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Monday, February 9, I976

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DON PRATHER

Supports bottle bill

UK student leads statewide lobby

By KEITH SHANNON
Kernel Staff Writer

In the film “The Godfather,” Marlon Brando had hundreds
of people just waiting to perform “services” for him.
Bra ndo m ay have a counterpart in UK’s Don Prather.

To Prather, a sophomore microbiology major, the “ser?

vices” he asks his friends to perform consist mainly of
talking to, writing and generally convincing Kentucky
legislators to support a bill now in the Kentucky Senate
Judiciary Statutes Committee.

The bill, SB N o. 59, is known as the bottle bill. It is spon-
sored by Sen. John Berry (D—Newcastle), and would reduce
litter in the state by imposing a deposit on all beer and soft
drink containers. Prather is the head of a statewide lobby
group pushing for passage of the bill.

Pra ther estimates there are 21 high school groups and four
college groups, including UK, actively working for the bill’s
passage.

And all he had to do was ask them.

The story of Prather’s influence goes back to his high
school days when he held office in a statewide community

service organization known as the Co-Ed-Y. He wrote a bill ‘

similar to the bottle bill which was passed at a mock Co-Ed-Y
legislature. After that, it received support in a similar
national conference.

, When Pra ther discovered Sen. Berry was going to present
the bottle bill to last year’s Kentucky General Assembly, he
began to mobilize the state Co-Ed-Y groups for support of the
measure. .

Berry’s bill was soundly defeated, but the Legislature
Research Commission (LRC) agreed to study the possible
environmental effects of a bottle bill.

“But the LRC was really handicapped in making its
study,” Berry said. “They weren’t allocated any money and
had to use their own staff, which had other projects to work
on.”

Prather saw his chance. At his request, high school
students in Co-Ed-Y groups across the state collected,
classified and counted trash. The results of their effort were
included in the LRC study.

The garbage was not just little pieces of paper, either.
Brad Kalos, a Co-Ed-Y leader in Prestonburg spent a whole
afternoon with his group, climbing into roadside ditches to

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count and collect trash. He said they had to pick up old’

clothes, tires,‘ and even dirty diapers as well as the usual
conglomera tion of bottles and cans’. After it was over he was
“a little irritated” at Prather.

But the survey did the trick. The groups had begun to feel
involved in the bill’s outcome and wanted to make sure their
work was not in vain.

Pra ther said he only had to make one'telephone call to each
group to get them to start writing in support of the bill.
Former Co-Ed-Y members who are now students at Tran-
sylvania, Eastern and Morehead State Universities are also
working for the bill’s passage.

“My efforts with the clubs have consisted largely of just
“twisting arms,” Prather said. “I just inform the clubs of
what is goingon and sent them duplicates of a handout. They
send letters to legislators and the governor.”

The lobby effort seems to have had effects. Twelve
senators definitely support the bill, according to Prather.
More work is going to beneeded, however, for the bill to even
make it out of committee, he said.

Other groups supporting the bill are the Kentucky League
of Women Voters, the Kentucky Farm Bureau and the Sierra
Club, acca'ding to Prather. He said environmentalist groups
in general are “foaming at the mouth” in support of the bill.

Despite the bill’s support, Sen. Berry said it would take a
“public uprising,’ for the bill to beassured of passage.

Pra ther can’t guarantee a “public uprising.” But he can,
he says, make the bill a “very hot” issue. And he has quite a
few friends to back him up. _

 

Ernie’s free throw clinic,
technicals tame Wildcats

By [)l(‘K GABRIEL
Sports Editor

A grand total of 12,944 spectators, plus a
regional television audience, watched the
Ernie Grunfeld Free Throw Shooting
Clinic Saturday afternoon in Knoxville.

Sandwiched around the clinic was
Tennessee's 92-85 Southeastern Con-
ference (SEC) win over the Kentucky
Wildcats, but the shooting exhibition was
the main affair.

Grunfeld, the Unwanted Dill Pickle on
the Hamburger Of Life (as far as the Cats
are concerned) sank 10 of 10 free throw
attempts during the last four minutes of
the first half.

Following the hoopla surrounding
Grunfeld, free throws, and the last en-
.counter between these two teams, the
gargantuan free throw statistics could
lead one to believe that the Kentucky
players were out to doa number on Ernie.
While this may be true, it was not the
reason Grunfeld spent the better part of
the afternoon behind the stripe.

An underlying factor of the free throw
parade seemed to be the fact that referees
Reggie Cipeland and Dale Kelley liken
technical fouls to peanuts —it's so hard to
stop at one. They whistled a total of seven
during the game.

Number one came after UK’s Jack
Givens fouled Grunfeld, knocking him to
the floor. Kentucky center Mike Phillips
then proceeded to fall into Grunfeld.
Phillips later claimed it was unintentional,
but the referees saw it differently and
slapped Phillips with a technical.

It wasn’t more than 20 seconds later that
UK guard Johnny Darden took a swing at
Kentucky’s Truman Claytor, hitting him in
the face. Claytor gave chase, was
refrained by assistant coach Leonard
Hamilton. but was ejected along with
Darden. This brought two technicals to
both clubs. '

UK head coach Joe Hall and Vol mentor
Ray Meals both split the final pair of
technicals as Kentucky took the edge in
“T‘s” by 4-3.

Grunfeld’s free throw flurry appeared to-
sink the Cats, but Phillips repeatedly
worked free underneath the basket for
scores, and his 13 first-half points helped
pull UK into a 48-48 halftime tie.

The second half was anticlimactic
(meaning a bit more civilized) as both
teams settled down and went at it tooth
and nail, like all good rivals do. But UK
forward James Lee, who had been con-
trolling the backboards in the first half,
fouled outwith over 15 minutes left to play.

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Kemacky's Mike Pill p- seemo to be trying to persuade referee Reggie
Copeland to look at things from a different point of view as Tennessee's Bernard
King (number 53) grins and teammate Dong Ashwa-tk looks on. Copelapd got
the last word —he charged Phillipa will a technical fool. And King got the last
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Bruce Wings
Editor-in-Chief

Ginny Edwards
Managing Editor

Susan Jones
Editorial Page Editor

John Winn Miller
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(Editor’s note: Because of the number of letters and commentaries received by the
Kernel, there is no editorial today. All letters and Spectrum articles should be typed,
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Pink ladies

Editor:

Let’s hear it for the ladies in pink!
Such sweetness and light has never
before pervaded (or perverted) the
legislative chambers of our glorious
commonwealth.

It does the heart good to see these
ladies (misinformed though they may
be) becoming politically active. With
Such original tactics and personal
touches as loaves of bread and other
goodies for our legislators, they are a
true credit to the ingenuity of
womanhood.

Heaven forbid that we should force
equal rights on these ladies.

Pam Parrish
Journalism junior

Thanks

Editor-

We would like to thank Associate
Dean of Students Frank Harris for his
help and cooperation in helping us to
resubmit our application for student
organizational status of the Gay
Student Coalition (GSC). We were
aided greatly by his understanding of
the si tua tion we were left in when Carey
Junkin failed to return this semester.
Our applica tion is now before Harris for
consideration. We hope that the student
body will support any decision that he
makes.

It is our wish that this new leadership
will encourage greater student in-
volvement and support in this
organization. GSC was not created to
”recruit new men" but to help develope
a better understanding betWeen this
minority and the student population.

Joanne Johnson, president
Lee Guice, vice president
Audie Price, secretary
Sondra Sexton, treasury

Study
Editor:

As for studying in the dorm, it would
be nice if each building could spare a
study room. I feel the students would
benefit from it immensely. With the
housing shortage on the University of
Kentucky campus the value of iustpne
room is understandable. '

Letters

 

I, residing in Patterson Hall, was
appalled when I walked into Jewell Hall
and faund one rather large study room
and two completely empty dorm rooms.
Patterson was to have a study room.
butis occupied by two women. We could
switch people in the dorms, since there
seems to be extra room now, to have a
study room.

It is inconvenientattimes, especially
during finals, to walk to the library. If
rooms are available, why not let them
benefit the students? It seems useless
to let those rooms empty.

Linda Payne
B&E freshman

Duplicate

Editor:

As a freshman ab0ut to begin my
second semester here, I find myself not
at all impressed with the ad»
ministratlve bureaucracy on campus.
I’m not so much talking about the
hassles of drop-add. It's the foul-ups
that occur before and after that are
really irritating.

Over the summer I provided the
University with every piece of in-
formation necessary to enroll. I at
tended classes quite innocently until
November, when l was told that I was
not enrolled. Perhaps I was iust not
officially enrolled, for the registrar’s
office had lost the copy of my high
school diploma. A lot of footwork and
several long distance calls straightened
up the mess —at my expense.

A typing error misplaced some of my
advanced placement credits. A com—
puter problem in the statistics
department; ”...one of the biggest in
UK history" according to one ad-
ministrator, resulted in total chaos for
the students registered there.

These can't be the only errors on a
campus this size. Even if they are, I am
still under the impression that to ac-
complish anything in dealing with the
University administration all paper
work must be done in duplicate. One
copy mustbe done for their records, but
one c0py must be kept for yourself in
order to straighten them out every two _

months or so.
Jerry Raterman

. Business management freshman

 

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Life is
worth
living

 

 

By Nicolas Marlin

 

I must confess to you that I am in
pain. I have come to beg the indulgence
of ya), my peers, and to hope that you
might give me some comfort. I do not
fear thatyai will scorn me. I have been
scorned (as I am sure that all of you
have), and as you well know it hurts.
You may choose to scorn me but it’s a
risk I musttake. I need answers if lam
to go on.

I need ya), whoever you may be, to
tell me one more time the reason that
life is worth enduring.

Realize that previous to this I had my
own answers. I had goals Pertaining to
”The World” and to those near me that
dictated that life was indeed worth the
effdr t.

”Working for the good of Humanity”
was one motivation. It was and is an
honorable one but still it seems so
tragically impotent a way to strive. I
know now that I can accomplish
nothing for humanity. On a worldly
scale I iudgemy well-intended actions
to be totally useless. I couldn’t stop the
slaughter down the block much less in
Angola. .

The fact that I have lost motivation
comes very hard to me. I used to carea
greatdeal about helping. The suffering
of others used to bring more thana little
moisture to my eyes. Now I can’t even
cry for my own problems. Do you cry
for yourself? Do you cry for your
friends? I cry for no person and they do
the same for me. Sound callous? You
are as I am so don’t be too harsh a
iudge. We swim in the same sewer. I
probably don’tshock you but I do me. I.
used to concentrate on kindness and
caring and never did I try to step on
your emotions. Now it is mutal. Neither
of us cares.

I used to want desperately to be in
love. (Laugh here if you wish I don’t
mind). But as a matter of fact until
very recently I spent more energy of
”Falling in Love" than all my other
energies combined. I ate, slept and
breathed with the notion in mind that if
I did it correch I could be a better
lover. I don’t know if you can
remember when you might have felt
thatway but it can drive y0u to care for
life when all else appears bleak. It can.
feed the faith of the desperate. (Look
around you. Most of us are desperate.)

lassureyai ldon’tlike to say itand I
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seems as though none of us are capable
of loving anymore. I’m speaking of the
traditional, totally personal, love of a
single other person. Have we all
become so frightened of attachment
and emotion that we must shreik and
run whenever it approaches?

I know ‘that it might iust be that
people are afraid to love but I think
(and hope) not. I do not believe in legal
marriage but it is frightening to me that
even those who are believers are in-
capable of making it work. My per-
ceptions tell me thatit is not merely my
disease but yours also. Am I correct?
Do you know how to love? Do you know
how to be loved?

It is so hard to be calm about this.
Whenever I think of it (often) I become
scared and enraged. ”Why can’t you
suckers see what you are doing to each
other in your fear?" Then I calm
myself and see the truth. You are
scared for reasons I must now confront.
You reached Out and when it mattered
mostsomeone severed your hands from
your heart. Now y0u know better than
to expose y0ur wounds and I can un-
derstand your pain.

But still! Our parents and theirs had
their own wounds and they seemed to
heal. (Or maybe they iust passed them
on to us.) Why are our pains so per-
manent? .Why do we share our pain so
freely butnot our happiness? Why is it
thatsome of themost wonderful, most
intelligent people I know haven’t the
faintest idea how to care and even
worse how to be cared for“? They will
scream and push and slam telephones
iust to keep from being cared for. I feel
sorry for them and also for myself but
one can only leave the arms out.
stretched for so long then we too must
protect our emotions from destruction.

But again I ask you. If we can't love
and be loved why must we exist?

I can’t conceive what pain we shall
feel if we will a lways be on the run from
each other, never allowing Ourselves to
be touched. Whatempty agony many of
you (as l) feelatthatprospect. Oram I
alone? All I know is that people who I
love and who I know care for me feel
that they must flee. And they never
return. The pain of which to me is
unbearable. '

My friends, the time has come for me
to have my arawers. I do not want to
live a useless, loveless existende. Does
anyone still care? Does anyone still
cry? Does anyone cry for you?

Nicolas Nhrtin is a Lexington resident.

 

 

 

   

 

 

 

  

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(Editor’s note: The following
statement was issued January 21 by
Peter Cameio, the Socialist Workers
Party presidential candidate.)

In his Stab’ of the Union message.
President Ford painted a grim picture
of wha t‘s in store for the working people
of ’his country in 1976. It is a per-
spective of a tightening squeeze on our
living and working conditions, new
attempts to use racism to divide us, and
further attacks on our democratic
rights. And the threat of new military
adventures abroad and the ever-
present risk of nuclear holocaust hand
like a dark cloud over our lives.

Ford's watchwords—for working
people, not the corporations—were
“self-discipline," "restraint" and
"respponsibility." We have to work
harder andaccept less, he said. Above
all, we must lower our expectations
aboutwhat this society will provide for
us and our children. The country has
become, according to _Ford, "over-
confidentof Our own abilities" to ”solve
age-old problems... We thought that
we could tra nsform thec0untry through
massive national programs.”

Behind this hypocrisy and this con-
tempt for the American people is a
clear message: stop demanding

government action to improve the .

quality of life and to end the iniustice
and inequality that exist throughout
this country.

Ford is opposed to spending even one
nickel for a public works program to
provide iobs. "Government—our kind
of government—cannot create that
many jobs," he said. At a time when
the unemployment rate is the highest
since 1941, Ford had nothing to say
except that "our kind of government"
can't do anything about it!

Instead, he proposes lowering taxes
for corpora tions. He iustifies these new
handwts to industry by resurrecting
the old "trickle-down" theory that
higher profits will eventually induce
private empIOyers to create new iobs.
In the meantime, the unemployed can
wait. While proposing tax cuts for the
corporations, Ford called for yet
another boost in the Social Security tax,
a tax that falls most heavily on those
who earn the least.

The fruit of the matter is that the
ruling class has decided not to take
action to reduce unemployment. lt
fears that a lower unemployment rate
would encourage workers to press for
higher wages, thus weakening the
advantage of U. 5. businesses over their
competitors abroad.

According to figures compiled by the
AFL-ClO. almost ii million people are
out of work today. And for Blacks, the
picture is twice as bleak. The NAACP
and the Urban League have figured the
real unemployment rate among Blacks
to be 25 per cent.

But Ford wasn't speaking to Black
people in his address. In a typical
display of his disdain for the rights of
Bladt Americans. he chose to ignore
the battle against racial discrimination
altogether.

Of course, he took time to denounce
“violent crime" and to promise there
would be enough money to build new

prisons and hire more federal cops to
patrol the ghettos. And he emphasized
the need to "protect the innocent vic-
tims of crime."

But what about the Black students
who have been the targets of rocks and
bottles of the racist, antibusing mobs?
Aren’t they "innocent victims of
crime"? Isn’t school desegregation the
law of the land? What is Ford going to
do to stop the lynch mobs in Louisville
and Boston—the mobs he has helped
incite by his own antibusing rhetoric?
Not a thing. As far as the president is
concerned, segregation is iust another
of those "age-old problems the
government is powerless to solve."

Nor did Ford have anything to say to
women, who, 200 years after the
founding of this country, are still denied
equal rights under the Constitution.

And what about the crisis in health
care? ”The burden of catastrophic
illness can be borne by very few in our
society," Ford said. "We must
eliminate this fearfrom every family."
Absolutely true. To do so would require
a comprehensive program of socialized
medicine to guarantee government.
financed health care to everyone, from
birth to old age. Butthat’s exactly what
Ford is opposed to. We can‘t afford it,
he claimed. Instead he proposed a
minor tinkering with Medicare.

in the face of growing concern about
the proliferation of poisons in the food
we eat, the air we breathe and the
places where we work, Ford has opened
an offensive against attempts to im-
prove health and safety conditions. in a
draft of his forthcoming Economic
Report to Congress, Ford demands a
rollback in even the feeble steps that
have taken to keep our environment
and working conditions from killing us.

in Ford's mind, the 390,000 new cases

of occupational disease and .the 100,000
iob-relabd deaths last Year are the
workers' own fault. "A necessary
condition to a healthy economy," Ford
asserted, "is freedom from the petty
tyranny of massive government
regulation." in other words, we have to
sacrifice our own health to guarantee
healthy profits for the capitalists.

But there‘s one area where Ford has

.no intention of reducing gavernment

tyranny. At a time when millions are
demanding an end to illegal govern-
ment spying and secret plots both at
home and abroad, Ford had not one
word to say about the defense of
democraic rights against police-state
tactics. At a time when millions are
demanding the right to know the full
truth about the Federal Bureau of
investigation and Central Intelligence
Agency crimes, and the opening of all
the secret files, Ford demanded an end
to "sensationalism."

The one part of Ford’s budget that is
exemptfrom the calls for "restraint“ is
the more than $100 billion set aside for
war spending. While social services
are cut back, the cost of maintaining
America’s worldwide police force will
increase. This unrestrained war
spending will fuel the fires inflation and
consume the nation’s resources in the
manufacture of still more deadly
engines of destruction. This arsenal is
needed, Ford said, to ensure a "stable
world order." in other words, to ensure
a safe environment for American
corporations to plunder the world. ‘

Ford’s solutions to the crisis facing
this coontry are solutions for the rich,
not for working people. They are
solutions designed to protect the profits
and prerogatives of the capitalist class
that rules this country through both the
Democratic and Republican parties.

Ford paints a grim picture for 1976

In homage to the capitalist status
quo, Ford proclaimed, "One peak
stands highest in the ranges of human
history. One example shines forth of a
people uniting to produce abundance
and to share the good life fairly and in
freedom. One union holds out the
promise of iustice and opportunity for
every citizen. That union is the United
States of America."

Abundance? The good life? Not
while millions are condemned to
poverty and despair, trapped in slum
housing and denied iob. Not while the
air and water are fouled by industrial
poisons.

Justice? Not while trigger-happy
cops can gun down innocent Black
youth. Not while‘the victims of racism
and oppression languish in jail while
the real criminals rule the country.

Opportunity for all? Not while
minorities suffer racist discrimination
in education, employment, and every
sphere of life. Not while women are
denied equal rights under the Con.
stitution.

Day by day, the capitalist system is
proving to more and more people that it
cannot and will not provide peace,
iustice or a decent standard of living for
all. That’s why we need to put into
power a workers’ government—a
government that will replace the
present tyranny of the wealthy
minority with the democratic rule by
the maiority, the working people.

Such a government would begin to
construct a new society, a socialist
sosiety, in which equality and abun-
dance will truly prevail.

 

This commentary was submitted to the
Kernel by the UK Young Socialist
Alliance.

 

 

 

  
   
   
 
  
 
 
  
 
 
  
 
 
  
  
 
 
  
 
 
  
 
 
  
 
  
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
  
  
 
   
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
  
    
    
   

 

 4—THE KENTUCKY KERNEL. Monday. February 9. 1976

Displays and Exhibits
entered in the 1976

Oswald Undergraduate Research
and Creativity competition

may be seen in the

Student Center Art Gallery

February 9-13

Proiects include
paintings, fabric sculptures, photography.
graphics, entomological exhibit
Contest sponsored by the Office of the Dean
of Undergraduate Studies
Display is in cooperation with the
Student Center Board

Hey!
Don’t forget to pay your health fee!

The‘deadline is Thursday, February 12!

Services covered by the Health Fee

*Clinic visit for an illness (not an
accident) -
* First aid care not requiring a
surgical procedure or x-rays
* Visit to the Student Mental Health
Service
* Laboratory tests, blood tests.
urinalysis, throat culture, etc.
*Chest X-rays
f Contraception services
it Routine Pap smear
* ” Well student” physical
examination (not including lab or X-

'It’s a bargain

*Allergy iniections and im-

munizations you ShOUldl‘l't

*Prescriptions on Health Service ‘ ,
"free” list ’

‘k Visit to University Hospital pass up!
Emergency Room for an illness (not
an accident)when the Health Ser-
vice is closed

* Referrals by Health Service
physicians to Medical Center
specialists for illness

Go to the Billings and Collections Office
Room 220 Service Building

 

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Ombudsman handles
students' complaints

When a student has academic problems or feels that his rights
are ba‘ng infringed upon, the office (if the academic ombudsman
may help resolve the situation.

The office of the ombudsman was established to help resolve
questions of student rights to the satisfaction of the student, in-
structor, and dean involved.

“I am here to help the students,” said Dr. P.S. Sabharwal,
academic ombudsman. “If acase has muscle, I will pursue it. If it
doesn’t, it may help to talk about it.”

Sabharwal said most cases he hears are about unfair grades or
accusations of cheating. He said there is often less resentment on-
the part of the faculty and administration when he acts as
mediator.

“The important thing is to come in time” since an estimated 99
per cent of the cases he reviews are“after the fact,” he said.
“If you have a problem today, come to me today. Problems have

a way of snowbailing.”

ERA meeting scheduled

There will be a meeting at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 11 in room
309 d the Student Center to organize support for the Equal Rights
Amendment (ERA). Representatives from the Pro-ERA Alliance
rally committee will discuss plans for a forum Feb. 22 and march in
Frankfort March 6.

The rally has been called by Louisville National Organization of
Women (NOW) and endorsed by the Lexington ERA Alliance. The
Kentucky Alliance has more than 50 member groups. In Lexington,
these groups include Business and Professional Women of Ken-
tudry, Kentucky Women Political Caucus, Women’s Center of
Lexington, Communication Workers of America, State NAACP
Conference, Lexington Young Socialist Alliance, and UK’s Comcfl
on Women ’s Concerns.

The purpose of Wednesday’s meeting is to set up a campus
committee for the ERA. For more information call Shelly Griffith
or Bronson Rozier.

Medical lecture series presented

The fifth lecture in the series “Health Maintenance for Older
Persons” will be presented at 4 p.m. Tuesday,Feb. ll), in the
Student Center Theater.

The topic, “How to Choose a Physician,” will cover different
types of medical practitioners, including chiropractors, osteopaths
and optometrists, and will describe various physician
specializations. Featured speaker, Dr. J.W. Hollingsworth,
professor and chairman in the department of medicine, UK College
of Medicine, will explain how a patient’s condition may indicate the
type of health care needed. Common minor medical problems
usually need only occasional attention, while major' diseases
require careful follow-up by a competent physician.

Presented under the joint sponsorship of the Sanders-Brown

' Kentudry Research Center on Aging and the UK Council on Aging,

the series will continue every Second Tuesday of each month from
now until May. All lectures are open to the general public and are
presented in lay terms.

SCB sponsors Florida vacation

The Student Center Board (SCB) travel committee is sponsoring
a swing vacation trip to Daytona, Fla.

The Daytona trip (March 13-21) costs $120 for quad or .8155 for
double ocaipancy. These prices include round trip passage via
Greyhound bus and seven nights at a beach hotel. Optimal side trip
to Disney World is $5. .

The apflication deadline is Feb. 13, and all fees must be paid at
this time.

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 Parking Iot protesters

Mrs. Anna Baufman. 78. joined about 20 people
picketing the Coliseum Plaza Second National
Bank Friday to protest the city‘s decision to raze
homes on South Hill for a civic center parking
lot. The president of Second National Bank. Jake
Graves. is chairman of the Lexington Center
Corporation board. which has supported the

parking plan.

56 mails life insurance forms
to all UK full-time students

By DAVID BROWN
Assistant Managing Editor

Student Government (SGI
worka‘s have almost completed
mailing applications for student
life insurance policies to UK’s
approximately 21,000 full-time
students.

SG Vice President Glenn Stith,
who is coordinating the mailing
effort, said Tuesday only 1,200
letters informing students of the
insurance program still need to
be mailed.

Student Senators voted at the
Dec. 2, 1975 SG meeting to en-
dorse the policy developed by
Kentucky Central Life Insurance
Company specifically for UK
students.

Stith told the senators he
conducted a thorough in-
vestigation of several insurance
programs for college students
and found the Kentucky Central
policy the least expensive for the
most coverage.

The last time SG sponsored a
life insurance program was
during Jim Fleagle’s ad-
ministration in 1973-74. At that
time a Globe Insurance Company
plan was endorsed, and SG sold a
list of students' names and ad-

dresses to the company to con-
duct the mailing.

Stith was opposed to selling
names to the insurance company
and, with Kentucky Central agent
David King, developed a plan to
have SG workers address, stuff
and mail envelopes. King said he
would then reimburse SG from
his commission because they
would in effect, be doing his job.

No established rate was set for
payment, but Stith said SG would
be reimbursed for the hours of
labor invdved in the mailing.

“What they’ll pay us for our
labor will depend on how many
responses they get back,” Stith
said. “If they get5,000 responses
they’ll probably be more amiable
to paying us well for our labors
than if they don’t get any
response."

“If you’d really like to know the
truth,“ Stith added, “I’d rather
not get a whole lot back from it.
That's not why we endorsed the
plan." He said he endorsed the
plan because it was a “quality
low-cost plan.“

Under the plan students pay
premiums of $32 per year until
age 2'5 for $10,000 of term life
insurance. At age 25 the
premiums become $128 for

$10,000 of (rash-value life in-
surance, according to a Kentucky
Central brochure included in the
SG mailing.

Although the SG letter ac-
companying the insurance ap-
plication says students age 25
may apply for the insurance, the
Kentucky Central brochure and
the application both state
students must be “under age 24
years.sixmonths.” Parents may
apply for insurance for their
children.

There is no copy of the actual
insurance contract included in
the student mailing. “It would
cost more money to mail the
contract than we would make in
premiums," King said. “In mass
mailings it (sending copies of the
proposed insurance contract) is
never done."

Copies of the contract are
available for student perusal in
Charles Emerson's office, King
said. Emerson is University
insurance controller, his office is
in the Service Building.

“This is not a gimmick type
situation,"ng said. “If anyone
requests a copy of the contract on
a personal basis" it would be
provided.

The first mailings went out two
weeks ago and King said it is too
early to tell what the response to
the program will be. Stith said he
was hoping for a 10 per cent
return.

There was a delay in mailing
about 1201) of the letters because
zip codes had to be written on
envelopes by hand.

METROPOLITAN OPERA STARS

and

THOMAS STEWART

EVELYN LEAR

TUESDAY. Feb. I0, 8:l5 p.m. - MEM