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Vol. LXII, No. 3

Free University
Gets Recognition
Of Administration
By LOU

BUailGNANI

Kernel Staff Writer
The Free University has been
officially recognized by UK administrators as a legitimate organization and will be allowed to
use UK classrooms and campus
facilities.
Last fall, Free U. was denied
recognition by the University because, according to Jack Hall,
dean of students, the University
could not recognize it as an
organization and then allow it to
add classes later. In doing this,
said Hall, the administration
would be delegating power to the
Free U. which belonged to University administrators.

Free U., praised President Otis
Singletary for "his open mind
conceruing the Free University."
"I want to stress that Dr.
Singletary deserves a great deal
of credit for being flexible enough
to take a stand supporting Free
U., and forTSalizingTthaTwe are
trying to improve the academic
situation by getting students to
think for themselves."

Wertheimer

further

com-

mented that "Dean of Students
Jack Hall also deserves credit
for defending the Free University concept to other University
offficials and administrators."
The Free University hopes to
obtain a campus office and a
central location for its classes.
had Dr. Harry Barnard, College of
administration
. The
agreed by January, however, to Education, is the Free Univerround of experiences. Excitement and joy over- - consider- separate classes of the sity's faculty adviser and Mrs.
was Pledging Day. the wrao-uof Gredc
Friday
Nancy Ray is the sponsor.
rush 1970. The newly accepted pledges prepared whelmed these women as they embraced their Free U. as individually recognized student organizations. Paul
Kernel Photo By Dick Ware
u step inio uie ureeic world and begin a new I1CW Miiwuy iicr.
Frisbee Tournament
of the
Wertheimer,
A festival this Sunday, Sept.
13, at the Student Center, will
open the Free University's school
year. Featuring a frisbee tournament and bicycle contest, there
also will be a band and a speaker
on "The History of the Frisbee
in Western Civilization."
Prizes will be awarded for the
"best frisbee player and the
Individuals Comment
tuckians are proud of the responsible manner
RON HAWKINS
By
grooviest bike.".
in which almost all of our students have reTerrence Fox, president of Student CoaliAssistant Managing Editor
There will be a booth in the
sponded to contemporary issues and problems tion (formerly Help Prevent Campus VioStudent Government president Steve
Student Center on Monday, Sept.
. . . However, incidents here and across the lence), called Nunn's letter "an attempt to
Bright declared in a press release y ester- 14, with Free U. literature and
now threaten the peoples' confidence annihilate the student attitude of
day that Gov. Louie Nunn's letter to 60,000 country
a schedule of Free U. courses
in the young."
Fox added, "I think it (the letter) demonstudents attending state colleges was an
will come out next week. The
"All of us must be concerned that dis- strates that the governor is sensitive to stu"appeal to fear rather than to the intellischedule will also appear in the
ruptive and violent action on campus may dents."
gence of college students."
Kernel's --Today .andTomorrow
encourage a public and legislative backlash
dean of students, said Nunn's
Jack
column.
that could drastically affect the academic statementHall, "an excellent letter."
Bright said he concurred with the goverwas
The Free U. will offer a wide
nor in his concern for actions "which may freedom we cherish. Furthermore, such a
"The key is," Hall said, "he (the govvariety of courses, including thethe academic community. It is my response could seriously undermine our abilendanger
ology seminars, political-actio- n
"hope" that "the" coming year will be one of ity to maintain the secure financial base ernor) is showing confidence in the students
groups, photography classes, guirenewed dedication by those on campuses which we have worked so hard to establish and he is asking for their support."
tar lessons, leather-craf- t,
drama,
across our nation to the concept that our for public higher education in Kentucky,"
Dr. Robert Zumwinkle, vice president
environmental awareness and
problems must be met with reason and a the letter says.
for student affairs, said he thought the
bicycling. All courses deal with
"You have a personal responsibility to
rational examination of alternatives."
letter expressed the mood of the the contemporary scene and are
make sure this does not occur. I know you governor's the
state and
legislature.
Regarding the governor's motives, Bright will want to be among the vast majority
open to everyone.
The Free U. emphasizes learnsaid," One cannot help but question whether of responsible students who are working
"If the result is stilling voices of dissent
the letter is directed to students or to those constructively to build a better future and this would be unfortunate," added Zuming through experience, proposwho are a part of the public backlash about to make sure that our colleges and univer- winkle. "However, I don't think this is ing to teach through experience
which students are warned in the letter." sities continue to fulfill the educational the governor's intention
It (the letter) without the structure of grades,
attendance records and
Proud of Students
is a reflection of his concern for higher
purposes for which they were established,"
Cov. Nunn's letter says in part, "Ken- - Nunn's letter concludes.
on Pate 5, CoL 1
Continued on Pare 5, CoL 4

A Mad Rush

D

Nunn Appeals For Campus Quiet

Bright Attacks Governor's Letter

anti-Nunn- ."

....

New Groups Lead Assault On UK Unrest
in the coming Student Government elections. Fox noted, "We will cooperate with
a candidate from ACT or any other Student Government party that agrees with
our veiwpoints."
Usefulness Questioned
HPCV first came to the attention of
many people in a statement of the purposes and goals of the organization which
was published in the Louisville Courier-Journthis summer after an editorial in
the newspaper questioned the usefulness
of the newly formed group.
In the article, Fox wrote that the group
"politically consists of liberal and conservative students, but mostly consists of
students popularly classified as mod-

'Student Coalition9
Seeking Moderates
By JERRY W. LEWIS

Assistant Managing Editor
In a response to the campus unrest
that followed the Kent State shootings
last May, a new group lias appeared at
UK in an effort to cause members of
the "silent majority" to speak out.
During the summer, several students
met and organized the Help Prevent Campus Violence (HPCV) movement which
now has been renamed the Student Coalition.
The reason for the change of name,
erates."
according to Terrence Fox and Phil Hines-leFox also 'noted that "HPCV desires
who have
two UK graduate students
been the principal organizers, is that the to iiulucitce and uppoit tuLiuuiUtiv6
policy wide h cacoiirss-- s the kind cf acagroup found itselfattractiiig support from" demic
atmosphere that is conducive to
a wide spectrum of groups on campus.
and teaching."
The Student Coalition is now making learning
Continued on Pare 2. CoL 1
full slate of candidates
pi aii s to support a
al

y,

SKEI Circulates

the slimmer listing five points for Saving Kentucky's Educational Institutions

Petition For 'Reforms9

(SKEI):

By TOM BOWDEN
Assistant Managing Editor
Mrs. June Criffin keeps her eyes open
for elements in the University community wliich she thinks endanger its continued existence.
Mrs. Criffin, of 2421 Yuma Ct., worked
as a secretary in the Physical Plant Department more than three years. During
that span, she observed some University
practices and policies which she thought
threatened the United States government.
Then, when demonstrations upset the
campus last spring, Mrs. Criffin decided
l was time for action.

"Abolish University recogmtion of
radical student organizations, especially
the SDS and Black Panther-typ-e
organizations (advocating lawbreaking)."
She explained later that she would
urge the University not to recognize any
group which "openly advocates overthrow
of the government.
"Abolish UK's
policy
which allows such radicals as (Timothy)
Leary, (William) Kunstler, ( Herbert) Apth-ekto speak.
open-speak-

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"Expel all University students who
advocate violence, burning of buildings,
killing "pigs",' and numerous other
eneinyaTding actions ( weHo have exuiiues
"specifically, communism).
raitiou Circulated
So she circulated a petition during.
Continued n Pa 2, CoL S

* KENTUCKY KERNEL, Tuesday, Sept.

2-- TIIE

8, 1970

'Student Coalition' Seeking UK Moderates

Continued from Page One
Since that statement, Fox and
Hinesley have conducted an active campaign in an attempt to
make the Student Coalition one of
the strongest voices on campus.
The two graduate students
claim they now have more than
275 students and faculty who
have signed a letter of membership which in part states that
they "support the emphasis of
traditional academic learning
and
on campus."
Approximately 40 percent of these
letters have been signed by faculty.
Active During Summer
"Last May, the administration was caught without the proper machinery to deal with the
non-violen-

"We're not thinking about not approve of such action; howand a large profile of students
the past now," said Phil Hinesand faculty."
ever he said his group was lookmer in making recommendations
"If Steve Bright had cooper- ley, "but instead, what may hap- ing into several approaches to
the campus press, including the
during the hearings for the new ated with the administration and pen in the future."
code of student conduct.
not encouraged more demonstraHinesley added that the law possibility of creating another
During the summer the group tions," noted Fox, "there would firm could also be used to seek newspaper entitled The Kentucky
recommended against
an injunction against the UK adformal have been a lot less trouble."
Wildcat.
trial-typ- e
ministration if it ever attempted
Limits On Frotcst
hearings for UniverThe two leaders of the new
sity disciplinary hearings; howStudent Coalition believes to close the University.
group also pointed out what they
Reform of Newspaper
feel to be a continuing direction
ever, it supported the final de- that demonstrations are a legitcision made by the trustees.
Another project of Student of inviting speakers on campus
imate form of political activity,
"We believe in student parof "chronic liberal viewpoints."
Coalition is "reform" of the cambut that there should be
Fox named such speakers as
ticipation and not control," noted
limitations" on time pus newspaper, The Kentucky
Phil Hinesley.
Kernel.
William Kunstler and Timothy
and place of the demonstrations.
In an article distributed by
"Some people are quite radiThe group also has retained
Leary as examples andadded that
the group, entitled "UK Modn
cal in their beliefs about the there at least should be a more
the Lexington law firm of
erates Speak Out On Campus
and Patterson for the use Kernel," said Fox. "I've even "balanced" speaker policy.
Unrest," Fox claimed that a miThe Student Coalition has
of civil suits which could ask heard rumors of a demonstration
nority group has taken over Stuwith a mass burning of copies plans of bringing speakers to camfor compensatory and punitive
dent Government and they have damages
pus that are "responsible" and
against individuals or of the Kernel."
"alienated the administration
The Student Coalition leader appeal to what he called a larger
groups who may disrupt the
went on to say that he would part of the University.
Fox said. For this reason, IIPCV was active this sum-

protests,"

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Under the present
"Prosecute,
according to
policy, Mrs. C riffin objected,
law, all students and others who "no one has the final word on
disturb our peace, bum our buildwho comes."
ings and destroy either their peo"There should be someone
ple or our own, especially our a council or board," she conpolice (we 'reactionaries' love tinued, "to at least review what
true peace and quiet).
kind of speakers are coming on
"Identify, and expose to the campus."
public, professors and outside
In advocating expulsion of
agitators who represent a threat students who advocate violence,
to our government."
Mrs. Criffin added that such
Mrs. C riffin now claims to action should apply to any violent
have about 5,000 signatures on faction.
the petition
predominantly
Violence, maintained Mrs.
from "taxpayers," whom she distinguishes from University students.
She plans to present the petition to Gov. Louie B. Nunn on
Sept. 14, then to the Board of
Trustees on Sept. 15.
open-speak-

Book Review

Berry Creates A 'Mood'

A HAND BOOK,
FARMING:
WendeU Berry, Harcourt, Brace,
Inc. iM.

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Kernel Staff Writter
"Farming: A Hand Book,"
collection
a
of Wendell Berry's poetry, plows
up the graveyards of contemporary poetry and plants itself in
the heart. In this reviewer's opinion, one should rather sink roots
into the verse than lift select
parts from it.
From the time one begins to
read until long after one puts it
down, "Farming: A Hand Book,"
creates a farmer with hands in
the dark soil of the Kentucky
farm lands where once there was
a reader. It recreates the mood
of a tiller of the soil.
Rather than merely reading,
one works in the fields under a
blazing sun, feels the rich soil

in his hands, knows the darkness

that a farmer knows and stands
meditating in the spring rain.
The verse is strong and disciplined in "Farming: A Hand
Book," just as the farmer about
which Wendell Berry writes must
be strong and disciplined. It is
this strength that takes command
of the reader and transports him
to the fields.
Several of the poems deal with
the "Mad Fanner," a perhaps
character as one
would like to believe, especially
if the reader will admit to the
possibility that the "Mad Fanner" is to be found in all of us
to some extent.
Wendell Berry is a professor in
the English Department and has
written several books, of which
"Farming: A Hand Book" is the
latest.

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Criffin, "defeats the purpose of
education."
Mrs. Criffin said professors
should be removed "if they openly preach the advocacy of communism, and that's the only thing
they preach."
Moreover, she objected to instructors who "put pressure on
students because of their beliefs."
Mrs. Criffin said SKEI is not
financially prepared to initiate
court action to carry out its proposals. However, she favors an
investigation of University policies by the Fayette County Grand
Jury.

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8, 1970- -3

'Pax' Explores Channels Of Communication

An ad lioc committee of person from the University com-

Secondly, he said that the code
Hall, Associate Dean of Students
does not limit freedom of speech
Ken Hrandenburg and Walter
or speaker policy and added that
of the Dean of Students
in his own judgment the new
Office. The topic for discussion
changes would not reflect on the
was the newly revised student
remarks by registration of any group already
code. After opening
all three men in which they on campus.
Asked about the reasoning
stressed the idea that the Uniwhich allows students charged
versity is a privileged comand
munity where ideas can and with "interference, coercion
should be freely expressed, Dean
Hall gave his own interpretation
of how the changes in the code
would affect the students.
The following three points
were stressed first, according to
Dean Hall, there is no provision
which would prevent peaceful assembly or dissent" . . . and we
will not try to interpret it as a
vehicle to prevent dissent."
Ma-gui- re

munity has been meeting weekly
since mid-Jun- e
exploring ways to
open channelsof communications
among students, faculty, administration and the Lexington community.
"Actually," commented Dr.
Joseph Engelberg, of the Physiology Department, w ho is working with the committee, "wepre-fe- r
not to think of this as a defined organization but rather a
place where people who are interested can come together to talk
about problems and discuss workable solutions."
Attending a PAX meeting Friday were Dean of Students Jack

disruption" to be tried by the Trustee's Standing Gmimittee on
Appeals Board, a predominately the Code.
The next meeting of PAX has
faculty group. Dean Hall commented that the seriousness of the been scheduled for Oct. 2. The
charges prompted the decision. topic for discussion will be the
As a suggestion to anyone or implementation of a
training profor memgroup who would like to see the gram in
code again changed or revised. bers of the University community
Hall proposed that they address who wish to serve as a "moderthemselves to the Board of ating force."
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* Nunn's Campaign Strategy
that it

Thousands of Kentucky college
students were surprised over the
Labor Day weekend by a letter
concerning campus disruption from
Governor Louie Nunn.
Nunn's letter was a fine example
of the patronizing and threatening
rhetoric which he seems so fond
of dishing out to college students.
He once again lectured students
on the "unique opportunities" afforded them in this state.
These opportunities are so
unique, in fact, that Nunn also
threatened colleges and univerk
in state fisities with a
and a loss of their acadnancing
emic freedom if any of their students stray from the path of good
as laid down by the Governor.
In his letter Nunn says he is
"concerned" that disruption will
bring a "public and legislative
backlash." From the experiences
of last spring, it seems clear that
the only backlash the Governor
is concerned with is the one he
is leading.
Nunn has been playing political football with this University
since he took office. His
in sending National Guard
troops on campus last spring and
his remarks over the summer in
which he said he would no more
hesitate to send the National Guard
to a disrupted college campus than
to a riotous prison serves notice
to college students across the state
as to how their Governor views
them.
It is so obvious this letter is
meant to further Nunn's political
cut-bac-

over-reacti-

should have been
career
addressed to Kentucky's voters. Indeed, the letter can serve no other
useful purpose. Those who will heed
its content would not take part
in a demonstration anyway. On
the other hand, students who are
concerned about political interference will use the Governor's letter
as kindling for their flames of
protest.
This may not be as ironical
as it seems. Perhaps it is a
plan whereby our Governor intends to provoke a confrontation by continuing to deliver
inflammatory speeches in conjunce
retion with a little
as exemplified in the new
pression
UK student code. Such a confrontation could be easily handled (with
only a few students killed or injured) and would earn Nunn the
gratitude of all Kentuckians as
expressed in votes for his election
to the United States Senate.
In the last paragraph of his
letter, Nunn states," I know you
will want to be among the vast
majority of responsible students
who are working constructively to
build a better future and to make
sure that our colleges and universities continue to fulfill the educational purposes for which they
were established."
We are pleased to see the Governor is impressed with the responsibility students have shown
in ensuring that our colleges and
universities fulfill their educational
purpose. We wish we could give
Nunn that same vote of confidence.
well-develop- ed

back-hom-

most American cities are
being forced to deal with their
pollution problems in a realistic
manner, Lexington is taking the
opposite attitude. It is easyto place
the blame for this attitude on
Mayor Pro Tern Tom Underwood
and his city council majority, but
the voters of Lexington must accept
the ultimate responsibility for the
devastation which is increasing
daily in Fayette County.
Underwood and his companions
were elected on a campaign promise
to remove the city's sewer service

charge. They are proceeding to
do so at any cost.

The urgency of Fayette County's
problem has been identified by the
Water Pollution Control Commission as stemming from overflowing
sewers. This waste is emptied into
streams which carry it as far as
adjoining counties.

established

Kentucky

University

tuesday, sept.

1894

8, 1970

Editorials represent the opinions of the Editors, not of the University.
Editor-In-Cti-

Kcrncl Soabox

The most feasible answer to the
sewage problem is a new treatment
plant or enlargements of the existing facilities. It was only after the
state exerted severe pressure on
the city of Lexington that Underwood and company agreed to the
costly proposals.
But the scent of victory is not
in the air. Underwood has initiated
court proceedings to halt construction of the treatment plant on
Hickman Creek because he feels
the engineers are charging an excessive rate. In the meantime the
environment of Fayette County
steadily worsens.
Lexington's predicament reeks
of poor judgment and lack of planning, but it may provide a lesson
in reality for the city and its voters. Those who insist on the economy of saving pennies needed for
a necessary public service must
bear the responsibility, of the havoc
they wrought.

J
Stagnant North Elkkorn Creek

The Kentucky Kernel
of
Frank S. Coots III,

The Politics Of Pollution:
Consequences Of A Myopic Vote
As

elected, I may ruin your environment, but
You icon't have to pay a setccr charge."

Students' Appearance On Campus
By CHARLES V. BEAER

Perhaps the best authority on students
style of dress is the questionable faculty
of the unquestionable University of Kentucky. No, I don't really mean questionable: for in order to be considered a possessor of this attribute the faculty must
of necessity exhibit an enquiring attitude
toward certain students: who exhibit uncut hair, sockless feet, bearded chins
and shoeless women. (The women might
be as poor as the sentence structure.)
Now in order to be perfectly fair
and humane to the solicitous faculty,
the burden of proof falls heavily on the
broad shoulders of this humble writer,
to prove his absolutely reasonable asserattitude of the
tion of the
uniformed, yet gracious members of the
faculty.
Let us begin with the uncut hair of
the male of the species. Once upon a
time long, long ago there lived a man
called Samson. Maybe the faculty has
forgotten this mans accomplisliments; because he doesn't appear in University
textbooks. It seems the textbook has been
banned in public schools. "Now I ask
you," "Have you ever seen a faculty
member test the strength of a long hair
with a bone crushing hand shake?" No!
"But what if they did and discovered a
Samsoa9" Just think what it would mean
to the UK football team. But seriously
speaking, one must admire a student who
could choose to emulate the great man
Samson and I can visualize the faculty
missing the point of the students emulation: by their viewing of Samson's faults
of judgment in beautiful women and
blindness, two facets of life seldom found
among faculty members.
But onward the defense must go to
the parody of sockless feet. Hie advantages are too obvious for words; Financial,
timesaving, and consideration for the olfactory problems. "Did you ever lift the
lid of a clothes hamper and get a whiff
odor of dirty socks?"
of the toe-ja-

Or if poor Joe awakes some morning with
an
hangover and wears
one strawberry and one chocolate colored
sock to class. What needless mortification.
So air your shoes
And without a doubt;
Me thinks it best
To go without.
The subtle usefulness of a beard are
many and varied, hopefully your beardless servant can point out the subtleties
of the subtle. The faculty member occasionally finds the wearing of a goatee
by a Ph.D. a very distinguislring landmark of a scholar and a gentleman. But
of course a lowly student couldn't possibly approach this high ring of achievement, he should concentrate on his ring
of achievement found in the bathtub
and washbasin after a cleansing bath
and a close shave.
Now let us take the hapless case of
the young married student (no beard).
He studies until three o'clock in the
morning; then drags his weary brains
to bed, his darling wife is fast asleep,
(sans goodnight kiss) but next morning
the alarm announces the day, he ten-dekisses his slightly aroused dading.
"Ouch! Sandpaper! When did you shave
last?" Shades of Santa Qaus and Honest
Abe.

From Alpha to Omega we have had
a joyful time,
But let us pose this one last statement
To the students in the line.
Should you see a barefoot woman
Walking, by your side or mine;
You may be well assured of one assertion;
That should her boyfriend come

a'courtin'

Her feet will be as washed and clean
as thine.
Though my essay is satirical and maybe even lyrical, but never ever would I
allow it, to become "imperical."

* THE KENTUCKY KERNEL, Tuesday, Sept.

8, 1970- -5

Staff Cites No Harmful Effects

Report Advises Legalization Of Marijuana

The panel called for legalizaWASHINGTON (AP)-- A staff
tion of marijuana to persons over
report to the National Commission on the Causes and Preven- 18 years old.
tion of Violence released MonNo Evidence
day night recommended the legal"There is not reliable scienization of marijuana.
tific evidence of harmful effects,
The report also stated the nor is there evidence of marviolent crime rate by urban blacks ijuana's being a
steppingstone
is markedly higher than whites to hard narcotics," the
panel
and suggested improved ghettos said.
conditions as a means to solve
"Throughout harsh criminal
the problem.
statutes on marijuana use and

Free U Recognized
By Administration
Continued from Page One
books. The motto is "Creativity
rather than productivity, involvement rather than obligation,
spirit above investment."
Donations Solicited
The UK Student Government
has allotted the Free University
$100 and donations are being

solicited.

Coordinator

Northwestern University and we
seare offering a
minar with the people from the
Mountain Institute in Colorado.
All this costs money and we'll
stretch our budget as far as posnon-violen- ce

sible."

Free U. is a
organization and says it welcomes help from all, regardless
of political views. Anyone interested in helping the Free U. or
in teaching a class should contact Paul Wertheimer, 303 Cros-venAve., or call Kathy Moore,
non-politic-al

Paul

Wertheimer stressed that "Free
U. students will see the results
of their donations."
"We will have free speakers
such as Eva Jefferson, black Student Government president of

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in light of evidence that alcohol
abuse accounts for far more destruction than any known psychoactive substance today," the
panel concluded, "we have
caused large numbers of our youth
to lose respect for our laws gen-

erally."

ly declining central business district in the inner city protected
by people shopping or working
in buildings during daytime hours
and 'sealed off by police during
nighttime hours."
The panel for the most part
laid the blame at the feet of
social conditions, unemployment
and inadequate school systems.
"Seventy-on- e
percent of all
negro workers are concentrated
in the lowest paying and lowest
skilled occupations," the report
said.
'They are the last to be hired
and the first to be laid off. The
unemployment rate for non whites
is twice as high as that for
whites, although there has been
some improvement
in recent

the problems of race and poverty, of inequality and violence.
Among its recommendations
were:
A program to assist the black,
the young and the hardcore unemployed through private and
public
programs.
Extensive reconstruction of
the urban environment. It described the Model Cities
promising.
Experiments in subsidized
scattered relocation of poor ghettos families into middle class
white communities where integration with its accompanying
opportunities would break those
cultural patterns that sustain
poverty and violence.
A Presidential White House
Conference on Family Life and
Child Development to discover
problem areas in child rearing
and youth.
g

Greater Fragmentation
Turning to violence, the commission said, "if present trends
are not positively redirected by
creative new action, we can expect further social fragmentation
of the urban environment, greater segregation of different racial
groups and economic classes and
elimination of presumptive definitions of criminality on the poor
and on racial minorities.
The report was prepared by
Donald J. Mulvihill, Washington years."
To improve conditions, the
attorney, Melvin M. Tumin, a
at Princeton panel called for a "deliberate
sociology professor
social reconstruction" to solve
University, and Lynn A. Curts,
a doctoral candidate in urban
sociology at the University of
Pennsylvania.
City Outlook Bleak
The panel painted a bleak
picture of cities if the crime
rate does not change for the
better.
Continued from Page One
convocation for Wednesday.
"It is logical to expect the education in Kentucky. His pre- However, when Nunn's letter was
establishment of a defensive city diction of cutback in funds in released the convocation was
. . . consisting of an economical- the event of campus violence is dropped from consideration.
probably accurate."
Stewart, who had dinner with
'Political Trick'
Singletary on Sunday, said there
Doug Stewart, member of the was no mention of the convocaStudent
Advisory tion. Stewart did say, however,
University
Committee (USAC) and an or- that he had heard rumors of the
ganizer of the Grosvenor Zoolog- convocation before Saturday and
ical Garden, called the governor's that the topic of the convocation
letter "a cheap, political probably would have been the
His condescending student code. Stewart added he
trick
tone shows gross disregard for would have asked for an oppothe intelligence of today's uni- rtunity to respond to Singletary's
remarks.
versity students."
President Singletary could not
President Otis Singletary was
a student be reached for comment.
rep