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Monday, Teh. 2, 1970

UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY, LEXINGTON

Appeals Process

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Strong Feelings

The delegation traveled to
Frankfort in & ruravan of three
buses and some 20 cars.
Told of Gov. Louie B. Nunn's
request to cut the budget for the

college, Paul Leffler, a
Northern freshman and a member of the school's student government, remarked:
"If anything, I think we
showed the committee that we
do not want our budget cut any
further, and also that we have
a strong feeling about the education we deserve."

IJy JEANNIE ST. CHARLES
Kernel Start Writer

s.

An overflow crowd of nearly
250 students and a scattering of
adults from northenr Kentucky
caused a slight change in the
state legislature's schedule of
hearings in Frankfort Saturday.
The delegation came to hear
Dr. Frank Steely, president of
the new Northern Kentucky
State College, speak on the
school's proposed budget before
a committee on appropriations
and revenue.
The unusually large number
of spectators forced the committee to vacate its usual hearing
room in favor of the senate
chamber.
Expressing Interest
Steely explained to the committee that the delegation had
not come to Frankfort to "overawe" them but merely to express
their interest in the recently conceived senior college.
testiSteely gave a
mony which was followed by a
standing ovation from the spectators. The testimony was interrupted just once, when one
student asked that Steely and
the committee speak louder.
Most of the northern
were students at UK's
Northern Community College in
Covington, wluch will become
the nucleus for the new college.

Vol. LXI, No. 80

SG To Challenge

Proposed
Revenues

infant

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Dr. Charles Billings spoke at a Black Student Union study workshop
Saturday afternoon concerning study habits. The workshop was designed to help black students improve their study habits. Billings
spoke on how to cover material for class and for tests. Billings'
wife, Musset Billings, of the Teacher Corps Department, gave the
attending students hints for note taking. A third speaker, Dr. Robert
L. Harman, gave information on the University Counseling and Test
Kernel Photo by Bob Brewer
ing Center, where he works.

President
Otis Singletary's
power over student appeals will
be under attack at Student Government's Thursday night meeting.
If an organization seeks official University status now, it
must appeal to the vice president for student affairs. His verdict is the final decision as to
whether the organization is accepted or rejected.
New Bill
The new bill, sponsored by
SG assemblyman Steve Bright,
would extend the avenue of rewith
view for organizations
membership other than students,
faculty and staff.
Instead of limiting verdicts to
the vice president for student
affairs, an organization would be
able to appeal to the appeals
board if it were refused, limited
or cancelled by the vice president. The appeals board consists of three students and six
faculty members appointed by
the president.
As the code now reads, organizations consisting of only
students, faculty and staff appeal to the University president
through the appeals board.

College Heads Fight For Money
FRANKFORT,
Ky.
legislators looking
for "fat" in the $3.1 billion executive budget had none pointed
out to them in higher education
(AP)-Democ-

ratic

Friday.

University of Louisville Presi-

dent Woodrow Strickler led off
by appealing for $11 million in
state money in addition to the
$8.2 million already contained
in the budget document. He was
addressing the Joint Legislative
Committee

on

Appropriations

and Revenue, which was continuing its scrutiny of Nunn's
budget proposal Friday with
other state university presidents.
Then University of Kentucky
President Otis Singletary and
Eastern Kentucky University
President Robert Martin said
their proposed budgets were the
smallest permissable
without
severely harming programs.
And Martin even raised the
possibility that the $260 yearly
tuition at the schools like East- -

at- -

ern might have to be raised to
$300 for Kentucky residents by
the institutions to meet unforeseen costs.
But Singletary said the state
should never let the cost of an
education keep a high school
graduate from being able at
least to try college. He said he
hoped a tuition increase would
be the last resort as a means of
raising revenue.
Can't Start Over
Strickler maintained that U of
L would have no recourse but
to eliminate some programs, perhaps close some colleges and
raise tuition if it did not receive
more state money.
He said it would take generations for the state to build a
faculty, library and technical
equipment necessary to replace
U of L, if the school were forced
to close. And it would cost $150
million just to replace its physical plant, he added.
"It is out of the world of reasonable thought," he declared,
"for the state to consider starting all over again."
On the U of L budget, Strickler said he felt that getting $19
million from the state for tho
biennium could be considered
state
"phasing in" to
status. He noted that using the
formula used by the other state
universities resulted in the ini- tial U of L budget request of
$35 million from the state.
Health Services
To another question, Strickler
said the decision five years ago
to go ahead with plans for a
new $26 million medical-dentcomplex was not an error in
judgment, even in hindsight.
Without a new facility, he said,
both the medical and dental
schools are in danger of losing
their accreditation.
"I don't think we had any
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More than one UK coed has been confused by the intricacies of
sorority rush as she Tilled our her preference card wondering if she
wouli be accepted. But this spring sorority rush has a new format
with sorority women rushing on a more "natural" basis. One sorore
relaity member described the new system: "It's a real
tionship, getting to know the real girl, and more Importantly, for
Kernel Photo by Dave Herman
her tO get tO know the real US."
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Bright's bill removes the president as a channel of appeal so
that an organization appeals di-

rectly to the appeals board
whose devision is final.
President
The second bill specifies procedures of appeal in individual
discipline matters. Presently a
student's case is taken to the
If the president does
not think the
punishment is strict enough, he may
initiate new disciplinary action
by setting a new punishment,
the final one.
The new bill would eliminate
any presidential authority in disciplinary problems. If a student
accepts his
punishment,
he does not have to worry about
the president's interference.
If a student is not satisfied
with his punishment, he may appeal to the appeals board as
stated in the present code. The
board can reverse or change the
verdict, but it may not
set a more severe punishment.
has no power to
The
expel or suspend a student under the present student code.
Rather it can recommend a student's expulsion or suspension
to the president.
The new amendment would
recomprovide that the
mend such actions to the appeals board instead of to the
president. The appeals board
decision would then be the final
one.
Expects Success
Anticipating the success of
his bills Bright said, "From the
student's standpoint, these bills
are in the student's best interest.
Considering this, the Assembly
should pass them."
Bright's Student Services comis
mittee, a SG
now considering the possibilities
of a
dorm. According to Bright the most logical dorm for these purposes is
Keeneland Hall which can be
suite-by-suit- e.

The committee sees common
study and lounge areas and an
apartment-typ- e

relationship

as

the benefits of
living.
However, Jack Hall, Dean of
Student Affairs, cited many difficulties in such a move. He
pointed out that the
dorm would be too expensive due to the programming and
the training of CA's capable of
livdealing with
ing specifically.
The committee is also working on a new method of choosing th university ombudsman.
Their concern is with the limited
power in the nominations process. Presently there is no

Caiiuill Speaking
Monday Night

Harry Caudill, attorney and
author of "Night Comes To The
Cumberland," will discuss the
"Case Against Strip Mining in
Eastern Kentucky" at 7:30 p.m.
in the Grand Ballroom of the
Student Center.
Caudill is apjwaring for the
Environmental
Awareness

* THE KENTUCKY KERNEL, Monday, Tel..

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ELAINE ROBERTS
Kernel Staff Writer
"Good evening, tliis is 'Avenue of Champions.' I am Rex
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King."

AT SOUTHAMPTON!

Students at Southampton College are
encouraged to actively support and participate
in any positive new effort which seeks to improve
things in this wobbly world.
Of course, Southampton, with Its delightful summer
climate, offers countless opportunities for
lighter types of involvement, too . . . like
beaches . . . boating . . . golf . . . theatres . . .
art colonies . . . and other activities which make
Southampton a synonym for what summer
should be all about.
This summer. . . be where it is.
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Southampton College.
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Dormitory accommodations
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SCIENCE
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College

5:15 p.m. on a weekday
VVBKY FM's Rex King is

and
about to take the sports news
and "lay it on you for 15."
Thomas Sweatt, alias Rex
King, UK senior and telecommunications major, is from
Lynch, Ky. ("as in 'hang tljat
man!'," King says).
He's his family's youngest one
("No, I'm not married; Mama's
baby boy don't marry too soon!").
Steady Patter
King organizes his sports

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says, when asked if he is interested in TV, "No, I wouldn't
want to get dressed up everyt,

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day."

An accomplished communicator, King pays out a steady,
bright patter on his radio show
and has no fear of dead air.
Pushing football on Fridays,
he catches up on the weekend
activities on Mondays and in

Kernel Photo by Dave Herman

Tom Sweatt or Rex King?

tion at wrap-uperhaps using me," he replied. "It's catchy
a slug card plugging an "At and everyone can pronounce it.
Issue"
in SaturNow you take a name like Eric
handles "feature day at 5program ("Tune
Sevareid (King managed to make
p.m. for . . . ").
n
on
stuff," giving the
Signing on at 1 p.m., VVBKY four syllables out of 'Sevareid'),
the coaches and whatever is"be-hin- d
or Walter Cronkite they're too
signs off about midnight.
the news."
"Gets too dark to work around dignified for a sports announcer.
In his magazine format, King here after
that," King says.
Sports has names like Dizzy
gives the race results from
Dean and Harry Carey, Pee Wee
Studies Important
Churchill Downs, sandwiches in
Reese and Red Barber, and now
Carrying a schedule of 17
audio cuts, and pitches for his
there's Rex King. It just seems
hours as a senior, King spends
current hang-u("I'm trying to
to fit me and the job."
push ice hockey in Lexington, at least five hours a day in the
studio. How does he do it?
Keeps Cool
which is deprived sportswise.")
"I'm a sensation," King says.
has to have a long reach
King hangs loose, reflecting
King
But then he qualifies this and the relaxed atmosphere of WBKY.
to handle tliis because, he says,
takes a giant step becomes, for King,
During this interview a recording
"Kentucky
"If students study hard as of a piece of classical music
backwards when it comes to
freshmen," he says, "they'll have which was being broadcast came
sports."
a good foundation and can just to an end. There was a moment
Diverse Audience
keep building on their initial work of silence.
If he was "programming for in their
Then an office door was flung
major.
a campus audience," King says
"Even when you're a senior," open by a young man who
he might handle his news dif- he
adds, "Osgood and Wilbur
us and hit the
ferently, but his audience is "per-- 1 Schramm and the rest of those sprinted past studio door like a
broadcasting
haps 3,500 souls within a
guys are still where it's at in runaway truck backing up to a
radius of the tower."
communications."
ramp. In seconds his hushed and
Although FM gives a sharp
reverent voice was explaining in
Music Tastes Vary
clear hi-- signal, it is
Wanting to be a disc jockey. rather breathless, yet unhurried
and coverage is limited to
tones, the
the line of sight from the top King accepted the sports post and
when it becam; available in his movement just heard.
of the transmitter.
King hadn't even glanced up
"On a clear day we might hit junior year. Discussing music.
when the man crashed by. Any
King says Lexington
prefers
Berea," King says.
"soul" and "bubble gum" mu- desire there might have been
Frequency modulation (FM), sic.
to remark on this event was
as any Telecommunication 101
stayed by his lack of interest
"Stuff like 'Sugar, Sugar',"
student can tell you, operates
or concern regarding this human
he adds.
on ultra-hig- h
frequency which
"Black people don't dig hard failing on the part of a fellow
h
is, higher in frequency than
rock," King continues. "It's too WBKY announcer.
frequency (VHF), and the
Calm and deliberate as the
waves are much shorter and act heavy too loud lots of noise in deadline for "Avenue of Chamthe background. Acid rock, may.more like light traveling in
be. Soul, yes. Mellow bayou mupions" approached, King left the
straighter lines.
sic of Southern origin is what room twice to help students fix
WBKY-Fis a
a balky projector and a tape
we like. Gospel too. Swamp mustation, but does carry pub- sic,
that "wouldn't splice."
you know."
lic interest information, and King
Obviously capable, and as
"I like all of it," King adds.
often begins his broadcast with
as a man
Name An Alias
Catchy
such an announcement, possibly
seven inches tall can
Did his name come with the did what was needed be, King
a health hint from the American
without
Cancer Society.
sports announcing job?
fuss or fanfare.
I brought Rex King with
He may do a station promo- "No,
"I don't mind playing behind
the scenes," he commented at
one point.
And then he was on the air
with sports until the slot was
filled and it was sign-of- f
time,
"On a Monday evening, that's
sports. Tliis is King."
Way to go, Thomas Sweatt.
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Monday, Teh. 2,

1970- -3

Lyman Family Album;
A Bagful of Blues

tinuation of "California
By BOBBI BARRETT
Avatar comes from an ancient
Sanskrit word meaning descent.
"James Alley Blues" is a
It can mean the incarnation of change of pace . . . "It was sugar
a Hindu deity or, more broadly,
for sugarAnd now it's salt for
the embodiment of any concept saltIf you don't like what you're
or philosophy. In "American Avagetting.It's your own damn
a lament with a bittar," a release by the Lyman fault"
Family with Lisa Kindred, it ing edge, surely.
means the latter, and that means
The last two selections of
side one, "Good Shepherd," and
very fine music.
Basically, the album has a "Jesus Met The Woman At The
very blue blues sound. But the Well," are worked from spirituimportant thing about it is that als. The easy way they are done
each instrument, each group makes you realize that this group
member develops the blues theme comes to a religious feeling natin his own way, while yet workurally. It is a happy "Shout,
ing closely with everyone else. 0 Ye Children!" sound and it
The result is that of a unified is also a deep, quiet "Yes, Lord,
1 do hear
whole; guitars, drums, piano, haryou."
Side two begins with a Dymonica and voice can be identified as distinct parts, but the lan song, "It Takes A Lot To
blend of these as equal effects-- no Laugh, It Takes A Train To
one in competion, no one Cry" and goes to "My Love
featured as soloist makes a true Comes Rolling Down," the title
group sound.
song of the album. These con"California Water-Tak- e
One" tinue the overall fine quality
begins the album with quiet, of the record, developing with
deep shades of blues. Voice and assurance the subtleties and nuharmonica echo each other over ances of blues.
a simple base of guitar and piano.
According to the linear notes
It speaks of loss and leaving, but by Mel Lyman: "This is no alnot with the waves of maudlin bum, it is a miracle." I don't
self-pit- y
that drown some blues think I could say it that flatly,
artists. The album ties its end-- 1 but then I wasn't involved in the
creative experience, either.
ing to its beginning with a con
Water-TakeTwo-

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Kernel Photo by Larry Kielkopf

"Ain't Nobody's Business But My
Rodney Hatfield (in striped shirt) and a small band
of highly dedicated blues freaks have turned the
Paddock, a local tavern into a pretty popular
place. The group includes an electric guitar, an
acoustic guitar, organ, electric bass and Rodney

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on vocals and mouth harp. (That's harmonica for
the (initiated.) Hatfield is a UK student and most of
the band members are part of the student community. The group, yet unnamed performs Friday
and Saturday, 9 p.m. till closing.

Downhill Racer:
BeautifullyBoring

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By DAN GOSSETT
When director Michael Ritchie
set out to make "Downhill Racer," he must have had the greatest of motives and the highest
ideals. It seems as though he
intended to incorporate the docueffect of Haskell
mentary-drama

"Medium Cool" with
the magnificent
approach that Stanley Kubrick took
with "2001."
Technically he succeeded, but
something somewhere was missing. The result is a beautifully
produced and photographed motion picture that is much too
long and incredibly boring. I'm
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not really sure why it was boring. The visual element is fabulous, particularly the footage shot
t.
by professional skier Joe Jay
Jalbert took off down a
steep racing slope clutching onto
a camera instead of ski poles.
To use a cliche, the sequence is
Jal-ber-

breathtaking.
The plot basically involves an
egotistical young ski racer named
Dave Chappellet (Robert
Red-for-

d)

who is called from his backwoods Colorado home to replace
an injured member of an amateur ski team in Austria. Because
he is such an ego freak. Chap-pellimmediately, makes lifelong enemies of his teammates,
the press and his coach (Gene
H&ckman). After a brief fling
with a nice Swiss lady (Camilla
Sparv) who wants to sell him
a pair of skis, our hero goes on
to prove that his conceit is well
Justified by winning a gold medal
in the Olympics.
et

Far and away the best sequence in the movie comes right
after Chappelet has overcome his
biggest rival, a veteran German
racer. The race is all but wrapped
up; then the camera cuts to the
top of the slope where another
Cerman is beginning to take his
run. The camera keeps cutting
from the Cerman to Hack man
and to the time clock. The impression given is that the Cerman will steal the race from our
hero. Near the bottom of the
course, the challenger takes a
spill, and grins of relief and satisfaction return to the faces of
Redford and Hack man.
It's even money that "Downhill Racer" suffers its unkind-es- t
cut in the acting department.
Redford did little to contribute
to the movie besides chew gum
and shake his head.'. .

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The proposal involve
Senate committee

in University

decis-

which was recently
offered by Student Government
President Tim Futrell is a classic
comparative advantage case. While
the basic aim of the plan is sound
and deserves whole-hearte- d
support, the plan itself is drafted along
the lines of the present stagnant
framework. At a time when imagination must be found to give students a legitimate voice in all areas
in which they are involved,
proposal seems to have been
formulated almost as an afterion-making

an advisory body to the Senate.
In many cases directly involving
students the Senate has merely an
advisory capacity to the administration which makes the fateful
decisions.

characteristic of all similar
proposals coming from Futrell's office, the SG president is given the
power to select a group of students
from which the president of the
University makes the appointments
to the committees. In this way, if
the SG president cannot select those
students who serve on the committee, he can at least decide whowill
thought.
not be selected. This approach asFutrell's proposal would place
sumes the SG president, even with
students in a position of having
the approval of the SG Assembly,
a nearly equal number on many
should determine the ideological
committees connected with the Unicomposition of each of the Senate's
versity Senate. Only on the Stu- committees involving students.
dent Affairs advisory committee
is there more students than faculty.
Hopefully the idea could be alEven on that committee the effect tered to take care of some of these
the students would have would be shortcomings. If not, this proposal
The Student Affairs seems the least the students should
Committee of the Senate is merely ask for.
As is

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Kernel Soapbox
By BOB BAILEY

Liberals, student powerites and leftists
sharpen your knives and polish your guns.
Following this article I fully expect to see
aimed at my person thoughts of suspension, probation, restriction, rustication,
vituperation and excommunication.
This concerns Student Government
At the special, petiResolution
tioned Student Government meeting, amid
all the vocalizing and manuvering over
the bill to change the election procedures,
this little goody passed by a voice vote
with nary an objection. It rated the two
end paragraphs in the KERNEL story
concerning the meeting.
Now these occurances are not unusual
for Student Government. They pass resolutions all the time. A representative submits the resolution, it is read once, passed
by the assembly and never heard of again.
That is never heard of by the students. But
they are bandied about by the particular
interest group involved as the opinion of
the entire student body at the University
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of Kentucky.

Let's first look at the resolution itself
and then the Assembly that passed it.
The resolution itself places the students, through their elected representatives, as considering the proposals of the
University of Kentucky chapter of the
American Association of University Professors, "highly desirable" and "in the
best interest of the students." Supposedly it takes the Board of Trustees out of
"the political arena as much as possible."
,

This is completely and utterly wrong.
Not only does it fail to do this, but it
opens the avenue to political warfare between UK and any administration in
Frankfort. This resolution was pushed
through the assembly on a hurry-hurrrush-rus- h
basis. Vote Now-Thin- k
Later.
A grand way to run an organization and
a strange way to aid students.
y,

Lets look at the AAUP proposals for a
minute. The Board of Trustees, under the
plan would consist of sixteen members,
nine appointed members, three alumni
members, two faculty members, one

stu-

dent member and the governor of the
state. The appointed members would serve
for nine years. Now the governor is given
the power to appoint the members, but
he must choose from a list of three names
submitted by a special nominating committee. The possibility could very easily

arise where the Governor must choose
among three names that he would find
impossible to work with. So we can see
a situation developing where politics is
not removed from the Board, but merely
transferred.
The governor no longer changes the
philosophy of the University through appointments, but must face political sniping
from within the Board and the University.
The only thing is that the governor is
elected by the people of the Commonwealth to administrate for them. The
Board members will only be passed on by
the five men on the nominating committee. What is their constituency? Whose
interest will they represent? Once on the
Board they are safe through nine years.
No matter what direction the people of
the State swing, left or right. They are
stuck for nine years.
Some say the governor should not interfere with the University. This is nice
but, by law, he is required to be the
chairman of the Board of Trustees. Also,
by means of his position, he has a good
deal of control over the amount of money
budgeted to the University. Can you
imagine the great blow to the students

of this University if the nominating committee saddled the chairman of the Board,
for political reasons or otherwise, with
people who would attempt to run the

University as they see it, with no responsibility or liability to the people whose
tax support it.
But the proposal gets funnier from here.
The plan removes the Commissioner of
Agriculture and the Superintendent of
Public Instruction from the Board. These
are two members who are elected by the
voters of the State. But the hilarity continues as the AAUP wishes to add a
faculty member and a student member to
the Council on Public Higher Education.
.

It just so happens that the Superintendent
of Public Instruction is the Chairman of
this countil. They remove him from the
UK Board and appoint themselves to his
board.

3
He could no longer wait for the final
vote to be cast before he issued his thunderous statement representing the students of the University, to which he declares such undying devotion.
Projecting this student vote into the
future, picture Steve Bright using the same
verbage he used against Stuart Forth on
the Board members. They would never
listen to student opinion again.
But it passed without objection. This
resolution designed to aid the University,
only brings it closer to chaos. It was
passed because either no one had time
to think of the full importance of the
proposals or because they were incapable
of any
analysis. Or they were
scared to speak. I cannot see why anyone would fear to speak. So the answer
must be either a railroad job or incom-petancth

This also gives the student member of
the UK Board a vote. Now there has been
a lot of fuss and feathers about this. Can
you imagine if Tim Futrell had this power
this year? Why he would have been forced
to take a stand on the issues facing the
Board before they were finally voted on.

y.

But that always was a favorite part of
any circus; plenty of clowns around the
ringmaster.

Kernel Forum: the readers write!
Pollution
To the Editor of the Kernel:
On Friday January 23, 1970, The Kernel printed an editorial complaining about
air pollution in Lexington. It contained
these sentences: "Air pollution discussion
is too much with us. It would be startling
if someone actually did something." It is
a shame that your editorial only added
to the discussion, rather than providing
some specific steps for your readers to take
to do something about the problem.
You could have previously urged
to testify at the air pollution
public hearings on past occasions as well
as at the up coming hearings. Also your
readers could have been notified before
the open meeting of the Kentucky Air
Pollution Control Commission (KAPCC)
that a critical vote on air quality in the
Commonwealth was to be taken. Luckily,
enough of the public did show up to require moving the meeting from a second-floo- r
conference room to the Health De-

partment auditorium, and with the initiative of Commissioners Breckinridge and
Swigart, persuade the KAPCC to adopt
strict standards.
But Kentucky is only beginning the
long battle. People who wish to do something may work with an organization
seeking clear air, thereby keeping informed
and lending their voice in the concerted
effort thtte groups are planning. Examples

of such groups are the Sierra Club, Audubon Society, health agencies like the National Cystic Fibrosis or Tuberculosis
Association; organizations like Action for
Clean Air, Inc., or the Environmental
Awareness Society here on campus.
One can start planning now to participate actively In the April 22 "Teach-In- "
on the environment. The Environmental Awareness Society is planning
action concerning the air polluters In
Lexington.
Another step is to write or call one's
state congressman to urge them to vote
for the bill to Increase public representation on the KAPCC. Balancing the board
with respect to industry and the public
could make a measurable difference in the
quality of Kentucky's air.
The case of air pollution in Kentucky,
and Lexington in particular for us, needs
to be brought before that Commission
and before the polluters themselves. "It
will be strangling" if we don't, but there
is something that can be done by everyone.
ROCER C. WESTMAN

Craduate Student
Chemical Engineering
Editor's note: The Kernel is planning a
special issue devoted entirely to the environmental pollution crisis. It will appear

Wednesday, Feb. 4.

* THE KENTUCKY KERNEL, Monday, Feb. 2,

1970- -5

At The University Of Arizona

Religion, Racism Create Political Chaos
By TOM MILLER
College Press Service
TUCSON, Arlzona-(CrS)-Mormon Church, Yippies,
Arizona's governor, the NAACP,
basketball, and the Pima County Superior Court have combined
to produce the biggest statewide
political cause in recent memory
at the University of Arizona.
The

As a result of the state's bungling, a half dozen people have
been maced, nine people have
felony raps on them,