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Association

Vol. LXVll No. 107
Thursday, February 5,1976

By JAMIE LUCKE
AssistantManaging Editor

Jim Stuckert was a freshman in 1955
when enrollment here was 6, 500.

And Stuckert, who began a one-year
term as president of the Alumni
Association in January, thinks he un-
derstands why the music of the fifties is
staging such a comeback. His college days
at UK were “fine, fine times," he said in
an interview last week, and he cherishes
his alma mater.

“Why am 1 active in the Alumni
Association? It‘s the atmosphere here and
what the University did for me. It‘s a great
institution. I like to support it and exhort
other people to do the same."

tuckert, a senior vice president of a
Louisville stock brokerage firm,
remembers ~UK fondly. In fact, his
memories of college life are almost idyllic.

Learning back in a wooden arm chair at
the head of a long polished conference
table in the Alumni House, Stuckert
remembered a greenerrcampus —one less
physically imposing.”

“The buildings were all 30 or 40 years old

then_._The Whitehall building stood Where
the Patterson Office Tower is now. And all
the business classes were taught in what
we called ‘the barracks.’ It was steam
heated. You sweltered in the summer, and
you sweltered in the winter."

A member of Kappa Sigma fraternity,
Stuckert said he believes the campus was
“more Greek oriented” then. “But it
wasn’t a snobbish thing. I wasn‘t even
aware that it might be considered snob-
bish.“

Tradition prevailed, and there was “no
discord to speak of," he said.

'The happy times of the fifties were a.

relief from the repressive World War 11
years, he said. “Thecodes were still strict.
Women had to be in their dorms rooms by
10:30 pm. during the week, and 1 am. on
weekends. But if you followed those firm
guidelines you knew everything would be
okay. “

' “People had more to cling to. If you have

‘institutions to believe in and shared codes

thatyou want ofollow, you have more of a
sense of belonging. At the time you may
notrealize what you have, but, we always
appreciated being able to go to school."

KENTUCKY

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Women opposed to the ERA gather in the Capitol hallway Wednesday to express
opposition to the women‘s rights amendment.

Representatives send

ERA to rules

By GINNY EDWARDS
Managing Editor

. and
PEGGY CALDWELL
Assistant Managing Editor
FRAVKl-‘ORT—The ladies in pink won a
battle yesterday.

But Lt. Gov. Thelma Stovall hopes to win
the war.

The Elections and Constitutional
Amendments Committee of the Kentucky
House of Representatives yesterday voted
15-2 to forward House Joint Resolution 7—
ameasure to rescind Kentucky‘s 1972
ratification of the Equal Rights Amend-
ment (ERA)~— .to the House Rules Com-
mittee.

The Rules Committee will have five days

committee

to decide whether to move the resolution

onto the house floor or into another
committee.

analysis

The resprution is expected to reach the,

house by hext week and will probably pass.
According to several legislators, the
measure will then encounter difficulty in
the Senate Elections and Constitutional
Amendments Committee, which is the
next step in the recision effort.

Rep. Mae Street Kidd (D-Louisville),
vice-chairman of the House Elections and
Constitutional Amendments Committee,

Continued on page 5

JIM STUCKER‘I‘

St‘uckert, who graduated with an un-
dergraduate degree in engineering, and a
master's degree in business ad-
ministration, also managef to pull off what
may have been the crowning glory of a
successful college career in the fifties — he
married the homecoming queen.

(‘ontinued on page 12

Lexington Kentucky

Disclosure may speed

extended bar hours

By MONTY N. FOLEY
Kernel Staff Writer

Because of “premature"
Lexington Alcoholic Beverage Control
(ABC) proposal to extend local bar hours
may be presented to the Urban County
Council earlier than expected.

By premature publicity, ABC ad-
ministrator Stephen D Driesler said he
was referring to a Jan. 28 Lexington
Herald article in which his plan to request
extended drinking hours was made public.

“W = were still exploring the economic
impact that extended hours would have on
the city" when the story was printed,
Driesler said.

The Herald article, and a subsequent
Kernel article (Jan. 29, Owners seek ex-
tension of drinking hours) quoted Driesler
as proposing that Fayette County bar
owners be allowed to remain open until 2
am, rather than closing at 1 a. m. as the
current ordinance requires.

A majority vote by the Urban County
Council could extend bar hours.

“I wasn't trying to hide the proposal
from the public," Driesler said. “It‘s just
that our proposal was in a developmental
stage, and we weren’t ready to submit it to
the council.”

The Herald article also surprised the
Lexington Chamber of Commerce, said
Bruce Hinton, secretary of the Lexington
Hotel and Motel Association, a sub-unit of
the chamber.

“We (the chamber) had been working

behind the scenes for at least three months
with the Mayor (Foster Pettit) on the
extended hour proposal and had planned to
submitit to the council at the appropriate
time," Hinton said.

publicity, a '

Hinton said the chamber had wanted to
“explain" the bar-hour proposal to con-
servative groups in the city before sub-
mitting it to the council.

“Somehow it (the proposal) slipped out,
whether it w as the result of anventerprising
reporter or whatever," Hinton said.

Driesler said a Herald reporter had
contacted him during the Christmas
holidays, and that he had only confirmed
information the reporter had.

“I requested that the story (about ex-
tending the barhours) not be printed at the
time and the reporter did hold up,"
Driesler said.

“i was working with the chamber on the
proposal in January when the reporter
called again, just before the story came'
out,” Driesler said. “He (the reporter)
decided that he couldn’t hold it, for
whatever reason, and wrote it in late
January."

“Because of the publicity we may have
to move up our proposal date, ” Driesler
said.

Driesler was quoted 1n the Jan. 29 Kernel
article as “planning" to submit the ex-
tended hour proposal to the council in
March.

in addition to the one-hour extension,
Driesler previously said that he would
recommend that bars currently holding
liquor licenses be allowed to purchase an
additional license, entitling them to
remain open until 4 am.

ButWednosday, Dreisler said, “We have
not reached a conclusion on either of the
extended-hour proposals. Those are
decisions that I can’t make. The council
needs to have an input in the decision, and
we need to explore the alternatives.”

Continued on page 4

editorials

Lettassl'iouldmtexoeedwmdsandSpectrumarticlsmm

Lettesand Spectrumarticlesshouldbeaddraed tothe 56W Pne Elﬁn.
Rmmm Journalism Building. They should betyped, W all soul

Editorials do not represent theopinions of the University.

Bruce Wings
Editor-in-Chief

Ginny Edwards

Managing Editor

Susan Jones, , '

Editorial Page Editor
John Winn Miller

Associate Editor

(Editor’s note: Because of the number of letters and commentaries received by the
Kernel, there is no editorial today. In cases where a number of letters and Spectrum
articles are received, more space is devoted to readers views. Letters and Spectrum
articles should be typed, double-spaced and signed, including classification, major

and phone number.)

M isinform ation
Editor:

After having read the article by the

Iranian Student Association in the Jan.
15 edition of the Kentucky Kernel
(”Shah, businesses
Iranians”), I question the validity and
integrity of the whole article because of
two Outright examples of misin~
formation.

In the article there was a passage
pertaining to two types of aircraft
supplied to Iran and their capabilities
and role. The aircraft in question are
supplied by the United States and are
the F-SE and E-4. According to the
article the F-5E is used as a supersonic
interceptor; the E-4 as a fighter
bomber. I found this rather amusing.
Although the F-5E is capable of
supersonic speeds, it was designed to be
used as a tactical weapons system with
the ability to supply close ground
support at reduced speeds. Flying the
F-SE as an interceptor in the Middle
East, against the aircraft used in the
area as air superiority fighters such as

the F-4H Phantom n or MIG-23, would

be suicidal at best.

The EA is really known as the E-4A
and is a Boeing 737 which has been
converted for use by the military. Think
about that. Would you use a Boeing 747
as a fighter bomber?

John R. Taylor
Business administration sophomore

Visitation

Editor:

Students living on campus are very
much aware of the regulations set by
the Board of Trustees concerning
dormitory visitation policies. Three
yearsago itseemed that students living
on campus made a major breakthrough
Awhen granted a co-educational facility
for juniors and seniors. After two years
it seemed to the University that its
experiment had succeeded. They then
decided to open a second co-ed dor-
mitory ”Blanding ill ——for
sephcmcres.

Being a resident of Blanding III, I
have witnessed the tremendous success
this experiment has had. The at-
mosphere of Blanding III is pleasant
and relaxed, something all its residents

Letters

suppress

appreciab.

Residents are allowed the 30-hour
visitation policy used in all upperclass
dorms, th0ugh we may visit within the
dorm from 10 a.m.midnight on week-
days and lo a.m.-2 am. on weekends.

We were told that the reason we
didn’t have 24.hour internal visitation
was to allow residents to have some
privacy. This rule proved to be much
more of a hindrance than a con-
venience.

At the end of the fall semester
students were polled and it was found
that about 90 per cent of the residents
wanted 24-hour internal visitation.

The results of the poll were submitted
to high-ranking University officials
with a request by the Blanding lll
House Council to allow both 24-hour
internal and exbrnal visitation. We
were told that we were the same as all
other dormitories and would follow the
same visitation policies. We then asked
lhatsince we were the same as all other
dorms, shouldn’t we follow their in-
ternal visitation policies also —24

ours. Their reply was ”but you’re not
the same as all other dorms.” Is that
what the University calls logical
thought? I hope not.

Fred Stewart
88. E sophomore

A sad day

Editor:

It’s a. sad day when-a newspaper
chooses to burn articles rather than
open its pages to a broad range of
opinions.

Last Friday's tire did not go un-
noticed. Such a crude tactic will never
be able to halt the free flow of in-
formation which is so vital to the people
of this academic community, the
citizens of this nation and the people of
the world.

This fire is clearly an example of
premeditated ideological arson; an
attempttolimit access to the views and
perspectives of Terrence Tucker.

The worth of Tucker’s comments is
not the i55ue here. What is important is
the attempt to destroy those views.

James Hunyadi
Journalism graduate student

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WASHINGTON

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’True villians’ employ

sca pe-goating, fear

By James Welmore
and - -
Robin Gregg

In the Jan. 26 Kernel there appeared a
Spectrum article by Eugene Morris en-
titled "Media Omit True Villians of
Housing Problems.” After the first few
paragraphs it appeared that the article
wasa parody, but it was evident by the end
of the article that the author was deadly
serious. This article was so full of biased
thinking that it requires a rebuttal.

Although Morris’ contention is that the
”deep-seated problems” of the ”hardcore
multiproblem families” cannot be
resolved through such programs as the
Housing and Urban Development Section
235 low-interest loan housing program, he
fails to suggest alternatives or companion
measures that might prove succesful.

it is our opinion that the "true
villaiians” in society are those such as
Morris, who make vindictive statements
about entire groups or segments of society
withOut examining their own underlying
assumptions, values and prejudices.
Withoutsuch self-examination, we run the
risk of merely "scape-goating" on the
basis of Our own biases and fears. Morris’
value system is evident in his article;
however, he never acknowledges the
feelings on which he based this analysis.
Unlike Morris, who values the main.
tenance of the existing order and believes
in the inherent inadequacy of certain in—
dividuals, we believe in the inherent worth
of each individual and think that it is
society itself which creates these
”sick individuals” and enhances or hin-
ders individual or group success.

'Morris is as guilty of scapegoatlng as
were, in his opinion, the news media who
expised the all too real problem of slum
lords, corrupt contractors, etc.

Fuhermore, although Morris’ article is
ostensibly ab0ut hausing, it is really an
attack on poor people in general, blaming
them for all "the crime, vandalism.
juvenile deliquency, etc..(and) the

. 'desfuctive elements in our society." Are

vandalism and juvenile delinquency only a
problem in the inner cities and depressed

. rural areas of this country? Are the poor

responsible for the pollution of our air and
waterways, 'the cutting of our forests,. the
strip-mining of our land, or the razing of
their own homes (i.e. inner city neigh-
borhoods)? Did Richard Nixon, John
Mitchell, Marvin Mandel, Foster Pettit or
the boards of directors of the various
corporations regularly tried under an-
titrust, price-fixing‘and pollution statutes
all grow up in the ghetto?

Morris blames the poor for ”their (own)
failure,” when the real failure is that of
American society to provide equal op-

portunities for all of its members to obtain

decent jobs with decent wages and thus
participate in the ”good life.” Morris
would be muth closer to the truth if he
were to acknowledge that crime,
deliquency (both juvenile and adult) and
destructive tendencies permeate the whole
of our society, although they may be more
prevalent among the poor because they
are less able (i.e. more frustrated in their
attempt) to purchase the material ac-
coutrements that define American suc-
cess, because of the unequal, exploitative
nature of American capitalist society.

The only statement in Morris’ article
with which we agree is his assertion that
”we cannot deal with these deep-seated
human problems by enacting superficial
programs like Section 235 and put the
blame on scapegoats.” Even this
statement leads him to the ridiculous
claim that the solution will come ”maybe
only in the distant future (when) our
knowledge of the chemistry of the human
brain, glands, nervous system, etc. will
enable us to treat these sick members of
society.” The problem is not that of sick
individuals, but that of a terminally sick
society, and the solution is not "better
living through chemistry,” but wide scale
radical syshmic and social change-
social revoluton.

James Wetmore and Robin Gregg are
graduate students in the College of Social
Professions.

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Opinions from inside and outside the University.

By Rebecca Burt

Leo Tolstoi said in ”War and Peace“
that where there is law there is in.
iustice, and so also may it be said that
where there is’no law ther—E’s iniustice.
But with the former, I am more con-
cerned for personal reasons.

In the last three months, my apart-

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November, the water line broke and as

a result water came through the air

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himself in mind. Such a suggestion is
seriously made to those who want to
break a lease. The grand a55umption,
since the lessor looks out for himself
and has the law to help him to do so,
then surely the lessee, all part of the
same system, will look out for himself
and convince some unaware person to
move in and take his place.

Now maybea reader will interpretall
this to be simply an irate tenant, but the
problem is deeper. Many years ago I
wrote an essay for "Law Day.” Sub-
sequently the essay was published in
the U.S. Congressional Record. In the
essay I began the same—that where
there is law there’s iniustice. However,
I argued in the essay thatwhere there is
no law there's iniustice. Perhaps
there’s a more accurate statement. In
recent years many people have found
some laws unjust, and there was
tragedy before changes in the law were
made. Of course, my problem is not on

symptomatic of what's wrong with the
law. The more accurate statement-—
the law seems to protect and serve only
certain people, a serious accusation but
one that I make seriously.

Rebecca Burt is a graduate student in
the College of Agriculture.

terrence
tucker

Old 'soldiers should fade away

Almost two weeks ago I submitted the
following material to the Kernel editors as
the first installment of a weekly column.
Shortly after I left the paper’s offices,-
however, a fire—or unexplained and
somewhat suspicious origin—consumed
the copy I tad sbmitted....along with
several other opinion pieces and letters to
the editor.

Now, I dm’t know about. the other
writers whose words of wisdom were thus
consigned to oblivion: but l, for one, was
prepared. As a former neWspaperman
myself, I am well acquainted with the
”mysterious fire" trick. So I retained a
carbon of'my column. And if you are
reading it now. it is only because I took the
precaution of soaking this second copy in
liquid asbestos.

__—__——-—-—-—

Apparently nobody told Gen William
Westmoreland that, asan old soldier, he is

‘supp‘csed to fade a way. Indeed, the farmer

commander of Amer can forces in the Viet
Nam Theatroof the Absurd War‘ actually
Has written a book, entitled "A Soldier
Rl‘D'J'iS.”

Appearing on NBC’s."Today Show” to
plug the work, Westmoreland told c0~host
Jim Hartz: "I must say I don’t think
America has ever put a more efficient and
effective fighting force in the field than we
did in Viet Nam." The disappointing
outcome of that war, he further observed,
was due largely to "undue interference
from civilians in Washington”

But iust to prove that you can teach an
old Yankee dog new tricks, Westmoreland
said he‘did learn something from the Viet
Nam experience...he said he learned that
even the greabst general can not win a
war without the support of his country.

Did you catch the Associated Press story
that moved out of Lexington recently? It
seems a teacher at one of the parochial
schools here in town took time during
recess to ask several first, second- and
third-g rade students to complete a’series
of great American cliches...and got some
rather child-wise responses. Among them:

--Early to bed, early to rise makes a

n '."tired."
People in glass hcuses shouldn’t ..
"slam the door ” '

—When in Rome ”play.”
——You can’t iudge a book ”by reading
it'll

The minister of the Madison (Calif.)
Pentecostal Church must have wondered
momentarily about the effectiveness of his
sermon as, one by one, members of his
congregation began slumping over in their
seats ——unconscious. Nevertheless, 26 of
the Sit-member flock had thus lost their
composure before anyone else in the
church began to consider the phenomenon
unusual.

Officials later told the Associated Press
that gas had leaked into the church’s
ventilation system. But one stricken
believer was allegedly heard to have
mumbled, as he was carried from the
temple, that he had been "filled with the
essence of the Lord."

So either God is a carbon mon0xide
derivative, or someone slipped beans into
the ambrosia.

The administration of newly s
Connecticut Gov PM 1"- 2.3)0
t. mptinc "_ two-gt 4o '

forcemen t” program for men convicted of
child molesting in that state. The program
~which the state’s Civil Liberties Union
tttOught it had curtailed —consists of
showing the men slides of women in erotic
poses interspersed with slides of young
girls. The convicts are allowed to respond
normally to the naked women; but when
the slides of the children appear on the
screen, an electric shock is ad-
ministered...to their testicles.

A friend of mine from Connecticut
Suggests, "That’s what happens when you
get a woman governor.”

Another friend has proposed that the
program be officially named ”A Cockwork
Orange.”

Whatever else may be said, the program
certainly represents a shocking approach
to penal reform.

Terrence Tucker is a graduate student in
communication. He graduated from UK
Witha bachelor: degree in journalism and
millical science and has worked as a
l‘Ppi“‘Oi‘ to: tnw l-‘ark fity Billy News in
Hi" w) Green Ky His. can nn wtll ap-
‘i‘d U‘ T‘H‘W er'\ l ‘tli" KOV‘DE‘I.

t—THE KENTUCKY KERNEL. Thursday. February 5. 1976

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