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Wednesday, October 30, 1974

1 University of Kentucky

Lexington, Ky. 40506

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"Release of grades ruled
an invasion of privacy

By SUSAN ENGLE
Kernel Staff Writer

Students’ grades should be released only
with the students‘ permission —this was
the conclusion reached by the University
Senate Committee on Student Affairs
Monday.

Headed by Dr. Betty Rudnick. assistant
dean of the College of Nursing, the
committee of 16 met to resolve a question
of invasion of student privacy, which was
posed in September.

AT THE last meeting, on Sept. 28, the
committee decided to withhold residence

' hall students’ grades from head residents

Kernel ”on New Steven lumen

New Competition

Dave Vetterlein of the UK bicycling team encounters new
competition on Tates Creek Road near Richmond during the
Kentucky Intercollegiate (‘ycling (‘ha mpionships Saturday.
Besides being a winding trail, the race course offered a wide

variety of Kentucky scenery.

Professor says

cigarette filter
more selective

By ELIZABETH RIIOADES
Kernel Staff Writer

Three and a half years ago Dr. George
Digenis had a better idea! He had a recipe.
and when he blended the ingredients he
came up with a new type of cigarette filter.

Digenis. who originally came to UK to
teach Medicinal Chemistry and Pharma-
cognosy. explained that the ingredients of
his filter were complicated but did not
include polystyrene and several chemical
substances.

TESTS HAVE shown that the new filter
is four to five times more effective than
any filter made of untreated polystyrene.
Digenis said.

The new filter is safer because it can be
more selective in filtering harmful
substances out of the smoke. When the
smoke passes through the treated
polystyrene it is caught on the filter and
can be seen as dark stains.

The two types of filters currently on the
market, charcoal and cellulose, are not
capable of being selective in what they
block out.

DIGENIS’S RESEARCH was approved
by a special committee of the Tobaco and
Health Research Institute. The tests are
funded by a half-cent per package tax on
all cigarettes sold in Kentucky.

Digenis and his research associate. Dr.
Manvendra Shambu, are presently
refining the filter. He estimated that the
refining process will take from three
months to a year. Work is now being
performed in several labs in an effort to
identity harmful substances in smoke.

DIGENIS'S IDEA is to take the
inexpensive polystyrene, which resembles
popcorn, and treat it with chemicals to
insure inhaling less dangerous smoke.

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and corridor advisors (CA‘s). “We
couldn’t see a justifiable cause for specific
grades to be in the hands of residence hall
personnel,“ Rudnick said.

Until last year, head residents and CA's
were given students’ grades on slips of
paper, and in several dorms the highest
grade points were posted along with the
names. The new policy does not permit the
posting of grades.

One stated reason for giving the grades
out was to help head residents and CA‘s
counsel and advise the low-achievers in
the. residence halls.

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Paul Desante, first professional year architecture student.
takes advantage of what may be the last warm weather of the
year to get in some outdoor studying. His friend. however.

found better things to do.

The chemical functional group is grafted
on the polystyrene and it becomes
chemically active. “If you choose your
chemical function wisely then you prepare
the polystryene so it can perform certain
chemical reactions. Thus it will be able to
react with one group of compounds from
the smoke. Then part of the harmful
compounds from the smoke will be caught
in the filter," Digenis said.

Digenis said that a big step in this

project would be blocking out carbon
monoxide. This is the hardest compound to
block because it is so inert and probably
one of the most harmful to the smoker, he
said.

The research being done does not deal
with the question of whether to smoke or
not, but to try to make it safer. Digenis
said, “Smoking is something we have to
face. It is a problem; people are smoking
more than they smoked before." he said

RANDY WYNKOOP, a CA in Haggin
Hall and a student senator on the
committee, supported this reason. He said
that although “a majority of students feel
their CA can't help them, for the few who
do need help, we help them."

He said he had good rapport with his
students, but having their actual grades
was important. “Even though l had good
rapport. l was surprised when several of
my pre-med students came back with
zeros...and I had no idea. If I‘d known, I
could’ve helped," he said.

Janie Gennarelli, co-director of Student
Affairs for Student Government, felt
differently. "If they have rapport with
their CA, he‘ll know who needs help,“ she
said. She said that much of the information
issued “is harmful in the wrong hands.“

JACK HALL, dean of students, said that
“wrong hands" or “bad apples“
sometimes did find themselves in CA
positions, but it was a rare occurrence. He
said that the University's CAs were chosen
very carefully. “If a CA can approach
students properly, it's helpful,“ he said.

Several committee members felt that
head residents and CA‘s are the older.

Continued on page 12

School of Music

does not object
to proposal

(Editor‘s note: this is the second of a
three-part series dealing with the
reactions of the schools and departments
affected by the Arts and Sciences
reorganization proposal. This part deals
with the School of Music and the
Department of Theater Arts.)
By LYN HACKER
Kernel Staff Writer
For the most part the School of Music
has no strong objections to joining the
Department of Theater Arts in a College of
Performing Arts. said band director Harry
Clarke,
“We can exist however it is done. and it
does pose some advantages." Clarke said.

NATHANIAI. PATCH, applied music
division chairman. said the faculty took a
vote recently in favor of the Arts and
Sciences reorganizational proposal.

The proposal would reorganize the
internal management of the College of
Arts and Sciences and realign some
departments and schools with others to
form new colleges.

One of the rationales in favor of the
reorganization for music and theater is an
“emergent bias toward professional
training rather than liberal education" in
music and theater, according to the
proposal.

PATCH SAID about 99 per cent of the
performing section ef music was in favor
of the proposal.

However, the music department does
not want to be aligned with arts since art
has shown a marked preference for
staying with the College of Arts and
Sciences. Patch said.

"In a union like that there would always
be dissension if both parties weren't

willing. he said.
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 Editor-induct, Linda Cum
Manning editor, Ron Wtdlatl
Associate editor, Torn Moore
Editorial page editor, Dan Crutctlar

Features edlor. Larry Mead
Arts editor. Oreo Hotelier.
Sports editor, ‘Jim Mauoni
Photography editor, Ed Gerald

editorials

Editorials represent the opinions ot the editors. not the university

Grading system: Does it help students?

One cannot condemn the University
Senate‘s committee on Student
Affairs for concluding that students‘
grades should not be released to
corridor advisors (CA’s) or head
residents of dormitories. It was the
only logical conclusion that could be
made in fairness to students.

After all. are not grades the most
prominent success (or failure)

symbols that a college student
possesses? One could draw an
analogy from “the real world” and
compare a student‘s grades to a
lawyer’s income. How many lawyers
would be willing to have their yearly
income figures passed out to the local
bar association, or to their spouses?

But there is a finer point that should
be considered. The discussion within

the committee mostly revolved
around whether it is helpful to the
students for CA’s and head residents
to have access to their grades, or
whether the resultant invasion of
privacy outweighed any good that
came from providing the grades.
Since the emphasis in the discussion
was on how best to help students,
perhaps the University senators

At least a kernel of truth

Recently, a letter was posted in
several prominent places around the
campus charging that the Kernel is
both inept and biased. It also
challenged us to publish it or “it may
be listed as a consequence of the
editors' refusal to allow competent
refutation to ideas presented in the
Kernel."

However, there is another reason
for not printing the letter: “Tony
Simmons, Psychology Graduate Stu-
dent," (as the letter was signed) did
not include either his address or
phone number and all attempts to
locate him have been futile. The
psychology department informed us
that they have no graduate student
named Tony Simmons as did the
University Graduate Student office.

But no matter. Someone wrote the
letter and no doubt many read it. We
would like to answer some of the
points in his “constructive critique.”

The letter states: “It is my own
personal view that the editorial
practices of the Kentucky Kernel are

'Additions'

executed either hastily or entirely
without thought of potential conse-
quences.”

He cites as evidence the large
number of “editorial retractions"
which run in the Kernel. In particular,
he cites the case of the story on
Student. Center Board Program
Director Lynn Hayes” resignation —a
story on which we ran a correction the
following day.

We certainly agree that we are
having to print too many corrections,
but the fact that we are running
corrections should indicate that we
are at least trying to be fair and
accurate.

As for the Lynn Hayes resignation
story, which the letter calls “highly
suggestive, as well as subjective,” we
agree again. But the suggestiveness
and the subjectivity was inherent in
the quotes from those who gave us the
information. We can report the news,
but we cannot guarantee that we have
arrived at the ultimate objective
truth, if such exists.

The letter gives as further evidence
of our biased viewpoint that “the
Kernel has consistently printed
articles pro~Cook*, or in his defense
and behalf. It is equally apparent that
the editors feel that it is their
responsibility to persuade President
Singletary to recognize the GLF, by
the appearance of articles printed for
that expressed purpose."

It seems that the articles to which
the letter refers appeared_on the
”Comment" page. That page‘s
purpose is to air the opinions of
anyone who cares to write. It is in no
way connected with the editorial
policies of this newspaper.

The letter also charges that “the
Kernel has become the epitome of
discrimination and prejudice via the
fact that the editors refuse to allow
refutation of specific articles appear-
ing in the Kernel!"

That statement is simply false.
Anyone can refute anything in the
Kernel through either “Letters to the
editor" or “Comments."

 

 

 

 

Machine talks back

By NEILL MORGAN

“‘Round here?“

said the

 

 

 

 

 

 

should have questioned the help-
fulness of having grades at all.

There may have been a time when
the grading system encouraged
students to learn, but that time has
surely passed and every one seems to
have realized that except university
administrators. As colleges have
grown larger and more impersonal,
grades have come to reflect more the
student‘s ability to take tests than his
initiative or knowledge.

Even worse, grades represent an
artificial stimulant for learning. They
set up a surrogate goal that pulls the
student on until he forgets that
learning was the original goal, and
grades become ends in themselves.

There are some who maintain that
grades are the only way a University
can evaluate its “products." But the
only people who are concerned with
the evaluations are employers. It
would make more sense for
employers to set up their own testing
system. if tests and grades are what
they want.

Railing against grading systems
has been popular for years, but
nobody seems to take the idea
seriously, at least not at state-sup
ported institutions. This is because
grades have become so entrenched
that universities fear they cannot
survive without them. If that is so,
then maybe they don‘t deserve to
survive.

 

 

 

The machine just stood there.
My quarter was lodged some-
where in its guts. I pushed the
button again and again nothing
happened. Damn it, I thought. I
tried for a candy bar rather than
cheese crackers. The machine
still wouldn’t give up its hold on
the food. It hadn‘t wanted to since
I’d fed it the quarter three or four
minutes earlier.

I slammed the coin return:
nothing. Cheap machine, I
thought, keep my money? I gave
it a whiff-Wham slap on the right
side and soundly flicked the coin
return up and down. Blunk,
gasped the machine as the
quarter fell free. I grabbed it up,
returned it to my pocket and
started to put in—

‘ “Just a minute, let me catch
my gears.”

I started to put in a couple of
dimes

“Hey, buddy, just a minute
willya? Let me -— there for a
minute, thought I was going to
choke outa commission."

“Who said that?”

“Buddy, I did. Me, right in
front of ya. Geez, ya blind?"

“But,” I said, ”machines can’t
talk."

“And who says humans got all
the rights?”

“They can‘t talk —— and how I
know it‘s you, I mean, ya don‘t
sound like you’re from ‘round
here."

machine. “Sure‘nuf buddy, I‘m
not."

“Hey man, I was just...”

“Yeah, buddy, you humans are
always just kidding, aren’t ya?"

“Man, I‘m sorry.”

“Well, ya should be," said the
machine. “All right: I'm from up
in Jersey, folks have a little place
just south‘a Hoboken. In the back
office, one‘a those oil storage
areas. It reeks up there. buddy.
You humans sure did a job.
Actually, the slugs got too bad for.
my tastes.”

“So, how come ya never said
anything ’fore? I use ya all the
time.”

“Humans are always using
something."

“Real smartass, aren‘t ya?
You machines don’t like humans,
or something?”

“Isn’t that, buddy,” said the
machine. “I just think humans
are stupid. I mean, I don’t have to
worry about slugs down here, but
the money tastes just as bad.”

“The money, ” I said, “what’s
wrong with the money?”

“It tastes bad, you know, not as
bad as slugs — anywhere ya go in
this country, money tastes bad.
It’s cheap money."

“What‘a ya mean cheap? We
got inflation," I said, “that’s only
cause costs are going up. We just
gotta hold costs down, spend
less."

“Why ya think your govern-
ment," said the machine, “let all
them news peeple into Fort Knox
last month?”

“How’d ya know 'bout that,” I
asked.

“I don't live in the Journalism
Building for nothing, buddy. Me
and them AP news wires talk to
each other," said the machine.

“Machines talk to...?"

“That’s our business — ya
goin’a look at that quarter or
not?"

“What‘s wrong with it," I
asked as I reached for the
quarter.

“Look at it,” said the machine.
“Get it outa ya pocket, see that
gash along the edge. Think I’m
going to gulp that down? Look at
that gash. see that copper under

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the nickel. That’s a cheap
quarter, ‘round 90 per cent
copper. Why the metal in two
pennies worth more than the
metal in that quarter."

“What?"

“Read it — it was in one'a them
news magazines last May."

”You read magazines? " I
asked.

"Stupid human,” said the
machine. “Got it from a
computer friend of mine back
home, up in New York City —
’course metal prices have
changed since May, but those
coins still got the same amount in
them."

“I gotta go to class, man. How
‘bout the cheese crackers?"

“Cheap money,“ said the
machine. “Keep ya cheap money
-— those two dimes, the metal in

them probably worth no more
than the metal in three or four
pennies."

“80?,” I said as I gathered up
my books.

“So, why ya think they let all
them news people in Fort Knox,"
asked the machine. “First time
in 40 years ——PR, that's what it
was. PR. And why ya think
they're going’a let you humans
own gold come the first of the
year? Keep ya mind of that cheap
money."

“I'm going to class," I said. “If
you were human, ya‘d make a
great demagogue."

“Stupid human,” said the
machine.

Neill Morgan is a 8.6.8. senior.
His column 'additions' runs
weekly in the Kernel.

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Defense money

Nail in mankind's coffin

By JOHN BOWMAN

Professor Kenneth Boulding is a very difficult
man to describe. Perhaps the best description that I
have heard is that he is the only person with a fairly
good chance at any one of three separate Nobel
Prizes —— Economics. Peace, or Literature. He is
truly one of the greatest intellects of our time.

Boulding considers himself foremost an
economist but is quite willing, as he says, to
“gossip" on any subject. He therefore graciously
agreed to discuss American foreign policy with a
friend and me last Thursday night. His comments
that night revealed not only his great insight, but his
charm, sensitivity, and humanitarianism.

Boulding‘s greatest concern focuses on human
survival. He firmly believes that in order to
increase the probability of that survival nations
must work to reduce conflict and increase
cooperation in the international system.

“As you know when you drive a car, any system
has some positive possibility of catastrophe. Any
system can go off the cliff," Boulding said. Boulding
fears that today many nations are reducing the
chances of human survival by engaging in activities
which may push the international system towards
disaster.

One such activity. according to Boulding, is the
expenditure of vast amounts of money on national
defense. “The whole system of unilateral national
defense is money spent to drive another nail in the
coffin of mankind. It‘s a silly and wasteful thing to
spend money on." he said.

“The plain fact is that we all live at each other‘s
mercy and we just have to learn to live with that,"
he said. Therefore. according to Boulding, all
nations must learn to refrain from “bombastic and
aggressive actions" in attempting to gain national
objectives “We all must. in fact. learn to be Swedes
lll this respect.” he said.

Boulding believes that American foreign policy
makers are slowly learning to refrain from hostile
actions in the pursuit of national goals.

"i'm pretty sure that if the Arab oil boycott
occurred 25 years ago we would have sieged Kuwait
or something. Today we are very hesitant to do a
thing like this because of a feeling that the

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international system is so precarious and so
dangerous that you just don‘t fool with it," Boulding
said.

Boulding therefore feels that American foreign
policy. at the political level, is not destabilizing in
its effect on the international system. However, he
believes that the military aspect of our foreign
policy is still quite threatening to world stability and
human survival.

The one military aspect of our foreign policy that
concerns Boulding the greatest is the policy of
deterrence. “Deterrence is a very dangerous
situation because there is always the possibility of
the deterrence system breaking down,“ he said.

“If the probability of nuclear weapons going off
were zero, it‘s the same as not having them. So if
you do have them then obviously there is a
possibility of them going off and if you wait long
enough they will," Boulding said.

However, Boulding sees America‘s policy of
deterrence as just one indication of the dangers that
the war industries of this country and the Soviet
Union present to international stability and human
survival.

“Any profession has an interest in its own
survival and the military profession is certainly no
exception to this. Although if the dentists are
prepared to advocate fluoridization I don’t see why
the military can’t advocate disarmament,"
Boulding said. However, he pointed out that
disarmament will never occur between states until
there is some certainty of stable peace.

Stable peace, in Boulding‘s view. will occur
throughout the entire international system only if
nations “take off the agenda of discussion those
issues such as national boundaries which create
conflict between states.”

Many nations have succeeded in ignoring trivial
issues such as national boundaries which may
create conflict between them, Boulding said.
“Boulding‘s first law which states that anything
which exists is possible therefore tells us that stable
peace throughout the entire international system is
indeed capable of being achieved." he said.

“Stable peace is essential," Boulding concluded,
“if the stability of the international system is to be
guaranteed and if the quest for human survival is to
be successful."

John Bowman is a graduate student in the
Patterson School of Diplomacy. He will be writing a
series of comments on foreign policy to appear
every other Wednesday in the Kernel.

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news briefs

Ali whips Foreman

KINSHASA, Zaire (AP) -Muhammed Ali knocked out George
Foreman with a right to the head in the eigth round and won back
the world heavy-weight championship here Wednesday to cap one
of the great accomplishments ever in sports.

It came it) years after Ali had first won the title by knocking out
Sonny Liston and seven years after he had the title stripped from
him for refusing induction into the United States armed forces.

The victory made Ali, who has called himself the people's
champion ever since he was stripped of the title. one of the kings of
the world of sport and it seems certain to insure his place at or near
the top of boxing history.

Man killed in Louisville
over Foreman-Ali bet

LOUISVILLE. Ky. (APi-4ine man was shot to death and two
wounded a few minutes before the televised showing of the
Muhammed Ali-George Foreman fight at Louisville's Convention
Center Tuesday night.

Lovisville Police said the shooting resulted from an argument
over a bet.

(‘harged with willful murder and two counts of shooting and
wounding was Frank Hamblen, 51. of Louisville

Dead is John Robert Franklin. 27. of Louisville Zebedee
Franklin. 24. of Louisville is in Louisyillc (ieneral Hospital with a
shoulder wound and is listed in satisfactory condition

Eugene [lee (‘00k. 23. of Sulphur. Ky. is listed in serious
condition with a stomach wound.

Nixon listed as critical
after leg operation

LONG BEL-\(‘IIJ‘ALII'I iAPi- Former President Richard M.
Nixon was in critical condition Tuesday night and under the care of
special nurses after going into shock for three hours following
surgery for phlebitis.

President Ford said he was praying for Nixon's recovery. and the
former president‘s wife and two daughters were staying near
Nixon‘s bedside.

Dr. Eldon Hickman. who performed Nixon's surgery which had
been described as successful during the day. planned to stay with
Nixon through the night.

Hunt denies money demand
was extortion or blackmail

WASHINGTON (AP) -—--E. Howard Hunt Jr testified Tuesday
that the money demand which former President Richard M Nixon
viewed as blackmail last year was just an attempt to collect an
overdue bill.

Hunt. testifying at the Watergate cover-up trial, said it was
neither extortion nor blackmail.

Following him on the witness stand was Jeb Stuart Magruder.
who said that former Atty. Gen. John N. Mitchell once expressed
annoyance about the results of buys and wiretaps planted at
Democratic party headquarters by agents of the Nixon reelection
committee,

Magruder, formerly Mitchell‘s deputy in the 1972 presidential
campaign, said Mitchell told chief Watergate burglar G. Gordon
Liddy “that he was dissatisfied with the product Liddy was
producing from wiretaps and photographs."

Magruder said Liddy told Mitchell “he was going to correct the
problem.“

Asked whether the problem was corrected. Magruder replied:

“Yes. We learned on the morning of June 17 that Liddy had not
corrected the problem but created a problem,"

Concert committee to hold forum

The Student Center Board concert committee will hold an open
forum today from 123 pm. in room 206 of the Student (‘enter

The purpose of the forum is to answer questions from students
concerning the problems and factors involved in scheduling groups
to perform concerts at the University. according to Bob Benedict.
concert committee cochairman.

There are 25 members of the concert committee who are in
charge of concert scheduling.

 

 

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Stadium light not working
because of electrical difficulties

By BYRON wasr
Kernel Staff Writer

The new traffic signal in front
of Commonwealth Stadium has
not been turned on because of
difficulties in getting electricity
to it, according to the Bureau of
Highways‘ district office.

The signal has been ready to
hook up for some time, but
Kentucky Utilities doesn't have
any lines in the neighborhood.
said Frank Duncan, district
traffic engineer.

“l'Sl'ALIA’ IT‘S a Simple
matter to hook up a traffic light
just tap into an overhead
power line." he said. “But all the
overhead lines in the area belong
to the t‘niversity. so the utility
company is having to dig to one of
their underground lines.

“A lot of people were hoping we
could get it up and working in
time for the game this past
weekend." Duncan said. “We
pushed for that date and we got it
tip on time. but the power
company couldn't make it."

The light probably would have
helped traffic in general on a
heavy weekend. but they probab~
ly would have wanted to turn it
off for the game itself anyway. he
said.

THE SIGNAL equipment is all
solid-state and is of modular
construction. which enables re»
pair crews to change modules at
the intersection and bring faulty
modules in to the shop for repair.

“Solid-state traffic lights are
fairly new in this area." Duncan
said, ”They are much more
dependable and nearly mainten~
ance-free. unless they are
disturbed by some outside
element. like lightning. Last
week we had one run over by a
car. and we have had some

trouble when there are high-
voltage lines in the area. But if
the equipment is installed
properly and if it isn‘t disturbed,
it seems to work on and on
forever."

Duncan said that equipment
and labor costs for a traffic signal
like the one in front of
Commonwealth Stadium run
between $20000 and $25,000. The
money for that particular light
came entirely from state high-
way funds.

"TIIE SIGNAL has what we
calla five-phase operation, which

consists of the two through
movements on Cooper Drive, two
left-turn lanes off Cooper Drive,
and the traffic on University
Drive." He said that the sequence
in which the lights work depend
on the amouht of traffic.

Six—by-50-foot “loop detectors"
— wires that generate a magnetic
field to detect metal — are buried
in each lane of the intersection to
monitor traffic. The equipmen
includes a digital timer that
determines the maximum num—
ber of cars that will go through
the intersection before the light
changes.

National moot court team
to compete in tournament

UK‘s national moot court team
willleave today for regional
competition in Richmond, Virgin-
ia. Steve Bright, Dwight Wash-
ington, and John Bickel will
participate in the first round of
the single elimination tourna—
ment as Kentucky‘s representa-
tives.

ln national competition, one
case is selected for all partici—
pants to prepare. This year’s
case involves one Howard A.
Lincoln. a black man who was
refused admission to Sweetwater
College. hitherto an all-black
private school. Lincoln, in this
fictitious case, is suing the
institution because he feels he
was discriminated against.

MOOT (‘OL'RT competition is
based on the appellate level
rather than the trial level. The
reason for this, according to moot
court advisor Deedra Benthall-
Nietzel, is “It‘s the simplest."

“We have the trial advocacy

program, the practice court,"
she said. “A great deal of that
program has to be simulated.
You have to make up an
extensive set of facts for the
participants to bring out. In the
moot court program, on the other
hand, everything has already
gone through the trial stage. It
has been narrowed down so that
there will be two or three issues,
on which the arguments can be
based."

Training for the moot court
program begins in a law
student’s first year, where all
students are required to write
briefs and to argue orally for
grades. There is no formal
ranking. though, of first year
students.

Beginning with the second
year, the moot court program is
voluntary. Those who participate
vie for the three spots on the
national moot court team.

That team then competes
during the members‘ third year.

 

 

 

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