xt7vmc8rfn96 https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt7vmc8rfn96/data/mets.xml University of Kentucky Fayette County, Kentucky The Kentucky Kernel 19700916 newspapers sn89058402 English Contact the Special Collections Research Center for information regarding rights and use of this collection. The Kentucky Kernel The Kentucky Kernel, September 16, 1970 text The Kentucky Kernel, September 16, 1970 1970 2015 true xt7vmc8rfn96 section xt7vmc8rfn96 Tie Wednesday, Sept. CMTUCKY KERNEL 16, 1970 UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY, LEXINGTON UK Trustees Meet Vol. LXII, No. 9 7 Without Incident surance as a condition of emBy RON HAWKINS ployment. Assistant Managing Editor fl O O O The board also approved a The confrontation that many G to hear petitioners of the feared would develop when the set-u- p Board of Trustees met for the board. If a petitioner desires to first time this fall failed to ma- speak to the board he first must consult with President Singterialize. If Singletary feels there The University prepared a letary. is relevancy in the petitioner's closed-circutelevision set-u- p to request, he recommends the supplement the limited facilities speaker to a committee which sets Patterson Office of the 18th-floa and date to hear Tower meeting room. University thetime, place petitioner. The committee officials were not sure the set-u- p then decides whether to recomwould work until yesterday mend action on the petitioner's morning. request, to allow the petitioner hook-u- p The television was to speak to the board, or to piped into rooms in Dickey Hall, refuse the speaker's request. the Commerce Building, AnderNamed to the committee to son Engineering Building and Kernel Photo By Dick Ware the Classroom Building. Seating hear petitioners' requests were: Closed circuit television in four campus buildings Board approved two appointments and a life M. Alverson, interested faculty and students to view surance plan for UK employes. The rumored capacity was estimated by Uni- Tommy Bell, Jesse Mrs. Rexford Blazer, Robert Rudd the Board of Trustees student confrontation failed to materialize. versity officials as about 380 permeeting yesterday. The and Robert Hillenmeyer. sons. When the Board Room was filled, students and others were told that they could watch the board meeting on closed-circu- it television. Reportedly, there were -no incidents. In the meeting, the Board of An appeal has been filed to the UK ApBright' s appeal explained his reasons why Bright attacks Section 1.21 as being "vague Trustees approved two appointand overboard," with a "potential for undue peals Board by Sheryl C. Snyder, counsel he believes the conviction based upon Secments by President Otis A. for Student Government President Steve tion 1.2i cannot stand. "By the code itself infringement upon political expression." Singletary and also approved a Bright, seeking reversal of a conviction aris- the UK trustees have required that political Drawing on this, the statement argues that life insurance plan for University ing from the May demonstrations. demonstrators be dealt with only under any convictions "based thereon are invalid, employes. The charge brought against Bright was Sections 3.4 and 1.2a." without regard to the conduct in question." Dr. John Stephenson was ap- one of violating section 1.21 of the student The appeal also argues that the "presiAlluding to segments of the appeal, Bright proved by the board to serve code, which makes a disciplinary offense dential ban on meetings after 5 p.m. was claims that "since there was only doubtful dean of undergraduate studies. "any violation of University rules regarding as and remote danger, not actual and impendsuperceded by the 7 p.m. gubernatorial curthe use of University property. " Stephenson presently is a socifew and the ban thus became nonexistent." ing danger to justify the president's comconBright seeks to overturn a ology professor. plete suspension of the constitutional right of viction that he refused an order by UK PresThe appeal states that Bright assembly, a person cannot Depenalized solely Dr. William Dennen was ap- ident Otis Singletary to leave the scene of was the for peacefully assembling in contravention only one of the 700 reported stupointed acting dean of the grada demonstration by 5 p.m. May 5, in vio- dents who were in violation of the ban to of that unconstitutional order." uate school. Dennen is now serv- lation of Student Code section 1.2i. be prosecuted under the code. ing as professor of geology. The appeal termed the prosecution "a In the document are moral and legal ruse to unconstitutionally punish an unThe life insurance plan proThat, the appeal charges, sliows an at- arguments that he was "trapped" into being vides that the University will popular speech, an attempt to make an tempt to make him "a political example" charged, that the basis for the charges are pay basic life insurance for all example of a student leader whose crime and therefore is "clearly in denial of the invalid and contradict the basis for the equal protection of the laws to him," makemployes. Previously, potential is unpopular political tactics, and an unconviction, and that the decision of a lower constitutional denial of the equal protection ing the conviction invalid and warranting judicial body should be reversed and Blight's had to puruniversity employes dismissal of the charge. chase, at their expense,life in of the laws." University records cleared. it ?.. :: ed Used as "Political Example" Bright Seeks Reversal of J Board Conviction 45-pa- Host Urges UK Silent Majority To Speak Out By DAVID BLANTON Kernel Staff Writer The UK College Republicans, holding their first meeting of the year Tuesday night, began by making W. James (Jim) Host, campus atmosphere. "The wildest thing we ever thought about was a panty raid, and I don't think we ever pulled one off," said Host. Commenting on UK's student commissioner of body president Steve Bright, Host parks, an honorary member of the stated, "If you have a president club. that you don't like it is your own Host, a 1959 graduate of UK, damned fault." The commisreflected, with revival-typ- e fury, sioner said that it was time for on differences at UK when he the "silent majority" at UK to was a student and the current speak out. Kentucky's He warned the students that people outside the University tie them in with the 50 or 60 "hardcore" on campus. He urged the College Republicans "to take action the right way the proper way the political way." Host said he feels that youth can control elections in the state, and he called for another Republican victory in the gubernatorial election next year. sible candidate in the Republican primary for the governorship, attempted to play down any concerning his plans. "I wish that my name be removed from speculation at this time. The. question is what do I mean by 'this time?' " said Host. He stated that he had to finish his job with the parks and that currently he was workingon some new ideas and plans for the park system. He declined to elaborate fur-mur-murin- Host, often rumored as a pos "1 - 4 i.v f v James Host, Kentucky commissioner of parks, told College Republicans last night that it was time for the "silent majority" at UK to speak out He also said if students did not like their student government president, it was their fault for allowing him to be elected, The commissioner looked at changing atti- tudes on the nation's college campuses and said, "The wildest thing we ever thought of was a panty raid, and I don't think we ever pulled one off." Kernel photo by Bob Brewer ther on these plans, stating they were contingent on several federal grants. A question and answer period followed his speech. Concerning strip mining. Host said he felt that conservationists do not object to the way Kentucky's laws have been enforced by the Nunn administration, but added that conservationists were let down by the last legislature, in that tougher strip mining controls were not passed. Host said he believes that all strip miners should not be classed together because some, he felt, had done an excellent job in their reclamation efforts. In other business, the club voted to. contribute $100 to Jerry Cregory's sixth district congressional campaign and $20 to William Cowger's reelection campaign in Louisville. Jeff Cumer, a club member and chairman of the Student Center Board speakers forum for this year, stated that a greater variety of lecturers would be coming to campus this year, including Republican Senator John Tower of Texas. Ihe club is also sponsoring a reception for UK's President Otis A. Singletary at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 30 in the President's Room of the Student Center. * 2-- TIIE KENTUCKY KERNEL, Wntnculay, Sept. lfi, 1970. Pratt Fights .Requirement Oj Early Filing Deadline 1 By The Associated Press federal court A three-judg- e will hear a suit filed by UK the early deadline for filing may be somewhat outdated. "With the development of the graduate Don Pratt seeking to modern news media the people void Kentucky's law that reshould not be denied the right quires all candidates for political to elect their leaders by being office to file 55 days before pricompelled to accept those who have been named seven months mary elections. Until the suit can be heard, before," he said. county clerks in the Sixth ConJudge Swinford said the three-judgressional District's 21 counties panel might be assembled were barred Tuesday from printwithin 10 days and added the ing ballots for the November hearing probably would be held election. in Covington. Defendants in the case are The suit was filed after Pratt attempted to file as an inKentucky Secretary of State Eldependent congressional candi- mer Begley and Fayette County date and was rejected on Aug. Clerk Charles Baesler Jr. 12. The deadline under existing Pratt's lawyer, Robert Sedler, law is April 1. argued the law is unreasonable U.S. District Court Judge Mac in requiring independent candidates to file so early. Asst. Atty. Swinford, is restraining the printing of ballots and ordering the Cen. Walter Herdman argued the three-judg- e suit was frivolous. hearing, agreed that 9 :y v v - a- - A . ge Faculty Research Funds Total Over $13 Million By JIM WIGHT Kernel Staff Writer Over 13 and one-ha- lf million dollars in research funds have been awarded to members of the University faculty for the current fiscal year, according to President Otis Singletary's report to the Board of Trustees. The funds made available range from a $500 grant to the Department of Agronomy for tobacco research, to a $368,979 allocation to Dr. W.H. McBeatH of the Ohio Valley Regional Medical Program. Dr. S.C Bohanan, College of Agriculture, has been awarded an additional $185,000, on a contract of $645,000, to finance an agricultural experiment station in Thailand. Money from this DeAgency for International velopment grant is used to pay the salaries and lab equipment of the 10 UK staff members who are working in Thailand. In addition, a monthly stipend is given each of the 26 Thailand students who are attending the University to prepare them to take over operation of the Thailand station by July, 1975, when the contract expires. The Department of Electrical Engineering has received from the Bureau of Mines, U.S. Department of the Interior, a grant of $49,440 for the development of a e vehicle. Built on a modified Jeepster chasis, this according to Dr. prototype, Robert L. Cosgriff, chairman of the department, will be able to operate in an atmosphere devoid of oxygen or in almost any kind of environment hostile to man. In a study more relevant to many students, Dr. W.G. Drew of the Neurophysiology Department has received $50,777 as part of a three year project to determine the action of marijuana . on recent memory mechanisms. Dr. Drew, who has spent a large portion of his career experimenting with the effects of drugs, stated that there is significant evidence to indicate that marijuana produces a physiological change which prevents the memory area of the brain from retaining a record of recent occurences. He added that marijuana is also believed to disrupt sleep and dreaming patterns, thereby producing unwanted tensions and anxiety in the chronic user. mine-rescu- ADS BRING RESULTS! KERNEL CLASSIFIED TRY THEM! COUPON fZX "You I i I'll give WW you one, free:' j:v, I I v I ! l I "A FREE H. Salt, Esq., Fish &. Chips Snack when you buy one for only 75c. Present this ad to the Master Fryer to obtain vour complimentary V Snack. 1 know you'll enjoy the delicious taste of Icelandic fillets, prepared in my secret batter and served 3 with succulent chins." J I I . i- - ; - :. Ci . - .... t Getting It Together partially due to more students having to live off campus each year because of lack of dorm space. Concern was expressed by Dean of Students Jack Ilall over what he called the tendency of students to break laws laid down by the University and the apparent regression of students standards of morals and ethics. Dean Rosemary Pond of Residence I falls Programs, shown above, feels that the students do not use their residence hall governments to their Kernel Photo by Dick Ware advantage. on TV Agnew vs. Students; Showdown way he expresses the rhetoric of ALBUQUERQUE, N. M.(AP) Vice President SpiroT. Agnew, i ejecting complaints about his rhetoric as a fake issue, said Tuesday he plans a television appearance with .militant studentsand hopes it will show that there are areas of agreement between them. "Every accusation I've seen that my rhetoric is polarizing the country is usually accompanied by some of the most violent, inflammatory statements that I've seen printed or stated by the very individuals that make these accusations," Agnew told a news conference. "The accusa- - tions inflammatory are poorly concealed smokescreens to shield the fact that these people don't have any real answers to what I'm saying." Agnew, in Albuquerque to campaign for Anderson Carter, Republican nominee against Sen. Joseph M. Montoya, said he has no intention of al 694 NEW CIRCLE ROAD r 2197 NICHOLASVILLE N.E. ROAD COUPON Void Sp. After Writ himtering self on the political platform. His appearance with the students is to be on the David Frost Show, an interview program, which he will record in New York next Monday. Frost's public relations representative said the show would be aired Sept. 25 in most major cities. Pollution Control Standards Slow Kentucky Funding the ther FRANKFORT confrontation of sorts is developing with the federal government over state requirements for water quality standards in interstate rivers. The Ohio River Valley Sanitation Commission (ORSANCO) is The UK Civil Liberties Union holding a hearing in Cincinnati will sponsor an open forum Montoday as a first step toward adoptday, Sept. 21, concerning the new ing standards which are not in student code. accordance with federal guideParticipating and answering lines. ORSANCO, an eight-stat- e questions from the audience will compact, actually has generally be Tommy Bell, member of the adhered to these standards for Board of Trustees and chairman some time but never has adopted of the committee that drafted them formally following a hearthe new code; Steve Bright, Stu- ing. dent Government President; John diRalph Darsie, University Counsel; Jack rector of Pickard, executive the Kentucky Water Hall, Dean of Students; and Dr. Robert Zumwinkle, new vice Pollution Control Commission, told the state commission Tuespresident for student affairs. day that Kentucky would have The program will begin at to follow the standards if OR7:30 p.m. in the Crand Ballroom SANCO adopted them. That ofthe Student Center. would bring Kentucky in con- (AP)-Ano- CLU Sponsors Forum on Code ;n:!iMiiiiiiii;iiniiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiniimmmt The Student Center Board Coffee House Presents Rose Colored Glass appearing in the GRILL 14-1- 9 Shows 8:30 & 9:30 p.m. Bring this coupon to: U w1 The mood was informal and the discussion was between deans and stuopen at the dents of UK last night in the Office Tower. Representatives from the residence halls discussed with the deans subjects such as campus disorders of last spring to the open-hous- e rules in the dorms. Dean Elder indicated that a program may be started for students living off campus in which a hour service will be available for them twenty-fou- r in any emergency aid they may need. This is September pirn I if no admission! mmttttwwml flict with federal government again over the standards. A spokesman for the federal Water Quality Agency told the state commission Tuesday that federal matching funds for water pollution control were being withheld pending final approval of Kentucky's standards. The federal government approved the standards last year with some exceptions, which Washington apparently now wants resolved. Pickard responded that "We'll be going out of business" unless the federal money is released soon. He said the commission has been operating with all state money since the start of the fiscal year. The main differences which Kentucky has with Washington over its standards are water temperature, dissolved oxygen and alkalinity-acidit- y levels. The commission also heard two alternative proposals from E. E. Dupont de Nemours Co. for disposing of excess hydrochloric acid which will result from a new manufacturing process in 1972. By the mid 1970's, a company spokesman said, further changes in operation will eliminate the need for the acid at all. 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Advertising, Business, CirculatM-44tion * --THE KENTUCKY KERNEL, Vctlnclay, Sept. 16. 1970- -3 Costs Rise by $100 Financial Aid Loses Pace With College Expenses "Financial aid for college stu dents is not keeping pace with increased college expenses and enrollment," said Jim Ingle, director of Student Financial Aid "Some of the 500 or more stu at the University of Kentucky. He suggests that parents should dents denied financial aid for the start now building a savings ac- fall may have a second chance to secure funds this spring," Ingle count for their children's educasaid. tion. He expects to receive another He said parents of preschool or grade school children, whose $50,000475,000 in National DeIncome exceeds $10,000 a year, fense Student Loan funds in the may expect difficulty in securing near future, when the Bureau of Federal aid for their children's the Budget orders the bill approved. Enrollment in the University college expenses in the future. "That would be enough to put Last year Ingle's office proof Kentucky Community College dent in the 500 System climbed past 10,000 again vided financial assistance to some a with fall registration after brief- 1,600 UK students through Fed- who were turned down during ly declining as a result of the eral aid programs. "To provide the summer," he said. financial aid to the same students Ingle listed four types of fideparture of Northern Communthis year," he said, "would re- nancial assistance funded by the ity College from the system. The former community college quire an additional $160,000, Federal government: the Nationbecame Northern Kentucky State since costs to attend UK have al Defense Student Loan, which sets no family income limit; the risen by $100 per student." College, effective July 1. The University received apCollege Work Study program, Enrollment in the system for the fall term is 10,109. proximately 60 per cent of its which first emphasizes families Jefferson Community College request for financial aid. "When with anincome of $7,500 or less; Educational Opportunity Crants, heads the list, with an enrollment we send in our requests for Fedof 2,531. Second isPaducah, with eral aid, the amount requested is which give preference to families based on estimated needs. The 40 with incomes of $6,000 or less, 1,132. Ashland Community College has 1,073 students. Elizabepercent we didn't receive this and the Federally Insured Loan th town has 630, Fort Knox 792, year means some students were program, in which participating Hazard 210, Henderson 584, Hop-ki- n denied financial assistance and banks and lending institutions therefore were unable to attend loan the money to students. sville 478, Lexington Techni"Loans under this last procal Institute 583, Madisonville the University." 310, Maysville 360, P'estonsburg Ingle believes the situation gram are guaranteed and insured should improve this winter, since by the Federal government, 420, Somerset 668, and Southeast Community College has 338. Congress has provided an ad- which also pays interest fees Northern's enrollment before ditional $110 million for higher while the student is in school leaving the UK system was about education to what the President and for nine months following his graduation, if the family ad- 1,350. originally requested. Justed income does not exceed $15,000," Ingle explained. Last year Ingle's office handled Federal financial aid totaling approximately $1,175,000. "We have committed $1,200,000 for the 1970-7- 1 academic year," Fall Enrollment he said. Ingle noted, however, that the extra money primarily is a cany-ove- r of an additional $88,000 the government provided the University at the end of the spring semester. Is Over 10,000 SHIPMENT OF BEADS nt JUST ARRIVED ALSO PIPES, INCENSE, JEWELRY, POSTERS, SANDALS, LEATHER, MADRAS -- ldr ? Bring TVYour (C T OF THE GUITAR BEETHOVEN Schwan Cat Price Schwan Cat. Price $34 95 N0W SELUNG AT NOW SELLING r NjsiT is ' - y-- If 55.97 840 EAST HIGH ST. (CHEVY CHASE) 10 A.M. TO 9 P.M. (6 ON SAT.) (GET YOUR 20 DISCOUNT COUPON AT REGISTRATION) J&JTkiU $ I SchwodtPriti NOW SELLING i ;jd7n AT I I i or J' AT $4.97 AUTHENTIC Sch.an at. 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However it appears that his Commission on Campus Unrest, chaired by fellow Republican William Scranton, believes it was exactly the Nlxon-Agnestyle of bombasting which was responsible for the naon campuses. An accusation of this nature from one's tionwide flare-u- p own commission is not particularly desirable in a hotly contested election year. The report of the commission is not yet published but according to Republican sources who are familiar with the commission's staff reports and tentatives drafts, at least three other points will be made: 1) much of the lawlessness of last spring resided with the "official violence" of state troopers and National Guardsmen. 2) Most of the students involved were idealists who view the Vietnam war as immoral. 3) the spring incidents were not part of an organized strategy radicals. by All these points could make for public sympathy for students and political havoc for the Republicans. This possibility is not lost on the administration, which is already making efforts to discredit the commission's findings. One high administration source was reported as saying "When you put Rhodes, Cheek and Ortique on the commission, you can expect what is now taking place. All of them hate the President and they will vent that passion in a report like this." Thus three men have influenced an eight-ma- n commission which, of course, makes the report biased and invalid before it is even printed! In 1968 a distinguished scholar made the following remark to the Kerner Commission on Civil Disorders: "I must again in candor say to you, members of this Commission it is a kind of Alice in Wonderland with the same moving picture reshown over and over again, the same analysis, the same recommendations and the same inactions." If the Nixon administration plays its political game correctly, the Report of the Commission on Campus Unrest also will become a paper fantasy. thc Kersv Tu cKr kca a ere f w Vw':w:o: t j xl:::;:! m John Junot The Skulled-- W ailed Ghetto vh mmJ rest "If any of you have objections to the official policy of this administration, let it be knoicn note, before you bias the commission," The Kentucky Iernel University of Kentucky ESTABLISHED U I I will." But as you can see, this is EDITOR'S NOTE: John Junot is a senior a say, severely limited kind of "power". It's Arts and Sciences student. This is the more accurate to say, "If you don't do second of three installments of this week's what I want, I'll blow us both up." This column. kind of destructive power is useful only .In Lexington, the struggle for the to the degree that the opponent is aware for the comcampus is over, the struggle of it and respects it. munity is about to begin. As always, This analogy between nuclear politics Lexington is a good two years behind and campus confrontations is not exactly the larger cities and more sophisticated accurate. Nevertheless, it is very instrucuniversities, In those places, New York, tive, and, in 1970, regretfully appropriate. Chicago, Berkeley, Madison, the struggle For a protracted and bitter student strike, has escalated to guerrilla warfare. If Lexa Berkeley, Columbia, or San Francisco ington and UK are to avoid the same State, with all its bloody confrontations, all people here must analyze the is the fate, campus equivalent of nuclear war, history of those other places, make comespecially at a state school. Everybody parisons, find others' mistakes, and make loses. Even if the buildings stay standing, plans for many different situations. These the university is destroyed as a social plans must be discussed, a consensus system, dissolving in an atmosphere of reached, a mood established. hate, bitterness, mistrust, suspicion, and I feel qualified to do this. I've made fear. The state loses its young citizens, a life style out of doing it. Qualified or a university, and a hell of a lot of money. I don't see anyone any more qualinot, The administration loses its best men and fied who's any more likely to try. is reduced to being an incompetent poI said the struggle for the campus is liceman. The faculty loses peace of mind, Stuover. I mean the students have won. its ability to teach, or even to do research, dent Power is a reality. On the campus due to punitive cuts in its funds, and we are free. Though this power is as yet its freedom. The students lose in terms rather unorganized, incoherent, fluid, and of broken careers, jail sentences, paranoia, intangible, it exists. It exists as an awareand death. Even the opposite in the minds of at injuries,the ness or consciousness politicians and radical actileast a large minority of students. At poles, who seem to make immediate gains, vists, least a large minority, more likely a malose because the strike becomes addicjority, and quite possibly the vast majortive, a monkey on their backs, inescapity. Not to mention quite a few faculty able, unstoppable, and costly in time and administrators as well. and energy needed for other projects. from now on The awareness is this: students are to be treated as human beings, adults, and, with a few exceptions, as equals. As a group they deserve respect. Their counsel is to be sought and seriously considered on all decisions they directly affect them, and on many that do not. "Seriously considered" meaning that several points are yielded on. Or else. For students see the above as recognition of hard-wo- n rights, not as a matter of affection or a reward for being good little boys and girls to be snatched away if they start being nasty little brats. It's not a matter of being tolerated; it's a matter of power, of oppressive prerogatives faculty and administrators traditionally held, which students destroyed or had conceded to them. Students can rule UK in the same way that our last four Presidents could have ruled the world, that is, "I have the power to blow you up, and if you don't do what 1894 WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 16, 1970 Editorials represent the opinions of the Editors, not of the University. Frank S. Coots III, Editor-in-Chi- Kernel Soapbox The Case for Dr. Mason By KARL MAY EDITOR'S NOTE: Karl May is a sophomore Arts and Sciences student. It would have been rather hard to have gone through the first few days of this semester without having been approached by one group or another, to join this or sign that. Many times these causes or groups, are shrugged off simply because a person just hasn't got the time or mood to comprehend the purpose of these people. Others just don't want to get involved. Well, everyone has his own choice; but may I suggest to those people who feel that apathy is the best course, that does absolutely nothing to relieve any affliction that any segment of this University feels, in any capacity. Everytliing that happens on this campus, whether the progression of one cause or the death of another, somehow shakes at lea'st a small strand on almost every student's web. A cause that I wish to speak of, in particular, is that which supports the renewal of Dr. Cene Mason's contract for the fall semester of 1971 and spring 1972. Dr. Mason for the uninformed, is a professor in the Political Science Department, who planned to run in the 6th district primary about four months ago. His chances were gunned down by the structure's claim that he allegedly bought a hot IBM typewriter. Those in the know generally led that Dr. Mason was set up, but that's history now and can't be changed. The issue now centers on Dr. Mason's having received his terminal notice for employment here at the University. After the political structure, fearful of his appeal to the younger voters and those more concerned with change, has robbed him of his political aspirations, they now seek to rob him of his livelihood so iliac ne will be forced to move from this state. That would be very convenient for them, to say the least Those students who have been tunate to have had Dr. Mason as an forin- structor generally conclude by a substantial margin, that his capabilities as a professor rise above the mean of such men on this or any other campus. His straightforward manner and honesty may be offensive to a few students who aren't used to such an approach to instruction, but his concern for both his student's response to the material he uses and the relevancy of that material to what is going on, is refreshing. That can't be said about too many professors anywhere. We, the people circulating the petition proposing the renewal of his contract, feci that political powers both in Frankfort and in downtown Lexington are at work to railroad this man out of this state. Such tactics sltould not be allowed to work. Dr. Mason has a great interest in the growth of this University and those people who can make it what it should be, the students. This man should not have to stand alone. For his case carries with it the cold fact that if he is forced to leave, then with him goes the respect many students have for the University carrying on its own affairs. It will stand as absolute proof that the politicians in this state dictate to this