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I)’ GIL LAWSON
Staff Writer

Friends of blind student Jim
Kochera are circulating a petition to
have his seeing-eye dog returned, after
it was taken away last week by Guiding
Eyes For the Blind.

The Yorktown Heights. N.Y.,_ dog
training school came for Kochera's
dog, Gester. after receiving complaints

that Kochera was “over-correcting”

the dog.

But Kochera, a psychology
sophomore, said he was not aware of
any complaints about his treatment of
the dog until it was taken away last
Thursday at the Stuent- Center
cafeteria.

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Friday, December 8, I978

“They said absolutely nothing to
me," Kochera said He said the
representatives from Guiding Eyes
“were not specific about the
complaints they won‘t tell me what
they were."

The friends of Kochera who are
circulating the petition say they never
saw him mistreat the dog. Bonnie
Patrick, psychology senior, said she
has collected “about one hundred"
signitures protesting the action.
Patrick said she has known Kochera
for two years and has never seen him
mistreat Gester. Copies of the petition
will be sent to the news media, she said.

Kochera said he plans to try to get
the dog back without legal action. but
said he would do whatever was

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necessary to get Gester back.

“I feel I‘ve been deprived of due
process. They (Guiding Eyes) haven‘t
looked at my side of it or talked to
people who see me every say.

“I‘m using a cane, but I‘m having
some problems because I haven‘t used
a cane since I got the dog,” he said.
Kochera got the dog in May of l977.

But Kochera said he “never over-
corrected the dog to the point of
mistreatment.“ He said he usually
corrected the dog with his voice and
sometimes jerked the leash. “That‘s the
first thing Guiding Eyes tells you to do
— to correct the dog."

Guiding Eyes
organiration' which provides seeing
eye dogs. for blind persons without
charge.

is a nonprofit'

Guiding Iiyes supervisor I'ed
Zubrycki said in The Lexington
Hera“ Friday that the organilation
has confiscated only l0 dogs in the last
I0 years. He said he had received
numerous complaints from people

‘who had seen Kochera mistreat

Gester. ,

The Hmll also said Guiding Eyes
representative Steve Kotun had a
court order when he came to take the
dog. But Kochera said when he
checked with UK police chief Paul
Harrison there was no court order.

Harrison was not available for
comment yesterday.

UK Safety Director Tom Padgett
said he was not aware of any court
order to get the dog back. “They
(Guiding Eyes) showed us copies of a
contract with provisions on how the
dog would be trealetd‘l'adgett said. '

Padgett added the organi/ation had
“very good documentation“ of
accounts of Kochera mistreating of the
dog. He said they presented a file of
letters and records of telephone'calls
complaining about Kochera‘s

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treatment of the dog.

Two UK police accompanied Kotun
when he took the dog. Padgett said
Kotun “apparently had some reason to
believe there might be some problem
They went along to keep the peace but
they didn‘t participate in the taking of
the dog."

Although Kochera did not have to
pay for the dog he was under contract
to properly care for the dog.
According to the contract. Guiding
Eyes would take the dog back only ifit

was mistreated. .

Handicapped Student Director
.Iacob Karnes said he had gotten two
complaints about Kochera‘s treatment
of the dog a year ago and two others in
the last six weeks. He said he told them
they could call Guiding Eyes and
complain.

“Guiding Eyes doesn‘t go taking
dogs away from people without good
reason." Karnes said. He said Guiding
Eyes is one of the best dog training
schools in the country.

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First responses miXed to survey on PPD work

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The first responses to a campus
survey on the quality of Physical Plant
Division's work have been mixed,
according to Jack Blanton. vice
president for business affairs.

Blanton‘s office, which includes
PPD, recently issued the survey after
officials in some UK departments
complained of being overcharged by
PPD. ..

The complaints definitely show
there is a problem, said Blanton.
“What we're trying to find out is just
how widespread the discontent is. . . It
could be only a few people or a
majority of the departments," he said.

Blanton said he did not think that
the problem is widespread. “We've
only received 20 completed
questionnaires out of the 300 we sent
out. The reaction from the responses
has been mixed, which doesn‘t show
anything,” he added.

The mast common complaints have
been the time and cost factors in
getting work done, he said. “People
wanting to get work done have to wait
on a list. and some people claim
they‘ve been overcharged.”

C. A. Marcum, assistant director of
physical plant, said that PPD is
presently flooded with work. “We
, have so much work to do now that we

don‘t know what to do,“ he said.
“There‘s a backlog of work to do all
the time.“

According to Blanton, all
departments must pay out of their own
budgets for work done by PPD, just
like private businesses. “This helps
keep spending down when
departments have a set amount of cash
to work from," he said.

One complaint has been about the
expense of paying traveling time for
two PPD employees, for seemingly
minor jobs. Marcum said PPD always
sends two employees for every job, no
matter how small it is, “because we can
never predict just how much work will
be needed." According to Marcum,
travel time for both men has to be
paid, even if only one man works.

Marcus said it‘s possible that some
people had been overcharged for
services by PPD. “Some people want
us to go ahead and do a job with or
without an estimate of cost,“ he said.
“Other times the problem may have
gotten worse since the service was first
requested."

A comparison list of service charges
compiled by the business affairs office
shows that PPD charges are below
those of the Lexington area. Here are
some examples, which include all
labor, overhead and parts costs:

—-Lexington plumbing costs ranged
from $l6.50 to $28 per hour, while

PPD costs averaged $9.74 per hour.

—-In electrical contracting.
Lexington firms' service charges
ranged from $|2 to $|4 per hour, with
one firm charging Sl7.50 for the visit
cost alone. PPD costs in this area
averaged around $8.26 per hour for
electrical contracting work.

M Lexington private company
charges for lumber and carpentry
averaged out a litle above 3 IOan hour,
and up to $30 for installingadoor. The
average PPD cost for a carpenter was
only $7.29 per hour.

— In auto mechanics, the average

Through eyes of experience

Students see ’real

BY JAYNE ROGERS
Staff Writer

Students who want job experience
that can‘t be obtained in a classroom
may find it through an internship.

Undergraduate and graduate
students in almost all academic areas
are eligible. for internships. through
the Office for Experiential Education.
Some internships are paid and all give
students academic credit.

Internships are available on local.
national and international levels.
Their main purpose is to give the
student experience in his chosen field.
and put to practice theories learned in
class.

Although they generally last one‘

semester. some may last two semesters
or longer. Hours usually range from I0

to 40 a week. Some intern programs
set major and grade point
requirements.

One such opportunity is the
Lexington-Fayette Metro Govern
ment Internship Program, which
offers paid internships for 20 hours a
week each semester. Another is the
Frankfort Administrative and
Legislative Intern Program. in which
students receive full academic credit
and a salary during a seven-month
professional position in state
government:

Various intern programs are
coordinated through the Office for
Experiential Education by Director
Dr. Robert Sexton and Assistant
Director Amy Suite.

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state

TWO ECONOMISTS WARNED a legislative
committee yesterday that it would be a mistake for
the Kentucky legislature to make major changes in
the state‘s tax law without carefully considering the
effect.

“Due to the fact that we have a well-balanced tax
system . . . it would be a mistake to make major
changes in Kentucky's tax system without time to
contemplate the effect." Western Kentucky
University economics professor Stephan Lile said.

Lile told the interim joint Appropriations and
Revenue Committee that Kentucky's revenues are
derived fairly equitably from sales. property and
income taxes.

CONGRESSIONAL AIDES AND STATE
and federal energy officials say a planned $800
million plant at Newman in Daviess County and a
$157 million plant at Baskett in Henderson County
are among a host of items under attack by
President Caner‘s Office of Management and
Budget at pan ofthe review of about Sl00 million.

Both are being designed to find cleaner uses for
western Kentucky coal. which contains high levels
of sulfur pollutants.

IN ADDITION TO THE ANTI-TOBAC (‘0
movement. farmers should focus their concern on
the issue of scrap tobacco which is having an
adverse impact on domestic producers. the
president of the North Carolina Farm Bureau said
yesterday.

Speaking to the Kentucky Farm Bureau
convention. John Sledge said the US. Customs
Commission defines scrap tobacco as “leaf tobacco
which has been broken up or threshed in pieces less
than four inches in length.“

Such tobacco has an impon duty of |6.I cents
per pound. Sledge said, while importers of de-
stemmed tobacco must pay duties of 45 cents a
pound.

NEARLY $26 MILLION IN KENTUCKY
CORN, soybeans and tobacco has been purchased
by buyers from Taiwan in the first major
agricultural sale from the Bluegrass State to that
country.

Sealed bids were opened yesterday by a 29-
member trade delegation of Taiwanese business
and government officials and contracts were
signed with the Continental Grain Co.. Carghill
Inc. and the Austin Tobacco Co. during
ceremonies in the ornate state reception room at
the State Capitol.

nation

PRESIDENT CARTER SAID YESTERDAY
he will brief leaders of France. Britain and West
Germany on details of a nearly complete strategic
arms agreement at a midwinter summit in the
C aribbcan.

He said the United States and Russia are
separated in the SALT talks by only minor
differences. which he can see a way to resolve
provided the Soviets are willing to continue what
he called “steady progress” in the talks.

It was announced that Caner and the three
European leaders will meet Jan. 54) in
extraordinary privacy on Guadeloupe. which is in
French territory.

PRESIDENT CARTER WARNED EGYPT
AND ISRAEL yesterday that failure to meet the
Dec. l7 deadline for completing a Middle East
peace treaty would cast doubt on their intention to
carry out the terms of the agreement.

The president. showing increasing frustration
over the inability of negotiators to surmount two
obstacles that have stalled the treaty. said passage
of the deadline without an agreement would be "a
very serious matter" with “far-reaching adverse
effects."

Caner urged both sides to carry out the Camp
David Summit agreements “not grudgingly. but
enfhusiastically."

world

FOREIGNERS AND IRANIANS Al.lKI-l
STAMPEDED for flights out of Iran yesterday as
repons circulated that opponents of Shah
Mohammed Rcza Pahlevi were preparing a bloody
showdown with government troops this weekend.

In Washington. President Carter said he does
not know whether the shah could survive the
upheavals. but the United States would not
intervene. he said Iran was “very imponant" to the
United States and the stability of the Persian Gulf.
Israel and the entire Mediterranean.

Officials at Tehran's Mehrcbad Airport
reponed “utter chaos.” Thousands ol persons
scrambled for plane ticckets after airlines
announced they canceled flights in and out of the
city Sunday and Monday. the critical days of the
month-long season.

weather

A FLASH FLOOD WATCH is in effect today.
Widely scattered thunderstorms today. becoming
mixed with snow tonight and changing to snow
flurrics before ending tomorrow. High today from
the upper ‘05 to low 505. low tonight in the low or
mid 30s. High tomorrow in the mid 30s to around
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cost in the Lexington area was $22 per
hour, while the average cost of a PPD
mechanic was $8.73 per hour.
According to Blanton, the survey
should be complete by February.
“Until a month ago, I had never
received a call through the (business
affairs) ombudsman that there was a

problem.“ he said.

The questionnaire is designed to
find out just who has been
overcharged, and for what kind of
work. The questionnaire also asks if
there was a difference in the estimated
cost and the final cost, and inquires
about the qtiality of the work.

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programs they are looking for and

what they hope to learn from them.

Next. a learning contract is drawn up

describing learning objectives.‘

explaining criteria for evaluation and
naming a faculty member to supervise
the project.

Often the student keeps a log and
sets up monthly meetings with his
adviser.

According to Suite. chances for
getting an internship are often better
when her office gives assistance. There
are approximately l30 students
currently in the program. working in
such fields as communications.
government. education. recreation.
health services and social work.

The following are accounts of two
University students working in
internship programs in Lexington.

Inside the tube

Sophomore telecommunications
major Ken Southgate is getting a head
start on his career through an
internship at Kentucky Educational
Television, 600 Cooper Drive.

Southgate began working at the
public service television station last
summer as a paid employee. After
budget cuts eliminated his job. he
continued working as an intern. With
help from the Office for Experiential
Education.

“All I knew when I came here is I
wanted to do it." he said. “For the first
week or two you kind of go around
with your jaw on the floor. there's so
much to learn.“

Southgatc is certain thejob Is worth
the nine hours a week he puts in.
Although he is not paid. he receives
three hours of academic credit.

It‘s not hard to believe Ken
Southgatc has learned much during
his brief time at KET. as he explains
the various machines used in putting
together a television program.

In one room is the switcher bank
a board with a seemingly endless
number of switches for mixing a
picture. Overhead are rows of video
screens labeled CAM 3.4.5: VTR l.2.
etc.

“I just came in here one day and
played with this thing for three hours.
but there's still things I don‘t know
about it." be said.

Southgate is classified as a
“technical intern.” working mostly in
the production area. but often goes out
on "shoots" (actual show tapings, .

During shoots he carries a videotape
recorder and monitors the audio to
make sure it‘s not too "hot" (loud or
soft.

"On one shoot we went to a five-day
banana festIIal." he said. After the
festival. complete with parades and
contests. Southgatc said it was quite a
while before he could look at a
banana.

On another shoot the crew covered
duck races in Grayson County.
Although the race only took about five
minutes. it was an elaborate
production. with racing silks and a
toteboard.

Occasionally K ET is treated to visits
from celebrities such as Leonard
Nimoy and Martin Mull.

Southgatc keeps a log of his
activities and meets with Gerald
Herbener. his faculty adviser, once a
month. His work is supervised by Tom
Ward. a KET producer.

“I‘m basically the gopher right
now." Ken said. “I might besent out to
find someone. help set up equipment.
or work with dubbing tapes."

Southgate said he feels one of the
most beneficial things about an
internship is working with
professionals. “With these people
everything must be excellent,” he said.

As an example he told about a scene
in which an Indian girl was supposed
to pull an arrow from a wounded man.
"The crew worked for an hour just to
get that one sound effect perfect.“ he
said.

Southgate said he plans to intern
next semester because there is so much
more he‘d like to learn. But. as he put
it. “Now I can sit down and watch
television and know how they do it.
where before I just assumed some
machine did it.“

In government

“I wanted to work somewhere where
I could have a woman as a role model,"
UK Junior Becky Francis said. She
has managed to do just that in her
internship in Metro Government.

Francis works 20 hours a week in
the Program Development and
Management Division. directed by
Dunc Schorr.

“I‘ve been able to talk with Diane
and get tips on ways women can get
ahead in the world of business.‘ she
said.

In addition to her internship.

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HEW’s‘sports proposals
could lead women's programs
. toward the wrong goals

The proposal by the department of Health,
Education and Welfare to equalize spending
between men's and women's colege athletics is
admirable. But the means the federal government
wants to use may be overzealous.

The federal guidelines call for schools to spend
the same average amount on eaéh male and female
athlete. The regulations apply specifically to areas
such as recruiting, scholarships, publicity,
dormitory space, food, tutoring and other special
benefits.

The main emphasis, at least, is toward increasing
participation. That is where improvement is needed
most. Although the number of athletic scholarships
for women and the number of women athletes have
both increased dramatically since Title IX was
passed in I972, the level of women‘s participation is
still well below that of men.

But in making its recommendations, HEW seems
bent on seeing that women‘s sports develop along
the lines of men's programs, i.e., complete with
high-pressure publicity departments, special fringe
benefits for athletes and other extraneous goodies.

But those frills aren't necessary for establishing a
program that will benefit the student athletes
themselves. Just because men’s programs have
become high-powered, quasi-professional
operations is no reason for women‘s programs to
follow suit. Along with the big bucks come
temptations to recruit illegally, offer unfair
inducements and shuttle athletes through easy
courses. .

The abilities of many student athletes are simply
exploited by many major college athletic programs,
where sports like football and basketball produce
enormous revenues and pay only tiny wages, in the
form of scholarships, in return.

Because the professional leagues depend on
college football and basketball to serve as a minor

'league feeder system, the athletes themselves have

little alternative to performing in college. The
mystique and tradition of universities, along with
educational opportunities that often go unused,
help perpetuate this system.

It sounds like an unnatural arrangement, but the
profitability of college men’s football and basketball
is useful because is sustains a university-wide
athletic program. Without footbal and basketball,
college tennis, golf, track and many other sports
would not be possible.

However, the poor national'economy and the
advent of Title IX have made the present financial
situation difficult. Now, HEW‘s new proposals may
eventually drown many college sports in a sea of red
ink.

The requirement of equal opportunity was hard
enough for athletic officials to deal with, making
equal numbers of scholarships and facilities
mandatory. Men's minor sports programs were
curtailed at many schools, including UK.

The federal government did exempt men’s college
football and basketball from equality requirements,
calling them unique in scope and interest.

But now, if the new regulations that call for equal
amounts of spending are enforced, more cutbacks
will have to be made. The result will be that fewer
minor sports will be conducted, and fewer athletes
will be able to compete than compete now.

College officials aren‘t kidding when they say
money is tight. UK athletics turned a profit last year
only off the dollars it made in the NCAA
tournament. College football and basketball will
stay secure, but they can‘t support indefinitely a full-

range program of minor sports in the way they‘re
organized now. HEW should concentrate more on
spurring participation and competition, not in
making women‘s athletics in the too-often-tarnished
image of men‘s programs.

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Most American students remember
the events of Kent State, May 4, I970,
when National Guardsmen opened
fire upon students demonstrating thier
opposition to President Nixon‘s
ordered invasion of Cambodia, killing
four of them. Each year Iranian
students commemorate Dec. 8, I954.
On that day, Vice — President Nixon‘s
visit to the Shah approximately four
months after the CIA — sponsered
coup put the Shah back into power,
was met by demonstrating students
from Tehran University. The Shah‘s
troops opened fire and three students
were killed. '

This year, however, our
commoration has an added
significance. We are also remembering
sixty — five Tehran University
students killed just one month ago on
Nov. 3.

Our Iranian Student Day gathering
will be this Friday, Dec. 8, at the
Baptist Student Center, 429 Columbia
Ave. It will conclude with a film, to be
shown at 8:30. which will include
footage of the massive demonstrations
of Oct. 27, and Nov. 3, as well as the
demonstrations and massacres of

Bloody Friday, Sept. 8, when I0
thousand Iranian people were killed.
We urge all Americans who want to
know the truth about what is going on
in Iran to come and see this film. You
are not getting the full story from the
American national media. Although
the blackout of news from Iran has
been lifted, and stories about Iran
appear in the papers and on TV
practically every day, this news is very
seriously distorted. Just a few days
ago, for example, on Dec. I and 2, the
American media reported the new and
massive wave 'of demonstrations. How
many of the demonstrators did the
troops kill this time? The shah says
seven, the American media says as
many as 80. But the lowest estimate we
receive from Iran says 4000 (there are
unsubstantiated rumors of 20,000).
Clearly, the U.S. ruling elite is
growing more alarmed about the
mortal danger the Iranian people‘s
revolutionary struggle poses to thier
strategic interests in the oil — rich
Persian Gulf.
A most significant development has
been the eruption of a powerful strike
movement involving more than one

million Iranian workers. In plant after
plant the workers are raising political
demands, calling for the release of all
political prisoners, the demand that
the Shah‘s regime be overthrown, and
all 40,000 U.S. military advisors and
CIA agents be thrown out of Iran.
Over 40,000 workers form the heart of
the movement. Thier walkout has
carried many other workers into the
struggle, including electric company,
phone company, neWSpaper, TV,
petrochemical and nuclear power
plant workers. They have refused to be
bought off by promises of higher pay.
U.S. government policy in Iran
serves the interests of the U .S. — based
multi —— national corporations there,
not the interests of the great majority
of the American people. We do not
believe that most Americans support
the massacre of our people in the name
of human rights. We believe that when
Americans come to understand the full
extent and true nature of the U.S. role
in Iran they will condemn Carter’s
support for the bloodbath, and oppose
any U.S. intervention in Iran. We hope
to see you on Friday evening.

The Iranian Student Association

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