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Voi.Lxxxnl, No.113 . er 2 University of Kentucky I ’ . '
Monday, February 23' 1981 an Independent student newspaper Lexinglun‘ Kentuck) ' I, ’ l .
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Tuition hikes of 12-25 percent -' { . -
predicted by CHE’s Snyder ' ' “ ' ' ’

By PEGGY BOECK ment is that not enough money is Snyder saidbeis optimistic about ’ ‘ ‘ . ~. . I Ii ;' tI

Staff Writer bein8 paid for higher education. the tuition increase, whom the ' 3” I -' ' -' I; " ' -I “' ‘ 3

revenue belongs to and how it will I, 1 i ‘ ' ‘ é‘r , -. ‘.

HIGHLAND HEIGHTS, Ky. - At The tuition revenue is seen as an effectthebudget cuts forthe 198182 v i ' , ' ’ , i» " ~ '“ .I .tI‘,“I.' '

a meeting of the Student Govern- uuntapped treasure trough" of school year. W1 I * I .I is a; a. 1
meat Association of Kentucky funds. - - ' I” m " ‘ ~-'- ';_; ‘ ’I
yesterday, Harry Snyder, ex- “It’s a serious matter," Snyder “The money is not intended to {his :5. ' m 4a; II- J-
ecutive director for the Council on said. “They are misinformed about pave roads, buy food stamps or act . ....... .. . ‘ {i » . _. ‘ his: 3‘3- _ ' l
Higher Education, said there will what tuition means and what it is on the other essential operations of _ l ’ ‘ , .. ”3a ., Tux-- t . W - ‘I II‘. :
definitely be an increase in tuition usedfor." state government,“ said Snyder. til " ."1‘ '6‘“ -, V‘- . W_ WM’ W I . _.' I
for state— funded universities, The state department of finance The increase in tuition is not “to ~ - ' I /:’-‘I=f / - ‘ “If s: f , *2. sis-3J7 5I1:I- .'
which brought up the question of and the governor will determine replace tax dollars that should go - - \ II 13*. \. . a ‘ - 'I m“ - . . . . , ';
what will happen to the increase in where the increase in revenue will into higher education and don't," . -. g ‘4‘, I9 . a, , ‘W -< . '. . j
revenue resulting from the tuition go, Snyder said. However, headded he added. “I think they will see the ' ,. * . .' . he ,. W e, - .
increase. thata decision will not be made un- light." . » i f ' - I i I- ,I- . ".21 ‘ , a. ' , I .. “we: } I,I‘.
til April. In response to its meeting with . _M. 5- . .- I- . . W . , . ., ', I .

The increase, ranging from 12 to Snyder, ”E state student associa- . 3-th ‘ . II} ’. 2, r l ‘ i If .
25 percent, will be not be the same ”We pay more for higher educa- tion “318859" what it considered to ' ' , . , _ - _ , . , - . r _ ' ” " . “l;
for all students, Snyder said. Out- tion and are getting less endless," beits major issues of concern. . ,3,“ ,I s, a: ‘ * 3’ " ', ’2 ' .. ‘-.f '
of-state students, undergraduate said Angela Ford, student govern- " ””3"“ 'I " .' ,- I, . . I; ' I . ‘ .. .. ' I '. .- .
and graduate.willbeaffected more ment president at the University of “Representing approximately 3 W‘ .. - - ' ‘ r ‘ ' .~ -- 4-“ - - , ’ 2
than Kentucky residents. Louisville. “It‘s double jeopardy." 100,000 studentsconsumers of Ken- .I . -' M ‘ _I I“ . . ., i..- a. - . .- “ v: .- -

"We are aiming for the ben- “The major concern to the tucky,” SGAK is concerned about If , - KI - __ ,' 2.. c l . I'
chmark median of tuition and fees students is quality,” said Brad the “critical financial problem” . 3ij . ,. " " - ' ' I1
in states around us,“ Snyder said. Sturgeon, UK student association facing Kentucky higher education, ..~ use; _, .II at” 7 ‘ 1' g .1
“Compared to the others, we are a president. the necessity of maintaining the ~- ‘ I : . ‘ t . I, . ‘.‘I
low tuition state." Snyder said the CHE is concern— “current quality“ of higher educa- '52- - ‘- , .. IE. « ~ 4. . , ,9 . ., l ’

Snyder said he is planning to edwith the quality of higher educa- tion in Kentucky, and recognizing ::.. ‘ ‘ ' .. ' ‘ ' ' " - u. 3'“ .
make his recommendations for a tion and he advocates that the the lack of awareness and g " . . , ‘ ‘ .
tuition increase at the March 11 revenuebeput back into the univer- misunderstandings of the impor- : it y I . . II , ' *r

‘ CHE meeting, although it is possi- sities to maintain the present tance of higher education by Ken- II . ,,;- I“; § . . I "_ ” M “"rmnww- . . : ’. I.
ble that the matter willbepostpon- system if not better it. tuckians. {I ,. . #15” ‘ - . .- -- - .. , ' ‘ . . , .m . . - I
eduntil April. In its release to the press, SGAK ’4 ' - ‘II ~- , .

“We do need to get on with it," “The question is not whether they said it “realizes the urgency of ad- - ,r‘“ " ‘ ’- " . ‘. ' II ’ ‘ .
said Snyder. He said students, (the legislature and state govern- dressingthesetimelyissues”: few?- ‘ " ~ ‘ 1-; . I . 1, ',
financial aid officers and other peoo ment) will give it (the revenue) to .1 That revenue from the tuition ‘ I ' _ _ij ,. :
pie affected need to receive the in- us, but rather can they take it increasecontinues tobereturned to ' , - § - I. 'I ‘
formation as soon as possible. away." Snyder said. “They clearly each institution, rather than chang- . ' ‘. l ' s1»- ._ L . I '-

have the power to, but dothey have ing policy by transferring the ’I ‘ ~ I . .

Snyder said he could not reveal the right?“ revenuetothe state general fund; ., ' I, w '.-' ’I -
hisrecommendations until theCHE Jack Blanton, vice president for r , '- . 'I
governingbodyhas seen them. business affairs at UK, said there .4 That students are in “double i ' 'I ‘ L.“- .'.

AD. Allright, president of Nor- was no way the revenue could be jeopardy“ because the quality of - I » IiI ,
them Kentucky University, said he taken away. “They can reduce the higher education in declining while _ l «I. .I ’ r
was concerned about how the in- amount of tax dollars taken out of tuition increases; _ stars-e ‘ 3 . - ' ‘I' ' 3' I,
crease in revenue from the tuition the general fund that is given to the .1 That CHE act on the proposed .. *‘ ‘ ' 39?»; -‘ ,, '
increase wouldbefiltrated into the university by the amount of in— tuuition increase at the March . , . :II9-..-
state general fund or back into the crease we have in revenue.” he meeting so that students will have - ~ . . ‘ ' m, - a ‘ '. 1: -. -
universitites. said, “but they can’t take the time for proper planning in the ' ' ' v, I”; ..- rm ..

Snyder said the attitude of the money away legally or directly. It‘s form of financial aid, private loans, "f’ , M " A 4 - .- -
legislature and the state govern- justawashout of funds.” and changed family budgets. . . - * ,- ‘ ‘ {I .;

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In recent assault rape cases W... s-.. a...
By DALE G. MORTON imately 1:30 am. Satur- man who turned around and follow- "MW ii , ‘ ' ' a. - » ~ ' ‘ . - H :3? , .3 t
Senior Staff writer day.Padgett said an 18-year-old edher,police records indicate. I' I " x I'

student, not from UK, reported she When she began walking on South 3 i1; - '2 ‘ - {T ‘

UK police are searching for an 18- had been raped in the parking lot Limestone. the man “approached laws...” I, _ , ‘j i, i, . 3"“
or 19-year-old man in connection behind fraternity row. her from behind and tried to get her . «mpngmv‘ I? W" T ‘it‘i’frav .. 3' . .. 4: i'
with the assault of one woman and Padgett said she was taken to the to come With him,“ Padgett said. 5* Wfiswm'“ " ' f , i,» ’
therape of another since Feb. 18. Albert 3. Chandler Medical Center Though the man had a knife. she 55st ”we _ '3 I . M" . , ‘ M 23' A.— ‘ a ‘ 'I

Tom Padgett. UK director for where she was treated and releas- managed t0 get away With only a . H . 7 W WW“ ' ,3
public safety, said the descriptions ed. small cut on her face. - “ ' 7,113.3 53
of the assailants obtained from the 'I‘hed other inclident occurred h Emuomlen weftihrepilrted “:0 . By BEN v,“ HOOK/Kernel Staff .t' 9, :1.
victims were “similar" and the aroun 11 .m. ast Wednesda ave n a one a ey ime e -
‘same man could have committed p y wereassaulted. Goaltendlng ’ 1'
bothcrimes. next to the Law School library. A Padgett said the suspect is a . . I 'f I-

20-year—old UK student reported white male, 5 feet 3 inches tall with The warm weather brought out the Bowre in this stallation from the top while Pete Pierce stood on a 3 , tI'IcI

The most recent incident she had been jogging on sandy blond hair and weighs 39‘ trIio, leading them to string up thier ovm net at trash can and Bert Armstrong steadied the Iv
reportedly occurred at approx- Washington Avenue and passed a proximately 145 pounds. Woodland Park. Ted Allen approached the in- makeshift ladder. ’I-,I ,I I;

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X- arter aide attacks Rea an bud et cut lans

‘ By MICHAEL PUTZEL The plan for unprecedented and given it a better chance than it and a seed of the reindustrialization like a damage report .
I - Associated Press Writer budget cuts and income tax reduc- would otherwise have.“ program we were trying to develop "L'DAG (the l'rban Development 1; I, '

' tions presented to Congress last The former presidential adviser, forasecond term. (lone. , . Action Grant program, was a 'I 1:,

*Q _.v-‘L ' 9 "I WASHINGTON (AP) - Stuart week is “a fundamentally incorrect who surrendereda White House of- “The concepts we worked on in Carter initiative and in manv . I‘

. I. 3 fl ' Eizensiat, the architect 0f Jimmy policy that redistributes income up- fice furnished in antiques for the the areas of national health in respects the centerpiece of our ur- ' -

- . ‘ . H... Carter's domestic program, is wat- ward,“ Eizenstat said in an inter- temporary austerity of a cubbyhole surancc. welfare reform and other ban policy . The program as we 1 '- f i.
- Chilfl With a kind 0t reluctant ad- View. at the Brookings Institution with a things we had hoped to accomplish know it probablv won‘t must 3 -' l»;

" .. II- miration as the Reagan ad- But be added, “I think that given green vinyl lunchroom chair and a in a second term are clearly out . . "EDA (the Economic Develop f -‘ '

., ; ministration seeks to dismantle where theywere comingfrom.they folding table for a desk, ticked off "Urban mass transit. They‘re mont Administratiom Was also a -. “I .-

.. It}; much Of what C8116 tried tobuild. have portrayed it in a skillful way the new administration‘s proposals talking about halting construction (‘oniinuod on page 7 'I j _‘
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k t Blandmg fire causes student evacuation “L "“5 SA 5“" ~ -

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Graduate student George Jacak ‘
to“ his “ii-“10"“ 0" M- Ron-Id. ny DALE c. MORTON ty Director Garry Beach. “There way), opened the door and saw the arson or spontaneous combustion Because of a proposed mo per- -' ~ '_ ‘-
for I ride on I €009"!an Swing Senior Staff Writer was nothing to stop the smoke cir- flames." the Physical Plant worker as the cause. He said the fire could cent rate increase by South Cen- « . r.
Saturday - culation until the alarm was pull- said. have started from a cigarette [fa] Bell in Louisville. the Univer- .I '
fir— Smoke from a basement fire ed.”hesaid. He said he did not think the fire which had been picked Up by the sity of Louisville's student a '- .

O” s caised the evacuation of Blending Were it not for the smoke, was big enough to justify pulling dust mops. government has decided to act as - .' . ,

The sky will be cloudy today Tower residents early Saturday residents probably would not have the alarm, so he ran tothe loading Though the fire caused minor co-plantiff in the UK Student I .'
Wmdhyv with highs today morning. been evacuated, Beach indicated. dock at the south end of the Com- damage and never posed a serious Association‘s court suit against . . .
and tomorrow in the “we, “I The fire occured in a laundry He added, “The spnnkler system plex and called the fire depart- threat to the dormitory, several Gov John Y.Brown . . ,
bows tonight in the mid-3m to room in the access tunnels connec- would have put out any fire if there merit. small problems were encountered, . I . ‘. . .
amiind 40. ting the dormitories in the Ieran- were enough heat (to set off the Cason used fire extinguishers and leading officials to plan future tests The sun. Med Feb. 9 in Franklin , . I ’

Blending Complex. According to ”my" put the fire out before officials ar- of all fire alarms and the possible Circmt Court. involves the validi— ‘ ~

Insfie safety department personnel, the Though sprinkles are not in- rived, Sullivan said. The dor- installation of smoke detectors ty of Brown's organization of the ‘
-——————-—————— fire started in a duffelbeg contain- stalled in the tower. the basement mitory’s residents were evacuated One problem faced by officials Public Service Commission. I .

- - i useddustmop heads. mechanical rooms are equipped for about 40 minutes. Although no was that of locked doors. Tom , . ‘ ‘-

ngmtszsg': “Slagigmufin ng’olice records indicate a 7:30 with them. estimate of the numberof people in Padgett, IUK director for public The PS(‘. which will become of . . III
ofwomen Seepege 2. phone call alerted officials of the James Cason.60, was cleemngup the building at the time of the fire safety. said UK police were suppos- fective March I, willrule on umi . . .

-’ ' fire, but no alarm was pulled until thebasement area when hesmelled was available, a resident adviser ed to have keys to all doors ty rate-making deCISlons. such as ’
firemen arrived six minuteelater. the smoke. It was several minutes said thebuilding homes about 700. However. in Saturday's fire. police the rate increases proposed by

Kentucky Melted Vanderbilt» This delay caused smoke to cir- later befmhelocetedtheeource. Maj. Don Sullivan of the bex- were unable to obtain access to SCB and General Telephone of ‘
OSeturdey. Seepegesfor details. culeteintothetower, saidUKSefe- “I came down here (the access ington fire Department ruled out several mechanical rooms Kentucky.

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‘ L ' . ' UK faculty members are severely under- up the most eligible of UK‘s professors and mg institutions. . . tests are only the tools of the instructor. It is .
, , . ~ paid. deans, and the fact that four of the 12 col- Those in and around the UniverSity have his or her ability to effectively use these
. ' That‘s not opinion, it's a fact that is leges on this campus are either presently already used every asiJectn/he of negative tools that 15 at the heart of the educational
. ‘- - becoming increasingly apparent with every without or are expecting to lose their deans denotation to. _descr1_be t e Situation. process. . . .
. , new bit of bad news concerning next year‘s is an ominous Sign. . . frightening, critical, grim, etc. There S 11t- _If higher education is forced, as it was
' - 1‘5 ~ , . higher education budget. In the Colleges of Engineering and tie else that can be said to communicate the this year. to bear the brunt of the expected
‘ ' - Already, UK faculty salaries are $1,635 Business & Economics, both highly .com- graVity of the threat further budget reduc- state budget deficit, the faculty will he the
' ' ' , ' . below the benchmark median, and UK etitive academic fields, faculty attrition is tions pose to the well-being of UK s_facuIty losers Since salary increases Wm be
-» . ‘ , -' ’- President Otis Singletary warned Thursday Becoming a problem of formidable propor- members, and of course, the UniverSity cancelled in order to simply maintain the
' . ‘ that if further budget reductions forced him tions, and in almost every school faculty itself. th t Umversxty’s current level of serv1ce.
. f '- ‘- ' to forego promised “catch-up“ salary in- morale is atan all-time low. What Brown and th‘é‘ rest 0f e St?! e The greatest loss in the long run,
, , . creases in the coming year, that gap will in- Even the perpetrator of the cuts, Gov. government must recognize Is that quality however, W111 be that of the students who
‘~ " crease by $700 or more. John Y. Brown, as acknowledged that fur- faculty is not merely a factor mptowding are effectlvely denied the opportunity to
' - " Singletary acknowledged that industry ther cuts to education may endanger the 1:21”), education, I? IS prerequiSite. Te); recieve the quality education that only
’ ' . , and out-of-state universities are snatching quality of instruction in Kentucky 5 learn- t ks, teaching aids and standardize quality educators can prov1de.
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. A question of ethics. to pit IS a news story or
. . '. 9mm ‘mhlmj the study of folder. . would do. I knew I had to go ahead story went across the state via The Stories that appeared in both the
-. ' V ' ' . . Anyway, I came into the office with thestory. Assocmted Press; solguessldon't Herald and Leader, which happen- '
> . . ' grandam“ 0! “”"dud and moral ,, late Friday night and saw this But the second question was have toworry about that. ed to use the figures from the
. . Judgem‘fm . t. , . , .I . folder on the table. I didn’t know more difficult to resolve. I faced a But ethics shouldn’t be limited Kernel story, failed to mention
' I ' , - “Ebb!” 5 N?“ World DK‘ toy . what it was so I started looking difficult dilemma. Was the public‘s only to individuals. Entire from where those figures were ob-
, f “mar-"OHM Amema" Language. 6 ‘ through it. Before long I realized it righttoknow this information more newspapers should followa code of tained. The figures had to have
.» Elm“ Responsible lawyers , WI.’ - ,i’ was the results of a survey on GTE important than my friendship With ethics. come from our story because we
* ‘ ' i _ . j fossefi ~ “' and that I was on the trail of a great Leonard, or Vice versa? A few months ago, Creed Black, were the only ones tohavea copy of
‘ - ‘. doctors and 19‘" "81'5“ are SUPPO” " ' story. At that time I had no idea It wasn’t until I talked with state publisher of Lexington Herald and the survey except for Leonard and
. 9d .m ma‘mam a Fem“? code 0f ‘ .. . who left the survey in the office. I Attorney General Steven Beshear Lexington Leader, wrote a column he didn’t give out any figures, he
cums These pmtessmnb‘ 1““ [to i" a; spent three hours that night thathas abletoanswer that ques- saying that many college students only confirmed the figures in the
. . '- My: a Swill; Evir'rgtfii Emil/1:: .' r transcribing the figures from the tion. are illiterates and criticized the Kernel.
I . un . - _ . . . . . . .
. . members are supposed to follow. ' ngputer print-out into coherent minuteifizfigfigw: igtgui-gaiz 5:55;? writing that appeared in Oihe.’ state papers, including the
'V . ' . ' sometimes the codes are {OHOWEd‘ The next day Icame in and after case before theURC and hesaid he As managing editor of the Inuiswlle coutleri'lournql’ which -
, v ‘ sometimes thev are not ~- it often .t - - isrenowned for “5 continuing 95011
. . ~, I I -h Ind for whom from the federal administration. about 15 phone'calls I found out on would wait and see them and then Kernel, I can confirm that the to maintain a strict code ethics at-
.» .- dependb 0” “ ”9 d , . I . “background information that the make the decison.” wnhng skills of many college ~ ’
, one works. The committee also tried to I . . . . tnbuted the story to the Kernel.
‘. 3 ,« But of a“ the professions which pressure Schorr into revealing his survey was ordered by the attorney I immediately knew what that students are sometimes pathetic. I Why didn’t the Herald and the
, . , .. ,- . intain a code of ethics it ls pm. source buthe refused general soffice which paid $1,800to meant. It meant that if the survey also. adimt that, at times, the Leader?
> ,’ gliiv the Journalism code that is In all these situations. ethics haveitdone. supplemented Beshear’s case writing m theKernelhas beenshod- Creed - 't badt the
I: ' ‘ ' most controversial and most dif» were questioned. Whether the jour~ Then.” hitme. . before the ,URC then h? would use dy. But Creed, giveus a break. You t '15] so oge .at on a
~ ’ . . . . . . , .,~. be" W 1mg 'ere ri ht or wron is no! ‘ Was it ethical to look in the folder it; ifitdidn t,he wouldn t. have to remember we re full-tune S 0W bya bunch ofcollege klds that
. I , ficull tonaintain.‘thes Ldlf- "a; . “_ 53h 1' h gb ‘t' in the first place, even though it It is believed the attorney students, sometimes working 14- you dontwant toadmit It. Not only
, reporters musimmtfm“) deal \fIlIth .CIledr' “I“ mm] ‘ke tle a ortion was in the newspaper office—only general’s office is to presentacase hour days, to put out a daily is failure to mention where
‘ ‘ - I 7 What “an” L'ppm‘m “’er an issue" 501m" fee Strong}: oneway. a few feet away from my desk? against GTE's rate increase. Much newspaper. And we have to go to copyrighted material is obtained i1-
‘ f . ‘ r L:‘;::é:leruTnegjelmfgmfjgt£1523 0tfigsgefejgigglngfiéherxj) the And would Leonard. a friend of of the evidence found in the survey, school,too. legal,but it is also unethical.
i‘ . . hopesand fears " Kentucky Kama. have had 33,?“ if“ 1253223133 8355?th iibfi'éfvve' ‘1” "°‘ “ppm ”‘8‘ ”w“ m’ifiy‘ii‘fv‘ird's’eii'fe “SHZE‘ZI S°t "‘6 "e“ “me W" decide ‘0
’ .' ' In journalism. because it is such run-in with the question of EIthS. ssDiblvlose his 'ob" ' Therefore I'm afraid that mistaplfes and F; rt .g t . write about a newspaper. make
.- . ’ a visible profession. the issue of Last weekendlobtainedacopy of po ' .J ‘ ', . . p0 inaccura am sure you lookat yours closely. They
. - ethics sometimes becomes more a survey conducted by the UK (1 Thfse questions bothered me Beshear woiggsetthf grill? m the forlmation, btutlgjoly‘outsefiius d°l,ng might make more interesting copy.
’ » : .'- '. ‘ I' important thanthe news story from Survey Research Center which (They-first ue t‘ I bl t ra e case]. I ’a hlsd entrain C(iéltllnnsbom tha‘ l e M nkwe re
~, , '. . ~h’chitwasderived. determined public opinion on the q 5 ion was a e 0 reason w y wen. a ea w1 _ e a i ea ove t.
. . t‘ l .. . .. '1 ' f . , I I. d d b' resolve rather ea51ly. Its one thing story. Although I personally think But lets get down to the real
' ' . . . 1 Take the Pentagon Papers. for ‘1.“ It) 0 l Sin‘cefgmu i I y to gointo someone's office and steal GTE’s rate increase is ricidulous, I business athand—ethics. Jay Fossett is managing editor of »
_- ~ , ’ instance. In this. case. the New General Te'ep 01:: (‘)h entuc d ed documents, I thought, but it's still think the people ought to know The story I wrote last week was the Kernel. He will work in
.. -5. ~ 7 york Times t)bI3ln€‘d'a I90.” OfIa I ”She fume?“ “tlf F1352: er another thing to find them in a what fellow phone customers think copyrighted. That means that Louisville at the Courier-Journal
.’ ' ‘ " study Of [hf “med State” ”“me ‘jn pf'd .0: )I} I‘ ( adorns: newspaper office. I tried to think about theservice. anyone who uses that information, this summer. He says he doubts .
-' ‘_ , 7 men! m \lt‘lnan‘l.‘ Three. 'months genera _5 Offflf(:“f: suppose “fhs what investigative reporters Bob What it boiled down to was, if I whether it be a newspaper, televi- whether he will ever work for a
‘ . -' later. "will“ (ffzsgneb 9f ”flirts kept setchret Jr “1 east sixlmonf’ ‘ Woodward of the Washington Post didn’t publish the results of the sion station or public speaker, Lexington paper after this column.
_’ . .' ‘1 rod; pgbhagzgr‘fr; Iggfidlifiz hell Eggsgh if“; (igntfiZ-cfisgevifhefhirlct: or Seymour Hersh of the New York survey, they might never be must, by law, give credit to the His column appears every other
, I .' ~ ._: $2132: and recdeived a temporarv use 5 in its case before the state Times would do. I knew what they published. And as it ended up, the Kernel. Monday. '
. injunction against the paper. Mit- L'tility Regulatory Commission. 0 .
.. . . ."- chell argued that the stories were a GTE is asking for a 38 percent rate P
t ;" . threat to national security. The increase. layboy employs subtlety t0 dlsgulse
. ‘. \ I18 Supreme Court, however. did Butthe ethics inthis case was not I
. i '91:” not agree and permitted the paper a question of national security, . g .
f x to continue publication of the ar- selective editing or failure to reveal t t e ur O O l m n
x; ,‘ ‘ tit-les sources. but instead the question 1 S r“ p p se. exp 01 ng WO e
'. ~ ”I '. , ‘ » The same year the “Pentagon was: how was the survey obtained.
. '.‘I-‘ .i [aappry- were published. a prize— Leonard Tipton, a journalism By Nil-ELI. FIELDS be the least of the evils. But still, Or a Playboy Women are depicted He‘s interested in makin a uick
, .- xiii“:l“sissygirndocsfmfiiéargelh}: ggefisfo; 92:; cit/02:15:- it: Eh}: Contributing Columnist Playboy lino different from its as helpless, dumb, and exclusively buck at the expense ofworienfl
: " « ; ‘1 i' tagoh " raised a stgorm of protest person who actually conducted the For centuries women have been mil): :3 la p lc porno counterparts. male property. The .SEC SChOOlS are "Ot the first
» » .’-.‘- .- ' ‘ ‘ . . ,_ . . _ . I P ms women. _ Men aren‘t threatened by women to be ViSited by Playboy. Last year
(I ,. -. _ ‘_ .. against alleged bias in the films survey. ‘ 'd' . L . d . . th secondclass Citizens. The cliche Georges Bataille, a philosopher bound with chains. Men aren’t Chan visited and (unfortunately) .
'i' i .‘v portrayal of the American ,1 Last II‘I‘I dig; Isonar 'vgas in e "behind every great man theresa of pornography (which he calls threatened by poor little helpless recruited women from the Sunbelt
{-1. military 5 Dublin information Prh- oum31§m ‘tuif mg “be“? '53:": great woman indicates the role of “eroticism ), sees pornography as bunnies. and Ivy League schools. Hopefully, '
. _. grams The'military charged that :PmuCllluiiln Ska Trim hrs as' eh women: behind the man. . a Violation of women. “In essence, In defense, men try to equate pic- UK women _ and all women, for
. 2.. selective editing for the documen- im‘to It pt (tr-n Vii a p Iotggrd'fi In our overtly patna'rchal soc1e- the-domain of erotiCism is. the do- tures of nude women with beauty. that matter, _ think more of
-‘ tary distorted‘the intent. mental-1f?- thgb“l0rf" tdhlng-hlmhdlr ‘v f“h0 ty. many factors contribute to this main of Violence, of Violation," he Chan recently said that Playboy themselves than to fan prey to
~. . .3 _ . ,4“ “. -. merit and messages of the military Ia , (it-n tdrnyinltit e realms Oht e continual oppresSion of. women. wrote. ‘ ‘ _ tries to show the more subtle Playboy’s blatant discrimination of
_ -. . And in 1976.035 newsman Daniel survey m’d than! «1 Md”. dldt f-‘m Part of the blame falls on innocent- Women are"‘v101ated' inalmost characteristics of feminine sexuali- women.
schorr supplied the Village Voice do“ n‘ona table in the Kernel office looking Playboy, the “entertain- any way possmle — including the ty. “That’s what makefi a woman
5'5 7-3 I . .- mth‘a leaked-c‘ongrtrr‘isionlal reptlm (which 1:"fn‘e.“ déior to theft)?» ment for men magazmel. Playboy seemingly harmless photographs of beautiful and alluring,”Chan said. Nell Fields is a feminist and jour-
3333; 7.135114 flii'UA~a((t‘:iiii:ttte :ad (:Lfthd :1) hieiklizrthhli: :f’tflw‘wm “um e 0 “35- lh‘f’a‘d. playedamajor r019 1" the Playboy “bunnies. A5 anti- But let‘s face it, Hugh Hefner nalism senior. Her commentaries
"5:121 " i kiief‘ihzereport secret after heavy ' (E10 thing lfdhoanother and soon Aniffrliliesliitiéggfetlmdfietioblefiind $i:t:y:h)iler"P2::dgejaphI;w:kl:—i isn't concerned With aesthetics. Wi“ appear periodically.
eI' 1' pressure not to disclose it came Leonard forgot about the manila store counters, Playboy seems to significant factor insexual violence
1' " It: against women.“ I
-_ ,2~~':"-I'j She writes in her book Take Back latte rs to the edltor
‘IiI 1‘ the Night: Women Against Por-
n." I'VE: \ "Ography' “Pornography fundions Allcontributlons shouldbedellveredtoiu Journalism Building UniversityofKentuck Lex-
- L: " - \\ \ I \\\ to perpetuate male SUpremacy and ington. Ky., ”506. The Kernel reserves the right to edit for grammar and clarity yahd to
,y :- .' i . a J 1" . . ‘ _. j :1 \\\\§\§ crimes of Ytolence .agalnst women eliminate-libelous matcriel,end may condenseorrejecteonlrlbutiona.
. '. -.." f ,I \r f— ? ‘ . \§\\ because it conditions. trains,
V“!- ;. , : ,-' ,_\ , . \\\\\q ,. despise women, to use women, to
a x, ‘2’ 'i“ 9. .4” ., k j . ,‘e \ 33>.» W \i\ hurt women."
{i’II , " I I _‘ ‘ Q he: s\\ A 1970 Report of the President‘s ‘
2 ’I ' -' > ‘ f \1 It “\\\\§\\ Commission on Obscenity and For coerCIon
'«1: . i . . ‘ - ‘ -. _. _. nography suggested that por- . . .
u,’ ' I I . ‘ . _ - * _ \\\ ma nography did serve as a useful ’I‘wO thoughts about your editorial on abortion:
. . ~. I . . i _ : / l . x . C social outlet. Au contraire, accor- First, I am not all sure that the anti-abortion position is that of
,, . . '. t f ' .. V \’ ding to University of Pennsylvania “middle class, conservative, religiom-oriented whites." As much
1' _'.' 1 '_ t, - fl _‘ ‘ r 3 : . sociologist Marvin Wolfgang. “The the opposite. We are all religious about something. And abortion
, _ f a, . 4 4 ' . . ,-:;I,&3-jj_I 1 Q weight of evidence now suggests can be seen as. the epitome of the middle class ethos that would
_ . .' _ .' . I r . a f ' that the portrayal of violence tends reduce everything to a commodity. Then, black leaders have been
. I“ ‘ . = -‘ .' t. / to encourage the use of physical 88- outspoken against abortion. Names like Jesse Jackson, Dick
5' -‘ , ; I? \ /__ , . . I ; ' no, - 9" a . gression among people who are ex- Gregory and Mildred Jefferson come easily to mind. Inamore sub-
2’ .2 . , .- ., y ‘ I...) 16 11/, . - I _ posedtoit," hesaid. dued tone, even Andrew Young. In fact, blacks have sponsored the
. I,” I, \ N...- . o K, I) . . . " .p, ' ‘ Certainly Playboy isn't the worst idea of abortion as genocidal, as a means to reduce their number
I .' i C o / 3 , is» -‘ ’ l pornographic magazine. “We‘re for“pe0i>le0fquality{'
.' ; . I . . ‘ ¢ , . We. ; file? not gynecological photographers," Secondly, the abortion debate has yet to get beyond uncritical
., \ , 1 M 0) 6‘). 7 I, playboy photographer David Chan slogans. “ideology. ‘Granted,too manyof the “RighttoI.ife"p_ar-
,1 ,y , . . . - ' & “£3, ,. fl ‘ "a"! reminds us. “Gynecological tisans are not qUite right to life, being unequal in their passwn
-! I,- g. \ v k. , '~ ,5, I... photography is not the true beauty for life, let us say, for the middle period between cradle and grave.
. . '_ ‘ ~,.f . . u \67 of a woman.“ But playboy does On theother hand, prochoice peopleare not really“proch0ice,"
~ . ~ ' .1, ,I .. i. . _ I ‘ / portray women as sex objects, just for they would deny Jim this ch0ice to the unborn child. Both sides
. ‘, . . . . \ .t . ’I ‘7 the same. support coercion} they only question who is tobecoerced.
,. . , \r ‘ 9 IL“ '~. And the idea of woman as sex ob- It is my sense, in a matter of life and death, that life must always
,' , _- '. \ \. ' jects, no matter how subtle, is an begiven the benefitofthe doubt. There isnohigher value.
a ' t. .\ act of violence. A woman doesn‘t It is more than time fora better moral cotsensm.
' . ’ - 4mm; wa re'ei _ . .,\\ . need to be physically raped to
" realize men want her to be Donald ”“8"“
' , ‘ ) 4- 3‘» a. powerless. Just look at adver- Associate "'0'9550"
tisements, movies and television.
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