xt7zkh0dzd7t https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt7zkh0dzd7t/data/mets.xml The Kentucky Kernel Kentucky -- Lexington The Kentucky Kernel 1974-10-04 Earlier Titles: Idea of University of Kentucky, The State College Cadet newspapers  English   Contact the Special Collections Research Center for information regarding rights and use of this collection. The Kentucky Kernel  The Kentucky Kernel, October 04, 1974 text The Kentucky Kernel, October 04, 1974 1974 1974-10-04 2020 true xt7zkh0dzd7t section xt7zkh0dzd7t Inventory of minority programs released

By RON MIT(‘ HEI L
Managing Editor

A 72-page “Inventory of Minority
Student Programs” at the University was
released Thursday by President Otis A
Singletary.

The report. which contains a survey of
minority programs. an assessment of
problems black students face and
recommendations for alleviating the
conflicts, is the result of a seven-month
study by Victor Gaines.

(EAINES BEGAN the study March 1,
taking a leave ofabsence from his position
as speCIal student programs director for
the t‘ollege of Medicine.

“Basically. my view is that the
University of Kentucky has done and is
doing some things. Itstill has many things
to do and we're addressing ourselves to
some of those." Singletary said.

“l don't believe that l or anyone else out
here who knows anything about this
situation believes we arein a position to sit
back and say that everything is okay." he
added. “(in the other hand, _l don‘t think
it's any fairer to suggest that nobody out

\ol. [XVI
No. 42

Iriday October 4 1974

here knows or cares about this particular
problem That sometimes is the
impression that I get."

Till-2 INFORMATION was released to a
select group of media representatives in a
one-and-one-half hour conference
Thursday in Singletary‘s office. Present
at the conference were Singletary. Gaines,
Dr. Donald (‘lapp assistant to the
president and Dr Raymond Hornback
vice president for University relations

Singletary said the Gaines report was
instituted after adverse publicity last
spring concerning the University 5 role in
attracting and retaining blacks.

Singletary supplemented the report with
additional information consisting of facts
and figures not included in Gaines‘
original report. He said a total of $717,551
was spent during the 1973-74 academic
year on minority-related programs on the
main campus. No monetary figures were
available for the community colleges.

Tlllfl LARGEST monetary
expenditure~ $362,608~ was spent on
minority student aid. About $275,000 of

an independent student news

KENTUCKY
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Curci calls conference

'to set record straight'

By JIM .\l.\ll(l\l
Kernel Sports Editor
l’K football coach Fran (‘urci called a

special
afternoon to

news conference Thursday
"set the records straight "
The second year coach and Miami
native said he has recently been
Investigated by the Louisville t‘ourier-
Journal t‘or possible recruiting violations

during last sumiiier‘s All Sports ('amp.

"\HC 1 the football team i are trying to do
something good and important for this
state. and when somebody tries to
construe this ' he said

At the conference (‘urci said he was
approached on Sept 30 by two t'ourier-
Journal reporters who questioned him for
a half-hour about the camp. which was
held .lune It; to 22.

t‘un'i said he knew something was
unusual. especially when they proceeded
to question camp director David Wells and
several of the camp sponsors about the
sports camp.

llh‘ SUD It was all started by a high
school reporter who Informed t‘ourier-
.lournal reporters that a member of his
fiigli school football team was induced to
attend the Sports camp on a scholarship
basis for possible recruiting purposes

There is a specific l\('AA rule against
such actions

“We are not allowed to go out and use
this thing for recrurting measure and give
these kids scholarships.” said ('urci “And
we did everything possible to stay Within

the rules." -
(‘ontinued on page a

Michael Branch's story
Former POW fights for unconditional amnesty

By BILL STRAl‘B
Kernel Staff Writer

He sat on the table in a multicolored
shirt and brown corduroy pants likea man
who just had the weight of the world
removed from his shoulders.

Leaning with his left hand firmly
implanted on the table and legs dangling
over the end. Michael Branch puffed on a
Pall Mall with no filter.

“IT'S .\ long story," Branch said. “I was
over in Vietnam two months when the
letters started slowing down. l wrote my
w ifeaiid asked her what was going on and
tliciion . oh. May; .l968. I got the letter
Dear John

Branch told how he blew tip when it got
ll. lle hesitated at first. then talked freely
like he was reading a page out of the
distant past.

He told about having to be restrained on

the night of May 2. about waking up the
next moming strapped to a cot in a
dispensary. it took three or four guys to
catch him and try to calm him down,
Branch said. and still he was able to get
away and run to the ('onstantine Wire
leading to No Man's Land

"A l)t)("l‘tilt came in and asked what
was the matter. so l told him." Branch
said “And l asked to see a chaplain. The
chaplain came In and said I could get a
leave and go home. Said it would take
about two weeks. Then i went back and
told my first sergeant. he said he could do
it In three days "

Branch was relieved from work and
went down to l'tali Beach. about five miles
southeast of Quaiichu (‘ity He said he went
down to the beach toclear his head. There
he saw some Vietnamese pulling
sandbags. He walked past

that came from federal funds. the
remainder from the University, Singletary
said. Included in the student aid area are
work—study. loans and grants. He
explained that the figure was not exact
because it is no longer legal to allocate
student aid on the basis of race.

Another $295.57? was spent on different

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University of

Keriiet statt photo by Jay Crawford
FRAN (‘l'ltt‘l
l'K football coach

“l kept walking and all ofa sudden these
Vietnamese were coming past the
(‘onstantine Wire." Branch said. "Three of
them. two of them they were younger ,
were carrying wood while the older one
was carrying a pole."

“I DIDN‘T pay too much attention to
them until they were right on top of me."
Branch said. “Then one of them started
pulling something out of a stack of weeds.
It looked like some kind of log."

Michael Branch smiled and threw his
cigarette away. “Then I realized it wasn‘t
one of our guys." he said. "It was one of
the regular Vietnamese."

Boni iii t ‘ovington April 7. 1047. (me of
seven kids in a large (‘atholic family.
Michael Branch attended parochial
schools until he dropped out of high school
at l? to Join the army

('oiifiniied on page it

Kernel staff photo try Chuck Combos
student programs Singletary said.
Student programs include the college
preparatory program, a engineering
special program. Black Voices choral
group. a summer NCAA—sponsored
program for teens and various Medical
Center programs.

Administrative units concerned with
minority affairs—the Minority Student
Affairs office. special programs in the
admissions and registrar office and
Affirmitive Action—accounted for $285,577
of the total figure Singletary cited.

\lTllt)l'(‘ll Sth'll-ITARV could not
estimate how much would be spent during
the current year on minority student
programs. he said it would definitely
increase.

(‘ontinued on page 4

Firefighters,
Metro Council
reach accord

By NANCY DALY
Kernel Staff Writer

Firefighters Local 526 returned to work
about it) pm. Thursday and were
subsequently recognized as collective
bargaining agent by the Urban County
('ouncil.

A deadlock to the lOday strike was
broken Tuesday when Mayor Foster Pettit
proposed an ordinance permitting
recognition of “legitimate employe
organizations."

Tllll (‘tit‘NClL unanimously approved
Thursday night the ordinance. which sets
tip a procedure for recognition “as long as
the normal operations of employes in
question are maintained."

After the ordinance was passed. over 150
strikers left the Municipal Building to vote
on whether to return to work.

The firefighters returned an hour later
after ratifying an agreement drawn up by
the union negotiating committee and
representatives of urban county
government,

“THE FIREFIGHTERS' reaction was
that they were satisfied and they agreed to
man the stations in good faith. hoping the
council would accept their committee‘s
recommendations," said Richard Wilson.
Firefighters Local 526 president.

Wilson said the firefighters returned to
their regular shifts immediately.

Pettit then called the council meeting
back into sessions and announced the
strike had officially ended

’l‘lll: ('(tl'Nt‘ll. approved a motion by
t‘ouncilwoman Pam Miller to meet in
closed session for disc'w' m of union

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Editor-incniet, Linda Carries
Managing editi... Ron Mitchell
Assocnate ed-M- Tom Moore
Editorial page editor ban c: utcner

Concert

With the Doc Severinsen concert
just over and Three Dog Night yet to
perform. the activities of the Student
('enter Board‘s concert committee
are again drawing fire.

The ammunition this time is the
general feeling of students that the
committee can‘t succeedin bringing a
quality concert to campus. But just
what is a "quality concert?"

There is an enormous diversity of
musical tastes on campus. And
despite the efforts of the committee to
secure a cross-section of performers.
they are unable to gear every concert
to every student.

There ane problems. too. in trying
to book groups on the open dates of the
(‘oliseum. avoiding money-hungry
promoters and getting groups that
will hopefully balance the books by
the end of the semester

(on trary to many beliefs. the
concert committee does not receive a
ctit ol the l'niversity budget which
would oftset the loss incurred if a big-
name. high-cost group. to put it
bluntly. flopped. ’l‘he concerts depend
entirely upon ticket sales. 'l‘herefore.
the committee must be reasonably
sure that it they can't make money on
a gioiip they can at least break ev en

Featurts editor Lairy Mead
Arts editor. Greg Hoteticti

Sports editor,
Photography edcor, Ed Gerald

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performers—such as refusing to play
universities. deciding to record
instead of tour, or demanding a 20,000
or 30,000 house along with most of the
money—and one realizes that student
complaints against the committee are
not only unwarranted. but often
misdirected.

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