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Drug arrests increase.

By MARIE MITCHELL
Kernel Staff ther

Disciplire and conduct problems
are on the decrease this year at UK,
but the number d students arrested
for possession of narcotic drugs has
increased, according to T. Lynn
Williamson, assistant dean of
students.

Wrilianmon said he attributes the
increase to more open use of drugs,
not to a greater number of people
rsirg them. The seriodsness of the
charge depends on the quantity
found, and whether it was for sale or
personal use.

Alcohol-related problems, the
largest single grouping of criminal
offenses, have also increased
slightly, Williamson said. This
grouping includes public in-
toxication, disorderly conduct,
operating a motor vehicle while
intoxicated, reckless driving while
under the influence of alcohol and

possession d an alcoholic beverage
by a minor.

Shoplifting is the most common
single offeme, Williamson said, and
stealing is the most common charge
under the code of student conduct.

0f the 550 to 600 average yearly
arrests, Chief of Police Paul
Harrison said only 25 per cent are
students or persons connected with
the Univcrsity.

Stealing, especially in the dorms,
is rsually perpetrated by outsiders
who are also guilty of minor sex
offenses like window peeping and
indecent exposure, Harrison said.
“By nature, college campuses are
easy marks for thieves because of
the difficulty in keeping buildings
locked.”

Students caught violating the code
(which includes disciplinary of-
fenses like abus‘ve, drunken, violent
or excessively noisy behavior or
expresion on University property)
are taken to Williamson’s office.

Misuse of i.d. cards is a common
problem at basketball games this
year, Williamson said, since
students can now get tickets prior to
the game. “We confiscate about 10-15
cards a game,” he said.

Ifthecardisusedasa
misrepresentation of student status
the identification is confiscated. In
exceptimal cases where someone
forgets his or her identification, a
friend can vouch for the student by
volunteering his or her i.d. which
can be retrieved the next day.

Few group problems occur except
during early fall or spring when the
weather tends to make people
rowdy, Williamson said.

Sports events, especially football,
create some group problems,

Harrison said, because fans tend to!

drink too much.“We prefer not to
make arrests if we can prevent it,”

Harrison said. “Usually we release'

the intoxicated person to someone
who is sober, but it all depends on

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the attitudes of the crowd and if any
damage has been done.” '
Handling each case on an in-
dividral basis, Williamson said the
student is first advised of his or her
rights under the code and that he or
she can have an adviser present
through the disciplinary process.

Nect the offender is told of the
constitutimai right to remain silent,
and warned that anything he or she
says may be used as evidernce in
proceedings.

Sanctions imposed can be a
warning, reprimand, probation with
appropriate conditions attached,
suspersion or dismissal, according
to the circumstances and
seriousness of the charge.

“A student has the right to a
judicial board hearing if he is
dissatisfied with my sanctions,”
Williamson said. No one has used
this privilege in the last four years.

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Vol. LXVIII, Number 115
Thursday, February 24, 1977

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University of Kentucky
Lexington, Kentucky

Cats and dogs

Everyone knows actors are crazy—and these members of TA 291 fit
the part, soto speak. Actually they‘re letting off a little steam in the
Botanical Gardens in yesterday’s warm weather.

Engineering student announces candidacy

By SUSAN JONES
Copy Editor

The following is the first story in a
weekly series on candidates for
Urban County Council seats in
student districts.

Bernard McCarthy, UK
engineering student, has become
something of a legend down at city
tell by faithfully attending Urban
County Council (UCC) meetings for'
more than two years.

Now he’s running for a council
seat, in the student-populated 4th
district. Pam Miller, incumbent

car ncilwcman'for this district, is not
planning to run for reelection.

McCarthy’s only announced op-
pment in the race, Anne Gabbard, is
a UK sociology professor. He gives
himself a 50—50 chance of winning.

Lexington traffic problems in-
spired McCarthy’s interest in local
government. “My interest in civil
engineering led to an interest in
traffic problems,” said McCarthy,
21. “I have noticed that many times
motorists’ needs lose to the interests
of neighbcrhood associations or
ecologists.” ‘

If elected to the UCC, McCarthy’s
first priority would be to attempt to

Versatility pays off

Trivia teams wage a ’warfare of the wiles’ in annual Bowl

By JIM McNAIR
Kernel Staff Writer

Quick. Name the person who
starred as deputy Barney Fife on the
Andy Griffith Show.

You say Don Knotts and you are
correct and you have just scored 10
points in UK‘s Trivia Bowl.

The trivia showdown, consisting of
22 teams waging a warfare of the
wiles at Ccmplex Commons, will
decide who knows more worthless
information than anyone else.

The cocky contestants, in teams of
four, are given questions covering
the depth and breadth of five major
fields of study -- movies, television,
comics, music and sports. Some
teams no doubt consist of
speciaIiSs. but versatility pays off
in the end.

Orgam'zed by senior dentistry
student Q‘aig Wabh with help from

state

 

The Kentucky Commission on Human Rights is
Scheduled to take up charges of sex discrimination
by state police in a public hearing next Thursday.
Complaints were filed against the state Justice
Department by Lupe Cots and Marta Pearson of
Lexington, who allege they denied employment as

Sharon Horstmeyer of the SCB, the
UK Trivia Bowl is in its fifth year of
recalling dead people, broken-up
musical groups and forgotten
animated characters.

Walsh said, “We go back far
enough to cover subjects that people
have‘ reaschably experienced or
remember. Like when you’re a little
kid anci you see Rin Tin Tin.
Sometimes we go back pretty far,
but you get to see old movies on TV
reruns.”

Walsh compiled all of the
questions for the tournament
himself, with a little help from
current publications and friends.
“Most of the questions come out of
my head, but occasionally I’ll grab a
newspaper or magazine and look
through it to find things that remind
me (1' a movie, socrg or sports event.
If I can find additional information,

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BERNARD McCARTHY
. . . traffic, zoningimportant

I’ll use it as a bonus question.”

Walsh would have entered a team
in the tournament, but decided to
bear the responsibility of organizing
the event since last year’s organizer
graduated.

The hardy trivia veteran’s teams
accumulated three championships
and a second place finish in the four
years they competed. Before the
National Invitational Trivia
Tournament at the University of
Illinois was discontinued last year,
Walsh had been selected to
represent UK three times.

“The four all-stars of our tour-
nament were sent to Illinois to
represent UK,” said Walsh. “I only
made it once because I had a
histology test and oral surgery
rotation the other two times and
couldn’t go.” Walsh’s team lost to
the eventual winners in the

from the current personnel shuffle. Rep. Hoover
Dawahare, D-Whitesburg, has requested a legisla-

troopers.

state troopers because they did not meet the height

requirement of 5-foot-6.

State Police Commissioner Ken Brandenburgh
said yesterday perhaps another 10 offices and
troopers will be transferred after the dust settles

tive comittee meeting to investigate the transfers.
Dawahare said there is suspicion of a link between
formation of a Kentucky Association of State Police
and demotions and transfers of the founding

nation

The Senate Intelligence Committee yesterday

AMY-

unnimously recommended Adm. Stansfield Tum
er to be the new director of the Central Intelligence

solve these traffic problems. He
favors constructing proposed roads
like the Rosemont Garden and
Newtown Pike extensions, which he
feels would shorten traveling
distances in Lexington.

“Traffic problems haven’t even

been handled, period, in Lexington,”
he said.
motorists and the highway depart-
ment have never been given a fair
chance in Lexington."

“I’m running because

McCarthy is also concerned about

Lexington planning and zoning.

“Planning and zoning are the roots

of other problems,” he said. “We'

semifinals the year he did make it.
Another UK team won the national
title in 1974.

In the UK Trivia Bowl, two teams
meet in a college bowl set-up with
buzzers, clock and moderator. They
arswer toss-up questions worth 10
points. If a team member correctly
arswers a toss-up, his or her team
earns a chance to score 20 more
points with a bonus question.

If he or she interrupts the
moderator in the middle of a
question, the team is penalized five
points, but if the contestant misses a
question read in its entirety, there is
no paralty and the other team gains
the opportunity to answer it.

Matches are single elimination
and range in length from six minutes
for first round matches to 15 minutes
in the championship confrontation.

“I think it’s really interesting and

Angry House Democrats yesterday summed up
comparisons with the Nixon administration refus-
ingto spend money that Congress had appropriated

_ Western in

need stricter controls on developers.
“Now there’s too much industry in
north Lexington and all the
residentialsection is concentrated in
the south,” he said. “This com~
purnds the traffic problem.”

McCarthy plans to suggest the
building of a solid energy waste
plant, which would produce steam
energy by burning garbage.

In addition, he proposes that all
UCC meetings be opened to the
public, and that the government
provide better re-location assistance
if people are moved for public works
programs. .

fun to try to think of something you
know subconsciously, but haven‘t
consciously thought of lately,” said
Walsh. “1 don’t like to go to stock
trivia books because it takes away
the challenge. It’s not something you
study or practice for, but the ability
to take something out of your mind.”

Walsh lauded the Student Center
Board for importing old movies,
which help trim pick up trivia.

Now for the trivia question of the
year:

Rupp’s Runts lost to Texas
the 1966 NCAA
Basketball Championship. Name the
five main players for Texas
Western.

So you know but yar can’t think of
it. The answer—Willie Worsley and
Bobby Joe Hill at guard, David “Big
Daddy” Lattin at center, and Orstin
Artis and Neville Shedd at forward.

in denouncing President Carter’s decision to stop

new spending on 19 big water-control projects. “I
seem to remember some speeches during the
presidential campaign about openness and consult-

irg with Congress," said Rep. Morris Udall,

D-Ariz., who chaired the House Interior Committee

meeting. '

President Carter put his stamp of approval
yesterday in his second press conference on all
current CIA activities and said his review of news

 

 

Prof says

he’ll run for
re-election

(‘ounty councilman William
E. Lyons announced
yesterday he will seek re-
election to the 8th district.

Lyons, a UK political
science professor, said the
most urgent problem for his
district and Lexington as well
“is our current inability to
plan for and manage
growth.“ A system is needed
that will assure both citizens
and developers that problems
of growth can be solved, he
said.

Lyons and William Ward of
the 9th district are the two
council members serving on
the recently formed Citizen's
Task Force for growth
planning.

Scheduled improvements
on exits from the Gainesway
subdivision, a footbridge for
school children and the
resolution over undeveloped
land in the Southeastern Hills
area are among his major
accomplishments, Lyons
said.

Lyons served as chairman
of the citizen's committee
that wrote the merger
charter for the urban county
government. He serves on the
operations. community
development, planning and
evaluations committees and
is also a member of the
downtown development
commission.

 

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reports that the CIA has secretly paid millions of
dollars to foreign leaders has “not found anything

illegal or improper.”

Spring break

Today will be mostly cloudy and mild with a

high in the mid 60’s. Tonight and Friday will be
partly cloudy and cold. The low tonight will be in

thelow 30's.

Compiled from Associated Press
and National Weather Bureau dispatches

 

 

 

  

 

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Gas profits soaring
as consumers pay

Because no consumer enjoys paying bills,
utility companies are rarely subject to public
praise. But the utility companies do provide
essential services and are therefore accorded
special status by state and federal regulatory
agencies.

In the case of gas companies, that special
status mears allowing latitude so that new gas
sources can be located. At the same time, the
regulatory agencies are charged with ensuring
that utility companies provide fair and equitable
services to the consumer.

Judging by the recent profits of Columbia Gas
Transmission Corp., that isn’t being done.

The recent cold wea ther prompted an increase
in corsumer gas use which has boosted
Columbia’s profits. Columbia reported a
tremendous profit—$41.4 million—last
December compared to $17.4 million netted in
December. 1975.

Although December of 1975 was warmer than
this past December. it seems unfair to pass all
cost increases incurred from a hard winter on to
consumers. And it was consumers that felt the
crunch in December and again even worse in
January.

It has been speculated that the increase in gas
use over the wrnter will prompt a hike in prices
to the consumer (who else?) so that gas com-
panies like Columbia have sufficient funds to
locate new gas sources.

But the tremendous profits suggest that
Columbia and other companies already have
plenty of money to locate those new sources. The
regulatory agencies should certainly consider
the recent profits if a requestfor a price increase
comes in, as it undoubtedly will.

And the agencies should look into the
possibility of forcing the utilities to share the

burden of price increases that result from a cold
winter.

At the same time, consumers should cut back
on gas use as much as possible. Considering
what gas bills have been like, that shouldn’t be
any problem.

Fee payment
study welcome

Formation of a committee to study the
University’s fee-payment system is a welcome
innovation that could implement some sense into
the nonsense of registration.

One change that may result from the study by
the 12—member student-staff committee is in-
stituting a system whereby all fees—tuition,
health, activities, every thing— can be handled at
one, centralized account receiving station.
Currently, payments have to be cleared through
each division (health, activities, etc.).

Unfortunately, programming a computer to
break down the different payments is expensive.

The committee will consider the cost and weigh

it against the foulups that could be alleviated.

The committee also might draft a proposal to
hike the late fee (currently $5) that is levied
against students who don’t pay fees by the
required date. This past semester was a record
breaker for those students who numbered some
6,000.

The number of students paying fees late is only
one aspect of major problem caused by student
irresponsibility and adm inistrative red tape.
Hopefully, the committee can form substantive
recommendations.

 

Pomp or values?

Reading the article the other day
which called for a return to pomp
knocked Jimmy Carter’s
a .. mpts to restore a sense of

‘ «nective and normalcy to the
presidency. I couldn‘t help feeling a
little annoyed at the author’s whim—
sical view of an issue which is
symbolic of a more far-reaching
chain of events.

Jimmy Carter is like us. I‘m told
he puts his pants on one foot at a
time. He has a family. He served in
the Navy. He owns a peanut farm
which he worked for a number of
years. from which he's made a good
living. but which has also put him in
debt. And I‘m led to believe that he
cats and drinks like most other
people.

The only difference I can see aside
from his obvious position of power is
that the media attaches a distorted
importance to inconsequential pres-
sidential doings. Who cares what the
president had for breakfast. or how
many laps he swims before bed?

Hopefully. its not the people who
have this need for trivia. Rather.

and

I’m hoping, it is the media’s fear of
having nothing to say which prompts
this charade; and it is this incessant
mindless attention which creates the
Washington star system, from which
some of the actors, fortunately. seek
to extricate themselves.

But perhaps the author of the
article the other day is weak in US.
history. It was England who had a
king and the ‘colonies‘ who sought
self determination and freedoms
denied by a ruler who viewed kissing
as a way of life.

The founding documents of this
nation were written as a guarantee
against monarchy and the arro-
gance of power. It tried to prevent
the growth of elitism. However, the
true test of the afore mentioned
documents rests with the people and
if the people really want a President
hidden in the trappings of power—a
President who is known and heard
only through TV and radio; a
president who moves to a rendition
of Superfly like Elton John, then so
beit.

If they don't, however, then I
suggest the promulgator of pomp
spend some time in England to

satiate her desire for pomp and
“circumstance.” England may be
bankrupt, but by God the Queen eats
well.

This country needs a change in
direction and a reassesment of
objectives and values. But a return
toPomp?

Paul Christie
Graduate student

Spare us

Well, I see from the letters column
that it’s time for me to hang it up.
After working for the last five years
in the Republican Party, I still don’t
know everything about how it works
and what it should be doing. But now
I can rest easy, because Douglas
Hoffman obviously has all the
answers after one semester of
Political Science.

Iguess I must also now discard all
of my good opinions of Nick Martin,
which I have accumulated after
knowing Nick for six months. The
omniscient Doug Hoffman has met
the man once and pronounced his
edict that Martin is a “loser."

[just hope Hoffman will spare us

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