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Universdy of Kentucky
Lexington. Ky. 40506

UK gets more money
to help cover inflation

By LINDA ('ARNES
I'lditor-in-(‘hief
UK received $992,185 from the
(‘ouncil on Public Higher Education
Tuesday as part of the (‘ouncil's $2.2
million appropriation to the eight
state~sttpported universities and
colleges for increased costs because
of inflation
The allocation will supplement the
I‘JH-TS budget. but the additional
iitoney will not be used for faculty
and staff salary increases

'l‘llli t't)l'\( ll. did direct its staff
to coitduct a study on the effect
inflation is having on university and
college employes

In other business. the t‘ouncil
again rejected a request by
Northern Kentucky State (‘ollege
INKSLI to establish a master's
degree program Ill education.

The (‘ouncil requested ntore
information conceri'nng the program

and delayed action until its next
meeting. scheduled for January.
However, the Council decided the
NKSC proposal should be placed on
the agenda at any special Council
meetings held before January.

.\ SIMILAR proposal was
submit ted to the (‘ouncil last year by
\KSt‘ but was not approved.

l)r, Al) Albright. (‘ouncil
executive director. explained that a
(‘ouncil task force is studying all
graduate programs tn higher
education in the state and that there
are no specific policies or
procedures to evaluate new
programs

.\'K.\‘(‘ President Frank Steely told
the ('ouncil he was not asking for a
new program. but was requesting
authorization to unilaterally run a
program that is now tn effect.

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One officer left in GPSA;
organization may disband

My .ll-Iltltl HAYES
Kernel Staff Writer

The president. treasurer and
recording secretary of the Graduate
and Professional Students
.-\sstx'iatioit ttil’SAt res‘igned their
offices at Monday night‘s meeting.

(ll’SA \‘lt't‘vpi‘PSldON Lynne
'l'hoete had resigned her office

Kernel mu photos by Phat Groshong before the semester began because

she was leaving town. This leaves
the organization with only one

It's out of school and bolt for the merry‘f-ZO- Spinning in a blur of motion. the children ”HH'N‘ ””15 Sllf‘l'kiL ”"3
round forthesekindergarten.firstand second enjoy their special treat — a fall frolic in corresponding secretary

graders of the Blue (irass Baptist schools. “oodland l’ark.

president. said he resigned because
he was not satisfied with his past
effectiveness in his office and he did
not foresee a change in the situation.
He added. however. that he would
coitunueto serve as acting president
until a replacement was found.
Letters of resignation from Dave
ltoutenberg and Lynne
(ioldschmidt. the treasurer and
reconlmg secretary. were read at
the meeting. ltoutenberg said he
was ineligible to serve as treasurer
because he didn't register in the
graduate school this semester.

Teacher in the sky

NASA satellite brings education courses to Appalachia

ll) Sl'SAN ENGLI‘I
Kernel Staff Writer

()rbiting the earth above the Galapagos Islands.
NASA‘s Appalachian Technology Satellite (ATS—6)
beams career education and reading courses to high
school teachers scattered across isolated regions of
Appalachia .

ATS-6. NASA‘s largest and most powerful
communications satellite. receives all its teacher~
training programs from a resource center on the UK
campus.

('IIUSEN FRUM Mother southeastern institutions,
t'K develops and produces satellite courses. which are
sent out to a vast area.

“It's hard to beat this outreach of UK to lower New
York and upper Alabama." said Dr. Paul ()wen, UK
TV director. (Men is also the director of the
Appalachian Education Satellite Project ”WISH
television component.

l'K was chosen from several other colleges.
including (that State. Penn State. Tennessee and
(ieorgia. he said

“Hi Appalachian Itegional t'oinmission r:\lt(‘t

selected t'K because of its outstanding record in the
field of ,-\ppalachian studies and research and the
quality of its college of education. ()wen added.

The l'niversity receives St.473.t)0tt to develop and
produce all software and programming for the
teacher»tra ining programs.

The resource center is located in the Taylor
Education Building Built around the actual filming
studio. it contains several sntall rooms dominated by
television receivers. About five of these receivers show
the program live. as it is being taped. at the opposite
end of the room The other shows the program as the
.I\|)p£lltt('lllitll \ tewers see it.

SIM'H I’I‘ ltas been sent and returned from the
orbiting A'l‘Sti. this receiver is about three seconds
behind the live programs

Film crewmen are efficient. according to Dr. llavid
l. l..’ll‘lllltll'(‘. director of the Resource (‘oordinating
t‘enter and the satellite component “Some are from
[K 'l‘\'. a itd some are new." be said “They do a great
Ifll) "

There an- ot ten difficulties iit presenting a live show.
and using a distant satellite can be tioitblesotiie

lil('l\' lll-II'I‘t'll.‘l.\\. (il’SA

(‘ontinued on page 6

"\Hi SUSIE‘I‘IXIICS have trouble with sunspots."
Larimore said. He explained that sunspots can disrupt
the satellites broadcast

The teacheretraining programs are sent front the
l'itiversity to North t‘arolina. where they are beamed
to the satellite. l'sing a clear frequency. two large
antennae situated on the roof of the Taylor Education
building send and receive signals.

“They ittust be checked quite often as to position and
sensitivity Larimore said. “Not just wind. but
\tbi‘auons aitd normal use can throw them off."

’l‘lll-thli UH: two types of broadcasts in both the
reading and the careercducation courses. ()wen said.
\‘iewcd by ~iunior and senior high school teachers who
are working toward master‘s degrees. the programs
are either ha lf rhour videotapes of lectures or «timinute
ll\ e seminars.

.\bout in teachers view the programs in a
scliooli‘ooitt. some of them traveling up to 30 miles to a
t't't‘t‘n iitg site

"l‘hese teachers get really tired." Larimore said.
"l‘hey'w (lone time in school all day but they're
mom ated. too They 't'c enrolled for credit hours at no

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Editor-inchtet, Linda Carries
Managing editor, Ron Mitchell
Assoc-ate editor, Tom Moore
Editorial page editor. Dan (.rulcher
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Features editor, Larry Mead

Arts editor. Greg Hotelich

Sports editor. Jam Manon

Photography editor. Ed Gerald
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editorials

Editorials represent theoptmons of the editors, not the Unwerstlv

Football ticket mixup should be rectified

It was reported in a Kernel story
last week that through an oversight
by the ticket office. student tickets for
the first two home football games in
section 210 of Commonwealth
Stadium were inadvertently given to
the football coaching staff to be
distributed to coaches and parents of
high school prospects, while students
got seats in section 208 which were
originally assigned to the recruiters.

No doubt many students felt they
were shortchanged in this
transaction, getting seats on the 40
yard line, when they should have been
on the 50. Even though the difference
is about 10 yards, the real story lies
behind the yardlines.

The initial error is understandabie.
The ticket office handles 57.000 tickets
for each of six home football games.
so it is clear that there is room for
human mistakes. What is not so clear
is why the situation can‘t be
corrected.

According to Dean of Students Jack
Hall. the tickets cannot be recovered.
Although Hall did not say he actually
contacted Dan Leal. assistant
Football coach in charge of
recruiting, who has the tickets, he did
say he had been in touch with Al
Morgan in the ticket office and
Athletic Director Harry Lancaster.
All were in agreement that the tickets

could not be recovered, since l.cal had
been given section 210 tickets for all
remaining home games.

Leal said that since he was never
asked to return the tickets to the
ticket office, he hasn't done so.
Except for the LSU game this
weekend. he still has the tickets for
the rest of the games in his office. “I
don't run this University,“ said Leaf,
"and if someone like Jack Hall asked
me for the tickets. I would return
them.“

It appears then, that as long as the
ticket office and Hall don‘t ask for the
tickets, Leal won't have to give them
back.

Granted. the difference is only 10
yards. (‘hanccs are. the 150 seats
affected by the switch don‘t differ
much in their view of the field.

But if 10 yards are nothing to the
students. then they couldn‘t mean
much to prospects‘ parents and
coaches. Why ca n’t the tickets for the
last three home games be requested
by the Dean of Students and returned
by lxial. reducing the problem to a
phone call? If the tickets aren't
recovered. the University will not
only lose a minimum of three
ballgames. but also the confidence of
the students in the ticket distribution
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'Additions'

Politics, power and the endless pursuit of victory

By NEILL MORGAN

One of the most candid
appraisals of the mood in our
nation‘s capital comes from
George Allen, Washington Red-
skins' coach. “Losing is like
dying,“ he says. That‘s a long
way from the "life, liberty and
pursuit of happiness" Thomas
Jefferson wrote of. But back then
we didn’t have a capital dotted
with government office buildings,
historic monuments and political
egos.

One political ego. white-haired
Senator Marlow Cook, Republi-
can candidate for re-election,
visited UK last week. He
answered students‘ questions,
but not before he told them:
“Issues are those things decided
by people who have the
opportunity to vote“’

HE DIDN‘T SAY he could,
under federal law, spend up to
$255,000 on advertising. He didn’t
say the man creating his
television commericals is Roger
Ailes, best known for helping put
Richard Nixon across to the
public in 1968, as told in Joe
McGinniss’ bestseller, The Sell-
ing of the President, 1968.

Governor Wendell Ford, Demo—
cratic candidate for the Senate,
had also been tentatively set to
appear here last week, but
developed a conflict in his
schedule. He did attend the
Indiana football game. There’s
been no word from Frankfort on
whether he‘ll make a campaign
stop on campus.

Does it matter? The Cook-Ford
senatorial race has been reduced
to barbed exchanges. Charges of
corporate favors and political
malice are rampant. Real issues
are smothered by self-
gratulatory speeches. Cook is
already making the traditional
patriotic pitch — VOTE. Ford
will follow suit. They don't seem
to realize that while we may still
have individual pride. our pride
as Americans is sadly drained
these days.

“IN EUROPE, charters of
liberty are granted by power,“
wrote James Madison in 1792.
“America has set the example,

and France has followed. of
charters of power granted by
liberty. " Our forefathers chose to
elect leaders rather than bow to
royalty. More precisely. they
developed policies to preserve
and pursue liberty. and proced-
ures for restraining and diffusing
power. They hoped for liberty
and feared power.

The distinction might seem
trivial, certainly confusing, even
conflicting. In the most human
sense. it‘s the jagged line
separating the hopes and fears of
people. It's the line Hemingway‘s
Nick Adams and Schulz's Charlie
Brown try so hard to find; the line
Dale Carnegie and his friends try
so hard to forget. In the
American political arena, it‘s the
difference between the politics of
policy and the politics of
procedure.

Political constitutions are like
“the constitution of the human
body,“ wrote John Adams in late
January, 1766, each having
“certain contextures of nerves,
fibers and muscles, or certain
qualities of the blood and juices,”
some of which are “essentials
and fundamentals of the consti-
tution, parts without which life
itself cannot be preserved for a
moment.”

HE GOES ON to compare
political constitutions to the parts
of a clock. To Adams, constitu-
tions were, by definition, alive
and timely. They breathed fresh
air as the years ticked by. That’s
quite different from our popular
idea of the US. Constitution: A
piece of parchment laying down a
set of procedures to follow.

Until recently many thought
our constitution might be old and
flawed, and couldn’t handle our
technological society. Many
wanted a Nixon trial to be sure it
worked. And there‘s the example
of a group of people who went to
Washington to register displea-
sure with a federal regulatory
agency. They were thanked for
their opinions, then told to go
home and work in the precincts to
change things.

Government, Adams wrote, is
“a combination of powers for a
certain end, namely, the good of
the whole community." Yet our

bureaucrats seem to say: We
have this set of procedures; if you
want something changed, and
work hard so we can hear you, we
might modify the procedure.

WHEN RALPH NADER spoke
at UK last spring, he said he’d
like to see everyone vote. He said
he‘d like to see a law where those
who didn’t vote would have to go
to the polls and sign a statement
saying so. Nader is just one
potential demagogue, but what
about other ordinary politicans?
They don‘t represent people
anymore — they capture votes.
They‘re concerned only with one
procedure: How to win elections.

 

’YOUI HONOR, CAN

WI JUST ‘I’AKI T

The War on Poverty was the
last real political policy this
country had. it was aborted for
the Vietnam War, a war born of
our fear of fear philosophy. Ever
since President Roosevelt said in
his first inaugural “we have
nothing to fear but fear itself."
this country has been living in a
closet room. When (‘ook and Ford
conduct campaigns based on
moral outrage, they are only
telling us the closet door is still
shut. That‘s been the winning
political procedure for 40 years.
Working out procedural details
not only separates winners from
losers, thus keeping the Ameri-
can competitive spirit alive, it
also allows us to ignore what is

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INOUOH ALIIADYI'

Letters to the editor

Plea to the Allman Brothers

I have recently come across a
letter sentto the Allman Brothers
Band regarding their lack of
showmanship. I thought I‘d share
it with you.

Dear Allman Brothers Band,

Perhaps you have forgotten
that today “good music and good
entertainment" are synonymous.
l mean, “why go to a concert just
to hear good music?"

First of all, Dicky Belts, why
don‘t you ever move" Can‘t you
do some shuffling in between all
those intense guitar licks? And
how about a little guitar

destruction for the sake of
entertainment?
And Butch 'l‘rucks, you play the
drums. don't you? What‘s with
the “one facial expression?“
That just doesn't get it man!
As for you, Gregg Allman. you
shoukl know better than to wear
those same t-shirts and jeans
throughout the whole concert.
How unimpressive? And haven't
you heard any good jokes lately?
Where's your “sense of humor?“
Concerning the material you
do, why not play something
everyone has heard of before?
Just because your Brothers and

NI PAIDON AND 00? .

obvious: The American Dream
Machine has stripped its gears

l-‘OR TOO LONG we've let our
constitution. government and
laws be reduced to procedural
matters. Active policy is needed.
Voting is not enough. nor even
best. It should be backed by
demand so as to cut the lean from
the fat But mostly, we need to sit
down, throw open the windows of
our minds and figure how the hell

we got from the "pursuit of
happiness" to "losing is like
dying "

Charlie Brown needs a hand

 

Neill Morgan is a 8.0.8. senior.
His column ‘additions' appears
every Wednesday in the Kernel.

   

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Sisters album was the best selling
album last year doesn‘t mean
people are going to appreciate
hearing it. How about a little
“Top 40" in the act?

Now Band. I sincerely hope
you‘ll heed this advice, so as to
remove the risk of boring the
audience. take a lesson from
someof the “experts" ~ listen to
Three Dog Night, they do some of
the ”best music you‘ll ever want
to hear "

Luv ya, (‘oncerncd Groupie

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comment

GLF recognition still up to Singleiary

By BRYAN BUNCH

Editor's note: This comment is the last
in a series of three comments about the
GLF.)

On May 31, 1972,a notice of appeal of the
denial of registration was submitted by the
(Saylaberation Front ((lLF) to Dr. Robert
Zumwinkle, vice president for student
affairs, in accordance with Section 4.4 of
the Student (‘ode. Zumwinkle denied the
registration, and thus. pursuant to section
4.4 of the Student (‘ode. forwarded the
matter to the University Appeals Board.

(me November 13, 1972, the University
Appeals Board recommended that the
UH“ be registered as a student
organization, or alternatively, that a
declaratory judgment be sought.

AFTER receiving the recommendation
of the Appeals Board. President ()tis
Singletary wrote his decision to deny the
application of (BLF for recognition (Dec. 4,
l972t.

In his decision he stated three reasons
for denying the application. The first
reason relates to medical opinion and says

in the absence of any unanimity among
medical authorities I am unwilling to
grant the requested registration in the face
of the unpredictability of the
constquences." He continued: “It would

Dean Rusk in exile

seem that an implied endorsement of a
group which views the homosexual way of
life as a desirable state would be
counterproductive at the very least. In
other words, I believe that it is possible
that a court would hold that a university
may validly decide that its most
appropriate response to the question of
homosexuality is the provision of
counseling and assistance rather than the
accordance of official recognition." Again
we see the already Orwellian—depicted
desire to use the counseling service as a
means of maintaining normalcy and
‘rehabilitating‘ homosexuals.

Singletary goes on with his second
reason for denying recognition, writing,
“There is also the question of public
acceptability. The registration of the GLF
would. in my opinion tend to bring
discredit, in the eyes of the general public,
upon this institution."

IIIC ENDS his rationale with a third
reason, writing, “The third major
consideration in my decision is that I have
in my possession an opinion of the
Attorney General of Kentucky advising
that your organization not be registered."
lfe continued. “While not disregarding the
opinion of the Board, lsimply do not share
the view that [can so lightly dismiss the
opinion of the state's chief legal officer.“

Needless to say, the opinion of the
Attorney General is no more law than any
of our opinions.

Theaspects ofSingletary’s conception of
his role as president, which his comments
reveal. are simply scary to me. He has
based an important decision, as he has
stated, on three things: medical
‘authorities‘ among whom there is an
“absence of any unanimity”; “the eyes of
the general public";and “an opinion of the
Attorney General of Kentucky.“ He has
pictured himselfas a man who, involved in
a controversial question of human rights,
is vastly influenced by the political
implications of his decision.

“University officials cannot deny
registration because ofa belief that illegal
activity might take place at some future
date and that university officials have no
right to act arbitrarily or capriciously in
the matter of recognizing student
organizations. There are sufficient
precedents to demonstrate that such
action might be interpreted by the courts
to be viola tive of student rights of freedom
of speech and assembly.“ These words
were also written by Otis Singletary.

WE HAVE had exposure to other
'Ieaders' in our country recently who were
also full of pleasing rhetoric, but who in
fact were very indifferent to laws, justice.

and the rights of women and men. Leaders
who seclude themselves from their
constituents, strive for the appearance
thateverything is alright and take special
care to squash the dissenting view. The
implications of this man‘s stance are very
broad and not just relating to the issue of
gay liberation.

The case went to court. Richard N. Rose,
attorney on behalf of the Kentucky Civil
Liberties Union and representing GLF,
said in a letter to Singletary, “In essence,
the position of the Gay Liberation Front is
that the failure on the part of the
University to approve their application for
registration as a student organization
constitutes governmental interference
with their constitutionally protected right
to assemble."

Singletary being the plaintiff, the court
ruled: “....plaintiff's denial of application
for registration of Gay Liberation Front, is
a matter within administrative discretion
as President of the U. of Ky.

THE MATTER is clearly not closed. The
court has simply said that Singletary can
deny registration. But it certainly does not
say that he cannot grant registration now
or inthefuture. He canifhe so chooses.

Bryan Bunch is a graduate student in

Social and Philosophical Studies of
Education.

Foreign policy bureaucracy changed by Kissinger

By JOHN BOWMAN

Dean ltusk sat comfortably ma
leather chair. drinking scotch
while (’ltitltl'Slttttklllg my
cigarettes. As I sat talking to
him. I thought to myself how little
the man‘s thinking has changed
over the years.

ltusk's comments that night
last year convinced me he is still
a firm believer In the simplistic,
conspiratorial view of history.
The conspirators in this case
being the ('ommunists.

S.\l)l.\'. Rusk will never
change and will probably remain
t'.\ll(‘(l in (leorgia for the rest of
his life. In the words of John

‘ The two Vnunufiants.‘
frank H l Bellow, I'm

 

literally dictated to the
appropriate agency whose job it
is to carry it out.

Kissinger has made many
enemies in the old bureaucracy:
but he has given American
foreign policy the flexibility and
creativeness that it so much
needed.

\HIEN KISSINGER leaves
office it is very likely that foreign
policy-making will be returned in
some degree to the bureaucracy
as well as to its representatives.
Kissinger must therefore find a
way to assure the continuation of
his style of policy-making after
this transition has taken place.

The philosophy of Dean Rusk is

    
   
   
    
     
   
 
 
    
  
    
 
     
  
   
    
   
   
  
   
  
 
    
     
  
     
   
   
     
  
  
   
  
   
  
   
  
  
  
   
   

Kenneth Galbraith, he is among
“Ihcwalking-wounded ofthe Cold
War."

lNFttlt'l'l'N.-\'I‘El.\' for our
Iorcign policy at the time. the
belief that tommunist countries
were conspiratorial and relent-
lessly expansionist was accepted
poticy within the bureaucracy
that these men represented. The
State Department and especially
the military believed in a
monolithic and imperialistic
(‘ommtmist world

t'nderstanding the foreign
policy of the l'nited States during
the 1960's is contingent upon
understanding the men who
made that policy. Like Rusk. the
policy-makers of the time
conformed and were intensely
loyal to the bureaucratic
organizations they represented.
The good bureaucrat is one who
gives the impression he is
speaking his own mind while, in
fact, he is pleading the
organization's cause.

h N ,
__._____.t e 8" manure!» L

Men like Dean Rusk directly
transferred such a distorted and
unsophisticated view of the world
directly into our foreign policy
decisions Asa result, our foreign
policy produced such gems as the,
Bay of Pigs. the Dominican
Republic invasion, Vietnam,
Laos and (‘ambodia

Policy-makers during the
t960‘s blindly stumbled from one
crisis to another because they
were unable or unwilling to free
themselves of the views of the
bureaucracy they represented.
The bureaucracy itself continued
to function as all bureaucracies

function: once something
becomes policy it remains
policy.

TIIE foreign policy

bureaucracy of the 1960's was
massive. A State Department
desk officer was supposedly in
charge of the country‘s relations
with'a small African country
during those years discovered

 

 

that he shared authority with 16
other officials in 16 other
agencies.

The number of agencies
seeking to make policy helped to
create an overabundance of
policy. most of which was
confused. uncoordinated and
disastrous.

Foreign policy-making is a
difficult business. Failure is
routine and disaster common. At
the time of the Suez Crisis. for
t-xatiiple, John Foster Dulles
managed to be hanged in effigy
both in Tel Aviv and (‘airo

'I‘IIIC SAME massrve
bureaucracy that guided this
country through the Suez Crisis of
1956 was in full operation during
the t960's. It was this
bureaucracy and the men who
represented it that made the
1960‘s a very bad decade for
American foreign policy.

During Richard Nixon‘s first
term the process by which

foreign policy was made was
drastically altered. In 1970 Nixon
made one of his few insightful
observations: “If we are to
establish a new foreign mlicy for
the era to come." he said. “we
must begin a basic
reconstruction by which policy is
made."

In charge of that
reconstruction was that notorious
hater of bureaucracies. Henry
Kissinger

leSthirIR took foreign
policy—making out of the hands of
the bureaucracy and their
servants, and ptaceo if in the
hands of his National Security
(‘ouncil tNS(‘t. The tltt».nember
staff of the council. whose job it is
to explore and suggest foreign
policy options. is responsible to
Kissinger and Kissinger alone.
Kissinger himself is responsible
only to the President.

Once a policy is determined by
the President and the NSC. it ts

 

no longer in vogue in Washington
these days. However. as the
Watergate affair clearly shows
many men remain in Washington
whose ideals and actions are
directly determined by the
organization they represent.

Organization men. it given the
responsibility for foreign policy.
will. like the men of the 1960‘s. let
the bureaucratic thought and
style of any given time guide
their decisions.

l'NH'ISS‘ Henry Kissinger can
once again do the impossible;
unless he can establish flexibility
and creativity within the foreign
policy bureaucracy. the United
States will be hard pressed to
meet the foreign policy
challenges of the future.

 

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
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Football ticket mixup should be rectified

It was reported in a Kernel story
last week that through an oversight
by the ticket office, student tickets for
the first two home football games in
section 210 of Commonwealth
Stadium were inadvertently given to
the football coaching staff to be
distributed to coaches and parents of
high school prospects, while students
got seats in section 208 which were
originally assigned to the recruiters.

No doubt many students felt they
were shortchanged in this
transaction, getting seats on the 40
yard line. when they should have been
on the 50. Even though the difference
is about 10 yards, the real story lies
behind the yardlines.

The initial error is understandable.
The ticket office handles 57,000 tickets
for each of six home football games.
so it is clear that there is room for
human mistakes. What is not so clear
is why the situation can‘t be
corrected.

According to Dean of Students Jack
Hall, the tickets cannot be recovered.
Although Hall did not say he actually
contacted Dan Leal, assistant
Football coach in charge of
recruiting, who has the tickets, he did
say he had been in touch with Al
Morgan in the ticket office and
Athletic Director Harry Lancaster.
All were in agreement that the tickets

could not be recovered. since l.eal had
been given section 210 tickets for all
remaining home games.

Leal said that since he was never
asked to return the tickets to the
ticket office, he hasn‘t done so.
Except for the LSU game this
weekend, he still has the tickets for
the rest of the games in his office. “I
don‘t run this University.” said Leal,
“and if someone like Jack Hall asked
me for the tickets. I would return
them."

It appears then, that as long as the
ticket office and Hall don‘t ask for the
tickets, Leal won‘t have to give them
back.

(iranted. the difference is only 10
yanls. (‘hances are, the 150 seats
affected by the switch don‘t differ
much in their view of the field.

But if it) yards are nothing to the
students, then they couldn't mean
much to prospects‘ parents and
coaches. Why can't the tickets for the
last three home games be requested
by the Dean of Students and returned
by l.eal. reducing the problem to a
phone call? If the tickets aren‘t
recovered, the University will not
only lose a minimum of three
ballgames. but also the confidence of
the students in the ticket distribution
system.

   

       
   
   
  
   
   
   
   
    
    
    
   
   
   
  
   
      
   
  
  
 
 
 
 
  
   
 
  
   
 
  
   
     
   
      
    
         
  
    
   
   
  
    
      
    
   
    
     

'Additions'

Politics, power and the endless pursuit of victory

By NEILL MORGAN

One of the most candid
appraisals of the mood in our
nation’s capital comes from
George Allen, Washington Red-
skins‘ coach. “Losing is like
dying,“ he says. That‘s a long
way from the “life, liberty and
pursuit of happiness“ Thomas
Jefferson wrote of. But back then
we didn‘t have a capital dotted
with government office buildings,
historic monuments and political
egos.

One political ego, white-haired
Senator Marlow Cook, Republi-
can candidate for reelection,
visited UK last week. He
answered students‘ questions,
but not before he told them:
“Issues are those things decided
by people who have the
opportunity to vote‘"

HE DIDN'T SAY he could,
under federal law, spend up to
$255,000 on advertising. He didn't
say the man creating his
television commericals is Roger
Ailes, best known for helping put
Richard Nixon across to the
public in 1968, as told in Joe
McGinniss’ bestseller, The Sell-
ing of the President, 1968.

Governor Wendell Ford, Demo-
cratic candidate for the Senate,
had also been tentatively set to
appear here last week, but
developed a conflict in his
schedule. He did attend the
Indiana football game. There’s
been no word from Frankfort on
whether he‘ll make a campaign
stop on campus.

Does it matter? The Cook-Ford
senatorial race has been reduced
to barbed exchanges. Charges of
corporate favors and political
malice are rampant. Real issues
are smothered by self—
gratulatory speeches. Cook is
already making the traditional
patriotic pitch — VOTE. Ford
will follow suit. They don't seem
to realize that while we may still
have individual pride, our pride
as Americans is sadly drained
these days.

“IN EUROPE, charters of
liberty are granted by power,“
wrote James Madison in 1792.
“America has set the example,

and France has followed. at
charters of power granted by
liberty." Our forefathers chose to
elect leaders rather than bow to
royalty. More precisely, they
developed policies to preserve
and pursue liberty, and proced-
ures for restraining and diffusing
power. They hoped for liberty
and feared power.

The distinction might seem
trivial, certainly confusing, even
conflicting. In the most human
sense, it‘s the jagged line
separating the hopes and fears of
people. It‘s the line Hemingway‘s
Nick Adams and Schulz’s Charlie
Brown tr