xt7n2z12rk15 https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt7n2z12rk15/data/mets.xml The Kentucky Kernel Kentucky -- Lexington The Kentucky Kernel 1976-04-19 Earlier Titles: Idea of University of Kentucky, The State College Cadet newspapers  English   Contact the Special Collections Research Center for information regarding rights and use of this collection. The Kentucky Kernel  The Kentucky Kernel, April 19, 1976 text The Kentucky Kernel, April 19, 1976 1976 1976-04-19 2020 true xt7n2z12rk15 section xt7n2z12rk15 Vol. LXVH No. 133
Monday, April 19, 1976

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Condidotes' views differ
on 56's role in University

By DAVID rrrrowx
Assistant Managing Editor

The candidates in this year‘s Student
Government (86) presidential and vice
presidential elections evidence differences
in the roles they feel 56 should play within
the University. .

Carlton Currens. one of four presidential
candidates. and running mate Linda
Welch see 86 as a student advocacy group.
providing services associated with student
rights. Welch is one of three vice
presidential candidates.

Another ticket. Mike McLaughlin and

vice presidential candidate Hal Haering
propose SG be a service organization.

People’s Resctionary Party candidates
BL. Schuler and vice presidential can-
didate RA. Pinkston view 86 as a method
of fostering student imagination.

And presidential candidate Dan Kelly
Wand feels 86 should provide en-
tertainment.

A fifth presidential candidate, Mark
“Bones" Chellgren, decided to withdraw
from the race. Chellgren. the Surprise

Party candidate, says, ‘fThis way I’ll get‘
my $6 back and I’m broke."

Currens and Welch. Arts and Sciences
(A &S; juniors. stress the need
for $6 involvement 'in community af-
fairs. They say SG “should act as a
catalyst It needs to make changes for
students and should promote interaction
between students and administrators.

“You've got to go in with the attitude
that you‘re going to change things,"
Currers says.

Curr-ens and Welch’s proposals include:

«Establishing a University Senate
Caucm to provide unified student input to
the University Senate;

«Establishing and strengthening
student advisory committees;

—0rganizing state anti local lobbies to
work for student rights;

--Publishing an off-campus housing
handbook:

—Requiring landbrds to agree to a
model lease before they can be included on
a dean of students‘ housing referral list;

«Establidring a student book exchange
and student store;

--Esta blishing a publication or in-
formation system to inform students of SC
actions and changes in academic policy;

«Opposing future zoning changes which
would affect off-campus student housing;
and,

-Continuing legal and tenants’ services
programs and possibly creating a legal aid
office for students to obtain help in filing
litigation.

McLaughlin and Haering. A & S juniors,
call for more “visible accomplishments”
from SC. They say students are “disen-
chanted with SG (because) goals have
often been too nebulous."

Their proposals include:

«Building bus shelters at major stops
along the University route;

«Establishing a student evaluation of
courses and instructors, the results of-
which would be distributed to students
during registration periods;

continued on page 5

UK couple will study Africa first hand this. summer

By KEITH SHANNON
Kernel Staff Writer

Africa n Bushmen and Dr. Christiaan Barnard will have
something in common after this J um. And two UK students
are providing the link.

The Rev. William Geyer and his wife Valerie. who are
currently enrolled as psychology students, will travel to Cape
Town, Smith Africa in June to study on an experiential basis.

That is where the Bushmen and Barnard come in.

Rev. Geyer will compare Bushmen and two other natiom
of Africars. Mrs. Geyer will study the psychological effects
of heart transplants at the hospital where Barnard practices.
The coupb will receive credit for their work through the UK
Honors Program and the Office of Experiential Education, in

conjunction with the anthropology department.

The Geyers are originally from South Africa. He is a
Southern Baptist minister; she is a registered nurse and
midwife. They came to the United States about two years
ago.

Rev. Geyer, speaking with a thick British accent, said he
will contrast the Bushman to the Afrikaner and the
"coloured" Hottentot. two more advanced cultures in South
Africa.

The Bishmen number about 5,000 in the Khalahari desert
in South Africa. according to Rev. Geyer.

“These people have never seen a whiteaman,” he said.
“They dm't know Western civilization. They have of-
tentimes never even seen rain."

He said these nomadic hunters will make an excellent
contrast to the more advanced Afrikaners who are "Western
in lifestyle but live on the African continent.”

The third group, the “colour ” Hottentots, form an an-

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thropdogical link between the Bushmen and the Afrikaners.
The term “coloured" refers to the fact that the tribe has a
number if different European origins according to Rev.
Geya'.

His purpose is to gain insight into how cultural and
religious factors interact in a society in which the govern-

' mentand religion are one unit. The results could be valuable

as a basis for missionary work, he said.

While Rev. Geyer is busy with the Bushmen, Mrs. Geyer
will be studying midwifery and heart transplants in Cape

. . Town.

The first part of her stay will be spent looking at the dif-
ferent nations of South Africa in terms of midwifery. She

' said each nation requires a different approach to the prac-

tice.

“Almost each nation has an almost different anatomical
structure ,” she said. “Each case is alrnostunique.”

Her main project will come in the fall when she will work

.. as an intern in the Grootc Schuur Hospital, where Barnard, a

p'nnea' in the field of heart transplants. practices.

There Mrs. Geyer will make a psychological study of
patients who have undergone heart transplants and othe
types of surgery. There is a possibility that she will be
permitted to watch a transplant operation.

Her purpme is to prepare for studies in nursing leads-ship,
concentrating on administration and education.

 

   

 
  

 

 

 

 

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Editorials do not represent the opinions of the University.

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Editor-in-Clgief

Ginny Edwards
Managing Editor

Susan Jones
Editorial Page Editor
John Winn Miller
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' Currens, Welch offer best choice

It iseasy to get sidetracked in a
maze of false issues and rhetoric
when trying to choosewho‘to vote
for in this year’s Student Govern-
ment (56) presidential and vice
presidential races.

But exploring the philosophies
the four maior candidates base
their platforms on makes the

choice a little easier.
Carlton Currens and Linda

Welch, running on a ticket for
president and vice president
respectively, view 56 as an
organization that should serve
students, take an advocacy role on
students’ behalf inside and outside
the University and be politically
active, taking stands on ”con-
troversial” political issues.
Presidential candidate Mike
McLaughlin and his running mate
Hal Haering, on the other hand.
view 56 as strictly a service

organization. Services for students
in their platform include providing
bus shelters, eliminating a 50-
oenter parking fee at the Student
Health Service and student course
evaluations.

Our choice is Currens and Welch.

Although we feel the present 56
should be restructured, Currens
and Welch could best carry out the
philosophies outlined in the 56
Constitution.

The preamble to that con-
stitution, which was written in 1973.
states 56 will “combat and destroy
all vestiges of racial and sexual
discrimination and inequality
within the University community"
and that it- will ”insure the
maximum degree of student
participation in the decision-
making processes of the Univer-
sity.”

These honorable ambitions have
proved to be too much for SG in
recent years, left with the blahs of
the ’70's after the activism of the
’60'5. That loss of activism is un-
fortunate; SG can’t go on forever
pretending to be something it isn’t.

But, while the 56 that was
conceived several years ago in the
aftermath of student activism may
seem extreme now, a 56 that does
nothing but act as a service
organization is iust as ex-
treme.Somewhere in between
there is a 56 structure that can live'
up to its own lip service without
giving up all together.

Currens and Welch, who have
both been involved in student
movements for several years.
realize SG's limitations without
giving up their ideals. They ad-
vocate and intend to lay the
grounds toward establishing many

’ of the programs and proiects SG

presidents and vice presidents
have been working on for years —a
women’s studies program, lifestyle
dorms, a student-run, student.
owned store, etc. But they realize
such programs may never be in-
stuted at UK under present con-
ditions.

In the meantime they plan to
work for more realistic ”service"
goals as well—like publishing an
off-campus students housing
handbook, expanding the recycling
program or reinstituting an active
book exchange.

Carlton Currens and Linda
Welch offer what Mike
McLaughlin and Hal Haering

offer—and more. Currens and
Welch can best serve students in
the Student Government we have
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Local media

cover

South Hill heavily

 

By Steven Anderson

George Potratz's statements con-
cerning media treatment of the South
Hill situation (”The powerful also have
frustrations,“ Kernel, April 9) are
inaccurate.

Potratz complained of a "local news
media establishment that has decided
that the South Hill question is finished
and has acted to exclude it from the
public consciousness."

Clippings in my files tell a different
story.

The Urban County Council‘s vote
authorizing land acquisition for parking
as far as the west side of Patterson
Street (”Phase ll") occurred in mid-
December. Since the first of the year
the morning Lexington Herald has
published at least 20 stories dealing
with relocation, the parking plan and
oppcsition to it.

On the day Potratz’s commentary
appeared in the Kernel, the Herald
printed a 24-inch story on page three
outlining charter amendments
proposed. in response to the parking

 

plan, by the People Not Profits Protect.

As early as October, 1974, l was
writing stories about the people who
would be displaced by the parking
proiect— and about the absence (at
that time) of any government
relocation program.

In March, 1975, I wrote a twopage
spread for the Sunday Herald-Leader
describing the "crisis”-—-as the League
of Woman Voters termed it — in low-
income housing availability. Other
Herald reporters have also written on
these topics.

As to the (rather belated) petition
effort mentioned by Potratz, no one has
ever condescended to inform the
Herald of such goings-on. This.
perhaps. is to be expected from a local
academic establishment whose
members apparently keep their noses
buried in the Courier-Journal—an
excellmt newspaper published 75 miles
away.

 

Steven Arierson is a reporter for K
Lexington Herald. He has covered the
Lexington Urban County Council since
October, "74.

 

 

 

Parking

Editor:

The parking lot located at the UK
Student Health Service is not under the
jurisdiction of student health, but
rather the UK public safety division.
The parking fee is not received by the
health service.

it is a parking lot for both student
health arri family practice clients. The
socent fee charged is the same as that
charged in the UK Medical Center
visitor lots.

if a fee were not charged and if the
lot were not patrolled, it would make it
impossible for those who legitimately
use the facilities to find a space when
they need one. Thank-you for allowing
us to clarify the parking fee question.

Sara Gaitskill
Rosemary Lubeley
Student Health Advisory Committee

Free the dogs!

Editor:

Now, after many years at college, I
am leaving. Never once in those long
years in which I had searched for
change, finding only two dimes and a
nickel, did I see another human
charged with insight and determination
to start the revolution and right the
wrong. Now, I believe the time has
cometo begin the movement to free the
dogs.

How in the name of Love did man
conceive entrapping and destroying the
natural heritage of an animal he calls
his best friend? Without regard for his
feelings or ideas. we have chained our
fellow mammal simply because he
dared to be different. in such a society
of sadisfs, we force him to cry and beg
to urinate. And that torture has
psycholqlcally stunted the mentality

.of our don, breedhg millions of dogs
who can't speak English. I can't
believe you can sit there in the Student
Cents and allow such discriminatory
practices to continue right under your
noses.

It has been too long. One hundred

Letters

 

years ago we released our ”niggers"
and sentthem to public schools, yet the
average dog, protector of our families
and properties against those same sly
"niggers," does not receive even an
eighth-grade education. In some
segments of society, a dog cannot
choose his own mate and in many
poorer classes, is often degraded and
humiliated by a sudden spray of water
for following his God’s commandment
to be fruitful and multiply. We even
denyour dog the privileges of dividing.
We prohibit his religious worship,
forcing him to worship only man.

For shame, man. How can we foul
our own backyards. We have touched
the moon and we have touched our
dogs. We have taken the moon simply
as a worldiy possession of authority.
My god, look at what we’ve done to the
canines! Cut the leashes, cut the shit.
Support Free the Dogs.

Normandi Ellis
Journalism senior

Old South

Editor:

UK’s Black student enrollment is
only two per cent of the student body;
there are few Black faculty members.
Until the Black student population
increases and until more of the faculty
is Black, UK will remain something
less than a "maior" university. It will
also continue to demonstrate an in-
stitutional racism.

if we, as students, faculty, staff and
administrators, want this university to
be an institution for all "of the people.
reflecting the diversity of the total
culture, we should reject atavistic
commemorations of a defeated idea.
Old South Week is not only offensive to
Black students. It is offensive to faculty
members who wish to teach at an
academically respectable, "maior"
university.

Robert Memenwey
English associate professor

  

 

 

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SG presidential candidates

 

 

 

It is time for $6
to become realistic

 

By Mike McLaughlin
and Hal Hcering

it is time for Student Government
(56) to become realistic. We have both
been senators for the past year, and
we've gotten to know the possibilities
and limitations of SG. We feel many
students have become disenchanted
with SG and rightfully so. SG’s goals
have been too nebulous, too lofty. We
will bepracticai —goals in our platform-
are feasible. ‘

We are the only candidates who ever
served in an elected 86 office. Our
experience as senators has given us an
advantage in understanding the
mechanics by which SG can achieve
practical goals. Students deserve more
than meaningless resolutions! Yet 56
has yielded little more than hollow
promises and hot air.

As executive officers we will continue
to work as we did as senators,
evaluating each and every issue.
proposal and proiect on the basis of
information from all sides. And we will
make decisions based wholly upon a
rigorousand unbiased analysis. We will
continue to consider the needs of
students, and try to coordinate efforts
for effective programs.

Our platform contains three
programs we personally will initiate
that are basic and will serve all
students. More important, three

programs are feasible and will work.
First, there are our plans for bus

shelters. This is something that can
help all students. With SG money and
backing, bus shelters will be con-
structed at maior bus stops along the
University routes. If the University
can’t afford more buses to make
waiting shater, then the least 56 can
do is help provide comfortable shelters.

Second, we will implement a Student
Evaluation of Courses-instruction. This
will be published at registration times
to aid students in selecting courses and
instructors. We have the mechanics
worked out—all that is needed is $6
backing.

 

Reactionaries would

 

By B. L Schuler
and . R A Phksion

The maior goal of the People's
Reactionary Party is to increase
student interest and participation in
their Student Government (SG). We
believe that a more imaginative 56
would be more interesting to the
students, thus encouraging greater
participation. Conversely, this in-
creased participation would
necessarily lead to a more imaginative
government.

That is what our "Go Wild" cam-
paign is all about—imagination in
government. Of course, it is obvious
that stucbnts will need something to
stimulate them to participate. We
propae a column written by $6 leaders
and ,appearing in the Kernel
periodically. which would explain
recent proposals and ask for student
ideas. This would hopefully improve the
present situation of low student in-
volvement. An effective system

 

MIK E MC LAUGHLIN

Our third proposal involves the
parking situation. First, we will work to
revoke the 50-cent fee presently
charged at the Student Health Service
for parking. We feel emergency
parking should be offered for free.
Secmd, we will work for free, limited
time ”pick~up—drop-off loading" beside
all residence halls and maior buildings.

We will continue support of SG’s legal
service, tenant referral, environmental
prog ra ms and other 56 initiatives. And
we welcome initiative for new, feasible
prograrrs from all students, from
student organizations, and from
senators.

While our opponents can only
promise, we have worked. As senators
we supported the USAC Reforms
Resolution, state and local lobbying
efforts, the Council on Womens Con-
cerns, Aid for the University Day Care
Center and by-law revisions.

We know it's time for SG to become
more campus and student oriented. We
have offered plans. As the most ex-
perienced candidates with the most
practical goals, we think we deserve

your support.

Mike McLaughlin is an 56 candidate
for president and Hal Haering is his
vice presidential running mate.

 

 

requires feedback.

 

We hope to make the term "Student
Government" a misnomer. A more
appropriate title would be "Student
Organization." We do not intend to
govem the students of the University of
Kentucky. The students should govern
themselves. Our task would be one of
receiv'ng and organizing ideas from the
entire student body. We encourage the
election of an imaginative president,
vicepresident and senate—a Student
Government receptive to the views of
the students.

Our main reason for entering this

‘ campaign is to try to get more student

participation in $6 elections. By
pating our "Go Wild" paraphernalia
we hope to attract students to the polls
even if it is to vote against us.

With regard to the stoma SG allot-
ment, itwould be totally unorthodox for
us or anyme else to say: "we intend to
do his or that with it.“ if elected. we
will be totally open for suggestions as to
its use.

No interest proves

 

need for a change

By Carlton Cunens
and Undo Welch

The petty squabbling and
bureaucratic bungling that has
characterized Student Government
(56) this year is not what Student
Government should be. The lack of
student interest we have encountered in
the election during the campaign
emphasizes the need for a change.

We can legitimately ask: "What does
Student Government govern?” The
answer is nothing. SG is actually not a
government and should not be con-
sidered as one. Instead, it is a coalition
of University Senate student members
and other concerned students who act
together as a council to advocate
student political, economic, social and
academic rights. It is imperative that
$6 seek the active participation of all
students in working for these rights.

 

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the necessary experience and
qualifications. We have worked ac-
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ALL INTERESTED PERSONS ARE
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CANDIDATES FOR
STUDENT GOVERNMENT
PRESIDENT, VICE PRESIDENT,

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poem and would like our selection committee to
consider it for publication. send your poem and a
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