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Friday, April 30. 1976

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Last chance

Julie Jacoby, medical technology freshman. and Jim hookwork in the sunshine. For a double shot of huh
Stone, engineering freshman.contemplate the last week's realities to come see page 11.

Educational side lacking

WBKY fails to meet its goals

(Editor’s note: This is the third articleof a
three part series on WBKY. l'K's FM
radio station. Information for this series
was compiled over the last six months by
John Winn Miller. associate editor. and
former Kernel staff writer Ron Mitchell.)

“ Radio station WBKY-FM will
provide educational programming
for the student body and public
service programming to the com-
rnunity."

—l'niversity of Kentucky
Biennial Budget Request. Itl'r'ti-‘r'tt

This definition of purpose for the
University-owned radio station was
contained in the UK budget request to the
1W6 General Assembly. 'l‘hat budget
request was approved by the University
trustees. who are also listed as WBKY‘s
owners in the station‘s 1976 license
renewal request to the Federal Com-
munica tions Commission «FCC i.

The license renewal application also
includes a breakdown of WBKY's
programming and notes that there is ,no
"instructional“ or "general educational"
programming and that no changestare
anticipated over the next three years. the
period an FCC license covers.

The University budget request includes
the following breakdown for the per-
centage of various WBKY programming:
35 per cent classical music. 35 per cent
(liscusion of news and public affairs. and
so per cent types of other music.

The l-‘('(‘ license renewal request. in
contrast. includes these figures for
\l’BKY's actual programming per~
eentages: 23.4 per cent performing arts.
23.9 per cent public affairs and news. 30.6

per cent light entertainment and 12 per
cent miscellaneous programming.

University administrators connected
with WBKY insistthat its primary purpose
is to serve as a "visible link between UK
and the community.“ To meet this ob-
jective. the station‘s organization, and
management have been structured in a
non-academic manner.

But there is no proof that the station is
providing a community service. There
have been no surveys taken to evaluate
WllKY‘s audience. either on campus or
within the Lexington community.

analysis

Asked abort the extent of WBKY's
audience. station manager Don Wheeler
readily noted that a 1973 survey showed 66
per cent of the student body listed to the
popular progressive rock show “After
Midnight.“ lle said there are no figures on
other WB KY programming or its audience
within its liomile signal radius.

Alter Midnight‘s format was changed to
provide jazz music in 1974. when com-
mercial l-‘M station WKQQ entered the
Lexington media market.

There have been no audience surveys
taken since that time because of the cost
and inaccuracy of some reports, Wheeler
said. He contends that if the station were
not meeting its designated purpose either
within the University or community, he
would receive some feedback from
listeners. '

But in his reliance on positive or
negative comments from only WBKY
listeners. Wheeler is ignoring the needs of
the overall community. which could be

 

determined by a comprehensive survey.

Wheeler is also ignoring the station's
responsibility to provide educational
programming for the campus. According
to his own stastistics. there will be no in-
structional or general educational
programming over the next three years, in
apparent contradiction of WllKY‘s pur-
pose as outlined in the University request.

These types of programs are offered by
other University ~opcrated stations around
the state, which also serve the community
service function.

For example, at Eastern Kentucky
'linivers‘ty, WEKU broadcasts one course
in which listeners can receive three hours
of academic credit while attending only a
few class session throughout the semester.

A similar course over the air has been
proposed for WBKY by Dr. John
Stephenson. dean of undergraduate
studies. Stephenson said the UK station
should servemore of an academic function
in its programming and said he is con.
sidering more projects for the future.

Paul Owens, media services director
and Wheeler‘s immediate superior. said he
hopes that in the future. there will be a
more systematic organizational
relationship between WBKY and
academics.

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South Hill

Property owners
try to stop LCC

in court next week

By CHARLES SMITH
Kernel Staff Writer

Several South Hill property owners
and tenants will goto court next week in
an effort to block further property
acquisitions by the Lexington Center
Corporation (LCC), according to in-
formed sources.

What had been announced merely
three weeksago as tentative plans for a
lawsuit have now materialized, the
sources said. A $15,000 matching grant
from the National Trust for Neigh-
borhood Priservation in Washington
l).(‘. made the suit possible.

The lex'mgum-Fayette Urban County
(iovemmcnt, LCC and possibly others
will be named as defendants in the suit,
the sources said. The suit will claim
that LCC property acquisitions are
illegal. thrugh it is not known what
legal grounds will he cited by attorneys
for the South Hill groups to substantiate
the assertion.

Several sources have said that the
suit is not a delay tactic intended to
harrass the we as has been asserted.
Rather. they say, it represents a con-
certed effort to halt LCC land purchases
permanently.

It is unlikely that temporary
restraining orders will be sought
because LCC has not begun its second
phase of land acquisition on Kilmore
(Tourt. Maxwell Street, High Street and
Poplar Alley.

lf LCC should begin purchasing that
land while the case is being tried, South
Hill residents will seek a temporary
restraining order, contingent upon the
outcome of the litigation, the sources
said

Lu! is purchasing land in the neigh-
borhood for 15.3 acres of parking space

 

for the Lexington Civic Center.

 

 

Although WBKY does offer grants-in-aid I --

to 15 students there is little room for ad-
vancement or for independent projects,
nor is there any faculty supervision.
obviously. WBKY serves only a small
minority of students. in addition, the
station is apparently failing to meet its
goals as a community service and as an
educational urit for students.

 

Today's b the last issue of the Kernel
for this semester. The summer edition
will be published every Thursday
starting on June l7.

 

 

 

    
  
  
 
 
  

 

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Editorials do not represent the opinions of the University.

Bruce Winges

Editor-in-Chief

Ginny Edwards
Managing Editor

Susan Jam
Editorial Page Editor

John Winn Miller
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WBKY deserves a closer look

When deciding whether to spend
$7i,000 annually on WBKY, UK
should take a closer look at how
well the University owned and
operated station meets its stated
goals.

According to the UK 1976-78
biennial budget request, WBKY
should provide educational pro-
gramming for students and should
act as a link for UK with the
Lexington community. it appar-
ently does neither.

WBKY serves little academic
purpose. Student participation and
input is minimal. The station’s
own records show there is no
educational programming aimed
at students.

in addition, there is little room
for students to work at the station,
in order to gain valuable iob
experience, unlike other state

universities which use the stations
as an educational tool.

For example, Morehead
University’s station employs 40
students, according to its station
manager. WBKY employs only 19.

The station’s $71,000 budget is
difficult to iustify when consider-
ing what little connection WBKY
really has to the general campus.

And it is even more difficult to
justify when considering the
theoretical and undetermined
audience WBKY has in the
community.

The only listener statistics
around, according to WBKY
station manager Don Wheeler,
indicate 66 per cent of the campus
listened to "After Midnight," a late
night, progressive rock show. But
the show was cancelled and no
other listener surveys are avail-

able. -

How can WBKY call itself a link
to the community when it has no
idea who is listening to its broad-
casts or what they want to hear?
WBKY is using a hypothetical
audience which it is unsure of to
take a viable educational tool away
from students.

it is also short-changing the
general community by not finding
out what Lexingtonians want to'
hear.

Admittedly, WBKY does provide
a service which is otherwise
unavailable in the Lexington
area—it plays classical music 40
per cent of the time and broadcasts
National Public Radio Network
programs.

But without statistics it’s hard to
determine iust how essential that
service is.

 

Misleading

Editor:

Thursday’s Kernel reported that
three UK law teachers expect to be
visiting on other campuses next year
while on leaves of absence from the
University. The headline and opening
paragraph of that article attributed two
of these leave to "dissatisfaction with
administrators." The "dissatisfac-
tion" referred largely to differences
respecting the procedure for appointing
the new law dean. in this regard the
headline and story were misleading.

referred to are Robert Sedler and the
iundersigned. l cannot speak for Sedler.
Neither. however, can your reporter
in as much as the article states that he
,was unable to contact Sedler.
Speaking for myself, and in fairness

the University. The opportunity to visit
on the California-Davis law faculty
would have been sufficiently attractive
even had the recent dispute never
occured.

 

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The two ”dissatisfied” teachers

to all concerned, my decision was not'
affected by my recent differences with -

Alvin L. Goldan
Law professor,

 

  

 

   
   
   
  
  
   
  
  
  
 
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  
     
   
   
  
   
   
   
  
  
     
   
  
  
   
    
    
  
  
  

 

  

Some critical and non-critical remarks

When the time comes to write the last
column of the year, it’sawful tempting
to try to, well, sort of wrap up all the
themes presented here in the past nine
months and to deliver them to you, the
reader, in one tidy. comprehensisve,
all-encompassing package. The

natural urge is, in other words. to play
God—to lay down That Truth Beyond
\Mtich Nothing Could Be Truer.

 

 

if i had the time maybe I’d give in to
that urge, even though it would be a
mistake. But since a test on the law of
evidence has intervened into my
cerebral observations, i don’t have
time to do anything except study, eat
and sit on the iohn. I knowthe Hearsay
Rule, and about 237 exceptions to the
Hearsay Rule, and about so exceptions
to those exceptions, but not many
nuggets of galactic knowledge come to
_mind right now.

Even though studying for these
exams is like contracting a case of
mental Tunnel Vision, l have managed
to observe a few things about the out-
side world that I would like to bitch
about before I lose my chance to
kibbitz forever. On the other hand, I'd
also like to make a few non-critical
remarks since my boss has wondered
aloud to me if anything ever happens
around here of which I approve.

First off, I iust can't, understand
those Burger Queen commercials.
First there was Queen Bee, a
remarkably bad answer to Ronald
McDmald. who reminded me of some

refuge from a hive infested with
polyvinyl chloride fumes. Then there
was last fall’s ad campaign, featuring
the slogan: "if you fixed this at home,
you’d call it the best hamburger you
ever ate.” That’s not too bad in itself,
but the poor slob who narrated the
travesty looked likea leftover from the
Nixon-bopper crowd. Now we are
subiected to some ierk whining:
"Don’t forget the FRIES! Don’t
FORGET the fries! DON'T forget the
fries!" Now, if i could iust forget the
commercial, maybe i could eat the
fries.

Second, I‘d like to thank columnist
Scott Payton for reminding me, almost
every week,about how much fun it once
was to read Dr. Hunter S. Thompson's
books. As Thompson himself might
observe, as he did in ”Fear and
Loathing on the Campaign Trail ’72":
”I've been here all night drinking
coffee and Wild Turkey, smoking short
Jamaican cigars and getting more and
more wired on the Allman Brothers’
‘Mountain Jam,’ howling out of four big
speakers hung in all four corners of the
room. After two years on The Edge,
involuntary retirement is a hard thing
to cope with.”

Third, i don’t know why everybody
gives the Lexington Center Corporation
(LCC) so much grief over this silly
South Hill thing. The LCC has been
truly responsive to the needs of people
in this situation—the people who have
property interests in downtown
Lexington, that is. What else is our
government for anyway, it it's not to
protect property interests? It’s all in
the Constitution—iust take a look.

Fourth, I’d like to congratulate our
law school dean, George W. Hardy, III,
for his open-mindedness on the Moot
Court Banquet speaker controversey.
Hardyd idn‘t make it tothe banquet this
year, breaking a precedent that has
been in existence for years. l on.

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derstand that he did attend last year—
when the speaker wasa lawyer who had
participated in the defense work that
resulted in the acquittal of John Mit-
chell in the Mitchell-Connally trial of
l974.

Fifth, I want to challenge all the
people who have ioined the cult of
Kentucky Kernel haters around
campus to come forward to try to help
make the Kernel a better newspaper.
This is, of course, assuming that the
critics are capable of writing an un-
derstandable sentence. The Kernel’s
doors are not closed to any but a clique
of people—l should know, I didn't know
a soul on the staff when I came to
Lexington this year.

I can understand the view that the
Kernel isn't the best college rag
around, but I ask: who among the
critic has considered that because this
paper has the rare distinction of being
financially selfsufficient, it can only be

 

as comprehensive as the revenue it
generates? This is a matter of plain old
economic and accounting. Money
limitations means two things: i. the
paper is limited in number of pages,
and 2. the staff is limited by the amount
of salary that can be paid. I am one
person who can appreciate the product
put out by the Kernel in light of the

surrounding circumstances.
I would like to sincerely thank, for

making it a better year—the TolIy-Ho,
”NBC Saturday Night,“ President Otis
A. Singlelary/s decision on Bill Davis’
residency status, the VMI football
team, Joni Mitchell, the Student Center
Board film committee, and the non-
professional employes of the University
for holding the place together despite
their low wages.
Have a good summer.

 

Dick Downey is a second-year law
student. This is the final installment of
his weekly columns in the Kernel.

 

 

 

 

 

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It is not easy to know the truth

 

By George Potrctz

Lexingotn Herald reporter Steve
Anderson says that i am inaccurate in
my claim that the local media have in
the past weeks attempted to block
South Hill from the public mind.
Though my argument is not with An-
derson, some of whose articles I have
found very instructive, I beg to differ
with him briefly.

Of the 20 or so articles Anderson says
the Herald has run on the South Hill
issue since the end of last year, most

 

are from the period berfore the city
council meeting on Jan. 29, when the
council and the Lexington Center
Corpcration (LCC) moved to close off
any further consideration of alternative
parking plans. Since that time, trying
to get any media coverage of continuing
resistance to the city’s plans has been
like trying to get free handcuts at the
Second National Bank.

Where was the Herald (or the Leader
or TV stations) when we demonstrated
in frontof Second National on Feb. 6, or
on Feb. l3or on Feb.20? Where was the
Herald when we prevented the forcible
eviction of Mrs. Croucher on Patterson
Street? Anderson complains that no
one at the University condescended to
tell the Herald of our petition calling on
the University not to sign a contract
with the LCC. But if the Herald had
chosen to cover the rally at the Student
Center on March 4, it could have found

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out all about it. We informed the
Herald- Leader of that rally in advance,
as we informed the local papers of‘the
other actions.

But undoubtedly I complain too
much. Seeing the kind of coverage the
Herald is capable of giving us, we
should probably be grateful for being
ignored. Take as an example the
Herald’s report of the city council
meeting of Feb. 26. At the meeting,
dealing with the city’s relocation
proposals, Mayor Foster Pettit slipped
out early, leaving it to Vice Mayor
Scotty Baesler to field public com
ments. Then (in the words of the

Kernel not the Herald), ”after three.

people spoke in protest of . . . the
relocation plan Baesler . . . asked for
more comments. Despite the fact that
several people raised their hands to be
recognized, Baesler rapped his gavel on
the council table and said, ’seeing none,

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the meeting is adiourned.’ Shouts from
the angry spectators, who obviously felt
that Baesler had intentionally
disregarded them, followed Baesler
and several other council members as
they madea hasty exit from the council

chambers." (I confess, I confess, my
“Bullshit!” was among the angry
shouts.)

How did the Herald report this oc

curence the next day? Well, the
headline read “Shouts Close Council,

and the firstparagraph states: "Shouts
of profanity from several of 65 South
Hill residents last night brought a
meeting of the Urban County Council to
a hasty close.“ It's not always easy to
know the truth, but I can sometimes
recognize a lie when i see one.

 

George Potratz IS an assistant English
professor.

 

 

 

 

 

South African article absurd, reckless

 

By Titus O. Okolo

It is a shame that the Kentucky
Kernel should allow itself to be an in
strument for derogatory ' remarks
perpetrated against Africans in general
and South Africans in particular. The
article in question was written by
Kernel Staff Writer Keith Shannon in
the April 19 issue of the'Kernel with the
headline ”UK Couple Will Study Africa
First Hand This Summer." Shannon's
remarks and statements made by the
Rev. William Geyer and his wife were
not only absurd, but reckless and
stupid.

 

I would like to remind Shannon and
Geyer that African Bushmen have
something in common with Dr.
Christian Barnard, even it Geyer and
his wife do not make the visit to South
Africa. They are children of God just
like you and reporters like you who are
determined to dig up slurs that have
continued to keep Sauth African blacks
in perpetual bondage, whose primary
motive is to associate Africa with
anything that is bad and primitive, and
are blind to see anything good in Africa.

The major reason why this article
was published was to remind the

University community that there are
some Bushmen in South Africa and that
civilization, the way Shannon and the
Geyer see it, would be brought to their
door steps. Geyer will explore the
possibility of bringing the word of God
to them through his ministry. Shannon
still has to explain how Geyer and his
wife will study the African continent by
just revisiting South Africa, coupled
with their so-called missionary ex-
ploration or visit to the Khalahari
Desert.

Being originally from Scuth Africa,
he had ample opportunities to spread
his good will among these people the
Bushmen of the Khalahari Desert and
the Atrikaners in South Africa. But he
ignored this, and now all of a sudden,
the Holy Spirit descended on him and
his mission being to study the Bushmen
of South Africa in the Khalahari Desert
and contrast them with the Atrikaners
and the "coloured” Hottentots for
future missionary expedition, and also

' to being his type of civilization to the

people of the Khalahari Desert.

One could not help but wonder why
Geyer is going back to South Africa for
this so-called study, since he already
claimed to know everything from the
amount of rain that the Khalahari

people have seen to the lifestyle of the
Atrikaners. He could sit down here in
the campus and write his biased report
and save himselftime and money. But
if he has already decided to go anyway,
I would hepe that there would be a lot of
rainfall either before or during his visit
to the Khalahari Desert so that the
Bush men he is trying to visit would
know that the Messiah is coming or is
with them or else he has to carry a lot of
water to show them since he claimed
that most of these people have not seen
rain.

It is an honor for him, also, to be the

first white man they will see, so let me.

congratulate you Geyer before your
departure. Oh, lest you forget, he will
get credit for em bracing this Herculean
task thrOugh the Uk Honors Program
and the Office of Experiential
Education, in coniuction with the an-
thropology department.

As it what Geyer and Shannon have
said are not enough, Mrs. Geyer
reminded us that "almost each nation
(in South Africa) has an almost dif-
ferent (whatever that means)
anatomical structure." This statement
is very interesting for we are for the
first time teaming why the apartheid
policy in South Africa has been
maintained up-to-date. For the interest

of those who have not seen South
Africans, lthink your comments will be
more informative if you could have
gone ahead and stated that these people
have two heads and four eyes and that
their cardiovascular systems consists
of nothing but water instead of blood.

May l, also, remind Mrs. Geyer that
these people have no red blood cells,
should shehappen to be confronted with
this task. All these, I am sure will help
prepare you for studies in nursing
leadership which is your primary ob-
iective. This hopefully would help you
get an honor for scientific discovery.

The African students on this campus
in particular and all peace-loving
people in this University community
demand an apology from the editor of
the Kernel for allowing these slur
remarks and statements to be
published and from Shannon and the
Geyers for making dehumanizing
statements against African people in
general and South Africans in par-
ticular. The editor of the Kentucky
Kernel should be more careful as to
what is published and avoid the usage
of sensational headlines that have
nothing to do with published articles.

 

Titus O. Okolo is an animal sciences
graduate student who is from Nigeria-

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

   
  
  
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
    
   
 
    
 
  
   
 
  
   
  
 
  
  
  
   
 
  
  
 
 
   
  
  
    
   
 
  
 
  
   
   
  
  
   
  
 
 
   
  
 
   
   
 
     
   
  
  
  
  
   
  
 

Cle rification
Editor:

I‘d like to clarify some mistaken
impressions left by Editorial
Editor Susan Jones’article, “Skillman
and Oberst quit (debate) team," in
Tuesday’s Kernel. To begin with, the
statement attributed to me that "We'll
have to start from scratch (next year)"
was not my own. While it is true. as I
had stated, that the U K squad will have

many new members (as it does every-

year), several highly skilled members
are returning (i.e. the team that placed
third 'at the National Novice Tour-
nament at Northwestern University,
which is as high as any UK team has
~finished there). Other varsity mem-
bers are also likely to return.

I would also like to dispel some of the
sensationalism generated by the ar~
ticle. While it is true that Gerry
(berst and l are ”quitting,” this is
nothing controversial. Oberst has only
one semester of competitive eligibility
anyway, and I had planned long ago to
leave competition at the end of this
year; this was an early understanding I
had with Debate Coach J. W. Patterson.

Finally, Ietme counter an impression
left by the article that there is some
conflict between debate and
academics. Debate is an academic
pursuit (obviously), and an extremely
demanding and comprehensive one at
that: the extensive "files” of evidence
we Iugged to tournaments represent
months of detailed research and study
of highly relevant problem areas. My
concern, as stated in the article, was
more for a shift in emphasis, rather

than a ”tradeoff” to academics.
Gil Skillman

A 8. S junior

Creation
Editor: .

In regard to the letter of Paul Hulker
concerning John R. Baumgardner’s
April 22 commentary, I believe that
Hulker has not read anything on the
subject of scientific creationism. The
scientific creationists have been
coming forth with interesting new
theorieswhich showthat the findings of
science are quite capable of a

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creationist interpretation. The
University would do well to begin of-
fering a murse in this new and
fascinating discipline.

Hulker states; "That evolution is
fact has been well established." This
statement is patently false. No one
questions‘that natural selection and
adaptive mechanisms exist inbioiogical
populations as we find them today.
However, the notion that evolutionary
mechanisms explain the existence of
all living things and even of the earth, _
solar system and indeed the entire
universe is mere speculation. cannot be
experimentally verified and is open to
seriousquestion. _

l presu me that the existence of God is
an underlying issue in the argument. _
The resurrection of Christ from the
dead is well documented history. and
that fact alone is sufficient evidence to
support a belief in God. What, then,
was His role as Creator? ,

Paul L. Cornelius
Statistics associate professor

ERA

Editor: _

In the past, the Equal Rights
Amendment (ERA) has been fought for
in state leg islatures across the country
through lobbying and massive letter-
writing campaigns. These methods

have proven ineffective in convincing ,

legislators that the majority of US.

citizens want the amendment ratified.

The National Organization of Women,
devising a new method of support, has
decided to visibly show these doubters

that thousands of people exist who .
support the ERA by calling for a
national demonstration in Springfield,
May 16 at )1 am. Five thousand people
have already committed themselves to
march (a "freedom train” has been
rented by 700 women of New York and
Pennsylvania for transportation to
Springfield) and more are expected. A
carpool will be leaving Lexington May
I5 for Springfield, overnight lodging
will be provided.

For carme information, call Shelley
Griffith at 269-4381 or Carol Dussere at
255985l.

Shelley Griffith
Council on Women's Concerns

 

 

Religious beliefs
affect progress

 

7W JamesTPeter

There is a world, far from religious
belief, where humankind can survive
by relating his-her intellect with that of
other intellects. Religious belief affects
intellectual progress. The two are
incompatible. Intellectual progress
favors a sound, logical maneuver that
intends to elicit truth, while religious
belief assumes truth and requires that
we accept this "truth" on faith. Even

 

Christian virtues become subverted in.

our daily lives.

Why are we so proud? What pride
can there be in exploiting and
examining our so-called ”brothers,"
”friends” or other relationship-terms
that manipulate people into a role to be
fulfilled. How many of us try to use the
concepts we hear berbalized so freely——
concepts such as honesty, trust, un-
dersta nding and love. Why aren’t these
wonderful fabrications working out?
We seem to be intimidated by the
prospect of being rejected, of not
measuring up to someone else’s per-
ceptions which may or may not be there
anyway, of seeking applause and ap-
proval. However, we let these non-
existent perceptions create new wholes
in our fragile personalities. We must
free our intellects, we must choose.

The state and religious organizations
seem to undermine the thinking
processes of the individual by instilling
fear of the unknown and hideous
atrocities (Satan, sin, agonizing
flames, loss of immortal redemption),
not to mention known threats that are
children of even harsher realities
(wire-ta pping, gangland murder, dying
junkies arid lead-poisoned children).
The list goes on ad infinitum. These
realand unreal events in our world also
tendtoaffect our trust in ourselves and
those around us, diminish our belief
that we are able to judge correctly and
act effectively and encourage an at-
titude of suspicion and withdrawal
ra lher than growth and confrontation.

Are the pemle considered so stupid
that they are incapable of sound
thougit? Have their environments
been perceived so inferior that they are
looked down upon? It may be nice to
know who is doing the'perceiving, if
anyone is interested. I propose that
many politicians don't know much
about logical systems, rather they are
aware of how hard it is to keep their lies
and favors straight. For this, they give
themselves a wealthy sum. All this in
our era of space travel and atomic
energy. What kind of idiocy is this!

The alpha's. the beta’s, the delta’s—
does money control intellect or does it
just control who develops the intellect?
Are many gifted and creative persons
denied by. a system that favors
preservation of our upper flass and a
squelched democracy for our poor

. “common person?” Should we turn to

genetically supplying superior traits
and then control our own freaks?

We, as humanity, don’t learn a damn
thing! We might learn that the so-
called rulers are alcoholics, speed
freaks and neurotics or psychotics, and
show that the farmer who appreciates a
sunrise perceives his-her world with an
attitude iuat could produce more
beneficial effects for the world. Who
would be so bold as to claim their
perception as true and certain, or just
more beneficial, if one is a farmer.
Further, who will listen to those ex-
pressions of feelings, especially in
ethics or politics. It appears that this,
rather than a supposedly desk-ridden
person in a Hicky-Freeman suit who
wishes 5 o’clock would arrive because
his system is used to the quota of daily
crutch and tax-payer steak, may be just
a little more human.

People, don't let someone else whose
picture you don’t even recognize fuck
up your life.

Get involved before someone invites
you to stand in a line, or be shot-up or
shot.

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Prejudice
ByDavid Risner

:May I have the privilege of ad.
dressing the students, faculty and
personnel of the University. Having
noticed the activities of certain
minorities on this campus, I am con-
vinced that they think prejudice and.
racism belong particularly to the
United States.

This is not the case. Prejudice exists
between religious factions in Northern
Ireland, between religions in Lebanon,
between classes in India, between races
in South Africa and between ethnic
groups earlier in this country such as
the German and Italian immigrants. it
can .even be found between depart-
ments of a university.

Prejudice begins because most if not
all of us want to feel superior to
someone, whether it is because we
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more open mind, have more
materially, have a grander lineage or
even because we have a paler or darker
skin. How can good arise from racism
or prejudice .when these things only
breed hatred, fear, and distrust. I
admit to possessing prejudices and
having tolerated prejudices about me,
being from the eastern Kentucky
mountains (by the way most of us do
wear shoes, at least on Sunday).

Prejudice and racism is experienced
by all of us at one time or another even
it the person is an average Wasp. it is
immaterial how it is thrown in our
faces, wounding our pride, but it is far
more important how we react to it.
Much can be ascertained as to the
maturity of a group when they react so
violently as did the football players at
the Kappa Alpha fraternity house or
when a group burns the flag of a society
now go