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Priday December 13 1974

Inflation

KENTUCKY

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(in independent student new

spaper

21 University of Kentucky

'9]: 1

Lexington. Ky. 40506

Legislative committee awards the University money to cover increased utility costs

By WALTER HIXSON
Kernel Staff Writer

FRANKFURT The University was
awarded 8849.857 in state supplemental aid
by an interim legislative committee
Thursday to combat increased utility
costs.

Although the allocation is exactly what
l'niversity officials had requested to cover
the utility costs. it provides no additional
money for rismg printing and travel ex~
penses.

Allocations for state agencies are being
held to the minimum amount needed to
continue present serVices. said James 0,
King. state commissmner at Finance and
Administration

REt'Al‘Sl-I til“ the current rate of in
f‘lation. King said "it's quite obvious
everyone «state agencies» needs ad-
ditional money but we will all just have to
tighten our belts."

Fancy

pickin'

\aniiy lleiisley ———one of the
(‘ooii t'reek Sisters —play.s
her banjo while Eric Lar-
also a banjo player.
looks on. said
she has been playing the
banjo since she \\ as "knee
high to a duck." but arthri-
tis has slowed down

son.
lleiisle). “it.

her

lately. llensle) and Larson
were participating in the
Kentucky .\rts and (‘rafts
tiuild display at the Fay-

ette .\lall through Sunday.

The additional money ”makes the
budget situation for the current year
considerably easier to live with." said Don
t‘lapp, assistant to President ()tis
Singletary.

(‘oncerning the state's denial of $142,000
for printing and travel expenses, (‘lapp
said funding would come from other
sources such as the president's con-
tingency fund

THE $819,857 utility allotment. taken
from state general fund surpluses and
awarded by the interim committee on
appropriations and revenues.was the only
aid granted from the University's original
$1,381,380 request to meet overall inflation
in the operating budget

The total allotment to ail state agencies
who submitted requests for the sup
plement was $8,577.52"). There was $1.8
million alloted to state universities and
colleges and $1 million to public schools for
utility increases.

(1 SCHOOL

Eastern Kentucky University
l'niversity of Louisville

Murray State l'niversity

Western Kentucky l'nviversity
Kentucky State l'niversity
Morehead State University
Northern Kentucky State (‘ollege

V
ALLOTMENT

3268.203
$19!.078
3160.737
3110.963
3 91,918
81 [6.859
5 30.835

REQUEST
8448.762
8360.990
3252.901
3213.960
8i8i.559
$166,672
8 46.871

L
The $849,857 granted l'K was the biggest
given for higher education [see chart).

THE NEED for utility aid resulted from
rising costs of coal up approximately 400
per cent in the last year 7 and oil and
natural gas which have risen about 100
per cent in the last year.

If the recently settled coal strike by
members of the l'iiitcd Mine Workers had
lasted three or four months. King said

\. _\.

Kernel statt photo by Chuck Combs

Former editor of Lock magazine sees
need for voluntary media controls

By RUN Nlth’lll‘liil.
Managing Editor

William B. Arthur is tired of going
places where people are opposed to what
he is doing.

Arthur. 3 1937 UK graduate and former
editor of the now—defunct Look magazine.
is executive director of the National News
t‘ouncilr an independent media
monitoring organization.

SINt‘E ’l‘llE NewsCouncil's inceptionin
August 1973, is has been met With op-
position from respected national neWs
organizations such as the New York
Times and the Associated Press.

But Arthur feels the opposition will
subside as soon as the News t‘ouncil has a
caseafile of decisions respected by the

public and media and the public becomes
more aware of the exsistence of the 15—
member panel.

“I'm not pessimistic about oppositon to
the Press Council." Arthur said Thursday
in a Kernel interview. “They are opposed
to it because they fear the unknown. We're
a new type of organization and the only
way word will ever reach around is
through our decisions."

THE NEWS (‘ouncil was formed
16 months ago as the result of a study by a
H member task force under the aegis of
the Twentieth (‘entury Fund which noted
that press credibility in this century was
unusually low. Funding for the News
('ouncil's first three years of operation
came from a consortium of 10 foundations.

After the (‘ouncil's third year. an ini-
partial committee will review its effects.

The News t‘ouncil‘s purpose is “to
i‘ecieve to examine and to report on
complaints concerning the accuracy and
fairness of news reporting in the United
States. as well as to initiate studies and
report on issues involving the freedom of
the press.”

The News (‘ouncil‘s jurisdiction is
limited to the nationwide news services.
wire services. weekly newsmagazines.
national daily newspapers tsuch as the
New York Times. Washington Post and
“all Street Journal. major supplemental
wire services. the TV networks and radio
networks

(‘ontinued on page 6

These are the requests made by state—supported colleges and universities and
the state allotments to cm er rising utility costs.

“there would be no allocations except for
emergencies" due to losses of state
revenue.

The situation “would have been rather
traumatic“ had the University not
received the supplement, Clapp said.
noting there would have been several
program cuts.

THE INTERIM committee allocated $1
miilion for public schools systems. An
earlier allotment combined with the

(‘ontinued on page 6

Council reiects

Rosemont
Extension

By s \V(‘\' DALY
Associate Editor

The urban county council unanimously
deleted partial fimding of the Rosemont
Garden Extension from the five-year
capital improvements plan Thursday.

But the 13.” action does not totally kill
the highway department's proposed ex-
pressway The new Transportation Policy
('ommittee which includes the mayor.
council. county judge and state secretary
of transportation Wlll meet Jan. 13 to
consider the road,
('tll'\t‘ll,\\t)\l.\\ l’am Miller. who
moved to delete Rosemont Extension
funding. said several council members
may change their minds after hearing the
highway department’s arguments in
.iaiiuan' But even if the Transportation
Policy (‘oiiimittee favors construction. a
majority of the council must vote to
replace Rosemont Extension on the capital
improvements plan before it is built.

The road would extend Rosemont
Garden from Nicholasville Road to Mt.
Tabor Road at Tates (‘reek Pike by
crossmg the UK Experimental Farm south
of (‘ommonwealth Stadium. The highway
department would then four-lane Mt.
Tabor Road until it connects with New
('ircle Road. creating a major artery from
New ('ircle Road to Nicholasville Road.

'l‘\\t) ()l’l’UNEN'l'S of the road» council
members .lack Hall and .loe Jasper 7will
have resigned from the council by the time
any further decision is made, Their suc-
cessors will be appointed by Mayor Foster
l‘ettit who is one of Rosemont (larden
l‘Ixteiisioii's strongest backers.

l’ettit‘s support for the road was at
tacked during public discussion over the

('ontinued on page 12

Fanor-mcnnt, Linda Comes
Monac'ng editor, Ion Mitchell
Assertive editor, Nancy Daty
Editorial page editor, Dan Crutctier

Features editor, Larry Mood
Arts editor Greg Holetich
Spot's editor. Jim Manom
Pnaography editor Ed Gerald

editorials

td'tonats represent the opinions at the editors

Brady firing and the Watergate analogy

Some who have read Woodward and
Bernstein‘s Watergate thriller “All
the President‘s Men" have wondered
why the high-placed informant "Deep
Throat" took such extraordinary
pains to keep his identity secret.

They should ask Terrence Brady.

Brady. urban county government
director of personnel. was fired
Tuesday by the Civil Service Com-
mission for misconduct. Brady's
misconducted action consisted of
revealing to a local newspaper
reporter that Mayor Foster Pettit had
pressured him to “bend Civil Service
rules" in hiring personnel whom
Pettit favored.

The Commission. in its written
opinion on the case. discussed the

Letters to the editor

Watergate analogy. saying, "We...are
cognizant of the desirable results
often achieved by independent public
disclosure as exemplified in the
‘Watergate‘ proceeding." Apparently
the Commission felt that the
“desirable results" were not achieved
in this case.

Is one to suppose. then. that if
Brady's charges had resulted in the
impeachment or resignation of Pettit
that the Commission would have
ruled differently“,

In fact. the Commission found that
there was some substance to Brady's
charges. "We do find some fault on
the part of the mayor. which could
have tended to have encouraged Mr.
Brady‘s distrust of the mayor and the

system of administration of the
government of which Mr. Brady was
an important part." the report stated.

This was described as “mitigating
circumstance," but not mitigating
enough to save Brady's job.

The basis for Brady's dismissal.
according to the report. was his
failure to make his complaints
through the proper channels. and the
resulting “disruption of govern-
ment ”

Brady admittedly did not avail
himself of the official means of
governmental grievances This is not
hard to understand. since those whom
he would normally complain to were
those whom he was complaining
about

.-\s for “disruption of government.“
such is inevitable whenever a public
official speaks out about alleged
improprieties. Government can well
afford to be disrupted for that pur»
pose

The Commission addressed
problem inherent in their iuling,
when they said iii the report: “We
have great concern that our decision
[it this case might have the un-
desirable effect in some way of
counter balancing ithei desirable
policy and trend toward the public's
‘t'ts’ltt to know

i‘:llil(‘l' that "concern” was not
really so "meat". or they lacked the
courage toback their "concern" with
actual

the

.OR EVEN BE CCNOUERING
INFLATION

Red River

dam fight

must be continued

The fight to stop Red River
dam is not over. At this point the
prodam side has the upper hand.
The fight. however. has moved
into a new phase.

I urge you all to write Julian
Carroll within the next few
weeks. if you have never written
before to an official now is the
time. If you have written often.
send another one. At this point
the political punch of anti-dam
sentiment needs your help. We
did prove to have an impact this
past year but anti-dam pressure
must be continued if the Red
River dam is to be stopped.

Legally. the shape action will
now take has several different
options. One thing for sure. the
Army Corps of Engineers is
moving with all bureaucratic
purpose to build the dam. Their
recent "response" has definitely
drawn the battle lines.

For example. the corps says
land buying will be initiated on
Jan. 6 ~ despite President Ford‘s
administration cutting $150,000
from available funds. The corps
cannot buy all the parcels of land
it needs even at the dam site,
much less begin construction.
until next year. The corps wants
to gain some title to say “the
project is already begun and
therefore irrevocably com-
mitted."

Another clue to the corps'
position is the unchanged benefit-
cost ratio. It remains the same
despite a complete critique of
recreation benefits and non-
supported water supply benefits.

Furthermore. the corps now
admits a reduction in acreage
protected by the dam to 3.500
acres after resurveying the area.
This means 4.000 acres more land
will continue to flood despite the
$32 million expenditure for the
dam. Yet the corps makes no
change in the benefit-cost ratio.

Red River. its people and
unique ecology can be preserved.

Please write Julian Carroll and

urge your parents and friends to
do the same.

Tim Murphy

l'K graduate. l971t

Not indifferent

I see where several Greek
senators who hadn't shown their
faces at Student Senate meetings
all year did manage to come last
Thursday and vote against the
gay students' dance. saying it
"could seriously harm our rela-
tionships with administrators in
trying to further campus issues. "

These students. once thought to
be genuinely apathetic, have now
told us in no uncertain terms that
they are indeed interested in
“trying to further campus
issues." which one might not
realize by judging only from past
senate attendance records.

Such a premature judgment of
Greek apathy ignores much solid
evidence to the contrary. such as
the prompt mobilization and
shrewd political maneuvering
displayed last year when a black
girl (Heaven forbid!) came
dangerously close to pledging a
sorority.

So never let it be said that the
Greeks are indifferent to the
really important “campus
issues." like protecting us from
minority groups who don't know
their places.

Kenneth Ashby
Sociology-senior

Gay support

The pmposed sponsorship by
Student Government of a dance
for Gay students has developed
into an emotional controversy
which perhaps will not be soon
remedied. Although sponsorship
ofa Gay dance has possibilities of

MAYBE I 3on BE WRESTle
WITH mm oz

repercussion. as well as of a
potentially negative zoo-like
atmosphere which may develop
in the presence of gaping
heterosexuals. basic civil
liberties. including that of
freedom of sexuality. must be
afforded all.

As members of Social Work in
Action. we the undersigned would
like to offer our support and
encouragement to the recognition
by the University of a gay
organization on campus. so that
gays as well as straights may be
free to sponsor their own ac-
tivities without the requirement
of ratification by some other
unrelated group.

Jean ()‘Daniel

SWA President
Doug Remick

SWA Vice President
and others

'Moral disgust'

in Tuesday's Kernel Senators
Kendricks and I played host to a
vicious attack on our characters
by Steve Taylor. Senator-at-
large. We were called childish
and emotional for leaving the
Senate meeting after Student
Government sponsorship of the
Gay Coalition dance was
rescinded. To quote Senator
Taylor. how often have their
opponents lost on an issue and
stomped away in a “moral
disgust“ as we would be led to
believe motivated the senators
who walked out? Never."

YBE
T

... MA I
LD E
Glut“

Well Senator 'l‘aylor. you had
better open your eyes before yoti
make such tibsttllllt‘
statement l seem to recall a few
of our socalled “opponents” who
walked out of the meeting when
the sponsorship of the dance was
originally llid
notice these who left or do you
only get your kicks by criticizing
persons who do not align them
selves with your point of view"

My reply to you. Senator
Taylor. is that l will walk out of
any future Senate meeting in
which the Senate offers the Gay
Coalition or any other minority. a
token gesture of support after
withdrawing the active support it
once offered. To walk out of a
meeting I will at least have had to
have come to the‘meeting. which
is more than many of the
senators who voted against the
gay dance can manage But you
probably didn't notice that either.
Senator Taylor.

till

passed you not

Mark Kleckner
Senator-at-laige

Get down

Hi. i just got through playing
and singing “Dancing Days" by
Zeppelin on the piano and my
very mediocre human voice. I
had a great time and it didn‘t
sound half had even though I did
make a few mistakes.

But the thought of someone
grading that “performance“ on a
scale from one to 10 brings me
down to the point that I am taking

.09 CONSIDERlNG
FUEL ALLOCATION

.’ I WISH
{ kg WOULD
HU up

time to write this piece to the
kernel and to whoeyer may read
I?

l.ct s hear it for the "moose in
heat ' wiiw may not haye sounded
so good to some people but who
"got
t‘\pl‘t*ssittt{

when it
the in
nei‘inost in a human being As far

tust plain down"

routes to

.i\ I'm concerned no one needs to
listen to boogie to hear what it's
saying It's saying til‘l'l‘ lNlVl N"

Ht course one might say that
the only things that rock stars or
potential rock stars are in
tercsted in arc fame. fortune and
women lhit I say if one tells it
like it is to him through his music
and sincerelyt he
should be rated as “far-out" or
"really nice" or something that
would reflect the love and the
effort that he has taken the time
to exercise through hours of
practice or through just playing
simple rock music and moving to
the "vibes "

honestly

I mean «contrary to popular
t'K belieft there is something
more important than money
tsorry. llalt. success and even
sex. That something is love or
betterly tnew word if I mayt
expressed compassion for all
human beings on this earth. And
if my love. or Point Blank's love.
or McKendree Spring's or ZZ
’l‘op‘s love doesn't rate “good"
with fellow human beings. what
else can we do for them'?

Peace. love. harmony and
unity. and a very merry
Christmas to all.

Anthony l-Iison
A&S-freshman

-1:J'.»WCW‘ ”.337, *-

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