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Friday. November 12, 1976

KENTUCKY

an independent student newspaper J

Law students protest policies
restricting employment hours

By l)l(‘K GABRIEL
Assistant Managing Editor

Law students trying to register for
spring cla$es have been asked to
sign a form stating that they will
work at outside jobs no more than 15
hours per week.

And they don 1 like it one bit. Signs
on the law school doors proclaim.
“Standupfor your rights. Don't sign
the form."

College of Law Dean Thomas P.
Lewis “took the stand yesterday
afternoon in the (‘ollege of Law
Courtroom and fielded cross-
examination from approximately
150 law students who complained
that the “new' policy was an in
vasion of privacy.

“The rule is not new, but has been
dormant for two or three years,"
Lewis told the students. “This is not
something we dreamed up. (Student
working hours-i is something we feel
we need to have a handle on and
know something about.‘

After the meeting. Lewis said the
rule had been dormant “long enough
for the present students to not be
aware of it. They see it as something
new when it really isn t."

A memo this summer from Jim
White, an accrediting inspector for
the American Bar Association
tABAl. provided an interpretation
of an ABA standard that must be

followed in order to preserve the law
schools accreditation. The memo
states “A student may not work in
excess of 15 hours per week while
attending a school on a full-time <10
hours) basis.‘

The UK law school bulletin states
that “Any upper class student who
works more than 20 hours per week
may be required to reduce his
academic load." The bulletin is
being rewritten and the hours figure
will be changed to 15.

Any reduction of hours dropping a
student below a total of 10 would
change his classification to part-
time. A document circulated by the
Association of American Law
Schools iAALS), another ac-
crediting institution, states that “A
full~time student is one who devotes
substantially all of his working
hours to the study of law. Full-time
study can occur only in a program
where the curriculum and academic
schedule are so arranged as to
require substantially the full
working time of students. Part-time
study occurs in a program arranged
in such a manner as not to require
substantially the full working time
of students.

“ This is a full-time law school,”
Lewis pointed out. “The ABA and
AALS detemiine what constitutes a
full-time student."

“This school is not designed for

Moving out

Students leave hotels, motels as rates increase, dorms open up

By DONNA SMITH
Kernel Reporter

The Phoenix Hotel only has 20 and
the University Inn‘s last one finished
moving out Sunday. They‘re student
residents, and soon they‘ll all be
gone.

According to Jean Shinnick,
Phoenix manager, all students liv-
ing there have been asked to move
out by Dec. 19. “That date was
chosen because it‘s the end of the
semester,“ she said. “We‘re going to
be closing soon and won‘t be opening
again until early April. We plan to do
quite a lot of renovation.” Renova-
tion will include remodeling as well
as work on the plumbing and heating
systems, she said.

Shinnick said that when the hotel
reopens, there will be no permanent
residents living there. "We really
had more elderly people than stu-
dents living here,“ she said. “We‘re
trying to find something for them."

Wanda Chaddwick, reservations
manager of the University Inn, said
that there are no more students
living at the Inn. “We changed
hands in the middle of September
and we‘re now attracting an entirely
different type of clientele." she
said. “I really don't think UK

Where are
ya, fellas?

Dave Fadrowski. UK‘s linebacker.
was the first player to dress for
practice Wednesday in preparation
for Saturday‘s game against Flori~
da. Members of the press waited
outside the locker room for a

glimpse of the Wildcats.

students can afford to live here any
more.“

Rates at both establishments in-
creased this fall over a year ago. At
the Phoenix last year, it was $150 per
month for a double occupancy, while
this year‘s rate is $170. The Univer-
sity Inn‘s rates last year were $200
per month, this year it is $350.

“I really can‘t see any advantages
to students to pay these rates, but if
they want to, I don‘t really think we
would ever turn anyone away,“
Chaddwick said.

Shinnick and Chaddwick agree
that students never posed much of a
problem. Shinnick said the Phoenix
didn't have many problems consid-
ering there were never any chaper~
ones and Chaddwick said students at
the University lnn were treated as
other guests and usually acted that
way.

Jack Blanton, UK vice president
for business affairs, said UK is not
neglecting the student needs. “Cer-
tainly this is of concern to us and we
will look into the situation at both
places. However, since they are
private businesses there‘s not really
much we can do."

Lindley said that with students

the student who works full-time," he
said. That's what the part-time law
school is for and there are two in this
state." Both the University of
Louisville and Chase Law School
accept part-time students. '

The crowd was quick to point out
that the part-time schools are more
expensive, but Lewis replied that
students attending them are able to
work full-time to pay for it.

Lewis sa id he personally feels that
if a majority of students held jobs
which required more than 15 or 20
hours per week, grades would
consequently drop. “It’s got to affect
the quality of the school and that‘s to
the detriment of the students who
don't work at all, he said.”

But the law students don’t see it
that way. -

“We feel it's nobody‘s business
what we do in our spare time,
whether it‘s making money or
watching TV,” second-year law
student Bruce Singleton said at the
meeting.

Betsy Blackford, first-year
student, ageed that the issue was
not the actual number of hours. “It’s
not your business whether we work,
not just hours,” she told Lewis.

Second-year student Bob Vice
called the rule an invasion of
privacy and said accrediting
standards is not a valid reason. “If

graduating, transferring, etc., the
dorm situation won‘t be as critical
as it was this fall.

this is indeed a state institution, it
behooves you to challenge this in-
stitution ttheABAi,” he told Lewis.

Vice also proposed a poll of law
studaits which would determine if
full-time jobs do indeed affect grade
point averages. Vice said the poll
could then be presented to the ac-
crediting boa rds, which will inspect
the law school next year.

“That might do it, ldon't know,"
Lewis said. “The poll might tell us if
we‘ve got a problem or not. It might
satisfy the requirements for the
ABA. It seems so harmless in terms
of energy invested, I don’t see why
we shmldn‘t do it.”

“We‘re trying not to say you'd be
kicked out of here if you work more
than 15 hours,“ he said. “Maybe
that’s what the ABA would want us
to say.

“We know we're violating this
thing around the edges. The question
is, how much?"

For new law students who refused
to sign the form and subsequently
had their registration cards refused,
may now register for spring classes
until a definite decision is reached.

”1 don't mind tinkering with (the
rule), Lewis told the students.
“You don't have to declare yourself
in or out of law school at this time.
I'm saying there's a possibility that
it will be instituted as a policy to get

As for the possibility of other
motels being used as the Phoenix
was, Lindley said, “We’re always

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University ofKentucky
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Bill mom

(‘ollege of Law Dean Thomas F. Lewis fields questions from law students
during a meeting held yesterday in the (‘ollege of Law (,‘ourtroom. Lewis
received numerous complaints concerning a controversial policy
requiring law students to sign a form declaring that they are working no
more than 15 hours per week in order to be admitted for the Spring

semester.

some kind of statement about hours
worked as part of the registration
process.”

Lewis said law school officials will

looking for housing and there's
certainly a possibility that some—
thing like this might be found.“ She

meet to discuss the poll and that
students ca n find out about time and
place through the Student Bar
Association.

added, however, that no one in her
office is currently working on that
possibility.

Block seating plan gets mixed reactions

By KEITH SHANNON
Kernel Staff Writer

Block seating for UK
organizations at next semester‘s
basketball games became a reality
Wednesday when the UK Athletic
Association Ticket Committee
released plans whereby tickets will
be distributed to organizations in
blocks of 75 seats each.

Reactions to the news of the block
seating proposal by leaders of some
of the student organizations which
will be trying to obtain the seats,
however, ranged from delight to
dismay.

()ne of the delightful reactions to
the seating plan came from Sam
Willett, president of Boyd Hall. He
said the 75 seat restriction on the
blocks poses no problem for his
dorm. The main reason the plan is
suitable is that Boyd Hall is one of

the smaller dormitories on campus,
he said.

“For a dorm our size. 75 seats is
good,” he said. “It’s better than
lining up outside and getting the
tickets.”

Willett said that while he is sure
most of the Boyd Hall residents are
happy with the plan, he anticipates
that some of the bigger
organizations will claim that they
are going to “get the shaft” by the 75
seat limit on the blocks.

Willett's fears, however, do not
seem to be borne out by. the reac-
tions of the presidents of two of the
larger organizations. Robert Stuber,
president of Kirwan Tower, said he
can't see any problems for his
dormitory in the block seating
arrangements. He said the tower
may be permitted to obtain several
different blocks because of the large
number of students who live there.
Stuber said this same procedure is

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used in getting blocks for football
season. He said he believes most of
the Tower residents will obtain block
seats.

Linda Warren, Blanding Tower
president. said the multiple-block
system would be used for that
dormitory also. She said to her
knowledge, there is no opposition to
the proposal in her dorm.

And so much for the good news.

A more negative response came
from Jim Graft, president of Sigma
Alpha Epsilon fraternity. Graft said
the main problem he sees with the
system is that the larger
organizations will be the first to be
bumped from the block seats if the
requests for the block seats out-
number the seats available. llis
fraternity contains 125 members and
would therefore be eligible for
multiple blocks.

He said he views the decision to
make the larger organizations give

up their blocks first as

“discriminationfi

“We would probably be the first to
go. he said.

Graft said he feels that the ticket
procedures have brought about the
feeling across campus that the
basketball team "is no longer a
University team. instead, he said,
the team has become “a Lexington
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Coming candy crunch
could crumble country

Thtse who believe the government has a grip
on inflation probably don‘t eat candy bars. The
recent announcement by large candy bar
manufacturers that they are increasing
wholesale prices by 20 per cent signals the
begining of a new inflationary trend— “the candy

crunch.“

What now faces us is the prospect of the 25 cent
candy bar, inflated by the price of sugar in 1974.
and now reinflated by the price of cocoa beans.
The major manufacturers—The Nestle Co.,
Hershey Corp, M&M and Peter Paul—all cited a
100 per cent increase in the price of the beans,
which are imported chiefly from Africa.

The retail prices will take effect early in 1977

after the current bean stock is

price increase will raise a 15 cent bar to 20 cents
(a quarter in vending machines). The
manufacturers said the price increase could
have come sooner, except that sugar prices fell
some 90 per cent from the inflated 1974 level.
Analysis of the candy bar crisis reveals
potentially devastating effects on the economy
and on the mood of the country. It has been said
that the inflation experienced in the past few
years had a detrimental effect on the population,
not only in economic terms but also in their

perception of government.

The people‘s faith in the government fell
sharply because of inflation as well as the fallout
from the Watergate and intelligence agency
revelations. The recent increase in coffee prices
is seen as one of the worst effects on the
populations view of government.

Coffee is widely used and when the price rose
to a level that precluded consumption by some
users, their respect and confidence in govern-
ment (ell. The -“candy crunch” can be seen as

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having an even more drastic effect.

Unlikethe coffee increase, the inflated price of
candy bars could produce serious distrust of
government among very young Americans.
Unable to afford the more expensive bars or
receive an allowance increase from budget-

conscious parents, a significant number of

depleted. The

situation.

schoolage children could grow up with
heightened distrust of government.

The raised candy bar cost can also be seen as
having a detrimental effect on other products.
Toothpaste sales, dentists’ business, dental
supply industries could all decline as a result of
better American teeth caused by abstention
from over-priced candy bars. Dermatologists
and the acne medicine companies would also
lose business, further deteriorating the economic

American productivity generally might
decline from ever-increasing numbers of
students and workers taking time off to seek
other sources of oral gratification, bypassing the
vending machines containing overpriced candy.

Taken to its illogical extreme, the “candy
crunch” could mean the breaking point for the
sliding stock market or could provoke US. in-
volvement in the cocoa bean exporting countries

in Africa. In short, the effects of denying

thousands their Fifth Avenues and Hershey bars
could be too monumental to guage.

So, it is evident that what may seem an in-
significant development—the increase in candy
bar prices— could mark the beginning of more

harmful and far-reaching effects. We need a

greater government awareness of these
seemingly small problems which may in ac-
tuality be a signal for future developments of
greater implication.

Consumer focus

Columnist complains when steak and potato go down cold

Today‘s column was supposed to
be a cry to start the revolution. It
would‘ve been a call for militant
support of the anti—vending machine
movement, drawing support from
faculty and students alike. seeking
truth. justice and the American way.

 

bruce w. singleton

 

It was supposed to be a criticism of
the way Macke Vending (‘orporation
serves the [K community.

But a problem developed before
press time. Macke turned out to be
real people . not machines. putting to
rest the pervasive rumort. And they
also turned out to be very reason-
able.

The problem started last week
when I brought my brown bag lunch
to school with the notion of using the
{\Iackeprovided microwave oven to
heat my steak and baked potato
sandwich at lunchtime.

Lunchtime rolled around. I took
my lunch to the law school lounge

.and the oven was gone. Also
missing w as the sandwich machine I
use when I don't bring steak and
baked potato sandwiches.

I was irate? Have you ever tried to
eat a steak and baked potato

 

sandwich cold? You can‘t even get
the sour cream to melt. So I raised
cane. kicking an unfortunate trash
can that happened to be nearby.

“Someone will pay!" I vowed,
clutching my throbbing foot. And I
set about writing this column.

Now. on at least three occasions.
I‘ve used this column as a forum for
advocating complaints. “If you have
a valid complaint," I‘ve said, “tell
somebody. because nobody else will
take the trouble.“ But in many
cases. I have not practiced what I
preached.

I have not complained, for exam-
ple. about the law school‘s poorly-
designed Spring Schedule. That
schedule. it may be noted, could
very reasonably be expected to keep
a student in class on some days from
8am. to 7 pm. That might not be so
bad if the night class were not
required for graduation.

Nor have I complained about the
fact that the law school wants to
violate my constitutional right to
privacy and insists I must sign a
statement that I won‘t work more
than 15 hours per week or face
unreasonable consequences.

I really don‘t intend to complain
about those two areas—and as far as

v. M photo

 

I‘m concerned, this little criticism
will stay between you and me.
But back to Macke.

Macke Vending Corp. received
the exclusive contract with UK in
August, 1973 for vending machines
and concessions at ball games. Their
bid, promising to pay 18.13 per cent
off the top to the University, was by
far the best. '

In that contract, they obligated
themselves to establish “full ser-
vice“ areas and “limited service“
areas. The full service areas would
include all that is needed to put
together a good meal, including
dollar bill changers and microwave
ovens for customer convenience.

The contract also provided for the
removal of any machine from a
location which did not prove profit-
able, requiring only the permission
of UK‘s Purchasing Director Tom
Fields.

So, when the dollar bill changer
was removed from the law school a
year ago (because of repeated
thefts), the would-be Macke cus-
tomers who carried folding money
deserted the machine. All the while,
however, no complaints were made
about the service or selections in the
machines.

When the machines were removed
from the law school (and, incidental-
ly, no other areas on campus) last
week, Keith Lemmon, Lexington’s
Macke manager and the University
coordinators began to hear about it.
They all say they would‘ve made
changes in service. machines, item
selections, or whatever. if they had
known about the problems in the
past. They insist, however, that the
present complaints are the first
they‘ve received in over two months.

Now confronted with complaints
and suggestions on Macke service,
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Students’ needs more important
than classification of campuses

New York Times News Service
By PAUL RUDNICK

“Before putting together this
(‘ollege Issue ‘76, we did a survey of
too campuses to find out what are
the prime things that college
students want to do better. For in-
stance—how jeans are worn. . . .“—
Glamour magazine 8-76

As a Yale senior, I am, of course,
concerned about the jeans issue, but
I feel that the Shetland sweater
question is of more widespread
importance to today‘s college youth.
Why must America believe that
there is any consensus among
college students on anything, from
foreign policy to aerosol sprays? In
trying to establish justwho and what
the undergraduate set is in the mood
to buy, politicians. merchandisers.

solution. Though each vending ma-
chine on campus now contains a
phone number for service of defec-
tive machines, none contains a
number to call to suggest improve-
ments, complain for lack of proper
servicing, or even to praise the
company for having brought the
right item to the machine.

Stanley Ingram, the manager of
K~Lair and coordinator of the vend-
ing contract for the University, has
been the consumer service repre-
sentative for Macke for over a year.
Few people know about him, though.
An announcement was sent out to
the departments last year soliciting
comments, but it is unlikely that
many people read this memo.

Ingram‘s number I 258-5520), Lem-
mon says, will soon be placed on
each vending machine on campus.
This way, the machine user will be
able to let Macke know how they can
fulfull their agreement with the
University in the manner best
serving the consumer.

By the way, as a result of the
complaints, the law school has now
been promised the machines re-
quired to redesignate it a “full
service“ area. The sandwich ma-
chine and microwave oven arrived
yesterday, the coin changer is on its
way back. In addition, one student
will serve as a liaison with Macke
for making suggestions on selections
included in the machines.

The point, I hope, is readily
apparent. Complain when there's a
fault with the vending machines on
campus. Make suggestions when
you think ham sandwiches will sell
better than boiled eggs. And Macke,
through its campus representative
will listen and be reasonable.

magazines and film studios have
created a false impression of
universal student agreement.

This need to determine which way
a nonexistent pendulum has swung
has me quite confused. A recent
article in the Village Voice told me
that students today lack the “joy"
and “courage" of those in the
committed 60‘s—now we are
apolitical and yet dangerously
conservative. Of course, that article

 

 

Bruce W. Singleton is a second-year
law student. (‘msumer focus ap-
pears on Fridays.

commentary

 

concentrated on Harvard where, the
author claims, undergraduates bear
sole responsibility for the fate of the
nation. Maybe that’s why those
Cambridge kids always look so

exhausted; after all, they are up all

night filling out those questionnaires
from the United Nations. Thank God
I go to YaIe, so all I have to worry
about is getting my tuxedo pressed,
as I may have to re-create the Jazz
Age at any moment. Maybe I'll have
time after I finish studying, since
somehow I have also become in-
volved in bitter pre-professionalism.
Somewhere along the line I‘ll sneak
in a return to the 503; only
yesterday I had to refuse a needle
full of heroin, since I have switched
to beer and cheap wine (who am I to
contradict Newsweek?). Then, while
I’m indulging in the casual sex
resulting from co-ed dorms, I‘ll have
to phone for tickets to the Prom
since formal courtship is back.
Suddenly, just as I am about to put
on my Wallace button, I‘ll read
about Laura Krick, who,
Mademoiselle claims, goes to Yale,
and “plays squash, hikes and runs
two miles a day”— now that is what I
call a frightening trend among
college students today.

I understand the urge to
generalize. The 60's, in focusing
attention on campus activism,
created the myth of college students
as a unified special-interest group.
Adults, out of fear of another youth
revolt, or out of youth~worship, still
demand a single-note student
position on all issues. Then they will
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whatmusic not to listen toipiversity
would be, too diffic_uit,,a,nd timeL
consuming to cope with, let alone
include in a Back-to-School
catalogue.

College is a luxurious station in
life; self-expression is encouraged
without the need to make a living. It
is easy to see why college students
are the objects of both scorn and
envy. I realize that undergraduates
are one of the most lovingly tended
minority groups around, but it‘s still
no fun to be congratulated by an
alumnus for supporting Carter, just
because he read, in The Saturday
Evening Post, that all of my kind
did.

Many of the more farfetched
generalizations are backed up by
interviews and surveys with those
outspoken, if apathetic, students “on
campuses
Mademoiselle chooses 12 students as
Guest Editors to tell readers exactly
what‘s going on. This year two of
these stool pigeons were from Yale.
l have never heard of either one, and
since Mademoiselle threw in a
beauty makeover with the deal, I'd
never recognize them anyway. Why
wont anyone contact me or any of
my frienth? The only thing I have
ever been asked was the age at
which I first indulged in oral sex
which. since it was a Yale Daily
News poll. meant kissing). Being
surveyed sounds wonderful; the
collqze student's desire to be in-
terviewed is probably the only real
common denominator on all those
campuses. I never said that students
did not participate in their own
downfall; it's just too bad that
America is so eager 'to accept any
one student as truly representative.
As for me— whatever you want,
Time. whoever you say, Mr. Harris,
as often as you like, Penthouse. The
number to call in New Haven is...

America must be awfully bored.
“hen there's nothing good on TV,
collqze students are expected to
become family entertainment
although not. God forbid, a variety
show. I wish the country would
worry less about campus sexuality
and more aboutthe job shortage that
faces the current university talent
upon graduation.

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Indian Parliament
stiffens Gandhi’s

executive clout

NEW DELIII India [AP]—
The Indian parliament on
Thursday completed passage
of a historic constitutional
amendment stiffening the
executive clout of Prime
Minister Indira Gandhi‘s
government

With about a dozen op
position members sitting out
in protest, the upper house
voted 1910 to give the
government the sweeping
new authority it had
requested to rule this nation
of 610 million people.

The amendment will
become law after receiving
the anticipated endorsement
of a majority of India‘s 22
state assemblies.

Passage of the amendment
capped the series of dramatic
and seemingly permanent
changes implemented by
Mrs. Gandhi in the 17 months
since she proclaimed a
national emergency and
curtailed individual rights
and pre& freedom.

Four major non-
Communist opposition
parties, boycotting the
current special legislative
session, labeled the amend-

ment “a blueprint for dic-
tatorship.' They contended
thatitwouldclearwayforthe
final dismantling of the
democratic institutions
embodied in India s 26-year-
old charter.

The opposition cited the
recent decision to postpone
national elections for at least
another year as proof that the
Gandhi has no intention of
restoring soon the political
processes which had allowed
India to call itself “the
largest democracy in the
world."

During months of public
discussions and the last two
weeks of parliamentary
debate, however. the
government has staunchly
denied that the amendment
and the decision to postpone
elections represent a blow to
Indian democracy.

“What is being done is not
at all to destroy democracy.
but to maintain and protect
that democracy." Law
Minister H. R. Gokhale told
the lower house prior to its
366-4 approval of the
amendment last week.

State files cancellation of warehouse lease

FRANKFORT [AP]-The
state has filed official notice
of cancellation of a con-
troversial Lexington
warehouse lease.

Finance and Ad-
ministration Secretary

' "Russell McClure confirmed

Thursday that the state
formally cancelled the lease
Wednesday, but he said it was
a matter of procedure and
that notice of cancellation
had been given Lexington
attorney Robert S. Miller last
week.

McClure advised Miller of
the cancellation in a letter
dated Nov. 3.

The cancellation was
recommended by a special
committee named by Gov.
Julian Carroll to review the
lease. Carroll directed Mc-
Clure to carry out that
recommendation im-
mediately.

According to documents
released last week by the

governor's office, the notice
of cancellation contained a
clause allowing the state to
cancel the lease after 90 days
nouce.

However, Miller. a prin-
cipal in the Land Develop-
ment Co., which bought the
property in question, waived
the 90day waiting period in
his respmse to McClure‘s
letter.

The notice filed Wednesday
by the Finance and Ad-
ministration Department
cancelled the lease
retroactive lo Oct. 1, the date
the lease took effect. That
cancellation, without the
waiting period, was made
possible by Miller's waiver.

Miller. a Fayette County
campaign worker for Carroll
in 1975, and Frankfort
businessman Rodney Ratliff,
bought the property con-
taining the warehouse for
$335,884 on Oct. 1, the same
day the lease was signed by
the state.

Truth in advertising

Catalog aims for realism in campus descriptions

LAKE FOREST III.
[APl—Tuition will go up, the
social life isn't the best and
neither is the library.
Transportation is a problem
and the history department
offers only bare bones
courses for a major.

This '5 what Barat College,
a four-year Catholic women's
institution, has begun telling
prospective students in an
attempt to make its catalog
more accurate.

Funded by a $23,000 grant
from the Department of
Health, Education and
Welfare, Barat produced
what it tells applicants is “a
new, experimental way of
presenting the complete and
accurate information you
need to choose a college."

lt promises to bane all, good
as well as bad. and it tells
applicants its accuracy was
audited by three higher
education specialists from
Syracuse University.

Here is a sampling:

——Library: “The on-
campus book collection isn't
the greatest. . .Aesthetically
the library is a beautiful
place. but as a place to study
or do research it has short-
comings."

—History: “Lamentable
decline of interest in
historical studies ex-
perienced at Barat;...-
department retains bare
bones of major while in-
troducing survey courses for
nonmajors."

—'Music Department:

The lease called for the
Commonwealth to pay up to
$3m,496 per year for renting
the warehouse.

McClure signed the lease
without advertising the
state's need for space, a

customary . procedure _ under ‘_

the governor's lease policy.
McClure contended an
emergency need for space
existed.

Carroll said last week that
McClure had done nothing
illegal in signing the lease.
but had made “a mistake in
judgement.”

“The lease was not a

violation of law. it was a
violation of my executive
policy, Carroll said.

The governor said he did
not think a similar situation
would occur again because
McClure had been instructed
as to how to interpret the
executive policy.

A probe of circumstances
surrounding the lease
negotiations is underway by
the Franklin grand jury.

The governors special
commission has recom-
mended that the state 5 need
for additional space he
submitted to bid.

Babbage to join Carroll staff

LEXINGTON [AP]—
Robert A. Babbage, ad-
ministrative assistant to the
mayor, and Joe Catt, in-
formation officer for the
urban cainty government,
have resigned.

Babbage said he would

“...Major itself will soon be
phased out. Good courses for
nonmajors."

— Biology: “Two-person
de