Jehnson's Thoughts Remain On
By GUY MENDES

Associate Editor
Much has been said about the perpetuation of the plans and ideas of the
University's sixth president, John VV. Oswald, but there has been relatively little
discussion on the continuation of the
plans laid out by another top UK official
who, like Dr. Oswald, is leaving for
California.
Robert Johnson, vice president for Student affairs, leaves UK Monday to take
a similar position at the University of
California at Berkeley. If UK's university-student
relations are not to deteriorate, as they have at many schools, perhaps attention should be focused on
Johnson's plans for the Office of Student Affairs.
Johnson, who has headed the Office
of Student Affairs since its creation three
and a half years ago, speaks little of the
brief past of his office, but more of its
future.

He docs not linger on victories gained
by the Student Affairs Office such as
the development and establishment of
the Student Rights Code which disavowed
the idea of the In Loco Parentis doctrine.
And he speaks only briefly on the failures
of his office "the inability to help students develop a viable, forceful student
government" and the failure to recruit
black basketball players, two which he
noted.

He prefers to speak of what is to
come.
"Students want to relate their education to the world around them . . . that's
where student affairs ought to be busy,"
Johnson said yesterday.
"It's a transformation from the old
days of discipline, handing out loans
and scholarships," Johnson said, "Student Affairs is now in an ideal position
to take the whole range of extracurricular
activities and, working with students,

transform it into a first rate educational

experience."

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something is really worthwhile, I'm sure
the faculty would incorporate it."
He added that a "successful bridge"
has not been made with the faculty yet.

Johnson foresees student affairs working hand in hand with community action
programs such as Appalachian Volunteers,
a group which does educational and com"We're freer, we don't have to grade
or evaluate . . . we're free to work in all
munity development work in Eastern Kentucky.
the areas that students are so concerned
He thinks students should participate about."
in these type programs, return to the
Johnson said UK's Student Affairs
campus and with the help of University
professors and administrators, evaluate Office is moving in the direction he envisions and that the summer tutoriaf
their experiences.
which UK faculty and stuThere has been nationwide speculation
program-- in
that participation in such projects could dents tutored disadvantaged high school
merit academic credit. Johnson wasn't grads who needed brushing up for cooptimistic about the prospect but said it llegewas an indication of that.
was a definite possibility.
"Students are going to do these things,
"Student affairs is like a volunteer
what I'd like to see is it being a more
agency we're not doing things for credit.
structured part of their education.
We and the students, working with the
"More involvement of knowledgable
faculty, can do some imaginative things.
If they're good, they can be evaluated people from the academic community
and incorporated. If we can demonstrate that's what student affairs must provide."

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Drivers Should Be Tuned
To New Parking Picture
more parking pennits than they
have parking spaces.
With the completion of the
two parking towers and the lot
the University will be issuing
only 20 percent more parking
permits than available spaces.
The 20 percent allows for the
fact that not everyone with a
car will be on campus at the
same time.
"When the lot on the perimeter of the campus is finished,
it will relieve the traffic congestion on campus once people
realize it is easier to hop on a
bus and ride into campus than
to irritate their ulcers and waste
15 minutes looking for a parking
place," Col. Dempsey said.
The Safety and Security Department will continue to keep
a close check on the marked
parking areas.
"A" lots are for faculty and
administrative office parkingand
"B" lots are for staff. However,
persons with "A" stickers can

By DANA EWELL

Assistant Managing Editor

Available University parking
spaces are approaching the figure
of 7000, but the Safety and Security Department seems to be
fighting a losing battle against
the campus's expanding physical plant.
"It seems like every time they
build a new building it eliminates parking lots," said Col.
F. G. Dempsey, director of Safety and Security, citing construction areas at the Medical Center
and Pharmacy Building.- "However we will be way
below the national campus average in terms of the ratio of parking permits to available spaces
as soon as the 980-ca- r
parking
lot on Cooper Drive is complete,"
Col. Dempsey continued.
Checking charts and parking
statistics, Col. Dempsey explained that on thenational average universities issued 75 percent

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park on "B" lots too. "C" lots
are strictly for students and "R"
lots are for residence hall parking.
New Buses
At present there are 1028 "A"
spaces, 2578 "B" spaces and 616
"C" spaces. This includes the
Sports Center parking lot which
for the first time is a lettered
lot. It is open to all A, B and
C stickers.
"We are able to control the
parking at the Sports Center because of the new campus buses,"
explained Col. Dempsey, pointing out the route of the bus on
a large wall map of the campus.
University lots are restricted
to cars with stickers only between the hours of 7 a.m. and
5 p.m. Monday through Friday
and 7 a.m. and 12 noon on
Saturday. The lot on Administration Circle is the only exception. It remains restricted until
8 p.m. Monday through Friday.
No car that has been registered with the University will
be impounded. But a car parked
in a wrong letter lot or a car
without a sticker parked in a
letter lot will receive "a $2 citation.
However, if a car receives
three such citations it will go
on the "hot list" and then will
be impounded at a $7 charge.
$25 Fine
If a
car is found
on campus parking lots the driver
will be fined $25, plus the $2
crtation and $7 impounding

1Avoid The
First Dancers

Jam

The "jam" in jam session undoubtedly refers to the crowded dance
areas that result shortly after the band starts playing. This enthusiastic couple beat hundreds of other students to the patio floor yesterday during the jam session at the Student Center, and had
plenty of spaee as their reward and stares as their penalty.

charge.
Any parking citation may be
appealed to the Student Traffic
Appeal Board which meets periodically in Kinkead Hall to review such cases.
If the board rejects the appeal
a student may then appeal his
case to the vice president of student affairs.
In addition to the approximately 5000 student, staff and
faculty parking spaces available
at present, there are 202 visitor
spaces. There is no charge for
parking but a visitor must acquire a visitor's pass from the
parking attendant before parking on campus.

In A Freshman Coed's Rush
Two freshmen hurried yesterday to straighten their makeup for the
next sorority rush visij. Many of the sorority houses have purchased
or rented air conditioners to combat the expected but lacking
heat, while the heat's on the fraternities in another way, They're
enjoying the busiest rush in UK history, as first semester freshmen
vie for bids without having to make their grades first. It's a new
rush is alrul'ng approved by the IFC last spring.
ready a tradition for UK sororities.
First-semest-

WORLD REPORT
From the Wire of the Associated

INTERNATIONAL
MEXICO

CITY-- A

huge,

chanting multitude shouted

in-

sults at Mexico's president Tuesday night and demanded an end
to his government. Conservative
estimates placed the size of the
than
crowd at 200,000-m- ore
twice the size of a similar demonstration ten days ago.
The marchers also demanded
restoration of university autonomy and cancellation of the Olympic games scheduled for later
this year.
PRAGUE-- An
American student who talked to Russian soldiers as they marched into
Czechosolvakia last week said the
troops "seemed amazed" the
Czechs didn't cheer their arrival.
"They really thought they
were coming to liberate the country from the capitalists," the
York student said.
Communist party Chief Alexandra Dubcek last night asked
the Czechoslovak people to support him as he tries to rule
amid thousands of Soviet troops.
NATIONAL
WASHINGTON-F- or
the first
time, former president Dwight
D. Eisenhower's doctors voiced

Press

"cautious optimism" Tuesday
morning, that he might survive

old heart attack. The
his
report came in a medical bulletin which described his condition as "still critical."
A
Louis
WASHINGTON
Harris survey conducted last Saturday showed Richard Nixon
leading democrats Hubert Humphrey, Eugene McCarthy and
President Johnson by identical
margins.
The survey represents a sharp
ten point increase for Nixon since
the GOP convention and the
invasion of Czechoslovakia.
CHICACO-Co- v.
Terry San-for- d
of North Carolina is mentioned prominently in informal
discussions as a candidate for
the Democratic vice presidency.
His wife, Margaret Rose, is a
native Kentuckian.
CHICACO-Lett- ers
and telegrams poured into the offices
of Chicago officials Tuesday protesting against police actions in
dispersing crowds of antiwar
demonstrators which have included the beating of 17 newsmen.
Four newsmen were hospitalized as a result of clashes between police and demonstrators
Sunday and Monday.
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