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Vol. LXVII No. 138
Tuesday. A ril 27. 1976

Lowell ll. Jones. associate art professor. explains the finer
points of his “solar kinetic sculpture" to a student on one of last
Although the piece is primarily a

week's balm) afternoons.

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work of art designed to call attention to natural energy use.
Jones said. it is capable of capturing and converting solar
energy. tight mm . w e‘d settle for solaranyﬂling.

Suspect in
"Rankin A
slaying
arraigned

Oakley B. Davis. a Lexington man
charged with the murder and robbery of
Allen Courtice “Biff" Rankin was
arraigned Monday in Fayette Quarterly
('ourt and a preliminary hearing was set
for May 20.

Lexington Metro Police arrested Oakley
B. Davis. 26, of 1825 Liberty Rd.. early
Saturday morning and charged him with
first-degree murder and robbery. Bond
was set at 3100.000 on each charge.

The body of Rankin. 22. a UK business
administration junior. was found in the
cooler of the Hanover Shoppe. 800 E. Main
St. shtrtly after :: p.m. last Thursday.

Deputy (‘oroner Bill McCarney pro-
nounced Rankin dead at 3:30 p.m. Thur-
sday. but the exact‘ time of death is
unknown. A four-hour autopsy conducted
Thursday night indicated ltankin‘s death
was caused by a bullet wound to the
temple. he said.

Itankin‘s body was discovered by Linda
Farley. another Hanover Shoppe employe
who was reporting for work. She and
another person dragged liankin's body to a
hallway next to the cooler.

The store's cash register was empty,
prompting police to conclude that
- Itarkin‘s death was related to a robbery.

Immediately following the discovery of
ltankin‘s body, police solicited in-
formation from anyone in the vicinity of
the liquor store Thursday afternoon.

Assistant Police (thief Frank r‘ryman
said Davis‘ arrest was the result of vital
information from the public, the
cooperation of local news media and the
use of offduty detectives.

Metro police a re now declining comment
on the incident and will not release any
information.

“We are not answering any questions
about it tthe Rankin easel," said metro
police Media Liaison Officer Joe Catt.

(.‘att refused to say whether a murder
weapm has been found or how much
money was missing from the cash
register.

Tap debaters Skillman and Oberst quit team, will coach next year

lty Sl'S.\.\ JONES
Editorial l-Zditor

L'K's two top debaters. Gil Skillman and
Gerry Oberst. who combined to win top
honors in several national tournaments.
have said they will no longer compete but
plan to help coach next year's team.

Both said they wish to devote more time
to academics than was possible while they
were on the team.

Skillman. an Arts and Sciences IAtkS:
junior. will forfeit a scholarship by quit-
ting the team. but he said he has "other
things to do and tough classes next year.“
He added he wants to "get into
economies."

Oberst. an AtkS senior. said he wants to

improve he grades and "meet people
down here.

“I want to become a student." he said.
"I‘ve debated three and one-half years in
college and two years in high school."

His partner also began debating in high
school. The two became a team in fall 1974
and this year won several major tour-
naments. including the UK and Georgia
round robins. the Golden West Invitational
and the University of Kansas "Heart of
America" tournament.

.\iost recently. the pair competed in the
National Debate Tournament in Boston.
'lhe field included the best teams in the
tountry. Oberst said.

Skillman was named third best speaker
at that tournament. while Oberst placed
ninth. Together they were ranked fifth of
Oil teams from across the country.

"Th is year's team is the best UK has had
in the last to years,"_.0berst said.

Skillman said the University team has
been consistently competitive on the
national level for the past four years.

But both said next year's prospects are
uncertain.

"We‘ll have to start from scratch and
they . the new debaters; probably won‘t do
as well as UK has done in the past."
Skillman said. “But. in general. [think the
fine record will continue."

Skillman attributed that record to
seva'al factors. "Patterson (Debate
Coach .I.W. Patterson) is a slavedriver
and he gets you to say. ‘1'" show him. I’ll
work harde.‘ And there are also many
happy combinations of people."

He said even though the debate team
starts with relatively untrained people, the
learns usually improve after they’ve

worked for a while. Most schools start
with more experienced debaters. he said.

“After you get your head knocked off
by a couple of good teams you learn,”
Skillman said.

Among other things Skillman said he has
teamed are research skills. organization
and communication.

“And now I’ve got friends from Harvard
to the University of Los Angeles,” he
added

Oberst also values the friends he has
made through competition.

“Debate '3 an intellectual challenge
and it allows you to see through others’

arguments," Oberst said. “I can't watch
television anymore because the ad-
vertisements are so shallow in their
persuasion, and it’s clear politicians
rarely mean what they say.”

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Bruce Winges
Editor-in-Chief

Ginny Edwards
Managing Editor

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Susan Jones
Editorial Page Editor

John Winn Miller
Associate Editor

(Editor’s note: Because of the number of letters and commentaries received by the
Kernel, there is no editorial today. In cases where a number of letters or Spectrum
artic les are received about one or several subiects, more space is devoted to reader’s
views. Letters to the editor and Spectrum commentaries should be typed, double-
spaced and signed—including classification, maior and phone number.)

Evolution
Editor:

In reference to John R. Baumgard-
ner's mmmentary of April 22, ad-
mittedly a person is free to believe
whatever he chooses but there is
something inherently wrong when one
accepts a belief and then attempts to
force reality to conform to it. Problems
will usually arise and, in the case of
western religion, two notable examples
come to mind: i. that the earth is the
center of the universe,2. thatlife began

suddenly and miraculously in only a .

few days time.

That evolution is fact has been well
established. An overwhelming body of
evidence has been gathered in support
of evolution enough to easily convince
any open minded studentof the subject.

Certainly there are gaps in our
knowledge of the process but to discard
the whole concept on this basis is like
saying that since the embryology of a
human fetus is incompletely known,
we'll deny that a baby comes from a

tellers

woman's womb. Or that because the
exact mechanisms of solar energy

production are unknown, the sun
doesn't shine. (In connection with
embryology, I might remind

Baumgardner that he began life as a
one-celled organism and that in the
course of his development he had a tail
and gill slits.)

Evolution occurs and if an individual
feels there is a conflict with ancient
Hebrew cosmology, that may or may
not be unfortunate but it does not
change the facts.

Paul Hulker
UK alumnus

Headline?
Editor:

I couldn’t agree more with the
headline: "Evolution is a hoax that did
not happen.” A hoax is an act intended
to deceive. Thus, if the hoax did not
occw, then evolution is no deception.

David B. Rymph
Anthropology graduate student '

By Gregory Walden

Richard MacDonald in his ”Insider
Outsider” commentary ("Insider
Outsider stand dominates UK,” Kernel,
April I?) stated that the old South at
litude and the Confederate States of
America are responsible for prejudice
on the UK campus. [his is simply not
the case. Prejudice is not confined to
Kentucky or to the rest of the Southern
states; unfortunately, prejudice is
universal to mankind.

Were Southern traditions responsible
tor the prejudice in Boston? Did the
Confederacy cause the race riots of the
'60’s in Chicago? No. Man will be
prejudiced against another group when
he teels that that group is gaining ad
vantages over him. In the West blacks
are so much of a minority that there is
no prejudice against them. Indians and
Chicanos are the victims of prejudice in
the West, and the Confederacy cer
tainly did not cause that.

MacDonald has fallen into the
mistake that most non students of the
Civil War make: that the war was
fought over slavery. The Civil War was
not fought over slavery. Most of the
highest Confederate generals (for
example, Lee, Jackson and Cteburne)
did not own slaves and did not believe in
slavery. Less than five per cent of the
common soldiers of the Confederacy
owned slaves, while some Union troops
owned slaves themselves. Confederate
soldiers were fighting to protect their
homes and rights, not to prolong
slavery. Slavery did not become a
major issue in the Civil War until Jan.
I, 1863, when the very President of the
Union made it an issue with his

Emancipation Proclamation.

Southern heritage is a vital part of
Kentuckylife. The Civil War was one of
the most important periods in Kentucky
history and we cannot help but be proud
of the Kentud