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Vol. LXV No. 136
Thursday, March 28, 1974

an independent etudent newspaper

y Kernel

University of Kentucky
Lexington, KY. 40500

 

 

Singletary's assistant assesses 'phantom' criticism

By SUSAN JONES
Kernel Staff Writer

Victor Gaines. newly appointed special
assistant to the president to assess the
University's programs for blacks.
reportedly called criticism of “subtle anti—
black attitudes“ leveled at UK ”phan-
toms.“

Gaines quoted Tuesday in the Lexington
Herald. said “you can‘t fight a phantom."
and added he “would like to see the black
community take note of the positive
things that have been done."

But Gaines' opinion is not shared by
black leaders on campus.

“\‘lt‘ HAS been here for about three
weeks and one of those was Spring Break."
said Robert Pass. Black Student Union
(BSU ) president. “How can he already say
charges of racism are phantoms?“

Gaines was appointed to the position
March 1. According to Dr. Donald Clapp.
executive assistant to the president. his
assignment has three areas of con-

centration (“Gaines begins six-month
assignment.“ in the Kernel, March 1):

~~ltlake some assessment of campus
programs for black students;

-Sense particular problems on and off
the campus as they relate to black
students;

~Provide UK with an insight to possible
future needs.

"I WOl'IJ) like to know how many
people Vic has talked to and where he gets
his information.” said Pass. “I believe he
will counteract his statement if he really
does his job.“

Pass said Gaines had talked to him
briefly. but had not contacted many other
BSU members.

“I made the statement for several
reasons," said Gaines. “The students I
have interviewed so far. with the exception
of one girl. haven‘t been able to describe
concrete instances of discrimination."

(MINES ADDED he didn't doubt many
black students felt uncomfortable at UK.

 

Ruling on obscenity case
due today in circuit court

By BRl'CE H. SINGLETON
Kernel Staff Writer

With the testimony of only one defense
witness remaining. a ruling is expected
this morning in the “While the (‘at‘s
Away" obscenity trial in Fayette (‘ircuit
court

Jury selection in yesterday‘s action went
smoothly as only one person was
disqualified by the defense from hearing
the case.

John Laurel. assistant Fayette (‘ounty
Attorney. spoke to the 10 women and two
men in the jury. and told them if they
objected to seeing such a film (which was
to be introduced as evidence) they were to
say so.

THERE WERE no objections.

Further. both prosecution and defense in
this case warned the jury of the gravity of
the situation. Under the June, 1973,
Supreme Court ruling, they will essentially
decide what is going to be obscene in

Fayette County lat least as far as ”While
the Cat’s Away" is concerned).

News In Brlet

by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
0 Veteran music show
- Meat-ever higher
0 Treaty talks. critical
0 Tony Boyle tried
0 Kent State probe

- Today‘s weather...

The key prosecution witness appeared to
be E. Lawson King. (‘ounty Attorney for
Fayette (‘ounty

"I saw the movie advertised in the
Lexington paper.“ King said. “I then
called Judge l Robert) Stephens to get him
to come down to the movie and make a
ruling on probable cause for seizure."

IN AN lN'I‘lCIH'IHW. King further ex-
plainedhis reason to urge the judge to rule
on the obscenin He cited the 1973
Supreme (‘ourt licllar decision. which
essentially took the power to seize
suspected obscenity away from police and
gave it to judicial officers.

King testified yesterday he had taken
notes while the film, “While the Cat's
Away“ was showing. When it was over,
Judge Stevens decided to issue a seizure

order.
JUDGE Stephens said on the day of the

movie‘s first showing in Lexington (Jan.
ll) he received a number of unidentified
phone calls complaining that they did not
want an X~rated film to be shown here.
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CALI. VETERANS are invited to attend
“Today‘s Sounds Unlimited". which will
be held at the VA Hospital‘s auditorium.
Building 4,1.eestown Division. from 1 pm.
to 3:30 pm. Friday. March 29.

JD. Crowe and his group. The New
South. will provide Blue Grass music.

The show will be free of charge and to
honor Vietnam era veterans. lt celebrates
the first anniversary of the date combat
soldiers left Vietnam.

0 WASHINGTON A Nixon ad-
ministration plan to help cattlemen by
buying beef for school lunches may result
in some of the most expensive government
hamburger ever served in cafeterias.
according to meat industry sources,

The $45-million plan. announced
Tuesday. requires the ground beef to come
from grain-fed cattle, the kind feedlot
operators say are losing them money.

but that he was looking for concrete
examples.

“The results of my study depend upon
the information that l receive." said
Gaines, “and so far I have only gotten
back 10 of the 100 letters I mailed.“

“We need to define racism." said Pass.
“They're talking about racism in an overt
sense and we‘re talking about covert
racism.”

PASS SAID he didn't understand how
Gaines could possibly study the problem in
the sir: months allotted to him since three

Swing of

' eMDS(‘D“‘-—There were indications
that talks on a new Russian-American
nuclear arms treaty were reaching
acritical stage late Wednesday as Leonid
l. Brezhnev and Henry A. Kissinger
resumed negotiations.

The Soviet (‘ommunist party leader and
American secretary of State met for the
third day.

A high Soviet source said the two sides
hadalready reached agreement on several
points and were now "talking about
numbers" of weapons. a key element in
their search for a nuclear arms limitation
agreement that President Nixon could sign
at a Moscow summit in early summer.

OMI‘ZDIA. Pa. — Eight jurors. six of
them men. were assembled Wednesday to
try former United Mine Workers president
W.A. "Tony" Boyle on murder charges
growing out of the 1969 hired gun
assassination of a union rival,

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months ofthat time occurs in the summer
when most students are not here.

"l think Silidays is a sufficient period of
time to study attitudes in and around
campus.“ Gaines contended. “It doesn't
take long I've already finished the
report on programs,“

Pass cited personal experiences of his
acquaintances. the treatment of black
fraternities and the lack of counseling to
help blacks adjust to the University as
examples of discriminatory practices on
campus.

0
things
I’erplexed Debora (‘lark is caught mid-swing by the eye of the camera at the
playground facilities at Woodland Park. (Kernel staff photo by Phil

(lroshongJ

o(‘l.l-I\‘l-Il..\.\'l). ()hio A federal
grand jury probing the 1970 shooting
deaths of tour Kent State University
students by Ohio National Guardsmen
moved near a decision Wednesday.
Justice Department attorneys stead-
fastly refused to say what recom—
mendations thejury was considering. or to
hint when the jury would report.
Speculation centered on Thursday as a
reporting date.

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A little more like a lion and less like a
lamb. a chance of thundershowers
dominates the weather forecast for today
and tomorrow. Although temperatures
will be mild. showers should begin in the
late afternoon. A summery high tem-
perature near 70 will drop to a low of only
so tonight. Friday's high will also be near
70 Precipitation chances are 40 per cent.

 

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New, improved M. I. King

Although there may be some people on campus
willing to defend the legitimacy of recent complaints
of poor service leveled against the M. 1. King Library
operation, we hope University community members
recognize improvements resulting from change being

made.

It’s obvious to us.Current confusion at the Library is
a result of the recent move into the annex. According
to Director of Libraries Paul Willis inconveniences

should only be temporary.

Willis said in a Tuesday Kernel article (“Willis
promises improvement through limited library
changes," page 5) long and short range innovations
will improve the overall quality of library services.

Already the vending area has been moved to a
larger room with an accompanying lounge. Book
stacks are being reorganized and will soon be in a
recognizable sequence. A five cent copy machine, the
cheapest on campus, is another innovation.

More smoking lounges and typewriter rentals are
two features scheduled for implementation in the
near future. Also under consideration is a modified
entrance to the reserve book room which would allow
students to remain after other departments have
closed. Book drops at various points on campus,
another plan being developed, would be another
pleasant addition to library services.

While the going may be rough for a while, we look
for a much improved library system over the next 18

to 24 months.

Kernels

“Without an element of the obscene there can be no
true and deep aesthetic or moral conception of life...
It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If
they had not dared to be obscene they could never

have dared to be great.”

Havelock Ellis
( 1859-1939)

Nicholas Von Hoffman

Walnut Acres: A victim of good intentions

WASHINGTON - The staff of
the Senate Commerce Committee
has been getting worried letters
and phone calls, these past
weeks. from customers and
partisans of something called
Walnut Acres. Located in Penns
('reek. Pa, about 50 miles north
of Harrisburg, Walnut Acres is
one of the country's pioneer
natural-food farms and
processors: but under the terms
of a proposed amendment to a
new foodlabeling law it sould be
wiped out. while Gerber Baby
Foods, Hostess Cup cakes and
frozen chop suey sail on.

As the law is presently drafted.
food manufacturers would be
required to disclose the contents
of most. but by no means all,
foods. At the same time, all
products would have to carry
complete nutritional labeling —
that is, how many and what kind
of vitamins, calories and proteins
are in each serving.

Sounds commendable, but
Walnut Acres comprises two

modest-sized farms: one for
raising chickens and beef, and
one for growing grains and
vegetables and canning. It runs
off small batches of 60 to 100
cases of canned food at a time.
The $200 to $400 it would cost to
determine the exact nutritional
content of each batch would eat
up any and all profit, which last
year amounted to only $32,000 on
a gross of $1.7 million. For the
big manufacturers, compliance
would represent a tiny fraction
of the cost of their production-
runs of tens of thousands of cases.

TIIl'S, SHOULD THE law pass
as now wriitten. good—bye Walnut
Acres, which uses no chemical
fertilizers of sprays, and which
actually does grow and prepare
food the way it is fraudulently
suggested on television that
certain “natural“ products are
handled. But if Walnut Acres is
ultimately done in by legislation,
don't blame it on the corporate

baddies. This is no plot by the

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Committee urges Gallo wine boycott

The March 25 edition of the
Kernel contained an ad
vertisement for Gallo wines, sold
by The Imperial Shoppe and the
Gardenside Shoppe.

The UK Committee for the
United Farm Workers (AFL-
CIO), urges all Kentuckians to
join the UFW in their boycott of
Gallo wines. The United Farm
Workers Union's battle for
survival has brought the union up
against one of the giants of the
American wine industry — Gallo
Bros. wines.

Gallo had signed a contract
with the UFW in 1967, and under
threat of a boycott renewed it in
1970. But in. June of 1973 the
contract expired. Gallo strung
out negotiations for several
months, then broke off the talks
and without a secret supervised
election by employees, signed a
sweetheart agreement with the
Teamsters. The Gallo field

conservatives to expunge the last
memory of healthy, undrugged,
unadulterated pure food.

Walnut Acres' cries of distress
have been heard with sympathy
by such Senators as Eastland of
Mississippi. Tower of Texas,
McClure of Idaho and Baker of
Tennessee, very far righties all.
No, Walnut Acres would be a
victim of liberal good intentions.

In fact. the betting is that the
amendment which would be so
harmful, not only to Walnut
Acres but to all small-food
processors, will get knocked out.
But it illustrates how much
easier it is to cry out, “There
oughtta be a law,” than it is to
cast a law in the right words.

LAW-MAKING works best
when you can assume all people
do and are the same. Thou Shalt
Not Walk on the Red. As such, so
much of economic legislation
winds up favoring what is big and
what is the same, with the result
that they tell you on television to

 

 

workers then went out on strike.

The UFW is asking people to
support Gallo strikers in their
fight for a democratic election

of representatives. iust working
condition and basxc human

rights.
A boycott of Gallo wines in-
cludes the following: Boone’s

shop for bread and toilet paper
the same way. Don’t squeeze the
Charmin, squeeze the Wonder
Bread.

There ought to be a point where
the liberals leave off and say it’s
up to the individual to protect
himself. But self-protection is
founded on knowledge, and
knowledge of food and nutrition is
hard to come by. You might as
well ask your stockbroker as your
doctor about it. There is reason to
believe that the food columns of
the supermarket women’s-type
magazines are controlled by the
same companies that are selling
fancy-wrapped cancer of the
spleen or cancer of the colon, in
the package with the new, new,

NEW, see-through window.

In an odd way, requiring
nutritional labeling may rein-
force techinically accurate but
essentially misleading ad-
vertising claims about what’s
enriched, fortified, strengthened,
pure and natural. Even the

Farm, Paisano, Red Mountain,
Thunderbird, Spanada, Tyrolia
and Ripple. DON'T BUY

GALLO WINES.

Mathew L. Millen
3rd year Law

Member UK Committee for
the UFW (AFL-CIO)

government’s recommended
minimum daily allowance of
various nutrients are only ball-
park estimate of doubtful use.

PENDING BETTER re—
search and better dissemination
of its results, we’ll
have to continue to muddle
through to poor health and
sickness, while the liberals try to
wri‘e a law. But we can‘t force
people to save themselves.
That’s what the Naderites did
with seatbelts. To insist that cars
have seat belts for those who
want to sue them could be
justified, but putting in the buzzer
and preventing the car from
starting until the harness is on
has infuriated even those of us
who want to wear it.

You can make the people you
want to help hate you. Look at
Nader. Every time that damn
buzzer goes off, he loses a vote.

Nicholas Von Hoffman is a
columnist for King Features
Syndicate.

 

 

      
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
  
 
 
 
  
  
  
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
  
   
  
  
  
  
   
     
    
  
 
  
 
     
  
  
  
  
  
 
  
  
     
  
  
 
  
  
 
   
 
 
  
    

 

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“UK cannot stop racist attitudes, synOPSis Of bIOCk life at UK:
'I feel I have been used'

, but it can stop hiring and supporting
those who foster racist attitudes,
that is, it the administration were
truly sincere."

 

By DENISE VIVIAN

ALL IS NOT WELL ON THE PLANTATION.

THE DESIGNS T0 present Mr. Jerry Stevens to
the University of Kentucky and surrounding areas
as incompetent, incapable of sensing the needs of
the black student body and presenting what he sees
realistically. has disgusted me to the point of
placing my views on the matter in print.

This article. however. is not so much designed to
defend Mr. Stevens. as he is more than capable of
doing so himself—it is a defense that I am making
for myself. as I feel that I have been used by the
administration. to an end of which I do not approve
and which I am representative of in no way.

“I talk to as many black students as I can. and
only one girl hasgiven me a specific example.“ This
statement was made with regard to racial
discrimination at UK. It was made by Mr. Victor
Gaines, a special assistant to Otis Singletary (UK
president), employed to make a report on UK‘s
racial situation.

THOUGH UNABLE TO contact Mr. Gaines to
determine whether or not I was the student singled
out. is of no consequence, as his findings are
demeaning to all the students involved. The
statementwas partof a response made in Monday’s
Herald and Leader. by Mr. Gaines to charges
leveled by black leaders with regard to the
University’s attitudes toward blacks. These at-
titudes were said to be responsible for the lack of

black graduated high school seniors enrolling at
UK. Among the charges were included “general
prevailing and non-verbal attitudes" and “negative
racial atmosphere at the University."

I feel thatI was used by the administration in the
following way:

lreceived, in a letter from Mr. Gaines (addressed
from the “Office of the President.“) notice that I
was one of several students asked to have an “in-
formal“ discussion with regard to the possible
problems that black students encounter at UK.

FULLY PREPARED to discuss with Mr. Gaines
my feelings on the University of Kentucky and my
problems here, I was stunned by Mr. Gaines’
concern with my ability to cope with University
housing problems. student relations, ect. The trend
of the questions. while not all of this nature. were all
ofthis caliber. I realized that Mr. Gaines and I were
not operating on the same level of consciousness in

 

 

terms of what are considered “problems" with the

University.

After I twice introduced to him.

swered me by saying it was for him to decide what I
deserved.

AFTER MR.

plaints of students, he then returned to other
possibilities that may have caused such problems.
Those. resulting from my having told Mr. Gaines
that I work from 20 to 30 hours a week, and that this
took up much of my time.

He asked me how were my grades at the
university from which I transferred last fall. I told
him very well. He then asked me how they were
here, and I told him I was doing poorly.

Then, Mr. Gaines, explaining that my job may
have been the reason for my poor grades at UK,
dismissed the problem. He did so, however. without
bothering to ask if I also worked at the university
from which I transferred. I did.

WHETHER OR NOT those possibilities are the
case. Mr. Gaines was not hired to give me ex-
planations fOr anything. I was informed that his
duty was to investigate such problems. not explain
to me the ‘how and why‘ of my feelings about their
existence. Better administration policies can
remedy better than cheap psychological ex-
planations.

specific
problems, he defended the administration by at
tempting to explain the problem away. I told Mr.
Gaines of my problems with a professor last
semester, and how he would continually give me a
lower grade, (of this I am sure), than my fellow
white classmates, when it was obvious to me, and
I’m sure to him, that my papers were not bad in
comparison to others in the class. And that upon
confronting the professor with my feeling he an-

(iAINES enlightened me to
something I already knew. that the University pays
the salary of an ombudsman to handle such com-

l.-\.\l l'NHAI’PY there are no black professors at
UK~something the administration can easily alter.

I am unhappy that the young black people of
Lexington forego further education. since they
cannot afford to go elsewhere, or attend other
schools. because they know they aren't sincerely
wanted here. Might Iadd. these young people do not
know Mr. Stevens. and the way he allegedly plants
such seeds of racism in theminds of blacks.

But most of all. I am unhappy when the ad—
ministration hires 3 Victor Gaines to present
betore the community. under the guise of having
more penetratingly moved into crucial issues than
he indeed has not.

THE Sl'PERFK‘IAL questions he asked were not
pertinent because poor black-white student
relations. do not alter my ability to function
properly. That is. a racist student sitting next to me
in class. or a girl who does not wish to brush her
teeth at the sink next to mine. does not concern me
in the way Mr. Gaines is concerned. I am more
concerned with administrative policies which are
similar in their content on a more “intangible”
level.

If this administration were sincere in its so called
“attempt" to solve the problems of black students.
Victor Gaines need never have been hired. It is odd
that the administration can hire A Jerry Stevens
and then ignore him when he places truth in its face.

That the Black Student Office is in the basement
of Miller Hall. shows exactly where the University
places its priorities.

I AM NOT making a blanket condemnation of the
University. as fairness does make its way through
barriers. but ldo condem the University‘s support
and allowances of the continuance of racism. over
those parts which it has the power to control. UK
cannot stop racist attitudes. but it can stop hiring

 

“l was maneuvered to fit conditions for conclusions that had already been

drawn. I was definitely used.“

“You can‘t fight a phantom." was another similar
response of Mr. Gaines to charges of racial
discrimination.

“Phantom“ charges are only appropriate for
“phantom“ questions.

Returning to the nature of Mr. Gaines‘ type of
questioning. I can only refer to my discussion with
him. When we did discuss my specific instances of
discrimination. it was my persistence. and not Mr.
Gaines‘ questions which made it possible to reach
that point.

MR. (MINI-IS ASKED nothing but what I con
sidered irrelevant questions. Conversation
regarding University housing, black—white student
relationships and the like, were the nature of his
contribution. The questions which he asked seemed
to me to be superficial in nature, as they could
easily have been traced to a more specific and in-
clusive area, tie. the administration). I. alone.
stand as proof that Victor Gaines cannot reach UK's
black students. He does not know how. He could
neither sense that my frustrationsgo far beyond my
feelings over superficial issues nor that I am
unhappy—an unhappiness which is not based on my
sheer imagination.

I am unhappy when I look into the face of a
professor as he calls on me and I sense, by his
condescending manner. that he is hoping I don‘t
know the answer.

I am unhappy when I enter an administrative
office and experience expressions of annoyance at
my prescence.

I am unhappy when a professor allows his racism
to grade my papers.

lam unhappy when someone in the Billings and
Collections office decides not to wait on me, though
unoccupied. and having taken notice of my
presence.

and supporting those who foster racist attitudes.
that is. if the administration were truly sincere.

"It is foolish to think that this is a fishing ex-
pedition to buy more time." said Mr. Gaines listing
these as functions of his report:

1) Survey University programs
specifically to black students.

ZtAssess the attitudes of black students and the
faculty as well as the black Lexington community.

3)Make recommendations to alleviate the
problems.

ALSO “'I'I‘II REFERENCE to fighting "phan-
tom." charges, Mr. Gaines said "I‘d like to see the
black community take note of the positive thing:
that have been done.“

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The fact that Mr. Gaines suggested “phantom"
charges shows that he is not looking for the truth.
Given a six month period in which to produce a
report. Mr. Gaines has already determined what his
findings shall be.

I suggest that Mr. Gaines close his little white
notebook since he seems only to be looking for the
positive things the administration has done. while
overlooking and explaining away its neglect. It
appears to me the only positive thing the ad-
ministration has done, has been to hire Mr. Jerry
Stevens-an accident which I fear will “gradually"
be reversed.

“'l'l‘ll ll EGARD 'l‘() ”phantom" charges of
discrimination. which cannot be substantiated:

As a black person, my having encountered racism
of the most overt kinds, among the variety. the
verbal. ”I hate you nigger." brand. and having had
to deal with it as such, that is. working out a com-
mon basis of communication (out of necessityl and
having openly and honestly spread my feelings out.
with those racist. who realize as I did. the need for
communication (if only for the sake of survival), I
can say with some expertise that the cheap. in-
sidious and neglectful brand of racism present at
PR. is substantiated quite well by my experience

 

 

“I am unhappy when I look into the face of a professor as he calls on me
and I sense, by his condescending manner, that he is hoping I don’t know

the answer.“

 

and ability to know a book separate from its cover.
There is no doubt that many of the few black
students here are equally as qualified to do so.

I don't need a tremendous fanfare to know when
racism is coming at me. And I am not, and cannot
afford to be “paranoid" as I have a present life and
a future to deal with in a world that continues
separate from this “plantation". But I do refuse to
close my eyes and pretend not to see what is very
real, though “physically intangible,” which seems
to be what Mr. Gaines means by “phantom".

I WAS l'SED in that Mr—. Gaines. took from
discussions with students, information, without
having spent enough time or effort in such
discussions. He judged and concluded the in-
formation (complaints) unsubstantiated. It is a
conclusion which I feel is due to his incompetency to
sense his surroundings, more than to the student’s.

He has drawn such conclusions without having at
his advantage. the information that six months may
have provided. He has presented such conclusions

 

to the public in defense of the administration, in-
dicating in so doing. the purpose of his prescence in
the administrative office.

Information for the purpose of defense is not
wrong but information solicited under the pretense
of impartiality and genuine concern for the
alleviation of racial strain is unfair.

I “As MANEl'VERI‘ZI) to fit conditions for
conclusions that had already been drawn. 1 was
definitely used.

Whether Mr. Gaines is earnest in his attempt to
discover problems or whether he is an unfortunate
tool of the administration or both. I may never
know. but his failure to ask more penetrating
questionsand come to the heart of the problems that
UK‘s black students face. make the consequences
the same.

The administration insults me when it, from an
assumption. acts as it does. Those actions are
revealed by the hiring of Mr. Stevens and the
resulting displeasure with his findings. That
displeasure suggests that the administration ac-
cepts no possible responsibility in its part for his
findings. This is evident in its reference to our
problems as being “psychological". Another,
almost immediate action is to hire someone. Victor
Gaines. who will place the responsibility back
where the administration feels it belong—in the
imagination of the black students, where it does not
have to be dealt with.

IAM INSl'l/I‘ElnhatJerry Stevens, whom I feel.
ably represents my views is ignored and overplayed
by someone who tells the administration what it
wants to hear. The adminstration looked for. and
found. someone to tell it what if wanted to hear
again making it safe from criticism by those who
could effect changes. it found Victor Gaines.

The SATISFACTION now belongs to the ad-
ministration. The TRUTH belongs to Jerry Stevens
and the students he represents.

 

Denise Vivian is a
ministration major.

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Student arrest rules
explained by Hall

BySllElJA WISE
Kernel Staff Writer
How far does administrative
responsibility reach when
student behavior steps outside
the law? What happens when a
student is arrested? Who has the
right, under the Code of Student
Rights and Responsibilities, to
arrest him in the first place?
Either the Metro or Campus
police have the authority to
arrest a student, provided they
have just cause according to
Dean of Students Jack Hall.

WHEN A student is arrested,
by either Metro or Campus of-
ficials, he is taken to the Metro
“hold-over”, Hall said. Later, he
is brought before the quarterly
court.

The Dean of Students’ office
can obtain the release of an
arrested student (not put up
bail).

A release is granted when a
representative of Hall's office
verbally undertakes the
obligation to insure the student‘s
appearance in court on the ap-
pointed date, Hall explained.

Tllls POWER of release is
optional, Hall said. A student
must request assistance. Even
then. Hall‘s representative in-

terviews the student before
deciding to obtain the release.

This power of release is valid
only for misdemeanors. Release
of students charged with felonies
follows a different pattern, ac-
cording to Hall.

Neither students nor their
possessions may be searched on
University property without the
student’s permission, unless
those conducting the search do so
in accordance with “state and
federal laws”, as required in
Student Code. Searchers must
have a warrant.

SEARCH WARRANTS are
usually worded to allow “room
and contents” to be searched.
The suspected individual’s
roommate and his possessions
may legally be searched, Hall
said.

In cases of “imminent danger”
or when there are “reasonable
grounds" which indicate the need
of an immediate search (such as
bombs or fire) in order to
preserve “life or property,”
premises may be searched
without a warrant.

However, before such a search
can be made, it must be
authorized by Hall’s office. He or
an authorized member of his staff
must be present at the time of the
search.

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