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The Kentucky Kernel

Vol. LXV No. 23
September 10, 1973

Department

status sought
for Honors

By SHEILA WISE
Kernel Staff Writer

Cooperation
is theme

of conference

By LINDA CARNES
and

BILL PINKSTON
Kernel Staff Writers

News In Brlet

from The Associated Press

0 Sale beglns today

. Rebels renew attack
- Tapes unessentlal

0 Gunmen under study
a Plane wreckage found

0 Court calls huge panel

0 Today's weather...

an independent student newspaper

A recommendation that the Honors
Program be made a separate educational
unit will be one of the major issues
discussed this afternoon at the University
Senate Meeting.

Dr. Robert Evans, director of the Honors
Program, madea point of illustrating that
an educational unit is in fact a teaching
unit, and the Honors Program has been a
teaching unit for many years.

This means that passing the recom-
mendation would merely legalize what is
already in effect; or, in the words of the
Senate Council, the Honors Program
would “...be altered from a de facto
educational unit to one specifically
authorized by the Governing
Regulations."

A RESULT OF THE proposed alteration
would insure that “the Honors Program
would be identified as a unit equivalent to
a department; and with respect to its

In spite of the numerous
conflicting ideas and opinions
exchanged, Saturday's Car-
nanhan Conference for Student
Government leaders and UK
administration officials seemed
to promote a general spirit of
cooperation.

Titled “Harvest the
Revolution," (the connection was
never really clarified) the con-
ference did seem to accomplish
its goal of efitablishing liason
between the SG people and the
administrators.

THE MARATHON twelve-hour
session, with breaks for lunch
and dinner, was a continuous flow
of speakers and interspersed
discussibns on wide-ranging
topics relevant to the general

0 LEXINGTON. Ky. — The 30th annual
Fall Yearling Sale begins at Keeneland
Monday with 1,375 one-year-olds
catalogued for the week long auction.
The pedigrees of 694 colts, 677 fillies and
four geldings have been catalogued,
making the total second only to the 1,435
horses catalogued for last year’s sale.

0 PHNOM PENH. Cambodia — In-
surgents renewed their attacks Sunday on
Kompong Cham, thrusting at two sections
of the government defense perimeter
around the northern half of the city,
diplomatic sources reported.

The sources said Communist-led rebel
gunners pounded government positions
with more than 100 rounds of artillery fire
to end a day-long lull, but were beaten
back when they attempted ground
assaults.

administrative program, the Dean of
Undergraduate Studies would be allowed
to function as the equivalent of the dean of
a college; the Director as a department
chairman; and the faculty as a depart-
ment faculty.”

This, according to Dr. Michael
Adelstein, chairman of the Senate Council
and author of the recommendation, would
leave the Vice-President for Academic
Affairs, Lewis W. Cochran, free to pursue
his other responsibilities and enable him to
delegate the responsibility to the Dean of
Undergraduate Studies, who is personally
interested in the Honors Program and,
therefore, the most appropriate person to
supervise the program.

The transition of the Honors faculty to
the equivalent of a departmental faculty,
said Evans, would mean they would be
allowed the privileges which are rightfully
theirs. In previous years, stated Evans,

theme of student participation in
university decision making.

The first such conference to be
conducted since Steve Bright’s
SG presidency three years ago
was attended by about 40
students and prominent ad-
ministrators, including Dr. Otis
Singletary, UK president; Dr.
Lewis Cochran, vice president for
academic affairs; and Dr. Robert
Zumwinkle, vice president for
student affairs.

THE SUBJECTS presented for
discussion were by no means new
to those acquainted with UK, but
perhaps the interchange of ideas
stimulated renewed interest.
Topics include “The Problems of
Undergraduate Education;"
“Teaching vs. Research: What is
the correct balance?——an

0 WASHINGTON — Sen. Daniel K.
Inouye, a member of the Senate Watergate
Committee, said Sunday the controversial
White House tape recordings of President
Nixon's conversations are not essential to
the committee‘s investigation.

Inouye said the committee could write
its report on the Watergate case and
related developments without the
material.

0 KUWAIT — Kuwait will investigate
five Arab gunmen before deciding whether
to try them for threatening to kill hostages
in their four-day, threeocontinent attempt
to free an imprisoned Palestinian guerrilla
leader.

The Kuwaiti defense and interior
minister, Sheik Saad Abdullah el Salem,
made the announcement Sunday evening
after a four~hour cabinet meeting.

University of Kentucky
Lexington, KY. 40506

the Honors faculty had joint appointments
with other departments, at least until the
number of honors students increased to the
point where it became difficult to make
joint appointments.

EVANS ADDED that perhaps the
faculty member would be teaching 100 per
cent honors courses but his appointment
would be based in an academic depart-
ment. When the time came for merit
raises, he said, the faulty member would
be reviewed by that academic depart-
ment, despite the fact no one in the
department knew him.

Should the recommendation be passed,
decisions concerning raises, promotions,
tenure, etc, would go through the people
that supervise them rather than people
who don‘t even know them.

THE STANDING of Honors faculty
would also be changed in that they would

Continued on Page 6_

examiniation of social rules 81
University housing;" and “the
Student Code: Whose rights and
Whose Responsibilities ?"

In his opening remarks, 80
President Jim Flegle said “I
think the University is a place for
conflict. It‘s the one place in the
world where responsible conflict
and rational discussions of ideas
and issues can take place.“

FLEGLE EMPHASIZED that
students have been established as
vital sources of input in the
decision-making process at the
University. It is the purpose of
SC. Flegle said, to maintain
student interest and make cer-
tain that decisions affecting
students reflect the fact that they

Continued on Page 8

0 ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Wreckage
from a missing jet cargo plane was found
Sunday on a mountainside near Cold Bay,
Alaska, the Rescue Coordination Center at
Elmendorf Air Force Base reported.

A spokesman said all six persons aboard
died in the crash.

0 NEW YORK — A panel of 1,500
prospective jurors, the largest in the
memory of officials at the US. District
Court here, has been summoned for the
scheduled opening Tuesday of the con-
spiracy trial of John N. Mitchell and
Maurice H. Stans.

...no sweaters today

It‘s not quite time for sweaters and wool
socks yet, folks. Today‘s temperatures will
reach the mid 805 under partly cloudy
skies. The low for tonight and tomorrow
night will be in the low 605.

 

  

 

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Mike Clark, Managing Editor
Jenny Sworn. News Editor
Kaye Coyte, Nancy Daly and Bruce Winges, Copy Editors
Charles Wolte, Practicum Manager
Carol Cropper. Arts Editor
Bill Straub, Sports Editor
Bruce Singleton, Photographic Manager
Editorials represent the opinions ot the editors and not the University.

Editorials

Senate action correct

Coordinators were up in arms after learning of the
Student Senate's decision not to fund Free University until
the organization could produce a course outline and Student
Government finalized its budgetary requirements for the
fiscal year.

Participants of past Free U programs immediately
claimed the Senate was purposely refusing to fund the
program in order to kill it. However, the claims were
nullified over the weekend.

In the past, it seems Free U has made requests for money
with no questions asked. This year certain senators, after
learning the budget for Student Government was not
complete, made a request to have someone from Free U
explain to them how the money (approximately $150) was
going to be spent. A wise decision , since money is hard to
come by these days.

When it was learned there was no official representative
from Free U at the meeting, the Senate moved to table the
funding for a couple of weeks, while waiting for a finished
budget and course outline.

Coordinator Mark Manning said a holdup of two weeks
could kill the program and decided not to wait for money.
He and his other coordinators began raising money from
interested students and sold t-shirts and pencils which the
organization had stocked. By Saturday, SG president Jim
Flegle said he was willing to take money from his special
contingency fund and make up the difference between the
request of $150 and what had been collected. This voluntary
action by Flegle seemingly ended the debate. The whole
affair can be terminated if, in the future, Free U would do
two things before requesting money.

——Set up a course outline well in advance of the first
Senate meeting;

——Send a representative to the meeting in case any
questions arise concerning the program.

Few organizations are willing to hand over money to an
unknown program, so it seems only proper that FreeU
would be willing to meet such requirements to continue its
worthwhile program.

We goofed

An error made by an editorial writer in Friday’s
Kernel (Reshuffle priorities for improvements)
identified the director of handicapped student
programs as Jake Carnes. The gentleman’s last name
should have been Karnes.

 
 

 

 

THE NEW ADMIRAL

 

 

Free U follower

The Free University has had a
significant impact on the University of
Kentucky during the past few years.
Through cooperation, students, faculty,
staff, and members of the Lexington
community have made considerable
strides toward providing educational
opportunities in addition to those offered
formally by the university. Many of the
groups that were originally a part of the
Free University made such progress and
had such an impact as to lead to the
development of permanent student
organizations and formal courses offered
for credit.

The Free University has been, and is, a
means for students to learn for the sake of
learning, to find partners in learning who
will seek only to help, and to see that the

university has more to offer than formal!

classes, greek trappings, and traditional
pastimes

Now, for the lack of support from the
Student Government, the Free University
faces a crises of survival. This crises is
more than a disagreement between a few
interested in getting the Free University in
operation again this year and the Flegle
administration. It concerns the hundreds
who will be deprived of educational ex-
periences if the Free U. does not operate.
Those concerned are students, faculty,
staff and members of the Lexington
community.

Surely there must be $150 somewhere
and surely Student Government will

Baldwin's message: America

respond to this need. We do, after all,
support a wide range of other student
activities rather handsomely, don't we?

Harry V. Barnard
Faculty Adviser
r‘ree University

a

Editor's Note: It was learned by the
Kernel after Dr. Barnard submitted
his letter that $6 president Jim
Flegle has decided to give Free U
money from his contingency fund.

Don't forget Gorge

How many of you people use the Red
River Gorge? How many of you claim to be
concerned with ecology, or still get angry
when you hear of the latest autocratic
bungling by the myopic planners in this
state? I am not a native Kentuckian (this
is my adopted state) but, I cannot un-
derstand why any Kentuckian would see
their priceless heritage damned. Why
then, are we not writing, screaming and
crying our complaints to the Governor, the
State Senate, the Kentucky-American
Water Company and those master rapists -
the Army “Corpes” (sic) of Engineers?
These misguided people are at this very
minute planning to destroy the Red River
Gorge as we know it, and with it a great
part of Kentucky's uniqueness and beauty.

Get off your butts, Kentuckians, and
defend your birthright - you are about to be
raped!

J.J. McCall
B.G.S. - senior

still racist

 

 

By PAUL CURRAN

If you tuned in the Dick Cavett show the other
night, you captured a brief glimpse of a man who
was making some very unsettling and incisive
comments about American society.

James Baldwin was the man, and his message
was brief and to the point. America is still a racist
country and all the civil rights legislation in the
world isn't about to change that fact.

For those of you who are unable to conjure a
picture of James Baldwin, it’s probably because he
has spent most of the last 25 years living in France.
And for those of you who are still scratching your
heads and muttersing, “James who?", I can only
direct you to the King library.

Baldwin is one of the last representatives of a
dying breed. He's a black writer who can still walk
down a New York City street and not look over his
shoulder for the Man. A black writer who can sit in

front of a camera and smile when he tells 20 million
Americans that they still hate niggers and LBJ ’5
Great Society has only served to make us a nation of
closet racists.

To say that Dick Cavett, his studio audience and
20 million viewers were slightly startled, is putting
it mildly.

Let’s be reasonable now. We have open housing
elimination of discriminatory employment prac-
tices, access to the voting booth, etc. Don't we?

But at the same time who can walk through the
streets of Newark‘s Central Ward or the East Bronx
and still say we've solved the ”problem.”

In this country we have a convenient way of
ridding ourselves of unwanted, nagging, con-
science-itching problems. We just avert our eyes,
put our best foot forward and concentrate all our
energies on something worthwhile like the space
program.

Yeah, I know. Neil Armstrong is a hero of sorts
and we‘ve covered all this ground before. Most of us
have even progressed from the stage of sudden
shocked awareness to the role of the concerned

liberal who applauds Lenny Bernstein’s gig with
the Panthers.

Looking around though, I think it’s safe to say the
day of the liberal is over. The pendulum keeps
swmgmg to the right and it’s no longer fashionable

to talk about far-off places like Watts and Brown-
sville.

But every once in a while a guy like James
Baldwin pops up on your TV screen, flashes those
long teeth, and jolts you upright. So if you didn’t see
Baldwin the other night, don’t let it bother you.

Just remember his message.

 

Paul Curran is a senior journalism
student and a special-assignments
writer for the Kernel.

  

 

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A midsummer's nightmare...with Edward

By NEILL MORGAN

I didn’t know Edward very long—l don’t
guess I really knew him at all. We just ran
across each other one night back in
August, and’ll probably never see each
other again. I was winding up a summer
job in New York City and living in an NYU
dorm. Edward had just got here from
Uganda a couple of weeks before and was
going to NYU on some sort of exchange
program.

Our meeting was one of those
aggravating situations that’s a pain-in-
the-ass at the time but can almost bring
tears of regret later. Anyhow, the whole
thing started at about two in the morning.
It was a Tuesday and I had just finished
one of those no-sleep-until-Monday-night

weekends, so I was pretty zonked-out
when I first heard this faint pounding on
the door to my room.

Now this door was the cheap hotel type—
two pieces of sheet metal separated by a
lot of air—and as the pounding continued it
gave off this queer, almost Poeish, echo.
Answering the knock took some doing
because my body said no and my mind was
less than sure. When I finally did get there
the hallway was empty—at least for a few
seconds, until the elevator doors clanged
shut and two people, I guessed were going
to catch it, came scurrying back down the
frayed flowery carpet.

Edward was one, and the other talked
like she was some sort of dorm counselor.
She told me “Edward had just had a very
traumatic experience in his room,” and
could he stay in mine the rest of the night
since I had no roommate. I just shrugged
my shoulders as she and Edward and his
sheets followed me back in. While I took off
my Levi’s again, they spoke in whispers
just inside the door, but she soon left and
Edward began to make a q 'ek bed. I was
just beginning to fall as p when he
hurriedly apologized for waking me up.

He said his roommate had gotten very
sick off some white powder-“What does
heroin ”look like?”—-and the two doctors
and police who came wouldn’t let him stay
in the room.

UK Free Media aliv

We finally got the lights turned out, but
the rustling of his sheets and the dim glow
of my cigarettes went on for another hour.

Morning came all too fast. I had told
Edward I was getting up at seven,
although it was 7:30 before I heard him
moving around. But I didn’t get up—I just
lay there listening to him plop books on the
desk, run water in the bathroom and slam
the room door every one in a while. I lay
there wishing he would go away. But he
didn’t.

When I got up I was greeted by this
godawful conglomeration of books, clothes
and papers overflowing Edward’s
footlocker and scattered across the bed. As
I threaded my way to the bathroom, Ed-
ward glanced up from the desk where he
was hunched over a book, and nodded. I
was running late and in a hurry, but finally
managed a curt good morning to him. And
that’s when the barrage of questions broke
loose.

No, I didn’t know what heroin was like.
Yeah, I guess it gets you high and higher,
but it takes more and more. No, it isn’t
common everywhere, it’s just that New
York is different from the rest of America.
Of course, I lied there—I had a friend die
from an overdose of smack back in May;
another friend spent most of the month of
June in a coma thanks to a mixture of
Dilaudid and booze before he died; and
another had took on a box of Nytol in late
July, but luckily won. All that back in
Lexington.

 
 

 

If I did lie it was only for convenience.
His questions were a hassle. And besides,
as I pushed my glasses up my nose for the
third or fourth time, I realized the smoky
stench and heat of the city were well along,
so I had to hurry.

I had finished putting on my clothes and
gone back to the bathroom to brush my
teeth when Edward began moving all of
his stuff around again. I went out and just
stared at him—he looked up with an ex-
pression I can only describe as a com~
bination of exasperation and relief, and
said he was lea‘ving. He wasn’t going to
stay in that room, he was going to get his
money back and he was leaving.

I don’t know whether it was from
sympathy or curiosity but I figured this
was a pretty strong reaction on his part, so
I asked him just what had happened. He
explained how he had come in about

midnight and found his roommate passed
out. Then he went over to the desk and
grabbed the chair and shoved the back
over against the bed, saying he had found
his roommate sprawled out that way. But
he didn’t know what to think so he just
went ahead and took a shower. Itwas when
he came out that he first noticed blood
trickling down his roommate’s right arm.
And then some white powder and a
blackish spoon under a piece of paper.
So on Edward went. But I just walked
back in the bathroom to wash the tooth:
paste out of my mouth-l could pretty
much guess what the rest of the story was.
I brushed my hair quickly and was giving
a last minute fingering to one of the
blistery under-the-chin pimples when he
opened the door to leave. I turned to give
him my usual have-a-good-day smile, but
he was already halfway down the hallway.
e

I made it to work on time, but I had to
forget about breakfast and couldn’t take
my usual detour around 42nd Street. And I
couldn’t help thinking about what had
happened to Edward. I didn’t really feel
sorry for him, after all I’d had three
friends OD and only one was still around.
But I could sympathize with him-I
remembered a friend at Da Nang who was
so strung out after a speed trip, we had to
carry him to his freedom plane and then
dope him again so he would look straight.
And the last time I flipped out there on
drugs and booze—it was a rainy February
night about a month before I was to
leave—I lost my memory for a few hours
and was told later I had tried to end it all a
couple of times...and so on.

When I got back to the dorm that night
there was a nice neat form letter in my
mailbox telling me about the untimely
death of a fellow resident and that
“suspected traces of heroin and cocaine
had been found in the room."

“Imagine that,” I softly mumbled, as I
wadded the letter up and sailed it across
the lobby.

seam . .' "'3

 

Neill Morgan is a special-
assignments writer for the
Kernel.

ell: future bright

By NICHOLAS MARTIN

Free Media is still alive and from all
appearances has no need either to be
fearful or loathing of the future.

In holding its first meeting of the fall
term last Wednesday, Free Media, an
organization that serves as a focus point
for a conglomerate of ideas on alternate
forms of communication, found that the
general university populace still is
unaware of the organization’s existence.
Despite that seemingly depressing
realization, the view remains quite op-
timistic.

At this point Free Media has ac-
cumulated somewhat over $500. It has also
accomplished the feat of getting different
sources to donate 14 tape decks. Further
sources of money and inexpensive
equipment are being opened and taken
under scrutiny all the time.

In approaching its main function, the
organization (meaning all who express
interest) discussed alternatives to com-
mon sources of communication. At this

 

 

point in time the greatest interest lies in
acquiring the necessary licenses which
would allow on-the-air radio program-
ming. It was surmised the project would
necessitate funds ranging from a
minimum of $4,000 to a maximum of
$10,000. The other possibility of a com-
municative source was an alternative to
the University newspaper, The Kentucky
Kernel.‘ General consensus seemed to be
that the Kernel was an inadequate source

of information for the community.
Free Media extended an invitation to

people from any sector of the community
to become members of the organization.
Interested folk should contact Robin
Becker 282 Clay Ave. Apt. 1, 254-5319.
Incidentally. donations are mightily
welcome.

 

Nicholas Martin is a freshman jour-

nalism student and a regular contributor
to Page III.

 

  

4—THE KENTUCKY KERNEL. Monday. September 10. I973

 

 

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The map shows the route of Lexington's proposed expressway and its proximity to UK’s campus.

City proposes expressway

By SUSAN JONES
Kernel Staff Writer
In an attempt to alleviate
Lexington’s traffic problem, city
planners have proposed the
construction of a North-South
Expressway.

The expressway would cut
through downtown Lexington,
allowing people to travel from the
north-south ends of town, without
getting caught in the congested
downtown area.

THE FEASIBILITY of such an
expressway is currently being
studied by the Brighton
Engineering Company of Frank-
fort. Brighton is under a $282,000
contract from the State Bureau of
Highways, and is required to
decide upon a preferred corridor
for the expressway by December.
However, it is doubtful the firm
will make any major changes in
the route already proposed by the
Lexington-Fayette County
Flaming Commission(map).

Brighton must also draft an
environmental impact statement
by February, with the entire
feasibility study to be finished by
June. At that time all data will be
presented to the State Bureau of
Highways for a preliminary
design report.

“THE EXPRESSWAY will be
four to six lanes wide, depending
upon projected traffic volume
figures,” said Brighton’s Michael
F. Rudloff. Parts of the ex-
pressway will be on street level,
while other sections will be
depressed (below street level) or
overhead.

“We are taking as much ad-
vantage of existing barriers as
we can by staying close to the
railroad tracks whenever
possible,” said Rudloff. It was
felt that people already disturbed
by the sound of trains would be
less resentful of an expressway.

“THE EXPRESSWAY will kill
downtown,” said Nick Nichols,
President of the Temporary
Kentucky Organization (TKO),
a citizens’ action group dealing
with environmental issues “The
only people left will be the people
who can’t afford to move."

A.L. Perkins, assistant district
engineer for planning, Bureau of
Highways, feels the accessability
of Lexington’s downtown
business section would be
enhanced by the expressway.
“There is a need for the ex-
pressway from a traffic stand-
point,” said Perkins, “but as to
what the public will think of the

idea, I don’t want to try to second-
guess them.”

Nichols also said the ex-
pressway would almost have to
be a toll road because there isn’t
any other way to pay for it. In
addition to the $282,000 Birghton
contract, the State Bureau of
Highways paid Wilbur Smith,
Associates, another out-of-town
firm, $114,000 to do a traffic and
revenue study for the proposed
expressway.

THE ORIGINAL [DEA of
North-South Expressway came
out in the Lexington-Fayette
County Urban Transity Plan
(1964-1971) in January, 1971.

School board seeks
end to class boycott

WEST LIBERTY. Ky. (AP) —
The Monroe County School
Board, beset by personnel and
financial problems, plans an open
meeting Monday, as many
parents allow Wrigley
Elementary pupils to cut classes
for the third week.

The board, which has met
previously in private, has said it
will open Monday night’s meeting
to the press at the suggestion of
Dr. Lyman Ginger, sate
Superintendent of Public In-
struction.

THE ELEMENTARY school
boycott began when school
opened.

About half the parents of pupils
at the school have let their
children stay out of classes,
saying the transfer of Wrigley
principal Glen Whitt to assistant
principal at Morgan County High
was politically motivated.

The parents say they will
permit their children to continue
the boycott until Whitt is allowed
to return to his post at Wrigley.

AFTER WHITT'S transfer,
school board attorney Eddy

Keeton resigned, saying the
board failed to take his advice.
The resignations of 'the county
superintendent and assistant
superintendent also followed.

Dr. Ginger has advised the
board to make sure all its actions
in trying to solve its personnel
problems are carefully recorded
in official minutes.

District finances also are
unsettled. The state has said
$95,000 paid to a contractor for
road work at the new Morgan
County high was an improper
payment, and Ginger has in-
structed the board to recover the
money.

THE BOARD ASKED Morgan
County Fiscal Court for the
money but was turned down.

The board is receiving fire
from Morgan County tax com-
missioner Harry Coffee as well.
Coffee says the board promised
to ask for less tax money for the
year, but instead has requested
an increase.

 

  

KYSPIRG ends long campaign
to obtain University funding

By GAIL FITCH

Kernel Staff Writer
Kentucky Student Public In-
terest Research Group
(KYSPIRG) does not plan to

renew efforts this semester to,

obtain University funds for their
organization, said President
Ruth Anglin.

Last February, KYSPIRG
conducted a petition campaign to
increase the semester activity
fee by $2 per student, to be
refunded to the student upon
request. The money would have
been given to the organization to
finance their operations, ac-
cording to the proposal.

AFTER MUCH opposition and
an opinion from the State At-

torney General’s office that it .

would be illegal for a state
university to collect fees on a
compulsory basis for KYSPIRG,
the organization abandoned this
plan, according to Robert
Zumwinkle, vice president for
Student Affairs.

“If we again attempt to get
approval from the University we
would ask for a negative check-
off plan,” said Anglin. “But we
do not have plans for doing even
this until after this semester.”

The negative check-off plan
KYSPIRG is proposing would
give students the option to con-
tribute to the organization when
paying tuition, she explained.

ED HANCOCK, state attorney
general, said in a statement
issued May 11 that there is no
legal objection to the negative
check-off plan. He went on to say
it was up to the University to
approve such a plan.

“The request for the University
to act as a collector of fees for
any student organization is a
precedent-setting situation,” said
Zumwinkle. “For example what
kinds of student organizations
would be eligible for such a

request and approval in the
future?”

“The more voluntary the
collection of these fees would be,
the more willing the ad-
ministration would be to approve
the request,” he continued.

KYSPIRG WAS organized last
year as a phase of Ralph Nader’s
attempt to mobilize national
student interest in consumer
protection.

Its objectives were to support
the public interest in areas of
environmental and consumer
protection, corporate respon-

sibility and racial and sex
discrimination.

“WE ARE TRYING to get our
name to the public in connection
with community action so people
will know we are here on cam-
pus,” said Anglin.

“Our organization will
probably set up tables in the
Student Center to provide in-
formation about KYSPIRG and
ask for contributions,” she said.

KYSPIRG will also hold
elections this fall for a new
president. Anglin, a graduate
student in microbiology, will
graduate this December.

Wilderness Survival
offers variety

By PRISCILLA DEVEREAUX
Kernel Staff Writer

An offshoot of Free University,
the instructors of Wilderness
Survival Training have taught
students canoeing, hiking,
rappeling and a lot of common
sense.

Jim Stacey, an English major
with five years experience in the
Boy Scouts and three in the Army
leads students in the course. The
program consists of 32 people
who meet once a week and
participate in activities on the
weekends.

THE FIRST ACTIVITY is
basic climbing, which Stacey
said, offers a challenge to the
fearful beginners. Climbers
proceed to the intermediate
course, a weekend survival
campout.

Necessities such as food,
matches and knives are not
available and the trips take place
in all kinds'of weather, forcing
students to take care of them-
selves in accidental situations.

After the survival weekend
canoe training starts, where
students work from 6 am. until
dark for two days. At the end of
the session, canoists are quite
skilled, Stacey said, and those
who qualify go on the river trip to

Rackcastle River, south of
Lexington.
A CAMPING SEMINAR

concludes the regular program
with instruction in necessary
equipment. Basic training in-
cludes putting up (and keeping
up) tents, because some trainees
have never seen or slept in one.

The program ends in October
with an informal trip to Seneca
Rocks, ' W. Va., around
Thanksgiving, Stacey said.
Another climbing trip may be
planned to N. Carolina during
Christmas vacation, he added.

The cost will be $35 for the
entire program which includes
instructions, equipment and
repairs for damaged equipment.

CLASSES BEGIN TUESDAY.
Sept. 11 at 7 p.m. in room 120,
Student Center.

Flegle releases 56 funds
for Free U's fall program

By RON MITCHELL
Kernel Staff Writer

Student Government President
Jim Flegle has offered Free
University t