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UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY, LEXINGTON

Vol. LXI, No. 74

Committee Hears
Futrell Tote Plea

By PAT MATHE3
Assistant Managing Editor
The Senate Education Committee heard testimony from UK
Student Government president
Tim Futrell Thursday as he
pledged support for a bill to give
student and faculty Board of
Trustee members the right to
vote.
Futrell explained that he had
indications of support in the
members.
house from twenty-fiv- e
Lt. Cov. Wendell Ford and Romano L. Mazzoli, chairman of the
Senate Education Committee,
have endorsed the bill. Futrell
stated that he was "optimistic
about it passing the House and

the Senate."
Futrell
"The real hang-up,- "
said, "is that it could get bottled up somewhere. There is a

greater chance for this in the
House because of the large number of members."
"It might get bottled up in
committee or on the way to com-

mittee."
Futrell is encouraging members of the student body to write
letters to senators, as are the
presidents of other state student
government organizations.
"We think that once it gets
on the Senate floor it w ill pass,"
Futrell said.
In a letter to Sen. Mazzoli,
Acting Vice President Stuart
Forth said "the student trustee
on our board should have the
right to vote."
He described the Kentucky
students as being "concerned
about the quality of the education they receive" and added
they "have made and are making
constant and constructive efforts,
by and large, to better the Uni- -

versity for the benefit of themselves and the Commonwealth."
of the
College Student
Council, Mark H. Blair of
Ashland Community
College,
pledged full support of the council.
Blair continued, "This idea
has been in the minds of all
Community College System governments, and we offer you total
support in this effort."
Futrell also received letters
of support from the president
of Murray State University Student Government, Max Russell,
and Student Government president James V. Pellegrinon from
Eastern Kentucky University.
Seven institutions areaffected
by this measure. They are UK,
Western Kentucky University,
Eastern, Murray, MoreheadState
University, Kentucky State College and Northern Kentucky State
College.
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has overstayed its welcome on the UK campus this year. When not
frozen and ugly, its slushy residue serves only to soak shots.

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Parking Garage Provides Space

New Phone Switching System Is Well Hidden
By TOM BOWDEN

Kernel Staff Writer
A telephone switching system
that hides in a parking garage
is something you don't see every
day.
But, sure enough, UK's new
Centrex phone system is visible
from one of the brightly colored
doors on the ground floor of the
new Rose Street parking complex.
The Centrex system, developed by the Ceneral Telephone Co., is scheduled to begin operation in August 1970
with a few added attractions for
UK phone users.
The main advantage of the
new system is that it will allow
direct inward dialing to campus
phones from outside the University and Medical Center.
As the system works now,
operators in the Funkhouser
Building manually switch all incoming calls to University extensions.

All extension numbers under

the new system will change from
four to
and will acprefix so that
quire a
outside callers will beabletodial
their party direct.
five-digi-

ts

two-dig- it

In addition, the new device
will allow a call to be transferred to another office or individual on campus without going through the operator.
Consultation and conference

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EDITOR'S NOTE: Legal penalties for
drug possession and use are too severe,
some say. Others say the laws are too
soft This article, fifth in a series of nine
related articles on the drug problem,
presents the views of some of those ou
the legal side of the problem-attornand police.
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calls likewise will not necessitate
Involving the operator.
Students in dormitories will
find that where there were once
up to 25 students on a line,
private lines will serve each room.

Singletary Praises 'Mature9 Students
LEXINGTON

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The

many beneficial results from this

president of UK disagreed today unrest.
with those who feel that an end
Singletary said that in comto the war in Vietnam will end parison to students elsewhere
around the country, those at the
campus unrest.
have been acting in
"The war and the draft are University
Dr. Gene L. Mason, UK asa responsible and mature manonly one of the problems about ner.
sistant professor of Political Sciwhich our young people are conence and a member of the LexTouching upon the growing
cerned," Dr. Otis Singletary told cost of
Crime
ington, Fayette County
education, he attributed
the Kentucky Press Association.
ThursCommission, was indicted
it to three factors: The increased
day by theCrandJur) on a charge
He said the students wonder enrollment, new equipment being
of knowingly receiving stolen
about the quality of life facing installed on the campus, and inproperty.
them and they are anxious about flation.
Dr. Mason, who has been rupoverty and racism.
"We are doing what we can
mored as a possible Democratic
Singletary said they also think with what we have," he said,
candidate for the repreprimary
the University itself should be referring to the university's budsentative seat currently held by
want quality get.
reformed.
The only change that UK stu- education.""They
JohnC. Watts, allegedly received
He said that the University
a stolen electric typewriter on dents and personnel will have to
He predicted there will be hopes to continue its three ma
with will be numbers.
Oct. 27, 1969.
cope

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jor functions, which he defined
as teaching, research, and the
application of these to the problems

"that face us as individuals

and as a nation."
Singletary expressed the hope
that the legislature would be
"generous" when it considers
Kentucky's request because money always is a problem at any

institution.

At an afternoon session, the
was slated to hear an address by Harry Dent, assistant
to President Nixon.
KPA

The meeting concludes Saturday with a talk from author
Harry Caudill and election of
officers.

Many Believe The Penalty For Its Use Is Too Stiff

but they are aware of the laws. If a colBy RAY HILL
Kernel Staff Writer
lege student, or anyone else, with full
If you decide to smoke your first knowledge of the legal penalties runs the
marijuana Joint tonight -- and the law risk of ruining his career with drugs
how can they blame the law for it?
catches you you could receive a 10 year
"It is conceivable," he admits, "that
prison sentence and a $20,000 fine.
Almost COO years ago an Asian ruler
pot will some day be legalized. But society
has already paid a tremendous price for
tried to stop marijuana consumption by
the legalization of alcohol. I don't see why
users and pulling out their
imprisoning
teeth. He was unsuccessful. Marijuana we should make the same mistake with
use increased.
marijuana."
Even though marijuana is not a "hard"
Nobody today advocates extracting
narcotic like opium or morphine, it is
teeth as punishment, however, many beincluded in the Uniform Narcotic Act with
lieve a prison sentence discourages drug
the hard drugs. Under the act, possession
use. Among them is Lexington Commonwealth Attorney Ceorge Barker. If the or use of marijuana results in not less
police catch you using marijuana or than a two-yeprison sentence and not
sentence and a fine
another "dangerous drug," and you go to more than a
court Barker will be the man w ho prosenot to exceed $20,000. Each subsequent
cutes you for the state.
offense carries a penalty of not less than
five years in prison and not more than
Penalty Appropriate
think the marijuana penalty is 20 years, and a fine not to exceed $20,000.
"I
Dangerous Drug Act
appropriate for this time," he says, "until we know more about the drug. People
Barker says he would like to see marsay you criminalize our young people, ijuana removed from the Uniform Narcotic
ar

Act and placed in the Dangerous Drug
Act (DDA.) Presently under the DDA,
he says, illegal amphetamine and barbiturate use or possession is a misde-

meanor that can be punished by 12 months
in jail and a fine of up to $500.
LSD possession, under the DDA, is a
felony, resulting in a sentence of from
two to five years and a fine of $1,000 to
$5,000 he says. What the penalty for marijuana would be if moved under this law
is impossible to say. But some attorneys,
like Barker, feel that because marijuana
is not a narcotic like opium or heroin, it
belongs in the DDA.
Another local attorney, Joe Savage,
looked at the legal controversy surround-linmarijuana. "In many areas it's pretty
easy for decisions to be made about what
is right and wrong. But, in law, questions are often between two rights. Legal
issues are almost never black or white.
The marijuana group has certain rights.
But so does the
group."
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Shady Grove' A Mood, A
By JAMES

FUDGE

Kernel Staff Writer
Quicksilver Messenger Service
is back after about a year's absence with a new album, "Shady

Grove."

Quicksilver is not strictly a
rock group as most people think.
For one thing, piano is substituted fo what in other groups
would be electric guitar or organ. Much of the guitar work
in "Shady Grove" is acoustic
rather than electric, though in
some places an electric is used.
The group is a "rock" group,
though, if just its style of music
is considered. The piano and substitution of acoustic guitar for
electric makes the music sound
lighter and softer, but basic rock
is still there.
Even though the group lost
Gary Duncan between its second and third albums, Quick

silver still has good sound. Much
of this is due to the man on piano, Nicky Hopkins, who had
quite a list of accomplishments
before he Joined Quicksilver on
"Shady Grove." Hopkins has
with the Rolling
performed
Stones, the Jefferson Airplane,
The Kinks, Steve Miller Hand,
The Who, Jeff Beck, Donovan
and the Beatles, to name a few.
After finishing "Shady Grove"
with Quicksilver, he decided to
stay on with the group.
"Shady Crove" reflects the
le
and minds of the group,
and is a good musical expression
of what they seem to be. David
Freiberg did all the singing on
the album, which is not really
extensive at all. Much of the album is very good music, coupled
with some very good singing.
Freiberg also cut seven viola
tracks and the base and some
life-sty-

guitar for "Shady Grove." This
is one reason they will have to
have another stringed instrument
player before they do live performances.
Drums are handled lightly in
"Shady Crove," and are not as
predominant a factor as they are
in many of today's recordings.
When they do come in, they provide just a basic rhythm, and
are not given the job of splicing
two guitar scores together.
"Shady Crove," the first song
on the album, is a good blend
of almost classical piano and
rock. The use of the piano softens
the whole effect, and makes the
arrangement smoother than it
would be if it were done heavier
with electric guitar and organ.
"Flute Song" is a slow, almost bluesy piece, with good
singing, telling a story rather

Life-styl- e

than just giving the listener a flat
statement in the song as is the
case in many songs.
The other song on side two
that is particularly good is the

last one, almost 10 minutes long,
called "Edward, (the Mad Shirt
Crinder)." Most of this is piano,
which is only natural since it
was composed by Hopkins.
Acoustic guitar also is brought
in, with touches of plamenco
guitar which go very well with
Hopkin's piano.
The whole thing is not nearly

as boring as many long songs
done by other groups, who often
get monotonous with some of
their guitar and drum solos which
become repetitious. While Edward has a couple of parts near
the beginning and end that are
very similar, if not the same,
the piece is varied enough that
the listener does not become tired
of it in five minutes.
I think this album is the best
Quicksilver has done, largely due
to the talents of Nicky Hopkins
on the piano.

Black Man's 'Search';
White Man's Dilemma
COSSETT
jobs, housing and social standArts Editor .
ing. The scars of that stigma do
Julius Lester is a black man. not quickly disappear; nor do
I am a white man. Lester conBlacks forget; nor are they patends, and I agree, that because tient.
I am white I can never underIn Lester's eyes, much of the
social activism and the rejection
stand or completely empathize
with the black rage, the black of a decadent society by white
discontent, black pride.
youth is an attempt to become
"Search for the New Land" 'niggers.' Turned on by the'soul'
is Julius Lester's fourth book. in black music and culture,
His first few books were devoted
whites sought to achieve awareto telling 'Whitey' that if he ness through suffering. Seeing
didn't get up off his butt and examples of this hypothesis in the
do something, the black man was escapism of the beatnik and hipgoing to start kicking tails and pie movements, Lester claims
that these didn't last because a
taking names. "Search" is a perman raised in comfort, who then
sonal chronicle, one man's impoverty,
pression of experience, that seems moves to a
to be an attempt to explain the can not feel and breathe that
black phenomenon from a personpoverty like a man who has
al standpoint.
never known anything better.
The remarkable thing about
What, then, is the answer?
Lester does not openly call for
this book is that Lester maintains the knowledge that the an armed revolution leading to
white man just can not dig the a black supremist state or even
black man. Too much has hap- to a black separatist state. He
pened to the black man that has does, however, strongly imply the
never happened to the white. latter. I disagree. If we cannot
American WASPs do not have a solve the problems of our own
heritage of 300 years of slavery. people, short of armed conflict,
We have never been forced to then our society truly has failed
shuffle, whine and accept inferior and no longer deserves to exist.
By DAN

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is the stage setting to be used by the Guignol Theatre, the set requires the removal
Cuignol Theatre in its next production, William of two rows of seats. "Measure for Measure" will
Shakespeare's "Measure for Measure." Designed run Feb. 25 through March 1 with a Saturday
by Barry T. Baughman, the technical director of matinee.

The above

Bunuel Films Coming
Movies by some of Latin Amer-

,
among them Mexico's Luis
Bunuel, will be shown free of
charge to anyone in the University or Lexington communities at
8 p.m. in the Student Center
Theater on the following dates:
"The Roots," a social commentary of four episodes which
describes the Indian's subjugated
role in contemporary Mexican
life, will be shown February 2.
"The Civen Word," most acclaimed film of Brazil's leading
director, Ansel mo Duarte, can be
viewed February 11.
On February 18, a Bunuel
film, "This Strange Passion,"
will be shown. Considered one
of the "subtlest and most surprising works" of Spanish expatriate Bunuel, "This Strange
Passion" is a social criticism
of the Spanish or Latin American rich middle class.
Another Luis Bunuel film, and
his first success, "The Young and
the Damned," which focuses on

ica's most famous

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cinematogra-phers-

in Mexico
City, will be shown March 3 in
a double bill which begins at
7:00 p.m.
The second half, "Time in the
Sun," is an incomplete
on the 1910 Mexican
n
Revolution directed by
Russian film maker Sergei
Eisenstein.
"Nazarin," last film in the
series, wliich is sponsored by
the Latin America Council in
conjunction with the Latin American Students Association, is
another Bunuel film. "Nazarin"
examines the role of the Church
in Latin American life.

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On page two of the Kernel Tuesday, Jan. 20, we ran a photograph of a painting done by
UK artist James Suzuki. Below
that we ran another photograph

of Ay-another UK artist In
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identified Ay-- as being Jim SuO

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Many Support Lessening Marijuana Penalty

Continued From

Tae

One

Another attorney echoed this

with an analogy. "A man may
have a right to drink," he said,
"but he doesn't have the right
to get drunk and run over you
with his car."
Quotes Burger
Savage quotes Chief Justice
Warren Burger who once said,
"The law always lags behind
the most advanced thinking in
every area. It must wait until
the theologians and the moral
leaders and events have created
some common ground, some con-

sensus."
Changing the law

is not easy,
lawyers jwint out. Neither is enforcing it. One of those responsible for enforcing it is DectiveSgt.

Frank Fryman of the Lexington
Police Department.

One of Fryman's duties is
fighting illegal drug traffic in Lexington. "A large percentage" of
his time is spent on the drug
problem, he says.
"In Lexington," he reports,
"I've run across every kind of
drug problem there is. We definitely have a drug problem here.
In relation to other cities, population-wise,
we have a major
dm g problem here.
"The age group involved in

drug use is the 16 to 26 group.
There are exceptions. But this
age range is where most of the
use occurs," he says. "About
10 years ago students started
using drugs. The problem became real serious about three
years ago."
Fryman says UK students are
only part of the total problem.
"Obviously when you get 16,000
kids together in one place you're
going to have problems. Drug
sellers have to have volume to
make money. And 16,000 kids
forma pretty large group."
He emphasized, however, that
UK is not a major drug problem
In Lexington. "The
majority of
students are good,
people," he says. "And the ones
who do get involved with drugs,
if they had proper information,
wouldn't be involved."
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Twelve Percent Are Users
Twelve percent of UK's 16,000
students are habitual pot smokers, he estimates. Of this 12 pers
have used
cent,
other drugs, he says.
"A lot of stuff the kids are
smoking today and calling marijuana has about the potency of a
Lucky Strikecigarette. Marijuana
reaches its potency in the fall.
It has to be processed right to
come out with the drug. If they
three-fourth-

gather the leaves in the summer,
it's not potent," he says.
"They don't know what
they're smoking," he says. "We
found a fellow once boiling down
young marijuana. He should have
saved his time. It wouldn't have
done anything. It was impotent."
Once, he recalls, a man was
caught near Lexington with a
trailer-loaof marijuana. "He
was really sweating," Fryman
said. "It turned out what this
guy had was a load of alfalfa.
He thought he had bought marijuana and they had given him

emotional strain. That brings up
the cge-ol- d
question, whether
emotional problems encourage
drug use, or whether drug use
causes emotional problems. From
my experience, emotional problems come after taking drugs,"
he says.
"Drugs don't help solve prob
lems," he says. "They only make
problems worse, regardless of
whether he uses drugs before his
problems begin or after,"
Fryman believes sale and possession laws are adequate and
have been a "determining factor"
In controlling drug traffic. "It's
bad now," he says. "But how
much worse would it have been
if we hadn't had the laws? We
always forget to ask ourselves

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alfalfa."
The
"marijuana
users," he says, think they are
smoking marijuana. But if often
turns out to be very inferior,
and sometimes not even marijuana at all. "They don't know
what they're getting," he said.

that question."

As for the law on marijuana,
he says, "I think it could be
"It might be anything.
looked at. I think it doesn't
"The habitual drug user," he have to be as severe. Possession
says, "is dangerous to himself might be lowered some. But proand the community. Their living bation is provided in Kentucky.
conditions are deplorable. Ha"To make it so you can sell
bitual drug users seem to lose it and get caught and go right
respect for themselves and others. back out and sell it again is
They lose their ambition. They ridiculous. People say laws don't
think under the influence of drugs control it. Maybe not. But show
they have been affected for the me a better way before you start
better. But they haven't."
taking away the laws. Without
"I'm not a doctor. I'm Just the laws, with free use of drugs,
telling you the facts. The drug we'd have a drug society," he
user can't stand any form of says.
"And where are all these vast
numbers of people who want
this drug legalized anyhow? Peo

ple made the law in the first
place. Where are all these vast
throngs who now want to unmake it?" he asks.
A recent survey of 955 UK
students
showed 35 percent
agreed marijuana should be legalized. Forty-eigpercent were
against legalization. Seventeen
percent were undecided.
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Center Thursday. The prospects of siding with a predominately femi-kj- u
nfae organisation Ieem$ lo appel to the gentleman on the far right.

Tuskegee Students Visit
As Part Of UK Exchange

Call Frank at 2320 or 2321
or come in and see him in Room 113
of the Journalism Building.
He's waiting to talk with you.
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Students from Tuskegee Insti- tour throughout the campus and
tute, Tuskegee, Ala., were guests the city.
cf this campus for the past few
Their first night at UK, the
days as part of an exchange proAlabama students attended a
which will see a number
gram
at Koinonia
of UK students visiting TuskeHouse. The dinner was followed
break.
gee during spring
by a "sensitivity" session parTuskegee, founded in 1881, is ticipated in by about 50 stua black private institution with dents.
some 3,000 students.
The discussion revolved
Each year the Tuskegee around the students' initial impressions of UK and other camYMCA and YWCA sponsor propuses they had visited.
which participating stugrams by
coundents travel throughout the
The group attended a meettry.
ing of the Black Student Union
Monday night to discuss common
This year, 16 students-- 10
experiences and problems.
women and six men traveled
in a single van to examine life
Tuesday was again a group
in other areas of the country affair with visits to theBluegrass
and to let others know about School for Exceptional ChilCenter, and
dren, the
Tuskegee.
Tutorial Workthe
The UK cliaptcrsoftheYMCA
shop.
and YWCA Joined in the prolook
It is to be hoped that the secgram, offering the guests a
at many aspects of campus life ond half of the exchange prohere. Lexington YWCA president gram can display the same sort
Sue Dempe' coordinated the of friendlup at Tuskegee.

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* Ail Educational Opportunity
The Women's Liberation Movement Regional Conference to be
held this Friday and Saturday in
the Student Center should provide
an interesting exchange of ideas
regarding the women's role in society. National VVLM leaders will
moderate the conference at which
groups fueled with skits
and movies will be followed by
workshops firing away at topics
ranging from VVLM and the Black
Women to the Role of Men in the
Movement?
This controversial movement
has served a definite educational
function on UK's campus in that
it has sparked broad discussion
on the issues it covers. Many of
the points expressed have been
valid ones. For instance, according to the Village Voice women
earn sixty cents for every dollar
a man makes. In addition, they are
subjected to a working day limit
which does not apply to men. They
are socialized to accept roles of
"sow, socializer, sweeper, soother,
secretary and spender."
Thus without a real choice they
out-of-sta-

sex-selle-

te

r,

sacrifice intellect, creativity and
identity primarily to make life better for men. If they were to make
a choice not to be washing diapers
or ironing skirts at age twenty-onsociety would brand them
"social deviants." This is oppression.
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Women should have the right
to decide what societal role they
wish to assume without being
burned by such a brand. Women
Jockeys, politicians, doctors and
lawyers are not invaders of male
occupations. They are individuals
seeking to develop their talents,
intellects and identities.

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The Women's Liberation Movement is not advocating a
or matriarchal society. They
are not trying to eliminate femininity; they are merely stressing
that femininity does not mean
motherhood alone.
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Participation in this conference
should result in an understanding
that the women involved need to be
recognized as individuals
than male appendages.

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Air Pollution At UK
That time of year is here when
you can arise to see one of the most
beautiful campuses in the south
blanketed with nature's loveliest

dents. When the eyes water constantly, the skin itches in the spring
and fall and the nose twitches from
irritation some bad effects must

Currier and Ives come.
precipitation.
could capture the scene, but only
A walk on the north side of
if they did it within a few minutes
campus nearly always ends in a
of snowfall. After that time the flood of tears as the tobacco wareentire area is coated with the pollu- house on Limestone emits its odortion emitting from surrounding in- ous contents. If that doesn't perdustries.
suade one to find shelter, the hosbelchThe effect of the air pollution on pital or laundry smokestacks
chemicals will.
the snow is of little consequence, ing
Air pollution discussion is too
but its effect on the students is
due some attention. No one can much with us. It would be startling
deny that the fallout has a bad if someone actually did something.
It will be strangling if they do not.
impact on the health of UK's stu

Kernel Soapbox

By STEVE BRIGHT

"Student Involvement" has been discussed often and on occasions at great
length at the University this year.
It would seem only appropriate at
this point to reflect on the efforts toward
"student involvement" which have taken
place thus far, and generalize on the
possibilities now before us.

"Selective involvement" is perhaps
a much more accurate way to describe
the type of involvement now being advocated in Student Government.
The proposal to hold Student Government elections during the
k
period of advance registration is a classic
example. This would make student involvement in SG elections a reality
every student would have ample opportunity to vote with little inconvenience.
Yet this measure is opposed by the Student Government President, who temporarily postponed the issue by the manipulation of several representatives at the
last SG meeting. It will be decided at
7 p.m. Sunday night at the Complex
Commons. The defeat of the proposal
will make it physically impossible for more
than a very small fraction of the total
student population to vote in the election.
Various proposals, including plans for
increased student involvement, which
have been submitted throughout the year
have been drawn up by a very few students, usually one or two. The proposals
are seldom open to debate or the suggestions of concerned students, who have
two-wee-

a serious interest in them and could provide legitimate amendments.
It would seem only reasonable to involve as many students as possible in
formulating such proposals and working
for their adoption. The qualification for
involvement should be interest and concern, not friends or political influence.
Student involvement is meaningless if
it is nothing more than rubber-stam- p
approval of every proposal given to an
"advisory committee" by those who would
not listen to the committee anyway. Although this is not always the case, it is
fostered by the present selective involvement system. Students must use whatever
mechanisms they have to initiate new programs and policy, question things which
are not in their best interest or in accord
with the purposes of a university; and approve or disapprov e ideas upon which they
are consulted as dictated by the desires
or needs of the student body.
As the new semester opens, all should
resolve that petty differences will not
hamper attempts to use the present
mechanisms to make student opinion as
effective a force as possible and to create
more avenues of greater student involvement.
Rut such efforts will be wasted if the
mechanisms both the existing and proposed ones are closet! to all except a select few. Unfortunately, this is the situation now. Let us hope ttiat students are
not the ones who stand in the way of
progressive change and greater

"So this is tchat you northerners call 'snow'.
white with a peppery black coating!"

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The Observer

By BILL STOCKTON
When you hear discussion of the"sick-ness- "
of our country, such things as
racism, poverty, and the Vietnam war
are usually cited as evidence of such.
Rarely mentioned, however, at least specifically, is the controversy over sex education in our schools, which possibly
'strikes closer to the heart of any collective
national illness than any other issue.
I am sure it is not necessary here to
more than skim the surface of the great
American double standard towards sex.
While "irregularities" in sexual behavior
among the young are deplored in many,
if not most American households, advertisements, just to look up one avenue,
constantly connect sexual titillation with
a given product. When the Noxzema
if off; take it all
gid urges "Men-ta- ke
off," you can bet 99 percent of her male
audience is not thinking in terms of
whiskers. Where is our supposed "sex
morality" here?
The duplicity, however, is fast fading.
Centuries-o- ld
hypocrisy and the much
more recent pill have made pleas for
premarital chastity, whether lay or clerical, appear as sheer hogwash in the minds
of much of our youth, w ho no longer have
the scruples about sex that their "guilty"
elders did. Hut with the need of some
sort of sex information more apparent
and urgent than ever, large numbers of
our countrymen are retreating to that
conventional American attitude towards
sex and the young: