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Volume LXIX. Number I”
Friday. September 30, 1977

    

 

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Life at the top

Students on dorm 22nd floor
not swayed by lofty location

By PAUL (‘RAYCRAFT
Kernel Reporter

Ever want to play “King of the
Mountain?" It‘s easy for thoseliving
on the 2nd floor of Blanding and
Kirwan Towers. The residents there
can overlook mostot Lexington—at
least when the clouds don't surround
the building.

That's one reason students enjoy
living there. It‘s the perfect place for
dreams of royalty, or just a good
view. Most don’t mind the wait for
the elevators, either.

Steve Jerkins, civil engineering
freshman, said he thinks the location
is better because of the view and the
two or three minutes it usually takes
to get to the top is worth it. He
moved into Kirwan Tower this
semester and said he has had no
problems living there.

Brack Davis, real estate education
junior, agreed that he has no
problems living there. He said he
has never felt the building sway with
the wind and, even during storms,
“there‘s nodifference in being in the
lobby on the first floor."

He does feel a vibration from
planes asthey pass over, but that’s
all, he said.

Several residents said that the
water in the conrmodes has waves in
it when it is windy outdoors. Davis
said he has never seen any. “I hope
I‘m never sitting on one when it
starts," he said

Some say Kirwan is calmer during
a storm than Blanding. Janet Green,
nursing junim‘, swears there are
waves whenever the wind is strong

Checks bouncing in Lexington;

and there’s a “kind of spooky wind
that makes a wheezing noise."
During a storm, she said,she feels
like she‘s “right in the clouds." She
also said she can feel the building
shake when planes go over, too.

Green said the worst thing about
living there is walking down the
stairs duimg a fire drill, but given a
choice, she would still rather live
there than anywhere else on cam-
pus. she said.

Residents have claimed that at
times. airplanes look as though they
are going to hit the towers. Rebecca
Bush, mathematics senior, said she
has never seen that, but “Captain
Tag gets pretty close." Capt. Tag
Veale flies a traffic-report
helicopter for radio station WVLK.

Bush said she has never noticed
the planes, “but then I used to live on
an air force base. too."

Deciding what to wear each day is
an average problem for some on the
ground. Bush considers it her
greatest. “You can’ttell what the
people below are wearing because
they just look like tiny specks. And
we can‘t open a window to see what
the weather‘s like, either," she said.

Sometimes the “tiny specks"
can‘t be seen. Clouds often gather
below the 22nd floor.

Bush can be considered an ex-
pert~~shehas been living at the top
ofBlanding Tower forthree years.
During this time, she said, she has
never seen waves in the commodes
or felt the building sway. “l‘ve just
heard stories about it," shesaid.

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Steve .lenkins. civil engineering freshman. says living on the 22nd floor of
Kirwan 'l‘ow er has its problems. but its still tops with him.

but not because of students

By JODI TAGEi '
Kernel Reporter
Cold checks are a problem in
Lexington, and it's getting worse,
but the blame can‘t be placed on UK
students. Even though student‘s
wallets are usually empty, their
checks can usually be covered by the
banks.

Metro Police detectives Fred
Blake,Leo Slusher and Billy Fryer
say the real cold check problem in
this town can be attributed to local
residents. The three detectives
handle all cases concerning bad
checks and crediting.

There have been 224 misdemeanor
arrests (writing bad checks under
$100) so far this year, up to Aug. 31.
Not one person arrested was a UK
student.

According to UK Police Chief Paul
Harrism, camprs police rarely had
to track down students for bad
checks.

“Even during the rush to buy
books and school supplies, Ken-
nedy’s Book Store only recievedd
two uncollectable checks,” Slusher

said They were turned over to the
county attorney.

Kennedy's assistant manager
David Switzer said that most of the
problems with bad checks come
from students who didn‘t deposit
money intime, or knew the money
hadn't been deposited. but planned
to cover the check.

Switzer did say that there was a
problem with nonstudents who
travel from campus to campus at
the beginning of a semester and
deliberately write a bad check for
merchandise. The merchandise is
then sold at another book store for
cash Switzer would not say how
often this occurred.

Of all the checks cashed at the
Student Certer Checking Service,
only about 1 per cent are cold. said
Assistant Bilings Director David
Warenhime. When the Student
Center receives a cold check from a
bank, the check is immediately sent
backto the bank, to give the student
time to deposit money.

If the check returns again, the
student is informed that delinquent

status will follow if the checkis not
covered. Delinquent status means
thestudent cannot graduate untilthe
check has been covered.

It the check remains un-
collectable, the student’s name is
turned over to the county attorney,
who informs the student thathe or
she isa misdemeanant. No payment
results in a warrant for theft by
deception.

“This is a rare event, since
students are good about notabtsing
the Student Center Checking Ser—
vice." Warehime said.

Chevy Chase Liquor Store
receives about 11 bad checks each
day, out of about 100, according to
cmploye Pip Angelucci. The person
who writes the bad check is notified
and if payment doesn’t come within
two weeks, the name is turned over
to the county attorney.

Angelucci said the Chevy Store
usually collects after initial contact
has been made. There is a service
charge of$3 for a bad check, but the
store is known for its leniency to
students and regular customers.

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Ali is

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Muhammad Ali. looking at times
like thedaricing master ot old and
at other times a weary old
champion. used left jabs and left
hooks to pound out a unanimous
decision over l‘jai‘nic
Shavers and retain the world
heavyweight championship last
night at Madison Square tiardcn

Ali was showing every one of
his 3;; year-sat the end. but he also
show ed his tremendous courage
when. alter being sent across the
ring by a smashing right ill the
lirial round. he came back w ith a
flurry of head punches that
almost put Shavers down.

It was a fantastic ending to a
light that had its dull moments
and it again lultlt‘l‘llnt'd the vast
experience that .‘\li carries into
any light.

The light was close through the
lirst s'L\ rounds and their Ali. who
hau‘dly ever missed with his left
jabs, especially when he chose to
stick tllld move. took control in
the seventh round.

Cancer phone line
offers advice, help

to hopeful victims

Hy th'llAltD Nlt' DONALD
Kernel Reporter

“In man y people's minds, having
cancer is like having the plague; it
creates an unbeleivable amount of
fear and anxrety.

"We try to case some of the
psychological stress of knowing or
thinkingthat you, a member of your
family, or one of your friends has
cancer,”

These are the words of Michale
Howard, director of volunteer
services for the r‘phraini McDowell
(‘ornniunity (‘ancer Network. The
‘w'e" she referred to is the Cancer
llorxdineeperatcd by the McDowell
Network The (‘ancer llopelinc is a
telephone hotlinc terrorist that
offers counseling. information and
referral services to those affected in
some way by the disease.

She said that while the hopeline
does offer "crisis intervention"
counseling. its nrain function is to
provide callers with referrals to, and
information about agencies that can
take care of the special medical and
social needs of the cancer patient
and his family.

According to Howard. a
suprisingly large number of calls to
the service concern employment
difficulties. She said it is not unusual
for employers to fire a worker or
refuse to hire a person because (if a
history (1" cancer, even though the
disease wouldn‘t effect performance
on the job.

Howard said she. knows of one case
in w hich a woman was fired because
her husband has cancer. "Although

still the champ

Judges l‘iva \‘liain anti 'l‘ony
tastcllano each had it nine
roundsto six for \li. w hilc rcfcrec
.lohnny Loliianco saw it at .‘i 1 tor
the champion.

The Associated l’tcsshad it iii-:3
loi‘ .\li.

The pattern of the tightw as one
otSliavci‘s stalking and looking to
throw the big right hand that had
ciuiblcdhim toknockout .i‘.’ of his
lirst oo opponents. while .r\|i
looked for ways to nullify the
challengers power.

\li was tar more successliit.
oltcn keeping Shavers too busy to
punch by snapping home jabs,
hooksaiu! tlurriesot punches with
both hands to the head.

.-\li sometimes brought cheers
ol admiration with his floating
like a butterfly. stinging like a
bee which seems to be mostly a
memory to him now But at other
times. he looked like an old
tighter who would have rather
been soriuwvlure else

(it course. Ah often purposely
did nothing in order to buy time in

the coriipany denies this was the
reason. and we can‘t legally prove
that it was,“ said Howard, ”it's
obvious that the woman was fired
because of her husband All her co
workers and supervisors thought she
was an excellent w orker.“

.\lthough none of the cases in
volving the hopeline has resultedin
a lawsuit. Maureen Donovan,
assistant director of the McDowell
Network and founder of the
hopeliiie, said she thinks such ac-
tions are “definitely fertile ground
for legal dt‘ll'm “ She said itis the
practice ot the line to refer all such
tilllS to legal .-\id

Down for said it is because ofthe.
stigma associated with being
publically identified as a cancer
victim that few such cases ever
reach court

Iloward emphasized that the
llopeline serves not only the victims
otcanccr, but the general public as
well. She said that although a
majority of calls are from cancer
patients. requests for information
about the disease "run a close
second."

Many such calls. according to
Howard, are questions about the
symptoms of cancer. She said that
although the Hopeline staffers don‘t
give instant diagnoses on the phone,
they recognize the importance of
early detection of the disease and
refer these calls to arm physicians.

The llopcline was founded last

Nov ember w iien Donovan
(llSL overcd the number of calls to the
McDowell thw ork requesting

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MUHAMMAD All
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Ilic latcr rounds.

\iul he did. 1

\ii. a ho wcigiicd'JLL'» to 2| 1’ ; for
the L", _\ carold Shavers. landed a
lltlt‘l_\ of .: dozen punches to thc
lit-ad III the seventh round and
stole lilt' i-igtiili round with
another Hurry of head punches
with .i iiiirtute left

He also came out on top in the
llllllil w ith a late flurry. then had
lllS ll‘Sl round to that point in the
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——today'

state

.\ Sl‘Ht‘IAl. l.I".(‘-ISI..i\Tl'RI-‘. PANEL on nuclear waste
disposil yesterday endorsed Gov. Julian (‘arroll‘s move
to close the Maxey Flats nuclear waste burial site near
near Morehead by Dec. 1.

However. the committee approved as part of its final
report on Maxey Flats to the 1W8 General Assembly a
clear recommendation that state funds not be used to
conduct a two-year study to determine whether the site is
safe.

,\ LEGISLATIVI". Sl'B(‘Ol\lMITTl-‘.I-I YESTERDAY
recommended legislation to provide $1.3 million for rural
health care centers in Kentucky that are designed to help
counter a motor shortage.

The proptsed legislation would provide five state
dollars for every one local dollar up to $1.3 million over
IMHO for tour health care centers.

lll‘lYl’ltlt‘l-I FOODS. IVE. Il.\S “I'll-IN authorized to
resume production following a six-week voluntary
diutdown due to illnesses suspected to have been caused
by staph contamination in the company‘s butter. the
Kentucky Department for Human Resources announced
yesterday.

'I‘III‘I INTERIM JOINT COMMITTEE on Public
l'tilities and Transportatim voted yesterday toestablish
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