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Tuesday Evening, October 28, 1969

UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY, LEXINGTON

Vol. LXI, No. 45

Dr. Forth Trades
Barbs With Bright
By HAZEL COLOSIMO
Kernel Stall Writer
"Haven't you beat this thing

Dr. Forth added that it is
"easy" to make the president
aware of issues if the person
about to death?"
supporting them is a well known
This remark by Dr. Stuart campus leader rather than an unForth, vice president for student known.
If the President does not know
affairs, keynoted the Student
Government Student Services the good or bad points of a cerCommittee meeting Monday tain issue, then it is like "spinnight, featuring Dr. Forth as ning wheels" to try to tell him,
final guest speaker in a continu- Dr. Forth stated.
The vice president explained
ing investigation of a "communication gap" between students his position in regard to transand the Singletary administramitting viewpoints to Dr. Singletion.
tary, by saying he tells the presIronically, this meeting con- ident all he knows regarding a
ceived for the purpose of im- particular issue, and that then
proving any communication gap the president makes his own debetween students and the ad- cision.
ministration became at one point
Whether another administraa heated verbal battle between tor making the president aware
committee chairman Steve Bright ot the issue would cause him to
and administrator Forth.
decide one way or another would
remain to be seen, emphasized
Many Viewpoints Involved
Dr. Forth.
Not all student viewpoints
President's 'Creature'
are transmitted to President Singletary, Dr. Forth said, because
Regarding his temporary po"when you talk of student view- sition as vice president for stupoints, many thousand view- dent affairs, Dr. Forth saw the
points are involved" and the large man filling the position permanumber makes viewpoint trans- nently as being "the president's
mission impossible.
creature; only the president can
On the same topic, chairman make him and only the president
Bright asked why "those few" can break him."
who are actively involved in UniA committee formed to help
versity affairs are also unable recommend a new vice president,
to express their views.
the American Association of UniEarlier this year, Bright reversity Professors Student Adportedly had been refused ad- visory Committee (AAUPSAC),
mittance to Dr. Singletary 's of- was characterized by Dr. Forth
fice. The refusal was partly re- as "not a selection committee
sponsible for the formation of and not a search committee."
the investigating committee.
He noted that the purpose
Dr. Forth replied that com- of the committee was to advise
munication with the president the president as to its nominee,
"comes down to style and judge- and that it was a "one-sho- t
deal,
ment," that if a group of stu- either he takes it or not, no
dents are merely "all worked prestige lost."
Committee member Penningup" over what they feel is a
matter for the president, a meet- ton asked Dr. Forth what he
ing with Dr. Singletary might would do if a student proposed
"get the president leaping in a nominee to whom Forth obgleefully with both feet with no jected. Dr. Forth's stand was
Continued on Pace S, CoL 1
real knwledge on the subject."
The problem in communication "is when to pass the information on or report it to the
Queen Vote
president," said Dr. Forth.
Voting for the 1969 HomeBuck Pennington, committee
coming Queen started today and
member and Student Government
will end at 4 p.m. Wednesday.'
representative, asked how disaThe
located at the Comgreeing viewpoints "should be merce polls, Chemistry-Physic- s
Building,
handled" in regard to reporting
Building and Student Center,
to the president.
will be open from 9 a.m. to 4
Forth Stresses Form
p.m. both days.
Dr. Forth again stressed.form
In order to vote, a student
and manner for groups wishing must present his ID and activity
to make the president aware of card. This will allow the voter
their viewpoints. He added that to cast his lot for three different
it is "easy to whomp up an girls.
emotional issue."

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Dr. Stuart Forth (left), acting vice president for Student Affairs,
got involved in a heated verbal battle with Student Government
Representative Steve Bright, right, at Monday night's meeting of
the Student Services Committee. Ironically, Forth's presence was
due to a committee study on the lack of communication between
Students and administrators.
Kernel Photo by Ken Weaver

VP Selection Procedure Draws
Criticism From Haggin Speaker
By JIM FUDGE
Kernel Staff Writer
The selection of the new Vice
President for Student Affairs was
called a "farce" by Student Government Representative Steve
Bright at the Haggin Hall Forum.
The Monday night forum was
the first in a three night series
.

to be presented at Haggin Hall
concerning the relevancy of Student Government.
Steve Bright, Buck Pennington, and Jerry Legere were the
featured speakers at the Monday forum, which dealt with relevancy of Student Government to
student affairs.
Bright spoke of his meeting
with Dr. Alvin Morris, Chairman of the Advisory Committee
to assist the President in the selection of Vice President for Student Affairs. Bright told the
Forum that in his one hour meeting with Morris, Morris refused
to meet with the Student Government Committee of the Whole
because Student Covemment
would not deal with him and his
committee in "good faith."
"This is a perfect example
of how frustration can lead to aggressiveness on the part of students," Bright claimed.

Buck

Pennington,

Student

Covemment' Representative,
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spoke on the
purpose
of Student Government. Pennington said the first purpose deals
in "abstracts," such as the investigation into the selection of
the Vice President for Student
two-fol-

Affairs.

The second purpose is one of
student services. He said it is the
only central place students can go
for changes in student affairs,
from "dormitory meals" to "bicycle racks." Pennington urged
all students to bring any problems to Student Government in
order that Student Government
could help correct the problems.

Legere said that this year there
will be more push for student
activism and interest in student
affairs. He also said that Student
Covemment "can't really be a
dominating factor, but it can be
active and interested in student
affairs."
According to Carl Brown
Haggin Hall president, the main
purpose of the three day forum
is to expose Haggin residents
to Student Covemment, with the
hope that some will decide to
take an active part in Student
Covemment.
The students attending the
first session in the series numbered
approximately twenty.
Brown expressed disappointment
in the turnout, but expects attendance to increase for the two

Jerry Legere, also a Student
Covemment Representative, discussed the increased activism this following sessions.
year in Student Government. He
The Tuesday night session
said this year Student Governwill feature Student Covemment
over 40 bills, an
ment has passed
President Tim Futrell and some
increase from the 80 bills passed of his cabinet members.
are
last year. This year there
The final meeting Wednesday
many investigations being carried
out by Student Covemment com- evening will present critics from
mittees such as the current in- outside Student Covemment, investigation on the University cluding Frank Shannon, a memBookstore and the investigation ber of the Students for a Demregarding refrigerators in dorm- ocratic Society Steering Committee.

itory rooms.

UK Student Seeks Clues To Beatle Mystery
By BARBARA HORTON
And
DAN COSSETT
Kernel Staff Writers

Is Beatle Paul McCartney dead?
Rumors to that effect are spreading like wildfire all
over the world. The situation has gotten so far out of
hand that even a photograph taken of McCartney at
an English railway station hasn't quited the speculation.
Dissatisfied with the results of national investigations,
a group of UK students tried their hand at unraveling
the mystery. After arguing about the rumors, Joe Wood,
senior in Education, decided that the only way to get
call Paul MCartney.
any concrete answers was to
to reach McCartney in
After an abortive attempt
in London who
Liverpool, Wood spoke with an operator the
enigmatic
refusal to complete a collect call to

Rumor Originated In Detroit
Beatle lovers claim that the rumor
Many
disc jockey discovered
originated when a Detroit-base- d
calls daily."
Wood Writes Letters
symbolic references to death in several Beatle albums
and album covers.
Still undaunted, Wood wrote letters to Queen ElizAt this point, a host of rumors about the rumor have
abeth and the British Home Secretary inquiring as to
McCartney's health. Wood said, "I wrote those letters sprung up. One stody currently circulating tells of a group
because I felt that if these sources entered the issue, of students in California who discovered the ominous
secret of McCartney's alleged death, and then disapthe truth would have to be revealed."
he has as yet received no replies to his peared from the face of the earth.
Although
Another theory says that there is a London phone
letters, Wood now believes that McCartney is alive.
number hidden on the cover of the album "Magical
even conflicting stories on how the rumor
There are
staMystery Tour." If a person calls that number at 5
began. Recently a Kernel reporter telephoned radio
a.m. Wednesday (London time) he can get authoritative
York City, inquiring as to the validity
tion WABC in New
of the rumor. An operator there flatly denied the truth of information on the existence of Paul McCartney.
The number of rumors and theories notwithstanding,
the rumor citing station officials as her source. She also
claimed that the rumor had originated at WABC. She it is doubtful that speculation on the existence of Paul
would not say why WABC would want to do such a: McCartney will cease until Paul McCartney makes a public appearance.
thing.

Beatle. Wood then asked the operator iT McCartney
was dead, and she replied, "I don't think so; he receives

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KENTUCKY KERNEL, Tuesday, Oct. 28, 19f9

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$25 Million Building Program Revealed
the

first
In a special press conference set. This center will be
called Tuesday, Gov. Louie B. such facility built in the state
of Kentucky since the Frankfort
Nunn rcleaseil a detailed construction schedule for a $25 mil State Hospital which was built
lion building program intended to while Lincoln was president.
Construction of the Somerset
provide the state with 17 new institutions and facilities within Center's residential medical edthe next two years.
ucational and social facilities is
The program is to include four scheduled to begin in the spring,
new institutions for children aswith completion predicted for
signed to the Department of Child 1971.
Another of the scheduled conWelfare, and three schools designed for vocational and special structions is a $4 million Comeducation.
prehensive Vocational RehabiliThe largest project in the protation center, to be erected at
gram is to be a $9.65 million Thelma, near Paintsville. Nunn
"Comprehensive Residential called this "Kentucky's first efTraining Center for the Re- fort at rehabilitating persons who
tarded" to be built at Somer for physical or emotional rea- -

Dr. Stewart Discusses

Kentucky's 'Air Pollution'

Dr. O. W. Stewart, Professor
of Mechanical Engineering and
a member of the Kentucky Air
Pollution Control Commission,
spoke about Kentucky's air pollution problems and aspects of
air pollution control at Monday

night's Environmental

Aware-

ness Seminar.
According to Dr. Stewart,
work on the air pollution problem (on a national level) began
in 1967 with the Clean Air Act.
Through this act the U.S. De-

partment of Health, Education
and Welfare specified 32 regions
of focal concern in regard to air
pollution.

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Campbell, Boone, Kenton and
counties in Kentucky
are "regions of concern."

Jefferson

Stewart said the Kentucky
General Assembly passed an air
pollution law in 1966 outlining
measures for air pollution control.

Kentucky's air pollution control board consists of 11 members:
three from industry; one each
from the general public, UK,
and from an air pollution control agency; and five members
in positions in other governmental agencies.

sons have temporarily lost the
ability to earn a living." The
Paintsville facility is also due to
be completed in 1971.
In addition to these new con-

structions, other building grants

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Included in this program are:
an $800,000 addition to the
Area Vocational School
for training persons in health
services; a similar grant to the
Mayo Vocational School at
Paintsville to train G50 students
in several technical fields; and a
$900,000 grant to build a new
gymnasium at the Louisville
School for the Blind.
The last section of the construction schedule is devoted to
agricultural and recreational developments. A total of $2.3 million is to be spent for improvements at Greenbo Lakes State
Park, Carter Caves State Park,
and Lake Barkely State Park.
Lexington's Coldstream Farm
is scheduled to be the site of a
$1.1 million animal diagnostic
laboratory which the Governor
says "will work closely with veterinarians in private practice and
with the livestock industry in
identifying diseases that afflict
farm animals, horses and pets."
In addition, two new state
police barracks are scheduled for
completion before the "snow falls
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Communication Investigation Continues

Bright, Forth Collide At Committee Meeting

Continued from Tage One
"any I get, I'll transfer with
no editorial comments."

with various faculty and administration officials.
"If the intent of a group is to
get something done . . . you can
get something done and have
some meeting of the minds,"

The communication gap between student and administration could be clarified, in Dr.
Forth's opinion, if informal,
discussions were held

Dr. Forth claimed.
Set Aside One Day

One suggested method of improving communication came
from committee member Connie
Runyon. MissRunyon's idea was
to set aside a day each week
during which issues can be discussed with faculty and administration members.

The only prerequisites involved would be that the issue
to be discussed would be defined
before the meeting and that the
members invited would be aware
of the topic to be discussal.
The SC committee, as soon
as it completes its investigation,
will make a report to the Stu- -

dent Government Assembly of tlie
results of its study.
The next meeting of the committee is planned for Monday.
The issues to be discussed are
study
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conditions, the bus service and
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Editorials represent the opinions of the Editors, not of the University.
JameS W. Miller,

Editor-in-Chi-

Problems With Black Lung!
action recently taken by nected with the miners who suffer
the Kentucky Court of Appeals from the disease. It seems only
points out the severe frustration those in a position to appreciate
faced by those who are struggling the hazards of the occupation are
to eliminate the threat of the dread concerned enough to try to allevi"black lung" disease. This issue ate the situation.
has been a controversial one in '
The fact which makes the case
those areas of the state in which even more distressing is the fact
this disease poses a serious threat that the Workmen's Compensation
to the welfare of the community.
Board refused to appoint a court
Because it is such a common ocdoctor in order to clear up the
cupational hazard, the coal comcontradictory testimony. Such a
refuse to compensate its move reeks of
panies
injustice. However,
workers who are stricken by the there is no
part of the law which
disease, and the insurance comwould force the Board to take such
panies refuse to pay for the costs an action even though there is a
involved in the treatment of the
provision stating the WCB "may"
disease.
direct a doctor to clarify the testiLast week the Court of Appeals mony.
illustrated the difficulties involved
Even though the doctors who
in this area by rejecting the appeal
of Reggie Davis of Wheelwright testified split evenly (according to
in his plea for compensation for who paid their fees), they did
pneumoconiosis which he says he generally agree that the disease was
An

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suffered as a result of some 37
years of working in the coal mines.
The narrow attitude of the court
is indicative of the general feeling
of ..those who are not closely jcon- -

Cease-fir- e

pneumoconiosis or closely resembled it. Even this was not enough
for the court which could find no
connection between 37 years of coal
mining and black lung.

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William Rogers and Defense Secre-

tary Melvin Laird are seemingly
speaking on two different wavelengths. The former says that the
United States forces have, on presidential orders, gone over to "protective reaction." This clearly
means, in broad outline, defense
instead of offense. Secretary Laird
has said, however, that the only
change has been a stepping up

"And when the ransom of 25,000 aircraft
has been delivered, we
and 500
will release y our soldiers."

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Encouraged by an effete corps of impudent
snobs, hardcore dissidents, and professional anarch-99
ists, who characterize themselves as intellectuals.

of the Vietnamizatipn of the war.

Is there, actually, any basic
contradiction between the two secretaries? True, the Defense Secre-- .
tary has knocked down the proposal of the Republican Senate
Leader, Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania, that the United States formally announce a unilateral ceasefire. But, certainly, the term

Viet-namizati- on

has now come to mean

the concurrent moving to the fore
of the fighting forces of Saigon
and the corresponding retirement
of the American forces. This must,
in many instances, result in what
Secretary Rogers called "protective
reaction." Similarly, a present
Pentagon refusal to endorse a formal
cease-fir- e
does not rule out the
presence of an informal one.
We find it hard to believe that
the present lull in Vietnam fighting
in Washington is not also the result
of some kind of an unwritten, unspoken agreement. We have yet
to be given the full story of why
Senators Mike Mansfield and William Fulbright, longtime stiff critics
of the war, made their
statements last Monday. But is it likely either or both
would have done this, had they not
believed that some major turn in
policy direction and effort had
come? This lull may not last. Much
depends upon President Nixon's
eagerly and anxiously awaited Nov.
3 speech. But as of now the
statements are fascinating straws in a calmer wind.
Despite some ragged edges, such
as the Laird statements, there seems
to be a broader consensus at the
top in Washington on the war than
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Despite conflicting statements,
it seems more and more likely
that some kind of an informal
part-wa- y
cease-fir- e
has evolved in
Vietnam. Clearly, the American
forces have markedly cut back on
their former "sweep and clear"
operations, the drop in American
casualties bearing testimony to this.
'At the same time, it is' hard to
doubt the continued reports that
the North Vietnamese have both
cut their own scale of operations
and withdrawn an undetermined
number of troops either from South
Vietnam or at least from the immediate military contact areas
there.
Comment has been made that,
in referring to the present battlefield situation, Secretary of State

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in a long time. Such a consensus
is a crying need. Let us hope it

can be maintained.
Christian Science Monitor

Contrapuntal Conservative
By

JOHN

I view with anger the recent barrage
of criticism dumped upon Richard Nixon.
In light of last week's moratorium, which
was aimed directly at the Nixon administration, it is evident that this criticism
transcends the usual harmless disagreements that abound in the world of politics. If the core of this criticism was the
result of intelligent, objective research,
one would have reason to be less alarmed;
however, the most vicious commentary
made upon the actions of President Nixon
is based upon cheap politicking, flagrant
emotionalism and a brand of journalism
that defies couth behavior.
When Nixon announced the first withdrawal of 25,000 troops from Vietnam a
y
first step toward disengagementa group of opportunists led by
Senator Ted Kennedy called the move
a "token". This charge has been floating
around since that first usage and came to
a particularly noticeable swell during the
tense days before and during the moratorium. This charge, perpetrated by Senator Kennedy, is an example of cheap
politicking in one of its nastiest forms.
Crouping 25,000 human beings together
as a mere token is a despicable misrepresentation. What makes it doubly contemptible is the same charge being levelled
when the second 25,000 man withdrawal
was announced. This 50,000 troop total
would hardly be called "token" by the
100,000 parents, the 150,000 siblings, and
the 200,000 grandparents of those withdrawn. However, for a young senator
aspiring to be president, this is a bombastic way to snap at the heels of the
will be oppresent man in power-wh1972.
ponent to said young senator-in- .
(Few really believe Teddy will let 72
pass by in favor of 7G.)
Flagrant emotionalism is embodied
in those "orators" who stand in public
places to read the names of our war
dead. Occurrences of this nature do not
as far
materialize in North Vietnam
as the North Vietnamese populace knows,
they've had no casualties. No . . . only
in America can this pointless, tasteless,
disrespectful, petty attempt at sincerity
be accommodated. Those whose names
are read died in defiance to totalitarian
denial of rights. Paradoxically, one of
those rights is the right to stand jn a pub
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lic place and read aloud names of your
war dead flagrant emotionalism.
The most galling example of malignant, unobjective journalism can be found
in last week's (Oct. 10) TIME magazine.
The first five pages of that particular
issue were devoted to a blistering attack upon the Nixon administration in the
areas of: the moratorium, the war, the
Haynesworth case and the Green Beret
case. We all know TIME has a nasty
habit of printing opinion as well as fact,
but the overwhelming amount of opinion
in the October 10 issue shows an increasing tendency for our modern, whiz-kijournalists to view their reports in extremely short-terspeculations instead
of long-terprobabilities uncouth journalism.
Only a sliver of our population wants
war for war's sake; Lyndon Johnson and
Richard Nixon are not now, and never
were, in that sliver. The rest, the tremendous majority, are yearning for peace.
The bulk of this majority differs from the
more vocal minority in the following
ways: the majority did not take part in
the moratorium the vocal minority did;
the majority trusts Richard Nixon to
bring about an enduring peace, like that
in Europe has endured since World War
II the minority, whose membership is
mostly the dissenting element of the
young, NOWl
generation, screams,
"Peace, NOWl" with no concern for.
the effects of tliis
policy two, five, ten, fifteen years from
now. Hie NOWl generation came along
a little too late to greet Neville Chamberlain returning f