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THE KENTUCKY

Thursday Afternoon, Nov. 16, 1967

The South’s Outstanding College Daily

UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY, LEXINGTON

 

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Silhouette On A City

Grady Clay, silhouetted against a film projection of an American
city, spoke Wednesday about what he calls “high density living."

He said by the year moo the US.
a “crowded nation'

will be on its way to becoming

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Johnson Offers Goals

For State Universities

By PHIL SEMAS
COLUMBUS, Ohio (CPS)—President Johnson today gave efiresi-

dents of state coll
tion to achieve by 916.

In a tel one hook-up Mr.
Johnson 5 e for about 10 min-
utes to menbers of the Nation—
al Association of State Univer-
sities and Land Crant Colleges
and the Association of State Uni-
versities and Colleges outlining
these goals:

Increasing from half to two-
thirds the number of high school
students who go on to college.

"Let's strike down the last
financial barriers to higher edu-
cation. Let's make it national
policy that you don't have to be
rich to get an education."

”Let us do thesethings with-
out any decline in quality."

Mr. ohnson alsotalkedabout
the pro lems of higher education.
Among them, he said, are the
questions of how the federal gov-
ernment ought to assist students
in breakin down those financial
barriers, ow to develop ex-
cellence in higher education, and
‘how the federal government can

es and universities three goals for higher

uca—

help universities meet their ex-
penses.
Invites Enlistment

The President invited the ed-
ucators to ”enlist in the effort"
to answer these uestions.

He also call on themto seek
more funding from state sources.
He noted that the federal share
of support has increased while
state support has remained the
same.

He said state support of edu-
cation is “not on y a state‘s
right, it is its res nsibility” and
said educators s uld also ask
for more private support, espec-
ially from businessmen.

Although they gave him a
citation for helping move the na-
tion toward the goal of ”educa-
tional opportunity for all," the
educators also intend to ask the
President and Congress for even
more federal assistance for higher
education.

LRC Strikes Blow
At UK Research Unit

FRANKFORT (AP)—The Legislative Research Commission made
a bid Wednesdayto gain control of state funds used for various types
of research. The action was, in part, an apparent rebuff to the

University.

The LRC passed a resolution
by voice vote calling on the 1968
Legislature to provide it with
an aggregate appropriatiOn for
research for which all depart—
ments would make requests.

Currently, agencies use money
for research pretty much as they
please by dipping into their OWn

budgets.
The lone dissenter in the LRC

was Rep. John Young Brown,
D-Lexington, who said that ‘if
the proposal materializes, ”we I]

be looking at every one of these
things through thejaundiced eyes
ofpolitical ambition."

He said he doubted if the
move would be legal anyway.

UK Involved

The action apparently is the
indirect outgrowth of controver—
sies swirling around two agencies
the past year.

One is Spindletop Research
Center, which has beenrgetting
state funds and plenty of legis-

Gonttnned On Page 16, Col. 1

Conspirators Killed JFK,
Haverford Scholar Says

By FREDERICK M. WINSHIP
NEW YORK (UPI)-Anewin-
dependent study of the assassina-
tion of PresidentJohn F. Kennedy
made public today claims the
slaying was a conspiracy and
three gunmen were involved, all
of whom may still be at large.
The major conclusion of a
two-year investigation of the 1963
tragedy by Dr. Josiah Thompson

'of Haverford College, Pa., are

contained in an article in the Sat—
urday Evening Post which will
reach the newsstands next Tues-
day.

The Post, in an editorial,con-
tends that Dr. Thompson ”de-
molishes the Warren Report" and
demands the assassination case
be reopened by the government.

Dr. Thompson, 32—year-old
Yale Phi Beta Kappa scholar who
teaches philosophy, charges that
although the details remain un-
clear, ”the essential outline of
the assassination is now appar—
ent—the ‘one assassin’ finding
of the Warren Commission is
patently wrong; there were four

Maysville
College Is
On Its Way

Universit President John W.

Oswald an COV. Edward T.
Breathitt broke ground for a new
community college at Maysville
yesterday.
' The $1.7 million community
college, when completed in 1%8,
will accommodate about 400 stu‘
dents. A work order to begin
construction on the college will
be issued Friday, Gov. Breathitt
said.

Future plans at the coll e
call for construction of five 2%-
ditional buildings for classrooms,
a library, student center and re-
creational and administrative fa—
cilities.

During the ceremonies Gov.
Breathitt cited "dramatic pro—
gress" in education as the great-
est single achievement in his ad-
ministration.

He said he believed his ad—
ministration has kept faith with
the people in education.

   
   

Poet Robert Creeley read of his own

night before a ac ed Room 906 in t e Student
Center. Mr. Cree ey presented his workaspasonal
experiences, stopping at times to explain the mean-

shots from three guns in six sec-
onds."

Original Research

Some of Dr. Thompson’s con—
clusions are based on original
research in the National Archives,
documents and photos not seen
by the Warren Commission, and
interviews by eyewitnesses.
Others are grounded in further
analyses of material in the War-
ren Report.

The author, whose book “Six
Seconds in Dallas" will be pub-
lished Nov. 27, does not specu-
late on the identities of the ass-
assins or their motivation, but he
does cast doubt on the guilt of
Lee Harvey Oswald. He said Os-
wald was in the Texas School
Book Depository Building and his
rifle was used, but it is ”quite
likely" that he was not the ass-
assin at the sixth-floor window.

Dr. Thompson claims to have
had access to a better print of
Abraham Zapruder's color movie
of the assassination that was
made available to the FBI. An
analysisbf this print, owned by
Life magazine, by a new techni-
que involving superimposition of
sequential pictures and by a dis-
secting microscope provided Dr.
Thompson with data he says in-
dicates:

)Four bullets were fired in
Dallas' Dealey Plaza and all hit
their mark (the Warren Commis—
sion reported three shots, two
hits). The first, a cartridge whose
explosive power was substand-
ard, made a shallow wound in
the President’s back. The second
wounded Cov. John B. Connal—
ly. The third hit President Ken-
nedy's head from behind. The
fourth hit his head from the
front and was fatal.

kThe bullets were fired from
three locations-the sixth floor
of the Depository Building, the
roof of a nearby building, pos-
sibly the Dallas County Records
Building or the Dal-Tex Build—
ing, and the stockade fence be-
hind the grassy knoll at the side
of the plaza.

)The theory that a single bul-
let wounded both President Ken-
nedy and Gov. Connally is er-
roneous. The superior quality Za-
pruder film shows the men were
not struck at the same time but

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ry last

the crowd.

within a short enough time to
eliminate the possibility that the
bullets came from the same gun.

Shadows And Branches

Another amateur motion pic-
ture of the assassination, made
by Orville Nix and taken op-
posite from Mr. Zapruder's po-
sition, showed what appeared on
enlargement to be a man with a
rifle leaning on the roof of a
station wagon behind the fence
on the knoll and pointing to-
ward the cavalcade.

A months—long independent
study of the film by the Itek
Corporation of Lexington, Mass,
one of the nation's top photo-
graphic laboratories, determined,
however, that the "man with the
rifle" was simply a blending of
shadows of tree branches. It also
established that it would have
been impossible for a gunman to
have hit President Kennedy from
the station wagon shown in the
picture.

The author quotes Cov. Con-
nally as saying that to his “ab-
solute knowledge" he was hit
by a different bullet than hit the
President and Mr. Connally is
quoted as saying “no one will
ever convince me otherwise."

Dr. Thompson said the War—
ren Commission, ”recognizing
that to believe the Covemor's
account meant also to believe in
the existence of a second assassin,
put forth its ‘delay reaction' the-
ory" to explain the time lapse
between when the bullet suppos-
edly hit Cov. Connally and his
realization of being hit.

”With few exceptions, all the
evidence discussed in this story
was available to the Warren Com-
mission," Dr. Thompson said.
” But the commission, in its haste,
its uncritical evaluation of the
facts, and its predisposition to
prove Lee Harvey Oswald the
lone assassin, overlooked much
of it."

Charges Commission

Dr. Thompson accused the
commission ofignoring the testi-
mony of at least seven witnesses
who saw gunsmoke in the area
of the stockade fence and one who
said he smelled it. He said the
commission readily accepted an

Continued on Page 6, Col. 2

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lary appeared to make up for his shyness before

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2—THE KENTUCKY KERNEL, Thursday, Nov. 16, 1967

 

But We’re Not Ready Yet

 

Clay F oresees ‘High-Density Life’

By STEVE SMITH
Crady Clay, editor of Land-
scape Architecture Quarterly,
spoke in the Student Center The-
ater Wednesday night about a
growing necessity for ”high den-

sity living’ in American cities.

According to Mr. Clay, high
density living occurs when 12 or
more families live on a single
acre. The average American sub—

Keller Gets SAMLA Post

Dr. John E. Keller, director of the School of Languages and
Letters, and chairman of the Department of Spanish and Italian,
has been elected president of the South Atlantic Modern Language

Association.

The election was held during
the recent SAMLA meeting in
Atlanta. About 3,(XX) members at-
tended.

Dr. Norman H. Binger, UK as-

sociate professor of German, was
elected president of the South
Atlantic chapter of the American
Association of Teachers of Ger-
man at the chapter's 37th annual

meeting, held in connection with
SAMLA.

‘Going To Clear Out
Radicals,’ CSU Says

WILBERFORCE, Ohio
(UPI)—Ofiicials at strife-tom
Central State University, closed
for the safety of the students,
Wednesday began investigating
Black Power elements on the
predominantly Negro campus.

The officials said some stu-
dents may be expelled.

About 600 national guards-
men, on duty at the school since
Monday, were withdrawn. State
highway patrolmen remained to
provide security.

John H. Bustamante, chair-
man of the school’s board of
trustees, said, "We're going to
clean that (Black Power) thing
out.”

He said the closing of the
school “gives us the opportun-
ity” to begin identifying the
Black Power elements.

Dr. Harry Groves, university
president, ordered the school
closed indefinitely following a
wild demonstration Monday
night in which 94 persons were
arrested, nine highway patrol-
men were injured and several
thousand dollars worth of dam-
age was caused to school prop-
erty.

The violence was triggered
by the expulsion last Thursday
of Michael Warren, 21, of Cleve-
land, but school officials said
the Black Power movement was
involved.

 

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“It is not just something to
be shoved aside and dealt with
as a normal student demonstra-
tion,” Bustamante said.

He said the campus Black
Power advocates were a “well-
financed, highly-organized, dis-
ciplined group."

“I don’t think a few people
should be permitted to infringe
upon and restrict the rights of
others. This is undemocratic,"
Bustamante said.

The university's public rela-
tion officer, Jane Strand, said,
“There are only about 20 hard-
core people really behind this.
Most of them have already
identified themselves by their
actions on campus.”

Bustamante added, "They
managed to propel the action,
then go hide.”

The trouble started Monday
morning when Warren returned
to the campus in defiance of a
college order not to return.

CSU officials said Warren had
threatened to "kill" Dr. Rem-
bert Stokes, president of adjoin-
ing Wilberforce University, Nov.
2.

Both Central State, with a
student body of 2,600; and
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families an acre.

By the year 2000, ”We will
be becoming a crowded nation,n
Mr. Clay stated. Our cities will
have to prepare and plan for the
inevitable circumstance of high
density living."

To show how the United
States' increasing population is
affecting the distribution of popu—
lation, Mr. Clay said in 1790
there was an average of 142 acres
of land for every American, in
1900 an average of 25, and in
2000 a predicted average of only
five acres per individual.

Many modern city planners
and architects regard high den-
sity as “the ideal form of resi—
dence," said Mr. Clay. But he
added that ”most Americans are
not ready for the high density
living of many European cities."

The United States, Mr. Clay
said, relies mostly on single fam-
ily units to house its population,
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Campus Promiseuity Believed Rare

By WILLIAM C. HARRISON

STANFORD, Calif. (AP)—Is
sexual promiscuity widespread
on college campuses? No, say
researchers who made a four-
year study of students at Stan-
ford University and the Univer—
sity of California, Berkeley.

“Our investigations do not
confirm the popular stereotype
of widespread sexual promiscu-
ity,” says Dr. Joseph Katz of the
Stanford Institute for the Study
of Human Problems.

“Sexual intimacy, where it
occurs, takes place in the con-
text of a relationship that is
serious rather than casual.”

Establishing more communi-
cative relations is often upper-
most in couples' minds, not
physical contact, he maintains.

Many Don't Date

“There are fairly large num-

bers of students—roughly a third
of the men and a quarter of the
women—who seem to date little
or not at all even as college
seniors," Dr. Katz says. “In spite
of the very favorable male-
female ratio at Stanford, over a
fifth of the women students
seem to have no dates in an
average week in any of the four
college years."

Dr. Katz and 18 other psy-
chologists and psychiatrists an-
alyzed tests and questionnaires
from more than 3,000 members
of the class of 1965, followed
since their freshman days four
years earlier. The researchers
also collected material through
eight in-depth interviews apiece
wit a cross section of 250 stu-
den from college entrance
through graduation.

Findings are incorporated in
a BBB-page report, recently re-

leased, entitled "Crowth and
Constraint in College Students."
It is one of the most massive
such studies ever made.

The research was jointly
financed by the Danforth Foun—
dation and the US. Office of
Education. It included personal-
ity development, student at-
titudes toward teachers and
courses, relationships with fel-
low students and parents, oc-
cupational choice and college
life development of personal
values.

Choice By Default

The students often don’t learn
to use their reasoning capacities
with development problems they
face, he adds, and often make
major life decisions, including
choice of careers and marriage
partners, by default.

“Just Asked To Leave,’ Miss Pond ‘,
Says Of Two Student ‘Peddlers’

Actions by University police-
men Tuesday night in asking
two students to tease passing
out literature in Complex A
were clarified Wednesday by
University Administrators.

Rosemary Pond, dean of
residence hall programming,
said the two students, Thom Pat
Juul and Steve Fruth, were not
threatened with arrest, but were
"asked to leave."

Juul, president of the Oil
(Iampus Student Association
and Chairman of the Student
Association, said that two Uni-
versity policemen had threat-

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ened him with arrest if he did
not cease to distribute a letter
critical of the University's treat-
ment of four students charged

w i t h "abusive misbehavior"
under the Student Code.

Miss Pond said that the (1085‘
tion was not in the topic of the
literature, but rather in the
method of distribution. "We are
trying to develop an academic
atmosphere in the residence
halls,” said Miss Pond. No door-
to-door solicitation is allowed,

she added.

She said that this policy was
adopted "some time ago" when
Jack Hall was Dean of Men.
Mr. Hall is in Florida and was

unable to be reached for com-
ment.

Vice-President for Student Af-
fairs Robert L. Johnson generally
agreed with Miss Pond's state—
ment. Mr. Johnson said that
"we don't want to turn a captive
audience" over to mass solicita-
tion.

Mr. J o h n s o n emphatically
denied that the topic of the
letter had any bearing on
whether or not it was to be
distributed.

"We would make it avail-
able,” emphasized Mr. Johnson,
"for Mr. Juul to distribute his
letter if he had asked us. We
definitely would make it avail-
able for him to distribute the
literature.”

He Went on to outline how
many housing developments,
apartment houses, and restau-
rants had similar policies. In
discussing prohibition of door—
to—door solicitation, MLdJohnson
said “it is generally un erstood
as a reasonable policy—a policy
of protecting the residents." .

“Just try to imagine," said
Mr. Johnson, “what would hap-
pen if we didn’t have a control;

think of the campus organiza-
tions that would go door-to-door

n

promoting a sale, a dance . . .
This same policy is in ap-

plication in married students'

housing, said Mr. Johnson.

It would make no difference
whether a person was “peddling
ideas or wares” said Mr. John-
son.

Bill Murrell, one of the stu-
dents arrested in a sit-in, de-
livered a statement to The
Kernel concerning the letter dis-
tributed by Juul and Fruth
Tuesday night.

Murrell said “Thom Pat Juul
was never a part of the discus-
sions between me and Dean
(Jack) Hall and his (Juul’s)

statements were inaccurate."

Col. F. C. Dempsey, Director
of Safety and Security on
campus, would not comment on
Juul's charges that he was
threatened with arrest.

An incident report was filed
by the investigating officer Tues-
day night, said Mr. Dempsey,
who added he could not release
that report to the press.

Whether the students were
threatened with arrest or not
was a matter to be determined
by Col. Dempsey and the in-
vestigating officers, said Mr.
Johnson.

 

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The researchers scored so-
ciety’s emphasis on achievement-
hard work in high school to get
into college, then hard work to
get into graduate school, and
more hard work to get a high-
pay job.

“The whole structure of high-
er education is designed to look
at external signs of success and,
more rarely, to focus on‘ the
needs of the individuals," the
scientists note.

"Our study has not impressed
us that the skills of men to
further their own happiness are
in a particularly advanced
state,” Katz comments.

 

Virtue Triumphs

TORONTO (UPI) - Applica-
tions submitted by coeds to the
unofficial Computer Dating Cen-
ter at the University of Toronto
indicate that the virginity rate
at the university has increased
20 percent in the past year.

Computer engineer John Pul-
lam said 80 percent of the
feminine applicants claimed vir-
ginity this year, compared to 60
percent last year.

“That’s quite a gain.” Mr.
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Cabby Coming

A candidate for the US. vice
presidency will speak at 8 pm.
tonight at Nexus.

Paul Boutelle, a taxi driver
from Harlem, is running for
vice president on the Socialist
Workers partv ticket. His talk
is titled “Nationalism, Socialism
and the 1968 Elections.”

The Socialist Workers party
supports a platform calling for
abolishment of the draft, im-
mediate withdrawal of Ameri-
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American society, strengthening
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g n their landlordish efforts “to keep a
captive dormitory audience free from mass
solicitation,” neither Vice President R. L.
Johnson nor Associate Dean Rosemary Pond
is able to make a distinction between the
dissemination of ideas by a University stu-
dent, where no money is caused to move in
economic circulation, and the huckstering of
either goods or services.

Praise be to Webster there is a distinction
between ideas and wares.

And intellectually corrupt is the individual
who would direct the flow of ideas and the
method of their distribution.

Newspapers like The Courier-Journal, and
The Lexington Herald are delivered door-to-
door in Tower-A. These printed pieces of
paper contain words, ideas, and thoughts.
They are circulated for a profit. They are
wares. They huckster other wares.

Their right to distribution is contained in
the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitu—
tion.

The Kernel was circulated underneath
every door in Tower-A last night.

Our right to distribution is guaranteed by
the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitu—
tion.

Tuesday a student put his ideas on paper
and slid his paper under the doors in Tower-
A.

Without considering the merits of his
newspaper, the student’s right to circulate
ideas is guaranteed by the First Amend—
ment of the U.S. Constitution.

Common Sense
If Thomas Paine were to attempt to circu-
late Common Sense tomorrow in Tower-A
would he be accused of huckstering, solici-
tation, and threatened with arrest?

place of thought9

If Thomas Jefferson or James Madison
were to attempt to circulate The Federalist
Papers tomorrow in Tower-A would they
be accused of huckstering, solicitation, and
threatened with arrest?

In an academic community the rights of
students are as great as the rights of news-
papers, because the rights of the newspapers
are no greater than the rights of the people.

Any student has the natural right to dis—
seminate ideas freely. To write, to print,

‘to slide the printed writing underneath a

door is to violate no one’s rights. Those who
find such things on their floor have con-
comitant, unimpaired rights: to readjto re-
ject, or to refuse to read.

Have we come so far in our bureaucratiz-
ing society, where frivolous bureaucrats be-
lieve they can impair constitutionally guar-
anteed freedoms by virtue of equating ideas
with wares?

Not without a fight!

John Milton

It was John Milton in his famous Aero-
pagitica of 1644 who argued against repres-
sion of freedom of expression by advocating
reliance upon truth:

“Let her and Falsehood grapple: who ever
knew Truth put to the worse in a free and
open encounter? Those who are afraid of
Truth will of course seek to prevent its en—
trance into a ‘free market place of thought,’
but those who believe in the public liberty
should realize that its existence depends
upon liberty of the press."

Thomas Jefferson

It was Thomas Jefferson, in a famous

letter written in 1787, who said:

“I am persuaded that the good sense of
the people will always be found to be the
best army. They may be led astray for a
moment, but will soon correct themselves.
The people are the only censors of their
governors; and even their errors will tend
to keep these to the true principles of their
institution.

To punish these errors too severely would
be to suppress the only safeguard of the pub-
lic liberty. The way to prevent these irregu-
lar interpositions of the people, is to give
them full information of their affairs through
the channel of the public papers, and to con-
trive that those papers should penetrate to
the whole mass of the people.

The basis of our government being the
opinion of the people, the very first object
would be to keep that right; and were it
left to me to decide whether we should have
a government without newspapers, or news-
papers without a government, I should not
hesitate a moment to prefer the latter."

The publication of a student, in effect,
constitutes a newspaper or pamphlet, wheth-
er its appearance resemble The Rogue, The
Kernel, The Courier—Journal, or The New

' York Times.

Such student publication has equal right
to distribution.

No man or woman, particularly bureau-
crats, can surpress the dissemination of ideas
nor should they have the right to determine
the metes and bounds of the market-place for
Truth. The People, through the Congress or
the Supreme Court, will determine forever

‘ the inarket place for ideas.

Letters to The Editor: the readers write

To The Editor Of The Kernel:

Who is patriotic toward his country,
the Sayer or the Doer? The man who
says he is patriotic may have made some
positive contribution to his culture, be-
sides his talk, or he may simply have
allegiance to flimsy stereotypes. But the
true Sayer likes to hear himself talk.
The Doer is someone who does make
a contribution to his culture's growth,
however small.

Hence, the author of an important
piece of contemporary fiction has enriched
American literature and made a special
contribution to strengthening American
cultural life, even though he may oppose
war in Vietnam. This man I think is
patriotic in the best sense of the word:
he has made a positive contribution,
sometimes with courage, to America's
greatness as a literary power. On the
other hand, a young man who has not
yet graduated from a universitv. and who
even expects his university to have on its
staff people who do make such positive
cultural contributions as that alluded

to above, openly questions the patriotism
of the mature man of solid accomplish—
ments in our culture. 0.

*~ The young man is simply a "ideo-
logue," a zealot with certain abstract
ideas that he would like to impose on a
world of very complicated experience, a
world that requires mature men of solid
accomplishments so that it won't destroy
itself. But the young man thinks that
patriotism is an ideology, not a record
of accomplishments.

He will even treat war itself, the
most gritty and terryifying of all real
experiences, as part of his abstract pa-
triot’s creed. He defends our personnel
in Vietnam as abstractions that fit his
stereotypes, yet he has never been to war.
He deems it necessary to mutilate real
children in order to counter another set
of tyrann0us abstractions, communism.

To the seasoned soldier's criticisms
the experienced patriot of our culture
will respond meaningfully. Perhaps the
patriot of culture has been, in the past,
a soldier as well. To the ideologue, how-

 

 

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ever, to the self-styled patriot with his
myriad abstractions, experience can only
smile in reply. We all remember Thoreau,
but who remembers his zealous jailer?
Robert J. Pranger

Associate Professor of

Political Science

To The Editor Of The Kernel:

The U.K. students and faculty have
had many complaints with the Campus
Police in the past few months. They
range from towing away cars to break-
ing up wall painting groups to wasting

‘hours sitting in K-Lair and the Grill.

But now, a new complaint has arisen
from a very serious problem which has
its roots in the Complex R-3 parking lot.
The complaint—not enough police pro—
tection. The problem—stolen cars.

In the past month, there has been
a rash of car thefts specifically in the
8-3 parking area. Complex residents know
how dimly lit this parking area is. in
fact, there are no lights whatsoever, in
the lot. This area, like the rest of cam-
pus, is supposed to be patrolled by the
Campus Police for the protection of the
students. It is very doubtful that this
area is patrolled often. I, myself, have
never seen a police car around this park-
ing area.

mits to be able to use the lot and not
have to park on some dangerous side
street? Don't we rely on the Campus
Police to patrol the area and stop the
possibility of such tampering?

Yes we do. But we obtain no results.
The Campus Police are lax as usual in
their job. Even after a person has their
car stolen, they expect some results. But
the Campus Police won't even listen.

There must be something done