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Vacancies In Houses

Pinched By Lack Of Residents

UK Greeks

By TOM HALL
Kernel Staff Writer
You don't have to Join a fraternity or sorority at
UK to enjoy the comforts of life in a Greek house.
The average house has six vacancies this semester,
according to Bob Hagan, president of Sigma Nu fraternity. As a result, houses are renting rooms to nonresident population in some cases.
The situation is so critical that many of the houses
aren't meeting their budgets this semester, according
to a survey studied last week by UK fraternity and
sorority presidents.
The solution? Move sophomore Greeks from the
dormitories into the houses. The problem? The Uni-

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Trustees Act
To Redeem
Bond Notes
By TOM BOWDEN
Kernel Staff Writer
The Executive Committee of
the Board of Trustees approved
measures at its meeting Tuesday
to allow the University to redeem

bond anticipation notes totaling
$33.2 million.
The committee authorized a
temporary advance of $1.29 million from University funds for
redeeming a portion of the anticipation notes. In addition, an
appropriation was approved of
$22,500 for payment of interest
on a $3 million government loan
which was solicited to pay lor the

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Kate Elliston, Panhellenic president, said that the

dorms always count on about five percent leaving at the
end of the semester, and that they would easily be able
to absorb the loss of the Greek sophomores since many
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notes.

The committee approved bids
totaling $28.8 million from the
Second National Bank, the Bankers Trust Bank, and the Chemical
Bank of New York for new bond
anticipation notes, which will
supply the rest of the money
for the $33.2 million which comes
due Dec. 12. The average interest
rate for these bids is 6.47 percent.
Budget revisions totaling $3 13,
439 also were approved by the
committee. The changes included
additional funds for equipment
and renovation for the University
Hospital, for the continuing education program in the College
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boarder.
The fraternity said "Sure, send him on over, we'll
take him." There are a lot of black English nationals
these days, and this guy was one of them.
True to their word, though, the fraternity, one of
the more liberal on campus, took the man in.
This same fraternity also has a South American
contingent giving it a well rounded international at-

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The results of the survey showed that each Greek
house is paying an average of $10,000 rent during
the academic year.
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for boarders.
One of the houses was even integrated, although
by a slight misunderstanding.
What happened was that the UK housing office called
one of the fraternities with vacancies and inquired as to
whether they would take in an English student as a

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Greeks Need Sophomores
In an effort to get the needed sophomores into the
houses, Jack Hall, dean of students, and Bob Elder,
fraternity advisor with the dean of students' office, were
scheduled to meet today to see whether contracts can
be broken, and if so, how many Greeks can leave the

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One problem for fraternities, with 25 percent
sometimes living in the houses, is that the
men who are not members do not pay the activity
fee, usually around $100 per year-y- et
they may attend
all the fraternity parties without having to bother attending weekly chapter meetings.
Some funny things have happened in the Greek
houses this semester, with their "take all comers" need

Many of the Greek houses are actually rented from
the University by the fraternity or sorority chapter.
The survey also revealed that the attrition rate from
Greek houses at the end of the fall semester is a whopping 14 percent. The causes for this exodus are varied,
ranging from the now common December graduate to the
also common flunk-ouFor sororities, marriage during the holidays is one of
the main factors in the loss of live-imembers.
A few years ago, sophomores had to live in the dorms
and wait for their older Greek brothers or sisters to
graduate before they could move into the coveted houses.
Tilings have changed.
Now the University requires sophomores to live in the
dormitories in order to pay for the dorms, and the Greek
houses, mostly owned by the University, are going beg-

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Blacks Abandon Lees College
By BOB COOPER
Associated Press Writer
little mountain town
JACKSON, Ky. (AP)-T- his
and its
junior college would like to
believe a shooting incident that drove 19 students
away wasn't racially motivated, but those at whom
the shots were fired think it was.
It wasn't the first of the trouble when seven
shots were fired into the basketball team's residence hall last Friday night "and most of us feel
that wasn't the end of it either," Ralph Reed, one
of the students, said.
Reed, a Negro from Owingsville, said smoke
bombs had been stuffed under the door of black
students' rooms the night before and "one time
before that some guys were up here at the school
with guns, but were talked out of doing any350-stude- nt

thing."
In addition, Reed said, Negro students had
been warned earlier Friday night that there might
be trouble and they were packing to leave for the
weekend when the shooting took place.
"This car drove up and one of the guys called
us a bad name I think it was black s.o.b. "
Reed said. "One of our guys yelled something
back and the shooting started."
No one was wounded, according to the State
Police report, but one of the shots from a Magnum pistol shattered a purse belonging to basket

ball Coach George Abernathy's wife and the slug
landed at her feet.
Within minutes, all 13 Negro students enrolled
at Lees Junior College six of them basketball
players withdrew from school and went home.
With them went six white basketball players.
The Rev. Troy Eslinger, president of the
erian-supported
school, said the exodus left
only two players on the team, which had won
both of its two games so far this season. The
rest of the schedule was cancelled.
Presbyt-

Two Men Arrested

State Trooper Charles Cornett arrested Cary
Cross, a Vietnam veteran home on medical leave,
and Don Hays, also a serviceman, a few minutes
after the shooting.
The two, both about 20 and residents of the
South Fork Community in rural Breathitt County,
were indicted Tuesday on a charge of shooting into
an occupied dwelling.
Bond for each was set at $1,000.
Cornett said both men had been drinking at the
time they were arrested and several townspeople,
as well as those at the Junior college, felt the inaffair.
cident merely was a
The Rev. Mr. Eslinger, however, did say there
had been trouble several weeks ago at a local
restaurant when a black student allegedly had
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reversal film, was discovered
missing Tuesday. According to
sources at the Med Center, it
could have been taken any time
in the past two or three days.
The chemical was stored in five
3' gallon cans about eight inches
deep, marked with a yellow
Kodak label. There were 17to
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gallons of the solution.
According to Mr. Len Coleman, a representative of the Eastman Kodak Col. in Illinois, the
prehardener is basically an aldehyde. It was first reported to be
an acid whose fumes, if breathed,
would prove fatal in three minutes.
The Med Center is the only
place in the area that has equipment required for this prehardener, said William Samuels, director of state and local services at
the Med Center.
Samuels has asked that the
chemical be returned to the information desk at the Med Center. "If returned," he said, "no
questions will be asked and there
will be no prosecution."

Meeting
students

will
meet at 7. p.m. tonight in Room
303 of the Pharmacy Building to
hear a panel discussion entitled
"What's It All About?".
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19, 19G0.

Playing Cards Reflect Times
Special To The Associated Press
For a thousand years, from
Asia to the Middle East, from
Europe to the UnitedStates,man
has played with cards. He has
used them for gaming, for conjuring and for divining. He has
used them in religious rites and
as religious symbols.
Befitting such a venerable in-- ,
stitution, playing cards have
crossed Asia in gypsy caravans,
have been properly introduced
to European society by returning
Crusaders, have traveled to the
New World with Columbus' sailors and have dangled from Ben
Franklin's kite and have been
shot at by Wild Bill Hickock.

their millennium,
they can- be said to have "arrived." In the United States,
card playing ranks as the number one participation sport, with
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games like bridge, poker (our only
major homegrown contribution),
hearts and gin rummy leading
the pack.
No one knows exactly when
or where playing cards had their
start. In 1925 author T. F. Carter
in "The Invention of Printing in
China," cited a reference to the
Chinese use of playing cards in
969 A.D.
Over those 1,000 years cards

have undergone numerous facelifts. These can be seen in a
collection of antique playing
cards owned by The United States
Playing Card Company. The col

lection, one of the most extensive in the world, is on permanent loan to the Cincinnati Art
Museum.

Our modern pack developed
from the 14th century Italian
"Tarocchi" deck which had a
trump suit of 22 "atouts" in
addition to four 14ard suits.
The atouts represented the 22
most important physical and
spiritual forces affecting mankind
-f- or example, lightning, religion,
temperance and death.
However, it is the four common suits which most interest
historians. Each represented a social position in life in the Middle
Ages: the nobility symbolized by
swords; the clergy by cups; the
tradesmen by coins; and the
peasants by staves. These are today's spades, hearts, diamonds
and clubs.
Over the years cards have
changed from the earliest square,

extremely oblong or (rarely) round
shapes to the popular 32x22
poker and 3 12x2 14 bridge sizes.
In the oldest packs, which were
made by hand, a variety of materials were used.
Until the invention of printing
in 1440,' playing cards were almost exclusively the property of
who
the rich and noble-borcommissioned
leading artists,
such as Botticelli, to prepare
packs for them.
In those days kings and princes used their own pictures on
.

Balalaika Orchestra Due:
Bolshoi Singers Featured
The Osipov Balalaika Orchestra, making its first American tour, will perform at Memorial Coliseum at 8:15 p. m; on
Nov. 19 as a feature of the Central Kentucky Concert and Lecture Series.
The famous Moscow folk orchestra will be joined b soloists
from the Bolshoi Opera, mezzo
Valentiana Levko, basso Vladimir Morozov, Vladimir Yakovlev
and Anatoly Tikhonov; folk singer Ludmilla Zykina, and dancers,
Lily Novgorodova and Yuri
soloists of the Moiseyev
Ensemble.
Under the musical direction
of Victor Dubrovsky and assistant
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instruments range from six sizes
of the balalaika and such other
folk instruments as domras.guss-li- s
(the predecessors of the balalaika), ancient horns and pipes,
and accordians.
The latest attraction in a distinguished series of major performing groups to visit the U.S.
from the Soviet Union under the
terms of the cultural exchange
agreement between thetwocoun-trics- ,
the Osipov Balalaika Orchestra has also been among the
more popular touring companies.

University of Kentucky students will be admitted upon presentation of their Activities and
Vitali Cnutov, the orchestra's ID cards, and all other persons
program includes not only folk by season membership card. No
music, but the work of such single attraction tickets are available and children under 5 years
composers as
Borodin and Rachmaninov. Their of age will not be admitted.
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face cards. Later, when printing
made card playing available to
the masses, national heroes and
current events (such as wars)
began to influence face cards.
Some of the most interesting
war packs have been published
in the United States. During
World War I a number appeared
in which "doughboys" were
kings and Red Cross nurses were

queens.
Occasionally much more serious attempts have been made
to deal royalty out of the playing-card
packs in France during
the Revolution, in this country
after 1776 and in Soviet Russia.
But these changes have succeeded
only as novelties.
Costumed in the fashion worn
by Henry VII and Henry VIII,
the old familiar faces remain
today. Among the representations
are Julius Caesar as the king of
diamonds, Alexander the Great
as the king of clubs, the famous
French captain Lancelot as the
jack of clubs, Charlemagne as
the king of hearts, the Biblical
David as the king of spades and
Judith of Bavaria, the beautiful
wife of Charles VI, as the queen
of hearts.
Over the centuries playing
cards also have been used to
teach everything from reading
and arithmetic to history, music,
military science, heraldry, logic
and even Latin.
In the early days of the United
States, it was socially smart to
issue party invitations on the
blank backs of playing cards.
Cards also were used in 1765
as admission tickets to classes
at the University of Pennsylvania,
and as proof that the bearer was
a workman "authorized" to demolish the Bastile in Paris at the
time of the Revolution.
While the United States was
a bit late entering the game, it
made up for this in the last century. In about 1850, American
manufacturers began adding back
designs to playing cards. Around
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The means the group invented
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dentist friend of one of the members, offering a legitimate reason
for inquiring about prices of
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Editorial represent the opinions of the Editors, not of the University.

Jamrj

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Editor-in-Chi-

Voh Brown, Editorial rage Editor
Ceorge II. Jcpson, Managing Editor
Holort Duncan, Advertising Manager
Dottic Bean, Associate Editor
Dan Gossctt, Arts Editor
Chip Ilutilicson, Sports Editor
Don Hosa, Cartoonist
Carolyn Dunnavan, Features Editor
Miko Hcrndon,
Bill Matthews,
Frank Coots,
Joannic Lr'tlom,
Jean HcnaKcr
Assistant Managing Editors

A Modest

Proposal

The frustration of youth as it attempts to influence its environment
through the traditional channels is a problem of great importance to
many Americans. The rebellious mood of an increasing number of young
Americans has forced their elders to consider their demands, or at least
the source of their concerns, at greater length. An example of what can
be gained through an open appraisal of this problem was recently
shown by the work of a commission established to reform the organization of the Democratic party.
This commission, chaired by Senator George McGovern, recommended a plan which would elevate Democrats between the ages of
18 and 20 to a position equal with that of their elders in the state
organization. This plan would provide an outlet for those young people
who were so obviously excluded from the democratic process in the
1968 hassle for the Democratic candidate for president. When given a
vote in the course their party takes, these young people will be less
apt to leave their organized party and show their sentiments in the
streets. This may or may not be a commendable attitude for the nation, but as far as the Democratic party goes, it could be a salvation.
The changes proposed by the commission would not bo on a "takeN
it or leave it" basis. Any state not abiding by the new structure would
be in danger of losing its seats in the 1972 Democratic convention.
Such a strong measure of enforcement is necessary for the provision to
carry any weighty
We. hope the state delegations will carefully consider the results
of rejecting this recommendation before they vote on it. At a time
when the Democratic party is concerned about its continued effectiveness, this proposal could propel the party into a higher level of democratic participation.
The voice of the student in America is an articulate one. It is also
one of the better informed members in the political chorus. To turn the
back of the Democratic party on" its future lifeblood' would be inviting
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By WAYNE H. DAVIS
Yes, Virginia, God really is dead. He's
been poisoned by DDT. And without Him
to look after us, we'll have to learn to
think for ourselves and develop a rational
pattern of behavior among those human
beings crowded like cattle onto spaceship

earth.
Let's look at the facts on DDT. It
presents an interesting irony typical of
man's endless dilemmas of today. I agree
with everything its defenders say. It saved
millions of lives in malaria control. It was
an essential part of our development of an
agricultural productivity which piled up
massive surpluses in the early 1930s. The
surplus was so huge that it was a major
political embarrassment costing taxpayers
over $500 million in storage fees alone
in 1954 when Congress passed public law
4S0, designed to eliminate the surplus
by giving it to the world's hungry millions.
Our gifts continued 15 years, and allowed
the hungry peoples to increase their numbers by 50 percent before our surplus was
gone. Now the defenders of DDT point
out that the hungry nations must use it
on crops or starve. It is by far the cheapest
pesticide and the hungry nations are the
world's poorest. Half the DDT used last
year was for malaria control in the impoverished tropics; without it there would
be a health crisis. Ban DDT in the world
and hundreds of millions of people would
die from disease and starvation.
DDT is now so common in the environment that many species of birds face
imminent extinction and the world's fisheries resources are in serious trouble. Iceland's only industry declined by 80 percent
last year, apparently as a result of DDT
poisoning of herring in the North Sea.
If you wonder how so much DDT got
up there read the August issue of Environment. Meanwhile, the food optimist boys
tell us that we will need to double the fish
take from the ocean by 1980 to feed the
woild (Ceres, 2 (3); 23, 1969). And the kill
(tiny oceanic, crustaceans) that they are
counting on to feed the world surely are
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more sensitive to DDT than are fish.
Any rise in the environmental burden
of DDT will mean more species of animals
will perish. In the U. S. we now recognize that DDT is extremely dangerous.
Its use here has declined drastically. We
don't spray it from planes onto crops
and mosquito swamp much anymore.
But in the poorest nations its use is
rising sharply. They get it from your
friendly poison peddlers over here. In the
U. S. production was 69,000 tons in 1968,
up 33 percent over 1967. If this trend
continues the oceans will be devoid of
life in a surprisingly short time and hundreds of millions of people will die along
with a major part of the other organisms
on earth.
The people of the world have long
known they had but one choice: either
the birth rate had to fall or the death
rate would rise. We chose death. Pope
Paul had his predecessors made their
choice, loud clear; the rest of the world
went passively along in apathy. We made
a bargain with the devil. He allowed us
to postpone serious consideration of the
problem until 1969 and the era of major
reckoning into the 1970s.
What to do about DDT? I don't care.
It doesn't really matter. Dr. MarkLuckens,
toxlcologist in the College of Pharmacy,
says we shouldn't ban it. He says it is the
only pesticide we really know much about.
Others may be worse. Many now being
used are far more deadly. He says the
housewife will have to learn to accept
an occasional worm in the apples. He also
points out that DDT Is just one of hundreds of dangerously toxic substances
becoming ever more abundant in our
environment. Many of them have the potential to drastically cut back the human

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population.
No, Virginia, there is no Santa Claus.
Cod did not prevent death from typhoid
and plague, and He will not save us from
toxins, starvation and ecocatastrophes.
Why should He? He gave us the ability
to think for ourselves and plan our des.
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IKernel Forum: the readers write!
The Role Of Religion
To the Editor of the Kernel:
Procrastination makes this letter a
little late in response to a letter to the
Kernel from Rev. H. Paul Sherman. Your
dissertation, Rev. Sherman, presents today's problems very concisely. I am saving your summary as a reference.
It would be nice if all these problems could be put into a neat package
and mailed to Grandma. She is probably the cause for all of them anyway
since she rocked the cradle of the gen-

eration who raised the upcoming generation who are crying "help"! But "help"
has been cried in many ways since time
began and Cod has patiently revealed
himself as His creation was ready and willing to perceive. Some would point the finger of guilt for our problems to that very
Creator who intended for us to enjoy his
creations.
Cod is revealed as a Cod of history
in the Bible. But he is revealed only as
man's culture dynamically influenced his
every thought and action to respond to
that inner supernatural urge that said to
him "Your purpose in life is something
other than bread alone."
My thesis to a university audience is
not to waive Rev. Sherman's issue to turn
to the Bible (I've been with it for years
and find it a source of strength and inspiration) but to maintain that an explanation of its relevancy through the dynamics of culture is being taught without
exhortation right here on campus.
My professor chooses to call it developing Christian ontology; I choose to call it
the progressive revelation of God. Take
your choice but recognize that neither are
original but both express an undeniable
historicity.
Read your Bible at Grandma's knee,
if you please. But fear not to let your
Cod out of this isolation and into the
World. If a study of Religion and Culture
threatens your faith, you are doomed to
hell on earth even though you feel promised Life Eternal.
Write, as Rev. Sherman suggests to
Herbert VV. Armstrong Box 111, Pasadena,
California for his explanation of the relevancy of the Bible. It could be theanswer
you need. But don't neglect the source
that Is right under your very noses
your own University Sociology Department.
The role of religion in the world today
can be grasped only through an intelligent effort to understand societies in conflict.

War And Peace
President Nixon's recent literary alis Peace and Peace is War
which by the way makes us, or some of
us, feel real good cr at least well enough
not to protest (even if we did, what
would we protest? War, ofcourse.butWar
is Peace or something. Then how about
Peace, which is really WAR or something.) The absurdity of semantics! and
President Nixon goes on while we play
with words. Well anyway, while everyone trudged off to Washington my how
the White House looks beautiful this
time of year and confrontation becomes
tne reality of today and everyone says
how wonderful that people can speak
their minds and so on, and meanwhile the
preoccupation with the event obscures the
issue at hand remember thesethat didn't
go will still be setting their minds to the
War is Peace and Peace is War riddle,
what will actually emerge Is some sort
of plea of unity or some sort of misplaced
directive for ending the war or perhaps
Spriro Agnew will Just come out and say
a few words on the fine youth of America.
Since the latter is more novel and since
our Vice President has become so expert in exonerating some of the many
fine qualities of our fine youth, this would
seem to be the more appropriate channel.
Now comes the part whereby the silent
majority takes its stand a firm commitment to silence whereby it hopes to obtain some peace of mind. By the same
token, it must give peace of mind to those
men wading in some rice paddy (dodging
bullets and other projectiles) because they
are silent also! Or so the theory should
read. But such Is much too complicated,
for who knows exactly what peace of mind
is. Perhaps a refrigerator in every room on
campus. Then everyone could eat and be
happy in becoming the supreme hedonist
that he wants to become. And the Free
University consequently starves It isn't
as relevant to the students, remember.
So as we all anxiously await each evening for Chet or David to bring us the continuing episode of Hill Number 891 (or
832 or whatever), remember the medium
is the message. O.K. so we feel a tinge
and say we're involved Yes, it was disgusting and now I am personally involved. And these same people constitute
proudly the silent majority, that undying
bunch of Americans ready and willing to
say nothing, except perhaps to denounce
the "effete core of impudent slobs," who
are ready and willing to say something. Or
;
perhaps Ignore them.

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Cod speaks through the Irishman who
To these people I say, what's for suprevealed Cod as saying, "Take care of My
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