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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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That fluffy white stuff which is so eagerly awaited each winter season
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-

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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

(AP)

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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

Mason Indicted

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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
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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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