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Volume LXIX, Number 74
Friday, December 2. 1977

VA tells schools:
watch class roll

By CRAIG DANIELS
Kernel Staff Writer

It is said by some that, when a
student doesn’t atteni classes, he is
hurting mly himself. But when a
veteran who is receiving education
benefits from the federal govern-
ment, avoids classes, it’s an entirely
different matter.

Mostly, it’s a matter of money—
overpayments to absent student
veterans. According to Dan Seaver,
director (1 UK's Office of Veteran
Affairs, 3 study by the US. General
AccountingOffice has shown that, in
thelast 10 years, a total of $6 billion
in education benefits has been
overpaid to veterans nationwide.

However, in reality only $1.4
billion was overpaid because 70
percent of the money was returned
eventually by veterans, or
recovered by collection agents,

Seaver said. Still, tlat $1.4 billion
figure is a sizeable one

AtUK, Seaver said, “The rroblem
is a very small one becaise veterans
here have been cooperative and
because we have been tightening
up" on mmitoring the academic
progress of veterans and in en-
forcing Veterans Administration
guidelines. The “tightening up" on
the part of UK and many other
universities prtbably las resulted
from a gereral cradtdown by the
VA.

The VA is responsible it! im-
plementing a law, passed by
Congress in 1975, that requires
educational institutiors to formulate
“standards of progress”—
guideiines on monitoring the
academic performance of student
veterans, Seaver said. The in-
stitutions are also required to report

Continued on page 3

UK police don’t
’hunt or seek’

By NEIL FIELDS
Kernel Staff Writer

Desp'te what some hassled par-
tiers think, campus police officers
are not out looking for students who
are drinking or smoking pot, ac-
cording to Chief Paul Harrison.
“We’re nothisiting is seeking,” he
said. “If we do cane across a
situation, then we will make the
arrest."

Harrison also said that it is im-
possble to control the use of alcohol
and marijuana. “But we can deter
them,” he said, “through visbility
andmakingarrests. The fear is still
there."

As for obtaining alcohol, Harrison

believes that students who are un-
derage have fake [Us “I am sure
that the liqutr stores know that they
are selling to students who are
underage,”lesaid,“bitifthey have
the ID, then the stores have no
reason not to sell it to them."

According to campts police Lt.
Terry Watts, the amount of alcohol
and marijuana-related arrests
hasn‘t changed some last semester.
From September to the middle d
October, there have been 10
marijuana arrests. 'Ihe maja'ity d
those have been made in Kirwan II
and Kirwan III.

There have been eight public
intoxication arrests made during the

Continued on page 3

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University of Kentucky
Lexington, Kentucky

Globe grappler

Jim Barber lends a chivalrous hand as he replaces a Ight fixtta'e at
the Lexington Civic Center. Barber, a Civic Center enployee.

replaced the globe after it was knocked off by a truck. Why it dlth't
break when it hit the ground. nobody knows.

Aspiring UK students may plan their own 'star trek’

By RICHARD MCDONALD
Kernel Staff Writer

“Space, the final frontier...”

From Edgar Rice Burroughs and
Jules Verne to Sar Wars and Star
Trek, the exploration and settlement
of outer space has beena tantalizirg
dream in this society.

For some, however, the
colonization of outer space '5 more
thana dream. I). Steve Babiak, a
staff member at the Federal Ad-
diction Research Center on
Leestnwn Pike, thinks the time has
come to seriously plan for the
establishment of colonies in outer
space. He is cmsidering starting a
“space colony club" at UK next
semester for those interested in

learning rmre about the subject.

According to Babiak, serious
interest in the settlemert of order
space is growirg, especially in
universrties in the northeast. There
are clubs of the type he wants to
start at MIT and Princeton
University. Babiak called Dr.
Gerrard O’Neil d Princeton “the
main expert” on space colonization

O’Neil recently proposed building
a settlement between the moon and
Earth by the end of thecentury. The
station would have two purposes: to
serve as a huge solar power con-
verter and to act as a {rototype for
later, larger stations

The cobny would be bu‘lt in a
position known as L-5, a stab'mary

’ ..we could use the Earth as

a park, since all the farming

could be done on the colonies...’

place where the gravity of Earth '3
balanced by that of the moon The
material for the station would come
from mineson the moon Accordirg
toO'Neil, early minirg camps would
be established on the rmon whee
mineral ores would be stripmined.

The ore wodd be transferred to

the site of the colory by catapulting
it into another position where the
gravity is eqmlized, called L-2.
There a transfer sls'p would retr'eve
it andtake it to thecmstruction site.

At the site, the ore would be
processed in smaller space stations
similar to, but larger than, the

present SkyLab stations. These
small stat'nns world also horse
about 2,000 construction wa'kers.

O’Neill estimates tie project cost
at more than $0 lillion However,
he said this cost will be recovered in
about 30 years through the
marketing of electricity beamed to
the Earth fran the staticn. The
electricity would be generated by a
five-smaremile solar cell, then sent
to the surface throrgh microwave
transmissions.

Babiak said the mposed station
could be in orbit by the year 2000 if
planning starts this decade. He said
the successive generations if space
cobnies would be much larger,
holding up to a million people

Eventually, according to O’Neil,
the space colonies could support up
to 10 billion people, with orly one
billion left on earth. Babiak said,
“Then we could use the Earth as a
park, since all the farming could be
done on the colonies ”

Babiak said he hopes many
students and faculty men'bers at UK
will express some interest in the
space coiory club. He enphasiaed
that the project would involve not
only the natural sciences, but also
the social sciences and agriculture

“This is one of the most ’n-
teresting areas in science today. I
hope many pmﬂe will take in-
terest,” he said.

“...to boldly go where no man has
gme before."

~today

Coach of the Year

l-‘ran Curci was named Southeutern Conference Coach 11 the Year by the
Associated Press yesterday. It was the second such hour for Curcl. who
was named Unled Press Interndloaal SEC Coach of the Year h Ids fist

season at UK. Curci guided the Wildcats to a 10-1 record and seventh-
plsce list.

world

SOUTH AFRICAN PRIME MINISTER JOHN
VORS'I‘ER yesterday haied his reca'd ehction
victory as a resounding eniorsement of apartheii
anda rejection of US. “meddling” in South African
affairs. The leader of the new liberal opposition
warned of a “hardening d race attitudes." “I‘m
deeply thankful, very very deedy thankful, that ties
has happened," said Vorsta, whose campaign
consisted largely of defiant attacks on the United
States for backing the UN arms embargo against
South Africa and criicizing Pretoria‘s polcies is
race segregatbn.

HARDIJN E ARAB LEADERS ASSEMBLED 'll
Tr'poli, Ubya yesterday for a Libyan~sponsored
“summit of resistance” to break the momentum of
Egyptian President Amer Sadat’s bold new peace
overtures toIsraet “No negotiatims, no settlemm
no recognition." read fresh signs almg the palm-
linedstreets of Tripoli, reflecting the intranstence
of Libyan leader Moammar Khadafy.

nation

ﬂ‘IENTISTS IN IDS ANGELES ANNOUNCED

yesterday that for the ﬁrst time they have suc-
ceeded in using artiﬁcial genes to “order" a ha:-
terium to poducea hormone norrnallyfomd oniy in
higher an'mals. ’lhe breakthroigh, ha'led as a
“scientifictriumph of the firstorder" by the head of
the National Academy of Sciences, paves the way
for cheaper, pts'er insulin andother horrnonelnsed
medicines.

VICE PRFSDENT WALTER MONDALE denied
yesterday in Cinchnati that he had differed
strongly with Zbigniew Brzezinski, national
security adv'aor, whoreportedty il'gedthd the US.
go slow on the Cairo Peace Conference. "Idon't
know where that story came fran. It is not true.
”there is no basis toit," Mondale said. “We were all
'n complete agreement that we should smart the
conference," Mondale said.

state

POLICE CALLED 0N STATE AND FEDERAL
AGENCIES yesterday to check a Kentmlrian's
chim thata stolen arrowheai colection was (listed
with radioactive material that cwidcataeillnus or
death for the thieves Bill Dies of Park City. wl'n
reporhd the arrowhead collection sblen slang widi
other inms. told police heha‘l dusted the colecIon

(‘ompled frsrn Associatd Prue diqatchea

and theglasscase in which it hung on the wall wih
“8-12" uranium.

KENTUCKY HOUSE SPEAKER WILLIAM
KENTON said yeserday le favors charging die
state Constitution to allow legslators more time 'n
office before their first General Assembly sasbn.
The Lexington Democrat‘s ﬂan would provide for
election of House am Senate members in even
numbered rather than odd-mmbered years.

THE STATE AND THE NUCLEAR
I-INGN l-IERNG C0. ( NECO) were unwle to reach
an agreement on the shutdown d the Maxey Flat
nuclear dsposal site by the Dec. I targt dab.
NECO, which operates the Fleming County facility
untbra lease with the state, agreed hst Septmber
to a two-year shutdown of the controversial sits a:
order that its longrange safety hr storiru buried
nucbar waste cmld be studied.

weather

TODAY WILL BE MOSTLY SUNNY with a hub
in heumerto’s. Toni'itwill be clesrwitha bw h
the uppe- ms to low 30s. Tomorrow will be partly
cloudy with ahigh in theupperso’s tolowso’a

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Being a winner puts Hall on hot seat

This is a story about a basketball
coach.

Everygame is a new diallenge for
him. He works h'mself intoa frenzy,
shouting tirections at the offense,
coordnating the defense, brow-
beating the referees and screaming
encouragement.

He really kmws lis basketball.
He‘s studied it for years, even

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prayed some. But there‘s jtst one
problem His wordsgo unheeded. He
has no team. He sits in section 113,
row 7. seat 38. The only person who
hearsh'ls ranting pearls of wis (hm is
in seat 39.

This is another story about
another coach He, too, screams and
hollers, reacts and directs, plots and
plans. But he has a captivated
audience—i4 adolecsents whose
main calling in life is todo what this
man tells them to do

He has been Southeastern Con-
ference Coach of the Year and
runnenip for National Coach of the
Year.

And he worls in a pit, surrounded
by23,(llt) expats, like the one in seat
38. who scrutinize and critique his
every move.

0
Joe B. Hall is on the hot seat.

He shrugs it off with a small. aw-
shuclts grin that could mask a tidal

We’re treating the animals

WASHINGTON— A minor league
uproar got itself precip'tated when
two dolphins named Kea and Puka
wereliberatedfrom the tanks where
they lived and were the subjects of
experiments conducted by a
University (f Hawaii psychologist.

Although no one has accused Kea
and Puka’s testers with being cruel
to them, the seagoing mammals‘
alleged liberattrs contend keep’ng
such saisitive and intelligent beings

wave of emotion. And perhaps
honestly. It's been five years since
he replaced a living legend, who
practically had to be dragged a way.
kicking and screaming. Itcould be
that Hall's hide has thickened to a
point where he can roll with the
punches wrthout feeling like he he
to prove something.

For really the first time since he
has held the reins at UK, Joe Hall is
coaching a team that could. no,
makethat SHOILD win the national
championship. This conclusion
comes, not fromthis typewriter, bit
from the UK fans who ache for a
return to perpdual dominance that
will never come again.

(lone are the days when a national
contender could be produced with
some genetic imbalance who only
neat to havehis shoes tied for him
and a shove in the right direction.
Coaches don't talk now about a
dominant player. So much is today’s
talent and so eve nly spread that they
talk about teams that can go eigit
and nine deep

Hall‘s first sqrad, a group of Wide-
eyed sophomores who as freslmen
won the national rookie title, had to
scramble to win the cmt'crence and
then lost in the Mideast Regional
to urnamc Ill.

His second group suffered through
a nightmarish 13-1.; season that had
the players bickering over who
dropped the strip in the slnweis.

Then came The Resurgence, the
secondpiacc finish. But the super
somsturiiedsvniors who came to
be known as the Slaughterhouse
Five crashtxl the Final Four in the
slot meant for Bobby Knight’s IU
Big RedBlitzkrieg. Kentucky wasn‘t
SUPPOSED to do it that year. It was
a pleasant surprise.

lion cubs do have an embarrassmgly
nonurgent aspect to them. But
many values go to making up a
society, and the ones conceming
animals areimportant to this on As
a people, we‘re animal happy. For
an urban-suburban tribe, the degree
to which animals figure in our art
and entertainment is astounding.
Television programming is loaded
with animal and wildlife features
aimed at audiences of every age.

Nicholas Von Hoffman

in a saltwater Slammer without due
process is wrong The psyclnlogist
contends the manumission of
dolphins who don‘t belong to you is
grand theft, cetecean.

(For more on this matter see the
Oct 14 issue of New Times
magazin e—“Should This Dolphin Be
Set Free" by Arthur Lubow.,

Thr treatment accorded the
dolphins is but part of the larger
question on how we ought to treat
every sort of animal, although given
the treatmentof black human bemgs
in Soweto and white ones in Moscow,
controversies about being nice to

The sentiment in favor of protecting
various kinds of animals is
ferocious. as any politician who has
had to deal with the killing of wild
horses or baby seals will tel you. No
animal, no matter how exotic and
unlovable. i.e., the alligator, will fail
to win a lobby for itself once it is
announced that the spec'es is in
danger of extinction.

(‘uddly feeling
This passion goes quite beyond

ordinary ecological or conservatim
concerns It’sa special feeling many

The next season fraught another
mini—slump thathappily was righted
with an NIT championship.

Still fresh in everyone’s mind '5
last season’s disappointment.
Kentucky rested all its hopes onthe
shoulders of a hot—shooting fresh-
man guard. By tossing ‘em in from
halfcourt, he would relieve the
pressure from the momnoths in the
middle, who could then work their
magic inside and snatch every
rebound. But the freshman, as
freshmen do, felt the pressure, and
Kertucky faltened Folks wanted to
know why.

Now the senio rs freshmen dtring
the runnerup days, are readying
themselves for the last grab at the
brass ring A transfer gmrd with
quickness, brairs and a soft touch
has shored tip the squad.
Everything‘s right for a cham-
pionship.

Already the experts are passing

Americans have about animals, a
totemic feeling, as though they and
the animal are one in some fashion
only understood completely by the
late Walt Disney.

He, more than anyone else who
comes quickly to mind. taught us
that animals are really cuddly,
idealized people or that the better
sort of petple are really cuddly
animals.

Our anthropomorphizing animals
doesn’t always seem to have gotten
our four—footed or feathered friends
good treatment. The English, who
adore animals but don‘t identify
with them. evidently are kinder to
them.

liid you know, for instance that
some zoos sell anin‘als, especially
big cats. to big game hmters, who
then stage phony hurts with them?

PeterBattert the author of Living
Trophy (Thomas Y. Crowell
t‘ompany, New York, 1976), in
terviewcd a man in Belize, Central
America. who explained how the
business is done: “Some jaguars
come from New Orleans...

Sometimes the cats don’t want to be
free, but run back in the cage. 'Ih
animals were afraid,and that's why
they went back into the cage. One

opinion. “You know what?” seat 38
says to39. " IfJoedon’t win itall this
year, that'll be it for him. Gooooood
bye." Seat 39, an expert himself,
nods.

Just like that. If you DON’T win
the national title, ifyou DON’T beat
odds that can be no better that one
in 10, you‘re out of a job.

But Hall, sitting in his office,
smiles.

‘That‘s just fine with me...if I
don’t win it, fire me,” he says,
grinning. “That‘s a tough thing to
put on a team or a guy. There are a
lot of great coaches today who
hav en‘t won the fast one, or been to
the Final Four. "

Because of Johnny Wooden’s
selfishness, very few, if any, active
coaches have won the NCAA tour-
ney. Only a handful, Hall among
them. has won a regional.

“It's a combination of events,"
Hall says. ‘Good talert, coaching, a

guy came on the planewith the same
cat he killed.“

Since most zoos are nonprofit,
tax-supported enterprises, they are
given a special respect. Zoos are
regarded as at least quasi-
cducational. althorgh in fact they,
like many another modern
educational endeavor, are in the

twilight zone between mild
pedagogy and outright en-
iertainment.

If Marlon Perkins is a serious
scientist and edrcator, then Mutual
of Omaha rs a philanthropic foun-
dation and Bambi ”s a documentary
movie on the grazing habits of the
North American ibex

Competitive business

It’s no wonder that Batten has
been able to find zoological gardens
boasting staffs which inckide titles
like curator of marketing, curator of
foods and beverages and curator of
gifts and souvenirs.

Ordinarily. givirg oneself a fancy
illlt‘ like professor of mixology or
PhD. in human interrelatimship is
for the purpose of increasirg the
gate: in this instance thorgh, you
have to wonder if the bearer d the

healthy team, luck...”

When he issues the if-I-don’t—win-
fire-me clnllerge, it must be taken
with the same type of wry smile

from whence it came. Hallis totally
devotedto UK. and has beensirtce he
was a little feller.

“I used b usher at football games
as a Boy Scott andlusedto come to
Lexingtonjustto gt! a glimpse of a
basketball player," says the Cyn-
thiana native.

Hall put in two years as a hen
chwarmer on the Fabulous Five
team, finished his playing career at
the University of the South and
returned to graduate from UK.

“fin an alumnts," he says.
“There’s nothing an alumnus can
say to me that Ican‘t sayto mysdf. I
understand the program and I care
about it in a different way. I’m in a
different position, wherel can do
something about it.

“I feel very strongly for the
Kentucky trogram. Very few have
the background I have.”

H's talent for handling irossure
can be traced to his hiyi school
coaching days at Sherriertdsville.

‘ “My first year in high sclnol

coaching on the other side of the
stacked groceries at the store, I
heard a lot of commerts...usually
from people not lmowlegable about
the game and who never coached."

Hall would hear brilliant
suggestions, such as: “I wouldn’t
have MY kids walk or double-
dribble.” Like it was planned
strategy. And: “Don't they ever
practice free throws? "

While some of us would answer,
“No, lady—we usually just wing it
from the foul line," Hall sm'les.

His first stint as a college head
coach saw Hall take tiny Regs
College (pop. 650) in Denver to a

as ani

title of curatorofgifts andsouvenirs
is working for an institution that
isn‘t sure of its place in a highly
competitive world.

For the animals the restlts leave a
great deal to be desired. Batten has
uncovered innumerably pitiable
cases of mistreatment through
neglect, ignoranceand a shortage of
funds because the money has to go

berth in the smdl college tour-
nament during his initial season.
Except the college president
wouldn‘t allow his team to make the
trip. “Hedidn‘t wantoursclnoltobe
associated wiht those other small
schools," Hall said.

So Regis went major college,
playing the likes of Detroit, whenit
had Dave Debusschere and
Creigtton, with Patti Silas. Under
Hall, Regis knocked off unbeaten,
fourth-ranked Oklahoma State,
when it was coached by the legen-
dary Hark Iba. But the pressure
there coildn't compare. Codd it?

“You wouldn‘t believe it, but it
was worse," he says. “We were
trying to build a program.”

At Kentucky, he took over a
thriving one and sought to improve.
He prepared hinself by reading hate
mail. “Coach Rupp didn't read his.
His secretary screened his. When I
came in, I kept Jane Rollins on and
she wanted to screen mine, btit I told
her no, I wanted to read it. I had to
become immune, and the ony way
was to get errposrre. I wanted Ire
toughnes that came from it.”

Hall saves the nasty notes and
press clippings (“I think it’ll some
day make an interesting book”).
They serve as occasional reminders
that help keep thth in a healthy
perspective.

“It’s a sign of 'nterest,” he says
“I really think those people
psychologically about die when we
loseThey’remoreorless saying out
Ioudthat they can‘t standit when we
lose. I’m a little tint way myself.”

Andthenhesmiledthatawshucks
smile.

Dick Gabriel is the Kernel managing
editor and his column appears every
other week.

male

for crowd pleasing stunts and
displays.

Thus we have the picture of the
sea lion whose ﬂippers are covered
with fungus becatse the zoo didn't
realize suchcritters mustlive in salt
water.

———Letters——

Help!

The Student Govemment Used

Book Exclnnge is in desperate need
for vdmteer hep. The Student
Senate will decide whether or not to
continue the book exchange bmed
upon the number of volunteers fomd
by noon next Monday.

To date only 12 volunteers lave
come forth. Twelve students cannot
pl“ off a project of this size for
22,000 other students.

The Used Book Exclnnge has
been praised by many students as a
way to save dollars on the ever
rising cost of bodts. Students saved
literally thousands of dollars last
year. This year we hope to offer
students a streamlined version of
the exchmp and increase our
capacity to hande bodts by 100
percert.

But the program may mt “that”
witlliut student support.

Become 'ltterated! Become iri-
volved (even one hair of your time).
Let us know ya: want a bod ex-
change. Call our ofthe at 257-391 or
cane by room m d the Student
Center.

Mark A. Bemon
Studeiu Center

No help

l’dlllne to comment on the recoil
ﬁre tit King Library.

I happuied to be studying in the
stack section of the secortd floor at
the time the ﬁre alarm went off.

My primary conccn heredoa not
lein the ellm'nntlon ofolck prnnh,
who wtl mfortunueb nlwnyo be a

.part of college life. I queotlon the

library staff'sefforh h denim and

assisting library occupants in
evacuating the budding,

Not ore staff member bothered to
cmcern h‘mself with the fact that
there might have been a rumber of
handicapped students present, who
may have needed assistance in
leaving the building

Many people in the library ignored
the bells and just kept on “lodting”
Had the fire been set-tom, quite a
few students m'uht have been hurt.

I feel that the students and the
staff sham take a more serious
view on such inciderts.

Ken Hick:
Graduate Student
Colege of Social Professions

A tribute

For time of us who knew Rick
Hilb, we lost a very dear friend.

If you were ever in a jam you
didn’t have tolodt very for because
Rick was always right there do‘mg
all he caild to g6 you or: of it. It
would get to the point where he
would even be reckless about it
became he didn’t give a dann, just
as long as he knew he was in there
giving you a hand.

His acoomplislmenta were many
as he guided Tritity High School to
two consectdive Kentucky footbdl
titles it 1972 and 1973. He was as
motbst an athlete as we will ever
know. Never once did we hear him
lug about h'n feats u there were
many.

For those of II who knew hlrn let
to be thankful for living the op-
porttlily. He wll always hold a
ﬂace in air memories.

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semester. The popular spot
for those arresu was the
tennis cou‘ts on Complex
Drive.

Boltlethrower caught

But UK pdice have found
worse criminals with which to
contend, like the bottle-
thrower at the UK-Tennossee
football game.

On Nov. 19, with 30 secmtb
left in the last quarter, a
person sitting in the upper
deck threw an empty half-
p’nt wh‘skey bottle down into
the lower decks. It struck
Mrs. Join Booth (f Wayne,
W. Va., raidering her un-
conscious.

Booth, 52, was taken b the
UK Medical Center where she
was treated for a laceration
on her head that required six
stitches.

Yesterday, UK Police
Detectives Henry Huff and
Robert Bastin arrested
Robert J. Pants, 22, of
Louisa, Ky. in connection
with the incident. Painter is
charged with first degree
wanton endangerment.
pun‘shable by one to five
years in prism.

The investigation started
afterUK police got a tip from
an eyewitness who used to be
a state trooper. ﬁom there,
Huff and Bastin talked to
other individials, including
one of Painter’s friends.

Painter, who is being held
in the Fayette County
Detention Center on a $7,500
bond, refused to commert on
the incident.

Fitting out the fires

This semester there have
been several bulletin board
fires reported in the
Cooperstown complex UK
police say that there have
been 11 sinceOct. 25. The last
occurred on Nov. 29.

A nine-year-old juvenile
has been arrested in con
nection with the Cooperstown
ﬁres. Harrison said that the
UK police believe there is
another person involved in
the crimes.

This person is currently
under investigation and the
police have not yet gathered
emugh substanial evidence to
make an arrest.

There have also been three
trash can ﬁres in the M1.
King Library this year.
Harr'son said he thinks that
the Cooperstown and lbrary
fires are related. “At this
time,” in said,“ we can’t
prove it."

Gummed Goose

UK senior forward Jack (iivesn seems to have the situation well in
hand with enough towels and enough gum at a recent L'K practice
Givens and his mates take on the arch-rival bindiana "now To
Monday night in Rupp Arena.

Government acqurtted
in Hyden disaster suit

CATLETI‘SBURG (AP)—
A federal judge ruled
Thursday that the govern-
ment was not liable for
damages in connection with
the Hyden mine disaster in
eastern kentucky.

US. Distrcit Judge H.
David Hermansdorfer ruled
againsta $6.8 suit againstthe
federal Bureau of Mines now
the Mining Enforcment and
Safety Administration.

The suit was filed by the
families of25 of the38 miners
killed in the Dec. 30, 1970,

explosion at Finley Coal to. 's
1V0. 15 and 16 mines at Hyden
and by the sole survivor of the,
blast.

The plaintiffs claimed the
Bureau of Mines was
negligent in inspecting the
mines prior to the blast.

The case went to trial here
in June. but the plaintiff‘s
attorneys asked lien
mansdorfer to delay a
decision while they field
additional briefs arguing
their case.

The plaintiffs contended

throughout the trial that the
llurcau ol Mines had a
lllrlndlilﬁl‘y (nit; :Jmspett the.
mines. that lli‘.‘ agency had
tailed to carry out that duty.
and that the; failure was a
elm-ct cause oi the c xplusion

'l’lic explosion was at-
tributed it) ignition of coal
(his? siespzndeil u. die on
lizSKlt- the mine

:‘ll'llillﬂVS tor the widows
co‘tii'ﬁtli‘d the Bureau of
times should have noted
irtcessitc accumulation of
noal dust in the in-
ieir-onnccted liliilt'F..

Andrus approves new oil pipeline

WASHINGTON (AP)—
Interior Secretary Cecil
Andrus gave tentative ap-
proval Thursday for con-
struction of the nation‘s first
west—to-east oil pipeline
designed to carry Alaska
crude oil from California to
Texas.

The 1,026—mile pipeline
from Whitter Narrows, Calif.,
to Midland, Texas would be

built and operated buy
Standard Oil Co. of Ohio. It
would carry 500,000 barrels of
oil daily.

From Midland. the oil could
be sent via existing pipeines
to refineries in the Midwest.
East and along the Gulf
Coast, lrterior Department
officials said.

They also are supporting
construction of a “northem

border" pipeline to carry
Alaska crude across the
northern tier d the L'nited
States.

The Alaska oil pipeline
within Alaska is ixpccted to
curry 1,2 million barrcb :‘ii‘oil
daily when it becomes lolly
operational.

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KEATUCKY KERNI‘L, Friday, December 2. l977~3

VA tells universities:
watch attendance

Continued from page i

changes of a veteran's
academic s. talus. such as non
attendance or withdrawal,
Within Ill) days of those
changes

‘icavcr cxplauied that the
VA adiiscs universities that
it they fail to l‘ulfiil thrse
responsibilities. they risk
liming VA atcrulitatio'i and
cuild bi- ‘itilIy‘t'l to liability
sorts brought by the VA
Veterans at tinl;:.'crc(litcd
schools lu~c {ht-1F education
benefits; tiicrctorc. veteran
ciirollrricnt declines

The VA doesn't rcquirr
win crsrtics to dense special
attcndanre policies to
de-termnu- which veterans
art :ltteirling classes and
which are not. Scavcr said
But. he d'lt’lt‘d. the VA (this
direct. that "some means
must he developed to monitor
attcridanci~ The VA.
hoot-yer, dot-ant make any
rcconinn'ndatixins on now to
accomplish that "

And at a uniicisity as large
as lTK iILonitoring (ll-
tcndaricc =s next to ini<
{lhclbit’ Stun or said that. in
a meeting hr attended in
nothingtnn last February,
oil'iciais from ~tate univer-
srtics of comparable size to
['K lamented "'l'lere's no
‘.."t:.‘ H

On a campus ot “32.000
students root) ol whom
rccciu‘ \clcrans‘ benefits.
how do you 'notn'or at
ti'ndancc" tit-aver said it
large classes. he noted.
taking roll is simply not
t‘tos‘llih

Nee-pine track of veterans
attendancc Seaver
snugesrmi would require
separate acadcn‘ni. records
to: veterans. “Who‘s goingto
pa). tor this?" he said. “The
money that the 1A provides
us is insufficient to devclq)
the sophisticated records
'r't'i‘iilt‘i‘g that would be
nccc :51: [V .”

St'HVQI‘ said that, because of
“ulliplalllts from unit ersities.
‘Jie YA placed :1 moratorium
ill?! April on repayment by
sitiocls in ovcrpayment
situations in which the

schools are considered
responsible.
ti stead. the H. is now

taking: up overpayment
matters more often with the
individual veteran than with

209 E. High St.

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the universrty ﬁcaver said.

"l‘ln; rcspotriliihty lies
with the individual" is the
VA} «intent twinning. A
lull tirncstudent veteran with
no dependants. for example.
rt‘t‘t‘th'S $3” per month;
(hm-ks art-sentdirectly to the

veteran The VA expects that
money to be applied to the
cost of education

“The VA is cracking do