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so veto holds on lWD funding bill

Ity KIM YELTUN
Kernel Staff Writer

Student (iovernment (SG)
President Mike McLaughlin‘s veto
of St; funding of International
Women‘s 1)a y it as not overridden in
a “Li'ole at last night's meeting.

Because of a mistake in Vice
President llal llaering‘s vote count,
however. the veto at first appeared
to have been overridden.

Originally. 14 senators were
recorded as voting to override the
veto and seven as supporting it. A
two~thirds majority is needed to
override a veto.

llaering erred by not recording
one abstention. which is the same as
a no vote.

He called th's to the Senate‘s at-
tention near the end of the meeting,
and several senators asked if
another vote could be taken. At that
point, Billy Henderson and David
Wahl, senators-at—large, walked out
to upset the quorum.

\t'ahl said later that he left
“because I had something else to
(10."

During the meeting, several
senators and lWD supporters
debated at length with McLaughlin

Board approves
rate increases

of room,

An increase in room and board
rates for the 19fl-78 school year was
approved by the Executive Com-
mittee of the Board of Trustees
yesterday. Room and board charges
were last adjusted in the 1975-76
school year

Students opting for housing and
the three meal—seven day plan will
pay $1,546 next year——a 10.4 per cent
increase over the present rate of
$1,400.

Those choosing housing and the
two meal-five day plan will pay
$1,380—a 15 per cent increase over
the present $1,200 rate, while
housing and the two meal-five day
plan will cost $1,282—-a 14.5 per cent
increase over the current $1,120
charge.

Jack Blanton, vice president for
business affairs. said the rate in-
creases were the lowest possible
amounts that could be implemented
to keep the housing and dining
system operating on a breakeven
basis.

Ile explained that housing and
food services are subsidized not by
tuition or state monies, but by in-
come from auxiliary services. which
include student housing and food
service operations.

Blanton cited rising labor, food
and utility costs as causing the
adjustments. (see charts)

Itoom rates in undergraduate
residence halls for the eight-week
summer session will increase to $180
a student for double rooms and $225
for single rooms. These rates
represent a 12.5 per cent increase
over the present rates of $160 and
$200.

Married students in Cooperstown
and bhawneetown housing areas will

boa rd

and others who supported his veto
position.
St; a primary supporter

McLaughlin said he objected to
the bill because if SG supported
IWI), it would have to become a
primary supputer of the more than
100 other campus organizations.

McLaughlin also said he thought
lWl) would have been able to pay for
its publicity (which is why it wanted
SC funding) if the several campus
organizations supporting it had
given $1.82 more.

“They should come to us as a last
resort." he said. “We don't have

pay $115 a month for efficiency '
apartments, $130 for one-bedroom ‘

apartments and $140 for two
bedroom apartments. The present
rates are $105, $120 and $130.

The monthly rental rate for ef-
ficiency apartments in Cooperstown
for single graduate students will be

$117.50 ($58.75 a student for double 1 _
occupancy). One bedroom apart- ‘
ments will cost $132.50 a month .
(66.23 a studemt for double oc-
cupancy). The present rates are '

$107.3) and $122.50.

In Commonwealth Village, the
monthly rental rate for efficiency
apartments for single graduate and
professimal students will be $130
( $65a student for double occupancy)
and $150 for one-bedroom apart-

ments ($75 a student for double.

occupancy). The current rates are
$120 and $140.

The room rates for conference
groups and guests alSo have been
increased slightly for the summer of
1978.

The Executive Committee also

formally accepted the monies,
securities and real property under
the will of a Cynthiana woman
whose gift is one of the largest
bequests ever made to the
University.

Violette Beale Renaker, who died
in June, 1973 at age 90, left the
legacy to the UK Medical Center to
“establish a fund for scholarships to
train general practitioners," ac-
cording to her will.

The med center has received
about $300,000 in cash, and securities
worth about $125,000 for the
scholarship fund.

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Income
Student Fees
Other Income

Proposed Undergraduate Housing Budget 1977-78

1976-77

$2,964,960
439,225

Per Cent

1977-78 Increase Increase

33,359,360
376,340

$394,400
(62,885)

13.30
I 14.32

 

Total

Expense
Personal Service
Maintenance
Utilities. Telephone
Supplies, Printing.
Insurance
Miscellaneous
Replacement-Furniture 8:
Equipment
Visitation Program
Programming
Debt Service

33.404185

3 795,685
405,503
954,519

80,950
10,000

84,322
80,964
93,652
895,115

$3,735,700 $31,515 9.74

S £50,1(X)
429,900
1,154,200

$ 54,415
24,397
199,681

88,3“)
10,(X10

7,350
.—o—

84,3“)
99,500
98,300
921,100

(22)
18,536
4,648
25,55

 

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Ont per student

 

$3,400,710

$3,735,700

639 724

much money as it is."
No pro-life presented

He also expressed concern that the
pro-life side of abortion had not been
presented. When the Senate asked

Margaret Kelly. coordinator of
Saturday‘s lWD programs, if she

would put someone representing an
anti-abortion stand on the panel at
the last meeting, “she refused,“
McLaughlin said.

According to Pat Van ilouten,
.lWl) supptrter. “to have a pro-life
suppu‘ter on the panel would be
inappropriate."

“We seem to be getting bogged

down on the issue of abortion," said
Marion Wade, A & Ssenator. “The
main issue is lntemational Women’s
Day."

“We will have to talk to other
people on the committee (who
support the veto) and to lWD sup-
porters.“ before taking further
action. said Cathy Welch, A & S
senator. “You hate to seethis kind of
attitude. I think this has been a
biased meeting.“ .

Welch said she thought the veto
could go before the Judicial Court
for a final decision. According to
McLaughlin, the Senate cannot vote
again to override the veto.

Two against one

'l‘hey're years apart. but their desire to go outside and play never dies.
Larry .\bell, a business administratin freshman, kills time before his
class in Memorial llall while :t-year-olds Brian Landers and DeeDee

Must prove ‘public interest’

Decision limits cross—media ownership

By KEN KAGAN
Kernel Reporter

A recent US. Court of Appeals
ruling, which requires joint
ownership of a newspaper and
broadcasting station to serve the
public interest. may directly affect
two Kentucky companies.

The Barry Bingham family in
Louisville owns the Courier-Journal

 

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and Times, as well as WHAS-TV and
WAMZ-FM. The Paducah Sun-
Democrat and WPSD-TV are owned
by Padumh Newspapers, Inc.

Seventy-seven other newspaper-
television ownerships and an un-
determined number of newspaper-
radio ow nerships around the country
also might be affected.

The appeals court decision,
written by US. Circuit Chief Judge
David 1.. Bazelon, did not directly
order the newspapers to divest
themselves of their broadcast
stations, but it did order the Federal
Communications Commission
(FCC) to set up guidelines under
which such divestitures should take
place.

Bazelon's decision, which is
certain to be appealed to the US.
Supreme Court, stated, “We

$200 to student publications

In other action, the Senate voted to
give $200 to the Board of Student
Publications to help resinstitute the
~\earhook. The Kentuckian.

Nancy ( ireen, student publications
adviser, appeared at last night‘s
meeting “to get feedback (from SC)
and their impression of a campus-
wide student publication."

(in Feb. 16, the Board recom-
mended to President Otis Singletary
that he suspend the yearbook.

(:reen will meet with Singletary
tomorrow to present her findings on
support of a campus publication.

-- It’ll Kight

llaker take a break from the Early Childhood Lab in the College of

Home Economics.

believe. ..that divestiture is required
except in those cases where the
evidence clearly discloses that
cross-ownership is in the public
interest.“

The FCC. however, has no
definitive interpretation of the term

“public interest." which is subject to ,

contemporary standards and
practices. The Bazelon decision
leaves to the FCC the authority to
determine whether or not the
ownership of a newspaper and
broadcast facility clearly serves the
public interest.

Virginia Held. associate professor
of political philosophy at City
University of New York, and author

of the bodt, The Public Interest and
Individual Interests , said broad-
castirg companies have a moral
respmsibility to serve the public.

“Television is not there merely to
provide entertainment and what the
public wants," she said. “There is a
responsibility to provide in-
formation, cultural affairs and
educatim. It is a moral concept,"
and to the FCC, “they (broadcasting
companis) will have to make some
claim that what they do is
justifiable."

Dr. Everette Dennis, associate
professa' of joumalism at the
University of Minnesota,’said the

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r—today

 

 

state

Revenue Commissioner Maurice Carpenter
said yesterday that a (1.8. Supreme Court
decision allowing states to tax out-of-state
comparios apparently won‘t change Ken-
tucky practices. Kentucky already takes out-
of star te compa nies on the part of their income
they earn in Kentucky, as well as on any
property they own or lease in the state,
(‘arperter said.

tiov. Julian Carroll, in an interview last
week, said he does not intend to become
politically involved in the controversy over
the Paris Pike. “1 have not made a political
decision about the Paris Pike,“ he said. “If I
had, I might have made the decision other-
wise.“ Carroll said he didn‘t think any further
study was needed. “There are some things
you study todeath." he said. "The Paris Pike
has bear studied to death."

nation

The Ilnuse prepared for a [final vote
yesterday on a tax~cut package that would
give am million Americans a rebate of. up to
$50 this spring as well as increasing the take
hone pay of some 45 million couples or in-
dividuals. The taxcut, worth $43.1 billion over
the next 31 mmths. is part of a $12 billion, two-
year pray-a m designed to increase consumer
spending and prime the economy in an effort
to put unemployed Americans back to work.

l'.S. Delegate Brady Tyson expressed
regrets in the ILN. Human Rights Com-
mission yesterday over what he called U.S.
involvement in undermining the government
of the late Chilean President Salvador
Allende. Allarde. a Marxist, was overthrown
in a military coup in ma. He died in the
revolt. “We would be less than candid and
untrue to ourselves and our people if we did

not express our profound regrets for the role
some government officials, agencies and
private groups played in the subversion of the
previous democratically elected Chilean
government," Tyson told the 32-nation
commission.

President Carter‘s first ovrseas trip, an-
nou'nced yesterday for early May, is expected
to be expanded into a NATO summit and a
meeting on neutral ground with Syria’s
president.

Forget Florida

Get out and play some tennh. Today will be
mostly sunny and warm with a high in the
upper 60‘s to low 70's. Tonight will be partly
cloudy a rd mild. The low temperature tonight
willbe in the wiper 40‘s to low 50’s. Tomorrow
will be mostly cloudy with a chance of thun-
dcstorms. tigh in the low 70's.