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By ELAINE ROBERTS

Kernel Staff Writer
"The Lexington Voice" is the newest voice In town.
Today the third issue of this weekly paper will hit the
fan.
Editor Jim Sleet, 29, is a
but intense
crusader standing on the skin of things. He is committed to the struggle. And he'd like to commit you.
"This paper has been able to go because a few
people had enough faith to give us enough money to
get started," he says.
Visiting the headquarters of "The Voice" (they are
holed up on the second floor of a one-tim- e
Presbyterian
Church on Second Street) is an unforgettable experience.
You are met at the door by two huge Cerman
soft-spoke- n

Shepherds. What is so scary is that they don't bark.
You know they are both vicious, but Sleet's wife
says, "Only the smaller one is mean."
"We've had some threatening phone calls," Sleet
says, disposing of the subject of the dogs.
Upstairs the three of you enter the room they are
using as a darkroom and the dogs stay outside with the
typists and the borrowed IBM Selectrics.
The day before the paper goes to press the staff
works around the clock. But at 9 p.m. the hustle was
still fairly low key.
We sat in the dark while Michele (Sleet's wife)
processed negatives.
"This is also a 'Halfway House'," Sleet said. "We
call it "House of Hospitality." If people have no place
to stay they can come here."

'Sound-Of- f

"Maybe a family gets burned out. We take them in.
People kicked out of the 'Y' come here. Social workers
give them our address. Sometimes the Juvenile Court
refers to us."
Get Food Stamps
The Sleets do not receive money from the courts
or from welfare agencies. Michele said that "if people
have a job or can get one, we ask them to contri-

bute."
"We've been able to get food stamps to help out,"
Sleet said, "but we operate on a very tight budget."
Sleet hopes to make the Lexington Voice
and to "use any extra money to meet community needs."
"I want to publish a written version of 'Sound-Of- f ,"
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Tuesday, April 21, 1970

University of Kentucky, Lexington

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Vol. LXI, No. 130

NSA Head Suggests Channels
As First Step In Student Action
By RON HAWKINS
Kernel Staff Writer

Charles Palmer, president of
the National Student Association (NSA), told UK students
yesterday that they should work
through legitimate channels be-

fore protesting.
President of Student Government at the University of California in 1968-6Palmer said
students should realize they
have the right to power within
the University and that it should
Ik? used.
9,

Palmer said that "you have to
build your ease and work
through legitimate channels before turning to protest."

"Unless people assert themselves this country is on the way
to an authoritarian government.
What I'm concerned about
is I've come to the realization
that many people have lost the
sense of their power," Palmer
asserted.
Palmer
"Decision making,"
said, "has to be challenged by
students it's your community."
He added that he thought students should be a dominant factor in all decisions that affect

...

the student.
Will Help SC.
NSA, said Palmer, is involved in supplying student governments with resources which
will aid them in exercising power, lie added that NSA is "not
a national conspiracy," but rather that it is much more con-

cerned with strengthening student governments at a "grassroots level."
Palmer's day was occupied
an open
with a luncheon,
speech to all students, a press
and a workshop
conference
sponsored by Keys.
The speech was attended
100 people.
by approximately
Speaking of his speech, Palmer
said, "I'm rambling but I want
to get this out."
What Palmer "got out" was
a denial of the "quiet year" on
college campuses and a rebuff of
"the talk about Middle America."
'Quiet Year" Desirojed
The "quiet year," Palmer said,
"has been destroyed the last few
weeks. . . . Protest and dissent
have been broader than ever.
All across the country students have been asserting their

...

power."

Speaking of "Middle Ameri'T
ca," Palmer
proclaimed:
think it's a phony hoax. If you
read what is being said, what
they keep saying is we're not in
control anymore."
Palmer did agree, however,
with vice president Spiro Ag-ne"We really are 'impudent
snobs.' I've heard more students talk about 'rednecks,'
workers and 'dumb people holding us back.' "
Palmer said, "The rhetoric of
four or five years ago is starting
to be lived." He illustrated by
telling the audience about a
Berkeley record store.
Record Store
"It (the record store) started
selling regularly priced $4.98
records for $2.98. . . . Eventually, the record freaks ran it
and it got so good it became
No. 1 in the city."
When an album by the
Beatles came out priced at
$7.98, the student record shop
refused to sell it and started a
national Bcatle boycott. "We
forced every store to drop their
price to $3.00," Palmer said.
A chain of student-ru- n
record
shops was started, and their success was significant.

Singletary
Resignation
Is Denied
The report that UK President
Otis A. Singletary might resign
and go to Texas has leen denied
by his wife and an assistant to
the president, Anne Wilson.
"There is no substance at all
to the rumor that President Singletary will not be here next
year. As far as I know, he will
be here always," said Miss Wilson.

It was rumored by local radio
stations and newspapers that
President Singletary might go to
Texas after it was learned that
Dr. Norman Hackerman, president of the University of Texas,
had resigned his post for a similar position at Rice University

beginning September 1.
At the present time, Dr. Singletary is out of town and cannot be reached for comment.

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"A computer said profits were
off by 75 percent. . . . Now Co-

lumbia sells records for less than
we can buy it for. We'd taken
on CBS and we didn't mean to."
'People's Park'
Palmer also spoke on last
year's "People's Park" protest at
Berkeley.
"Some people wanted to make
a point of controlling environment. So they turned a lot with
old autos into something beautifula real communal type of

thing."
"The governor (Ronald Reagan) and the politicians didn't
dig it because they thought it
was a place where radicals
could get together and rap."
Palmer said that 85 percent
of the students supported the
park as did a vast majority of
the faculty, yet the park was
done away with.

Artful Protest

UK student John Crump went to Louisville for his Army physical
y
yesterday. In preparation for the event, various
slogans
were painted over his body. Theonly reaction he got from the Army
officers was the question, "How long did it take to paint that?"
Crump reported that he passed his physical, but that he had been
Kernel Photo By Mike Walker
passed before he was examined.
anti-Arm-

University Senate Recommends Policy
For Student Action In Academic Affairs
JEANNIE LEEDOM
Assistant Managing Editor
The University Senate acted Monday on a
resolution recommending a policy for student
participation in academic affairs, and on a motion suggesting a faculty vote regarding "faculty
opinion relating to evaluation and salary increments."
The policy for student participation in academic
affairs was presented as a recommendation by the
Senate Advisory Committee on Student Affairs
and was referred to committee because a large
group of senators disapproved of the implementation one section implied.
The section stated: "Recommendations from
Student Advisory Councils shall be forwarded to
the educational unit they advise and also to the
Student Advisory Council that they are responsible to. In addition, the recommendations shall
also be delivered to the next higher administrative
echelon (e.g., course teacher and department chair-nudepartment chainnan and dean).
Further Recommendations
"After study, the primary recipient of the
recommendations shall return to the recommending Council his comments, evaluation of recommendations, and program of implementation if
such is to be undeitaken. A copy of this
be forwarded to the next higher administraBy

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tive echelon.
a college or school shall be
for providing Student Advisory Counresponsible
cils within his educational unit with pertinent
information about the authority for academic
decisions in order that students may understand
the proper procedures to effect change."
One unidentified senator who opposed the resolution said he felt that the section called for an
abundance of unnecessary paper work. Another

"Each dean of

senator mentioned that that section of the document was "far too specific" for student involvement.
Dr. Michael Adelstein, chairman of the committee, defending the resolution, said "We were
talking about how to give students a voice in
faculty matters. Unless some formal machinery
is set up, we will not hear thoughtful, responsible
ideas or recommendations from students."
Adelstein Comments
He continued, "Section 3 contains the very
heart of the report. It assures that a chairman or
faculty member will not receive a student report
and file it away."
According to the recommendation: "The students of UK will be expected to participate in
the fonnulation, development, implementation,
evaluation and revision of the academic programs
and policies of the University.
"All students will be encouraged to participate
to the degree that their academic experience,
personal maturity and social perspective will permit. To achieve these objectives, the following
Student Advisory Councils shall be established:
a graduate and undergraduate Student Advisory
Council and a department or division graduate
and undergraduate student advisory council.
The subjects which were proposed for the
student advisory council to study were: academic
programs, training programs, course evaluations,
evaluation of teaching, academic standards, ev aluation of facilities to support academic programs,
and faculty recruitment.
Motion Passed
The Senate passed the motion to refer the complete report to committee for revisions dealing
specifically with Section 3.
In other action, the Senate defeated a motion
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Continued From Fajre One
presented by Prof. Hoy V,. Swift
of the College of KnKineering
which recommended that there
"be a vote (in the form of an
opinion ballot) of the entire faculty regarding 'faculty opinion
relating to evaluation and salary
increments.' This referendum to
be conducted in the same manner
as the election of faculty to the
Senate of the University."
Dr. Swift further stated that
the opinion poll ballot would
give faculty members the choice
of voting for the one of two
plans he believes closer to being
the most equitable.
Plan I stated that the total
available for annual increments
would be distributed as follows:
75 percent of the total funds
d
on a lump sum on an
basis.
25 percent of the total funds
for merit increases.
"The top administration of the
University to maintain andor
establish an equitable balance
in salaries between and within
ranks in the distribution of all
salary increments.
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"The deans and chairmen to
decide on merit increases on an
equitable basis.
"The faculty to have the opportunity to appeal to an Appeals
IJoard any merit evaluations felt
to be unjust.
"Plan II called for the same
system of evaluation and reward
as at present."
Several

complaints

were

voiced to this motion pertaining
to the word "equitable". Several
senators felt that these were leading questions and would provoke
stilted answers.
Although amendments were
made to the motion, the senate
defeated it in its entirety.
The senate also approved annual reports from the senate advisory and standing committees.

TODAY and
TOMORROW
TODAY

Trans - Artion, student volunteer
coffee on Tuesproject, will have a6:30
p.m. in the
day, April 21, at
President's Koom of the Student Cenn
ter. All past and present
volunteers are Invited.
University Choras, under the direction of Sara Holyroyd, will give a
concert on Tuesday, April 21 at 8:13
p.m. in Memorial Hall. Free admission
to the public.
Trans-Actio-

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St. Aacaitlne't Chapel will have a
special Earth Day Eucharist, using a

liturgy developed at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, April 22 at 5:30 p.m.

I'ntverslty of Kentucky Amateur
Radio Club will hold its final meeting of the year on Wednesday. April
22 at 5 p.m. In Koom 143 of the Office Tower. Plans with Equador Partners to be discussed. All members are
urged to attend as well as those without licenses and with an interest In
amateur radio. Refreshments to be
served. For additional
call Sam Drown at

information,

Dr. Gar Roath. a Sussex (England)
University professor Just returned
from Tasmania, will speak on "The
Poverty of Progress In East African
p.m. Thursday,
Development" at 4 222
April 23. In Room Is of the Commerce Building, lie
sponsored by
the College of Business and Economics.

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Nation Prepares For Earth Day

By LOUISE COOK

Associated Tress Writer
Americans are preparing for
Earth Day rallies, clean-ups- ,
teach-in- s
and traffic bans, amid
warnings that the problems of
pollution must not be forgotten
after Wednesday's
demonstrations are over.
Originally proposed by Sen.
Earth
Caylord Nelson,
Day has drawn support from
ecologists, educators, politicians,
students and ordinary citizens.
Some env ironmental activists,
however, are concerned people
will forget that the dirty environment is a continuing problem.
"We're hopingto survive April
22, Earth Day, and we're praying for April 23," said Gary Sou-ciexecutive director of Friends
of Earth in New York. Dr. Kenneth E. F. Watt, professor of
zoology at the University of California, told students at Swath-mor- e
College in Pennsylvania,
"The history of movements like
(D-Wis- .)

e,

AWS Officers

Announced

this is not very promising. We
had great movements on civil
rights and the Vietnamese war.
The problems are still with us,
but

the

movements

have died

away."
however, that
from now it
will become increasingly clear
. . . that what we ecologists are
saying now is true, and then the
political pressure for change will
become inexorable."
He

added,

"about

five years

Teach-in- s

Planned

Many colleges are sponsoring
,
both for students and
community residents.

teach-ins-

"We hope that each participant, supplied with some of the
facts about environmental prob-

lems in his own back yard, will
commit himself to a program of
action," said Frank Renshaw,
chairman of a teach-i- n sponsored
by five Cincinnati colleges.
Ohio University in Athens has
scheduled speeches by 21 scientists and ecologists, an antipollution parade and a clean-u- p of
the campus and the surrounding
area.
Marches and rallies were held
in Cleveland Monday anda group
of students from the Cooper
School of Art strung banners over
the main routes into town saying,
"Welcome to the 5th dirtiest

Associated Women Students
(AWS) announced new officers
for the 1970-7- 1
year in initiation services held in the Student
Center Monday night.
The new president is Judy
Saalfeld;
Betty
Southard; "town girl" represenand
tatives, Julie McNeese
Julia Young.
Nine representatives at large
were also elected: Carolyn Boatman, Bev Bromley, Cindy Hom-ra- ,
Lucy Johnston, Ellen Sutherland, Susan Wachs, Mary Wallace, Kay Willmoth and Mari-jan- e
Wilson.
Due to a recent amendment
to the AWS constitution, the
two ninners-u- p
in the presidential and vice presidential slates
are also included as representatives.
Carol Rompf
The runners-up- ,
for president and Graeme
Browning for vice president, are
the only veterans of the

soring a bus tour to show participants good and bad spots
in the community.
Ball State University students
are building a tower of throwa-wa- y
cans at the Muncie, Ind.,
campus and plan a folk festival
around it Wednesday night.
Traffic bans will mark Earth
Day in New York City and Phil-

adelphia.

In New York, Fifth Avenue
will be closed for 45 blocks from
noon to 2 p.m. and sections of
14th Street will be closed from
noon to midnight. There will be
rallies, marches and demonstrations of electric cars, and many
merchants plan outdoor displays.
Street Closed
Philadelphia is closing part of
Chestnut Street, a main eastwest
thoroughfare, Tuesday from noon
to 2 p.m. and will ban traffic
from West River
Wednesday
Drive, a commuting route from
10 a.m. to 8 p.m.
San Francisco is conducting
a Save-th- e
Bay campaign to cut
pollution in the area. "The bay
is a body of water to be cherished," said campaign sponsors,

"a soothing contrast to the clang

ing bustle of urban life.
In Virginia, Gov. Linwood
Holton signed Monday a proclamation declaring this Environmental Awareness Week and urging efforts "to develop in our
citizenry and in public bodies an
awareness of the dangers these
problems pose to the quality of
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Get Together

Tomorrow marks a special day
man's existence. On
Day-- we
Wednesday, April
can show our true concern
of the force which very well may
overtake man in several decades
ruction of our enthe polluto-des- t
in regard to

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vironment.
On Earth Day, we must join
together despite political beliefs
and ideologies and participate in
this effort to curb the growing
threat of a polluted world. Men
like Wisconsin Senator Gaylord
Nelson have led a movement in
Congress to join the young, old,
liberal and conservative into a cohesive group bent on rallying public support.
A concerted public effort to halt
pollution could be an effective outgrowth of the Earth Day activities.
on a national level
Mere teach-in- s
will only stir the dust, but if the
stir is great enough, then possibly
concerned citizens will unite on

every campus and in every community to set specific goals and
seek to realize them.
These citizen groups made up
n
of a
of the populous
should be willing to go to court to
ensure enforcement of pollution-contrlaws. These groups should
at public hearings and protestify
vide information on pollution control to interested parties.
These measures would no doubt
mean more in Federal expenditures
over that amount which is now
being allotted, but it would be
money well spent.
These things, however, can only
take place if each and every one
of us works toward the ultimate
goal. Participation from all groups
on campus and in the community
in Earth Day activities is only a
start. We hope that ideologies will
be cast aside and that this can be
a true beginning of the end of
cross-sectio-

ol

There is some difference in the
possible effects of Earth Day on the
American scene, since the battle
against environmental pollution
has a much more unified support
than does opposition to the war.
Still a day devoted to stressing

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environmental awareness may not
be any more effective in promoting
action than have the two moratoriums.
. Those who are
expressing genuine concern for this pollution problem should use Earth Day as a
springboard for more direct, progressive action. It might be added
that this state's greatest pollutors
continue to go their evil ways almost two years after the environment became a top national priority. Those laws which have been
passed have served only to treat
the symptoms and not the disease.
Talk is cheap and is becoming
cheaper by the second.

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beginning to believe that something is
wrong. At last people are beginning to
recognize that dirty air, crowded living
space, the Vietnam war, and filthy water
d
are
problems, equally as perplexing and equally as dangerous as any
mankind has ever faced. It is hoped that
the April 22 Teach-i- n will help awaken
those as yet too ignorant or apathetic to
realize the straits we are in.
At the University of Kentucky the
Earth Day program will feature speeches
by a number of experts on the environmental problems of man, and will also
feature a speech by U.S. Senator Marlow
Cook. The underlying causes of our problems will be explored in depth, and present

By JERRY THORNTON

President, Environmental Awareness
Society

there will take place a
nation-wid- e
"Teach In on the Environment" at thousands of colleges, universities, and high schools throughout the
nation. This "Earth Day" program will
be the first unified, concerted effort to
display to the American people the necessity of protecting the life support systems
of "spaceship earth" lest Homo sapiens
soon perish by his own hand. At last
thousands of people, awakened by the
truths of ecology, have come to the point
of considering each of mankind' s activities
as interdependent with others, and muand future methods of correcting these
tually dependent on a vast complex of problems will no doubt be debated. But
natural forces.
the surface will barely be scratched. Much
hard work and personal sacrifice will be
Tims a new movement of environneeded if man is ever to learn to live in
mentalists has arisen. The Environmentalist has not copped out on the great harmony with the natural world. It is
social problems of our time war, racism, my hope that every college and university
student in Kentucky will become involved
crime, etc., but rather sees these as but to
the greatest possible extent in the
horrible symptoms of basic, ecologically
effort to make this state and nation one
unsound principles of morality, economalways worth living in.
ics and politics within modern cultures.
There are many "symptomatic" probnot comThe evaluation is, of course,
lems" to be dealt with in the near fuplete and the solutions to our
here at home, if we are to
problems are by no means ture, right
succeed. For instance, do we really want
all within sight. But at last people are
Kentucky to become "the energy capitol
of the U.S.," as some of our state commerce people envision? Do we really want
to further encourage the type of "progress" which has destroy ed the Trade-watRiver, which demands that we
strip mine every coalbearing mountain
in Eastern Kentucky, and which threatens the incomparable gorges of the Red
and Cumberland Rivers? Do Lexington-ian- s
really want their city to be the
fourteenth fastest growing city in the
nation, when only 30 percent of its sewage treatment facilities are functioning
adequately? And does any Kentucky city
really want another expressway, another
shopping center, another petrochemical
complex? These are questions wliichmust
be answered honestly and on an ecological basis rather than economical, lest we
lead Kentucky down the gilded path
which has created the environmental
nightmares associated with New York
City, Detroit, Cleveland, Santa Barbara,
and Los Angeles.
So what can you do? First of all, come
to the Earth Week programs on April
21 and 22 here on the U.K. campus.
Second, continue to educate yourself regarding our environmental problems and
the ecological approach to solving them.
Third, join and become active in an organization such as the Environmental
Awareness
Society, Zero Population
Growth, the Sierra Club, Friends of the
Earth, or the National Audubon Society.
And always remember, lest you think that
"something (technology) will happen" to
save us all from our collective stupidities,
that ui Jess you are truly part of the solution, you are the problem. THINK
GREEN!
On April

Talk Is Cheap

Earth Day is a whole lot like
Moratorium Day in one respect-the- re
are a volume of words and
very Jittle real action. We have
now had two moratoriums in which
the public shows its concern, and
general discontent with our efforts
in Vietnam. It is all well and good,
but we are as far away from withdrawal as ever.

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By DR. A. D. ALBRIGHT
Changed conditions, different days and
time and new students demand new educational programs, sometimes new institutions. The land-gracolleges and universities and the community college movement are two prime examples on a national scale in the United States. Similar
developments are incipient in other parts
of the world. And now there are apparent
reasons to believe that a strong demand
for change is again mounting in American
higher education.
A dramatic increase in the proportion
of high ability students going to college
occurred in the '50's. Between 1953 and
19G0, the percentage of high school graduates who finished in the top quarter in
ability and went to college grew dramatically from 48 to 80. In the second quarter
of ability the growth was from 38 to 54.
But in the two bottom quarters the percentages remained practically static.
When the figures for the '60's are completed, another increase in the upper
two ability quarters who went to college
will likely show up again. So, when current predictions are made that enrollments are going to grow in the '70's,
some attention must be given to the
question: Who will be these students,
who will be taught, or better put, who
will learn?
Apparently the new student will come
predominantly from the second and especially the third and fourth quarters in
scholastic ability as presently measured.
Of course, some institutions have these
students now but many institutions will
have more of them in the days ahead.
Hie impact of these student numbers in
the lower half of the ability distribution
will force many institutions to adapt educational policies and processes more effectively to these students than has been
done in the past.
Many of these students will come
from limiting social and cultural circumstances. They may be particularly disadvantaged by a poverty of ideas, language handicaps, dearth of educational
or even vocational models, and parental
apathy. And few colleges or universities,
if any, including the community colleges
generally, have been successful as yet to
any distinguishing extent in overcoming
the depressive effects of cultural and educational impoverishment on either educational motivation or achievement. According to T. R. McConnell, another
complication also arises: Added to these
deprivations in many cases is emotional
resentment against the people and the
conditions which the disadvantaged conceive to be responsible for their situation.
These students will bring not only
a diversity of academic aptitudes but
they will vary enormously in interest