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Monday, January 20. 1975

Corps staff member
tiles report on EAS

By RON .'\IIT(‘III'II.I.
Managing Editor

A staff member of the l'.S. Army (‘orps
of Engineers concluded last March that
the 1K Environmental Action Society
*FAS) and other student groups could
"intister enough support. and possibly
force the Governor to take a stand on the
iRed River dam‘v project "

The cor'iments l‘y' l. K Letson are
contained in a private two page report of a
March 6 EAS "Stop the Dam" meeting on
tile in the corps Lotiisville district office
The corps is in charge of construction of
the controversial $30 million Red River
project,

'I‘III~1( UBI’S H.\.\' maintained neutralitv
on the pl‘ttjt‘t'l. contending that its orders
come from the l' S (‘ongress which funds
all corps protects

('ongress allocated S3001“) tor 197:3 tor
the purchase of property and construction
Land purchases have heen temporarily
delayed as the result of a suit filed by
landowners and several environmental
groups

In his comments. which are contained in
a deposition lorm dated March 8. NH. and
on tile in the corps office. l.ctsoii
documented all action conducted at the
FAS meeting The deposition lorm is the
method the corps uses to file itiloi‘mation

and is to he used only internally
“I.\ THE HI’INItH of the undersigned

il.etsont. this group. a coalition of the
Fny'iron mental Action Society and Student
Government. could muster enough support

to complete all noted actions and in'

alliance with other groups possibly force
the Governor to take a stand on the
project." the deposition stated.

t'. 8 Senator Wendell Ford, who was
governor at the time Letson filed his
report, later voiced his support of the dam.

Employe health

Tim Murphy, coordinator of the Bed
River liefense Fund (RHIH‘W' an
organization composed of persons and
groups opposed to the dam. said the corps
\\ as invited to send a representative to the
meeting to debate the issue but the federal
agency refused

Ml Itl’llY SUI) I.F'I‘SU\‘S comments
”shim that students have a major effect on
the consciousness in this state and can
unite puhlic pressure." “RDF is now
attempting to organize students in a
state“ ide pet iiion drive in opposition to the
dam

Murphy (‘rlllt'llf‘d the corps for having a
representative attend the meeting for
iiiyestigauy'e purposes while refusing to
participate iii a debate with dam op-
ponents Murphy said lietson did not
identify himself as a member of the corps
staff

Letson. a member oi the corps Louisville
planning office. said Sunday night his
actions sliotild not be suspected He said he
yyas in l.e\ington conducting a water
management study and heard about the
meeting

"I .ll 51‘ \\.\\'I‘I‘:ID to see What was
going on.” lit-tron said “I yiust wanted to
see yy hat they felt and plans they had "

I talked to Dr iltohert .. Kuehne alter the
meeting." he said “There was nothing

. secret ahout it "

KIIt‘iHlt‘, who has publicly opposed the
dam. said he did not remeiiiher speaking
with Letson although he might have

“There were a lot of people there and I
talked with a lot of people.” Kuehne said
“Iain familiar With Letson and I met him
later that summer. but I don't recall
anything specifically he said or that he
introduced himself to me at that particular

meeting "
('ontinued on page 7

EN TUCKY

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(”I independent student newspaper

Finishing touches

By GINNY EDWARDS
Assistant Managing Editor

The I'niversity' Employe Benefits (‘ommittee
has sent a recommendation to President ()tis A.
Singletary to propose to the Board of Trustees an
insurance option forUniversity staff and faculty,
said Shelby Bowman, staff benefits manager for
UK.

If the Board passes the recommendation. the
Hunter Foundation for Health (are, Inc. will he
an option employes may select

.\I.'I‘lIt)l'(iH [UNIVERSITY staff and faculty
are not required to accept an insurance plan
offered through a payroll deduction system. a
Blue Cross Blue Shield plan is offered to em
ploy'as for their convenience.

“We are doing it primarily for the convenience
of employes." said Bruce Miller. I'K director of
personnel It the Hunter Foundation is accepted
as an option. ll “I“ also he paid tor through a
payroll deduction system

The Hunter Foundation would allovy l'niverr
sity employes to choose a Health Maintenance
Organization (HMO), The HMO offers a more
comprehensn'e insurance plan which covers out
patient care and hospital costs

'I‘III‘I TIL-\DITIUNAI, Blue Cross-Blue Shield
program is considered a base plan which covers
the cost of a semi-private hospital room for up to
Today's for one admission It also pays for other
hospital services. excluding outpatient care.

“With Hunter we guarantee availability of all
services." said l)rexel Wells. group enrollment
director at the Hunter Foundation “We allow
unlimited amount of \‘isits. prescriptions to be
filled, all hospital care and other clinical ser-
vices "

Hunter Foundation's Insurance is more ex

pensive than the Blue (‘ross Blue Shield plan

( l ltlttiVl‘lN oy tilt 100 faculty and staff are
enrolled in the Hunter Foundation Insurance

81 University of Kentucky

Lexington. Ky. 40506

Gallery today through Feb. 2.

Hunter Foundation for Health Care

may be included as insurance option

plan on an individual basis. not as part of a group
plan

The Blue (‘ross-Blue Shield insurance plan
puts l'niversity employes into one group. said
Miller The \\ hole group is then studied to decide
howtoset rates ltates can change becauseof the
amount of claims paid out. added Miller,

The Hunter Foundation would place I'niver~
sity employes in a group consisting of all
program members from central Kentucky
Bates Will he set from this group.

"\\ lll'i\ it ISK is spread through a largegroup.
rates Will be dowm“ said Miller

.»\ tederal law passed recently makes it
mandatory for employers of 25 or more people to
otter the HM” insurance option.

The .-\iiicrican Association tor l'niversity
l’rolessors i.-\.‘\l'l’\ was active in coming up
mm the HMU option. said Fugene Gallagher.
economic uelta re committee chairman of the
l i\ s .\.\t l’ "The AM P “as sympathetic to
this idea .ind endorses it tor l'niversity em

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Edntor-mctnet. Linda Carries
Managmg editor, Ron Mitrnett
Associate editor Nancy Daty

Editort.‘l wage tJttor. Dan Crufchet
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Features editor. Larry Mead
Ark cdttor Gin-e, Hotelich

5; outs editor, Jim Manon:
"nmoqraphy eattivi Ed Gerald

Editorials represent the opinions of the editors

  

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Congressional seniority system dying

Fifteen years ago this month a
junior senator from Massachusetts
changed the course of political history
when he announced his campaign for
the presidency ofthe United States. In
his inaugural address John Kennedy
intoned that “the torch is passed to a
new generation of Americans."

Kennedy was 43 years old and the
youngest man ever elected to the
presidency. His victory was. in more
blunt political terms, a signal that the
political power in this nation was
being passed to younger people.

It was widely hoped and believed
that Kennedy could initiate wide-
ranging reforms within the federal
government. especially if he received
an impressive mandate in the 1964
election. However. John Kennedy
never lived to see the 1964 presidential
election. And. as columnist James
Heston once stated. “What died in
Dallas that day was more than just a
President. it was the dream of what
might have been."

Along with John Kennedy died the
hope of any immediate meaningful
governmental reform. as his place in
the White House was taken by Lyndon
Johnson and Richard Nixon.

Thus. hopeful congressional
reformers were forced to take the
longer and more difficult road to
change: electing younger. more
liberal men and women to Congress
who would vote for the needed
reforms. Currently. the average
Congressman is ~19 years old. with

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THE HOUSE EXAMINES THE COMMITTEE CHAIRMEN

only seven per cent of Congress over
65 and 20 per cent not yet 40. It has
taken over 15 years but it now appears
that with the swearing in of the 94th
Congress the torch is finally passed.

Of course. many times in recent
years we have heard young.
aggressive congressmen attack the
evils of the congressional seniority
system only to be thwarted by the
political standard of “gettingalong by
going along." And until last week no
serious assault had been made upon
the ancient rigid procedures of
Congress.

It now appears that the 94th
Congress has effectively destroyed
the seniority system as a means for
selecting the powerful committee
chairmen of the House. It is almost
certain that at least two very

Nicholas Von Hoffman

Movement to specialize lurks in legal profession

By NICHOLAS VON HOFFMAN

WASHINGTON fl It's hard to
understand how so rayenously
dishonest a group as most of the
legal profession took so long to
glom on to an old gimmick like
specialization. The doctors have

by

now

been using it for years in biik the December issue of the legal stop nncci‘tified lawyers from getting its house in order
their patients. but it's only been magazine “Juris Doctors.” pleading capital cases.
recently that lawyers have rca- writes that we may soon be Specialization will make it

lized they can make still more
money if they “specialize".

In medicine, specialization
takes the form of coy little ads
which read: “Sharply P. Rip-
throat. M.D.. practice limited to
diseases of the left eyeball.
member. American College of
Left Eyeball Surgeons." Years of
advanced training permit Dr.
Ripthroat to charge larger-than-
usual prices for confining'himself
to blinding you in the left eye. In
the old days before scientific
research had brought the healing
arts to their present pitch of
perfection, the same man was
permitted to put out your right
eye as well, but then he usually
charged less and sometimes
threw in six free lessons for your
seeingeye dog.

This

claims

A MOVEMENT is now under
way to introduce SPCClétll/Jtllttll to
the law business. California dll(l
New Mexico have already done
it. In Wisconsin and who knows
how many other states the

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groundwork has been laid to help
lawyers charge customers more
claiming
various
recognizes
criminal and workmen's compen
sation law

saddled with as many as
different legal specialties.

simple things difficult is defen-
ded on the ground that it will
upgrade the standards of prac
tice. There is reason enough for
that with an occupation

us that every line of work which
seeks to raise prices by restrict—
ing the number of people it lets in

standards.

Law clerking or apprenticeship
was knocked out in order to raise
standards The lay justice of the
peace was abolished because
substituting trained members of
the bar would raise standards.
But the only thing that ever gets
raised is prices.

ing lawyers to advertise that they
boardAcertil'icd
will help the public choose :ittor

more likely
to be
specialties.
three A

experts in
California
tax.

will be

ists

#7 but Norma llevy. in

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newest try at making

that

saying.

it's doing it to raise

\lttil'tfl) that cncourag~

specialists

   

iicys more knowledgeably
outcome is
lawyers not certified as special
prohibited
appearing iii court
already been introduced in tlic
California legislature that would

easier yet for judges to intimi-
date attorneys. “The judiciary
wants people who will be in there
and play ball. who have proven
their ability to play ball, and they
want to narrow the field in which
the rest of us can play ball s~
those of us who want to be

Southern California, is quoted as

AS SPECIALIZATION stan—
dards are being set up, they will
probably work to the detriment of
women and minority group attor-
neys. The proposed qualifications
for certification tend to require
many years of experience or
attendance at expensive courses.
Since it‘s only recently that we‘ve
begun to get larger numbers of
women and minority group law-
yers. they haven‘t been around
enough to get the experience and
they don‘t make enough to pay
for the courses.

powerful chairmen will lose their
jobs. and perhaps as many as six or
eight committee and subcommittee
chairmen will be axed before the
purge is complete.

It is interesting and telling to note
how these dramatic changes came
about. The Democratic Steering
Committee of the House first voted
not to re-nominate Wayne Hays to the
Chairmanship of the .-\dministration
Committee or Wright Patman as head
of the Banking Committee, This was
somewhat unexpected as both men
have been highly respected by the
membeiship of the House and have
aligned themselves with the more
progressive bloc in the House. but like
most chairmen. they have often used
heavy-handed tactics in the operation
of their committees.

The

that lllltltllt‘ nicotin-

l’lllll it
from
has

A bill

An ugly precedent

enjoys the reputation for snuf- straight with our consciences."
fling larceny and shuffling in- Dick Eiden, president of the ordinarily be reactionary. But
competence. but history teaches National Lawyers Guild for these aren‘t ordinary times. Stu»

student “leaders".

to parrot the sexism

l'nivcrstty

The only catastrophe that can

faster than lawyers is cancer
With apologies to the bones? and
ethical mt'nlbt't‘s. the organized -
liar might consider dropping this
odious llillt‘ \('ilt‘lllt‘ in layoi‘ of
. before

was
recently when the Student Gov
ernment voted to revoke sponsor
ship for a dance for the Gay
Coalition. Such a decision would

dents today are faced with the
burning necessity to stand togeth»
er against cutbacks of govern-
ment funds to education. against
tuition hikes. and against the
shrinking job market.
fights cannot be won, or even
waged. if students are divided.
And only division can result from
this decision of our so—called

In a sense it‘s logical that ltK‘s
Student Government has decided

administration
natural because these are “lead
ers" who aren't really interested
in leading. Their main motivation

Yet. neither man‘s transgressions
seemed serious enough to warrant
removal. Indeed. l’atman has been
leading a hard-fought battle to lower
interest rates. on batik loans. Both
men deserve the opportunity to
operate within the framework of the
tnore libeial 94th Congress.

It now appeais that they may have
that opportunity. The entire
Democratic Caucus voted to overrule
its Steering Committee on these two
men and instead voted for the
removal of Edward Herbert. chair—
man of the Armed Services Com»
mittec and \V. it l’oage. chairman of
the .~\griculture Committee. These
men were the original targets of the
movement. and it now seems certain
that both men w ill lose their powerful
chairmanships. as they should due to
the obstructionist tactics often em»
ployed by both men Yet. this whole
process merely points up one of the
longstanding unwritten rules of
Congress: when you cannot take the
action you want. take any action you
can get

lt has been a long and difficult 15
years but these changes by the 94th
Congress along with the recent
decision to abolish the old House l'n»
.\iiicrican Activities Committee are
good first steps toward substantive
reform These changes and more
must take place if (_‘ongress is to once
again become a viable policy-making
body

'l'lic
specialty worth keeping is

'lli' law coin ts are .itiolislictl
family orii'.
thi- study of integrity. but who is

ill tt'l" l_\ lilo?"

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for

\icliolas Hoffman is a

columnist King Features

Sy ndicatc.

Letters to the editor

Rights for gays

set for seeking office is to add
another entry in their profession-
al resumes under the heading
“Honors or Extracurricular Ac—
tivities." These student misleadv
ers need to be replaced by a
genuine student leadership -— one
that would demand the automatic
recognition of all student organi-
zations, one that would demand
that all student organizations be
allowed to meet. raise funds. and

These hold social events on campus
without harassment from the
administration.

Right now. all students and
student groups should show their
support for the Coalition in this
situation We must demand full
rights for gay students and an
ctid to all anti—gay legislation'

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By 7 Seymour Melman

Following is a list of some civilian and military trade-offs adapted from
the book "The Permanent War Economy.” The author is professor of industrial .
engineering at Columbia University and national C0-Chairman of SANE.

‘Reopening New York Public :5900,000

‘ For each of 250 communities, :$6 billion

66 low—cost houses . $1 million I Huey helicopter

Unfunded housing assistance in $100 million l [)1)-963 destroyer
Arkansas

257 apartments in New York ' $9 million 1 Navy A6—E Intruder plane
City

Impounded Federal housing $130 million 8 F44 aircraft
funds, 1972

Vetoed Environmental Protec- $141 million 1973 request for new air- j
tion Agency plan to de~ borne nuclear-war com-
pollute the Great Lakes mand post

1973 unfunded ”0‘15””: and $4 billion cost excess on F-lll air-
Urban Development water craft
and sewer requests

National water-pollution abate- $38 billion cost excesses for 45 weap-
ment, 1970-75 (ms systems

National solid-waste-treatment $43.5 billion B