xt7q2b8vdx83 https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt7q2b8vdx83/data/mets.xml The Kentucky Kernel Kentucky -- Lexington The Kentucky Kernel 1981-03-12 Earlier Titles: Idea of University of Kentucky, The State College Cadet newspapers English Contact the Special Collections Research Center for information regarding rights and use of this collection. The Kentucky Kernel The Kentucky Kernel, March 12, 1981 text The Kentucky Kernel, March 12, 1981 1981 1981-03-12 2020 true xt7q2b8vdx83 section xt7q2b8vdx83 Vol. LXXXIII, No. 122
Thursday March 12, 1981
K
KENTUCKY
an independent student newspaper
____e__rn___
el
L niversity of Kentut»:
Lexington, Kentucky
_‘1 "'
An eventful day — Gov. Brown Visits the CHE
Council approves desegregation
Brown cuts higher education
$22 miflion for 81-82 fiscal year
By BILL STEIDEN
Senior Staff Writer
FRANKFORT, Ky. — Gov. John Y.
Brown in an address to the Council
for Higher Education yesterday an-
nounced the total budget cuts to Ken-
tucky’s system of higher education
for the coming year, and called on
the council to play a greater role in
the management of the state's.
universities.
Brown said the budget for higher
education would be cut a total of $20.2
million for the 1981-82 academic
year, 5.5 percent of the general fund
allocation for higher education and 1
percent of the total general fund.
The cut to next year’s higher
education budget came in response to
a state revenue deficit of $185 million
predicted by Secretary of Finance
George Atkins for the next fiscal
year.
Brown assigned the CHE respon-
sibility for determining the share of
the budget cuts each of the state's
eight public universities will assume,
but emphasized that the council
should approve planned faculty
salary increases. He also said he
would approve any tuition hikes in-
tended to partially compensate for
the cuts, but asked the council to hold
the increases “to a minimum.“
He said he would allow any in-
creases to stay within the budgets of
the individual schools, rather than
channeling them into the general
fund as in the past.
The governor urged the c0uncil to
assume a greater role in the manage-
ment of higher education, and said he
believed that with review and
reorganization of institutions, as well
as more efficient use of personnel
and funds, the universities could
function effectively on smaller
budgets.
“I know the cuts last year were un-
comfortable, but we feel this is
something you can live with," he
said.
Atkins, who followed up Brown’s
address with a question-and-answer
session, said he believed the council’s
response to this year’s higher educa-
tion cuts had been “not so much
biting the bullet as gumming it,”
maintaining that most of the loss was
made up primarily through non-
renewal of personnel vacancies and
programs.
This year, higher education bore
the brunt of a $114 million state
revenue deficit, absorbing $30.2
million in cuts, $11.2 million of which
came out of the budget for UK.
Brown said that in reviewing the
structure of higher education, the
council should “concentrate on our
strengths." adding “we live in a
world that revolves around produc—
tion and business" and perhaps
“need less Aristotle and Socrates.”
Asking the CHE to examine the
possible elimination or consolidation
of some programs duplicated
between various universities, he
said, “All I want is to get the best
education for the students of Ken—
tucky for the dollars that I can.
Brown said the number of ad-
ministrators employed by state
schools may be excessive. “I don’t
.x ‘!
“I don’t know how
many vice presidents
and assistant vice
presidents and
assistants to assistants
you have, but I want to
challenge it.
— Gov. John Y. Brown
know how many vice presidents and
assistant vice presidents and
assistants to assistants you have, but
1 want to challenge it,” he said.
“Thirty percent of your employees
are faculty and 70 percent ad-
ministrators," he added. “You may
say that’s in line with the national
average, but I don’t care. I want to do
better."
However, CHE member Ed
Prichard said the potential for
“management improvements" in the
universities were “nearing their
limits” and expressed concern that a
growing student-teacher ratio would
lead to a reduction in the quality of
higher education.
Prichard, also a member of the
Committee for the Future of Higher
Education in Kentucky, maintained
that the state legislature’s 1979 tax
cuts were “irresponsible” and were
largely to blame for the present
budget troubles facing the state. He
complimented Brown for “having the
courage” to cut higher education, but
warned him that “we will eventually
have to consider our tax base."
For the most part, the university
presidents, all of whom were in atten-
dance at the meeting, expressed
relief that Brown’s cuts were not
larger.
“We feel we can maintain faculty
salaries," said Murray State Univer-
sity President Constantine Curtis.
Northern Kentucky University
President A. D. Albright cautioned
the governor against “thinking we
are happy with the situation as it is.
“We’re just happy it wasn't any
worse," he said.
UK President Otis Singletary
agreed with Albright, adding he saw
“no way" that the budget cuts could
be enacted without a negative effect
on faculty salaries. He referred to
Brown and Atkins’ views on higher
education as “oversimplifications. "
“Our university is at the bottom of
every funding category for state
universities around us,” he said. “If
this keeps on, we will have nothing
left recognizable as a state
universty.”
Atkins laid down an April 1
deadline for the submission of the
CHE‘s plan for allocation of the
budget cuts throughout the higher
education system, calling the situa-
tion an “emergency."
In response, the council adopted a
resolution directing the university
presidents to draw up proposals for
cutbacks in their individual in—
stitutions, assuming a hypothetical
across-'he—board 5.5 percent cut to
each institution. A March 21 deadline
was set for the proposals, which will
be used in determining tuition in-
creases at an April 9 emergency
meeting of the council.
By GARY LAN DERS/ Kernel Staff
President Otis Singletary listens patiently at yesterday's (‘HE meeting.
proposal by unanimous vote
By HERBERT SPARROW
Associated Press Writer
FRANKFORT, Ky. — The Council
on Higher Education yesterday
unanimously approved a federally
ordered desegregation plan for Ken-
tucky‘s public universities.
The plan, drafted by the council’s
staff and a special minority affairs
committee, sets general goals and
timetables without developing
specific plans for the eight state-
supported universities.
The plan calls for increasing black
student enrollment at traditionally
white universities and white enroll-
ment at traditionally black Kentucky
State University in Frankfort.
It also calls for the enhancement of
programs at Kentucky State and for
increases in the hiring of black facul-
ty and staff at the other seven univer-
sities.
The council staff, led by executive
director Harry Snyder, will hand
deliver the plan to the US. Depart-
ment of Education's Office of Civil
Rights in Atlanta Monday.
The staff will spend two days
reviewing the plan with the OCR staff
and the plan w1ll remain open ’ r
comment or change for 60 d; ~. 3
before becoming final.
The Office of Civil Rights ordercvi
Kentucky to come up with th-
desegregation plan in January aim:
it found the state had failed I»
eliminate the vestiges of desegrr-g
tion in its public higher educatia.
system.
“It is a general plan, with SCI.",
things we would like to see the stm-v
of Kentucky do," said Rayms-
Burse, a member of the minority .
fairs committee.
Burse said the committee did mt
want to set specific plans until
could see their impact on the i-
dividual universities.
However, a representative of 3:,-
Kentucky State Conference of the
tional Association for the Advani
ment of Colored People said the pl: .
was too vague and general.
“It is our feeling that the coups )
staff has had ample time to prepare
more definitive response to the d.“
ciencies identified several years m ,
by the Office of Civil Rights," s ,
Sam Robinson. cochairman of t-' -
Continued on pay,» .
Local women’s groups active in debate of issues
By DENISE DAMRON
Reporter
As women celebrate their past dur—
ing women’s history week, local
organizations hope they are making
history for women today.
Dee Ellen Davis, director of Conti-
nuing Education for Women and Pro-
ject Ahead, says that the purpose of
Women‘s History Week is “for us to
stop and take a look at what women
have done before us and where we
are now. "
“We‘re making history now,“
Davis said. “We have to
acknowledge the good things we are
doing.“
Local chapters of the National
Organization for Women, Right-to-
I.ife and the League of Women Voters
are concerning themselves with
issues such as the Equal Rights
Amendment, abortion and sexual
harassment.
Lyn McCoy-Simandle, Lexington
NOW chapter president, said the
issue of most importance to the
organization is a possible human life
amendment, or anti-abortion law.
“It has a lot of ramifications," says
McCoy-Simandle, “not only for anti-
abortion, but contraceptives. NOW
believes that if you can't control your
own reproductive life you can‘t con-
trol very much of your own life.
l
l
l
l
l
flhrgga- I4 mfl
l
' l
‘A ,._—L_:L, ,,,,, _, , A ,,,1
According to Lexmgton NOW
member Helen Fields, a UK jour-
nalism senior, NOW advocates
freedom of choice on the abortion
question.
“NOW is not for or against abor-
tion,“ said Fields. “We believe it is
up to the indIVIdual woman to make
that choice. We believe Congress
cannot legislate morals."
A group working against abortion
proponents is the Central Kentucky
chapter of Right-to-Life, which deals
with the development of the unborn
child and the risks to women.
Hilda Pullen, vice president, said
the abortion issue is one of the most
important facing women today.
“There has been a conspiracy of
silence as to the effects of abortion,“
Pullen said. “Although it may be
legal, it is not safe."
Pullen said the “killing of one's
own child forfeits the fundamental
human nature of women. Abortion is
damaging to the future health of
women and as along as it is legal, the
rest of our lives are in jeopardy.
“Half of the aborted babies are
female, and h. some cities abortion
surpasses live births,“ says Pullen.
“Supporters of abortion are looking
forward to putting it into the Con-
stitution."
She said that pro—abortionists con-
tend that abortion is a constitutional
right. However, Pullen said she
believes abortion is not a con
stitutional right because, in a preg-
nant woman‘s body. “it is a scientific
fact that there are two bodies pre-
sent. There is the right of the fetus"
to consider.
Instructor tells of sun ray dangers
By REBECCA KIMBALL
Reporter
Before you hit Florida for that Blue
Lagoon look, consider the effects the
sun will have on your skin.
Pharmacy Professor R. David
Cobb, instructor of the “Drugs,
Medicine, and Society" course, gives
his class the facts, some familiar and
\\
some new, about the sunbathing pro-
cess and how to avoid a burn:
wit is easier to be burned at lower
latitudes (such as Florida) because
of higher concentrations of
ultraviolet light. Sunlight at those
latitudes is direct, and more
ultraviolet rays penetrate the ozone
layer.
wThe greatest risk of sunburn oc-
\ \ ‘ *
:‘:‘v e *5“. " a v
I K"
curs between l0 am. and 3 pm.
.zWindow glass, as in cars or
homes, filters out harmful ultraviolet
light but does not filter longer rays.
wSunbum is more likely to develop
on cloudy days when you do not feel
the heat of the sun, which is filtered
out by water vapor. As a result, peo
ple often spend more time exposed to
Continued on page 8
The ERA is another issue that
volves much controversy. MU : -
Simandly says that she is optim: .. ‘_
about the ERA‘s eventual ratil; . -
tion.
“If I wasn't optimistic, l woul . _
into my little hole and put the top '
she said. She admitted the battle t.
not over for ERA support -.
however.
“They IERA supporters) are tl..--~-
states short (of the number news}
for ratification), and being v-.~ 1.
reaiistic, it‘s going to be laud
because in each of those states it \-
very close."
Another Lexington group, a. e
League of Women Voters, is concc. -:
ed with informed and active pr.
ticipation in government. The lent: we
grew out of the women's suffrage
movement of the 1850s, according to
President Mary Alice Roberts.
“After women were granted me
right to vote, there was no longu .I
need for the suffrage movement luvt
still a need for women to Le
represented in government.“
The League of Women Voters bolt is
voter registration drives and r: .
Continued on pa!'=‘ »5
Inside
The events of yesterday 5 Co :1
on Higher Education meeting
hold indications of the future of 1'. r)-
tucky's state universities. See 1 .ll
Steiden's analysis on page 4.
outside” ,
Lexington weather is improxw:
just in time for everyone to leav; .u
break. Today will be mostly su . y
with a high in the low to mid.
Tonight will be mostly clear Wl .. ..
low in the low 305
«W;
Autograph
models
About five times a season, tho-
Wildcats sit down after practice and
spend a half-hour I“W8phii‘f{
dozens of basketballs for distribution
to their faithful fans. Yesterday was"
one such occasion as the players and
coaches sighed 196 balls and various
other programs. posters and pic-
tures. he team has refined the duty
to a science, the players with lung
names (Minnefield. Gettlefinger,
etc.) passing off to those with shorter
ones (finishing with Dicky Beal and
Coach Hall.)
By TOM MORAN [Kernel Staff
f editoriols8t
* commc nls
in: Aenlmh Armed welcomes all n um and ovum-m leuen no non-mm \hunld be typed. Inpch
mined and indudr heme. rNdrmr mu proper iduiiiliuimn Illu’.0¢IflI l I II) for sludcnl) Ind l I
(uptown lellrn would hr tumtrd In :00 north and npllllllll\ IlId comments I0 I00 words.
H) lll'ull FINDLAY
t‘ontributing Columnist
I'm from the north end of Lex-
ington and for some reason that
means something to certain select
sects of Lexingtomans Every so
often I generate cautious glances
from strangers who know my
neighborhood Growing up there was
no easy chore, granted, but in respect
to the remainder of the town it
wasn‘t, as Eddie Money is apt to say,
a “school of hard knocks “ Let‘s just
say it‘s seen better days
Being implanted in the university
melting pot of cross-sections of the ci-
ty does occasionally set me ill at
case, due mainly to the socio
economic mores and ignorance of
street knowledge. I am speaking en-
tirely of Lexington, my town, its un-
written laws indigneous to this area
only
Survrval is probably the single
most important aspect of all our
lives. It is only when one is con-
fronted with a desperate situation
that he realizes his shortcomings in
the expertise of survival. If I may be
bold. Ican say I have found myself in
one particularly desperate situation
once on the wrong end of a gun.
, Handguns must
My account:
My contemporary, Knappy, and I
set out in town last December to, as
we put it, “Scare up some trouble.“
We were entertaining a shamefully
boring evening, losing at pool,
wasting our wallets, and above all,
striking out with the ladies. Finally,
we resolved to call some old
girlfriends, As we pulled up to the
house -. not on the north side, nor the
west. but downtown UK — we were
lucky enough to spot them just arriv—
ing in their car, too. There was a guy
with them. A rogue. A downtown
rouge, He bummed a cigarette,
drank my beer, and never bothered
to ask my name.
Undaunted, Knappy and I fired on
the girls We were having a
thoroughly good time, Our downtown
rogue was content to sit on the car
smoking my cigarettes, his mind
swimming in alcoholic ecstasy, while
I concentrated on conversation with
my girl Ultimately I asked the ques-
tion; who was she dating these days?
She smirked and looked
straightaway at Downtown Rogue. I
looked at her. then remembered why
she was an ex-girlfriend and burst
out laughing at the thought.
Some may say that was a tasteless
Students over 25 endure
lack of financial concern
.I) (':\R(ll. (‘.\R3lr.\.\'
Journalism Sophomore
For an increasing number of
students. college life is not an ivory
tow er where the process of
:itiolesence to adulthood occurs,
Adult students comprise 11.5 percent
of the UK undergraduate population.
Such a Significant group, in fact, that
-.he Adult Student Organization was
vormed to meet their needs and
. epresent their interests.
A demographic profile of the stu-
dent body which separates students
over 25 years of age as “adult“ fails
to grasp the realities of adult status.
»\vailable enrollment data does nitt
indicate the number of students at
my age who support themselves
Ind or children Statistics for the
moo Fall semester show that 22 per»
-,0l'it of all students who enrolled as
undergraduate or graduates did so on
:i part-time basis. A probable
.issumption is that the students are
employed and self-supporting.
in example of this is Scott. ar-
chitecture undergraduate. 21, single
'\'llh two preschool children Perhaps
éii~ greatest handicap is not the fami»
obligation and job responsiblities,
but a system of higher education
-vh:ch has little consciousness of his
iecds Scott says he is fortunate to
mu 0 an advtsor who takes a personal
.nterest in him
"when the federal budget cuts
'Ilftlit‘ students ineligible for daycare
Title ll funds. my advisor ar
mogul a tuition scholarship through
oisc‘nurch‘s daycare program "
Students who work to support
hemselvt-s or finance their educa-
iiins rarely enjoy affluence and
;ir,-'.'ilege Hope for a better life and
iii» i'iingful work stems frotn the
‘w‘ii-f that a little piece of paper. a
~-oiis-ge degree. does make a dif-
fei'cnce in the world of work.
"whatever lofty ideals one may have
:bout learning for ILS own sake, the
‘lfilllllélrk of adulthood is that you
‘iave to pay your own way whether
you learn how to think critically or
not." remarked Lisa. 24-yearold l.TI
~ tudent and underemployed head of a
household
Financial aid available to students
who are self-supporting or have
>