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University of Kentucky
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Tichenor wins by landslide; Renner top VP choice

By JEANNE WEHNES
Copy Editor

After weeks of door-to-door
campaigning, reams of poster paper
and three sleepless days, Gene
Tichaior and Billy Bob Renner were
elected last night to the top posts of
the Student Government.

“We plan to run ~ the Student
Government like we did our cam-
paign," said Tichaior, a psychology
major and next year’s SG president.
He said the highly personalized
effort he made, centered largely in
the north campm dorms, was a key
factor in his election.

at 11 p. m. Tichenor was not present
what his victory was announced,
arriving only after the first round of
congratulations had been com-
pleted. He was swarmed by sup-
porters as he walked into the room.

Lobb left immediately after the
results were announced. He declined
a number of invitations to go out
with supporters, saying his im-
mediate plan was to take his
girlfriend home.

Tichaior said all he really wanted
to do was “go home and go to sleep’
He said that although he had gotten
about two hours of sleep in the past
64 hours, “I guess I’ll go out and

 

See complete vote totals on page 4

 

Jim -Lobb, Tichaior’s major op-
ponait, said all of the candidates ran
an excellent campaign. He said he
did not wish to comment on
Tichenor’s platform; that. the
students had commented them-
selves. bobb lost by a margin of
more than two to one.

A number of Tichenor’s cam-
paigners said they thought
Tichaior’s low-key efforts were
more effective in persuading
students’ votes. Bryan McFarland,
agriculture junior, said he thought
the intense, businesslike attitude of
Lobb had offended some students.

The wines were announced last
night in the Student Center promptly

Inside

state

“—today

THE BIG EVENTS IN THE LITTLE KENTUCKY
DERBY kick this weekend off this afternoon with bike.
scooter and balloon races and an outdoor bluegrass
concert. Details in the Arts and Entertainment pullout.

ONE MINER WAS SHOT AND KILLED IN AN

party anyway.”

Ticharor and Renner proposed a
number of plans to increase student
involvement in student government.
Tichenor said he hoped to institute a
special election for late fall of each
year to seat two freshmen in the SG
Senate.

Renner said a major goal was to
get additional input from regional
and national student government
associations. The SC Book Ex-
change had been developed suc-
cessfully at other schools and was
introduced to UK SG members at a
national convention.

Renner also said SG will look into
the possibility of both standardizing

teacher evaluation forms—a
program that has been successful at
other colleges -— and publishing
those for student perusal However,
funding could be a problem right
now, he said.

While relative transcripts were
supported in the Lobb platform,
Renner said he and Tichenor did not
wish to put their weight behind it
until more research had been done.
He said there were still some
complications in implementation
which had to be cleared. Relative
transcripts would include class size
and grade distribution on grade
transcripts

Buzz English, elected a Business
and Economics Senator and a
Tichenor supporter, said SG also
hopes to find funding to maintain a
political lobbying effort in Frank-
fort The current constitution
prohibits spending SG funds for
political purposes.

“It should really broaden the
scope of Student Government,” said
English. He said the finance com-
mittee has a number of plans to get
needed funding.

UK basketball player Kyle Macy,
a sophomore guard, was a popular
unannounced candidate, getting 27
of the 76 write-in votes cast for
president

Mark Benson, two-term in-
cumbent from College of Home
Economics, lost his seat to Lora
McGuire. “I had expected the
worst,” Benson said.

 

entered Soviet air space and was forced down by Soviet
military jets; official sources said Thursday night.

Administration and Pentagon officials said that
based on radar tracking they “have reason to believe"
the plane had entered Soviet air space and was on the
ground in a remote comer of Russia.

An official said the two most likely alternatives were
either an accident or Soviet action to force the plane to
the ground. However, one source said later that the
jetliner was forced down by Soviet jets.

The airliner was en route to South Korea from Paris
with refueling stop in Anchorage, Alaska, the Federal
Aviation Administration said.

weather

A BLEAK AND BLEARY BLANDING BEACH is

 

AMBUSH THURSDAY as he and a companion were
returning home from a strikebound mine in McCreary
County.

State Police identified the dead man as Donald
Buddy Watson of Stearns.

They said Watson's coworker, Arlie Hill Jr.,
escaped injury when shots were fired at the truck in
which they were riding.

Police said that Watson had been one of the miners
who recently went back to work at the company,a
subsidiary of Blue Diamond Coal Co, Knoxville Tenn.

nation

THE ARMY HAS DETERIORATED IN THE FIVE
YEARS that have elapsed since the country went to an
all-volunteer service. according to a study by an in-
dependent researcher.

Jerry Reed, a former Army officer and career
Defense Department employee on leave for a one-year
fellowship on Capitol Hill, concludes that the Army is
not as strong, well-trained or as effective these days.
The Pentagon said Thursday it could not comment on
the study because it had not seen it.

GARBAGE WILL BE PICKED UP AN HOUR
LATER in Adrian. Michigan thanks to an ll-yearold
boy who complained that he couldn't sleep because
trash collectors made too much noise.

Tim Emerson presented the city commission with a
petition on Tuesday complaining about the 6 am.
pickips. The petition contained 20 signatures.

“I was on spring vacation a week ago and I wanted to
sleep, but the collectors are too noisy,“ the sixth-
grader said. "They make a lot of noise — bang, bang."

Mayor Norman Haft. noting that other residents had
complained about early collections. asked Emerson if 7
am. would suit him better.

“Yes. sir." was the reply. “I have to get up to go to
schgol at that time anyway.“ So the commission voted
to o it.

world

A SOUTH KOREAN JETLINER. CARRYING 113
PERSONS and reported missing over the polar ice cap.

predicted today as temperatures are supposed to be
between the upper 405 and 505. Clouds will move out
later in the evening, as coldness and maybe frost
moves in. Lows tonight in the 305. Highs tomorrow in
the 605.

AS IIOT AIR BALLOONS RISE majestically from
the ground, enthusiasts gather below in a celebration
near I-foingham. Ill.

Compiled from .-\P and National Weather Service
dispatches

 

 

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merrier
New 80 President Gene
Tichenor (left) gets a hug
from a supporter after
hearing that he was elected
by about a two-to-one margin.
Above. new Vice President
Billy Bob Renner savors the
victory.

 

 

Home Ec college reorganizes

By CHRIS BLAIR
Kernel Reporter

The College of Home Economics
has undergone a major internal
reorganization because of a shor-
tage in administrators. But ac‘
cording to its dean, Marjorie
Stewart, the reorganization does
nothing for the college’s shortage of
faculty members.

Before it was reorganized, the
college had five departments, of
which only three had chairmen.
Stewart said that after requests to
fill the empty slots were denied by
Academic Affairs Vice President
Lewis Cochran, the college had to be
trimmed to three departments.

Cochran was not available for
comment.

According to Stewart, while the
names of the departments have been
changed, the courses, programs and
degrees which were offered under
the previous framework remains the
same.

With only 33 full-time faculty
members to teach and advise 724
undergraduate students, the faculty

is overloaded with teaching and
advising and have had less time for
research and public service, she
said.

Despite the shortcomings, Stewart
said, “I believe that the changes will
result in more effective ad-
ministration of the faculty.

“There is a definite shortage of
advisers. I have asked for a few full-
time faculty members who will
teach only one class and do nothing
else except advise students. My
request can‘t be fulfilled, though,
until more faculty members become
available.“

Budget Director Ed Carter said
the problem of hiring new faculty
members this past year was due to
lack of funds. “There were no ad-
ditional funds in 1977-78 to pay new
teachers. UK has been un-
dersupported by the state since 1968
and there has been a relative decline
in state support since then,” he said.
“The coming two years will be
better financially."

The next fiscal budget will be
announced at the May 9 budget
meeting.

Home Economics Professor Joe
Kuhn said, “We are understaffed
and overloaded. l have between 50
and 60 advisees. Our department
held registration one full day and
students were given 10 or 15 minutes
to ask last-minute questions and
make out their schedule. 1 en-
couraged students with specific
questions to come in sometime
before the advising conference.”

Kuhn said several graduate
students helped the faculty mem-
bers with undergraduate
registration for next fall.

Mary Jane Dorsey, human en-
vironment and textiles graduate
student, said this year was “the
biggest load ever.” She said classes
were called off for a day during the
advising period.

Graduate student Sonja Mather
said “Secretaries and graduate
students just handed out schedule
cards during registration. We didn’t
actually advise anyone. We
definitely need more faculty, so
adequate time can be spent with
students."

Fraternity cannon hushed temporarily
by obsolescence, concern for safety

By MARY ANN BUCHART
Kernel Staff Writer

Kappa Alpha fraternity started
this year‘s Old South weekend
Wednesday without one of its most
popular features. The. fraternity
brothers have always fired a cannon
to start off the festivities, but this
year the cannon was nowhere to be
heard.

“We aren‘t going to use the cannon
anymore for several reasons," said
KA President Merrill Littlejohn.
“We've had a couple of accidents
during the past four years that have
made us leery of using the cannon,
but then that guy got killed in
Missouri."

A cannon at the Univasity of
Missouri-Rolls KA house last spring
accidentally exploded, killing one
fraternity member and injuring two
others.

The accidents at the UK chapter
house happened on two separate
occasions; one two years ago, the
other four. In both, two members
were injured when the cannon back-
fired and burned their faces. Ac-
cording to littlejohn neither was
badly hurt, but the instances scared

a lot of people.

After these incidents, the KA‘s had
their cannon inspected by artillery
experts from Fort Knox. Assistant
Dean of Students T. Lynn
Williamson said the experts found
the cannon to be unsafe. “They said
it would be highly dangerous to use it
any longer,“ he said.

Assistant Dean of Students Mike
Palm, who advises the In-
terfraternity Council, agreed that
the cannon should not be fired any
more. “The men who checked it said
it is homemade, not a cast cannon.
That‘s why it is so unsafe," he said.

According to Williamson. it was a
“mutual agreement" between KA
and the UK administration to
discontinue using the cannon. Lit-
tlejohn, on the other hand, said KA
alone decided not to use the cannon
this year. ”We decided the cannon
would be better off left alone. A little
noise doesn' t mean that much "

But despite the decision, several
fraternity brothers were working on
a sleeve is hollowed out piece of
pipe) they had gotten from the KA‘a
at Georgetown to reflace the sleeve
in their cannon. “The experts told us
the sleeve on the cannon may be
rusted out. so a couple of guys were

trying to drill a hole in a sleeve-type
pipe (for the cannon‘s wick)" Lit-
tlejohn said

The drilling caised an accident,
according to another fraternity
member, Tim Durbin. The members
were in the house, holding the pipe,
which contained a small amount of
gunpowder. As they drilled the hole
a spark ignited the powder The
pressure careed them to drop the
pipe onto the floor, cracking the tile

A piece of the tile flew loose and
hit one of the brothers in the head
and leg. He was rushed to the
hospital, but he was not badly in-
jured.

Littlejohn said he knew they had a
pipe but did not realize they were
working on it. “That was really
dumb The expats told us that the
cannon could fire an object up to two
blocks with killing force, if
someth 'aig happenedto be down in it.
We could also be liable if someone
would walk by and decide to fire it
and gets hurt "

Littlejohn said there are plans to
cement the barrel so that no one can
walk by and try to fire it. “I also
don‘t want any of us to get hurt or
just happen to Illl’t someone passing
the horse," he said.

 

   
   
  
 
 
 
   
 
  
 
 
   
  
  
 
 
 
 
  
  
 
 
  
  
 
  
 
 
  
 
 
 
 

 

  

 

    
 
 

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Local bias in housing Can't be ignored

The impression usually publicized by
Lexington’s Chamber-of-Commerce types is that
the “Heart of the Bluegrass" is a fast-growing
progressive city. That might be true when it
comes to attracting new industry, but when it
comes to discrimination and social attitudes, a
second look is needed.

In a recently released national study of
housing discrimination, all but two of 30 blacks
posing as home buyers in Lexington were
discriminated against. Of the 30 blacks who were
looking for an apartment, twenty-sever were
treated less favorably than whites.

The survey was sponsored by the Department
of Housing and Urban Development and was
given to 40 randomly selected cities with an
adequately sized black population to be tested.

The NAACP and other black leaders reportdly
plan to confront government officials with the
study’s results. When they demand action, it’s
likely they’ll just hear more of the kind of
reaction already being formulated by local
government and the real estate establishment: a
flat insistence that houses are available to
everyone regardless of race, and that there isn’t
a major problem.

But when the statistics compiled by an in-
dependent natonal agency show such staggering
evidence of racism in housing, the existence of
the problem shouldn’t be denied, and action to
rectify the problem should be initiated im-

 

 

 

j Local government should set an example by
strongly supporting reform in the housing in.
dustry. And minorities who have been
discriminated against should contact the Human
Rights Commission or the NAACP to take legal
action. It's unlawful to deny someone housing
because of race, and that is a law that must be
strongly enforced.

What good are buildings
without people?

France’s discovery of the neutron bomb is one
hell of a way to carry on the legacy (1 Louis
Pasteur and Madame Curie.

Probably invented by the same realtors who
originated housing discrimination. the neutron
bomb is unique in that it destroys people, not
buildings. France is either the second or third
country to have the bomb, depending on what the
state of the art in Russia is.

It’s uncertain why generals should care about
whether they wipe out cities if they’re killing all
the people in them. Maybe it’s easier to move in
1 after the war, or it’s useful as some obscure
bargaining point in disarmament negotiatiom.

The perfect solution is still to be developed
What’s needed is for all nations to have nuclear
armaments consisting of bombs that can only
destroy other bombs.

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PCI is new threat:

This comment is the second of a worsen'ng of the economic crisis,

two-part series.
By MICHELE PAVON

In the first part of this com-
mentary we argued that, in spite of
the escalation of the tension
strategy, popular consciousness
steadily increased over the years,
recognizing in the labor movement
and its organizations the target of
political violence.

The large popular unity, based on
the three historical components of
Italian life (Catholic, socialist and
Communist) which had crushed
fascism during World War II, rose
again to face the new threat. This
process was accompanied by the

POPCORN

the constant weakening of the
government and the turning of new
groups to the PCI.

 

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The PCI, which had been in power
in several municipalities for a
number of years, presented itself as
the party of efficiency and integrity
as opposed to the corrupt and
inefficient ruling class.

The Red Brigades were formed at
the end of 1969. Just before the 1972
elections, they kidnapped their first
victim. The tension strategy had led
to a frontal attack on the left. It was

hardly surprising that their next
kidnapping (Sossi, a judge) took
place a few days before the popular
referendum to abrogate the law
permitting divorce.

In 1975 the chiefs of the Red
Brigades were arrested. A new
generation of leaders took their
place. The Red Brigades became an
efficient, ruthless military
organization. Assassinations were
planned and executed with ferocious
determination.

Who is behind this group? The
efficiency, the preparedness of the
terrorists and the fact that nme of
them has been caught in the last two
years, tends to eliminate the
hypothesis of an isolated group of
fanatics. For example: the ambush

Italian communist party’s work
may be directed by outside interests

in which Moro was caught was a real
masterpiece. It is estimated that 70
people were involved in the action.
Moro‘s five bodyguards were
eliminated in a sientific manner.
No potential witness was left. After
the kidnapping, the terrorists
disappeared and a search by
thousands of government agents has
failed to turn up their lair.

These facts have led many to
believe that the group has been
infiltrated by the secret agency of a
foreign country. There are several
possibilities, but two, not mutually
exclusive, seem the most plausible.

The first possibility identifies the
CIA as the foreign agency which is
manuvering the terrorist band As
the 'U.S. Congress has

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acknowledged, the CIA has been
active in Italy, in the post-war
period, in promoting anti-left ac-
tivities. The agency played a key
role in the coup attempts in 1964 and
1970 (in cooperation with the Italian
secret services), in trying to break
the labor unions and in planning and
financing the strategy of tension
using fascist groups.

On January 12, 1978, President
Carter surrendered his politics of
“no indifference, no interference" to
the pressure of Ambassador Gard-
ner and the Italian lobby of the
Congress—headed by Dennis
DeConcini, John Chafee, Pete
DeMenacci and Edward Brook, all
having tight bonds with the Italian
right — and “vetoes" Eurocom-
munism, raising a chorus of protest
in Europe.

In spite of Carter’s change in
attitude, part of the DC, as well as
all the other constitutional parties, is
convinced of the necessity of for-
ming an emergency coalition of all
the democratic forces, including the
PCI, to face the dramatic problems
of the country. The DC leader who,
much more than anyone else, has
operated in this direction, putting all
his personal prestige on the line. is
Aldo Moro. He is kidnapped the
same day the new government,
supported for the first time since
1947 by a coalition including the PCI,
takes power. All of this is not to say
that, if the CIA has perpetrated the
kidnapping in order to prevent the

DC-PCI agreement, it has operated
under the administration’s control.
The record of CIA “deviatiom” is
too long for that assumption to be
made.

The second hypothesis involves
West Germany as the country which
is using the Red Brigades to fight the
DC-PCI accord. This country, while
rising in economic power and suc-
cessfully competing with even the
US. in important markets (e.g.
Brazil), is going through a
frightening process which resem-
bles, in certain aspects, the pre-Nazi
situation. It is not by chance that on
Aug. 15, 1977, SS colonel Herbert
Kappler, a war criminal respomible
for the massacre of 335 persons at
the Fosse Ardeatine, was allowed to
escape from his prison in Rome.

The prompt, massive reaction of
the Italian people to the kidnapping
of Moro (only a few hours after the
criminal act, in Turin alone 50,000
persons demonstrated) says that the
democratic tissue is still strong. The
possibility of defeating terrorism
rests on the strengthening of such
tissue, on popular vigilance and on
the reformation of the police and
secret agencies, so that instead of
being a source of threats to the
democratic system, they can insure
social order and protect the
Republic from foreign in-
terferentes.

Michele Pavon is a graduate student
in Mathematics.

 

 

 

 

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