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Students celebrate St. Patrick's Day, but few know why

83' KEITH SHANNON
Kernel Staff Writer

“.St Patrick was a little leprechaun who founded the
Catholic Church, and ev ery \ ear Catholics get together to
celebrate.‘

Well not quite. 4

But that answer was typical of those given by several
students recently asked who St. Patrick was and why
March 17 is celebrated in his honor.

Most said they observe St. Patrick’s Day in some form,
by wearing green clothing or getting green-faced drunk.
Many had trouble, however, giving their reason to
celebrate.

‘1 really don’ t know why we do it, " said a sophomore
accounting major. ’It probably has something to do with
Catholics. ”

One senior h'story major commented that the day is

“not the most spectacular holiday of the year. " But he
was sure that St. Patrick is "supposed to be lucky or
something."

Many students said they had once known why the day' IS
set aside for the saint, but that they had forgotten. One
student said he learned from listening to a fourth-grade
book report on the subject, but his memory has gone
blank.

. Vol. LXVII
Friday, March 12,1976

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‘I celebrate by wearing green," said an accmmting
jurior. 'I should know why it’ s celebrated. I’ve heard it.
There was something in Ireland with little claverleaves,
shamrocks and leprechauns."

A sophomore biology major offered his interpretation of
the holithy:

‘It' s the day after my birthday, so I wear green and get
loaded." he said. “I guess the holiday was brought over
from Ireland.

‘St. Patrick's Day is a PR gimmick
tor the Republic of Ireland,’
one student said. ‘St. PatriClt was
just a dirty old man.’

'I mean it' s something good to do in the middle of
March " he continued. “February has the presidents‘
birthdays and April has April Fools’ Day, so March just
wanted to get into the act. "

‘Another student was rather cynical about the whole
idea.

"St. Patrick’s Day is just a PR gimmick for the
Republic of Ireland,” he said. ‘ ‘St. Patrick was just a dirty
old man.”

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Other responses took the form of questions, like “Does it
have anyth‘ng to do with Lent?” or “Doesn’t he play
quarterback for New Orleam?”

One student said he observes the day by putting in a
rare appearance at Mass. He still couldn’t say why the
day was celebrated, though.

“It’ s either a religious holiday or it has something to do
with potatoes," he said.

The movie “The Exorcist” turned an agriculture-
economics major against St. Patrick’s Day. After seeing
the movie he retreated to the nearest hamburger joint,

’ which happened to be serving green milkshakes in honor
, of the holiday. The sight, coupled with memories of the

movie made him ill.

But the question still lingers. Who was St. Patrick, and
why is March 17 named after him?

He’ s the patron saintof Ireland. Born around 389 A. D. in
England, St. Patrick (whose real name was Sucat)
became known as the man who “found Ireland all heathen
and left it all Christian."

He was kidnaped by pirates at the age of 16 and taken to
Ireland where he tended sheep and had his first
meanirgful experience with Christianity.

After escaping to France, he had a vision which corn-
pelled him to return to Ireland as a missionary bishop.

continued on page 8

University of Kentucky
Lexington, Kentucky

Editor charges ‘spite' motive

Measure would require
editorials to be signed

By MONTY N. FOLEY
Kernel Staff w riter

newspaper published on ‘Feb. 23 an un-
signed editorial highly critical of a “down-
state legislator who was voting, against

During each Kentucky General his admitted better judgment, to rescind

Assembly session, according to reliable
sources, atleast one legislator 1s disturbed
by press coverage he views as slanted
against his integrity.

While that may or may not be the case,
Rep. William Donnermeyer ’s (D-
Campbell County) sponsorship of a bill
that would tamper with the editorial
policies of many newspapers has raised
some questions about the motivation
behind the measure.

House Bill 744 would require that any
editorial news analysis or opinion article
printed in a Kentucky newspaper be
signed by the article' 5 author.

analysis

The bill states publishers who fail to
conform to its stipulations would be
subject to a fine of $50 to $500.

While only Donnermeyer could ac-
curately identify his motivations for at-
tempting to get around the U.S. Con-
stitution’s First Amendment, which states
freedan of the press “shall not be
abridged," at least one concerned person
has beai willing to speculate about the
Northern Kentucky legislator’s goals.

“1 think it (1113 744) is just for spite,"
said Tom Chaney, Kentucky Post editorial
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Chaney said the Northern Kentucky

the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA).

“We said in effect, that a man should
vote in accordance with his conscience and
not (11 the basis of his mail bag,” Chaney
said. “At the same time, we commended
two Northern Kentucky legislators for
opposing ERA rescission.

“We said that they had shown a great
deal of courage in attempting to turn back
the pink tide of rescission,” Chaney said,
referring to anti-ERA forces dubbed the
“ladies in pink.”

But Chaney speculated that the editorial
had displeased the majority of the
legislators in the Northern Kentucky
delegation, including Donnermeyer.

“We pissed him (Donnermeyer) off,” he
said.

However, Chaney doesn’t think HB 744
will come close to gaining house approval,
let alone pass the senate.

“It probably won’t get out of com-
mittee,” he said.

Gary Luhr, Legislative Research
Commission public information director,
said Thursday that attempts to bridle the
press umally follow press-government
conflicts. He added that measures like HB
744 "usually surface every session, but
they dm’t get very far." .

As of Thursday, the bill was in the House
Rules Committee, from which it could be
presented to the floor of the house for a
vote, or sent to a standing committee to
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Editorials do not represent the opinions of the University.

Susan Jones
Editorial Page Editor

John Winn Miller
Associate Editor

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Punishing
the press

Rep. William Donnermeyer’s (D-
Campbell County) apparent at-
tempt to punish the press for
writing an editorial about him he
didn’t like would be laughable if his
proposal didn’t pose a true threat
to First Amendment freedoms.

Donnermeyer is sponsoring
House Bill 744, which would require
any editorial, news analysis or
opinion article printed in a Ken-
tucky newspaper be signed by the
author.

Either Donnermeyer has never
read the U.S. Constitution or he is
stupid.

Kentucky Post editorial page
editor Tom Chaney believes
Donnermeyer’s action was
prompted by a Feb. 23 Post
editorial that was highly critical of
a "down-state legislator who was
voting, against his admitted better
iudgment, to rescind the Equal
Rights Amendment (ERA).

”We said in effect, that a man
should vote in accordance with his
conscience and not on the basis of
his mail bag,“ Chaney said.

Well it’s obvious from Don-
nermeyer’s sponsorship of HB 744
that he has very little conscience
on which to base any kind of vote.
After such a childish, but poten.
tially disastrous action Don-
nermeyer’s face should be as pink
gs the anti-ERA ladies’ dresses.

 

Tucker

Editor:

It seems that in columnist Terrence
Tucker‘s zealousness to enlighten the
University community on his intelli-
gence, he committed the unpardonable
sin of urinalism —— he lost his credit
ibility.

When Tucker admonishes the gram-
mar usage of students at ”You of K.” as
he prefers to call it, he stated the
banner in error was at the Auburn
game. Perhaps. If that is the case, then
he was viewing the Auburn-LSU game
and the Baton Rouge students are at
fault.

But that is not possible either, since
the Auburn-LSU game (which Auburn
won 90-80) was not televised. Did
Tucker actually see the banner or was
he given second-hand information? If
heactually viewed the NBC broadcast,
there is little cahnce he would have
forgotten the name of the team UK
played, since Alabama has won the
SEC and its caoch has beer? named
coach of the year in the conference.

There is another possibility. Could it
bethat Tucker had been sampling some
of Tom Wolfe's potent Kool-Aid asnd
has forgotten what happened Satur-
day?

Ron Mitchell
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Biggerisbetter Modernius kills
Memorial Coliseum, age 25

Memorial Coliseum died of natural
causes at the age of 25 last Monday
night. Perhaps it was not an untimely
demise; a 20th-century building's life
expectancy cannot hope to extend
posterity. Things have changed a lot
since the coliseum’s original coun-
terpart in Italy was constructed.

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The "natural" cause of death, in this
case, might be more aptly termed
Biggerisbetter Modernius, a syndrome
peculiar to this culture. Others
describe the
"Progress.“ But whether a new
basketball arena is to be UK’s most
important product remains to be seen.

At any rate, that building and l are
the same age and its end as UK’s arena
tends to remind me of my own mor-
tality. Though I am supposed to live to
the ripe old statistical age of 72 (not
withstanding the coming dangers of a
Florida spring break), I wonder if the
events of one person in that span of
years could match the drama that the
coliseum has witnessed in the past
quarter century.

The excitement that has gone on
there, fortunately, has not been limited
in its observability to the confines of
those tan brick walls. Even when the
buildlng and l were half the age we are
now, it provided me and thousands of
other youngsters with almost un-
bearable moments of tension,
exhiliration and less often than not,
disappointment. With ears glued to the
plastic covers of transistor radios and
eyes riveted on a make-shift stat sheet,
I saw the happiness of many evenings
depend on whether Cotton Nash sank
both ends of that one-and-one free
throw, whether the evil hillbillies from
Tennessee outsmarled Louie Dampier
and Dan lssel. For many years, the
outcome to both situations was usually
good. The Cats had a knack for coming
through when it counted.

It was heartening, too. The President
might get shot, riots might immerse
city blocks in flames, our parents might
tum off Ed Sullivan when the Beatles
appeared, but the Cats wore almost
always there to lift our spirits and in-
still regional pride into our young
psyches.

Later, when I went to college in
basketball-mad North Carolina, the
Bluegrass Sport of Sports held me and
my Kentucky cohorts together in mind,
if not sometimes in flesh. There were
precious few of us Kentuckians at
'Davidson, but our roundball-induced
geooentricity made us a very vocal
—some said obnoxious—minority. I
used to love to peeve my roommate, a
very northern-minded New Jerseyian,
when he bragged about urban

phenomenon as ,

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basketball.

”Suflas," I’d say, "you northerners
don’t k now what basketball is allabout.
You guys think playing on the street

makes tough competitors? Come to
Kentucky- -we learn to play with a coat
hanger stretched out in a circle on top
of a fence post. If we miss a shot, the
ball bounces into a wet, iuicy
cowplatter.“

”Manure!“ Suflas would reply in his
articulate manner.

Undaunted, I held onto myfaith in the
Wildcats through thick, thin, Tarheel
and Jim McDaniels. It wasn’t always
easy——Cawood wasn’t carried by any of
ths east coast radio stations and of
course Lefty Driessell had just left

Davidson and so we were pretty good
back then. You might say that there
was a sort of alienation of affection
during that college experience. But
now this Kentucky boy has returned to
home and to the coliseum of his
memories.

Little did I know when I arrived here
that the coliseum would soon be no
more thana memory to everyone here.
It will still serve some uses—it will
remain standing but Biggerisbetter
Moder niu‘s has won the day. The House
That Rupp Built is dead.

 

Dick Downey is a secondoyear law
student. His column appears weekly in
the Kernel.

 

 

 

 

  

Council postpones vote
on Blue-White ticket system

The Urban County Council
Thursday night voted
unanimously to postpone a vote
on a resolution opposing UK’s
athletic ticket allocation system
until after its Tuesday work
session.

The resolution, introduced at
last Tuesday's work session by
Eighth District Councilman
William Lyons, whois also a UK
political science professor,
requsts that the University find
an alternative to the present
system used for football, under
which those contributing the
greatest amount of money to the

BlueWhite fund receive high-
priority tickets.

A similar system is reportedly
expected for next season’s
basketball games in the new
Lexington Center.

The councilpeople will meet
with members of the board of the
Lexington Center Corporation,
developer of the civic center. to
discus the issue.

In other action. the council
appropriated $300,000 for
relocation aid for South Hill
residents who will be forced to
move because of the civic cen-
ter‘s projected surface parking
lot.

Registration ends today
for free UK garden plots

Today is the last day for
University staff members,
faarlty members, Students and
retired persmnel to register at
room no of the Service Building
for garden plots adjacent to
Commonwealth Stadium.

According to David lwig,
program coordinator, ap-
proximately 400 people have
registered for the 250 available
plots. Recipients will be decided
by lot Monthy, March 15, and
notified by mail.

lwig said the idea of creating
arable land for the University
community came from a similar

Miami University program for
Oxford, Ohio residents. But while
Miami charged rentalfees for the
plots, UK's are free.

The costs of plowing and
staking the land are absorbed
into the Physical Plant Division’s
budget. The individual gar-
deners, however, must assume
responsibility for supplies, took
and flants.

The garden plot project, now in
its second season, will be con-
ducted on a year-to-year basis
depending on its success, lwig
said.

Students celebrate St. Patrick's Day,

but few know the legend behind it '

continued from page 1

During his lifetime he founded
over 200 churches and baptized
over 120,000 persons. He sup-
posedly died on March 17 in 461.

Scholars sometimes seem to be
as confused about the saint as the
students who were asked about
him. There are several different
theories about his life. Some
scholars claim that there may
even have been two St. Patricks.

The life of the saint is
surrounded by legend. One of the
more popular ones is that he
charmed all of the snakes in
lreland to the seashore and they
drowned.

According to a local priest, the
Celts among whom Patrick
preached chose green as their
favorite color —hence, the
traditional wearing of the green.

The northern lrish, under the
influence of the Scottish
Presbyterians and the British
Anglicans, retaliated by donnong
orange as a symbol of their
contempt for the Catholics.

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To this day, he said, lrish
Protestants display orange on
themselves and their buildings on
March 17, and call themselves
“orangemen.”

Students, when told the story,
generally reacted by saying that
it didn’t sound like any version
they had heard. But Jamie
Daniels, a senior political science
senior, was impressed.

“He must have been a good
guy,” she said. “I hate snakes":

We goofed

Because of incorrect in-
formation supplied to a reporter,
a chart appearing on page 9 of
Wednesday’s Kernel presented
disproportionate book ex-
penditures for UK libraries. The
figures should read as follows:
King Libraries 46 per cent _

,Branch Libraries 32 per cent

Agriculture 8 per cent
Law 14 per cent

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