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2] University of Kentucky
Lexington, Kentucky
KENTUCKY
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an independent student newspaper
Volume LXIX, Number 87
Monday. January 30, I978
47-73 ... ..
For 5 years
By DAVID HIBBI'I'I‘S
Sports Editor
With AP reports
UK football coach Fran Curci
received a vote of confidence during
last Wednesday's Athletic Board
meeting, where it was announced he
has signed a new fiveyear contract.
In other action, the Athletic Board
decided to raise the price of season
football tickets next season. Athletic
Director Cliff Hagan said the price
increase was necessary to avoid
future budget defecits.
The terms of Curci’s contract
were not disclosed, but President
Otis Singletary said both parties
were more than satisfied with the
agreement. “Our research involved
By RICHARD McDONAl.D
Kernel Staff Writer
For the first time in several years,
UK students do not face any major
housing difficulties at the beginning
of a semester.
According to Anna Bolling,
assistant dean of students, only five
freshmen women have not been
placed in dorm rooms. Bolling added
that any male applicant could get a
room immediately. She said there
taking a good look at what major
college coaches in the rest of the
country were being paid,"
Singletary said.
“I think he (Curci) is well-pleased
and understands we’re appeciative
of the job he’s done,” added
Singletary. “I must admit he did a
much better job this year than I
anticipat .”
The job Curci has done since
coming to Kentucky five years ago
has exceeded the expectations of
nearly everyone involved with the
university and the football program.
Through five years, his record
stands at 31 wins; 24 losses and one
tie for a winning percentage of .564.
He led the Wildcats to a Peach
Apartments open up
UK vacancy rates ease
students were moving into off-
campus housing, however. “In-
creasing numbers d students are
applying for campis housing,” she
said.
There were 100 students on the
waiting list for dorm rooms at the
beginning of this semester. There
were 700 students on the list at the
beginning of the spring semester
last year.
Bolling said one reason for the
Bowl win in 1976. The team finished
with a 10-1 record and sixth place
national ranking last season. The
coaching of Curci and his staff was a
determining factor for a team that
suffered constant injuries and was
thought by many to lack depth at the
start of the season.
“My family and l are looking
forward to the future," Curci said.
“The University of Kentucky is a
great place to work and the people of
Kentucky are tremendous football
fans.
“I certainly apneciate the con-
fidence Dr. Singletary and the
Athletic Board have shown in me as
a result of this new contract. I
strongly believe that continuity and
small waiting list is better planning.
"In the past," she said, “we‘ve
taken a look at the number of ap»
plications and panicked. This year
we stayed calm and made accurate
projections of our needs.“
Despite the relaxed housing
situation. it '5 still difficult for
students to break housing contracts.
Bolling said students are allowed to
break the contracts only in “ex-
treme situations.”
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Curci gets new contract,
football ticket costs rise
FRAN CURCI
longevity, with respect to the coach
and his staff, are key ingredients in
a stable and successful football
program such as we have at UK.”
The last two years of Curci’s 1977
contract were canceled so the new
agreement could start Jan. 1 of this
year.
Continued on back page
Lindley said UK is also discon-
tinuing sorority and fraternity
transfers. She said these actions are
being taken to protect the people
living in the dorms.
She explained that the housing
service budget is based on near-full
occupancy for the whole year. If an
unexpectedly large number of
students broke their contracts, the
housing service budget could run a
deficit.
are two spaces for upperclass
women.
In addition, the vacancy rate in
Lexington apartment complexes is
disgustrggsgsgy Criticism, financial woes
kill note-taking project
Jeanne “can“
Die(ingl for a ticket
A festival atmosphere takes over Memorial Coliseum each Sunday
as students gather for basketball ticket distribution. Students are
becoming experts at finding time—consuming projects that while
away the hours of waiting. Above. Bill and Anita Richardson (right)
contemplate the dice during a game of Yahtzee with Barbara and
Jimmy Brannon. Anita is an Education senior. Jimmy is a
sophomore iii the College of Business and Economics.
Called ’bad project'
Management, who has been making
apartment vacancy surveys since
1972, said the rate in January is 4.0
percent.
Only 2.4 percent of the apartments
and UK-Aubum basketball games to
in the surveyed complexes, those
with 25 or more units, were vacant
ketsticketsticketstic ”$3133.;ii‘i’hiiifiiemson
Student tickets for the UK-Florida
for the increased vacancy rate is the
Full-time Silldfllts may receive slowdown in [ms enrollment
two tickets per game with two growth. In addition, he said, many
By MARY ANN BUCHART
Kernel Staff Writer
Anyone hoping to use the lecture
notes sold by Student Government
tSG) instead of going to class this
semester should make other plans.
The service ‘was not continued
be played Feb. 4 and Feb. 6 validated ID and activity cards.
Guest tickets will be sold on
today in the West Concourse of Tuesday at the same location and
time. Tickets cost $4. cash sale only.
respectively will be distributed
Memorial Coliseum between 9 am.
and 4 pm.
Jean Liridley.
students are staying in Lexington
year-round, so landlords are now
less reluctant to rent to students.
UK housing
director. said she didn't think more
complaints about its quality.
because of financial problems and
According to Jim Newberry. SG
president, the main reason for
discontinuing the service was that it
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EVERYTHING YOU'VE ALWAYS wanted to
know about hermit crabs, but never bothered to
ask. is explained by Assistant Arts Editor Nell
Fields. Sr-c page 4.
state
THE WHY (‘ORI'S of Engineers Sunday
began efforts to break up a dangerously high ice
gorge which was hindering attempts to reopen
the Markland Dam on the Ohio River.
Seventeen barges and one towhoat have
slammed into the Markland Dam. in Gallatin
"ounty. causing one of the worst blockages on
the Ohio River in :5 years Five more barges
have rammed the McAEpine Dam at Louisville
and at. least a dozen unrestrained barges and one
floating marina were heading Sunday toward
Canndton Dam, about '30 miles downriver from
Louisville
The it e buildup has prompted the ('oast Guard
to close a 30 mile section of the river from
Aurora. Ind to (”arrnillton. Ky.
S‘Hli I’tilll'F. I‘HSTNHH) their search
Sunday for a man lhr". \ald jumped from the. F!
Boonesboro bridge into the Kentucky River.
A police dispatcher at the Richmond post said
river conditions did not permit any activity
Sunday.
State Trooper John Walker said police
received several calls about the man Saturday
and .1 cruiser was sent to the scene. Walker said
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he tried to talk to the man. birt, “he just began
lean'mg over the rail and kept leaning until he
slipped over the rail." ‘
nation
CONTRAVI TALKS IN the increasingly bitter
54-day coal strike collapsed again Sunday after
the United Mine Workers union rejected the in-
dustry's latest settlement proposal.
Delicate efforts to put together a settlement
fell apart when union and management
negotiators were unable to narrow their dif-
ferences over wages and other economic issues.
Should the strike last one more week~~and it
appears it will it will be the longest walkout in
the history of the union‘s relationship with the
coal operators association.
world
MACK SOUTH AFRICAN leader Gatsha
Buihelezi told a throng of 10,000 blacks Sunday
they have ‘reached the crossroads" tn the tight
for equality in white-ruled South Africa
Burnett-7i is the chief of the Zulus South
Africa's largest black tribe He is the most
\ociterous government critic within the country
who has not been jailed
"We owe it to the founding fathers of the
African National Congress. now banned, and
their successors, some deceased, some exiled
and some incarcerated. to uphold the tradition of
this titanic struggle for liberation." said
Buthelezi.
PRESIDENT ANWAR SADAT'S upcoming
trip to the U.S. appears to have a three-fold
purpose in 35k U.S. leaders to put political
pressure on Israel, lobby Congress for arms aid
and sell his negotiating position to the American
public.
Sadat is scheduled to meet with President
Carter at Camp Davrd, Md., on Saturday and
Sunday.
In a joint statement Saturday. the Egyptian
parliament‘s national security and foreign
relations committees called for “more decisive
and effective" l' S. pressure on Israel.
ISRAEL Dl-Zl'IDED SUNDAY to resume
military talks with Egypt. giving new push in
Middle East peace negotiations.
The military talks in Cairo between defense
ministers are expected to resume early this
week. But there was no indication after Sunday‘s
regular Israeli cabinet meeting when the
parallel political megotations in Jerusalem might
resume.
weather
Increasing cloudiness with light snow
beginning Monday afternoon and continuing info
Tuesday Snow accumulations of one to two
inches lligh Monday in the low to mid 20s loo
Monday night from l0 to 15.
From Associated Press Dispatches
was losing money. He also said that
some people did not like the idea of
SO selling notes for classes.
Newberry said a definite decision
to stop the service was never made.
He explained that the service fell
under the jurisdiction of the chair-
man of student services. Mark
Benson. Benson, Ncwbeiry and
Donna Louyons, the SG finance
director, discussed the service and
agreed that it was a bad project.
As a result, it was decided that if
the nde-taking service was not
brought up for discussion at the first
SG meeting of the semester, it would
be dropped.
Newberry said that it is not the
86‘s responsibility to go to class for
students. “It is the responsibility of
the individiuil to go to class, and
that‘s just the way i feel. I'm sure
that a lot of people don't feel the
same way that I do."
Nancy Dye. a history professor.
did not agree “i didn‘t care whether
the notes were sold or not, but I
would have preferred it if they had
been good notes. They were not
bendicial as they were “ The notes
for her History 109 class iliistory of
the US Since 1865) were not worth
using according to Dye
"I feel like it‘s up to the. students
as to whether or not they want to
Deadlines
come to class," Dye said. “The notes
provided could have been useful as a
supplement to class if they had been
good. I was kind of appalled at the
quality of the notes."
Dye added that she had not heard
any comments from other
professors about the notes.
Dean (1“ Undergraduate Studies,
John Stephenson, said he had heard
of professors with legal questions
about their rights to lecture
material. “There were a lot of
debates about the selling of notes
when the service first began about
six or seven years ago, but I really
haven‘t heard anything about them
recently."
SG provided notes. taken by paid
students. for some biology and
history classes last semester. One
student in each class was paid two
dollars per class hour to take the
notes, type them. and take them to
the St; office. The notes were then
stenciled and copied. According to
Newberry, this cmt SG 75 cents per
page. The notes sold for five cents
per page.
“Another problem," Newberry
added, “was that it was difficult to
obtarn note takers, and we would
only have one set of notes per class.
These were not even guaranteed."
remain
Unchanged, too late
to add classes
If you have not enrolled in a class
already, it is too late, according to
Jack Blanton, UK vice president of
business affairs.
And if you haven‘t paid your fees.
today and Tuesday are the last days
students will be allowed to pay
without being assessed a 850 late
charge
The adddrop. late registration
ind fee payment deadlines are
unchanged despite the canceling of
classes on Thursday and Friday As
of last Tuesday. approximately 5000
students ( more than onefourth of
the student popidation) had not paid
the required fees
Payments may be made at the
Service Budding. which, said
Blanton. will mean long lines for
studems.
Fees canmt be paid after Feb. 16.
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Patience and cooperation
keys to winter 'survival’
The severe winter storms that swept most of
the midwestern and eastern United States took
their toll on Lexington and UK. Despite the fact
that conditions seem to be easing a bit, though,
the winter is far from over.
Classes are resuming this week and, with any
luck, the University will be able to condrct its
business for this semester without further in-
terruption. But mate a few problems created by
the storms will remain with us for some time.
Of those problems, the most significant will be
traffic.
University officials estimate that, despite
several days of plowing and shoveling, the
University is still without some 35 percent of its
available parking space. .
In addition, the still-hazardous roads will not
permit any sort of reasonably swift flow of
traffic, which will keep Lexington’s streets tied
up.
Therefore, University officials are urging all
commuting students and faculty and staff
members to do as much as they can toward
helping to alleviate the inevitable jam-ups.
During the past weeks, when the combination
of repeated class cancellations and severe
weather kept most of the dorm-bound students
inside their buildings, and bad roads made
'travelling improbable at best, many of the
University’s Food Service and Physical Plant
employees worked double shifts to keep
operations going smoothly and to see that the
“dormies” were fed and cared for.
For many of those employees, the hours they
were forced to keep necessitated their 31
here on camprs—most in the residence
lounges Understand, those employees could just
as well have found their ways home to stay when
the weather first began to turn ugly; noone could
have faulted them for retreating to the warmth
and safety of their homes. No one would have
forced them to stay and work.
Rather, what kept them on the job was an
understanding that, as one University official
put it, “These kids had to eat and the dorms had
to be kept warm, and if they didn’t stay and do
their jobs, no one else would.”
It is just that spirit of coopeation that we are
going to need if we are to survive with our sanity
intact this second consecutive arctic winter.
Those students and staffers who have been ac-
customed to driving to the University are urged
to find some other means of making it to cam-
pus: double up, form ad hoc carpools, walk if at
all possible. There simply isn’t going to be
enough space for everyone to park, and unless
some of us make some small sacrifices here and
there, this winter could turn into a huge
headache for all of us.
Granted, weather like that which we’ve been
experiencing is an inconvenience, but if each of
us exercises a measure d patience and con-
sideration for one another, we’ll all come
through the winter quite well, ready to enjoy the
spring that lies in the not-too-distant-future.
Abrupt school closings
are tough for us as well
Lots of people have been asking whether the
Kernel, is, published when glasses have, been. .
“Matti;
As a general rule, we don’t print excepfduiing '
regular school days But lately, it’s been pretty
hard to tell when there will be school. Can-
cellation has often been on short notice, which
leaves us with an editorial and advertising
nightmare.
The decision to cancel classes on Friday, Jan.
20 came at 6 a.m., long after the pages had been
finished We were anxious to put out the first
issue, though, and distributed to residence halls,
Greek houses and several other points.
Last Thursday, classes were again called off in
the morning, beam of blizzard-like snowing
_ and icy roads. We had already printed Thur-
sday’s paper, but because of the hazardous
conditions and canceled classes, we did not
distribute. Other Kentucky papers had similar
difficulties.
Like many businesses, newspapers find winter
storms tough going. Advertising revenue
declines, circulation is difficult to maintain, and
the coverage of news loses continuity. With five
of the first eightclass days canceled, it’s been an
uneven month for our staff. We’re as eager for
spring thaw as anyone.
One man's struggle . . .
This is a personal narrative about
one man‘s struggle with a local
power monopoly. Who else could I be
referring to but Columbia Gas
Company, which only wants the best
for its customers?
I got a gas bill for $45.65
(remember when it was that war—
m?) and I sent a check to the gas
company. Then I went to my bank,
Bank of the Bluegrass, to cover the
check For some reason, the deposit
wasn't recorded, and my gas check
bounced
Truly pissed, I went to the bank.
They apologized, and promised to
call Columbia and straighten it out
The bank did call, but Columbia told
them it was too bad; they had a
bounced check and Mr. Keg an will
have to make it good.
The bank let me know. so l called
Columbia Gas Co., again really
pissed I talked to some flunky, who
told me he would get in touch with
the bank and straighten it out.
Nothing happened. Then it began
to get colder. One morning. while I
was shovelling scrambled eggs and
toast (whole wheat english muffins.
in fact) into my mouth, there was an
insistent poundng on my door.
Holding back my snarling
Labrador puppy, I opened the door
to find an uncbrsized gas man,
clipboard 'n hand demaming en-
trance to turn off my gas for non-
payment.
"Wail," I said, “I paid my bill.
What’s the trouble?"
The flunky rechecked his clip-
board and said, “485 W. Second
Street, right? My orders here say I
gotta turn off the gas. Three are my
orders."
“The hell with your orders,” I
snapped. “I'm going to call the
company and get this straightened
out. Wait here."
The little man nervously asserted
that his orders also prohibited his
standing around waiting for
customers to make phme calls, and
he demanded entrance. And to show
how respectable I‘ve become, and I
loathe myself for it, I let him in and
took to the phone. In my younga'.
more obnoxious days, I would have
sneered at him, told him to get a
court order. and slammed the door
in his face. But l didn’t.
I called Columbia, spoke to Mr.
Jerry Crouch, the credit manager,
who told me a notice was sent in-
forming me of the cutoff date. I told
him I hadn't receive! it, and
besides, it had been straightened out
with the bank. Right?
“I‘m sorry, sir," he droned, “but
we: don‘t deal with banks over
returned checks. We can't
straighten out every single one we
get. And beca me you chose to ignore
the ndice we sent you, we had no
choke but to discontinue your
service."
"But I didn't receive any such
notice." l insrsted.
“Sir, I can't tell you how many
times I hear that everyday," he
replied sarcastically.
He then told me I'd have to pay the
hill in cash. plus an $8 fee to turn it
back on I‘m a reasonable person,
andl thought that I could go down to
the office and reason with him.
because I was sure my sincerity
would impress him.
So I wont to see him. A big fellow
greeted mc asking if he could help
me. No, l said. I want to see Mr
Crouch. He dmked into an dfice,
then came and told me Mr. Crouch
would see me. He then whispered to
Crouch that he’d be right outside if
he needed help. Do I seem like the
violent, hysterical type?
“Mr. Crouch," I began sweetly,
“I‘ve done all that was in my power.
I explained about the unrecorded
deposit, I‘ve made lots of phone
calls. I’m not one to ignore notices.
What I‘d like is for my service to be
turned on. and for you to waive the
$8 fee.“
“I‘d like to help you, Mr. uh,
Kagan. But we can’t be hunting:
down every returned check. And
how are we to know that you didn’t
receive our notice?"
I suggested they could send out a
second notice, but he dismissed it as
impractical and too expensive. I told
him I was very unhappy, and he said
he was sorry, became Columbia
wants its customers happy.
“The damnable thing is,” I said,
"I can't take my business
elsewhere. There is no other gas
company. So you people can be as
snotty and incons'derate as you
want "
Here‘s the beauty of it all. Crouch
said, with real glee, I think, ”No, sir,
you did have a choice You moved
into a gas-heated hane. Why, in
Lexington, there hasn‘t bear a ga-
heated home built in the hat five
years. You could have moved into a
newhome, or you could move now if
you don’t like our service."
Well. that‘s it. This column will not
change Columbia Gas Co. or Jerry
Crouch. and it won't get be back my
38. but I feel better. And for thine of
you who wish to complain about the
gas company. remember, you didn‘t
have to move into that horse, it was
your choice
Ken Kagnn Is a senior; his column
will appear monthly. on Mondays.
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