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A beginning
Pardoned Lexingtonian
’relieved,’ not bitter

By CHAS MAIN
Kernel Staff Writer

For Don Pratt, the long ordeal has
finally come to an end. He was one of
13,000 draft resisters who were
pardoned by President Carter last
Friday and he is, in his own words.
relieved.

Pratt received his draft notice in
1969 and chose to refuse it. He was
convicted for draft evasion and took
his appeal all the way to the
supreme court, which refused in 1971
to overturn the conviction. He
served 20 months of his prison
sentence before being paroled in
1972. Pratt has since then lived
wondering if he would ever be made
to pay the $10,000 fine which the
court meted out to him and then
never collected.

Fa the past two years, Pratt has

operated the Woodland Grocery,
which is located at the corner of
High Street and Woodland Avenue in
Lexington. From “almost nothing,"
he has built a successful business;
one that has become a sort of focal
point for a large, university-related
community. ‘

A lot of folks depend on Pratt’s
grocery because it is one of the few
in the city that makes deliveries.
Now, due to the bad weather, the
demand for that service has in-
creased to the point that he hasn’t
had time to relish his pardon.

“I deliver groceries,” he said,
”and right now I’m making almost
40 deliveries a day."

One of the major effects of Pratt’s
conviction was the loss of his right to
vote. The pardon has restored that
right; Pratt has already re~

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An open letter to Jimmy Carter,
I have heard with anxiety the cries. “It’s not enough what

Carter has done."

Though I fall into the category of some complainants (sic)—

that of educated. middle class

resister—l am glad its hap-

pening. it‘s a releif to see, at least, a beginning.
Yes. it's not enough that it does not include all that suffered
penalties in opposing the military and government of this

nation. Even a blanket pardon

would not be as good as an

indictment and conviction and then a pardon of all those who
burdened us. Vietnam and the world with that war.

Yes. those whose class-structured conditioning delayed their
own opposition until after they were in the military should be
included in a pardon. but more important. those class dif-

ferences should be abolished!

Yes, it’s not fair that some died and were wounded because
they obeyed, but no one should have died or been wounded so
as to pit us against each other. Nor should scapegoats be made
of those who were right in telling the [1.8. Government to stop

using any or all of us.

Yes. this will hurt the draft system and make other wars
harder to be fought by simple obedience to authority, but
obedience. especially blind obedience, makes fools of
followers and madmen of leaders (Hitler and Nixon are two

examples).

Enough cannot be said to explain to everyone the need to
cure the wounds of Vietnam. But actually. enough cannot be
done. period! Thanks, Jimmy Carter, for what I hope is a

beginning.

Don Pratt

 

Regional tourney tickets
go on sale in February

Four thousand tickets to the NCAA Mideast Regional Tournament,
scheduled for March 17 and 19 at Rupp Arena, will go on sale to UK
students from 9 am. to 4 pm. Feb. 24 in Memorial Coliseum.

Teams playing in the Mideast Regional Tournament are usually the
winners of the Southeastern and the Big Ten Conferences, plus two at-

large teams.

Tickets will be sold on the east and west concourses of the Coliseum on
a firstcome, first-served basis. The doors to the Coliseum will open at 7

am. on Feb. 2.

Any student (part or full time) with a validated ID may purchase
tickets for $14 per set (one seat both nights). No student may purchase
more than two tickets ($28 for both sets). Sales are by cash only. All sales

are final.

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By BETSY PEARCE
Kernel Staff Writer

Derby Day will come in February
this year, but students wishing to
attend shouldn’t flock to Churchill

‘ Downs.

Instead. interested students
should head for the Classroom
Building on Feb. 5 for the Study
Skills Derby, sponsored by the
University Counseling and Testing
Center.

According to Peg Payne, learning
skills coordinator, it’s a sure bet that
this semester’s Derby will benefit all
studaits involved. “It’s a unique
opportunity for students to geta day-
long seminar devoted to study
skills,” she said.

The day will be divided into seven
sections, consisting of lectures and
discussions about various aspects of
studying. For instance, one section
will deal with test-taking strategies,
particularly how to take objective
tests.

“There are clues to watch for,
such as the way questions are
written, which indicate the correct
choice,” Payne said. “We’ll discuss
how one discriminates a correct
answer from a nearly correct an-
swer."

This Derby will differ from others,
in that students will be placed in
small groups to study particular
skills in certain areas including
math, science, history and
language. In the past, students have
gone to one big room for a series of
lectures.

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Study your eyelids

Denise Leonard. business sophomore. finds studying
tiresome as she relaxes on a couch at the Student
Center. Paula Ronvaux. psychology senior, finds her

“This time students will alternate
between large lectures and small
workshop applications of these
lectures,” Payne said. “Students
will get more individual attention
this way and to us, it’s important for
them to get actively involved in what
they need to learn.”

Faculty from various depart-
ments will lecture and help coor-
dinate discussion sessions. “It’s
exciting that the faculty has given
its time to the project and the
Counseling Center staff,” she said.

Besides actual study skills, at-
titudes and motivation will be
probed. “Relaxation techniques will
be emphasized," Payne said.
“Students need the right frame of
mind to bring to a test.”

Counselors from the Testing
Center will discuss problems such as
boredom, procrastination,
frustration and restlessness with
studying. At noon there will be a
brown bag lunch and panel
discussion on “What is Fair
Treatment at UK?"

Students shouldn‘t dwell on
failure, Payne said. They need to
learn how to overcome self-
defeating attitudes as well.

“Such (self-defeating) attitudes
may have many sources,” she said.
“For instance, there is a cultural
attitude that says women shouldn't
excel in math, which just isn’t true.”

All interested students are urged
to attend. the Derby. The only
requirement is that students must
take two tests by Feb. 3.

These tests are not for screening

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homework a little more demanding and resists the

urge to goof off.

purptses, but serve as an indication
of where students have problems.
“The tests only take about 45
minutesand are used as a basis for
how to improve students’ academic
performance and educational
goals," Payne said.

Test forms may be obtained at the
Student Center, Classroom Building,
the King library and the Counseling
Center.

Most co-ed

Derby Day comes early to UK

Payne said that in the past two
years about 50-60 people have at-
tended and she expects a large
tumout this semester.

“I like the changes that have been
made this year,” she said.
“Studying is an intellectual exercise
and I’d like this (Derby) to be as
active a day as we can possibly
arrange."

Post time is 8:30 am. Saturday.

Honor societies
choose carefully

By FRANKLIN RENFRO
Kernel Reporter

' New federal regulations (Title IX)
may have u‘derd educational in-
stitutions to go coed, but most honor
societies still restrict memberships

. to an elite group of students.

Many honoraries go through a
rigorous selection process in
choosing new members. Potential
members are screened thoroughly
and tested or their scholarship and
leadership. They need no less than a
majority vote to join.

Mortar Board, formerly an all-
female junior honorary, has 35
members. Three men are in the
organization and members are
chosen once a year.

Angela Schlafer, Mortar Board
president, said “We haven’t had
much participation out of some of
our men, but some women don‘t
participate much either.”

Mortar Board’s purpose is still to
promote the advancement of
women, accrrding to Schlafer. “The
men know this before they become
members,” she said.

Omicron Delta Kappa, formerly a
men's junior and senior leadership
honorary, has 24 members, nine of
whom are women. ODK selects
members twice a year. ODK
President Steve Miller said it was
easy admitting women because “our
creed is to recognize outstanding
leadership.”

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The State Insurance Department will hold
public hearings on rate increases that “affect
large numbers of people," Insurance Commis-
sioner Harold McGuffey said yesterday. The
hearings are to be advertised in newspapers in
Louisville. Frankfort and Lexington 10 days in

A natural gas explosion leveled a two-story

in Leitchfield

yestrday and officials said 15 persons were
injured. seven seriously. Rodney Worley, a
spokesman for Leitchfield police. said several
buildings, in addition to the one which was
destroyed, were damaged by the blast.

ANDREW YOUNG _

The Senate approved
the nomination of Rep.
Andrew Young of Geor~
gia to be US. ambassa-
dor to the United Na-
tions yesterday. the vote _
was 89 to 3. Young was
an early supporter of
the presidential bid of

Jimmy Carter. Young
will be the first black to

hold theU.N. post.

The Tennessee Valley Authority served
notice yesterday that it will seek relaxed state

ing plants.

construction of the facility.

air pollution standards at its Kingston and New
Johnsonville steam plants. The agency proposes
100foot tall stacks instead of expensive scrub-
bing equipment. Otherwise, the state Air
Pollution Control Board was told, TVA will have
to go outside the state for low-sulfur coal and
spend an extra $93 million to reduce sulfur
dioxide emissions from stacks at the coal-burn-

A spokesman for Public Service Indiana said
yesterday that a court order temporarily
blocking work on the Marble Hill nuclear power
plant, obtained by Kentucky officials on Tues-
day, does not represent a major threat to

Tens of thousands of workers went on strike
across Spain yesterday to protest violence by
diehard Francoists as the government worked to
ease political tension threatening to undermine
its plans for democracy.

weather

Lousy weather today—periods of snow
flurries, cold and windy. The high might reach 20
with a low tonight of 10. There is a good chance of
snow tonight and continuing Friday. The high
Friday is predicted to reach 20. '-

Cornpiied from Associated Press
and National Weather Bureau dispatches.

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Phone calls
could have

cleared

ballroom
questions

Mini concert goers may find themselves
paying higher prices and squeezing more tightly
together this semester because the University
Club, the Student Center Board and some
University officials are playing hide-and-seek
with each other.

A rumored reduction in the seating capacity of
the Student Center Grand Ballroom has led
Helen Hughes, concert coordinator, to order 200
less tickets than usualfor each mini concert. And
less tickets will mean higher ticket prices,
assuming the entertainment quality remains the
same.

The rumors are centering on renovation of a
small ballroom which is separated from the
Grand Ballroom by a folding partition. This
room serves as a dining area for the University
Club. In the past, the partition has been removed
to increase the size of the Grand Ballroom for
mini concerts.

Student Center Board (SCB) members,
hearing that the smaller ballroom would no

longer be available for use during mini concerts,
didn’t bother to confirm the story before
deciding to order less tickets.

As it turns out, the story isn’t true. Jack
Blanton, vice president for business affairs, said
he isn't aware of any problem with opening the
smaller room for mini concerts. His assistant,
George Ruschell, said the University Club only
uses the room until about 2 pm. every day.

William Biaden, University Club president,
doesn’t seem to know anything about putting a
limit at the use of the room. And Mary Jo
Martens, SC director, said there may indeed he
attempts to open the small room for the mini
concerts.

All of the‘ different versions of the ballroom
story serve as an example of what can happen
when one side of campus doesn’t know what the
other is doing. The rumors of the change have
been floating around since November.

if SCB President Tom Gaston had given
Blanton a telephone call, there would be no

problems. Or if Gaston had been consulted when

' Blanton came up with the idea of renovating the

room, no doubts would exist as to whether or not
the room could be used.

The University Club also could have helped in
the matter. Gaston told a Kernel reporter that he
has never met the University Club officials,
although he has worked for the SCB for four
years. Apparently neither Gaston nor University
Club officials have made any monumental effort
to get to know one another.

None of this would have required a great deal
of effort. Mertens’ office is a few feet from the
SCB offices. The University Club is located just
upstairs. Blanton’s office is all of 200 yards from
the Student Center. And everyone has
telephones.

This collective shyness has already led to
needless consideration of a decrease in mini
concert seating. Maybe misunderstandings like
this can be avoided if the University Club, the
SCB and University officials stopped hiding from
one another.

Free School ‘

And some free ideas for its curriculum

Tomorrow is the last day to
register for the Student. Center
Board tSCBi Free School (PS). The
SCBFS. as it undoubtedly will be
henceforth known in the Kernel, has
its roots in the l969 creation known
as Free University (FU). That
educational creature of the 60’s died
a while back from a malfunctioning
monetary gland complicated by a
massive cerebral infarction.

Not that FU wanted to die. For a
while it survived by raw deter-
minatioanor example, in its 1973
Massage class the students im-

 

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downey

r: :"lll‘£lbl_V broadened their

“H; horizons at the second
hurting by undressing and rubbing
one another within the walls of some
student religious center around
i'vi'e.

Surely the height of intellectual
at» :ucness was reached by all this
etubb‘ng. Surely such an
ortucatitmally honest class merited
some special subsidy to keep it
going.

After all, college students need to
learn about these things—and if not
in a classroom, then it here? And if
not with i'niversity money, then
with what?

Despite this and other similarly
brave exrursions into the Unknown,
Massage class and F!) as a whole
died in 1973. just two years after the
death of the 60's. (As you should
know bynow. the 60’s didn't actually
die until sometime in 1971.)
(‘haractcristically, Kentucky lagged
a coupleof years behind the national
trend in matters such as this.

Now that SCB has resurrected EU,
I just wish i had the time to organize
some cia mes for it. My syllabi would
reflect the trends that have ac-
companied the emergence of the
70's, hopefully putting UK in step
with the rest of the country at last.
Some examples:

 

 

 

Pakistani Poetry—ln-depth
review of the works of the great
Pakistani poets. Only the very in-

 

tellectually bored need register.
Meetings at the Clubhouse.

Social Problems Workshop—
Sponsored by the UK Rugby Club.
instructor Chris Black expound: on
the merim of the scrum and the no-

substitution rule as effective means
of coping with social inequities.
Meetcha on the field.

imaginative Resume Com-
pilation—A short course on how to
fill the most space on a resume by
doing the least possible amount of
work. Tips on how to land those
hard-to-get honors that require
almost no effort once you have them.
Special two-week seminar offered on
“How to Get Elected Vice President
of a Club.” Meetings at least three
times so the instructors can put it on
their resumes.

Stalking Wild Vegetables—Get
back to nature! Learn for yourself

[themache thrill-ml bagging an un-

tamed sca‘ilion, of trapping an un-

 

suspecting cabbage. Know what it’s
like to really feel like a man, smell
like a man. Guest lecturers include
Pete Rose, Lee Majors, Elmore
Stephens, and random men from the
College of Law. Meetings outdoors,
especially if it’s cold.

Contemporary Problems Rap
Session—Meeting Wednesday at 7
pm. this course encourages open,
honest and American expressions of
opinion. Wear blue jeans! Meetings
at the Baptist Student Union.

The Effect of Women on Women in
the Feminist Setting—This course
encourages open, honest and
feminist expressions of opinion.

 

Wear blue jeans! Meetings at 658 S.
Limestone.

Painter‘s Pants Panoply—A guide
to dressing down for the masses
while maintaining chic. Sup-
plemental material included for
male attire, with emphasis on khaki
pants and topsider shoes for the
more advanced practitioner of the
art of noblesse oblige. Experienced
instructors to be flown in from the
University of Virginia. Meetings at,
where else, fraternity-sorority row.

Clemdigglng In Australieqiust in
case you ever get there...

Creative initial Interpretation—
Leam to understand are world of
abbreviations. Get into such UK
favorites as 86, SC, SCB, LC, DCC,
RCC, SCLC. Milt, UK, KU, UCC.

ERA, NCAA, CKCLS, PPD, ABC,
CIA, FBI, IUD, TRB, BGS, GSC,
YSA, CCi, NOW, and UKAFJROTC.
Meetings at the SCBFS.
Underwater Basket Weaving-
Two instructors have transferred
here from Western and are con-
sidered among the nation’s leading

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experts at this subject. This course
hasn’t been offered at UK since 1971.
Registration through special
arrangement only.

Advanced Skepticism—More and
more young people are joining the
ranks of the old in practicing this,
the fastest growing sport in
America. Also, some exploration of

 

beginning cynicism if time allows,
but we’re pretty sure something’ll
screw up and keep us from doing it.
We havai’t found a place to meet, so
keep your shirt on.

History of Genocide—See actual
cases d mass death by watching the
Kernel Mudrraker basketball team
in action. To pass the course, you
play one-on-one against ad
saleseman Tony Gray.

Bodhisattva Training—Yes, even
you can achieve the essence of
perfect knowledge! Learn assuidity
in the practice of virtues and

 

meditation in 15 short weeks!
Remember, nothing may not be
everything, but it comes close. And
you can chant, too. Meetings at 4
am.

 

Dick Downey it his second year as a
Kernel columnist is last ep-
proochhg graduation from he UK
Law School. lib column appears
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Mexicans

have no choice

but to live with manana

By ROBBIE HENSON

This letter is a mild response to
Dick Downey’s impressions about
Mexican lifestyle witnessed on his
recentexcursion south of the border.
Downey’s portrait of Mexico as a
utopia and Mexicans as prac-
titioners of a dying art
(procrastinating), is misleading.

As Downey likewise stated, 1
resiize I am in no way qualified to
make rash judgments and con-
demnations. My knowledge of

commentary

Mexico comes from a few visits and
logging over three thousand miles on
Mexican highways during Christ-
mas break.

i was reading Downey’s ideology
with great skeptisism when i hit
upon the line which prompted me to
voice my rebuttal—“They’ve
sacrificed the satisfaction and
easiness of material comforts to
which we’ve become accustomed in
this country." Downey makes it
sound like a conscious effort.

All the Mexicans got together and
drove their Buick Electras into a
lake! What did they ever have to
sacrifice? Mexicans were never
given the choice between material
comforts and their present im-
poverished state.

The average annual income of a
Mexican family is less than what
Dot'vney's three week vacation cost.
The spirit of manana (i.e. rejection
of work), '5 prompted by the fact
that the only avenues of laba' open
to the average Mexican is swinging
a machete in a cane field or some
other menial task. A lifetime of hard
labor will not alone lift a man out of
poverty.

Downey proclaims Mexicans have
forsaken materialism. The lack of
materiab has produced a curious
result. At entrance to the country,

 

 

slipping the customs official a five is
essential in order to speed through
the tedious task of tourist
processing. This generosity is again
expected at the numerous Highway
lnspectim Stations.

Armed police, stopping cars at
random, will snap up your 20 peso
bill with reckless abandon. it is
absolutely necessary to count your
change at restaurants and gas
stations. A car full of gringos pulling
into a Pirnex (the government
monopolized gas station) brings
visions of the good life to the at-
tendants and the army of ill-clad
children who swarm around your
car like it was a popcicie. Hubcaps,
headlights and windshields are
hastily smeared and then immodest
hands are extended, awaiting
restitution.

i don’t begrudge those children.
They have realized certain ad-
vantages in possessing material
wealth and are exercising the only
mode of achieving it.

Mexico has undergone tremen-
dous technobgical and industrial
progress in the last few decades.
While it is still an impoverished
agricultural state, it is forseeable
that an industrial revolution will
occur. We would coincide with an
increased standard of living, better
health care, country chbs and a
middle clas. 1 don’t believe the
general public sentiment is anti-
progress-

The intention of this writing was
not to sing the praises of a
materialistic industrial society. 1
amargerulwheniseetonsofsoot
and smoke diffusing into our
skylines and rivers stsgristlng in
stench. I become depressed when l
her tala of children beaten and
scarred because of skirt pigment. I
become dbhesrtened when l warn
interchangeable figureheads-

submerged in personal gain and
unwilling to change the injustices
that plague our system—slide
undfectively through the offices of
government.

The consequences of living in an
industrial nation are often grim.
People are always complaining and
nobody seems satisfied with life
anymore.

Probably because of preoc-
cupation with the negative aspects
in our society, trust is taken for
granted. You don’t realize just how
prevalent this is until you visit a
country like Mexico. When I am
stopped for speeding by a policeman
practicing his job, I know i will not
have to give him a ten so he will "go
easia' on me.” if he gets out of linei
can report him to his superiors and
there’s a chance that disciplinary
action will be taken.

Hell, there’s inconsistencies in this
system. You hear that half the N.Y.
City Police Dept. is on the take. But
with all our inconsistencies we’re
still probablythe most judicially
corisistent country in the world.
Political prisoners are nonexsistent
here. Torture and mistreatment of
prisoners, prevalent in Mexican
prisons, is unheard of here.

We’ve all heard die fairy tale—
Ama-ioa the land of opportunity,
whereall men are created equal. We
all scoffed and pointed to the
sharecropper family in Mississippi
who has to kids and an overdue
mortage.

No, we are not in paradise. But to
a higher degree titan most courerys,
we control our destinies. We have
mire choicu. We can lay erotirid the
shack til the mail train come back,
or we can backstsb and contrive our
way into a Horatio Alger novel. We
have choices Thats the difference.

 

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Jimmy’s job

Successful administration must be open

By STEVE MILLER

‘ ,lirrmy Carter has taken the
presi ential oath and has become
our 19th praident. While some may
still doubt his sincerity, I think a
vast majority believe that he wants
to be a great president. To do that,
President Carter must perfect a
method whereby he maintains

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contact with the mainstream of
American life along with plainly
laying his ideas and dreams before
the American people

It will be difficult for our new
president to refrain from bending to
the desires of those who were in-
struments in securing his
nomination and election.

Perhaps it is too much to ask that
any man, who owes so much to
certain interest groups, should rise
above the level of party politics and
personal expediency in order to
forge true national unity and a
collective “Americanism.”

It would be naive to assert that
sectionalism, individualism and
other forms of factionalism have not
been a part of American life since
colonial days. However, the
collective idea of being American
first has accompanied, if not
precipitated, those periods during
which the United States approached
greatness.

As part of blazing this course of
action, President Carter must
assume the role as figurehead of a
new kind of federal government.
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necessary to rejuvenate the com-
mon man's faith in the operation of
government.

A new “prime directive” must be
established whereby the federal
leaders seek to educate, instruct and
assist rather than to dictate and
govern. This scenario does not en-
vision a passive federal government
led by a docile president.

Federal leaders at the top of the
hierarchy must assume the difficult
roll of disseminating information
and proliferating ideas. In the past,
the president and other federal
leaders have hoarded this in-
formation in order to justify the
omniscience of their decision
making.

Examples of the need for this new
brand of federal government are
many, but one comes to mind quite
readily. This pressing contemporary
problem is how to deal with
balancing ever-growing wages and
working demands from labor unions
against the refusal by corporate
management and middle men to cut
profits in order to hold the line on
inflation.

If we are to avoid the economic
dilemma which besets Great Britain
today, the Carter Administration
must move quickly and effectively
to educate about this problem and to
assist in its easing.

US. News and World Report
stated in November, 1976, that
productivity of American industry
rose only 1 per cent last year. For
several years the quality of work-
manship has declined in this country
putting us at a disadvantage in in-
ternational economic markets.

Nevertheless, during 1976 major

 

 

labor unions secured significant
wage increases and a four-day work
week thus contributing to our con-
tinuing, even if somewhat lessened,
inflationary spiral.

Instead of helping to ease the
problem major corporations and so
called “middlemen" have pushed
prices up by refusing to reduce
profits. General Motors recorded
record profits during the latter part
of 1976 and the special year-end
edition of New York magazine
contained a prediction by leading
economists Carter Randall and
Frank Cappello that corporate
earnings will advance between 10
and 15 per cent during 1977.

All the while, “big business" hides
behind a twisted view of the free-
market system and forgets the
premise of common sense which
must underlie any smoothly
operating economic system.

The Carter administration, armed
with this new peime directive, must
educate the common person about
the folly of this game of economic
ownership. It is not ridiculous to
assume that ordinary consumers,
properly informed, can understand
basic economic theory and can
create pressure to assist in the
solution to our present difficulties.

Consumers have been weak as a
collective entity because they have
been ignorant of the causes of our
economic realities and how they as a
group can assert themselves. The
iegalsystem has been a hindrance to
consumer efforts because of
proceedural difficulties in litigating
class-action suits.

The Carter administration can
provide effective leadership in this
area by information dissemination
and the tradtional kinds of
mediation when necessary.

A national consensus perhaps can
not be reached on any of the great
challenges of today—budgets
deficits, welfare reform,
desegregation, .women’s rights,
nuclear disarmanment, unem-
ployment.

Assuredly we will never reach a
national consensus based on the
facts as long as these facts are
withheld from the common person.

The facts must be told and the
Carter Administration must be
ready to explain and assist rather
than declare and insist. So far, that
seems to be President Carter’s
game plan. For the good of our
nation let’s hope he sticks to it.

 

Steve Miller is a second-year law
student and president of Omicron
Delta Kappa. a leadership honorary.

 

 

 

Letters

Stick it

I would like to take this
opportunity to publicly and
jointly cmdemn Wallace’s
and Kennedy’s Bookstore for
buying back $72.86 worth of
used books for an outrageous
sum of $20.50! I must point
out that these books were
used what I batght them,
therefore they will go right
back on the shelves without
any further reduction in
price.

I can asume that they
made a handsome (and
somewhat monopolish) profit
of $52.36 from me alone!
Their standard reply is that
they don’t know if the books
will be mad next semester.
Bull! If this were so, how

could we advance register
almost two months earlier?
Good luck Student
Government Book Return.
Should either of these thieves
run out if shelf space, I have
an excellent suggestion as to
where they can put their
books...
Edward W. McCann
A I: S senior

Meeting

The Council on Women’s
Concerns is holding an
organizational meeting
tonight at 7:30 to make plans
for the Spring semester. We
welcome any and all in-
terested women.

The council seeks to

establish a sense of com-
munity among women and to
provide a supportive,
stimulating environment for
them. The specific directions
CWC will take this semester
depend on the collective ideas
and mergies of its members.

We will be having a mon-
thly potluck dinner, and a
series d Coffeehouses which
will begin Sunday, Feb. 13.
The meetings, dinners and
Coffeehouses will be held at
658 South Limestone, next to
the Law School.

if you are unable to make
the meeting tonight and
would like more information,
please call 54-7082.

Linda Welcll
CWC Coordinator

Policy

The Kernel recognizes an
obligation to provide a forum
for opposing viewpoints.
Letters and commentaries
can be sent to the Editorial
Editor, Roan 114, Joumalism
Building.

All letters, restricted to 300
words or less, will be printed,
except those that may be
libelous. Longer comments
will be accepted but may cut
for space purposes. A series
of comments requires ap-
proval from the editors.

Letters and comments are
printed generally in the order
that they are received. We
reserve the right to edit all
letters and comments.

 

 

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