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Tuesday, March 24, 1970

By ELAINE ROBERTS

Kernel Staff Writer
President Otis A. Singletary
lias accepted five of the 14 proposals coming from SO President Tim Futrell to involve students in UK decision-makinThe suggestions were part of
a plan entitled "A Proposal to
Involve Students in Administrative-Academic
Decision Making." Futrell submitted the plan
to the president earlier this semester.
Singletary accepted the following suggestions by Futrell,
all relating to University committees:
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Academic Council approval of
of a director of
academic affairs in the SG Cabinet.
Approval by the International
Students Committee of the addition of three students appointed
by the president from a list of
six names submitted by the SG
president.
University Coordinating Committee on Admissions to approve
the addition of two students appointed by the president from a
list of four names submitted by
the SG president.
Administrative Council to approve the addition of the SG
president.
Community College Council
to recommend to Communitv
College Dean Ellis F. Hartford
that he formalize the existing arrangement whereby two students attend meetings at the invitation of the Council.

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Singletary Willing
Singletary commented, "My
willingness to include students
on the administrative committees appointed by me is based
upon two personal convictions.

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"The first of these is my belief
the desirability of institutionalizing ways for the student
voice to be heard. The second
is my confidence that the students at this University can be
counted upon to act responsibly
in the discharge of their duties."
The additions to committees
will become effective in the
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academic year. The SG
president will have the power,
granted by Singletary, to make
nominations for these positions.
Disapproved Request
Singletary disapproved the request to add more student representatives to the Board of Student Publications. This
committee already has seven
students on it.
"The student representation
on this committee is equal to
that of the faculty and members-at-larg- e
the UK
combined,"
president remarked.
Five proposals were referred
by Singletary to the University
Senate Council, since "they are
creatures of the Senate or primarily academic in nature."
These five would affect the Academic Area Advisory Committees, University Senate Council,
Graduate Council, Undergraduate Council and Academic
Council of the Medical Center.
Futrell said the "student-involvemeproposals" were presented in the hope that "the
which
campus confrontations
other campuses have experienced can be prevented at UK."
In further remarks Futrell
said, "We sincerely believe the
best way to ease student tensions and frustrations is to involve students in the formulations of policies to put students
on the making as well as on the
receiving end of decisions."
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party, ACT (Action Coalition) was officially launched
Monday night by Chilli e Fulls, the party's campaign chairman, as
he read a brief statement about the new group. The party, which
will announce its candidates and platform Tuesday, is unique in
that it does not support any presidential candidate. Falls explained
that the party does not want to be a "crutch of any person ?'ity"
but instead represent the interests of all the students on campus.

A new SG

Kentucky Forester
Lectures On Strip
Mining Law History
By DON EGER

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Kernel Staff Writer
The history of strip mining legislation wai; presented before
approximately GO people at the Environmental Awareiess Seminar
Monday evening.
Pete Palone discussed the topic. The slender forester has been
with the Kentucky Department of Natural Resources f ,r 11 years
and has served the Division of Strip Mining and Reclamation for
three years.
Palone admitted that "professionals" know "some solutions to
some problems, but it is impossible to know all of the answers."
He said it was a "shame" that a state with a mining industry
like Kentucky's had not induced the necessary rt search to find
conclusive results concerning strip mining and its effect.
The federal government has not taken the proper s.eps, according to Palone.
Conservation Croups
"Conservation groups have utilized the impact a id the input
which they possess and have helped bring about the changes
in policy. They have tremendous power, but too many people are
content with compromises lather than the either-o- r ultimatum."
"Conservation groups have been powerful agents influencing
the government, especially those committed to th: reclamation
program not subsidized by the public," said Palone.
Palone felt that strip minir g regulations passed i i 19G6 were
important in the fight for Kentucky conservation.
In effect, the first regulation adopted completely changed the
method of strip mining. It separated the acidic materials from
larger, unusable materials by restricting them within the wall of
materials are graded
the larger stack. Later, the
to the bottom of the pit.
Slope Reduction
The second major regulation dealt with the reduction of slopes.
In his process the valuable ore is mined and the physical deterioration is eased by the excavation of the slope at a letser geometric
angle.
Palone stressed that the slope reduction method is costly,
since it disturbs a greater land area than is being min J.
Later Palone focused upon water pollution due to strip mining.
He stated that acid water pollution is maiidy concentrated in western Kentucky, not in eastern sections. "Ninety percent f the stream
pollution is physical and not acid," said Palone "Strea m sedimentation constitutes the greatest danger."
He noted that impounded water was extremely susceptible to
the acid particles exposed due to exposed coal stams. Pollution is
the end product.
Outs id Firms
He added that most of the strip mining in Kentucky is con- Please Turn To Pare 7
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Kernel Staff Writer
is time for the Student
Government circus to come to
an end! Students can now decide whether to act or continue
with the present establishment."
With this statement, campaign chairman Chillie Falls
launched the new Student Government party, ACT (Action
Coalition), "dedicated to building an organization from which
an increasing degree of student
communication, cooperation and,
therefore, voice in university affairs can arise."
Although ACT's candidates
and platform will not be released until Tuesday, Falls assured the audience that ACT
had assembled "students active
in many facets of University
life" Greeks and independents,
dorm groups, advisory council
members all "to work together"
to have more voice in university affairs."
ACT differs from other Student Government parties in that
it supports no presidential, vice
presidential or speaker candidates.
The explanation for this is
that "ACT is not the crutch of
any personality but a foundation
for the promotion of all student's
rights and responsibilities."
Fslls further detailed this
philosophy by saying "individuals may support whomever
thr y choose but cannot support
anyone in the name of Action
Coalition besides ACT candi-

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Kentucky forester Pete Palone discussed the history of strip mining
legislation Monday night to the weekly meeting of the Environmental Awareness Seminar. Palone also noted some effects of strip
mining such as water pollution.

dates."

Vote Rights

Bill Killed In
Legislature
By BARBARA

LOTTES

Kernel Staff Writer
Government bill
A Student
which asked voting privileges
for students and faculty on the
UK Hoard of Trustees was defeated in the Kentucky Legisl
Education Committees durthe past legislative session.
ing
Tim Futrell, Student Government president, said, "I would
account for the death of the bill
in the two committees' by pointing to several senators and representatives who are unwilling
to admit that college students
are mature and responsible."
The House Education Committee voted nine to eight opposing the bill. The Senate
Education Committee had three
votes endorsing it, three votes
opposing it and three abstentions.
Futrell said that the caliber
of these two committees left
something to be desired.
Crituietl Legislature
Futrell criticized the legislature's "double standards." Kentucky citizens may vote, enter a
binding contract, and may Ihj
on a Grand Jury at the age of
18, he noted.
Futrell said: "I very strongly
condemn the granting of responsibility without granting privileges that should accompany
them.
"MennVrs of the legislature
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Art Films Emphasize
Color And Motion
By JAMES

FUDGE

Kernel Arts Staff
One of the best segments of
the School of Architecture film
series was presented Monday
night, featuring six Carmen
D'Avino films out of the nine
shown.
Four of D'Avino's films were
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based on the principle of
photography, which used
objects being painted as the subjects. D'Avino began with a common object or area and proceeded
to paint it while making a flick
out of the various stages of development.

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technique. Simple designs depicting a train and railroad tracks
were presented over films of a
city, depicting how modem civilization lives and how fast we
move from one place to another.
"Transformation" by Ed
seemed to be just what
its name implied transformation. The flick wasn't static at
all, as various designs were
formed as if they were being
painted, and then were transformed into an entirely different
form. It was as if the artist
painted a picture, grew tired of
it and transformed it to some
other subject that could interest
him.

The most difficult film to comThe best word to describe the music of the Three Dog Night is
The group is composed of seven members, including the as everything was, opened, re- prehend was "Scacco Matto" by
"tight".
Bruno Munari. The whole thing
three vocalists pictured above, Cory Wells, Danny Hutton and vealed a kitten which promptly
seemed to be one film segment
Chuck Negroa. Each brought to the group his own musical style jumped out, and closed again.
shot through various colored fiand varied background. The result of this combination of talents
A piano played as its keyis the incredible range and flexible harmony they employ in all board was being painted. And a llers, on different grains of film,
their music. The group will be appearing Friday night in Louis- player piano roll moved across and in negative, of two men at a
ville at Freedom Hall.
the screen as various designs chess board.
At the end of the film, though,
appeared. The main theme of
the picture was not the painting there was a series of numbered
or the movement, but rather the segments showing moves made
by the men on the chess board,
heavy, colorful design work which
which were slipped in during
was the final outcome.
some
"A Trip," also by D'Avino,
segments in
the film. The winner of the chess
was done differently, using double exposure as its predominant game was never shown.

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will again appear in Kentucky,
this time for UK's Little Kentucky Derby.
This will be the first time
that a well established, well
known rock group has performed
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not do just rock; they perform
a kind of blues-roc- k
that carries
a message with it. They stretch
the most inelastic of musical
formats until it conforms to the
major musical talents that are
Steppenwolf.
The latest album by Steppenwolf, "Monster," is a bit heavier
in rock than the previous albums,
but the blues is still in there,
helping deliver the message Steppenwolf wants to spread.
Performing with Steppenwolf
will be Don McLean, a young
folk singer, with his own songs
and own mood in his performances. Like Steppenwolf, but in
his own style, McLean performs
songs with a message about America, not didactically but with
extensive understanding. He
makes observations about situations that need serious considerationfrom the deterioration
the Hudson River Valley to
the deterioration of our relationof

ships with others.
Between
Steppenwolf and
Don McLean, the LKD concert
will be diversified, with folk on
one hand, blues-rocon the other.
Tickets for the concert will
go on sale April 1, for $2.50
and $3.00 advance, $3.00 and
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Institute Studies

COLDEN, Colo. (CPS)-,T- he
only real revolution
the revolution of common sense. Our experience is
never just a plain Riven," said Burt Wallrich, 33, a
director of Institute Mountain West, founded for the
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"We understand our experience only through culture, and American culture is violence. Therefore, we
have a violent common sense," Wallrich said. "Hie
is that we have to teach
difficulty with
people a new common sense and that what they knew
before was nonsense."
Wallrich said after any "real" revolution, there is
a new common sense. "Up to 1785, it was common
sense that the king was the messenger of Cod, but
not after."
Wallrich and Anne Guilfoile, 27, formed Institute
Mountain West last October to further
as "a personal commitment and political-socia- l
force."
The Institute, located on Lookout Mountain near Colden,
is a branch of Joan Baez's Institute for the Study of
in Palo Alto, California.
Fast Activities
a fast
Last Thanksgiving, the Institute
with the Denver Resistance "to express our inability to
feast in thanks while the majority of the world's people
go hungry." Denver supermarkets were leafletted during
the fast.
Fasting is "a very effective means of communication,"

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Wallrich said. "When you say you're fasting, you really
seem to get through to people."
The Institute cooperated with the Boulder Workshop
in
demonstrations last month. Various places
in and near Boulder were leafletted to arouse concern
about "the destruction of the individual and the ennon-viole-

vironment."
the
To promulgate the philosophy of
Institute sends speakers to various community meetings
and holds frequent seminars at its mountain retreat.
Miss Guilfoile and Wallrich have spoken to groups
ranging from Boulder High School to the Young Democrats to the Arvada Ministerial Alliance.
In speaking at high schools, Wallrich said he stresses
that "what's going on with young people is not simply
a political revolution, but the creation of a countere
culture." The
represents a "rejection
of a narrow scientific viewpoint and a tempering of
rationality by inner experience," Wallrich said.
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non-violen-

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values leads to a
Acceptance of counter-cultur-e
"rejection of very basic things, like war is a good
thing, which is fundamental in our society," according
to Wallrich.
"Resist, support, and create" are key words when
"To build
Wallrich addresses adults on
a peace movement requires a change in the way you
live," he said, "not simply grafting it onto" your old

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Wallrich encourages people "to break through the
polite veneer of society" and resist not only the draft
but other institutions as well, like the tax system. He
supports "attempts to do things in new ways" resistance groups and communes and the "creation of
new ways to do things."
Schools organized by middle-clas- s
parents and courts
created by ethnic groups are examples of "new ways to
do things." Wallrich said schools and courts established
by minorities are important because the present institutions "don't value minority experience."
One of the first things you're taught in school if
you speak Spanish, he said, "is that your normal means
of communication is worthless."
In addition to speaking engagements, Wallrich and
Miss Guilfoile sponsor week-en- d
sessions on various
The sessions are held at the
aspects of
Institute's headquarters, the Lighted Lantern Camp,
on Lookout Mountain. The camp, with a lodge, dining
room, and cabins, is offered for minimal rent by a
World War II conscientious objector.
Future sessions will discuss the California grape
movement
strike as an example of the
and creative alternatives in a violence-oriente- d
society.
Last summer, Wallrich held two seminars in Colorado
for the California Institute. Wallrich said his experience
"really turned me on" and he decided to establish a
permanent institute here.
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Jean Renaker

Only Voters Needed

The groundwork has been laid
d
what should be the most
Student
Government
presidential election in several seasons; the remaining need is active
student participation and voter
for

highly-conteste-

turnout.

The result of all this preparation
was a voter number which rivalled
the student count on a Saturday
following final exams. Tim Futrell
was elected by less than 20 percent
of the campus population.
This year, most of the popular
campus leaders have graduated,
leaving the field open to a group
of unknowns. Only Steve Bright,
among the presidential candidates,
can be considered a real political
veteran. This election necessitates
increased awareness by the student
voter, who must follow the issues
with much mo re fervor than in years

It matters little how elaborately
an elections board prepares voting
procedure or how extensively candidates seek audiences if students
are unwilling to make the minimum
effort of marking the ballot.
Last year's fiasco is a case in
point. The candidates for president
were not only well known to most
students, they represented virtually past.
Above all, students must reverse
every popular viewpoint. Each camoften ap- their recent trend toward apathy.
paigned exhaustively and
peared in the same program for Awareness at the campus level can
purpose of open debate. They re- reflect awareness at the state and
ceived adequate coverage from the national level, hence leadership by
the young.
campus news media.

Academics, Athletics
Dan Issel and Mike Pratt have And although classroom ability ofnow joined the growing list of UK ten suffers unjustly in relation to
basketball immortals, along with sports, it is just as unfair to conCliff Hagan, Frank Ramsey, Bill clude that a sport does nothing
Spivey, Adrian Smith, Louie Dam-pie- r, but develop participants physical- Pat Riley and many, many ly.

others.
These men and their coach,
Adolf Rupp, have reaped honor
and prestige for the University and
the state as a whole. They have
distinguished themselves in their
particular field and made this state
hallowed in this area of athletics.
There are many who would criticize the heavy emphasis placed
on a highly physical endeavor such
as basketball, especially at the expense of academic achievement.

The heartbreak and happiness,
the drive and competition of athletics is easily transferrable to life
off the court. A last minute defeat
by Jacksonville does as much, if
not more, to build character within
UK players than an upset victory
over UCLA might have accomplished. With the defeat came humility.
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Academe could take a lesson
athletics in this respect.

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It Has (Dis) Advantages
With the threat of a nationwide dashery could go unpaid for a
postal strike growing more immitime, and those nauseous library
nent by the day, it might be well notices would be
to take stock of the advantages
On the other hand, from where
and disadvantages the move would would that indispensable parental
have on the typical college student. allowance come, or the latest issue
Regardless of whose side you are of Playboy magazine? What about
on in the controversy, the strike, if all that junk mail which includes
it develops, could greatly affect the free samples and discount coupons?
lives of most of us.
Without the weekly gossip sheet,
How nice it would be if we fallaciously known as the homeknew our parents had no way of town newspaper, the whereabouts
knowing about that failing grade of long lost friends and enemies
in an English course or the notice would not be known. "Dear John"
about academic probation. If there letters would have to be delivered
were no mail delivery, we wouldn't
and if one just had
have to use the same old staid to get away from his roommate
excuses for not writing home more for a while, the pat excuse of going
often. Boys wouldn't have to fill to the mailbox would be gone.
out those prying, embarrassing
Worst of all, the student would
questionnaires from the local draft not be able to write his congressboard and girls answer those emman and chide him for not giving
letters from lonely soldthe mailmen pay raises in the first
barrassing
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Kernel Soapbox
A great debate is raging regarding the
relevancy of Student Government on the
UK campus. Every student government
has as one of its primary responsibilities
the determination of purpose for its existence and operation. Student Government
need not become involved in those areas
of university administration and faculty
activities that have no direct bearing on
student welfare. Rather, Student Government should operate so as to represent
and reflect student opinions and should

not involve itself with student programming of such activities as concerts, etc.
The primary role of Student Government should be a representative one to
express student opinion on those matters
affecting the student body and to act in
behalf of students in institutional policy
making. Student Government must be directly involved in the formulation of university policies that have a bearing on
students' welfare. Any policies formulated
should evolve only after extensive student
involvement in the decision-makincess. In this realm there is no substitute
for meaningful student participation. To
institute a truly functional Student Government, the representatives must be fully
aware of the important issues involved
and not waste their time on meaningless
legislation.
The Student Government, being one of
the "myriad of long untended refonns
awaiting . . . the vice president for student affairs" should and most certainly
can be representative of the University of
Kentucky student body, thus hopefully
uniting the disparing factions of this organization.
To perform tlus seeming miracle, however, I propose that the Student Government Assembly evaluate itself closely and
attempt to be a meaningful body to represent student views and the desires of all
of the students on our campus.
Regarding the Executive branch the
student body will be delegated a much
more viable and crucial part in student
g

affairs at the University if we had shown
our support for the bills in both of the
Kentucky houses of congress, the passage
of which would have given the student
trustee a vote on the Board of Trustees.
The continuation of a Student Government that is to be representative of the
student body is not as impossible as it
may seem. With the help of all concerned students the official coordinating
body of many student activities could
well become an outstanding student oriented organization rather than a disfunc-tionand factional group bent on improving ones self ego.
MARK P. BRYANT,
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Representative Student
Government Assembly

Kernels
There nothing more difficult to take
in hand, more perilous to conduct, or
more, uncertain in its success, than to
take the lead in the introduction of a
new order of things.
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The chief foundations of all states, new
as well as old or composite, are good
laws and good arms; and as there cannot
be good laws where the state is not
well armed, it follows that where they
are well armed they have good laws.
Macfiiavclli
When neither their property nor their
honor is touched, the majority of men
live content.
Machiavclli
In proportion as the antagonism
tween classes within the nation
the hostility of one nation to
will come to an end.

be-

"Karl Marx

* THE KENTUCKY KERNEL, Tuesday, March

Radicals Suspicious Of Political Ties
Environmental Teach-i- n
College Press Service
Student activism on environ-mentissues is moving toward
its first national teach-i-n
faced
with disagreements over tactics
and ideology which threaten to
divide it in the same way as
earlier student movements concerned with the war in Vietnam
and racial issues.
In Washington leaders of the
group coordinating the national
teach-i- n
which now calls itself
Environmental Action said they
expect students from more than
COO
colleges to participate. They
expect as many as 1,300 high
schools and many community
groups also to be involved.
Activities which the coordinators say will take place in some
communities and on some campuses on April 22 include, seminars, courses, and mass meetings on environmental issues;
such "dramatizations" as the
al

presentation of satirical awards
to polluters, burying automobile
engines, turning spotlights on

belching
touring
industrial plants, and gathering
garbage and returning it to its
producers to be
Drafting model pollution laws
lawand preparing
suits are included in some
planned activities as well as demanding the establisliment of
university offices of environmental planning, to see that the institutions are not polluters;
marches and rallies at sites of
pollution; the presentation of
pollution film festivals, concerts,
and photo displays; writing and
distributing reports on local pols
or phone-in- s
lution problems;
to try to immobilize the operations of corporations deemed
guilty of pollution.
has
The national teach-i- n
smoke-stack- s,

anti-polluti-

sit-in-

come in for some criticism from
some more radical ecology groups.
Some radicals fear the environment is being used by politicians to take students' attention
away from war and racial issues.
Thus they are suspicious of the

teach-in-,

Tactics Criticized

and especially of the
sources of its money and its ties
with politicians.
Confronted with some of these
questions at last week's meeting
of student editors in Washington,
Denis Hayes, the national coreordinator of the teach-in- ,
sponded that his group had re-

ceived

its funds

entirely from

private foundations and

individ-

ual donors.
Hayes said also that even
the moderate ecology activists
had little faith either in President Nixon's announced plans
to clean up the environment or
in other politicians. "We're not
interested in the debate between
Nixon and Sen. Edmund S.
Muskie about how much the government should spend on stopping pollution," he said.
Underlying the disputes about
the teach-i- n are more basic disagreements about tactics and ideology that many fear may divide
the ecology movement.
Some activists believe the

basic causes of environmental
problems are scientific, such as
population growth that is out of
control, the misuse of technology,
and pollution of air and water.
Control population, change the
way technology is used, and get
industry to stop polluting, they
argue, and the environment can
be saved.
Others maintain that the roots
of the environmental crisis lie in
the economic and political system. Capitalism, they argue, is
oriented toward the exploitation
of resources and domination of
the environment. Until that system is changed, they say, the
environment cannot be saved.
This difference in analysis results in a disagreement over tactics as well.
One group believes in educating the public and trying to elect
politicians on environmental
platforms. Its members are afraid
of tying environmental issues too
closely to social controversies,
because they believe the public

'Weapons For Counterinsurgency' Draws
Attention To Use Of US Arms Against Militants
New Book

(CPS) "Weapons for Counterinsurgency," a publication of the
American Friends Service Committee, is must reading for political activists.
It provides a focus for protest