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UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY, LEXINGTON

12, 1970

Vol.

LXI, No. 108

Coal Lobbies
Legislature Urged
To Halt Strip Mining

By DAHLIA HAYS
Kernel Staff Writer
A small group of students
is urging other students to send
telegrams to state legislators
whom the group accuses of'put-tin- g
the interests of the coal
lobbies before the rights of the
people of Kentucky."
The attack is directed toward
the Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee of the General Assembly, which, according
to a leaflet currently being circulated by the student group,
has not taken any action on five
bills restricting strip mining in
the state.
According to the leaflet, the
committee of legislators has "refused t.
a full hearing and
open discussion on the strip mining bills, making their intentions
obvious to let the bills die."
Immediate Action
A spokesman for the group,
Tim Murphy, said Wednesday

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HB 301, wliich places a severance tax of 10 cents per ton on
all companies extracting minerals from Kentucky.
Murphy said that his organization, which came into being
earlier this week, was "similar
to, but not a part of, the Environmental Awareness Society
on campus."

He pointed out that the state
legislature will not meet again
for two years, adding "much land
can be destroyed by strip mining
during that period."
Effective Pressure
According to the group's leaflet, telegrams to the legislators
composing the committee are
"the most effective pressure you
can bring to bear on the committee."
"Our politicians seldom ignore a telegram," the leaflet adds.
Murphy said that about 500
copies of the leaflet had been
distributed to students. In addithat action must be taken im- tion, he and other group memmediately to insure that these bers have appeared before varbills will reach the floor of the ious campus organizations to exlegislature for a vote before the plain "how powers of the people
current legislative session closes can influence legislative decion March 20.
sions, and the strip mining issue
The five bills which the group in particular."
wants brought to a vote include:
Murphy said that any interHB 473, which prohibits strip ested persons or students can
mining on terrain with a slope send a "Personal Opinion Mesof more than 18 degrees.
sage" telegram (15 words) to the
HB 229, which prohibits strip
state legislature for $1.
mining in a conservation district
Telegrams, which Murphy
unless
of its voters said should list each bill by number and add a brief explanation,
approve.
HB 492, which outlaws the should be sent to Bernard Keene,
broad form deed.
chairman, Agriculture and NatHB 493, which would permit ural Resources Committee, House
strip mining only by theoption of of Representatives, State Capitol
the local counties or cities
Building, Frankfort, Kentucky

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BSU Discusses

Arts Festival
By MIKE WINES
Kernel Staff Writer
Approximately 30 Black Student Union (BSU) members discussed a variety of topics ranging from the recent Black Arts
Festival to a planned Community Tutoring Project at a meeting Wednesday night in the Student Center.
The Black Arts Festival received both praise and criticism
from BSU members. BSU leader
Ronald Hale said, "I guess everyone was happy that as many
people participated in it as they

did."

Hale said he believed the BSU
festival was staged "as efficiently as could be done," and that
the few hangups in the program
were easily "taken care of."
One member disagreed, claiming the festival "seemed almost
like a Black-whit- e
bourgeoisie
thing . . . (regarding) some of
the things, it wasn't black at all."
Another member responded by
admitting that some parts of the
festival may have seemed "irrelevant" but that this was the members' fault for lack of support
and organization.
Nevertheless, members generally agreed the festival was a
success. The committee in charge
of reporting on the program said

BSU Meets

Economist ViewsPopulation
By JANE D. BROWN
Kernel Staff Writer
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To an
Population Growth membership,
Dr. John L. Madden of the Department of Economics, a
schizophrenic lecturer,
presented the economist's views
on overpopulation.
Beginning with a graph ilself-admitt-

lustrating Malthus's theory that
population tends to increase at
a faster rate than its means of
subsistence, Madden went on to
describe the three theories of
"dismalness". These theories, as
first proposed by Malthus, prophesy that if the populaton is not
checked by some drastic means

such as massive war or a shift in
population, the world will eventually be in a "dismal,
utter-disma-

l"

state.

Since the problem today involves the whole world, the solu-

not to ship the
out. As Dr. Madden
that "everything went pretty pointed out, "It is highly unlikely
much on schedule . . . the people that we could ship them to the
from other schools as well as Planet Vulcan." One of Malthe ones in this one got pretty thus's solutions was to get marmuch out of it." A committee ried later, but as a modern day
meeting was suggested to prepare economist. Madden sees another
for next year's festival.
possible solution.
U of L Festival
Theory Of Consumption
His answer lies in the theory
Hale also reported on a trip
to Louisville, where the U of L of consumption. Dr. Madden
BSU had also staged a Black thinks that the change must come
in the form of changing priorities
Arts Festival.
"Overall, it was a pretty good from private consumption to pubtrip it was a pretty good fest- lic consumption. He cited the
example of the automobile. "We
ival," he said.
"I think it was beautiful," should abandon the auto in the
said Martha Ponder, a BSU mem- inner city and depend on public
ber. "It was a community black transportation systems, hopefully
arts festival. Ours was concerned before we're all affixiated."
Another improvement he felt
with people on our level."
The U of L's festival was pre- should be made involved recreation facilities. "With a town the
pared with a special orientation toward the youth and com- size of Lexington, you'd think
munity. Another U of L festival, they'd have a golf course and
aimed at college students, is more than three public swim
scheduled for April 24.
The proposed CommunityTu-torin- g
Project took up much of
the rest of the meeting. The project is designed to tutor black
high school students and is included in a $15,000 grant given
the BSU by the University for
recruitment of black students.
"It's a very important project," said Hale. "Unless we learn
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The Black Student Union met Wednesday night and discussed its
recent Black Arts Festival. BSU members had both praise and criticism for the event. One member claimed the festival "wasn't
black at all," while another said that it was staged "as efficiently as could be done." Members generally agreed, however, that
the festival was a success. Facing the camera is BSU member
Natalie Cobb.
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ming pools." He said he has to
go to Frankfort to play golf,
and a whole lot of private pools
cause a lot of headaches.
Dr. Madden emphasized his
proposal, "We must orient our
economy to service instead of
production. We can with proper

management of production and

control of population."

He, however, is pessimistic
about the possibilty of controlling population growth. "We can
solve the basic economic problems but I can see no solution

at hand without some major shot
such as massive starvation and
misery large enough to see a fast
enough change to control popula-

tion."
In the

question-answe- r
period
following Dr. Maddens' presentation, another possible solution
was brought up. Madden, a specialist
in urban economics,
doesn't see why the establishment of kibbutzes in urban ghetto areas couldn't be tried. He
concludes that success lies in
changing the whole structure of
society.

UK Vs. Irish

Regional Tournament
A Psychological Battle

By CHIP HUTCHESON
Kernel Sports Editor
COLUMBUS, O.- -It is being
billed as the best regional tournament in collegiate basketball, but
thus far, the NCAA Mideast Regional has been more psychology
than anything else.
At a banquet held for coaches
and members of the press Wednesday night, the psychological warfare hit its peak.
UK coach Adolph Rupp, in an
attempt to gain a mental edge
for his Wildcats, discussed some
of the numerous problems his
team has faced this year.
Meanwhile Coach Johnny Dee
of Notre Dame was trying to void
stirring up trouble with Rupp.
Dee said that "it's always a
pleasure to play UK."
Earlier in the year, Dee
created a stir by discounting the
quality of UK's Southeastern
Conference opponents.
Improved Irish
Dee also discussed problems
that he has had with ineligibility and injuries. In regard to
Rupp's comment that Notre
Dame has improved 30 percent
since the teams met in December, Dee said he wished he could
agree with that.
The Jacksonville coaching
staff was not interested in conciliatory statements, however.

for
Coaches
Jacksonville,
which plays Iowa in the second
game tonight, seemed confident
of its chances in advancing to
the NCAA finals.

Confidence In Gilmore
All three Jacksonville coaches
intimated that Artis Gilmore
would be the top player in the

tournament.

All were confident that Jacksonville would have little trouble,
yet shrugged off all questions
pertaining to Jacksonville's recruitment of their starting five.
Gilmore is reportedly receiving $75 a day for a summer job
in Jacksonville. The coaches said
that indeed he made that much,
but they refused to discuss the

matter.
The top three players were
probably entirely overlooked by
most major colleges. Cilmore,
Pembroke Burrows and Rex Morgan were recruited by Jacksonville although none were
by any other major
college scout.
In regard to the acquisition
of these players, their ability
and their present jobs at Jacksonville, two assistant coaches
refused to comment.
UK meets Notre Dame at 7:05

tonight with the

Jacksonville-Iow-

game following.

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12, 1970

Separate Black Studies Section

Black Student Union Reviews Art Festival

Continued from rage One
how to be a part of the community .. . the things we want, we're
not going to be able to get them
done." Hale said a meeting tobe
held after the spring break will
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Most of UK's black students, time I went to the library they
said Hale, "probably aren't from had a special section on 'cookLouisville and Lexington" but ing fish,' " said Henry Scurry,
instead ar from other portions a BSU member.
of the state. The BSU plans to
"Almost every library has
stage socials and tours of UK for special
sections particularly,
seniors in high school.
Kentucky State's library has a
Hale also reported an ap- huge room of 'black books,' if you
parent failure in the organiza- will."
tion's drive to have a separate
Hale vowed to keep
to
black studies section installed get the library section tryingthe
for
in the King Library.
University blacks.
Acting Vice President of StuFinancial problems were also
dent Affairs Stuart Forth vetoed discussed by the members. More
the idea "in a roundabout sort laughs greeted the treasurer when
of way," said Hale, by claiming he announced that only $11.21
that a separate black studies was in the BSU treasury. Hale
department would entice other suggested a fund raising drive,
groups to agitate for their own and another member claimed that
departments, and that it would the organization should try to cut
upset the library's Dewey Dec- out waste in its use of materials.
imal System.
Noting that the BSU office
left its supplies open to all memCooking Fish
The mention of the Dewey bers, a student said, "The supplies of the organization should

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In other BSU action, members discussed ways of supporting the Martin Luther King Scholarship Program, which awards
cash scholarships to qualified
blacks. Hale said a meeting with
interested officials revealed that
the demand for the scholarships
g
was rising, and new
techniques will be tried to meet
fund-raisin-

thedemand.

Next year's fund raising campaign will be divided into student and faculty divisions, with
the BSU coordinating the student section efforts. Present plans
include setting up a table in the
Student Center and allying with
other student organizations to

raise money.
Hale emphasized the value
of the scholarship fund to black
students. "If you have financial
if you have the
difficulties
need then they will give the

...

dough to you," he said. The
fund dispensed approximately
$2,500 to students last year, and
not be available to the membership. These things are for the the demand is expected to top
use of the organization for of- $4,000 this year.
The BSU was also invited to
ficial purposes. I think the organization is within its rights send representatives to a forthin locking these things up.
coming national black studies
h
Other members protested, say- conference in Louisville's
Hotel. The conference,
that the locking up of suping
plies would prevent individual sponsored by the U of L's black
projects from being easily com- studies department, is said to be
pleted. At the end of the meet- the first of its kind in the nation.
The Kernel reporter was not
ing, suggestions for fund raising
were still not acted upon.
permitted to cover the second
"Sure, we've got $15,000 from half of the BSU meeting, which
the University, but what are we was described as a "closed sesgoing to do when we want some- sion" designed to "iron out probthing of our own?" asked one BSU lems" within the group, accordmember.
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* Buffalo Students Battle Police

College Tress Service
BUFFALO, New York -- While
most of the nation's attention
has been focused on Santa Barbara, students at the State University of New York at Buffalo
have battled police on campus
and boycotted classes.
The worst disruption In the
University's history was the result of a Wednesday niftht (Feb.
25) sweep through the student
union building by
campus police. Two students
were beaten and taken into custody in the lobby of the crowded
building as police allegedly were
pursuing vandals who had tossed
a rock through the President's
window.
Within an hour city
club-wieldi-

including the Tactical

Pa-

trol Force, arrived to vacate the
building where incensed students
had thrown up barricades and
destroyed windows and furniture.
A three hour battle on the campus grounds ensued. Seventeen
arrests were made and several
injuries were reported.
A noon-tim- e
rally Feb. 26
culminated in a march by 1000

students to the administration
building, but Acting President
Peter F. Regan was not in his
office. The crowd then moved
through the campus, hurling
rocks at the Clark Gym headquarters of ROTC, burning a
truck at
theDefense-Department-sponsore-

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Project Themis construction site and smashing a
campus police car into the Security Offices building. Throughout the afternoon masses of student demonstrators confronted
cordons of city police in full
riot-gebut there were no arrests.
Molotov cocktails werehurled
at the building housing the Faculty Club Thursday evening. The
files of some alumni and incoming freshmen were destroyed by
a blast at Admissions and Records; three shelves of books were
burned in the library basement
and the English Department annex was firebombed. Scattered
incidents of property violence and
large strategy caucuses took place
throughout the weekend, in adstrike
vance of a University-wid- e
meeting on Monday. Classes were
,
.

boycotted Friday.

By

morning Feb. 28 the police had
withdrawn from campus.
Most students expressed shock
and disbelief at the police violence of Wednesday night, and
the demonstrations have drawn
the widest base of support yet
seen at Buffalo.
The Buffalo campus, largest
in the State University system,
has been the scene of several

demonstrations throughout the
year most of them directed
against the continued presence
of ROTC on campus. The Medical School was assailed in Nobecause of its lack of
minority enrollment. Last March
several hundred students occupied the administration building for a day and, the construction shacks at the then just begun
Themis site were torn down. The
disturbance was quelled by the
twin forces of a temporary restraining order and spring vacation.
A similar rest raining order was
obtained by the administration
Friday, but it is doubtful whether
it will bring the same calming
results. The order prohibits the
disruption of the lawful and normal operations of the University.
However, the demonstrations
have gained their massive support
because of the widespread feeling
vember

that the appearance and subsequent actions of the police
Wednesday were neither lawful

or normal.
The events of last spring were
seninspired by the
tencing of local draft resisters,
and support was nowhere near
as large.
What provoked the recent incidents was the physical presence
of police on campus and not, as
had been reported in the commercial press, the boycott by the
Black basketball players. It was
that boycott which resulted in
a demonstration Feb. 24 on the
'
gym court : before the Buffalo
Brook game. The campus
Stony
athletic program has been under
attack by Black athletes since the
start of the year. The players say
the program is unacceptable,
charging racism, and some have

A second demonstration was
scheduled the following night
with Buffalo scheduled to play
the State University at Albany.
The boycotting players demanded that the game be postponed
pending action on their demands,
and this was ordered by the administration a half hour before
gametime.
The Junior varsity game was
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proceeded to the administration
building where the President's
window was broken. Within min-

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the student union,
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against student political activity.
The arrival of the city police
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Thursday morning Feb. 26, administrative sources gave conflicting reports as to who gave
the order for the campus police
to enter the student union and
who called the city police. University Vice President Edward
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there were no confrontations. Several police broke windows as they
exited from the building, and a
University official overheard one
officer remark: "You may have
won this time, but wait till next

boycotted the basketball team
all season demanding a renegotiated program. Police were called
Saturday in, the gym was cleared, but

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* Threat To Paris Talks?
The Soviet warning that Hanoi
will shortly break off the Paris peace
talks if the United States continues
to downgrade them must be taken
seriously, despite the refusal of
North Vietnamese and Vietcong
representatives to confirm that they
have such plans. The Soviet Ambassador to France, Valerian Zorin,
is too old a diplomatic hand to have
made such a prediction without
instructions.
Mr. Zorin said that Hanoi cannot let "President Nixon camouflage his actions in Vietnam by
pretending that serious talks are
going on in Paris." A walkout
would dramatize the fact, he said,
that the Nixon policy of Vietnami-zatio- n
is one of continuing rather
than ending the war.
Unquestionably, the Zorin
warning has heavy overtones of
propaganda aimed at stirring dormant antiwar sentiment in the
United States. But it is unrealistic

to dismiss it as nothing more than
a routine
exercise.
Many Americans have made similar
criticisms of the Victimization
policy. Senator Edmund Muskie
has just warned that it would pin
the United States down "indefinitely in the war, rather than "get us
out of Vietnam," as promised.
President Nixon's refusal to replace Ambassador Henry Cabot
Lodge with another high-levrepresentative has had the effect of
downgrading the talks. Even more
important, his public insistence
that the United States will make
no new proposals in Paris until
the Communists make further concessions has riveted the American
posture into one of rigidity.
The trouble with this policy
is that it tends to make a settlement of the war too dependent
on what the enemy does, as Cyrus
R. Vance has just pointed out.
The former United States negotia
anti-Americ-

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tor in Paris is urging a three-poiproposal which, while wc do not
necessarily agree with all of its
propositions in detail, should at
least enable Washington to resume
the initiative in the Paris negotiations.
Firstly, he would terminate
y
missions and
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raids.
Secondly, he would place on
the table in Paris a plan for a
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settlement, startwith a stand still cease-fir- e
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under arrangements that would not
political-militar-

allow either side to take political
or military advantage. The United
States would announce a timetable
for withdrawal of all its troops
within roughly twelve months after
the cease-fir- e
is effective.
Thirdly, a joint electoral commission, comprising representatives
of the Vietcong, the Saigon Government and the "broad middle spec

trum," would be set up to prepare
and supervise elections.
Would Hanoi respond to such
a proposal? No one can be sure.
But in a recent interview Hanoi's
Foreign Minister indicated a new
willingness to negotiate about
cease-fir- e
Some
arrangements.
Nixon Administration analysts, in
fact, see other hints that Hanoi
may soon put forward its own
proposals for a cease-fir- e
proposals Washington would find it difficult to reject even if surrounded
with conditions less favorable to
the United States than those suggested by Mr. Vance.

Despite the absence of any high-levAmerican delegate, Hanoi has

el

now returned its highest representative to Paris, Politburo member Le
Due Tho. The chance should be
seized to make a new start there,
rather than to risk further

"Now, concerning
Laos, let me make
one thing perfectly
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As the official journal of the Univerroom at Christ Center. I knelt by my bed
and asked Jesus Christ, if He was really sity of Kentucky, it is commendable that
all He said he was, to come into my you rose on Monday to the defense of our
heart and life. After praying for an hour Kentucky farmers and of the tobacco
I gave up. I laid down on my bed and industry, upon which many Kentuckians
began thinking of home and of going are dependent for their support.
back to the life I had left. Then a mist
It is indeed true that people are not
came before my eyes. My hand rose slowly going to quit smoking as a result of the
from my chest where it was resting. I was restrictions placed on tobacco advertising.
aware of what was happening and I kept However, considering the health hazards
telling myself not to use my own strength. involved in cigarette smoking, I would
I wanted to be sure this was really Jesus
contend that the reasonable solution to
Christ who was touching me. My arm this problem is neither black nor white
reached its full extent and the Tower but Blue.
In the days of our fathers, hemp was
that had drawn it upward caused my
hand to bend downward. I felt a peaceful a major cash crop in this state. Should
warmth go through my body. My hand the repressive laws against the produc
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tion and distribution of hemp, (an obvious effort to repress free enterprise and
potential capitalists), those who are now
dependent upon tobacco for their sustenance might become employed in the marketing of one of nature's jolliest weeds.
Farmers, manufacturers, and the general
public would profit from such a Hemp
Revival, and our valiant police might be
freed for the investigation of more serious
crimes.
Amid all the emotional controversy
concerning, both tobacco and hemp, it is
time that someone stood up for the forgotten man, the Kentucky farmer. In my
campaign for Covernor of the Common-

wealth as the candidate of the Politics
of Truth Party, I shall try to do just that.
Thank You.
SAM MASON

Marijuana Less Harmful

Your editorial concerning the cigarette
advertising ban was silly. The government isn't being terribly ruthless
Mitchell fie Co. are so busy these days
with us subversives and "private industry," hardly a fair maiden, is being raped
in this instance only after a very long,
profitable, and happy affair.
Actually, the government is indeed
not going to stop cigarette smoking. But
for years the taxpayers have subsidized
the production of a very dangerous drug,
while at the same time, a lot of my
friends have been busted for other kinds
of less harmful and more enjoyable dope.
The government is merely being stupid,
and while I agree that I don't dig any body
telling me what I can or cannot do to
myself, do one thing or the other.
If the government does not legitimately have the power to regulate the cigarette

advertisers, then all dope including even
heroin and the other killer drugs should
enjoy the same status.
And finally, your idealistic rap about
capitalism is hopelessly obsolete. Many of
us would have to take issue with your
contention that America's capitalism has
permitted us to decide what we are to do
with our resources and lives.
CS POPE
Former Student

'Only' Needed

Pain and suffering though it causes
me, I must confess to "the Kernel" that
I have failed. As usual, it lias been a
communications failure this one between
myself and The Kernel staff.
The February 26 Kernel report of my
talk with the Zero Population Growth
group was headlined "Family Planning
Not the Answer." Omission of the word
"only" before "answer" was the error
which might easily mislead most of the
readers. Family planning would indeed
be the answer if our families wanted
one or two children instead of the three
plus that last reports indicate. I believe
the desired number will be going down,
however. The vigorous efforts of ZPG
and all of us who are human and intelligent enough to visualize our world a few
years hence are needed, both to change
the "desirable number of children" per
family, and then to help see that each
family is able to control its births. The
latter is called "family planning." You
and I had better be all for it.
WILLIAM 11, ELSEA, M.D., M.P.H.
Director
Lexington-Fayett-

e

County Health Dept.

* .THE KENTUCKY KERNEL, Thursday, March

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