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Vol LXVII No. 32
Thursday September 18, 1975

 

 

 

 

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an independent student newspaper

Wet behind the ears

Bob Miller. architecture junior.
looked before crossing Rose
Street in front of the Chemistry
l'll)Sl(‘S Building with his dog
.lason.

~EdGerald

KENTUCKY

   

   

RY BRl'CE GARDNER
.\ssistant Managing Editor

The Student Coalition Against
Racism (SCAR) voted Wed-
nesday to “water down" a
resolution they submitted to the
Student Senate Sept. 8.

The original resolution which
called for the Senate to condemn
the “racist violence attending
busing in Louisville." and to
support desegregation. was
tabled by the Senate after an hour
of debate.
vRichard (iraef, a SCAR
spokesman, said the initial
resolution was “too strong. We
should water it down.“

(lraef said a revised resolution
should still support busing and
“go along with the law of the
land.“ He added the resolution
should also condemn blatant
racist activities in Louisville.

SCAR decided to rewrite the
resolution to avoid “alienating
any people in Louisville. Graef
said. “If you attack the minority,
you are alienating the majority.“

The minority he referred to
was the Nazi Party and the Ku

e] University of Kentucky

Lexington, Ky. 40506

 

Revisionism

SCAR votes to 'water down'

Louisville busing resolution

Klux Klan. both of which were
heavily criticized in the original
resolution.

Russell Pelle, another SCAR
spokesman. said the rewritten
resolution, coupled with a show of
support by SCAR members.
would cause the Senate not “to

take it (the resolution) so
hghny‘

To encourage a show of sup-
port, SCAR is distributing

leaflets stating their case to
students Monday, Pelle said.

The leaflets will encourage
people to attend the Student
Senate meeting and voice support
for the revised resolution. said
Pelle.

In other action, SCAR decided
to submit the revised resolution
to various campus and com-
munity organizations. The
purpose of this would be to gain
endorsement for the resolution.
said Grad".

(iraef said SCAR would then
publicize these endorsements to
inform people that “there are
people at UK against racism."

Rose Street hazard to pedestrians continues

R) PETER REA.“
Kernel Staff Writer

The fall semester has brought a renewal
of the perennia l battle between Rose Street
drivers and campus pedestrians.

l'niversity and city planners have
studied the problem for some time, but it
“'1” bethe 1976t‘iscalyear before funds can
be obtained to solve it.

President this A. Singletary. appeared
before the Urban County Council Tran-
sportation Policy Committee last spring to
urge a solution to “a long. continuous and
dangerous problem.“

Singletary said at least 30,000
pedestrians cross Rose Street a week and
said the problem demanded a “short-term
solution right away."

The Rose Street project has been placed
on the agendas of the Municipal Aid
Funding Program and the State Bureau of
Highways in an effort to obtain state and
federal funds, Joe Heidenreich, metro
traffic engineer, said.

Heidenreich said any funds ap—
propriated during the current fiscal year
would be for design purposes only.

“There is no way you can design a
project and get it to contractors in any
short interval of time.“ he said. “There's
no point in progressing this thing all the
way through until the design has been
completed."

Heidenreich said once the design is
completed “we'll be going through this
whole tunding process next year “

of design and construction for the Physical
Plant Division. said.

Marshall said the plan he believes most
likely to be adopted includes widening
Rose Street and installing pedestrian
islands to provide an area of safety bet~
ween traffic lanes. The Houston engineers
estimated the cost of this plan to be “in the

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Many alternatives. including a foot
bridge and pedestrian medians, have been
suggested for making Rose Street safer for
pedestrians, but no specific design has
been selected.

The University has retained a Houston.
Tex. engineering firm to study the Rose
Street problem, Clifton Marshall, director

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What to do
about Rose Street?

()ne suggested solution to pedestrian problems on Rose Street is the con-
struction of medians between Columbia Avenue and Limestone Street. Location
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neighborhood of $500000.“ he said.

Marshall outlined a plan which he said
he hopes to see adopted in the future. The
plan. similar to one used at Harvard
l’niversity, calls for routing Rose Street
through a tunnel from Columbia Avenue to
llugelet Avenue.

Such a plan would allow for “about one—
halt‘ mile of continuous campus space"
connecting the central and eastern por-
tions of the campus. Marshall said.

The cost of thie project has been
estimated at between $2 million and $3
million, Marshall said.

“Whatever is done at present will be at
best only an interim solution,” Marshall
said. “The situation is worse now than it
was last year because we've got at least
1,000 more students on campus."

 

  

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editorials

Lettas and Spectrum articles should be addressed to the Editorial Page Editor.
Room ”4 Journalism Building. They should be typed, doublespaced aid siqied.
Lettas should not exceed 250 was and Spectrum articles 750 worm.

Editorials do not represent the opinions of the University.

Bruce Winges
Editor-in-Chief

Ginny Edwards
Managing Editor

Susan Jones
Editorial Page Editor

Jack Koeneman
Associate Editor

 

 

A sea of milk

In an act topping even Judge
Gordon-style integration, the
University has appointed a black
woman, Sarah Jenkins, assistant
dean of students — her basic duty
being Panhellenic advisor.

It’s probable UK administrators
were not trying to make an in-
tegration~re|ated point through hiring
Jenkins. But the irony inherent in that
appointment is inescapable, even
though Acting Dean of Students Joe
Burch has been skulking around
asking everyone to ignore it.

Jenkins’ appointment strikes right
at the heart of one of the most
segregated campus traditions —
sororities.

All 14 Panhelleniomember
sororities are lily white. There are
two blad< sororities at UK, but they
are not Panhellenic members.

Jenkins’ presence within the
Panhellenic structure somewhat
negates its main purposes of
existence — that is to keep rich,
white, pure, upperclass types from

becoming involved with the ”wrong
sort of person.”

Of all those involved in sororities, it
will undoubtedly be the members of
the alumni chapters who will politely
scream the loudest.

Fat, rich fingers, adorned in the
likes of Chi—O or Tri-Delt pinky rings,
will be on the phone in minutes.
Hearts will flutter under matronly
breasts adorned with still more
sorority insignia.

Jenkins, no doubt, had no intentions
of creating such probable havoc. She
applied for a job and got it because
she deserves it. Unfortunately it’s not
that simple. The very writing of this
editorial is racist in a sense because if
Jenkins weren’t black there would be
no editorial — for that we apologize.

But facts cannot be ignored. UK
Panhellenic sororities are racist on
their members faces. Jenkins’ black
face in a sea of milk should bring
about much needed change — if the
University sticks to its guns under
pressures from rich alums.

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(in honor of the upcoming Ali-Frazier
title tight scheduled for Sept. 30 in
Manilla, I set out to write a column on
Muhammad Ali—and ended up wan~
dering down long backroads of digres-
sion writing about Joe Frazier. The
proiect got out of hand, of caurse, and
as a re5ult l have finally written two
pieces, one about Ali, which will appear
next week, and this one devoted to
Smokin‘ Joe.

 

 

 

 

A quick admonition: Even if you care
nothing for boxing, you would do well to
consider these men. For they are
heroes of great stature to many people,
and a culture is defined, as often as not,
by the heroes it keeps.)

I’m fascinated by Joe Frazier’s head.
It must be one of the most remarkable
artifacts known to Western science. it
you’ve ever seen Frazier fight you
know that he uses it as sort of a third
fist, sticking it right out in front of
himself in that bend-over and burrow-in
style of his, inviting his opponent to
pound on it for all he’s worth. in the
course of an average fight, that
amazing head will absorb the approx-
imate punishment it mid receive it
Joe bent over in front of a freight train
and let it run smack into his skull at ten
miles an hour.

This style was carried to extremes in

 

Joe Frazier—a remarkabl

the two Ali fights, where he took a
battering equal to that he would receive
if he and the freight train plowed into
each other head-on, each running at top
speed. (This isn’t too much of an
exaggeration, ldon’t think; i have ever
confidence that Frazier would not only
survive such a collision, but survive it
in better relative shape than the train.)

This is what Joe calls Smokin’—tak-
ing enormous amounts of punishment
and still coming on, oblivious, grinning
demonically, assuming from long ex-
perience that he’ll still have enough
body-wit about him to KC his arm-
weary, frustrated opponent.

Still, everyone knows that smokin’is
bad for youfiand it surely has been bad
for Frazier. He started out, many years
ago, as a Champ when Ali retired. Now,
after long years of running his head
through concrete for a living, he is
merely half-witted and not so likeable.
Something about his dullard’s style of
fighting and the fact that he was never
quite believeable as Champion(Ali,
after all, was always the People’s
Champ) caused Joe to shrink a little
over the years in everyone’s estima-
tion~including, probably, his own. For
Frazier labored under a resentment:
there were those of us who would never
forgive him for dethroning the great
Ali, the man who had come to
symbolize what was best about Ameri-
ca and the whole ragged trip of the
sixties—more of that next week—and
Frazier knew it full well.

His finest moment was the beginning
of his downfall. You’d have to have seen
it to believe it. it was after the first fight
in Madison Square Garden, when he
chcisioned Ali for the Championship.
(Now there’s a ticklish subject. Some-
times, when it’s late at night and I’m in

my cups I’ll argue that Ali actually won
that first fight, but the argument looks
a little thin by daylight, and it’s a shade
too subtle to go into here.)

Anyway, Frazier was unforgettable
that night when the verdict was
announced. He lurched around the ring
uncontrollably in a grotesque parody of
a victory dance, his battered head
swollen up like a pumpkin—and his face
iustas orange as one—from the beating
Ali had given him. He snorted and
slobbered and mouthed secret incom-
prehensible Obscenities, totally amok,
like an acidhead who’d just found God.
He was far gone on one of the highest
plateaus of human sensibility. For he
had just absorbed one of the greatest
beatings ever given a heavyweight—in-
deed, ever given to any man who lived
to tell about it~had survived, trium~
phant, and was World Champ. World
Champ! Speak the title with respect,
for it’s as likely as not that the

Heavyweight Champion is better
known to more people over the world
than any other man—and more rever-
ed. There’s a mystery at the center of
the Championship that will cause men
to go through hell to get it. And you
couldn’t really begrudge Frazier his
moment of glory. (i did, though; while
Frazier paraded l was howling at
ring like a mean junkie in withdrawal
that All had won the goddamn tuckin’
fight, that the i udges were all pigs, that
lwasn’t going to pay my evil pimp of a
bookie the sloo I’d bet on the fight, etc.,
until i had to be forcibly restrained by
four Andy Fraine ushers who also
confiscated my beer...And ended up
going back to Howard Cosell’s apart.
ment with Norman Mailer and George
Plimpton, where we all shot up smack

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for three straight days until we got over
it...)

Well, so what? Joe Frazier had his
moment—and the next day he checked
into the hospital for 20 days. He
was never the same, as a fighter or a
man. Ali in due course proclaimed
himself People’s Champ and of course
he was. Frazier sulked under the insult,
and healed himself a little and fought
two bums—something named Ron Stan-
der and a spunky light-heavyweight
specially beefed up for a ”title fight”
named Terry Daniels. He toured with
his band in one of the biggest ioke acts
in entertainment history. And finally
got the mortal shit stomped out of
himself by a big awkward kid named
George Foreman. (Who looked pretty
indestructable himself until last Octo-
ber when Muhammad Ali showed how
easily a real Champion could handle
him.)

At any rate, Ali won the rematch with
Frazier by a unanimous decision, and it
was a convincing victory. There’s no
real reason to doubt that he’ll win the
upcoming rubber bout with relative
ease. So, for those of you who relish
expert predictions, I’ll give you one:
All, by a knockout, in ten.

And the end of the line for Joe Frazier
and His Amazing Head.

(Next week: The Magic of Ali: An
Appreciation of the Champ.)

 

Scott Payton graduated from UK in
"73. He is a former contributor to
Rolling Stone magazine and is now
working as a free lance boxing
promoter in Frankfort. His column,
”Ten Years On," appears weekly in
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SCB should invite PLO speaker

 

By Moher Abu-Khoter

The Student Center Board’s (SCB)
choice of Moshe Dayan as a guest speaker
on Sept. 29 is extremely unfortunate. At
the very least, in the interests of fairness
and of really promoting international
understanding, a qualified speaker
representing the Palestinian Liberation
Organization should also have been invited
to speak. This is particularly important
because very few Americans know
anything at all about the history of the
Palestinian people, the crimes that have
been perpetrated against them in the
name of Zionism or the struggle that they
are waging to regain their national rights.

 

The historical background of con
temporary Middle Eastern history is the
colonial conquest of the area by European
powers in the 18th and 19th centuries. In
order to further the capitalist development
of their own countries the European ruling
circles stripped the Arab people of all
democratic rights, plundered their natural
resourcesand subjected them to merciless
exploitation. The Palestinian people
waged many struggles against British
imperialism which were all drowned in
blood. The most notable of these struggles
were the rebellions of 1920, 1921, 1929, 1933,
i936 and 1937-39.

At the end of World War N there was a
great upsurge in the movement of the
peoples of the colonial world for national

and democratic rights. During the same
period the US. moved in to fill the vacuum

left by the collapse of British and French

colonial rule. The Imperialist powers
headed by the US. saw the need to develop
new and indirect ways of dominating and
exploiting.

One alternative was neo-colonialism,
granting nominal independence while
retaining complete domination of the
political and economic structure. Iran is
an example of a neo-colonial country
dominated by the US. Another alternative
was the creation of a settler colonial state
which would depend wholly on the im~
perialist power and would protect their
interests, an example of such a state is
South Africa.

Israel is an embodiment of a colonial
settler state. South African Prime
Minister Hendrich Verwoerd stated the
Jews “took lsrael from the Arabs after the
Arabs had lived there for a thousand
years.” in that I agree with them. lsrael,
like South Africa, is an apartheid state
(Rand Daily Mail, Nov. 21, 1961).

in 1947, despite its own charter which
recognizes the right of nations to self-
determination, a US dominated United
Nations partitioned Palestine. This was
done without any consultation with the
Arab majority. Jews, who constituted one-
third of the population (most of these were
recent immigrants from Nazi-occupied
countries —until World War ll Jews were
less than ten per cent of the population)and
owned six per cent of the land, were given
54 per cent of Palestine.

However Israel was not created by UN.
diplomacy. The state of Israel was created
and is still maintined only by armed terror
directed against the Palestinian people.

 

Reconsideration

Editor:

in a recent article shown in the
Kentucky Kernel (”Cats face tough
schedule,” Kernel, Sept. 2) a writer
(John Vogel) tried to make the Ken-
tucky football team look like a hopeless
case. The article consisted of an
enormousamountof bad fortune for the
season ahead. Mr. Vogel migit believe
heknows a lot about football, but he had
better reconsider his predictions and
start giving a little credit to a very
powerful football team. If he would
open h is eyes he might get a better view
of some of the talent that is going to be
displayed this season.

The Wildcats lost some talent last
season, but they are still boasting
several all-conference candidates, and
even a few possible all-Americans.
Theyalsooperate underthe coaching of
Fran Curci who led them to a winning

 

season last year. This was a hard task
considering Kentucky played six bowl
teams last season. The cats could of
easily hada better record last year, but
who is complaining with a winning
record.

I would like to see the Wildcats put it
all together this year and surprise John
Vogel. l’llevengo asfar as to say that I
think the Cats have a good chance to
turn around his prediction of 4-7intoa 7-
4 season. Vogel said that your wallet
would thank y0u if you be against
Kentucky this year. I was just won-
dering how many people like empty

wallets ?
Robert Toy

88. E sophomore

’No space!’

Editor:

This letter pertains to the parking
situation here at the University, or
should lsay the lack of. Thereis just no
space! You either have to have a

~Letters

The physical process of expelling the
Palestinians from their homeland was
absolutely necessary for Israel’s creation.
This was undertaken by Zionist terror
gangs. The first major attack on the Arab
population was the massacre of the
inhabitants of the village of Deir Yassin,
which belonged to the Jerusalem ln-
ternational Zone according to the UN.
partition plan. On April 10, 1948 the lrgun
and Stern gangs murdered 254 unarmed
villagers, including children and old
people. Captured Arab girls and women
were paraded through the streets of
Jerusalem in their blood-stained clothes
where they were jeered and spat upon. The
Israelis skillfully used this incident to
spread panic, causing many thousands of
Palestinians to flee their villages. Deir
Yassin was followed by attacks on other
Arab cities. By May 14, 1948, 700,000 Arabs
had been driven out of Palestine.

The lsraeli actions led to all-out war
between Israel and the neighboring Arab
states. The Arabs, politically divided and
militarily inexperienced, could only field
55,700 soldiers against the 120,000-strong
Israeli army. The defeat of the Arabs led
to Israel militarily occupying the entire
territory accorded to Palestine in the
partition plan.

Between 1948 and 1967 lsrael
systematically obliterated 385 Arab
villages and several cities. After the 1967
war, the same process was carried out in
the conquered territories of Sinai, the
Golan Heights and on the West Bank.
Several hundreds of thousands of
Palestinians were again expelled and

forced to live in refugee camps.

The Arabs who live in Israel and the
territories occupied after 1967 have no
better lot than the refugees. Under the
Israeli ”Defense Laws,” which have been
denounced by many lsraeli jurists as
”fascist,” tens of thousands of Palestinian
workersand peasants have been harassed,
arrested and jailed indefinitely without
any trial or formal charges. Others have
been tortured, expelled from their villages
and dispossessed of their land and per»
sonal property.

The Palestinians are excluded from the
Histadrut, the Zionist trade union — and
thus forced to go to ”labor exchanges” for
employment, where they find work at low-
paying jobs, such as agricultural and
service workers ~ jobs the Israelis con-
sider below their dignity.

Zionists, in their propaganda, try to
make the problem in the Middle East out
to be a border conflict between Israel and
its neighboring states. The real problem is
the right of the Palestinians for self
determination in their homeland. The
Zionist state is the most ruthless of
colonial-settler states. Its aim is to uproot
the nation of Palestine. The usurped rights
of the Palestinians cannot be put in
oblivion or compromised. The identity of a
dispossessed people cannot be destroyed.
Arabs, Jews and all peace-loving people
will dispose of the Zionist state and create
a new democratic state in its place.

 

Maher Abu-Khater is an Arab student
on campus.

 

 

parking sticker, a bicycle, or a
motorcycle to park conveniently and
get to your classes on time.

For one to get a parking sticker you
more or less have to be an upper
classman or a privileged person, and
even then it is not easy. if one is for«
tunate enough to obtain a sticker, the
parking spaces are limited, it seems
that more stickers are given out than
there are parking spaces. The lots with
available parking spaces are not
located near central campus.

For us that are less fortunate not to
have stickers, our last resort is to park
atthe stadium. Duetothelarge number
of students commuting, we have no
other choice but to park in no parking
areas, on the grass, on road sides, or
double park, with the result being that
the buses are unable to enter the
parking lot. This alsoresultsin parking
violations, for which the student’s are
not the blame since there are not
enough parking spaces.

It seems the University is trying to
save money by cutting back on the
number of buses going to the stadium.
Since most of the students come in the
early morning there should be more
buses then, and if it is necessary to cut
down, do so in the afternoon. As far as l
have seen, there has not been one
stadium bus which goes to the front
side. Oncethe side lot is filled, one has
to park in the front lot. To catch the bus
you have to run over to the side lot, and
cram yourself on an overcrowded bus.
So in order to reach class on time, it is
wise to have an hour head start.

In the past few paragraphs I have
tried to explain how difficult the
park ingsituation is,and.for those in the
same predictment as I am, they can
understand my feelings. As for the ones
that don't park theretry it. I have and
like everybody else, I don't like it.

Julie Hopkins
Lexington Technical institute

 

 

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THETA CHI LITTLE SISTER March of Dimes 5 news briefs

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Kissinger describes
missiles for Israel

W.\Slll.\'(l’l‘().\‘ t;\l’) w'l‘he l'nited States may give Israel a
battlefield missile system capable of delivering strikes upon (‘airo.
the Aswan Dam and nearly every major target in Syria and Jor-
Ilan.

Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger confirmed at a news
conference In (‘incinnati that the administration has “agreed to
study” whether to supply Pershing missiles to the Jewish state.

In Washington. lsraeli Defense Minister Shimon Peres said at a
National Press (‘lub appearance that his government is willing to
promise not to put nuclear warheads on the missiles. “If you want
to. we shall give such a guarantee." Peres said.

(inly the Pershing delivery system would be involved In the
proposed program. There has been constant speculation that the
Israelis have developed their own nuclear weapons. Israel‘s
government has neither confirmed nor denied it.

 

 

 
 
    
 

 

  
 

 

 

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Veteran's Administration sets standards

to thwart abuse of student payments

By MONTY N. FOLEY
Kernel Staff Writer

The Veteran‘s Administration (VA) is
establishing academic standards for the 1.6
million veterans receiving educational benefits.
The move is seen as a response to charges that
increasing numbers of veterans are ripping-off
(ll Bill funds.

At the present time. approximately 2.000
veterans are enrolled at UK.

\'A administrators who are primarily con-
cerned with issuing (ll Bill payments are
depending upon the State Board of Education to
develop guidelines to prevent program abuse.
according to VA Services Officer Paul D. lsing of
the Louisville regional VA office.

“What the VA is saying. is that there must be
some way to evaluate the veteran‘s progress."
James McGowan. a Kentucky Department of
Education official said. “Most institutions in
Kentucky have a grade point system through
which a veterans progress can be determined."

McGowan said academic representatives from
Kentucky colleges met with him in Frankfort
Sept. 510 formally establish broad. minimum
standard guidelines in compliance with the \‘A
directives.

"We haven‘t finalized our recommendations
yet. butwe expect to release our standards in the
near future. Somehow. at least for veterans.
we‘ve got to establish a minimum number of
earned credits per semester. to show that a
veteran is making progress." he said.

Metlowan. interviewed by telephone Monday.
agreed with lsing that (Ll. Bill chiseling is
minimal at Kentucky colleges and universities.
However. McGowan criticized the handling of
the program on a nationwide basis. “At this
particular time. we have institutions in this

country that will enroll a veteran, never require
him to earn a credit and allow him to receive VA
benefits.“ he said.

Although he was unable to determine the exact
number of veterans now attending Kentucky
schools on the Cl Bill. lsing said such
enrollment had increased in the past year.
“There has been a sizable increase. and it has
been partially attributed to the economic con-
ditions that we are experiencing."

l'nder current GI. Bill rates established by
(‘ongress last year. single. undergraduate
veterans carrying 12 semester hours receive $270
per month for up to 45 months.

”Under current V'A regulations. benefits can
be terminated for a number of reasons." lsing
said. including withdrawl from classes,
exhausting of entitlements. disciplinary action
or a veterans failure to complete a degree
program within a ltl—year period.

lsing said if a veteran withdraws from school
during the semester. he must return any funds
he receives after his last date of class at-
tendance.

“When you have a program that is ad—
ministered under broad guidelines. it does allow
for scheming. ()f course. veterans who do plot to
receive funds are only hurting themselves,"
lsing said. “If fraud is discovered, then
prosecution ca