xt7vq814r41z https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt7vq814r41z/data/mets.xml The Kentucky Kernel Kentucky -- Lexington The Kentucky Kernel 1975-09-02 Earlier Titles: Idea of University of Kentucky, The State College Cadet newspapers  English   Contact the Special Collections Research Center for information regarding rights and use of this collection. The Kentucky Kernel  The Kentucky Kernel, September 02, 1975 text The Kentucky Kernel, September 02, 1975 1975 1975-09-02 2020 true xt7vq814r41z section xt7vq814r41z Refugees:

By JAMIE l.l'(‘KE
Kernel Staff Writer

\ ietnamcse refugees are not receiving
money they are entitled to under federal
law. said Tham Truong. founder of the
Vietnamese Refugee Information (‘enter

'l‘rumig is toncerned that money
aheady ear— marked for refugees is not
reaching them because of inefficient
channeling of funds.

“The Federal government appropriated
$4.5 billion for refugee relocation. Volun-
tary agencies in the camps and the state
are responsible for channeling these
funds." Truong said

"The agencies are given $500 for each
refugee they pitK ess " Truong said. T hey
k(’( p $200 for administratiy e c osts leav mg
3300 for the iefugw
“This money is supposed to he handed to
the refugee whenever he needs it. but in
my experience it‘s been very hard for
refugees to get money from the voluntary
agencies."

“Some agencies give part of the $300 to
the refugees when they leave the camps.“
Truong said. But Truong knows of few
refugees who have received the full $300.

86 offers
legal sevices
to students

By l).\.\' (‘Rl"l‘(‘llER
Kernel Staff Writer

An expanded Student Government t’SG
legal seryic cs program is tentatively
scheduled to begin Thursday with a recent
1 K law school graduate as its advisory
lawyer. according to SG President Jim
llarralson.

The program offers a free advice and
referral service to students with legal
problems. It was initiated last September
and continued until May.

l‘nder this year's program a lawyer
Lexington attorney (:regg (‘lendenin
will be available for consultation at the SG
office in the Student ('netcr from 8:30 am.
to 12- 30 pm. every Thursday The
program is budgeted. subject to Student
Senate approval at $2.000 for the school
year. Last year‘s budget for the program.
which was available 90 minutes per week.
was 8480.

Although St; attempted last year to get
l'niversity funding for the legal service
through the Office of Student Affairs. it
appears S‘G will continue to pay for the
program. at least temporarily.

A proposal by SC last March was
submitted to Dr. Robert Zumwinkle. vice
president for student affairs. asking for
l'niversity funding for a full-time legal
service at a cost of 9514.000 Zumwinkle
rejected the proposal.

David Mucci. ex-SG president. said
Monday he didn't expect the University to
accept the 314.000 proposal. but there were
“good preliminary indications that we
would get some money."

Han‘alson said he talked to Zumwinkle
about possible student affairs funding for
the program but “if he gave that in-
dicationto him 1 Mucci) he didn‘ tgiveit to
me. 'fiHeadded My bias IS not to tryto go
to Student Affairs on this. Id rather try to
go after a special grant ~ money with no
strings attached to it.‘ ‘He explained one
source of such a grant might be “big
comp' 'iies."

(‘ontinued on page 7

The agencies seem to think it is the
refugees duty to seek the money. but how
can they when they don‘t speak English
very well?"

The money situation has caused
trouble inside the camps. although the
problems have not received much
publicity. Truong said.

  
  

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No.20
Tuesday. SeptemberZ, 1975

“The refugees are dissatisfied with the
way their money is handled. I have heard
that on the day of departure (from the
camp) people broke chairs in anger to get
$10 in cash.“ he said.

”The $300 each refugee is supposed to
receive has not been sufficiently
publicized. When I talk to sponsors the
first thing I tell them about is the money."

Even when sponsors contact the
agencies on behalf ofrefugees it is difficult
to get the full $300. he said.

“A Lexington doctor who sponsored
nine refugees requested money from the
agency that processed them. “For nine
people there should have been $2,700. but
the agency only sent $500." Truong said.

Truong plans to survey refugees to find
out which agency processed them how
much money they received and whether
they are aware of the $300 to which they
are entitled.

Financial assistance is also available to
refugees through existing state programs.
Truong said. The programs. administered
by the Bureau for Social Insurance. in-
clude Aid to Families with Dependent
(‘hildnen (AFDC) and Public Assistance
grants.

The Federalgovernment will reimburse

KENTUCKY

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an independent student newspaper

   
  

of

Vietnamese not getting full benefits

from federal or state governments

states for the money they spend on
refugees participating in these programs,
Truong said. But Kentucky eligibility
requirements make it difficult for many
refugees to qualify for assistance.

When the refugees first arrived,
financial need was the only qualification.
Now the state requires that a breakdown
occur between refugee and sponsor before
financial aid is granted.

“When a breakdown of sponsorship
occurs, the Bureau of Social Services must
assume responsibility for the refugee,"
Truong said.

“The financial situation is unclear,
inconsistent impractical and inequitable
especially in the case of the voluntary
agencies who disregard the situation and
background of the Vietnamese refugees”

“I don‘ I understand the Bureau of Soc1a1
Services. The money is already there. All
they have to do is channel it to the
refugees,“ he said.

A refugee‘s chances for finding a
sponsor are lessened by lack of money.
Truong said. Of the 130,000 refugees who
have arrived in the United States since last
April when the Saigon government fell,
18.000 to 19.000 are still in settlement
camps.

University of
Kentuckv

Lexin gton Ky. 40506

De-merger issue may be on fall ballot

By MONTY N. FOLEY
Kernel Staff Writer

A preliminary check of de-merger
petitions has yielded enough signatures to
place an amendment to rescind the
merged Urban (‘ounty Government on the
November ballot. said Fayette (‘ounty
(‘lerk (‘harles Baesler.

 

Four on one

(‘ritics of the merger, led by the
Lexington Citizens (Touncil tL(‘(‘), want to
dissolve the present system and replace it
with separate city and county govern-
ments.

According to the provisisons of the
current government‘s charter, any
amendment to abolish merged govern-
ment maybe placed on the ballot if 15 per

cent of the qualified voters _- a total of
0,102 _. petition to do so.

“Out of the 9.494 names that were
submitted. 6204 were valid," Baesler said.
He added that some of the disqualified
signatures may yet prove to be valid when
checked ega inst more current voter rolls.

(‘ontinued on page 7

—ul 06’"

Four against one really doesn't seem like fair odds in this
pickup game of basketball Monday at the courts on Harrison
Avenue at Avenue of Champions.

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Alumnus’
blue-white
complaint

I was interested in your recent article
regard‘ng the Blue White Fund. l have
registered complaints before with various
individuals ar._' agencies within the
University community, but to no avail.
Cliff Hagan (Hagan is UK athletic

directoriis in full control and evidently
no one can change it.

 

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Preston H. Schrader’s (UK alumni and
football season ticket holder) comments
are representative of many of the feelings
of my acquaintances as well as myself.
Personally, I have no objection to the B-W
Fund per se (within a reasonable num
ber), but theassignment of other seating is
ridiculous. The following examples are
documentable evidence:

--The movefrom Stoll to Commonwealth
resulted in approximately 52 per cent
more seating capacity. Let’s assume l2
per cent of available seating was reserved
for SW Fund contributors. Still, a 40 per
cent improvement in seating for season
ticket holders should be a reasonable
expectation.

Although I hold two degrees from the
University, have been an employee for
over nine years and was previously a
contributing member to the UK Alumni
Association, my seats in Commonwealth
were in the precise location that they were
in Ston Field. And, for the past three
years, they have remained in exactly the
same location. With the turnover within
the University community each year, it is
obvious that plenty of seating has opened
up so seating could have been improved.

at have bought season tickets for eight
consecutive years. Yet, acquaintances of
mine buying tickets for the first time last
year and the year before have received
seats far superior to mine (in one row,
near the 40 yard line as opposed to my
goal lineseats) in other words, those of us
who supported the University and its
football program during its "lean“ years
got shafted.

The results on the arbitrary decision of
Hagan, et at, are of far more far reaching
impact than iust the athletics program.
Personally, i will never contribute to the
University or any of its programs until the
appropriate University officials force the
rectification of such an obvious injustice.
My small contribution won’t be par
ticula rty missed. However, two of my
personal acquaintances who have been
long-term substantial contributors to the
University have stopped contributing. On
secondhand information, there are many
others who have made the same decision.

-- In essence, previous ticket buyers have
been told that unless they pay ”blackmail”
funds to the SAW Fund, there will never be
any improvement in seat location. Ob-
viously, from the total University
viewpoint, this is lousy public relations.

Three cheers for our initial investigative
reporting. I hope it leads to the correction
of a distasteful situation to the betterment
of the entire University community.

Gerald W Hill
UK alumnus

  
  

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Harralson starts the year
with an 36 bang

No one can slam the door in their
own faces as well and as often as
Student Government (SG).

56 President Jim Harralson is
about to start his year off with a
characteristic SG bang by failing
to take advantage of a partially
opened door which could lead to an
expanded student legal services
program.

Former 86 President David
Mucci and Craig Meeker, who lost
the presidential race to Harralson,
attempted to expand the Mucci
initiated legal serwces program
last spring. The legal services
program, which began last fall,
provided students with free legal
advice one day each week by
appointment. It cost 36 $480.

Meeker and Mucci proposed to
Vice President for Student Affairs
Robert Zumwinkle that the pro
gram be expanded. Included in the
proposal were a full time lawyer
and three law student interns as
opposed to the very part time

lawyer who manned the legal.

services program last year.

The Mucci‘Meeker proposal, as
presented to Zumwinkle, included
a $14,000 request for University
funding. Needless to say, Zumwin-
kle didn’t have the money. He did,
however, invite Mucci and Meeker
to rework the proposal.

Admittedly, Zumwinkle did not
promise anything, but he didn’t

slam the door in their faces either

that’s sufficiently rare coming
from the University to warrant an
all out 86 effort.

This allout effort is definitely not
going to come from Harralson.
Although Harralson admits know
ing about Zumwinkle’s cracked
door, he has decided without
proposing anything to Zumwinkle

to attempt to find funding else
where. But he doesn’t seem to be
too sure about where.

in addition, Harralson plans to
expand the legal services program
with SO funds, if the Student
Senate approves. Not that expan
sion of the legal services program
is a bad use for SC money.
Providing students with free legal
advice is probably the only viable
program initiated by the Mucci
administration.

But why do it with 56 money if
funds can come out of someone
else’s pocket? Harralson is propos
ing a $2,000 legal services program
to the Student Senate —— to be paid
for by 86. Two thousand dollars is
20 per cent of 56’s annual budget.
Harralson should be able to think of
something better to do with the
money.

What’s really interesting about
this whole thing is that Harralson,
and SG vice president Glenn Sfith,
ran on a platform of monetary
efficiency. in an earlier nonaction

this summer, Harralson lost $1,000
of last year‘s non recurring 56
state funds by not spending the
money before the end of the 1974 75
fiscal year.

Now he’s planning to spend $2,000
in SC monies on an expanded legal
services program without even so
much as submitting a proposal that
mold gain hm University funding.

 

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pomatos

WASHINGTON The television
news programs have added a new
staple owr ‘re past several years the
iitvi'viigvi with the farmer who’s going
t csted. Tine tarmer interviewee
.ilti-i nates from season to season from
the rattleman to the corn raiser and
ham to the iattleman like an infinite,
uninformative metronome In keeping
with network news policy of never
trying to make sense of what’s put on
the air, explanations are seldom
proferredastowhy we have such price
volatility that first the man who grows
the feed and then the man who raises
the livestock which consumes it must
take turns going to the wall.

For enlightenment on that we must
turn to ”The Fields Have Turned
Brown: Four Essays on World
Hunger,” by DeMarco and Sechler.
There we learn that our government’s
decision to sell out its grain stocks
deprived it of the ability to flatten out

the swoops and swoons of the price
level. This may have gladdened the
hearts of pure free enterprisers, but to
producer and consumer it has not
broughtthe blessing we were promised
would come with the end of agricultural
subsidies.

Whether that is the fault of the
market system or the quasi
monopolists dominating it may not be
as important as the different way of
thinking about food embodied in this
mimeographed book. Food is politics
and economics not technology and
sentiment.

Yet the sweetly simple are still in-
viting people to those luncheons at
which a glass of water and half a soy
bean cake are served so that we may
experience the diet of an inhabitant of
the sidewalks of CaICUtta. On the
technological side, if the Green
Revolution has been significantly less
verdantthan the Sunday sups told us it

would be, even the sophisticates at
Fortune magazine see future progress
as recapitulation of the past: more

government research to replace the,

faltering technology of the agro
industrial gimts.

DeMarco md Sechler point out that
”in 1968 it took 57,000 tons of nitrogen
fertil izerto produce the equivalent crop
yield per acre in Illinois that 11,000 tons
had produced in 1949. A fivefold in»
crease iust to keep the depleted soil at
20»year production levels.” The current
issue of Fortune makes the same
statement in other terms when it
remarks that US. agriculture con
sumes the equivalent of 213,000 barrels
of oil a day to make that nitrogen fer-
tilizer. Even Jerry Ford can see there
has to be an end to this.

Fortune’s answer is more capital-
intensive, high cost technolOgy
agriculture. How about growing crops
with a carbon dioxide gas, it asks, say
in thetorm of ”sowing pellets of dry ice
in the fields” or by "gas from

microcapsules sprayed on plants." Or,
you guys in the lab, what about in
venting some new vegetables like the
pomato, ”a tomatopotato plant
bearingtruit above and below grOJnd.“
For increasing livestock production it
seeks a ” Brave New World’ for
animals” in which cattle embryos

would be fertilized in the ”reproductive
tracts of such ’incubator’ animals as
rabbits and then transferred to foster
mother cows as needed.”

As ugly and impossible as these
proposals somd, they may be perfected
well enough to yield a cornucopia of
tasteless, nutritionally deficient semi
food. But note, they all subsume
research programs intended to keep

 

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farming an industrial enterprise that is
too costly for any but the large cor-
poration to enter or maintain itself in.
This is the same mentality that has
seentoitthattheaveragechicken an
animal that can be raised anywhere
travels 1,200 miles to market.

De Marco and Sechler show that those
countries notably the two Chinas,
Egypt, South Korea and Japan ,., that
have opted for non industrial, small-
scale farming are the noanestern
nations enioying the greatest success
with their agriculture. Most of the rest,
where our economic organizations of
agriculture has been introduced, have
had experiences which range from
profoundly disappointing to horren~
dous. To farm the way we do you have
to be wealthy to begin with. Otherwise

 

you can go broke trying to pay for the
fancy technology that is supposed to
feed you. ”...over half the countries on
the United Nations list of Most
Seriously Affected by the food crisis
actuallydepend on agricultural exports
for at least a) per cent of their ear»
nings," DeMarco and Sechler tell us.

Even in Mexico, where the in
troductionof Gringo farming has raised
yields, althOLgh not spectacularly, we
have ”the anomaly of grain surpluses
in a country whose farm population
goes hmgry“ (vide ”The Elements,”
June 1975, IPS Transnational, 1901 Q St.
NW., Wash, DC. 20008). With that has
comethe common phenomenon of rural
depopulation.

We have it in our own country too.
Land in California irrigated at public
expense, for farms not to exceed 640
acres, and Tenneco grabs 350,000 acres
of it for industrial cultivation. Think of
how many families could make a living
off of that land, but, instead, they’re in
the cities on welfare because we are
told that labor intensive agriculture is
“economically irrational."

Food is politics, not sentiment, not
industrial technology.

 

Nicholas Von Hoffman is a columnist
for King Features Syndicate.

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

[1‘ news briefs
FROM BRASS TO BOOGIE ,
Egypt and Israel Sign

10"" BOOKS IT All nonagression agreement

PROFESSIONAL ENTERTAINMENT FOR RUSH "“‘Ex-‘N"“"‘" EGYPT it") 43m and israei initiaied a

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O WILD HONEY . ANXIETY Kissinger said could set the stage for peace in the Middle East.
. FANAT lCS . L'GRANDE Egyptian military and civilian officials wrote their initials on the
--"" pact in this Mediterranean city as they were watched by Kissinger
O P t . . t ' . . . -
ARLIAMENTS . AMERICAN PRIDE and Egyptian PreSIdent Sadat. both smiling broadly.
O ZlNN . APOCRYPHA “Let us look forward to a new era.“ Sadat said at a news
0 HOME 0 MEDUSA conference immediately after the 10—minute ceremony, “I think
. WULF E BROS. . CHRISTOPHER ROBIN that the agreement marks a turning point in the Arab~lsraeli
conflict."
I
DO" t Delay ' contOC' JOCk Lawrence Kissinger. who engineered the agreement during seven round
trips of shuttle diplomacy. flew here earlier In the day from
JON: AGENCY, Inc. .lerusalem where Israeli officials had initialed the documents.
. Major provisions call for Israel to make an additional withdrawal
-3-“ . PO BOX 436 . SHlerlalnmenl in the Sinai Desert and surrender the Abu liudeis oilf'ields in
Lomswlle, Kentucky 4020‘ exchange for political concessions from Egypt. ITS. technicians
Phone (502) 456-6655 would help man surveillance outposts between the Egyptian and
.. Israeli lines. ‘
0
Coal miners not expected
d w'ld w lk
It [1. .' H N W to en I cat a out
n erns IPS Val a e O f'll\I{l.If.\”l'()\t\\. \ \. i \I't 'l'herewaslittleunhcationthat a
wildcat w alkout by two thirds of the nations soft coal iiiiiiei‘s would
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I a J y ,— /0 y miners return to work
{I , ‘ 7f, (1 (2 Several l'ttiteil \lltit‘ \‘Iiil‘ki‘l\ ltl('.'fl‘~ it‘: l.li:‘;:ll t'ounty, \ylit't'c Ilii'
Ody ”70/7 ' by :79 O . \ll'lkt' lii':_‘;tt: three weeks ago. held lltt't'tttlL‘,‘ ovei the l .tils'il’ llay
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X10 5 you 0/0 ’73 w y ca 5’ a 0,0 add' issue at court iiiiuiictioiis
58 yefa/ excl'lfny off- Campus /earnfn9 oploor‘t‘um'fz'CS , I '\I\\ Secretary 'l‘reasurer Ilarry l’atricl. said the key ai‘ie\ aiice ‘
was the coal operators" trequent Lise of iniiuictioiis to halt minor ‘
arc ayaf/ab/(g for £173 FQI/ SCMESd'Gf; \vork stoppages I’atrick complained that was a self {lt‘lt‘t‘lllllfl way
C of dealing with local grievances
OM5 .928 as. The union has asked the Bituminous t'oal (lperators .‘\.\..\'U(‘l£tllt)ll
to meet with federal mediators in Washington to discuss a
. , . compromise. Meanwhile. Patrick asked miners to return to work at
office for experiental education m, a m. irumw
303 Administration Bld . - -
9 Liquor strength being lowered
phone 257-3632
I O
to hold retail prices steady
'I'he price of a fifth of liquor has Increased less than most other
consumer products in the past year. but some buyers find
themselves getting less kick for their cash
.\n .\\‘.\t)('l.'llt‘(l I’ress survey showed prices ot distilled spirits
generally have risen less than 3 per cent in the past 12 months while
thet‘onsumer l’rice Inde\ for July showed that overall prices in the
past year had risen it 7 per cent In some cases. the only increase Ill

liquor costs has been in state or local ta\es

.\t the same time. however. manufacturers of some types of
whisky have lowered the proof or alcoholic content of their
products without any corresponding decline in prices

“We still sell a very good product at a reasonable price.” said a
spokesman for the Distilled Spirits Institute in Washington. I), (‘

He said lowering the proof enabled manufacturers to hold the
price line in the face of Increases in the cost of things like labor.
transportation and packaging.

Labor Day traffic heavy;
4 reported killed in Kentucky 5

Kentucky State Police contended with heavy traffic in many _
areas. hut/only one major tieup. as Labor Day weekend vacationers t
headed for home Monday.

Ileav y northbound traffic on Interstate 73 backed up for about a
mile during the late afternoon at a construction site near Mount
Vernon in Roekcastle (‘ounty

It was early evening before State Police reported the congestion
was cleared

Heavy northbound traffic was also reported on ITS between
Walton and (‘incinnati and on Hi?) between Elizabethtown and
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Increased number of women
participate in sorority rush

Ity .Itill\ \\l\\ \lll.I.I’,I{
\ssistant \lanaging Ifditor

Last 'l'liuisday J72 women decided to pledge a
sorority l"or l’atti t'a/ee l’.’inhellenic president. it
was the end of a lonng sometimes lrantic process.

"l‘Iu-ept for the computer breakdown. rush ran
pretty smoothly this year." t'a/ee said "Wed-
nesilay night it malfunctioncil l’ortunately. it only
took three hours to repair ”

   
   
   
  

”(i r e e l: s (I r c
definitely coming back
in. This year 1.36 more
women came out for

rush. ”

Ron Mitchel
the computer is tuned to extend bids which are
inyitations to tom a particular sorority and to

synchroni/e poi iy \chedules liach soi‘ol‘lty
tompiles a list of the women v honi they hope \\lll
lUlll llns list is fed ‘o the iomputei' and is then
matched with the sorority preference cards sub
mitted l:_\ the fllslli‘t‘.\

'I‘Iach l ll\lit‘t‘ fills out .I computer card listing the
stil'iil'lllt's she would like to _]()Ill In order of
preference." t'a/ee said "The computer matches
the inshee w ith the interested sorority highest on
her list. ‘ she said

‘Fraternity rush

"'l‘his is the first maior problem wc'y'e had with
the computer since we started using it in 1968.
Luckily . it did not make any mistakes." (‘azee said.

.\l)out titifl girls participated to rush this year

which is lfiii more than last year.
"(treeks are definitely coming back In ” she
said Last year. Sift girls came out for rush and in
197:; only lit participated So this year was a great
one for sororities ”

Sororities operate on a closed rush system This
means they cannot haye contact with rushecs until
formal rush starts, This year it started on .\ug 17.

“l“or 12 hectic days the rushecs \isit each house
and try to decide which one is best for them.” ('axee

stiltl.

'l'hc first three days of rush are filled with “open
liouse“ parties "'l'his allows the rushees to \isit
each of the tlsororitics and to decide which house
they would like to its” again ('a/ee explained

l'iir illt' rest of rush there are a \aricty of parties
designed to acquaint the rushces \\ ith the members
of each house

" \ltcr open house the sororities put on skits at a
13 minute party 'l‘hese are called “first parties".
she said “'l'hen we ha\e themc parties lasting tyyo
hunts and t inally preference night Here. the rushee
\isits only the three houses Ill .yllti'll she is most
interested

.\lter .ill the parties are oyet‘ and the computer
cards ha\e been completed. the rushee is informed
\\lll('ll sorority she can ioin by her rush counselor.

Hush counselors are upperclass sorority mem
lit-1's who ailyise the rushces on rush and on the
iireek sy stem l'here'are 28 rush counselors w ho are
assigned to a specific group of girls 'l‘hcy receive
the computer cards and tell the rushecs the results

‘ttnee a rushee decides to join a sorority she goes
through a period of pledgcship usually lasting a
semester." t'azce explained. “After that. she
lnecomes an aetiye which is a lull member of the
sorority ”

improves but

still has problems'— Niehaus

By JOHN “INN MILLER
\ssistant Managing Editor

Fraternity rush has changed considerably over
the past few years. but still has a long way to go
according to Interfraternity (‘ouncit tlf“(‘i presi
dent. Marty Niehaus.

"Rush is not as high pressure as it was last year
but some fraternities are still not emphasizing the
positive aspects of the greek system." Niehaus said.

“Getting a rushee drunk and showing him a good
party does little to inform him about how a
fraternity actually operates." “Bands. booze and
broads are the wrong things to stress." Niehaus
says.

"Part of the problem stems from fraternities
gearing rush parties toward their members and not
the rushees." he said "This is understandable but it
can leave a rnshee confused about which fraternity
to join "

ltush procedures hay'e improy'ed because rushees
are getting smarter each year. said Niehaus

“l"ratcrnitics in general and rush in particular
liay'e changed drastically over the last few years
because rushees won‘t put up with as much ‘mickey
mouse‘ crap as before." Niehaus said

Last year. as ll’t‘ social chairman. Niehaus tried
to com ince fraternities that they did not need band
parties before Labor day.

"I told them they don‘t need so many parties and
they should stress smaller parties so the rushees
can really learn about fraternities." Niehaus said.

".\lost fraternities did not like the idea. but I still
ll'llt‘\t‘ they are doing themsely'es a disservice. If

they can't rush someone on the merits of their
fraternity. instead of the size of their parties. then
they really don‘t have much to offer.” he said.

Niehaus says fraternities have a lot to offer
i'ushees. “The cost of living in a fraternity. where
you receive two meals a day. is just about the same
as living in a dorm and buying your own meals. We
also stress academics. After all. if you can‘t make
the grades to stay in school. then you‘re not much
use to the fraternity,” Niehaus said.

Niehaus said fraternities are not for everyone.
“Fraternities serve a useful function but some
people may not fit in or enjoy them,“ Niehaus said.

 
    

“Fraternities need to
emphasize the positive
aspects of the Greek
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Jack Hall undecided
about another leave

Dean of Students Jack Hall is
undecided on whether he'll re-
quest an additional one~year
leave of absence from the Board
of Trustees.

”all. currently administrative
assistant for internal affairs in
theadministration ot (iov. Julian
(‘arroll. said Monday he intends
to remain in his position beyond
the term of his current oneyear
leave.

“It the governor so chooses. I
would like to stay on in Frank~
fort, But i am undecided at this
point on whether I'll ask for
another leave of absence or if I
will break ties with the l'niver»
sity.” he said.

Hall‘s leave of absence. which
will terminate Jan. 1. 1976. was
granted by the Trustees last
December.

Hall said one reason he wanted
to remain in Frankfort is the
upcoming session of the 1976
(icnerai Assembly. "The gover<
nor‘s office has a different cm~
phasis when the legislature is in
session.” he said. “I think the
erqierience would be invaluable.
It would have new horizons. new
challenge