massed out-
side the French embassy in Tel
Aviv yesterday and denounced
French president Valery Gis-
card d'Estaing and. demanded
the French ambassador be
ttsown out of Israel. While
Israel's French ambassador.

Mordechai Gazit, was recalled
for consultation, released Pal-
estinian Abu Daoud said at an
Algiers news conference yes-
terday that he hoped the
Palestinian movement would
“continued to improve" rela-
tions with France “to the
maximum."

weather

Sa'ry, but you haven‘t seen
the last of the snow yet. The
weatherman is calling for in-
creming cloudiness today with
a chance for snow by late
afternoon but more likely to-
nigtt. Today's high will be in
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UK out-shovels city

The barrage of Arctic weather serves as a
reminder that, despite the demonstrated
capacity of the human race to adapt to the en-
viromnent, it‘s nature’s way to step in and make

its presence known.

Unfortunately, the results of nature’s actions
are often tragic, as the Chinese recently wit-

parking lots.

nessed in the devastating earthquake and as

Kentuckians we11.know from the April 3, 1973

torna do.

In comparison, the snow and ice dumped on
Lexington are merely an inconvenience.
Nonetheless, the city has done little to relieve the
situation. City streets. including the main ar-
teries, have remained treacherous.

Average winter conditions in Lexington don‘t
justify city ownership of large scale snow
removal equipment. It is reasonable, however,
to expect some effort to clear the city’s major

arteries, at least.

Lexington ‘s efforts were impaired when a
barge carrying tons of sand was trapped on the
Ohio River. But Highway Department officials,
say temperatures in the teens prevent salt from
being an effective means of melting the ice.

The only means of clearing the roads, it seems,
is by driving on them. Slowly, this process is
easing the situation, but in the meantime
motorists have had to contend with numerous
fender benders and traffic delays.

The University '5 Physical Plant Division has
made a commendable effort to clear campus

to attend.

sidewalks and the more difficult task of clearing

PPD workers were out as early as last Sunday
clearing the walks. Despite not having any
sophisticated snow removal equipment, the PPD
has made a concerted effort to clear the snow.
That’s something the city hasn’t even tried.

Goldwater’s idea
is unpardonable

Sen. Barry Goldwater was miffed the other
day after President Ford, Vice President
Rockefeller and Ronald Reagan met to con-
template the future of the Republican Party
(assuming it has one). Goldwater wasn’t invited

The GOP hierarchy has made a wise decsion in

spirators.

 

Downey wrong

i'm writing in response to Dick
Downey's “Arbitrary Award” to the
Campus ERA. Alliance printed in
the Dec. 9 issue of the Kernel. Those
of our membership who face the
prospect of being unemployed
B.A.‘s, M.A.’s, and Ph. D.’s in a few
short months—and those of us who
are cu rrently underpaid members of
the work force-welcome the
prospect of Downey’s free pass to
the world of 40-hour work weeks.

We wouldlike to be able to pay the
bills. And that, after all, is a good
part of what our struggle is about,
iSt‘t it?

I hope Downey’s bold-type
heading. “Freedom’s just another
word for nothing left to lose,” was
intended as a good-humored
reference to what's happening in the
world of affirmative action rulings
for women and racial minorities
recently.

leaving Goldwater out of its rebuilding plans.
The Arizona senator displayed his ignorance in
the 60‘s by proposing to “make a swamp out of
North Vietnam"
proposing a pardon for all Watergate con-

and continues today by

While it’s difficult to imagine a more tragic
presidency than Richard Nixon’s, election of
Goldwater in 1964 might have made Watergate
appear tame by comparison.

Here’s hoping his influence in policy-making
is on the decline.

 

iettem

Our awareness of the serious
nature of our situation is precisely
why we are determined to do as
much as we can about it. And, I
might. Mdfimfibman’s life does
consist, of more than the, workplace.

Somewhere among the 1,790
federal and state laws which
discriminate on the basis of sex
there are a few which will strike at
each of us personally.

In that same world of 40-hour
weeks, where corporations are in-
dividuals under the law and women
are not, we have frighteningly little
left to lose.

Carol Dussere
Campus E.R.A. Alliance

No death penalty

The members of the Lexington
Friends Meeting would like to make
known our opposition to the death

penalty. The Religious Society of
Friends (Quakers) to which we
belong has a long-standing position
against capital punishment.

We believe that there is something
of God in every person. To an“
violence against another person
whether by war, capital punishment
or criminalaction is to do violence to
that which is sacred in the person.

We realize the need to provide
protection to innocent people who
may be victims of crime and the
need to provide humane conditions
for long term imprisonment. We also
understand the difficulties in ac-
complishing this.

However we strongly feel that
those needs must be met without

resort to destroying life. Capital

punishment would debase our
society by disregarding the sanctity
and the value of all human life.

Robert C. Noble
Lexington Friends Meeting clerk

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Long road ahead for gays

The following article was
presented in person and authen-
ticated. The writer’s name was
witheld by request.

 

In response to the Kernel’s two
part artide on the lesbian member
who hadto leave her sorority here at
UK, I would like to say that
separation need not be the result of
such a revelation. I am speaking
from my own experience.

As an undergraduate, I attended a
small school in the Midwest. in
many ways far less liberal than this

 

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university. During my junior year
ruma's of my sexual preferences
reached members of my Greek
organization. Not by word, but by.
actim and attitude, I could soon tell
that something was troubling the
chapter members. Now, like
“Mary.” one of my first thoughts
concerned the good of the group as a
whole, and l faced a very sticky
situation.

At the time, I was serving as
chapter president. Following the
regular bus'ness of our next chapter
meeting, I made a full and open
confession of my sexual inclinations.
I offered to resign as president, to
resign my membership and to leave
the house, if that was the desire of
the chapter. After a short silence,

the first response was that, “Quiting
and leaving wouldn’t do you or us
any good." .
That response soon became a
unanimous vote which left me
feeling on top of the world as an

. accepted human being of worth and

merit. It would be dishonest to say
there were never conflicts after that,
but we handled them by seeking to
appreciate both the characteristics
which united and separated us.

In fairness to “Mary‘s" sorority, I
mustaddthati was already living in
a private room and that I watched
my conduct closely to preventany of

my actions frmrenectnig'orr the
t .. xhapter as'a whole. I know that some

gay men and women would consider
that tacit denial of my sexual drives
as a denial if my personth and
self, butl consider it an attempt to
meet the chapter half-way and
nothing more.

What i hope that my story
illustrates is the need for all con-
cemed in a situation like “Mary’s”
to look first at the homosexual as a
human being. None of us, gay or
straight, spend our entire lives in
bed with anyone, male, female or
orangutan, and if we were honest.
none of us would admit to wanting to
live sucha life. We are all more than
genitalia attached to a body.

()ne of the basic purposes of a
college education must be to
broaden people’s outlook on life so
that they do not perceive others in
pigeon-holing terms such as queer,

Mexico looks different through a hole in an

MANZANILLO, Mexico—~I've
been spending Christmas vacation
at this resort area a few hours north
of Acapulco. on the Pacific coast.
The temperature here has been in
the mid80‘s. and we’re surrounded
by ocean, mountains, palm trees.
pineapple fields. and exotic flowers.

 

  

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It looks for all the world like I‘ve
always imagined Hawaii to be.

Mamanillo is a Mexican resort
area-mot an American one—and as
a result, prices are low, hassles are
few, andthe people are friendly. Our
accomodations sleep six, and there
are two bathrooms. 3 hot shower, 3
kitchen, and a huge porch with a
good view of the above scenery—all
for the price of $15 a night.

My companions—Martee Cordon,
Scott and Kelly Crocker, Mark
Morgan, and Debbie Hendricks—
and I are having the best vacation of
our lives. There are a lot of reasons
for that, and lwant to tell you about
a few of them. They mav not even be

 

the best reasons, but these are the
things that stick out in my mind~—
some for their beauty, others for
their oddity.

Fu' one thing, Mexico has a pretty
unusual Highway Patrol. It's
comprised mainly of burros and
cattle. They don’t need traffic cops
down here; the animals do the job of
speed limit enforcement 0K without
them.

It's not that you can’t drive as fast
as you want down here without the
sickening fearof getting a ticket that
would cut two days off your
vacation, financially speaking. You
can. But look out for the donkeys.
Especially at night And lave a
healthy respect for the placid cattle
here, too, if you ever drive through
Mexico.

You can be cruising along at just
about any speed, and out of nowhere
there may appear a herd of cattle
crossing the road, coaxed by a
deprived looking (and most likely,
depraved looking) Mexican dig or
two.

The result can be ominous in any
number of ways. First, you could
mn over a cow and either wind up
the proud owner of a dead cow or the
miserable inhabitant of an infamous
Mexican jail. (Pot's just one of
mam: thinnsthat can land van in N"

of those hellholes.)

Or you could swerve to miss the
bunch of bovine beasts and hit a
pothole the likes of which you’ll
never see even on a state road in

' Arkansas. The whole situation tends

to make you drive at a moderate
speed, cops or no cops.

The latter fate might not be so
bad, even if you damage your car in
the process, and the following story
illustrates why. This anecdote also
explains much of the beauty of this
country—the spirit of manana.
(Mariana means tomorrow in
Spanidi, but the spirit of manana
generally entails a fairly laid-back
atmosphere.)

The six of us were driving out to
Playa del Oro (literally, Beach of
Gold) on an out-of-the-way cob-
blestone road one day, when we ran
over a rock that knocked a hole in
my car’s transmission fluid pan.
Panic ersued. We caught some of
the rapidly draining fluid and made
a makeshift patch for the hole with a
plastic sheet that we melted.
(There‘s something to be said for
good ol’ American ingenuity.)

The night before, two of us had
noticed a mechanic's shop a few
miles away. The “shop” was built
with sticks and bod a thatched roof.
We: mnnfldM to dfivfi bush “8'

and cuss the car to the place. As the
six of us rolled in - looking like

.stereotypical excitable Latins with

our yelling and general havoc-filled
demeanor~l could imagine a
greasy proprietor splitting a grin
from ear-toear as he realized that
he had the gringos over a barrel.
“That'll beaoo pesos ($40). my good
men," I heard in my imagination.

Things didn’t turn out that way.
What did happen was that he took
the pan off the car, cleaned it with
some gas that he siphoned out of his
own truck, welded the hole back
together, made a new gasket for it
by cutting one out of a piece of
leather, arid reinstalled the whole
thing—all for five dollars. I shudder
to think what the job would have cost
in Lexington.

Other rice things can happen to
you in Mexico. You can be on a
beach body-surfing on eight-foot
waves, and a cowboy and his son
may come n'd'ng by. Now, I mean a
real, bona fide cowboy. He may
dismount and show you how to dig
clams out of the surf, and then let
you ride his horses down the beach.
“to two it you dm’t even have to be
able to speak the same language. We
couldn't.

0r, yw might be on the same
beach Mid (Uncover n butcher and

his eight sons eating cow teat
(evidently, a Mexican delicacy)
roasted over an open fire. If you do,
chances are thatyou can share some
of it with them, washed down by
good tequila, in exchange for a few
graciously offered American
“cigarillos.”

Another delight is that the peso
has been devalued to about five-
cighths of the value it had in Sep-
tember, and so you can buy a lot of
them with American dollars. Not
that you really need them. For
example, by going to the open food
market in downtown Mamanillo,
you can buy great big shrimp for
about two dollars a pound. Or you
can get bananas for 10 cents a kilo.

Being in Mexico is doing some
very gratifying things for my spirit,
(and my pocketbook) to say the
least.

' 'Just one things bothers me. l’m
having some very weird dreams
down here. In one of them, I was at
my parents’ home in Franklin, Ky.
Nine radical lesbian feminists ar-
med with ritlos siezed control of our
borne and forced my father and I to
stay trutside while inside they tor-
tured my mother by binning her.
(My father, by the way, was John
annol V (~th hear he"! «ammo

faggot, dyke, lezzie or even stud and
dish, but as people such as John,
Mary, Jean and George. As an
added thought, no one should take
the reactim of “Mary‘s" sorority as
indicative of all Greeks—I am
certain that it would not be far from
the normal reaction of any group,
Greek or independent, to finding a
gay member in its midst. I know of
no other set of people who would
have demmstrated the compassion

for me which my chapter did on that »

long Thursday nightwhen the air got
cleared and during the days which
followed. " “ ' :f‘, .,
marry,“ r" ham t‘o‘f‘ speak to
‘Mary.” It ’s a ldrig roa‘d Mary, and
we aren’t home yet. I must ask that
my name not be published with this
response, not because I am
aslnmedof a word in it, but because
i realize that society is not fully
ready to acceptyou and me. I am at
UK attending a professional school
learning a profession where
currently all other facts as to my
competence and fitness would
becrme of little importance if the
one fact of my preference for sex
partners were to become known.
But the day will come Mary. when
we will be looked upon as individuals
of intrinsic worth and dignity. Take
heart in knowing that only a few
years ago, yourstory would not have
reached the open, as I take heart in
my personalgrowth in knowing that
only a year ago I would not have had
the courage to write this response.

oil pan

and later saw her blackened,
bleeding arms.

What does this madness mean? I
never have such awful dreams at
home...and all psycho-sexual con-
siderations aside, I can only figure
out one explanation. The general
atmospherehere in Mexico is very
easy-going compared to that of the
states. It relaxes me a lot. As a
result, it seems that I need an
alternative outlet for the subliminal
sort of violence that I normally
expendin one way or another during
my very hectic days at UK, and that
is now being done during my
sleeping hours. If you get used to a
helicr-skelterish way. of living, as l
have, I suppose the accompanying
tension and pressure just have to
keep coming out in some way, at
least until yw really get the spirit of
mamm. I know I need more of that
spirit, and so does my country, the
greatst country in the world.‘

Next week, I want to talk about
things like that.

 

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Book exchange offers option

By MARIE MITCHELL
Kernel Staff Writer

If book store prices seem
too ligh for the pocketbook
after hdiday shopping, the
Student Senate Committee on
Stutbnt Services offers an
alternative.

Canplete with about 3,000
books, borrowed book
shelvs, five part-time and
several volunteer workers,
the committee opened the
door on its book exchange
Tuesday afternoon.

From its general expenses
account, the Student Senate
appropriated $400 for this
non-profit project, said
committee Chairman Mark
Benson. Students were asked
to bring in books to sell at a
recommended 25 per cent
mark down on listed prices.
The committee attached a 25
cent handling fee for supplies
and publicity, Benson said.

Nearly 800 students con-
tributed an average of four

books, said Marion Wade,
Arts & Sciences senator. A
contract and card was
processed for each book
before arrranging them on
shelves according to
classification, Wade said.
“We’re not out to close
down the book stores,”
Benson said. “In fact, the
University Book Store has
been cooperative in providing
information on books
required for each class.”
Despite some confusion
with misplaced cards, Bryan
Hill, architecture sophomore,
said the money he saved was
worth the time invested.
Volunteer worker Jay
Peter, A & S freshman, said
the book exchange was
disorganized at first because
of the snow. But, according to
Student Government
President Mike McLaughlin,
the project was running “a
whole lot smoother”
yesterday.
Benson said the major

UK, GenTel offer
phone billing service

Students living in dorms
can now obtain special billing
numbers for use in placing
long distance calls from their
dorm rooms.

The service is being offered
by General Telephone in
cooperation with UK. A
monthly bill will be issued by
the telephone company to
those students using the
service. Only those calls
charged to a student’s per-
smalnumberwill be included
on the bill.

A.F. Surmont, General
Telephone district manager,
said the program is designed

Registration

rescheduled

Students scheduled to
register in Memorial
Coliseum Tuesday, Jan. 11,
but who were unable to do so
because d raod and weather
conditions, may register
today. Registration will start
at 8:30 am. in the Mezzanine
of the Patterson Office
Tower.

Late registration will
continue until Wednesday,
Jan. I9 in the Mezzanine or in
Miller Hall room 5.

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for use only from dorm room
telephones. “The special
numbers cannot be used from
pay stations or other off-
campus telephones," he said.
“Additionally, the numbers
cannot be used to accept
collect calls at dormitory
room phones.”

During the holiday break,
applications were sent to
students’ homes. The two
part form included a section
to be completed by the dorm
resident and a guarantor’s
statement to be completed by
a parentorguardian.

The guarantor‘s statement
can take the place of a
security deposit that may be
required of the student.

“Previously, only collect,
third-number or credit-card
calls could be placed through
a longdistance operator from
dorm room phones. With a
student billing number, a
dorm resident can place
direct-dialed calls at a rate
lower, for example, than
those charged for collect calls
or calls made from coin
telephones,” Surmont said.

General Telephone will-
open a temporary campus
office in Student Center room
111 during the week of Jan. 10.

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problem the exchange has
encountered has been the
time-consuming manual
labor involved. Because of
the time invested in
processing, all sales are final,
he said.

Several senators worked
about 400 hours during
Christmas vacation to
prepare for opening day.
Benson said computerized
processing might decrease
manhours spent.

“It took more man-hours
than we thought,”
McLaughlin said. “There was

a lot (i paperwork involved,
maybe too much."

“The difficulty fell on the
senators, though, not the
students," Benson said.

The exchange, which is
located in Student Center
room 245, willbeopen from l0
am. to 3 pm. weekdays
through Jan. 19. Benson said,
however, hours will be
flexible according to books
remaining and student in-
terest. Students who con-
tributed books will be paid
Jan. 20 and 21; unsold books
will be returned.

‘Roots’ to begin
history course

By KIM YELTON
Kernel 8a If Writer

University Extension is
using “Roots”—a special
program to be aired Jan. 23-
30—as an introduction to a
black history course it in-
stituted last week.

The University of
California produced the film
that is based on Alex Haley’s
novelof the same name. “It is
an account of Haley’s life,”
said C. R. Hagar, University
Extension assistant dean.
The film traces his family
history from the 1750’s and
his ancestors' struggles as
slaves in America before the
Civil War.

“We heard about it, but we
could not build an entire
course amund the program,"
Hagar said.

Miami Dade Community
College in Florida developed

course materials to use with
the program, according to
Dr. Steven Charming, a
history professor who will
teach the class.

The clas will meet three
times to discuss the program
and the book, Hagar ex-
plained, and students will be
tested after each class.

“But they will be on their
own as far as studying is
concerned,” he said. There
will be no class assignments
in the three-credit-hour
course.

Any one interested in ad-
ding the class can contact
Hagar at the University
Extension, room 4 Frazee
Hall, or call him at 258-2658.

“I don’t know what interest
there will be,