xt7tht2gbh61 https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt7tht2gbh61/data/mets.xml The Kentucky Kernel Kentucky -- Lexington The Kentucky Kernel 1976-04-16 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 16, 1976 text The Kentucky Kernel, April 16, 1976 1976 1976-04-16 2020 true xt7tht2gbh61 section xt7tht2gbh61 Vol. LXVII No. 132 Friday, April 16,1976 First prize The first-place winner in the first Kernel Photo ('ontest is this shot of a gnarled tree taken by second-year medical student Richard Proudfoot of Mort-head. The tree. located on a farm in the mountains near Elkins. “1 Va” grew crooked as a result of strong winds. l’roudfoot said. Other prize-winning photos appear on pages 8 and it. > W \\\ ‘EEtay KENTUCKY an independent student new er 6' University of Kentucky spaper and away n, Kentucky LKD festivities include 'liare-and-hound' balloon race By MINDY FE'I‘TERMAN Features Editor When the hot air rises tomorrow at 4 p.m., Phineas T. Phogg won’t be around. The world traveler probably would've been proud. though. to takea place in the field of the first Little Kentucky Derby (LKD) Balloon Race, sponsored by the Student Center Board. Bulbous with helium six balloons will lift off from the field outside CommonwealthStadium‘ if the weather holds " said LKD cotrd'riator Mary Pat Carroll. "‘its going to be a ‘hare-and-hound' race, ” Carroll said. “One balloon will take off with an unknown destination and the other five balloons will chase it.” Jim Schoo is the “bare," taking on a difficult position but “the most fun as a balloonist.” he said. “I’ll be using some pretty tricky evasive actions— trying to catch differentwinds, changing altitude and generally trying to lose my shadows,” Schoo said. He will be allowed to land his craft‘as many times as he wishes. Each of the “bounds" will drop a bag of bluegrass seed next to the bare balloon when they think it’s landed for good, Schoo said The contestant closest to the mark will win. “We hadto useseed bags instead of having the bounds land next to me because of the danger of running into each other,” Schoo said. “There were some problems with collisions at hst year’s Derby balloon race in Louisville.” Many of the bafloonists racing tomorrow also compete in the Derby festivities, he said. Schoo. a bomber pilot in World War II, became fascinated with ballooning last May in Louisville. “I saw the balloons, took a ride in one and then sort of went berserk,” he said. (‘ontinued on pages 365 program offers flexibility, no sacrifice to quality 3y KAREN l.. MYERS Kernel Staff Writer Dubbed the “Bluegrass Special” by many students. the BGS-—Bachelor of General Studies—degree is presently being pursued by 305 undergraduates. according to Basic Studies Associate Dean Ben Black. Currently in its fourth year. the prog-am. offered within the College of Arts and Sciences. allows students to set their academic priorities and plan their curricula without the requirements and restraints imposed by BA and BS programs in specific departments. while concentrating in one area if they wish. To enter the program. students must file with Black and with their adviser an admission application stating their objectives and basic course content. Criteria for the degree include com- professional schools. He said he thinks pletion of the University requirement in Englidi composition; a total of 120 hours, so of which must be in A&S; 45 hours at or above the 300 level; a 2.0 overall grade point average; and a final statement to Black evalmting the program. Although several students have ad- mitted to enrolling in the 868 program solely to avoid language and math courses, Black who was skeptical of the idea at its inception. said. "We been pleasantly surprised by the program. The majority of the students have respectable programs.” He said 281 men and 74 women have graduated with general studies degrees to date. and "to my knowledge, no one has mme back saying he regretted it." Black said he knows of 868 students who have been admitted into graduate and educators and employers are “generally more interested in the quality of the work done than in the degree itself." While he has few statistical reports to support his positive evaluation of UK’s 868 program. Black said ivy League and Big Ten universities have initiated similar programs with success. Black has been meeting with several department chair-persons to review the. program. and he said a committee will be formed nett fall to prepare an in-depth report on its strengths and wealm sees. One drawbadt, according to journalism school Administrative Assistant Margaret Jewell, is procedural. "Since only A&S has records on 368 students. those following a journalism curriculum--- or any curriculum—often . miss out on opportunities because there is no way of contacting them.” she said. Jewell cited a visit this spring from a newspaper clain representative who was recruiting for both summer internships and permanent positions. Many jour- na'lism students were cor tat-ted, but the department staff ‘had no way of knowing who the eligible 368 students were,” she said. In addition. she said, by not takingsome of the required courses in the journalism Sequence, some students may be ill prepared for future employment. sriu, one BGS student said, “Some jobs don’t fall neatly into a well-defined major rea " And as documented by the growing numbers entering the program, students are attracted to the flexibility offered them in creating their own majors. editorials i E i 5 a 3 i i am do not mm...» at. opal-(Julio: the Wm» Bruce Winges Editor-in-Clgief Ginny Edwartk Managing Editor Susan Jones Editorial Page Editor John Winn Miller Associate Editor Day care center will help satisfy needs The University should be com- mended for its efforts to open a day care center next fall in the Cooperstown apartments. Although dependent to some degree on whether the University can find sufficient funding, the plans call for a day care center accommodating up to 25 children from ages three to five. Children of Cooperstown and Shawneetown residents would be given preference. The tentative tuition for the center is $18 per week, which is at least 55 less than most day care centers in Lexington and probably in a range affordable by most students. Inadequate day carefacilities for children is a problem for most Lexingtonians and on a college campus where there are many young couples with young children need is felt most acutely. That need will not be fully satisfied by a day care facility that houses 25 children, but it is a start. “I HAVE BEEN Ammo THAT THIS S'rKIENIFNT IS PROBABLY IN(DRRECT... " Surprise candidates enter the 36 election It’s campus election time, and since all UK students seem to take such a rabid interest in the selection of our august body of representatives, it seems fitting to spreadthe word via this column that there are some surprise entrants to this year's race. (These candidates are my personal choices. Any charge of bias on my part will be entirely warranted. Obiectivity is not the point in today’s diatribe; after all, what point does analysis serve when you want to get somebody elec- ted?) My endorsement in the race for president goes to Rodney T. "Ramrod" Raines, a man of sincerity, a man of fetishistic zeal for perfection, a man who thinks what he feels and feels what he pleases. Raines is concerned with the issues on this campus and in the community, as evidenced by his statement: ”Issues are important. That they should be examined and re- examined weekly by the University leaders is a duty of care that all people should have owed to them in return for their glorious votes. If elected, I will see to it thatas many interest groups as possible will be kowtowed to in order that their votes be made worth their weight in two-dollar bills." Asked about his platform. "Ramrod" said: ”That’s where the name of our party come from. I am a member of the Party Party . We like parties—you know how much pressure there is on the student to cmform these days—and parties give us all a chance to be non- conformists, if only for a few days a year. That‘s why I would use student government funds to party quite a bit; there’s no other way to act goofy and get away with it! I say, give the people what they want, and the people will ask for more. Give the people more, and you'll get reelected." These sentiments are echoed by the vice presidential hopeful, Hinkle. "I'm a Boyd County native. My boys from Boyd here at UK like to fight, and parties, especially big ones where, say, the Cornelius Brothers and Sister Rose play, are a great outlet for Besides cops Some of them are their natural aggressiveness. that, it gives the campus something to do. from Whitley County, anyway."> Hinkle strikes me because he is totally honest and non-partisan, and doesn't hide it, especially when he says "It is my understanding that the vice president doesn‘t have to do much in Student Government (56). Well. don't intend to tamper with the system. ldon't want to doanything. in fact. I'm running from a resume point of view. Ephraim Don‘t you think S.G.V-.P. will look good under my name when I apply to law school? You're damn right! Why else would anybody fool around with this stuff?” Party labels are indeed hard to stick on that kind of statement. The post of $6 secretary is ..... /\|@ traditionally an unrespected one. The person to fill the bill has arrived. though. Sally "Can’t Dance” Forth, accounting sophomore is highly qualified. She can take shorthand. keeps good files and loves to water plants every day. "This is thetype of post that a woman should run for,” she said when asked about her philosophy on feminist politics. "Not that I'm in favor of sexism or anything. but my daddy keeps telling momma to go out and get a job while he sits at home and reads Penthouse, and I think that’s iust awful! From where I sit, making the tellows get out there and catch flak *every day is a very liberated view. Women of the world, you have nothing to lose but your chains!" I think it‘s really good to see a can- didate take an active broad political stance for once. Give Sally a try. Her mom would appreciate it. The winning candidate for treasurer is generally the person with the most campus popularity. That's why I‘m \\ .\\y \\\‘\ \ “in: 9' /-y£“'! ‘ ' ‘I ...-.: ,. .' ~ ' ‘ « V . \\ .‘-‘ ‘ ‘ .. . . \. l(h@ , A behind David Douglas, a member of the l Phelta Kappa Delta fraternity. “Big Dave," as he is known, gained UK fame last spring when, at the LKD, he was the only entrant in the high iump contest who did not wear clothes. And besides that, he won. "If I had landed on top of that bar," he said at‘the time. ”my reputation for manliness would have definitely been hurting." Douglas also points to his ability to add five-digit numbers in his head and the fact that he owns a digital calculator as reasons for electing him treasurer. "What else do you need to be treasurer?" he asked with piercing perceptiveness. This slate of candidates is worthy of your consideration, in my opinion. Write them in, or write them off, it's your choice. Dick Downey is a second-year law student. His column appears weekly in the Kernel. S pectrum Opinions from inside and outside the University A quick review of the ERA basics By Carol Dussere ' Well, here we go again fiov. Julian Carroll has agreed to consider rescission of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) in the special session of the Kentucky General Assembly. If rescission does get on the slate, Kentud